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juiiH 1111 m""1" " " tiiiimj imKm ig to liniGTIOHAKi rHtfcl Subscribers who pay ONE DOL- 5 s AR fr subscription to Thb - s Hekvld, either new or old, will t L presented with, ft Peabody'B .liter's Dictionary .820page8, : . loth bound, containing defini- .ions to 3000 words and phrases, s 5 It is email, but full of meat," nd it goes FREK with THE HER- 5 YitdMtn 5 Uiunu.n J IP tin lJt'. FREE! . jj I 1 Everybody oht la r-ar. It- n word and rhras, absolutely, r; S TOM iitEALD OO Subscript. J j B cither dw or old, for Ihm aeit it "1;' ; ALD lor mo u w ; 1 VOL. X. NO! 24. MORGANTON, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23. 1894. PRICE FIVE CENTS. S day. . t j . .i 1 1 1 1 n n n 1 1 n 1 1 1 n " j ' i nmiaim i mi i ia turn mmrroigngngitwati MONG OUR NEIGHBORS. n Iivtereslins Batch of News from ' the Counties Immediately Sur rounding Us. flLI.KD FROM THE PAPERS. fliirriiK'' Death and Happenings of I.,m-b1 liiHrest as ,,rliood Press. Given by the Nelgh- Caldwell. , f.'ir Topic, August 15th. Patterson correspondent, gives ,w t lie 1 olio win ? items: "Corn .,.ih iue spleudid, the best for Ui'inl years. Mr. J. M. Moore ;l family are visiting relatives i llurke." Married Saturda evening at the residence of Mr. jjeniv Earnest, father of the liiiile, Mr. James Miller and Miss j me Earnest, Kev. G. D. Sherrill ofliciatiug. ......Mrs. J. C. Drew- rv, ot Charlotte, who was at Green l'.lrk for her health, died there Saturday. Sunday her remains en- brought to Leuoir aud taken from here on a special train to llih'igh lor interment. ....Dr. A. A. Kent is breaking ground pre. namtory to erecting a handsome brick building on his,lot on South Main street, opposite the drug ti e There is talk of a roller flouring-mill being put up in Le noir, and it is not all talk either, as some of the best farmers in the county are interested in it. The annual conference of the Ad veutist church was held with the church at Patterson last week, be ginning on Thursday and embrac ing Sunday. . Many prominent ministers were present and the crowds in attendance were large, especially on Sunday. ....Mr. .1. E. Ervin, of Morganton, spent Friday of last week in Lenoir. ... Mr. Charles Powell has re s 'tied his position in the State Hospital at Morganton and is now at his home uear Lenoir. . . . .Mr. John Nelson aud Mr. Mock, at tendants in the State Hospital at Morgautoii, came to Lenoir last week on a visit, and from here went to Patterson and Blowing P.ock, They returned to Morgan ton Saturday. Catawba. - Hickory Press an(T Carolinian,. Aug. 16th. Mr. John Fisher, of west Hick ory, formerly a resident of Cald well county, died on the 9th iust. His remains were taken to Gran ite Falls, Friday, for interment ....Mr. David Bumgamer, of Hickory, brought to this office Tuesday evening a cucumber weighing six pounds. ....Corn has been fluctuating in price re cently like the wind .did in. the storm the other day. It blowed hot and cold and from all direc tions and up and down. ....Mr. V. P. Huffman,' our present Dem ocratic postmaster, has had the postoffice buifding beautifully painteu ana oiuerwise improvea. ....Mr. li. 2f. Harris has obtained a patent on a "combined month opener aud bit." We regard it as a very meritorious contrivance, deserving admission iuto every home where horses, cattle and oth er stock are kept. ....Last week we published Mr. A. C. Link's re lirement from the firm of Messrs. Lin, McComb & Co., aud an nounced as their successors, the new firm of McComb Bros. Mon day evening these gentlemen sold their dry goods store to. our en- - tcrprisiug townsman, Mr. E. L. j Slia ford. .... .During the rain and ' electrical storm of Saturday after noon, Mr. John Fisher's bouse and Mr. llobert Courad's cow were struck by lightning. The, house was not seriously damaged, but the cow was instantly killed. Both gen'tlemen reside in east Hickory. ....Mr. J. E. Abee and family went visiting Saturday morning, and returning home Sunday morn i itig found that his house had been i-ntered sometime during his ab sence, and all of his wearing ai- mterest. Services at p. in, and 8.15 p. ni. paiel transferred to the possession of the thief. " As he found the house locked just as he left it and the wiudows undisturbed, he thinks the robber entered the house by means of false keys. Newton Enterprise, August 17th. Married, on August 1st, 