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STATESVILLE. NEW YORK. WALLACE BROS, General Merchandise -AND- PKODTJCE DEALERS, AND- Headquarters for lied IcixiaJ. Crudtf, Hoota, Barlro, r Ooeds, Flowers. Gnms I Moss, STATESVILLE N, C ALLACfi BROS.; General Produce Dealers Commission Merchants, 304 Greenwich St., WsataisT veavtwsd atveacth. a mk th: CE5TT0.1.C tSTmttmiimr to riesMM e4PH.w toe Ue-i, Htilxw UKS tMlaasiit rtrmm.imm a IawMf aaw Wyyi to tost. iasswagUy Inrl-eryt . eeSaS9as)KaWSnBBsV (We JPM flMSlAtffMsf 4wi Itostf eauidMa.' ova trad rk aaWl rosea fed H - aw y fcr aJ t taaayaad smm m Be. ii uir ijfrr;,.' bmc, Uam aaVutisf "Jm Anar. feott sexes of ail ares ean lire at koaM and work In Jt0' UtJwttBM. Capital net repaired. We will start T. TgiwiH ray iw foruaa who start at oaw. . i BsliMttlii as Ua to thsar SO. sfceoU try mm Q3 III It. II I -1 I 1V i. i i i i ii ' tMiaailMMMMMiIiaivin - - fcnifln 1 THE VETERAN'S PIPE. W. O. Errin in Detroit Free Pre a. Drawn are the curtains, brightly glow the fire. The shaded lamp aheda forth a mellow light; Without the laat soft beams of day expire, The bills are tleaping in the arms of night. The easy, chair the s.ippars, both inrite My weary limbs, land now with fancies ripe,' ' Tjmy me alone with memory and my pipe. ' - - - A lonely Ufa, you think ? Ton little know What loved companions come to greet me her-, What visions glimmer in this somber glow. And voices whisper and bright forms appear While those far distant seem to gather near, As I the shades of long ago invoke, Wrapped in a cloud of reverie and smoke. Look how the spirals of the vapor cloud Caress the portrait o'er my mantel there, The winsome face, so beautiful, so proud, The sunny ripples of the golden hair, The half closed lips, as tho' they breathed a prayer You wept my darling, when I said "good bye," And went to battle and yon heard to die. The wounded captive sought his home again Another heart had claimed you for its own, And yon were happy in your new love then. While from my life 1 thought all joy had flown, And sought this room, where friendless and no known I bowed my head beneath Fate's cruel stroke, And hid my woe in solitude and smoke. But, ah! to-night again your form I press, Again I hold you in a close embrace. Tour sunny hair I tenderly caress And shower kisses on' your upturned face As laat I did at our old trysting place, I While moonlight shimmered o'er the harvest ripe. What's this? A tear? None saw it but my pipe. old bacheldrVyfrsus old maids.' Pack's Sun. Old bachelors is different; from wot old maids is. An old maid is always try in to get over j bein an old maid, bnt an old bachelor don't worry himself, 'cause he knows She km let up on bein an old bachelor any time he wants to ; but when: an old maid gets in the habit of bein' an old maid she most always finds it hard work, co break off. An old bachelor has a heap more fun than a married man does anyhow 'cause he kin do jest as he darn please and that's fun enough for anybody. Pa sez a married man is a good deal like a sewing machine 'cause he is generally run by a woman. 1 guess that's pretty much so ; but an old bachelor ain't run by anybody ; he's J'ust aa free and contented as a pol ywog in a mud puddle, or he would be if the old maids and widders and such like would only let him alone ; but they won't ; jest as soon as an old bachelor comes anywhere in sight they take after him like our old dog takes after a tom-cat, and once in a while they ketch him, but not often. I never knowed of but one old bachelor wot the wimmen was too many for, and there was. some ex cuse forfJhtjm, 'cause the woman wot surroufided him was a widder. Pa eez afman can make out to hold the fort agin an old maid, but when it comes to widder a feller might as well surrender first as last, 'cause he can't help himself, any more than a woman kin help talkin about the neighbors; " Pa's youngest brother, Uncle Bill, is a bachelor...., He lives out west on a cattle ranch. He came east last spring to see pa, and stayed . mor'n a month. He would have t stayed , longer if it had'nt been for Aunt Hannah. She fell in love with Un cle Bill as soon as she seed him. You see Uncle Bill is awfnl nervous and bashful. He is so 'fraid of girls and wimmen that he dasen t look at em, only ma. Uncle Bill ai'nt hall as much afraid of ma as pa is. It's kinder curious but it's so. 