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- XXII. BCitKKDTHEOTAlCfe. AtvVunishment of a Negro U For Killing: a White Girl. , NEW Orleans, December the morning of December 17th, Miss xtJarrie Boyer, a charming yo&ng ladyg aine$iown, Aia., went down to the 'xiverto itake the boat for Mobile, to spend the holidays with tier relatives! On arriving at the steamboat landing -siKuiscqverea ia sue naa lorcotten something and started to return homei wmcu ( awat a nme aistanu While pn her way she was brutally as saulted by. a powerful and. repulsive looking i negro, who ' found himself thwarted by the bravery of the young iauyf wno sujuny resisted the attack. The scoundrel, nnable to effect his pur pose, pulled out a pistol and shot his victim through the' head and then ran off.' fcme lived only two hours' after tne suou. , . The intelligence of the outrage and murder spread rapidly. In a short time nearly all the men in Clarke coun- a : : At nr . ' ly were ssearcning ror me ruman who ! hid committed the deed. The excite ment was intense,and from the threats of the pursuers it "was certain that if the negro was caught he would be summarily" and terribly dealt with. The young lady did not recoernize her assailant an could give no particulars I "1 X . i. J A 1. t ' t . . - . jiKeiy to leau to nis laentmcation This rendered his capture extremely difficult. Clew after dew was follow- 4 ed, but ach ended m failure. TH search, however, was not relaxed, but proved unavailing for several days. I On Sunday a negro named Didk Reed was arrested on suspicion, by white man and two neeroes. At ihe timb of his'arrest Reed, wjio was many iniles away from the scene o the crime, carried with him a erun from which the lock was missing. This 1 1 a 1 ? A 1 -m iea to njs arrest, as near tne dead body of Miss j Royer a. gunlock had been picked up- .The captors carried Reed . bak to Gamestown, where the lock was fitted to r the gun, and was found to match it perfectly; Confronted with this evidence of his guilt." and . charged with the crime, i the scoundrel admitted that he had attempted to out rage Miss, Royer and then murdered her. . H " .. , : The hews of his capture had spread, and at this time over two hundred men had assembled in the hamlet Reed's confession sealed his fate, lit was decided that he should die at once The majority insisted that he should - be burned at the stake. The decision .was carried into effect without delajy. , The wretch was firmly bound to a post near bv. Eagr hands brought wood and shavings well saturated with kero sene; A blazing fire was soon kindlfed ; around the trembling, negfo, whose , screamslfor mercy produced no effect . upon the stern men surrounding him. After he had roasted awhile the Are was scattered and he was allowed jto feel the full agony of burning. Then ". a new fire was built, and this in turn, alter Duruing some nmewas- xaiten away. . This process . was 'repeated three times, iteed.maae no outcry, but his contortions showed that jhe suffered terribly. His judges and . executioners were determined jto avengeLhis crime, and the' fuel was heaped on the fire and the forked flanie - played around Reed's body, unti it Was entirely consumed, nothing e maininsr but a few charred fragments, which will, it is hopped, serve as a ter rible warning to others. - v i This is the second case of ,the kind ; at the same place Within the. last tjen vears. - The other victim was a negro preacher who murdered an old lady and a boy and then outraged a yoiing girt tie was arrested in a cnurcn preaching to his congregation, and his congregation helped to roast hini. THE NEW ENGLAND MAGA- '.; . ";! : ZINE, Some fifty years ago, the New Eng- land Magazine- filled an important plaee in the vision of literature-loving New Englanders. Its editors and contributors included the best repre sentatives of the culture and thought of that day, and its bound numbers constitute an important and interest ing5 part of many book collections. " Just why the publication of this prom ising periodical ceased, we are not in formed. We may infer that like miny other excellent ventures, it succumped to' the untoward influences of the times Jnwhich.it waslaunched. Unjler happier and more promising auspies, "there f now appears new magaiiie " with the old and honored name, j It ' comes to us as the successor or ratjher an enlargement of the Bay Sfate Montiily, a periodical which has work ed its! way into a large degree of favor in Massachusetts, and which, under -the new and strong management of -the last few numbers, has made . wonderfully rapid advances in public favor. , . ' ' . ''" '' . . '. The New England Magazine enters the enlarged field with a display, of resources and an outline of plans which seem to justify the expectation tHnt it has before it a successful future, and will worthily bear its historic, name The number before us presents a "most attractive appearance, within