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Baggage Is Carried Free.

Bakers slei CHS charge SO cents Per
passenger to and from the HALEY de-
pot, and carry baggage FREE. Per
sons hiring outside teams to carr.
baggage therefore throw their money
aWaV.
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CONSPIR ACY.
SECOND DAYS EXAMINATION OF
THE UNION BOYS.

Several OF them identified aS Members
Of the UMion-A Damaging Sealed
Communication Evidence Of CAPITA
L"~k. superintendent of the Queen Of
tie Aills-Et.
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We Must Have Money

All accounts due us must he paid
IMMEDIATELY.
JAS. NJ. Blossom & CO.
HALEY, November 26, 1884. mi
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Died..

pzrrox-At Dit ,e's ranch. Thufssasy evening.
February l3th Louis Hen Dtttoe. aged 81.
THE funeral will take place in Ps'ievus t'.mor.
row, st 3 .cl 'ck p. M.i
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follows: The Southern ports need
more trade with South American
ports, and they should have it, and
promise you, my friends, that whatey-
or can be done by me to promote the
interests of Virginia while in Brazil
shall be chcerfully done. Next to my
own home, which love as l do mr
life, l love Virginia. On some spot
between Petersburg and Richmond
there is place which I watered with
my blood l was educated i'm one of
your colleges, and when, on Saturday
next, the ship on which l shall sail
shall leave your waters bearing me. T.,
the sunny cline of Brazil, shall send
back, as know | shall receive from
you, my prayer for the prosperity of
Virginia, and / shall carry with me one
who shall share with me the honor,
the glory, and the trials of that far off
cline, Il Virginia woman. l thank
you, my friends. once again, for the
honor thus conferred, and l thank
your Executive, Governor William
L. Cameron. for honoring me with his
visit On this occasion.
The speech was well received ard
listened to with marked attention, the
speaker being frequently interrupted
by long and continued applause.
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(Pa) University last week One WAS
named Charles Mebane. Another was
sou Of Harriet Hunter, of Raleigh.
= The colored people of Yancey-
vile contributed $3.50 to the Sunday
School Union of the A. M. Z. Church
OH last Sunday-"Childr Day."
June 18th. The success of the union
here is duo to the energetic efforts of
the pastor CasaceH Neus.
- The colorcd base ball club of
Mebane, played the colored club Of
this place here last..Saturday, the game
resulting in favor of the Graham club.
The Mebane club don't think they
were treated fairly. They say they
had to play the pick" of two other
clubs. Graham Cleaner.
- Thursday last witnessed n pro-
cts.ion of the colored graded school
under the infringement OF Prot. White
field. The school closed that day.
Quite a number OF the childl ell march
ed through the streets. They were all
neatly dressed aud presented very
imposing and pleasing aspect. 1t
slows we'll how tine colored people of
tho South are pushing on up the ed
ucational ladder. The school is one
of the most efficient in the State
Fc5 ct Grille Sun.
= The woful predictions of the
Blaine orators and organs last fall rs
to the future of the negro in case the
Democrats should elect the President
read oddly enough now. The Demo-
Gratis have now been in power three
months and the country has yet to
hear Of the first outrage upon black
III the South, while in the only three
States which have held elections of
any sort the noteworthy events have
been the choice Of Il capable negro
over rival white candidates as Police
Judge in Hot Springs. Ark, the NOM
nation of a number of negroes for To-
cal offices upon the Democratic ticket
in Virginia, and the election of
Democratic Mayor in the chief city of
Delaw r. after his promise to appoint
negroes upon the police force.-N. Y.
Erening Post (Mugacump.)
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sess enhanced attractions.
Placed at an elevation of 2, ,250 feet
above the sea, in charming valley,
with a genial, soft, yet bracing. eli
mate, in the midst Of enchanting seen
cry, Asheville has always been place
Of great resort in Summer, ana must
become still more so rs the means of
reaching it are improved and its man.
y charms become better known. There
were at least 1900 visitors from all
parts of the Union in the town while
we were there. 1t has four or five ex-
cellent hotels, whose accommodations
and cuisine are second to none. Also,
there are numerous boarding-bouses,
at which pleasant lodgings and sur
roundings may be found. BY day, in
the season, the streets of the little town
are crowded with private e9uipages,
and the hacks and stage-coaehes, par
ties on horse back and in buggies, en-
ioying excursions into the beautiful
vicinity or going on to other resorts.
At night the hotels are gay with mur
sic andEdancing. and all goes ''merry
as a marriage-bcll.' The town has
several fine churches, among which
the Episcopal church is conspicuous
for its beautiful churchyard and neat
building The citizens are ctrlial
apd hospitablc. at MI times ready to
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WINSTON, N. c., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1885.

