THE MORGAN TON
STAR
VOLUME I.
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CLOTHING!
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
AND
We have just received a full line of men and boys1 fall and winter
cbthinz, ranging from $4 to 25 a suit, and guaranteed to tit the longest
or shortest man in the county. Overcoats to match. Our line of ladies
and raises fine shoes is complete. Also Charles Heiser and James Mean's
Shoe tor men and boys, all warranted to give satisfaction to the wearer.
Our Hive of stiff hats are the nobbiest of the season. A full line of wool
ami m.irino drawers and under-shirts. Try our "Gold and Silver'' dress
shirts and you will never wear any other. Scarfs of the latest styles, also
THE "DUDE TIE,"
but we do not show them unless called for, lest wa offend some one.
We keep GROCERIES. You all know what that means. Please give
U3 a cal1- Respectfully,
R. B.
FURNITURE FACTORY.
Now is the time for the farmers of
with tumiture made from our native
for walnut, maple, cherry and poplar
we have a
GO 00 ALL &
and will surface and match lumber
KADQUAUTKU FOR
LTJMB E R,
Dressed and id the Rough.
Ham ilt
format i. . , rwm respectruii in
to m? ? publ,c lnat i spared
U,nhr Dressed or in the rough,
ttEH, AIR 03 KILH-D8IED.
C IS?1 on Jhn' River, two mile.
m Mfanton. I have
WALNUT, CHERRY,
POPLAR and
priced quantity ud at rea.,ouablt
188 la Morgaatou, Jf. C.
Respectfully,
FA
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BRITTAIN & CO-
Burke County to furnish their komes
wood. We will exchange furniture
lumber. To the builder we will say
WATERS
ntn,
pa
at a low price. Call and
see us.
Proprietors.
iiMiii
Can bm made using our method of
Gold and Silver Plating.
Ft is guaranteed to wear and wi.l
Stand acid test. You can travel wiih
this uifit and make from
$5 to SIO per rtay.
We will send you an Electro Gold
.1 f. - . - . m .
mu ouver naunguutnt and Kecipe
tor Solutions for makiay anv lirl
color oi gold plate, for $i. Sud t. O.
aouev or jrosuu uraer 10
H. R. PUTMAN,
Onoro, Wisconsin.
Grocer and Confectioner
AND
DEALER IN COUNTRY PRODUCE
Morganton, N. C,
MOKGANTON, N. C, FEIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1885.
WASHINGTON LETTEIl.
Washington, Nov. 7, 1885.
Editor of the Morganton Star :
Everything points to an unusual
ly brilliant and interesting winter
in Washington. The new Congress
is already gathering in the city,
and early next month it will be
called to order and organized. An
unusual number of visitors are com
ing to the city. Besides those
connected with Governmental af
fairs, many will be drawn here by
a desire to enjoy Washington offi
cial society under Democratic
auspices and leadership.
In the toming Congress there
will be 184 Democrats and 141 Ke
publicans. But forty-three is a
good working majority.
As Mr. Randall has signified his
determination not to enter the con
test for Speaker of the House,
there is little doubt that Mr. Car
lisle will be re-elected without con
test in caucus. In this case the
launching of the Forty-Ninth Con
gress will be without a ripple.
Afterwards, however, smooth sail
ing is not to be expected. Not
only will the House continue to be
antagonized by a Republican Sen
ate, and the free course of legisla
tion correspondingly impeded ; but
a new antagonism will be present
ed. A Democratic President will
be opposed by a Republican Senate
in certain important nominations.
Mr. Cleveland expresses much
gratification at the result of the
Virginia and New York elections,
as does every one prominently con
nected with the Administration.
He interprets the result in Hew
York as a deliberate indorsement
by the people of his reform Ad
ministration, and it is impossible
to dwarf its significance.
While rejoicing over the more
important political results, and
larger issues that hang upon the
Virginia elections, there is no
single event of the moment that
sinks into the Democratic heart
with such sweet and lingering
e "Stasy as the final obliteration of
Senator William Mahone. Demo
cratic gains elsewhere may be
fraught with deeper significance,
and may throw a brighter light
upon the future of reform. But
the human heart is human, and it
will dwell with obstinate delight
upon the political death of the 'lit
tle boss.'
It is already evident that there
will be more social entertaining in
Washington this winter than usual.
The demand from wealthy stran
gers for houses is very large. Near,
ly all of the better class of houses
in the fashionable quarters of the
city have been taken. Many old
Democratic families who have done
but little socially for years past,
have prepared to emerge from
their retirement, and help to make
the winter one to be remembered.
At least two members of the
Cabinet will entertaiu extensively;
Secretary Whitney who has had a
commodious ball room arranged in
his residence, and Secretary Man
ning, who has taken a house con
structed suitably for hospitable
purposes. The other members will
doubtless keep pace with the usual
record of Cabinet officers.
