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in 1rrh n -JS VOL 3 JiOOXE,. WATAUGA COUNTY, K. C, TIIUltSOAY, I-EniU'AKY, 12. lb'U. NO. 20. w S. Lenoir. & Co, DEALERS IX, General Merchandise, We have now, on hand a complete line of GENERAL MERCHAN DISE. . CONSISTING OF, Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Shoes, Hats, Hardware, Tinware, Glassware, Crockery, Medicines, of which we are offering at lowest Prices, Velso take-in exchange fortgoods, I Wheat, Corn, Kye, Oats, Chicken Eggs, k,etc, 1 SO GIVE US A CALL. S- F. LENOIR & GO., May the 15th. 1890. W. B.COUNC1LL, Ju. Attorney at La at. Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCILL, M. I). Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. E.F. LOVILL Attorney At Law, Boone N. C. DR. L. C. REEVES. Physician and Surgeon Office at Residence. Boone, N. C. L. D. LOWE, Attornef at Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC, BANNER'S ELK. N. C. I Q. WILBAR, DENTIST, ILK PARK, XORTH CAROLINA. Offers his professional ser vices to the people of Mitchell, Watauga and adjoining coun tie.9Sm No bad znnteinl used and all work guaranteed.". May 1 1 y. J. F. Morphew. Marlon, Ji. C. . S. Blackburn. Je rr&on.N.C. MORPHEW & 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 claims solicited. Aprl, 10. 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. WASHINGTON LETTER.' From our fitgular Co-i spondent Mr. Harrison has" as hard a task In-fore him in the se lection of a sunrssor to the, late S-creiary of the Treasu-j ry as his worst cniii.v could j possibly have set for him; it! is a task too in which the country at largo is more dir ectly interested in than any thing he lias yet undertaken. It will lo very difficult to find a man willing to a n pt the place who possesses thenbili ty combined with the conser vatism of the dead Secretary; and what will add no little to Mr. Harrison's trouble is the fact that all the promi nent republicans in both House and Senate who have been recently repudiated by their constituents will be, in fait are already clamoring for the place for themselves. Whoever he selects he is bound to make new enemies in his party, and being a candidate for a re-nommu-tion that is just what hecan not afford to do. Besides this, the man selected will have to be satisfactory to the business men of thecouu try, or a financial panic may be precipitated, So far the men who are mentioned for the vacancy are just those who should not be selected.. Represen tative MeKinley can, it is thought, have the place if he wants it, but he has high protection on the brain to so great an extent that his appointment would be a very great mistake, and one that would be certain to bring trouble. Senator Spooner is talked of, but he is a lawyer and lacks the financial ex perience find executive abili ty which is absolutely neces sary. The others may be bunched in one bad, very bad lot, which includes Senator Ingalls, ex-Gov.("C a 1 i c o Charley") Foster, Represen tative Cannon and that, ex boss, particularly known for ways that are devious, Ste phen B. Elkins. It has been a long time dy ing and numerous false re ports of its death have been given out, but this time the Force bill really isdead,dead beyond all hopes of even a partial resurrection, owing to the action of twelve re publican Senators in deci ding that they will not vote for it. It is hard for such radicals as Senators Hoar, Aid rich, Edmunds and Spooner to give up the idea of intimidating the South, but even they acknowledge that the thing is dead and that no further attempt will be made to revive it. In consequence, the legitimate business of the session the annual appropriation bills is' fairly hummiug in both House and Senate. The Senate by a party vote refused to amend the apportionment bill, granting what was so clearly the right of Arkansas, Minnesota and New York one additional member to each, and passed the bill just as it left the House. Senator.) Davis and Washburn, of Minnesota vo ted wiHi the democrats for themncndmci.t, and strange as it may sem Senators Evarts and Hitchcock of New York voted against it. Brother Johnny Wanama ker will have to get himself a new hobby. His postal tele graph wheme, in spiteofthe amount ofGowrnment mon ey he spent in th publication of his views thereon, is as dead as n door nail. The House committ.