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T 4 WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM; GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTR T. VOL. I. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, JAN. 17, 1881. NO. 52. ... Blue "Ridge W. L. LOVE, JTTORIIEYAT LAW EE1L ESTATE AGENT. Franklin. N. C. v Will advertise land for sale without Dbarge, January 1 1884. ALLEGHANY HOUSE. Franklin, N. C. Best of fare., comfortable rooms, attentive servants, beautiful situation, satisfaction guaranteed, terms reasonable. THE STABLES have recently been remedied, and I am now prepared to accommodate the traveling pub lic. Horses well cared for. -ARMING. MACHINERY. I HAVE FOR SA JE AT MY STORE IN THE UPPER PAp" OF THE TOWN, THE ffeLD fiBNOWNED "CHAM PION" HARVESTERS AND MOWERS, CULTIVATORS, SULKY PLOWS, AND ALL KIND OF FARMING AXSO.A FULL LUTE OF GENERAL MERCHAN DISE. S. E. Bktson. FARMERS JUST LOOK IF YOU WANT A GOOD PLOW, HARROW, 8PADE, MATTOCK, OR FARMING TOOLS OF ANY DE SCRIPTION, GO TO FRANKLIN AND DO YOUR TRADING WITH H. G. TROTTER. HE KEEPS ONLY THE VEBY BEST, HAS THE LARGEST STOCK, AND SELLS CHEAP ER THAN ANY OTHER MERCHANT IN MACON COUNTY. AGENT FOR Farm Wagons, Steam Engines, Mowers, Reapers, Sewing Machines &c, He keeps a full line of Groceries, .Spices, Dry Goods, Notions Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Saddles and Bridles Tinware and Hardware. 1 H. G Tkottek. Frajwxik, JiT. C. . This remarkable medicine will core Spavin, 8plint, Curb, Callous, &c, or any enlargement, and wil remove tbe bunch without blistering or ; causing a sore. No remedy ever discovered eauals it for certainty I of action in stopping tbe - lameness And removing the bunch. from the 'spirit of THa-TntEs" OCT. 6, 83. Kendall's Spavin Cure. The Spavin Cure manufactured by Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Enosburgh Fall, Vt., is having great success. There is abundant competition among spe cifics of ton kind, but tbe ingre dients of tbis. have really wonderful properties. James A. .WOsen, civil engineer of Fremont Ohio, gives a strong testimonial of a cure effected by it in the! case of one of his hones. Tbe price is fl per bottle, and it can be had from 7 druggist 111 :. .V AVkJ SorgSMina Sugar. Experi ments. Washington, D. C, Jan. 4. Prof. Collier, late chemist of the Department of Agriculture, and a firm believer In the practicability . of producing sugar from sorghum in sufficient quantities and of a quality, to supply a great part of the de unahdibr sugar in this country, appears to have awakened the interest of the Agn cultural Department in a subject about which it was supposed to have become somewhat inefficient. In a repoit .which is going to be made public, Prof. Wiley, of this-depaitment, gives some interesting information about the experiments with serghum during the last year, and takes a more hopel'ul view of the subject than Commissioner Loring formerly, held. He pronounces erroneous the prevalent im pression that every farmer may become his on n sugar-maker. Sorghum, unlike sugar 'beet, contains various non-crystal -lizable sugars, the separation of which de mands much skill and scientific knowl edge. Sorghum sugar will have to be made in large factories. The existing factories iave shown that it can be made, but how profiably or unprofitably cannot be stated by Prof. Wiley, who suggests that farmers near factories mav, in effect, make their own sugar by raiding the cane and trading it at factories for sugar. Cane giving 60 pounds of sugar per ton ought to bring the farmer 35 pounds, the rest of the sugar and molasses going to the man ufacturer to pay expenses and yield prof it. The profitableness of making sugar from sorghum depends largely on utilizing all waste products. The scums and sedi ments make manure hardly inferior to guano. Bagasse, or crushed cane, can be turned into manuce by being thrown into hog pens, as at Rio Grande, N. J., or it will make a fair quality of printing paper. It is not economical to burn it. If the manufacture of sorghum sugar is proved to be profitable, it will result in supplying to a large extent our demand for sugar, but as sorghum makes a great deal more molasses in proportion to sugar than the sugar-cane does, the Prof, concludes that when there is enough sugar there will be a great deal more molasses than can be disposed of. Prof. Wiley has made experimentally some fair samples of rum and alcohol from sorghum molasses. Under favorable cir cumstances one gallon of molacscs weigh ing 11 pounds, would give 2.75 pounds absolute alcohol, 3.03 pounds of 90 per cent, alcohol, and 5.5 whisky or rum. Thus, each gallon of molasses would give nearly half a gallon of commercial alcohol and two-thirds of a gallon of whiskey or rum. As it has been abundantly proved, he says, that sugar can be made from s.r ghum, the Government should make no further experiments in that direction. Prof. Wiley has tried the diffusion process, and finds it yields 20 per cent, more sugar, but at a -somewhat higher cost than grinding. The Government, he thinks, should purchase machinery for large experiments in the diffusion process, and should raise its cane somewhere else than near Washington, as land here is expensive and not adapted to the purpose. The Goternment should also make ar rangements with agricultural colleges and other