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IibL - Mqrg antqn Star, . IV VOLUME IL- v ' . ? ' MORGANTON, N. C, FRIDAY. MARCH 12, 18S6. NUMBER . mill OHC'QEBiES &.:?RDYISiGfS, OPPOSITE Post-Offic0 W. C. ERVIN, ATT93?iY AT LAW, LENOIR, N. C. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : CASH IN ADVANCE. One Year, . - - - $1.00. Six Mouths, - - . .so. : Practices in the State and Federal Ourts. ; Thxee Months, - - - .25. '1 TSS1 ORG ANTON STAR. 1 tl,e mar&iQ of the riveF aml three rrrb- " down the stream and reached the ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. J ar(l in silence. They could hear the arch moonshiner within, ex- T. G. Cobb, Editor and Proprietor. S hilarated by the magic beverage R. A. Cobb, Manager, jot' his own distillation. Three of the potfse forced an entrance at one .1 V. SAMUEL i ERVKJ. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MORGANTON, N. C. (Office in Court House.) practice iu tne State and Feder- rts. Special aireaou given iaess intrusted ?o him. J tv ' tul Ida 0 llJ i i TTORNEY ATLAW, M OR G AN TON, X. C. .Mil Gov, Caldwell', old luw office.) Ices in the Stfite and Federal courts. attention given an4 pr mo pt returns rtll business intrusted to his cre. fQHHT.-PERSdsiS, ney & Counselor at Law, Morgan ton, N. C. Ice No 1 Brick Row. s in State and Federal Claims collected anywhere States Prompt alien t ton business aud prompt re- t. door, while through the other rush ed the remaining four. The wife of the famous distiller, his two from his humble cabin door lie can Federal prison at Albany. From purpoo of attending the railroad tins pena servitude nc uas recently meetiu2 which came off on Friday. ucen pamoncu mrouju uie enoris of Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina on the grounds of ill health. The retired outlaw now lives in the utmost quietude under the shadow of the Blue Ridge, and WM. H. BOSER, arm wejiLiBR. AND DEALER 'N Watches, Clocks and Good Jewelry, MO RG ANTON, N. C. "Slteimiririgdoneon short notice. "Wark warranted for 12 mVitlis SPECIAL OFFER. By special arrangement with the Editor of Country Homes, publish ed at Asheville, N. C, we will send that paper free for one year to all old and new subscribers who pay their subscriptions to the Star to one year in advance. Thus ou will get two papers for only the price of one. Country Homes is a four column, sixteen page paper devoted special ly to the iuterest of the farmers, industrial pursuits, and the 'devel opment of the natural resourses of the State and the South. Printed on good raper, clear type, stitched J and trimmed, aud the subject mat ter properly arranged in depart ments thus making it an attrac tive and valuable papier for any family. This offer will be open only a short while, so all our readers will do well to take advantage of it at once. You can see sample of Coun try Homes by calling at this office. A -i ( Y fwo blind boys, J. K. Winters and J X. McGurry. desire to tate to the f pU-.'lic thao they are prepared to make Maui esses, liroonis ana repair ctiftir. I. i cane hik! split bottomed, and ask tiits pu'dic to give tiient a trial. They will be assisted by D. L. Winters. Their shop is two doors above the fcieiirle Corner. Moryanioti, N. C. RESTAURANT. John Ervin will open a Firt-Cls Res taurant in .Morgan ton Feb. 20th 188o, to accommodate the public. I will have at all hours, Hrn, Pies, Cake, Chicken and everything suitable to a first-class res tHurant. CptFise only on speuial . orders. Something that ha? long been needed in our town. 1 hone to merit the ptitronagM of the public. Very respectful 'y, ' JOH.N ELiVtN. P AT EN T S CAVEATS, TIRADE MARKS AND COPY BIG UTS Obtained, and all ether business in the U. S. vatent Office attended to for moderate ratea. Ouroffieeis opposite the U. S. Patent Office, and we can obtain Patents in less tune than those remote from Washington. iSend model or drawing. We advise as to pi tentability free of charge, and . we maKc no charge unless we obtain p-'tent. W"e refer here to tho Postmaster, the Supt. of .vlonev Order Div.. aad to officials of the U. S. Patent Office. For circular, advice, terms and references to actual di enta in your own ritate t c .unty. write to C. A. SOW & CO., Opposite