MACON COUNTY, NC -- NEWSPAPER ITEMS -- HIGHLANDS ITEMS, JAN 1893a

HIGHLANDS ITEMS (Local Affairs) PUBLISHED IN THE FRANKLIN PRESS, Jan.
11, 1893 - Vol. VII, No. 13

HIGHLANDS, MACON CO., NC

A dreadful accident occurred last week at the Glades, Ga., a settlement
a few miles east of Horse cove. Mr. Wm. M. Pell took down his gun and
went out near the house to shoot a rabbit. He fired once and hastily
dropped his gun to load again, the other barrel having been heavily
loaded to shoot a hog. As the gun went to the ground, the loaded barrell
fired and the charge entered his side, making a terrible wound. His wife
looked out on hearing the report and saw him staggering. She ran to him,
and by the time she reached him he had fallen. She called to some
neighbors who lived close by, and then took his head in her lap, asking
if he had shot himself, he slightly inclined his head and soon after
expired. Mr. Pell was an industrious and well to do farmer, a member of
the M.E. Church, South, and one who had heart and hand in every good
word and work. He will be sadly missed. His wife was a Miss Walker, of
Clay county, NC. 

 - Mr. Burt Rideout, who returned home from Christmas, has been
confined to the house for a few days with an attack supposed to be the
grippe. 

 - Mr. Frank Smith, of Asheville, who has been visiting his sister,
Mrs. Rideout, has returned home. 

 - Mr. Richard Polson, of Boston, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Henry
Stwart, Jr.

 - Rev. Henry Emmons and wife are spending the winter with their
daughter, Mrs. Esq. Wells. 

 - We noticed ex-solicitor Moody on our streets one day last week. 

 - Mayor Walden and the newly elected commissioners assumed their
duties on the 2nd inst. 

 - The Ayrshire bull brought to this town by Messrs. White, Wells, and
Neely about five years ago, has resulted in the raising of some fine
heifers remarkable for milk. The bull is pure bred, and from the finest
family of milkers in the United States. He is from the imported stock of
teh Massachusetts Agricultural College. From him and a good native cow,
Mr. White has a heifer that is a deep milker, and has produced a good
supply of butter this winter on hay alone. Mr. E.A. Babcock also has a
cow of the same stock, and he has Jerseys and half Jerseys but says his
Ayrshire is of more value and profit than any two Jerseys he has. They
are hearty and hardy, and seem to be adapted to this mountain region. 

BX

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