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f LARGEST ' WE ARE PREPARED TO DO CHROMATIC PRINTING IN COLORS. 0 TUB COUNTY. fSUJSE 26. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1895. NUMBER 42 WW WW iW COUNTIES WrMCH HAVE DISAPPEARED. tiz Sketch of tire FrmHn and 4, Inter Chtr.gMi" twin Mtroinu. jjere if a splendid article which is 'pied from the last utwue of the Pro hth Farmer. Ciili Stiit-ess, which are -sovereign afJJ indestructible and which were ,xeators 'of the Union, counties are the fixtures of tlie legislature and can be ptfd. abolished or re-established at .As stars have disappeared from the quiet sky, o on our roll of . coun tte names once shown -which ' have jjppeared forever. Llkottb lost plia1 Sh no mre below!" 1 icOo the -country on (both sides of Albemarle sound was erected into Al iHinarle county, and. isbat on thevWest bank of Cape Fear into Glaredon fouiitv. About 1690 iboth sides of Pamlico rirer was erected .into Bath comity.- These three, -Albeuiarle, Bath ad Clarendon were thus the A. B. C. ,.f N'ortli Carolina history. In 1071, the county North of Albemarle-Sound a devided into Carteret, Berkley and Shaftesbury precimcts. In ,1083 Orteret was changed to Currituck, J, rkl y became Pesquotank. and -Per-(j!uui"ii. and .Shaftesbury was re liHUK i Chowan. In 1722 anotherjvre Hmr further South was .named Car-. terK. hich in 1S20 becauia the ,pres r'u Curtret county. .Bath-county was divid. d into Wiekham, Pamptieough aivl An h dale pra-jincts. .In 1873 after ill- ir eminent was .transferred by the Lords Proprietors to the .King, the precincts became counties, the Daubs' the lat ithree .above men-tiua-U being changed, and the coun-ti-s of Albemarle, Path and Clarendon abolished. Thus a early as J-733 three count s had been abolished and the iiaiue uf six ..precincts .(embryonic -ounU'tM had been.4ilterad a total of nine. ince then se-ven .county names; have disappeared as follows: J31aden count v.as at first Pelham. Inv 1719 liuie, mused after tiw.upqpularEarl of Jiuie, was abolished and its terri tory divided into two new counties iiaiiit d alter the patriots Franklin and Wum-ii. )n th same .year, the county which i !. the name 0 the royal Go v trii,! J lytui was 1 i ided.and the -new fount u vs.re named in .honor ofAjeri rai Lincoln and Rutherford. .Each 6f tliKv iia. Mnee been sub-divided, boon.. uuuty, named .after .another royai .mjv er.no r, retained its name till l'1;. alter the revolution, when it was diviiu-a iato Lenoir and Glasgowr J"iiuiui aud Martin, though they also I..,,, the names of roy.al Goveru ors, 01 iiJinue to do so to thU day, I'ru; tiny because we had Iipublicau 'ovirnoi-.s -who were nauied Alartin ittid Johu.-ioL. ,Glagow named after the N-eretary of Xhe State, .upon .the diM uv, r of the irauds perpetrated by lniu ;a;n.vt theJitate, was chand to bririu hi i;iu. lu 1784 Cumberland uhiv, namea farihe bloody .victor t'f ( ulanit-n. was cliauged to Fayette founiy, but it uas changed hack to uiat.i rland by the .next legislature. In i it; p0lk county was created. In it was abolihal. After serea ai ir w;is again re-established ia In the case of Mill vs Williams, - i". Reports, the Supreme eourl nirsu'ed the power of lije legislature ab uiiU anv couutvat its pleasure. 1 '! u Mxteen county namas have dx--&i l n od, Carteret, Berkley, JShattea ury. 1' amptieough, Wickiam, Areh Albemarle, Bath, Clarendon, Ihaiu, Bute, Tryon, Fayei&j, Bobbs, V:r,'Vw and Polk. Carteret was af rward bestowed on another eounty, d Pulk after an eclipse wa re es tab - to merely verbal, or literal, d!l Dupiin naiued 'after Vicount. . has in the friction of the years ie of its p"s; Edgecomba, --vi tlfler tlte Earl of Mt. Edge- "u 11 ib 1 as materially ehanged its or l i r hy Surry named after Surry COuy in England and Forsyth which !; in Canada in 1814, have both V in roUincr down the years: a! t' Cleveland, named for Col. Ben 1; :n ' eveland, one of the heroes of Ki: V Mountain, has bv legislative en &?tnr lost thA " ' ------ -v. I At'j r.rjg. tne numerotfs changes in the jf t 1 1 U 1 1 ; Hint- (trtfll