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Wats VOL IIOOXK. WATAUGA COUNTY, N. , THURSDAY, JANUA11Y, 14. 1H!)2. NO. o ITJtWXSIOXAL. w. b. cor mill, Jr. Attorney at La v. Boone, N. C. W. B. (OL'NCILL, M. P. Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. OIHh on King Street north of Post Office. K.F. LOVILL Attorney At Law, Boone N. C. 1)11. L. C. REKVES. Physician and Sirc.eon Office at Residence. Boone, N. C. L. D. LOWE, Attorney at Law -AND- XOTAHY rUHLIC, BANNERS ELK. N. C. J. (. W1LHAR DENTIST, V.I.K PARK, SOUTH CAROLINA. Often his professional nervier to the people ot .MiTcneii Wiitniia iiiui nilioiiiiiiir conn ties.fWAb Lad niateial used a nd a work a ua ra n tced."& May uy J, V. 11QBPDBW, ATT0RXEYA1 LAW, MARION. N.C -(o)- Will practice in the courts ot Wntmifrii.Aslii', Mitchell, McPow 11 ami nil other courties in the Aestei n listrict Kiteeial ntten tion given to the collection of claims." Ed M. Madron, DKSTAL SURGEON, loscoe, Xorth Carolina. Offers his professional services to the people of this and adjoin ing counties. All work promptly .lone and satisfaction guaran teed, Oct, 27, 3 mo. NOTICE. Hotel Property for Sale. On account of failing health of myself and wife, 1 oifer for sale my hotel proertv in the town ot Boone, North Carolina, and will sell low for cash and make terms to suit the buyer, and will take real or personal property in ex change. Apply soon. W. L. Bryan. Xotice. For sale. 900 acres djf land, on Rich Mountain, Watauga County, on whiehisasl08tos, and fine land for sheep ranch. Sales private. L. D. Lowe & J. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed. Banner Elk, Nov. It; '90.. Money to loan. Persons wishing to bor 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, Ilorton N. C. 4. 24. NO 1 ICE. Parties putting papers in my hand for execution will pi ei se a d va nee t he fees with the pajiers and they will re ceive prompt attention, other wise they will be returned not executed for the want of fees. D. F. Baird Shff. WASHINGTON LITTER From anr Regular Correspondent SjK-aker Crisp has foil n .1 a hard taskmaster in the grip which hn hld fast to hmiev cr sincv the dny of the recess adjournment, that it is not probable that he will be well enough to preside over the House when it reassembles tomorrow. In that case the Houe is not expected to transact any further business than the election of a Speak er pro tetn. nnd thendoption of a resolution authorizing the employment of clerks to the various committees. This programme may how ever be added to, i Mr. Har rison shall send in thefhilian correspondence nnd his spe cial message, as it has been semiofficially announced that he would do this week. If the correspondence nnd the mcs-age shall prove to bft as important as the public have been led to believe, the House will probably take it up at onco to the temporary exclu sion of all other business. In this connection it may be well to give the views of Represi.n tativeMcCreary.of Ken , who has long been justly regarded as one of the clearest-headed democratic members of the House committee on Foreign Affairs. He says: "I still think that the Chilians wi not want to go to war with us. I believe they will make proper reparation for the af front that has been given us. They have nothing to gain from such an unequal con test. Peru would be only too willing to give the United States permission to land troops on her soil nnd estab lish store houses there. We could land one hundred thou sand troops, and such a step being once taken, there would be no halt until our forces had marched through the whole country. The intelli gent Chilians must appreci ate this danger, if they com pel hostilities, and upon the assumption that they do. I believe that they w ill not per mit war. Soon after Congress reconvenes the President will send the correspondence to the two houses and then we can consider the