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FOX. 4. MORGANTON, N. C, MJLJtCM 31,1883. AtO 35. 1 II 1Mb THE MOUNTAINEER. Scott and Ervin, Publishers. AT UKijAY MAR1H 31 l8d. . wm . - r,-e i ?MvfSX,"OJiirto ? in society." Hates of advertising furnished upon i six moiiius. it.. "7r plication. . I Job work done neatly and with ais- 1 atch. at leasonable prices. .W. C. ERVIN, Editor. OUR OBJECT. Itis and shall be the cbf?ct of 1 The Mountaineer to advance the ia- terests of both its readers anditspub- ishers. We'believa that the interests bf our readere cau be f osterered by res'entingthtm, 4 week after week, ith a reliable?jctc-paper, containing correct record of the important oc- urrances beth at home and abroad, nd that will let the outside world know of our resources and the uopar aleled inducements this section offers to the immigrant and the capitalist, the seeker for wealth as well as the seeker for health and pleasure. To this end the colomns of The Mountain- I eee vfll contaiu, from time to time, editorial and contributed articles de scribing our mines and minerals, our forests and timbers, our farms and the produce of our farms, our mount ains and our mountain scenery. We all labor for the good of both town id country, believing that their in. Uresis are identical and jiot conflict- Sto have correspondents at the various n 1 3 . country emces to Keep us posieu on rural affairs. - U We desire to advance ine interests . .1 t.i?i t . i ; 01 tne puoiisners Dy grcuiy increas ing our circulation and by building up profitable advertising patronage, .without which no paper can thrive. : Mountaineer is already a good sing medium, we expect to make vertising medium, one C! JiHn our adver- a; people abroad i know that it arvith wide-awake desire the liberal uig and the ad d shall endeavors Scientific American- ticle of much interest to 1 1 ers, in which a new rail iis described, an inven- uld it prove nractica- is destined to 1. Construction of rail- ns. The long enough for the 1 if i cars, and the power 'six enormous hydraul 4 afford sufficient pres the most ponderous in a twinkling hundreds air and land them on a track above with scarce time. The inventors elevator that it will be e fervice in onviaung approaches as that to usion bridge io New ftjas in ascendiu g t?re u i h practicable de ysteiil Ol .a"1"1" can say uui inau ins filled with us lifted from rOposed rail- f the Black ey to cloud- more than enei mat .1 j Uorstj as a spirit mystic raon- holojry. 4? have been coosoli icnt of the latter iontro! of both, lhe fter be known as the er. Success to the ZZ Jta edited campaign of a quar- 3 I erfc w rlad 1 1 TP 1 1 r yd- yTuTe J A PRESSING NEED. Writers on 'political economy, that rrrHT m t . ... i great science vitocli treats of "the pro- ! lCtlOn and t3e innliAiit.inn of nrealtli say that thaln,i?,- anu weami ii,,,. : n i . n 1 J ; 1 1 : , . ' iu.muuu, r "rsyransmutation, or the pro- ductifjfr- of wealth b"y the aid of the f . lorce of nature, as in agriculture; sec ond, transformation, tlie changing of the &form of the crude products by the ajd of mechanical forces, and thus ! increasing tltiv vnl MAQ wiHirftl vxk farm i . , . , . . j I ' 1 1 , , , tiou, fer which the farmer, the manual iwi)r,ia me miner may reacn tne mark! s of the world, and secure the beneLt of another great element in the production of value, "competition." White farming,which comes under the first of these heads, may be greatly improved in this section by the intro duct'tn of labor saving implements and a better system of fertilizing the soil find while we need competing railway lines to reduce freight- rates and new railroads to reach sections of the State that are now without raiU road facilities, still, our most pressing need comes under the head of trans formation, our great want is the es tablishment of factories to work up our raw materials, to -give our farmers a hoaie market for theii supplies, and to employ our unemployed population, thus changing a large pei-centage of our population from consumers to producers of wealth. No othwr branch of industry yields abetter per cent, on the capital invested or inaugurates such general prosperity as manufactur ing. Not only does it benefit those ac- tual'y engaged in it as laborers or cap italists, but it quickens the public pulse and gives