i Wallace "" - r ' " '- - : STATESy,ljj:, N. C. 7holesalE DoalorO ip 1 Gonoral Uerchandiso. in sslbnisitsieitii tot- and best facili- i 5-2-JfiWJ ties for han- dlinff Dried Pruifc 3er- 5 inmates $ o q thor State. v . - . -A A o i J Respectfully "Wallace J. H. SPMIHODR, tinli C::!;l t:::i. Dentist. ZEaosaLoJizrff 3 CP .1Tk9 to Injure Ihteriil fcr wcrxuLoxr ultcsa T7trk caa bs Dons. Pfttitatifrea sdixtanwnij rrid d:lir b j bfcrnin j UnUvbittinstbsj prspw9 ccsist P. LEE "CXiTNE, i fORMIT - AT-lAW, Ttr jr? rtniA iffOMKT - AT-LAU, CILLEY Cz HE WL AITD, ! J Am 1 i Tfi 300" ! ; - STABIM& DEFEAT 1H THE FACE. 1 CfoBaf ttttsr from 6or. Yibci la til Last Days im-Tnia as Steal. i . .... . . ., . Thdifeilowing letter said to have been- wrjtten by Gov. Vance, in ; 1 864, appears in the. National Re publican fromits Raleigh corres pondent. I ! ) ' Hl'Ltiaii,' September 22, 18G4. would be glad if I could hare a long talk with yeC 1' never before have, bejen go. gloom j about ,the. con tioffof fiffair EarfyVdefeat lnA the Valley I contider agjthe turning point in this campaign, and, confi JdAtTallyVl'fear it seals the iate of Richmond thgughno immediately. It will require' our utmost exertions Acting i yirgini R1 1865 comes in, and Abolitionism is rampant for foar years more. In short, if -the enemy pushes his luck till the close of ihe year, we shall not be offered any terms at all. signs, which., discourage me dejnQralizatien-of. our. people. With a; bWxfonimunicatibn five hun dred miIeao S5tiermans rear through our country not a bridge has been burned,. noja hrown from its track, kior a man1 shot by the people iMBhei seem vervwhereta submit whep duehfffarawn::' M " What does jta) show,T myt1 dean sir ? It snows what I have always believed, jthat the great popular heart is not now and never has been in this war." It was a revolution of the politicians, not the people, and was fought at first by the natural (aitfc 4fo yourig3 Vrien nd has .been tpt gbing by 'State' arid sec-tional-prida, .assisted by that. .bitter ieT oT "feeling "produced i)jr' "the r crjtteities-jind bruisiitis of -the , ene-. i ; I ' - ''Gen. Eee Is a great man and has he remnant of the best army on ; earth, bleeding, torn and overpow iwed, though it be. Saturday night I fnyetcpjpea qfu troubles analije Jwl&V tj.theHessed -bohr. of" reot4 God -grant -it- 'Lord, I beTTev?, elpACra final liberty and indepemdeuce. "'Would fain be doing." How can I help to win .thefictory ? That 'can I do 3 How snail I guide this suffering and much oppressed Israel tbfegolij4flr3B tk-iosgh thetangled andWoodyptbway wherein- our "Still 1 am not out of heart, for as you "fcfiowV "I a;f a buoyant and hopeful temperament. Things may come around yet.' " ' thetn truth and loyalty, j "'This is mjr consolation. The beginning was badr t" n'ad no hand in it. Should the end be bad, I shall, witb God bel inallf blame lesftr Itnv dear sir i t u -t- yrh&fatj truly ;yours, ::.. 1 ran '.Zafiuio if Vance. -JUttliirLIIEJU teemed ''old friend" together with your many readeg, my known and un known friends among the peaks of theikl-UndWniong'thk1 hills that1 I furnished tie pure air which first I water I which first quenched the thirst mSSIeSfr iVyou dnftndaill ardently, wuhja bappy and prosperous rear. Are ant of f&toMfi& yW homes among the mountains f U there a restlesaC wTiiefidO and controlling care? or who is anx ipus ,Ui4liph nocae. ioisakind mother'siapron string and be "hil pwn," a. "free; man ?" If there is such a plrson, hcn'kof it Vwuld do him good toescaponl5 the. prison of home for a season. I How Irar, he among the swamps of the east for a whiW&Ky&Btog9 their water at homej God's best beyeragefoi ;tne m ISuplifaw-tUi of the eastern, u mountaiir piks, and which f v .. r ma -M mr v 3 imparts its thrill of life to every tendon, muscle ana Ton ' ieel like JPVKarJWWiii- of th.croCTOT.CiatiT.t r-9T i7v rs: : " ia lx r i . . . m . wor8eby far than yqur irritated dad dy ever shook you for not doing you? work as you ought, and I want you to know