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«NOTH|NO BUCCEKDS T-IKK ISUCCES^,"
NOVEMBER 19, 1885.
uinTHi
The South wind breathes a chant as it iocs, ]
Blessing tlio ripened cars that bend '
V.id nmnnfuj'* ♦if?' 1 # #% knows J
t
The Inland Hm&tm iSfplS' soilf
Of storm ami cuiiiu#*t and trophies \
Tha av. >H UM It iwwjp ■
*AM no note in it ffar or cut*.
Tito golden Btriiujs of the inland s«a
Sound rich full chords of a grateful la)>d ; !
Plenty ami peace are all that I see }
Where the In!rstln# wheat ears nodding
stand;
Garners full with a yellow store,
Cupboards one® empty no longer'bare,
Labor it-paid, no craving mora,
Joy and coutentinent everywhere.
Judge Cloud's Charge.
Delivered In Iloone Twelve
Vc;im At so.
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY:—I am
glad to bo witli you in the good old
county of W atauga. The law requifc.i
that the grand jury bo composed of go|nl
men of moral character who have paid
their tax. We can have no assurance
that the fraud jury will perform their
duty unless it is composed of moral
charaoter men. You have got a protty
country and should feel proud of lit.
Not because you havo mountains and
hills covered with pretty ivy and beau
tiful rhodo-rhodo-dodo-dendums, and
not because the sparkling rivers and
crocks go coursing dowti the hillsides
and through the grass-oovered valleys.
No, not these, but you have a pretty
couutry because you have good citizens.
The county is much indebted; to"„ tbe
grand jury and other officers of the law
for its character. They giveltone to the
county. Go into a county where the
jury do not perform their that
will bo spoken of as a bad place. Why,
my dear sirs, they will talk about it a
100 miles off—so they will.^jjLaws aro
int«ndeJ;to regulate society. Yon are
a good looking set of men. You see if
tho graud jury does not do its duty a tlie
laws cannot properly bo administered.
All the poople in WataugaJ look vcy
well. Every man is buuuu and neces
sarily compelled to fulfill the laws. No)
person has protection for life or property
except which the law gives, therefore it
should bo respected. Ah, yes, but it's
\ mighty hard to respect some of the laws
made by the last drum-head Legisla
ture, [looking towards tho late Repre
sentative j If there were no laws the
big strong men would do just what they
pleased with all the Kttlo an't! weak men.
The good character of you jurors de
ponds upon the way in which you per
form your duty during this eoifrt. It is
creditable to Walauga that you have
such a small docket. Only about 44
oaseß on Stats docket and 31 on Civil
docket. This speaks well for the ooun
ty. This is tbr smallest in the circuit.
Why, down yonder in Rowan or Surry
county it is four times that much. Here
we do not have but one week court, ac
cording to that know-it-all Legislature ;
but when we get down here to Bparta—
yes, Sparta, stop right tbar now, fpr
that name has got to be changed. You
see, down in Allegha-allo-gha-ny, that's
the tail end of the whole thing. I'll
tell 'em all about it when I get down
thero. Well, down there they havo two
weoks court. Now I want to caution
you against this. No man or lawyer
takes exception to it. The greatest evil
in the whole eountry, in the whole State
of North Catolina, is this : a great dis
position in this State to favor men who
disturb sooiety. There is too much
sympathy with tho evil doers and too
li'tle sympathy with tho victim. You
see, if a poor man kills a negro his poor
body i> stuck into the ground and he is
never thought of again. The man who
commits the murder, a nasty fellow, is
probably acquitted and if not he is sent
down to Kaleigh and these one-horse
Governors will pardon him m a few days.
