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We have turned over a new
leaf. Cannot wait for New Years.
AS TO THAT WALNUT BUSINESS.
We have received a Urge nam
ber of enquiries, in fact a dozen
or more about the walnut tree we
mentioned soma time ago about
pur having sold and who was the
purchaser. It is stated by sev
eral that the- price received for
the walnut tree mentioned by us
was $75 00. Our statement wai
that the tree was sold for $30.00,
not $75.00. Some other newspa
per changed it into $75.00, in
stead of $30.00, amd thus it "got
on the rounds of the press,1' as
we little editors sometimes say.
The tree was purchased by M.
B. Wilkinson & Co., of Asheville,
N. C. But, good gracious!
There are eight or ten men trav
eling al) ovr Western North
Carolina seeking and searching
and begging for walnut timber.
The tree for which $30.00, was
paid in cash some time aga still
stands on an Island in Catawba
river up at Bridgewater. What
w wrote about was advice to
farmers and land owners to plant
walnuts and rear walnut trees.
We took occasiom to write some
thing on the same line about two
years ago. We say now again
poor laad can bo made rich by
rearing walnut trees on it. Look
under any walnut tree and see if
the toil is not rich. As we said,
160 trees can be planted on each
acre and the land cultivated with
profit and also benefit to the
trees. We said that in 20 years
trees could thus be grown which
would then be worth 575.00 or
even xaore per tree. We now say
furthermore, that of the, 160 trees
planted on each acre at least 100
of them should arrive alt the stage
of maturity without interference
to the crops and an actual en
richment of the soil; and also,
that if the man will study the na
ture of each tree as it grows he
can train them to curl and also
probably to produce a burl. We
had a walnut curl which was ex
hibited at the Louisville, Ky.,
Exposition and also at New Or
leans, La., Exposition which
could have been seld for $2,200.-
00, bdt finally went to waste from
too much and too long exposure
after the second Louisville Ex
position. A man can learn how
to make a walnut tree produce a
burl. It is the ''curl" in the wal
nut which makes it- valuable.
The curl is used for. veneering.
They are sawed in planks of 16
and 18 to the inch of thickness.
Then common poplar is sawed of
about 12 to 16 planks to each
inch of thickness. These poplar
strips are glued together in a
thickness of layers as desired for
a piano, beadstead etc, but more
particularly for sewing machines,
but the grain is crossed im each
strip. The grain reversed in
eaeh layer. This makes the wood
thus crossed grained aud glued
together, harder, firmer, unsub
ject to split or fracture and pre
vents contraction . or expansion.
You take an old worn out sewing
machine table and try to chop it
up in pieces with, maul and
wedge, sledge hammer and axe,
one and all and see what a job
you have. That is, if it is a
veneered table. The thin 16th
or 18th of an inch in thickness of
a walnut curl glued on to ten
pieces of poplar one twelfth of
anJnch each in thickness glued
together in transverse layers
makes a one inch board of the
finest walnut piano material to
be had in the world. The qual
ity, or that is.the cost, increases
in proportion to the richness and
beauty of the curl in the walnut.
Five thousand dollars worth. may
be sawed out of a burl, only a
small sized knot on the side of a
walnut tree, which qriginally
costonly six or eight dollars.
But it is all in the curl or the
burl which makes the walnut
more valuable. Thus a walnut
tree may be worth any where
.from ten dollars to one thous
and dollars. That is, at the
present time. They may be
worth and sell for very much
more in 20 years from now.
Therefore we do you a favor if
heeded when we tell you can
have a forest or large orchard of
walnut trees in 20 years and half
of them curly and probably the
other half with burls. Plant
some walnuts.
A RECTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION.
It has been talked about in
town, and probably elsewhere, on
account more especially of the
presence in Hickory and at our
office one day last week of cer
tain prominent gentlemen, that
we have sold the Press and Car
olinian and our interest in the
Hickory Printing Co.
While it maybe true that nego
itations have been pending and
probably may be pending looking
to that epd we can state most pos
itively that it wilj take consider
able more money to buy the plant
than we have been offered. The
gentlemen seem to have had an
idea- acquired through some
8otce that we would give some
thing for nothing. Were we to
do this we would and do prefer to
do it in a different and. i our own.
