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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 13, 1800.
NO. 18.
LLWILLE.
A place planned and developing
AS
A GREAT RESORT
Situaiedin the Mountain&ol
WESTERS NORTH CARO
LINA, A region NOTED for health
fulness and beany of Scenery.
AX ELEYAT10X OF 8,800 FEET
"With Cool, Invigorating
Climate.
It is licing laid out with taste
and skill, with well gra
ded roads and
EXTENSIVE
1 OBEST PARKS.
A diNialtle place for fine residen
ces and
-I1EAI1UFUL UOUES-
AGood opportunity for prof
itable invest ui'M.ts.
82" For illustrated pamphlet
address
Lixvn.i.i: Impisovemknt Co.,
Lin villi-:. Mitchell Co.
N. C.
5 29-G mo.
WA SHIN( i TON I . ETT Ell.
From our Regular Correspondent.
For the Demount
Secretary Noble has shown
that he is, as far as rank par
tisanship can make him so,
a worthy successor to the
lateZachanah Chandler, who
will probably be known in
history as the man who made
a President by seuding the
celebrated telegram reading
4i Haves is elected by one ma
jority. Z. Chandler." To
day was the day announced
by the Superintendent of the
Census for issuing the official
bulletin of the population of
the United States, but when
Secretary Noble learned by
telegraph that Governor Hill
of New York, had written
him a strong letter demand
ing a recount of New York
city on the ground of serious
errors in the June enumera
tion, and that Mayor Grant
had sent him a second letter
asking the same thing by a
special messenger, who was
also to bringabsolute proofs
of errors made in the origi
nal enumeration, he ordered
Superintendent Porter to
issue the bulletin at once, in
order that he might have, as
an excuse for refusing the re
couut asked for, the fact that
the official population had
already been given out. A
more deliberate piece of chi
canery was never perpetrat
ed by the most unscrupulous
politician. Saturday Gov.
Ilill'j letter was received by
mail at the Interior depart
ment, and Mayor (rant's
messenger delivered his letter
to Secretary Noble, but the
aforesaid bulletin was issued
Friday.
A careful study of this bul
letin, which gies the total
population at G2,480,540,
at least 2,500,000 less than
it ought to be will convince
any unprejudiced man that
the charges long ago made
against this administration
of manipulating the census
returns for the purpose of
perpetuating the power of
the republican party, were
well founded. That enume
ration of the democratic
States, particularly those in
in the South, as far below
their actual population, can
not be doubted by anyone at
all familiar with their in
crease in population. For
instance, Alabama, the in
dustrial development has
been phenomenal during the
last ten years, is only credit
ed with an increase of 28.",
468 in population; Tennes
see where the industrial prog
less has been quite as great
is only given a gain of 141.
901 . These will do for speci
mens of the manner in which
this gigantic fraud upon the
intelringence of the people
has been carried out. The
falseness' of this bulhtin is
carried upon its face, when it
gives the percentage of in
crease during the last ten
years as 24.57, against 30.-
08 during the ten years be
tween 1870 and 1880. Sup
erintendent Porter has a
guilty conscience which he
shows by attempting to ex
plain this falling back in the
percentage of increase by
charging it to errors in tak
ing the census of 1880 in the
Southern States. Mr. Por
ter knows, as does every
other intelligent man, that
the percentage of increase in
the population of the United
States was greater during
the past ten years than it
was between 1870 and 1880,
and that knowledge on the
part of the people will dis
credit on the entire work of
the eleventh census.
What makes the action of
Secretary Noble all the more
despisable is the fact that in
order to get the semblance of
an excuse for refusing New
York city the recount to
which it is so clearly entitled
he has this bulletin issued be
fore the returns, cooked up
as they are, were complete,
and Superintendent Porter
was compelled to state in
the bulletin that it was sub
ject to change from later re
turns. There was no reason
in the world, except the one
above mentioned, for issuing
this bulletin before the com
plete returns were all in the
census office, and it is certain
that if New York City had
not asked for a recount it
would not have been issued
before December.
The Governor of Tdaho,
who is a republican, express
es his opinion of the census
in his annual report to Sec
retary Noble, in strong lan
guage. He says: "I have
information that leads to
the belief that thousands of
our people were not enumer-j
ated. Many of our mines
were not visited by the enu-J
merators. Several large dis
tricts occupied by men en
gaged in prospecting for and
developing mines were over
looked or neglected. I
am confident that the popula
tion of Idaho, if correctly
enumerated, would be ns
laige as estimated in my re
port for 1889-113,777."
The census belletin only gives
Idaho 84,229.
