- 'ov L K ill e rs. 5,r. John rlif-k, of Salisbury, is vis- ..(-.ffli is viit.mp' lira ... C VYooU una Mi ( :irrl MonJ--- ... . p C:irt. r, KH,.,of Asheville, was in''',8-tWt',-k' . . , . . Carter is visiting friends t) I'.l'tltoll, we arc sun jr iw J-aj , if; uiiv l! since July SJtli. l . .i. .... ,. r:.t JlnrillU' 1HIC, Ul Ji nifccn.ii" i, Mrs. .J'la h ii i omer menus ....... li !c ti I r. i.iiiv-.- in " ' h-fk has licefi confined to for some time. V e Mi- Vr. WIH v ., I ,,t M.-k:ieSS ii.h l.im.a" , ar'i' "-'-overy. ,,a,tr ofthf l'n-sbyterian church ..'..n'vli at ''s regular hour, U a.tn., W l" I . 7 .(,Avn.i next Sunday. Mr . F. Wood, who is well and fa '.lv Known here, has been elected ' itioii in th Winston Craded In a !'?" vM K.M. Armfield and Mrs. A. A. . ". ' . f Statesville, are visiting ;K 'u. Bennett at the Flemming C. ;. Little and family arriveu Tuesday. They are now at List of Jurors. j .The following is the list of jurors drawn for the fa',1 term of Ik-Dowell County Superior Court which convenes on August i2tli': Fikst Week. J. I). Avery, M. F. Tate, W. C. Bird, W. M. Mahburn, w! L Cilliam, CP. Mac-key, K C. Sanders, Robert 1). Barnes, J. E. Wilson, A. M. Xesbitt,J. L. Walsh, M. C. Davis, G. W. Brad'ey, S. A. Lotfery,J Ii. Patton, W.'M. Washburn, P. 15. Morris, Win. M. Wi!keron, William McXeely, M. (J. j Morgan, W.J. Xesbitt, W. C. Elliott, (I. W. Crawford, Adolphus Brackett, W. M. floodson,.!. I. Banning, R. L. Greenlee, S. M. Burgin, L. Z. Xoblett, W. W. Hemphill, Tho.sl Morris, T. Y. Hemphill, Win. Silvers, I. E. Marlowe, O. M. Walton. W. W. Bailey. Skc-oxi, Week. Samuel A. Poteet, W. II. White, A. II. Ledbetter, E. J. Foster, 15. F. Tibial, John Yancey, Jr., J. Z. Page, J. II. Brown, W. Ii. Coo- Dr. Alston, o.Bumsvil!e, wa ir. town Sunday. ' Mrs. D. X. T.onon is visiting her parents in tho Cove thisweetl Mr. W. F. Neal is visiting rela tives n town this week. STATE .EVS. Mr. MeCurdy and wife are among Marion's summer visitor?. Mrs. J. W. .Street man, of Hen dersonville, is visiting her father, Mr. G. G. Eaves. W.J . Townsend, a former resi dent of Marion, is phaking hands with old friends and acquaintances on the street this week. The Record returns than! b to Mr. V. II. I.obbitt for a treat to some of the mot dflici(us ico cream it ever stuck its hill to. McCall fc Conley are hustlor?. Anson county has six new?ja- In 1S0O. ?01,0OX000-r.-er.- inves ted in cotton mills in Xorth Car- oiina, now.there are$119,OX),000 so placed. The Xews and Observer has pre pared n KtateTiient of liirure.s which Koes to show that at tho end of 1S9G thre will he a deficit of $275,- 000 in the North Carolina treasurv. Jt-V. :.. l:irill tli(.' ,,,, ol Mr. ieo. C. Conley, Mrs, it(i.-S brother. j(.i-t. r of Ieeds Brown receiveU w TJt,. of the Fusion laws Monday to .tribute :ui.ong tlie magistrates of (Ii,. r-DiHit y. Mi-s Aniia McKesson, of Morganton, ft,.r .riKling a few weeks here to the jln at delight, of her many friends at lU- ,,iare. returned home Monday. Mr. Alfred Clayton died at his home Cknwood on Monday atternoon, in the neighborhood lit-:ir 1 ..! was burie.t frave yard near by on Tuesday. ( .,1. JI.C. Demining, of Harrisburg ,.v,,.. ..f the vietiiiHof the memora Llllffrtian I'.ridge wi (n k, sjnt a few ,ia in Mrlioweli bst week looking after hi niining interests. Tli.. pastor of the Presbyterian .hurrli wiil preach at Belfont. on Sat urday night before the 3rd Sabbath of July'und at Siloam and Old Fort on ll-"::nl Sabbat hat the usual hours. Mr J (J. irait returned home Mon day after spending several days lishing ,,,,'l-urk Creek. Fishing fcr font in Kuck Creek is line sport at this time of jiur. Mr. C rant succeeded iu captur ing nearly two hundred in a fe v days la-t wfek. Mr. YV. I: Bryan, of Boone, father-iii-lavv to Dr. M. F. Morphew, lost his store house and goods, a line new burn mi.l a dwelling last week by fire. Loss ut ","(. It was with great difU . -nil that he saved his hotel. It is be lieved to tie the work oi an imrow.... j. There will be a union service in the Metb.tit church next Sunday at 11 a. in., in the interest of the American Bible Society. A sermon will be pr -ached by Bev.Thos. H. Law, 1. 