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H. R. FERGUSON
Attorneys - at - Law,
OEO. H. SMATuptin
' fMDTATrtJ- W-T.CRAWFORD
, . ' " - . i" "uwe Smathers.
- . Attorneys
and Counsellois at Law.
MSSiraS1,; aT Buncombe.
Maonn Khto ! I ' Haywood. .Wto
Macon. Si ;.u"la' "aywood. Jacksnn
also in the UnUed""!1 and Cfty
- CWuna at AshevillP ,hT 1 lantl Circuit 1
Uectiong a Specialty.
S, Ferguson. -
J- W. Ferguson
& Fers-u Snri
erguson
.... V ' w j
Attorneys-at-Law, , "
'"'aynesrille, N. C.
Ollice in Mcintosh building opposite- the
Umrt House.. Prompt attention to all bus!
J J OSBORNE,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW.
Kiver.
- 1-
2-3l7patrons will have prompt and rename ;
ittention.
icte'
"
M. L. HoIcomDo,
L. Green.
'..H0LC0MBE.& GREEN.
TTORNEYS AT LAW,
WAYNES VILLE, Nl C.
n ,11 pnu-tiee in all the c ..uj.of the 12th it will require S
udicrtl District, the U. Coms at Ashevilte maneuvering to
iwUlie Supreme . Court of tlij State. All ..it.
4wss or collection.s entrustefl will receive j much WltnUt S
.' tlic l st of attention
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FE. PRh.bINl2,lL,, !
Attor ney-a' -Law,
W'AYNIvSVlLLK. X. C
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'at
i (7 11 I. .,i -ii'liiT- in ill! IllO 'Kill
W t. n, North racolina. IT. J3. VAnrt
Aslu il!r, Supreme C'ouit of the htatd
Collect ons a specially. .. .
All l.usiiu'Ss eat rusted shall recei
Ve the
best attention.
DO YOU SHAVE?
It iVit nrt. snfl- r from lisini: :l d'lli
'
i
r,z
' !
lit to
W. C GADD's 'S .
TON SO RIAL - PALLOR
and got sv nice easy shave
atent stylos. '
Hair cut.- in the
A
J. WELCH
i.' it;
.Al liKBKB iAND'llAlB-lBEStBlt
' VViiynessville, N. C.
-v .Tt ,!!., iihii. -mtronace. inves
the !
1)0-1 kind oi a Jieat, cleati shave an.i l.air
cut to be had irt Wavnesville;
ratADlA HOTEL,
26 1-2 SOUTH MAIN STREET,
ASHEVILLE. H- C-
Newly Furnished and
Now Open to the
Public.
RnTPS REASONABLE.
iioniil bv the Dav and Week.
: .. . . . i!in va.v
L'ropi
ietress.
1 1I7A
- i
n..u mlijTbe good ibid Sari la Cliins
Wii! find our house this yea it.
I liope he'll brin? some candy; and
A dolly that can wink: I
T , j
He'll know where our hpme is. I'm
suiv,
Since papa doesn't drink.
Banner of Gold:
Washington Letter
j 1 here have - been sflvflwl
times: during the present week
when an open rupture between
Mr. McKinley and some of the
biggest men in his party seem
ed inevitable, bdtby sacrificing
some of his personal friends Mr
ilCK.nley has 80 r avoided it.
Xhe bones of contention are the
big offices. It is the fierce! fight
over each or them that accounts
for the small number of nomi
nations sent to the Senate.
Slates are no sooner made up
than some objector gets Iback-
mg enough to smash them. A
number of men who had Mr.
McKinley's I positive nromise
j that they would get certain po-
thefeVOPg them be"Tnot be en0ugnhemtofiec?'
inr -rrov. ivilrTiam, of Minn
inw ptt-(4ov. ivierTiam, oi lumu.,
and ex-CongressnSan Storer, of
Ohio. It was not - intended
I
t0 j
aP'
make any but necessary
poiniments umu aitei uiojio.iiii.
bill got through Congress, but
ill require some very aaroit ,
ao even j tit ,
starting a bitter '
factional fight in the republican j
nartv. There is a fight now in
the Congressional delegation of i
nearly every htaic, cy..
bitter in those having republi-
can Senators, over the men who
shall et the offices which are
to go to those states- -Still J there ;
arVcolumns of rot being print- !
d about the existing harmony f
between the administration anu
Congress. J
The honest patent lawyers of
Washington are after the fake
concerns who have been bring-
nig
discredit upon their proies-
sion in
Aad earnest now. lhey
, . 'i TiT- William
sZn Tffi aTLaw M
bmail, Aliumcj . . 'k
Building, Washington, y. v.
