'A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and f&6nesty in Governmental Affairs;
Vol. IV. No. 47.
Salisbury, N. O., Wednesday, NoyEMBiijbs;.
Wm. h. Stewart, Editor.
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STATESVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
Sheriff After Booze Ar'I'K An Unusually
Heaij Criminal Docket.
State by ill e Landmark, Nov. 4th.
Did you ever know the month
of October to pass in thiB locality,
without a killing frost? Major
Geo. W. Clegg, of Statesville, who
is 83 years old and has alw ays
been a close observer, thinks " the
October which en ded Saturday is
a record-breaker in 'this respect,
it toeing the first, so far as his rec
ollection goes, in which there
was no killing frost. I
Walter Russell, a young white
man whose home is in the north
ern part of the county, was ar
rested at Turnersburg Friday af
ternoon by Deputy Sheriff Ward
and was lodged in jail here until
Saturday afternoon, when he was
taken to Morganton by the Sheriff
of Burke county, who came for
him. Russell is charged with
stealing a bicycle at Morganton
about two months ago and he was
arrested on a warrant issued
there.
The other night Sheriff Sum
mers received a 'phone message
that a citizen from a neighboring
county, who drives a large spotted
steer to cart and is well known to
the officers, was headed towards I
Statesville with a load of block
ade liquor. The sheriff imme
diately mounted his horse and
went to the home of Deputy Sher
iff Ward, who joined him, and
the two rode out the Turnersburg
macadam road. A few miles out
from town they met the citizen
under suspicion and ordered him
to stop his steer and allow them
to examine the contents of his
cart. The countryman obeyed the
order readily and officers searched
his cart. Three gallons of the
"real article" were found in the
cart, but ae there is no law against
a man having that amount of
booze in his - possession, the offi
cers were forced to allow the
owner of the team to go his way.
Before leaving the .countryman,
however, they gave him to under
stand they have had him under
suspicion for some time and warn
ed him not to haul liquor to t as
section in the future.
Iredell Superior Court, Judge
Long presiding, will convene this
morning. The criminal docket
for this term is heavy 133 cases
being set for trial. Most of the
cases, however, are for minor of
fenses. The cese of H. C. Heit-
man, tne .Lexington inventor,
charged with passing a
bank draft on the firm of
bogus I
J. K.
Morrison & Sons, is one of the
most interesting cases to be tried.
Noah Sloan, -whose head was
so badly crushed by the kick of a
mule some .months ago that he
lav at the point of death at his
home six miles north of States
ville for three or four weexs, is
now rapidly regaining his strength I
and has been in town a number
of times. The wound on his head
is still in a dangerous condition
but it is thought that it will heal
without further trouble and the
physicians predict his complete
recovery. His escape from death
is considered almost miraculous
by those who have seen the hole
iu his head, which exposed his
brain. The skilled physicians
saved his life. -
Profit in Dairying.
A recent report of the A. & M.
College dairy shows that for the
past nine months the cost of the
dairy was $3,409 and the receipts
$6,414, leaving a net profit of
$3,005. The dairy had 41 Jersey
cows, all but six graded, ihe
milk was sold in bulk at 25 cents
p r gallon and the cream tested at
3i per gallon. The results are
delared to be the most conclu
aive proof that there is no dairy
lug in the State that can show
better results.Raleiirh disnatch.
Rheumatism promptly driven
from thjeiblcod with Dr. Shoop'j
Rheamatic Remedy. .Don't waste
" a
test will surely tell. In tablet or
Xiquia.iorm. oom oy uornenson
& uoojc.
NOT SORE OYER DEFEAT.
Democracy's Recent Candidate for Presi
dent Comes Up Smiling.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb.,
of the 4th is to the following ef
fect: "While not caring to discups at
this time the political effect of
Democratic victory in his home
State or analyze the cause, Will
iam J. Bryan this afternoon in an
iuformal talk to a number of
friends who called on him ex
pressed his pleasure at the result
in Nebraska and tbe satisfaction
it afforded him to learn of the
election of so many of his politi
cal and personal friends
"A delegation of nearly a hun
dred from Lincoln visited Mr.
Bryan at Fair view to express to
him their confidence and d&votion
and to assure him that such was
tentiment of a majority of his
city and State.
