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VOL. X.
The Chronicle.
LOCAL DOTS.
rief Notes of Passing Events That
3Tay or May Not Interest You.
Remember the speaking
Monday, and be here.
E. A. Womble,- of Honda,
was in the city last week, ;
Mr. H. A. Cranor has gene
South with some fine .horses.
The boys .have .returned
from Federal court at .States
ville. Congressman Linney spoke
at North Wilkesboro 1 a sjt
Wednesday night. ".
Mrs. E. Wallace is spend
ing a week among .relatives
about Roaring Eiver.
Thos. Ladd's two .year old
child, at Osbornvdlle, died last
Friday night. .
Mrs. Rebecca Seiners, of
Hunting Creek, is visiting rel
atives at Statesville.
T h e county candidates
will close their campaign here
.Saturday .
Miss Nellie Cowlel-r, who
has been visiting in Washing
sdty, returned home last week.
Miss Mable Mott, of Mount
Mourne, is -visiting in the city,
.and will remain about . two
weeks. ,
Mr. John Mott, of States
ville, came up the first of the
week. He returned Wednes
day accompanied by his sister.
Mr. M.'H Gilreath, of Mo
ravian Falls,, who has been
confined with feverfor severai
weeks is able to be aUt again,
we are glad to ;sree.,
The circus at Elkin last
week attracted several of our
people. They report a large
.attendance, -and say the show
was good, ; -
Maj. Bill Vannoy showed
us a notato last week which-
A.
was raised by Mrs. Theo.
Woody i n Union township,
and it weighed 6 pounds.
Messrs. W Hey and George
Faw, who have been visiting
their old home in Wilkes, have
returned to West Virginia. :k
Mr. E. "Spencer Blaekburn,
of Ashe, was in the eity last
week. . He.had been down to
Statesville to attend Federal
court.
Mr. I. C. Wellborn and
Miss Lena t Wellborn .-attended
the Haleigh Fair last week.
Old Aunt Lucy Denney, col
ored, went along to see the
sights
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hoi man,
of Iredell, visited their son
'Floyd Holman, at Moravian
Pnii i " i- nr.n rinir
tti .u i
xi xx.- r.:
Esq. T. F. Call ways,!
down in New Castle township,
caught a half grown, white rab
bit last Sunday "morning. It is
LJ II, 1 I I t J, I I IIIPIM Mil IMM VISMi. SsS&i
seldom you find a white rabbit
in this section. -
Mrs. J. E. McEwen, aBd
Sirs. Solomon Cox made a rip. I garMer, who came out and be
to Tra Hill last week,- 'JTheyj lQ sDeakRbThe gold l)iigs,
bdy that they now know ... wny .,f
. . ... v , i
tkat countrv nn thfire is called
'God's Country." They have
oeen there and the kindness of
the people convinced, flthem
that it is rightly, named -
The New ballot Jboxef? have
aade and are being delivered
to each precinct this week.
According to the ' law these
toxes are to be kept in the
Jerk's office aftor the election.
:ihls will -require an addition to j -
wurt housft -inHo-infy from - the
WILKESBORO, P.. THURSDAY. OCT.
JL&i mbf
intj, ios nis iitue cmitt
Monday. It was about : six
mailt
is old.
Loyd Headren has a Tur
bine abater wheel, as .good as
njw, for sale. See it at Mbrri
son's store.
Several arrests were made
at the rally Tuesday. One for
insulting a lady, another for
shooting. -He was a goldbug
and 1 e fell out with a negpo
goldl ug about a lunch. No
damage done.
Mr, Vance Wright's thiee
year Did child died on Hunting
Creel:, Wednesday of last
week. It had been sickly all
its life. The sympathy of their
friends is extended to them.
T here will be speaking at
Bidvoy school house on Friday
night the 30th inst. - Also at
Cone 3rd in Union township on
Saturday the 31st at 2 p. m.
Let everybody attend.
N Mr. Zeb Peaton and wife
1 - TTl 1 3 . i
wijo. nave Deen at otaiesvine-
and Salisbury for some weeksj
returned home last week. Mr.
Deaton tells us that he will
probably locate at Wadesboro
in a jew weeks.
Mr. Wright,
who is in
Catawba and
Lincoln,, sends !
cheering news of the prospeets
of success. The silver men
are not going to vote for gold
bugsl even if they have been
traded offr '
5. E. Bullis and Mrs. Susan
Nichols, widow of the late A.
Z. Nichols, were married . last
week. Bullis was a widower
with four children and Mrs.
Nichols was a widow with four
children.
Wilkes mud bears a repu
tatio l for being very muddy
mud. It is unavoidable. Pre
pare jfor it by .going to Horton
& Absher, North Wilkesboro,
N, C
and
getting a pair of
A full line hi la-
overshoes.
dies.'
Misses' and
men's sizes,
just received.
Kx-Auditor Henderson says
it is 1 mistake about the com
mittee taking -him oJff the ticket
but till at he came off of his own
free will, in order that the
State could be carried for Mc
Kinlsy. Henderson says he
acted- from pure patriotism.