-e on Post offices will not even report it. Represen ta t i ve Met 'rea ry , who is regarded as one of the most conservative men in the House paid his respects to Czar Reed on Saturday in a manner that was quiet but severe. His committee Foreign Affairs ha ving bwn refused a day for the consid eration of its bills, he said: "Never pefore in my exper ience on the committee on Foreign Affairs, has that committee been r.fused a day for the consideration of bills reported by it. The re fusal to give this committee a day is but another error in the comedy of errors which has marked the Fifty first Congress." It seems that the republi can Senators will never finish making personal explana tions of their course regard the Force bill. Saturday Senators Blair anil Teller had their turns. Next. Secretary Windom's funer al occurred here today. All of the Government depart ments, the local offices and the public schools were closed. There was con side r a b 1 e growling among that large class who make it a point to attend every p r o m input funeral they possibly can. because admission to the Church was bv ticket, and the tickets were only furnish ed to prominent people, The remaining members of the cabinet acted as honorary pall-bearers. The resolution to discharge the House Coinage commit tee from father considera tion of the free coinage bill is liable to make the largest sort of a rumpus in the House at any time, if that commit tee persists in its present ef forts to kill the bill by delay. How not to investigate the silver pools seems to be the real object of the House committee, which is ostensi bly engaged in investigation. If this committee slurs over its work the democrats in the next House will try their hands at probing it to the bottom. THE CHILI). Every child has a right t. ) a s cheerful a child hood as it is in the powerof those stan ding near her to give; and every child has a right to something as valuable and necessary as food for her bodily growth, and that is food for her spiritual growth. None of the demands for fashionable or of political or of any other sort of life should be allowed to interfere with her receipt of it. This food she cannot receive if left to lowercompanionshipthan that to which she is entitled to solitary life with one teacher, how ver refined that jtench'T may be; to exile from! j the daily life and thoughts j I of her father and mother; or, j if her mother see hi-r only in j 'the hours of fatigue fr an , , pleasure, and never for anyj I length of time when her facul-1 j ties are brightest and at their 'best and her own higher na- tlllf liviilv tn ittiliitt itvi 'strength to her child. Il.ir- lers liaxar. Abraham Liucon -once dreamed that be was pass ing! on t-ome publicoccasion, between ranks of the people, when he heard one man say to another, as he pointed him out, "He's a common looking fellow, isn't he?"' "Well, my friend," replied Lincon, turning to the man whose remark he had overheard, '"God likes us common looking fellows, or else he wouldn't have made so many of us. The wit and wisdom of this dream thought are good enough for any waking moment. Yes, God evidently likes common looking fellows, and he has evidently, given the work of the world into the hands of common men. The ''genius'' was al ways rare, and he is growing rarer. The meirof genius have never done the world's work, or fought its battles, or carried on its re forms. A Napoleon wilhout his army, a Gladstone without his constituency, would be far more helpless than the ' common fellows'' without .their leaders. This is just the thought needed to lift the common-placeness and to raise the common task to the pinnacle to sub I i mii v Golden link'. DEAD AGAIa. R. I. P. THE FORI' .2 BILL- Hist! Ait thou dead again? Un hanged, umnourned. Has1:! towhed that: bourne whence no bill e'er returned? Again cxanimntid,a;t once more Stranded upon theunpussed Leth p's :-!iore? Are thine nine feline lives worn out? Or lurks Somewhere concealed in thy mys terious works The immortal spark? Speak up, () billions bill Art dead sweet William, or art living still? In sad September 'twas given out That thou had surely climbed t he arial spout ! And when the Silver Bill hove in to view The people said that was the death of you ! Again your obsequies have been proclaimed, Again with execrations has been named The spot where thou'rt tolie, thy wry ii"ck wrung, Cnpassed, unwept, unhonored and unsung! Peace to thine ashes if thy vital fires Have cea"ed to live in them! Ten thousand pyres Heaped high with homes would but as nothing be To the disasters that might fol low thee! Peace to thy gray-haired bigots whose dull eyes Desired to see a nation sacrifice! And may all partisans forever cease Forgetting that their native land's at peace. ATTENTION ! My duties confine me closely to Caroliua, and I would exchange, on favorable terms, $10,000 of stock in a phosphate company in Florida, my late residence, for a suitablefann in the mountains. ALKX. Q. IIOLLADAY, llaleigh. N. V. A I, - l'rW,os..;.,r, orlhM ouM.l.x. ,,f t,. or t wel vethous.ilid dol j!ars of oar already depleted Cor. srwijud ownrr. treasury, and on tb tnx-p.iv Mn LmTo.: : 1 he untr- ()f Nortu Carolina. r.K,'.. s:g., would hkerespeu fully i(,,,v t ti:I1(Mv hen there aw toMibm.t through your 'bjM, tll;lllV otlHr (leI::ms u,v tma.s a few propositions Tor,,,,, .)l!r 'tlv;lsUrv for , ,, theeonsideratioaof.Mirlaw- Ian(,.lhl), ()f (.jUlitv makers now m session, in refi.,,,,, ,HU(.ilti()n ereiieetotlie propose Kail load commission. First. That Noith Caroli- na stands fourth among the, Statesof the li i in ' " j number of miles of railroad unit in 1SJH. Second. That thereareslill acres of the finest tei ritory m NorthUiroliua, which liave