1894, liev. J. 11. Kexrode, of Claremont, and. Miss Sarah C. Kibler, of-Mt. Calvary, Va. .... Ball's Creek Cainpineetiug will be held next week. As this will be the first cnnipmeeting at this place for several years, a large crowd is ex pected At last Catawba Col lege has succeeded in securing a teacher for the Primary Depart ment, after having had two ladies to accept and then, change their minds and decline the position. Miss Lnla Langenour, of Footville, arrived on Tuesday and took im mediate charge. Mr. Le'e Bull inser this week "broueht us a curiosity in the shape of a black berry briar of this year's growth with fruit ou the end of it. He fays he has shown it to a number of persons but can find no one who lias ever seen the like before, for as every one knows, blackberry briars grow up one year and bear fruit the next. . . . .Unless injured hereafter hv sf.orms and freshe.f.s there will be the largest corn crop ' raised; in -Catawba and adjoining eounties that we have ever known. " The season has just suited -lowlands and such ears of corn as the low places contain we have never before Reeu. And while the bot tom corn is the best, the upland 'oni has not suffered much' from drought and is above the average. 1 he Western corn crop will be very fchort from droughts, so that ; Eood piices may be expected in this country. The cotton crop, too, in the most promising for '"any years. Both the July and August cror8'of bolls are enorm ous and they are beginning to mature uunsually early. ..r.Lee Finger, son of D. F. Finger of this county, was killed by a blast. in a coal mine at Jelllco,Ky Aug. 4th. "" ' ' Gaston, j .' ; Gastonia Gazette, Aug. 16th. Mr. Julius Holland, an aged aud well-known citizen of this county, died last Saturday at his home near Dallas. His burial took place Sunday afternoon at Long Creek' Baptist church A series of religions meetings is in progress at the Methodist church this week, in winch the pastor is assisted by Rev.' J. H. Leslie, of Jacksonville, Ala. Mr. Leslie and family arrived Monday afternoon and the meet ings began Monday night and have been steadily increasing in 9 a. m., 3 ....As the colored exenrsiou was uearing Crowder's Creek Station last Fri day bu its return from Lenoir a negro named George Ward fell off and received injuries from which he died next morning. He had been drinking but quiet, and when found had a pistol aud knucks on his person. He. was discovered about 10 minutes after the train passed by persons who were at tracted to the spot by bis moaning. His back was brokeu and one side stove in. The northbound pass enger train took his dead body to Lincolnton to his people. He be longed to the trestle force ofthe G. O. & N. road. ....Kev. L. C. Cbamblin, a colored minister well known in this section was yester day sent to jail on a charge of larceny which is alleged to have been committed last spring. Cbambliu is a mail carrier on the route from Kiug's Mtn, to All Healing. Lincoln Academy is a colored boarding . school on this route with King's Mtn. as its post omce. Chambhu carried mail back aud forth for the Academy in an ordinary sack without lock. The evideuce goes to show that he ex tracted sundry postal notes and a check from letters in this pouch. Oue check for about $27, drawn in favor of one of the teachers, was cashed by the Gastouia M'f 'g Co., the endorsement being a forgery by a colored woman at the advice or instigation of Chamblin. The woman was discharged. Mr. I.N. Davis made the arrest Monday night at Philadelphia church in Cleveland county. Cbamblin was preaching when the officers rode up, but they were kind enough to allow him to close the service be fore making known their business. ....Fourty-fonr years ago Dr.JE. E. Boyce settled in this territory as, a young pastor. Much, if not quite all, of his work- was then largely missionary. But he labored and prayed and waited . on the Lord, During all these years he saw the1 labors of his heart pros pering. Seven different churches are now in the territory to which he was so long ago assigned and one by one he has seen them spring up and grow. They are Clover and Bethany in S. C. and Crow der's Creek, King's Mountain, Pis gah, Gastouia and Bethel in K. C Last Fiiday these churches held a grand reunion at All Healing Springs. Their old pastor was there present with them and made the principal address of the occa sion, giving his "little children in