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Dixon's Meetings at Shelby Craton Gettys Found Guilty of Harder in the Second Degree Fire at Belmont Hills. Cleveland Star, April 23d. . Ex-Deputy Sheriff Biggerstaff was put in jail Tuesday evening charged mh disposing of mort gaged property An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Wil liams, of Fallston, died Monda. . . . . Llenrietta now has a part in two papers. The Forest City and Llenrietta News aud the Twin City Enterprise, the latter issued joiutly trom illeuboro aud Meuiietia. s . . The O. R. & C. excursiorrtjronght about 75 passengers to bear the Rev. A. C. Dixon, of Brooklyn, preach here last Sunday. People came from all the adjoining towns. ... In burning off uew grouuds, the -woods' caught fire Monday night about 4 miles east of Shelby and made a tremendous blaze. A erreat deal of wood was burned. ....Mrs. W. W, McFarland, who recently lost her house by fire, has compromised with the insurance company for $G00. It was insured for $1,000 aud the company refused to pay it upon the ground that it was over-insured. ....Belmont Cotton Mills had a close call Sat urday morning. Fire was discov ered in the picker's room aud some of the oparatives became panic stricken aud ran out of the build ing, aud had it not been that Mr A. C. Miller, the owner of the mills happened to be present, the facto rv would doubtless have been burned up, for, as it was, it was verv narrow escape. Four bales of cotton were damaged. The loss was about $40.00. ....Monday was the day set for the trial o Craton Gettys for killing Phillip Baker, at J. J. Jones' distillery in No. 1 township last year. The special venire of 75 men was sum moned aud they all were preset Monday. The regular jury list was gone through with and all but three men out of the 75, were called, before a jury was selected. They began takiug testimony Mon day afternoon ami completed it Tuesday morning. Tuejury agreed Wednesday moruiug at 10 o'clock. Court convened and they rendered their verdict: "Guilty of murder in the second degree." The verdict was no surprise to the public, or to those who heard the evidence. Gettys has not yet been sentenced. ....Many evangelists and emi nent divines have visited Shelby, the beautirul 4,City of .Springs," iu bygone days, aud many have preached aud labored within her borders, but few men of such great ability, and such unselfish devo tion and full consecration to tne work of the Master, like Rev. A. C. Dixon, have ever ministered to the people. Quite a number of sin ners confessed Christ, many back sliders were reclaimed aud all Christians were greatly benefited and strengthed by attending the meetings. Large crowds gathered at each service, but Suuday was the crowning day of all. The ser vices were held in the court house squareuand the crowds were simply immense; all during the week the sermons, like the crowds, were great, and Sunday the sermons, again like the ciowds, were great est. Rev. II C. Marley officiated. Quite a crowd of Lenoir bikers rode out on their wheels to witness the ceremony The bicycle craze predicted in the1 winter has at last struck the town in dead earnest. The experts, who have learned the art, ride with wonderful ease and swiftness and cut many beautiful curves on the public square. But the younger members wiggle about a good deal and make many un graceful angles and awkward movements. Mr. Hailr occasion ally falls all over his wheel and tears his clothing. Hon. W. C. Newland, in order to prevent acci dents, rides with both feet ou the grouud. The girl clad in bloomers has so far failed to put iu her appearance. and is the result of bnyipg North ern seed It is reported here that last Saturday a week ago, a Mr. IIildebrand,of Burke, in going from here weut by Coek s distillery and between there and home lost his wagon and the gears off one horse and never found it out till next morning. He was seen late Saturday evening bunting lor them. LARGE SHIPMENTS OF SWEET POTATOES. A HORRIBLE CRIME. Wants to Build a Hotel Revenne Officers Make a Raid lit Folk A Boy Probably Abducted Narrow Escape From Death Forest Fires. Rutherfordton Democrat, April 24th. There is a big scandal iu CORN CRM mm REST. He Wis Born Wanting Rest, and He Still Wants It CUPID AN