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VOLUME XI. JLENTOIR, 1ST. C, MARCH 23, 1909. NO. 40
How the Scout got His Breakfast
Timet Democrat.
"We were on oar way to Mary
land," said 'Sqnire Hilton, "and
fust before our cavalry reached the
Potomac we were ambushed by a
party of yankees. A sharp skir
mish followed, but we extricated
ourselves and proceeded across the
Potomac at Leesbary into Mary
land, and our forces rested in Fred
erick. Being a member of (Jen.
Hampton's scouts, I was sent down
the road towards Washington the
next day to look out for yankeo. I
was riding all day and as I had not
brought much rations with me I
did not have any supper that uight.
The next morniog I was hungry
and, as I was riding along sum up,
I began faintly to catch the odors
arising in someone's kitchen-
"You know when you are hun
gry you can smell something to eat
a long ways ofl. Well, I began to
look around aud far off on one side
of the road I spied a beautiful
grove. Sniffing once or twice to
make sure of my bearings, I turn
ed my horse's head towards the
grove. Soon I arrived iu front of
a beautiful home. There was a
white fence extending around the
yard and a beautiful lawn reach
ing from the house to the gate. The
grass was green and well kept and
everything presented the appear
ance of beauty. On the broad
piaza which extended around the
house I could see the figure of a
man walking back and forward
with his hands clasped as his back.
Hailing him, I asked him to come
down to the gate. He leisurely
descended the steps and approached
me.
"When he reached the gate I
politely told him I had not eaten
anything for some time and would
like to get breakfast from him. I
had on a blue uniform but under
neath my coat I wore a gray jacket.
The man looked me over but spied
that piece of gray.
"You are a rebel he replied, and
ca't eat any breakfast of mine."
"Reaching back into my holster
I pulled out a pistol, and, leveling
in on him said, "You call a set-
vant and tell him to bring me a
waiter containing something of
svervthine in your house to eat or
I'll null this trigger as sure as
fate!" and he saw I meant it.
"John, he called, b.iing a large
waiter of something to eat down
here and hurry up"
"Pretty soon I saw John coming
and. sure enough, he had every
thing, fried chicken, eggs, ham,
sausage, rolls and what not.
Raising the Haps of my saddle bags
I told him to dump the waiter.
This he did, and then I sent him
back to the house slill covered aud
forbidding him to move until I was
out of sight, I rode away. Well,
sir, that was the best breakfast I
ever ate, I really eujoyed it.
"Several years ago while attend
iug a reunion in Richmond I met a
man from Frederick and on en
quiry found that he knew the man
who had furnished me my break
fast. I sent him word to come
down to Charlotte and spend
while visitiug me. I never heard
anything from my inv '.taiiou and a
few years ago there came here from
Frederick a gentlemen who opened
a cigar factory. In talking with
him one day I related the incident
and described the house at
which I had got my breakfast
This gentleman said he knew the
man who lived there and that he
would sec him on his next trip up
that way. I told him totell him
to come down and spend a week
with me and I worPd give him a
good time.
"Well, shortly afterward this
gentleman made a visit to Freder
ick and on his return to Charlotte
I asked him if he had seen my
friend.
"Yes," he replied.
"Did he say he remembered
me!"
"He said he could never forget
you. Ho said the bullets in your
pistol looked like cannon balls
that morning."
"What did he say in regard to
my invitation! ' Is he coming to
see me," I asked.
"I told him that you sent him a
cordial invitation to come down
and spend a while with you," re
plied the gentleman, "and he
looked at me in somewhat of a
peculiar way and said: "You tell
that man that I say for him to go
to the."
"Now, didn't that show appre
ciation of my invitation?"
Picked up Here and There.
Morris Cohen, grocer of Atlanta,
tried on a charge of storing and
soiling intoxicants in violation of
the prohibition law, was Friday
sentenced in the city court to serve
thirty days in the stockade and to
pay a fine of $500. Recently a
thousand bottles of beer and 100
flasks of whiskey were seized at
Cohen's place.
Monroe Journal: Two farmers
were yesterday talking about the
local papers, and how interested
everyone is in them. "I read
everything in the Journal," said
one, "even tue advertisements.
I do, too," replied the other. "I
am just as interested in what our
home merchants are saying as in
the news in the paper." And so
t is all along the line. The peo
ple are loooking to the columns of
the papers for store news as well as
every other kind, and the mer
chant whosename is not found
there isn't cutting much ice.
Matthew Ferris, a negro truck
man of Fayetteville, died Monday
afternoon from drinking a bottle of
blind tiger whiskey, expiring about
15 minutes after imbibing the
iqr.or. Ferris was given a dollar
to secure a quart by a white man;
When Ferris returned, not finding
his man, he proceeded to drink the
stuff himself with the result that a
quarter of and hour later he tell
across a table in his home dead;
Novel Place For Distillery.
Asheville, March 13. A fine
old copper still aod a barrel con
taining twenty-five gallons of raw
"blockade' ' liquor have been plac
ed iu the building occupied by
Revenue Agent Sams, aud repres
ent the results of a raid made by
revenue officers in McDowell
couuty a day or two ago. The name
of the alleged moonshiner is not
divulged. It is said that the still,
a big copper affair, was found le
ueath the kitchen of the man sup
posed to be blockading, and so cou
eealed that it was only by accident
found. The raiders had been tip
ped to the location of the still or
pklce where whiskey was sold, and,
visiting the place, found a consid
erable quantity ol "corn juice" and
many bottles. There was plenty
of evidence of a "blind tiger,"but
none of a still. Finally one of the
officers, by accident, discovered a
door leading beneath the kitchen,
aud, investigating, found the
blockade uistiiers well rigged up
nd ideally located.
