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vol t PRO' l.y.siONAL. HOOXK, WATAl'(i A COUNTY, X. ('. niriiSHAY, .ILLY. Ln!H . NO. W. P..C0FXC1LL, .Ik. Attornky at Lay. Hm ne, X. C. W. lUUl'XCILL. M. D. l'xioiu', x. c. Resident .Physician. Office on King Street north of Post .Otlice. e. r. lovill Attorney At Law, P.OOlK' X. C. DR. 1.. C. REEVES. PHYSICIAN AM) SrROEON Office at Residence. Roone, X. C. L. 1). LOWE, Attorney at Law AND . notary punur, IJAXXKR'S KLK, X. C. J. (. WIUIAB, DENTIST, Kl.K PARK, XOKTIl CAROLINA. . (alershis professional services to Hit; people ot Mitchell, Watauga, iiimI adjoining coun cs.lW'ok:i vvitehil uscl ;inI all Yorkiwirn7it'vLX May 1 1 y. , ATTORNEY A7 LAW, . .lAUIOX, '.---,--,- ---X.0 . '-lo')- Will practice in 1 1m courts ol Wntniiii'ii. Ashe, Mitchell, McDow ell rind nil other coneties in tin1 j.vesloni district SiirSpecinl attn ion given to the collection of claims.! EdM.Kaiircn, r ' o.sroe. No it h ( a mlin.i . : Offers liis professional services lo tlie people of this and adjoin Tug counties. All work .ironiplly l(7no and satisfaction guaran teed. Oct, 27, mo. NOTICK. Hotel Property for Siie. " On account of failing health of myself nnd w ife, I oiTer for sale my lintel property in the town ot Boone. North Carolina, and will ell low for cnsh and make terms ,o suit the buyer, and M ill take real or personal property in ex change Apply soon. W. L. Hryan. Notice. , For sale. 000 acres of land, -ii Rich Mountain, Watauga County, on which is asbestos, nnd lino lnnd for sheep ranch. Sales private. L. D. Lowe & L T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed. . Ranner Elk, Nov. IP '90.. NOIRE. . Parties .putting; papers in Vny haml-for execution will pleTse nrfvnnce the fees with the papers and It hey will re ceive pro l n p t a t ten t ion , other wise they will be returned not executed for the want of fees. I). F. Raikd Stiff. . NOTICE. j The laws of the State re quire all weights and meas ure to he sealed, and I here by notify the people that I am prepared todosueh work. Von will find me in Booie'at the resideuce of I). P. Dough erty, J. IL Cook, ' Standard Keeper. WAsinxcTox letter. From our F.gular Correiponflcnl. Mr. Hairisoii is fimiingoiit that the candidate who at tempts to run' his campaign according t( bis own will, without regard to the opin ion of all the men who have been regmded as party lend ers. and to make every one else connect with the Mm paijrn hut humhle airents to carry out Ins orders without nskinjr questions or making sutrueptions is a hiir contract. The hrainey men who ro in to politics wili not consent to iMH'onie any man s lacueys. That is why Mr. Harrison had so much trouble in jret tinjr a "haitman for tlie re publican Xational committee anil finally lu'd to take Car ter, who was almost entirely unknown outsideof Montana previous to the Minneapolis convention, and was proba bly willing to accept Mi. Har rison's conditions- A goodly , crowd of -democratic Senators and Repre sentatives will go over to Xew York to be present at the I ig demonstration which is to accompany the formal notifying of ClevVahd and Stevetuloh of their nomina tion. Col. Oati p, chairman of the House committee which went to Homestead to investigate the labor trouble at the Car- IK gie works, says the eoai mittee Will make a'repoijtthe latter part of this week pf their visit to Homestead.- It is not positively known what he nature o that report will be, but it is believed that t hp committee, will t a k o t h e ground that, the strjko of Carnegie's m?;i ir. .not a niat icr for "t'oriv essionnl inter feremV a .id that it will ask for authority to eontinnethe investigation of the I'inker ton detective syKteiT! (hiring the recess. ;-.