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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-11
GANTZ-LAKE.

october III, l9Ot, MISS Date Lake
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. II.
of Belfast township was married
to Mr.. Hugh Gantz of Philadel.
phla. They are at home to all
their friends at 2422 S. Ismenger
ST., that city.
JACKSON-DRENNI MING.
A very pretty home wedding
was solemnized at high noon
Thursday, October Goth, at the
home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Drenning, near
Graceville, Bedford county. The
contracting parties were Miss
Hanna Drennlng and Mr.. Mar
shall Jackson, of Akersville.-
The bride was attended by Miss
Ella Drenning, of Bedford, and
Mr.. Chalmer Drenning was best
man. The wedding march was
rendered by. Miss jessie Dren-
ming. The wedding ceremony
was performed by Rev. G. H.
Campbell, of Breezewood, after
which the bridal party and invi.
ted guests partook of a delicious
turkey dinner.
The NEWS joins with their host
of friends IN wishing them hap
py and prosperous welded life.
Charlton-YOnker.
Miss Ray Yonker and Howard
p. Charlton were married last
Wednesday at $50 o'clock at the
Methodist Episcopal church, War
fordsburg, by Rev. William An
thony, the pastor. The bride Is a
fair blond, ,and was dressed In white
long cloth trimmed in white lace
ana RIBBON, carrying bouquet OF
white carnations and roses. The
groom wore the conventional black.
A reception was held at the BRIDES
home in the evening of which only
the members of the immediate
families were present. Both the
contracting parties are we'll known
and will be greatly missed by their
many friends. The couple receiv-
ed many beautiful and valuable
presents. Mr.. and Mrs. Charlton
will reside in Pigeon Cove on the
late Jacob Fisher farm which Mr..
Charlton recently purchased from
his father.
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Weddings.
NEEDOM-SHADE.

Thursday, November 5, 1908, IN
the Washington House parlor Nc
Connellsburg, Mr.. Hays Needom
of Richmond Furnace, Franklin
county, and Miss Belle Shade, of
Burnt Cabins, we're united in
marriage by Jonas Lake, Esq, of
Laidig.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

Clay Park, Three Springs
hustliug merchant is IN the east
ern cities this week buying a
large stock OF new goods for his
largely increasing trade.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Stilwell Truax of
near Gem, spent Tuesday in this
place,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28
Banks on the increase.
[Harper's Weekly.l

Some recently published statistics attest
the surprising growth of national banks
and savings banks in the United States.
In 1864 there were fewer than 600 nation
al banking associations and their aggre-
gate capital was considerably less than
$1e0, 000, 600 At the end of 1865 the ag-
gregate resources of the national banks,
which then numbered 1913, amounted to
less than 1880. 100000.
Now let US look at the returns made to
the Comptroller of the Currency on Oc-
tober /, 1902. AT that date the national
banks numbered 4,GO1; their total capital
stock was over STA, 900, 900, and their ag-
gregate circulation $3.50, 900, O00 Their ag.
gregate resources amounted to sG,114, 900.
coo. The face value of the United States
bonds now held by national banks is
about $457 900, 900, and the individual de
posts exceed s3,2OO,OOO,0O0. The amount
OF money paid into the Federal Treasury
since 1863 by the national banks as taxes
OQ ClINuIdLlOii, Ndplldl, uCPOSlLsB pluS,
ETC., reaches $40, DOC, 900. We add that
the number of shareholders in the ma
tional banks is $3.50, 124, to which total the
New England States and Middle States,
including under the last named term New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland and the District of Col
umbia, contributed more than 100000 in
dividuals.
Obviously the national banks are or
gained and supported by the relatively
rich. Turning to the savings banks,
which are intended for the relatively
roor, we observe that the aggregate dc
pesits in these institutions increased IN
the five years preceding October /. 1902,
from 81, $40, 900 COO to $2,640O00.0 00 In the
same period the number of depositors rose
from s., 200, 900 to 100000 0O This is an
astonishing exhibit when we consider that
in many States the savings of the poor
are invested in the stock Of building as
sociations 1t should also be noted that
the Federal Government through the
money orders issued by its postal depart
ment in 1862 did a banking business Of
inward of 1913 $50 600.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28

