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A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM; GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF TSISNEW COUNTRY. VOL. II. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, SEPT. 18, 1884. NO. 35. Stortlimr lunnnnpcinimt! uuu uiiiii iiuuuuiiuuiuuui Gotten Goods. g:ns Up Cut ids and rov7iiI nsitfe ! Notwithstanding tLc recent ad vance in Cotton Goods, we will eel Cotton Goods for the next 30 days 20 to 50 per oent lower than ever be fore. Best Calicos at 5 and 6 cfs, per yd., Popplins 5 cts, per yc Ginghams worth 12 cts., 8 cts. pi yd., &o. CALL AT MD20UT & CO'S STORE for Best Bargain. H. I. BASCOI, DEALER IS- Hardware, Tinware, Slaves, Paints, Oils, Glass, Pcdiet and Table Cutlery, All orders for Tim Roofing, Gutter ing. Spouting, &o., will receive prompt attention, Also anything of Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper made on short notice. A limited amount of Watch, Clock and Gun Repairs will be attended to. N. B.. Those needing Cistern Pumps, Hydraulic Rams, or Water Pipes will do well to call aud enquire price. YaliaMfi Real Eslals Fs uuiu. I offer for sale a tract of land situated in Seier county. East Tenn., containing TEN THOU SAND AND FIFTY ACRES (10, O50). This tract is situated about 24 miles from Sevierville, the County seat of Sevier Co,, and 43 miles from Strawberry Plains Depot, o:i East Tenn., Va,, & Ga. R. R , 45 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. It is heavily timbered with CHERRY, ASH, SPRUCE PINE, BUCKEYE RED BIRCH, MAPLE, POPLAR CUCUMBER, CHESTNUT, OAK and other timbers of this country This tract has been prospected for GOLD and three veins have been opened. The ore was assayed by Stillman & Kopler, N. T, City, and runs from $2.50 to $10.30 in gold, . this being merely surface ore. There Tacaveon this property known as the AilJTM CAVE ; contains mag- in fiiifintiliesi from wliir.li UWIft A U tMlgV EPSOM SALTS were extensively manufactured l(pr the Confederate army during the warr-JEhis cave al so contains Alula and Copperas in immense quantities. About 150 acres near Alum Cave is exceedingly fertile. One of the finest HOTIEL SITES in the South. Alum Cav contains several MINER AX SPRINGS of medicinal properties. Excellent water power and fine trout fishing. No 'mosquitoes, and mag nificent scenery. Price, two dollars per acre. Address, - . S.T, Kelset, Highlands, N, C. Deliverance "Will Come. I saw a way worn traveler In tattered garments clad, And straggling ap the mountain, It seemed that he was sad. His back was laden heavy, His strength was almost gone ; Yet he shouted as he journeyed, Deliverance will come. The summer sun was shining, The sweat was on his brow, His garments worn and dusty, His step seemed very slow. Bat he kept pressing onward, For he was wending home Still shouting as he journeyed, Deliverance will come. I saw him in the evening, The sun was bending low Had overtopped the mountain And reached, the vale below He saw the golden city, His everlasting home, And shouted load, hosannah ! Deliverance will come. While gazing on the city, Just o'er the narrow flood, A baud of holy angels Came from the thrones of God. They bore him on their pinions, Safe o'r the dashing foam, And joined him in his triumph, Deliverance has come. I heard the song ot triumph They sang upon that shore, Saying Jesns has redeemed us To suffer nevermore. Then casting his eyes backward On the race ihat he had run, He shouted lond, hosannah ! Deliverance has come. Nashville Christian Advocate. BETSY HAMILTON A Sketch of Life in the Bach woods. Atlanta constitution. T'other day me and maw walked over t- the c-oss roads sfore to do a little trad- , Mid when we come in eiht and seed the gang that was gethered 'round the door, maw she lowed : "3etey, its j'nt p.s your pap says ; it takts aheap of different sort of folks to make a world." It was Saddy, aud they was a waitin' for the mail ; it don't come but once't a week, and they inginnerly waits till then to come to the store. The wonvn folks comes too and fettshrs ther babies and little tiet dogs aud sometimes they fetch aiggs and ingon bnttons and dried fruit to swap for cotton cards and factory thread and snuff. They comes soon of a mornin' and sets about all day lmg and dip snuff and smoke and lugs ther babies, aud if any body kicks the little floe, it makes 'em as mad as if you'd a slaot the baby. Thar is allers a gang of half grown boys a pitchin' horseshoes and a plajin' marvels under them trees bac of the store ; they sound like they are a quarrel- in' all the time, but they haviu' a power of fnn. "Vcnch your roundance." "Look at B 11, he's a fudgin'.'' "'Fat and stick it." ' Thar bow, Jim's dead." 