Newspapers / Blue Ridge Enterprise (Highlands, … / Nov. 20, 1884, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Blue Ridge Enterprise (Highlands, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
J. WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM; GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, NOV. 20, 1884. VOL. II. NO. 44. HID Y003O0W THAT THB HIGHIABDS SASH AND DOOR - FACTORY ' : PBOPOSIS TO FCHKISH Dacrs, Store Fremts, If 9Qldin?9 ef all Patterast Also' planing, matching, sawing. t., at the lowest rates. Parties ueediag work in raj line wi'l do well to gt my prices before . pur chasing elsewhere. Orders promptly filled and work guaranteed equal to the best. HIGHLANDS SASH AND DOOIt FACTOSY. W. C. TROWBRIDGE. Proprietor. This Spaet Belongs TO HIDEO KJ S". V1I11I1 fiESl MtB For I offer for gale a tract of siUatfd in Sevier county, land I n .1 JSSt I Tcan., containing TEN THOU- 8AniMi;i.irii 050) . Thi3 tract ia situated about J 24 miles frora Sevieryille, the County seat of Ssvier from Strawberry Plaias Depot, ob East TBB., Va,, & Qa. R. 45 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. t a. v heavily tiabered with CHERRY, ASH, S?RUCB PINE, BUCKEYE RED BIRCH, MAPLE, POPLAR CUCUMBER, CHESTNUT, OAK and" other timbers ef this ccuutry . TMs tract has beea prospected for GOL3 as el three - veins have been opened. Th ora was assayed by Stillaaan & Kopier, N. Y, City, arid rune f.o fi2.S0 to 610.30 in sold, There una owns "v" is a cave oh thia property known as the ALU2 CAVE ; .contains mag- i J su,' .t,;i nesia m lai-ge quantities, from which s - . . EPSOM SALTS .were extensively raanufactered for the ; Confederate :my'dtiriiithe war. i ?mwe ' , :---' :& . mejji;aan1titie8. hout 150 acre near Alum Cave is exceedingly " f eitiJev - 0i theT finest HOTEL Ments, and live stock, and not $3,000, - eTS ' iribfiontb jkhm flav 000,000 capital invested in mannfactnres. -UU a---r- ; .yr r contains several MINERAI SPJllNaS of ediclnai Iproperties!: "f'U--, . ExcellenUw-ater -poWfirUnd fine trout fishing. No mosquitoes, and mast x iEcenL scenery,, xrice, iwo.apuar per acTC8 Address :i i'i i- Judge Not. Judge not the workings of his brain And of his keart thou eanstnot see, What looks to tby dim eyes a stain, In God's pure light may only be A scar, brought from some well-worn .field Where thou wouldst only faint and yild. Tbe look, the air, that frets thy sight May be a token that below Tie soul has eloeed in deadly fight ' With some' infernal, firey foe Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace. The fall thou barest to despise, May be the angel's slackened hand Has suffered it, that be may rise And take a firwer, surer stand, Or, trusting less to earthly things, May henceforth learn to use hia wings. And jadg6 none lest, but wait and see With hopeful pity, not disdain, The depths of the abyss jnay be The measure of the height of pain - And lore and glory that may raise This soul to God in after days. 1 1 1 "mrea PROSPECTUS OF A NA TIONAL AGRICULTUE AX, MOK.TIt;UITlJStAir, mineral, ajhu xi ve stock exhibition:, To be It eld at Louisville, Ky., Under tlie Auspices of tlxe Southern ISxjsogitloa Company asid tlae Department Agriculture of tlie Gen eral Government. Southebjt Exposition, Louisville, Ky. October 23, 1884. All the great Expositions of the world, including the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, have ben designed to illustrate the progress made iu manufactures, the fine arts, and the mechanical industries. While the products of the soil, chiefly of mineral nature, . and agricultural machinery and implements have been displayed at these Expositions, they hare never .hid suffic ient prominence te give character to the exhibition. The avowed purpose" of the great Expositions, from that of London I in 1851 to that of Philadelphia in 1876, was to exhibit the methods and products of the workshops and factories, and to I stimulate mechanical and artistic develop ment. The great agricultural and cnttle fairs of Europe have been mnititaiued, and in America similar fairs have been sus tained in a precarious condition by private and local patronage ; but tlie deposition o' government baa been to aid only the exhibitions ot manufactures and arts. Oomewnat 01 a departure lroni tnis (viunnon purpose was made wnen tne Government of the United Sfate3 contrib uted its aid to the World's Exposition at