LIGHTED FOR THE ILLUMINATION OF TAR HEELS $ BOTH NATIVE AND ADOPTED
VOL. 2,
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8,
1887,
NO. 2.
$ 1 OO tO $300 A MONTI! can be
. . ''W made workmg for
( us. Agent preferred who can furnish their own
horses and give their whole time to the business.
Spare moments may be profitably employed al
so. A few vacancies in towns and cities. B. F.
JOHNSON & CO., 1013 Main st., Richmond, Ya.
4 too . ' .
A LARGE ASSORTMENT
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OF best Ever-blooming Rothes, Evergreens,
Magnolias, Greenhouse and out door betiding
plants. ' .
IMII'QUKTS and
FIX) UAL DESIGNS,
yEEDS aod
EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN.
' .Send for Catalogue.
H. STEIN METZ,
Raleigh, N. C.
E aglesfield's
Southern
M. Allun.
Wm. Cram.
Allen &,Oram,j
Machinists and Fpundkymen,
Raleigh, N. C.
Orders for SPECIAL MACHINERY of every
Jescription solicited. Engines, Boilers, shuft-ngs.-
Pulleys and Hangers constantly on hand
I r made to order. . .
Repairs of all kinds promptly at
tended to at short notice.
MANUFACTURERS OF -
The Lon e Star Pump,
She it made; taWMdiiiR, anii.ivce.inir,
kiiti-pucking, with no rubber, gum or Ujather.
y'scd for wells, cisterns, irrigation or supply -
towns wuii waier.
W -j
pomona Hill Nurseries,!
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POMONA, N. C. I
i'wo and one-half miles west of i
Railroad. The main line of the
Richmond & Danville Railroad ;
passes through the Nursery and j
within JLUU ieex or tlwj omce and i
residence. Salem trains make reg-:
ular stops twice daily each way. j
I'liose interested in fruit and fruit-growing
l:e cordially invited to inspect this, the largest
ursery in the outii.
The proprietor has for many years visited the
(aiding Nurseries of the Norih and West and
rresponu.i wmi iimsc oi loreigu countries,
ttheriiiir every fruit that was calculated to
tit the South, and lteing located in the center j
' the l'iedmont bcn;tion ot North Carolina and
ith 30 years experience, also the experience !
' my father before me, can claim without
isuancy inai nets, ixu.,siuh m iiire rur- i
ies will do better in any of the bout hern or ,
frder States thaa if grown further North or
suth. Try and be convinced. My stock con-
Us of. over
Xhie , Million Fruit Trees,
Vines, OY.,
all the leading varieties, both old and new.
Mmie, Peach, Pear, Plum, Apricot, Cherry,
t , T, . T. , .,
Us, Japanese Persimmon, Pecan, Ijighsh
f ilnut,Graie And all small fruits. Evergi-eens, ,
I I s ic
' ,. , c.. 1 u,.w..ri.,. .
ivrrsnondence-solicited. Send tor catalogue.
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I ?J. Van Lindley, Proprietor,
iff ,
BRICKYARD
JQR. E. B. RANKIN,
Homoeopathic Physician,
Halifax fpT. (op. Cotton Platform.)
Raleigh, N. C.
Special attention paid to all forms
of chronic disease, diseases of women
land children: Patients treated by
! mail, and visits made to neighboring
! towns when desired.
I ;Ktji
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j "Q.RIFFIN & TEMPLE,
j Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
! ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
Practice in the Superior and Federal Courts of
the First Judicial District and in the Supreme
Court of North Carolina. Special attention
! given to conveyancing and collections.
: W. J. Griffin. av. O. Tkmple
G. N. Walters,
FASHIONABLE tt ENCHANT TfjWR, '.
RALEIGH. N. C.
Has the largest stock of Foreign
Cloths, Cassimeres, Cheviots, plain
and fancy. Silk mixed Suitings;
Shark skin Suitings in all
shades. The latest
New York styles
v
for full dress
Suits.
.Dress suits from $40 to $85. j
r ywy.
i Samples furnished on application.
o?r ",o
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LUCIUS A. YOUNG,
nsurance Agent,
AND
DEALER IN
STATIONERY,
FANCY GOODS,
MIRRORS, SOAPS
4
PERFUMERY, I
(R0TF, STS '
HOES, RAKES,
CUTLERY,
HANDBAGS,
HAMMOCKS,
H. W. John's
A . ,
Ao C5 Eb I Ob PAI NT,
'
ROOFING, MATERIAL.
&c. &c, &c.
NO. i, CITY HALL.
Southern Pines, N. C.
AV. H. Wttmore & Co., Manufacturers of h uid
made shoes, Raleigh, N. C, are selling Ladies'
hand sewed "Morocco button boots tor $2. 7: lace,
$20. mA qualitv $2M. .rd qualitv s: mnX-
fize from to 7 made to order, A perfct fit
fftiaranteed for 25c. additional. Geits hand
sewed best Calf Congress gaiters and bals for
. ,i, ?. Tr.. 1 1
a very steep grade,
of Men's. Bovs'. Women's. Misses and Children's
Pegged Shoes. Special prices to merchants.
sample pair sent on receipt of price. Anv of
men ji W-His win uc itpaucu ai inc raaun lor
It makes us very, very tired to see
over and over again that bit of f ol-
ishness which protectionists u:ge
against free trade: "Oh, it's an extel-
lent theory, but very bad in piactic.''