ECCENTRIC FELLOW. Flour, Meal, Bacon, Hams, Lard, Sugar, Coffee, Rice, Molasses, Kerosene Oil, Canned Goods, Cheese and Crackers, Cakes and Candies, Fruits, etc., and Andrew Torrence, Aged 20, and Catber. ine Setzer, Aged 70, Married in Cald well The Bycicle Crase Has Struck Le noir Other Caldwell News. Lenoir Topic. April 22d Rev. T. A. Boone is conducting x nrnfranted meetiuz at the Meth rni-'YTRY . pnnmir.P odist church wheat i iook- ' " 'Hill X II J U VJ Vii I. , . ..orww, lUg UI1C HUU tllC pi J--1 iVy I, -GO TO- T. L HEMPHILL (One Door Below Postoffice.) ?:o:- I have also recently added a line of ::S HOE For both Ladies and Gen tlemen, and am selling them as low as anv one. -:o: will appreciate a share of your Patronage, and promise full value tor your money. Respectfully, T- L. HEMPHILL Mortgage Sale. 1 V .- . ! 'rtne ?' oower of sale contained in G.-Trr;.,. rn trust deed executed bv Ida E. vin f,n , ,'!' ohn w- Garrison to W. C. Er anH?"H'.el6.th day of September. 1895. Iitf... r, - ..ref! ln the office of the Register of No 2 r,., -LKe co"ity, N. C, in Book B, ancti,' a,;i.a et. seq., I will sell at public the t " Cr?nt of e Court House door in April iiVth i . rsrant?n N- CV on Monday, the f,ii,' - "-- ":u me legal nours ot sale, l:.ri "W"1K described tract or nnrrrl nt conntV v VJ th,e town of Morganton, Burke Hcifir,;,;,, ?escribed as follows, to-wit: Surin,, K.atthrinterectionr Erwin and fctt t,. . . ,ets and mns south 50 east 206 f... . .i k e. thenoi nnrfri Rno nrMr orhA 0- e.,,7 , ,,n trwin street, thence north Portion VrT I to the beginning, being T. B ' 1 14- and 1 15 and conveyed b? xwlin Jc'-k.to,Mattle Ferree now Mattie ,n the ti-.v, by reason of default "ecun-A .' I,cnl ?'. tbe principal and 0t. t,," P,a ?y the terma of said trust aay of Alarch, 1896. interest Dated this the for a good crop is splendid all over the county. ....Travel to Blowing Rock has already begun. Mr. Ab prriethv Rent ud two loads of visi tors last week. ....Married, in Lower Creek township, on the 16th iust., Mr. William Earnest to Miss Mary Day, by Rev. I. W. Thomas. ....The attorneys for the defense i"n the Franklin case are making efforts to get a hearing before the Supreme court at its present Fes sion Died, near Hartlaud, on Friday night of last week, Mr. Davis Barber, aged 7o yers. lie was buried Sunday inorumgat tne Shell erave vard. ... .Clerk of ihe Court McCaii, ceieunteu nis thirty-third birthday last batur day. His mother, brothers, sisters and near neiguoors iook dinner with him ou that occasion On Thursday night of last Mr. Henry Smith died at uis Dome in Little River township, aged 28 years. ....Capt.and Mrs. John sou left last week for a visit to the Captain's father and mother; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Johnson, at Rutherford College. On Monday mnminff Mr. and Mrs. B. G. John son and little son, Mastejr Roy, ac-1 companied by Prof. Creveling and Miss Florence Johnson also left for same place. Prof. Creveling will take a photograph of the family group, which represents four gen erations, to-wit: The Captain, bis father and son, B.G., and his son, Roy. ....Cupid is an eccentric fellow, and sometimes briugs about rather strange and unexpected events. Among the latest is the marriage of Mr. Andrew F. -Tor-. ; rence, agea years, uu mis. Catherine Setzer, aged 70. This wedding, remarkable only lor the disparity in the ages of j the con- trdRtinsr narties. took Diace last the Brittain section. It is snid that the pretty 18 year-old daughter of a well-known citizen of that sec tion recently gave birth to an ille gitimate child, the paternity of which she ascribed to her father. The child disappeaied immediate ly after birth aud it was given out that it had been born dead. There is mnch talk, aud it is thought by many that a legal investigation should be- had. ....Mr. F. A. Chevalier, the famous hotelist of Columbus, was here this week looking for a site npon which to erect a hue hotel building. Mr. Chevalier would bring a crowd of both summer and wiuter board ers with him. The town needs a good hotel building and is losiug money by not having one Revenne raider J. L. Butler with Deputy Marshal Butler made a raid into the Green River section of Polk county Saturday and cap tured a copper still and destroyed 