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T .Democrat II 1 i VOL 7 BOOKE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, THUltSDAY MAEOH 14 1895, N0.19 fV1. '-'v.-; it WASHINGTON .LETTER. "' From our Regular Correspondent ; ' President (Ilevelnnd eei tnin t1,v had cause to bt glnd when the fall oi the tfu vela ''or. Vice President Stevennon and Speaker Crisp nifnonrieed the legal end of the Fifty-third ConftreHsl It not helii'Ved A thai, anj' other President Iimh ever had as hard a phj'Kical ' t auk i m poaed u pon 'pn . hh nan oeen -perioniwl py trei -dent Clevnd iithtf Jawf 4N hour of a I --jost . con t i n nu I work of the niowt ivte.rih nort. Up to Saturday only .two of tlte thirteen regular appropriation 1 U1 had be uouiejn ws and unpreewlent- red Hote of avail s and eijclit of them were Ht ill in ' eonfer- euee. -Sinee then they Jinve all lieen.nrteil upon. To pet an idea of the enormous a- mouut.of work -the. I'leHident had to perform it must be rf. ,nieinbered that toeMiiore im portant of thw appro prla- . titm bills eonsist f hundreds of payes of : itemized nppro- ; priations. and that President - Cleveland never ' siima hi nnme to an.y tiling without knowing just what it is,rJil- ; ; f thoiih he Iwd in ihiaeaae (o sin Anils rontniniiik items i nd amendments that were " - bjet'tioii.i.ole, ; because t lie not lw vetoed wrthout ;inak i n a n i in ined iateext ra : ses ,v;;5idoii neWsa ry , " oltnfljTiijr that lie hal uo desire to 'do, f if it oulit po8sildy be; a voi l- Vcl; Laier on iliere may Mid ve -to Im mi extrn -nesHum of Con ;"V;ress railed; but there is at v prf-serrt ji jjood prosjMHtt of :iscapinjr:Mt, entirely,1 v unless ; ther shall be another run on ;j theTreasnry tor void. ",;v ) :7.--""lt is f;shioiuble: to abuse Vv-' . . Con jrrt'ss, but when, fne taken Wi? the "tr)iilder;t(yVo I'arefnlly; ffv over the work theFifty' "r ;.'t!ii('d Congress,- it will be seen trry "buse ifroia' niiybody ' ami rH or;,,!n8 from .Deiho , 'XM. . 'fniR,i this i Congress 't v'.:did'7not.' iiiie4;Mhe? expeeta tionaDrthe President as to -:1finnnchl leislition,bnt'wh.v vwaa it? 1 he Democra tic par rW-;7';Mj '. ha olwnyK taught thafjal; 1 am (yei joyed io ineet TirAi'-" tlie first lintv of a Senator or vou again. ;Ymi had me in i-;: f : Re preHen ta t i y wa s to reire .Bent his const ituents.rAVell, i ' that is prvc-isely what the Pemocrata in ihe Senate and House of 1 he Fiftythird Con- :' ; KreHv'did,';a nd t hat'. is. why f, there; was no Mlnancial legjh- i-: lation Mfsident Cleveland : - -realized this, and he him had aqa r bo yrbnlpt? abuse for Con '"J', - pressmen who Ptood by t he - views, of their constituents, - ? , although he has not hesitat- :ed to express the opinion that those views were wrong nud that time rwodln convince "those who hel j; thein :,if Mhe ; It is not often that mem ; l.era of the ofipositiuu party pay ns hiftb a tribute to the ." nbility and patriotism of a - rnember. of , the yabiuet as " v . Cenatot Aldriclv,"of Rhode Lland. nnd Lodge.' of Mns- Mchusetts, did to Secretary Herbert if their Mieecbe8 jn tha CctMte against a rediie- tinri of Secretfiiy Herbert's . ' . . i - T I ' ( iir.atH lor. rne iavai aj-r"-rr' ition. &cretury ller- belt has eyery right to feel proud ol mch compliments, deserted though they were. 0ie of the surprises of th last week" of Congress was that Smatoi Chandler, ( 'Lit tle fiilly") of New Hampshire, Hhoiild have dared with 'his record, tinaniial iind politi cal, to have - nttacked the honesty of 'other Senators. It. may have been unparlia mentary ;.' for Senator HH who. gave . 'Littln ' Billy"':a terrible tongue thrashing,.to ivfer.to him as a 'Miyena," fyut- its aptnchs excused its use in that particuhtr case. Senator Ala rtm alter saying tfiat he "..had. heard'' it said that if Chandler had his dest erts he would be in the -peni tentiary instead of the Sen-' a'p referred Mo' 'Cbau'dler nsj a ."buzzard'.", who wit lii tin; nest of an eiigle and "vciinit-. ed forth its filth on every-' o-ca'sioni'"---- While a dispute vhs going on as to whether SenatorMartin's word sliould be taken (Uwn he said that he would wit hl raw 4 he ol j'ctiunahle w-ords from "' ke-. specr to the Senate, but his witlnlio w;al of 1 hem - would nrtt'i-harige his belief in their truth. '' . , . ' President; Cleveland." a n d Secivfary Ca rtisle, who ha ve be'ii for quite awhile ,tw of the hardest worked offlcials of t lie governuientC,wiIl