The Lenoir Topic from Lenoir, North Carolina • Page 3

35 ii No I TOPIC. (Dlln8img' dDantt TBE IW MR is upon us, and PENROSE BALDWIN prop's of the NEW DRUG STORE, send greeting to the citizens of Lenoir and vicinit, and prom-iseth) i da the coming year all the articles usually found in a CD A TERRIBLE ACdDEHT DROffHIXG OF A PBCSBTTEBIAM MINISTER AND DAVGUTEB 1ST TOE CATAWBA K1VEB. Last Friday Rev. T. G.

ThortUn pastor of ihe Presbyterian Cburch at Hickory and Principal of Highland Academy, left Hickory in a baggy, accompanied by his daughter aged about 13 years, on bis way to It is supposed that, finding the Catawba river at Oxford's Ford very flush, be decided to carry his trunk and over coat, across first, for they were found upon this side of the i iver, and that be returned for bis daughter. On the return tr the horse, which was rather unruly, becoming unmanageable was doubtless carried down bv the swift current and, together with Mr. Thurston and bis daughter, was drowned. Tee drowned horse and the buggy were found some distance below the ford on Saturday in a deep hole, but up to that time nc thing was known of Mr. and Miss Thurston.

Great excite ment was caused in Hickory by tbo sad news and nearly the whole town turned out Sunday to look for the bodies. A few more dozen of those stylish Satin and fur-trimmed will be closed out at prices that will astonish you. The last of a third lot bought this season, Will Many other goods at reduced prices. We earnestly request aQ persons who owe us accounts to settle the same. Respectfully, a COURTNEY BROTHERS.

Lenoir, IV. February 7, 1784. One of our most esteemed exchange. i8 the New York Evening Stock Import, a daily journal whose columns are by no means as dry and prosy its name might imply. From the Hickory Press we earn tint Mr.

A. J. Hamilton, of Delhi, N. has purchased the Dudley Shoals property in this county for and that he will erect machinery for the mannfacture of shingles, flour, A pleasant meeting of the Reading Club was held at Dr.Scroggs' last Thursday evening. The Club will meet at Dr.

Newland's next Thursday evening and every member is earnestly requested to attend, as very important business is to be trans acted. We learn that Mr. J. P. Rous seau, the superintendent of the Chester Lenoir Railroad bridge across the Catawba will have as his next job the building of an iron bridge across the Yadkin river at ilkesboro, which will be a toil bridge.

Mr. Ramseur, the photographer, has taken some pretty stereoscopic views of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches of and lat ter having been taken from Shell's llil1. He proposes to take other pictures of the beautiful jeuery aro I Lenoir. While the rain was pouring in torrents here, Tuesday night, and while the thunder rolled au-1 the lightning llished as in summer, it wa3 snowing on the Blue Ridge, twenty miles away, and on day morning thermometer low freezing in Lenoir. Copt, Natt Atkinson, of ille, who is an enthusiast about carp culture, having become so by ivad ing Dr.

Beall's articles upn the subject, was in Lenoir last wuk for purpose of examining Dr. Beall's metho Is and to get verbal directions as to the manipulation the fish. Our enterprising itt kowsky Harucb, the gre; hir lotte wholesale and retail dea'ers in general merchandise, call nl: this week to the fact that, in oi to make room for further improves, nts, they will for the next 30 days inau gnrate a great cleaning out sale. Read their advertisement. Oar Elk Cross Roads corres pondent, whose letter came in late, all around by the railroad, says that at i'dackburn chapel Rev.

Mr. Austin, assisted Rev. Mr. Osborne, of Cove Creek, and by Rev. Mr.

Cartwright, of Taylorsville, has just finished a successful revival in which 25 or 30 made profcasion of religion. Trimming shade trees is the order of the day. The historic oak on the Bogle corner, which is the "Charter Oak" of the Republican "corporal's guard" and under which more unadulterated radicalism has beenhatched than anywhere else in the county.v aVnicely trimmed Friday and is much roore ornamental than of yore. Tuesday night's rain was es pecially heavy on John's River and sent that stream out all over the bottoms. The low bridge across the Catawba between here and Icard was covered with water Wednesday evening and could not be ciossed and those who crossed Thursday morning went through a foot of water in the middle.

