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s I iiaynA ,¥ iV. • ;.w; inm itjw. ti.-r ‘ .W-a eri. '^>14. iwfj ***.•' :)« ) t t »•„.*» LTf)- M;-, -,r • '*» >•*»* » " tfftfirJ flirt .•*, Jf.‘ '••'M UJ .1.1.11 /.'UK/ voii rx. ASHEVILLE, N. O., THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1878. NO. 3©. LOCAL. *f Ai-rlYulM Add De* —r" fm»tm«i» ofMalb. - £*- AWUVAilU,^.. From Ilenry’s dally except Mou’rs at 11 n. m. “ .'v *“** 8»>i luK«* do. do. do. at I p. m. “ WaynesviUe do. do. do. at T p. m. “ KudMiiurd .do. do. Sundays at4 p. in. ** drociiviile, S. U„ do. do. do. at 1 p. m. *• VVeavervilie, do. do, do.at8a.ttu - BornavdleTueadays aud Fridays at Sp.au ••.Brevard Mondays and Kridayg at S a. in. iaecetnor Mondays ami Thursdays at l» m. fleary*it tl » m., daily, except 'Saturdays ' Warm Spnuga, To. m., daily except Suotlara. GreeHvtile, ». €.» t p»ia., - *• . Waymnvius.8 a. m_ . •» *« „ '-\h ‘..y~ Kutberford, 0 a. in , “ ** **>'.. . Weavervillet ltf a. m.,. »«’••. .« Brevard. 1 p. w,, Mondays and Thursday*, . -Lmueateiv »»* ..« ~ .^^&esssss=x-. » All mails close vinaiat one kail tear before ^schedule tiuxe for departure. - - - tear omnca sorm% :.-"• -.7. ■ *' General delivery will be open from • a. m. to t p. m. Money fmier and ltegiater btialneaa transacted from » a. m. to 4 p. in., and at no ,other time; nor will any hnstnew be done ttt . tide depa<tiuent of the office on Sunday. Gen-, eral delivery will be open ou Sunday from t to lu »• «“• These rtriaa will be strictly complied July 2ft, 1S78. J. A. FAGQ, P.M. For Salk o« Kent.—Mr new residence on Patton Avenue, containing eleven rooms. Apply to me at the Bank Hotel. J. L. Smatubhb. Visitors still .coming in by scores, and there is room for nil. ;-;— ~~t— ' Honor and shame from ne condition rise: ' Act well year part and thea go advertise. .A golil, Aeal with chain attached, has been lost, and a liberal reward has been oflered for its recovery. See notice. Mo.st ot the shadows that cross our paULtluourfU lift* am caused by stand* lujr In our own light. Lightning has killed two husbands for * Minnesota woman. Some women .ineivly give their husbands thunder. 1 Tlle wor*t thing shout a mosquito is It. long soliloquy us to where and when U luid bet ter.tattle ,|Uwu and bite. Mary -had settle lamp, Tw»* iKieu tvitti kerosene; -a sue mew riant sewn me ctumifey. And vanished from the scene. Trims been discovered, by a close ob server, that henpecked husbands are iuvariably men with hairless lips, it _takc* a moustache to awe a female. A shark attacked two San Francisco J&yysra who wogobaihlog iu-tltemtrfr and the Post calls it a ** most flngrairt ca^ of want of professional courtesy on reconU” No time is lost In courtships ’.In New .Zealand. When a man is ready to marry he hands the girl a dead rabbit, and she must say yes or no In live minutes. Willie Manning, of the Danville News, Who recently visited this section and tlia )Vurm Springs, writes up ‘bis trip esten alv.iy and well. Would Im pleased to 8».e him this .vaya^aia. . Parties desiring to visit Charlotte .should, not forget-the excursion to1 leave , Henry on the :2th inst., one dollar the rouudtrip. The Messrs. Wilson Broth ers, lessees, guarantee a pleasant time. Cot. F»gg, while riding horseback the ■other evening, had his horss to shy sud denly, -which rather unceremoniously set the gentleman on tha ground. It was really a narrow sscaps from a serious h Urt, bytw? Me ,plyaee<Utw.,CelaaeJ eut . ferod na iecontenieoce, ... . Itts i mistake to suppose one' can wrrli off sickness. If you fall ill, favor your body and take the required rest , -' “ xrv n ii i| out appetite. Your stomach will Indi cate when it la time to take food, and “then It will be prepared to digest It. Court last Monday at Newton, Catawba connty Judge Avery opened Court the same day at Graham. North Carolina has at last an honest aud respected ju diciary—seven Democratic and two lie. publican Cireuit Judges, aud three Democratic Supreme Judges. Dk. David E. Ijoutx.