A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOB HOME AND FARM; GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY,
vol. n.
HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, OCT. 23, 1884.
NO. 40,
DID YOU pi ;
THAT THE
H1GH1AHDS SASH AND DOOR
FACTORY
PROPOSES TO FURNISH.
Windows,
Doors,
Store Fronts,
Mouldings of all Patterns.
Also planing, matching, sabring,
etc., at the lowest rates. Parties
needing work in my line wH do
well to get my prices before pur
chasing elsewhere.- Orders promptly
filled and work guaranteed cq ial to
the best.
HIGHLANDS S1SH AND DOOR
FACTORY.
W. C. TROWBRIDGE.
Proprietor.
This Sp&ee Belongs
TO
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,1 offer for sale a tract of land
situated in Sevier county, East
Tenn., -containing TEN THOU
SAND AND FIFTY ACRES (10,
nn rrti? rot ? air.11 a tad about
24 miles from Sevierville, tho County
seat of Sevier Co,, and 43 miles
from Strawberry Plains Depot, on
IPoat T.nn V As R. R.. 45
jMLMMID V 7
miles fromKnoxville. lenn. It is
heavily timbered with CHERRY,
ASH, SPRUCE PINE, BUCJIEYE
ttpt TirnnTi ;r APTE POPLAR
CUCUMBER. CHESTNUT, OAK
and other (timbers of this country .
This tract lxas been prospected for
GOLD and three veins have been
Opened. " The ore was assayed by
Stillman & Kopler, N. Y, City, and
runs from $2.50 to $10.30 in gold.
this being merely surface ore. There
is a cave on this property known as
the 'ALUM CAVE; contains mag
nesia in large quantities, from which
EPSOM .? SALTS ; were extensively
jnannf actured. for the Confederate
army during the war. This cave al
so contains Alum' and Copperas, in
'immense quantities. .About 150
-acres near Alum Cave is exceedingly
fertile. .One of the finest HOTEL
: fcTTttSf in the South. Alum Cave
contains several MINERAL
SPRINGS "of medicinal properties.
Excellent water power and fine trou
V cri-v .V.' ''-i S-A. X'' 'i':. -,fy:J'Sy:'
fishing. :No mosquitoes, and mag-
'nificent scenery. Price, two" dollars
per acre. Address,-- '.V
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Real
-: -, I- S. T. Kelset,
,; . fligliXands, N. O.
Autumnal Dreams.
BAYARD TAYLOR.
; mill .
When the maple turns to crimson,
And the sassafras to gold ;
When the gentian's in the meadow,
And the aster in the wold ;
When tho moon is lapped in vapor,
. And the night is frosty cold ;
When the chestnut burrs are opened,
And the acorns drop like hail,
And the drowey air is startled
With the thumping of the flail
With the drumming of the partridge,
And the whistle nf the quail ;
Through the rustling woods I wander,
Through the jewels of the year
From the yellow uplands calling,
Seeking her who is still dear ;
She is near me in the autacro,
She, the beautiful, is near.
Through the emote of burning summer,
When the weary winds are still,
I can see her in the valley,
I can see her on the hill,
la the splendor of the woodlands,
In the whisper of the rill.
For the shores of earth and heaven
Meet, and mingle in the blue ;
She can wander down the glory
To the places tltet she knew
Where the happy lovers wandered
In the days when life was true.
So I think when days are sweetest,
Ad the world is wholly fair,
She may sometime steal upon me
Through the dimness ot the air,
With the cr -ss upon her bosom,
And the amaranth in her hair.
Once to meet her, ah ! to meet her,
And to hold her gently fast
'Till I blessed her, 'till she blessed me
That wero happiness at last ;
That were bliss beyond our meetings,
In the autumns of the past !
Exchange.
TEE EXPOSITION.
TTIie Grandest Display Ever
Made hy One State.
raleigh register.
