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AY .Democrat. IJOOXE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, THURSDAY, JULY, J, 1)1. NO. 48. (TTron volh PROFESSIONAL. W. B.C0UNC1LL, J it. Attorney at La a'. Boone, N. C. W. B. C( UNCILL, M.I). Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. E.F. LOVILL Attokxey At Law, Boone N. C. Pit. L. C. REEVES. Physician and Surc.eon Office at Residence. Boone, X. C. L. D. LOWE, Attorney at Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC, BANNER'S ELK. N. C. J. . .VILIUR, DENTIST, ELK PAKK, NOKTII CAUOLINA. Oners his professional service to tlit? people, ot Mitchell, Watautra and adjoining coun ties.rTAo tad mnteial used and all work imrantee May 1 1 y. J. F. Morphcw. S. Blaclhnrn Marlon, X. C. Je mon.X.C. M0RPI1E W & BLACKBURN Atttorxeys at Law. Will practice in the court of Ashe, Watauga and Mitch ell counties, also in the Fed ral courts of the Dist.. and Supreme Court of the State. (oiled ion ot claims solicited. AprI, 10. Notice. For sale. 900 net-en of land, on Rich Mountain, Watauga County, on which is asbestos, nnd line-land for sheep ranch. Sales private. L. I). Lowe & J. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed. Banner Elk, Nov. 1? '00.. Money to loan. Persons wishing to boi row money, who can secure it by mortgage on good real estate, fan be accommodated bv applying to J.F. Spoinhour, Boone N. C. or A. J. ditcher, Horton N. C. 4. 24. NO! ICE. Parties putting papers in my hand for execution will please advance the fees with the papers and they will re ceive prompt attention, other wise they will be returned not executed for the want of fees. D. F. Baird Shff. MILLINERY. -0- I would like to f. ay tomyfriends in Watauga and Burrouuding counties, that I have now on hand and am receiving every week, a nice line ot SPRING A.NDSUMMFIt MILLINER 1 AND NOTIONS When you come to Lenoir, I would be pleaHod for you to call and see me I solicit your cus tom. Orders filled promptly by mail. Most Reap., MRS. M. N. IIORTON. Lenoir. N. C, May 21. WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Eg-Ur Correpondent That Mr. Harrison lw ev er had the hlightfst intention of ugieeing to nny system of reciprocity that thoCnnadian Government would urcept, is not believed by those in posi tion to know his realopini m on this subject; therefore it in not surprising to hear that the informal consultation which was sometime ago set for next October may n o t take p'ace ntall. It is alleged that the administration feels greatly offended atthe publi cation in an English ''Blue Rock" of its part in this Ca nadian reciprocity business, which it claims the represen tatives of Canada had agreed to be confidential until some definite agreement was reach ed, nnd that isn't all. It is also claimed that Mr. Blaine and the administration are greatly misrepresented in the aforesaid "Blue Rock", which states that the first overtures for reciprocity came direct from Blaine. It doesn't much matter which side is right in the prese'nt controversy, but it looks very ranch as if it was to be made the excuse for putting an end to even the limited prospects of Ca nadian reciprocity that have existed. But nobody need be surprised, as it was never in tended that the conference should be anything but a meaningless farce. The right sort o f reciprocity treaty with Canada would doubt less prove beneficial to both countries, but there is not much probability of our get ting such a treaty until there is a change of admistration. This very American admin istration has contracted for f ight gun carriages of Rus sian pattern at ft 11,500 en ch to mount twelve-inch breech loading mortars intended tor harbor defense, upon. Senator Paddock, of Ne braska, has been here appeal ing to Mr. Harrison to help him in his efforts to get, re turned to the Senate. It is said that he offered in re turn for the help asked for, to guarantee that Nebraska would send a solid Harrison delegation to the next repub lican convention. Mr Har rison was non-committal, for several reasons. He has uot forgiven Mr. Paddock for the part he took in defeating the Force bill at the last session of Congress, but that wasn't his principal reason for not committing himself to the Senator's support at this time. It has been stated to him that ex-Senator Van Wick, who is in the field a gainst Paddock, is strong e nough to divide the delega tion, if not enough to beelec teo to the Senate, and he wants time to find out, as his programme is not to an tagonize anybody strong e nough to control even apart of any state delegation to the next republican conven tion. Democrats will certainly have no reason to blame the NationarCommittee, if they do not this year win in every State where there is a fight ing chance for the part y. Senator Gorman, whose headquarter an to be here, is to take charge of the Na tional Committ'v during Sen ator in conjunction with and through the National Asso ciation of Democratic Clubs, at the headquarters of which Hon. Chauncey F. Black, president, and Lawrnnce Cardner, Secretary, will be permanently