oblige strangers and assist them i'll
their plans.
This town had SO long been the re-
sort of persons from the low country
before the war that many of the wealth
ier class built themselves summer
houses here, whittier they come each
year. Many of these residences are
elegant, with neat lawns and pretty
shrubbery, and nearly all embowered
in fine shade trees Of the natural growth
or OF the fine evergreens transplanted
from the higher lands. The court
house is u large building, with a high
tower, quite a striking object in the
midst of the town. There is here also
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From the Norfolk Landmark.

WAltM SPRlNGS: *
words, 81 thank YOU" am no
stranger to Norfolk, for Norfolk is the
first city I ever visited. Forty years
ago this very month, when but nine
years of age, [ drove q market cart to
this city, and for years continued to
come and go, bringing from Currituck
eggs, chickens, &c, and carrying home
necessary supplies for family use.
The world moves, and the market
cart of those days have given way to
railroads and steamboats,, which ply
the rivers and which build up your
wsrxes. And you, my friends, are
entertaining tonight one of the mark
ct boys of old Currituck. Loud APP
plause.l The change has not been
wrought, as my old friend would have
it,but by such friends as I am sur
rounded with this evening.
In 1865 T became almost wander
er in yourScitg May, 1868, passing
along Main street penniless and an-
known, l was accosted by German
clother, who said: "Mine trent, don't
you want suit of clothes p / knew
Oh uO OIlC WHO WaHICV tiioIC
than I did, but how should l get
suit of. clothes with not penny i'll my
pocket.
! told him yes, and explained my
impoverished condition, when he ask
ed: "Are you one of the fellows who
went to the wars and is just getting
homer" "Yes," said I. "Then come
and get suit" said he "and pay me
when you get the money" And, said
the Governor, don't think he ever
regretted letting me have that suit.
Continuing, he said: No more sect
ional questions will divide our count
ry; that those questions left open by
our people 100 years ago have been
settled; and, as often said by him in
his State and in New Hampshire, he
thanked God that the question had
been settled in his day and history,
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with stunted growth of deciduous
trees, with grass in many an obstruct-
ed channel, sweeping around Hender-
sonville and recrossing the Asheville
road five miles north of the former
town. In its passage east the stream
is confronted by spurs of the Ridge,
and its feeble current turns desparing-
ly away to find some outlet for its
waters towards the west. Which it
accomplishcs by turning completely
in its course and finding a resting
place in the wide bosom of the French
Broad, into which it falls not ten
miles below its source, after a course
of about % miles. For the great part,
that course is through broad marsh
of an average width of half mile.
The soil of this marsh is rich allu-
vian. Whenever drained, it proves
very productive, especially in corn.
The whole is susceptible of thorough
drainage; and it is assumed, from act
ual survey, that if drained, fifteen
thousand acres of land, capable of
producing an average of sixty bushels
of corn to the acre, would be added to
the productive wealth of the country.
Disagreements between proprietors of
the land or difficulties in the adjust
ment of titles has-been the bar to any
united effort towards reclamation. 1t
is too vast work for individual en-
terprise, but is worthy the attention
of capitalists, sure to reap rich re-
ward.
It may be remarked in connection
with this marsh district, that while
having the aspect of true malarial
region, it is free from fevers, in truth,
as healthy as the adjacent mountain.
This exemption from the usual plague
of a water-soaked soil is ascribed to
the elevation of the plateau, which is
about 2,200 feet above the level of
the sea.
Separated by an elevated ridge of
four miles across, and north of Mud
Creek is Cane Creek That stream
rises among the spurs of the Blue
Ridge within few miles of the Hick-
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ry Nut Gap, and flows with clear,
strong current due west into the
French Broad This stream also flows
through broad basin half mile
wide, which basin unitcs itself with
that of Mud Creek and united, they
become conspicuous feature of the
valley system, and a striking addition
to this remarkably depressed area.
Crossing the French Broad, near
valleys of Mills River and Dandson's
River present themselves. The former
river has its rise at the foot of Mt.
Pisgah, and is one of the boldest and
most beautiful of mountain rivers. Its
valley, originally swamp except i'm
mediatcly along the margin of the
river has long been drained, and is
now all cultivated, covered with pro-
ductive farms, dotted with we'll built
houses, and embraced by picturesque
and lofty wooded mountains, and pre-
sents some of the most fascinating
scenery in North Carolina. The same
may be said of Dandson's River, not
SO large, but equally beautiful, the
valley not SO broad, but quite as fer
tile and Us fully occupied.
These two valleys unite themselves
with that Of the French Broad, which
expanding above Brevard, the county
seat of Transylvania county, main
tains a nearly uniform width of a mi g
down as far as Fanning's Bridge, 13
miles above AsheviIle, at which point
the hills close in; carrying thenceforth
only narrow strips of valley-land. The
union of all these valleys at COM
mon point gives an expansion OF re-
markable extent for a mountain coun-
try, we'll sustaining the idea of a geo.
logical paradox. From a point few
miles to the southwest of Henderson
vile the eye sweeps over plain or
valley extending across the valleys of
Mud Creek, Cane Creek, that of the
,, French Broad up to the head of Mills
River-a distance of full % miles, and
at the point of union the width is from
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ton an old gentleman now nearly 80
years old, man we'll known in rail-
road circles as surveyor, engineer and
contractor, informs me that within his
memory all the land south of Brevard
except the highest points Of the noun
tains where the trees were scattered
and the underground thin, was open
praire, covered with grass, cane and
wild peavine, the resort for stock and
game kept open by annual fires made
by the Indians and early settlers. The
size Of the trees now growing would
have made me incrednlous if l had
not full trust in Mr.. Clayton; and |
had the evidence in the size of two
white pine trees on the farm of Mr..
johnson on Mills River, which the
owner assured me he had trans plant
ed less than 40 years ago. The farm
WAS cleared and settled in 1927. Yet
the said trees were 60 feet high, %
feet in diameter, and had all the pict-
uresqueness which age alone is thought
to give to trees of the kind.
AsheriUe, N. c.
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An UOmcnsiyco Partisan.
From tbs Boston Post.

