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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-03-30

son erecting the same or his
assigns to the land; and II
the offence shall he wilfully
and wantonly done, he shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. "a. The board of su.
pervisors in each township is
authorized to order the lay.
ing out OF any and all neces.
sary roads to and from any
church or other place of pub
lie in their said townships; to
discontinue such roads when
they may be found useless,
and to alter the same so as
to make them more useful,
and the right of way herein
provided for, shall terminate
whenever the church or 9TH
er place Of worship shall
cease to be used as such Pro.
vided this section shall not
be constructed 80 as to apply
to public roads.
Ser. 81. The said board OF
supervisors shall not order
the laying out of any road
or discontinue or alter the
same except upon petition in
writing, nor shall they hear
any such petition, unless it
shall be made to appear that
every person. over whose
lands the said road may
pass, shall have had ten days
notice of the intention to file
such petition by personal
service of notice in writing,
or if the owner be unknown,
or there be no owner, agent
or attorney OF such owner
resident in this State, then
by notice thereof posted up
at the court house door Of
the county in which the town
ship is situate, and two pub
lie places in the township for
the space OF ten days; and
upon the hearing of the petit
ton, if sufficient cause be
shown tie said board OF su-
pervisors, shall order the'ay-
ing out, shall discontinue or
alter the said road as the
case maj be, and from their
determination any party dis
satisfied may appeal as pro-
vided in this Chapter, in the
section directing the laying
out of cartways.
Sec. SO. All roads provid-
ed in the two preceding Sec
tions shall be laid out to the
greatest advantage OF the in
habitants, and with as little
prejudice as may be to lands
and Enclosures, within twenty
days from the notification OF
their appointment by three
disinterested freeholders, to
be appointed by the said
Board of Supervisors: and
such damage as any individ-
ual may sustain shall be as
certained by the said free
holders and a report thereof
with the proceedings had by
them shall be made to the
said board Of supervisors
and all damages assessed by
the freeholders shall be paid
by the petitioners. and until
paid, there shall be no con.
firmation Of the report OF the
freeholders and such laying
out shall be of no effect.
Sec. 81. The following per-
sons shall be exempt from
working o II public roads,
namely: members of Z g
toord ne on,,orvicOrs 0f puh.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-03-30
cause the said surveyor and
freeholders to be served with

treeh0lderS to be served with
a copy OF said order within
ten days after their appoint
ment and the said surveyor
and freeholders who shall
act as his assistants in max
ing the survey and making
the grade for said road. shall
within thirty days after no
tice of their appointment, un
less hindered by sickness, bad
weather, or other unavoid-
able circumstances, meet up.
IN the line designated in the
order, and after being sworn,
proceed to lay ont andgrade
said road to the greatest ad.
vantage to the public and in
hahitants of the neighbor-
hood, and with as little pref
udice as may be to lands and
Enclosures, and the said sur
veyor and freeholders shall
on oath ascertain and assess
such damage as private per
sons may sustain and in as
sessing such damages they
shall take into consideration
any advantage which may
accrue to the owners of the
land over which said road
may pass, and all damages
by them assessed shall be
deemed a acounty charge: Pro-
vided, that where damages is
claimed and the surveyor and
freeholdprs shall be interest
ed or of kin, a Justice of the
Peace OF the township, and
two freeholders not of kin,
shall make said assessment,
Provided, further that n
laying out said road the said
survey or shall not make his
grade sleeper than one foot
in ten in any case, and then
not exceeding a distance of
fifty yards IN one place, and
after the surveyor and free
holders shall have completed
their survey, and ascertain
cd and made their assess
menta of damage to the diff.
ferent land owners, they shall
within ten days make a re-
port of their proceedings to
the Board uf County Com
missioners aid said report
shall specify the grade on
each particular part OF road,
the approximate distance Of
the grade, and the amount
Of damages, and for whose
benefit the same was assess
ed, which report shall be FLED
with the Clerk CT the BOARD,
and if no exceptions are filed
to said report withing ten
days, the same shall be con-
firmed by said Board. The
said road surveyor shall be
allowed two dollars per day
for his services, and the free.
holders one dollar per day
each for their services, but II
exceptions to thereport shall
be filed, the said board shall
hear the same at their next
meeting, and If said excep-
tions shall raise the point as
to the location and grade,
the said Board shall order
another SUI vey OF said road
if sufficient cause be shown,
and if said second survey
shall be ascertained by said
Board to be more practicable
and useful to the public and
inhabitants of the neighbor-
hood, the same shall be a.
dopted and the county shall
pay the costs, otherwise the
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pay costs in case such sur
vey is not adopted.

