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VOL :i nooxi:, watatcja corxrw x. c, tiiuksday, januaky. h, mn. NO. 21. S.F. Lenoir. & Co, DEALERS in, General Merchandise, Wo have now, on hand u complete line of GENERAL MERCHAN DISE. . CONSISTING OF, Dry Goods, 5 Notions (J roperies, Shoes, Hut". Hardware, Tinware, Glnssware.J Crockery, Mdi incs, ol which re i fieri ng at Lowest Prices, We'ulso take in exchange lor goods, Wheat, Corn, Rye, Oats, Chicken Eggs, xetc, SO -IVEUS A CALL. .S. F. LENOIR &4.G0 May the 15th. 1800. W. B. COUNCILL, Ju. Attorney at Lay. July4th891y. Boone, X. C. W.B. COUNCILL, M. I). Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. .Office on King Street north of Post Office. ,f urn 12 88. ly. E.F. LOV1LL Attorney At Taw, Boone N. C. July 4th, '89-1 y DR. L. C. REEVES. Physician and Surgeon Office at Residence"! BooneN. C. July 4. 89. L. D. LOWE, Attorney at La -AND- NOTARY PUIJLW, BANNER'S ELK. N. C. J. ft. WILBAR, DENTIST, ELK PARK, NORTH CAROLINA. Oflershis professional services to the people of Mitchell, Watamra and adioininc: coun ties. Ao bad mateial used and all work gimmnted."Q& May 1 1 y. J. F. Morpliaw. -1. S. Elactbum Marion, N. C Je mon, X.C. M0RPHEW& BLACKBURN Atttorneys at Law. Will practice in the courts of Ashf, Y atangaapd Mitch eH counties, also in the Fed eral courts of the Dist.. and Supreme Court of the State. Collection of claims solicited. Aprl, 10? WASHINGTON LETTER. From oar lUgaltr Correspondent Mr. Harrison is no loi.g'-rj confining himself to secretly tnanipula' ing the wires that j are bring laid to secure him j a ivnommntioniu lS'JJ. He is now ofH-nly, a candidate;! and no republican of any prominences who visits him leaves the White House with out being made aware of the fact, and he is losing no op portunity of making deals to secure delegate.- to the next republican national convention. Ex-Sena tor Bruce, to whom he gave the second best local office in the District of Columbia; ex-Rep-j resen tative Lyn?h, whom he made one of the Auditor of the Treasury, and a negro named Europe, who holds a position in the Post Office Department, are relied irficn to control the negro dele gates from the South, and his own State has, he thinks, been made solid for him by his making friends with Treasurer Huston, who some time ago tendered his resig nation in a huff because he thought himself and wifehad not been treated with suffi cient consideration by Air. and Mrs. Harrison. Secretary Rusk, who has within a week ta!:"M asion to publicly announce not on ly that he was not a candi date, but his support of Mr. Harrison, is confident that he can secure a solid delega tion from his State, and the other members of the cabi net are all working to do the same Tiling in tneir respec tive states. This has been made much easier by the fact that the result of the re cent election together with the attitude of the republi can leade rs 1 1 Congress on the Force Bill and other mat ters to which he is opposed has removed all desire on the part of Mr. Blaine for the nomination. He doesn.t be lieve that there is hardly possibility that any republi can can be elected, therefore he will interpose no object ion to Mr. Harrison's being vin dicated by a renomination. Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan, feels about a hun dred per cent larger than he did a week ago. He is credi ted with having had Judge Brown, of his State, nomi nated to the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court in the face of the active op position of his Senatorial Colleague, General Algei and Secretary Blaine, all of whom supported another Michigan candidate. Old man Christmas knock ed the republicans leaders in the Senate out in the first round. Mr. Hoar refused to even entertain the idea, of passing the usual resrfcnwm for a holiday recess and sta ted that the Senate would be in session everyday until the Force bill was passed, but he reckoned without counting the strong home attractions of a majority of the Senators of his party. By Christmas eve the Senate was short of a quorum and adjourned to Saturday; on Saturday the number ' of Senators had dwindled to IS and after a five minute session, devoted to prayer by the chaplain, an adjournment was taken until today. Today tneieis not a quorum present, but j an i uort will be made by the republicans to continue the) debate m the election billj mil it :i iimit-inii ..