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v,;.,j 11 r- -y. :' . .....v . : ""177 " -1 WEEKLY JOURNAL FOB HOME AND FABMQIVINOTELIABLE INFOBMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTBT. . VOL. II. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, NOV. 61884. NO. 42. . . - . : : : .-..., . . . DID TOO KNOff THAT THE HI6HIAH0S SASH AND DOOR FACTORY PaOPOSSS TO FURNISH Doors, Store Fronts, ffltnldings of all Patterns. Also planing, matching, sawing, etc., at the lowest rates. Parties needing work in my line wi'l do well to get my prices before pur chasing elsewhere. Orders promptly filled and work guaranteed equal to the best. - i HIGHLANDS SASH AND DOOR FACTORY. W. C. TROWBRIDGE. Proprietor. Tbis Spaee Belongs TO Yalaal Real Estate For I offer for sale a tract of land ituated 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 neat of Sevier Go,, and 43 miles from Strawberry Plains Depot,, on East Tenn., Va & Ga. R. R-, 45 miles from i.noxvuie, lenn. it is heavily timbered with CHERRY, ASH, SPRITCB PINE, BUCKEYE BID BIRCH, MAPLE, POPLAR CUCUMBER, CHESTNUT, OAK nd other timbers of this country This tract has been prospected for GOLD and three veins have been opened. The ore was assayed by Stillman fe Kopler, N. Y, City, and runs from $2.50 to $10.30 in gold, this being merely surface ore. There is cave on this property known as the ALUM UAVJfi: contains mag 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 WTES in the South. Alum Cave contains ' several MINERAI SPRINGS of medicinal properties. Excellent water power and fine trout fishing. No mosquitoes, and mag nificent scenery. Price, two. dollars per . sere. Address, S, T. Keisky, The 'Woman Question. written por the courier-journal. No ! I wouldn't demaoe meself, Bridget, Like yon, in disputin' wid men Would. I fly in the face of the blessed Apostles, and Father Maginnt It isn't the talent I'm wantin' Sure my father, bold Michael McCrary, Made a beautiful spache aud confession, When they hanged him, in onld Tip - perary. So, Bridget Muldoon, hold yer talfcin' About "Women's Eights," an' .all that Sure, all the rights I want is the one right To be a good helpmate to Pat. For he's a good husband, and niver Lays on me the weight of his hand, Except when he's far gone in liquor, And I nag him, you'll plahe under stand. True for ye, I've one eye in mournin' ; That's becase I disputed his right To tale and fpiod all my week's earnin's At Mulligan's wake, Sunday night. Bat it's seldom when I've done a wasbin' He'll ask for more'n half o' the pay ; And ie'll toss me my share wid a smile, dear, That's like a Bwaet moroin' In May Now, where, if I ran to convictions, Will be Patrick's home comforts and joys ? Who'll clane up his brogans for Sunday?, Or patch up his old corduroys t If we take to the polls night an' mornin' Our delicate charms will all flee ; The dew will be brushed from the rose, dear, The dow a fi"om the pache don't you see f Well soon take to shillelahs and shindies, When we get to sovereign electors, And turn our husbands' hearts from us, Then what will we do for protectors f Well have to be crowners and judgdes, And such like onld malefactors Or they'll make common couucilmen of us, Then where will be our char-acters f Ob, Bridget, God save us from votin' ! For sure as the blessed sun rolls We'll land in the Staie-house. or Con gress ! Then what will become of oir souls t Grace Grebnwoo d. The Tennessee Bonds. The Tennessee bond cases, which com prise sixteen suite against sixteen promi nent southern railroad corporations, and which involves the outstanding bonds to the amount of $7,000,000 were called for argument in the United States supreme court last week. There was an extraor dinary array of counsel present from all parts of the country including Governor Hoadly, of Ohio ; General Wager S Wajne, and John C. F. Gardner, of New York, who repiesented the bondholders, and C. F. Southmayd, cf New York, Jude Campbell, of New Orleans, Judge East and Ed Baxter, of Louisville, Judge Houston, of Louisville, William M. Ram say, of Cincinnati, General Wright and L."W. Humes, of Memphis, and P. J, Hamilton, of Mobile, representatives of of the railroad companies. The cases to be argaed were begun in the eastern, western and middle districts of Tennessee iu January, 1879, and were heard in May 18S0, before Hon. H. L. Withey, district judce at Nashville. The suits were brought by the bondholders for the pur pose of enforcing the lien on the railroads contained in the act of the general assem bly of Tennessee of Febuary 11th, 1602, "known as the "Internal Improvement Law." Under this internal improvement law about twenty-flve millions of dollars of bonds of the Slate of Tennessee were issued by the state to the railroad compa nies which are the defendants in the cases The bo rids were negotiated by the rail wad companies, and about seven million dol lais of t'lem are now out-standing in the hinds of holders all over the world. The bondholders claim the lien for the pay ment of the bonds, set forth in the inter nal improvement act, was for the benefit of the bondholders, and the bonds should be declared by the court to be a first lien on the railroads to which the bonds were issued. The contention of the railroad emnanv. on the other hand, is that the a. m lien was fur the benefit of the state only The decision of the judge was adverse to the bondholders, and from that decision the; appealed to the court m 1881. In view of the importance of the eases the court has extended the lime for argument nine hours for each side. Governor Hoadly opened the argument for the bondholders. . Hie new lithographs of two of the large Exposition buildings are fine specimens of artistic work, and reflect credit upon New Orleans where they have been drawn and colored. They are being 'sent all Captain Andrew, the Affed Pedestrian, Homeward Bound. j boston globe. "I had a letter from father this morn ing," said Mr. Oregon Andrews, son of the aged pedestrian. "He reached Worcester Saturday morn- - a TT S A. tag about iu o ciocx. ne sioppea &i Waltban on the way to examine the watch factory tbere. He expects to leave Worcester for Springfield to morrow morning, and stop in Springfield one day; rom Springfield he will go to--Hart-, ford, and atop therms ercral. dajftgJ "Does he now propose to walk to Sou Carolina f " "Well, I don't really know whether he will walk all the way or not. He said if he took a notion he might ride, if they would carry his dog too. I told him I didn't want him to walk, and he aaid that I need, not worry about him if he wanted to ride he should do so. He made a great many acquaintances on the trip that he wanted to see again. A man over in Somerville asked him if he was going to walk back, and he said, 'Yes, I guess I will:' 'What put that into your head V asked the man. 'Well, he said, I met a good many girls on the way here, an' I want to see 'em again.' " "How was he equipped when he set out!" "He had an umbrella, a shawl, a pair of pistols, a change of clothing and a num ber of smaller article3. They weighed 16 pounds." "How was he feeling t" "First rate. He gained considerable in flebh while he was here some seven or eight pouuds." "Did he enjoy his stay here f" "Very much. He was busy all the time, going round to fairs and public places. He made a trip to Lowell and staid there about a week examining the factories. He was offered a tricycle, to use on the home journey, but concluded that he would not take it, some of the roads being so rough and hilly, especial- y in Virginia and North Carolina. He said that when he got down about home, where the country is level, he might get one, and take a run down to New Or- eans." "What are his politics t" "It is hard to tell. He wouldn't talk about them when he was here. It was, I think, because he'd been treated so well here. You see, he didn't want to run the risk of offending any one. I think some one had been talking with him about it before he left home. He said he thought he should not reach Sumter before Christ mas. I expect to hear from him quite, of ten, end if he should be sick, or anything happen to him, I should start after him at once." American Labor the Best in the World. LONDON TIMES, OCT. 16. A comparison has been instituted be tweea. the work of a European employee and one in the United States. It appears that employees ef the cotton mills in Eng land work up 2,914 pounds per annum, and those in Germany from 1,200 pounds to 1,500 pounds, while the operatives of the United States work up no less than 4,350 pouudB ; the amount of wool work ed up in England by each operative aver ages 1,875 pounds ; in the United States, 640 Dounds : aud in Germany 1 ,000. In flax the average is 2,080 pounds for Eng a ' m land and 715 pounds for Germany ; is silk, 71 pounds for England, 87 pounds iu the United States, and 59 pounds in Germany. It will thus be seen that the operative in the United States works up 100 pounds of cotton to 67 pounds worked up by the English operative, and 27 pounds in Germany; 100 pounds of wool against 77 pounds by the English operative and 60 pounds by the German ; 100 pounds of silk against 