located. Not withstanding its being an off year, Senator Gorman pro poses to make the fight ag gressive from the jump, and the officials of the Associa tion of Clubs will ably carry out his orders and second his efforts in all directions, and it only remains for the rank and file of the party to become imbued with the same spirit to make victory cer tain in every State that is not hopelessly republican, and few of them u re that way since the people have begun to wake up to the enormities of the republican tariff sys tem. The administration is try ing hard to trim on the sil ver question by putting off until too late to have any ef fect upon this year's cam paign, its d e c i s i o n as ic whether any portion of the silver bullion purchased monthly under the silver act of the billion dollar Congress shall be coined; the act pro vides that it be discretionary with the Seer e t a r y of the Treasury whether any of it shall be coined. It has also deferred its decision as to what rate of interest shall be paid on the four-and-a-half percent bond? which are to extended, but there is little doubt tha; the Wall street command of two percent will in the end be obeyed. Ex-Senator Ingalls deliver ed a lecture at the Glen Echo Chautauqua, near Washing ton, to-day. He has been here three days, but some how or other he has entirely forgotton to call on the oc cupant of the White House. Representatives Mills, Crisp, and McMillin, the three most prominent candidates for Speaker of the House, have all accepted invitations to deliver addresses to theTatn many society of New York on July 4. Congressman Cowles has appointed Mr. Wm. W. Flow ers, son of Col. G. W. Flow ers of this place, alternate cadet to the U. S. Naval academy at Annapolis, Md., to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna tion of h is brot her, llobt. L. Flowers. Taylors ville Index. Death Among the Aged, Last week Abram Cook, of this township, died. It is said he was consideradly over 80, probably near 90 years of age. David E. Warlick, of Ja cob's Fork' died June 25, aged 84 yenrs and 0 months. John II. Prop.jt, of Bandy's township, di'd June 24, aged about 82 a ears. Mike B u 1 1 i n g e r, of this township, died June 20, aged about 77 years. Press nnd Carolinian. ALLIANCE mKIG. At iwss for dinner on last Thursday, Mr. C. C. Wright made a very interesting sjkmtIi to a good audience in the court house. A rewrtcr was present and gathered the following information from the seeeh: "Then? are more than twen ty-two hundred sulMiliiances with a membership of one hundred thousand, and every county in the State is organ ized. Class legislation was the first cause of the condi tion of the laboring classes. This policy of the govern ment to protec t special class esofits citiiieMs has caused the ngrietltural classes to now own only 24 per cent of the 84 billions of dollars the wealth of the United States, when in 1820 they owned CG per cent of the 8 billions the wealth then of the peo ple, There are nine millions of mortgages, one for eyery family of seven." The tariff seemed to be the unjust legis lation he was striking at, and proposed to remedy it by having a tariff commis sion to gather data from the factories in England and the United States. It the manu facturers of the U. S. would pay 50 per cent more to their laborers, then the govern ment should levy a tariff of the same amount on the ar ticle manufactured. To run the government an advnlo rum tax and a tax on income was the policy. The labor ers pay 80 per cent of tax, and own only 2-5 of wealth, while the U. S. bonds, treasu ry notes and income of the rich are untaxed." "The second cause was the contraction of the currency by the government issuing bonds nnd stopping coinage of, and demonetizing silver. It takes now four times as much cotton, 2 times as much corn, 2 times as much coi n, 2 times as much pork to buy a dollar as it did in 18G0. Then there were only two millionairs in the United States, now there are 11,000, 45 of whom aie U.S. Senators, who, with Vice President Morton, can con trol the Senate. The objections to the order was then touched Upon. 1. As to the fighting of the merchants, was utterly im possible, on the account of their close relationship. 2. Secret organizations, which is the only way to reach all classes. 3. Admits females. This objection was beautifully an swered by a just tribute to women. 