I . . tW i WA !' j i ' subscribe for : ';: '"1 V : ' Rl' f - : : " i - " I: THE 2si . : j- i- ' ' 11 ' " ' 'v. . -THE- N ITC W jS-!; Mfi A. ; '; " i """"'P- ' j ' ' " Piedmont .Carolina. - is ; THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IS THK - " ' i ' .' --. i- . ' Piedmont Region!, j t AS IT ' .1 - I litnt SecHon. 5 OK..:!. SHELBY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18,11887. NO. 17. . h . i . . I- f . ... bust'tss cards !'.!! AYl-K. R. L. KjYBURN. rBRAYER & llYBpRN, r Law, Auorneys ;at t w. .;r.-ni tit attention to all business ..1 t.-k tl pvrt. - OihYe in Commercial hotel, j THE KIVKKH OF .OKTH CAKOI.I.XA. attorney; at lJaw nti United States Gommiss - SIIELUV, ;N. C." oner, isUYCTICES in 1 landixnd Kvulierford Countjes Office on west warrensiiecij the courts, pf Cleve- 2S-tf. B. Frank Alt.ornev at Law SHELBY, N. C. I C Carolina. i, . y T. for South 11-tf B, JUSTICE, ATTORNEY AT Li AW, 'REAL. ESTATE A)GENT, -RCWrfeKFOKliTOX, N. jC. j Q I'KCIAL attention given to Collections 'I . t f all kinds, and to tlie saii andpur-,-h:i--e-.aa-l renting of Real Estaje, and .the investigation of and preparation of Titles, Mortgages, &c; . j .1 ( nr.ee at couu nouse, i:i .""'j Tt-r's office. ruby, Tuck wee Pi-; VICTOR McBllkYER? SHELfcYj N. C.j M OFFERS his professional erTices to the people of Shelbv and surrounding ...isntrv. Office is: old Postojtice: Build- !.- ' . 141y J. A. IIAKRILL, 1), D. S., v SHELBY, "N. C, ' ' ... r -4 PUKPARED TO DO ALL KIND'S i of Dental work in first-tilass style: lias eyerv modern convenience to facili tate" good 'work. Perfect satisfaction guar anteed. . ;- I . jf" Oilic? up stairs over Mclsrayer s t mig store , . . . . 7. I mi. .1 lm New HAVING opened a Tiri Slfop in A. R. EskridijeV old stand, Shelby, N. C, I solicit the patronage of those needing tin Ware, Tin Roofing and Guttering Val ley Tin, Sheet Iron; Copper, Satis faction guaranteed in every rspeet : 3-tf. . J. tL.;iillirtltJvji,n.. Carolina,. LanJ of waters! Here the strangest rivers are : i Arrarat, and 'Alligator, land the famous stream of Tar : Even Folly here is running as a river to . the sea r :, ; ! 'I - ! Here's a nyer Flat ami floundering as a water well could be. . Broad and Rocky hert? ate rivers ;-4-here are rivers old but Newj j . Yellow. Black, : urd silver Green and White Oak, Buy aid Reddy, too. j Here the whirling wild Watauga, leaping Elk and emokdj Toe, ; j ' French Broad, (oi co- the Taquaostuh) and the winafiess Pigeon's flow, j Tennessee, and H nwassie, gulfward all threugh niour.'a.t.s ro.i ; Where the Cher l.ces still linger is the nimble Nantaliaia ; . j In the land of Jii: aluskee is the Vallee gurgling gaily ; . j. In tlie dismal sw.i up-land is the yiney, festooned Scuppernong; i In the clond ho;n - and the sky-iand,pwan annoa. skips i.ioag: j In the pine-laii ! j over marlbeds wine-like Ca-lile creeps; In the fernland.- neath thfe balsam- aseegee grandly leaps.- Here Occonce luftee laugh?, am Cheeowee Ire's and clashes ;: Mid her t'jwciiiig canyons Linville's sil very spray spurts and splashes ; j And the John o'er sands all golden, 'neatk the rhododendrons dashes. From Virginia come Meh'ernn, 25oltoway the deep and slow ; In the grey and yellow liill-lands wliere i tobaccos golden grOw, ! ? Tumbling Dan andMaj-, Fisher, Mitch ell and the Eno go. "I Here is Yadkin, (once iaapona) winding mid a thousand hills : i Here's Catawba, pearly i pebbled, from a . thousand: brawling rills' ; j Here's Uwharrie with its jhurry ; here the lazy Waceamaw ; I i Here are heard the liuniiiaing spindles on the busy Deep and Ha jv : I Here in field and swam and forest are the Lumber and Pee Hee ; I And, borne upon her brqsat, Cohera, C-1 !ec, and the Mingo wee I Cape-Fear's storied waters and! these only: grandly go to open s'a : i Here Contentnea and Trent pouring into Neuse, find Ockracok : Where the herring comes ih spring time are Cho wan and broad' Hoanokes, North and Newport, Veopim, jPutig , Pasquotank, and Pamlico, Pantiego, and queer Perquimans f how the waters come and go ! i j Dripping, gurgling gtshsing, nulling, tumbling, creeping ;o they bei Carolina's matchless rivers from their - fountains to t lie sea. j j .1. Vt Afoote, in Lenoir Topic: by tho courage aud persistency with j Christmas Eve the wedding party were which the women of the South Imbued I assembled in the parlor of the Rhett the men. Nohistortan has ever adeqna- mansion, one of the large and hand tely told the sacrifices that they made,, some houses so common on all the river the sufferings that they patiently en- frontage of old Charleston. Divested of dured, to cheer and ptompt the sol- its costly and elaborate decorations diers and sailors who served under the that had gone to swell this or that banner of the lost