New Orleans; but that enterprise was conceived distinct ivt-ly in the interest of cotton aad the cotton States, and, as its naDC indicates, it is not essentially an ex hibition of Aiaencan producls: 1 he pros- v.oAfua f.f tbfl Ntw Orlnnna nnrtertal? inc declares the purpose is view te be the all nations could obtain a knowledge of tke resources, capacity, and products of the Southern States of America, and it primarily to be benefited G4UUU ao iu muujiKiio ui uui viuuau j And the Ac of Congress declared this World's Expo I sition to be the celebration of the him dredtb anniversary of the production, manufacture and commerce of cotton. It ti us appears that the firs: participation of tbe National GovernmeHt in an Exposi tion was for the general promotion of the ft ta and manufactures, and the second was for the encouragement of the pro due lion of cotton and the declared purpose of -sis:ing the development of the est ton p-'.niucing States. In every sectioa of our country, and es jpeeially in tbe cection known as the West f"1 producers have, at their own cost, maintained .agricultural and live stock fairs. . They have received' no aid from I the Government ; they have had no op portuBtty to come together from all sec j tions with their products, and, except at . v ' . I the Southern Exronuon of 1834. at Lou- they haTe ia1 Q0 prorainent place ia the general Expositions held in the ' o nnn In our ci entry there are about 8,000,- ttOO ptrsi s eng ed m agriculture, ad abouv3,000,00O persons engaged in man ufactures. There is more than $12,000,- I rrr nr . 1 - 1 t 1 l .1 1 inon . mi of the whole body of manufactures sre a1ont e1 to tbft whole profit on ayri- culturei'yet the .history of our National WiskUon shows every effort directed to- National legislation shows every w"- development and stimulation: of hai-ln the in been left to work oift it4 . own resuif; For many years the feeble enon w n-aintain at nasmngxon a cmeau I devoted to agrioulteral ' interests was the the good accomplished by the Departmen- of Agriculture in the face of adverse eirt comstanees and inadequate" means, the aid given to agriculture by Congress, in com- I parison with the practice of other govern- ments, is rediculously small im its amount and absurd in its methods. A stray pain- j phlet of current statistics, an odd volume J of the annual report, and a handful of seed now and then, is the. ordinary expo- j rience of the most favored participant m the Government's bounty to the great ag- ricultural interests of 'our country the real foundation of our National wealth If extensive collective exhibitions, sec- j tionai, national an international, are essential to the development of the arts I and manufactures ; if the artist, the arti- san, ana tne. inventor are entities. 10 tne 1 . 1 il I encouragement of these great competitive 1 displays, much more is the farmer, who leads a comparatively secluded life, who j is removed from the stimulating friction ofl experience in great communities, and who Las so little chance for comparative obser- vation, entitled to the opportunity to wit - ntES the progress made in the induetial I world iu which he woiks, and to learn the now outlets for his products. It is proposed to hold a great National Agricultural, Horticultural, Mineral, and Live Stock Exhibition, in which thew! interests will be tbe prominent features. It is to be essentially a Farmers' Exposi tion, not an Exposition to which farmers are invited to see the progress: made in the work of others, but an Exposition of the great agricultural work of our coun try. It is proposed to have this Exposi tion at Louisville, Ky., for the following reasons : ' ". , First Within a radius of 300 miles of Lftuiayille there fire 11,000,000-of- people: That is, within a half day's .journey for tho most remote of this vast population live one fifth of the entire population of the United States. This 300 miles' ra- dius, sweeping around Louisville as a center, traverses in every direction only land, an c land fannied a. full nmanla.