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rH.8 TOPIC The Calhoun dehatincr Loelos II Tottls. EBSOIIL: uw mm goods. Are Yen Interested Wednesday, oot. 11, 1893 Solicitor Newland left for Boone "We cannot hold mortalit's strong band." Saturday. LOCAL NEWS.

Miss Mary Hanna, of Hickory, is visiting in Mr. C. N. Wire was off on a trip to rniiaaeipnia last wees. Miss Flagg, of 8.

visited the Misses Buxton List week. Mr. R. Coleman jfof Morgan- ton, was in Jaenoir last Wednesday. Mr.

Edmund Jones spent two or am now receiving new In some of the best nukes goods known to the trade for tat least possible money three days at Blowing Rock last week. Mrs. John Colville, of Savannah, is visiting her niece, Mrs. W. C.

Newland' 1 -i. Our first year's business will close Oct. 1st, 1893, and we take this opportunity to thank our friends for the liberal patronage they have given us during the year, as well as to make known the fact that we are better prepared than ever before to meet "the demands of our customers, and shall use our very best efforts to merit an increased share of your patronage. As a result of our recent trip to the Northern markets we are now receiving a Very Large Stock of Goods, Mrs. S.

L. Patterson, of Palmy Spring and Summer Goods Watauga court this we3k. Read land sale by J. V. Mc Call, Sheriff.

Miss Ad-lie Powell is teaching the public school at Powellton. The chestnut crop is the largest it has been in several years. Areat many Lenoir people will attend the Burke Fair this week. "The boys" are practicing for another which will come off in a few weeks. Marvin camp meeting begins on Friday of next week and will embrace the fourth Sunday.

Road administrator's notice and sale by J. A. Rabey, administrator 0f Cr W. Rabey, deceased. Pied, on the 25th of September, the little 3 -year old girl of Levi Howard, near Hudson, of catarrh.

Vhy can't Caldwell connty bsve a fair as well as some of her sister counties? Thalia the ques-tion. rjcy Clarke died on Sunday Btnr AND TRY Douglass $2 and $3 Shoes. ra, was visiting Mrs. Edmund Jones last week. Mr.

R. G. Courtney is off for. the BUY AND TRY Ladies and Gents EAGLE Shoes. and have some specm! inducements to offer Buy and Try Our Ladies fine Ohio made Shoes.

if It may be in childhood, youth, in the plentitude of manhood, or, in old age, but the Great Leveller conquers all alike. The subject of this sketch was allowed to remaining after the three score tenyears alotted to man, and at the ripe age of 81 he quietly and gently laid down the burden of life which had become too heavy for his tottering frame. Born of an ancestry distinguished from revolutionary times for their sterling qualities, he was the oldest living representative of that large and influential family connection that have for so many years furnished Caldwell county some of its best and most prominent citizens. Never having sought a public eye, he was yet one of the most public spirited men who ever lived in the town of Lenoir, and some of its handsomest buildings stand as a monument to his enterprise and liberality. With a heart full of kindness to all mankind he was one of the most amiable of men.

Too gentle in his nature to give pain to any one, or to cause disappointment, he often denied himself in order to ad minister to the wants of others. Courteous to all, his attachment to friends was warm, constant and enduring; while to those who were united to him by blood, and especially to his immediate family, he was the embodiment of love and affection. Devoid of malice, he not only forgave, but actually forgot an injury. Devoted husband, loving father, true friend, good citizen, he has gone to his reward. He leaves behind many children, grandchildren, and even a few great grandchildren to cherish his memory.

Captain Tuttle lived many years "a uian of the world." But among his numerous children Gad gave him one son who was called to preach the gospel of Christ. This son is now laboring in a distant State an earnest and successful minister of the Presbyterian church. A few years ago largely and mainly through the instrumentality of this Godly son the father was brought to a cordial profession of faith in Christ The last testimony on this point given to his pastor a fe days before his final departure was that he was trusting entirely to Christ, and His grace was sustaining him. Of him it may be most truly said, "his last days were his best." Posts of North Carolina. Cash buyers and pay-down customers.

