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-i j l j '4 f ' F it tTHE IjENOIR TOPIC. W. W. SCOTT, Jr., Editor and PnlMer WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1885. Entered at the Post-office at Lenoir as second-class matter. Snbf crlption price, $ 1.0 O. j-Adrertising rates reasonable. STT'-fcfAll bills for advertising pay able weekly. . 3 Job printing a specialty. : ' ; VATAUGA SUPERIOR COURT. Fall Term, 1885, Judge A. C. Avery Pre . eidiag. ; ''fhe following grand jury was cho sen, of whom T. P. Adams was ap pointed foreman and G. W. Cable officer : TP Adams, J Patt Coffey, Dan'l W Bradley, Elbert J Hartley, Irvin Green, R H Farthing, J A Gragg, David G Dagger, John C Smith, J B Green, R H Moore, Hasten Davis, Joe B Brown, George W Lowrance, Cicero D Herman, Noah T Mast, Adam Jones; Henry Shook. State vs Lewis Watson and Rebec ca Rimer ; f and a ; guilty ; nine tnoriths in jail for Watson and judg ment suspended 'as to Rimer. Nick Kellar, c c w; guilty; judg ment suspended on payment of costs. r Henry Rimer ; a and b; not guilty. Henry Rimer and Frankie Wat son;' f and a; guilty; 18 months in jail for Rimer: judgment suspended as to Watson until Oct. 1, 1880 when a capias returnable to March term, 1887, issues for her if she is in the State. 3 John Autin; assault with deadly "weapon; not guilty. L 0 0 Smithey; retailing; judgment suspended on payment of costs. T J F Brown ; c c w; judgment suspended on payment of costs. Laura Patterson and Hester "Brown; affrav; submission and judg ment suspended on payment of costs. Bynum Anderson; a and b with d w; guilty; $5 and costs. - W H Andrew ; larceny of bible and hymn book ; continued and al lowed to give bail in sum of f 2UU 1 Mark Uyers; c c w ; judgment suspended on eosts. s - Marion Crawfield : submission; payment of shooting a sheep in the range; guilty; 3 months i IT i -i l c r' in jau wim leave bo uouuty uumnus sioners to hire him out. j Joe Dotson and Henry Johnson; larceny; guilty; 5 years each in pen itentiary. " Waits Davis ; larceny; guilty; 4 years in penitentiary, j J W Smith; assault on S A Low rance; submission; judgment sus pended on payment of costs. - Joe Dotson and Henry Johnson; larceny, (two bills); submission; judgment suspended on payment of costs. j ,,.Mark Byers; larceny; guilty; 4 months in jail with leave to commis sioners to hire him out. Boone, Sept 2. I give above the judgments on the criminal side of the docket which was concluded today, (Wednesday), aM2 o'clock. There were only one or two continuances and about 23 alia capiases issued for criminals who have skipped across the line in to Tennessee or to other counties. There are 22 lawyers present. Sher iff D, F. Baird is confined to his bed with a severe attack of rheumatism and his place is filled in the court house" by deputy sheriff Joseph B.; Clarke. Register of Deeds W. W. Presnell assists the Clerk, Joseph B. Todd, Esq, and Mr. John Brown is registering deeds. Judge Avery is regarded with much affection by the people of Wa tauga and they are particular proud of their Judge's record on this rid ing of the circuit. He opened court early Monday morning, works assiduously till dinner-time each day, when he gives a recess of three quarters of I an hour, and prolongs the evening session late into the evening The lawyers grumble and complain that the Judge fe killing them with work, but he ' seems de termined to allow no part of the complaint brought against some Judges for carelessness to be applied to him. Mr. Bower i has also mani fested much zeal and ability as a so licitor and the general impression he has made upon the people is a good one Judge Avery is the very man to succeed Judge McRae, as they are both bent upon making the path of evil doers a thorny one. Particular ly jn the Rimer-Watson cases, which involved glaring immoralities, he came down upon the men and sent them to jail for 18 and 9 months respectively. The people on the border, about the head of Cove Creek and Beaver Dams have thinned out the outlaws in that section considerably, having organized a sort of "homeguard" police who, at a moment's warning,' proceed on the trail of thieves and outlaws and capture them wherever they overhaul them. The State line is only an imaginary boundary