' to undertake the duty o sup
i vAssino- and prosecuting swm-
dling concerns, and he invites
i from lnvBiituio.
correspouuctio t
newspaper, puoiisnert,
i i . J 1
and
nt.l ers who hava been
deceived
and defrauded by and
through
false and fraudulent represen-.
otinn, soecious devices, in
eluding offers and
awards oi
prizes, medals ot h
beriifi
alleged cafes of stock, etc.,
V.rocurers and sesierswHi-r"-.
Those who have had unsatis
factory dealings with these
' ..i,Q T.-itnt, concerns should ac-
' cent the invitation and write to
' Mr.-Smali
'Using
a ' Dili 1UWUUUVCU
ail "4.A-Jmlillirl 111
Congress, which nas uu ;u
to pass, as a basis to swindle
the ignorant is by no means a
ouu in i." Uu)u
ension under
Eon
pension bill," and
m fee is charged for filling the
omination of Henrv
Secretary - of Em-
ox?, almost as
unpalatable to Republicans as
the Van Allen nomination to
Italy was to Democrats when it
was .made by Mr. Cleveland
four years ago. Some of them
are inclined to' be sarcastic
about it. For instance, thV
man who- said: "Who sys
White isn't an American? He
i i . ,
nas uvea abroad for many
years, but didn't he come over
from Europe last year, live at
Newport just long enough to
cast his first vote and then go
back? White is all no-ht His
- ,j o .
help is needed to make John
Hay popular in London's swell
society."
Thq tariff monstrosity known
as the Dingley bill is in many
respects worse than the McKin
ley bill, but it' is going to be
crammed down the throats of
the Democrats with less than
t wo week's debate.
also quite a numhr nf "RotmiK i
,. . w, iVUUlU
ncans in the House who areonof Not- Carolina its
posed to this bill, a'nd a few of
I them hb.vfikhrAflfAn
Qn Th Dftmor.ratic
i uiXKs i. vo
! nnininn of the bill was ; voiced
f - I ,
when Representative Berry, of
TTrtnhnrlrv said: "It is an exces-
sivejy high protective larin
measure. it will, if passed, in-
evitably raise the price of the
necessaries of life, such as sugar
wn,cn o-nnds worn bv
lasses i d0n't see how it
fail to add 'to the burdens
of tfte people instead of light
eniug them, it win cut on uui
foreign markets by raising the
t t production and thus cur-
tiU the manufacturers' sales,
Ag a CQnsequence the mills will
. d to run oniy &i'x months,
inatead Gf an the year, as they
ought to d)."
Piclcings iroin lott.
We didn't write last week,
owing to the scarcity of news,
but we will try to give you a
few dots this week. .
1 Mr. W. A. jampueu hub uctru
' sick the pt week. . :
ivr- T n R ch Jr. will SQOll
, . - ' . .
start out as agent tor tlje Brvan
book. . We don't exaetly -know
his territory to canvass, but we
guess it's Haywood.
Several of wir young folks at
tended the quarterly meeting at
Shady Grove. Among them
we noticed Messrs. Bob, Willie,
John' and Crocket' Campbell,
Jerry Haynes and ; Rector
Moody, and Misses Liilie and
Lizzie Boyd; Lou and Minnie
Plott.
They say they had a
fine time.
Miss Fannie Boyd and Messrs.
James Boyd and Lucius Leath-
erwo
od, of Fannie? paid note a
flying visit Sunday. ,
' The good Republican breth
ren are about to po back on
th Senatorial act of the public
road bill passed in the last
islature. We will not sa
Pure.
Jgreat leav-
a health ru!-
od against,
Madultera-
bi-ands.