On the night of the 15th Lucky Joe Wilson, confined in Watauga jail, made an attempt to escape. He had managed to have smuggled into his cell a handsaw file and a steel shank stiffener and had improvised a saw with which he had pawed off the hinges of his cell door. The noise of his work about midnight awakened the jailor, Mr. Henry Huggins, who went up stairs just in time to pre. vent Wilson's escape.

Mr. Shell informed us Satnrday thit he intended to raise the Wood8 trestle yesterday and the Connelly trestle next Monday. Jn about two weeks he will have all his force at work on Lcwer-Creek trestle and the road will be clear for the track layers to that point. By Satureay night the construction train wilj reach Jones' and hrobably the ehort piece of grade at that point will be worked out by that rime. The mail routes from Hickory to Patterson and from Patterson to Trade Tennessee, have been bid off by outside parties and are advertised to sublet.

That portion of the first route from Hickory to Lenoir will soon be discontinued and bidders will govern themselves accordingly. The route from Patterson to Trade is now sublet for $S00 and the contractor complains that it does not pay. In the interest of contractors themselves and fit an efficient mail service we call upon our people to make their bids high enough to cover er penses at any rate. To carry the mail across the Blue Ridge from Patterson to Trade would seem to be a tough job at 1,000 per to no o. Caldwell must have her just desert 8 and when she does she will al ways go up head.

We are informed and will give particulars in a subsequent issue that the late James McMillan, of this county, father of James McMillan of Glenburnie, who was in the Indian wars in Ohio under General Harrison, took part in the famous battle of Tippecanoe and with his own hands killed the great Chief Tecumseh. VV are gratified to learn that the Butt of Terry and others, holders of bflls of the old bankrupt bank of Cape Fea sgainst L. Patterson, of the late Gen. S. F.

Patterson, one of the stock holders in that bank, to recover $4,500 upon the valueless bills of the bank, has been compromised and that Mr, Patterson comes out of the case upon the payment of a trifling portion of the costs -something under $100. Col. Folk has carried this case up to the Snrpreme Court several times. Let see if something cannot be done in this county once, at least, by general co operation. On the first Monday in April let us meet together and take the preliminary steps toward organization in favor of a county exhibit at the State Expo sitionf and looking to holding a rous ing meeting on Tuesday of Court week.

At this latter meeting the expression of the people will come fresh before the June meeting of magistrates which will be held on the Monday following. Mr. John M. Houk infoams us that he and Mr. Hamp Erwin made excavations last week upon the farm of Mr.

Erwin on John's River, in Burke, above Murray's ford, and dug up the bones of several Indian skeletons along with the bones of deer and birds and the antlers of deer. Ornamented potttery was found in great abundance. The Indian bodies seem to have been buried encased in muscle shells as great quantitiespf-these shells were found arcund, about, above and below the -Chapter 32o" of the laws of 1883 provides i that the commissioners of Caldwell county be authorized to offer a bounty of not less than two dollars nor more than five dollars for the1 scalp of every fox, wild cat, catamount and panther started and caugut in county or started in the county and run down and caught in another county. On the first Mon day in March Mr. W.

II Bower our member who had the law passed, will make application to the board of commissioners to offer a bounty as in such case is made and provided. Now tht the narrow gauge is coming the picture of the first steam passenger train in America to be seen in a show- case at Harper Bernhardt's becomes interesting. It represents a train of passenger cars on a road 1G miles long from Alba ny to Schenetady which made its first trip in 1831. The engine was a very original affair and has no shelter for the engineer and the coaches were built upon the fashion of the old stage coach and would bold about a half dozen comfortably. The conductor sat upon the "boot" like a 'bus conductor.

