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u u I V ipnr SraE" liENOIR TOPIC. W. , SCOTT, Jr., Editor anf MMer WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1885. '' - " - - - - " - : 1 : f Entered at the Post-office at Lenoir, as second-class matter. Subscription price, l.OO. BcHT" Advertising rates reasonable. 1 fiAll bills for advertising pay able weekly. L 'EH'Job printing a specialty. Public spirit, an enlightened public spirit, a spirit of enterprise which reaches oat beyond self and sceks the common weal, does not comeLnaturally. It is an exotic and has-' to be nurtured and cherished to make it grow and bear fruit. The natural inclination is to be careful only of i personal interests, to ba sel fish and narrow. The communal spirit is of modern growth or, rath er its general dissemination is mod- t ern, for in the dark ages common , interests were forced by necessity to seek bonds of union! for protection against grinding and tyrannical mo nopolies. In these days, however, the spirit of co-operation has been found to develop strength put of weakness. Our very government and institutions and the struggle that made them owe their existence to the combined energies of thirteen weak. unities., E pluribus unum is the.watchword not only of the Con federation but; of all co-operative action! - Co-operation put the frugal savings of individuals together and rich stock companies sprung into existence and made the rocky and barren hills of New England to be more valuable than the black loam of our Southern swamps. To do this the individual must mer him self and his interests into the com munity with its interests. Self must not be, obliterated but put aside whenever any matter affecting the common interest is concerned. We have not far to look to see the great results that flow from this new pow er. v All towns that have "snap and fgo ana tnat are saia to De "grow ing" are built upon this principle. On the other hand a "dead" town is one where everybody is for self, where the common good is not con sidered and where a new public en terprise is not heartily supported. In a growing town and county there are, of course, bickerings and jealousies for man is a human be- fngjjhe world over but they are all downed the moment they interfere with; .the common welfare. Lenoir has her record to make and she must not become a "dead" town. Re member, one man, by being himself full of the new spirit, can diffuse it around him. You. must not say, "Ahiwell, Frogtown is a "dead" town and what is the use for me to try to do any thing when J ones and Smith who are rich men, and ought . to lead, are old fogies and hold back and refuse to take a hand in all good public work's ?" That will not do. Let Jones and Smithhold back if they will so much the worse for them. It is your business to move firste But Lenoir has neither Joneses r Smiths and all she lacks is the irt for the wheels to keep moving in the road of progress. If we uld push now and it is harder to it in motion a heavy loaded and itionary vehicle than to keep it going wnen once n. moves ana gei the benefit of all the labor expended, 1 ?1 J A let u3 see! to it that this tobacco fac tory is built. Contribute $100, $50, $25 to the bringing back of good times., Pat something in it if you never realize a cent from it. STATE "TOPICS. State Fair October 12 to 17 inclu . give.. .. The Governor is down with "the bilious:? : Cotton rated in Charlotte, Thurs dayat 8:95. " The Iredell magistrates have abol ished the Inferior Court. The W. N. C. IL K., Murphy ; division,' is 89J miles long. John Judge, a prominent Wil mington merchant, is dead. . Jos. B. Smith, P. M. at Fayette ville, vice O well . suspended. . The freight on a carload of berries from"Hickory Point Rock is $160. Big Spring, Robeson county, can not De fathomed with IP chain 95 feetlong. Shelby has built 54 new houses this year and shipped 11,400 bales of cotton last year. The 5t wing of the Western Asylum'wUl be completed and ready for. patients by the first of May. j i ' Died at Trap Hill, Wilkes county, Aug, 31st, Mrs. Nancy Bryan, aged 83, mother of John Q. A. "Bryan. n Married in Salisbury, TTednesday w. evening, Miss Beulah Stewart, daughter of J. J. Stewart to Mr. J. P, Moor?, of Greenville, S. O. Major Peyton Randolph has been appointed assistant Superintendent of the Western North Carolina Rail road. ' ' J ; --.j '-. On Friday a keg of powder ex ploded in the store of Giles & Mur chison Wilmington, and their clerk Chas. R, Smith, was killed. . The Wilkes Oatlook favors the purchase of the iron bridge across the Yadkin at Wilkesboro and the making of a free bridge of it. Rev. Moses AJ Hopkins, colored, of Franklinton. has been appointed Minister to Liberia. Score one for the North Carolina Democratic dar key. Mr. James A. Robinson will sever his connection with the Winston Leader on the first of