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Watauga,
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VKit 1.SSIOSAL.
HOONE, WATAUGA COU.VTW X.
rilUUSDAY, NOVEMBEU 10. 1893,
NO. (j.
w. p.. cor.wnx,
Attorney at I. a v.
1'iOOlie, N. f
W. B. COl NCN.L M. D.
lioon, x. c.
Resident Physician. Otlitf
on Kin: Stm t north of Post
Olfice.
I)U. L.C. REEVES.
Physician am Sirueox
Office at Residence.
Boone, X. C.
L. I), lowe,
Attorney at Law
AM
XOTAHY I'l'li Lir,
banners eek. x. c.
AHORSEYAl LAW,
MAK1 )N,
-(.)-
W'i'V ;.r;n tii i' i:t the courts o-Wnljirr-i.
Ashe. Mitchell, M low
!'i Mini nil other court it-s in the
.wMem li-liht CaTVj.i'ciaj ntten
(ion nivci to tin collection of
rliii!ir.."
r. i. (' But It t. Dr. T. C Blavkbiirn.
T.d!i Tenn. Zioiivillr, X. C.
Butler & Blackburn,
Piivsisians & S'jrgaan
lit.
ir(i lis xtt fin h'ri at all
June 1, '93.
E. F. I.OVILL. J. C. FLETCHER.
LOVILL & FLETGHEH,
ATlORXhYSAT LA'Y,
boone, x. c
Special attention given
to tint collation ofclainis.'a
L. L. GREENE, fc CO.,
REAL ESTATE AG'TS.
ItOQNE, N. C.
Will givi special attention
to abstracts of title, the sale
of Real Estate in W. X. C
Those hi' vine: varms, timber
and mineial lands for sale,
will do well to call on said Co.
at Bonne.
L..L. GREES k CO.
March 1G, 1893.
NOTICK.
Hotel Property (oi Sale.
Ob account of failing health
of myself and wife, I oriVr for nmIp
my hotel property in the town nt
Hooiir, North ('rtroliua, Hud will
w'11 low for rash and make terms
o unit the buyer, und will take
real : personal property in ex
shanKe. Applvsoon.
W. L. Hryan.
SOI ICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
pleise advance the tees with
the papers and they will re
cei ve prom pt a ttention, other
wise thev will be returned
not executed for the want, of
tees. D. F. Raird Shff.
FOR SALE!
In the town of Boone, a com
fortable dwelling house with
6 rooms and five fire daces,
with nine acres of land, good
ariwnir snmciinnlp npflfh il till
lestrmt trees, situated some
300 yards from Main street.
It is a desirable private resi
dence. The rlace will be sold
cheap on terms to suit the
purchaser, r or further par
ticulars apply to I. W.Thoni
as, HibriteiiN.Cor W. B.
Councill, Boone, N. 0.
A I ok and a oth?r.
It is m bright, serene and
marvelous cleat-day in Xorth
Dakota. Th prairie is cheek-j
red with grass and grain
fields. The little clump of
hand-planted tree me tos-
sing their brain -lies in thcam-'
ber air. Xow and then a
bird rhirps it roundelay, or
a vagrant butterfly reds
down a sunbeam and lights
upon their leaves.
The little vallage wheie I
am sojourning foi a few brief,
dclighiful days, lies steeped
in sunlight, and a broad,
brave sweep of undulating
years lies betreeu tne and
the hour when I was hire be
fore. Oh, that hour! It is
branded as with burning
irons into my brain, my
heart, my soul !
I sat.that day. of all days
in my lif. at the door of the
Xorth wood Headlight a pa
per I was editing then. Sud
denly I heard a cry of rage,
pathos, despair, 'ind spring
ing to my feet I looked down
the r nd to the. westward,
from whenee it came.
A block of .i0 men were
standing in front of the jail
."0 men in granger garb
."() men. with a hellish, erri
able purpose in their hearts.
They had taken a prisoner
!rom his cell. They htd pu'-
led bin) over the ih eshold
int ) the street, where he hud
n his haek panting with a
rope round his slim, white,
throat.