'That's not fa'r, Jake he fudged, its not f'r, so it hain't. Jim's not dead, kase J ike he fudged." "Taws on the middle," "vench your back?." "Kuuchs." "Roundance, no losance. "Jyicks. "vencn your taw." "Fat and go last;" and with all this some of 'em cant keep from mixin' in a few oaths Some boys thinks they can't be a man tel they larns jist how to enss. The men folks inginnerly sets on them goods boxes 'fore the store door and chaws tobacker and smokes ther jipes and whit tles sticks and talks religion and politics and the craps and the weather and waits for the mail. Some of 'em never got a totter in their lives ; I know in reason old Wiggiasokcr rever, and if he did he e inldn't read it, but he takes the county paper, "Our Mountain Home" and "The Reporter and Watchtower." They had his name in one of 'era obct't, and he bus been a takin' of it ever sense. His old 'ouoaa raised a tumble big beet in her garden and he tuck it to town, and the paper said it was "a beet that beat all the beets in that beat." and sense then he's been a bavin' the papers read to him and a liatenin' for his name. He cant write ar.d he don't git no letters, but reg'lar as a Saddy comes, he pokes and ereens bis neck over the railin' at the postoffice and axes: "Air thar airy d-cky-ment for met A. J. Wigginsoker, Esq., or Jim Wiggiusoker as it wair, airy one; well gimme my paper ef thar haint no docky- raent." .Squire Roberson inginnerly reads the papW, and they all gethers around him to heathe news, and if he baiutthar to read it, ol& man Simpson tries to spell it oat for 'eim and they know about as much whenrbe quits as w hen he sot in, but they 'pear t go home satifi d. Sometimes fancy Stressed drummer will be thar, aud they'll Kit him to read, though some o 'em had sooner listen at him talk as read. He tells the news from ever whars ; and as he talks old Wigginsoker and old man Simpson listens with ther under jaws drapt, and believes every word of 'it, w lether thar's airy bit of truth in it or no They've got confidence in Squire Rober son. Some of 'em never gives ther opin ion on nothia' tel they hear what Squire Roberson thinks on the subject Old man Simpson will go with the Squire in poli tics every time j but when it comes to re ligion nobody can't turn his head. He reads the Bible and puts his own mean ing on what he reads, and Mr. Nobody needu't try to tell him different. He knows what he reads, and sees with his own eyes better'n anybody else can tell him. He will set and argy his pint half a day or as long as anybody has got the time OKkeers to listen, and he don't think nobody can git to heaven lessen they be lieve his way. But he is ignorant and don't know no better. They had read the papers and talked over the news, and old man Simpson was deep in a Bible argy-ment, when one of the boys come a runnm' in and lowed : "Some of you'unsos had better come out yander and part them ar boys. They've dt aud fit and fit, and done fought tel Jim's year's all a bleedin'." "Whose a fightin' f "' says Squire Rober son. "Whv, Jake Simmons is a tryin' to kill Jim Loftis. Jim he fudged, and Jake he tuck roundance on Jim, and Jim he hit Jake, and and and aBd " "He never done, he never done, no wch of a thing. Jake he hit Jim fust, so he did," says another boy. And five or six was tryiu' to tell it, all talkin at once't, and teliiu' it different, and all talkin' so oud we couldn't ekacely hear who it was nor what it was. iVhen we got out thar Jake had Jim down with his year in his mouth, and all the boys was gethered around aggin' of 'em aud sickin' of 'em on to fight like two dogs. "Hit him, Jke that's right - hit him in the short ribs.'' "Bite him, Jim. Hit him in th bud of the year. Pull his har, Jim. Bite him, Jim. Now you got him Jim. Fliug him own. Jim." "Gouge him Jake, 'fore he flings you. Look out, Jake, he t5 a tryin' to fling you. That's right, Jake, trip him up. Now dif hhn iu the bu 1 of the year rhat's right, J tke, bite him." And thar they had it all over the play ground. Thf dd men run up and jerked Jake oSTn Jim and parted 'em' aud they was so bloody and dusty ther own mammies wouldn't a kuowfd 'em. "Come, Betsy, yess us be a gwine,'' says maw. "l snowed that was the way it was a gwine to eend when I hearn all that curfsiu'." "It takes a heap of sorts of folks to make the world," says pap. Betsy Hamilton. BISHOP ATKINSON HE 9IORIAL COT, For Children in St, John's Hospital Church. Some months ago it was deciled to es tablish in St. John's Hospital, Raleigh, an endowed cot for children, in memory of the late Bishop Atkinson. In order to do this it will be necessary to raise a fund of $2,500, the interest on which sum will be used to meet the expenses of the cot, which will be free to children from all sections of the State. Over $500 have already baen received, and in order to hasten the accomplish ment of the most worthy charity, it has been decided to hold in Raleigh, during the "Exposition," a "Grand Bazaar" for the benefit of the cot. The ladies of the Church of the Good Shepherd hive se cured a most desirable eorner store on Fayetteville Street, a part of which will be given for the use of the Bazaar. The ladies will have a lunch counter and will also attend to the sale of articles for the cot during the month of October. The