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THE NEW PBinARY SYSTEM. ?
We judge from some articles in the
-Virginia j papers that occasionally
come under our eye that the primary
election system in that State has been
extended in its operations. At first
confined to the selection of delegates
by ballot it has in some places been
applied to candidates, and thesuffra
cans have voted directly for them.
Thj plan is said to have worked with
very satisfactory results and; to have
been fairly tested at Richmond and
Norfolk. The people of Petersburg
are so much pleased with it that they
will try il this spring, instead of re
lying on the old machinery of' ward
meetings.': It is said by the Peters
burg Post thil the plan has' worked
so -satisfactorily, that nonej
cities that have tried it
of the
would
exchange i it
for any other sys
tem, practice is always better
T,han theory, j Many an objection has
been fairly exploded by a practical
demonstration. When the celebrated
Dr. Lardner was delivering a very
scientific lecture before a London
aadience,in which be gave very many
excellent and ; ingenious reasons why
a steamer would; never be- able to
cross the Atlantic Ocean, the ab
surdity of bis; reason? was fully ex
hibited, and his theory received a
fatal stab: by a steamer actually cross
ing the great ocean at the very hour
he was entertaining his audience. A
satisfactory test is worth forty theo
ries, and! a thing done sets at naught
every objection. j
The Petersburg I'ost, discussing
"The Primary," say 8: .
"Conservative suffragans will go to the
polls between sunrise and sunset and vote
directly for the candidates of their choice
and whom they think will best serve them,
in the various departments of the city
government, instead of worrying through
a restless night to wake up in the morning
and find that ward meetings, composed of
but comparatively few of the solid people,
and whose wires and ropes had been skil
fully Set and worked for the result, have
fastened upon them an objectionable ticket
which they are compelled to support and
vote for, at the hazard of being pronounced
bolters and ostracised from the Conserva
tive ranks.'; The primary system, faithfully
executed,! will remove all of this source of
complaint and jealousy, and give ui a ticket
which, if not entirely satisfactory, is com
pelled to be acquiesced in by all fair minded
and honest men." 1-
The Post is so well pleased with
the good results that have: attended
the experiment elsewhere that for
- six months it has been advocating its
introduction into Petersburg. It
makes this very pointed remark:
"Candidates who' are notwilling to bide the
result of a fair and honorable nomination
without grumbling, are not fit for any office
to which they may aspire, nor deserving of
the tokens of a true friendship."
The Star is so well satisfied of the
! utility and ' fairness of the plan of
electing delegates by ballot, that it
has insisted upon its universal adop
tion. It has thonght, too,' that the
election of delegates who were known
lo represent certain candidates was a
good feature of the planj In other
-words, J)at the people should in
struct their delegates for, whom to
vote. :; ;; V - ' '::
If the new plan of voting directly
for candidates should -be generally
adopted! in Virginia and other States,
v and be found after a long , trial to be
all that jits friends claim for it, then
some town or city in North Carolina
may be disposed to try it.,-, '
The system, as we understand it,
that was generally tested in the Vir
ginia Gubernatorial campaign of last
year, was to vote for delegates who
represented or were committed to a
particular candidate or candidates.
That is
the plan the Stab favors.
r The editor of the " Cincinnati
unnmercidl has got bell-punch on the brain
Cleveland Pant AnA dm tia heA i
clearer than if he was milk-punch-ed in
nomacn. inier-ucean.
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- The Union PaciCa, Hill road is one
of the two great road that have jirst
been defeated itr their piaaby the vote
of Jhe Senate inlfatfof'oTO
ported by tfi
tintionetre
had i been r some JTXiradiog4io
Washington reeenily HU Jtppartf
td be !Ttogethef yirjtewof
th6 open ; talk of l$e4bby istsj am?
ihe past history f 5sr Pacitio
m the bribiHg iyie;4 -J i&iia cw
cernipg the operation ef Xhal roadiar
the way of obtain tog Msufcsidies bavtf
come io light, that ntili-the recent
action 'of tlte " United Isfea Senate
the raore commendable ana raUe$ a.
serious - auspicion. againrt,, nearly all
who voted for ;4ba roads an4 against
the Judiciary billpfM
It appears' from Sa re(ki f raade11 by
the Union tacificrltaiitT tcSl3Ea
jPepartiuifntib ajnnery
extraordinary 'payments were mpde
m 1876 and 1877.. The report has
not been made public as yet, but a
Washington special to the New Or
leans Picayune gives - some of the
figQres. For instance, Wm. E. Chan
dler,the littlefellow from New Hamp
shire, who tried to "sit down" on
Hayes, received $12,000, ostensibly
for fees as a lawyer. Then Shella
barger and Wilson, who were mem
bers of the House Committee that
made the Credit Mobilier report No.
