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7 Star. T7 TT 7 nn H VOLUME IL MOKG ANTON, N. C, FRIDAY. MAY 7, 1880. NUMBER 10. THE MORGANTON STAR. I'UULISIIED EVERY FRIJDAY BY TEBMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : CASH IN ADVANCE. One Copy, oue year, - -One Copy, six months, - $1.00 .50 One Copy, three months, - .25 Advertising rates low, consider in? circulation. A FORMER CITIZEN BURKE SPEAKS. OF Description of the Crescent City- Practical Aavics m itejrarcl to Our New Railroad to His Friends in Burke. pnw Orleans, La., May 1, 18S6. Editor Morganton Star: I Presuming that my subscription f s about up, I will remit for the Jiext year. If I am entitled to 'Country Homes please send it to jne. It' you have space in your fralimble. paper, I will give you a lew tacts about the Southern Met fopoILs and my experience as to the benefits to be derived from railroads. New Orleans has 14 fiiiles of levee front on the left bank f the Mississippi river, and on the ight bank or Algiers side 10 miles, u winter I have seen these banks hied with steamboats, sailing ves- els and steamships, sometimes In ee lying abreast of one another. his will give you an idea of what fin immense shipping port this is. It is second in the United States, ind the population numbers 250, UOO, composed of all nationalities, the French or "Creole" being in the majority. The customes and habits of the native "Creoles" are very different from those of Ameri cans ; for instance, they consider crawfish and shrimps a delicious ilish, and other like things which I could not relish. I Claiborne street is said to be the jwidest street in the world ; it has lour rows of trees in the centre. Esplanade street is the aristocratic rreiirh street. The squares and public parks of this city are simply beautiful. The summer resorts on I he ba nk of Lake Pontchartrain fire unsurpassed for beauty. Church es are numerous but gambling dens aim suioous are in ine majority. I'he Roman Catholic religion pre vails here. A large class of the na five born are very indolent, and iv ill not work and are called "Hood urns". The people are very gener ous, sociable. The season has now commenced for, sport, and for the lext six months there will be pie ties and dances every. Sunday at he numeroug parks and pic-nic grounds. I never believed New Or eans was a healty city until I learn-. ;d so by experience. I have been ivmg here nearly three years, with ny family, and we have never been ?iek a day. New Orleans has sev ?ral large railroads running through t, but the future commercial pros )erity of this city depends on the erection of several more railroads. Now I wish to say a word to my nany relations, friends and doubt- ug "liiomas" in regard to rail oads. I have traveled through hirteen states, and have lived in live, and have never yet seen a prosperous and progressive village, .town or city, unless it was well pen- iiciteu witU rauioauB. vv u.at nas Jnade Chicago the marvel of the world? llailroads. What has jnade Atlauta, "Chattanooga and pirmingham the marvels of the .South llailroads. When I first jwent to Chattanooga in 1873, she liad a population of 7,000, and to jlayshe has a population of 35,000, fUid 88 manufacturing establish ments. Lots thcould then have ;oeen oouaiit toi v'H) are now- i . , . .. "v. an- . .. r&t'.ve miles from .the city, then vrdKcX' three dollars Jper acre is now worth 150 per 'ac e. What has brought this about I Chattanooga people giving such a jineral inducement 'to railroads find railroads giving such facilities u muumaccures. x was aiwo iu Uirmiughani, 8 years ago, when her population numbered 2,000, und to day she has a population of 2,000. I have examined the. soil jind minerals around Atlanta' and found them to be no better than pose of Morganton. f Morgauton's grand and beautiful; geographical Scenery excels anything this side i)f the Rocky Mountains. And why cannot I she become a 1 city ? Give her railroad facilities and