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J. A. BONITZ, Editor and Proprietor "For us, Principle is Principle Right is Right Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow, Forever Published Semi-Weekly $3.00 a Year VOL. XXII. .I GOLDSBORO, N. Q, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1886. NO. 29. BOUTEIjLE resolutions. A Heated Debate Concerning , the Norfolk Navy Yard. That our readers may have tte full text 6f the remarks of Hon. George B. Wise, of Richmond, in reply to the speech of Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, we present it as clipped from the Congres sional Record of yesterday : I Mr. Wise In the brief time which is allotted to me I have opportunity to make only a statement of facts, j I had hoped that the subject of this resolu tion would not have been discussed in this House until we had been informed by the Secretary of the Navy.i The gentleman from Maine Mr. Boutelle , on more occasions . than one has sought to revive the passions and the breiu- ,i: c a i. t i. .. i"53 uiucp ui iuc war. us see now much of truth there is in the state ments of this resolution. j ;The Secretary of the Navy is called upon to report to this House if any tablet has been destroyed at the Nor folk Navy yard. which commemjorates or commemorated thea fact that the drydoek at Portsmouth had been des i troyed. I am glad of the opportunity " to inform the gentleman from Maine that the drydock at Portsmouth never was destroyed. Applause. j The gentlenJan aks the Secretary of the Navy if inscriptions have been re moved from guns captured f njm the Confederate army. I will tnform the gentleman from Maine that no guns with such inscriptions were ever In ' the Portsmouth Navyyard. j Mr. Boutelle rose. j Mr. Wise The gentleman i from. Maine wants to know if a Union sol dier has been discharged and a Con federate put in his place. The man who was discharged was never in the .Jnion army, was never within a thous sand miles of a line of battle, never heard the music of a iriinie bullet. Mr. Boutelle Did he not render great service to the country ? Mr. Wise No, sir; no, sir! He, sir, was in receipt of a large salary in a bombproof position laughter on the democratic sidej wnue: brave I men fought the battle? of their country. Mr. Brady I desire to ask the gen tleman a, question. Does heyield I Mr. Wise No, s;r; no, sir! j The Speaker The gentleman de clines to yield. Mr. Wise No, sir; I do not yield, I will give my attention to you address ing Mr. Brady in a moment. Laugh ter. . Mr. Brady The gentleman will not allow me an opportunity to reply. Cries of "Order r "Order!" Mr. Wise-The Confederate, or the man who the gentleniarrarom Maine f "alleges was appointecrton account of Services in the Confederab army was selected after a competitive examina tion, and the man to whom he refers as having been removed, was dismiss ed for beastly intoxication. Renew ed laughter on the Democratic side. i Mr. .Bontelle What man do you re " fer to f j : , Mr. Wise One other fact I com 1 mend to the consideration of the gen tleman from Maine. During the Arthur Administration the postmaster at Portsmouth, whdNvas a Union! sol dier, twice.wounded and twice promot ed 'fo gallantry, was removed at the dictation of William Mahone. Re newed laughter. Ah ! Mr. Speaker The Speaker The gen tleman"s five minutes have expired. ! Cries of "Go on If VGoen !" "Let him go on !" Mr. Wise (continuing) Ah, Mr. Speaker, it is a good thing to raise a fuss over this matter, is it ? Yourfel-low-eitizens in Maine addressing Mr. Boutelle are anxious to know jf a Confederate has been appointed in the Norfolk Navyyard by this Admin istration. Have you forgotten that during the Grant Administration, that during the administration of Hayes, and during the Arthur Administration you sought out the captain of the Con federate guerillas, John S; Mosby, and sent him to represent the United States in a foreign country Laugh- Company, at that point. The shaft is ter find applause on the Democratic 585 feet dee at the bottom of which side. Have you forgotten that Long- : thirty-seven miners, men and boys, street, a Confederate -keutenant gen-1 were at work in the different gang eral, was selected by youfiepublican ways and chambers. At 2:45 p. m., I administration tor the most important , with0ut a moment's warning, a terrific j office in Georgia ? Why is it, I would expiosion occurred, dealing death and ask the gentleman from Maine, that destruction in its vicinity. : we bavo not heard a howl from that . Tfae shock of the explosion was felt J ice-bound region about those- appoint-, throughout the village and at once ments ? Renewed applause and laugh- j created a panic among its citizens, es I ter on the Democratic side. ; ! pecially among those who had rela- Mr. Boutelle Does the gentleman tions employed in the mine. A large desire a reply? Cries of -"No !" ; croW(j Gf people quickly gathered "No !" 