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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.
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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
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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. !
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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 ! ' '
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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 . -
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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. ' , , ' ?
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- 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
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