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1 LOCAL NEWS. Local Passenger Schedule "W. N. C. R. R. GOING WEST. No. 5Vpasses Morganton 4.01 a.m. NO. 52 " " 2.00 P. M. GOING BAST. No. 53 passes Morganton 4.22 p. m. NO. 51 " " 3.12 A. M. The Catawba River was boom ing over all the county bridges last Friday. Mr. Carlton Giles is building a handsome residence on his farm near Glen Alpine. Read the advertisement for creditors by A. F. Somers, admin istrator of Wm. Buff, deceased. It is almost a certainty that a large canning factory will- be erected in Morganton this spring. Lumber dealers should read the advertisement of the Burke County Fair Association in anoth er column. Mr. Moulton Shuping recently had the misfortune to have a dry kiln containing 15,000 feet of floor ing and ceiling destroyed by fire at his saw mill near Morganton. Old "Aunt" Sarah McGimp sey, a colored mother in Isreal, widely known and respected, died in Quaker Meadow's township last week, aged more than 80 5-ears. The grading of the new Asy lum road has been completed, and the work of macadamizing goes bravely on. It will be when com pleted, one of the finest pieces of road in the State. Morganton is having a new fence boom. All over the town the citizens are building new fences. If they will paint the new and white wash the old fences all over the town it will be a great improvement The Bee Mountain Mining Company are getting in addition al machinery for their mines in Caldwell county. There were a number of teams in town Tuesday hauling the machinery from the depot to the mines. The citizens of Glen Alpine, whose academy building was wrecked by the wind storm of last week, are hard at work preparing to rebuild. A subscription paper has been circulated and a liberal amount secured for the work. The meeting of the Men's Guild of Grace Episcopal church announced by the rector, Rev. C. L. Hoffman, for last night (Wednesday) will be held to night, having been postponed on account of the entertainment by the young ladies of the Presbyterian church. There were several ugly typo graphical errors in last week's Herald, made by the printers in .correcting proof, and which con sequently escaped the editor's notice until after the paper was printed. Such things are annoy ing, but they can't be helped it seems. Mayor Robertson has been shipping a great deal of lumber from Morganton to New York for the last month. Saw mill men here are not able to supply the de mand for yellow pine and poplar lumber. Unfortunately the prices they are now realizing are redicu lously low, but they have them selves to blame for that. They could and should get better prices for their lumber. The street leading from King to Sterling streets beyond Mrs. Ferree's property is being opened up to travel. A substantial cul vert has been constructed over the branch and a fill will be made to bring the road up to the level of the fill on Sterling street. It will be a short way to the depot and a great convenience to the citizens of South Morganton. Mr. J. H. Pearson showed us a few days ago some beautiful speci mens of granite from a quary which he has just opened on some of his property just outside of town. Mr. Pearson had purchased stone in another county for his new residence, but none of that shipped him was as fine a building stone as that found on his own premises within a few hundred yards of his building site.. Don't forget that Miss Francis F. Cunningham, a graduate of the National School of Oratory and Teacher of Elocution in Daven port Female College in Lenoir will give one of her charming en tertainments in the Town Hall on Thursday evening, April 17th, at eight o'clock. Morganton should give her a large crowd, as it is not often that we have the opportu nity of hearing so fine an artist in her line. Ex-Governor Russell Alger, the wealthy Michigander, whose friends and supporters in the last Republican National Convention made such an uproar in the Con vention Hall trying to convince themselves that Alger was "all right" is negotiating for the pur chase of large tracts of timber land in Western North Carolina. His agents have been inspecting some large tracts of timber land in Burke and Mitchell counties. The Board of Directors of the Burke County Fair Association has levied a second assessment on stock subscribed. This call is for 20 per cent., which "shareholders are requested to meet promptly. Work is being vigorously pushed at the Fair grounds, and they are being put in beautiful shape. Next week work will commence on the race track and the high picket fence that will surround the 40 acre grounds, Subscribers are earnestly requested to meet -assessments promptly, as the work must go on. As will be seen in the report of the County Alliance meeting, that body by a large majority fa vors the "no-fence law." There is a talk of a petition for an election to include the whole Catawba river valley from the McDowell to the Catawba county line, exclud ing the mountains on both of the valley. Prominent farmers tell us there is a rapidly growing senti ment in favor of the law. There is a proposition on foot to erect a high bridge over "Breakneck'at the point where the street leading from the Moun tain Hotel crosses the gulch. It will take some high trestle work, and will