and it raises no obstacle to them when they are in. pursuit of a fugitive thief. . The 1 two men, Joe Dotson and . Henry Johnson, who had car ried on a wholesale robbing of the citizens, of Cove Creek and Beaver Dams ' and were followed 20 miles into Carter county, Tenn., to their rendezvous and captured, were tried today, convicted and promptly sen tenced to the penitentiary for five vyears.;-- -i V : ''; In the trial of the boy Marion Cranfield, for shooting a sheep in the range on Stone Mountain, quite an interesting little point was de vcl oped. The locus in quo was in tl.3 vifcinity of the State line and Cranfield was going along the ridge, following a sheep trail, in company with a youth named Johnson and this same Dotson who was convicted of larceny", T They heard a sheep bell and Johnson told Cranfield, who is scarcely compos mentis, that he would give up a pistol hel had " in possession if Cranfield would shoot a sheep with a gun which he carried. When they came in sight and range of the sheep Cranfield blazed away and killed one of them and left it lying where it fell. It was .evidence by one witness that the slieep fell directly on the State line jand that Cranfield, when he shot at it, was three steps across the line ! in Ten nessee. The jury, however, brought in a verdict of guilty. Talt Adams, the foreman of the grand, jury is complimented by the Judge for his efficiency and all the officers of the court exhibit their usual activity. . Three Forks Association will meet at Three Forks church next week. Speaking of Grand Juries it is proper to state that the first grand ury of the county sat out of doors, in "Neelus Crisns school house," near where II. W. Hardin nowlives. Elder A. C. Farthing ami Alfred dilliard, Esq. one of - the oldest men in the county, were members of . this first grand inquest. ! ji The Topic has' made ; arrange ments for some interesting articles by some of its best correspondents over here. Besides a series of his torical sketches two or three of its most reliable correspondents arc going to make a thorough investiga tion of the recent earthquake1 and we hope "to obtain some information valuable to science, i The sheriff will probably send off the penitentiary convicts to Ral eigh this week, as the jail is not safe. Much interest is manifested here in what the grand jury will have to say in its report tomorrow in reference to the jail. It is a sorry affair, it is claimed, unsafe for the keeping of prisoners and not to ' be kept heated nor comfortable in the winter. The crops are all good and times will brighten up soon if only the stock market will open at living'fig ures. 1 Talking about stock, Coffey's thorough-bred strawberry roan stal lion is one of the prettiest horses in the country. Their big stables shel ter much fine stock of all kinds, not to omit the Cotswold sheep. Our friend, L. L. Green, Esq.;, is operating a valuable mica minee a few miles1 from Boone and he has some fine specimens of "glass" taken from it. Any one interested might address him at Boone. - The following gentlemen, other than the regular attendants upon, this court, are here this week : Congressman Cowles, Mr. Edmund Jones, J. B. Bailey, of Davie, Major John Gray Bynum, of Morgan ton,. Major John W. Durham, Clerk of the Inferior Court of New Hanover, Col. Thomas Smythe, of Taylors ville. ' Ex-Sheriff Absalom Fry, of Giles county, Va., will be in on a visit in a week or so to his daughter, Mrs. M. E. Baird, of Valle Cruris. We are sorry to learn that our friend, Len W. Estes, of Blowing Rock, is still very ill. . Will Ervin and the subscribed are bunking together at Coffey's hotel, and are getting fat of course. . S. STATE TOPICS. Bald mountain is cutting up again. Gen. G. T. Beauregard is at Ashe ville. ' ! Chief Justice W. II. H. Smith is at Warm Springs. Judge Ruffin is in very feeble health at Lincolnton. Charlotte will have street cars in operation in a few months. S. G. Morris, of Thomasville, sold his tobacco crop for $100 an acre. Revenue collections at Raleigh for the month of August were $25,480, 24. The extra daily trains on the W. N. 0. railroad were discontinued last week. P. E. Morton, of Wilmington N. C, was drowned at Havre de Grace, Md., last week. ! During the month of August