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PROFESSIONAL.
W. B.COUNCILL, Jn.
Attohnky at Lav.
Boone, N. C.
W. 15. COUXCILL. M. D.
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Strict north of Post
Oflice.
DIt. L. C. REEVES..-
PHYSICIAN AND SUUO.EON ,
OfFxe at Residence.
Boone, N. C.
L. 1). LOWE,
Attorney at Law
-AND-
XOTARY run L1C,
BANNER'S ELK. X. C.
J. FHOBPIIKV,
A710RSEYA1 LA Y,
MAUIUN. N.U
AV ill practice in the courts o
Watauga. Ahe, Mitchell, McDow
ell nnd nil other counties in the
western list lict BSpeeial ntten
t ion given to the. collection of
cluiinn.-"fc
Dr. J. V' Butler. I)r. T. C. BUckburn.
Trade, Teun. Zlonrille, 5. C
Butler & Blackburn,
Physicians & Surgeons.
ttiTCa Us attended, at all
June 1, '93.
E. F. LOY1LL. J. C. KLKTCUKU.
LOVILl & FLETOHER,
AVIORSiASATLAW
BOOXE, N. 'J.
'Special attention given
to the collet ion of claims."
L. L. GREENE, & CO.,
REAL ESTATE AG'TS.
HOOSE, N. i.
Will give special attention
to abstracts of title, the sale
nf Real Estate in W. N. C.
Those he vine: farms, timber
and mineinl lands for sale,
will do well to call on stud Co.
at Boone.
L. L. GREES & CO.
March 16, 1803.
NOTICE.
Hotel Property for Sale.
On account of failing health
of myself aud wife, I offer for sale
my hotel propert y in the town ot
Boone, North Carolina, and will
vll low for cash and make terms
o uit the buyer, aud will take
real or personal property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. TCjiyan.
Notice.
For sale. 900 acres of land,
on Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which is asbestos,
and fine land for sheep ranch.
Sales private. LD. Lowe&
I. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of
Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed.
Banner Elk, NoivlS. '90 .
NOT ICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand fof execution will
pleise advance the fees with
the pajers and they will re
cei ve proui pt attention , other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
fees. D. F. Baikd Shff.
ITTOV BACK ACMKH,
Or yon art all worn out, malir food for Both.
hit, h it mamd debility. Try
nuowtra 10 if mirruxa.
XI wDl cw you, rlpsQM yrrnr Bvr, and tiT
good (ppttttt.
1IOOXE. WATAUGA COUNTY,
WASH IXOTOX LETTER
From our Regalar Correipondmt.
Presid.mt Cleveland, nil his
cabinet. Speaker CTrp and
most of the members of Con
press Hill return t Washing
ton this week, prepared to
grapple with the most s(.i-
ous condition of affairs this
country hns known for years,
and that democratic stntes
manship and wisdom will find
a way out that will be wife,
if it does not at first meet
with the ipprovnl of every
body, is as certain as that
Congress will meet next Mon
day. It is particularly no
ieable that this is the pre
dominating s e n t i in e nta
moiift democratic Congress
men already in Washington
However wide apart they
may now be they are all cer
tain that som way will be
found for getting together in
the end.
Among the compromises
already suggested isonethat
appears to be rapidly gain
ing ground. It is Mtnply to
repeal that clause of theSher
man law which coniels the
purchase of 4,500,000 oun
ces of silver bu'lion a month
by the Treasury, or to mere
ly adopt an amendment to
the law authorizing the pot-
chase of silver to be made or
not made it) the direction of
t ho President, and to let it
go at that; for a few iqonths,
in order. t.o determine what
other silver legislation may
be necessary A number of
democrats who favor the free
coinage of silver have an
nounced their willingness to
support this compromise at
the extra session, leaving the
question of further silver leg
islation to b determined at
the regular session. Therear
not enough members of Con
gress in Washington yet to
hazard a prediction as to
ev?n the probability they pre
fer awaiting the recommends
tions to be made by Presi
dent Cleveland's message be
fore committing themselves.
Representative Neill, of Ar
kansas. Pays: "The Sherman
silver law is vicious and
ought to be repealed, but bad
as it is it if not responsible,
iq my opin'on, to any thi'ig
like as great tin extent for the
financial stringency as Mc-(
Kinleyism is. McKinleyism
must be wiped out before the
country can get all right a
gam." The financial system- is
quite bad enough without ex
aggerating it, and the state
ment lhat two hundred Na
tional banks have failed since
the first of January, which
has been widely published, is
a gross exaggeration. The
totul number of suspensions
has been 105 two in New
England, two in the Eastern
states, fifteen in Middle and
Mississippi Valley states, six
in Northwestern states and
twenty five in the Southern
states and of this number
only thirty-seven have actu
ally gone into the hands of
receivers. Of the remainder
a number have resumed bus
iness and more have good
prospects for doing the same
shortly. ,
Mr. Logan Carlisle proper
ly takes issue with the ridic
ulous statement made by a
Civil Service Commissioner
Roosevelt as to the govern
ment clerks beingnbout even
ly divided between the politi
cal parties. Mr. Carlisle is
chief clerk of the Treasury
and he says the statement of
Roosevelt "s worse thnn ri
diculous when applied to that
department. He says further
"To say that ten per cent of
the classified -clerks in the
Treasury ,'wero democrats at
the beginning of the adminis
tration would be puttting
the. percentage too high. In
some large bureausthere was
not naingtadeinoerat.'Roose
velt's statement was made
because of Secretary Carlisle
having stated it to be his in
tention togivethedemocrats
a show bj dismissing the in
efficient clerks in his depart
ment. Deputy Commissioner
Bell say that less than 20
per cent of theclassified clerks
in the Pension Office are dem
omits, and it would be safe
to say that the percentage
will not run over that in any
ot the departments.
