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...'...''V'-.'.'n,. ; ' II i t .f -: . I .-II ' ,, 'i ' i '$' i 1 v"' 'r Vol, 1. . ' HIGHLAXDS, MAOOIJ OOXJHTl-K. O:, FRIDAY, JAOTJARY IB, 1886. JSb. 24. ,V.,'V.'' ..,. . j Mr. M, C, O'Byrne lias gone to Chicago to lecture on philosophy. Temperance meeting Tuesday evening all are invited. Several people lost some of their chick ens during the late cold storm. In another column will be found a no tice of the death of Mr. Wm. Partridge. The Grant fund, as the year closes, stands at $113,215 freezing veather from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, i Owing to the heavy snow towards the foot of the mountains, the Walhalla mail failed to reach us for several days, We are sorry to learn that during a re cent fire at Burnsville, the office of the Black Mountain Pioneer was burned. A careful count of the securities in the Vanderbilt safe in the vaults of the Lin coin National Bank shows an aggregate of $305,000,000. The mail carrier went down to Russell's on Tuesday fruitlessly. The mail had not come up trom Walhalla, owing, we un demand, to the iact mat tne snow is deeper down there Mr. John Mamgrhas sold his fine block pn Fifth street t& party in Florida. We ever bejfqre, in JNeDrasKa ana north-western sections the thermometer I registered 25 to 40 degrees below zero. I In Asheville, Sunday night, it reached 14 below, the coldest ever experienced there. Cullasaja, Jan. 12. It snowed all day on Friday, 8th inst. depth, ix inches.! Saturday morning, mercury dropped to 4 degrees above zero, and hung" around zero all day. Sunday morning, 3 below Monday morning, morning, 6 below Highlands High School Male andlFe-1 Mr. J. B. Smith . arrived in Highlands malelst term"pions Jan, 18th 5 $5nd I yesterday from Sheldon, 111., with a fine term April 27th.,,Tuition, p. j 1st grade, 1 team of DJinois draft horses, 2 fine cows, f 1 per month j ;2nd $1,5Q j 8id $2th J 2 thorough-bred Cotswold sheep, Berk $2.50. Charges made from date, of f try shire and Poland-China pigs, a dozen. and due at the end of each month. fcFori Plymouth Rock chickens, also a fulM ciroular, or further information, calf bn J equipment of farming tools of the latest or address the Principal. Mrs, S. C. Davis, I sty lea, .He took his stock out to his new Highlands. N. C. I I farm recently purchased of J. C. Caden, Just now there is great denaandjfor wlch te intends to improve and make a wood in the village. Two or three weeks bwu We hear, that .Mrfflins ; found nine ago, parties were trying to sell woad,lbut I "We call special attention to the adver partridges (quail) so frozen to the ground only one or two wanted to buy. Nof, it tisement of the Highlands High School, that they could not escape. is next to impossible to get any haukq on to be. found in another column, Died. atLOrland," Indiana. Jan. 3. Rev. account of the snow, In peace, prepare Mrs. Davis, the Principal, has made F. H. Partridge,' brother of William Par- for war, Is as good a maxim , ajt ajppl.ieS'td teaching a life-time work, and is eminent- tndge, Ot tills place. I laying up a store ox woou in eurijr wiuier i i quouueu vy ivmyviuiuvuh, euuuauon Reports from our exchanges indicate 38 to agonal matters and experience to teach the young. She rri Li r v ,i I tltta graue owuuwa irom wee J.liO 1!U1U WttVO UX WiD UWJIl ion UOIO "OD . . . . , . .y. j r tri. j :i t :i. x i T tuu i. j it. Li. and with our nice school house, good so ciety and genial climate, we trust she will build up one of the best schools in the county. We chronicle with pleasure the com ing into the country of CoL C. W. Jenks, of Boston, who to the older citizens of this section is no strangei. Years before thero was any other building on our mountain plateau than the old Law 12 below ; Tuesday habit of riding over this part of the Blue zcio. ami. . rauuy R;d snfif,,-nllv frnm' TTnra nv Crisp, wife of Joab Crisp, died last Sun- FruIL Itwag ortenn)iIeg this day evening, leaving a family of ten ai(1fl ftf thfl , . nla(lfl f, t , 0 0 , corundum in position ; and for the first Highlands, in common with the surr I time in the history of that mineral's use have not learned the name of the lucky rounding country, has been visited with J a period of over three thousand years Durchaser. I weather of exceptional seventy, and with r commenced . ita legitimate mining. He On the Mh a severe snow storm pre- mow storms ot unusual aePtn- 1 he snow now returns nere as tne representative '"" t to . W , . . traffic wad greatly impeded. The snow comiorwwe temperacure oi xo uegreei pureuase, ior ueveiop- the north-west, and the mercury fell especially those of iron, marble, slate, rapidly, continuing to do so through Sat- mipa, corundum, &c. Over two hundred urday. On Sunday morning, the ther- thousand acres have already been pur mometer stood at 12 below zero, but on chased; by these parties, and machinery Monday it went lower, reaching a point for their mining and manufacture is now hifherto unapproached during the history in process of construction. Col Jenks The oat crop of the past season in the of Highlands 19 degres below zero. Af- long ago sang the praises of the High- United States is estimated at 600,000,000 ter that the weather moderated, and the lands as a health resort and place of resi- busheis, wnicn is tne largest ever grown days have since been fine, although the dence. He has personally sent more than in a single season, and shows an average temperature has not yet risen to the usual forty persons to our township, some of ot twenty-seven bushels per acre. Ihe winter average. whom are now residents here. He has. a n since his arrival, secured accommodation Tt fa w11 known tht hird do not n. at the HlSWand HoU8e fr ex-chief of P0- r I 1 1 no riant A Hrtwo vf Krf-vo4"rf-v 1 n -r-Z r.inllir