YODTJME X.
LENOIR. If. C, WEDNESDXT, APRIL M, 1885.
NUUDDB 31.
Wallace
Bros.,
STATESVILLE, N. C
WholesalE Dealers
General Merchandise.
-tot-
largest Warehouse
and best facili
ties for han-
dling
Dried Fruit, Ber
ries, etc.. in
"
the State.
Respectfully
Wallace
Bros.
August 27th, 1884
J.H. SPAMODR,
Endaiti Baltissn Dsatil Calligs,
Dentist. :
ITieg bo Impure Material for
- Filling Teeth,
j Work as Low as Good
j WorkcaabeDonei; : !
Patients from a distance maj
avoid delay b y informing I
jqm at what tune tney
propose coming.
F. LEE CLIN E,
ITTMHEY'-ttrLAW,
mcizoziir, n.c.
JOIJT3,
LEITOIB, IT. C. 1
CLniTOII A. CILLEY,
!
t3 AJ Tli Courts.
OUR HEW YORK LETTER.
T&8 War Panic Barnum's Circus and the
j Marriage cf tha Midgets North Car-
;'.! olina L'eadquarters Ex-Presi-4
dent Arthur Tha Roller !"' '
i T .1- Skating Graze How
i Postage Stamps
! are Hade.
New York, April 13, '85
Tothe Editor of The Lenoir Topic:
A little skirmish took place the
other day in central Asia, and on
the very next day it made the Pro
duce Exchange in New York ai wild
scene. Men scrambled for standing
room, elbowed one another, talked
excitedly, ran from room to room,
kept a double number of telegraph
messengers at work, and acted in as
much fury as if there was about to
be war in New York itself. It was
all caused by the news of this little
battle in Asia. It made war possi
ble and even probable between Eng
land and Russia, and such a war,
they thought, would make the Rus
sian wheatcrop smaller, and Ameri
can wheat would advance in 1 price.
Wheat "futures" therefore went up
at a jump, and every dealer wished
to buy and few wished to sell. Every
broker on the Exchange had cus
tomerswho live from one end of
the country to the other, and they
all telegraphed orders to buy wheat
'.'futures." In a few hours "there
were men who had forested only
$200 or $300who made $1,000,12,500.
This little Asiatic skirmish in con
sequence, caused greater excitement
here than would have been caused
by a war between all the inhabitants
of any two counties in North Caro
lina. Nothing has happened for a
long time that shows how closely all
the world is bound together. In
many Other ways , also the threat of
war causes excitement here. The
European governments have : by tel
egraph ordered large quantities of
American firearms, and the factories
in Connecticut are working double
hours ; and many men here in one
way or another are interested in the
promise of hostilities on the other
side of the world.
The question is often asked down
in North Carolina whether Barnum's
circus when it goes there is only a
part of the big circus, or all, as it is
advertised. I can now assure your
readers who "go to see the animals,"
or to "carry the children," that they
see just about one-fifteenth of the
whole circus. It is now in New
York and is drawing thousands of
people. Three rings are all the time
filled with performers, and the whole
circus as it now is here is divided
into at least a dozen divisions before
it goes off on its journeys throughout
the country. You ought to have
seen the big wedding that took place
of the little i folks the other day.
Mrs. Toni Thumb? the widow of the
little "General," Having got tired of
widowhood, was married to; the lit
tle man of the circus. The mar
riage took place in a fashionable
church which was crowded j beyond
comfort bv spectators, and 1,500
fashionable people were refused ad
mittance. The d warf s were dressed
in the finest fashion imaginable, ancT
ever as much in earnest as; if they
had been three times as big.
