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U 0 SrSV, ' 6 I;- I I' i f I VOLUME XI. LENOIR, N. C WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1886. NUMBER 52. STATESVILLE. NEW YORK. WALLACE! BROS, General UercMndise -AND- PEODUCE DEALERS, AND Heodquor tor ft for lie d loinal Crude, Roots, Herbs, ; Berries, Dor lis, Seeds, Flowers, Owns ft tXosses, i 'i ; -i : ( - STATESVILLE, ; N. C. WALLACE BROS., General Produce Dealers Commission Merchants, 204 Greenwich St., jul H LA ji! . A Ckstten tte ImM, Imln DlMrtlsa, i BRQR15, trad Bart f I 'raw,! - if ' --'" jfrMeteTptfaee tor noipat, lion S4 ll eraU HlwiviQ act, than 7tUxi atM lm Awlr5..Both nxm X v ri r-ru xu 1 wTvo.? lYfCIIIC - - BJMM THE GREAT HISTORICAL EABTHQUUES j The following is a succinct record of the most destructive earthquakes which have been recorded from the eighth century down to the present iiuie. 742 Awfnl AnrtVinnalrn in Swrio Palestine and Asia ; more than 500 towns were destroyed. And t.h Irtaa of life surpassed all calculation. 11S7 -Catania, in Ririlv fttar. - - - j v i jturned and 15,000 jiersons buried in pae ruins. 1158 In Syria, etc. ; 20,000 per ished. 1268 In Oicilia : 50.000 Derish- ed. 1455, Dec. 5 At Nanle8 : 40.000 perished. 1509, Sept. 14 Constantinople ; thousands perished. 1531. Feb. 26 At Lisbon ; 1,500 lion hps and 30 000 npranna hnriorl in the ruins ; several neighboring towns ii enguuea. 1526. Julv 2 In Janan : several cities made ruins, and thousands perished. 1656, July 30 In Naples; 30 towns or villages ruined ; 70,000 lives lost. Ib67, April 6 Itagusa ruined ; 5,000 perished. " 1667 At Schamaki, lasted three months ; 80,000 perished. lo7, April 14 At Ki mini; above 1,500 perished. 1692. Jnnft 7 On tb Tsland nf Jamaica, which totally destroyed W-fc aT 1 1 1 . irori rtoyai, wnose nouses were en gulfed forty fathoms deep, and 3, 000 perished. IbJtt, Sept Une in the Island of Sicilv. which overturned 54 ritiftn and towns and 300 villages ; of Ca tania and its 18,000 inhabitants not a trace remained ; more than 100, 000 lives were lost. 1703. Feb. 2 Aauilla. in Italv. ruined ; 5,000 perished. 1703-7-Jedao, Japan, ruined; jjuu, 000 perished. 1706 Nov. 3 In therAbruzzi ;15, 000 perished. 1716, May and June At Algiers; 20,000 perished, i J 1726, Sept. 1 Palemro nearly destroyed ; nearly 6,000 lives were lost. 1731, Nov. 30 Again in China, and 100,000 people swallowed up at Pekin. 1732, Nov. 29 In Naples, etc. ; 1,940 perished. I 1746, Oct. 28 Lima and Caloa demolished ; 18,000 persons buried in the ruins. 1 1754, Sept At Grand Cairo ; half the houses and 40,000 persons swallowed up. 1755, June 7 Kaschan, N. Per sia, destroyed ; 40,000 persons per ished, 1755, Nov. 1 The great earth quake at Lisbon. In about eight minutes most of the houses and 50, 000 inhabitants were swallowed un and the whole street buried. The cities of Colmbra, Oporto, and Bra ga suffered dreadfully, and St. Ubes was wholly overturned. In Spain, a large portion of Malaga became rnini.. i One half of Fez. in Morocco was destroyed, and more than 10, 000 Arabs perished there. About half the Island of Madeira became waste, and 2, 000 houses in the is land of Ttfitvlener in the Archineli- go were overthrown. This awful earthquake extended o,oou miles, even to Scotland. 1759, Oct. 30 In Syria, extended over 10,000 square miles ; Baalbec destroyed ; 20,000 perished. 1780 At Tauris ; 15,000 houses thrown down, and multitudes Dun fid. 1783, Feb. 5 Messina and other towns in Italy and Sicily overthrown and thousands perished. 1784, July 23 Ezinghian, near Erzeroum, destroyed and nve mou oand nerfinns buried. 1797, Feb. 4 The whole country between Santa Fe and Panama de stroyed, including Cuzo and Quito ; 40,000 people Dunea in cue wwuu. 1805, July 26 At urosoione, xxa nlAa ? 4.00 lives lost. 1812, March 16 At Caracas 12,- 000 perished. iftift. Jnne 16 Several throuch- out India ; district of Kutch sunk ; 9. nOft rished. 1822 Aleppo destroyed : above 20,000 perished ; shock on the 10th and 13th of August and otn oi Sep tember;! - 1829, March 16 In Spain ; Mur cia and numerous villages devasta- aA A HOO nariahed. 