I remember that I stood as
if one t ransfixed and turned
to stone, while the mobstart-
ed off, voiceless, drugging its
victim through the dust.
Xot n word was spoken
not one. The only sound
that started the silence was
the tramp, tramp, tramp, of
the avengers and the awful
moans of the poor, bloody,
foaming creature haltered at
their heels. Men women and
ch ldien rushed to doors,
windows and porticos as the
hateful pocession passed their
lips sealed in speechless awe,
their faces blanched at the
atrocity of the spectH
Sick nt heart, I turned back
into my ofh'ce, but when 1
went to my hotel in the twi
light I saw a ghastly thing
that (iod had made high
swinging from a sycamore.
A storm sprang up at mid
night. Lightning tor the
skies .nto slivers of flame.
Thunders shook the world.
Hain fell in fury, and the
winds went shuddering
through vast black voids.
And through it all theghast
ly thing that God had made
upon i6sihhet sw ung 1
In the midst of the tempest
a traiu rolled up to the depot
and left one passenger in this
bttle town an old woman,
with soft, whitehair, bloomy
cheeks and sweet, bright,
kindly, eyes. She went to
the one hotel, registered and
retired. The landlady met
her in the morning and re
marked. ,-l hope you rested wll,
madam, for it was a rowdv
storm we had."
,l0h, yes," said the old wo
man, with a auribea my smile.
"I rested well, though it. was,
as you say, a rowdy strum.
But I took a bappy heart
with m o ImmI, nnd if is a
happy hear I have this mor
ning, for I will meeting son
today my Cyril, whom I
ha ve not hhmi f r s veil yea rs.'
Have you traveled far?''
'Yes, ma'am from Massa
chusetts," she Maid, running
to the door. "But what is
that?"
"Oh. it's n young man
they lynched vistidv a boss
thief, they said an they'er
kerryin his budytothe cor-1
oner's. 'Twas a shame, his
hangin, fur he was a real
handsome feller, perlite and
clever, an I sez to Jeremiah
that's my husband I sez
to him this very mornin. that
1 didn't believe as how the
boy had done it an "
The four men carrying the
dead upon a stretcher, were
passing the door. The body
was covered with a cloth, but
one hand feli below its folds,
and on that hand there spar
kled a quaint hoop of twist
gold, clasping a staro pal that
glittered in the sun.
The old woman saw it, her
face grew gray. A maniac
light leaped into hereycs.and
tearing the cloth from the
corpse she shrieked:
My son! Mr Cyril!"
The men laid the burden at
her feet. She knelt over it,
tangled her finger in the
golden locks and pressed her
lip- upon the beautiful dumb
lips of her dead boy.
Silence.
The landlady leaned for
ward with tears running
d.own her fa -e, and sobbed.
"Come with me, ma'am."
Silence.
'"Ma'am do do come with
me."
A doctor stepped forward,
lifted the bent brow and
whispered lustily, "She is
dearM"
I hate a mob with a haired
that burns in every atom of
my st use nnd soul. It is
Christless as it is crual cruel
as it is cowardly. The rav
ing devils w ho compose it are
craven all. Not one of them
dare meet single the victim of
its wrath. Not one of them
dare tisk singly the conse
quences of its crimson crime.
W.Il K. mSntiminylikide.
Keidsvillo Weekly: The st rug
gle is over, so far as Congress
is concerned. The silver men
have made a gallant fight.
They have a right -to be
proud of their course. The
people will standby them. Of
this we have not the least
doubt. They have stood firm
against tremendous pressure
brought o bear upon then
Senator Vance gave Home i-
dca of it in his speech at the
Stare fair in which he told
how lie had been begged and
threatened and worked on by
the lobbyists sent to Wash
ington by the bankers and
gold-bugs. With all the pat
ronage at his disposal, great
er than that of any ruler on
earth, the President has not
been able to carry his party
with him. "Yon have dicta
ted the terms to uu," said
Senator Gorman, an Admin
istration leader, nddressing
John Sherman and his repu1)
bean allies in the Senate last
Saturday. A femocraticAd
ministration led by John
Sherman! Vt hat a humilia
ting confession for a demo
erotic Senator to make I
Sratly Too Ceatrriei 0'1.