811- ponnds by the English and 60 ponnds by the German operative. It is consequently claimed that, as the American artisan furnishes more work in a given time than the foreigner, he is en titled to the higher wages he receives. " ' The Tale of a Hawk. FROM THE MONROE (GA.,) ADVERTISER. Some weeks age, Miss Maude Mo Gough, who lives near Forsyth, set a trap or a hawk, baiting it with a yonng chick en. When she went to look for it the trap was gone, also a chain, about two feet long, which was attached to the trap, and was tied to a bush. Last week, Mr. Thomas McCommcn, with a rifle, shot a hawk which measured four feet and ten inches from tip to tip, and had a trap at tached to its foot, -with a ehain evidentfy the trap that had been set by Miss Mc Gongh. The trap was seen dangling be neath the hawk before it was shot. He had got caught and earned the trap' off Field and Forest. FROM THE STJUMXBVTXXE, (OA.,) GA ZETTE. Jim Buck Gilbert last week went hunt ing four constcutive nights and caught twenty-four 'possums. Not long ago a hawk pounced on a chicken in the yard of Mr. Camp, near J. N. Loveless'. Mr. Camp's eight year old son ran up, struck it on the back of the neck with a paling and killed it. It measured over four feet from tip to tip. . George W. Tyler while paddling up Raccoon mill pond last week, saw a com ffaotioS. the water. Paddling up gent- hSiwirhfcOftwSyeiaed iarge tortlela. by the tail jerked it into the boat on its back and killed it. It measured fourteen inches one way, seventeen the other, and weighed thirty-five pounds. Its head was four inches across. FROM THE BLACKSHEAR (GA.,) NSWS. On last Friday morning Mr. Fred. T. Cason went out to his field to pick peas. He had just commenced work, when he felt a sharp pain in his foot similar to that made by a sharp knife being run through the foot. He jumped about ten feet im mediately on feeling the pain, and then coming back found a ground rattlesnake all coiled up and ready for another strike He hurriedly dispatched him and went to the house to doctor his wounds. Before getting there his foot began to swell and soon commenced paining him terribly He says he sever suffered sueh pain in his life. Every remedy known to him except wni8Eey, ana mat ne couldn't get, was used before he got relief. He was in town on Wednesday, though the pain has not all gone yet, and his foot and leg are still swollen. A Sluddled Reporter. There is a reporter at the Times office at Thomas City, who writes with equal rapidity with either hand. He is an am bidexter and a bold, bad one at that. When there is a rush of work at the office id the devil is shouting "coppee" like a fiend incarnate, the useful reporter sits down at his desk in full cempany front, and with a pencil in each hand, slings off 1 Msal happenings by the yard. He writes on two sheets at once, and don't let his right hand know what his left hand is driving at J but it's driving all the same. Yesterday he got a little off his mental base, and attempted to write up a dog ffcrht and a wedding in high life at the same time. He got things mixed. His hands ran clear away with the gray mat ter in his skull, and things became terri bly confused. This is the way his items telescoped each other : j "At Grace Church, last night the nup tials of Thomai Johnston and Miss Julia Lawrence were celebra ted in the most magnificent style. A costly floral horse shoe being directly over the alter, and when the yellow cur saw the flames of anger darth)g from the eyes of the brin dle fyste, he opened with the impressive strait. s of the wedding march. As the handsome couple walked down the aisle the excited crowd beg n to get frantic, and there were yells of Sick'ena, Ball ; at him now, Towser, as the spectators he came interested in the fight. The bride was elegantly attired in pure white gar ments of the most costly fabrics, and she wore the traditional white veil and wreath of oiange blossoms, had him by the neck and his tongue began to loll out and his eyes to turn somersaults as if in the ens tomarv black suit, white gloves, ears cropped close to his head. He was a dis reputable looking dog in the beginning and ought to have been whipped for be ing so homely. He is of a good family, aud is engaged in one of the most exten sive manufacturing enterprises uu the Weet. But the yellow cur seemed to be getting the advantage, as he had now succeeded in securing a death-grip on the throat of the big brindle, and when he tenderly kissed the bride, according to the ancient custom his back was covered with mud, and his off hind leg was terribly