The office that is know here as the
North Carolina Immigration agency
is a small and not very attractive
room in a building down at the very
end of the city near the place where
the em igrants from Eu rope are land
ed. A good many families have been
sent to the State, but somehow there
is. not an appearance of briskness
about it. There are thousands and
thousands of people here and thous
ands and thousands more come here
who would be glad to have humble
homes in North Carolina I if they
knew How to get them, and if after
getting them had a common sense
understanding of the situation. This
office has, no doubt, made a good
beginning, in the work ; but a much
bigger and . better arrangement, it
seems, ought . to be made, j Thous
ands and thousands of emigrants
from Europe land here every week,
and many of them are families who
have enough money to buy a farm
in Caldwell county, ; and are indus
trious enough to work, it after they
get it. The most of them who are
nr hpnnme farmers ero to the Western
States,' where poorer lands are high-i
er than your ncn lan us are. jx c
thorough system of through tickets
to places in North Carolina and bet
ter information about the State
would be sure to have effect. But
all 1 these things cost money and
require hard work' to accomplish
them; and continuous work. ; .
The retirement of ex-President
Arthur to private life has been done
with better grace than he ; ever did
anything else, and it is compliment
ed here by people of alljarties. He
did not go out of office witk any
pomp or fuss. He did , not make a
big journey around - the world or go
capering about to show himself. He
simply came quietly back to this
city Went to live in the same house
where -ha lived o because? he jwas
rich, and Has now gone quietly into
the practice 'of law. -He is a very
handsome man, and he dresses well,
but not like a dude as so many news
; papers have said. When, he rode
f RAtnrdar which was aitery
pleasant'day, hundreds cf his ac
aiTif tmtvm touched their hats to
him, and his return to private life
has been as gracefully received as
possible. ,In this respect, he may
well be envied by his two Republi
can predecessors who are now living.
Hayes is an obscure and stingy old
fellow in Ohio, whom few people re
spect. Grant is dying heavily in
debt, and all his sons are bankrupts
on their own account. The charity
fund and the handsome pension of
Congress are large amounts of mon
ey, but he willnot live long enough
to see them square j up his debts.
Besides, these sources of income are
not his own earnings, butgifts.
The craze of the time is roller
skating. There are several hundred
big rinks in this city and the subur
ban cities. They play all kinds of
games on skates, run races, dance,
and "cut up shines" generally. No
sport or "craze" has ever taken a
firmer hold on the people. Thev
have gone so wild about it that in
many places the pulpits have felt it
their duty to i denounce it. A bill
has even been introduced in the
New York Legislature to regulate
the hour whenlhey shall be closed.
All these things, occasionally runa
way matches of loving skaters, the
lecent death of a man who skated
himself to death and che general in
sanity of the people on the subject
have caused what may fairly be call
ed a general row. Messrs. E. J.l
Hale & Sons, the N. C. publishers!
here, are about to issue a book about
skating ; there are two or three roll
er skating journals,' and in fact it
has become a science and an art and
an industry. One form of the nu
isance is the appearance on every
smooth pavement of youngsters who
"scoot about" in everybody's way.!
Dr. Talmage yesterday preached
about skating, and maintained that
it is healthful and proper exercise
and ought to be encouraged to that!
point where it becomes a dissipa-;
tion. There, of course, it ought to
end. Several North Carolina mer
chants who have recently been here
have, bought elegant pairs of these
skates ($5 pairs) for their children.1
So the fever mav again break out
this year in North Carolina.
All the postage stamps of recent
years have been made for the U. S.
Government by the American Bank
Note. Company of this city, which
has had the contract for printing
them. The law has required that
they all be printed on hand-presses,
which has made the process of pro
duction slower and more clumsy than
if they could have been printed by
steam as almost everything else is
now printed. One of the reforms
that the Democratic Postmaster
General, Mr. Vilas, has inaugurated
is the changing of this old law, so
that they may hereafter be printed
in steam-presses. The cost has been
9 1-5 cents a thousand. The wgrk
will be done cheaper now ; and in a
little while a new contract will bej
made to furnish the Government
with all it may order for four years.
The present contractors receive
about $200,000 a year. Last year
they made l,4o2,315,150 two-cent
stamps ! ualdwell.
A Tax Commission.
