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Mr. A. C forpetang North
Catawba Caldwell Co. C.
says, "1 write this to say
tliat the little ottto of medi
cine called Kephnlino is
tplemiid reme!y forheadac'ae
my whole family use it and
all say thai it relieves them."
Mr. Wilson Enu ton, Kings
Civok, C'nldwoll Co. N. C.says
"I have used Kephaline for
headache, toothathc and
neuralgia add have novel
la iied to be relieved. I have
also used it for Colic in doses
of one and two drops with
great benefit."
the swop.d or soieht Lir.
l.Y I A'I Mi K liYA.V.
ForHi from itsscabl'O.ni ,uivaiul
liviirbt,
Flashed the sword of bx!
Far in the front of the deadly
iviht,
High o'er Cue Irive in tlie ern.-o
of right, light.
Its stainless' sheen li!;o a bem-on
IiCtl i:s to victory.
Out of its s-.-abbard, where full
siumbercd pencefullv
Roiiheil from its rest by the bat
tle song,
Miielding the teeble, sniitiag the
strong. wrong
(iuai-fling the right, a vcnii! the
U learned the swora til iee.
Foilh from its scabbard high in
beneath Virginia sky air
And they who saw it gleaming
,the'-f, sv.ear
And knew who bore it knelt to
That where that sword led they
would dare
To follow and to die.
Out of its scabbard 1 never baud
Waved sword from stain as
free,
N"or purer sword led braver band,
Nor braver bled for a brighter
land, grand,
Nor brighter land had a cause so
Nor a cause a. chief like Lee.
Forth from its scabbard ! how we
prayed
That sword might victor be;
And when our triumph was de
layed, And many a heart gi-cw soro
afraid'. the blade
We still hoped on while gleamed
Of noble Robert Leo.
Forth from its scabbard! all in
vain Lee.
Bright flashed th sword of
Tis shrouded now in its sheath
again; slain,
It sleeps the sleep of our noble
Proudly and eaeefu ly.
Frozen to Death in OmIow.
Two boj's, aged 11 and 13
liOONK, WATAl'dA COUNTY, N,
to feed the hogs, lost their j
way in the snow storm ami j
froze to death. Their bodies j
were lound Saturday morn-j
iug, far away from home, j
both sitting together snlo Ity i
side and M one dead. i
Harrison's Cabinet
FORAMLY ANNOUNCED j
TO Tltr t.'v vti-' i
r,y Tel-.-raph to the Xews
and Observer.
If 1 t X f . . .1. " I
u asninivrou, .Maien o.
President Harrison to day
S'lit to the Sena to thpfliow
nomiimTions: For Sec
ret arv of State, dames (!.'
IJlaino, of Maine; Secretary
of the Treasury, Vm. Win
dom. ol Minnesota; Sec ro
tary of War, Uedtield I:ioc
:or, of Vermont; Seiretaiy
i f t lio Navy, Uenjamin F.
Traoy, ol New York; St-ero-vary
ot the interior, John X.
Xoble of Missouri ; Fos'r-
Attorney (h iierid, W. 11. II.
Miller, of Indiana; Secre
tary of Agriculture. Joremiah
Husk, of Wisconsin. The
nominations were confirmed
in a ton minutes' session of
of the Senate.
HrMou only springs in
simple, unaffected characters.
You find it in the Scotch. It
oversows in the well bred
American, who is th? prince
of good fellows. The Ameri
cans are so good at taking a
joke, so good tempered that,
even in public, they enjoy to
banter each other and servo
as butts lor each other's sar
casms that American humor
i s allowed free play.
Cdis and Ends.
Many people dig then
graves with their teeth.
Ho w ho reforms himself has
done something towards the
reformation of the crowd.
China has not been with
out a rebellion in some por
tion of the empire for 120
years.
A codfish spawns about 5
000,000 eggs in a season,
and a single pair of herrings
will produce lo -1,000,000 her
rings in three years.
Archibald Cambell, while
outdriving, near Cincinnati,
pulled out his handkerchief
to wipe his nose. Mt. Os
borne was at her gate, and
thought he meant to flirt
With her. and she followed
him up and shot him in the
arm.
Zionville, X.
March 1st. 1889.
Watauga Democrat:
I wish to say something more
in your paper about our
CountyCommissioneis grant
ing liquor license to men of
good moral character. It is
sa id t h at t he Con n Ly Co m m i s
sionors are sworn to obey the
laws of N. C. Do the laws
of the State require our offi
cers to plant holes of iniqui
ty among the people whether
the people want them ornot,
at instance of some Shylock?
If that be the case the State
en on his head. Men of easy
oonciencos, may holatofoster j
public iniquity for tic sakoj
of gain, and dodge behind!
ihe law to s!i:ld themselves !