chew ed up. Among the costly presents receive d by e hippy pair were, a fine grand pn no from the father of the bride, hair had beea scalded from his back, and one eye seem ed to have been " destroyed by an auger After a short bndal tour the happy pan- will settle down to one of the hardest fonflrht battles the reperter' has yet wit nessed, and it was difficult to - tell which dog had been punished worst. The fight ended at exactly 4 56, after having been Litterlv contested for an hour and a half were driven to the residence of the bride's parents, and be was taken to his ewner's home in a wheelbarrow. He will proba- blv never recover and if he does he will be totally blind. Besides - being perma nently lame in the left hind leg, the beau tiful bride received the congratulations of a host of friends. The groom is one of our most promising young men, and his owner dreads the possibility of losing him si he fears he can never replace lum. The father of the bnde is one of our wealthiest mercnanw, and the v yellow fyste limped off with a knowing look in his eye -and '- w saucy curl of his ta$ much as to say, Who else wants to try me f The ambidexter was summarily "fir ed." He Saw Himself. arxaksaw TRAYBLER. Such incidents have been the turning point in the fortunes of more than one family. "Yon must excuse me, gentle men, for I cannot drink anything," said a man who was known to the entire town as a drunkard. "That is the first time yon ever refused drink,". said an . acquaintance. "The other day you were hustling around after a cocktail, and, in fact, you even asked me to set 'em up." "That's very true, but I am a different man now." "Preachers had a hold of you f " "No, sir ; no one has said anything to me." "Well, what has caused the change T" "IT! tell yon. After leaving you the ether day I kept on hustling after a cock tail, as you term it, until I met a party of friends. When I left them I was about half drunk. To a man of my tempera ment a half drunk is a miserable condi tion, for the desirelbr more is so strong that he forgets his self-respect in his ef forts to get more drink. I remembered that there was a half a pint of whiskey at home which had been purchased for medi cinal purposes." "Just before reaching the gate I heard voices in the garden, and looking over the fence, I saw my little son and daughter playing. " 'No ; you be ma,' said the boy, 'and I'll be pa. Now, you sit here, and I'll come in drank. Wait, now, till I fill my bottle:' "He took a bottle, ran away and filled it with water. Pretty soon he returned, and, entering the playhouse, nodded idiot- cally at the girl, and sat down without say ing anything. The girl looked up and said : " 'James why will you do this way V " 'Whizzer way V he replied. " 'Gettin' drunk.' " 'Who's drunk!' " 'You are ; an' you promised when the baby died that you wouldn't drink any more. The children are almost ragged. an' we haven't anything to eat hardly, but you still throw your money away. Don't you know that yon are breaking my heart V "I hurried away. The acting was too ife-liko. I could think of nothing during the day but those little children playing in the garden," "Gwine to the Pos Office." One of the oddest sights in the South is to seeHhe negroes hang about the post offices. They are the first ones to call in the morning and the last ones to leave at night, and it is by no means rare to have them inquire for mail ten or. fifteen times a day. I was in the office of Marietta, Ga., when an aged darky limped in and enquired : "Am dar fo' or five letters heah fur Junebroke Duket" "No, sir," replied the postmaster, after taking a look. "Well, den J'll take one." "There are no letters for you." "Isn't dar a newspaper." "No." "Hasn't I got nuffiu' 'tall t" "Not & thing." Dat's curus very curus," muttered the man, as he walked out. I followed after and when I asked him if he expected an important letter that day he replied : "Sartin I does. Dat's why I'ze walk ed fo' miles dis mawning." "Where was the letter coming from t" "Idunno." "Did you expect news or money in the letter V "Deed I.did, sah. I 'speetft4at Iettgrj might hab f 20 lntolt. ."Who from V He then told me that he could neither read nor write, had ne fiiend to wnto to 9 him, had never mailed a letter nor receiv ed one in his' life, aed yet he had inquired for at 'least five hundred times a year for the past ten years. In fact it wasn't an hour afrer I left him before he circled round to the office again and said : "I reckon I must hah Borne mail by dis time." "No nothing for you.'' "Wall, if dat naiu't curus wery