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! T " VOLUME XXII. LENOIR, N. C, TUESDAT. JUNE 15, 1897. NUMBER 3T. SPECIAL To art-Week PRICES. o Be ;ure to Call. W e have made special low cut j, rices for court week only, :is we can not afford to keep i. up long. So don't fail to all while court is in session lor you can then buy more for f 1 .00 Ilia you can for Si 50 :.ftor court. We Have a Big Stock :ai'l plenty to select from and we will make it to your inter t-tloLuy all you will need this season. It is our busi i:i-rt to sell and we will make ;;. ,'.ur business to buy. ( .iii to see us 3nd if you find t '..it we are not doing what v.L- say don't buy a thing Ai.ytl.ing you buy from us i t i -u I suit biing it back an.! g.-t your money. We Guarantee everything we sell to be worth what you pay or your money will be refunded Come ev trybody and see us. Yours Very Truly, The New York Racket. CHARTER OAK. Needs; Do you need Belting ? all at the Charter Oak. Do you need Machine Oil ? Huy at the Charier Ooak. J'o yen need Files 1 Try at the Charter Oak D'i v,;ii use Emery Wheels? 1 ct the Vitrified at the Charter Qak. Wants: Du y.yii want Wagon Material. sl'ukts, Uinis, Tire, and Wagon Irons, at C. 0. D. you want a Good Stove? Uuy at the Charter Oak. ) want a Sewing Machine cheap? Kan to the Charter Oak. lu yi.-n want the Best Plows? hish to the Charter Oak. Is other fellow "justoatP ' ii.- i come to the Charter O, ljo on use Tin ware, Sheet and Valley Tin? i;iy at the Charter Oak. ti( ou want the Very ist Musical Instrumental' von will find them at the Charter Ook, n want your Dollar - to go a long ways ? l'ur hase at the Charter Oak " .vhi want the Best " -de for the least Money f 1Ji at the Charter Oak. IJo you want to be treated fairly and squarely? Ck.:oIo the Charter Oak. VKUVBODY WELCOME AT THE Charter Oak lo Tfca Twilight BY DWa.RD H. BLA.KXET. Over the dusky verge Of the qn-'pt sea, Slowly I watch emerge The ilver rim Of tLe cresent moon; pale, dim, The soft stars, one by one, With holy glee Steal out and light their lamps; For day is done. The tempests are asleep; Only the baim Of siine cool evening wind Ruffles the calm; The listening ear of night Can catch no sound Save when, in slumber bound, Earth turns and sighs; Peace rules the deep. AJre, peace! across the dark, Star-paved sky The Kigut Queen's silver bark . Goes gliding by; With murmeriug faint, the streams Drowse as they now In their hid channels; slow Down dropping dews -Slide from the heaven like gleams Of love-born dreams, Frail breath of violet, Ofrosesfair. Shy hints of mignonette, Rise through the air From unseen gardens, there Beneath my feet. Ah me! how at their spell Swift faacies rise, What touching sympathies, What golden memories, And thoughts how sweet! A VISIT TO CATAWBA Mr. Sbuford's Dairy To the Editor of Topic, Pieaso allow me space in your paper to tell your subscribers about my trip to Catawba, week before last. I drove through the country in a buggy, stopped an hour in Hickory, and met Rav. Mr. Town- send nd had a very pleasant con- vcretit'on with him and in the ccn- vereaticn wo got on the subject of Ucrist e coming back to this earth, but I can't tell all he eaid he thought h uld tuke placo then, but ho did i . L Mgree wiu Dr. Kowe in what he p;eached in Lenoir a few days before. I went from Hickory 9 miles down. the South Fork River to Mr. "R L. Sbuford's I got there about 5 P. M. Just below his barn about fifty head of fine Jersey Cattle and 17 guineys were grazing. Close bye in another lot some of the big eared tribe not called guiney. The cattle were beautiful the most of them quirrel gray in color and very large for Jerseys. Several of the cows will weigh 1400 lbs. Mr. Sbuford milks 25 cows and has a aeparatcr with which he sep arates the cream from the milk as soon as milked. He has 4 hands to milk and the separator about keeps up with them so when he gets done milking he has his cream and milk separated. He takes out one fifth for cream tnd he says he gets all the cream, for he has set the separated milk away and no cream at all rises on it I think the separator for milk is inst as important for this county as a separator for wheat is. It is as far th ai of the sitting plan as the Tbreehcr is ahead of the old frails, and is just as impor tant for the welfare of the people. Let me tell you: with the ad- vaDcemeiit we have made in making peavine hay in the last 3 years we can keep all the cattle we need lor making butter and beef and be able to do with out any hogs. I am look ing forward to tbeday when I won't have to use a pound of bacon in my