i saniton. formerly Newton; Green-'-'ee Mart in borough; Fayette- formerly Cainbellton and Cross ,r' Kinston, republicanized by topping the "g;" Hillsboro, at first ....oyu.u, vuiupauy OQOpS nOW 13 UT- lington; and Salisbury established as I Corbinton, in honor of th obnoxious land agent of Lord Granville, Francis Corbin. There have been many simi lar changes in the names of other towns. Townships were first -established in this State in 1868, but already changes in the names of these have been fre quent. Probably the most singular has been in Halifax cc-unty, whose classical and alphabetical chairman of county commissioners dubbed the eight townships first created, Arcadia, Bucharia Caledonia Dalmatia, Etra ria, Formose, Palmyra, and Rapides. As a large of the newly created magis trates were negroes, the effect was in congruous. By the illiterate Halma tia was on all occasions and in -entire good faith styled "Damnation town ship." A succeeding JBoard of Com missioners, more prosaic, has changed these names to Littleton, Weldon, Halifax, &c. Walter Clark. MORGANTON HERALD. A Lot of Good News About Burks founty Cal led From it. Horace Conneiley .Qoa to Oreeaboro. Quite a number of Morganton peo ple will attend ther Waldensian mar riage at Valdese ne:ct Sunday. This dry spelL, v ith the attendant dust, reminds us very forcibly that we should have a street sprinkler. It would not cost a great deal, and the benefits derived would be immense. It's true we have no water works, from which'to fill the tank of a sprink ler, but it could be filled at any well. Let's have this our good friends the aldermen. Mrs. Margaret Grant, of Valdee, vhas left at The Herald office two fine ears of Italian golden corn, which was grown in her garden at Valiiese .from seed brought from the .Waldensian valleys in Piedmont. Mrs. Grant finds that this com yields excellently at Valdese and she will make an exhibit of it ct the .Burke - County Fair next -reek. The County Commissioners held a court 1.-st Tuesday to settle the where abojut of a certain publicsehool. Capt. Erwin sat as 'Chief Justice, with .asso ciates Connelly and Bennett, and both, sides were rep re en ted by lawyers. , It see 2is that the trouble was where tlie-mi olio school should be situatedr; . i at Peuelope or in the center of the school-district at the school house. A faction wanted the school at each. After hearing the testimony, dJae Com missioners deckled to locate the school at the school house in the center of :the district. Possibiliti For County Cami&ioer. On account of the reignatian of .County Commissioner CouneJly, .tliere .is a vacancy to be tilled. Heretoore the County Board of Magistrates would meet. and select a new Commis sioner in case of death or resignation, but the last Legislature passed an art placiug the appointive power in the hand of the Clerk of the Superior Court. So now Clerk P. W. Putto i -will hai'e to appoint the Coumut?sioner ; KtMia hsm. democratic state committee .to take Mr. Connelly's place. Aeeor- j fiemjs' out .a circular to the democrats ding to-tiie custom, this Commissioner f rom that tate who are employed in must come from the same district, as vVTashingtoai there is a howl from re near .as possible, in which the former pUUlicaus that the civil service law i Commissioner resiiied. This being heing violated. The latest howl is the case, Mr. Patton will, in auwsw ure, be confined to Lower Fork, lca.nl, Lovelady, Smoky Creek and Lower Creek townships. Amo Hoffman, of Lower Fork; A- J. Cook, of Icard, and S. C. Keriey, of Lower Creek, are the most prominent probabilities for thU houor. Mr. Pattou will, we think, make his selection from the:e three Mr. Patton said to i Herald reamer that he hail not thought the matter over at all, ami would not make the appointmeat under a week. He mid further. I will le guverneti in this apiointment entirely by the compe tency of the man and liL iitnos for the place.' We will give our reader the result in this matter at the earnest Iossible date. Morganton Herald. A piirty of 100 mining engineers n. their