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Tfi if" CFl H "n (TD4 VOL 1 r.OONi:, VATAl';A COl'NTY, X. (, THURSDAY, A1MUL. US , no. :j 4 . -O 7h rnot i:ssioAL. W. B. COUNCILE, .lit. Attoijx'-.y at Li .v. Boone, N. C. W. B. COl'NCILL, M. I). r.oon.', x. c. Resident Physician. Oilice ln King Street north of Post Otiice. li.F. LOV ILL Attokxkv At Law, Boone X. C. DR. L. ( REEYES. PHYSICIAN AN" I) SriHSEOX Office at Residence. Boone, N. C. L. I). LOWE, Attorney at Law -AX1H NOTAIIY PUllLW, baxxer's i:lk. x. c. J. (. WILBAR, DENTIST, ELK PARK, SOUTH CAltOUNA. Offers his professional services to tin! people ot Mitchell, Watauga Mini adjoining coun ties.PWo Lad inatvial used and all workiiiaravtoed.'&i May 1 1 y. ATTORNEY Al LAW, MAMOX, X.C Ho)- Will practice in the courts of Watauga. Ashe, Mildiell, McDow ell and all other comities in tin jvestern listrict Serial ntten thai given to the collection ol U EF. Maflrcp. DENTAL SIT.OKOX, foscoe. North ( andina. Offers his professional services to tin' people of this and adjoin inir coir ties. All wovK pronipl ly l.ino and satisfaction gnarnn teed. Oct, 27, 3 mo. XOTICK. Hotel Property foi Suit. On account of failing health of myself and wife, T offer for s.-de mv hotel propertv in the town of iJoone, North Carolina, and will sell low for cash mid make terms to suit the buyer, n;;l will take real o: personal property in ex change. J)pplyHoon W. L. DiiYAX. Notice. For sale. 900 acres of land, on Rich Mountain, Watauga County, on which is asbestos, nnd fine land forshecp ranch. Sales private. L. P. Lowe & T. T. Furgerson. Ex 'tis, of Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed Banner Elk, Nov. 1? '90.. NOT ICR Parties putting papers in my hand for execution vyill filease advance the lees with the papers and they will re ceive prom pt attention, other Wise they will be returned not executed for the want of fees. D. F. BAfftn Shff. Oodlr.,:.1 wcrk tor Kaad.T, jom my nuch. bl 'MchT q 7h" IDNII of iin. at tbr alar I. and bm u roa to on. H-i'h . 1 I off Pak-iVEJ' r work. fcrlhin) V TT klr EA6H.T, M KI'ILT lnl ,fcwiV J'-- K" 't. ! AS- FtftK. A !! ff BROWN'S IKON BITTERS Cures Dyspepsia, In digestion & Debility. YYASIILW.TOX LETTEil. From our Rofnlar CorrtspCadent. Tlie anti-Harrison lepuhli enn Senators nre well nifihat tin end of their wits. The trouble is that they ran find nonnetofisiht Harrison with. After the withdrawal of ''ul I)in some of ihi'in thought that Al-vr miht fill the bid, and he was pent for to talk he matter over. lie has be;n here seveml days, but hasn't made much progress; on the contrary he has e;ot to the end of his rope, ils ih has hhu told that after ma ture consideration it has been dei-ided that thelitt'.eepisoile concerning his war record had made him an iniprssibility, and that the best thing he could do would bo to with draw, This has almost bro ken Alyf r's heart, but he has promised to withiraw Ex O.ar Reed could have thesup port of the anti-Harrison men, if it were not for Mr. Blaine's opposition to him; it has been tendered to Me Kinley but he would not ac cept it. Secret conferences are being nightly held, but the indications are not favor able to theaiiti's, at least not from the outside. "Teddy" Koosovelt made a ten strike when that reso lution authorizing an inves tigation of the violations of the civil service law (charged bv him in a report made last vear to Mr. Harrison) by F. deral officials in Baltimore was introduced in the House. He has long been trying to find out whj Mr. Harrison pigeon-holed t h a t report. Tlie House Committed d n rules will le Mr. Harrison s.V why no aethfrt was ever taken on that rerort, and then, il the answer is not sat isfactory, the resolution for an investigation will be im ported to the House, and a dopted. Hon. Hujrh S. Thompson, the democratic Civil Servi -e Commissioner, has tendered his resignation to Mr. Harri son, to take effect May 1 5. Every atteirpt made by the House to give the (iov ernment more power over the national hanks, thus adding to their safely as deposito ries jf he jeople's money, has up to this time been 'hwarted by the Senate. The t.ill which wan passe J by the House a shott. time ago, pro hibiting t h e borrowing of money by officers of national banks, except by authority of a majority of the bank's directors, which every person familiar ivith theinsidehiso rieg of the big national bank failures ill acknowledge is a good idea, was promptly sad- tiled with an amendment in the Senate, which it w a s known that the House would not accept, authorizing the banks to increase their circu- Llationtothe full amount of bonds they have deposited in (he U. S. Treasury. Which body legislates lor the people and which for the corpora tion? The House and Senate fairly represent the parties which respectively control them. Sena t or Pa n iel , of Vi rgi n ia , his intro Im-ed an amend-' ineiit to th X ival appropri- j a t i o n bi'l, appropriating! :100,000 Tor the expense of the proposed interna timid l.nvil review, to be held i x l -Xew York harbor and in Hampt r Boad.- in April 1S- iJ.j, in honor ol the opening! of the Columbian Export ion at Chicago. The President is directed, as soon as theap propriation becomes a law, to invite Ton 'gn nations o participate in the icview. Somebody is doing some veiy wreckless swearing in the Pension Ollice investigation. Assistant Secretary Bussey flatly contradicttd a slate meat made by fire.