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1 ' - - -, a W . . ...... ' - i '. ,...".. WT A. .. -TS. : - , .- - ; " 4.w- T .... . . v. j. - - .... X W .. .. .- ... . r . .. i.-" - .1."'" ' ! ilWEEKLT JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM; GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF TEIS NEW COUNTRY. it i' TOE. II. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, OCT. 30, 1884; NO. 41. : 'El . . - i -.-'. ......... - . : 0. 'I, - K -V', J- -. t'S . -r'; A'tir: --;r.-'-:-. . - 4r .- W: ' 4 T Vfr- 4 i .- ; 4 V DID YOD KM THAT THE H1GHIAHDS SASH AND DOOR FACTORY PROPOSES TO FURNISH Windows, Store Fronts, Mouldings of all Tatterns. . Also planing, matching, sawing. eto., at the lowest rates. Parties needing 'work in ray line "wi'l do welijQ.get any prices betore pur chasing elsewhere. Orders promptly filled and work guaranteed equal to the best. HIGHLANDS SASH AND DOOR FACTORY. W. C. TROWBRIDGE. Proprietor. Tiiis Spsce Bekugs TO Eeal Estate M Sale. ' I offer for sale a tract of land jiltnatpd ifc. Sevier countv. Eastf - r ' Tenn. containing TEitf THOTJ- SAND AND FIFTY ACRES (10, 050). This tract is situated about 24 miles from Sevierville, the County aat of Sevier Co.. and 43 miles from Strawberry rlams Depot, on Rat Tnn.. Va...& Ga. R. R-, 45 miles from Knoxvme, lenn. it is haavily timbered with CHERRY, ... m ' 1- . ASH, SPRUCS PINE, BUCKEYE RED BIRCH, MAPLE, POPLAR CUCUMBER, CHESTNUT, OAK aad other timbers of this country This tract has been prospected for GOLD and three veins have been opened. Th 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 propei-ty known as ih0 AT.TTM CAVE: contains masr- - nesia in large quantities, from which EPSOM SALTS were extensively manufactured 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 SITES in the South. Alum Cave ; contains several MINE RAJ, SPRINGS of medicinal properties. -Excellent water power and fine trout fishing. No mosquitoes, and magr nificent scenery. " Price, two dollars per acre. Address,- - , - S, T Kelset; . Highlands; N . .' ' CL mm .. : .v - r Freedom. . T.fiCjiH.C06tlDOE. I would be" free ! For Freedom is til fair, And her strong smite., is like the smile ; : of God. - - v Her voice rings out like trumpet on the ' air. " .-- .-v. -' And men rise np amd follow ; though the l oad-i ""'. Be all unknown and hard to understand, They tread it-glaaly, holding Freedom's .hand. -"y(ir I would" he freel he little spark of Heaven Let in my soul when life was breathed in me . Is like a flame, this way and that way driven ' - -By ever wavering winds, which cease lessly ') ' ' Kindle and JJow till all my soul is hot, And would consume if liberty were not. I would he freely Bat what is freedom, thenf - : ' '.. -For widely various are the shapes she wears : ' ' la difTorent ages and to different men ; And many. titles, many forms s'e bears Riot and revolution, sword and flame All called in tumby Freedom's honored name. '-, I would be free I' Not free to burn and spoil, , To trample down. . the -weak and smite tbe strong, -To seize Ilie 4arger share of wine and oil, And rob the sun my daylight to prolong, And rob the night of sleep while others wake, -- Feast on their famine, hasely free to take. I would be free I Free in a dearer way Free to becomeall that I may or can ; To be my best an4 utmost self each day, Not held or bound by any ehain of man, By dull convention, or by foolish sneer, Or love's miBtaken clasp of feeble fear. Free to be kind, anitrue and faithful ; free To do the happy thing that makes life good, To grow as grows the goodly forest treo. By none gainsaid, by none misunder stood, To taste life's freshness with a child's de light, ' " And find new jy in" every day and night. I would be free ! Ah ! so may all be free. Then shall the wold grow seet at core and eound, And, moved in blest and ordered circuit, sea The bright millennial sun rise fair and round, Heaven's day begin, and Christ, whose service is Freedom all perfect, rule the word as his. The Independent. THE GREAT SOUTH. CLIPPINGS FROM THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES-DEMOCRAT. ADVLXTAOBS of the south in maxisg - COTTON ' GOODS. A recent prolonged controversy between the cotton spinners of the North and South as to the advantages the latter possesses in the cost of mateiial, settled the question that the South ' was able to manatacture cotton goods cheapecthan New England, the only difference of opinion being at to the exact advantage in cheapness this sec tion possessed, and here the estimates ranged from $2 07 to $2.46 a bale, or an average ot about a cent a pound. An industry equally Remarkable has been made in the production of oil and cake from cotton seed, and the great Southern staple still maintains its magical qualities, as the Italian converts the for mer into first class "olive oil," and Eog land the latter into his famous "South down mutton.7' In four years the mills increased from 40 to 108, and there is no doubt that the cotton seed in the South, under intelligent manufacturing and farm ing