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VOL. XXIV BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, THURSDAY, AIMilL 21, 1913 NO. ar. PROFESSIONAL T. E. Bingham, Lawyer BOONE. N.C SFrompt attention given to all marters of a legal nature Collection'! a specialty. OtHc1 with Solicitor F. A. Lin- dpj 1-29 ly.pd. james c. am, ATTOHXEY-AT-LAW Sugar Grve, orth Caro., ar-Will practice regularly in the courts of Watauga nnd adjoining-counties. Special atten tion given to the collection of claims, .... . 2 27-'13 1 ST- VETERINARY SURGERY. I have been putting much study on thl. subject; have received my diploma, and am now veil equipped (or the practice of Veterinary 8ur gery In all Its branches, and am the ODly one iu the county, all on or addreM me at Vilas, N. . H. F. D. 1. Q. H. HAYES, Veterinary Surgeon. l$-17-'ll. DrTE M. MADRON. - DENTIST. Sugar Grove. North Carolina, S"A11 work done under guar untee, and be9t material used. 4-13-ll. E. S. COFFEY riORbEi Al LAV --flooNE. n! r. ' i .unpi -mention given to :.. .. f . "orl TiMttire. i ' H i mil tiling find il '11 Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney - SPECIALIST - TR, KAR;H08K. THROAT AND CHK9T II 1 KXAMINKD FOR GLASSES FOURTH STREET ristol, Tenn.-Va. EDMUND JONES -LAWYER -LENOIU. N C- Yill Practice Regularly in e Court of "aiansa .il L, D.LOWE, vTTORNEY AT LAW, BANNER ELK.N. C 9 Will practice in the courts Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining jounties. 7-6.'n . F. A. LINNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW,- BOONE, N. C. Will practice in the courts of ;he 33th Judicial District in al natters of a civil nature. 9.11-1911. J. C. FLETCHER, Attorney At Law, BOONE, N. C. X Oareful attention given to oliections. E. P. Lovlll. W. R. Lovill Lovill 8c Lovill Attorneys At Law BOONE, N. C Special attention given to all business entrusted to their care. , .. .. .. 7-9-10. SOME EABLT N0RT1 CASOUKA HISTORY. hi Second if a Suits if Historical Ar ticles Writtii for tbi Btmocnt IjAttontyL D. Ion. It in not generally known that once tnere was a state called Frankland, named in honor. ol Benjamin Franklin, the pbiloxo pher and patriot; but heverthe- ess it had its risp, made some little progress and then its fall. At the close of the Revolution ary W ar it was found that the United States was heavily in volved io responsibilities. Credi tors desired their money and ow ing to the ravages of war, mon ey was 6carce and Congress de vised many plans; one was to solicit the States, owning va cant and unappropriated land9, to throw them into the common stock to pay off and discharge this common debt of honor, jus tice and gratitude. This appeal was heeded by the State of North Carolina and she at once set apart to pay her just proportional this huge debt. So in April, 1784, at Hillsboro, am ong other acts for the general relief of the government, the Gen eral Assembly ceded her western lands, and authorized her dele gation in Congress to execute a deed: provided, Congress would accept this offer within two years, but for some teason this offer was 'not accepted at that time, and the failure to do so was the source of great commo tion and conflict between the dif ferent factions of the civil au thorities in the then western part of the State. The pioneers of the west bad suffered great hardships, notou ly by the ravages ol long sieges in war, but by many conflicts with the hosMle Indians. Many were murdered by . the savages; some had tneir wives ana cmi- dren massacred, and all suffered in privation and poverty. Those who had started out in life in theiri new homes in t b west, aftei Buffering many losses ol members of their families, and otherwise nuffered great hard ships were not pleased with such a change ot conditions, viewing the "act of 1784 with grave sus picion; on the 23rd day of Au gust, 1784, a convention met at Jonesboro, (now in the State of Tennessee) and in this conven. tion John Sevier was chosen pres ident and Langdon Carter clerk, They resolved that a person be dispatched to CongreBs to press the acceptance of North Caroli na, and adjourned to meet in Washington county on the 16th of Septemlier, 1784, The General Assembly of North Carolina met at Newborn on the 22ud day of October, 1784, and repealed the act of