no railroad facilities, whose vast timber, mineral and ag ricultural wealMi, would be multiplied many times by the advent of railioad communi cation, where cities would be built up. mines opened, facto ries em-ted and many indus tries smarted up, and all things quickened into activi ty, and the taxable property of the State augmented by many millions of dollars. Third. Whether it might not turn out, that a Railroad Commission, clothed with Inrgedictatorial power would not have a direct tendency to cast a chill over the happy state of affairs now existing in the matter of rail rod buil ding, drive capital from the State, stop or delay the buil ding of roads already prop- s e'd, prevent, the inaugeration of new enterprises, thereby blasting the hopes of many lair sect ions of North Caroli na, whose citizens have long waited and hoped for rail road advantages. ''Had we not better bear the ills we have than fiy to others we know not of." Fourth. That if you estab lish a railroad commission's there any possibility ,-or even probability, of its being able to control the railroads in the matter of transportation rates? Are not all the old railroads protected by their charters in thejright tochaige rates far above anything thought of at the present day ? Would it not be utter ly impossible ha- your com mission to dictate rates to any rail-road (uewor old) be tween points only one of the terminus of which is in this State. Manifestly all such matters would be held by the courts to come under the h ea d o f i n te r-S t a t e co m m eree, and your commisssion would very soon hearthecomuiand, as did the waves of the sea, "Tims far shalt thou come and no farther." Fifth. And would it not be likely to transpire that your commission could not oper ate on any of the old roads at all or on any other road where the p lace of consignment or delivery was in another State? And would not the consequences be that your commission would beiestrict td to the local tratic of a. few new, short, poor and strug gling roads? You would be able to cage the whelps, while theold lions would roam un molested through the forest. Sixth. This being evident ly true, will it be wise states manship to place this burden Seventh. Whether or not twelve able, fearless, pureSu ierior Court ind-ex who fm t,Hr pnHtvnnd lenrnltig, are t he j list pride of t he tieoi le of Jlisr pride oj the jieop the State, backed by ninety six sheriffs and a million and a half of people might not be !,.xpeeted to protect the rights ,,f all uartiesin as fall and ample a manner as could a r iilroad commission. Eighth. Whether ornot an able committee of your body whose duty it shall be to look after the taxation of rail roads, aided by the courts would accomplish a II y o u could hope to accomplish through the operations of a railroad com in is. inn and at a very small fraction of the cost. Ninth. And finally a moun tain man would be much plea fd if the members of the Gen era I Assembly would Very se riously cosider whether or not about nine-tenths of this railroad commission agita tion has not proceeded from, and been fomented by, about two hundred men in North Carolina, who, overpowered by a sense of patriotism and love of country, feel it their duty to be one of the rail road commission, or at least to take a clerkship. "Only this and nothing more." Very respectfully, Alkxandeu Bill, Moone, Jan., 25. THAT BAYONET BILL. The New York Herald patri otically declares that "when the Republican party, mad dened by desperation, try to create a race war by wichthe interests of the whole people would be endangered, it is the duty of all patriotic Rep resentatives to stem the tide of wild fanaticism, and the duty of a patriotic people to uphold them in that course. We don't want the bloody scenes of reconstruction days repeated. We now have peace within our borders. The whites of the south are developing their resources. The negroes are being slowly prepared for theduties of cit izenship. Every thing is mov ing along serenely, and the promises of the future is brigh ter than ever before. We have no wish to change that con dition of affairs for chaos. As we would not for a moment tolerate the intervention of federal troops in New York, so we declare that troops shall not be pent to Rich mond or Charleston. We can take care of our own State affairs, and stand ready to tell Mr. Hairison or nu.v' other President to keep his hands off. There is no reason why South Carolina should be treated otherwise than New York is treated. The cfore democratic Sen ators and a few among the republicans are trying to render the passage of this bill impossible, li they fail, after having done their ut-. most, they will still have the consciousness that they did what they could to avert the inevitable disaster. The par ty which can seriously push sush a policy to n conclusion deserves nothing better than utter and complete annihila tion, a measure of punish- I merit, which it will received in ')2."ljviitul Courier.
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