VOLUME XI. LENOIR, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER SI, 1885. NUMBER 5. "Wallace Bros., STATESVILLE, N. C. Whole salE Dealers n i i General Merchandise. -tot- Largest Warehouse and best facili- t . . 'r-f---: ' - ties for han j dling Dried Fruit. Ber ries, etc. in the State. RESPECTFULLY Wallace Bros August 27th, 1884. W.O.BO SetosT mewed sta-agta sr wka rater bmm uarsuuea pcaauar to taelv sex, aa.ald try THE 0E5T TONIC This madicins combines Iron with irara Temtabla w.ii7ubM for XHtwMea peculiar to lerrca ta ict, toorutuhlr lMMfM Bfodaca constipation all 3ur Armt itciiM aulT' Bu. Fxizabxth Batsd. T4 FarwsD Are., Mawaa- kee, Wis., say, under data of Dae. 96th. 1884: a "I have tued Brown' Iron Bittara, and it baa bean - Bora than a doctor to me, having eared me of the weakness ladies hare in life. Also cored me of Iir. a Complaint, and now toj complexion is clear end good. Hu been benafioial to my children. n Oavnina has above trade mark and crossed red lines an wrapper. Take a other. Made only by BROWN CHEMICAL COMBALTIJbIOKE, MB. 1HDnBn BoOK-aafaI and attract ire, son. taining list of prizes for recipes, information about eoi?,to riven away by all dealers in medicine, cr sailed to any addrea on receipt of Jo. atamp. CLINTON A. CILLEY, Attomoy-Law, PcvtiT? in AH Thv Ccrcrt. A EM III II II W mtuce. ana 71 -"-' j t, 7"" seaeiMary urea, u ens rtch.e-?. "I? Blood, Httmnlatoa OUR HEROIC PIONEER. BY t. c. L. Among our hilla and fertile vales, Our rers, creeks and brooks and swalle, A hero pioneer did roam, While searching for a western home; In Y-idkin Valley for ime. He lived in this salubrious clime, And hunted elk and deer ami bear, Oft killing tbem whilst in their lair. , This pioneer was Daniel Boone, ' Who started for Kentucky soon, . But soon he met a deadly foe, - s; Who vowed bl should not further go; - : Though bard beset by savage fots, He wi!l not yield but onward goes; - His trusty rifle well in hand, He kill aud routs each savage band. Through for' ct dense, o'er mountains high, He retcbt g soon the 'Ind of Uie 8ky;w Here long be feaste on nature fair And breathes the fresh salubrious air; - Here fan the mountain's giddy height. He feIs at home, both day and night; A herb brave where o'er he goes. He does not fear hi wily foe. Full many a panther, deer and bear, He kill 8 whilst rusticating here; He oft times hears the hooting owl, : Whilst wolves quite numerous round him howl. At length he Waves these mountains high. Still further West his luck to try; - Through forest dense our hero goes And oft times meets his savage foes; But soon these red men of the plain. Give back for Dauiel Boone again; f Then on he goes (ihe coast now clear), . His Western course again to steer. At length through many uangers he Arrives, his promired land to s-; - Our pioneer so brave and plucky. Has safely reached bis dear Kentucky. Here from an elevated hill. He views the landscape to the fill; - Then to the fertile valley be Descends, the fertile soil to Bee. 3 Here by a coo! and limpid rill, i . He buiifts his catnp and rests at will; Though far from wife and children dear, Our lonely hero feels no fear. fie now resolves no more to roam, But hasten back to wife and home; And then with wife and children too, Again his pilgrimage renew. Soon with his family and friends, Again the mountains he ascends; Though oft assailed by foes so plucky, He soon arrives in old Kentucky. ' Of all white women of our land, Boone's wife and daughters first did stand Upon the river bank and view,. The beauties of this region too. Boone was a hero brave and true, His wife and daughters heroines too; They in Kentucky found a home From which they never more did roam, , Washington Notes. Greensboro Patriot. . Senator Vance's Courier-Journal interview in! which he appears as a "kicker" against the Administra-, tion, has attracted attention here. It is understood to be a declaration of war and the gossips place him and Senator Eustis in the same boat. The opinion expressed by the junior North Carolina Senator, that the people in North Carolina are dissat isfied with the Administration, is not confirmed by yisiting North Carolinians.j Here and there in the State, it is said, complaint is heard that changes are not made fast enough, but as to any general dis satisfaction,1 it does not exist. It is also said that the people generally are in sympathy with the Senator's civil service views. The present civil service reform is every wnere in the State regarded and characterized