Postmaster Slingerland, of Singer
lands, n. Y, has rendered his resig-
nation To the Postmaster General in
following language: Entertaining as
/ do the conviction that "to the vict-
ors belong the spoils,' and admitting
that / am an "etfensive..(i. c. Republi-
CAM partisan" l hereby resign the
position of Postmaster, to take effect
when my successor is appointed and
qualities. Permit me to add that
while l would not as a partisan pre-
sumo to make any recommendation
whatever as to who such successor
should be, but as citizen ] beg leave
to say that Mr.. is a defensive
Il. e. Demecratic) partisan" and his
appointment as Postmaster would
please all the patrons of Uncle Sam
uel in this vicinity whether they are
offensive" Republicans or defensive
Democrats.
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veals the existence of a large depres-
sion of basin traversed by streams
margined sometimes with valley, some
times with swamp; the whole forming
s system peculiar to itself. and exhib-
iting paradoxical and almost unnatur-
al peculiarities.
The whole country west of the Blue
Ridge is an elevated plateau. There
Is very little descent on the west side
while that range fronts to the East ia
bold and grand prominence falling
down to the Piedmont country below
by dcscents varying from fifteen hum
dred to three thousand feet. On this
plateau rise as from base, all the
higher mountains parallel with the
Blue Ridge as well as the many con-
Meeting chains which link them to-
gether; and also the many oh-shoots
and isolated groups or solitary masses
which defy all system.
The Blue Ridge itself sweeps down
in general southwest corner, trend
ing due South, and again to regain its
average of direction, turning due west.
1t is not my purpose, however, to fol-
low the contortions in the course of
this chain, but only to speak of the
peculiarities which suggest this COM
munication while peculiaritics may be
characterized as the VALLEY System
of the Upper French Broad River"
speak first of the peculiarities which
manifest themselves near and around
HendersonvilIe To the west of that
very pretty town, q range OF low
mountains jotting off from the Blue
Ridge towards the north, from the
water shed between the upper waters
of the French Broad and the streams
that flow towards the east. On the
east side of this range rises Mud Greek,
a stream which starts OFF with all the
life and vigor and fullness of the typi-
cal mountain torrent Fastening on its
way to cut through the Ridge by
direct easterly flow and mingls its wa
tiers with that of others which few in
to the Atlantic. Long before it reach
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to A Vile to en-
gage in the manufacture
of brooms and brushes.
out of broom corn. This
will not only inaugurate
a new branch of business
here, bnt will stimulate
farmers to the culture of
a new product. The
party we speak of says
the general yield is from
two to three tons, of
broom corn to the acre,
and the seed in large
quantities which is
ground for horses, and
the crop is as easily
cultivated as corn.
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J A R Wis IN NORFOLK.
THE MARKET BOY OF OLD CUR
RtTUCK.
The Brazilian Minister'S Speech at the
SPLENDID Ovation Tendored Him by
tho Citizens of Norfolk

