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; Established 1367 ' For us, Principle is Principle Right is Right Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow, Forever. Published Semi-Weekly $3.00 & Year YOL. XXII. GOLDSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1886. NO. 90. 1 . 1 UPREME COCRT JUDGES. Work of the Democratic I Judi cial Convention. Special to the RichmondDispatch. Raleigh, N. C, August 25. Last night there were caucuses of delegates to the btate Convention. These did not break up until midnight. The. friends of the old court arranged pllans for pushing Smith for Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court Reeling sure that if they won, Justice Merri mon and Ashe would be renominated also. The opponents of the old court nlrrangedto nominate Merrimon for (jlhief Justice with a view of exalting him and of tfrus getting new men in place of Smith and Ashe. It was al most impossible at midnight ; to find liow matters stood. It was well un derstood that the test vote would be the nomination for Chief 4usce Ioth sides worked hard. Men from tie West agreed not to push : Carter fpr Associate Justice until they got errimon. By noon to day, when the State Democratic Judicial Convention met at Metropolitan Hall, there were about 300 delegates present, out of a tbtalot'900. All parts of the State were represented. Richard H. Battle, of Raleigh, called the body to order. IJe is chairman of the State Executive Committee, and that is one of his d uties. He called to the chair as tem rorary chairman S. B. Alexander, of Mecklenburg. Alexander niade a Very neat speech, which was well re ceived. Committees on Credentials, Permanent Organization, and Plat form were appointed one from each of the nine districts and withdrew. 1 speeches. -1 During their absence, which was prolonged in the case of the Com mittee on Credentials, there were speeches, very patriotic and fervid, by Congressmen R. T. Bennett and Thomas G. Skinner, A. M. Wadell, of "Wilmington; Octavius Coke, of Ral eigh; Duncan K. McRae, of Wilming ton; Charles W. McClammy, nominee for Congress in the Third district; W. H. Kitchen, and Governor Scales. Ihe latter received a regular ovation upon being escorted to the platform. He made a capital speecM, full of pride in the Convention and in North Carolina's prosperity. He spoke in the highest terms of the State and its Beople, of what the State owed to the 'emocratic party for its long years of faithful wort in its political and so cial regeneration. He declared that by two of its acts alone, if for no other, the Democratic party had for all time endeared itself in the hearts of all true North Carolinians. These two were the county government system and steps to rid the State of the in cubus of the reconstruction measures. He said that the county government system, which must and should be preserved, gave the control of the State to the white people for all time. This was greeted with tumultuous ap plause. Governor Scales is a warm and earnest advocate of the present system of county government by which magistrates are appointed by the Legislature. CREDENTIALS. After an absence of over an hour the Committee on Credentials reported. It had had rather a lively session. Its chairman, Hon. J. J. Davis, said it found that Alexander, Clay, Harnett, Haywood, Macon, Madison, and Yan cey were represented by proxies, and that Alleghany, Brunswick, Caldwell, Davie, Davidson, Lincoln, Polk, Ru therford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkm were unrepresented. Mr. Davis said that as to the admission of proxies there were two reports. Six of the commit tee thought they should be admitted, while three thought they should not be admitted. Right here a lively scene began. Upon the question ofa,dnns sion oE these proxies much depended. They were with one exception from beyond the Blue Ridge, and all for Merrimon, it is thought. So it; was a test of the comparative strength of the Smith and Merrimon factions of the Convention. The fight wks pro longed; speech after speech was made. The party platform does not permit proxy votes, but was urged by the IMerrimon men that in some cases this rule should be departed from. The Convention after awhile became noisy and tired of so much speaking, and shouted down all would-be speakers. yv. Davis, chairman of the com mittee, moved that the minority re port declining to seat proxies bo adopted. It was carried by 409Ho 6yjk. There was much cheering .as this result was announced. ORGANIZATION. E. S. Parker, of Alamance, chair man of the Committee on Permanent Urbanization, made the following re-. fort: For Chairman, J. C. Buxton, of orsythe; Vice-President First dis trict, J. J. Laughinghouse, of Pitt; Second. F. A. Woodard. of Wilson; Third, W. R. Allen, of Wayne; Fourth, Cj. M. Cook, of Franklin; Fifth, A. H. A1. Williams, of Granville; Sixth. J. 