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The Watauga Democrat. . . r. . I. It. IMU'CHKKTV, i:i.!T. IX.V. KIVKKS. I'nti.isiii i: TheCe(rirthp:i.latU!vhas'an( have before a reatit,,e """""tains. Reantitul mauetienern! lvs lurtli.lay ye are greatly in (January l'.) n legal hoii-j,1(ru of entei prying capital day. j ists. Wo need men who will Three million dollars have: pilot us out of our 700. years lvn paitl by a XewYorksyn-J groove that we have all slid di-nte for several tobacco manufactures in Salem. X. I'. The IMaekwell Durham P.ull Smoking Tobaeeo Co. have sold out their plant to an English syndicate ha 000,000. Royle, the Catholic priest who was convicted in Raleigh last fall for raj1 on one of his church members, his been granted a now trial by the supreme court. . - The negro, Trotter, who President Cleveland appoint ed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, has been required by President Harrison to resign. Judge John A. tidmer, of the ."th district, has resigned his judgeship. The governor immediately appointed Thos. R. Womnck, Esq., of Chat judge of that district. C. S. Price was elected lS. senator by the democratic legislatuio of Ohio. Price and Quay are both sen.) tors now, and both are the bosses of their respective parties. Let the fight proceed. Syndicates are now moving things in a hurry spending lots of money in North Caro lina. Y. Duke, Sons & Co., the great tobacco men of Durham, have sold their plant for over six million dollars. The Curtice big iron mine on the Yadkin, in Caldwell county, not far from Patter son, has been leased to a Pennsylvania company at $1 a carload, binding them selves to move thirty car loads per day for forty-nine years. They are to build a railroad to the mine. Things are happening all around us. Rev. J. Wm. Jones, author of "Christ in the Camp," is preparing a "Memorial Volume" of Jefferson Davis. Mr.. Jones is a gentleiran of decided scholarship, and wields a ready facile pen, and is eminently fitted for the task he has undertaken. He has long been intimate with the family of Mr. Davis. ( Mrs. Davis is furnishing much material for the work. We; learn that a part of the proceeds of the book, are to go to the family of Mr. Da vis. . We predict for this book a ready sale and wide circu lation, as it should have, with such ah illustrious sub ject, handled by so gifted an author. The Outlck for Watau ga County. The high mountains and ice-cold water of Watauga, with its beautiful landscapes valleys and streams, and above all, its extraordinary summer atmosphere, will for all time to come make it the most delightful and healthy summer resort in the Soutlu , The fertility of its soil for . gram of all kinds and fruits of every variety adapted to this country, its . fine grass wits its unsurpassed vegeta ble yield make it one of the most charming sections to live in. Man and beast can Of 1-)U1;mi illllilJi'S, but fall this eat., ami will be over! come by railroad facilities' which wenre bound to haye jiip and down in so long, w need men u-liii ran show iis how to utilize the best coun - try in the world and togrow rich on uh.-it we tlmm- :iunv! !,iv; ,m we have disadv.i and tread over as of no! Iillt ono 1 ........ . ... 'from memory s debri "CIIHI. U ( X ! II, l III , - class roads over which men jf1 .v.tliintf I have .-v-cduld drive wagons hacks 'r lH'hoK1' 1P" thegrand .....ii ..:o tn -.ft est panorama, I have ever miles a day. Suppose on Beech mountain, on Timber ed Uidge of the Stone Moun tain ami. on the Rich Moun tain, and many other places, and had good boarding houses, and pleasant sum mer resorts, and fill them every summer with tourists visitors and boarders. Fogies will cry out "nonsense," but ro" - - " " ' " ' energy can and will accom plish this, and much more be fore all the old fogies die. Suppose some of our citizens who own thousands of acres of rich lands would turn themselves about and stock the lands with thousands of sheep. Old fogies will say 'you talk foolishly. Must hold a few years and some Yankee will come along and act the fool in this way. Suppose some one or two of your neighbors propose for you to put in your mon ey to help build a woolen Factory? And you reply, "It would never pay us." Well if you live a few years longer you will fee a busi ness of this kind go up, but by some more enterprising fellow than you, he will prob ably come from the frozen climes of the Xorth and will flourish here as "a green bay tree" and he will indirectly make you help him too. Sup pose some enterprising fel low of your county