Inc brazilian Minister'S Speech at the
SPLENDID Ovation Tendored Him by
tho Citizens of Norfolk.
From the Norfolk Landmark.
Col. l.. d. Starke Chairman intro
duced Gov. Jarvis by offering the fol-
lowing toast:
Gentlemen, request you to unite
with me in giving expression to the
following sentiment: Our distinguish
ed guest. the Hon. Thomas j. Jarvis,
United States Minister to Brazil the
Nathaniel Macon of the present gene
ration. North Carolina may well be
proud of Il son who has done so much
to advance her material prosperity
and shed new lustre upon her already
bright escutcheon.
MINISTER JARvIs's REPLY.
certainly thank you, gentlemen,
from the great depth of my heart; |
thank you, gentlemen, for the honor
which you have conferred upon rae l
thank your distinguished Chairman
for the kind manner in which he has
introduced me to this assemblage.
Whatever mark l may have made in
political life, much is due to him,
for he was my teacher. l knew him
thirty years ago, for at that time he
was editing paper in my State.
which l read weekly, and from which
I obtained that which has given me
much of the success | have obtained.
l again thank you, gentlemen, for the
opportunity you have given mo this
evening t" speak OF these things, and
[ thank these kind ladies for these
decorations, for | know no other
hands could have woven them, and
when say this have said all that
man could say. If | knew Of any
other language in which to express to
you my thanks ] would use it, but |
know of none other than that learned
in childhood, those good old English
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THE VALLEY SYSTEM
OF THE UPPER FRENCH BROAD
RIVER.
An Interesting Description Of tho Land
OF the sky, Its Beautiful Scenery
and Productive Soil.

