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Democrat vol n JiOOXK. WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, TIU'ltSDAY, NOVKMIJKH. . 1WH). NO. 17 LLWILLE. A place planned niitl developiej: AS A GREAT RESORT Situated in the Mountains ol WESTERS NORTH CARO LINA, A region NOTED for health fulness and benuy of Scenery. AX ELETATIOX OF 3,800 FEET With Cool, Invigorating Climate. It is being laid out with taste and fckill, with well gra ded roads and EXTENSIVE i quest pakks. ' A desirable place for fine miid'ii ces and -II EA L 7 1IFUL iioXES- A Coed o poi -tunny for pro! it aide in vest ue-Ms. &S'For illustrated pamphlet riddiess Ll.WK.Ll. IMI'KOV! Mi. NT Co., LlNVlLLK, MlTCiilXL O. N. C. 5 20 G mo. ktuan8 of Offixrs of tii3 ( iv.'l IVPr. . Among the officers of the civil war may be iie-iitioneil (Jell. Hubert F. Lee, wlio was familiaiiv called "Uncle Ho li cit.'' (Jen. Thomas J. Jack son was best known by the name "StonewnU Jackson," which he received at the bat tle of Bull Hun. Gen. George P. McClellan was called "Lit tle Mac." (Jen. George H. Thomas was called "The Hock of Chickamauga," be ause of his eouraga and firm ness in that bloody battle. (Jen. Joseph Hooker was ad miringly called "F'ghting Joe" a name which needs no explanation. Gen. W. S. II uncock Mas called "The White Horseman of Gettys burg," because he rode a large white horse in that famous tattle. Gen. William T Sher man is admiringly called "Uncle Billy."- Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan was called "Lit tle Phil." Gen. John A. Lo gan was called "The lack Eagle of Il'inois." Gen. Kil pa trick was called "Kill" Two carpet baggers are in trouble. Milton S. Littlefield who bossed the Radical Leg lature in North Carolina in 1869-70 is in trouble in Ne w York for obtaining $5,000 by fraud. Maj. J. 11. Gould, of Massachusetts, Republi can candidate for State .Au ditor, was forced to get off the ticket becausehefailed to turn over to the government about 130,000 which he had received when he was collect-; or of internal revenue t w en-i tv years ago. Their sins are' finding them on. Oh, the. iwmicui rascais nnu inieves: Mvssviigrr. WOOLFOLK HANGED. Pkuky, Ga., Oct 20-Thom asG. Woolfolk washanged at 1:30 o'clock to-day for a wholesale butchery he com mitt "d in the summer of '87. On the e morning of Aug. G, i ye.ir, ninecorses. he in that spattered with blood and braiiiK. were found lying in a house nbout L'i miles from Macon. In the hall-way, red wiHi blood and spattered with brains and hair, lay a short luuulliHlaxo. with vhi-h j the fearful crime had been accomplished. The scene of i the butchery was an humble, one-story building, with a been flung from the uplifted jnorth, and destroyed that J picture of this fine waluut. loug veranda in front and a axe clung to the walls and; large estaldishmeut. The! Hi. Ston." Ptst. hall-way running through the centre, into which opened four rooms. The house was the residence of R. F. Wool- folf, a respectable and well-to do white planter. On the right, on enteir g, was a par lor, in the rear of which was a sleeping room, which was occupied by Mrs. West, an a ged sister of Mrs. Wootfolk. and Pearl aged 17 years, An nie, ngvd 10 yearns. mid Hose- laid o ooiiolii, a.geti i years, d.uig'nfer of Mrs. Wo? .lloik. The sleeping room on the l ft (d the -r,1ra:ice was occupied V(1;j (lU ., by Thomas (., l:;:-l:ard nmPj,ew suit ol' clothes lie wa?; Charles Voclfoll:tlM'iast nvojiSiej, visited bv several of li:.s aged respectively L) and o years, so'ns of Mr. and Mrs Woolfolk. The iearroouioii the left, was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Woolfo'l; and the youngest child aged eighteen iiiont hs. In the last named room the father, mother and iufantlay on the same bed, each reck ing with the blood and brains of. the other. The bodies were almost lying across each oth er, and their position gave evidence of agoizing death. Across the three corpses was slung that of the