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VOL. L
SOUTHERN PINES, N. Ci, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 26, 1887.
NO. 22-
The, Pike Knot.
I irBLISHKIl tVEUY gATURUAY.' MORMNQ AT
Santhera Pines, Moore iu 1. C.
B. A. GOODRIDGE, Editor.
READ THIS!
As before announced we begin this week
tlie publication of a series of articles des
criptive of the resources of Moore County.
Its agriculture, its mineral and forest
TERMS-$ I .OO Per Year in Advance. ! wealth, its leading men and its leading
industries will all be portrayed. No pains
will be spared to give full and accurate in
formation on all points and very large edi
tions will be issued. Now is the timeio
Single Copies 5 Cents.
UfADVERTisixo Rates promptly furnished
upon application.
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with neatness and despatch, and on reasonable
terms.
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eral interest invited. Write oiiiy on one side of
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I'.nteretl at the Postoffice at Southern Pines,
N. C, as second class matter.
BRANSON HOUSE
RALEIGH, N. C.
Central Location. Good board by the Day
Week or Month.
fWSpeeial terms to Northern Prospectors
and Tourist. Kept by
Mrs. L. BRANSON,
'WHICH WE WISH TO REMARK."
sbuscribe! Now is tlve time to advertise!
Now is tlte time to show wliether you have
any interest or pride in your county!
Edward U. fiafdii?,
No. 210 Fayettevillx St.
: RALEIGH. N, C.
Offers at all times a f till and com
plete stock of
;. .
Groceries & Provisions-
of every description, suited to the
wants of a first class family trade,
All goods thoroughly guaranteed as to
quality, ajid sold at lowest possible
prices.
Fine Teas and Coffees,
Flour, Sugars, Meats, Choice Butter,
Preserves and Jellies, Pickles, Sauces,
Spices, Soaps and Starches, Canned
foods and everything else in the way
of table supplies. v
Orders for goods by Express or
Freight carefully: filled.
8t34 E.J. HARDIN.
The Republican, of Springfield, Mass. ,
speaks thus of the proposed removal of
a large watch works manufacturing
establishment, employing, about 500
men to Ohio because coal and living
are cheaper there:
"Sic transit gloria mundi and of
the high tariff! Isn't it about" time
for New England to ask whether the
tariff which cuts us off from free coal,
free lumber, free ores and other raw
materials pays ?" ;
: W, H. WET MO RE
- &Co.
RALEIGH, N.C.,
Factory Cor. Hararet& Salisbury Sts.
" Manufacturers of
Hand Sewed Gaiters, '
Button, .
Congress and Lace.
TO BILL NYE.
AN OPEN LETTER FROM AN ADJ1IRER.
Dear MUh The. Pine. Knot ia sorry
beyond measure to read . in an ex
change the following:
: "A private letter from Bill Nye to a
Chicago friend," says The Newsol that
city, "contains the unwelcome inform
ation that ; the ( popular humorist's
health, so far from being improved,
seems to become poorer and poorer.
In fact, Mr. Nye writes that he has
been compelled to abandon literary
work altogether, and he fears thatrif
a change for the better doesn't set in
pretty soon he will have to take to his
bed and surrender himself whollv to
the doctor's care. He is still at Ashe
ville, N. C, and he intends to reman
there for the winter. It is apparent
that he is very much discouraged about
i himself." ''
We hope, dear Bill, you were only
joking when you wrote that letter, but
if you were in dead earnest, and are
really and seriously falling away, leave
"the land of the sky" for a while and
j come to us among the Pines. We are
all getting strong and healthy, dear
Bill, for here no "troubles assail nor
! dangers affright," the air is serene and
; the sky ever bright, (except when it
rains.) This is a dry town overhead
Made to order, of the Wt material, and uflder foot. Arbutus has been
at short notice. We also manufacture ' blooming a week, and you shall have
a full line of Pegged and a button hole filled with it every
morning, t'ome and try it, dear ism,
and when you are well (which soon
Our Northern friends at Southern '! will'.bo) you can tell "the World and
Pines can have their shoes made to ; the rest of mankind" that here all
order at very reasonable prices. Every I v . . . , ,
pair will give satisfaction, i I Vbys,oal sufferings are eased and
health secured. Dear Bill, come. ,
i ; Pine Knot.
In last week's issue our high tariff
Republican friend L. A. Dodge, of
Boston, took some exceptions to our
position on the tariff question, civil
service reform, female suffrage, &c. &c.