combined, will be worth $100,000,- 000 a year. Indeed, every class of manufacturing intelligently ttnd economically conducted fn the South pays a good dividend, wheth er it he of cotton, iron, bridges, watches, agricultural implements, cutlery, beds, chemicals, -: fertilisers, brass, carriages. brooms, trunks, shoes, handles, clothing, soap, furniture, bonnets, patent medicine, or other ' things. Great opportunities for profi'able xnanufactlriiJg of various kinds occur continually for men of skill and cap itaL V v i " ? MINERAL' WEALTH. - The immense wealth of the South in coal and mineral .was unknown before the war,, while it' possessed the lion's stare of the great Appalachian range of mineral deposits that stretches from New Jersey to-TuBkaloopa ATa." Here iron, coal and limestone are found in a compactness (and in a section penetrated by rivers and rail ways) unequaled in thfl world. In Ala bama nd"Tenneesee and the Virginias, it isJkriown that milling can be conducted cheaper than anywhere else. - These mar velous advantages have given a greai stimulus to "this industry, and the figures are full of ebggesliveness as to ihis gnat t Kwcejrf wealth. In 1870 not a ton of coal was mined in Georgia; in 1880 the census reports J 50, 000 tons. In Alabama, 11,000 in 1870, and in 1880, 322,000 tons, and for the States of Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, the eoal output rose from 900,000 tons to 3,700,000 tons. There were in 1870 but 40,000 tons of iron ore mined in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, and in 1880 there were 575,000, an increase of more than 1200 per cent. Great as the gains were, they have been far exceeded in the years that have elapsed since the census was taken, and still great er progress may be expected in the future. In this region ore is more easily come at4 labor is cheaper, and a ton of pig iron kn be produced in Virginia or Alabama for $12, whea in Pennsylvania it would cost $18. So long as this inequality exists the movement of the iron industry must be toward the South, and around t will clus ter all the many branches of iron working and kindred industries that are such great sources of profit and wealth. MUNICIPAL GROWTH. The new and prosperous cities in which are centered these various industries, are the best evidences of the new life and en ergy that is rapidly transforming the South. Many, a few years ago, were but struggling towns, the present site of some but recently reclaimed from the woods but the names of Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Birmingham, Roanoke, Anniston, Atlanta, Augusta and Columbus, suggest the potent influences &t work in recreating and regenerating this soction, and the marvelous adaptability of our people to new conditions. TIMBER. In any review of the resources of the South account must be taken of its largo forest area. It can be safely stated that 75 per cent, of the available timber east of the Rocky mountains is contained in the South. In the pines of the sections along the Gulf is untold wealth, and in the hard wood Factions of Ge rgia, Ten nessee, North Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana are found the greatest quantity of timber adapted to every want of manu facturing in useful and ornamental arti cles. The variety of these woods is sim ply marvelous, and with the rapid de struction in the North and West, their values will be immensely increased, and in their midst will spring up all kinds of in dustrial enterprises to convert them into articles useful to man. AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL. Another gicat resource of the South be yond its Staples, to which the attention and energies of the people are being turn ed, with highest promises of success in wealth and health, is the production of an infinite variety of fruits, the peach, pear, melon and grape. In all the Southern States there are large tracts finely adapt ed to those noble fruits, and their cultiva tion opens up the most cheering and in teresting diversity of pursuits. A Northern tourist and correspondent thus writeB from Macon, Ga., of the bright future of these industries, and their at tractions to the enterprising and industri ous. He says : "Any one acre of peach orchard or vines in and around Macon is paying more clear profit than any twenty acres on any farm in the North." Nor should the truck farming industry bo forgotten, which is supplying the Northern markets with early vegetables. In the cultivation of crops, moreover, a very significant fact is to be noted that thre has been a decided increase in pro duetion on a smaller acreage, showing a more intelligent system of cultivation pur sued, and a more extensive use of agricult- urul implements and machinery. Between 1870 and 1880 the amount invested in plows, harrows, etc., increased fully 50 per cent. ; and the increase since 1880 has been almost as great. BIXJL KYE AKD TI2I2 CY CLONE. game Solemn Tlscuglits Sug gested toy EZis Tumultu ous Tussle Willi a Full- Grown Tornado. BILL NYE IN DENVER OPINION. Those who know me