-,, The report. .of the i'en.;ioii Onice T!vestigation reconi - mending liaum's dismissal, will be taken up in the House' this week, and ;f jV .quorum of -lemcicrats can be kefiton the tioorit will be approved by the House. Those who saw the pur chase of a Kite for A new Gov ernment Printing Office post poned by the Fifty-first Con gress through the .machina tions of that, very e.x pert lob byist, ex-Senator Ma hone, of Virginia, because thft, com mittee on flip selection of a site would not npproye a piece of ground owned by him, and entirely unsuited for the purpose, were some what surpiised . to 'see the same tacticy succeed in ac complishing another post ponement for the same rea son; and still nivre surprised to such prominent democrat ic Senators as Vest, of Mis souri, Rutler, of South Caro lina , Rlackburn, of Kentucky acting in Mahone's interest and getting the creditfo hav ing their .votes controlled by him. Senator Camertn, of Pennsylvania, has been from the, first o n e ol Mahone's most active agents on the floor of the Senate,, but that 'surprised no body, as he is X'MU'trill v credited wit'i Vep-; iugliisw.it in the Senate for lit oilier jMi! post tli;in to, look after legislation nfWt-! ing interests principally Washiiigton real st-itr- in J which lie has li.oney inves t- el. Public opinir.n has r.s t V . graphed, the genuine ai k ' . ...... oiiiofthe corrupt bargains by which John ('. Xew, t cured the noinmatioii of Mi. !of the story for publi'it ion. dow-like turrets 01 piotru Ilarrison a t Minneapolis 'said he, '.inn I nev.-r tild it sons on top of it and one or Th-nomination ofthciiegio.jto anybody, except to a few -more at the sides. A roof Wiiliam D. Crum, to be post-jieoil. in India:;' had evidently rounded and master at Charleston, South) "I will tell vou whv 1 did jcovi red it. but the snow had Carolina, which he practical-j lv admitted t() the Senate postoih'ce committee was giv en hiin as the price of his vote for the nomination of Mr. Harrison, has been with drawn, because republican ui'-aibers of that committee told Mr. Harrison Ihat aftcr'tnre to vnify what I havejtop. v rum's statement and thofC'seen. of other and more reputable witnesses they would n o t vote forhisconlii nation. 'I I. e South Carolina delegation in Congress did goo l work in bringing out the facts in this disgraceful barti r and saleof such :m important Federal oiice,':nid not a few republi can Senator:.v were glad of the exposure, although they did not can.' to make it them selves. Representative Raiiey, ol Texas, bus been looking up pfrwdents concerning t h e drawing of salary for the time they .are absent by mem beis of Congress, lie says that previous to the war the law providing for a deduc tion of pay when members were absent from any other cause t h a n sickness was jBtrictly enforced, and he docs not understand-w hy it should constantly violated now. lie says one member has drawn 7,Ono in sa'ary ."hud been present jr.rt three days, and lie thinks that too high u rate of pay for any Congress man. Oii'y three appropriation i , . . 1 1. ... 1 . . t" his now remain 10 oe iiuau.v acted upon, and unless the numerous and costly Senate amendments to the sundry civil bill shall bring aoout a dead lock, Congress will ad jjurn within two weeks. . If this bill were disposedof.it night easily adjourn this week. Sera tor Harris, of Tennes see, usually the mildest of men, lost his temper Satur day and called Men a tor San ders, of Montana, a blank scoundrel, because of an ob structive amendment thelat ter offered to a local bill w hich was in charge of the former. Later there was an apology aiid the had language will not appear in the record. . ., , A republican Senator who went to see Mr. Harrison in the interest of one of hiscon stituents w ho he t hi. '.ks ought to have that vacancy on the Supreme Court,. told a friend that he was. satisfied that it was Mi:. 'Harrison's intention to-lcep tlie place open until after the election and then to give it to Attorney-Geneinl Miller. Cha rlotte Obnei ver. This has been a campaign thus far of by by talk, mostly, but nothing has been heard, as yet, 01 the People's jwtrty ba by, or the Prohibition baby; Ten to one that Weaver's is a rag baby and that bid well's is being tviised on the bottle l.iNMVlltEl XOAES A1!V. Al.ml IVI l Cl'm to Havo S-?