1 i 1 around the mouth of the shaft all anx- Mr. Wise I would say to the gen- ious to succor the entombed men. ! tleman, go read the speech of a Sena- ceverai attempts were made to de- I a n i l? I tor or vour own party, one or wnam, I .think it is no discourtesy: to the gen--tleman i'rom Maine to say that in the estimation of the whole country, he, was a letter man than you are go j read the speech of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Mr. Boutelle Will the gentleman permit me Cries of "No !" "No !" ! "Regular order !" r I ! 5lr. Wise 'I say to the gentleman, Po aud read the speech of Charles Kumner, of Massachusetts. If I mis- take not, he was the first in the coun- try who declared, some fifteen years ', that the time had come for peace and that these memorials of the war l tie resolution of Mr. Sumner was lis follows ! Whereas the national unity and ?'"d will among fellow-citizens can be sjsmi ted only through oblivion of past asfferences, and it is contrary to the Usa(e of civilized natinrm tn nemet- uatn the therefore, he it Thaf thetlnrnucP -Ll. , . i v t ' y-' tiy cudi:iru. l j I , . . xiiau . , utxn ies ,wiiu jeuuw-ui.ii- Aw UL uu iwnuueu 1U ! uuj Kegister or,, placed on the regi cental colors of the United States, j n.irn.1 n mo. i. a. . t. a th! 6ad,er ot" the Federal army and fte gentleman from Maine. Renew-' ?a apn lansn r TKk j u v tkuw.l xne last words spofcen y that crreat n u: j.,: Jl at n ri. J . . - ttmni T j -iucwregor were that he Htw S ,'ul uo ujuseu nis eyes r he worM believing that belce -umcu iu a uisiracrfin pnnnrnr. t Loud applause. Ana yet the halls of legislation are to be annoyed by the secuonai iiraaes or sucn men as the gentleman from Maine. I want to say one thing more to the gentleman. We will not permit you to declare it, while we sit here and vote pensions to your officers and your soicuers A member on the Republican side. iou do not do it. Mr. Wise Go look at the record, and you will find my votes recorded for them. While we vote pensions to your sol diers and the widows of your sol diers Mr. Boutelle Our soldiers! Mr. Wise-Our soldiers. ' Mr. Boutelle Ah! - our. wiseuur soldiers: vve are in the House of our fathers, and we have come to stay. Applause. Mr. Speaker, while we are ready and wil- imsr to vote nensions to hrniorahlv discharged soldiers, who honorably served their country in time of war, we will never consent that it shall be held or proclaimed that one who hap pened to oe in tne uontederate army is forever disbarred from the service of his country. You have no right to establish such a principle; I shall deny 3our right ever to do so. But 1 pro test that these honorably discharged soldiers of the Union army shall never again be subjected to the treatment to which they were subjected under the last Administration, when men who had fought bravely for tLe Union were, under a circular bearing the name of William Mahone as chairman and James D. Brady, present member from the Fourth district of Virginia, as secretarv Mr. Brady The gentleman cannot produce any such circular. I cnal lenge him to do so. Cries of "Sit down!" on the Democratic side. Mr, Wise (continuing) When they were required, under the whim f a master, to give their money for parti san purposes required like slaves to hold their ballots up, that the boss' minions might see whether they were voting right or noU Applause on the Democratic side. Oh, God! What an attitude in which to place an hon orably discharged soldier of the Union under the whip and the lash of a Confederate brigadier. Renewed and long-continued applause on the Dem ocratic side, the Speaker rapping loudly for order. The Speaker The .time of the gen tleman from Virginia Mr. Wise has expired. Mr. Wise One word more. Cries of "Order!" and 4Vote!" "Vote!" Mr. Herbert Has the whole time allowed for debate expired? The Speaker The thirty minutes allowed for debate, fifteen minutes on each side, have expired. Mr. Brurani I ask unanimous con sent Cries of "Regular order!" The Speaker Objection is made. Mr. Brumm Objection, cannot be made until my request is heard. The Speaker-The House will be in order; gentlemen will please resume their seats and cease conversation. The gentleman from Pennsylvania Mr. Brumm asks unanimous consent that the time of the gentleman from Virginia Mr. Wise be extended. Cries of "No!" "No!" ! The Speaker Objection is made. Mr. Brumm Who objects? Mr. Rogers I objecc. The Speaker. A great) number of gentlemen object. The question is on agreeing to the amendment proposed by the Committee on Naval Affairs, which will be read PERILS OF MINING. Most Disastrous Explosion Ever Known in West Virginia. Grafton, W. Va., January 21. The most disastrous mine