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THE TER ALFRE® MORGAN Editor and Proprietor. II. \ ^^BESURE YOU ARE RIGHY AND GO AIIEADN—David Crockett FRANKLIN, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1880. $1.00 per -Year. NO, 47. N. MALE A FEMALE. N.P. RANKIN, _ Pbxncipal. The 2nd term of .tliia Bckool opened on the •5th hist, witheiicou’ agtpg prOppocts. luitiou ranges troni |;'j to $15 pei' etission ot 20 weeks, contingent fee 50 cents, wliidi, witli one half the tuition bill, is required in advance —the residue at the end of term. The covernment k kind and parental, but iirm. Two courses of study are open to the ,pupil Biiglish atrd Oiassical—the former, for those seeking to tit themselves for the ordinary vocations of life—tlielatter, for those looking fo entrance into any of our Colleges. ‘Board can be had in good families on reasonable terms, ■flcvaral-donm^ries will soon be com- catt'lfe si^ured by students wish- ;iha t^q*rd thojusttves. y T' Any kpplicaflou for further information will toe cheerfully responded to by the Pnucasal or - d*airma»i ofjBoard of TruBtees: ■- J January, Ibao. . FRANKLIN HOUSE, Franklin, JDJC. Cuasmai.vjo:' ■'> Proprietor. f • Guests will j’aceivo evei'y attention they can wish. Uoraes and ‘mules always on * IuukI for Uire and sale. . • v. . ■* THE REPORTER AI.FRED .^lORGAN, Editor eL Ecop’r Feanklin, N. C ■ Apkil 2, 1880. IIV T«E ItlOUNTAIlVS. IIousK Cove, Macon Co., N C., 1 April 24Lh, 1880. \ tf A> vJ I.:/ ' PIEPER’S HOTEL, 3Iain Street, » ^ WAXIIALLA, S. C., 'W. II. PIEPEB. Proprieewr. H'cT Steal 25 cents. J’er Day $1 00 iVr B’cek. ^ ; 5 00 »i > F. POINDEXTER, AfcUitect & Builder, Fuanki.ix, Macon County, N. C. AVill furnish Designs and Plans, with Speci fications, loirethec with Estimates of Onaiitiries, and an approximate cost of materials and labor, tor PCBIJC AND PEIVATE BUILDIN08, Gfaurclies and SchooL Houses, on reasonable terms. Will suvcriiitcnd and execute the work when desired, llcfercnccs given when asked for. 32-ly INDIAN RELICS. I wish to buy all the Indian Relics in Mex’on eamiity. I’erso'ns having such will do wich to biiug them to the Betoutek ofticc. J. A. Deaj., Solo Agent in Macon County. Oak Grove School^ -Macon Oo,, X. C. (9 miles below Franklin) A. D. FARMER - - Principal. Hates of Tuition: In Preparatory Department, ^ Tnts»?i^diate I Jlligh School . $100 per Month 150 per Mouth 2 00 per Mouth i ^hc i|)risei)4 term Hosea about the 1st of May. For Another iiiftirmatioil addicss ■ i. i -> A. D. ' '^-Xlm ' Wesfs Mills, Macon Co., N. C. -tr- K '•> >1 K. ELIA! i > , » 1 “ Attornoy at Law, Fbankijn, Macon County, N. 0. Practices in the counties of Graham, Cher^ keo. Clay, Macon, Swain, Jackson, Haywood, Transylvania, Henderson, Bcncon.be and Mad ison and in the Snprtme and Federal Courts. Oeo. a. jqnes, Attorney at Law, Feanklin, Macon County, N. C. Pi-aetices in ail the Courts of the Ninth Judi- ;;ial District, and in the Supreme Bhd Federal Gourts. Special attention given to the collec- ion ofclaims in all parts of the State. ^ -A 1 , - Editor oj- the New Orleans Times : How many of your readers are aware that a lide of tweiity*four hours by rail will carry them into an utter change of scenery and climate, even from the flat lowlands of Louisiana into the portals of the Blue Ridge ? It,has seemed to me amazing that piir people, year in and year out, will take long journeys, or send their families on long journeys, from New Orleans, say to Wisconsin, or to the White Mountains, or even to the mountains ,of Virginia ; especially that they will make the disoial jour. ney from New Orleans to Chicago of two days and nights, over a coun. try flat, dull and forlorn, from the cypress swamps of home through the dreary cornfields of Illinois, with out a solitary si bt of interest to break the stupid moLotony th.at from Rapon Munchac the Chicago river, when one night and day will carry them to one of the romaiitio and picture?que regions ou the continent. 