—This gentle man died in Jackson county some days ago. Be had spent some months In our section, making Asheville his headquar ter-, with Ills accomplished family, and made friends of all. That dread disease consumption, marked him for its own, anil well-has it done its work. Tim sympathy of our community is assured tlie bereaved family. , , . _ A Good Contribution—The Epis eopal congregation, last Sabbath, con tributed $»9.09 for file yellow-fever snf* ferers. This, Trinity, ciiurdi u ever alive to good works. The sail of the kuflfering always touches a- responsive chord in this little flock. Tile other congregations wilt doubtless- follow this example; fnr. likn their Episcopal brethren, they have never hesitated In helping the needy. God knows these' times demand all the charity bunmuity is ea|»able of. - A l.«wy,r Im ■■ Editor'* lied. I «l«pt In anxlltar'n bed lut night, ',v When no other chanced to he nighr"” l thought MI tumbled the editor’* bed. How easy editor* lie! ■ —(Exchange. MMw lawyer slept In the editor’s bed. When no other chanced to be nigh, T And though, as above, he has nairelyaald How easily editors lie,” . -‘v.. He must then admit, as he lay on that bed - And slept to his heart’s desire, Whatever he may say of the editor’s bed, Twas the lawyer himself was the tier. .... ' —[New Orleans Bulletin. . The Bell-Punch in North Car olina. r— North Carolina proposes 10 introduce the bell-punch for registering votes ut elections. Then the popular sonj; will be:— ' ^ men he receives S'vete the tntpectsr* ::ct' • ” Ui punch in the prencucc of tuu elecUre, A I)em. cheek slip for s white votare, A Hep. cheek etlp for a black ulprgare, s An Iud. ctteck slip for a bold bolt are, A11 in the presence ol the declare. The above is from the New York World, To which *e beg leave to acki j tlie following j— _ And if the head of the electare Should be covered with wool instead of hair, And he votes Republican fair anti square. The inspectare anall at once prepare To |winch the head of the electare That is covered with wool lust cad of hair, '-7^~: —[Philadelphia BolietiiL juckaoa llema. From onr Speclai-Correapondent.] ^ . . Hiirae thieves, made a raid upon This county last week and stole two horses one the property-of widow Dillard and the other of Mr. Wilkes, of Scott’s creek. They were por-ned so closely that they abandoned the horses and took To the mountains,nnd are still at I4rge.__ This section is unusually quiet, except little commotion that is being created by hungry creditors on old debts. ' —— * Judge Avery and Solicitor Ferguson, accompanied by members of the legal profession, reached Webster Friday even ing tn rouit to Graham Court. We have had good rains and the crop prospects are excellent Jackson, with proper cultivation, is one of the very best producing counties of the State. - ~~ V-""_' Fit*. . Gone to The University.—Under thq law allowing each county to send a pupil to the University “free of .till-, tloo,” our county board appointed N. A* Reynolds to be the uupil from Btm cotnhe.. This is a good opportunity for our young friend, and we trust fie may, by a long life of usefulness, be an honor to ids county and State. _ _ Removal.—Our friend Frock has fe» inovecfhis Boot and'Shoe Emporium to the room on Main struek in the Denver Building. Mr. F .y as we have before' remarked, is one of the best boot and shoe makers in the State, and deserves all tlie success he is meeting with. Call j ou him for good and line work. The best material always on hand to supply - the trade with. ". .. Messrs. Wells «fc Snugos have oj>eiied their Marble Yard opposite the Central Hotel, and have gotten under good way. Some specimens of their work, now on hand, are beautiful ami tasty, and their prises are very low. Remember the deaf dead ones. A neat