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UNTAINE VOL. V. MO RG ANTON, N. 0,, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17.1883. NO. 10.; IM A "D ThT T1VI A ER. JPSr - if a Pl 11 TO in ih StatesTiUe, N. C, Sept. 1, 1888. Oar Fall and WINTER STOCK is now in store, ready for inspection, and we again take pleasure in invi ting the Merchants of Western North Carolina, and the Trade generally, to visit us. Everything requsite to the full and complete outfit of the Retail Iealer may be had under our roof. A larger or more varied Stock of General Merchandise is not ott ered by any House in the South. Our traveling salesmen will he on the road during the season, and we hope to receive your continued liberel orders through them. AS1 orders by mail will be filled upon the same terms and receive the same attention as buyers in per son. We are, very truly yours, WALLACE BROS. We solicit your (shipments of Dried Fruits, Blackberries and all kinds ol country produce, Having the best facilities for conducting this branch of our business, we can as sure you of highest market prices at ail times. -DEALERS New and seasonable Goods kept constantly on hand. LOOK OUT FOB THEIR WHAT WILL THE WEATHER BE TO-MORROW 7 O Pool's Signal Service Barometer ' rjS? laVf 2Tvn THERMOMETER- COMBINED, nw sTORM T,ASS ntosr. eminem. r" and Scientific men of tb nament. We will send rint nt X 1 . lerroii. " - - - Address au proera J T m mm b'-WM KwS refer to the MV PotmRter County Clerk, Fi Ntioallks,orbun This Will B J ? on it every ume. . w- PcS's Bnter has without oar Trade racnt,apeipwj -tT VISITORS AMfWV fiWByiii r-?y v w a TTimAHDrs IN GENERAL AND THERMp3rETraCp2IBINJl.U, TlcyTT . y t.-r .T. YOU I It will detect and iudieat correctly any ohan in in advance It will tWl whav kind of storm u auprosehin, and from wn '; "'T;-Kra 111 I WWC HUnLU I aaywDeme w. lifihiBhed wiliVt frame. 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New and trranl.k Piero-tai liistor of the great S?:Sfiehts of the World. Bv M-'liral Dtnctor SHIM-EX, U. S. N. Address J.C. MJCUIlWV & CO., 632 Chostnut St., Phiiidelphia, 0. A. CTLLET, ATTORNEY AT LAW LEXOIE, N. C. Attorney at law, LENOIR, N. C. jm. T. PERKINS, Attorney at Law, MoRGANTON, N. C. rfWill practice iu the State and Federal Courts. C' 1 ri t nil nil r fvj c" r"J5""' (Graduate Baltimore Dkktal Coj.leoe. LENOIR, N. C. 8WDses no Impure luaterial for filling teeth. Work as low as good work ean be done. Patients from a di tance may avoid delay by informing him at what time they propose, coming. Coffey's Hotel, Maine street, Booke. X. J. COFFEY & BRO., Proprietors. This first-class house has rscenily been ref urnished with uew and elegant furniture, besides the roouie are all convenient ami comfortable. X'iie tare can not be surpassed in ths State. Attentive aud polite servants always in attcud.mcc. Good etables au j nostlcra. Give lis a call when you are in Boone. Rates very moderate. Thfc Pioneer Library, LEXOIR, N. C. A circulating Library of standard miscellaueons books. Rich stores of useful knowledge and enter taming reading within the reach of all. Terms of Membership : Life members, $25 ; for one year, $2 ; six months, $1. All money received for membership or from dona iotis is applied to the purebaec of new bonks. C. A. CILIjaY, iTesident. (. V. F. HAurKB, TreafTirer. J. M. Svaihu,vk. ccretajy. 4 Lenoik, N. C Julv 23rd. 1883. My farxihr uncd tho Crst Domestic Sewing Maeliiae brought to tUi8 cnun try. Fcr light running, good wori and general satisfaction I don't think it has au equal. J. M. SrAiNnoun. We are Company's Agents for the celebrated light running Iomestic Sewing Machine, the only machine that has the under-braiding attach tnent. Call and see them. Needles and oil for all kinds of machines on hand. ECtTERP BROTUERS. Bryan's Hotel, BOO TE N. C. This house still maintains its reputation a a first class hotel . The proprietor most respectf rilly returns thanks to his friend's and the. public generally for past favors, aud will assure them that h' will con tinue to merit the) r patronage by serving n p the very best the market affords. A trial is all I ask. W. L. BRYANj Proprietor. . ScarletFever I Cured. j THE YODNG LiliER'S FIRST CASE. The young lawyer conducting his first case before a jury is worthy of the deepest commiseration. Take him, for instance, in the criminal court, before which he has a case, While the prosecuting attorney is tying the first witness in bowknots and untying him again, the amateur sits listening, but endevoring to look as unconcerned ap a marble statue in a thunder storm, He throws in timid objections every time he sees a hold,, and as each one is overruled by the courts he puts on a stern look, as much as to say, "I'll knock the wind out of that in the supreme court." "When the prosecutor, usually an old, able attor ney, dryly says, "Take the witness," the youthful aspirant trembles a lit tie, and endeavors to swallow some thing that is sticking to his throat. He thinks that every eye in the room is upon him and. they are as hot as stove lids. He fires a