North Carolina Newspapers

YOLUMB X. LENOIR. K. C., WEDNESDJLT, MARCH 18,1885. NUMBER S6. t - Wallace Bros., STATESVILLE, n. c. WliolesalE BoalorS general Merchandise. Largest Warehouse and best facili ties for han dling Dried Fruit. Ber- r ries, etc.. in the State. respectfully i Wallace August 27th, 1884 J. U. SPAWHOUR, taisiti Eiltissn C::til jc:l!2f, Dentist. ITca io Impure Zfaterial for Rlliae Teelh. Work as Low as Good T7ork can be Done. Patients frca a distance pa y ; arcid delay by informing kisuitVnat time they . ; propose cemingJ P. LEE CUIjN E, 1TT0HKIT - AT hLlW, l?MHI.T:-.A.TrLAty : EBITOID, IT. C. CLUJTOIj: A. CILLIIY, r iittornoLti - Bros 0 C,i l"tr TKE M-FEKE LAW. Mill Creek, Patterson. N. C. " Editor Topic j Excuse me for being one of many to say something uhnnt the arguments of "our Wilson Crek friend. He abruptly breaks in with, "I don't: see how we an better, the country by the stock law." His not seeing it l is no argument, for, being shut in by the peaks of the hill country, no one expects him to see as far into the future as those living in the broad valleys farther east. " "."v. Also, he is assuming a great deal in saying it will "break up Hho county," and it is a strange idea to me, thai the stock law will hinder any one from keeping their original number of horses. I did not know, that it was a practice anywhere in the county to turn horses to the .range. If it is, the sooner stopped the bet ter. And it is -too hard for the cows, man best friend, to have to climb the rugged hills and explore the mountain gorges for their' daily food, the ! substance of which is drawn from them at night for the, benefit of their unfeeling owners. 1 As for reducing the number of hogs, that will be little loss to any one. Where does the money come from on the long-nosed, flop-eared, razor-back- d woods hogs of Cald well ? It doesn't come. It is not a very heavy job to fence Caldwell. It will not be a heavy tax on the "good people of Caldwell," (the tax will be equally on good and bad.) And our "mean people" are less likely to burn the fence from around Caldwell than they are to burn an individual fence. They; fear the law.. I gladly admit "the county is improving," and the people - becom ing anxious for the stock law is good proof that they see the county is not "good enough" to let alone, and they are determined to improve it more. He has been saying all along that the stock are what bring the money in the county ; how hear him m 1 . a 3 saying, "fence your cultivated Crround and let vour stock take the range," which is to say, send your stock off in a root-hog-or-die fash: ion, to shift for themselves. I sayi if it is the stock brings all the mon ey, fence up and take care,, of the stock rather than agricultural work. As for his "plain case," that is the drover's business, and he had better tie his cattle anyway, "for there J is danger of losing some in. taking them loose. j, , Very likely he had rather have the revenue law, living up there; in the 'mountains where he has so good a chance to blockade : but those who livcldown i the bounds of civiliza tion' don't have a "fair showing." - jltlmav.be the onlv gnvl in it for him lis to "let it alone," but on the other side see other good in it, and we won't have any "let italone" in ours. D. E. F. " - (I am not deaf.) CENSURE OF JUBIEST Moeoanton, March 11, To the Editor of Tub Topic : An "outsider" in your issue of the 4th in reply to "one of the jury,", whose article appeared in your issue of Feb. 11th, seems to go too far in his controversy in the strictures he makes upon the jury in the Ray case and in regard to the action of juries generally. ' f . It may be true and your corres pondent has frequently thought that juries often acquit in capital cases, especially in cases of homicide, when they ought to convict, but when an "outsider" goes so far as to say that "when any juror or lawyer denies the right and privilege of criticizing the verdict of juries this country will hare fallen upon evil days, our large oaks will become Tyburn trees whose fruit will be supplied by J udge Lynch and our society will degeher) ate into chaos," it seems even an "outsider" goes too far As I remember the remarks of ftf th inrv" a straight for ward manly -utterance, he denied no man tne ngni oi cnucieuj, uu bi ply repelled what he conceived un just imputations. But are the verdicts of juries to be controlled by the irresponsible opinions and criticisms of outsid ers ? - Is our sole reliance for honest and just verdicts the shame or the fear excited in the minds of the jury by expectant criticism of the public? Isthe public sentiment, the criticism of outsiders to influence juries at , L ' -V If so, assemble a mob at once ana let that mob try and acquit or hang the one accused accordingly to their ideas, for fear our large oaks may become "tyburn trees," bearing fruit of a strange sort, "and our society degenerate into chaos." In the nam of -all that is sacred, keep the public sentiment