Buy and Try Our Gents Nobby Fur Hats. And would request those who wish to secure of l8t week and was buried at Collier's on Monday. She was about 85 years of age. Mr James Cottrell sends ns bcdio June apples which are the see-on growth this year. They are very nice ones, though they are not very large.

Mr. G. M. Icenhour, who has been teaching the public school on Mnlberry, closed the school last Friday. Mr.

Icenhour purposes studying law. Apple and cabbage crates are Buy and Try Our Gents Nobby Crush ana Derby Hatts. Bargains and Save Honey to call and see me before making their purchases. being hauled into Lenoir now by" Buy and Try all bought at the Very Lowest Prices, and offered on the same basis to PAYDOWN CUSTOMERS. We will not attempt to detail in this "ad," but simply say that we will do all in our posrer to make it to your interest to come and see us when in need of anything to be found in a first-class stock of General Merchandise.

Again thanking you for past favors, and soliciting a liberal share of your future "trade, we are, Yours truly, NELSON MOORE. Lenoir, N. C.Sept. 28th. world's Fair.

-He will absent about two week. Mai. Bingham, of Statesville, passed through Lenoir Wednesday on his way to Boone. Mr 8. Jarvis Buxton, of Wilkesboro, was visiting the family of Re v.

Dr. Jarvis Buxton in Lenoir last week. Mrs. R. L.

Estes and children, of Laveta, Colorada, are Visitiug Mrs. Estea' father, Mr. J. A. Dula, near Lenoir.

i Mrs. Dr. Houck and children, and Miss Maggie Houck, sister of the Doctor, spent a few days at Blowing Rock lastijweek. Miss Eunice High Point, who has been visiting her brother, Mr. D.

C. Henley, on the Yadkin, some time, returned home last weSk, Mr. A. Brown, of Draco, returned Friday from a business trip through the mountains and over in Tennessee. He brought back with him a drove of cattle.

Mrs. C. B. Bryan returned to her home in Danyille, last Wednesday. She was accompanied as far as Hickory by her mother, Mrs.

Dr. Scott, who visited Mrs. Dr. Baker at that place. Dr.

and Mrs. W. P. Ivey and Mr. J.

R. Widby leave this evening for the World's Fair. Mr. and Mrs. M.

G. Shearer, of Collettsville, and Mr, M. E. Shell will leave Tuesday evening for the Fair and later in the week Capt. and Mrs.

Johnson will go. The Hickory Press and Carolinians: 'Rev. C. G. Little was taken with pneumonia fever last week.

On Sunday be was unable to fill his puipit appointment, but we are gratiflgd to report him convalescing. His physicians say he will be out again in a few days." Wednesday's Charlotte Observer says: "Mr. Hugh Murrill yester day bought out Mr. Blakey's paper business, and his interest in the Blakey Printing House. Mr.

Blakey aud family will move to Petersburg, their old home, in tho ner future, where Mr. Blakey wii! vngrasie in business Both of Our Gents fine Cincinnati Buy and Try A Suit of Our New SPRING CLOTHING. Returning thanks to my many friends and patrons for their liberal support in the past, would respectfully request a liberal share of their patronage in the future. Very respectfully, R. G.

COURTNEY May 10, 1893. Announcement! Buy and Try A Heavy Richmond made COOK STOVE. mwwj of Patterson, gave a publio debate on last Friday night and the academy was well filled The subject was. Resolved -that the public schools and academies are of more benefit to the people than the colieges." The speakers were limited to 15 minutes and handled the subject to the satisfaction of the audience, bat our correspondent failed to state which side gained the question. Last Thursday morning about 3 o'clock, Mr.