"Republicans," said a mem
ber of Tammany, "are talk
ing nonsense when they say
that PresidentCleveland'sap
pointment of two democrats
not members of Tammany to
be. Collector nn i Appraiser
respectively of the port of N.
Y. is a xlsp at Senators Hill
and Murphy, and their only
object is to create dissencion
in the democratic party. Al
ter gi vingTa m ma ny the post
mastership it was perfectly
natural that Mr. Cleveland
should reward the wing of
the party that worked for his
nomination. As a Tammany
man 1 should, of course, have
been glad to have seen all the
federal offices in New York
City given to Tammany men,
but I did not expect it, and,
while I have no authority to
speak for either of them, I
am satisfied that neither n
ator Hill nor Senator Mur
phy expected it. They always
ta ke ea re of their frier.ds when
they have an opportunity
and they both have too much
manhood to attempt to make
a fuss because Mr. Cleveland
has exercised the same privi
lege. I ft el certain that no
objection will be beard when
those nominations come up
for confirmation in the Sen
ate." Had 1 but saved the boodle
l in the other years h a y e
blown, to-day I might haje
had a little nest egg of my
own; I might be now well heel
ed enough to join the happy
throng, to spend a mcnth at
Jackson's park and take my
folks along. O poverty thou
art indeed a ragged man's
distress! the robber thief of
human hopes and earthly
happines and countless thou
sa.ids mourn to-day the fate
one so abhors but some
have fun while others stay
at home and do the chores.
So must I stay aud toil for
bread and mis3 the great
world's show, but what a
motley croiV.1 there'd if every
one should go, and in a few
days at the most. I'm bound
to quit the fight and visit
lands beyond that leat this
World' Fair out of sight.--Sebra.ska
State Joutntl.
X. CM TIlUHSDAY,
Om Tie f tk rati.
special from Richmond to
the Washington Post says:
The negro question is dealt
with in a mot sinking man
ner in an editorial fn the cur
rent number of the Richmond
Christian Advocate from the
pen of its gifted editor, Rev.
Dr. J. I. Lafferty. The ar
ticle is attracting general at
tention here, and is destined
to produce a great sensation.
The writer says:
A Southern Methodist Ad
vocate has this Incident: In
a village of the cotton belt a
bisr, bur'y b'ack rode up to a
store and said to the owner:
"Let this man pointing toa
poor white laborer have $2
worth of goods and charge
it to me." This transaction
may fret the reader, but it
has wide significance,
The Northern peoph during
the war were drawn toward
the plantation' peasantry of
the South. The lot of the fat
and Inn loving negro, thehar
dest working class on earth,
was for years pictured as a
bitter bondage; theslavewas
represented as longing for
freedom, nnd during the war
praying through the nignts
for the coming of the nation
al troops.
This moving, though mis
taken fancies, and much more
of the same sort, stirred the
philanthropic heart of t h e
ottoii-thread millionaires,
and the rich army contrac
tors turned virtuous. Agrent
sum was sent South for 1h
education of the negro. Its
expenditures, in the m p i n,
helped the negro.
It was wisely directed that
those donations should hov
a prnctlcal turn. What was
the outcome? We find fn near
ly every Southern State the
negro boys of the brighter
sort in training schools.
In the meanwhile the negro
reported in thecensusisgrow
ing rapidly as a citizen, with
a home and decent income; a
thrifty member of society.
Moreover, the Southern com
monwealth began after the
war to tax the white property-holders
heavily toeducate
the sons of the non-tax-pay-in
ii"gro.
The negro laborer received
as much money for hiseoarse
work a the ex-soldier of Lee.
The white man consumed
more of his earnings in house
rent, clothingaiid food, hence
he could not spre his son at
theschool. He heeded the boy
at the plow to aid in bring
ing up the family. The negro
boy first learned in the "free
schools" to read and wrire,
then he learned in these tech
nical schools how to make
fine shoes, buggies, Baddies,
etc.
The papers recently report
ed that the private secretary
to Hon. Mr. Blount, of aeor
gia, representing the United
States in the Hawaiian
Islands, would shortly mar
ry the daughter of a rich Chi
naman of Honolulu. Thised
ucated young gentleman and
of social standing, seeks an
alliance with an ex-coolie, a
pig-eyed pagan. Who will
dare to say that the olive
colored octoroons and quad
roons, the bright mulattoes,
AUGUST 10 1803,
the heiresses of wealthy men
ut mixed blood, will not be
sought In the nt century
by i in pecun iona t h rif t'es a nd
idle young men of the white
iac? The negro maidens ate
seen at ceitain colleges for
w omen of high degree in the
Nrth. Where unto will this
grow?