the Lord" kiudly spiritual counsel. A boot 800 people were present, and visitors say they never saw a finer dinuer than that spread by the seveu churches on this occa sion. It must have been an oc casion overflowing with joy to both the old pastor and the young er ones and to I all the people gathered there. I . j Cleveland. Shelby Aurora. Aug. 16th. Becent showers have cheered the farmers and sent joy to the crops. ....P, IS. Buss, who had been sick teu days from strangu lated hernia, died last Saturday. A grey horse at Wray & Har had a good run of boarders all summer. ....A few miles above here there is a strip of territory that has been suffering for rain. The crops and all vegetation has beeu literally parched up for want of rain. The people who were de pendent solely ou the crops are said to be in very needy circum stances. ..Mrs. Hord, wife of Mr. Jesse Hord, who lives live miles east of Shelby, died last Fri day evening of dropsy of the heart. She had been sick for sev eral " months. .Mrs. Hord was about 60 years of age, aud a lady who has been useful all her life. She was the mother ot ten chil dren aud bad a wonderful robust constitution. The dwelling of Mr. James Carrico, about 3 miles north of Sheby, was burned down Wednesday. The family were all out in the field, and it is uot known how it caught. It is thought it was struck by lightning, as it was about the time the. heavy storm was passing over here. All "the furnitnre and clothiug, etc., were destroyed in the flames The Democratic Senatorial Convention of this, the 33rd district, composed of the counties of Gaston, Cleve land, llutherford and Polk, met in Butherfordtoo last Friday evening at 3 o'clock and nominated Mr. K. B. Miller, of Cleveland, and Dr. T. B. Twitty, of Bntherford, to rep resent this district in the next General Assembly. McDowell. Marion Record. August 17th. We were never called on to chronicle a more sad .event than that of the death of our popular and esteemed citizen, Mr. W. P. Blanton. The news of his death was like an electric shock to all his frieuds so sudden and unexpected was it. Just two weeks ago Mr. Blanton was taken sick but no one thought it dangerous. On the contrary every one was expecting him to be up in a short while. On Monday night about 8 o'clock he complained of being chilly aud commenced to get worse im mediately. Physicians were sum moned and all that medical skill aud loving attention could ac complish was done but in vain; the end came about two o'clock. The funeral services were held at his residence on Main Street Tues da' afternoon at 5 o'clock con ducted by Bev. M. M. Landrum. A large concourse of his frieuds attended the remains to his last testing place. The grave was dec orated with beautiful flowers by loving hands and sympathising hearts. Mr. Blanton was 32 years of age and oue of the most enter prising, successful and poplar mer chants of our town. He leaves a wife and five small children and numerous relatives. He has been for a number of years a consistent member of the Baptist church. ....Madison Sandlin, a young man who was raised in this county, died in the Cherokee connty jail ou July dUtn. lie was to bave been tried on a charge of killing. His friends are confident he would have been acquitted. He was a structive storms which , we have been having here of late, the gen eration has not seen such an ex cellent corn crop as will be gath ered in thia country- and section this year. It the present prospect holds good, say some of our best farmers, it will be. the largest crop we have, had in years. The tax book shows the property listed by whites includiug real and personal in this county: Bakersville, 8189,039; Cranberry, 8171,790; Foik Mountain, 817,688 Grassy Creek, 8S0,15G; flerrells, 896,484; Hollow Poplar, $40,824; Linville, 8145,375; Toe ltiver,$103, 427; Little Rock Creek, $23,081; Red Hill, $39,055; Snow Creek, $49,276. Total, $951,165. This cannot be said lo be our true worth. Property is geuerally listed at of its real value. If we mul tiply our aggregate by 3 we will find that our country is' worth nearly three, millious instead of not quite one million. ; . THE SEWS FKOM ICARU TOWNSHIP. 