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r rvcrJ H. C. MARTTISr, EDITOR, AND PliOP. . AjST TNBEPETSTDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. PRIOE 81 .00 TI IK YEAR. YOLinCE VIII. LENOIR, NV C., MAY 11, 1900. NO. 44. 5 i q ti'lO PRIZED NORTH CAROLINA FLAG. It Was Borne by aState Regiment y In the First Battle of the'War. v r ,' " -. r, . .,- - . ;; Richmond (Va.) Times. ' . ? iThe State of North iCarolina has Ii ita great museum in Ilaleigh one V-; othe most interesting and histori- thl of all the flags used during the ' cdyil war. It is? known as the ; v'ipethel,flag, taking its name v ' from the first regular battle of that great struggle. It was fought in Virginia June 10, 1861, and in it f " the First North Carolina Regiment v of Volunteers lost Henry A. Wyatt, ; the first Confederate soldier killed in a. pitched battle. The First North Carolina Regiment was " formed of companies which had, ; . responded to the Governor's call long before North Carolina had seceded from the Union, the date , of this State's secession being May 20, aud some of these companies ' had been in possession t of the coast forts since early in April, 1861. The regiment was mobilized at Raleigh, its Colonel j)eiug Daniel Harvey Hill, who afterward rose to be Lieutenant General. The regiment was hurried to the front, and so it was its fortune to be at Bethel. Some of the Federal forces had Ikhmi tehind a dwelling house during the fight ou the bat tle ground, and five men volun teered to burn it. Wyatt, a youth under twenty, was one of the five, aud another was Robert If. Brad ley, now Marshal of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The five were members of Compauy A. from ITarboro, N. C. A bullet which came, it seems, from Feder al troops in a piece of woods near the house, struck Wyatt amj mor tally wounded him. He was a native of Virginia, but had lived at Tarboro, where he was employed, and he is buried in Plat K. in the great Hollywood i ICmeterv, at Richmond. The First Regiment was so gal lant in this action that the State Convention, then in session, order ed that the word "Bethel" lie in scribed upon its flag. "Stars and Bars," the iiumler of stars in the field of the flag being only eight, as up to that time only eight States had seceded, North Carolina lieing the eighth. (Hose by the flag in the museum is the smokestack of the noted Cort federate ram Albemarle, which was built in a cornfield ou the Roanoke River, and which played such havoc among the Federal fleet in the North Carolina sounds, the smokestack bearing the marks of more than two hundred shot, shell and bullets. The Albermarle, it will lie re membered, was sunk as she lay at her wharf at Plymouth, Lieuten ant Cushlng, of the United States Navy, having, with extraordinary personal daring, exploded a tor pedo Under her, his act being one of the most gallant in the annals of warfare.' A niMW af the artiinr of Y- the All)emarle is beside the smoke r stack, this armor having leen made from .old railroad iron taken in North Carolina and sent to the Tredger Iron Works at Richmond, where it was rolled into plates not quite two inches in thickness. , Jude Council. OokUboro Argus. i Our police officers say that since '' the recent term of Superior court, ; blind tigers have been 'scarce and hard to find. We would like to have Judge Council with its just J. one more court and some juries like we had at the last term aud whis key selling will be a thing . of the past. ; He deals with' criminals in - a manner calculated to teach them to respect and obey the law. . 1 Federation for Methodists. Birmingham, Ala., May 9. At today's session of the general con-' ference of the, Methodist Episopal Church, south, a "plan of federa tion was introduced in a resolution offered by James A Li Anderson and others. ' : ! ' " ' '' It proposes that the southern conference, appoint commissioners with a view to forming a federal council, to be composed of like commissioners from the Methodist Episcopal Church, the purpose of which council shall be to prepare ahd submit to the ensuing general conferences of the two churches, respectively, such a plan of federa tion as shall divide all American Episcopal Methodism into not less than three administrative bodies. The resolution was referred. The conference adopted that por tion of the report of the committee on Iwundaries giving the north Georgia conference four years more in which to clear the matter of changing its boundaries. The re quest of the pastors of Knoxville that the boundaries of the Holstou conference be tetter defined was concurred in'. The committee on itinerary reported by non-concur rence in memorials from various conferences asking that the author ity to license local preachers 1 transferred from the district to the quarterly .conference. The