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i The Wire-Puller3 at Work. Dividing out the Office among the Poli ticians. It is said that the author of the letters from Ral eigh to the N. Y. Times is a Republican. Whether he is a Republican or not he seems to know a good deal about North Carolina politics, and as his let ters have already been copied into leading Demo cratic papers of the State, we shall also let our read see tftero and judge of their truthfulness as they choose. The following is the latest : "Raleigh, N. C, May 4. The contest for United States Senator to succeed Mr Merrimon, now going on in this State, also involve the question as to who shall be nominated for Governor in 1880. The fight for Senator is confined to Gov. Vance and Senator Merrimon. The Demo cratic Partv is now divided into Vance and Merrimon men. The former is the choice of the extreme Radical element of the party, composed chiefly of men who were lor se cession and war in 18G1. Mr Merrimon is the choice of the Conservative wing of the party, ' composed principally of men who were hated and despised as Unionists dur- mer the rebellion, lhomas J. Jarvis, .Lieut Governor under Mr Vance, fongbt through the rebellion, and was nominated in 1870 for his present position because of the Bears - - a v on his body made by "iankee" bullets. Of course he is for Gov. Vance for Senator, hoping thus to succeed to the Governor's candidate for Governor and is working hard to secure the nomination. Mr rowle was one of the foremost Union men in the State during the rebellion. He was Adjutant General under Gov. Vance for a short time, but became disgusted and resigned because Mr Vance deserted the Union men who elected him Governor in 18G2. At that time Vance's obiect was to succeed Jeff. Davis as President of the Southern Con federacy. As a member of the Legislature Mr owle violently opposed the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by the Con lederate Congress. Jt will thus be seen that the election for Senator next Winter and the nomination for Governor in 1880, will be decided in accordance as the seces sion ana war wins: preponderates, and vice versa. The contest now going on through ..1 ! It . out tne several counties lor senator is an exceedingly bitter one. Friends on either side are assailing Mr Merrimon and defend ing'Gov. Vance, and are assailing Gov Vance and defending Mr Merrimon, as the case may be. Rings are being formed and combinations exist at all the political cen tres in the State. For the purpose of con trolling the transmontane counties, Mr Jarvis has fonned a combination with Mr J atnes L. Robinson, of Macon county. Mr Robinson is an ex-Speaker of the lower House of the Legislature, and is a leader o considerable influence in the western part ol tne btate. lie has been uniformly op posed to the Vance family. He has been a standing candidate against Robert B Vance for Congress since 1872. He op posed the nomination of Mr Vance for Gov ernor in 1876, and was looked upon as an unflinching anti-Vance man. It now ap pears that he has turned a complete sum mersault ; that he is a vehement supportor of Z. 13. Vance for Senator and of R. B. Vance for Congress, lie is also for Mr Jar vis for Governor in 1880. This sudden radical and wonderful change is accounted for in this way : Elect Vance Senator and Jarvis becomes Governor for nearly two years. This object accomplished, it hag been agreed between Mr Jarvis and Mr Robinson that the first, as Governor, shall appoint the State Directors for the Western JSorth Carolina Railroad, leading from Salisbury :to Asheville, so as to elect the latter President of the Road in place of Mr James W. Wilson, who is running and com pleting the road. By this means it is expected- that Messrs. Jarvis and Robinson will control the Western counties for them selves in 1880. The combination does not stop here. The eastern counties must be controlled. The administration of the affairs of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, running from Goldsboro to Morehead City, by the offi cers appointed by Gov. Vance, is so un popular that Mr Jarvis has taken Mr John D. Whitford, of Craven county, into the Ring. Mr Whitford is an ex-President of this Road, and greatly desires to secure the position again. It has been agreed between Mr Jarvis and Mr Whitford that, as soon as the former, becomes Governor, the State Directors on this Road are to be appointed so as to elect Mr Whitford President, and turn Mr Hughes, now President, out. By this means it is expected that the same firm of Jarvis & Robinson will also control the Eastern counties along the line of this Road. ,Mr Fowle would doubtless be glad to form, a combination with some Western man to counteract and weaken the inlluence of Mr Robinson, but has been unable as yet to select his ally. If the scheme of Jarvis and Robinson does not miscarry, James W. Wilson, after he has been "bounced" and "sat down on" as President of the Western North Carolina Railroad, will probably be the best man Fowle can select as hia right bower. Aa has been stated in these dis patches, Mr Jarvis has been diligently