Joe Powell, awoke and found that his barn was afire. He hurried at once to the, fire, but did not get there in time to extinguish it, it having been burning some time. He had a mule and one horse in the barn and a lot of hay and fodder, all of which was burned except the horse. He had hard work to get out the horse, which was scorched a little. This is quite; a heavy loss on Mr.

Powell. He doesn't know how the fire originated, as he had not been about the barn with fire the night before. The following item appeared in the Chorlotte Observer of Oct. 1st: "Mr. A.

Richard, of Brook-lyn, president of the Lenoir Improvement and Lumber Company, was here yesterday. Mr. Richard will probably build a railroad from Lenoir -to Blowing Rook. This makes two roads being built out of Lenoir, the other belonging to the Caldwell Land and Lumber Company, of which Mr. W.

S. Harvey, of Philadelphia, is the president." Will the Charlotte Observsr explain a little? We do not know Mr. Richard, president of the Lenoir Imyrovement and Lumber Company. On Saturday morning of week before last Mrs. Larkin Estes, who lives on John's River, went over to a neighbor's house about a mile away, to get some buttermilk, and told her people that she might not return home that night, and she did not return.

On Sunday Mr. Estes sent some of his grandchildren out to look after her. They found a jag of buttermilk on the side of the road about a half a mile from home, but could not find Mrs 'Estes. A party was formed to search for her. and Mrs.

Estes was not found until Monday morning She had wandered off into the woods about half a mile from the road and was found on the bank of a branch close to her home. It was raining on Saturday and she was in the rain all the time and it is supposed that she was chilled to death. Mrs Estes was about 75 years of age. She was buried Wednesday on John's River. Counterfeiter Arnjted Nsir Uioir.

On last Tuesday evening a young mau by the name of Walter Beard came to Lenoir and secured a warrant for the arrest of John Hunni-cutt ou the charge ef passing. counterfeit money on him. The warrant was issued by Commissioner Conley and placed in the hands of Deputy marshal Swanson, who, in company with Perry and S. S. Lane, of Morganton, and town marshal J.

A. Bush, went to arrest the counterfeiter He was found at the home of Mr. Thomas Barlow, about 3 miles east of Lenoir. He was arrested and brought to Lenoir and placed in jail and on Wednesday he was tried before IT. S.

Commissioner Conley and was bound over to the next term of Federal court at Statesville. He gave hia name as John Hunnicutt and said that he was from Stanly connty, but had been working for some time in the Wortman silver mine, near Carey's Flit, in this county. The facts in the case are about as follows; Hunnicutt and another man, whose name we did not learn, and the young man Beard were at Ans Pierce's, 2 or 3 miles north of Lenoir, and were drinking. Hunni cut wanted some whiskey and told Beard to go and get some for him and he would pay him for his trouble. Beard went and brought him back a pint of whiskey and Hunnicutt threw down a dollar and told him to make the correct change.

Beard told him that the money was counterfeit and that he did not want it Hunnicutt threw down three more dollars and told him (Beard) to take allftf them anl "git out' or he would shoot him. This scared tho boy and he took the money and came to Lenoir and got out a warrant for him, with the result as stated above. Hunnicutt told one of the men who helped to arrest him that he got the money at Blowing Rock and afterwards said he got it jn Lenoir. When he was; arrested there was found on his person one counterfeit silver dollar, a pair of knucks, a nut cracker, a pack of cards.pock-et knife and two bottles whigkey. The officers ha.d a tQBgh time arresting him.

They say he wag the best mtfn they ever had anything to do with. a The money was a tolerably good imitation of a silver dollar and all bore the same date 1880. This is the first case of counterfeiting that has ever been brought to light in Lenoir. It is believed by some that the other man who was with Hunnicutt is also a conn, terfeiter and efforts will be madjr to Pointing the way to Coffeys and Widby. Buy and try A "Dixie," or "Bob White" Plow.

thse gentlemen are known in Le noir, Air. iilakey having at one time been editor of The Topic and Mr. Mure ill editor of the Carolinian at Hickorv. We are sorrv Mr. Blnkav We tiuci by looking over our books that we must either close up or stop crediting.