way home from a visit t rh Atlanta ExiK3ition sient au hour ct the Hickory Inn Tuesday evening, and had Mipper. They traveled m a solid train of vestibuled Pullman coaches. Tlu-y were delighted with their stop over and were loud ii their praises of the service and appoint ments of Ghe "Hickory lun." WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. COct, 14th, President Cleveland will not have to put in any time in familiarizing himself with current public business, because during his absence from Washington reports of all important matters in each of the executive de partments have ben regularly made to him, just as they are when he is at the White House, and whenever nec essary he has directed what action should be taken. No official pro gramme of the trip to the Atlanta Ex position Imls yet be announoed,but it is understood that the President will be accompanied by all the members of his Cabinet, and that neither Mrs. Cleveland nor any of the Cabinet ladies will go. The party will be doe at the Exposition on th 22nd int., which is to be celebrated as "Presi dent's Day. The U. S. Supreme Court reassem bled, for the fall sessiou. Chief Justice Fuller presiding. There are 770 cases on the docket, against 818 at the open ing of Jasi year's fall session. If any of the learned Justices know anything of the President's intention as to the existing vacancy iu their ranks they are not talking about it where any newspaper men can hear them. Much interest wms expressed in Washington over the rumor that the managers of the proposed Corbett Fitzsimmous, fight were figuring on the useof -a government reservation in Arkansas for that exhibition. The government has spoken in no uncur tain tone, through Secretaries Lamont and Smith and Attorney General Harmon, and if the slutgars do not heed they will regret their hard-headed ness..- JSo prize-fight will be allowed upon any reservation, in Arkansas, or upon any other spot of ground over which the U. S. Government has direct control, f and, if necessary to prevent it, or to nrrest the particpa tors the government stands ready U call out the army. But nobody in Washington thinks. anything of that sort will be necessarv, .Neither the fighters nor their managers will be fool ish enough to defy Uncle Sam. That "money talks'" iias just been proven by a Washington man who re plied to the boastful claims concern ing Kentucky and Maryland which republicans have been making, with a public oiler to wager any amount trom $100 to T,000 that iJhe democrats elect their tieket in both states; also, that a majority of the, Kentucky leg islature will .be democratic. This iuanVaioney -actually talks so loud that it has frightened the republican blowhards into silence. It is unus cesviry to say tJhat betting is some thing which nobody ought to do, but at the same time it must be .acknowl edged that there times whan an otrtr to bet, backed u-ith cash, serves a gnl purpose. It in a notorious faet that hundreds of republicans iu the government ser vice are ojen contributors to the cam paign tund of their party whenever there hb a campaign in tlie state to which they are credited, but juti as now on, and was started because Mr. Kil T. Baker, Secretary ot the Ohio State Democratic Association, of Washington, mailed a circular letter to tl residence of Ohio democrats now in the government service, noti fying them that he was prepared to receive contributions to aid iu defray ing the exeies of Governor Camp twll's caiupaigu. Mr. Baker isn't scared even a little bit at the howl, of whk'h he sa: CampIelI is fighting money bags and ringfters who .tji.trollnS the Lat legi-lature of Ohio. .I.ervbody knows he is a poir man, .;ul that 'money it ueedeil for legit i ,i ate enmpaign expenses. Asa parti representing a larre number of ...duential Ohio democrats, and lacked y the influen -e and help of leading vlrtinmt? in Wahinton from other tates, I proj.e t continue receiving ntnbutions. whicfi.. lam happy to tate. are tedny coming in. I am in .eveipt of many letters from democrats i; the gvernmeiit dciirtments who tie indignant at the idea that they .