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'1 KJ J J u . AROLIN VOJL. 5. MORGANTON, N. C, SATUKIKA TT, A UGZTST 11, '1883. no: 2. c MttUNT A INEER 1883. SPRING AND Office of TW!IjIj1CE BROS. Statesvillc J C9 wllarcli 1. 1883 To T7ieTrale: We take pleasure in informing yon that oor S-T-O-C-K IS NOW COMPLTE. Onr S'ock this Season is unneually attractive and complete complete in all departments; well assorted, new and seasonable, embracing everything necessary to the full and complete outfit of the retailer. Extending to yon cordial invitation to visit ns, and hoping to secure yonr orders through our traveling salesmen, We are, very truly yours, J. All orders by niailivill be filled upon lie same terms and receive tlie same attention as buyers in person. THE MOUNTAIN HOTEL, J. A. HUNT, Proprietor, .Morgantoa, .. C. HEADQUARTERS FOR- COM ME 11C I A Is ME N. - 4 (Innd Table. Comfortable Booms, PoliU Attention, Bcasnab Mates. Special Terms by the Month. "Important Notice to Farmers of toorth Carolina ! In orderthat allmayte aWe to nse S3 it dirt fae. Reduced wholesale prices for rice per Single Ton - Three ions ior - Five (5) Tons or over - Per Ton of 2000 lbs. m good bags of of at our works. , . We Guarantee the louowing uuu,B Ammonia - - - Available 15oxa rHOSPHAxia - and we think it will pay.all ioDacco ur . ' Address all orders and inqmms to 'MM SkISE- MP. HOWARD & PRES1TELL, DEALERS IN I r - t fr.il.. GENERAL IlORGATON, N. C. . . j. . ARB con3Un.ly rec iving n,w and .easonable goad?, which ti.cy ar, - . r . . " ' oftrtog at the most resonaiiie Call and ce th.m. ard; ,00 will be convinced that they cannot be undersold. 1883. ! SUMMER. of of North Carina, at the following Cash: 00 " " lOOOO 33 OO lbeach on blears or vesse JUU iDS-eaoa on 5 to 6 Per cent. 10 to 12 " " 4 to 5 " " 1 MERCHANDISE, ..... c . THE MOUNTAINEER. SATURDAY, - AUGUST 11, 1883, W. C. ERVIN, Editor. THE SWORD OF LEE. BY FATHER RYAN. Fourth from its scab bar J, pur and bright. Flashed tho sword of Lee! Far in front of the deadly fight, High o'er the brave; in tho cause of right, - . . I Its stainl.sssh.en like beacon-light, Tj.d us to victorVi s Led us to victory; Out of its scabbard, where fulfloug. It slumbered peacefully Housed from its rest toy the battle-song, Shieldiug the feeble, smitinc the strong, Guarding the right and avenging the ".-wrong Gleamed the sword of Lee! Forth from its scabbard high in' air, Beneath Virginia's sky A ti A tViav nrlin cnur it orlpominer fhAFi And knew who" boie it, knelt to swear That where that sword l?d they would dare To follow and to die. Out of its scabbard! Never hand Waved sword from strain as free, Nor purer sword led braver band, Nor braver bled for a brighter land, J7or brighter land had a cause as grand, Nor cause, a chief like Lee ! Forth from its scabbard! how we prayed That pword might victor be! And when our triumph was delayed, And many a heart grew sore afraid, We still hoped on. while gleamed the blade Of noble.Robert Lee! Forth from its scabbard! all. in vain! Forth flashed the sword of Lee! 'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again. It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain, Defeated, yet without a stain . Proudly and peacefully. The Next State Fair. The present prospects are tLat tbe next State fair will be at least as good as the fine one held last year, it not better. The last fair gave more gen eral satisfaction, perhaps, than any. ever held in the State. The officers f the State Agricultural Society say they intend to spare no effovts to make the coming fair something to be proud of. The premiums are to be valuable and mainly paid in cash. Special attention is to be paid to the premiums for crops, cotton and grain, while the prizes fer stock will be val uable. The exhibit of blooded stock horses and cattle at the last fair far surpassed