VOLUME X.
LENOIR, 3. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1885.
NUMBER OS.
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TO UY UOTHEB.
BT MRS. R. L. A.
Thou who alone coulda't soothe my
fears,
Whose words and deeds were born of
. love,
Now far beyond my blinding tears,
Where childhood's cry ho more can
move ;
Was there a hand we could not see ?
A smile on lips we could not kiss,
That lured thee from us to the free
Fair fields of rarest radiant bliss ?
The babe you calmly laid asleep
Beneath the willow and the pine
Did they their angel vigils keep.
Beside thy bed, O, Mother, mine ?
Thy martyred sons who wore the
Grey,
The girls you gave with trust sub-
lime,
Did they our Mother's soul convey
Their Mother in that sinless clime ?
Did sisters, brothers, 'neath the
.. - palms
That fringe the crystalline clear sea,
With hope that ring eternal psalms,
Sing vet a welcome unto thee ?
Did Jesus, crQwned with lilies, stand
And wait thy coming, on the shore ;
And when we lost thee, did His
hand
Clasp thine in welcome evermore ?
Oh ! Heaven is nearer, Mother dear,
Since thou hast joined the shining
throng,
Its voices clearer and more clear,
Since thou has swelled the choral
song.
THE YOSEMITE VALLEY ANO ITS FALLS OF
WATER.
Lathrop, Cal., Aug. 23.
People in the eastern States are
not generally aware of the existence
in California of a great National or
public Park, known as the "Yose
mite Valley." I have seen many
Sictures of Yosemite falls, but I
ad no idea that these falls were a
Eart of an immense domain set apart
y National and State authdftty, or
containing such a world of wonders
that its preservation and protection
should forever be under the care of
public functionaries. It is only
within the past thirty odd years that
this Yosemite Valley has been known
to the white people of America. It
was first discovered far away in the
remote wilds of the Sierra Nevada
mountain in 1882. But little was
known or said about it until after
the completion of the transcontinen
tal railroad, when the influx of pop
ulation i- here contained something
besides gold hunters when men of
science, and literature especially,
came along with the tide of travel,
every object of interest was pictured
with pen and pencil of intellectual
genius.
The Yosemite Valley is within an
immense canyon of the Merced river
where it breaks through the first
range of mountains that lies imme
diately parallel to the great Sierras
themselves. The waters that have
made its falls famous rise . for the
most part up, under the principal
range, though the highest of these
falls the "Yosemite" and the "Bri
dal Veil" obtain their waters from
the secondary range. The usual
approach to the valley is from the
Southern Pacific Railroad up the
Merced, via the "Big Free Station'
Wawona, in Mariposa county. The
first view bursts upon you at a turn
in the road known t as "Inspiration
Point." It is indeed an inspiring
view that lies before you. You take
in at once the immense cleft in the
great granite mountain range the
cleft known as Canyon with the
silver thread of the Merced river
glittering before you, or below you,
several thousand feet. Grandest of
all because of its breadth and sub
lime vertical magnificence looms
up "El Capitan" the Indian Tu-tock-a-me-la,
or "the great chief"
3,300 feet of black gray granite wall
above the level of the valley, or 7,
360 above sea level. Its face stretch
es for miles to the left : and along
which you see the winding pathway,
the Turnpike stage road to Sonora.
The eye turns directly to the exqui
site, broken masses of falling water
which you see just opposite on the
right "The Bridal Veil Falls"
Po-ho-no, "Spirit of Evil Wind."
This waterfall is 940 feet high. At
first I was deluded by the opinion
that this was the "Falls of Yose
mite," and that there was nothing
higher on earth. Imagine my sur
prise therefore when at another turn
of the road over which ? we - were
whirled by the swift wheel stage-
there loomed in view great Yosemite
itself, where the silver-sheeted water
plunges at one sheer leap 1,600 feet;
and after emerging from a gloomy '
recess in the gorge at its feet, vaults
into the valley below, oyer two other
aprons of granite, more than 1,000
feet still further making the grand
total of the "Yosemite Falls" 2,634
feet the very : highest continuous
waterfall upon the earth.
The walls of the Canyon have an
infinite variety of definite shapes.
