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THE LENOIR TOPIC. W. W.SCOTT, Jr., Eiitor ani PttWlsi WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 1885. Entered at the Post-office at Lenoir as second-class matter. Subscription price, $ l.OO. 3!" Advertising rates reasonable. All bills for advertising pay able weekly. lob printing s specialty. We were attempting to frame in r writing our sentiments in regard to the Chatham lynching when we came across the charge of Judge Walter Clarke to the Wake grand jury. This so well describes the way we think about it that we adopt the charge as an edjtorial. "In the adjoining county of Chat ham a masked mob has taken from the prison of the county four per sons confined therein on a charge of murder and has hung them without warrant of law, and this on the week preceding the term of their Superior Court. Almost on the same day in : a neighborhood of the county of Caswell, a mob has taken from the custody of the law, another prison er, and hanged him by the wayside. The unlawfulness and the danger ous tendency of such acts and their certain effect in the disorganization of society must be apparent to all good citizens. It would be com monplace to dwell on that subject. As you are the grand inquest of the j county, the court feeis it its duty to J call your attention to this matter, and the remedy for it. It is easy to denounce such deeds but there can be no defense of such unlawfulness. But among a people who reverence law as North, Caroli nians have ever done, such deeds take place at distant points, and al most simultaneonsly, there is some thing to challenge our attention. Courts are instituted that life, per son and property may be protected in an orderly way. To maintain these courts, the good people of the State annually tax themselves liber ally. If these courts do not protect the public, if justice is not adminis tered in them, if by delays, continu ances and removals, criminals wear out the prosecution, if juries upon technicalities, or through a false sympathy, acquit the guilty, if grand juries through negligence and indif ference, fail to present violators of the law, the public time, and the expense of these courts is wasted. Men will be protected, and if the courts will not give that protection, mobs will take the law in their own hands and do that which the courts oncht to tin ad minister insfioA nn. O J . WW on criminals speedily, cheaply, and without useless technicalities and delays Such occurrences as have been mentioned, show a deep unrest in the public mind. They are sig nificant. Their warning should be heeded. The lesson thev teach is that the people are losing confidence I in tne courts as a prompt and cer tain means of repressing violations of the law. :- All good men will condemn such highhanded disregard of the laws, but such acts are born of resolution and a deep sense if mistaken, of thtir necessities. If this feeling ob tains a hold in any community, it will not "down at your bidding. ' The remedy is a more speedy and efficient administration of justice. Let the people feel that in the court house the law will be vindicated with certainty and dispatch, and you will hear no more of lynch law. Let your county commissioners be more careful to put only the best names in the jury box. Let those drawn on the jury take a pride in serving, and not seek evasions of the duty. There is no place where they can serve their country more effectually. And let juries, whether grand juries or petty juries, realize the impor tance of the matters submitted: to them. In my practice at the bar, I have never known an innocent man - i J Tl - A 1 " T 1 uuuviuLeu. it is Bouieimug x nope I never shall see. But we have all seen hundreds of guilty men pass without sentence or punish ment. This, is the evil which must be remedied, if your courts are to serve . the end for which they are - created of protecting the public against evil men. i' The administration! of President Cleveland has so far been the most business-like of any that Washing ton City has ever known. It is a fair, square, honest, open-and-above-board administration and wins the confidence and respect of the peo ple. It fails td please everybody, though, as does every thing sublu nary. The New York, Ohio and Massachusetts Republican platforms "arraigned" it for ignoring the civil service rules and making appoint ments for partisan purposes. On the other hand some of our brethren complain and think Cleveland pays too much attention to, the 'humbug snivel service" rules. The fact of the matter is, the rules need chang ing and Cleveland in not to blame. oenaior vance, ior instance, does'n't 3 I IT . . luce tne present status of the civil service arrangement. There are many of us, true reformers, who .want all the humbug knocked out of these rules. Why, then, should brother Hussey call Vance a "kick er" and