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- . , . " ij '"' ' - v"'---!'--;' ' ' ' ; " A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM; GIVING.RELIABLE INFORMATION' OF TIQS NEW COUNTRY. ' - ' , ' - ; "- ' " ' " 7 .7,,-- :-y - - - - ..... -"."V"v 'rjf"'' '" " ' , ' - ' ' " .--.. - . -. : VOL. II. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, O CT. 1 6, 1 884. NO. 39. av:. .'l.... ' ... '. , ....... .. -.. . ... . .. . . : .. . -',.,,',.-. v. . . '.. . .. ' " , . i 11 WW WW . -THAT THE 1IIGHIAI1DS SASH AND DOOR FACTORY - , PROPOSES TO PC3KISH Doors, Store Fronts, Mouldings of all Patterns. Also planing, matching, sawing. ,fito., at the lowest rates. Parties needing work in. my line wi1! do well to get my prices before pur chasing elsewhere. Orders promptly .filled and work guaranteed equal tp -the best. HIGHLANDS SASH AND D003 FACTOHY. W. C. TROWBRIDGE. Froprietor. m tds Space Felongs TO Tile Seal Mlo Foi I offer for sale a tract of land situated in Sevier county, East Tenn., containing TEN THOU SAND AND FIFTY ACRES (10, 050). This tract is situated about 24 miles from Sevierville, the County seat of Sevier Co,, and 43; mileV from Strawberry Plains DcporiklS Bast Tenn., Va & Ga. R II , io miles from Knoxville, Tenn.. It is hearily timbered with CHERRY, ASH, SPRUCE PINE, BUCKEYE JIED BIRCH, MAPLE, POPLAR CUCUMBER, CHESTNUT, OAK and other timbers of this country . .This tract has been prospected for GOLD and three veins have been opene. Tho ore was assayed by Stillman & Kopler, N. Y, City, and 'runs from f 2.0 to $10.30 in gold, this being merely Burface ore. There is a cave on this property known as the ALUM CAVE ; - contains mag- ; pesi in Jafge quantities, . from which EPSOM' SALTS -were extensively manufactured for the Confederate army during the war. This cave al so ."contains Alura and" Copperas in immense quantities. About 150 - acres near Alum Cave is exceedingly fertile. One of the finest HOTEL SITES in the South. Alum Cave conlaina ' v several -MINERAL SPRT1TGS of medicinal properties. , . , , Excellent water power' and fine trout shini r .No mosquitoes, and mag : iiificent scenery. ..Price, rtwo dollars , per acre. Address, , ;:' b?t. Kkmet, . Highlands, N, C. XSic Autnmu Poet. Whene'er tbe poet writes a liae . Whose aal word is shr, The dullet reader tray divine lie siDgs about October. Qh, -wherefore will he never fiod A new rhyme fir October ? Why won't he call the chilly wind The B5eamore's disrobtr 1 Why won't he call each oqmrrel gray The cheBtnnt's nimble prober, Whene'er he sings his simple lay Of russet-shod October ? He e'tn might call the lily dead The bumble bee's englober. When singing of the gold and red That glorifies October, Before I'd nse that hackneyed rhyme I'd sing about a crowbar. And just for once be trasublime, And call the month Octobar. N. Y. Sun. T&riU Carolina Polotics. NEW YORK TIMES- Raleigh, The campaign in this State has apparently been the dullest ev er known, up to this stage of the canvass, although the Republicans declare they are making satisfatory progress, and the Dem ocrats are loud in claiming the State by 20,000 majority. The Democrats have done no systematic work. They are sorely pressed for funds and have.coiifiin ed ail their work to stumping aud making a big show with cavalcades as eseorts for their speakers at ' the towns. The Re publicans have HVoidod noiae and the hur rah of previous campaigns, and have doi e ' conquerable execution in the counties west of Raleigh. They are now turning their attention to the eastern counties. Ail their tSorig are directed . toward get ting out a lull vote without attracting the attention of the enemy. The meetings bve not been as largely attended, aud thera is evidently a want of interest among the inntstes. Both partks are ex- 1 p ctiug the canvass by the'eouuty candi diea to stir up the voters ia the town s 4s aLd thus get out au average vote f r a Presidential yenr. Two years ago t e li- publicans lost the State because of t e defec'i-.n of men who desired a straight Repubiican ticket, and did not like the coaluiou with the liberals. There seems now to be no defection among the whit Republicans bicause Dr. York is L'-beral, There are four papers edited by colored men who are opposing York aud the State