The North Carolina Exposition now
going on at italeigb, 13 wholly without a
parallel in the history of States. It has
often been assorted that the old North
rate could show the most varied resource
of any one State in the Union, but nover
beforo has that been made so manifest to
se eyes of the world as at the present
time. Her resources as presented here are
not only varied, but abundant also. Near
y all the counties are represented to more
or less advantage, and each one has some
rod act or article of manufacture that the
oihers have not. It would make the heart
f every North Carolinian leap up to be-
old the grand display spread out here for
the gaze and admiration of the world.
Lovers of the good old State have brought
her treasures from the seashore and the
far distant mountains and placed them
sido by side ia one great systematic dis
play. The earth has given of its riches ;
the water has yielded its wonderful pro
ducts ; the arts of man are collocted from
border to border ; all, all are brought to
gether to fill the museum balls prepared
for this greatSoccadon. Let those at home
or abroad who think that North Carolina
is a dead Slate come and satisfy thorn-
selvcs that their ignorance is only less
stupendous than her riches. 1 o give an
adequate account of this display through
the press is a task that no sane man would
hope to, perform ic the columns 01 a
newspaper. To call -atteation to some
few articles is all that one can dare to at
tempt. America's Crown Jewels.
Few are aware that in tho bond vaults
of the Treasury are deposited for safe
keeping a large quantity of diamonds and
other precious stones which will form the
nucleus of the crown jewels when the
country becomes an empire. These gems
all have histories. Among them is a hot-
Uncr filled joM.h AW.
AWMA V UVV UVUVU V --V A V him
mondf, and there are many other kinds of
precious stones. Some of them are set in
gold orraments, intended for personal
wear. The first collection of whith we
hare any authentic accoftut has been in
the custody of the Treasury officials for
oVer forty-five years. ,They were sent to
Prosident Van Burcn by the Imaum of
Oman, whese capital city of Muscat, in
Arabia, on the Persian Gulf, is the most
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widelv known of all Arabian cities to
outsiders. The Imaum was the dude
politician "of Arabia, the boss dandy of all
the Bedouin kip, and . having found that
Martin Van Buren was two-fold harper,
Vr,ni. RribtW Ami dandier than he was
K?mo1f t, onnt. Kasa ?5am. t1 and aTla
"T! ., . . r. i
te him as a tribute to superior genius and
morahty it tres a prewy smart bcouu -
urei xo uiscouuii u
higher classes, but the Dutch patroon of
Xinderhook coal no it, a,nav the Jmaum
of Oman allowed he could take the cake
and tho diamonds, , too. Jpat alter ne
took them he did net know what to . do
with them. He could not accept them
i for himself, although he wanted to do so,
as the Constitution expressly forbade any
i pereon connected with the Government
I accepting any ' present or decoration from
any foreign power or potentate without
express authority of Congress. This au
thority Congress would not give. In
fact, it was inexpedient at that time to ask
for it. So the jewels were finally turn
ed over to tfce Treasury, where they are
now.
But the Imaum's gift is not all. There
are in the collection superb jewels receiv
ed at other times and m various ways.
Turquoises blue as Syrian summer skies ;
emeralds like the reflection of Ireland's
green turf in -her crystal-waved lakes;
rubies, oriental rubies, that flash a world
j of liquid crimson light till the eye grows
dim with grazing: sapphires, pear's sis
white as the foam of the sea, and opals
j that shimmer with resinous radiance as
only the precious opal can all of these
are there. There are many beautiful and
many quaint ornaments, jewelled brooches
and rings aud sword hilts ; be-diaraonded
creeses brought from the Malay Isles by
Wilkes and lots of other rare and valuable
trinkets. They have no definite owners
and are placed in tho Treasury vaults be
cause they are too valuable to throw
away, and nobody dares to claim them,
because nobody has any right to them.
What disposition to make of them is a
puzzio. u ngress alone can authorize
their disposition, and Congress although
asked several times to do so, has declined
to take any notice of them.
Exposition Notes.
; For the Enterprise :
The Exposition Company have thought
of the comfort of their visitors by provid
ing ice water at every door in the build
ings.
