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vv it r& n vol r, i':)t i:ssio.'M.. W. B. C01XC1LL, .ht. Attorney at La v. Boone N. ('. W. 15. COIXCILL. M. D. Boone, N. C Resident Physician. Office on King Stm t north of Post Oiiiee. e.f. lovill Attoiexky At Law, Boone X. C. dr. l.c. reeves. PHYSICIAN A Nil Stkoton Cfi'xc ct Residence. Boone, X. C. L. (i. LOW!:, ilij'ti: at VNi) 0TAKY PUllUC, BANNER'S ELK. X. C. A210A'A'' i7 ,.4iT, MAU!U. - N.r . -(o)- iVi!! jifiuiiri' in the mints o YVuhme,", At-hi, Mitchi-H. M''lw il acd r.ll oiltr-i counties in the .vrslrrn dii rirt MTSpc- i.u atrt :i tioc giffi to th" eolln lien of ciiiinus." NOTlCo. iiolcl 'i!tr.y to: Sftie. Oil inco'siit of failir.g h-r it h ol :iVMclf an.i vir, I otlVr for n;de u Lutfi pi ;'Tt.v in the tows ot B.'.o-..ie. North Carolina, find will m-iI iv t'oi c: sh 6nd lernm o suit the till it. ni..l will lake IV Hi o; j;t-TS lial l,ci I v ill f'X cha. .'g-f. A-j')v s;ve. VV. L. It.' VAN. Notice. For sale. 900 acres of land, on Rich Mountain, Watauga County, on which asbestos, and fine land for sheep ranch. Sales private. L. D. Lowe &. J. T. Furgeron, Ex'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Cnllowav, deed. Banner Elk, Nov. If '90 . NOTICE. Parties putting papers in my hand for execution will please ndvtuice the fees with the papers and they will re cei ve prom it n t tout ion , o t her wise they will be returned not executed for the want of fees. D. F. Dairii Shff. lTl. GREENE, A CO., REAL ESTATE AG'TS., nooNi:,N.c. Will give special attention to abstracts of title, the sale of Real Estate in W. X. C. Those he ving farms, timber and mineral hinds for Hale, will do well to call on Haid Co. at Boone. L. L. GREES & CO. March 16, 1893. NOTICE. -The laws of the State re quire nil weights and meas ures to be wealed, and I here by notify the people that I am prepared to do such work. Yon will find me in Boone at the residence of I). B. Dough erty. J. II. Cook, Standard Koeper. IESSEEEZ3a!!5aESSSS5S5SSaD THC GREAT PROG R ESS OF ttlC rRICITY. fTE?K Ht3!:-3!fcS ' 1,1:1 i;:ii,yis arranged and tk? n. feofl frmr nta In avampa for book on nova d I and how to :JDft. ALBERT F. SHELL I CO., eura them. Call r audrasa, 1H)()NL WATAlKiA COUNTY, WASlllXtiTOX LETTER. From onr Regular Correspondcut. President Ch'veland has a re ujii kabit"ip;:-ity forst ,01- !in;r I'liighuursot h.nl work, and it has b-.en put to a m veich'vt sincchirt inaugura tion, il h;js been th'e.wp tion r'lli-r than t ho inh when he has been able tf) re tire bciore 2 o'clock in thf morning, he is nlways it hi. desk again lu fore S o'clock. Feeling th" need of a littleun disturbed rest, he, in compa ny with Secretary (ireshaui, left Washington Saturday at noon and will not return un til toinono.v. Ilis destinn ti.m was not made pnlilie for fear that he might be follow ed by pome of the importu nate olfi.e-r.eekers, anxious to personally presrut their (laim. They went f.) see Ambassador Bayard at his homin Wilmington, Del. Tne iiiveyttigati.ui of the Weather 15 1; 1 u . now bein; imb'ii'lA conducted niter of fice hoars a I the Department of Agrieulrure, i a very mis ty mes as f;ir ns i( hin gone, aud it grown even mst.ier. Thpopertv of the hureau h:is. areordi'.ig to the testi mony, been stolen and sold to 3 u rile dealers whenever cer tain of the minor officials needed little extra whiskey money, and thestfn'ing was dc:ie in broad d t light, the employes of theburrau being iv.ied to I md it upon wagons. About every thing seems to have been included in t h e tliftw, njon oi.e occasion n tone step bing taken from the building bself. Theprin cii'il men imfilieated thusfar are the foreman of the pr ss room and the Captain of the watch, but others higher up are said to have received a part of the money, and it is expected that the evidence will prove it. Secretary Mor ton is determined to get. at the bottom of the filth and see that every guilty limn is punished, regardless of ho he may be or who may be his friends. Mnj.den. Seholiel