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VOLUME XI. LENOIR, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1885. NUMBER 11. Wallace Bros., STATESVILLE, N. C WholesalE Dealers General . Merchandise. Largest Warehouse and best facili ties for han dling Dried Fruit. Ber ries, etc.. in the State. RESPECTFULLY Wallace Bros. -j August 27th, " 1884 IRK5, re -THE OESTTOIHC. ? This medicine, combining Iron with pare vegetable tonics, quickly and completely Care Dyapepala. ladlgeatlon. Weakness, I m pare Blood, AImlarl.CbUUMd Fevers and NeanUffta. I I tit an unfailing1 remedy for Diseases of the Kidney and Liver. ! It la invaluable for Diseases peculiar to Women, and all who lead sedentary lives. It does not injure the teeth, cause headache,or produce constipation other Iron medicine do. It enriches and purifies the blood, stimulates the appetite, aids the assimilation of food, re lieves Heartburn and Belching, and strength ens the muscles and nerves. For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude, Lack of Energy, &c., it has no equal. JUT The genuine has above trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. tttprfcr BROWS f HKHICAL CO, BALTIMORE, UO. CLINTON A. CILLEY, . Attorney-At-Ia7, PraQtice in A21 Tfce Courts. iiffliil 1 A PERSOH&L EXPLANATION. . ; Lenoir, N. C, Dec. 1. To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic: Having seen an allusion to my name in your issue of the 28th of October relative to the minority and majority reports upon Temperance, before the Caldwell County Associa tion, I here present to you for pub lication the minority report, and a synopsis of my defense of the same before sard body, together with the concentrated essence of Prof. Pat ton's "logical" argument, alluded to by you, which is claimed by your reporter as having answered the fal-, lacious argument. I The following is the report of the minority : "The minority of your committee on Temperance beg leave to submit the following: On the general subject of temperance the Scriptures teach temperance in all things and moderation towards all men. McKuight, an excellent com mentator, says : "This virtue ton-, sists in a confirmed habit of govern ing all the affections, passions and appetites of our nature." The re vised New Testament translates it, self-control, and the lexicons justify it? meekness under provocations, equity in the management of 'busi-i ness, candor in the judgment of character, sweetness in disposition; and the entire coutrol of the; pas-j , sions, temperance in mind, temper ance in body, temperance in thought, in word and actions. - In the use of wine and distilled liquors this should be restricted to the infirmities of the' body, and limited by temperance to the quan tity required for its comfort;" Respectfully submitted. ! " (Signed) " 3. M. McCall. Brother Moderator : I regret very much the circumstances which impel us to the agitation of the tem perance question, in the lack of the unanimity of action of your com mittee, but as the committee have failed to concur in opinion, I could not, with a just regard both to my self and to what I understand to be the 'teachings of the holy Scriptures, do less than to produce the minority report, which, I think, contains the whole of the concentrated essence of the Scriptures upon this subject. This is my first attempt in life to defend any measure before an Asso ciational body, and . as I am not much in the habit of speech mak ing, I am frank to confess that I feel my inadequacy to the task of coping with such formidable adver saries as those who have spoken and will follow me upon the opposition in this debate. I could not if I would, and I would not if I could, follow my antagonists in all "their (ijmsy arguments, which are calcu lated alone to divert the mind from the main issue, but I expect to give you some of my thoughts upon the matter in a nut-shell. r i In justification of the minority report, L would refer all those inter ested to the 2nd chapter, and from the 1st to the 11th verses inclusive, of St. John, in which will be found a full account of the first miracle of Jesus, that of turning the water into wine at the marriage in - Cana Of Galilee. From the reading of this Scripture, both Jesus and his disci ples were invited to the wedding and the mother of Jesus was also there, and when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus came to him ex pressing some concern because they had no wine, and Jesus gave her an 'evasive answer, and she, turning to the servants, bade them do whatever he commanded them ; and there were there six water-pots holding two or three firkins apiece. ; And Jesus commanded them to fill them with water, and they filled them up to the brim, and Jesus commanded them to draw out and bear unto the governor of the feast, and when he ; had tasted the water that was made wine, he not only pronounced it wine, but the best of wine : and when we apply the adjective best to J a liquid like wine, we mean to con- -, vey the idea that it is the strongest, that it contains the largest amount of constituents possible; bnt my brethren upon the opposite side of this controversy, gay that Christ did