as a transparent humbug. The Senator uses vigorous, and unmistakable English in speaking of Southern! Republican office hold ers. "They gained their position," he says, "by going over to the ne groes, by becoming traitors to their fellow citizens, and by antagonizing every principle of the Southern peo ple." They ought to be removed, and so far as North Carolina is con cerned, they have been removed. The one prominent Republican now in office m North Carolina is the Wilmington postmaster. He has not been removed because - Demo crats request his retention. The change in the Charlotte mint has not been made because Senator Vance and Congressman Bennett could not agree upon the appoint ment. If there is blame let the responsibility attach where it be longs, j At the instance of Senator Vance the Department has decided to re move the revenue office from States ville to Newton. The changa is only awaiting a report from Collec tor Dowd on the cost of renting a suitable building for an office in Newton. The Department first de termined to make no change; it was then decided to remove the office to Charlotte ; subsequently it has been decided to remove it to Newton. Collector Dowd fought against the removal to Newton, but finally -acquiesced, and is now understood to join Senator Vance in urging that change. It is understood here that the removal is against the judgment of the Department, and possibly against the report of the special . agent who was sent to North Caro lina to investigate the matter. The main objection urged against States ville is that the only suitable build ing in the town for an office is own ed by ex-Collector Mott, and that he is consequently the chief beneficiary of the present location of the office. However these things may be the change is to be made, and that soon, and the "Banner county" will ha?e something besides "the banner" to show for its enthusiastic fidelity to Democratic principles. The shorter a man is the longer he is in paying his debts. ' A physician calls his dog Tonic, because the animal is a mixture of whines and barks. ' A PHYSICIAN'S EXPERIENCE. Locked for Fifteen Minutes in a Dark Cellar with a Raving Mad Oog. .: 4 From the London St. James Gazette. Last week I received orders to go to the Britannia public house, in Soho, and poison a large , retriever belonging to the landlord, i My mas ter had seen the doc during his rounds, and found it in a dangerous rabid state. I filled a small bottle with hydrocyanic acid, and, taking a syringe, went off at once to see about it. Arriving at the house, I stated my business, arid was handed over to the pot-boy to be conducted to the dog, which I could hear howl ing every few seconds.. There being no vard to the house, they had chained the dog down in the cellar to a staple in the wallA 'v'E's a wery bad case, sir," said my guide, "an' I'll be glad when it's all over ; for, although he was a great pet with tis all, an' that fond of the kids you never see, it's awful to see 'im not know any of us, but when we goes near 'im to have 'im come a-flvinsr at us. Hunk e ll suffer There 'e goes ! 'ear 'im ? long 'e 'owls like thajt."- I assured him it would over without much pain, much ? All day soon be and de-- scending some steps we passed through a room in the basement that was dimly lit by a small and grimy window. Cases of winesand spirits were ranged against the walls and we could hear the tramp of the thickly shod 'customers in the bar or tap room just above our heads. Opening a door we passed into an other room this was lighted only by a small window in the room we had just left, as it shone through the now open door. "He's in there," said the pot-boy, pointing to anoth er door in the wall opposite. Thinking there was a window in the room I pushed the door open and immediately heard the rattle of a chain, and the hoarse half howl, half growl of the poor beast, whose eyes I could see against the far wall gleaming through the dark. Win dow there was none. j "Why on earth don't you bring a light," I asked angrily ;""you don't suppose I can poison him in the dark ?" "Thought I 'ad a match," said the boy, fumbling in his pockets ; "there's a gas-jet just inside the door." I had no matches, so I sent him upstairs to get some, and awaiting his return, sat down on an empty keg near the door. The dog seemed uneasy, and, fan cying the light through the doorway annoyed and distressed him, I push-, ed it to with my hand. The boy was some time gone (I found after warks he had been to