VOLUME XI.
LENOIR, N. C, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24, 1886.
NUMBER 26.
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COLLISION AT SEA.
A Steamer andt Schoossr Collids Kirrow
Escape of a Urge List of Passenger.
New York, March 15. The look
out at Fire Island station yesterday
sighted a lour masted steamer mov
ing very sjow seaward. Later she
turned southeast, and since has been
drifting in that direction, being a-
bout fifteen miles southeast of this
point. Only the tops of her mast
can be seen, but the observers think
it is the British steamier Oregon
front Liverpool. At 11:15 she had
drifted out of sight. At 4:3Q p. m.
the uerman steamer Fulda. from
Brema, via Southarmptori. off this
point, reported by signal that the
steamer Oregon had sunk. All the
Eassengcrs of the Oregon are on
oard the Fulda.
New York, March 15. Captain
Collier, of the steamship Oregon, in
giving the report of the terrible col-
iision with a schooner, says there
were 186 cabin, 66 intermediate and
239 steerage passengers on board.
The weather was clear at 4:30 Sun
day morning with a fresh breeze,
when suddenly the sailing vessel
loomed up. She showed no light.
until too close to sheer off, when she
showed a white light. When the
schooner was looked for shortly af
ter the collision, she was not in
sight. She had gone down so quick
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ly that no person and ho wreckage
could be found to give a clue to her
identity. ; One of the National line
steamers passed close at hand soon
after the accident, but did not stop.
The Oregon floated about eight
hours after being struck. The trans
fer of her passengers to pilot boat
No. It and the schooner Fannie A.
Gorham was made by the steamer's
boats. All the passengers were out
of the steamer by 11 o'clock. An
hour later the steamer Fulda came
along and took the wrecked people
from the smaller vessels.
Some of the : passengers sav the
schooner was visible ten miles away,
and had been seen long before she
struck. No one attempts to account
for the accident except on theories.
1 he steamer men offer neither theo
ry nor explanation. The passengers
say the firemen and the coal passers
made a great deal of trouble when
the passengers were being transferr
ed from the vessel. They endeavor
ed to get off first, ana one was
knocked down by a steamer officer
to get him out of the way of the
women, i It was only by hard fight
ing and the great nerve of the officers
that these men were prevented irom
running away with the boats and
leaving the passengers to theiifate.
Some of the boats with numbers oi
the steamer's crew were picked up
by vessels some distance from the
wreck. Une boat, containing tne
first officer an,d four men, came to
the city, today. They had been
picked up today after being 24 hours
in the boat. Another pilot boat was
reported off Sandy hook this aiter-
noon. having in towhve or six large
boats supposed to be a part of the
Oregon s boats, or which tnesteamer.
had ten. .
Passengers were driven from their
beds, and some of them were taken
on board the Fulda half clad. AH
of them lost everything they possess
ed except what was on their backs.
The steamer was valued at a minion
and a quarter, and the cargo at a
quarter of a milliom. All the in
surance waB placed on the other side
of the Atlantic. The vessel lies up
right in 22 fathoms of water, and
hpr tonmasts are visioie auove me
water. Not much hope exists of her
being raised. .
Too Uany Sitting Down Haw.
SUtMTille Landmark.
Tt in of at.Afl in one of our exchanges
that "a man in Monroe is talking of
'starting a chair factory." If he does
;. o ho TinnArl that he will sell his
IV. JO VV W vf
toide of the State, loo
WMUaAM ,
many of our people are sitting down
already.
A Hen Recognizes her Owner tod lots
yooo won.
Charlotte Observer.
iru;i nosQi'ntr n. orrncerv store in
il:. Jr...iaAav Tir. VV. M. Robev
had his attention attracted to a coop
. . i ii.. .JiA a i 4- sa rT on
of chicKens, oy me uuu ouww
i v.An nfinAr1 therein. Just as
the Doctor was passing the coop, the
old hen set up a terrible cackling
and commenced beating against the
t f Via nnnn with her wings.
i.: AAmmnHAn that could not
fail to attract attention. Taking a
glance at the old hen, Dr. Kobey at
Snce identified her as his favorite
4 biddy,'' a ben that had been raised
with his family, and which, if we
are not mistaken, was bronght here
by Dr. ac-Dev wnen uc uo w-hTu-u-.