1830, May 26 and 27Canton and neignDornooa , auouu u,ww co- ."1846, Feb. 14 At Ternate the island made a waste, and thousands perished. ' ' . i R421 Mav 7 At Cane Haytien, St. Domingo,, which destroyed near ly two-thirds of the town ; between a. nno and 5.000 nerished. V.1856, March 2 At the Island of Great Sanger, one of the Moluccas ; volcanic eruption and earthquake ; nearly 3000 lives lost; 1857, Sept. 16 In Calabria, Mou-' temurro, anotner town was awtroy d ahont 10.000 lives , lost. 1859, March 22 At Quito, about 5,000 killed and an immense amount of property destroyed. 20 At Medozr. Rnrifb America, about two-thirds ,01 the city and 7,000 lives lost. r -i R63. .Tnlv 2 and 3 Manilla, Phillipine Isles : immense destruc- tiori ol property ; aDou iu,wu per- 1868, Aug. 13-15 The cities of Arequippa, Iquique, Tanca, " and (Jhencha, and many small towns in Peru and Ecuador destroyed ; about 25,000 lives lost and 30,000 render ed homeless ; loss of property esti mated at 60,000,000. 1875, May 16-18 San Jose de Cucuta and other towns near San- tander, on the boundary of Coluni- bia destroyed ; about 14,000 lives lost. ; 1878, April 14 Cua, Venezuela; nearly destroyed ; about 300 killed ; loss about 30,000. 1881, March 16 Severe shocks in South Italv,: much destruction and loss of life at Cassamicciola, ; n town in the Islo of Ischia ; 289 hou ses destroyed, 114 lives lost, about 38,000 loss. March 4. more de struction by another shock. 1881, April 3 Scio the town and several villages destroyed ; a boujt 4,000 perished ; much destitu tion ensued : successive shocks, be ginning 1.30 p. m. 183, July 23 The towns oi Uas- samiccola, Forio and Lacco Ameno, on t he island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples almost entirely destroyed; 1,990 lives lost, and 374 persons in jured, r ' ' . 1883. In Ang. 26 -The Krakatoa cataclysm in Java, in August, which was the most stnpendous'on record. An island was shattered and sunk, and sixteen others raised their heads above the surrounding waters. Nearlv 100.000 neonle were bnned beneath volcanic dibjis or swept off the face of the lslnd by the volcanic wave. The floor of the ocean over a wide area to the southeast of Sumatra was raided in to a plain above the waters, and the effects of the general upheaval were felt as far as the American coast of the Pacific. 1884-85 A lonr continued sefMes of shocks in the Spanish peninsula, which began on December 26, lbo4, and continued with irregular inter ruptions Until the middle of April, 1885. The areates; destruction of life an property was in Andalusia 'Altogether 74o persons were killed and 1,435 injured, and 17,000 buil dings were more or less damaged, 4,400 of the number being complete ly wrecked. Widespread destitution and suffering resulted from this vis itation. Towards the close of No- ! vember there was a renewal of the disturbances, which extended also to the adjacent African coast. 1885 A series of shocks began in the Vale of Cashmere on May 13, ! and continued at irregular intervals until the middle of August, ihe city of Seragurand numerous villa ges were almost completely destroy ed, thousands of lives were lost; and great destitution resulted from the killing of cattle and destruction of crops. 1886, August 28 In the Morea and the neighboring island of Zante, several villages being completely destroyed and three hundred jjivcs lost. W .7 f - What Bob Will do With Alf. Johnson City (Tenn.) Comet Justa dav or two before the Gu bernatorial convention met in Nash ville, Bob and Alf Taylor dined to gether at the old home place. The conversation naturally turned to tne contest for Governor, when the old lady remarked : "Now, Robert, I want you to promise me to stay away from that convention down "at Nashville this week and not lot your name go be fore it, for if you do I believe they will nominate you from what lhea" about it, and as Alfred has already received the nomination by one side, I want you to keep out of the; way and not run against him." "Mother, roplied the gallant 15ob, "I will not attend the convention and I am not making any personal efforts to secure the nomination, but I am in the hands of my friends, and if they do nominate me I will make you one promise. "What is it, my son ?" ' With his finger pointing at Alfred he said : ' . 