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VOL. 1.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 5, 18S7.
NO. 19.
.ilSUK'll.MLUJUUJ
The Pike Khot,
PCBLISHKD EVEUV SATCUDAY MORNING AT
Sauthern Pines, Moore Co,, H. C.
B. A. GOODRIDGE, Editor.
TERMS-$ 1 .OO Per Year in Advance, this country, and it still moves on.
Single Copies 5 Cents. j ' ,
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The Democrats in tlie House say I body should fall as desperately in love ; North Carolina is a rather small and
j that Dr. Tyre York makes them tyred. ; with the wonderful climate of South- j extremely poor state poor in soil, -
!Thev think he's the wrong Sid-onJ jern Pines and vicinity, as we . have, j Porcr in croPs aml with people '
V u a 11 1 ' x v i . who just barely existed from hand to
li- .!.: ! everybody would want to live here,: t A i . , -
" Fortv vonrs has the movement fori , !, , , mouth. I expected to find mostly pea-
'J jears has the movement , aud pretty soon we should 1 uncom- ;uuts and SI)ne wra alM,
loman Diuirasi' uteu iu ui iu:f , H. , , Wilinl--n( ra 1.1- . l:..l .i - t . .'
poor shiverer in the North, as you tempt to speak from .the book or to
hug your glowing coal stove and won-! 6ive statistics now, but will just jot
down what I saw every day as I rode
rB"iivcDTTCiv blTrc nroinntlr fnrtiicliA1 I hp CAM CAT1 trfl.VP ttl t h ft Nmi t h K
utM ! npr if warm npr inll vr nnmA n-
1 1 5 ii i i . - i-v iii j 5 1 . 1 ri i i
t-job printino 6f every description dene ; reauy just beginning, j 'eopie wnoi . w . . . , ... "wieiut,, com cnos ana iiarns. ami
with neatness and despatch, and on reasonable . , Ai : : ,' Sam- We think Of you With SVmpa- : wna information T .rlnnnml ff..
terms. : ; like winter pretty well get about all ; ' . - . ; wnat lniormation I gleaned from ques-
t-CoRiKSFoso:NCE on all topics of wii-' , , .. , Vi . - --ci , 1 thy and hate to aggravate you Jjy talk- turning every farmer I could find will-
eval interest invited. Write only on one side of they want of it by the first of Febru-; ii-- i t ! ; 1 i 4i i a , .
' the paper; he brief ana lo the ptfint. sin your r , .nig of our delicious days m January . ing to be so bothered. At the Arri-
name aiid state whether you wish it published t ary an,u are generally willing 10 spena ;
1 that month and March in a more creu-
Entered at' the Postoffice at Southerir Pines, 1 jaj cnu .
Ni C, as second class matter. j -
ER ANSON HOUSE,
RALEIGH, N. C.
Mr. H. Bernard Carpenter, of Bos
ton, ought to be a happy poetj
volume, Liber Aiiwris, recently
. Central Xocation. Good board br the Day ; lished, has elicited warm praise
Week or Month. ; ' , ' 1
auouriS. St by NorthCrU p, oslx'ctors ; Lord Tennyson, in an antograpki let-
J Mrs. L. Branson, i ter. We hope the ioem he praises is
His '
pub-!
from !
and February, but the weather is here ; cultural State Fair, held at Raleigh in
a j ' October, was made a verv cre4litiill
to enjoy, and were enjoying it so- ' ""V creuiiauie
, , , v display of cattle, swine, poultrv, hor-
much we can't keep still about it. , ., ' . .
j ses, mules, cottoiT, vegetables, fruits,
. , . . , ' agricultural implements, etc.
Query: Can a newspaper be too de- T .v . . m , .
J 1 ; In the mountain section of thi stale
cem,i v e iui leceui eell a com- the best corn is raised on the toos ami
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munication from anfexperienced jour- i sides of almost inacessible in .untains
I
; Edward J. Bardiij,
No. 210 Fayetteville St. :
RALEIGH, N, C.
J better than some of his own latest ef-
forts.- i;- !
nalist who says that he once published and of course without manure.
a newspaper which was "too good", ave seen a wjjole range of mountains
if ewi.J tut u fo;io.i with thcir tops covered with corn
JL U It CIO W iV7liViOj 1 11U W lb ItlllM t,V
Offers at all times a full and com
plete stock of
Groceries & Frcvisicns
stalks, and
. li'ac i nit; masses iu nic uusiuusa jjicii . i,i,i , - , ,
v hauled up or down from these fields
said who refused to advertise in it) barring sleds. I asked, "YYhv do von
5.1.. '. ' -7
We liope the biU to! pension Walt '. and so il dicd- Tbc wrifer admUtcd' en,,'v tol,s"f he' intd of
Whitman will not paJ. In the ftlst ; however, that the 'best, peopl liked 'he valleys ami on the base f the
the paper and patronized it, and as it."""111'"" '" hi me mat
S failed after all, we .ire obliged to con-
; piace, oecause we uo not see mat ne - - , - s j i the tons wor mnrp frtil... Kn..
fhas any claim for it more than any failfcd ar . we ?re obhSed to con" ! posa thev knew what they were alout
1 other needy literary man, and in the ! elude tlmt the PeoPle" were in a , as they had been doing the same for
! second place and chiefly, because .we i decided 'mi?orit' !n that neiShbor- . I saw three kinds of corn, the
of .every description, suited to the dp not believe in Mr. ? Whitman and 'i hod' We do not ieve that in any.comon gourd seeds, the flint corn,
wnts ajfiit assfamUy ; trade. 1 not untU he ixprLeS contrition ! community the majority of ! h the best groataro made,
All goods thorouprhly guaranteed as to; I people prefer indecency to decencv ' d tip in the mountnins at an e,ov-
quality, and sold at .lowest possible ;for having put forth such an outrage j A V " ' i tion of 4000 feet I found northern In-
prices: fi : upon decency as some of his ,mems ; and eveu lf such a depraved taste ; Jian Corn is used all over th..
Fine Teas and Coffees,
"Flour, Sugars, Meats, Choice Butter, j
undoubtedly are.
Preserves and Jellies, Pickles, Sauces, : coW Gf Social Life at Harvard, spea
Spices, Soaps and Starches, Canned ; , . i. - A ,.
foods and everything else in the way of the prohibition of after-dinii
of table supplies.
Orders for goods by Express or
Freight carefully filled.
St34"
E.J. HARDIN.
W, H. WETMORE
&Co.
. RALEIGH,, N.C., :
Factory Cor. Harget&. Salisbury Sts.
v Manufacturers of
Hand Se we'd-Gaiters,
Button,.
Congress and Lace.'
kj were found to exist j anywhere no de-1 state for man and beast, in hoe cak-,
, j vent man has any business to cater to it. hominy, corn whiskey, for mule, horse,
Barrett Wendeily writing .in Lippm- j -r- . . - ' hog, and hen feed. Xo crop fluctuates
! THROUGH NORTHERN EYES. ' mueh in price as corn in North Car-,
I ' olina, aud all because of the want of
nnej To attempt to properly treat the sul- proper railroad communication. In
j smoking in "Memorial Hall, and adds, ; ject of Agriculture in any state, espec- ; the mountain district in North Car
t with a regretful isniif, that a faint ially a state like North Carolina, in a Una I found corn selling at fifty cents
I smell of boiled meat pervades the his common newspaper article, is like at- a bushel, and was told that it would
dining hall at alljtimes. We suppose i tempting td sweeten the waters of Bos-1 fetch one doljlar in March and April.
, . J , I ton harbor with a cup of suar. Such When I left in December corn .was
r his preference is a strong smell of j . .. .. , ,. . . , " . . . .
j; 1 a diversity oi soil and chmate is there worth in the mountains, CO centy, and
; stale cigar smole. U ell, every one ; that almost any crop grown anywhere on the sea c ast forty cents per bushel,
to his choice. If we must have a ; iu the United States can be found in the differencl being the cost of trans-
smell, we infinitely prefer the honest one season somewhere groxrtug in the portation by wagons. Corn fodder is
scent of boiled meat.
The Great Republic doesn't always
succeed in leading, off in the march of
progress. Italy, j Switzerland, Nor-
Old North State tobacco, rice, pea- ; bundled in small bundles and sold bv
nuts, cotton, corn, sorghum cane, po- the bundle and is called not fodder but
tatoes, wheat, oats, rye, hops and "roughness." Corn whiskey is indi
broom corn form a few of the varied genous to North Carolina and the
products of her soil. ; "moonshine article is pronounced by.
North Carolina! extends from the judges to w superior to the taxed
i mountains of Tennesee, at an eleva- commodity. One bushel of meal worth;
way, Sweden and Denmark have all
opened -their universities to women j ; tion of several thousand feet, down a fifty cents' will produce two and one
but our own Harvard thinks it huge j gradual slope to the level of the sea at halfgallons of. whiskey worth seventy-
eondescendsion to Ln-ant even ah- An-1 Hatteras iulet-a distance of over 500 five cents, hence it is not to be won-
"1 'l.! 1
, ., , i r 4. i mues in wiuin, ana
; nex, while ale and Princeton won t j . ,
' j hundred miles from
nave tnem at an. ine xime icmiug j Xo cover this state m
from fifty to one dered at that the planter on the moun
' north to south, tains will run the risk of Wing put in
the space of a jail foi the sake of stilling his own
Made to order, of the best material, j and that before long when the college- j few weeks, I set myself the task of corn. The "moonshine" whiskey i
at short notice.. ; yVe also:manufavturej aspiring-woman will be able to say: j spending as much time as possible on called "blockade,' as it has to run a
a hill line of Pegged and a , . . , . . annexation has no ! horseback, out of the beaten paths of blockade of revenue officers before it
; rm i . ! travel, ana at the most uutavorable can Ik? sold.
charms for us. There are plenty of i . i ' . . . x. ,
" . j seasou of the year, when frost had des- As to the corn raising in North ( ar-
r -''a ::,;' :-.v ,:-.;;-Vl PiaiV,,ere"L ea" rvcu uu troyed almost all, .vegetation, and in olina, I should say that with pror
Onr Vovtherif friends at Southern ' Arinsil tot-nw" i ivw it J '. ii
.... .... . , i buuic iuviuiic3 mc ptiun id) nuiu uuc miiHHjs, a rcasoiiauie aiiHiuiii n m-
I iues can have their shoes made tot ; .j . . . . ; . .
v vvorv!!: , . "! ! to three feet deep on the ground. nure and such cultivation as any other
;ir will give satisfaction.
Standard Screw Shoes:
Prices for Men's Sewed Shoes,
$3.00 to S6.00 ,
It is probably a wise dispensation ot j j started from Boston with the gen- crop should have it, would pay much
i Providence that we do not all set our j eral idea, and one, I think that is better than in any New Kugland state.
j hearts on the same object. If every- rather common in New England, that
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