The Legislature 'j recently enacted
the following very important law: j
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The Governor is here
by authorized and instructed to
appoint three competent men as a
tax commission, whose duty it shall
be to thoroughly investigate j thej
subject of taxation and report a
bill for listing, assessing, equaliza
tion and collection of taxes, and also
for the sale of real and jtersonal
property for taxes, and such other
subjects in regard to taxation that
they may deem proper for the best
interests of the State.
2. The tax commission shall
make their report to the Governor
by October 25, 188G, and the Gov4'
ernor is requested to have said bill
and reports published, and also fur
nish copies of said bill and reports
published, and also furnish copies
of said bill anjd reports to the memj
bers of the next General assembly,
and also to each newspaper in this
State, and thfe Governor shall trans
mit said bill'dnd report to the Gen-f
eral Assembly. I !
3. , The tax J commission shall
meet as often' as; they may deem
proper, and each member shall be
allowed $500 and actual travelling
expenses, to be paid out. of the State
Treasury. ' . '. j ' : .
4. All laws in conflict with thisj
act shall be in force from and after
its ratification.
In the General Assembly read
three times, and ratified this the 9th
day of March, A. D., 1885.
"Too,bad I had to go out to see
that ticket seller about seats for next
week" he remarked to his new wife
as he settled himself down after a
trip down stairs" between acts. "The
affair quite slipped my mind as we
came in. Were you annoyed, my
dear?". ... r'-
"Oh, no! I didn't mind it in the
least, thank you.; I was quite busy
working out a mental problem."
"And what was that, love?"
"Why they call the frunt curtain
the drop."
"I see. Did you succeed?" "
"Yes I think I got the correct
answer."
"And that was"
"Because so many men go out for
a drop irhen it is down, my dear."
A REBAXUBLE W02AI.
Zionville, N.C, April 11.
To the Editor of the Topic v
The subject of this sketch, .Mrs.
Mary McNealy who died, r in Wa
tauga county, Jan. 1st, 1885," -vas
born in Wilkes county on the Yad
kin River in the year 1774, on the
premises then owned by; Daniel
Boone, the Pioneer of Kentucky. :
Her life covered a period of 111
years, embracing the events of the
Revolutionary war and all succeed
ing revolutions and changes down
te the present time. Her memory
could stretch across the great chasm
of time from the surrender of Lord
Corn wall is to the nomination and
election of G rover Cleveland to the
presidency of the United States,
having lived under the administra
tions of all the Presidents of the U.
S., beginning with George Wash
ington's and extending to i Grover
Cleveland. The chain of her life
stretched across several generations
of people and like a telephonic wire
could bringthe immortal Daniel
Boone in close proximity to us, and
awake in our memories afresh his
deeds of heroism and bold adven
tures. - - . ' I
She was well acquainted with
Daniel Boone, and rode across the
Yadkin River in his sled soon after
he returned from Kentucky to his
family. She remembered the Rev
olutionary war and the raids made
by the Tories and Indians on the
border settlements. j I
She recollected having seen Cols.
Cleveland, McDowell, and other
officers of the army. She said a
band of Tories came one day to her
grandmother's with a whig prisoner
and hung him to the clothes pole in
the yard, and while hanging they
cut his face open from tne corners
of his mouth to his ears, presenting
a most horrible spectacle, at the
some; time pursuing another whig
under the bank of the Yadkin River
and
stabbing him to death with
bayonets. . She had forgotten
their
the names of these poor victims.
She spoke of a man named Tucker
hunting trdops for the army, and
had a great bundle of Continental
money, tied up in a handkerchief,
to hire men to return to the army
whose time of enlistment had expir
ed and had returned home to rest.
Tucker succeeded in making up a
company. Some of the men made a
song on the British and Tories. The
centenarian could repeat ! some of
the verses of the song, jl wish I
had them to insert here.
During the Indian raids the peo
ple would leave their farms ana go
into the Fort for protection. I did
not get the name of this Fort nor
where it stood. Maybe Mr. "Pine
Burr" can throw some light upon it.
