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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.
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JjJRASTUS B. JONES,
ATT. RN KY-AT-IiA W.
Practices in the courts of Alexander,
9atewa, Caldwell, Iredell and Wilket.
Prompt attention given to the collection
of claims and all other business entrusted
to hin. !
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-
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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
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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.