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a Tim -LENOIR TOPIC. 7, ?. SCOTT, Jr., Editor anl PflllMer Wednesday aug. id, i885. Entered at the Post-office at Lenoir as second-class matter. description price, 0 100. igAdTertising rates reasonable. rfciAll bills for advertising pay ableweeldy. : 137" Job printing a specialty. The people are quick to detect a 'wrong and, as a general thing, credit it to the right source. There was, lastr winter, much complaint about miscarriages of justice in the courts and some plain talk was done toward the judges. Their skirts were not clean but the burden was not all theirs. That there is a responsibil ity to be borne by others as well as the Judges is plainly shown by Judge Montgomery in his charge at Iredell court as reported by the : Landmark : "There is a great, and X may say, just complaint on ac count of the frequent miscarriages of justice m North Carolina. 'Thine eye shall not pity the; murderer said Jehovah. The fault in this matter is not with the lawyers and the i judges, as some suppose, but with the juries of the country. If good men are put on the juries these complaints will- cease, j Put twelve intelligent and honest men on the jury and they will bring in a verdict according to the law and the evi demce ana the lawyers cannot swerve them. 'It -happens sometimes, too, that when Judge and jury have both done their duty a miscarriage comes and snatches a felon from the talons of the law. Bead what the Land mark says editorially in another col umn : --"Two months ago a mob took a, prisoner, who was under the sentence of the law, froni the jail of Alexander county and set him at liberty the highest-handed pro ceeding, of any of those recounted because the mob thus clearly and distinctly bade defiance to the con stituted authorities of the State and the criminal and I his friends have not been arrested though they and, their locality are well known. A month ago five red-handed mur derers cocked pistols in the faces of thfiifK) willing sheriff and jailor of Buncombe county, and vacated their cells for the more wholesome out door atmosphere ; and they have never been heard of since. What a group ojC incidents this! is, and what a tale it tells of the impotency of our civil authorities I" Let there be an amendment all along the line. There is not a shadow of a doubt but that North Carolina is to be saral this year and placed upon the htgn roadTby cotton and tobacco. To be ure, barring wheat, the pro vision crops are full and large, but there never is a great surplus from them and the profit upon the grain crops' is such a small margin that it does not tell like a good crop of to bacco and cotton.- Our live stock is held in reserve but it makes no show and cannot be turned into money unless the cotton and tobacco men, who are customers of the stock men, are prospering. Every in . dication points to heavy tobacco and cotton crops. Of course we cannot be sure until the tobacco is cured and the pickers are at work in the cotton fields, but we can view the beautiful prospect ahead. Upon an average the tobacco is good and in Wake county $125 per acre is being offered for some crops in the hill. The condition of the cotton crop is almost as flattering. These two money crops will bring money into the State and will start it to circu lating." Even if we do not raise much of either crop we will be ben efitted, for the general prosperity which'they will bring will reach us and place a money value on many commodities which we cannot now Belt' : Our" drovers will take horses and mules and sheep and cattle down t&tuli to the cotton planters and, if good prices are paid for this stock, we will feel how good a thing it it$Jusaa&: good . cotton season. Iit.the death of Prof. Washing ton C. Kerr the State loses one of Jier best men As State Geologist, he has done 'scientific work that will last and be, a monument to him. This work' will be commemorated and, preserved, in a useful form for thecitizens of North Carolina in the first volume of his works pub-lishedisjome'years- ago and in i the second tol)e edited from his notes by Prof. Holmes of the University. One of the" most important and practical things he has accomplished of latejtrs is, the accurate State map which he made for the State and which is published by the Agri cultural .Department. Prof. Kerr had' a genuine love for the . moun tahis and our people is , this section entertain a peculiarly strong love of the dead scientist. - Hedry B." Williams, aged 74, one 'r cX lpt boldest citizens, is dead. The case of the Hon. Anthony M. Keiley, of Richmond, appointed minister to Italy and not accepted 'because he had abused the King, is .familiar to our readers. There was a personal objection to Mr. Keiley on the part of the Italian