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IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STE AM IS TO Machinery, -o- .rAT Great Propf.liin-o Tower. Write up a iice advertisement aboui ;r business and insert it in THE DEMOCRAT, all,l you'll "see a change in business ah 1 ' HE EMOC RAT. If YTO ARE A HUSTLER Tor ADVEHTISr ret Business. . E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. VOL. IX. SCOTLAND NECK, N. CL THURSDAY AUGUST 24. 1S93. NORTH CAROLINA'S GREAT WATER POWER. has all the while been perfectly satis- j pa through three feet of water be the Form- vamer New Hotel. Mam j X St reel SVOTLAXI XlXK. N. C. fjAlvays at his office when not ,,r.,CionaHv engaged elsewhere. 1 9 26 1 0 K. FKANK WHITEHEAD, n .To North corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotlanp Nkck, X. C. 5?" Always found at hi office when c; professionally engaged elsewhere. 7 6 ly nib A. C. EI VERM AN, OfMcr: Over J. P. Ray's store. Orlice hours from 0 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to f oViock, p. m. 2 12 ly SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. 0 WID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD. N. C. I Vac t ice in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining n unities and in the Supreme and Federal Court. Claims collected in all parts of the State. . 3 8 lv W. A. DI NN, .1 T T 0 11 X E Y-A T-L A If. SCOTLAND Nlck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are required. 2 13 ly II. KITCHEN", Attorney and Counselor at Law, Scotind Neck, N. C. UOtfice : Corner Main and Elev enth Streets. 1 5 ly L J. Mercer & son., 2u East Main Street., RICHMOND VA. LUMBER COMMISSION MERCHANTS. -o- lives personal and prompt attention t'. all con-igiiinents of Liuiiber, Shin gle. Laths, &t 1 17 00 ly NEW Great Palls Manufacturing and Im provement Company. . KOANOKE WATER POWER THIRD BEST IN THE COUNTRY. Capitalized at Two Million Dollars. ewelry Store After six years experience, I feel thor oughly competent to do all work that is expected of a WATCHMAKER and JEWELER. WATCHMAKER anp JEWELER. Reiniruis & Timius; Fine Watches A f-' "!:" I. M.'f 'V. I a'o carry a full line of WATCHES. CLOCKS, JEWELRY, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND FANCY GOODS. II Sieetaeles and l ; Eye Glasses Properly Fitted to the Eye. Ths Mm Sewing Machine THE REST ON EARTH. ;kvino machines cleaned AND REPAIRED. a ATI STACTP N Ot'AK AXTEED. If. 1L JOHXSTOX, xt dt.or t X. It. Jo.teu. 10 i 6m J, H. LAWRENCE, Dealer in GRAIN. MILL FEED, HAY, CLO VER. AND GRASS SEEDS. Improved Farm Im plements A SI'KCIAI.TY. A scent for Clark's Cutaway Harrow and the Deerhig Mower, A Model of Perfection. SCOTLAND LECK. N. C. 1 ly PJTS. All fits stopped Tree by Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after first dav's use. Marvelous cures Treatise $2.00 trial hoc tie free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kine, vol Arch St Philadelphia. P. A century has added another silver thread to the gray locks of Time since American independence was declared r-nd the people of North Carolina be came freemen. Hundreds, and may be thousands, of the citizens of Halifax county have lived and died within the borders of the county without any knowledge of the grandeur of the great falls of Roanoke river, six miles above the town of Wel don, where the yellow stream dances on between crags and boulders and plays over its rocky bed with a beauty and a music that at once exhilarate and fill one with the inexpressible sensations that thrill in the presence of sublimity. A thousand years has the grand old river sped its way on down