The Great ir of a Waited Athote
on the I'ariflr toat.
The birgest whale w hich ev
er eat ere. I this harbor, nnd
one of the largest ever seen
on this coast, wnshed ashore
at Tokebind Monday, says
the South Bend Heiald. The
news was immediately brou
ght back by one of the mor
ning ste tmei, nnd the after
noon passenger boats were
crowded to their greatest ca
pacity by the throngs w h o
weir anxious to see the mon
ster.
The fish en me in on high
tide, and lies Just below the
bat ll house ,)f ( 'ha l ies Fisher.
It was alive and kicking and
did not finally surrender its
lease on existence Until Tiles-
day about noon. County At
torney M. 1). Fdgbert had ta
ken along a tape line and
caiffu'lv in -a su red the mon
ster. The line showed the ex
treme length of 174 feet and
8 inches, with a 'waist meas
ure' of 11 feet and 0 inches.
County Surveyor L. C. Vick-
rey figuied on the weight of
the 'animile' and pronounced
this member of the bahenoi
den family to weigh forty-seven
und one-half tons, and the
blubber and whale bone to
be worth at current prices,
oil, $9,793; boae 1,000; ma
king a net total of $ 10,79".
Attorney L E. Grinn at
tempted to compute the age
ot the subject under consider
ation, and concluded from
the transeverse lines on the
baleen that this fish had ex
isted for 9SG years, hacking
but fourteen years of having
lived the longest term of
whale lile. The pectoral fins
are twelve fet long and sev
en feet broad; the mouth is
twenty -four feet long, the
blow holes eighteen inches in
length, nnd the half hundred
baihctsinthe water at the
time it came ashore say the
noise of spouting was deafen
fng and the spray ejected nt
least fifty feet in the air. The
thrashing of the tail in the
water in the struggle to re
gain the channel' was heard
at McGowan's cannery at the
month of North Hiver, four
miles away. County School
Superintendant L. W. Fans
her furnished some historic
al facts in regard to the
whale. Alfred the Great had
been deid but six years whea
his whaletdiip began to navi
gate the waters of the earth.
The old boy was 120 yeais
old when William the Con
querer was born, ami may
have been playing off Eng
lish shores w hen he was made
king. He was on earth at
the time of making the great
charter at Ilunnamede, he
was middle aged when the
pilgrims landed ut P 1 y m -
outh Bock, and probably-
looked upon the wars of fa
poleon, the American Revo
lution nnd Civil War with
many a sad sigh and shake
of the head for the ruthless
slaughter of humanity.
Charlotte Observer: Twn-
ty-seven years ago a lady
movfd away from Charlotte
leaving a large wash pot
which she owned in charge of
n neighbor. The ' neighbor
heard nothing of her after
she left, until yesterday hhe
wrote a postal asking that
her wash-pot le shipped to
her right away. She made
no ii.quiry for nny one of the
f tmily, all he was interested
in was the pol. It was ship-
imm! her forthwith, with no
extra charge for storage.
The Fresleut;i TkanWIflng Pro-
rlatnatioa.
President Cleveland last
Friday issued the following
Thanksgiving proclamation:
While the American people
should every day remember
the praise and thanksgiving
the divineijoodiiess and mer
cy which have followed them
since tVir beginning as n. na
tion, it is fitting that one
dav in each vear should be
devoted to theconlemplation
f th bless'njrs we ha ve re
ceived from the hand of God
and to the grateful acknowl
edgment of His loving kind
ness.
Therefore 1. Grover Cleve
land, President, of the United
States, doh'irby designate
and s-t apart Tinned ay, the
30th dav of the present
month of November, as a day
of Thanksgiving and praise
to be kept and observed by
all the people of our land.
