North Carolina Newspapers

State Library tl zmcant of advertising pat ronan? we command rarr as an ad renting ESTABLISHED 1868. flTrfnifil I lift mm X II I II I I I ft 1 11 111 II 1 III III n- ve ir 7CLUME 24. .WASHINGTON' NEWS. Washington, Oct. 0, 1803. senator Voorhees on Saturday gave cork.- that next Wednesday's session of the Senate would be made continu ous, for. the purjiose of trying to get a "rot u!x'u llis m11 or tne I of tIie rmn ha-in-r clause of the Sljerman sil ver hi"'- anfl inee then every Senator vho i- Jtbsent, and not paired upon bill, has been notified to be on band Wlnesday Numerous attempts have been made in the past in the Sen ate to force a vote upon measures by hoMin continuous sessions, but there have l cn more failures than success es ami the jeculiar circumstances sur rounding the present attempt make it almost certain to be a failure.- Nopar tviarifhiijcry can be used in this eon-, tt. because there are no party lines observed by the friends and opponents of the repeal bill. -The question which j exciting the most interest here is, what wi!l follow the failure to reach a vote on the Voorhees bill? On- of two tiling must be done. If the bill can not be passed it musVcither be indefi nitely abandoned, leaving tlie present law in force, or a compromise amend ment that can be passed be adopted. Wlii' h will it. bo? No man canat this time answer that question with abso lute certainty, but it being generally admitted that the iresent Jaw is. a bad one. ti: probabilities seem to favor a colli promise, although a number of proinJiivnt Democrats, among them President Cleveland, believe that it .would be better to abandon the bill for a time than to adopt a make-shift coin .remise. Whatever' is the result, so far as the Yonrhoes bill is concerned, the opinion wen is to be increasing daily among con.- i -vative men, regardless of party afliliation, that Congress must iass a bill authorizing the administration to - iv nciP;isP f. lit goid rttcr d lv.' V ik never it may become neces sary in order to avoid - panics,- similar to the "i.e the country recently passed through, which may at any time be brought on by large and continuous export ations of gold. Men who, six iuc'(ttli ago, opposed an issue of bonds u ruler any circumstances,- are now ad vocating that the authority for issuing bonds be given to the administration. It would not necessarily follow that bonds would be issued. The knowl edge that they could be issued if nec essary to replenish the government supply of gold would, in the opinion of shi:ovd financiers, of itself act large ly as a preventive of the exportation of L'old. . A silver State Repudiates Silver. Lincoln, Nkb., Oct. o. It wasafter midnight before the Democratic State Convention settled its disputes by the overw helming defeat of the silver ele luciit led by Congressman Bryan.t Secretary Morton directed flie move ment of the repeal leaders from Wash ington. ('oj.-r. n:an Bryan, who led his forces in jxrrsoi). is greatly chagrined over hi defeat and threatens to leave the Democratic party. It i- said he would like to be sent to the Senate by the Populists. The results of the convention show that the West is not so solid for silver a the politicians claim. Indeed, the people out here, as everywhere, are. withVhe President against the politi elans. Si i-n iary Morton is on top, and his unhorsing of Young Bryan in the pride of all' his personal follow inland after his recent silver speech, is full of slg- I'ilieaiH-e. ; I njirsfeUented Altdane. Chicago. Oct, t. The '-official returns at tliA department of admissions at C o'clock showed that over 500,000 ieo llv had pa.sse-1 through the pay gate The press of people -outside the gates i'icreUsd tosuch nu extent that the wagon gates were opened to facilitate .., .,,.,. Ai I Hill H."-' were yet waiting at 2 p. v down town district f hung on the ears ; in the . cluinee to grounds.- coral ng to 'the fair llraxil Revolution Knded. "New .'York, Oct C. Private cable advices received to-day via London by well-known firms in this city, which have eonnectlohs with BraiiLannounce that the revolution in that country i at an end. Three firms have similar news and they nave reivson for placing reliance in it. HICKORY STAE NEWS. wuui arr on 4th inst. received ine resignation of Henry G. Connor as juuge of the Superior court. In Wake county Lost week a babv was born havjng about a dozer fully evelopcUteeth. It lived only a few Attorney-General Olney has appoint ed Solomon C. Weill, assistant United States district attorney for the eastern district of North Carolina. The Jonesboro Journal says there is not as much bright tobacco" this year as usual. This is largely due to tl o August storms and weather. Postmaster fieneral Bissell, has de cided tiiat Ilaleigh-s Republican post master and Fayetteviile black Kepub- Uni postmaster will sere out their terms. '. The majority of tlie farmers have plenty of meat and bread, home-grown. They are in good spirits and say tliat they are better oir tha'n they were a year ago. Tin Slvclby Aurora says that Dr. Oliver' Hicks, of Kutherfordtcn, has applied fori a consulate and Senator Ransom and 'Representative Crawford have endorsed