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WATAl'iiA.
1 love tin laud of uiy hi: Hi.
I love it for its - ln worth.
1 love Wiitnuga, iiiyuativc land.
I low her charms on every hand.
1 lov' her .gentle sic ing kills,
I low luT bahhlirg I.tooKs and
ii!U
1 love her vallt'vs and leount Jiias
l.i-h
Pisiug i:p to lass the sky.
1 love her lie-Ids of golden i!ain.
1 love her forests in living gneii
I lovelier rapid li-. nviii.it waters,
J low her millions and her
llailgllteiT.
I love her jieopletnie and kind,
As niiv people you can find.
Cf all t ho cora;trie.s east and
west,
I love lay native land tin1 hot.
1 low our njring with iier buds
aiid flowers,
1 love our summer with licr gen
tle showers.
I love our autumn with his gol
den grain,
1 love our winter with his snow
and rain.
M.C. II.
LINYILLE LETTFU.
EniToit Dkmockat: W e
now have three saw mil's un
der full lion (1 way A. S.
Church has two northwest of
the post-o.'Iice, and (i. II.
Weld one directly south of it.
The three are not moi-e t han
half a mile apart.
A. S. Church is putting up
a dwelling: house close to his
saw mills.
T. F. Parker is putting up
a second double tenement
house oi. Bufiiii street.
W. Aldridge lias his large
livery stable nclosed on the
sides and ends and will soon
put on the roof.
Mrs. Shope has moved her
one-story dwelling on an ad
joining lot on Linville" Aven
ue, put on another story and
now it is a respectable two
story habitation.
Mr. llichie is driving a way
on his new. house. Woth
chimney's tire up, and the
family of about JiO persons
(this includes loarders) will
soon be domiciled in it.
'The Company" has erec
ted a new black smith and
shop on the corner of Ash
and Hemmingway streets,
G by 30 feet. So soon as it
is entirely finished a tool
house will be erected 16 by
2 G feet on the adjoining lot
of Ash street. Then the tools
will be deposited- there at
night and taken away as
wanted, door thing this.
,1. 11. Ervin, civil engineer,
will be hare in a few days to
receive instructions eom-ern-ing
a preliminary survey
which is to bn made for a
rniirond from, hereto Cr.iii
bery. It is expected llm thw
corps t tf assistants x, g !
to woik.by theJirst day J
i November. As ; cltr.vii
said: "V.'e must ha ve a rad
in al!' 'J'!:e;i. woiTt I.iaviil
jloum n? Yes sil! ; i : I I it
will boo n too.
I Mr. -'ingin ha:, bin :i"d two
jkilns of !! ck, ui ! nn-.v at
iwork on a third ope. An I
the demand is not hali'su;
pIiHl. The post-odico has been re
moved to Moored Cofi'ey's
new stoie Can Una -lvenue.
and "Ed.M Coffey isassistant
I tost in aster. .1. S. W.
(h-tohrv L'lth 78N.9.
EniTou 1)k.mo( 'Hat: Per
haps a fewofs fiom this cor
ner of our County ill not be
untnteresiHig to your many
readers.
Well, the goo citizens of
this corner have eo.'menced
to buihl, dig and make the
"Aeconimoi!,! tion I'ond" au
thorized by our (onnlv Au
thorities. S;;id road has two
bogi. lings one is near the
residence of the widow Chris
tiana Wilson, and the other
isnear-Ieremiah ( Siren's. And
he ends of said ronds are
in the middle. It is named
the 'Accommodation Koad"'
because it winds around and
up and down tha valley's
and the ridges, to visit the
citizens houses of this sec
tion. Those citizens have
good farms and houses, but
unfortunately they have pev
er had time or public spirit
enough to build roads to
their own doors and now
their . neighbors ae called
from their farms and public
roads that need work, badly.
to build a road that will not
benefit the public onl, as it
benefits the citizens of this
settlement.
How is it, that the Old
North State is two poor to
build, and keep up her public
roads without robb'ng her
pulpits m to do it? ' Every
minister of the gospel must
walk down from his pulpit
and shoulder his mattock,
and inarch sometimes from
three to five miles and work
all day under an overseer,
who has fifty per cent of mus
cle and one per cent of Imiin.