explosion ever known in the annals of West Vir ginia mining, occurred at Newbury about 2:45 o'clock this afternoon, in r bfifnre a successful entrance could be made. Finally, Mr. Rieby Metz, .accompanied by two other mi ners, entered the shaft and reached the heading in which the explosion took place, but were prevented from going further bv the debris, which choked up the little driftJ They were unable to discover anything but the shattered timbers of the mine, which were strewn in every direction. Sey aval siiKconnpn t Rtta-mnts were fruit- jess owng to the prevalence of black damp which precluded the possibility Q workiUg in the mine. jt 1S feared that all of them were in- stantly killed or were suffocated. Ef- ihe. mpn. but it is feared they cannot r.oQlid before to-morrow or later. kJXJ x - , The scenes about the shatt and throughout the towns, in the homes i of the imprisoned men, are heartrend- I ing. "It is the general opinion among experiencedsminers that j none of; the men in the nJtbepuld have survived . , :uu .-vTtcinn anfl that sucn a &Ull SPU-a a to a four , n rom i lit-; univu , . thftv are all deau. ' xucio . - Vi of cnm o are all de? whr are hoping agaiusi "Y0 v"",v n ofiii hfl ahve and may be i oi ineui mj on" - - -rescued. . i Functional derangement of the feinalQ. system is quickly cured JSfi t5 -ir "Favorite Prescription, it Jtv. v.nerceo t" Q hValth and romna the nain and restores neaiin anu x ttt all rnp-cnats Eirengui. oa ! A rinoiifien .t Ladiet Vesta io Gs and Quality t , FINE YELLOW TOBACCO.' The Best Method of Cultivating and Curing. Written, after sixty years experience, by J. B. Hobgood, of Granville Co., N- C Plant Beds. The first work in pre paring for a crop of tobacco, is to burn and sow in good time plenty of plant land, in warm moist situations. Select land that will not become sodden by too much rain, and, if possible, let the spots be on creeks or branches (far enough off to guard against overflow ing) with a south or southwest expos ure. Burn the land well. My plan is to put down on my bed, about four feet apart, what we term "skids" poles the size of a man's arm. These are to keep the wood off the ground. When these skids are burned up one may, as a rule, know that the land is burned hard enough, and that it is time to move the fire on further. This is the best guide I can give to the in experienced as to the length of time the land should be burned. The best time for burning, in the latitude of North Carolina and Virginia, is from the first of January to the first of March. Good, fine, stable manure, free from seeds of grass, oats or clo ver, with some good commercial ferti lizer, is what I think best on plant beds. After burning, rake off the ashes, cover the ground well with stable manure, hoe up the bed thoroughly, and make it fine by repeated hoeing and ' raking. Then mix the tobacco seed, using on and a-half tablespoon fuls in every twenty-five pounds of fertilizer to every one hundred square yards in the bed, and then tread in with the feet or pat with the hoe. To bacco seed requires but little cover ing, and if covered to deeply will fail to come up. Cover the bed with fine brush (dogwood is best if convenient), to protect the plants from frost and to keep the bed moist. Sometimes it be comes necessary to force the growth of plants in order that they may be large enough to transplant at the proper time ; this is done by using some quick, reliable fertilizer as atop dressing, care being taken not to ap ply it when the plants are wet with dew or rain. Soil. Gray, friable soils fresh from the forests, or long out of cultivation with a dry, porous subsoil, are the best adapted to the growth and m tur ity of yellow tobacco. Plow your land and put it in good condition before bedding; run the rows off three feet four inches each way, using, accord ing to the strength of the land, from ninety to one hundred and ten pounds of good fertilizer to every one thous and hills. Use farmpen manure in the drill with the fertilizer; it will be found of very great advantage, even if it is not convenient to use it except in small quantities. Planting.