Oct. and will connect himself with the Goldsboro daily Argus. J Mullie Watt, daughter of N. P. Watt, of Chambersburg township, Iredell county, is 11 years and eight months old and weighs 199 pounds. She is five feet tall. Forsythe's assessed wealth is. $4, 736,157, nearly $400,000 more than it was last year. ! Her total taxes are $35,728 ; county $12,401.04 ; State $18,057.32 ; poll $5,269 .64. Old York is dead politically but Trap Hill has broken out in a new place this time in the shape of TJie Mountain Range Outlook, published once a week by H. Spencer at $1 a year. Mr. George B. Guion, a promi nent citizen of New Berne, died in the cars at Salisbury, last Wednes day, while on his way home from the mountains where he had been in hopes that his health would be ben efitted. The Wilmington Review, an effete eastern evening edition, publishes the miserable slander that a Wil mington man cams up into these iountains where Hygeia lives and contracted chills and fever ! 'Taint so, Joshuway. The Shelby A urora complains that prisoners and lawbreakers increase in proportion to increase of court facilities. It cries out, "Oh ! for a restoration of that relic of barbarism, the whippingpost! There would be less criminals and less taxes." Last Wednesday a freight train and 23 box cars loaded with goods broke through Coddle Creek bridge, 6 miles south of Concord. Two tramps, who were stealing a ride in one of the boxes, were killed, and two firemen injured. The financial loss is heavy. Durham has among its workmen some Knights of Labor who write a lot of incendiary talk to the Chicago Alarm, a socialist paper. Dark in sinuations are hinted of something dreadful the Knights of Labor are frepared to perpetrate in Durham, t is surely all a hoax. , ; Capt. Bill Drummond, the big conductor on the Seaboard R. R., was wanted by the sheriff of Nor thampton county as a witness in a suit brought against the. R. R. for killing of a cow, but the CaptaL. refused to leave his train so on his return trip, Saturday, he was taken bodily from the cars by the sheriff! and a posse and forced to attend thej trial. Secetary Manning of the Treasury Department sent, j through one of his "subs," an order revoking Char ley -McKesson's commission as store keeper and ganger to take effect on the 20th inst. Charley writes an "open letter" in reply, stating that he has not been in ! the revenue ser vice for 18 months, calling honest Dan's attention to offensive partisans and saying if he has a good fat office to giye to a Blaine elector, he (Char ley) is the man. j ' , F . '.-' 125 men were at work at the scene of the Coddle Creek railroad disas ter all last week and it was estimat ed that the work j of completing a temporary trestle would be complet- ed by Sunday. In the ; meantime trains were sent to Charlotte up the Western road from Salisbury to Statesville and downthe A.T. & O. R. R. a roundabout way. Hands were at work on the bridge when the disaster occurred and a danger sig nal was displayed, j but the engineer did not see it until it was too late to take up. timely"topios. .... -- ): .... Bishop Lay, of the Episcopal di ocese of Maryland, died Thursday. Jumbo, Barnum's big elephant and the largest in the world, was killed by a railroad accident, near Montreal, Wednesdav. The amount subscribed for' the million-dollar monument to General Grant amounts to $78,000. There is some excitement over the state ment that the body is to be soon re moved to Washington. Department clerks, who wish to leave Washington land go home to Ohio to vote, will be allowed to do so, but they will not be paid for the time they are absent neither will they be expected to engage in any partisan work. . .; . ; The Marquis def Mores, a rich cattle ranchman in; Dakota, was 'on trial last week aM week before for killing a hunter named Luff sey who, with his friend, tried to drive de Mores from the country. On Friday Solicitor Long, who was prosecuting, charged J udge Francis in open court, with attempting to screen de Mores Long was sent to jail for contempt and refused to' apologize. He was f fined $250 and paid it. On Saturday 'the case was given to the jury, who came with a verdict of not guilty in five minutes.