house, for it i not fit to eat, but I am cff my subject, let me tell yon more about the separator and the cream Oat of 4U gallons oi milk Mr. Shuford takes 8 gal. of cream and out of the 8 gal. of cream he makes 25 lbs. of butter which is a little over a half lb of butter for every gallon of milk. Mr. Shuford averaged last year 416 lbs. of butter per cow including 5 heifers with first calf. Mr. Shuford has the Signal strains of ' Jerseys .and if was a fcianal cow that made the highest yearly record of any. She made 1946 lbs of butter in 12 montna. This letter is long enough and if you or any of your readers want me to I will write about Reeistering Pedigrees and tee different strains of Jerseys. G. M. Gopobth. Educate Toor Bowe wunva... Candv Cathartic, cure constipation loreiei. 10c, sc. If C. C. p. fail, druggists refund money. UUDIr VAiUK - m - 111 III lillUO -r r r' mir-ri 1- Irl Ban. Sampler: Biding Wk!p. . For The Topic. After the Revolutionary war, Gen Sumpter made frequent trips oyer to Kentucky and Tennessee. On one of these trip?, somewhere near Aaheville he got down to drink wa ter at & brook or spring. While drinking, a bear ran across the road in from of him frightening his horse and causing him to run back fire or more miles before he caught him. Ab be passed where he laid down h's whip to drink, he forgot it. On his return two or three weeks afterward, it was still lying where he had left it. On the way home ho spent a night with his nephew, Henjy Sumpter, who lived near where Lenoir now otands, and made a present of the whip to him. Just before his death, which oc curred on the 13th day of Feb. 1862, aged 93 years and 11 months, he gave the whip to Mary Adams, who kept it until just before her death when she gave it to Win. A. Pow ell, with a request that he keep it to remember her. It has the appearance of having been of good quality for that day and time -ornamented with ivory ferrules. The string is stll to' it by which it was secured to the hand. Powell refuses to part with it at any price. N. A. Powell Anecdote of Mrs. Partington. One of those nice young men who part their hair in the middle, asked Mrs. Partington the other day how eld she was, she replied: Eigh ty-three." He heaved a sigh and said, "Before 1 am that old I shall be food for worms." "La me," ex claimed the old ladv. "are von troubled with em? You should use Mrs. Winslow's Vermifuge; and some of Hart's Blood And Livor Pills would bo gcod for you You ought to get ahead of them worms at once," and the good old soul moved on. An interesting feature of the month's magazines is the annouce- ment that The Cent ry Co of New York, have organized a prize com petition of a new kind. They offer J 500 for the best an swers to 150 printed questions which are gratuitously distributed to com petitors. The questions, it seems, oan all be answered from works of reference found in most homes, and deal with popular subjects, such as the origin of common sayings, the meaning of proper names, the na ture of precious stones, metals and the various standards of time and of weight. Something to Depend On. Mr. James Jones, of the firm of Jones & Son, Cowden, 111 , in speaking of Dr. King s New Dis covery, says that last winter bis wife was attacked with La Grippe, and her case grew so serious that physicians at Cowden and Pana could do nothing for her. It seem ed to deyelope into Hasty Consump tion. Having Dr. King's New Dis covery in store, 'and selling lots of it, he took a bottle home, and to the surprise of all she began to get bet ter from first dose, and half dozen dollar bottles cured her sound and well. Dr. King's Ifew Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to do this good work. Try it. F-ee trial bottles at Todd & Shell's Ding Store. It is said that a conyict engineer made an attempt some time ago to bloowup the penitentiary by put ting a weight on the safety valve of ono of the engines, that another oonvict discovered this, tool: off the weight and prevented a horrible dis aster. When a person begins to grow thin there is something wrong. The waste is greater than the supply and it is only a question of time when the end shall come In nine cases of ten the trouble is with the digestive organs. If yon can restore them to a healthy con dition yon will stop the waste, put on new fhsh and cause them Ito feel better in every way. The food they eat will be digested and appro priate to the needs of the system. and a normal appetite will appear. Consumption frequently follows a wasting of bodily tissue because nearly all consumptives have indi gestion. The Shaker