On one occasion, however, a man
named George Holloway and his son
George, and a negro, ventured from
the lort to the farm a mile or two
distant and began pulling flax,
which no doubt was. as mucn a sta-
fle to them as cotton is to us. The
ndians made a rush upon them.
The father was shot dead and scalp
ed, the son and negro were taken
)riseners, carried to the j deserted
louse and tied to some benches in
the house. Their captors left them
and went inquest after other victims.
But the prisoners escaped. The
lucky son of Ham had a great jack-,
knife concealed about his person
with which he cut the cords that
held himself and his young master
and they hastened back to the Fort.
Another man and his sister went
out to pull flax, and the Indians
came and killed and scalped the
man, knocked the woman down with
a tomahawk and scalped her, and
left her, thinking she was dead, but
she revived, returned to the Fort,
got well, and lived many years after
ward. The names of these two per
sons not known. j
The writer will not be responsible
as to the correctness of these state
ments. He gives them only as he
receives them from th9 son of the
deceased who lived many years on
John's River, and was akin to the
Crisp family. A. M. D.
n Incident of Long Ago.
Wilmington, April 15.
Mb. Editor : In the early prt of
last year while stationed at jsmith
ville, my Presiding Elder, Dr. W. ;
H. Bobbitt, gave me the following;
enjoyable bit of his own his
tory which I believe will be of inte- i
est to your readers in the "Happy
Valley Mt Maria community.
I had been telling the Doctoi about
a gracious revival at Mt. Maria
church in which I had assisted the
autumn before.
"Then," said he, "your work as a
Methodist preacher began in the
same locality where mine began."
He then went on telling about his
being sent to the Wilkes circuit
about 1847, and that ' one of his ap
pointments was in this Mt. Maria
community. When on his monthly
visit to this community he made his
home with Col. Jones, father of
: Pinkney Jones, 1 Esq., who now re
sides at the same old home-stead, so
x noted for genuine hospitality. He
said that he loved to go there : be
cause of the beautiful and attractive
young ladies that he met (Fte heard
of young ,men going there for the
' game reason since then) on these
visits. " - .
Some time near the . close oi the
think 'twas in
usual stopping
at Col. Jones'. A party! of
xtrvii n it
ladies were also there making the
entire house merry with their glee
and fun while our young preacher
was trying to prepare for his con
ference examination which was soon
to be on hand. Finding that he
could not study to advantage where
there were so many attractive young
ladies to engage his thoughts he took
his book, "Ralston's Elements of
Divinity," and strolled j away to the
riverside, there to study of those
things which the "angels desire to
look into" in my . opinion the
gentle murmur of those waters are
mere in harmony with the longings
of a lover than the steady ambition
of a student, but I'll leave this mat
ter to be decided by Col. Folk's law
students. From the description of
the spot where the young preacher
resorted, I think it must be the sane
sfoot where the f oot-loar now spans
'the Yadkin near the Mt. Maria
church. However he went to the
foot-log, climbed a large beach tree
just by it, the branches or wnicn .
came out . low down and reached
forth over the waters.
1 Taking a seat near the trunk of
the tree and on one of the lower
limbs he began and continued his
reading until the sun which was
then sinking in the west began to,
shine on his book when, in order to
avoid the sunlight, he thought of
taking a seat on a limb just above
his head. With book in one hand,
the other grasping a small limb by
which to pull up he was making his
effort when, crack ! went the decay
ed limb, down goes the preacher,
fifteen feet through the limbs and
leaves splash into the clear water of
the Yadkin. It was a chilly plunge
that October evening. The next
thing that entered the mind of the
young itinerant was how to keep his
well saturated joke a secret from the
young ladies, and general public.
Too long to wait till dark for clothes'
to sneak he was ashamed, yet to.
sneak in he must try. Those dry
clothes were at the house up stairs.