special committee named to consider concerning the new state ment of Methodist faith and doc trine recommended the passage of the resolution proposed, with the understanding that the prepare uon oi ure statement snail (e un dertaken by the commission only when such co-operation of other representatives liodies of Metho- uists snail nave iieeii secured as n i i ii i shall make it an expression of world-wide Methodism. The unusual scene was presented in Birmingham tonight of a full blooded African addressing at the First Methodist church an audien ce which was so large that stand ing room in the great building was at a premium. The Rev. W. 8. Shepherd, mis sionary to the Congo Free State, and fraternal delegate to the Me thodist church, was the speaker, and for an hour and a half the au dience hung upon his words as he related his thrilling experiences as a missionary in the heart of the Dark Continent. Near the close,, as he spoke of the great work the church is doing by making possible the spread of Christianity in that country, ap pealing forvmore men to aid in the work, many of the bishops of the church and prominent visiting churchmen, as well as hundreds of the audience, were touched to tears by the speaker's appeals for furth er effort among the African trilies. High Point Aroused. Charlotte Observer. High Point, May 9. The com mittee appointed to ascertain the amount of damage that will result and also to secure options on rights ot way tor the new railroad are prosecuting their work and will le ready to report at the next called meeting, which will likely take place the last of the present week. High Point is thoroughly aroused over the very promising prospects of a competing line and is doing her part in the matter to secure it. In fact, she will do anything reason able to secure the road, for it is i necessity, It is safe to say that the road will come, for there is unlim ited capital behind the project and it will prove a paying business. The road will connect with the Seaboard Air Line and it is ta lked that this road is a real pro moter of the enterprise, although the gentlemen here have not said so. In fact, they have not made' public what road the line would connect with, but there are only three great trunk lines where a con nection could be made: the Sea board Atlantic Coast Line and the Norfolk & Western. To a commit tee appointed at the meeting the exact line with which connection will be made was made knowitand these gentlemen are will satisfied. It is expected to have the road iu operation between here and Thom asville and on to the end of Capt. Jones, line inside of two years, if the deal is made. Veterans of Lower Creek Town ship Editor The Lenoik News: Thinking it might be interesting so some of your readers to know that Lower Creek township boasts of having more living Confederate veterans than any township in the county aud possibly more than any rural township in the State. Veterans' names: Henry Steele, M. E. Thompson, El Cauey Austin, Thos. Barlow, B. Coffey, M. 1). Smith, G. R. (lark, G. W. F. Harper, George Taylor, L. J., Swanson, Sampson Swanson, J. A. Dula, 8. M. Whit- uer, John Sides, A. P. Puett; A. C. Sherrill, Ira Sherrill, G. 1). Sherrill, Smith Barlow, Thos. Ab. sherDr. J. C. Blair; Harrison Davis, Arthur Adams, Largeut Bean, Louis Holder, John Muudy, Isaac Palmer, Gordon Morrow, Samuel McDade, Wm. McDade, J. G. Hall. John Barnet, Marcus Barnet, S. J. Sherrill, James Bry ant, C. A. Tuttle, Henry Knox aud Henry Wilson. In home guard service: J. G. Ballew, Vandiver Teague, L. S. Hartly, J. T. Powell, Iee Hartly and Smith. c. L. Coffey. Strawberry Crop Immense. Charlotte Observer. Wilmington, May 8. The move ment of strawlierriex is still the ah sorbing topic of conversation in transportation circles. 1 he crop will le fully 50 per cent, greater than last year, according to some authorities. On account of the great depression 'In prices, howev er, it is not expected that all the berries will le picked. The quali ty this year has not been up to the standard but the uuanitity has lieen. immense. With the unex pected development of the great yield the wonder is that the trans portation people have not encoun tered more serious dinculty in taking care of the shipments. Mad Man "Holds Up" a Church. Geneva, May 9. A dramatic incident has just occurred in the church of the villege of Horn, a few miles from Lucerne. During the communion services a lunatic who had escaped from an asylum in the vicinity, rushed into the building, And, leveling his rifle, ordered the congregation out of the church. The people rushed lehind the pews, pillars and choir, leaving their vicar, an old man, to face the madman. The courageous vi car approached the lunatic and succeeded, alter some time, in calming his anger and taking away his rifle. The male