Govern ment and we can understand that the U. S. Government could have no right to insist that Mr. Keiley be accepted as its envoy. He was af terwards sent as minister to Austria and this Government declines to re ceive him because his wife is a Jew ess I It is stated that Secretary Bayard has written a curt note to the Austrian State. Department in which he declares that there is no religious test for office holders in this country and intimating that the Austrian mission may remain vacant. A very proper course. ' STATE "TOPICS. ; Durham is to have waterworks. Lenoir county produces lemons. Raleigh i3 to have a cotton com press. . S..M. Hensley, of Mitchell, is dead. Salisbury has four tobacco ware houses. v Major W. M. Gay, new postmaster at Wilson. The Raleigh Insane Asylum has 250 inmates. Col. John S. Watt, of Iredell, is dead, aged 77. : v A prairie doer was caueht near Newton last week Shelby shipped 11,400bales of cotton this year. Marion Wants a brass band and more small cottages. j A stock company in Gastonia will build a $10,000 hotel. A karat diamond, worth $25, has been found in Richmond county. The Charlotte mint assayed $173, 604.37 wprth of bullion the past year. , ": 150 store-keepers and 42 gauge rs have been bowed out by Collector Dowd. -- Deer are plentiful in Lenoir coun ty and in whatever county Swans boro is in. : Durham's population is 6,370 and its assessed valuation of property $3,000,000. Nearly all the newspaper corres pondents in Washington are "taking a vacation." 1 Dr. W. II. Howerton, late of Sal isbury, died at Moorehead City, Sat urday, aged 55. Paralysis. Mr. Ervin Harris, aged 30, repre sentative of Cabarrus county in the Legislature of 1876, is dead. TheR. & D. R. R. Co. is reported to be anxious to buy or lease the C. F. & Yf V, R. R. to Mount Airy. Ex-Got. Curtis H. Brogden, "the last rose of gammer," still survives as lively as a cricket in Goldsboro. Our uncle Bob Vance is President of the W. N. Cv Fair Association at Asheville, which will hold a fair in October. The druggists will hold their next meeting in Fayetteville. Dr. Jno. Tull, of Morgan ton, is one of the Vice-Presidents. The Fruit Fair at Greensboro was a success last week. Jimmy Reid delivered an oration full of rhetorij cal fruits and flowers. W. Alex Hoke, Esq., of Lincoln ton, has bee? released from the Mor ganton Asylum with his health of mind and body restored. i Gen. R. F. Hoke, of the Cranber ry company says the company is determined to have railroad connec tion with Wilmington. Rev. S. H. Flemming, late editor of the Marion Lamp Post, has ac cepted the pastorate of the Baptist church at Morristown, Tenn.. A military company has been or ganized in Salisbury to be called the "Rowan Rifle Guards," withJTheo. Parker, U. S. A., as captain. Prof. W. C. Kerr died in Asheville on Sunday of last week, in the 58th year of his age. The remains were carried to Raleigh for interment. According to the Landmark the new Judge, "Billy" Montgomery, "wore an alpaca coat and a white lawn tie and looked as fresh as a girl." . Iredell county has just held a teachers' institute which on all hands is conceded to have done much good. We should have them in other coun ties. ' ' v , - A committee of the N. O. Teach ers' Assembly is now in the West on the lookout for a permanent location for its meetings. We hope they will visit Lenoir. The Charlotte Democrat thinks that Rev. ' Dr. Hendren is insane and has been so for more than a year. It learns that one of his brothers and two sisters died insane, . At a lawn-party at Mount Holly, on Friday of week before last, 28 persons were poisoned by ice-cream made in a new freezer and with con densed milk. Only three were dan gerously ill, Tipton, of Dallas Cur rent, R. K. Davenport and Conrad Derr, and it is thought they will recover. The Waynesville News and the Asheville Advance are having a live ly discussion. The former calls the latter a liar and accuses the editor of not having a free pass on the rail road! ' William Jones and his son Frank hare been arrested upon the charge of having murdered the Joyce fam ily in Buncombe county some months ago. The clues are said to be plain. The CleTeland people are having the fermentingest time over raijroads you ever heard tell of. They are about to vote on three of four "pro- osed" routes that point to every etter on the compass. We have received the Advertiser, a new paper published in Milton. Mr. Ed W. Faucette, a nephew of Capt. E. W. Faucette, of Lenoir, is editor and R. T. Oliver proprietor. It is a neat and creditable paper. Mr. James J. Litchford, of Ral eigh, aged 64, died last Thursday, lie has been Secretary of the State Democratic Executive Committee for 12 years and, at the time; of his death, was mailing clerk in the post office. 