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W. B.COUNCILL, Jk.
Attorney at La y.
Boone, N. C.
W. .l.COl'NCILL. M.I).
Boone N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
E.F. LOVILL
Attorney At Law,
RoOTie N. C.
DM. L. C. REEVES.
Physician and SntoroN
Cflxe at Residence.
Roone, N. C.
L. I). LOWE,
Attorney at Law
AND
xotary run LI(
RANKER'S ELK. X. C.
J F.HORPHEW,
AT10RSLY Al LAW,
kARION. N.C
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Will prnctice in the courts o
Watnujra. Ashe, Mitchell, MrDow.
11 and a. I other comities in the
xestern listrict. Secird ntlen
tion pi ven to the collection of
claims.
NOTICE.
Hotel Property for Sate.
On account of failing health
of myself and wife, I offer for sale
try hotel property in the town of
Boone, North Carolina, and will
ell low for eash and make term
o suit the buyer, and w ill take
real or personal property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. Rryait.
Sot ice.
For sale. 900 acres of land,
nn Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which is asbestos,
and fine land for sheep ranch.
Sales private. L. R. Lowe &
J. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of
Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed.
Banner Elk, Nov. If: '90.
KOI ICE.
Parties putting papers in
hiy hand for execution will
please advance the tees wi t h
the papers and they will re
ceive prompt attention, other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
fees. D. F. Raird Burr.
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rief courses, t large number
of special courses, and in law,
medicine and engineering.
The Fuculty includes twenty
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loan funds are available for
needy young "men of talent
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alogue with full information,
address President Winston,
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WASHI.MiTO.V LETTER.
From ir Regular Correspondent.
"ihe farlilH tariff bill."
How does that strike ju ns
a opulnr titl for tli den.o
cratir tnff bill which is to be
passed by the Fifty-third
Congress? Vun a nnmbtr
of gentlemen whoaie in to
tions to know are wrong in
their rnkula tions Senator
Carlisle, whoe resignation as
.Senator will t.ikn effect the
fou-th of next month, is the
man who will frame that bill.
Th great iumssof the Vjl
ker tariff bill, framed by Pre
ident Polk's Scretary of the
Tren. n ry , wa s, i t is sa id , w ha t
.nd'Kf d .Mr. Cleveland to fol
low thesa me planand entrust
the framing of a tariff bill
which is to le strictly in ac
cord with democratic ldens.
to his Sec. of the Treasury.
It is not to be understood or
infered that this move is in
tended t.) deprive the W ys
and Means Committee of the
next House of any of its
rights. The idea is merely to
put into the hands of that
committee a complete tariff
bill, leaving its me'nl)er8 to
decide whether it shall be ac
cepted as prepared or be a
mended before being reported
to the House. Whatever one's
opinion of this method of
preparing the tariff bill may
be, it cannot be denied that
John 0. Cnrlisl is by exper
ience and ability specially
well qualified to frame the
democratic bill. He has for
many years been a ltading
tariff reformer, and his name
attached to the bill wouid,
of itself, mike it popular
with the rank and file of the
democratic party.
Much curiosity is felt con
cerning the answer that Sec
retary Foster will make to
Representative Scott's reso
lution, which has been nd p.
ted by the House, calling for
information as to the delay
in the erection of public build
ings for which the money has
been appropriated by Con
gress. Mr. Scott says he is
satisfied that the delay has
been caused by the lack of
money in the Treasury, and
the facts are all apparently
with him; butit is hardly pro
be ble that the wily Secretary
of the Treasury will admit
that.
Representative Bynum'tt re
solution, which has been adop
ted by the House, calling on
the Civil Service Commission
to furnish a list of all the
men reinstated in the classi
fied service of the Govern
ment, under rule 10, since
March 4, 1H89, together
with the date of their dismis
sal or resignation from the
service, the states they were
from and the States charged
with theii appointment, the
date of their reinstatement,
and thedepartmentsin which
they were reinstated. Rule
10, inferred to in this resolu
tion was gotten up by repub
licans ostensibly to allow the
reinstatement within one
year of their dismissal or res
ignation of ex-soldiers, but
if the information called tor
by the resolution be truth
fully given it willbeaeen tht
it has been terribly stretched,
Itoth as to time and persons.
It would le much better to
absolutely suspend the Civil
Service law so far as it relates
to appointments and remov
als, for the first yearf every
administration, as proposed
by. Rep. IVArmond's bill,
now in the hands of n Houe
committee, than to evade it,
as has beep done under this
administration; besides, it
wonld be much more manly
tnd honorable.
The favorable report to the
House on thp bill repealing
all federal election laws con
tains some very strong lan
guage, but, as the report
truthfully says, "thee laws
are a continued menace to
ihejK'aceand welfare of the
country, ami nothing said
against them can be too
strong. The House will pass
this bill, not with any expec
tation that it cau get through
th Seriate at this session,
but to emphasize the posi
tion of the democratic par
ty against these laws.