eldest dau ter, Pearl, a recent graduate of the Weslean Female col lege, with her head beaten to a pulp and her neck and body mutilated by the blows of the sharp axe. On the floor, in the same mangled state, lay the body of Richard, the eldest brother. It was evi dent that Pearl and her broth er had be a a wa kened by cries during the butchering of their parents, and had rushed into the room only to share their fate. On the bed in the oppo site room lay the body of Mrs. West, soaked in her own blood and her brains oozing from her head, which, like that of the victims in.the oth er room, was crushed into a shapeless mass. On the same bed lay the body of Annie Woolfolk, with her head clo ven in twain. On the floor, in an attitude of supplica tion, lay the body of Rose bud Woolfolk, with the left side of her head and face so mangled as to make recogni tion almost impossible. In the room where the three brothers had slept Charles, the youngest broth er and ninth victim, lay dead from the blows of the jixi. j Pearl's I til was without sheets, Annie pulled off one in her struggles. Pearl's c loth- ,.sw,..o K,....tt,.f..d bv on 11;l"iia, uih omiMlngsr,MiMiai-is),)wsa ! chair on which she had plac-!'''1 l i 1 1. :.i eil l ili'iu imi reuriii. lot-in - j in" ii stnvde. In the hall bet awn Pearl's room and tl.. ! parlor was a poo I of blood. ,,,!d there were splotches :n the wall s. veral feet abovej thelloor. The theory or this:' in- ,u" Jm" i.ol was that P-arl nm the1 yard.-', a freigt depot, with a ! munlcrer st niggled from herjsI:l:1'' '('inf frei-ht mid ; room to the hall, when tliojsiv "li.u vos. TheCre wasaid j 'killing of her was ch-Wed : just outside her door, and that when the assailant car ried her body into the room of her parents and threw it across the bed. The ceilings i ami walls of the minus W(M.(' bespattered with blood and brains, while here and there niece of flesh which had wainscoatiug. The betiding NV-S soaked with the crimson Uiiv blood, and on the floor 'ureat pools had formed. The doomed man slept well last night from two o'clock until four. lie got up at H and had a long interview wit!) a party of newspaper men with whom he convers ed for half an hour, laughing and eA'channing jokes li.d l)"ii;-.: seemingl v nbsolufelv i n-di; bed by !iis a i jj.o- (!,jt h. After tin !r.iv of his visitors he ppi'ouch ilep irt-J hat i;ei re'.a I ives v ho:a he bad- aiv ;;uv well uiihoui betravin; emotion. Later he was eh).- eted with his spiritual advis- 1 ers, to whom he professed his.gale. All are covered with belief in his salvation and his perfect hopes for a fut ure lift1, telling the ministers that he hoped to meet them in Heav en. For several hours there after Woolfolk was left aloie and devoted the time to mod Ration and prayer. About 1 o'clock he was conveyed under escort of a local mili tary to the gallows, which had been built in a little val ley in the outskirts of the town. Seven or eight thous and people swarmed the hill sides around to watch the execution. On the gallows Woolfolk was cool and com posed. After the ministers! had prayed he himself prayed fervently, declaring his in nocence in his invocation. A written statement, sign ed by Woolfolk, was read in which he gave it as his dying declaration that he was" in nocent of the crime for which he was being executed. At 1:30 o'clock the drop fell. The fall failed to break his neck and death resulted from strangulation, his pulse" con tinuing to beat for 11 min utes after the fall. Twenty five minutes later the body was cut down. Fondue exposure to cold winds, rain, bright light or inaiara, may inn ii hi oifl.i imnntiroi iiwl iii-. nMfUm ii.. t it 11V.PC1 (.IV- A' li U4 11. .tit. Lean's Strengthening Eye Solve will suoaue the inflammation, cool and soothe the nerves, and strengthen weak and ti sight. 2o cents a box pains in the small ot the back indicate a diseased condition ot the liver or kidneys, w hich may be easily removed by the use of nr. J. H. Mcu'an's Liver and Kid nej Hahn. 1.00 per bottle. CI! CAT rifiE AT Mar. ILK. Moim.r.. Ala., O.t.L'o Mo bile suf.'