( lii-re It I will hardly .succeed though, as it will be opposed by the democrats, who will insist that nothing be done with-j out a quorum, The House is! doing nothing for the same reason, and it looks as tho' things would reinaine in the same condition for the rest of this week. Attorney General Miller has made his contribution to the Harrison boom in the shape of an opinion which, if it holds good., will enable Mr. Harrison to turn the Wea ld's Fair into a mammoth Harri son machine by appointing air army of political heelers to do imaginary work to wards preparing for the ex position, w hile their real work will be for Mr. Harrison and the republican party. The anti-silver republicans who are all in favor of the Force bill, do not derive much satisfaction from the arrival of two more votes for that measure, in the per sons of the new Idaho Sena tors, because both of those Senators are understood to be enthusiasric friends of free silvtM eoinnge. These anti silver republicaas are oppos ed to any financial legisla tion of any kind at this ses sion, and they only agreed to the financial bill recently reported for the purpose' of quieting the silver men in their party, and fully intend ing to prevent a vote ever be ing taken upon it. The sil ver men have at last had their eyes opened, and they are threatening to make the fur fly as soon as the holi day absentees get back. Commissioner Raum has been compelled by Secretary Noble to write a letter in fa vor of the bill now pending to reduce the attorney's fee for obtaining an increase m pension to $2. The attor ney's lobby still boldly and confidently announce their a bility to defeat the bill. Public opinion has proved too strong for the House committee on Rules, which has decided to report in fa vor of Representatiqe Dock ery's resolution authorizing an investigation of thecharge against Congressmen of spec ulating in silver bullion. Wash. Dec. 20, 1800. A PERFECT S.IRT. For flirting commend us to the belle of a country, a New Ei gland country in particu lar. One with soma beauty, a trifle of accomplishments, a great deal of sentiment ar.d plenty of novel reading, she is furnished out for the pro fession of flirting. Her thirst for adulation is as insatiable as her capacity for humbug ing herself and others is boundless. It is not unusual for this sort of girl to be en gaged to two or three men a t once, nor for her to become an old maid after all, be cause she cannot determine who she loves most. Till: IU .YiT.KS STOKY. itv Ki:v. John to mi, p. n. My guide was an old trap p'Twholjad sjier.t years in the fore.-fts, sometimes six. months at a time, without heeiiiga human face I was Mttingdown, leaning against ' a tree at.d the old hunter came and sat down near me. "In the course of your be ing in the woods so long," said I, "you must have met with so:re .strange things. What one do you think of, as among the strangest?'' Why, I hardly know. I have had many narrow es capes, and have, as you say, seen some strange things. 1 can now recall one. It took place many years ago, when I was younger than I am now. I had been out all win ter alone, trapping for furs. It was in March w lion I was hunting beaver, just as the ice began to break up, and on one of the furthest, wild est lakes I ever visited. I cal culated there could be no hu man being nearer than one hundred mile. I was push ing my canoe along through the loose ice, one cold day when just around a point that projected into the lake I heard something walking through the ice. It made so much noise, and stepped so regularly, that I felt sure it must be a moose. I got my rifle ready, and held it cock ed in one ha ml, while I push ed the canoe w ith the other. Slowly and carefully T round ed the point, when, what was my astonishment to see, not a moose, but a man, wading in the water the ice water! He had nothing on his head or feet, and his clothes were torn almost off from his limbs. He was walking, ges ticulating with his hands and talking to himself. He seem ed to be wasted to a skeleton. With great difficulty I got him into my canoe, when I landed and made up a fire, and got him some hot tea and food. He had a bone of some animal in his bosom, which he had almost gnawed to nothing. He was nearly frozen, and quieted down and soon fell asleep. With great. difficulty, and in a rounda bout way, 1 found out the name of the town from which he came. Slowly and care fully I got him along, around falls and over portages, keep ing a" resolute watch over him lost he should escape fiom nu into the forest. At length, after nearly a weeks travel, I reached tl e village where 1 supposed he lived. found the whole community under deep excitement, and more than a hundred men w'are scattered in the woods and on the mountains seek ing for my crazy companion, for they had learned that he had wandered into the woods. It had been agreed upon, that if he was found, the bells should be immediately rung and guns fired. And as soon as I landed, a shout was raised, his friends rushed to him, the bells broke out in loud notes, and guns were fired, and their report echoed again and again in forest a"d on mountain, till every meeker knew that the lost one was found. "How many time 1 had to tell the story over I I nev er saw jteople bo crazy with joy, for the man was of one of the first and best families, and they hoped his insanity would be but temporary, as I afterwards learned it was. How they feasted me, and when I came away, loaded my canoe with provisions and clothing, and everything for my comfort. It was a time and place of great joy. They seemed to forget every body else, and think only of the poor