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m 1 TT ORGAN Star UK TON n ! ' Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall AVIiere they May." VQL- L MORGANTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1885. NO. 28 ljc illorgcmton Star. OFFICIAL PAPER OF BURKE COUNTY. ytibllshed Every Friday. T. G. COBB, Editor ana Proprietor. H. A. COBB, Manager and Soliciting Agent. Terms: S 1 .00 per Year in advance Entered at the Post Office in Morganton as Second-Class Matter. BUSINESS CARDS. EAGLE HOTEL. MORGANTON, N. C. MR, ROBT. POWELL desires to state to his many friends and the public generally that his house is now prepared to accommo date the public at all hours. None M Mete New Furniture, Comfortable Rooms. TABLE FURNISHED WITH THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS. Terms, per day, - - - $1.50. Special Terms can be made by the month. Located 50 yards from depot. no26m. Furniture Factory- Now is the time for the farmers of. Burke County to furnish their homes w-h Furniture, 1 t. m '. . . maae rrom our native wood. We wnl ex- iurmture for Walnut, Maple, Cherry, Ash and Poplar Lumber. To ths builder we will say we have a GOODALL & WATERS Surfacer A.TSX Matcher, and will Surface and Match lumber at a low Price. Call and see us. WILSQM & AVERY, Proprietors. POTJTZ'S "WKSE ANn fiSTTl cr Dnur.PP'; w -w r m mm m v w mrw- Vir i?'8''.1 Aif ' Cc. Bots or Lrse If, iPtltz's Powders will en u . -t 11 U.J T,, "' "00x nine, Font? Iow$en m Prevent Gapes tn Fowls. md m-ojT. 'rLH WU1 '"crease ine qnantity 01 mm: Mxt gee8J? twenty per cent., and make the butter firm Pfld-. n Di8E. V .r-E8411 cnre or Prevent almost kvkk? FonT7.rVl - "orees ana uattle are subject. Irywhere. 1 rOWSEXS WILI, dive fiinanra-inv DAVIS JS. TOUT3, Proprietor, Servants are mm ilk "MIRABILE DIGTU." B. F. KNOTT having bought his Spring Stock of Goods since the recent decline in high prices is selling them at astonishingly LOW PRICES. I mean what I say and mean business too. When I tell you that I will make it to your interest to TRADE WITH ME Full 16 ounces for one pound, and 36 inches for one yard. "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS" shall be my motto. Respectfully, B. F. Glen Alpine Station, N. C. let. COBB, slat e Agent. I desire to state to the rmblie trenernJIv that. I have opened an office in Morganton for the sale of real estate, mineral interest and town roperty. I will open communication with and buyers from all parts of the Union, and agents for the settlement of colonies. I there fore claim that my facilities for effecting sales is as good as any medium that can be employed. All persons having: lands, miner al interest, town lots, improved or unimprov ed, will do well to call and see me, give loca tion, boundry and best terms, and I will have tneir property advertised through the Star, a paper tnat nas an extensive circulation in ever State in the Union. Give me a trial and I will save you monej Office in connec- tion with the Stab office buildin R, A. COBB. Morganton, N. C. Globe Academy, Globe, TV. O. J. F. SPAINHOUR. Principal. I KEV. R. L. PATTON. A. B.. (Amherst Col- ! lege, Mass.) Professor of Latin and Greek. MRS. S. A. SPAINHOUR, Music and Cal isthenics. Falls Term opens August 31, 1885. Tuition per month $1 to $3. Music $2.50. Contingent fee 50 cents per session. Board, everything furnished, 7 per month. Ad dress the Principal. New Store and. New Goods ! I take great pleasure in stating to my many friends and the public generally that I have now on hand a large stock of General Merchandise, consisting of DRY GOODS, HATS, SHOES, CLOTH ING, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, FARMING IMPLEMENTS of all kinds. I have taken advantage of the financial crisis and have bought my goods right down at mud sill prices, and will give my custom ers the benefit of the fall. Returning my sincere thanks for the liberal patronage here tofore received and asking a share of your patronage in the future at my new store-room one door north of the post-office, I am respectfully, A. L. BRIGHT, Glen Alpine Station, N. C April 8, 1885. no51y. rs. P. F. Simmons, desires to state to. the public that she is pre pared to do hair braiding of an exquisite quality. She has taken the premium at the State fairs, and is the only person in this sec tion that can do such work. Address MRS. P. F. SIMMONS, Morganton, N. C. June 19, 1885. 