anything f the kind ever before made in North Carolina. The Boy Farmer. Massachusetts Ploughman. The boy that commences early 19 life to practico agriculture for him self, on a small scale, becomes inter ested in obtaing the best result with the least expenditure of , money, and not only learns many practical lessoqs which are of great value in after lif, but he becomes so strongly attache to the farm that he has no desire to leave it. In fact the boy who begins to gather up practical knowledge IS- lating to the best method of -producing farm crops, and continues it tp to manhood, learns one of the motet r liable trades that man has ever jet followed. ' Give the boy a few rodof land to cultivate, and then encoura&e and if necessary, assist him to maf e it the most productive portiou of Che faraL In a few years he will .' begin to realize that farming is an oooua-tion-which requires quite 84 high U telligence as 1 any other occupation, and also that the profits of the farm depend in a great measure on the in telligence of the farmer. As soou as he realizes this, he will entertain; a higher respect for the occupation, and wiJI feel a desire, not simply to j be come a practical farmer,' but to tbe able to direct the practice with, the highest scientific intelligence. . Ttii rarl d nil ax is coming into eir- xailatioa again. In hundreds of places in Hew York signs announcing that the trade dollar will be received at par are displayed conspicuously. ITEMS OF INTEREST. New Orleans authorities poisoned, in a few days, 900 dogs. The United States has paid its soldies $700,000,000 in pensions. The new colored cadet at "West Point it said to be very popular with his classmates A scientist thinks that the wesrinsr ! of pointed shoes will ultimately lead : to a race of Deome with only one toe. AM. m You can take vour choice. Ven- ! nor saj s August will be dry, Cathers nor say s August will be dry, Cathers ; saVa it will be wet and Wiggings j it wiU be cold . Young George Vanderbilt, the fourth son of the rich man, is said to , have the honest ambition to become a newspaper reporter. A laudable A man eating tripe at a hotel table ambition. j looks like an Arctic explorer dining The whistle of a locomotive is.on his boots or chewing pieces of heard 3,300 yards, the noise of a train frozen doS- caanot look at a 2,800 yards, the report of a musket J ma" eating tripe but he will blush and the bark of a dog 1,800 yards, j and look, as though he -' wanted to the roll of a dru in 1,600 yards, the ; apologize and covince you he takes crpak of a frog 900 yards, and a crick- I ets chirp 800 yards. p OUU yaras. -. . m , -in Tseng, who manages the Chinese OATtom ma-n- lniii-acta in H.nrrro rfl. I in ii uie.i i ij iiiLticouo xu vy iw v mains in dress a ' Chinese nobleman, wearing shoes with ,white soles, a violet tunic, a yellow waistcoat, and a VlOiet IUU1C, a yeUUW waistcuat, auu a. . . I . . f l fur cap with three fox tails attached.. r He has one wife only. Earthquakes in Italy, cholera in Egypt, tornadoes in the United States, inundations in Germany, famine in Russia, war in Tonquin, Madagascar,. Zululand, and several South Ameri can States poor old world, poor old world,poor old distracted globe! Roscoe Conkling, when in the Sen ate, was the worst speller in that body, if the Washington Critic is to he be- lieved. He used to spell wagon with ir:o "gV and Czar minus the "C" I and with a capital "Z". Many other I, orthographical eccentricities are at- ttributed to him "Good morning, John,'' said one of leading Presbyterian pastors in Scran- ton, Pa., to a young friend whom he met on the street the first warm day of the season, "how does your father stand the heat?" The young man made no reply, but went his way with i i a u u i a clouded brow. And when the good pastor learned that the yonng man's father had died only a week before . -1 