ticktt and are for Blaine. It is not bthevd that they will influence 500 votere. Yo.k has made a gallant canvass, and has met more Democratic orators than any other candidate for Gov ernor pver did,, and has not been worsted ia any difcuseien. There are divisions and troubk-3 in the Republican camp in Granville, Halifax, Edgecombe, Craven, Perquimans and New Hanover counties. There are two tickets iu each county, the cause being a fight over th offices of Register and Sheriff. In 180 the Re publicans gained 13;000 votes west o: Rah igh aud lost 7,000 east of Raleigi , Pruaeu observers lear a similar result next month. SENATOR HAVrXEY. while here talked about the situati n iu the natiou. lie expressed grave donbti as to Michigan and iVisconsia, but, cari- buily "though, had entire eonfidence in the Republicans carrying New York and the other Northtra States. He expects -an -old time majority in Ohi on October 14 for the Republican State ticket, and a greatly -reduced Democrtic majority in Whit Virginia and he thinks 'this will insure Blaine all the doubtful States. Al though the Senator paid, "We are going through," it was evident from his talk and manner that ho now regards the contest as exceedingly doubtful. SENATOR VAUCH was seen on the exposition grounds and asked as to the situation in the S'ate. He replied . that the Democratic majority would be larger than in 1880, when it was 6,300. He eaid that no systematic work had been done by either side, andl that the Democrats were depending upon public meetings to arouse-the people and get out the vote; in addition to the canvass of the townships ; by the c;unty candi dates. He saii there was les3 interest in the State than he had ever seen iu any Presidential year, and the sign's were that the vote would not be larger than that of 1880; notwithstanding the increase of I opulation dudi g the past four years. He also aid that ". there was no defection frpin Cleveland and Scales, but there vwas a c nsiderable i umber : of indepenlent candidat s for the Legislature and county offices, wh eh is causing and may lose the pErty votes and members "of the Lieg islalure; He said a large Republican majority in. Ohio and a reduced Demo cratic majority in West - Virginia would have a depressing effect aud cause many Democrats to remain away from the polls and correspondingly elate and encourage the Republicans. But if the -majority eheula be small, -and especially: , if . tho Democrats carried Ohio and increased then- majority in WeBt" Virginia, the effect would he to rout the Bepuhlicans, and the Democratic majority would probably reach 20,000. ' :':U The fanners through the eastern section of Virginia and North Carolina are t riously alarmed in conseqaence of the con tiaued drouth. Cotton "has been seriouRly i ijured. The peanut crop in these States has been cut short, and tbe late corn, is eiid to be ruined. The effects of tbe drouth is widespread. ITEMS FROM THE ASKE- capt. jonnstomever iaiisto mr ojp the people o the ills they bar and the dangers which threaten. On Saturday last. Mr. Thomas Bell, wife and seven children, reached Ashe ville direct from Glasgow, Scotland. They propose to make Ashevilie or its vicinity, their future home. We were struck with the sturdy healthfulness of the handsome children, fine representa tives of the land of Cakes. Oeatai of Judge Henry This gentleman, once a Judge of the Superior Court Bench of this State, died at his residence at Silver Springs, near Aslioville, somewhat suddenly on Monday morning. He had been in bad health for several years and his death was not unexpected. Mr. George "W. Tllaor, The popular representative of the large house of George BrowD, of Knoxville, is now in our Western counties on his hist Western tour for this year. Gtorgo is contemplating some very serious steps, we apprehend ; but at ail events he has, to ufie Mr. Blaiut's very expressive phrase, '"cast an anchor tothe windward," and has renewed his connection with his old house for the next year. His friends in VVesttrn North Carolina will therefore see him among them with the leturn of the next business season. Aud as George is universally popular and eminently trustworthy, the large busiuess he has built up for his house in Western North Carolina will go on to