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VOL 7; 7 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C. TIlUilSDAY MAECH 28.1895, -it '; o C: jUJOB HABTEf MNGHAM BRIO. After a Protracted II! new Be PMscd Awy Tuesday, : BtateHville Landmark, 31h : ' j v ; " Major 'Harvey '. Bingham died at his home in." State vilie Tuesday at 12.10 p. in. ' He had been ir failing health "forjtwo or three years and for several months all hojie of 1 his recovery had been p r a ctl e a 1 1 y a b a n d o n yi . Death was due to ri form of t Bright's disease. Major Bingham was born on a farm in Wa fa uga county : February ,13th. a 839, and was t herefore TC years old on t he-, 1 3'th of last February. ' At the ae of 18 he had n , very U m i ted e I ilea t ion o a ly tU(M as could le acquired in the common schools of that jdaf. Haying a thirst for ' 'knowledjre'laV hiied hbi'self . to a neighbor to split rails to get money to go ' t6 'sclrooh '. WiCite Vii'rgHlIn' this fabor he built and lived in a tent 'on the monntaiii so as lo be near his wqrk. With the money thustditained ho went ,to.' school a t Taylorsville, renn.. one session and one session a t, New Hope Aca demy, Wilkes county, latter school was then The eon- ducted b y the late Hugh Stoke. At the end of the ses sion at New HopfuVmoney was exhausted and-he expect. ed to have to quit sehool, bat on the closimr , dav he made a speech which ,so im pressed S.duoy Stokes, ii brother of the principal, that he told young Byighnm to continue in school and he would pay his tuition. Mr. Binuuam ilid so but after- waid, when lie had made inon ey of his own, he repail Mr. Stoke. While a ttfruiins thra school .Mr. Bingnam i was married to Miss Iancy Ann Miller, of Wilkes county, at the age ol 22. In the spring of '61 he returned to his farm in Wa- tauU'nnd made a crop. In the fall of .that year he enter cd the Confederate army, snvimr about two yews, when he was discharged on nccount of ill health. After returning horn-? he organized n company of home guard in which he served until the , close of the war. 'Itwasdur- insr his service in the home guard, we infer, that he ob tained the title of major, by which he was familiarly known during his residence ' in Sfatesville. Desiring to get out of the way. of the bushwhackers whj infested the mountain counties, in 1865 Major Bing ham moved Id Buncombe county. Being still desirous - of bettering his education h attended school for a time at Sandv Hill AcadeniiLiieven miles west of Ashoyille, nn also taught one session o r school i n Buncombe. H then moyed back to Boone and taught school for a year or two. Having decided to studv law he moved to his farm in the country and the intervals of tending his . crops read law at odd tiaies . He studied along and had little assistance, not. recitrr.g "v - more than a dozen times i any one. At the age of he obtained license and to 30 at onca began the practice , and teaching of law. ." ; , In 1875 Major Bingham represented Watauga county iii the constitutional conven tion, and in lH76was elected o the Stat Senate fro 71 the district in which W Htauga was then embraced. He de clined' a- re-electum. , ' In February, 1882, Major Bingham .moved to Staterf ville. He was induced to come here by .J. S. Adams, Esq., now ot Asheville,- who was at. that time solictor of this district, and after eoni ipg hre he was a law part ner of Mr. Adams up to the time-the latter left States- ille. . Soon after coining to Statesville hf. was elected the Mending justice of the Infer ior Court ot til is county and leld the posit i ai till the court was aoohsheil "in the spring of 1885. In 1888 he was a candidate or the Dem ocratic, congressional nomin ation in this district and Ire- ell delegates were instructed or liim, but be whs defeated V;iion. .loliii &. tiendnson. Soon after Mr. L. C. Ca hi ll came to Statesville be and Major Bingham formed uaw partnership which was ontinued up to n few Weeks ago. Major Bingham was in many respects, as'his brief lfsto.'.y herprn given shows, i remarkable man. 11 was in rne truest sense wnat is . t . t . ommonly termed "a self made man.".- His education and legal lfrfr.ning were at- ;neii nrac.tic'a-llv by his own erforfs;Mnd considering tfie tact tlfat he began his educa- ion rather late in " life jind married before he had fin ished 'it, thus taking to him self the burden of a family be ore Jie had even prepared limselftor a profession vve say considering these things which the world would re gard as great obstacles it is remarkable that he nttain- d the success in his profes sion which be did. It, is proof that there was something much above the ordinary in the man. As a lawyer Major" Bing- har.j stood hirh and while is I . A 1 I neaitn entoyed a good prac tice. Civil law was his fort and he was what his legal brethren termed a great 'common-law lawyer." Hts knowledge of common law was surprising mid it is said that in this he equalled if he did not surpass any of his brethren in this State. He was not an orator and did not rank high as an advo cute, but some of 'his efforts before juries attracted atten tion. Probably the last suit in which he appeared, a civi casein