Digestive Cordial will restore the stomach to a healthy condition in a yast majori ty of cases. Get one' of their books from jour druggist and learn about this new and valuable remedy. Where Rest tbe Braye. TOMBS OF CIVIL WAR BFROES BOTH BLUE AND SHAY. Widely Scattered Burial Places to Bi Dec oratedPithy Bscorb of Deeds by Wich Uany Won Death and Hb Bowa Some Known to Fame Who Sleep in Unknown Graves. From Boston Transcript, of May 29th. The remains of the great leaders of the civil war are widely scattered and tin flowers which will decorate their graves tomorrow will be gath ered from many States. Grant sleeps by - the Hudson, Sherman on the ban 3 of the Mississippi, and Sher idan at Arlington, across the Fotom ac from Washington. With the exception of West Point and Arling ton, there is no burial place espe cially set apart for soldiers and sail ors which contain the the bodies of any number of noted leaders. A number are buried in the civic cem eteries, Lanrel Hill, Philadelphia; and Spring Grove, Cincinnatti. Sumter's war hero, General Robert Anderson, lies at West Point. In the same cemetery are the graves of Generals Kilpatrick, the dashing cavalryman, J. M Brannan, Grover, Hartsuff, William Hayes, Meckcnzie, -also a distinguished cavalryman, Charles P. Stone, Sykes, leader of the Fflh Corps, and the veteran Keyes, who died in Dwitzoriana in loyo, ana was broug it, to West Point for burial On tU banks of the Hudson, also, a 1 1 m . . .T m tne autnor or tne pnrane, "it any man attempts to haul down the American nag, shoot him" on the spot," GeneralJolm A. Dix, found his last restiug place. His grave in Trinity Cemetery on Washing ton Heights is marked by a simple headstone. Fremont, "The Path Finder," is buried in Rockland Cemetery on the Hudson. 1 General Thomas's graye is in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy. nearly two score, whose names are household words because of their daring deeds in battle, now rest at Arlington, among them Croo the cavalryman and Indian fighter; Lovoll H. Russeau, also uazan ana Mower, wno battlea in the armies of Sheridan and Grant; ola General Harney of the regulars, Donbleday, Gibbon and many others, besides! Sheridan, who has already been mentioned. The heroes of the deck buried at Ar. lington thns far are admirals Por ter and Jenkins and Rear admirals Queen, Jthnson and Shufeldt. The grave of General Sherman in Calvary Cemetery. S.5. Louis, is marked by a monument. Of the. 4-&MY OF THE POTOMAC LEADEBS. McClellan lies in River view Cem etery at Trenton. Burnside sleeps in the soil of his adopted 8'ite, Rhode Island, at Swamp Point Cemetery. Joseph Hooker, '-Fighting Joe," the third commander of the Army of the Potomac, sleeps in Cinoinnati. Meade, fourth and last commander of that army, is bnried in Philadelphia. Colonel Elleaworth, the zouave, known' as the flag martyr of Alexandria, who fell in the secqnd month of the war, is bnried in the village -cemetery at Mechanicsville, N Y. Na thaniel Lyon, also a hero of the first month of the war, is buried at Eaatford, Conn. Major Theo dore Winthrop is buried at New Haven, Conn. "Hold the Fort" Corse, who survived his war wounds and died a few years ago in this city, is bnried at Burlington, lo. Cushing, the hero of Albemarle Sound, and who also sqryiyed his war injuries far soma years, is buried in the Naval Oametery at Annapolis. Hancock is buried at Norristown Pa., in a vault con structed nnder his own supervision. General Henry A. Barnnm is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. T. General Hiram Jarpham, the hero of ho capture of Fort Harrison, lies in Pine Grove Ceme tery, Cherry field, Me. Charles El let, Jr., who organized the first steam ram fleet and died of -a wound received in the desperate naval battle at Memphis, sleeps at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. Y&r ragnt is baric Tat Wpodlawn Cem etery, ijew York, QeneraLStan nard, whose brigade of "Green Mountain" militia turned the tide Absolutely Pure. celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms or adulteration common to tne cheap brands. BOYAIi BAKISQ POWDER cO.. New Yobk. at Gettysburg, in repulsing Pick ett's charge, 13 buried at Burling ton Vt. In the same cemetery lie the remains of General William H. Lytle. the gallant Ohio leader, author of that thrilling poem. "I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying!" With scarcely an exception, the bodies of heroic soldiers who fell in the battle were recovered from the field or afterward taken from the battlefield cemeteries for rein terment at the North. One such exception