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X. C, TIIUHSDAY,
Ar;rsT. is:n.
NO. r,L
THE 1.0(1 !TPLT.
vol:
I'lKHllSSlOXAL.
W. B. C0UXC1LL, Jit.
Attokxky at La .v.
Boone, N.
C.
P..
i oUXClLL.
M. I).
I'll H lilt', N. ( .
i:-.M.!'iit Physician.
or. Kii.;r
troet north of Tout
!'. f.m'iU
Atto'i!: a
At T.mv.
mi. i.. c. ui;;;vi.
I'llYSM l N AND StKOLOV
Office at Residence.
Boone, N.
L. I). LOWE,
Attorney at Law
Axn-
OTARY PUHLIC,
PA XX KITS ELK. X. C.
j. q. wiLiun,
DENTIST,
KLK I'AKK, NORTH CAROLINA.
'tiers his professional services
i til- people ot Mitchell,
datura and ml joining ooun-
u.VGT Xo l.ivl vmtoinl used
nnd .ill irorkfiwinnitettlra
May 1 1 y.
.1. F. Morpliew. F.. S. Bhufcbiini
Marion, N". C. J' rir on, N'.C.
MOIUMIEWKBLACKBUBX
Atttoknkys at Law.
Will practice in tho courts
oi' Ashe. Watauga and Mitch
II counties, also in the Fed
ral courts of tho Pist.. and
Supreme Court of tho State.
( ollortion ot claims solicited.
A pi I, 10.
Notice.
Cor sale. 000 ncresof land,
n lU'-h Mount iu, Watauga
'onntv, on which isnsbestos,
.ml fine land for sheep ranch.
sj,il,. mivatft. L. 1). Lowcv
t T FniM.(M-son. Ex'trs. of
Mrs A. P. Calloway, deed.
Manner Elk, Nov. K- ?00...
Money to loan.
Persons wishing to bot
row money, who can secure
it by mortgage on good mil
esta te, can be accommodated
by applying to
J.F. Spoinhour, KooneJN. L.
tv A.J. Cntcher, Horton N. C.
! . LM .
X01RK.
pMiies putting papers in
v loiii'l for execution will
pie iso udvmicfi tho foes with
t he nauers and tliey win re
ceive prompt at tent ion, other
wisp thev will be returned
not cvorittoil for the want of
fees. 0. V. lUlKD SlIKF.
SSILLINiaiY.
0
I would like to say to my friends
in Wnta.iga. and surrounding
counties, that I have now ou hand
Miid am receiving every week, a
nice line ot
a V III N G AND S U M M" F R
MILLINER ) A ND NO T10XS
When you come to Lenoir, I
ould be pleased for you to call
and sre me. I solicit your cus
tom. Orders filled promptly by
mail. Most Ilesp.,
MItS. M. N. I10RT0X.
Lenoir. X. C. May 21.
LETTEU. ,
From oar Regular Corre.pondcnl
TlH.r,.im1ol,m.Mrr,Hnfor
iHr.is!HHMirro ,,n for
iloiilif flint ItLi rio'd vir.
WASIIIXCTOX
. ' Ills private bUinSS W IlU 110
mostfl.r,,,s,,n,pnM.l.:,kill-;(lnlHsas;il;U.v ((f ?(; ()(M)
wiriiH, Mr.l 'sonsonnl () ,V(;t(1 ,lis ,;,,. lo
.!..!;.. ll-vli;iv,MM,m.. to )1(UsiiMVhH 3f th(1 1Vmi()n
Tho coiici'isioti tnat tie-ro is
no otleT way of silencing tho
masked bat t oiios of tie- Har
rison forces which have Imi'h
M'iiistnntly sli'iliiir L'aine
at ovory opportunity. A re
publican whose relationship
to tho republican machiuonrv
intimate and influential said
to a republican friend here:
"I'laino doesn't want the
nomination, and ho i.s per
fectly willing that Harrison
shall have it; but his friends
are not. Thoy have received
but. little recognition from
Harrison, and that little un
der protest, during his first
administration, and they are
sure they may expect less
should ho bo again elected;
therefore they propose ta
king the matter in their own
hands by seeing that Blaine
is nominated, even if it is a
gaiust his wishes."
This movement is the di
rect outcome of the belief
that there has been a system
a tie effort on the part, of Ml.
