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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12

For wounds, burns, scalds,
sores, skin diseases and all irrita
ting eruptions, nothing so sooth
ing and healing as DeWitt's witch
hazel salve. Mrs. Emma Rolles,
Englewood Nursery, Chicago, Ill.
saws of it: "When all else fails in
healing our babies, it will cure"
cotfey BROS. phillips andson. L.c.
Reeves.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12

DeWitt's little Early Risers per
manently cure chronic constipa.
ton, bi,iousness, nervousness and
worn-out feeling, cleanse and reg
ulate the whole system. Small,
pleasant, never gripe or sicken-
famous little pills y Cofey BROS
phillips and son, L. c. reeves.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12
Hoods Pills

On retiring, and tomorrow your di-
gestive organs will be regulated and
you will be bright, active and ready
for any kind of work. This has
been the experience OF others; it
will be yours. HOODS PILLS are
sold by all medicine dealers. 25 cts.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12
tion against Mr.. Richard Gro

ton against Mr.. Richard Gro
ker, aud some express very
positive opinions that Mr..
Croker would, before long rec
ognize the inevitable and re-
tire from the leadership to-
ga We himself from being fore
ed out Of it, and that With
his retirement, there would
he an end to One-man rule in
Tammany.
1t is difficult to resist the
belief that recent pop-gun
campaigning In the Philip
pines was directed from Wash
lngton for political purposes.
Gen. Otis informed the coun-
try that az a part OF the gen
eral forward movement, an
army OF thee divisions, un-
der command Of Gems. Near
thur. Wheeler and Wheaton
advanced upon and captured
Porto, which has been garri.
soned by about six hundred
Filipinos. The next day it
was quietly announced in the
regular press dispatches that
our troops have abandoned
Porao and retreated to An
geIes. Gen. Otis has succeed
ed in getting himself retained
in command OF the Philip
pines, if he hasn't succeeded
in winning much from / h e
Filipinos. His pull with the
administration has proven
stronger than the advice OF
many prominent men who
thought he ought to be re,
moved. To give him more
show to justify the favors
shown him, he has been sent
a lot of additional staff Off.
GERS, including Brigadier Gen
eral Schwann, who has been
made Chief of staff and prin
cipal assistant in the admin
istra.iYe work of the govern
ment of 80 much of the Phil
ippines as are under our flag
Conm,ssary General Ea'
gan, the mar who, as a re-
suit of a court martial. il
dra wing full pay az a Briga-
dier General, without doing
anything in the line of duty
is again in Washington. He
has positively declired to &C
cept the offer OF some friends
of Col. Weston, who is perfo1
ming the duties OF Comissa
~ General, withoutreceivina
the proper pay therefor, tt
pay HIM the differencein in cast
between his salary on the re.
tired list and what he now n
ceives, if he would ask to b.
retired, so that Col. Weston
could be promoted. Eaga'
can block Weston's promo
tion as long as he remains OF
the active list and he canno
be retired, except upon hi
own application, before tn
expiration of the five year
suspension from duty.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12
Some Items Of News From Reese.

We have had an unusually
dry season on upper Beaver
Dams and Fork Ridge. Con,
sequently grass is n bout
gone. and a good portion of
corn is short. The corn crop
throughout the county will
fall short of last years crop,
but the abundance of oil d
corn will supply the defcien-
cy until there will be no lack
| hope.
On the morning ofOct. LIST
We had a big frost and freeze,
but everything except a few
patches of cane and the ap-
pie crop was safe. | do not
think apples are injured, but
the cold was pretty hard on
them.
John Thomas, of Mabel, af
ter two years or more ii sick
ness, died on the 3Oth ult.,
, and was inferred in the fami-
ly grave yard Oct. 1st. A
large crowd of relatives,
neighbors and friends came
to pay their lastrespects and
give that token of love to
one who had for many years
lived among US and who had
many good qualities; one OF
which was he was good to
to the poor.
l.. R. Jones has been very
much indisposed for m ore
than a week. He is GONZALES:
cent. Miss Emra, his daugh-
ter, has been waiting for the
recovery. OF her father that
he may take her back to But
Ter to school. Miss Emma ie
a noble girl and her very
soul longs for a finished edu'
cation.
Our Sunday School is splen
did, with II good degree o.
spirituality in it.
Elder ]. H. Farthing is oul
pastor, and we hail his vi,
it's with delight for.we believt
he loves US and the work ir
which he is engaged.
Some OF our young mcr
have been trying railroad
ing. They say it takes a very
tough fellow to stand it. Th'
indefatigable Abraham Lin
coin Shown is foreman of ,
crew of hands, and has tn
, honor of breaking the frs
railroad dirt in johnson Co
Old Johnson is so elated owe
: the prospects of a road tina
, we are all rejoicing with her
? The photographer from Blu
J Ter came out and got a goo(
t negative of the crew. tn
: boys say Link makes a goot
foreman.
Some wagons of this plac
, will try the Lenoir marke
4 the first of the week.
4 ~ RErSE
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