wa3 in tne case 01 our own. GALLANT COLONEL ROBERT G. SAW whose regiment of black soldiers, "there hne of eyeballs gleamiBg white," had the plrce of honor in the storming of Fort Wagner, who was killed on the parapet, and when the Southerners placed with others in a trench scoopad out of the sand between the fort and the sea, which the action of the waves destroyed, scattering the bones of Wagner's heroes beyond recovery. Another noted war hero, whesj last resting-place can never fitly be honored, is that of the first bader of the Irish brigaleA General Them as Francis Meagher. Some time after the war Meagher was drowned from a vessel in the Mis souri River, Mont, and his body was not recovered. The body of th3 gallant Cmr ws removed from the soene of the massacre on the Little Big lljrn, and buried at West Point. The remains of Cap tain Miles W. Keogh, who died by the side of Custer, ware also iden tified and brought to Auburn, N Y., for burial in Fort Hll Cme- tery. Fighting Phil Kearney, "the one-armed devil was killed within the Confederate lines. His body was recognized by Stonewall Jack son, who had served with him in Mexico, and sent to his friends under a flag of truce, accompanied by a touching message of tribute to the gallantry of au old comrade Kearney lies in Trinity church yard on Broadway, at the head of Wa'l street, New York. There is no monument. The brave Mc- Pherson, ,l who, like Kearney, was shot down within the enemy's lind3 in front of Atlanta, was also recog nized by the enemy. 1 he remains were carefully guarded and sent into the Federal camp. They were brought North for burial in tha family plot, in his old home, Clyde, O. General Jesse L. Reno was shot almost at the crest of South Mountain while reconnoitring the ground for the advance of the Ninth army -corps, H,e was buried. at Oik Hill Cemetery, Washington. Three days later General James K- Mansfield. A HERO WITH WHITE HAIRS. was killed in a similar manner in front of the Twelfth corps at Antietam He died while being borne to the rear in the arms of a coupla of hi3 oldiers, and was hijriafl a,t Middletawn. Conn. Gen era.! J. F. Reynolds was shot through the head by a sharpshooter while piloting his troops to the scene of the first encounter on the Gettysburg field. He died after being placed Jin an ambulance. He was buried at Lancaster City Cem etery Lancaster ra. tfeoerai Wadsworth feu witmn tne enmys lines at the Wilderness. His body was secured when hia troops rushed forward, and brought North for interment in Temple Hill Ceme tery, Geneseo, N. Y, General Jqhr A L?ga 18 Dwr" ieo- n the National Cemet.ry at the Soldsers Home, Washington, D, 0, Slocum is buried at GreenwooJ, Butler's remains lie in private grounds belonging to the famUjj a plot annexed to Hildreth Cemetery at Lowell, Aas a. Bank's grave is at Grova Hill Ccmettry. W-i.ham, Mas?, General Israel B. R uard eon lies at Pontiac, Jich. General Thomas Leonidaa Crittenden sleeps in the "Bivouac of the Dead," on the banks of the Kentucky River, close to the spot where Colonel O'Hara penned the celebrated lines beginning: "On fame's eternal camping grounds, Their silent tents are spread." Beside the grave of General Crit tenden stands a shaft erected to the memory of a Kentuckey boy hero, his only son Lieutenant Crittenden, one of the victims of te Custer massacre. In Woodland Cametery, New York, is buried General Rob ert B. Potter, a brother of Bishop Potter of the New York diocese. He led his regiment, the Fifty-first Now York, in the charge across Burnside's brigade at Antietam. Later he commanded a division in the Ninth corps, and led it into the smoking pit of the celebrated crater after the explosion of the mine at Petersburg. General William F. Bartlett, another hero of the crater battle, is buried at Pittsfield, Mass. Bartlett led a brigade into the crat er, and one of his companions, hearing the thud of a bullet striking him in the leg, offered to assist him to a place of safety. "Oh never mind," said Bartlett, "it was only my wooden leg." Admiral James A. Windslow's grave is in Forest Hill Cemetery, Boston. The little town of Lexington, Va., holds the ashes of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The chief taim is entombed in the chapel of Washington and Lee University, and his great fieli marshal sleeps in the town cemetery. Richmond's noted cemetera, Hol lywood, is commonly supposed to hold the bodies of many noted Con federates, but such is not the case. Th most distinguished soldier bnried there is Jeb Stuart, who was cut down almost at the gates of Richmond by a bullet from the