If the Minister does not leave
his Bible or his Pulpit lie
must pay a fine, accordingto
the laws of our State.
Some say "let the preacher
work the road, he is no bet
ter than I am and 1 have to
work it." That is true per
haps he is, no better than
you are reader, but what
class of n. .'vi of our county
give more time to the public
good our county than the
Minister of the Gospel?
Tie; members of the Board
of Education get two dollars
per day and nilage. The
County Commissioners, get
good pay. All men engaged
in public work for the coun
ty gvt good pay but the Min
isters. There are 7 churches,
in the Three Forks Associa
tion, and those .7 churches
paid their pastors the round
sum of f ()3o la st year. Near
ly Jjp.oO'to the church.
N"v; c;io man can preach
to four e.'urehi-s by riding
to iou tunes io visir;
his church" am then get,
less th-su .71- per year. Oi
to
to
1' !i
i vr:,.y days
pay .. of
f v u ta !-
;t. o"
day.
s Oil
ne
i ... !!.::.
I don't kno
OW 111
;:m .nut 1: vrs. t -
s f.imily i:ae a a ::
the t o ?d f.-OM live
..e:!,odist M msfers are p ial ; j ,;;;. N-,u- MJ u,
i :t very it is a hard 11 !! in-;,,,,,! H i,'-. hnuv on ,s:,t
a i'.ap'.ist Preae!e-r. Nov it ,:nl iy night, where they
, ii.ay be that some our br. t -i-Kveregoini; to liavf-one of tin
r"i. who spend halitlavr ti-ne , I:,dest jiocesions that
iloaling nu.l hanging abort;;,.,, ever been in the Cjtv.
soies will "kick" when they
jread this but if they display.
I no ne!,e M!ergy in their
; ' ki -Iciifg" tlian they do in
iworki.vg for their families,
j th ir country, and their (led.
I n.Voo.ly will b" hurt. Your.
jagainst two many crook.;
1 r ?at!s and loafers. .J.
Zlonvdh, .V. C, Ovt., 2:1 ' ).
For The Democrat.
i Will you please publisl in
i your newf-y journal, our 1 1 ip
jlrom j:g1on, bae! o
j tlie "Old Nor! h ' Siale."
(There were three of lis t;
! wit: Charlev Mast, William
Wdson and th" writer'.
Harvest, now being' ov r,
we made preparations P
ve
isiargton.
hi
1ms r.ow beeo:;i: a state, and
We had the pleasure of v::t
in'the Peinoeraticticket b
fore wv left. Wili yai letu
give a little of our history
while in li'ashington.
Pining harvest we git
from $ 1.X0 to "y.l. 00 per day.
Some will aus e-, isn't that
good wages? It is good w i
ges? it i;; good wages, but
dear reader, let nee fell you
how we got t.C0 per day:
Jt was working from day
light till dark, mnkingnbont
fourteen hours, and then go
to bed and sleep oiU on the
ground and view the twink
ling stars and rise at morn
ing and brush of the frost.
They have Irost every month
in the year. I will not go
further, but if anybody
wants to know more Wash.,
let them call on us at Sugar
(5 rove, N. C.
So, on th; 0d tf Oct., we
went to Garfield ami bought
our ticket wliich costs $o7.
50 to Bristol, Tenn. The
next morning being Friday
we took the train at Belmont
on theN. P. B. H. for" Home
sweet home."
What happy bovs! YVe
reached Spokane Falls at
10:30 o'clock, and had to
lay over till 12:10 p. m.
We amused ourselves while
there, by running over the
town looking ot the ruins of
the City there being ?U5
blocks burned, and it is now
covered with tents principal
ly used for gambling.
"Get ready boys -the train
is comeing." Now we took
the -train at 12:40, and
moved onward for North
Carolina. As we moved on
we would sing, "Carolina,
Carolina, Heaven's blessing
attend her, while we, live ve
live we will protect and de
ifend her."