vey is not adopted.
Sec. %. Whenever a n y
road has been laid out and
established ! n accordance
with the preceding section,
it shall be the duty of the
Board of County Commits.
sioners to appoint one or
more overseers with a suffic.
lent number of hands to con-
struct and open said road on
the grade and it shall be the
duty Of said Board to cause
a copy of the orders of ap-
pointment to he served on
such overseer within twenty
days of his appointment, and
said orders shall designate
the boundary from which
said hands shall be taken, or
or shall embody the names
OF the hands liable to work
on said roads. Provided, that
no hand shall be required to
work outside of his own town
ship except on a bridge over
a stream dividing one town
ship from another, or where
he may be required to do so
by special act of the Leeisla-
ture and in no case shall he
be required to work more
than four days in one year.
Sec. 20. Whenever any per
son desires to change q road
from one part OF his land to
another part. he shall lay out
the same and after putting
it On as good grade, and in
such good condition as high
ways are directed to be, shall
apply to a Justice OF the
Peace who thereupon shall
notify the oyerseer OF the
road, and summons two free
holders to meet on the prem
ises at a given day: and the
said freeholders, being duly
sworn, shall with the Justice
view and examine carefully
the road which is proposed
in place of the other and all
matters and facts tending to
show whether t h e change
should b e allowed. They
shall report in writing sub
scribed by them, the result of
their consideration to the
next meeting of the Board of
Supervisors, which may con-
firm or reject their report,
Provided, that such Justice
and Fl eeholders shall be dis
interested in the land and
not of kin to the applicant,
and said grade notsteeper or
heavier than the original
road was.
Sec. 80. The Board of Su-.
pervisOrs of the township
within ten days after the ad.
journment of t he Board,
shall if convenient serve each
overseer with a copy of the
order appointing him over.
seer, and il not convenientor
said overseer refuses to ac-
cept said appointment, the
said Board shall within ten
DAYS deliver two copies of
said order to the township
constable to the sheriff of the
county or his deputy, who
shall serve each overseer with
a copy Of the order, or leave
the same at his usual habita-
ton: and the other copy
shall be returned at the nexc
meeting OF the Board of Su.
pervisors with the date of re-
ception by him, and if either
the board or constable or
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pointed orworklng theroad,
he shall leave at the house oi
each hand a written SUM-
mons specifying the day and
honr which they are requir-
ed to attend, the place of the
road to be worked, and the
kind of tools to be brought
or used, and the said written
notice left rs aforesaid shall
be deemed sufficient notice to
the hands required to be no.
titled, and all penalties or
fines recovered by an over
seer
Sec. 80. If any person he
settled upon or (is) cultivat-
ing any land to which there
is leading no public road,
and it shall appear necessary
reasonable andjust thatsuch
person should have a private
way to a public road over
the lands Of other persons, he
may file petition before the
board of supervisors of the
township, praying for a cart
way to be kept open across
such other PERSONS lands,
leading to some public road,
bridge, or public landing;
and upon his making it ap-
pear to the board that the
adverse party has had ten
days notice of his intention,
the board shall hear the al
legations of the petitioner
and the objections OF the ad-
verse party or parties, and if
sufficient reasons be shown,
shall order the constable to
summon a jury of three free.
holders to view the premises,
and lay off a cartway not
less than fourteen feet wide
and assess the damages, the
owner of such land may sus-
tain thereby; which with the
expense of making the way,
shall be paid by the petition
er, and the way shall be kept
open for the free passage OF
all persons on foot or horse
back, carts and wagons, Pro,
Vided, that if the notice afOre
said shall not have been Civ.
en-, the board shall cause
such petition to be filed with
their chairman until their
next meeting, when they
shall proceed to hear and de-
termine the same. and the Pc
titioner or the adverse party
may appeal from the order
of the supervisors to the
board of county commission
ers of the county, and from
the order of the board of
commissioners to the Super
ior court at term, when the
issues OF fact shall be tried by
a jury, and from the judg-
ment of the Superior court
to the Supreme court, as in
other cases OF appeal, and all
costs accumulated after the
order of the board OF super
visors shall be paid by either
party as the court may d.
rect.
Sec. 33. Cartways laid off
according to the provisions
of this Chapter may be chang
ed or discontinued upon ap-
plication by any person con-
cerned, under the same rules
and proceedings as they were
first laid off, and upon such
terms as to the board of su-
pervisors may seem equit-
able and just, and any per-
son through whose lands a
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Curious Succession of CalamitIes.

