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8 , ntjdL. ilia Ridge Em EMPRISE. j ii . i , i .... ' ' . ' i.i. -" i i I r . I in. , .IT- I .... J A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM; GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY . ' VOL.1. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, AUG. 30, 1883. , NO. 32. 1 : : i "- j . . - , , - .. . . '' I V The Edit or s Table. BY WILL M. CARLTON. The editor sat in his sanctum, counte nance furrowed with care ; His mind at tbe bottom of business, his feet - at the top of a cbair ; His chair-arm an elbow 'supporting, bis right band, upholding his bead; His eyes on bis dusty old table, with differ ent documents spread: . ' There were thirty long pages from Howler, with underlined capitals topped, And a short requisition trow Growler, re questing bis newspaper stopped ; There were lyrics from GusWrj 'the poet, concerning sweet flowrets and zephyrs, And a stray gem from Plodder, the farmer, describing a couple of heifers; There were billets from beautiful maidens, and'bfUs from a grocer or two; And his best leader hitched to a letter, which inquired if be wrote it, or who? There were raptures of praises from writers cf the smooth and mellifluous school, And one of his rival's last papers, informing him he was a fool; -There were several long resolutions, with names telling who they were by, Canonizing some harmless old brother who . had done nothing worse than to die: There were traps on that table to catch him, - and serpents to sting and smite him; There were gift enterprises to sell bim, and ; biters tempting to bite him; There werB long staring "ads" from tbe city, and money with never a 6re, Which added, ''Please give this insertion, and send in your bill when you're done." There were letters from organizations--their meetingstheir wants, and their laws Which said, "Can you print this announce ment for the good of our glorious oausef- There were tickets inviting bis presence to . festivals, parties and shows, Wrapped in notes, with "Please give a no tice," demurely slipped io at tbe close la short, as his eye took the table, and ran o'er its ink-spattered trash, . There was nothing it did not encounter; exctpfiog, perbapE it was cash. .."Where Are You Yotingr Mais? Coins', , Where are you goirg s fas', 0un3 man? Where an? you g"iug so fas ? With the enp iu iur haid and a flush 00 your I tow, Ttough pleasure aod mirth may accompany you now, It tells t sorrow to come by and b ; Ic tells of a. pig tuat i salni with a sigh; It tf IN of a sham at ls young man, A withering sharue that ill lasc. Where ere you going so fast, young man? Wbtre are ou guin eo fast? In tie flush; ojf tbat wiiie tbure U only a bit; A curse lieiTbfne&rh that you'll tiua when to late ; A serteat tleef s down in the depths of tbat ; cupr- A monster is thw- that will swallow you up, A sorrow you'll find at last young man ia win there is a sorrow at ast. Ta'ere's reckoning day to come, youug nian, A reck'miog day to some; A lire yet to live, and a death yt to dip, A sad, pttrtiDg tear, and a sai, partingsigb ; A fouruey to tke, and a famisbiog heart, A sharp pang to feel from dtath's chilliiig :.dart, A curse if you drink that rum, young man, The bitterest curse in that rum. ; Oiir Saratoga Ietter. HlOM UR BBGULAB CORRESPONDENT. Satftta pringsN. Y., Aug. 27, '83. Hdr :Btiie RicUje Enters rise : ' TiiQ.tjaggage porter at the Union, whC lias': been connected with the Saratoga hotels (most of the time withthat..tne), for . fifty ; years, says that enerallyjare ;not tbjinging , as manyi trunks as usttal with them this year A hey ; average at , most, lour apiece, where a few years ago they often -brought eight. The prevailing fashion for wearing short dresses partially accounts for the lessening of the amount of baggage. The above mentioned baggage porter remembers when only one trunk, and that not a large one, sufficed to contain a lady's outfit. There is one New York lady at the United States Hotel, however, who has the reputation of bringing three hundred dresses here with her and six - maids to take care of them. She. wears three different dresses per day, and never while here is 6een to wear the same one twice. Her dia monds' are numerous and gorgeous. a,nd she keeps a lady who is in re- dueed circumstances constantly em ployed embroidering her clothing, including stockings as well as dresses and parcels. A Philadelphian who seems to be very well informed of such matters tells me that ladies wear garters embroidered to match their stockings ; that he sees them as they get into or out of their carriages. Also, he affirms that it is a fashion with some ladies to wear their stock