Carolina
OUNTAIN
morganton, n. a, Saturday, august 4, isss.
NO. 1.
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883.
SPRING AND SUMMER.
Office or WdtljIidLCE BROS.
Statesville, JV. C9 mflarcli 1. 1883
To The Trade:
We take pleasure in informing you that our
S - T - O
IS NOW COMPLTE.
Oar Stock this Season is unusually attractive and complete
complete in nil departments; well assorted, new and
seasonable, embracing everj'thing necessary
to the foil and complete outfit
of the retailer.
Extending to you a cordial ioritation to visit ns, and hoping to
icure your orders through ear traveling salesmen,
We are, very truly yours,
-tot-
JP. ;. All or iters by mail will he filled upon
e same terms and receive the same attention
is buyers in person.
THE MOUNTAIN HOTEL,
J. A. HUNT, Proprietor, Morganton, N. C.
X-HEADQiTARTERS FOR-ea
COMMERCIAL, MEN.
A Good Table, Comfortable Rooms, J?olit6 Attention. Heasnab
ates. Special Terms by the Month.
Important Notice to Farmers of toorth Carolina !
order that all may be able to use
augh's Special Fertilizer for
are now selling it direct to farmers of
euuced wholesale prices lor
rice per Single Ton -
Three (3) Tons for -
Five (5) Tons or over -
er Tou of 2000 lbs. in good bags of of
our works.
We Guarantee the following annalysis
Ammonia - '-
Available Bona Phosphate -
Sulphate of Potash
this article has been used for years in
fid we think it will pay all Tobacco Growers to use it liberally.
Address all orders and
103 SOUTH STKEltT
HOWARD &
DEALERS IN-
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
MORGATON, N. C.
ARE cHtantly rec . i ring nw and eaonbl e8. which tliej r
. i ' " Ml
pericg at the most resunable ra'es.
ecanvinofcd lba they annot he undersold
1883.
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Tobacco and Grain,
of North Carolina, at the following
Cash:
- - $35 00
- - - lOO OO
: : 33 OO
200 lbs-each on board cars or vesse
5 to 6 Per cent.
- - 10 to 12 u "
4 to 5 ' "
North Carolina with excellent results,
inquiries to
BALTIMORE. MD.
PRESNELL,
Call and see them, ana yon win
THE MOUNTAINEER.
W. C. ERVIN, Editor.
SATURDAY, - - AUGUST 4, 1883
SOUTH CAROLINA RIVERS.
M. V. MOORE IN HARPER S MAGAZINE.
Carolina! Land of waters! Hare the strang
est rivers are.
Arrarat and Alligator, amd the famous
ftream of Tar.
Broad and Rocky here are rivers, heie are
rivers old but New,
Yellow, Black,, andsilvr Green, and
White ak, Bay and Reddie too,
Here the whirling, wild Watauga, leaping
Elk, and crooked Tos,
Tahkeeostah.t by the Paint Rock, and the
winglesi Pigeon's flow,
Tennessee, and swift Hiawassee. gulfward
all through mountains go,
"Where the Cherokee still lingers is the
nimble Nantahala.
In the land of Junalnskee is the Va lley,
gurgling gayly,
In the dismal lake-land is the viney fes
tooned Scuppernong.
In the cloud home and the sky-land Swan-
nanoa skims along,
In the pine -lands over marl beds rubby
wine-like Cashie creeps.
In the fern -land from the balsams Tucka-
seegee grandly leaps
Here Oconaluftee laughs, and wee Cheo-
wee frets and clashes,
And 'mid towering canons Linville's sil
very spray spurts and splashes.
And here John with sands all golden,
. 'neath the rhododendrous dashes.
From Virginia come Meherrin, Nottoway.
the deep and slow.
In the gray and yellow hill-land, where
tobaccos golden grow,
Tubling Dan and Mayo, Fisher, Mitchell,
Flat and Eno, go.
Here is Yadkin winding ever like a serpent
'mid the hills
Here Catawba, pebbled from a thousand
brawling rills,
Here's Uwharie with its hurry, hre the
lazy Waccamaw.
Here are heard the humming spindles on
the busy Deep and Haw.