He thinks we ought to abandon these
ideas or else take them back to Boston,
where we got them. No sir. We
don't propose to do either. We mean
to put them right where we think they
will do the most good.
Our free trade position springs from
our firm belief in the doctrine of the
greatest good for the greatest number.
When it is proved to our satisfaction
that there are more wool growers than
there are wool wearers then we will
admit the justice of a tax which makes
every man pay more for his coat than
he would under a system of free trade.
So with the argument against taking
the 106 per cent tax off of foreign rice.
What right have the paltry few rice
planters in this country to compel the
millions of rice eaters to pay an enor
mous tax for their benefit! How
lovely is protection that makes us pay
8 and If) cents per pound for rice wheTi
it ought to be furnished for 3 or 4
cents! . '
, ' i
Mr. Dodges argument so far as it
applies to wines doesn't apply to the
question. Being an article of luxury
the duty on wines is comparatively
low anyway. With that' deep and
tender regard for the people which
characterizes our high tariff legislators,
they haye said, "We think 29 per cent,
is enough for you to pay on wines;
j
(which you can't buy anyway) but 89
per cent, is about the right figure on
the common cloth that every mother's
son of you must wear in order to be
decent."
As Mr. Dodge says, we wouldn't
have an iotaof the tax on whiskey and
tobacco taken off. We wish it were
heavier than it is. But we fail to see
rubl ing your eyes and wondering to
yourself that you couldn't see so plain
a thing before: How about Kansas?
Perhaps you haven't much respect for
the Kansas idea. But once on a time
there was an idea worked out on Kan
sas soil that is now pretty generally
diffused throughout the length and
breadth of the land. - Perhaps history
may repeat itself. Who knowst
MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CARO
LINA. A GENERAL SKETCH.
A little east of the centre of North
Carolina arid considerably nearer to it
southern boundary than to ths line
which divides it from Virginia lies tin
triangular county of Moore. It is
bounded by the counties of Randolph,
Chatham, Harnett, Cumberland, Rick
mond and Montgomery. Deep River
traverses its northern portion and re
ceives from it numerous tributarv
streams. From northeast to South
west, its longest dimension, the Ral
eigh & Augusta Air-Line Railroad,
part of the great Seaboard Air-Line
System, crosses it, giving eaay acces
Northward to Raleigh, the State capi
tal, and Southward to Wilmington,
Charlottnd other points.
It has an area of 'about 3C0,0CH)
acres, one half of which is covered
with a heavy growth of long leaf pine.
The soil is of three varieties, clav,
gray loam, and sand. All the pro-
ductions which are adapted to tin-
climate can be grown here to perfee- .
tion and in great abundance.. This
section is the natural home of the
grape and of the silk mulberry. Tin
whole county is supplied with never
failing stream of pure water which
are capable of furnishing a large
amount of power for manufacturing
purposes. Beside, the long leaf pine,
which is one of the chief sources of
revenue to the people of this county,
there is plenty of oak, hickory, poplar,
dogwood, and walnut.
The minerals of the county are in
great.varieyr and abundance. ('Sold is
profitably mined in the northwestern
portion. Beds of coal and iron lie
undisturbed, waiting for enterprise U
what our Internal Revenue system has , develop them. The mill stoaes made
to do with either high tariff or free from "Moore Comty Grit" have u
trade national reputation and are by many
considered fully equal to the French
As to civil service reform we shall
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Standard Screw Shoes
Prices for Men's Sewed Shoes.
3.00 to $ e.oo
Buhr Stone. Near Fairhaven in the
continue of our present opinion, name- northern nortion is an immense .V.
ly, that the South hasn't had enough ! posit of oap stone which has been but
of it as long as we continue to receive I little worked. Among the other min-
several copies of different issues Gf j f raI,ound in more or ,eM abundance
., , , s in this county may be mentioned tilr,
our daily exchanges on the same day, as . . . .
t malachite, red jasper, agate and fosnil
long as complaints come in fr-1
quently of the Pine Knot failing to Mineral waters of specific virtue are
reach those to whom it is sent, asjlong found in many parts of the county and
as the mails generally continue to go me climale ls probably unsurpassed
anywliere in the Lnited Mates.
In our next iaue will be some inter
esting and useful matter relative io
in Mooru
and come in their prssent hit-or-miss
style.
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We are sorry you don't believe in I individual
female suffrage. Some day you'll be County
enterpriM