not make alcohol in thatwine.J Now the only way we have to determine the accuracy of this assumption, is be an examination of the substances composing this liquid. We find by chemical examination that all wines contain more or less alcohol. ' The 1 best raisin or grape wine contains an , average 25.12 per cent of alcohol, but for our purposes in order to give the opposition the full benefit of the argument, we will only consider it as having 25 per cent of alcohol and 75 of saccharine juices. If this be true, and this no chemist will at tempt to deny, the best of wine con tains at least 25 per cent of alcohol and 75 per cent saccharine juices ; consequently when the Scriptures say that Jesus made the best of wine, they as truly say he made 25 per cent of it alcohol, because it would not be wine if it was minus the alcohol, neither would it be wine if it was minus the saccharine juices. And as the water-pots held 2 or 3 firkins apiece, and a firkin is r eight gallons, and there were six of the water-pots, and they were filled to the brim ; he did not make less than 96, and probably 144 gallons of wine, of which not less than 24, and prob ably 36 gallons were alcohol, j , And yet, my brethren, with ' this plain Scripture and direct analysis before them, cannot see that Jesus made any alcohol in the performance of this miracle. We may, with as much propriety, contend that when he raised Lazarus from the dead, he did not raise him into a life like unto that from which he had de parted, that he only appeared -to be in a state of animation ; that' Mary and Martha only thought their bro ther was alive ; but such was really not the fact ; or when he fed the five thousand upon the loaves and two fishes, it was not real bread and meat he fed the multitude upon, but itrwas only a similitude or an imita tion of such, that the twelve baskets of fragments that were taken up af ter the feast," were only imitative, and the whole affair was a kind of sleight of hand performance. Every intelligent man and woman can see at one glance that such wholesale perversion of the Scriptures would lead us into the greatest of errors upon every Biblical doctrine. Some of tjie brethren in their ex : tiemity in the discussion of the ma jority report, referred to the passage of Scripture which says, "woe unto him thatiputteth the bottle to his neighbor land maketh him drunken also," and what does this mean ? doubtless simply this.: Wo have all ipry often seen men in assemblages that would say. in regard to some, one that liked liquor too well, "I am going to make that 'man drunk he likes liquor and I will pretend to drink with him but will not and after awhile he will get drunk, and we will have some fun.' In such cases it is doubtless a great sin to the one thus engaging. I claim to be as temperate a man, so far as spirituous liquors are con cerned, as ever saw the light of day, ; never having been the least intoxi cated with liquor in my life, and yet I have been pictured during this discussion, as. oue aiding and abet ting intemperance. Nothing can be more erroneous, and it is all because I am opposed to the extremity of pome of my brethren upon this mat ter. The Baptists ought to be con sistent people. If we do not suffer our members to make, buy, sell or have anything to do with spirituous ' liquors, as my brethren contend for upon the opposition, how can we do what Paul commanded Timothy to do, take a little wine "for the stom ach's sake" ? Suppose we are even allowed to take it, if we can get it, which I think doubtful if we comply with the majority report, who is going to make it for us ? .Are we going to require the Lutherans, the world and other denominations to do for us that which is a sin for u.s to do for ourselves ? Or if the world was what we are all striving for, all Baptist, such a course would amount to universal prohibition. New fields of inconsistencies pre sent themselves at every step. If we should take the same position in regard to other evils that our breth ren take on this, it would lead us into impracticable inconsistencies Suppose we would say because the murderer assassinates his victim with the blade, and the blade is made of steel, that we will not have any more steel made ; then he could not kill with the blade ; or because there are rogues in the country, we will take all the corn and bacon from the land, then they could not steal the corn and bacon ; or because the gambler's card is printed upon pa per we will have no more paper manufactured. Any one can see the fallacy of such a . course, and yet, these crimes are in the same cata logue with the sin of drunkenness. We arc not commanded to prevent crime by any such means ; we are to preach and teach temperance to all, and if they do not obey ns, we have nothing more that we are comman ded to do ; good and evil are set before men ; they are. commanded to do good and if they do evil, they receive the penalty for so doing. I am fully persuaded that if we would preach temperance according to the teachings of the benptures,; an leave off so much of this senseless harangue abouV prohibition, the world would see consistency in our teachings, and we would have far