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The Newtown bee., 1891-02-27
IN ORDER TO RAISE CASH AND BOOM THE BUSINESS
FOR FEBRUARY,
STERN & HARRIS

Have made sweeping reductions in all departments We have
closed out of retiring New York Cloak House 300 Chdrens
Misses Cloas the dollar and to give
Customers the benefit Of these astonishing bargains These
ment all of the latest styles and strictly all wool and
will include this sale all Former prices ST.
3d. So so and So
YOUR CHOICE FOR FIVE DOLLARS.
Sale continue until bound not
Winter coats Fur S5 formerly 81 Jackets below Fur
Mus
Winter Hats Bonnets Unmed Everything
must have cash. No old accumulate
STERN & cos, 1876 MAINST, DANBURY,
LEADING MILLINERS AND CLOAK HOUSE.
N. Special Goods January.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
The West Virginia Sensation.

tATLETTsBURa KY Aug3.-
The report Of the murder OF
t he BfuIhfield family in
Wayne county, W. Va, by a
mob Of drunken Italian rail
road handsis untrue, and the
story is the invention OF an
Irresponsible individual who
supplemented the fake hy
sending out this morning a
report that a sheriff's posse,
in attempting to capture the
Italians who murdered the
Brumaelds, were forced to
fire on the murderers, Instant
" killing eight ofthem. Both
reports are totally false.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
Debt, Dirt and The Devil

To keep debt, dirt and the
devil out Of my cottage has
been my great wish ever since
set up housekeeping. Sure.
ly these form a trinity ofevils
that should be carefully guar
ded against. A man who il
in debt is a slave, toiling to
meet the demands of anoth.
er. He cannot call what he
possesses his own. He had
better. a great deal, have
less and owe no man any
thing according to the apos.
tolic injunction. than to have
large possessions for which
he is responsible, but which
in whole or in part belongs
to another. A man in debt
is like a man overheard
with a great weight about
his neck, with which, by great
exertion, be may reach the
shore, nevertheless, may sink
him at any moment. BuS
whatever excuse may be made
!or men going into debt, sure
" none can be offered for
their living in dirt. Soap and
water are cheap, and brushes
not very expensive. SPuE
OEON.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
Against the Sub. .I'feasury..

CHICAGO, Aug 4. "A spec.
ial from Topeka, Kan, saysi
"A sensation has been caus4
ed in alliance circles in this
State by the publication Of
open letters from W. A. Hara
ris and G. W. Shum, promi4
nent leaders in the Peoples
party, protesting against
hesub-treasury scheme. Har
ris is regarded as the safest
| e a d Ell in the alliance and
would have been elected U.'
nited States Senator in place
of PETER had he not been a
Confederate colonel. Shum
was the Peoples party cam
didate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor last fall. Sub-alliances
throughout Kans as this
month will vote on the SUBJ
Treasury scheme to decide
whether 1t shall be incorpora
ted in the Peoples party plat
form, and theindications now
are that it will be defeated.
Frank McGrath, President
of the alliance, who has been
warm in it's advocacy has
now come outopenly against
the Sub-Treasury 8 c h e IN e,
and u big fight is looked for
when the annual meeting of
the alliance occurs in Septem
ber. Col. Harris declares that
"after brilliant victory had
been won by the alliance the
so-called sub-treasury plan
was brought forth, a scheme
in it's essential features mod.
eled after all the most vicious
and corrupt practices which
we had condemned; pattern.
ed after the illegitimate;oan-
ing OF money by tie govern
ment to national banks and
to railroads and to ware.
houses and storing of goods
for importers and distillers,
and ascheme to tax the many
for the benefit OF thefew, and
of even most doubtful. bene.
fit to these few."
he says substantial busi.
ness men all over the cottntry
have unanimously protested
against it and that it is cer-
tain to bring about the COM
plete overthrow Of the peo-
ple's party if it Is not atonce
abandoned.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13


Leading alliancemen Of O.
hio SAYS the fight in that
State is on Sherman, and it
will be a duplication Of the
fight on Ingalls," And they
are getting very near the
heart and head. OF all the
troubles that now afilict
them. In their fight agalnst
Sherman let us hope they
will slay Foraker also.-Car
Gilman.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13

The United States Treasu-
rer states that the cash bal
ance in the treasury to-day
is $55. .742,904, ofwhich $40
66O; ;566 is on deposit in the
National bands, and $19.-
800, 146 is in fractional sill
YER coin. Exclusive of these
two items the balance is s$14-
1882.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
Money to loan.