6m. New Barber, New Shop, New Furniture. For a clean shave, first-class cut and royal shampoo, call on J. H. Wilson at the "Wind er HoteL vlnl86i II. 13. SPRAGUE, Grocer & Confectioner, AND DEALER IN COUNTRY PRODUCE. Morganton, N. C. Ti. F. GOODSON'S Feed and Sale Stable, Kept in connection with the Eagle Hotel near the depot,. MORGANTON, - N c "" I " USED UP BANK NOTES. How Tliey At Disposed of In the Treasury Department When the national bank notes hav tramped about the -country until they have become ragged and vagabond, and ! have reached the lowest depths of degre dation, they are bundled up and sent to the treasury department for redemption. Many millions of these vagrants are re ceived at the department each year. They have to pass in review through the national bank redemption agency, where those that are utterly depraved and good for nothing are sentenced to be chewed up, and those that have got in through the force of association, but are still not so far gone that some good may not be got out of them, are sent back into the service. In the place of those that are condemned nice, new notes, crisp and clean, are sent out. The experience of these notes is varied, and in some cases very novel and interesting, but their tale is told only by their ragged and dirty appearance when they get back to the department. Ths average length of time that a new note can keep up a respect able appearance is about three years. Some have been found at the end of twenty years to be as crisp as on the day of their issue, but these are exceptional cases, where they have fallen into the hands of people who made pets of them and carefully guarded them from rough usage. The wandering note soon be comes a tramp. It rapidly goes to pieces if it starts out for the We3t, stop ping along at the crossroad inns, or if it frequents drinking saloons and falls in with low company. Bad habits tall on a bank note very quickly. It is in hard luck when it falls in with a bloody-fingered butcher. Some have been known to become good for nothing under such circumstances in a few weeks. They are Bubject, too, to all sorts of misfortune bv fire and water. Many thousand get burnt up. Then their charred and blackened remains are DC"U lu l"c "lcau 1CuCmFuuu. wuc lady in the controllers office in this case has charge of them, and they are sent to her for identification before they can be redeemed. Her name is Fitzgerald, and she is said to be very expert, seldom fail ing to identify a note, giving its proper name, date and classification, no matter how badly burnt it is. Sometimes pack ages of several hundred, done up to be expressed, are sent in all stuck together and burnt clear through to a black crispy mass. She then separates them one by one with a very thin bladed knife, and places the charred remains of each one separately upon a glass slab and exam ines it very carefully with a magnifying glass. She is familiar with all peculiari ties of the issues of the various banks, and a note must be reduced almost to ashes to be beyond her recognition, though to an experienced eye it might, not be distinguished from a piece of grocer's paper which had gone through the fire. All those notes otherwise mutilated go directly to the redemption agency. The degree of expert efficiency displayed there is something remarkable. This branch of the service was organized about eleven years ago by General Spin ner. Prior to that there was no syste matie redemption of the paper currency as it became too worn for circulation, and a good many ragamuffin notes were wandering about the country. The ser vice began with about 152 people em" ployed in counting and assorting the notes that came in for redemption. Very nearly the same amount of work is now done by fifty-seven. The counting in and assorting of the notes requires groat care, and it is only after long experience that it can be done rapidly. There is an average of about 150,000,000 notes per year handled, and they have to be counted about fivo hundred times if there is no hitch in the count, and of t ener if any mistakes are made. The force of fifty-seven, all except two or three of whom are ladies, can handle just half a million notes each day. This is very expert counting. The notes when they come to be judged have first to be "counted in." This requires the "coun ter in" to go over them twice, and she must make no mistake and pass no coun terfeit, or the loss thus caused will be deducted from her salary. She is given from six to ten thousand notes, for which she gives a receipt; then she counts them in; then she counts them back, and if the two counts agree she is given credit for them when she settles up in the even ing, turning in the money bound and labeled with her name and amount on each package. If the packages, or any of them, are found short she has to make good the deficiency. Next, the notes have to be assorted, those in good con dition from those in bad condition; then they have to be grouped as to denomination; then