memento to their memory, telling the | passer-by of their having lived and their virtues, is the last sad duty which can be performed, and one that should always he done with pleasure. • • | -»-T ft > —■ « ■ * Utro: Charles Price and his accom plished brldo are spending some days at I the Eagle. • EJt-Judge Cloud Is registered at the Swannanoa. lie has been some days at the Warm Spring*, and says the grass widows down there ave umnUtakably ■ r:*' * * * • CXur townsman Capt Tom Johnston has returned home from a business trip e to South Carolina. Fugitives from the yellow fever sec tions still pouring In at the Warm -Springs. * ■ Madison Tobacco Statistics.—On r good friend J. J. Gudger, Esq., who is the efficient county correspondent for the Agricultural Department, kindly ^writeg ns under Recent data, that^ accor ding to official statistics fwtridi&d him by the various shippers And railroad agents, the tobacco crop of Madison last year was over 520,000 pounds;and the average price obtained was eleven cents. So our Madison friends realized on last year's tobacco crop some $60,000. Three | or four years ugo no tobacco scarcely I was raised In this little county. In a few years more it would not surprise us to see Its crop rated at millions of : pounds, If not millions of dollars; We hope so. * . Change.—-Our yoaug friend Briggs, for ! some time clerk at the poet-office, has re sided for the pnrpote of attending Wake forest College, and Sir. Vandiver see* ceeda him. tfe wish Ur. B. all success, and are sure Mr. Vandiver writ make* f most efficient and popu ar clerk. C»u«tjr IlrniR. fr»OM 0C» MaULAK OoHAKSFOKDENT.] Mefsrg. Editors;—There Is a steady sobriety In business affairs 1h this county that Is noticeable There is not a man in tite county with “ wildcat ” proclivU ties. No alr-cAatie builders live lu Ma con. Debts are contracted to be paid, and are paid, both at hotne'-and abroad. It has been a lortfc while slhce one of our cl tire us was sued in the Superior Court for debt. The Sheriff luts but turn execution in his hands for over $100 and that is for coats in a laud suit. Taxes were all quietly paid. Is fixed at 94 cents on the $100. This will put Macon entirely dut of debt. Hat there is one thing- about this levy i do not like. It presumably puts nearly 56 cents on the $100 for county pur poses. This does us Injustice. Uur property Is assessed at very little. If any, over half Its real worth, at a cash price, it makes ns look poor, indeed. Double our aggregate and then you wltt nut have the value of our property. This would give us a better show In the eyes of strangers, arid place our tax at 38 cents Instead of btt cents- The Bame valuation carried throughout the Stale would give us less than -i0 cents for all State purposes. To say the value of all the property In the State is only one hundred and twenty-live millions is a shauie, when three hundred millions would not cover U*~ But, savs one, the equation of property and poll makes a low valuation necessary. This reason ing if fallacious and hateful. Mica mining has been very quiet for sometime, but now shows much activity. Corundum has a first rave foreshadow ing just now. Never so good before. Dr. Love has recently sold to a Massa chnsetts Corhpany the •* Jenks Wine” at private figures, — some say $«OV0, — and the parlies are at work. It 1* >aid valuable machinery will soon be at or near this mine, and that it is ' a coruudum centre for munufactU*?" ail the corundum mined in this sejf*ort. One-Two-fhree believes this. \i Iron and cooper, so very abundant and pure in Macon and Jackson, must await for the railroads. Verd-Antique Is a new discovery. Mr. Hiram Crisp Is the discoverer. This mau has a capacity for reading rocks that is really wonderful. He Is unedu cated, but Ids Judgment of minerals, ^ which Is rarely if ever at fault, will as tonish you. Ueceutly by naued some minerals he never saw