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. WEEKLY JQURNJLL FOB HOME AND FARM;, GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY. .. , r ; -.,;-.'"i-.;s - ;': -" -- . - . -, -. ... ! VOL,. IL HIGHLANDS, MACON eOTFNTY; N. G DEC. 4, .1884. t"" : 3-492n -mm . "! ; . ' J I ' . ; NO. 46 ., -.. JSC t 5 ". . " 1 1 1 DIB TOO ill THAT THS MUDS SASH AID DOOR FAGTOHY TOMSK- TO TUBNISH Dears, Store Frests, 22taldiags ef all Patterns. Also plaaing, matching, sawing te)., . at the lowest rates. Parties aeediag work ia y line wi'l do wrell to get my prices before pur chasing elsewhere. Orders piomptly ifilled and work guaranteed, equal to tha beet. BIOHLiNBS SISI AID DOOH F1CT0ST. W. C. TROWBRIDGE. Propria or. tkat roll akt coBUntly aronni the H8pico, 'tV-t after a few 'yar' Mrviee they are Vipiled t go4own to Martig' ay to r jcrait their health. But Unt Jou, firoFi Us pition, is much exposed to the jtia f the south wind, which cemeB charged with moisture from the morth Ital- Tiis Sjpsee Bekns 3IX01",27. jSIaiiy to, 9f Ballots. ST. KOUIS POBT-DI8EATCH. Qr re fact and figures not usually appended with election returns. The his tory of pact ltctions teaches that this Tote of the nation advances from president to iaa plasas. Health . must he sought at a president hy stsps measured in na hers lower altitude than eight thousand feat. bf 10 percent. The total Tot of lobs Standard, was 5.754,054 ; of 1872, was 6,465,805; of 1876, was 8,412,733: of 1830, was 9,- j 210,970. Add 10 pr cent, to this last t-jtal and the estiw&te for the vote going into the hallot-roxe-a to-day will he 10, 132,067, an approxi atiea home out by other calenlatiens, and which will be found not far out of the renult. A ballot is a piece of paper aTeraging four, inches wide and ten and a half long. One hua 4fdi fiity ballots will-Wigh about a pouad. Two hundred aad fifty -ballots laid on each o tier will weasure about an inch. To prepare these bite of paper at a reasonable profit costs aiaety cents par thousand. If the ballots cast to-day were placed end to end they would reach in a continuous line from Washington, D. C. to El Paso, in Teia, or they would stretch from Eastport, Me., to New Or leans, as the crow flies. If one end of the long line of p&pgr were made fast at Cape Flattery, the extreme northwestern pro -xntory of Washington Territory, the other end would pass Kansas City, with enough miles to spare to reach Sedalia. This has to do only with the ballots ac tually voted. The number of ballots printed, of -coarse, is tittfnedously larger than the ana on At voted. In St. Xntuis, for instance, the Democrats have had 600,000, 4he other parties in all 700,000, making for this one tows a total of 1 ,300,000. It is generally adiited, however, that the vote of fit. Louis will not, at the outside, make more than 53,000. Here, then, is a surplus of twenty-six ballots for each one cast. This makes the total of ballots offered to the people throughout America at this election 26O,UQ0,0OO. It would require eighty-five freight cars to move this load of pacer, whoso weight is 1, 716,000 pounds. The white paper and printing of the mass has eost $234,000. PastoJ end to end there weuld be paper enough to go entirely around the glhe, levmg 19,000 ilea to spare for a gigan tic double bow-knot, wiich would cover the greater part ol the two Americas, or if one preferred, to keep the string ia the Uoited States there would be miles aoUijh to wrap the streamer thirty-nine times around the State of Missouri and still leave enough over to reach from the Post-Dispatch building to Governor Cleveland's private cffice in the State House at Albany. ISonjitalxi Air. Miii Eeil Ml For mm. I offer for sale a tract of land situated in Sevier county, .East Tenia., containing TEN THOU SAND AND FIFTr ACRES (10, 050). This tract is situated about 24 miles from Sevi-rville, tha County .seat of Sevier C and 43 miles fret Strawberry Plaias Depot, on East Thb ' Va., Je Qa. R. R-, 45 miles Irom Knoxyille, lenn. It is heavily timbered with CHERRY, ASH, SPRUCS PINE, BUCKEYE RED BIRCH, MAPLE, POPLAR CUCUSiBKR, CHESTNUT, OAK aai other tiaabei a ef ;- this country This tract has' be prospected; for GOLD aad " three vei have been opened The ore wag assayed by gtillman J Kopler, V. Y, City, and