So we have decided to try the proposes leaving the Old North State. Hope he will, change his Buy and try Tellico't and "Sweetwater Valley" Flour.i mina ana stay witn us. success to Mr. Murrill. Pay Down System.

To the Editor oj 2 he Lenoir Topic: The first and only general collection of N. 0. poetry was made by Mrs. Mary Bayard Clarke, of Newborn, in 1854, and published in two volumes with the title of "Wood Notes or Carolina Carols," This was appreciated in the literary circles of the State. It included some worthy verse, but was chiefly burdened with material which was more patriotic than meritorious.

Our best poetry has been written since the war. The storm forced music from the lyre. About a dozen volumes of poems have appeared in the current magazines and newspapers of the day. It is needier to 8 ay that the great mass of our poetry is absolutely worthless from a literary point of view. There is much chaff and little wheat.

But the wheat should not be neglected because of the chaff Why not garner the grain? More than four years ago the writer of tnese lines began the work of collecting the cream of Carolina poetry. All available poems have been carefully examined, and the best, in my judgment, retained. I do not claim great merit for all in collection, and doubtless there is some valuable verse which I have failed to secure. Yet I believe that in this collection of eighty poems by twenty eight writers, is embraced our choicest verse. Laborious research, extensive correspondence, and help from high sources have been resorted to in the preparation of the work.

The book will coyer about 150 pages, will be bound in cloth, and sold at $1.00 per copy. I am ready to place the MS. in the hands of the printers. But I cannot do Ihis unless I secure at least five hundred advance subscribers. If the names come in rapidly the work can be sent out by Dec.

1st. Drop me a postal stating you will send $1.00 for the book when notified it is ready for delivery. Ask your friends to do likewise. Write to me at once and do not let a home enterprise fail. Sincerely, Hight 0..

Moose. Theological Seminary, N. Y. Ordinary mortals and extraordinary t-1 -I- We hope by this new system to be able to offer to the public more goods for the least money than ever before. mortals, too, for that matter, at this season of the year are interested in buying shoes and clothing, go to Coffeys Widbys and get supplies at cost.

the hundred. Crate-making is a big business here in the fall and many people engage in it. Morganton will soon have a Democratic postmaster. It was a longtime a-coming, but it did come and the lucky man was is Mr. W.

0. Turner. The appointment was made last week. Mr. E.

L. Moore, of Risden, raised some fene Irish potatoes this season. He, weighed seven of them and they brought down five pounlls. The largest one weighed one pound and three-quarters. The track laying on the railroad been completed up to Mulberry, nothing mora wil! be done un- til the bridge is Grading and preparing for the side tracks and dupot at Collettsville is going ahead.

-There were services in the Methodist church Sunday morning and night. Owing to the sickness of Rev. 0. G. Little, the pastor, he was unable to fill his appointment and Rey.

J. P. England preached for him. We euppose the grain report is about complete now so we this week give tLe totals, which areas follows: wheat 32,094 bushels, oats rye 4,759, buckwheat 30. Is the yield larger this year than it was last.

Who can tell us The Morganton Herald pays: ''The bridges across the Catawba at Rocky Ford: and across John's "River on the Lenoir road have been repaired They are now ready for the noxt freshet with its long rafts to knock' them into btnithereens again. In some way or other we mast have more high bridges." The oom amnion meeting of the Presbyterian church will be held next Sunday. Preparatory services will begin Wednesday night at which time Rev. Mr. Rose, of Morganton, will preach.

Rev. Mr. White, of Marion, will be here the remainder of the week and assist Rev. G. A.