'HERY (HOUSE-BURNED. i:. i The Old Poquonnoclc Landmark Com- pl-Hely Destroyed. IBIIILT IN 1656. young man 22 years of age, but rill's livery stable fell dead Wed nesday within a few feet of the Aurora press room. It had been driven with a heavy load 45 miles on a hot Angust day, which caused the death of the animal. This in cident shows heartlessness in a commercial tourist from Charlotte. ... .The dog's nose is always cold; the hog never sweats, even in hot summer, the cat has more toes ou hind than fore feet; the water melon seed's small end points to the rind. Why are these things so! ....A huge, sagacious look ing Saint Bernard dog, whose sire cost $500, is now here and is at tracting large crowds. The nuaui mous verdict is, "This is the largest dog 1 ever saw." It has an im mense head, yet it has placid and gentle eyes, indicating its attach ment for man. It belongs to Mr. H. D. Wheat of Gaffueys and ran away from Gaffneys and was here arrested aud put in the "lock-up" in obedience to a telegram from its owner. It came originally trout New York and was presented to Mr. Wheat by George Bay ne, and is said to be a full-blooded St. Bernard. .... Andrew Lntz, a colored man, has been placed in jail to await trial at the next term of our court on the charge of an assault on Palmer Morgan's wife, also colored, of No. 5 township. Shelby Review, Aug. 17th. , ; . Cleveland Springs, the famous and popular health resort, has 150 guests at present and the "number increases daily. ....Re vivals seem to be the order of the day in this county. Elizabeth Baptist church is having a revival that is largely attended and much interest is manifested. Sharon Methodist chnrch is having a meeting ' that is attended by large crowds daily. ... .Pattersou Springs, the noted -health resort about 4 miles south of here, has married, and leaves a wife and two bright little children, who are at the home of V. S. Deputy Mar shal, Geo. Saudlin, at Old Fort. The family bave the sympathy of the community. Madison surrend ered to the authorities, and seemed not afraid to stand his trial. .'. . . The Court House is undergoing re pairs we are glad to notice, but none too soon. The brick tiling floor is being taken up and a new floor is being laid. ....Beef and meat markets are getting numer ous in the city. . . . .The Register ot Deeds snys the novelty or mar riage is decreasing, as be has only issued two marriage license this month. ....Mr. W. P. Blanton, whose death we chronicle this week, had his life insured for $8,750. Miss Hattie Conley, one of McDowell's accomplished young ladies, has been honored with a position as teacher in a col lege at Johnson City, Teunessee. Mitchell. Bakersville Enterprise, Aug. 15th. Congressman, Bower has recom mended Calvin Wood for Post master at Spruce Pine after a contest. ....We learn that Will iam Wiseman, of Toe River, had a fiue young colt killed by lightning on last Saturday evening. Last Saturday evening dark and angry clouds gathered m the heavens, the thunder roared and the lightning flashed. In a very short while rain began to fall in blinding torrents. Crops were de stroyed, roads washed "out and bridges swept away by the mad waters. It has been many years since this vicinity has witnessed such a rain. The greatest loss was sustained by farmers. Our roads were almost ruined in places. The loss of all will go ud into thous ands. .Register Davis reports the following marriage licenses is sued this week: J. W. Webb to Kettie Whitson, Hollow Poplar Township; Manuel Tipton to Han nah Griffith, Red. Hill Township. ....A certain gentleman in this town being inclined to take unto himself a wife, has beeu having some trouble. The other day the young lady's brother and the gen tleman referred to came very near having a racket, but happily blood shed was averted. ....It is apar ent that some of the women in aud around Elk Park have been trans gressing and defying the law. A tew nights ago the Cranberry mail brought to Sheriff MeKiuney just fifteen warrants, issued by magis trates at Elk Park, all of which were for the fair sex who had been engaged in the business of retail ing spirituous liquor. . . .From all sections come reports of mag nificent corn crops. If the Lord of the harvest but stays the do- Wheat Crop Short Ha Prospect for a In Yield of Corn A Moral and Religi ous Community C. V. McKesson for the Legislature Suggestions for Connty Officers. Cor. of The Morganton Herald. Penelope, N. C, Aug. 15, 1894. Wheat threshing is over and the crop is very short, but if the pres ent good season holds out we will have the finest crop of corn we have had for years. Protracted meetings