his. application. Gov. Carr on the Crhirist. nppcinted State Senator Jacob Battle, of JSash county, Judgoof the Superior court to fill the vacancy caused by the res ignatioi of Judge II. G. Connor. At torney-Gencral Davidson, of Ashe ville, and Miss Sallie Carter, of Ral eigh, a daughter of the late Mr. Dav idson M. Carter, will be married at Christ's Church, Raleigh, today, bv the Rev. Dr. Marshall. October 5th was the anniversary of the 70th birth day of Judge R. P. Dick of the U. S. District court, and at! Greensboro lip was present tnl with res olutions and-a.fme Walking cane by .the members of the bar in that city. Wilkesboro Chronicle: Buncombe county has been blow ing about a six legged pig, but Wilkes can put the cloture on Buncombe. ,.LaFayette Church, of Reedy Branch, has a pig, that has eight legs and eight feet, and uses them all In walking. Work h?.s progressed at a remark ably rapid rate on the State Deaf and Dumb school building at Morganton. There sterns now no reason why the directors may not realize their hopes of having the building ready for the fall term of school in 101. . "The bulletin for August of the Xorth Carolina department of agricul ture gives the following list of cotton and woolen mills in the State: In num ber of cotton mills Chiton deads with nineteen; next comes Alamance with eighteen; Randolph is third with six teen: then comes Mecklenburg with seven, and Cumberland and Guilford with nine each. Eight counties alone have ninety-two mills. Iredell, Lin coln, Durham and Surry have five each; Cabarrus, Montgomery and Row an .have four each. Then there are other counties with three, two, one each. New Haiiover shows up with one. There are one hundred and forty in all. Of miscellaneous mills, fac tories, etc. there are about 770. There about 210 plug, smoking, cigar and cigarette factories. M ISESKKAL NEWS. t " Harrison R. Thornton, a mi.-MOii:iry the Amc.rlcan. CougregatioiiAl .Mx- s'a'mary Sociiy at Cape Prince of Wab's Alaska was murdere! by na- - -1 -1 lives August 2oih, lie wiu loruicri it j t professor in the University of Yirginia. The new U. S. Cruiser MuntgOii:er ran on a le Ire o.r 2sow London last wtHk when she Iiad starred nut for trial test and had to g back. duck to repair damages. It is the loss uf the -oiitractors vessel had not been turned 4; v .w d, r. n:-.r-nt. . vvv; t- v -- - k- - - ' rh Democratic Itate i-iaveiition in New York kvst Week w as harmonious ani the ticket was nominated unani mously. It was a com proi tuse between Tamiuany and the administration lend ers. Judgt Maynani was nominatetl for Judge of the Court of Apixjals. The wind not being strong enough the" race between the American Vgi lant and the nglish Valkyrie did not take place last Thu rsxlay. The Vigi lant had to jrive, t: ne, one minute and forty eight seconds to the Valky rie Betting on the final result, best 3 in 5 is in favor of the Valkyrie. , NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, COL. CIIXEY'S PATRIOTIC WORK coi. j. o. Hall, of flfllckorj, Writes Con cerning theChlckamausa National I'ark. To the Editor of the Observer: " In the Press and Carolinian of June 20th, last, there appeared an ar ticle, the author of whiah was Col. C A. Cilley, calling attention to the act of Congress of August 10, 1800, estab lishing the Chickamauga and Chatta nooga National Military Park, and constituting a national commission, who should carry out the purposes of said act of Congress, "to keep forever, as a great object lesson, the old battle fields in the same condition as they Were thirty years ago" any State be iug allowed to erect monuments to its troops, either Federal or Confederate, and if no more were done than that any State would, by a commission of its own, locate the .position of its troops, such a position should be marked by suitable tablets at the ex pense of the general government. The object of Col. Cilley, though an officer of the Federal army in those battles, was to arouse ah interest among the Confederate veterans of this, his adopted State, in respect to this matter and thus possirrfy render the State a service which her sons to the "manner born" seemed slow, as they have ever been in things of his toric consequence, to enter 'upon. ' In your issue of June 20th, you very earn estly commended the article of Col. Cil ley to the-attention of the Governor and' the public, concluding your ed itorial bv saving: "Lefus not neglect this opportunity." in turther recognition of Col. Cilley's generous thoughtfulness in behalf of those who were once his foes in arms now his friends in life -1 with other ex-Confederates of tnis section and of the State, addressed letters to the Gov ernor; and asked him to bestow the honor upon Col. Cilley of first naming him 6Li a commission to locate the position of North Carolina troops on those fields. It is a tribute of whiCh he is worthy, for of a truth no man in the Southhas so carefully studied those battlefields as he, as evidenced by the fact, that he has been called into ser vice and advisement by the national commission; and none- are better equipped than he, to represent North Carolina, there, for beyond having learned to love North Carolina as his home, he