1- ..f sn.-irt.-iiihurr. S. '., who is superin- i r i,,. n s for North and Sunt h 1 arolina. Prof J. K.tJuv.ofSalem, Va.,arrived here on Tuesday for the purpose of prospecting as to organizing and con din ting a High School in the Academy h re. Me and bis accomplished wife ha e been for four years co-principals of the Salem Female Seminary. They are most hitrhlv recommended and liave large experience. Mr. Isaac Erwin Avery, of Morgan tun s.oi of. Inst ice A.C. Avery, of tin Supreme Court, and who went to Chin wiili iwiil Ceneral .le' iuiran as an attache, has been promoted to the vie consulship at Shanghai. We U n.T.inl :ieiiuaiutance with Mr. Avery an.lsav without hesitancy t hr.t a wisi selection for the vice consulship could nut him Iuwmi ni.nle. lie i?. of one of the most illustrious families in Ainer -a. and has inherited much in both in ; ii .1 :m. I Iw.-iri l'roin his distinguished ancest ors. At St Petersburg, Fla., in an addn- i,i .i i-ir.r., ..ruw.t l.is Sundav. Kev. W i. Morgan bitterly denounced Presi dent Cleveland's foreign and financial policies. He said, if Cleveland wanot watched he would deed away the Tin ted States to Creat Britain, Spam and theshylocks. Mr Morgan is a promi nent minister and is said to be related to I'nited Slates Senator Morgan, of Alabama. Charlotte Observer. per, Thos. P. Cut hliertson, J. T. Our-: They have the Koods and you are ri"'1'-,,rni,)'u-1'- t.oiortn, oin-tomissitif von don't exam- l.Epps, W. C.Harris, J. M. Clay, J. M. ine their prhes. Read their new ad. Xeal, Z. V. Iludgins wt.( Items From Old Fort. Messrs. Will Cooper, Root. Fin Correspondence of The IiEcoRD. ley .Clarence M. McCalUim Lonon, Continued fineBeaBons are making great l" ?nd E.d Dysart and Charley imprevement in the condition of the corn ())hlU celebrated the Fourth OI in thin auction. nJ Armors nre mnro chr. " ul IU -" ie fui. The glorious fourth passed very quietly in ourown; a large crowd ot young peo pie celebrated the day by trip to Catawba Falls, where they had a most pleasant day, returniug in time for the ice cream festival. An ic: cream festival was held on Fri day evening last at the Whitley house by the ladies of'.he Presbyterian church with uiKrked success financially as well a3 so cially. The funds are to be used in pre paring ti.fir church tor the presence of KvungeliU Gales, who cornea some time in August. A troiracted rue; ting begins to-night in the Methodist church under the direction otthe tiabtor assisted by Rev. Z. Pa -is of Asheville. Miss Ida Watkins, of Black Mountain, made hearts glad last week by her pres ence in our town. That clever hustler (leo. E. bee, Agent for the Southern at Marion, was in town lastwei.iv. Many old friends here are al ways pleased to see (leorge. .Mr. Zeb Ct an ford is at home on a visit. Mr. Sain Blalock came home on Sunday morning early on a short visit and had the misfortune to find a drove of hogs totally destroying his fine gar Jen. They had got. ten in during the ni.'ht. Sidney. Old Fort, July 9, 15. lie Ohio Kiveraml Charleston ICailroad. The news reaches us t hat President amuel Hunt, of the Cinoinuatti, Ports mouth ami Virginia Company thinks that there are good prospects for the oinpletion of the Ohio liiver and Char leston liailroad. portion of it is already built, 171 miles from Camden to Marion, A. t -., twenty miles between Johnson City mil Cnaka Springs, Tenn., and eight md one-half miles between White House and Itiehardsun, Ky. The road is contemp'ated is about 30 miles ; long, more than 'jOo of which have been completed and are in working order. The amount of bonds to be issued has not been definitely determined up on, but the cost of the construction of the new road is not to exceed $15 000 per mile The company is earning its fixed charges, as well as paying its taxes. The