The Diplomatic Corps is always
an important adjunct to the social
season. They have ample leisure
and the amenities of polite society
life is their chief occupation. Some
of the largest banquets which take
place in the city are given by the
Foreign Legations. Already they
have commenced their round of en
tertainments. The Japarese Minis
ter gave two dinners during the
week, one on the Cabinet, and an
other to the Diplomatic Corps, in
commemoration of the anniversary
of the Mikado's birthday. The
army and navy are also highly im
portant factors in a Washington
season, and some of the most elab-
' orate entertainments are given by
them.
What will be done socially at the
White House this winter is not
known. Mr. Cleveland is not a
President likely to plunge wildly
into society's carnival. Still it is
not probable that he will be in.
clined to depart from those social
amenities with which custom and
tradition have associated the Exe
cutive Mansion.
Ilailroari.
Editor of the Morganton Star :
I am informed that the freight
on a barrel of apples from Morgan
ton to Wilmington is quite as much
as from New York to Wilmington.
The cause of this is there are no
competing lines from Morganton to
Wilmington and there are from the
latter point to New York. From
this point to Wilmington shipments
have to pass over three different
lines and are transferred both at
Salisbury and at Charlotte.
Yet I saw but a few days ago
apples of the finest variety sold by
wagon load at 35 cents a bushel
and by a man who is opposed to
our having a new railroad, which
will, if obtained, put the Wilming
ton market at his door and prevent
the necessity of any transfer of
shipments between this point and
that, giving him but one road in.
stead of three to which he will
have to pay for carrying his apples
to market. Yet he is onnosed to a
A A
new road.
I know another man, a raiser of
tobacco, who ships his tobacco to
Danville, Winston, Durham or
Lynchburg, and yet he is opposed
to the railroad, although if it comes
it would give him warehouses and
tobacco factories in his county
town; save him freights on his
shipments and his own fare to and
from those places; aid in building
up his town and pay his commis
sions to a man at home who would
pay it back to him the next week
for mutton, beef, pork, fruit or
flour. Yet he is opposed to the
railroad. Varily, "What fools
these mortals be."
Statesville has four warehouses
and many factories and does a
Lirge wholesale grocery and dry
goods business, and within forty
miles of the city of Charlotte, and
simply because she has competing
lines.
Asheville has cheaper access to
the northern markets, I am iuform.-
ed, and for the same reason that
she has competing lines.
If we can get our road it gives
us three competing lines to the
northern markets. First, that one
we have, the 1L & D.; second, the
C. C. and Coastline, and third, the
E. T. & Va. road, all of which will
bid for the. carrying trade of our
section. And yet some of our peo
ple are opposing the road and ex
pect to gain popularity by so doing.
"Those wjiom the gods would des
troy they first make niad.n
It is indeed strange; it is passing
strange; it is wonderful, that in
this 19th Century of grace auy sen
sible man should be opposed to
progress and improvement and to
the introduction of railroads, which
only can bring it about. We are
reminded in this connection of
what Senator Vance, on one occa
tion, told the citizens of an adjoin
ing county: "I am ashamed of you
aud hope you will go home and be
ashamed of yourselves. E.
Ktump Ofllce
Statesville Landmark.
Collector Dowd has asked leave of
the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue to establish at Statesville a
branch affice for the sale of stamps,
&c, and permission has been grant
ed. Mr. J. P. Burke, of this place,
at present a clerk in the collector's
office, has been designated as
stamp clerk here, and will probably
open his office at this place next
week. This will prove a great con
venience not only to Iredell but to
several other counties, which are
remote from Newton but to which
Statesville is easily accessible.
TIIOS.IJ. JAItVIS.
How lie tietMjAIonjrlti Itlo Jnnrl.
ro L.enrulutr the.NefT I,ansruaire
The Old Womuu- Ahead.
Minister Jams writes from Ilio
Janeiro a long, interesting letter to
Col. L A. Snugg, of Greenville, The
following are among the interesting
items from the Greenville Reflector:
"We have been here nearly two
months and have seen something of
the country and people. It is to some
extent like beginning life anew. To
us it is a new language, a new country,
a new people and now ways and
habits. We are learning something
of thera all aud accomBiodatincr our
selves to the change as well and rap-
uuy as well we can. We have a teach
er and we are taking lessons three
times a week in Portuguese. The
class is composed of the old woman
and myself, and the old woman b all
the time at the head of the class, and
consequently I am at the foot. So I
am a school boy again. I know vou
would laugh if you couU' see me ie
citing my lessons, and hear the teach
er correcting me. And what makes
it worse, iho old woman keeps awav
ahead of me and help to correct me
in a month or two she will talk Port
uguese like a native,
But the funniest part of my ex
perience was when Inn got here.
We are at a French hotel and there
was not a servant in it that spoke a
word of English, and I could not
speak a word of anything else. P or
tunately, the oIJ women could speak
French, so I had to do all ray talking
through her. At the table I had to
get her to order all I eat. Now just
imagino me unable to get a thing to
eat except by the permission of the
old woman. It was indeed laughable
to see rac I am now afie to talk
enough in Portugese to make known
my wants and get what I want I
find T am all the lime improving, and
I hope after awhile I will be able to
speak ihff language much better than
I thought it ever possible for me to
do.