Tft ftom is not recorded,
but she has been m the familyjor
years, unin - - --. -
she mysteriously disappeared. Her
joy at seeing her old - master waa
something that moted the hearU of
nea w: T t
sold him a number oi V a f tT
The boy was arrested and at his
borne was xounu au ll T;"
VASKIXSTOH CHURCH.
Washington, D. C, March 7.
Taking advantage of the warm,
sunny day, I boarded the ferry boat
for Alexandria, and went to church
at old Christ Church. Upon enter
ing the building, I felt as if I had
been carried back a century or so, so
like was this old ante-revolutionary
relic to engravings of old time church
interiors : there ware the high old
box pews, so that only the head and
upper part of the shoulders were
visible above their backs. The
quaint old" time windows with small
panes of glass, and thick clumsy
sash, the green old fashioned gallery
and organ loft, the most venerable
and ancient organ itself which looks
and sounds as if it might have been
used to give utterance and emphasis
to the lamentations of Jeremiah ;
but above all the curious old chancel
raised above the level of the I heads
of the congregation, and the pulpit
some 4 or 5 feet higher still, all fen
ced off by a high railing, carved
with dragons' heads, &c. The walls
are of enormous thickness and every
brick in them was brought from
England long, long years before the
revolution. The whole structure,
which is without crack or flaw looks
as if it might stand a thousand years.
Just opposite where I sat was a tab
let upon which was carved, In
memory of lieorge Washington. In
this old church Washington and his
wife worshipped before and after he
became "the foremost man of all
the world," and his pew is to be seen
with the big old brass plate on its
door even unto this day. The con
gregation, which is a good one, have
with rare good taste, refused stur
dily, to give in to the all-prevailing
and all pervading mania for change.
No profaue hands have dared to
modernize the little dark, crooked
steep stair that leads to the gallery.
A suggestion to cut down tne neignt
and improve the lines of curvature,
in the uncomfortable straight-back
ed old pews would be resented by a
riot : modern paint ana unset anu
ding have no place here: all is old
and solid, brown with age and ven
erable with the weight of years and
sacred by association, for it- is the
church of Washington. ' Within
these old walls more than three
quarters of a century ago, a distin
guished company stood around the
quaint old baptismal font, and saw
the good rector baptize an infant,
and "sign him with the sign of the
cross in token that he was a soldier
of Christ." This child was destined
to a world-wide fame, and as time,
in his ceaseless march dropped the
years behind, his character grew and
" . 1 5 TT- 1! li-
expanded and npenen. xie uyeu u
beceme the adored chief of victori
ous thousands, each man of whom
would have died for him ; the flag
which he bore aloft he wreathed
around and around with glory un
clouded and imperishable, until at
last, like the heroes of Thermopolae,
his army wearied with victory "gave
their bodies to the enemy and their
souls to God." As pure, as patriot
ic and as unselfish, he was a greater
soldier than Washington, for this
infant was Robert K .Lee. Sunday
after Sunday he rode over from his
beautiful Arlington to attend wor
ship or at other times to meet with
. i , . . i t. -
tne, vestry oi wnicn ne was & mem
ber; The church yard is as inter
esting as the church itself. There
seems to have been no interments
here since about 1807. The oldest
monument that I observed was a
slab of slate with a rude carving of
father time with his scythe and hour
glass, erected in 1771, to a gentle
man from "the uoiony oi uonnec-j
ticutt." The stone was remarkably
preserved, the lettering being as
clear and distinct as tne day it was
made, no years ago, wnue yery
many others of marble, granite and
sandstone were broken by the pro
cess of freezing and thawing, and
their inscriptions almost or quite
obliterated. From this I infer that
slate is less perishable than' the
stones generally in use ior monu
ments to the dead, and therefore
better adapted to that purpose. Of
the many odd inscriptions to do seen
and read I will give you only one as
a specimen which is an exact copy
of the original ; and at which I in
dulged' myself ixi a hearty laugh not
withstanding the time and place, it
is as follows :
dorithy harper. UXOR.
J of Wesley harper
Died of and in Disposion Jan. 2.
1800 after 3 Years and 5 Ms.
