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VOL. IX. I300NE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C TIIUHSD A Y , AUGUST. 5, 1897 NO. 32. '4t WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Regular Correspondent. Neither Boss Hanna nor Mr. McKinley are entirely satisfied with the tvork of the extra session o f Congress just closed. The tariff bill pleased them all right; i t more than repaid their cam paign obligations to the trusts, not to mention the 132.000.000, made by the sugar trust and its friends while the bill was pendinc. But their efforts to repay their campaign obligations to the banking interests were a failure. Mr. Mc Kin ley, in his special message to Congress only a few hours before adjournment, asking for authority to appoint a currency commission, quoted the Indianapolis' Banker's convention as though it had . been the assembled financial wisdom of the world, hut that didn't bring the legisla tion asked for. The House railroaded through in 60 minutes a bill granting Mr McKinley the authority ask ed for, although nearly ev ery Republican in that body is really opposed to a cur rency commission, b,ut the Senate was not so accommo riatinsr. and there is nothing in sight to indicate that it will be more obliging diext winter. - Senator Morgan hanalecl the conference committee without gloves, in n speech made just before the vote 'was taken on the conference report on the tariff bjll, for its abandonment of the tax on bonds and transfers o stock a tax that was ap proved by Ihe Finance com hiitteeand by a Republican caucus.'-closing with this ex pliort language, which no Re publican attempted to ''deny: "I charge that the abandon ment occurred under com mand of the sugar trust.'.' Before the' Ohio Repnbli cans do any shouting over the result of the colloquy be tween Senators .Allen and Foraker concerning the charge of the former that the Republican vote of that, was fraudulently increased for Mr. McKinley, they should arrange for M' Foraker, or somebody else, to accept the challenge with which Mr. A len closed the little spat" will meet the Senator any time and will undertake to convince any unprejudiced man that there was fraud in Ohio." Senator Teller's arraign ment ot the Republican tariff bill, now the law of the land, was one of the bitterest pills the Republicans have had to swallow in a long time. Mrc Teller, who is a protection ist, characterized this bill as vicious, unfair, extravagant, of trusts and syndicates. Mr. Teller also took occasion to criticize in the strongest lan guage the gold standard pol icy of forcing professors out of educational institutions because of their belief in thp free coinage of silver. Hede nounced the forced resigna tion of President Andrews, of Brown University, as one ol the most "shameful acts of abasement" the world has seen, and said i n ringing tones: "Thank God that president Andrews was big enough to refuse to be sti- ed." . SenatorTurley, of Tenn., cast his first vote for the illman resolution to inyest igate sugar scandal charges, which was defeated, and his second against the confer eiica report on the trust made tariff bill, which was adopted. The hearings to determine whether John Wedderburn & Co., shall be disbared from practice before the United StntesPatent Office are now ou. The Patent Orhce claims o have proof to sustain the numerous charges of fraud it has brought against Wedder burn & Co., and is giving the accused a full opportunity to controvert its proof. A pertinent question often accomplishes more than ar gUtuer.t. One destroyes the scheme ""fro authorize Czar teed's pets who have been made chairmen of commit tees to give their favorites sinecure positions during the kmgressional recess. When Representa ti 'o G r o s v e n o r tried to "push a ' resolution through authorizing that waste of public money, he w a s asked, if the House could get along while ton gress was in session without these clerks, why thej should be considered necessary dui ng the. recess. ' The laugh which followed killed t h,e scheme. Sec. Sherman's departure before the adjournment 'of Congress for- a Long Island slimmer resort," was regard ed as additional proof that he has very little t.i do with official business of the . I)e partment of State. In- fact, t is hinted by some that Mr. Sherman intended to empha size that very thing by his going. ... Georgia democrats Are more pleased with the nom ination of -Jenry Rucker, an Athnta. negro barber, to be United States Mart-hit! for Georgia than Maj. Hansom and his while Republican fol lowers from that State are. It is.exnected that all of Rucker's deputies will be ne groes, a no white' man will care to 83rve under him, and hvel.v times are likely to lol low everv visit of the dusky officials to the moonshine diMtricts of the State. Han na placed the "coon. "Mr. A. 0. Wolfe, of Dundee. Mo., who travels for Mansue & Tibbetts. Implement Co., of St. Louis, gives traveling men and travelers in general some good ndvice. "Beingn Knight of the (J rip, he says, "I have for the oast three vears. male it a rule to keep myself supplied witu Cham ber din's colic, cholera and diarrhoea remedy, and have found numerous occasions to test its merits, not only ou myself, but on others as well. I can trulv say that I never, in a eingle instance, have known it to fail. I consider it one of the best remedies travelers can carry and could relate may instances where I have used the remedy on skeptics, much to their uur pris9 and relief. I hope every traveling man in the United States will carry a bottle of this remedy in his grip.'