she will. A friend of mine from the i-,,"Vh was here looking for a loca ls ifor an agricultural factory, Wy gave,' him all bf Morgan ton's uhantages, and offered to take FROM Till CRESCENT CITY. stock in the new enterprise if he would locate there. The first ques tion he" asked was "How many rail roads are there running through the place !" And when informed that there was oue each way, the same company, he said he could not locate there, as Northern firms could ship within ten miles of him cheaper than he could ship the ten miles, on account of the high local rates. As I have been in the em ploy of railroads for the past twelve years I know this to be a fact. It costs 45 cents per cwt. to ship to Hattisburg, Miss., a distance of 110 miles, and to Pittsburg, a dis tand of 1010, only 31 cents per cwt. "A hint to the wise is sufficient." Relations and friends, what you voted against in the past vote for now, and praise the historical name of "Burke" and cause Morgauton to lay off her village cloak and put on her city gown, and bloom with prosperity and happiness, and make the Star a daily, is the sin cere wish of o:e who is absent in body though preit-j" mind. J. A HAWKINS. BURKE COXMTY. Where and How it is Situatert--The Soils-Chief Products County Area Transportation Population Real Prop e r t y Schools, &c, &c. We get the following in regard to Burke couutv from the Hand- Book of North Carolina recently pu Wished by the Board of" Agricul ture, which will probably be inter esting to those of our readers who are not acquainted with the coun ty: Burke county lies westward of Caldwell on both sides of Catawba river, which traverses its middle section and drains its entire territo ry. Its southern flank lies upon the crests of the South mountains, which here reach an elevation ot over 3,000 feet above the sea and send off spurs in a northerly and northeasterly direction almost to the middle of the county. The northern end is elevated upon two! of the most massive spurs of the Blue Ridge, Linville and Table Rock, wdich here rise to an eleva tion of nearly 4,000 feet ; and from this are thrust out numerous long and rugged spurs and ridges in a southeasterly course. A large part of the territory of this county, therefore, is mountainous, and the average elevation is not less than 1,300 feet. In its middle section are considerable tracts of red-clay soils, with forests predominantly of oak, hickory, etc., while the re mainder of the county is character ized in this respect by mixed forests of oak, pine, - chestnut, etc., with white pine in the mountains of the south and north. The river and creek bottoms are very evtensive and fertile, and have light-colored clays, loams, and sandy soils. In the middle section, on both sides of the river, the uplands usually have a red-clay soil and oak forests. The other parts of the county have soils of a lighter color, yellowish to gray loams, and forests of the usual mixed character of the region oak, pine, chestnut, sourwood, dogwood, etc. .Placer gold mines are numer ous in the South mountains and there are several vein mines on the north side of the county. Cotton and tobacco have been added to ttie list of cultivated crops within a few years, but grain forms the chief crop, and has an aggregrte yield of 400,000 bushels. Of the county area, 13.59 per cent, is tilled land, ot which i;7 per cent, is planted iu cotton. Transportation is by rail, east and west. Population 12,809 White 10, 088, colored 2,721. Area 489 square miles, woodland 129,089 acres Tilled lands 4,oo acres, area planted in cotton 752 acres, iu to bacco 58 "acres, in corn 22,613 acres iu wheat 10,010 acres, in rye 1,054 acres, in oats 3,455 acres. Cotton production 3G1 bales, average cot ton product ; per acre 0.48 balej G84 pounds seed-cotton, or 228 pounds cotton lint. Real property, aggie gate value 070,983, personal prop erty $535,782, total $1,000,705 State taxes $24)4.73, county taxes $13,548.65 school taxes $3,426.21 