The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-07-12
TIMBER, HONEY.
,xERy CHURCHES, INDIANS,
= -, tIokEs, INCIDENTS, FOLKS,

II ., small but growing town OF about |
fafstf,itauts 1t is situated on the |
| Etag.n branch Of the Western North |
.,r,uIa Railroad, about thirty miles west
t.Ecyille. 1t is nearly surrounded by
I5...tk, Of the E,alsam range, and is 800
\" arler than Asheyille. 1t is the
afr seat Of Haywood, and has the
+f-,}nrst court house in Western Caro-
H11 RI is also getting to be quite to-
.,e.o market, there being two warehouses
III lie place There are perhaps ten or a
I..l.f stores The principal ones are
,t.r j r. HYATT ~ Co., Smathers u
managed by Mr.. a. J. Reeves, in gen
r.I at,lcnandi,e; Mr.. Geo. II. Miller in
f,r1uarr. and Mcssrs Mcintosh u 90. in
Amos. 1t has one hotel, which is q credit
t..tI,.. nIace. The National" besides two
,tirre,. others There are several very
ral. private boarding houses which are
generally filled during July, August and
september.
Wayncs1ile IS just one mile from the
Eaag of the Haywood bite Sulphur
~rings, the depot being midway between
tArtAU.
Gut Wayncsvile's chief glory besides
8 tfnt, ,.c.cnery and bracing atmosphere, is
-- beautiful new court house and hand
some Churches With the latter all four
AZ the leading denominations in the State
-Hapti7t Presbyterian, Methodist and
Epi,colalian-are we'll provided. The
.n5,copal Church under the charge of Rev.
Mr. BueI, is the prettiest and most novel
IN ft> architecture. 1t is thronged by vis-
ifors every Summer. The ceiling is made
Of chestnut the floor Of ;tshc, the window
,s,tugs and furniture Of black walnut,
and the shingles Of poplar. The inside is
yaruiSjed and the windows are OF colored
leo Mot h
odist Church about six miles east Of
Waynesyille on the railroad. With the
exception of the framing, it is made en-
tireIy of lumber sawed from one gigantic
poplar tree 1t Is 2S by A feet, and IS
feet III pitch.
Wavnesville has also a small woollen
mill, in which coarse Woollen tWeeds are
made. 1t is patronizcd chilly by the peo-
pie of the surrounding country. The bee
industry is also receiving some attention.
About three miles from the village a gen
tlCman has nearly one hundred hlVeS,
from which he is making money He uses a
patent gum which enables him to remove
the honey whenever one layer Of cells is
filled, and allowing the old cells to be re
filled, instead Of allowing new cells to be
made, and these to be filled in their turn
The incest honey he puts on one pound
boxes and sells 1t for % cents per box.
The inferior brings about 10 cents per
pound.
The pretticst view of Waynesville is to
be obtained from Mt Olivet, the residence
of Rev n b. Cobb. 1t is several feet
above the village, and as you look down
the view is one of charming beauty-yOu
see the slope dotted with white cottages,
with here and there a church or handsome
residence and the bright, sparkling stream,
Richland, with its banks blossoming with
laurel and baisam, making a graceful
curve around the foot Of the slope. DIR. j.
t. NJ Curry, of Richmond, says that this
view surpasses Conleys, the Well-knoWn
view near Asheville.
But the fine view is not all that can be
seen from Mt. Ollvet. Along the winding
road at its foot can be seen passing huge
wagon loads of walnut timber, drawn by
mules Most of this timber is cut within
a radius of ten miles of Waynesville, and
is shipped to Hamburg, Germany, to be
made into furniture. Mr.. John Allen,
who lives near here, sold twenty-three
walnut trees the other day for s 900. He
is an old gentleman of about 10 years OF
age, and never saw railroad train till
this Western road was built.
There seems to be a good opening here
for men who have enterprise and capital
1t is a very noticeable fact that the lead
iug business men of Waynesville, almost
without exception, are natives Of Eastern
Carolina and of other States. The ma
tlEeS of this county, as RUE, do just as
their grandfathers did Hence the open
ing for and ueed of wide-awake, progres-
siye men rom other places to take the
lead Property is pretty high, but not so
high Us when the railroad first reached
here.
Waynesville is also the great trading
centre Of the Cherokee Indians. They
NAV be seen on the streets almost every
AZ They are about fifteen thousand
oong in North Carolina, and the greater
pat of the tribe makes its home IN Swain
county, the adjoining and only county be
tween Haywood and the Tennessee line
Nimrod Smith, the present chief, is quite
agentlemanly-looking parsonage of about
forty years of age. He is tall, quite hand
some, and dresses as Well-to-d do farmer
He is a deacon Of the Baptist church. His
wife is white lady Of considerable cul-
turc The various churches have estab-
Ished missions among the Indians, the
Baptists having the strongest hold, and
the Methodists the next strongest. Rev.
Y. B. Cobb, of Waynesville, breaches to
them occasionallv He is assisted by an
Interpreter The hymn-books used in the
services have the pages printed IN Eng
lI9H ana lnerOkee dlttIlldltly. lHC IL
terpreter interprets one sentence OF the
sermon at time. Speaking Of the Cher
oEee dialect reminds me of a little story |
heard told the other day Of a mountalneer
who applied to the Government at Wash
mgton for the position of Minister to some
foreign court. He was asked what Ian
guages he could speak and replied: Il
ken speak English tolable good and
leetIo Cherokee" A. W. L.
The Wilson Normal school.
During the session there were 1S differ
enr teachers, lecturers and occasional
speakers; so daily lectures or lessons and
lo evening entertainments, including lee
lures, recitations and concerts. Two
hundred and ten pupils, from 23 counties