From our Regular Correspondent
Admiral Dewey IL the guest
during his present stay in
Washington, of Mrs. Wash
ighton Mclean, mother of
Hon. John r, Mclean. demo
cratic candidate for Govern
or OF Ohio. The ovations Civ
en- him on his arrivalin Wash
ington, and during the civil
parade he reviewed, was grea
ter than was ever given to
any other individual. 1t was
enthusiastically participated
in by everybody, regardless
of politics, race or sex, show.
ing that the people recogniz-
ed the difference between Il re
al national hero and a man
temporarily prominent thro'
partisan politics. The admin
istration would gladly have
made this occasion a republi
can celebration, but the peo-
pie would not have it that
way-they are perfectly will
ling that the republicans
should have the present war
in the Philippines for. their
own, but they know that the
war with Spain was not a re.
publican party affair.
Oh, no! the rear platform
speeches which Mr.. Mckinley
ia to make in Ohio are not tt,
be political. 1t is just a mere
coincidence that be will make
speeches at Clevela nd and To
ledo, where the republican dle
affection is the strongest. AT
least, that is the sort of talk
the republicans are handing
out. Nobody believes a word
of it.
The influence of Mr.. McKiu
ley 10 being openly used to
compel the few anti-Hanna
Ohio republican Federal Of
fee holders in Washington to
speak and work for the Han
ma ticket. For instance, ex.
Congressman Watson, who
was the source of 50 much
worry to Boss Hanna that
he was given a nice position
in Washington to keep him
out of the state, has gone
home to take the stump fol
Nash, at the personalreques1
of Mr.. Mckinley, although
he hates Boss Hanna as bac
as the Oh Boy is credited
J with hating a certain kind oI
water, and does not hesitate
when no campaign is on, tC
say so with emphasis.
Local protests were una
!. yailing and that Ohio man
Gen. Thomas H. Anderson
was appointed U. s. Attor
ney for the District OF Colun
bia, because of 1.-THE exegencie
OF Ohio politics. Natural.
= enough there is much kick
ing. especially among the re
q publican members of t h
t Washington bar whothough
the place should have bpe1
given to one Of their owl
number. Another Ohio man
DR.. A. B. Richardson, of Ma
siIlo, has been appointed Su
perintendant ofthe Govern
u ment Hospital for the Insan
q (St. Elizabeth's) at Wasl
: ington, although the pos
tion ia in the classified Civ
Service and should properl
have been filled by the pro
motion of the Assistant Sr
perlntendent.
l.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12
Different Uses for Bibles.
Washington Times.

A little while ago q return
ed missionary made a state
ment which is likely to be
somewhat unwelcome to the
Bible Society. He said that
large consignments OF Bibles
shipped to China are used by
the natives in making fire.
crackers. Now comes anOth
er piece of information of the
same sort, this tilnefrom the
upper Congo.
Several million Bibles are
sent to Africa every year or
two and distributed where it
is supposed that they will do
the most good. The native
Africans do not make fire
crackers or use curl papers,
but they find the Biole useful
in another way. Some time
ago an explorer went looking
for new things on the banks
Of the Congo river, and was
shot through the solar plex,
US by an annoyed inhabitant
of the country. When the sur
geon dressed the wound he
found that it had been made
by a ball from a fiint-lock
musket. and extracted some
fragments of the Epistle OF
Paul to the Corinthian rs from
the anatomy Of the explorer.
If the people to whom t h 9
Bibles are sent are going to
use them for wadding guns
with which to shoot the send
ers, perhaps it would he as
we'll to think about the mat
ter.
The fact is that h certain
class of very good people in
this country are in the habit
of regarding the Bible as q
sort of fetch and their idea
of religion does not differ &C
very greatly from the Afri
can to whom they send mis-
sionaries. The latter has his
idea OF ethics and the super
palural, and sometimes it il
a fairly good one. There il
one African tribe of which
Max Muller says that it's tn
!, ory of the Creation is this
"There is a great Spirit who
made all things in the sky
p and on the earth; he sees an(
hears all that we do, but h
, spenks only to those " h {
, draw near unto him" /
would be hard tor the aver
age civilized man to lmproy
o on that conception. On tn
q other hand, African feticisn
all hangs on the notion tina
some object will be a protec
ton to the possessor, ire
, spective of the laws OF com
+ mon sense. During the civi
a war a great many soldier
q carried pocket Bibles with
y dim idea, encouraged by som
of their friends at home, tina
they could not he killedif pr
r tected by that charm. And j
+ is said that when a battl
q was imminent the road t.
7 the field was likely to b
= strewn with packs Of card
3. which the men had throw
away before going into &C
tion, that they might not y
- killed with such iniqultou
- thing upon them.
O Kodol Dyspepsia cure is a sc
entific compound having the el
u dorsement of eminent physician
e and the medical press. 1t digest
what YOU eat and POSITIVELY cure
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12