!rom putilur it asure. !uc .Mar !
tyrs were not made of su h i
material. j
If christian churches are j
bound under the laws of thei
Xew Testament to discip-. wjj a ,-om.anion in '88
line t!;eir members who aid,i.id ''.) w lun t!.e hisNirv of
tin- ji!i: t thii iinnor tr.iffie mv
j n (.unrll(is mW ob:i
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I tinirs to diseio line tier mem
j hers who as public officers of i
'
State, plant saloons in oar i
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count v that will bring a sure
harvest of crime, shame a.nd
poverty, will increase our
taxes becaiu;'' of the increase
of crime ami derrem-v the
value of real estate. It the
State creates an ollice whose
work is so iniquitous that ; teen Hundred and Starve to
no conscientious christian j I),tii." Snow fell in Xovem
man can till it. Soon the j Ui,r () lSio, but there wa.s
Legislature wii! b: forced to noiiein'Deoeinberor January
repeal il. All the powers of J to spak of. Christmas and
earth and bell ought not be j New Year's were "warm, open
aide to swear a man to sup-1 and green," and faithful to
port iniquity. If the liquor the old saw that "a green
trab'ic, is not iniquitous there : Chris! mas makes a fat church
is none in this old sin-cursed
world of ours. Are our Leg
islatures run by whiskey lob
bies? It looks a little like it
since our present Legislature
pigeon-holed petitions by tho
whole-sale. Those petitions
came from the good, sober in
dustrious people of the St ate.
They want protection a
gainst those whiskey-shops,
shy-locks and blood-suckers
but they can't get it now.
Are there not 400.000 chris
tians in the old North State?
Are they asleep? How long
will the rulers of oar State
i ice use crime of every hue by
licensing whiskey selling and
send a man to the penitentia
ry for stealing a chicken or a
peck of potato- ? Truly
las is fitraniug at a gnat and
swallowing- a camel. The
legs of the lame are not
equal. Our old North State
is very lame.
Now, render, you may
think that some cranky hob-
by-rider is writing this, but.
I you go and locate on
Cove
Creek, near our county gro
cery, and if you are not on a
hobby or trying to buy a
shot gun in a month, I'll
think you love a noise. How
long has it been since there
was a shooting concert on
nearly tho same grounds?
And all caused by whiskey.
Every tax-payer will have to
put his hand in his pocket
and heip to pay for it. I be
lieve there are men who will
be in their graves in 12
months, if that grocery stays
there.- There are men that
irili drink if it is convenient
for them to get whiskey but
there is a chance to reform
thorn if it is out of their reach.
They are men that I feed an
iii'.eiest in. They struggle
to get 1oo.m of the ?. loader
drink, but our ; uthoniies
say v.o uil! fasten his 'grips
on your very vit e.ls.
Young men and boys are
now taki.r;-up the.r march
to tlk' ;.;!, pen;tent i.o-y, gal
lows and hell, and they are
WKINl - :s)AY. MAKCH IF, It-i.
county whiskey man
Yours, against high wicked
ness in stronghold,
Ji:a;
2; ,weiTneud-ed and Sta-veto Death
,s,, the fanners failed the
or,Ml winter of 1HKJ, when
there was no summer, says
tlt Omaha World,
Ti onm winter" of 1810
the century is writtai. TIk
year 1. Si 0 enjoyed an "opni
wilder'' during tlu eniii-f
twelve months, being fre-
quently referred toby con
temporaneous writers as ''the
year wit lion t a summer." All
through the settled portion
of the Failed States there
was a. frost in every month;
crops were ruined and farm
ers called itthoyear of "Eigh
yard." The old people pre
dicted all sorts of dire calam
ities, and the results se?med
to justify it. January was a
very nuiu mourn, mere w.is
sunshine every day, and the
tittle snow that fell hardly
covered the earth and it very
soon melted.
People prepared for groat
storms and extreme cold
weather in February, but
wore disappointed, as it was
even milder than January.
Toward theendof the month
and during the first days of
March, a terrible storm rag
ed and gave place to cold and
boisterous winds. The woa fil
er in January was repeated
in April, but grew colder as
the days passed, ending with
snow and Feand a very low
temperature. In May ice
formed an inch thick on the
rivers and streams, buds and
flowers were frozen, nnd-the
entire corn crop was killed.
Frost , ic:' and snow were com
mon in June, and all at
tempts to raise vegetable
products failed. The condi
tion of the farmers is describ
ed as being desperate, and
they were compel led to hoard
their crops of the year pre
i ceding and nocesitatcd a big-
increase in prices. Almost
everything was killed, and
the fruit was nearly all de
stroyed. July was accompanied
with frost and ice. The
fourth was cold, and a blus
tering wind, raw and uncom
fortable, swept the entire At
antic const On the follow
ing day ice was formed of the
thickness of window glass in
New York City, all through
New England and in Penu.