expand with each tour he iiiakcs through it. Mr. Ew&rt, the Revenue candidate for Congress in this Sistrict, is u.ging the Ro pubiicauo to ''stand solid." This advice is given quietly, and word is ordered to pass it along the line. By soUning very liber al on the stump ho thinks he can divide tiie democratic vote, aud with a solid re publican vole can stand some chance to squeeze in, The democrats will act on Mr' E wart's advice, and ''stand solid'' also. It would be well for him to make arrangements for his board at home for the next two years. Democrats will "stand solid," and Capt Johnston will be elected by a solid majority. We thank Mr. Ewart for his advice, and assure him our side will follow it closely. Mr. H. G. Ewait was an editor a few years ago. Me pubiisned and edited a paper at Henderson riile called theJ!fo itor. We make a few extracts from his pen, to vhkn we invite attention. In the issue of the 12th Oct. J37, in referring to Hon. A. S. Merrimon, Mr Evart alluded to him as "Old Ah Siu Morrimoc, a bombastic fiatulont old cuis" &7. Here is another very delicate and reE pectful reference to one of the best and most respected citizens of Buncombe, a most prominent and sincere member of the Baptist Church. In alluding t Buncombe canvass of 187G, in his issue of Oct. the 19th of that year, Mr. Ewart said, "Little lllvin Carter, Attorney &c, will, if he is elected, wind up, got and run old man Sams in the North Car olina legislature. - The poor old fellow hasn't got brains enough to run him -lf." Is this kind of a man who can write thus of two of our most respected citizens, fit to be chosen for Congress, especially when he ruus as tho representative of all that L poriicious and degrading in poli tics ? Certain few, in the interest of Mr. j2wart are endeavoring to appeal to Bap tists to support liim. the Baptists ol this country are too intelligent and sincero to run their church on a partisan basis ; they are c r ai ly too self-resper.tiog to ots t an a man who can thus insult so old -ud respected a man of their church as Mr. $..ns. 'Highlands Abroad and at Home. Mr. Editor: The following letter from the far away regions of New Mexico will prove of general interest to readers of 'the EsTEitrRisu, and of special .interest to those who tre denizens of this part of the. Blue Ridge, as showing the wide, spread desire for accurate " information which is manifested concerning the pecul iar conditions of our climate and its rehw tion to health. The world has long been, raked over in search of sanitariums,.wbere nature, in her unapt roachable laboratory concocts a medicine which might prove a healing balm to all the ills flesh is . heir. I With this object in view, every , fountain of htter water has been tried in the vain hope thAt the sovereign remedy "ever sought for, hut whiehhas constantly elud ed the eager pursuer, has been tested, and turned from with search unrewarded. Latterly this, section of the Blue Ridge, from its geographical position under the 35th parallel, its abrupt and medium ele vation its heighest peaks being perched teidway between the regions of perpetual enow and the plain of semi-tropical heat), promises to afford that long sought pecul iarity of climate, which combines the year round, warmth without excessive heat, coolness without piercing cold, moisture without saturation and dryness without a shriveling and dust engendering atmos phere ; a balmy covering to weak lungs that prevents a too rapid escape. of animal In J a nervine affording a mild stini-1 ubaa to that fine set work the" senses, which the dry, electric atmosphere of the rainless regions of the interior and Pacific coast, excites to unnatural tension that soon breaks and destroys. To obtain this "much desired informa tion, statistics, are studied, but statistics fail to impart a true knowledge of tho cli mate and country, and hence letters are received from all parts of the United States asking for more definite informa tion. A short time ago the writer re ceived a communication from attendiig physician of an extensive sanitarium in the State of New York, asking similar in formation as the writer of the following letter which is an acknowledgment of an swers to questions in a former letter pro pounded by Dr. Atkins, in reference to