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.Democrat vol r IIOOXE. WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1803, NO. 49. riiov&ssio.wiL. W. R.COUNC1LL, Jk. Attorney at La m. Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCILL. M. I). Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. DR. L. C. REEVES." Physician and SrnaEON Office at Residence. Boone, N. C. L. I). LOWE, Attorney at Law AND M)TARY VUIILIC, BANNER'S ELK, X. C. j. F JIOItPIIEW, AHOUSEYA1 LAW, MA1UON. N. U -(c)- Wilt priv.-t.ii- in the courts o Wa t a iiga.AsIie.Mitchell, Mellow Ml and ail other counties in t!ie .rest era list lid siJ"SjHiinl uttc.it tioii vn-M: to tin collection of l)r. J. C- SilVr. Dr. V. C. Slackbnrn. TVtI:, Tfnri. Zionvih, X- C. Butler & Blacitan, Pipers & Surgeons. iMrti't lis attended at all hours. . "'.', June 1, '03. E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHEIt,. LOVILL & FLETGHER ATlURShYSATLAW, ' BOONE, N. C. WSTSpecml attention given to the collet ion ol claims L. L. GREENE, & CO., REAL ESTATE ACTS. IOOXE, N. C. Will giv'9 special attention to abstracts of title, the sale of Real Estate in W. N. C. Those he ving farms, timber and mineral lands for Rale, will do well to call on st id Co. at Boone. L. L. GREK & CO. March 16, 1893. NOTICE. Hotel Property for Sale. Oa account of failing health of myself and w ife, I offer for sale my hotel property in the town ot Boone, North Carolina, and will ell low for cash and make terms o Ruit the buyer, and will take real or personal property in ex change. Apply soon. W. L. Bkyan. S'otice. Vof srtle. 900 acres of land, on Rich Molintain, Watauga County, on which la asbestos, nnd fine land for sheep ranch, galea private. L D. Lowe & J. T. Furgerson, Ei'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed. Banner Elk, Nov. 1?, '90 . X01IC& . Parties nutting papers in my hand or execution will "pleo.se ad vance the fees with the papers and they will re ceive prom pt a tten tion , other wise they Will be returned not executed for the want of fees. D. P. Baikd Suff. BROWN! S IROll BITTERS cures Dyspepsia, In digestion Debility. WASHINGTON LETTER. Ftom oar Regular Correspondent. Speaker Crisp has cotr.ple. tH the committee assign ments, nnd he will announce them early thin week. Owing to there being iiocomnjittecM to which they could be referr ed, no bills have been intro duced in the House with the exception of that for t'te re peal ol the purchasing clause of the Sherman law, which wan taken up for considera tion under an agreement with out having been relet red to a committee, but a flood of them are ready to Jje intro duced as soon as the commit tees are ready for them. No sjeech made in the sil ver debate in the House which is now drawing to a close, was more carefully listened to than that if Representa tive McCreary, oi Ky. Gov. McCreary is a good talkerup on almost, any subject and the knowledge gained as one v tlteUnited States delegates to '.he international moneta ry conference added to the in 'Test of what iie had to say about silver. He be-an by stnl irg that he voted against ;he Sherman law which had been a failure and a'co'Iossal curse, and that lux favored the unconditional repeal "t-f tlie purchasing clause n n'd t he adoption of other legisla tion afterwards in a separate bill; und he impressed it up on the House that he was speaking as a friend of silver and not as its enemy. He said he favored international bimetalism and believed the repeal bid the best way to bring it about, and that the only safe path to free coin age was through an interna tional agreement. In reply to a question from Mr. Bland he stated that he was as much in favor of silver as that gentleman was. He also s re ted that to change the ra tio would be t ) destroy ev ery prospect (d an interna tional agreement. It was plain to all that the speech made aft impression On the members. The general beliei here, even among the radical silver men, is that the repeal will pass the House, altho' opinion differs as to the ma jority it will get. If any one has the idea that President Cleveland is idle while at gray Gables an ear ly morning visit to the office of his private secretary, in the White House, will show how erroneous such an idea is. A regular as the morning mail comes a big batch of official documents, representing the President's work of the day before, and just as regularly does private Secretary Thur- ber send a big package to the President. Everybody is laughing at the neat manner in which Sen ator Gorman sat down upon the representative of a New York paper which has lately been very bitter in its abuse of him for no better apparent reason than that he declined to take the aforesaid paper into his confidence. The oth er djy ju-st after an unusual ly bitter criticism of the Sen ator had been published nn uer a Washington date line, the Washington correspond ent of the pa jcr sent a man to nk Senator Gorman if he had any answer to make to the tirade. "Really ." replied the Senator, with one of Ins most beaming smiles, "I sel dom see that paper, and I have not heard of the article you refer to." With somecon fusion the man began to ex plain the nature ofthearticle but be was interrupted by Mr. Gorman, who carelessly remarked as he turned to speak to on of his colleagues: "The matter is not of t h e slightest importance, I as sure you." It is