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VOLUME XI. LENOIR, NYC., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1885. NUMBER 7. Wallace Bros., STATtSVlLLE, N. C. -J WbolesalE Dealers General Merchandise. -tot- Largest Warehouse and best facili- - - 1 -. . I 9 " ' ties for han- ! I : dling Dried Fruit. Ber ries, etc.. in the State. respectfully "Wallace Bros. August 27th, 1884. mum Enters the system from unknown causes, at all seasons Slitters the Serves, Impairs Digestion, tad Enfeebles the Hucles. THE nrcTTntiir Qntckly andoompletalycnre. MaJa.r1aniCbUIa and Fevers. For Intermittent Vmim. T.aa- mtade, Lack of Energy, It ham no qaJ. It nriohea and pnrifie the blood. stimulate th p- prodne ermBtinftt ion all other Iron madicin do. Vatrkb T,J. Kxn.LT, the patriotic sad achoUriy Catholic Divto, of ArkusM. ssys: "I hr nMd Brown's Iron Bitten with tha mat ft satisfaction far Malaria, end ss s prerenUT of Chill. and liku dimwiea, and will always keep it on hand m ft ready friend." - Gatmina has abora trade mart sad crowd red line. ??. J"?PPrT k other. Made only by B BO WN CHEMICAL CO- BALTIM OKK, MO. Laxmoes Hamd Book asefol end attraottre, eon. tainin bat of prizes for reeipea. information about coins, ate., giron away by all daalsrs in medioilM, OC mailed to any address oo receipt of 2o. stamp. CLINTON A. CILLEY, . Attorney-At-LaT7, JPimrtlcye in AH The Oortrts. II. II. BBSB ROBERT JDHHSTOa fJiLL8. J. B. C, Jr., tn Charlotte Obw rver. There is no more interesting char acter in the annals of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina than the man whose name stands at the head of this article. In the course of his long life he'had strange ecclesiasti cal experiences. He himself tells us lliat iu the perplexities of his situa tion he did not always succeed in .'making a correct applicatian of his principles to the facts before him ; yet no one can, study his history without being, impressed with the feeling that even in his mistakes of judgment he displayed noble quali ties of heart. In everv action of his life, so far as we know it, he commands our sympathy aud respect. The following too meager account of him is gathered from various sources partly oral, partly manuscript,' partly published histories, journals, letters. The fullest accounts of his life to bo met with in print ate pro bably in ,his letter to Dr. Ilawks, referred to in a former article on White Haven parish, and in Dr. Bernheim's History of the German Settlements and Lutheran Churches in Carolina. ) Robert Johnston Miller, the third son of George, and Margaret .Miller, was born in Baldovia, Augusshire, Scotland, July 11th, J.758. His parents are said to have intended him for the ministry, and with this view to have sent him to the classi cal school at Dundee. He was bred up in the communion of "the Cath olic remainder" of the Church of Scotland, under the pastoral care of the venerable Bishop Rail, so long as he remained in his native coun try ; but when he was fifteen years old an elder brother, then a pros perous merchant in Charlestown, Massachusetts, invited him to make his homewith him, and he therefore came to America arriving in 1774. During the 'war 'of the Revolution he enlisted upon the American side, and was in the battles of Long Is land, of Brandywine, and of White Plains, jn the first of which he re ceived a flesh wound in the face ; he was also with the army during the memorable winter at Valley Forge. He came South with the armv, and was in Virginia when it was disban ded upon the conclusion of hostili ties, and for a time made his home in that State. j At this period of his life he be came identified with the Methodists and for a time acted as one of their preachers. The Methodists at this time distinctly repudiated the idea that they intended any separation from the Episcopal Church, and were considered by Mr. Miller as being Churchmen. Having, left home at so early an age, and having thert by been deprived of proper in struction in Church principles, it is not to he supposed that he had very clear aud intelligent views On the subject, though his convictions ap pear to have been firm at all times. He was very. strongly drawn towards the Methodists by the. stress which they laid upon the importance of personal religious experience, and by the enthusiasm I and Christian zeal which from the first character ized this great; movement. While one of their preachers he rode with Dr. Coke from Virginia to attend a conference held in the fall of 1784' in Franklin county, N. C., and con tinued with Coke for several weeks. Their conversation was chiefly upon Coke's plan for organizing the Meth odists of America into what was to be called the Methodist Episcopal Church up to this time it having been only a society making no claim to have power of. ordination and the administration of the sacraments. Mr. Miller tells us that he was una ble to give his assent to this plan, since it had early been impressed upon his mind that to constitute