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W)()X.- WATAUdA COUNTY, X. CM THURSDAY, A I'll I L. 2.
NO. 3(5.
nuH'-iysioxM.
w. r.councill, J.
Attorney at La v.
Roone, N.
V. 15. COUNCIL!.. M- !
Roone, N. C.
Resident 1'hysicinn. ()Hi
on Kins Street north of lost
Office.
E.F. LOY1LL
Attouxey At T aw,
Roone X. C.
I)H. L. C. REEVES.
Physician and SrnoKox
Office at Residence.
Roone, X. C.
L. D. LOWK,
-AND-
KOTARY PUI1L1C,
RAXNER'S ELK. X. C.
J. 0. WIIBAII,
DENTIST,
ELK PA-IK, XOKTIl CAROLINA.
OlVrshis professional services
to tli! people of Mitchell,
Wat a hum iiii'l adjoining coun
ties.tf3?"Ao l.nd lnnteinl used
nnd .ill work fn.-irnnteodr&
May 1 1 y.
J. V. Morwh.w.
Marion, X. C.
E. S. Blackburn
Je eroii, X.C.
MORP11EW & RLACK.RURX
Atttorxkys at Law.
Will practice in the courts
of Ashe. Watauga and Mitch
ell (-(unities, also in the Fed
Mai courts of the Dist.. and
Supreme Court of the State?.
( olleetion of clnims .solicited.
Apil, 10.
Not ho.
For sale. 900 acres of land,
on Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which isasbestox,
and fine land for sheep ranch.
Sales private. L. D. Lowe &
J. T. Furgerson, Extrs. of
Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed.
Banner Elk, Nov. 1" '90..
Money to loan.
Persons wishing to bor
row money, who can secure
it by mortgage on good real
estate, '-an be accommodated
by applying to
.1 ! Snainhonr. Boone N. C.
or A. J. ditcher, Jlorton N. C.
4. 24.
NOTICE !
1 am just receiving a new
stock of goods bought for
cash down and will sell for
stricklv pay down, at prices
to live ami let live, iou win
do we to call and examine
my goods consisting of boots,
shoes, dry goods, notions,
Ac. lours truly,
T. A. CmTCHEit,
Ramboo. N. C
SUTHERLAXD SEMINARY.
-o-
MISS EMMA WINN,
Graduate Greensboro Female College
PRINCIPAL.-
This Institution of learning is
(situated in one of the most, pictur
esque and hospitable sections of
the State, and rare oppotunities
are here offered for a piactical.
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
Principal at
St'THEHLAXD, N. C.
LETTER,
From oar Beg-lar Ccrie.iond.nt.
Mr. Harrison has so
confidence in Secret n r y j
Maine's ability to cojto single-handed
with the wily Rrit
ish diplomates in the negot
iations to determine the de
tails and in. inner of submit
ting the Rehrings sea ditli
culties to arbitration that
ho will postpone and if neces
sary give up entirely his pro
posed trip to tin? Pacific
Coast in order to remain here
until the negotiations are
concluded. In view of the
fact that Mr. Harrison is
very anxious to make this
trip, not only to gratify a
laudable curiosity to see a
large and important section
of the county, but to secure
a Harrison delegation from
the Coast States to the next
republican national conven
tion, his willingness to give
up the trip in order to watch
Maine speaks volumes for
his fear of "jingoisne."
The statement made here
last week that Mr. Harrison
and IT. S. Treasurer Huston
had made friends and that
the resignation of the latter
had been withdrawn was a
little off. Mr. Huston has
gone to Fortress Monroe, os
tensibly for his health, but
really in n.huff ' because his
resignation had not been ac
cepted. One of his pers-nial
friends said to-dav that if Mr.
Harrison did not willingly
accept his resignation very
soon it would become neces
sary for Mr. Huston to com
pel him to do so willingly.
He declined to say how this
could be done.