d and Maj. (Jen. Miles have had a squab ble at long range over t h e trouble in Indian Territory. The quarrel is understood to have occurred over the carry ing out of an order for the n tail of an artny officer to in vestigate the trouble. N'oll. S. troops will be sent there unless the Secretary of the In tcrior requests it. President Cleveland said he intended to get the very best man in the country, who was available, to be commission er of pensions, and the gener al approbation of the nomi nation of Judge Win. Loeh ren, of Minnesota, to the po sition indict teg that he suc ceeded. Judge Lochren was not an applicant for the po sition, indeed, he at first re fused to accept it, but with drew his objections when his party duty and loyally were appealed to b the President. His war record is of the bra vest, and although he is nof a member of the tL A. R., no member of that organiza tion has eo far as known had a word to say against his special fitness for the posi tion. Heivus born in Ver mont, but hnsresided in.Miu neti since 1 S."7, with the exception of the time he serv ed in the ;irniy. Ilewill fake charge of the Pension iui reau about May firht. Secretary Morton found not only iudivid mlsemyloyed by the Agricultural department who were not: rendering ser vices in anything like a fair proportion tf it he salary they receive, but a whole division of employes who have been practically paid for doing nothing for more than a year. This was the quarantine di vision of the Bureau of Ani mal 1 nd rusty, which Secreta ry Morton lias just, abolish ed. Quite a howl has been raised by the republic ins be cause the chief of theabolish ed division happened to be thflate Mr. Blaine's brot her, although it is difficult to un derstand why that should have made the slightest, dif ference, .surely (hey did not expect that a democratic ad ministration would feci call ed upon to take care of the poor members of the Blaine fa mily. Secretary Lamont hacn't been doing mncii talking he never doei but that he has been doing some investiga ting and thinking is shown by his statement that n o more army oflicers will be de tailed for ornamental pur pose. Tli in may be a little rough on the army officers who have been calculating to spend the summer at t h e World's Fair and the vari ous summer resort s, but no ore. can deny that it is just to the people who pho p y these men their salaries, and doubly just to the officers without "pull" who h a v e to perforin, in addition to their own, the dutit a of the butterflies of the profession. Postmaster General Bisse!l has derided that no fourth class postmasters shall be re moved, except for cause, un til they shall have served all or ne-irl ali of a four year term. This is a new rule, as these officials have never been considered to have a fi x e d term, but were removed at the pleasure of the depart ment. The change is under stood to have been made by the pn-sid'-nt, and aft2r all it will 11 ake no difference in the end, because there are so many who have served four years or more that by the time they are removed near ly all of the rest will have be come removable under the new rule. A cross-eyed New Jersey man was kicked by a mule, and as 0 result of the blow his eyes are now perfectly straight. Persons with Him ilaror other maladies are not, however, advised tolool with a mule in the hope of similar benefits. Ex. Holston Methodist. A bul ly carries off from 10,000 to 40,000 for knocking out a compedetitor in a slugging match; but if a prea.