Some men are mighty oontrary. When
you seo two Legislators taking sides
with each other you may know that thero
is something wrong. Now 1 want to tell
you about illegal voting. This is all
wrong. Do«n in my county (Surry)
there were two men, Dobson and Brow- !
er, candidates for Commissioner, tho
one on oar side olaimed that ho was
electod and the Democrat claimed that
he was elected. Don't you seo there
were illegal votes. One proved that
the other had received 30 fraudulent
votes and tlio other proved that tli'c ono
had received 60 stufcd votes. 1 tried
my best to got the fmml jury to indict
the whole sot of tlioui but don't you sco
some of (be jury was Rt publicans-and
somo Democrats and they agreed not to
tell on each other. No* don't you see
thoy were Dot good moral character men. j
1 caul ion you agains: any such conduct I
as tliat tbar juryjias guilty of. I bog
ami implore of you for the sake of the
of Watauga county to stop |
such mischief. Stop right tbar. There 1
ia a disposition 'on the part of grand j
.jariw, tlio Dew-r apors |
and everybody to t'avor lawlesmiess, aud j
this is what makes the people so bad. 1
Tho war, tho last Legislature, tho pub- i
lie press aud tho politicians hive joined j
together nnd work or connive at what is i
not light—they aro responsible for ;
nearly all the mischief. I will givo it.
ns my opinion that crime is on the in- 1
crease. My experieuco war
shows that there is great ncod and much !
room for doing 1 hater. A great many
of the offenses that are now only a fine
and imprisonment will be penitentiary 1
offenses before long. This will havojto j
be done in order to improve society. I
,think the next Legislature or the ono {
following it will Gx the matter. A man ;
down iu Judge Sohennk's district get
up a petitiou to have a man pardoned j
aud got 10 cents por name for or
400 names, and this goes up befoie the j
Governor and he grants panion, Ac- |
cording to law there are four capital.
offenses, Murder, Rape, Arson and l'ur-'
gkry. If we had laws like those of j
our forefathers just after the revolu
tionary war,ftherej would be but little j
horse-stealing aud man-murdering. Tho j
people would be better, so they would.'
Murder is the taking ot life with malico
and forethought. When a man kills
another with a deadly weapon, a gun,
pistol or big club, the law presumes and
pronounces it murder. Then in lity- j
litigation it is for tho accused to show
to the contrary. Manslaughter is wheu
otio man kills another in self/defense—
without malice or jprcmeditatipu of TFe
act—this is attributed to the weakness
of mankind wheu in the heat of passion.
Arson is thejburumg of a house in the
night time. Bulglary is to enter a
man's house in the night time and carry
off his property cr do
To burn a barn, stable or any other
lnuse is a capitalioffensc, a'very high
offense. The next thing which this
c>u(t will call your attention to and
over which it has jurisdiction is perjury
nßd fogery.'^jTbo,Legislatures have led
thousands and thousands to commit this
sin against the law. 1 do not speak of
political parties, for A wil swear for B
aud B will swear for A, and away it
goes. I waut you to watch out for
these scoundrels who are always putting
false names to papers, -wtes and sich.
Stop right tbar now ! Lot me tell you
what theso dirty fellows iu t 'aid well have
tloue. They have changed the name of
Ti*keycock "and now call it
H-i-b-r-i-tr«-u. I'be last oue of them
should bo indicied. Now watch out,
watch out I or some of them love
struck puppies will be running up here
to Watauga and change the uatne of
the Grandfather mountain. Then, don't
you see, hcre'll bo the Grandmother
mountain standing alone without a
companion just like the Turkey hen moun
tain in Caldwell. This is all wrong.
It's got to be stopped. Indict them.
Bring them into court. Let me tell
you, a man came from Virginia to my
town some time ago, ho carried a oane,
had a big moustache and whistled veiy
nice. That vory fellow was not thero
long till he courted one of our prettiest
girls and ran away and marrie J. Now
this was wrong, for the very next day a
letter came from bis State saying that
he had a wife and three children there.
