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I ! If C. N. B. EVANS Editor & Proprietor. MIL.TON, JV. C. THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 1878 I ETh9 new jail for Danville, has been completed, at a cost of over ten J thousand dollars. h J- - trT Two hundred acres t land Will be planted in tobacco this season, within a radius of fourteen miles of Goldsbero. J&The U. S. Senate ofill proba bly vote to-day on the long talked of Tobacco tax bill. The country will no doubt breathe easier. J5The first official act of Gover- ' nor Jarvis was to sign the bill rotat ing the Judges, and Act II. was re- 1 tatiDg Governor Vance into the U. S. Senate. JSThe 'I'imes says the Reidsville j? postoffica was opened and robbed of pi $60 in small-change, but the rogues left $150 in money and several sheets ll of stamps in another drawer. l tlulian S. Carr, Esq., of Black- I' well & Co., was elected Vice-Presi- Lrdent of the National Tobacco Assoei I iation on Fridav last. Mr. Helme is President and one of the Lorrilards i p. Treasurer. ov. Tilden has been examin ed about the cipher dispatches in re- I gard to the Presidential steal, and comes out with clean skirts. Now call Rutherford B. Hayes'tethe stand. and make him kiss the calf skin. . Jj fiThe tobacco factory in Dan- J ville on Patton street belonging to a firm in New York and occupied by ! Mr. J. B. Pace, of Richmond, and "ll managed by Messrs. Craddock and 5 Aw j Brantord, was burnt down Monday ' ? night last. About thirty hogsheads of tobacco was saved. UThe proposition to restore the whipping post has been defeated in the Legislature. The main -argu jtaent against it was its barbarity, and the fact that it would deprive the ' State ef so great a portion of convict -labor now needed on the works of in- fternal improvements. BSFThe Jews have scored another vietory in the politics of the country. Hon. B.'F. Jonas, who was recently , .elected United States Senator from 1 Louisiana, to succeed Hon.J. B. Eus- h tis, is a Jew. He enligted as a priv I ate in the Confederate army and ser- , fved throughout the war. f U&"As there seems lo be a lull ( with some oft be Stato papers in puf fing men into gieatness, we rise to say, that Gov. Jarvis, who succeeds Gov.V ance in the Gubernatorial chair. lis just eighteen inches taller as Gov- hj ernor than ho was as Lieutenant Gov- 'i ernor according to the papers. i " " JJhe night blindness of the three children of Mr. James Howard, in the Tarboro Southerner by a Lou U isville physician. The disease is, he i says, said to come from the marriage of blood relatives. 1 have found it to be so in only a few cases. It would be mttfresting te know whether Mr. Jj'Hvand wife were related er not. If Mr. Howard was not related to his wife before marriage, probably there vas some inter-marrying some years back.. Nothing can be done to stop the disease. That Air-Line Hail EXoad which teems to be engrossing the at tention of the people of Raleigh and Charlotte, just at this time, looks to us, from this standpoint of View, as a proposition to cripple; the N. C? Cen tral road, and cut the throats of our own sea-ports, by dividing the State between Virginia and .South Car olina. The wisdom of tbii meas ure may be well questioned. Is it wie to build a Railroad at great cost, and then construct another to cut its throat? We say nothing as to the justice or injustice ot leasing the road (already built) out for a term ol years, for a pretty fair consideration and then building another in (what seems to be) opposition. But is net this "new movement" calculated to deal N. Carolina sea-ports a death blow, by dividing the State between Vir ginia and South Carolina ? Verily, ft looks soyto a man rithftwo eyes-in his head. ' It certainty will not tend to build up Wilmington or Beau fort, but on the contrary must result in pulling them down. Are North Carolinians prepared to do this thing? We trust not. Too Much LAND.