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: 1 ' a : , . , .. ., ,t,,, s,.-, ... ... " : ' ' .' . - ' : ' : : yj-''t-r - a WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM: GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY. ' r ' , ' - ' ' - . ... - - - ; - v ',. - ' " - -' VdliHll HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, JUNE 21, 1883. NO. 22. ' 111 . ' ' ''I 11.11. . .,. .I.ll.l.ll ., I . ,, . , ,. ,, I. -I i. ..-i I ". I - i i . . - i - ' ' ' "l BLUE R1D6E ENTERPRISE, PUBLISHED 'lEVKBT 'THtTESDAY HOBNXNG AT HIGHLANDS, MACON CO , N. G, THE HIGHEST TOWN . EAST OP THE 'E0CKY-. MOUNTAINS. ' A. F. CLARK, Editor and Preprietor. TcrmSj Payable in Advance : - One Copy 1 fear, postpaid. ' f 1.50 " 8 mouths . 1.00 " 6 ' r - 75 8 " . 50 Ths Ewtebfbisb tells, all about the BLUE RIDGE COUNTRY OF NORTH CAROLINA, The Switzerland : of ; America ! tVf ; ,: .'1 fc - Its pure mountain air, cold springs, prand scenery, cool 'summi-rB,: mild winters ; . a paradise forthe health seeker ond tour ist : a land of rest for exhausted workers, and balm for invalids ; a garden for the florist and botanist ; the delight of the XINKRAIOOIST, HORTICULTURIST, DAIRYMAN, and BEE-KEEPER. Publisher's Announcements The Blub Bidgb Enterprise is sale at the Postoffice and Stores. on Local contributions solicited from every neighborhood of the Blue Ridgo country. Farm produce, at cash prices, taken for subscriptions to, the Blue Ridge Enter prise. All communications intended for pub lication should be received by Monday to insure publication. Information about mine?, timber, fruit, grain and other products of the country wanted by the Blue Ridge Enterprise. All communications intended for pub lication must be accompanied by the name of the writer to insure publication. The name of the writer will be with-held from publication when so desired. Correspondence solicited trom every neighborhood. : Give us the news of your section, country friends. Any items of iuUrest will be gladly received. Afevr lines on a postal will often contain matter tbat will interest thousands of readers. The Blue-Ridge Eutorprise has an ex tensive circulation being sent to subscri bers in nearly every State in the Union ; also in the British Provinces and Eugand. For this ieason business men of every de scription will find it a valuable medium of advertising. Sample Copies of the Blue Ridge En TERPRSE will be sent free to any person. Any oie iuteniiiiig to get up a club or canvass for subscriptions can have sam ple copies 'sent to the persons they desire t- interview, by sending the Dames to this mce. Any person sending us a club of 5 subscribers at a dollar and a half eac i will be entitled to a free cupy of the paper for one year. We want an active and pushing man .or woinau to act as agent in canvassing fr subscriptions and advertising for the Blue ridge. Enterprise, in every neigh borhood Ja Western North Carolina. We especially desire to procure a perma nent agent in every Court House town. Those willing to take such agencies will please forward their address, with refer ence, and we will state terms, etc., on whi h we are willing to engage their ser vices. ': . S. GEO. A. JONES. RALPH W. SILER. JONES & SILER, Attorneys at Law, Franls 11n, 3ST. O. Special attention given to the collec tion of claims', investigating titles to real estate, conveyancing, etc. 5tf Millinery Goods. The readers of the Enterprise will find a full line of Millinery Goods of all the Latest Styles & Fashions. ALSO A FULL LINE OF Choice . Confectionery, wholesale: and retail, at- Mrs. M. M. K1NAKD, 9-5 aa Walhalla. S. C. Just the Paper the People Want.! ' ISDi OLDHAM'S WESTERN SENTINEL ! (Established 1852.) Snould be Read at Every Fireside in West era North Carolina, Full of News, Fun, General Information and 'Somthiog to Interest Everybody. Send 50 Cents and Try It Three Months ! WiJNSTUN, N, C. Franklin House, Good Sample Rooms .Fob .DRcmntits. Table always supplied with the best th martet auroras. - ALSO' ': . LiierV and Sale Stable. Horses and Mules constantly on hand for saie or nire. ; D. C. CUNNINGHAM, Proprietor, 126m FjftAiLiu,N. CSri-i-. MILLIONS IN MINERALS. What ISortli Carolina Will Snow at the Bos ton Fair. - A Good Representation of the State's In dustries. The Soil and Mine Products of the North State. (Continued from last week.) The finest and largest sheets of mica known to commerce come from this state. It is stated that most of the mica used or shipped from the United States comes from North Carolina . Some 40 or 50 places are now worked. Two extensive quar ries of excellent