at work in the Eastern counties, where lion. W. N. II. Smith is very strong, endeavoring to prejudice Mr Fowle, because it was understood in the opening of the camp&ign that the latter was in favor of the nomi nation of David Schenck for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court over Mr Smith. It looks now as if Mr Schenck was politically dead. If it should turn out that he is defeated for any position on the Supreme Court Bench, Mr Jarvis will no doubt revive the cry that Mr Fowle and Mr Schenck formed a combination to defeat Mr Smith. I do not believe that Mr Fowle was so blind as to com mit himself to Mr Schenck. lie has declared that no combination existed between him and that gen tleman or between him and Mr Merrimon. Possi bly, this charge may prove to be the weak spot in Mr Fowle's armor. It is charged by the friends of Mr Fowle that Gov. Vance is operating in favor of Mr Jarvis, because Col. D.M.Carter, of this city, who is President of the Penitentiary Board of Di rectors by appointment of Gov. Vance, has been operating in Hyde and other Eastern counties against Mr Fowle. The hostility of Gov. Vance is easily accounted for. Mr Fowle was a candidate for Governor, in 1876, and only supported Mr Vance because he could not go over to the Republican party and support Mr Settle. Mr Vance could not have been elected but for the aid of Mr Fowle. These services have been entirely forgotten, and . now it is understood that the gratitude of politi cians is for favors to come and not for those here tofore received. The writer will find out, if he lives long enough, that Judge Schenck is far from being politically dead. He may prove the most troublesome corpse to some people they ever encountered. lie has al ready been nominated for the Supreme Conrt Bench by 25 or 30 counties, j : Our Senators and the Bankrupt Law. " It does our hearts good it -will gladden he hearts of all true : North Carolinians to see how great an influence our North Carolina benators have won at Washington. It is an extraordinary change of opinion in the United States Senate that has been man ifested upon the occasion of taking up the bill repealing the bankrupt act as returned from the House with an amendment. The repealing bill passed the Senate a few weeks ago with only seven negative votes. We think there were forty-nine votes in the affirmative. It went to the House, and was passed with equal unanimity. Pending its hnal passage, came the su preme Court Homestead decision, and when the bill went back to the Senate with a merely technical amendment, Judge Merri mon at once moved its reference to the Ju diciary Committee that it might be so amended as to aflord reliei to our people likely to be ground between the upper and the nether mill-stones.' The object had in view was attained. The Senatorial vote of 49 to 7 in favor of immediate repeal was re versed ; an amendment postponing the date at which the bill should take effect to Jan uary, 1879, was adopted 25 to 22, and the bill referred to the J udiciary Committee by a vote of 37 to 16. Thanks to our able and influential representatives ! Raleigh Ob server. Senator Ransom tpoke as follows in favor of amending the Repeal Bill so as to post pone its ellects until January, 1879: "That amendment provides that this act shall not take effect until the first of January next, in substance. I feel very great anxiety upon the result of the vote of the Senate on this amendment. I had prepared this morn ing a similar amendment, but was antici pated by the Senator from Ohio. I am glad he has ottered it. Every Senator must have some doubt in his mind as to the propriety of the repeal of a law which has been in operation since 18C7, eleven years, which has been of general effect upon the people of this country, and which has been of such great demand that it has stood now for eleven years. I say, sir, that upon a general change of legisla tion of that sort there ought to be some hesitancy in the minds of Senators, some deliberation. But apart from that there is a peculiar reason affecting the representa tives from North Carolina upon this ques tion which compels me to appeal to the Sen ate, and I hope the Senate will pardon me a moment while I endeavor to explain to them why it is the Senators from North Carolina feel so much interest in this amend ment. Before the war the people of North Caro lina had no homestead or property exemp tion. The laws of the State had exempted a few articles of personal property from exe cution, it is known to the whole world that the result of the war destroyed every thing like property in the Southern States, and upon no btate did the calamities oi that war fall more heavily than they did upon North Carolina. In 1SG8. bv a Constitu tional Convention a homestead exemption clause for the first time wras placed in our Constitution. That clause allowed every head of a family in the State to retain five hundred dollars' worth of personal property and a thousand dollars' worth of real estate. The Constitution was adopted by a large majority of the popular vote. In that clause of the Constitution there was universal con currence. Soon