"Old time school master," I mused ;
"vain old fool; couldn't curb his ego
tism and pedantry long -enough to
write his wife's epitaph: couldn't re
sist the temptation to advertise his
execrable latin and worse english
even on his wife's tombstone." Per
haps .though our revolutionary
erandsires who were more famous
for the use of their flint and steel
rifles than .ior,. their-, classical -lore
thought it a very grand achievement,
and perhaps they didn't. - -
At all events, I am grateful to the
learned Wesley for a hearty - laugh,
and I sincerely hope that when he
became too "indisposed" to-longer
stay: and enlighten the world, he
joined hisrUXOR in that happy
land, where all good UXORS go.
" Noticing a rectangular : mound
with a large flower vase in the cen
ter, I "approached and read on a
large slab composing one side of the
embankment this touching sentence j
"Here lie the remains of 40 confed-;
erate soldiers who died in the hos
pital at Alexandria ; while prisoners
of war." Then follow their names
and regiments. ,
I took off my hat and stood rev
erently by the grava of these hum
ble heroes, who died for the South,
far away from friends and home arid
among strangers and enemies. I
was atipnce aroused from the drsams
of the past to the realities of the
present
ese men " were rav
comrades.
e they lie beneath
the shad o
e dome of the Cap-
a
itol, innoce
their States
crime, dying ior
their homes,, vet
more responsible for the war than I
who was but a child when it com
menced, this grave almost within
hearing distance of the cowardly andj
brutal denunciation of cowardly and
selfish politicians, whose never-ceasing
delight is to fulminate at them
such epithets as rebels and traitors,
while with demagoguic alacrity thev
pour out the people's millions as
well upon the runaway negro and
hireling foreign mercenary, as upon
their own native soldiery for whomr
I have the respect that an American
soldier has for another. North Car-:
olina is represented in this little
mound by men of the 1st, 3rd, 30th'
and 44th N. C, and I intend very
soon to get their names and have
them published in our State papers1
in the hope that some light may be
shed into homes long mourning their
loved ones, without knowing when
or where their absent members died
or where their remains repose. ;
Death of Hon. W.L Tate.
AfhviUe C;n.
We are pained to announce; the
death of our friend, Hon. W. L.
Tate, of Haywood, which occurred
in Morgan ton yesterday morning at
6 o'clock, lie had been in very poor
health for two or more years, a short
while ago went to Morganton, and
it was hoped was improving; so the
announcement yesterday took all by
surprise. Mr. Tate has filled several
offices of trust, and was at the time
of death a State. Senator. An hon
est, conscientious man in all rela
tions, faithful to all friendships or
duties, he easily won and always re
tained the full confidence of his peo
ple. He leaves a wife, and other
relations to mourn his death, who
have the sympathy of all. . Mrs.
Tate was not with him at the time
of his death ; she reached here yes
terday evening en route to Morgan
ton. Sudden Death of Or. Flint. ;
Dr. Austin Flint Sr., an eminent
New York physician, died suddenly
Saturday afternoon of cerebral apo
plexy. He spent Friday evening at
the tseuevue Hospital iueuicai acnooi
examining the members of the senior
class, whose commencement exer
cises were set for today. He left
there soon after 11 o'clock and
reached his home, at 418 Fifth ave
nue, about 11 o'clock. He slept in
the fourth storv back room, and on
his way up stairs spoke to the nnrse
in attendance upon Mrs.- Flint, who
is an invalid.- He was on the point
of getting into bed when he felt a
severe pain in his head. He called
the nurse at once, and was giving
?her directions when he was seized
with nausea.' He vomited, and al
most immediately fell into a coma
tose state, from which he never
came out. He died at 2 o clock Sat
urday afternoon. Dr. Flint was
president of the International Medi
cal Association at the time of his
death, and was to have delivered an
address before the British Medical
Society in July next. ;IIe was the
author of many' standard medical
worKs. lie was married in 1000 to
a daughter of N. W. Skillings, of
l508ton, who survives him. lie has
one son, Austin Flint, Jr., professor
' ' m . -r-4 ii tt
oi pnysioiogy in tne uenevue Hos
pital Medical College. He was 74
years of age.
The Northwestern Girl.
i The St. Paul Pioneer-Press thinks
she i has what has been called "a
Lake Superior smile." That paper
says : "The girl of tho "Northwest!.
Mow the hand trembles that dare
touch a pen in her behalf. Tall,
dark, queenly ? Sometimes Slight,
blonde, blue-eyed t Aot always.