-iej severely I'.v lire h,'m" '"' mill, three; cotton compresses, and live; j ('u,um warehouses. odc'.O bales of cot ton. the (Ji.if City ! ioil Mi!1-,,!(' Mobil-Ice Facto '. three strain boa ts. eleven ; loauci umi iivoeinpi.vireigui ; 1 l,v !l tronguortwest wind Unit tad ieen a point or' two farther north, iMetty much all of the town would - have gone. t iU f ll,ss ls,.-""u--! 00 with about ?.i2.-,000 i j suraiMHI- inc iiieswir.eo ui .ie .o o & Unit's shingle mill, just be ; yond the city limits on the' sparks fell 1n many of the! warehouses within a radius! of half a mile to the south j and many fires broke out si-1 multaneouslv, the first notie- being among the cotton on the Mobile and Panning-! ham railroad wharf. This was at once tumbled off into the slip, and though (scorch ed, was saved. Almost at the I mnv time the Goodman and i Planter's i warehouses were : seen to be on fire. All this, northern )nrt of the town is' taken up with property devoted to Ihehnn d'.T.ri and pttu-eageof cotton; whole blocks being occupied by warehouses one-story bri de landings, with dead walls on all sides except two. which nre pierced by a single slate, but have courtyards in the centre, the sheds being o-1 restore such a meadow to n pen to the court. T'ire oneelstate of profitable produc- introduced spreads with mar velous rapidity from bale to bale. There; was a rain of sparks from the shingle mill fire, and this accounts for the breaking out of the fire in several wa rehouses at once. The dense smoke was blown steadily down the streets ami in t he faces of the firemen w ho tried to fight the fire in front. Very little could be done, therefore to stop the prog ress of the flames, and it was not until an open space of a quarter of a block was met at the foot of St. Anthony street, that any success was met with. There the south ward progress of the fire was stopped, after sweeping a way live blocks along the riv er front, except one building fhe Mobile and I'itming hain passenger depot. The fire broke out at half past twelve o'clock, and was under control at fouro'clock. A Valuable Walnut Tree. A valuable figured ivalnut tree, was sold u few days ago by John Dclclisur .and II. P. lDixon, as agents of the New j i York & Southern Lumber U-omnanv .of Aew York, to Mr. I). S. Pleasants for the sum of .f 200. Mr. Pleasants takes possession of the tree where it stands in the woods near the summit of the little Black Mountain on the head waters of Coxe's Creek, in Urab Orchard, county, Va. The tr-e is ii-,ilv ight- .,t in cin uuifnance five f,.t f1(.m tj, r.T,!Ull aul .:,t f Hnl hi v tu,.!lf v.fm. f(Vt j,;,. i ;n .,..., t,. im.... " i.i.h,-i .mi. , n. i i. ., ,Ul , (lf, n,.vto have j, Ium,il( t(, ivniugton ;(j.ip hut ., (ii:m.,., wnm,t s,.js V).,.v t j w York. M. . l!,.as;U,fs wiil compeii- sate for pains. T1,MV tvs st.uidinir in Sto.it ii weteni Virginia and i:,lsin u Knitn. ky to-day th;lt wi!, hvhv ,:)l) fm t; .,,,,, n-, v v.,.-!.- .v- o,,nf r ni,,i. ,.,,,,,.. lit III V" I 1 I f IU j l llf KiklllI t i ! i I 1 11 . .f ( I'O f 1 'Iff I'll bodies of tine walnut limber iMt!i in Leecoimtv. Virginia ;anl Harlan rounry, Ken- turi-y 8(), ,,f which have a diameter of five to six feet, Mr. Pleasants produced a i:?iiovai;tir old McattoMs. It often happens that old meadows become unprofita ble: the ot meager i growth and of inferior quali- ty. When a meailow falls off in productiveness many far- mers suppose that the soil is impoverished to such a de gree that it is no longer able to produce profitable crops. This', says Rural Home, is in many cases a mistake. There is no question that grass as well as other crop?, if cut and removed yearafter year, will impoverish the soil i but not hs fastas is generally supposed. The in eager growth is due to the close- ness of plants, and these meadows are thickly matted so as to form a compact sod. Now