Persons wishing to Dor.
row money, who can secure
it by mortgage on good real
estate, can be accommodated
by applying to
J.F. Spsinhour, Boone N. G.
or A. j. Critcher, HortonN.C.
4. "a.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
Notice..

Fop sale. 900 acres OF land,
on Rich Mountain, Wataug,l
County, ON which is asbestos,
and fine land forsheep ranch.
Sales private. 4. D. Lowe 4
j. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. OF
Mrs. A. P. Galloway, decd.
Banner Elk, Nov: IL go.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
J. Q. WILBAR,
DENTIST,

Offers his professional services
to the people of Mitchell.
Watauga and adjoining coun.
ties. B% No lad mateial used
and all work guaranteed. Sa
May l / y.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
NOTICE..

Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
please advance the fees with
the papers and they will re-
ceive prompt tattention, other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want Oi
fees. p. F. BAIRD Sniff.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13

tnaG HARRISON can c0nCrOl
puts this way: "He can have
the solid delegations of all
the Southern States, unless
somebody is disposed to put
up money to buy their votes;
he can get the solid Indiana
delegation through his con-
troll of the machine in that
State; Senator Spooner Saw
ser and Secretary Rusk are
relied upon to control the
Wisconsin delegationforhim;
Secretary Foster can certain
ly divide if he cannot control
the Ohio delegation; Vermont
is already pledged TO him
through Secretary Proctor,
land if he can get the New
York delegation he will start
out with astrength not to be
despised."
At last the long hung up
reciprocity treaty with Spain
for Porto Rico and Cuba has
b cen officially announced
with a temporary schedule
to go into effect September L,
land a permanent schedule
July 1892. "A similar agree.
ment with San Domingo is
also announced to ta Ike effect
September 1. The fact is
commented on that the larg.
est single beneficiary under
the Spanish agreement is the
Standard Oil monopoly.
Senator Butler of South
Carolina, who ia now here
has been warmly congratu-
lated upon his success | n
demonstrating the folly OF
the sub-treasury movement
in the South. With his usual
modesty he declines to take
any personal credit for what
he has done, saying that he
only presented an array OF
facts against t h e scheme
which must at once become
apparent to any ordinarily
intelligent man who will
make a careful study Of the
proposition, and Improbable
effects, keeping in view SINH
lar attemps recorded by his
tory.
Since it became known a.
mong republicans that Maj.
Mckinley made an appeal to
the national executive CON-
mittee for money to save
him from defeat there is a
noticeable elimination in
which they indulge. They
now realize that alth ough O.
hio is'ordinarily arepublican
State the election of McKin.
ley, handicapped by his un-
just tariff bill, is very far
from being a certainty, and
most of them are willing to
admit that the legislature is
in doubt. This lisa very great
change, and it is significant.
There is only one member
of the administration on du.
ty to-day. That is Secretary
Foster and he is preparing to
go to Ohio this week, he says
TO take a vacation, but it
would be safe to bet that he
will work harder while there
than he does when in " ash
ington.
Leading alliAncemnn of n.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