- Plant in hills as early af ter the first of May as the plants and season will admit. As soon as the plants take good root, commence cul tivation, whether in a grassy condi tion or not, and continue to stir the land with plow and hoe until the to bacco begins to come in top, using short singletrees as the plants increase. m size, to prevent bruising and break ing. After the plant become too large to admit of the use of the plow, use only the hoe to keep down grass. Topping. It is best to wait until a good number of plants button for seed before beginning to top, as these will then ripen together. A man must top according to the appearance and promise of the plant, the strength of the land, etc.; he must use his own judgment on topping, bearing in mind that a strong healthy plant can bear higher topping than a small one. As a general thing the first topping will bear ten to fifteen leaves, priming off the lower leaves neither too high nor too low, so hat when the plant ripens the bottom leaves may be well oft the ground. As the season advances con tinue to top lower, so that the plants may ripen before frost. Cultivation and lopping. is ever plow tobacco later than the first of August, after which- time use the hoe, as late plowing keeps the tobacco green too long and causes it to ripen with a green color. When tobacco begins to ripen use neither plow nor hoe, as I case. Atter being topped tobacco should be kept as clear as possible from worms and suckers. Gutting. Let your tobaceo stand on the hill until thoroughly ripe, bearing m mind not to cut any until a barn be filled with plants of uniform ripeness, color and quality. Put seven medium sized plants on a stick four and a-half feet long. Let the plants go from the cutters hands over the stick in the hands of the holder. After being filled the sticks should not touch thegronnd : for any length of time; in fact 'tis bet ter for them to go directly from the j holder to the wagon and from the wagon to the barn, where they should ha fieri flhrmt. eifht innheanart that i is, if the tobacco is of medium size. Barns. I think those that are seven teen and a-half feet square are the ' best for curing successfully; a barn of this size, with four firing tiers below the joists, will hold about four hun- j dred and fiftv sticks. Curing. As flue curing has taken the place of the older method of cur ing by char-coal, it is only necessary in frive. directions for that process. A dry curing heati the principle of both methods. Flue cuiing has many ad vantages over the primitive way, be ing cheaper, cleaner, giving the to bacco a sweeter flavor, and it is at tended by less danger of fire, .My ad vice, right here, to the novice is, to see for himself the plan on which a tobacco barn is built and arranged for curing. - 1 Temperature. After filling the barn with ripe tobacco, start the heat at about ninety! or one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, and keep there for thirty or thirtr-six hours, which length of . time is commonly required to yellow tobacco, some taking a little longer or shorter time.!. Right here is where a man must - exercise his judgment, as neither the best theory nor. the most minute directions 1 will serve it is practice that makes a good urer. After finding the best leaves in the barn of a uniform yellow and the oth ers of a pea green, one cani as a gen eral rule, beerin to raise the heat from the yellowing heat at the rate of five degrees in every two hours. When one hundred and fifteen degrees is reached it is time to give the tobacco air by cracking open the door and making holes as large a a man's hand on each side of the barn near the bot tom logs, which treatment will be found to be of great adyant ige, as the tobacco will commence drying off and the tails will begin to turn np. Con tinue to increase the heat at th e above rate until one hundred and thirty-five degrees is reached,. where fhe heat must be kept for twelve hours, which is the length of time required to cure the leaf. Raise the heat now five de grees every hour and a half until it gets to one hundred and 'eighty de grees. This heat will in a short time cure both stem and stalk. As a gen eral rule, by following these direc tions, tobacco will come out of the barn a pre-ty uniform yellow. To cuie it a bright, clear yellow, it must have all the heat it will bear until it reaches one hundred and thirty-five degrees. Ordering ami Handling. After tobac co is thoroughly cured, let it come in order enough to handle well; then move from curing barn to packing barn, or some tight house, and bulk down so that it will retain its color, as exposure reddens it. Stripping. When ready for strip ping, take as much bulked tobacco as one wants, and hang at some damp time in a curing barn, so as to bring it in order to handle. In stripping, se lect leaves of uniform size and color, making about six or seven different grades, and tie in bundlesof six leaves. After tying, the bundles should be hung on a stick, putting about twenty five bundles on a stick, and the sticks put down in a bulk, perfectly straight. This will press the tobacco out flat and cause it to make a better appearance on the market. It should remain in bulk for several days. WHY THE PRESIDENT RE FUSED. Declining to Give Ex-Goyernor Crittenden an Office. Washington Star. A Missouri Democrat, who claims to be possessed of the facts in relation to the refusal of the President to ap point ex Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, to a diplomatic mission, told a