I have enjoyed the magnificent
scenery in and around ICio. The
B.iy is the most beautiful in the
world. It is irregular in shape and
surrounded by great mountains
which make down to the very brink
of the ocean. I have been up on
the top of one of the highest, and
from its lofty top I could look away
over the ocean and down upon the
city which lay far below me. Al
though it is mid winter, the grass is
perfectly green, and the roses and
other flowers are in full bloom. So
the hillsides and valleys are covered
with beautiful greeti and some of
them re illy lovely. The yard to
80Jie of the private residences are
gems of beaay, and add much to the
looks of the homes which otherwise
would look plain. Now and then we
see a Tery fine house, but they are
rare and generally belong to some
man who has his large coffee planta
tions and has slaves iu the country.
It is a very expensive place to
live. I have but one cheap thing as
compart-d with the cost of the same
thing in our country, and what do
you suppose that is? It is diamonds,
They have the most beautiful dia
monds here I ever saw any where and
you can buy them for about hall
what they cost iu the Slates. If you
want diamonds this is the plate to
come to get them.
Slavery still exists here and some
men own and work their hundreds.
It costs the owners but little to teed
and clothe them, for the fruits grow
in abundance and as to clotoes, they
need but little. As to houses, they
only need a place to keep off the
rain. They never want a fire, so the
slave owner has to supply his slaves
with but little. It is regular old
fashioned slavery. They lock up the
slaves at night and whip thera in the
day, just as was the custom in the
South, and they tell them and mort
gage tbem just as was once the cus
tom with us, It is a great country
for giving mortgages. If Cousin
NUMBER :is.
William Whitehead was here he
I would have a mortgage on a big
couee plantation and a hundred
negroes in less than thirty davs.
I am getting along here fairly well,
and I hope to like it still better as I
become better acquainted with iho
country and people. But after all
Ike, it is not home, and to me never
can be. I would so gladly exchange
the glitter and parade of court lif.
i the pomp and show of diplomatic life
lor the pleasures of home life, I
would so gladly give up the company
that I meet in the gilded saloons of
the palace for a good old fashioned
chat with the friends that I wonld
meet in your office. But that, cannot
be for the preseut. The time will
come bye and bye, then I will rejoice,
l&eraetnber me to every body.
Truly yours,
luos. J. Jar vis.
Thankaelvlnp Divtb 4tihTv
lrcldrut7 lrelanaatIoiu
The President has issued the fol
lowing proclamation setting apart
Thursday, November 20, as a
day of thanksgiving and prayer:
By the President of tho United
States of America.
A PliOCLAMATIOX.
The American people have al
ways abundant causa to be thank
ful to Almighty God, whose watch
ful care and guiding have been
manifested in every stage of their
natural life guarding and pro
tecting them in their peril, and
safely leading them ia the hour of
darkness and of danger. It is fit
ting and proter that a nation thus
favored should on one day in every
year, for that purpose especialy ap
pointed, publicly acknowledge the
goodness or God and return thanks
to Him for all Ills gracious gifts.
Therefore I, Guovkb Cleve
land, President of the United
States of America, do hereby des
ignate and set apart Thursday, the
Uiith day of November, inst," as a
day of public thanksgiving and
prayer, and do invoke the obser
vance of the same by all the peo
ple of the land.
On that day let all scular busi
ness be suspended, and let the peo
ple assemble in tueir nssal places
of worship, and with prayer and
songs of praise devoutly " testify
their gratitued to the Giver of
every good and ierfect gift for all
that He has done for us in the
year that has passed; for oar pres
ervation as a united nation and for
our deliverance from the shock and
danger of political con vuhjion; for
the blessings of peace and for safe
ty and quiet while wars and ru
mors of wars have agitated and af
flicted other nations of the earth;
for our security against the scourge
of pestilence, which in other lands
has claimed its dead by thousands
and filled the streets with mourn
ers; for plenteous crops which re
ward the labor of the husbandman
and increase our nation's wealth,
and for the contentment through
out our borders which follows in
the trains of prosperity and aband
ance. And let there also bo on the day
thus set apart a reunion of families,
sanctified and chastened by tender
memories and associations, and let
the social intercourse of friends
with pleasant reminiscence renew
the tiesofaffection and strengthen
the bonds of kindly feeling.-
And let us by no means forget,
while we give thanks and enjoy
the comforts which have crowned
ourhvesj that truly grateful hearts
are inclined to deeds of charity,
and that a kind and thoughtful re
remembrance of the poor will
double the pleasures of oar condi
tion and render oar praise and
thanksgiving more acceptable ia
the sight of the Lord.
Done at the city or Washington,
this second day of November,
one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-five, and of the
independence or the United
States the one hundred and
tenth.
GKOVER CLEVELAND.
By the President :
T. F. Batabd,
Secretary or State.
The leading question before the
North Carolina Conference, M. E.
Church, South, which convenes ia
Charlotte on Wednesday, Novem
ber lio, is the division of its territo
ry into two Conferences, Eastern
and Western. It is being ably
and freely discussed by both the
ministers aud laymen.