-..nnot ti.ntribute their share towards 1 .iectinga man of their choice. I find nothing in the civil service law against my action, and I have the precedent before me of the President of the Uni ted States as a democratic citizen sending in his contribution to help bis party. Hon. Samuel E. Morse, of Indiana, who aided in winning the recent dem ocratic victory in Indianapolis, Mr. Harrison's home, and who enjoys the reputation of being a very shrewd po litical observer, says: "The prospects of democratic success at our next states election are most promising, and, although the republicans have an advantage in their holdover sena tors, the indications for a democratic legislature are good. I believe that we will not only carry Indiana in 1896, but that the same influences at work there will carry the country for the national Democratic, ticket. A VERY SAD CASB. Thro of One Family DU In Quick Succsia During Thli Month. Mrs. Reuben Barge r died in Hickory on the 2d of this mouth and was bur itd on the 3d. She had been sick for some time with typhoid fever and kind friends and neighbors had ad ministered as far as possible to her ev ery want. She was a good sweet Christian woman and had a family of lovely children. At the same time while she was sick there were two of her children sick with the fever. One of them, Edward B. Barger, died on the 7th and was buried on the 8th. The other one, Thomas Barger, died on the 11th at 3 clock a m., and wah buried on the 11th in the afternoon. There are left of the family only the father, Reuben Barger, his daughter Uattie, who is the wife of Mr., Frank Flannagan, and .George Barger, the good boy who formerly worked for .us and who is not yet more than about 14 years of age. Th'.a is rather a distressing situation of the affairs of one family when con sidered that it has all occurred in so :short time. A Wondrlul Conqueror. No disease is more common among tlie people than scrofula. Handed TJbwn froiu generation to generation, it is found in nearly every family, in some form. It may make its apj)ear ance in dreadful running sore, in swellings in the neck or goitre, or in eruptions of varied forms. Attacking the mucous membrane it may be known as catarrh, or developing in tlie lungs it may b-, and often is, the prime cause of consumption. In whatever form scrofula may man ifest itself, Hood's Sarsaparilla is its inveterate ioe ana -comiueror, mist medicine has such powerful alterative and vitalizing effect uKn the blood that every traeeof impurity isexjielled, and the blood is made rich, pure and healthy. 41-4t ABOUT A BRICK'S SHAPE. Biff Oold.NuKett Found In North Carollaa Mine. An old adage says: "Go away from home to get the news. The following is a special dispatch from New York, dated the Otu inst, to the St. Louis Re public: The biggest nugget of gold found in North Cart) Una f ince the war is on ex hibition in a downtown office in thi city. It weighs a trifle over ten pound and is estimated to contain about $2,209 worth of gold. It is the second nugget of the kind di.-played here this vear. a prwvimi chunk, weighing !? iounds. having yielded $ 1.6(f) in gold. The second nugget f a beautiful specimen, being much cleaner and brighter than the first find. The gold shows shining yellow through the reddih brown coating o:i one .ide, while the other side i alut entirelv free from erth, ami there the gold has taken a high i!ih a the result ot scouring by natural action in sand and gravel. The nugget is a fiat, irregular iiiiui alout seven inches at its greatest length, four inche wide and about two inches iu thickne. It looks not unlike a lag gold cannon hall that had been flattened out by striking against a heavy armor plate. It wa found on Augn.t 27, by the foreman of a mine in Stanley county. North Caro lina. You can earn 5 each day "giving" our absolutely indifjienfible houe hold article away. Mew plan of work, making experience tinneesiry and sucks' certain fur either ex in any M-ction. Sample dozen free. Credit given. Freight paid. Address, Mkl hok M'F U. Co., 2S, Melro-e Park, 111. 