4. Dues. The dues are only 50 cents to join, 25 cts per quarter, afterwards the chea pest fraternal organization in the world. The remainder of the time was taken up by the discus sion of the demands of the order of which our readers are perfectly familliar. In the close he urged the alliances to purge themselves of bad men and to stand together and win, "Be true to your selves, be true to your coun- trp. and be true to y onr God ." J The South in Wan Gen. Ransom, at the Sol diets' Reunion at Wilson, told the standing of the South i' the war. The follow ing taken from a report of the sjMirh in the Wilming ton Me. m'lirr w ill bear print ing again: "(Jen. Ransom urged as the duty of the Southern peo pie new the duty of truth the truth of history. He be lieved history would vindi cate the South, and that fu ture generations could read impartial history and award to the South all th it b longs to her in the struggle with the North. (Jen. Ransom then stated that he desired to state a few simple words to vindicate the South's carnage, nnd he contrasted the armies of the sections. Quoti.ig from S;of ford's statistical almanac, he said that the North had 2AV.U22 men in the field while the best estimate gave the South 000,000, and the most zealous writes of the North put it up to 700,000. The population of the States at war with the S o u t h at that time was 22,000,000, while the South at the same time was 8,710,000. Besides this ,'1,710,000 of the inhabi tants of the South were col ored and we did not take a soldier from this number. On the other hand the North put muskets in their hand, and besides .,800,000 peo ple in the border States rided with the work, giving them a total population of 20,000, 000. Besides this the North received from the entire world, and had all the rea sons for carrying on the war, while the South had no treas uiy, no founderies, no facto ries, no arsenals, and yet it took the North four years to put an end to the war. And then Gen. Grant had even declared to President Lin coln he could never conquer the South so long as the armies exchanged men, and one year before the war clos ed there was no exchange The North had 45,300 more soldiers than the South, and there were',' 180,000 colored coldiers enlisted, and yet with one-half of the ruen'that the Federal army contained, the South won four-fifths of thb actions, until the States were finally overrun by the millions'of men, against whom there was no army to stem the time. Gen. Ransom touched on many interesting points, but time will not permit us to mention them in this hur riedly prepared article. He concludes by speaking of the part North Carolina took in the War, stating that of the 000,000 men furnished to the Southern armies, North Carolina furnished 125,000 or about one-fifth, while she lost more in killed than any other State. He alluded to the distinguished sons North Carolina furnished to the war and made several allu sions to those present, re minding Capt. W . R. Kenan of his gallantry in battleand paying a high compliment to the valor of North Carolina troops. THE F0-E OF MIXER. A few days ago there was a heavy rain up the country toward Jonesboro, and the" creek running through town overflowed its bank s. In places it flowed over low lands, forming nn nngry tor rent of ugly yellow water, freighted w i t h driftwood; parts of fences, gates, pieces of timber and even trunks of well grown trees. The torrent rushed through the town bearing upon its rugged bo som many springs of half ripened w heat, stalks of gass, drowning daisies and rose" leaves. Tho waters spread over one of the meadows a bove town and it was natur al to suppose, moving like u torrent a s it did, that vege tation would be ruined en tirely and nothing left of what there had been a few minutes before, so bright and green in the softsummor. A few hours afterward t welked across the meadows. The sun was shining brigntly then and beyond the wake oi the angry flood, drops of wa ter sparkled on tho grass; and the birds sang their glad some songs. A s h o w e r in summer is to languishingna ture as a bottle of old Bor deaux to a weary soldier. Where the waters had been there was desolation. I imag ined it to be a minaturecop.v" of the Mississippi valley, &U ter the Father of Waters has1 gotten over oue of his annual sprees. Here was a group of reeds bent and bending un der a load of slimeand trash,, and tufts of grass lying fiat on the ground all covered with yellow sediment. There1 was driftwood, bunches of hay, and branches of treed spread over the surface1. In the midst of it all Indti ced a pink flower waving its' head above the drift, the slime and beaten grasses. On close inspection 1 found it to de a rose, a wild rose, a blooming svveetbrier with its delicate odor of the wood land To my surprise, the1 rorie Was without blemish. Its petals were as fresh and perfect as if there had never1 been a flood. The leaves were of the most delicate pink Not a part'cle of dirt adher ed to any part of the1 sweet little waif. There Jwas only one on the bush erect above) the earthy slums stretching" away in all directions, pure? as the sun light. I'urity is always foiind hi the midst of filth and crime. 0. W. Kerner, express Ag'tj received a basket containing1 47 carrier pigeons from New ark, New Jersey, with instruct tions to liberate them at sun rise on the following day. The birds were liberated from the top of Orinoea warehouse at 5:30 o'clock. Sentinel. During the mouth of June" North Carolina has lost many citizens of usefulness and fi delityjand some of more than State distinction. Among the" dead we note the names of Gen, James M. Leach, Dr. Al bert T. Row, Henry E. Bond, Fx-Governor David S. Reid, Rev. George W. Ferrell, and John M. Moring. Messsen-1 ger.