to mingle with the waters of the '-deep blue sea," with no one to disturb the flow of the rippling waters. But from the begin ning, nature's hidden treasures have lieen discovered one by one, her grand forces have been bridled and harnessed to the wheels of human progress to bless the countless millions of earth ; and at last, after waiting through nil I the mists of the centuries and the slow tread of the ages, the Great Falls of the noble old Roanoke are transformed, by the bent of genius and the sweat of toil, into a matchless power that prom ises to rival the greatest water power in the country. The Great Fails Manufacturing and Improvement Company, organized and managed by Major T. L. Emry, of Wel- don, has developed, where a few years ago the casual observer saw nothing but water flowing over rocks in the same old place, the third strongest wa ter power in tiie United States. THE LOCATION. Six miles above Weldon nature has made a distinct channel, or canal, run ning around the Great Falls in the riv er, and just where it starts there is an island in the very middle of the river which divides the current before it rolls over its great rocky bed. Here Maj Emry conceived the idea of putting a "reat manufacturing plant which should turn thousands of spindles, drive thou and of wheels, give employment to thousands of laborers and bless Halifax county and the State with an industry second to none in the country. Maj. Emry seeing all this in the possibilities of the great water power there, placed it before other men of progressive ideas and abundant capital, and the Great Falls Manufacturing and Improvement : l Company was tnus organic. THE KKGIXXIXC OF THE WOKn. On the 2Cth day of March, 1S91, ground was broken ana me mi su.- el of dirt was thrown for the pi eat and towering enterprise. Since that time the work has been steadily pu&hed ind with lively vigor until the great canal is now nearly compicwju aim w.r vater power perfected. THE CONTRACT. Maj. T. L. Emry, the mover and promoter of the enterprise and one of the largest stockholders of the company, contracted with the com pany to complete the canal for one hundred and seventy-live thousand dollars. He at once employed from the State a large force of convicts j in tiie ienin-ii j i average of 80 convicts, besides much free labor, on the works ever since. The convict force has been under the very humane management of Mr. J. M. McMurray, of Guilford county, who has been in the employ of the State lifteen years and whoso management factory to the State's penitentiary au thorities WF.LL ENGINKEREI. Maj. Emry secured at first the very best engineers for the great work be fore him, and every single foot of the work has been done under the engi neer direction with Maj. Emry V quite practical personal overs tght- Mr. George M. Lehman of, Philadel phia, wa? employed chief engineer. Mr. A. E. Lehman, of Philadelphia, consulting engineer, and Mr. Henry Steinrok, of Philadelphia, assistant en gineer THE IMMENSITY OF THE WORK. The entire length of the canal is about two miles including that part made by excavations, dams and em bankment. It is 60 feet wide at the At each end of the long embank ment which form" a -de of the canal l?tween the main lain and the ?pur dam, there is an abutment of o!id ma s..nry alout CO feet long. 21 feet high. 12 feet thick at banc and 5 feet at the top. On the lower half of the canal there are no dams, the most of the work be in r of the p-isce. Mj. Emry i-j .x hs? made the ttr-t Hn htA laid t!. fir; foundation " jnpnl n :u. 1 pr -;:- on- city. ! ft U a ib'it .f nhit li HH'.fiv .?m.x ouc'm