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locrat vol a ijooni:, watau(;a ;oi:nty, x. t, tiiuhsday, fkhkuauy, id. isoi. XO. 30. - V Cib ibcC S, F, Lenoir, & Co,, dealers ix, General Merchandise, Wo have now, on hand " Complete line of GENERAL MERCHAN DISE. CONSISTING OF, Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Shoes, Hats, Hardware, Tinware, (ilasswnr Crockery, Medicines, of which we are offering at Lowest Prices We also take in for goods, exchange Wheat, (1orn, It VP, Oats, Chickeni Eggs, I ,YctC, I SO IV i: ISA CALL. J T irNfiiR 9 nO b I. LLhiMl & UU.i Mav the 15th. 1800 W. B. COUNCILL, Ju. Attownky at La .v. Boone, N. C. w."iu 'oi incillT m .1)7" Boone, N. C Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of l'ost Office. E. F. LOVILL Attokxey At Law, Borne N. C i)i7 lIT reeves' Physician a no Si'Hgeon Office at Residence. Boone, N. C. L. D. LOWE, Attorney It Law A XI)- KOTARY PUBLIC, BANNER'S ELK, N. C. j. mum, DENTIST, ELK PAItK, NORTH CAROLINA. OflersliiH professional services to the people of Mitchell, Watninrn ninl adjoining coun ties.fvT.Vo ;; nmteinl used and nil work nwirniitoeri.'idSl Mnvl 1 y. J. F. Morpliew. Marion, N. C. E. S. Blackburn. Jo oron, N.C. MORPIIEWS BLACKBURN Atttotcneys at Law. Will practice in the courts of Ashe, Watauga ami Mitch ell counties, also in the Fed eral courts of the Dist.. and Supreme Court of the State. Collection of claims solicited. Aprl, 10. ATTENTION ! My duties confine rue closely to Carolina, and I would exchange, on favorable terms, $ 10,000 of stock in a pliosphnte company in Florida, my late residence, for tt suitable farm in the mountains. Alex. Q. Holla pay, Raleigh, N. C. LETTER, j From our Eegular Correspondex-i. W. W. Dudlev. of "blocks' ' I of tiv" notoriety and ex-Assistant Postmaster General I larkson, hotli .slmimglights : in the republican national i commit tec are, if my infor I mant isn't mistaken, and lie assures nietlw.t lie isn't, now handling "blocks of five'' hundred dollar hills, as the disbursing officials of .fay Could's Western Union Tele graph lobby which is said to have divided 30,000 among rertain members of the House for the purpose of de feating Mr. Wnnamakers postal telegraph bill. Tin? 1111 has really never had much chance of getting through, because of a lack of general interest in it, but Dudley and ('larkson made Gould believe that it was certain to go through, unlo.is something was promptly done to prevent it, and the particular "something" in this case was the paying out of a big pile of the "little wizaids" money. Another scheme backed by m big lobby is the Nicaragua Canal company's bill mak ing the United States Gov ernment endorse $1000,000, 000 of its bonds. This lob- Mv i made up of members of hotll tiWt nn(1 all of them are either officials or ex-officials of either the House or Senate, which gives them unexcelled facilities for reaching Congressmenfacili ties that they have not neg lected. The bill will pass the Senate without a doubt, but by the time the House hears from theeounrty it will prob ably strike a big snag, al though the lobby hopes to rush it through during the losing hours. The administration scheme for killing the five coinage bill is j!ov being boldly worked by the anti-silver majority of the House com mittee on coinage. It gives Mr. Harrison two chances of killing the bill without squarely vetoing it. The aim is to keep the bill in commit tee under pretense of "hear ings" until within ten days of the end of the session; then it will be reported. If the House has time to vote upon it, and passes it. Mr. Harrison may then quietly dispose of it by what is known as a "pocket" veto, bv not signing it previous to the expiration of the Fifty first Congress. The anti-silveites claim that the vote of the House 134 to 127 sustaining a de cision of the Speaker declar ing Mr. Elands motion to at tach the free coinage bill as an amendment to an appro priation bill to be out of or der, makes it certain that the free coinage bill cannot pass, but the claim is not based upon a solid founda tion. There were only eleven republicans who voted a gainst sustaining the Speak er, and it is well known that there is a much laiger num ber of republicans in the House who would vote for free coinage pure and simple, WASHINGTON if they were given a chaw j to lo so. I here was a prop lositiona few dis Mine to I have the Senate put the free propria t ion hills as a rider, hut when it was suggested t,.lt ,). ..uhlieans ot tin House might add us another I hav" nothing to nay in re nder on the same hill, theg;lrd to who is responsible for force hill, the iilea lost popu-j the general npye,irnnee of 'aiity with the democrats. A (these minutes, but, while the caucus ot the House demo-1 snhiect is before the memliers era ts passed a resolution asking that the committee report the silver bill. .Mr. Ul. lines reciprocity treaty with Brazil is being worked for all