money is to be expended on the completion of the road from Sumptcr, S. C, to the Virginia coal fields, which will give the company an excellent territory to draw upon 1 he new link will be const ructed across the Blue Hidge to a connection with the r.M.l iiln :ulv in operation in Tennes see. When t! -.I link is completed it will give a short out'et from the coal fields to a number ot important cities, as well as making connections with several large railroads. The Treasury deficit for the 3cal year just closed at approximately $43,250 OCO. This, added, to last year's deficit of near ly $70,000,000 makes the exces3 of expen ditures over receipts since June 30, 1893, about $113,2j0,00o. Bloomers have struck Charlotte. The Observer says two young lady bicylists don bloomers nightly and ride with their gentlemen friends. In Colorado recently members of the Salvat ion Army were arrested, and a wo man was put injul thiity days for ho'.d in; an open air meennir. The Denver Times justly say s: -Capt. Cox's imprisoi. ment is an act that is a disgrace to Colo rado Springs and the wuole State Her sentence i3 an insult to the cause ot Chris tianity and a piece ot persecution that men and womtn ot all classes vill bitterly resent. In the name of right and justice lier release is dtmandei, while Ccloradoans blush to know that the shameful fact of the thirty days' sentence has been tele graphed abroad. According .o the religiou3 census report just. Issued the toUl communicants of all denominations is 21612,800, who belong to 105.177 organizations of congregation These congregations have 1 4?,"i21 edifice? which have sittings fcr 43,rG4,863 persons 1 he value of all church property used ex clusively for purposes of worship is Jf'OTll, C30.133. There are 154,030 regulat min isters, not Including lay preachers. There are five bodies which have more than one million of communicants, aud ten more than live hundred thousand. The leading denominations have communicants in round numbers a3 follows: Catholic, C, 250,000; Methodic, 4,000,000,; Baptist, 3,725,000; Presbyterian, 1,280,392; Luth eran. 1,230,000; Piotcstant Episcopal, C 10 000. Parties w anting elegant bouquets at any season, mad to order, any kind of flowers for in and out door, any kind of vegetable plants, spring bedding or bulbous plants, at the lewest price, can get ttem by writing to Ernest J. Busb, Morganton. X.C" Old papers for sale at the Iiecord office. To the PrBMc. Incompliance witt the laws of Xorth Carolina the Boan oi iieaun or tlie town of Marion here by warns all residents a im gentleman in Goose Creole township lias started a novel en- J keep the same free from filth. Perwns "The Criminal Docket." Mrs. P. I). Ii. Arrington informs a waiting public that her paner, "The Criminal Docket." which has i suspended publication since last t 1 1 -M . . 1 CI.. year, win re-appear Aioiuiiiy. one says she wilf let in the light cn the last Legislature and show the public how the wheels went round in that notorious body. ''It will be redhot," she is quoted as Bay ins. News-Observer. $,,OO0 tor Mvaiui Lands. State Superintendent Scarborough yesterday received a check for $a,0(X from Cassius W. Carrier, of Carrier, Jefferson county. Pa., to pay for swamp lands in the Angola Bay section of Duplin and Pender counties, just sold to him by the State Board of Educa tion. There have been surveyed 4,I2U.9 acres of this lot. the remainder being paid for in advance. These lands net the State fifty cents an acre. A Cheerful View. The follcwiug story is told by a corres pondent who has recently returned from a tr-p to ihe far West of the United States Two men who had been fitting together in the seat near the door of a railway car became engaged in an animated contro versy, and their loud voices attrae'ed the attention of all the other passengers. Suddenly one ot the n rose and said: 1 Ladies and gentle.nen, I appeal to you to decide a disputed point. My friend here insists that not more than three persons out of five believe they have souls. I take a mere cheerful view of humanity than th.it. V. nl all ot you who believe you have sou's raise your right hands?" Every ha:. J in the car went up. 