pi'. ld, -f ':! h :.U .V'-r'-'t J Can.'iu". may well 1 pnud : for thvi j i ij; '.. J:ke it ia many ' - on tbi- j broad continent that rea'-);- fi'm Uke to gulf and from "fan to -pm. excavations and side embankment. At j The entire work Ji.v l- end r,e u;:- one joint in the lover half thre i- a j tier Maj. Emry's dit-;i..!i. t.c-th-r' waste-way 100 feet long, 7 feet high, with the aistan-v of hU cajvibje engb 3.V feet at top, Ci feet at bottom, with i neers : and whatevrr of -minority the whole enteqtrie may pre-ont, due to his untiring energy, eon-tant vigilance and hi- snnd and prartical fix". SUBSCRIPTION PKiCK i o. NO. 39. How's Your Liver? I? tl.e Oriental s.ilutatU n, knov. in that health cannot vxl. t rit!iut a heahhv Liver. When thu IJtT is I rin ! tl.o Rt- the t lief V, V: Til M v l:r, l;s WUh jour Adirrll tnrnt JOHN 0. GAMMiE, two discharge gate-, all of solid mason ry. This part of the canal is also sub stantially riprapped on the side of the embankments next to the river. THE POWER AND COST. The fall in the river for two miles Infant Frc&igies. llroohhjii Karjlf. "I neer felt more like laughing in ' parallel to the canal is .11 feet ; so that r 4 bottom, 90 feet wide at the top and ' the canal being cut with very plight my life," whi.-nered one individual to will carry at its lowest depth 10 feet of fall, at the lower end of the canal the another at a recent entertainmrnt when CI- r.rc tit: in the L'tKKl; fmintr-t headache endues; r. Hni; of lii t'.i.!?, dcopxjcdri'.cy an T iu'rvouatsi indicate horr tiie v 'ic! FV'te: i Ia mr.pc.'. i:I::..nir. 1-Ivcr KeEU.:or hi -kv:i t.'io ir.ea' i ci rt Ftorin r.om jxfj!i) to health r.ud u ... Nul;!'ol.K. 1K.1NV mv Plaster, Ilrirk. i i u- l&lKncr,A !Vf;iv:r. - tr.cm a hcHitlr. L. r t uuy r'ent'T aio-vn enrtlx. It rtts vith extraordinary- hw r rji! cllicacy. KtT U (1 Wtt, I'nmrli n, N J Scr that iitnt (ret the Cicnuiw M I.CAI-t J I'M V k J. II. I.I N l-MlUIi-hl. water. river is .11 feet ljelow the canal, and The excavation is alout 4 500 feet where it turns into the river there is a long and in some places the entire ex-! perjKjndieular fall of 31 feet. This fall cavation was through solid rock. The with the present height of the dams is I main water dam is 5GS feet long, sufficient to run 8,C(j0 horse-iwer. and the spur dam is 1,435 feet long. And the power can be increased at will In these dams have been used 1)25.000 ),y raising the dams above and thus feet of timber and about 20 tons of increasing the depth of the water in the spikes and bolts. The dams are made -anal. At the lower end of the canal in the most substantial manner, being where the fall is so great is a beautiful spiked to the roek-bed of the river site for any and all kinds of manufae- and bolted together to the top. lie- tories. It is a level on the high river sides being firmly fitted to the solid ,;lnks with firm and solid foundations bottom of the river, they are filled Gf roek below. This rock foundation underneath the planking with tons of runs down the river bank the entire broken rock taken from the excava- length of the canal and well below the tions in the canal and then substan- em of it. tiaily riprapped below wherever there The cost of the work thus far, includ- a iortion of the audience sat spH Unwind in admiration of a child prodigy who was rolling her eyes and swinging her arms in an attempt to lie diamatic. 'Isn't she wonderful?" "What a mem ory she must have !" "What natural powers of imitation!" said her ad mirers at the clve of a long rccita- Sewer Pip Chimney Pipe. hi; am i ill. u.. i i. i ll i'.r ! td-. U Roanoke. Poultry Yards ('. LASSlTKit A. CO.. - - 1'k.ik.. ' I !!!! ! id !1H-1 !!' n(';l'l i t.tf" i- i-:h i, m il !!! nij ii-.!.