The political pressure has
been too great for him
and Mr. Harrison has nrorn-
'sed to appoint the nine
United States Circuit Court
judges during the Congres
sional recess, instead of wait
ing until Congress metagain,
as lie rally wished to do. The
number of applicants contin
ues to grow at such a rate
that a facetious gentleman
remarked to-day that the
democratic party might ex
pect to become crowded with
disappointed republican law
yers when the appointments
are announced.
1 here is another war in
the Interior Department,
which hasn't been free of
skirmishing since the present
administra tion came in. This
time it is the Sectetarv and
the Indian Commissioner
that have crossed swords,
and it is stated that Secre
tary Noble has become, so
thoroughly disgusted with
official rottenness in the In
terior department that he
has made up his mind to get
out of the mess by lesigning.
He came very near to resign
ing when Tanner was kicked
out of the Pension Office, al
so a short time ago when land
Commissioner Uroff handed
in his resignation, owing to
a serious difference of opinion
with the Secretary.
It is also stated that Secre
tary Proctor intends resign
ing in orderto devotehimself
to his private business, but
this is denied at the War de
oartment. and in as much as
Mr. Proctor 'has given a
WASHINGTON'
'good deal more time to his
Vennont marble quarries j not jtossibly succeed by nr
hince entering the cabinet ! rogantly retelling it. and set-
A . A I - .!.' 1 A
little1"'"1 l011"' nr department
it is not probable that the
needs of hi private business
would cause him to think of
resignation.
Ohio polities 'ate being n
good deal discussed just now,
and the republicans are ex
tremely anxious to know
just where Senator Sherman
stands. Some months ago
the statement was made iii a
newspaper friendly to him
and apparently with lm
knowledge and concent that
he intended retiring from
public life at the close of his
present Senatorial term. He
has never affirmed or denied
the statement, and the recent
action of ex-Gov. Foraker in
shying his castor into the
Senatorial ring has brought
a number of Ohio republicans
skurrying to Washington in
order to find out Sherman's
position before taking sides
in what promises to be a very
lively scrimirage if Sherman
concludes to again be a can
didaie.
(Jen. Jos. E. Johnson, the
last of the great Confederate
omnianders, died here Sat
urday night as peacefully as
a child. He was in his eighty
second year.
The administration has not
decided to retaliateon Fiance
and Germany for prohibiting
American pork, but Secre
tary Rusk is doing his level
best to have that policy
adopted and he has hopes of
eventually succeeding., out
11 . ' I A '
no other member of the cabi
net seems to favor retalia
tion. The election by the Cali
fornia legislature of Ex-Representative
Felton to the
United States Senate caused
a genuine sensation here,
when the gentlemen is well
known. Although he is a
several times millionaire it
was thought that he was too
miserly to put up any .'arge
amount of money to secure
his election, but the princi
pal reason for surprise was
his financial views he is an
out and out gold standard
man, and everybody here
thought that California was
for free silver coinage.
The figures are at last
made up. The Fifty-First
Congress cost the people of
the county just $2,000,000
a day, and during its two
years of existence it man
aged to spend about $10 for
each man, woman and child
in the United States.
A Plea For President Clcvelnnd-A Sns
pension of Judgment Asked.
Cor. Wilmington Messenger.
Mr. Editoi you allow
a friend of Ex-President Cleve
land to say a word in his fa
vor? I-n.ii a democrat. I am
also a member of the Farm
ers' Alliance. Joining the Al
liance has not destroyed my
faith in the principles of the
democratic party. I believe
its principles are b ?sed upon
a true conception of our Con
stitutionthey are as broad
as the whole country; they
embr ace every interest of the
whole people. I believe it is
the surest hone of the South
ern farmer and indeed of all
classes. If wecannotget what1
we want with its aid we ran-
img up "n independent par-
i .. -. t ...... ....... x . . i. . :
I ui dim un ii. .Hir lliiw join
ing the Alliance inipared any
confidence in the honesty, n-
bi'ity nnd olitieal sagacity
of Mr. Cleveland.