1 took my berth on the Mobile road, on the evening tram, lour days ago, and, after passing Bay St. Louis, ‘‘turned in,” and knew no more un til the morning, when the porter awakened mo for “breakfast in Mont gomery.” Montgomery well behind, one feels the journey is half ov^. It U only a short run to Atlanta, the wide awake, the enterprising, and the somewhat braggy little “Chicago of the South.” There is an hour or two to wait, then one steps into the cars of the Piedmont Air-Line railroad, and is whirled‘away along the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge. Atlanta is eleven hundred feet up in the air to begin with ! The high est city east of Denver in the coun try. There is no more charming ride byTrail in the United States than I enjoyed this afternoon. To the right lay the mountains, the last « * '■ * ' • ridge of the Apalachian system, their blue cre'sts rising in the distance aad purple in the sunlight. Single peaks like Yonah and , Stone Mountain stood out alone in solitary dignity. % Green valleys swept up between theta; and 'tuliiVated levels, verdrmt with the springing corn and cotton stretched to their feet. The air Was vivifying, a tonic to one from the lowlands, as it swept M down 'from the blue heights. At Mount'Airy th-0 road is fifteen hun dred feet above New Orleans. There cataract in the air, a sound of waters and of the v\aving of woodlands, and one’s eyes seek the grt-at Ira Ik Jf Yonah, heaving iiia Dutple shoulders out of the mist to he kissed by the ectt.ng sun! Again we speed over on the side of the groat moi-ntain range, un til, at eight, twenty .'x Imurs out of New Orleans, we stop qt Seneca City, in South Carolina, if^new railroad town, where the Bluji Ridge road crosses the Air Line, and my journey by rail is over. A night at Seneca, and then, in the dewy morning, after an early breakfast, a ride into heart of the hills. It is but an Lour, behind a pair of rapid grays, and we draw up to wa ter iu Walballa, the present termin us of the Blue Ridge road. The mountains lie around this place like an amphitheatre. The point I wish to reach is visiole from the gallery of the hotel. There heaves up the rocky mass of Whitesides, yonder the vast back of “Teriapin.” Stooley lifts bis shaggy front stiil nearer, and Rabun, with bis ‘ ball,” (a rocky mass, round as a billi.ard ball, restu.g on his bristling head), shines in the moruiug sun. Geoigia, North Car ol i r. a, Saw tl'- O. A i h A * heads together a few milos from here (we shall be in each in i^o space of our diive), and crown their heads with coronals of wooded cliff and t bald mountain suinmit.'| From \v aihalla it i.s * few miles, and our uioiiutuiQ asoont'hegins. The day is glorious in spiing sun- shine. The wood.s are aflame with aziloas and rhododendrons. The cooing of the wood-dove aud the cry of birds accompany us. The par tridgo (the pheasant, as he is called hsie) whirrs away as vvo pass. Now aud then there is the truculent gob* b!e of the wild turkey, soltcned by distance. f The road is rough s-jmetimes, but ulway’s ^iassabie and always safe. We skirt tho shoulder of a moun tain. Below us rt ars a leaping tor- \ rent, the foam flashing through the screen ofemboworitij^leaves. Springs of crystal and ice $old water gush out of the rocks heriand there, and send brooklets racing down into the gorges. Oaks, piuas and chestnuts overhang tbo roac^way. Bare, rug ged rocks rise now |nd then, weather- stained and wattr-worn, on . the mountain side. JSow wo dash down a slope into a woody hollow, and splash through the rushing ttream at the bottom, rolling on over its rocky or gravel y bed. then we rise again through the cool shadows of the mountain, till, as we near the summiU the panor ama of the blue crests swings away all aroiltid us to the horizon, like the blue swells of the ocean from a ship’s deck. Every furlong gives a new picture, rock and leafy' gorge. Theie is tiie j jicliio to digest anything, and all music of the falling water, the sigh- '‘'>und the graude^t scenery of ing of the wind in the June tops, the burn of insects and the call ol birds. All is life ard move^ mouniain, g'en, cataract and Wood*» land. Some of our Soutll^rn peop'e are m ent, and nature laughs in Lev; GUl the good things at Lbeir gladu-.'s.s., It is steadily' upward, over “Slump House, ’over “Kadis/’ over “Billings’” mountain. Eighteen hundred Lei. Two thousand feet. Twenty-five hundred. Still the little aneroid marks a steady rise as we crown each summit. And from each the mas/scs of VV’hitsldes, Chimney Top and Ter rapin swell grander and nearer. By the banks of the Chaltoogk, foaming headlong to the Savannah, iu a deep glen, a spring leaps alive from the mountain. We stop for lunch. I That over, and thirst quenched from the cool, dark basin of