'Thank you," he said, with ft smile. Keep them up just a moment. Now, will all of you who believe in a heieafter please raise your left hind also?"' Every baud in the car went up. Thank you again," he said. ''Now, while all of you have your hards raised," he continued, drawing a pair of revolvers and leveling ihem, -my friend here will go dow n ihc airle and relieve you of whatever valuables you may happen to have. Lively now, Jim." terprise. He has established a turtle farm and will raise those amphibious animals for market, says the Monroe Encpuirer. In a letter to the Winston Re publican Capt. A. I). Cowles. of Statesville, insists that the tariff will le the issue next ear and he urges Republicans not to be tide tracked by the financial discission. Tlie Morganton Herald says the State Hospital lias purchased from Major llson 51 acres of meadow i land paving therefor about $o,000. The land will be improve! and used as part of the Hospital farm. A great rain storm swept through portions of Kansas', Mississippi, Missouri and North Dakota last week, doing much damage to life and property. At some ph o s the water was the highest known in thirty years. A Populist School Committee in Jo nston county employed an auc tioneer to Jet out the public school to the lowest bidder. It was knock ed off at about $12 a month, says a correspondent of the Smithfield Herald. The journals of the Senate show- that Judge Ewart only received 22 votes in the Senate, whereas 2G for nied a quorum, and that number was necessary for election. The election of Judge of the Criminal Court was not by joint ballot. Judge Starbuck decided in the Ellington-Stanford case that where there was no quorum there was no ejection. Raleigh Press. In spite of the fact that the price ot gold is fixed hy the law of En-1 gland at $18.92 per ounce standard, and that prior to 1873 the price of liver was hxed by the law of the United States at $1.29 per ounce, the gold monemetallists continue to assert that the price of gold as well as of silver is determined by lie law of supply and demand. N. Y. Mercury, Dem. Thomas Crvsell tells us of an in teresting curiosity over on his plan tation. A negro tenant has a pun anout a weeK old or a little over that has three well developed eyes. Two of them are in their natural pasitions. The third eye is about half way between thf other two and is somewhat higher un the head. The pup is pert and doing well, find acts just like any other pup would. Wilkesboro Chroicle. While New York grown straw berries are now selling on the Northern markets at five cents a quart, Sampson blues bring' ten to twelve cents. There is really no flits on Sampson's huckleberry crop. It will bring about $100,000 of hard cash into the county from the North this year, and the beauty of it is that this is nearly all net profit. There is no expense in making the crop, says the Samp son Democrat. 10). 0 To reduce stock of Ladies Victoria "Watch of Marion tal Mionn r . - cUanuptbeirpremiswatonceand toliaAUa OHer tllCSC 00(18 fit. Hfllf H I, " Price. Don't let the opportunity pass. Call today, i SWINDELL, The Jeweler. ' refusing to heed this warning- mnsr suffer the full penalty of the law. I A. Cheek, Sup't of Health- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Comprises the I'nivernfj, he College, the Law and Medical Schools, aaJ the Summer School for Teachers. Tuit'on $00. 