Each of these . definite shapes has
its distinctive name. I give yon in
)rinted form the Indian and Eng
ish of these, together with the sig
nificance, and the heights above the
valley. The valley itself as. you see
by this catalogue, is 4,060 feet above,
sea lvetTbe rockf of- this fissure
is a beautiful grey granite; and
where it is worn, in the lights and
shadows of the distant view, re
minds you at once of grey water
silk in massive folds.
You see by the printed catalogue
that there are two falls which are
higher than Yosemite. They flow
only in times of rain torrents, and
at the melting of the snow above in
Spring and are not continuous in
their leaps being also, in one in
stance especially, somewhat a suc
cession of cascades. "The Nevada
Falls" of the Merced which leap a
precipice 700 feet high, are in some
respects the grandest of all the se
ries of waterfalls in this famous val
ley, because the whole of the Merced
river is in them. But by far the
most beautiful of all the" waterfalls
there is the " Vernal" or the jPi-wa-ask,
"the Cataract of Diamonds."
Here the waters leap over a smooth
and well defined apron of gjranite,
in a most graceful flow, thatj looks
like a curtain of filagre silver1 work
all studded with diamonds. This
curtain of water is 350 feet high.
The finest view of the Falls and
of the whole valley is obtained from
"Glacier Point." You reach this
point by a trail right up the face of
the granite wall. Although only
3,200 feet above the valley, the - as
cent requires about two hoursL You
can ride it if you wish on horseback,
but for carriage, the drive around is
26 miles,; or six hours. The State
of California now holds the proper
ty here all in trust. It has, "howev
er, leased certain privileges to indi
viduals. : These individuals) have
built hotels and made the pathways
to all the points of interest. You
are required to pay $4 per day for
hotel board, and $5 per day for the
hire of hQrse and saddle, to breach
the accessible points. In addition
to these charges, the fee for a guide
is $5 per day, this may be divided
by the number in the partjy accom
panying. Fortunately for jmej I had
no guide bills to pay, for I met there
a scientific friend: who accompanied
me in my rounds the two days I was
there, without that expense. He
was one of the old settlers ' of the
country and had an immense fund of
information in every department of
science fCol. Galar Clarke,) after
whom "Mount Clarke" is named
this is the summit of the Sierras).
(By the way, in the first expedition
to the Yosemite Valley there was a
North Carolina gentleman, Lieut.
J. M. Roan, of, Franklin, Macon
county, and with whom I served
through the late war. He put his
name, in 1852, oh a rock in the val
ley, and it is there yet the oldest
living testimony there of the explo
ration of the valley. Roan was af
terwards in the Legislature of j Cali
fornia. He returned to NJ. C,
served through the war. and isj now
living in Frank) in. He has a host
of friends here yet who were de
lighted to hear from him through
me. Col. Clarke v is one of these
friends.)
I cannot begin to - describe this
Yosemite Valley. Such descriptions
as you wish, you will find in the
catalogues accompanying. J "The
Big Trees" are a part of the Nation
al reservation in Mariposa county.
There are about 600 of them now
standing, and the area of their res
ervation is 2,500 acres. These Big
Trees are the California j "Red
Wood." It is a species of jcedar.
There are many of these trees over
30 feet in diameter. The "Grizzly
Giant" is said to be over 30 and to
have limbs 6 feet in diameter, 100
feet from the ground. I was, at the
tree, but made: no measurement.
The figures appeared truthful. I
hunted for the "North Carolina'"
tree but could not find it perhaps
owing to the ignorance of our guide.
I saw, however, the trees marked
with the names of several j other
States. I came to the conclusion
that North Carolina had had so few
representatives in the visitors to
Yosemite that no one had ever la
beled a tree there for that : State.
The Guardian of the property told
me I was the first man front North
Carolina that hod been in. the valley
and registered in three years j The
State has here an official known as
"Guardian," who has all this prop
erty in charge. Special officials are
kept in the Big Tree grove to keep
tourists from mutilating the trees.
I have never seen finer roads; than
are kept up over all this property.
The Big Trees are the greatest
wonders in all the vegetable world.
This peculiar variety grows only in
California except in cultivation.