-: tin Original llii;-lliat un Mount An i i a I. S.ni Ciami. o Cxainiinr. I Jr. .luhn .Jus.-ph Xuri. a ri st ! the tli.i k Chin h. claims to have M-.MI and oho-1 of Xoah. X ever fore have not announce it before. It is j because some M-opleT tc.Jd it j thtv. -fo.r.rt hs of it was cover to laughed and wmld 110; hc.ed r::a filled with snow. Tlie lieveit. Therefore, I said, I sun was shining with peat will not toil it unless tliey ask I briliiai.i y. It was real! y me, but when they do, I will 1 warm, almost hot in its rays, tell the entire story. Mean- Rchnv the snow was un iting, time. 1 will trust to the fii-jyet a cold wind Litw on the 'Vlt was on April Lo, at a-j bo;:t y o'clock in the noon, that I finally saw the ark upon the mountain. "There were, with me a Ka hraman, Augt tine, Ahann 1, Assyrian Christians, jn e n of the desert and Mohamadans, owners of the horses and don keys, or ma:;t rs and guidf s of the cavalry. "We had journeyed slowly and with great effort up the side of the lofty cone, which reached to u height of about iS.OOOfeer. "We had previously attemp ted the ascension of both this and the other peak, it was in March and we went below to the foothillsaud remained lor another month. THE TOILSOMK JOl'It.NEY. '"On this occasion much of the .'.now on the lower part of tlie mountain had melted and ws trickling down. As we go'l above this and o n t h e great layers of snow, ive toil ed mainly wit.h alpenstocks of exceed i ugly hard andlieavy wofxl from Kurdittan, m the boundary between Turkey and Persia. "I had got ahead and was making my way peisistently as possible, my face being to ward the north east. I had reached a height of probably 10,000 feet." Some of my companions had left, .me at about 15,000 feet, and I went' oil entirely alone from the point of 1 6,000 feet, "1 advanced about 1,000 feet more. anl I had then be tween me fknd the very top the place of the ark .ie.irly anothei thousand fi . r. "W:ien I reach.'.! the! -;-;!, t of 17.000 feet I observe.' . with the naked eye, after great deal of very Care!';':! looking, that there wnssom. peculiar colors among t h,e general whitj color of all the mountains covered b v t h v snow and in the midst of the top of the. mountain. ; . , "When 1 looked lwa.;moje encouraged and began to use the glasses. After ad vancing between 200 and oOO feet. on the snow and seeing in o. 1;: clearly the dark or reddish color, but without special shape, 1, moved .north east and around v the tnquntain, walking in Mie siiow and us ing tlie field glass. ,- ATTEAU ANCK OF THE ARK. "I began to see the pecu liar color assume shape it i,;l siaq ly iMi'iicohir lu fore I saw t!.e si. apt'. It was that, of a givat -tlie a.rk.jof the Fnitcd Statts is the. The rear end, c ue most ; cxpo.-d fioni tl.e Micw, was in view Cist, (ioii.g aiornd j I sa w it all. i 'I kidw it w.iv. ovrr three) hiiadi-'d fi-t. hnijr, and i t j .i. - .i stood up fully one iiua. Ire i. etjplov,., to translate the Rible I told.hih. There WeieMMlie crushed much of it in, a 11 I "It was not, however.swir- hag the snow, and theref ire after-'everytj.mg was as clear and unobstructed asit is possible to imagine it. "I was almost: overcome. The sight of t he ark, thus ver I if,-t v. r. 1, . ,f 1 1..1 i.i-ii ii, in iL. 11 hi 11 M in.. 1 . 