ocrat
VOL (J
liOOXE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, rilUKSDAY AUGUST. 30, 1894,
NO. 4G.
Watauga
You
Don't
Have
To Die
To get your insurance under the
Tontine Plan of the EQUITABLE LIFE.
It is a simple and absolutely safe
means of investing your earnings for
future emergencies and acquiring
the benefit of Life insurance at the
same time. It insures yon a means
of support in after years and insures
your family against want in case of
your death. The name of the
Equitable Life
alone is an ironclad agreement of
nfcty. Its security; its contracts;
its surplus and resources are not
excelled in the world. Wc will
make all this as plain as day to you
if you will send your aildrjsa to
W. J. RODDCY, Manager,
Department of the Carolinas,
ROCK HILL, S. C
MOFESSIOXAI.
W. II. COUNCILL, J u.
Attorney at La .v.
Boone, X. C.
W. I?. COUNCIL L, M. I).
Boone, X. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
J. F 1I0RPIIKW,
A110IISEYA1 LAW,
MARION, X.C
-(o)-
Will practice in the courts of
Watauga, Ashe, Mitchell, McDow
ell and all Uher counties in the
western district or Special utten
tion given to the collection of
W. B. Coiint lll X. I. T. C. Blackburn.
Boone, X. C. Zionvillo, X. C.
Councill & Blackburn,
Physicians & Surgeons.
'Calls attended at all
hours.
June 1, '93.
E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER.
LuVILL & FLETCHER
ATlORNhYSATLAW,
BOOXE, X.
Special attention given
to the rolletion ofclaims.&
L.L. GREENE, & CO.,
REAL ESTATE AG'TS.
- HOUSE, N. c.
Will give special attention
to abstracts of title, the sale
of Real Estate in W. X. C.
Those he vintf farms, timber
and inineial lands for 8ale,
will do well to call on said Co.
at Boone.
L. L. GllEE. & CO.
March 16, 1893.
NOTICE.
Hotel Property for Sale.
On account of failing health
of myself and w ife, I offer for Hale
my hotel property in the town ot
Boone, North Carolina, and will
jell low for cash and make terms
to suit the buyer, and will take
real or. persoual property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. Bjiyan.
mi ice.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
pleise advance the fees with
the puH.-re and they will re
ceive prompt attention, other
wise they will be returned
not. executed for the want ol
tees. D. F. Baikd Shff.
WASH I XGT( )X LKTTE R.
Prom oar Regular Correipoudent.
President Cleveland will
not, according tc those who
ought to know, definitely de
cide what action he viP take
on the tariff bill until he re
turns from Gray Gables,
whither he was driven by a
troublesome attack of mul
aria; but that only relate
to details, as it is regarded
as fully settled that the bill
shall become h law. In fact,
certified copies of the bill are
now on the way to every col
lector of customs, so that
when it becomes a law it will
only be necessary to tele
graph the collectors to have
It put. right into effect. The
President will return this
week.
In some quarters there is a
disposition to believe that
the Murphy resolution, a
gainst further consideration
of tariff legislation, which
was adopted by a vote of 27
to 10 a bare quorum by
the Senate, may be the cause
of the tariff bill being vetoed.
It is, of course, well-known
that Piesident Cleveland is
inu -h interested in fhe seper
ate bills placing coal, iron
ore and barbed wire on the
free list, and desires to see
them become laws, and it is
equally well-known that the
Murphy resolution was in
tended to kill those bills for
the present session. It was
stated when the Houso Dem
ocratic caucus which resulted
in the passage of the Senate
Tariff bill was in session that
the Democratic stearmg corn
mittee of the Senate had giv
en a pledge that that these
separate bills, and that pro
viding for free sugar should
be voted upon by the Senate
before adjournment, if the
House would accept the Sen
ate amendments to the Wil
son bill, and it is believed
that with jut that pledge the
House, would not have act
ed. These things were all
known to Mr. Cleveland, but
those whose opinions would
carry weight will not at this
time express them, as to
w hat, if any, effect 1 heSenate
resolution mar have on the
fate of the tariff bill.
