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W. B.COUNClLL.Jit.
Attorney at La .v.
Boone, X. G.
W. H. C0UXC1LL, M. D.
Boone, X. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Stiwt north of Post
Office.
E.r. LOYILL
Attohnkv At I aw,
Boone X. C.
1)11. L. C. REEVES.
PllYSlCIAS AM) SUKGFON
Office at Residence.
Boone, X. 0.
L. I). LOWE,
Attorney at Law
AXI
N0TA11Y PUBLIC,
BANNER'S ELK. X. C.
J. (. WILBAR,
DENTIST,
ELK PAKK, SOUTH CAROLINA.
Oners his professional services
to the peToplu ot Mitchell,
Watamru iiiul adjoining comi
ties. PVo bad m.iteial used
and all ivorkfnaranteed."ftrA
May 1 1 .V-
J. F. Morpliew.
Marion, N. C.
K. S. Blackbnru
JcerflT on, S.C.
MOItPIlEW & BLACKBURN
Atttouneys at Law.
Will practice in the courts
of Ashe, Watauga and Mitch
ell counties, also in the Fed
ral courts of the Dist.. and
Supreme Court of the State
( olfaction 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. D. Lowe &
.1. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of
Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed.
Banner Elk, Xov. If '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
J.F. Spa inhour, Boone N. C.
or A. J. Critcher, IlortonX. C.
4. 24.
NOIICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
please advance the fees with
the papers ami they will re
cei ve prom pt attention, other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
fees. 1). F. Baikd Shkf.
MILLINERY.
-0
I would like to say to my friends
in WataJga and gniromiding
counties, that I have now on hand
and am receiving every week, a
nice line ot
SPRING AXDSUMMFR
MILLINER! AND NOTIONS
When you come to Ijeuoir, I
would be pleased for you to call
and see me. I solicit your cus
tom. Orders filled promptly by
mail.' Most Resp.,
MRS. M. N. K0RT0X.
Lenoir. N.f.Mty 21.
1SOOXE. WATAUGA COUNTY.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From ear Eegulir Correspondent
Senator Sherman has writ
ten a letter that is far from
taking the rosy view of the
republican prospect in Ohio
that is prevalent, in the re
publican press. It was written
to a republican departiaenta1
official, and was intended to
be personally shown by the
receiver to evety republican
from Ohio that is employed
jby the Government. In it
i the Senator save that he re
gards it as imperitively nec
essary that, every republican
voter of the State of Ohio,
now temporarily in Washing
ton, shall at once return to
the State in order to help
brace up the weak-kneed
members of the party who
are showing a disposition ei
ther to vote against their
old party or to stay at home.
In consequence of this letter
it is said that Mir depn rtment
official have intimated that
all Ohio voters employed
there in may take thirty days
leave with pay whether their
annual leave has all been us
ed up or not. Evidently Sen
ator Sherman isn't figuring
on any fifty thousand ma
jority. Speaking of Ohio, it is cred
itableto the prominent re
publicans now in Washing
ton, that they, to a man, con
demned the recent attempt
by certain members of their
party in Ohio to make Gov.
Cnrn bell's private business
transactions the basis of an
uttock upon him.
Attorney-General Miller, if
rumor be true is again to be
made the victim of Indiana
politicians by beingcom poll
ed to give up the seat upon
the Federal bench which Mr.
Harrison had promised him
in order that another Indi
ana republican John M. But
hr, once the law (partner of
the late ex-Senator McDon
ald, may be provided for.
This is hard lines for Mr. Mil
ler who has ever since Mr.
Harrison became President
had his mouth puckered up
preparatory to taking a life
time su?k at the public teat.
As a patient waiter he is a
success.
Representative Mills' oppo
nents for the Speakership,
have tried to make it
appear that in his recent
speeches in Ohio he took a
different position on the free
coinage of silver from that
which he he had for a long
time previously occupied.
This is an attack upon Ihe
rugged honesty of Mr. Mills
that his friends resent. One
of them said: "Mr. Mills' 0
hio speeches do not nnnouee
any change whatever in his
views touching free coinage.
He opens his speeches with
the distinct statement that
he is now and ever has been
u free coinage man. What
he does say, however, and
with great emphasis, is that
fret- coinage will not produce
the far reaching effect that
its warmest advocates hope
for, and that it will not re
lieve the distress under which
the country is a Hedged to be
suffering. This, Mr. Mills
says, can only be accomplish
ed by lighter taxation and a
freer foreign trade. Now so
far from this being a new
pronunciamento of Mr. Mills,
it is just what he said in an
addiesss delivered lefore the
legislature of Texas a free
coinage body only the Tex
as statement was, if any
thing a more enrnest apjtenl
than that contained in his
Ohio speeches against relying
on relief from free coinage.