'Tother day when that pretty Holmes girl took dinner at our house pa wasn't at home, so ma asked Uncle Bill if he would wait on the folks. Uncle Bill is always willin' to 'commodate a feller, so he took right hold, but he was flustered 'cause the Holmes girl was there that he hit ma on the ear with a dish of green peas, and about a pint of 'em rolled down the back of her neck. Uncle Bill tried to 'pologize, but ma told him not to mention it, 'cause it was all right, and axidents would happen even in the best regulated families, or some thing like that. But if it had been pa who acted as careless as that with green peas, ma would have i blowed him up sky high and no mistake. But the way Aunt Hannah acted about Uncle Bill beat anything I ever did see. She follered him a- round and smiled at him, ana reel ed oft poetry to him from mornin to night, and it made him so nerv ous that I guess he often wished he was dead, and I should'nt wonder a bit if he wished she was too. It worried him so after awhile that he anant. mnnt of the time in the cow- stable, so I reckon Uncle Bill I felt ki nder saf eout there. I , thought Aunt seemed kinder discouraged- a bout the way .Uncle Bill shied when he seo her comin', but she didn't let up on him a mice ; her motto seemed to be: "If at first you don't get mamed,Hry try agen' , So she kept trym. One day a Gypsy family came a long, nd asked pa if he'd let 'em camp out by the ; roadside a little ways from our bouse ; pa told them they might if they wouldn't barn' sed they never hooked so much as a , -f .11 J.V. knm A ova Z Wall Viiirnin in all their born days. Well i they camped out,' and all they had. ' A An ofta .tn Ktnn the horses and un- hitch 'em, 'cause tney cam pea in v-; f Viof. lAoknd like a. ba ker cart, only a good deal more bo, up the ience nor awai uuiuiu i oca vopuiu vu mo i viuuu, sea they wouldn't burn no fences, siring to have his shabby beaver hat for utealin. the : gypsy man replaced by a new one. took it ashore Aunt Hannah aud me made the gyp sy folks a visit that afternoon. They were glad to see us, and after, we had talked awhile one old. woman wanted to try our fortunes.;1 I told her I didn't want her to tell mine 'cause pa wouldn't like it. The old fipsv looked right cross at me when sect that, so I went over to where a man was feed in' the horses and talked with the man a few! minutes and then looked 'round to Bee where Aunt Hannah was, and my stars ! ii there wasn't Aunt Hannah crawl in' nnder the cover of the gypsy's wagon ! I waited until she got in out of signt, and then I went 'ronnd the back of the wagon and peeped in ; there was a little hole in the wa gon cover and I could see first rate. There wasn't anybody in there only Aunt Hannah and the woman wot told fortunes. She was showin' Aunt Hannah some green powder in a bottle, and I heard her say : "Yes mum, all you have to do is jest to put four ounces of this won derful powder into his tea or coffee, and he'll love you devotedly as long as he lives." - i "How much does it cost ?" sez Aunt Hannah. "Ten. dollars, mum," sez the old woman. "Ain't it awful dear ?' sez Aunt Hannah. ( Sez she : - "No mum," sez the fortune teller "you Bed, mum, as how the felltr owned a big ranch in Texas, mum, ten dollars is mighty little pay for becomin' the missus of a big ranch m Texas, mum." 1 "So it is," sez Aunt Hannah, sez she, an' I seed her give the gypsy woman a ten dollar bill. 1 "Sorry I can't come to your wed dm' mum," sez the old woman, sez she, as she handed Aunt Hannah a bottle of green powder, "but we mean to travel along I in about an hour mum, and I wish you much joy, mum." I didn't wait to hear no more but went back to the horses, aud pretty soon Aunt Hannah crawled out of the wagon, and we started for home we got there jest as they was gettin' ready to eat supper. When Uncle, Bill came in from the cow stable, where he'd been all the afternoon 'cause he thought Aunt Hannah was in the house, we all sat down to the table. Ma didn't feel well and so she asked Aunt Hannah to pour out the tea. That just suited Aunt Hannah, 'cause it give her a good chance to put the green powder into Uncle Bill's tea. I kept one eye on her, and when nobody wasn't lookin' I seed her pour the powder out of the bottle into Uncle Bill's tea cup, and then fill the cup with ;tea. Aunt Han nah kept her eye oa Uncle Bill af ter she handed him his tea. I guess she expected he'd ask her to marry, him just as soon as ever he drunk it ; but