Live stock Horses 1,249, mules 968, cattle 5,006, hogs 7,822, sheer 4,126. Public schools 61, white 48 colored 13. Churches 22. . Parker' Tonic kept in a home is a sentinel to ksep sickness out.' Used directly, it keeps the blood pure, and the stomach, liver and kidneys in working order. Coughs and colds vanish before . it., Jt builds up the health. No wise mother will be without it. - PEARSON-- illjO. THE ASIIEVILLE SENSATION Mr. Pearson Challenges Gen. Jones Gen. Jones' Answer. In order that our readers may know the particulars which provok ed the difficulty between Mr. Rich mond Pearson and Gen. Johnstone Jones, we give below the correspon dence which passed between them. The origin, however of this corres pondence was, that the stock law w.is passed for a part of Buncombe county. A portion of the people in sisted that it was forced upou them contrary to their protest. Mr. Pearson, in a loug letter to the peo ple, endeavored to throw the whole responsibility upon Gen. Jones. Gen. Jones' reply through the Asheville Citizen gives affidavits of a number of members of the Legis lature stating that Mr. Pearson made the impression on their minds that from-some pledges made to private parties he would have to vote against the stock law, but at heart hev. was for it. The para graph in Gen. Jones' reply which is said to have provoked the chal lenge from Mr. Pearson was the following : "He seems very careful of his reputation for consistency. If he had been equally careful of his reputation for courage, (if he has any such reputation) ho would not have yielded it without a strug gle to an assailant in a street in Raleigh and become "supine" the rest of the session." The following is a letter sent Gen. Jones by M r. Pearson : Asheville; N. C, April 26,'86. Gen. Johnstone Jones, Dear Sir : In your letter ad dressed to the people of Buncombe count v published in the Asheville papers yesterday you make so di rect a charge against my courage that I feel satisfied that you will not deny me an opportunity of vin dicating it. I therefore ask that you will at your convenience name a mend with whom my tnend can comer. Your obt. servant. Richmond Pearson. Gen Jones' answer to Mr. Pear son's challenge, giving his reasons for not np.pppt.mo-. k CCJTHKliU" Y'f" tu ab in; cu do CO 26 CO ca lei cal be thai the upc par he Ha COUtw matter of my address to the people of Buncombe county to whicli you took exception was the reference to your difficulty with Mr. Me Aden in the city ot ltaleigh. iUr. uuuger informed Capt. Hamilton that the reference excepted to had been call ed forth by an allusion on -page 10 of your card, to the outside town ships reflecting on my personal honor. It was therefore agreed be tween Messrs. Hamilton and Gudg-. er that the challenge should be withdrawn and that Mr. Gudger should formulate and afterwards submit to Capt. Hamilton terms of settlement between us, baed on the idea of a mutual withdrawal of the objectional matter refered to. The challenge was accordingly withdrawn by Capt. Hamilton after consultation with you, and Mr. Gudger prepared and delivered to Capt. Hamilton his letter of the 27th instant in which it was stated that we should each withdraw the matter herein before meutioned. Capt. Hamilton asked time for con sideratiou which was at his request last evening extended to 9 o'clock this morning. At the hour last named Capt. Hamilton delivered to Mr. Gudger u letter substantially to the ellect that Mr. rearson "is willing to permit the publication of his expression of regret already made to a friend for referring to Gen'l Jones' personal indebtedness to him. but further than this he finds it impossible to go." You had on the 3rd instant writ ten to Maj. J.G. Martin a "personal" noie in wuicnyou um express your regret for your reference to my in- ueoieuuess to you. this letter 1 was not allowed to use in my ad- i j a rwst . -v dress to the people and so far as the peopie wuum see you nau icir no