best will remem ber that I have never, openly or secretly, written or uttered a sentiment that couldJ ia any way be warped - into an adverse criticism of the cyclone. Whatever I may have learned or observed derogatory to the cyclone and its cruel and treacherous nature, I have religiously kept to myself. I have even gone so far as to Btand up for and champion the cause cf tho cyclone when its enemies sought to damage it in my hearing. When others spoke in harsh and severe terms of the vandal, murderous work of the cyclone, I, said, "Ah, yes, gentlemen, but do not overlook the work of purification th -:t is done by its mad gyrations. Think how necessary are these atmospheric upheavals to lid us of superfluous electricity and purify the J- l did this until Tl -sriLred personal!, amonj men, aud even the hlue-nsed and sore-eyed hoodlum pointed at me as I passed and said. "There goes Bill Nye, the friend of the cyclone." And what is my reward for all this t L ke a peaceful Ute, stealing up through the sheltering ambush to saw open ti e windpipe of a 4ear friand, comes the ring tail peeler of the sky, scarcely moving the green leaves as he steals along the valley on his hind legs. The air is like the at mosphere of death. No soutd is heard except the dull thud of the woodman's axe .8 it buries itself in the heart of a pine tree that belongs to some one else. The sun has dropped behind a dull gray cloud that is faced with pale green. Still lower down the steel-gray and purple clouds come boiling over the tree-tops. The tree-toad makes a few desultory re marks. Katy-did sayB "Good evening," and the premature twilight has come. Up from the southwest comes a sullen mutter, a crash, a roar like twenty oceans in joint caucus, fhe rush of falling treos the crash of giant hail stones, the thunder of falling waters, and like the deadly charge of heaven's artillery it is over. That is a cyclone one of the adult varie ty when it is feeling well. When you see one of that kind sliding up into the sky, do not try to twist its tail as it goes by. It takeB a strong, quick man to reach out over the dash-board and twut the tail of a cyclonjs. Hemust be strong ia the wrist, cool-headed aud soon in move ments. The cyclone which visited northern Wisconsin on tne inn init was about a mile aiid a half wide, and lasted through a period ot time, 1 would say, such as would be measured in pronouncing tne word 'beat v in an ordinary tcne of voice. It blew down ihrce churches, sparing all the sa loons, jerked the school buildings crook ed, knocked the post office silly and de raolished a dozen stores and places of bus iness. It killed two of the most promis ing men and tho purest Christian woman in the village. Then it went out into the forest where I was riding along, attending to my own business, tipped me over and broke my leg. Everywhere it sought out the young and fair. It spared the old, the einful and the tough, but spent its fury on the tender, the good, the true and the beautiful. Is it surprii-ing that it jerked my galley west ? No, indeed I I am only surprised that I am alive. 1 had mtended to say a word or two about what to do when you see a cyclone coming, but this letter is already too long. One general rule may not be out of place, however. First, be sure that it is a cy clone. Then take jour family and ad journ to the State penitentiary. Those who bavxe spent the major pait of their lives in the penitentiary will remember with pleasure the feeling of security they experienced while there. I may say tru ly that I have never felt the same old se cuiitv myeelf since I But why rake up old personalities ? They will all come to the surface when I run for president. " Hudson, Wis., September 30. A New Flying Machine. The report of M. Herve Mangcn to the French academy describing a successful attempt to navigate the air, certainly, if the facts aro .as stated, records a memor able event. The machine which was the subject of experiment at Mendon is sigar shaped, with a steering apparatus, and the force is derived from a series of eleetric accumulators. M. Mangon asserts that this machine moved easily in obedience to the holm against the wind, was success fully turned round and brought back to the place of starting. If this is correct the new flying machine has accomplished more than any of its innumerable predecessors, though it by no means follows that its inventor has solved the hard problem of aerial navigation. No doubt the false analogy between water and air navigation has greatly retarded progress in this line. Really there is no analogy, or but little, between the two. The ship floats on one fluid and is propel led by another. 