'Til promise you that baldheadedj son of yours over there will not have a-hair left on his head when I get through with him." - I The Earthqaaks Predicted. The Wilmington Review says that a dispatch from Atlanta, which, by the way. is one of the greatest sen sational news centres jn the. United States, reads : ; ; ;;. r "A gentleman in this city has a letter written by the Rev. W. H. Harrison, who was the first Demo cratic chaplain of the " House since the war, and which was . written five or six years ago, in which it was pre dicted that the south Atlantic coast would be visited ; by severe earth quakes in August, 1886. He fur ther predicted that at no distant date after the shocks on the Atlan tic coast the city of 'San 1 Francisco would be totally destroyed. He al leged that his predictions were made on scientific calculations." I The tenacity with' which people abide by their early faith in Ayers Sarsaparilla is explained by the fact that it is the best. ' blood; medicine ever used, and is not equalled in ex cellence by und' new - candidate ' for public favor. BOB TAYLOR. A Gem from the Bildheided Democrat who is Running against His Brother tor Governor. Memphis Avalanche. " Tonight, my fellow citizens, I am in the situation of an individual I once heard of. Two men had been on a drunk together and they got separated, and they met one morn ing and one said: "Good mornin'." The other said: "Good evenin'!" Why, the other, feller said: "It's mornin'; that's the sun." "No, it's evenin'; that's the , moon," replied the other. "Well, we'll leave it to the fibt friend we mtet." They went down the street and found a fellow holding to a lamp-post. "Mish'r, got qnes'hion want to put to you to decide. I says'h mornin', this man sayVh evenin' want you to decide qiiesh'n." "Gen'man," said the man, "you'll have to 'scuse ine hie -4hic I'm stranger in thio coun try." (Cheers.) I want to thank the ladies for their presence here tonight, ajid I want to say to them that I am their worshipper; I want to say to them that Eden was lonesome until God Almighty took from Adanianb and made woman, and ever since that time, God bless her, she has been to man a ministering angel to wipe away the tears of grief and sorrow, to smooth the wrinkles from his brow, to scatter flowers in the path way of his life; she is the embodiment of all that is beautiful, in her pres ence is expressed the perfection of beauty it is painted upon her cheeks in heavenly smiles, flows in her ringlets, moves in her step, charms in her voice, throbs in her breast, and mingles and shines in the grace of her love, and I pray she will use her influence in . the politi cal world in her own way and pleas ure to piuoeher humble servant in the Gubernatorial chair. Mora Theories and Predictions. Y. SUr. The most definite and exact pre diction which has yet been enunci- . ated by the scientific fraternity' comes from Professor E, P. Ham mond, sojourning in far off Oregon. : He declares that on Sept. 14 and 15 there will be cyclonic disturbances throughout the western portion of j the continent. As if that wasn't sufficient to raise the hair of theset- tiers and miners as neatly as if a Sioux brave superintended the job, Professor Hammond adds that "ter- iftiic cyclones, earthquakes and tor nadoes will devastate the United States in general and the Pacific seaboard in partjcul r on Sept. "20, 27. and 28. His predictions cannot be dismissed in asummary fashion, ashe has been a dc otedstudentofseis mology for mauy years, and, reside ing in a country where such distur bances are of frequent occurrence, he has had opportunities for observa tion such as are afforded to few sci entists. The following is from Prof. De Voe, of New Jersey : ; "Earthquakes and atmospheric disturbances go together. . The lat ter is the promoting cause of the former. Now the normal external pressure of the atmosphere on the earth's