-' For sale by M. B. Blackburn. THE NEW SCHOOL LAW For the 'guidance and di rection of school committee men in performing the duties of their office, Supt. Mebnne has prepared and sent out n circular of general informa tion in regard to the school law. H3 reminds committemen r.hat their services and labor must be for love, and patriot ism. there being no compen sation provided for them; and that upon them largely depends the success or fail ure of the public schools tor the next two yeais. The law requires the Coun ty Board of Education on the first Monday in July to divide the county int- as many school districts as t here a ro townships in each coun ty. It does not require the township lines and t he school district lines to be the same, but it does require that there shall bo the same number of districts as there are town shins. A school may be taught at or near a township line by the consent, of the committees of the adjacent tow nships, sub ject to the approval of the Countv Board of Education. When children are transfer!- ed from one township to an other, the pro rata shaie of the school money of the dis trict from which they nie transferred should be trans ferred nlso to the districts in to, which they are reeeived. H'hile the old committee had no power to enter into a cjii tract with a teacher to extend beyond trgeir term of office, vet several of the old committees have cfohe st) and in such case, the new committee should curry out all such contracts, provided they are reasonable and for the best interests of the seljools. .''.- APPORTIONMENT, HOW MADE. The next apportion ment of school money wi'l be made by the County Board of Ed ucation on the first Monday inJanuary next, and ea:h district's share will be on a per capita basis, as shown by the census report. The county supervisor, on the first Monday i n January, will mail each committeeman a statement of the amount of his apportionment. The committee is then required to meet on the second Mon day in January and nppor tion this money to the var ious schools, white and col ored, in the district. By grading, the laws does not have reference t o the classes in the schools, but has reference only t o the character of the schools, the qualifications and salaries of the teachers required, The. grade of ach school will de pend largely upon three con oitions, namely: First, the grade of advancement a- mong the pupils attending that school; wejond, the in terest manifested by the pa trons of the school in public education; and, third, the average attendance during the school term. If a school has a large average attend ance, and there is education al interest in t he com ai unity, and the children are advanc ed, the school should ne so graded, and its apportion ment should be sufficiently large to warrant theemploy- ment of a suitable teacher at a good salary. The apportionment to the other schools, white and col ored, in the township, will be mndeaccording to conditions and requirements of those schools, but must made with the purpose to give all the schools the same length of term, and consequently in apportioning the money the committee necessarily fixes the salary of the teacher for each school. It will be ob- seryed Irom the above that the money is no longer ap portioned to the schools. white and colored, per capita but to'each according to the grade of the school and the qualifications of the teacher required. TAKING THE CENSUS. The counry supervisor is re quired to mail to each com miteee, on the first Monday in May, a blank report, on which they are to report the census of the school proper ty and children in their. town ship, which report must be returned to the county super visor on or before the first Monday in June of 'each year. A new census will also be taken this fall for the J an. uary apportionment. If the committee finds that there are too many schob houses in the district, and the average is less than six tj-five pupils to the school, then it will be their duty to decrease the n'tl m ber o schools untiLthe average is ea?hed, or if they find thej have the required average without interfering with any scnool, still, they'should not hesitate to discontinue nnj school wherever "it is possi We to do so, and thechildren are not inconvenienced thereby. "The law does not require that each school shall have sixty-five children assigned to it, no more and no less, for geographical reasons, in certain localities, it will not be practicable to haye as many as sixty-five children, and for these reasons one school may have fewer than thirty children, but the average, in the whole school district should not be less than sixty-five. The committee of each township, on or before their January meeting, should fix Ihe dividing lines between the various schools. in their townships so as to designate the school for the children in each locality