s if your daddy shakes you like mine didjihe its no little shaking, but if I must be shaken let daddy do the shaking. I Now, this daddy part of the shat ing I an. acquainted with not quainted with the chill part ac- but have seen it do its work with energy. I guess you would like to know how I have escaped the j"chill shaking?" I am an exception o the rule an a scape-goat from i he chills like I tried to be from work when a boy. Don't you favor me in this last par ticular ? ." ; ' ; .. In order that you" may have some idea of the eastern , night air among the swamps, on some hot night next July you take your pillow, sheep skin and coverlid iand go down in your old cellar among the old bar rels, Krout-stand , soap-troughs and many other Moldy inhabitants of that dreary place! and spend the night in trying. to sleep ; jthen come down east, got in tot the country and call for a night's lodging and you will get yourself ut a wat for the night in a little shed room 8. x 10 ft with one littl window hot, yes, in a stew--but you must cover up 1 put up the window ! No ! Why P Mus keeters I Where is your net ? Call it a net if you want to, its only a sifter. Keeps one! big one out and lets forty little ones in. How they sing 1 How theyjbite ! How "you slap ! them all the night long, With a bill and k song, You slap and pray in ferver strong, for your own ''home sweet home j in the mountains. Oh ! restless young man, after spending ene summer among these "muskeeters," your desire will be expressed in language like this ; Let"' tne return to ray father's house to be even as "a hir ed servant," let the "simmonB" and sassafras sprouts cat me across the knuckles as the old grubbing hoe goes up and down J let the old saw- briars tangle my ankles, let the dog weod roots beat my shins blue while I . plow in the ntw-ground turnip patch, let the , while I tie fedder bull-nettles I stiag by the star-light let sprouts, bri of the west. Yes, ars, roots, dull plows and grubbing hoes, and old mules all combine to vex me during thejday, it will Only prepare my weary limbs for the sweet rest ef a returning night dur ing the dreaming j heurs of - which "muskeeter" music is never heardy and their long bills never probe into your businessJ j i , Then young man you may enjoy a moonlight chat or stroll by the banks of lovely mountain streams, the murmur of which is a fitting re quiom to a fellow dead-in love (ah! this ; is experience to the tune of "auld lang syne") mosquitoes knock Down here tke all the romance out oLcourt-ship-no time to flirt matter of fact. If you don't mean business, "shut your mouth," (ex perience again); All things are created for a purpose. I guess 'tis here that the deapissd raosquiU fills his niche in the great structure of God's well designed creation. Yes, , kind reader, get deeply in love with your beautiful "land of the sky." 'Let bonds of patriotic de votion ever bind your energies and means to the rapid, and full develop ment of all her natural resources. Throw your restless nature into the rapid current of her growth, as it is surging amid the very precincts of . your childhood heme, With honest toil :call fort h the abundant sleeping ) resource of the P "old home plaee," and r&ake it "bloom and blossom ai the rose"' make it a bright place, a pearl in ihe ralley, - a shining' crown on the hill-top, a glistening jewel on the jnotmtain'a breast."' Let : ne stranger ",buji the to tread with care! "old home-stead" ess steps the dust ef your sleeping f athers and mothers. next xo selling r me oirxn-ngns. is selling the birth-place. Sell your surplus lands tc- the comers among you, Jmt il you ham a i sacred mem-; Ory for the eldeir ! tine of ' your fa- Bthera ahd . . - ,. HVthetT lines find arliyinsr cho in- youXJiilJtsn joclliiyiliitDit&ei old 1 heritage. "t Let the labor of your ger; change the.old, field, intfiejda of the fathers. If there is any one thing in this world that could call me from the great work of offering eternal life to dying mortals through a crucified savior,' that thing would be to save the "old homo place" from the forgetful hand of the stranger.'