distributed into banks of issue, and then into aenomina- tlon, under the heads of banks. Then they are "counted out." The counter in" has to handle them twice and the 4 'counter-out" thrice, but the former has the most responsibility, and must be more expert. The counter-in handles from 0,000 to 10,000 notes twice, or counts 12,000 to 30,000 per day, while the counter-out handles from 5,000 to 7,000 three times, or counts from 15,000 to 21,000 per day. This is provided they make no mistakes, which makes a recount necessary and doubles the work. . To do this requires constant attention and is a great strain on the nerves, as each note has to be scrutinized very closely to see that it is not counterfeit, and the "counter-in" must know the name of every bank that has a counter feit upon it, and have in his mind a full description of the false note so as to bo able to detect it at sight. The superin tendent says counterfeit notes are thrown out by these experts without hesitation every time they come to them. They have a line of notes passing before their jves at tne time, and any flaw or defect mey notice on the instant. Two hundred and forty appointments have been made during the eleven years Df the agency's existence, and fortv of the fifty-seven employes now there have terved from tho first. A new hand ii doing remarkably well if he or she learni in six months to count five hundred per day on the assortment, which is the easiest, while these old hands will couni ten thousand a day, if the notes are f airlj good. Women are employed for thii business because of the delicacy of their touch and on account of tho fact that they are not so apt to have bad habits, or when they do, it is more quickly dis covered than in the case of a man. They must be young, quick and healthy and well educated, and their salaries, which are paid in through the treasury by the banks, for the three grades of work are rated at $900, $1,000 and $1,200. The cashiers and two or three of the counters are men. To witness the silence and system in the office is a remarkable sight; the eye of the counters cannot for an instant be taken from the notes, i nd their fingers By through the money like fine machin ery : one greenback following another in & never ending procession all day long, t is said that three counters (or counter esses) see every line of engraving on the face of a note at a glance as it passes through their fingers. Washington Star. Favorite Dogs. At this time there are more than 180 distinct varieties of the domestic dog, but for convenience they are generally classed in six grand groups, wolf-dogs, greyhounds, spaniels, hounds, mastiffs and terriers; and each of these classes has in turn, and recurringly, too, been held in exceptional favor. The sheep 1 flog was an early favorite, and the Euro pean type is large, handsome, somewhat resembling the Newfoundland, but with out the benevolence and kindly intelli gence of head that characterizes the lat ter. These two dogs have respectively been rulers of fashion. The great St. Bernard dog, which occupies a some what uncertain position, first became popular at the time of the crusades, when the devotion and Intelligence of one in saving the life of a knight who had taken him to the Holy Land brought the whole breed into immense repute, and these majestic animals nave ever since been nobly esteemed, and fre quently choice specimens have sold for sums as high as $10,000. The spaniel was an early English fav orite, and its elegance and beauty as well as its bright intelligence have served to maintain it a pet with those who prefer delighting the eye to securing a material benefit. From the spaniel to the mastiff was a long step, and vet the fashion changed very rapidly. The mastiff has all the courage, while in strength, intel ligence, and mildness of disposition it excels its near ally, the bull-dog. It is one of the largest breeds, and is now an expensive luxury, so that the breed is I more fashionable than popular. Hounds of the various types had their reign as the sport for which they were particu larly bred was more or less cultivated. Only nobles were permitted to keeD the old English grejhound, and to kill one of those animals was a felony punish able by death. "When tho restriction was removed the dog became a universal demand. The celebrated Karst region in Austria is remarkable for its underground rivers, which communicate with the surface here and there by vertical shafts. These rivers are subject to periodical overflows, con verting large areas into temporary lakes, and an attempt is now to be made to prevent such inundations by enlarging tho underground channels. ACROSS NIAGARA ON A ROPE. XI10 