1j. Legrand; Seventh, G. S.Bradshaw, Kandolph; Eighth, G. 1 . iJason, Gaston; Ninth, T. F. Davidson, of uncombe; Secretary, . Josephus Dan- f Is: Assistant Secretaries, members of ie Democratic cress present. This report was adopted by accla mation, and Permanent-Chairman Buxton was heartily cheered J as he tok his position. He made an ad mirable speech, brief and pointed. He said his selection for such aii hon ored position was a compliment to the young Democrats of North Carolina and to the gallant and glorious1 For syth e county. He paid the Democratic Party glowing "compliments. He said that the Republican party, so long a foe, no longer stands in" the way, and the success of the ticket nominated was an assured fact. I RATIFIED, ., . . j Before proceeding to the nomina tion of justices of the Supreme Court the Convention, on motion rof Henry A London, of Pittsboro, byj acclama- wion raunea tne nominations of Su- perior Court judges as made in the various districts. ; The serious work of the Convention then began. Col. T. C. Fuller, of Raleigh, in an eloquent speech, placed in nomination for Chief Justice Wil liam N H. Smith, the present incum bent. C. M. McLeod, Asheville, placed in nomination for Chief Justice Augustas S.Merrimon. After speech es seconding Smith had been made by R. W. Winborne, of Hertford, and M. L. Hill, and after John H. Small, of Beaufort, had seconded the nomina tion of Merrimon,' the vote was taken amid half-suppressed excitement. It was soon seen that Smith was leading. The result, as officially announced, was: Smith, 407; Merrimon, 387. A wild scene and cheering for many minutes followed this announcement. Smith's nomination was made unani mous. A motion was promptly made to nominate A. S. Merrimon and Thomas S. Ashe as associate justices. Finally it was decided that this was irregular, so nominations began. Ashe and Merrimon were regularly placed in nomination. No other names were placed before the Convention. The friends of W. D. Pruden, of Chowan, and of George V. Strong, of Wake, did not present their names, but, amid cheers, moved to make the nomina tions of Ashe and Merrimon by accla mation. Finally this was done amid great applause. The Convention had been in session just four hours without a recess. The Committee on Platform reported through T. W. Wpmac, its chairman, and the platform was read. It was not adopted, it being thought unneces sary for a judicial convention to adopt a platform. NOT VIGOROUS ENOUGH. Ex-Congressman W. H. Kitchen, of Halifax, got upon the stage, and, say ing that the platform read was not vigorous enough, read a very long one, and then spoke in advocacy of it as a substitute for the other. It was not adopted in fact, no notice of it was taken. Resolutions that is the sense of the Convention that the present aid given wounded ex-Confederate soldiers and soldiers' widows is inadequate and should be increased were read, but shared the fate of the platform, and nothing was done with them. At 4:40 P. M., the Convention ad journed. ! The result appears, after all done by the opponents of the old court, to give general pleasure. The Convention was a fine body, and ih the main its work was harmonious. Over half its members left the city on the trains this afternoon and evening. The Convention to-day re-elected the State Executive Committee. This high com phment is certainly deserved by Chair man Battle and the members of the committee who have don so much excellent work. A great: number of persons called this afternoon on the Chief Justice and his associates to tender their con gratulations. The venerable Paul C. Cameron, eighty years of age, cast the vote of Orange in the Convention as chairman of its delegation. NEWS NOTES. P. M. Hale, who is under medical treatment, is here for a few days at tending to some pressing business. His paper The Register will not be issued any more this year. The Demo cratic party will miss the services of a man of such marked ability as an editor. He is ajlso public printer. Ex-Lieutenailt-Governor James L. Robinson, of Macon county, was in the Convention to-day. He leaves to morrow morning for his post of duty in the Northwest. Congressman Thos D. Johnston, of Buncombe, has been quite sick for some days. PROPOSED EXTRADITION TREATY. Washington, August 26. A well kept diplomatic and executive secret, to which interest is given by the pos sibilitv of a request being made by the United States for; the surrender by Mexico of Mondragan, for trial in this country, is the fact that a special ex tradition treaty between the United States and Mexico is now awaiting final action by the Mexican Congress, having been accepted with amend ments by the United States Senate in June of this year. The treaty provides that the surrender to either countrv by the authorities of the other shall be discretionary with the Executive, whenever a notorious crime has been committed. This ' treaty, although approved by both nations, still lacks the final Mexican sanction to render it operative. The only significance of the treaty is the indication of a dispo sition on the part of the United States to maintain such relations with Mexi co. Mexico already has this authority to surrender a notorious criminal, but the United States has no such power without this treaty, when Mexico has voluntarily surrendered such prison ers. The "United States has only ac cepted the action with an understand ing that no obligation to reciprocate was involved. i ' We Caution All Against Them. 