are now in order. There has been one going on at l om Swamp, tor some time, conducted by Revs. Pruett and Mull, and a number have pro fessed faith in Christ,' joined the church and have been baptised. May the good work continue. I think that Icard can boast of more new churches built in the last year than any township in the county only eight, six Baptist and two Methodist. Does this speak well for the morals of Icard ? Ana now, Mr. editor, wr.ile we profess to be a moral people we have a choice in who shall repre sent us in the next Legislature, and believe he should be a Christ ian gentleman, and we believe all our rulers should be Christians for we read in the Bible that when the wicked are in rule the land moaoeth. Is not this the teason why our land has been moaning for years ? Now I desire to urge the nomi nation of C. F. McKesson to rep resent us in the next Legislature : First because he is a Christian, secondly, because he is a genuine Democrat, a good orator and par liamentarian, all of which are requisites in a good Legislator and then, too, he can make the campaign with dignity and tell the Republicans and Populists who are responsible for the hard times, as he did two years ago. And just here I will say that al though he has not solicited the honor yet he is fully entitled to it for the zeal exhibited for Democ racy by him in the last campaign. Now, in urging his name I do not wish to be understood as presum ing to dictate for the people of Burke county, nor do I wish to speak disparagingly of others' claims. We endorse the name of Lewis Warlick for Treas., J. W. Hap poldt for C. S. C, and H. W. Con nelly for Sheriff, and hope that each may receive the nomination and be elected. With good success for The Her ald and its editor, I close. More anon. H. Sot on Flro by a Spark front a Faastng Loeomoilve The Hens was Always Owned By an A Tory Iu History. 1 - , - - Judge, Cilley has sent to Judge Avery the following extract from the correspondence of the New York Sun. As not only the family of Col. i. T. Avery, but the des cendauts of the late James Avery and of Mm. Margaret Collett, the mother f 'Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Molten, and also the descendants of Cols.'"Wm. and Thomas Lenoir trace their origin to the James AVery who built the bouse in 1C5C, we cheerfully give Bpacs.for it as calculated to excite general interest:- i, New London, Conn., July 21 One of fhe-most famous New Eng land colonial homes, the celebrated gabled James Avery house at Po quonnoclc Bridge, near here, was burned to the ground soon After midnight this. jnorning. It was one' of the largest as well as of the oldest aud most admired and interesting-of colonial houses. The old, rambling structure was built in 1656, auU had, been added to iu various ways hnj.il it had twenty four corners. It has always borne a coat of trilliant red, with white trimmings and. was a landmark for tiavelrs bit the consolidated road between New York and Bos ton. Its nearness to the railroad tracks cost it its existence finallj: a spark frrjui a locomotive ignited the roof as though it were tinder, and the bid pile'quickly blazed up so fiercely: that the startled in mates had; barely time to escape with their lives. The loss of the bouse is au irre parable blow to- the collectors of ante-revolutionary relics iu this pait of the country. The old house was a Mecca for thousands of cm i osity loving persous every nummer, and many men of wealth have sent architect to visit it for the pur pose of copying its style and plan of construction. The bnrned dwell ing was in excellent repair, with its timbers as sound as wbeu the first of' them wa cut in the forest by James ' Avery in 1C5C. James Avery :ca in e from Massachusetts in 1650. !i The house has always been iu possession of an Avery, being handed ilowu from oldest son to oldest son, . the present owner being of; the ninth genera tion. 1' '. . The original Avery came to church in this city autil 1634, and then, having become so old that he did not feel able to walk so far, he purchased for 6 the building nsed by the New London settlers for a watch tower and meeting house, whichrwas effered for sale much as we now raise carrots and beets. In 1710 the first sleigh drove up to the door and the Averj- loy and girls, of. whom there w alwaya a houseful, tum bled in for their first sleigh ride. By and by the Revolutionary War