The republicans of the Sen
Ate have apparently adopted
a sort of go-ns-you-p!ea.se
pace. Two attempts have
be 'ii made With'n the last
week by means of caucuses,
to get. them togther. but
they were both failures. The
most of them appear to wish
to avoid doing anything,
aside from some special bill
in which they it re interested,
and to be unable to interest
a sufficient number of their
coll agues in any cite: meas
ure to get it endorsed by a
caucus. Having given up
the silver question entirely
they will this week caucus on
he admission of new States.
When the results of the 'ast
election are considered the
republicans are excusable for
being slightly demoralized.
Senator Wolcott has been
having some fun at the ex
pense of the Postmaster Gen.
eral. He don't like Colum
bus stamps, and Saturday
.1 e m a d e u h u m o ro u s s peech
in tavor of his joint resolu
tion directing the Fo,t Mas
ter General to stop the sal.
of them, and heraisedalaugh
by saying that he had a let
ter from a physician saying
that if the sa le of these st a m ps
was stopped the stock o n
hand mfght be utilized as
chest protectors. He inti
mated in relation to Mr.
Wannamaker's statement
that 11,500,000 profit would
be realized from the sale of
these stamp to collectors
that this Government was
too big to go into the chro
ino business, n buisness that
might do for some little Cen
tral American state, that
was a few thousand dollars
"shy".
Things are now going with
a rush at tbe headquarters
of the Inaugural committee,
and so great has been the de
mand for hotel nccomoda
tions that good quarters are
getting scarce.
Carolinian: Hyams, the
gaeat. Rakersville reporter,
has been licked. Some smart
Aleck out ir. Johnson City
imagined he was foreordain
ed to administer a Hogging
to the poor fellow and prbcee
uea w oo ir
n. cm tiiuhsday,
TEE BXAST.MDtiH.
Nashville AmriiiD.
"Old Ren Rutler is dead!
Early yesterd.iy morning the
angel of death, acting under
the devil's orders, took him
from earth and landed him In
hell. In all this Southern coun
try there are no tenrs.no
sighs and no regrets. He liv
ed only too long. We are
glad he has at last been re
moved from earth and even
pity the devil in the posses
sion he has secured.
"When Grant died, it was
with the resf)ect and the es
teem of the Southern people.
When Sheridan died, all the
harm he did our cause du
ring the bloody contest of
more than a quarter of a cen
tury ago was forgotten, and
his seeming cruelty had
grown to he held as love of
ountry and his terrirlc as
saults as gieat generalship.
When old Tecnmpseh Sher
man passed away, the people
whom he devastated and rob
bed of property and precious
lives were pleased to forget
the boiiHres he made of our
cities, the path of death he
cut to the uea. and they now
hold him ns one who loved
well his country and was cru
el only to be true.
Rut with Ren Butler it is
different. His stay in the
South was a curse to ourpeo
pie and his dead body cannot
shake the estimate formed of
his character when he sat in
.VeW Orleans as a military
satrap upon Hie lives and
property of defenseless men
and women.
"We have no love for him,
and praise of any kind, sole
ly because he is at latt dead,
would be the veriest hypocri
sy from the Southern people.
There is nothing in his
wlrjle life to excite our admi
ration. When it is slid that
he wad possessed of great
intelligence and undaunted
energy, all that is to his cred
it has been said.
"He was a truckling dema
gogue, whose selfishness a
tnounted to pnlution; he wn
u n autocrat who used power
to wreak. personal revenge; he
was mean and malignant, a
hangman from prejudice, the
insulter of women, a bragga
d?cio, a trickster and scoun
drel w hose heart was as black
as the smoke from the coals
that are now scorching his
soul.
If there be a future of peace
in store for Ren Butler after
his entrance upon eternity
then there is no heaven and
the Bible is a lie. If hell be on
ly a black as theGood hook
describes it, then there are
not the degrees cf punish
ment in which some chris
tians so fimly believe. He has
gone, and from the sentence
which has already passed up
on him there is no appeal.
He is already so deep down
in the pitofeverlastingdoom
that he couldn't get the most
powerful ear trumpet concei
vable to scientists and hear
tlie echos of old Gabriel's
trumpet; or fly a million
kites and get a message tc.
St. Peter who stands guard
at hea Yen's gates.
"In our statute books ma
ny holidays are decreed. It
was an egregious oversight
fkbi.uai.y, 2. isos,
that one on the death of Ben
Butler was not foreordained.
It should be a day of merry
making. The 'Beast' is dead.