needless to say that the interview with Mr. Gorman was not wired to the paper. Neither Se?retary Hoke Smith nor Com. Loehren are worrying even a little lit o ver the resolution introduced into the Senate by Mr. Cal- linger, of N. II., providing for an investigation of t-e legality of their actions in suspending pensioner shown by I he records not to be en titled to the pensions they have been drawing. In fact, an investigation will be wel come,. and the mot e thorough it is made the better it will be liked. Meanwhile the mis pensions continue at an aver age of about 150 per day. At the ( lose of business Sat urday the total number of pensioners who hud beensus pended was 8,254. The report of a bill from the Senate committee on Fi nance for the unconditional repeal of thepurchasingclaut of the Sherman law put a stop to the .silly talk about the committee intentionally delaying a report on the bill. The nvority of the commit tee repeated a substitute bill, providing for the free coin age of sil'r at a ratio of 20 to 1. The bill authorizing the Na tional banks to increase their circulation is having many amendments offered to it in the Senate. One of them by Mr. Butler, of S. C, is for the repeal of the tax on State bank currency, ard it is re ported that one will be offer ed providing for free coinage at 20 to 1, in order to test the sentiment of the Senate. How Postage stamps are Made. Durham Sun. Every part of postage stamp making is done by hand. The designs areengra ven on steel; 200 stamps on a single plate. These plates are inked by two men, and then ate printed by a girl and a man on a large hand press. They ate driid as fast asprin ted, and then gummed wi'.h a starch paste made from po tatoes. This paste is dried by placiug the sheets in a steam fanning machine and then the stamps are subject ed to a pressure of 2,000 tons in a hidraulic press. Next the sheets are cut so that each one contains 100 stamps, af ter which the paper between the stamps imperforated, and after being pressed thesheets are filed away. If a single stamp is injured the whole sheet is burned. ti&One dodar p;ijs for the Democrat one ,yvar. rwollontle of Senators an4 lUprefa Commercial (JrtKtte, He. ! The Congress su in moned by President Clevpla nd contains 414 members, not counting the four territorial delegates. Of the 88 Senators 45 are pretty sure to vote solidly democratic, 38 republican, 3 pwple's and two doubtful. The youngest of them is Ed ward O. WolcoH, of Denver, Col. He was born in 1848 in Massachusetts, und is n law yer by profession. The old est is Justin S. Morrill, of Stafford, Vt., who was born in 1810 and now is a mer chant. Moreover, he is the Nester of Congress, having served thirty-nine 3 ears. The rest of the Senate is made up of 01 lawyers, 4 capitalists, three) journalists, 2 lumber men, 2 manufacturers, 1 iner chant, one railroad official, 1 miner, 1 stock raiser, 1 cai builder,T doctor. 2 bankers, 1 planter and 6 quarrymen. The rest put themselves down as "retired." Twenty of the Senators served in the Con federate a rrn during the war, and 10 in the Union army. The man with the longest time to serve is Walthall, of Grenada, Miss., who has been re elected by the legislature of his State for the term en 1 ing in 15)01. The most cul tured Senator is Henry Cab ot Lodge, of Massachusetts, who is an author, artist, lin guist, scholar, and society man. The handsomest is Charles H. Gibson, of Maryland. The most senatorial is Alfred H. Colquitt, of Georgia, whose father and grandfather sat in the Senate before him. The haughtiest is J. Donald Cam eron, of Pennsylvania, whose unique distinction is r.everto say a word in the Senate un less he moves to adjourn. The richest, now that Stan ford is dead, would seem to be John P. Jones, of Nevada, who bestows gold dollars on th beggars of Washington. The one most celebrated out side of bis own country is John Sherman, the one most abu8d is Matthew Stanley Quay, of Pennsylvania. The most punctilious is Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio, who changes his shirt three times every day. The most temperate is David B. Hill, of New York, who neither drinks, smokes, swears, g7unbles nor eats dainties. The strongest is William B. Allison, of Iowa, who could almost fell an ox with his fist. Free Lance: We tire often struck .vith the intense love of the Northern people for the negro. The people of "bleeding Kansas" have al ways been most demonstra tive in their deep and abid ing affection for the!"brother in black." We see from our exchanges that the negroes are being takeu from the South and being carried to Kansas to take the place of sti iking miners in that state. The colored brethren a re arm ed and drilled to fight the strikers and if one of themde dines to fight he is "throwu over the breast works" to the angry strikers. Truly their love for the negroes takes a strange way of expressing iUelf. A JVillir Lakt of Siberia. Ujxrapliieul Magnilne. At the flr-t View it tfn a va-t snow plain, surrounded by fields of ripening wheat. The great salt lake at01- dorsk is nine miles wide and seventeen miles long, yet, ex cept in a fw placet, it is wi ldly roofed over with a de posit of salt, which is getting thicker and thicker each year. Our guide, la an old man, said that he could .rcmemner when the salt crystals first begun to form on the surface of the