re- rrvat- flint- vmi rvil notn.l givuiu'juuiiuu iiutwu ju iuo in respect to the matter mentioned, So when I prepared my address I felt that I might go outside the ! matter of controversy between m,' follnwp.il the imp.fVIpTil vnn linil n. i tablished and comment on the mat ter to which you take execptiou as I believe the lacts warranted. But f - . m . a care mi consideration ot Cant. Hamilton's letter expressing your willingness to permit the publica tion of your letter to Maj. Mariin led Mr. Gudger to advise me that you had substantially withdrawn the objectionable reference to my self and that it became mv dntv. in accordance with the terms of settlement offered, to withdraw the allusion I had made to the MeAden difficulty. Acting under Mr. G udg er's advice, and being desirous of doing all that an honorable man could do to settle the difference be tween us, I instructed Mr. Gudger to accept the construction he plac ed upon Capt. Hamilton's letter and withdraw the language in my ad dress that was complained of by you. In Mr. Gudger's letter to Mr. Williams (Capt. Hamilton's suc cessor) of this date he not only withdrew all that had been object ed to by you but expressed regret forme, that I had made the obnox ious allusions. This was going as tar as an honorable man would go or as an honorable man would ex pect me to go. I. was therefore somewhat sur prised when Mr. Gudger showed me Mr. Williams', letter of this date in which you not only refuse to stan 1 by the terms ot settlement which I thought had bi e 1 substantially car-. ried out, but notity Mr. (.udger that you will "accept nothing short J of an explicit and unconditional re traction from mo of all reflection on your honor." Mr. Gudger refusing to accede to your new demand brought back your original challenge. Why ! I forbear to mention a number of rea sons which occur to me. Perhaps you hope to humiliate me. In this you shall be disappointed. I am prouder to decline your challenge """"In vou can ever be that you chal bed me under the circnmstan- I have a family to support; e you to Kin me tney woum ue utterly destitute. Your family rich, and were I to k'll you they e ample means on which to live. inequality between us you e fully aware of when you pen- yonr challenge. But I take shelter here. 1 put my declma- 011 the broad grounds that I onoosed to duelling. I do not gnize the ".so called code" as a tmate way in which to settle culties between gentlemen, obligations to the laws of my e and to society, besides the gations I have personally av ted as a member ol a church I as an omcer 01 ine oca re 01 th Carolina sworu to support its s, precludes me Irom entering n a course sucli as is suggested our letter, and in transferring he arena of personal violence questions which can by no possi bility find settlement there. Duelling is wrong in itself, a vio lation of the commandment "Thou shalt do no murder." It is a viola tion of the. Constitution and laws of North Carolina. In my case to in dulge in such a practice would be a violation of the oath I have tak en to bear allegiance to the consti tution and laws of our State. lie- ins' still a member of the General Assembly I recognize the obliga- tion resting upon me ns such. Aside from these views 1 cannot recoguize the method as a solution or a cure of the grievance of which you complain. Were you to kill me or I to kill you there would be no vindication of courage, nor would it satisfy jour friends -or mine or the public generally that the cause of complaint was just or unjust. I regard the killing in a duel as deliberate murder, so pronounced bv the highest authority, human and divine: and to fight a duel, though death might not result, both the sin and the violation of the law have been committed. Whatever may be the estimation in which the practice of duelling is held by "The code duello," it is made an infa mous crime by the Code of North Carolina. The custom has become obsolete and I think now generally regard ed