cause. Nowhere Confederate fund, the great room look between the Potomac and the Mexican ed barren, chilly, and forbidding Gulf was their spirit of unswerving de- Candles were almost an unattainable votion more manifest aud active than luxury then the city gas-works had in the capital of the Keystone State of long been.wrecktd by exploding shells the Southern Confederacy; and there and some, home-made device of illumi yas no patriotic project mooted in nation only lit up the little space oc which women could ohare to which cupied by the lover and bride and Margaret Pickens did not contribute, cleervman. Save for the brilliant urn Turning back the Charleston news form of the soldier and the' white robes papers or the war epoch, her name is of the priest of the Episcopal Church iounu a nunarea times upon tneir tnere seemed no color or warmth in worn and fading pages. In 1862 the the apartment. Finery appropriate women of the city turned their jewel- to the . wedding ceremonies of distin ry, their diamonds gem i tliat bad guished people was not to be found in come down to them from their Hugue- the Confederacy, and while the dozen not and English ancestors their sil- I of guests were men and women who ver-plate, aud innumerable articles of had known the opulent and luxurious hrk 'a-lnrnc into the money that paid for life of good society in the anteitUum the ironclad ship-of-war Palmetto days of Charleston, they were now re- State thac on January 31, 1863, sunk duced to homespuns and coarse cot the United States gunboat Mercedita tons. With the harsh discordance of in a battle in Charleston harbor. In I the bombardment filliner their ears the enterprise ot raising the construct- and with the knowledge that the bride- ion fund Margaret Pickens was profi- groom must at once quit his wife's side cient and nntiring. She stripped her- for service with his command, a sense self of her jewelry, and she figured in of apprehension and sorrow brooded a leading capacity at the fair or bazaar over the assemblage. The most at which the women sold their treas- fserene and self-possesseoTof all present. ures that "TheLadies'Gunboat"raightthe newspaper reports said, was Miss be bi.nl t. A bright youag tunglisUmaii, Pickens, whose stately beauty wis who had come in!o Charleston as an iiiucer oi o te oi uie oioeKaue-ronners, saw her on that occasion and worship ped hvr through the medium of a letter X I.KVKI.fcSD ITEMS. i Intrrcsllaar letter from it Tltrlv. InKTawu. A Worthy Cana IitppeniuxK Noeial l'wlitlcnl. f clnl itnU Otherwise. WEDDED IE- DEATH. Shop. T. . EBELTOl'T, DHALEII IN T)OOKS, STATIONERY, 13 - Materials, etc. V ill scriptions for THE NEW other leading publications, anvthinc inhi3 line, call on Post .Office Building, Shelby, ITJTlsT'S receive sao- ERA and If vwu nee hioi at the N.C. 50. Across the level tongjue of land from which the battle-scarried, eartliqnake shalven city of Charleston looks east wardjStretch the grass-jcoveretl mounds which -arc all that is left of the tnighty fortifleatibns that Iee Riid Beauregard built and armed nearlxf a quarter of a century nso. Approaching thfe bank lapped by the lazy wayeletsof the Ash ley, these traces of the jdefensive works of that era ran northward of aj peace ful burial ground in wjiich the j droop ing branches of the magnolia ajnd pal metto trees sweep the tons ! of the i stones that record the names and n'omcii who have' found ncath that sod in the iireueratioiis 't . - ! have passed since, toe stalwart heightened by contract with the sur roundings. The clergyman's voice broke the silence of the group with the reading to a friend in Liverpool that found its of the marriage form, and he had just way Kilo tiiu eolumns .of the Liver-I reached the interrogatories when the pool Mereury. He wrote: ' horrible roar of a shell vastly louder "I have seen to-night tho loveliest than those flying over the distant seet- girl that my eyes ever gazed upon ions of the city drowned every other and the sight of her- was worth the sound. It came from an advupced guinea of a sailor's wages that I "paid battery that General Poster had - re- for the queer little flower I received cently opened, well up on tlie inner side from her hand and that is lying before of Morris Island and within a foui-.uile me as I write. The pictui e of her face range of the Rhett residence. The 200 which I hold in my memory .would pounds of iron loaded with incendiary make me willing at any tim to take material described a trajectory that the chances of being caught or shot to ended upon the roof of the house, pieces by the Yankees in dodging the whence it crashed through the in blockade. She is rather tall, clean termediate floors and burst iu thb midst built as a Shanghai clipper, her eyes of the wedding party. and