- tion on every side. Such a circle about 7 x-- r r 1 the most crowded seaport is half, and in many cases more than half, water. Such a circle further west embraees large areas of unpeopled lands and uncultivated waste. Such a circle farther north takes in the waters of the great lakes and the hinly-peopled lands of the far North. Such a circle circumscribed about Louis- vill net only holds within its eircumfer- nce the largest population of" any like ceeded many miles belore a bullet whist ircleaiound any -,ity, but h embraces led past my ear. This was followed by a sections of all the various productive belts delineated on the census maps of product- ive areas. .Every eoior indicative 01 pe- 1 . m I culiar production used on tho census maps is iound wiihin the circumference describ- ed around Louisville by this remarkable radius, and hardly an appreciable section of Shis circle is without direct railroad n.-.nfttinn' with Louisville, whether it lips to the north, the south, the east, or ihe west. Second The Southern Exposition buildings ar the most extensive ever pro- vidi'd by private enterprise. Next to the Centennial, and the building now being ....lYUtd at "NTaw Orlarm. the isain building is the largest Etrac tore ever erect- ed in America. It covers thirteen acres of ground, end every square foot of its irea and galleries ia available for exhib- its. Tbe various annexes furnish a total of more than twentv acres under roof : and on the errounds is a splendid Quarter-1 iilile track, with the interier circle perfect lv oTaded. and surrounded bv an amohi- J q , i theatre capable of holding 15,000, and which mav readilv be extended Ur a seat- iog capacity of 25,000.- The citizens of Louisville have contri! m'ed bslf a million dollars to the Southern Exposition, and this money, with a considerable part of the earnings of the exhibition, has been) invested in this splendid property, which is bow in nerfect order for a masmificent Exposition n the grandest seale. : j a The Southern Exposition Company offers this half million dollars in a shape ready for immediate use to the country for a great National Agricultural Exhib- it'on, on the condition that the National Government will contribute its aid t the prt motion of agriculture, as it has done to the arte, manufactures, and commerce, The Company will furnish everything in its possession, and will freely undertake to manage the proposed exhibition if the National Government will participate in the undertaking in the followirg manner, through Congressional appropriations : Appropriation f $1;000 for each Con- greseional District far an agricultural ex- hibit of its natural products, $325,000.00. Appropriation for exhibit ' . fiom Executive Depart- ments generally, $100,000.00 Appropriation for exhibit under, auspices and control of the Department z Agri culture, $150,000.00. Appropriation for awards to bo made under management of the Department of Agn culture. $200,000.00. Loan to the Southern Ex position " Company" for tho extension ' of buildings and other arrangements, on tamo eondition as to pay ment as loan to New Or leans, $500,000.00. To New Orleans the National Govern' meat loaned $1,000,000, on eondition they would subscribe $500,000. The proposal herein made is that the Government shall loan bat f 500,000, against the $500,000 ahead y expended, and new in property immediately available fer use. This ar- rangement will maxe the Government and jtheSontherh Exposition Company jointly undertake the enterprise, and following the precedent heretofore set it is proposed that the .Southern Exposition Company shall name seven (7) commissioners, and the Government, through the Department of Agriculture, shall name six (6) commis- sioners, and that these commissioners shall jointly constitute a Board of Man- agement. r " .1 .1 n .1 T aignea on tne part 01 the stoutnern n,x position Company by the general corn- mittee, composed as follows Bennitt H. Yotjko, President J. H. Lindestberger, Is Vice Pres. N Bloom, 2d Vice President. John E. Giuen, 3d Vice President. J; .W Stink, Ath Vict President Chas. H. Pettet, 5th Viee President. A WILD RIDS FOR. LIFE'S SAKE. How a Man n the Santa Fe Trail Was Snatched as a Brand From the ESurn-ig-. - rockt mountain news. "Some twenty-four years ago," said an old pioneer, "I was in the employ ef the Overland Stage Company. Reports eatne in tfe at the Sioux were on the war-patn and had been seen in large numbers near the Santa Fe trail, the route pursued by stages. I was stationed at the time at Fort Dodge and had a general supervision f the stages and live stock. Peeling somewhat neaey, as several oache loaded with passengers and treasure were on the read, l selected - one cf the best horses in tbe stable and started west on the trail. Ihe atternoon of the third day, I sa,w at a distance of perhaps three miles at least a score of redskins filing over a small reeky bluff. "Putting spurs to my auimal I started en. the dead run, not havmf much fear but that I could escape. I had not p;c- perfect volley. At the . same mement some cottonwoods several hundred yards a A J.Ul J i. 1. 