'The unprecedented success and merit of Elys' Cream Balm a real cure for ca tarrh, hay fever and cold in the head has induced many adventurers to place catarrh medicines bearing some resem blance in appearance, style or. name up on the market.- in order to trade upon the reputation of Ely's Cream Balm. Don't be deceived. Buy on!y Ely's Cream Balm. Many in your immediate locality will testify in highest commendation of it. A particle is applied into each nos tril; no pain; agreeable to use. Price 50c If you are not a subscriber to the Messenger send $2.00 and get it for one year and with it the Souyiner plate of portraits of twenty confed erate commanders, : See notice else where The MEiSEGER is well worth $2.00 alone: . . Nowiyou an get both ief2.00picfnrerand the Messenger io;the:pnee;pf one alone. 5 A DEATH OF COL.H. B. SHORT A Well Known and Influential Citizen at Rest, LWilmington Review. After a sickness of several weeks, Colonel Henry Bishop Short, of Lake Waccamaw, Columbus county, died at the Orton House, at about 9:30 o'clock last night, and in his death North Car olina, and especially this section of the State, loses one of its prominent, public spirited, influential and best citizens. He was a native of North Carolina and was in the 62d year of his age. His death was the result of a general exhaustion of the system, rather than from any specific disease. He had been in rather feeble health for several months, and about six weeks ago he returned from Ner7 York, where he had been on business, and feeling quite unwell, he went to Smithville, but after remaining there a few days, during which time he continually grew worse, he returned to the Orton House in this city, where he was compelled to take to his bed, and where he continued to grow worse until death came to his relief. His family were with him throughout his sickness, and were constant and un remitting in their tender attention to his every want, and did all that love and solicitude could suggest to soften the pains of his dying pillow. Col. Short was a native of the East ern portion of the State, and, choosing the profession of law, after completing his studies, he was admitted to prac tice at the Plymouth, Washington countv, bar. He married a daughter of Mr. "Willis Bagley, formerly State Senator of Martin county. Soou af tin addition to these, tin, nickel, anti the cessation of hostilities the States, Col. Short retired from the practice of law and removed to Columbus county, where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber, and was made President of the Green Swamp Company. Later he withdrew from that company and settled at Lake Waccamaw, where he built a spacious residence on the lawn between the railroad station and the beautiful sheet of water from which the town derives its name, and in full view of both. He purchased large tracts of the fine timber lands with which that part of the country abounds, and gave employment to a great number of hands, in the manufacture of lumber. Although never a robust man his energy of character and keen business sagacity enabled him to conduct suc cessfully an immense and continually increasing industry, while at the same time his hospitable mansion was open to welcome guests from all portions of the country. Col. Short had for a number of years been one of the Board of Directors of the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, a position which he occupied at the time of his death. He was State Senator for Columbus and Robeson counties in 1876; has been Representa tive to the General Assembly from Columbus county, and has been promi nently named for Lieutenant Govern or of the State. ; In all the business affairs of life Col. Short was a man of strict integri ty, far-seeing as to determine results, energetic in the conduct of the large industries in which he was engaged. Tn social life he was a courteous, affable and agreeable gentleman. Genial, entertaining and instructive in his conversation, with a generous share of good humor in his composi tion, his society was a pleasure. He was generous and public spirited, and gave liberally yet judiciously, of the riches of which God had made him steward. He was kind-hearted and truly considerate of others, and as a man, a father, friend and neighbor was one of Nature's noblemen and one who will be