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democrat I vol ;t JIOOXK, WATAL'CiA COUNTY, N. (. TIILM'SDAY, MAliClI. 12. IhOl. no. an. r 1 1'JUti jjssioxm. w. r. couxcill, .in. Attorney at La y. Roone, N. C. w. n. eouxeiLL. m. n. Hoolie, X. C. Resident Physician. Office mi King Street north of Post Office. E.F. LOYILL Attokxky At T aw, Roone X. C. DPi. L. C. REEYES. Physician and KruciF.ox Office at Residence. lloone, X. C. L. I). LOWE, Attorn? at Law axu- XOTA11Y runrjc, PAXXERS ELK. X. C. DENTIST, Y.IK PARK, NORTH CAROLINA. ( ) tiers his professional services t( t!n p 'op'e of Mitchell, Watauga iiml adjoining; coun ties. f?Ao l.ml inntfiul uswl :nd .ill vorkfn;irniteo(l.irA Muv 1 1 y. J F. Moi li w. IJarlon, X. C. .E. S. Bl ukltiirn . Jo or on, X.C. MORPI1EW& RLACKRURX Atttorxkys at Law. Will practice in the courts or Ashe, Watauga and Mitch ell counties, also in t lo Fed eral com ts of the Dist.. .Mini Supremo Court of the State. ( oJh'ct'um ol rl.iims solicited. Apil, 10. A'olice. For sale. 000 acres of land, on Uich Mount nin, Watauga County, on which is asbestos, sini! tine land for sheep ranch. Sales private. I'j. I). Lowe & .1. T. Fmucrson, Ex'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Cnllowav, deed. Ranner Elk, Xow i" "1)0 .. Money to loan. Persons wishing to boi row money, who can secure it by mortgage on good real estate, 'an beaeeommodated by applying to J.F. Spainhour, Roone N. C. or A. J. Critcher, Ilorton X. C. 4. 24. NOTICE ! 1 am just receiving a new stock of goods bought for cash down and will sell for strickly pay down, at prices to live and let live. You will do well to cull and examine my goods consisting of boots, shoes, dry goods, notions, lx Yours truly, T. A. Ckitchkh, Bamboo. N. 0. SUTHERLAND SEMINARY. o MISS EMMA WINN, Graduate Greensboro Female College PRINCIPAL. This Institution of learning is situated in one of the most liictur esque and hospitable sections of the htate, and rare oppotunities are here offered for a practical, and cheap education. The school now has an enrollment of over 100 pupils. Latin, French, and all the English branches taught. For full particulars address the l'rincipal at Sl'THKHLAXI), X. C. ! WASHINGTON" LETTER. Fr m ou Regular CorretpondenU Senator Iugalls is makingj the effort of his life to get Mr. , Harrison snubbd by the re-, publican Senate, arid to gctj even with an old personal j enemy at the name time, by) getting the nomination of Representative Anderson, cf Kansas, to be Consul-Gener-nl to Egypt, which Mr. Har rison sent to the Senate with that of Senator P!air to be minister to China, rejected, j ot "hungup"', which would keep Anderson out. of Mie of fice until next December. If an extra session is to be avoided Congress will have to crowd more business into these three last days than it has ever done before, for everything is in a very much mixed and backward condi tion at this writing, and ir would certainly cause no'sur prise here should several of tljn regular appropriation bills fail to get through. There would have been no probability of failing to pass the appropriation bills if the republicans in the House had not voted to spend two days on the Shipping bills, and if they were not. constantly trying to leave the appropri ation bills for the purpose of pushing through something to help the decrepit old re publican party. Representa tive Cannon had th.! sublime impudep.ee to make the threat that unless the democrats would vote for the suspension of the rules so as toallowthe majority to pass such legis lation as it might see tit, the majority would lay aside the appropriation bills and pro ceed under the rules to dis pose'of Mich business as it tiiigni ncneve ougni to ue passed. The (shipping bill in which the lobby was mostly inter ested, the one granting a tonnage subsidy to all Amer ican vessels engaged in trade with foreign countries, was defeated in the House, and the least objectionable bill, that authorizing the gran ting ol subsidies to steam vessels, in the guise of pay ments for carrying United States mail, wasputsed, with an amendment reducing the amount to be ho paid. In principle one of these bills is just as objectionable as the other, but I call the one that passed the least objectiona ble, because it will require a great ileal less money no body could tell how much the other one would have taken had it become a. law. Through the machinations of that enterprisinglobbyist, ex-Senator Mahone, all pres ent hope of a new Govern ment printing office in place of the tumbledown structure now used as such, has gone glimmering, and it is much to be regretted that, t wo such eminent democrats as Sena tor.! Gorman and Butler should have allowed them selves to be used as instru ments for the accomplish ment of Mahout's purpose. Finding it impossible to sell to the Government as a site for the new printing office, for $230, 000, a piece of land entirely uiisiiited for the pur poe. Mahone, through his "pard"', Senator Came on, the man who coulden't we any harm in speculating in silver while n bill affecting its value was jn-nd ng in the Senate, set to work io pre vent llie hite recommended by the committee being pur chased by the present Con gress. The scheme was well worked. Waiting until the closing rush of the session began, when members are glad to postpone anything, a resolution was offered to