Patent Office, lifliirttrr. P. A FAMOUS MOONSHIN EE. o New Yoik World. Asheville, C. Feb. 13. The country has heard a great deal front time to time about the illicit, distillers and tax dodgers of this section of the Union. Among the ! foot-hills of the Blue Bidge Moun tains just across the South Caro lina line, there lives in retirement a man, now only middleaged, whose name was once a terror to revenue officials, and whose notoriety as a moonshiner of dauntless courage and cool desperation is still asAvide as the fame of the illicit dew drop which he and his accomplices, as well as his ancestors, have for de cades coaxed into existence. This celebriety of Louis Bedmon, the outlaw a name in Western North Carolina synonymous with "smug gler" and redolent with "sweet mash." His life from boyhood to the time of his apprehension in 1881 was full of the thrilling inter est, daring adventure and hair breadth escapes from the clutches of vigilant and equally daring rev enue officers. His former home far up on the Tennessee River, in Swain. Couuty this State, wasstrik- Lingly picturesque in its location. The position of his log cabin was Mich as greatly insured the safety rt" thf iiiiiuvtPK. Ifens nn n. bluff commanding a view both up and down the roaring highland steam, and was unapproachable from the overhanging mountain save bv one i narrow pathway along the ledge children and a harmless-looking mountaineer were the inmates. No search for secret doors and in the nooks and corners revealed to the somewhat chagrined officers any trace of the much sought Red mond, save his half empty small jug which sat on the side-table with a gourd beside it, from which veg etable vessel this child of the cliffs preferred to quaff the enlivening juice wrung from the vapor of mountain maize. But he was gone. It was afterwards discovered that exit was made by way of the huge, low chimney up which and down which he sped like a Hash and was soon among the peaks and crags that were to him the faces of friends. It was in the year 1S79 when Redmond established himself on the waters of the upper Tennessee for the nuruose. as he said, of breeding and grazing cattle for the South Carolina market. This state nient coming to the ears of the rev enue officers was not received with credulity, and their esponage in no wise ceased. Jt was belorc he re moved to the valley of the Tenn essee that'Rednond earned the title of outlaw, lie then resided in Transylvania County, in the wild est of the Blue Bulge Mountains and near the South Carolina line. Into that State he carried by wag on contraband beverage. And while on the trips into the low lands many were the adventures and escapes which tinged career with the glamour of romance. He had under his direction a number ot willing confederates who, though less intelligent and daring than he, were always ready to risk then lives for their leader, whether they were aiding in the distillation m the mountain fastnessjor were cau- tiously supplying the wants of the thirsty cotton planter or the festive villager of the upper South Caro lina. But. in 1879 while on his way to the lowland market, with his one-horse wagon laden with the magic juice of the mountain "nub bin," he killed Deputy Marshal Duckworth, who, it is said, endeav oied to arrest the moonshiner without a warrant. He tied then, and unmolested by any avenging Nemesis for such things follow a victim discretion he took up his abode in the remote an: pictures- one section where his home has - been described. Among these peaceful surroundings he passed two watchlul, anxious years, l;n restless spirit in strong contrast to the scenes about him. He had left beyond him, in the wilds of the Transylvania mountains, his laith ful confederates, now disbanded, and would never again hear them wind their horns to warn him of look up towards the northwest and see m the distance the blue moun tains which once were the scenes of his wild, romantic life, where the perils and the pleasures of tho moonshiner's days were strangely mixed and mingled and where he, Schedule of Time nnd Coanef tioii ou the Wfnteru X. C suffering as he is with a "half-dozen stubborn bullet wounds, will never again rove and ramble. But his name will pass