ings of contrasting colors, one pair being blue and the other yellow, or one red and the other black. Oppor tunities for such observations are not wanting, for I saw a young woman on the front bolcony of one of the largest hotels at mid day, when the porch, as well as the street below, was crowded with people, sitting with her-chair tilted bach against the wall and her feet on the upper rounds of the chair in front of her . The crowds" at the .many, hotels for which Saratoga Springs is rioted, in crease . daily. The race-course is thronged, balls and hops are of night ly occurrance, the usual display in dress and diamonds is everywhere observable, and betting, gambling, and indeed every-phase and variety of fast liyingis the leading feature of the place. ' As' for society people, if under that bead 'are tobe classed the refined, the educatedj 'and thegentle mannered, they may or may not be here. If they are, they are com pletely lost in the vortex of fast and furious living, and fail to exert any influence upon the place or people who fill it. Even the young children at Saratoga are drawn into the whirl pool of dissipation, and dance and dress and flirt to an extent that prom ises badly for their own future and for that of their parents and country. Children's hops, children's germans, children's fancy balls, and garden parties' are a regular feature of the season both at Saratoga and Long Branch, and Newport is now the only watering place from whence details of children's gayeties and dissipations do not come . The folly and wick edness of these unnatural displays is abundantly evident in the whole af ter career and development of these unfortunate little ones. At ten years of age the little girl of the day is an insipieut coquette, at fourteen she is a finished woman of the world, and, as some one aptly remarked, ''knows as much as her mother, and enjoys her knowledge a great deal more." And this false and hurtful training dots not belong to Newport or New York, or to any other city or section of our country, but is most largely to be noticed at cosmopolitan assem blagts like Saratoga, where, East, West, North and South are all repre sented. What the result will event ually be is a grave and serious ques tion. At present it might draw tears from the hardest worldling to see the wholesale destruction of nature's most bgautiful work, which is going on. Newport is still a little behindhand in spite of dinners and luncheons ev ery day in the week, casino hops, po lo, yachting parties, and a great deal of morning visiting, which last every body declares to be a bore, but every body is careful not to neglect it, lest they all be neglected when cards for dinners and dances are sent out. Mr. Wm. R. Travers, probbly the pleas antest and most popular rich man that ever lived, celebrated his birth day by a dinner and clam-bake on Monday last His old friends, Sena tor Bayard and Governor Doasheimer, were among the many who heartily and without mental reservation wished him a long and uninterrupted prosperity. .Preparations, are all ready in progress for the dramatic representations to take place at the end of August. ' AUGUST. The Advantage. "You. have tbe advantage of me," said the caslier, blandly. "You will, have to get some one to identify you." "Identify me? Why, I am your son, just back from college for the summer vacation." "May be, may be," answered the cash ier, "but my son did not look like a fool, wear a cockney bat, monkfy tail coat, skin-tight breeches, tooth-pick shoes, nor did be sack cane handles. When my wife returns from Europe, in September, you miht present your claims to her, and if she decides that you are our offspring I shall be happy to bid you an affectionate good-by on your return to college. In the meantime I would suggest that you earn your living hiring yourself out for a tailor sign. Good-day, sir." Philadel phia News. The First Victim. "Didn't you say you never knew that dog to bite?" cried -the lightning rod agent as he climbed up a maple tree and left a large section of ihe west end of his pantaloons in the dog's mouth. "Yes, I did," said the farmer, "and I told the truth. You are the first man I ever saw that dog bite. You see, I bought bim conditionally. The man I got him of guaranteed him. If he bit the first lightning rod agent that came fooling around the premises, I was to pay $$ for him, and if he didn't, I was to send bim back. I am satisfied with him : I would not sell hitm now for $15. Wait till he comes down, Towner." Middletown transcript. It is said that Dr. O. W. Holmes had the same pair of razors for fifty years. This statement, if true, proves two things : Mrs. Holmes is exempt from corns, and she has an oyster knife in the house. An Americanized Cliinaman . Philadelphia, Pa- Aug. 16.