Site ; ipf Vol. lit No. 13. TATLORSVILLE, ALEXANDER COUNTY,. N., CC THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1888 - $1 Per Tear, LOCAL DIRECTORY. CHURCHES. Preaching every second, and Ktb Sunday, at 11 a.m. and at night. Xver-meeting every , Wednesday Sunday school every Sunday at. jf b, A. C. Mcintosh superin- Methodist. Rev. T. J. Daiky, pastor. Preaching every third Sunday it 3 p. ..Ptcr.1?v. L- P. fJwftltner naj PA0' - - - J r ... Prftchin? everv fourth Sunday -30 v.m. Sunday School every Sun ftr t iu a.m. a huujuic, jujci intendent. - SOCIETY MEETINGS. L. F. & A. M. Lee Lodge No 253 Tfe'u the first Saturday of each month, at 1 o'clock p. ni. COUNTY OFFICERS. c,.riff. R. M. Sh:in. Clerk of Court. t t Mcintosh: R. of D. J. M. Oxford: ' Trpftf"rer u J' parson; Jonniy i ;om- missioiu-rs. J. B. Pool, W. R. Sloan, V TV' Teagne; A. C. Mclntosn A. P. Vrsh. W. W. Teague. Board of Edu ction; J. Hendren School Supe.rin tennVnt, Z. P. Deal. Coroner. CORPORATION OFFICERS. A. A. Hill. Mayor; W B. Mathewi, I a. Hedriek.. J. M. Malliesou, Cotn uUoihts; K. L. .-Hedriek, Town Cle-k. HE MAILS. Statt-svill - and Wilkeshoro, liily. Karter for eir nr i inese mans hmouiu fa in the ottV- h 9 p. m. Lenoir Leave Twsdiv Fridays at l.p. 'm.and arrivs Wednesdays an-1 Satur ':iys at S p. v. y,.Wf Kn-iv- T'i s''a v.. Thnrs lavanl 'in.- VtV8 it 12 in. and leaves nm, .... r.-v.w Wm lmsjav and ' S'uiv!n- m 12 iu. a:i 1 1 aves same lays : p. in B-i! :. A; iv s r.i-fdays and Sit hN l:4 i; . -n .'ave same- duvs !!ai;;;t . re :(iv-- r-iesdays anil J , j . i. iVd- jifsda" : i a-. a. n. .Rofi u I. :iv-. Frid-ys at 8 a. m. Wii:rv S;Uurday at 4 p. m. Brviw oitiitain Arrives Wlii- NaysanlSutn days at 12 m. and leaves aii'f ilny at p. in. MfcUNE. ..... ill YAWWmv k D.VXVil.LK U H r f St'TTH CAKtJI.VA TTVISION. ' i Vn d. lis. (I S-vdi;? i-: , fi.(.r ?an. 1 Traiittr nibu ' th Meri Ha.n l i'mc.1 f - - NnHTv f-'i..- Vn ni ; al v. I.vC! .til. -V .... ....... ft "1HI " Gntnu'v', . ' " Trnifoi:... ' 'hiiv'r.s; . ....... 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BURKE, ATTORNET-AT-I.AW. Having been granted license by the Supreme Court, I have located at Tay lorsville for the PRACTICE OF LAW. and bespeak a share of the public pat ronage. I will attead the Courts of ad joining counties. IViTOOSE BROS., TAYLORSVILLE, N. CM CONTRATORS AND BUILDERS. CONTRACTS FOR FINE HOUSES A SPECIALTY. Will furnish plans and estimates fre on work entrusted to us. All work war ranted first-class in qualit' and finish. "gVTING SALOON. I hav estahli-hed an EATING SA LOON in the Lowe House, near the l',., Hi.rreri n .church". audbipVak a lil- ei-. l hare of pnhlie patronage. Meils furnished at any hour at 20c. .Lunches and Snacks at reasonable prices. Also, keep Candies, Oroceres, Ac. W. E. RE ID. Prn'r. gPKCIAI, niE railoa: is here. HIE NEW YEAR IS HERE. EVERYTHING' IS PLENTY. I' voa 've me an nv-r-due nte ir ie-":nt. plen 1 a. it anil ohlig- me. I ll'!t O'Mh'Ct Jar 1 2. 1888. a. c. Mcintosh. YJ-A iTi; ASSES. I . ;h :o inform the people of Alexan der. Iredell.. W ilk s, and other counties 1 La I have located at TAYLOR VILLE, and can now supply them with MA r I'RA -SES of Miiy size and kind desired at LOWER PRICE than they ran be "bought for el.-ewhere. J. D. MULLA'E. P. iEDRICK, UOiSE, SIGN AND ORNAMEN TAL PAINTER. I A) LOH V LI.E, N. C. PAPER HANGING A SPECIAL t Y. MATERIALS l URNlSUED. 8"Wrhe-;or t.mates. Hig:JauJ Btiggy Wagon tt;.rkd. Buggies, Wagons, Car riages and Hacks BUILT TO OBDER. WE ARE PREPARED TO DO any and all kinds of repairing, cither of buggies or wagons. A well usxnrfpri stock of rarriaire hardware, al wavs on hand. We guarantee prit s on any ana sii worK entrustea to v-. We iln first-class work, and ask a trh ' frrtm nil in need of an vthin? in our line. Our ghoiR are on the hiil above the de pot, where we can be found at any time. Hoping to have you call and see us, we are, xours respecnuiiy, HigU&ad Buggy and Wagn Works, Taylorsville, N. C. X. A. WOMBLB, Pbop'k. The Public Schools. . By S. M. Finger, Sup't of Public la- stmction. LOCAL TAXATION, AC. 1 Article 7 section 7 of oar Con stitation is as follows: "No county, city, town, or other mumicipal corporation shall con tract any debt, pledge its faith, or loan its credit, nor shall any tax be levied, or collected by any offi cers, of the same, except for the necessary expense thereof, unless by a vote of a major ty of quali fied voters therein." If, therefore, any