came, and the Averya that had gone out from the old hive made a good showing in tin ranks. The thuuder of the gun 00 the uay Fort Griswold was defended was plainly heard, and in the afternoon a breathless horseman came riding up,witb the news that nine Averys had been killed in de fence of the fort and many more wounded. Among the latter was Col. Parke Avery, then living in the old house. Very soon a long line of wagons came over the hill, bearing the wounded to be nursed back to health by the patriotic women of the homestead. It was in 1783 that the first wall paper made its appearance, and years after that before the white and sanded floors were made ac quainted with carpet. The old boose recently tad a very narrow escape from destruc tion, for the new line of the Con solidated Railroad, building to connect with the new bridge across the Thames, passed within a few feet of its western gable, and, had not the engineers deflected their line a trifle, would have passed through it. But the railroad caused its end finally. The aucient records of Grotou, which were saved in two safes, are interesting, but not so much so as the story of the man who in dited them. This first Town Clerk was John Davie, who graduated at Harvard in lGSl. His writing in the town books is in a firm, clear, clerkly hand, and the ink has faded but little daring the nearly two hundred years it has been spread upon the page. Soon after his graduation he married a Hartford woman, daughter of John Richards and sister to Gov. Sal- InraUda' Hotel and Surgical Inst Unto. The widely, celebrated institution, located at puflalo, N. Y., is organized with a full staff of eighteen experi enced and skillful Physicians and Sur eeons, constituting the most complete organization of medical and surgical skill in America, for the treatment of all chronic diseases, whether requiring medical or surgical means for their cure. Marvelous success has been achieved in the cure of all nasal, throat and lung diseases, liver and kidney dis eases, diseases of the digestive organs, bladder diseases, diseases peculiar to women, blood-taints and skin diseases, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous debili ty, paralysis, epilepsy (fits), and kind red affections. Thousands are cured at their homes through correspondence. The cure of the worst ruptures, pile tumors, varicocele, hydrocele and strictures is guaranteed, with only a short residence at the institution. Send 10 cents in. stamps for the Invalids' Guide-Book (168 pages), which gives all particulars Address, World 's Dispen sary Medical Association, Buffalo, New York. The cat's eye is supposed to be particularly lucky to tuosv born in the month of Jane, the ruby for July, the sapphire for Septemler and the opal for October. The topaz is November's stone aud the turquoise December's. The pearl belongs to February and diamonds to April. When moving into our present home I found a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm left by a former tenant. On the label I found the statement that it was good for cuts and burns. I can testify to the truth of this. Nothing in all my experience has found its equal for treating blisters or burns. F. R. Bar rett, manager Le Sueur Sentinel, Le Sueur, Minn. Pain Balm is also a sure cure for rheumatism. For sale by T. L. Hemphill, Druggist. The largest aud most famons ruby in the world forms part of the Imperial State Crowu made for Queen Victoria in 1838. It is believed that this ruby was worn in front of the helmet of Henry V. at Agincourt. Take it as you get it, in liquid or powder form, only see that you get Simmons Liver Regulator. It cures Sick Headache, Biliousness and Consti pation. You need not make a tea of it. A spoonful of the liquid, or a pinch of the powder, before going to bed will insure refreshing sleep, and the next morning you feel as though you had a new lease on life. Sample powder, 25 cents. to make room for a larger one. He took Vt to- pieces, transported it across! the Thames, and set it np agaiu as an addition to his house, forming, that which became the southern portion. The great room he left just as -it had been, and held public services in it every Sabbath during 'the remainder of bis life. .;It was, thus nsed for 200 years. . From time to time additions were made to the bouse, nntil it became one of the best specimens of colonial architecture extant. It wa$ ballasted by two