millstone are now worked in Moon county. One of them is operated on a large scale by the Taylor Manufacturing Company of Chambersburg, Pa. The other is known as the Thagai d quarry and is worked by the owner. The quality of these stones is said to be unsur passed for grinding corn. Thous ands are sold each year, all over the United States . In Cherokee, Macon, McDowell, Stokes and Swain coun ties marble of every conceivable col or and shade is found. Also the mottled, clouded striped and plaid variety in infiuite variety. The quality is first-class, and all take the highest polish. Specimens of all the shades will be shown at Boston. Building stones, including both gran ite and sandstone, exist almost every where in the 6tate. Of the former there is every variety, and many kinds take a fine polish. . The sand stoue i3 found plentifully in Anson, Chatham, Durham and Moore. Most of it is of a beautiful reddish brown, commonly known as brown- stone. The white, compact variety of baryta is found plentifully in Or ange, Gaston, Union and M ulieon counties. It has been niiued to some extent in Gaston, and mills for grinding it are now being erected near Warm Springs, Madison county. Corundum is found in half a dozen counties, and has been extensively mined in Macon and Clay counties. It is probably more plentiful in the western part of North Carolina than anywhere else in the United States . Garnets are mined by a northern firm in Burke county as a substitute for corundum. This is the rough garnet and varies in size from a pea to a barrel. Ten varieties of precious stones have been found in the state diamond, beryl, zircon, garnet, agate, opal, hiddenite, emerald, ruby and sapphire Of diamonds, seven have been found two in Burke, one in Rutherford, one in Lincoln, two in Mecklenburg and one in Franklin county. These were all found acci dentally while washing gravel for gold. No systematic search was made for them. The hiddenite was discovered by Mr. William E Hid den, in Alexander county, and is of a beautiful transparent green color. In general appearance this gem CAN HARDLY BE DISTINGUISHED from the emerald, but it sufficiently different to constitute a new species and another name, which is given to it in honor of the discover. Mi Hidden keeps a force of men at work in the mine, with a capital pf $200, 000, and cannot supply one-fourth of the demand for them. This is said to be the only strictly American gem, and is already recognized as "a gem of the highest rank." It is found nowhere else on earth but in Alex ander county. Mads are very abund ant and widely distributed through put the eastern section, in about 25 counties They are of several kinds, more or less valuable as fertilizers, according- to their constituents . The variety known as shell marl or blue mail is considered the most valuable. and is extensively used in localities where it is found. It contains from 20 to 88 per cent, of carbonate of lime, . with a small per cent, of phosphoric acid. A liberal application of this has been always followed by the most gratifying results ig. the increased yield of crop?. It has ; been; repeatedly . stated that "(he mineral wealth of that Bection, in the form of marl, is worth tenfold more than that of all the rest of the state beside." The lack of abundant' and cheap means of transportation : has operated . ag inst the shipment bf marl to other sections, and has confined ita use to the immediate vicinity of the beds. : A very low rate of freight is essential, otherwise the more concentrated forms of fertilizers pay best. When the marl takes the form of shell rock, or shell limestone, it is profitably made into lime by burning. Mr. G. L. French, near Wilmington, makes a good builders' lime from the shell rock. It is also much used as a building stone. Phosphate rock has recently been discov ered on the Cape Fear river, about I0 miles above Wilmington, on the lands of Dr. T. D. Hogg, G. L. French and others. Analyses of these have been made, showing it to be the true phosphate rock, having considerable quantities of those valuable ingredients which make the phosphates of South Carolina so mach sought after. Though only found in a limited area, as yet, the indications seem to promise larger and better deposits in the same viciuity. To this end active investigations are now being made. Sev--ral experienced geologists are now mak ing search for other deposits. Silk cult ure is successfully and PROFITABLY CARRIED ON in perhaps a dozen places in North Caro lina. The abundance of the mulberry and its rapid growth makes this industry pertain of