less drunkenness and dissipation in the land. We are not commanded to take a thing from the world that the Almighty has put here for the benefit of man. In regard to the "logical" argu ment referred to by the reporter of The Topic, I am frank to confess that ordinarily, Prof, Patton is a logical man, but to say that his de-. fense of the ..majority report was very illogical, would feebly express the truth ; it was an assumptive declamation without proof, and must have been so considered by both the logician and the theologian. He assumed that Christ did not make alcohol in the performance of the miracle at the marriage in Cana of Galilee, because he said ' that it would have been a sin for him to have done so, and he was not the author of sin. This, he assumed, without attempting to prove j it. ; I proved by the -Scriptures, and the meaning of the language, and by direct analysis, that no made wine and as a necessary consequence he made alcohol, and it was not a sin, because he was not the author of sin, 'and, as it was not a sin for Christ to make it, neither is it a sin for his followers to make it, because the Scriptures say that it is enough for the servant to be as his master. S. M. MgOall. A Modal School! Salisbury Watchman. , Davenport College is J located (as the readers of the! Watchman may or may not know) in the picturesque little village of Lenoir, the county seat of Caldwell, and the terminus of the C. & L. N. G. R. R. I ; Davenport's past is well known to a large number of people! in Western N. C, but in the present phase 'of its existence it is a young shoot and deserves the sunshine of patronage rto enable it to spread it's branches to the four winds and become a giant institution of learning in N. C. if not in the South. Lenoir misrht a ppropriately be termed jthe portal to h lovely portion or our ceieoratu , "Land of-tie Sky," andj Davenport r occupies an eminence over-looking this Arcadian village ano; command ing an extensive view of the encir cling blue hills with the lights and shadows lying so gracefully and lov ingly upon them. An impression formed in the village, would not suggest the .rare b.auty of one's sur roundings at the College, and even the fatigue of climbing the eminence on which it is built, does not fully prepare one for the grandeur that hurjsts in full force upon the visitor as lie turns at " the maiii entrance and beholds the fair vision. 1 'W'htt Kcenea of high grandeur now loom to the viw , j . ; Nortbpast ami nonthwertt ia the reditu that's blue Around and afar Uie pk will arixe. And point to their builder who in the fkifs." ' - Aside from the feast of beauty that greets and refreshes one at Dav eu port, the thoughtful person at once concludes that such a location must be conducive to health. Then after impeding the large, well ;vq tilated rooms, so very tastefully and; comfortably furnished, lie is more than ever convinced that here, the pupil may drink fully j from the .fountain of health and thus suitably equip herself for the exertion of a deep dive into the wells of knowl edge. Last year (tht first term of the school) I am told, not a single case of sickness occurred ; and that the physician was in the building pro fessionally only twice, arid then only for a cold. In the list j)f hygienic advantages Davenport possesses, the table deserves to be favorably men tioned. The Principal seems to make it his duty to see that the food is pre pared in the most digestible manner, :aiid on the table is found a nice va- ; riety of dishes. j . ,' Of course t lie main tiling to be desired in a College, is the proper instruction, and I do nt see how any one could be displeased with the coil i se at Davenport under the pres ent corps of teachers. Mr. Sanborn (the President) after graduating at a noted American College spent four years investigating the methods pur sued in the best schools of ' Europe and in studying music at the Royal Conservatory at; lieipzig, at Berlin and at Vienna, j j Mrs. Sanborn has charge of the vocal department and about her beautifully trained voice too much could not be said. She! too, com pleted a thorough course at Leipzig and has recently returned from Ber linjand Vienna where she again stu died under the ibest masters. Her voice is wonderfully powerful, clear and sweet and j reminds' one of a mountain stream ;' in its clearness ""and purity of tone, as it gracefully glides from the; mountain heights to the' softest vales below.. Her crystal notes might be termed a rainbow of sound. What a wonderful gift is a good voiceTwhen directed and con troled by science ! Hers is truly "a power hid in pathos" "Through all symbols I search for its sweetness in vain." : , ' '. - .. . The Art department is in charge t)f Miss Norwood, who, aside from her; achievements in Art, is "a per fect woman nobly planned." For years she was the pupil of a celebra ted! artist from Munich, went through a thorough course at Cooper Institute and the Academy of De- sign in JNew xprK ana nas lately studied in the1 galleries of Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Florence and Rome. Having enjoyed' rare opportunities for acquiring proficiency, she is cer tainly