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V V. ' s TELE SiaHLlsTDBB, MACON COUNTY AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ADVERTISER. Vol. 1. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, JST. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1885. No. 9. Mr. Horace Kibbee is aathorized to re ceive subscriptions and transact business f or TnH High lander. The Weather. We have bad dark weather since last Friday, and steady, quiet rain since Sunday morning. Miss Ohapin informs' us that 2.5 inches of rain fell between two P M. Wednesday and two P. M. Thursday. A party of noted scientific men from the north, on horseback, rode up to the Highlands House on Wednesday. The weather being Unfavorable, their excur sions in this neighborhood were limited, They left for Asheville yesterday. Look Out for the Cars. A notice appears in the Keowee Courier that ap plication will be made to the South Caro lina legislature for a charter to build a railroad from the seaboard to the rnoun- tains via Aiken and Walhalla. Mr. A. Mooney, a soldier under Gen. Scott in Mexico, and again a soldier in the war of the rebellion, writes from St. Paul for The Highlanders He was stationed at Charlotte during the late war, and has a love for the old State. He finds the climate in the North runs too much to extremes for comfort. Highlands, fancy, would just suit him we SILVER" and "OFFENSIVE PA&TISANS" Ex-con gressman Horace F. Page, of California, hits the mark a few times in the following report of his conversation: "Of course thiA silter question will borne up in Washington this winter, but ho bill will be passed. The West is al most a unit in favor of keeping silver just where it is. ddn't think the standard will be raised either. It is impossible to fix the value in gold of a silver dollar. It Varies with the urioe of gold. One week grains of silver make a dollar worth 100 cents and the next week it would on ly be worth 90 cents. Later it would go tip again. If w'e try to keep silver up to the gold standard, then we Will have to change the size of our silver dollars with every fluctuation of the market. The South and West are for silver, while the East is opposed to it. The people of the East are money-lenders and wish to make it scarce. The West people are borrowers and wish to keep plenty of money in the market. That's all there is to it. I am not in favor of civil-service reform in its present form. Mr. Cleveland's greatest mistake has been in removing officials because they were 'offensive partisans.' If he would come Out and say frankly when making a removal, 'Here, I want vour place because yoiiaxe not in har mony with my administration;' he would have no trouble. 'President Cleveland has it within his power to secure the election of Hoadly and a Legislature winch would Insure the selection of a Deinobrttt fdr John Sher man's seat," So says a newspaper correspondent, writing from Ohio. Is it really the case that the president has fetich power? Are Ihe voters really free men, or are they the mere tools of office-seekers and office holders? Do the people Have votes just for the use and convenience Of aspirants for office? Is party machinery invented and worked by the officials for their own purposes; and is trie Press their obedient humble servant ? Meteorological Observations-, at High lands for the week ending Bep.29, '85. Miss Mary Chapin, Observer. Data Ruin r man HtoVt Lon.'t Hn'y fall Sep. 23 48.8 60 49 77,7 Clear Clear Clear Fair Cld'y Rain Cld'y 24 25 2G 27 28 29 Week 45.2 65 36 83 62 79.d 69.4 74.8 89.8 97.7 87.8 82.4 r t C2.8 66.2 56 85.5 57 53.1 6 5 l.r. ,55 Lr. 66" 61 67 63 86 . We should greatly rejoice if each of bur delinquent subscribers would send us a lock of his hair; we should tHfin know that he t$ altfe'; but fh& painful suspense, how edit it t endured? Western Reorder; CLEAR CREEK CORRESPONDENCE. Clear Creek, Sop. 28, 1885. Mr. Jonathan Ford has recently har vested the .finest crop of hay, to the land cultivated, of any farmer that we have yet seen in this