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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.
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The Beit of Food Products.
FINEST BRANDS
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COFFEES and TEAS,
M'LEAN'S FLOUR
Stople Hardware.
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HATS, BOOTS SHOES
layer k Gross's Pocket Cutlery.
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DR. IIARTER'S FAMILY MEDICINES
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Agent for John "Wannamakor's
Custom & lleady-made
CLOTHING.
T. BAXTER WHITE.
Highlands, N. ('.
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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.