Star reporter that Senator Cockrell origin ally made the application for the ap pointment, and told the President he would esteem it a personal favor to haye Gov. , Crittenden appointed. Senator Cockrell made the personal appeal because, so said the Star's in formant, the relations between him self and Crittenden had not been per sonally pleasant for some years, and he wanted to manifest his good will and intentions by securing the ap pointment. The President intimated that he could not give Crittenden a foreign mission, but did not state his reasons. Subsequently Senator Vest called upon the President and urged Crittenden's appointment. To him Mr. Cleveland f ankly stated that he could not and would not give Critten den anything. The President then reviewed Crittenden's connection with the killing of ; Jesse James, saying tha while tha latter was an outlaw nd deserved death even in such a case assassination was not excusable. He held that the fact of the Ford brothers having been paid the reward offered for the killing of the bandit and of their having been saved from the legal penalty of their act by the interposition of Gov. Crittenden show ed that the latter was cognizant of the scheme to kill James and encour aged the assassination. This is said to have been the President's view of the case, and with that view he was not willing to appoint Crittenden. Senator Vest, so the reporter was in formed, wrote Crittenden telling him of the President's' attitude, whereupon the ex-Governor wrote Senator Cock rell a tart letter requesting that his application papers be withdrawn, and intimating that he would take occasion to show that he is a more popular man in Missouri than the President. The report that the President's refusal caused a coolness between Senator Vest and himself is denied. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. London, January 20. The Queen's speech was read at the ministered din ner to-day. Referring to Ireland, the speech says, in substance, that al though in some respects there are fa vorable indications of progress toward order in that country, yet at present Ireland is. disturbed by an increasing tendency to resort to unlawful prac tices and a disposition to set the law at naught. The government there fore, recognizes its duty to take ener getic steps to enforce law in order to provide security for life and property, and to maintain in its fullest meaning the integrity of the union, and the measures necessary to secure these ends will be submitted to Parliament. The speech further promises a local government measure for England, to be followed by similar measur s for Scotland and Ireland, and a bill to cheapen and facilitate the transfer of land. It refers to the "hopeful prospects" of- the Egyptian commission establishing a stable gov ernment in Egypt; says that the ques tion of anuexing Burmah will not be decided until Lord Dufferin reports on the subject, but that the deposition of Thebaw is necessary; congratulates parliament on the peaceful foreign relations of Great .Britain; trusts that peace will be maintained in the Bal kans through the self, control of all the powers interested, and concludes by expressing the hope that the new Par liament will follow the great traditions of former Parliaments. NORTH AND SOUTH. Object and Kesults oftjie War Northern and Southern Views. (Charleston News and Courier. From the point of view of the North ern States, the great struggle of 18G0 65 was for the suppression of rebellion, while the States which seceded regard ed it, and are compelled to regard it, as a war of conquest waged by the Northern States against the South. It was successful a conquest; and be cause it was a conquest, and nothing more nor less. It was the law of the sword, not the Constitution, that pre vailed. The Southern States are in the Union to-day by the power of the sword, and not by virtue of the Con stitution of 1787. It is not expected that the Northern States will take this view of the war, in this generation at least, and the South is content to hold to its own opinions, without seeking unnecessarily to force them upon oth ers. But the representatives of the people in the Congress of the United Qnt.n I A I uiaics, wuciubi mey coma i rom tne l North or from the "South, if they are f ioyai io tne constitution as it is, must not regard this great country simply as two hostile sections held together by military power. They cannot treat the people of one-half of the country as pardoned rebels, who are neither trusted nor respected and who may be safely insulted at all times and for all time. The Southern Congressmen, at all events, the men who fought under the Confederate flag, or who are the descendants of the men who fought under it, must, in order to be sustain ed by their constituents and in order to be trulv