and the fear of public criticism out of the jury box, for there can be no general public? sentiment and no general public criticism except there be some Sublic excitement, and the words of ie wise tell, us and the 3 pages o history shew ns that in times of ex citement every safeguard around both the innocent and the guilty is thrown down and no an is : safe who differs in conduct from his fel lows, or who acts contrary to their thicry- as to , how he i should have fwCtcclo Uo n, ?re cay, is isfe whea in dicted, unless the jury which ' tries him has the manhood to look solely to the l;w and the testimony. If the public sentiment or the one sided opinion cf the public made up i -n. hearsay testimony or tho fear of criticism is to obtrude itself into the jury box, and influence their deliberations on their verdict, then farewell to liberty and justice for the verdict returned is a servile one and Foquier Tenvillefs court is an honorable" one in comparison for that marie no prof esstons of honesty. He who has the most followers, he who has the most wealth and influ ence, he who is most capable of in fluencing the opinion of the public is sure of a verdict and .the weak and the poor and the powerless may console themselves in knowing that the foulest oppression, the most -abject tyranny; has been accomplished under the forms of law. They j feel the pangs of the wblf and - thinks "outsider" that they ifeel it the less or that his bite is the less deadly that the wolf has onthe garb of the sheep r H i "Outsider" thinks that "when any juror or lawyer denies the priv ilege of criticising the verdict of juries, this country will have fallen upon evil days," but has he ever thought that "this country will have fallen upon' evil days" if the fear of criticism and the public sentiment is to go with juries into, the jury box ? I I point "outsider" to the different ?hases of I public sentiment. In redell county a homicide case has just been tried and the jury convict ed of manslaughter when the pris oner ought probably to have been hanged, but see how unseemly it is that a great daily paper should be rate and condemn the jury as it is doing jsbecanse the prisoner was not acquitted. This it does upon the idea an idea which if founded in fact would undoubtedly excuse and justify him in the eyes of a jury if not in the eyes of the law, that the prisoner acted in defence of the pa-., rity and virtue of womanhood. Therefore we say with the kindest feelings towards "outsider" and agreeing with him prablyastothe fate which Ray justly merits that the public opinion and the fear of criticism ought not to be considered by juries ana ought not to influence them.;. Onlooker. FIRST CABim "l'EETIXS. Secretary Lamar and Attorncy General Garland were the first arri vals to attend the cabinet meeting. They came a few minutes before noon. After them cane Me-sari Vilas and Whitney. ' Messrs liny ard, Endicott and Manning were five minutes behind time. The President was already in the cabinet room awaiting their coming. After greeting all present, he direetod one of the executive clerks to designate the seats around the table. Presi dent Cleveland took the head of the table, the Secretaries of State, War and Postmaster-General on his right ; the Secretaries of the Treas ury, Navy and Attorney-General on his left, and the Secretary of the Interior at the foot of the table. It was ten minutes past twelve when the first regular cabinet meeting of this administration was called to order. hey remained in session until twenty - minutes past two o'clock. - I There was a general expression of opinion on subjects relating to the various departments. Each mem ber stated the condition of affairs in his department, and mude such sug gestions as he deemed necessary to facilitate the transaction of public business. Without committing hiin self as to what actually occurred, a member of tho cabinet remarked that the time consumed at the first meeting was spent profitably and in the interest of good government. It is understood that the session was devoted almost entirely to the consideration of federal appoint ments.' It is asserted on good au thority that each member of the cabinet submitted a list of appoint ments in his department, held to be essential to the administration of public business under the present regime. The lists, it is understood, included only such offices in which a change was desirable at once, in order that the new Secretaries might discharge the duties of their offices without the least friction or embar rassment. The deliberations of the" cabinet today will probably result in a long list of nominations being sent to the Senate by the President tomorrow. Politics In Washington. It is understood that the demo cratic Senators to take the places on' the committee on the judiciary of the Senate, vacated by Messrs. Gar land, Bayard and Lamar, ; will j be Messrs. Vest, Coke - and - Harris. Senator Vance will .take Mr. Bay ard's place On the committee on