sadly missed, especial ly by the people of Lake Waccamaw, by whom he was looked upon as a faithful friend and wise counsellor. His remains will be taken to his late residence at Lake Waccamaw on to night's train, and the funeral will take place to-morrow . . LOS ANGELES. California Climate Semi-Tropical Products, &c. Lc s Angeles Herald. It is interesting to look in to the causes from which these effects grow. They all come from the ground beneath her feet, and the sky that smiles above her. The order should really be reversed. The climate is in deed the main factor. Illinois, Mis souri, or the blue-grass region of Ken tucky may boast as rich a soil; No country can truthfully claim a richer. Some of the lands around the old bea ver dams in the Wallamet valley, are as rich as any soil in the world, but the best of them are only the peers of th6 cienegas of southern California. But of what avail is soil twenty feet deep and as brown as chocolate if it is soaked half the year in floods and bound the other half in the fatal fet ters of ice and snow ? It is the skies that bend above us that make the orange flourish, the lemon bear, the lime fruit, the grapes hang heavy on the vine and turn purple in the glow of the summer sun. It is the climate that gives Angeles green peas and ripe tomatoes the j ear around; new pota toes at Christmas and ripe strawberries on New Year's day. Again, it is the sunny skies of this glorious southland that enables the farmer to work in comfort 350 days in the year at his outdoor employments, and that in his shirt sleeves, thus making one man worth at least two anywhere else. It is the same grand element of prosper ity that makes it possible for dairy men and stock-raisers to feed their animals all the year around on alfalfa knee high, to dispense with expensive barn?, and the labor, trouble and cost of feeding his stock by hand for six to nine months of the twelve. These are economic, developments, the ontr growth of this climate? whose impor tance is hard to overestimated I Taking IoBr nfctfes yaej"iyie Santa Monica Canon to, San Juan Ca pistrano along the seacoastand reach ing back to San Gorgonic Pass, and one has a region of about fifty miles along the coast by seventy-fiye inland at the deepest point, the most prolific and the most diversified of any region of similar size on the globe. There are no vegetables, the leguminous ar ticles of human diet, that do not flour ish there the year round. People in this favored region can alternate at their dinner 365 days in the year potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, cauli flower, peas, beans, egg plant, celery, lettuce, turnips, parsnips, carrots, okra, radish, etc., without nnmber. This same region embraces a large area of the finest dairy? land ever grazed. Cattle do better and give more milk than anywhere else. Men make money hand over fist at the dairy business in this belt The natu ral grasses for nine or ten months out of the year are unexcelled. The fields of alfalfa discount all the fodder plants of the civilized world. No country produces such squash, pumpkins, mangel-wurtzel and beets, , Horses of Los Angeles by their records and vic tories make praise useless. Even the crack Dewdrop, in New Jersey, found it to her advantage to draw out of the races against Mr. Baldwin's Volante. Ben Ali's master is a San Franciscan, but that horse took second place in the conflict with the Los flyer. This same region is one of ous richness in its mineral Angeles marvel wealth. Here is the finest oil measures in the world. Here are coal fields of great promise. The mountains furnish not only gold and silver in abundance, but V A ' 7 Detweenmony and in fact nearly every deposit valued by civilization. THE FRUIT CROPS. As a fruit growing region the horse shoe outlined above has no region comparable to it. Here flourish all the berries and small fruits ; by their side grow the apricot, the nectarine, peach, plum, cherry, fig, walnut, pe can, olive, banana, guava-berry, grape, lime, lemon and orange. Es timating these by the acre, and far mers here sell from $100 to $500, and even to the value of a greater sum an nually off their lands. They gather often $oUU worth of berries. The raisin grape easily returns a careful man as much if he cures the fruit himself. Deciduous fruits pay from $100 to $150 per acre. The citrus fruits will with proper care net twice such sums. The region ouuinea aoove last year snip ped 2200 carloads of oranges each car carried 350 boxes. The crop ship Sea ana tnai consumed at nome was ardly less than 1,000,000 boxes. It is too low an estimate to say it netted the growers on dollar per box. At the moment the vignerousof this eclectic region are selling their taole grapes for $22.50 per ton on the vines. The yield will average at from 5 to 8 tons an acre for full bearing vines. In some cases fourteen tons have been gathered. At five tons to the acre grape-growing is rather fascinating to ine man or moaerate views. 