1 j ' tares in which I had before, no doubt, but which for the sake of those who did not be lieve, I was glad, filled m e with gratitude. GI?ATtTt;i)l-: FOR TflE SH.IIT. "I , was transported a n d triumphant in feeling, a n d thanked (Jod for His graces, and for tho proved truth ot His Holy V Vrd. "The top cf the ark that still remained, was covered with a cap from five to ten feet of snow, but in. other pi a cis, where the top had fallen in, I judge the snow is from thirty to fifty feet deep. "I we r. t clear around and came back again, and looked at tlie rear, or stern, critical ly, at length and with care Not a cloud, nor a rift of ev-1 en fleecy snow obstructed the view. I t was all as clear and plain as the clearest sunlight could make it;. "Some of the roox.sor tur rets of the ark Were broken halfway by the snow and protruded over. I paused for quite a time, contemplating' with gratitude and awe the' discovery. I ha 1 made the complete circuit of the dome, and had, with the utmost care noted the great vessel from many different points. SFKX PV tilS COMPANIONS. "I thoroughly assured my self, gazing long and repeat edly ot different parts of the great: craft that once for for- i ty days and forty nights had j on board of it every living and cieeping animal and in- ; mi the world. I "At length I ralled the at- j Nation of my .companions, who had been 111 the' rear, to it and they examined it criti cally, and all admitted that they saw the vessel, the ver itable ark of Xoah, and were thankful to the Almighty for enabling us to see it. , . "All of lis were in the per fect and complete possession of ah our faculties. Nothing in my life, or in their lives, was plainer in all our expere rience." Archdeacon Xouri will re main in Sanfrancisco a few days before journeying eastward. iH-r.il Ji-w. '1 he exact physical centre stone at Fort Rilev. Kaiisc!, which marks the grave of Major Ogilen, who d!cd of h.olera in T 8."". ' 7 o( ,.,1 (): i,,Il(l,)M Eni'laud .has 1 S persons f m- - 1 win-!ilt() p t.Il.r,,!,lrflftl,pPom. mon people. ri - There is a factory in Chica go which makes shoes for the dead, almost always white for women and children, rr.d Lj.,, f, or nu n. H. W. C rosby died recently in his 78th year at Jones 'airgh. . -I. He is to be re membered as the inventor of fruit canning. W. F. Harrity. of Pennsyl vania, has been chosen chair man of the national demo cratic campaign committee. Mike Easter, of Davie Co., aged 70 years, wasretui uing home with a load of still slops, one barrel of which roll don the horses causing thein to run away, throwing the old man out and instant ly killing him. The latest snake story comes from Rome, (Ja. A snake was sen lying in the road asleep. A man passing stuck his umbrella in it and it flew away without-stretched wings like a goose. It is told of a man down in Rockingham that he gave a 12.500 mortgage on his farm and listed it at f'WO lor tax es. The report is abroad that the 3 C R. R. has been sold, and work will begin August 1st on the line between Mari on and Johnson City. "Character is what a man is when he thinks nobody is watching him. ' A boy -was drowned, near Springfield. Dl..-:re(e,nUy,and searchers found' his body u: l he following manner: They tied a 1 rjf of rye bread in the lofct boy's shirt and let it fhat down the stream. If sank near where they fou:id the. boy. The Carnegie company has issued a call for non-union men at their works at Home stead, Penn. Hon. A. Leazer, of Moonv ville, announces himself in rs, card as a candidate for Cor. gres.i in the Fifth; Disii ict,' subject to the action of the democratic convention. Mr. E. I). Hill. Pres. X. C. Confederate Vet. Association, invites the Veterans to theen campment at Wrightsvill", commencing August 16. All expense will be much reduced. Hon. A. D. Stevenson, dem ocratic candidate for Vice President, will make 5 speech es in Xordv Carolina in the n ar fu ure. In North Carolina there are 112 varieties of timber, all mar-' ketahle There is nothing in the schedule of the census thatic gen uine which our State ennnot pro d jce. To-day there are gold-mi--ning oeratious in 91 comities and silver is mined in live coutiv ties. There are 176 different in in' ends found and it furnishes seven' eights ol tho mica supply of the United States. Ei.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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