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BOONE, TV ATAUGA COUNTS N. C, THUHSDA , SEPTEMBER, 2, 1897
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news aim uiwerver.
; ATr; John TemDle Graves
! and ex-Governor Bullock
nae Deen engagea in a news
y.j paperTontroversy in the At
' ' ; lantai Journal, growing out
r.-l '.'of the declaration of Graves
, tba(the' negro question has
'recntlVtinore than ever be-
K forel)fome the line of politi
oMivbion in the South and
i y juVust continue in the taee of
Q, rMcKihfey's policy. This sen
; ' tence from Mr. Giave's reply
isflne, ... ' .
'''icbelieve that the great
'mjtjority of this people know
and.will record the judgment
;iuathe Dinghy tariff act,
''"invflever much it may free the
0 throataf the fortunate for
n iitb'ilrint sonir. will nressthe
wiia in aha a ricn.
:..'.1v lihnn the hrow'" of the la-
r,
f borei and producer. And for
thf light that is breaking up
oa the lonjr desolate fields of
.y'ngricQlture. I know, and the
ex-'Joyernor knows, t h a t it
comes straight ami direct
from the Lord God Almighty
who, melting the sunshine in
to our harvests with the ten
der rain, has kissed from the
"solKft prosperous increase
' that the reoublican party
'. cculd never have e7oked
yea, though it cried aloud to
its Baal of protection, or
.hawlpri inppsanntlv to the
xAshtafoth of trusts."
, In discussing the raceques
tion, North and South, Mr.
Graves gives an incident that
shows that even the leading
; abolitionists areunwilling to
ncccept. the negro as their e
qual: .'In Boston, at Harvard
4College, when a youngngro,
' WI dressed, well mannered
jrtr,d well" prepared came. to
matriculate, the committee
if the faculty havingthe mat
tir in charge, and after a cus
tm which prevails with new
students in that institution,
plaied theyoung 'Afro-Amer
ican' for a few weeks under
the guidance and observa
tion and chaneronaire of
young George Wendell, the
sUter'sson of Wendali Phil
lips, to help his eailierstages
of collfge lite,N and to make
easy bis opening career. The
next day. young Wendell hot
with indignation, demanded
of the committee "why they
had placed that negro in as
sociation with him."'
"Be:ause." said the c o ni
mittee, J'we thought it the
nini)pr nn.l the onlv thintr to
do. We thought in view of
your birth and tradition -in
'view of the crreat life and
great work of your great un
cle, you would ueglad of the
privilege ol doing anything
to befriend a representative
of this unfortunate race."
"Now let ua understand
each other," ssid IVendell.
"Yon know'I am willing at
flnv time to do rav Dart for
these people. 1 am willing
you know, to make a 'contri
bution?' But I can't let this
fe.'low. touch me. It makes
mv flesh prowl.'
"And this speech, mark you
Governor, comes not trom a
decendant of Calhoun, or Bob
Toombs, or thet'avaliers, but
fiom the scion ot tne biooci
of IVendell PnilliDS. the etna ti
cjpator, and is spoken not in
Georgia, hut in Boston, un
der the shadow of .the stat
ues of Lloyd Garrison uod
t'rispus Attucks!
"The source of mv informa
tion is absolutely unimpench
flUlP.
Treatment of Typhoid Ferer.
?orrFa.yettevijIe Observer.
Mr. Editor: In the North
Carolina University Maga
zine for December, 1S53, is
an extract from a Revoluo
tiary Journal of Hugh Mc
Donald. I send you a Jew
sentences to t.how that the
modern treatment of typhoid
fever was discovered by him
in 1776.
"As sickness was prevail
ing in the regiment we mov
ed out of town (i. e., Wil
mington) about eight miles
to a place called Jumping
Gully, where we encamped
until about the middle of
October and were drilled
twice a day. In this camp "I
was taken sick and was ig
norant of everything that
passed for five weeks. One
evening, the brigade being on
parade, I lelt a great desire
for homeind thought I saw
everything at my father's
house before my eyes. I got
out of my tent and went n
way somfi distance to a fresh
running branch. The water
from falling over a large pop
lar root, had made a deep
hole below, and, getting into
the hole, I laid my head on
the root, which I believe was
the sweetest bed 1 ever lay
in. The water was so cool
to my parched body, that I
lay there until ten o'clock the
next day, before they found
me, when George Dudley, ser
geant of our company, hav
ing crossed within two eet
of my head without seeing
me, a Win. Carroll, who was
in company with Dudley, dis
covered me, and exclaimed,
'By here he is. turned to
be an otter. He is under the
water.' Dudley took me out
of the wuter and carried me
to camp. When the doctor
came to see me, he said the
water had cooled my fever,
andthat I would recover. 1 did
recover and recuited very
fast every day after my im
mersion. In addition to the
advantage of my immersion,
my good friend, Alilton, the
fife player, hired a gig in Wil
mington, and took ine outof
camp, to the house of one
Blulort, who has a bridge a-
cross North East river, a-
bout ten miles from AVil
mington, where, from their
kind attention and good wa
ter and the salubrity of the
air, f soon recovered my for
mer strength and joined the
brigade sooner than could
have been expected."