1 . ' 1 "'. On Tuesday morningf last week the main building of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs at Waynes ville was burnedto the ground. It caught from the kitchen whieh was in the rear arid was discovered soou enough to save nearly all the jfurni-. ture and baggage of guests. 'About 200 guests were stopping at the house, about half of whom had to leave, as the cottages can only ac commodate 100. j The attention of all holders of claims against the county of Mitch ell, is called to an announcement made by the board of commissioners of that county to the effect that holders of claims duly audited prior to the first of June must bring them to judgment before some justice of the peace in said county, to the end that payment may be made thereon pro rata with judgments of like Trind, as provided by the ( legislative act allowing the county to levy a special tax. See ch. 316, page 567, acts of 1885. In Clear Creek township, Meck lenburg county, two brothers-jn-law, Charles Kerr and Amos Garland had taken a contract to sink deeper a well infected with foul airJ Gar land went down on Tuesday j of last week to make arrangements to pum p out the noxious gases and soon be came insensible. Kerr theij went down, tied a rope around Garland and had him drawn up. When the rope was let down to him he took hold of it and was drawn up several feet when he let-go and fell back. When taken out he was dead. TIMELY TOPICS. On Friday the Queen prorogued Parliament sent 'em all home. Over 10,000 Christians have lately been massacreed in Tonquin.J The whole temper of Wall street is that the better times have come. i ' The President is spending a vaca tion in the Adirondack mountains. On Wednesday an Irish girl named Margaret Kealy, died near Camden, N. J., after what was thought to be a short and severe attack of cholera morbus. It is stated that she died of Asiatic cholera. j Fitzhugh Lee, the Democratic, candidate for Governor of Virginia, wlinm fVio ViTirlniono noil "an. r ltz alter the f russian rasqion of naming a favorite prince, "Unser Fritz," is a nephew of Gen. Lee "Mars Bob." R. E. A bill has been offered in the Georgia Legislature providing for a yearly tax of $2.50 upon every unr married male persQti over 30 years old who lives m the Empire State. This is awful and the worst of it is that the atrocious measure receives universal approval in Georgia: Even if we lived in Georgia it would make no difference to us, though we are unmarried, for we are very young ; but upon general principles, you know, one should cry out whn the iron heel of despotism is being pla ced flat on one's "sect" and when it would seem that the mot d' ordre is to be : "Let no guilty bachelor es cape. V Pension Claims. Newi aad Observer. I Yesterdav a retiortcr found! anrh" tor Roberts hard at work with pen sion applications. He was compar ing them with the roster of N. C. troops and verifying their correct-! ness in various ways. He said that he was going into the work of ex amination single-handed. The board of pension examiners had agreed upon a certain rule, this being that under the statute; the claims could be examined by him in those cases where a Boldier had lost a leg i or an arm or an eye, or , where widows' husbands were actually killed in battle. All other cases will bo left over for consideration by the full board, which " is composed of the Governor, auditor and attorney gen eral. In response to an inquiry, Gen. Roberts said he did not think payment of pension claims 'could possibly begin before October 1. All the work is laborious and great care is an absolute necessity. j Special Katies. ! I hereby certify that Mr. H. C. Boylin has worked upon my watch in a satisfactory manner. I had previously had the same watch in the hands of several other jewelers who failed to do it any good. ! I consider Mr. Boylin a competent jeweler and watchmaker. . Edmund Jokes. Burke Notes. Mr. W. C. ''Ervin assisted Solicitor Bower on the criminal docket. A lot of C. & L. Railroad men includ ing Chief Engineer Bernard. were in attendance as witnesses iu the case of a woman against the railroad for slight injuries incurred a year or so ago. The dockets were botltJarge, there being 125 cases on the crimi nal and 60 on the civil docket. Couit will doubtless last till today or tomorrow. The marriage at the Presbyterian church by Rev. R. B. Anderson, of Mr. Gilmer Brenizer, of Charlotte, and of Miss Hattie Avery, of Mor ganton,j came off Wednesday night and was a brilliant affair. The stockholders of the Southern and Western Air Line Railroad met in the , court house on Tuesday to elect a President, Directors and Treasurer. One hundred thousand? dollars was reported as subscribed and the 5 por cent, required by law to be paid in before organization was