representative, maintain and assert the view that the citizens of the Southern States who fought in the Southern army were as much in the right, and as truly loyal, as the citizens of the Northern States who fought in the Northern army. The North honors and rewards, to-day, the Southern citizens who, because of th'eir convictions, fought against the South ern States; and it cannot consistently refuse to recognize the force of similar convictions in the case of those who fought in defense of their homes. It was a war of principle on both sides, and it is useless, and worse than use less, to attempt to ignore this fact. It is an insult and a reproach to talk about a rebellion which never existed, a"nd no inscription or device perpe trating an historic lie should be al lowed to stand. There is another view of the ques tion, the view that Mr. Sumner took many years ago when he proposed that the names of the battles won by the Northern troops over their fellow citi zens in the civil war should be remov ed from the regimental colors of the army and from the Army Register. On account of his actiqn he was, in deed, censured by a vote of the Mas sachusetts Legislature, but that vote was afterward rescinded. The patri otic position assumed by Mr. Sumner was that no country should wish, or can afford, to build monuments to com memorate the defeat of its own people, or to perpetuate in any way the vic tory of brother over brother. This is the position that should be tnken by the Southern members of Congress. For if they are not equal in every res pect to every other member of the Congress of their common country, and to every citizen of that country, and if they have not the same rights and privileges, then they have no bus iness in Congress and the Southern States have no place in the Union. It is insulting and degrading to speak of the Confederates and rebels, or of any American citizen as ex-rebel and pardoned traitor. The people of the Southern States areas loyal as the people of the North and West. They never were traitors or rebels. They sought to establish a government of their own. and they bow to the logic of force and accept the results in good faith. They are deemed worthy to hold the highest offices under the Gov ernment, and they are qualified, by the Constitution and laws, to represent the Union at home and abroad. They cannot, therefore, consent to be brand ed as rebels, or to be treated as such, whether on the floor of Congress or on bronze or in marble. Sumner was right. Theliighest patriotism in a re united country is that which buries early and deep the epithets and stings of the struggle, and, without surren dering any honest convictions, forgets all that is bitter and brutal in the past. KINSTON ITEMS. Paragraphs by Our Regular Re porter. The Knights of Honor have in about ten years paid out $16,103,345,04 to the widows and orphans of deceased members. Rev. I. L. Chestnutt, editor of the Watch Tower, and J. W. Hodges of Washington, were in town last week, Also ex State Superintendent Scar borough. Mr. Lewis Haywood, of Jones coun ty, had several bricks to fall from a kiln, striking him on the face and head, resulting in painful bruises but not serious. The bricks were broken but the head was not. "Is he ''hard headed?" D. M. Stanton and wife of La Grange, gave us a pleasant call last week. Sheriff Koonce, of Jones, and Capt. Ed. Paere, were in town Friday to see the $300 horse brought on by A. Mitchel for Sheriff Koonce. If a Gypsy tells you he is going to j carry a North Carolinian away from j here when he leaves, don't ask too! many questions. j In reply to the LaGrange reporter for the Kinston Itemizer, our dentist ! says, if the LaGrange people will come down we will handle t tern as tenderly as a newly mde bride, and ', Eq. Coleman may be the judge. Mr. Noah Palmer, of the nrra of Dryden & Palmer, "has ended his pleasant visit to relatives here and re turned to Baltimore. At the residence of the bride's moth er, near Kinston, on the 21st inst., Dr. Harper united in marriage Mr. A. ' r. ua.Miius auu jjiiss ijaura uauiey. May their happiaess never grow less. Mr. Edward Rountree, Miss Willie Rountree and Mrs. Martha Stanley nave returned trom Amston, Alabama, , where they had been to settle up the business of the late Nathan Stanley,1 who was killed in the R. R. near Atlanta. Rev. H. C. Bowen was last Sunday elected to the pastoral care of the Disciples church in Kinston. This added to his duties as first assistant teacher in the Graded School, will keep him moderately (T) busy. hence he who says least has least mending to do. Elias Albritton has sold his h nmn farm to Mrs. Olivia Phillips. J. P.Quinnerly, of Johnson's Mills, spent some days in town last week. Wb haye heard of two preachers in town who acknowledged a favor from iur. jmi. Mosiey. Saturday was the