Chicken Fiht in S. C.
Charlotte Observer.
A big cocking maiu between
North and South Carolina was
pulled off at a point bout two miles
southeast of Bowling Green, in
this county, Tuesday of last week.
Several similar affairs have taken
place in the same neighborhood
during the past two or three years,
much to the regret of the good peo
ple living in that section. The
affairs are said to be promoted by
a man who lives across the line in
North Caroliua.
The laws of North Carolina pro
hibit cock-lighting where the birds
are supplied witn gaits, while
there is no law on the subject in
C. It is said that few, if
any, ot tne large crowd attended
the recent event above referred to
ive in S. C. and that the
leaders of the North Carolina
crowd came from Hickory. The
Tar Heels claimed to have won 13
out of 16 fights. It is also claimed
that at these mains large sums of
money change hands in poker
games played on the side.
A Fine Bunch of Cattle.
StatcHville Landmark.
Quite a number of farmers and
and others were on the square
Wednesday morning to see the tine
lot of beef cattle which were ship
ped by Supt. Meacham, of the
State Farm, and the Henkel Live
Stock Co. The 25 head which
were fed at the Farm uuder Mr
Meacham's personal management
weighed about 30,000 pounds, an
average 1,204 per head, and the
head fed by the Henkel Com
pany weighed 40,000 pounds.
The three largest steers in the
bunch were from the Henkel lot
and weighed 1,600 each. There
were about 80 head in the whole
lot, those not fed by Mr. Meacham
and the Henkel company having
been fed by farmers in the county
Some of the cattle were fine speci
mens and all brought good prices
Mr. Redman, of Richmond, who
bought the cattle, says that he has
bought )y2z,000 worth ot catcle in
this section of the State this year
compared with $18,000 woith last
year. Cattle feeding is proving a
profitable industry in this section
and each year more are fed by our
people.
A wealthy ex-saloon keeper of
Winston was sentenced in the Re
corder's Court to the county roads
for twelve months for retailing
He appealed to the Supeiior Court
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Broker Flees With $117,000 In
Auto.
Los Angeles, March 18. Harry
D. Brown, the broker, is believed
to be speeding towards the Mexican
line with 117,000 in an automo
bile. A posse in autos are hurry
ing after him.
Hundreds of angry creditors be
sieged Brown's offiee today on the
report that he had disappeared.
His debts are said to aggregate
$200,000.
He came here from New York.
Virginia Drys Win in Court.
Richmond, Va., March IS.
The Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia today decided the Ward
law to be constitutional, the effect
of which is that certain towns and
cities, a majority of whose citizens
voted "dry" must remain "dry"
ough the "wets" contended that
many who . voted "dry" voted
illegally because they had not paid
their poll $ax. The decision is far
reaching in that it also involves
the legality of bonds issued tor
road aud others purposes in cases
it was claimed many of the voters
had not paid their poll tax.
It was held that the qualifica
tions prescribed by the constitution
for voters apple to elections held
for members of the general assemb
ly and all officers elected by the
people that this provision does not
prevent the legislature from pre
scribing the qualifications for an
electorate to vote in special elec
tions for which the constitution
does not provide.
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DoS Make Raid on Sheep.
Watauga Democrat.
Some dogs made a raid upon
the fine flock of sheep owned by
Mr. J. B. Councill last week, and
but for his timely appearance
upon the scene, sad havoc would
have been wrought upon his fine
flock. One of the pesky animals
was slain, but others are still at
large.
Girls Assailant Gets Five Years.
Freeland Tharye, the young
white man who was convicted in
Wilkes Superior Court of secret as
sault upon his sweetheart, Miss
Mary Ball, because she refused to
marry him, has been sentenced to
the State prison for a term of five
years.
Three Trainmen Killed.
Wilmington, March 18. The
Florida Limited train on the At
lantic Coast Line jumped the
track at Pikesvillc, near Wilming
ton, today, killing the engineer,
fireman and brakeman. The con
ductor and several passengers are
believed to be fatally hurt.
Express Landed in Waiting Room.
Montreal, March 17. Bostou
and Montreal express train, reach
ing here at J) o'clock today, ran
wild into the terminal station at
40 miles an hour, crashed through
a granite wall and landed the en
gine in the ladies' waiting room.
Between 10 and 12 were killed
instantly and many more were ser
iously iniured. Most of the vic
tims are women and children.
Two miles out from the city the
breaking of a stay bolt hurled the
engineer and fireman from the cab,
the train thundering on without
drivers.
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$2,500,000 to Southern Institu
tions.
New York, March 18. The
trustees of the Peabody Educa
tional Fund at a meeting at the
Waldorf-Astoria today voted to
distribute the money now on hand,
amounting to $2,500,000, rather
than continue donating small
amounts from the income of the
fund to the colleges of the country.
It was voted to give 1,000,000 to
the Peabody College for Teachers
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amounts of about $50, 000 each to
other colleges in the South.
SALE OHMIE STOCK!!
As executor of Samuel L. Pat
terson, deceased, I will sell for
cash at public auction at the Court
House door in Lenoir, N. C, at
12 o'clock, M.. on Saturday' Mch.
27, the following Stocks:
Fifteen shares of $100 each in
the Citizens' Light !t Power Co.,
of Lenoir.
Sixteen shares of $20 each iu the
Caldwell tS: Watauga Turnpike Co.
This Mch. 18th, 1909.
LINDSAY PATTERSON,
Executor of Samuel L. Patterson,
Deceased.