2, exposing the frauds of the two
railroad monopolies, received $10,000.
One Dillon gets $20,0000 reimburse
him for sums paid out for legal ser-
vice saia service unaersiooa w oe
in the lobbying business of 1876 and
1877, and last, bat not least, $6,500
to James F. Wilson, of Iowa, for le
gal services in Illinois and Iowa, paid
on the 21st of March, 1877, being the
time when Mr. . Wilson was a govern
ment director over this very road.
The special concludes:
"These facts will soon come out and are
bound to make a stir. There is no report
of the lobby payments for this session, but
they are supposed to be large. All the
carpet baggers voted today with the rail
road lobby. It was expected." .
GHAUT.
There is a growing conviction that
Grant is the coming man. When the
press of the country Bhall agree that
he will be put in the race again it will
be the surest way of accomplishing
that end. That he can be elected
will depend upon the virtue, intelli
gence and spirit of the people. If
they are forgetful of the past, and are
willing that a bad, corrupt man shall
again fill the Presidential chair, he
may be elected. It is quite apparent
that an active movement in his favor
is already on foot. Every day or two
we see his claims urged strongly by
some newspaper that hitherto has not
advocated his cause, f We do not
know how many papers have thus far
declared for Grant, but they probably
are to be counted by scores.
Mr. A. C. Buell, one of the most
brilliant of Washington journalists,
has written a long article on the po
litical situation, in which he takes a
gloomy view of the future, and
prophecies evil for the country. He
thinks we are to have repeated the
crimes of the past that Grant will
be nominated in 1880, and will be
counted in and inaugurated. Here
is the conclusion of the - whole mat
ter, .according ; to this despondent
journalist:
"And -I have never been able to believe
that a party which it took four years of
desperate war to fix firmly in the seats of
power is going to evacuate on any sucn iri
fie as one day of unfavorable voting. !
look, for Grant to be inaugurated on the
4th of March. 1881. as the price of that
peace, which is just as dear to Democratic
millioaaries as it is to their Republican
confreres. .The alternative ot Grant or
revolution will be presented, and I dp not
believe there is - revolutionary spirit-left in
the country sufficient to prevent the tamest
submission, to the alternative of the red-
faced man who, whatever else may be said
of him, certainly has the virtues of cou
raee. of fidelity to his friends, and of con
fidence in himself. All of which is more
than can be said of any leader, or of any
party, that will be opposed to bim.", .
We do not share ' in these views.
We believe a majority of th9 Ameri
can people love liberty better than
they do party, and prefer peace and
prosperity: to another four or eight
years of crime and violence and wrong.
We believe, farther, that if Grant is
beaten at the polls ) he will not . be
"coanted in. We have, no idea that
a bold, resolute, corrupt man, backed
by scoundrels and conspirators, can
overthrow our form of government
without a.mighty, convulsion. , If a
majority 1 of the (American ; people
select another man at the' polls they
will not be tamely pheated out of it.
We do not believe Grant will be elect
ed, and we do not believe that there
will be d revolatibn. The man whd'
WILMINGKTjQH, .lC.qIIU-n :APBIL 19, 1878.
defeats the'great bundozer'wilt taWe'
hisnsea!': So5 the'f people will ecfeef
TlSC0 penning the above we have
" -a'" ;'t'i 't' -Wi
me, with an editorial in, the, Augusta
Umpniele ibat, precisely reflects our.
f iewsi-iThatTtble paper aay:li
HXhg Mtonounced ' dread . ia that Grant;
will ruaAd whether elected! or:ot, wUb
take his seat: that the same builvior Dro-
cesses.wiirbe adopted by the' Republican
at in ana? mat. in case or aeieat,- iney
will put their mak in power ptrfai et Jiefas?
Npw wear inclined to doubt theconcJu
aion reached by Mr, Buell that V Grahtf if
ueaieo at me pons, win oe rreBiaeni oy an-"
thorlty 4Df the bayonet, and that there iafioC
VreyoiatioQary spirit' enough In the cpmhi
try to thwart such a purpose. In any ven,.
We prefer to encourage" the idea that! the;
man defeated iff 1880 will earelf be inauw
guratei in 1881. And.at the risk lojconflict
mg with such sagacity , as -that fitMt
seatedfbv1 forms';,Wu llrwtradbot -"by
Ger4lrctfni3eh'fiheriqan' war d&nca
Io.hlng could be more .-demoralizing thanj
tpidebauch " public ppinibn .so far as' to
create man of festiriy ' our'of General
Graat, aod accustom the peopl tou regard
their, 5wu bjeRt cowardice,,. )a bis, august
EreseocQ, as a matter of factfWf have a
eUef opinion of t61low;Cou6trymea
than 10 euppostf f bey ca'be dragooned by
Grant and his co-conspirators into slavish
submission to loss of civic freedom. ;
Nevertheless,- it must be conceded that
grave danger exists for the future, both
irom .Democratic mistakes ana itepuoncan
desperatidn. It is ample time yet to avoid
the bad effects of the one and to make the
other keep the peace. If the Democrats
nominate the right ; kind of man on the
right kind of platform they will elect their
President, and he will be inaugurated,
Grant or no Grant."