1,000 gallons of beer. They had a lively race after the moonshiuers, but they succeeded in making their escape Fletcher Big- gerstaff, the 9 year old son of Mrs. Amanda Biggerstaff, living nt ar Erwiu school house, disappeared from home on Monday of last week. His mother called Saturday in great distress aud asked the Iemo crat to advertise for him. She thinks he has been abducted. ... Daniel Pool, a prominent citizen of upper Cleveland, was tried last week on a charge of incest and sentenced to five years, the limit of the law, in the penitentiary. His daughter charged him with being the father of her child Dr. E. W. Howey, the well known dentist, had a uarrow escape from a horrible death Sunday night. He retired to his room in rear of Harrill Brothers' store rather late. He awoke about 12 o'clock to find his bed in flames. The beddiug and the bedstead were blazing fiercely and in a few moments he would have burned to death. He threw the burning beddiug out of a win dow and extinguished the fire that was destroying the bedstead. How the fire originated Dr. Howeydoes not know, unless he absent mend edly dropped to sleep while smok ing a cigarette Some negroes living in the vicinity of Union Mills went off to church Saturday leaving log heaps in a new ground they were clearing, burning, aud pretty soon there was the fiercest forest fire that was ever seen in that section. Round Hill church and the town of Union Mills barely escaped destruction. Immense damage was done to timber and fencing Mrs. Collins, wife of Russell Collins, died at her home near Garnet last Saturday, aged nearly 70 years, and was laid to rest iu the family burial ground Sunday. She leaves a husbaud and eight sous and daughters, who have our sympathy Mrs. Didama Henson, widow of Dr. B. F. Uenson, will celebrate her 99th birthday on June 24th. Mrs. Hen- son lives in Sulphur Springs town ship and is in good health. 5,500 Bushels Shipped from Illckery Since April 1st Barn, Horses aad Grain Barned Closlnff Exercises of Clare mont College. j Hickory Press. April 23rd. ' Messrs. Street & Smith, of New York, write Mr. Hale that Us translation of "Belle-Rose" his reached a sale of over 4,000 np to date One of our merchants luforms ns that since April lit there has been shipped from Hick ory 5,500 bushels of -weet potatoes by different parties. ....Col. G. X. Folk, a prominent and aged lawyer of Caldwell county pased through the city last week ou his way to Salisbury to visit his nephew, Mr. J. B. Council Mr. Gabriel Caldwell, a former citizen of Hickory, now residing at Troutman's, Irwdell couuty, lost his barn, horses and grain by fire Suuday morning. No insurance. ....Cards have been issued an nouncing the marriage of Mr. R. L. Fritz to Miss Ora Uuitt. The ceremony will be performed at St. James church near Newton on the 25th ol April Rev. J. L. Murphy informs us- that Mr. Will H. Ramsour, the great excursion ist, and who is uow with his fam ily in the State of Washington, will be here in July to run bis annual excursion from the moun tains to Wilmington The closing exercises of the preseut term of Claremont College began last Sunday night with the annual sermon before the school in the Re foimed Church by the Rev. G. A. Mpuroe, of Lenoir. The church was literally packed with people. The services were introduced with a duett, "Sweet Hour of Prayer," sang by Mrs. Murphy aud Miss Ramsour. Mr. Monroe selected as his subject "Mary, the Sister of Lazarus," drawing many valuable lessons from this beautiful charac ter. Wednesday nigt the piimary school gave au eutertuiument and on Thursday night the commence ment exercises closed with an en tertainment given by the ladies of the college. . THE DOCTOR OF "FEENANCE." Corn Cracker WaaU to Kaow If the Gam Laws of the State, or tbe Statute Against Craelty to Animals. Protect This Unnecessary Evil A Visit to Cleve land Court. his joints are wrenched in Shirk ol Rutherford political com- j lodes was that of :kets, and he Hfteth up his bine, with Little Wooden Indian I teamster and achlef young STATE NEWS. THE HICKORY INN CLOSED. Potato Bogs Are Numerous in Catawba A Burke Man Loses His Wagon and the Gears Off His Horse He "Passed By" Cook's Distillery "on His Way Home From Hlekory. Hickory Mercury. April 22d. Mrs. M. E. Thornton