Representative Mills left
Washington to-day forIowa,
where he goes to make a Sc
ries of campaign speeches in
aid of the democratic yause.
H is friend Representative
Grain, who is in charge of his
canvass for the speakership,
says OF his prospects. Mr..
Mills is in the race to stay
aud to win. He is stronger
so-day than when Congress
adjourned and he is gaining
strength every day; he has
made accessions in the East
and his splendid fight in the
West and Northwest has Civ
en- him a degree OF strength
there which astonish his op-
ponents. MI. Mills favors
the free coinage of silver, but
he also believes that il ia n
question to bp settled inside
the party; tn . democratic
party is a unit for tariff re-
form bnt is divided upon the
silver question. Why inject
an element of discourse in
the party platform? Let US
go on with the contest for
tariff reform and settle all
subordinate questions in our
own ranks after we shall
q
have won the vlctery. Re-
preventative Crisp and his
friends are just as confident
of his election to thespeaker-
ship as Mr.. Grain is that Mr..
Mills will be elected.
A democrat Of national
reputation is authority for
the statement thatan organ
lied effort is to be made to
have the next national dem
ocratic convention held in
baltimore. | asked him if
that involved a mover ent
for the nomination of Sena-
tor German. He smiled az
he snid "Not necessarily;
but the fact that the conven-
tion is held in Baltimore, ifit
should be held there, need
not he regarded asa bar to
the presentation Of the claims
OF Maryland's favotite son
for the nomination"
Representative Chipman,
of Michigan, who is now in
Washington, says the demo.
Gratis of Michigan propose
pressing the claims of Hon.
Don. M. Dickson upon the
next nj minating convention.
and that it isn't a movement
intended merely as a compll-
ment to that gentleman, but
is the result of much consid-
Grafton on the part of men
who believed that he posses
es oil the attributes of a sue
cessful Presidential candi-
date, one who could carry
Michigan beyond a shadow
of a doubt.
Can "Me too" Platt, the
New York republican boss,
whose favor Mr.. Harrison
has purchased by the ap-
pointment Of j. Sloat Fasset
to be Collector Of the port OF
New York, save the Harrison
vessel from being0verwhelm-
ed by the Blaine tidal wave
which is now rushing upon
u
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
A Wild Scllcflie.

WASHINGTON, July 26,-W.
r. Vanhn, of omaha, Nebras
ka, formerly mayor of Conn-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, and q man
of independent fortune accor.
ding to his own statement,
made an address tonight to
a large assemblage OF color.
ed people in the Metropoliton
colored Methodist church, in
which he proposed that the
negroes demand of the gov
ernment pensions for all ex-
slaves. Mr.. Vaughn in the au
thor OF a bill which was intro
duced in Congress- at the last
session mai ing provision for
carrying out his proposition,
but as very few people have
ever heard of the bill, it was
with evident surprise that
his audience listened to hisre-
marks. Mr.. Vaughn said that
az the negress had been held
in bondage in this country,
and had added materially to
it's wealth by theirlabor with
out receiving in return any
compensation, the country
necessarily owedithem a debt.
He was in favor of paying
this debt by issuing four hun
d1ed millions of dollars in
bonds to run fifty years and
drawing interest at the rate
of two and a half per cent a
year. This sum, he said,
would enable thegovernment
to place upon the pension
rolls every negro that had
been a slave. He argued that
this scheme would settle for
ever the race question, mas
much as it would do more to
put the negroes on IN equal
footing with the white peo-
pie than any amount of edu.
cation. 1t would also have
the effect of building up the
South, because most of the
money would go into that
section. Mr.. Vauhn assured
hearers that ifthey aided him
by using their votes intelli-
gently there would be little
doubt of securing the pas
sage of a bill giving them the
money they desire. He said
he had already corresponded
W i t h Senator's, Representa-
tives and other prominent
men on the subject, and he
read letters fro m Senator
Cullom Peter Studebaker and
Others, showing that they in
dorsed the proposition. He
had also written to President
Harrison, but Mr.. Harrison
replied that he had not time
to contribute to the discus
sion. He held that the me-
groes should sever their con-
nections with every party ex.
cept the one that will give
them their rights in the way
OF pensions, and urged them
all to become agita tors in or
der to accomplish the object
in view. During the course
of his addres he was frequent
ly applauded.
The West Virginia Sensation.
(ATLETTsBURG, XIV AuW3-
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13

Messenger:-One good.thing
is to happen. Boss Quay is
to get out. Possibly as bad
a fellow will take charge OF
the rotten old party, but it
will be a blessed thing to get
rid ofeven one scoundrel. The
Boss isto retire also from the
Senate. We hope he will not
change his mind. But he is
not to be lost sight OF in the
politics of the country. He
is too cunnir : a manipula-
tor for that. He will fight
Harrison whether his favor
ite Blaine is a candidate for
the nomination or not.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13

News from Kansas says
PETER is a candidate for the
nomination for President by
the Peoples Party nextyear.
The Alliance Advocate, the
Peoples Party organin Kan.
sas raises his name, and in
an editorial states that as
Kansas took the initiatory
step in the new movement
she was entitled to the hon
or. Until it was known that
Senator Peffer desired the
nomination the preference a.
mong Alliancmen seemed to
b e for President Polk, Of
North Carolina. Senator PEI
fer's friends say that the man
who was big enough to beat
John j. Ingalls, is bIgenough
for a presidential candidate.
Perhaps they will give Col.
Polk the second place if he
would accept it.-Ca1olina-
ian.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
MILLINERY.