heavy stone chimneys its frame was of white baki heavy enough to furn ish six iHodern houses ; its roof was high and steep, and the upper Rtory projected over the lower, as in the block bouses of colonian Indiair warfare. .The ceiliugs of the parlor were low, and in the centre was a huge beam, white washed and' still bearing 'the marks, or the; hewer's broadaxe. The Kills -wefe placed above the planksuf Jtbe floor instead of under them. I : r 1 Town j' Clerk - James D. Avery lived io; the Louse at the time it was bijrned, and kept the records in two iron. safes in the parlor. He is familiar with much of its his tory. Atiibe grand funeral of the original Avery, in 1631, gallons of wine and barrels of cider were druuk,' and. hundred weights of sugar, glomes, and gold rings were furnished; the pall bearers, and white "kill gloves the attending ministers.; In-1718 tea was brought over ffoirV the settlement at New London ail d passed from hand to hand ns'the family and a few neighbors' sat around the capa cious fi-rr place. Mme. Avery was skilled in;nll. manner of cooking, but she admitted that she knew uot how-to piepare this bitter herb "for the .table. At last the council decided that it should be cooked and j served with boiled pork as -gTeeus, but there were many I wiy : faces when the dish came lo be eaten. At last they learned to steep it as they did their bbneset &nd other medicinal herbsrnd to disguise it with milk and sugar, but -it was months be fore the family came lo enjoy the strange beverage. Two years later they had their first eight" of wheat flour, rye and Indian corn: having been before that the staple breadstuff's. Then in 173J.fr horse was driven op to the lawn, hitched to a wagon. Beforfc that the only way of travel ing had. bees on horseback, the lady sitting 'behind her cavalier on a pillion with ber arm about his waist. A-little later in 1733 tonstall's wife, and settled down to the life of a farmer on Poquon- nock plains. Six children were born to him, as he recorded in the town register. Oue day be was hoeing corn on the plaius iu com pany with John Paccer, a neigh bor, both men iu horoepun and barefooted, with their sleeves rolled np to their elbows and tbeir trousers up to their knees, when a stranger clad iu the latest London fashion appeared and asked the official if he was John Davie. "Yes,n was the reply. "Then I salute yon, Sir John Davie of C reedy Court, Devon," said the stranger. Tradition says that the new bar onet finished the row he was hoe ing on a wager with his fellow worker, then accompanied his vis itor to the homestead, treated him to cake and wine, and learned the whole story. His node. Sir John Davie, bart had died without male issue, leaving him sole beir. John Davie never forgot his na tive land and was one of the early benefactors of 1 ale College. CONSIDERABLY SHAKE! CP. A Herald Correspondent's Kanorteneo la the Railroad Wreck Kenr Mod Cat. Cor. of The VI org aa ton Herald. ' Rutherford Collxqe, N. C, August 14, 1894. I bave just re turned from a lecturing tour in east Tennessee, where I bad the pleasure of attending the dedica tion of a fine Methodist Chnrch, and listening to two excellent sermons preached by Bishop Dun can, of South Carolina. On the way over the Blue Ridge last Thursday, I, with a large number of passengers, was con siderably shaken op by a wreck that occurred near the Mud Cot. The train was being drawn by two engines, both in front. 'At a short curve in a cut, the front engine, for some unknown reason, jumped the track to the left, turning on its left side, and running into the bank, throwing the tender upside down upon the right of the track. The npset engine and broken tender formed an impassable bar. rier to the rear engine which came against the pile of debt is of iron and wood with such a crash and sudden stopping that sent men and women off tbeir seats, while children tumbled over the backs of seats like cats leaping over piles of wood after mice. Many persons, especially nervons ladies, were mnch affrighted. Providen tially, no one was badly hurt. The shock was the greatest your cor respondent ever experienced upon a train. We were detained upon the spot till near dark before a transfer could be effected. It was 2 a. m. before I reached my objective point; aud I wns then compelled to sit upon the depot platform till daylight, with no companions ex cept some cats that were playing "hide and seek" arouud the bnild- iug. The streaks of morning shooting up the eastern skies, were never more heartily greeted by any mortal, sod the more so because I had taken no refresh ment from 10 a. m. the previous day. . Better crops have never been grown in eastern Tennessee. I saw some fields of corn which, it was said, would yield from 75 to 100 bushels to the acre. A. UCatY OfcUIUl WUItU tIBIICU the country from Kuoxville to Newport ou Sunday Light, did some injury to the crops. The prostrate corn may still reach an upright position before growth is matured. The college has opened well. additions of students. A History ad 1st Family of AlWet Cor- awnlng. Cor. of Tnc Morgnnton Herald. Albert Corpening was born March 16th, 1717, in Yoatnpts iu Germauy in the Netherlands in Europe, and came to Pennsylvania befrire the Revolutionary war. Barbary Propts was born Feb ruary 1st, 1751, in the Province of Pennsylvania In Lynn township, North llsmptou connty. Albert Coqiening and Barbary Tropts mere married June 23rd, 1774; they c me to Lincoln coor ty in 1775. As they ornie to ". C they were snow bound in Virginia about forty dys and dating that time tbry stayed with a farmer, snd Coriening threshed wheat at one shilling and board per day. His wife helped the farmer's wife for ber board. It is said that there was another man that came with them. He said be would not work at one shilling per day, but rather pay that amount for board, yon see the one made 3, the oth er spent t5. Albert Corpening's children were born a follows: John Cor pening was born in Lincoln conn ty, April 3rd, 1775. Elizabeth Mason, now Corpening, was born in Burke county, June ISth, 1783. John Cor)eoing and Elizabeth Mason were married about the year 1802. I will give the names of Albert Corpening's children aod who they married : 1st, John mar ried E. Mason; 2nd, Polly married Jacob Forney ; 3rd, Abraham mar ried Letty Eales; 4th, Catherine married George Butnmy; 5th, Elizabeth married John Shu ford; 6th, Jacob married Elizabeth Wbitener; 7th, George married Polly Estes; 81b, David married Mary Perkins. John Coreniiig bad 9 children, seven lived to be grown, two died very young, roily rurney bad ten children, all lived to be grown, Abraham bad niue children, all lived to be grown. Catherine had nine children, all lived to 1 grown. Elizabeth had seven chil dren, all lived to be grown. Jacob had twelve children, all lived to be grown. George bad ten chil dren, all lived to be grown. David had eight children, all lived to be grown. A list of names aod agesof John Corpening's children : lt, Joseph Corpening was born May 22nd, 1809 ; 2nd, Susan Corpening was born April 7th, 1&12; 3rd, Anna Corpening was born January 9th, 1815; 4th, A. J. Corpening was born February 7th, 1313; 5tb. Re becca Corpening was born March 12th, 1821 ; C;b, Lucicda Corpen ing was born September 21st, 1823; 7tb, John E. Corpening was born April 2Stb, 1S2G. give you the names of all Corpening's grand children is too extensive. There great many children. They come down to the fifth generation. Albert Corpening died October 30th, 1827. Ills wife died not far from the same time. Albert Corpening moved to Burke county prior to 1780 accord ing to a deed made to him and settled on the northwest side of Lower Creek near where Joseph Corpening lived. Sometime after be moved to the southeast side of the creek. There is a bouse stand ing there now that he built aod is used whenever necessary and John Corpening built an addition to it in 1820, according to date on house. ' The land that Albert Cor pening owned was granted by Earl Granville under King George the second to Phillip Kerns the 8th day of January 1761. then con veyed to Com ad Mitchell in 1762, then conveyed by Mitchell to John Conrad Kerns in 1774. then con veyed to Christopher Beckman in 1780. then conveyed to Albert Corpening in 17S0, then conveyed to John Corpening in 1803. About that time Albert Corpening booght land from Gen. Joseph McDowell on John's River in Burke county and move there and lived and died there and was buried there with his wife not far from the boose. So fat as I know every oue that has kept tue name 01 Corpening are farmers- To this day they never aspired to any office. Some few of them have been Magistrate., David Corpen ing -rep resented Burke in the Leg islature about the year 1S30. 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