finance, Senator Ransom will become, chairman of the committee on pri vate land claims, in place of Mr. Bayard, and Senator Gorman will be chairman of the select committee on tho river front of Washington, -in place of Gen. Ransom. Senator Gorman will also be given a place on the committee on appropriations, k i The President sent the following nominations to' the Senate today : Ctarki 8, Fairchild, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ; John C. Black,' of Illi nois, to be commissioner of pen sions. The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed Mr. Valentine P. Suydar, of New ; York, his private secretary, to succeed Mrr Frank j Sperry, who has resigned to engage in the prac tice of law in New York city. One of the first official acts of Secretary Manning was to authorize Assistant Secretary Coon to sign in stead of the Secretary all warrants for the payment of money into the public treasury. A successor to Mr. Coon will be nominated in a few days, r' ' . ' ' .. First Assistant Postmaster Gen. Crosby was the first bureau officer to tender his resignation to Presi dent Cleveland. His resignation was tendered verbally on March 5, and formally, and in writing, on the day f ollawing. 1 j . President Cleveland will continue the practice of having cabinet meet ings on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week, and the first meeting of tho new cabinet will be held tomorrow. - Britisli Anns In Africa. Our correspondent jfrom Sands, who asks us the cause of the British war iwith El Mahdi . propounds a hard question and one j involving a long history. In the imperfect and, in many respects, inaccurate reply which we give below, we must be excused from giving dates. We have for some time intended j to reprint such a history.f rom the columns of an exchange if we could come across it, but we nate failed to find it. Our correspondent j must know that the Sultan of 'Turkey is the head of Islam to whom all Moham medan monarchs jowe allegiance. Egypt, being a Mohammedan coun try, is therefore tributary in a cer tain sense to the Turk. The com plication begins there. The Sultan is the traditional "sick man" of Europe and all the European pow ers watch with jealous eye every act of public policy taking place at Constantinople for fear it may in volve a change in the I "balance of power." If a fair divide were pos sible the'European parti of Turkey would hare been dismembered long ago, but, as it is, the powers of Eu rope content themselves with allow ing their relations with each other in reference to Turkey to assume the shape of an "armed neutrality." This interest of Europe in Turk ish affairs relates also f to Egypt which is a ependeney of the Otto man; Empire. TndH. in Egypt there are separate an I' independent interests with which all Europe Js concerned. : The Snc j canal, the great pathway of the'E tstern trade, belongs to the world and Europe is interested in keeping it open to commerce. This alone gives all of the European powers an excuse for interfering in Egyptian affairs. Again, the Khedive or viceroy who preceded the one at ' present on the Egyptian throne waa what wa called a progressive monarch. He had traveled much in Europe and had imbibed Western ideas. He os sayed the task of modernizing - gypt and of iushing the country bodily forward out of the darkness ana ignorance of the time of Moham med into the light and science of the present. j Great things were predicted for the land of the Pharashs. At once this "wise prince" gath ered around him as " advisers a few natives who shared hia; new views and a good many foreigners, among them, we believe, some Americans. He remodeled his army upon the European style and officered it with English, French and American vet erans. Several of our confederate Generals, Colonels and Majors found employment for their swords 'under this Egyptian reformer, among them Gen. R. E, Colston, who has just written a very readable account of his services in the Soudan for the March "Century." i ; He called around him many learn ed men of science, masters in art, literature, &0m and gave them pre ferment. Of these was Dr. Edward Warren, Bey, of North Carolina. He began public' works upon a mag nificent scale and prepared to make his cities the equals, if not the ri vals, of those of Europe. , - To do all this required money and he had none. Ho borrowed from the money changers in Europe and5 much of it came ' from England. Time rolled on and the "new" Egypt" seemed to be going ahead of the days of Moses and thebull rush es. 1 All of this change was on the surface, however, ana down below it the great body and bulk of the. people were the same ignorant, su perstitious, fanatical Mohammedans as in the past. They were, not fa vorably inclined to the new order of things and looked askance at rthe "dogs of Christians" who had been . placed over them, not ( only in the army but in the citil offices. Bour bons of the Bourbons they chafed beneath subserviency to the . for eigners.1 ' -' : f'; " : ' ' . : . . The Khedive's loans bore interest and some of them were due. . The already high taxes were J increased. His tax gatherers made their rounds, and oppressed the people. The op ponents of the new regime kept the people in atation and an -uprising rc:ultsd. The Ehcdire abdicated and a new Khedive, the prese at one, was appointed in his' stead . by the Sultan. The policy was changed and many of the foreign officers of the army and civil service were discharged". But the European debt remained and the European powers retained enough influence to see that it wai not repudiated. So that the people still found themselves saddled with a foreign debt and were galled with, a foreign voke.? Some of their lead ers, El Mahdi especially, dreamed of complete independence. ' This imposter made himself accepted by k large class of the "true believers" as the promised Messiah , and began a war upon the "infidels." Thous ands nocked to his standard. j Here, then, was England's "casus belli." The. freedom of the Suez canal was an European necessity and the payment of the Egyptian debt, much of which was held by English subjects, was another. Both would be sacrificed if El Mahdi succeeded in entrenching himself in Egypt and dethroning the Khedive. So she sent Gordon with troops to suppress the Ealse Prophet. The other Eu ropean powers felt the necessity of repressive measures and yet. they have held themselves aloof, re. dy to take advantage of any misstep Eng land may make, for fear that, by bearing the brunt Of the war, Eng land may demand an extra slice in the final settlement. ' - j At home, in England, the Liber als are in power and they are peace men and do not believe in wars for the acquisition of territory. They are in favor of prosecuting this war far enough to whip the El Mahdi and to preserve British interests in tact. On the other hand the Tories are in favor of the war at all haz ards and, in the end, to increase the bounds of British territory if possi ble. All hands in England fav0r, flio vol ts a n.rf o tfl arfanf I THE (LQUDUHD. To the Editor of The Topic :4 I have seen the huge and famous canon, at the almost invisible bottom of which, dashes and foams the Cheat River, with a sullen roar which reaches the ear hundreds of feet above, in West Virginia. I have seen the broad and solemn stretches of the sage-covered plains of Nebraska and Nevada. I have stood on the top of the snow-crested Rockies and gazed at worlds of beauty. 1 1 I have seen the king of oceans pissing the shores of the fair land of gold and flowers. I . have secH the great, solemn "dark deep blue sea" with its ocean's heave and its fierce billows rolling. Again I havic seen it slumbering in its. glassy calm, dead and still as far as th . vision goes, j I hftre seen the "white caps"dasli themselves into flying spray agains the marble-like vine-clad rocks tha make the beautiful and famed littl bay at Mansanilla, Mexico, have noticed with a northern eye the luxuriant Tcgetable beauty urtH aer tne equator, i nave seen the dew drops clinging -in the palm covered Indies. I have stood on high and looked at the "gay festive Broadway" in the live, wrigling City of New York. ( All these and much more have I contemplated, but lo ! here is, some thing in my own State, under my Very eye, as 'twere, that far surpasses anything else in grandeur, sublimi ty, softness and varied beauty, fl refer tp "the Switzerland of Ameri ca," the Watauga 'land of the Sky;" I have also seen the French Broad, "Caesar's Head" - and the famous Asheville views, made famous 'more perhaps by Miss Fisher's gifted pen than anything else. These views do not in tne least compare with the Blowing Rock scenery, . 1 We nave many brilliant young ladies in W, N. 0, capable of "doing up" "the Switzerland of America' the Watauga "land of the Sky", f only they would. I will guarantee that whoever does this, as Miss Fisfier has Buncombe, will rear to herself "a monument that will mock the regal splendor of marble, and the durability of perennial , brassf' and last as long as the rock of Gib ralter. '. ; - "Don't ; all speak at Once, but pause and reflect."- Look at the new Switzerland well, the Grandfather, the Elk Knob, Flat Top, Fairview, Blowing Rock. See these at ' the right time and under the proper circumstances, and you can say along with me : ; Oh, never before have I felt the glow, - - That now gladdens my heart . to its core. n j V i Foi Esat, CSasi tsi Catci. Hunting is not only an amuse-; ment of the peasant, but of the king and Lord as well. In some shape it has existed from the earliest dawxr of history oven .down to the present time. Every section, as well v as every age, has its peculiar kind " of hunting. And the kind is varied according as tmVgame varies. ' V I -Nimrod was a hunter. Esau was a hunter. Quite a number of J the Kings of England - were hunters. . And the xoyal park was as far from being public hunting ground, as was .' England's crown of