left yester day for au extended trip to Ken tucky Mrs. Carrie Gamble has become the local editor of the Newton Enterprise, for the Hickory department Dr. J. T. John sou bought the Ellis house on the new Methodist church lot Satur day at public auction, paying only 22. He is moving it to a vacant lot of his aud will so'on have it re built into a uice dwelling We understand that Mr. Thomas M. Hufham, ol this city, has been In vited to deliver the literary ad dress ot the commencement exer cises of Moravian Falls academy on May the 7th We are pained to har of the death of Mr. B. H. Gordon, which occurred at Goldsboro had a 25,000 fire on April 17th. The Herald learns upon good authority that Salisbury isto have a $50,000 hotel. Vice President and Mrs. Steven son and their daughter will attend the University commencement. City Clerk Rice, of Wilmington, was, on last Wednesday, deposed because he worked against Rus sell. On last Wednesday, fire des troyed the Congehewen saw mill, at Scotland Neck. The loss is 15,000; no insurance. Fire destroyed the store and stock of goods of S. Alpine & Co., ofKiuston, before daybreak last Wednesday morning. Loss, 20, 000; insurance, 1,500. The Concord Timet has exam ined its Democratic State ex changes for one week and finds 24 for free silver, 20 for sound mouey, and a number undecided. The machine shops of the Sea board Air Line, at Raleigh, were burned last Wednesday morning, causing a loss ol 00,000. The shops were insured for 50,000. The Republican Congressional convention met at Maxton last Wednesday and uominated Sheriff Smith, ol Richmond couuty, for Congress, and endorsed Dockery for Governor. The Charlotte Observer says the 1G year-old daughter of Mr. John Nance, who works at the Cornelius cotton mills, was burned to death one day last week by the explo sion of a lamp, which sue was car ryiug from oue room to auother. ' The Nort h WilkesborrJ Xetcs says that Wm. Triplett Ferguson, an old citizen who lived on Stony Fork, WT ilkes county, fell fioui a rock cliff iuto the creek on Tues day evening of last week and was fouud dead there next morning by searches for him. - The Mt. Airy Xeics is informed that George Tucker, coloied, who is 9G years old, is the father of G3 livinc children aud has nearly 500 grandchildren, great grandchil dren, etc. The old mau is still spry and says he can spilt uu chestuut rails in a day. Bob Chambers, a negro preach er, was lied to a tree and shot to death by a mob at Cianberry, N. C, last Wednesday night. He had attempted to chloroform and rape Mrs. Wilsou. In order to get the his home iu Mecklenburg last Sun- people away from the house so as Ave W. C. ERVIN. Trustee. dav. He has many friends here. .....Miss Ora Huffman, daughter of Postmaster W. P. Huffman, is now assistant postmaster in the Hickory office We are sorry to say the Hickory Inn closed yes terday until June at least, in jus tice to Mr. Loughrau, will say he has done much since he came among us to keep up Hickory, aud we hope he will continue to remain here aud can arrange to make it profitable to continue the Inn. . . . .The potato bugs are very nu merous. As soon as a potato sprout gets out, four or five jump it right dow. witnout mucu pains in some seotions, to present a favorable opportunity, Chambers fired the baru. A pistol, a large kuife aud a bottle of chlo roform were found in the room. He confessed the crime. and expense Thursday evening, ou the Mulber- there will be no potatoes.. .i r, nr a nofin'a I rv thev come with the p Some potatoes The Charlotte Observer will cele brate May 20th, the anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, by issuing a wo man's edition. The special num ber will contain twenty pages, brimful of interesting articles on various subjects, and five thousand copies will be printed. Miss Ma mie Bays is ednor-in-cniei ana MissSallie Whisaut business man ager. Subscribe for The Herald. Only $i.oo a year.' Special Correspondence of The Herald. With no plan in view to save the State, no private grief to ventilate, and no startling discovery, scien tific or otherwise, this writer makes his bow to the reading public to report things as they appear to an obscure. looker-on in Venice. In the first place, spring am here, gentle Annie? and the temperature