THIS HIG-HLA.lsrDEIl5
MACON COUNTY AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ADVERTISER.
Vol. .1. HIGHLANDS, MAC OK COUNTY, N. 0., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1885. No. 13.
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NOTICE.
Having been appointed Flue Inspector
by the Mayor of Highlands, I will enter
upon the duties of the office at once. It
13 hoped that all will look to their stove
pipes and chimneys and see that they are
good and safe, and save themselves and
the inspector trouble.
J. A. McGuntE.
RAILROAD MEETING..
The annual meeting of etockholdres of
the Highlands Railroad Co. was held in
the Highlands House on the 27th inst.,
When S. T. Kelsey was re-elected Presl
dent, and S. W. Hill. C. A. Boynton, B.
Wright, M L Skinner, Jas. Rideoilt and
T. F Parker were elected directors for
the ensuing yean
The President stated that in cdnse
quence of the Rabun Gap railroad not
having been gone on with, nothing could
be done in the direction of the line of
survey to connect Highlands with that
route. He had been corresponding with
parties interested in building railroads
from the East to tli6 West Charleston,
South Carolina, and Knoxville, Tenn..
being the objective points, but there had
been nothing decided upon to fix the
routes across the Blue Ridge" for such
schemes. From a careful survey of the
mountains which he had recently made,
he was satisfied that Highlands was on the
line of a practicable in fact, most practi
cable route through this country to con
nect Atlanta and Asheville, or Charles
ton and Knoxville; and that one or both
of these roads, he was satisfied, woiUd be
built in the near future.
Col. Alley stated that he had heard
from good authority that : nteosureswere
how being taken to construct the Rabun
Gap railroad.
The meeting then adjourned.
We learn that some old residents of
Highlands Avill be back shortly. They
will be welcome.
The flume at Trowbridge's mill was
damaged td some extent by the he'avy
rush of water the other day.
Mr. H. N. Redman, from Marengo, la.,
is looking around Highlands for a loca
tion. The Big Fddr niinstrels, frbiil Franklin,
gave a concert here last Saturday even
ing, which was well attended.
Mrs. Wfeich ahd daughter, who1 have
been staying in Highlands for two or
three months, returned to their home in
Charleston on Tuesday.
Mr. Rideout says that Mr. Ti 1. Corbin
returned a corn sacfe borrowed of him.
ffe is how looking for the man wfto re
turned a borrowed' umbrella, as lie wishes
to start a dime museum;
A shaft of flesh coldred marble, elegant
ly .polished, from" the Nantahala in Swain
County, N. C. was exhibited at, the Ashe- J
ville fair. That county is full of such
marble.
The Frankiln niail carrier was unable
to proceed to Franklin yesterday, Big
Creek being a raging torrent on account
- of the heavy rain; m'aking the ford im
passable. Wc learn that the Federal Court will
sit at Asheville on Tuesday next. Some
whiskey cases from this neighborhood
will be on then, and there will be a ga
thering of the elans';
Hatton Tumor, Esq'j left Highlands
yesterday aftei-noon on horseback for
Jacksonville, Florida. His family will
go by their own conveyance froth Ashe
ville to their destination.' '
It contnferPced to raitfSrly on Wed
nesday morntog, ttxtd it kept, oh . steadily
till late on Wednesday night. There fell
during tlfcrt time no less than" 5.8$ inches
of rain tlie heaviest of the season. Yes
terday vtt phghtly wet; fmd father
Sad Affair. Yesterday morning,
child of .Mr. Krimminger s, living it
Highlands, got access to a bottle of Fel
lows' Syrup of Hypophosphate, and drank
its contents, supposed to be about two
lurge tea spoonfuls. His little sister dis
covered him with the empty bottle, and
ran to the mother (who waB very ill in
bed) and told her that Willie had drank
her medicine. Mrs. Krimminger vainly
endeavored to make the child vomit it up,
and did not apprehend much danger, but
after some time the child went into con
vulsions, and Dn Frost was sent for, who,
howeverj did not arrive in time to save
the child, and he died in about two hours
after taking the fatal medicine poison
to him. Mr. Krimminger lately moved
from Missouri on account of his wife's
illness, and is now in that state arranging
his affairs. The poor sick mother and
family have the sympathy of the entire
community.
On Tuesday evening last, Michael Stern,
evangelical preacher, from Knoxville,
held . a meeting in the school house in
Highlands. There was lidl a large at
tendance. Mr. Stern is a German, and
was formerly a Roman Catholic. Hatton
Turnor, who is on his way from Asheville
to Florida, also addressed the audience
in an earnest discourse. It was intended
to have another meeting on the following
evening, which the rain prevented.