-lier knocks the devil out in a hard-foi ght battle in a )ro tracted meeting, the people win take up a hat collection, and think they do noblv if thf.v reward him with S10 to $10. X. C. niriiSDAY, I'im maii'n Tribute In L-inN ljrl:ni)i'. New s mid I Hixtvit. It is seldom that words of pi aise or credit arepjveii by Northern writers relative to the bearing and action of Southern troops during the war, that it is with peculiar j pleasure that. wequoU' lrom the report of Colonel Aug. C. Hamlin, of Bangor, Maine. I an office;- of the Eleventh Ar ; my Corps, M. S. A., concern ing the h-ittle of Chancellors ville, in which, jef-rring to L-me'H North Carolina Bri gade of Confederates, he uses language 80 honorable and worthy of a true man and brave soldier, and so we!1 de served by the brave men whose fidelity and valor h commemorates, that in sim ple justice to him and them, we copy his words, as they appear in iris report publish ed in the Xational Tribune. Col. Hamlin says: Lane's Brigade was severe ly denounced for the desulto ry firing w h;ch wounded Jack son an i pei haps A. P. Hill, but neither of these,. officers ever blamed the same to the 1Sth North Carolina for fir as they did, as neither Hill nor Jackson informed Maj. Barry, in command, ot their intention to pas in front of his line, and b o t h Hill and Lane had warned the troops 'hat they were in the most, advanced position, and mint be keenly on the a lert. It is proper at this time to say a fe words concerning Lane's Brigade, and consider Me charges of a want of firm n ess b r o u gh t a ga i n s t i 1. 1 n ves tigation shows that the Bri fjade was composed of young men, of th" best stock t lie 0!d North State contained, and Bent, to represent it in thebul wark of Secession the Army of Northern Virginia. The records of the war show tliRt it was in nil the principle bat ties of the Army of Northern Virginia; t hat its blows were severe and its losses were frightful. In thchnttlearonnd Richmond in 1802, the Bri gade lost 800 men killed and wounded. At f lian-vllorsville it also lost nearly 800 men killed and wounded, find of its thirteen field officers all but one was struck down. At (Jet tysbu.ig if formed the left of Lotigstreet's charge, and although it had lout about oO p r cent, in its three da 's fighting, it. marched off the field in or jer and took posi tion in support of the bat I cr ies, which some of the other brigades did not do. And they were the last, soldiers of Lee's retreating army to re cross the Potomac River, both after Antietam and Get tysburg. It may be said briefly, and without giving offense to de serving soldiers on either side that so long as examples of American valor are honored so long will the nam of Lane's Brigade of Carolini ans be held in high respect. The Brigade was alone from S p. m. to 10 p. m. in front of the Federal nrmy, anialtho' it had been t hree rimes raked by the terrible artillery fire from the Federal guns at Fairview, and attacked in flank by some of Sickle's reg iments, did not waiver nor call for aid. Al'lJI L, 20. ISD.'J, A Creal Outi in u llowfll. ' .Vf.O'.ill Ifcrolil. Miis Thomas and wife, Lil Jiati John Erwin, Isaac Er- vin and Abe Crown, colored. I arrived in Marion Sunday night about '2 o'clock incus j tody ol Deputy Shcrii' D. L. j Davis and po.-e, and weie icommitted to jail to await their trial at the next trm of McDowell Superior Court ! for violently assaulting and j beating Miss Poe Kirksey, a i most est imable young lady, Ja daughter of (apt. E. J. j Kirksy, who is carrying on jngeueial merchnntile busi ness in her own name, near Dyart ville. O lus Thomas ami wifeliad contracted ndebtat Cue store ami gave a mort- jgage o seen re if. The debt jbeeamdue and Miss Kirk- sey notified them tdie wanted the money. This made them angry, an-1 last Saturday a group of negroes, seven all told, went to t he store. Miss Poe was in the house alone, ami Lillian abused and curs nl her. MissKirkscy order el the negro woman out; she d 'fiantly refused to go. She then tried to put her out and Odus took hold of MissKirk sey and held her while his wife beat and kicked her in the breast and stomach. Miss Kirksey fainted, and it is thought she received serious internal injury, as she has since been throwingup hlood. Our latest advice is that she u growing worse. Several of the negro men had guns. They remained at the store for awhile in a sul key mood and one of them remarked that if anybody wanted anything else they could get it. This is one of the most un provoked and aggravating outrages it has ever been our unpleasant duty to chronicle. The good people in the com munity are, of course, great ly incensed, and the deputy .'hu'ifi' experienced some dif ficulty in anchoring his cul prits safely in jail. If Miss Kirksiedies excitement will run rampant and the lives of the prisoners will be in jeopar- y. 7ay EownSoiitii in Dixie. Marmfaei nrer's Uacord. The-solid basis upon which the ag' icultural, th.ee ml and the iron interests now rests, and the pr miing outlook before t hem are duplicated in all other braneh .