inun whom I had brought back," The old hunter ceased and I said, "Don't this make you think of the fifteenth chapter of Luke, where the man who lost one ehoep, left all the rest and went and sought it, ami brought it home rejoic ing, and of the teaching of our Savior, that there is joy in heaven over one repenting returning sinner?" "Oh yes 1 I have often compared the two, and though I don't suppose they ring bells and fire guns in that world, yet I have no doubt they rejoice greatly over every lost one that is found." . There is no exbuse, except in the most extreme of unfor tunate of instances for a re spectable young man in A merica to fail of commercial success, if he will only look a- bout him and employ the op portunities as they present themselves before him. Let a young man show to his em ployer thas lie is wrorking for something more than his bread and butter; letjhim show that he has the iuter est of his emdloyer at heart and will protect and further them at every point, even if by so doing he is often com pelled to extend his office Jiours or make an extra ef fort, and he is bound to suc ceed. Eveiy young man in bnsiness today can and should rise above his posi tion. One position may be more conductive to this than another, but it is possible in all cases too many of our young men stop at the point of duty exacted of them; to carry the interst of their em ployers beyond a certain time of the. day is beyond their comprehension. "I ain not paid to work after 6 o clock,' says the young man forget ful that those making success all aroud him, are the men who work day and night, if occasion requires it. Let a young man be afraid of him But let him find pleasure in his work, and succes will nnd him. To this rule thereis no exception. Success must be deserved before it comes. The successful young man, now, is he who is not content Smith what has been done, but strives to surpass it. Extra ordinary talents are not nec essary to feucces. The great est genius is the genius of en ergy and industry. Modi fy pleasure for business, but donot modify business for pleasure. This, thousands ol young men fail to under stand, and here lios the se cret of the stand-still at which they find themselves. Kx. THE FORCE DILL. It in t have in term ted Messrs Howell and Lodge to observe in the Senate debates the other day that that ac tion of their force bill which authorized armed deputy marshals to visit the people a, Jheir homes nnd collect political information of them was repudiated by nearly ev ery republican Senator. It is true that Mr. Edmunds defended it, but Mr. Teller declared that Mr. Gray's de nunciation of the provision was none too strong, and it appeared in the debate that the committee that consider ed the Davenport-Row ell- Lodge bill last summer a to strike the section out of the bill. There the section stood in the printed bill in spite of the committee's ac tion, and that fact, together with the f ict that the tariff bill which the President sign ed was not the tariff bill that passed Congress, suggests theinquiiy whether legisla tion is by Congress or its clerks. There are enemies of the force bill on the republican side of the Senate. Besides those who are opposed to the bill, there are those who, like Senator Plumb, are anxious for financial legislation and are not disposed to neglect the business interests of the country in order to bolster up a little political conspira cy, even among their own party friends. There are re publican Senators who have not been quoted as hostile to the bill who are opposed to it because it is immensely long and cumbersome, and no one can find out what is in it inside of six months, be cause it will prove to be e normously expensive, and be cause they have no faith in its accomplishing the ends arrived at. They will not help it along and may per haps vote against it. The attempt made last ses sion to apply Reedism in the Senate in the interest of the force bill has already been re newed at this session, and has failed again. The effort may be renewed again, but the bill gains no friends, and the longer it. blocks other business the more republi can Senators are willing to drop it. Senator Gray f airly stampeded the republican side of the chamber by his exposure of the bill. Other democratic Senators who have spoken against the bill have done themselves great credit, and Senator Gorman is directing the war against the bill with great skill. The force bill has not yet passed the Senate. Nation al Democrat. Notice. For sale. 900 acres of land, on Rich Mountain, Watauga County, on which is asbestos, and fine land for sheep ranch. Sales private. L. D. Lowe & J. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed. Banner Elk, Nov. 15. '90. ATTENTION 1 My duties confine me closely to Carolina, and I would exchange, on favorable terms, f 10,000 of stock in a phosphate company in Florida, my late residence, for a suitable farm in the mountains. Alex. Q. Holladay, Raleigh, N. C.
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