"Whoever stole my banty ben, I wiU they'd let her be; For every day nhe laid two eggB And Sunday nc laid three," The abv3 verse could be sun con expressione by Mr. JohnC. Steele, of Creek, provided a certain valuable hen in his poultry yard should be stolen He lecke this most remarkable fowl Tip in bis granary almost every day and when he goes to let her out in the evening he finds that she has laid two eggs. This is a great country any way. and Cald wellheads the prosession.

Mr. S. M. Clarke, our popular Register of Deeds, has only two bens on his place and yet he gets three eggs everyday. It is all owing to the climate.

WTe are informed by tho Mountaineer that a party ol gentlemen in Marion are offering cash premiums amounting to $250 for the best crops of tobacco rasied in McDowell durii the year; that on Feb. 14 Dr, Hilliard, the popular assistant superinsendent of the Western Insane Asylum, was married in New York to illiss Mary Duffleld, of Norfolk, that Hardy Hicks, engineer at the Western Asylum, had the good fortune to draw $5,000 of the capital prize made at the last drawing ot the Louisiana State Lottery; that a bitter rivalry between two colored churches in Morganton has culminated in a slander suit EdJohnson's Prepared Colsomine in all colors at Harper and Bern hardt's. 20 empty kerosene barrels at COc each. Come at once to Harper and Bernhardt. -M.

Robert Wakefield has a fine jwgmdtoralf. FEB. 27, is.x. LOCAL XOTS. We want woo I.

Catawba court this week. Judge W. M. Shipp is ridiDg this circuit. Another snow in the mountains Friday night.

Read Cloyd and Nelson's new advertisement. Rev. I. L. Beall left, last Saturday, on a northern trip.

Mr. P.nk Chester, of Doolie, Iredell county, is up on a visit. Mr. P. G.

Moore, of Grtnite, was in Lenoir on a risit Sunday. Three new students have entered Col. Folk's Riverside Law School. Miss Lizzie Reid, of Blowing Rock is visiting relatives in this county. Last Friday, Washington's birth day, was not observed with the usual festivity in Lenoir.

It is not fair treatment of foot pads for horsemen to ride on the walking ways of the pubile roads. Some finishing up work on the iuside of Davenport College was done by the carpenters last week. Glad to receive a call, Friday, from Mr, W. F. Steelnian, of Yadkin county, who will soon come to Lenoir to live.

Miss Meta Beall laft, last woek, for Elizabeth, N. whero she will reside with her uncle, Dr. Tutt. and attend school. Houk and vou liiogharz are preparing to send out cueulars de scriptive of the tracts of land for sale by them.

Mr. Widby is tidying up the post office, puttiug new glasses in the boxes and giving the office a neat appearance generally. The creek gravel hauled in and placed on the tide-walks and street crossings is a great convenience and more would be a greater. We haye received the Asheville daily Adctutce, a bright, six column paper pjblUhed by Mr. Theodore IJobgood, hich doer credit to the town.

Hey J. M. McLean, u' Gastoniu, preacne 1 in the PresbvU i i in Church Sunday morning and at night and Rev. W. A.

Foole at 3 o'clock iu the afternoon. Mr. add ill very ourteously proffers to take passengers down from the head of the road to Hickory in the evening and bring the-mback next morniug. Mr. Worth Lliiutt, of I card, has bought a lot situated just beyond the town branch from Mr.

F. Htfrper and will soon commence building, we presume. Cols. Folk and Armfu-ld have already been retained, we under stand, to defend Ray and Anderson at Mitchell court, so we suppose they must have been taken. Married, Wednesday, Feb.

20, at the residence of the bride's mother, on Lower Creek, by Rsv. M. V. Sher-rill, Mr. Felix Smith, of Icard, to Miss Mary of Caldwell.