memliers of the con gregation siilsequently conducted the madman to the asylum, whence his flight had not leen noticed. If a girl wants to get rid of an undesirable suitor all she has to do is to appear on the stage of action with her hair dohe up in, curl pa pers. i Losses to Be Paid at Once. San Francisco, May 9. Finan cial interest today centered in the announcement made by the insur ance companies that in the imme diate future they would pay losses of the fire suffers. It is lelieved that most of the money will be put in general circulation and when it is dissributed will relieve the people of San Francisco as no other means could. This news was welcome, not only to the policyholders but also to the banks that have been doing their best for the public with resources at their immediate command neces sarily limited. With the announcement that osses will soon le paid, the insur ance interests have made the con cession that salvage operations on property swept by the flames may proceeded with. Policyholders may save anything they can find without risking the loss of their claims for insurance. To a great extent the work of demolishing walls and clearing away debris has lieen postponed because of doubt regarding the at titude the insuraece companies would take. At the meeting of the recon struction committee today a resolu tion was adopted declaring that the wages for public- and private employment at ordinary and uu skilled labor should be 12.50 for nine hours. These rates have been fixed by the building trades coun cil. General Greely has asked em ployers to pay their men something at least, daily, so that they may be able to pay for their meats. "We are establishing fifteen cent kitchens all over the city," said General Greely, "and if all the men employed could have their wages promptly paid it will greatly assist the work of relief." Today's application for relief show a decrease of 10,000. Cresses Made Him Rich. New York Sun. "That fellow over there is the Water-cress Croesus," said the clerk in an up town hotel, nodding in the direction of the theatre tick et stand, where a big, fine-looking man of 4o, well dressed and appa rently accustomed to New York ho tel surroundings, was buying tk'k ets for a party of friends. "Fifteen year ago," continued the clerk, "he was a poor devil down in the mountains of est Virginia, with nothing but what he could earn as a lalwrer and no Drosnects. One day lie went to Baltimore as a caretaker with i load of cattle. "There he dropped into a lr room and saw a plateful of water cress on the lar. He made some iuquiries about where it came from. what it cost, etc., and went laek to the West Virginia mountains thinkine. "He "knew a piece of swampy ground where watercress grew abundantly, and he figured that there might to money in ship ping it to Baltimore. He made in quiries and found that he could buy the ground for r an acre. It was only a few hundred feet from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad but the nearest shipping point wa; four miles away "lie talked the venture over with a cattleman for whom he worked and got his promise to help him. On his next trip to Haiti more a deal vus closed w ith a com mission merchant to handle ship incuts of watercress, and the cat tleman,s influence with the rail road people was sufficient to exact st promise to put in a siding long enough to hold four freight cars. " "On returniug home the cattle man advanced 100 and the whole swamp was bought. Within month the railway siding was in and the watercress Croesus was gathering and shipping a car load a week. "Croesus repaid the cattleman before six months. The next year he put up a little ahop where his crates were made. He soon clear ed out all the other growth in the swamp, planted more watercress and in another year had a solid bed of 20 acres. He found that by building a dam he could extend the swamp over nearly 100 acres further down the valley, but he did not build it until he got the ground. "Watercress requires no cultiva tion and no replanting nothing but water and harvesting. It pro duces throughout the year, and costs nothing but the wages of the men who gather it. "Croesus soon extended his mar ket to Philidelphia, New York and other cities and his fortune was made. Now he has nothing to do but spend his income and let the watercress grow. "No, he is not the only water cress producer, but I guess he's the only one who ships it in ear- oad lots to all parts of the coun try." Club Aids N. E. A. Convention The Commercial Ciub of Indian apolis is bending every effort for a successful meeting of the Nation al i Editorial Association, which convenes there June 12th. There are but few cities which can boast of an organization so active and in terest ed in all municipal af fairs as this Uxly of Indianapolis business men. Founded