he didn't. When he got outside that cup of tea, he looked into the cup, and turned as white as a sheet, then he groaned orful and fell rite back in his chair. "What's the matter, Bill ?" sez pa. Uncle Bill groaned some more and jiointed to the tea cup. " "Pm poisoned," sez he. Pa looked into the cup, and then jumped up and hollered: j0hnny Rogers! Run i tans greeu, uy me juuiuiu and tell Dr. Killemoff to come at once! Run Bennie, Run!" j "It is too late, my dear brother," sez Uncle Bill in a feeble voice, "I shall be dead before Killemoff can rot here. Let lieennie have mv erold 43 - - - - u o watch and my ivory handled bowee knife. Good by my friends, I am gdingj" and Uncle Bill shut his eyes and fell back in his chair. When he did 'Aunt Hannah let out an or full screech, and hollered loud enough to wake the dead: "Oh! William, dear William, don't die; live for me, your own Hannah. Oh save him somebody. He ain't poisoned, it ain't Paris green, it's only a love p'.wder. I put in his tea to make him love me; the Gypsy told me it wouldn't hurt him. She said it was harmless." When Uncle Bill heard wot she sedhe sat up iu his chair and looked at Aunt Hannah accross the table about two minutes, then ho put one foot agen the edge of the table, and pushed it till Aunt Hannah fell over backwards in her chair, then Uncle Bill gave the table another push, and turned it right over onto Aunt Hannah. " When me pa and ma got through pickin' up the broke dishes, y ; and we found that Uncle Bill had pack ed his valise and started for Texas. Origin of the Plug Hat Boston Bulletin. It is a curious fact, unknown to the vast majority of people, that the first silk hat was made about fifty years ago; that, like as many other articles which are common and every-day use it was of Chinese ori- gin. ne story runs mac a rrencn j and, as they had notallthe material, I ltiv ma liim a oillr nno inofAftil they ma'de him a silk one instead. this,, it and he armenra ViftTvnATiAfl in .1R32-. ana ne carried tne nat to rana me same year, nere it was immediate- - I 1 v nnniftd . and in a few Tears became a regular style. j k DAKOTA LIGHTXIKB ROD AGENT. As iar back as the oldest inhabi tant can remember, our newspapers have, from time to time, spoken of the frightful gall of the lightning rod peddler j but most people have imagined that the stories were ex aggerated, and while there might be a slight smattering of truth in them, the lightning rod agent was, never theless, a very much abused party. But gentle peruser, those articles .which you have chanced to scan, have not told the half of it. Peo ple who seem to know all about it, say that his satanic majesty is not as dark complected as he is calci al ined. While this may be correct it would be untruthful to say the same of a lightning rod peddler. He is just aa much blacker than he is Eainted as you can possibly imagine, ut for fear there maybe one or two christians among them it will prob ably be safer to say that "there are of course exceptions." The writer recently spent a week at. AlfixftTirtria. Dakota, to Dakota, to t which, nlace he was hastilv summoned by a hthr iflit,or. and numerous farm- ers. The fiery untamed prairie chicken they said, was tramping down their grain and had actually become so bold as to walk through the main street of the settlement, scaring the children and women folks, and otherwise making distur bance. Now, of course an appeal of that kind could hardly go un- 7 . . i heeded, and so with a borrowed dog, shot gun, and his aged . father for company, he left his quiet little home, Dade his friends a tearful farewell and struck out boldly for the wild West. After a journey be- set with danger and hardships on a Pullman sleeper the little party were at last dropped off at Alexan dria, where they were welcomed with open arms by the friends whose piteous prayer had-been so quickly answered. There was no time to be lost as the chickens had been rein forced bv the iack rabbits, and the country was in immediate danger of beinsr sDoiled for any future use. So next morning bright and early a small party was formed, consisting of three shooters, and two drivers, and before the sun had hardly had time to wash his hands and face in old Lake Michigan, the wagon with its blood-thirsty occupants was rum- bling madly over the prairie, headed for the famous "Jim" river. ; Early in the day the astonishing discovery was made that one of the