Consider the future of the
friendless and fatherless boy
of the whileace Iri the South.
Can he pay f 5W to attend
t.'ie Stevens Institute of New
York? Can hecum maud iron-
ey for board and raiment
while a student at any Stute
jchool, with a small annex,
too!s and a shop? lie hasn't
even money enough to buy a
railroad ticket to sum a col
lege. The grandchildren of war
like men with historic names,
who made the Southern ar
my a sjnonym of dauntless
courage, are drifting toward
the helot class and in the cen
tnry dawning there will come
to passsocialconditionsthat
will stir the corpses in t h e
jackets of gray.
No man has seen the har
vest from the sowing at Ap
pomattox. The 'statesmen'
among us robbed the x-sol-dierofLeeto
educate black
competitors of his children.
Then Northern millionaires,
in hatred of the paroled citi
zens, have endowed colleges
of tools and machines to e-
quip the ex slave- to surpass
and subjugate the. sons of the
Confederate veteran in t h e
struggle for the best pay and
position in the skilled trades.
It is a condition and not a
theory that confront us.
Tho'tghtful men do not con
test the fact.
Goot Aid ltd then.
On this subject Amelia E.
Burr writes in the North A
jierican review:
"The difference bet ween good
and bad mothers is so vast
and so far-reaching that it is
no exaggeration to say that
the good mothers of this gen
eration are building the
homes of the next genera
tion, and that the bad moth
ers h re building the prisons.
For out of famillen nations
are made; and if the father
be head or the hands of a
family, the mother is the
heart. No office in the world
is so honorable as her.. -no
priesthood so holy, no influ
ence so sweet and strongand
lasting.
"How to manage young
children, how tc strengthen
them physically; how best to
awaken their intellects, en
gage their affections and win
their confidence; how to make
home the sweetest spot on
earth, a place of love, order
aud repose, a temple of puri
ty where innocence is respec
ted, and where no one is per
mitted to talk of indecent
subjects or read indecent
books; these are the duties of
a good mother, and her posi
tion, if so filled, is one of dig
nity and grave importance.
For it is on the hearth stone
she gives fine healthy initial
touch to her sons anddaugh
ters that is not aSected thro'
life, and that makes them
blessed in their generation."
NO.
40.
Dirtrift AttorMT bUa afdf fer
Capt. R. B.OIenn.of Wins
ton. Fnited States attorney
jfor th w.jsnru district of N.
('.. has issued n circular to
United Mutes commissioners
in which he says:
"I am now ready to pasr
upon all accounts, and ap
prove or reject all warfauts
that you may forward to me.
It is my amest desire to sup
press all violations of the
Federal laws, and to see that
the guilty are punished; still
I do not wish the U. S. Dis
trict arid CircditCourts to be
considered courts of oppress
sion nnd therefore nsk you
to comply with the following
requests: Do not issue uny
warrants unless upou the af
fidavits of deputy collectors
nnd agents, upon informa
tion or personal knowledge:,
or upon the personal knowl
edge of private individuals. 1
will order no warrants to is
sue unless you shall certify
tnat in your opinion thecasu
should be prosecuted. Don't
issue warrants on frivolous
cases, or where malice and
not merit is the cause of the
prosecution. In small cases,
unless for good reasons, neV'
er bind over more than twd
witnesses for thegovernment
and do not bind over at nil
unless you are satisfied that
the case is sach a one as
would warrant a jury la find
ing a verdict of guilty. In all
respects save ail the costs
that you can, and let your
object always be simply to
suppress crime. I will gladly
give yon all the information
I can nnd hope yon will aid
me in my effortsjto justly and
economically dispose of the
business that accumulates in
the western district."
Bine Blood end lontr.
A blue Borghese is to get
married to Miss Vanderbilt,"
dowrj $15,000,000. Thefam
ily is of the old Italian stock
bluest blood of Europe. They"
became prominent nt Siena
in 1450, and were made prin
ces of Snimona under Pope
Paul V. in 1603, a title which
they still retain.
The lucky man is Scipo
Louis Marc Antion Francis
Rudolph Borghese, n Lieuten
ant in the Italian army and
eldest son of the Prince Sul-
mona. He is twenty -two
years old and of attractive
appearance. The family debt
of the Borghese is $2,400,.
000, w hich the bride can eai
sily redeem. Their places and
domains are many and will
be put in shape now.- This
trumps the Princes Colon ua
Mackay's daughter. Obser
ver.
Christian Leader: The most
disgusting of the many forms
in which the infirmity of good
people manifest itself is , jeal
ousy. It is not coarse and
vulgar and brutal; it is just
small. la religious and so
cial circles this petty vice has
peculiar scope. Men who.
would shrink from open vio
lence or even incility , do most
impolite r nd silly things bf
indirectk ), the explanation
of which is jealousy; both are
utterly unmanly and absurd.
To a large and noble nature,
or one.'pehefriUed by chris
tiau Riacek they arc possible.