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LIGHTED FOR THE ILLUMINATION OF TAR HEELS, BOTH NATIVE AND ADOPTED,
VOL. I.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1886.
NO. 9.
The Pine Knot.:
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K It is at this season of the year that
the difference between the climate of
the North and that of this, section of
thfr South is most noticeable. It ought
to be a cause of devout thankfulness
to us who dwell in North Caroliua that
te are not confronting a six. months'
desperate struggle with the demons of
ice and siiow.
lvntered at the PostofHee at ; Southern Pints,
N. C, as second class matter.
BRANSON HOUSE,
RALEIGH, N. C.
j may w cApevieu, prouuees nrsi inai
i gestion, then inflamation of the diges-
i Northern Settlers of North Carolina,
don't forget that what helps one sec
tion helps the whole state! If you are
riot generous enough to forward any
enterprise, that does not immediately
benefit yom own neighborhood, at
least show good sense enough to keep
open to argument, for we are totally are weakened vicious breeding, ex
opposed to the hog as an article of di- I posure, and ' starvation; and when the
et, but many people do believe in him j mast fal1 il w 'greedily eaten, with its
mi "au il ! hard, fibrous, astringent husk, and as
and so we 11 debate the cmestion from i . " "s
their standpoint.
It is claimed that itjeosts nothing to ! tive organs, disturbance of their func
raise hogs in this wa'y; therefore all 1 tions blooJ poisoning, and the febrile
the returns must be ''clear profit. Is! disease which is known as cholera. No
... , . , J. j doubt this is a most virulent contag-
thisia fact of observation, or is it only j- , , 4, .
t . ' J ious disease, especially when the am-
guess-work? Does it :Cost nothing to mals are prepared for the sowing of its
raise them t So far as we have ob-! seeds in their system, by a feverish
served it is the custom during ten or j condition brought on by unwholesome
4i..v, feeding.
i - - -
either not at all or just enough to-
rouse their ambition, go that they run
would otherwise
Then, a month
Good board .'by the Day ! from disparaging anything that is a
"Special terms to Northern Prospectors ' real belt) to the State. We are led to
and Tourists. Kept by !
Central .Location.
Week or Month.
Mrs. L. BRANSON,
Edward Dardii,
No. 210 Fayettkville St.
RALEIGH, N, C.
Offers at all times a full arid com
plete stock of
Groceries Provisions
of every description, suited to the
wants of a first class f amjily trade.
All goods thoroughly guaranteed as to
quality, .and sold at lowest possible
prices. . - '
Fine Teas and Coffees,
Flour, Sugars, Meats, Choice Butter,
Preserves and $ ellies, Pickles, Sauces,
Spices, Soaps and Starches, Canned
(iood and everything else in the way
of taljle supplies. j
: - - ' -l-.-'v. ' ;,
Orders for goods by Express or
Freight carefully filled.
i paper comment which displayed that
j narrow-mindedness to which we have
alluded. '
off all the fat they
gain from the food.
or six weeks before his carcass is re-
FROM CHARLOTTE TO SOUTH
ERN PINES.
On Saturday night the excursionists
j returned eastward from Charlotte to
Southern Pinps wlipr ?r
quired, the ".razor-back", is kept 1 to spend Sunday. Railroad travelling
j say this from having seen some news--! and fed. How he does eat! It is no j is not very' rapid in this section and it-
trifle of corn that he consumes in that ! was 4: 30 on Sunday morning when
)ecks and bush- ! we had made the 107 miles between
, , the two points and turned out of the
mndred pounds ? sleo per berths into the more comfort-
of poor, flabby pork from an animal j able beds at the hotel. Some three
- -v , hours sleep however brouglrt us into
furnished three i vi.. , i-
I IK llrlllllV TtllllNMIIIK III H II llUlimi1
j - ' CftlttlKUWA
time,. but substantial
els. The result is a
There-is said to be a movement
on foot among: the '. colored people to
that ought to have
hundred.
immigrate to Southern .California. It 1 . j . .
, , i , . , . ' . i reveal the fact that this little mess of
iney go. we suoiuun i oe surpriseu;; to
see movement on foot among them to
get back. Southern California is not
the paradise for-working. people that
many think it is. As for the colored
people being. welcomed as servants in
the place of the Chinese, it is'our opiiir
ion that they yill require a great deal
I of training before thev are very, eu-
r
thusiastically received as servants in
any part of the1 country. We believe
that they are better off where they are.
E. J. HARDIN.
W; H. WETMORE
&Co.
RALEIGH, N.C.,
Factory Cor. Hargetfit Salisbury Sts.
Manufacturers of
'Hand-Sewed Gaiters.
Button,
Congress and Lace.;
We are glad to see that the question
of reducing the, legal rate of interest
in North Carolina ; is being agitated.