I On we go. and was on Sa'-
i nrday evening ia Montana. ! that the idea cf ciii khiugthe
Uesav the wreck of two ! v.'hole community by taking
' trains which was a sad property in minute quanti
! scene. The en-vjneer was so-; ties to a few people is simply
riously injured, but the pas -
,'i-s escaped without
i h injury. )a" of the
a-.-'ni,e:s de.Miibe.I it as
b.'lug art exciting ikeeasioir
); a;..l on, ,ve re i ii -il
vo.,
u-
.lis.
lar re
and
prosp 'lo'H pi i -o-tla re -th.ai.ed
er.'-s Mid took i!i.
.wi;,;i a polls 'i St. Iai's ra.il-
n presenting the Veiled
Propheta, elo. There were
so many people, we cou'al
earcely get to the depot.
There tve made another
hangeand took theChicago
B.idge Tunnel, and pushed
ahead for Ciucinnatti, the
population of which is 200,
oOii. From Cincinnati, we
took the Q'.ieen and Present
ro;:te to Keatli'y. and on the
v,?y we vent thtough 2-"
tua leis and over a bri'lge
( - Ho feet high. (Jiaciotis
! 'lov curious it ra'de us fee!.
-'.'e hanged again at Keaili
j iy inking tlie K. Tenn. Va..
.: d'a. ib P., )assi;igthro'agu
Knoxviile to Johnson City
vhere tin- a C. Co., is hni!d
ing a railroad.
From .Io!ra::on City we
iook the. narrow gauge to
:'!!; Park, ;w:d from there we
hit the grit for 'iionie sweet
home," on Saturday night
Oct:, the happiest boys ''on
tap of the green earth." We
re'.i.a: d I ke the Prodigal
son enough or' Hashing; on
I'eeling that the trip bcueilt
ted ns a thoussnd dollars.
Dear reader, I would not
advi.-.e any ona to go West
or stay; but please don't
iisten to T. S. Patty, or any
other railrbd agent; for it is
the way they make their
good mo:-ey by getting the
people to leave the "Land of
the SkiV's," and the land
i hey lave, to go We.t
O. M. Aaist.
Sugar Gro ve, XX . 0 t.ll '80.
. The Democratic Idea.
The difference between the
Democratic and Bepubliean
parties on the question of
taxntion is not a difference
between 47 and -10 percent,
which is a, mere matter. of
detail, nor a question be
tween a prohibitory tariff jn
one side and free tradeon the
other, which is a mere a cade-
fiie discussion, of no interest
to practical men. But is a
difference that lies at the
root of all government, a
question upon which it, de
pends whether, our govern
ment shall be of the people,
for the people and by the
people, or a government of
all the people, by a very few
of the people for an extreme
ly limited class of the people.
The Bepubliean party says
that taxes are blessings, and
the more, the people of a na
tion are fused the more pros
perous the nation is as a
whole. The Democratic
party declares that taxes are
Imrdens, and the le.sy we
have of them the better, and
; ru-
bish.
million doi-
, m
lan s
iyeket i- a
very imp ising evi h-nee of
Ins pro.-peri ty, but the na
tion would be bet ler off if
Mchoneof GO.OOO.OOO peo
pi had a tb-ihir in his pock
et ..i i put it into the other,
but ih.it doesn't make the
v, hole amount any gieater.
And so it makes it circulate
t to lake ii from one man and
:gi-e it to another, but the
ipiocess does not bless the
man it is taken from.
A Novel Campaign.
Henry A. Cook, of Leom
inster, Mass., js at present
conducting; a novel cam
paign to get himself nomi
nated a candidate for the
next Stale legislature. He
wants to go the legislature
ami has put a card in the
local paper, hired a hall ami
placed hin'selfin forthenom-
lination before a convention
jol enlhmaM.vticfellowcitizens.
j lb1 said that he had been a
: hostler, a peddler, a tramp, n
firoeerymnn, a s'ableman, a
rhairumker. a combmaker, a
carpenter, a blacksmith, a
manufacturer, a gambler, a
thief, a large real estate
dealer, a lawyer, a detective
and that his present occupa
sion was seeking the office of
representative. The humor
and frankness of tin? would
be legislator made him hosts
of friends and he is now sure
of the nomination.