The Editors were pleasedSwith their
trip to the big State Exposition. They
all say it was a grand display, and advise
their readers to attend.
This week the colored people hold their
fair inside the Exposition Grounds. Next
week the State Agricultural Society will
hold theirfair and award premiums.
On the 21st and 22nd, Nerthcrn Men
who have located in the State are to as
semble, and are requested to make them
selves known to T. T. Patrick, Agent of
Immigration.
When you visit the Exposition don't
fail to see the huge chunks of gold that
are in the Agricultural Department dis
play, and the mammoth trunk of a hollow
Lcjrres8 tree which is used by the Albe-
marie exhibit as an ofiice. There are too
many attractions to call attention even to
one tenth of the greater ones. But don't
fail to see the Ben Butlerfish, which
Commieioner Worth has in his display,
and you will' be convinced thai that tho
waters contain as unsightly creatures as
the land.
It now costs only one cent per mile to
attend the State Exposition, tho rates hav-
ing been reduced this week.
The Exposition will positively close on
the 28ik of this month, and those desiring
to attend mast go at cnee.
The theatrical performances in Ealeigh
during tho Exposition are exceedingly in
teresting. The rate of hoard in Raleigh is very
low. The people are trying to show that
they are not as selfish as some outsiders
nave accused tnem 01 oeing. w nen you
visit the Exposition, go to the City latel-
ligence Office,
next door to Stronach's
store, on the corner next to tho Capitol,
and vou will be"sent to a private honte
where the rates are low.
Carry your boys to the Great State
Exposition nd Ietthem learn of State
pride which will make them love home
and not desire to go away.
Near fifty county displays at the Expo
sition is worth a trip to Kaleigh to ste
either one? of them.
Ashevillc is. C,
For Hie Enterprise :
Me. Editor : Hav'iDg seen in the col
umns of your paper a very favorable com
ment upon the canvass made by our Con-
gressional Standard bearer, Capt. Thog.
D . Johnston. I thought it might be of
a - I
interest to your readers to hear 6f .the
progress of the campaign in this end of
the District. Capt. Johnston and Mr
Ewart met in joint discussion at this place
on Saturday." Early in the morning, and
long before the . hour appointed for the
discussion, our etreets were thronged with
people from the country who came to see
the fun .nd hurrah, for Johnston. When
the hour for the discussion arrived, all the
I -'"---' a All 1 1 11
seats m the court house were nlled ana ail
1 available standing room occupied. Mr.
E wart led off in a speech of an' hour and
a half and was frequently applauded by
the 'Cullud Gemln" who made a studied
effort Lttf laugh at the 'right time." --When
Capt. Johnston took fthe - stand. he was
greeted with rounds of continued applause
dela d bim for ten or.fitcen minutes.
of the campaign has brought
together more people or elicited- more en
thuBagm than one; Johnson foUow
. , . Bticecv- for clearness, force of ar
j gnment and logical conclusions has not
been exceuea u equajww pj any Biaa-e
who has addressed the people atth'e place
since the campaign opened. The manner,
in. which he handled the issues of the day
indicate! wide comprehension, profound
research and a high order rof statesman
ship. Johnston is verily a tower of
strength to the Democracy in this country.
In politics he 1. rings to bear upon his ef
forts that same honorable, earnest and
conscientious zeal, that so prominently
characterizes him in private life. No
man has done more for the people at
large and especially the Democratic party
ia Western Carolina than Capt. Johns'on
during his comparatively short public life.
Ever watchful of the people's rights and
always ready to defend aud maintain them
with an ability that elicits the high esteem
and lofty admiration of all who know him.
"While we were slow to give up our Vanco
who has Berved so long and faithfully, and
"who lias ornamented his record with a
Christian integrity and conscientious dis
charge of duty, seldom witnessed in the
lives of public men; yet in choosing his
successor we feel that we have made no
mistake and we have secured as the cham
pion of our cause a man who will ever
maintain and perpetuate the honor and
good came of this Distriet in the halls of
our national assembly. So let us give
Johnston and the entire ticket, such a
musing majority as will forever justify
iie claims of the Deinocratio party upon
the patronage of the people.