-n B. K.-uuii Jr., and called uiou tluvom tnittiH? to jiiiige which of them haa lied. Secretary Foster undertook the very ditii-ult task of bol stering up an il'"gal act the spending of money received as head tax on immigrants for alleged improvements on Eilis Island with an opinion from the Attorney General, clearly made to order, and as might have been expected, he made a failure of tlie job, The alleged opinion is but a lawyer' a' plea; it justified the authorizing of the expendit ure by Assistant Secretary Nettleton on theground that the late Secrstary Windoin hud contemplated if he had not actually done, the same thing; -nd Congress is asked to accept this as a vindiea tionof Xe'.tletonbutit will not. do so. If Xtttleton has not resigned before the joint Im migration Committees con clude their investigation of this matter, it is believed that they will recommend his removal, a"d also thalofSu perintendent Owen. Mr. Harrison may find him self in a very awkward pre dicament, on account oF his very remarkable assumption of power in paying an idem nity of $21, 000 to Italy out of the State deportment con tingent fund, without con sulting Congress at all. This abuse of authority is abso lutely w ithout precedent, and Congressmen of both parties are at present inclined to ask awkward questions about it when the Consular and Diplo matic Appropriation bill gets before tne House. The House committee on rules has been trying to get up some satisfactory method of putting a stop tothepiint ing in the Reeor 1 of matter entirely foreign to the pro ceedings of the House, such as the en tire eon ten tsof books and pamphlets, which have been printed therein during the last week; but the matter is a very delicate one, involv ing privileges of which every member is jealous, and noth ing has been agreed upon. The common sense of the members will probably come to the rescue, and stop the abuse of a privilege which in itself is highly desirable. We asked J. C. Raj ,a good Republican and Allianeuiin, if he would vote the Third party ticket. He winked and said he would se about it He was a Republican firt. Press and Carolinian.- Lliiuiu jth Tr.fs of falifom!. j New i !u Journal. i The article on t h o ' I'.ig j Trees" of California, in your; MMie of April loth, copied I from the Sientiiie American, is true. Tie grove which the writer describes is in Calave ras county, and is know n as the Calaver.is (irove. When 1 visited it in lSot it was known as the Birnie (Jrore, so call I in honor of .lames Birnie. a nutive of this coun ty, who discovered them in 1S."8 while in command of a party of ioldierschasing ma rauding Indians, T h ac count in the Sientifk Ameri can is within the truth, the writer does not exaggerate. They are wonderful. There is one fallen tree in the grove the one, I suppose, he called the "Prostrate," which he states is the largest, but does not give the dimensions; fop the benefit of your readers I will give the dimensions as given tame by Mr. William Lampham, the pioprietorof the Mammoth drove Hotel. He told me that tne tree was forty-two feet in diame ter at the butt, ten feet in di ameter 3.r0 feet, from the roots, the ruins the ruins of the remainder (A the tree can be traced 100 feet further ma king the tree 450 long. There were 90 more trees in ihe grove when I was there, nnd none of them less than 235 feet hgh. The most symmet rical tree in the grove was then known as the Hercules, and wa2n ft high. The age of the , ce cut down by Mr. Ilar.ford is estimatec. to be 3,000 years old, a pretty correct estimate, if the rings indicate the age; the rings are very fine. I counted them in a given number of inc'ies, and then measured the diam eter of the st '.imp. Counting each ring as one year, 1 made I made the age to be over 2,000 years. I never shall forget the wild sensations I first experienced as I stood at the bns."' of these noble, ma jestic witnesses of countless generations ot men, and turn ed and gazed into the tops of trees that werestanding when t he foiluda t ions of Solomon's Tun pie were being laid; were venerable Patriarchs of the forest, when onrSn vionr t rod the hills and plains of Pales tine. They werenncient trees when Richard, of England, led his mail clad warriors in tcthe Holy Land; nnd unless the ruthless hand of man de stroys them, they will be as great u curiosity to our de scendants a thousand years hence, as they are at the present day. Governor Holt has ofierad a reward of ?300 for the un known white man, a horse thief, who murdered U. S. Deputy Marshal Julius D Miller in Wilkes county, near the Cakhvell line. The mur derer has never been captur ed though hundreds of ineil scoured the mountains in search of him. It is thought by many tha t he is Jim James a noted robber of the Duck ('reek section, of Alexander county. He his tw o or three aliases, one being Mitchell. Press and Carolinian. Ihst;n of Ihe Pood. Lvksox, Mis., 15. Yester-j day's report, from the flood j stricken regiousconfirined nil ; heretofore said, and ns the wafers in the Tombigbeeand i its tributaries re-ede the de-1 struct ion is more fully real-J ized. Deputy Sheriff Lrock-j ers, of Lee county, was here and informed your corres-j pondent th ith' was a pas senger on theliit Mobileand