few initiatory questions at the witness, and warms as he pro ceeds, until he is brought up stand ing by, "OIi! your Honor, we object to such irrelevant questions," follow ed by a few scathing remarks from the prosecutor. The court sustains the objection, and advises the young lawyer to keep within bounds, which sets him to wondering where in the thunder the bounds are Objection follows objection, and each on is promptly sustained- He wonders why it is that a free and independ ent people will tolerate such one' bided justice. He plunges ahead blindly now, until he becomes so confused that be does not know whether he is a practicing attorney with a guilt sign, or a flywheel on a steam wood saw. , Finally he runs out of questions, and with a sigh of releif or something tells the witness, "That's all.'' So ha grinds through, and at last the prosecutor ilses and proceeds to address the jury in a masterly style. As he progresses he picks up all the evidence adduce by the defense in particles fine enough to be incorporated into codfish balls. The youthful Blackstone wrestler begins to feel uneasy as tus roind re verts to the fact in a few moments he must deliver his maiden speech. He wished the prosecutor would hold his grip and keep it, until time to adjourn court, feeling Fatisfied that he could make a splendid speech the next day after a night's lighting on the evidence. He tries to remem ber what the witnesses swore to but cannot recall the evidence to save his life. The prosecutor finally winds with a grand, peroration, and as he says: And in conclusion gen tlemen of the jury," the youth ner vously fingers bio mousfcache, and wishes he had never begun the abom nable business. Cold chills are fin gering him all . over the back, as if measuring him for a new shirt, and his spinal column acts as if it was tired and wanted to sit down awhile. Like Ihnquo's ghost, the lump in his throat won't stay down, by an obsti nate majority, and he swallows it and wonders what he is going to say and how long it will take him to eay it. As the prosecutor calmly takes his seat, the young lawyer rises and moves to the front. He dares not look at the audience, and tries to imagine there is no one in the room but himself and the twelve sphynx like forms in the jury box. The eyes of each juror ae fixed upon bim, and he would almost relinquish hi hope, of heaven if some one would raise a cry of fire to divert their attention until he gets a start. Finally he shrugs his shoulders and manages to remark, "Gentlemen of the (swallow) jury." Yery good. He then surveys them a moment, and every man in the box thinks he is is endeavoring to read their thoughts; but he isn't. He is wishing to gra cious he could read his own thoughts. At last he strides out and goes for them about their intelligent looks, and how he feels that his client" p interests are safe v their hands. At the same time he feels serious doubts as to their safety in his own hands. He worries through his speech with an average of two swallows at that lump to the sentence. The prosecu tor closes the argument, und the case goes to the jury, whq retire tft a secluded ?oon to chew tobacco, and ask each other what they thought of it. 1 1 so happened that the flimsy testimony against the ac cusecl warrants, a verdict of 'ttQli guilty;" whereupon the amateur grasps his client's hand and whispers: "It was a hard fight but I got you out of it!" Then he rises, loads up enough law books to swamp a mud scow, casts a triumphant look at the prosecuting attorney, who smiles pleasantly in return, and walks slowly and majestically down the aiBle to the door with as much dignity as if he owned a "Wes tern railroad. Oh, you can't deny it, even you old veterans you've all been there! Th YVlthvilUff Credit System. Boston Commercial Bulletin, The leading delusion pievalent in the South to-day in financial matters is the withering credit system, and some speaker at this convention cannot do better than to aim a stinging blow strait from the shoulder at this great evil; for evil it is, recognized and deplored as much by the Southern people as by others. The South should have rid itsejf of this plague long ago; it has suf fered the West to beat it in this re spect. But it is better late than never, but the clear headed bankers, merchants and farmers of the South cannot do better for it than to use every effort in th,eir p,o,wer to bring this change about. As Edward A.t kinson "opened" on the industrial and agricultural, faults of the South a few years ago, so let some aggres sive banker beard the credit lion in his den. THE I.EOAIr TENDER ACTS AGAIN IN COURT. Among the cases standing on the docket of the Supreme Court of the United States is the action gotten up by Mr. Crittenden, and Gen, But ler for the purpose of having deter mined the exact status of the green back currency issued since the close of the war. The case will be reached tomorrow, but in view of the failure of counsel to reply to the usual notification is deemed probable that it will be assigned for some future day to be agreed upon. The history