new life to every other industry. . To come clown to the practical, our town aud our county need more cot Ion and tobacco factories. Sjfcii&te'a' as ye are m.tlai'i of the great cotton belt and in the very centre of khe finest tobacco producing lands in the world, our advantage are une qualled. Our water power is unlimit ed, fuel for the steam engine, both wood and coal, are cheap, the cost of living is small and wages, consequent ly, low the very conditions necessary to a thriving manufacturing commu nity. Manufacturing in North Carolina and in Western Nrth Carolina is no longer an experiment. Numerous ex amples of large returns from the capi tal invested are to be had in neighbor ing towns and counties, aud the capi talist may now enter the manufactur ing field with every confidence of success. We are at a loss to understand the rather vicious attack which Cionel (f ) Murril, of the Hickory Carolinian has baen makiDg on us, as we have never, knowingly, done or said any thing to thwart his legislative aspira tions. If he means to intimate that this paper is to be run ia the interests of any corporation, his intimations are false. JTiie Mountaineer will speak its views fearlessly and fully, and, While-averse " to controversies, will oe always ready to defend itself from such uncalled-for aud damaging at tacks. Bits of News Last Sunday's edi tion of the New York Herald was the largest daily paper ever published, containing 32 pages and 192 columns The paper used iu printing that edi tion if spread out, would have reach1 ed from JNew xork to Richmond.. . . Mount Etna is on an eruption and is overwhelming the villages around its base All over the west the Indians are on the war path aud have ben burning houses, stealing cattle and horses and murdering the peo. pie. The latest outbreak was in New Mexico, where nine white settlers were massacred The cigar makers all ' nver tiie TJnitd States. arp.n r nt.rikft Lr Li8hCT w-;-Timotby Howe Postmaster Gtneral 01 the U nited States, died last Sunday, at his home in Wisconsin. The question now is who will be his successor Mrs. Vanderbilt gave a fancy ball last wpek that. fiost; t. least. SS50.000. - T TnsRrun V M Marnh 99 Cnl iNoye, and two companies .of the.ith calvalry from Fort Cr aisr arrived hora voctspldv on rnnfo tn l-rlla. V a I- j. . ' : k The latest intelligence from Chf- ton is that the Indians are concentrat- ed in force in the hills around that place, ana tnat an attacK upon tne , town may be expected at any mo ment. Atlanta, March 29. A special irom Athens says forty armed men entered Lexington a uteht or two aoro ! entered to lynch Jones, the wife niurderer,but left as the ja;i wag doable guarded, Jones is completely broken down and cannot sleep. St. Louis, March 16. Perhaps the largest transaction in cattle ever made in wiis country was effected at Jb ort ; Worth, Txas, last Ssturday, the sale j bemg of 75,000 head of full grown cattle by J. Kards aud Harald Broth ers to tlxe Francklyn Land and Cattle CornpauyVof New York, composed of Charles Gk Francklyn, Frank G. Brown preWlent of the Bosswick Mines, Colorado, and B. B. Groom & Son, of Lexington, Ky., the extensive breeders and imprters of short-horn cattle. The price paid is private, but the figures are understood to be about $25 per head, which would aggregate about $2,000,000. Pittseuro, Pa.. March 26. A spe cial to the Chronicle from Uniontown, Pa., says that L.N. Dukes airived ) there from his stepfather's last night, and this morning a committee of citi. zens waited on him and presented him with a resolution adopted at an indig nation meeting lately held. They also gave him notice that he would have twenty four hours within which to transact his business and leave town. If'he attempts to remain it is thought that there will be trouble. Raleigh, N. C, March 26. A. dis patch from Henderson to the Ifetois and Ob&erver says the snow here is three feet deep. There is no abate ment f the storm. News from.