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Ridge 'lEOTEMsii -..r rrvs- K g wc A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HQMEAND FARM; GIVLW0 HSLIA MLB INFORMATION OF THIS NSW OOUNTST. ... . y . -ti-.. VOL. IE mGHIiDSIACON COUNTY, m,- THURSDAY. JAN. 1885. NO. 52. T.'-' :,. -l-,- '.. V ' 5-.- s THAT TOT IIIC: SASH A!ID 000R PROPOSES TO ; JT7BI71SH ' - Alto plaaifig, matching, sawing. ...... - to ; . t tho le vest rates. Parties eeedhif:ork n my lino wi'l o oli to gtmy pnces beioro pur haaiBg lswh'. Orders, promptly filled and work guaranteed equal to tht best. HIGnLlND 81Sn ND DOOR JUllhjFlCTORT. "VT. OTCBO WBRIDGE. proprietor. NfiW STORE. Baring v paid-for my goods, Wed tktt Iean sell as cheap S4 (lie Cheapest. I , ; ; Therefore Ask a etatlsaance 6f the liberal Patroaflge already giTen nc, aid would jfere retnrn my fiiaeere thanks for . . we ane. if careful aid proapt attention to theants of my enstomers entitle neHsh tleir frade, I propose ja this way te secure it AY ONE KjEfeDIlOATBST MEDI ClB WOTJtD DO WEW TO GIVE MX A , CALL- BEFORE PUR ' CHASItsO EL8BWHEBB." A8 I PROPOSE SELLIKQ At COST I 1 ROPOSnr"KEfSPIOrON'-AKD A TOLERABLY. FAIR 8 COOK;OF family qroceries i Rave Alia A' GOOD STOCK OF BLIND BRIDLES, SADDLE BLANK- ftXd, ecc. - Sare v emharrasssnt fey not asking for :BAwri?aiwixsoN HIGBXJ3IWVN C, YODiiAM! UPBOIJT h CO VLS FAILED ; v Tjj5i Beceitv Bate T kfJ Jm ftaeapi Varied a gttck ef Groceries and Genl. - Mor 'OARKSYHLE, yyANI10,O0Cr,030 Jbi. of Wool. - ! JlighMt rpnees and ,jtrt cash yfi conao'-fis near having eyfiry ttacom ' County." Awtioa soods at . X . V '- a. . .w J i Til 1 "iT I Aactioa pneea. - - r .a T. BAXTER WHITE. Dealer in ths Best Of Food Products; Coffees Especially Fine 5 Finest Brands of Teas; Hats, Boots & Shoes; Staple Dry Goods; McLean's Flour, a Superior Article, Constantly Hand. on -OUR SPECIALTIES. Mauek & Grosh Poeket Cutlery. Da. Barter's Family Medicines. Agrnt for JOHN WANAMAK ER'S Custom and Ready Made Clothing, and for any line of Goods they carry. Also for all Leading Papers and Magazines at Club Ratos . HIGHLANDS INSURANCE AGENCY. We can place Insurance in tbe Best of Companies . T. BAXTER WHITE, Highlands, ?. C. p. p. Mclean mills, Cowes, Macon Co , IT- C- Ire ju3t finished. Constructed of the VERY BEST material "FRENC H BURRS" FOB WHEAT, "ESOPUS BURRS" ft n CORN, "DUTCH ANOHOR 60LT- INtt eiXXTH," ...... AND "WTT-nHITA HrrTTTT?R TIT? AW ?T W From 8il,vkb Cheek, N. Y. tSparanteed to excel both in quantity and qlity ot MEAL, and EQUAL it bo xcel, both in quantity acd quality , of floor, any and all mills In Western Carolina. fn connection with the above is a first clau BRENNISQ CIRCULAR SAW MILL, with a capacity for 7,500 feet per day . Orders for FLOUR 01 LUMBER promptly filled. In these mills, the people's interest are carefully protected, aid satisfaction gnar an toed. P. P. McLEAtf, Pkopkiet9 . IMPROVE TOUR STOCK NOTHING IS SO PROFITABLE IN FARMING ' AS KEEPING THE BEST OF LIVE STOCK. IB HOUGHTON FARM " Sells at Fat Prices Jersey Cattle, Senthdown Sheep and Essex Swine REFERENCES GIVEN TO NORTH CAROLINA PURCHASERS cr our STOCK. SHEEP and SWINE shown by C. T. KERR at N. C. State Fair at Ktleigb, were bought of HOUGHTON FARM. PURE BRED MALES A SPECIALTY, wtn which to grade-up common stock. Address HENRY E. ALVORD, Manager. Mountainvillb Obvngb Co , New York. How Lost, How Restored Just published, a new edition of DR CULVER WELL'S CELEBRATED ESSAY on the radical cure of Spermatorrhoea xT Seminal Weakness. Involuntary Seminal Lost, lKPOTEjioY, Mental and roy steal la- canacitv. -unDediments to Jaarnae, etc. also. Consumption. Epilepsy and Fits, in duced by self -Indulgence, or sexual extrav .Aganceu &c- loe ceieDratea autnor, m tins admirable ay, clearly demonstrates from a thirty years' successful practice, that the alarming consequences of telf -abuse may be radically cured; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certaio and effectual, ty mcns of which everv sufftrer. no mbtter what hts I conaiaon may be. may cure nlmseix cbeaply Drtvatelv and radically, . I -mmm. M- . . 1 V .. , t tuw ijecxuro scouia do m tne nanas I ot every j outh and every man in tbe laod. Sent under seal. In a plin envelope, to any address, pose paid, o receipt of four I cents or two postage stamps. Address THE CULVER WELL MED ICAL CO- 4X. Ann t., New, York ..