place him on Senator Eus tis side of the fence ? Vance has eaid nothing more and done noth- ing more than thousands of us have said and done and, no doubt, Clere land thinks about the same way too. . man uo eu, no cue iui aiu&cio and so is Cleveland. When Con gress meets we will see these things more clearly and not through a glass darkly as at present. Even the sul len victor who sits back and pouts because he cannot get the spoils that belong to him will smile grim ly and cease to calj it "snivel" ser vice reform. Wait until Congress meets before you begin to brand the "kickers." ' 1. j At the Lynchburg fair last (Thursday, nearly all of Virginia was present and "ovation" but faintly describes the reception given to Fitz Lee who attended. One thousand cavalrymen followed him in proces sion besides the other military com panies. At night he addressed 10, 000 people and when he spoke of the venomous Logan's reference to the "treason-stained saddle of R. E Lee and declared that he was not ashamed to be the hero's nephew pen cannot describe the deafening uproar and shout that went up from the great throng, many of whom had fought: under "Mars Bob." Lee's prospects to be elected Gover nor of Virginia are first-rate. Ocu Republican contemporaries may well be pardoned for their glo rification over the Republican victory in Ohio, especially as we hold the innings and have the papers for three years yet at all events and are greatly "hoped up" to believe that we will be there long after 1888. And, by the way, they make as much fuss over this J Republican State go ing Republican j as if they had not expected it. jThey were a trifle doubtful. ! STATE TOPICS. The rice crop is the poorest since 1854. , j j. : The North Carolina Presbyterian Synod met yesterday in Reidsville. From Hickory to the Ashevflle fair, which is this week, the fare is $3.35. i While last week's storm was severe on the coast no serious accidents oc curred. Died on the 9th, at Iron Station, of heart disease, Mr. W. L. Bynum, aged 65. Edward W Faucette, editor of the Advertiser y has been appointed postmaster at Milton. P. M. Morris, of Cabarrus, saves all the ragweed on his farm and says it makes first-class hay. There is more blockading in Row an and the surrounding counties than in the mountains. i- Gooch and Smith, tried in Wake Superior Court for the murder of John Cheatham, were convicted. The assessed valuation of property in Iredell is $3,848,5S7 and the en tire tax of the. county is $39,198.56. The Scottish Carolina Campany has lately bought 17,000,000 feet of poplar lumber from the owners on Pigeon River. The Higgins farm on the Catawba river in McDowell was sold at auc tion last week! and J. G. Grant be came the purchaser for $3,100. The Landmark is not inclined to be well pleased with Senator Vance for the part he took in the removal of the revenue office from Statesville to Newton. : j They tell of a Mitchell man who paid $2,200 for a farm and was laughed at by his neighbors. He turned the tables by selling walnut timoer enougn irom it to bring him in i,euu. h , The Western Baptist Convention met in .snevilie last week, Rev. J. B. Boone being elected President. 9x,uvv was suoscrioea ior missions and $200 towardTbuilding a church at Sparta. There is no telegraph line along the A. T. & O. R. R., from States ville to Charlotte, but we under stand that the lessees intend to put up one soon, having received a bonus of $700 from citizens along the line. I The Statesville Landmark says that the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad people deny that they made any promise to build the "Junebug" railroad and assert that they have no idea of taking hold of the enterprise. Meanwhile the grad ing is washing away and the county bonds are drawing interest. On Monday night of last week a quarrelsome negro named Bernhardt went to the house of a Mr. Linebar- fer, who lives near Iron Station, ijncoln county, and began to abuse him. Linebarger went out when the negro drew a pistol on him but was not ouick enough, for Linebar ger also drew j one and fired, killing the negro. ! The State Bar Aflaom'ftfiATi mt last Wednesday and elected the fol- . 'J lowing officers: President, Hon E u. iteade ; vice-presidents : 1st dis trict, C. W. Grandv. 2nd. J. M. m n ra' Jacob Battle. 4th, T. R. Purnell. 5th, Samuel H. Webb. 6th, ;E. T. Boykin. 7th, W. A. Guthrie. 8th, W.J.Mont- fS?eryI Jth Wm. W. Barber. 10th, A. C. Avery. 11th, W. M. Shipp. 