ask his mis tress if she would like to have a last look at the old dog), and I sat there thinking over the job. The air I of the cellar was close and the smell of the wet sawdust on the floor was most unpleasant. Clank went the dog's chain against the wall or the floor as he moved uueasily about, wondering, I dare say, what was my errand there. Then the movement ceased for a time, or, partly absorb ed in my thoughts, I failed to notice it. The next minute I started, feel-j ing something rub against my leg ixtoKin? aown. i saw two ffiannsr eyes just at my knee. The dog was loose, the staple having worked, its1 way out of the damp and yielding mortar. For a second or two I nearly lost consciousness. My heart stood stilly but by an effort, kept from go ing off into a'faint. I shall never forget the next few minutes as long as I live. I was alone in the dark, with this rabid beast rubbing about ray legs first one and then the oth er, as if he was trying to find out who I was. Then he rested his nose on my knee and looked straight up into my face. I sat like a statue, knowing that at the slighest move ment he would probably seize me, and knowfng who better ?) that such a bite in his advanced state of disease was .almost certain death, and a horrible death at that. Nerv ing myself, I sat perfectly still, cal culating as well as I could my chan ces of escape. Presently the dog put first one paw, then the other, on my knee, ana standing on his hind legs gently rubbed his head againt my breast, then over my arms, and then commenced to explore my face. I shut my eyes and felt his nose pass several times across my face, cover ing it with saliva. Yet I dared not move. I expected every instant he would seize me ; the very beating of my heart might disturb and annoy him ; and I felt that, come what might, I must fling him off and make a dash for the door. Suddenly he ceased rubbing against me and appeared to be listening. He could near the steps of the pot boy descending the ladder. I also could hear it, and knew not whether to call to him or keep silent. The dog now dropped down to my knees again, still listening ; and t as the light of a candle streamed through the crevices of a badly fitting door, he crept into the far corner of the cellar, evidently dreading being put upon the chain again. Then I made a dash at the door, swung it open, and, banging it to behind me, sank, more dead than alive, on a case near the wall. Seeing my state, the man brought me quickly a nip of brandy, and! pulled myself together. All this time the dog was growling seri ously on the other, side of the door, and tearing at it in his mad endeav or to get at j us. Steadying myself as well as I could, I placed the light on a pile of cases, and filling my syringe with acid, opened the door about two inches. As I expected, the infuriated beast rushed at the opening ; and as he did so I dis charged the contents of the syringe into his open mouth. In a few sec onds all was over. When I went up stairs I found my trousers, vest, coat, hands and face covered with the saliva from his mouth. I felt sick and faint, and looked so the people said white as a ghost ; in fact, I could hardly stand. The dog I had killed was bitten by the mad dog that ran down Pic cadilly some three weeks since, and had only showed symptoms of mad ness during the last,, few days. WASHINGTON LETTER ; Washington, Oct. 12, 1885. To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic: Never before in the history of Washington ha' e the government employes taken so little interest in politics. Political campaigns are at white heat in three important States but the clash of resounding arms is not heard in .v'ashington. The President and his Cabinet are paying no more attention to what is going on in New York, Ohio mid Virginia, than did the frontiersman to the fight between his wife and the bear. This is not as it was wpnt to be in the past, when everybody, from the President down to the floor scrub bers in the Departments were ardent, active "politicians. Then the chiefs of Bureans took about six weeks va cation, and from the pedestal of a fallen tree waved the bloody shirt frantically. The longer a clerk stay ed away from Washington, and the more stump speeches he made, the more solid did he grow in favor with his party, and the more secure was his retention of office. In previous years clerks have had to pay from fifty to one hundred dollars each to the Republican campaign fund. This year they have paid nothing. Dur ing all