An Australian gentleman who was
with me, told me had introduced
them in Australia, and they were
now growing .there. This valley is
visited by tourists from all parts of
the world and by, foreigners espe
cially. In the parties which visited
it at the same time I did, were 5
Englishmen, 3 old maids from Scot
land, 5 persons from different parts
of Australia (including 2 ladies)
and two gentlemen from New York. ;
The hotel registers show a large pre
ponderance of visitors from foreign
countries this season. The Guardi
an of the valley has a handsome
office well fitted up, and he desires
all visitors to register their names in
a large book provided by the j State
for the purpose. I noticed in the
column devoted to "Remarks," that
nearly all the foreigners indulged ?n
opinions and eulogies of I Yosemite.1
One titled individual from England,
observed that this is his third visit,
and the wonders of the valley grow
upon him at every visit. It lis in
deed the most wonderful grouping
of colossal forms and shapes in
granite, and cascade and waterfall,
and trees, on the face of the earth.
I failed to make any remarks in
proper place in regard to the height
of the trees in Yosemite valley.
There are many of them over three
hundred feet high. It is no uncom
mon thing to see pines 200 feet high
and from 6 to 10 feet in diameter.
In one of the rooms at a hotel in
the valley there is a cedar tree grow
ing, 8 feet in diameter and 175 feet
high. The house is built around it.
There are millions of these big ce
dars. The growth on the Sierras
here and around embraces nearly
every known species of pine and
cedar. There is only occasionally
an oak, and undergrowth is very
rare. You frequently see for half
a mile through the vista of trees
without a shrub to mar the view.
Taking it all in all, on the testi
monies of those competent to judge,
the scenery here is the very grandest
and sublimest in all the known
world; The largest . of the Bi.cr
Trees of California are in Calaveras
county north of the Mariposa grove.
The biggest of them all was origi
nally 40 feet in diameter, an 450
feet in height. It now measures 34
feet in diameter after having been
stripped of all its bark and sap. It
is now down, and is supposed to
have fallen at least a thousand years
ago. There is a cavity in the tree
into which you can ride on horse
back at a distance of 100 feet from
the root, and then ride through the
hollow of the tree 100 feet further
up emerging from another cavity.
A knot hole in the tree is 4 feet in
diameter. The lower part of the
tree is comparatively sound yet. The
tallest living tree of the Calaveras
group is 360 feet high and 30 feet
in diameter. The diameter of the
largest of the living trees of this
grove is 34 feet, though in what is
known as the "South Grove," the
"New York" tree is 37 feet the'
bark being 31 inches thick. These
Calaveras grove3 are owned by pri
vate individuals. I will write fur
ther of this county. No time for
more now. . M. V. M. ;
From Moretz Mills.
Moretz Mills, Aug. 25.
To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic:
The beautiful weather for the last
week has been a boon to the farmers
and they have practicallr applied
the proverb, "make hay while the
sun shines." You can now hear
men boast of the amount of good
hay they have saved. Oats, too,
have been stacked in fine condition.
Corn will be the better with some
dry weather. Corn is not quite up
to what was expected some time ago,
though we have good crops.
The spirit of enterprise and im
provement is not entirely dormant
in our neighborhood. Beside the
Elk Knob Academy which, though
not completed, is now occupied by a
thriving school W. II. Norris Esq.
has just had quite an elegant dwell
ing completed, Mr, J. L. Woodring
being the contractor. It is now
ready for the painter. Mr. John
Lookabill has also a dwelling house
nearly completed, T. J. 'F. Brown,
contractor.
The has been much disturbance
and hard feeling over the change of
postmasters and mail routes in our
vicinity. Owing to mistake or over
sight of the officials, the mail from
Trade, Tenn., has not been ordered
to go to Moretz Mills, but stops at
Soda Hill as formerly, consequently
there is a "missing link" of some
thing over a mile, perhaps near two
miles. This is deplorable. The
mail matter for Soda Hill, Norris
and Meat Camp all stop at Moretz
Mills. It cannot reach its destina-,
tion only by Trade, Tenn. There
is great need, of the extension of
this Trade mail and increase of mail
service on the route. Perhaps what
would suit best at the present would
be for the mail to leave Moretz Mills
after 12 M. on Mondays, Wednes
days and Fridays. It would suit the
present carrier perhaps best to start
from Norris or Soda Hill at 12 M on
the days mentioned and meet the
Boone mail at Moretz Mills and re
turn to the starting pom, then on
the days following, .viz., Tuesdays;
Thursdays and Saturdays, proceed
to Trade and back to the starting
point. This is written only as . a
suggestion and if it is what the in
terested parties want, they should
at once send up a petition for the
same. We have no doubt Col. Cowles
would take a pride in assisting in
the matter if he was made aware of
the facts in the caso.