12th. T. F. Davidson. Secretary, T.S M. Argo ; treasurer, Wt J. Peele, : TOWN TALK TOPICS. Trirlal Incidents and lila Gossip from tks Outlying Hamlets. Carolina fair at Charlotte on the 27th. Raleigh is to be lighted by electric light. Newton's diphtheria epidemic is abating. Ashcville has a hospital founded by the ladies of the various church- es. " Gastonia wants a large warehouse big enough to hold 5,000 bales of cotton. In September there were 35 deaths in Wilmington 10 whites and 25 colored. Salisbury has a population of 3, 408, a gain of 1,000 in 25 years and of 700 in five years. The Morganton Star and Blade have consolidated with Mr. Cobb of the Star as editor. Beginning with this week the Asheville Citizen becomes a morning instead of an evening paper. One-half the proceeds of Friday, (Oct. 30) of Tarboro fair is to be devoted to the N. C. Soldiers' Home Fund. Newton gets the reveue office and will soon be so stuck up and "bigot ty" that she can scarcely be held to the ground. The Winston Republican printed its Bird o' Freedom and brought out its old rusty cannon in its paroxysm of rejoicing over Ohio. f Capt. John Carson, of Marion, says that he has lost $40,000 this year because he has not hogs enough to eat the acorns in the woods I Concord has at last gotten rid of its offensively par" isan postmaster, Miss Mary Dusenbury and Rev. Thomas W. Smith has been appoin ted in her stead. The question of publishing a new Methodist paper in the State has about been decided but it is not cer tain whether it will be published in Salisbury or Satesville. At Spartanburg, on Thursday, the tight rope walker, W. J. Davis, who has been giving exhibif;ons in the various towns of the State, fell from his rope and broke his neck. The inclemency ol the weather last week militated against the suc cess of all the fairs which were so unfortunate as to be billed foi then. This relates to both the Hickory and Raleigh fairs. The Raleigh Chronicle tells of a young man who was lately examined oy the Supreme Court who attrib utes his succe3 in obtaining his law license to the magic influence of a raooii toov wnicn ne carried in his pocket. Johnson City, Tenn., is beset with grog-shops and the drunken men on the streets have become a nuisance. On Monday morning the calaboose is nearly always full of a crop of drunk and downs who were picked upon the streets on the day Deore, some ot whom are even fe males. me prize ol $50 was awarded at mi the Raleigh fair to Mrs. J. B. Bur well, of the Peace Insi,itule, for a painting, the scene of which was on Richland creek, Havwood countv. Miss Julia Spencer, of Chapel Hill, juts. j. in. opa'nhour, of , Lenoir, and Mrs. E. L. Harris, of Raleigh, "I 1 t r i .... ' aiso naa nne paintings on exhibition. TIMELY TOPICS. ino .Northern railroads are cut ting rates and the price of a ticket from New York to Chicago is only 9X. lhe President has appointed T. n. jernigan, ol JNorth Carolina, con sul of the United States at Osaka and Hiego, Japan. Since the first of January $52,- oeo,uuu nave oeen invested in South ern industrial enterprises, $2,543,000 ux it uemg m ixorin Carolina. Cardinal McCloskev was buried in New York, last Thursday, according w tne gorgeous rites oi tne Koman Catholic Church . The Cathedral was fairly crammed and Archbishop vriuuoas preacnea tne inneral. Tammany and Irving Hall have brought out opposition tickets for city officers to those nominated bv the county uemocracv. It is thought, that this will bring out a fuil Demo- cratic vote and will be of advantage w ouu m ottvLo wujtei. s I At a speech in Baltimore the oth- 1J W - UiiL." of Virginia, saying that he was trv ing to amble into office on the "treason-stained saddle of his uncle, R. E. Lee." . TTT1 -i . - I nen n was preacnea around New xoric last week that the Ohio elec lion wouia have something tn An with the result in New Ynrlr after next, the New Yorkers fired up and retorted that "Tfew VnrV does her own thinking." She mv.st think loud. Last Friday an excited mob eat together at Columbus, Ohio, and came near haying a riot because some person had hung out from the Democratic committee's headquar ters a huge "bloody shirt." As the moo was xnaae np prmcipaUy of Republican roughs itreanired a traati deal of forbearance on the part of the Democratic crowd to keep from uayiug it viooaj ngnt. ' The Republicans elected Foraker Governor in Ohio, last week, by about 16,000 majority and a legisla ture that gives them a majority of about 30 on joint ballot. This makes sure the return to the United States Senate of the most rabid hater of the South in Ohio the incendiary, John Sherman. Judge Foraker, like Alexander, sighs for new worlds to conquer and will stump New Yo k for the Re publicans. John Sherman, too, it is said, will wrap his bloody shirt around him and stump Virginia for John Wise. If Johnny Wise desires to receive not a single white vote let him bring red-shirt John Sherman into Virginia. . In Baltimore a hot canvass is go ing on for the local offices. James Hodges is the Democratic candidate for Mayor and is opposed by a fac tion of the Democracy which charg es that Hodges, a reputable mer chant, is the tool of Senator Gorman. This faction, antagonistic to the Senator, has been joined bv the Re publicans and the coalition has nominated Judge George