Wilkes county last year, his address to the jury was remarked unon as sup erb and attracted much at tention. After he became a lawyer Major Bingham taught a law school and pre. pared large numbers of young men for the bar; and his pu pils always stood well in the examinations before the Su preme Court. . In politics Major Bingham was an ear neat democrat nnK in every c m pa ign before his health fajled he took the stump for his party. -.As a' man he was a most agreeable and pleasant gen tleman. He was jovial and" good-natured, and had much of the milk of human kind ness in bis bosom. He pro fessed religion in early life and soon after the war join ed the Methodist church, ' of which he remained a . consis- tqnt member. Realizing, per haps even before his friends did, that his end was near, he did not repn.e. He met death bravely and passed pfnceful Iv to the court of the Most High. Deceased leaves a wife and seven children-five daughters and two sons. His married daughter, Mrs. Summers, of Wilkes'mro, was telegraph ed for a few days ago and all his family were with him when the final summons camp. '- The funeral sen ices were conducted Ti oa i he Metho dist church nt;10 o'clock yes terday morning hy the pas tor. Rev. Dr. Atkins,-assisted by Revs. Webb and Wil son nnd Dr. Wood. Mr. L. C. Caldwell made remarks eulogistic of the deceased. The in term en t w a a J t Oak wood cemetery. The pall bearers were Messrs. W7 D. Turner. J A. Hartness, L. ('. Ca'dwell, H. P. Grior. B. P. Young and W. 0. Feimster. A good man has gone, is the universal verdict of the ommuniry. Peace to his ashes. ' r . THE SABBATH. hditov Democrat: Recently there appeared in lie columns of your paper an anonymous communica. ion from Mast, IS. C.purpor ting to be a recital nlu court trial in Florida, in which man was prosecuted (your orrepondent. w anted to put it persecuted) for working on Sunday. I take it that your anonymous correspondent is Seventh Pay Adventist, who believes in observing Sat urdas for the Sabbath. It may not be wise to allow the ological discussions in secu- Inr newspapers, but when one side of a question is. admit ted, at least, a brief reply from the other ought to be tolerated IF Saturday the Jewish Sal: bath, is binding on chns tians, then circumcision and the, Jewish passovei must be binding also. The Jewish Sab bath was a part of theMosa ic economy, given in the wil Uri ln-.-in, turn ii ll in uiiuiiui liu if f la KitwlirifV then all the rest must be too Th Bibleteachcs that we a re under grace and not under law. Christ is the end of the law for rigteousness. By the deeds of the law no flesh shal he justified. Whosoever is jus tified by the l iw, is fallen from grace If the Jewish Sab hath is binding on us, t'nen its penalties are too. No one must so much as kindle a tire on the Sabbath, or Seventh day. He must not bear any burden whatever. "Abide y every man in his place, let no man go out of his plae on the Seventh day." Ex. 1C;30. It was death by the lav to travel on the Sabbath. It was finally allowed rhit a ew might go to the syna gogue on the Sabbath. There ore. a Sabbath ihT.v'a jour ney was only "about a mile. A man was found picking up sticks on the Sabbath once, and was stoned to death. See Num. 15;32-3G. If we have the law Sabbath, let us mve the penalties too. Ihe ews were commanded t o keep the Sabbath . in remem- fance o f their deliverance rom bondage in Egypt. Dent. 5;15. The Sabbath was also a sign between God and the house of Israel. therefore the design of the ewish Sabbath can apply to no peopleon earth except the ews. . Christ himself sustain ed his diciples in their viola tion of the Jewish Sabbath, whicl! he would not haye done, if it was to be binriirfg on his people under the new- dispensation. 1 mean the in stance ot their plucking the ears of ?orn on the Sabbath. t is so strange that some eople are so prone to mix up the new dispensation with the old. The Savior said -it was not wise to patch an bid garment with a new piece of loth, or to put. new wine in to old bottle. The Old Tes tament scriptures are not miding upon christians ex- fceprso tar as the principles and doctrines of the Old are e.-rHirmed win the New, and the New is silent as to a Sab- at' with any such restric tion and penalties ns the )VY. Christians keep Sunday, or. the first day of. the week, in mcihorv of Christ's resur rfction from the dead. His resurrection was the crown ng event of his atoning work. It is not denied that Tesus arose from the dead or he Jirst rr'jy of the ..week Therefore this day has been more highly honored than anv other day. Certainly it is the day to worship in th congregation ot the risen Savior. On the Jewish Sab bath Jesus Jay in the grave. Surely this cannot be the day set apart to the public wor ship of the iisen Savior. That day as a Sabbath should be leU in the grave with the Jewish ordinances that were nailed to the cross. The res urrection of Christ was of such importance that he left an ordinance in the church to memorialize it. In bap tism we have a. picture of Christ's burial and resurrec tion, and of our death to Sin and our. faith in ht future resurrection of our bodies. If