county, city, town, or other municipal corpora- ion desires to increase its school unds by taxation, beyond the Constitutional limitation, it must ask for and secure from the Gen eral Assembly a special act sub mitting the question to the voters. A majority of the qualified voters will decide it. By such special legislation,pub ic schools are on a permanent ba sis, their terms extending to eight or nine months oer annum, iu Goldsboro, Raleigh, Durnam,Win stou, Greensboro. Keidsville, Sal isbury, Charlotte, and Ashville. Iu Fayettevilie aud New Berne similar excellent schools are con ducted by t he use of the general public school funds supplemented by private funds; and in Wilming ton the public are suppooted en ti rely by t he general pu blic school funds. AH of these schools have gradually grown in efficiency until they command respect aud patronage of the people, and are illustrations of not only the possi ble efficiency and safety of public schools but also of the cheapness of education for all the children when communities take hold of it iu good earnest and supplement their public school funds either by taxing themselves or by pri vate subscriptions. These schools will bear the light of investiga tion aud it is to be hoped that as tiieir light is shed abroad other similar schools will be established. It is not for me to say to what extent the people are able auu ought to tax themselves tor school. may, however, with propriety say that, as a system ot public schools is fixed iu our Constitu tion and as whatever is worth do ing at all is worth doing well, it is the part of wisdom to add to the tuuds already set apart by the Constitution and the statutes a sufficient amount of money, as fast as the people are able to bear it to make the schools what they oiigbt to be in town and country. Good schools will command the respect aud support the peoplj iu ferior ones will not aud ought not. The remedy, however, for inferior schools rests with the people. I say iu towu aud couutry, be cause as a rule the country child has in some respects much the ad vantage of one living in the city even in an educational point of view, although the country school term be shorter. Education is not m rely, or perhaps principally book learning-uot merely a knowl edge of readi ug, writing, arithme tic, English grammar, geography, history, &c, which the boy or girl may carry into e very-day work; but education is development of brain power a development of all t he faculties of the mind along with physical power and a knowl edge of facts. Our youug ieople must be taught to think, reason and observe for themselves, and any process that secures this re salt will educate them. There is much discussion now about manual and industrial train ing in the public schools, aud the leading anrunient in its favor is that in the exercises, mental and physical, of doing work with the hauds the young people are not only 'developed physically but are tausrht to reason, think aud ob serve for themselves, aud in a nractical way to apply what they learn fron books. The very pro- I cess their iniiids must be subjec ted to ; develop all their powers Now fthU process the boy on the farm is put through in the work that firm, life requires. The farm er whq requires his boys not only to da the ordinary work in the field, bat; also furnishes them with a blacksmith shop and a wood shop, and, encourages them to mane -repairs 01 larm machinery, to tne cereals, wneat, corn, rye, sharpen plows, make hoe handles, buckwheat and oats, but you pro axe handles, and anything they bablydonot know that that State? may desire, to make, is giving long known as the Bip Van Win- -. . . .... them a very valuable education, He is making them reason, think and observe. A boy cannot drive a nail,scribe a plank and saw it to he scribe, ; make a toy wagon or do any work without being men-1 tally developed as well as phys- cally. . Many men who have com- paratively little book learning have large brain power and make valuable citizens and marked sac cess in life work,' what h havj said about farm life for boys jias equally strong appli- cation, to gvrls. There are so many h jugs to be 'done in field and house that the bands and brains of the girlsalsomay be kept busy, and with equal advantage to their mental and physical development, Of course I do not mean to dis- courage book learning, but I do mean to say to the children in the rural districts ; that even though they may