Gentle, loving, diviner Semver et
perpetua. Lti&e our wneat, sne is oi
the best, 'lime canuot change, nor
age wither the maiden over whose
laughing face the breezes from Su
perior toss the unconhned tresses
and whose dainty feet have once
pressed the fruitful soil of Minneso
ta She can dance, she can sing ;
her magnificent horsemanship is
proverbial ; her grace at tennis is a
matter of history; her beauty brings
a world to her feet, but her crown
ing grace, the consummate flower of
all her virtues, is that superb proof
of her self-reliance. 'She turns her
own music'
A boy dropped a lighted match on
the floor of a wharf shed on Water
street, Wilmington, N. C, Saturday,
setting fire to it. A high wind and
inflammable material caused the
flames to spread, and a block of
buildings, occupied principally as
insurance and shipping offices, were
burned, covering a loss of $15,000
to f U,UUU.
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; Points for Wives.
The Chicago Herald offers the foK
lowing contributions to the sum to
tal of conjugal happiness :
Don't disturb your husband while
he is reading the morning or even
ing paper byj asking" foolish . ques
tions. He may be reading the latest
scandal or divorce suit, but lie is
just as much interested as though it
were foreign news or market reports.
Be patient, and when he comes
across anything he thinks ycu can
comprehend, perhaps he will read il
to you.
Don't put the morning paper at
the bottom of the pile, and don't
have more than a dozen different
places for the button hook. ,
Don't monopolize every hook in
the closet. Graciously tender bini
one nail for his very own-and then
in mercy hang your Mother Hub
bard, your pelerine, your shopping
bag and your bonnet some other
place.
Don t ask where he has been the
moment ihe enters the house, or
where he is going if he starts out for
- 1 I. Ta ill
a walk oeiore Dreamast. it nettles
him, and men hate to have! such
ointed questions tprung upon them,
iesides that, we live under a free
flag. " ' I-
Don't indulge. in flights of temper
when your husband suggests how
hi3 mother did. If he objects to
having eggs boiled in the teakettle,
Jand prefers them washed previous to
cooking, endeavor to please him by
indulging him in his fancies. In
the meantime bring your sons up as
carefully as you can, and when they
are married you yourself will doubt
less be held up as an example of:
virtue and revenge is sweet.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, March 12.
To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic:
The Senate galleries are -crowded
this week, and great interest is felt
in the discussion of the Presidential
prerogative. For more than, two
weeks nearly every Senator on both
sides of the chamber has been at
work preparing for the conflict
growing out of the refusal of the
Administration to send to tne sen
ate papers and information bearing
upon the suspension of officials and
touching the appointment of their
successors. '
Probably no such thorough over
hauling and minute examination of
historical dopuments has ever before
been made with reference to this
question. Consequently as onerSen-
ator expressed it, both sides "were
loadetl to the muzzle with material
for the performance which is now in
rogress. It was to have begun on
londav, but the "star," Mr. Ed
munds, plead a sore throat and ihe
people went away disappointed. He
kept his engagement for the follow
ing davl however, and promptly at
the appointed hour, arose with an
imposing pile of manuscript before
him (his precedents to support his
position,) which I he used freely din
ing his speech of two and a half
hours. L I
When it was learned in the House
of Representatives that Mr. Ed
munds was actually discharging his
long loaded broadside at the White
House, members poured into the
Senate Chamber and filled the space
in rear of' the Senators desks. The
only vacant seat on the floor was
heavily draped with black, it was
that of the California Senator, Mr.
Miller, who had died the day before.
Mr. Edmunds, in his speech,
which has attracted much attention,
and which will be generally discuss
ed throughout the country,1 made, as
was expected, the best of his weak
Bide of the controversy. He took
6uch precedents as best suited him
and handled tnem .witn ingenuity.
He was most specious perhaps in
saying that the Senate does not ask
the President's reasons for making
removals, but simply for the papers
of every description relating to sus
pended officials. In saying this he
admits that should papers which the
Senate wants be forthcoming, they
would shoy the very confidential
reasons which he disclaims any in
tention on the part of the Senate to
demand. .
Mr. Edmunds said with a sneer,
that the most conspicuous result of
improved methods of Government
i i 1 . a) a 1 j .
under the "reiorm Administration,
was the suppression . of official pa
pers. At this point Senator Beck
caused a smile to nppJe over the au
dience by remarking in an under
tone, but loudlv enough to be heard
half across the chamber, thatit "was
a clear case of a fly on a barn door.