Watauga might as well be as far away as Texas so for as I. earing any news from there through our correspondents for the last few weeks is concerned. Spur up, please. I An esteemed friend writing frcin Beaver Dani3, Watauga, informs, us that during the, first part of week before last Mr. C.

llilliard's store was entered and robbed by burglarf. The railroad bridge across the Catawba river was finibhed and turned over to the C. L. R. R.

authorities on Tuesday of lat week. It took just three! months to complete the work. Mr. Joseph Hardin, of Boone, says that his little mule came so near going under the mud between Lenoir and Hickory that he is war ranted in declaring that he did go Under and get covered up. The mail rider reports the body of Rev.

Mr. Thurston found "ICO yds from ford, but not of his daughter. The people of TylorsviUe, who were devoted to him, went in large numbers to the river to seaich for his body. Mr. L- L- llorton, of this county, owns an old musket that was "in at the death" when Maj.

Andre, the Revolutionary spy, was hanged. It belougs to Mr. Horton's ancestor, Nathan who was a guard on that occasion. Our Stokes county contemporary tells about the tall men of Stokes and some of the other exchanges are trying to get for their counties the glory of containing the giants of the State. Caldwell may not have him yet but she is growing one that after awhile will stand in the tall timber.

Young Patterson McDade, who lives two miles above Lenoir is only fifteen yean old and measures six feet and hre and a half inches biff lockl, 0 ID 01! 533? 1 1 It 0 forme i a partnership uiidiar gemnl vciatila buriaefc G. W.F. G. L. BERNHARDT, J.

M.BEKNflADT. 1884. FRM. FRST-C ASS DRUG STRE Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Grlass, Putty, full line of cigars chewing and smoking Tobaccos. PCouJiCu Me-chants and Phy sicians furnished with outfits at low prices.

Prescriptions compounded at all hours day and night. PEROSEBALDWIM CO. LENOIR, C. MORE ROOK WACTCD BT Wittkowsky Barach, CHARLOTTE, N. C.

Notwithstanding tbe extensive 8(h ditions made to our Retail Depart ment last season, which tbe lime seemed ample by tbe most sanguine for all ttme to come, yet such bas been the UNPBECEDENTED INCREASE la oar business and the commensurate increase of stock that we already find ourselves so cramped for the want of room that we nave determined at as eerly a time as possible to add to what is now the large Retail Department the first floor now okq-pied as oar WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT (necensiUUnff of course the r'moTat of be Wholesale Department to the store above). And as we cannot get poearssion of ihe upper- store in time for the Spring's businens, we know of no be'tnr way to make room for the immense Spring Stock which ve are about to receive than to endeavor to dispose of bysome means and at some price goods carried ever from the Winter's sUck. We therefore announce that FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS WE SHALL IXACaUBATB Tie Greatest CleariB-oiit Sale Erer Attempted in tbe Carolinas. COMPRISING THE FOLLOWING SILKS, 8ATIN8, VELVETS, BEQCADM, DRESg GOODS, WHITB. OOOna, LINENS AND DOMESTICS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, HOSIERY, LACES, FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, MILLINEBY, CLOAKS, DOLMANS.

ULSTERS LADIES MUSLIN UNDERWEAR CORSETS, CARPETS, CLOTHING, HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS SHOES, fcc. frLaok ont for our advertisements in this paper, asttw 11 pay you to keep track cf the bargains we-offer from time to time, and which shall be duly announced through the columns of the press throughout the State. Bend for easnplee, estimate on Dresema.ing, Bridal Trosaeauz, Hewefnqilehlwgm, or any information our patrons may desire, which will be fax-niahed on app' ioa ttom. P. S.

Orders hi answer to tale advertisement please to the "Retail Department" BIBIM, Sudden Death of a Ntrauger Iu a Strange Land. Last Wednesday Mr. R. J. Nicholson and Mr.

E. H. Darrah, of lirookville, Pe came to Lenoir and stopped at the Central Hotel. On Thursday morning they took horses and started out to inspect the Davis entry of 10,000 acres of timber land at the head of Elk and Buffalo creeks. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon they reached the residence of Mr.