after it was adopted the question was carried before the Courts of the State; and the Supreme Court, the highest Court of appeals in North Carolina, decided that that clause of the Constitution wras good against old as well as against new debts ; that it was an exemption against all indebtedness. The Supreme Court of North Carolina repeated that decision of theirs in not less than four instances, and thousands of our people, the best people in the country, availed themselves of this beneficence of the Constitution, the homestead exemption. So approved was it by all classes and all men in the State that there has not been a candi date for office in North Carolina since Au gust, 1868, who has not committed himself to the hom2stead exemption. It has been a permanent plank in the platforms of both political parties. No man to-day in North Carolina could receive the vote of the people for Judge or any other office in the State, of whom it was believed that he was even doubtful upon that question. There has always been doubt in the minds of the legal gentlemen of the State as to the correctness of the decision in point of law, most of them inclining to the opinion that has just been rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States. After our peo ple have been relying upon that homestead exemption for ten years, week before last, in a decision which I shall not criticise, for I must say it stands upon the foundation of all the precedents, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the decisions of the State of North Carolina for the last ten years and has declared, perhaps properly, that the homestead exemption was not good as against old debts. What is the result? The hundreds, the thousands, the tens of thousands of good men in North Carolina, good women, and good children, who had these homes set apart to them by the law will be suddenly turned from their homes without a shelter. You know, sir, the world knows, that an execution at law has no mercy : it has no consideration : it marches to its duty over everything; and I know of no power in the btate or out of the State (except the action of this Senate to-day in giving these good men until the 1st of Jan uary to save their homesteads by availing themselves of the bankrupt law) which can save our people from ruin. My distinguished colleague and myself ana our colleagues in the House have re ceived application after application from all parts of the State to try to do something for the people. The papers are full of it ; the mails are full of it. The whole State is cry ing out for relief. The State cannot give the people relief ih this matter. The na tional bankrupt law does give them relief, essential, absolute, unmistakable relief. Am I wrong in asking the Senate that this act of great beneficence, however erroneous it may have been in some respects, which has al ready protected thousands and thousands of the people'of the South, may be extended until the 1st of January, when these good, honest men in North Carolina can save their homes for themselves in their old age and for their wives and their children ? What harm will it do to allow this act, which has been on the statute-book eleven years, to continue six months longer ? What harm can it do when here is a great piece of legis lation affecting all the commercial and mer cantile interests of this country and all other interests to permit the present law to remain six months longer? Will it not give the country time to consider its effect ? ,Will it not give Congress time to consider it? Will it not give us all time to see whether the law should be absolutely repealed -or not? I hope, sir, neither the conscience nor the sense of duty of Senators will prevent them voting for this extension. ' We publish an article elsewhere showing that the Bankrupt law, if continued in force, cannot afford relief against old debts. Ed. Dem. Foreign News. The London Times' Pera correspondent has reason to believe that the Turks will raise a series of fresh difficulties concerning the fortresses, based on the interpretation of the San Stefano treaty. The Times' Bucharest dispatch reports that five hundred insurgent prisoners and sixty wounded Russians have arrived at the Danube from south of the Balkans. Some of the Russians state that the insurgents have had several successes. The Times' dispatch from Vienna says the insurgents seem to have entirely disappeared from the Maritza valley. It is unknown whether they have been driven back or are merely concentrating to resist the large Russian reinforcements. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the main points now under negotiations are the limits of Bulgaria and the proposed modifications in Asia Minor. England objects to the extension of Bul garia to the Egeau sea, and France warmly supports her. Russia has proposed to make important concessions to Austria, but Count Andrassy replied that ho must defer any decision until the meeting of the congress. The famine in north east Russia is in creasing. It is stated that a National Convention will be called in London to protest against war should the government take further measures likely, in the opinion of the Liberals, to lead to war. The statements of Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, in the House of Commons, are regarded as re-assuring. It is also thought that the visit of Count SchouvalofF, Russian Ambassador at Lon don, to St. Petersburg, cannot be other wise than in the cause of peace, as he can explain the temper and views of the Eng lish government and people more effectively than could be done in correspondence. A change in public opinion of Russia in a peaceful direction is said to be very marked, and to be a recognition of the serious con sequences that would inevitably result from a new war. The Czar is personally directing the negotiations with the assist ance of Baron J omaini. The Czar's predi lections are entirely in favor of peace. The present endeavors are stated to be directed to securing such an understanding betwTeen England and Russia as will per mit the assembling of the congress without the certainty of failure. To this end direct communications are passing between the two governments with a view to ascertain ing what modifications in Europe and Asia would render the San Stefano treaty accep table. Without such an understanding there will be no congress. Lutheran Synod. Fbienship Church, ) Guilford county, N. C, May 1, '78. j The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina convened here to-day in its seventy fifth Convention. The Synodical discourse was pronounced by the President, Rev. L. A. Bikle, D. D., from I. Cor. 14th chap, and 20th verse. At the conclusion of these services, Synod was opened in the form prescribed in the "Book oi Worship." The Clerical roll was then called, and the Lay Delegates handed in the certificates of their appointments. About twenty ordain ed Ministers and about the same number of lav delegates responded to their names. Synod being organized the retiring Presi dent read his annual report. The report was received for reference to the proper committee. An election was entered into for officers for the ensuing year, resulting as follows : Rev. G. D. Bernheim, D. D., President. Rev. L. A. Bikle, D. D., Recording Sec retary. Rev. J. B. Davis, D. D., Corresponding becretary. Rev. S. Rothrock, Treasurer. The opening Sermon was one of unusual ability. Second Day May 2. The President called the Synod to order at 9 o'clock, and requested the Rev. C. H. Bernheim to lead in prayer. Rev. W. C. Shfeffer, of Richmond, Va, presented the cause of the English Lutherai nurcn in iticnmona. xiis remarks were felicitous, earnest and able. A handsome contribution was received by Rev. Mr, bhajffer from the Synod. The houi for preaching havinsr arrived, the Rev. W. C Shaeffer preached on the subject of the great commission. "Go ve into all the world." &c. It was easy to tell that he was a minister of city poiisu. lhis sermon gave great satis faction to the brethren. The hour for refreshments now ramp The tables were filled with an abundance of the very best of edibles. The members and friends of the Church at this place are noted r . i ... lor their hospitalities. In the afternoon the Parochial Reports were read. They showed the coudition of tne nurcn in orth Uarolma to be growing, Fourteen persons were convicted, fined and imDrisoned. at Statesville Cmirt x j - - ' - ) for handling blockade whiskey, of whom me ionowing were sent to Morganton jail, Andy Ingle, Jno. Kuyser, William Aiken. Asbury Roper and Pinkney Abeo. The two latter for two months, and the former for six months each. William Fox and Jno. Cam were imprisoned at Newton. Fox for six months and Cain for thirty days. Morganton Blade. . The N. C. Election Law. j We copy from the Raleigh Observer the following synopsis of the Election Law so far as it applies to the next August election : At the election there will be voted for : A Chief Justice ; two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court ; three Judges of the Superior Court ; a Solicitor in each Judicial District. These will be on the same ballot. Members of the General Assembly : on one ballot. - ....... A Surveyor, Coroner. Sheriff. Register. Clerk, and in such counties as have one. a Treasurer. These will be on one ballot. We believe that the synopsis is entirely accurate, and it will be well for those inter ested to preserve it for use. They will see that some very important chancres have been made in the plan of conducting our election. Notably, the duties of the Board of Commissioners have been divided be tween the "Board of Justices" and the "Board of Canvassers." There has also been instituted a "Board of State Canvas sers," who are to ascertain the result ot the election with regard to all officers except the members of; the Legislature and County Officers. The Justices of the Peace of the several counties shall be constituted the Board of J ustices of the Peace for the purpose of this election, lhe Board of Justices may alter the polling places. lhe Commissioners are to make requisi tion on the Secretary of State for suitable registration books. The Board of Justices on or before the first Monday of the month preceding each election (first Monday in July) shall ap point registrars for each precinct. Regis trars shall be furnished with registration books and it shall be their duty to revise the existing books of registration, and for thirty days keep open their books for new registration. If the Board of Justices for any county so direct there may be an entirely new regis tration, but this requires a notice of thirty days in each lownship. Registering and Voting. No one is to register or vote except in that Township where he is an actual and bona fide resident on the day of election. Certificates of regis tration are not allowed. The following per sons are not to register or to vote : Minors, idiots and lunatics ; persons who, after con viction, or confession in open Court, have been adjudged guilty of felony or other in- lamous crime, committed after January 1, 1877. unless restored to rights of citizenship by law. bubiect to the following exceptions : All males, born in the Unitsd States, or natural ized, who have resided in the State twelve months next preceding the election, and ninety days in the county, are qualified to register and vote in the precincts where they reside. The residence of a married man is where his family resides ; that of a single man is where he sleeps. No one is to register in any precinct to which he has removed for the mere purpose of voting therein ; nor unless his residence is actual and bona fide. It shall be the duty of the Registrar, or the Judge of election, when so requested by any bystander, to swear any person offering to register or to vote, as to his residence. Every person offering to register shall state under oath his qualifications. And upon request, the Register shall require the applicant to prove his identity, his age or residence by the oath of one elector. If any applicant for registration has pre viously registered elsewhere in' the same county, he shall not be registered unless he produces a certificate that his name has been erased from the books pf his former Township. No registration shall be allowed on elec tion day, unless the voter has become, enti tled to register on that day. The Board of Justices on or before the 1st Monday of the month next preceding the month in which each election is held (1st Monday in July) shall appoint four Judges or Inspectors of election (two of whom shall be of a different political party from the Registrars,) at each polling- place. It shall be the duty of the Registrars and Judges of Election to attend at the polling-place of their precinct on the Sat urday before election (27th July) from 9 A. M., till 5 P. M., and hear and determine challenges. The Judges and Registrars shall attend at the polls on the day ot election (Ihurs day 1st August) and conduct the election They shall enter the name of every person who votes in the poll book ; certify the same and deposit them with the Register of Deeds. On election day any person may, and the Judges shall challenge the vote of any per son suspected of not being qualified. Any one so challenged shall be sworn and examined as to his qualifications ; and other witnesses may be examined on oath, and the Judges may reject the vote if they are satisfied that such person is not a legal voter. The polls shall be open from 7 A. M., till sunset. Voters shall hand in their ballots to the J udges who shall deposit them in the boxes. Immediately after the election the Judges shall deposit the registration books with the Register of Deeds. Ballots. Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges of Superior Court, and Solicitors shall be voted for on one ballot. Members of the General Assembly on one ballot. County Officers on one ballot. Ballots shall be on white paper and without device. The County Commissioners shall provide the ballot boxes for each class of officers to be voted for. Election. When the election is over, the Registrar and Judges of election, in the presence of such persons as may attend, shall open the boxes, count the ballots, reading aloud the names on the tickets. it there be two or more tickets roiled up together, if any ticket has more names on it than the voter has a right to vote for, or has a device on it. thev shall be void. The counting of the votes shall be contin ued without adjournment until completed, and the result thereof declared. The Judges of election at each polling place shall appoint one of their number to attend the meeting of the board of county canvassers as a member of the board, ana they shall deliver to him the original return statement of the result oi u .i-vuv.. - their polling-place. , The county canvassers bo cuwcu nnsritnto trio WaTd of county canvassers , the Register of Deeds shall be their Clerk, unless the board elect anomer. Th hoard of county canvassers shall meet on the second day after the election, (Saturday, August 3d), at 12 o'clock at tue Court House, and at that hour without de lay, such of those who are present shall elect a Chairman, who shall swear in the members of the board. The board of canvassers shall at that meeting in the presence of the Sheriff and of such persons as may choose to attend, open and canvass the returns and make ab stracts, stating the number of ballots cast in each precinct for each office, the name of each person voted for, and the number of votes given for each person for each differ ent office, and shall sign the same. Abstracts of Votes. The abstract of the votes for each of the following classes shall be on a different sheet : 1. Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly. 2. Justices of the supreme Court. Judges of Superior Court and Solicitors. 3. County Umcers. Three abstracts of all votes cast for 'Jus tices of the Supreme Court, Judges of Su perior Court and Solicitors, shall be made and signed by the Board of County Can vassers ; one of which shall be delivered to the Sheriff; one filed with the Register of Deeds; and the third forwarded by registered letter to the Secretary of State at Raleigh. Two separate abstracts of the votes cast for Senators shall be made whenever the Senatorial District is composed of more than one county; one of which shall be filed with the Register of Deeds, and the other furnished to the Sheriff. When the canvass is concluded the Board of Canvassers shall deliver the origi nal returns to the Clerk of the Superior Court to be filed in his office ; they shall also cause the abstracts to be recorded in a book to be called "The Election Book," to be kept in the office of the Clerk of the Su perior Court. The Clerk ot the buperior Court shall transmit to the Secretary of State duplicates of the abstracts of the votes for all but County Officers. Result. The person having the greatest number of votes for any office is to be de clared elected. When the Board of Canvassers have completed comparing the polls, they shall proclaim the result at the Court House door, stating the number of votes cast in their county for each person voted at that election. The Sheriffs iu the various Senatorial Districts, composed of more than one county, shall meet at the places designated by law, in their respective Districts, one week after the election, and compare the polls for Sena tors, and give their certificate to the Sena tors duly elected. 1 he bhenff of each county shall furnish the members elected to the House of Rep resentatives and the Senator (where the Senatorial District is composed of only that county) with a certificate of election. The Sheriff shall also notify county offi cers to meet at the Court House on the first Monday of the next month (September) to be qualified. Board of State Canvassers. The Gov ernor, Secretary of State, Attorney-General, and two members of the State Senate, one of each political party, shall constitute the Board of State Canvassers. The Board of State Canvassers shall open the abstracts transmitted to the Secretary of State on Thursday following the third Monday after the day of election (August 22) and examine the returns, if they have been received from all the counties, and If all have not been received, the Board may adjourn for twenty days for the purpose of obtaining copies. The Board shall then proceed with the canvass, conducting the same publicly in the hall of the House of Representatives. The Board shall make an abstract stating the number of ballots cast for each candidate, the names of all per sons voted for, the office, and the number of votes received by each. They shall state whom they ascertain by the count to be elected. The abstract shall be signed and have the seal of the State affixed. This provision applies at the approach ing election to the election of Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Superior Court and Solicitors. The election is to be held on the first Thursday in August (August 1st.) ""Inasmuch as the election is held on the first Thursday in August being August 1st, and the Registrars are to keep open the registration books for thirty days, it is necessary for the registrars to be appointed earlier than the first Monday in July. So the meeting of the Board of Justices for election purposes ought not to be later than the middle of June. fClerks of theSuperior Court were elected in August, 1874, for a term of four years. They were inducted into office on the 1st Monday in September. Their terms of office expire on 1st Monday in September, when the new Clerks will qualify and go into olhce. The terms of the county officers elected in 1876 did not begin until December; so their successors elected this August will not go into omce until .December. County Commissioners under the act of 1876-'77 are elected by the Board of .magistrates, ana not Dy tne people at tne pons. LADIES HATS. The Ladies will remember that we keep a nice line or .Ladies Trimmed Hats, and very cheap. We have a large stock of Shoes which we are going to close out. u possible. Don t fail to ask for Shoes if you want any. We are determined to close out our stock of Ready made Clothing. It must be sold. We are offerine inducements on all our Goods thb season. Everything is cheap, and we are sell ing cneap. Don't fail to ask for Parasols. ALEXANDER, SEIGLE & CO. April 36, 1878. The Right of a State to Repudiate f The Richmond Dispatch, in an article o - the right of a State to Repudiate, nnot