the former session, thus undoing what had been done, and in consequence of which the convention broke up in confusion and dissatisfaction, but the spirit of revolution had started, and the people had be come aroused to a considerable extent. On the 14th of December, 1784, when the people bad assembled at Jonesboro, John Sevier moun ted the steps and read a letter from Joseph Martin, who bad just returned from the Legisla ture of North Carolina, which in formed them that the General Assembly bad granted the pto pie of Western North Carolina a general court, formed their mili tia 7 into a brigade,-appointed him a brigadier general, and re pealed the recession' act of last session, advising them that their grievances had been redressed, that they had nothing further to complain of, and implored tbera to muke no further effort to sep arate from North Carolina, but remain firm and faithful to her laws. At the same time five delegates from eaeh county had assem bled at Jonesboro; John Sevier was made president of this con vention. They formed a consti tution for'the State of Frank- land, which was to be rejected or received bv'another body to meet at Greenville in November, 175. This body met at the time and place appointed, the constitu tion was ratified; Langdon Car ter, was peBker of the Senate and William Cage Speaker of the House of Commons. John Sevier was chosen uovemor; navia Campbell, Joshua GiHt and John Henderson were chosen Judges of the Superior Court. Other of ficers, civil and military, were appointed. The Geueral Assembly of the State of Frankland. by a com munication signed by both spea kers, informed Richard Caswell, Governor ol North Carolina, that the people of the counties of Washmeton, Sullivan and Greene had declared themselves sovcr- eign and independent of the! State of North Carolina Govern orCa9well, being a soldier and a statesman, was not. disposed to overlook what be termed such a high-handed measure, and on the 25th of April, 1785, he issued bis proclamation against the revolt against the laws ol North Caro lina. This pHper was written with much force. lie stated that the cession act had been repealed; its repeal had been voted on by those engaged in the revolt; that the authority of North Carolina, executive, judicial and legisla tive, and exercised a tender re gard lor the people of the west; bad granted them judges to de cide of their property rights and military officers to protect them and denounced the revolt as a rank usurpation of power; that the general go ernmeut. derived no benefit; that the revenue of North Carolina had been seized and the authority of law defied. He told themthatsuch measures would bring ruin to themselves and dishonor to thecountry.and warned all concerned in this re volt to return to their duty and allegiance to the State, and pay no obedience to the self-created authority of Frankland, un known to the constitution and unsanctioned by law. As the State of North Carolina still treated the new state of Frankland as a part of her terri tory, I shall pursue this part of the subject a little further. Goyernor Caswell closedt his proclamation by informing the , Save Farm Labor Make it Produce More With practically the samo labor, horses, mules, Wagons and imple ments, you' can produce bigger crops from the same, or less acreage. It takes no more work to raise 60 to 90 bushels of corn, or one and a half to two bales of cotton, to the acre than it takes to make or dinary yields. It is not necessary to plant a larger acreage to got a bigger yield. Simply work and cultivate the samo amount of land more thoroughly. You cap produce bigger crops of COTTON, CORN, TOBACCO, AND ALL CROPS WITH Virginia-Carolina High-Grado Fertilizers They contain plant foods which enrich tho soil, increase the yield and make farming more profitable. revolting element in t he State of Franklaud, that the General As-! ! sembly of North Carolina would j soon be io ression, before which! all these unlawful acts would be ; laid; advising them to bring for- j ward their greivances then, let' their terms of separation be known, their proportion of the public debt be acknowledged, and : such terms and plans as were con , sistcnt with tho honor of tho 1 state would generally begrnutod but if this advice was not heeded