J. D, Truan, a Swiss, who has been set
tled near Knoxville for many year
where are a number of his cbuntrymM,
visited Highlands on Tuesday, in com
pany with Mr. stern, Tftgy. rode all the
wa&m horseback, and started for home
If i m j jtir.
CLEAB CEEEE CORRESPONDENCE.
- Clear Creek, Oct. 29, 1885.
As milk sickness has already received
some notice, and as Dr. Candler has ad-,
vanced the theory that its aetiology is
due to arsenical pois6n, we have heard
statements that seem to confirm his tlie
ory, particularly as to the poison being
exhaled from the earth. It is said that a
gentleman, in order to test the matter
concerning its being confined on vegeta
ble matter by the dew, placed a bundle of
fodder out one night in the poison-generating
locality, and took the fodder in the
next nibrnihg while tile" dew was on it,
and gave it co a yearling. The yearling
ate it, and was dead the ensuing morn
ing. Ill tm same locality, I am told
that rocks may be turned over" early in
the day, and that around the bottom edge
of the rock the poison may be found,
having the appearance of a sulphate.
Yet all this seems tb be dissipated by the
sunshine', as well as its deleterious effects,
and it may be that cuprepus deposits un
derhe these places. And td sfty the least,
the matter is worth examining into for
the benefit ot science; and besides that,
snouid copper be tne cause, some one
might . unearth a bonanza, as the metal
has a known" commercial vahlej Milk
sickness is knowil in a small place or two
on Brush Creek: and a couple of other
sinaJJ coves, in Macon Ctnuity,', yfet those
places Are as eH known by the people
; i.n.'..lni:4-.-;
I am told that it is a great deal more prev
alent in Jackson County triiifl anywhere
else in Western North Carolina.
Now that peoplejare IobT&ig over this
secikto i orthe purpose, of .. buying land
for their future hoiries'. thero are land
owners litre; who are" land poor, who
are determined to take the recent good
and sensible advice of The EWhlander,
and assist in building up the country by
Selling a portion oTtheir lands at moderate
and reasonable pricesin fact just what
they 6art afford to' take for it without in
curring loss: and ther are some very
desirabw places down here on Clear
Crk.
Thire arfi others whdjire aWut b find
out that they can get The Hjghiander
by sending in their" promise td pay, or a
statement pi tlieir inability to pay for it.
Tp'grty the feast of it; such offers by a
nevfspa'pQF are gencrolis, indulgent and
charitable)' scT that ho oris m Jfajron'Ccun-
ty, if a newspaper is desired, has any ex
cuse tor being without one.
Recently, Mr. A. M. Wilson cauerht
nine large opossoms in a couple of hours,
between his place and Fodderstack moun
tain. And a few years aero he ran a buck
off the same mountain when t was cov-
ored with snow, and the deer leaped down
sixty feet and made its escape. And last
Monday morning, at the foot of the same
mountain, he killed four raccoons out of
one tree. And the same morning-. Bud.
tne iNimrod of Clear Creek, was nearly
made himself again, by bagging another
wooacnucK; ana it now believed that
he could tackle either a ervascutis or a
small razor-oack.
Millstone quarries are plentiful here.
and A. M. Wilson will soon erect a mill
on his place. He has a pair of excellent
new stones manufactured near the place.
Some of the people are putting in rye.
while others are Catherine corn.
The Sabbath school is flourishing under
tne superintendence of T. O. White, and
the district school is making fine progress
under the surveillance of its fair gover-
nante, miss suia Rice. Cheops.
CAKT00GECHAYE CORRESPONDENCE.
JNonah, Uct. 20, 18S5.
Jack Frost has caueht several of us nap
ping, and has pulled, our corn and cane
fodder for us this fall.
ah s i-
uiup m luih wjvvuaiiip are icixicii Jia-
blygood. The corn crop has, as far as
possible.made amends for the short wheat
crop or last summer, some complain oi
their corn hot earing, but as a general
rule the corn and Irish aiicl sweet potato
. .1 .az. ...
crops are good. There has been more
sorgum cane made this year than was ev
er before made" here? and the" crdps are
good, though the mill nien say the yield
of syrup is not so -good as usual.
Baby shows must surely be in order on
Cartoogecbaye". We recently had three
arrivals in one day, and a considerable
number of others at short '. intervals.
While on the baby subject I should men
tion the fact that within less than two
years, and within Jess' than three miles of
where I now sit, there have been born
four pairs of twins. Can any township
beat this record t
Tav-nnvinrr ti'mp -Anfra.11v Hrinrs fliA
com7laint of hard timd the com-
plaint is unusually loud and distressing
just ndW front the fact that cattle (almost
the only money crop of this country)
are very low, and slow sale even at low
prices.