this region of country. He saw the writer's name in the U. S. Signal Service repor's of Gen. Hazon. Me. E. E. Ewing Dear Sir: fhave t acknowledge with many thanks your very obliging letter of recent date. Its ample discussion of the climate of your beauuful mountain region gave me great satisfaction. I shall take great pleasure in visiting Highlands some time after Jan. Isf, next. I could not have obtained elsewhere bo valuable a description as your letter contains, and was gratified to be able to lend it to Lieut. E. L. Fletcher, I3ih U. S. Inft, who, like myself, has long been a delighted reader of all that told of the North Carolina mountains. I am glad to notice in the daily press the ewakening among the N- C. people as to their industrial interests, and the promise of growth and great prosperity in the near future. With many thankt to you for your kind and valuable response to my inquiries, I remain with great respect, Your obit. Servt., Francis II. Atkiks. A- A. Surgeon, U. S. A. Fort Stanton, New Mexico. Tho above letter will srve to give your readers an inkling of the interest that is awakening throughout the length and breadth of our land, in this Blue Ridge system of mountains, and it is conced ed by all competent judges who have made an examination and careful study of the mountains, that we of Highlands oc cupy one of the choicest spots round which most of the advantages sought for cluster. The vital question to us is, what are the people, most closely concerned, doing to develop these latent advantages and hasten forward the good times hoped fori They are spaticg and bickering, pulling in adverse directions, filled with petty animosities, jealousies which threat en to.drive away the most desirable citi zens and some who have power to exert a healthy influence, are manifestly aiding and abetting dissatisfaction and paralizing progress. Such a condition cannot exist in a small community whose business in terests are only in the hud, and not work the most vital injury to all, and those who have most at stake must always and inev itably suffer most. All must stand to gether or all must fall together. There is use for every individual, and there is none we have no use for- In a young commu nity sympathy, cheering, encouraging won!, and kindly aid, be it never so small, jiro more potent for fruitful results than even capital. Capital without cu cert and hearty cooperation can eff-ct nothing. Hast Tennessee. . If we are permitted to advise any far who is dissatisfied with his present loca tion, we would most earnestly recommend East Tennessee. The soil cannot be ex celled ; the climate can sot he more de lightful) 'and a more healthy section can not be found. As large crops of grain are raised there as iu any part of the United States. A market for all your products right at your own doorthe Cotton belt. ; There are no "buzzards;" no bix months winter that takes the rest of the year to raise enough to keep you and year Stock from starving." - No 'cyclonesM or "twistets" to -scatter your-effects in the twinkling of an eye. - No better xlass of people to be found in America. Corn and flour are sold in Atlanta to-day, that starts from the far West by raU and goes to New York-and Baltimore, then by sail or steamer to Savannvh or Charleston, . then re-shipped by rail into tie interior of the obttcn belt, while the same artkd.es can be produced at the same expense and save the trannporta ion of thousands of miles. Excellent farms in the cream of this sec tion can be bought for $40 to $50 per acre. Taking everything into considera tion connected with a farmer's lfe. there is no place in America that Las advantages over East Tennessee. National Far-vier. Kansas has tbe Floor Next ! Editor North and South : Dear Sir I am pleased with your efforts to direct immigration to the "Sunny South," which is, I think, the best cjun try on earth. I came West for health and wealth ; the former is worse than ten years ago, and the latter is completely lost. There have been countless fortunes h st here since 1873, while none, to my knowledge has been made. Men who came here with nothing managed to get away with what they brought here, but woe to the poor devil that brought from five hundred to two thousand dollais, for that man was bound