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North Carolina Gold aad Othe4Ui "J. neaunruiness, and
Resources.
-HViimington Messenger.
m. - - -
rne Messenarer recent! coDied
a efatamonf fala.nnW
uuiwvuiivuu I W me
Raleigh News & Observer from
Boston, that in North Carol ma
there had been taken from - its
mines nearly $25,000,000 in e-old.lgence better criminal laws.
that there were 10,000 square)
uiiitjs in proauciive goia region
in the state, and that a gold
nugget weighing five and one
half pouuds had been taken
from the Crawford mine, 'this
last was credited to the New
York Financial Chronicle.
This mine is in Stanley county
and it is also stated ihat last
year two very large nuggets
were found weighing respec-
tively 8J and 10 pounds. These
reported facts were published
in the North Carolina papers. ' fine grazing capabilities, its be
That there is a gi eat deal of ing the native home of the best
hidden wealth in the undevelop- grapes, and especially adapted
ed mines of our state has long to other fruits of best quality
oeen suspected. That much is
to be done to bring to light the
riches .of .the state is also known
to intelligent men. The people
I . .
mtelli-
l scent people-are not
ant of the jsourc
r -- r- rsseiry
has built nearly 2i)0 cotton "tT
tones is not so fir behind a8
people living elsewhere think.
North. Carolina began a geolog
ical survey more than fifty
years ago, and led her southern
sisters in this great work as she
had led them in many ' other
important matters, lhe sur
vey is still - being prosecuted
nnder capable surveyors and
geologists, j North Carolina may
still haye imbedded in her hills
tens of millions of dollars of
gold. When Professor Stowe, a
New England man, returned
from California and Colorado
in 1893, he said this: "I am now
of the decided opinion that the
ores of the South are the richest
and the easiest to work of any
I have ever seen. I have made
over 200 assays of ore from the
Atlantic slope, and have visited
in ner8on many of the localities
where gold is found, and I speak
from facts."
In 1857fAugust number, Har
per's Magazine gave the follow
ingj which is doubtless true. It
is stated that "in 1799 a 12 year
qld boy, named Conrad Keed,
living near Concord, N. C,
with his little sister, went fish
ing in Meadow, creek while their
parents were at cfhurch.The boy
saw something yellow shining
in the water -and he dug it, out
and carried it home, it was
about the size of a small
smoothing iron. Mr. Reed, his
father, carried it to Concord
and had it examined by a
versmith. He,
what gold w
him any ide
Mr
seve
toi
Re
nM ask a burjawier ex-
ed $3.50 mnd gold m the
ng the creek, finding
one piece that weighed t wen fr
eight pounds and a number- of
pieces weighing from sixteen
pounds down to the smallest
particles."
When North Carolina is bet
ter understood in the great
nbrjth she will haye many visi
tors and a great accession of
immigrants. It is indeed a
marvellous state in its natural
resources and capabilities, and
when fully developed it will be
a grand Commonwealth every
way. It is second no to state in
its variety ol x.taiiul
climate, productiveness, beauty
advantages. It is 500 miles
across and is indeed a land o
I 1 T. . .
corn wme. ic is also a
hOSni tahltate to Rtrnnn-aro T
I J.V
nes some tKnjfgr of prime-im-
portance- o e 1 1 e r "common
schools, more general intellr-
wiser legislation, less demagog-
'ouji "'guci spusc yi civiu ou-
ligation and so on. In a hun-
dred years it will probably
have four or five millions of
people, and then it will be al
most an unrivaljed state. Its
many rivers eighty or more
its inland lakes and sounds,
7 1 I .
its magnificent mountain scen-
eiT M greatest variety, its
adaptation to the production
of almost everything that is
grown m the United States, its
peacnes, pears, apples, hgs,etc,
give it very great .advantages
over almost every competitor.
But we admit that North Caro
lina is as yet but partly de'veb
oped, and that very much re1
mains to be done. It will prob
ably have more than 1.750.000
ti've population that has been
goiug on all through this cen
turyit would haye in the next
census 2,500,000, possibly 3,000,
000 of people.
Outside the State!