drivers was a lightning rod agent, and fur- thermore he was fully equipped for business, for underneath the seats could be seen a bundle of rods, while between his legs he held a mysterious box. He didn't look at all devilish ; in fact there ! was a mildr8ome,body-ask-me-to-drink - ex- ression ojn his face. It was not ong, howjever, before his true char acter cropped out, for when the wagon suddenly hove in sight of a farm house, a wild, wicked glitter came into his eyes, while a fiendish, diabolical Uangh escaped his lips. Each looked in the direction in which he was gazing, and the cause of his secret pleasure was only too apparent, for the top of that farm house and barn looked as though it had been raining lightning rods and they had all stuck up there. At first not a word was , BDoken, but gradually as the house disap peared from sight, the hard expres sion relaxed and his face became natural again. "That," said he, pointing his thumb over his shoul der in the direction of the house, "is one of my victims. I have been in the business off and on ever since 1 was a kid, have tried all the differ ent dodges, but my last one . works to a charm, as you probably noticed back yonder.! Heretofore three rode in a hnnsft has been mv limit, but I have got 'em now where the hair is short, and I can put up just as many rods asjl see fit.'' There was some-thing-so mysterious about the fel low, and the box that he held SO tenderly between cast a gloom i over his legs, that it the crowd, but finally the writer determined tnat he would find out how : he worked his little racket and asked him to describe his method. ' "Why," said the agent, "its sim ple enough, I just carry the light ning right along with me, and sim ply demonstrate to a farmer" what the effect will be if he gets struck. There is a house over ; here to the right that I haven't tackled yet, and if you would like to see me con- vince the old scarecrow mat .owns the place that he needs my goods bad, why, say the word and I'll show trnn Viniirita nnA w ) ' tV . Everyone agreed that it wasa glo- rions onnortun tv. and so the horses were turned in that direction. As the team drew up in , front of the door the owner came around -from behind the house, followed byseven doe's and a tame badger. "Wall, I . . . - . .. , swow." said the farmer, as he si2ed no the crowd. "Sav be: you . tower- ists ?uii:fv? ' .jH'V.'1--'.-Wf-'K ?---'' t- For a moment the writer was diz-i zy ; the. idea that he should be takes for a .tourist completely, took his breath, away, btt as soon as he was able he explained to the farmer that: he was only t a common . American,' and then the lightning rod man got in his work;,;V5ay,,? said. he, turn ing to the farmer, "Don't you know that you are running a great risk by I not putting UP ' ughtnmg rods on 1 your barn and house r Why, man, I tremble for your safety ; come, let me show you what I've got here in this wagon." And before the far mer could unfold his face to make a roply, the man was out of the wagon and had his rods spread out ou - the grass. "S'no use," said the farmer. Beginning to back, off, "you can't talk me into buyin any o' them fix ins, I've been thar." . "Yes,- I understand that," an swered the agent, "but I never take no for an answer. I've dealt .with nearly every man in this territory and nobody has ever tried to get their money back yet. What ? You still insist that you don't want any rods ? ! Da you understand how it feels to have a streak of lightning Salloping up and down your person? ust hold this a moment and I'll endeavor to explain." At this he opened ! his box and pulled out a small electric batter'.. "Now, my friend," said he, "you just hold those two little pieces of brass till I wind up this music box, and then I'll try to give you a clear idea of what Iiehtniner is." The farmer smiling in a bashful way took hold, and the asrent beeran to turn. Down j . . came the farmer on his knees, and his eyes bulged out so far that a pair of pants could have been -hung -on them. His hair stood out straight and stiff as if it were frozen, and the yell that he gave was something terrible to hear. That same cold, wicked! glitter again showed in the agent's! eyes, and the farmer could see no mercy there, finally he be- gan to let up a little on the crank, and the farmer was allowed to straighten out. "Now," said the agent, f'this is lightning on a very small scale, and you will probably