41 4t IN A.V5WER TO PRAYER- From Swain County Comes a. Woaderful . Story of Healing. What is perhaps the most remarka ble case of healing in answer to prayer that has ever come to the notice of Western North Carolinians is related In a letter received bv William Turner of Asheville from Joshua A. Gibbs of Whittier, Swain county, N. C, under date October 6. Of Mr. Cadwallader, the minister who Is referred to in the letter, Mr. Turner says he knows him to bean honest, good man. Mr. Gibbs writes; "My laughter, Mrs, Jeunie Red man, has been a great1 sufferer from complicated diseases during more than five years. Since July, 18i4, she has been unable to stand on her feet. When requiring to be moved she has been carried in her husband's arms as a babe. Attempts to walk have been followed by inteuse pain. Remedies of almost every name have been tried, each in turn failing to give relief. She has grown worse, too, by the loss of appetite. She was helpless-and with out hope of recovery. "Rv. 1. Cadwalladetv lastor of the Congregational church iu Whittier, who himself received Divine healing ekiht years ago, ami has had much ex perience in counseling and praying with the sick in different states, came to see and to encourage Mrs. Redman to claim healing by faitli in God's promises and trust Him fully for health ot her body. Many passages of scripture were iointed out containing promises that Christ was as able and willing to heal diseases now as when on earth in person. Prayer was also ofTered for her recovery. "On Monday, September 20, a sec ond call was made by Mr. Cadwalla der. After further conversation touching our Lord's willingness to re cover the sick, Mrs. Redman's mother and husband, together with Mr. Cad .wallader and some others, bowed in prayer before .God. When Mrs. Red man's turn came to pray she seemed to have superhuman power given her and faith to grasp and cling to our Lord. After praying a minute or two, she sprang to her leet, ran to her mother, threw her arms around her neck, exclaiming: 'Oh, mother! I am curcdl God has healed me! I am well! 'Praise the Lordl Afterward she repeated the same words when in her husband's arms. "On the following Saturday, Octo ber 5, she rode in a carriage to Whit tier, three miles away. Sunday morn ing, the 0th, she attended service, walking to and from church, a short distance away. By request she gave in the presence of the audience a brief but intensely interesting account of her healing by the Lord iu answer to the prayer of faith, which was listened to with deep and abiding interest. Very few who were present had heart I until yesterday of an instance of re covered health coming directly from God. Now that her stomach receives more food she is looking forward for strength to perform the duties of life. r lf fuller particulars are desired write Rev. J. Cadwallader, Whittier. N . C A Buteker'a Eipr1ce. Mr J. W. Herring, a butcher of i'hfunix City, Ala., says. May 14, 1895: For five years I had indigestion, wtuch continued to get wore till my suffering was intense. I spent hun dreds of dollars trying to get relief, but grew wore until the fall of 1K2, when I cmmened to iim Kiug's Roy ! Getut tier. 1 twk only three hot-,-. but Uv'-'t'i to improve from the tUmt uKof it. I Ixnitfbt it of Dr. D. K. Morgan, ami he can fell about my caj-e. 1 cheerfully recommend Genne t uer a the bet medicine for Indiges tion and Depia, New package, large Itotlle, 1W dot, f 1. For sale by O. M. Rotr. 4Flrattao LpoUi. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. '.15. This after noon a fire Martd in the building oc cupted by the Old Negro Plantation, one of the concewri on the Midway, and then caught on the uncompleted arena of the Hagenlwick how. That building was entirely destroyed but a considerable portion of the plantation building wa saved. The buildings burned rapidly and for awhile, on ac count of the west wind, it was feared the whole M hi way was doomed, bat the firtmeu finally succeeded Iu .get ting it under control and soon bad it cxtinguiihed.