success. The nature of the business is such as to require but little capital, and gives work to those not capable of more active or laborious em ployment. At the state museum may be seen a fine exhibit of cocoons and reeled Bilk from six counties, all collected at short notice and shown at the Atlanta ex position, where it was unsurpassed. Much interest is manifested in silk culture in different parts of the state and the indus try is largely on the increase. For the use of parties likely to be interested in silk culture, the department of agriculture has published a complete bulletin on the subject, whish is sent free to all who de sire it. About 10 miles below Newbern is a factory, employing 25 hands, engaged in preparing the leaf of the pine for vari ous industrial uses and in the manufacture of an oil known as pineoleum. After extracting the oil, the leaf is curled or crimped for stufiiDg mattresses, cushions, . etc., or is made into a fibre for paper mills. The oil is used tor preservative and medicinal purposes. TLis is a new industry, and peculiar to this state. Ex periments in the cultivation of jute have been made in several eastern counties with greet success. Plants 10 ft et high are on exhibiiion at the mnsoum, and also the fibre made from jute. It is extensivc- y used for ropes, cordage, twine, bagging f many sorts, carpeting, etc. That it can be profitably grown here has been ully demonstrated. From Granville county to the extreme western part of she state tobacco, both of the dark and bright varieties, is grown largely. Indeed, it is the money crop of the greater part of this territory. The cultivation of the bright golden leaf, which at first was confined to a few counties, has now spread to every section wheie the weed is grown. This variety is much sought 'after by manufacturers, and brings a much higher price than the darker grades From 40 to 75 cents per pound is not an unusual price to be paid ior it in large lots. The peculiar color is due both to the foil and the process of curing. Some soils produce a plant that is too coarse and heavy to make the bright colored article, and some varieties of tobacco are not adapted to the process used in curing the yellow leaf. Of tobacco factories the census of 18S0 reports 206 (including 21 cigar factories) in North Carolina. Almost every kind of fruit and berry that is cultivated for mar ket grows here in the greatest perfection. EARLY PEACHES AND GRAPES do exceedingly well in the eastern and middle sections. Many of the best grapes gro w wild along the coast and in counties farther inland. Four varieties , the scud pernong, catawba, Lincoln and Isabella, are native to the state. Of these the Scup pernong is the most cultivated. There are a number of vineyards where wine is made in large quantities and of superior quality. O-e, in Halifax county (C. W Garrett & Co's) makes, in a good season, 175,000 gallons of wine, beside vinegar and brandy. Another, CoL Wharton's Green, near Fayetteville, is almost as large. Wines from these makers may be fouAd on sale in every considerable town in the Union. In the middle section, much fruit, both in the green and dry state, is shipped North and abroad. Mills for pressing cotton seed oil and the man ufacture of oil cake are beginning to be introduced. Some bix or eight are al ready in operation, and more are projected The abundance of material and water pow er makes the establishment of such mills an assured success. The census ot 1830 shows an increase of 16 cotton factories over 1870; an increase of $1,824,900 cap ital ; an increase of 1172 looms, and an increase of 52,488 spinples. The number of factories now in the state is 64, operat ing 2858 looms and 156,030,spindles. Of woolen mills and cording mills the census reports 49. The total number of ctton and woolen mills is 1 1 3. The many fish eries, great and small, which are scattered. along the coasts, sounds and rivers make this state one of the most important in that interest of the whole South. A few figures will suffice to bHow the extent the business : Persons emploved, 5274 7 boats and vessels, 2gl 4; total value of product, $827,615. Since 1877 the artifi cial propagation of fish has been carried on by the state department of agriculture, nuder the supervision of Mr. S. G. Worth, commissioner of fish and fisheries. The fallowing are a few figures of the plant ing of fish in our waters since 1877 : Shad fry, 20,000,000 ; , Californian salmon, 748,000. German carp have been fur nished to 1089 jpounds, and there are now millions of these fish in the state. They grow rapidly, are hardy and