SC. Louis experienced a hun
dred thousand dollar fire last
Saturday night.
Jackson and Walling, the
two murderers of Pearl Bryau,
were both hung at Cincinnati
last Saturday in the presence of
about 5,000 people.
One person was killed and
ten were injured in a wreck on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
last Saturday, near Oakland,
Md. I
In a friendly boxing match
in the city oi rnnaueipina
! last Friday night at a Demo
Icratic club meeting, Edward
.' . 0 Til- ?1 1 1
Gibbons was killed by a blow,
from his frieml, Samuel S. Per
ry. The blow landed near the
heart, just about the kind
which knocked Corbett but re
cently. 1
A dispatch Monday from Ar
lington, Ga., says: A toronado
destroyed the public school
building here shortly bef or e
noon today. Twelve children
were killed auTFtwsixnurriyijr
inrured. eleven of w
' -
diA i Two teachers V
hurt. They
iw
ai
State Items
Oonco"jvote8 on ADril 19th
on $40,0Qp worth of bonds for
waterraks and street improve
ment
Tomorrow thel University of
Virginia will crbss T)ats in a
game of babaH with the Uni
versity of N. C, at Chapel Hill.
i ne executive committee of
the University have decided to
add a Pharmacy department
ana Prof. K. V. Howell, ot
Eocky Mourii has been elected
to take charge of it.
The ' What vaniyht: raponftv
'i. c- -
near Morehea Vas 3$ feei
long, not 70. as renortAri bv th
EvangelistThe Beaufort Her
ald says: Mi.' SalinTwimrfir
struck him with harpoon, then
Mr. Lorenzo Willis shot him
with the whale gun. The
whale had to be shot four times
before he was finally killed.
The whale will bring about
$1,000 from its oil and whale
bone, but when this is divided
into 45 or50 shares it will not be
much to a share. Kmston Free
f ress.
The Piedmont Wagon Com
pany not only sends its products
to all parts of North Carolina
and the South, but it is reaching
Don't Drink In
all the "Bargain" nonsense you hear now-a-days.
There's something suspicious when
you are offered something for nothing.
We Don't Give Away Goods,
but we do give best values at oorrect prices.
We have the bestthe oniy genuinely tailor
made line of Men's Clothing in Western
North Carolina.
You'll Il.c4 i .cir V;J
;?;J 1
in f aw mi 7Ti rr
caln-A line of
genuine imported Clay Worstea, at $12.50.
MORGAN, ALEXANDER & COURTNEY, '
Leading Clothier, FHrnishert and Hattera,
Opposite PostofT.ce, ASHEVILLE, N.
I J :
7AITIEI0)S
100 Wives
lo IK
thev
To have their Premise
Now is the time
cheaper. Our
prices that cai
superior ' qual
Fillers, etc. (4iv
out and is not confined in it
dealings to tho United St-
On Monday it made
nf twAhttr ir h
wagons whicl
Jamaica. The
rail to Baltimj
from there to
by steamer.
Pruniujr Vines At-
Fruit Hub?"'
The nruninc..
vines 8hp
month,
betterf
done
i J
peyer
presenjtnlbniurxi4o-v. w0
curramta.goosel e ries and berrv
bushet should also Jb
nmshexl. Vtck's Magazine for
March.
From Urlppla Creek.
After the big fire in Cripplo.
Creek, I took a very severe cold
and tried many remedies with
out help, the chid only beo&m-
ner more settled. After nnino-
three small bottles ot Chamber
Iain's Cough Remedy, both the
couch and cold left mo. and- in
this high altitude it takes a
meritorious cough remedy.to do
any good. G . B. Henderson,
editor Daily Advertiser. - For
sale by David Way, Druggist.
!99
?S-U can get h .
-best liteyou
if
1 n y
eAiCgrity of your mercnt .
i f
Prince Albert 'Spiti of
fVlteoeccn
Jl Love,
-aogvins claims
j appear .before
........
IN '
ew dodge, but, acuurutuft
correspondence ot man Y
thing until we reaa
where in Congressi sucn
the COURIEHLFJ
now being successtuuy
snong the ignorant
j Southern 'Statej
i men,
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