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'7. V VOLT BQOtfEi WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C THU11SDA Y APRIL 25. 1895, : NO. 25. WASHINGTON LETTER. From tnr Regular Correspondent. President Cleveland w a 8 probably ns much disn pppint ed nt the unsatisfactory dis position of- the income- tux by the Supreme Court us ev eryuo Jy else whs, and he is probably as anxious that the case should be reheard by a full bench and v the constitu tionality of the tax either af finred or denied, but like a good citizen he recognizes the income tax as the law of the land pen 'ling that final decis ion, and promptly filled out and handed in an account of his own income upon which lie is liable to be taxed. Be ing in doubt as to where he should pay the tax he hand ed his blank to Internal Rev enue Commissioner Miller in 'person and marked it "at large," and it is now . locked up in Mr. , Miller's safe. So many stories have been cur rent as t'i the extent of Pres ident Cleveland's income, out side of his salary, that there is much curiosity to know the figures he put ukii that blank. But it. isn't likely to be gra t i tied . 1 1 wa s to ma k e sure that no carehss clerk should violate the the law a gaiust making public the a iiiouut. of income returned by tax pavers that the President gave his ')lank into ?ustoday of Mr. Miller. Although today is the lust day upon which taxpayers can file statements of their incomes, without leing sub ject to specified penalties, the tax itself need not be paid un til the 30th of June, and the chances are that but. little more of it than has already been paid will 1)3 paid in be fore that time, unless the Su-nr-eme. Court hands down an affirmative decision before then. Should the decision be the other way it would not have to be paid at all. Un less present plans miscarry it is expected that the case will be reheard by a full i l i i.. ..i : ' .... Dencn justice jmcksoii i re ported o have promised to sit and a decision handed down before the close of the present term of the court. Among the attorneys re cently disbarred from prac tice before the Interior de partment was "Jtrry" Hai ulsou, who was a tonspicious degro member of Congress in reconstruction days, and who has been sentenced by the U. fcj. District Court of Arkan sas to or.e year's imprison ment and a fine of $5,000 for ei gaging in fraudulent pen sion practices. Still, every now and then some over en thusiastic Hepuhlican will jump up uud shout "there are uo fraudulent pension ers." Judge Lochren, Commis sioner of Pensipns, says of the proposed making of a -test cat against the Com missioner of Pensions, by the Union Veteran Legion. I n the United .States Supreme Court, in order to show . whether those ten thousand, more or less, pensioners were legally dropped, that he wiH gladly aid iu getting a decis ion on such a case. , Ho adds that the cases of Shake- sieare and Long are entirely different from the other rases j in which reductions have been ' made or pensioners dropped from the rolls. Nearly all the latter came un derthe law of 1890, which differs radically from all nre- V C v i o u s laws. Corporal" James Tanner is Commander of the Union Veteran Legion; likewise a pension attorney, which may explain his anxie ty in this matter. He has issued a letter asking each member of the legion to con tribute $10., towards the ex penses of making a test case, but members or the legion here say that the organiza tion has nothing to do with thescheau;tiatTanueralone is responsible for the letter. They say that he wished to send this letter out as an of ficial order of the Comman der of theU. V. L., but that so muchybjection was raised he wascompelled to abandon that idea and send it out as a personal letter. A statement ma'lehere will be of mnch interest to impe- era . cumous liepuoiican editors. fliould it prove true. It is that tne Alger Presidential boom is shortly to take the road again. Its last tour was very expensive tj Hen. Alger, bit very profitable to the aforesaid impecunious editors. It is said that Gen. Alger in confident that the flu lit be tween McKinley and Heed, which is already getting quite warm, will be so bitter that it will make the nomin ation of either of them impos ftihle, and that he thinks he stands as good a chance to be struck by lightning as any of the oher waiting dark horses do. There has been a great deal of guessing as to the po sit ion President Cleveland will occupy (luring the next national campaign and, wen it not that it would be to a certain extent a violation of confidence, your correspond ent could make a good guess. However, it can be stated without any violation of con fidenee. that at the projer time President Cleveland ivill make known, over his own signature or in some other authoritative manner, just where he stands and what re lation he expects to hold to the next campaign. Persons who sympathize With the dfflictecf will rejoice withD. E. Carrof 1235 Har rison street, Kansas Citv. He is an old sufferer fr3in infiara matory rheumatism, but has not heretofore been troubled in this climate. Lust winter he went up into Wisconsin, and iu consequence has had another attack. "It came upon him again very acute and severe"' he said: "My joints swelled and became in flamed; sore to touch or al most to lojk at. Upon the urgent request of my mother in-law. 1 tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm to reduce the swelling and ease the pain, and to my agreeable surprise, it did both, I have used three fifty-cent bottles and believe it to be the finest thing for rheumatism, pains and