surface is about 15 pounds to the square inch. A series of heavy storms come and displace a portion of the atmosphere, diminishing the external pressure in that particular locality. The internal pressure the volcanic forces at work within the earth seeks vent wherever the external pressure is least. Result, an earthquake." VDo the recorded facts concerning the state of the barometer at Charleston and the condition of the moon immediately preceding the earthquake bear out your theory ?" "To the fullest possible extent, they do. There has never been an earthquake in any quarter of the globe where the previous meteoro logical conditions have not been substantially such as I have'describ- ed. As to Charleston, ram storm after rain storm has swept over the city during the past two ' months. Destructive floods have been chroni cled in that section of the country. - "Do you think we have seen the last of the' earthquakes for: this year t" J "Indeed I do not," was the reply. ; "In fact, the condition . of the at mosphere tends to confirm me in the belief that at least one violent earthquake will come within a very short time.' As soon as the condi tions' existing prior to the 1 Charles ton earthquake reoccur the earth quake must necessarily follow..", ; "When and where will ' such con ditions reoccur ?" ' "On or about the 25th of this month. ' The ( earthquake ; may be expected between tnat date and tne 28th. ' It will be a violent one, but its center will be m . the northwest em 1art ' of . the United 1 States. Washington Territory, Idaho, Mon- Nevada and Utah will get the full benefit of , if. ; ! We shall very" possi bly feel it' here: Fronr'the 20th to the 25th of the month it will be in tensely hot. Then will follow vio lent storms and immediately after ward;' or "simultaneously' therewith, the earthquake." GUESSING THE HOG'S WEIGHT. t Was All the Drummer Thought of, the Drummer Got Had. and Chicago Herald. : Coming in over the Monon route a few days ago a Chicago drummer sat musing by the open window and wiping perspiration and coai soot from his brow, and of course occu pying twoi seats. Down in Indiana some place a native came in to the smoker, and says: "Shove along stranger, an give a feller a show. Been killin hogs, an feel all used up." Then the native sat down, settled himself comfortably, much to the drummer's disgust, and resumed : "Say strangtr, killing hogs is hard work. Did you ever kill anv hogs r f. But the drummer did not conde-. scend' to answer. " By gosh," continued the irre pressible Hoosier, "we killed the biggest hog yesterday that was ever killed in Inieany. How much do you s'pose that hog weighed?" t btill no) answer. "He was so tarnal big that it took eight of us to lift him up to the ham stick, it did, b'gosh. You hain't no I idee how mucjh that hog weighed, have you stranger? "JNo, l navn c, tne drummer to nally blurted out ; "how much did your d d nog weign r "1 don't know, mister. Wedidn t weigh hi in." Puzzled About Geronimo. Special to the Baltimore Sun. -. ' I Washington-, Sept. 10. The War Department is at sea upon the subject of the trial of Geronmo, the Apache chief, and his blood thirsty associates. It seems ihat none of the military ! lawyers can point out the army regulation under which the Apaches could be convict ed if their'trial is to be a military one. rnis accounts ior tne delay in coming to a decision as to what is to be done with them. All that has been determined upon thus far is to keep the Indians under 6trict guard at San Antonio until some definite conclusion is reached.; The military authorities perhaps do not remember that tne Apaches were captured by Gen. Crook and placed upon the San Carlos reservation on parole. They broke the parole and were again captured, stained with the blood of! many victims, and bearing arms to States. wage war against the United ihe penalty for taking up arms again according in violation oi parole, to militarv usage, is death. An officer said this after noon : "JLet them be tried by a military commission, speedily con victed, and executed without undue delay."') There is a