How to get to that house and up
those stairs was the thing that got
next to him, but he must try. So
he made his way across the pathless'
field, approached the house from the
rear of the garden, went through
the back yard, arrived safely unno
ticed on the porch and in the room
and was nearly at the foot of the
coveted stairway when one of the
young ladies who had heard his foot
steps, appeared on the scene, (who
can slip up on a woman ?), just in
time to get a full view of the fast
disappearing and illegally dipped,
drencned and plunged divine.
For the two months that he re
mained on the circuit the story of the
plunge followed him wherever he
went. I think that the 'same tree
from which the doctor fell still stands
bearing upon its trunk the well nigh
obliterated name-mark of many lov
ed ones who lived by it yesterday as
it were but, "like as a dream" of
night or as a "tale that is told,"
they've passed "unreturning away."
Dr. Bobbitt has long been one of
the most honored members of the i
North Carolina conference, and is
how Presiding Elder of the Salisbury ,
district. From the history of the
past we indulge the sentiment "when ,
shall we meet again?" And the,
answer comes from the sacred page
"when the redeemed shall return -with
singing and prayer unto Mt.
Zion." Herndon Tuttle.
A 'Brilliant" Uan. :
The following is from the gossip
oi "Man About Town in the JSiew
York Star : As I was walking up
Broadway one day last week with a
friend of mine, who is a prominent
physician that is, he has been
lucky enough to catch on to a prac
tice among wealthy people I ex
changed nods with an equally prom
inent contractor.
"Do vou know that man ?" in-
squired the physioian, after he had
passed.
"Yes," said I, "he's a rich man,
and the jolliest fellow at. a dinner
party, the best raconteur in any
company you ever saw."
"Very brilliant, is he ?"
"Brilliant isn't strong enough to
express it," said I.
"Do yen know where his brillian
cy comes from ?" inquired the doc
tor. U
, "What a fool ' question that is,"
said I. "Why, from his natural ac-'
tivity of brain and vivacity of spirits. "
"Youre wrong," said my profes
sional companion. "It's all due to
morphine.
"Morphine? He take morphine?"
said I, incredulously.
"Yes. ; , He's a slave to it. He'd
be a raving maniac if deprived of it
for a day. He will die of it in a
year." . .
, "I can't believe it," said I.
The doctor offered to prove it if I
would meet him the next day at one
of the big drugstores up Broadway.
I went at the hour stated, and was
concealed with the doctor in a dark
room back of the office. At precise
ly 3 o'clock in the afternoon, as had
been predicted, my friend the con
tractor appeared and purchased the
morphine. Stepping into the office
he took'off his over and under coats,
rolled up his shirt sleeves and pre
pared to inject the poison with ' a
syringe. His arm was .covered with
scarfc
conference year, I
October, he was as
CU3 BOOXE LETTER.
To the Editor of The Topic:
I believe that ( nearly all the news
paper reading people, both male and
female, boys and girls, of Watauga
county read the Topic and speak of
it as a welcome visitor, and the
"Topic day" at Boone (Thursday)
is somewhat important. All make
a rush for The Topic and every
thing in The Topic is read and
commented upon. This being the
case "Old Hal" feels-like he ought!
to be a better (correspondent and be
able to write more appropriately
than he does. It is the desire of
your correspondent to interest the
reader some way that will improve
the reader and the writer; at least .
to have something interesting td,
write about, but nobody knows now
hard this is until he tries it, especi
ally when there is very little trans-
piring to gather from in the section
you live in.
Spring is backward and the pros-
Eects for wheat and rye the next
arvest are any thing but flattering.
The most of thje crop is winter-killed.
Some are plowing up and are sowing
oats on the ground sowed in wheat.
Our people j are chronic on many
points of the future prospects of
making a support. I have lived in
Watauga for 20 years and I do not
recollect anv Sorinsr season about
this time of year but the people sang
tne same old song,
"there will be
nothing made this
year: it will be
the hardest time ever has been; don't
know how the people will live.
Notwithstanding all the 20 years
of my sojourn here, the people have
had plenty to! eat and no real suffer
ing; crops proved- to be good every
year, sufficient to supply the people.
I have no f eajs but the coming sea
son, will be Jike the rest, sufficient.