Ohio train that crossed the Toinbigbee river in 8 days. At that point half a mile oj track had been washed out and carried a mile, whre it lodged against trees. Capt. Crockers says the published reports do not give half an idea of the wreck and ruin to be seen in Loundes, Clay and Monroe counties. Houses, fences and bridges are all gone. Thousands of dead horses, mules, cattle, hogs, she?p, poultry, and the body of a negro, occasionly.can be seen in every direction. War rior river in Alabama, just across the line, rose47 feet in four hours. He lelates many incidents of personal suffering among the negro'Js with whom these bottoms were thickly settled, nnd upon whom themad tor rents descended with terrible fury, wiping homes and fam ilies out of existence. The city of Columbia is feeding five hundred refugees, but telegraplis Governor Stone that they doubt the wisdom of asking Government aid, though they would hke a few hundred tents for shelter. The water is falling in the Yazoo and big Black rivers in the western portion of the State and the danger of immediate seri jus overflow is about o ver, and trains ere running. A fearful rain storm prevail ed Wednesday night. The weather yesterday was clear and bright and doubtless the worst is over. Spanning theMississippi at Memphis is one of the great works of the year. The bridge will be ready for trains by May 12th, on which day Sen ator Yoorhees,the "Tall Syc amore of the Wabash," ashe used to be called, will deliver the address upon its comple tion. With its approaches the Structure is three miles long, the 'main bridge itself peing three-fourths of a mile. That part of it is con posed of five spans, one of them be ing 791 feet long. Xine thou sand tons of iron were used in. making it, and the cost will foot up three million dol lars. The effect will betoadd greatly to the importance of Memphis, where all the rail roads below St. Louis will now seek connections. News and Observer. John Soss.mon,a Charlotte darkey, went into a trance. He was taken fordead, wash ed, dressed, and placed in his coffin. He knew all these do ing were going on about him, but was powerless to speak or move. When they were just about ready to nail the lid on, a hungry notion struck the fellow and he raised up calling for some beef and cot'-, fee. The News says if his ap petite hadn't got the belter of him he might have been buried alive and nothingever known of it. The Sitmtiou and t!if luj it bin !! With cotton selling lovvei than last year, and the Mc Kinley tariff oppressing the Southern planters as they have never bc n burdened with taxation before since the war, they are too ready to listen to (he talk of wild theorizers who devised all sorts ,f fantastic schemes for government relief. They lose sight of the fact that their only hope for relief is to re main in the Democratic par ty and elect a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress pledged to the abo lition of the tariff law which lays its heavy hand upon the products of their fields ti fill the pockets of the protected manufacturers. If the Third party did no worsethanelect its own men to Congress it would still be able to offer no good reasons for Democrats leaving their old party to swell its ranks. But the great er danger lies in th:i fact that it may so divide the Demo cratic vote as to make it pos sible for tha Republicans to carry many districts they could not otherwise control and they may even, by di viding the vote for presiden tial electors, give one or two Southern States over to the Republicans in the presiden tial election, thus insuring the re-election of President Harrison. If the people of the South, by wasting their ballots on Third party can didates, give the presidency and Congress ovPT into the nands of the Republicans, the inevitable result will be the passage of the force bill and d.sappeurance of all chance for lightening the burdens of the tariff for at least four years m o re. Washington dispatch to the Baltimore A H.g- Itiiid i:i WilUs. Now nnd Ohserver. New:? was received heieros terday of one of t!r biggest, raid ' of the season by reven ue officer in V'i!kns county. A man was running a gov ernment distillery and was also doing an extensive illicit business about t.vvolve miles from Wilkesboro. He had been at it a long time and had over 4,000 gallons of brandies and whiskies in store Some of it was thiee or four years old. A neighbor got maid at him and exposed him and t he r e v e n a e nfficers swooped down and .-arried off everything, even the dis tiller's live stock, lr too': thirty-five teams to carry tio liquor to Wilkesboro. ai: I it said to have been one of the biggest sights ever wttiie-s 'd in that section. Another raii was made about the ai te time and there is now ah it 0,000 gallons of moonshine' liquor stored at Wilkesboro. Wilmington M"ssenger: In digging the foundations for the new parish house on the east side of St. James Epis copal church, the workmen unearthed the remains of a bout 20 persons who had been buried in the church yard many years ago. One of the remains unearthed had been in the tomb since 1750, according to the date on the tombstone, but strange to say, the hair on the head was in a perfect state of pre servation. It was cut short and was no doubt that of man's.
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