- ..o J tie j tin- f t' e. Ii.;.d-, ltM. Ac. Nvu Hi -kin '.! . v!i!e .i: A ! i)U .v.i:u; ni i tn.i!ie f - I;. fk . or MAJ. T. L. EMRY. could be any possibility of extra pres-iug the purchase of 3.000 acres of land sure against the work by reason of j lying all along on either side of the high water or any other cause. The main dam of 508 feet is built across the canal-like division of the river where it flows back into the riv er about a mile below where it first sets off. The spur dam of 1,435 feet at the upper end of the natural canal where it breaks of! from the river, "is built across that half of the river that runs on the south side of the island which divides the river into two streams. By means of this dam the water of the river that flows on that side of the island, which is more than half of the whole current, is turned down the canal, and the main dam across the natural canal three quarters of a mile below serves as an overflow, or cascade, where all the v. ater passes over except the 10 feet depth for tiie canal below. Now, between the main dam and the spur dam there is a solid embankment of dirt thrown up to keep the water from flowing back into the river. The river, and. the whole expense cd the work, reaches well up between $300,000 and $100,000. WHY NOT A GREAT CITY? The Great Falls Manufacturing and Improvement Company through the plans and calculations of Maj. Emry to lead, has made it possible for a magic city here in Halifax county. The 3,000 acres of land contiguous on either side of the river to the great developed wa ter power, give the company room enough to lay off the loimdaries of a tion. ''How affected !" "How ridicu lous !" "What a shame to let a young girl like that make a sensational fad of her seeming powers!" said those who could hardly repress an amued smile, but who yet pitied the child. Girl and boy phenomena are common occurrences. The forcing system is in full swing in ma.iy circles. A girl of 12 wringing her hands and agonizing herself generally in an attempt to pro vide social entertainment is not a pleas ant sight. She'd 1etter be home and abed is a motherly bit of advice worth heeding. How can mhors l.e so blind to the best welfare of growing "laugh ters? It is just this sort of thing which creates a love for the sensational, a de sire to make one's self conspicuous, a craving for amusement which must be satisfied. "How late your Mary sits up nights !" remarks one mother to anoth- -i r , . . i . t : 1 , er. l es, sue can noi siccp iiiveouu-i children even if she goes to bod early." Why? Pecause she has been allowed to be up evenings ever dnee she can remcml.er. The habit of going to bod early was never formed. It is to be re gretted that in the transition eriod U -twecn childhood and early womanhood any activity of mind or body should 1 e misdirected. Later this same mipht l.ecomf! a source of real pleasure. Prod igies in the shape of boy and girl elo cutionists or musicians should not be encouraged to seek applause. KICK sol AHE. N. C Pl..VK MlNo; a Sik iuiv. T!ioi:or;itt'.i;i i Non-si n n:. L.winu ( p it y to 'J.- i:;';s vr.U!. i i ... I the N'-t (i nch (! v. have i;aii.i Sim ii v..u n,. I 1 I . F .11. -- . . I . , ms I 1 1 tin ..slier tvli iih. i : rtv ' t f r i .i i i ' . i. : o t t i ( i: uvr.i: i n i v vi:.i S lii (Mi Will T 1: 1 1 i Kl Mi b. 'in-!.i-. '- .ftbin; utip b -1-cii u-l (i om lift y f- b ni!.-lion- of ii.- tb t . t tl-. '.r . bii bt-'i wl.tle t i-t h i H i." , vtt! j it'-f .')..- It t m.. .t !,. the In!