agencies in various States for ex perimenting with sorghum culture to de termine what parts of the country are most fovorable to the culture of sugar producing plants. Prof. Wiley suggests in each State the trial of two acres divided into 10 plots five for sorghum, four for beeta, and one for corn to test for pur poses of comparison the general fertility of the soil and the character of the season. The Government ought to carry on for a season of years the process of selection of sorghum seed in order to secure an im provement in the quality of the cane. It may be stated that the past season proved a disadvantageous one for sorghum sugar making, not only at the Agricultural De partment, but generally. The conviction is growing among some of those who have made experiments that sorghum cannot be relied on to make sugar in the ex tremely Northern States, but that in spite of occasional successes in Minnesota there is a sorghum belt as there is a corn belt, north of which the crop cannot be relied on. Burned Up in a Convent. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 6, 1884. At 11 o'clock last night fire was discovered in the convent of the Immaculate Conception at Belleville, 111., the capital of St. Clair County, 14 miles from here. The alarm was first given by the watchman at Har rison's machine-works, and Mr, James Stoat, of the City Foundry, was about the first man attracted to the scene. When he reached the place the windows of the third floor presented a horrible spectacle. There, in their night-clohes, suddenly aroused from their slumbers, stood in despair a large number of the terrified inmates. There -was no chance of rescue, and the only alternative was the dreadful leap. Soon afterward volumes of smoke were seen to spread throughout the building, followed by loud explosions, and then afsw took the desperate chances ' of hurling themselves through the windows, Mary Campbell was. the first to try the leap, but when her body was lifted up from the ley pavement she was in a dying condition, having sustained horrible injuries. By this time the alarm had -spread through the city, and hundreds of men appeared and consulted as to what was the best course of action. The fire en gine had not yet arrived, and the flames were spreading rapidly, and at many of the windows were to be -seen figures of women clad in their night garments, some of then leaning out and screaming for as sistance, others trying frantically to open the sashes, which seemed to be beyond tneir power. Hundreds ot men were ready to rush into the place to rescue jthel inmates, but the doors weie all lockeJ and so solidly constructed that all ordi nary attempts to break them in were fu tile. At last James Start procured a pon derous bar, with which, a d zen men -using it as a battering-ram, an entrance was effected. A rush was made np stairs, and many of the inmates were led through the blinding smoke to the ground in safe ty. But to the horror ot the rescuers it was discovered that in accordance with a rule of the convent the bedrooms had all been locked, and a number of them still remained so. The battering-ram was brought to bear upon these doors also, but ihej, too, proved of -stout and un yielding material, and the gallant band were obliged to abandon a large number of the unfortunate inmates to their fate. The convent was a very fashionable ed ucational institution, young ladies from various parts in Southern Illinois, St. Louis, and foreign countries being among its students. Almost all the unfortunates at the window were young ladies, and here and there among them weTe seen the sis ters heroically striving to keep the panic stricken from dashing themsejves upon the frozen ground below. The Lady Supe rior was seen to move alternately between three rooms on the third floor, at the win dows of which seven young ladies were standing. The fire was rapidly approach ing them, but she could be seen passing from group to group and exhorting them to remain where they were. Suddenly a flame shot into one of the rooms, and two young ladies occupying it werv,-C" ' fell back from the window. At the same mo ment Sister Jerome darted from the next window, followed by the occupants of the room, thrne in number. - As they did so a crash was heaad, and that room also became filled with flames, and the floor collapsed almost immediately afterward. Twenty-six lives were lost in all. The fiie had its origin in the furnace, in the south-west corner of the basement, and when discovered the fire immediately above the furnace was ablaze, and volumes of smoke were rapidly pouring through the stairways, corridors and halls of the building. By the time the sleepers were j thoroughly roused the smoke had become j suffocating, and all awenues of escape were filled with blinding smoke. Then a pan ic ensued. The almost unparalled cold retardee the work of the firemen, and ev- j en if they could have reached the scene without delay they could have been of but little semee in rescuing the victims, j There are no laddeis in the Belleville de-1 partment and no provision for the deplor ablo emergency had been made by the1 managers of the institution, which did not even employ a night-watchman. The unfortunate inmates were therefore pow erless to help themselves, and those were witnesses to the horrible affair were pow erless to assist them. Amon; those