- V This rainy spell coincides with' a "cyclonic disturbance" reported Friday on the Gulf- . ; " The negroes of Ellicot City, Md., took Nicholas Snowden, colored, confined in jail for criminal assault upon a colored girl on Wednesday, from the jail lail last Friday night; and hung him. 1 On Wednesday the yacht race for the "America cup," won by the yacht America in 1851; was sailed near New York by the Boston yacht "Puritan" and the English yacht "Genesta," resulting in the victory of the Yankee by one minute and 38 seconds. Time four hours for 40 miles. i Ex-Go v. Seymour, of New York, does not subscribe to the ioctnne "To the victors belong the spoils," in an indiscriminate sense but thinks that the present civilservice com mission, as constituted will develop into awprse nuisance than the spoils system. Instead of two Republicans and one Democrat the ratio should be reversed. I In Ohio the contest for Governor, the election coming off in October, is between the present Governor Uoadiey, a Democrat and Foraker, whom he defeated at the last elec tion, a bloody shirt 1 Republican.; Foraker, Sherman and. the rest of the Radicals are making a sectional fight and, though Ohio is a Repub lican State, we have hopes that Houdley will be tlected. ' TOWM TALK TOPICS. Trivial Incidents and Idle Gossip from the Outlying Hamlets. WiliHington will build a $100,000 hotel. Oct. lis "moving day" in Wil mington. Hickory is on the qti circus and the fair. vive for the Raleigh wants newsboys," a union depot and a uniformed police. Charlotte has a new park, called St. James, entered from west Trade street. , . . I The negro lunch shanty, at the Salisbury depot is to give way to a tobacco warehouse. Shelby is asking itself if fish ponds near town are not inducive to fever which has prevailed there for two years. We will put Winston against the world for having more people, than any other town, whose second initial is "X." r ; Wilmington butchers are cutting prices on beef and the gentle sand lappersget "choice mountain steak at very low prices. Asheville claims to have 5,000 in habitants and clamors for the free delivery mail service whiclrbelongs to tdwns of that size. e The Gastonia Gazette speaks of an event having occurred in that cross roads hamlet Railroad cross road?, we mean "one night several days ago." Mrs. M. M. Chambers has re signed the Morganton postmaster ship and the Blade says that Mr. J. A Claywell "is to be postmaser hereafter." Durham has just purchased a large "gospel tent," such as Rev. Sam Jones uses. Rev. Dr. McDonald, a powerful Atlanta preacher, will con duct a series of meetings in it. Salisbury's greatest nuisance is the disorderly conduct on Sunday nights of a gang of unmannerly white youths whom the Mayor has begun to haul up before him and discipline. The Blade says Mr.' I. T. Avery, of Morganton, is puttingup a hand some residence. Going to get mar ried, of course. By the way, she fell from a horse the other day, Ike. Statesville has been enjoying and appreciating interesting sermons v from Revi John W. Davis, D. D., an eloquent Presbyterian missionary to China who is at home on a visit. President McKinnon proposes to turn two of the dormitories in the campus at Davidson College into in firmaries. He is making many oth er improvements and the outlook is bright. Charlotte is trying to get up an extensive telephone system with its own sweet self as hub and having lines radiating out to all the neigh boring "hamlets." It is a good idea and ought to succeed. Morganton is exercised over a crowd of worthless loafers who con gregate about the depot on Sundays and spend the Sunday in drinking whiskey, fighting and cursing. Put 'em in the chain gang. Milton wants a bank. The New York World consoles the Miltonese, in the event they do not get a bank, in thiswise: They now want a bank but, if they had one, they would soon be wanting the cashier to come back from Canada. North Eastern Caldwell. ' , Cilley, Sept. 19. To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic: Our farmers are certainly making good use of the fine weather this week, gathering fodder, plowing for wheat, picking peas and cninque pins, of wnice there are good crops. Mr. J, W. Kendall, one of our clo sest acorn observers and largest hog raisers, says acorns are plentiful this year. But I suppose many people will lose money this fall owing to their not having hogs to eat them. Mr. J H. Jones has been living on the farm of Col. O. J, Oowles, of vnariotte, tor twelve- or thirteen years, and has never had the good pleasure of meeting his good old Lord face to face until last Monday ,eye, when he with all his antic ways and words, aocompanied bv Capt. PHineas Horton, came; riding in. Col. C. remained until noon the next day when he left - out,; bound for Wflkes court. Col. Cowles cer tainly found a good crop of corn on his farm as is always the case under the good management and working hands of Mr. J. H. J. Mr, G. R. Councill, and family, left out for Watauga to day, after spending several days on the Yad kin. : - " Many of the young ladies and gents of the Valley are attending Three Forks Association, this week, which convened with the Three "Fork church, two miles east of Boone. We are under many obligations to the Hon. Board of Education for work done in this immediate vicin ity as it was so much needeS.and 'of so much value to the schot)l chil dren of district No. 1 of Yadkin ; Valley township to be attached to other districts in order to lengthen the school. How would and when could we have ever