This is uttered with an lair of profound
wisdom which leaves nothing to.be qe-
sired. The statement sounds weal.
and those who are convinced jy
"sound and fury, signifying nothing'
think there must
it somewhere,
such people we w
be an argument in
For the comfort bf
Ml say that this static-
ment is just as true about free tra$eing lies at t lie foot of it.
as about anything else. It is also just
as foolish as it was the first time it
was uttered. A good theory that is
bad in practice ! A yood machine that
will not do the work for which it is madl.
THE PROPOSED RAILROAD.
All our t itizens who are interested
in the future prosperity of this sectioi
should enter heartily into the project
of building a railroad from the south'
ern part of our town to Montgomery
county. We take it that the desira
bility of this road does not need to be
j argued. That is a settled question;
jit would st: ike immediately into i
country rich in turpentine and lum4
ber and, after that was passed, would!
traverse a fertile farming district ex
tending as far as Troy, the eounty-
- I-.
seat of Montgomery. The chief ques
! tion for us to decide is this: Where
ts - .
! shall the proposed road tap the R. &
i A. R. R. at Southern Pines or at
! Blue's Crossing?
It seems to us that
there can be but. one answer to this
question, when the subject is viewed
j in all its hearings.
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! Sometimes nature marks out a path
i
j for a railroad so plainly that to follow
! anv other course is a wilful fhwartinf?
.
er P in an ls sure to enta" trou-
'11 1 T T
oie ana expense, nere is a case in:
point. If ever mother Nature did J
j everything for a railroad except put j
i i
j down the ties and lay the iron, she
has done it iiere, along the smooth
back of the ridgi that extends north-
, . c . . ,
westerly rrom Southern Pines toward
Montgomerv countv. For miles and
to
j miles there is not a stream to bridge gathered the corn, hauled it to the
j or a cut of any depth to make,. Men barn and shueked it, putting it in an
! who know the ground say that a stout P?n rib where it has nicely dried.
j , , ,, -.7 1 He kept his team and some hands cut
! locomotive could pull its toad over this j
1 '..- . ,i . tipg the butts and hauling to the silo
i route, without anv grading at all. It v . . ' '" c i
' , b sa where it was cut fine in feed cutters
i is evident, then, that as long as the : aJid the silo filled. Thus the whole of
road keeps along on the ridge to the corn crop is utilized for feed, cows
Southern Pines grading will be but eating the ensilage voraciously after it
slight expense. But, on the other : itened by the change which it uu
, , .P , - , . . de,rgoes Another advantage of this
hand, if it goes to Blue s Crossing, it wiy nes in having the field clear from
besides bridging the creek. More than
i that, after the freight has been trans-
ferred to the R. & A. K. R. it has still
to be hauled up the steep grade be-
tween Blue's Crossing and this place,
and we all know . what a tough pull
that is, ev
n now. With the -addition-
al freight tihis road would bring in. it
would be tougher than' ever.
Here is" .the ease in a 'nutshell.- The
: bulk of the freight that would" be
hauled on this road' lies on top of the
ridge. Southern Pines is on top of
f the ridge, at the point where the. R. A:
A. R. R. crosses it, but Blue's Cross
Is. there anv
philosophy in hauling a lot of naval
stores and lumber down to the foot of
the hill lor the sake of tugging them
up the same hill -igain f We don't see
the philosophy or the fun either.
It is argued that, if the road starts
at Blue's Crossing, it will strike im-
! mediately into a region where freight-
'age is heavy, whereas, by the other
i route, it must go a few miles farther
j before it gets to heavy timber. Grant-
: ing this to be so, it is a very tempoia-
rv advantage at best. In a vear or
two this tract would be entirely vrk
ed out, and there would tlie'n t'xist not
the slightest '. reason for the exp use
and inconvenience of running in at
that point. ,
We will not mention, in addition,
the advantage of an outlet from
Southern Pines, so rapidly building
up as a health resort, to the famous
mineral springs which lie near the
proposed route, or the ease with which
the- road could be carried on from
here to Fayetteville. These are mat
ters for future consideration. We
hope, however, to hear both sides of
this question fully set forth at the
jmeeting on the l.'Jth inst., at the Big
!()ak on " Grnhn'm Si - Melhifisilir tron.
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road, a notice of which appears else-
where in our columns.
CORN FODDER IN SILOS.
We visited R. M. Couch at Mr. Pat-
pick's farm near Keyser, recently and
1paru,'d something about living corn
fpdder in silos, &c. He ''topped" about
J , . 4 1 .....
7 acres of corn, curing andAsaving it
;L , a.. n - i
lp tine order, then drove through and
stilk, for fall sowing or another spring
Anlfi r n 4 Tkf " V 0k u aV m rVi )tir
; - fo m gilo after thJv have
a little more growth.