In Auuust ice half an inch
thkh was frequently seen
September and October pre
sented the nearest approach
to summer weather than any
other mouth in the year, but
in November extreme cold
weather began, and a severe
winter continued up to April,
when su minor began and per -
initted farmers to r'al-and rel oak, cherry, birch,
ize h,,m;t' jus crops. ash and sugar maple, oil in
The same condition of nf-1 abundance, while of thesoft
fairs exist ed in England as in ; ?r kimls the pines an? found,
this country, only it was not ! together with hemlock, buck
so severe. In -entral New eye. chestnut, poplar, and
York, it is stated, corn was j others. Someof thehemlock
so badly frozen in the sum-jand poplar logsarefro:a four
mer that it was cut down , to six feet in diameter,
and dried for fodder. Thej In the interview referred to
warm weather in .lanuaiy ho: (Jon. Ilosseroallsattentjon to
encouraged a Vermont farm-j tho fact that all the groat
or that he planted corn, and
in fact some of it was in good ; tin? southwest from the At
cotidition during March. J lantic seaboard. The line of
Farmers wort- compelled to ; which this new sts.'tion is a
pay ?i or S?."i a bushel for the,
corn of 181 ij for feeding pur
poses. Tha Color line.
lint in a government of the
peo le it is the theory, and
in the beginning it was the
practice, thai the fittest
should rule. When Gov. Lee
said of the Southern States
that the white men should
govern he probaly referred
less ta color than to charac
ter. He meant that the in
telligence, the trained e-pne-ity
and the ability to govern
wisely should control public
affairs. These qualities hap
pen to be possessed in incom
parably the larger degree by
the white race at the South.
And there is no Northern
man settled in that section
to live and to conduct busi
ness who does not agree with
(lev. Lee. lie may think
that governing whin; men
should be republicans, but he
stands on the color line with
all the intelligent, just and
patriotic natives of tho
South.
A RICH COUNTRY,
The lett ing of the big con
tract for building the 230
miles section of the Charles-'
ton, Cincinnati and Chicago
railroad is attracting wide -
spread attention with those
interested in the industrial
development of the South.
The section will extend from
Uutherfordton, X. C.,to Min
neapolis, on the Clinch river,
and wid open up one of the
richest mineral regions in tho
world. An idea of the rich
ness of the iron deposits is
given in a romantic story told
bv (Jon. Thomas L. Rosserin
in interview The story is
that unprincipled white men
bought this wonderful min
eral country from the Chero
kee Nation for a considera
tion of pots, pans and kettles.
The whites then took from
the sides of one hill enough
iron to make all the necessa
ry pots, pans and kettles to
pay the Indians the ju ice of
t he purchase, and t he ore was
of such purity that it was
oeaten int o the required uten
sils without so much as put
ting fire to it. Gen. Kosser
says he knows it to be a fact
that at Wilder's Forge, in
Mitchell county, (Jen. Wilder
takes out ores so pure that
they require no treatment.
The road is to run on the
line between North Carolina
and Tennessee, through the
Great Cranberry iron beds,
which form the largest body
of ma gn et ic s teel -1 n ak ing o res
on the continent is taken.
The hard woods found in
'this section are walnut, white
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trunk lines of railroad run to
link, will run southeast to
northwest, cutting across
other great lines and soopen
ing up a vast territory hith
erto impenetrated and at the
same time securing connec
tions with Xew York.
The road proposes to run
from Ashland, Ky., (which is
on the Ohio river, opposite
I ronton, Ohio,) to Charles
ton, S. C, using the South
Carolina railroad from Sum
ter to Charleston. It is an
enterprise groat in import
ance to Western North Caro
lina. Charlotte Chronicle.
Death cf Prof. V. G. Simmons.
Prof. YY. (i. Simmons, LL.
D., died at his residence in
Wake Forest at 3 o'clock, a.
m., on Sunday morning. He
had been in a low state of
health for the past t wo years,
during which time he severed
his official connection with
Wake Forest College. He
taught in this institution for
more than thirty consecutive
years, and during allot' these
years ho was absent from his
dutiesonly thirty days. Prof.
Simmons has written his own
epitaph upon the hearts and
brains of the men who are
now among the ablest and
most influential citizens of
oiu' State.
The funeral service was held
N the Co q
10:30 a. m., Monday, and a
large audience was present,
among them a good number
of Prof. Simmons' friends
from Raleigh. It was espe
cially fittingthat Dr. "William
Royal, who is now the only
surviving member of the fir? o
faculty of the college, should
conduct the exercise1--. The"
text for tho occasion was. ' if
in tin's life only, '.t haveaop
in Christ we are of all men
most lniseran;-' "
The sen . .n f.-om the begin
ning was .'uvt of that pathetic
tenderness i, a-which Dr. Roy-
all's sermons are much liked.
At the close of the sermon
other remarks were made by
Dr. Skinner, of Raleigh, Dr.
John Mitchell (a olassmateof
the deceased) and Prof. W.
IX. Rovall. The Rev. Dr. Car
ter led the congregation in a
most earnest and touching
prayer, at the conclusion of
which the remains were car
ried from the chapel and in
terred in the college cemetery.
The pallbearers, Profs. Mills,
Michael, Potest, Bet k with,
Mr. W. R. Dunn and Mr. W.
C. Powell.
Congress has passed and
the president has signed an
act enabling South Dakota,
North Dakota. Montana ami
Washington Territories to
adopt Statehood, and their
eight Senators and five Rep
resentatives will probably
take seats Tin the Fifty-first
Congress,