Some parties have become so de
moralized about their .'.'male" that
they frequently visit Boone in the'
interest of the same, but it is an
open question and perhaps a debat
able one, whether this mail has not
the prefix, "fe" and spelled without
the letter "i." .-....:-. M--
Your article in The Topic about
the introduction of "Maryland, My
Maryland" as a popular war song in
the South, has induced me to wish
to know the original. Please pub
lish it. I have what is said to be
the original, given to me by a Miss
Baughman wnile in : Maryland in
1863. It was composed . by her and
her sister nuns,, while in a nunnery
in Baltimore the first 1 year of the
war. Is this the original or was
there one before this ? Alex.
DEAFNESS MO EXCUSE. I
Some days since, at Des Moines,
Iowa, Conductor Blank took the
fast express from the West for Dav
enport. Going through the train
when it was speeding eastward he
saw a young men seated at the win
dow, with a young lady on the aisle
side, enjoying a cigar with the win
dow raised. He walked to the smo
ker, touched him on the shoulder,
and said, "You musn't smoke in
this car." The young man looked
up at him, and the conductor went
to the next car. , In a few minutes
the conductor reappeared, the young
man still smoking. "I say smoking
is not allowed in this car ; put out
that cigar." The young man star
ed at him, and the conductor passed
on to the forward car. In the course
of five minutes he returned, and the
young man was still smoking. The
conductor hurried to him, seized
him bv the back of the collar, raised
him, drew him into the aisle, and
then rushed him forward to the
coach ahead, which was the smoking
car. The young woman raised her
hands in amazement; and looked
about in the passengers' faces with
an appealing gaze, but said not a
word, nor did she move from her
seat. The conductor returned, and
a passenger said to him : "I guess
yon will find that young man is deaf
and dumb, going home "from the
asylum at Councill Bluffs, . and didn't
understand a word you said to him."
"Well, I guess he understands it
now," replied the conductor; "they
ought to start a school of manners
at the asylum." Sure enough it turn
ed out that the young man and wo
man both were deaf mutes. The
young woman wrote on a card that
she had told her companion he ought
not to i smoke in the coach where
ladies were.
FutBri Bishops on a GininPs Staff. .
St. Louia Republican
Gen. S. B. Bnckner, who was one
of the two Confederate pall-bearers
for Gen. Grant, had a very remarka
ble staff during the war, and his
military family has furnished the
Episcopal Church with three bishops
Gallager, of Kentucky, who was a
lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant-general,
is now Bishop of
Louisiana; Elliott,' another Ken
tuckian, captain and aide-de-camp,
is Bishop of Texas; Harris, of Geor
gia, aide de-camp, who is a bishop
of the Michigan diocese, was first
promoted to this high dignity in the
church. Another clergyman, who
came from the same strange train
ing school, is Shoup, -a West Point
graduate, who left the old army and
went South. He :s now a D. Dr,
and famed for his sincere and ear
nest piety, as he was in the old times
for daring and reckless courage.
Officers Grind Commandery.
At the fifth annual conclave of
the Grand Commandery Knights
Templar, of North Carolina, held at
Asheville last week, the following
grand officers were elected and in
stalled :
R. E. Grand Commander Sir Don
ald W. Bain, of Raleigh;
V. E. Deputy Grand Commander
Sir G. II. king, of Charlotte ;
E. Grand Generalissimo Sir J. E.
Porter, of Asheville;
E. Grand Captain General Sir W.
W. Allen, of Wilmington;
E. Grand Prelate Rev. Sir G. II.
Bell, of Asheville;
E. Grand Senior Warden Sir J. W.
Blackwell, of Durham;
E. Grand Junior Warden Sir R. G.
Briggs, of Wilson ;
F. Grand Treasurer Sir William
Simeon, of Raleigh;
E. Grand Recorder Sir James C.
Munds, of Statesville;
E Grand Standard Bearer Sir John
Nichols, of Ral.igh;
E Grand Sword Bearer Sir H. A.