the State treasurer issued ninety drum mer licenses. Forty convicts were sent to the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail road last week. There is said to be more tobacco growing in Iredell county this year than ever before. J. B. Ramsour, of Lincolnton, has been appointed postal clerk, on the C. & L. railroad from Newton to Lancaster, S. C. Six buildings were burned at Cameron, on the Raleigh and Au gusta Air Line railroad Sept. 1st, with a loss of $20,000. The North State, weekly, pub lished at Greensboro by Keogh and Boyd, has reappeared on the field of journalism. It is a handsome paper. The following gentlemen were granted license by the State board of medical examiners at Asheville, to practice medicine in North Caro lina : I. A. Harris, Jos. H. Way, Buncombe : R. L. Allen, Haywood, J, C. Tilson, Madison; J. R. An derson, C. S. Rosselle, Lincoln ; A. M. Bennett, J. H. Teague, Jackson; George Daughton, Alleghany ; R. B. Killian, Alexander ; J7R. Straw, Ashe ; J. W. Patton, J. F. Aber nethy, Cherokee ; G. E. Youngj Rutherford; J B Councill, Watauga; A A Kent, Caldwell. The board next meets at New Berne, in May, 1886. Mrs. Susan Everhart, aged 86 years, was burned to death in Da jidson county on Tuesday of last week. ' There was no one present, but it is supposed she fell in the fire from stroke of palsy. j The school buildings at New Gar den, Guilford county, were burned on Monday of last week, loss i $21, 000, insurance $7,000. The Board will take immediate steps to rebuild. Rooms have been secured to contin ue the. school, j Cleveland county voted last week on a railroad subscription to a new railroad, which resulted in a vote of 11595 for subscription to 571 against subscription. Cleveland county is certainly on the way to prosperity a wide awake people that deserve to succeed. An increase of a tnousand over the number attending the jState Normal Schools of last year is re ported by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for this year. We are glad to note this increase,' or it means better education in the fu ture. Was there an increase j from Caldwell ? TIMELY TOPICS. Maxwell, the St. Louis trunk murderer, will be arraigned today. . The treasury department paid $10,000,000 to pensioners during August. The census of New Mexico just taken, shows 131,985 population, an increase of 12,420 since 1880. The treasury department has paid claims against the New Orleans Ex position amounting to $l88,00(j. Eighty-fonr candidates presented themselves for examination at the Naval Academy at Annapolis last Wednesday. An incline railcoad has been com menced to ascend the Lookout mountain from Chattanooga. The cars will be propelled by heavy cable lines. I 1 It is estimated at the Treasury Department that there las been a decrease of about $3,000,000 in the public debt during the month of August. The Cunard steamer, ' Etruria, made the run from Queenstown in 6 days 5 hours and 31 minutes the fastest time on record. The distance is about three thousand miles. Ti Six persons were drowned at Osh Kosh, Wis J on Wednesday, while attempting to cross the open channel in a boat. The boat was upset by the swell of a tug that had just Lpassed. Nathan Mills, colored, who is said to have been 107 years old, died in Talbot county, Md., a few days since. His two sons, Levi and Nero, are both stated to be great grand fathers. The corner stone of the new Geor gia State House was" laid on Ved nesday. The ceremonies were con ducted by John 'S. DandsonJ of Augusta, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons. . Four miners were crushed by the falling of a -rock in the Oakwood shaft of the Lehigh Valley coal company near Wilkesbarre, Pa. on last Wednesday. The rock fell a distance of 700 feet down the shaft. Mr. John H. Morgan', only son of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, 'and Miss Emma Delia Seta, of Wash ington, were drowned in the Poto mac on Wednesday by upsetting a boat in which they were taking a sail. j The steamer, Hanoverian, of Baltimore, ran on a rock in a dense fog on Wednesday and was crushed to pieces by a storm. She hadi on board 57 passengers but they were all rescued by steamers that nappen- ea to be near enough to render as- sistance. Senator Ransom Angry. Philadelphia Tlmea. Senator Ransom, of North Caro lina, recently made a trip across the green sward of the Mall to see ithe Commissioner of Agriculture, Col man. If what has been repotted really took place over there it would have been worth going much farther to see. Senator Ransom wanted a place for a constituent.' In his most affable manner the Commissioner regretted he had no vacancy, j "Then IH tell you how you lean make a vacancy," said the Senator. "There is a cow doctor here named Salmon credited to my State. 