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i > > not move the depot.
1' >n. Jeff. Davis is still very ill.
I Hickory Inn is ha V in LT a "ood
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Senior editor is at Asheville this
W t •*;lv.
Wood subscribeis will please
haui m.
 ' on Wagner A" KilHai for
b i on s.
'i m your ads lor Hie trade
is- it at once.
j he trade issue closes it-, columns
i. ' Monday.
I ..it' i designs in **siik mulilers
;t', 11.>- W lilt () I* 1 out.
! e opera house chairs have been
bought. I Ley are elegant.
' >'• h.gold will 1 1ol 1 services i*i
t!v fo formed church Sunday.
M mv app lieations for the use of
pera house are coming in.
Wagner \ Kiilian will sell y«.u
1 . tins m anything you want. 40 lit
1 >r your friends, gentlemen, get
a "-ilk muSilci; at the Royster A
Martin's
\\ aiiong sticks and ..oiii'ist bags
for Christmas gilts, at llovster \
Mai tin's.
I he North Carolina Pottery Com
pany, of Burke county, has been in
corporated.
1) > you like the Pni:ss AND CAKOI.I
MAN ' Tell your neighbor so and
ask him to take it.
A.'hert Brady, aged 70 years died !
very suddently near Conover on j
Saturday, Nov. 30th/'
Tell your neighbor he can get the
paper and the American Parmer for '
si.so. 52.00 for 51,50.
Many thanks to "Anonymous for 1
the poem. We are always glad to |
have good contributions.
Christmas goods just opened at
Koyster's drug store. Everybody ;
invited to come and see them. * It !
Car Is are out for the marriage of f
Miss Mary Osborne to Mr. Heriot ,
Carkson, of Charlotte, on the 10th
in>t.
j
We will give every one of our,
subscribers that brings us a new
cash subscriber four mcnttis sub
scription.
Iti shopping for Christmas goods
ujn't fail to examine Roystei A:
Martin's numerous articles for holi
day souvenirs.
Hickory was in a high way last ,
I'riday night. The boys were on,
the muscle, and Pinck. Campbell got i
& two-inch gash cut in his head 1
a plank.
1 I>. Keogh, J. E. Boyd and C.
!»• Montgomery have incorporated
the Greensboro North State to pub
the North State." The capital
v k is So,ooo
I he Asheville Citizen makes note
an apple tree in Henderson coun
tv which is 1*27 years old. from
; V! h seven bushels of app'es have
1 '■' n gathered this year.
u e will positively sell the Lingle
1 i erty in West Hickory on Satur
' '>'• D>c. 7th, at 2 P. M., before the
bi kot Hickory. Buyers will take
•• ■'»' of time and place.
CLINK \ Mrr.mu.
1 e Board of Aldermen meets
t Tuoday night and we h(>j">e
4 ' city fathers will consider the
'*■ l t' t r and - r ive us more in 1
r>
' of the dark parts of the city. '
' tnksgiving passed otT quietly
4: : pleasantly in our little city.
■ sermons were preached and
v"giving services were heid in
eran and Reformed churches
U " 1 well attended.
C.onc* to Hi-, He„t.
Gen. Colictt Leventhorpe died on
' Suuday, I)t c. 1, ls.s'J, at Walnut
Foautain on the Yadkain. at the i
i esidenVe of Lis brothel -in ia A*, GapL i
W. D. Jones, in Caldwell county j
x. c. ' !
[ A of an unci', nt English
( ounty family, he  aiue to Canada ;
. in Her Magestv's service in his early
youth; soon attracted by reports of
the mineral wealth of ti is State, he
visited Rutherford county on a
prospecting tour, ami while time,
met and wedded Louisa, dauguter
of Gen. Edmund Bryan. He threw
up his commission in the British
army, studied medicine, and settled
i near nis wife s people. In 1801 he
entered the Confederate army, and
i as Colonel of the 11th North Caro
lina, and icite as Brigadier General,
rendered service sj eilicient as to i
call out the repeated praise of Lee.
Since the war he has held no pub
lie ollice, but, possessed of a decent '
competence, lie spent his time in
such scholarly ar scientiiic pursuits
as tilted his wishes, partly in En
gland, partly in Xew York, but
mostly in North Carolina.