learned what this Hon. Board did had it not been for The Topic? It seems that some people think that what is , not in The Topic is not so. One man came to me to learn the death of his son. On my telling him it was not in The Topic it seemed to ful ly satisfy him it was not so and he saia li it naa oeen so, the happened in Tenn., The though it Topic man would have heard it. , 1 Subscriber. Cedar Valley Letter. Cedar Valley, Sept. 19. To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic: Foddering nearly oyer Corn good. Large crops of wheat will be sown. Tobacco crops are fine and are "now being cured. Large crops of apples. One distillery running. The mercantile business good. Lumber trade reviving. But little sickness etc. is the chat of our peo ple. ':. Mrs. H. S. Blair who has-been very sick for a while is convalescing. Married on the 10th Mr. C. Tol bert to Miss Celia Swanson and on the 13th Mr; .Julius Price to Miss E. Miller. L . Mr. M. Deal has finished an ex-i tensive job of repairing on his mill. R. A. Deal is assisting in clerk ship T. II. Deal, who the young la dies mean when they say "Pa don't shoo my Hen." j Mr. Editor come down and help devour the contents of a large water melon rind. ' X. E. F. Chit-Chat from Clay. Clay, Mitchell Co., Sept. 14. To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic: The last of the summer visitors left the public house at Cranberry last Saturdayl Sometimes as high as a hundred guests have been in mates of-the house, the past sum mer. The other day a colored man pass ed here for Lenoir. He had walked from Cranberry; twelve miles, up to D o'clock. He said he would sleep in your town that night. Forty five miles a day is a long walk, espe cially since he carried a large and heavy valise. ; Rev. E. P. Green, Episcopalian, held services here on Thursday night last. His text was St. John 14:23, which text he handled admirably. He will officiate occasionally, mak ing this one of his regular appoint ments, which are : Boone, first Sunday in each month ; Elk X Roads ' or Blowing Rock, second ; St. Johns, third ; Elk Park, fourth, and those months having five Sun days, he will be at Meat Camp or Banner's Elk. Consequently he will officiate here week days, as oc casion offers. I have the right of it now : Mr. Green is a deacon and a candidate for priests' orders. His parents re side in Warren countv, N. C., where he was born and brea. He is a grad uate of Virginia University, which is situated at Charlottesville. Three years ago a railroad route was surveyed from your town to Cranberry. The surveyors passed through Bullscrape, in this county, and from thence within less than a quarter of a mile of where I am writing. Last spring, Lewis A. Rominger, of Ashe, bought the Jack Miller farm, which was once a part of the Tuttle farm, and moved on it. In view; I suppose, of the rail road being sometime built, he has been selling village lots of an acre each, in expectation of building upt a village there. Then, again, the people of a portion of AVatauga, Caldwell, Mitchell, Burke and Mc Dowell counties, have been striving for a new county, (and allow me to say, in parenthesis, are determined to have one,) and Bullscrape is a candidate for the county seat. It is understood that the railroad is ina comatose state, and likely to remain so for years yet to come. Whether we can prevail upon the legislature to grant us the new county, is a question, but we will try, and try hard. James Gaither Wiseman is a wise man. He allows chinquepins to grow on certain parts of his amply large farm, where they come up. This year chinquepin "plumbs" are superabundant. He lets his hogs feed upon them as they drop off the 1)10 G8 ' Noah, son of Tyree Webb, lost his best cow, last week. SI. fell among rocks, broke her leg and was not discovered for some days, and was found dead yesterday.' Dr. Jas. W. Shell will soon move off the Lncinda Tuttle farm and go to Elk Park to reside. Then we will need a doctor I who is invited to these corners, and live at the hub of the world, if not of the universe. Some miscreant prostrated a portion of the fence surrounding nenaerson Johnson s meadow, on Saturday nisrht. ! leaving fifteen stacks of good hay; exposed to de struction by. other people's cattle. Nine hundred and fifty kernels of .buckwheat, which grew here on the Puett farm, were counted on one stalk. That is a big yield. . Mrs. S. V. Aldridge, who has' been afflicted with puerprael fever for two weeks is somewhat better. The weather, the past week, has been fine for ripening the late pota toes, cabbage and corn. - Dr. Stewart, owner of the gold mine about five miles from here in amweu county, irpm his home in Knoxville, Tenn., passed by here on Saturday last L with lag and" baggage, the mine. Hp. did not on h is: way to know whether he would work it, this Ian, or not. The Cranb srry mrnace men are