this wvk Ntai t a h'liitirig aiid tjshinjrip alougMhe Cafoji ua ()a st v : TheyV h n'Ve;.; cer t a i uly ea rned a vaca u in i , a ml ; ver-jrl'io'dy ; hopes'', t hey will enjoy it and return ' with renewed st rength t o their aidnoua dutivs. : ? j - : . Among those w hoextended congratulations to Postmas ter General WilsoiKwho suc- elsMr. Jisseli, was aeneml John E. . Mulford, ol iNevv York," now visiting his o' tviiie colleague ill .the arrange mWits for the" excha age of Union 'and (5 mi federate pris oner s Uepiesenta t Tve H a tch; hi Missouri .i- It was the first time thTit Mr.,:: Wilson hal met (Jeti, M alTord in.)e the vvar. Uiaspmg nun warmly by the hand t he, new Post- njaster .General said; t'Genef- ennrge as a pns()ner,-or war, 1 1m ve never forgotten from tlm t hour Mo this your sol dierly beaiiiift, your" genuine courtesy , and the Wndlyvin- terest you tdolr in eyery pns oner on your boat on that occasion. J gj eetf yon" with the greatest kindness and re- rrec()ininehd,Chainberlainf8 Pain Balm for rheumatism, lame back, sprains niid swel lings.:.! There 4s no better lin 4 meat made.,-1 have sold, o vei-100 bottles pt it tinsyear and nil werepljiHel M ho user it. - "J ," V. Pierson,' d ruggist South Chicngo, III. ft isMor sa le by L.. 13 ry a n; ; T Press and (?ar(dlnian:. The Democrats of Catawba coun ty are now inbre determined nnrf more solidified than they hare been for ; several years Thv are thoroughly disgust ed yea, downright absolute ly mortified and humiliate with recent events and the re sultjvof Fusionism tosuch an extent that now, they swear -eteruiil alh'giane fbth De'tn ocratiu party rinr.or.wong Death of George W. Dagger. - 3elieving that my father's rel atives and friends would like to know the uartii'ulars of his death I proceed to chronicle .the sad story, lie and Mr. N. 0. Clay had drilled a hole in thu bottom of a shaft tliat .vas fifty-six feet deep, at the Baker gold mine in Caldwell county. Mr. Clay had been winlessedout, leaving father to load the hole. He took a piece of paper from his pocket and with it. came a match,.. He Jnid. the paper down and then laid the match on top of the paper. Fa ther's eyes were failing, and with only the-. 'lim light that came down the shaft, a match was n thing easily overlooked. While putting in the powder, he forgot the match, and folding it in the paper he put them both in th hole. together ana pushed them down witli the -hammer handle. The object of the pn per was to kcepjthe powder, f oni mixing with the clav with -which he w:jh going to confiuerit. Whih settling the poV ler down 'vith strokes of the hammer handle, th mutch ignited jmd fired the owdei As the iioise of theihot died a- way, thosejtm top of the ground heard a deep gioan below. They i tpked down the' shaft and call ed, "Oh! Mt Dugger," reeated v, but tilery came no reply. . One (f them ran for help, but; before lie returned,- father had come to ife, and 'called in a tone faintly audible,- for them to get hiin out of the smoked His clothes were on flre and they were put outby hukets: pf water being poured down the Bhaft.' Help soon ar rived, and jvheh he was placed in tie liucki&'-'lie had strength i t7i balance lumselt ana vome up a- one. Hisi hands were almost dt-' stroyed and his arms, were bro ken to pieces tromMite ejbows dowi. - Both eyes were put out and his face badly rnangied .by small fragments of rock and bur ning gniins of powder, .' skul was trnctured above his Meffc eye and a piece of stone, the size of a grape shot, had entered his right- breast and passing through both lungs hod bulged t he skin -on the opposite side. When he breather t he air passed in and out. of the hole in; his breast like the suction of a bellows. The good . .people who waited on hiin in his dying hours, fcaid that it did not look to them like he could have lived a iuiuute; and yet with all . those wonnas, ne snrviveq irom inree in the evening until xiineat night Just after being rescued from the. nil he told, with precision just how the accident happened He asked if his arms were broken called tor a bottle" of medicine which he had, and for water Later on he beyan .to .rattle m fiis throat fromaccumnlation of blood, and although b) made ef- for 4 to talk, he never got fur ther than to say. repeatedly. want .. V He was born Apn 29, 1830,; and died Feb. 25, '95 Iremeinlier him in the- eenith of his manhood, when I was the shepherd of his flocks and herds