-This is the great drawback of the majority of the Southern farmers. The land may be good; it may hare been purchased for less than its estimated value, still there is such a thing as having too much of it; especially if it is not ful ly paid for. To shoulder a burdea of debt for a piece ot non productive property is not a wise thing to do in any vocation. Taxes must be paid, year after year, and capital is locked up which might be more properly employed. A farmer needs no more land than be can thoroughly cultivate or past ure. Add to this a moderate quanti ty of woodland. All excess should be disposed of, to actual settlers it possible, and proceeds used for im Drovine: what remains. Better have too little than-too much. Ex. The Stock JLiw. We do not see that this question has come up before the Legislature; if it has it does not seem to be ma king a noise. A wise body will the Legislature prove itself to talk fence law in a whisper, unless it leaves the adoption or rejection of a stock law to the people and it will be wiser still to defer the whole matter until after the great contest in 1880. We need not say why. Now a law to tax dogs, to educate the children of the State, is a very different thing, for such a law will dispense its blessings alike to poor and rich, and besides the money is needed, for according to present showing there is but one dol lar for every child in the State for ed ucational purposes this year. Think J. 4. my fit ! One dollar a year, to educate a child. Xlie Legislature. This body has not done much as yet, of any interest to the people. It has much business chalked out, most of it, however, is of a private or local character. The report that Gov. Hampton.was growing worse and that his leg would have to be re .amputated, is, we are glad to learn, unfounded he is rid ing about and doing well. Indian Eloquence. Here is the last wail from Sitting Bull, the old hatchet-wieldcr who led the U. S. troops such a lively dance a short while ago out on the frontier. He is as eloquent as he was "strong and brave."' "Once I was strong and brave and my people had hearts of iron, but now I am a coward and will fight no more forever. My people are cold and hungry, my women are sick and my children are ; freezing. I will do as the Great Father wishes. I will give my guns and my ponies into his hands. My arrows are broken and my war paint throwh to the winds. " Governor Jarvis. Gov. Vance having resigned to ac cept the position : of U. States Sena tor, Lieutenant-Governor Jarvis be comes Governor. Tho new Governor entered upon the discharge of his du ties Wednesday Feb. 5th. l nomas J. Jarvis, for many years, has played no roean part in North Carolina politic?. He is a native of Hyde countv, bet is now a resident of Pitt. He is :now about fortv-six years of age. lie was a captain in the Firt Regimejnt of North Carolina troops, in the States war. His right arm was disabled by a wound. Captain Jarvis was a member ot the Constitutional Convention ot 18 68, and fought for the liberties of his people which were then and there ruthlessly overthrown. He was a leading iriembe ef a better Conven tion in 1875. Between hese dates he served in th Legislature, and was chosen Speaker; of the House, which position he adorned. In 1876 he was nominated Vbyi he Cemocralic State ConvenHonffoLietitenant Governor, and was triamphantly elected with the rest of the ticket. Gov. Jarvis is a true man, an un swerving Democrat, a political man ager ot more than ability. We feel quite sure that we will have a worthy successor of Z. B. Vance in the chair of Gubernatorial. Singular Fact. Charlotte Observer. It is a fact which perhaps has oc curred to but few of our people, that no Governor of North Carolina for fifteen years past has served out a full term. Gov. Vance is the last one who dtd eo. He was elected Gover nor in 1862, and filled out his term, ending in 1864. He was then re-elected, but the end of the war came be fore the two years for which he was elected expired. The first Governor elected by the people after the war was Jonathan Worth. He was hust led, under protest, out of the execu tive office to make place for W. W. Holden. Holden was elected, after the "reconstruction" of the State had been effected, but was impeached and deposed, being succeeded by Lieute nant Governor Caldwell. Mr. Cald well was then, in 1872, elected by the people.' He 'd1e& In the midst of a tour-year term, and was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Crogden. The next man elected Governor by the people was Z. B. Vance, wiio has just resigned after two years' service, and whose name is to be put again on th list of those who began a work and did not finish it. Woodlioiisc and Turner They Sleet. Concord Register. We saw bim, was introduced to him, talked with him, and beheld the grandest wreck of human greatness that we have ever witnessed, in the