John R. Hodges on Elk, and after partaking of dinner, went up to the top of the ridge, a distance of two miles, in company with Mr. Hodges, and examined the fine timber growing upon the mountain sides. Upon their return to the house Mr. Nicholson complained ef feeling rather broken up by the ride and c'imbing the mountain and proposed to Mr.

Hurrah that, as 'liey had only proposed to make a 9hort stay on this trip, they defer any further invest! gatiun until the summer when they woula come and make a prolonged visit. This was decided upon and they left Mr. Hodges' early Friday morning. After coming dowa Elk, which they crossed 14 times, they turned to cross the dividing ridge between E.k and BuIFaIj at Day's Gap, 16 miles froin Lenoir. As they came up the ridge both dismounted and walked to get warm, having be come chilled by the splashing nvater.

When they reached Day's Gap Mr. Nicholaou was very warm and took off both coats to cooloff. Wuile his friend arranged his saddle Mr. Nicholson complained of feeling b'idlyand. the fo rmer looking up, saw thai he en.

Hastening to bim Le found the poor man gasping weakly, and in a few seconds be was dead from a supposed stroke of apoplexy. The body was brought to, Lenoir Friday evening by Mr. Jas. Horton and, being p'ased in a colli was taken to Hickory that night and ssnt by express lo Pennsylvania, Mr. Darrah accompanying the remains.

Ttie deceased, who was about 60 years of age, was an influential man in liis state, having been a heavy lumber merchant, a member of the State Legislature and a prospective Democratic candidate for Congress this fall. Tne two gtn' lomcn came to Caldwell on their return fron a winter's sojourn Florida Our Emanuel Letter. Correspondence of The Topic. Emanuel. Feb 22 Married Sunday morning the 17th at the residence of the bride's mother Mr, William McGowan to Miss Sallie Barlow, Rev.

J. Bjmgprner officiating. All or Caldwell. We have had considerable amou of rain whijb has washed the lacd very badly. Tlirt-e iu re of our boys took exit tbi? morning, Southward bound, viz: M.

M. Beach, J. L. and S. Keller, seeking employment at belter wasjes.

Our boys who left thU neighborhood some weeks ago fqr Texas are well aatialit-d, and getting the cool bbm of $1 pr day with board. On for a shower of sunshine. Fudge Collcltkville Gleaning. Correspondence of The Topic CoixETT8vnj.E Feb. farmers are fencing up a little.

Mud still Oar energetic people have pretty well hauled off their apples and potatoes, Wheat is plentiful, Com is of course always bought I some people and will be again this year but lb at don't prove it to be scarce. Oars is a favored land 4 a land of plenty. The few spring! like days we have bad seemed to have brought forth the buds, grass J. M. Bowman's school closed at Risden last week.

History shows that John's River township bas never furnished a mem ber to oar State Legislature. We have at this age seyeral good men and propose to run one of them before the county eonventiou. Mr. Jacob J. Harsbaw is our choice whom pledge ourselves to support by ballot and influence, provided be gi is.

tbe nomination. "Jake" will rvrtainly make us a good member to that Aogut Muto, The undersigned this diy closes tha insrciutile basiuess a his individual account. All indshio'I hWi by natt or account are requested to nvike i.n jut. subscriber returns thanke to his manyfrieads and to t'n3 public generally for a large share of patronage in the ist, au 1 licits a conli-uance of that trust i i I i i I i i i viiji i l)Vt joyed for his successors in business. Respectfully, Lenoir, N.

Jan. 1884. Ml The undersigned have this day thestyle jf oleics or the purpose of conducting a ILemKoSir, They expect to buy exclusively for cash, and intend confine their business as closely as possible to a PAY DOWS SYSTEH, believing this to the advautige of all parties concerned. Soliciting a fair share of the pitronigj of pro mpt p0Stg customers, which they will endeavor Vj merit by fair dealing strict attention to business, aud low prices, Respectfully Unoir.N. January lit,.