1 1 1 1 " 1 1 ne unaersiooa wny uis coruuu greut - ing was met so coldly. Dr. Richardson, a Canadian gen tleman f means, scientifiic attain ments and inventive mind, resident in Washington, has invented a ma chine er device by the aid of which he proposes to go over Niagara Falls. He is enthusiastic, and expects to ac complish the undertaking without personal miury to himself. He says he will make the trial within a month. His annaratus is a sort of balloon x which will partially float him as he goes over the falls. Earthquakes are probably con temporaneous with the globe and played an important part in fashion ing it. Modern Scientists believe that "an earthquake is a vibratory motion, propagated through ths solid mate rials of the earth much in the same way that sound is propagated by vi brations in the atmosphere." It is estimated that 13,000,000 .of human j beings have perished in this way. Egypt and Holland are said to be the only countries safe from such catastro. phe. Cheap telegraph operators are em ployed for night duty on tho Troy and Boston railroad, their compensa tion ranging from twenty-five to thirty dollars a month. One of these men neglected to hold a freight train n Wednesday, as ordered, and in the consequent collision five men were killed, and two locomotives and forty six cars, with their contents, were destroyed. Such operators are dear at any price. Railroad managers know very well that fidelity and skill can not be purchased tor the wages of coolie labor, y et they persistently run the chances of a fatal blunder by starving out intelligent assistance. - CONCERNING TRIPE. Burlington Hawkeye. Occasionally vou see a man order tripe at a hotel, but he always looks hard, as though he hated himself and everybody else. He tries to look as j though he enjoyed it, but ho does not. ! Tripe is indigestible, and looks like an'india rubber apron for a child to , put on. When it is pickled it looks ' like dirtv clothes nut to soak, and nt when it is cookinsr it look as though " the cook was boiling the dish cloth. the cook was boiling the dish cloth, On the table it looks like glue and tastes like as piece of oil silk umbrella r . . .. cover. A stomach that is not lined with corrogated iron would be turned : wrong side out by the smell of tripe, it to tone up his system, a woman . ! " mi ' navor oota T.rir i nprp is nnr. mnnev ..w v j enougn m tne wona lo nire a woman f . . , mouth and try to pull off a piece. Those who eat tripe are men who have had their stomachs play mean j .i tricks on them, and they eat tripe to ' t . : . A - rrot Avon orlth their HT.nmnP.liR. anfl to get even with their stomachs, and then go and take a Turkish bath to sweat it out of the system. - Tripe is a superstition handed down from a former generation of butchers, who sold all the meat and kept the tripe for themselves and the dogs, but the dogs ef the present day will not eat tripe. You throw a piece of tripe in front of a deg, and see if he does not DUt his tail between his legs and go 0g an(j iate vou. Tripe may have a xaU9f hut it is not as a food. It may ue oqa to fill ;nt0 a burglar-proof gafj the cement and chilled steel, or it might answer to a use as abreast plate in time of war, r it would be oodto use as bumpers between cars, but when you come to smuggle it into the stomach you do wrong. Tripe! Bah! A piece of Turkish towel cooked in axle grease would be pie compared with tripe. TTB , THE FAM COURTS.; m SixthDistkict John A. Gilmer, Judge of Fifth District, presiding ... . 