The villian runs off and so tho law does
not reach him. Now if this bad been
a negro who had stolen a bushel of com
thero would havo been fifty men after
bim at on«e. This is a high offense and
the Grand Jury IB responsible aud so
thoy are, • * The law permits no
two men to conspire together to cheat
another one out of bit property by
whiskey-drinking or playing cards. If
you know any snch indiot them. Lar
ceny is the fello-fclouious taking in tho
night time or seoretly taking personal
property. The law makes it larceny to
tako your potatoos, cabbage or buck
wheat, and if you know any such it is
your duty to make a prescntmen t Von
bavo a very good law in this respeet
and it is as muob in favor of you moun
tain folks as any other people. We
have a statute against any injury or bad
use »f stock, sheep or hogs while in an
iuolosure —also the law goos so far as
to prevent injury to stock while running
at large. You havo a law against tho
burning of tho woods, for don't you sec,
the tire might oouie licking inwu tho
liill-idos nnd deptroy all yonr fences.
If an officer or jailor lets a prisoner es
cape by not doing his duly ho is respon
sible. Hundreds of the worst conyiuts
in the States have already escaped from
the jails nnd penitentiary. 'Jhe law
intends for no guilty :uou to escape aud
if yon know of anybody who has let a
prisoner loose so far back as two years—
you indict him. Grand Juries make a
great mbtafce sometimes because they
do hot know precisely what the law is—
now let mo tell you—if A follows 1}
over the streets aud uses any language
which seems (a invite him to tight, why
A is guilty too even if B knocks him
down with a brickbat. An act of tho
Legislature which prohibits away ardent
spirits on the day of eloction is a good
thing and if you wero to oppose that
you would be hissed out. It is gener
ally hot enough on 'lection days without
the liquor. Now to catch these fellows
that sell the liquor on the sly or give it
awny, you can just—now let me tell you
how they done down in Lenoir last
week. Well, down there they have tho
liquor law for two miles around tho
town, but one evening about a dozen
fellows who had been drinking stopped
on tho street and sung and patted and
danced Jubcr. I went out to see it
for I like just such. It is very pretty.
Hut ono poor fellow got down druuk
aud bad to be put injjail till next morn
ing, aud then ho was brought before
Judgo Cilloy and tlioy made hiui tell
whero he got his liquor and so forth,
and now they have about 25 cases for
next grand jury, just because be told
on the boys. This is the way. Do
this and you'll find out every time. Show
■the world that you ore doiug!your duty.
Here's a good law and it strikes me that
a mountain nun introduced it. This
statute prevents a tresspass
ing upon your land to hunt if you forbid
hiiu lie wili say he is hut>tiog deer
and 'possums but will generally find
your bogs or sheep. Another good law
was made some time ago, which did not
allow seining in the rivers and creeks for
trout'and ihc killing of deer at certain
seasons—but that that foolish Legisla
ture went and repealed it, repealed it,
and so they did. lint I got a
petition signed by 'men and children and
sent down tbar tho fishjpart of
it icvivod on Elk river iu this county.
They havo a fish law in the Catawba
and Yadkin rivers but what good does
it dot Why they put those little min
ncrs in the Catawba river and they come
up to Patterson factory and can't get
any further. You seo it doos you Wa
tauga people no good. Another thing
| those little* fish will go pasting down the
[ river and over that big dam in Governor
I Hampton's State, and then they get so
largo that they can never get back.
[ Thar now, you see what the legislature
j did. Another thing you've got to in
dict everybody who does not keep the
publio road in good condition —tho law
requires it to bo 12 or 10 feet wido
there must bo a good plaoo for the
1 wheels to run and signboards every mile
and at every fork-of-the-road. Why
down the turnpike road below lilowing
Gap thoy have nioc little boards with
white tops nnd black letters, (io, gen
tleman of the jury, perform your duty,
and keep up tho good name of your
county. If you need any uior» law
during the week come into tho Court, I
am ready to instruct you at any timo,
tswoar an officer Mr. Clerk.
OUR COLORED FOLK.