T. W. W.
Orassge Growing in Florida.
The following advice to intending or
ange growers is given ty a resident 01
lorida who is experienced in the busi
nees :
"As to the practicability of making a
grove ten miles from a rauioad pay Spl,
000 an acre, I should say it is not gener
ally practicable. Such a thing is perhaps
possible under exceptionally favorable
conditions. But the expense of hauling
so bulky a crop as the orange ten miles
over our sand roads would, of course,
greatlj diminish the profit. A box of
good, sound, bright oranges is worth here
at tho railroad about $2. The cost of
hauling 500 Buch boxes 10 miles over our
sand roads would be something like $150.
The profits, therefore, would be lessened
to just that extent. Orange lands ngar
transportation are, then, naturally more
valuable than those at a distance. I wish
it were possible for me to fix the impres-
eion on persons that contemplate . setting
out oranee groves, that the first cost of
and, be it what it may, is a small item in
the cost of the grove, and that it is better
to pay a good round price for a few acres
of good land close to transportation than
to buy hundreds of acres away from mar
keting facilities merely because the land is
cheap. A five-acre grove well attended
to will absorb all the spare cash that most
men can furnish, and it is obviously better
to have euch a grove where it will be
most valuable when it comes into hearing.
A mistake in the location of a grove is, of
course, a permanent one. New railroads,
to be sure, are sometimes built in close
proximity to groves that were originally
t a good distance from transportation.
Still, it will hardly do to depend on such
a stroke of possible good, fortune. The
plan I always advise is tLis : If you have
but little money, buy a very few acres near
some thriving railroad town in South
Florida and put out your grove ther.
Then if you can possibly afford it, buy 40,
80 or 160 acres in some of the outlying
regions in the counties further south and
et it rest till a chance railroad takes it in
charge for you and perhaps loca es a sta
tion or a town in its vicinity. jy. x.
Times.
The TVay to Read.
v
Theodore Parker said his father always
made him give an account, in boyhood, of
a book he had read, before he was allow
ed to read another. In this way, habits
of attention and memory were formed,
which gave him such a wonderful knowl
edge of books, Sir Thomas Buxton,
another great man, gives some good
views :
My maxims aro, never to begin a bcok
without ..finishing it, never to consider it
finished without knowing it, and to study
with a whole mind. If you seriously re
solve to be energetic and industrious, de
pend upon it you will, for your whole life,
have reason to rejoice that you were wise
enough to form and act upon that deter
mination. I hold a doctrine, to which
owe, not much, indeed, but all the little I
ever had, viz : that with ordinary talent,
and extraordinary perseverance, all things
are attainable.
Call: Candidate Belva Lockwood
(from her sleeping apartment) "Jane,
Jane, what is that noise f -Jane "It is
a brags band, mum." "What is.it doing
here!" "It's a serenade, mum. The
crowd have banners and torchlights, mum
and I guess it's your political friends."
"0hr how kind 1 I will surely by elected.
But what is that they aro shouting, Jane f
Can you understand it Vc "Oh, yes, mum;
they are calling on yon to como out and
make a- speech." "Oh, horrors I Save
me! : Save me!
papers T'
My hair is all up in cur
Micliiifaa
ests. -
For-
fEOM THE DETROIT POST.
Mr. Perry Hannah of Traverse City!
sa'd in the course of an interview that the
pine foreste of this State, would last about
ten or fifteen years more ; that is, before
he year 1900 the great lumber industry
of Michigan would have died out for want
of material. The owners of the pine lands
bought them for the special purpose of
converting their growth of pines into logs,
lumber, and cash. It seems like a wprk
of devastation, but, whether the rapid
clearing will in. the long run appear to be
the most profitable move tit a business
view or not, it is progressing too rapidly,
and the plants for logging, sawing, and
transportation are -too extonsive and too
well established to admit of any doubt
that the manufacture will go on till there
is not a merchantable pina troe left stand
ing in the lower peninsula.