before You ask ! how he did it.? That is your question, j i oan’t answer it, nor do I think lie can j ^ Crops are mack -unproved by recent i rains, but will fall below bur average. I - Some old corn, wheat and bacon in j the country. Yours truly, Owb-Two-Three. Nwnla Vsaaty Oirrespoadeacs. Mcjur*. Editor* :—Thero lias hitherto been so much immorality and lawless ness iu this county that it has passed Into a proverb. We not uufrequently hear it said, "That Is like Swain, from Swain, of 8waln,M Ac. Having spent the most of the fast year with this peo ple, I am certain tbgt the good people of Swain have been under hi ted. The masses of the people should nut be ecn Bured because they unfortunately have a few outlaws among them. We have them iu most place*. i doubt -not, Messrs. Editors, hut you have some dis turbers of the general good iu your no ble county which, in poiut of culture, wealth and general intelligence, ranks among the first In the State. When we Wmk &w*l*»* MUwu«}n»eo\ber„ that some of her citizens — aye; manv^or titwa-’ will akiu coa^iRrC'tuvorably- ttith any in the State. The religions inter est of this bounty has Improved won derfully this: year. Denominationally the people are Methodist and Baptist. The latter are the strongest. I can say for the merchants of Charleston what can hardly be said of them In any other fir rfcsftfpfttidttxifr'inefi' during the week, ho matter who U to preach, store-houses are all closed, busi ness suspended, and merchants and ail attend churcbv .Persons who love to speak of Swaiu’s oddities (for we have ’em), vrm do welllo cutiiv Hr Swain for a model of virtue. Oue material drawback is evident —a luck of popular journals to read, A thinking people must be a reading peo ple. In this connection, I am glad jhe t TrrttEN has a good circulation. Hope It will be enlarged. Wo fotve*just* otoled fcn Interesting session of four days at Charles ton, re sulting ill seven conversions and nine accessions to the M. K- Church South. Brothers C. Campbell, of Macon county, aud J. W. Bird, Of Echoier Indian Mis sion, were with us and did good ptouch ing. More about Swain In the future. , . • v - i |*. A. UWBft. Maj. Erwin. denies the 'soft-lsepeach ment’ of the Charlotte Obeerrer that he contemplate* opposing Gen. Vance for OonRres#. He raj's the statement Is totally unauthorized, that he supported Gen.. Van oe two yearn ago and shall do »o now. We tl weight as much when wc raw the article, for we were certain the Major had no hankering alter mar tyrdom m tliat or any other direction. WKSTKItf* CAKUU.XA. Bnnoombo Comity — i Prosperous Sec tion— Commit$ioner Polk's Campaign, ' lS|>ecial Correspondence of the lUlitgb .Newrj ASHEVILLE, Aug. 86, 1878. Buncombe countv Was formed in 1791, Jtom Burke and Rutherford counties, and derives Its name irotn Col. Edward Buncombe, of Tyrrell county. He was Colonel of Hie Fifth Regiment raised by North Carolina for tlie Continental army. He- was a native of the Wwt India Islauds. The .population ofthtt countyliri87o was 16,0(ft, Dur’Trnaa greatly Increased since that time, and Is supposed now to be twenty thousand It lsone of the largest counties 4o the 8lale, having an area, of one thousand square miles. ’1 here are few counties hi the State that have tarnished so many Illustrious men to adorn the history of the^coutitry, national a» well as State. Amongst them our bcldved Vance, 8 Wain, C’l logman, Monlinon, and Gen Vauoe. Thoforutn, bench and bar have all been ably represented by men who hailed frmn Buncombe. ‘ She lias fur- i uished two Governors to North Caro.