-H- roinTs giv(?B tne deptlrot t'ie snw by actual measurement as follows: Salem, 8 inches; Greensboro, 21 inch es; Hillsboro, 10 inches; Middleburg, 22 inches: Durham 18 inches, At Kittrells the roofs of several houses were crushed by the great weight of snow, while trees were bent and bro ken. The snow is very deep on the Richmond and Danville Railroad be tween Greensboro and Danville. All the wires were down yesterday, and mesaeres were sent through the Raleigh office. The fall of snow at Wei don 1 was slight. None fell at Sauford; none at Goldsboro,but there was much sleet; several inches at Wilmington; but little at Claytou, heavy fall, depth not given at Charlotte- The streams are roported as rising very rapidly and floods are expected. In the Blue Ridge the storm appears te 1 ae fall en to a great depth. It may be said to be the greatest March snew storm ever known in this State. The storm at Greensboro began at noon Sunday, and continued for 28 hours without intermission. An Insane Woman Beats Her Dead Husband. A messenger from Mechauicsville rushed here for the police who were wanted to suppress the demonstratiens pi a crazy woman named Sallie Grier. The woman was crazed by grie la the forenoon she received word that her father, who lives a short distance from the city. had just died, and in a very short time after this intelligence reached her, her husband, who was lying dangerously sick in her house, became suddenly worse and died. I his double blow proved too much for the poor woman to bear, and reason fled. She rushed from the house and ran up aud dwn the streets raving and shouting at the top of her voice. After awhile she went back to the house and some et the neighbors, attracted by the strange sounds inside, went in, when the shocking spectacle of the insane wo man belaboring the corpse of her hus band with a stick was what met their view. They" made her desist, when she broke from them and once more went out to wake up the neighborhood. It was not until she was caught and securely bound with cords that quiet was restored. She is raving mad and the doctors think she will never re gain her mind. Chai. Observer. The Asheville Citizen says: Scott and Ervin who have won much repu tation as editors of the Lenoir Topic, have purchased t he Morgan ton Index, and will conduct both papers hereaf ter. Mr, Ervin conducting the Mor- ganton Mountaineer, and Mr. Scott The Topic. Xj O O .Xj The last day of March, aud who cares ? . . -McDowell court is in session,a two week's term. Col. Folk, of the Lenoir bar, is ill IUWI1. Send in your advertisements to the Mountaineer. -The snow was only six inches deep at Table, Rock. . if Edward Morris, of New York .;,:,io3i;V.; ivrA,.,,,,; - Mr. Willams is erecting' a nev new dwelling house on Hickory street, be yond "Break Neck." Quite a number of Morganton's young folks, who are off at the col leges, returned home last Friday, and spent Easter Sunday here. One of our typos, Mr. Ed. Crow son, is dangerously ill with pneumo nia. This accounts for our limited supply of reading matter. A copy ef The Mountaineer will make a good present for an absent friend who is interested in Burke af fairs. The subscriptidft; books- are now open. - ' . Our country friends', whether sub scribers or not, are cordially invited to call on us- when they come to town. Their visits will always be appreciat ed. Some very handsome memorial windows have recently been placed in Grace Episcopal church in this place by merrbers of the congrega tion. The commissions for the new Magistrates are now in the hands of the Clerk of ,he Superior Court, who desires them all to come in and quali fy at once. o.T'aniou uas TmnrrriTT which she may well feel proud. Ool. Hunt at the Mountain Hotel keeps the best table of any public house in the State. The east bound passenger train was delayed several hours at Hickory last Wednesday by the breaking of an axle on the west bound freight a few miles below that place. Wm. McGalliard,Who was sent to the Albany Penitentiary three years ao for some little difficulty he bad with XTncle Sam's post office de partment, came home last week. Messrs. LigLtill, Hawks, Prince, Wellington and Sinker, of Boston, Massachusetts, who are interrested in the Queen Mining Company, in this county, are at the Mountain Hotel It is rumored that a new schedule is to no into enect on the Western Railroad before long, by which the west-bound train will pass this place at 7 . m. and the east-bound train at p. in. Messrs. Fred Oertell and Manly McDowell left last week for Aroca. on the coast,to assist fish commissoner Worth in the hateheries. "Company Q" mourns the loss of its most active members. Sheriff Lackey