For several days past thero has been
a remarkable family of negroes in At
lanta. Their name is Williamson, aud
they came from Wilson County, North
Carolina. Thero aro throe brothers and
four sisters, all of whom have been to
tally blind from their birth. They are
tlio children of black parents who were
slaves and ordinary field bauds. Unto
them were born fourteen children, seven
of whom had sight whilo seven were
blind. The blind children were not
only hardier and healthier, but their
mental endowments are superior to those
of their brothers and sisters who could
sec. They went to Raleigh to the
State Blind Asylum and wero there well
educated. Every one of them develo
ped a remarkable talent for music, and
on leaving tho Asylum they organized
thomselves into a concert company and
began to travel through the South. The
oldest brother married a smart negro
woman, who aots as guide and business
manager uf the party. They have been
all over tho South giving entertainments
which have paid them handsomely.
They sing and play on vaiious instru
ments with remarkable skill. All of
them have good voices, which havo been
well trained.
Their most remarkable performances
are the exhibitions of their powers of
mimicry. They imitate a brass band so
perfectly that a person outside tho hall
in which they arc bumming would at
most invariably be deceived. Their
imitation of the organ is equally porfeot.
Each of the singers make a peculiar
n.iise and carries his or her own part of
tho performance, and tho combined re
suites a deep musio, very like to the
pealiug of a graud organ. These arc
two of their many tticks. They are
constantly adding to their repertoire and
perfecting themselves more and more iu
their curious arts. Tbey bavoeduoalcd
the sense of touch to a vory remarkable
degree. By feeling of a person's face
and bead they can givo an accurate
desonptiou of his or her appearance; and
one of the sisters claim that she can toll
the color of tho hair by touching it.
Tho seven stand with joined' bands
aud any objoot o»n be placed io tho
hands of the object brother at the end of
the line ; while he holds it he claims
that the magnetic current which pass
es through the entiro lino will enable
auy ono of his brothers and sisters to
tell what he has in his haud. At any
rate somo remarkable guesses of this
kind are made.
The blind negroes havo given a series
of entertainments in various negro
churches in the city, aud have created
a great sensation among the colored
population. It is said that they take
good care of the aged pa ents who still
reside at the old homestead in North
Carolina, in tho same cabin whero they
iived as slaves, and where their fourteen
children were born. The blind singois
have bought the placo and presented it
to their parents. The brothers and
tlio wife of the eldest manago the finan
cial sffVtrs of 'hs •ombmatiea »o uo->
cessfully thut they have accumulated a
I snug lot of property. The oldest broth
er is about twenty-eigh'., the youngest
sister about sixteen years old. Various
efforts have been mado by professional
' managers to secure the control of this
remarkable family, but thoy prefer to
tako care of their own affairs. Thoy
are all intelligent and remarkably well
posted on L mattcrs in general.—Atlanta
Constitution.
HISTORY (>F~A COUNTRY
TOWN.
Bill Rivers has a new hat. He'd
better pay for the old one.
Jerry Bluenose has oume down to
five cent whisky. That's better than be
oujht to bavo.
Young Snagsby is home from New
York, to live on the old man again. It
is doubtful if hs over becomes self-sus
taining.
Four pounds best rice at Skinner's
for "J5 cents. Tho four pounds will
probably shrink about twelve ounces by
| the time you get it home.
Dusenberry's hat store has been
| closed on a chattel mortgage. The
| skinner, he'd mortgage tho breath he
draws, if he saw a chance to beat any
one.
A. L. Singabout has gone to the lake
for a week. He would confer a favor
on the community if he would anchor
himself to the bottom foi twenty min
utes.
A lot of trout fry was put in the
ercek last Friday. Our readers had
better strain tbc milk they buy ot the
milkman for a few weeks, as the trout
aro very small now.
We observe that John Ridley has
been buying a set of lawn tennis. If be
would pay us that $5 borrowed money,
be wouldn't havo to Blink across the
road to avoid tbo meeting us.
Hon. Thaddcus Barnstable has a new
family carriage. If all the groceries he
has swindlod our dealers out of during
tho past year were piled into it, the
new wagon would neod extensive re
pairs.
"Wnat is ease >" asks a philosopher.