-Frank Waynne, aa Americanised Chinaman, formally declared his intention in the .offi ce of the Prothonotary of the Common Pleas Courts to day of becoming a ehizen of the United States. He was neatly dressed in tbe prevailing mode. Ilia eoaj was a fashionable Prince Albert and in the folds of his fine silk necktie a large diamond sparkled. He wore a high tilk hat and carried a slender cane. His cue had been cut off and his hair was permit ted to grow all over his head. II re tained one queer notion suggestive of the superstitions cf the Celestial land. He wore for good luck a bright penny stuck in the open space of his right ear. He gave his age as 27, and said that he had been in this country for 11 years, daring the greater part of which time he had liv ed in the West and made an excellent in come by acting as interpreter in the courts and in the transactions of business affairs, He now controls a laundry under the name of Chung Lee, on Ridge Avenue. He al so acts as interpreter here when required, and turns many an honest dollar by pro curing the services of lawyers for those of his countrymen who may require legal aid. He receives a commission from both the attorney and the client. He is said to be moderately rich and to own consider able real estate. He is not married, and swore on the Bible. He speaks English fluently and with hardly a trace of foreign accent. He reads easily and signed his name to tbe papers in an excellent round haud, ending with a long flourish. - The Cut Through Florida. The meeting of the Board of Directors of the Fli'riua Ship Canal and Transit Company adjourned yesterday after a set-siou of four days. Among those pres ent were the Hon John C. Brown, Presi dent , tbe Hon. G. C. Gorham, Secreta ry ; G"v. Cameron, Senator M ah one, Gen. Grover, and A. W.- Jones, of Vir giuia ; 1 ownsead Uox, Michael Jacobs, and S. T. Meyer, of New York, and Sen ator Mann and Charles II. Jones, of Floriila. A report of Chief Engineer Stone was adopted. In the course of his report Gen. Stone saye : -1 have computed tbat a tidewater ship canal of sufficient width and depth to al low the passage of two seagoing steamers f the first claps without inconvenience can be constructed at a total cost of $46, 000,000, as follows: Excavations, $36, 000,000 ; haabors at termini, $4,000,000 : engineering, right of way and contingen cies, $5,500,000. The total length of the canal would be 137 and 1 2 miles, and the highest elevation in crossing the wa ter-shed, 143 feet, but this deep cut would be only for a short distance. The saving of distance to steam ves sels between New York and New Orleans would be 500 miles ; New Orleans and Liverpool, 41 2 miles ; New York and Pensacola, 600 miles. The gain by avoid ing the dangerous passage through the Florida Straits would be very great, and not the least important commercial ad vantage of the proposed canal would come from the saving on insurance, which is now much heavier for Gulf ports than for South Atlantic ports, and in the ex pense, which on a large steamer is $500 to $800 a day. Gov. Brorn expressed the belief that parts of the work would be under contract in 90 days. N. T. Sun. Damage Done By Storms. Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 20. A ter rific rain-storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, visited the north-western portion of Ontario yesterday. At Listo well the water was 2 feet deep in the streets. Several bridges and buildings were carried away, and thedamageto prop ertywas generally very great. At Wingham the River Maitland rose 12 feet, and the railway bridge and track was washed away, and the country roads covered with 4 feet of water. A large quantity of standing grain was destroyed. Monticello, N. Y., Aug. 20. A dis astrous rain-storm, accompanied by re markably severe lightning, passed over Sullivan county , on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. At White Lake two barns were strnck by lightning and consumed, on Saturday afternoon, with their con tents. At Duch Pond, the barn of Floyd Pelton was strnck by lightning the same afternoon and burned. The barn was filled with recently gathered hay and oats, and everything was lost. Tbe two large farm barns on the Hiram Tower place, two miles from Monticello, were struck by lightning on Sunday afternoon. The rain was falling heavily at the time, and, although the buildings were &red, it was thought they would be tared. But when tbe storm passed over the flames burst out anew and accomplished the work of destruction; A great quantity of hay and oats and other valuables