cost a good deal of money, but it ought to be built. The town is growing too rapidly to be cut in two by this impassible ravine. In the olden time there was a bridge over "Breakneck," but it was allowed to fall to pieces and there is nothing left to show where it stood. The revenue officers made a raid in the South Mountains last week and captured a blockade still eighteen miles below Morgan ton on the Lower South Fork. They captured five men in the still house, three of whom were asleep. One of them made his es cape. Those captured were Mar tin Hoyle, J. C. Gattis, Thomas Cook and John Cook. The prison ers had a hearing before Commis sioner McKesson. Hoyle gave bond for his appearance at the Fall term of Statesville Federal Court. The other three, failing to give bond, were committed to jail for trial at the Spring term of the Federal Court. A solid train of vestibuled Pullman cars passed down the Western North Carolina Railroad one evening last week. There is a rumor in railroad circles to the effect that through vestibuled trains will soon be run regularly between Washington and Ashe ville. Certainly, the wonderful increase in travel over this road both winter and summer demands increased facilities. All during the past winter the Pullman sleep ers going both North and South were crowded, the supply of berths being nearly always too small to supply the demand, and the prospects are that the stream of travel over this line will in crease with every season. Mr. L. M. Scott informs us that last Saturday night an unoc cupied dwelling house on the farm of Mrs. Polly Neill in Silver Creek township was burned by incedia ries. The house was used tempo rarily as a place for storing rough ness. Mr. Thomas Morrison, who passed the house just after night fall saw a light in the building and a man walking around the house, but thinking that some one had moved into the place, he paid no attention to the circumstances. Shortly after this the house burn ed down. This occurred within about a mile and a half of the place where Mr. Barns' dwelling and out-houses were burned by incendiaries the past winter. Tracks around the Neill building indicated the presence of two in cendiaries. A letter from H. M. Burford, President of the Bank, of Com merce of Louisville, Ky., to S. T. Pearson, Cashier of the Piedmont Bank of Morganton, in speaking of the recent cyclone in that city says : "The work of clearing away the debris and repairing the dam age is going ahead with surprising rapidity. At first it looked as though it was a comple destruc tion over a section of the city more than a mile in length and some four squares wide, and the sight was simply bewildering build ings levelled, lumber, goods and timbers over everything, the streets impassible, and the remaining walls cracked and shaken. It de velops, however, that the floors and walls protected the merchan dise very greatly and almost all of it being recovered. This reduces the property loss to $2,000,000 or $2,500,000, and the mortality list is short of 100. No one could have supposed immediately after the disaster that the dead would number less than several hundred. The situation, bad as it is, presents a greatly less serious aspect than at first." The Herald of last week af forded a fresh instance of the pow er of the press. So thinks Capt. J. C. Wigginton, of the Bee Moun tain Mining Company, who says he has been trying for ten years to get married without success, and who was startled last week at seeing in The Herald the state ment that he had a wife and chil dren in Louisville. It was his father and mother and not his wife and children . about whose safety he was so anxious last week. Since The Herald has been guilty of marrying the Capt. off against his will, and for fear that some arrangements in the matrimonial line made by the Capt. himself may be interferred with, we hereby grant him a divorce from the bonds of matrimony against the suppositious wife in Louisville, and hope we may .soon have the pleasure of announcing ; the name of the real Mrs. Wigginton. If The Herald has the power to marry a man off it should have equal power to annul the bands. The legal maxim, "Eo legamini quo legatur" undoubtedly justifies the course which we have hastened to pursue. &3pBoys' and children's hair trirued for 10 and 15 cts. any day except Saturday, at Woodard's Barber Shop. U3FTwenty pounds of Rice for one dollar at Battle & Co.'s. m2otf IN CATAWBA'S FLOOD. Three Men Slake a Narrow Escape from Drowning-. Last Friday morning the Cataw ba river was booming. The rains of the day before had raised the stream about seven feet above low water mark, submerging all the low bridges. There was to be a meeting of the County Farmers' Alliance at Glen Alpine on this side of the Catawba, and a great many of the delegates were unable to get across. P. W. Patton the County Business Agent of the Alliance, and a party of twelve or thirteen delegates went to a canoe landing at the old Avery ford about four miles above Morganton and they all crossed the river in safety, leaving the canoe on this side of the stream. A short time after they crossed, Moulton Ben field, Alex Whistenant and Rev. Elam Whistenant, who were also on their way to the Alliance meet ing, reached the crossing and find ing that