1 He never voted or lived there in his life. He is from New Jersey and is draw ing a big salary here on the credit of North Carolina." ) "But, my dear Senator. I can't." "Then cut him down to the grade I ask for my constituent. 1 "Mr. Salmon is one of my right hand men, Senator, and I can't do it." .;- . ; : ,.),,-. "It is true, then, as' I ; am told, that you have a little Cabinet of your own over here, a Republican ring, which has disgraced this bu reau ?" !, No answer. ! "This will be looked into. Your wretched little Cabinet should ! be breken up. ! -; Good morning, sir." The Senator from North Carolina strode toward the door. Colman'ran after him and followed him half-way down the walk, uttering profuse re- frets, apologies and explanations, ut the Senator waved nim aside with an "Ill-see-you-later" air and went away. If Senator Ransom will institute an inquiry into the Bureau of Animal Industry, , of which Sal mon is the chief, he will find nuts enough to crack all winter. ; SOLD FOR A CENT. Things are not Always What Thsy Seem. Durham Beporttr, Friday. ' V Mr. R. A. T. Rober8on, of Dur ham, has bought 200 acres of land from S- M. Clarke, of Lenoir, at $4,000, situated on the top of the Blue Ridge, and includes Fairview. It is the finest location for a hotel on the mountain, and a mile nearer Blowing Rock than the 1 Watauga hotel, that has attracted visitors from every section of the country during this summer. He proposes to build a hotel 160x60 feet with all the modern improvements, and also 40 four and two-roomed cottages for families, and have it completed by the beginning of the season next year. The future of Blowing Rock as a summer resort promises to be something extraordinary. News Observer. The above was written by a Lenoir correspondent to the News and Ob server. We believe it our duty to the public to give a little history of "Mr. Roberson, as he used to be in our city. We wish to keep the good people of the Blue Ridge Mountains' from being duped, as were a number .of our citizens. Mr. Roberson, to gether with a young man by the name of Rankin, came to Durham some months ago, and went into the lumber business as well as the to bacco business. They pretended to be doing a good business. They es tablished some little credit, and . when all that they had wug turned into money, Roberson left here for parts unknown to his creditors, uu-. der the pretext of making a business trip. He left his board bill unpaid at the hotel, and ha not been heard Of since. His partner tried the same game a few days later but was caught by one of our officers, when he come to terms with his landlord, and then he left. The number of persons swindled, and the amount of money carried off by these men, are as yet not definitely known. If Mr. R. has so much money to invest in fine hotels, we would be glad if he would pay us what he owes. We are of opinion that it is his purpose to swindle the good people of the wes tern part of the State, and in order to do so, has undertaken this big scheme of building so extensive ly. We would be glad if the News and Observer would copy this article so that other innocent men may not become victims to one who played such a bold and rascally game here. We want it further understood that this man was in Durham but a short while, and is not one of us. He will try and take advantage of the credit which Durham and her people have abroad, to swindle others. Let the people who deal with him keep an eye on him. i Chit-Chat from Uitchsll County. Clay, August. HI. To the Editor of T7ie Lenoir Topic: It rained, several showers on Tues day. The "oldest inhabitant" in formed me, soon after the advent of dog days, that it would be showery" during the prevalence of the dog star, and