7 At 1 , 1 isorao tnese gooa tnings grow in little corners or exceptional fertihtv There are in this county 775,000 orange trees. It is said apples do not grow here, btrange then that intelligent farmers should have set out over 80, 000 of these trees in the one county of Los Angeles. Pears are also represent ed as doing badly. Yet men who have cultivated the soil for over twenty years have set out cJU.UUU of these, and the orchardists cannot find trees to testify the clamorous demands of these demented fruit growers who do not know their business half so well as the Queen Charlotte's island miners and the young dry goods clerks from San Francisco. The vineyards of this sec tion count by the thousands of acres. One benighted gentleman who has made a million dollars in Los Angeles has one field of 2000 acres of vines. mi ; a ii." j.ne wine crop oi mis one county is far more than half the product of the State. A single county that can turn out five million gallons of grape juice, and can go on adding to this year by year and no limit to the game, is not to be despised. Why, this county ha3 22,000,000 vines growing, and in five years it will have twice as many. But Pomona and Bacchus are not the only deities worshipped here. Ceres smiles as benignly on the soil and brings forth corn, barley and wheat quite to rival . the wine and oil. In the office of Messrs. Wm. T. Cole man & Co., in the Herald building, are samples of barley as bright as day light, and that weigh 50 pounds to the bushel. Any of the grain dealers will show samples of wheat that will kick the beam at thestandard 60 pounds. These grain will thresh out 20 to 25 bushels of wheat, and 20 to 40 bushels of barley to the acre. Corn grows here 8 to ten feet high as an average. It will yield 80 tp 100 bushels per acre. There are many farmers here who reap 20.000 acres of wheat. If to these reflections one extends his scope of vision and takes m San Diego county on one side San Ber nardino is included above and Ven tura, Santa Barbara, Kern and Tulare, there will roll up a wealth of products that will simply eclipse the output of any one of half the states east of the Continental Divide. Tulare county alone calls for 14,000 cars, carrying fifteen tons each to move her wheat crop of the present year. In compari son to such unparalleled wealth the showing ot other regions sinks into beggarly insignificance. All of Oregon together is nothing beside it and Oregon together is a good country for some sorts of farming, or would be if California did not lie south of her. A little further north on Queen -Charlotte's Island,' and the mention of 14, 000 cars of wheat out of one .county, of 5,000,000 gallons of wine in another, and of 200,00 ,000 of oranges in Semi Tropic California would act asa stroke of paralysis 6n ; their : cold-benumbed sonls. ,What would the average Wen ffobt think of a country where the soil wunanrotft$5(X) an acre annually,! . Los Angeles county produced mote barley the current year than any county in the State except one, more wheat than any except three, and more of the two cereals combined than anyone." Her average production of wheat is more than any of them. She is easily first in corn. THE BLACK DISTRICT. Two Colored Candidates Nominat ed at BLinston on Wednesday. (Newbern Journal.) The Republicans of the second Con gressional District assembled at Fish er's Hall, Kinston, yesterday, for the purposed nominating a candidate for the nttieth Congress. It was the most successful conventidn that has assem bled this year, for it nominated two candidates and only three ballots were taken. The committee was called to order by W. W. Watson, chairman of the executive committee. After call ing the meeting to order he requested everybody in the hall to retire, "dele gates and all. They refused to go, and the chairman refused to proceed unless they did go; whereupon Frank Dancy of Edgecombe was called to preside over the meeting and S. N. Hill of New Berne was made tempo rary secretary. The roll of counties was called and nine counties handed in their creden tials. A comittee on credentials was ap pointed and after they had reported, and the convention organized, nomi nations were declared in order. While the committee was preparing their report, speeches were made by B. F. Parrott, E. R. Dudley, W. P. Mab son, Arrington, of Halifax, Busbee, of Greene, Geo. Llovd, of Edgecombe, and Wm. Hill, of Halifax. R. S. Taylor arose to place a candi date in nomination. At this juncture B. F. Parrott, of Lenoir, mounted a bench and begged the convention to "hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear.' ' But the conven tion would not hear and Taylor was permitted to resume the stand and place in nomination Haywood Revis, of Warren, as the candidate of the 2nd district for the fiftieth Congress. His nomination