Yoi 2,:. ' HIGHIiAKDS, MAQOK CCXCJTY, N.C, FBIDAY, QOf . 8,
Ho. 10.
Light frost last night on low ground.
Asheville is to have a convent schoo:
" a u AmMnf F.win 2. Nebraska, is in
Highlands.
The monthly Temperance meeting on
Tuesday evening next.
Several a.QM ettiaens,, are, attending
Franklin Court this week.
Mr Williams of Davidson's College
-was in town yesterday.
Mr. P. Sheldon is building a Jiouse on
hjtf Jot on Hickory Street.
Mrs.Jiand MissDavis have gpne Jon,. a
tripjto. Tennessee., on noreeuacK.
Cotton arid tobdcco have been injured
by rests in Tennessee and Kentucky,
A snowstorm ;ocsurj;ad at Marquette
Michigan, on the 2nd.
Mr. Thos. F. Parker returned to High
lands on Wednesday.:
P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on
. Earth" will visit Charleston, S. C, on the
10th inst
Brom Auer. 27 up to midnight on Sept.
86, there were thirty distinct earthquake
ahocks in Charleston.
... President Cleveland has sent nothing
to - Charleston, not even a message ol
sympathy.
Frost tUijured!tender ' vegetation, in
Srartanbure, S. C., on the night of the
8rd.
Messrs St. John and Thos. Cox of
Greenville, S. C, accompanied Dr. Rick
off and family on their visit here.
If Ym.,WtalkQpo4atfr!fi
Of. Plug Tobacco, ask yoiuv dealer for
'. 'Old Rip." . r ' ,
The. vexed question of "Webster versus
oyivaor w easier ouition us ,m,e site oi
thfr Jackson' county Court House, is still
uasottledw
The grad! jury last w,eek investigated
the saekiwg of the ( Webster Mica Mining
(Qewpany's store, at Georgetown. Web
ster Herald.
The volcano of Colima in Mexico is in
eruption for the third time this year,
greatly alarming the inhabitants of the
neighboring country.
It is pity that the French Broad does
not bear its original Indian name Tah
keeostee, signifying turbulent or roaring
liver.
It is saidjthat in Southern cities where
GnglishTsparrOWs have settled, they have,
since the earthquake, ceased roosting
about brickJbdiMings,and,taken to trees.
The frosts of the 2nd and 3rd did much
damage to the tobacco crop in Madison
and Yancey counties. In Virginia it is
reported that on the 2nd a large share of
of the Crop was killed.
The weather is beautiful and has been
so for a long time. Off the night of the
1st ,there was a slight frost, and heavier on
the 2nd and 3rd hut so far as we learn lit
tle or no damage was done even to gar
dens, me last two or tnree days have
been warmer.
During the summer season just ended,
every hotel and boarding house in West
ern North Carolina, especially in Ashe
ville, has been crowded to its utmost ca
pacity. Land of the Sky. .
Highlands .has had its full shareof vis
itors. Ed.
WHAT HIGHLANDS NEEDS.
The testimony of all of our. visitors who
have seen other towns in the mountains,
goes more and more every year to show
that Highlands, for beauty of- situation,
for cool and bracing air, for clear and
cold water of absolute purity, for total
immunity from fevers and other"diseases,
and for the large number of points of in
terest close at hand, is easily, and far
away, first. From what other place can
the summit of nine or ten mountains be
easily reached within from half an hour
to three or four hours, or half a dozen
beautiful waterfalls in like periods ? We
are credited with a heavier rainfall than
that of Asheville for instance, but on the
other hand we have much lej38 mud and j
dust. The soil here- is not clay but loam,
with a subsoil so permeable that water
disappears almost as soon . as it falls, so
that the conditions that make .rain in any
way prejudicial, to health have no exist
ence here, in lact the suitability of
Highlands for a, health, or pleasure resort
is so undeniable, that the only need is
that it should become known ; that a
railway should enable thousands to. get
here, instead of scores, as now. That we
shall have a railway is only a question, of
time, and when it comes there will bg. no
difficulty in the. way of capitalists build
ing large hotels. In the meantime.High-
ands makes substantial if slow progress,
and is full of faith in her future.
EDUCATIONS NOTICE.
An Academy will be opened at High
lands, Macon Co,, N. C., ott Monday,
November 8,th, 1880. The Academy is
designed to fit pupils for College, for
Business, or for Teaching. It offers the
advantage of three separate courses, viz :
The College Preparatory Course, The
Teacher's Normal Course, and The Com
mon School Course', ' Instruction will
also be given in Vocal and Instrumental
Music, a op a catalogue or iurtner par
ticulars address
PROF; T. G. HARBISON,
no9-6ti Principal.
LANG AGENCY
HIGHLANDS MARKETS.
INCREASE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
FUND.
Wheat
Oats,
Corn,
Rve . . .
Flour, perlOOlbs?..,
f 1 20
50
. 65
65
3 50
Butter ... 15
Eggs 10
Potatoes, Irish 50
Potatoes, Sweet... 1.00
Beans, per bushel , . . 1 00
Chickens 10
Fodder, per 100. .... 1 50
Hay, per 100 lbs 1 00
Mutton, 5
Beef, .ft
Apples, , 25'
501
25
25
15
8
8
50
WE IUYE ON HAND ALARQK AMOUNT Of
Farming, Grazing
Fruit Growing
& Timber Lands,
HOUSES AND, LOTS m THE. TOWtt
OF HIGHLANDS,
Railroad Meeting.