we keep the Seventh day, in memory of what do we keep it? It must be in mem ory of the deliverance of Is rael from Egyptian bondage. But one says, we keep it in memory of the Seventh duy of creation. It is true God rested from nil his ivorks on that day. and. blessed and sanctified that day, but did not command any body else to observe it. See Gen. 2;2 3. Then it must be that the Seventh Dav Adventists with some Seyenlh Day Baptist are keeping Sabbath iiyi em- lury of the deliverance of the Jews lrom Egyptian bond age. Better keep the first day of the week or the Lord's day, in memory of the riyen Christ; Jesus arose on ttf? first day of the week; he ap peared to the diciples on the first day of the week; Paul preached atTroasnnd broke bread on the first day of the week; let every one of you lay by him in stoe etc., on the first day of the week, and John was. in the Spirit on the Lord's day. ijgnatiuii. pastor at Antioch at the close of .the first century, and contemporary' with the apos tle John, says; '"Let every one that loves Christ keep the Lord's day, the queen of lays, the resurrection day, the highest of all days. Let. ns no more Sabbathize, but let us keep the Lord's day in which our life arose." Bar nabas, Justin. Mnrtys. Clem- entsvOrigen, Tertullian and many others testify that the first, day of theweek was the lay observed by the early christians as the Sabbath. The Seventh Day Adventists make grent ado about the Roman Catholics legalizing the first day of the week as the babbath. and that we . ... . . . ought not to observe it on that account. The first day of the week was observed ns the christian Sabbath long before the Roman Catholic hurch had any existence,. The Cat h'llic church had no organized existence till 'near 600 years after. Christ. Th fact thatRome legalized the first day of the wfcek as the chiistian Sabbath has no weiirht with well informed people. Then the Seventh Day Ad ventists are rather young to set. themselves up as antlia iry.for keeping the Sevefith instead of f he first day. Tney originated as a sect in 1844. The Seventh Day Baptist date back to about the mid dle of the sixteenth century, and therefore are too young to be" regarded as authority. I can't think the Lord allow ed his people to grope then way in error as to the prop er day to be observed as the christian Sabbath to the middle of the sixteenth and nineteenth 'centuries. Some wild enthusiast, now and then, insists on working on Sunday, and the. law, in some States, deals with him, and then the Seventh day people raise the cry of persecution. They apparently avail thorn- selves of that means to ad vertise themselves. I. W. Thomas. March 20th '95. Those who never read the advertisements in their news papers miss more than they presume. Jonathan Keni son,of Holan, Worth county, Iowa, who had been troub led with rheumatism in his back, arms ami shoulders, read an Hem m ins paper about how a prominent Ger man citizen of Ft. Madison had heen cured, tie procur ed the same medicine, nnd to use his own words: "It enr ed ine rilit up." He also savs: A ncitrhbor nnd his wife were both sick in bed with rheumatism. Their boy was ov?r to my house airJ said thev were so bad that he had t c do the cooking. I told him of Chamberlain's l'ain Balm and how it had cured me, he pro -ured a hot tie of ir and it cured them up in a week. Fitt'v cent bottles for sale by W. L. Biy an. V&LDouclas' V onwiarrrroft akin. 9. cordovan: ttkuch CKAMtLUO cms. 43FlMDUf&IGUMJUm 3M POUCEj soles. LAD ICS 4 8csTpoNor. dkSWDrORGATfllBSur , Ortr On MlUtoa PeopU wear Um W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our hoes are equally satisfactory they qual carton show la ityl and Their wearing qualities art anearpa The oricM are) uniform. ta tuned ea . Prfiffi Ai to At saved Aver other makea. If your dealer cannot supply you wa can. Sold bf Dealer ever JW beret Waft-ted, agent to Lake exclusive sale for tbts vlclBltj. Utile At once. Docs This Hit You? The management of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in the Department of f the Carolinas, wishes to se cure a few Special Resident Agents. Those who are fitted for thisvworfc will find this I A Rare Opportunity $ Itisaw,hoYever,andthose $ 5 who succeed best in it possess character, mature judgment, tact, perseverance, and the respect of their community. Think his matter over care fully. There's an unusual opening for somebody. If it fits you, it will pay you. Fur ther information on request. W. J. Roddey, Manager, Rock Hill, S.C. 3 PROFESSIONAL. W. B. COUNC1LL, Jr. Attorney at La it. Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCILL, M. D. Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. J. P MORPIIW, All ORNEY Al LA W, MARION, - N.C -(0)- Will practice in the courts of Vatnujrn.Ashe, Mitclu UfcDow-' itinl all tlier -'ounfcii'S in the western district ia?" Special atten tion jiiven to the colleftion o laini?." W. B. Connclll M. D. T. C. Blackbnrn. Boone, N. C. ZlonviU' C. Gouncill & Blackburn, Physicians & Surgeons. tfeT Calls attended at all June 1, ?93. E. F. LOV1LL. J. C. FLETCHER. LOVILL & FLETCHER. 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