last week carried the prisoner, Moulton Boyce up to the head of the Western Railroad where he was placed in charge of the Super intendent of the convict force to seive out a two years terra for larceny. A postal card from our young friend, H. A. Davis, who left a few weeks ago for Texas informs us that he has secured a good job on the new Insane Asylum at Austin, Texas, where he will remain for seme months. We had a pleasant call Thursday from our good old friend, Bartlett Cisk, the well known guide to Table Rock,and the jealuus custodian, of its honors, A trip to Table Rock in his company is a treat which' no one should miss who has the opportunity of enjoying it. we were disappointed in not getting our new heading in time fov this issue. It was ordered from Rieh- moad two weeks ago, and would haye been received in time but for an acci ' dent in the type foundry of Pelouze & Son, which prevented them from miing our order in tune for this issue. We expect to come oat in a better shape next week. The Landmark mentions R. Z. Linncy, of Alexander: Edmund Jones, of Caldwell; A. C. Avery, of Burke, E. L. Vaughn, of A.leghany; Reuben j McBrayer, of Cleveland: and JohriT. j Hoke, of Lincoln, as some of the men who will be preminent for the Demo cratic nomination in the new eighth Congressional distinct in 1884. Hon. J. C. Harper, ef Patterson, and Mr. J. G. IIall, of . Hickory, of the Asylum building committee, were in town last Thursday and made arrange ments to have about 5,000,000 brick manufactured at once for the comple tion of tho northern wing of the Asy lum on which work will be commenced at an early clay. It is estimated that the building when completed will have consumed more than 20,000,000 brick. Election of Vestrymen: At a meeting of the congregation of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church last Mon day the following were elected ves trymen for the ensuing year: T. G. Walton, Senior Warden, T. Gordon, Junior Warden, Wm. Wal ton, D. C. Pearson, J. C. Tate, C. S. Smith, John H. Pearson. Important Notice: The Mayor and town commissioners net being candidates for re-election, and wish ing to give the citizens ample oppor tunity to nominate their successors, would respectfully suggest that a meeting be held in the Court House on Tuesday, April 17th, 1883, at 11 o'clock a. m. All interested are earn estly requested to attend. . John Tull, Mayor. I . -.-si" .- - - nvinjr on Oarer Ure from Morgan ton, arid one of Burke's most energetic and prosperous citi zens, met with a serious loss last week. His large barn well filled with hay and fodder, and containing two hun dred bushels of grain wa3 totally con sumed bv fire The illumination was distinctly seen at this place, some peo pie thinking the fire might be the ho tel at Glea Alpine, which is in about the same direction but farther from town. The Festive Printer. A printer is a terrible animal when he takes a notion, and in Dine ca?es out of ten he Jakes the notion. The editor of one of our exchanges was thunderstruck, recently, at receiving a challenge from erentleman whose notice he had inserted under the head "Marriage in Hish Life," and which he had concluded by wishing the new ly wedded pair "long life and much prosperity." The relentless type nenu made him say, "We wish them strong tripe and much posterity !" This in cident has been recalled to us uy ine shameful way in which our typos have made us slaughter the "King's Eng lish" recently although-properly cor rected in the piipSf . After the slayer of 111s sons: w e publish elsewhere an account of the shooting of the Carlton brothers by one Henry Clippard, which occurred in Caldwell county about two weeks ago. We have received a letter from Mr. L. L. Carlton, a merchant at Meadow Hill, Wilkes county, and the father of the wounded Carlton's, in which he states that both of his sons were wound ed,and one of them proba bly fatally. He describes Clippard a? a very desperate man who fled from Virginia, for shooting a man, and who has recently been engaged in tearing dewn and burning defence less women's houses on Kings Creek, in Caldwell county. Clippard, the fu gitive, is abaut 35 years old, weighs about 180 pounds, is about 5 feet 6 inches high, has dark hair and red mustache, and has a large full face, ery ruddy in complexion, This is Lhe description