Kodol Dyspepsia cure is a SCI
entific compound having the en-.
dorsement of eminent physicians
and the medical press. 1t 'digests
what you eat and positivly cures
dyspepsia. M. A. Ketron, Bloom
ingdale. Tenn. says it cured him
of indigestion of ten years stand
ing Coffey Bros. Phillips & Son
l.. C. Reeves.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12
Tonight

If your liver is out of order, causing
Biliousness, Sick Headache, Heart
burn, or Constipation, take dose Of,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1899-10-12

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New-York tribune., 1899-08-12
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

On the Cunard liner Campania, which is 10 sail
for Liverpool to-day, will be Miss Tenie Wolf, Mr..
and Mrs. j. Martin White, Howard A Taylor, Mr.
and Mrs Asa A. Alling, +. Blanc. DR.. William II.
Tolman George ". Smaley. George Vernon Sims,
David Rumsey Mr.. and Mrs. James Mosher Mr..
and Mrs Henry F. Morse. Mr.. and Mrs. John f..
Nilholland the Misses Inez and Vida Milholand,
Master John A. Milholland. Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin
B. Lord Mr.. and Mrs George Broadhurst. Mr..
and Mrs c. A. Coffin, DR.. s. c. Comstock and Mr..
and Mrs. Franklin Edison jr
The steamship La Champagne, Of the French
Line will carry among her passengers for Havre
to-day Dr. L. c. Bryan, Jules Cambon, French Am
bassador TO the United States; Mr. and Mrs. 7. 5.
Wilson Joseph Savin. F. MARTINEZ and j. d. Gomez.
on the North German Lloyd Line steamship Al
Ter for Genoa Via Gibraltar and Naples. to-day,
viii be the Rev. l. Adam, vs.. II. Wills, Mr. and
Mrs Arthur o. Townsend, Commander II. s Ross,
Z s. n: Robert Currie, c. a. Field and Father
John Milo, of Mexico. , -, -
The Hamburg American liner Patria. for Ham lam
burg to-day will have among her passengers Paul
Anton J. Gales Mclean Professor and Mrs. j. II.
Breasted, Bernhard Gerhard NJ. Lazar and Louis
Lebig. ,, c..,..
which will sail for Rotterdam to-day. Will have
among her passengers Mrs. o. Starkweather r.
G. Wright Mr.. and Mrs +. Winter, DR.. and MIS-.
II s Davis Howard V. Lewis Mrs. Lillian May
and Mrs. Claire G. SiSco.
New-York tribune., 1899-08-12
NO STRIKE EXPECTED.

Boston. Aug 1l-General Manager Chamberlain
OF tho New York. New-IIaven and Hartford Rail-
road in whose hands the controversy between
the road and It's telegraph operators has been
placed states that he does not anticipate strike.
but that II one should take place the road simply
would return the original principles OF railroad
ing whereby running time. stops and meeting
places were established and observed by fixed rules
Concerning the dissatisfaction among the freight
hands Of the company, Mr.. Chamberlain said that
the New-York New Haven md Hartford road was
paying the same rate OF wages as the other New
England roads and It can see no reason why
1t should pay more than the other companies
In case Of n strike In this department, Mr. cham
berlain says he has two hundred and nifty aPpca-
tlons for clerkshps file and five hundred from
iaborers from which all vacancies could readily be
ied
New-York tribune., 1899-08-12
WANT ADVERTISERS ARRESTED.
TWO NEWCOMERS GET A LOAN IN 1oN-
KERs AND ARE LOCKED Up.

