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UNTAIN VOL. -4. SXORGANTON, N. C, SATUItpATF, JULY 7, 1883. NO. 48. EER. 4 t i 4 1 r ooo. SPKI3STG ATTD SUMMER. Office or W&TLTL&Cm JSStOS.n Stateaville Jb JtXarcft, 1. 1883 To The Trade: Wx take plea a re in informing you that our S-T-O-C-K IS NOW COMPLETE. Oar Sck this Season is unusually attract ires and complete complete in all departments; well assorted,' new and seasonable, embracing everything necessary to the full and complete outfit f the I I Ex ding to you a cordial invitation to via it as, and hoping to are joar ordert through our traveling talesmen, I We are, verj truly jours, WcOlaoo irairoo. w JP. S. All orders by mail trill be filled upon 3 same terms and receive the same attention i buyers in person. V - THE MOU1TTAIIT HOTEL, i 7 J. A. HUNT, Proprietor) 'HEADQUARTERS FOR-d COMMERCIAL MEN. A Good TabU. Comfortable J2ooms.Jolit Attention. RemManethl' lies. Special 2 ertn by the Month. mportant Notice to Farmers of fobrth Carolina ! 'order that all may be able to use mgh's Special Fertilizer for Tobacco and Grain, are nov gelling it direct to farmers of of North Carolina, at the following educed wholesale prices for Cash: ! rice per Single Ton - - - $35 OO Three (3) Tons for - - - - lOOOO Five (5) Tons or over - : : - 33 OO ir Tea of 2000 lbs. in good bags of of 200 lbs-each on board cars or vesse our works. .We Guarantee the following annalysis Ammonia - 5 to 6 Per cent Available Bona Phosphate - - ' - 10 to 12 u " Scxthate of Potash - 4 to 5 ' "' lis article has bee a used for yearn in' North Carolina with excellent results, xl we think it will pay all Tobacco Growers to use it liberally. Address all orders and 103 SOUTH STKERTBALT1MORE. MD. HOWARD & DEALERS N tvt tt r A T TTT7Trirj A 7TllTGtT7 HORGANTON, N. C. ARE cenitantly rec .ivfng new aad String at the melt reienable raea. catae4 Ika the ilU. loot retailer. Horganton, N. C. inquiries to PRESNELL, IN. eeasonable goods, which they are Call aid fee thtm. aid yoi will THE MOUNTAINEER. W. C. ERVIN, Editor. SATURDAY, - - JULY 7, 1883 Through the Tunnel. 'I hate a tunnel!" the maiden said, And closer to the drummer drew - ' "Thoy always make ma feel afraid Off me disaster, don't they yon?" Ana then the drummer shook his mane You're safe enough with me." said he, Whatever happens to the train. You always can relj on met" - And, with ear-splitting whistle shriek.. 3 ' The train dashed in the dark abyss, The drummer sought her blooming cheek. And frescoed it with manly kiss, Emboldened by her sweet alarm. As on they tere through that eclipse, He laid her head upon his arm. And trieed a dado on her lips. "Ah me," the maiden sweetly smiled. As she arranged her tumbled hat. And once again the san beams filed In at the window where they sat. ' 'Ah, me! for once that horrid pest "Wasjrobbed of every startling fear I thank you for your interest, Excuse me, sir, I get offherel"' . And so she left him drowned in sighs, And on the sea of soft dreams tos sod Cf her sweet lips and pure bright eyes. So quickly gained and quickly loat. To dram! but. ah, at last to wake And learn that in the tunnel's din, She'd seized upon her chance to snake His watch and chain and diamond pin! The Campaign, or 1884. From Harper' Weekly. Tho Republican party is smirched with the Wbiskey-Ringswindles, and the Star romte swindles, and the Belk nap swindles, and the salary grab, and the third term plot, and a myriad other similar jobs and tkefts and crim es. The argument will be that no reform is possible until such a party is turned out, and that it can be turned out enly by putting in the Democratic party. That such a plan is shrewd and premising is undeniable. Fair Play. ' : Wall Street News. A Cincinnati German in the funi ture trade was accosted the other day by a Nsw Yorker with: 44 Well, Air. Schmidt, they say you have made an assignment?" "Yaw, dot ish feo." "You assigned to your brother didn't you?" 