they might be assured that the spirit ol North Carolina was not so depressed or so exhausted; j that means, even to thesheddiug j ol blood, would be resorted to re claim her refractory citizens and j preserve her honor and dignity, j Hut the state of Frankland I did not heed this warning, but it proceeded to erect new counties, levy taxes, appropriate money, form treaties with the Indians, and exercise the general functions and prerogatives of a sovereign State. These people continued their organization, appointed delegates to represent their case to Congress, nnd by makiug up pointments of officers' to posi- tions of dignity and power, ob stacles were thrown in the way to nrevent restoration to the a rule ol North Carolina. The scarcity of money was se verely felt and this militated a gainst the progress of the new State of Frankland, Tho salary of the Goyernor was 200 lbs, an nually; a judge. 150 lbs., the treasurer, 40 lbs, to be paid from the treasury. The taxes were to be paid into the treasury in the circulating medium of Frank land, such as they had, yiz: Liu en, beaver skins, ruccoon and aud fox skins, deer skins, tallow whiskey and the like. It was said that the salaries of the governor a nd judges were paid in fox skins, and the fees of the sheriff and constable in mink skins, aud that the officers were compelled to receive the skins at the established price; and is sail that even this primitivecurrency by the ingenuity of man, was ex tensively counterfeited by sewing raccoon tails to opossum 6kins; opossum skins being worthless and abundant, and raccoon skins were valued by law at one shilling and three pence each. As a nec essar' consequence of such a state of affairs, public opinion was divided between the advo cates of the new State, and the adherents to the State of North Carolina. The General Assembly ol North Carolina assembled at Newbern in November, 1785, passed an act to bury into oblivion the conduct of the people of 'Frank- Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Box 1117 RICHMOND 2B VIRGINIA laud; provided they would return to the allegiance of the State, utoiuted elections to be held in the different countus for mem bers to the General Assembly of Forth Carolina, and also appoiu icu mil uuu luiiiiuijr uniuvis iu nuuc, UI IDICBgO, Will lie IIOIIM- support tho State organization, oated Ambassador to Koine. Tho next year, 170, a poculiarj The estate of the lute Johu .In state of affairs existed; two em-jcob Aatnr. who K-nt. .-. .. ,n. pires existed nt the name timo, over the same territory aud over tho same people. Courts were lii-ld by authority of the State of North Carolina hnd also by au thority ol the State ol Frankland and each government attempted to exercise the same powers, and often m the eame county. John Tipton beaded the North Caro lina party, and John Sevier the Fraukluud party. I'm vocation on one side, was followed by outrage on the oth er, which was repelled by great er violence. While court was tieing held at Buffalo under au thorityof North Carolina, and t Jonesboro, only ten miles a way, in the same county, under authority of Kraukland. While court was sitting ab Jo nesboro this year, lor Washing ton county, Colonel Tipton, with a paity, entered the court house, seized the papers, and tur tied the justices out of the bouse. Col. Sevier retaliated aud be and his party turned the clerk of the court for North Carolina out of the house, in the same county. In Grefne County in 1780, Colonol Tipton broke up a court hold under authority of Frankland . t, . . . Tipton and Sevier bad some per aoual encounters, but fortunate ly forboth, friends of tbe oppo nents interfered, and perhaps the lives of one or both was spared. The next year, 1787, taxes were imposed by both adminis trations, but the people most in uoceutly pretended that they did not know to whom to pay, so they paid to neither; and as life cannot exist long without food .rdriuk, a government survive L for a great while unless it has some means of collecting its reye nues to defray its current expen ses; and being deprived ol one of the chief means of government the affairs of Frankland were ap proaching the end, like small re publics which are constantly in a state of insurrection. Tipton and Seier were residents of the