were burned. The fall of water in the two storms was very heavy, although the storms were brief. As a consequence much damage has been done to highways and fields, in which laage gullies have been washed. Expulsion of Jews from St. Petersburg:. London, England, Ang. 22. The f71uMe correspondent at St. Petersburg, in his dispatch referring to the expulsion from St. Peterscurg of an American Jew in accordance with the law forbidding Jews to five in that city, says it is not likely rthat the Russian officials nave been over strict in such cases, in view of the repeat ed protests by the British and American Governments in regard to the treatment of the Jews. The Jew who was expelled declined to ask the Prefect as a favor to allow him to remain until he had transact ed his business, as he could not demand such treatment as a right. The corre spondent adds that the Jewish difficulty s more of an economical than a religious one, there is little prospect of the removal of the prohibition against Jews living in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The thou sands of Jews.who do live in both places either belong to the privileged class or evade compliance with the law. Killed by Lightning. Athens, Ala., Aug. 22. Mrs. Fowler, with her four year old daughter and babe, sought shelter from a storm under a tree near here. Lightning killed the two former, while the baby was found quietly clinging to the arms of its lifeless mother. The Crescent Flour Mills of Augusta, Georgia, have been burnt. Loss $50, 000. Fatal Stabbing: at boro. Wades- Wadesboro, N. C, Aug. 27. During a quarrel between two colored boys at Wadesboro Wednesday afternoon, one of them became so enraged that he struck the other on the neck with a chisel, in flicting an ugly wound and severing the carotid artery, causing death iu a very short time. The boys were about four teen and fifteen yean of age, and - worked with Mr. H. Behrends, a bnildi ig contract or. The remains of the murdered boy wtre taken to Louisburg, where his fami ly reside. The murderer was arrested and is in jail at Rockingham. Wilmington Star. The "Rev. Mr. Mosely's Game Charleston, S. C, Aug. 17. Last Spring the Campbellite Baptist Church, at Ellenton, Barnwell County, S. C, se cured the pastoral services of the Rev. W. L. Mosely. He started out well and soon captivated his flock. He boarded with L. A. Ashley, a pillar of his church and a prominent merchant and planter. As soon as Mosely had gained Ashley's con fidence he told him of a guauo deposit on an island on the coast of Florida that he said there was "millions" in if he only had the capital to work it. Mr. Ashley was soon persuaded to form a copartnership with Mosely to put this fertiliser on the market. The copartnership was entered into in due form and the papers recorded. Mosely went on to Washington, D. C, and returned with what purported to be a right from the United States Government to work this guano-bed. He went to Florida and claimed to have bad the island surveyed, an estimate of the quantity ot guano taken, and to have gone to various other expenses necessary for their arrange ments to be successful. In addition, be said, he had bought a sloop on which he placed a lot of samples and started to re tain homo, when a storm capsized his loat, and he aud his erew of two men had to battle with the waves for several hours, but were finally rescued, with the sloop damaged, but all the samples lost. He, however, sent back and got a sample of guano, which was analyzed in Charleston, and said to be worth $77 per ton. Ash ley had been advancing money to his cler ical partner all the while, but a bomb was now suddenly thrown into the camp by a card published in a Western Camp bellite paper, which pronounced Mosely unworthy of any confidence. This card was numerously signed by church mem bers, and on further investigation it ap peared that Mosely was an ex-convict from the Iowa Peuitentiury. Ashley was hopelessly swindled oufcof over $900, but he refused to prosecute Mosely, who has left the State. He was last heard from in Augusta, Oa. Snake-Hunting in Connect icut. Norwich, Conn., Aug, 19. Next to rattlesnakes, copperheads, or red snakes, ana the most venomous vipers in New England, They are not often found in this part of the State. A few 'days ago J. C. Maynard, of Salem, a rural town 10 miles west of this city, discovered five rattler snafces near Rattlesnake Ledge, in that town, He killed four of them. On the next day two young inen, hearing of May- .4- -v nard's lack, set out to hunt snakes. They went to the chaotic wilderness around the lovely shores of Carr Pond and saw a party of snakes in a tangled thicket among the great