request is most earnestly made that all Congregations, Sunday-Schools, Societies and Individuals who take an interest in the matter, will send such useful and far -cy articles as they can get together, as soon after the 20th of September as pos sible. All articles thould be priced by the sender and fhight prepaid to Ral eigh. All articles will be duly acknowledged, and every effort will be made to dispose of them to the best advantage. Packages either by miil, express or freight, should he marked, "For Memorial Cot. care of William Woollcott, Raleigh, N. C," en- eh-sing -name or names of donors, with Post Office address. Let every one send something, and help on the blessed work of caring tor the suf fering children of our State. Edw. R. Rich, Chaplain, St. John's Hospital. It is reported that half a dozen New England girls are taking a tramp through the Adirondacks. Why .diduV they take some nice looking young man instead f Brockton Enterprise. The Great Chess Player. The recent death at New Orleans of Paul Morphy, be famous chess player, recalls his marvelous ability in playing that game. Atcr he had beaten all con testants he bpgan to play blindfolded. An account before me says : "At the age of twenty-one Mr. Morphy went to England, and created awn.r there by defeating the English players. When Mr. Morphy first began playing games b.iudfolded his friends advised against it, as they feared the mental strain was to much. When, however, he played seven games at one time with his eyes bandaged, and succeed ed in winning six of them, an English paper solemnly warned him of the proba ble result. Despite this warning he jour neyed immediately to Birmingham and played eight games without seeing the board. He continued playing in this ex hausting manner until his mind gave way, and he lost not only his control over the chess- board but also over his own actions. The strain on his brain produced brain fe ver, from which he never recovered. He gave up chess altogether, and showed the utmost abhorrence of it. He has been for years a conspicuous figure on the streets iu New Orleans, always dressed like a dandy of half a century ago, smiling and talking to himself as he promenaded up and down, but holding converse with no one. He was forty-six years of age, of independent fortune. He always declin ed to play chess for morey, although Fplendjd offers were made." Tough Tussle "With a Bear. PORTLAND OREGONIAN. L. C. Potter of this city, who is now sojourniLg at North Beach, had an en counter with a bear a few days since which surpasses any on record, and enti tles him to the title of champion bear fighter of the Northwest Mr. Potter left his tamp on the beach a few days since to work on a piece of land he owns ou the ri''ge. Ho worked until noon and then sat down in the shade of a tree to eat his luncheon. While bujy with his knife and fork he heard a noise, and, looking up, saw a yjung bear, wbi sh, allured by the smell of the vituals, had vaulted upon the log in search of a change of diet. Mr. Potter dropped his dinner aad grabbed the bear, which scratched and yelled and fought like a tiger, but his fur furnished a good hold and Totter clung to him. In a moment he heard something crashing through the saial bushes and the old boar appeared on the scene with distended jaws, gleaning fangs and ruffled hair. But Potter's blood was up and he was bouud to have his bear or die. He grasp ed his dinner fork iu one hind and the cub io the other and, pu ting his back to the tree, yelled out, "come on, MacDuff!" The bear approached and received the fork to the hilt in his nose. Then it sat up on its haunches and a regular rough-and-tumble fight for the cub ensued. Mr. Potter, who is au artist with a knife and fork, never used the latter in so lively a manner befoie. The bear clawed and Potter jabbed it in the nose with the fork, every prod bringing forth an angry "knough," or a suarl from the bear, whoso nose soon looked like a pepper box. Pot ter presented the appearance of an insane animated scarecrow, his clothes hanging in tatters and the blood flowing from nu merous sorat h s, but he only clung to the cub the tighter and plied his fork the faster. At length the bear, with a suarl of dis gust, threw up the sponge and started off in search of a bear doctor. Mr. Potter did not wait for it to comeback, but made quick time for the 1 each, where he now has the cub chained up as a trophy. Balance in Character. Few prrsons are possessed of a perfect ly balanced nature. Amiability is apt to be hilled with weakness ; a vigorous, pushing cha-a-ter is often impulsive, harsh and nujust. A r flVctive miud is slow to act ; a pr upt mind is often wrong. So through all the elements of character AU the qualities that go to make up a perfeet moral nature rarely appear in one person. The physical and intellectual do not precisely conform ; the mental and moral are not evenly balanced. There are those possessed of stronger moral than mental natures. They con stitute the