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HOOXK, WATAKJA COUNTY, X. C THURSDAY, JANUARY, fi. 18'KJ,
NO.
17,
VOL 5
VKOVHSSlOXAl.
W. IUOtJNCILL, Jr.
Attorney at La .v.
Boone, N. C.
i b. corxeiLL. m. i.
Boone, N. C.
ltesid.-nt Phvsicinn. OHiee
on King Street north of Tost
(Mice.
E.F. LOYILL
Attorney At I a
Boone X. C.
im. L.r. beeves
PHYSICIAN AM) SlUCEON
Office at Residence.
Boone, X. C.
L. D. LOWK,
Atlornsy at Law
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AYJ7V1J' ruiiur,
HANSEN'S ELK. X. C
J. (I. WILBAR,
DENTIST,
KLS PARK, MOUTH CAROLINA.
ORers his professional services
to the people ot Mitchell,
Vntjintrn nnd ndioininsr eoun-
ties.S"Vo Lad imtteinl used
and All work iuar;ivteel."s&
May 1 1 y.
J.FJIOBPlliiW,
ATTORNEY A 1 LAW,
MARION. N. V.
-(o)-
Will prnctirr in the courts ot
Watauga. Ashe, Mitchell, McDow
11 and all other counties in the
western listrirt sarSpecial utten
tion given to the collection of
claims."
NOTICE.
Hotel Property for Sme.
On account of "'failing health
of myself and wife, I offer for snle
my hotel property in the town of
Boone, North Carolina, and will
ell low for each and make terms
o suit the buyer, and will take
real or personal property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. Bryan.
Notice.
For naif. 900 acres of land,
on Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which is asbestos,
and fine land for sheep ranch.
Sales private. L. I). Lowe &
I. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of
Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed.
Banner Elk, Nov. If '90..
NOl ICE.
Parties putting papers in
tny hand for execution will
plea se advance the fees wit h
the papers ahd they will re
ceive promptattention, other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
fees. D. F. Baird Shff.
tJITERSlTY OF HORTH CAROLINA.
Instruction is offered in four
general courses of study, six
brief courses, v large number
of special courses, and in law,
medicine and engineering.
The Faculty includes twenty
teachers. Scholarships and
loan funds are available for
needy young men of talent
and character. The next ses
sion begins Sept, 1. For cat
alogue with full information,
address President Wins.oii,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
Forllalaria, Liver Xrov.
ble.or Indigesti on, ut
BROTH ' S IRON b-LtR.
Washington letter.
From oar Regular CorretpondenU
Speaker Crisp was one of
the few prominent democrat
ic congressmen win) ate their
Christmas dinner in Washing
to.i. This week he will iro to
New York for a few days am!
thereby hangs n tale that is
very discomforting to those
gentlemen who have h,ieii
working overtimeeoncocting
stories shoeing why Presi-Ue;it-elet
Cleveland would op
pose Mr. Crisp's election as
Speaker of the next House.
.Mr. Crisp uoe to New York
upon Mr. Cleveland's person
al invitation to confer with
the President-elect about leg
islation that is to come be
fore the present House, the
extra session question, and
the organization of the next
House; and now thequesliou
is being asked, why should
Mr. Cleveland wish to confer
with the Speaker if be is
opposed to his re election by
the next House? It seems to
be a repetition of t he old sto
ry somebody went off half
co' ked.
The populist members of
Congress from Kansas have
evidently heard from home.
At first they were discretely
silent about the alleged can
didacy of Mrs. Lease for the
Senate; now they openly rid
icule it, characterizing it l!8
simply a republican scheme
to make the popu'ists ritii'
ulous.
Senator Hill is a inernbJ'r
of the Senate committee on
Immigration, and he doesn't
agree with the ideas of the
majority of that committee
as to the legislation necessa1
ry. He wil! Roon after the re
assembling of Congress pre
sent his views m the shape of
a minority report and will ei
ther introduce a new bill or
offer an amendment to the
Chandler bill, providing for
one year's suspension of im
migration, when that meas
ure is taken up by the Sen.
ate. The joint Houseand Sen
ate Immigration committee
has one sub-committee now
on its way to Cuba and an
other consulting with Treas
ury officials, both after infor
mation to be made use of
when the immigration bills
are taken up by Congress.
The House and Senate com
mittees are working harmo
niously on this matter, and
bo far politics have been kept
out of it. The only question
with members of all parties
being, what is the best thing
to do?
There is going to be some
lively financial music in Con
gress when it gets together
again, bur, it is not yet cer
tain who is going to do the
dancing. The pressure for
the suspension ot the purch
ase of the 4,500,000 ounces
of silver bullion, which the
Secretary of the Treasury is
compelled under theShertnan
law to buy every month, is
enormous. Mr. Harrison and
hiser.tire cabinet favor the
suspension, and, it is said,
that Mr. Cleveland has also
said to more than one dem
ocratic Congressman that it
ought to be stopped: Let
ters n.v the hundred are re
ceived at the Treasury de
partment every day. from
merchants and bankers nil
over the country, urging the
immediate eusiwn.Mi ti. It
cannot be sti spend -'d, except
by action of Congress, and
the attempt to bring about
that suspension, tither by
the passage of Senator Hill'
bill for an out right repeal of
the Sherman law, or by the
adoption o f Senator Mc
pherson's resolutions author
izing the President in hi dis
cretion t suspend the pur
chase of silver bullion, will be
the signal for the music to
be iin. The free coinage men
say they do not propose to
allow any suspension f the
purchase of bullion, unless a
free coinage bill be passed.