a true branch of the Church there must be the apostolic ministry trans mitted by episcopal ordination. It may be remarked hero that there is no reason to suppose that Mr. Mil ler, while a Methodist preacher, ever undertook to administer the sacra ments. With his known views on the subject it is quite certain that ho never did. Very few of the most extreme of their ministers had up to this period ventured upon this step; an attempt made by some of those in Virginia just before this to ordain ministers and to administer the sac-' raments, had caused great dissen sions amongst them. In this very year of 1784 the Rev. Devereux Jar ratt tells us that he was present at the conference held t Ellis's, in Virginia, and that Asbury himself was in attendance "still striving to render an attachment to the Church jet more firm and permanent. For this end he had brought Mr. Wes ley's Twelve Reasons against a sepa ration from the Church," the first of which - reasons was, "because it would be a contradiction to the sol emn and repeated declarations, which we have made in all manner of ways." '". . These weeks of intercourse with Coke, and the rapid progress of events at this period. opened Mr. Miller's eyes to the change in the attitude assumed by the Methodists, though he did not at once sever his connection with them. During the year 1785 he acted as preacher upon the Tar River circuit, bat at the end of the year he withdrew from the conference, being unwilling to co operate with them in their open aud avowed separation from the Episoo? pal Church. He cheerfully testifies to the brotherly kinduess which had marked his intercourse with the members of the conference, and says that they publicly declared that they had nothing against him, but that ho had voluntarily withdrawn on ac count of his 'disapprobation of their conduct and rules." His health having shown signs of failing iu the low country, he re moved in 1780 to the west bank of the Catawba in Lincoln county, (uow Gaston comity), and at the re quest of the" inhabitants, who were very destitute of religious instruo tion, he began to act as lay-reader-and catechist, as has been narrated in the account of White Haven par ish. His ministrations seems to have proved very acceptable to the people, and gradually extended his influence among those of the iuhuh-; itanis who hud been attached to the Episcopal Church in the countries from which they had emigrated. Mr. Miller now found himself in a very distressing situation. There, were no ministers of the Episcopal Church within hundreds of miles of him. He could not baptize nor ad minister any holy ordinance. Hi people had to go to the Luthcrau or the Presbyterian ministers to have their children baptized, or to lot them go unpab; ized. He does nut seem to have felt any inclination to wards seeking a closer union with the Presbyterians. His feelings as a Scotch Episcopalian probably ren dered such a thought distasteful to him, aud he knew that their doc-; trines and his were too different to allow such an association to be a! comfortable one. On the contrary there was much jn the old Lutheran teaching in regard to the, sacraments which as a Churchman he could ap prove, and there was in his mind no inherited or acquired prejudice against them. It is possible that he knew that many of the Lutheran churches had preserved the Episco pal form of government, and that, the Scandinavian Church is gener ally conceded to have preserved the Apostolic Episcopate. Their litur gical worship, with the familiar Col lects, Epistles and Gospels, and their observance of the holy seasons of the Christian year, must also have had no little influence in inclining him to a closer union with his Lutheran neighbors, who formed a considera ble and a very estimable portion of the population of Lincoln, Rowan, and Alecklenburg counties. And when the idea was suggested by them that he should receive ordinur nation from them, it must have oc curred to him that if he should con sent to this his people would at least be in no worse case than they were in already. And so finally, notwith standing an irrepressible feeling that he might be making a mistake, he consented to be ordained, and in St. John's church, Cabarrus county,. May 20th, 1794, at the first Luther an synodical meeting ever held in North Carolina, Robert Johnston Miller, an avowed Episcopalian, was ordained by the Lutheran Miuiste rium, the first English 1 Lutheran minister in North Carolina, and the first Lutheran minister of any kind ordained in this State Mr. Miller I say, was an avowed Episcopalian, and even in taking this extraordinary step he was care ful not to be misunderstood. The ordinary certificate, as given by Dr. Bernheim from the original docu ment, agrees with what Mr. Miller himself tells us in regard to it, and is as follow 8 : ! . "To all whom it may co?icern,yreeting: Whereas, A great number of Christian people in Lincoln county have formed themselves into a soci ety by the name of White Haven Church, and also having formed a vestry : We, the subscribers, hav ing been urged by the pressing call from the said Church, ? to ordain a minister for the good of their chil dren, and for the enjoyment of ye Gospel ordinances among them, from us the ministers of the Luther an Church in North Carolina" (here much of the certificate is torn away and lost) "according to ye infallible word of God, administer ye sacra ments, and to have ye care of souls ; he always being obliged to obey ye rules, ordinances and customs of ye Christian Society called ye Protes tant Episcopal Church in America. Giyen under our hands and seals, North Carolina, Cabarrus county, May 20th, 1794. Signed by Adol phus Nussmann, Sr.