Munroe in the meeting. Deputy Sheriff Brown, of Alabama, arrived in Lenoir last Monday night, with no less a person than Jim James, the supposed murderer of Julius Miller. He was held in jail until Thursday to be identified 8 the murderer but he could not be identified by the persons who bad seen the man who was supposed to have killed Miller. Thursday morning he was taken in custody by Mr. E.

p. Sigmon, who took him to Wilkesboro to await further investigation of the matter. Last Wednesday evening, Mr. Enoch Coffey who had been to the funeral of Mrs. Larkin Estes on John's River, was returning home frid in crossing the creek Dear his bongfr on; a footlog, stumbled and fell imo the creek, hii bead striking a rock in the creek, which it is thought killed him instantly.

He not found until Thursday morn-tog about 8 o'clock. He was found at ths footlog where he had fallen on his hands and knees, his body not haying been washed down the week, although if was raining joe creek was up. was oout 86 years old, and many peo-Ple will remember him as the bear Jttter of John's Biver. He was buned on Wilson's creek. We have now in stock a jf nil line Come and see Our Ladles Trimmed and Un-trimmed Hats.J of Where are you Going Blasting Powder and Fuse whioh you will do well to 'oome and examine before buyingftelsewhere.

t- A Visit to Hibriten To the Editor of the Lenqir Jbffiic I have just been visiting Prof, Phillips' school at Hibriten Mt. Academy, Caldwell county, N. for two successive days. I must say that I consider it a grand success. myself, have been a teacher for years and claim to know what a good school is.

Everything seems to be moving harmoniously. It is remarkable to see how systematically everything is conducted, and with what rapidity his ol asses are advancing. I was thoroughly acquainted with the scholarship of several of his pupils a few months ago and I was astonished to see how much they had improved His Algebra classes seem to be doing extra work. His Latin classes, both primary and adyanoed, are doing the best work that I hive ever saw" done in any school. The respectability of the teacher toward his pupils, and the respect with which the pupils treat their teacher, and eaoh other also, taicen together witbreverything ejse, make it a model school.

It would do teachers no harm to visit his school. It might be worth more to them than all the Institutes that they ever visited. They will find Pfof. Phillips a kind, solid and ac complished gentleman. A Bbotheb Teacheb.

Come and see Our New Embroideries. PAINTS. To Coffeys and Widby. They 11 are going out of business, and I' am going to avail myself of the unheard of bargains they are offering. Come and see Notice.

Fob Rest. The two store rooms now occupied by Coffeys Widby. Apply to Or. J. 0.

Newland. J. u. Martin's Clothier and Haberdasher, Hickory, N- 0., new stock is now ready for inspection. Notice The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Caldwell Northern R.

R. will be held in Lenoir, N. Wednesday, Oot. 18th at 11 a. m.

W. S. Harvey, President. Our large stock, all being sold at i prices to meet any and all competi tion. Come, and see our paints if you are thinking of painting your house.

We have a large line of paints, all oolors, and you will do well to come and see them. Grain CradlesMowing Scythes and Reap Hooks, for harvesting. All kinds of Flows and plow castings on hand. Thanking yon for your past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same in the future, I remain, Yours truly, John V7m Cirbv. A few hours ride down to Hickory will give you an opportunity to select your winter sut from the largest stock of ready made clothing in this part of tho State exhibited at the White Front.

One dollar in silver will buy just as much as one dollar in gold at J. C. Martin's, Hickory, N. 0. J.

0. Martin's $5.00 suits for men are all the talk at the White Front, Hickory, N. 0. J. 0.

Martin's great variety of $1.49 boy suits runs as large in sia as 13 years. The newest styles in single and auddouble breasted suita can ba seen in J. C. Martin's show win- dows, Hickory, N. Express charges only one way on all packages from J.

Martin's Clothing Emporium, Hickory, N. 0. A big lot of Rubber goods, shoes, coats just received by Nelson Moore. Clerical lang and slim, and extra sige suits always stock at J. Martin's, Hickory, 0.

Webster's large size Dictionaries containing a world of useful inform mation for $L50 at Nelson Moore's Respectfully, Mi M.ICourtney. I have bought, am satisfied and am going home, at mj leisure. et him. Theomcers www, March i 1893. I uty the matter.

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