35 Teachers, 471 Students. Ad Iress PRESIDENT WINSTON, Chapel Hill, N. C, for Catalogue and hand bock cn 4L'ni verrity Education." ILL! XKK Y -L'-M IAA XKKY Miss Hollic D. Kin? . Fashionable Milliner, Keeps the very Latest Styles in Millinery goods. Store on Main street, next door to Ixmon Brothers. Conservatory of Music. THE BROCKMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, GKEKXSBOKO, X. C. Pianoforte, Voice Culture, Violin and Art. A specialist in each department, Training School for Teachers. Address CIIAS. Jt BROCKMAN, Manager. Free? FreeX Free! Everybody is invited to take a FREE looknt NICHOL'S BROTHERS' Large and new stock of General Merchandise. A Coat for 50 cents? Yes! Nichols Bro's have coats at all prices from 50 cents up, and new spring and Summer Clothing in the very latest styles. Also Dry Goods, Hats, and Notions, t And Groceries of all kinds, Flonr, gait Bacon, &c. Come to Nichols Brothers' for anything in tho above lines, and for Hardware, farming implements, wooden w illowarc, &c. They also pay highest xuaxket prices for oil kinds of Country produce. MIT tW Inl P' lit THIS SPACE BELOXGS TO HARDWARE DEALER- AGENT FOR PIEDMONT WAGONS, HILL BUGGIES. ROCK OP SEE IIIS NEW AD., NEXT WEEK. are all the talk. The Hotter it gets the the lower the prices. Keep coming to our Store. We will not be undersold. Some nevY Summer goods just in. Groceries! Groceries! Everything in the Grocery Line. McDowell County Ahead. The mining of nionazite, as we havf heretofore dated in our eolums, has aMitiui l.irsrt' nnmortions in Xorth ' arolina, with an increasing demand U hasijuite recently been demonstrated that South McDowell supplies the best ntoiKuite in commercial quantities in the world, it analizing in thoria from l to is prr cent., and in cerium from 1" to 42 per cent. We are also pleased to inform our readers that the newly discovered ele ment, argon and helium, are both found in this county principally in t-uxenite and samarskite. Thus far argon has no commercial importance; but helium of which the sun is prin l in.illv rniiui(Kiil is nhout beinsT used j i t I Known. In addition to the foregoing a scien tist has found in 10 square miles of McDowell county 130 different species f minerals, the largest ever found for t he area covered. Hurrah for McDowell ! he is ahead of them all in minerals and precious stones. For Sale An excellent second-hand Raleigh News and Observer Work is rapily progressing on the principal building of the B tptist Female University at the corner of Ivlenton and Blount streets. Even now enough of the general plan of the buildingcan bo seen to show that it will be a very large and handsojno structure. The public school edition of the Raleigh News and Observer reached our dsk Tuesday. It is a complete surcess. It gives a history of the progress of learning in North Caro lina both before and after the uar; also sketches of the lives of our great educators. Every person in terested in the great work of edu cation in North Carolina ought to have a copy of tho paper. It con tains twenty-four pages of inter esting matter." J. MaeXaughfon, a lumberman of Couveneur, X. Y-, is prospecting in McDowell and Mitchell this week. Col. Cutler, and daughter Miss Lula. father and sisterof Mrs. K. J. Justice, of Wilmington, are visiting Mrs. Jus tice in town. On account of the Baptist Young People's Fnion, Baltimore, Md., the Southern Railway will sell all rail one fare round trip tickets at rate off 14.40. Tickets on sale July 16th and 17th, limit returning August 5th. Leave Marion 5 15 p. in.. central time, arrive at Baltimore next morning $ OOeastern time. Prof. C.ruber has proved beyond any lonht that lrardenins: in McDowell will pay. He feeils between twenty-five and fifty persons a day, and supplies l.U f.ih!.. with vegetables from his own ! o-.ir.ieii: and still has vegetables to sell and srive away. For several weens ne 'roach to sun light of any substance m.n corn aild lou,atoes for the table next week. Negro immigrants; are wanted in ihe Free State of Congo, Central Africa, to cultivate tobacco. jj?"Whe'.i you see a cross (X) op posire your name it indicates tliat your time is oat or about to expire. K&new buggy in good repair for sale cheap , your subscription or your paper will be Appiy to J. 0. Liuney, Marion . v- discontinued. Something of a sensation was caused in ichita, Kan., a few day ago bv Mrs. Mary Lease