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t It ft : S ITTTT J Democrat BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. l, ' THURSDAY, JANUAHY. 1S!1. XO. vol a J S.F. Lenoir, & Co,, DEALERS IX, General Merchandise, We have now, on hand a complete line of GENERAL MERCHAN DISE. CONSISTING OF, Dry Hoods, Notion, Groceries, Shoes, Hats, Hardware, Tinware, Glassware, Crockery. Medicines, of which we are offering at lowest Prices, WASHINGTON LETTER, j have some ca-. t j House. 1 can't From onr Reznlar Correspondent ...j. 1...4. 1 upon say know the jut that The Sus.th, T!:c Ct !!.:: nJ Ute Force ISi'.l. exchange We also take in for goods, I Wheat, Corn, Rye, Oats, ( i. ...1 iLllirhCiil &etc, I SO GIVE US A CALL. S. F. LEfsOiPi & 60., Mav the 15th W. 15. COUNCILL, Jr. Attorney AT L A'. Juiy4th891y. Boone, N. C. W B. COUNCILL, M. 1). Boone, N. C. Itesident Physician. 'Office on King Street north of Post Office. .Imift'12 88. ly. E.F. LOVILL Attokxey At Law, Boone N. C. July 4th, !S 9-1 y DIt. L. C. BEEVES. Physician and Surgeon Office at Residence. Boone, N. C July 4. 89. L. I). LOWE, Attorney at Law -and- NOTARY PUBLIC, BANNER'S ELK. N. C J. (. W1LBAR, DENTIST, ELK PARK, SOUTH CAROLINA. Ofiers his professional services to the people ot aincnen Wataima and adjoining coun ties.8"ATo bad mnteml used and all work guuranteed.& May 1 1 y J. F. Morphew. E. S. Blackburn, Marion, N. C Je mon, K.C MOHPHEW & BLACKBURN Atttorneys at Law. Will practice in the courts of Ashe, Watauga and Mitch ell counties, also in the Fed eral courts of the Dist.. and Supreme Court of the State. Collection of chums solicited. Aprl, 10. Senators Edmunds and Sherman have engineered a large number of audacious schemes to success during their long legislative carina's, but their latest scheme is the most and uious of all. Tt is, for the United Sta teste, prac tically assume the entire re sponsibility of building the Nicaragua canal by guaran teeing $100,000 of bonds to; be issued by the company J now at work upon the canal. This scheme has been very quietly worked, and the first thing tin? public knew of it was when the committee on Foreign Relations presented a report to the Senate Satur day in favor of aniendingthe law under which this corpor ation was chartered so as to guarntee those bonds, in or der, as thecommittee grave ly informs the public, that they may be sold at par, in stead of at a big discount as they would if issued without the Government guarantee. Thus it is proposed to make the United Slates furnish the credit to build the canal, while the profits should there be any, are to be enjoyed by a privatecorpoiation. These gentlemen may think that a lot of talk about "American interests'' being at stake will reconcile the people to such legislation as this, but it will not. If the Government is to furnish themoney to build the canal, let thecorporntion step aside and tire Govern ment take charge. Mr. Harrison attempted to take a small revenge upon Sei ators Teller and Wolcott of Colorado, for their daring to oppose the Force bill and to favor free coinage, by nominating ex-Senator Hill, of the same State, who is an implacable enemy of the two Senators, to be a member of the International monetary commission, and this nomin ation lias brought about a unique state of affairs in the Senate. It has always bam a custom in the Senate to confirm the nominations of ex-members of that body. without the formality of re ferringthem to committees, but Senators Teller and Wol ott succeeded in breaking down Usage and having this nomiuatiot., which they both regard as intended as a. per sonal affront to them, hung up, and they will leave no stone "unturned to have it re jected. On Wednesday of this week the Senate will vote on the new silver bill, and there is little doubt that a free coin age amendment will be adop ted by a very substantia majority, but that it can get through the House in the face of the opposition of Czar Reed and the administration is not so certain, although the silver men in the Senate who claim to have made careful canvass of theIIouse, say that it is bound to go through Reed or no Reed. But something is being hatched up between the anti-silver republicans and the administration that may confer nces are constantly 1 j, being held, hotb at the hue House and at the residences The eleventh census Mr, .1 I'M II IIALL01. The extremists in the Fed- ieral Congress, 111 their fooish. war upon How I lie light lbf HonIgh T.ancrlpt. Pi XI-: Riii;i: A(;i:xcY, S. I)., Jan. 1801. I will send you a short letter. Thursday 111-ter tteenvn 1 hoie-h verv 1 .,,f,,l i r 111. II 1 l il I II I II Ml I f n-iiMHii . . ... , . , 1 , . in,v....wilvK- r.i, tin.t.ul U i . l- .1 .