-rV . . Post Office Box, 460. J? I ' J. & P. GOATS -00BD SPOOL COTTON YOU CAN BTHf n 0 ROBERT L. PORTER, Franklin,?. C. J. H. DURGIN, CARPENTER & BUILDER. Rigbhnds, N. C. Will take Contract, or Work by the JOB. Od r Of Forest ! Spa kh of Strca 1 ! Do tou own a gun, or a "fiah- p le,". or "biro-dog," or rifle? fiver go angling of shootiogr, or tramping, or canoe ing, or yachting? Have you a taste for s-ud ing the habits of wild birds and ani mals? Do you know that for ten years we have been publishing a bright webly paper devoted to theie subjects? It will repay you to look at a copy of tbe Fobest ahd Stream. There Is no other paoer in the world just like it. Address, Forest and Stream Publishing Co,, 89 Park Row, New York. Suedmen Copy xo Cents The Southern Mountain Re gion 311. v Eds. County Gentleman : I ought cot to forget, in mentioning the advant ages of this region to tbe farmer, the cult ure of tobacco and the business of dairy ing, yv nether tor goa or evu, t tne grower and consumer both, tobacco-row- ing is becoming a prominent industry, and North Carolina is producing the most valuable qualities of the weed. Raleigh, the capital of the State, is largely inter ested in the manufacture of tobaeco, but the largest ratio of increase in the business has taken place at Asheville, which is the principal town in the mountain country. Asheville is in Buncombe county on the French Boad River, in a delightful valley of rich bottom lands, and bordered by mountains- Below Asheviilo, and down to Salisbury, stretches an extent of foot hills which are well adapted to the finest quali.ies of tobacco, and above Asheville the culture has spread so rapidly upon the congenial soil that the population of the town has quadrupled in the last three or four years, and a large number o' large tobacco factories have been estab lished there. The soil through the tobao- co eountry is chiefly red clay, but there is some gray soil which also produces this crop to perfection. Tobacco contains a large quantity of potash, and the whole soil of this region is so rich in this ele ment that it ought to stand a good deal of exbautthe culture without - suffering. It U therefore probable, and I think cer tain, that this crop will soon extend all through the region and become a leading product. Newly cleared land is chosen for it, but old land that has been turned out, or left fallow, when broken up pro duces a very satisfactory yield. If this exhaastive crop is well managed, aud not grown to the exclusion of some recupera tire crops, the soil may last permanently and yield every few years as Hiujh in one year as all the intermediate crops will. There is no reason why a tobacco far n should be a wreck and a reproach to good farming, any more than a cotton planta tion, a hop garden or a wheat farm might be; it is all in the management, aa it is with all branches of agriculture. My sympathies, however, are adverse to tobacco culture, and are all in favor of dairying, aud in this region I see -every advantage that a dairyman can desire A climate that' is cool in the summer and mild in the winter, and in whicb cows can graze during the whole year, except ing for two or three weeks, in an aggre gate of days, in which snow covers the ground at short periods ; a soil that favors the growth of the grasses and fodder crops and in which roots, especially the carrot, 1 parsnip and the beet, flourish to - perfec tion i a country in which perennial springs burst from the rocks or from the soil. pouring out tbe purest water at just tha iri -3., . right temperature for the best dairy work ; and, lastly, a market at the door that can never be ovei stocked, and which admits of the most favorable competition with the best of dairy localities elsewhere. Moreover the best of land is absolutely lidiculously cheap to a farmer who has made butter on hind worth two hundred dollars an acre, and the taxes on which 'or one year would suffice to buy better land In this unsurpassed eountry. The grazier, too, can find quite as aaany advantages. Rough mountain land which furnishes equally good pasturage as the western plains, bitter shelter, in finitely better wafer, which has abundant timber, for fences", and relieves the. stock man J from -the cost of herding;" and in whi-h level fields can tie- seeded to pe.rT masrnt grasses, or left to grow up natur ally with blue grass and white clover, or made to bear, heavy crops of turnips or ruta bagas, and whicb can be procured in large tracts, offer such favorable condi- tons as to climate, product, and near markets, aa no locality in the western grazing fields afford, and yet these are crowded with herds and flocks which pay a handsome frefit to their owners. The native cattle through this region go through the winters without shelter, and become quite fat en the forest feed in the summer. With better care, good winter feeding i.ui the shelter of a grove, or a warm cove on the mountain Bide, and es pecially with an infusion of geod blood, these hardy cattle could be made equal to any, and find a ready market anywhere As oxen, the native catt'e are excellent, although rather email. They are active. so much so as to be trained to the saddle, and it is one of the curious sights of the country to see a lank, long-haired moun taiaeer riding in'o the village on a trot ting px, or driving a horned roadster in a buckboard. The carriage of tbe country, however, is a cloth covered wagon like the old-iasmoned praitie schooner ene used to see in long trains crossing the plains 20 years ago, e: pting where the saddle is used. Everybody rides here; adies and the native women are all good riders, and the men mount their horses or mules to go half a mile to the store, or to cross a. field or to go through the wods The woods are quite open, and easily traversed by horses, and in many parts by wagons, without roads. This is owing chiefly to the yearly burning of the ground to tncoarage the growth of grass, by which the young sprouts are killed, and the covering of leaves removed. This annual burning occutred iu No vember, when it afforded a eight worth eeing. At first a tbin ttreak of brown cloud arose in the distance over a distant mountain This seemed to be a signal 'or hundreds of fires to be started in every direction ; for in a few days, the olouds of smoke became quite numerous, by day, and at night the red glare of distant fires glowed over the mountain tops. Then everybody started back fires, to save their fences, ostensibly, but really, as it seemed, because they became wtected witn tne prevalent mania for burning. Then the smoke obscured the sun, slung the nos trils, blinded the eyes, and made the throat sore and the voice hoarse. At night the scene was brilliant and ptctur- m . mi " . esque in tne extreme, ine mountains glowed with red fire ; long lines ot it crossed the slopeB or ran up them in streaks often parallel, and appearing like the rows of lights which make the streets of a great city brilliant at night ; and at times it seemed as if great torch light pro cessions were moviDg up the mountain sides or around its flanks, or were gather ing in a body on its crest and peak. The rapidly burning dry leaves, fanned by a brisk wind, made these long lines of fire move with great rapidity, aid as no em bers were left, there were merely the threads of bright light chasing each other, meeting, crossing and mingling, and then gradually dying out. Sometimes a dead tret took fire, and its glowing top looked like a beacon avnid an army whose lines marched and countermarched and ma noeuvered. It was an effect that could probably bo produced in no other way and ver7 curious. A heavy rain extin guished the smouldering embers in the dead timber, and cleared the smoke, and restored the obscured views. No harm seemed o be done, except that a few rho dodendrons and kalmias appeared scorch ed; the tufts of slightly withered grass, and the woods were clear and smooth ; the black surface soon being again covered with a carpet of newly fallen leaves. And thus ended the annual burning of the for ests, which the natives say was always done by the Indians just before the fal: rains set in. Country Gentleman. Highlands, N. 0., Dec. 15. H. S. A Valuable Table. The following tables- are from the re port made by the Tariff Commission, and were used during the last session of Con gress in the course of a speech during a discussion of tbe tariff question. The dates are calculated up to 1876 : Age of United Slates, dating from Decla ration of Independence, 100 yrs