into tradition and be handed down m local history as the boldest most daring, dashing opponent of what he considered a restriction of -personal liberty a name that will carry with it the ti tle of Mooiishiner Chiel in esteru North Carolina at a period when i 11- icitdistillation of the mountain dew drop was more extensive and when from the remote ranges of moun tains went up the curling smoke from a. thousand stills. The true life of Maj. Rednond, the subject of the above sketch, can be had by sending 10 cents to R. A. Cobb, Morganton, N. C, who acted a very important part in the capture and final arrest of Redmond the Outlaw and Moonshiner. NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES. frj 1 rocks around the cliff and away CONTRACTORS, BUILDERS A N D J'HANHFAOTUEERS OF ( p o 2 s a I I H ri fi , w i a L A hort 1 Nek TVKATHERBOARD1NG, reared to furnish ,to build a house in notice. .stock dressed and Liid cciiing for our small quantities. from Court loir and Icard danger, or see the curling smoke signal sent up from some distant elevation, telling plainly as words that a raid of revenue officers was on. Such services they skillfully, adroitly, rendered their leader, and thus kept him beyond the reach of the law's strong arms. But in his new home he had hoped to lead a life more quiet. The sleepless eyes of justice, however, were upon him, and in the spring of 1831 he was apprehended by the officers of the Federal law It seems that Red mond bad cone H among the mountain sides in quest of squir rels for ids familv. He heard his dogs barking and thinking they had found some game, hastened to them, only to lind himself in the midst of a posse of revenue officers. who demanded his surrender. With ch iracteristic coolness he brought his gun into position for fireing, when it iell shot trom his hands by the officers, andj his body almost riddled "with bullets seven of which to-day are still in him fell heavily to the ground. He was car ried to his house, ana though said byr the physician to be fatally wounded, assured his friends that he would pull through. In two weeks he was removed to jail at this place, where your correspou dent gleaned from him at the time much in regard to his career. He was soon removed from this place to Greenville, S. C, for imprison ment, as it was rumored that a plan for his . rescue was on foot among his former confederates ; was trieil there on every count known to the bills of indictment for distilling, re mov Cntanb3 "Western Carolinian. . The Enterprise says Mrn. Chad wick, nee liss Shearn has engf gcd to complete the unexpired term of Mus Sober, as Musio teacher in Ca. tawba College. Dr. Eusrene Grissom has nt his lis poal a free scholarship at Rutherford I College. Any 3oung man or woman whodesiics a collegiate education at a school presided over by so excelleut a teacher as Dr Abernethy would do well to corrcspoi.d with Dr. Grissom. There is a holly tree in Mr. F. Drum's yard at Druinville in this couuty which is threeand a half feet in diameter near the ground and three feet in dameter eight feet up the tree. Jt has served as a chicken roost more than 50 years in which nothing has ever been known to dis turb the fowls, though owls are plen tiful in the country. Newton Entepriw. Mis. Gilmer, of Morganton, visited her relative, Mrs. Gilmer Breuizer, last neek. The members of the German Re formed Church of this place pro- !ose to om id a nve-inousana aoiiar -hurch this year. Wheat, we are told, is looking much better than it did this tune lat year and the prospects are uns usually good. Judging by the amount of Bced oats being sold there will be a large ctop raised this summer. The acre age of fall oats is unusually large and the crop is looking well. Claude, the little tou of Dr. and Mis. T. R. Abernety, has boen very ill with caiarrahal fever for the last week. Cleveland. Shelby Aurora. Mrs. Ann E. Moore formerly of Shelby and late of Hickory has mov ed to Texas. A correspondent from Xo. 1 town ship writes na the farmers are buy making preparation for planting. A great deal of plowing has been done ir.the last two weeks. At a meeting of the board ot direc tors of tho Rutherford Railway Con struction Company held in Knther: fordton last