-, , Johan Gott iriedt Arendt, Arnold Roschen, Christopher Bernhardt and Charles Storch' Dr. Bernheim states that "on the reverse side of this certificate the Lu theran ministers gave their reasons why they had ordained a jnan wjio was attached to the Episcopal Church as a minister of that denom ination," but with a reserve charac teristic of his dealings with delicate questions, he is careful to give not; the least intimation what those rea sons were. Knowledge without common sense is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common 6ense, it iso wisdom; with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with reli gion, it is virtue, life and peace. JUDGE CLOUD'S 3!U3S. Delivered in Boons Twelve Ya&rs ago, to a grand Jury cf Watauga County. Gentlemen of the Jury: I am glad to be with you in thy good old county of ".Watauga. The law re quires that the grand jury be com posed of good men of imri charac ter who have paid their t i x. We can have no assurance that the grand jury will perform their duty unless it is composed' of moral character men, You have got a pretty coun try and should feel proud of it. Not brxvuise you have mountains and hills coveted with pretty ivy and beautiful rhod-i-rhodopdodo-den-durns, and not because the spark ling rivers and creeks go coursing down the hillsides and through the grass-rcovered valleys. No, not these, but. you have a pretty country be cause yon have good citizens. The county is- much indebted :o the grand jury and other (officers of. the law for its character. They give tone .to the county. Go into a coun ty where the jury do not perform their dutj and that will be spoken of as a bad place. Why,' my dear sirs, J hey will talk about it a 100 miles off so they -will. Laws are intended to regtflate society. You are a good looking set of men. Yrou see 'if the grand jury does not do its duty the laws cannot properly, be administered. All the people in Watauga look very well. Every man .is bound and necessarily compelled to. fulfill the laws. No person ha protection for life or property except which the law gives, therefore it should br respected. A! yes, but itVmighty hard to respect some of the laws made by t he last drum-head Legislature, (looking towards the late Representative.) If there were no law-! the big strong -men would do just wnat they pleased with all the little and weak men. The good h a r ac t e r o f y o u j u r o rs d e pe n d s u po n the way in which yon perform your duty during this court. It is credi falde to Watauga county that yon have such a sm.ill, docket. Only about 44 cases on 'State docket and l on Civil docket. This speaks well for the county. This is the smallest in circuit. Why, down yon .der in Rowan or Surry county it is four times that much. Here we do not have but one week court, accor ding to that know-it-all Legislature; ! but when we get down here to Spar- j ta yes, Sparta, stop right thar now. : "for that name has got to be changed. ; i oiisee.down in Allegha-all-gba4i That's the tail end of tho whole thing. I'll tell 'em all about it when I gc't dojwu there. Well, down there they have two weeks court. Now 1 want to caution you against this. No man or lawyer takes exception to it. The greatest evil in the whole coun try, in the whole. Stale of North Carolina, is this; a great disposition in this State Jo favor men who dis turb society. There is too much sympathy with the evil-doers and too little sympathy with the victim. You see, if a poor man lvillsanegro his poor body is stuck into the ground and he is never thought of again. The man who commits the murder, a nasty fellow, is probably acquitted and if not he is sent down to Raleigh and these one-horse Gov ernors will pardon him in a few days. Some men are mighty contrary. When yon see two Legislators taking sides with each other you may know that there is something wrong. Now I want to tell you about illegal vot ing. This is wrong. Down in my county (Surry) there were two men, Dobson and Brower, candidates for Commissioner, the one on our side claimed that he was elected and the Democrat claimed that he was elect ed. Don't you see there were illegal votes. One proved that the other had received 30 fraudulent votes and the other proved that the one had received CO stuffed " votes. I tried my best to get the grand jury to in dict the whole set of them but don't I you . see some of the jury was Re publicans and some Democrats and they agreed to not tell on each othe.