car bine of one of Colonel Russell Al ger's Michigan troopers. General Geo. E Pickett is also buried at Hollywood. In ground known as the Hill plot, near Westbrook and close to Richmond, lies the body of General A, P. Hill. General Jo seph E. Johnson is buried in Green- mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Gen eral Polk, the soldier-bishop, who was killed at Johnston's side, in front of Atlanta, by a shell which General Sherman himself aimed and despatched on its errand of death, is buried at Augusta, Ga, His tomb is underneath the chancel of St. Paul's Church. Only one army commander wa. killed in battle. That was Albeit Sidney Johnston, the soldier who, at the time of his death at Shilob, was the hope ef the South. After leading a successful bayonet charge in front of the terrible Hornet's Nest, General Johnson rode to an other part of the field to order uj fresh troops. C Without knowing u he was then bleeding to death from an artery severed by a bullet thet had strnck him dnring a moment of excitement and had not been felt. A stream of blood pouring over the top of his bootleg attracted the at tention of his aides, who helped him from his saddle. Death followed before a surgeon could be sum moned. Beauregard is buried in Metarie Cemetery, New Orleans. ForreBt, the wizard of the saddle, .r Elm wood Cemetery, MomphL; Semmes. cqmrnaader of the cruiser Alabataa, in New Orleans. General Armittead, the only brig adier in Pickett's column wbo crossed tho stonewall 1 barrier ou on Cemetery Ridg, was mortally wounded and died a prisoner. lit was recognized by Federal officai and buried in a yard in the ton Ganwal Richard Garnett, whe: Pickatt'a column was forming, lay in an ambnlanoe prostrated by sari ous illness. Unwilling to be lef . behind, he wrapped himself in n blue overcoat picked upon the field, mounted his horse and led bi3 bri gade as far as theEmmittsbnrg pike A high fence obstructed the column at that point and the Federal fire . frost the riage aaaea to tne con in sion in Pickett's ranks.' Garnet rode along the front urging his men to press forward. He was then cov ered with blood and leaned well over upon his horse's neck. Sud denly tnere was a fresh ontbunt of bullets from the ridge. Steed and rider went down together and the column moved on. After the repalso oi Pickett the body of Gen- eral Garnet lay unrecognized be tween the lines. His sword and field glass Were found and subsequently restored to his family, bat the most dilligent search and inquiry failed to prevent his barial among the un known dead of Gettysbnrg. Tutt's Pills Cure All Liver Ills. A Strong For iiiication. Fortify the body against disease by Tutt's Liver Pills, an absolute-cure for sick headache, dys pepsia, sour stomach, malaria, constipation, jaundice, bilious ness and all kindreel troubles. "The Fly-Wheel of Life" Dr.Tutt; Your Liver Pills are the fly-wheel of life. I shall ever be grateful for the accident that brought them to my notice. I feel as if I had a new lease of life. J. Falrleigh, Platte Cannon, Col. Tutt's Liver Pills A Great Bargain IN L For the next 30 days. Where? At 0. M. SIGMON's, North Main Street, five minutes walk jrom Court Hone. For the next 30 days I win make Photographs at less than half price. I have Juat fin ished Remodeling my Gallery and Waiting and DreaslLg Booms with aU the accommodat ona per taining to is FIRST-CLASS , GALLERY, ; Bring your father, mother children and beat mends before it Is too late, for life la un certain. For those who ara Eighty years old or more, I will make Photos Absolutely FREE. AU negatives preserved. Dupli cates can be had at reduced rates. rpHANKING the people of Lenoir and ur. X roundinsr country for their tatronaare In the past, I respectfully solicit the same in the future. If Photos fade you know where to find CM. SIGMON PHONE No. 33. We Ready To accommodate the tratel-' ing pnblio both day and night When you want to "git there" jo st ask for one of onr fast horses, Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Buggies, Wagons and Harness. We will enlarge onr business so as to meet all demands. Jnst tell as what yon want and we will cheer fully serve you at Reason -a"ble-i Rates. Telephone Gall No. 12. A.. 8. ABERNETHY & 80N, Lenoirf N. C A HORSE ! A HORSE 1 Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Buggies and Wagons. A big: lot of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Collars, and Everything in Har ness Line, DON'T FAIL TO BUYiNOW! Telephone No. 1. iieiel,- craig k mm. t LENOIB, i ' - JL r; ' " r "i .' i: ' t I ji I 13 f I 1 IS mm . t ii v- ... I)