The annual meeting of Stockholders of
The Highlands R. R, Company will be
held ait the Highlands Hotel in this place
at 1 :80 p. m., Oct 26, 1886.
H. M. Bascom,
Secretary.
The President of the Engineer's Club,
of Philadelphia, is credited with the fol
lowing calculation, to illustrate the
Great Value of Good Roads :
"Take a load which one horse can draw
on level iron rails. To draw this load
on a smooth asphalt road, will require
1 2-3 horses ; on bad Belgian pavement,
S 1-3 horses ; on ordinary Belgian pave
ment, 5 horses ; on good cobblestone
road, 7 horses ; on bad cobblestone road,
13 horses; on ordinary earth road, 20
horses ; on sand road, 40 horses."
Asheville Citizen Knoxville is jubi
lant over the prospect of having a Rich
mond and Danville connection soon.
The volcanic peak, Paoloff Mountain,
three hundred miles southwest of Kodiak,
on the Alaska Peninsula, is in a state of
eruption.
Birmingham, ALA.,4Dctober 1. An as
sociation of Alabama, Georgia, Virginia
and New York and Philadelphia capital
ists, called the North Birmingham Land
Company, was formed here to-day, with
capital of $700,000.
Under the above heading: the Asheville
Utttzen notes the lact that the legislature
will probably be enabled to reduce the
general tax levy of the State at least twen
ty per cent., if not more, and hones that
sucn amount it not a greater, may be
added to the levy made for common
schools. Only 12V cents on the hundred
dollars worth of property is now levied
by the State for school purposes. The
Citizen also quotes the Raleigh Chron
icle to the same effect. Taxes in North
Carolina are very low and the amount of
money devoted to educational purposes
exceedingly small, we have been told
that sometimes in thinly settled mountain
districts the funds are insufficient to pro
vide more than four months school in two
years. The appropriation for the current
year in Macon county only allows of three
months instruction m the public schools.
and to those who know the urgent need
or greater educational facilities, this
seems pitifully meagre. At this time
when so much attention is being drawn
hitherwards, and when the future of the
State seems so fair in its promise, noth
ing would do more, nothing would do as
much to hasten the early fruition of that
promise, as the fact that erood common
schools were open everywhere for nine
months m the year.
Dr. A. J., Mrs. and Miss Rickoff of
New York, spent a few days here,
leaving toy Asheville on Wednesday.
Dr. Rickoff was formerly superintendent
of schools in Cincinnati, and again in
Cleveland, Ohio, and he is now revising
a series of arithmetical text books for
Appleton & Co., N. Y. Mrs. Rickoff is
also much interested in educational mat
ters. It is very gratifying to Highland
ers to have the testimony of Dr. Rickoff
to the effect that he was greatly Em-
prised and pleased at the excellence of
the method of teaching practiced by Mr.
Harbison, and also that a teacher so thor
oughly qualified for his duties as he is
rarely met with any where.
The Tuckasegee Manufacturing Com
pany is the name of a business enterprise
being inaugurated in Swain county at
the extremity of the Western North
Carolina Railroad.
The many reports from England and
Europe are most encouraging. AH mat
ters in that country, as in this, point to
great and encouraging activity in trade
and business. ; We are on an important
era, and let us all make the most of it
Asheville Citizen.
HIDEOUT & CO.,
Highlands, N. C.
mMl MERCBAME AND COUNTRY
PRODUCE,
We Keep Constantly On Hand A Full Line Of
Groceries, Boots, Shoes,
Hats, Clothing, &c,
At Lowest Living Prices.
10,000 Pounds of Wool
Wanted.
DKJBSS GOODS.
Received a new Lot of
HATS AKD SHOES,
Just in Season, anil Better
AND CHEAPER THAN
EYER
Biilii Sites, k
Parties havincr cheaD nronerties for sale
in Macon or adjoining :couivties, should;
correspond with us, as we 'aril advertising
quite extensively, and have superior fa
cilities for handling real estate 1
tirW For circulars deseriome; Highlands
and vicinity, desoriptive price lists, &C,1
call on or address '
S. T, KERSEY,
Highlands,
1 Macon County, N, C.
J. JAY S 3Jf I T 3BJ
SASH AJfp POORS,
FLOOBING, QEILM PfflS &C
Highlands, JltfaconCtetmty, M C.
J. F. WALDEN,
PRACTICAL WATCH
MAKER & JEWELER.
Clocks, Watches and Jew
elry repaired in neat
and workmanlike
manner.
Work left at T. D. Walden's drug store
will receive prompt attention.
HIGHLANDS, N. O.
A. FUIyly STOCK
Highlands Insurance
AGENCY
Connected with First-class Companies.
T. BAXTER WHITE, Agent.
Also subscriptions received for newspapers
and magazines,
GROCERIES
EUEKE I CUMIMAH,
REAL ESTATE OFFICE,
FRAHKXIF,
Macon County, North Carolina.
AT
BARGAIN IN LAND. ClEAVELANd's.
Farm of 400 acres, 20 bottom, 200 under
fence ; about 75 cleared. Good bear
ing and young orchards. Six roomed
house, and outbuildings. Splen
did range.
Edn. E. Nield, Horse Cove, Macon
Co., N, C. no48.
J. H. DURMN,
Carpenter and Builder,
ffl W.I" 1 .