An official statement made
bj the dispursing clerk of the
Department of Agri-ulture
shows that the reduction in
the expenditures of that de
partment for the fiscal year
ending Jur.e 3rd 1891, was
slightly in excess of 14 per
cent, and that nearly JfoOO,
000 of the annual appropria
tion made for the depart
ment was unexpended and
would be covered buck into
the Treasury. That's t h e
kind of a Democrat Se?re
tary Morton is. In this con
nection it is well to call at
tention to another official
fact calculated to impress
people with the idea that the
Democrats in Congress are
livingup to the party pledges
of economy in public expend
iture, if they haven't gone as
far in some other direction
as they tnignt nave gone.
Fhe total amount appropriat
edat this session of Congress,
according to the figures of
Chairman Snyers, of t h e
House appropriation com
mittee, is ?28,8.T,9S9 less
than the total appropria
tions made at the last ses
sion of Congress. In other
words, the Government has
been saved just that much.
Representative Bland pre
vente J the bi-metallic league
endorsing the Populists at
the conference held here last
week. He simply told the
other members of the com
mittee, when thr. chairman
of the Pop ilist national com
mittee asked that his party
be endorsed, that if the lea-
A. I A t
gue was to ue turned into a
Populist machine he and
other Democrats would draw
out. The committe decided
to endorse nothing but sil
ver and to use its entire ef
forts to secure the election of
silver men to the 51th Con
gress, and issued an address
in accordance with that de
cision.
The old rumor that Secre
tary Carlisle was about to
retire from the cabinet came
out as spry as though it h id
not ueen Killed a dozen or
more times, during the last
.1 a .
tnreeor lour days, it was
preceded by the rumor that
Secretary Carlisle s letter to
Senator Harris, who is act
mg chairman of the Senate
finance committee in ac
count of sickness of Senator
Voorhees, concerning the ti
fect the bills passed by the
House, placing on the free
list sugar, coal, iron ore, and
barbed wire, would have up
on the revenues of the gov
ernment if fivorably acted
upon by the Senate, had
been written without Presi
dent Cleveland's knowledge
and that it had caused a
coolness between the two
mm. Xever was a story
built upon a falser founda
tion. Although Secretary
Carlisle's letter was written
in accordance with the rou
tine custom, in answer to
the usual inquiry made by
the chairman of the nuance
committee of the Secretary
of the Treasury concerning
contemplaied legislatioa. it
can be positively stated that
President Cleveland tvas fully
informed of its contents be
fore it was sent. It contain
ed, by the way, not a word
of argument for or against
any bill; merely an estimate
of the revenue that would be
retail ed or lost. It is doubt
less whether any President
ever enjoyed closer relation
with his Secretary of the
Treasury than Mr. Cleveland
does with Mr. Carlisle, and
all talk of coolness between
them is simply rot not de
serving any one serious con
sideration. Charlotte Observer: We can
easily believe the story that
the Raleign News and Obser
ver tells about a certain chat
which Capt. W. H. Kitchin is
alleged to have had recently
at Goldsboro. He is the
most candid of men and if he
believes that Messrs. Fair-
oth and Furi-hes are not fit
for the Supreme Court ueneh
he is the very man to say sd.
Ttiefact is that, however
well the Populist party may
suit some people and it does
tit some to. a chair tapt.
Kitchin has'no proper place
in it. He is a Democrat and
should come back to the per
ty to which he naturally belongs.
t'iom Xouutalu to Ocean.