and without. -. J . Upon its handsomely designed covers are engraved the seals of each of the New England States, and, its oaces are Drofusely illustrated with engravings of unusual merit, the front- ispiece oeing a supero line engraving, on steel, of Chief Justice Waite. The contents include a most readable ar ticle on Brown University, by Reuben A. Guild, Lw D.j a choice little poem by Edgar Fawcett; a description . of "A Summer DavOuting', on the part of Daniel WebstefyJohuK. Rogers; &u I excellent article, descriptive of Attleboro Mass., by C. M. Barrpws; "Art in-Book Illustration," by Charles E. Hurd, of the Boston . Iranscrtpty ''Richard and Gamaliel Wayte, ; and some of their Descendants." among fham th Chief Justice of that , name. w Arthnr Thomas LoYell; a sketch Xt nuienr.bT Thnnanla crraohio 1 presentation ofSociifi. Life in Early i ' ) ! : ; new England,77 by Rev. Anson Titus: uiscussion rtf tha i.ifa t.,- "yM -Litenneiaj some cnapters j ot I? ranees "A." Sparhawk's VA , a.r? "iiiiizapeth a Romance of Colonial Days; and ably-edited de partments, including History, Necro- iogy, xiterature, Notes and Queries Thi masrazine Annonla A New Englanders, and we heartily com- aVCT , , i a,s wormy oi their support "W.w a year. oifKrlpnnmiuM )!;Annin aybtate Monthly Company, 43 Milk ci., fusion, jrupiisners. m.ixmu jmijMjLs SCHOOL AT NEW GARDEN. uvooGiiyGr. xna scnooi, as most ot the readers of the Messenghb proDapiy &now, is m Guilford county, six mnes west of Greensboro. The r an term closed on the 22d of Decem- Der with a very interesting literary entertainment by the Brightonian So ciety. The exercises of declamations, original essays, songs, discussions and orations. Some 'f the productions wouia nave graced a first-class college, bothin hteraiy, merit and-, delivery. xne visitor, who had not seen the puuuus smce xne closing exercises last summer, would observe a desolate blank .where .the stately building A.uuwn as -tving nail was burned so recently. But on - looking toward the opposite side of the compass a more cneenng, sight meets his view, for here has spruner ud within three. months a fine new brick building near j-vu ieet long and 44 teet wide, two stories high with tin roof and ventila tors. Ihe rapid progress of the work has been mainly due to the efficient management of superintendent-Ban dy. The entire. outside is painted a live ly -brick color and nenciled white. The painting was'the more needful as a large part of the material was from the baked wall of the burnt building, mi a j T xne structure contains twenty six rooms, which are all neatly wainscot ted and plastered. Each room has ttoo windows, except the corner rooms which have three each. This build ing,, now nearly complete, is solejyfor tne occupancy or the- young men and boys m attendance. It is thoroughly ngnt ana airy, has two bath rooms and a flue to each study and bed room. Ihe timbers are on the ground fdr erecting a large water tank on the last side of the building. The faculty are proposing to the Board of Managers to call this building Orchdale Hall, in- memory ot the Uuaker Governor of the Carolinas in the old colonial davs. This is less than half the building that is to be done, tor a hrst-class school nouse is to go up in tne opnng at a eost of from eicrht to ten thousand dollars. This will be the new Kin er Jtlall. i There is clearly a fair prospect for the school at Tsew Garden to go rap idly torward in emciency and useful ness. She has had at least a local reputation for nearly half a century of ner existence ror tnorougn scholarship and erood discipline. With her better equipment let her do more in lessthan the next quarter ot a century than in the last halt, ihe new school house will be provided with a s chemical la boratory, a museum of natursl history, a large auditorium, a library and reading room, society rooms, and an ample outfit of recitation rooms. There are six instructors constantly emploved, three of whom are errad- uates; one trom Harvard University a second from Havertord College a third from Michigan University, and all have large experience in teaching About a half dozen new dwellings have gone up within the last year or two ia the immediate vicinity of the school. A plan is now on foot to se cure a small building for the accom modation4 of the primary ; school for the children of the neighborhood. When this is done it will be another inducement to settle at New Garden. Observer. PUNCHING THE WRONG TICKET. A Conductor's Mistake for Which the Railroad Must Pay. oad Deeem Baltimore, December 53. The case of John W. Rice vs. the Philadel phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail road Company, which has been on trial in the Circuit Court of Towson for several days, was concluded to-day by a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $2,700. The case is important to trav elling, salesmen. The suit was to re cover damages for