10 me ritul' eui"i uuueuiy w ucwuxm perfeatly alive with. Sionr. Dashing forth with a wild hoop and moanted on fresh horses, while mine was considerably jaded, the distance was soon lessened near- M7 one-half. Spurring my animal to al- most iaconivable efforts I soon had dis tanced all but three of the murderous gang, who were slowly gainbg on me, keeping np an dmost constant fire mean whiio. TurEinc in my saddle I fired at the nearest toe, who roiled troin tiis sad- die aud ha. boay was hidden in the high erass, Vrhich here rrew in wildpraine abu:.danre. This caused a momentary pause oh ths part of the other two, but instantly, however, they were again in full j cry. "At thia moment I for the first time be- I came aware of a new danger. I had fog some time delected the odor of smoke, and, looking np, saw the lurid reflectien of a prairie lire reflected on the sky. The I sun had g--ne down and the shadows wre fast lenstheninff on the plain. Al- most maddened with the terrors ef my po 1 sition, I urged my exhausted-animal to the utmost possible speed. Son the hot breath of tse fiamcs eeeed to Jictt ray very eyeballs with their fervid tong6B Iu thinking of this new henor I had al- meat forgotten the scarcely less terrible Sioux. Glancing hastily over my skoul I der I saw that the two Indians were close behind nte, evidently thinking that fear ef the flames would make me aneasy prey.- - . -V "I was at this time on. the . Very edge of the ocean of fire, which Was hissing and erackling around me Vitb a continuous seething roar. At this moment, upon turning, I discovered one of the redskins immediately at my herse's heels, with a tomahawk raisel to eleava my skull. As quick as thought I raised my rifle partial- ly, and put a bullet through his brain. We were then just within the edge of the flame, and as be fell headlong I could, irn- agine the od-.-.r of burning flesh sizzling in 1 the fierce blast. Wrapped in a perfect Bheet of fire my maddened animal. mUde'a J last desperate leap and we both fell, How long I lay there I kew ot. The sun was high in the heavens' when I re gained eonsoioesness, "and "opening my burninsr eves I saw a srronr sUndinir C9 t O Monad me. One elanco" and I saw thev were fiiojds.- , ."It waa months before I entirely recov- ored from my teinble burns and the fear- ful shock my system had sustained from tho combined horrors through which I had gone: The total value of all taxable property in Neyada for the year 1882 was 27,369, Whimsical Wills. i I The shortest will on record was probat- ed at the beginning of November, 1878, in the Lewes Probate Court. It was eight , words : "Mrs. to have all whe I die." I An old Parisian ladv, residing in the See Fontaine St. George's, left by will the whole of her fortune to her butcher. Its amount was invested in rentes and pro duced $7500 a year. The, butcher was in ' no way related to her, did not even know her by sight, neither had she ever seen him. As the testatrix had no heirs, either : direct or collateral, and no relations, the will was not disputed, and the butcber glided quite comfortably into his new po sition. A Scotch gentleman, having two young daughters, bequeathed to 'each her weight, not in gold, but in one-povnd bank notes. The elder seems to have been slimsaer than her sister, for eh e only re ceived fifty-one thousand and two hundred pounds, while the younger got fifty-seven thousand three hundred and forty-four pounds. An estate of some value was left to his eldest son by a certain John Budd, in condition that he shaved off his moustache and never allowed it to grow again. A crabbed old German professor, who died in Berlin in the beginning of the cen tury, entertaining a great dislike for his sole surviving relative, left bis property to him, but on the absolute condition that he should always wear linen clothes at aU seasons of the year, and should not sup plement them in winter by extta under garments. A spinster of New York desired that all the money she should die possessed of might be employed in her native