Here in field and Swamp and forest are the
Lumber and Pedes,
And upon her breast Coharie, , Colly and
the Minowee, t . ; , j
Here the Cape Fear's stoned waters graad-
ly go to open sea. .
Here Gontentnea and Trent, pouring into
Neuse, find Ocrareke,
"Where the herring comes in spring time
are Che wan and broad Roanoke.
North and Newport, Yeopim, Pungo,
Pasquotank, and Pamlico,
Pentiego queer Perquimans here the
millions come and go.
Dripping, gugling, gurshing, rushiag,
tumbling, creeping, so they be,
Carolina's matchless rivers from their foun
tains to the sea.
The Indian word 19 Torpoeo, or
Tau.
queon.
i;The Indian name of French Broad.
A MISTAKE CORRECTED.
A Manufacturer of Plug Tobacco
rises toj Explain the Reductio n
of the Tobacco Tax.
Mr. Editor: I see in one of our
county papers, of a recent date, a
short article claiming that the manu
facturer and retail dealer in tobacco
are the parties benefitted and not the
consumer as was intended by the
change or reduction of the tax.
I beg to differ with whoever wrote
the article. It may seem to the con
sumer and the writer of the article
referred to that they aee getting no
more tobacco than they were before
the tax was reduced far the same
money. But because they do not get
a plug of tobacco in a different shape
that is no reason that they are not
getting more tobacco than they did
before the tax was reduced. I come
in the line as one of the parties accus
ed of getting the benefit of the reduc
tion, and not the consumer, I have
this to say, as a manufacturer, that as
soon as the tax was reduced I reduced
the price on my tobacco 8 cents, and
this year I am making some tobacco
the same size for the same price only
th plug is heavier than it waa before
the reduction of the tax. If the
writer of the article supposes that a
manufacturer can set aside his "shapes"
which are very expensive just because
the tax is reduced 8 cents he does not
have much experience in regard to
manufacturing tobacco, and simply
because he does not get a larger sized
plug of tobacco comes to the coclusion
that the manufacturer and retail deal
ler are the men who are getting the
benefit of the reduction. Try 4 plugs
and a half now and see if they do not
weigh as much as sir did this time
last year and then talk about your 10
cent plugs . becoming beautifully
smaller. Repectfully, S. P. Lackey.
Morganton, July 30, 1883.
A RACY LETTER.
Giving a Visitor's Impressions of
Morganton and a Description of
a trip to Piedmont Springs Per
sonal Squibs Accidents and In
cidents as Seen and Heard by a
young: lady Reporter for The
Mountaineer.
Mr. Editor: In accepting your
very flattering invitation to act as
reporter for The Mountaineer at
I Piedmont Springs, allow me to pre
. face my account of our delightful ex
I cursion to that beautiful mountain
resort by givin my impressions of
'.-f MORGANTON
itself. I have visited nearly every
point of interest in the Carolina Moun
tains, Ashtville, Waynesville, Hen
dersonville, Warm Springs and other
popular resorts, but have never yet
found more delightful point for
summer headquarters than Morganton.
Situated mere than 1200 feet above
the sea on the, breezy hills of the
CATAWBA VALLEY,
it is completely encircled by grand
mountains, and the scenery is superb
beyond description. The South Moun
tain chain sweeps around the valley
in a graceful curve on the South and
East, beautifully dotted with farms
and orchards; in the North-east the
symetiical outline of Hibriteu and
the rugged crest of the Grandfather
Mountain loom up against the sky;
in the west Table liock, Hawk's Bill,
Short Off, and the long trending
Linville Range leads the eye from one
height to another till it rests on the
imperial Black Mountain range with
MOUNT MITCHELL
towering proudly above the giant
peaks around. Nor is the mountain
view the only scenic attraction. From
any of the hills there are lovely views
of the fertile Catawba valley, with
the broad,silvery river winding among
meadows and corn-fields and murmer
ing near ancient homesteads that have
stood the Morms of t inbre than a cen
tury. Jijwt outside the town limits
7f LAKE I.OUISE,
a beauty il, sheet of water a mile leng
is nestled among the hills, affording
excellent facilities for moonlight boat
riding, where in company with a
handsome young gondolier the writer
has spent several delightful evenings,
wafted into fairy land by the sweet
music of the guitar. On one of the
hills overlooking the lake, is situated
the Western North Carolina Asylum
for the liuane,a beautiful building with
graceful domes and minarets, the
largest and handsomest building in
the State, and the best arranged As
ylum in America. Of Morganton
itself," let me say that its situation is
beautiful, thst it has many elegant
and attractive homes, six good
churches five sehools, two hotels, three
newspapers, and society that for in
telligence, iefinement and polish is
unsurpassed anywhere. Its popula
tion is now at least one thousand and
is rapidly increasing I suppose from
the number of dwelling that are being
erected and the fact that, there is not
a vacant house in. town.