'j.f ' "Yair, he vhas my brudder." "Didn't anybody raise objections about this family arrangement?" "Veil, I doan' know. Ven my brudder fails he assigns to me, nnd ven I fail I assign to him. Dot makes fair play eh? I doau' go much on seme man's who goes pack on his brudder." An Emperor in Trouble. Y Sun. The Emperor of China, now that all the resources of his empire will be drawn on for the war with France, finds himself in a serious difficulty. Yonng as he is, he has already te maintain some seventy women on his establishment, in various capacities, and, like every other gentleman who has ladies under his protection, the duty devolves on him of clothing them. This would be a comparative ly easy task were the fiir ones of a reasonable turn of mind. " But, unhap pily for the Brother of the Sun and Meon, their extravigance is pronounc ed to be beyond all bounds. Two hundred and fifty, thousand thaels, which is more than one half the laud tax of the empire, were expended last year in silk, satin, gauze," Velvet, red and guilt papers, and pearls. It is said that one dress, which is in pos session of an Empress, was covered last year with seed pearls worked in so peculiar a fashion as to have cost a fabulous sura. .With- respect to this robe there are ifit scorchings of heart. The Empress is aged, tbeugh the dress is new. If ajie die,' accord iug to custom' it most be burned, sup posing it in her possession at the time of her death" She refuses to part with it, and the idea of this . waste fulness, coupled with the necessary great erpendituie in. the coming year, tioubles the owner of the vermillion pencil exceedingly. ITESIS OF INTEREST. . Last week 1 1,350 f oreiga immigrants landed M New York . 1 Dukes left $2,000 to his sweetheart, Miss Mary Beeson. At Dan i el t a, Egypt, 28 deaths oc curred from cholera Monday. In aiight between a sheriffs posse, and deperadoes, in Dakoto, three of the latter were killed. :' Tiro hundred thousand acres of the rice crop In Java have been destroyed and a rice famine is feared. ? The. widow and daughter of the late Albert Sydney Johnston will make their future home in New York city. Judge Burke, of Cleveland, thinks the vote in Ohio will be rery clese, and that Hoadly will get a large Ger man vote." The levee at St. Louis ie submerged; business on the river froit is sus pended, the lower floor of stores being under water. The largest cotton seed oil mill in the world was set on fire by lightning and destroyed. It was at Algiers in Louisiana. Loss $1,000,000. George Blamire, a native of Nor folk, Va., committed suicide in San Francisco a few days ago because he had been' jilted by his sweetheart For the eleven months ending with May, 517,290 foreign immigrauts have arrived in this country. For the same period in 1882, they numbered 685, 536.: The failure of McGeoch and Ever ingham, lard operators, Chicago, grows larger as it develops; the labiil ities are over $6,000,000; assets $50, 000 ,and office" fixtures. Mrs. rope, residing at Milan, Tenn., was stuog on the nose by a bee and died from the effects of the wound in a few'vmmutes. She was apparently in good health at the time. - Two highwaymen attempted to rob a stage coach near Helena, Mont.; a passenger shot one of the robbers when the team took fright and ran out of the reach of the other. The sale ef the short-horn herd of J. S. Williams, of Mt. Sterling, Ky.. was continued at Chicago, Thursday. Peach Blossom was sold to Clayton Howell, of ML Sterling, for $1,400. An oil well was stuck near Parkers burg, West Va., Wednesday, which is pumping at the rate of 400 barrels of 28 degree? oil per day. There is cosiderable excitement ever the strike. ChaklottsviIxe, Va., June 30. The Post-Re-public of Rockiugham county, -Va., says it is stated that Beirne was challenged by a leading readjuster to fight again an early day. A passenger train from Summer ville was thrown from the main track by a misplacd switch three miles from Charleston, S. C, Friday, and came into collision with two loaded freight cars standing on side track. J. S. Smith, the engineer, and Paul Wash ington, the colored fireman, were kill ed. The engiueer stuck to his post after he saw a collision was inevita blej and exerted himself to stop the train. None of the passengers were burfrVThe coroner's jury, found that HL G. Stewart, the section master, was responsible for leaviug the switch open.' The rival of the Western Union, the Postal Telegraph Company, will be open between New York and Chi cago in about fifteen days. Rates between these two points will be cut down to twenty-five cents for twenty