If anyone still doubts that
the joint resolution passed
by Congress appropriating
$1,000,000 for the purchase
of nickel for the navy was a
job of the regulation sort, he
must be blind indeed, and
there is reason to believe
that the tests at Annapolis
which led to the joint resolu
tion were part of the job. At
any rate Secretary Tracy by
ordering the making of new
nickel steel plates and a new
test of them, makes it clear
that he is not satisfied with
the result of the first tst,
although he did not hesitate
to ask Congress to appropri
ate $1,000,000 on the
strength of it.
Frequently accidents occur in the
housnold which enuseburns.cuts
sprains and bruises, for use in all
cast's. Dr. j. h, McLean's Volcanic
Oil Liniment has for manv venrs
been the constant favorite faiui
lv reined v.
The Best Force In South
ern Life.
It can be understood only
dy a careful observer to w hat
extent the co-operation by
the best people of both races
keeps down the lower orders,
prevents outbreaks, and in
numerous ways restores or
der, law and justiceina realm
within a generation turned
upside down by the most o
vervvhelming industrial revo
lution of modern times.
Doubtless the loss of wealth,
together with the migration
of the superior young men of
the leading families, often
works to t hedisad vantage of
the negro. The new rich man
of the south is not yet a sub
stitute fur the kindly, easy
going old master and mis
tress of the plantation. Hut
as a fact, the best thing now
in the South are neither the
work of its new northern im
migration nor of the upri
sing of a secondary class,
much less of the imported ele
men t from abroad. The up
building has been the work of
the old leading class, whose
families, in theirdeprivation,
amid conditions impossible
to be realized everywhere,
have done a work of restora
tion that yet awaits the full
recognition of the country.
Especially is this true of a
large class of Southern young
women, who, left at home,
have given themselves to the
good work of doing what
their hands have found to
do, with pluck, hopefulness,
kindly ness and efficiency,
which add new honors to A
merieun young womanhood.
-Ex.
Undue exposure to cold w inds,
rain, bright light or malara, may
bring on inflammation and sore
ness of the eyes. Dr. J. H. Mc
Lean's Strengthening Eye Salve
will subdue the inflammation,
cool and soothe the nerves, and
strengthen weak and failing eye
sight. 25 cents a box.
2 I'LL Y FOR SAM BOXES.
That bit of scriptural ad-
ice which was to the effect
that the man without sin
hhould have the first bouldei
is not always regarded in this
old topsy turvy world where
nil the wrong comes upjer
most. The Kev. Dr. Pritcb
ard takes orf his gloves and
gives Sam Jones n few cuts
under the belt. He says that
Samuel is slangy; that he is
profane; that he sets bad ex
amples; that he is an egotist
and that he makes some reck
less statements.
Or in other words, t he good
and pious doctor believes
that Jones does not tell the
truth and that briefly, he is
a bold, bad man.
This may be true, but here
is one grizzly old cuss w ho
does not believe it. Jones is
versatile; he has a vocabula
ry which w as largely compil
ed by Mr. Jones his talks a
bound in America nistr he
reads and studies and puts
h's ideas in clear, vigorous
Anglo-Soxon and all who
hear him can understand
what he says. He throws
chunks of logic in their unpol
ished purity at the head of
such "proper" personages as
Mr. Pritchard, and take the
lowliest and meanest sinner
under the wire with him the
first heat. When Jones throws
out his drag net he wants to
catch a" styles and kinds of
people. He talks in language
which they can understand.
If they are bummers he tells
them so and he will stop in
the slums of an alley on a
rainy day to shake hands
with the meanest and most
debased if he believes that
there is one dim ray of hope
to bring the wretched and a
bandoned man to God. He
sings psalms and sling slang
but in every town where he
has been thereis always soms
one better and purer and hap
pier.
He makes money? Yes, and
he should make money. The
hardened sinner who opens
up his purse to pay for the
happiness Jones brought
him, never regretted the deal.
He thinks he gotitcheapand
he did. If there were ten thou
sand Jones those who dish
ed out the cold and clammy
chunks of reason and truth;
who used a jimmy of slang
and a dark lantern of good
ness to pry into the secret
oeptns or irie nearu wnicu lor
years had not remembered
the prayer once lisped at the
mother's knee. The Globe's
word for it, there would be
more good accomplished
through the pulpit. Jones
rounds up all the sinners, to
nse a cow-boy's phrase, and
he brands them with the eter
nal truth-the truth of the
Word of God and it burns to
their very bosom's core, and
it does much toward reclaim
ing them. Jones gathers in
the roughs and toughs from
the bar-room, from the gam
bling hells and noct urnal ram
biers have turned from the
broad path and Jones has
guided them in the straight
and narrow way. How ma
ny of that class did the Rev.
Mr. Piitchard round up in
one of his meetings? i
If Jones i profane, so is
the Bible. If Jones is slangy
so are the sinners, and he is
not preaching to save souls
already saved. If Jones is
reckless in some of his state
ments, so is the Bible, but the
great central truth remains
and will shine undimmed and
unobseured throughout the
world.