Sou thernersesMrially should
how some sense of gratitude
to 'i man who has stood by
their interests. Think of it
and see what he did for the
South while President. He
was the first President since
the war who recognized the
Southern States as coequal
with the Northern. He was
the first to treat us a? breth
ren in the Union, entitled to
equal rights and privileges,
lie showed this by seltn-ting
the best and truest of our
Southern statesmen as his
cabinet advisers, bynppoiut
ing them as ministers to for
eign countries, as consuls, as
judges of the highest courts
and to other high offices.
Then as to his economic
policy, Southern farmers and
Alliance men should remem
ber with gratitude his vigor
ous war on the iniquitous
tariff, which in my humble o
pinion is the source of more
evils than all other causes
combined. He was far in ad
vance of his party on tariff
reform, and sacrificed him
self in the fierce fight for con
stitutional principles and e
qual rights to all. And let us
all remember how he braved
the combined powers of the
'grand army of the Repub
lic," "The Loyal League,' the
pension sharks and the swin
dlers, and the public opinion
of his section, and boldly ve
toed the Dependent Pension
bill, which by act of the late
Congress has fastened upon
us an annual deln of at least
one hundred and thirty mill
ions of dollars a debtgerat-
er by forty millions than the
whole cost ol the greatest
standing army of Eurcpe-a
vast sum, of which the South
gets nothing in return for the
enormous burden of taxa
tion placed on us.
Then look at the vast rum
ber of private swindling
schemes he took the pains to
look into and veto. Then a
gain remember those maxims
"public office i s a public
trust," "the Government is
of the people by the people
and for the people" Upon
which he acted in the face of
friend and foe throughout his
whole official career as Sher
iff, as Governor and as Presi
dent of the Ui.iled States of
Vmer ica manifesting a cour
age and devotion to what ho
believed the good of the peo
ple unsurpassed in any age.
And finally, but by no means
reaching the end of the cata
logue of his good deeds, let
us remember that he left one
hundred millions of dollais
in the Treasury and vacated
the Presidential chair calling
upon our legislators to re
duce our taxes and relieve
our people of their burdens.
And now because Mr. Cleve
land did not approve of a
certain bill before the hit
Congress, which provided for
the unlimited coinage of sil
ver we are asked to forget al
j he has done for us, and treat
him as an enemy, Is it fair?
Is it just to treat him thus?
No mau dare accuse him of
dishonesty nnd seltt.-h ambi
tion. All thinking men con
cede his great political sa
gacity in seeing in advance
what is best for the people.
After all ma 3- it not be that
he foresees what is danger
ous to the prosjterity and fi
nancial safety of t'.ie country
a little more clearly than we
phiin fanners. If I under
stand him, Mr. Cleveland is
not opposed to silver as a
cir?ulating medium any
more than to gold, but he is
opposed to issuing it. in
such vast amounts as to de
preciate its value; and he
wants its value as compared
with gold to be hxed, so
that when we farmers ship
our eotton, tobacco and
wheat direct to Europe (as
we hope to do if his tariff
reform is carried out) we will
have a fixed standard by
which to adjust balances,
and not be compelled to take
a depreciated currency in ex
change.
Let us not say thatjheisour
enemy in opposing that Free
Coinage bill until we see clear-
y what it means. I can see
this much, that when the
iovernrnent purchases silver
and coins it. that 20 cents
on every dollar is saved to
people. I can also see that if
every owner of a silver mine
or of silver bullion can have
it coined free, that he makes
20 cents on his silver dollar
and the people lose that
much. Let us not be in haste
to condemn a friend who has
always proved faithful.
R. L. Reall
Lenoir X. C.