The mast is5 tlriusualiy large in this sec
tion this fall, and the number of hogs in
the mountains is unusually stfiall, there
fore poor hogs in the mountains are not
to be seen,
t : . . I . . r
As I would like the readers of The
Highlander to have more real and true
information concerning "milk-sick," I
would be, glad (as I know a great many
Ifi
others of your readers . jWOuId) td see
an article; on tliat subject from Pr Brab
son or Dr. Rush, o'f Smith's Bridge town-
i. ; i '. t i m ' 'ii
ship, wiio'i know are as faniiUar with
the subject ds.,fchjjr dhe . prdfessional. or
uou-proressionai, m ine couniry; ivi.
From the Jieowee (jourieri
THE SOUTH SIDE RAILWAY.
. Walhalla, S. G, Oct 17 185.
Messrs. EDitdRs: Itiduiries are made
as to the above named railway ax to its
route and purprises. , Please sa that the
promotdre Of said railway, have in view
it. i -iv ' J i
tne ouueuns or a bnort uno rauwuy irom
th mountains to 1i$. sedbpurd via cen
trally thfcnien the cbunties of Oconee.
Andersdii, Abbeville, Edgefield and Aik
en, and thence by the most practicable
route to the ''City by the".Sea-.V pitheY via
tne souui uaronna itauway orocnerwise.
claimirfg to save" in distinct at least sixty
miles td gt f foni Wamaia to Charleston,
and protortionatety so as to Anderson.
Abbeville and Edgefield Cotirt Houses;
sixty miles' leSs.fJian via Beltdfl and Co
lumbia to' ChffrlesCbn-two hours by pas-
senger and four hdurs by freight trains-
as to the twa routes, viz. via Belton and
Columbia and via AndersdoV Abbeville
and Edgefield to Aiken sM thence to
Charleston. Indeed by .the new route.
provided thU Soilth Sld"6 Railway should
be extended to Jtrankun, - in. Western
North Carolina, it would ptece Charles
ton by rail as near there as it w now to
Walhalla twelve hours front .Frankhn,
N. C, via Glaytoa, Ga.,' to ChaTlestoh';
Wtf.' PlfifeKT.
DIED,
Near Highlands, on the 84th inst., Jno.
N. Gibson.
In Highlands, on the 29th inst., Willie,
son of W. B. Krimminger, aged two years.
Meteorological Observations at High
lands for the week ending Oct. 27, '85.
Miss Mary Chapin, Observer.
Date
Temi
Mean li
34.8
30.2
39.2
88,5
88.2
46
48.2
39.3
ratnre Bel' re
Rain
fall
r
t Low't Hu'y
Oct. 21
29 88.7 Fair
22
23
24
25
26
27
63 22 62.8 Clear
55 28 78.8 Clear
54 29 70.8 Clear
54 29 72.5 Clear
57 29 78.8 Fail
57 40 89.7 Cloudy
57 22 77.4
Week
HIGHLANDS
LAND AGENCY
WE HAVE ON HAND A LARGE AMOUNT Off"
Farming, Grazing
TiVi-M-r- fi,vm -i
A Aluu wiww-mii
-HmUCl JUclllCLSi
HOUSES AND LOTS iN THE TOWN
OF HIGHLANDS
Beaotiful Bsiliiil m, k
Parties haviiig cheap" properties for said
in Macon or adjoining counties, should
correspond with us, as we are advertising
quite extensively, and have superior fa
cilities for handling real estate.
tW For circulars describing Highlands
and vicinity, descriptive pride lists, &c;
call on or address J
S. T. KELSEY
Highlands,
Macon County, N. C
tfi H. DURGlNi
rinimAnlAw nvi lB-m-.Z1 J
VttAl,C1AtCA i611U'
HIGHLANDS.
Feed and Livery Stable;
Sylva; JacksonCounty, N. C.
First-class Transportation to nil Points of Interest
REGULAR HACK, LINE
FIIOM WEB&'tfiiR YLVA.
A: M. PARKER,
Proprietor'
RIDEOUT & CO;
jn Hifflilands,!7..0orner of
MAIN AND FOURTH STREETS,
HEAD-aUARTERS
For lints,' Georgia Checks,'
Jeans,
Besides, constantly on hand, a general
line or ,
dRY GOODS,
Boots and Shoes.
and the best of
GROCERIES:
We have just Received-fjrorii Richmond
"IT Ttf 3 11T Ji 1 m '
a iuii r au ana. ,w mrersuppiy or tne
, Bfet Boots and Shoes
Tii.iii.ft.-i.ii.A 11 o TitiSiiii n.
t- - 1 -ifi ' -i -r
BrOatb CttlcC JS (JUpOlCOTl BOOV
ALL AT LOWEST PRICES !
riVo flatter what others offer, you--
riidy miss it by buying before
-examining . ine uirgesi
--and Finest $t0ek of
iGQb&i. . in, this .
Section of WSsthn mm CaHUjia'
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