all that is necessary to tiveness unless the soil is so far worn as to be the cause of the unproductiveness is to thin out some of the growth, w hich is readily done by passing over the meadow with a sharp toothed harrow. Iy this operation the sod is lacerated, the superfluous grass killed, and as a result the remaining plants make a luxuriant growth. This may be done either in the fall or in the spring. It is well or even necessary to pass over the meadow with a heavy roller, as the harrowing makes the sod rough, and if this be allowed to remain theerop-cannot be cut as low as it might be, or small pieces of sod are sure to get into the hay, and this is certainly not desira-ble. A judicious application of well rotted barn yard manure applied as a top dressing af ter harrowing will greatby increase the productiveness of the meadow, especially if it be old and quite worn. A disc harrow will answer, but a harrow with teeth is prefer able. A free and easy expectoration is produced by a few doses of Dr. j. ii. MCLean'sTar wine mng isalm in all cas-'s of hoarseness, sore throat or difficulty of breathing. Indigestion results from a par tial paralysis ot the stomach and is t lie primary cause of a very large majority of the ills that humanity is heir to. The most agreeable and effective remedy is r. j. h. McLeans Little Liver and Kidney cillets. 2."i cents a vial. Atciiisox Phylosopuy. Every w rinkle in n man's face looks like a dollarsign. Ilefore doing a foolish thing rememlier that the woild likes to laugh. Many times when you me very indignant you are in tho wrong yourself. Many n man nas strong, good points that are over balanced by little weak ones. Heaven must be the place where tvery man receives what he thinks he deserves. Most love troudlcs arise out of the fact that most men think women ought to be angels. A man may refuse to pay everyone else, but he will find there is no getting out of it if he has the devil to pay. Man learns from experience, after all, when the oldest girl of the family is given a mu sical education theothergirls are not. For every day that a man knows a wonmn, he finds her capable of doing something better and meaner than he had believed she could do. . The most disgusting man in the world is the fool who says by actions: "Whatever comes into my little head is right; the world is wrong. I put the thoughts that hap pen into my little head a gainst the experience of the world." Habits of Courtesy, A boy who is polite to his father and mother islikely to. be polite to every one else. A boy lacking politeness to his parents may have the semblance of courtesy in so ciety but is never truly polite in spirit, and is in danger, as he becomes familiar, of betraying his real want of courtesy. We are all in dan ger of living too much for the outside world, the im pression which we make in society, coveting the good opinion of those who are in a sense part of ourselves, and who continue to sustain and be intesested in U3 notwith standing these defects of de portment and character. We say to every boy and to every girl, cultivate habits of courtesy and propriety at home in the sitting rooir and kitchen as well as in the parlor and you will be sure in other places to deport yourself m a becoming and attractive manner. Ex, Scratches In llorsss. Years ago 1 had a horse affected with scratches. I tried many recommended remedies without success. Knowing from experience that pine tar would cure chapped hands, I applied it to the cracked and sore parts and only three applications were necessary to effect a complete cure. Since then I have several times applied it with equally g)od results. It softens the dneased parts and keeps out moisture and dirt. 1 do not want a better remedy, and, were I to add anything to it in obstinate cases it wcildbe a very little pulverised olue vitriol. Cor. Rural New Yorker.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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