region. The yield was unusually large, as he obtained eleven heavy two-horse-wagon loads of cured hay from something near an acre culti vated. He sowed Hungarian grass (Setaria Italica), which is of strong, rank growth, with erect culuis. two to three feet hicfa. with numerous lone:, broad leaves, and a terminal, spike-like, nod ding panicle, 4 to 6 inches long, and oft en an inch in diameter. . The panicle is composed of a great number of small, closely crowded branches, each of which consists of a small group of several clus ters of spikelets, at the base of each of which there springs two or three bristles which sometimes give the head a bristly appearance. Its value as a fodder plant is owing to its abundant foliage and large quantity of seed. While its growth va ries in different localities, yet it is gener ally ready for cutting in sixty days after sowinar the seed. It is useless to sow it on poor land and expect a good yield, yet it is one of the cultivated grasses adapted to this climate. Mr. Ford also has an exceptionally fine crop of buckwheat that he is satisfied will makej not less than 100 bushels, and as ho has about four acre's sOWn, the yield certainly seems good. He also has a small parcel of new ground in Irish potatoes that are just as fine1 as cOuid reasonably be de sired, besides very fair corn for the local ity. This shows the value of judicious farming here. There is no use in sowing June bugs in the Fall with the expecta tion of realizing therefrom a full crop of sparrows in th spring ; for the failure of all such ventures has caused many an honest rod of kindly disposed old mother Earth to be1 unsparingly sulphurized. After a ten months sojourn in the land, we came lust as near as we wished, to the first old residenter that we had seen in all his glory, on last Thursday, It had nine rattles and a button, was between three and four feet lonfiCi and seemed to be surcharged with. deadly venom; :for when w . . in eery transnxea it witn tiie tine or a pitchfork, it set its music-box to going and struck at the fork-handle, when enouerh of vellowish virus was elected to kill every man in this township. Its f arigs were three quarters of an inch long. Well may thSxitizens dread theCrvtalui and remain indoors at nighty for we, can as sure them that tie is not only an Ugly cus tomer, but a dangerous snag to run upon in the dark. W. S. Neely measured a plant of to bacco which grew in the niidst. df the largest of his crop, and found it to be five feet eight inches high, and five feet across the top of the .plant -that is, from tij) to tip of the top leaves. Who beats this in Macon? Cheops. OBSERVATIONS DURING ONE , . YEAR. Comniunlcntlon frodi Cor. Mr Brendle. Not quite twelve months ago I came through Highlands on my way to Cash iers Valley, where I have had "head quar ters" to the present, but traveling all the time oyer tfyla mountainous country. During the past year, we uKavO passed through dark clouds, but not so bad as re ported abroad. The Revenue men have had a little trouble, and one or two men have been Ijilled. 1 think quite a refor mation 1b taking place. Men who have been trying to run their little one-horse stills are learning that they cannot sell their whiskey to rocks and trees, but have" to sell it, if at all, to mety. i&u whose mouthV are; tqngUCs, .tliat -will tell if of fended in the least. Then theppor un- fortunate geUer must bo dragged off to Ashevilte" to give axl account.- When hi is released, perhaps he has lost ten times as much as he made with his still. iani sorry for. his family and pity him. We now h'opt; 0r better things. 