he was quite right. ! Our tri-weeklv mail will start to morrow. Thanks to Congressmen Thos. D. Johnston and Cowles. The trouble between Mrs. Joseph Crisp and Dorcas Franklin has pro ved an interesting case. She was taken on a warrant for assault and batterv, and as she was already under bond for a similar assault a vear or so ago, when she was adjudged a lunatic at the instance of her hus band, he demanded her release. She was let go a few days and summoned . to appear on Thursday last for trial, and her daughter Seraph ine with her. On the latter day she utterly refused to appear before the justice, D. F. Richie, who had associated with him Esquire AAG. Lewis. So, as the mountain wonrel not come to Mohammed, Mohammed went to the mountain, that is to say, the justices went to her residence. The case was tried, and the daughter was fined one dollar and cost. . Mrs. Crisp was remanded for confinement in the Insane Asylum, greatly to her as tonishment. At night, while she was guarded by deputy sheriff Ban ner and assistants, she feigned sick ness, was allowed to step out of the house, and took "leg bail." Her whereabouts are! known only to a select few. Possibly she is hiding out in the woods or a cave. Some progress was made on our new school house on Saturday. The rain was in the way. We will try again next Saturday. . Pinkney Coffey is teaching a sub scription school in the Elk Horn district, adjoining No. 5. Bishop Lyman, of the Episcopal church, is to make official visits at Blowing Rock, Sept. 16; St. Johns, 18: Boone, 20. I think and I am sure I was mistaken in saying Rev. E. P. Green was lately ordained deacon by Bishop Lyman. I see by the Journal of the late Convention that his name ap pears as a candidate for priest's or ders. His name is not found on thes list of the clergy having charges, 8J 1 conclude he is from another dio cese. 1 ; Trout fishing season is about over for 1885. The Topic is received regularly, and is read with intense interest at these corners. Your paper has plen ty of spicy correspondence and local news, which are the making of coun ty papers. . W. "Star Brand" Guana and "Navas sa" Guano for wheat, for sale by E. F. Wakefield, Lenoir, N. C. I will sell as cheap as the cheapest. Call on me before buying elsewhere, at the hardware corner. H. 0. Mar tin will wait on you when I am ab sent. Respectfully, E. F. Wakefield. N. C. Exhibit for Korthen Fairs. Nf w and Observer. - . f Yesterday there was a strange sight to be seen at the Agricultural building. Stretching a distance of 108 feet was a distinctive exhibit of North Carolina's varied resources, in the most compact form imagina ble. The exhibit is to go to four teen Northern fairs, to compete for gold medals offered for the largest variety of field crops, woods, tim bers and minerals exhibited by Southern and Vestern States seek ing immigration. ; The idea is Mr. Patrick's own and seems to us to be just the thing to hit the pop ular fancy. There was. a strip of cloth, plaid goods, forty feet long, upon which was painted "North Carolina Mills Manufacture a Fine und Durable Grade of Cloth." Then eame a map of the State, and on a white strip of cloth twenty feet long the words North Carolina.'" An other map followed, after which was another strip of cloih, on which were the words. "North Carolina Plaids, Thomas M. Holt, Haw River Mills." Below these inscriptions and maps hung cases made of all the woods found in the State, and divi ded into little compartments. There are no less than twenty-one of these Cases. The compartments, each four inches square, are covered with mi ca or glass, and they eon tain eigh teen kinds of corn, as well as every grain or grass in the State, beans, wild nuts and peanuts (31 kinds), cotton seed and meal, tea teed, silk cocoons, etc., wines, oils of various kinds, dried fruit. 