dent Harrison selected him to fill the va
caney on the Supreme bench, occasioned
by the death of Justice Stanley Matthews.
Thus, Justice Brewer has been judge
for many years. His life has been one of
labor and of thought He has startled no
body and it is by no means what the
callow reporter would call 'plctur-
esque' man. There is little of the john ].
Ingalls, about HIM, and less Of the James
H. Lane. We cannot say of him that he
IL Kansas incarate" as has been said Of
ingalls,.
Judge Brewer has rendered some opin-
ions that attracted considerable atten-
ton. One was that railroad case from
Texas in which it was held that Federal
courts had the right to restrain rates
fixed by State Commission if they were
unreasonable, which amounted to saying
that the power to coniiscate was not
lodged In q State Railroad Commission.
Then there was the Debs case-Judge
Brewer decided that 1t was held that
the Federal court had power to restrain
by injunction any interference with inter
state commerce, and punis-- by fine and
Imprisonment one disobeying the injune-
ton.
In the Fairbanks case, Justice Brewer
held that the government had no power
to impose stamp tax on foreign bill
of lading.
In the Holy Trinity Church case, he
held that the statute prohibiting con-
tracts for bringing into this country for
eign laborers; did not apply to ministers
of the gospel, and the court said in that
decision that ours is a Christian nation.
These are a few Of the cases he ad-
Indicated, and they testify to the strength
and originality of MS mind. His dissented
in the insular cases. He has long been
considered one of the ablest judges on
the bench, and his fine mind is yet at the
zenith of its powers
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operations A man from Cabarrus county
spent a night with Brindle, and during
the evening told how neighbor of his
had taken a stone, which contained some
thing yellow, to Fayetteville, and sold it
to a jeweller, who paid him three dollars,
and afterwards got five pounds OF gold
out of it.
Mrs Brindle thereup0n produced a small
stone, which contained gold worth two or
three dollars. Her visitor called for j
frying pan next morning, and going to
Brindle Creek, washed gravel and soon
had the bottom OF the pan lined with
particles of gold. He then warned the
old couple to beware of men, who would
seek to buy the land at small price.
The old lady was the owner OF the land.
ard for months resisted the offers of a
wealthy neighbor to buy though her hus-
band favored selling. The proposed pur-
chaser came one day, as he said. to make
a last offer He opened negotiations by
producing a gay ready made flaming red
silk dress selected TO pander to the Ger
man taste of the old lady, and it proved a
beautiful fit He told her he would give
her the dress and five thousand dollars
In gold. The red dress prevailed and IN
less than a year work had commenced
on every stream in the vicinity.
Dozens of wealthy men from Halifax,
Warren, Franklin and Granville counties
migrated to Burke and brought hundreds
of negroes. The immigrants, in these
flush times, brought with them blooded
horses and game chickens and gave the
unsophisticated mountaineers lessons in
poker Hawkins Plummer and Robards
were familiar names in those days.
Thousands of dollars worth of bullion
We're bought by the Bank of Morganton
and sent to the new mint established at
Charlotte The bank advanced, what was
supposed to be about ninety per cent. of
the value of the gold dust, and paid the
full amount, upon receiving a report of
the assay from the mint
THE BANK ISSUED THREE FOR ONE.
The old State Bank and its successor, af-
ter it was rechartered (Chapter 80, Prl-
vate Laws of 1S54-'5), issued three dollars
in bills for every dollar of the capital
stock, which was paid in gold. The writer
wildly recalls the time when he sat by
the hour and trimmed the margin sheets
of bills signed by his father, as cashier,
and cut apart the four bills on every sheet
with scissors.
AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE A RUN ON
THE BANK.
The bank was required to redeem, each
branch for itself, the bills issued by it in
gold or silver, then the legal tender money.
The branches sent their bills to remote
sections of the State and exchanged for
bills issued by other banks or branches,
and, as people travelled from East to West
in stages or carriages, they seldom came
back till worn out. Occasionally some
enterprising fellow collected bills OF the
Morganton branch, and came up to the
hank, carpet-bag in hand, to demand
their redemption. / recall one such scene
when / was a boy. The stranger an
nounced without prelude that he had sew
eral thousand in notes of that branch for
which he wished to get gold. My father
replied that he had the right of payment
in silver or gold. and directed one OF
CHS sons to roll out keg and a sack of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28
ATTEMPT TO MAKE A RUN
ON ANTE BELLUM BANK
Judge Avery on History Of the Banks Of
Morganton and Discovery
of Gold.