rum from $2.50 to $10.30 in gold, thia '.biiiag merely aurface'bre. There is a cave on this property known as the ALUM CAVE ; contains mag-- nesia ia large quantities, . fro 'which EPSOM SALTS were 1 extensively manufactured far the Confederate . army during the war. This caye al- so cofitains Alum ani Copperas in immeaae quantities. About 150 acre! Bear Aram Cave is exceedingly fertile. One of the. finest HOTEL .; -, - -rr . . TIS in tb South. Alum Cave contains ' several MINKRAI edicinal properties rater power and fin trout jBakineosuitoeg, and -tag- nificent scenery. Price, two dollars p$r. acre. - Address, . ,'.S.T, EitsiT,-,-- The Choice of rmrsuits. In seleeting a life pursuit too little at tention is paid to the natural adaption of the individaal for the calling proposed, and as a legitimate eansequence we find men going thorugh life dissatisfied with them selves and bitterly complaining that fate is against ' the; Many - a ( good mechanic has been spoiled by a black coat and white necktie and many an able and elo quent minister is concealed under the coarse garb of a bungling craftsman. Many an obscure attorney would have made a successful farmer, while there are those striving te gain a livelihood by tilling the soil to whom the occupation is most -dis tasteful and whose increasing years bring increased poverty and want. They love the noisy babble of the-court room and are most happy when ceasing the pages of Blackstone or Kent. There are ' practic ing physicians who write M. D. after their names ss awkwardly that the most care less observer cannot fail te discern that they are entirely out of the place nature intended they should eccupy. The result of these mistakes is more p'emicious than we are apt to imagine, because it is not the individual alone who suffers, but the com munity is deprived of the services of men in fields of labor for which they are admi rably adapted in every essential particu lar. We persistently ignore the fact that ev cry mind has a natural bent, that is a fix ed tendency in a given direction, or, in ether words, a natural adaption to a par ticular calling or pursuit, and it is only by devoting our attention to this special work for which we are peculiarly fitted that we can hope for measurable snccess in life Aa observance of this primal law at na ture would put every man ia the position he is best qualified to fill and open up sources of happiness and prosperity that under ur present abnormal proceedure must forever rensain closed and concealed. It may be argued in extenuation of this offence against nature's law that it is diffi cult to determine the bent ot mind unti the choice of pursuit is fixed. This is s mistake, for the child exhibits its predi lections at a very early age, and the fault is in oar failure to duly observe and obey and not in nature to point out and dis close. Were individual experiences needed to support this hypothesis they could be i . i i i - i ' i One of the best qualities f mountaia auunaaace, out suoo eTiuemo. air. that which makes it so detiebtful to anpefluo, because every cemanit fur the wearv denizens ef nkins. is its Iresh- he ples of the vil effects of this nee. and the hurher tbev ao the fresher Migrant violation of one of naime's funda ; atrsnnta Vutvfi a- mental Jaws thy find ertainetl by observations made at sun dry Alpine stations that for every one hundred and forty-three metres of alti tude the suaiuaer temperature of their moH!aiu diminishes oaa degree ceati- ra-:. The two ar-aat advai tasres of a mcun- tnio climate are the freehnfess of the air nd the intensity of the sun's action. The second ef these influences, as touch ing the human organism, is no less im portant than the fitst, for the solar radi ation penetrates oar doming, comes m contact with the skin, and acts a the blood. A few weeks' Vtay at a height of three thousand or lour thourand feet above ea level brings baek color to the face and dyes the cheeks a brown. 