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UOOXE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, TIlUltSDA Y, AUGUST. H7. ltl.
W. B. COUXCILL, Jit.
Attokxky at Lay.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUXCILL. M. I).
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. Ofllci
on King Street north of Post
Office.
E.F. LOYILL
Attohxey At Law,
Boone N. C.
DR. L. C. REEVES.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office at Residence.
Boone, N. C.
L. D. LOWE,
Attorney at Law
-AND-
XOTARY public,
BANNER'S ELK. X. C.
J. ft. WILBAR,
DENTIST,
ELK PAItK, NORTH CAROLINA.
Otters his professional ncrviccs
to the people ot Alitctiell,
Wtitanira ana adjoining coun
ties. A o la d mnteial used
and ,i 11 work g nn ra n f t
Muy lly
J. F. Morphew. E. S. BtarkbHrn
Marlon, X. C. JwrflV.011, X.C.
MORPHEW & BLACKBURN
Atttouxeys at Law.
V i 1 1 practice in the courts
ol Ashe, ntnuga and Mitch
ell counties, also in the Fed-
ral courts of the Dist.. and
Supreme Court of the State.
f ollection ot claims solicited.
Aprl, 10.
Notice.
For sale. 900 acres of land,
on Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which is asbestos,
and fine land for sheep ranch.
Sales private. L. I). Lowe &
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, ean be accommodated
by applying to
J.F. Spainhour, Boone N. C.
or A. J. Critcher, Horton N. C.
4. 24.
NOTICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
please advance the fees with
the papers and they will re
cei ve prom pt a ttention, other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
fees. D. F. Baird Shff.
MILLINERY.
-0
I would like to say tomyfriendfl
in Wnta.itra and surrmmdinp:
counties, that I have now on hand
and am receiving every week, a
nice line of
SPRING AXDSUMMFR
MILLINER I A ND NO TIOSS
When you come to JiCnoir, I
would be pleased for you to call
and see me. I solicit your cus
tom. Orders filled promptly by
mail. Most Ilesp.,
M RS. M. N. HORTON.
Lenoir. N. ft, May 21.
W A SHI XG TON L ETT ER.
From our Regular Correspondent
The Xationa1 Association
of democratic clubs will
la tin Mi a decided political
novelty on the 12 Mi of Sep
tcmlMr, when a sje-ial oar
under the control of that As
sociation will ptart from
Washington on a forty days
missionary tour. The car will
go direct to Chicago and
from there to St. Paul and
.Minneapolis, where special
meetings will be addressed
by the speakers who will
compose the crew of mission
aries; and it will go by easy
stages along the Noithern
Pacific railway, stopping at
all important points to al
low the educational work to
be done. The car will be due
ait Spokane Falls on the 23rd
of Septemberj "jpon which
date a convention of the
democratic clubs will be in
session there, and a grand
reception w ill be held.
The journey will then be
continued around Puget
Sound in Oregon: thence
through Calafornia, Utah
and Colorado, and returning
to Iowa about the time the
State campaign has reached
its warmest period. There
the missionaries are to take
off their coats and take in
hand in re-electing Govern
or Boies. Thecal will be in
ch a rge of M r. Lawrence G a rd
ner Secretary of the Associa
tion, and among those who
have already volunteered as
working missionaries are Sen
ntor Kenna, Representative
Bynum, ex-Representative
McAdoo and Hon. Chaucey
F. Black President of the As
sociation. A number of prom
irent democrats have the in
vitation under consideration
and if they can so arrange
their business affairs will also
become missionaries for the
dissemination of sound dem
ocratic doctrine. Some of
them who cannot spare tre
entire forty days may join
the party temporarily either
coming or going or both.
Success to the idea and to
the missonaries.
Secretary Foster, who has
returned to Washington, is
very much put out because
of the publication of the met
that the continuation of the
maturing 4 percent bonds
at 2 per cent is already prac
tically a failure. Less than
Jf2.000.000 of the $21,000.
000 of these bonds out stand-
when the offer was made
have been presented for con
tinuance and only two weeks
remain in which they may be
continued. What remains
out after that time must be
redeemed and that is what is
worrying the estute Secreta
ry of the Treasury. If any
huge amount of these bonds
are to be redeemed and it
seems certain now fiat there
will be, it will be necessary to
make a considerable hole in
the $100,000,000 gold re
serve fund, and although Mr.
Foster says that he will not
hesitate to use this fund if it
becomes necessary, it is
known that he would much
prefer not having to do so as
he is well aware that he has
no legal right to pay out one
dollar of that money.
Representative Mills, who
has been doing a little cam
paigning in Iowa, is back in
Washington hard at. work
on his book on the tariff.
Mr. Mills says he found the
greatest enthusiasm existing
among the Iowa democrats
and from his own observa
tions he is of the opinion that
Boies will be re-elected and
that the entire ticket and leg
islature will also be carried
by the democrats. Mr. Mills
expect to make Washington
his headquarters until Octo
ber, when he is under ?n gage
men t to make a number of
speeches in the Ohio cam
paign. He is a warm admir
er of Governor Cambell and
expects to see him defeat the
high priest of protection; he
is also confident that the
next Ohio legislature will cer
tainly be anti-republican, if
it is not controlled by demo
crats exclusively.