Gudger, of Asheville;
E. Grand .Warden Sir W. N. Pra
ther, of Charlotte;
E. Grand Sentinel Sir W. P. Sna
kenburg, of Wilson; , "
Chairman of Committee of Fraternal
i Correspondence Sir Jas. South
gate, of Durham. ,
Stock Law Boundary Lino.
Boundary for stock law line in
Caldwell. ; Beginning in the Burke
county line near John Perry's and
with the John's river road to Pat
terson, ' thence to mouth of Jones'
lane, thence to Indian grave gap,
thence to Jake Wilson's, thence to
G. D. Sherrill's, thence up Zacks
fork to township line, thence with
said; line , to , Brushy mountain to
Rocky knob, thence to mouth, or
near Hatter's branch, thence to top
of Bullingers Mt., thence to Petra
Mills, county line, thence with Co. ,
line to the Catawba river, thence
with the river to the Burke line,
thence with the Burke line to the
beginning. ;; ',:-
f "Young man," said a revivalist,
solemnly, f do yotufeet that you are
prepared to answer the summons at
any i. time ? Do you realize - that
when yon go to bed at night, ; you
may be called before the morning
dawns ?".- . ': -
'Oh".ye8, sir '. I'm night clerk
in a drug store, an' all you've got to.
do is to keep on ringhr the bell un
til you hear me holler."
CQXCERM S THE EABTKQUAKE.
Sugar Grove, Sept. 9.
To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic :
As requested,' t have endeavored
to get all the information available
from every reliable source in regard
to the late earthquake,! as heard and
felt on Thursday; morning' about
nine o'clock, on the 6th day of Au
gust, at which time, pearly every
body was startled and 1 surprised by
a deep, heavytoned, rolling sound,
similar to thunder, only many de
grees louder, more heavy and far
reaching. Simultaneously with the
noise came the tremor or shaking of
the earth. Many differ in their sen
sation from whence the report came;
some locate the sound from South
to north, some; northeast, some
northwest and others west, &c; some
say the shake lasted half a minute,
others say one minute. The shake
was sensibly felt and heard as to lo
cality, and circumstance The rat
tling of dishes and windows, the
tremor of trees, logs (and of the
ground, were heard and felt with
more or less force at different places.
Hills and mountains seemed to be
more convulsed than the valleys.
The earthquake was heard and '
felt all over our county and in
Mitchell county, as far as Roan Mt,
so I am told, and I am inclined to
think it was felt and heard all along
the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mts.
Now the difficult question to solve
is, where was the central point of
disturbance? Was it a Continuation
of the earthquake in Asiatic Russia
which occurred about j the 4th of
August, or was it confined to our
continent, and local Western N. C,
and more especially to Watauga
county? If so, at what was the cen
tre of so great a convulsion! as to
shake these huge j and lofty moun
tains, from base to summit, from
centre to circumfsrence? Was there
no place where it was more sensibly
felt than any other ?. I
These are questions of great im
portance that should, be carefully
investigated, and if found to be lo
cated in our mountain range, jit will
be an important subject for sci
entists. ' ' i " ' I
I haye before me, in the Nodaway,
Md., Democrat, the following! .
"London, Aug. 4. -Dispatches
from Tashkend, in Asiatic Russia,
state that a great earthquake has
visited that region. It damaged
most of the houses in the town of
Bisheerzek and ruined j the cities of
Suluk and Belvoodsk. In the latter
place a church was shaken to frag
ments while it was crowded with
worshipers, a large number of whom
were killed. The earth opened in
great fissures in Belvoodsk and many
people were swallowed! up. j Later
advices are that 54 persons were kill
ed and 64 injured. Shocks contin
ue to be felt, and the inhabitants
are panic stricken." j
Now would it take two days for a
shock to reach here, or even one day?