Chicago; June ia dispatch to the
Chronicle from Arthur, ILL.,, says thnt a
strange chain Of disasters began when
the Grand Army Post conducted the
burial on Sunday OFT. p. Wells, who
was asphyxiated7 at hotel in Chicago
on Wednesday night. While the cere-
mOny was. in prOgressat at the cemetery
news'reached Augustus Baker that his
thirteen-ycar-o son had just been
drowned while swimming. The shock
prostrated MIR. Baker and he had to be
taken home ina carriage. When the
news was broken to his wife she be-
came unconscious. Both are in pre-
Curious. condition. While the funeral
procession was returning from the Gem
etery one Of the carriages ran over
Mrs. William Sullivan's little two year
old daughter, mangling her in llorri-
BILE manner. Miss Oln Clark, q witness
to the latter accident, tainted and was
carried to the nearest house, where she
lay for four hours before recovering
sufficiently to be removed to her home.
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A Narrow Escnpe.

So great speed is attained by ice
yachts that they are sometimes lifted
from the ice and fairly fly for yards. An
incident Of this kind happened one win
ter. A large yacht of the New Ham
burg club went scudding down the river
in the direction of Newburg. It was the
owners intention to go to West Point
il possible. He sailed there, but moth
ing could induce him to make the trip
again. Everything went smoothly for a
time, SO it is related. the wind sending
the skeleton craft along at 40 miles an
hour. Juet above Newburg gale struck
the sails, and the yacht attained ter
rife speed. clouds Of ice spray whirling
in her wake. She reared and screeched
like mad thing broken loose. The sail
or'e eyes were pointed ahead, but q film
covered them and almost blinded him.
Suddenly he heard whistle blow
right behind him, and as he looked back
he saw that he had crossed the New
burg and Fishkill ferry cut, and that he
had crossed just in front of the steam
boat. His hair stood on end and fairly
turned gray. He landed at West Point,
transacted his business, took his boat
apart and shipped it home. having had
enough for that season. on.-Outing.
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Cor the Notcn Ca.hed.