capable of giving such in struction as is seldom obtained in the South. The teachers of Languages, Elo cution and all the English branches ,re ladies who have graduated at Twcll known Colleges and are there fore competent. Telegraphy is also ( taught, which is rather unusual in (female Colleges. J The most striking feature of this school, is the home like intercourse between teachers and pupils which dispels the formal air schools gen erally assume. . Pupils are permitted to attend the church of their choice as the school is not denominational. Such are the impressions Daven port College left on the m ind of a visitor who has no interest in iF be yond that created by the' merits'1 of the institution. Oct. 20th, 1885. ' ; We never injure our own charac ters so much as when we attack' those of others. ' ' Men, when their actions succeed "riot as they would, are. always ready to impute the . blame thereof unto the heavens, in so doing to. excuse their own follies. WASHIXSTON LETTEB. ; Washington,: Nov. 20. : V To the Editor of TJie Lenoir Topic: ; Everything in Washington is but tle and preparation for Congress and the social season. Senators and Rep resentatives are dropping into the city, and the crowds on Pennsylva nia avenue are larger everyday. Men talk politics, the work of thecoming season, the probable attitude of the Senate to the President,! the Speak ership, and the leadership of the Republican minority in the House, which will be decided soon In cau cus. Ladies talk dinners, receptions, and toilets. They are under the in fluence of milliners and modistes, in preparation for the part they are to take in society's winter carnival. The season promises to be a bril liant one. A prosperous business season always brings a large number of visitors to Washington. The im provement; in business this fall will be felt in that way here. . Then a long session of Congress always brings a larger crowd than a short one. ' ' I The members of the new Admin istration will do their parts socially. The two New York members of the Cabinet will lead as entertainers. They both have large fortunes and are supported by wives who are fond of society. Secretary Bayard lives in a rather 1 modest house, and Says his means will not permit his taking a larger one. He has a large family, which is still dependentj upon him. The) President will do socially what etiquette requires of him, noth ing more. The regular official din ners will be given at the White Houe, but it is likely he will adhere to his resolution of accepting no in vitations except perhaps; to Cabinet dinners. Cabinet officers have had a custom of dining each other once a week. Presidents have been in the habit of attending these dinners. The question which j will come most promptly before j Congress is undoubtedly that of silver. The robable discussion of this question as brought a great many books on the subject and the Congressmen who have come to thejeity, have been hunting up literature relating the financial questions. (Thedistin guished ex-editor of the World, Manton Marble, has sent to each member of Congress during the week, a pamphlet entitled "The Great Monetary Powers,'' accompa nied by his card and compliments. He uow advocates the suspension of the coinage of silver in! the United States,. The interest in the silver question quite overshadows just now that of the tariff. j A few days ago, the tariff and the anti-tariff champions. Representative Morrison and ex-Speaker Randall, met be chance in the office of the First Assistant' Postmaster-General. The late antagonists on the tariff question shook hands cordially, in quired about each other's health, and chatted in a way that refuted the allegationof personal ill-feeling be tween them. j " Mr. Randall spent three hours with the President one evening this week, and they talked about chang ing the rules of the Lower House, so as to permit more legislation during the coming session. The President favors as much legislation as ' can possibly bo crowded into the session. He indorses the plan to divide the appropriation bills among the com mittees. He has said the; tariff could very well go over until next session if necessary, and that I there were more important matters to look af ter. He also favors action on the silver question, and a good .deal of his ' message will be given to that subject. , The situation in which the Presi dent will find himself in reference to the Senate ort the meeting of Congress will be peculiar. The ma- i'oritv of the Senators are opposed to lim in politics. Some (Democratic Senators are opposed to the course he has pursued in regard to appoint ments. Some of these have declared their intention of opposing him on the ground that his nominations are not Democratic in the sense that they should be, and further as a means of forcing him to make more changes than he seems inclined to make. To the Senate thus consti tuted, the President will, have to submit a varietv of nominations. Its attitude towardaVhini will be watch ed with great interest, j - i Burglary. NewVork World. " A despatch from Raleigh, N. C, says that Gov. Scales has respited' the three negroes who were . to bel hanged