lay the whole matter aside u-til next December, and it was adopted. This is all right for Mahone, but it's rather tough on the more than two thousand men and women who sacrifice their health and endanger their lives in the old building. The question naturally arises: do these democratic Senators propose trying to help Ma hor.e sell his ground to Uncle Sam through the democratic Congress? I cannot believeit. Mr. Harrison now has a whack at the Direct tax bill that Mr. Cleveland vetoed, the Senate having agreed to the House amendment. It is safe to-day that he will not follow the example of Mr. Cleveland in that ivspect. A bill allowing an annual pension of 12.500 to the widow of Admiral Porter is also in Mr. Harrison's hands. Once more U. S. Treasurer Huston has resigned, ami this time it is for keeps. He refuses to be interviewed, but his close personal friends do not hesitate to say that it is Mr. Huston's intention tore turn to Indiana and put in the biggest licks in his politi cal blacksmith shop against Mr. Benjamin Harrison, who. by refusing to make him Sec retary of the Treasury, furn ished the last stiaw which broke the camel's back, which had been for sometime strained to its utmost be cause of social slights, Mr. Harrison figures now on counteracting Mr. Huston's opposition by the support of Mr. J. A. Lemcke, ex-State Treasurerof Indiana (a Cuesh am man) who will be his suc cessor as Treasurer. Sena tor-elect K. y le, of Sou th Dakota, is a daily visitor at theCapitol. He says that on questions of tariff and finance he will act with the democrats; but that does not prevent the republicans trying to win him over by attentions and ''taffy.'' Time only will tell what sort of a man he is. Senator Hearst, after a long illness, died Saturday night, A Rohher Robbed. Pocahontas, March ..Satur day Nogrady Pela broke open a trunk belonging to John Kereks and robbed it of 2(() and escap ed. Soon after the theft was dis co veced a crowd of Hungarians started in pursuit, but Hela had a good start and nothing was heard of him till Sundaj' morn ing. A freight train was coining in to the Flat Top yard about four miles from here, when one of t he crew noticed a man hanging to a tree. Upon investigation it was found to be Hela. Some one had strangled him and then hung him by the strap he wore around his waist, having first robbed him of everyt hing he had. There is no clue as to who did the deed. BO0NZ, ROBERTSON, M:TlEK r Prof. Jauieft UolK'its Gil- more gave the first of a H.rii ; of lecture at the Pcabody In j stitutelast night. Prof. (.iH more iswidely knr.wn by his:(V W.!S n ,lilIom;ltistt pen name ofLdmund k.rke, .. wnA KO,i;,r uipIo. under which manv of his ear ly novels were written, the most popular beng Ins taK,, tip wholo wlHv i,Mo. ..fSaithernhre'Ainong then. f)f he Son1,1WPgt; yVhen 1 .ue. He is the author off,lp hntHo of Ij0xinjrton nml alargenu.nberofi.therworks ro)ronl xvmif()1 httl0shot and is now engaged in edit ing a national encyclopedia o An erican biography. Prof. Giliuore's subject for his first lecture was "The First Settlement Reyond the Alleglianies." Hesaid in part: "Daniel Roone had visited this region as early as 17(50, but lie was by no means the first explorer, nor w as he in any sense, as he is so often styled, the founder of Ken tucky. At first he was a mere hunter, then the agent of a com pa ny of la nd specula tors. Rut he had the good fortune to be the first to set. in mo tion the stream of Western colonization, a ml so his name has become indissolubly con nected with Western history. "To Roone this virgin conn try was a new world, and he told wonderful stories of its resources when he returned from l is hunting trips to his home on the banks of the Yadkin. Rut his tales fell on incredulous ears. If he failed to arouse a passion for im migration among the farm ers, he did excite a spirit of speculation among the weal thier classes, which led to the formation of a company to buv from the Indians all the land lyingbetween the Ohio, the Kentucky and the Cum berland rivers. The news of this intended exploration in duced the farmers of the Yad kin district to depute one tf thir number, James Robert son, to accompany Rooneon his third visit in 1703. "To Ilobertson, and not to Roone, should be accorded the honor of having been the pioneer of Western civiliza tion. Robertson was not long in deciding upon a right location for a settlement, and while Roone and hiscompan ions went on to Kentucky, he remained behind to make preparations for the coming coming colony. In the fol lowing spring he led sixteen families, numbering, all told, eighty souls, to the beautiful valley h e had discovered. Trees wore felled, and in asur nrisinsrlv short time all the families were domiciled in com fortable abodes. The setele ment bore no striking resem blence to a modern Xew En gland village, but civilized man was there.' He had come to stay, and had brought all possibilities o f civilizotion with him. And the men were a manly race a graud race of men who had their homes in their saddles and their li braries in the crowns of their hats. Xo better material could have been brought to gether to hew out a path way for civilization through a savage wilderness. "Among these earnest wor- tars were Evnil Shelby nnd 1 1 reswd at not l ing nble to gvt John Sevier. Robertson eon-i'. but wjiMnl.hpi to go home timied to Ic the nominal head h u ,,w '"'r- '", l"l't ua nftlu. n..ii wntth.tnnfif 1 ,n t H.! "'"'' ",M,,lt "' matter. Two moment Sevier set foot on tll(l WatailR!l ho iMnmo , ho souI nn,, miivi irit off,,p ;,lf;int ,.,imm1Ilu.IJMit, h,.. Hi imatist and soldier com- iinei. Un tliese three men which was heard around the world echoed in that, seclu ded valley of the Watauga. As it sounded thromih those grand old woods every backwoods-man sprang to his feet, grasjed his rifle nnd asked to be enrolled for the defense of his country. Under John Sevier they began a career for which, I think, there isno parallel in the history of our country. His military geni us made him a turning-point in the most critical period of our nation's history.'' .'