hair are nut brown, and her voice When the stifling smoke had cleared as soft as that of any of the M.norcan away and men could breathe free from girls." I the suffocating- fumes of' the powder, For nineteen months, beginning with the apartment its walls -and ceilin June 1SG3, Charleston suffered the partly blown out,its furniture knocked most prolonged and tremendnos bom- into chips, blood spattered everywhere. fragments ot human forms strewing the floors was a scene of indescribable terror. Three of the wedding guests had. been instantly killed and not person in the room had escaped in jury of some sort. Lieutenant de- Ro chelle and the elereyman were only j Correspondence of The New Era.) r;CLEVEtiA!iD,ltowan county ,N. C. May 9.--This; little railroad town is situated on the Western North Carolina Rail toad, thirteen miles west of Salisbury, nd twelve miles east of Statesville, in a section of Rowan county where the so3 is fine for clover and the different kinds ofj grass, as well as "vheat, corn, cotton and tobacco. m I The last 'legislature chauged the tiaime of the town from Third Creek' to Cleveland, and the post office and de pot bear the same name. i Within the Incorporation are several business, houses, two steam cotton gins, three churches and a number of fine building lots, many of which are near the railroad. iThe prdei observed here for the past eight months has been excelled by that of no other town in the state. .The following men were elected as town officers: W. B. Hunt, mayor; G. A; Allison, Dr. S. W. Eaton and B. A.' Knox, commissioners; F. C. Taylor, marshal. "For two years this has been a "dry town,' and the new officers say it must continue so another year, at least. Last Saturday and Sunday set vices were held in the new Baptist Church foi the first time, and the congrega tions were good, although there was preaching at two other places. The uilding is not completed but is well built so far. A balance of about $70 on thei work done remains unpaid. The work Was done upon the promise of a number of good subscriptions which have not been paidThis building should be finished,. The people need outside hielp and they deserve it. Will not someone who reads this think this worthy object for help! A. T. Hord. Tjiete aro sixty-seyen new buildings in course of construction in Raleigh. The citizens of Hickory are going to build a $30,000 cotton factory and a $15,000 hotel. ! ! j r The fourth jrausieal festival of Vir ginia and North Carolina is in pro gress in Petersburg. ' la Newton bn Wednesday. April 27, Mr.jJohn Smyre, of Chester, S. C.,was married to Miss Bessie Carper ,of New- tonj ! ' ' I ; ! i - Mr,. M. L. Fox, of Buncombe coun- ty, son of Senator Fox, of the Bun combe and Madions district, has be coffije associate 'editor of the SkyJand ITerkU. i W A rprp PT.T.ThTT Fashionable Barber and Hair-Dresser, : SHELBY N. C HAVING secured an expert assistant is prepared to do all tdnsorial work in first class style. Hehasnioved into his new shop south of the court is neatlv furnished. j i HOTELS. Commercial Hotel, pf men rest be- thaft .tnd SHELBY, N. , J. W. CLARKE, Proprietor. rlMlE best fiirnishid land best kept Hotel J in the' Western ipart of te State. Per Vf satisfaction .guaranteed. Public- pat-r-nafee solicited.- I 1 . j " . 'At the beginning of the yfcar the Com inercial .change.! iiaiids, and with the new niaiiage!nent"thc house has beea rcfirtsd siid furnished anew.; No L-ffori-will be spared t. maintain ;iti .wen-jdeserved rep- ititiojf. ll.wms newly carpptcil and ncat v tun-.ished. li;st ' servaif't attendance. Table fare first-clasp., j fnoi ly ' Rutherfordton N. C. ipiIE undersigned lias taken charge of I I the above named houe and will en Cieavor to-keep his table supplied with the best this market affords, and will spare no inains in making his gueStsionnfortable. . , Rates reasonable, j I Vv . . ?u 1 1 1 v. 36-tf. 'j j" .. i'HH AIR LIN!'. Black's, IS (JNE of the Neatest j 1 Best kept hotels in the Slate; jgCarefal attention at all times. Mrs. MJ E. lilLANTOX, Proprietres 7if. t MERCHANT'S HOTEL, BLACK'S Js. G. rl",IIIS House is conveniently situated on X- Main Street, to the Depots and bn?i Vss part of town and has been newly fur bished with spring beds anJ mattresses. Table furnished with thejbest Uie market arTords1. Tolite servants , Who give every ' attention to guests. I'drter meets all i trains -Sample roorr I class Li very Stables sittached ' p J. W. THOMSON, 4-tf- j Proprietor, 1 r splendid Huguenot pilgrims who had escaped Carriere's massacre establish ed the city and the state. A perpetual peaf e dwells upon the! spot ; the fra grance of roses and' maenolias per fumes the atmosphere ; the remnants of the fort', have been'smoothed by the indomitable hand of time into fitting