cu rus. 7 Beckon I'd better wait fur dat o'clock txtia-Detroit Free Press. . Secretary Lincoln has settled the ques tionwhether a colored man can be enliBted in the Signal Corps, by ordering the yonng man-Howard Green, . a college graduate, who passed an , excellent examination, to duty at Frt Meyer. This is done over the -heaiVof the Chief Signal Ofileer.' Sub- ordinate threaten "to make it arm" for th2 colored man, Clippings for the Curious. GaUfornia, ostrich eggs are only $120 a dozen. A Shepherdsville (Ky.,) colored woman has given birth to twins one white, and the other black. Biddies are of the. highest antiquity. The oldest one on record is in tie book of Judges jcrv. 14-18. We are told by Plutarch that the girls of his time worked at netting or sewing and the most ingen ious made riddles. At Pernambnco a Bnake of the boa class is largely employed to 'drive rats out of houses. Itcosts from fifty cents to a dol lar, and requires only a saucer of milk once or twiee a week. Dr, G. L. Beardsley reiterates the be lief of many scientific men, that death is usually quite painless, bo far as physical sensation is concerned, and he is also of ' the opinion that mental numbness, or a feeling of sinking into rest, frees the mind of fear. A model of an overhead railway is now on view in London, which the inventor declares will attain a velocity of 150 miles an hour for passengers. He nrudentlv intends, however, to Btart his railway on-. ly for parcels at first. The mortality of the globe, as given by a continental journal which has made the computation, is as follows: Per minute, 59: per diem, 97,790 and per annum, 35,639,835 ; whereas the births are 36, 792,000 per annum, 100,000 per diem, and 70 per minute. The stormy petrel possesses a very large amount of oil, which, when terrified, it has the power of throwing from its mouth. In the Faroe Islands th people draw a wick through its body, when it is young and fat, and lighting the end that projects from the beak use it for a lamp. It will burn a long time. Household Hints. Lemon juice Instead of cream in tea makes a refreshing drink. Pulverized borax sprinkled aroncd the infected places will oause roaches to flee. 7 Glycerine will remove coffee and other stains from white or colered goods. In hanging pictures the brightest colors should be put - in the darkest corners of the room. Pressed leaves placed between sheets ot glass and bordered by a plush frame are used for screens. An Unfaithful Spouse. "Why does yer want er 'vorce frum dis lady V as a colored judge of a dissatisfied husband. " 'Case she ain't de 'oman I tuk her fur, tah. De law sed dat she mas' be wid me in sickness an' health. She done all right 'long ez I bed health, but soon ez I got sick, sah, she flung overboard her oberga- tions." "Howt" "W'y, sah, I tola her to fetch me er Ined" chicken"'" irnnt-aplace whar- -she cooKea, out sne didn't do it. She said dat de lady o de house watched her too. close. Dat ain't no way fur er 'oman ter treat her husband what hab lubed and tected her. Watched her too close, de mischief." "I thinks, sah," replied the jurist, "that you are 'titled ter a 'vorce, 'case it wuz her duty ter git dat chicken. Lawd knows whut would 'er come of me when I wuz down wid de rheumatiz ef I hadenter v sessed a fine wife." Traveler. The Greensboro Patriot says : "Illus trative of the progress of the age is a suit now on trial in the Federal Court in this place. Solomon Bradehaw, a colored man, sues the North Carolina BaQroadfor $30,000 damages for the fraotnre of an arm, sustaiued iu an accident on the road. Twenty years ago Solomon's market val ue was about $1,000. Now one arm is valued at $30,000." Ellen Ashemore of Bridgewater, Pa.. lost her voise through scarlet fever, and spoke in a whisper for twelve years. She became a prosperous milliner in Ohio, and lately, when some of her employees grew rebellious, Miss Ashmore suddenly ex claimed in a loud voice, "Oh, darn these girls !" Since then her voice has been. perfectly natural. A large collection of Paebla marble which is known in the United States as Mexican onyx is being prepared at the City of Mexico, for the World's Exposi tion at New Orleans. A train went through a span of bridge at Bata via, Ohio, on Saturday, filling into, the river, 100 feet below. Two" 0f the 45 passengers were killed. 4- i " ... - The cotton gin of John Head' and W. A. Lesley, has been' burned in - Pickens. Less, $4,800. &dd to be the work of in cen5hes, v?,. ---,- t 3t: over the country and abroad, wiilt him, XT' 5 ; V - -.; - :-vv- . i, V;. x 'V r- -1 . - - .. . )