at Gatesvilkr tomorrow for the crime of. burglary. Merciful heavens I are men hanged in this land of enlightenment for the sim ple appropriation of property? How barbarism still lingers. These negroes broke into a store in Gates county last September and abstracted a few dollars worth of goods. And for this their lives were to be taken. If they had cheated some fellow-creature out of house and home by lying, or as bank directors had defrauded and bankrupted an entire comma-1 nity, nobody would have thought of hanging them. It is bad enough for the law, to turn murderer in order to avenge the unjust taking of human life, but to hang a man for stealing is certainly an anomalous thing in the Nineteenth Century. ; New York Losing Rsr Grip. Baltimore Sun, ; f New York, Nov. 16. Though the late II. B. Claflin did an enbr- mous business, aggregating nearly one nunarea minion aoiiars a year, it is more than probable that, now he is dead, it will materially de creases It was only his immense energy, his vast acquaintance. and personal popularity that enabled the deceased merchant to maintain the vast business his house carried on in all parts of the country. He, in fact carried his business on his own shoulders. But the conditions of the dry goods business have radical ly changed of late years. New York is no longer the only centre of the trade. The other 'seaport cities, at well as Chicago and St. Louis, are dividing the trade with the metrop olis. The Chicago merchants ho longer purchase through New York, but order their goods direct from the Eastern or European mills, to be delivered at their own warehouses. It is noteworthy that of the enor mous business built up by A. T. Stewart , only a t small portion re mains. The genius that created jit having departed, his heirs and exe cutors found it impossible to contin ue the business. A short time ago the great house of Bates, Reed and Cooly announced! its approaching dissolution. ' Two i of the partners are to enter another branch of the business. ' One of them admitted that the cause for the step is the competition in other cities which prevents New Yorjc from command ing the trade of th country. Theire have been no largo houses establish-,, ed in the wholesale trade here for several years. ! f . j i But "Mr. Claflin left something more enduring than his great busi ness. He left the name of a model businessman, whocarried into trade energy in one hand and integrity in the other Shrewd in his bargains, he never overreached any one. Quick to take advantage of opportu nities for profit, his kindness and benevolence will be a monument to his memory.; Success did not spoil him. A merchant prince, he was still as genial and as simple as a child. Now that 1 he is dead, the testimonials to his great character come from business rivals as well as from personal friends, from the rich and the poor alike. 4 Tri7intTwilkBS. Mt. Zion, Nov. 18. Tot he Editor of Tlte Lenoir Topic: I presume that your readers will come to the conclusion that I am getting to be a pretty considerable of a ''God-about ;7 but this time, I have not extended my ramblings very far and will jnot tax the time and patience of your readers by giv ing .in detail, all I saw and heard during my peregrinations. I spent my first night out with my respected friend, T. D. Half and his estimable family, and passed the time quite pleasantly in conversing on topics of interest relative to the past, pres ent and the future. Mr, Hall arid family read The Topic regularly and are highly delighted with ijt. On the following day L passed up the valley of the South prong of Lewis' f oi k and met with quite !a number of friends, among whom was my old friend Enoch Triplet t. At this place I was joiued by your occasional correspondent, StOckton!., who rode with me a considerable dis tance and I found him to be quite fin .intelligent pleasant and genial gen tleman. I hope that, in future, his communications will not be so few nor far between, j Arriving at Blair Wagner's I spent a few hours quite pleasantly with his estimable family, who are ., also readers of The Topic and much ; pleased with it; I next arrived at Mr. Elbert Green's and spent a short time with him and his estimable family. Here I met with my o d friend, G. W. McNeil, who5 seems to be as genial and kind as ever. Soon I passed the residence of my respected friend and comrade in arms, R. W.::Walker, who is doing a firofi table business in the mercantile ine at the Stony Fork P. 0. arid store. . i ' ) r ' ' vvA I . Late in the evening I arrived at the residence of my respected friend, G, W. Watson, and spent the night quite pleasantly with him and his estimable family. Although Mr. Watson was several times robbed ef valuable stock and much . valuable property by thieving desperadoes during the late unpleasantness be tween the States, he is now, I aim pleased to say, enjoying all the bless ings of life and getting along much better than those who so shamefully despoiled him of his goods. - Hori esty und integrity never fail to win; but dishonesty and lying lead down into the thorny desert of beggary, want and disgrace. Think of j it friends and be ; wise and prudent, choose the right and spurn the wrong. ; : T. O. Li The fear of criticism or contempt is useful in human society to restrain self-indulgence and to cultivate vir tues? which society esteems ; but disassociate it from courage and . we have the paltry -hanger-on who squares his every action by the nod or beck of others, and who falls into irrenfediable folly and misery be cause he cannot say "No." Landlord and Tenant. Charlotte Obserrer. I A decision . of great importance and of very general interest was made by the State Supreme court in Raleigh last Week) and one by which many difficulties previously encoun- ; tered between landlord and tenant, will hereafter be avoided. The de- ' cisioh was rendered in the case of'" Thigpen vs. Lee, and says : : '. 