of him as given by Mr. Carlton, who is making every ef fost to have him arrested. IYou can still get Clover seed md Orchard Grass seed at, Davis- Bros. The Episcopal Supper. On last Thursday night, the court room was turned into an elegant eating saloon, the magic touch of deft fingers having worked the wenderful metaraorphesij. The stern old columns supporting the roof had been daintily decked witl flowers, and the grim seat of justice was transformed into a bower, whence nymphs and naiads dispensed food moi'e toothsome thaa ambrosia an draughts sweeter than nectar." The large hall wa thronged with youth ful beauty and mature dignity, and we are glad to know that the supper, which was given for the benefit of the Episcopal Church, was a success , in a financial as well as in au epicurean sense. An additional charm was lent i to the repast by the. bewitching young sylphs who served it, and as for the one who presided at our table, we are sure no one can deny thak' she is" a "Daisy." J . . The Eastvcr Sntw-storm. It was a strange sight for Southern ejes that greeted us last Sunday,-a snow storm on Easter day. About nine a. ru. the feathery flakes came flitting dowu from the dull, gray clouds, dancing in the eddying currents of air, and greet ing the Sunday-school children with a soft caress. Everybody seemed to think it a fine joke, this attempt at a snow storm, with dewy April almost upon us and the crocus and the violet already in bloom. But it was no joke. All day the clouds kept up their feathery fusillade, and when the Jast loiterer had retired that night the vio let and the hyacinth were stowed away uuder a downy snow-blaiiket full ten inches thick. The "oldest inhabitant" can recall but fw instances of so great a suow fall so late in the season, and, taking' into consideration the fact that the snow fell rapidly for six hours before the ground was covered, we may esti- JlfYleir r-fieavy" 3iiw for tfc:-3 latitude even in, mid winter. The snow drifts on the Blue Ridge did not impede the east-bound passenger train an Mouday,as it reach ed this place on tinia. Assessment op Propkrty. 111 order to advise the board of commieHioners of the several counties; of certain l special duties required by the amend ed "Machinery Act to be performed at their meeting to be held in April, 1883 the State Treasurer has issued the following circular; North Carolina, Treasurt Departmet, Raleiuh, March 19th, 1883. To the Board of Commissioners oi the several Counties of this State: I inferra you that the amended "act to provide for the levying and colleo tion of taxes," passed at the recent session of the General Assembly, re quires th Board of commissioners 01 j each, county, at their sessiou heid in the month of April, 1883, to appoiut one justice of tho peace and two dis creet free holders in each township, t assess the land and real property in their respective townships foi taxation. A new assessment is to be made. At the said April session the Board of commissioners are required to is sue a notice la the assessors, summon ing them to meet at the. county seat on the first 'Monday in May for con sultation with the Board of commis sioners, for the purpose of taking such action as vvtll secure uniformity in the assessment of the real estate through out the county. The amended act f urthei require that the Board of commisioneis shall, at their April session, appoint one justice of the peace, or other compe tent person in each township, to list all the land therein at the valuation a-seesed on the same, and all personal property in said township. All other necessary infomrmation will be contained in the revenue acts now being printed under the direction of the Secretary of State, which will be distributed at'the earliest day pos sible. ' ' ' Very respctfully. J. M. Worth, State Treasurer. Richmond, VA.,Marcii 29. Among the cases decided by lhe Supreme. Court oi Appeals to-day was one de claring the tag tax of five cents on each package of fertilizer illegal, and another that the school board of Ports-s) mouth, appointed by Governor Cam eron, is entitled to bold as against the Democratic board elected by the city council. Lawyers are divided in opin ion as to whether this case sett es the. law in other pending school cases. 1 . "AST'
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