situation with a better understanding. I am sure that th course of the United States will be dig nified, firm and courageous. Whatever the result, I do not think we can be charged with having rushed into war, or that we shall suffer any loss of dignity.1' The last sen tence is significant, as there are reasons for the belief that Representative McCrearyhas already read the correspond dence. Were it notforthe fact that Frank Hatton has been known to bear a bitter per sonal grudge against Mr. Blaine ever since just before the meeting of the republican national convention in 1880,1 us rather plain intimations in the Washington Post, that Mr. Blaine had, by reason of a business deal with ex-May or Grace, of New York, who has large business interests in Chili, determined to pre vent war between the two countries, even if it becomes necessary to back down to do it, would have neat-! a sensation. As it is they have only rnis-d n smih1, a:.d re called the nla;ce "(Jive a dog a bad name, etc." Although nothing definite is known on tin- subject it see:n to be the opinion of the majority of democrats that the committee on Rules of the House will not recom mend the restoration of all the appropriation bills to the Committee or Appri pria t ions, as t hey were some yea r ago, and re Representatives Holman, Savers, Dockery and other championsof econ omy wish them to be again. It is possible that the com mittee may conclude to get the views of a democratic caucus before acting on this very important matter. Representative Springer has prepared the first ot the series of tariff bills with which it is proposed t' assault the present class-favoring law. and it will be submitted to the Ways and Means Com mittee in n few days, proba bly this week. It will put wool on the free list, and place carpets on about th;? basis proposed", by the Mills bill. Ex-Representati ye Perkins, of Kansas, who is to attempt to fill the vacant chair of the late Senator Plumb, by right of a gubernatorial appoint ment, did not make a repu tation to be very proud of during the four sessions he served as a member of the House. As a statesman he was a bad misfit, but as a blind, bitter partisan, look ing slight of everything but the momentary success of his party, he was a howling suc cess. His career in the Sen ate will probably be but a repetition -of that in the House. The amo'int of sugar boun ty so paid, under the McKin ley tarif law, is nearly one million dollars; to be exact, $962, 930. Although the administra tion estimate for the pay ment ot pensions for tne fis cal year beginning July 2st, 1892, is only mark the on ly 144,000.000, those who have devoted much study to the subject predict that it will require ot least, $20,000, 000 more. TheU. S. Supreme Court has reversed deci.si .m of the Nebraska State Court, and decided that Gov. Boyd is the legal governor of that State. DOTS. Money is the creation of law. The privileged classes must go. Republicanism leads the people to poverty, poverty to crime, nine to perdition. If the People's party are calam ity howlers, the Republican par ty are calamity creators. The prosperity yawpera are trembling at t h e ever-onward march of the cala mity howlers. If it had not been tor silver monoy the contraction in two years must have been $47,740,- 36. instead of the claimed ex pansion of $130,218, 109, or a difference of $177,958,296. We give the Republicans to un derstand that we will howl till the last privileged thief is driven into his den or hung up by the neck. Ex. Lit Jka A. Morrill KUliknw Cook f WaUnga Catjl Editor Democrat: In 1831 there were two fa m ilies of Cookn living in Ashe county, N. C. Michael Cook lived near the lop of the Bine Ridge. Peter Cook, father of Ambrose and Samuel, lived n short distance eastoMordan Councill'sstore. Ambrose was n married man. I was living at my father's in Burke county, N. C, at that time. I