'Mr. Bryan in responding Baid:
" I am highly gratified over
the result in this State. The na
tional defeat has not been such a
disappointment when we have had
30$ many things to console us. I
hope I have convinced my friends
that running for office has only
been an incident to my work,
My heart has never set on
holding office, but I wanted to do
certain works and it looked as
though the presidency might offer
the opportunity to do that -work,
I am sure that in private life I
can have the chance to do some
thing? One is not required to
hold office in order to do big
things ; one is simply 'required to
do things within his reach, and
that much is within the reach of
each of us.
"'Personally I shall flod as
much joy being out of office, if
the returns show I must be, as I
would be in office. I hope still to
be of influence to bring about
needed reforms. I appreciate
very much the confidence and
loyalty of the people near us. It
has been the greatest comfort that
the election has given us. The
fact that those among whom wo
live have shown this confidence
we appreciate more than I can tell
you. it nas Deen Kind in you to
come out here and visit us on this
dav.'
"The defeat he sustained yester
day did not weigh heavily on Mr.
Bryan. He was one of the most
cheerful of those at his home and
laughed and joked good naturedly
with his visitors Tonight Mr.
Bryan was the guest of honor at
the banquet of the State Teachers'
Association, where he made a
short address. He has no other
immediate plans than to rest at
his home, following his canvass.
Repairing Roads.
The Scientific American of Octo
ber 24 has a sensible and timely
article upon the -maintenance of
roads which is worthy of general
attention . "In the present cam
paign of good roads education" it
says, "more attention should be
paid to the vital function of road
maintenance, Our present system
of building a first-class road and
then letting it go as fast as wind,
weather and traffic can wreck it,
u the height of folly aDd extrava-
garfce." The article contrasts this
I wasteful American system with
I the earful repairing of European
roads. The European system is
the keeping up of roads by con
stant work. Repairs are in prog-
ress an tne tim& oy BKiuea wore
m .1 j 1 .1 !11 T i
men. The solitary road repairerrffchis same Harrison Blankenship
with his wheelbarrow, pick and
shovel, and a little pile of broken
stone and topdreesing, is a famil
iar sight on the roads in the pro
gressive countries of Europe. Each
section of a road is in charge of a
repairer, and is inspected by him
daily. On dectecting a low spot,
where water may collect he makes
immediate. Baltimore Sun.
I ill I lr.
waicnea rineen rears.
"For fifteen years I have watch-
-
ed the working of Bucklen's Arni-
ica Baive l n8 n ver lailed to
tn wh eh k wa nnnlw Tt h
LaVed us manv a doctor bill." aavs
a. X. naray, of Jliast Wilton,
Maine, zoc at drug stores.
CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY.
Boy Has Bad Fall. Senator Overman Makes
Fine Effort at China Grove.
Concord Times Nov. 2nd.
We are glad to note the fact
that U. m. isenhour. who some
r
time ago had a stroke of paralysis,
is now able to be out from home.
W, A. Campbell, a well known
farmer of No. 6 township, died
last Tuesday, aged 65 years. The
body was interred Wednesday
J. H Bosb, who lives on one of
Z. A. Morris' places, the old D.
W. Moore place, lost two good
horses recently. One was valued
at $75 and the other at $200. The
best horse died nf colic, caused, it
is thought, by eating pea vine
hay.
On last Thursday evening at 8
o'clock E. B. Arrowood, formerly
of Bessemer, but now iu the em
ploy of Gibson mill, was maried
to Miss Delphia Luetter Mills at
toe home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Mills, on
McGill street, Rev. D. F. Helms
officiating.
Little Daisy Dean, the infant
of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Patter-
Eon, one week old; died last Sat
urday night, aud the body was in
terred Sunday afternoon at the
cemetery.
One of the closing speeches of
the campaign was made at China
Grove Saturday afternoon by Sen
ator Lee S. Overman. More than
x hundred people heard the
speech which was one of great
power.
Dr. D. D. Johnson, who had
been visiting in Washington, An
napolis and other places for three
weeks, returned home Saturday
night. Dr. Johnson while away
was prospecting in the neighbor
hoods of Charlottesville and Cul
pepper, Va. with the intention
of buying a farm onwhich to live.
The twelve-year-old son of
Henry Barnhardt, of No. 5 town
ship, fell from a persimmon tree
Sunday and was badly hurt, his
back being severely injured and
one lez broken. He web in the
tree after an o'possum, and 3tep
Ded on a decayed limb, which
gave way under him and precipita
ted him to the ground, a dis
tance of twelve feet.
Traded Wires.