prove to be a desirable food fish. Considerable ' areas in the eastern section are now devoted to rice culture, with gratifying results Mills for cleaning and hulling rice are es tablished in' Newtown, Goldsbow, Wil mington and Washington, their daily ca pacity peing 2500 bushels. During last year Newtown shipped 100,000 bushels. In some localities rice takes the place of cotton as a staple crop. It is now main ly cultivated on uplands, the water sys tems of cultivation being abandoned in many places. The npland system was the one originally in use, until displaced by the Indian, or irrigation, system. The area planted in rice increases not less than 25 per cent per annum. Boston Herald. RELIGIOUS. How to build a Church. THE PASTOR AMONG THE YOUTH. He who builds tho Church of Christ must save the children. If we save the children we save the world. The world is moBt easily and effectively saved in childhood. The best Christian workers are largely taken and consegrated to lives of benevolence and sacr.'fice and service from circles of Christian youth. There is no escape from these truths. The charm and beauty of Eden still cling to the children, yet they posses a sinful nature, and must have a new heart from above. Selfishness and disobedience and anger stain tne sparkling tountain ot youth, except the Spirit of God renew and redeem tbtir lives. No human training can take the place of this. It is the new life in Christ which makes the culture availing and successful. Though God has gladdened the earth with little chil dren, Jf we would be spared the pain of seeing them droop iu the blossom, their feet in -st surely be directed to Christ and never misled. The beginnings .of the di J vine life must be put iu their vacant hearts b fore the world gets in. Many are the ways iu which tho pastor may teach and guide the children. Ha will first secure them through the home. His own example and U aching will, un der God, make each household a joyous iving Church of Christ. There will be j daily family worship at the altar, bright with psalm and song. Obedience will be cheerful and prompt, kindness and for bearance the atmosphere. The spirit of; Christ will abide in father and mother, leading all hearts into loving uuity. Good will and helpfulness one to the other will abound, and every duty will be taught and remembered in its time, lleverence for God and his word and day and house, faith m Christ, regard for the truth, love ot right doing, sorrow for sin, true manli ness, desire for usefulness, s lf-sacrifice for others, and every excellence desirable in the Christian, will be planted in the child. The pastor, thus, by seeking to make a true Christian home will secure the conditions of a successful start in the Christian life among the children. They will bear the marks of the home through life. The pastor will reach the children through the Bible school ; that is not the children's Church, but it is the Church and pastor mingling with the children, and laying out all their experience and wisdom and spiritual power on them for thir instruction in right ousne&. The pastor is alwavs iu the Bible school. He thus brings the adults and youth together, retaining the older scholars in the scho j1, and all bound together by mutual interest. That great and widening gulf between adults and children, so harmful to each, is in this way prevented. The Bible school places an acting-pastor in the per son of the teacher over each circle of youth. It affords a work, to do which blesses hoih teacher and pupil. It keeps the heart warm in service, and prepares the whole Church for usefulness. It saves any gap occurring in the services of the Church. The young worship with the parents, the adults study God's word with the young, and all grow up together, ho mogeueous. The Sabbath School be comes a constant feeder of the Church ; the Church becomes a gaiden enclosed about the children. Is not this God's order ? The pastor will save the youth through the pulpit. They must be made to feel that they have a place in the servive nd a pari in the worship ; that their presence is d sirable and their absence regretted. An entire sermon to the young is good now and thei . So is a five minutes' talk, if it be fit and good, for adults also. The pastor will gather the young on certain stated occasions for doctrinal in struction, laying down tho great land marks of Chriitian truth, seeing that the youth of his charge are established firmly and intelligently on the Sock of -Ages, and duly warned against the pitfalls and dangers of this present evil world. . Tho pastor will wish to have