-way. We will sell," yes." And at
a price less than wat ".we paid
for it, if eash ; within ten days
But we are not forced to sell; nor
is the concern not in the best
field in the State, nor because it
is not paying. It is simply be
cause e have no desire to be in
business any longer. There are
three parties desiring to purchase
and the first one who accepts our
terms spot cash will get the cue
and all thegufnn.
CLEVELAND OUT OP IT.
From a special dispatch from
Washington to the St. Louis
Globe Democrat published last
Sunday morning we learn for the
first time definitely, and this is
from a Republican source, that
President Cleveland will not be
a candidate for the Democratic
nomination again. This settles
it. If he is not a candidate
there can be no hope of his get
ting the nomination. The recent
elections demonstrated to him no
doubt, as they certainly did to
other people that if he were to
be the nominee of the Democra
tic party he would that surely be
defeated ignominously. Now
then, he has done the sensible
thing; and, furthermore, has
pulled the bridle off and give his
Secretaries of the Cabinet to un
derstand that anyone of them or
any one else who can may secure
the nomination without adminis
tion interference.
Under the rule of the eternal
fitness of things if we cannot do
anything worse we can make
our Bepublican State Senator
Sigmon Governor. Then they
would be finely fit in the common
wealth of North Carolina, if this
kind of "fitting" is to be done
President Spencer, of -the
Southern railway, made a sensible
speech in Atlanta. He spoke
principally on the altitude of the
public towards transportation
companies, and he is perfectly
correct in all that he said. His
speech is too long to publish.
A LITTLE CORRECTION.
We notice, that the following
item is sroing the rounds of the
press. . .
"A meeting called to take place
in Hickory to express sympathy
for the Cuban Insurgents, failed
for lack of attendance.'1
This is not altogether correct.
I There was a meeting organized
and a gentleman was'cailed upon
for some remarks on the subject,
and he gave it such an' everlast
ing cold cliff by showing that it
would injure tfye Cuban cause and
furthermore greatly endanger
American commerce by any such
proceedure as Congress passing
an act recognizing their rights as
beligerents at this time. Besides
said he, Hickory should so far as
it is concerned leave this matter
entirely in the hands of President
Cleveland to deal with and
his -recommendations to Congress
if any are, necessary. So the
prime . movers in the meeting
themselves suggested that the re
solution lie over and th meeting
adjourn " without action. This
was done. But not because the
people here are not in favor of
the Cuban people's cause. But
we do not wish to be a party to
complicating matters. If the Pres
ident in his message does - not
make a'redommendation to Con
gress, then Congress can do as it
sees proper. T he people here
have already signed a petition on
the subject.
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There was an election? Of
course there was, and it hurt. The
Bepublicans won in all their own
states and captured Maryland and
Kentucky.. We refrained from
mentioning the little incident last
week thinking there was some
mistake or"dotcoring" of the first
reports. But ? it? got worse-and
worse. Therd are all sorts of
reasons given' by parties of both
sides a to the grgat anti-Demo-
cratic election slide; but none of
them can Be allied ; generally .
'Jbor the reason, in the mam,
those of the politicians, which
apply in one locality or State, do
not apply in. the, pothers; and in
fact are totally at variance.
Hence to say that the wholesale
slide against the Democratic
party, waforanyv one cause is
totally incorrect. The people do
not explain their vote to politic
ian's every time' and speculation
upon their, reasons are absurd.
" A decidedly interesting indus
try which we observed in Atlanta
when at the Exposition .recently,
was that of gourd vendors.
Gourds are to be found on sale
by perapatetio vendors at every
corner and at the Exposition and
even at some of the stores. The
gourds are cleaned n i e e 1 y,
scraped, almost white, and are of
all sizes and the handles are of
all sorts of shape. The more fan
tastic the crook of the handle the
better price the gourd commands.
They are bought not alone by
people from the North and West
but also by people from Southern
towns and cities. They range in
price from 15 cents to $1.25, The
sale is enormous.
The Sun says, the actual num
ber of ballots printed there for
the election was 2,800,000 for can
didates and for the canal propo
sition. In addition to these 1,
400,000 sample, ballots 700,000
of each were printed for use on
Tuesday. The cost of this print
ing, which was done by Martin
B. Brown, was $15,402. He un
derbid J. J. Little $588.