ledges. . As they could not pen etrate to the lurking place of the reptPes, they kindled a fire in the dry brush, and soon crawled out, busing and squirming. Twelve wee slaughtered. Near the place is Indian Oven where the snakes winter. The "Whipping-Post in Can ada. , MoNTEEAL; Candar Aug, 17 A vi cious convict named Bernard at the. St. Vincent de Piul Penitentiary yesterday received 60 lashes, from the same cat-o'- nine-tails tiat inflicted 20 lashes on Du bois in the jail on Tuesday. The. lfffito Sayles's house for the purpose of kil- convict stood his punishment without flinching, and said when all was over that he would get even with his tormentors. It was for attempting to escape a second time tbat he got the cat. The Rising in Barcelona. London, England, Aug. 22. rThe cor respondent of the London Times at Bar celona says that after careful inquiry it has been found that the people of Barcelona had no sympathy with the recent rising. The only prelxet for the alarmist reports put in circulation was a demonstration by twenty-five men who were hired to arm themselves. This movement has since been clearly traced to a Bourse manoeuvre. King Alfonso we)' remain iu Barcelona until to-morrow, so gratified is he at his reception by the people. Bismarck's Warning France. to Berlin, Germany, v Aug. 22. The North German Gazette, Prince Bism&rck's organ, replying to the attacks of French journals on Germany and their cry for re venge, declares that France alone threat ens the peace of Europe. It says that such a state of affairs cannot continue without serious danger, and that the pas sions fomented by the agitation may burst the bounds of peace. London, England, Aug. 22. The Times' correspondent at Vienna says the report tht Spain wiU join the Austro German alliance is idle gossip. Most of the papers agree that too much importance should not be attributed to the language of the North German Ga zette. Three murderers Hanged. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 17. Cuyler Banks was hanged at Scottsboro, Ala., to-day for the murder of Turner Woods. Banks has been cheerful since his sentence, and talked readily of the af fair. He made a full confession a few days since, when all hopes of a pardon were despaired of, saying he had been of fered $1,500 in gold by Wood's we to commit the deed. His last night was without special incident. He ate a hearty supper and slept soundly, and woke up with a good appetite. In an interview with the Times's correspondent shoitly before the execution, he declared himself ready to die. When being taken to the scaffold he smoked a cigar. While sit ting on his coffin before he reached the gallows be made a speech to the crowd, asking them to take warning by his fate. He was calm on the scaffold, and made a few remarks, saying he was prepared to die. He died iu 17 minutes, without a struggle. Columbia, S. C, Aug. 17. Perry Ce ly, colored, was executed at Greenville to day for themurder of Perry Anderson, also colored. The drop fell at a few miu utes past 12 o'clock. The rope slipped to the back of Cely's neck and be was etrangled lo death in 13 minutes. There was a large crowd in the town, but tbe execution was private. Cely had been unduly intimate with Anderson's wife, and in consequence had been ordered to keep away from the latter's house. Ou the night of April 22 last, Anderson returned home and found Cely in the yard talking to his wiie. Cely said thtt he had come for a friendly talk. Anderson told him that he did not want to talk, and staiied to go into the house, when Cely drew a pistol and shot him throngh the bead, kil ling bim instantly. Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 17. Dono Casat, a white man, was hanged in the jail-yard here to-day for the murder of George Barnes, time-keeper in .the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Souehern Rail road shops at Argenta, opposite Little Rxsk. Quick Work With derer. a Mur- - Memphis, . Tenn., Aug. 16. On the 26th of last July, Thomas Sayle, a . young merchant of Oakland, Miss., 60 miles Bouth of Memphis, was assassinated by an unknown person, who mutilated ' the re inaiisin a moat horrible manner.. Suspi cion pointed to a negro named Joe Payne, who was arrested. Yesterday he made a full confession, am) it was given out that he would be publicly hanged to-day at noon. A special from Oakland to the Appeal thus describes his taking off : "To day, at 2:35 p. M., Joe Payne, colored, was hanged with the almost unanimous vote of 500 or 600 citizens. The proceed ings were quiet and business-like. Sheriff Pearson made an eloquent appeal in favor of the law taking its course, but the crime was so revolting, and tbe man,s