yonng people's meetings and gatherings for Christian endeavor where workers may be trained for special Hats of usefulness, the study of missions, the practice of benevo lent giving, and the art of gathering in the wanderers. . He will give them printed matter to , read on points guiding them to happiness and usefulness. He will enlist every young person's service in some fit way, where a responsibility will develop the character by sound and health ful growth. His motto will be, "A work for every boy, and a boy for every work.," Among the objects the pastor will keep uppermost is the search- among the young (or thosowho shall become missionaries and ministers and teachers and devoted workers in the Church of God. To this end he will labor and pray diligently, never content till bJa Church is in that state of spiritual life that shall be con stantly yielding young men for the college and the ministry, and daughters for the seminary, and minute-men for all the di versities of service called for by the Church . A Church bearing such fruit is happy and blessed above all the house holds of faith. Beginning with the young, every pastor may do this, and end the famine in the ranks of the ministry. There is great advantage here through personal intercourse with the young as Providence opens the way. The Timo thies, who have known the Scriptures from a child, and been taught the faith at the mother's knee, may, in a sacred hour of personal communion with the pastor, decide to preach the glorious gospel at home, or to bear the cross over strange seas to the dark places of the earth. Dr. Goodell, in Advance. Peace and "War. Tho members of the Fifth Virginia Regiment lately attended the reunion of the Twenty-eighth New York, at Niag ara, N. Y., and the two comminds en joyed themselves. The circumstances which led to the in vitation issued by the Twenty-eighth to the Fifth Virginia, which was promtly accepted, were that at the battle of Cedar Mountain, while bus-i!y engaged in driv ing back a Confederate regiment, the Twenty eighth was tuddenly overwhelmed by the Fifth- Virginia, which swept in upon the flank of the unprepared Federals killing their commander, Col. Dudley Donnelly, the Adjutant Charles P. Sprout and a large number of the men. Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, latoly Governor of the Soldiers' home at Dayton, lost an arm. The Colors of the Twenty-eighth were captured, and a large number of officers and men were made prisoners and taken to Libby Prison. The colors were never heard of .afterward, until Col. Brown, to his astonishment, recognized the old flag in one of the rooms of the War Depart ment in Washington in 1881, where they bad been since 1865, having been brought with other trophies at the close of the war from Richmond, where they were found in the archives of the Confederate War Department. Secretary Lincoln promtly honored the requis ion of Col. Brown for the old battle flag, which was presented to the survivors of the regiment at its reunion at Lockport, N. Y., last year, and formerly presented by former captors at Niagara, N. Y. This was the first time in the history of the world th;t a regiment has presented to another in time of peace the fl.tg captured from it in time f war. Yesterday the Continental Guards of New Orleans arrived in Boston, and were welcomed there by the local militia and tho Mayor. This visit is one of many of the sort that have lately taken place in Flliiul ivr a Trra new rich blood, And will completely change the blood in the entire system In three month. Any petw son who will take 1 Fill each night from 1 to IS weeks, may be restored to aerad health, If such, a thing be possible. For caring Female Complaints these Fills have no equal. Physicians use them in their practice. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail for eight letter-stamps. Send for circular. I. S. JOHNSON A CO., BOSTON, MASS. n fj a f ' I tf II H JOHNSON'S ANODYNE LINIMENT -ffiLJWTSa Neuralgia, Influenza, Sore Lungs, Bleed! np at the Lungs, Chronic Hoaneaew, Hacking Coaah, Whooping Cough, Chronic Rheumatism, Chronic Diarrhoea, Chronie Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, Kidney Trouble, DLseaset of tM spine ana Lams itaec bom everywhere, oena ior An Enelish Veterinary Sorseon and Chemist. now traveline In this eountrv. savs that most I ' of the Horse and Cattle Powders sold here I are worthless trash. He says that Sheridan's I Condition Powders axe absolutely strre and Immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will make hens lay like Sheridan's Condition Powders. Deee.1 teasp'n