de cades that have elapsed, since we came to the years of observation. We thought ct the bright days of the Sentinel. We thought of the bright days of Joe Turners unflinching De mocracy. We thought ot his fall. We breathed a sigh as we saw the tremen dousness of the moral, social and po litical wreck, that we beheld, with mournful sadness, as we looked upon the enpe exalted, but now defunct, Josiah Turner. A N. C. Invention. Alexander Oliver i a rather obscure shoe-mak er in Union county, but has recently invented a msihod-of making seam less shoes which is likely to give him a national notoriety. A shoe con structed on this method was exhibi ted in Charlotte last week. The in ventor claims that in addition to the comfort in a shoe without seams, the manner in whieh it is cut saves one cpiarter in the upper leather a very important fact, if true. The shoe ex hibited is well shaprd and seems to have a decided advantage over those made on the Id style, whether a coarse brogan or a French calf-skin gai ter. 0 bser ver. The losses by fire in the United States and Canada during 1878, ac cording to the Insurance Chronicle, aggregate 70,266,400, not counting a multitude of small fires of which n o returns have been made. Of this loss $39,678,600 fell on insurance compa nies, the remainder on the owners ot the property. In all there were 12,023 fires, or one for every forty-three min utes of time, and the daily destruc tion was 102,511. STATE NKtvg. A New Jersey man has come to Wofdon for the purpose of erectine: a stove factory- ; Several wagon lriads of apples, from across the mountains, were in Salem Saturday, being offered at $1 and $L 25 a bushel. A number of our Sampson county friends contemplate experimenting in tobacco growing this season. Golds bero Messenger. John G. Williams, President of the State National Bank, Raleigh, is dead, in the 52d year of hit ago. He was a useful, 8anaiable and worthy cit izen. Up and down the Yadkin River wild geese fly in flocks by the score. More art said to be on the wing a iong this water course no w,than have been known for years. i The Secretary of State's total pay for 1877 was $4,059 70; in 1878, $3 -902 00. Georgia and Tennessee bbth1 much richer tlfan Norfth Cartali na pay their Governors $3,000. Two dogs left their yard and tried to eat up a little negro girl in Wil mington on Thursday, and yet the Legislature will not tax these creat ures out of existence. The citizens of Pender county re cently held a public meeting and passed resolutions1 addressed to the Legislature advising adherence to the present public road system, demand ing a dog law, and favoring a comp romise of the public debt. Chatham county petitions vigor ously against the bill to give addi tional jurisdiction to magistrates. Some of the petitioners are ajpd have been for years active justiee$ of the peace. The reasons given are plain ly hut very strongly stated. : The Newton Enterprise ventures thoi assertion that the farmers of Ca tawba, buy and put into use, more agricultural implements.suchajs drills, reapers, mowers. &c, than th farm ers of any other two counties in North Carolina, which goes to show that they are thrifty and intelligent. A meeting of the taxpayers of the town of Fayetteville was held at the Town Hall, in said town, on Tuesday evening last', td devise some feasible plan by which the overburdened tax payers shall obtain relief. No defi nite aetion was taken, save the ap pointment of a committee of twenty, to whom the matter was referred. Mr. David White, onep mile and a half from High Point, raised oyer one thousand one hundred bushels of corn on twenty acres of land, averages near thirty bushels of wheat to the acre, and has 4s fine Alderney cows, Southdown sheep and general stock, as can be shown anywhere. Twelve years ago hit farm was a barren,worn out old field. So much for well di rected labor. When Gen. Leach had walked with the new Governor into his office and had fully installed him in his apart meuts, he shook his hand cordially and said: "Now, Jarvis. I've done all I coild for you. Be comfortable and you i will soon get used to it . God bless you and make me your success or. Good-bye.'' And before the Gov ernor could reply he was gone. Ral eigh Observer. We hope the Legislature will elect honest and exemplary men as Magis trates. No man of bad or doubtful character should be set before the ri sing generatioa to poison