We think not ; j for sound travels at
the rate of 743 miles per hour. Now
we will suppose the distance from
Suluk and Belvoodsk to this locality
to be 12,500 miles." It would reach
here in about seventeen hours, so
there would be a discrepancy of sev
eral hours from the above calcula
tion. ' 1 . j I
As I have given all I know about
the earthquake, I will be glad to
hear from any and all who may hap
pen to know anything more of this
seemingly strange phenomenon.
.- N JN.
Our Collettsvills Letter.
COLLETTSVILLE,
Sept.
7.
To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic :
Our farmers are foddering, break
ing land for wheat, ,&c. Corn is
very good, no longer in doubt.! j
A fine yield of Irish potatoes.
Mr. Andrew J. Bowman, digs 207
bushels of the very finest, from 64,
bu shelsplanted. I ' !
Mr. Elisha Puett carries off - the
premium for water melons and mag
num bonum potatoes, j
1 D. D. Coffey, Esq., showed us a
hand of the finest' new! tobacco we
ever saw yellow as gold; He will
perhaps have some 6000 pounds of
his own. !
German Carp W. M. Holifield,
Esq., some days ago had us visit his
ponds. We weresuprised to see the
fish in such quantities, and many
fine ones. We caught and measured
one that scaled off 16 inches. Let
us have more fish ponds. j
Hailed from the "land of Mitch
ell" a few days since, T.! M. Kincaid
and family. They moved thither
some ten years ago. Too many dis
advantages no where just like "old
Caldwell." Madison.
A lady who loves William is never
willing that her father should! foot
her Bill ; nor is the one who
loves
shoo
Henry anxious that he should
her Hen. , t !
'When I married mv wife
two
vftara turn " said Jenkins. "I Inred
her so madly I could j have eaten
her" 'A :; -. h-m
"Such a hearty meal would have
disagreed with you," put in a friend.
"'Perhaps so ; for goodness knows
she has disagreed with me enough
-ii i. : i j5 r
wiiiioui. my eaung uer. .
V PYBAM1DS.
Rutherford College, Sept. 10.
To the Editor of T7i Lenoir Topici
As you are desirous of making
your paper embrace whatever xay
interest your readers ; and, as your
correspondent has a leisure hour aid
wants to be doing something' bene
ficial to his race, permit him to give
from time to time, some of the mar
velous items of the early ages. I begin
-with the towering Pyramids of lain
times..' ' . 'I" ' , ; - ' ' V
These are found in Middle Egypt,
or that division which was cal
Heptanomis. , There are three dis
tinguished ones in number. These
are either solid or hollow bodies,
having large! and generally Bquare
bases, and terminating in a point.
One of these is so large and required
so much labor to complete it, that it
is claimed ias one of the seven won
ders of the world. It is built om
rock, having a square base cut om
the outside as so many steps, and
f radually decreases j to the summit,
t is built of vast hewn stones, tke
smallest of which are thirty feet long.
T,hese stones,! it is said, are covered
with hieroglyphics, giving the value
of the garlic, onions, leeks and other
vegetables jused by the workmen.
The simple co?t of these amounted
to sixteen Wndred talents of silver;
or in French coin, to four millions
five hundred thousand lires. This
amodnt mjGreek coin would be $1,
888,000;iin Hebrew money, which I
suppose it was, it would be $3,065,
600. Thia was expended for vege
tables alone. I Who can estimate tke
the cost of the whole ?
A hundjred thousand men were
constantly 'employed; for ten years in
Arabia and! Ethiopia!, to hew out the
stones and convey them to Egypt ;
and twenty more years were spent in
building this Pyramid I It covered
over elevenjj acres of ground. Each
side is oveif 800 feet, or 266 J yards
broad, and near 300 yards high !
What a vat work for man to do I
Think of ajtree 100 feet high, and
then imagine eight such trees stand
ing upon each other I And how can
we suppose they handled solid rock
4x6 feet square and 30 feet long, on
that vast pile ?
All this labor and cost, too, was
to prepare ia
long, to hold
man. What
omb 4x4 feet, 6 feet
the ashes of one poop"
nonsense ! ! ,
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Highest Prices paid for ..
Dried Fruit, Blackberries, ;
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