ejecting the plain tiff from one of the defendant's cars . nt a M T . -1 t OOO . T? - - on tne oist or January, xooo. jxice was a travelling salesman for W P. Whiting & Co., of this city. On the 30th of January, 1883, he bought a coupon ticket in Wilmingion, Del. to Philadelphia and return. On his way from Wilmington to Philadelphia the conductor punched the return coupon instead of the proper one and then wrote on the back" of the punched coupon "puncnea Dy misiae. ju his return trip,v,which was on January 31, the conductor in charge of the tram would not recognize the dam aged ticket and put the plaintiff off the tram at Glenolden, a station six miles out of Philadelphia. The suit was docketed tor aamages. ims is the third Jrial of the case; the plaintiff having gotten a verdict each time, the former amount being $5,000. Jt has twice been to the Court of Appeals. An End to Bone Scraping Edward Shepard, of Harriaburg, 111-. llfT aT . says: "Mavinereceivea so muca oeneiiL from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty to let suffering humanity know it. Have hada running sore on my leg for eight years; my doctors told me I; would have to have the none ecrapea or leg amputai ed. I used, instead, three bottles of Elec . - . . m 1 T 11 t trie Hitters ana seven ooxes uucKien s Arnica Salve, and my leg is now sound and well" Electric Bitters are .sold at fiftv cents a bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica v . , i tt-si n t -us- Salve at SJOC. per DOX Dy riruy a. jcvouiu son'g Drag Store, Messkngeb building, .Goldsboro.N. C- . GOLDSBORO, N. j WHAT THE JPIGURES SHOW What has Already Been Accom plished. ' !. ' , Norfolk Virginia The administration of the Govern ment has at least been remanded to isafe hands. The President and the Cabinet will make mistakes, for it is impossible for human agents to escape them, but they have thus far resulted At A . At" paruy irom tne mountains or corrup tion these Democratic servants have had to encounter, level and purify. A notable instance is the contest of Post master. General Vilas with subsidy rogues. Jt was, attempted to create against him a strong public sentiment upon the hypothesis that he was stabb ing American shipbuilding energies because tie had refused to give away iplVj,vv) to. certain American steam ship lines. Congress authorized the, Postmaster General to pay $400,000 to American steamship lines for carrying the mails, the contract to be given to the lowest responsible bidder, and the ,X. aC A A A - 3 1 r f A rate of payment not to exceed 50 cents? a mije.v Mr. Vilas very, properly and wisely recognized that discretion m the premises resided in himself under the grant of power, and he lefused to make the expenditure. In hii report he demonstrates that the $400,000 leg islation, however cleverly cloaked, was procured by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and was really not in the nature of compensation for actual service, but as a subsidy. In fine; the refusal of Mr. Vilas to shape the policy ot his department in ac cordance with the demands or expec tations'of the subsidists, was based on a determination to protect public rev enues. .Last year the compensation actually received by the steamship companies was thirty-rour times what the same amount .of freight would have been transportedTor on account ot individuals, and nearly four times the charge for parcels of dispatch matter of the same quantitv. The payment of the whole sea and inland postage to the Pacific Mail Steamship fl- . : i XT : TT 1 . 3 ft 1 vyuuiutiuy uu lisxe xotk ana oion line last year would have been $19, 275 82 as against $7,501 78 at sea pos tage, and oy 4y at its. parcels-dis patch rates, and $411 40, at its freight rates, tor nearly hfty-fave tons or total mail; an average of $507 26 per trip tor zoo pounds ot matter, which it would have carried tor $1U 72 at freight rates and $202 09 at parcels- rates. Oh ts San Francisco and Panama line, $3, 49G 18 for, about seven tons. against $1,238 44 at sea postage $71 .09 at freight, and $1,002 55 at par cels-dispatch rates. On its San Francisco and Yokohama line, $10,125 80 for less than nineteen tons, aerainst $3,506 64 at sea oostasre. $226 34 at freight rates, and $3,753 40 at parcels-dispatch rates. Un its. Australian line, $41,018 65 for about forty-eight tons, against $13,565 29 at the special' rates paid heretofore, $762 93; at freight rates, and $9,o37 40 at Darcels-disDatch rates; ah. average per trip of $3,155 28 " r r t a for 7,336 pounds, nearly fifty-four times its treight rates, oyer four times its parcels-dispatch prices, and a bet ter average price per trip than the average paid across the Atlantic bv Other instances are stated in which Government liberality toward these steamship lines is as fully established as m the instances above recited. 