- " j" -' '. -:...;:- Western North Carolina is now the "desired of all lands." The samples of the native wealth have already ! touched the pulse of capital ists. The traveler now bekolds her beautiful scenery with covetous eye. Amid the commotion of trade let native son hold on to a "goodly iheritagb" of the native soil. Leave not your State in the time when mind and muscle are needed, but remain! with her to see her grow -help her grow. ? Good-bye till I meet yen again through the columns of the wide awake Topic, which always comes as a practical, if not peetic, quota tion from Scott. D. H. Tuttle. VKAT B6RSRESSIS In the United States Senate, Jan. 9. j Mr, Morgan withdrew his mo tion to reconsider the Oregon Cen tral lax.d forfeiture bill, and the bill goes to the House as amended' by he Senate. - The inters merce bill was discussed, ate com a motion to recommit it, tosretker with the House j bill, having -failed. The Belmont resolution calling oh the President for information relative to the Congo conference was adopt ed in the Heuse. . The Senate ad journed until Monday and the House until this morning. A j bill was passed by the House of Representa tives yesterday for the relief of John W. Franklin, executor of the will of Jno Armifield. President Arthur will prebably not visit the New Orleans Exposition until February. The United States Senate was not in session Jan. 11. The House passed the naval appropriation bill. The Btiireti Sihscript 01. Senate Chamber, Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 13, 1885. To The Topic: There is a movessent in agitation, or rather in contemplation, by the Wilkes and Ashe representatives in the Legisla ture, concerning the extension of the railroad now being constructed rrom Statesville to Taylersjille. - As the people of Caldwell are interested in this-matter I desire, through the columns ef The Topic and "Chron icle" to inferm them of the nature of the project and to ascertain, if possible, their views in ' relation thereto. It will be remembered that two years ago the Legislature passed ail act by which fifty-five j thousand dollars, realized from the sale of the State'c stock in the Cape Fear and Yadkim Valley railroad, was to be loaned to any company that would build the road. The terms and condition of the loan will be found in the act, The salient points .were these:! The loan was to be for thir ty years, and the amount loaned to be apportioned as follows One fourth to be advanced by the State when the road shall have been com pleted to Taylorsville, one fourth (being nearly $14,000,) to be ad vanced when the road shall hate been graded to- Wilkesboro, another f eurth when the 1 read shall have bee extended across -: the ' 'Yadkin Riter and the other' fourth when thetotfd ihall have been built te Patterson. ' -y ;' By the provisions of the 1 bill ' the counties through 'which the road -is to run are to eecure this loan' by is suing county bonde to an amount equal to the sum loaned by the State and to pay the interest' annually as .it bebomee 4ue; - If the'read should be built from Wilkesboro to Patterson; Caldwell would haTe to issue her bonds' to the amount of $13750, to secure ' the loan of that axaouni; the bends - are to run' thirty yean ' before payment s can be compelled, r The question it f .whether thepeople of the H county' would be1 willing1 id incur1 that' amount cf debiin mth ito tnt$T- i prise li tney snouia oe mere is w possibility ef getting a road Pat terson in 'feV.'years 'llXy 'own epinica & thssitbey will1 ho 'vet Ioaaspkeit!'oii The rbpesitien' newtdot .tt't'audir AEheeounff Jeteitd' xakectirSrtl'fcf this money; - if that county will tote the necessary appropriation of bonds " to secure! the same, and .thus extend the road! from Wilkesboro to Jefferson and! on to Virginia, instead 5 of to Pat-; terson. Of course" I. should prefer; to see the road built to Patterson if possible, and