nnd productive SOIA.
BY COL. JOHN d. CAMERON.
For the Sentinel.
Around Asheville is thronged CIR
die of mountains grand, or graceful
or beautiful in outline as the emotions
of the beholder may suggest, complete
in its undulating circle except toward
the South. In that direction there is
an appearant rupture, as if the mate
rial of which mountains are made had
been exhausted On the right, the
long range, of which the majestic Pts
gah is the eliminating point, gradual
II diminishing in height, reaches the
middle French Broad in chain Of
low, continuous heights. On the left,
outlying assorted masses, detached
fragments of the terminal submits of
the Swannanoa mountain, left them
selves from what appears to be low,
level plain, whose southern boundary
in the blue distance, is delicately firing
cd ~itn wavy horizon. There is, in
that direction, such a complete break
down in the mountain system and in
mountain character as to occasion sur
prise or disappointment; for, in =
mountain country, the latter feeling is
not unnatural, when, in seeking after
strong contrast, the spectator is con-
fronted with the tame, familiar land
scape of the low country, from which,
for a season, he had turned his back.
In truth, that depressed section of the
landscape IS not deceptive in its sug-
gcstions of low country scenery. There
il, for many miles South of Asheville,
and for some distance beyond Hender-
sonville. a veritable breakdown
obstruction of mountain continuity;
and though the mountains are never
lost sight of, yet to travel through a
sactinn Of very considerable extent re-
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into notice by DIR. Peart, of En-
gland. This consists in the ad-
ministration of from three to
seven grains Of carbonate of am
nonia every hour for the first
day, and then at longer inter-
walls. Purgatives are to be avoid
ell during the early stages of the
disease. The writer states that
he has had occasion to test this
mode of treatment, and can in
dorse it heartily. In addition
he employs the fluid extract of
eucalyptus internally and as a
gargle. When there is much
exudation a mixture OF carbolic
acid and iodine in glycerine is
painted over the parts. In too
rapid recession of the rash, DR..
johnson applies cloths dipped in
thick mHstaral-water, or wraps
the child in blankets wrung out
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: Two colored base ball clubs
from Henderson played two col
ored clubs of Oxford here last
Saturday, and both Henderson
mines went home in the gloom of
defeat.-Orford Torchhght.
Alex. Pool, a colored wait
er at the Hotel Windsor, was
drowned yesterday evening about
3 O'clock, while swimming in
Pa<quotank river, near knobb's
creek.-E1iza6eth City Falcon.
= Three young colored men
from North Carolina were among
the rlrcriinnnt 0rafors at incoln
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/ was informed by old resi-
dents of the valley on Mills
River and the French Broad,
that their valleys were original
ly swampy like those on Mud
Greek except along the margins
of the streams upon which was
a belt of dry mellow land, heav-
ilya timbered. Drainage was
easy, and the lands were long
since brought into cultivation.
The hill and mountain sides
now SO heavily timbered, l was
also informed were not always
80 clothed Mr. Enhraim Clay
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Wnere uoOoOy wants
paper;
Or where there are al
ready five papers in a
two-paper town
Or ifa long primer man
try to start a nonpariel
paper;
Or if he try to run an
eight-column paper on a
two column basis;
Orif he skins his home
advertisers and cuts rates
for foreign ads
Or il he stSrts out by
giving a three-dollar puff
for q ten cent comb;
Or if he starts a paper
because he has failed at
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Alphabetically, this valley land is
among the most productive in North
Carolina. 1t has not, however, had
fair treatment, and has never been
made to prove its full capacity. Some
farmers, such as Mr.. Lownder, who
has turned his attention to the i'm
provement and rearing of stock and
has paid much attention to the grasses,
has been abundantly rewarded for
their labors. The same is true of Mr..
Westfeldt's labors Mr.. Corthandt
has drained several hundred acres of
the Mud Creek bottoms, and makes
about 60 bushels of corn to the acre.
Wheat, rye and oats prove very pre-
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most delightful of Summer resorts.
Therefore, a trip 10 AsheviIle need no
longer conjurc to the minds of ti:nid
travellers Inconvenience and discom-
fort. Pullman palace-cars are opera
ted over the line to and from Green's
boro, and, reclining upon their luxu-
rious seats, one can gaze upon the
magnificent scenery that environs the
route, and it is not to be doubted that,
with such accessories as these, the
charms of nature to many tourists pos
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ture and less of dampness than i'll SIM
liar situations. All this has tended
to enhance the reputation of this eli
mate, and causes this locality to be
much resorted to by all classes of iu-
valids whose complaints are aggrava-
led by frequent and severe vicissitudcs
of weather or too much humidity. =
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for the State courts, as also for the
United States courts for that region
With a population of about $500, it
enjoys large trade with all the con-
tiguous counties. Its railroad system
is practically approaching completion.
One, the Western North Carolina
Railroad, has within the last few
months, by almost superhuman ener-
gv, achieved an unbroken connection,
via Charlotte and Salisbury, to these
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A CITY SET UPON A HILL.
A BRIEF SKETCH OF ASHEVILLE
AND IFS PEOPLE.

Destined to be Centre of Transmon-
tame Trade as Well as one of the Most
Famous Resorts in the South.
Asheyille, the county seat Of Bun
combe County and the capital of wes-
tern North Carolina, is beautifully sit
uated OH the swelling eminences which
rise along the banks of the French
Broad just below the confluence of the
Swannanoa 1t is the seat Of justice