But I have been digressing, as the
object of this letter was to tell you of
a trip to
PIEDMONT SPRINGS,
one of the many points around Mor
ganton to which the young people are
wont to make excursions. The best
part of any kind of an excursion, Mr.
Editor, is to have a good, jolly, de-as-you-please
kind of a party, and those
who are familiar with the young ladies
and gentlemen who visited Piedmont
last Thursday night will know that
they could have a good time in Terra
Del Fuego. The following is a list of
the party:
Mr. I. T. Avery and Miss Kate
Johnson, Mr. Alex Wilson and Miss
Emma Scales, Mr. Gaither Pearson
and Miss Lollie Avery, Mr. Fred
Oertel and Miss Hattie Chambers,
Mr. W. B. McDowell and Miss Sallie
Hallman, Mr. S. C. Adams and Miss
Jessica Chambers, Mr. W. C. Ervin
and Miss Addie Marsh, Mr. John
McDowell and Miss Hattie Avery,
Mr. C. M. McDowell and Miss Ma
mie Adams, and Messrs. J. W. Hap
uoldt, J. J, McElrath and Alfred
I Marsh as merrv a nartv of vouncr
A. ml ml J
people as ever took Piedmont by
storm. The most of us left Morgan
ton at 4 p. m. and reached Piedoront
after a pleasant ride of four hours
over a very good mountain road.
The springs are on the banks
of a clear, rapid stream that flows
through the narrow valley between
Brown Mountain and the Winding
Stair Mountains. The hotel, which
stands on the opposite side of thr
creek from the iron and sulphue
springs, is the ideal old time
COUNTRY TAVERN,
with long, shady piazzas and stands
in the midst of a lawn beautifully
shaded with black locust and spruce
pine trees. Here we arrived just at
dark, and were given a warm recep
tion and, still better, a warm supper,
after which the interesting ceremony
of stowing away a score of people in
a house already full was begun and
successfully carried out by the land
lord. A few "spare rooms" were
found for the ladies and the gentle
men were quartered in the offices,' the
report that the fleshy guitarist had
to sleep in a hay stack being a ro
mance. Friday was spent pleasantly
enough in strolling in the shady
walks tip the creek, in driving and
horseback riding, while several cou
ples actually went fishing, but with
out auy apparent success,
Friday night a detachment of "Co.
Q," headed by the genial, jolly, rud
dy and
ROTUND HA.PPOLDT,
arrived from Morganton, with violin
guitar and bass violin to the great
delight of the devotees of Terpsichore
and to the sweet strains of music
furnished by Messrs. Oertel, , Hap
poldt and McElrath, they devoted
the night to the quadrille, the polka
and the waltz, until at a late hour
the weary .dancers retired , for rest
before their return to Morganton ."on
Saturday morning.
THE INCIDENTS
of the trip were numerous and inter
esting, but unfortunately very few of
them came under the immediate ob
servation of your reporter. I must
not forget to mention however, that
a young lady and gentleman belong
longing to the party started to visit
Tilden Falls, a cascade one mile from
the Springs, but lost their way and
when found by their friends who
went in search of them the young
man was entirely exhausted, poor fel
low, and had sunk on his knees at the
young lady's feet. The appearance
of his friends on the scene soon res
tored him to his good spirits and up
right position.
