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IJOONK, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. PIiritSDAY, AUOUST, U. LMH.
VOL 4
rno sessional.
W. 11. COUNT. LI Jn.
Attokxkv at La v.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCIL.
M. I).
Boone, X. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on Kinp Street north of Tost
E.F. LOVILL
Attokney At T aw,
Boone X. C.
DU. L. C. ItKEVKS.
Physician' and Si'iu.eon
Office at Residence.
Boone, X. C.
L. I). LOWE,
.Attorney at Law
-ANI-
notary ruiiLic,
BANNER'S ELK. X. C.
J. WILUAR,
DENTIST,
ELK PAltK, SOUTH CAROLINA.
Oners his professional services
t i the people ot Mitchell,
W.it.iinr.i ntiil ndioillillir COUtl-
ties.SiVo lad wateial used
and dll worknaranteed.fi.
May 1 1 j
J. F. Morphew. K. 8. Blackbnm
Marion, S. C JeertTxm, X.C.
MOKPHEW & BLACKBURN
Atttouneys at Law.
Will practice in the courts
of Ashe, atauga and mi ten
pl counties, also in the Fed
ml points of the Dist.. and
Supreme Court of the State
Collection of chums solicit ed.
Aprl, 10.
Notice.
For sale. 900 acres of land.
on Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which its asbestos,
and fine land for sheep ranch.
Sales private. L. I). Lowe Vr
J. T. Furirerson, Ex'trs. of
Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed.
Banner Elk, Nov: 1 '90..
Money to loan.
Persons wishing to boi
row money, who can secure
it by mortgage on good real
estate, can be accommodated
bv applying to
J.F. Spoinhour, Boone X. C.
or A. J. Cri tcher, Horton X. C.
4. 24.
NOTICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
pleise 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. I). F. IUinn Siiff.
MILLINERY.
I would like to say to my friends
in Wnta.iga and surrounding
counties, that I have now on hand
and am receiving: every week, a
nice line ot
STRING A D S U'M MFR
MILLINER A ND NO TICKS
Then you come to Lenoir, I
would be pleaad for you to call
and see me. I Bolicit your cus
tom. Orders filled promptly by
mail. .Nf out Ilesp., ,
MRS. M. N. NORTON.
Leuoir. N. C. May 21.
WASHINGTON LITTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
Representative Mills left
Washington to-day for Iowa,
where he goes to make a se
ries of campaign speeches in
aid of the democratic vanse.
His friend Itepresennntive
('rain, who is in charge of his
canvass for the sjieakership,
snvs of his prosttects. Mr.
Mills is in the race to stay
and to win. He is stronger
io-day han w'len Congress
adjourned and he is gaining
strength every day; he has
made accessions in the East
and his splendid light in the
West and Xortwest has giv
en him a degree of strength
there which astonish his op
ponents. Mi. Mills favors
the free coinage of silver, but
he also believes that it is n
question to be Nettled inside
the party; the democratic
part.) is a unit for tariff re
form but is divided upon the
silver question. Why inject
an element of discourse in
the party platform? Let us
go on with the contest for
tariff reform and settle all
subordinate questions in our
own ranks after we shall
have won the victory. Re
presentative Crisp and his
friends are just as confident
of his election to the speaker
ship as Mr. Cruin is that Mr.
Mills will be elected.
A democrat of national
reputation is authority for
the statement thatan organ
ized effort is to be made to
have the next national dem
ocratie convention held in
Baltimore. 1 asked him if
that involved a tnovetrent
for the nomination of Sena
tor iiorman. lie smiled as
he said ''Not necessarily
but the fact that the conven
tion is held in Baltimore, ifit
should be held there, need
not be regarded as a bar to
the presentation of the claims
of Maryland's favorite son
for the nomination."
Representative Chipnian,
of Michigan, who is now in
Washington, says the demo
crats of Michigan propose
pressing the claims of Hon.
Don. M. Dickson upon the
next nc mina ting convention,
and that it isn't a movement
intended merely as a compli
ment to that gentleman, but
is the result of much consid
eration on the part of men
who believed that he posses
es all tin? attributes of a suc
cessful Presidential candi
date, one who could carry
Michigan beyond a shadow
of a doubt.
Can "Me too" Piatt, the
New York republican boss,
whose favor Mr. Harrison
has purchased by the ap
pointment of J. Sloat Fas"t
to be Collector of the port of
Xew York, save the Harrison
vessel from beingoverwhelm
ed by the Blaine tidal wave
which is "ov rushing upon
the seemingly doomed craft?
is an interesting problem to
those interested in the result.
It is not believed that Mr.
Harrison will give up with
out making a desperate fight
and if Mr. Piatt can control
the Xew York delegation for
him his friendship A s well
worth cultivating. A gentle-
man figuring up the votes
that Harrison can ontrol
puts this way: "He can have
the solid delegations of nil
the Southern State, unless
somebody is disposed to put
up money to buy their votes;
he can get the solid Indiana
delegation through his con
trol of the machine in that
State; Senator Spooner Saw
yer and Secretary Rusk are
relied upon to control the
Wisconsin delegation for him;
Secretary Foster can certain
ly divide if he cannot control
the Ohio delegation; ermont
is already pledged to him
through Secretary Proctor,
and if he can. get the New
York delegation he will start
out with astiengthnot to be
despised."