Harrison's immediate family
and close friends, first to be
little tho work which I'laino
has done as Sec. of State, and
later to drive him out of pub
lie life by misrepresenting the
state of his health, and it is
difficult to find an intelligent
man in Washington, no mat
ter what his political opin
ion may be. who does not be
lieve that, such an effort has
been made, and not a few of
them believe that Harrison
was fully cognizant of what
was being done, notwithstan
ding his profession of the
most cordial friendship for
Mr. I'laine.
Treasury depnrtmen officials
seem to have no difficulty in
interpreting the law just as
the leaders of the republican
party wish it interpreted. A
case in point is theelection of
the Commissioner of Immi
gration that skilled tin-plate
workers may be brought to
this country under contract,
without violating the law.
Such a decision was necessa
ry in order to bolster up the
manufacture of t i n-p 1 a t e,
which has grown so rapidly,
on paper since the MoKinley
bill became a law. and it was
ptomptly given, on thegrou
nd. to quote the official lan
guage of the Commissioner,
that "the law plainly intend
ed that skilled labor may be
imported into the IT. S. to do
the work of an industry not
yet established, provided the
skilled workmen in that in
dustry cannot tie found a
rnonr our own people.'7 If
that be the proper construc
tion of the alien contract
law, it is now in order for the
Chicago merchant to enquire
why he wascompelled to send
the two Japanese jinrinska
men ba:-k to Japan. That
would certainly have been a
new industry.
The continual absence of
Commissioner Uaum from his
post of duty is exciting much
unfavorble comment. Up to
Julv the 1, he had been a way
from hi olii.-e 210 days, an.l
Ion th' 'A, of the month he
; XV(.,(1 y .,, Jias not yet
,''fUln,M, timy Ihmhm .,..;.,, Jln.sk.
))sim ,o (. (I,.votin;; to (,r,.i(,.t,.,
. . 1 ' ... ... . !''n " .lr( MWV, H .-
bureau, but it may bo set
down as certain that his su-
is also doing some work for
Mr.Harr.son among the old
soldiers or ho wouhl not be
allowed to spend so much
time away from his olfiee.
A number of republicans
01 prcMninencenaveiMH'ane.ejj,,,,,;, ,inFl.alK,t,tliatjli.in(.(l im.lllo,js t ,.()I1trol
. 1 1 1 1
trying to persuade Indian
Comtn'ssioner Morgan fo re
verse his recently announced
anti-Catholic policy in run
ning the Indian schools; they
told him that his scheme
would cost the republican
party thousands of Catholic
votes, and that it was not
justified by the facts, which
show that much good has
been done in the Indian
country by Catholic priests
and schools, but ho contin
ues obstinate, and lias inti
mated that his course is ful
ly approved of by theadniin
ist ration.
Accoidiugtoa story told
here a committee of promi
nent republicans of Phila
delphia wont lo Cape May
Point a few days ago for the
purpose of suggesting to Mr.
Harrison tin? advisability of
his getting rid of Mr. Wana
maker. not because they be"
lieved that -gentleman to be
dishonest but because of his
misfortune in having boon
on such very friendly terms
with so many dishonest men.
They were told by Mr. Harri
son that when he needed
their advice about his cabi
net he would send fot them;
Tho awarding of the con
tract for Cruiser number V
to the Cramp's of Philadel
phia, by Secretary Tracy
mayraueubig row, as the
price; which is to be paid $2.
600.00' , was not the Cramps
but of the Bath Iron Works,
of Maine. The ex?use for giv
ing the work to the Crump's
is that they have better fa
cilities than the Maine con
cern. A delegation from Mobile Al
abama, headed by represent
ative Clark, are trying to get
Mr. Wana maker to amend
his advertisement by inclu
ding that city in the ports
from which the subsidized
lines of steamers shall run,
but there is lit tit prospect, of
success. There are not. en
ough republican voters in AI
abam. The appropriate charac
ter of a, woman demands the
delicacy of appearance and
manners, refinement of sen
timent, gentleness of speech ?
modesty in feeling and ac
tion, a shrinking from noto
riety and public gaze, aver
sion to all that is coarse
and rude, and an abstintive
abhorenee of all that tends
to delicacy and impurity,
eitherin principle or action.
Thes are the traits which
are admired and sougut for
in a woman. Mirror.
i.Am its
Needing atonic, or cliildnn who want build
ing np. rliouid tnko
HROW-N'S HiO.V BITTERS.