3ut young women, sonsetii srJ-PINGS of Jteelle -Farmer's Friend. Twicense or Ko ,ice e. be earned on, but it womld grow less and less every year, and our children weald be saved irom its influence. Every oho should respect and obey the law, and it should protect them. - Those who do not must suffer the eonseqeences. If the mere ear or belief 'that a law would be violated, should defeat its pasaageex operate its re peal, thenwe should have no law. The criminal records ef all eeaatres show that almost if "ot every law on the statute books has beea violated. Why, then ad vocate the" rsrpeal of the prohibitory law of Oeoaee or of any town or eonaty in the State, for of all the evils under which we now labor, the traffie in liquor is the greatest. f Is the use of liquers conducive te health f Does it accomplish any good f Does it promote prosperity f Does it advanee ed ucation T Does H 'develop the wealth of country ? Does it . encourage industry f Does it restrain piivate expenditure? They are poisdnous. Chemical analysis of various kinds and grades of'spirits has exhibited the fact that a very large pro portion of them contain ingredients de structive to life and health. They are the natural parent of crimes of every dye. They impair the mind, undermine the physical constitution and consume, in a poisonoas shape, the very articles neces- j sary to human sustenance and national wealth. The value of their annual 'con sumption in the United States would in a few years pay their debt and endow every church and educational instatian iu exist ence. Is it not, then, a public crime to en courage their use f Is it not a public du- y to restrain it? Let every one remem ber he has a country ; that the hope of the country rests on the rising generation ; that its moral and intellectual culture is necessary to the preservation of liberty ; that liquor is aa open enemy to every virtue ; thai; he whe builds up and legal izes a temptation to 07il to the youth of the country can hardly ask God, ''Laad us not Into temptation," and let him an swer the question by a course of conduct suitable to his convictions en these sug gestions. We have now a prohibitory law as to retailing liquor in Oconee County and we trust the Legislature will not attempt to repeal it mtil it. has a trial. Give it ft least a trial of one year, and we have no doubt but its good effects will be so seen and felt that our people will, to a man rejoice in its passage and continuance. Keowee Courier. Co Sout 2 Imsnssrratioaa, We have been asxeu the question whether a law prohibiting tae granting of licenses for re" ailing liquors would 'pro vent their use ? Certainly not, but no one caa doubt that it would exert a re straining influence. It would remove from ottr shoulders the moral responsibil ity of encouraging their use by legalizing their traffic. It would suppress the open temptation which meets the youth and old man in every town md rob the social glass of half its charms. Man is by na ture waak and prone to evil, and every inducement held oat to him. under color healthy jof the law, contraet habits destructive alike of his physical, mental and moral es even f nature, becomes a public crime, inat Young men, instead of exposing their the immediate effect of the use of spiritu- countenances to the healthful action of I ou liqners impairs these higher attributes, the light, shade their faces with hats and jig apparent to every one and equally clear cover them with veils, as if the complex- U the fact that dramshops encourage ion most to be desired is of that delicate 1 drunkenness. Most of the political evils - and wholesome tint which comes of late (under which wo are and have been la - I urs : and an indoor 4ife. Whore can j boring have been begotten and born of you find handsomer men than the ruddy-1 the wine that is red. When rum is ia faced, dark-eyed Urser Straesenmann, fvaasea. discretion, virtue are gone. The who in the days before the big tunnel, j power ef discriminating between right used -to keep the St. Gothard road treat and wrong gtews less and less distinct. frona snow, and spent his life at an oleva- fund self-will and purpose te do right be- tion of from 5,000 to 7,000 feet above the j come weaker, until the man becomes the sea? Their complexions were finer than brute. Intelligence, public virtue and that ef any fashionable beauty who ever j Christian civilization have me more potent reigned ia a ball-room or shone at a enemy than rim, aad without these ele a court, imentary ground work 8 republican govera- Another necalmritv of mountain air is f -ant must sink into the slough