if there is the slightest! probability 'of Caldwell's voting her part of the appropriation, I shall;; oppose, and I think successfully,! any diversion of the amount intend - ed f or Caldwell. If, however, there is no prospect of the county's going' into the enterprise, then I do not care to act the part of the dog ia the manger, by failing to borrow, and use the money myself, and yet' refusing to allow a neighbor to de AO. : r . f What I now desire to know is the, "wish of my constituents in the? premises, as their will shall be mine. I hereby solicit correspondence on; the subject from all who , may feeljj interested therein. 1 will add that: I would be glad to have the views of; The Topic and; Chronicle" as toll the probable action of Caldwell in reference to an appropriation, in accordance with the bill passed two years ago. I would be glad if the "Chronicle" would copy this. Very truly yours, ; . W. H. Bowek. Tbs Lite Ourdsr Trial and Its Lessons. Mr. Editor : - In 1 the late tria! for murder which occupied so much of the time of our Court and which called together such pre-eminent talent and investigation, there ought to have been some salutary lessens learned, some effective warn ings given of .more than ordinary force. " v'! ,..;.!, ' Perhaps in all the annals of crime at least in this portion of eur State, there never has. been exhibited such a reckless disregard, such a wanton destruction of human life as those details brought to light. One lookj ed in vain for some adequate provo cation to the commission of such dreadful crimes, or in the absence - - i of those,' that the law of self-defense demanded the sacrifice, only to b astonished that none of these things could reasonably be plead in extenu ation of i the dreadful crime, whese. history must from henceforth darkl en the pages of our criminal lore for irpTifirntiona vftt to come. I v j -il But not to. extend. this review, my j object in this writing was prompted by a desire to benefit the youth of our county, scores of whem, no doubt heard this fearful, detail of crime,, and who thereby may learn and ought to learn what a fearful creature a bad man is,, especially when he is moved to the commission of crime, by the devil and the let ting loose of his unrestrained, un bridled ! passions ? warmed up and intensified by whiskey, by whiskey Jl Ah, yes, whiskey was there ! Whis key is everywhere f, where there is crime, under its demoniacal cursed influence, men rnsh into eternity as if there was ho angry God, no judg-; ment.bar to face. . . . The other night when the court house bell was rung and the honor- f able court assembled to receive the verdict of the jury,, wefelt it wasa selemn assemblage. ' The jury and the honorable court had each a most solemn duty to perform, the jury to. fix the guilt, the honorable court to pronounce the sentence of. the , law, : Whatever .stolid indifference the, prisoner may have manifested, there : were in that. court .house scores -ef, persons whese very hearts trembled , for the guilty one. , .Weweuld earn-, ; estly hope this was true,; with . the, youth who were ; there. We would, . appeal to yen, ! boys, , young men, r take warning from what ypu hare , seen and beard in this trial. I , i . . f The scene of this wretched man's, cendemnatien (!waa,. no r.unnteaning ceremony gotten up for; parade ; w show, far frpm it.. ; It contemplated either his hanging by the neck; . till he ,was ,4ead or hwcarcexatipn s n : a high walled abode of crime, cursed of , ,Go4: aud abandoned; by. man, ; manacled by hains and clothed , in r the, habiliments, of disgrace. : t (.f , 1 j Ai. a citizenship we have, need! to. ibe sidmanished; aa it ; is' '.written lBe fk6V deceived .Gedlis.net mockf i ed whatsoever! man.eoWs'thafi shall he also reap, her that r tews.t to .the: iwind &eed sot think it strange if he ariapatthe v whirlwind, whose r fieryj breath, will irindicatei the majesty; ef his throne, j who hat j declared, 'fTeajtancafi xuxtt, 1 4 will repay.!l A A Br .. CIE r'X:2ED