words day dispatches, and to half that (te for night dispatches. This will be a great, saving to business men on the line, as the Western Union will be obliged at the same time to lower its rates. It will probably not be long before the Postal Telegraph Company extends its lines so as to give most of the country the benefits of cheaper 'telegraphy. New ocean! cables are also to be laid down. ' THE FALLS OF THE LIN VILE E. Heart of the Aleghames. Ou the next morning, under a clear sky, I wound my way on foot under the limbs of kalmia and rhododen drons to the Linville Falls. It is a wild approach. Over the hedges tower ancient hemlocks with mossed trunks. The blue-jay screamed through the forest, and around the boles ef the trees and along the branches, sqnirrels, known as moun tain boomers, chased each other, halting in their scampers to look down on the distu rber of the solitude. Once, a brilliant breasted-pheasant, roused by my footsteps, from a bed of fern crested rocks, sprung in air close be fore me, and with a startling whirr, sailed up a shadowed ravine. A sportsman, with a shot-gun, could easily have winged the bird in its flight, thereby securing a valuable trophy for the texidermist. The cock pheasant of the mountains has not a shabby feather on his body. They are found in many sections of the monn tains, but not in great numbers. The hollow drum-like sound caused by beating their wings against their bodies, is in most instances their death tattoo. At its sound frera the niegh boring cove, the hunter takes down his rifle, creeps near the favorite log, and generally makes a dead shot. An old mountaineer, famous as a narrator of bear and fish stories, was particularly fond of telling one relat ing to pheasant shooting. Une au tumn day, having already marked the forest locality from which the drum ot a pheasant resounded every morn iug, he kept near with his rifle. The bird had just jumped in place :ind was drumming within his sight. He took deliberate aim and fired. On running to the log he discovered a rea IOX Struggling in ms ueam uu wea on the opposite side of the leg, and in his mouth a dead pheasant, Reynard, as the mountaineer explained,marking the frequented Ug, had himself close beside it, and while the mountoineer was aiming, was preparing to sieze the bird, and did so at the moment the trigger was pulled. . . The heavy thunder of the falls swept through the forest, increasing as I andvanced. The path diverged nt one point, and, taking the right hand trail, by means of the roots of the laurel, I descended a cliffs face in cool, dismal shade. At the bottom, I came out on a black ledge of rock, close to the river. A stupendous fall was before; stern walls of a. rocky ca non, 100 feet high, around me, and a blue akv smiliner above. I climbed a stairway of moist rocks, and walked along the path on the chfi s front to a point directly before the fall's face. The great volume of the Linville riv er, formed from drainage for fifteen miles back to the water-shed of the Blue Rridge, here at the gap between Jonas' Ridge and the Linville moun tains, has cut asunder a massive wall, leaving high perpendicular cliffs tow ering over its surfuce, and then, with a tremendous leap, pours it current down through space, fifty feet, into the bottom of the canon. It seems to burst from a dark cavern in the mountain's centre. A pool, sixty feet ftfross. lookiner like the surface of a circle at the base of the cliffs. After recovering from the dizziness of its plunge, the river, leaving the piny walls on either side, rushes along in riew for a short distance, and then disappears aroand tho corner of a green promontory. If one in retracing one's steps, takes the ieft hand trail at the point of di vergence, and follows it to the edge of the cliffs, a magnificent downward view will be obtained, both of the foot of the cliataract, and above, where its waters race in serpentine course, in creased in velocity by the plunges over smaller falls only a few yards up the gorge. v A wilder solitude, a more pictur esque confusion, of crags, woods, wa ters, and mountain heights, cm scarcely be found. But even here, man once fitted for himself a dwelling-place; for plainly visible across the tops of the trees, was a little cabin on a small