gold, .power, ' and greatness from being public, property. Daniel Boone' the great North Carolina," Tennessee and Ken tucky explorer, was a hunter. El bert Beach is a hunter, and so are many more that I need not mention now. -Z:- v-:. .v . So we see that hunters have ex isted, that they still exist ; and that it would not be presumptuous to say that they may exist in the future. . And I doubt not, "mirable dictu," that many, at first thought, ' will take the mighty peal of Gabriel's truinp, for the sound of some hunt ers horn. - ' J But a little history is making our tale too long. It was in- the morn ing of the 7th inst., at 2 o'clock, that fGus"- and myself were arous ed from our slumbers by the distant "tooting" of Elbert's horn, , to take a foxhunt.. Now Elbert is one among the list of famous hunters named above, and his dog Kate, the brag one in his pack, is. as good a "striker" as Pink's Bob, and he is just "good enough." She was never j known to take the "backtrack." She yelps only when she strikes a 'possum or a fox trail. j i The morning was clear and still,, the frost had tipped mountain, val ley, twig and spire with si beautiful crest of crystals, . from which the clear, modest moon, as she rose in the eastern sky, caused; to "shoot forth in silent magnificence, a thous and silver rays. . A better morning for a fox chase, . jail hunters will agree, never dawned. j Being surrounded by all things favorable to a successful hunt,. . we "toot" our horn, the hounds howl, and rear and play, and then we start to the "hunting grounds" in the distance. We have gone Only a few hundred yards when both! Kate and Bob disappear, nor are they seen or heard any more until we have gone over hills, through valleys, across the path of the cyclone and up and down the mountain, for a distance of six miles. .1 : I All at once the deep silence of the night is broken by the well known "open" of Kate. Elbert, the hunt er's thrill running through his soul, says : "Kate has struck." In a moment Bob chimes in, l and away to the foot of the mountain they go. They are trailing either an opossum, or a fox; and we are soon convinced by reason of distance," that it is the latter ; and that, unless he shows double cunning, he will be our meat before the frost melts away, for we feel that if Bob and Kate and Streak and Chip and Buzzard can't catch him, Pomp (our bird dog) can set him. . ' i ! v-.: It is now a quarter after! 4 o'clock, and Elbert and I sit : down on the mountain, while. Gus follows the doga. Aeneas-like we strike the fie fronrthe flint, and lay to the fagots, and soon we have a crackling tire, around which we sit, with perfect comfort and indulge in jeus d'es prit' wailing anxiously1 for the hounds to "jump" renard, wboiias by this time found some . jungle, suitable for his diunal snooze, and is crouched, while he counts the, number of his pursners,r as they yelp, ; and wonders if they can be after him, . : Nearer and hearer, olearer and clearer, ytlp after yelp falls upon his much excited ear, until wonder becomes reality he is the pursuer. "Magno coclo!" he exclaims, "it is time for me to stir." j He rises, he springs, he flies.. He ianow 'up.' In a moment the trail dogs scent him afresh, and bark ; in livelier tone. The hunters give a, resounding whoop. The dogs, that have this far taken no part in the chase, hie to the place and the race; is begun. . i By this time it is "prima luce.". Aurora appears in the East, and the silvery moon grows pale, and draws back from the earth, and folds to" her bosom her beams, now conquer ed and made faint by those of a su-, perior. Away to the Freeman old fields, thence back tothe Wiley Bean plaoe the hounds speed in hot pur-" suit, making mountain, valley, hill and dale resonant with the spright- liest of music. Then they turn to. the eastward and to the flat woods between HudSonville and Lovelady they gOj a distance of over two miles. A By this time Gus has joined : us, and we stand "auribus rectis",over. the dying ooala of our once cheerful and warming fire, and listen to the hounds music, as it .grows less and' less audible, until . all is hushed. Silence reigns supreme, except now and then the shrill bluster of chan ticleer, in some neighboring farm, yard. ' ' .. ' Some one says, "they'll bo back' We wait some minutes. No sonnd js heard,; and we follow the direction of the .last yelp. . We. keep our. course for the distance of two miles, and lo we hear the dogs coming, meeting us, from. ; the direction of Gunpowder.; We fix ourselves, we get'Fomp ready, we are motionless. In a moment the leaves rustle, "and . the fox is in ten- feet of us; Pomp . cowers, but "the fox wont set worth a dent. "-He lopes on with his iail sweeping the ground, a sure ' sign that ne is well nigh run , down.. , The dogs rush ; upon, us, ' and then away they go again in a circle ;vbut ere it. is hall complete,: .Bob has claimed' renard as his own, and now: he lies; on the ground dead, mangled and' bleeding.: " When we come