I remembe.' hud in my child hood', when he brought home more hears, . deer and wild Mm keys, from the spoils of the chase t han any of his neighboring hunt ers. niid I see him aB chief among those who cut. down', the dense forests of Manner, Elk and con verttd tfie land-int:) beantilu meadows' His barns crilw' and smoke-houses always groaned be neath their burdens of rich food for man and best,' and his tabll was "a free and hospital)!, boaid for'weflrv stlflnirers. V V My grandfather, Abram .Dug ger, owned tht Cranberry oreleds and my father, his only living son at that tim acquired a love for infning and manutacturing ir6n. T'ms lie became the Tu- tal-cain of his day, and lor l.irty years, following the death ol Lis father, he made, with his own hands, under thegn at ham mers, at Cranberry, one half of all the iron consumed by the far mers of Western North Carolina and a pDrtion of East Tennessee. ief'ore the late war and for teu years after, the iron from his an vils was hauled hundreds otmiles and sojd at siy and seven cents a pound. Of all theearly settles of North Western North Carolina, my father, George .Washington lufigr, was the most useful . to his fellowman. . 'SM. DlIOOER, This Has t&e Right Sing. Under the jla ten Feb. 25, Mr. Gno. McCorkle. of Wash ington, I). C. directs the fd- owing to tin1 ladies of the MojmiitiMitiil Association of North Carolina" through thj olumiis of the News und Ob server: ' Fpr (ifid'ssake tell the la- lies of the Monumental As sociation not to ask this Leg islature for one'eent to per- jetnatethe uieinory of our Jonfederate dead. ' Let not one stone be 'placed in that monument that does not rep resent the truest, tenderest. and most devoted -iffec ion of the good people, of North 'arolina'VSuch will not be tlie case of this Legislature is permitted to help build it. fo, hdnor Fied IJoHglass, wh jse hand -is stained in the ihiod of every Conlederate soldier and whose social life since the 'war has been a con spicuous insult to the South ern people, more than oui oved lee ami Jackson "an I all the rest of our Southern. heroes who gave their lives or. the preservation of bur Southern civilization, is al- inost inoie than we can bear. Tell -the ladies of the Monu mental Association, among whom are perhaps-many wid ows of husbands sister ot b ro thers, a n d d a ugh ters f I a tilers whose-jirecious ; blood rimsoiied the fields of Vir ginia in oui' defence, to re- turnMo their homes, bok a- gainTupon that picture on the wall, that sword un sheathed. Those precious letters brimming full of love and bravery, and with new courage and new hope pray and work for a . speedy re turn of oui people to power in the bid North State. No, no, jet. not; this legislature put oue stone in that inonu ment; " - ' Those who never read the advertisements in their news naners hlisrt more than they tu-esiune.' Joriathan Keni- soh , of Bola n, Wort h uo u n ty , Iowa, who had been troub led with rheumatism in his back, arms and; shoulders, read an item in lus paper about how a pnmitient Ger man citizen of b t. Madison had been cured. He procur ed the same mdicineilnd to use his own words: "It cur ed .me right up," He also says: A neighbor and his wile were both sick in;: lieu 'with rheumatism; Their boy was ov?r to my houe nn-J said they were so bad that he had t o do-the cooking I , ltHld him of Chamberlain s U..!.. tlnl... .11.1 I....,- il l.ll unfed me, he pro"ured a bot tle of ir and it cured them up in 'a "week".'"- Fifty cent bottles for sale by W. L. Biau. I Ulll i'tlllll IMIM IIMU HUM JuHtlcc of the Income Tax... 1 From the legal point of view can it be ferionly main tained 'that n thousand dollar exemption from the general property tax or a ten thous and dollar exemption from the inheritance tax is consti tutional, but that a tour thousand dollar exemption from the income tax is un constitutional? ' If this pro vision in the income tax law is unconstitutional, then we must overturn hundreds of decisions in our State Mribu nalis, and completely reverse general tendency of fiscal de velopment throughout the civilized world. We ' must say that uniformity means absolute uniformity, and de clare unconstitutional hun dreds of existing laws which aim merely at substantial uniformity. There is, .'there fore, very little prospect of the. tax being declared uncon stitutional on that ground. This brings us to the ques tion whether the income tax is indeed a just measure. Some peqple say it is social istic, and that the State has no right to confiscate -earnings.