'These facts seem to prove," says the Jfostmaster (ieneral, "that the total sea and inland postage is an abundant recompense for the proposed service; and, without further recapitulation, reference to the tables will show the amounts to the other lines a propor tionate compensation. If this be cor rect judgment, no more could be right fully, expended of the appropriation unless other objects were to be sought tharirthe care of the postatteerYice." Mr. Vilas has begun a grand reform? It is time to check the growth of the idea that the Government, in all its branches and departments, is to be operated either in the interests of cap italists or monopolists. The people have some claim to consideration, and while it is wise and last to foster home enterprises, jobbers have no claim to consideration when they seek to be enriched, without reasonable service, through a system of extrava gant compensation bordering on theft. NATIONAL BAN KS DRAFTS -BILLS OF LADING. In the case: of the tJnibn National Bank vs. Bowan, sheriff, et al., decid ed recently by the Supreme Coart of South Carolina, it appeared that two of the defendants, partners, ordered from dealers in grain at Chicago a4ot of bran aud oats. At the time of ship ment of these goods the Chicago firm drew drafts on the defendants for the price thereof, which were either dis counted by or sold to the plaintiff upon the secuiity of the bills of lad ing, which at the same time were in dorsed by the Chicago firm and deliv ered to the plaintiff. These drafts, with the bills of lading attached, were sent by the, plaintiff to its agents in Columbia, the Carolina National Bank, to be presented to the drawers or acceptance. When so presented they were not accepted. When the bran and oats reached Columbia they were seized by the sheriff under a war rant of attachment sued but by the de fendants on a claim "which they allege was due them by the Chicago firm growing out of some previous transac tion. Thereupon auction wasbroight to recover the possession of the bran and oats. It was not denied that the indorsement and. delivery of the bills of lading to the plaintiff passed the title and righto the possession of the articles mentioned therein to the plain tip; provided the transaction was valid and legal, and this having been dorie Drior to the seizure under the warrant of attachment the plaintiff would m that case have a right, to recover, it . t 1 . A. A. 3 was contenaea, nowever, . uuu. uuuer the national banking law of the um ted Stated the plaintiff had no author C, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1886. i ity to purchase the drafts with the Dins or laamg auacuea, and that therefore the transaction -was ultra vivest illegal, and passed no title to the plaintiff. The Supreme Uourt decided that the papers in controversy, though called drafts, were in fact bills of ex change, being open letters of request or orders from the Chicago firm to de fendants desiring them to pay on their account the sums oi money therein mentioned to a third person. The court held, as national banks are ex pressly authorized by the act of Con erress to buy and sell exchancre. there could not be a doubt that the plaintiff naa a ngnt to purcnas tnese papers a 1 . r r a I a t tt JT as iney were in iact uui duis or ex change, and that it was immaterial to inquire whether the plaintiff bouerht or discounted the papers.': Under any view that might be taken the court said the. plaintiff whs entitled to re cover. FARMERS AND COTTON. Tne Proposed Remedies for .Low PricesDifficulties in the Way) Charleston News and Courier. I Columbia, December 14, 1885. Can you not help us farmers out of the cotton trouble? It is now below cost of production. Will we continue to plant it? The New York speculators saj7 that we cannot plant anything else. Is that true! Suppose we lool over the list and plant a little of all we can raise everyimng, ana many one there is more money than in cot ton. But one says if. my neighbor cuts off cotton I will plant more and make by his mistake. Let him do it: that has been tried too often already. The man who plants only one quarter of what he 1as been planting in cotton and suppffcmerits with something ejse will weather the storm in the long run. I don't say turn cotton entirely loose, but plant about one-fourth only. Do you remember that during our war, when Europe could not get our cotton, the price went to one dol lar and ninety cents per pound!