was seconded by Hill, of Halifax. Geo. Lloyd of Edgecombe nominat ed W. P. Mabson. His nomination was seconded by Eston of Vance. B. B. Abbot was placed in nomina tion by some name the reporter failed to get. Nathan Styron ot'Craven nominat ed B. W. Morris. Seconded by Davis of Halifax. A ballot was orderd which resulted in no election, Abbot leading with ten votes. Un the second ballot Abbot was nominated amidst much enthusiasm. He appeared in the convention and accented the nomination. While this convention was doing its work, Chairman Waston and a num ber of others aelegates we suppose were waiting in the other end of the hall and when Dancy's convention had adjourned, Watson proceeded, by having the secretary to read the call of the convention. Upon a call of coun ties all responded but one and only one delegate answered from Warren. A committee on credentials was ap pointed and while they were prepar ing their report speeches were made by L. J Moore, Esq., Rev Mr. Ferebee and F. D. Winston, Esq. The latter gentleman spoke eloquently and with much force. Jle was quite severe on the chairman of the judicial district convention held at Jackson and de clared that no one was legally nomi nated for Solicitor and that Republi cians were at liberty to vote for whom they pleased. Ho denounced mob rule in severe terms and declared that not withstanding his devotion to the Re publican party and its principle, he would vote for the meanest Democrat in the district before he would endorse or encourage the mob. His speech was roundly applauded. The comittee on credentials report ed and their report was adopted. The convention was then permanently or ganized by electing R. L. Parrott chairman and F. D. Winston secre tary. Mr. Winston having left the hall, an assistant secretary was elec ted and nominations were declared in order. James E. O'Hara, I. B. Abbot and L. J. Moore were put in nomination. The first ballot resulted: O'Hara '22, Abbot 2 Moore 1. The nomination was made unanimous, and Mr. O'Hara being loudly called for appeared and accepted the nomination, stating that it was Democrats he intended to fight and not Republicans. Thus two candidates were nominat ed in the same hall, the same day, and by men claiming to be the regular del egates of their constituents. So pay your money and take your choice. LETTER SHEET ENVELOPES We have before us one of the new letter sheet envelopes which are issued by the PostofSce Department and are now being distributed to the post of fices through the country. The sheet is nine inches long by five and a half inches wide. After writing on the in side the sheet is folded and secured in the fpnn of an envelope. The perfora ted mucilaged edges make it secure. On the back is a two cent stamp in green ink with the picture of General Grant in the centre. "The quality of the paper is good and the sheet is large enough for all ordinary letters. They will hardly decrease the sale of postal cards, and their cost is about as great as that of the common letter and en velope, with a two cent" stamp. The new sheets will be convenient to per sons traveling. ,The prices fixed for them are as follows: Single sheets, 3 cents; two sheets, 5 cents; three sheets, fifty sheets, $1.15; 100 sheets, $2.30. It- is thought that some improvement will bxnade in .the-: present "experimental J-Btibiil''; JdVps.Beihgetcv. Ice OreaMFreeietB;:Hte.Hoqntain) . will Be sold chekpat FiTcht!lbii & Exxzl'sT f . KINSTON ITEMS. J Gathered By Our Regular Re porter. Mark Oast, 8 year old son of Chief of Police W. T. Oast, died quite suddenly on Monday, the 23rd inst., of conges tion. He was seized with a fit on the street and lived about an hour. On Tuesday the 24th, our townsman A (Ettinger, lost by death one of his twins, a sweet little babe of 7 months. Its remains were taken to Goldsboro for interment.- Otis Griffin, little son of Chas. Grif fin, while bathing in a slough m the town park the other day, came near losing nis life. Unfortunately he got in deep water and was going down for the last'time, when a colored man who was passing came to his rescue. Drs. Tull and Bryan, were called and suc ceeded in restoring the 'vital spark : "Death rides on every passing breeze, A nd lurks in every flower' This incident should be a warning to parents. Many are very careless. Kinston Collegiate Institute, under the control of Rev. I. L. Chestnut and Prof. E. P. Mangum, will open Mon day, the 30th inst. The school ought to, and no doubt will be a success. 