is one of the few men in the Southwho has secured for his own li brary complete records of both armies, from which lie. Jias already compiled much of valuable and authentic infoi mation in regard to the part that the four North Carolina regiments took in those fated battles. Thatl I was also put on the commission by the Gov ernor, I greatly appreciate, though of the Army of Northern Virginia. This I accepted as a recognition of the interest I have ever taken in matters that pertain to the memory of our heroes in any and all of the battles of the "Lost Cause." It was expected that the Governor would also name on the commission others who had really participated in those battles and to that endCol. Cilley devoted much time and correspondence in finding members of regiments there engaged, who would complete the commission. They were found, and the following the Governor did appoint and commission: Capt. I). E. Baird, and L;eut. B. F. Baird, of Watauga county; Capt. Isaac H. Bailey, of Mitchell county, and Col. G. N. Folk, of Caldwell county. The latter in a card published. in your issue of Sep tember 7lh, declined the appointment rtth soinp indignation, and predicated Ills declination on the fact that Col. r;iey. a Federal SOiuier, auu Mr cLe Army of Northern VI F-giiili, had been appoint ed. At tin's 1 personally tak' no exception? save that I hardly think Cob Folk t be what he was thii tv v-ars ago. els-i his greeting of b?th Col. Cilley and myself a his asso ciates in this labor of love and patriot ism would h iVi been a more amiib!e tenor. Theonmiis -"r.n has arranged to go to the discharge of its duty the latter part of tliis month. CoJ. Cilley, a Fed era! officer. Kail, of the Army of North em Virginia, and ihe others who "were there" daring those days of blood and carnage7, will show how it i that" breth ren can-dwcll together in unity" and thus better presserve th memories, and commemorate the deeds of those who on each and every battle-field of the war, "were the best and bravest troops of the South. J.G. II all. Hickory X. t, Oct. 5, l&XX. OCTOBER 12, 1893. THJC GOLD AND A IBOTTKK. Th W orld Cnt Beat It- It Cn Beat the World; That i, Watauga County and Western North Carolina. The wealth of a country lies in the resources that are in the ground. Whatever is in the ground can and should be gotten out. A few days days ago we were made acquainted with a gentleman by one of the most prominent gentlemen in this county, and he told us about cer tain conditions in this section of the woods which were so astonishiug, and yet true and can be observed When remarked upon that we herewith give some of his interesting conversation. He is an intelligent gentleman, born in Texas, reared in Mexico, California, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, and has been all over tKe United States. Some years ago he was attracted to North Carolina. (No doubt his ances tors were of this State). lie has 'been a tramp gold miner and is also an expert horse trainer. He" has worked on some of the most cele brated stock farms in the midst of the blue grass regions (Woodford county) of Kentucky. He has handled horses on some of the finest stock farms of California. He convinced us of what he said. lie is a man who has been working hard all his life to secure & fortune, easv, at one full swoop. His head is a counterpart of the portraits of Cervantes. He impresses one with his quiet demeanor. " He said Southern California is a fine country and climate for the propaga tion and training of the fast horse. But there is one difficulty. The fast two minute trotter will never come from California. He can't grow his feet in that climate. It is a little too dry. In Kentucky it is a little too wet too much moisture in the grass though they beat the world so far. l'ou see the wet grass in Kentucky during the growing season of.the horse is too much on his "hoof," as you all call it. Too much moisture makes the hoof too soft. Not enough "moisture makes the hoof brittle and it breaks off, and you just can't keep a horse shod right and his feet in the proper w eight and condition for him to go his best or be trained to his best when his feet are not alt right. It's just like a man trying to run a foot race. He may be all right every other way, but if his feet and shoes are not all right and in perfect condition as they should be according to nature, he can't run. We asked him something about where was there a better place in the world to breed and train a fast horse than in Woodford county Kentucky or Palo Alto California? He quickly said: "Watauga county, North Carolina." (We would have been pleased to a still more excessive degree had he said -Catawba county, or Burke county. Especially the latter. Said he, Watauga county North Carolina possesses every advantage possible to be desired or is necessary for the rais ing and training (he put it both, rais ing and training) horses to be fast, and if there is ever a two minute horse produced'in the world he -will have to be bred and trained in that county. We asked him why? Ife replied, the climate and the moisture were both just exactly suited for the breeding of the fa-st horse and the training of him to make him