? timoiv Sun. A True Hero U Plumb. The face of Preston R. Plumb, of Kansas, not hand some at best, is pitted by smallpox. Said a man the other day who knows him: "Each of these small pox pits on Plumb's face is a medal of honor. In the early days of Kansas Emporia was a booming town nnd Mr. Plumb was an impecunious printer. He gathered money enough together,) however, to start a little weekly news paper in the town and was doing fairly well w ith it and almost paid up his debts. There run a rumor through the new town one day that a stranger tramp had been suddenly smitten with small pox and that the epidemic was in danger of spreading. The rumor meant ruin to the embryo manicipality, and so the friendless and stricken man was hurried out on the prairies, far from the city, and left there in a log cabin to do the best he could for himself. There was no one to care for him, and, of course, it was a wrestle with death. In his dingy, one room editorial and print ing office, Preston R. Plumd heard the story. He closed the place, started out to the log house where the sick man lay, and for weeks nnrsed him and cared for him until he was saved from death. Then he lay down himself, stricken by the fell disease; but hearts had grown ten derer in that Kansas town and kindly hands ministered to him until he. too, was sa ved ."-AT.'i nsns City Times. A Dog' Memory. The following story was told by the owner of an Irish water spaniel, the only dog who would perform tricks and was good to shoot over at the same time. His master wax out walking with him at the beginning of the long frost in 1885, which set in about the middle of January. He went on a frozen milldam where the water was, vf course, very deed, and accidently let fall his snuff box through a small hole In the ice. The dog was dreadfully dis- j months nftenvniiN, hen the i.-t I had gone, the do;; pnswd by the KiliH' place. The dog 1 m 1141 op pHto the plaee where the unutf b. x had din p teared, seemed to think intently torn few tuimit, Itoiimvil around considerably as if whetting bin courage for a gient teat of prowess then plunged in, dived to the liottoni, and ret urn ed with theMiufTlNix in hismouth. i . . . f . .f .j Do you see that lecherous, lying libertine, orthathighly perfumed, grining, sin stain ed soul prancing along the street? Do you know their true charactor? Do you know that they make no at tempt nt reform? Is there a place on earth where yon meet such indcency otiacom mon level? If so how much better are you than they? If one is known by the compa ny one keeps, what kind of company do you keep? If a man commit a theft and veil help to conceal the booty are you not nn accomplice in crime? If likewise one com mit an outrage against de cent society and you conceal or help to conceal or protect such huiran things from the righteous indignation and chastisement of honor, chas tity nnd veracity, are yon not an accomplice in a crime so low and moan that a cur would blush to look upon? I know my friendly reader that the abo e is strong lan guage, but is it not true? I know it is rasping and "con temptuous" to some, but does it rasp you ? Come, wake up ye drowsy, drearnj' theo rists; quit your theorizing a bout how to make the world better; come out into the sunshine of real active life; leave the dark and musty walls curtained by the cob webs of sentimentalism; shake the society blood-sucking ticks off of your list of associates; drink in the pure air of self respect and by and by the impure, fermenting, fetio. stuff in human form will slough off, and then we may all realize the penefits of or ganized and stringentofforts of respectable men and wo men to discourage wrong and help the right. Tuck. The Republicans are not making much out of their late job of Senate packing, nnd Senator Hoar must won der whether life is worth liv ing. On the force bill Mr. Hoar got little help from the men he had worked into the Senate. On the silver question the Senators from the new States divided. On the Mc Kinley bill one of the South Dacota Senators voted a gainst his party. The other voted with his party and has been defeated for re-election and succeeded by a low tariff man if not a free trader. The two Xorth Dacota Senators voted for the bill and one of them has been beaten bv a low tariff man. The G. 0. P. is not getting much reinforce ment out of the new States. Na t ionnlDem ocrn t. WS pirn 'J3An moi jramwia "noi ems ni tvaurw jiroifr k,imoh qyra joj poog Avat Vo uo t re not JO lsxMor norm xaos ax
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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