yx-ANTEp.-1oan Of $50 wanted by business man for
w week win give lender Si9e 200 FOR ,rcn5nr diamond
ring worth sl25 with lender stand stciest
ssG !sP 81 private party preferred BUSINESS '' F'
The above advertisement. appearing In Wednes-
DAYS Herald" led TO the arrest yesterday IN
Yonkers OF Alexander Miller, twenty-four years
old OF No 1l24 Bushwck-avc.. BROOKLYN ana
Isaac Lawrence. ffty-nne years old. formerly d
ieweller. Of No 12s West Thlrty-sixth-st, Manhat-
The advertisement was answered by Ihomas
Miller Of the firm OF Miller Mckinney, proprie-
tcrs o. the Ashland House, summer boarding
house. in Haw thorne-ave., Ionkers. lie met tne
advertiser Alexander Miller. by appointment MIL
Ter told him that he had plumbing contract but
had not sufficient money TO purchase the material
The fob he declared would be completed In less
than a week and his money would then he forth-
coming lie showed the Yonkers man the ring re-
ferred to, in addition TO producing SU worth OF
pawn tickets The hotel proprietor visited the
various pawn shops indicated and found that all
OF them which in the main represented pledged
diamonds TO be valid claims lie Informed Miller
that he would loan him the money. Miller called
yesterday shortly after noon, az the Ashland
House He produced the ring and pawn tickets
and secured a check from his namesake Tor slS]
Before leaving the New-Yorker was asked for the
address Of the plumbing firm In New forK from
which he said he had ordered the material.
After he had left the hotel man called UP the
firm by telephone and was promptly informed
that Miller had never left an order for piumDlhs
material -, . -, -o,
| The First National Bank was told TO deny pay
mcnt of the check for $50. The police were IN
formed and Miller was arrested while returning
TO the Ashland House. evidently TO get back his
securities. after having been refused payment on
the check at the bank. Shortly afterward Law
renee arrived at the Ashland House having drVen
there In a cab. He told the proprietor that ne had
heard Of the transaction with Miller and thgt he
wished to negotiate a similar loan, but was wiling
10 give better security The hotel man. now thor
/ oughly alarmed rang up the police again. anq al
though Lawrence left hastily he had not gone far
before he arrested. Both men were relncd
! looking and very well dres sed.
Miller had about one hundred dollars and some
| ieWelrv besides the ring and pawn tickets ne mad
| offered az security. Lawrence had pawn tickets
! reuresenting about thousand dollars, besides
| numerous Communications Both held for
/ examination.
New-York tribune., 1899-08-12
THE YELLOW FEVER AT HAMPTON.
STILL TWENTY CASES IN THE SOLDIERS HOME
NEW ONES

STILL TWENTY CASES IN THE SOLDIERS HOME
NO NEW ONES.
Newport News, Va Aug. II (SpeciaD. are
still twenty yellow fever patients in the hospital
at the Soldiers Home No patients have been dis
charged since Wednesday. All or those under
treatment are convalescing rapidly. There were no
new cases to-day and no deaths reported. Tho
health authorities here have received notice that
baltimore. New-York and Boston will raise the
quarantine against Newport News. Hampton. Old
Point. Norfolk and Portsmouth on Saturday night
The Philadelphia authorities have not been heard
from.
II is understood that the Marine Hospital sur
eeons and the Board OF Health will on Tues
day 20 discuss the advsabity OF raising the quar-
antine against Hampton. II is not at all likely
that the Gordon will be removed then, but the
reports Of Surgeon Wasdin at the Home and Sur
eeon White. on the outside. will De ready for the
considera ton OF the local authorities. The time OF
raising the Phubus quarantine depends upon the
recovery Of the yellow fever patients at the Home.
About two thousand OF the old soldiers have been
removed from the barracks to the tents. and the
work Of fumigatlng the buildings is nearly com
pleted BY the middle OF next week all or the vet
Grams will be back In their quarters.
New-York tribune., 1899-08-12
CUBAN CABLE CONNECTION
OPINION FROM MR.. EDMUNDS AS To The
COMMERCIAL LANDING ON
THE ISLAND.