who received irjuries in their successful en deavors to escape were Daisy Eberle, who was slightly injured by her fall ; Agnes Schneider, who jumped from a seeond story window and fell upon her shoulder, dislocating it ; Lou Mott, who fell from the third story and serious internal inju ries, and Dena Horn and Fannie Brinker, who jumped upon the veranda and were found there nearly frozen to death. The convent was valued at $80,000, and was insured for $42,500. The growth of towns in North Carolina has been very slow. Before tbe war, Wilmington, the largest town, had fewer than 10,000 citizens, Although her foun dations were laid as far back as 1740. Her population was still less at the end of the war. Probably the aggregate pop ulation of all our towns did Lot then ex ceed 30,000. Since that time there Las been a notable change. Wilmington boasts 20,000, Raleigh 13,000; Charlotte has, say 8,000, Newbern 7,000, and all others would foot up aggregate of nearly 100,000. And everywhere new buildings are going up and improvements are the order of the day. We doubt if any town in the State is at a rtand-still, although some to be sure have been outstripped by their more thriving neighbors. This is matter for congratulation. We need a greater proportion of town population. But we are now on the right track let's keep to it For the towns to flourish their people must engage in some work they mutt start more industries. And they will do it. Nearly every town in the State is doing something in some manufacturing line. Let the ball roll on. Newt and Observer. Manufacture of Steel Pens. SJeelused for-making pens- reaches the factory in sheets about two feet long by one foot three inches wide, 0.004 inch thick. They are cut into bands of differ ent widths, according to the dimensions of the pen required, the most usual widths being two, t-.vo and one-half, and three inches. The bands are then heated in an iron, box and annealed, when they are piwsed on to the rolls and reduced to the desired thickness of the finished pen, thus being transformed into ribbons of great delicacy, about four feet long. The blanks are then stamped out from the ribbons by a punching machine, the tool of which has the form of the pen required. The blanks leave the die at tbe lower part of the ma chine, and-fall into a drawer with the points already formed. They are then punched with the small hole which termi nates the slit, and prevents it from extend ing, and afterwards raised to a cherry-red heat in sheet iron boxes. The blanks are then curved between two dies, the concave one fixed and the convex brought down upon it by -mechanism. The pens, now finished as regards their form, are harden ed by being plunged, hot, into oil, when they are as brittle as glass. After cleans ing, by being placed in a revolving barrel with sawdust, they are tempered in a hol low cylinder of sheet iron, which revolves over a coke fire after the manner of a cof fee roaster. The cylinder is open at one end, and while it is being turned, a work man throws in twenty-five gross of pens at a time, and watchee carefully the effect of the heat on the color of the pens. When they assume a fine blue tint, he pours the peas into a large metal basin, separating them from one another, to fa cilitate the cooling. After this process, v. hich requires great skill and experience, comes the polshing, which is effected in receptacles containing a mixture of sand and hydrochloric acid, and made to revolve. This operation lasts twenty -four hours, and gives the pens a steel- gray tint. The end of the pen, between the hole and the point, is then ground with an emory wheel, revolving very rapidly. There on ly now remains to split the pets, which is the most important operation, being per iofTi:L by a kind of shears. The lor, sr blade is fixed, the upper ones comes down, with a rapid mil:"', slighly below the edge of the fixed blade. give per fect smoothness to the slit, and a. -the same time mako the pens bright, they are subjected to the operation of buriiishing by being placed in a revolving barrel al most entirely filled with box-wood saw dust. Clironique Industrielle. To Fence or Not To Fence. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 8. The question of fence or no fence was passed upon to day by the voters of Richmond county. The majority for Abolishing fences in the county is about 600. Public sentiment in Georgia is growing in favor of doing away with fences on farms and in favor of fenc ing in cattle and other stock. Trip to Central South Caro lina. Editor Blue Ridge Enterprise : On the 21st of December I set out in company with my brother Griffin to spend our Chri.tmas holidays. The first day we reached Mr. Wilson's, on the Chattooga Ridge, where we spent the night quite pleasantly. His residence being very high it commands a beautiful view. We got quite an early etart, traveled down the mountain some six miles, then we had good roads all the way. Fosr miles above old Pickens we met two of our cousins coming to meet us. We dismounted, fed our horses, ate our lunch, and rested an hour. We then mounted and followed our guides. We soon reached the home of our cousins. We were very tired, but ready for fun. The music being ready, the young people gathered in and had a dance. The next day being the Sabbath, we had some sacred music on the organ. Monday