city, but stipulated that her remains should be mix ed up in the mortar used for fixing the first stone. The will f the great humorist Rabalais is said to contain this clause : "I have no available property ; I owe a great deal, the rest I give to the poor. . A wealthy bachelor having been at tacked by a dangerous malady, made a will by which his servants were to receive somewhat small legacies, still not alto gether disproportion ed to their services but he added a clause to the effect that, in caso he should be restored to health, the same legacies should be doubled and paid off on the spot, as well as the doe- tors' fees. As may bo supposed, the' ser vants and the doetors, who were carefully informed of the terms of the testator's will, set to work with all their will to nurse and tend him, and ultimately suc ceeded in setting him on his les again. las mediately on his recovery he henorably redeemed his promise. A ISict of Pies. Herman Kold, a middle aged German, was recently discharged from the conva lescent ward of tho Homoepathie Hospi tal, where he had been under medical and surgieal treatment for eight weeks, ' Dur ing that time five ordinary round-headed steel pine have been removed from his body. "My trade," Baid he, "is that of cutter and fi tter of fnrnituro coverings : dor iug the spring -and summer 1 was employed in cutting and fitting linen for fine furci ture, and I used large quantities ot pint, and to work more rapidly I held tke pins in my mouth while adjusting the cever to a sofa, just as an upholsterer in putting down a carpet fills his mouth with tacks. One day 1 swallowed about a half dozen as I raised ray head suddenly to speak to a fellow workman.- At first I was-tern bly frightened, but I soou found, that they caased me no inconvenience; After that I think" I swallowed as manr as a dozen, id lots ranging from a single, pin .te three or four at & time. "Early in July I."" began to feel serious pains and sharp twifching spasms. I thought it was dyspepsia -or cholera-marbus, and was treated, accord ingly, but without, relief.-. The.-: pains grew more intense and I lost all appetite, i On August 21 I succumbed entirely and. Went to the hospital. The phyticlan ap peared to be puzzled by my symptoms, but began treatingjxne lot acute dyipepi sia. Tsoon began to feel sharp pains in my back and juat above my 'right thigh. Then I was treated for inflammatory ihematUoa. One day I , detect ?d on ray back, tbout two inches to the right ef the spine, a small swelling j$t where I had felt the sharp Ipaips, 4 , All .; 'at once I thought of the cases I had heard bljwbere needles had veerked through .the hsman body and' finally been removed.' Then for the first time I told tke doetort about the pins I had swallowed. .The lump on my back inflamed rapidly and swelled up like boils. Ten days after t diieovered it the doetors lanced it and pulled out one of the pins. . The next day '.two more of the pins were removed. The other "two phai were taken iut .three weeke lateVfroni iust above in y right thigh; I . feel ' much better now and my appetite is. good.; ' -. .w r" . :i r 9: J V i Samner Shepard has held office . in Wiudsorville, Cortn.7 tor 1ifty-xii-years continuously, is sow 94 years . old, and 4s regarded as the eldeet -poitirxster in the BerglMff As a Butlnees. KEHOBOTX 8UKDAT HBIU.LC. - - - v In China begging ia, a regular, busiieu, beggars beingborn into the profession and bringing up their children to it. Iq every large city there is a vast associatien of mendicants, to which every one who Vega J for a living must belong. At the' head is -' one styled the Beggar King. His author ity is absolute, and te him the other are amenable. The societv has a code of rulfs, and by this every beggar has a right " according to custom, to stand at the door of a dwelling and howl, sinj-, knock or make any other noise he pleases until tho r occupant gives him some cash. Then he is obliged to desist and can apply at "tho ' same place no more that - day. No two are allowed to beg together at the same . place, yet they are 80 numerous that few doors are free from their clamoriags long at a'time. The proprietors of large es- - tablishments who desire to save themselves from the annoyance of tho continual visi tations do so by paying a certain sum at once to the king, who causes a written statement to that effect to be pasted by too side of the