About fifteen years ago Harrison
Blanker-ship and Ham Waters, of
Ashe county, swapped wives
Blankenship was a Baptist preach
er and Waters Fas a deacon. They
were both members of South Fork
Baptist church. They both were
excluded without parley. Blank
enship eloped with Waters' wife
and Blankenship's wife sued and
obtained a divorse. Blankenship
some time after the swap was asked
how it came about that he and
Waters made this swap. He said
when they were marriod they made
a mistake and married the wrong
girls, aud only discovered the
mistake after the ceremony was
over. They were both married
the same night At the time of
the swap Blankenship. had six
children, and Waters two. Blank
enship eave Waters two children
to boot in the swap, therefore
making an equal division of chil
dren. Blankenship was asked if
he gave Waters anything further
in this tiade and he replied : ' 'Yes,
I gave him $5 and a buck sheep."
A little more than a week ago
had the audaicity to come to this
county after the lapse of fifteen
years and palm himself as a Meth
odist divine. He is now assisting
in a revival meeting at Mabel,
this county, -Boone, N. C, spe
cial to Charlotte Observer.
A clergyman writes: "Prevn-
tics, those little Candy Cold Cure
Tablets, are wonders in my
parish." Preventics surely will
check a cold, or the Grippe, in a
very few hours. And Preventics
are so safe and harmless. No
Quinine, nothing harsh nor sick-
w
ening. Fine for feverish restless
children. Box of 48 at 25c. Sold
by Cornelison & Cook.
THE REEL FOOT CASE.
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Some
Details About the - Cause of
Trouble In Tennessee. .
Reel Foot lake, in the northwest
corner of Tennessee,- which iff
really a submerged swamp, was
created by an earthquake in 1811,
which caused the low lands near
the river to sink; and is about 85
miles long by ten miles wide.
The land which sank, the section
being then squarely settled, was
held mainly under grant, and the
idea we may say the ownership
was practically abandoned when
the act of nature rendered title
apparently valueless.
The lake, however, affords fine
fishing, shooting and trapping;
and its shores are fringed by fam
ilies who make a livelihcod from
hunting, in addition to small
farming; they shoot wild fowl,
trap fur-bearing animals and
catch fish forjthe market. This
"colony" may perhaps consist of
50a to 1,000 people.
Some years ago two men living
near one extrimity of the lake
conceived the idea of ditching
from it to the Mississippi river
and draining the land for agricul
ture. To this end they set about
acquiring, by quit-claim or other-
Wise, the ancient; shadowy titles
to the lake's bottom. They were
forced, by threats of the people4
whose living was endangered, tqi
desist. Later other men living
near the other extemity of the
swamp formed a corporation to
market the cypress and other tim
ber, and set about securing titles
to as much of the the lake's bed
in that vicinity as they could.
They joined forces with the men
who had first propesed to drain,
as drainage would ot course
greatly assist the lumber com-
panvin.it.-workMr-.. V
a,
The lake dwellers were again
threatened, in their direct and
primitive way, to Bhed blood if
that lake were drained, and the
project was again stopped.
The corporation has influence,
as its stockholders included such
men as the two prominent lawyers
who were assaulted, and one of
whom was mnrdered. the other
night; and the passage of a bill
by the Tennessee Legislature was
secured, ''placing restrictions on
hunting aud fishing in the lake.
Persons might take game or fish for
personal U9e only. If they wish
ed to hunt or fish for the markets
they must pay a privilege tax.
This privilege tax was regarded
by the lake-dwellers as. prohibi
tive, and they were stirred into
that wra'h which found its outlet
in the murder of one of their op
ponents and the attempted mur
der of another.
Such is a bare outline of the
facts antecedent to the present
disturbance iu Tennessee. For
many of the data we are indebted
to a prominent Asheville. gentle
man who has hunted and fished
on
Reel Foot Lake at intervals
since childhood ; we may err in
some of the details, but the situa
tion isset forth in its essentials.
Asheville GUznto-Keinrs.
Volunteers on the Chain Gang.
Seven men who have never been
convicted ot crime are serving
time on the chain gang in this
county. These men have been
arrested for various offenses and
have been bound over to Superior
Court, and not being able to give
bond have voluntarily gone to the
chain gang and are wearing
strines and are working like
a.
convicts until their trial time in
Superior Uourt . comes, it is
presumed that these volunteer road
builders will plead guilty of the
crimes whereof they are charged
and when'they are sentenced credit
will be givim them for the time
served on the roads. Soon after
the last term of Superior Cour
for the. trial of criminal cases,:
neero was put in jail to the
C3
November term, and being alone
in jail he begged to be allowed to
go out to the roads and break rock
and that fellow has been making
a splendid hand since last August,
ALBEUARLE AND STANLY COUNTY.
the, RfDQ&Hcao
tfone?Btf Llwor. A little
Chlldls onrned to Death.