The jmilk in the cocoanut is
that the committee had tonnake
some new move in order to. get
some more boodle, and they de
cidec. Henderson was the man
ito work on.
The Kiotons Conaucf of Gold bgs at
Statesville.-
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The srold bugs came very
near! precipitating a riot at
Statesville last week, Mr.
Glenn had an appointment to
eak there Tuesday night.
Boyd, Republican, asked
erin to exchange nights, with
arid let him speak on l ues
May hight, andd Glenn readily
acrreed. But during the next
dayJthe gold. bugs got a negio
to srieak for them on the night
1
give i to Glenn by Boyd. The
negro spoke miihe court bouse,
and ; xf t e r h e got th rou gh , the
silver people gathered in front
f thft hotel to hear Glenn
rnA The erowd
ononlr I lit; tCiAJwvx, A,an,.
nr -i - i
GOTUes and all, came out ana
bega'n trying to hollow; him
dow i. This was a deliberate
attempt on the part of the negro
sold bugs to. keep silver white
men from, speaking. . But .the
silver - fellows got roused up
and it wasn't long till : the
rioters shut .up and retired -to
mor4rcongenialquartars. v
A bt : of Ashe .Republicans
witnte
e& the, shametui pro
ngs and swore they would
ceea
I BIG DAY FOR THE BRITISH.
Republican Gold Bug- Rally Tiited
by 1000 te 1200. Addresses by
Bojd, Carter and Mott.
The big republican rally oc
curred "Tuesday, and from
1000, 1200 were -here. They pa
raded on horseback and in ve
hicles o f different kinds,
through both the Wilkesboros.
It was a kind of mixed crowd,
about one third being colored
people. Nearlyevery colored
man, woman arid ehild in' tha
county was present. It was a
ight to hear the crowd hollovy
ing for the gold standard,
when none of them, except the
few bosses who had recently
visited Hanna's pile, had seen
a gold coin since silver was
demonetized.
The stage and the trees about
the court house were ban
daged about with red, white
and blue calico, and there were
plenty of flags-, large and small,
waving among the crowd.
Hon. Jeter Pritchard was not
here on account of sickness.
Col. Jim Boyd, of Greensboro
spoke first. He is a good
speaker. He said he was one
of the "straight laced, blue
stocking, aristocratic, goldbug
republican." He didn't say
much .about the financial ques
tion, but rehearsed the repub
lican tariff stuff, and' charged
all our ills to the Wilson tariff
law. He is an ingenius speak
er, and can take one or two
truths and plaster them over
with a thousand misstatements
as" well as any onewithin our
knowledge.
Solicitor Mott followed in one
of his fiery, cuff shaking short
speeches. He exhibited Gen.
J:. Q. A. Bryan, in about the
same manner an organ grind
er exhibits his monkey, and
said the blamed Democrats
were trying to -defeat the Gen.
He called or his hearers to sup
port the Gen. simply because
he is on the republican ticket.
He had no other recommenda
tion for him.
Mr. E. D. Carter,- of Ashe
ville, was the next speaker.
He is a right good lawyer, with
very few clients. He has Mark
Hanna for his client now, be
ing one of his electors in "the
Asheville district. He is one
of the most unfair speakers
and makes more .glaringly er
roneous,and misleading state
ments, according to his ability,
than almost any speaker we
have heard. His remarks on
the silver question were at
some length, but most of his
assertions were not founded on
facts. He put William J. Bry
an down as an anarchist and
repudiationist. He said he was
backed only by anarchists,
convipts and secessionists. He
read from a. little clipping tak
en from one of the pot metal
papers sent out by the ' sound
money syndicates, giving a list
of the men who nominated
Bryan. They were nearly all
convicts a n d anarchists of
some kink. Everybody with
any sense knew it was a lie;
Col. Calvin J. Cowles interrup
ted him with the su ggestion
that he was probably tnistaken
and: was unintentionally nis
leading bis audience. TTe an
swered that any man with any
sense knew what he meant,
that' he didn't mean that these
men nominated Bryan, al
though a few moments before
he said they did nominate. Bry
an. This is a fair sample At
his speech. . .
The republicans hay e made
appointments all" over the
county for Monday in order .to
keep a crowd f rom-hearing Mr.
Glenn. . They are afraid of -the
tr.utU, - Y : - .
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Killed in Runaway
On Last Saturday, up near
New. Hope church, Wm. Critch
I er s team of mules ran a way
an d killed h im. He has a saw
mill fn Ashe county and had
been to the depot with 'a - load il
of lumber, and was returning
home. His home i s near
oone, and he was ibout
years old.
50
Fraud at Raleigh. i
. The Republican. registrars irf.
one of the precincts in Raleigh
stole the registration book last
week and tried to substitute a
new one made ip to, suit them
selves. The stealing was done
by the negro registrar, but he
was hired 'to do it by some of
the Republican bosses. The
precinct had" 2Go Democrats and
70 Republicans, hence the rea
son for the stealing. That's
another fraud election under
the new election law.
mt-f : .
Holton and the Winston Registrars.