You remember tho Vermont leader
has been accused of seeing a fly on a
barn door when he could not see the
door. "
As yet only Senator Pugh, of Ala. ,
has replied to Mr. idmund s speech.
Mr. Pugh showed among other
things that the papers called for by
Senator Thurman when chairman
oi the Judiciary uommittee, in a
case of suspension, related to a ter
ritorial court, and that the tenure of
office act especially exempts Judicial
officers from those to be suspended
by the President. Mr. Edmunds
has been followed by Senator Wilson
of Iowa, and Senators Ingalls and
Evarts will be next to support him.
On the Democratic side. Senators
Kcnna, Beck and Jackson will be
among the champions of the Ad
ministration.
i A prominent Democratic.lawyer
of this city who was talking on this
subject a few days' since, remarked
that there was nothing in the posi
tion of the majority of the Senate
Judiciary Committee but a political
m.-! nceii vre. f The President stands
on i in pregnable legal grounds, con
tinued he, but thjei Republican party
is languishing for an issue. The
eijudient of bullying and embar
rassing the President, seems to' be
the best it can doj jfor the present.
Senator Miller's; death lessens thi
lpfiBlican majority in the Senate
temporarily. '1 he legislature of Cal
ifornia does not ijieet until Decem
ber, arid the Govifnor of the State,
General Stoncman being a Demo
crat, will doubtless appoint one of
his own party to fill the vacancy.
Senator Miller's funeral will take
place at the Capitol Saturday after-
will escort the remains to the rail
road depot en route to California.
The social season closed brilliantly
at the White Hottse. The third of
the series of Dijplomatic, Military
and Congressional jreceptions eclips
ed those preceding! it in several re
spects, rhe attendance was larger,
and the proportion! of distinguished
ii -i f't t -ill.
men, ana nanasomeiy aresseaiaaies,
was unusually larg, while the White
House apartments were rarely, if
ever, more eneeaveiy aecoratea.
Senator Edmunds presence there
attracted attention owing to his ar
raignment of the Administration a
few hours before. He and Mrs. Ed
munds stopped to chat a few I mo
ments with the President and Miss
Cleveland. I! !
In Reply to a Critical Letter.
: Lebtoir, March 7.
- i -
To the Editor o f Till Lenoir Tovic:
I read a letter in The Topic of
the 3rd of March) J signed by" Jacob
Harshaw. He started off in the right
direction but, lojmy great astonish
ment, he has did liKe some children
I have known worked hard all day
to niake a plaything and at last
kicked it all over.' f
Ue abuses the State and the peo
ple of the State I fdr their poverty
and 6sks if there is iio remedy for it.
He says that there is not and that,
if a man is poor and wants to remain
poor, let him stay m North Caroli
na. (I wish it understood that these
remarks are not meant for any one
person, but are general.) I can tell
my ; friends that j there is a remedy
fof ; all this poverty: Go to work
and quit abusing ; good old North
Carolina. I knew afman in Caldwell
county who, wlienfhe was married,
. m 1? till
was so poor mat lie carried an ne
had in a pocket handkerchief. He
went to work, raised a big family on
the poorest land in jjCaldwell county
and not John's Efver bottom land,
lived well and left fa surplus of two
or tkree thousand f dollars for his
children.: It is lazijiess that makes
men poor and keeps them poor. It
reminds me of the nah that was so
lazy that he had rather be buried
alive than to work, fso his neighbors
ut him in a box and started to bury
tm alive and met a friend who
itied him; and said, "Rather than
ury him alive 4 will give him a
bushel of corn." I The lazy man rais
ed upon his elbows and asked "Is it
OUVllVU .a-1 J 1 y UAlVvt UIO tllVUU)
and I will give v6i further a bush
el of meal." "Isit'sifted?" j "No."