previous campaigns, the De partments have been the centres of organized political activity. Politi cal documents have been prepared during office hours and many clerks have willingly neglected their regu lar work to collect and twist statis tics to be used in political campaigns. Now the clerks are at their legiti mate work, and are hardly aware that campaigns are raging in their respective States. They have come to believe their fortunes ate no lon ger involved v in the result, and what the Republican party loses in political servility the whole coun try gains in honest -service. During the last' twenty years clerks have spent the few days previous to an election in an agony of suspense. They then thought Democratic suc cess meant ruin and starvation, and they dreaded it as they dread the day of doom. This has all been changed ; a silent revolution has ta ken place ; a great .eform has been inaugurated, and is working incal . culable good through the government to the country. Not only does it appear that the President will uot take an active part in politics, but will not talk on po litical subjects. J He says, without reserve, that he wishes to see Lee, Hill and Hoadly elected governors of their respective States, but he will not go further. The report that he has consented to go to the Virginia State fair at Richmond a few days before the election is without foun dation, as is the report that Mr. Hoadly became a candidate at the President's request! It appears, indeed, that Mr. Cleve land is preaching by example a new .gospel of Executive neutrality in politics. But he is, to say the least, in a very embarrassing situation. He has believed that the support of the Independents was important to the success of his administration. They have supported him at every step of his political ascent from Mayor to President. He naturally dislikes to cut loose from them now, and yet thev are behaving in a way that makes it impossible for a consistent democrat to have fellowship with them. By their action in supporting Davenport with their votes an.d praising Cleveland with their lips, they say as plainly as actions can say that, in their unique opinion, Cleve land is the only respectable demo crat, that they approve the president but detest his associates. The time is not far distant when the Presi dent must choose between Democrats and these supercilious hypocrites, masquerading under the name of independents. The President, I am told, looks upon the election in New York as a trial of his administration, and he feels a much greater interest in the result than he allows himself openly to express. That he did not send Hill a congratulatory message proves nothing except that he did not think it would be in accordance with pres idential propriety to do so He had not sent such a message to Lee or to Hoadly ; why should he make, an exception in favor of Hill ? He is no more' President of New -York than of Virginia, Charm of American Women. Archibald Forbes. The frankness of the American young woman has in it, on ,the threshold, a certain bewilderment, and even embarrassment, for the British male person, especially if his collars be too stiffly starched. She has so utter an apparent absence of self-consciousness ; her mental equipoise is so serenely stable ; her good-fellowship, if one may use the term, is so natnrnl that he cannof see his way easily to the solutjon of the problem. I assume him .to' be' a gentleman, so that his intuition det ters him from a misconception of the phenomena that confront him. She flirts, he finds she is an adept in flirtation, but it is a flirtation "from the teeth, outward," to use Carlyle'8 phrase, and he is fain to own to himself, like the fox-hunting farmer who tried unsuccessfully to get drunk on the claret, that he seems to "get, no forrader." Bui although the citadel of the fort seems to him strangely impregnable because of the cool, alert, self-possession of the garrison, I have been told by heroic persons who have 'ventured on the escalade that, if the beleaguer be he whom fortune fa vors, it will terminate an honorable sie;e by a graceful capitulation Human nature is human nature all the world over, and there is no greater error than the prevalent one among us that domesticity is not a leading virtue of American married couples That there js too much of hotel life for American families, I concede and I am fully conscious of the faults and evils of the system ; but that Tt entails any impairment of the higher domestic virtues