as both ridiculous aud farcical as well as unlawful, and did I now grant your request 1 should leeimy self to boa moral coward worthy the severe condemnation of the law ; and the contempt and derision of the irood and lar ahiilinr' riti. zeus. Occunvin? the nosition I do sis a ! representative of the people I can-' not ailord to commit a crime so T. i- I 1 . l.n. ii ikiiui loriiiuui'ii iv uoiu iiie or-; gaiiic and statute laws nor set such an example of lawlessness. Yon did me .1 cross wronf nn.l injustice by your derogatory per- sonai reicrcncc to niyseli 111 your pamphlet to which 1 replied, where in you went outside of the subject matter of discussiou, a wrong which 1 yon privately admitted 111 your let ter to Maj. Martin. In my reply I treated you and the Mibjcct matter under consideration as I thought deserved in view of your attack upon me. If I have done you any wrong in the language complained of it can and should be established by a dif ferent method from the criminal mode which you propose, an oppor tunity for which you have refus ed. I must therefore, for the reason assigned, decline to fight a dud ; but you 'must not understand that I will hesitate to defend myself at all times aud under all circumstan ces. Respectfully, Johnstone Jones. it is Ordered by the Hoard of County Commissioners, W. E. l'owe, Vnl. M. Thompson, John Nantz, Joshua Gibbs and Cal vin Ilimk, all lh luemhcis of said board, being present. It is ordered Unit :n election shad be hd l at nil the places of voting appoint: d b? law in the county o!" Ibirke on &uur lay. the loth day of May, 188G, to ace r tain whether si majority of the ip:a!i tied voters of "aid county of liurke a e in lavor 01 subscnmmr lorlv- ei,rht thousand dollars, in the bonds of lhe CCunly, to tho capitol toek of the y0uihcrn & Western Air Line Itailroad Company, and that at said election voters of said county who shall be in favor of making said tu scriptiou shall vole a ticket 011 vhic shall be written or printed the word., "For Subscription," and these vottrs who are opposed to making said sub scription shall deposit a ballot on v?hich shall be written or printed the word., A gainst Subscription." It U further ordered by the Hoard that if at the election tto held on said Saturday, lhe loth day of May ncx. a majority of the qualified voters cf Burke county shall vole in lavor ot making said subscriptions then tht subscriptions of fortyeight thousand dollars shall be made by the Board of Commiss ouera of Imike county upon the following terms aud coi.di tions : I. That said tmbfcriplion is to be pa:d in bonds of the county zt tle'r face value, payable in twenty years and bearing sis per cuit interest per annum, to be psvid annually on the first day of January of every year un til the maturity of said bonds. II. That no part of said subscript tion is to be due or payable until said railroad company shall have ccmplc ted its line and put the same in run uiiig order from some point on the line of the Carolina Central llaiboad at or between the town of Linco uton and said Carolina Ha ".I road's term nus to the town of Morgauton, and when said Southern & Western Air Line Railroad Company shall have so com plcted its line to Morgauton then the hoard of Commissioners arc to deliver said company bonds of the county of Biuke a aforesaid to the amount of twentyofoui thousand dollars upon account of said subi-cription. III. That no mire than twenty four thousand dollars of said sub scription sh:ill be pdd until said Southern & Western Air Line Itail road Company shall have completed in the same manner its lii.e from the town of Morganton to tho line of the county of McDowell or the line of the county of Mitchell io tho direct tion of Cranberry, ami when o com pleted to the boundary liu of either of said counties then the Board of Couutv Commissioners shall deliver to said railroad company the further sum of twenty-four thousand dollars in bonds of the county of Burke at their face