William Brown for Mayor. The little principalities of Servia and Bulgaria, whose "tin" princes "play" they are great kings, have a mutual grievance gracious only knows about whatand are about to let slip the dogs of war or, as a witty contemporary expresses it, to un loose the black and tan terriors of war. The latest dispatches said that the Servian "army" was marching on the Bulgarian capital. The oth er kingdoms of Europe would look on half amused at this pigmy war fare just as Gulliver did the" Lilli putians if it were not possible that thismay.be the means of starting a battle of the giants in an JEuropean war. 1 PERSONAL TOPICS. The Governor is still sick with chills and fever. It is now "Col. John F. Mor phew," of Marshall. Bishop John C. Keener will pre side over the N. C. Methodist .Con ference. Married in Statesville, Oct. 15, Mr. Hall M. Caldwell and Miss .Eu nice Palmer. " i i Says the Watchman: "Congress man Henderson is doubly blessed a boy and a girl." Archbishop Gibbons, of Balti more, it is said, will be made a Car dinal by the Pone. ; Walter W.Vandiver, a bright par agrahist becomes local editor of the Asheville Tribune. Mr. Joseph Dobson, Jr.; is acting solicitor in the place of his father, deceased, in the seventh district. A. V. Shaw, better known us "Josh Billings," died suddenlv of apoplexy on the J4th at Monterey, uai norma. t- Married at New Berne last Thurs day, Mr. John B. Broadfoot, of J?ayetteville, to Miss Fanny Bryan, of New Berne. Senator Vance has just been made a grandfather for the first time. The happy parents are Mr. and Mrs. David M. ance, of New Orleans. Rev. Robert Strange, of Wilming ton, has accepted a call to the rec torship! of the Church of Good Shepherds, Raleigh, lately resigned by Rev. E. R. Rich. " Married in Nash county, Oct. 12. Alfred Upchurch, aged 80, to Mi Sally Ann Yarborough, of Franklin, aged 67. This is the old irentle- man's third wedding. His son aged o ana two grandsons aged 24 and 26 respectively attended the wed ding,; Of all the gentlemen who married ladies belonging to the rioh Rich mond Thomas family, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, Dr. J. L. Eui rows and Col. J. R. ConnalJy are Baptist preachers and only Mr. Richmond Pearson, who married the youngest daughter, M'8s Gabrielle. has no ris?ht to wear his cloth of a clerical cut. Oar Clay Letter. Clay. N. 0., Oct. 12. To the Editor of I7ie Lenoir Topic : The surveying has been going- on since I wrote you last Monday. Capt. Lenoir has found that he laps on to otners, ana otners lap on him. Jas. A. Aldridge was awfully astonished to find that the Oantfti dwelling house and gomethinir mnra However. I onine that ha will Tint. h turned ut of house and home, for vttuiaiu juenoir is going to be verv lenient, I feel sure. J. Burton Johnson is teaching the near the head water, of that eSSS stream, the Wataura. in the w ' J Mast is over abundant. Three names have been nrnnoRAd for our new countv. namelv : Jxoa ana J"eign- T a -r. i . ' W. O. Hickey, sheriff, notifies tax payers that he wiU be at Bullscrape on the 22d and at Hughes' store on the 23d. ; "We have two voting nre- cincts in Linville township, hence the two days he remains with us to receive taxes. I was at Cranberry Friday last. There was an unusual tooting of the railroad whistle, which was remark ed here,., twelve miles away. The extra tooting was in consequence of an excursion in the interest of some chnrch in Virginia. The excursion ists came np to view the wonderful sights to be seen in "The Gorse " and all along the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina narrow wauge railread, sometimes yclept the "stem winder." The extra train came in while I was there, and was soon unloaded of its burden. The people immediately began to view the wonders at Cranberry. As I was in a hurry to get home I had to leave before the excursionists started "homeward bound." The increased demand and higher price of steel rails is stimulatingjthe mining operations. at Cranberry. The company cannot fill their orders and are wanting more miners, i Rumor speaks of things in con nection with the manufacture in this section of country, of iron, which, if true, are very interesting to all. It is said that the company have discovered that they can flux their ores without the use of lime, and make better and cheaper iron by omitting the lime. More important still, it is said that the company were long in doubt whether they could properly smelt"; and reduce their hard magnetic ores to iron with wood charcoal ; that they hesitated on that account, to engage largely in the manufacture of charcoal iron; and that they now, by repeated tests, have all doubts on this subject removed, and expect to engage more largely in the manufac ture of charcoal iron. The immense forests around Cran berry give them great facilities for so doing, and if the company