spasmodic, impnlsive element in society. There are others whose in tellects so absolutely control their moral natures, that nothing is admitted that cannot be reasoned oat satisfactorily, There are. persons whose strong animal natures dominate all else, and both mind and spirit are subservient. . To regulate all these parts so as to at tain a fair degree of equality is the right step toward securing what may be called balance in character. Philadelphia Call. Ayer's Sarsapariila is. recommended by the best physicians as the only reliable blood purifier. '; Types of Health. At the age of twenty-five a man should have acquired his maximum height, vary ing from five feet six inches to six feet. His weight should slowly increase throughout the adult period, being at thirty a little less than the maximum, which should be reached at forty. The weight is very variable between normal limits ; but the average among men of medium height twenty-five years old may be placed at about one hundred and forty pounds. The power of endurance should be greatest between tweaty and thirty; that is, a man should be better able to endure hardships between twenty and thirty than at any other time of fife. The system may, perhaps, bear the burden of more protracted but less vigorous exertion during the period of maturity, but intense heat or cold of short duration, and such work as fitting heavy weights, taking short but rapid runs, and indeed every exercise which taxes severely but briefly the muscular and nervous systems, are best borne at the adult age- During this time of life appetite should be less that at earlier and more than at later periods. It is evident that to supply growth more nourishment is needed than to simply sup port life, and to maintain the vigor of adult age more is needed than to feed the slower and less intense processes of ma turity. With Bleep however, the contra ry holds true, because of the greater po w er of endurance. But one internarprocess need be mentioned among the standards namely the pulse. This is a convenient indicator of the circulation. In rapidity the pulse decreases in a constantly dimin ishing ratio from infmey to old age, so that during adult fife it beats normally from seventy-five to eighty times in a minute. A Steam Shovel's Big- Work, Thursday's Baltimore Sun says : Ryans & McDonald's steam shovel, on section 12 of the Baltimore and Ohio Raliroad, Philadelphia extension, 14 miles from B:tlrimcre, on Thursday removed 994 oar loads, or 1,494 came yards of dirt in nine hours, the largest day's work on the line since the steam shovels began their work. This was 71 trains of 14 cars each. The haul is over one mile; some of the round trips were made by the engineer in four minutes. The cut and fill are each one mile long, with an average depth of 45 ft. The foreman is Patrick Parkerson ; crantsman, James btaunton: shovel en en - giueer, Nicholas Datton ; locomotive gi.eer, Michael btaunton ; dump boss, Morris Macdonald ; carpenter, T. Tollos- ton ; blacksmith, Charles Btymaa. At night, the men, sixty in number, includ ing thirty Italians, had a jubilee of mu sic and dancing at the house of foreman Parkerson, and several immense brush bonfires blazed on the -farm of the Rev. George Morrison, where these operations are in progress. This firm is operating five steam Bhovels along the line of the new road in Hartford and Baltimore coun ties. The Gold mines lands. of High' "What is worth gold is gold," was the sentiment given by Cortcz, on the eve of his departure for Mexico, as he held up his sword. The blood-thirsty Spaniard made good his boast in the conquest of the Asteca, through a campaign, which for brutality and cruel y, has fi,w, if any, parallels in history. The gold of a land does not always consist in tho amount of precious metal which it holds locked in its bosom ; nor in the majority of cases is this the fact. Even the immense treas ures of gold vhich California yielded, and is stiU producing, fall far short .of the treasure which is found in her grain and luscious fruits, her fine climate and natur al scenery. Neither docs tSe chief source of wealth of this mountain country consist in i s minerals and food products for man, as rich as those promise to become under the hand of skilled labor, basked by the sin ews of labor; bui in her life giviug air, her crystal fountains and magnificent scenery. And if the wealth of this land is ever made to yield its greatest abund ance to shine in the pockets of its inhab itants, they must utilize these priceless treasures. Thousands of weary in body and mind, and languishing in feeble health, are sighing for the healing halm whih is wafted iu every breeze that rus tles these green, woods and sparkles in every fountain ; and all these thousands wait for are comfortable accommodations. The summer soj ourner, the pleasure tour ist and health seeker are as essential to the prosperity and future business of Highlands and aU the adjacent country, as commerce is to a seaport city, and manufacturing to Pittsburg, Sheffield ori Lyons. '. . : v A lucrative business awaits the 9 Boni- t. 1 : .1. - ."