it i worth to carry the ship subsidy job! through the House, and from present indications the probabilities are in favor of its doing it. The democrats of the House have put themselves on record as opposed to the extravagant salary list of the World's Fair Commis sion. The intelligence of the death of Representative Phe lan. of Tennessee, who died at Nassau on January .10, did not reach this city until Saturday after-noon. It was known that his health was bad, but. his closest friends were greatly shocked to learn of his death, When the Senate got. through amending th eight hour bill it would scarcely have been recognized by its best fliends. It is believed that tin; republicans hope to kill the bill by getting it into a conference committee and keeping it there until the ses sion ends. Begining to-day the Senate will have evening sessions daily to the cud of the ses sion. The House may or may not follow suit. The fact of the matter i.s that evening sessions have never been favorably regarded by ibe friends of legitimate leg islation, although it has been customary to have them at t lie fag end of every ( 'ongress. The pension sharks made no mistake in counting upon the assistance of the iepub lican Senators to cut out re duction in fees placed in the pension appropriation bill by the House. The Senate made the attorneys fee for all fu ture increases of pension $.", instead of $ 2, as the House had it, and upon motion of Mr Quay the new fee is only applications tiled after this bill becomes a law. That mo tion, if not interferred with by the House, isestiniated to be worth more th in $5,000, 000 to the pension at t orneys. Mr. Harrison is still wrest ling with the army of hungry republicans, each of whom wants to be Secretary of the Treasury. Peter Humble, a paralytic, was burned to death it hi home in naixlolpli county, a- bout three miles from Ashe boro, Wednesday of last week. He and his little boy were alone at home when the bouse caught fire. He was helpless, and the boy not able to drag him from the building, though he was him self seriously burned in his ef forts to save his father. Ex. THE MIMTE OT TIIKTIIREE lURK AvoUATIos A.AI. Kditor Detnovrnt: For the past three wcckn I It he column of your pajHT ' concern bur tli. minutes of the Three Fork Association. of the churches who compose the Association, I think it. in order to make a few sugges tions. We know that the character and standing of our Association abroad is jUli.(M j)V tj,0 tuinutos we send out, and, right here, 1 would like to give my idea of what, the' man who holds the office of Clerk of an an Association should be. He should be a man who is fully competent to prepare the manuscript while the business of the Association is being transacted, there-by having each days proceed ings ready for the press when the last exercises of the day are done, and on the following morning send it on to some thoroughly compe tent publisher who will have the minute printed and re turned to the churches al most as soon as the member of the Association reach their homes. Such is the custom of s ane of the association in North Carolina, and theie.irp men belonging to the Three Fork Association, who are fully competent to do this. II e do not wish to cast any reflections upon the present clerk, but he states that af ter his return home from the Mitchell county Association, (which was some time after the Three Fork's,) lie prepar ed the manuscript and sent it to the press for publica tion; which proves there was a delay on his part that could have been avoided, had the manuscript been prepar ed and sent off as above sug gested. As a result of these long de lays, the members and friends of the Association, who are desirous of reading a min ute, has interest in what was said and done duringthe ses sion long before they have the pleasure of seeing a minute; and not only this, but it al so injures the character and standing of the Association. 'Though we are not very near the railroad, we all knoA- of the daily mails over most of the country. Then let us make use of all the fa cilities we have, and come as near no with the times as possible, and by so doing, avoid all unnecessary and ad verse circumstances in the fu ture. Peregrine. Boone, Feb. 1801. The republicans are not likely to get much help from the new Alliance Senator, Peuer, or Kansas, lie says he has left the party for good Moreover he is against the high tariff and favors one of about 20 per cent on an av erage. "We believe that free trade, absolute in many ar ticles, is ontimes the very best form of protection," he said in his speech tothe Kan sas legislature after his elec tion; auid he further d c'nre that "protection by tariff as n general principle, i wrong." Judge IVffer also expressch strong opposition to the force bill, and in the matter of silver he wantfrce coinage and apparently ev erything else winch he think will give the people more inon ey. Hut