Nu citizen was more generally or
more deservedly popular. The most j
charming of hosts, he was, if pos
i sible, yet more delightful as a guest; j
the sinking dignity of his personal
presence was tempered by the gen (
tleness ol his manners and the
! sweetness of his temper.
His knowledge of Art and Letters '
was so great, his scholarship so ripe, i
his command of all his resources so
j complete, and his willingness to
share his treasures so evident, that 1
whose left his company did so with
a broader mental horizon, and in
i creased self respect.
Hundreds of friends in Europe
and America will hear of his death j
| with more than a passing regret.
i Deaths in Morxantou,
Dr. R. B. Anderson, the Presby- ' -
terian minister at Morganton, died
. last Monday at 3:30 p. m.
.
Mrs. Bettie Rusinisel died at 5
o'clock a. m., last Monday.
j
Mr. Ernest Beall, son of Rev. B. I
i L. Beall, of Lenoir, died on Sunday
i morning about 11 o'clock, of piidu- '
monia, after an illness of about ten
days. He was in his 1271h year, J
having been born in July, ISG3. , 1
Col. XV. H. Williams, Newton,
writes the Tradesman that he
has recently added one slubber, one 1
i speeder. Providence Co.: and Pratt :
English card, acd two Whitiu's im- j '
proved cards! to his cotton mill.
Of the road to be built from Shel
by via Morganton and Linville to
i Cratiberry, N. C. 2(1 miles are grad- I
ed. John L. Martin, of New York,
has secured funds in Europe to (
j build the road. 1
i #t !
\ ale College alter many year*
, of victory in every branch of athletic
sports was defeated by Princeton in j
a match game of foot ball on
Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. R. Meßiayer of Shelby has '
moved to Asheville. This will be 1
« r ood news to Bower, ( owles. lira- x
C
ham and other Congressional candi- 1
dates
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Tne N. C. Jerse\ C.»ttle C-ub lias t
purchased a tine bull for breeding
purposes. Mr. D. L. Echard is .
keeping him.
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See the prizes given away with v
every dohars woiih ol goods vou
buy at the BOOK Store. It
On Christmas Day the Book Store
will give away s.'S~> worth of prizes c
free. It , t
Ifcicf;c>n>, iP.ertfo Carolina, Cfourst»a\>, Pcccmbcr 5. ISSO.
WI OR RENT THE BRIDGE.
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i .» ACCC UN lOF I ::E KLL
I lie* C»iui«ty Slioultl Iluv it; Itut
it it will >iot. y.tt Ziick»r>
I.ease It And «»i\e KreeTravel
to Tlie Uouiitaui L t aat-
Have you ever thought of it '
How much trade is kept away from
Hickory on account of the fact that
traders who come Lere from the
mountains must pay toil to >vt
1 J C
here ' I his is an insurmountable
barrier that should by all means —
for the good of Hickory and Cataw
ba county—be removed. If it can
not be owned by the county and
made free, that our kindred from
our sister counties may visit us,
without having to pay a tariff for
ihe privilege of crossing the Cataw- ,
;
ba, then iet enterprising Hickory
come to tne trout in this, as i-he
ever does in everything, and either
buy or lease the bridge. For a
small sum the bridge can bo leased
and the merchants can well afford to
pay a certain amount each \ear to j
make up this sum. This plan has i
oeen spoken of by some of our lead- ;
ing business men and we are con- ,
talent the plan will receive general
support. Ihi 5 matter has already ;
been delated to olong and should ,
be pushed through at once.
Nej;ro Hanj;ccl lor Assault.
RALEIOH, N. C, NOV. 29, 1880.—
Matthews Banks, colored, was hanged
at Elizabeth City tbv morning in the
presence of about two hundred peo
ple, of whom only two were negroes. ,
Banks made no confession. When
asked if he had anything to say lie '
replied:—"No, I want it over as soon
as possible." Company E. First 1
regiment, fcrmed a military guard.
Banks fell eight feet. and died with- !
out a struggle. The crime for which
he was hanged was an atrocious as- !
sauit on Florence Swain, aged fif
teen, in July.
Destructive Storm.
I
One of the most disastrous cy
clones known in the history of North
Carolina passed over a portion of
Beaufort county on the 20th inst. So
far nine persons are reported killed
and some twenty or thiity badly in- t
jured. The cyclone, born in the
upper northern portions of the coun
ty, carried everything before it, like ,
the wind driving chaff. Houses
were blown to atoms, and trees that
have withstood the winter's blasts
for half a centur) gave up and were
carried several hundred yards.
Nex;ro I*osU»l Clerks Arrested.
Charles W. Henderson and John
XV. Brown, negro clerks in the post
office at Charlotte, N. C., were ar
rested on the 27th ult., while in the
act of rifling registered letters.
One ( t the letters was addressed to
Mr. \ anamaker's Philadelphia store.
Brown is Secretary of the County
Republican Executive Committee.
We have a gold doilar which we
will sell to the FihsT MAN that cail>
and payd hi> subscription up >■> full.
for 10c. Now get a on you
and see v.ho gets it Thi> pmpo
~ i I
sition is open fur ten days. Lock
to the right of your name for your
date.
Governor Fowie last Saturday
morning granted a reprieve to Wil
liam Aitxander, of Mecklenburg, t
who was sentenced to be hanged oi.
Dec. ">th for burglary in Charlotte.
Ihe reprieve extends to January 3.
Wagner Kiilian aie receiving
lew goo Is every day. Call and see i
;heir stock* 49-2t 1
I ire in mi, Mas-..
Last Thursday was a sad Thanks
giving Day for the busy citv of
Lynn. Mass.
About noon on the 27th ult., a tire
broke out which destroyed 200 build
ings, 42 brick blocks. 142 dwelling
aud 112 wooden bu.-iness blocks ai.d
tiirew 8.000 men out of empioMiieut.
Ihe loss wa> estimated at from
S.~).U00,00o to sIo.OOO.iKIO.
Lynn s tire was  u tht 1 da\ before
1 iianusgiving and on this day wht ii
nearly all the l"nk>u were thankful.
Boston was a city.
L\ nn's S">, 000,000 lire L:id not
done smoking when a contlagration
twice its size burst out in the centre
of the great city's dry goods dis
i trict. Bc>ston s Thanksgiving lire
, burned over two and a quarter acres
oi land, buiit five and six stories
high in brick and granite, consumed
buildings and their contents valued
at £0.000.000, and was only stopped
trom duplicating the great historic
I "big lire' of by the Herculean
iabors of pretty nearly ail the lire- i
men of Eastern .Massachusetts.
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-Massachusetts seems doomed.
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Tliaiiksjrixiiiu:.
i
j It has almost become a custom
in tuese parts for our tired out mer
( chants, clerks, and professional men j
to celebrate Thanksgiving Day by
taking a big hunt. Accordingly on |
I last rhursday, bright and earlv,
two parties took their field against
*■ r~>
each other in a rabbit killing compe
tition. With dogs and « r uus in
o o ,
abundance the}' scoured the country
and by night the slaughter of the
, "cotton tail' by these parties in a i
| way resembled the famous California j
! rabbit drives. The two parties
I killed over a hundred and each par- i
• ty claims to have killed the greater
number and accuse each other of
i
using "silver bullets to increase j
j the number of killed and wounded.
I I
Mr. Cline's Hook as a l'reiuiuiii.
Our readers remember our notice
of Mi. Cline's book on farming two j
weeks ago. We are anxious every ;
farmer should read it and we are ,
anxious to have new subscribers and !
our old ones all pay up. We have a
few copies of Mr. Cline's book one
of which we will give as a premium ;
for new subscribers for a year and !
to ail our old ones who pay all back
due-*.
Too I.ate.
We announced two weeks ago j
that we would give $5 for the best !
article on Hickory and al?to S.j for
the best article on Catawba county
—articles to be in by the Ist of
Dec. Not an article was handed in j
by that date but two were handed
in on the 2n 1 of December, ju.-t two
days too late. We are sorry, but
our people in the South must move
and act on time.
Hickory I:iu Arrivals.
Herbet W Knight an I wife, of
Newark, >. J.; E. R. Bellman, of
Madi-on. N. J : Dr. Go B. Cald
well, of N. \. citN: Mr. ('has. E.