not' have so long school terms as do the children in the city, yet they have educational advantages that city children do not have. . It is a sood thinsr to learn in school what the books each, but it is equally a good thiug to learn to work. A very large proportion of the growth of our cities-and 'manufacturinfif in- terests is due to the-perseverance, strength of character,and strength of intellect of men who were born and trained in the country. Let the country schools as well as the city schools be gradually worked up to longer terms and to more efficiency, but let not man- ual labor by the young people be uuderretad as an educational fac- tor, or as a preparation for prac tical success in earning a li ving. The Pangs of Authorship. Nobody but us literary people knows how closely grows the at- tachraent between the author and his characters. It is related of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe that when from the pages of her man- uscript she read the death of little Eva the entire family sat bathed in -tears,- nor could one of them speak a word, but all mournfully separated, going to their rooms as though they had just attended the funeral of a dear friend. Some! friends met . Thackery on the streets one day, and his counte-' nance bore traces of intense grief, "What is the matter!" they asked. "I have just killed Colonel New- come," he sobbed, bursting into tears as he hurried away. Charles Dickens had the same experience, So did I. Mine was even more harrowing. When I wrote my first funny story about Mr. Bilderback going up on the roof to shovel off the snow and making an ava lanche of himself and sliding down into a water barrel I was almost heart broken. I didn't kill Mr. Bilderback myself. Ah, indeed, I hadn't the heart to do that. The managing editor, that dear, con siderate soul.saw how I felt about it. and he killed him for me. He also killed all the other dear, lov- ing, gentle characters in the skftte.h. And as T wti.w a.a.rintr tin remarked that he would kill me if I ever came back with any more such stuff. He meant it, too. Peo- nl Who saw me enminer nnr. nf th office scraping dust, and lint, and pine slivers, and gobs of paste off my back, saw at once by my grief stricken face that something had hannened. But T ninld nnt tall them what. My poor, bursting I I heart was too lull Burdette, Hon. W. D. Eelley on North Caro lina. North Carolina is the most beau tiful and richest portioa of God's earth upon which my vision or feet have ever rested. Yon know that she produces cotton, rice, in digo, tar, pitch, turpentine, and superior timber. You know that er soil and climate are adapted kle of the Union, from which more than fifty thonsand free white people fled to the two States of Indiana and Illinois, is the land of wine and honey, the apple and peach, the fig and pomegranate.all of which I saw prospering in open fields and under the most artless culture. Its native vines made the fortune of Longworth, who carried cuttings thence. The wine producing vineyards of Western Pennsylvania and around the borders and on the islands of Lake Erie, and those scattered through Missouri, are from cuttings taken from the native vines of North Caiolina. The Catawba the Lin- coin, the Isaoella, and richer than all the scuppernong, of which, as it has not yet been successfully transplanted, Eastern North Car- olina has the monopoly. There it grows spontaneously as a weed, The woods and hillsides teem with the richest honey bearing flowers, and the bees invite you to put up a rude box that they may reward your kindness with the sweetest treasure. There is not a vegetable that we produce that will not grow in North Carolina. Wealth and honor are in the pathway of the New South, Her impulses are those which are im pelliug the advance of civilization and the progress of wealth and refinement throughout christen dom; and as her resources, includ- ing geographical position and ch mate, are more diversified than I . . those in tne possession or any other people of equal numbers,she must at no distaut, day resume her once proud position in the van of civilization's advancing column. She is the coming El Dorado of American adventure. May the Almighty speed and guide her on ward progress. I Tobaceo Flies. An exchange offers the follow- ing advice in regard to destroy ing the troublesome tobacco flies: "Use plenty of cobalt dissolved in water and sweetened with sugar or honey. Drive stakes all around