swellings extant. For sale by Vy. L. Bryan. BS-Siib.scrjbe for tbe DbWo rat oneyemc Tbe Roan Xonatala Bear Boat. In tbe early days of and during the first settlement of this vast mountain section Df the old North State board ering what is now the Tenn., State line. I n about the year 1807, at this early per iod there were but few settlers who had penetrated this vast wild forest and located homes among the great mountain peaks, looming up all around the grand old lloan. These early settlers had a rough and tough time and many difficulties to over come. But in this case as w, II as in'the history of all early settlers of the vast for est, none bit brave resolute men and women ever settled any such wilderness as the section we speak of. Of course these people were se cluded from civilization. There were no roads no mails, no schools nor chur ches, nothing to be seen but a vast wilderness lofty trees and undergrowth through which herds of deer, many bear, wolves ajad all other wild game which held undis puted possession for ages be fore, and had never been mo lested except by tbe Indians until our heroes entered uid pitched their cabbins and set about to clear gioond for farming purposes. They soon started up hogs and cattle. There was no trou ble to raise hogs but soon the bears began to claim a large part of the fat hogs roaming the woods inquest of acrous and chestnuts. So destructive had they become and so fond of hog meat that the huge bears ventur ed near the enbbinsof the set tiers and feasted themselves on the fat pigs. During the winters big snows the num berofhogs were greatly di minished. In consequent those pioneers become alarm ed and while they had killed many bears but they seamed to increase in members and becoming more ravinous lor hogs. Old man Moses Rust, one of the first to enter the Roan Mountain section and a man of great influence a mong the others, being an o-l d Revolutionary Soldier and had distinguished him self at the battle of Kings Mountain, i which engage men t he received a wound in his hip, which crippled him for life, Mr. Rust was the ac knowledged ruler of the little colony of the Roan, so a con sultation was had at the Cab in of this old hero and six of the sturdy brave muscular fellows resolved that thevic ious boars had to be dislodg ed from their lire, their ren desvouze being known to the settlers, it being iu the wild est and roughest part of the Roan, so after per taking of a sufficient amount of apple jack furnished by the old hero and eating a hearty supper of bear meat and corn pone, they went to their different Cabbins with an agreement to meet next morning at 4 o'clock at the same place with dogs guns tomahawks and big butcher knives with blales usually ten inches long. All six of the men met thus equipped a man in t hose- days without dogsi guns, hatcllets and butcher knives was not considered much iu a bear fight. There was no other gun in these times but the big boor and old flint lock and rag powder was the only kind then in use. This powder was manufactured by a man by the name of riawson who lived then either on Watauga River, now Car ter County or on Roan Creek now Johnson County Tenn. As a general thing the old hunters and early settlers used this rag powder. Daniel Bot.ne used this kind of pow der, made by this man Claw- son. But to our bear story. So early in the morning be fore the break of day a regu lar advance on the bear was commenced. Old man Rust could not be prevailed on to remain at home, he would follow rvith his two large bear dogs and other equipp- jiientsafter proceeding about five miles the old man gave out in the gorge of the moun tain lie built him up a fire, as every body then carried steel and punk, by which th.y could leudily catch fire. The otheV six resolute men made tor tlie roughs in their front, where the bears had retired after filling themselves with fresh hog meat. A deep snow on the ground und the wind blowing; and the weath er severely void, and the great difficulty i n getting over the cliffs and steep places with an almost inpenet rate able undergrowth of laurel etc., all covered with snow, never daunted these' lesolute men, for it was the bears that they were after. When they had advanced well up the side ol the rough and about a mile from where the old man was left; having their hunting shirts belted close around them and in this belt their tomahawks and ten inch butchers, theia dogs be ing a few steps in advance' madeanoiit cry that these hunters quickly understood They advanced quickly into the more dence jungle and they beheld two ponderous old he bears standing oh their hind feet backed up a gainst a massive rock cliff, and perhaps a dozen ferocious dogs buying them fiercely, as the men advanced the dgn engaged the bears at close range. The men up with their hitherto trusty rifles dimd to shoot buin about the sticking place, but to their great consternation not a gun would fire, in coming through the snowy brush they had damttened their powder. Their favoritedogs .vere being torn to pieces and they were powerless to shoot. Harry Huffman, a very stout brave man proposed to tac kle the bears with the butch er knives. The proposition was agreed to with alacrity and Huffman and (ieorge Shields threw off Mieir coon skin caps and made for one of the hears that had Huff man's dog in his hug. The beurmadeat Huffman who dodged him at the same time Shields thrust his butcher in to the lears hip the bear turned upon Shields and struck bun on his shoulder with his mighty paw, knock ing the man down on the brink of a dig where he kept going until he got a fo-.it holt. Continued next jveek. SELF'S W0HDERFUL BILL Km Act of the Faiion Legislator that TI ft 4 B- W A "aV M vapa ABjisiif i t uuoeveroa. News and Observer. 