precedent for such action, if one is needed, in the case of ithe trial by military com mission! of the Sioux after the Min nesota massacres in 1862. Five hun dred of I the prisoners were then put on trial!, 300 of whom were found guilty of murder and 38 were hang ed. : i . In regard to the 450 men, women and children of the Warm Spring and Chiricahua tribes from the San Carlos feservatiou, who are to bo taken to Fort Marion,-?. St. Augus tine, Fla., an army officer said to day: f 'This cannot be considered a suitable place for the confinement of 500 Indians permanently. It is to small, and it would be merely a side show, as St. Augustine is a resort jfor tourists, invalid and pleasure and health seekers general ly, who would throng to see the cap tives, "f Besides the sanitary condi tion'should receive 6ome considera tion. jThat number; of people liv ing on, eo small a reservation would breed epidemics, and thereby wreak their vengeance on their pale faced brethren in a less bloodthirsty but quite as effective manner as when on the war path. The ; Dry Tortugas would be a secluded and safe . spot, not too pleasant for these savage murderers to pass the remainder of their days." . It Mattered How Ha Died. Estelline Ball. 1 I ' . 'John," said the. wife of a Dako ta settler the other day when he came home from a trip to town, ''old Bill is dead at last." "Well that's good I lowed when I turned him out in the pasture the other dav that if he didn t die 'fore winter jl'd have to j shoot him. It don't pay to keep ajhoss when it gits as old and feeble as he was. He 'peared extra weak this mornin'." . Oh, he didn't die that , way some Chicago hunters came along and shot him by mistake.", 'ShQt hiuv: hey ?it. Well that's blame smart. How much did you get for him ?"' ''t,;i'-i :u ' f'V,hy, I told 'em it -was all right; that we wanted hi m to die." . J "Great thunder ! woman, don't you know nothin' ? Why in blazes didn't you tell 'em-he was our fami ly buggy ho88, and S worth $150,? Great snakes ! It seems as if women never had no bis'ness 'bout 'em any how. You,might just as well : of ; told em that he was a blooded hoss, and that yer husband was ! county -sheriff and got $100 of good, hon est money. JUDGE POLAND AHD THE DRINKS. Senator Blackburn llada a Uistake, but Rectified it in National Republican . ; . No member of Congress of recent years was better known to the gal leries than Judge Poland of Ver mont. The blue dress coat with brass buttons which he always wore made him conspicuous among his colleagues. He is above the average stature ; his features areas clear cut as a cameo,with an expression of se verity that masks his humor and good nature. His general appear ance, dignified bearing and correct manners convey the idea that he is one of the most straitlaced, of men. Senator Blackburn tells a good sto ry that illustrates the manner of man Judge Poland is. Poland and Blackburn were members of the house during the forth-eighth Con gresss. One day some friends of Blackburn while on the way to the ' ongres8ionalre8taurant to obtain li quid lefreshment met the Kentucky member as he wus passing across . the hallof the House, and invited him to join them'. "Wait a ixinnte," eaid Blackburn, "until I speak to Judge Poland, and I will join you." 'Bring the Judge with you," said one of the party. "Judge Poland never drinks," said Blackburn. At this some of his friends laughed, and one replied, " You don't know the man, ask him to join us." Black burn repaired to Poland's seat, trans- acted his business, and then invited him to join the party who had pre ceded them. Blackburn informed the Judge of the conversation here related. Poland, without changing his countenance, said : "I don't know why you should entertain such an opinion of me, and yet I am not surprised, as many men have here tofore acted upon the same belief, and in consequence of this errone ous belief, I have lost many good drinks in my time." From that time forward Poland never missed a drink when Blackburn and he were where drinks could be obtained. Letter from Dr. Groff. Atlanta, G a. . Aug. 23, 1886. : Editors