Not wit list anding recent ex-tr-iordin
lry efforts of the re
publicans to defeat the will of
the people, it is the general
belief here, republicans inclu
'letl, that the democrat will
organize and contiol the Sen
ate ol the next Congress.
Both those w h o oppose
and those who favor the pro
posed amendment to the
World's Fair act, of the last
session, allowing the exposi
tion to be opened on Sunday,
claim to have polled the
House, and both sides claim
to have a majority of votes
pledged. It is goiur to lieu
red-hot fight and four days
lo, to 13, of January, inclu
sivehave been set apart by
the Hoase Exposition com
mittee to hear arguments for
and against the proposed a
mendment. It is the impres
sion of experienced observers
of things Congressional that
the amendment will be adop
ted by a small margin in both
House ami Senate, but ther
seems to be a doubt ns to
whether Mr. Han ison will ap
prove it.
Strange td say the must ol
the opposition to Senator
Vest's bill directing the Post
master General to make a ten
year's contract, for carrying
the mails, at existing rates,
with the proposed Chicago
and St. Louis electric railway
as soon as that company is
ready to guarantee that they
shall be transported at a
speed of not less than 100
miles an hour, comes from
those who fear accideats to
travellers at that high rate
of speed. Queer argument,
that, for this lushing age.
It looks now as though Mr.
Blaine might getjweli again.
For nearly n week he has im
proved, very slightly, but
still improved. His family
and friends have grown very
hopeful, and his physicians-
say nothing.
Bay Horses.
According to "Public Opin
ion" the word "bay," used
with reference to horses, did
not signify a color originally
but was first applied to '9
breed of horses too light to
be called brown and too!
brown to becalledred. These
horses were found in a dis
trict in England noted forits
bay trees, for the leaves of
which they showed a great
t. 1 i. r
itviiiK. i:ivi?iy urreoer 01
horses in that locality relied
upon these trees for the med
icine with which to cure his
diseased animals. The horses
coming from this district be
came known as bay horses;
and their uniformity in color
led to the common use of the
term.
ShuH's Mills,
Dep. 13, 02.
For the 1)KM(K RAT.
A man tha
has been translated out of
the darkness of sin and ir nde
an heir and a joint heir with
'he Lord .lesiisi Christ then
a servant of Christ. The gate
of the vineyard stands ojM-n
and the broad field in spread
out before the laborers; but
the question isaked, "What
will the Lord of the harvest
have me to do?" God will
make known the path of du
ty to those who seek to do
his will.
Then christians to know
themsrlve and be right be
fore God is the best prepara
tion for doing good, and
wnenever Christ gives the
command they should feel it
and honor and delight to
work for him. And to have
an influence over the world of
sin Christinas should imitate
the unpretending ministry of
Jesus, uniting love and hu
mility, caution and boldness,
activity and perseverance in
all their labors, rememberirg
the faithful workers of Christ
will e;ij y the highest honors
of he.-t v; n.
And as his vineyard is so
trr'at and so many tenipta
tbr.s along the way, chris
tians should put on the
whole armor of G d, that
they may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil.
It is the design of God that
christ ians should be on the
watch tower of Dutv ban-.!-
ing as ambase.a.bws ?or
Christ and ghiag evident of
the true religion they repre
sent. The love and service
of Christ is the true christian's
delight.
Pure religion and undefiled
before God and the Father is
this, to visit the fatherless
and widowsin thek-affliotion,
and to ki'ep himself unspofed
from the world, James 1: 27.
The christitiH is blessed, hap
py in his doing; and is gra
ciously rewarded for his ser
vice, as he performs it. The
christian who does not live
above the contaminations of
this sinful world has lost, his
religions influence for good.
How' noble fhe office and
workofth. christian minis
try! H:w earnestly should
we pray for its increase, and
how obediently should pious
.young1 men heed the Lord's
call to enter its ranks. The
christian's secret prayer is an
important means of grace; a
safeguard against tempta
tion, and a preparation for a
faithful discharge of duty.
It is the duty ol christian pa
rents to teach their children
the way of life and salvation
when they know sin, by get
ting thein to repent of their
sins and take up the cross as
a soldier for Christ. The
faithful and prayerful efforts
of parents to secure blessings
for their children will not be
in vain. It is the christian's
duty to live such a life that
his influence will bring ot hers
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Young christian it is your
duty to Btart with the deter
mination to overcome the
temptations of sin through
life and to follow the Savior
faithfully to the end,
What will be the reward of
true christians who have
faithfully discharged their
duty? The reward will be
everlasting happiness with
God the Father, with Christ
ilis Son, with the holy angels
and with all the redeemed
who have passed into the
Celestial City.
A. M. Mast.
Tbe Two Hrd d Woman.