seixibianee with the scene; it isjdiffieult even to find upon the (veterans! of the ai boreal growth the stars' of tiher shot and shell that once whistled and screamed from the great guns of Dahl gren's monitors and Gilmore's bat teries over this lovely God's Acre of the southern land, and between the leafage -of the sturdy'jtrees tliej visitor catches glimpses cf famous old St. Michael's spire and all the broad and beautiful vista of rivdr. city, and '-sea tha extends to'the horizon of he At lantic. It is the ancient and venerable cemetery of ChristiChureh I parish, arohnd which Eeaujegard drew his military lines of cireikmvallation, &nd so brought the rude dud noisy bustle of war into intrusion! upon the ever lasting sleep of Southtf arolinians who had preached nullification and talked States' rights five lustrums j before speech became powder and shot and bloodshed. . j j The westering sun bathes inj golden glory one of Ihe mostj prominent mon- .monta !t tliiu ntj rf!thf lf:ld-f St. slfiTl- , k U lliljlll.l ill 1 ' ' ' -- . - ...... IVopnetor I , . , , , -J ; tier anoj graceini untrjoie suani crown ing a turfed hillock jvhich, from time to time1, blooms wijh the profligate beauty of flowers th.it bespeak assidu ous and indefatigable cave Ifor the memory of the tenant of the tomb. On the face that is turned toward the sun set is the inscription:: I j MARikRFr Pickfs.De Rockeli.e dec. 24, 18(i4. j i ! When South Carolina seceded from the Union and lit the fires of eivir war her governor was Francis W bardment ever inflicted upon an Amer ican city. All the lower patt of the town was swept by day and night by Gilmore's 300-pounder sheila and for saken by its populatien. The roar of the artillery fire upon Fort Sumter and the other defensive works was well- 1 . 1 ! . 1 I 1 . 1 W-fc 1 nign incessant, wnue me oame upon siigntiy nun, Dut miss ricKens was Morris Island for the possession of prostrate and saturated with ths blood Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg,, the that streamed from where her shoulder freqtent skirmishes between the recon-1 had been cruelly torn by a fragment of noitering boat parties, the engage the shell. A snrgeou pronounced her ments of the fleets, and such torpedo j dead, but when she was laid upon expeditions as tnat wnicu oiew up ine couch she slightly revived and en Federal gunboat Housatonic left few deavored to speak, each heave of her uneventful days in the history of the breast causing the blood to flow in on long and bloody siege. The hospitals increasing current. of the city Overflowed with wounded De Rochelle approached her side and men, the care of whom was largely en- placed his ear close to the lips that trusted to an organization of volunteer were painfully struggling to utter in- nurses, of which Miss Piekens was a tlligible words. Her eyes sought the member. clergyman with a look that begged him To her charge fell, in the autumn of to draw nigh. He did so, and de Ro 18G4, Lieutenant Andre de Rochelle, of chelle, catching,as by anspiration, her the First South Carolina regiment of meaLing. asked her if she would have 1 11 Tt I.i ! a .1 artillery, a command or wntcn tseaure- me remainder or trie ceremony per gard said it had' not its superior in any formed before she died. Again she army in the world. It had held ; Fort made the effort to speak and failed, and Sumter during the terrific fire j that the surgeon warned them that her Jife crumbled the great stone .walls into was ebbing fast ; but the consent which fragments and a piece of bursting shell she could not voice found expression in had struck deV Rochelle down with an inflection of the head what was seemingly a mortal " wound. Then the clergyman, with . his robe He wa3 removed to a hospital under stained from the wound he had re the direction of Surgeon Jeffrey, of the I ceived, stood over the couch of the Confederate service, and for the many dying woman, whose hand had sought days in which he lay there, nearer I that of her lover, and proceeded with death than conscious l'fe,Miss Pickens the leading of the holy ritual in the was his devoted attendant. There had apartment from which the slain had not been no previous acquaintanceship yet been removed and whete the blood between the beautiful nurse and her was still fresh and reeking. Wlienhe gallant patient, and she had merely put the question whether she would cone to his bedside in the first instance have the man beside her for her as she might have gone to that of any wedded husband her attempt HOTEL, S C, ' Cleines! and jPickens, a member of the slaveholding aristo cracy that boasted bt its blue blood, and. like the feudalisvstem of! which it was-a modern simulacrum, occasion ally developed noble and admirable Eoiest City Hotel, - FOREST CITYi