...I JJ JOCO WUU pOBB9BeB fcllB onglibiU only utMt v establish and properly conduct a sum mer . resort or hotel herer"wn.ere sach guests as deeire to spend a few weeks or months away from the superheated marts I ot .'tr&ded :eijoy the refreshing air of the mountains, could find comfortable quarters. AU who have exploredthe Blue Ridge mountains fnm Virginia to Georgia, and examined all the principal summering places in ' the Western and Atlantic States, are unanimous in pro nouncing the climate of Highlands as su perior in every particular to all others in this country, while the natural scenery, in beauty, variety, extent and ease of ac cess is not surpassed, if equaled, in any other quarter. If a beginning were made to utilize this wasting wealth was'ing like the treas ures on the desert air of many a flower that's "born to blush unseen" by the fitting up of such eetablUhment as could offer home comforts to a good class of visitors, even though restricted to a hun dred persons, a stimulus would be given . to all other branches of business, that are now languishing for support and encour agement. A few thousand dollars scat tered among our mountain peakB, would act as new blood in the veins of the in valid, upon every branch of industry. Soon other similar establishments would spring up and a fashionable summer re sort, surpassing all others in the South -wear, in its many comforts and attractions, would convert this town, in the "land of the sky,'' which overlooks aU her sister towns in the Blue Ridge, into a busy cen tre of industry. Cottages would dot the side of our mountains in every direction, and our streets would be gay with sum mer loiterers, capitalists on the ljokout for investments, scientists spying out the hidden secrets of nature, and the ubiqui tous correspondent of the metropolitan journal. Then would the steam ear on his iron track come to ns unbidden, and the pulsations of busy life be felt on every hand. The Mormon Temple. The great building at Salt Lake, which the Mormons have been twenty eight years in constructing, is approaching com pletion. The main walls are done. It is built of granite, which is hauled from the mountains, bask of Salt Lake, on wag ons or trucks, with wheels twelve feet high. The walls are ten feet in thick ness and eighty five in height. It has cost up to this time $4,000, which has been collected by ihe tithing tax. It will require six years more to ficish the work. Probably no other cburch buildirg in the United States has been constructed in a way to secure such durability as is possi ble to this. Some of. those who predict the eaily ruin of the Mormon hierarchy are woudering what use they can make of this temple. Iadies' Department. Women aro beginning to abolish the ear ring as one of their personal adornments, although it will take a long time to whol ly banish this favorite but barbarous or nament. The recent aesthetic movement in dress, which introduced, along with its absurdities, some truly sensible ideas, has much to do in educating women to a bet ter standard of taste regarding porsonal adornments. The most exclusively fash ionable women do not now wear ear rings in the day time, and only those with jewels or rare stones in the evening. Fi nally, they may be discarded altogether, and the money spent for diamonds in this direction will be invested in brooches, pendants and bracelets. Hartford Times. Honors to Women. An official return has just been publish ed in France of the women who are mem bers of the order of the Legion of Honor. There are sixteen in all, and just half that number are sisters of one religious oder or another. O je of the lay members, the wife of a provincial mayor, earned the cross by defending the marine against an armed attack, under what circumstances is not stated an episode of war, doubt less. One name well known in the world of art figures on the list that of Rosa Bonheur. The only foreign female chev alier is Lady Pigott, who received the decoration from M. Thiers in 1872, in ac knowedgement of her services during the war. Brooklyn Eagle. Peter Cooper, on one of his daily visits to the institute called by his name, stood and watched the portrait class of thirty or more pupils, who from different points of view were taking likenesses of the same model. One pupil had drawn a fuU face, another a profile, a third a three-quarters view, and so on, each hand presenting a variation. Then said thai philanthro pist : "This sight should be. a lesson ih charity j we perceive how-ptfrtofinmajT be very differenJotJfdTng to the way, ho is looked-nn&y different people." "Mr. Junes," said little Johnny to that gentleman, who was making an afternoon eall, "can' whiskey child ; however can talkt" "No,; my yon ask "such t a question f " Oh ! nothing ; only ma said that whiskey was beginning to tell on-yoa ' Vy:-i - - -.
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