silver, and began to count Soon after
the counting began the stranger said it
would be rather inconvenient to carry SO
much silver on a stage coach and with
drew his demand. The credit of that
bank still remained good until ruined by
the war. Such incidents naturally bring
up the inquiry, which has given rise to
so much discussion: What would have
been the effect upon the money market.
and the credit of the government. if
Cleveland had instructed Carlisle to re-
deem silver certificates In silver com only
1t is settled that silver is now only a sub
sldlary coin But the question still re-
ours, would the endless chain process
have been checked or the distress of the
panic diminished if the President had
done what the law evidently contemplated
he would do Conceding that the free
coinage of silver cannot and ought not 10
be made an issue, the question still re-
ours, when Clevelands name hobs up as
a candidate whether he could not have
prevented untold misery by a less obstin-
ate and strenuous adherence to his own
opinions
The Morganton Bank was managed by
r. C. Pearson as president, and /. 7.
avery DIS CdSElCl llOill dOOuI 1901 WITCH
the health of w. w. Erwin failed. till
1857, when l. T. Avery resigned on ac-
count of Ill health.
POST BELLUM BANKS.
After the State Bank was wound up,
there was no bank in Morganton till the
Piedmont was organized as a State bank
in 1892 That bank was unable to wealth
er the panic and made an assignment in
December 1897.
THE BURKE COUNTY BANK AND IT'S
SUCCESSOR THE FIRST NATIONAL
BANK OF MORGANTON.
The Burke County National Bank was
established at Morganton under a charter
from the State in 1899. with G. Geitner as
president; A. M. Ingold, cashier, and S.
r. Collett and subsequently, Moran Col
lett as teller.
This bank became in 1900 the First Ma.
tional Bank of Morganton, with the same
president and cashier. and James A. Clay
WE'LL Jr., teller. It is now doing a good
and safe business. and under the manage
ment of Mr. Ingold. commands the conf
dence and good will of the people.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28

Emilia Ann Field was the second
child and eldest daughter of David Field.
She became the wife of Rev. Josiah Brew
er, and to them were born seven children
among them David j. Brewer, born june
20, 1887, at Smyrna, Asia Minor, where
his parents were then stationed as mis-
sionaries of the Church of Christ. He was
educated at Wesleyan University and at
Yale. and when a youth he read law in
the office of his uncle, David Dudley
Field IN New York city. Subsequently
be was graduated from the Albany Law
School.
When very young man, he located at
Leavenworth. Kan, and opened a law Of
fee. 1t was Just before the war, and IT
was troublous times, and it was turbulent
people He was on the probate and crlmi-
raj bench at the age of twenty-five, and
two years later, he was district judge.
AT thirty three, he was on the Kansas
Supreme bench. where he continued till
1884, when he was appointed Judge of
the Eighth Federal Circuit. In 1889 Presl
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28

Cyrus w. Field achieved more than any
other of the brothers Early in life he
accumulated a fortune, and spent it all
in the novel and seemingly impossible
enterprise of the ocean telegraph. His
efforts in that behalf were as heroic as
the struggles of Bruce before the day of
Banockburn, but score of defeats and
disappointments were ultimately crowned
with victory Cyrus Field was the pio-
neer and the soul of that great venture
that required all the faith and courage
that sustained Christopher Columbus.
Men would have made an ocean cable
had Cyrus Field never lived, and Europe
would have discovered America had Co
lumbus never been born, but the name
of Columbus is linked to one enterprise
and the name OF Field must ever be as
ISOLATED with the other.
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First National Bank of Waynesvil Q

The Waynesville Courier says that the
First National Bank has occupied its new
building. IL is built of local material and
by home talent. The front is of creek
round rock, laid in cement and is unique
in appearance.
I'm the rear OF the banking room, up
several steps, is the directors room, and
also bed room. The bed room has a
window overlooking the vault door and
the Waterman, without getting out of
bed, can turn on the electric hgnts in
the bank while he is still in the dark"
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National Bank Begins Business.
(Iineolnton Journal. ]