night we attended a dance at Mr. Thomas Oliver's, where Mr. Oliver and family gave his guests a hearty welcome, and a pleas ant evening was spent. Chrismas day quite a crowd of us took dinner at Mr. Reuben Arnold's, and we enjoyed it very much. On the same night we attended a dance at the residence of Mr. H. D. Row land, where there were quite a number of people. The next day we took dinner at Mr. Wm. Oliver's. We spent the remain der of the week visiting relatives and friends. . Sunday we attended the Presby church, where we heard quite an interest ing sermon. Christmas being over, we started foi home, arriving the 4th of Jan. M. N. . Three "Wives Too Many. Peteesbueo, Va., Jan. 9. S. L. Har- ly, of Nottaway county has been arrested, charged with bigamy in having married a lady at Baltimore, at which time he had three wives living. Harry is 55 years of age, and was formerly a merchant in New York, and has lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Mary bind. He was lodg ed in the Nottaway jail to await a requi sitfoo from the Governor of Maryland. Rod and Gun Items. A Hunting- Story "Worthy of the Glorious Cli mate of Cali fornia. It. H. Rawles proposed that we take a bear hunt on Monday morning. We made every preparation the evening be fore, and, after a hearty breakfast, st 5 o'clock mounted our horses for the hunt. We were provided with Winchester rifles and three well-trained bear dogs. After a run of about an hour they came to bay. We hitched our horses and crawled through the brush to the dogs. The undergrowth was so thick that we could not see ten feet ahead of us, but at last we found the bear, a large brown one, perched on the limb of a large pine tree, about a hundred feet from the ground. We took position and commenced firing. Bears are very tenacious of life, and this one proved no exception to the rule, as we each fired three times before he fell. When we reached him he was dead. We now started back, intending to cut way in from our horses and to pack him out, but we had not proceeded one hun dred yards when the dogs became very excited and commenced barking up an other tree. Looking up we discovered two bears, a brown and a black one lying close together on a barge limb. We took position with the understanding that I was to take the brown, and Mr. Rawles the black one. Just as we got ready to fire I cat my eye down the tree, and near the ground, the brush having obstructed our vitw, I discovered a large bear hang ing to the side of the tree broadside to me. Mr. Rawles, being further round, could not eeo it plain, and told me he would re- lerve his fire and for mo to go for him. I was about forty feet from it, ud fired twice when it tumbled, badly wounded. We now turned our attention to the other two in the tree. At the first fire they commenced bawling the barking of the dogs, the bawling of the bear?, and the rapid firing of our Winchesters made it lively, I can asmre you. We fired three shots apiece before they fell. One of them wag pretty lively when he reached the terra firina, and it required two more shots, at a distance of ten feet, to kill him; the other rolled about fifty feet down the hill, and was dead wheu we got tO-iL. 7!? dogs now took tho trail of the wounded on, amtuter-aj3UBL C 1 A .... qnarlec-Uu.p oi a mue urougn u 10 Day. wnes we When We came up we found it up a large macondra tree, thirty feet from tho ground. He looked to mo to be as large as a four-year-old bullock. He was badly wounded, but still able to make an ugly fi ght. He fell at the first fire, but lodged in the forks of the tree ; but three or more shots apiece brought him to tho ground. We again started for our horses very much elated with our success, but had not gone more than a hundred yards when the dogs started in full cry, going this time in the direction of our horses. We supposed that this time they had jumped a panther. They had scarcely gone a huudrcd yards before they had treed their game. We now exaoiined our rifles and found that we had both emptied our magazines. I found six cartridges in my pocket, but they were too large for Mr. Rawke's gun. SVhen we came up with the dogs we again found they had another bear this time a fine black one. Mr. Rawles being with out ammunition, I had all the fun to my self. If there is anything that will make a man feel out of place, it is to be in a bear fight without a weapon to fight with. I fired two shots, one of which passed through the heart, and he was dead by the time he struck the ground. Santa Rosa Democrat. Kow the Poor -were Kept lrom Freezing and Starring: in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 7. The cold weather of. last week steadily grew worse until Friday and Saturday nights, when the mercury touched zero. Such weather in this latitude is productive of the most dreadful consequences among the poor, who are prepared neither with shelter, food, nor provisions for such a state of things. On Saturday it was learned that hundreds of poor women and children were huddling around their last burning stick of wood, and the Constitution of Sunday morning made an appeal to the citizens to send to its office money, pro visions and fuel, which would be distrib uted by its business department. At noon about thirty, wood wagons and as many ncbre as a provision train, had gathered in front of the office. Merchants worth