-!, -..fu-o- ll"' i-uiii-. ... i t i-I- U ! c- W I I !' 1 I I .1 ! . ;i I id I i,vi t ho t pill hi ee; TvMMitX' fi" ceii?" a imtl.e ' - '(!:;. Iclll.ible i-e :iie .i-t. 'iiilo V StNitblic !" i 1 j no other kn.d. ,.f tbe ..iSd I?- All 1 I.I ON ONE ACHE Ol' LAN D from four pullets and one cockerel since ! April 111, 1MC Age of pullets when bought five month' old, o iM $1.5(. Thev lav inoiv egg than anv chit ken- on record, so si:it(sl b all im!trv mni.i Pic-li-li Sue in '"t We will .anv next: -e.eoi. I.OOO pu..u. 1 all Hard. -U or t 'ail. .u -1 Lump, and ' i m ; . I ... . t..... 1... .. It'... I ii' i. i ii mi.. ... 1 I ami ' UMio-m- d in i ; I'. Ill cl l. ' 1 i.I ' ", ' I I I " ' ! H-JII' - P.'o .1 ' .ISlMUti .Nub-. Splint-. . Kmu- The chickens are bla. k. willow col,,nMnv'(iiiii iH i -. .m l .woiVn legs, clean of feather, plumage g!o-- , -j,,.,,,,!, ,(',,iiyh. i ' ' by Terv large Wiittles, white eail..'lK-. No um of one b.'tle .o!.ottl the !,,, woiiOiiul I . lui-iu i i:c c r knov.il .ld bt I". T. W 'bit. i .-.d A Co. I M H'.'i-l ,-, s-co! land Nnk, N n i iv. j.ul'ets (or s:de l!iis .mw-oii. Hen egrs .f l.wO f.r Lk Ca-h iuut accompany all orders 1 1 : 1 v i:-lK'clfu'ly. .f. c. i-A.-sn ei: a en. KINSEY PVi ! i L UlliiliU UUlillllUlJ ! ( I . f ill! LAGRANGE, - - N. A HOARDING SCHOOL l oK (JlPL.-! NOP I 1 1 Ai:o! IN College o( HgRKliK! ia: Ma a i;t, II A !,!'.!. 1 1 . N. C 1.H1LL ni.oiN n - i n i n j H si:ri i.m m.b' 7th i .1 Paying Tcur Small Bills. ! Vhibuhlphia llcccrd. j I would be impossb!e io .-. difturbj credit and confluence as to bring on j conditions of stagnation and panic j if every man and woman owing small j bills to the grocer, the dtor. the mil- j AND YOl'NG LAI ME. fi ll coups or TP. i-;;'. Liiirn , Aft fin'! .l.V ' jiu rt i,h ft. Stencgraphy, TjrpsTTritiiig and E::!: kceping Tar.cnt in 3-sincns Department. Location : Healthy. i o Hi!,, (i -It i i i v !.!".! t . ? mi Till" ' 'olle-c i IHf ' e f it" 1 1 " rpeci 'd t' k , b i . M i ; .t.t.1 and lii"ti b'.p- no I Ira'.' Mi" 1 f 1 1 . I 'tnir.u. .-.1 mih! I Io: 1 "-ub hi ! I .i!" I 'ii'ioti- and Pat ii j '!,( If;. -bo -W fc f"f ?b- I'1 ' '" - lifl.t ;i .i. t if :"' .t ,t .oi. lea.l gratln.'i? I- j i!i 1 in Iechani a: j,!i 1 ' s ; t I liner, the baker, the butcher, the car- j i big town, which they will do as soon as ; jienter, anl toe utumreu.s p :isw the work is completed and the building I in other callings who niini-ter to our of factories and mills begins. EXCELLENT FOR IIKALTH. There is every possibility for the place in point of healthfulness. The banks of the river are high, the water runs rapidly over the falls, there are no pools or ponds of stagnant water near and no canals or ditches on the levels above the river bank ; but the whole area lias beautiful and most advanta- it is about 3,200 feet long, geous natural drainage. The w ater is cold and pure and excellent, and the health of ail the laljoreM and overseers has been remarkably good during ihe whole time the work has leen m prog ress. The company is capitalized at two million dollars, and already men of large capital are turning their attention to this place that offers such line op portunities for safe and profitable in- emoaiiKinei 12 feet high, 12 feet wide at the top and -18 feet wide tit bottom and con tains about 40,000 cubic yards of earth. Kight across the canal alout half way from the upper to the lower end, and just at the end of the main dam of 5G8 feet, which makes a side of the ca nal that distance, is a bulkhead, or gate way, 180 feet long, including the width of the canal and the abutments at the vestment. ends. This bulk-head is 13 feet 3 inch- j