liveliest day with our merchants for some time. The "hind legs" of the cotton crop are .coming in. An: extra public building will soon be needed in Washington Citv t n cnn. tain the bills introduced by energetic Congressmen! O, don't. We are glad to note that Dr. J. T. Walsh and wife, who hnv hth hn critically ill for some time, seem to be uetier. We heard of a five dollar bill beiner turned loose in a small crowd of men recently, and it paid several debts in about two minutes as it passed from one to another but it didn't lodge with us! The handsome little residence of James E. Nunn, on Queen street, is thought to be a thing of beauty by some who are seriously contemplating "love in a cottage." At nine o'clock Sunday night our thermometer said 28. A Kinston boy thinks, if God made woman out of a rib she ought to be mighty good for he loves spare ribs. Will the Supreme Court decisions on special taxes affect, the Graded Schools! A colored preacher called on our ticket agent last Monday evemng and wanted to know if there was any "de ception" between the clergyman's ticket and those sold to other people. Mr. F. C. Looks wants to hire a house-keeper. W. H. Cox's fresh rmrk from Ons- low, always.brings the top of the mar ket. Are crround-neas DrofitableT Robert Aldrige, col., aged CO, (too oia to pay poll tax; gave in nothing out one aog, vamea at nve dollars. Has failed to pay that and now there is 00 cents cost added, with a proba bility of being returned . as a delin quent, in which event he had much better have been dogless.' Mr. J. F. Parrott contemplates giving a candy stew in the near future expressly for the benefit of widows and widowers. We have the promise ot a peep. GRANT AND HALLECK. More Evidence That the Latter Was Very Jealous of Grant. The New York Sun contains the fol lowing Washington dispatch regard ing the attitude of Gen. Halleck to ward Gen. Grant: Army officers here who know the secret of the bitter hos tility 1 hat existed between Gens. Grant and Halleck say that when Gen. Mc Clellan's private war papers are made public a profound sensation will be created and the hatred of Grant for Halleck will be no longer a mystery. An officer who has seen the docu ments preserved by Gen. McClellin says : "On February 16, 1S62, Gen. Grant sent his famous 'unconditional surren der' letter to Gen. Buckner at Fort Donelson. The news of the surrender had thrilled the north from one end to the other, and the name of Grant was upon all lips. Gen. Halleck, the com mander iq the west, was at St. Louis. He was troubled at the great renown so suddenly attained by his subordin ate officer. On February 18, two days after the surrender of Donelson, Mc Clellan telegraphed as follows to Hal leek i "Gen. IT. W. Hailed, St. Louis, Mo.: "Wherej is Grant f "Geo. B. McClellan, Major-General Commanding. "The saine day Gen. McClellan re ceived the following : "Gen. Geo. B. McClellan Washington, D. Cr. "In answer to your question, would say Grant is somewhere in the rear of his army drunk. "H. W. Halleck, Major-General. "Of course," continued the officer referred to, "what Gen. McClellan de sired to ascertain from his question ' was the whereabouts of Grant's forces, and whether they had moved forward from Fort Donelson. The reply of Halleck was all the more inexcusable from the fact that Grant had kept him constantly posted of his aims and plans, and on that verv day had tele graphed Halleck that he proposed to go in ahead on a gunboat and recon noiter the river in the direction of Nashville, and that his army would follow. "Gen. McClellan kept the originals j of a.l his despatches, and certified copies were made for the War depart ment. These despatches are said not to be among the despatches certified and in the records of the War depart ment, but the originals are among Gen. McClellan's papers. They are carefully pasted into one of the large volumes in which his war despatches are preserved. Three or four years ! ago Uen. Grant read these original despatches, which was the first in ti mttion that he had ever had that they were in existence. A full and beautiful line of .Colors in Embroidery Silks, Spool Silk and Twist, at Mrs. E. W. Moored. ' t THE KELLOGG CONCERT.! What the "News-Observer" Says of Its Raleigh Performance. 