A lower rate would help all parties,
the lender a well as the boiTower, be
cause there would be greater induce
ment to enga-ge in new enterprises if
capital could be obtained on reason
able terms, and the consequence would
be increased demand for money and
j ' f . m
increased profit to the lender.
DOES IT PAY?
A careful balancing of re-j mornings with atmosphere redolent
of the odor of pines and the light wind
plj-iug a' quiet anthem among the nee
dles. This point is a new enterprise
I l i :.i ii , .,
scrawny pork has costi more per pound : ait 1 V" rmT l"rugn the
1 , . I pine belt, and turpentine and rosin
thau a good quality of the same arti- j manufacturing region of the State. It
cle, obtained from an janimal that has ' is intended as a sanitarium and resort
, , I , i ' for persons with weak lungs, and those
been kept up and fed hgularly. iiere report a marked success in this
The following fromja writer in thej respect. It has one hotel and another
.v':.;.-.:.. ,L:; . u 1 one nearl.V completed, and a number
X, . i . ,u imu iUC i wiut, ami m.uuiu , of new c ,t a -es building and projected
be read and pondered
of these miserable creatures
by 'every owner! 'A walk first to the Shaw farm on
which bhermau s army at onetime en-
'i filttirifid flirt iratlminnii rt
These Noj-th Carolina swine are half button snake root and other botanical
starved during the summer, living up
on roos, and , often
roots of trees, which
digging up the
thev follow for!
specimens, the testing of mineral wat
ers and general ramble through the
pine forest put one in good shape to
enjoy dinner. In the afternoon some
many feet until the Wjholly uneatable j of the crowd walked to Manly, a mile
woody tioer ot the solid part is reached, j and half distant to inspect
In the fall, when the mast falls, they j llot mo' h-jhine but turpt
consume the chestnuts and acorns, fill
ing themselves to repl
ietion and gorg
ing Sunday they were of
but the riiodus operandi
i ent, being similar to the operation of
some stills
ntine. Ie-
pourse idle.
vas appar-
ing their shrunken bellies with the ; making any other distilled liquor. Th
unwholesome food. turpentine which collects in the
. . . notches of tapped irees is heated in a
l he condition of semi-starvaton m ; retort, and the volatile matter being
which these wretched icreatures live is driven o. I in the form of gas is con
. . . i. ... . ! .1 i j p ...r : i.
such that a three months' old pig some
times weighs no more thau eight or
ten i)ounds, and in spring those which'
densed in a worm from which it issues
as turpentine. The best of the resi
due is the resin of commerce, and the
balance refuse. In 1880 this State
j Does it pay j to raise "razor-back"
hogsf This is not a conundrum, but
a ;serious question. Nobody doubts
that these hogs, running wild about
the couutry, are a nuisance. They
are covered with vermin; thev are of-
ten diseased; they are always an eye-
Our Northern friends at Southern sore. As an offset to these serious
Pines can have theirshcs made to disadvantages it ought to be proveabha
order at very reasonable prices, hvery
pair will give satisfaction.. that there is large profit in keeping
V ' them. But can this be proved? Per-
' Prices for Men's Sewed Shoes. .
$3 00 to $ 6 OO sonallv, we don t consider the question
Made to order, of the best material,
at short notice. We also manufacture
a full line of Pegged and
' Standard Screw Shoes-
survive the wiuter arejmere skeletons, j manufactured 0,27J),000 gallons of tur
vearling pigs frequently weighing no ! pentine, (m:,U07 barrels of rosin and
more than twentv-fiveor thirty pounds. ! 80'0(! tar, quite an import
Tt . . J , . ant mdustrj'. Southern Pines rejoi-
It is a common tlnngo see the swine in neWspaper, the iW W,
wandering about the yoods with bells, edited by H. A. (ioxlridge, a bright
around their necks, thje slender necks j young New Englander. Society here
and big jaws forming iv safe and ex- j V"rh limited is nd congenial,
ii j. e t. J' i-i-i 11 i " hue passing one of the cottages the
ellent fitting for the strap which holds . . . . i ... p ,
1 ' proprietor was observed cutting wood.
the bell. The miserable, beasts have j -This is Sunday," remarked one of
no shelter from the cold rains of win- the- passers. Ex necessitate laborein'
ter but a shelving rock, and no food! quickly came the response,
but the husks of the dried and dead I Ordinarily we would nc.t ha ye Wen
, . ,' 4 - . able to leave Southern Pines for the
mast. Many perished of starvation j East until Tuesday . mooning, but F.
last winter when the unexampled; W. Clark, (Jeneral Passenger Agent of
snow covered the ground for two I tne Seaboard Air-Line, having come
weeks, and left them with onlv such I l? his ' Private car a train was
- , ii r i I- ! ordered, to run East on rhedule time
food as could be found by ruotmg in j on Monday morning, so that we got
the snow. j j back to Raleigh without further delay.
Under these conditons. what else is ! Correnpondeiue in Strulmrillr, (Ohio)
to be expected but disease! The hogs ? Daily Herald.