This paper despises a clown
in the pulpit, likesome of the
one-horse imitators of Sam
Jones, but so far ns that in
dividual is concerned he sav
ed many, many persons from
perdition, and w hen we see in
the golden light beyond the
jaspered walls of the New Je
rusalem, Sam Jones' addi
tion to heaven it will cause
us to think that his religion
boom attracted more atten
tion than any town lot sale
ever did on earth.
Bully for Sam Jones Dur
ham Globe.
pains in the small of the back
indicate a diseased condition ot
the liver or kidnevs, which may
be easily removed by the use of
nr. J. h. McLean s Liver and Kid
ney nalm. $ 1. 00 per bottle.
Maj. Sneed Dead.
Maj. Wm.H. Sneed, the well
known politician and wit, of
ll'ilkes county, died suddenly
of congestion of the lungs, at
his home 2 miles west of
Wilkesboro and one mile east
of Moravian Falls at 12, M.,
last Thursday aged aboul;
75 years. He was raised in
one of the northern-central
counties of the State, Person
or Granville, perhaps, but
had lived in and near Wilkes
boro many years. He was a
tailor by trade, but practi
cally was a gentleman of ele
gant leisure. He could neith
er read nor write but was one
of the best informed of men
a man of wonderful humor,
acute intilect and strong na
tive judgment, especially in
matters political. This whole
section of the State is full of
his "sayings" and he will be
long remembered. He knew
everbody and everybody
knew him, and he was equal
ly at home with governors
and groundlings. Sneed was
a character and all who knew
him will be sorry to hear
that he is dead. Landmark.
A well 'known resident of
Washington City who has
just returned from a visit to
Ireland, says theconditionof
that country is pitiable in
the extreme. The curses of
landlordism and absenteeism
lay heavily ontheland which
in some of the country dis
tricts, are almost depopula
ted. Almost all the young
men and women have already
emigrated to America, and
many boys and girls who
have nearly arrived at the
years of discretion have fol
lowed their example. Walk-
ig along the roads one
could smell potato rot for
miles. Landmark.
Happiness depends very much
on the condition of the liver and
kidneys. The ills of life make
but little impression on those
whose digestion is good. You
can regulate your liver and kid
neys with Dr. J. h. McLean's Liv
er and Kidney Balm. $1.00 per
bottle.
Advir to Yoang Mea who Wait to
Create a FateraMfIa.
prrwlon.
Agree with the girl's father
in politics and the mother in
religion.
If you have a rival keep
an eye in him. If he is a w id
ower keep two eyes on him.
Don't put too much sweet
stuff on paer. If you do
you will henr it read in after
years when your wife h:v
some special purpose in in
flicting upon you the severest
punishment known to a mar
ried man.
Go home at a reasonable
hour in the evening.
Don't wait until a girl has
to throw her whole soul in a
yawn that she can't cover
with both hands. A little
thing like that might cause a
coolness at the very begin
ning of the game.
If, on the occasion of your
first cail, the girl upon whom
you have set your young af
fections looks like an iceburg
and acts like a cold wave,
take your leave early and
stay away. Woman in her
hour to freeze is uncertain,
coy and hard to please.
In cold weather finish say
ing good night in the house.
Don't stretch it all the way
to the fro.it gate, and thus
lay the foundation for asth
ma, bronchitis, neuralgia
and chronic catarrh to help
you to worry the girl to
death after she has married.
Don't lie about your finan
cial condition. It is very
annoying to a bride who has
pictured a life of ease in her
ancestral halls to learn, too
late that you expect her to
ask a baldheaded old parent
who has been uniformly kind
to her to take you in out of
the cold. Boston Gazette.
A Brilliant Editor Attempt Suicid.
Profound sensation was
created in Knoxville this
morning when its citizens
learned that Col. John M.
Fleming, the well known
newspaper editor and once
politician, attempted suicide
yesterday afternoon about 5
o'clock. He is in a room at
the Lamar House with three
great gashes in his chest
about the region of the heart
and another ten ible gash on
the left side of his neck made
by several strokes of a dull
bladed pocket knife. Col.
Fleming has been drinking
heavily of late. As near as
can be determined, about 5
o'clock yesterday' afternoon
he partially disrobed and
laid down in bed and gave
himself the wounds stated.
Near C o'clock a servant girl
passed the room, she was
horrified to find him lying on
the bed, weltering in his own
blood. She gave the alarm
and a physician was called.
An examination showed that
while the wounds were pain
ful and serious, they were
not of a fatal nature. Flem
ing said that he was induced
to commit the deed by physi
cal suffering.
Col. Fleming is some 57 to
60 years old, a widower with
grand children. He is one of
the most brilliant men in the
State, and weilds a" powerful
pen. Jifl?xrile Dispatch, 2.