rarfl far hairv hiiM-.e-rfliAsr Srt m r ' ' '"6 Central America, Belt found a curious beetle that was a tid-bit for the birds, clothed in a coat of long brown hairs close ly resembling thick hairy caterpillars. In the same localities, spiders have been BoOita dnd "Shpcs, Water-proof Oil Suits, Ladies' Water-proof Circulars, Groceries, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Canned Goods, and a good assortment of Fruits, at W. B. Clkaveland's. NOTICE. All persons having "claims against the "festate of Sarah Hayes, deceased, are hereby notified to present the same, to the undersigned within twelve, months from this date, and on failure of sq. doing, this notice will be pleaded gs a bar to tlie same. And all persons indebted to said estate are requested to come and settle at once, and save costs. This Dec. 24, 1885. j. C. DONALDSON, Administrator of Sarah Hayes, deceased. greatly interfered with travel in London, The poiids about Walhalla are frozen over with ice five to seven inches thick. A good many chickens were frozen to death there. An ox and a blooded colt were also frozen. lowest yield of any State is seven bushels per acre, in South Carolina. in tne soutn-west, tne weatner is re ported to be the coldest known in forty years, In the vicinity of Galveston the small Jakes are frozen from three to five inchessomething quite unprecedented. An English writer -says that France is NOTICE. All persons having claims against lln estate of Mark May, deceased, are herenv notified to present the same to the under signed within twelve months from the date hereof, and upon failure of so doing, this notice will be pleaded as a bar to the same. All persons indebted to said es tate will please settle at once and save costs This Dec, 24t 1885. M. P. MAY, Executor of Mark May, deceased. BURKE & CUNNINGHAM, REAL ESTATE OFFICE, FRANKLIN, Macon County, North Carolina. Jt M. ZACHARY, Surgeon Dentist, HIGHLANDS LAND AGENCY WE HAVE ON IIAND ALAEGE AMOUNT OP approaching a crisis in commercial and found that looked exactly like ants and financial affairs. The French Treasury and were thus enabled to creep upon their is threatened with insolvency, and the prey, the real ants. Wallace observed a prospects of agriculture and industry are butterfly that, though an acceptable mor anything but cheering. sel to the birds, deceived them by mim- Mr. A: S. Estev has recentlv icMng the flight of a poisonous butterfly. .T,,d Hunt's hPAHtifnl rPi,W nn rut a bird chased it at once assumed the P.rWnnd will Wnm a ri,W CUriOUS and laborious flight Of its poison- nf Highland. W mu1mbii1 t.h Tno 01W mode1' Bd the Mi noticing its evi- lost his health, and resigned his post, will now seek among us the great boon of health. Also quarters at the same place for Hon. Samuel McCall and family of Boston, an eminent counsellor of that city, and corporation attorney for the Cape Cod Ship Canal Co., &c. These parties will likely be accompanied by some friends, and so our village win have for some months a pleasant addition to its population j some of whom may be come permanent residents. We need not say that CoL Jenks has lost none of his twenty years enthusiasm for our country ; and more than ever be- expects to build on his new- lot on Chest- dent e . f1 Up the Heves in its superior advantages for health nut street. A Misfit Steed. A horse was sent up from the farm to be shod. Having a number of ready-made shoes on hand, the job, in the absence of the boss, was given to an apprentice. After an inter val, the following note came to the su perintendent : "This horse don't fit any of our shoes," Carlisle Indian School Morning Star. and various opportunities for profitable investment. NOTICE. yuaiis, meauow-iarics ana some other children, whose screams and efforts to birds, impelled by hunger, come very fa- escape made the scene a terrible one. miharly about the house and barn in the Those on the outside of the coach were cold weather. A little grain thrown out thrown off into the mud, but soon recov- for them is a small return for the geod ered themselves and aided in rescuing the they will do us next spring in devouring imprisoned ones. One lady was so badly destructive insects, we snouid preserve burned that her recovery is doubtful. and encourage the birds as much as pos- J The others were more or less injured, but pursuit. San Francisco Call. A serious accident happened to a Ver mont coaching party on New Year's even ing. The night was intensely dark, and the coach drove into a ditch, and upset, breaking a kerosene oil lantern which one By virtue of an Execution issued by the of the ladies held on her lap, and scatter- clerk, ofT th.e SupenorComi; of Macon - ' nnnn r-tr I urill nail Tw-trzi htvhnot KiHtlAv , , , ,1 WUMVli A ..Jul CTU. W bug M1UUC1 'fc e-wV. uwuw. tor eagti. at tne vourt Mouse door in The accident caused great confusion, the Franklin, on the, First Monday in Febru flames spreading to the bimmings of the arynext, One Hundred and FortyjrWO) coach, and the clothes of the women and KZ6 sum of $184- 40, -for which there is a lien on said land, registered in Book "S page aoa or Macon uounty, jn. u., con veyed to T. C. Morris by William JieaL L. H. ALLMAN, Sheriff. Dea 23, 1885. sitls none seriously. Aw York Tribune. BOOK & JOB PRINTING At The Highlander Office. Farming, Grazing, Fruit Growing & Timber Laiicts HOUSE3 liOTS in the town OF HIGHLANDS, Beautiful Billing Sites, k. Parties having cheap properties for sale in Macon or adjoining counties, should correspond with us, as we are advertising quite extensively, and have superior fa cilities for handling real estate. For circulars describing Highlands and vicinity, descriptive price lists, &c, call on or address S. T. KELSEY, Highlands, Macon. County, N. 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