week Col. Frank Coxe was elected trustee of the Rutherford county bonds, in place of Judge G. W. Logan. Mr G. L. Falls, son ot Ex-Shetiff J. Z. Falls of Cleveland county, died at Boonsville, Miss., the 14th of teb. leaving a widow ond five children. His widow is a daughter of Thos. F. Flliott of Cleveland county. At the age of 17 Mr. Falls entered the Con federate army and served till the sur render at Appomattox. He brought home a piece of the apple tree under which Gen. Lee surrendered. After the war he went to Mississippi. Last vear he was elected Tax Assessor of Prentiss county, Miss., which posi tion he held at his death. He wa buried with Masonic honors and was aho a Knight of Honor. Mr. G. L. Falls was a brother of Mrs. R. A. Cobb, of Morganton. The management of ihe Western North Carolina road are always oa the alert, and meets every demand of the traveling public as quickly as it can be done. The new schedule, now being run on that road U designed for convenience and cheapness of both freight aud passenger trafiic to points in the southwest, west and northwest. The change shortens tho lime to all points in the directions indicated. To illustrate, the time now made by this schedule cf connec tions from Salhbury to Chattanooga is 17 hours; Nashville, 24 hours; Memphis, 29 ; Cincinnati, 44 ;Louis ville, 31 ; Sl Louis, 44 ; Kansas City 55 and Dallas, Texas, 54. There only one chauge of cars from Salis bury to Chattxuooga. which b at Morristowr., Teuu. It is the most direct and convenient way for emi grants going west of the Mississippi river, ot it gives them more daylight travel and makes the changes at points where confusion is not likely to occur. The transfers are made in daylight and the connections aro closo and sure, which is a matter of great importance to all classes of tho traveling public Thii. routo take the traveler throcgh thv fines agri cultural, mineral (iron and coal) and lorest regions of central United States, and the scinefy along 'the way is unsurpassed in America.-r- Oalisbury Watciman. then among ttie wjius. jno win dows were cut in the huge logs of this moonshiner's home save three opeuiugs, like port-holes, one look ing down the river bank another up the stream and the .third com mauding an excellent view of the pathway up the mountain side Equipped, as he was known to be with a small armory ot the finest make, with a cool courage that death itself could not diminish, and e isconced within his house of legs, I he was tor intervals entirely undis turbed by the revenue officers, who were ever seeking and generally, in that section, finding manymoon sh ners not so dangerous nor so well fortified and not so skillful in covering up all evidence of their unlawful - operations. Redmond usually had about him several of his subordinates and followers, were ever ready to do his bidding. Onthe occasion, however, as a deputy marshal tells your corres pondent, a posse of six revenue of ficers, under command of this mar shal, found this famous moonshin er in convivial rather than a wrrtfrtVifnl mrkAfl ci.Tirl nffftr nio"h! fall four of them came cautiously up four years' imprisonment at the Marion during the past CaldwoII. Lenoir Top ic. Married last Saturday week by Rev. J. R. J. Annas at Iludsonville. Mr. Mack Kaylor and Miss Lou! Jones. Mr. John Eli Corpening has killed perhaps the largest and heaviest hog that was ever burtchered in the coun ty this winter. It weighed 512 yound6 after it had been quartered. Sunday before last a young sprig from Lovclady elation went over to Granite and proceeded to paint the village red. His outragious conduct w:is borne patiently until he began flourishing his pistol and snapped it iu the face of Mrs. Mize when the villagers caught him, tied him and bound him to a tree. A message was eent to his friends, who came and took him away. McWowell. Bucle. Robt. E. Poteet, residing two miles, from Marion, died on Friday, evening last. He had sulTired long with that fatal disease consumption. Rev. E. C. Murray, the talented and popular young minister in chnrge of Marion Presbyterian church, went lo Morganton, ou Monday to spend a few days with the Rev. Dr. Ander son. Robt. II. JlcCall on old and highly respected citizen of McDowell