THE RUSSIAN CIBCITI.AK.
The reply of Prince Gortscbakoff
to the circular of the Marquis of
Salisbury is a very adroit and able
production. It does not, it appears
to us, improve the situation in the
least, although the able New. York
World seem 8 to so Tegard it. It
thinks it discovers a decided weaken
ing on the part of Russia or, as it
expresses it, "by a skilful combina
tion of arguments and artillery Ger
many and England are evidently win
ning over the Russian government
reason." it turtner says:
"Prince Gcrtschakoflt's circular in reoly
to Lord Salisbury is in the nature of what
may be called a 'confession and avoid
ance; and the Marquis of Salisbury may
well smile at Mr. Gladstone's hot-headed
abuse of him as a 'contentious; attorney I if
be secures such a verdict as he now appears
to be in a fair way of commanding for his
country and the peace of Europe." : f j
We cannot find in the text of the
circular any grounds for concluding
that Lord Salisbury has gained a vic
tory because he formulated in a vig
orous note the grievances of England.;
The Russian statesman, in his reply,
is conciliatory and deeply civil. It is
an exceedingly well-bred document. It
is frigidly poltte,and dashed with some
very severe and courtly irony. iBut
there is no backing down no yield
ing of points. All through the doc
ument it is manifest that Russia will
hold on to what she has or will fight.
The treaty will stand, or Russia will
deliver battle. Bulgaria is to be
garrisoned by Russian troops until it
is organized into a Russian depen
dency. Bessarabia is to be reclaimed;
Turkey is to pay the full indemnity
demanded, and Armenian fortresses
are to be surrendered. The Phila
delphia Times says: V
"And for the most part sound arguments
are presented for each of the revolutionary
clauses in the Treaty of San Stefano. In
the case - of Bessarabia, the most active
cause of grievance, it is pointed out that
the whole province may fall back into the
Russian Empire without detriment to Eu
ropean commerce, because now (as was not
the case in the year 1856) the. mouth of the
Danube is in the hands of an international
commission pledged to govern the use of
the river to tlie mutual advantage of
all the Powers. This is a strong point,
well taken, and - is on a par with
the other reasons advancedsave those
relating to Bulgaria for carrying into
effect the Russian scheme. In his
general review' of the situation Prince
Gortschakoff clinches his argument by de
nying the right of England to mtefere at
this late day with the plans for the 'execu
tion f which Russia has cleared the way
at so great a cost to herself of money and
of men; and he . draws attention to the
opening that existed early in the war, or:
before the war began, for England to join
in ' making operative the reforms which
Russia had in view, and so securing the
right to - participate in any advantages
therefrom to be derived. Id short. Prince
Gortschakoff throws the burden of proof
upon his opponents, and. places them in a
position where they must bring evidence to
show not that they are right, but that he ia
wroog." p ' - ;
What England will now do remains
to be seen. f We incline still to the
belief that there will be- no ! war.
Whether England will consider war
with Russia as too serious a matter
to be engaged in without very great
cause, or whether Germany, will arr
range matters so as to prevent a final
appeal to the sword, or how it will be
brought about .we cannot pretend to
sayj bat we still hope that matters
may be adjustedand the curse of
war avoided. - It ia .stated that the
first effects of . Russia's reply in Lon-j
don have been mollifying. JiVe hope
this feeling will deepen.. , ;v , i
Gold fell to one-quarter in New
York. There now v Take a ; cent in
your pocket and four dollars in green
backs and go and buy four dollars in
gold. That silver bill somehow did
not drive all -thai gold out of the
country after all. "
an Ancrf dmc .'i.ataDBO.
as aa evifda orTbfthi Card-'
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t
fiualteearj gislaV
followed J!the! ample of New-
lar. vote. , ITnder . tl . old Js'
etn
wneng1$IaUeted ; ike
JdgesUba'Stat
Jdiciar3WBofJi
rloti JngW front Chariot te iZe
mocrnt, itf wWi!bt apW wf
tWt XifelrVilioflM proa
pMse1 an aiQendrtten t CO'lbe Constitu
tion reitoring,tlielet;otf Judge's'
tbillie'LIgtoreJC Srtght to
be'done. itecerlt deVepraepta' are
quite enough . to make all reflecting,
mea deairja a.change' feturji to, the
vitttioos and pdre .ways j qE iour horlr
oced . forefathersi,!: TheiWttsoofwd&
ft
vanc. in4aaeihe'Iur8
view, and says: , 1 s tt.-,
The discreditable manner in which the
preliminary canvass for candidates for Su
preme Uourt judges has been conducted is
an unanswerable argument in favor of
electing Judges by the Legislature, as was
the custom in this state before the war."