Green, GJV. of the State and vsife.
of Tienton, N. J.; J. H. Werae. cf
Richmond, \ a.
We hear it said that the reason
tne 1 ennessee Cc>al Co. cai not get
cars to ship coal in, is that the
Richmjnd A Danviile want •
to buy the mines an 1 because the '
company refuse to seii tne railroad
i>- refusing to let them ha\e cars in
order to force them to sell out.
How 1- this f->r Op| IrS-slol. f
The Charl-.tte Chronicle has re
duced its price of subscription to
cash. Ine Chronicle is a neat
newsy sheet and ah old be sapportc •
without any reduction in price.
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W . \V. Harris, Jr., was »t the I;:n
Tuesday.
Mi-> Li!:ie Jones passrd through
tlit city Monday.
Mr. H D AbernetLv i- *
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fri- ? .1- in { * liar lc»tt e.
Mr. A. Mdnh sh irtumed froii
j the East last Tuesday.
We are glad t> «• Mr. J. K. Webb
well and among us again.
Mr. Mt ii/U's and wife ami daugh
ters ret ill ned homt last Sundav.
\\ e are glad to see Mr. 11. J{.
j Field up from bis attack of rheu
matism.
Col. C. A Ciilev and familv have
moved to Hick v- nil 1 are nicelv.
situated in Mr. A. Y Simmons
| house iii West Hickory.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Phdiips re
turned to thi.-. eit\—their future
home—last Monday a d were right
royally r» ceived. i lie iainous lth
Regt. band turned out in fail force
( Monday night to mivnade them.
( Later on iu the b!ackn -s of the
night a herd of howling h\enas
; treated the mto a serein I«• contain
' ing more fuss than music.
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Sliot lit I Jv;it ii.
Hi n: M.SONVII.I.' , X c., Nov. •>().
I About •"> o'clock this evening A. E.
Posey. a prominent young
lawyer of this place, shot and killed
Mr. Furman Forest, also a young
man and resident of ilendei sonville.
I A difficulty had occurred in the
course of the day between Forest
. and Sherman, the proprietor of a,
I bar room, and Mr. Posey was em
ployed as counsel for Mr. Sherman
;in the trial winch followed. During
the progress of the trial Posey and
Forest became involved in a dispute
jon a matter connected therewith.
| Aft'-r the con el ii ion of the trial the
; parties met on the sidewalk above
i the Globe Hotel, and in front of Mr.
Posey's office, when the altercation
| was renewed. In the light which
i ensued, Posey shot Forest twice in
t the chest which resulted in the lat
j ter's death in a few minutes there
after. Posey is conlined in the
county jail.— [Citizen.
[We had Mr. Sherman with us for
! awhile and can appreciate the feel
ings the citizens of Hendersonviile
have for him.—En.j
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Ke«-cl lor Hpcakt't.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—The Re
publican caucus to nominate officers
for the 51 kt Congress met in the
hall of the House of Representa
tives at noon to-day. Hon. T. J.
Henderson, of Illinois, presided.
The following were nominated: for
Speaker, Thos. 15. Reed, of Maine;
for Clerk, Edward McPherson, of
Pennsylvania; for Sergeant-at-arm«,
A. J. Holmes, of Iowa; for Postmas
ter. J. 11. Wheat, of Wisconsin; for
Doorkeeper. C. W. Adam- - , of Mary
land; foi Chaplain. Rev. C. Bransdell,
of the District of Columbia. The
tir.it ha.lot for speaker resulted as
follows : Reed 7S. McKinley 39,
Cannon Si. Rurrows 1". Henderson
10.
The second badot resulted Reed
Si, McKinley 37, Cannon 1> Hen
dersen 10, Rurrows lU.
Mr. R-ed having received a ma
jority of vote- ea-t, .was declared
nominated, and on motion of Mr.
McKinley, hi> nomination v, made
unanimous.
D > not fail to see Mr. L. 11. Phil
lip- ill-pi iv of tine photograph ab
bum.-* an 1 geneial stock of Christmas
goods.
I or line dress goods for winter
wear ca.l on Wagner A: Killian. 2t
IRt'.mtvr 40.