I have failed to discover. It is not easy to see how a woman is deterio rated as the companion and friend, of a man as the participator in his aspirations, his troubles, his studies, his higher life because her condi tions release her from the duty of devising the detail of a dinner, from the irritation of demoniacal domestics, from the drudgery of checking grocer's pass-book, and the sad realization that all bakers are liars, and mostly robbers as well. Gen. Beauregard. New York Wcrli. J Gen. Beauregard has nothing of the benn mbrcur in his appearance, and would pass in a crowd for a de mure and painstaking bookkeeper in a commercial house. He carries his years remarkably well, and in the bright sunshine ! yesterday passed the "muster" in front of the Fifth Avenv.e Hotel, with the agile step of youth and some of the energy of bearinsr. He is erowine- nnit.f stont. j v CD .- J ,. - . - jand broad-shouldered, though Iris neatly trimmed gray mustache and goatee and fine head of hair, also frosted by honorable time, still give him the appearance of one of the ancienne noblesse. In conversation, which he enjoys, he charms all by a pleasant voice and naivete, and ho is always, the centre of an admiring circle. One moi ? of his has not been published that we have seen. Once asked why he did not move on Wash ington when his troops were so near, after the first battle of Bull Run, Gen. Beauregard;! replied very seri ously : "Well, I will tell you ; the Washington papers received in camp informed us the city was over-crowded!" which is as felicitous as Parepa Rosa'8 reply when asked how it was she came to marry Carl Rosa: "Oh, because he asked" mo to !" General Beauregard generally visits his nu merous friends in this city at this season. ; j Minister Curry. N -w York World. Washington, Oct. 10. Mr. Cur ry, the new minister to Spain, has been out of politics for a number of years. . He is a tall, angular man, with the air of a college professor. He dislikes society and is not at ease except in his study. He did not come to Virginia to reside until just after the late : war. Ho married, soon after taking up his residence in Richmond, a Miss Thomas, of that city. The Thomas family was very rich. 'His wife, since the marriage, has inherited a large fortune. The family is verv religious. Mr. Curry has always been considered a relig ious man, but it is understood that he became ordained as a minister out of compliment to the wishes of his wife's family. It is said that he has never had a regular charge and has never preached. Several years ago the rich friends of the Thomas family pushed him forward for the. secretaryship and agency of the Peabody Trust Fund. The salary of this place is 15,000 a year. In addition to this t he has been Presi dent of the Richmond University, which is a theological instittition. i . Mountain Cotton Pickers. ! Yorkville Enquirer. We learn that four young white men came from Mitchell county, N. 0. to Bethel township in this coun ty, to engage in cotton picking dur ing the present season. They had no lifficulty in obtaining employ ment, and, to these - mountaineers, the occupation is novel and pleasing. Marvin CampmeetingJ ! ' t Rev. M. V. Shcrrill In Methodist Advance. . " . . i . ': Ongoing and returning from Mar vin campmeeting we spent two nights in Lenoir, our old home, and with the kind family of Bro. Cloyd, who were our nearest neighbors the two years we lived there, and as good and pleasant neighbors as any preacher and 'his family were ever privileged to live by. And, by the way, the we and our in the above sentence are not-used editorially, but include the scribe, his wife and little boy. The only thing that detracted from the pleasure of our visit was that it was too short to allow us the opportunity to accept the many pressing invitations we had to visit our many good friends, njt Only in Lenoir, but all over the circuit. We may never see them all in this world 'again, but; there is comfort in the hope of meeting in the ("sweet by rnd by." There was one thing, however, to seriousiv mar the pleasure of j the occasion the illness of the pastor, Bro. Jenkins, who was only able to be there part of the day Saturday. He has"bieen quite indisposed for several months, and unable to do the work of the circuit. We bespeak for him the sympathy, prayers and support of his people. We know how he feels, for we have felt the same. The work is being supplied by those twd zealous and faithful local preachers of the cir cuit, Revs. D. C. Stimson