McD.onald belonged to, the
Sixth Regiment of North Car
olina Continental troops, of
which at first Alexander Lil
lington was Colonel, and af
terwards Gideon Lamb. The
first sugeon was Wm.McClue
but on the 8th of June, 177G,
Rohert Wilson was rom mis
sioned, so I contend that
Private Huh McDouald'and
Dr. Robert Wilson was were
the first discoverers of the
cool water treatment for
typhoid fever, which from the
description was evidently
McDonald's disease. Yours
truly, .
Kemp P. Battle.
Evurrbodr Bsyi So,
Caacareta C&ndv Cathartic, the most won
derful medical discovery of tlie age, pleas
ant and rerrnaliing to the taite, act gently
and positively on kid tiers, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dlsiel colds,
cure headaoliefever, babituul ronstlpation
and blilousnW. Please buy and try a box
of O. C. C. to-dry ; 10, its. M cent, bold and
guaranteed to cure by all Cruggisla.
BnUe.'ilTork.
News and Observer.
The Populist party is res
ponsib'e for the state of af
fairs. But for their co-opera
tion with the negroes the
present reign of terror, de
bauchery and lawlessness
would not curse the State.
We state this as a fact, not
by way of denunciation of
those Populists who have
been instruments in this un
doing of virtne and honesty
without realizing it. There
are Populists who never in
tended to give Oim Young
and his allies tho control of
the blind institutions of N,
C; who never proposed to
give negroes a yoice in t h e
management of white schools
and who never joined the Pop
ulist part.v-to restore the 18
68 rule in the eastern coun
ties; who never dreamed that
ex Confederates would be tin
nel out to starve so that im
pudent negroes should live in
luxury.
And yet these men have liv
ed to see these disgraceful
things and worse, come a
oout by virtue of the manip
ulation of their votes. They
have elevated to office m e n
who have sold out to the
gold bus, to the Southern
railway, to the trusts, and
to everything'else that had
the money to pay for them
They earnestly advocated
reduction of salaries to i
point that would be in keep
ing with the reduction in the
prices of agricultural prod
ucts. Not a salary in the whole
state has heen reduced. They
urged a doingaway with any
unnecessary offices. The men
they voted for have multipli
ed offices. They denounced ex
travigance. The expenses ol
the State and county govern
iiient8 are greater than ever
in the history of the State
since he carpet-bug rule of
1 S68-69. For the first time
since 1868-'69 the State
treasury is bankrupt andth
State cannot pay its just
claims. Thev sought to make
a judiciary in which no par
ty should have the predom
inance. They have given the
negi o party control of o u r
Stipremeand Superior courts.
But why go on? We might
fill columns to show how cm
ell.v the honest men who join
ed the Populist party have
been deceived and how a 1
their wishes have been trod
den under foot. To crown the
whole, their votes were cast
to elect a gold bug to the U
nited States Senate, and they
are, in all the eastern coun
ties, in common with their
white neighbors of all parties
at the tnwrcy of the ignorant
negroes and their base allies
Lincoln Journal: The sk?p
tics are now saying that the
madstoneis a fake and
humbug. Before long we ex
pect to see some fellow hop
up' and deny that turning
your shoes bottom upwards
under the bed at night will
keep off cramp, or that waits
can't be conjured away, both
of which propositions we hold
ourselves ready ti prove by
well authenticated examples
ffe Beap What We Sow."
News and Observer.
While so long there is a-
a
mongus a vicious and de-
piaved class of negroes, there
will be occasional commis
sions of the nameless crime
in the South, it is a tact that
this crime was never known
in days of slavery and is less
frequent whtn the Democrats
are in power lhan when the
Republicans hold the reins
This is, of course, not due to
any sympathy withthecrime
by the executive of either
party, but is due to the fact
thvt t when the Republicans
are in power the ignorantne
gro feels that he has license
because his party is on top.
We have taken the pains
to go over the files of the
News and Observer for sever
al years to ascertain wheth
er the present reign of terror
is due to the belief on the
part of the negro thntRepub
lican rule gives him immun
ity. The result is we find
that the year 1889, the year
succeeding Harrison's elec
tion, the South was deluged
with the same crime that
now startle, the people. A
list of the crimes shows that
the spirit of lawlessness in
the ignorant was rampant
then as now, evidencing that
the election of Harrison and
McKinley made the negro
brutes feel thut the bottom
rail was on top. It would
require much space to pub
lish a list of all the assaults
in iNorth Carolina alone in
one week a negio was lynch
ed in each Stanley and Burke
county for nameless assaults,
not to pro into the details
elsewhere."