granite we continue. We ford the Chat- toogs^kWe ford it several times— shall^^brawling, and limpid as the ether, with the spotted trout darting through its shadowed pools. Before us, at last, risesan appar ently unpenetrated wall of mountain the river chafes and plunges five hundred feet below j the sounds of the wafer-fails iiceompuny us. We liCifr iho lAcnftifaic'' '*T not stopjicd. The road j^assts he- tvveen the Cliestiiut and Rich moun tains, along the narrow puss formed hy’ the oiithreaking river. Here be side us are “the fall.s,” a succession of leaps by' which tiie stream escapes fiom tliC glen. There a short turn doors also. A gentleman from Cnarleston is building a handsome hi use just on the luountain edge overlooking “ihe Cove.” (Near Highlands,) in a valley, a few miles away', CoL Hampton, of Mississippi, has. a summer house, and there one meets his brother, the S-nator, some- limes in tbo warm season. ^ And last 8umm«r a large number of^iNew Orleans people found health and enjoyment in what Prof. Morris, of Virginia, calls ‘‘this Abysiaian vale ” Tbe wouQtaioeers a,ro ao booest, hearty, primitive folk, the graodsoDS of tbe men who .beat Tarleton at King's Mountain. ,Tbey.,.are “behind the tunes,” peihaps. But I, for one, am not sorry, and’ think none the wc^se of them. But to you and me this is nothing compared to the fact that here in the hills, at our very doors, nature has built a sanitarium of woods and wa ters, of rauuiilain summit and seques tered flen, where, by ho short a and our ,Southern lowlands. 11. healio when tiie sun heats hot in ( RARV ERIXEM, $«00 • An tmineiit banker’s wife of— iU (U is a breath of the pine forest and the [ a u«w vision of glen and ea’aruct, of road, and i/orso Co\e l.es sprcui^iut before us iu tha heart of the hill'^. Black Rick, a tiiousand feet high, Ir Avns uarkly opposite the eritrance; its grim, j'recipitous sidtss seamed with .-'Cars and furrowed with rush ing torrents. The fl-iiiks of “Sedgy” and ‘‘Stooley,” wooded, or bare and rocky, veil I he sides of the valley. //ere the rivers are born. In this / valley the west branch of the Chat tooga take.s its rise, fed by the streams which, like silver lobboos, wind down through the green mountain glens. Two streams, fringed with alders and the wild grape vine, and flowering shrubs of many kinds, mingle through the valley till they meet near the gorge. Eighteen years ago the present wi’Her was (old in far Wisconsin, by a distinguished physician who had made climatology his specially, that here in tliete mountains is the Lea iest country on the globe. Others besides my old friend have begun to think so. A colony of Northern people have made a settle- meat beyond this valley (at Highn lands,) aad are advertising its advMi- tages east and north. There is* a perfeet atr; water $oft, dear and eold, out of the granite; not a musqnito; nights ceol enough for blankets in August ; an exhilaration in tbe air, a tooie io the act of ureatbing; ao ap- N. Y., lias iaduced the j roprielors i of that great medicine, IIoj) Bitters, to ofier 8600 in prizes to the yoiicg- est child that say's Hop BIttcis plainly' in any' language, bet ween Miy' 1, 1880, and July 4, 1881. This is a liberal and interesting offer, and everybody and his wife should send two cent stamp to the Hop Eiiu-rs Mfg Co . Rochester, N. Y., U. B. A., lor circular, giNing full particulars, at d begin at once lo teach the chil dren to bay i/op Bitters and secure the prize. Mr i/onry E. Coiton, lunucily ed itor of the Asheville Spectator, but now of Knoxville, Tenu., writes to a gentleman of this place : ‘‘I look upon the completion of the Knox ville and Augusta Road (Rabun Gap Short Line) as a fixed fact, in three years, and no one will rt-Joice more than niy.self at the jiro.-perily it must c riain.y bring to your country and people.” ADVEUTI.¥ING CUEATf*. It has become so coininon lo w rite the beginning of an elegant, inter esting article and then run it into eomo advertisement that wc avoid all such cheats snd simply call at tention lo the ttcrils of Hop Bitters io as plain honest terms as pubsihle, to indqce people to give them ouo trial, as ao one who kaows their value will ever use anything else. Ralph Waldo Emerson divides his time between selling milk and writ ing poetry.
The Western Reporter (Franklin, N.C.)
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