TUSS AE3. suppose but few persons now living in Lenoir can realize the change in and on the site where the town years now In stands, in the last 100 the Winter and Spring of 1784 the families who occupied Fort Grider, were moving out, getting on to farms. Grider went to the farm now tended by Burwell Martin j Kay lor went to a cabin somewhere south of Dr. Beall's ; Wm. Tucker where Cant. Faucette now lives, "Tucker's j Barn" ;! Colbert Blair, was living pear where Wm. -Day now lives : Saml. McDaniel where Mrs. J. B. Powell lives Wm. Choat at "Choat's Bridge." The election was held on alarge oak log near him until 179(1 when it was moved to Tuckers. '! ! Bob. Powell, the ! ''noted despera do" spokenj ef in King's Mountain, lived about where; A. C. Sherrill now lives. Joseph McCrary lived on the farm now now ewned by the county, the "poor house farm." The Indians had a camp on the farm now owned by ' J E. Powell. The trail used by them in going from that the camp on the Kel son farm on the Valley of the Yad kin was Tisible often in my recol lection.. f.j j- j- . '! '. ' Joe Allen and a man by the name, of ;Husband raidedJthrough this sec tion about that iime. Peter "Holt lived on the farm now owned by J. A. Dula. He had a mill where Capt. Faucette now has one. In his absence some person drew the gate and set the mill running, and let it run, so said, for 6 weeks. ' I hare seen the stones. They were worn perfectly smooth. . ' Ambrose ! Powell lived where Henry Reichardt now lives. 50 yearsj age." What a change ! Waugh and Harper had a store near the old Fort. The Rev. R. J. Mil ler was living at Mary's Grove ; John: Tucker where J. R. Wilson now lives; in Lenoir ; Joe Tucker at Tucker is Barn; Joplingat Choat's Bridge. I might go on- and tell how Saml. McDaniel I and 'sons could kill as many as a half dozen deers in one day ; had regular days to drive ; got together such Men as H. N. Miller, Joe Tucker, John Tucker, S. W. Hughes, James Sudderth, Jacob Lowith, Levi Hartley, Peter Steel, Tom McCrary. Time would fail to tell alh -j' :!, ; V V About the year 1826 the last drove of wolves came through this section. They came in ; by the way of the Green Mountain, crossing the Yad- kin, came it is! supposed aboit Elkville, up to King's Creek, passed down Zack's Fork, crossed the Lin coln road, now Choat's bridge, tak ing to' the right, . crossed the 1 Mul berry road where Freedman now is, then went in the way of John's river or Mulberry. There was said! to be a dozen orj over. They did no dam age on this side of the mountain. All the dgs and men in the aeigh borhood went after them but with out effect 1 tirs. ESyra Clart Gains. In connection with; the sketches of life of Mrs? Myra Clark Gaines which have reeently appeared, a subscriber of the 'Sun'f . writes to correct what he claims is an inaccu racy in one of these accounts from a New York paper. 7 1 The passage Jn question is as follows : j ; "She (Myra) was born in 1806 in : New Orleans. Clark (her father) persuaded the mother to jjive up the child,' and placed it with a friend in Philadelphia, wbj promised j faith fully to care for her. t tj - With domestic trouble : came, busi- -ness disasters, ; wnicn inaae uiaric think he would lose all his property, -.and he, therefore, conveyed .to his friend 1700,000 in, trust for .the (child, and made a wilV' .; . ; I The "Pun's",. correspondent: says i this statement is not in , accordance with the; facts. "The Philadelphia i friend" referred to, he says "was OoL Davis, a gentleman .of . some means .and. great benevolence. ,1 I cannot recall his first name, nor the circumstances of his acquaintance or intimacy, with Clark, although I was familiar with them fifty Tears Jago.' n Clark was said to be a man ef loose merals. Be never 'placed hie daughter' k with his. friend. Col. Davis took Myra into hia' family - in her v infancy,' abandoned .tby ' ber father and disowfaeduw -So fat from iiyra'i being 'ket in; inbxance and seclusion from sinister motives on the part of CoL Davis, she grew up bearing his name and believing her self . to be his daughter, 1 until: upon her persisting in marrying Whitney ' against ' Col. Davis's consent and judgment, he revealed to her 'the circumstances of her parentage. Her foster sister, the daughter of j Col. Davis, with whom she was ed- j ucated married Commodore Wm W. McKean, of the U. S. N., a grandson of Thos. McKean, Gover-. 