door, and this procures for . that house certain exemption. No beggar dare approach it, for, though few of them can read, all recognize tho seal ef their chief, and if one transgresses he may be beaten by the occupants jof tho house, or, being reported to the king, be more se verely punished. Every beggar has hie" beat, beyond whieh he dara .not go, and hss also his superior, to whom every night . he hands over a certain part f the day's proceeds, i ae overseers in turn pay to the king a fixed sum monthly," which must be large,, as he live"s Uko- nabob. . If a beggar breaks the laws he is sect to tho king, who ia held responsible by the city" magistrates for the good condict of all his "1 people. Tho punishment he administers is generally too slow for the people who suffer from the depredations ef tho beggars, and when the beggar is detected in am of- ' tence his punishment' geserally consists ia having his hands. tied behind him,, being drawn up over a limb of tho nearest tree and beaten half to death with sticks, clubs, fists or anything that cones to hand. Abuse of Ker6se3i .Is there any good bet that man, in his carelessness or malieioesness, abuses or puts to bad uses ? And among material good is - there ' one, which - has suffered more injustice than this earth oil f Lataly we had here a sad example of tho result ef the improper handling of the same, by reason of whieh a little girl, about' tern years of age, lost her life. When will adults learn to use with proper caution those substances which, improperly han dled, even when the use te which they are put is legitimate, are the instruments of: terrible sufferings and oftentimes death f If ibis little girl, above mentioned, had never see crown people or her elders take the kerosene can or lamp to the f tovo or fire-placo, as tlie case may be, to ' us some of the oil therein contained to more readily and easily ignite the fire, tho might have been living to-day. Since ker osene first came into general use, what an army has been slain by if, through care lessness alone? And when to this number is added those who have fallen victims to it through maliciocs use, how groat is tho increase I When to this death list of hur manity is added.: the destruction of proper ty, through both careless and malicious use, "whit a vast amount of wealth has been, scattered to- tho winds!. Is it hot high Ume for the. whole people to awaken folly, to the enormity of the evil of .nsipg j themselves or allowing those about them. or their premises to use kerosene improp erly or carelesily ? Would it not be weft to make it a regulation,. fr?m which, there must be mo varying, that.no one shall bo allowed to take ' near a fire or perhaps where a few eoals of fire might perchance be, any vessel .containing this oil, and nev er to fill lamps without first extinguishing the blase I Sudor Bezel " ' MLmammHMmmmmmomommmmmmsimm' A correspondent of the Ekhjsiosd Dii- patch writing from Tazewell coentylin this Statey tells of a walnut tree cat is tho adjdiaing county. of Sussell whieh is oxroc ted to realize to its ownr in the neighbor hood of six hundred iellars. Tho walnut lumber trade of that geetion," the wrif or . says, has" engaged at lsast 1.500 mem, and -3,000 horses for the-last ftUT years, anf it ia roughfy estimated that it has brought into the three counties f Tazewell,''-Rrus-sell, and Washington .$1,500,000.'; he letterdeseribos poplar tree -ia Wright'a Yalley which is 20 feet in circumference, and aiother into a hollow"' f ircich a horseman eau'xide and - turn": arbtiadii It adds that, , ftp some extent ttewajnet lumber ot tho three eounties . mestjonei has.been exhausted, yet there renaiis urn told wealtii fn!th'o yellow and whitoClp1p lar. the ash, tho hickory, the. eb errv. suad the oak. There promises to bo quite a trade iulocast in a few yeam,"and it will not be long before the. fine ehestnut ahin gles 6T thia section will be shipped east at a prefit. 'Oak staves aro being shipped trom every etatiou and switch oaho Now River r6ad, ta-:. Norfolk: or j EaroyA .aBd South America, -.jmdperhjvps lvfn-bun-, dredcen are now engaged ..this iiss- - - ' I jsst of the country, and even now, with all Totalf 1175,000.00. 112537: TJ oi ted states; "y 1 .. . - .' .- r V
Blue Ridge Enterprise (Highlands, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 20, 1884, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75