When it is remembered that
Mr. Mills' ambition is to be
elected to the Senate by the
legislature of Texas, it can
easily be Keen that iho bold
stand he took before that
body, which was composed
of men the most of whom will
have a vote on the question
of his sel ection as Senator,
was just like the man, and
that his Ohio speeches are
only in the same line.''
It is now said that it is a
close race for the democratic
vacancy on the Interstate
Commerce Commission be
tween Representative Culbert
son of Texasand ex-Representative
Clements, of Georgia.
The latter gentleman w a s
thought to have been a heart
until a delegation of Wash
ington negroes filed a protest
against his appointment, be
cause thev mixed him up with
his colleague, Mr. Grimes,
who a year or so ago left a
Washington hotel at which
he was boarding because a
negro was seated at the same
table at which he was eating
his dinner. They thought it
was Mr. Clements, and told
Mr. Harrison they would con
sider it an insult to the negro
race if he was appointed. Un
der ordinary circumstances
this would amount to not h
ing, but just now "nigger"'
influence is mighty strong at
the White House.
ISTIliS DEMOCRACY?
The editor of a paper is not
committed to maintain the
accuracy of the views ot a cor
respondent; but the paper it
self is ameanable in the fo
rum of public opinion for
what it prints for the public
edification. By the publica
tion itdisseminatesand gives
currency to the views of its
correspondents, and . it is a
matter of choice with the pub
lisher whether he will ciicu
late those views or not.
The rir&t article in the Pro
gressive Farmer is one in
which the Democratic party
is called "Asheites," and from
it we make the following ex
tract: . "The Asheites, or Demo
cratic party, has been prom
ising for the past twenty-five
years to lead us in straight
paths, we have been groping
in the darkness.andourpath
way has been extremely crook
ed and fugged. They prom
ised to give us bread; thej
haven us a stone. They ha ve
promised to give us meat;'
they have given us a serpent.
They promised to remove the
internal revenue; later they
declared that the articles
bearing this tax was a luxu
ry and the internal revenue
must be "etained. (Wonder
what they will do with the
red-legged grasshoppers du
ring the nex t ca m pa ign? ) The
X. C THURSDAY,
life of the Asheites nince 'de
war' has dejnaided on Radi
calism and the negro. Each
succeed ing ca m pa ignbrough t
us a fi-esh dose of each. We
have been purged with this
homogenous compound un
til the bare mention of it
makes us feel like vomiting."
Now it was a matter of
choice with Col. Polk's pa
per whether or not it would
send such views out into tha
world for the farmer's of the
State to read, and rtrhoseto
do so. Why? What is the ob
ject aimed at?' What was ex
pected to be gained by the
publication? What is the mi
son for it.
The Democratic lealers of
Xorth Carolina never promis
ed to repeal the internal rev
enue; they have urged that
it ouht to be (regaled; but
they have never made a prom
ise to do what they never
could of themselves perform.
They did premise the teo
ple good local government,
and peace at home and the
establishment of order in the
State. When they were giv
en power, what was the con
dition of affairs? Half a doz
en counties had been declared
to be in a state of insurrec
tion; hundreds of good men
were in prison; Kirk's ma
rauders were holding in sub
jection several counties, a
court martial was being or
ganized to try people under
martial law; and the negroes
were burning barns, and the
people were in a condition of
unrest and inquietude. Such
were the circumstances under
which the people gave power
to the Democrats; and since
that time no people on the
face of the globe have enjoy
ed greater peace and moreun
broken order, greater liberty
and more confidenc in the
law: or more progress adapt
ed to the situation of our
people than have the citizens
of Xorth Carolina.
The Democrats of Xorth
Carolina can turn with just
pride to the history and acts
of their party, which indeed
challenge the admiration of
the people.
With such a record, the
Democrats of North Carolina
can treat with scorn the sin
ister views Col. Polk's paper
has chosen to lay bef ore the
public, and can defy the ma
lignant efforts of that, paper
to array the people against
it.
And what shsdl we say of
that last idea that sineethe
war the life of the Democratic
party has depended on Radi
calism and the negro, and
that the bare mention of these
matters "makes us feel like
vomiting?
What was the case in 1874
when the social equality bill
was before Congress and was
defeated by only the most
strenuous endeavors of the
Democrat members?
A ad theu when the force bill
was defeated after a most
gallant fight last Congress,
and radicalism andnegroism
were ouee more disappointed,
did thet, too, "make us feel
like vomiting?" These are
questions which the people
will be apt to ask of the pro
gressive Farmer. News and
Observer.
OCTOHEK. 8. 1891.
Wrtk'i Prvgrvia.
The Manufacturers Record
of September says: .