It begins to look very much
like Mr. Harrison w ould have
a first class negro revolt on
his hands if he dares to send
a white man to Hayti, as
minister in place of Fred.
Douglass whose resignation
has been accepted. Promi
nent, negroes here say that
they will do everything in
their power to keep the negro
voters of Ohio at home on
lection day if Mr. Harrison
does not appoint a negro to
the vacancy or promise to
do so before theOhio election
takes place. On the other
hand those who profess to be
familiar with Mr. Blaine's in
tention say that he is deter
mined that a. white man shall
be bent to Hayti to assist in
carrying out hib policy with
regard to that country.
President Polk of the Na
tional Farmer's Alliance is
out in a longinterviewclaim
ing the earth so as to speak,
and taking special occasion
to make attacks upon Sena
tors, Vance, Ransom, Gor
don, Morgan, Pugh,Gorraon
and Sherman, as well as Rep
resentative Oatesof Alabam
an, and stating positively
that the Alliance would have
a National ticket in the field
next" year. Mr. Polk is said
to be very much offended be
cause the Maryland Alliance
convention was friendly to
waids Senatar Gorman in
spite of his efforts to make it
otherwise.
Washington has already
secured pledges of six votes
ia the National Democratic
Committee which will next
February decide where the
next National Convention is
to be held, and efforts are be
ing made to secure others.
Six hundred clerks were dis
missed from the Census Office
Saturday.
The Alabama Mirror says:
"A negi o woman 70 years of
age living about 13 miles
from Selina, in Autauga coun
ty is turning white in spots,
and the spots are growing
larger find increasing in nam
her. Both arms are already
as white as the whitest Cau
casian, and strange to say
tnenesn is tinted, lull and
firm as a young child's. While
the natural complexion of
the old woman is a little dar
ker than tho majority of her
race, she is not atall pleased
at the idea of becoming a
"white 'oman."
'? row for California.
A dispatch from San Fran
cisco to the New York Times
'says: Senator Leland Stan
ford is giving aid and etieour
agemeiit to thousand ol
i Southern negroes, who are
establishing large eolonits in
California. It is ex jutted
that r0.00() negroes will !
come residents of thw State
within the next twelve
months. In view of these
facts Ihe politicians nrea
larmed, ns the colonist are
quite lilely to bewilder the
shrewdest political manager
on the coast. The Rev. R. C.
0. Benjaman, a prominent
and wealthy colored man of
this city, is at the head of the
movement. In an interview-to-day
he said:
Our object in bringing ne
groes to California is to sup
plant the Chinese. Tl ie celes
tials unknot citizens or vo
ters, and the eoloied people
are both. We hwve already
signed contracts in our pos
session, which will guarantee
employment to all the people
we bring here. We have se
cured 50,000 acres of excel
lent land, situated in Fresno
and Shasta counties, and all
of it. may be inigated. This
will provide homes for an im
mense number of colonists.
Our people are now arriving
from the Southern States at
the rate of five families a
week. Within the next twelve
months I expect I will have
situated in California 8,000
families. See how rapidly it
will increase the population
forty thousand more indus
trious people.
"It has been arranged, so,
continued the enterprising
young colonist, "that the
people will be given employ"
ment when they get here, and
they will be provided with
small tracts of land which
they will be given from five
to eight years time to pay
for, and a portion of the pay
ments can be made by work
ing for the owners. They will
raise vines and fruit trees
principally. The managers
of the Southern Pacific rail
road have agreed to give us
the very lowest rnes on which
to travel, avoiding, of course
the violation of the inter
state commerce laws. Sena
tor Lei and Stanford is favor
bly impressed with our
scheme, and has lent us much
encouragement. The colo
nists will come principally
from Alabama, Texas, North
and South Carolina."
Mr. Benjaman leaves for the
South in afew days to arrange
to send out a large number
of colored people. Large
numbers are sacrificing their
homes to secure money to pay
their way.
In the meanwhile, leading
Democratic newspapers are
making loud protestations
against this influx of colored
colonist, The Oakland Times
in an editorial to day, says:
"California has now in the
Chinese as close an approach
to the servile class as is eith
er safe or desirable. The ne
groes already here came
without assistance and are a
self-sustaining, self respect
ing part of the community.
The bringing of vast num-
i bt-rs of ignorant hla ks i; m
! the (Iiilf Stales j.s an t rail, iv
different mattt r, and Cilif.-i-j
nia shotdd nt invite tin
j r ice in -ubus tb it now
a de.id wti;;!it u;i:i tl.e
'South. W'r want u-iih-r
'.cheap labor nor f In ; p labor
ers, if I'.i iij in, .hi !ocs in
j tend, as he h ivs. to i.s'.t lie
South for the purpose of ma
king up colonies, we venture
th prediction that there wiil
follow in his train one long,
wailing cry of distress, and
that if Benjaman makes more
than one trip he will not go
over, the same ground twice.