es wide at top, 24 feet 8 inches wide at bottom, 28 feet high from foundation to top and is all made of solid masonry. In the bulk-head, or water-way, there are 12 gates each six feet wide and 11 feet to top of arch. There is also at the south of this bulk-head a main opening or water-way for boats, 8 feet wide, 8 feet 4 inches high and it will admit to , with the many and varied advantages MAJ. T. L. EMKl . This mammoth enterprise is one that Maj. Emry may well feel proud of. He was the first to see the opportunity and, with other? whom he wisely induced to daily wants, should make pr mpt pay ment. If the ten-dollar debt owing to the grocer should !o paid to him he could settle his debt with the doct or, and the dix-tor's wife could settle with the milliner, and the milliner the baker, and so on. The ten dollars once starfed on its errand of liquidation might sati-fy hundreds of dollars of indebtedness as i fast as it could le pas.-vl from debtor to creditor. The man who thru-;-it in his pocket and lets his creditor wait, contributes his share toward aug menting business distress. When thousands of men, actuated by fear or careless disregard of obvious dutv. U gin to hoard money, instead of paying their deb'u-, distress must re.-ult. When millions lo.-e confidence and only pay as they arc forced to do it. further business is impossible. All the wealth of the millionaires tiiru-t into breach could not make good the ueiault. Slate Chemist in examination of wafer. - i s : "" i ha ve prob ably never examined a l-etter It sample. For catalog".0 giing foil ; :u ticulars . rile to JOS. KINSEY, ! Principal i j7"Tip!"iia granted to young ladie-! iinbhing cour-e of studv. ' i nig. j T"tal co't a Neat, iiebahm i , i C unit v -I ii Ofiil - , , i . .,...: . j For catalogue". p,b ' ' A. It tl.t 1 ' ; 1 I 7 . It It-..ii. I o t .1 .it , 7 27 tf Men 'ion I icmocr ; t. FEMALE ACADE Scotland Ni: k. N. C J. B. White & Co.. GENERAL GENERAL ! Till' IK'XI S s-ioll of tills ! School Im-o is Ati;r.-JS. 11 and 13 L'oanok." I).--k v. II t BUCKLEN'.S APNICA SALVE. The Ut salve in the world for Cuts. P.-nises. Soi-es, Ulcers, Salt Hheum, i Fever Sores. Tetter. Chai.fd Hands, .bare it, he promptly seized it, and has j Chilblains Corns and all ku. Erup ii. ition, and positively cure.- Pilen or no thus laid the foundations Oi one ot tiie j , refjU;reci jt is guaranteed to give largest and most promising enteri)ii-es j jje'rfect satisfaction., or money refundefl , j .i ! Price 2o cents ter lox. in the country ; and it does seem that , 3 2 Cm HIGH SCHOOL AND lirSLNESS IN.-T1TI TE. Acadeniie C u; s -. Conn!) ere ill Cot i r-s . Telegraphy. Pen Art, Shorthand j:;rl Tyjif-wriling. - CUMA TP A yi !. 'A TI OA' -DPl.K.UTI PL. IfLALTIUXPSS - PXPXCFI.U'JK I'uihliniis now (Mjiiippcd. Full corns ofT';ihi rs. i Nouoi.k. v... j (onrs,.()i- study oon-iv and t horoitoh. t i SjM-i;il ;itt;ii (n iv-n to ! Phvsirj! ( 'nhuiv. f'lutrt;'-, niodiM'ci n-. For rir. uhii-s ttud fu i t h j- ! par? p ui;it add !- tin prin- -ipal. Ml I-ena If. di n'. aVl'liD W UAIU1 ' it i i r . 1 L.'Llhb . ' Oxford, N. C. ' u I - w; ill all The I3rl Annu. sjztz.-j Au-;u-r 3, s.i:i. rvtivvi-ijvniv vrr 1 the(.o lo.i- o iio i.t ! the advantage- of a fir-t-ela- Sch-.l at . r .. i i . . .. . i . t lorem auenoancc ia.-i -:ir ur.m ; r4.n.ori;., u, ever U-foi. " inn piotii'"'-in F. T. Whitehead A- Co. Session Opens August 22nd. I&93 For catalogue ;aldn L. W. PAG LEY, Principal. 7 t IvIlTLEin rat--. I'.hy-i'al Cul id fa -ill' -es in f Mu-ie and art. Atllv for catalogue. f p. I o5(;o)l. p.,.t,ffi. v
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