and N. II. Kaylor. Col. Daniel Boone. Mt. Zion, Wilkes Co.! Oct. C. To the Editor of TJie Lenoir Topic: Being out on a prospecting trip when The Topic of the 23rd inst. reached our office, I have not had the opportunity of complying with request of your excellent Correspond ent, Old Hal, relative to) the tradi tional history of. Col. Daniel Beone, unfil the present. j During Col. Boone's residence in what is now Wilkes county, he had carftps ini different localities where he resided during his hunting ex cursions and of course ht had trails leading to and from the same. From the best information I am able to obtain', Col. Boone's route up Elk Creek onjy led to his camps in that locality and wa3 not thb route he traveled when he; moved his family to Kentucky. It is not probable that Col. Boone traveled up Elk Creek to theba&e of Eph"s ridge and up the ridge to the ! summit of the Blue Ridge and then traveled several miles on top of the ridge in an east ernly direction to the Deep Gap. From the best traditional history I am able to obtains Col. Boone's route from his residence near the mouth of BeaverCreek, was as fol lows : He. crossed the Yidkiu river at upper! Holman's ford, crossed the hills to! the valley of Stony Fork creek thence up the valjley to the junction of the north and south prongs qf said creek; where Colonel Land now resides. Ilere'Col. Boone took the divide between the two prongs of the creek, passing over Bald Knob, where the olid trail may still be distinctly seen in blaces. He traveled some distance along the di vide and finally' crossed the South prong of Stony Fork, passed over Osborne mountain and crossed the Blue Ridge through Saunders' Gap, which is believed to be f the lowest pass through the mountains, and is between1 Deep Gap aud Cook's Gap. From Saunders' Gap, Col. Boone mad his Way to three forks of New River and from there to the place where the town of Boone how stands. T. C. L. Our Shnll's Mills Letter. ' -! - SnuLL's Mills, Oct. 7. To the Editor of lite Lenoir Topic: 4?Ehe 'farmers are about through pulling fodder, ' seeding, &c, and are now ready to gather corn, which is fine. ! f .:! Bro. j Hendrixj : of Mount Zion, has just closed an interesting meet ing at this place. I Times are (hard in the way of money matters j plenty of fine beef cattle for sale ana no buyers, hence the scarcity of money, as our stock 13 about all the cash article that we have for sale, t ! ! i Mr. W., of Clay, may look out the next time he gives our little val ley a visit for that "state" house. Mr. J.'C. Shull is going to build it as soon as the sawing of the lumber is, completed; which will not be very long from present appearances. But this reminds me of howl badly we need a steam saw mill in this coun try to saw our fine cherry trees into marketable lumber; It undoubtedly would be a good investment, besides it would put life in these laurel bot toms where, perhaps, man has never placed the sole of his foot. 1 By the way, Capt. W.iW. Lenoir has closed his trade selling his tim bcr at; the Grandfather Western company.;; gap to C.J. A. a Alluding to the declaration of Mr. Geo. W. Cable, the Southern novel ist, that "If our mothera are not fit to vote, they ought to stop bearing Bons," the New Orleans Picayune says tj "Mr. Cable evidently means that only toothers; among women should vote. Old maids and others, not mothers, should not! be allowed to come to the ballot-box." F. WIESENFELD, Not Having time to Write out an Advertisement And one at Length, would say that lie is ready for ' ! Every Kind ofTrado in its Season. He Will ' i i i 1 . i 1 1 " ' ! ' ' ' ' " Give jGood Prices and Sell GOOD GOODS At Reasonable Prices. ! Watt Plows, SEWING MACHINES, co5 Scc, cc.5 Always on liand. Respectfully, F. Wiesenfeld. Organs Z Z And a Tremondous Stock of 1 Furniture 1 j. M O O R E & GO, IICKOKY, X. C. Nothing Gained by Trying Els evii ere. Our prices are in keeping with, the times and a Trial order or visit to our House will Convince You Qf this F a c t. -OUK- -" I UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT' : Is Complete and Orders Filled Promptly day j or nigh t. j A Large and Complete Stock of spuing & suitxitiim Goods Just rteeivt dbjr H. L. Howcuw, Me Bride's Mille, N, C, wbo will chenper lhiii tUe cbi s. At Rock Bottom Prices. Fur cash or good country produce, YOUR FRIEND, B. I.. HOLSCI.AW. F. LEE CLINE, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, mcxEoinr, rj.c. W, C. IIE7I.ArJD, Attorney - at - Law,; Xienoir. XT. C.