n j the following extract from the decision 0f f the XT. S. Supreme Court in the case 0( Murray vs. the city of Charleston : ine trutu is states and cities, hvn they borrow money and contract to repay it with interest, are not acting as sovereig. ties. They come down to the level of cr&i nary individuals. Their contracts have the same meaning as that of similar contracts between private persons. Hence, instead of there being iu the undertaking of a State or city to pay a reservation of a sovereion right to withhold payment, the contract should be regarded as an assurauce that such a right will not be exercised. Sromise to pay with a reserved right to eny or change the effect of the promise ig an absurdity." This is a direct denial by the Court the right of a State to repudiate its pecu- f niary obligations, and as it is the decision ! of the Court of last resort in this country, it settles forever the question of repudiation! ' To Creditors of BANE OP FAYETTE VILLE. All persons holding claims against the above Bank are hereby notified to file their evidences of debt with the undersigned, on or before the 1st day of September, 1878, aa on that day the fund will be divided, and proceedings commenced for a final closing of the trust account. E. J. LILLY, May 3, 1878 3m Surviving Trustee. Saratoga Water. Fresh Saratoga Water on draught direct from the Springs. WILSON & BURWELL May 3, 1878. Money Wanted. Three Thousand Dollars wanted for three yean on Bond secured by Mortgage on land worth double the money. Liberal interest paid. Address K, Lock Box 80, May 3. 1878. tf. Charlotte, N. C. Grain Cradles. Another lot of the celebrated Grain Cradles made by Joseph Starns, just received at J. JUCUA.UUML.1IH d L'US. May 3, 1878. GRAIN CRADLES, &c. We have a complete stock of Grain Cradles ; Grain, Grass, Bush and Briar Scythes, which we will sell as low as any house In the State. KYLE & HAMMOND. April 19, 1878. Fresh Meats and Provisions. For choice Beef and Mutton, Patapsco Baking Powders, pure Roasted Coffee not Ground, send your orders to B. N. Smith's. Also a supply oi Dixie rumps, Dest ana cneapest pump In use. April 26, 1878. B. N. SMITH. Tooth Brushes. 5 Gross English and French Tooth Brushes se lected for retail trade. WILSON & BURWELL. May 3, 1878. A REVOLUTION IN CORSETS, And a few Facts guaranteed to every Purchaser. 1st. They are Cork in place of bone or horn. 2d. They are comfortable, easy, graceful and healthful. 3d. You can wash them as they are, and they will not spot or stain. 4th. They cannot break down, having a cork padded skle bteei iu every Corset. 5th. They are the very Perfection of Comfort. If you will give this Corset a fair trial and do not pronounce it the easiest and best fitting you ever wore, return it and get back your money. We have just received a fresh stock from the manufac turers. Please call and examine.' BARRINGER & TROTTER. April 20, 1878. They Have Come! The most elegant assortment of DRESS GOODS, All grades and prices, from 12 cents to $1 per xuurd. DRESS MJSTENS, LAWNS, PIQUES, And WHITE GOODS of every description. tW The Ladies are invited to give us a call be fore purchasing, for we are going to sell GOODS cheap. BARRINGER & TROTTER. April 5, 1878. Country Merchants Will always find bottom prices and a full assort ment of such goods as they want at the Drug House of DR. T. C. SMITII. To Physicians Special low prices are offered and quality warranted in every case by DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist COACH VARNISHES. Read what some of the oldest and largest Car riage Manufacturers of the country say concerning Moses Bigelow & Co.'g Coach Varnishes : New Bedford, Mass., Sept 25. 1876. Messrs. Moses Bigelow & Co. : Gents : In re ply to your favor of the 14th, it affords me pleasure to state that it is over 30 years since I first com menced to nse your Varnishes, and during the en tire time, my business intercourse with your house has been of the most pleasant nature, and your goods have given entire satisfaction. The two grades of Varnish which I am now using, viz. Elastic Carriage and Extra Rubbing I consider superior to anything I have ever tried, and as long as the quality remains at its present high standard, you can rely on my orders. Please send me, by steamer, one barrel each, Elastic Carriage and Extra Rubbing Varnish. Yours respectfully, George L. Bbownell. Trade supplied at Manufacturers' Prices, br WILSON & BURWELL, Wholesale and Retail Druggists, dealers in Paints, Oils, Window Glass, &c., Charlotte, N. C. ApriU2,1878- UO-KEROSENE16 Cents By the single Barrel or in Car load lots. Address DR. T. C. 8MITH, n Lock Box 10, Charlotte, N- C. Send Your Orders For Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Toilet arti cles to DR. T. C. SMITH, Charlotte, N. C. Brushes. 50 Dozen Paint and Varnish Brushes. 50 " Blacking and Whitewash Brushes. WILSON & BURWELL. May 3, 1878. French Glass. We have lust received large stock of single and double thick French Glass large sizes. WILSON & BURWELL. May 3, 1878. r feu
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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