of licen- w 1 the relatively little moisture which it eon-1 tiousmeas. tabs. As we go higher the hass idity di- j I not, then, the legalising this traffie a miniahes in a ratio more rapid than the I moral enormity? . Many contend that ua pressure of the atmosphere. Whoa we I less lienor is permitted to be sold by law roaah aa altitude of six thousand five hun-1 n underground traffic will be earned on dred feet ws have below ns one-half of the tin violation of the law. Admit this, and total aaoaat of the vapor our atmosphere j still Aria king would he lass common. The is estimated to contain- The . hygrenae- j secrecy would be a hinderance, and fear o trie condition ef the air at these heights is detection would deter any one from suffer- subject to rapid changes. A fog, with its ling persons to drink to excess about their cold and damn, will often be dispersed in I aremigei. In fact, no man ef character a few minutes by a whiff of warm air. Lo- J and responsibility womld act in violation e: cal causes may. however, reader some the law, and the law itself presumes this mountains moister than others. . Tor in- as time. When a person tells yon people sUneetke monks of the GreatJJt. Ber- will sell liquor aayhow, ever the law or nar net complain; ef &o Wd-r-that jmderUs jaw if not by the law, he means rhstanJteep at bav-t-yet thsyNraffei so ht likes whiskey and epposei r prohibition. f mtwh Jxom TSwmsUiw course, for a tine a secret txaffia might Exaggerated reports have been pub lisked of millions of dollars which have come into North Carolina from the North since the Exposition, which do nobody any good except the scribblers who get a cent a word for such exaggerations. Tha Immigration Agency of the Board ef Agriculture has statistics which show. that a a million and a half of dollars have been brought to the State since Oct. 1st, which arc faiily attributable to the Expo siti"n. Dr. Caaedo passed through the city vesterdav on his" way to Iron Station where he goes to take charge of a manu facturing and farming sett'.cment of North ern people. The colony has twenty-six hundred acres, including ''Big Iron Ore Bank." The -company is composed of New York and Eoglish people. They also have secured fifteen thousand acres from Col. S. K. Frement in Bichmond county. On these lands they propose to establish vine yards and silk farms. This company was wor&ea up inrouga me the State Immigration office. The visit of Messrs. Drew aad Williari of Boston, was to secure control of a mine of iron pynites, (sulpher ore,) which they did. Now their plan is net only to mine and ship the ere North but to manufac ture sulphuric acid and make a fertilizer from North Carolina phosphate rock. They will leeate at Charlotte. The town of Vaughs received four fami lies during this month. D. E. Watson and S. P. Sanborn from New Hampshire, gone to Asheville. Chas. E. Evans, of Connecticut, gone to Winston Sln. B. D. Lainpbire, Frank Eastman of New Hampshire, gone to Durham, 22 per mit U unnecessary to offer any sort ef apology for these persons who, restless and disgusted with a 'life whieh- brings them scarcely more than the bare neces sities of life, are seeking "fresh fields and pastures new'' for their tot aad talent. Year by year tho business centres, of the Aerth are becoming more and more crew ded, and the struggle of life more and more severe ; day by day the chances of achieving fortune are becomiag more re mote. The competition is too keen and the prizes too rare even for throe who seek success by 'dabbling in the lotteries and speculations of mercautile life ; while for those who prefer the more sturdy, jif less exciting, occupation ef agricultural pursuits the disadvantages and unfavor-i able surrounding are rapidly becoming' more mumerous and gainfully" apparent. Happily the stars and stripes wave over; a vast and fruitful territory. Almost countless acres of fertile land are yet vir gin ia the great Soath and the mighty West, offering their many charms, of lo cation, of climate, of productiveness, al most as free gifts for those who have only the courage to throw off the thral dom of associations which are now .nar rowing and compressing their kfe work. In the East and North the industrial interests, as well as those of agriculture are mueh