-. Now don't you see they were not good moral character men. I cau tion you against any such conduct as that thar jury is guilty of. I beg and implore of you for the sake of the good name of Wa tauga county to stop such mischief. Stop right thar. There is a dis position on the part of the grand jurys, the Legislature, the newspa pers and everybody to favor lawless ness, and this is what makes the people so bad. The war, the last Legislature, the public press and the politicians have joined together and work or connive at what is not right they are responsible for nearly all' the mischief. I will give it as my opinion that crime is on the increase. My experience since the war shows that, there is great need and much room for doing better. A great many of the offenses that are now only a fine and imprisonment will be penitentiary offenses before long. This will have to be done in order to improve society. I think the next Legislature or the one following it will fix this matter. A man down in Judge Schenck's district got up a petition to have a man pardoned and got 10 cents per name for 300 or 400 names, and this goes up be fore the Governor 1 and he grants pardon. According to law there are four capital offenses, Murder, Rape, Arson and Burglary. If we had laws like" thoe of our forefathers just "after the revolutionary war there would be but little house-stealing and man-murdering. The peo pie would be better, so thev would. Murde;' is the taking of lifj with 1 1 0 . t - t i r'l malice ana ioretnouirnt. W iiei man kills another with a deaiiii weapon, a gun, pistol or a big vi'un the law presumes and pronoulucoo it murder. Then in lity-litigaliou it is for the accused to prove l o , the contrary. Manslaughter is 'when on,. man kills another in self-defense without' ma! c ; r pre-meditation '." tl)e act this is attributed to ,the weakness of mankind when in the heat of passion. Arson is the burning of a house in the night time. Burglaryis to enter a man's house in the night time and carry off his property or do L other damage. To burn a barn, stable or any other house is a capital offense, a very high offense. Thenexjt thing which this court will call your at tention to and over which it has ju risdiction is perjury and forgery. The Legislatures have led thousands and thousands to commit this sin against thelaw. I do not speak of political parties, for A will swear for B and B will swear for A, and away it goes. I want yout to watch out for these scoundrels who jire al ways putting false names to papers, notes and sich. Stop right thar now! Let me tell you what these dirty fellows in Caldwell have doneJ They have changed the name pf Turkey cock mountain and now call it H-i-b-r-i-t-e-n. Th.-; last 'one1 of them should be indicted, j Now watih out, watch out I say, or some of them love struck .puppies, will be running up here to -Watauga snd change the name of the Grandfather mountain. Then, don't you see, here'll be the Grandmother mountain standing alone without a companion just like the Turkeyhen mountain in Cald well. This is all wrong. Its got to be stopped. Indict them. Bring them into court. Let me tell you. a man came from Virginia o niy town some time ago, lie carried It cane, had a big moustaeheatid whis tled very nice. That very fellow was not there long till he courted .one of our prettiest girls and ran avj-fiy and married. Now this was wrong, for the very next day a letter came from his State saying that -he had a, .Wife and three children there. Thej vil lian runs off and eo the law does not reach him. Now if this had been a negro who had stolen a bushel of corn there would have been fifty men after him at once. .This is a high offense and the Grand Jury is responsible and so they are. The law permits no two men to con spire together to cheat another one out of his property by whiskey drinkimr or plavinjr cards. If vou know any such indict them. Lar- cenv is the fello-felonious taking in the ni" hi time or scci!etlv takinsr personal propertv. The law makes it larceny to take vour notatoes. cabbage or buckwheat, and if you know any such it is your duty to make a presentment. You have a very good law in this respect jand' it is as much in favor of you mountain folks as any other people. Wc have a statute against any injury or bad use of stock, sheep or hogs while in an iaclosure also the law goes o far as to prevent injury to stock while running at large. Youhavea law against the burning of the woods, for don't you see, the fire might come licking down the hill sides and destroy all your fences. If an officer or jailor lets a prisoner es cape by not doing his duty he is re sponsible. Hundreds of "the worst convicts in the States have klready escaped from the jails and peniten tiary. The law intends for no guil ty man to escape