- We can put it to twenty five cents and keep it there. The South has the bier gest bonanza in the world in cotton if we would work' it right. Will we do it? Don't expect any concert of ac tionthat cannot be? done but let us individually exercise: some common sense and all will be well. L. t. s. Our correspondent is right when he says that he does not expect anycon cert of action," as no combination can be made strong enough to reduce ma tenally the area planted in cotton, and even could this be done he would find that any temporary advance in the price from any such course, would tend to increase the production of cot ton in India and s Egyni, and. bring those countries more actively into competition with the United States. Besides thishe-should remember that one of the causes of the low price of cotton at the present time is the in creased production per acre. This re duces the cost of productibn, which i reduced also by the fact that provis ions ana supplies nave not, tor many years, been as low as duringhe past year. The relief which oiir corresDondent hopes for must come from a reduction in the cost of production, coupled with the increased demand and better prices that will follow the revival of trade which cannot long be delayed. Farmers al ways, moreover, can pro tect themselves by diversifying their crops and making their own bread and meat on their own farms. HEBREW CONFERENCE. Meeting of the SoutliernKabbis at New Orleans.! New Orleans, Dec. 29. The con ference of Southern Rabbis opened to- pay. Ihe following members were present: J. K. Gutheim, of this city, President; .Jacob Vcosanger, of Hous ton, Secretary; S. Hecht, of Mont- Somery, Treasurer; H. Berkowitz, bf lobile; H. M Bier, of Vicksburg; E. L. Hess of Shreveport: B. E. Jacobs. of Meridian; J. S. Jacobson, of Atlan ta; JG. S. Levy, of Fatchez; J. Lo wen- thai, of San Antonio; J. Statz,.of Lit tle Rock; L. Weiss, of Jackson, and T. L. Leucht, A. R. Levy, M. Eisen- berg and S. L. Weill, of New Orleans. Rev. J. K. Gutheim presided over the meeting, which was opened with prayer by Rev. S. Hecht. President Gutheim then read his report, dwell ing upon the various important mat ter, including: the platform latelv adopted by the rabbinical convention at Pitisburg. The repcTrt was made the special order for to-morrow. A dispatch conveying the fraternal greetings was received from Dr. Koh- er, of New York. Dr. Gutheim's paper on the "cause. development and scope of reform," which took a full hour to read, was heartily cheered, and was ordered printed. Rev. Mr. Weiss, of Jackson, Miss., read an essay on the "Efficacy of Prayer.r A number of resolutions were offered and referred to commit- ees. Much interest is felt by the faithful throughout the country in work of this conference,, which will probably adopt important reforms. . . THE MINING DISASTER IN WALES. London, December 24. A dispatch from Pont Pridd, Wales, this morning says that seventy-hve corpses have been recovered from rerndale pit, where the explosion occurred "yester day, and it is feared that others are buried m the debris. , Ihe scenes in the vicinity of the mine are pitiful. At day-break this morning a fresh dree of volunteers began exploring the pit and are working manfully in attempts to discover the bodies. Sick and billions headache, and all de rangements of stomach and bowels, cured by Dr Pierce's Pellets"- ox anti-bilious granules- 25 cents a vial. No cheap boxes to allow waste of virtues. By Drug gists. ; . SCHOOL MATTERS. Meeting of the County Education. Board of Th& County Board of Educat ion will hold a very important meeting to day. Section 2551 of Lihe code, as amended by laws of 18S$ required the annual apportionment to be made in the' fol lowing manner: "first deduct an amount .sufficient to defray the gen eral school expenses of the schools authorized by law, then apportion two-thirds of the funds to the several districts in proportion to the whole number of children between the ages qf six and twenty-one years; and the remaining one-third, shall be appor tioned in such manner as to equalize school facilities to all Ihe districts of the county, as far as may bepratica ble and just to all concerned, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race. 7 . The report of the county Superin tendent of Education shows the school census to foot up 10470, very nearly equally deyided between the two races with a small majority in favor of the whites. The resources at the dis posal of the Board of Education (not counting the graded school tax of which the Board has no control) are about as follows ; property tax $5,613. 13; poll tax $G,138.12; bank stock $34.50: Liquor license $4,0P5.51; spec ial tax3.&10.21; fines ana penalties about $1,000. Total $20,720.66. From this must be deducted about $1,500 commissions for Sheriff and Treasurer; about $1,500 more for insolvents, and perhaps $800 for expenses of the county Board of Education, salary of County Superintendent and pay for printing, etc., which would leave a net balance of about $17,000 to be dis bursed to the use of the schools. This sum may, however, be further reduced if the $1,600 indebtedness claimed by the county is found to be correct, and there are balances due to "several sohool districts that must be provided for. Mr. Bonitz, who as a Chairman of the Board, has given the matter much attention, hopes to be able to make the general apportionment not less than $1.20 per capita. This would leave a balance in the hands of the