strained if they are not positive- ly languishing, while in the South there are many important signs indicating a very sturdy, vigorous and extensive revi val of commerce, manufacture and agriculture Greeley's famous words of ad ice have ed some to disaster and poverty, but they have put thousands on the high road to happiness and aflluence. Those words oi counsel are as wortoy ot need today as when they were uttered years ago, with the difference that their scope should be changed to read, "Go West or South, North and South. aEa'jyi!"" ". - i.'iumar Te Exclusive isritem and the Yanliee, lokdon echo. The following aneedoto is told in rela tion to the unsociable habits of English men who travel. Au old Americas gen tleman was travelling from Liverpool to London. Three gentlemen in all occu pied the carriage, rnd for an hour after the train had begun its journey never one ex- chanced a syllabic with auotber. At last the American broke ..silence and said "Gentlemen, I am L- D . I have corns from . I have been a raerchaut A tetrsragre JLoe Potlditi . ghaklsStox "hbws an-d oovsjjub, Two negro men were brought in rs cemtl and dodged in jail -on the following charge; One of them had been refuse the affections of a dusky jwsetheart. Be consulted a "witch 'doctor!' (ofiwh$naalot. abonmlDameBg the' colored people); -' He was teld that it was necessary 14 mix the powdered bone dest of an old -person and . an fcjfasV in the' food of the heartless mai den to-win her otherwise losWiove.' The -deluded fool (said to be a quiet negro) ob- tainedhelp and dug up the remains of an aged lady, "which7 had been interred'twen-' ty years, also that of au infant, which had been buried six years. The -.era ve - rob bery waB discovered, and after, a arul huut the eriuae was traced to these negroc. The mutilated -remains of the old ladv were found, but those of the child Were gone, i be indignation is it tense. The foraaer good behavior of the principal ne gro saved him from violsnee. ' He was . brought to jail far the regular course of law. The "witch doctor." some old na- gro scoundrel has led. Tho superstitions of asany ef the blaeks aret6o general that "charms" (balls ef cot ton strings, fragments ef wool, hair aad leaves rolled together) are found' os them when arrested. They always insist that they would have escaped if the Vkarat hadn't failed. ' The sight of ' a rabbit's foot, particularly a graveyard ' rabbit U te them worse than any other horror. Re cently a gentleman was called'upon tovk it a negro, who told him "he was done for; he was witched ; he did find a. piece of rabbit skin in him left-hand coat pock-' et." The gentleman epec.tsd.tiie witch and- ordered him .off the place, with the promise of fifty lashes if he returned. The charm lost its , power and the denuded fel low is well. ' for fifty years, and now I ana living in ease I am 80 years of age, and I have tvro eyes and one tongue, and, like a great many of my countrymen, I take pleasexe in - using them. My eyes feel the period, is which they bare done ma service, and I -eannot read for the motion of the train. Having introduced myself, I trust, gentlemen," yos will not look upen me as a pickpsokct.' At this, one of the get tie men drew out his card case and gave his card, This exaaple was immediately followed by the ether. "What, gentlemen," said the Americas, "you do not seem to .know one another ; let me introduee you and whh that he crossed his arms and presented the card of one to the other. This was the beginning of a warm and long friendship. One Office old. fur . 'i HARTFORD .TLUIS. When Grant was president he bad a colored, barber whom he had designated W shave him, sppoiuted lo a . clerkship is the 1 Fourth Auditor's ciiee. Treasury De parimcnt. At least he was carried on the rolls of that offiee as a clerk, hot he did but little work ia the Treasury . He bar- bemed Grant twice a week, and . &hro shaved Porter, (Babeoek, and . ethers c Grant's otScial household. . He was mot kejat at work oee hour a day on an aver- ! age. Hayes kept him, and so did Gar-', field. . He is now the official barber of the White House, aad, besides attetding to the President, shaves Phillips, the private secretary, aad the White Hons clerks. Though an intimate friend he tried, to .it himself with