The independency of the Judiciary
is absolutely necessary to insure its
parity. How can men be superior to
the claims of friends and partisans,
when they know their continuance in
offiotf, or their election in the first
place, is absolutely within their con
trol. We have seen Judges in North
Carolina deciding causes, not accord
ing to law or equity, but according
to party requirements and personal
exigencies. We have seen the Jndi
ciary stand appalled and paralyzed
fairly and fully "exhausted" before
the will of one man backed by a tyr
rant and bull-dozer in Washington.
We have seen men on the Supreme
Court and- Superior Court' benches
disgracing their office by debauchery
and drunkenness. We have seen men
clothed with the ermine of authority
deciding as they were paid to decide.
This and other disreputable conduct
has marked the course of Judges
since the "New North Carolina"
came in. Give us back the old North
Carolina of ' our fathers with its pu
rity and decorum its public virtne
and its high sense of honor. "
If men are elected at the polls to
wear the robes of ' jTtstioe-they are
only too liable to be tempted and be
trayed into partisan rulings. When
the strife of politics is hot and un
seemlywhen men are prone to say
and do that which their calmer judg
ment can never approve,raany Judges
are too inclined to evil too peccable
not to be influenced by their sur
ronndings. There are,, of course,
honorable exceptions.' There : are
Judges who would die rather than
assoil their garments. There 'are
Judges, we rejoice to believe, who
would never drink one drop of the
cup of corruption to save their lives.
The ! maintenance of private in
tegrity and public justice is closely
allied to the thorough" independency
of the Judiciary. It is of the greatest
importance to the public that the
man who sits upon the Bench to dis
pense justice should be removed as
far as possible from "the ebbs and
flows of partisan tides," and should
not be placed in a position of the
least embarrassment. Public senti
ment should be pure enough to de
mand unqualifiedly a pure and incor
ruptible Judiciary. The way ; to
secure this beyond all fair question is
to return to the plan so long used in
pur State w hen its Judiciary were
equal to any in the land, and when
English Judges were glad to fortify!
their own convictions by the -opinions!
of our highest Judiciary. Let j us
then have a change.' "Let usgo back;
to the good old paths. Let an amend
ment be made to the Constitution,
that henceforth there may be no such '
scenes repeated as those of the past,
and no such disgusting wrangling and
wire-pulling and defamation of char
acter eh all mark our" history in the
future as distinguish the present; I 1
meeting orcommlttee of IHaBlatratee
. A majority of the Committee - appointed
at the late meeting of. the : Magistrates of
this county, with Justice J. N. ! Maffltt as
Chairman; met at the office of . Dr. W. W.
Harriss, J. P., yesterday; present, Justices
Maffltt, Harriss and Grady. After consult
ing together and agreeing td a report to be
made at the regular meeting of the MagW
trates on the 2nd day of May, ensuing, in
reference to the duties of the Magistrates
with regard to the . election law passed at
the last session of the General Assembly,
the Committee adjourned v'-.
Daring the past5 two or ;three
days there have been a large number of
country people iq the city, mostly turpen--
tine, tar and timber Bellers, and business in
consequence has been quite brisk, especir
ally on tne wnarves.
'Ttk-4 n
YorKanPnnsylVA'. 'iihfegafd to
A. Probable inapoair.
One Capt. W. H. Howard arrived In the
city some lime during the, month of No
vember1 last and reported that his vessel,'
the Bchr. Fannie J.. : Vaughan, bad f been
rmn intfi by the achr. Ira i).' Sturget some-
whereoffj .he coast, and.sunk in five min
utes, himself and . crew bavins narrowly
escaped !with 5 their lives.' He stopped at
tii'eBeamea Homeir aiid ! represented that
his resldeAce' was in Georgetown, 8. C.,and
Capk.GilberV of the Home, succeeded in
getting; him free ; transportation to; that
place' on the railroad. Nothing more was
seen or beard of the man until about twelve
days ago, whea he reappeared in this city
and Bald .that he' nad secured another yes
seli' the scbr.' -Wk&t Rock, 'then lying at
some, point in South Carolina, and that he
was trying to raiw , money enough to buy
rigging c.,1 it being his intention to fit her
out .here:;' