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r 1 CjHjiAJil Oblb- VOL a UOONK, WATAl'tiA COl'NTY, N. C Till 1'iSDAY, MAIU'II, .". 1!1. NO. S.F. Lonoir, & Co, DEALERS IN, General Merchandise, We have now, on hand :i complete line of GENERAL MERCHAN DISE, CONSISTING o r, Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Shoes, Hats, Hardware, Tinware Glassware, Crockery, Medicines, of which we are offering at Lowest Prices, We also take in exchange for goods, I Wheat Corn, live, Oats, iChickeni &etc, 1 SO I YE US A CALL. S. F. IEN0:R & GO,, May the lot li. 1890. W. 15. COUNCILL, .lit. Attorney at La ,w Boone, X. C w. ii. couNciurn r Boone, X. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Cost Office. E. F. L0V1LL Attounev At T.aw, Boone X. C. DIl. L. C. KFFVES. Physician ami Shrckox Office at Residence. Boone. X. C. L. D. LOWE, Attorns at Law -AND- KOTARY PUBLIC, BANNER'S ELK. X. C. J. VILBAR DENTIST, ELK PAKK, NORTH CAKOLIXA. Offers Inn profession nl services to the ppopfe of Mitchell, Watauga mid ndjoiniiig coun ties. PfeTA7o bnd mntoinl used a ncLtill work r nn in n topfl.SSi May 1 1 y. J. F. Morphew. E. S. Blackburn Marion, N. C. Je or-on, Jf.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 tine land forsheep ranch. Sales private. L. I). Lowe & J. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Callowav. deed. Banner Elk, Nov. lc '1)0.. "WASHINGTON LETTER. i From oar EtjuUr Coire.-p'-nde:.! J Mr. Hanison basin en cred litedwith beiiiL a man who 'could not be caught by the brass band brand of oMiee ! sekers, but his nomination jot ex-Gov. C'CalieoCbarle ") ! Fostet to be S cjetarv of the Treasuiy proves that he not only can be, but that he has been caught by the brass brand methods adopted by Foster ami his friends to ob tain control of the Treasury department. Personally there isnothing decidedly objectionable n bout Mr. Coster except the abnormally big head which' bis private financial i uas given mm, aim wine, is,,.,.. , 11,1,linilt(.(llv certain to be greatly nug-. mented by the new honor he; has just captured. To be i ! w,.ir ,. ...a,, i. r. i. i.i,.i,iv ....! i .-.it,,,,,.. .........- ...f...... ..v.. hal.h.to.n.v,,,,,., l,t to 1- how niu.h better you have done it than God Almighty could have done, is anything else but creditable. Political ly Mr. Foster is every-lhing that is objectionable; he is a pm.lu.t of theSherman - IIay - es- Kciler school, ami I pre dict that within a year from this time the Treasury de- jiaruiiriH hiu n.or orrom.- what it was unih-r the Hayes I i. l ...:n l administration, when John Sherman, now Senator, was at its head a thoroughly organized political machine personally controlled by its Secretory. There is no probability that the policy of the Treas ury department, if it can be said to have any policy, will be changed under Secretory Foster. It will go right on in opposition to giving the people a sufficient, volume of currency to successfully trans act theever-growing business of the country, and when its dear Wall street gets crump ed it will, as usual rush to the rescue with ar. the mill ions it can control. This sort of thing will go on until the 4, of March 1890; then there will be a grand change. Well the orders of Czar Reed and Mr. Harrison have been carried out and the free coinage bill has been killed. The committee reporled it. adversely to the House, and one of its republican members gleefully said: "Well, it will be impossible now to vote upon it at this session." Between the consideration of appropriation bills the Senate has been debatingthe bill providing for the guar anteeing of .1100,000,000 of the bonds of the Nicaragua canal company. Senator Vest made a very strong speech against it, in which he called attention to the millions this Government h is sunk in the Pacific rail roads and pointed out the fact that the passage of this bill would violate a treaty w ith England and be the cer tain cause of W7ir. Senator Morgan defended the bill ami intimated that there were special reasons, not made public why it should be pass- d. It is ;duios i-rlta.il to pass the Senate, but look nt fr tli'- liveliest kind of a cir ca wli 'lt it -Jli'S tll II OilSC. Czar ill is! gi ows worse a- tin time draws near for him to le uncrowned; be no,' not only i-i lu-es to have a capi tulation of a voteiinnoriii i d lor th' iiifonnation of lb- Ilou.-e. but be orders the -lrrl; to re. id a skeleton joljf , na! iuste.-.d of the full journal of t lie previous da, s proceed ings, and he has members' not present entered therein, ias being present and refuse--; ! to allow changes to be made when attention is c a I led ' to such palpable errors, and he is supported by 1 1 1 t vote of everv r.'inibliea n. On1 Siltui,1;1 llepresen t a t i vej one of the most conservative :.. l... 1 1 (....! ., " . . .. .,. . ; 1,1 his col eMfiii's. ( enienrs . . ... ' . ... ! -iiimwii- ii hill ,,,.,,, (i;,:.su7,n.l W i I - the previous dav as present and not voting, when, as ai matter of fad, he was not : present he left the House with t In' other democrats for the purpose of luvakii'.ga quo j rum. r aamg to get t ne er- t(ii s;,i, that lie wished to call the at tention of the country to I he manner in whi-h the presi- .. (i!,,-oinee;s made up ami s-.fi.,a 1 1,,, ,.,.,.0.