A Curious . Clock.
0:UJ of the most curious
clocks evertnado will soon be
liui'died.
bronze figure
four or five feet tall, and
alone worth .f 700, giasps a
rod which runs through a
hollow brass globe, nearly
eight inches in diameter.
The globe is engraved with
meridians and the pa rra lie's
and tne various countries of
the larth. The oceans will
beeoiored with the various
hues. All the chief cities of
world are laid down. Over
the bronze figure's head is
suspended a plate glass disc,
which is a dial for indieatirg
local time. None of the
machinery appears. It is
all 'hidden within the globe
and in a little pill-box affair
behind the gass dial. The
globe is the ball of the pen
dulem. It swings back and
forth, and at the same time
revolves. A sfationary belt
about, the globe's equator
bears he the figures of the
dial, and a glace will show
yon the time of the day at
any city you may name.
When this clock ;s finished it
w i'l be marked a fancy figure,
and will fin J a ready sale.
New York St nr.
Strange Tilings in Alaska.
"There are so many
strange things in Alaska,"
says the discoverer of the
Mnir glacier, "that" have not
yet come to the knowledge
of ' he public, that one who
has seen them hesitates
where to begin. Elephant
remains are found all over
the great valley of the Yu
kon. As a matter of fact,
they are found everywhere
throughout the great we-s-tern
slooe of All ska. Dana-
;m 1 Sir Ch.u Vr, Lyl start! 1
the word by ami i.jneiii
th.it hauy froze:i el -ph in m
were found wedged among
theS.brriaii iceberg. ur.
scarcely anybody know
Gi.it throughout Alaska nr.?
th' remains of counties
thousands (tf miutodous.
Van can dig I hem out an I
find them on t l.esarfnee a..v-
where. 1 saw hundreds o'
I hem, possibly, on my last
trip, and I am now anxious'
!y trying to get tip there to
complete my investigations.
So thick are the elephant re
in aiiM that the native Ia
dians, on finding them bur
ied partially in the ground,
decided that were some kind
of great mole that burrows
in the soil. This is the story
given me. I collected a lot
of remains. The collecting
of elephant tusks every sum
mer is a regular business in
Siberia, just over fehruig
Sea. We have just as many
of them on the Alaska side
as they ever had in Siberia.
Ages ago great herds of ele
phants roamed over these
hores. Perhaps they exis
ted down to a comparative
lv recent date, too, for th.)
hairy bodies and well-preserved
bones were evidences
of t hat."
Razors on n Circus Train.
Capt. Beery had a rough
time on Ins Carolina Central
train which left Charlotte ou
the night of the circus. The
W'ilmiiiton Star saysg that
"the train had on board a
.nixed crowd of whites and
blacks numberingabout 350,
returning to their homes
from a visit to Charlotte to
see the circus which exhibited
at that dace on Tuesday.
Many of them were under
the influence of liquor, and
before the train had puhVd
out Capt. Beery, the conduc
tor, was obliged to have six
of the most disorderly ar
rested. Trouble broke out
afresh after the train was a,
few miles from Charlotte and
a general melee ensued, in
wliich several of the parties
received severe cuts with
razors.
One of the wounded was a
woman, who was slashed on
one her arms; the other.s
were men. The fighting was
confined to the negroes who
si a fhed each other to their
own satisfaction. Capt
Beery, went into the coach
while the fighting was going
when a colored man brand
ished a razor before him,
which the conductor kicked
out of his hand and sent it
flying to the roof of the ear.
A young white girl, who
was in the coach, was with
difficulty rescued from her
unpleasant situation by the
conductor and placed in an
other car. All the disorder
ly passengers left the train
by the time it had reached
Mathews staticra, and the
journey was quiet and pea:
able harlotte Newts.
scorn r::tviN,
Attorneys at Law,
Lenoir, N. C.
T. B. FLNLEY,
ATTORXET-AT-lAW,
Wilkes'iore, Nortli Carolina.