On thatday let us forego our
ordinary work and enipov-
ment and assemble in our us
ual places of worship, where
we may recall nil that God
has done for us, and where
from grateful hearts our uni
ted tribute of praise nnd
song may reach the Throne
of Grace. Let the reunion of
kindred and the social meet
ing of friends lend cheer and
enjoyment to the day, and
I ?t geuerous gifts of charity
for the relief of the poor and
needy prove the sincerity of
our thanksgiving.
Witness my hand and the
seal of the United States,
which I have caused to be
herto n nixed.
Done at the City of Wash
ington on the third day of No
vember, in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and
ninety-three, and of the Inde
pendence of the United
Statefttheone hundred and
eighteenth.
(iiioveu Cleveland.
By the President:
Walter Q. Gresham,
Secretary of State.
Landmark: Judge Richard
Clark, of the Georgia Super
ior Court bench, has aban
doned the practi-eof swear
ing juiortf and witnesses on
the Bible. Witnesses and
jurors, when they are sworn
in Judge Clark's court, sim
ply raise their right hand. The
departue is a commendable
one. A witness intends swear
ing a lie will not be deterred
by the fact that he has kiss
ed a Bible. Further, this
practice of kissing a Bible,
which is kept in court and
kissed by all classes and con
ditions of people-until it is
slick with crease and tilth-is
dangerous to health and re
pugnant to the feelings of
ieople who have a proper re
gard for cleanliness. The
Superior Court judges of
North Carolina would do
well to emulate the example
of Judge Clark.
W01AI1 W0RI AT HOME.
A man in New York who
never heard the fonp of "Old
Grumble" asked his Wife how
she occupied herself during
the day. As to the house
work nnd domestic dutiea
the man declared it wojid
take him about n half hour
daily to perform it all. T!:
young woman writes to a
newspaper for ndvice as '
how 6he is to convince hei
husband that herlife is not k
primrose path of dalliance.
She explains that she has
three children to take care ofj
the oldest four 3-ears old and
the youngest eight months
old ; six rooms to clean and
arrange, besides general
housework, washingand iron
ingand sewing for the fam
ily. The woman is of the o
pinion that her husband
could not do all this in half
an hour. 'Old Grumble, and
his wife lived in the country.
Mrs. Grumbe had no chil
dren to mind, but she had
various other live nni?ul
whi.-h were nearly astrt uble
some, and rhen Mr. Grumb'e
d'Vl.-red that he could '!
more woik in a day t'nn his
wife could do in three, a h e
quietly assented nhd went to
the field to plow, leaving the
old man to perform her work.
He first went to milk the cow
but she would not stand still
and finally kicked the pail o-
ver and spilled ul.'. the rnlk
Then he fe1 the pigs and
struck his head against the
beams and the hair began to
fly. Jle forgot the the fat on
the fire and it went into
flames. He went to wind the
bobbin and forgot the old
speckled hen and she laid as
tray. After many other tills
adventures he begari to look
up at the sun, thinking that
it was a very long day and
his wife would never come
She came at last, however,
and when her weary and de--
pressed spouse told her all
his trouble she gave him no
other sympathy than the ex
pression of the wish that it
had been double. The result
of the experiment was t h a t
Mr. Grumble vowed byallthe
stars In heaven that his wife
could do more work in a day
than he yould in seven. This
is a valuable suggestion to
the young woman in X. Y. If
she would go out one d.-.y
and leave the partner o? it .
joys nnd sorrows to nurs't!
baby he would probably st
rive at Mr. (J rumble's conch i
Rion. Baltimore Suii.
If a nrooer recognition of
a a j
silver and a material reduc
tion of the tariff are not se
cured during this administra
tion, a union of the South
and West will not be diffiiult
to effect. Such an alliance
may bringabout results that
will cause gnashing of teeth
on Wall street. Those of the
Sherman law may not have
reckoned the cost of the ac
complishment of that end.
It is all well enough if a sub
stitute is supplied, otherwise
who can foretell the result?
One possibility that hover?
ghost-like over the nfj.fbe
grave of silver ic a!r.r;!iiir; to
b.-hoK. May wr uevcu-come
to witness reality to which it
seems to bec kon us on. ( lin
ton Democrat.