of the case is an interesting one. When the Supreme Court of the United States, by a majority of one voice, decide that the legal-tender acts were wirhin the constitutional powers of the United States, and were therefore valid, they laid great stiess upon the fact that the govern ment was at the time of their passage engaged in a gigantic war that taxed the resources to the utmost. The constitution had given the United States the right to levy war. and by the eighteenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution Congress was given authority kto pass all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this constitution ' in-the government of the Uunited States, or in any department or officer there of." AmoDg the most ordinary re ' sources, of States involved in great and long protracted hostilities is the issue of paper money made bylaw legal tender for all debts The court therefore held that the passage of the legal tender acts might well have appeared to Congress a necessary and proper means of carrying into execution that power to levy war which was given them by the consti tution. The decision of the court went then no further than to affirn that in time of war Congress had poor to issue paper money anil to make it a legal Under as well for debts oaiatractcd before as r for tho&e contracted after the enactment of the law. They did not decide that such laws would be valid if passed under other circumstances, nor did they deoide that they would not be. The determination of these questions, was not nestaayy to, a judgement upon the cases before the court, and they were left open. When in 1878 Congress prohibited any further xe dqetion of the volume of the outstand ing paper currency of the country, and directed the Secretary of the treasury to reissue and keep in ClT culation the notes wbica-.were to be redeemed under the provisions of the resumption act, Mr, Crittenden, then a member of Congress from Brook lyn, determined to test the consti tutionality of the enaotment, holding that the reissue , wag . really a new issue and that legal tender notes could not be put forth in time of teace Geo. Butto maintained that the act was a valid exercise of the powers conferred upon the United States, and agreed with Mr. Critten den io make up a test case. The action was brought some years ago but the Supreme Co art refused the application of Senator Edmunds, of counsel for- Mr. Crittenden, to advance the case on ths docket, and it had to wait its recnlor turn, and in consequence it did no stand for argument until last winter. It was then postponed, as Gen. Butler's side was not ready for trial. The case is of great interest and importance, for if the : Supreme - Court should de cide that Congress has no authority to make anything bul gold and silver a legal tender in time of peace the greenback question would be taken out of practical politics,, as there would be then no power in the country that could comply with the demand of the greenback party, even if it wished to. As the United States is ready to redeem in coin any notes presented for that purpose, the mere taking away from the green backs their legal tender character would not have any effect upon their value. They wonld still remain at par with gold, and as they were so mnch more convenient, would doubt less be seldom presented for redemp tion. The Hountaiu oiiifr to Mahomet. Boston Commercial Bulletin. The economic folly of sending cot ton to the mills instead of sending the mills to the cotton is being rap. idly demonstrated. Under slavery, however, the folly was justifiable, for it was that or nothing. Now the conditions are all changed, and the process of bringing the mills to the cotton, long thought to be impossi ble and undesirable, is slowly but steadily going on. The amount of cotton used by Southern mills during the year ending Sept. 1, was 338,000 tales, or more than twice the amount used four years ago, and 90,000 bales more than was used the previous year. This is a significant sign. It shows that the Southern States are waking up to the possibilities of their own industrial development. Cotton mills imply more than the prodoe tion of so" much cloth. It implies machine shops, and iron mills and a hundred kindred mechanical indus tries; it implies better agriculture in the neighborhood; it implies schools and churches and newspapers. There is one thing that it does not imply, and that is the cessation or curtailment even, of kindred indus tries elsewhere. The world is grow ing in population, and the United States especially, with wonderful rapidity. There is no chance for jealousy between the seotions. A Saaks With Feet New York Times. - 1 Mr. Richard Decker, a resident'at Walkill. in Ulster county, while work ing in bis oat field was recently surpris edby a black snake which came at him with an open mouth, his head eleva ted Irom the ground twelve or four teen inches. He succeeded in killing it with a pitcbifork, and in neaaur meat found it to be five feet seven iiK'hes in length, with a diameter of an inch aad ah ilf at the largest part. The