irian Wtio It ode on niondln'a ' Dack Ttecall Ills Emotions. Harry Colcord, artist, now of Chicago, ran away from homo and went to sea. Before he got through with bis adven tures he rode across Niagara Falls three times on the back of Blondin on a tight rope. "In the year 1358," he said, "I joined Blondin in Boston, no was of the Francona troupe, including Martlnctti and the famous Ravels. I was their 6cenic artist and painted scenes with a whitewash brush. We disbanded in Cincinnati, and there it occurred to Blondin to cross Niagara on a tight rope, j and I went to the Falls with him. We had no end of trouble getting the neces sary permits to extend the ropes. Blon din only spoke & little English; that was one difficulty, but finally we succeeded in gettiog them from Porter, who owned the American side, and the rest was easy. Blondin wanted to carry the rope from Terrapin Tower and across to Davis's Hotel, which would have led over Horse shoe Falls, through the mist and the spray of the great cataract. They ob jected because Blondin was sure to fall, they said. The spray would keep his rope damp, and I, who had engaged to go on his back, was very glad of it. Fi nally we stretched the rope from White! pleasure ground across to the Clifton House. Not far away from the place there is now a suspension bridge. There was 2,000 feet of the rope. It was of manila, three inches in diameter, made in a New York ropewalk, in two pieces. Blondin joined them with a long splice which, when the rope was extended, was in the centre of the span. It took us nearly five months to stretch the rope and to get guy lines in place.. It was 250 feet above water at its low est point, which was fifty feet below the highest in other words, there was grade of fifty feet in each 1,000 feet. There wero 75,000 feet of guy line alto gether. Each of them was weighted with a ten-pound sand bag to drop them out of the way of his balance pole, and in putting them up Blondin crossed score of times. At last W9 were ready to make the first ascension; that was what we call it. Before I went over he made several public ascensions. It was adver tised through the papers that I was to ride on his back, and I was the subject of all kinds of attacks and criticisms. I was ready to back out, except Blondin began to taunt me, and I got into that corner of pride and raingloriousness which I could not escape from. Mean time Blondin had coached me as to what I should do. I was to put my weight on his shoulders by my arms, and clasp his body about with mv legs. But I could not put my weight on his legs; that womu encumuer ixis moTemeau a uwj to keep all the weight on his shoulders. In July, 1860, we went across. I took my place on Blondin's back, and he began the descent from the Canadian side on the rope. By reason of the fact that I had to bear my weight on his shoulders. and had to use my arms and with main strength to support myself, frequent rests were necessary. I told Blondin when I wanted to rest, and then I dropped down on the rope on one foot and waited till my arms were relieved, when I would spring up again, using only my arms to lift and hold myself in place. There was a great crowd there. I did not see them at first. I do not remember what I thought. From my place on Blondin's back 1 could look out to the other shore and sec below me the stunted pines thrusting their sharp points up from the edge of the foamingwater, ready to split ms if we fell. I remember, too, that I was anxious to get over, and I recall, too. that the great rope before us made swings from s"de to side. We afterward knew that the rone swung forty feet at the center, and ray I felt the necessity of pieserving self-possession, and 1 did it. a There was a forty feet length betwece the guy on one ido and those of tht other that it was impossible to mak steady. It was tho middle span. Be low us 250 feet roared the river, and over it we swung from iide to side, mov- ing on steadily, however. Blondin nevci trembled. "When we had gone atout ten feet on this middle span somebody on the American side pulled the outer guy line. "We afterward found out it was done intentionally, and the rope was stopped in its swing. Blondin stop ped, and his pole went from side to side in a vain effort to enable him tc secure hi- balance. At one time it waa up and down on the right side, at another up and down on tne lcit, and 1 recall now with wondr that I was only curious tc know whether he would succeed in g ting control of himself or not. 1 didn't feel anV fear. Failing of getting his balance, he started to run across the hor rible span, and we safely reached the point where the guy rope came out from the American shore. Then to stead j himself Blondin put his foot on the guy rope and tried to stop, but the guy line broke and with a dash of speed hs ran swiftly twenty-five feet further to the next poict, herethe guys met the ratio rope. There he recovered his balance, and whispered rather than said: 'Decen dez vous. The perspiration stood oul on his neck and shoulders in great beads, and we balanced ourselves on the sway ingrope. Presently he said, 'Allocs.