Editor Democrat:
On Tuesday morning, the
21th ult., we joined a compa
ny of about 1 hirty-fi ve Indies
and gentlemen at L-Mioir f r
Lineoluton, w here we joined
another company of abou
five hundred for a trip t the
Atlantic coast. The crowd
was the most orderly for its
sizetlut I have ever seen in
all my travels from tlx' At
lantic to the Pacific. Noth
ing on iii red to mar the plea
sine of the trip. Mr. Ram
sour s'M'tie d lo be as fit in as
the hills and ms sure as the
waves of t lie ocean. Oil! ob
servation on the way reveal
to us the fact t fiat crops we; e
never more promising. We
passed through some fine sec
tions oi the Old N'orth State,
also some very swampy conn
try which sei-med to be the
paradise of frogs and mi.sqni
toes. Their music greeted our
ears at every step in that
section, and the mosquito al
ways presented his bill as
soon as his song ceased.
Some of the stopping pla
ces through the swampy sec
tion was very lonely indeed,
as tin ;e wan nothing to be
heard save the chatting of
the frogs upon the tnssicks
ana logs. There had been
some rain all along the line
which made our trip pleas
ant and fine. Wc arrived in
the city of Wilmington at 10
o clock on the night ot the
2Jth. It is a very nice place,
though not what I expected
to see for a place of 25,000
inhabitants. Her business
houses will not come up with
those of smalbr places that
I hne visitel.
On the 23th the excursion
ists were taken on a special
car to Wrightsville a n d O-
cean View, where we saw ma
ny beautiful things. I have
not words sufficient to ex
press my admiration of these
places. The day was spent
principally in surf bathing,
fish dinners, etc. All sorts
and sizes were riding the
waves during the entire day.
Some of the bathingsuitsdid
not tit very nicely. Mr. A.. J.
Fletcher had on one that re
minded me very much of a
cinnanunbear standing er
ect. He got his nose and the
back of his head badly sun
burned, but he is now impro
ving and will be all right as
soon as he peals off.
We returned in the evening
to Wilmington to spend the
night. On Thuisday uiorn
in at 9 o'clock ul.irst the en
tire crowd boarded the stea
mer 'Wilmington' for a trip
to Southpoit and a ride out
upon the ocean. The ride
down the Cape Fear River
was a pleasant one. Capt.
Harper was m charge of the
boat. We passed many pla
ces of historic interest as we
sailed down the stream.
When we arrived at South
port, many of the passengers
landed, fearing the waves of
the mighty deep. After this
Capt. Harper turned his ves
sel seaward, and in a few min
utes we were being rocked oy
ola ocean's waves, and in a
very short time probably a
hundred were sea-sick. The
vessel was considerably light
er on its return to fresh wa
ter than when it entered the
brine.
Several nice black fish wre
caught while nt8a. Several
large schools of fish showed
themselves to us. We saw one
fish about the size of a man
jump out of the water. I
guess it was trying to escape
from the morseah that were
unwillingly thrown over
hoard. Many funny expres
sions were made on board.
One man asked the captain
to drive on to the top of the
hill so that we could see down
on the other side; annth-.i
said they must have had u
heavy rain down this wav as
the water seems to be up.
We then returned to South
Port where we stopped for
one and a half hours, during
which rime wewalkedatonnd
and took in the town, and in
the round we took a fish din
ner down. We then boarded
the8teamer for Old Bruns
wick, not far from the coast
up the Cape Fear River where
we landed for half an hour
and took a glance at the ru
ins of the oi l historic church
known as St. Phillip's. There
is nothing much to be seen
but the walls. They are neai
three feet thick and about
twenty feet high. The brick
were brougnt from England
in sail-boats, and the church
was built a little over two
hundred years ago. It is the
oldest looking place I have
ever seen.
As we returned to the river
we saw much signs of the old
fort near the river at that
point. We again boarded the
steamer for Wilmington and
spent the night in that city.
On Friday morning, July
27th, at 8 o'clock, we took
the train for the mountains.
We had lots of good music
on every occasion; it being
furnished by the Mt. Holly
nana. I have never heard a
much better band upon the
ocean or the land. I will now
close by saying the trip was
a ve; y pleasant one to me in
deed. F. M. 1 1 oi, six. aw.
Amantha, X. C.