1 venture the assertion that Kinston has more children than any town in the State to the size of it. Mrs. Geo. Webb and Miss Amelia Hardee will soon open private schools for small children, the former at the Webb residence and the latter at M. C. C. Lawson's, foot of Caswell St. Miss Cynthia D. Tull has a position as teacher in the Collegiate Institute. , Miss Capitola Grainger left Wednes day to attend Greensboro Female Col lege. The following gentlemen of the bar are in town attending court: Hon. W. T. Dortch, J. W. Bryan, J. Y. Joyner and W. C. JViunroe, Goldsboro; u. J. Moore and Bryan, of Newbern; T. C. Wooten, Snow Hill; Charles Brown, of Jones county. Dr. G. K. Bagley, of Newbern, formally a Kinstoman, was in town during part of the week shaking the hands of old friends. Dr. A. R. Miller and Louis Einstein are in Northern markets looking after their fall stock. L. Harvey and Capt. J. M. White returned this week from a trip to New York. The many friends of C. F. Harvey are glad to meet him on our streets. He is on a short visit to relatives. His home is now in Raleigh. Superior Court for Lenoir county convened in Kinston,Monday, the 23rd inst., Judge Clark presiding. Court was called promptly at 10 o'clock. His Honor's charge to the Grand Jury was short but pointed, and after laying down a few rules for the guidance of the court,, bar, jurors, witnesses and suitors, the State Docket was taken up and business commenced in earn est. Our Docket is very large; near 200 cases. Judere Clark's renutation had ore ceded him, and we were on our best behaviour. We have a contempt for this promiscuous way newpapers have of puihng everybody who comes aloni but we can say, truthfully we thin that Gov. Scales made no mistake when he appointed him Judge. Capt. W. A. Darden, Greene coun ty's favorite son, was in town during the week. The Democrats of Lenoir would be pleased to cast their ballots for him in November as Senator for this District. Large number of people from the country and adjoining counties in town in attendance on court, and a more sober and orderly crowd was never witnessed in the history of the town. What has become of the Pat ent medicine men 1 The Newbern Journal and Messenger were repre sented. Solicitor O. H. Allen is a capital :of ficer and conducts the prosecutions in a manner entirely satisfactory to all, except the "Bell-Wethers" in crime; perhaps they don't admire him. The following are the cases disposed of duringthe week of most importance, viz: State vs. Job. L. Stroud and Sam'l Howard larceny and receiving, verdict guilty, sentence 5 years for Stroud and one for Howard in State's prison. State vs. J. P. Nunn, A. & B. verdict, not guilty. State vs. W. H. Whitfield, manslaughter verdict, not guilty. State vs. Squire Jones lar ceny, verdict guilty, 2 years in State's prison. State vs. Joe McDonald, mur der, submitted to manslaughter, 10 years in penitentiary. His Honor Judge Clark thought our clerk behaved a little naughty, Mon day, during the charge to the Grand Jury by whispering, so he told him to "enter a fine of twenty-five dollars against himself for contempt." Sheriff Sutton is doing his 'level best' to be a good boy and may succeed, though some of his friends doubt it. The Republican Congressional Con vention for the 2nd Congressional District was held in Kinston, August the 25th. The delegation split and organized in two bodies. Confusion and disorder reigned supreme. The whole affair was extremely disgusting to the white portion. In fact the color line was so tightly drawn by the colored people that most of the white people left the convention. Two candidates were brought out, each claiming to be the regular nominee. J. E. O'Hara and I. B. Abbott are now before the peo ple for. Congressional honors. The whole affair was a ridiculous farce and a disgrace to a free people. Rev. H. C. Bo wen has returned from a visit to Onslow. Miss Katie Anderson, of Weldon, is now visiting her sister, Mrs. S. W. Chad wick or this place. We ask : your attention to the new as sortment of Clothing Samples of Fall and Winter wear, which we have Just received from tb e Order Department of John Wn amaker, Philadelphia 1 ; r -. ' t . tiP'Z J.' .M.E.QjL8T Cp.V Agents. r PRO-RJlNTL Oir pricetiare the BAiLe4o both . ' J f5 Einstein? t Dry 'Good Emporium. OUR EUROPEAN LETTER. Glimpses of Strasbourg by Our orrcsponuent. . We mailed onr lust ltt UC, but we Will Tint rnl-otlio describe our journev before rhtr the frontier. We were assnrp.l tl t we had crossed the li squads of students here and there with their parcels of school books, a thing we had not seen on a trip of more than 400 miles in Franp.A. ornnnt Paris. The next object of interpst that met our gaze was the German soldiers, who surpass anything 'we have seen on our trip in the military line. Thursday night we lodge at Savern, 24 miles, from Strasbourg. We are off early in the morning, and nearing the city we climb a long hill ' which overlooks the beautiful valley of the Rhine. We have hardly reach ed the top when the great cathedral looms up in the distance and to the, right and to the left of the city as far as we could look the valley appears i as level as a quiet lake, the hills upon j either side shooting up like mountains i and fade out in the dim distance. We put on a little more