agree with me that the sensation is anything but pleasant. By the way, how many rods do you wish on your house ?" here he gave two or three fast turns of the crank. Again the farmer let a yell that could be heard in Alexandria, and said between his chattering teeth : "Put up all you've got, if lightning is anything like this, gave me the whole bunch. The agent was leic oenina do put up his rods and tho party drove on, after promising to call for him. at night. I Now, if this is a sample of the lightning-rod agents that infest our great and glorious country, no wonder the people take to the woods when they see one coming, ine agent told the w. iter next day that he didn't intend to sell any more rods, till he got his pup trained. If he only sticks to that, the farmers that have so far escaped him will be safe, for no mortal man could tram that pap. It has a nose like a hog, and a head with a big hollow on top showing where its brains ought to be. The pup doesn't know its own name, and the only way he gets it to follow him is to let it get hungry, and then carry a bone in his coat tail pocket. ' Building up the Country. BY PROF. G. G. GROFF. Franklin Press. I think the value of many would be greatly increased, farms if the bushes were kept cut in the old fields and ini the fence corners. And when they are cut let them be thrown into the ditches and gullies, that these may fill up in time. After traveling a good deal through the South, I think it is these old neglected fields, almost more than anything else wnicn Keeps gooa larmers irvm own- pr St.fli.p.a from nomine in and set , , n a x t il. er States from coming in and set tling in the South. Let 1 them be taken 'hold of, and see what a change will come oyer theace of the coun try. :',' 'Gn.r'v-- I would suggest to farmers who cultivate steep hill-sides which" tend to wash . that tliev try the plan of terracing their fields. This is easily and cheaply done. Commencing at the bottom of the hill, plough a land jof any desired width, then leave a space from 6 to 10 feet un- ploughed. Plough another land, and leave another space nnploughed, and so on to the top. The great advantage of this plan is that the grass and weeds on the nnploughed portion, catch tho descending soil, and preyent it from, in titae, all reaching the bottom of the hill, and also the formation of gullies is pre vented. This plan is very exten sively adopted in Georgia in recent I will Hot say one word against your schools, for I think the State is doing nobly, under all the dis couraging circumstances, and I only make the suggestion that too much I rlnnOTnlAnoft snmilrl Tint'.' be t)laced upon State aid. I think everyschool should partly be supported by local I . .. . .v-v- . - taxation, xnis win give tne people a greater interest in their schools, attendance will be more regular, termi'longer and more good result. Good citizens of Europe and the North always look very carefully at the schools oi a region in which theyiare seeking homes. Any coun-! try with good schools will soon have' a reputation as a good place in which tolife,!M",---i:r-.- Rt. taikihcr - .AVer's ; Sarsaparilla many a poor sufferer who submits to the surgeon's knife., because of ma 'rr 1 i : . lignant sores and . scrofulous swell ings, might be saved, sound and whole. This medicine purges out the corruptions which pollute the blood and cause disease. - Latest From the Volcano. Cor. Hawaiian Oasette, Augnct 3 188A, " IIilo, II. I. July 29 1886. Editor Gazette. I made my first visit-to Kilauea, last week, re maining there from July 19th to the 24th. I visited the crater twice first on Wednesday the 21st, . and again on Friday the 23rd. On the fi ret visit I wis in the crater from 10 a. m. JJuntil 8 p. m. ; and the second, from eleven a. m. until two p. m. It is impossible from a mere des cription to give any accurate idea of the location of the places where liq uid lava is seen in the crater. I can tell what I saw, but any figures of distances and size are mere esti mates of the eye and probably quite imperfect. The molten lava is visible in three different places, all of which I visit ed. Two of the three places are quite difficult of access, the approach being a circuitous route up 1 and down over masses of loose rocKs, and possible only in the day time. These 4- nr v-fc1nAa a vA Ail 1 fa ndQf sOOoTl rtT'.VlOf - jUh nt wfcat was formerly fhe New Lake, though distanCe south. They can