- i Una,—8wain and Vance,—three U, 8. Senators, several Congressmen and two i Judges. The bar is ably represented,; and due 6f tts members would probably now be occupying one of the highest judicial positions in the gift of the peo ple, if bis utter aversion far public life, j sad his positive Injunction to ills Irleuds not to use his name in connection with the judgshlp, and his refusal to servo ir elected, had not prevented. are in the county fifty-five .churches, r-twenty - three J Methodist, twenty - one Baptist, four Episcopal, four Piesbyteriuu, two Christian, and one Roman Catholic,— sixty schools,; forty-six grain mills, forty-four saw j mills run by water, three saw and one ' :o?$*e gqu by stem*1 <ie Iron foundry,j d imerter hu8b-vts tanneries, onej, aool . t^%rding machine, and. one Gottoir. j^ry running two hundred and ten spindles, built in 1875, with a capacity of one hundred yards of oloth aud one hundred pounds of yarn per (lay. Tlie products of this factory — jeans, satinets, liuseys aud yarns — aw (li st-class goods. The county abounds in minerals aud sulphur springs; magoltfceut timber*, consisting of oak, piue, walnut, poplar, white pine, hickory and chestnut; mar ble* granite, soapstone, sandstone and mill-stone. Tlie surface of the country is. mountainous, traversed by streams, abounding Ui fish, ami its valleys and gorges and lulls «re very fertile, produc ing large yields of corn, rye, tobacco, .grass and fruits-of all kinds, which; have taken the first premium offered by i pomologlsts at tlie Centeunial, at the National Exhibition last year at Ball! more, aud at .all other points where exhibited by that enterprising fruit grower Nat Atkinson. ASHEVILLE, the COUNTY SEAT, Has a liopeiul future. With a popula tion of twenty-rflve hundred and rapidly increasing, with two railroads approach ing completion, and two others project ed, with telegraph communication with tlie outer world, with good mail facili ties, with a climate unsurpassed, and last but not least tlie character and en terprise of lief hospitable people, site will iu Hie near future step to the front fti population and wealth, and take rank among tlie drat cities In North Carolina 8he can now boast of having the dtiest Court House In the Slate. It was built iii 1876, at a cost of thirty-dvr thousand dollars. U is a threo-etory brick buiid lugV • mid' arid cum para favorably.- with siiiiilaf bulfdlugriu Cities of Ally Thau fc*iid ttiinfbuaiit*. ^ ‘ '' . TUB OLD NEWTON ACADEMY, EstablUlied suventy-dvo years ago, at which were educated Governors 8waln aud Vance, the Merriuious, Ex-Gov ornor Perry of South Carolina, and many distinguished men of the 8outh, IbWrtqf f o Yftrirafwn, irfq repafr add i ICBIIIk Ul tbe lUlgutlon U reached, U will be re fitted and agal!t occupied as an-acadeuiy. I Asheville furnishes three publications. The CMten, edited by R. U. Furman and Jordan Stone;' Under'th« able management of tlteae gentlemen this paper is doing agood woik. throughout tue Southwest, liavinga large and In creasing circulation. The tricuda of Mr. Stone, the founder of the JVcm, than whom there la not a better newspaper wan lit tile State, will be pleused to learu tluu ho U doing well hi Asheville. Mr. Furman, it will be remembered, was j clerk of the Senate laat term. Ilia friends of the West, will amlu otter his name for reflection, and lie will recce, e 1 the unanimous vote of the West for that position. | a^ufiqrmnn, forqwfct^. Raleigh, Is edw^the i'.onser, a rtpdWfcaii paper, 'trie tti'ytut UUancrfliie orgsu of our Baptist hi-ettireii of tile West, Is an able montldy and well edited. , ,r; OOL. POLK'S SPEECH, , . He was Introduced lit very ebmpll meutary terms by. GemVance, and had fur his audience a respectable dumber oT fiurmer*, a number at distinguished vision* and itkeinbem of tlw bar, among whom I noticed Gen. CUiigmuii. f Col. 1>. M, Carter and MaJ. H. A. Gilliam, of Uaieigh. K. V. ilcAsleu, and a number of Northern gentlemen who were pro*, pecting for bodice. ' Ttio Colonel spoke for two hours, ant] the earnest attention and frequent dem onstration! of approval attested the warm apbreolation of bis audience. Thk Fhowittl QwsBif, presented last Thursday and Monday nights byProt Chase ami