-111 . lUOrUIIlg 1 VlSIlCU 1 1KJ Ill'lll OI ingeniou-l, constituted, m .,, ou.t Sou h arestill bent i. tt. . .. T ,. ,.nti,-,.K- ie:nlem,:,tein its ef- ' ...;..! "attle where all those Indi- ... . i -i i i 1 1 m mi ihimiiiil; hi mii ' i in ii , ... ..i .... .t... w oi rei';uors anil ine Mience f..f i i . , ... .... , , , jius v.ere kiui-ii on uie uuu- of the anti-silver republicars when asked as to their inten tions is of itself suspicious. Some people think that Mr. Harrison is trying to make a bargain with the re- growth of the New South. It is forced to oii'-ede that, during the h.st decade, there has been an aggregate in crease of population among the Southern States of near- publicans who voted against j, o() ..r cent 10.9 are the their party to lay nsuie ii?ifsn.ls tmt jt HO reluctantly Fone lull by proniisinir to sign the free coinage bill, if it passes the House, if they will promise to vote to take up the Force bill again when the financial bill is disposed of and to vote for its pas sage. If this be true, he must have made a failure with the Colorado Senators, or he would not have affron ted them by nominating their most bitter enemy to an important position. It is denied that their is any friction between Secre taries Proctor and Noble over thfl Indian policy that has been adopted by the ad ministration of putting Ar my officers in charge of the agencies. All th1 same it is known that Mr. Noble publi cly stated his opposition to the change before it was or dered by Mr. Harrison. Whenever anybody in Washington gels possession or an unprofitable piece of real estate they immediately beeia to av wires to unload m it upon the Government. Here's a casein point: Sev- rnl years ago a capitalist milt a hotel opposite the Senate wing ot the Capitol; it bankrupted everybody who tried to run it and for a year or more it has been tenant- ess. On Saturday a bill was avorably reported Jrom the Seriate committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to purchase this building for $125,000 to be used as com mittee room.) and to accom modate the Senate folding rooms. It now looks as if the ship subsidy bill job might be de feated in the House. Its op ponents aie increasing on the republican side and it is making no gains among the democrats. It now turns that Spain isn't half as anxious to ne gotiate a reciprocity treaty with us as has been stated by Mr. Blaine's friends, and that she will demand the big half of the baigain in any treaty that is proposed by Mr. Blaine. Representative Turner, of Kansas, intimates that the letter offering a bribe to Mr McGrath, to which his name was forged, was instigated by friends of Ingalls. publishes. It also concedes that there are two whites to every c-. do red person. Rut, none the less, the present Administration wants a Force bill to enable one half of these colored peo ple to run tin? wholeSouth. Theincreaseiu white popula tion, according to this artis tically constriuted census, is only "2(5.2 per cent., while the colored people are credited with an increase of 10 per cent. Yet it is sought to have the colored people manage the South. The actual wea'th of these States is estimated at 0,751 . 815, Goo, and they pay tax es on half of that amount. Likewise they pay fearful taxes, to the monopolies "protected'' by McKinleyism. Nearly Sjtf.OOO.OOO.OOO of the outside capital was inves ted in these Southern States during the last ten years, and yet a throngof foolish papers in the North, whence this cap ital came, are trying to ban dica.p it. Yet the republican Baron? deliberately propose-.to har row up tin? South with polit cal outrage that the republi can tarty rejected when the war feeling was still running so high. It is a grand South and a wonderfully growing South It has expended since the w ar $56,171,370 to educate its colored people. 1 hey are qui et, friendly and productive. It is diabolical to attempt, purely for party purposes to force them into another race war. The whole negro popula tion of the South, according to Mr. Porter's most exces sive imagination, is only (5, 012,120; and yet he concedes that 1,012,120 of these are attending school. The North can make no better showing with its white pupils. Let us call ahalt. The wai ls over, all excej "t tlie pen sions. The South helps to pay for 1he.se, and gets noth ing for it. It, in connection with the North, pays the vast product of tariff robbery. is not that enough; w ny persecute anybody any fur ther? Give the glorious New South a, chance. Uncinntti Euquhnr. The Bayonet bill. It they should be successful it will be the death knell of all genuine re form in the ballot, ami pos sibly of liberty itself under a written constitution. While such an exhibit i made in the Congress, there is a stea dy growing hentiment in fa vor of a really fair and hon est ballot. The country does not need or favora ballot like the Reed and Harrison and Hoar gang are favoring and urging a ballot that will in evitably destroy home rule in the States, introduce asys tern that must be enforced by army and navy, and is a rude and furious burlesqe of all free ro vera meat: but the country demands a pure, free ballot, and soon or late it will have it unless it means to submit to an ovei throw of a constitutional govern ment. There is, as we have said, a growth of healthy senti inent in favor of the electo ral reforms. The