01 all the extraordinary acts, passed by the recent "Reform" Legislature)! North Carolina, the one in troduced by Chatam'sdistin- guished Representative, Mr. Self, caps the climnx up to date. It is truly a wonder ful bill and will attract great attention. It stands unique and alone, both as to its re markable provisions and the still more rein urka die lan- ... ' t I it guuge in wmcn iney are ex pressed, and will, no doubt, win for the distinguished "statesmau" who drew it a national reputation. The following is an exact and literal copy ofthisextra ordinary law ns it is enrolled and filed in the office of the Secretary of State; "lbe General Assembly cf North Carolina do enact: "Section 1. That it shall be uuluwtul for any male hog sheep or goat, to run at large in the county of Chat ham to greater age than sis months without castration, unless the same shull. have been turned out for the im piovement of tbe stock. "Sec. 2.' That any male cattle running to a greater age than two years, without casttation. shall lm contrary to the provisions of this act. "Sec. 3. That aryr person violating this act shall be subject to a ffne of not less than two dollars and fifty cents, $2,50, nor more than five dollars, $5. Said fine to go to the school fund of the county. Sec. 4. That this act. shall be in force from and after its ratification." This actwas ratified on the 2nd day of February and has been in force and effect even since that day, and yet the citizens of Chatham have been in a blissful ignorance of it, and violating it every day since its passage, over two months ago. Mr. Self surely ought to have given them some timely notice of it. Until our citizens can get the Supreme Court to con strue the above law, says the Chatham Record, there will exist great doubt as to its meaning, for if it means what it snys (as it reads) our good old county will be de populated and there will be no need of providing a school fund, lor their will be no chil dren to educate I It will be seen flint Section 1, allows certain hogs, sheep and goats six months, and Section 2, allows certain cat tle two years, but Section 3, docs not mention what time Is allowed ' Persons," and it is left in doubt whether they are allowed six months like goats, hogsand sheep, or are allowed two years like male cattle. If they are allowed two years, then there is some hope for them lor they may get the next Legislature to come to their rescue by re lealiiig this wonderful law! It will be noted that Section 2doe8 not make it unlawful for certain mnlecattle to run at large, but makesit unlaw ful or them to run at all, so that all over two years old must be killed or their legs cut off. And. in Section 3, Mr. Self should have stated how olten (whether every day or hour) a pel son may bo fined for violating this act by running at large! VV. LDfiUCLA 535II0E ht re AKiiMk ; r O. CORDOVAN. rMNCN tOHMUO (MX. EXTRA nHtr" 2.t.VBCYttSS3&l 1 1 n i v Orar Oaa MlHUa PmU wr tk W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Slices All our shoes are equally satisfactory Tfcjr(tvtlMkt vain forth mm. ' TJm aqiul caMoa vImw la ctyl aaS At. Tbtlr wMrtag qalttla mn mmtmrtmti. Tm pricM ar anlforai, taaip mi Mto. Prm $ i to S) mvmI a vac at bar aiakaa. U jour dtakr cannot supply youwacaa. 6oldby Dealers ererr where. Wasted, treat to take exclnsire sale for this Tlcialtj. Write at once. Docs This HitYoii? The management of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in the Department of the Carolinas, wishes to se-, cure a few Special Resident Agents. Those who are fitted for this work will fin1 this A Rare Opportanity It is work, however, and those x who succeed best iu it possess J character, mature judgment, J tact, perseverance, and the J respect of their community. J ! Think this matter over care I ; fully. There's an unusual J ) opening for somebody. If it ! fits you, it will pay you. Fur--I ther information on request. ! W. J. Roddey, Maaager, ! Rock Mill, S.C PROFESSIONAL. W. B. UOUNC1LL, Jr. Attorney at La at. Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCILL, M. D. Boone, N. C. . Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. J. F UOItPnEW, A7WRNEY Al LAW, MARION, N.C -(o)- Will practice in the courts ol Vatauga, Ashe, Mitchell, McDow and all other countita in the western district r3Spocial atten tion given to the collection o W. B. Coiinclll M. D. T. C. Blackbaru. Boone, N. C. Zlonrille, K. C Councill & Blackburn, Physicians & Surgeons. ' VS-Calla attended at all hours.'". June 1, '93. E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER. LOVILL & FLETCHER. ATlORNhYSATLAW, BOONE, N.C. V& Special attention given to the colletion ofclaims."BL Goamtierial&'B fey sad Wdm Outtsaaat Is s certain con for Chronic Bote Eyta, Granulated Eye Lkb. Son Nipples. PUes Eoemn, Tetter, Salt Bheum nod Scald Held, DA rtic not hnr Ifrtv m! Kv Ari.vmatM. . to HOMjfowirmta. For putting a bone in s fine healthy cot. ditioa try Dr. Cadj Condition IWert, TJiey lone np the tyncxn, aid digestion, euro lore cf appetite, relie?3 ctipstion, corrct kidney disorder and deatroy worms, giving new life to an old jr over worked how. 25 ceoti per package. For sale by drujn-i-j. FOR DYSPEPSIA, IndMffMtkai, and Mors ark dtoratn, lake , UUlWII UOJf BITTKiUk All dtaleia kaaa It, U par txxii. GaoolMkaS toada-aiarfe "4 CfMatd Nd liattoa wntfjafc. f . r 1
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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