appearing in a bicvele tuit cinsistingot a Sy rian costume, including large trous ers, buckled. In an interview she said she abominated bloomers and thought the Svrian costume the proper thing. Bicycle riding, she sivs. is the next tlung to naving wings. At Gray Gables, July 7th, Mrs Cleveland gave birth to a third ffirl. Old Giover evidently be lieves in a single girl standard, as well as a "single gold standard Mnnv mnvrs of the country are crowing and shouting over the ad vert of this child into the world mere than our patriotic ancestor would over the admission of a now state into tha Union. We think it a display of the most absurd and disgraceful nonsense. As for tb' Record , 1 1 ca n't m h w it is that G rover's baby is any l etter than any other baby. Don't you recon it kicks and" squalls just like other babies? The executive committee of the University trustees has decided to put in a $"7,000 electric light plant. NEW AND FRESH STOCK at prices lower than anywhere else in town. CAN NOT BE UNDERSOLD.' XEW STAXD. XEW STOCK. CALL AX D SEE BEFORE YOU BUY ELSE WHERE, A. B, Gilkey & Son. AT IE VERY "With our vast area and our so- called starving farmers" says the Secretary of Agriculture, "we do not raise enough eggs for ourselves. We import them by the millions, and the cackling of tens of thous ands of Canadian hens is heard daily over the eggs which they are laying for the United States. Eggs are beneath the notice of the aver age American farmer. His wife may, perhaps, get a bit of her pin monev out of the chickens, but that is alL" J. B. Bonner, cf Aurora, Beau fort county, writes the Raleigh News anid Observer that there is no truth in the statement that Mr. I have opened up this week a beautiful And Feed Stables, line of Summer Dress Goods. I buy for cash and sell for cash, therefore can make Handsomest vehicles Wst hor- y0U tllO cloSCSt possible pricCS! 3, most moderate charges. If J x A ses you want to take a pleasure trip or a business trip across the moun tains, down the valleys, around town or anywhere els.', with more comfort and ease than you ever took the same trip before, try one of A. B Gilkey & Son's. turnouts. NOTICE TO XOX-RESIDEXT. 3i in. Dimity Cloth, beau tiful Dress Good a 10c Arabian Cori 1 : j Sa 0c Fancy Henrietta 12c Fancy Duck -10c Scotch Lawns '". All Standard Prints Barker Mill Bleaching c Tennessee Jeans l&c. Xorth Carolina ) In the Superior Court McDowell Co. J Before the Clerk. Andrew Yount. Administrator with will annexed of Xoah Yount, dee'd, W. II. Williams and wife Harriett, An drew Elmore. Wiley Elmore, John Walter Hooker outraged or tried ! Moffitt and wife Margaret. William . , ,i, i:i4i r( Yount, Susannah Thomas, John Bled- ll,uulut'vl"i 14LliC 'soe and wife Mary. Midvette. .Joniier says the wnole I To Susannah Thomas non-resident r ;;. o nv,.,fo;n mlflAnt ,J a I defendant in tne anoveenuuea action. . V, j Greeting: You are hereby notified mole Hill anu ine gin s iatner now j antj required to appear berore the un r,,i, tl.at b.v 1.1,1 vvrr:...t is-1 designed at hi office in 3Iarios. N.C., " , I ,r , on Saturday the 10th day of August tsUeu lor j l'M'Ker. and answer or demur to the com- plaint fi ed in said cause for pale of real estate for aets therein described, The iupj ly of black walnut will loon be otherwise judgment will be taken exhusud.The demand U io-re.r.ng. against you for the relief demanded in ...... i said complaint. ?ei otitic ire . come ro.gu a-oi. Witne roy hanl ,Dd tliU 3rd and in twenty-are year t; wni -tang 0f juj lgyj. jj. Frice, $30 to S 40 apiece. j Clerk Suicrior Court. J. F. Dellinger. Craig Building. Lew:? yi avwx. I'bf-sidevt. L. P. McIxCI,Caiii. ASHEVILLE, X. V DKSIGXATF.D MATE JJKFOHITOXIY. CAPITAL $50 000 SURPLU5 $25,000 We have Siecial facilities for handling the business of Merchant and others in Western North Carolina. Jf you have no Bank accoun or think of 3 chang?, we will be glftd to have you comipondwith Ui,

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