The News asks us if Associ
ate Justice Montgomery did
not sustain tt oiton m his at-'
tempt to persecute the Win
ston registrars for trying to
"prevent the registration of
unqualified. voters.'"' XThe ex-,
pression "unqualified voters"
is taken from Holton's own
mouth, when he told Creelman
that the increased registration
of "unqualified v.oters" would
give the State to the Rep.ub'i
cans.) The News is muddled,
or something. Montgomery;
who is a beneficiary under the
law, being a candidate thisi
?time, did not sit in the case
Chief Justice Faircloth, as we
remember, rendered the opin
lon, and it did not susta11!! Hol
ton's high landed acts either.
It said the registrars have a
right to ask questions of iden
tity, age, riesidence, qualifica
tions, ete. Helton's -object
was to prevent such question
ing so that the registration of
his "unqualified voters" could
go on unmolested, j
Prophecy and Fulfillment.
The (Kansas) Piiot.
The United States silver com
missin, in its report, presented
in 1876. is startlingly prophetic
in the light of subsequent e
vents. Here is what the com
mission said:
-"However great the natural
resources of a country may be;
however genial its climate, fer
tile its "soil, ingenious, enter
prising aud industrious its in
habitants or free its institu
tions, if the volume of money
is shrinking and prices are fall
ing, its merchanfcg will be over
whelmed with bankruptcy, - its
industries will be paralyzed
and'' destitution-and distress
will-prevail."
The sad fulfillment of .the
prophecy may be told in a few
brief paragraphs:
Prices have fallen 50 per cent !
Merchants are bankrupt I
Industries paralyzed!
Destitution and distress pre
vail! ' . ' -
Thelburdenef debt increas-
ing! - , - -
The volume of money shrink
ing! - - . ,
The, only business- which
prospers is the accursed trade
of usury! --
Notice.; -
Notice is hereby given of seizxire on Oct. 9
1896 near Roaring Biver N 6 by J. E McEsren
of four copper js tills and -. fixtures and : twelve
packages corn whitikev contaminq about 5CG 1
gallons. Any person claiming .. said property.
Is hereby notified tQ.jappoar before before Sam
L Rogers Coll. A she villa N O or J -E MeEwen
D C Wilkesboro NJO Within 30 day&from date
hereof and fileMffli stating iheir. ; interest t in
said property and fie - bond as required by
law in suckases orhe same will .be forfeited
'to the T3(..S. G. - Thispct.. 16th, 1896.
- - - am. L. Roqeks, Coll.
JPefE.lIcwen,P. " " '
29. 1896.
& Millar
A dow li bb of all
Calicoes
Percales 6 to 12 & one
, A pretty
Th
P
E PRICE TO ALL. '
CALL AND SEE THEM
A Magnificent Line of
JUST ARRIVING AT
HAVINa OPENED UP A
-CONSISTING QF-
Dry Goods , Notions, Hats, ShoesrGlasswam, Ston
Etc., I take this method of inuiting rhj friends to caU' and. ex
xu3Qinemy GOODS and PRICES beforebi.ying.elsewhereu
1 am determined not to be UNDERSOLD. I will insure "all
customers to obtain tne largest QUANTITY and hest;
QUALITY for the LEAST MONEY. The highest market pries
always paid for all staple produce. -Very truly,
Wilkesboro, N. O.
THE WILKESBORO 11 A II D WARE STORE
having recently bought a largestock of goods, is xxffering
them cheaper than ever before; consisting of Nails, -horse .ant
mule shoes, holloware, crockery, cutlery, tools of all kinds,
base ball goods water buckets, paints, oils, guns, pistols, shot
and powder, empty and loaded shells, -collars ixnd pads, and
plows of all kinds. 1;
Should you need a.good "Hillside"., call and you shall be supplied.
jLgent.jfpr.the well know Oliver ?billed loij-, Chatanooga Cane aiiill, Cata
3vay Disc Harrow, Empire Drill and Marshall Wagons.
Can give you the most tinware for the money, yon ever bought- v ? "
.. When in need of anything to be had at a first-class hardware &toKe,oome and
see me before purchasing elsewhere.'
I sell cheap for cash, but please don t ask for credit.;
G: E. MORRISON.
Tl WILKESBORO
CAFFEY & PRITCHETT, PROPRIETORS,
NOKTH WILKESBORO, N Q. . '
Are Now Located In TheirNew Quarters Opposite.
MeGee's -Establishment .With a knpl&te Lino
Of Anything Kept In A ' -
FIRST-CLASS FURNITURES
And'are Offering SpeciabBargaiqs lii ,
Sewing Machines, Fianos-aTid Organct
. : CARTS, BUGGIES, HARNESSft&C.iX1K'KTJOSEKE antl LTJBRTCATI7?G
OIL by. the BARBEL; and STANDARO OF GVA KO At
V STARVATION PRICES. '
Finishing Cfimnsjatui Caskets a Spicielty-
No. 28.
Buildino-
ASM
TO
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5 to 6 cents per yd.
half cents.per yd.
line of summer cravats.
MILTON MCNEIL,
F
CO;
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K1D0S of foods.
isllff
of theixrxes.
vote KepuDiiuu.uv m-v.
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