living ten miles north of Maron, on Arm strong creek s suffering greatly with cancer on his breast and it is thought he will not live maay days. Col. R. A. Johnson, of the South ero Construction Company, General Wilder, of Tennesse, Cap'. Goer, Cone lo Join the Mormons. A Jonesboro, Ga., dispatch of Sat urday says : Miss Laura G McKin ney left here yesterday for Chatta nooga, Tcnn., where she will met a party to-day. They will leave for Utah to-morrow. They will join, the Mormons. MissMcKeoney is the daughter of Rev. M. McKenney of this county. He was very much op posed to his daughter going, and tried to persuade her not to go. She grew deparate over the matter, and said she would go, and remarked if she did not like Utah -she would re turn. Miss McKenney is about 21 years old. Exchange. Miss McKenney needs a' good whipping, or be forced to marry a manwhoeats onions, smoke an old pipe, and drinks mean whiskey. That would satisfy her appetite for Mor monism. Charlotte Democrat. Correct the first promise, the sec ond provides a husband, a mighty mean one, but too good for men a wpmau. Salisbury Watchman. The best thing to be done for such poor, silly, degraded creatures as the above, would be to turn ihcm over to a committee of women who have been married two,- three and four limes to husbands who have all Uoublins i'ostuze. New York World. A bill has been introdudih lhe Senate doubling the postage on forth- class matter. I his is a direct hjo at the "parcel post system, which, is now doing such good service infal-, most all civilized nations, and, io.fat, has become by usage lo be htilo h thau a public necessity. As the postal service was not instituted for money-making purpose.sbui with a view chiefly to utility, and a it isV pretty sure to become self-supporting again at present rates before very long, there is do good reason for lessening its value iu tho way propos ed. Transactions between city mer chants aad their outcf-tha-way cus tomers involving the sending of sam ples, merchandise, etc, in small pack ages by mail have becojne very ex tensive and are lo the mutual ad van t, age of the parties concerned. Doub ling the rates would put an eud to much of this and would save Govern ment nothing to speak of. It might do the express companies some good, but the strength of such an argument as that will not meet the popular en dorsement. Local Option XIU Dr. Lafferty of tho Richmond Christian Advocate says : TheLotver House of Virginia Leg islature has had under consideration the question of local option. It is a sore puzzle to the averse politi clan. The bmall statesman harnrs in C7 the air between Leaven and earth like Mahome's cofiln rather be twecn the meeting house and the dram shop. He is in a "ticklish posi tion." He halts between two opin ions. He wishes to burn incensa lo God and Satan out of the same cen ser. How vo ride both side of the sapling at th same time is taxing his skill to the uttermost. An hour in the House of Delegates on Fridir furnished rarj amusitncnt for the spectator. Politicians kuow now to trip each olher. They attempt lo lilt the water carried ou botii shoul ders," but the trimming demagogue ! made slaves of their wives, and let outdid the sciencew of the champion each give her a lecture, and if that! "ratlcisn in the afternoon sports nt failed lo have the desired effect, turn loose ou her with broom-sticks, re skovcls, hot waterjand dish-clouts un til she is williug to say, "I am will ing to live with one man." Itch lrarie Jdange and Scratches of every evry kina cured in !0 Mm ' , ,,, .... 'lutes by If oolfinfs &xntiry Lotion. Trtlin fJiidrrAr Shfnrl lsemen. of ,r .1 i n.,;11(r Qmi Kpilirio- illit.it, whkkev 1 Use " "'r never ius. ooiu SKtS- and Stei fe1 and "", 7rH Jh Tull, Drui,,, ilurg.ntoo, Marion durimr the past week for the N. C a General Muster of Militia. The Pmsideut . of tho University, Dr. IC 1 Battle, has been iuviied l deliver the annual address before the University or South Carelioa at Co lumbia, n the 23d of June, 1&3G This Is a well' merited honor, and e have no doubt that Dr. Battle will deliver an instructive and entertain- ing address on thb rjicjeHiu:; occa lion. 1. 1 1 1 V
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