Franklin Press : In my recent wanderings, I have seen some things which I have thought a knowledge of may please and profit my Macon county friends, so I sit to write them out. From Franklin, I proceeded at M'e to lioone. the county seat of U'ntaiig.i junry. To reach this place oik mu-t proceed on the Wes tern R. If. to II t koi y. There change cars to a narro.v gaugi-;U. It to Le noir, and thence to lioone, still 30 miles distant, by stage. HLkory lies in a level country, and seems to be a thriving place. It has three news papers. At the Central Hotel native wine is served at dinner free to all guests who will partake. I did not taste it, so cannot judge of its qual ity. Lenoi.- is a town of about 1000 people, many of its buildings large and very substantial. It has some of the best buildings I have seen in North Carolina. Along the R. R to Lenoir, one passes through a pine jtimbered country. There is much (activity getting out lumber, j . 'ihe price of a stage ride to Boone is $3.50, but competition sometimes brings it down much ' below this point. Six miles from Lenoir, is Patterson with its important woolen factory. To this place the farmers from all the surrounding country bring in their wool and it is made into cloth and blankets. I 'was told by a merchant that the home looms are hardly any more used in all that section. ' Now here is a hint f r Macon county, why not put tip a ooleu factory on some of your mountain streams, and then go to raising more sheep ? It will pay, l am sure, my friends. But, ah! there are the dogs 1 And pernrt me to say, that your neighbors' worthiest curs can be taxed. While in Hick ory, 1 read the ordinances of that town, and one was a license of $1.50 for every dog. I do hepe, Mr. Edi tor, you will raise a dog war. I am sure "I can get none of my Pennsyl vania farmer 'friends to invest in your lands, unless they can have the dogs shut up, muzzled, or killed. Why permit so valuable an industry as the sheep business to be destroy ed by worthless curs? Shoot; the last one of them. The road to Boone, I wish to call your attention to. For eleven miles, it ascends the Blue Ridre. This is a "Turnpike road," built by a com pany and a toll collected. .Now, the grades on this road are so gentle the stones eo well removed, that one can trot his team almost all the wav down the mountain. The people there claim that it is the best moun tain road in the State. Now, is it of any value to the people ? They tv nef YtQir f xrat Traf ira to Vt on -vrsii get to the top of the Ridge, the country is full of city boarders. I found one hotel with 200 in it. The people pay $15 to $20 a month, and I think there must be at least 500 in the section where I was. ' There may ; be 1,000. Don't good roads ;pay ? I have no doubt at all, that without this road, these people would not be here. It occurred to me, would it not pay to build' such a roaa irom rraniciin to iiigniands. A Creaking Hinge Is dry and turns hard, until oil is applied, after "which it "mores Basily. "When the joints, or hinges, of the body are stiffened and inflamed by Rheumatism, they can not be moved without Causing the most excruciating pains. Ayer's Sarsaparilla,' by its action on the blood, relieves this condition, and restores the joints to good working order. .. . , " ' Ayer's Sarsaparilla has effected, in our city, many most remarkable cures, in canes which baffled the efforts of the most experienced physicians. Were it necessary, I could give the names of many individuals who have been cured by taking this medicine. In my case it has worked wonders,' relieving me of Rheumatism, after being troubled with it for years. In this, and all other diseases arising from impure blood, there is no remedy with which I am acquainted, that affords such relief as Ayer's Sarsaparilla. R. H. Lawrence, M. D., Baltimore, Md. Ayer's Sarsaparilla cured me of Gout and Rheumatism, when nothing else would. It has eradicated every trace of disease from my system. R. II. Short, Manager Hotel IJelmont, Lowell, Mass. , I was, during many months, a sufferer from chronic Rheumatism. The disease