1 - ! i Certainly no singer ever here had an audience superior1 in number or in any way to that which greeted Miss Clara Louise Kellogg at Tucker hall last evening. It was an . audienco which was critical yet generous in its appreciation. Raleigh audience are aiwayn exacting in the matter pC encores. The programme was pleas ing in the main and the responses to encores were of a character to giye special pleasure. Miss Kellogg's voice, though said to be losing some of the sweetness which in years gone by marked it abovo others, was yet of fine quality, tender and sympathetic, and the reception given her was jusl such as a true artist relishes and ap preciates. The always dear "Way Down upon the Swanee River" the sang in masterly fasfaign and not a note was lost. She received a double encore after her rendition of a ballad aud both responses were character ized by sweetness. Miss ' Pauline Montegriffo almost if not quite divi ded the honors with Miss Kellogg, She has a pure contralto voice' of great scope and sweetness and sang literally like a bird, and was withal so clever in mingling acting with her singing as to receive encore after en core. She sang the song "Some Day" very charmingly indeed, and "Wouldn't Youf" was given with both archness and tenderness. Few singers have given audiences more pleasure than she gave. Mr. Adolpb Glose, the pianist, is certainly'a mas ter of the art, and the audience made plain their knowledge that his play ing was so far above the- ordinary level of accompanists. He was cer tainly a very marked 'feature of the performance. So delicate a touch and so thorough a command of the in strument marked him as a true mu sician, not a mere seeker after effectp. M iss Ollie Torbett, the vounthfut and certainly charming violUts, was another of the company to mako a pleasing impression. She gives bril liant promise of rising to a higher plane of merit as a performer on the "king of instruments." She is a feature of the company. DISCUSSING ENSILAGE. The Only Fodder that Farmera Honor With an Annual Congress. ; rFrom tho New York Suo.T The fifth annual Ensilage Congress was held yesterday in the Grand Cen tral Hotel, with the Hon. Orlando B.. Potter in the chair. About 100 far mers occupied the morning and after noon session in telling, each other about their experience with ensilage and silos. Mr. Potter, in opening tho Congress, said : In a short time, under the ensilago system, the fodder snpply of the coun try would be doubled. It is a great thing for the Western cattle raiser, for grass can be kept as well as corn. I am using more and more ensilage on my farm every vear, aud tho more I use it the more I like it. The opening address was read by George G. Smith, of St. Albans, Vt. Mr. Smith gave his personal experi ence with ensilage on his two farms at St. Albans. He said : I have fed my stock on ensilage for the last six years, and to-day they are in splendid condition. From the sev enty acres of land that I planted with corn I obtained last year 1,200 tons of ensilage. To make ensilage that will Eroduce the best butter the corn should e planted in hills from four to mx inches apart and then carefully cult vated. In this way he raised 27 tons to the acre last year, and hopes to raiso 40 tons next year. Tho total cost per ton of plowing, planting, cutting ai d putting in silon was seventy-seven cents per ton. The corn should be cut wuen u is beginning to glaze anu tne weatlier is dry. After being put in the silos it should be carefully tramped down, especially around tne edges, and then should be weighted so as to exclude the air. I use 220 pounds weight to the square inch My ensilage is cut three-eighth of an inch in length. Mr. Edward Atkinson was then call. ed upon. He said F "My experience in silos is limited. When my attention was drawn to the subject some five or six years ago, I built two small silo of ten tons ca pacity, on theensilMgoof which I keep my two family cow. Since building these silos I have studied the subject as an economist and statistician. I have concluded that if I were not an. underwriter by profession I would es tablish a beef factory in the eaht and-, feed the cattle on ensilage." The general opinion of the congress was that ensilage in its various forms is better than any other kind of fodder for cattle. A gentleman frorn Penn sylvania said that he had .used clover ensilage advantageously 'in' feeding horses, and that ft had a fine fruity flavor. He packed it in the silos dry. A gentleman from New Canaan,' Conn., said that he had been unable to make good ensilage from cloverr but that he had packed it wet. Other farmers said that they were breeding sheep on' clover ensilage with good re sults. At the close of the afternoon session it was voted to make the organization a permanent one, with, an annual membership fee of $2. The following oflh-ers were elected r President. Edward Gridlev, Wassaic, N. Y.; Vice President, Orlando B. Potter; Secretary, J. B. Brown, New York; Treasurer, W. W. Merriam, New York. The annual banquet was held last evening at the Grand Central Hotel. Plush Mirrors, Albums, Work Boxes, Dressing Cases, Clocks, Silver Ware, at. t M. E. Cabtex & Co.Vi 1,500 pounds mere of Hams at 11 cento per pound at R. E. Pir kih's. Call aad' get bargains. . -j, r
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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