the canoe had been taken across the river they entered an old flat boat about forty feet long by twelve in "width, which Mr. Hildebrand had been using in floating logs and lumber across the river. A rope had been stretched from bank to bank, and the three men each taking hold of this rope, attempted to pull the awkward craft across the swollen stream. The current was very swift and a stiff wind down the river sent the waves dashing over the side of the boat. They made very good headway until about two-thirds the distance across the stream, when the current and the wind became so strong that they were unable to pull the boat any nearer the bank, the slack rope having allowed them to drift some distance below the landing and the remaining distance being against the current. The three men struggled hard with the rope, and in their excitement all ran to one end of the boat, which began to dip water and sink. The weight of the three men and the sinking boat broke the rope at this juncture, and all were thrown into the water. The men had taken off their coats in the boat, and when it began sinking one of them bundled the coats together and threw them towards the bank. Benfield, who is a good swimmer, struck out for the bank, which he reached about forty feet below the landing. The R,ev. Elam Whisten ant was badly frightened, but managed to reach the bank after a desperate struggle with the cur rent. Alex Whistenant retained his presence of mind, and as he left the sinking boat he seized the bundle of coats that was floating in the water and struck out shore ward with the coats under one arm, when the swift current sud denly wrapped the coats about his head and arms, rendering him powerless, and he was swept down the stream, sinking repeatedly be neath the water. He made frantic efforts to free himself from the clothing, which pinioned his arms and neck, and just before he lost consciousness succeeded, after be ing carried some forty yards un der water, and finally he landed on an island several hundred feet below the landing, whence he was brought by his friends in a canoe. The hands of the three men were fearfully lacerated on the rope in their attempt to pull the boat out, and besides this and thier narrow escape from death, not to speak of the loss of their coats they are now threatened with a suit for the loss of the boat, which Hildebrand says they had no permission to enter. This looks like most trouble enough for one day. Death of 3Ir. Xi. S. Crow. Died at his residence in Mor ganton, on last Sunday night about 12 o'clock, Mr. L. S. Crow, aged about 45 years. Mr. Crow was a mute, a printer by trade, and about sixteen years ago mar ried the deaf and dumb daughter of Ex-Sheriff Alex Duckworth of Burke county! Since his marriage he has worked, at his trade in Morganton, Asheville and Lenoir. Last November he was employed in The Herald office, and he has worked steadily at his case since that time until last Saturday noon, when he complained of feeling un well, and did not return in the afternoon. Mr. Crow had been for some time subject to attacks of asthma and rheumatism, and on Sunday night the rheumatism at tacked his heart, his physicians say, and he died in a few minutes. He was buried in the town ceme tary Tuesday morning, Rev. Mr. Bonner conducting the services. Mr. Crow has been a faithful and efficient employee in The Herald office for five months past. He was a fond father and a devoted husband, and his invalid wife and little children deserve the deepest sympathies of the community in their loss. "The Poets and Poetry of the Bible." A large audience assembled in the Court House Tuesday night to hear Mr. C. F. McKesson's lecture on the above subject. The speaker, whose reputation for elegant die tion and graceful delivery is so well established, never did him self more credit than on Tuesday night. He had a tine subject and he handled it in a masterly way, bringing into, play his superior powers of oratory, and enibelish ing his lecture with choice bits of classic lore. His lecture showed thorough study of the language and methods of the sacred poets, and his word pictures of Job, Eze kieV Jeremiah, David, Solomon and Isaiah were the work of au artist. The lecture was well pre pared and well delivered and was listened to with marked attention by the large audience. PERSONAL POINTS. The Coming and Going of Some of Our People During1 the "Week. Mrs. J. A. Dickson has been vis iting relatives in Winston. Dr. J. R. Anderson has returned from a visit to Lincoln county. Ralph Laxton came home from Knoxville to spend Easter Sunday. Mr. John F. Sprague has been spending a few days in Morgan ton. Prof. R. T. Claywell, of Pied mont Springs was in town Tues day. M iss Jessie Co. Chambers has been visiting her aunt in States ville. Judge Bynum is in Boone hold ing Watauga Superior Court this week. Dr. I. P. Jeter has returned from a visit to his old home in Union. S. C. Miss Charlotte Powe, of Cheraw, S. C, has been visiting at Mr. S. J. Ervin's. Mr. Eug. D. Carter, of Asheville, was registered at the Hunt House on Sunday. Mr. W. W. Avery, of Asheville, spent Monday and Tuesday in Morganton. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Sprague have returned from a visit to rela tives in Greenville, S. C. Will Hardin, now operator at Biltmore, spent Sunday with his father's family in Morganton. Mrs. McEachern and daughter, Miss Celeste, of Wilmington, are visiting at Capt. L. A. Bristol's. Miss Lila Dunavant, who has been attending Asheville Female College, came home last week on a visit. Mr. Eugene A. Albee, of the Carolina Queen Mining Company, left Saturday fer a short visit to Boston, Mass. Mr. G. V. Gilreath, of Asheville, spent Saturday and Sunday with Rev. C. L. Hoffmate, his old class mate and friend. The familiar face of Capt. Boyd, of the North Carolina Pottery Works is again on our streets. He has been to Boston. Rev. C. C. Brothers, now living at Granite Falls, Caldwell county, and Pastor of Caldwell Circuit, was in town yesterday. Mrs. Sallie Jones, of Richmond, Va., is in Morganton, having been called here by the sickness of her sister, Miss Cora Burgess. Messrs. D. J. Hicks and E. B. Claywell left for Piedmont Springs Tuesday. They will try the moun tain trout streams before they re turn. ' o r r so CO I WILL Earl & Welsons COLLARS, " " " CUFFS, Geo. B. Cluett's COLLARS, CUFFS, This offer will only to 19th of this month. JOHN L. a NEW MILLINERY STORE ! rnsrioirsr street, One door below Kingsmore s Drug Store. MISSES" KINGAID & CHAMBERS have opened out a complete line of fashion able Millinery, and the town and county. Watch thier advertisements. A VOODOO PRIESTESS, "Who Guarantees Acquittal to Colored Criminal at $10 a Head. While Sheriff Webb was stand ing in the court square one day last week talking to a party of friends he was accosted bv a ne gro woman named Rachel Shade, ana requested to step into the Court House corridor. Here she requested the sheriff to witness wnat sne was doing, while she solemnly took from a niche above me aoor a small bundle of red rags, which she reverentially un folded, revealing a few small roots. and then looking the Sheriff square in tne lace she said : "Yer seed dem rags, did yer boss?" The Sheriff assented. "Yer seed what Ise done wid em ?" He had to ad mit that he did. "You can stan aside," she concluded, with a majestic wave of her ebon hand. and she made a bee line for the law office of Mr. S. J. Ervin, leav ing the Sheriff mystified and feel like the man the calf ran over, while the bystanders joined in a hearty laugh at his expense. In lawyer Ervin's office she dis closed the object of her visit to be the institution of a suit for dam ages against a certain colored sorceress who had induced her to pay $5 upon a guarantee that she wouia maKe fick Carlton, a gen tleman of color charged with the larceny of corn, "come clear," and that upon the payment of the money the sorceress had put the package of roots over the Court House door, and said it would fix the matter. She said that friends of Joe Boone and dug Moore, charered with murder, had oaid the same woman 10 for each of tne defendants on a similar guar antee. Boone and Moore were acquitted, but Pick was convicted and sent to the penitentiary for three years, though able counsel had been retained to assist the Voodoo woman in his defense. She insists that she was greatly damasred bv this failure, and that nothing but a suit would satisfy ner. bhe was referred to a justice of the peace, and it is likely that this important matter will be set tled by the courts at an early day. If the trial comes off, The Herald will have a reporter present to re port the expert testimony as to tne mystic power ot voodooistn. GPOld Alliance Stoee. a chance to benefit your families and save mouey will 00 found at the old Alliance Store, and it will be lost if you all do not take the ad- vantage 01 our low prices and economy. Woktjian & Newton, a pi 10 tf. Morganton, X. C. I57N otic e. Persons having niaes to sell can hnd sale for them by applying to jan23-tf. D. McKexzie. SELL i 7 cts. 28 cts. 10 cts. 1 7 cts. be good from the 9th So come at once. ANDERSON. they solicit the trade of j DICKSON, Til k ILSO! x OUR NEW STOCK :-: ssssss s s s ssssss s s s s ssssss p r 1 n(Jo To i Everyone says it is the handsomest, lar gest, nobbiest, grandest, prettiest, biggest, best and cheapest, in fact it is a daisy. Ladies, you should call and see the new Dress Goods. We have a great variety in all the new styles, shades and fabrics from a 5c. Lawn to a Gros Grain Silk. PRINTS, MOUSSELINE, ZEPHYRS, GINGHAMS, DRESDEN CLOTHS, MOHAIRS, BR1LLIANTINES, -MOHAIR GLASE, THE LOVELIEST SATTNES. GROS GRAIN SILKS, MOIR SILKS, SURAH SILKS, MOHAIR BROCADES, .More 100 pieces of Muslin and Goods, in new paterns and styles, are bewitching. Just see them. Hamburgs, Torchons, &c., in great vari ety and beauty. These goods were bought to sell, not to keep. They were bought just as cheap as money could buy them, and no one on earth shall sell goods cheaper than we do. We have always had the name of the cheapest store in Moreranton. and we Intend to keep it. WE ARE THE BOSS CHEAP STORE. We invite the public to call and insnert for themselves. Respectfully, Die , Tate OF- ssssss 8 8 ::::::::v.::::::s s ssssss s s s s ssssss ALBATROSS, CH ALLIES, OUTINGS, CHAMBBAYS, French and American, LINEN CHAM BRAYS, LAWNS, BEIGE. HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES. KYBER CLOTH, PERCALE. White They STILL & Fi son.
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