(Iincolnton JournaLl
The First National Bank of .gnconton
opened for business Monday. Shis bank
is chartered under the Nationax Banking
act and has a capital stock oiE $4,000.
The building is 221s feet wiIe and 60
feet long. 1t faces on Main strtAt, is two
stories high and is made of the ssst brick.
stockholders are d. Z. Rhyme, JSA Aber-
nethy, President; J. H. Ramsasr, Vice
President; and Claude Ramsaurs Cashier.
The directors are ]. A. Abernethy, D. e.
Rhyme, T. F. Costner, H. s. 9obinson.
Edgar Love and J. II. RamsaRtr The
The officers of the bank are j.. A. Aber
nethy r. S. Reinhardt, Edgar {ove, H.
s. Robinson, W. E. Holt, j. S. Spencer,
D. A. Tompkins. T. F. CostneE ], X.
Cline, George w. Cauble, c. ~ Childs
]. F. Reinhardt, j. E. Reinhardt Victor
Reinhardt, Steve Reinhardt r. i. Law
ing, Claude Ramsaur and j. Fl. RaIasaur.
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WASHINGTON, N. C.-Organized IL
1895; capital $4,000.
James L. Fowle, President c. M.
Brown, Vice President; A. M. Dumay,
Cashier
SAVINGS AND TRUST CO., WASH
INGTON, N. C.-B. G. Moss, President:
John B. Sparrow. Cashier; capital, $12.-
600. Organized during the present year
1903.
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LIBERTY AND LAW THE
GLORY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON
American Liberty, the Truth Declared on July 4,
1870 is Hoary With Age. Sketches of a
Remarkable Family.
washington Post.)

! merchants, hnanclers they bore the
Word of God and preached the faith Of
Christ in alien tongues to alien peoples.
They reformed the law and made justice
ride in simpler chariot and speak palmer
language. They added another re to the
marriage of the old hemisphere to the
new. and one that bound secure by daily
converse and instant touch. In short,
the family Field is of the very aristocracy
of American citizenship. 1t illustrates
| the possibilities OF Vie human race
| David Dudley Field was the eldest born
of Rev. David Field and his wife, Submit
Dickson, and this hrst born was father,
as well as brother, to the other children
of that family. He was conege breu and
chose the law for a profession. He set
tied in New York and achieved signal
success He was one of the leading law
yers of America, contemporaneous with
Charles OConnor, Samuel J. Tilden, Will
liam NJ Evarts, James T. Brady, and
men of that calber. He was a Democrat
in political belief, but never politician.
He could not change his convictions, and
frequently they interposed. between him
ard preferment. He was an anti-slavery
/
in its earlier history and, with Tilden,
had supported Martin Van Buren,, the
free Soil candidate, for President in 184S.
He was at Chicago in 1860, and it was
David d. Field, as much as David Davis
or Horace Greeley, who contributed to
the victory of Lincoln over Seward He
supported Lincoln's administration and
Gid much to bring the Democratic party
sc II ~ 4 10
In 1876 he voted for Hayes against hrs
| fellow Democrat and fellow bolter of 1913.
Tilden but he believed Tilden was elected,
so expressed himself, and was sent TO
Congress to uphold Tilden's cause. He
was OF that matchless array of counsel
that pleaded Tildens cause before the
Electoral Commission. Before that he
had denounced the reconstruction infa-
mics the Republican party visited on
the South and had proclaimed with a
loud voice the supremacy of the law over
the bayonet.
But David d. Field has a title to fame
above and superior to any of these things.
He was the father OF the code Of practice,
legal reform OF incalculable advantage
to the English-speaking peoples of both
hemispheres. He drove technicahty from
the practice, and opened a great profess
sion to minds too downright for riddles
and puzzles and jargon and the artificial
reasonings and arbitrary preeedents of a
dozen or SO forms of pleading that had
for nomenclature Miehaelmas terms and
hillary term and things like that Nearly
all the American States have codes of
practice, as have England most, if not
ALL of her dependencies This fine old
New York lawyer, the dean of the pro
fcssion at the legal metropolis of America,
bequeathed this great reform to law and
justice.
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Stephen j. Field was taught by his
brother. though he had been pupil Of
his brother-in-law, Brewer. in Asia. For
a while he resided in Europe, ana on his
return to America he was a Forty
miner" in California. There he practiced
law and was a politician and Judge. IT
would take Il Robert Louis Stevenson to
tell his career in that frontier IL that
pioneer day.
He, too, ives a Democrat, but adhered
to the Union in 1861, and may be it was
his effort, more than any other indiyidu-
al, that held the Pacific Coast true to
the Union.
Mr. Lincoln put him on the Supreme
Bench with Davis and Miller, and he
was associate justice of the United States
Supreme Court for longer period than
any other man, and a period some weeks
greater than Justice John Marshall's SER
vice as Chief Justice OF that tribunal
This country owes Stephen ]. Field
great debt. He wrote the decision in
the Millikin case. He adjudicated the
Slaughter house case. He subordinated
the sword to the law. He gave civil lib
erty to a whole people He opened the
door of hope to the South. And the Demo-
cratic party came very near to making
him President of the United States for
it. What an illiad Of woes his party ana
the country would have escaped il his
opinion of the greenback had remained
the Interpretation of the Federal Con-
stitution.
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DYSEN cry,
DIARRHG
STOMACH ACHE, CHOLERA MORBUS
AND ALL SUMMER COMPLAINTS
SPEEDILY CURED BY
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey.