extraordinary feature, bow ever, was the presenoe of two well formed legs, wth feet, attached to the body at a point about fifteen Inches from its tail. The legs were of a light pink or flsh color, without bone, and no e lKtio that whan drano to their fall length end suddenly released woal4 spring back to their normal posiiloa at the reptile's side. The feet were a bout the size of a hazel nnt and were hoof like in appearance, and of a dark er color than the abs to which they were attached. Upon each one of these feet or hoofs were 63 small claws, white and of a horny substance The body of i be snake, with legs at taohed, . was seen by most of the inhabitants of the village befbre it was put into alcohol and forwardsd to the National Museum at Wabington, A factory at Bush Hill near High Foint, N, C, now makes all kinds of power looms. It is located in th midst of the finest dogwood and per simmon timber in the country. It is the aim of the company to supply Southern manufacturers with South-' ern made shuttles that cannot be excelled as to quality of material, workmanship, finish or fitting. It is strictly a North CawUn enterpriser CALL MURDER MURDER. lUleigh Cnrenlele. It it not a pleasant duty, bat surely a pertinent one, U call at tention to the unusual number of trials for murder that have witbiu the past twe months come np in vur courts. We- refute with spirit the sweeping charge that is often made against the Southern State9 as the home of murderers ; and no well be haved man of course, is in any greater danger of death In North Carolina than in any other long settled Com raonwealth. A' man seldom, perhaps never. ; hs - his i life taken without provocation. Most ef the murdered' men were aot" great " losses to Ihe community. ' 1 But. in all troth and soberness,' without making comparisons, and without knowledge of the number cf recent murders in other States, and without cro for them, it is not well for us t-iat so - many capital cases come np in our courts. They look bad not only abroad, but at home likewise. There is a class, not large n r influ ential, that holds life too cheap. Lead is an effective atgument in a quarrel, we protest it is not "chivalrous." It is noteworthy that a very large number of the killings in . the State are for the honor of women, Nothing else is so dear to men of spirit ; but it is at leaat a debatable question whether a woman's honor Is saved or redeemed by the death of the man who did injury to it. At any rate the general proposition will hold true that the shenf is the proper person to dis pose of our surplus scoundrels. Nor is it a very brave deed to kill a scoundrel; and the worst of it is,' it is not. always tha worst scoundrel that is killed, The killing even of bad men is a very terrible thing. We indulge iu it too freely, and we are a little too quick ea trigger. The sweeping con elusion that is sometimss drawn that our whole civilization ts tainted with the spirit murder fa a slander, but it i3 Bimply as usfortunate fact fiat too many men io peaceful aud prosperous North Corolina are dying in their boots. The more emphatically this is said tha better. The State papers can (and many of them do) do much much to make firearms less fashionable, . When a murder is committed, a report of it and the usual regrets of the "unfortu nate occurrence" are not ' enough. Say bow it happened' Say who was to blame. Call a murderer a murdert er. This is the proper way to dej with there. The severe punishment of both truth and pfaia language is a greater reformatory power than a hazy fear of the gallows. thr Centre Hht. New York. Sept. 26, 1883. Editor of the Journal of Commerce: Is the national debt mere at the present time than it was in I860; please, state tha amount of the debt In 1860 and in 1883, and whether the Republican administration is better for this country or the Democratic? S. C, G. Reply. The following will sbo ' the amount of the public debt of tha ' United States Jul; 10, I860, and at the present .me : . ' 1860. Total debt United states.. $64 769.708,08. . ; r 1883. Total debt United state. ' 536,518,765,09. The debt Is one thousand Toiir hun4red millions greater now than it was at the close of the fiscal year in I860.'rW Republican j have con trolled the Government at Washing, ton since the year 1861, and their record is before tne country. Wheth er the Democrats would have done better "or worse is a mere matter of opinion, not susceptible of proof or demonstration. Tbe country'' did prosper uader Democratic adminis trations for a long series of yk ars, and if the Democrats have not lost all ' their sense, might do so ngain. It now looks as if tbe people are deter mined to try tbe experiment; but 1 'sppearancos are deceitful," and many confidently expect that tha Democrats will do some foolish thing, and again- upset - tbe coach which premises to carry them to victory,1 The Yadkin Falls Manufacturing Co., Concord, N. have begun tha erection of a new factory building. It will be 100x52 feet, and two stories. There were 478 deaths from chol era in E7P on We4aetd.ariMti a.