advertising for 150 wood choppers, and some twothorse mule or ox teams. So ti mes will probably be lively, at viauuerry, tuis lau ana winter. No frosts yet. I Near Oaks, of Buck Mountain, which is on the borders of Tennessee and this state, shot and probably fatally wounded, a son of Joel Laws, on Joel Law's premises, on Wednes day last. Young Laws ran away with Oak's wife so the story runs and came back. home. He and Oaks met, quarreled over the matter and Law 8 fired a gun, the ball of which hit Oaks on the head, when Oaks shot Laws whdi fell, and Oaks took the srnn on him Laws had a pistol in his boot which he was try ing to draw out when he was prostra ted by Oak's gun. Oaks then took the pistol, put it to Law's breast and shot him. His life was despaired of. Oaks escaped. Tennessee has juris diction of the c8c. W. An average of sixteen trains pass Statesville each day (between Atlanta and Richmond, owing to the smash up at Coddle Creekj but a blockade occurred at Statesville on Saturday, detaining 8 trains waiting to pass. Good axe for 75 cits, at the Hard ware Store. ; ' For Rent or Sale. I will sell or rent the house in which Col. J., B. Wheeler now lives. Possession given in Nov. E. W. Faucette. Call at the Hardware Store and get a tobacco knife j before cutting tobacco. Estrays Empounded, Two ewe sheep left ear erupt, & hole in the right Owner can hive them by paying expanse. It. L. BEALK - Granite Falls Academy, LOVELADY,! n. c. .1 . . A FIRST CLAAS HIGH HCBOOL FOB BOTH 8EXE8. Conveniently located on the . & L. B R. in healthy and moral ciiuinunity. Instruction, thor ough practical, progressive, i Tuition $1 to f 4 per montlu Music $2.50. Board $6 to $ i. Fall Term opens 8ept. 7th, 1885. ; Address, B-Li HUGHES, Principal. AT O il T 17 A VALUABLE TEACT J? UXt OiiJuili i OF LAND On the C. & L. K. K., 2.V mil's from Lenoir, con 'taming 76 acres. A Good Yonng Orchard containing about 500 fine apple trees. One-third cleared land, balanon well timbered. For further partibu.ars call on or address, A. M. MARTIN, Lenoir. N. C. orT.L. SPARKS. Hudsonville. TO THE PUBLIC! I am still at my olid stand, next door to S. "W. Hamilton's. All per sons wanting either -i ' -. . Sheet Iron or Tin Work Done, can have it done on short notice and in good style, and ' all new work guaranteed. Tobacco flues and stove piping to be had at S H OR T N OT I C E . Sugar and Coffee and other groceries and notions and bread and cakes always on hand. TFith thanks for past favors I humbly solicit a A continuance o4 the same, promising to sell as ' Cheap as any of the rest can sell. J. S. P. HAMILTON. J. A. CRISP, with y Cloyd, Nelson & Co., SHULL'S MILLS, N. 0., Is opening up one of the Best Stocks of General Uerchardisp 1 Ever offered to the People of Watauga River. ; Prices down to ROCK BOTTOM FOR OF n Cash Paid for Gensengv Wild Ginger, i ' Jamestown (jimson) Leaves, Oat nip leaves, White Hellebore. Cloyd, Nelson & Co., Shull's Mills, N. C. Country The Land of the Sky; ! The Land of Peace and Happiness ! i i -The Paradise of the World ! But even in this Heavenly land, life is a burden, unless our homes are furnished neatly 1 Just Think! Today yon can buy a suit of the latest style of fur.- I nitiire for J. 813. Thirteen Dollars! 813.' Besides this, "rare bargains are. offered in Meat Safes, Bureaus, Washstands, Bed steads, Tables, (square and round) Lounges, rocking chairs, children's chairs, dining extension tables, either walnut or ash, walnut bed-room suits, bed, mat tresses, springs, j &c. ! ' - 1 i " If you want to see or buy- Any thing in my line doat Forget to Give Me a Call. Very Truly. I J. B. ERYIN. Read & Remember ! That we wan all th Blackberries We can buy this Season And will pay I the very For the same that the market will allow. ' -!' ! -t J-'.. Owing, to the "hard tim" we are now selling our LARGE ST0C -OF- General Mercharidis SAt Extremely Either for cash, or good merchantable produce Special attention is called io following seasonable goods : the Grass Scythes, i -. . v ri Mason's ImproTred Fruit 'Jars, "Oriole" and i "Gold Medal" Apple Pealers, ' Gorers and Slicers. Bear in mind we offer no "bates' to catch trade, but sell each article f or what it is worth and pledge ourselves to give oir ' customers both in Buying and Selling -. '-' '''K ' i ' i- Every legitimate advantage of thfe market. Hoping by honest effort and fair Dealing to merit your continued patronage, tzo are, Respectfully,- ' CLOYD A11D 1IELS01I. F. 7IE0EIirEIiD, Not Having time to Write out an Advertisement And one at Length, woulc , say that he is ready for Every Hind ofTrado in ii Season. -t-o-I- He Will Give Good Prices and fell GOOD GOODS At Reasonable Prices. Wdbt Plowff, SEWINfi ; HACHIilES, Always on Hand. ' Respectfully,: . 1 f . i . " . F. 7iesonfcld. . 1 'i ' r T i- , ' 1 -i 7v f i 1 i 1
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