Gov. Cleveland Clsteland's answer was. after hearing the application : 'That's oac office I will abelub. The Treasury Deportment wUl ' not' h'av' te" pay my barber," . sons. John N. Ginithan, Pennsylvania gone to Darham, Bickard Mordcr and M. B. Maneval of Pennsylvania, gone to Lilesville, 9 per sons. William Baker, representing Pitts burg Copper Company has purchased and is working a copper mine at Blue Wing: fjeerge Swane, Oclaire, Wis., gone to Wake Forest.' T. E. Nogls, Oclaire, Wis., gone to Wake Forest. $3,000 have been invested in land at. Warrenton through .Patrick's immigrant agency at Carlisle, Pa. Stats Chronicle. A poet writes of his native place i Woast the red Ipjun here took their de lights, Fish't, it and bled ; Now most of the inhabitants is whites, With nary red. Getting: Tiaere. bublingtojj It does take a great while to get a boy out of a place where he wants to stay. Man comes -out into the orchard. f'Child'encom down outen that tree this minute 1" "Which tree?" "Why, that 'un yer iu !" "This one ?" "Yes, that one." "This one here by the feaca?'' "Yes, that 'un yer in." "This one with the red apples ?'' "Yes, that 'an, aa' I don't wast to tell ye agm." "Well, we're oomia' down." "Well, come down mighty qick.' "Well, I am." "Hurry, then 1" "Must I come elear dewa ? ' "Clear-down oa the ground, aad git thar mighty quick, too !" "Well," slowly sliding down the trunk, "I am down ; what you hollena' at me for?" If there are ten boys in the tree, the en tire dialogue with variations has te be re peated for each boy, in case the man is their father or some near relative, and by the time the last boy gets to the ground there isn t an apple en tae tree, la aso the interviewer u a stranger, or a dog, however, the first word or prefatory bar k; isn't completed betore tne tree is as aesp late aad as solitary as a garden of cecum' hers, while the adjiceut Toad'is full of howling boys, easung mto the orchard Parthian Shots of casual Btones aad deru ive remarks. '- " - ' - i ii ii j. ii r..1. Thus far t0 democrats have been killed aad ever 200 bave been wounded ia cele brating the greit democratic victorj. A new smokeless locomotive is oil'' trial on die Chicago and Northwestern Hall way, and is said te give great satisfaction. It burns the poorest quality ef bituminous seal, and emits only a thin white smoke from the smoke-stack. .The latter is a round pipe, and is placed at the rear end of the boiler, near the eab, instead of be ing in front, as in the ordinary locomo tive. There is a double eet of flues in tha boilor, a smaller cat underneath and' the larger' ones on top. The gases pass through the lower fines to the front, and then return ; by the upper laes te tbe stack. At the front there is d. thamberrwitb smoke arob, into, which the larger particles of coal-duet fall, and ape other chamber at the end of the larger, flues captures the lighter particles that have been carried that far; , Aa enthusiastic New Jersey eapitaast has started an extensive plantation of ee coanut trees in Dade Ceuniy, "along the southern coast ef Florida. The Med-nota were brought from South Carolina. They were germinated, ana aoout iw,vw plants bave been set out, at a eost ef nesrly $ 40,000. Next winter the muoaber will he largely increased. It Jequirsj years for the trees te, begin to yield re tires, bst it is estimatedthat ;ft'g? will pay tea per eeat. en aiyaluatiea $2,000000. A hill-grewnt3C;W.iJl .pj-; duce sixty mats yearly. , ,...T , It is said, on good auiherity, ' tbat 1S number, of licensed diinkibg pUeei Vkw United States is suet that if each wereei lowed aBfrontagy'of thirty feet,' aid. they were ranged, in two lines on totn sides the railroad, they, would reach from Phsi adlphiato.vplevelnd, Ohier500' rtuTft What a fide .Of herrors that womld fee es peciAUy when it 49 added that ems "H1 every ten jninules, all the ysar ' tduu ' killed by alcohol I Ex. ' In Talladega County, - Ala., ehiU, SamueJ Scott, mine-; years oW,; waje victim"ef ' hydrophobia srfew -days sisec. Th poison, wai 'cmuBcatd 11 dg simply licking .the child's feet on whch were some sores. Babies and a .death succeeded . v '-sm i i l '.-. - " i ?I4 :5 .t'i -t 1 t ..rV sr- 1 -'-Wf..: " K& ' i V a ' : c--r
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