BfanlJrBni
Pllv Ross is extremely feeble,
ar,d hij death may occur at any
.tiare.r He and his aged 1 wife have
both. been very ill for, a number
of joaonths.
p-v-BufTeriBg, several weeks,
Mrs J. A. Ritchie passed from
this::life on Monday" morning.
Her death was not unexpected, as
the doctors had said, seveal days
re that -they had no- hopes of
if0$tv&6fm a'devot-
nu8band, two sons and four
fdaughters, - one - bf the sons and
two daughters married.
Banner May Game, the 4-year-old
grand daughter of Mrs. Morri-
son, of the Lillian mill, of this
city, was fatally burned Sunday
afternoon about 2 o'clock, dying
about 6 orclock without pain, save
intense thirst. It seemed that
the child was wanting to assist its
grandmother in starting a fire,
nd that she climbed by means of
a"charr to the place where the
matches were kept. She was dis
covered first by F. W. Anderson,
who gave the alarm. TheSchild had
lighted some paper at the wood
pile, and when seen by Mr. Ander
son herclothing had caught and
she she entirely enveloped in
flames.
North Albemarle precinct needs
to be cut in two. It takes all
day to do the voting as it is now,
and voters have to stand in line
for hours at a time awaiting their
turn. It is to be hoped that thie
difficulty will be remedied bofore
another election.
A week' afgo, there was every in
dication that the county would go
Democratic by at least 800 major
ity. But at the closing days of
the campaign were days of Repub-
lcan bribery and corruption.
Money was freely spent by them,
and their campaign fund is
hought to have been as much as
$8,000. It is a knon fact that
two mtn were paid $15 a piece
or their votes, and that others
were offered $10. And Republi
can liquor was another tactor.
These are not idle charges, made
or effect ; buf we are assured that
there is no doubt as their to
truthfulness.
Keep Your Cotton Dry.
The cotton weigher at Marsh-
ville requests everybody to keep
cotton dry. It seems strange that
men of average sense will never
earn that the South is losing more
than $12,000,000 every year be
cause farmers do not shelter their
cotton, and that it is worse than
folly to expose to weather the pro
duct that represents ttn sweat and
toil of their women and children.
Ignorance has cost the Sonth more
money than all other causes com
bined. Keep your cotton under
shelter. Our Home.
Of Course It Caused Trouble.
As a result of tbe feudal war at
Campon Junction, about 20 miles
west of Jackson, Islow Allen aged
20 years, was shot and killed last
night and Alvin Carver, aged;22
was badly injured. Clarence Sher
man who did the shooting, was
shot in the head but managed to
escape to the mountains. Eight
barrels of whiskey shipped into
the town for election brought on
the trouble although family trou
bles ot long standsng played a
prominent part. Lexington, Ky.,
dispatch.
How Is Your Digestion.
Mrs. Mary Dowling, of No. 228
8th Ave., San Francisco, recom
mends a remedy for stomach trou
ble. She says: "Gratitude for
the wonderful effect of Electric
Bitters in a case of acute indiges
tion, prompts the testimonial. '.
am fully convinced that for stom
ach and liver troubles Electric
Bitters is the best remedy on the
market today." This great tonic
and. alterative medicine mvigo
rates the system, purifies the
blood and is especially helpful in
all forms of female weakness
50c at all drug stores.
V"7
bMd
ear
THE WAY IT STANDS.
Votes Each of the Candidates for President
Will Receive In the Electoral College.
FOB BRYAN.
Alabama. ". 11
Arkansas ........ 9
Colorado . .
Florida..
5
5
18
13
9
Georgia
Kentucky..
Louisiana
Maryland.. 6
Mississippi
10
18
,
-8
12
7
9
12
18
Missouri..
Nebraska. ,
Nevada..;
North Carolina . .
Oklahoma
South Carolina..
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia ...... : 12
"Total...... 180
FOB TAFT.
California. 10
Connecticut 7
Delaware. 8
Idaho.... 3
Illinois.. 27
Indiana 15
Iowa .' 13
Kansas 10
Maine..... 6
Massachusetts 10
Michigan 14
Minnesota 11
Montana , 8
North Dakota 4
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey... 12
New York 89
Ohio..... 23
Oregon. , . . . . . . . 4
Pennsylvania 84
Rhode Island 4
South Dakota 4
Utah .". . 3
Vermont : 4
Washington 5
West Virginia . 7
W isconsin ... . .". . : 18
Wyoming 3
Total. 303
Mr. Bryan s pluralities in the
states he carried aggregate 590,-
ouu, while those ot Mr. rait are
i- -y i A . m -mm- mn m.