ful to 1 pint fwod. Sold everywhere, or sent by moil for 8 letter-etampe. I. S. Joaoaox df Co Boeroa, aiaJO Everybpdy Will Want The 33T Live StpckMonthly TWENTY-FOUR LARGE QUARTO PAGES. A COZEN ELEGANT ILLUSTRATIONS. THE FINEST MAGAZINE PUBLISHED. ELEGANT POSTER SENT FREEr Horses. Catt'e, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Pigeons, Dogs, etc., all find a snltaMs department in its weli-fithed pages. Futy leading articles by the Best Cohtribtjtobs ttr AmatCA. Tne only Magazine devoted to Live Stock interests that u positively NON PART WAN. Ita editorial pages are not lor sale. Send 15 cents for a sample number, or $1 60 tor a yearly MibfCiipsiOD. Ynu wil find it ortb. the money, aa toe BEST is always the CHEAPEST. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Address, Lire Stock Publishing Co, Portland.' Me token of the friendly relations now sub sisting among these who twenty years ago were at war; for though the younger members of these military organizations have come to manhood since the close of the great contest, they yet contain a large leaven of veteran soldiers. A project ef more magnitude is the proposed reunion of the survivors of Shiloh, next May, at Nashville. Such a gathering of the wear ers of the blue and the gray might have a value for the historian,, since points of doubt and dispute could perhaps be clear ed nd in talking over the incidents of that famous pattle, the bloodiest op to thai ever fought on this continent. The Borrower. An exchange gives some valuable hint in the following : One of the most aggra vating misfortunes which ean befall the prompt enterprising farmer, is to live in the vicinity of one or more neighbors who continually borrow his farming tools and forget or neglect to return them. We hope there aro not any of that kind among our readers, who either lend to suffer or that borrow to ruffle the good nature of a host who undoubtedly would count it a pleasure to lend if he knew the favor would be reciprocated to an extent that the tools would not only be well used, but returnen at a proper time afterwards. The farmer who expects to thrive by do ing his work with borrowed tools, had better give up farming, hire out and make a new start. A Jack XliatKllled a Grizzly. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. A fight is on record in the courts at Pesoadero between a jack weighing 750 pounds and a grizzly bear same weight. The jack is owned by a man named Ipse, and is a vicious brute. A man named Black, a raiser of blooded cattle in that neighborhood, has been troubled for sev eral weeks by the visits of a grizzly, which killed and carried off a calf, and all his efforts to capture the bear had been unavailing. Finally he advertised in sev eral papers of the State, offering $50 to any person who would kill the bear. Ip se read the offer, and resolved to take his jack to the corral and see what the results would be. Accordingly the Jack was duly installed. In the night along came the giizxly, and, seeing the jack and fancying a change of diet, he made an attack upon him ; but as no one saw the fight it is on ly supposed that bruin made the first over ture. Anyway, next morning when the corral was visited, bruin lay stark and the jack quietly feeding off the pile of hay. An inspection of him disclosed the fact that his breast and sides were fearfully lacer ated by the bear's claws, and one of his fore feet was dislocated. But bruin was "all broke up." He had his lower jaw smashed to peices; all his ribs on the port side were stove in, and one of his fore legs was fractured at the shoulder. He was generally smashed all over. Ipse natu rally claimed the reward of $50, but Black refused to pay it, claiming that the jack was not a person and therefore not en titled to the reward. All Ipse's arguments failing, he resdved to have recourse to law, and, accordingly, suit has been brought. A young lady who real that it is lucky to pick up a horse shoe, happened in a blacksmith shop the other day, and pick ed up one just made. The surprising suddenndss and piercing shriek with which she dropped it showed that it was more than simply lucky. The early swimmer ca'ches the cramps. CROUP, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS. JOHNSON'S ANODYNE LINIMENT wUl IniUn- taneously relieve these temoie oueuei, ana wui ponaveiy cure nine case out or ten. u many lives sent free fcr naJL Prevention la better than cure. Information that will car Don't delay a moment. pampaiet 10 1. o. uiuatn m v, ouarvn. n 1 I.1ME IBIS LAV T: - ..j .s
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