54 . jMecklenburg August z. Cabarrus September 17. Stanly September 24. Montgomery October 1. Union -October 8. Lincoln October 22. Gaston October 29. Cleveland November 12. Rutherford November 26. Polk. December 10. Seventh District Wm. M. Shipp. Judge of Sixth District, presiding. Darie September 3. Yadkin September 10. Davidson September 17. Wilkes October 1. Alleghany October 15. Surry October 22. Stokes October 29. Forsyth November 12. Rowan November 26. Eighth District lesse P. Graves, Judge Seventh District, presiding. Iredell August 13. Catawba August 27. Burke September 10. McDowell September 24. Yancey October 8. Mitchell October 22. Watauga November 5. she November 12. Caldwell November 26. , Alexander December 3. Ninth District J. C. L. Gudger, Judge Ninth District, presiding. Madison August 6. Henderson August 20. . Trannsylvania September 3. Haywood September 10. Jackson September 17. Macon September 24. Clay October!. Cherokee October 8. Graham Octbbetr22. : Swain October 29. - ' Buncombe November 5. MODERN GIANTS. The following is a list of men and women of Herculean statue who lived in latter days as given by the London Tidbits: Samuel McDonald, a Scotchman, nick-named "Big Sam," was 6 feet 10 inches high. Was footman to Prince of Wales. Died 1802. Alice-Gordon, Essex, Eng.,giantess 7 feet. Died 1737. Anne Haven Swan, of Nova Scotia 7 feet. " i . 1 La Pierre, of Sratgard, in Denmark 7 feet 1 inch. Henry Blacker, 7 feet 4 inches, most symmetrical. Born at Chuck- field, in Sussex, iu 1724. Generally called the "British Giant- Was ex hibited in London in 1751. Edward Bamford,7. feet four inches. Died 1768. Buried in $t Dunstand church yard London. . Louis Frenz, Frenchman, .' 7 feet 4 inches. His left hand is preserved in tho museum of tho College of Sur geons, Londou. Martin Salraeron, a Mexican, 7 feet 4 inches. Porue, an indian king, who fought against Alexander near the -river Hydasper, B. C. 327, was 7 feet 6 inches high, with strength in propor tion. - ' Edward Melon, 7 feet 6 inches. Bern at Port Leicester, Ireland, 1665 and died 1634, being only nineteen years of age. James McDonald, 7 feet 6 inches. Native of Cork, Ireland, died 1760. Robert Hale 7J feet. Born in Eng land, in 1820, and very often called the "Norfolk Giant." Francis Sheridan, an Irishman, 7 feet 8 inches; weight 22 stone; girth of chest, 58 inches. Died in 1700. Bradley, 7 ieet 8 inches at death, Born at Market Wheaton, in York shire, England. . His right hand is preserved in the museum of the Col- ego of Surgeons. 1798 1820. Joseph Brice, 7 feet 8 inches. At the age of 26 years he was exhibited in London, 1852-5. His hand could span 15 inches. Born at Ramon champ, France, 1840. Was sometimes called Anak. Cornelious McGrath 7J feet. He was an orphan and reared from Bishop Berkely, England. Died at the age of 20 years. John Busby, of Darfield, 7 feot 9 inches. His brother was obontthe same height. , Joachim Eleozegue, Spanish giant, 7 feet 10 inches. Exhited in London. Capt Yates of Kentucky, 7 feet 11 inches. Was exhibited in London,. Harold Hardradra, Norwegian giaut, 8 feet. Gilly, a Swede, 8 feet . two inches. Exhibited as a show early in the 19th century. William Evans, 8 feet at death. Porter to Charles 1. Died 1632. Charlemagne, 8 foet, he could squeeze together three horseshoes at once with his hands. J. Toller, of Nova Scotia, 8 feet. Died 1819. ' Maximillian Christopher Miller, 8 feet. His hands treasured 12 inches and his forefinger 9 inches long. Called the "Saxon Giant." Died in . London; 1674-1734. Chang Woo Goo, of Tychou, China. 8 feet two inches. Exhibited in Lon don 1866-7 and again in 1880. John Richart of Friodsburg, Swe den 8 feet three inches. His father and mother were giants. Charles O'BrienJrish giant 8 fett 4 inches. His skeleton is preserved in the museum .of the College of Sur geons. 1761-1853. Patrick his broth -er was 8 feet 7 inches. - Lousbkin, Russian giant, 8 foet 7 inches; drum-major of the imperial Guards Maximinius 8 feet. The Roman Emperorr 235-238. A human skeleton 8 .feet 6 inches is preserved in the museum of Trinity College, Dublin. i ' -V. 4 .. yff. rv.-j; 1 ii ' '
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