at present it is no tieable that he is not insist ing on the extreme demand of the Alliance for govern ment loans of pajier money on deposit of farm product and on lands. Observer. t'gly Eight Between Hore and Jack. A battle to the death took place in Mercer county yes terday between a valuable saddle stallion and a jack ass belonging to William Thom as, a stock-raiser. A lew days ago a mad dog bit Thomas' little boy and the stallion. Yesterday the horse went mad, and kicking down the door to the jack's stall, be gan biting him. The jack re taliated, ami for fifteen min utes they fought, using their teeth, heels and fore-feet. Fin ally the jack tore the stall ion's left ear off with hi teeth and the stallion then bit a piece from the jack's neck. This seemed to make the jack more ferocious than ever, and grabbing the lower part of the stallion's neck in his teeth he tore out the windpipe. But the high-mettled stall ion did not give up, and be fore falling he kicked thejack on the left hind leg, breaking it iust below the hock. He 0 then fell dead. Thejack utter ed a loud, long bray and went back into his stable. He was covered with blood and wounded un-to death, so that his master killed him to put him out of his misery The boy was taken to a mad stone. The stone stuck three times and he shows no signs of madness. It is believed he will recover. BAPTIZED IN HER COFFIN. Mrs. Mary Tyree, aged 23, was thrown out of a wagon in a runaway last fall and her spine was injured so that she became in invalid. She gradually? sank, and last Monnay tore-noon she was pronounced dead. All ar ra n gem en t s h a d been made for the funeral, when in gasping voice Mrs. Tyree informed the friends at her bedside that she had "come back to life to be bap tized." Dr. Myers, her physi cian, was called, and advisee that the request be granted Accord inglv Revs. W. A Gross and J. F. Strait were called in and the rite ad ministered by the immersion of the lady in a baptistory formed of the zinc lining of her burial casket. On being- raised from the water the lady began singing and re pacing, and, what was re markable, her voice was strong and natural. In the tied once more she called for a cup of coffee and said she felt like eatng something Although she was weak she had no difficulty in breath ing and lay very quiet, sleep ing well through the night and resting easily. There are hopes of her recovery.- A civ lork Hern Id. fhrj At Tixlnc Awf. There will be fewer republl ran In the next House of Representative than have cat in any Hons? nine the g- o. p. was organized. 1 he fol lowing shows the number of republican.i elected to each CongresH nince the birth of the party: Thirty-fourth 103 Thirty-fifth )'2 Thirty-sixth 114 Thirty-seventh 100 Thirty-eighth 100 Thirty-ninth 143 Fortieth 14.'J Forty-first l."9 Fort v-second 131 Forty-third 19."j Forty-fourth 108 Forty-fifth 140 Forty-sixth 130 Forty-seventh 152 Forty-eighth 11U Forty-ninth 138 Fiftieth 132 Fifty-first 170 Fifty-second 87 It looks as if the g. o. p. were pretty well done for.-fl-enln, f7.7., Herald, The democrats are mak ing great effort to have a Constitutional convention ailed in Connecticut to give that State a democratic form of government. At present towns like Hart- brd and New Haven, with ten and twenty thousand in habitants, have no greater epresentation in the legisla ture than towns of a few hun dred people. Up in the New England States, wh'at'wecall townships are known as towns, and representation ia based on them rather than on the counties, as with us. The republicans oppose any change. How they can resist the justice of the proposition seems incomprehensible. But they do, and here is an argu ment on their side taken from the columns of ThePal- adium: "To amend the constitu tion as the democrats desire would be to give to the dem--ocratic party the absolute control of every State office and every office in the gift of a State officer or the General Assembly. It would be to place the selection of our United States Senators in the hands of the democrats for all time. It would be to hand over to the control of the ignorant and vicious masses of the cities the Gen eral Assembly, the great high court of our State." We think we have heard some such utterances before; but the conditions to which they applied are very differ ent from what exists in Con necticut where all the people are white and where they have had free schools for all the people for a century. Alter this we hope to hear nothing more about South ern matters from Connecticut republicans. News and Ob server. " A bill has been introduced ir.to the Legislature of Indi ana providing that any man who shall be proven guilty of whipping his wife shall himself receive sixty lashes, and that the public shall be admitted to the jail yard to see him whipped.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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