asks your assistance to put up a handle factory, or a broom fact6ry or some manufacto ry to make articles consum ed in the immediate county, and you discourage him and tell him he is a fool and that no such business would pay here. Bide your time in pa tience, for in a few years some foreign corporation will occupy the country and its opportunities and you will be playing second fiddler to the foreigners asyou have done all your life. The South is fast asleep as usual prosperity is looming up all around, but who are the prosperous ones? It is those who have sniffed the fine opportunities a far off. The old Southernor and his sons, and sons in law, and all his nephews are still sleep ing and dreaming of better limes. In a very few years half of Watauga will be owmnl by foreigners. Then the oppor tunities will be here, but who has wind in his nostrils then? Cooperate with capital but do not give everything up to capitalist and retire to the celar. F. J. McMillion and Son of the Mouth of Wilson Va., are Manu factures of all kinds of woolen goods, which they will send to your door in exchance for wool. They also keep a fulllinejof their gooda on hand at Southerlauds, Ahe Co., X. C. They pay the highest price for wool. Sept, 11th. 1880. A M M M Kit M'N-SKT. For ih 1'""-: Uur fiU"-stts re always Our sunsets ate always '"" waiiimu anion,, when the "king of d;iy"sinks bediind tlif mountains, hid ing liiuiM'f in a cloudless sky kissing with silvery lips the hill tops, drand, when he sinks J,m,MI ,"- '"iiy ,aiie,i l. i i.i ... ;, ,un,,s'. a!"l thu .t,UM',,,;,.''s : ,ow um'e w 1,11,1,1 111 11,1 '"surveyed on as good a grade! tance. recall that witnessed. ( J rami privilege it was. to behold this grand painting so delicately tinted and exe cuted by Xatures pencil and hung suspended across the, western sAies for the equal pleasure of all, to drink the beauty of this wonderful scene, that has never been equaled by the hand of Art. The evening was glorious, the air was redolant with the purfume of flowers, and tne mountain torests were made vocal, by myriad song sters. The air was delicious ly cool, and bracing, charac teristic of Watauga. In the west were piled huge banks of broken snowy clouds. Tin sun san amomr t hem in ins imperial majesty, and regal splendor, and touched them with his magic brush and in stantly the western heavens were ablaze with inexpress ible beauty. One huge bowl der which a few moments be fore was an immaculatee em bankment of purity was lit up by Sol's imperial rays, and lo! a casttllated build ing with domes, turrets and towers, stood in silhouette against the western sky. Cherubs were flitting here and there. Some with fold ed wings, looked down as if prying into the mysteries of our fallen world, others with outspread wings seemed to be carrying heavenward news of momentous import. Lost for the time in the un rivalled .scene, it was easy to find any -thing; which the fancy might suggest Flow er gardens, water falls, ri vu lets, were hastily painted and exhibited to the admiring gaze. I watched enraptured and feeling as if in fairyland. Suddenly the beautiful picture faded and disappear ed, like every lovely earthly object, too soon, but it left many pleasant thoughts and feelings in the hearts of those who witnessed it. Why roam among the mountains of Italy, or search through the picture galleries of. the world to satisfy that fancy taste of yours? Il'lien fea ture here paints unrivaled scenes, on hills valleys and mountains. X THE ROAD LAW. For the Democrat : We can not express our es teem for the Editor of the Wa tauga Democrat. He is a good, progressive, and in most of instances, a wise man. To oppose a new method or plan is by some called'"foga ism." Esq. Dougherty h a man too liberal and discreet himself to do this, for hJ asks us for our opinions, and this emboldens us to express our views. First: To classify and grade the roads of Watauga coun ty according to the proposi- thai in the Ii:mn KT,of 1W. the l'.)tli. Would be a tiling impracticable ;i t I almost im ..a : K. KIK.i;lllw if K)SSji,t, j w,mi. Nftions. If the gr;ide inuld be obtained, to make said roads over the county, in any s'iort time.! would en volwrnoniih money to almost bankrupt it. For, instaiit-e, take the Fork Ridge; road, the Lost Ridge road, and (Jeoige's (Sap raad. You who are acmiainted with them know that after being 'as is practicao'e will average , 1 foot in 0 or eight. And no it is all over the county. .Now the townships are to 1m surveyed to average them in size and tax. We kinw some townships are more wealthy