also reported. S. McD. Tate was elected Presi dent ; J. A. Clay well, Treasurer and the following board of Directors -: Webb, of Shelby ; Lem. J. Hoyle, of Cleveland ; J. M. Spain hour, of Caldwell ; P. M. Mull, of Catawba ; N. P. Beck, I. I. Davis, A. C. Avery, J. W. Wilson and Jos. Brittain, of Burke. The Burke stockholders then held a meeting and a committee of five in each township was appointed to solicit subscriptions to the stock of the company. Upper Lower Creek. To the Editor of 77ie Lenoir Topic : Wheat threshing over with in our locality, and a very short yield for the number of acres sown. Farm ers have commenced preparing their lands for the next crop. The- corn crop looks promising, yet it will not be so good as was expected earlier in the season, owing to so much rain. Mr. and Mis. M. W.DuBose, who have been spending some time with Elder G. D. Sherrill, have returned to Lisbon, S. C. Mrs. Susan Cottrell, who has been spending some time visit ng friends and relatives in Watauga has returned. Miss Jennie Isbell, of the Valley, spent several days not long since, with friends and relatives on Lower Creek. Miss Alice Cottrell is visiting friends in the Valley. Mrs. J. M. Isbell spent a few days last week with her son, J. B. Isbell, on Lower Creek., Our road overseers have commen ced working out their roads with n vim; it must be not long until court. There is quite an abundance of green fruits in our section, none being dried of any consequence for the markets, owing to the fact that it is very dull sale, and it 'will not pay to handle it in that way. ! . Odd Fellow. Court in Newton. Newtox, August 8. -To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic: The county was well represented every day, and good order prevailed. Judge Shipp showed great ability and dispatch, and court adjourned, on Thursday evening. The new So licitor, Osborne, made a very fa vorable impression. The grand jury held over all day Friday, and judging from the time they were in session, there will be a full docket next term of court. J The stock law carried by 180 votes in the county. Crops are in fine condition, but the weather is dry now, and the heat oppressive. A good deal cf sickness , through the country. B. Items from Watauga. Boone, Aug 13. To the Editor of TJie Lenoir Topic: Too much rain for hay-making. Corn crops all over the county very promising, never loooked better and and more planted than ever before. Meadows are splendid, oats finer than for many years. Buckwheat good, potato crop large and fine, cabbage splendid, cattle plenty and fat, sheep the same. I will not make any report about the "land pike" until I see what the cholera does for him. Health of the people good except some cases of diarrhoea among the children, and some cases of measles. W. H. Edminsten aid Wallace Ed minsten lost a child each, with mea sles. Finly Holsclaw lost an infant croup. - . Watauga county, if nothing seri ous takes place, will be well provis ioned, an abundance of everything unless it is wheat. Only one serious trouble staring us in the face. We have no money to pay our taxes, but we hope our fat cattle will come in for a good price if so, money will be all right. As The Topic indicated, "all crops planted under a Democratic administration have grown finely," then let us hope that money will follow which is a reasonable conclu sion and desired by all. We can't do well without money. Old Hal. To Us Public. Having removed temporarily to Washington, D. C. , I have formed a partnership for the practice of law, with Mr. T. M. Vance, in whose hands I have left all my cases and papers relating thereto. Mr. Vance can always be found at our office, and I will regularly attend the terms of Caldwell Superior Court. Very respectfully, Edjtttnd Jones. Elk X Roads Letter. j Elk X Roads, Aug. 1st. To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic: On (Thursday, July 30, a terrible wind and rain storm passed over this vicinity, lasting for about 10 minutes, jiand greatly damaging the corn crops, laying it great deal of corn perfectly flat on the ground, .but we hope that agreatdealof that that is blown downj. will raise up. Our wheat crop m Watauga, so far as I hear, will be behind that of last yearj although it is well filled and phinip grain. The rye crop is far behind that of last year. ! j Moneyi seems to be tolerably scarce until he swindling peddlers give a call; and then it is plenty it seems, for )Lhy f'dug up and set put" a few of ouij neighbors,, but we flmpHthey will keep their eyeSjOpen -hereafter. mere ;is not mucii sn-sness in this! jicinity at present, notwith- standing the uncommon hot weather which has lately been as high as 'JO degree Billy. Second Adventists. 