!'he cymbals should beat and
the tin horn should get in
its exultant work. Rutlrr
has gone where be can issue
no more orders making the
rape of the Southern women
a gala pastime. He has gone
where there are no more
spoons to be stolen. He his
gone v. here it is not in his
power to order hanged South
ern gentleman lor alleged
treason against Butlerism.
"Good-bye, Ben! You strut
ted through a few temporal
triumphs; row rest if you
.?an in the brimstone glare of
hell fire. You laughed twenty
five years ago when you bran
ded your offensive personali
ty upon the memory of your
superiors; now smile if you
can when powerless and sunk
so low as to be beyond the
sympathy of even christian
men aud women."
What Southern Soldier Tafnki
About It.
Cor. Landmark.
The foregoing appeared in
the Nashville American of a
recent date, and for down
right fiendish malignity has
no parallel in the English Ian
guage. The writer from
whose head and heart such
sentiments emanated, repre
sents a few fools North and
South who were responsible
for the late war in this coun
try, a class of extremists, who
are still doing all they can to
keep the best elements of citi
zen.ship in the two sections
arrayed against each other.
Such sentiments arc a reflec
tion upon the Christianity
and civilization of the age,
and how any sane mm, un
less he wasatthetirnedrunk,
could have given expression
to euch is more than the hu
man mind can comprehend.
The author, aad the newspa
per in which the article ap
peared, should be denounced
by every self -respecting citi
zen in America. And every
patron of the Nashville Amer
ican should at once order his
paper discontinued. The
Southern soldiers will blush
universally to find that there
is one such fiend in human
shape as the author of the
above in our Southland. No
soldier could have bo express
ed himself about one dead. If
a soldier at all, he was only
ont in name, askulker. acow
ant. 1 was a soldier in the
Southern army, was in th?
War from the beginning to
the end, and I think I know
the sentiment of the South
ern soldiery in regard tosuch
yilestuffastheabove. Idont
assume the task of defending
the memory of Geu. B. t.
Butler, nor is it necessary.
"The dead lion heeds not the
kicks of the living aas."
J. A. Stikeleather.
Olin, N. C, January, 1893.
Durham Globe: The whip
nincr nost would do two
things: In the first place it
would reduce taxation; and
in the second place, it woul J
caUKi those who are flatter-
ed to-dav to cro to the work
house to have eome little
care. There is no reason in
the wide world whv t h
whipping post should not be
re-esiaDiisnea, wnne tnere is
every reason why it should
ue.
no.
Ut Toar Light S Sllmr
A Japanese Senator recent
ly got bold of an exposition
of part of the Bible. Reading
it attentively, he pronounc
ed Christianity a fine thing
in theory, but tbe question
was, Would it work practi
cally 1 Thinking about it, he
became dissatisfied with his
life, nd while in this state
took a trip from OfcayamM
to Ozaka. On the same stea
mer was Miss Barrows, and
he heard she was a christian,
and so watched her. Her de
portment so impressed him
that, though not a word
pass?d between them, he wa
convinced that christianitv
was right in practice, as well
as good in theory, and on re
turning home he hunted up a
missionary and made public
profession of faith, and ha
ince been active in persua
ding others. Miss Barrows
did not know she watched, or
that anything special depen
ded on her deportment. Had
she behaved as many church
members behave, especially
whea away from home, this
Japanese Senator would have
been repelled, and woiild pro
bably have reached the con
clusion that, however fair
Christianity might be in the
ory, it was a failure in prac
tice. We never know what
eyes are upon us. "let your
light shine." Selected.
Stop V; Psper.
Luthran Observer.
Now a newspaper in one as
pect, is something likea hotel
table. It presents to its rea
ders literary viands and views
from many different writer
and many differnt subjects,
to suit mauy different per
sons of many different tastes.
There i something for the
old and the young; the min
isters and laymen, for par-
ents and children, frr the po
etic and the prosaic, for the
practical and devotional; and
in short, for "all sorts and
conditions of men" and wo
men too. If noT, one of these
classes of persons object to
articles suited for any of tin
other classes, and rejects ft
newspaper on that account
he is just as unreasonable in
this as if he refused to take
his dinner at a hotel table be
cause he objects to some ar
ticle of food which others en
joy.
Watchman: The practice of
pitting a man's private vir
tues against his public sins,
in obitiiary estimates, teudrf
to confuse moral distinctions.
A man's character i s not
built like an ocean steamship
in water tight compartments.
Ea?h man's life is a unity.
Theie is an unlerlyiug princl
pie which explains both his
private and public life, and,
until we apprehend that, we
do no 5 know the man. We
are quite familiar with the
human type which is all sane
tity in public and very far
from a saint in private. Just
now, however, another typ
is evolving, namely, that of
the man who is all hardness
and avarice and self-seeking
in public, but who is an angsl
ths moment he crosses hi
threshold and gets onhisdret
sing-gown and slippers