N. C. I. N. BIGGERSTAFF pRorRLETon Iiwjj&i'.i nd turuiture new. Everv thing in first-class sjtyle. Kates low 1 the house. First-- tvnea of men and women. To that 1 " ' J .... rank Governor Pickens was ; entitled, and of all the fair ajnd lovable women to whom his distinguished family had given birth no one was sweeter or more bcautif ul.thai) the daughter who, when Major Anderson lowered th$ flasr on Sumter, was budding into charming womanhood. . It has been truly said that the war VfCk prolonged other suffering soldier; but he owed his life'to her unflagging care, and when he had passed the point of dan ger, gratitude was mingled with a warmer eentiment. The by-play of love ran on unchecked in the fierce theatre of war, and they became j A Ul Man . Died jit his home in Number 8 town ship, Cleveland county, on the morn ing of the 10th of May, Adam H. F. ElhoJit, aged about eighty-three years, From thebest information that I have, the deceased was born in Nottoway eoanty, Va., in 1804 or 1805. Hisfath er,.MartiH. Elliott, emigrated to ' this eoitnfj (then Rutherford) apd settled between First Broad River and Brushy Cwefc, where he reared'a largo and re spectable family. This man was the ast of that family, all the others hav ing 'passed over the river" years ago lie was, during his long lire, a very unpretentious man, a member of the Methodist church for more than half a century, loved his God and always paid: his preacher. His house was al n-ay$ open to the poor and needy' and e was never known to say -'No'1 to a neighbor in distress. He lived a quiet Irnd peaceable life.dispensing many lit tie chanties an J kindnesses and was highly respected by a large number of acquaintances. Ho leaves an aged (widow and qrvte a number of daugh ters 'married to respectable men in the county. Peace to his ashes. C i Mtxlnr Food for Ntoek. LAST WEEK IV Tilt: STATE. Finnn. to answer brought on the paroxysms of mortal dissolution. Foam flecked her lips and her face became ashen gray, but with a finjil and supreme ex ertion she murmured, "I will." Christ mas came in at midnight with the thunderingdiapason of the never-silent pledged to marry. They were of equal cannonade, and the morning aim broke social rank, Lieutenant de Rochelle upon the dead face of Margaret Pick having a lineage that reached the Hu- ensile Rochelle. And this is the story gueuot settlement of the state. told by the marble in the Christ Church The marriage was appointed for the home of the silient majority and re Christmas eve of 1864, in the gloom membered by Chariestomansuntorget that then overshadowed the beleagu- inl of the beauly and grace ot the eredtown. It was a sombre holiday daugntner or ooutn Carolina snrst war season for the beople driven from Governor. Philadelphia Pres their shattered homes" by the steady rain of shot and shell, nearly xhanst-1 - Rev. J. S. Moffat has been installed ed of the commonest necessaries of life, pastor of the Associate Re formed Pres- and shrouded in mourning for lost bytenan church at Chester, members of every household. The Pickens family mansion was! Col. W. S. Smith died at his home within the line of fire from the Federal i at Liberty, Pickens county, on May 9, batteries, and months previously had aged 62 years, after a lingering illness been abandoned. . -Miss Pickens had of three months with Bright's disease, been received, into the residence of her He was for many years a merchant at relative, General Rhett, "which was Belton, Anderson, and afterward en supposed to be beyond the range of gaged in business at Liberty. For their gufis, and had so far escaped be- several years, however, he has been ing hit by any of the monstrous pro- buying cotton. He leaves a widow jectiles that flew into the city. . On and eight children. Tt is well known that a varietv of food for stock is better than any one kini, partly.for one reason,that no one food contains the full elements of nu trition in their light proportions. But with1 ruminants, giving variety ia not enoagh. t.Tney will do better if the dif ferent kinds are mixed before feedinjr. thai they may all come np and be re-" masticated. -. Neither the full benefit of haypor grain is secured by feeding sep arately. It is commonly supposed thai the loss is chiefly in fee grain, whith is too hastily and greedily swal lowed to be thoroughly digested. But there is also a los in the less palatable forage, which, being eaten with little lefish does not tike with it enough sal iva lo make sure of its thorough diges tion, V Whatever .is eaten with good appetite does most good, though this ruile. is of scarcely any practical import ance to any except human beings. Dumb animals never eat unless they arje hungry, and their hunger is for what has most , nutrition instead of dainties to tempt