1 have seen very few drunken men in the past year. Hearing of the illicit distilling in these parts before I came, I have been agree ably disappointed, and yet there is room for improvement. From the town of Highlands to the Bal sam Mountains, a plateau of thirty-five or lorty miles, elevated trom three to four thousand feet, with its sublime scenery, pure air and water, we find many who are happily situated to spend their lives until death shall call them to a better home. These men have taken advantage of their surroundings. With a small capital and earnest labor, they have grown the grass and clover for their stock, enough corn to do them, with some rye and wheat and garden vegetables all that heart could wistfi. Others, for lack of these things, are not doing so well. ' It is the people that make the country, not the country the people; This country is undergoing a change. Men should be wide-awake, and not tend the land too long in corn and wheat be fore seeding to grass and clover. " We have had two or three white frosts- nothing hurt much. The fodder in a few places is bitten. If farmers would plant earlier in the Spring:, there would be verv little danger from frost in the Fall. The wise man will succeed where the fool has failed. More anon. Your friend. . Jos. H. Brendle. Highlands, Sep. 28th, 1885. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH. I have recently held two or three meetings of interest. One on Cullowhee mountain, about fifteen miles from High lands 14 conversions and 9 accessions. I will preach at Broadway school-house, five miles from Highlands, to-morrow. At Broadway, we held a meeting some time ago, Which resulted in 7 or 8 con versions and 9 accessions. Others will join and perhaps all be baptized to-morow. llie churches are looking up in this part. may tney go onwara ana upward, J. H. Brendle, ... P. C. M. E. Church South., VISITORS IN HIGHLANDS. ARRIVALS AT HIGHLANDS HOUS.fi! SINCE LAST WEEK, L. Allen, Dunallen, N. C. ; I. L. Lyons and wife, Master Geo. J. Lyons and sis ter, Miss Lyons, J, C. Lyons, jr:, Master Ed. Jonas and Miss Jonas, New Orleans; Miss Heustis, Alabama ; M. A Cooper, Brevard, N. G; R. A. Jacobs, Franklin, N.C.; C. S., Sargent, T. C. Olmsted and H, S. Codman, Brooklinc, Mass.; Charles Eliot, Cambridge, Mass.; W. A." Stiles, Deckertown, N. if. ; G, A. Jacobs, Culla saja, N. C. "Old Si's" Sudden Conversion. The latest sensation in Atlanta, Ga., grows out of the announcement of the conversion of Mr. Samuel W. Small a brilliant journal ist and author of the "Old Si" stories. A great crowd assembled in the Artesian Well Monday evening to hear Mr. Small preach his first sermon He told of his conversion and his deternimation to do better, and announced that he would preach next Sunday in some church in the city.' , In his talk -he said: "When thousands of the good Christians were praising God in the great tabernacle in which Sam Jones and Munhall were preaching, I was being spiritually con soled elsewhere, lukwith the help of God I wiil quit that habit; ' which has .almost caused my ruin, and teach others to ab hor the evil paths which I have trod." He spoke earnestly. tlldltLANDS MARKETS, . . - -- ..Oct. 1, 1885. Wheat $1.20. Corn, new, 50c to 60c; old 90c. Rye 65c. Flour $3.50 to $3.75. Butter 15c to 20c; gilt edged 25c. Eggs 12c. Potatoes 35c to 40c. Onions 60c. Beeswax, 15c to 20c Apples 33c to 50c Chickens 8c to 15c Wool, bright and clean, 30c. Bacon 10c. Peaches 40c to 50c. Sweet potatoes 50c to 75c. Feed and L'ivery Staled, Btlya, Jackson County, N. C. farrt-claSgTrahsportAtlo to all Points of Interest REGULARHACK LINE VhOM AVEKSTErt TO gYLVl. A. M. PARlER Proprietor. DOCTOR KIXNEDKEW; After Sep. 1, 1885, will be found day and uight over the post office at Franklin; . Oldest House In Highlands. o The Beit of Food Products. FINEST BRANDS OP COFFEES and TEAS, M'LEAN'S FLOUR Stople Hardware. o HATS, BOOTS SHOES layer k Gross's Pocket Cutlery. 0 DR. IIARTER'S FAMILY MEDICINES o Agent for John "Wannamakor's Custom & lleady-made CLOTHING. T. BAXTER WHITE. Highlands, N. ('. -A hi fr CD P' H CO to CD ft lLJ CO P in TO o CD RIDEOUT & CO i In Highlands, Corner of MAIN Atfti FOURTH streets, HEAD-QUARTERS For Hats, Georgia Checks,' Boots and Shoes. Besides, constantly on hand, a general line of G)6V GOODS; AXD Tlifi BEST OF GROCERIES.
The Highlander, Macon County and Western North Carolina Advertiser (Highlands, N.C.)
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