value iu full aymcut and dischirge of the subscription to said company, W. E. Pore. John TanU and JoshmCibbs voting iu favor of the older and Win. M.Thompson aud Calvin Ilouk against. J. L. J. ESTE3, March 10, 1S3G. C. B.C, Burke Co. I'll attend to it hoau." Don't that way. Your cheat yourself in hair is growmj thinner, diver and more lifeless every d;iy. Save it and restore its original color, softness j-nd I gloss by using Parker's llar Babaui while yon may. W. C. ERVIN. ATTORNEY AT LAY, LENOIR, Nr C. Practices in tha Suto and Federal Courts. GROCERIES & PROVISIONS, orrosiTE Post-onice, MRS. E, B. GLAYWELL desires a few pupils in tannic, on either piano or ors.uu ilv.u.eed pupil a!.so taught thorough R.vs and Ilaimony. t or terms apply to. K. B.CLAY WELL March 10, 1Sm$. Notice U h-roby piven tht the firm oijunr jirr. t.un Alpine .t.itin, N. C. u Dm day, 117th March IiS.M. d: olvid by iuuiurI coiimi4U Tho but.c-i wi'l boccndiH lt d l.v W. II. .Irtne. vvhoa? fcii!o5ll repomibluy I t d-bt contract ed by e r m. V. U.JON Es It E. 3JUUKK, RESTAURANT. John Krvin will open m rirt -CUm Ken taurant in .Uor!t:iu-t Feb. 151-Ji lJ, u isnminKdle the public. I will ham Mad hour, llani. Pie, Cake-, Chicken nd evcryil i:i m:l tt.lt. i- :1 Cr.-i-claa rt-i-turHr.t. CuiTcoonly oa iihv:I urderi. foiniliing thHt h lonjf been r.txded in our town. 1 hop to merit the imlroiiagw of the public. Very r-i-iruliv. .toii.N EtiViy. ISAAC T. AVERY, ATTORNEY ATLAH7, 210RGAXT0X, X. C. (Office in Oor, Caldacdi'i old Uv oT.ce.) Tracticr in thetateand Federal courts. Spcid attention given in." trrni).t returns made to all l.iiMnc.- ir.lruUnl t hi enre SAMUEL J. ERViN. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MOKGANTON, X. C. (Onice in Court House.) WKl practice In ti;e Stale ud Fcder a'Cur;s. Hpecial aactitioa given oil li ia e imrusUd to him. JOHN T. PERKIK3, Attorney & Couusclor at Law, -Morganton, N. C. Office No. 1 Brick Row. Frr.cltce in Htate and Federal Courts. Claim collected anywheiu in Uuited tatca . Prompt ntteutton Kiven to all business aud prompt re turns mode. A NEW INDUSTRY. Two blind hoys, J. It. Winters nnd W. N. McCurry, desire to state to the public that they nre prepared to make Matresses, Brooms hnd repair chair?", both cane and split bottomed, aud ask the public to K'tve them a trial. They will be assisted by D. h. Winter. Their shop in two doons above the Sengle Comer. Morganton, S. C. , LAND SALE. By virtue of a Yen. Ex in i:iy hAt.d for cdUction, I will sell on Moinbiy, M&7 3rd, 1KSG, nl the Court House door n Morgan ton, N. C. lUOacw of land Ijinj? in Uppr Creek townrhip, .nljir.iiijr Un-U of H. UYck. Andcravn limned m ml ethers, levied n and to be sold j. the propcity or Ciley Pe.nrsey lofalbfy the t-ise i the same Cor the year i'S:4 und T rinscA-h. J. A. LACKEY, Sheriff. April 8. 1R5C PATENTS CAVEATS. TUADEMAKKS AND CCTVKIGUTS Obtained, and all ether business in the U. S. I'atentUHico attended to for moderate rates. Oureffii'ois opposite tho U. 8. Patent Offic. and we can obtain Itfnti in h time than thoro remote from Wnshinpton. bend model orrftawir.g. Wcadvieai to p: trtititbility free ( ctiarf;, and we matic n charH tinier w obtain p-tenL Wc rvTt-r here to tho l'if tmaster, tho Supt. of i; unc v Order lliv.. aad lootliciaU ol the U. S. ltn;t Cfili Vr rircul-ir. advice, ternwand reffrn'tcei to actual cli. enU in your own Sl&to r ounty. write to C. A. SHOW & CO., Opposite Patent t JtTIc- Wliinvlnn. D.H. POTJTZ'S HCnSEAKD CATTLE PCWDi Uo Hoe wtn d! f colic P-ots cr Lcxo I Tk. tf Kont"i tov1?r are w4 la tifr. Koctrt Vowdrnwl.'iriirf mnit trrm UooCbai . Kcnirt PowdM will prevent Gap ijt Fomi. Fotiu rodder ;i tnrre tti oiwt inr of mi'.X text rream twenty per cent, and cka U.o butter tra iJ1 avert. . - Kontx I'.wprt wTl rare or prrrent a!nott zrix Dim to vblrb Horv aad i:!c are o Korrfa Fownraa will it &AJtACtix. bold cTcrwkiere. X3AVIDr.rOtTT2.Troprtett; SALTI It OUX. XtlTm. FOU HALE BY JOIIT TULL, Morrutou, ra S) -&m