At last the long hung up
reciprocity treaty with Spain
for Poito Rico and Cuba has
been officially announced
with a temporary schedule
to go into effect September 1,
and a permanent schedule
a
July ,1892. A similar agree
ment with San Domingo is
also announced to take effect
September 1. The fact is
commented on that the larg
est single beneficiary under
the Spanish agreement is the
Standard Oil monopoly.
Senator Butler of South
Carolina', wlro is now here
has been warmly congratu
lated upon his success i n
demonstrating the folly of
the sub-treasury movement
in the South. With his usual
modesty he declines to take
any personal credit for what
he has done, saying that he
only presented an array of
facts against the scheme
which must at once become
apparent to any ordinarily
intelligent man who will
make a careful study of the
proposition, and its probable
effects, keeping in view simi
lar attemps recorded by his
tory. Since it became known a
mong republicans that Maj.
McKinley made an appeal to
the national executive 'com
mittee for money to save
mm trom detent there is a
noticable diminuation in
which they indulge. They
now realize that, although O
hio is'ordinarily a republican
State the election of McKin
ley, handicapped by his un
just tariff bill, is very far
from being a certainty, and
most of them are willing to
admit that the legislature is
in doubt. This is a very great
change, and it is significant.
There is only one member
of the administration on du
ty to-day. That is Secretary
Foster and he is preparing to
go to Ohio this week, he says
1o take a vacation, but it
would be safe to bet that he
will work harder while there
than he does when in ash
ington.
Leading alliancpmen of 0
hio says the "fight in that
State is on Sherman, and it
will be a duplication of the
fight on Ingails." And they
are getting very near the
heart and head of all the
troubles that n o w afflict
them. In their fight against
Sherman let us hope they
will slay Foiaker also. Carolinian.
Plli Fin.-. iM-ii-riHir.
'o. Polk then went into
t he di"ctisioii of the nation
al banks and charged the
lawmakers with a copartner
ship wi.h Wail street and
Lombard street to misuse
not the m.mey of the govern
ment, but the treasury with
a vengeance. The bank get
the money at 1 percent, and
deposit Vi per cent, bonds
which a.V no security, but
only an evidence of indebted
ness. He had heard a great
deal about fiat money and
Jefferson inn democracy; but
he would like any one to dis
pute the fact that bank notes
were fiat money. (lold and
silver were not their basis,
but the basis was simply the
lower of the government to
tax the people to redeem
them. Tliegovernment would
lend the banks money at 1
per cent., but every cither
class must pay t or n per
cent, for it.
This of course, is nil the
veriest rot. Does Col. Polk
believe that the banks pick
AK per cent bor.ds in the
street? They have to buy
their bonds with gold, or sil
ver at its gold value, and
that silver or gold is the ba
sis of the bank notes and not
the government's ciedit. It
is absurd to talk about the
government limiting the
money to the banks. The
banks can not issue a dollar
of currency until they have
deposited the ten nisi te bonds
for which they have paid
the'r coin. Ex.
News from Kansas says
Peffer is a candidate for the
nomination for President by
the People's Party next year.
The Alliance Advocate, tin
People's Party organ in Kan
sas raises his name, and in
an editorial states that as
Kansas took the initiatory
step in the new movement
she was entitled to the hon
or. Until it was known that
Senator Peffer desired the
nomination tne preference a
mong Alliancmen seemed to
b e for President Polk, o f
North Carolina. Senator Pef
fer's friends say that the man
who was big enough to beat
John J. Ingails is bigenough
for a presidential candidate.
Perhaps they will give Col.
Polk the second place if he
would accept it. Carolina
ian. Messenger: 0 ne good.t h i ng
is to happen. Boss Quay is
to get out. Possibly as bad
a fellow will take charge of
the rotten old party, but it
will be a blessed thing to get
rid ofevenonescoundrel. The
Boss isto retire also from the
Senate. We hope he will not
change his mind. But he is
not to be lost sight of in the
pohtiea of the country. He
is too cunning a manipula
tor for that. He will fight
Harrison whether his favor
ite Blaine is a candidate for
the nomination or not.
The United States Treasu
rer states that the eash bal
ance in the treasury to-day
is .f.jo.742,9S4, of which 819-
6G0.58G is on deposit in the
National bands, and $19,
3G0, 146 is in fractional sil
vercoin. Exclusive ot these
two items the balance is $14
1 WilJ Siliimei
W suit;To., July '2(. W.