country is weary of intimidation a mong Northern operatives by the plutocratic bosses. It is tired of blocks-of-five and fat fryhi&, those two pillars in the system of the republi can party for perpetuating itself in power. It is tired of cheating and frauds, of ballot-stuffing and other forms of election rascalities. So a change is needed, and reform is positively demanded. Last year five States used the Australian system. The satisfaction wasalmost com plete. Good results followed. The people voted as they pre ferred without fear of espion age or discharge or punish ment of any kind. The Radi cal Baltimore American ad mits the success of the sys tem In Maryland, says 'that it surprises every one. be cause many thought that the operation of the law would prove awkward and cumber some. Instead of that, it wor ked smoothly and success fully .' -Messenger. Mr. George M. Pullman, the possessor of $50,000,000 recently said when asked how it feels ro be a million aire: "I have never thought of that. But now that you mention it, I believe that I am no better off certainly no happier than I was when I didn't have a dollar to my name and had to work from daylight until dark," Kansas City Jonrnel says: '"We cannot make another campaign on theold time issue. We must meet the new demands of the new question in 1802 or we shall be compelled to do so in 189(5. And, unless the republican party meets them, all other efforts will only help the dem ocrats to power. If the re publican party doesn't quit butting its little brains out against the Force bill there will be none of them in 1892 to meet anything. . To Destroy Slumps. Bore a hole a inch in diam eter eighteen inches deep, into the centre of the stump, and putinan ounce of saltpeter, tillingup with wafer and plug ging up the hole. This should be done in the fall. In the spring the plug is to be taken out, a half gill of kerosene poured into the hole and set on fire. It will burn out the stump to the farthest root. In the fall bore a hole one inch in diameter, ten inch es deep into the centre of the stump and put in a half pound of vitriol and plug very tight. In the spring the whole stump and roots through nil their ramifica tions will be so rotted as to be easily removed. Scientific Ameiiean. FOR DYSPEPSIA, Indigestion, and Stomach disorders, uso All doalcrs kopp it, $1 per bottle. fJi'imine hni traic-mark antlor(ic;i n;u Uirs (iii wrapper. Ided Knee, hist Monday. I went there to get the wound ed some who were left out. The soldiers brought with them .about twenty-five and I lound eleven who vvcre'sti'.I living. Among them were 2 babies about three months old, and an old woman who is totally blind who was left for doad. Four of them were found out in the field in the storm which was very severe; they were half buried in the snow. It was a terrible .and , horrible sight to see women and children lie in groups, dead. I suppose they were of one family. Some of the young ladies wrapped iheir heads with, shawls and buried their faces in their hands. I ' suppose they did that so they would not see the soldiers come up to shoot them. At one place there were two lit tle children, one about one year old, the other about three, lying on thuir faces, dead; and about thirty yds. from them a woman lay on her face dead. These were a way from the camp aboutan eighth of a mile'. In front of the tents, which were in a semi-circle, lay dead most of the men. Ibis was right by one of the soldier's tents. Those who arestill living told me that that was where the Indians were ordered to hold a council with the soldiers. The accounts of the battle by the Indians were simple and confirmed oneanother; that the soldiers ordered them to go into camp for they were moving them and told them that they would give them provissions. Hav ing done this they (the Indi ans) were asked to give up their arms, which was com plied with by most of them,, in fact all the older men. But many of the younger men did not comply, because ei ther they had no arms or concealed them in their blan kets, and then aivorder was given to search their persons and the tents as well, and when a search was made of a retch of an Indian, who was knoivn as good for nothing, he made the first shot, and killed one of the soldiers. They fired upon the Indi ans instantaneously. Shells were thrown among the wo men and children, so that they mutilated them most horribly. 1 tried to go to the field the next day with some Indians, but I was not allow ed. I think it was a wise thing not to go so early. E ven Thursday I thought T would be shot. Some of the Indians (friendly) found their relati yesllay dead . They wail ed and began to pull out their guns. My friend, Lou is de Coteau, was with me but left me when they acted in this manner. Before we left the hostiles appeared, so we did not take in all the woun ded. Those we could not car ry away we left in a log house and gave them food. I am busy in taking care of the wounded. I shall write in a day or so again. My love to ail. Aff.. yours, Chas. A. Eastmax.