It is ploiusiuit to i"ts Jiaiana. Indi
gosiuu, iiiiiuuiucsfc and liver Complaints.
Sjf t t Frw Si t Jr
Skvi.a(I, Bumoinlio Co.,
S.V.. J.ilv U. 1H.)1.
ingtoii, IK ('.
Slit Would it hot her .von too .him some wc. ks agom whii h j.ltllj (.nv,.r0(j the whole earth,
mu'-h to send men f-w seels; he was quoted i.vitigtha,wt,intt,lft,ail,hvasilnrk(.nrtj
for my place hero in Xorth ' the Democracy must beat t he jnI(j t(.lt thev eat evorv herb
Carolina for use another se-i-l AHiaie-e out oiexistciioo- As ,lU)j jjM, fn,j(",,f trvs
son? We have n (dim. ito herelan aL'iiciilt nral orirania t ion ! r- ,i t
t,,,,. ,VIt!. of t ;!,i. ..Iimr. v- f
...j.,. j,(iuil for cemds. deaands ol the Alliance .x-
!t jH niHmt tho rliinatelcent tic- sub-treasury and
as that, of France and lt ily.jland loan bills, and the gov-
but there are not "so many ernmental ownership of rail
foreiirners here. One notices! roads, but conde'iius tho Al-
-
it Sf.(Mns(o Le laruclv over-
run bv Canucks. Such is not
the case here. Wo haven good,
quiet class or residents, most
ly white, with black polka
dots, of course, this being
where slavery used to 'pawn
in early days.
But the country is settled
by a peaceable ( lass of agri
culturists, who have acquired
Ifrom the munmer boarder an
air of being on a perpetual
vacation. Many farmers in
Western North Carolina, by
watching their chances, aie
enabled to sell their corn at
forty cents in the fall and
buy back a portion of it in
tin? spring at one dollar per
bushel to plant and feed to
stock. This builds up a traf
fic in cereals, and has a ten
dency to make the farmer's
son ask himself why the far
mer is the most independent
of any class.
Human health is prevalent
to a remarkable degree here,
Mr. Secretary, and it is one
-f the two regions of t h e
globe where consumption is
unknown. No actual resi
dents die here. Only stran
gers who came after it was
too late. Many Northern peo
ple who come here with ad
vanced phthisic or tubercu
losis die, especially if both
lungs are gone, but if the
windpipe and enough lung
tissue be left to bait a trap,
the nil here will soon add on
a nice new red lung with real
scallops on the edge. (Elec
tric lights are also common
here. )
What I especially desire is a
package or two of the seed
less watermelon seed, some
good hardy bouse plants,
nuchas Martha Wnshiugtons,
hydrangeas, four-o'clocks,
etc. Also some red eyed pole
less China beans for use. How
are you fixed lor potato sal
ad plants.
Crops are all looking well.
Bye is now all harvested and
is being slid down in shutes
to the stack by those who
live on more perpendicular
farms.
Mr. Clay Williams, a color
ed man, met up with a fright
ful accident while summer fal
lowing on one of the hillside
farms below Homing town
ship last week. Thescaffold,
it seems, gave way and he
fell the entire distance to the
foot of the farm, striking the
earth twice on his way down
and completely disembowel
ing it. Bill Nye.
Mr. It. W. Col vert, chairman of
the hoard of county commission
ers of Wilkes, dropped dead while
plowing in his tield Wednesday,
lie was .4, prominent cit izen and
his death's greatly deplored.
Chronicle,
Washington. July 10.
Hum. William C. . nt. of Al
abama, in an interview to
night. deniestheautl.:ei.ti.-;ty;,,HMt K.1VH(1,.,t tHn. wprt,
of thoicported.ntciviou v. itli , . ,
the Democratic party in the,
South and commit it t) the
support of these three ob-1
jectionable measures. Hosays
that the complaints of the
farmers are just , but some of
the remedies proposed b 'he
Alliance are infinitely worse
than the disease; that the
Democratic party favors-the
reduction of taxes, more ex
tended markets for agricul
tural products and a greater
volume of sound money.
He adds that if the Demo
crats gets control of ihe gov
ernment the farmers will find
in these! measures the relief
thev seek and are entitled to.