is painfully io . evidence. The horny banded son ot toil breaketh the stubborn glibe, and as he pulls the hemp cord over a lineai de scendant of Balaam's ancient "bike,' their sockets m . e voice and swearetn copiously. Thn he that getteth out the news and sitteth on the tripod, and who kngweth not an artichoke from an Itatan beehive, writeth and saith it Is naught, for verily too much cotton reduceth the price to 5 cts., and behold Sunny Southland is betveen the devil and the deep blue sea. Then the spring poet riseth up with a sonnet of lour score verses, and taketh the same to a man who rides the tripod and wielieth the scissors and the quiIL Then the editor riseth up as one man, getteth his son-of-a-gun and blowtth out the place where the alleged brains of the poet ought to be. and all the people say "Amen." Then ihe coroner taketh to him self a jury as wise looking, but as obtuse as himself. The same con fer together, return a verdict that deceased came to his death by the lawful visitation of God, and again the people say " Amen." Ere the smoke of battle has cleared away the doctor of finance has struck an attitude. He revels not in book lore, but has read some pamphlet on "fetnance." He sounds the loud timbrel over Egypt's dark waters, and marvels that his theory is not so plain that any man, though an eighteen carat fool, need err therein. Generally, how ever, his pocket-book, like the face of Cassias, hath a lean and hungry look, and the elbows of his pants have a thread-bare appearance, showing that he has given the sub ject such earnest thought that it shors near his hip pocaet. Do the game laws of this State, or the statute against cruelty to animals, protect this unnecessary, evil? Should he not die as the fool dieth, and his house be turned into a desolation? Should not the people be allowed to hear something else except an external, internal and eternal din about "gold-bugs," "free silver," besotted tyrants, " Wall meet," ad nauseam ? This writer wants rest. He was born wantinz rest, and he still wants it. Some say he regards it as the pearl of greatest pi ice, but he feels he has sought rest and found it not. He was not alto gether responsible for his exist ence, and has been for thirty-eight summers seeking resu He has been enjoined to take Solomon's advice and go to the ant. lie has consulted the ant on various occa sions in about ten States. He has considered her ways, but yet lacks the wisdom of the serpent or the doctor of finance. He fir.ned in his youth, but heard so much about .hard times and hard work that, like the min ute men of '76, he left the plow. Being told by some who had never tried it that school teaching was a roval road to wealth, honor and distinction, he dropped his dollar in the slot, look a "surtifikit," and entered the pedagogic arena. He found that in Kentucky, as every where else, a teacher had to have a constitution like boarding house butter, and be all things to all a a 1 . J - men. At so, mat education was not regulated by supply aod de mand ; that the less education a community had, the less it wanted, and a tyro had to take what he could get and be reviled for not working from morn till noon and from noon till dewy eve. His edu cational helps were harness tugs and barrel staves, and the injunc tion of his patrons was cry aloud and spare not. He held down his job six months by his Waterbury watch, and found no soft snap. He fought eighteen heads of fam ilies, licked sixty-five students, broke vicious mules on Saturdays, ard on Sundays he fished. In all his tribulations the gaping rustics of that martial Commonwealth said he toiled not, neither did he spin, and was allowed to raid the treasury. His face looked like an animated war map, and he had a raging thirst for red liquor. More over, he blasphemed lik? some of Capt. Kidd's staff, "When the laws of God they did forbid. He found that all he had realized out of the wreck was experience, but like Noah's dove he failed to find rest. Later, he checked his baggage ta the OH North State, ease. Like the solemn voice of unrelenting fate, were heard "There is no excellence without great labor," and whoso would fill his coffers or cover himself with a mantle of unfading glory, must get a Waterbury move on himself. We have been a teacher, a