However it may be harder than any
of the preceeding years.
To make times more gloomy I
read in last Topic, from your cor
respondant, "N. N.," predicting
that the time of mundane affairs
are about to collapse. He bringa to
bear upon this serious subject the
redness of the sunset, says that
"none of ou astronomers can tell
us anything about the cause." Why
this should pjrove the end of time I '
am not able to see; but suppose it'
comes, and time and earth shall be
no more, who can prevent it? Why
be alarmed?"
If the fullness of time
us have faith that God
is upon us. le
will do all things well. He controls
all things
-a
! intelligence will obey
works will be brought
Him man's
to naught
God alone will govern.
He will shape all things to suit His
plans and purposes. Let us believe
in God, and jput our trust in the
Saviour of the world all will be
right. :' . ; .
Allow me to ask the good people!
of Caldwell,) Watauga and Ashe
counties a few simple questions.
Why do our best farmers raise
scrub cattle, sorry horses and mules ?
Can you feed a steer-calf and
raise it to a wo year pld and get
from 8 to 10 dolla:s any cheaper
than you can a calf of the improved
kind that will bring at the same age
$15 to $20?
Can you raise a shabby horse or
mule at two or three years
old that will bring $40 to $60 cheap- i
er than you oan a good improved
one that will bring $75 to $100 at
two or threejyears old?
To illustrate: Is the "land pike"
hog the cheapest hog? If it is eco
nomy for our people to continue to
raise for sale or use them selves,
shabby stock of all kinds, then as a
matter of course they, should not
abandon the enterprise. If there is ;
more money in good improved stock
it is time our people should find it '
out. '.. . J . V;-.; - ,.- ;
Now if jthere is any doubt about j
the matter in the minds of the people !
who have never tried the matter out,
I refer them to a few gentlemen in
Watauga, who will give them all the '
information on the subject, to wit:
Warren Greene, Louis Farthing and
and others on Beaver Dams; G. W.
Osborn, F. P. Mast, J. S. Mast, S. i
S. McBrideJ and others on Cove
Creek; D. F. Baird, 'James Shull,
Alex Thomas and others on Watau
ga River; J. W. Horton, J. P.
Councill, Coffey Bros., J. B. Coun
cill, J. F. Hardin, Joshua Winkler,
Robert Shearer and a number of
others in Boone township; J. E. Fin-;
ley, J. H; Taylor, Tatum and others
in Meet Camp. If all our people
who raise stock in Watauga would
improve their stock, double the
amount could be realized in sales
and no extra cost.
I Old Hal. ;
. Railroad Hasting. . ; -
Appalachian PhUoaophar.
A. railroad meeting of the citizens
of Ashe county was held at the court
house in Jefferson, N. C, April 6,
1885. : On motion, Mr. J. B. Mc
Millan was appointed Chairman,
and Mr. J.j B. Uouck Secretary.
Senator J. W. Todd ' was - then
called on to explain the object of
the meeting, which he did in a few
very appropriate remarks ; after
which Capt. John Dent was called
on and responded in a short, speech.
Major Q. F. Heal then addressed the
meeting in a few pertinent remarks,
followed by Mr. T. J. Hackler brief
ly in like strain. Mr. F. M. Mur
chison was called upon, but refused
to speak, stating he would advocate
the cause in his paper. Mr. Paul
E. Barr then spoke, followed by Mr.
H. A. Currin, who 'was also called
called uponT Mr. Black then ad
dressed the meeting in a, humorous
vein. '",') i
; A rising vote was then taken as to
whether the meeting was willing
that the county should subscribe
$50,000 to the first railroad company
that would build a railroad through
Ashe county, which was carried
unanimously in the affirmative.
Capt. John Dent moved that our
County Commissioners send a copy
of these proceedings to the commis-.
sioners of Alleghany, Watauga,
MitcheW, Yancey and Buncombe
counties, N. C, and also to the
commissioners of Grayson, Carroll,
Floyd and Franklyn counties, Va.