As to his eclonist, they will
become, for a time at least,
charges upon communities
that may be a filleted with
their piv-eaee. Mr. Benja
min's sst-heme should l.o nip
ped in 1 lie bud."
I ir.' i. r I'ii'.I ( , :.
Few ot the cili.cii-j of .ho
vi'ie, and in j.ict of vr-.it :n
North Carolina, know that
there waa once incucuUtion,
gold coin, made without the
sanction of tho government,
but accepted by the people
and the banks as freely as
the present gold coin. Such
is the fact. This gold was
coined by a German by the
name of Bechler, who lived
in Rutherford ton, and some
of his golc". pieces are preserv
ed. Judge E. J. Aston has
one of these coins, a two dol
lar and a half piece, and oth
er gentlemen of Asheville,
have, it is believed, specimens
of the Bechler one dollar
piece. On one side of Judge
Aston's gold piece appears
in raised letters, "North Car
olina gold,2,20," on the oth
erside, "Bechler, Rutherford,'
and the number of grains
and carets fine. It Is said
that Bechler w as an expert
metal worker and gold beat
er; a man of great intel ligence,
highly respected by all who
knew him. The sea. i city of a
circulating medium gave rise
to the Bechler coin.
There is no date on any of
the Bechler coins, and none
on Judge Aston's piece, but
it was coined for several
years, from about 1337 to
1845 or IS.jO. Col. Clayton,
of this county, tellsan amus
ing story about this coin,
and the way business was
done in the old days. His
father. Col. Clayton theelder,
who is sUll hale and hearty,
had a contract to build a
court house in one of the Blue
R'dgo counties. As fast as
the sheriff collected the taxes,
he paid over to Col. Clayton
certain sums. It consisted
almost entirely of Bechler
coin and old Spanish dollars,
and at last Col. C. had on
a bushel box full. The late
Bacchus Smith dealt largely
in yiriseng.goingll'.rongh the
country to collect it from t lie
mountaineers. Learning of
the amount; of coin in Col.
C.,s possession, he visited
aim and effected an exchange
for State Bank, or Bank of
Cape Fear notes, giving a
check for the money. When
he filled his leathern saddle
bags and rode away from
Col. Clayton's, his son was in
great, distress, ihat all the
wealth, so rare, in those
days, was irrecoverably gone.
Ashevilh Citizen.
NO. I.
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(cnt !.ol. s of ti: "- oce (!!! ,u
, iii.. I :on. Ti I'M i'u iv-i (--. c!
skillfully paiciie.l tog'-i !i t
with .-drip.-; of ..?! i pi t .1 ,
1 but they t onstiUiT 1 a whole
bid, which :; pp',:.i i-1 n t :V; i !;.
go.uj. Any tiauiiativj n.ii n
redeemable at Suit-Treasury,
provided three filths jfihc
t ill is present, the maker f
this note th-Mvfop' wm!. 'd ;i
very real scheme by taking
.seven twenty-dollar bills and
!t carina enough from each to
in.'.!-." another hill. The muti-
jlated f.cl'CS ! i 1'ei h.-Clluf -: 1
1 he cashed t!;. ::t I'-argond ;'. '
jnt ub-Trensnry, ;!:;! ak';,g
jth.e portions h;; !u.d torn !'.',
1 ;. :;;!. a. vi ry pi";-''1 able
; ! w.r.iy-dohu bii'. The uuui
j b.;x i.i '.-aei: .'orn-r w.-te dif-
!' rent . bi' the in a'1 nfli
er respects, even upon close
investigation, appeared to be
good. Capt. Porter, in en
deavoring to trace the bill
to its maker, found that it
had been paid into the Sub
Treaturybya post master.
The latter had recieved it
from Ji woman who had ta
ken it it in change for u$l00
bill at a large business house
iti this city. The firm was u:i
able to trace it to any of ita
customers, aud the 6earch
was abandoned. Ch ic a go
Herald.
The Married Mnu.
A married man a 1 way scar
ries his condition with him,
like a trade-mark. Any body
of average discernment can
detect him at a glance. He
doey not pinch his toes with
tight boots. He does not
scent himself with violets. He
never parts his hair in the
middle. He keeps his seat ia
the horse car when the pretty
girl, laden with bundles,
comes in: he knows that his
wife wouldn't approve of his
rising. He does not get up
flirtations, with the good
looking saleswoman where
he buys his gloves; he remeni
hers that little birds are liv
ing till around telling tales,
and he has a honor of cur
tain lectures; somehow, mar
ried men never seem to ar
rive at that state of beati
tude where they appreciate
the kind of performances
known as curtain lectures.
The married man has come
to that stage when he in con
vinced that the way his, neck
tie hangs may not be any
more important than his
soul's salvation. He knows
to a certainty that true hap
piness does not depend on
the amount ol starch in his
shirt-bosom, but he will have
to have been at least three
times wedded before he will
be able to be reconciled to a
collar-band two sizes .small
oronenze large. Th man
who can smile at fate w hen it
swoops down upon him in
the shape of an ill-fiting collar-band
i.s ready for canon
ization. N. Y. Weekly.
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