71 varieties and medicinal herbs, 162 kinds ofi min ernls, as wll as grain and grusses in the sheaf, land hundreds of other things which illustrate North Caro lina. The compactness of all this; may be understood when it is stated; that the-cases are 2x3 feet in size and an inch thick, together with the cloth, etc., go neatly in the special packing boxes about 3x4 feet in size. xll the work was done in the agri-! cultural building. A Pleasant Meeting. Morganton Star. j Maj. J. W. Wilson informsus that while traveling through a rural dis trict in Georgia last week he stopped in front of a well to do farmer's res idenc. and asked to get dinner, ne was told to alight, and the first ques tion was asked by the farmer : j" Where are you from ?" The an swer was: "From North Carolina," whereupon the old gentleman stated that he was originally from old Burke. This, of course, introduced an interesting conversation. The bid gentleman's name was John S. Hayes. Where he moved from is now Caldwell, then Burke, on Hayes Creek. He sold his farm to Asbury PueH's father. The only date that he could lecollect from as to how long since ho left this country, was, when they left home they came to Morganton to see Francis Sylva hung by Sheriff Boone. He inquir ed after Col. Gaither, Hamilton Er win, Sheriff Duckworth and a num ber of citizens he knew when in this country. His postoffice address is Cordoor, Walker county, Ga. . TOWN TALK TOPICS. Trivial incidents and Idle Gossip from toe Outlying Hamlets. In England the young man who is engaged to be married wears a bit of 'jewelry which serves the same purpose as the lady's ; engagement ring. It is a delicate enameled star, and he attaches it1 to his watch chain or lapelle of his coat. It is the gift of his betrothed. Did you see the young man wearing one on the streets of Lenoir last week ? Mr. J. S. Tomlinson, announces that he will, at an early day, com mence the publication "of a 24 page journal, at Asheville. to be called Country Homes. This is amusing, what does he know about country homes, an old bachelor, who has been boarding around all these years. Get married brother Tomlinson, and you will then be able to tell us some thing about a pleasant country home of your own. Cotswould Bucks For Sale. Boone, N. C, Sept. 3. We bare 10 or 13 full-blood Cotswould bucks, from 6 months to two years ld, whiah we offer for sale si reasonable prioes. Thsy yield from 10 1-3 to 13 pounds of wool at a sbrarinfi. The Cotswould ba been demonstraten by expiremrnt to be the breed best suited to this climate. T. 1. COFVEY BRO. Granite Falls Academy, ' ' LOVELADY, N. C. A FIRST CLASS HIGH SCHOOL FOB BOTH IXXXg. T, Conveniently located on the C. ft L. R. B. in a healthy and moral community. Instruction, thor ough practice, progresslye. Tuition $1 to 94 per month. Music $3.60. Board $6 to $8. Fall Term opens Sept. 7th, 1885. Address, 1L Im HUGHES, Principal. TO THE PUBLIC I I am still at my old stand, next door to S, W. Hamilton's. All per sons wanting either Shoot Iron or Tin Work Done, can have it done on short notice and in good style, and all new WOBK GUARANTEED. Tobacco flues and stove piping to be had at Q H O II T II O 37 ICE. Sugar and Coffee . and other groceries and notions and bread and cakes always on hand. JFith thanks for past favors I humbly solicit a A continuance o4 the same,; promising to sell as - Cheap A3 any of the rest can sell. j. o. p. nniziLTon. J. B. ERVIN, -TIIE- Furniture WAN- Will appear in a Advertisement in this Column next week ! LOOK OUT FOR IT! Read&Reiember! , i I - . -i -That we want all the Blackberries We can buy this Season i : It And will pay the very For the same that the market will allow. Owing to the "hard times" we are now selling our : ' li ' : LARGE STOCK OF ' ' General Merchandise At Extremely Either for cash, or good merchantable produce. Special attention is called to following seasonable goods : the Grass Scythes, Mason's Improved! Fruit Jars, . "Oriole" and .-. i "Gold Medal" Apple Pealers, Corers and Slicers. Bear in mind we offer no "bates" to catch trade, but sell each article for what it is worth ana pledge ourselves to give our customers both in Buying and Selling Every legitimate advantage of market. the Hoping by honest effort and fair Dealing to merit your continued patronage, ere are, Respectfully, CLOYD A11D 1IELS011. F. WIE3EUFELD, Not Having time to Write out an Advertisement And one; at Length, would say that he is ready for Every.IIind ofTrado in its Season. -t-o-J- He Will Give Good Prices and Sell GOOD GOODS At Reasonable Prices. Watt Plows, SEWING ! MACHINES, 9 Always on Hand. Respectfully, F. Wiesenfeld.
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