Millie Christine the "two
headed nightingale," ''the
colored wonder of the world,"
etc., was born near White
ville, S. ('., in the year 1831
of slave parents. She, they
or it is hardly a monstrosity
but rather a phenomenon or
freak of nature. Shehastwo
bustsjnnd pairs ofshou'ders,
two heads, four ar ns and
four legs, and, so, an ana
tomical examination h ajs
proven, she has two hearts,
two sets of digestive organs.
In fact, she i? two distinct
persons blended into one at
the wnist. Mentally she is
certainly two, being able to
carry on two separate con
versations on different sub
jects at one and the same
time. She is a fine singer,
one voice being a high sopra
no and the other rt clear ton
ed contralta. Sheisa highly
educated woman, or women,
and speaks several languages
fluently, among them Ger
man, French nnd Spanish.
She is without doubt the
greatest or one of the great
est human wonders born this
century, her) physical make
up being a wonder to the sci
entists and a puzzle to the
common people in general.
PAPER, PENS AHD INK.
Paper was in use in Egypt
as far back as 2300 B. C..
and not merely, as old Pliny
thought, from the time of
Alexander the Great. The
ancients, it appears, knew
more about pens and inks
than they usually hare credit
for. The Greek? made silver
and other metallic pens, and
Latin manuserips show n
great variety o f inks red,
purple, green, blue, si Iyer and
gold. The great Floreffe Bi
ble in the British Museum
shows the skill of the penman
in the Twelfth Century in the
use of this modeofdecora tion
and in somewhat later times
it was no unusual thing for
scribes to annotate their
texts i n colored inks red.
green, violet, blue using
each color for u distinctclass
of notes, historical, biograph
ical, geographical, etc. Sci
entific works are often made
exceedingly attractive by
colored diagrams, chronolo
gies by architectual arcades
and ornametal panels.
Didn't Forget His Sister.
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec.30.
--Out on West Sixth street.
at the corner of Flower street,
resides a lady who is a sister
to the late Jay Gould. She
is the wife of the Rev. A. M.
Hough, who is a retired
Methodist minister, in great
ly r e d u c ed circumstances.
Mr. Gould left her $23,000
and an annuity of 2,000 a
year.
yFay yoar snbs,Ti ption.
GOT TX A0AI.
Moaefceij Eni 01 Thil Tfffcal
GjmmuU
From the Wilson Mirror.
Yes their head get nsarer
and nenrer; their warm
breathings mingle together;
sigh meets sigh; soul sinks in
to soul: and n qell borrowed
from elysium, falls upon the
bubbling channel o f their
dreams, and veils itacurrerifc
with a spray of rapture as
sweet ns that which Fancy
weaves around the brow of
enchuntment. In utterances
as sweet and soft as a rose,
or the down upon the tender
t histle their hearts' lives have
been dedicated t o eternal
worship. And while sipping
sweet nectar from weddedlips,
thoughts as pure and sweet
as zephyrs bathed it Hermet
tus decs rise like incense
from theshrineofcupid. And
seeing such perfect happiness
we were led to believe that
such love scenes ns this is al-'
most as holy and as sacred
and as hallowed as the finest
and purest emotions of relig
ion itself, for tender words,
so soft and low and so full
ofheart-thrill,theelectrifying
and quickening grasp of spell
bound rapture, drunk with
an estacy more thrilling than
the mellowing influences of
golden sun-sets, or intoxica
ting witcheries ol Beethoven's
symphonies which bring with
them the consciousness that
they are but waves and rip-
pies ofjfee'ings from ths" un
fathomable, unmeasured and
unbounded ocean of love, and
then it is the finest emotion,
at its keenest moment of rap
ture, passes from the dull
prose of expression into the
softly lulling poetry of sileuce,
and every thought sleeps in
the spell of a sweet and holy
mystery. Life then becomes
a blessed prelude ofblieeful
immortality, earth an entrari
cing vestibule to tha temple
of elysium, and every sound
an echo of some celestial har
mony. John L. Won't Do InWrrlewel, BJ
He'll Meet Corbett.
New York, Dec. 38.--Johrf
L. Sullivan refused to be in
terviewed till afternoon at
the Windsor Theatre, where
he has been playing, in regard
to Jimmy Wakely's state
ment that the e. -champion
was an ingrnte for Jmakinjy
attacks on his honor. He,
however, toll Dan Murphy,
who met him at the wind-up
of the performance, tniii he
would yet meet Corbett end
will start in to trriin at Hot
Springs, Ark., netxt May.
Charlotte Observer.
A Wail P'npcr of Portage Stampa.
The little village of Berated
near Bognor, possesses a
unique curiosity in the form
of an innroom papered with
postage stamps. Theapsfrt
inent. is fancifully decorated
with many descriptions of
used stamps, nnd even the
passage leading to the room
is similarly papered. Some
five years were occupied irt
making the collection, which
numbers some thousands of
stamps. The room being
completed in 1887 it was nat
urally given the name of
"Jubilee Stampioom." In
deed some members of the
royal family interested in the
collection are said lo have;
added to it a number of
stamps on theirown account