-' This objection scarce 'lv deserves a refutation. It entirely misconceives the re lations of the individual to the State: The cry of social ism has always been the last refmre of those who wish to clog the wheels of social pro gress or to prevent t he , abo lition of long-continued n- buses. .The. factory laws were in their time dubbed so cialistie. Compulsory educa tion and the public postoffice system were called socialists There is scarcely a single tax which has ever been introduc ed, which has not soihewhere or other met the same objec tioh. -This is true no less of the new inheritance tax in som i of our Commonwealths nnd.in England than of the new property tax in Holland and Prussia. But the argu ment nowhere carried any weight. In fact, if there is liny socialism, it would be tar more ohvious.in the prop erty tax, which exempts the earnings of the poorer class es, than of the income tax which reaches earnings from other sources than 'mere property. Yet we have be come so accustomed to the property tax that the idea of its being socialistic seems ridiculous.- -ProL E. R. A. Seligrimn in March t ovum. ";; V- A DoobtroU'njrer, The young lady who is lib rariaiv of the public librai y of Los Angeles, Cai., has sued a minister of thatcity for pray ing furherin public. She is a . most worthy young wo man. but recently incurred the enmity of a few people by advising the purchase of cei- tain books ; for the library The offf nsive prayer was as follow': ''Oh, Lord, vouch safe Thy saving grace to the librarian of 4the Los Angeles City. Library and cleanse her from all sin and make Mier worthy of her- office." The prayer stirred up f a , terrible commotion, and the young hnly's friends declared it to be slanderous. ' So she de mands $5,000 for the de famation of her character.. Iu public Ex. " W.L.Douclas s3 shoe pit km a kins cordovan: rUNCH AUMMH1U GAlf. !4.3AJFlNCCAl&K)UHMda 3.PPOUCE.330Lt 2i.7-BBow'ScHoaSa -LADIES' Aa9 nil Over Om Million Popl wmu- Um ! W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our 5hoes are equally satisfactory Thy glva th bMt valm for the moMir. ' Thy equal custofli ahOM la rty I and fit. Their wearing qualities ara unaarnaaaad. The prices ara uniform, -etam pea an sola. Pnn $i to t3 saved over other makes. . If your dealer cannot supply you wa can. Sold by UDcrmiMui. . Dealers everywhere Wante4, aeentto take exclusive sale for tbis vicinltr Write at once. Docs This The management of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in the Department of 9 the Carolinas, wishes to ser J cure a few Special Resident J Agents. Jlhose who are fitted, J for this work will find this x H A Rare Opportunity who succeed best in it possess character, mature judgment, tact, perseverance, and the respect of their community. Think this matter over care fully. There's an unusual opening for somebody. If it fits you, it will pay you. Fur- X ther information on request. X fW.J. Roddey, Maaacer, 2 raV Ulll ' 9 PROFESSIONAL. W. B. CQUNC1LL, Jr. Attorney at La if.' Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCILL. M.D. Boone, N.O. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. . J. F IIORPIMW, A110RNEYA7 LAW, VfARION, N.C -(o)- Will practice in the courts; ol Vatauga, Ashe, Mitchell, McDow and all ither countii in the western district "Special atten tion given to the collection of laimc. W. B. Council! H. 0. T. C Blackbnrn. Boone, N. C. Zlonville, K. C. Councill & Blackburn, Physicians & Surgeons. tUS-Calk attended at all June 1,3. ' V E. F. LOV1LL. J. C. FLETCHER. LOVILL & FLETCHER. . ATlORNhYSATLAW, BOONE, N.C. tST Special attention givbu to the colktion ofclaims.'XZL Cbambarlala'a Xy ud mm Olatmm . Is a certain eon for Chronic Bon Eye Granulated Eyt Lids, Bora Kirples, Puea, Eaema, Tetter, Salt Bbeom and Goald Head, 25 onto per box. ' For aajA by dragsisMi TO EOXBaOVXTXSS. ' For ratlin a hone in a fine healthy eoay ditioo try Dr. CadrV Condi lion Powdeia. They tone op the avstea, ait digestion, cam lass of appetite, relie?e constipation, oonwt kidne- ey dlaordem and destroy worms, ginrf life to an old or over worked hone. V . aew oeatapctpacksee. For sale by dniia. : lnd!"1oa, s4 S" i - ' . knUMii l Anaaalanltapl,llr-Tb" - MMM-nara sua frva I ml m I , :!i;n; .. . . tiT--al HtYoii? Si - M : 3 1 9 I 1
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