the young bdieeofmu-ctty, waaa brilliant success, and ss were grntlfled that tile efforts of Mr. Chase yt «lve oar people most •groeabfcwiasm-''*' ^tsw*nd piunfgb s wuwsr to be appreci ated by good audiences. Mr. C. Is a datural aetor, and bis singing Is admira ble- He exhibits < decided skill in ar rangement and stage inanajenient. Tlie young ladies and little girls presented a handsome appearance-looked, acted and simg most sweetly. , Mr. Chase poraonaled the Recluse to perfection, in the selection of the Ruse to be Queen of the Flowers, In the per son of Mrs. Turrell, file happiest good taste waa displayed, for we are sure both In flower ami person the selection could not hare been sarpassed. The “Stm flower was ehnriningly gay, presented with winning vivacity, but-slie couldn't be queen o’ the flo'wbrs. Tile Helio tropes, lilt Tonch-me-nots, tlie Dahlias, the innocent little Daisy, l.iliea of toe Valley. Daffodils, Poppies, and so- on, - were simply splendid. In appreciation of tlie generous kind nesses of Mr. Chase, we would be glad If he wonlri give a concert for his own benefit. - We- are ■ sure our citizens would be pleased to show tlwlr appre ciation by giving him a full home. Important Briikjk IVantos).—The fbllowiug cominunlcation from our good friend Col. Hatch we publish In full.. >t does upon a most Impor P’-. I to J»ny of our countrymen: . slot, Gujncok, Aug. kith.. Editors Citucn Do call tlw attention of the people of Asheville to tlie hnpor tauee of a "ridge over the Frencli Broad lttver to till tlie place of the old Patton Bridge. Tlie.ru la now none between Kings am| Smith's Bridget, aud nous over llotulny In tlw Jones' Gap Road. Traveleis, when the waters are up, might bw-caught within the sounds of your steiuu whistles and detained perhaps far nlay-i-wiwro there - are- no- accominodar Unit* even for small parties. In such times a largo portion of Buncombe, to say noth!jig ot iiii theregiun above, is cut off lor Aslwvhlo. At all tiling tlw want of a bripge, at tlie point named, Is a disgrace 10 our energy aiul public spirit. Soon a huge section will be more accessible to Hendersonville, aud- may be diverted thither. - There Is now a strong effort being made by the people un this side of the river to build a bridge, and I cannot think it imssible that those oil the Ashe v'lle side can feel 110 interest In It. It would astonish tus people of your city to know what ail area of country -natu rally belonging to them ia iu reality al lowed to remain almost ail tlw liuu of Uo benefit. It will get Worse. if .not looked to, aud now U tile lime for action. Yoon .truly, lkwm m. Hatch.' Ohr county authorities should aid iu the erection of this bridge, anffjwh' frope they may do i NKW ADV*RTISKMRN UttlA W Di Ubccxl T« Ward wil be paid fof its deiWerjr to Hj 6 it- , MOIUUSON k ttt’Al'LES. 8PARTANBU88 k ASHEYIUE RAILROAD. - MOtkhtMm* PUU8UANT to an order of the Board 01 Director* of the 8, * 4, H. It. CP , there will be a meeting or the Stock* holders of eald company at- HendereoU' Tilta, JC,C,,«a WJfUN ttlllixy, .Wept., lb,., 187b. .. 1). E. DUNCAN, Preel deal. WJf. K. bl.AKU, bee rotary.! ; BEAUTIFUL. 1 8m Beam and Aii^atori’ Teeth !! .... i£W*i;u*r*;ii, jkwklui'. ; GALL at ballard’i,.flntdbor nbore the Poet Office. In Doherty*! Building, aud eee bie Jewelry—Poll Beta—made or Sea Htuut, Alujator,' Tettk. Ac., Ac., eery Parable and decidedly eamue. - . . »ug» km., ' ;_j TAKE NOTICE t HA,VINO eetabliekod a Pack|mc M a - cnrtaic at the tlailegren (Patieraou '») Mill), parties bringiog wheat to the mills to be groaad ehonhi bars their sacks blade oat of yard cloth—one yard nod four in. ches making a etch : the salvage to be pul at bottom and lop. By obeerying thin notice, both time and expense will be eared. ■ »■ - ; • M«« ft -.■•w-i- A. 1. b'LAttK. f|tKY Ohr Hold Dollar. A , AY*CJ ClIL’XK'iv
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