A little incident which occurred ONLY
q few years before my birth, in the ex
treme west, and which I heard related
by my father. who was familiar with
the facts, illustrative of the slow modes
Of communication i'll those primitive
times. may be worth repeating here.
When tho old State bank of Missouri
failed, in. think, 1896. Sam Virgins.
brother of the well known Billy
Virgins, held IL large amount of the
notes of that bank, which. for practical
purposes being entirely worthless, he was
so parnlyzed that he mopcd about in a
condition of dependency for three days,
when he was approached by n certain
Frenchman. whose name has now es-
capped my memory, and who was noted
as long distance rough rider. and who
offered for consideration to take the
notes. and. with horse that lie knew he
could procure, we'll known for his pow
er OF endurance as Il traveller. proceed
across the country to Louisville and dis
pose Of the paper for good money.
The offer being accepted, he took the
horse and rode him 20 miles day, un.
til he became exhausted, when he eX-
changed him for another, and by re-
peated relays reached his destination
and got the notes changed four hours
before the arrival of the news, brought
by Il steamboat which had left st. Louis
on the day of the failure of the bank,
nearly three days III advance Of his own
departure. How would that sonni told
III st. Louis or Louisville in this yenr
of grace San Francisco Bulletin
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While i'll Samoa Robert Louis Steven
son and his wife in Al great measure did
ms the Romans did -that is To say, as
the Sam0nns did. 1t was Louis custom
to lie abcd late cf Il morning and spend
the remainder of the time under Il tree
on the hill, clad i'll light ryia,nns. the
dress of the native Kanaka.
With his wife it was the same. STAYS
were unknown to her and Il curling ircn
Il dim recollection Of Il shady past. 1t
was while Stevenson ana his wife were
living ut Apin, in Samoa. that Mr.. Hey
wood was appointed consul there for
this country.
Shortly after his arrival i'll the coun.
try he arranged for Il reception to thu
English. German and American resi-
dents of the community that they might
meet him i'll his official capacity and liz
them as ''citiZens Of Samoa"
OF course an invitation was sent Rob
ert Louis Stevenson and his wife. Two
days before the date of the function
Mr.. Haywood was surprised to receive
note from Mr.. Stevenson sent by
courier. The note read as follows
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson and Robcr,
Louis Stevenson ucccpt Consul Hcywootl's i'll
vitntion with pleasure and assiue him thn
they will be present OH tho evening Of tho I'D
IL by TINT time Mrs. Stevenson finds her otl l,c
shoe. Ever thine.
KOBERT Louis STEVENSON.
Detroit Free Press.
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The Massachusetts Legislature
has passed a bill providing that after
january l., 1902, wagon and carriage
wheels in thnt State shall have tires no
less in width than one and onc-half
times the diameter of the axle, meas
ured Mt the shoulder, and that wagons
built with hollow axlcs shall have tires
not less in width than the dianiater of
the axle measured at the shoulder.
The beer which is consumed
throughout the world, in single year,
would make q lake 6 feet deep. 8 3-4
miles long, mile wide, or 2.810 acres
in area. In this vast lake of beer we
could easily drown all the English
speaking people, to the number of 12O.-
100000, throughout tho entire world
or we could give O beer bath to every
man, woman and child at the Same
time in the entire continent of America.
The swallow has larger mouth.
in proportion to it's size, than any
other bird.
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An Inn I'm .Japan,

The singing girls sat round and gig
gled while we drank ten. They giggled
and sang and giggled while we were
initiated into the mysteries Of Jap
anese dinner. They danced and ato
sweets and sucked oranges while we
had our after dinner smokes. and then,
Mt about o'clock. they dropped on
their knees at the door, touched the
mats with their foreheads and shuffled
away. giggling and chatting. down the
stairs.
What impressed us was the cleanli-
ness of the inn. There was simplicity
about everything. No attempt was
made at shoddy grandeur. The mats
were unadorned, the woodwork was un-
painted, but blue vase in one corner,
wherein was stuck green branch, in
significant though it was, gave artistic
fragrance to the apartment. The food
was served neatly in trim dishes, and
all the dishes were arranged trinity on
lacquer trays.
1t was. however, not particularly ap-
petizing to three hungry wheelmen.
Japanese fare is scrappy and finicky.
On a pleasant autumn afternoon, when
you have been reclining in q jinrikisha,
dawdiing through sylvan lanes, tiny
morsels of fish and cupfnl of rice and
several curious messes seasoned with a
mixture Of salt and sugar may be all
right, but when the weather is ccld, and
there is a blood tingling breeze, and you
are doing your level so miles day
wheeling, you want ham and eggs and
beef and pudding. We should have
starved had we not every other day or
so fallen in with some Japanese who
understood the capacity of an English
stomach. Then we fed like the camel
Travel.
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Two Great Answers.

"Gradually woman is coming to her
own" remarks a gossiper in the Roch-
ester st-Express. ''Like the mills
Of the gods, in the familiar paraphrase,
she grinds slowly, but che gets there
just the came. In answer to the ques-
tion, What is the Salic law7 put by q
school inspector, this is what one girl
replied, The Salic law was an enact
ment that provided that no one descend
ing from female should ascend the
throne That girl must have been deep
ly impressed with the wrongs of her
sex.
"You may match this heroic reply
with another which comes from the
same source. A Sunday school teacher,
after having explained to her class that
Only the patrisrcbs were allowed to
have more than one wife, went on,
But, children, in these Christian times
how many wives may a man have2'
Upon which little girl eagerly put up
her hand and cried. please, 'em, two
only is generally necessary to- saliva
tion!''' -
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A WET EVENING.