- and I raised myself to his shoulders and we went on in safety and without inci dent toward the shore. It was not until we landed that I ap predated what had been dooe. Then it occurred to me that the man who pulled the guy line was one of those who bet that the feat could never be aecora pushed, and my indignation mastered any reactionary feeling of fear. Tct see many thousand dollars were bet upon tho ability of Blondin to carry a man over, and human cupidity stops at no sacrifice. Then there were the congratu lations and the praito of pluck and th rest of it, so that intay foolish boyish elation I forgot everything else. I do remember as we approached the short the wonderful tableau of tho 100,000 people who stood gazing at us. Thou sands of them turned their faces away, cr half turning, cast glances over their shoulders at us. I remember their white faces, their strained positions of anxiety women who stared, white and motion tionlejs, and men who wept, and as we drew near the bank the crowd surged toward us, and Blondin stopped, fearing they would push each other over th precipice. Then the crowd was at&J igain, and with a quick run we came to the shore and sprang to the ground. J remember one man seizing me in hii arms and lifting me high in the air, say irg, Thank God, this thing is overP From the other side there was a cheer, and then we were thrown into a carriage and drawn to the International hotel by tho people. "I crossed again twice, the last time under the patronage of the Prince of Wales. He congratulated cs personally, and gavo us each a purse of 100. N. P. Willis was present and wrote a wonder- vil sketch of the affair. Chicago JWifi. Bircs ana ujamomes. The congregation of birds about light houses is nowhere so strangely illus trated as at Heligoland, off the coast of Denmark, eavs a writer in the Philadel ptu TiauSm 'This blcak Md rock . ; a n, 4w, 1,-.. Ar v? i grata on, and in the spring and autumn the island appears to be fairly alive with birds. At night they present a marvel- ous spectacle, sweeping about the light in great clouds, whirling, curving, rUing I they approach the glass, or again. in seeming bewilderment, dashing fairly at it and falling by hundreds dead and dying to the ground. Thousands of birds are killed in this way during these seasons. Flocks of all kinds are con. tinually alighting to rest, rising again to continue the journey, their places being taken by others, so that the spot is a sort of a bird half way house between the north and the south. The fact that even the young, delicate birds fly over great bodies of water ll borne out by mmy observations. Ths writer has seen hundreds of the smallest and birds alight on the extreme outer keys of the Florida group that had un doubtedly flown over the Gulf of Mex ico or perhaps from Cape Florida, twt hundred miles away, and tho nearest land to the south was Cuba, sixty miles. How these delicate creatures can todura such long-continued flights is & mystery indeed. Grant and Beecher. General Grant had a full appreclstiei of a good story or a well-turned joke. One bit of his quiet humor at the ex pense of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher wa recalled by Mr. Beecher the other dy. The preacher had prevailed upon thj goldier to visit Brooklyn as the guest of I a Thirteenth regiment, which had planned some sort of a celebration. Mr. - Beecher, as chaplain, carried the prou4 titlo of captain, and he made thi plain a neat little speech with which he un- expectedly pricked up general to faw remarks." Ccant met Eeecher sooi after at the New England'! society's din &er ia Brooklyn, and referred once 01 twice to Major Eee:her. The Pljmoutl pastor credited this to 1 Hip ol tm tongue.but his eje was opened a llttli later, when, at the New England societj dinner in New York, he found himseli heralded by Grant as Colonel Beecher not once, but again and again. Thenh beran to protest, but Grant would no have it. "Next tioo it shall be genera! he said to the preacher; "and if you don't keep on going higher it will be be cause the titles give out.w Little b; little he was pajing Beecher for patting hlrliherehehadto make that tpeeci to I - Thirteenth. Rnton Trintaifi.
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