the moral atmosphere of the whole township or county for years to come Select men who are honest and fair in all busi ness matters, and moral in their lives. The influence of rules is tremendous, and may be traced everywhere for good or evil for generations after they are dead and forgotten. Salisbury Watchman. But Raleigh is a dreadful place, and it takes so much money to live there you know. A man in office will starve if he does not get from $3,000 to $10,000 a year. One f the officers is said to be worth $8,000. We have known Raleigh editors to work all day and half the night the year round on a salary of $1,000 or $15,000, and ethers at less. They had families, and they were well borh, well reared and well educated. They ongbt to tell how they worked so hard on so little. They did more work in a week than the officials in the capitol do in a month possibly some of them in a year. Wilmington Star. Ged Advice to Tonne Men. Franklin (Kj.) Patriot. . Young men, be buBy. Don't throw away the precious moments of vigo rous -youth. Don't loiter about the streets in idleness. Dont be out at night ; for if you are vice will over take you. The first little step in the path of error is the biggest longest and most fatal step ot all of them. Stay at home with your parent and books. Look for something to do ; there is plenty of it everywhere if you will but take bold. - - It is vour duty to be industrious and energetic Life wa not given i you for idle pleasure ; it was given you that you mightamprovel your self, glorify God, bless your fellow- men with good examples as well as good deeds. Remember that the er rors of to-day can never be coirected. t The little fountain that gushes out of the mountain Up and hurries on to the great ocean cannot go back to its source and retrace it steps. Like that little fountain vou are lekninsr down A K wf 7 -f . . the hill ot time to the great, ocean of a alt erermty. ah along tae way ot lire there stands a sentinel on either side, above and below, who records your everv thought, word and deed. That these reports may be good, make haste to improve every moment of life ; make haste to ,bejust, honest, truthful and honorable in all things. This is the most important moment of them all, because it will be lost if not used bow. , Messrs. Jesse - Adams & Co., (Mr. Adams otT Amherst) have contracted for the building andjequipment ef the narrow-gauge-railway from Ward's Spring, on the Midland railroad, in Pittsylvania county t5 Rocky Mount, the capital of Frank fin county. The work is to be done by the 1st of De cemoer next. Kichmond Dispjltch. The hay crop qf the United States is the most valuable of all our crops, amounting to close "on IOOjOOOQOO, and yet the cured hay is a small por tion of the crop, which, take it ail in all, is the most valuable single crop of the world. 'When do you intend to go back Mike ?' said one exile of -Erin to an other, "If I live till I die, ; and God knows as I will or not," li intend to visit onld Ireland once more before I leave this country," In spite of the present distress, in England, it is said that, in the mat ter of wages, the agricultural laborer is better off than he ever ! was before, if prices are taken into the account. Between 3,000 and .4,000 freight cars are blockaded by the storm be tween Syracuse and Buffalo. ; NEW AD VERT IS EMENTS. Beautiful Flowers, CHOICE SEEDS, &c, BY MAIL. Fr $1.00 we mail post paid, either of following Collectioas, all choice varieties: 20 Verbenas or 8 Heliotropes, 1 8 Geraniums, or 9 Eachaiaa, 8 Coleus or 6 Bests, 4 Ivies, or 8 Chrysanthemums, or 10 assorted Green .House Plants. 8 Gl&diolas, er 8 Doable Tnbe Bose or24-5o or 12-10c pkU Garden Seeds, or 24 packets ehoice Flower Seeds. JBgfrCircfu&r with additional collections mailed to applicants. EDW'D J. EVANS & CO. Yobk, Pa. JC6yIxcal Agents wanted. NOTICE. LETTERS TESTAUENTARY upon the Eatate of the late Dr. N. M. Roan, having been granted to the undersigned, notice is hereby given to all persona in debted to said estate to make payment and these having claims against said estate to present them for payment to the under signed on or before the first day of Feb., 1880, or this notice will bo plead in bar of recovery. M. B. ROAN, Executrix. Yanceyville, Jan. 28, 1880. 6w. ST. JAMES HOTLL PLEASANTLY j LOCATED i Tht Southern, Comer tf Capitol Squar RICHMOND, VA. 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