owned a horse and wagon. A strange man came to me one day and told me his name was Ambrose Cook; that he lived near Jor dan Councill's store in Ashe Co., nnd that he had a broth er driving a stage at Swann noah Gap; that th?y had re ceived a letter saying he had been thrown from the stagp and his skull fractured nnd wanted me to go with him nf ter him. I agreed to take my wagon, work his horse nnd go. It was now near night, but he insisted onstartingat once, which we did. Aftergo ing about 1 miles, going down n slant, his mare began to kick. I refused to go fur ther with the kicking mare but agreed to go back and get my horse and work him. When I started he handed me his pocketUook saying: 'there is my pocket book with $ 75 in it, go get your horse nnd lake your money out of it." When I got home I opened his pocket book and found 75 cts. in it. When I got back to the wagon he was lying in it fast asleep. We went on 6 or 8 miles nad stayed over th night. Next morning, (Saturday) we met u man who said that he had seen Cook's brother only a few days ago, and that he was all right. On Sunday mor ning he got. a mule of the man we stayed with and went to see his brother "and came back in the evening nnd had a five-dollar bill, he said he got of his brother to pay me and our expenses. On Mon day morning we started home He got after me to buy his mare, saddle, bridle blanket and umbrella, all new, and a thousand pounds of bacon which he claimed to have at his father's. He proposed to take $100 for them all. I had a brass cased watch which cost me f 18, an excel lent time keeper, a fine gold r-hain which cost me $ 12. I proposed td take his proper ty at $100. if he would take the watch and chain for $30, a bear skin, I used for a sad dle cover, fit $3.50, my note on six months time for $30; allow me $4 for my wages, making in all $67.60, and the balance of $32.50 in weaver's sleys on our return home. To this he agreed and gave me an order to his father in Ashe county lor 1000 lbs. of bacon. I went home and then went to his fathers and found him as he had said, living near Jordan Councill's store, in Ashe Co., but there was no bacon there, for me. His father excused; his con duct toward me by telling me of a misfortune his eon had met with. He said, he was crossing the river in a canoe, had a gun in his hand and sat it down in the canoe d ml in doing ho the Jm-k struck the edge of the canoe, caus ing the gun to fire. The tall struck him at the pyebi-nws and cut to the top of Li fore head, making n bad sen rand fructuring his skull so that he had crazy sjk'IIs ever lif ter. He also told me that he had been inn fried but that lie and his wife did not live to gether. His father also tol l me they had received no let ter stating that his brother had got hurt, nor did behave the money heclaimed t;have in his pocket. I went bar k home and started in pursuit of him. Ontheh?ad of Hie Catawba River I found a man who hnd the $30 note I had given Cook. He said he gave Cook $20 for it. and he a- grced, in fas much as Cook had sw indled me. to let me have the n jte for whuth cost him, which I paid. John A. Murrill mistaking one Crenshaw foi a friend and clansman, told him about meeting with a well-dressed man w hom he asked if he had heard of any robbers in the country. The man said'not and that he would not like to meet with them, for, said he, "I havo the money with me that a large number of ne groes sold for." Murrill thought tli is a nice prize nnd travelling on with him, told him there was a g.iod soring a little off the road to which he induced him to go with him for water. When the man lay down to drink Murrill shot him in the head and kill ed him, and in searching him found $1.50 in cash, a tbrass watch with a gold chain. The description of the man; the time; the watch and chain fill ing the description of the one I let Cook have only a short time before, together with the fact that he claimed to have what he did not have, satis fied me that it was none oth er than Ambrose Cook from whom I bought the bacon, that John A. Murrill killed at the spring. Henry Spainhour, Lowell, Ky. In Aged Coiipta Murdered. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 4. A Griffin Special to the Consti tution reports a double mur d e r from that place last night. An aged couple, Dr Barrett nnd wife, lived at the old homestead. The Doctor's grand son went to see them last night. He found his grand father dead and his grandmother dying, but un conscious and unable to tell the story of the crime. Their skulls were horribly crushed in. A bloody coupling pin was found oh the floor, in dicating thatthecrimemight have been committed by a railroad man. Up to a late hour to-night no clue to tke murderer has been obtained. Thesupposi tion was, that the oldjcouple had money, as they lived comfortably, but in reality they had none and were sup ported by their grand son in Atlanta. Robbery is the on ly probable motive. 8"The Democrat twelve months for one dcllar. Cor NT Y EXHIBIT. Continued from last wivk. Whol A half ter. w it n.vrd .4 25 ;oenTodd ' ' '08 52 I. II Hodgi'S ;Jh() w I' itlackburn ' ' 41)0 WMHiiry 5.I0 lr niiigham 1.05 J 11 williams 1 4 2 40 i v sherrill ' ' 4 4 2 40 J w rhipps 4 00 sol vonnce 4 4 4 10 70 j w Stephens 44 5 40 J ti pierce 4 4 4 4 1 1 00 J F Eller 4 4 4 4 2 50 nave i:!Ier 4 N w itoark 4 J M Hyatt 4 J u Thomas 4 j uobinson 4 joe n Todd 4 w c New la ud 4 shff of Ashe 4 J A Jones 4 J H Gii.yn 4 J Ij nay cm shff M church 4 Allen (i rec 11 4 A o l Harbin 4 shff d v naird 4 5 10 4 170 4 145 4 125 4 1 30 '40 46 4 8 15 4 45 75 4 30 4 2 55 4 1 65 4 21)5 4 4 75 4 3 45 Miscella neous. John south guard duty 1 15 Henry Main 4 4 1 15 it A Thomas 4 4 1 15 u A Dobbin reg vot ,90 2 40 sjHendrix 4 4 2 22 joe n Todd 4 elec ret ' 5 15 N N colvnrd jail fees 9 48 F.rvin oreen steel & drill 5 23 c s Farthing blast mat 10 15 CD Taylor 4 4 8 90 w w Pi esnell quilts for ph 750 J E Fin ley chin nd co corns 21 15 J h Mast mem 44 ' 16 80 w w presnell 4 4 4 15 60 m n nl ark burn elk' 4 31 28 coffey nros powder &fuse 7.5 N N colvnrd jail fees 9 48 J L Hayes shff sum reg and judges Nov elec 1890 51.05 J 11 (Jieer d s con s Gilbert pauper to wilkes co. 5 05 n N col va rd jail fees 4 1 5 r c Rivers pub co ex 16 43 R i, council! rep jail roof 10 15 nr council tned aid to poor and prisoners 9 65 j a Non is reg vonoe'90465 t L Dnv 4 4 4 4 4 3 36 j N idol 4 4 4 4 4 23 jonus winebarger Jur on in quest sylvanus church 2 15 J winebarger 4 4 ' 4 215 N winebarger 4 4 4 4 2 15 J L Moretz 4 4 4 4 2 75 wm Miller 4 4 4 j M M-irets 4 4 4 2 15 515 Dr tiorto.i postmortExlOlS j h urown cor on inq. 12 95 A iiagaraan com on Fi 4 15 shff Hayes conveying smith to Asylum 1515 w b conncill Atty forco50 15 Lowe & Dugger j p's cost in a woods case 2 35 shff nayes fees 4 4 4 6 75 s Marshal wit 4 4 4 65 Feriby wood 4 4 4 65 Laura painter 4 4 4 65 T E nrotherton 444 65 lou wright 4 ' 4 65 James potts 4 4 4 65 a E Norman ju on inquest w right case 115 R L Lowe 4 4 4 4 4 1 15 J E Brotheron 4 4 4 4 1 15 EC Moody 4 4 4 4 4 1 15 J c potts 4 4 4 4 4 1 15 Thos profit 4 4 4 4 4 1 15 J J Glenn refunding tax 14 18 N N colard jail fees 38 35 R c Rivers pub notice 2 15 j L sanders guard duty 6 90 wm Austin 4 4 4 65 j d councill 4 4 9 90 g a nrvan 4 4 3 15 H c Stafford 4 4 6 15 n n colvard 4 4 9 15 R c Rivers 4 4 8 40 r L councill ' 4 1 00 M B Blackburn4 4 3 90 r a Thomas 4 4 3 15 s F Lenoir shoes an blankets for prisoners 4 25. D F Baird conveying pauper to states ville 22 95. B F Baird convey ing Larkin Ray to asy 31 65 J l Mast Reg vo no e '91 855 r Farthing 4 4 4 4 4 5 34 s n Banner 4 4 4 4 4 3 78 wd dark 4 4 4 4 4 3 15 or councill med aid to p 9 15 Dr Reeves 4 4 4 4 8 15 Continued on second page.
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