Ease is a thousand-dollar salary and a
hundred dollar job.
A sohool journal advises, "Make tho
school interesting." That's what tho
small hoy tries to do to the beßt of his
ability.
Mirth should be the embroidery of
the conversation, not the web ; and wit
tbe ornament of the mind, not the fur
niture.
Bred upon tbe waters—Reaied at
sea.
1 I fLOWERS eOLLkCI'Uf
NO. 22.
SMALL BITES.
In old times barberx used to pall teeth
and bleed people. Now they ujit them
to death.
La'.in is a doad language—especially
when an inexperienced drug clerk fools
with it.
The smaller the calibre of mind, the
greater the boro of a perpetually open
mouth.
Adam was not. a polygamist, although
I in his day he married all the women in
the world.
The pen is mightier than tbo sword ?
but it can never hope to compote with the
toy pistol.
Genuine cheerfulness is an almost cer
tain index of a happy mind and a pure,
good heart.
Gotthc says a man must be either an
anvil or a hammer ; yet bow many are
nothing but bellow;.
The man who is given to making cut
ting remarks should be treated like a
jack' knife, and shut up.
Caucuses for town meotiog) is where
thirty or forty uien get together and
vote as oue man tells them to.
A maxim of incomputable value to
persons of sedentary habits, invalids,
women, and all who have leisure, is to
leave the table hungry.
| "Ma, which milkman gives the most
crc.xro ; the one that has the best cows 1"
"Hardly, my child ' It is the one who
has the best conscience."
Falsohood, lika poison, will generally
be rejected when administered alone;
but, when blended with wholesome in
gredients may bo swallowed unpcrceiv
cd.
One of the first lessons that ought to
be taught at tbo man; fashionable cook
ing schools is : "Never stir the hash
with one band and smooth the hair wit>»
the ether." •'
A country girl, who was being treat,
ed to ice cream lor tbo first time, was
asked by her young man how she liked
it. "It tasteß pretty good," she replied,
"but 1 always prefer my pudding hot."
SAM JONKISMS.
If you want to know what your neigh
bors think of you disguise yourself and
go among them.
Preachers know a great deal more
about tbeir flocks than they dare tell.
It might endanger their salaries.
A pretty woman baa ruined more than
one church.
You needn't turn up your noso at
God, for he knows you.
"Whatsoever a man soweth he shall
reap," is true both in the Hiblo and
the almanac, whether God paid it or not.
Sonic of you have sown enough seed
to damn the world.
Grocery stores with bar room attaoh
j ed aro moral hell holes.
Your daughter may be beautiful and
j lovely, hut first thing you know the
dovil may pack off a drunken son-in
law on you.
A man who gets drunk will steal if
he is uot too much afraid of the jail.
A man who would swear before hn
children is a brute.
I have a contempt for a man who has
the time to play cards,
j 1 never knew a firs tolas!) billiard play
er who was worth the powder and lead
; it would tako to kill hiiu.
! There's about lorty men in this oon
| gregation who are going to bell on a
blooded horse.
Tbe most beautiful sight in this world
is to see a man leading his wife and
children into tho gates of heaven.
I Live so your children may put their
feet in your tracks and be honorable.
Most of you don't eare if your neigh
bor goes huugry so you havo enough.
Christ and whiskey don't stay in the
i same hide at the same time.
The devil enjoys tho way many proa
cherß preach.
1 tiger so II does no harm. The real in
fidels are in the ohurehes. Tbey be
lieve but don't practioe.
There are women here who have not
struck a link of work for years. They
do nothing but shop, shop, shop. llcll
is full of such women.
I The man who don't laugh needs a
liver medicine. Themoperand growlor
never gots to heaven.
ThU three-mile an hour lick in reli
gion ain't no good.
Bring me a corpse and a coffin, and I
will be gloomy; flowers, and 1 will
: suule.
) Tell the truth though you die in a
; poorhouse
If you don't like mv stylo of preach-
I iiig you kuow the way out.