hundreds of thousands of dollars took their places as drivers, each with a wood wag' on and a provision wagon under his charge, and started on a tour of the city, working all day until nightfall. Some in describable scenes of suffering were wit nessed. All to-day the Constitution of fice looked more like a military supply depot than a newspaper office. Hundreds cf sacks of flour, coffee and sugar, sides of meat and hams, and on the sidewalk, cords of wood were seen, while the streets were full from morning till night with peo pie clamorous for relief. The - wagon trains also eontinued at work. The re sponse of the merchants to the call for supplies has been surprising in its liberal ity. To-night the weathei is raw and bitterly cold, and yet it is safe to say that there is not a house or- a hut in the city where the people's benevolence has not placed a crackling fire and food for the week. The value of the provisions dis tributed is between $5,000 and $10,000. No distinction was made in the distribu tion in regard to color. The year just at an end has been a re markably disastrous one in point of acci dents and calamities on land and water. Throughout Ub course these have crowded on -each other with unusually great loss ef life and property. Beginning with the memorable floods of the Danube and the Rhinef the Mississippi, the Ohio, and oth er Western rivers, the series of disatere continued with 'exceptional earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, cyclones, ship-wrecks, railway accidents, etc. The fatality has been exceedingly great. The loss of life., not taking .into account the deaths from war, pestilence, crime and suicide, and not including those accidents in which there were less than three persons killed, amounts to 97,307 deaths. Important Railroad News. A New York correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, under date of Jan. 1st, says : "On yesterday the East Tennessee voted to turn over to the Western North Carolina road the business of the Memphis and Charleston, which was formerly given to the Norfolk and Western." The im portance of this action is very great. It makes the Western Northern Carolina road a part of the great through system East and West, and also makes -it a part of the great trans-continental Mne through the connections with the Southern Pacific, and thus develops our road .into one -of great consequence ; and doing so, brings directly and indirectly, infinite benefit to a large portion of North Carolina. Ashe ville Citizen. The Philadelphia Record, Indepenednt, says : "Within the last ten years the people o the North and South have come to know each other better than ever before. Mul titudes of Northern men have penetrated .g .otthe South, and, the socialag I nrell n nmnnpiv.ial intfrconr of t.hA twn sections has been greatly extended. For this reason tho people will turn with in- credulity and disgust from the usual part isan stories of Kuklux outrage and bar barity. This is, in fact, an era of good feeling, which no amount of sectional cal umny can seriously disturb. Sectionalism has had its evil day, and with that its agi tators must be content. For the present the country is too much occupied with questions cf revenues and taxation to be diverted with accounts of Southern out rage, especially when the courts of the South are fully able to cope with offend ers against tne laws, ine fact that a disposition to revive buried sectional con troversy is manifested so early indicates that the programme of the majority in Congress to r-eeolutely reduce taxation is by no means to gratifying to its enemies as they have pretended. If they really believed that an obstinate resistance to the policy of revenue reduction wonld be acceptable to the country, they would have no need of retorting to anything so desperate as a renewal of ancient sectional issues." Two River Steamers Burned. St. Louis, Jan. 9. The steamboats Colorado and City of Alton were burned to the water's edge near the sectional docks in the southern part of this city, this morning. The-overturning of a stove on the Colorado was the cause of the fire, the City of Alton has been dismantled. Each boat was valued at $9,000. They belonged to P. P. Manion. The number of persons killed by wBd animals and shakes in India last year was 22,125, against 21,427 in the previous year, and of cattle, 46,707, against 44,609. Of the human beings destroyed, 2,606 were killed by wild animals, and 19,519 by snakes. Of the deaths occasioned bj the attacks of wild animals, 895 were caused by tigers, 278 by wolves, 207 hj leopards, 359 by jackals, and 202 by alli gators ; 18,591 wild animals and 322,421 snakes were destroyed, for which the Government paid rewards amounting to 141,653 rupees. What will cure the worst case of dys pepsia t What will insure a hearty appe tite and increased digestion T What will cure-general debility and give a new lease of life f What will dispel nervous depres sion and low spirits f What will restore exhausted mothers to full strength t What will strengthen nerves and muscles? What will enrich the blood f What will enable yon to overcome weakness, wake fulness and lack of energy t What will prevent chills and fever and other effects of malarial poison T Brown's Iron Bit ters. It is well to know this. J -1 i -
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