sixteen years ago, the club has leen a con stant factor in the growth and de velopnicnt of the city. Its mission is to give sulistantial assistance to every' Dranch of manutacterv and trade, to lend its influence in shap ing legislation in the interest of Indianapolis and the State at large, to encourage closer personal and business relations lietween its memlers and the merchants of" the State, to advertise the city and ex ploit its many advantages as a manufacturing city and a place of residence. In all movements for the welfare of Indianapolis the Commercial Club has Ikhmi fore most and in its memliers delegates to the National Editorial Associa tion will find men who stand for municipal progress. A New County News and Observer. Asheville, N. C, May 5. The 1907 General Assembly will le asked to create a new county in this section of the State, it is learned here that there is a move ment ou foot to take a part of Buncomle, Haywood and Madison aud form a new county, with ('an- ton. the home of the big pulp mill, as the county seat. It is said that the greater numlier of people in the proposed new territory will le favorable to the new county prop osition, although opposition will doubtless come from the three counties. Indianapolis Transportation Fa cilities. Indianapolis has eighteen rail roads, reaching all the important cities of the Central West.- and fourteen interurban electric lines and connections extending from twenty five to seventy-the miles in every direction. These bring into Indianapolis an enormous trading population. From a radious of fifty miles more than 25,000 manu facturers and dealers come to Iudi anapolis for their supplies. Edi tors aud publishers will visit Indi anpolis in June, the occasion beiug the annual convention of the National Editorial Association. News Items.? The ninth district Democratic congressional convention will meet in Lincolnton July 2nd. The tenth district Democratic congressional convention will meet in Asheville June 30. The Commencement exercises of Greensboro Female College em brace May 20 to 23rd this year. A hailstorm did much damage in the Poplar tent section of Ca larru,s county Wednesday evening. E. B. l!ellum, ear inspector at Spencer, was run over by a switch engine Friday night and a leg cut off. A painter named Busliee was struck and killed bv a train at Salis bury while walking on the track. last Sunday. The Mercury says that J. S. Set- zer, of Hickory, has 100 hens that ing him a net revenue of 10 a month. He gets aUnit 150 dozen eggs a month. Mr. Jack Reach, superintendent of Balfour Granite Quarry near Salisbury, was shot and perhaps fattally wounded by a negro whom he had discharged last Tuesday evening. Mr. T. C. Bowie, of Ashe, was married to Miss J. L. Davis, at her home near Charlotte last Tuesday. Mr. Bowie is a prominent candi date for the Democratic nomina tion for Congress in this district. W. F. Shankle, of Stanley coun ty, who had lieen iu the employ of the Southern railway but a few days, was killed on the railroad yard in Danville Friday. His re mains were sent to his old home for burial. The Oliserver says the property f Rev. L. D. Noel, pastor of East side Presbyterian church of Char lotte, has Ikhmi attached for long standing debts due Charlotte mer chants. The amount is $190 John Owens, who was fatally cut by Chas. Brady, in Providence township, Rowan county, April 25, died Sunday night. Brady escaped and has not yet lieen captured. His father, who was implicated in the difficulty, is in jail. Later. This report is an error. Owens was improving at last accounts. In a shooting affray at Rouge mont, just across the Durham line in Orange county, Friday, Andrew Pool was instantly killed and John Laws died Saturday morning from injuries received. The tragedy was the result of a feud lietween Pool and Laws. One report says that after Pool was shot by Laws some one, who is not known, fired the shot that inflicted the fatal wound on Laws. Reubeiij Crane, a student of the Asheville School and the son of wealthy Cincinnatti parents, was helping fellow students gather dog wood blooms near the school Fri day afternoon, when one of the students, who was in a tree, acci dentally let a hatchet fall. Crane was standing underneath the tree and the hatchet fell on his head, the blade penetrating the skull and inflicting a dangerous wound. W. A. Gautier, of Samqsou Co., who was sentenced in the Federal Court to a term of three years in the penetentiary, completed the sentence last week and was brought to Clinton and tried for the mur der of B. G. E. Dangherty, an of ficer, while resisting the United States marshal in the arrest for the first offeuse. He was convict ed of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years iu the penetentiary.
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