1. Alien is the j right to have a demand satisfied iont of the property ( of another. I . ' 2. Every agreement between the ' ; owner of Jands with a cropper for their cultivation is an entire con tract: if the cronner abandons it bft- .. fore completion he cannot recover lor a partial periormance, and his ' rlipnofod nf anv linn wVi i rVi mair ' have attached to it for agricultural advances while it was the property of the croDnei . I v 3. Every person who makes ad vancements of agricultural supplies M. M. " F . j i' - . to a tenant or cropper, must do so with full knowledge of the rights of tenant or cropper abandoning, or otherwise violating his contract. uui uiaj Lcuer. Clay, N. C, Nov. 23. TqtJie Editor of The Lenoir Topic: That "scrimmage" I spoke of in my letter of the 11th was a more in-T teres ting affray than I had learned when I wrote. (The cause of the quarrel was jealousy- that green eyed monster." !Mrs. Love, wife of VVesley, made an assault upon Mrs. Katie Reed. They had a desperate fight and an afterclap. Mrs. Love got much the worst of the battering, arid to get even with her antagonist threatened to shoot her. So Mrs. Reed sued out a peace warrant for Mrs. Love and took her before Esq. . i Wn). Bnchanou; The Esq. bound her over to the Superior court. Then1 Mrs. Love sworejj out a like precept against Mrs. Reed, and the same Esquire served her the same sauce. As neither could give bail they were jailed in the county buildings with iron bars across the windows to keep its enforced occupants from getting , out. At last accounts one of the , two was about to get out of jug, and I presume both, are at large by this time. The i battle was fought ; on Plumtree creek,! not over Toe river. Business induced me to visit Cran- berry again last Friday and Satur day. Wesley Young resides two miles south, of Cranberry, on the road leading toToe river. While Mrs. Young was eudeavering, some days ago, to mount a rather fractious or restless horse, the latter whirled around before she was fairly seated and threw Mrs. Young totheground. bhe was badly hurt and fears that a rib was fractured. ; y , Judge W.I Y, Lovill has taught out the public school money in dis trict i,o. 1; Cranberry township, and is now- teaching a subscription school. The teacher is a venerable man, has been a judge in the judi cial courts, andis an educated Vir ginia gentleman. . Ho ranges far above the average teachers in' this section of country. . y Ed Young, at Avery postomce, intends to go another term to Bing ham school, in Orange county. He is vet a voungman, but he haslearn-v ed to leave off 'at, afterthe question. Where is he? or where is she? This ' is quite an accomplishment. : Too many educated men and women in . North Carolina I indulge in asking "where is be at;?" . Sanders Youngand wife, of Little Rock creek, were visiting at Air. Wesley Young's, Sanders. j! who is uncle' to JohnC. Carpenter, of Loggy post- office on Toe! river, had a corn shucking oil Saturday. He has a large lot of maize, because ho work ed like a Dutchman. He didn't lay around on dry goods boxe., or loaf at all while ; the corn was growing. but worked and helped it grow. The M. E. Church folks are vig orously preparing to build a house of worship on an eligible sight about one mile from Loggy postoffice. It is to ue Z4X4uieet in size, some oi the lumber is oii the ground; It is to be known as Forest Home. Elder Larkin Hodges baptised 13 persons yesterday, near Watauga church, in the, Watauga river. Un fortunately, after he had dipped the last of the 13 he slipped and fell into the water, back foremost, causing the irreverent crowd to laugh out right. But Elder Monroe Gragg caught him and enabled him to re cover his erect position. . W. B. Truslow, depot agent at Cranberry, was hurt worse than I thought, from his 20 foot ' jump. But he is about. Luther Banner's school is taught out at Aaron postoffice. 1 The road this Bide of Cranberry is in a ' discreditable condition; when, with a little work, it maybe made good. . j ,- . , The road between L. A. Romin-; ger's, ac Aaron, aud Old Fields of , Too road, has a log across it, which ought to be gotteu out. As there is no overseer n that portion.'! of. the road, I move that J. G. Loven, C, 0. Banner and L. A. Rominger take their axes on ' their shoulders and tackle said log, and thoroughly "clear the track." W.
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