store missionary, an Isbmaelile that sold clock, and a mounted scribe that rideth in the highways and hedges hunting the lost sheep of the Dem ocratic house of Israel, but to this good day we have failed to solve the financial problem. We have concluded it should be a misde meanor for every cross-roads poli tician to agitate the question, aod the press that koows too much about it should be likewise muzzled. In our goodness of heart we hooked our hoss Buck a-fee lus to a Jamescrow war chariot to see the G. O. P. factions, wittour friends, worry and devour each other. It was announced that the Plumed Knight of Raleigh, the Shelby Sultan, together with the Sorrel of the last Legislature, were to unhorse the Dark Duke of Forest City." The clansmen rallied and Little Wooden Indian shed his war bonnett, stood on his hind feet aod howled like the red Nu- midian lion. He spread his smok ing coat-tail in the aisle of the court house and offered a steady salary to any who would step thereon. He gloried in the Pop. idea of "feenance" and worked himself into an ecstacy be cause the "Legislater" had en acted a law that Judas Iscariot or John A. Murrell would find impossible inviolate. He believes that under the benigt laws enact ed by said "Legislater" "God reigns and the Government lives." Next an ex-magistrate, ex parson, ex-S. S. Sup't, and a product of Rutherford county rose and thanked God that his party (Re publican) had given such whole some laws, such stable currency and such prosperity. The Plumed Knight of the City of Oaks then and thereupon rose and bewailed that a depreciated currency was responsible for the present strin gency. The Son of Ham was nu merous and as usual "the colored troops fought nobly." To a looker on in Veoice it seemed rather amusing to see the Dark Duke so discomfited when he was not in their deliberations. It reminded us of the Irishman who walked "bouldly up to wan of the inemy in a battle and cut off one ot his feet." When asked why he didn't cut off his head, he replied: "An faith that was already off." The fusion contingent have declared for two years that the Dark Duke, "Like Ccttr dead and tamed to day Mixht stop a hole to bear the wlad away." He seems to be rather a lively corpse, and all can remember when the behest of the Dark Duke was like the stamp of Olympian Jove. The Democrats are hopeful and swear there are yet seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal or kissed his image. if suits of clothes were worth a cent apiece, could not advance money for the arm-bole of a vest, that waoted to bet a five-dollar bat on the Democrats oot electio carry office in the State." The men who were so wildly anxious to do all this, were wearing last year's straw hats, and their lineo looked as if their "other shirt" had been lost in a bet on the last electioo. The Shelby "boneyard" was filled with saviors of the State and doctors of "feenaoce." Every man was telling his fellow that "Old Wall Street bad the coue try by the throat, and a great crisis was pending. One very fero cious statesman who bad a wabble io his gait, and a very uncertain look io his eve. swore if he ever laid eyes on "Old Wall Street," he'd kill him. From their crow, bait horses aod trappings of the same, together with the habili ments of the riders, we thought that in their cases the crisis bad arrived. Among the amusiocr epi- a mountain efiain of a his toric clan of Polkville. The untu tored son of the forest bad a load of apples, to which was bitched a yoke of steers, or, as they say in Polkville, "horned bosses." As the weather is pretty hot, ice-cold lemonade at one cent a glass is in demand. A future colored politi cian was announcing to all aod sundry the great commercial fact that he was selliog ice-cold lemoo ade at very patriotic, but panic prices. The forester looked as if his brain were grappling with some very complicated and myste rioos problem. Finally he was heard to soliloquize: "Lemon ade lemonade; yes, that's the word." Taking hold of his fore top, tilting back his head, and squirtiog a cataract of tobacco juice over his red whiskers, he bawled out: "See here, boss! That ar stuff what you call lem onade what is it good fur? Is it sometbin' good to drink like Vim roon beer and sasafack tea, or is it