Why cannot there be some
such soft jobs down this way?
Out in Kentucky the Bepubli
cans who did not vote the right
ticket are going craay; and the
Democratic dogs, such as OId
Sport the famous fighter, are dy
ing like sheep with the dry rot
since the Bepublican victory in
that Democratic state. -
We notice with pride and alai soma rxret
The borne of oar childhood and or dear mother
jet.
The Gat City welcomed with loud trumpet
ound
The Citjr railed WIndj while the crowd throngs
around;
Wh le lore lavishes laughs and laughs larlh
Iot
The tein meet tn union and smile a the meet.
Asa tar heel we were there there in a body,
lint a eliatne and a sham and a sham and
shame
Ther smiled not with us and met us oolr on the
street. 4 M. E. T.
Now. while our rooster hanjrs his head
And ur little boom fall flat.
We're looking for the man who said;
-I am a Democrat - '
"LouIsTlHe Times.
If we have a'deariy beloved
in this section, and, like the
court knowing itself, we think
we have, Mr. Ch&s. F. McKesson
is one among the Qhief first. We
see his announcement as the
editor of our other chief dearly
beloved newspaper the Morgam-
ton Herald, and Mr. T. G. Cobb,
Publisher and also editor. There
you have them. We are for them.
That settles it, so far as we are
concerned. Let them look for
other conquests.
So it seems that Lieut Young
of the Navy Deparment who was
in Honolulu Hawaii, at the same
time with the special Commiss
ioners of Cleveland, "paramount1
Blount, wrote a book, with illus
trations, which was in conflict in
statements with the report of Com
missiouer Blount and in conse
quence the President caused it to
be suppressed and not published.
Nice business.
We understand that our esteem
ed State Board of Charities will
try to do away with the ball and
chain which convicts are forced
to carry, and substitute a hobble.
This will be lovely. They can
then . hobble away without that
adjunct. Those convicts who
have gone away with" their ball
and chain will have to send them
.back. yl. -- '., . , . ,
8m Items Prem the Teplc.
Mr. G? P." Iarper went down to
Hickory last Tuesday morning on his
bicycle, making the trip in two hours
and eight minules7 He came back on
the train. . y,t
' Major Q. W. F. Harper and Mr;
Gwyne Harper, of Patterson, left this
evening for Atlanta. After taking in
th Exposition they will go to New
Orleans and from there they .will go
to the City of Mexico. They will be
gone two or three weeks. .
The last of December, 1832, two
young men met at the house of Mrs.
Catherine Holt in Orange county,
near where the town of Graham now
stands. They remained there all
night and slept together. The snow
was 11 inches deep on the ground the
next morning. Ttfey separated, and
one went into the ministry and went
as a missionary to India, where he
spent several years. The other re
turned to his home in Burke county.
The other day they met again for the
first time in 03 years, and both of them
were in good health. Both were. 79
years of age. They were Rev. John C.
Kadkin, of New Jersey, and our es
teemed countyman, Mr. N.A. Pow
ell.
The Abernethys Gave Bond.
The following appeared as a special
in the Charlotte Observer of Sunday.
MoROAJfToy, Nov. 9. The Aberne-
thy-Gunter trial wound up here last
night, as we stated in to-day's Obser
ver. .Last cifrht. the Abrnthvfi
Prof. Will, Prof. L. Berge and Prof.
Arthur T. all made up their peace
bonds, and were released by the sher
iff in whose custody they had been
placed by the magistrates. Col. 8.
McD. Tate on Prof. Will's' bond,
8heriff T. M. Webb went on Prof. L.
BergeVand Mr. C. M. McDowell went
on Prof. Arthur TV. The aforemen
tioned bondsmen all justified for
11,000. The amount of the bond de
manded was considered rather large
by many. This disposes of a very
sensational case and one that had
aroused considerable feeling and com
ment. The Abernethvs all, left for
their home at Rutherford College last
night.
There is quite a colony of Morcan-
ton people attending the fair at At
lanta this week. Fifteen tickets wee
sold at the Southern nfflr hor rAnr
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days ago, to Atlanta.
aiorganton u to have an ice factorv.
The style of the firm is the Hygeia Ice
company.. This is an assured fact-.
Mr. W. G. Baker, of the Morganton
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the nromotor of th Pntomrita "
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