county Treasurer to be applied by the Board towards equalizing and helping weak schools, and to pay the indebtedness of the schools. DISCRIMINATION BY KAIL. ROADS. The right of railroads to make dis criminations among shippers has be come an important subject, and is engaging the attention of the people and legislators all over the country. A recent casedecided in the Supreme Court of Ohio, which was that of Scofield et al v$. the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Comoa ny, will be of asmuch interest in this State as elsewhere, and a syllabus of the points decided may be of impor tance to both shippers and our rail roads. They are as follows: 1st. A railroad company chartered under the statues of Ohio is a common carrier of freights intrusted Jo it for transportation, and is vested by its character with the right of eminent domain and other franchises of a pub lic nature, and exercise public duties and those of a auasi public office, and is subject to judicial control to prevent an abuse of the privileges and powers so granted. 2d. Whether a common carrier, at common law, in the ordinary case, where no facts exist making a discri mination among shippers, injurious or mil " m ruinous to some ortnem, is only bound to transport freight at a reasonable rate, and not necessarily at a rate equal to 'all, or not, yet when the lower rate is either intended to give, ot has the necessary effect of giving an exclusive monopoly affecting the business and destroying the trade of other shippers, the latter have the right to require an equal rate for all under like circumstances. 3d. Where such a corporation as a common carrier of freights in consid eration of the fact that a shipper furnished a greater quantity of freight than other shippers durincr a criven term agrees to make a rebate on the published'riff on such freight to the prejudice rot other shippers of like freight under the same circumstances, such a contract is an unlawful dis crimination in favor of the larerer shipper, tending to create monopoly, destroy competition, injure, if not de stroy, the business of smaller opera tors, contrary to public policy, and will be declared void at the instance of parties i ijured thereby. 4th. Such contract of 'discrimina tion cannot be upheld simply because the favored shippers may furnish ytor shipment during the year a larger freightage in the aggregate than any other shi per, or greater than all others combined; a discrimination resting exclusively on such a basis will not be sustained. 5th. Although a-court will ordinari ly look to tho interest of the common carrier as an element m the case, the validity of such a contract will not be sustained by the courts simply because the business done under it is "largely profitable" to him. 1 bth. When it appears that the plain tiff1 s business is such as to make him a frequent shipper, and a continuous series of shipments' is necessary in, conducting his business, and to secure a remedy would lean to a multipficy of actions at law, the courts, in order to save a multiplicity of suits, and to do full and adequate justice to the in jured party, will intervene by injunc tion to prevent the threatened injury and wrong, and it is not a pre-requi-site on such a state of facts that plain tiff first establish their rights by an action at law. 7th. When a railroad company is a corporation consolidated under the statutes of several States, and its road reaches into several States, its illegal acts of injurious discrimination com mitted or threatened in Ohio to the business ' of others, either there or .. .. ; a vi r along the line of said railroad in Ohio or eisewnere, may be ignored by the course of that State. These points seem to be well taken, and the question of discrimination will doubtless become an absorbing one in our State before long, both in the legislature and before the courts. In factitjs now agitated in various sections among several of our railroad corporations, and will have to be ad justed soon in respect to public opin ion and common justice. THE DEAD OF NORTH CAR OLJNA. Pomincnt Names Gathered the Wlliriingtbit Star. by The year 18S5 was no exception to other years that have preceded it. Millions o -the earth's inhabitants ceased to live in this world. In North Carolina in every section good and useful and worthy men and women have laid down their burdens and en tered upon the life beyond. Men in the' professions, men in business preachers, editors, farmersr lawyers, doctors, mechanics and men, in other callings who were esteepied and hon ored in their respective sections and were useful to the State have passed away forever. The Star has on the first day of each year noted some of these men active woikers of did men who from age and other causes had ceased to workvwhb swell the necrol ogy of North Carolina. Without be ing able to give all who were promi nent or highly esteemed and useful in tbeir