(i. T ni n.em o o;,, as,,,,,, o;. 1, - .. t i l.i i v nlanse li-oai ine democrat:! side and the galleries Is it any wonder that dem ocrats in the House liUibustcr. The story published here purporting to slate by au thority that .Mr. '"leveland would under no circumstan ces be a candidate next year, was undoubtedly concocted b, an enemy of Mr. Cleve land, and it did not require thatgeutleman's denial to re fute it. His position is well understood here. Of course everybody knows that he is not a candidate, that is to say that he isn't seeking the nomination if he was, the anti-silver letter would not have been written. That he would refuse the nomination if tendered, no one for a mo ment believes, unless he is of the belief that his acceptance would jeopardize the sucecssj of the party. Today is a legal holiday and the departments are all closed, Tuesday and Thurs day of last week they were closed on account of the fu neral of Admiral Porter and Gen. Sherman. Xo people anvw here get as manv holi- d a y s as clerks here. the department A poll of the Ohio House of Representatives as to presidential preferences was taken on Monday of last week a week after the ap pearance of Mr. Cleveland's anti-coinage letter. The poll stood: Cleveland 30, Hill 11, Whitney, Campbell and Car lisle 2 each, Gray, Price and Palmer 1 each; Maine 21. McKinley 12, and Lincoln '.. choice. Harrison 9. Six made no If you feel weak and all worn out. take BROWN'S IRON BITTERS M!i. Plitl lll'b KXI'I NATI) Mr. Phillips, of W.itauga. in cxpl ination ofhis vote on the llai'oad oinmission hill.! said: ! Mm Spkam I dotiot de sire to make not arii-ty by ma king a long sM','i-li. I am no, orator, neither do I ignore, the views of othei s. but hir.l in jiisti 'e to myseh' and con-; stituent.s I attempt to niakej these re:.::o s. I came hereto; repres iii Watauga county as j best lean. Siieel cameiiere; I haw had the views of ouf county paper; and a number; i . i it I nt Ji'iiotl ciUiMls fllitl ,mi'Uirt- mnn , i t 'm tt 1 1 tr lie II I'll io i i.-- nil. w i j against a Commission bill. I We are call, d upon to-night. j to east our votes. I have not i been lobbying with any r.-iil-i road lawyer. 1 do not know but few of t hem; do not knov 'that they Know or can that here ., . . , there is suen a one as i nen ! 1,,...,. ..K... I . h.OI ..,,1. i ' VV. I . i i' in I U Mli llt l ' . t' . 1 nililll )UM the State need. I will not call it an iron-clad measure, but, in my opinion, tlierearesome features in it that are far be yond what my people want, a measure, when passed, that w ill stop the further building of rail-roads, therefore it will be an injury to our part of the State to go lor anything that will obstruct the further i building of rail-roads for at li'Msf two ve:irs to come It !hi,(M),sU) mf t!.,t 1)m, are some railroads in this State ihat commissioners can not touch. If that be so, then it looks like injustice to adopt a measure that will ma! e one company rich and another poor, that does not seem to meet our platform of eipial and exact justice to all and special privileges to none. My people are willing for the State to haven railroad com mission provided we can have a conservative one that will do exact just ice to all. One that is fare to railroads and farmers. As you know, Mr. Speaker, 1 hole from the West, in the Land of the Sky where there has been so much eloquence iv-ed in describing it as being high up towards the stars where fogs freeze and hang between the sky and the earth to receive the last rays of Hie setting sun. My confer of the State may he looked upon as a worth less corner of North Carolina but, gentlemen, 1 am very sure if we could have our sec tion developed we have un surpassed forests of fine tim ber, both in quality and quan tity; minerals rr iron, silver, copper, lead, mica, asbestos, tine granite, soapstonc, un surpassed waterpower etc.; but all of these endless bran ches of undeveloped wealth are lying lying dormant a waitmg the building of a rail road to bring them to life, and then you will see wealth added to North Carolina, to overbalance, in my opinion, the good that a railroad com mission will do pie want a commission, and most of you came here pledg ed for one. It is right to go tor it. but how can 1 go tor a measure, which, it. my opiu - ion, may stop tne progress 'of a railroad through my sec Itionofthe State. Then we .are looked upon as a Legisla , ture of reform and retrench- ItlleUt. The people nllcXpect 'expenses lowered; and some .,,!,.,. i. . ; . .... ... , : imiiiii lll.ll lin l.l r 1 r. n il- . , ... i tii'-m. l nen wiiv siiomu we give ten thousand dollars on j the start to experiment on at matter that what good we cannot see it tnav accom plish? It isbetter to giveit to j the s diool fund, or some of those institutions which we have to keep up, or, if it is jnot needed, give it to our mountain section to help start us a