same county, Washington. Se vier was a brave soldier; he pro ved his valor at King's Moun tain, but it was said of him: "He was seduced by tha allurement! of office and ambition' He sought the advice and support of Di. Franklin, the Governors of Geor gia aud Virginia but none gave him aid or advantage. To be Continued,. Coughs and Consumpion. Coughs and colds, when neglect ed, always lead to seuous troubled the lungs. The wisest thing to dc when you haye a cold that trouble you is to get a bottle of Dr. KingV New Discoyery. You will get relief from the first dose, and finally tht cough will disappear. O. II. Brown of Muscadine, A.U., wriites: "Mj wife was down in bed with an ob stinate cough, and I honestly be lieve had it not been for Dr. King'f New Discoveiy, she would not be liying today." Known for forty three years as the remedy for coughs aud colds. Trice 50c. and $1, Rec ommended by all dealers I'aradovical as it may seem, the average man will stand up for himself even wheu he has to lie to do it. Drive Sick Headache Away! Sck headaches, sour Stomach, in. digestion, biliousness disappear very qnickly after you take Dr. King's ,Vw Life Pillt. They purify the blood and put new life and vigor in the system. Try them and you will be well satisfied. Every pill helps; every box guaranteed. Price 25c. Rcccmmcndcd by all dealers. STATE AXO CEHIMl NEWS. William II. Osborne, of irceiin boro, bssbceu appointed tin missloner of Internal Revenue. It feems likely that Charles II. the Titauic, is vulued nt .7,. 210,091 K. Don Laws, postniasler nt Moravion Falls, has tendered bin resignation to take effect when bis successor is appointed. Tbe State of New York will re cei re from three to four million dollars inheritance tax from tho state .of the late J. Cierpont Morgan. Tho post office at I'ilot Moun tain, with two stores, was de stroyed by fire a few days since, entailing a loss of f 4,000. R. S. Wbaley, of Charleston, has been nominated for C o n stresa in the Charleston district, to succeed Congressman Lugarc, who died recently Carl Uagenback, the world fam ed auimal collector, aud senior partner of the Ilandels Menage erie and Fe'er Fark at Stellings, near Hamburg, Germany, is dead. At Walkeitown, iu Forsyth county, fire destroyed the plant of the Walkertown Chair Coin pany. Lobs about $15,000 with no insurance. Hickory is noted as an auto- ' ... n,. . . ... imobuecity. 1 here are about 40 ol them here, costing about 15,. 000. Then say our city is not a fast city. Mercury. Two English families, Mr. nnd Mrs. Charles L. Baker, 6on mid daughter, from Truinbiidge Wells, Kent, England, huve pur chased large tracts of land near Skyland, and will become truck farmers. Rev. G. H. Church, former pas tor of Lenoir Baptist church, (well known in Watauga) and for several years pastor at Mor van, N.C, has recently entered upon his pastorate nt States- ville with bright prospects. Le noir Topic. Will Avery. a highly respected colored man who lives out on route 2 about three miles from town, suicided last afternoon by shooting a hole through bis stom uch. Ill health issuposed t o have unbalanced his reason. Morgan ton Messenger. Senator Overman has appoin ted Mr. Ogden E. Crowson, edi tor of the Burlington News, to a clerkBbip on the Senate Rules committee. Mr. Crowson is one of the bright newspaper men ot the State, and we are glad to hear of his promotion, if promo tion it may be called. Trot. Willis L. Moore, who since 1895, has been chief ol the Weather Bureau, has been re moved Irom office by President Wilson. Charges of a serious na ture were filed with the Secreta ry against Prof. Moore. M0010 was an appointee of tbe Cleve land administration. It has been alleged that among the enlisted men at the naval station in San Francisco, there is wide spread uso of cocaine, Secretary Dauiels has directed iu vestigatiori, made aud Bays, he will not wait for any red tape, or long collection of proofs. It aim ply must be eliminated. What ,we all; want is a road that is good 305 days iu the year. This thing of beiug cut off from town, from church and from your neighbors three or four months out of the j-ear because of bad roads, is not to be borne in these days of progress Lex ington Dispatch. if r;
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