hardly be called "lakes ; I should call them wells. One of these is where liquid lava was first seen after its first disappearance in March. This is somewhat irregular in shape, being perhaps thirty feet wide and- 60 to 75 feet long and not less than 100 feet in depth. To ob tain a view of the bottom one must go to the very verge of the well and look over, and this can be done with safety at only one point, Immedi ately beneath this point at the bot tom of the well, but where it could not be seen without too great a risk there was an immense noise and evi dence of intense activity. Over the portion of the bottom of the well that was visible, the lava was hard ened except in one place where it could be seen as it was puffed out and thrown up a little distance every few seconds. The other well was nearly circu lar in shape, perhaps 30 feet in di ameter and 100 feet. This could be approached only at one point, and this point was on the leeward side, so that the fumes of sulphur diox ide would one to remain there only a few seconds at a time. At the bottom of the well a partial cone was formed, perhaps 10 feet across, and in this the lava was boiling with intense violence, now and then throwing up a spray of lava quite a hundred feet to the mouth of the well and almost into the face of one standing on the edge and loooking over. I The third place where the liquid lava could be seen in the lake be low the west wall. It is possible to get down to the edge of this lake and obtain coined specimens but it is and extremely hazardous under taking. There are or were two lakes here but they seem to have merged into each other, the activity being confined to the part last form ed. Small lava flows were constan tly breaking out and in the evening there was a general breaking up of about one third the surface. This lasted only a few minutes but was followed by quite extensive lava flows. I saw no fountains and no cones here. The best point for ob serving this lake is 800 or 1,000 feet distant. One can get on the edge I Ul UiO uwireuun,uii wall immeal- . - it or 200 feet but this is unsaie, as lauu snues are uuu- stantly taking place at all points. When I visited this lake two days later, its surface had evidently ris en and it was more active than when I saw it before. There were signs of activity in other places but no fire could be seen. About the middle of July some lava reappeared in Halemau mau but it has not continued in ac tivity. ' : The activity of Kilauea is evidan tly increasing, and while the sight at present is well worth seeing, there is promise of even much more in the future, ' " i Oil oo the Water. Another instance of the marked benefits resulting from the use. of oil on troubled seas was affoded by the recent experience of the steam- ship Werra, of the Noi tji German Lloyd's Line, which was disabled in mid ocean during her last transat lantic voyage. The steamer had been taken in tow by the Venetian, and all went well until the evening August 3, when a strong gaii pre- ?aneu ano neavy seas were cuubwuuj breaking over the bow of the Werra, endangering the tow lines,' and threatening the loss of ;.the tow. The captain of the Venetian caused , an oil bag to be hung from each side of his vessel and dragged some dis tance astern. The result was al most immediate and the sea be came comparatively smooth around the disabled ship. The officers of the Werra were for some time igno rant of the cause of their relief. At ! the exchange of signals on the fol- I i : . I ,l lowing morning, they reported that after the oil bags had been hung out their vessel experienced much bet ter weather, not a drop of ' water breaking on board, and the; ship being in all respects more comfort able. Scientific American Pimples, Boils, And Carbuncles result from a debilitated, impoverished, or impure condition of the blood. I Ayer's Sarsaparilla prevents and cures these eruptions and painful tumors, by removing their cause ; the only effect ual way of treating them. Ayer's Sarsaparilla has prevented the . usual course of Boils, which have pained and distressed me every season for sev eral years. G. Scales, Plainville, Mich. I was badly troubled with pimples on the face; also with a discoloration of the skin, which showed itself in ugly dark patches. No external treatment did more than temporary good. Ayer's Sar- . saparilla effected . ... A Perfect Cure, " and I have not been troubled sinci.