sections who have died during the year that is gone we are able to name some of them. It will be seen that North Carolina has beep bereav ed, and that some of her best, most active and valuable men are number ed with the dead of 1885. Werecall the following : Dr, Marcellus Whitehead, Rev. W. N. Morrison, Dr. L. W. Batchelor, Dr. James Craigmiles, William Lea, Dr. H. C. Willey, George M. Smedes, Edward Kidder, Thomas J. Norman, Dr. Benjamin W. Robinson, Col. Abram S. Kent. Prof. W. C. Doub, Dr. J. G. Harky, Capt. James S. An derson, Rev. B. M. Phillips,- Rev. W. I. Hull, Rev. J. M. C. Luke, J. M. McCorkle, Chauncey Meekins, Dr. Elara Caldwell, Rev. Henrv G rav. Rey. William Carter, M.D., Dr. Thomas i. Hughes, Dr. Benjamin F.Green, Maj.'Rufus Hartley, Rev. Charles H. Phillips, Rev. John N. Andrews, Rev. John W. Lewis, -Maj. Ephraim J. Brevard, Rey. L. H. Gibbons, William Henry Jones, Rev. Robert P. Bibb, Dr. L. G. Ward, Dr. C. W. Woollen, Dr. Gaston D. Cobb, Isaac" J. Young, Dr. I. V. Caven iss, Dr. Sydney X. Johnston, Thomas J. Person,' Capt. Randolph A. Shottfell, John W. Nor wood, Prof. Washington C. Kerr, Samel S. Harrison. James J. Litch- tord, A. S. Shuford, Joseph Dobson, Col, Edward C. Yellowly, Col. Joseph Saunders, Df. Neill Graham, George C. Moses, Joel JL Muse, William H. Young, Judge A. A- McKoy, Robert M. Henry, Dr. James K. Hall, John Kent Brown, Capt, John L. Wooster, William G. Matthews, Dr. W. J. T. Miller, John E, Lippflt and E. G. Ramsaur. ! ABOUT UNCLE SAM. Uncle Sam has $400,000,000 in his strong box and in this respect is' not hard up. But he owes $1,848,000,000 and is, therefore, $1,448,000,000 behind the world. Fifty-five millions of peo ple -are his indorsers, however, and his credit is pretty good the world Over. He can get trusted for any thing he wants: Uncle Sanrlooks nrelty carefully after the welfare of his subjects who go down to the sea in ships. He main tains more than 200 life-saving sta tions the crews of which saved more than 3,000 lives dungthe year, losing eleven. Uncle Sam is now practically at work upon eighty new structures, scattered all over the country and designed to cost .front' $25,000 to $1, 500,000. ' Uncle Sam paidout during 1885 a million a week for interest on the pub lic debt. Even at that he got off easier than he has in any year since 18G3. . In 1807 he paid out for this purpose $144,000,000,. a sura nearly equat tb his present total expenses, in cluding interest and sinking fund. Even as recently as 1880 the interest burden was $95,000,000. a Uncle Sam's expenses) during the last year were almost a million for each business day. That this repub lic'is not ungrateful is shown by the fact that the .pensions item leads the list with $50,000,000, next is miscel laneous, including public .buildings, lighthouses, collecting the revenue, etc., $54,000,000; interest on the pub he debt, $51,000,000: the sinkincr fund. $46,000,000; military, including rivers, harbors and arsenal, $43,000,000; civil expenses (Congress, Judiciary, etc), $24,000,000; navv, $1G,000,000; Indians,$6000,000;foreign intercourse. $2,000,000; and District of C:lumbia, $3.5000,000. Uncle Sam takes in a good deal of money in the course or a year, w e are all taxpayers and we ought to know where these $320,000,000 come from. Ninetv ner cent, of- the reve nues, or $294,000,000, are from cus toms and internal revenue taxes $181,- 000,000 coming from the custom houses. Sales of public lands turn in $o,500.- 000; tax on national banks, $3,000, 000; profit on coinage, etc.,,000,000t and fees (consular, patents and lands). 4,000,000. - 1 111 iii- i mere were an tne evidences or a com ing storm ; the very air vibrated .with the odor of danger ! but when the kind father took from his pocket a bottle of Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup then came a calm, for the baby had the croup and would now get well. A full and beautiful line of Colors In EmbroiderySilks, Spool Bilk and Twist, at Mrs. E. W. Moore's. -.:.f.. -' Go to Xdgerton & Finlajaon'i for Fam ily Groceries of all kinds. f NO 90 -i PAYING lNDUtJTUIES.1 Cull itigtTthat are Open to Indus : trlous Women. . Mrs. Henrietta Wolcott aid: An intimate experience with two larire expositions in Boston and ttew Or leans enables rae to assume at the out set that womfn are industrious.