"0 great God! i Nothing but troub-
this world. ! Drive on. 1 will
stop, on that subject for I can't do it
justices !. 1" jr j . : I
.Now, 1 will give lyou another rea- ;
son why North Carolina is poor. To
mv own knowledgei for hf ty years,
there has been a stream of emigra
tion from North I t-arolina ! to the
West. A class of good citizens like
Israel Coffey, Calvin Green and oth
ers taking off their jhousands from
the State. Theij f here is another
class of young me4 who leare and
tike from $50 to 1500 apiece with
them and nine out of ten of them
come back if they dan get money to
come back on and all the good North
Carolina money they took off with
them is squandered and wasted in
the West. No wbuder North Caro
lina is poor! I can't se how she
has borne the burden as long as she
has and raised as rjiany big fat men
as -she has. My advice is to quit
work and quit erriirating.. I think
this is as good a country as there is
in the United Stales. If there is
any place where ) they can make a
living with- less work, than in Cald
well county, I would advise them to
go to it. , : i I
My friend is abusing the railroad.
Now, what is to become of us, where
is the remedy for all this? There is
none, he says, as we can1 Bee so long
as we "pull in the old ruts." I do
not know what he means by "ruts"
unless it is the disease that we are
all afflicted with-f laziness. He says
the cause of low prices is the rail
road.'. I think he is mistaken. He
says it has benefitted every class but
the farmer. Le,t us see: The far
mer gets $1 for wheat, 50 cents for
corn, 10 cents for bacon, about what
it brought before the Railroad was
built. Now, he gets 14 pounds of
sugar and 8 pounds of coffee for a
dollar and so onj Leather, iron,
salt, plows, hoes barrows and every
thing , that the farmer needs are
cheaper than' we can get them with
out a railroad I think tho railroad
helps everybody that helps himself.
My friend thinks that talent is
not recognized as it should be in
this State, j l must beg leave to dif
fer with him on that point. If a
young man of brains will start on
the bottom jround of the ladder and
climb upward as Washington, Frank
lin, or Cleveland did he will be ap
preciated. A man of talent will be
found out if he is in a ditch. You
need not be iuneasy about that. Now,
I want to talk plain to Jacob on the
Railroad matter. If you emigrated
to Idaho or should go to Wilmington
or, perchance, should visit Raleigh,
would you go on foot as Daniel
Boone did, and had to do, - in his
day, or would you go on the train?
You would come to Lenoir, deposit
your money, get a ticket, throw,
three hundred pounds of freight on
board,: go at the rate of 40 miles an
hdur and return home a better rail
road man than ever. Friend Jacob
surely: was joking.
A. A. SUDDERTH.
Oor CoIlettsTille Letter.
Collects v i ll e, March 15.
To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic:
After a very long dreary winter we
are having jfine spring weather now.
Our farmers and people generally
are resuming business. Some have
planted potatoes, made garden, &c.
Our energetic J. J. Harshaw, Esq,
has already planted some 12 bushels
potatoes and says he has shelled out
one bushel sorghum seed which he
expects to plant this season. Jake
after mature deliberation concludes
that placed just like old North Caro
lina are hard to find and says he wpl
risk his chances with us. Ilia broad
acres on John's River and Lower
Creek are not anv longer for sale.
Early in April, will leave this
neighborhood for Idaho, W. M.
Holyfield and family, - W. K. Bow
man. Also leaves about same time
R. O. Phillipps and family for Kan
sas and J. L. Kincaid for Idaho.
This is thej way some of our money
goes. . This outfit will carry to the
far West some four thousand dol
lars to be invested there. Notwith
standing all the emigration, there is
certainly jnot a nore favored land,
all things considered, to be found
than our dear old North State, jit
is certainly true our fortunes don't
come quite as fast as in some few
other places, but theyare really
more lasting when made.- .Therelis
no place perhaps in the world xwhere
a dollar is worth, any more than itl is
in W. N. C. Our natural resources
are almost unequaled by any other
State in the Union, maybe in the
whole world, .so with us it is old
Carolina, first, last and forever.
J. M. Bowman soon moves to his
new home on Mulberry, where he
will engage in growing tine potatoes,
mercantile business, &c, &c.
M. N. Harshaw, Esq., is at home
on a short stay. Moses is cultivat
ing a splendid set whiskers and is
looking well under them.L
Miss Anna Estes begins a school
at Puett Hill 15th inst., for a term
of three mouths. j
J. A. White, Esq., is building a
new dwelling house will soon com
plete it. He tells us while pruniing
some apple trees some days ago j he
discovered that some limbs had been
killed by winter's freezes. No
peaches iu this vicinity this yeat
all killed square out. I
MADISON
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