--: T. W. Boddy, Eiver St., Lowell, Mass. I was troubled with Boils, and my health was much impaired. I began . using Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and, in due time, the eruptions all disappeared, and my health was completely restored. John B. Elkihs, Editor Stanley Observer, Albemarle, N. C. I was troubled, for a long time, with a " humor which appeared on my face in. ugly Pimples and Blotches: Ayer's Sar saparilla cured me. I consider it the best blood purifier in the world. Charles II. : Smith, North Craftsbury, Vt. Ayer's Sarsaparilla Is sold by all druggists. Ask for Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and do not be persuaded to take any other. ft Prepared by Dr. J. O. Ayer & Co,, Lowell, Hum. . . Price SI f six bottles, 95. Tbe Greenes in Watauga. ' Of the three brothers who moyed frm Davidson to Watauga 100 years ago, Richard Greene seems to have been the oldest. Through the kindness of Mr. Stephen Bingham, '. I was permitted to examine the old church book of Three Forks church, which now worships in a neat house by New river, 2 miles from Boone. This church was organized in 1790 with 7 members, and first on the list stands the name of Richard Greene, and lower down the name of Ellen der Greene, who was probably his wife. A little further on L found mentioned, the reception by experi ence and baptism of Jeremy Greene', his brother, and Joanna Eggers, his sister. This churcn dook is a ncn mine for some Baptist antiquary to explore. - The fourth son of Richard Greene was Amos, who had twelve children, and moved to Rutherford. . There are in that county and Cleveland persons of the name who are proba bly descendants of this Amos.! Richard Greene's daughter Nelly married Baker, and they with their twelve children moved to Ohio, but left their name in "Baker's Gap" across Stone Mountain, leading from Beaver Dams to Tennessee. ' My grandfather, Joseph Greene, was the sixth child of Richard Greene. He first married Shearer who had one son and one daughter. The daughter, Sally, married Ran som Hays, and mauy of their chil dren and grandchildren are scattered over Watauga, one of their daugh ters being the wife of W. L. Bryan, the popular proprietor of Bryan's Hotel at Boone. Robert Greene, the son, married first Elrod, afterwards the widow Moore. It has been only a few months since he died at his home on Mulberry, and a month or two ago his widow died. His only living son is L. L. Greene, Esq., of Boone. After the death of his first wife, my grandfather married Elrod, and had eight children, of whom my father; David, was the fifth. The only surviving son is Adam, the ol dest of the eighth, who is enjoying a hale old age on Watauga river, at the mouth of Beaver Dam creek, and to him and his wife 1 am in-If debted for most of these facts. Tho r sister next younger, Margaret, who married Jeremy Greene, died tho first of July. Another sister, Mary, ' who married McCanless, was living in Nebraska about a year ago, but since then has not been heard from. A twin brother of Joseph Greene was Benjamin. ' They married sis ters and always lived 6u adjoining farms. It is said that they always shaved together, using the same ra zor, the one going to' the house of the other. Benjamin Greene had one son ' and four daughters, of whom the only survivor is Mrs. Su san Pennell, living near Moravian Falls. His son, Alexander, lived; and died near the' old homestead. His daughter Chaney married Lot Estes, Ksq.i a prominent citizen of the Globe ; Elizabeth married Har rison Edmi8ton, who formerly lived, on Mulberry, now on New river, near Boone ; while Mary married Coffey and was the mother of Pat terson Coffey, a prominent Citizen of Mulberry. A few more facts I shall reserve for another letter. G. W. Greene. Ayer's Ague. Cure acts directly on the liver and biliary apparatus, and drives out the malarial poison which induces liver complaints and bilious disorders. Warranted to cure, or money refunded. v 1,1 ' A New Summer Hotel. S. M.: Duggers new and beautifully situat-, ed hotel at the foot of Beech Moun- -tain, Banner Elk, Watauga county, N. C., accommodates all first-class Sersons at 50 cents per meal, $1 per ay, $6 per week and 120 per month. . Plenty ox maple syrup, bucKwneat cakes and cool rich milk are among the articles at hand. For further particulars address the proprietor at Banner Elk P. O., N. 0.
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