to put up his sign "Gone back to the East broke." All classes acknowledge that this is not a farming section, and I might add, that be ing all plowed up and the native grasses killed, it is no stock country. Before the native sod was broken it was a good cattle-raising country, but lawn grasses will not grow, as it is to dry. There are a few counties in the eastern part of Kansas that may be depended on for farming purposes but taae the State in general, and it is ro good. I have cultivated from forty to two hundred and forty acres of wheat every year for nine years, have planted from ten to thirty-five acres of corn, have lived hard and saving, and yet have sunk or lost three thousand, dollars. We have had three entire failures in Western Kan sas in succession. John Curley. Olmilz, Barton Co., rvansas. . A French authority states that carrots give horses new blood, which seems to re store them, and they may be justly elaimed as the regenerator of worn out horses. Carrots are justly considered among the richest vegetables, and their feeding qual ities cannot be over-estimated for all kinds of stock, and especially for milch cdw s. No one need complain of light-colored butter if they have plenty of carrots to feed their cows. One feed of them often makes a marked difference in the color of the butter. A plentiful supply of them insures a good yellow article. j Cotton in Walhalla on Wednesday, the 8th instant, readily commanded 9 cents cash. Messrs. El ward Hoopes and ' James Phinney have recently erected below the depot a new cotton gin, with new engine and new press. On and after October 10th, 1884, tele graph rates from Walhalla to Columbia, S. C, will be 40 cents for ten words or is, making a ten word message to Charleston 62 cents, instead of $1, the present rate. To Atlanta, Ga., 70 cents ; Louisville, Ky., 90 cents ; Baltimore, 9o cents; Boston, Mass, $1; Kansas City, Mo., $1. New York, 9o cents ; Charlotte, N. C, o5 cents ; Cincinnati, O., DO cents; Philadelphia, Pa., 90 cents ; and to all business from Columbia will be added the reduced rate (40 cents.) Mr. C. M. Nield, of Shropshire, West Er gland, h&3 recently become a citizen of onr community . He has bought a small farm at the upper end of town, and willl engage in the cultivation of the grape. ne will plant out this fall .five acres in vines. Mr. Aield informs us tnat ne nas traveled extensively over the Northwest ern and some of the Eastern States, but thinks this country about Walhalla in many respects is superior to the States mentioned. We welcome Mr. Nield as a citizen and wish bim much success in all his business relations. Walhalla was treated on ealeday . to a big show of fine colts. Fourteen colts entered the lists for the premiums, one of these, and that, too, a good one, being owned by a negro. AIL the animals were far above ordinary, showing the presence of fine blood Tue first premium of $10 was taken by J. C. VonLehe, a citizen living a few miles from Walhalla, and the second premium-of five dollars was car ried off by J. M. Martin, of .the Richland neighborhood. The colts ranged from four to niue months old. The judges were a long time in deciding, proving the lot difficult to select -from, as alL were good. - We are glad to Bee our people vieing with each other' in improving that indispensable animal, the horse, and hope each year will witne? s improvements in this Iine All ihe colts exhibited were sired' by "Bibi Abdallah," .'owned by Mr, A. C. Merrick of Walhalls, who gave the premiums- Keowee (5. C7.) Courier. : A gentleman of Sovier county, ;Tenn., has discovered three rich veins of gold on his' farm,' twenty miles southeast of Sevier ville. -Two of the veins are rock quartz and one gravel. One-of. the veins is pan ning out $50 to tbe ton, and more is ex pected after the niiuing jjeta 8 tar ted well. Pronouncing Puasisle., A western reading-room is responsible for tbe following pronunciation problem,, w hiehjias puzzled every one trying it thus, far. Of twenty ministers and scholars to. whom it was' submitted one day, not one. read it correctly, the mistakes ranging from seven to twenty -one. Try it "A sacrilegious son of Belial, who Buf fered from Bronchits, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deflc it, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient, and docile young lady of the Ma lay or Caucasian race. . He accordingly purchased a calliope and a' necklace of ' chameleon hue, and securing a suite of rooms at a principal hotel, he engaged the head waiter as his coadjutor.