aiy Day In Harvest, County Kerry.]
ilrcrn circle Of this summer lake,
+ ippe's curl petal OF mother g. pearI.
-. IRON grim, since ruffiing winds awake
,,l I, nted mists unfurl-
..ryly shadow of the mountain wall.
=. !, ,urplc and gold flung down with every
:ci
the crystal floor, Is vanished all
= .-,yness blank and cold.
I'd peak, that while clear skies o'ershone
49,. h,acinth crest their bluebell awning
trokc.
:. M, family. grown All old wan visaged crone,
-, jdlul in her holden cloak,
r. ar to seek tho shining, lost and flown,
.. :, rrcrovcn's smoke.
,.. tomorrow beam through amber rift,
:. -wiftly bright shnll all fash back on
.i.ht:
!. ..a,,r'- sheen. high slopes that CLINT and
Lift
sudden lawns of light.
: :, small chcckered fields. begun to glow
= burning bloom OF haulni und ear nnd
..li,n..
r.. glory. blurred away and stricken low,
g II torch shall rcllume?
. :. ranglcd, drcnchcd. tossed danl on black
zeal mirc.
-,,ii flame Of feathery gold-ah, wind and
ain
~. .ow conspirc, forbear our hearts desire.
=. lest onr year long hope lie quelled AMI
Lain.
$. ark lie aucnched save that the worlds
earth fire
" ~ morn may liindlc agnin.
-.Ianc Barlow in Athennum
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II am not worthy that You should
see me. said Gracious Maugirc. II
drove an old man from his home thut |
might gain the riches which lay be-
meath his land. deserve no synnntlv.
1t was l. Gracious Mauyire. and not II
spirit. who exiled Peter Frobisher.
have tried to make some tardy atone
ment. have just surrendered the op-
tion on this farm.
1T seems like IL dream to me- said
the girl II only knew that You had
done wrong that yon were struggling
with a temptation. ! could SEQ it in
your face, in yonr every act. =
"It means. replied Gracious Ma
guire very slowly. that if had not
surrendered all claim upon this land to
day might Ee Il millionaire and not Il
beggar. 1t was to win u woman whose
family despised me because / was a
fOundling that l struggled for riches
and power Do you know her9'
"You do not" replied the girl. "If
you did. you would have felt she was
not capable of caring for o man merely
on account Of his success
The present generation in Valley City
knows the story of Moundmere as q
tradition. The sight of hundreds Of der
ricks in southern Ohio calls to it's mind
the day when the telegraph carried the
news to the whole world that two pros
pectors. by the names Of Frobisher and
Mcguire, had discovered the greatest
reservoir of natural gas which drill had
ever pierced To me every derrick is
eloquent of the secret of Moundmere,
known for years only to Peter and Re-
becca Frobisher, to Gracious Mcguire
and his wife, whose name was Ellen =
John Walker Harrison in New York
Herald.
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n Word
to Doctors

We have the highest regard for the
medical profession. Our preparations
are not sold for the purpose of antagon-
izing them. but rather as an aid. We
lay it down as an established truth that
internal remedies are positively injuri-
Gus to eXpectant mothers. The distress
and discomforts experienced during the
months preceding childbirth can be al
leviated only by external treatment-by
applying linilnent that softens and re-
lakes the over-strained muscles We
make and sell such liniment, COM
bining the ingredients in a manner
hitherto unknown, and call it
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Mother Friend

We know that in thousands of cases
1t has proved more than blessing to
expectant mothers. 1t overcomes morn
ing sickness. 1t relieves the sense of
tightness. Headaches cease, and dan
ger from Swollen, Hard and Rising
Breasts is avoided. Labor itself is
shortened and shorn of most of the pain.
We know that many doctors recon-
faend it, and we know that multitudes
of women go to the drug stores and buy
it because they are sure their physicians
have no objections. We ask trial
just fair test. There is no possible
chance of injury being the result, be-
cause Mothers Friend is scientific
ally compounded. It is sold at 81 bot
tie. and should be used during most of
the period of CESSATION, although great
relief is experienced if used only short
time before childbirth. Send for our IL
lustrated book about Mothers Friend
THE BRADFiELD REGULATOR co.
ATLANTA. GA.
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Killed Ry Lightning.

RiNGoLD, Ca, June 1G.-During an
electrical storm yesterday afternoon
William, OVERLY, was struck by light
on his way home with two mules and
both of the mules were also killed by
the bolt. overly was a bridegroom of
one day, he having married Miss T.. NJ.
BrysOn on Wcdnesday.-Afamtn jour
,,nf