The white man of the
South who is true to his race
will be deeply impressed by
these conditions, am all who
want to put an end to lynch
ing and thecrime that invites
it ought to band together in
a league for "white suprem
acy,'' for the time making it
the supreme issue. -We have
little question that they will
do it, even though the office
holders who pander to the
negro vote declare that there
is no necessity for such unit
ed action to meet a solid ne
gro phalanx and to prevent
the assaults that white su
premacy alone will put
down.
An Inflated Personage.
Mrs. George Ruthman,- of
Beaver Falls, heard a pecu
liar noise on the back porch
of her rewidence. She found
her two sons, one t'ged seven
and the other one year old in
a corner.
The habe was on his back.
The elder brother had insert
ed the tube of a bicycle pump
into the l)Hbyt8 mouth and
was filling him full of wind as
fast as he could w o r k the
pump handle. Theinfant was
unconscious, and its little
stomach was inflated like a
balloon. The mother pul'ed
tho t nbe fromlhe tube from
the child's mouth, and the
air followed with a sharp,
whistling sounl like tne ex
haust of an air brake on a
train. The baby recovered
consciousness.-Pittsburg'Fel
egram.
Ednrate Tonr Roircls With faitrarets.
Candy Cn!'iirifc crre coniMlr.at1on fore er.
10c, 'Sz. it C. C. C. fall, druggists refund tnguey.
. Strnpf ling loanr Ken.
Take care of yourself. No
body else will take care of
you. i our neip win, not
come up two or three or four
flights of stairs; your help
will come through the roof,
down from heaven, from that
God who in the six thousand
yeareofthe world's history
nevr betrayed a young man
who tried to be good and a
Christian. Let me say in re
gard to your ndycrse world
ly circumstances in passing
that yog are on a level now
with those who aie finally to
succeed. Mark my words, and
think of it thirty years from
now. You will find that
those who, thirty years from
now, are the, millionaires of
this country, who are the or
ators of this country, who
are the strong merchants of
this country, who are the
great philanthropists of the
country mightiest in church
and state are now on a level
with you, not an inch abeve,
and you in straitened circum
stances now.
Herschel earned his living
by playing a violin at parties
and in the interstice of his
pli,ying he would go out and
look up at the midnight hea
vens, the field of his immor
tnl conquests. GeorgeSteph
ens rose from being the fore
man of a colliery to the most
renowned of the world'sengi
neers. No outfit, no capital
to start with lounir man
go down to the library and
get some books, and read of
what wonderful mechanism
God gave you in your hand,
in your foDt, in your eye, in
your ear, and then ask some
doctor to take you into the
dissecting room and illus
trate to you what you have
read about, and never again
commit the blasphemy o f
sayingyou have no 2apital
to start with. Equipped!
Why, the poorest young
man is equipped as only
the God of the whole uni
vere cjuld afford t o equip
him. Brotherh jod Star.
Much dissatisfaction is be
ing manifested amongschool
men of the State oyer the
way the election for an addi
tional school tax went off
Surry county is the only coun
ty in the State that had two
cownships to Vote for the
tax. Several counties h a d
only one township to vote
for the tax. The oppoeition
igainst the tax was very pro
nounced all over the State,
owing to the following condi
tions:
First, The change of estab
lished school houses and dis
tricts. Second, In many of the
counties negro committee
men were appointed to help
supervise the white schools.
Third, That the partisan
spirit manifested by many of
the County Boards to make
the schools a part of poli
tics by appointing many of
the county supervisors on ac
count of their politics more
thau their fitness for the
place.
Fourth, The already increa
sed t;ixes, both iu St9te and
counties, has become already
a burden to the tax-payers.
Fifth, Last, but not least,
the criminal law against the
citizen vho fails to pay his
taxes.
Mr. James Ferrell.ot Burnt
House . Va., has discarded ,
all other diarrhoea medicines
and now handles only Cham
berlain s colic, cholera and
dialrhoea remedy. He has
ustffit In his family and sold
it to his customers for years,
and bus no hesitation in sav
ing that it is the best remedy
or colic and diarrhoea, ho
hns ever known. It not only
givee relief, but effect! a ier
manent cure. It ts also pleas
ant and safe to take, making
it an ideal remedy for bowel
omplair.ts. tor sale by M.
B. Blackburn.
PROFESSIONAL.
W. B. C0UNC1LL, Jr.
Attorney at La.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M. D.
BoQne, N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHEK
LOViLU FLETCHER
AnoilN!',YSATLAV,
BOONE, N. C.
tt&mSneciRl attention civeu
to the colletion ofcIaim&.&l ,
T. C. Blackburn, M. D. Boon, 9. C.
Dr. T. J. Profitt, Mart, N. C,
Blackburn & Profitt
Associated practicing physi
cians.
8Calls promptW attend
ed. 8-5, '97.
WILLIAM R. LOVIL1V.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Sutherlande, N. C.
. Practices in the State and
Federal courts.
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Cancer Specialist,
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