than others, but to reduce the size would be to shorten th roads in the same. N you see what is gamed on tne one nana is lost on the other. The good roads are always found in the wealthy townships, along the fertile valleys, where the rich live. The poor are driv en back to the sterile hills where the roads are made through bluffs and on rough hillsides. So you see for each township to keep up its own roads would be very unequal at least there would be nothing gained in favor of tin poor man, over the old system. On a casual reading of the proposed road law I was not unfavorably impressed, but on a more careful reading it occurs to me that a heavy expense will be attached to it. For instance, (he road su pervisor is to help lay off roads in his township in mile sections to sell roads to he treasurer, to give bond. lie can not do this without a goo.l deal of pay. Then the section master conies in. He, of course, will have to get up his hands to work out the roads and receipt totax-p.-jy- ers for work done, w hich will amount to more trouble than the present overseer. I can not see but one thing in this that savors of good. That is taxing the property-hold ers to screen the poor. II the roads of the county were re duced to the grade indicated in the article, we would all have to do more work on roads than ever in our live3 before. And again, every man is benefitted by good roads to the amount of his labor, for the poor man buys goods, grain, he goes to mill, hauls his wood, goes to mar ket, etc., on roads. If he has no team he can hire 1000 pounds hauled cheaper on a good road than across a mountain on a slide, and he does not often grumble to make equal time with the man of property; for well does he know that the bur then of every other thing rests upon the property-hold er. And, again, other states have tried a law similar to this, and to m knowledge it has proved unsatisfactory a machine too complicated will soon wear out. The present law, with a few changes, is the best we can get, in my opinion, with due deference to the editor of the Democrat. May your excel lent paper long live, for its influence is felt,and will be,in the county. J.J. T.Reese. Sweetwa ter, X. C.,Jan. 10. Physicians prexcibc Dr. J. H. Mdiean.H Iar wine ping halm, in it thety find no trace of opium or morphia, while its efficacy in curing all throat or lung diseas es is wonderful. Jones & Vance. .IN-opl-of Wntiigu real this! We have in our la n.v rtuiv buil- linjr, at the Itt-iiiitiful ton no Elk Park, North Carolina, ; lately !i?ped a full line of good ofcvi'i-y kind, usiialh kept in a liit-clas More, which we will sell for nothing but the SPOT CASH. We will give you hargaiiiH that t t i... i : i i ..i . t tui inn in- nui juiKrwn ill llll'MUlf. Our Mock consists of a well sr. let-ted stock ot DKYUOODS ( ! rtHviies, Hardware, queens ware, (ilassware & etc. Cutlerv, both pocket an table, Sc.vthcs And snaths, butts and screws, cross-cut and hand saws, all of which will be sld Remarlably LOAV. We have a tmiiemlioiis stock o &3-SH0ES ! SHOES S P as tf & e; a Si S) J4 & 1 . SHOHS SHOES! k 4 is & flaT.SHOES! SHOES 1 We can give you shoes in any quantity, size or quality. We can fir you up in foot-ware trom a 75 ct. hrogan to the finest if.'i hand-sewed ladie's shoeever sold in W. X. C. We carry a full and complete stock of Ready Made CLONTHIG. Come and examine for .yourself. We can suit you in any style, size or color. N othing but first-class goods handled in this line, and satiifac tion guaranteed. We have bought our goods in the lowest markets. We have such goods as the Jteopl,. waut, need and will have- e sell tor cush, therefore will not be Undersold. Call and price our goods before buying elsewhere. Watch this column next; weeic for a more complete list of our bargains. Respectfully, Jones & Vance. July 18 '89 ly. :E0N'T! MTU Rav .vo ir- CHRISTMAS GOODS till you come to HEADQUARTEBS ami sec our fine stock and learn our low prices. Toys! Toys! Candies of all kinks, plain and fancy. Pmc BOses PRIZE DRAWINGS You may get a fine clock, or a fine set of Toilet jei fumery or a like bi ieh-ioading Uifle, or a splended knife for only 10 cents. Fire works whis tle Rooms, Fire Crackers toy caps, Pistols etc. Don't miss the chance of seeing the best line of Christmas GoodS And General MERCHANDISE ever brought to WATAUGA COUNTY Come and see us. Prices low as the goods can be sold in this county. Very Respectfully H. C. MARTIN, & Co. COMPLETE NEWSPA PER! The Pride of the North Caroli na Press." 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