Carried unanimously.
Capt. John Dent also moved that
we especially solicit the extension of,
the Virginia Valley road, of the
Baltimore and Ohio Company, via
Salem, Va., through our county and
on to Asheville, N. C. Carried unan
imously, j
The meeting then adjourned. V
Haywood Court Rouse. , ,
AabeviUa Cltlsens.
i-
The Court was held in the new
court-house, opened for the first
time ifor the objects! of its erection.
It is a beautiful building ; with the
single exception of the one at Yan
cey ville, in Caswell bounty, the most
strikingly impressive and pictures
que in its architectual design and
effect of all the court houses we have
seen in the State. Its position adds
also greatly to the effect, being sit
uated nearly at the j end of the long
promontory which makesout between
the sprightly and sparkling Rich
land creek on the one hand and a
shallow stream on the other, consnic-
.v uous from all points of view, and in
turn, commanding some oi tne
grandest and at the same time most
beautiful scenery on the continent.
The tall and graceful tower which
surmounts the building, affords an
outlook without a rival. .The inte
rior arrangements correspond in ju
diciousness and completeness with
the exterior of the building. All
the conveniences, unknown to our
fathers, have been skillfully intro
duced and adapted by the architect.
The structure, once rather a subject
of contention among our Haywood
friends, is now a matter of just
pride, as it well may be as the mag
nificent crown of the fertile, beauti
ful and picturesque county of Hay
wood. !
An Augur to Bore a Square Role.
i
Cleveland Herald. !
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The first and only augur ever
maufactured that will bore a square
hole is now in the shops of the Cleve
land Machine 'company. This au
gur bores a t wo inch square hole, the
size used in ordinary frame build
ings and barns, 1 but they can be
made in the same principle to bore
square holes of any size. Its appli
cation is ordinary and works on the
same principle as round-hole augurs.
Its end, instead j of having a screw
or bit, has a cam motion which os
cillates a cutter mounted on a steel
rocking-knife which cuts on both
sides.' . 1 , .'.''''
In order to prevent the splinter
ing of the wood the 'ends of the cut
ter are provided with small semi
circular shaped Isaws which help in
cutting out perfectly square corners.
It is estimated that this new process
will save the labor of three men who
work with chiseli, -as one man can
conveniently cut a two-inch mortice
in the same length of time he can
bore a round hlale. The invention
is the work of ja Wooster man whe
has given the 'subject years of pa
tient thought, j j
List of Jurors for Ashe County.
Appalachian Phlloaopnrrj ( '
I Drawn for spring term of Supe
rior Court: A G Bayer, K F Ed
wards, J M Brooks, Lee Ashley,
Thos Arnold, George Cox, Floyd
Eldreth, G II Hamilton, Wells Ble
vius, Simeon ,Woody, II Shuts, J A
Caudell, Thos I Sutherland, Sr, T H
Sutherlaud, B jSturgill, J H Romin
ger, W G Warner, Jas Turner, Floyd
Welch,, H II Calhoon, L J Stur
gill, W C Plummer, Hardin McMil
lan, J. M. Grimsley. Cicero Wyman,
Thos Smith, R. J. Johnson, James
Cockerham, Franklin DeBord,Hans
f urd Eller, J ; F Hartzog, Calvin
Lewis, J C Testerman, , R L Vano
ver, J. K. Francis, Emory Gam bill.
tax listers for the year 1885
Jefferson E C Bartlett. ;
Pine Swamp N il Waugh. s.
Old Fields Thos Greer. .
North Fork-John I Brown.
Laurel B H.Neal.
Stags Creek Augustus Eller. '
Horse Creek Isham Goss.
Helton W P Young.
Piney Creek T J Baldwin.
Grassey Creek J A Pierce.
Chestnut Hill A N McMillan.
Peak Creek S M Transau.
r Obid Creek Hugh LBurgis,-
"Why, I just quit it." ; This is
about the best way to do it.' Instead
of hunting up the best modes cf
throwing off Dad habits, just quit