We are not of those who
fear that the Bible is in any
serious danger from the as
aults of unsanctified learn
ing and hostile criticism. It
has withstood many a fireand
the incombustible wallsof its
sanctuary are still unsoathei
snd unshaken. The higher
criticism, as it is called, ha
been at work upon it for i
half century, and still God'
Rook remains unshorn of its
proportions and still thelam
and guide to the Heavenly
World. The two Testaments
have survived all that has
been said, and are today more
read and studied and loved
than at any other time in
the World's history. It is
still the Rook of Wonders
living in more languages
lead by more people, cir cu
lated more widely and pub
lished in more editions than
any other work or book that
has ever been printed or writ
ten. It is the blessed Rook
the Holy Rible the great
boon and blessing to man,
the wanderer, telling him of
the others wise "unknow
able," and making all who
believe rt and carry into
their lives its sweet and gra
cious teaching "wise unto sal
vation." It is man's solelight
to point him to God and hea
ven. Messenger.
ATTENTION !
My duties confine me closely to
Carolina, and I would exchange,
on favorable terms, $10,000 ot
stock in a phosphate company
in Florida, my late residence, for
a suitable iarm in the mountains
Alex. Q. Holladay,
Raleigh, N. C.
k BAITED TBA.Pi
The Republican leaders are
trying even now to avoid the
atastrophe threatening
them in 1892. They have no
layonet. bill with which to
intimidate and capture the
oils in the South, nnd no
tariff bill they can afford to
meet the country upon, and
no bloody shirt to wave a
gain in the face of the people
and stir them to bitterness
and sectional antagonism.
rrdeed they are very badly
lphi3-ed," and so they are
ooking around for new
dodges, and are cunningly
mining under Democrat for
tifications that they may
low up and separate the
united forces.
How are they doing this?
Simply by using the silver
bill as the leverage or as a
torpedo. They see most cun-
ningly that if they can only
get the victorious democrats
to make silver coinage the
chief plank next year that
they can then divine and con
quer. So that is their game.
ill the democrats fall in
to the baited trap? The gum
log is all fixed and the demo
cratic rabbits are pleasantly
invited to enter nnd nibble
and die.
We do hope that the democ
racy will have common-sense
enough to keep out of Radi
cal traps. We do hope that
all people calling themselves
democrats, as well as Inde
pendents who have latterly
voted with the democracy,
w ill steer clear of all new is
sues that will split up the
party and thereby.'very great
ly aid the republicans In cap
turing fJie country again. A
defeat in '92, would be an un
mingled calamity of course.
It was very artful in the
republicans in the last ses
sion to introduce the free sil
ver coinage bill. They knew
Eastern and Western demo--crats
were not well agreed as
to t his, and thatin fact every
where there was division a
mong democrats as to the
propriety or wisdom of such
a measure. Mr. Cleveland's
views were known, and the
republicans sagaciously con
cluded to force the fight. Mr
Cleveland, with characteris
tic precipitancy and boldness,
wrote his letter and the dem
ocratic log was at once more
or less rived.
Shall this continue? Must
the democrats rush to their
doom? Is it wise to allow the
enemy to come in with plans
of divide and conquer' Shall
wisdom prevail or folly get
the reins? Must some wild
1 river mount the box and
drive the democratic cours
er's right over the precipice
that the Radical pioneers
have excavated and formed.
Messenger.
NOTICE.
To the heirs at law ot Thomas
Greer, dec, notice is hereby giv
en to said heirs that at a public
sale of lands, sold for taxes, for
the year 1 889, sold at the court
house in Boone, Watauga coun
ty, c, the undersigned purchas
ed a certain tract of land belon
ging to said heirs, sit uated in Wa
tauga county, on the head wa
ters of North Fork of New River,
adjoining the lands of A. Thom
as and others. Unless redemption
is made according to law, on or
before six months from this date,
I will proceed to take a sheriff's
deed for said lands. This the 18
day of Feb., 1891. A. Thomas.