should engage in manufacturing charcoal iron in large quantities, it would forward rapidly the clearing of the rich mountain lands near Cranberry, which are as fine grass Jands, when cleared, and set in grass, as any in the country. The choppers are doing a large business in felling trees and chop- Eing cord wood, and the colliers are urning large quantities of coal. I was told that the company have in vited land owners to make coal on their own lands at home and bring it to the furnace. I was also at Elk Park the same day. This little town is a new one, and it is increasing in size and im portance very fast. A new building, of moderate dimensions -not large enough for a "state" house was be ing built, and some one asked one of the principal citizens what it was for. "A calaboose," was the prompt reply. I was informed that the town was soon to sport a live newspaper, to be Fatterned after The Lenoir Topic. did not think to ask what it's name is to be, so we will wait and see. - . I BakersviDe is notified to be look ing out for its . laurels, i. e., the court house, jail and other concomi tants ! When they go, its glory will have departed, and added to the graces of Elk Park.. Last night, just after dark, rain commenced falling and continued all night. Since daylight there has been one continual pour up to this moment, half past ten a. ra. Now, lookout for a fresh ! W. Wednesday Mobxixg, Oct. 14. The rain spoken of above, con tinued, without the cessation of a minute, till dark, Monday night, when the sky became clear at the north, and the weather was rather cool. . As a consequence, the streams up rose at once and overflowed their banks, the water carrying away foot logs and every obstruction in its way. Our very excellent foot log was taken down stream, but not so far that it cannot be returned to its place, so soon as another pen, and a stronger one, I hope, can be con structed. Our mail carrier did not reach us on Monday, so this letter will not come to your hands so soon by two days as it otherwise would. xuo tviuua oi oionaay caused tne falling of millions; of acorns and chestnuts, the like of which I never saw. W. 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. TO THE PUBLIC! I am still at my old stand, next door to S. W. Hamilton's. All per sons wanting either Sheet Iron or Tin Work Done, can have it done on short notice and in good style, and an new work guaranteed. j Tobacco flues and stove . ' piping to be had at T SHORT NOTICE. Sugar and Coffee and other groceries and notions and bread and cakes r always on hand. TFith thanks , for past favors I humbly solicita a oonuxraanoe oi the aunt, promiaing to aell a neaP as any of the rest can sell. J. S. I. HAUttTOrj. 'sSun, MILWAUKEE, WIS, GEO. XT. PECK, Edft-r utd Proprietor. The Funniest Paper In America. What Vaccination ia to 8mal.nox. PKflira arrv 4. to the Mum. PECK'S SUN la on of the moat widely read and popular paper m ut country UMlay, and atanda without a peer in Ha speciality. The Originator of the celebrated Bad Boy Papers. SPECIMEN COPIES FREE TO Xtrt asduu, Bear to mind that by Bending m Postal Card tothia omoe tAMPLB COPT OF FECK'S BUN Will be mailed you Free. DON! NEGLECT TO SEND AT nVfiH. AND TELL T0UB NEIGHB0BS TO. rt-i WOBTH OF TXTS FOB Ul iODUH . XCt cnoriGn &. xoxro, BUSIXES8 MANA.GEB. Peek IX1L WAUKl - - . WIO, I -AND- Extremely Lo7 Prices -)--(- Wc are now i receiving a Large and Complete ! Stock of Fall 8c Winter And will sell Them as Cheap as the Cheapest. BeautifHl Line of Calicoes, Worsteds, Ginghams, Flannels, Iinseys, Purcales, Cashmeres, Velvets; Velveteens, ; Shawls & 1 Zephyr ; " ' - - j Goods. e Keep a Large Stock of Fine & Coarse BOOTS and SHOES. A Large Stock of READIMAMCraiM Den't Fail to see our C3 And remember our Contains many Articles that would cost you 25 cts. elsewhere. Call 6o Examine our! Stock. No trouble to show Goods. Respectfully, R. S. Reinhardt & Co. Lenoib, N. C Oct. 21. The Land of the Sky ! . :"- . . - The Land of Peace and Happiness I ! The Paradise of the World ! But even in this Heavenly land, life is a burden, unless our homes . are f urnished neatly ! Just' Think! Today you can ' I buy a suit of the -j latest style of fur- 1 niture for v i rS13. J TMrteen Dollars ! 013. j I Besides this, rare bargains are offered in Meat Safes, , Bureau, Washstand 8, 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, &c. If you want to sco or buy J . Anything in my line don't Forget to Give Me a Call. ! Very Truly, f - ' J. B. ERYIN. "t i Big Show in Lenoir ! . r ii See It. We are now Receiving an Unusually large Stock of X"rom Northern Markets. All Bought at ! f Bottom Prices And will ho sold accor- dingly. Handsome Line of Indies Dress Coods, Calicoes', Misses Pioco Goods. Ready Hade Clothing, Dont Fail to rivo us a CalL Respectfully, CLOYD AIID 1IELS01I. . X
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