"The getcral business and
financial condition of the
whole country continues to
improve, and the South must
necessarily share in this in
creasing prosperity. The t
normous exports of grain in
the last two months, to which
the usual fall shipments of
cotton will now be added,
have already turned the tid
of foreign trade this way, and
gold is now being imported
in large quantities, with pros
pects of heavy increase dur
ing the next few months.
There are already signs of
improvement in the iron and
the cotton good trade, while
the railroads of the country
are taxed to their utmost ca
pacity to handle their im
mense trn fie. The South has
commenced to feel the benefit
of this change from the de
pression of the last seven or
eight months which existed
all over the, world and a
mong the new industrial en
terprises reported in this
week's issue of the Manufac
turers' Record are the con
tract at $302,000 for the
po.ver house of the new cable
road in Washington; a $120,
000 granite qua rrying com
pany and a $75,000 brown
stone company in North Car
olina; a 1150,000 sugar re
finery company in Louisiana;
a $190,000 eotton compress
company in Greenville Miss.:
a $30,000 disstillery compa
ny in Kentucky; a $50,000
lumber company in Savan
nah; a $50,000 electric com
pany, Baltimore; a $100,
000 coal and coak company,
West Virginia; a $50,000 wa
ter works in Ora'ig City Fla.;
a $100,000 phosphate com
pany, Greenwood, S. C; a
$100,000 cotton seed-oil
mill company in Alexandria,
La.; a $100,000 phosphate
company in Florida; a $30,
000 land improvement com
pany in Macon: two $500,
000 improvement land com
panies in West Virginia; a
$25,000 improvement com
pany in Virginia; a $50,000
ice manufacturing establish
ment in Algiers, La., etc.
Southern manufacturing en
terprises have utood the
strain of monetary stringen
cy remarkably well, and the
furnaces, cotton mills and
other industries are all busy,
and most of them are ma
king good profits even now,
with an encouraging out
look for a season ot great
prosperity-ahead.
Exdtenipntlin Wall Street.
New York, Sept. 24.-Eight
hundred thousand shares of
stocks changed hands, and
bonds to the amount of mill
ions of dollars were trans
ferred amidst great excite
ment in the Stock Exchange
Wednesday. These transac
tions were the heaviest known
ior years.
But the fortunes at stake
made it seem to many who
knew what was going on a
scene of life and d?ath. Men
with flushed faces and husky
voices bid for thousands of
shares at a time, knowing
that h u n d r e d s dealing
NO. y.
through 'them would make
or break as they did.
A shout as of a thousand
demons rang through theex
change. The whole floor was
in a moving, swaying mass.
The brokers toro about tho
room, jostle.!, seized and
mauled one anotlr ?r.
I magi ne 500 starving wol v-
es in a pit tustling for a
shower of meat thrown to
them, and you may be able
to form a conception of the
scene in the Stock Exchange.
Each man seemed to strive
to out shout the others, and
there was much rough hand
ling in the groups aiound
the various posts, etch of
which bears an emblem show
ing what stock is dealt in
there.
To explain thispandimoni
um of speculation is to say
that the trading upon a na
tion's unexampled harvest
has simply run mad.
The market embodies a
speculative craze among the
people at large, and under
such conditions arguments
on the precedents which usu
ally regulate the movement
of prices is likely to be a mere
wnste of words. They seem to
have anchored their faith on
two great elements in the sit
uation the amazing good
fortune of this country injthe
harvest yield and the return
of our exported gold. How
far the craze will go is only
a matter of time and con
jecture.
BIlMllfl Banner.
Another week has rolled a
way and we are still on mer
cy's side of the coffin factory,
but as our office over looks
the cemetery we won't have
far to go when the town wants
a first-class funeral.
Parson will preach at the
church to-morrow, hitf sub
ject being "Xowis the time to
believe in me." All persons
in need of faith will please
call at this office.
Editor Harris, of the Brash
ville Bugle, called on us yes
terday. Please send us some
groceies, as we are complete
ly out.
We made $7 this week by
posing as the "living skele
ton" in a dime museum. Ev
erybody who saw us had the
dry gri.n.
It is a great thing to be a
Georgia alligator. He swal
lows a lightwood knot in the
winter and doesn't gt hun
gry 'till spring. A slow di
gestion is a blessing in dis
guise. We recently received $0 for
the poor widow who adver
tised in these column1. We
have goo the money, and wo
are prepared to marry the
widow ut sight.
A correspondent asks us
what Milton meant when ho
spoke of "Dorian moods and
soft recorders." We don't
know anything about "Dori
an mood?," but. Colonel Mil
ton doubtless shared ourdis
like for "soft recorders." If
our correspondent wants
lighVou the subjeetheshould
drop into the Bill ville Police
Court, and see how they
grind the justice mill. Like
nr any other mills it is oper
ated by a crank. '