Bristol Courier: If a man
were to give another an
orange he would merely say,
'I give you this orange," but
when the transaction is en
trusted to the hands of a law
yer to be put in writing, he
adopts this form. "I hereby
give, grant and convey to
you all and singular my es
tate and interest, right, title
claim and advantage of and
in said orange, together with
all its rind, pulp, and pips
therein, with full power to
bite, cut suck and otheiwise
eat the same, or give the
same away, as fully and ef
fectually as I, the said A. B.,
am entitled to bite, cut, suck
or otherwise eat or give the
same away, with or without
its rind, skin, juice, or pulp,
anothing herein before or
hereinafter or in other deed
or deeds, instrument or in
stuments of what nature or
kind soeyer to the contrary
in any wise notwithstand-
Messenger: The tinplatein
dustry is already booming
under the prospect otthe pa
sage ot the Gorman bill. It
leavesthe tax high 12 pr
cent. The people who ' eat;
canned goods, use tin pans,
dippers, pails, &c, wi";l pay
42ercent tax. Very high!
Why such a tax? It violates
Democratic law andpiomise.
Keep Toar PaatiOa, CWrk Tkopnt
NevH and Observer.
Clerk John W. Thompsoni
of this city, who went to
W rightsville with the Mason
ic excursion weigh 8 2G0
pounds. Mr. George Nor
wood w eighs 2G1 pounds.
It happened thatthese two
gentlemen donned a bathing
suit each, and were disport
ing themselves in the surf to
the delight of hundreds on
the beach who were attract
ed by their shapes.
Til'" ! withing suits at
Vr:.-htville ha v.- b.-ui hi
heranrifsg or the two in
qnetlion had b-.v-u j.nd the
rafters of those PtsiU v. re
weather beaten a:d weak.
Thus it came about that
when Mr. Norwood took lib
erties with himself in the wa
ter and. imagining he was a
boy again, tried to be gay,
the split from the woof like
the Populist from the Demo
cratic Party, and. in the
words of the late Mr. Tenny
son left Mr Norton ''half re
vealing, half concealing" him
self.
It was during one of Mr.
Norwood's spasms of embar
rnsment, that Mr. Thomp
son joined in the chorus of
laughter from the beach-but
the privilege of laughter did
not go with the suit. Mr.
Thompson's friskiness foon
brought him to rnin. A vi
cious wave struck him when
he vras tense with Jiirth at
his companion, when he felt
a giving a ay of something
and found himself strictly de
collete.
Suits were thrown from the
shore, but were swept out to
a, a r .
sea. Meanwhile, as ooutnern
gentlemen the two victims
had to keep up to their necks,
t rea d i n g wa ter u n t i 1 a ch a nge
ol clother should come.
In the midst of all this,
Commissioner of Labor Lacy
our 125 pound feather,
weight, made himself invalu
able as a steering committee
on bathing suits and finally
succeeded in putting one in
the hands of the needy two.
But not the most uninter
esting part of thedrarna was
the purting on of the pants
by Clerk Thompson. This
was watched with intensa in
terest from the shore. The
legs were to small for the
genial clerk, but this was
easy. Treading water all
the while, the gentleman sim
ply donned two suits, using
bodies for legs, Lac.v making
rapid eycnr'ioi's back and
foj-rh ah the while. Lacy
was indispensable. '1 hey
could not have done without
him. Had he not been there
they would have had to wait
until night, which would
have been too bad. But not
so. Lacy was valet during
the whole performance; he
helped the gentlemen dress;
without him, the toilets
could not have been made.
As it was, Clerk Thompson
hacked out for the first time
in his life. He had to. It was
wrong tor the crowd to look
at him as he escaped, bat
that may be put down to
vuglar curiosity. The next
tune Clerk Thompson goes
in bathing at. Wrightsvillehe
should geo his pants naif sol
ed and clinched with brads.
He owes it to himself and to
his fellow-citizens. For he is
a public man and undeserved
exposure will not be tolerat
ed bv his host ol friends.