afflicted me grievously, in spite of all the remedies I could find, until I commenced using Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I took sev eral bottles of this preparation, -and was speedily restored to health. J. Fream, : Independence, Va. ' ft Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Prepared by Dr. 3. C.Ayerfc Co., Lowell, Msaa. Sola by all Druggist. Price fl ; elx bottles, fS. I verily believe it would pay hand somely. I think a road ' with easy grades could be built up the 1 river. I think it would pav to build one from Highlands to Walhalla. Last summer a hotel was built at Blowing Bock, near Boone, to accommodato 200 guests. It is now full, and 1 was told that last year, its first sea son, the proprietor cleared an even . 10 per cent. I'oone is a smaller place than Franklin. It has but 3 stores, 2 churches, and a Masonic hall. The country around it pleased me, however. The great part of it is in grass, and hay is here a princi pal crop, it being too cold for corn, and now note what the grass crop does. The people have their farms fenced, they have good houses, good cattle and magnificent horses; mules seem to be but little used; I was struck at once with this. Here I have seen the first grass farms in N. C, and hero the people are' most prosperous. My mends, tms is true. The region seems thoroughly pros perous, though, 1 do not think in native ability they equal those of Macon county. But grass makes the change. I should say, that they universally use timothy. Another crop they find very profitable, viz. cabbages : large areas are planted with these, and a ready market found in the Southern cities. It occurs to me that they would bo the crop for Highlands. Try it." Boone claims to be the highest village east, of the Rocky mountains. How is that friends at Highlands? Blow ing Kock is 40D0 feet, uud is quite a village. The Institute was not so large as ours.at Franklin. They had seven ttacher8, who taught one hour a day. The school was in "charge of Prof. Mitchell, of charlotte. Railroad Meeting In Ashe. - Ap, alachUn Philosopher. In pursuance of former notice, a large and enthusiastic railroad meet ing was held in Jefferson on the Gth inst., our courthouse being filled to overflowing with prominent citizens i from all parts of the county. The meeting was organized by' appoint- ing Capt. John Dent, Chairman, and Dr. C. L. Gentry Secretary. Captain Dent then explained thcoO- i'ect of the meeting, being folio A-ed iv speeches from various oilier speakers, all warmlvaflvocattng t l.u building of the roac Upon motion, cotsnty canvass m were appointed to talk to the , pie upon the importance of ai ii.i f the South Atlantic and North v -a;- ; ern Railroad Company in coimru ,. ' j , ing a road. through our county n l opening up our vast timber, miiK: ! and agricultural resources to j markets of the world. ( The following resolutions were, unanimously adopted : . . : 1. That we as the citizens of Ash county, in mass meeting assembled, do advise and direct that our county ! commissioners order an election to be held on Saturday, October '2 1882, in the various townships' of said county, to vote upon a propo sition to contribute in county bonds one hundred thousand dollars, to aid j in the construction of said road,' br some other that will aid us in rail' road communication with the out side world.: - . . v ti ,2. That our Senators and Repre- i sentatives, whoever they may be, are hereby requested to aid us in said scoeme in every way possible for them to do as representatives of the people. , ,' . On motion, the meeting adjourn ed. ! John Dent, Chairman. t L. C. Gentry, Secretary. The day of the election will probably be fixed for a day, a ; week later than October 2, Because the law requires "that notice of an elec tion be given for, thirty days " previ ous. '" :';-'";' :V ' t f It is said that most of the leading magazines of the country have ac 'ceptable articles in hand sufficient to fill their pages for from ! three to six years. 1 i t i u 1, V I' i ? hi i ii 1 1 If?" : 4 '4
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