Friday evening Misses "Emma
Scales and Addie Marsh with their
escorts were out horseback riding, on
one of the roads winding up the moun
tains above the springs when they
encountered
A LARGE RATTLESNAKE
coiled in the road and which came
near striking its poisonous fangs into
Miss Scales' horse, causing the frigh
tened animal to rear and plunge in a
manner that would have unseated a
less skillful rider than Miss S. The
dangerous reptile was dispatched,
the rattles secured, and an hour lat
ter the merry party dashed into the
yard at the springs, one of the young
ladies triumphantly bearing the rat
tles and the other having her beaver
decorated with the plumage of a
mountain pheasant found far up on
the heights.
It is a very delicate thing Mr. Edi
tor, to draw comparisons but the fol
lowing remarks are hazarded "accord
ing to the best of our knowledge, in
formation and belief," as the lawyers
say, and are not spoken ex cathedra,
as the writer is a young lady and not
a young gentleman. Having said
this much let me add that
IT WAS OBSERVED
by your reporter that of the young
ladies composing the party Miss Hat
tie Avery was the prettiest, that Miss
Scales had the sweetest voice and
received the most attention, that
Miss Marsh was tho most graceful
horseback rider, that Miss Lollie
Avery was the most graceful dancer
in the quadrilles while Misses Hall
man and Adams were, perhaps, the
most graceful in the waltz. Of the
gentleman I will only say that Mr
Happold't was the merriest while the
handsomest man in the party was
But I havn't time to tell you this
week. My letter is already much too
long, and so, to prevent a row with
any whom I may have offended, let
me retire behind that impenetrable
bomb proof, a nom de plume, and
subscribe myself
Mabel Lee.
Morganton, N. C, July 31.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Boston has 779 policeman and the
cost of the foice last year was $900,
562.
A Dakota editor speaks of John
Bright as being "the inventor of a
very successful disease of the kid
neys." A man has been committed to jail
in Nashville, Tenn., for failing to pay
a judgment of one cent and cost
found against him.
San Francisco physicians have dis
covered one huudred and seven case?
of leprosy among the hoodlum class
of boys who smoke cigarettes made
by Chinamen.
Horse doctors are now admitted to
court in England. The world does
sort of scoot along after all.
It is admitted that the director's of
fice of Western Union Company is
the greatest watering place in tho
country.
Of 85 professors of religion in tho
graduating class at Yale College this
year only five will study for the min
istry. So poor a country as Spain has ap
propriated $200,000 to be expended
in efforts to prevent the spread of
cholera in that country. :
- It is believed (by some) that fifty
million people in the United States
today drink no more whisky than
35,000,000 did thirty years ago.
LaGiange, Indiana, offered a boun
ty for woodchucic scalps, and has paid
for more than 5,000 at a cost of $1,
250. In one day the boys brought
in 1,500.
In Eogland.all persons who get
married are obliged to do so before
noon, unless they obtain a special li
cense. A bill extending the hour to
4 o'clock is under consideration.
Statistics show that 100,000 people
are killed by whisky, where one per
son is killed by a mad dog. Moral-
Don't be afraid of a mad dog.
Mr James Anandale, of Sellersburg,
Ind., was divorced from his wife, and
has now married his late mother-in-law.
His ex-wife who thereby be
comes his step-daughter, has also mar
ried again.
Col. KiDg, of Texas, has sold his
ranch and cattle near San Antonio
for $4,000,000 to an English syndi
cate. Tliis is said to be the largest
ranch in the world.
Mahone i struck with color blind
ness. He cannot see the difference
between a Virginia darkey and a Vir
ginia gentleman.
A San Francisco paper make3 the
rather remarkle assertion that a peach
tree on the farm of William Over
field, in South Auburn, California,
which has heretofore borne very fine
peaches, this year hangs full of plum.
The peach and plum trees were in
blossom at the same time, and grow
close together.
"Sir!" indignantly cried a Republi
editor in Iowa, seizing his inkstand,
"the influence of my newspaper isn)t
for sale, I would have you informed.
But," he added in a less warlike tone
as his visitor rose to depart, "for
something pretty neat I might be in
duced to rent her out to you for this
campaign." -
Justice Field, of the United States
Supreme Court, firmly believes that
the day is not distant when the Isth
mus of Panama will form the South-
! era boundary of the United States.