somethio' to kyore cows of the holler born, or chaps of the each?" On the solemn assurance of the colored lemonade butcher that it was good to the taste, and be could furnish men who bad imbibed more than one glass without fatal results, the man from the wilder ness blurted out : " Well, ef I bad any money I'd trvooe glass. dam fi didn't." The Polkville chieftain felt the cockles of his heart warm with benevolence, dropped a "brownie" io the slot, aod told the dweller io the groves to take a glass. , The forester looked at it, smelt of it, aod then, quicker than the nimble fingered cup and ball man gets in bis work, it disap peared from the eyes of raeo. When be found bis voice he was like ibe woman of Samaria and longed to scatter the good news. "Podner," be said, "by gum that jest oacberly lays it over 'simmoa POVDER Absolutely Pure. A rrtraat of IstvartttTrffif frAr. l!rt' U -! rrK-k. ltr tnt TaOovBsrT I l ir. Uojal flaking I'cwdrr Co., ! Wall l . T. Tl-IIi ASHEYILLE MlMttG fO. lUI'f JltKUS IU K1ISS CF BUILDING MATERIAL, INCLUDING DOORS, SASH, BUNDS, MOULD ING, STAIR WORK, KAH TELS, ETC. :o: Public Buildings, Banks, School Houses J Stores A SPECIALTY. -:o: WE CO THE HIGHEST GRADE OF WORK AND ALSO LOWER GRADES TO SUIT CUSTOMERS. si:m - rim - i-ntimati:s. As this is the season when court convenes in Shely, N. C, it is a moving sight to witness the surg ing tide of humanity that here do congregate. On Monday, 13th instn we went down on the hurricane deck of our war chariot, and pulled the throt tle valve oo our charger, Buck-a- fee-lis. We were prepared to see a large crowd, but hardly expected to see so many drawn together of every age, sex and precious condi tion of servitude. In the first place, ao election contest has been 00 the docket for twelve months, in which claims of T. D. Lattimore, present Democratic incumbent as clerk of court, aod Prof. J. II. Quion, Populist contestant, have been excilingconsiderable inter est. Partisan feeling bas been high, and a verdict was expected from Judge Burwell, who was en gaged as a referee. Nothing short of a negro banging would have brought out such overwhelming numters from all ranks aod social conditions. Somehow thejrumor was circulated that His Honor Judge Bryan is a Pop., "non-par-tiiao," and of the pronounced corn-cob pipe-smoking and cotton stuffing type. They, therefore, expected to gloat over the sight of T. D. Lattimore in chaius, ban ished into exile, or, like Lucifer, thrown over the battlements of heaven, and Prof. Quion reveling in the honors and emoluments of "clurk of the cote." As a gorge ous background, "his honah" was to be smoking like a tarkiln, and his ears were to be padded with cotton so as to shut out the shrieks of the affrighted witch who had the temerity and gall insufferable to bold an office to which be had no claim but a majority of two votes against the peace and dignity of the holy combine. To their consternation. Judge Bryan is a vile Democrat, who maicialns the time-honored dignity of the North Carolina judiciary, while that arch Democrat, T. D. Lattimore, still discharges the duties of his office. To add insult to injury, the G. O. P. failed to burn incense under his nostrils or obey the mandates of Boss Butler. So the Anglo- We write policies on all c tt dirbl nks in lh f'.!loaicg tued ard compasiea : M.anoMn f ruvish; CO NT! N KV TA I. of New York ; PENNSYLVANIA of I-bUad.lrba. DULAWAllK VA. 11 RE AND JJAHINE of fckh rsood; HfXnANlCS AND THADH3' cf New Or Iran. AVi:itY x i:kvix. CATARRH 14 A LOCAL DISKASi: 4 tZMSim ja. lriilf-MTlT lfi. iiwj a k if uiW r.: rvirj rn . it s:- at and was engaged in selling Bibles at starvation prices. Unless it was sold to a bloated bondholder, it meant starvation to purchaser. Like wisdom, we lifted our voice in the chief places of concourse, but the heathen still continued to rage, and the people to imagine vain things. From where Cling man's Dome casts its majestic shadow beyond the rolling waters of Cape Fear aod Catawba rivers. we rode our ancient crow um charger, but found 00 place of Saxon lion and the African lamb no longer lie down together, and the trail of the serpent is in the political Eden. The Democratic Philistines are in the saddle, and even some of these sons of perdi tion are on the jury and grand