the palate. Progress iv'e.' Farmer. r . - i.. ' ' j j ' Urd BorMrard'i Onriair. I While canteriug on, suddenly an army of Zulus rose up in front of ns. Gem Buller immediately ordered, the men back. Two men were shot, one dead and one wounded. Lord Beres foroT. lookine back, saw the wounded iriati"and . determined to save ' hini. There was just a chance and he gal loped to the fallen man. Dismount in g, lie proceeded to assist him on his ofynChorse, but the goldier said that Beresford was to sare his own life and rbt risk two where one' was necessary. Beresford,Aising some rough language said ie wOnld punch the soldier's head if he'did not do as he was told. The t ont safelv on the hoise and es- - " r . eaned iust as the Znlus came up Bjeresford is an Irishman and gained the Victoria Cross for his daring. London iter.. New York Mail and Express. Job work neatly executed at Thk New Era Office. , Ar. H. A. James, the young man severely wounded with a sword during the parade at the railroad cele bration at Clinton a short time ago, has almost entirely recovered from theiiujuries he received. The plug tobacco factory of Corbett, 'af'ton & CoJ,at Durham, was destioy- ed by fire last Monday night. Noth ing; was saved. . Loss $16,000 ; in surance about $12,000 ; It is supposed to lave leen struck by lightning. The farmers of Guilford and ad joining counties will hold a Farmers Institute at Benbow Hall, in Greens- borio, May 'lOth and 21st. Several prominent gentlemfen of the state will make addresses, among them Dr. C. WJ, Dabneyi and Col. L. L, Polk, of Raleigh. ' Mr. G. C.j Scotield, of New York, has determined to build t steamer for th French Broad river and will run it between Asheville and Brevard. . It will be a pleasure ajnd excursion boat, designed to give tourists and others the opportunity to see some of the finest' scenery in North Carolina. i Mr. F. M. Murchison, late editor of th Jefferson, Ash County; AppaUtrhian Philosopher, has gone to Westerly, Rhode Island, to take charge, of the Westerly News, a paper which he has bought from the editor, Mr. J. Warren Gardiner, who has become editor of thfe Appalachian Philosopher, the two gcjutlemen having .exchanged papers. The North Carolina Classis of the Reformed Chureh met in Cuncord last week. The opening sermon was preached by . Dr. Clapp, the retiring President, and about ten ministers were in attendance;. Rev. ' Paul Bar linger, of Rowan, ": was elected Presi dent for the ensuing year. Ou Sun day the several pnlpits' of the town were filled by Reformed ministers. f !'!'!. ' A report jeomes from Joues county that the $unmon graveyard, near Oliver Landiug, on Trent river, was recently raided and. one of the graves Opened and the case, supposed to have been a melalic one!, and the head and fot stonesj.were carried off. The par ties were tracked for sotne distance to Whiere it appeared a cart was in wait- in? and no further trace, eould be made. Ketr Berne Journal. i ? At 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning of last week, about three hours be fore the Arizona earthquake humped itself, Mr; Waightsill Palmer, who lives near Petra Mills and, was at work in the field near his house, heard a rattling sound in the South resembling the rumbling of a ; rail way t rain jover a? trestle.. As he is not near enough to a railroad track to hear such a noise, Uej surmises that he must have heard the premonitiou of an earthquake. emur Topic. ru. " . I The proposition published in the Topic to have a re-union of the- survi vors of company B., N. C. S. T., at Wilkesboro on the 28th of May met mth. a qnick response in the afflrma pye and te take that there will be an enthusiastic meeting of veterans there en that occasion. There seems to be a disposition to broaden the idei arid to have a reunion of all the vete rans of Wilkes county at the same time and place. ' ' A very good idea. tinoir Topic. ' ; . i "' f ;Mr, Thomas M. Vance left Lenoir fast week'for "Gombroon," the rest dnceof his father; Senator Vance hear Black Mountain. Mr. Vance will soon leave i North Carolina Zor "Washington Territory, having de- puled to locate at Seattle in that far off territory. We are unaffectedly sdrry'thai Lenoir is to lose our triend who has been an honored jind popular resident here for three years. North Carolina, in losing thus talented son gives'to the North west a gen tleman and a lawyer of -, whom . we expect io1 hear great things in the future. Wenoir Topic. ' I - i ' ,1 ' I A young .man by the name Donahoe oneway last , week walked from his home in Chesterfield county, C, a distance of 40 miles, to Mon e, without eating a mouthful, having left home before breakfast. - He , had an order bn Messrs. Crowell & Son for $4 worth of goods, which he invested in a pairlof boots, a straw hat and ibarlow knife, lie hmshed trading ;ahd started on the return trip about '""clock, still without anything to; eat except a lot of sugar which Johnny Fletcher gave him. He wanted the boots to enable him the better to in vade the huckleberry- swampsi sur rounding his home. Monroe Enquirer anil Express. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met in IRaleigh on Wednesday. There are 36 active lodgejj m the state, with 1,1(59 members. During the last 3ear relief has been given to 125 persons, involving an expenditure -of $1,9S5.81. The newly elected officrs are Grand Master, W. A. Bobbin, Oxford ; De puty Grand Master, Rev. J. H.' Cor don, Wilson ; Grand Warden, Dr. Jno. H. Pool, South Mills ; Grand Secreta ry, B. H. Woodell, Raleigh; rand Treasurer, R. J. Jones, WilmingtCn. Appointed officeVs ; Grand Marshal, N. R. Richardson, Smithfield ; Grand Conductor, W. T. West, Hamilton ; Grand; Guardian, Jonathan White, Greenville ; Grand Herald, E.. T B. Glenn,! Fayetteville ; Grand Chaplain, Rev. A. H. Stnbbs, Greensboro, j The next meeting will be held at Greesboro on the second Tuesday in May, 1S88. ISTIIE JVKMiHBOKHOOIK. i From the Lincoln Courier.) ' Married, May 8, by L. D. Hayues Esq., Mr. James J. Hayes to Miss Bet tie Camp, all of this county. ' '' Mr.rD. S. McBee, civil engineer of this county, left last week for Ala bama, to make a survey for a railroad through some portion. of that state. Over a month ago some low, uaprin- I t 111 m. cipieu, wonniess viuian ettected an entrance into Zion 'jhurch, in the Ja cob s; Fort neighborhood and stole the sacramental wine, with jug and all. Last Friday night during a thunder i shower, a bolt of licrhtning struck one of the shade trees in Mr. Ranssaur's yard only a' short distance frajn his dwelling, throwing pieces of thi tree against the house on his piazza. A few window glass were broken near his wife's head, w;-ere she was ii bed. JMIl'TII AKOLIXA M:WS. What our Neighbor in lit Ih!mi Slat: r. cloinK.A IlnUtcrt I of MalterM . , In Urncrnl. the commissioners of Greenville county have completed their arrange ments with the national bank and money is now ready to pay the salar ies of the teachers. School certificates arei theretore, once more worth "their Lface value in cash. J, i Will Garrett launched his steamer on White's mill pond last Friday. The engine works well and the boat made several trips carrying thirty-five to forty people each time. He will run this boat during the summer for pleas ure excursions. Spartan. I Mr. Joseph Wylie, of Chester, re cently bought a beautiful house, for which he paid $2,500. The same dav he made a deed of this desirable prop erty to the elders and deacons and their successors of tlie Associate Re formed Presbyterian ehnrch of .Cheri ter for use as a rjarsonacn. I William Vaughn, colored, died near Laurel Creek, this county, on Sunday night. He was said to be 103 years old and to have been a Methodist preacher 59 years. Before the war he was the : slave of Pinkney Vaughn; and the recollection of very old citi Etns makes it ceitain that his life was an unusually long one, although posU tive evidence that he was as old as claimed is lacking. Greenville News. I (From the McDowell Bugle.) j Miiss Mary Lackey, sixteeu years of age aad. daughter, of James Lackey,;; died last Saturday with pneumonia. A male member of Mr. Lackey's family is also very low with same disease, j ! i. We hear that the gold mines in racket Town and vicinity are being operated successfully. r Mrs. Anna Daily, living near Marion ias been very low the past week5 with pneumonia. . ; We learn that a negro boy named 0)ieal was accidentally shot and killed at Mr. Jake Price's near BridgB water last Thursday. A boy named Ruth erford was carelessly handliugiia gu.i when: the same fired and killed Oneal. A HAD EDI roil FKUN WAY 1U( K. lie salntM lila lnarlilpr"n wnitior and n rKos liliu np. We dislike to discuss family matters in onr columns, as everybody knows;, but the story that Jeff Tarleton is tell ing around town about our difficulty ast Tuesday night is a lie such as no body but a dirty coyote would be guit 4y of. , We have heard of him and his gassing at Dan Ureeghen's saloon. The facts are that we told this red headed sloueh to stop keeping company with our ' daughter. When ; we rkurned home last Tuesday night ahWt 12 o'clock we found him just leaving out front porch. - There were words, and we admit calling h-m a greasy ;trampi When he made a pass for us we grab bed him by the whiskers, and when he The committee appointed by the cit- -izens' meeting Monday night last week held a meeting on Wednesday night and decided tobnya steam fire eu gine auddig cisterns asadefenceagainst fire.The committee on the graded school held a meeting and decided