1 he nyine macnine is immersed wholly in the fluid it is to nav igate. The difference arising frcm dealing in the one case with an elastic and in the other with an elastic fluid also has much to do with the difficulties that have been enountered. No better model than that of the bird can probably be found, but we do not know enough about the motion of the bird's wing as yet to master the prob lem. Lightness and power are tho desid erata, and it is very hard to bring them together as they are combined in tho slen der, hollow but strong frames and bones of the bird. It is, however, clear that as a motive power electricity possesses many advantages over steam, and it may 'be predicted with safety that if aerial naviga tion is ever attained it w ill be through the aid of that force.' New York Tribune. Recently, in the city of Mexico, a break fast was given-to" the artists of the Eighth Regiment Band that has been assigned to duty at the World's Exposition this win ter. Toasts were offered for the succesB iu New Orleans of this remarkable body of artists. The bafld comprises over sixty mnMUng. and on the occasion ia mention y played overtures from "William "Tell," dr-'Crown Diamonds' Carmen," etc Didn't Know People Were . So Hind, FROM THE AUGUSTA (ME.,) JOURNAL. An old gentleman entered Thorndike Hotel Rockland, Sunday night, and stated that he had no money, and wanted to know if they would give him a night's lodging. Me said his name was John Trask, that he belonged in Saccarappa, and was more than 80 years, of age. He had started from home to visit a son re siding, as he supposed, iu Passadumkeag. On arriving at that place he found that his son had moved away. Tho old gentle man had used all his morey, and so was obliged to work hiB way home as best he could. He came from Bangor to that city. He was a neat, intelligent-appearing old gentleman, and his story was evidently a true one. Messrs. Chapman fcBerry, of the Thorndike, never do things by halves, and the stranger was given supper, a night's lodging, breakfast, and ia the morning tiith $10 in his pocket, realized from a collection taken up for him at the hotel, and a free pass over the Knox and Lincoln, given by President John T. Ber ry, of the road, took tho Monday morning train for home. Said the old man, "I didn't know people were so kind." How Forest Fires are tart' ed Ono who is supposed to know says that the most common way in which fires get started in tho Adriondacks is this: A party of hunters or fishermen with . a guide go into the woods, and select thtir camping ground for the night near a lake or pond. They go around and peel the bark from large trees of course killing them to got material to build a shelter, in front of which they kindle a fire. There may bo six inches of vegetatble soil or muck upon which the fire is built, and much is under foot everywhere. In a day or two they go off, leaving a few embers upon this muck, which has become di and with the first strong wind a fire is started which may burn over thousands of acres, killing the trees. In a year or two they fall, and the next fire that comes through these fallen trunks makes flame so hot that the vegetable substance is roasted out of the soil itself, and then it is a long time before trees of 8ny value or size will grow there. The one who gae these facts said that the guides ought 1o be not only fined hut also imprisoned f r a long term, "whenever one of them al lows a fire to be left in such a careless way. A few examples made cf -them would make them more careful. It might be hard to prove it on them, hut the good accomplished would pay for all tho money and pains it would cot when ever one was caught. The laws cer tainly should be change Jr80 as to make; the penalties very severe.; the guides should be licensed by the State aud have their licensee taken away frm them for misconduct or neglect ; and then no pleasnre-seekers should be allowed to go into the woods without a guide. Boston Transcript. A Millionaire's Blarrlrge. There were three romances in the life of the late Joshua Sears, the millionaire grocer of Boston. The first was when he was a very poor young man. He started a flirtation with a wealthy beauty on a railroad train, called on her after wards and finally found that his suit was poor and she" was rich. The second was when he was past middle ago arid very rich. He became engaged to a dashing young widow. One of her friends asked her : "What are you going to bo mar ried to that old fellow for?" "For his money, of course," Eaid she. Sears heard of this. "For my money, eh t" he cried ; "not by a blessed sight." He went to his lawyer, and was told she would have a good case in a breach-of-promisesuit. He didn't want a lawsuit, so he handed a confidential friend $10, 000 and told him to go aud see the widow and "fix things up;" which was ctone, she accepting the bribe and giving him Ms freedom. The third was when he was and old man. He found himself enormous ly rich, but thought : "When I am gone, as I soon shall be, who will ei j-y it all?' So he went to his friend, Alpheus Hardy, andsaiT: "I'm thinking of getting mar ried. What do von think about itf Hardy thought he knew a ltdy that would just suit "Well, then, Hardy, you go and arranee it." So Hardy conducted the negotiations and Sears was accepted On h'rs wedding morn the bashful bride groom called Hardy aside and said "Hardy, I don't know anything alout thia,ceremohy, and you do. So I want you'to stiek close to my side and coach me, so that I won't make any thundering mistake." Hardy Hi so and all went well. - ;;: ': . .The Crescent City's champion hoot black "shines" a pair of shoes in one mia Ute and , forty-seven seconds; and, his earnings on Hardi Gras day were fo.tj . eight dollars and twenty-five cents-if. f 0. Piear ? ; ; V ; A Great Scheme . It is presumable that the question: "What will be done with the Exposition building f" ha been asked a thousand times these two weeks. It is the largest hailding in the State, and it is as durably built as a building for such a purpose ever was. If it is torn down, the material ia.