Age. of United Kingdom of Great Britain - dating from William tb Conqueror, 800 yri. Age of France, dating from Charle magne, 1 100 yrs. Age of " Germany, dating . from Charlemagne, 1100 yrs. Age of Austria, dating from Char lemagne, 11(0 yrs. Age of Russia, dating from Peter '. the Great, 350 yrs. 50,150,000 34,505,000 37.106,000 43 367,000 82 400,000 39,175,000 POPULATION. United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, AustrU, .. WEALTH. United States, Great Britain, $55,000,000,000 45 000,000,000 40 6fjd;0tX),009 25,000,000,000 15,000 000.000 14,000,000,000 France, Germany, Russia, Austria, DEBT. United States, $1,800,000,000 3,800,000,000 4,000,000,000 90,000,000 2 000,000,000 2,000,000,000 Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, EXPENSE. United States, Great Britair, $257,000,000 415,000,000 650,000,000 150,000,000 G00,000,000 France, Germany, Russia, Austria, 370,000,000 PRODCCTIOXS. United States Agriculture $7,500,000,000 " " Manufactures, 8,000,000,000 Great Britain, Agriculture, 1,200,000,000 " ' Manufactures, 4,000,000,000 France ii -Agriculture, Manufactures, 2,000,000 000 2,500,000 000 Germany Agriculture, ' Manufactures, Russia Agriculture, " Manufacture", Austria Agriculture, " Manufacture?, 1,800,000,000 2,200,000,COO 2,000,000,000 1,800,000,000 1,000,000,000 1,700,000,000 Diphtheria. The following is going the rounds xf the papers as aure for the much-dreaded malady, diphtheria. ,The remedy is good but not infallable ; neither can any sin gle remedy be called a specific, if the disease varies in Jts majjjjfnaacy and in type, in different localities and in different seasons. If we were to rely upon one remely as a preventative, it would be the ilpbi'e of soda, as recommended in a ate number of this paper : i Imperial Russian Legatiok, ) Washington", Nov. 16, 1679. $ In view of the increase of (iihtheria in several places of the State of New Y-rk, I hasten to ci-mmunicate to you for publici ty a very simple remedy, which, having been used in Russia and Germany, may prove effective here. Out of several oth ers, Dr. Letzerich, who made extensive experiments in tbe application of this rem edy, has used it in twenty-seven cases, 8 of which were of a yery serious nature, all of which had a favorable result except in one case, when the child died from a com plication of disease s. For children of one year he prescribes the remedy, for internal use every one or two hours, as follows : Natr. benzoic, pur. 5 0 sol v. iu aq distilled aq. menth. piper, ana. 40. o syr. aur. 10. For children from one ,o three years old be prescribed it from 7 to 8 grammes for 00 grammes of distilled water, with same syrup ; ior children hom three to seven years old he prescribed 10 to 15 grammes, and for grown persons from fifteen to twenty-five grammes for each 103 gram mes. Besides this he uses also with great sue- cess the insufflation on tne oipnvnenai membrane through a glass tube in serious cases every three hours, in light cases 3 times a day of the natr. benzoic pulver. For grown people he prescribes for garg ling a dilution ot ten grammes of this pul ver for 2oo grammes of water. The effect of the remedy is rapid. Af ter twenty -four r thirty-six hours the fe verish symptoms disappear completely and the temperature and pulse : become normal. This remedy was used also with the same success by Dr. Brahain Braun and Prof. Klebs, in Pragj Dr Senator, in; Cassel, and several others in Russia and Germany. Hoping that the publication through yourwidely spread paper will prove ben eficial ia the Uaited States, I rejaain, yours, truly. N. Shishkis, Minister of Raisia to the United Stater. Exchanged 1 i There is good prospect of completing the projted Railroad from Statesville to Taylorsvflle; It " will be a continuation of the Road from Charlotte to Statesville, known as the Atlantic, .Tenn. & 0. Rail road. . . v ('.' Coal Oil or Petroleum may be very nice for illuminating or lubricating purposes, but surely ii is net the proper thing to cure a cough 'with. Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup is looked upon as the ctanda Cough remely. Attitude of the States on the Prohibition Question. ....... . i. ., . - -- ? The Philadelphia Press has been at the pains to gather from official sources infor- tnatioh as to the action taken by the States, of the Union in regard to the t-t. striotion of the use, manufacture orisale(1 of intoxicating liquors. . Five States have prohibitory laws Maiae, New Hamp shire, Vermont, Iowa and Kansas. . Thir teen are without general laws upon the subject. Massachusetts, Connecticut, In diana, Michigan and' Wisconsin have tried prohibition, and finding it ineffective have had recourse' to less .drastic measures.') Twenty States and Territories. deal with the liquor question by means a license . .-. or a local-option jtf stem. , 4 Local-option is tbe mom popular system, ai it concede! to communities the light to deal with the ' ; qaFstidn according to the individual eon-' ' ' victions or needs. Rural neighborhoods - -and populous cities may have different' 11 views and interests, and it is the merit! "A the loeal-opion method that it provides l or this possible difference. TVorth Caroll na's Debt. J Ealeigth, N. C, The report of State Treasurer Worth shows the amount of old bonds authorized to be funded into 4 per cent, bonds was 12 ,627,045, of which $0,627,445 have been funded, making a -new debt of $2,803,796. If the Legisla- ; ture extends the provisions of the funding act, now expired, and the remaining bonds ae funded, the total issue ofiour per cent will be $3,589,511. Two million and thirty thousand dollars new sixes were issued in exchange for a like amount of North Carolina construction bonds. $765,000 of which are still outstanding. -1 The iaterest ou the new d -bt has been 1 promptly met. The public fund on hand at the close of the fiscal year was $926,- 086. The treasurer reoommendg th&t the tax be only ten cents on tlOO worth of -property for the next year. The tate finances are in a most excellent condi tion. Bad l Tennessee. Tf Ponce de Leon, in his search for the Htlrd iVuutainThad abode in the. mountains of Tennessee, whUSTtv would have in a degree been disappointed, his dreams would have been half realized in finding, not the rejuvenating waters, but tbe next bet substitute, the only known rejuvenator, a wholesome and iu vig rating climate. And while the many iaynigrants now looking toward Tennes see for permanent homes, will find no Utcpia, its blue monutains and rippling brooklets, its immense forest, its mineral wealth of iron ore and coal, its undevel oped natural resources render it a desira ble home for the varied iaduBtries and oc cupations ot civilization. E. T. News. Judson College was never in better werking order than now. There are from J2o to 13o students enrolled. The exercises, Just before Christmas, wore of a very pleasing and instructive character. We wish to observe of the young men in attendance now, that unless we are "fool ed," there are jouug men here who will' make their mark in the world. Profess or Boone and the other worthy members of the faculty are entitled to a meet liberal' patronage frem our people. It would be many years before another such an able and working faculty as the present one could be . had at Judson, College, 0 ir people . will live to regret it, if- they do not rally r in., good earj nest to the aid of Professar Boone and his co-workers. Blue Ridge Baptist. 1 . Eczema l Eczema is ene of the ugliest' an troublesome of all blood diseases.' ceeds from humors in the blood W sometimes very difficult to eradicate five wearv vears Mr. J. D.-RoSa Greendale, Va., suffered terribly from this disease. He writes ' v ''Finding no relief in the many medicines till I heed Brown's Iron Bitters, I purchased" three bottles from the use of which I have obtained al most entire relief. I recommend it to ' e v ery one in my neighborhood for any dis-. order of the blood aud as a general torii. ic." ' Pined $200. it" . .: ;.. L . In the United States District Cout, on the 3rd ult., J. P. Horbaeh, late manager of the Dismal Swamp lottery of Norfolk, Va , was convicted on two indictments charging Liar with sending lottery tickets through the mails, and fined $200.--Public Herald. . Kentucky .is the largest tobacoH produc ing State in the Union. Its crop in 1880 was 171420,784! V . l, ' '. Alamance Glearifr : Farmers in every pajFVof the'.eou'ntyare postmg'their lands to.?11,'-',id' -everjhody ''ilee front j trepassing ujcjn hem."' ".a' .V
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