to attend. The census report for North Carolina shows that only Gl per cent of the children of school age enrolled in the public schools, and ihe avei age attendance i s only G2 per cent of the enrollment; consequently there i s little danger of making the dis tricts too large, provided the children can reach the school houe without great incon venience. When the districts nie made larger and thenmn ber of schools reduced, then will the schools have longer terms with the same money. Tbtlur llBtll IgUtUI H A IT Not as Wood as California Gold. Assistant Weigher W. A. Jnderhiil, of the Selby Smelt ing Company, Btates that the gold from thv Yukon is not of so much value a that pro duced in California. In speak ingof this matter he said: "We have found the miners rom the Yukon a very nice class of people to deal with, and they have not been de ceived in the value of gold hey have brought back with them. It is : fact that the Yukon gold is not-as valu able as that produced ill this State. We have fount that here are from fifty to .100 points mofVbaSi metal in the Northern product. These base metals are iron, lead and few others. These is a arge quantity of silver also? We look principally for thi gold and silver. It is the iron that aives die Yuknji gold its fine rich color. Of course, these other metals de crease the metals a little The nuggets from the Yukon are worth $17 and $18perounce and the finer gold dust is wortU trom $16 to $lt per ounce. U'ith the Caliiorna gold the 7alue is about $1 a ounce more; that is, nuggets rpnfrom $18 to $19 and gold dust never less than $17 per oun?e. "Our assayers have found several other metals than those I have mentioned, but no attention is paid to them, as the other base metals do not cut much of a figure in the general value?' San Francisco Dispatch. , Jjevt Morgao, eolored, some time ago elected by the coun ty commissioners to be con stable of Kinston township, was arrested last month for allowing chickens to run at larga, in violation of town ordinances. He shifted the responsibility on his wife by- saying that the chicUens be- oncer to her. Then she was arrested, tried before Mayor Temple and fined a small amount and costs, the entire sum being $5 or $G. Fail'mf to pay same, though her frequent, pleasure trips t.o neighboring towns evidenced hei ability to do so, she was put in jail a few days ago, and unless the costs are paid she will be made to work ten davs in the cemetery. It is a fine (?) state of affairs that allows a negro to be consta ble of Kinston township a negro who allows Ins wife to iro to jail rather than pay a few dollars costs. Kinston Free I'ress. Some time ago, a little hot tie of Charmberlain's colic, fhnlern. and diarrhaea rem edy fJd into my-hands, just at ii time when my two-year old boy was teiribly afflicted His bowels were beyond con trol. We had tried many remedies, to no purpose, bin the little bottle of colic, chol pi-iL and diarrhoea remedy sneedi v cured him.-Wiiliam l Inn'es. Oirlesbv. da. For H'lle by M, li. Blackburn. What about snow storms in Colorado last week? Snow balling in July would appear alarming in Watauga m the month f July. CASTOniA. Tin fis- tlmili liea flfuttut professional: 2 W. B. COUNCILLOR. Attorney at Lay; Boone, N. C; W. B. COUKC1LL, M. D. Boone, N.'C. Resident Physician. OfficO on King Street north of Post' Uffice. E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHERj I.OVilL & FLETCHER ATlOllNM'SATLAW, BOONE, N. C. Special attention givei) to the collet ion ofclaims.i&i WILLIAM R. LOVILL. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Sutherlands, NJC. Practices in the, State, and Federal courts. Dr. J.'M. HOGSHEAD; Cancer Specialist,7 - BANNER'S ELK. C Ao Knile; Nd Burning Out. Ilighesit rofferences and endorse ments of prominent persons nuC cessfully treated in Va., Teiin. and N. C. Remember that there is no timo too soon to get rid ol a cancerous growtn no matter how small. Examination free, letters p.nswered promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed. NOTICE; . By virtue of a decree made by the Superior Court of Wa tauira countv in a SDecial nro ceedure entitled, W. L. Hor ton and others ex parte, I II ! It - J- win, as cuinmiHNioner, hcmi ui he tourt housedoor in the own of Boone, on Thursday, he 12th day of Aug., 1H97j wn trnetft of lnrl ervntnin ing respectively 100 and 75 acre, situated near HI k knob, in North Fork -town ship, being the lands former ly owned by Wm. Horton, embracing the '-old Nathan Horton and Win. Miller Su gar Camps. These lands are rieh agricultural .and miner al lands. Terms of - sule; - flye per cent cash and balance,' in six .months with" interest on deferred payments. This July, 7,. 1897. s j -.-t V. H. Bower", Com K'NCr. 5 r: 15 'S2.S & iilrt'SMOCiSHUl LADIES' Over One Ml;l!on People wear tho W. L. Douglas $3 & 04 Shoes All our shoe3 era equally fai.jfactory t.uaCKTOH.MASA. They give the best value lor tne money. They equal custom ulior in styta and lit. Th;lr wuarlng qualitlr - ire unsurpa: tt-J. The prices c.o uniform, .-stomped or. no J. o.i Ci t.Ci uvM nvrr nlher mnka. If vour dealer cannot tupply you we can. Sold by MADE UPON HONOR, SOLD UPON MERIT. 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