-V it will not sell for more than 10 per cent. of the whole cost. The building is the property of the North Carolina State Exposition, a body corporate, and a body under such excel lent management that you may bo sure the best possible use will be made of the building when its present purpose Bhall have been carried out. - A plan has, however, already been dis cussed by a few public spirited gentlemen in this city that is a very great scheme and reaches out far and wide in its signif icance ; and reason has yot to he shown why it is not practicable. The plan is for the Exposition company or some other company organized specially for the pur pose to keep the building just as it is, for use as a permanent Exposition building not for a State Fair merely nor merely for a North Carolina Exposition, hut for an annual inter-State Exposition. Our neighboring States, Virginia, Sjuth Car olina, and perhaps Georgia and Tenne: jjnight become interested in joining wl us to mane permanent exhibit of staple products and for keopiBg"on per manent exhibition here the proofs of the great facts they wish to keep before the attention of the world. This would make Raleigh a great gath ering place for the people of four or five States; and why not? Oar railroad sys tems now make us easily accessible to them all. How the vision broadens I Stat Chronicle. Sleeping All Winter Iong. Charles C. Abbott, writing in Seience, asserts that tho hibernation of reptiles va ries much according to the severity of the wimter. Many turtlos take refuge in the deep holes of ponds, and Dr. Abbott as serts that, in the severest cold weather, he has caught the snapping turtle, the musk turtle, and the box mud turtle in deep holes and about large springs "that discharge their waters on level ground. As fish have been found partly oate when taken in neta in min-winter, Dr. Abbott concludes that tho snapper takes an occasional meal." At the same timo ho does not deny that the species found active in winter hibernate undor certain conditi ons, and that the other species of turtle -hibernate. SuakeB which live in water do not sleep so deep a winter sleep as do the black snake and others which frequent the np- lands. . . "" The true water snake (torpidonotus sipe don) may often be found in winter a foot or two boneath the sand of any spring hole, and is not slow to swim off when thus dii- turbed. This species and the common garkr snake are' the first to appear in the spring. The upland snaker may be literally bro ken into pieces without giving evidence of life, so thoroughly torpid are they. Toads and tree froke, terrestrial and ar borearl animals, are riose sensitive to cold than the water-living nogsand 'salaman ders. Frogs at the conmoncement of winter retreat to the bottoms of ponds aud deep ditches ; salamanders to the mud at the bottom of spiiuga. All the kinds of frogs and three species of salamanders have been found in a hogs head sunk in the ground to collect the waters of a spring. They were sluggish, but not actually hibernating. There is great excitement at Benton, Montana, over the confirmation of the re port of an imporant gold discovery in Little Rocky Mountains, 100 miles North east of that place. The claims worked" pay from six to eleven dollars per day to a man working w ith the ordinary gold pan. In one instance (000 was taken from a pit twenty feet rquare. The editor of the Benton River Press telegraphs that half thd citizen? of the town are either pre paring "fcrj-4i the stampede or are already gone. , "You swear positively that it., was on Sunday morniag" that you heard the wo man shout for help T" "Yes, your Honor, positively." "Taisff.ur occurred somo months ago. Couldn't it have been Sat urday morning, or Monday1 morning, in- witj.a1 .if finndav mnrniriT f" ''TranASfriMfl. ssea 4 A 1 W. oir v - - j f , vour Honor."., "But whyf insisted the Judge. "Man's memory is not iafallible - " -Why are yon so positive that it was San day morning f "Because when I first heard the cry for help I was out in the - : : back yard digging angle worma." JT. Jt&A Sun. .. -VV::iVr"l4y: y ueen lcioria . ia nxtj-ve years w -. age. She has been fvrty-eeven yean oa- the British throne. VV i h the exception . f T?..i urarit 1 1 1 mid ft AnrirA "1 1 1 . fth . ham reigned louger tan ny otner rsriUMiBov- ? flFeian. wieen jvizaoeina reten uswa frty-fi e y trs, aud ' is next to .that oC l .,T Qaecu Yi;t.rhi taCe v: . '"'V - i -