- There may be idle and aimless womn in our.: midst, but theyj are in the minority. , The mass whether rich or poor, young or old, believe in the virtue of Indus- 1 try. Influences of years of inheritance ' have left in the minds of many men. as well as many women, the idea that only m the privacy of hothe may wo men be ; industrious. Labor in the 1 home for those hot under the roor has I been strongly opposed by commutf- j jties still later, but to-day women are coming to thtf front as skilled laborer in many fields. The natural increase in population and by emigration de veloped the need of the activities of ' women outside tho home and riot merely in the church,, but whenever and wherever faithful and industrious hands could b eraployed to advan tage for the benefit of community or corporations. In the missionary so cieties women always have found a field for labor. Money compensation has always a strong attractive force, ' and it is not to be wondered at that women desire to possoss it for itself as a lever with which to move obstacles' in limited spheres. Passing over as well-known the de tails of teaching work in some sec tions of our country, seven-eighths of the whole corps of teachers in public schools being women, also those who teach in homes, private schools and as specialtists in science, art, art'era- ' broidery, vocal and instrumental music, dancing, deportment, foreign languages, sewing, cooking and decor ation china antf pottery, are to bo found in such numbers that ope often fears lest the teachers outnumber the pupils. Last year the tuning of pianos were taught as a business to women. Women in scientific pursuits already stand well, recent as has been the departure. Physicians, chemists, . dentists, geologists, botanists, euto 1 mologists, astronomer and many others have shown that patient indus try added to a love for thepeciaF study selected has borne good fruit. -Women serve on State boards of edu cation, on boards of charities, of health and of lunacy, on school boards and superintendents of public schools, as writers and copyists in probate courts and records, as well as the registry of uows-wurs wuicn requires precision, neatness and. industry. As superin tendents in penal and reformatory in- ' stitutions, as matrons, wherever the Sick, the insane, the feeble-minded, the deaf, dumb or blind are gathered ' together into asylums, as nurses in homes, in hospitals,, or following the array to labor in the cold and with few comforts, women have already achiev ed much good work. Plainly, these industries cannot be ticketed and ct hibited; they exist, and the world in general is aware of , it . A great importance also may be con sidered the women of the press. While qualities of a high order tempt women ' m numerous instances to assume the arduous duties and responsibilities of editors and subeditors, there are hosts of women who are laboring indus triously to fill the public demand for petty details of all public gatherings, caucuses, receptions, balls, concerts' and fashion '.'openings," &c. A year since, when it was proposed toinan. gurate a national press association a.t the New Orleans Exposition. rffiM1 correspondence revealed over two nunureu newspapers on whoso staff. . i . -i women were employed. AN .AGGRESSIVE MAN. CLERGY. He Advocates J udge Lynch Under Certain Circumstances New. Orleans, Dec. 20. After Governor McEnery issued his order respiting Ford and Murphy, an anonyT mous communication appeared in Tho Piratvn-t, written in the Htronirest 'noR- sible lancuaire. and intimati sort to lynch Taw and a vigilance com mittee to dispose of the privileged class of culprits who control offices in this city. It has since transpired that the commnnication was written by tho' Rev. R. A.' Holland D. D., of Trinity t: i i , . .i . . . rijMscupai cnurcn, In an interview admitting the authors says: I believe th ful in the dispensat there should be no cution of the law. is about this: One m breaker himself can of justice and mock man is allowed to power the lawlessn mora vile and and iniarioua to uocietv and every cutthroat and murderer commit shocking deds in the protect tection of that man, societie'J greatest ; enemy; I shall write again aud treat of that man's character and evil ' in- " fluence." - The illusion to "that man" is under stood to refer to a leading; politician, who recently ' went to liaton j Rouge ' and induced Governor McEnery to. respite the condemned persons. Never Ui vp up If you are suffering jwith low and de pressed spirits, loss ofj,appetite, general . debility, disordered blood, weak constitu tion, headafche, or any disease ot a bilious. nture, by all means procure a bottle o Electric Bitters. You. will be surprised " to seethe rapid improvement that will follow; you v will, be Inspired -with ncV life; strength and activity will return; pain and misery will cease, and henceforth you will rejoice in the praise of Electric Bitters. Sold- fit; fifty cents a bottle by; Dr. Kirby & Rolinson, tJoldsboro, N. C . P03, WARMTH AUD COMFORT, t Out Stock of Bicycle Shirts are beauties ' and quality guaranteed. Colon,; threwr Styles, two. At Sol 'Eutsteijt & Co'a,h ' in tnis city. Dr. Ho Anil. rti hip of the article. iyuotLis unmerci- r ipn of justice, and meYcxitfthe exo- Qur condition 'now n whxAis a law klog theVwheeJs ihejawt: f that cxmtinue in. his CSS will bccWmn 7 - !. J t, '- I - A. -. f. . r. t i c ;
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Jan. 4, 1886, edition 1
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