A voIuninous opinion by ex-senator George +.
Edmunds was yesterday forwarded 10 seere'a.!
Root as 10 the right Of the war Depar'ile"
use military force 20 prevent the N0ii N.
Cable Company from landing on It's own PROVE
In C,,ba at the Cuban end OF Its proposed oaoio
i,a hetween that island and the United states
General Brooke having been thus directed 10 pre-
vent the Commercial cable Company OF Cuoa iton'
landing in Cuba, the company aodresseu So
the washington authorities. Protest was ~ i'"Uo
AGAINST the contention OF the lnternatloha O0e"''
.Te,epraph Company that ts exclusive rlsh's were
-,..os ,o- ,ortv wears under royal decree ana
order Of the Queen OF SPAIN dated 1860 ana 1oo'.
.rhe Commercial Company held that 1t shouia NOT
be prevented by military force from ianu.ie 80
cable in Cuba, contending that II perihi''eo i"
land free of restraint the existing company
might have recourse by the usual methods OF
Injunction against its operation The CONNER
c,al Company however. was in the angle between
threatened prevention by military force OF its
landing on the one side, and on the olheF oy iaNN
Of ground on which IT might take legal inluati'e'
At this tuncture William W. Cook, genera eoun-
,eI 10 the Commercial Company. invoked the
onin,on Of ex-senator Edmunds. Mr.. Edmunus
holds with Attorney-General Griggs that ouraOie
grants IN the island ought not 10 be maze as
thev might enlbarrass the expected new Govern
rnent OF Cuba when II shall come into occupa'ioIi'
hut he declares that establishing teIesraPh WI
on the private property OF the ne" company nnu
extending Il TO the United STATES 0oIIii0' f. f.
infringe this principle and policy. lie expresses
the view that while the Spanish grant ran ioi
ror,v wears IT'S exclusive rights were 10 be CO.
equal with exclusive rights OF the existing me
in the United States. and these. MI hdHiuru' Inon
holds. expired after fourteen years or IN lNSO'
He holds that forcibe prevention Of the new COM
nanvs landing in Cuba by the military can ne IS 1i
Sst.s % ~, s1it against those who permit or d.
rect such Obstre9n from the pIyse Mr Ed
so,Dds boids that the exclusive rights or the
oneratng company urged under the spanish gram nd
cannot be maintained in court OF Jus'''e anu
adds Al, . ,o,. Tho ,,bola mat
@er before the President, who, l am coniueI,; w
be willing in of so much general pH%1IiC % rar
ferest to hear you and give the ma mater e ms spnb
stsDs 10 be taken as Will enable you to proceed
with the able without committing rhe e. ~ anv
antion which viii in effect maintain the present
monopoly. else that the Preslaenhu M Mater as
a slIit 10 be brought 10 determine I"e 4"a''S- ~
1 bavo above suggested"
New-York tribune., 1899-08-12
STRIKERS GO BACK TO WORK

Scranton. Penn. Aug. 1.-THE six hundred strik-
ing miners at the Exeter coery, West Pittston.
resumed work to-day. pending agreement with
Superintendent Connors OF the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company 10 receive their committee. hear griev-
ancos and proposals. and to concede everything
demanded that was within bounds The supern-
tendent refused to deal with the men while they
remained idlc. The miners want increased wages
for driving and tunneng. loss dockage. and a
change in the size OF the they required to
load The Babylon colliery of the Temple Iron
Company, al Durye. and the Stevens colliery, also
at West Pittston where the men have been on
strike for week. with similar complaints TO those
OF the Exeter men. also resumed to-day. and their
difHculties are expected TO be quickly adjusted.
At these two mines nearly thousand workmen
Mere Affected.
New-York tribune., 1899-08-12
WANT PRICE or POWDER REDUCED.
D. l.. AND W COMPANY SAYS 1T CANNOT AFFORD
TO INCREASE COST OF COAL Production.

D. L. AND W. COMPANY SAYS 1T CANNOT AFFORD
TO INCREASE COST Or COAL PRODUCTION.
Scranton Penn. Aug. II (speciaD. D.-General Super
intendent LOOMS OF the Delaware Lacka1anna
and Western Railroads mining department. to-day
gave out the statement that the company would not
reduce the price OF powder to miners His state
ment is in answer to the request OF committee
roprese nting the workmen that the powder he re-
duced from g 10 S175 keg. the men setting forth
that IN the open market they could buy for 81 a
keg.
Mr. Loomis says that his company Is IN no posi-
ton to entertain any propositions looking toward
general increase I'm the cost Of producing coal and
as it is there IS only a small margin In ths coal
business Reducing the price OF powder practically
means the increasing OF the miners wages he SAID.
and the companies could not consider ior ons
minute a proposition Of this sort without read
justment OF mining rates.
In consequence OF this announcement ~ ths
Lackawanna's mining superintendent tle COM
mlttee having the powder question in charge hafs
called for a mass meeting In West Scranton to-
morrow evening of representative miners from All
OF the company's golfers. They will take up ne
poWder issue and other grievances. Nhat fhe de-
cfsion will be Is conjectural. hut the temper or ne
men Is for demand that the powder abuse 70
abolished.