1,438,822.
it is estimated that the com
plexion of the next congress will
be, Democrats 171, Republicans
206. Majority necessary to con
trol, 196. This estimate is merely
an approximate one and it may be
slightly changed one way or the
other, as the result in some of the
Congressional districts has not
been officially determined.
Taken altogether the Republi
can party simply had a walk-over.
That money, coercion and vari
ous brands ot intimidation were
freely resorted to in many locali
ties, especially in the large cities,
cannot well be doubted. Indeed,
these have been the taotics of the
party in other presidential elec
tions and if they are charged with
resorting to similar methods in
the last one, they have their own
record to blame for it.
- It is done, all is over and we
can only grin ana accept the re
suit as cheerfully as we can.
There is more Catarrh in this
action of the country than al
other diseases put togther, and
until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pro-
nouunced it a local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by
constantly failing to cure With
local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutianal dis
ease and therefore requires con
stitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on
the market. It is taken internal
ly in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. It acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer on6 hundred
dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials. :
Address: F. J. CHENEY &
CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
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LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
A Hustling Lot if Young Men. Captain
noooins is Mill improving.
Lexington Dispateh, Nov. 4th.
The property of the O. E. Ston-
er Clothing Company, at Ashe
ville, has been turned over to a
trustee in bankruptcy by the re
ceiver. O. E. Stoner is a Dnvid.
son county man and is well known
her. His friends hone that hia
business difficulties in this period '
of hard t.mes will be arranged
satisfactorily with him and . his
company. .
Somebody has Jteen laying up
trouble for himself at the icraded"
school building bv disarranflrirnr
- -
hings especially on Sundays:
and the police are going to look.
out for folks who loaf around
there. It may be that a special
Sunday policeman will be put on
the grounds to keep off folks who
enter the building and make
ej
themselves at home. Those who
bave been trespassing had better
'cut it out."
The Dispatch doubts if there is
any other lodge of any secret or
der in the state that has done as
well as the Enterprise council of
Juniors since the council was es
tablished. The young men of the
community organized the 25th of
January and now have. 87 new
members, with every reason to be-
ieve that they will have 100 by
Christmas. The lodge was sorelv
hurt by a fire which destroyed its
building, but has built a new
house, and is about ready to move
in that. The insurance carried on
the oldhouse was $400, and they
have spent $700 on the new one,
and may -spend more to complete
the lower floor for a store room.
Captain F. C. Robbins is able
to go and come when he chooses
now, and on Monday was greeted by
many of his friends who had not
seen him since he was seized with
fever back in the summer. Ask
ed how he was getting along, the
old soldier replied that he was
eating all "he could afford at
the present prices of rations.
The Captain has a splendid con
stitution for so old a man and is
coming along all right.
Monday was almost as interest
ing a day in Lexington as yester
day was. A great number of
country people were in town and
all the town nearly, circulated on
the streets all day long, talking
politics and wondering which way
the cat would jump. The county
commissioners met, it being first
Monday, and the board of educa
tion had a call meeting. There
was little news, however, apart
from that which touched politics.
This week has been a very dull
one for news that didn't have any
thing to do with the eleotion.
A Railway Curiosity.
There is a loop on the Carolina,
Clinchfield & Ohio railroad once
known as the South & Western in
th.s state that is best described by
this incident. A big official of
the road lost his hat from a train,
and the conductor over the officer's
protest stopped the train and sent
a flagman back after it. No soon
er had the man left the train than
the conductor pulled the cord and
the train was off. Surprise being
expressed at his leaving the flag
man, the conductor said he would
catch up. Sure enough, the train
stopped presently and the flagman
got aboard with the hat. He had
walked 600 feet from one part of
the loop to another, while the
train made the nine-mile 'trip
around. A stone can be tossed
from one track to the other. It
is a feat of engineering.
A Righteous Sentence.
A negro caught peepiDg into
private apartments at the Fayette
ville graded school was sentenced
to 60 lashes, to be put on by the
chief of police, and was given 30
little mintes to get out of town.
He only consumed 5 of the min
utes and spent the other 25 in get
ting out of the county. This was
a good sentence and the mavor
was right in putting it on.