- He then dispatched a letter of the most unexcep tionable calligraphy extant inviting the young lady to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refusing to consider herself as sacrificable ' to his wishes, and sent a po lite note of refusal; on receiving which be procured a carbine and bowie-knife saying that h would .not now forge letters hymeneal with the queen, went to an iso lated spot," severed "his jugular vein and, discharged the contents of his carbine into his head, shattering the parietal bone. The bebm was removed by the coroner."' To tbe Public. The following is published by request of the committee : All temperance and prohibition organi zations, and all the friends of temperauo and prohibition in every town, townnhip, city and county of the State are invited to go or send delegates to a meeting to be held in the city of Raleigh on Oct. 2lst, for the purpose of considering the question of temperance and of getting out an elto. toral prohibition ticket in North Carolina for John P. St. John and Wm. Daniel, candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States. All persons wishing to distribute St. John ballots should order them TO -da? of J. S. Hampton & Co., Greensboro, N, C, at 20 cents per hundred, postpaid, an4 they will be mailed early. F. S. Blair, Summerfield, N. C, Chairman of Guilford Prohibition Ex Com. in behalf of many friends of the movement in different parts of the State, State papers please copy. An officer of the United States Engin. eer corps, in charge of river improvement work at Lake Providence, La., reports that the Mississippi river bottom is shift ing bodily that in other words, the mud and sand which make up the deposit in the trough or bed of the river is undergo ing bodily translation like an Alpine gla cier. In proof of this statement it is'said that a pile, maintaining its solid hold in the mud .and sand and its perpendioular position, has moved sixty-two feet from' its original position. This phenomenon, while it is not unknown o science, has not heretofore been observed in connection with the Mississippi river.- Selected. '- In India there is a close tussle between man and beast. Man succeeds ia killing, off about 20,000 beasts each year of the man-eating kind, tigers, wolves, leopards, hyenas, etc. The beasts kill about 4,000 human beings a year. It is said that, the beasts make good the deficiencies in their numbers about as rapidly asthe human beings do the same for themselves f and a' the beasts destroy about 40,000 head f cattle each year tbe strife is pretty elose, and it remains to be seen which will eonv out victorious. . ; . . Tbe charge having been made that Belva Ann Lockwood wears red stock ings, that impulsive creature rashes off s letter to Gov. Cleaveland, proposing conference of Presidential candidate to call a truce to a campaign -of slander. Belva, as the ladies generally do, saves the most important part of her communi cation for the end, reminding Gov. Cleve land that such a meeting "would afford us an opportunity to become personally acquainted." Belva, by the way, is a widow, and the Governor is a bachelor, She is evidently determined to get into the White House, if not in one way, then in another Courier-Journal. . - , "Won't -yon have another biscuit, Mr, Dumley!" asked the landlady politely) "I made them myself. Jane, pass Mr. Dumley the biscuits." "Thanks, no,n. replied Dainley. "I won't eat any more, of them, but I might put a ooopLa in my pocket. I am going into a "dangerous quarter of the eity to night, and unfortu natly, I Jeft my ; revolver at-'the office.-j Boston Pfisk ' " ;"" -' " v. - " - . i "Doctor, I want to thank, jon for your - ; medicine." :"It helped" yitfdttjUktA: ed the doctor, very much" plearlYc n. helped me wonderfully. '4tfiotr Jinany v bottles did you find it necessary to take t$ v "Oh, I didn't take any of it. ' My-uncli took one bottle and I am his sole heir. . i.a.. ... v4 's4 v MX . v. 1 . 1
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