jury. Sometimes a contingent of the holy combine is tried, con victed and sentenced just like a Democrat, aod truly it seems won ders are to never cease. Your writer was very much amused at some of our Pjpulist friends, who, mm woodworking to. B0X29S, ASHEYIUE, N. C. W. IS. ItlClI. Supcrlnfrndrtit. tack ZZ-im FIRE htr titodrlc tea r iwirh and I honey. I'vegol a son here named INSURANCE I Jefferson Jackson HezekUh Phi-1 m W A iflil lacter. He is 23 years old and has been married three years and bas two children. He owns a yoke of steers, four hounds, has got a banjo and can out dance a free nigger. He ain't got 00 education or book lam in', but believes be has got a f reach. Ef you'll mind them steers '11 fotch him here, aod ef you'll get him a glass of that whatyer- ca'.lit.' lemonade ?l U pay you soon as we sell out." The Polk ville man got before the "steers" and told him to bunt the embryo evaogelist. He soon fouod him aod said: " Philacter, here is what beats peach and boney, sassafack tea, or 'simmoo beer." Philacter unloaded his schooner, and then gazed at his glass with feeliogs net to be expressed. He was red headed, freckled io the face, aod one eye was gone. Io defending his rnniwr still m tnmA of hot f mm syK.. rsldcr bss .c,.,o,d ELY'S CBEAM HALM nis signi in one eye lorever. tears of gratitude rolled down one cheek as he silently filled a half-bushel measure aod mutely teodered them to bis Polkville beoefactor. He bad bravely faced death io the ravines as he battled with the blue coated mioioos of Uocle Sam, aod never had his check blaoched or his eye quailed. But while be wept out of ooe eye, it was the only one he bad, and it was the best he could do uoder the circum stances, he showed that while oot up to date io so-called polish, be bad two traits generally co existingstrong resentment and strong gratitude. The Polkville man failed to take his apples, tut feels he has got the worth of his money. Shelby, besides the eloquence cf the ba? this week, has also a prod igy in pulpit oratory. Rev. Oar ence Dixon, the classic scholar. the matchless orator, aod, withal. the consecrated minister is charm ing immense audiences with his impassioned eloquence. He has was uofadiog laurels io Brooklyn, the City of Churches, aod from far aod near they come to bear the story of the cross. Oo yesterday (Sunday) excursion traios came from Blacksburg aod Gaffoey, S. C; also from King's Mountain aod other points. The inspiration of the Bible, the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth, together with the proofs of immortality, were presented with singular power. Against the horrors of the second death, he showed a topless heaven, aod the heights of immortal glory. The Christian home was shown to be a vestibule of heaven, while in some dives aod slums of Bowery New York could be seen the ravages of the worm that dieth not aod the fire that is oot queoched. ts ar-vsv-lr4 t iv. rM Par Xtwltwuik t-Kt tail' 9 s.a lu, rf et sil fi sw.r. It ni s4 tw. ife s sal prUM'. .'-i-' -- .at It v. k-t IS- fv-. ljm u.W-)M trca C vm a mrimr f M .fee n. Tf V- - .1 It Sfaa't. Ct IUTU!j(sufltM..Vt 141L iter will IMP PI1 1,Y YOUR 11 AIAj 1 .11 !,h MAIL.. AT WIIOLKSALH IT.ICLl?. tew I Xew Mwrixi .". -. . m m mi r enafsfo; il srt at KXwf f. ti.l4p. W MithU r M.. l7VO fcrfw. it L IJkseal ! mmtm la ilaW a4 A MAIR balsam " I r I a -r f i -v ..-- -f I Kw to iu tMuftl C. v.' - sw-i O e. HIMDrRCOnMS. FOR SALE. One Hundred aad Thitty-One memt of timbered and mineral land in Borke county, ie4r Table Hock. It coutaian a fine grind tone quarry, almont inexhacKtiblr; xl specimen of gold; land ia!l heav ily timbered, ami two tbttd of the land when cleared e-n t culti vated. The timber aod lan bark on Ibe land will pay fr tt at the price aked. Will lake lumber. abinglea aod lath p.ymen will give noroe one a bargain. Title i-erfcct. I, L. rilOPST, Lumberman, Charlctttf, N.C. marchl2-2m t i r S. J. ERVIN, Attorary-at- MORGANTON, - Piatthts la an mrtn tsw roart. Coax Ckackxk. ctaJ simtws gtvra ta ail !. a- ta ij tW t.l aa as. Y & Silver. Attorneys, rv rOHU Ucar JUL viauv imwiu 1
The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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April 30, 1896, edition 1
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