and if 'ou; know of anybody who has let a prisoner loose so far back as two years vou indict him. Grand Juries make a great mistake sometimes because they do not know precisely what the law is now let me tell you if A follows B over the streets anid uses any language which seems to invite him to fight, why A is guilty too eveii if B knocks him down with a brickbat. An act of the Legislature which prohibits giving away ardent spirits on the day of election is a good thing and if you were to oppose that you would be hissed out. It is generally hot enough on 'lection days without the liquor. ,Now to catch these fellows that sell the liq uor on the sly or give . it away, you can just now let me tell vou how they done down in Lenoir fast week. Well, down there they have the liq uor law for two miles around the town, but one evening about a dozen fellows who had been drinking stop ped on the street and sung and pat ted and danced Juber. I went out to see it for I like just such. It is very pretty. But one poor; fellow got down drank and had to be put m jail till next morning, and then he was brought before Judge Cilley and they made him tell where he got his liquor and so forth, and now they have abou t 25 cases for the next grand jury, just because he told on the boys. This is the way. Do this and you'l find out every time. Show the world that you are doing your duty. Here's a good law and it strikes me .that a mountain man ; introduced it. " This statute prevents a man from trespassing upon your land to hunt if you for bid him. . He will say he is hunting deer and 'possums but will generally find your hogs or sheep. Another COMPARATIVE WORTH ItOYAL (Absolutely Fore)., i GRANT'S (Alum Powder) . EUMFOED'S, when fresh., f - HANFOED'S, when fresh... BEDHEAD'S,... c CHAEM (Alum PowderX... C AMAZON. (Alum Powder) . C CITELAND'S(shortwtio.)C PIONEEE (San Francisco)... C CZAE.......4..... DE. PEICE'S .... Jk 4 & 4 SNOW FLAKE (Grofl's) . .. C LEWIS'... ............. p..E FEAEL (Andrews & Co.)..... C J HECEEE'S . GILLET'S.,. ..c 2 ANDBEWS&CO.MBe$aF?ZZ3 Milwaukee, (Contain AlaaO BULK (Powder sold loose). . . . n EUMFOED'S, whennotfresh Q REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS As to Purity and Wholesomeness of the Royal Baking Powder. "I have tested a package of Royal Baking Powder, which I purchased In the Jopen market, and find It composed of pure and wholesome Ingredients. It is a cream of tartar powaer or a nign aegree or merit, ana aoes not contain either alum phosphates, or other Injurious (substances. E. Q. Love. Ph.D." " It is a scientific fact that the Royal Baking Powder Is absolutely pure. : - "II. A. Mott, Ph.D." "I have examined a package of Royal Baking Powder, purchased by myself in the market. I find it entirely free from alum, terra alba, or any other injurious sub stance. Henry Mobton, Ph.D., President of Stevens Institute of Technology." "I have analyzed a pftckagje of Royal Baking Powder. 'Tho materials of which it is composed are pure and wflolesome. S. Dana Hates, State Assayer, Mass." j 1 " ' I ii The Royal i Baking Powder received the highest award over all competitors 'at the Vienna-World's Exposition, 1873; at the Centennial, Philadelphia, 1U3 ; at the American Institute, New York; and at State Fairs throughout the; country. No other article of human food has ever received such high, emphatic, and uni versal endorsement from eminent chemi3ts, physicians, scientists, and Boards of Health all over the world. j f Note The above Diagram Illustrates the comparative worth of various Baking Powders, as shown by Chemical Analysis and experiments made by Prof. Schedler. A pound can of each poyder Was taken, the total leavenmg power' or volume In each can calculated, the result being as Indicated. This practical test for worth by Prof. Schedler only proves wliat every observant consumer of the Royal Baking Powder knows by practical experience, that, while it cost3 a few cents per pound more than ordinary kinds, it is far more economical, and, besides, affords the advan tage of better work. A single trial of the Royal Baking Pow'der will convince any fair-minded person of these facts. , i . While the diagram 6hows some of the alum powders to be of a higher degree ngth than other powders ranked below them, it is not to be taken as Indicat , t they have any value. All alum powders, no matter how high their strength, be avoided as dangerous ' I good law was made some time ago, which did not allow seining jin the rivers and creek for trout atad the killing of deer ;it certain seasons t but that thar foolish Legislature went and repealed it, repealed it, jind so they did J But I got a large petition signed by men and children and sent down thar and had the fish part of it revived on Elk rier in this county. They have a -fiish law in the Catawba and Yadkin rivers but what good does it do ? . Why thoy put those little minuers in the Catawba river and they come up to Patterson factory and can't get any further. You see