He strongly condemns all se
cret methods in politics, de
nounces the three measures
named as most radical, pa
ternal and cent ralizingof any
over advocated by any party
in the United States. Ilecalls
on the Alliance leaders to
furnish a bill of particulars
as to their Democracy, and
favors making a test of opin
ion in every convention by a
resolution against these three
measures. He thinks with the
Democracy united victory
sure in 1892.
Worshiping at Ii 3 Sluiue cf St. Anise
K A x k A K k e 1 1 1 . ,-T i 1 roe thou
sand devout Catholics jour
neyed to the Shrine of St.
Anne yesterday. 1 his shrine
is located at the village St
Anne, in this county, and is
annually visi ted by thousands
of pilgrims, some of whom
come to be cured of disease
and to receive strength in
their crippled limbs. Of those
present almost five hundred
were from Chicago, wdiile oth
ers came from villages ami
cities hundreds of ir iiesaway.
There were n o miraculous
cures reported, as have been
expected in previous years,
but many of the pilgrims
claim to have received direct
benefits from their supplica
tions. The priests begun hing
ing Mass at d t.vbreak and
continued until evr-uin, w bile
the throng of worshippers
passed to the shrine and
back to their devotions.
n7)Tic"i:.
North Carolina, Watauga conn
tv. To S. C. Amlerson:--.s, on
the ot.li da.v of May, 1801, at a
sale of land for taxes at the court
house door ia Hoone, by J. L.
Hayes sheriff of Watauga county,
I bid off a. tract of 81) acres lying
in Sliawneehaw township, and lis
ted in the nameof S. V. Anderson,
and offered tor sale by said Shff.
to' pay a tax of $1.81 due upon
it. This, therefore, is to notify
you that if wit hin three moe.'lis
from the date hereof, you lo not
come lorwartl and pay ta;; sail
sum of $1X1, with 20 per cent
additional and the cost of this
proceeding, as by law required,
I will apply to the sheriff of Wat
auga county for a deed to said
land. " 0. A. Axdkksox,
Boone, July 30th, 1801.
Wo read in the Bible that
the Lord sent a plague oi lo
cust on Pharaoh The nr.
'v!' tM,f
'7. ' ' f V "p
V,' V-
Thompson, who has travel
ed ex ten a vely in the Holy
Land, in his book "The
Land and the Book", gives
a verv vivid account, of
KwnrillH f orust whit, are
votsoon in tmt comitrv
Tj.ov mm-0 ;,, ft Ktrairht . fnV.
ward
direction
allowing
nothing to hinder them.
When they come to a house
they climb straight over it.
The destruction done by
these locusts to vegetation
is immense often destroy
ing whole fields of grain.
The natives have had a
great deal of trouble fight
ing thenVbut "as yet have
made no progress.
We have just read an arti
cle in the Scientific Ameri
can on the locust. A piet
uie is given which is almost
a perfect representation of
our large grasshopper. The
article says: "The locust, as
is generally known, is of the
family of the grasshopper
and cricket, but differs from
them in having shorter
horns and feelers and a more
robust body and limbs."
The manner of fignting them
in Algiers and Tunis is the
same as that used in the Ho
ly Land. The American
says: "The manner of fight
ing the locusts as adopted
m
Mgiers
and Tunis has
been to
construct a ditch
with a fence at one side, a
cross the line of inarch of the
insects, which come in such
numbers that the ditch
quickly becomes filled up,
when the natives jump in and
trample them to death at
the same time thrashing the
living mass with a heavy
stick or log of wood. The
fence at the side of the trench
consists of long bands of
cotton clotti or calico sup
ported on sticks, such fences
extending in some places a
cross a mile or moreof coun
try, the material at the top
having a slippery waxed bor
der about four inches wide,
kept moist by daily oiling.
The inscets cannot keep their
hold on this waxed border,
and inevivabiy drop back in
to the trench bc-iiCftth which
.... 4 1 . . -.. r r.- '
IN I II Mil I I I"" ' III II' I'"
deep. When the insects have
attained an age where all or
a portion of them have
wings, they are fought by a
line of natives with long
palm switches, a method of
stopping their progress
which, to bo effectual, pre
supposes the simultaneous
exertion of great numbers of
Arab palm wielders.
The metal in a five cf nt nickle
piece is worth about half a cent,
and fifteen cents will purchase
coper enough to make $2 worth
of cents.
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