fast. That the cli mate and the nourishment of the na tive provender for the hors and the evenness of the moisture in the. grass for the horse to stand or walk upon was just exactly suited for the projer orowth and natural nourishment of his hoof to produce a mi pic limb and a ! stable standard foot on which to travel ff Said he, fifteen sixteenths of the horses have fevt that are so far out of order and proportion in site one way or the other that they cannot travel as fast as they otherwise could. Too much moisture in the grass they wr 'k on when they are young make thci. feet too soft, pm-1 too little m-l-tue make- them too liard p' 1 to brittle. The land 'in Watauga is in high plateaus. Boone, the county eat, H the highest county seat town It the United State. The atmosphere ! more even in moisture. Hence the advantages for th? .breeding ef fast horses. He said 'further: If 1 were to make uiv fortune in gold mtn'ng, as 1 I expect to do right here iu North Carol- ina, for I thjnk it is the best gold field in the world; the vetn U here, and it, don't run very far from your town. All you have to do is to find a stretch (we gath?reel from his speech that he NUMBER 41. meant, in comparison, a leader from the main vein as the limb of a tree from the trunk, or a vein for blood from a main artery in the human sys tem) and followjt up until you strike the main lead, this may cost thousands of dollars, but it is here I will, as I said, if I get my fortune, go to Wood ford county and get mo a stallicm and 4 mares and take them to fcouie place in Watauga county and in less than ten j-ears I will produce the 2 minute trot ter, if he can be made anywhere in the world. Well! We heaved a great big long sigh. TltK TIG I LA NT. : . ;- The Yankees Are tfJn- a Sailing Match With tlie I!rltiher. - As noted elsewhere iu our columns, this week, the race between the Yan kee yacht Vigilant and the British yacht "Valkyrie, which is to bo the best thiee in five, and the first race of which occurred Thursday of last week, was a failure. It was then pos tinned uutft last Saturday. That d;ry the Yankee and the Britisher met in the fray for combat to see which of the two is the ' most skilled in seamanship-' as well as in the make-up and manufacture of the craft. ; Many people in this country, -mid all over the world.had their doubts about the Yankee being able to hold his own in yacht building, sailing the yacht, or in silver or in anything else.) But all the same, the Yankee had to give a little "time" to the Englishman in this race. The betting, however, was against the Yankee. (In this expres sion of "Yankee," we mean as much that it is our pdle, or our show, fight or boxing match that is us; we of the South jus any body, person or any one else in these United States.) The "cup," or trophy of victory wo won by the representative (yacht) of the United States in 1S"31, and has been held ever since. This means a great deal; in fact more than can be properly expressed, when it comes to describing the matter. This is the more clearly apparent when the fact is also considered that the Britishers, or'England, is supposed to have and' own the finest navy, the best and most extensive mercantile marine in the world. In fact, that England is "mis tress" of the seas. Without saying whether England, in this particular, could not more ap propriately have been "mister," we are enabled to state that ' in the rat. s between the two yachts last Sat unlay and lastMonday th Y'ankee yacht, the Vigilant, leat the English yacht, the Valkyrie. The betting was deci dedly in favor of theS tamp duty repre sentative; it being one thousand to eight hundred dollars. , " The attendance at the races w.t3 enormous. The big city newspapers are filled with accounts of the race.' T" Braxil Monarchy. Paris, Oct. G The rumor that Bra zil may return to a monarch ial lonn of government receives some sort of con firmation here by the rejKrt tliat Duke Augustus of Saxony, the second sou of Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg, who married Dom Pedro's second daughter, Leopold ine, since dead, has just started from Bordeaux for Kio Janeiro with tome idea of Wing ac cepted as rujer by the people of North ern Brazil. Paris, Oct. i The report that Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg, had sailed for Brazil is incorrect. It is concluded here that the Prince sup Ksed o liave sailed for Brazil was one of the sons of Coante-s DeEu. Steretti Hard Lock, Washington, Oct. 0. It has always leeit understood tiiat the vice-president Is not a rich UKin, and it will' therefore ntm unusually liard that lw has lt by fire a large port ion 'of the small fortune vhkh he has acquire-! bv dint of liard work and great 'won- omy. A coal izlzz t Blooming--tod was entirely wcpt away. Jb also lost 000 worth of coal which had been mined during the -summer an1 was n ady in the yards for the fall trade, The buildings laahinery and ears were destroyed, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. Traces of the bicycle is re found as far back as the fifteenth century. In fact, Egyptian f gure found on obelisks mounted on ' t wo- heeled vehicles, show they hml ome idea of the veloci pede. 1 , t