The same fate is in store for the hard
wood lumber trees, of which there is such
a splendid growth in the northern part of
the State ash, maple, birch, and others.
Within the last ten years, and chiefly
within the last five, eteam and water mills
have sprung up for tho manufacture of
these woods into lumber for bouse finish
ing, furniture, and cabinet work, and they
are increasing at a rata that promises to
exhaust the supply during the lifetime of
some who are now engaged in the business.
The sugar-maple is especially in demanJ,
and factories for making tho bird's-eye
veneering are to be found in many of the
maple localities. Denuded pine lands in
other States have become "barrens."
Thero are great tracts in this State wLich
the owners do not reckon worth paying
taxes on, now that they are stripped of
their trees. Unless Borne care is taken,
thousands and thousands of acres in Mich
igan will become worthless.
Neuralgia and Headache.
Nothing i3 so terrible as severe neural
gia, and beyond a doubt girls acquire it
often enough by the conditions of Bchool
life. Headaches in a school girl usually
mean exhausted nerve-power through
over-work, over-excitement, over-anxiety,
or bad air. Best, a good laugh or a coun
try walk will usually cure it readily enough
to begin with. But to become subject to
headaches is a very serious matter, and
all such nervous diseases have a nasty ten
dency to recur, to become periodic, to be
set up by the same causes, to become an
organic habit or the body, l'or any
woman to become liable to neuralgia is a
most terrible thing. It means that while
it lasts life ts not worth having. , It paral
izes the power to work, it deprives her' of
tne power to enjoy anything, it tends
toward irritability of temper, it tempts to
the use of narcotics and stimulant. So
says Dr. Nelson, and so say I. A girl
who finds herself subject to neuralgia
should at once change her habits if but to
grow strong in body. Of what use is ed
ucation with ill-health? 'A happy girl
must be a healthy one. The Greeks edu
cated their girls physically ; wo educate
ourB mentally. The greek mother bore
the finest children the world ever produc
ed. Dr. Holbrook, in his great works
on marriage and parenlagp, gives a chap
ter on the Grecian education of girls. Ue
claims it comes very near to the education
we need for them to-day, and we quite
agree with him. It developed beautiful
women, and their beauty lasted till old
age. The beautiful Helen wa3 as hand
some at fifty as at sweet sixteen. Dio
Lewis' Monthly.
The Business Outlook.
The most uncommon drouth that fol
lowed a summer of uncommon scarcity of
cash has postponed the anticipations of a
great many business men iu this State.
The "loosening" 0 money that was looked
for as soon as the cotton crop should come
into market has been less than was antici
pated. The dry weather cut the crop off
to a considerable extent, and the price
has run too low for a short crop to have
the money value of a full one.
The other cash-crops tobacco and
wheat are in good condition, and the
trade that is and will be dependent on
them is healthful and normal. -
The lumber trade is not as heavy as the
lumbermen hoped in the Bummer it would
be, and naval stores have brought, prices
that leave only a modest margin to the
producer.
sThe - manufacturers of cotton goods in
the ' State have felt the depressing "influ
ences of the trade in certain lines if cotton
goods ; hut in no other great manufactur
ing State in the Union has there been so
little depression as - in North Carolina.
This speaks columns for the firm founda
tion as well as for tho good management
of our manufacturers. -
But all our leading towns have contin
ued to grow; and no summer. or fall in
our history have there been so many such
substantial buildings erected. - .
- The full tide of prosperity, therefore, is
at its height, although commerce yet feds
the temporary hindrances of tifcht 'money
and the long drouth. Raleigh. CJtronicle.
Destroying
Xlie Longest Dajs.
At London, Eng'aal, and Bremen,
Prussia, the longest day has tixteen and
one half honra.
At Stockholm, in Sweden, the longtst
day has eighteen and a half hours.