water. Yeat by year, owiiig to the evaporation of the water, the crystals be come more numerous, and then caked together, till this great roof was formed. In 1878 the water bneath this salt-crystal roof found an underground outlet into the river Obi. This lowered the lake's surface about three feet, leaving that distunce be tween the water and the roof, Looking down through one of the openings tnad for the purpose in the roof, we saw a low-sided smail boat. Our gui le put us one at a time in to the boat. We lay fiat on our backs and looked up ot the beautiful suit ceilingover head. We propelled the beat by pushing with our hands against the irregularities of the roof. The guide held a lon rope attached to the boot, to pre vent our going too far nud getting lost, a thing he said it was easy to do. It was like a palace of en chantment, with the sun shi ning down through the salt crystals, the colors were so rich and wonderful. Many springs surround the lake. Thir water flows over the roof and evaporates there, and thus continually adds to its thickness. After many years the springs will probably become choke j with their own deposits, and then the whole will graduallj be come covered with earth and so a great salt mine will be formed a treasure for the Si berians hundreds of years to come. Wtint 0n of the Result! will be. The Engineering and Min ing Journal says that one of the results of the deprecia tion of silver and the closing of so many mines in the West will be 'evtval in gold mining which will extend to the South. While there has been, and is, some profitable gold mining in the South, it has not as a general thing been satisfactorily remunera tive, because our gold ores as a rule, especially where the water level is reached, con tain such a large percentage of sulphurets that the cost of reducing the ores and ex tracting the gold was, with the ordinary methods em ployed, too expensive. They were too cost ly, and in addi tion to this there was too much waste of the fine gold which escaped the concentra tors and floated off in the wa ter used for washing. But, with the improved methods devised, it is said that ores which heretofore were worth less, can now be profitably worked, and this will give an impetus to mining in tins sec t'ion.ihailotte Democrat. Bo tokeHrle Ail... MilMtoro, III.-. Dispatch. Mind reader A. J.Seymourj who proposes to remain r tf ied alive while a crop of bur ley is tnised n his grave had selected Dr. E. C. Dunn, of Rockford, as his manager Dr. Dunn says: "Far sev eral days Seymour will be fed upon a diet of fat and heat producing food. H e will then throw himself into a cat aleptic state, the lungs, . ill be" filled with pure air to full est Capacity, and the tongue placed bnck and partially down the tbrdat in such A manner as to completely close the lungs. "The nose, eyes, and ears will be hermetically sealed with wax. After parafflnehas been spread oyer the entire body to close the pores it will be ready for burial. "The body will be pdt Into an extra large casket. This will ne placed inside another and both will be perforated in order that if any poison ous gases exude from the body th?y may make their escape and be absorbed by the soil. The intern ent isto' be made in clay soil." " NOTICE. By virtue of an execution issu-ed front the superior ioiirt of atauga count von theUthday of Aug. 1893, in favor of th Morristown Mill Co., and against I.R..J. P. and T. A. Hagnman for the fcum of $198.40, with in terest on the same from the 1st day of April 1889 and for cost of action, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the court house dtfor in the town of Boone, N. C. on the 9tb day of Oct. 1893, the fol lowing described lands which have been levied on by me as1 the property of J. P. Haga i.i an to satisy said execution". 1st. One tract or boundary" of land lying on the watet s of Brushy Fork creek in this county, adjoining the lands of W. W. Presnell, N. H. Ship ley and others being the lands upon which E. L. Harman now lives, the same contain' ingsome40 acres more or less. 2nd. One tract lying on thewatersof Baird'Creek iu this county, adjoining the lands of G. W. McGhinnis, L, C. Earp, Elijah Isaacs and others, and known as the Sal lie Hagaman land, the same containing 75 acres more or less, and now in the posses sion of Joe. Cornells. This Aug. 21, 1893. D. F. Baird, Sheriff, NOTICE. B.V virtue of two execu'-tionr- Issued from the Superi or Court of Watauga county due on the 11th day of Aug., 189'lin favor of Jordan & Scott, and against W. 1. Blackburn and E. B. Miller for $25.00 with interest nnd cost, the other on the 21 st of June 1893, in favor of W, L. Bryan and against E 1L Miller for f 14.00 with inter est and cost, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door iu Boone, N. C, on the 9th day of Oc tober, 1893, the following de scribed tract or boundary of land which has been levied on by me as the property of E. B. Miller to satisfy said exf eution. To wit: A tract of land lying and being mostly on the west side of the Pine orchard and Riddle's Knob mountains, on the wraters of Long Hope creek in this Co. adjoining the lands of A. F. Davis, 1J. W. Finley, B. R. Brown and others, contain ing some 525 acres more or less and known as the steel binds. This Aug. 21st, 1893. 1). F. Baikd, Sheriff.
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