Gentlemen-My wife has been using Duffy's
Pure Malt for two years for stomach troubles.
She is highly pleased with results. | have
often prescribed it in other cases in this
locality. | am convinced of its merit.
S. L. WHITMIRE, MD, Floyd Springs, Ga.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28

Competition is the life Of trade and
the death of the non-advertiser.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28

Some men arc locked up for break
ing and some for safe-keeping.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28

Happily for our country the people
have reposed implicit confidence in the
judiciary Had we been other than Saxon
some OF the adjudications of the Supreme
Court would have occasioned revolutions
In our country; but we come of a race
that had long been taught and observed
respect Tor the law as interpreted by the
courts While John Marshalls decisions
were making a government for our peo-
pie, Napoleon Bonaparte's sword was
making government over yonder. Where
is Napoleon's government today? Yes
Marshall's government stands. though as
sailed by drawer and more puissant
armies than destroyed the first or the
second empire.
We reserved one right that must be
held sacred by every free people-the
right of criticism. Our fathers exercised
it freely and SO do we. The bred Scott
decision enraged great political party
and brought volumes of abuse upon one
of the purest and ablest jurists who ever
sat on the bench. We remember the de-
csion in the case of the disputed Pres
Dental election; and, more recently, we
saw the outburst that greeted the final
adjudication of the income-tax cases. But
our people have great respect for the Su-
preme Court, and so long as tnat tribunal
shall maintain the high character it has
made in the ia years OF its existence,
American liberty may be regarded as Sc
cure THE law allows =, and the court
awards it,"
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David j. Brewer came from one OF the
most eminent familes of Amerlca-less
remarkable for gifted sons than Marshall
or Adams, yet, in achievement, perhaps,
no single household has equaled that OF
David Field, the grandfather of Mr.. JUS
tice Brewer, of the Supreme bench. 1t is
New England stock and Puritan to the
marrow. 1t had a religion that tested
faith by works. 1t believed in morality
and trusted in the efficacy of prayer 1t
read the Bible and strove to practice its
teachings 1t abominated idleness and
Stunned vain things. In its philosophy
life was a serious thing, and duty the
master over all.
David Dudley Stephen j., Cyrus W.,
and Henry M. Field were sons of this
household, and there were others. less
eminent, it is true, but men who played
well their parts on the stage of life. They
left the parental roof early and made
adventures in far-off lands. They We're
in Asia and Europe and South America.
They We're clergymen. jurists. scientists.
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THE BURKE GOLD MINES.

The founding of the branch bank at
Morganton was nearly contemporaneous
with and grew, in part, out of the dis
covery of gold in Burke county, and the
writer may be pardoned for a short d.
gression upon the early operations in the
placer mines of this section. A man
named Brindle lived on the creek, which
now bears his name, and near Brindle-
town, subsequently, the center of mining
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BY request, Hon. A. G. Avery, former
Associate Justice of the Supreme court
of North Carolina, has written an intel
esting sketch of the first bank established
at Morganton, and told the graphic story
of an attempt made to make a run on the
bank. Judge Ayery's father was cashier
of the bank and he recollects the incident
with the vividness with which such an
event would impress itself upon the mind
If boy
First one established in 1892.
A branch of the State Bank of North
Carolina was first established in Morgan
ton in 1892, under the control of local
board OF directors, who elected W. w.
Erwin, cashier, and Thomas Walton,
president. But the parent bank at Raj
eigh was managed by ex-Judge Duncan
Cameron, president and Charles Dewey.
cashier.