At Hamburg, Germany, and Dantzig,
Prussia, the longest day has nineteen
hours, and the shortest five hours.
At Coraeo, in Finland, the longest day
has twenty-one and a half, and the short
est two and a half hours.
At Wardhuy, in Norway, the day lasts
fro n the 21st of May to the 221 of Jolyf
without interruption; and at Spitzbegen
the longest' day is three months and a
half.
At New York, the longest day, June
19, has fourteen hours and fiJty-Mx min
ates ; at Montreal, fifteen and a half hours.
But the longest day of all, though one
never seen by a civilized person, is that at
the two pole?,' where the day lasts for six
months, and is succeeded by a night equal
ly as long. Ex.
'Worth Knowing
Salt fish are quickest and best freshen
ed by soaking in sour milk.
Cold rain water and soap will remov
machine grease from washable fabrics.
Fish may be scaled much easier by
first dipping them into boiling water for a
miuute.
Frc3h meat beginning to sour, will
sweeten if placed out of doors in the cool
air over night.
A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled
with your white clothes, will greatly aid
the whitening process.
Boiling starch is much improved by the
addition of sperm, or salt, or both, or a
little gum arabic, dissolved.
Wild mint will keep rats and mice oat
of your house, and, it is said, will also
keep them from eating corn stacks.
Leaves of parsley, eaten with a little
vinegar, will prevent the disagreeable con
sequences of tainted breath of onions.
She Read the Papers
PHILADELPHIA CALL.
Mrs. Da Blank "Well, 111 try you if
you have a good recommendation from
your last place."
Domestic "A what, mum T"
"A recommendation ; a character."
"A charack-ter is it yo want? Au' sich
as you ask me, me, for a charatk-ter I"
"Well, well, and why not!"
' "You mum you, the wife'of a snake
thafe, a blackleg, a villian, the man what
murdered his grandmother, sure, and stoltt
the. pennies from a dead pauper's eyes
you "
"Mercy on us ! What are you talking
about f"
"Yer villian of a husband, of course.
Sure didn't I rade the pa-a-pers when , he
was runnin' fur office V
He ?a9 Too Near the Grare
to Uc.
A feeble old darky struggled painfully in
"B.)ss," he said, "Ise an ole, ole man.
I was bo'n in ole Vahginny ia'liDbed dar
inos' on to ninety-eight year, an' I want
yo' ter assis' me er little dis mawnin' boss
ef yo' pleas' sah f "
"You knew George Washington, of
course V
"N.0 sah, 1 nebber seed him."
"What ! Vou lived in Virginia inety
cight years and never taw George Wash
ington t"
"Dat am er fac' bdfcs, Ise an hones' ole
man, an' am too far gone in dis worl, nr
to toll er lie. I nebber seed young George
but Lor', sah' his po' ole gran'fadder am
grau'mudder yusa ter think er pow'ful
sight ob me, boss."
Land Measure.
A township is thirty-six sections, each
a mile square. A section is 640 acres.
A qnrter section half a mils square, is 160
acres. An eighth section half a mile long
north and south', and a quarter of a mile
wide, is 80 acres. A sixteenth section a
quarter of a m'le t quare, ia 40 acres.
The sections are all divided into quarter
sections, which aro named by the cardinal
points, as in section 1. The quarters ara
divided in the same way. The description
of a 40 acre lot would read : The souths
half of the west half of s the . southwest
quarter of section 1 in township 24, north
of range 7 west, or as the case may be ;
and sometimes it will fall short and some
times OvenunJhe number of acres it is
supposed to contain. North' and South
Much attention was attracted at Wil-
...... ' - . ., . ;
inington, N. C, Tuesday morning by a
small island that was floating up the Cap .'
twenty-five feet iu ! length and - fifteenj r
tinn oil i ma a In YtinflTiC with OTtXflTl 0Tlxl
and trees as high s a man's head.. It t
became detached iron) . the mam s- Jana '
the river bv the action Of -
the tide and is now exalting in its freedom.
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