I would liketosay to my friends
in WataLga and surrounding
counties, that Ihave now on hand
and am receiving every week, a
nice line OF
SPRING ANDSUM MFR
MILLINERY ANDNOTIONS
When you come to Lepoir, /
would be pleased for you to call
and see me. | solicit your GUS
tom. Orders filed promptly by
mail. Most Resp,
MRS. M. N. HORTON.
Lenoir. N. g., May 81.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
E. 8. Btackburn
JeerM on, NC.

]. F. Morphew. 3. 8. Blackburn
Marion, NC. Jeerfs on, NC.
MORPHEW & BLACKBURN
ATTToRNEys AT Law.
Will practice in the courts
!, of Ashe, Wataugaand Mitch.
'ell counties, also in the Fed
raj courts Of the Dist. and
Supreme Court Of the State.
Collection OF claims solicited.
April, 10.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1891-08-13
Polk's Fina nciering.

Col. Polk then went into
the discussion OF the ma alton
al banks and charged the
lawmakers with a copartner-
ship with Wall street and
Lombard street to misuse
not the m oney ofthe govern
ment, but the treasury with
a vengeance. The banks get
the money at 1 per cent. and
deposit Ak per cent. bonds
which afe no security, but
only an evidence of indebted
ness. He had heard a great
deal about fiat money and
Jeffersonian democracy; bnt
he would like any one to dis
pute the fact that bank notes
were fiat money. Gold and
silver were not their basis,
but the basis was simply the
power of the government to
tax the people t O redeem
them. The government would
lend the banks money at 1
per cent, but every other
class must pay Z or 8 per
cent. for it.
This of course, is oil the
veriest rot. Does Col. Polk
believe that the banks pick
Ak per cent bonds in the
street? They have to buy
their bonds with gold, or sill
yer at its gold value, and
that silver or gold is the ba-
ais of the bank notes and not
the governments credit. 1t
is absurd to talk about the
government limiting t h e
money to the banks. The
banks can not issue a dollar
of currency until they have
deposited the lequisitebonds
for which they have paid
their coin .-Ex. =
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-18

the bluff at the back of the hotel,
and being at some height above
the main building rooted with cor
rugated iron and provided with
tanks, will supply the upper story
with water, as we'll as supplement
the general supply. The steam
from the sulphur springs will be
led into comfortable bath rooms on
the side nearest to them. The
whole hotel, cottages, etc, will be
rooted with iron.
Already vehicles can be driven
the whole distance from the Kau
landing to the site of the hotel, and
on the Hilo side the most difficult
half of the work is done.
Indeed every thing promises
well for an opening in August or
soon after, and We hope that by
that time the crater may have
begun to resume it's usual charac-
teristics and bring successive
groups of tourists to help in keep
ing the hotel full.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-18
Another Nuisance.

MR.. EDITOR: The public should
be obliged for your articles IN this
mornings issue with regard to the
numerous ill-favored Chinese
prouling round " the city and its
environs without apparently any
lawful means OF support, and the
notorious cruelty daily practised
on horses and other animals. I
deem it a duty to bring before
your readers another great increas-
ing evil, now fast growing in our
community, and that is the number
of individuals who apparently
never have any employment, other
Gin good American) than to travel
on their shape" They are
sure to be styled boxers"
" feather-weights," "middles" or
=" heavies," and their chief
aim in life appears to be to
collect "toll" from those so unfor-
tunate as to come in contact with a
member of this fraternity.
1t is fast becoming an untoler-
able nuisance that wherever one
may elect to go ION an evening |
will say), he is liable to encounter
one or more of that dangerous law
less brotherhood, whose only rule
is fght-without honor or prlnci-
ple-and whose belief seems, that
this city and country owes them
living without effort or ability ex-
cept such as belongs to the profess
sional crook and bravo.
The above class seems to be re-
inforced by nearly every vessel.
HAWAIIAN CITIZEN.
Honolulu, April 18th.
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4 COnfrasf.-PrOhibition VS.. Ii
ceuSe.