the tobacco patch, fifty or sixty yards apart. Get strips of shin gles or laths and bore holes in them. Nail these on top of the stakes and everv evening about sundown go with a basket of Jim I son flowers and put oe in each hole in each shingle, drawing it down tight enough to prevent the wind blowing it out, and then put in three drops of cobalt, and be sure to commence this as soon as the first flies come. It will pay you to grow some early jimson plants in your hot bed or with your tomato plants, so as to have your jimson blossoms in time, Don't pat any in the patch; around the edge will be enough." Didn't Know His Destination. From the Epoch St.Peter (to applicant): Yon say von were an editorial writer on a newspaper? Applicant: Yes, sir, St. Peter: Step into the eleva tor, please Applicant (stepping into eleva- tor): How soon does it go upT St. Peter: It doesn't gO Up: it goes down The Davie Times declares for Fowle for Governor, with Alexan- aer Ior wuvwuu, uu . . -r a ...4. . . . it . IU.1. thinks tney coma carry toe taie I by 20,000 majority, irrecu florth Carolina News Notes. Thomas Wilcox's dwelling-house, near Iron City, Polk ceunty, was also destroyed by fire recently. Loss, $3,000. Floyd West, who killed Reuben, Sexton, of Big Helton, Ashe coun ty, two years ago, has been arres tee in Grayson county, Va. The peach crop in the eastern. section does not appear to be at all injured by the cold ssaps. In th Piedmont and western districts of the State it is claimed that much damage is done. There are now in the public graded schools of Goldsboro,l,013 students, of whom 580 are white and 433 colored. This is the great est number ever in attendance at the schools at that point. Lewis Pippin, of Lenoir county, is claimed to be the oldest man in the State. He is over ene hun dred, possibly one hundred and five. He is what is known as a "marrying man," having had no less than seven wives. In Gaston county the body of Adolphus Motz was found lying on the railway near Lowell- His skall was crushed, evidently by a blow with a heavy instrument. The coroner's jury has returned a verdict that Motz was foully mur dered. At Spruce Pine, Mitchel county, the store and merchandise of A. P.Rowe& Co.were burned. Rowe's dwelling was also burned. The building was owned by I. D. Eng lish. Loss, $6,000: insurance $2,- 000. The fire is thought to be in cendiaryl Reports received by the Depart ment of Agriculture from the tin mine near King,s Mountain are that tin of good quality is being mined. A force of fifty men is now at work in charge of an ex pert, who is confident of the value of the deposit. Beyond the blowing down of a few buildings, the great storm did not damage North Carolina. No disasters on the cost of this State are reported. A revenue cutter has been cruising in search of any vessel in distreess, but can not Undone. Go venor Scales has offered a reward of $200 for William E. Mc Ginn who on the 13th instant murdered Leroy Elliot, near Char lotte, in Mecklenbnrg county. Di rectly after the commission of the crime McGinn fled, it is supposed, to South Carolina. Arrangements will probably be madejthe middle of April for the speedy completion of the Winston and Fayettevilie road fro High Point to A8bebdro,the county seat of Randolph. The people are deep ly interested in tais line, which will, of course, be a valuable feed er of the Richmand and Danville road. The news of the development of the Chatham coal deposits is interesing and important, it is a great field for effort, for really, very little, comparatively speak ing, has yet been done One of the coal shafts was just after the war sunk to a depth of about 800 feet. The coal gives good prom ise of quality. The iron which is in close proximity is of high grade. A body of very rich gold ore was strudk, a day. or two ago; m the 350 foot shaft at the Rudisill fmine, located in the western su- berbs of the eity. The ore will assay $18 per ton. The vein is broad and is one of the most prom ising that has yet been struck in the Rudisill. Charlotte Chronicle. Consumption Surely Cnred. To the Editor: Please inform your readers that I have a posi tive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thou sands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. 1 shall be glad to send two bottle? of my remedy free to apy of your readers wha have cousnmptiou, if they will send me their express and postoffice address. T. A. SLOCUM, 181 Pearl st., F. T.