1 nor and chief justice of Pennsylva- t nia, and whose family j held the : highest social 'rank in Binghampton, ,New York." j r- ; ' 1 ., . r The story of Myra Clark Gaines is full of romantic interest,, and is r worthy of being told by some of the able counsel who are familiar .with the case in all its details, i T- Eollaw Isra. j ; ( " Horn aad Varm, r' ; !''" ' - i ,- i ' 1-'.': ".. . ' " In "Home and Farm" !of October -15, a nameless subscribers asks for 1 a remedy for hollow horn. I can recommend the following receipt as a sure cure for that dis ease, although I differ from name less subscribers as to tbe loeation of the hollow horn : r ! r .-j Take from1 three to five ears of sound corn, shell it and put it in a kettle ; then add cold water, : and boil it one-half hour., -When nearly cold put it in a bucket and applv it to the cow s nose. In addition to the above. let her have all the crab-grass or Johnson grass she will eat ; repeat; the dose until the "hoflow" is filledf.V There is a look about the eyes peculiar to f 'hollow horn" that is readily recog nized by experienced stock raisers With some hollow horp j is applied indiscriminately to every ; disease of cows which the pwner ! is unable diagnose. It is near akin to 'worms'. m children, hog and chicken cKol era and the lombriz" of sheep in south Texas. ' I believe it is unnecessarily con ceded that we all have to learn what We know some time in our lives. Some learn very young, while others . believe in hollow horn and-such like : voudooisms until they die; Neither deserved to be praised or blamed, as both cases were owing to accident or . birth, whereby one had advantages for acqfiiring knowledge thaf were denied the other. My father was a farmer and .'stock raiser. He read agricultural papers - and cow doctor books, consequently I was one of th fortunate ones that became wise in cow doctor lore when I was young. ' Texas. 'I . H. L. H. - EUSICAL iKO LITERARY BECIT1L, Oaunport College, Ltnair, 1. 8.. Wednis- ) day Evening Jan. Uth. ! " . programme! " PART ONE. 1. Duet f'Les Crelots' (Boscov its) Misses Gilbert and Lyle. ! 2. Reading "Lochinvar's Ride" ) Reading Chus. ! 3. Vocal Solo "Thou'rt like untol a Flower" (Rubinstein) Jliss Mary ienoir. t , i ( -) Miss Carrie Freer. ,,-.. ; HVrptfn "Summer VnTKlAa" (Metra) Misses Gilbert, i Connelly and Scott. . '4 t ' A . 6. Recitation "The Smack in School'' ( : ) Miss Ida Clarke. 7.; Piano. Solo "Rondo Caprio- cioso" (Mendelssohn) Miss Carrie -Freer. , .. r r -.. f..; ';';;'!) 8. French Recitation "LAnge et 1' Enfant" ( ) Misses Wil son and Lenoir. ' : ' .', ' v i 9 Vocal tSolc-r"pring Revel' (Mattel) Miss Mattie Gilbert. -! ., i 10. Recitation ."The . Gipsey Maid" ( f ) Miss Laura New land.; "' I-- ":- 11. . Semi Chorus "Christmas i . Soncr" f AdamV Misses Stowe.NCon- , nelly, Freerj Lenoir, Lyle and Gil- Dert. PART TWO. ! ! 12. . Vocal Solo "Shadows" (Osv dwmi Mirs Came Freer. . ; - '? . 13. Recitation "How 'Rnby' ' Plaved" ( r ) Misses Wilson" and Gilbert.---- --' -- '"; 14. ; Vocal Sol-"The Wanderer" 10: Terzetto "H6w ; us Swiftly"; (Compana) j Misses Stowe, Freer and s 17. r itecitation "xne pioux Chief's Daughter", ( V Miss 'Mattie Gilbert. .. ! ' ' '1 ! 18. Vocal Solo"Caprioe Polka" ' (moiiea) jhxs. oanDorn. . s . - ! 19, .Recitation "Maud- Muller" ; (Boielolieu) Misses Gilbert, Lyle, O,1 j Wheeler and Freer. , (Schubert) Miss Pattie Scott. -; J 15. Piano Solo"Op. '82." (Men- , delssohn) Miss Ellie Harper. '. . ' ,(- 7-ry) Misses .Freer, Wilson, Jienbir Gilbert and Lyle. ' ! ' to: Overtnrft-''Weissa -' Fran" Te cbHl that irUl hake J on the altar ox lore to tne t-eaory 1