R. Vaulin. of : 1 1 ) ; 1 1 1 .-1 , Nebras
ka, formerly mayor of Coun
cil Bluffs, Iowa, and a man
of indeiendent fort uneaecor
ding to his own statement,
mad" an address to-night to
a l uge assemblage of color
ed M'OpIe in the Met ropolitoti
colored Methodist church, in
which he proposed that the
negroes demand of the gov
ernment pensions for alj ex-
slaves. Mr. Vauulm is ti e in i
thor of a bill w hich wasintro
dticed in Congress at the last
session mal ing provision for
carrying out his proposition,
but as very few people have
ever heard of the bill, it was
with evident surprise that
his audience listened to his re
marks. Mr. Vaughn saiil that
as the negress had been held
in bondage in this country,
and had added materially to
its wealth by their labor with
out receiving in return any
compensation, the country
necessarily owed Jhem a debt.
He was in favor of paying
this debt by issuing four hun
died millions of dollars in
bonds to run fifty years and
drawing interest at the rate
of two and a half per cent a
year. This sum, he said,
would enable tliegovernment
to place upon the pension
rolls every negro that had
been a slave. He argued that
this scheme would settle for
ever the race question, inas
much as it would do more to
put the negroes on an equal
footing with tha white peo
ple than any amount of edu
cation. It would also have
the effect of building up the
South, because most of the
money would go into that
section. Mr. Vauhn assured
hearers that if they aided him
by using their votes intelli
gently there would be little
doubt of securing the pas
sage of a bill giving them the
money they desire. He said
he had already corresponded
with Senators, Representa
tives and other prominent
men on the subject, and he
read letters from Senator
Cnllom Peter Studebaker and
others, showing that they in
dorsed the proposition. He
had also written to President
Harrison, but Mr. Harrison
replied that he had not time
to contribute to the discus
sion. He held that the ne
groes should sever their con
nections with every party ex
cept the one that will give
them their rights in the way
of pensions, and urged them
all to become agitators in ol
der to accomplish the object
in view. During the course
of his addres he was frequent
ly applauded.
The Went Tiririnia Sarsation.
CATLKTTSBUItO, K.V , Allg3.-
The report of the murder of
t he Bruin field family in
Wayne county, W. Va., by a
mob of drunken Italian rail
road hands is untrue, and the
story is the invention of an
irresponsible individual who
supplemented the fake lu
sending out this morning a
report that a sheriff's posse,
in attempting to capture the
Italians who murdered the
Brum fields, were forced to
fireon the murderers, instant
ly killing eight of them. Both
reports arc totally false.
T- ' -T5
NO. 1.
tt th bb-Treaiarft
Ciim-.wio. Aug 4. -A spec
ial from Ton ka, Kan., says:
"A sensation has leen mus
ed in alliance circles in this
State by the publication of
open letters from W. A. liar
ris and C. W. Shuui. promi
nent leaders in the People's
party, protesting against
the sub-treasury scheme, liar
ris is regarded as the safest
leader in the alliance and
would have been elected U
nited States Senator in place
of Peffer had he not been a
Confederate colonel. Shum
was the People's party canJ
didatefor Lieutenant Gov
ernor last fall. Sub-alliances
throughout Kans a s this
month will vote on the Sub
Treasury scheme to decide
whether it shall be incorpon'
ted in the People's party plat
form, and the indications now
are that it will be defeated
Frank McGrath, President
of the alliance, w ho lias been
warm in its, advocacy has
now come out ojienly against
the Sub-Treasury scheme,
and i big fight is looked for
when the annual meeting of
the alliance occurs in Septem
ber. Col. Harris declares that
"after brilliant victory had
been w on by the alliance the
so-called sub-treasury plan
was brought forth; a scheme
in its essential features mod
eled after all the most vicious
and corrupt practices which
we had condemned; pattern
ed after the illegitimate loan
ing of money by the govern
ment to national banks and
to railroads and to ware
houses and storing of goods
for importers and distillers
and a scheme to tax the many
for the benefit of the few, and
of even most doubtful bene
fit to these feV"
He says substantial btlsi
ness men all over the country
have unanimously protested
against it and that it is cer
tain to bring about the com
plete overthrow of the peo
ple's party if it is not at once
abandoned.
Debt, Dirt and the Devil.
To keep debt, dirt and the
devil out of my cottage has
been my great wish ever since
I set up housekeeping;. Sure
ly these form a trinity of evils
that should be carefully guar-
led against. A man who is
in debt is a slave, toiling to
meet the demands of anoth
er, lie cannot call what he
possesses his own. He Dad
better, a great deal, have
less and owe no man any
thing according to the apos
tolic injunction, than to have
large possessions for which
he is responsible, but which
in whole or in part belongs
to another. A man in debt
is like a man over-board
with a great weight about
his neck, with which, by great
exertion, he may reach the
shore, nevertheless, may sink
him at any moment. Bui;
whatever excuse may be made
lor men going intoclebt, sure
ly none can be offered for
Lheir living in dirt Soap and
water are cheap, and brushes'
not very expensive. Spun-
OEON.
LADIES
Needing atonic, or children who wantbufld-
t; up, should take
BROWN'S 1HON BITTERS.
It in pleasant to take, cures Malaria, InU
gctliou, Bjiioiutteta aud liver Complaint.