railroad and help us develop our mount ain sec tion, and it might add more to the State than the com mission will save. 1 believe, my brethren, if you were not pledged, some of you would be glad togo with uie against this bill. We do not com plain about freights. It costs us more to haul to and from the railroad than it costs us to get our goods, etc. to the depot. We want competition against our wagons and not against the railroad. Now, gentlemen, when I cast my vote I do hope you w ill not blame me, for 1 think I have plainly showed you that I am trying to represent the wish es and interests of my peo ple, and I think I shall act in as good faith as any one, and this being a free thing I shall vote no, and when 1 do that, 1 believe I shall have repre sented the best wishes of my count v. In State Chronicle. (rnsN Is King. The North Carolina Exper iment Station 1ms now ready for distribution a hand-book of grass cult tire containing 100 pages, illustrated by 7-4 figU! es, 2(5 of which are full page engravings of grasses and clover. This work gives a full account of all the best agricultural grasses and clovers, and suitable cultiva tion for this State. Tables are given showing the aver age yield of different species of grasses and the relative feeding manurial value of the hays. Chapters tire devoted to discussion of impurities and adulterations of grass seeds, rational seed mixing, mixtures vs. pure sowing, manures for glass lands, ir rigation, insect enemies and fungus diseases of grasses. The last chapter gives 24dif fercnt formulas for grass mix tures suitable for different purposes and for a variety of soil in the State. This book will be sent free to every tanner in the State who applies lor it. A limited number of copies will be available for distribution outside of the State, but for these the Station will make a charge of 10 cents per copy to cover cost of paper used. Address the X. C. Experi ment Station, Raleigh, N. C. Gerald McCarthy, Bota nist. The House committee on coinage last Fridav decided upon an adverse report on the Seiiatp bill urovidin.r for iul me peojt lie unlimited coinage of sil i . .. . - . ver,and to recommend t o the Louse that, it be not passed. Thesiver advocates regard the action as practically the ' V . U sllm' ''shition , ,ul 1111(5 "S1- IliE DEMOCRATIC I'UOCKJIXIE. The democratic party has a niagniliccnt career of power and usefulness lefore it if it w ill adhere faithfully to the task it has undertaken and i . ... assume no new burden until the work it is now engaged in shall have been completed. The fight for tariff refoim has only commenced. The democratic party has been mobilized; it has taken the field, it has encountered the enemy and routed it. But it has not yet dislodged the enemy; it has driven the ene my out of the House of Rep resentatives; it must drive the enemy out of the Senate and the Presidency before it can relieve the country from burdensome and unjust tax ation. The democratic party ha8 still to restore the House of Representatives to its Con stitutional position as a de liberative body. It has still to defend the rights of the States against Federal en croachment. It remains its arduous duty to protect the Treasury from the burglari ous schemes of subsidists. Now to hold the party to gether in thi.j great and good work, and to keep the re cruits who are daily swelling our ranks, we must tolerate some differences of opinion on other points. Some of ua want, free coinage of silver and some do not; some want civil service reform and others do not; some want Henry George's single tax and others do not. While we have practical bi-merallism, and would have efficient public servants under a democratic administration, and a fairly equitable system of taxation under a reformed tariff, let us not quarrel among our selves about the means as to which we are all agreed. Let us remember that the more planks there are in a platform the fewer people can stand on it; the more articles there are in a creed the fewer people will supscride to it. The republican party rec ognizes the fact that it was beaten last fall on the tariff, the force bill and House rule issues. It is making every ef fort to change the issues. It is trying, to substitute the currency for the tariff. On the tariff issue we are certain to keep New York, New Jer sev and Connecticut and to add Massachusetts and Rhode Island and possibly New Hampshire in the East, and Minnesota and with al most equal certainty we may say Wisconsin and Illinois. If we allow the tariff issue to go to the rear and put the currency question in front we are playing into the hands of theenemy. National Dem ocrat. The Morganton Herald says: Harriet McKesson, a colored woman living on John's river, whose husband was in the Federal army, drew 15,00 back pension last week. A part of this she immediately invested in real estate near Morganton. A very large per centage of the negroes in this part of North Carolina own their own homes.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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