to appoint three sub-committees one to locate tho building, one to raise, funds and . the other to procure plans, etc., fora"tf building. Roeillill correspondentYorlviti Enquirer, i r: We learn that on last Friday, Mr. W. Norman Elder, who lives near! Iruthrie8ville, in this county, was mur-i derously assaulted by one of the color-' ed hands employed on his ' farm; It' seems that Mr, Elder Was in the act of. weighing out some provisions to 4im,j when, without a word of warning and i in the absence of any disagreement, the negro struck Mr. Elder a severer' blow in the face, knocking out some of his teeth and bruising him badly. . Mr. Elder fell senseless and his assailant; escaped. AsMr.Elder is a very peacea- - ble man, not given to altercations ofi any kind, the attack upr.n him is inex-i plicab'.e. .He was seriously hurt and; may be confined to. his bed for several days from the effects of the assault. f Yortrilk Enquirtr . , David T. Blackwell, a white man, ias been living on W rs. Randolph . Turner's plantation. He is a tockma son, and has a wife and several child ren. Sometime ago he went to Asht- ville and kfter stayiog there - several -weeks he returned home last Monday and that night took a fine mule from Mrs. Turner's stable and left." After going to the vicinity of Asheville and trying to sell the mule he again " re turned home and put it in the' stable. While in Asheville he took ' out' a li cense and married another woman. He has gone again. He" came from North Carolina aud worked ' here in Spaitanburg several years ' We here by serve notice on the Governor "of North Carolina that no requisition'will -be sent for him. We mnch prefer the mule to the man.- Spartan. f The State Department of Agricul- of .the back, and the only regret now m that we did not break his back bone, The-licthat he tells is that we 4rew gun, which he snatched and then ran usinto thehouse . Nobody sawtthe fra cas, and of course he can He, butoha Hapgoode across the way heard the salute that we gave him as he clawed the gravel down the BtreeL j Donf comH onr wav a train 1 Jefferson. Kiel apoo Sentinel. ,- - ; 'j broke away we kicked him in the sma!Jlt,ul.e has received 239 reports from the i "fhia year is the "seraireentennial p Davidson College and the students are making preparations for a grand cele bratipn at the next commencement In addition to the usual exerciser, sev eral of tie most distinguished of David son's Alumni will deliver orations n honor of the occasion. The buildings will be decoiated and the grounds il luminated and every effort will be made to render the affair a .success. Since 1837 eighteen hundred anil sixty eight students have attended Davidson and of this number five hundred ' and seventy-one graduated.-, Rev.j R. H. Morrison, D. D., who was the first President jot tho college, Is still livfng. He graduated at the State University in 181S, in the same class with Janies Ki Polk, afterwards President of jhe United States. .Polk was first loiur man in the class and Morrison second. In 1825 Dr Morrison was-Moderator of the Synod of North Carolina; in 1837 he assumed the duties of President of Davidsou College. CharlotU Chronicle. Subscribe for The New Era. special county cot respondents regard ing the area and condition of the crops to the 4th instant. The spring seasons have been unusually favorable for -preparation of land and planting. It is estimated that in average years 78 per ceuk of spring planting is finished by May 1, but for the present ' year 85 per cent has been completed.owing to the unusually favorable seasons. Veg etables have been somewhat retarded ; by cool, dry weather, and such crops as are up have been injured by high winds. Rain was very general through out the state the last week in April, causing decided improvement in the condition of all the crops. The out look i tins date is more cheerful than it his been since 1882. ' , , ' ? Vn-7 :v ;.'-;.i ''''' " ' ' ' ": ' " '(' - One day l8 ' week Geortf Wood hurst was accidentally killed ,by his : brother Andrew The accident occur red about seven miles from Abbeville. ' The two brother..- were at work in the' field replanting corn, when they saw . some partridges. Their sister being ' sick they decided- to kill some of the birds tor her. George went to the house for the gun and returning, gave it to Andrew, his older brother, who is about grown. -In-4janding the gun ' to Andrew he gave him the butt end, and as Andrew took hold of the gun his finger must have touched the trig ger, for it went off and the load of shot entered George's head : just be hind the ear, killing him instantly . It is supposed that George - cocked the gun as he returned .with it from the house. He was about fifteen years 6f age. ! i - " i '1 i " 4; 1 - r -i ' ,i f J N