(ofhiisinesH in tic S oulh. Everything is on a good fonml.it ion. The whole South, enthused with the certainty ot freedom from political troublous! rengthen ed in all its business opera tions by the experiences of the past, with more powerful financial influences working in its favor than ever before, starts the new year with the assurance that it is entering upon a career of greater pro gress and prosperity than it has enjoyed for thirty years. Ten years .ago the South' agricultural, manufacturing and mining products aggre gated in value a bout. f 1,200, 000,000: now they areabout $2,100,000,000. The increase in population duringthat pe riod was only 18 to 20 per cent. NO. 10 1' H AGE. I'm flic 1 ballot-rut. Without courage impossi bilites are very plonty, but a couragous man finds the in scarce. Mancwshis very growth to courage. His mind is but a dwarfed shrub until it isin Hpired by coiiia;" to expand and unfold its fettered na ture; then it burst tlk- t-V-ck-les that bound it and takes on a vigorous growth which soon assumes proportions of strength and usefulness. "In tense anticipation trans tormn impossibilities into re alities." When we have the courage tf believe a thing can be done we can do it mu li easier than we could if we believed it could not be done. Courage keeps oneeoolnnd in a fit condition to receive intelligence. Courage mak-K us fit to juRtl; oomputate a danger and escape it. Cour age enables us to pronoum with correctness on a threat ening danger. Courage isn't the bolJrashness of t he reck -les.i adventurer, nor the dar ing thniteis of the bowiekn1 or brandishing of firearms in an affray where anger is rife and the blood hot; but true valor is unyieidiugadherep"; to t he right, cool deliberation in times of danger in the midst of excitement, theabi! ity to resist the uprising of impetuous impulses and hold one's self in obeyance that the wiser deliberations of an afterthought may guide the tongue and body in their ac tions. It requites a much greater courage to control n mail's own elf than it re quires to face the leveled re volver of an antagonist when all the fiery passions are lex loose. Witness the man who dor:-, not fight. Watch thestrr r gling passions as they speiu. their fury in trying to wm themselves front the grasp o! his courage, to TT&ent an in suit. Though soins uuthi'.i: ing one might call him a cow ard.yeta moiv courageous battle was never fought, r more eourageousoptain ne . cr existed than is present u the man who masters bin. self when taunted and insur ed by a malignant enemy. As long as a man has the coin age to keep his pa .--lions cheek he is safe, out whet once u allows passnns t predominate 1. is in danc: Courage is-the result of re: soiling. .; It is necessary ' success. Bnt true courage what is needed, not the boH daring of the murderer, bu cool determination in a ;i y ivalk, the power to master self, the ability to believe 1 the possibility of achieve ments and the heroism that will stick to a tusk untP it i completed. WlLLKTT S. MlLLLlt. ' n..B. b: J. I). Watkins, BlsVely writes: ''Old sores covert; 111 v entire person and itci ' intensely night and day. V . several months I could v. : work at all. 1 commenced t use of Botanic Blood Bj-r.-and commenced to grow i .-s ter the first week, and?:."1 now sound and well,:.i;. from sores and itching'?!! -at work again."
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