steam and soon reach the heart of the city, being able to ride our wheels the entire distance up hill and down between Dieppe and this place. But we are now in the land of sauerkraut and limburger, and what of it? Well, we observe that many of the people of this section de velop different, physically speaking. than do the citizens of central and western France, and we conclude that the beer so celebrated for 400 years- and manufactured at Strasbourg,, possesses the same inflating qualities as our American beverage we call lager. Please don't get the idea tha; Frenchmen don't imbibe, for they drink most anything else but water. That was made for the lower animals and to sail ships upon. A Frenchman told me in goodEnglish that he had not tasted water for three months, but modined xue statement a little and acknowledged that he had used the fluid a few times for cleaning his teeth. After careful observation we are im pressed with another fact, that .this country, both France and Germany,, though as beautiful as God and man can make it, is terribly hard on wo- men and dogs, the dog having it the easier of the two. Many from the country do their marketing in small carts, and it's a common thing to see a woman and a dog hitched up togeth er going to town with their load of truck. We very seldom see the man of the house on market days, so we conclude he stays' at home to take care of the babies. If there is work to do in the vineyard or garden, the weaker vessel straps her long basket upon her back, takes the dinner and tools to be used, then away she goes to return at night, a distance of per haps several miles, with a burden heavy enough to break a donkey's back. The other part, that some one has seen fit to .call a man, carries a little of the respect and love he had during the honeymoon, and concludes that the wife has load enough and walks. Poor woman, and yet she seems as contented and as happy with her lot as the proprietor of so valuable a piece of property. We have rea sons to be thankful for many things that we enjoy in this world and especi ally are we grateful for the privilege of traveling abroad in a country so mature with age, so beautiful, so full of romantic history, but paramount to all of this are we thankful that not many centuries ago a child was born and named Christopher, and that he lived to be a man and conceived the idea that the world was round and sailed westward upon the unknown deep and discovered a land that we are proud to call America. Ladies, what do you think about it T We are in Strasbourg," the wonderously beau tiful city," as it has been styled of old, and as we observe the old construction of some of the vej-y old buildiDgs, the peculiar but picturesque dress o the Aisatian and Baden peasants that swarm the streets on market days and become more acquainted with the his tory of the city and people, we are much impressed with the truth of the saying, that the great attraction of the city , is the cathedral and clock. Together with the Cologne cathedral, the Minster of Strasbourg ranges as the noblest creation of mediaeval architecture, existing in Germany. It is built oat of the red sand stone of, the Vosges, .which by its durability preserves even to this day the finest sculptures as if they had just left the sculptor's hands. Tradition tells us that upon the ground where the pres ent cathedral stands stood an old heathen temple consecrated to Her cules which was destroyed some time? in the 4th century. The present build ing was completed in 12o5 and though it has been considerably damaged by war,especially by the bombardment of 1970, it has been repaired and to-day is in a fine state of preservation. As far back as the year 1352, may be traced the existence of a celebrated astronomical clock in Strasbourg cathedral. At the begining of the ' lGth century the first clock ceased to work, and a second one wast construct ed, the machinery being destroyed in 1789. For the third time the muni cipality of Strasbourg decided in 183(1. that a new astronomical clock should be placed in the frame work of the old one, and entrusted Mr. Schi vilgree, a watch maker of Strasbourg,with the task. The same completed it within the space of four years. We visit the University and other places of interest and on Friday arranged a journey to Switzerland by rail. We will proba bly take the train to Bern and stop, a few hours from there to Lausanne by-' train, then by boat to Geneva, where we will spend Sabbath, and on Mon day take the cars for Lucerne, where we will spend a day or two,after which we will return to Strasbourg and Te- sumi our ' 'joumey - down the Rhine. Wq will gye an account of our S wits -erland journey in our next.:. . . Real Estate -Mortgages and Deedi for sale at the Messenger offioe i 0
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Aug. 30, 1886, edition 1
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