confession of a cold-blooded, deliberate murder so clear and complete, that the Sheriff was overpowered and relieved of his charge. A court was at once organized, the Hon. J..M. Moorer Mayor of Oakland, presid ng. W. N. Fitzgerald and W. V. Moore, attorneys, conducted the prosecution Payne made a full confession. He said that on the night of the tnurder he went lin him for his money, and that he wail ed there until Sayles came out, when be joined him. They walked about 200 yards, when ho knocked him down and cut his throat, throwing the body into a deep gully, after he hadrifled the pockets of money and the State and safe keys. Then he went t the store and got what money was three, amounting to shout $30. After the confession a vote was taken, and death by hanging was the verdict of the crowd, who acted as jurors. A gallows was erected at once, aud the prisouor mounted the scaffold with a firm step. He made a speech, again confessing hi? guilt, and .advised everybody to teah their children to avoid evil thoughts. The black cap was thou adjusted, aud in teu minutes he was pronounced da i. Th colored people wee as ciamo ons '10 white for aeDging the o.'i-"aj:,s c i'ie, and the people ihmk they b.ive dme right. Temperance. A writer in the St. Louis Evangelist declares that the Mormon questiou is next to the liquor question in importance to the American people ; and surely, it is a shame that under the guise of religion such a blot upon our civilization should disgrace us in this nineteenlh century. It may be that political parties are a ne cessity in our form of government, but it is Unfortunate that it is so difficult to get a decided and emphatic decision of the people on any great moral question. There is so great danger that the party be injured by a decisive, upright aud dow n right policy on any prominent evil, that party managers continue to keep these questions in the back ground, aud bring forward candidates for office who will apologize for the great evd of our times, or evade and pos'pone a decision upon them, whenever such a course is possible. We can not.doubt that could our people vote to-day, entirely untrainmeled by party, tbey would by an overwhelming majority, unhesitatingly declare that all the power and stringency of law should be brought into requisition, to overturn and destroy both polygamy and the liquor traffic. If there is no means of getting at this through existing political parties, then let us organize one with this end in view, and let the people exhibit their manhood and morality and Christianity by setting the seal of public condemnation ou these great evils. We believe that it is both impolitic and immoral to legalize any evil; that the ef fort to regulate such a wrong as the liq uor traffic is unwi?e and wicked. If it could be shown there was ju6t as much liquor sold and drank under prohibition as under license, yet prohibition would be the only rational, consistent and Christian policy ; but if the curse of license must rest upon us, let us by all means have the Brockton plan ; let the town authorities or the city officials take the matter into their own hands, purchase and sell the liquor and put the profits iDto the town or city treasury. Let, us have ho middle men to reap thebig profits that every body knows pertain t this business; let the city officials scatter the firebrands and death direcUy, instead of entrusting it lo other hands ; let them attend to the man ufacture of paupers and criminals them selves, instead of delegating the work to another party. Let us have a magnrn cent groggery at one end of the city hall, presided over by the mayor and alderman, and then for convenience sake tbe lock up should be underneath, the jail in tl c rear, and the gallows in the back paard, so that our public functionaries could follow their work through its legitimate stages to its terrible consummation. Yes, by all means, if we must have a leqalized grog shop, let the major draw thejhpior anttj, tbe alderman wash" te glaksjs ; " would certainly be far mcfr ianlyflLjjr the taansparent attempt to dodge the re sponsibility by authorizing me one else to do the dirty work, and allowing them to reap a pecuniary advantage by ruining their fellow citizens. New Era. Old bachelors go fishing aud hunting iu the woods., . Old maids go fishing and hunting at the Summer hotels. In the Fall it will be known what they catch and bring down. Mr. M. E. Hawkins, Ridgway. N C. , sayss "My daughter was thin, emaciated, with no appetite and much debilitated. Brown's Iron Bitters gave her health," a. J V . 1 1 r- nt -.rv " y L "
Blue Ridge Enterprise (Highlands, N.C.)
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