8un.lay' Wi minuton Mtr. The PJedrcont Advent Christian Conference finally adjourned yester day evening, after the transaction of much important business. TodayjElder G. I). herrill will preach athe Second Baptist Church at 11 a.m.y and at 3 o'clock this afternoon he will deliver a lecture from his! prophetic chart, which is represented as being "several feet in length; the first chapter painted on it being j a representation on Adam and Eve iu the' year one." Got. Cowlss Work. Durham Reporter. ! This; gentleman has been in ; Cc gress but a "short while and has frmcdj the opinion; that the peoi beloncf to him as some others sei to thinkj He has had twenty cumbeuts removed and put in Dei ocrats. iThis is the! wav to : work. tfOTICE. V 2 The notes and bonds taken by me. in the fall of 1884,, for Star Brand Guano are now due and in my hands for collection. Come forward and settle up without further notice, as I have to make settlement with the Company the 1st day of September. Some have failed to pay up for 1883. ' I hope they will pay up at once as further indulgence cannot be given R R Uakefield. August 10, 1885.1 Special. Notice. All persons owing j me by account will please come forward and make prompt settlement. In the1 future, j my rule of 'nojciedit" will be strictly adher ed to anld, under no circumstances, will any exceptions to the rule be made, j My time, (knowledge and medicine constitute my capital in trade, aid for these, I must have an equivalent. To conclude, all peo ple must come prepared to nav. I ! Very Res'y, r TO THE PUBLIC ! I am; still ai my old stand, next door to. 3, WjHamilton's. All per sons, wanting jpther Sheet Iron or Tin Work Done, can hve it done on short notic and in good sTYLEand all new ouk guaranteed. Tobacco flues and stove ipipipg to be had at SHORT NOTICE. ) Sug ir and' Coffee ar. d other groceries and r notions andbread und cakes always on hand. , H'ith thanks for past favors I humbly solicit a A continua ice o4 the mui promtninR fr mU aa Cheap as any of the rest can sell. J. S. P. HAMILTON. TINWAEE FOR SALE. By virtue of three mortgages made by L. M. Allen and J. M. Fnrcron to J. H. Hightower, dated. March 13, 1885, and assigned to ns. we will sell at poblio auction, for cash, on Tnpday, Sept. 8, 1885, at J. 8. P. Hamilton's Store, in Lsnoir, NO., a large lot of Tinware and Tinners' Machinery. j ' WEIHKITTLE HUN, By C. A. CILLKT, AttV DAVEIMFORT COLLEGE. AHi2u!(raiB Hoie School for Girls. Mi - ' , .. IiXMOIB, OALDWELt. OoUHTT, N. O. Term Opens Thursday Sept. 3rd, 1885, with a full corps of Teachers. Charges fbr Day Scholars. Kindergarten alone, per term, $ 5 Primary and Kindergarten, 10 Preparatory from : - $12 to $18 Music from $15 to 130 Art from , j $10 to $25 Higher English, $15 The charges for the next session hare been reduced and the advan tages increased. This school is ' j'- ' ::t : ' - '-''. - Pro-cniinont in Point of Lo cation, in ZZi(rhcr English, music, Art, and in : .r. 1 "I "(.-;'."' - . v -, ?- " ; f J- " 1 . !. '-' Refining i Influences . ani Home Life. A new Chapel is in . process of erection and the equipment and out fit will be largely increased. Will H. Sanborn, Prca't. GLAD TIDINGS -FROM TnE The New Enterprise Boometh ! : : : -.,' Our business is steadily increasing ! We Moyb Onward and Upward By our ever watchfulness of our patrons' interests, our honest ; treatment, our low pri ces and reliable goods. Lookers become Purchasers, 1 Purchasers become Friends, .'-I'' M-l - : Fruuds, our Ueet AdvertiBment. .If. Our Facilities are Unequalled. If you -want to see or buy "anything in the Line, Call on J. BEEVIN, Lenoir, N.'C, June 23. Read & Remember! r't'hat we want all the Blackberries We can buy this Season And will pay the very For the same that the market will allow, i ' 'I- Owing to the "hard times" we '-: : ' i-V - are now selling our LARGE STOCK -OF- General " Merchandise At Extremely Either for cash, or good merchantable produce. 7 -: ? : j '7 - Special attention is called to the following seasonable goods : Grass Scythes, Mason's Improved Fruit Jars, "Oriole" and "Gold Medal" Apple Fealers, Gorers and Slicers. Bear in mind we offer no "batea" to catch trade, bnt sell each article forj what it is worth i I and pledge ourselves to gve our customers both in Buying and Selling Every legitimate advantage of market. the Hoping by honest effort and fair Dealing- to I merit your , continued patronage, ' "Bre are, Respectfully, CLOYD A1ID 1IELS01L F. WIESEITFELD Not Having time to Write out an Advertisement And one at Length,; w buld say that he is ready Uv 12 very Kind ofTrado in iti Season. He Will Give Good Prices and Sell GOOD 00OS At Reasonable Prices. Watt Plows, SEWING MACHINES, Always on Hand. Respectfully, F. Wiesenfeld. If,; 1 ' .''I-! - .1 , ... j . I ' i !
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