clearing. No smoke curled upwards fom its weathtr-worn root; its doors had been torn away and chimney leveled. THE RICHMOND DUELISTS. They Meet at Last and Elam Get a Ball in His Thigh. Staunton, Va, June 30. It if im possible at this time to gather any minute details of the duel. Both principals managed to evade the vigi lance of the authorities, and ai 6 o'clock this morning met in a strip of woods about two miles from Waynes boro, junction of the Shenandoah Vlley and Chesapeake & Ohio Rail road. The distance was marktd off and at the first fire neither of the men was struck. Beirne, the Challenger, demanded a second shot,9 which was granted, and the bullet from his pistol imbedded itself in the npper part of Elam's right thigh. Beirne was tin touched. Elam fell to the ground, and Beirne raising his hat to hie fal len opponent, was hurried into a car riage and driven rapidly away. Sub sequently' he took the Shenandoah Valley train at Cnmoia. Elam wa also conveyed in a carriage to a heuse nearby, his surgeon attending him. It was found that the extraction of the ball would be attended with dan ger and a consultation among the surgeons was held. The fact that the ball failed to force itself through is taken as evidence, in connection with the character of the weapon used and the distance, that it came in direct contact with one of the large bones. No arrests have been made, nor d ' es there seem to be any disposition to institute a legel investigation. Elam was removed to the residence of John F. Lewis and his wife sent for. Latek.-- When the combatants took their positions several gentlemen pres ent who were not immediately con nected with the affair were asked to retire and they did se. The physi- cian gave the words: "Gentlemen are you ready? Fire one two three.' Shots were to be exchanged after , the word fire, and before the words three. . At theword ene" both, pistols were discharged in quick suc cession, but without effect. The same programme was then repeaUd, both . reports being almost simultaneous, and just at the word "one," as Elam staggered under the effect of the shot his second ran forward and assisted him to the cushions which had been laid on the ground. The wounded man was under the impression that the ball had penetra ted both legs and insisted that such was the case. When assured by the surgeon that it had not even gone through one leg and that the intense pain in the other was from sympathy, he expressed regret that he had not demanded another shot He was perfectly cool and collected and gave j directions in a strong, composed voice, beirne aiso acted wan delibe ration and although pale seemed per fectly cool. He was taken away by his second after it was discovered that Elam could not again stand. Elam was then placed ie an ambu lance which started for the residence of Licut-Gov Lewis, some 15 or 20 miles distant. It was doubtful what the effect of the ride would be, and in case the wonnded man was not able to stand it preparations have been made for his entertainment at the house ef some one of his prominent friends along the way. The wound is evi dently a very serious one. After the ball struck Elam he gave one or tiro steps forward and from that it waa thought that the leg was not broken. The surgeon, however, stated that the muscle would have sustained him fer that length o f time. In the meeting this morning be? tweeu Beirne and Elam, the provis ions of the original cartel were car ried out until Elam was shot. Tho cartel provided that after the first fire if neither was hurt the word should be given for a second round, and that then the parties should continue fir ing and advance if they chose. On the second round Elam received Beirne's shot in his thigh and staff, gered or fell and exclaimed I am hiu" Beirne ceased firing and his seconds declared that their principal was sat isfied. Beirne then raised his hat, saluted his opponent and walked to his carriage, which he entered, and was uriveii away. Elam was helped to his carriage, which he entered, and was driven away. Elam was helped to his carriage and taken to Lin wood!, the residence of , Lt ,Gov Lewis in Rockingham county, only a few miles from the scene; of the reucoatre. ;-f 'l 1-.L
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