it does you Wa tauga people no goodj. Another thing those little fish will go sailing down the river and overi th t big dam in Governor Hampton's State, and then they get so large that they can never get back. . Thar new, you see what the Legislature did. An other thing you ve got to indlict ev erybody who does not keep tlie pub lie road in good condition the law requires it to be 12 or 16 feet wide, there must be a good place for the wheels to run and signboards every mile and at every fork-of-thb-road Why down the turnpike roadl below Blowing Gap they have nice little boards with white tops and black letters. Go, gentlemen of the jnry, perform your duty, and keep up the good name of your county. If you need any more law during the week come into the Court, I am reudy to instruct vou at any time. - Swear an officer Mr. Clerk. Letter from Bakersvilla. Bakeksville, Oc! .20. To the Editor of T)ie Lenoir Topic: The farmers of Mitchell are busi ly engaged ; gathering cornj apples and sowing wheat. Corn is the best known for many years. Wheat was. very sorry last season and farmers are at a sow. loss to ! get good w heat to rlenty of mast in the mountains and especially chestnuts. . Died instantly, on the 15th inst., at his residence of Big Rock Creek, Rev. Mr. Stephen Strutt. He leaves a large family and many friends to lament his death. Killed recently, Willie Jarret, son of Elie Jarret, of Big Rock Creek, in a cane mill. Age 8 years. George Manck, son of Frank Manck, of Loafers Glory, got both legs and one arm broken and was bruised considerably in a grist mill and died next day. Aged 13 years. The new road that was to be made across Cane creek mountain was not made as part of the overseers and hands rebelled, except about (40, who worked. Some left the township and some the county, to keep from working. It was a notable rebell ion. There was more excitement a few days about working . the road than was last fall over the iiational election. ; v A revival meeting is being carried on at the Baptist Church by Revs. Mr. Allison, Wilbourn,! Roberson and K. C. Atkins.- rMuoh interest ha3 been manifested. ; A Duncard meeting was held at Bruraet'8 creek, Saturday and Sun- of BAKING POWDERS. -- -i - " "' 3 or day last. A large congregation in, attendance. Mr. D. Young -is visiting his brother in McDowell coilnty,- who is going to Florida for his health. - ' Cloudland hotel, on top of Roan , Mountain, is not complete yet. The guests are n4L gone and the coldi winds of wiiiwr have come back.1 It snowed last Tuesday on the Roan. We were glad to meet Col. J. K. Miller, who lias bocu absent for somo time, as he has taken his family to Milligan College, Term., to educate his children.!- R. IV C. 1 Our Giay Letter. Clay, Mitchell Co., Oct. ao. i To.the Edito of-Tlte:Lcnoir Topic: T . I had occasion to go to that de lightful place called Cranberry, again, the other ua They were I still pushing things there.- . William Meredith, who had his , leg amputated twice, was doing well. . 1 f T f 1 ue was verycareiui. Thomas I'rit chard, formerly of V Caldwell county, was lying very low 1 with flux.! . . The youngest son of Dr." Shell, who moved to Elk Park Irani this neighborhood a few weeks ago, died " -ne day last week. I think his name i was Willie, and he w,u some .six or 4 seven years of age. His disease was ; j ilux. . !. Mr. neighbor Wm. AJTownsend, aged (35, jaccoiiip'itnied'riie to(!ran-1J berry and, for the firs: time saw a I train of cars. tJ Tyree Webb and wife, u couple upwards of 0 years of age, living in T this neighborhood, have never seen 7, a railroad: track; They reside eleven miles from Cranberry, and whenever n the wind is coming from tho iiorth-(l! west they can hear ti whistle very distinctly. ,(1 And this reminds me to say that1 no hear .the report of thi- basting nt, Cranberry nearly every da Capt. Lenoir is very n urly douo surveying. (lie, JL M. Kent,, his surveyor, Thomas Lenoir, his nph-l' ew and other assistants. ' hoarded Y with Mr. Ritchie three weeks. When;,, they left last Wednesday, we missed Z thair genial '.Company- very much. 1 Col. J. M; English, oi' Piumtree, ' wjio had his thjgh dislocated by be- ing thrown from his mule, is get-f:i ting better. i Buckwheat is plenty and of good , quality. Nine bushel's, which went 1 to mill fromhthe Puett farm, ma.deJn 23( pounds "of Hour. We arc lnx-ib uriating on -good buckwheat cakes, m "Mrs. Ritchie knows how to cook, oJ not only buckwheat, but almost, everything else. ' V ( 5 Potatoes are plentiful and of ex- cellent quality, about here. ! lo Cattle are numerous and thir IXi owners are anxiously looking for bu3Ters to come along, but they don't , come "worth a cent." Messrs. Corpening and Brittain,fN from near Lenoir, stopped ovend Wednesday night at tho Richie house. ua They capo all the way from home, if 35 miles; that day; with six mules -and two horses. On their way to57' Memphis, Tcnn. They took dinner with genial John McDowell, at the Old Fields of Toe, on Thursday i