uponhim in this plight,; it is 7i o'clopk, just an hour and a half after he was. jumped. Can Earnest beat that ? - Dleifekaw. . : " Skstcnss fran Watiua. ' " ; ; -Sugar Grove, March 7. To the Editor or The Topic Seeing that the esteemed and More worthy correspondent at this place has no late articles in The Topic,. and also the "Pine Burr" , sketches of Caldwell, has led me to try a few " reminiscences. . Watauga county, noted for j its beautiful mountain scenery, cold clear water and pure. , air, is almost encircled by the Stone mountain and Blue Ridge; The ' poets of theold world have made much ado about "Nature's deepest -dyes, floating o'er Italian skies," but we need not go to Italy " to be hold , a beautiful, a soul . inspiring . sky. True, we have not seen much, of nature's beauty during late cold spell, but even nw, we, have some perfect days, when not a cloud dis turbs the blue serenity of the arch ing dome above us. The hills, bask ing in the golden light of the gor geous winter sun, are softened by a mellow haze, characteristic of tho . Indian summer, and the birds, whose carols have been hushed by -the ice . and i snow, break forth in ; merry song. . j v , . ' ; Muchas been written about the scenery of Switzerland, but wo need not cross the boisterous ocean to en- ; joy scenery equal if not superior to . that of Switzerland. Tbe most en- chanting features are found on the summits of the Blue Ridge, Beech and Rich Mts. What summer visi-, tor from the lowlands will ever for- get Blowing Rock or Fairview ? Of equal beauty and grandeur, though not so, well known, are the North and South pinnacles of the Beech and the Big-Bald of the Birch Mts. The bold and ! rugged outlines of the Grandfather, standing out in full relief against the horizon, have allurements even for those who were reared near its base, but how non appreciative are we of the lavish ; gifts of -dame nature! Many people ' ave spent their lives under the very shadow of this noble mountain with out climbing to its balsam covered : topf or a single view. ' . ,v Watauga 6ounty was organized in 1849 and takes its name from the -' river which flows through it.' The name is of Indian origin and was proposed, I think, by Dudley Far- thing,, Esq., delegate to tho organ izing convention from Beaver Dams, where he still resides in. the enjoy- . ment Of a ripe old age. . Col.f John- athan Horton of New River, and tBenj. Greer, Esq., of Cove XJreek, ; were also members of the convention. They are both living and much re spected and beloved by all who know 'them. ' V ' , . v , : Of those who took a part ' in the early, county government but- few are living. Most of them have pass ed away from the stir and bustle of, this life, have crossed over the river to rest under the. shade of the trees. Michail Cook was the first sheriff.. He was .a -good man but the office broke him up. ! He died a few-years , ago on New River. The first term of court for this county Was held in -an old barn about a half " mile east of Boone; where Henry Hardin now . lives. A coo r thou so was erected in-, due time, but; I believe the second term was held in Dr. Councill's of- -fice, which waa just closed in, but not finished. I -. , Up to this time there was only one dry goods store in the , county, that of Jourdan Councill. He haul ed all his goods on" wagons from Charleston, S. C, giving in exchange ' bear skins, deef hides and hams, ginseng and such other produce as the country afforded. The price of ginseng then being -about five cents per pound and other produce equally lw, the great dis tance to market and the total. want of competition, for about twenty years, kept goods up at. booming prices, and 1 have been told by some of the tirst settlers that they had to pay from 35 j to 50 cents per yard for calico and domestic and 2 dol lars per bunch for spun cotton, i No roads,, no mills, nothing but ' woods, and yet you of ter hear 'the 'youngster of today who wears good . warm yarn clothes at the same price liis jranpa wore domestic, say ; ' "I don't. sQG.what kept granpa from, getting, ncn." Keoer. Our Sarrds Lettsr. Sands, . March Miss Asinith Sands died ; the 24th of Feb. in the -79th year of her age. She was never married and lived with her sister, Eli Brown's. -wife, who' died a' few months :ag6; Miss Sands was the third one of the fam ily .to die within twelve months, all very old people. " " ' ; We are still having winter inWa tauga. 7 Thero is a -beautiful snow on the ground: this morning : about' 3 inche8 deep. . . . ... , . '., . Corn- and hay- will.be scarce in: : this neighborhood, '.this spring on account of light crop last year caus ed by the drouth. i t ; ' ; Your ;: correspondent' ' wahts ; to kuow the cause of the present war ' between Great Britian and the Arabs. Please answer in The Topic. I see accounts r of the war 1 in many of the, newspapers bat I have net yet seen the cause of. the war, : -fX '. : '. . SuBSCBicr::. .. " A floury composition A' 1 I pudding , . -7 .