| CcuSC.
The Iowa penitentiary it is said
is almost empty. The Ohio peni-
tertiary has over 1000 convicts.
Iowa has a crazy" cranky"
visionary" impractical" "puri-
tanical prohibitory law.
Ohio has a practical law
which legalizes the crime-pro-
ducing traffic in rum and regulates
it's evils by the restraints of restric-
tons and thus keeps her prisons
we'll filled with convicts.
Lord Chief Justice of England
is of opinion that "two-thlrds of
the jalls could be shut up if the
country could be kept sober"
Prohibition says keep them Sober
and the penitentiaries and jails
empty. License says let them
drink, get drunk, commit crimes
and thus keep the prisons we'll
filled with convicts. There can be
but little doubt that if protested
Christians and temperance people
would unite their votes and infiu
ence to abolish the rum traffic it
would be done, and other states as
well as Iowa could be blessed by
prohibitory laws and their jails and
prisons kept comparatively empty.
Ii we can abolish the cause of so
much misery and crime and will
not do it. What shall be our re-
ward? He that knoweth bis
masters will and doeth it not shall
be beaten with many stripes" So
l take it that Christians and tenn.
perance people who sustain the
licensed rum-shop even by silence
must certainly come in for large
share of the STRIPES" as they are
surely responsible, though indirect.
ly,for most of the misery and crime
caused by the rum traffic. Their
sin is .ae sin of omission. They
can prevent the evil but won't do
it for some unaccountable reason.
Under this showing let me ask
who are we working for, the Great
Master to maintain love and happi-
ness in the world, or for Satan to
multiply sin, misery and crime?
Society licenses the rum shop,
rum shops breed criminals, and
society imprisons or hangs them,
and this ls the work of professed
Christian civilized society.
Let all ask ourselves, "for how
much of this am l responsible?"
How much will my prayers and
pretence assist the Master to check
sin, misery and CRIME IN the world?
Are we really helping Satan do his
dirty work of destroying both the
bodies and souls of men through
the lnstrumentality of the rum
shop?
1t looks so. J. M. HoRNER.
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The LIQUOR Traffic.

Mr.. EDITOR: Whoever desires the
true welfare and prosperity of this
community, must rejoice that the
policy of the Government, as ex-
pressed in it's legislation, is not
favorable to the development of the
liquor traffic, but seeks, as all
legislation should, the enforcement
of wholesome restrictions on such
business. The recent decision.
publised in the ADVERTISER. in re-
gard to the violation of law by an
agent of Honolulu wholesale
liquor dealer, makes evident how
important good Legislation IS of it.
self, apart from the support given
to it by officials interested in the
due maintenance of law and order,
Underlying all must be public
sentiment, awake to the evils Incl.
dent to the growing use of intoxi.
ants,and determined that what can.
not be prevented shall at least not
be fostered and developed because
OF the greed of some and the
supineness of others.
The temperance sentiment of
this community is not as earnest
and as active as it should be. or
there need not have been that in
crease in the sale of alcoholic
drinks, to which Mr.. P. G. Jones
has called public attention. One
reason for such increase has not
been mentioned, which, to every
thoughtful observer, must be an
occasion of increased anxiety. 1t
IS very noticeable how every gen.
Grafton takes to the habit of using
lntoxicants at an earlier and still
earlier age. Whoever is familiar
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-18

ACCORDING to the telegraph, the
British colony of Barbados 10 the
West Indies, is seeking to have q
reciprocity treaty with the United
States. In his annual message to
tho colonial Legislature, the Gov
ernor General " devotes his atten.
ton almost entirely to the subject
OF reciprocity with the United
States. On the following day a
resolution was introduced into the
colonial Legislature for the appoint
ment OF committee to prepare an
address to the British Secretary
of State for the Colonies, setting
forth the commercial situation of
the island, it's trade relations with
the United States and the neces-
sity OF prompt action in the direc-
tion of reciprocity treaty"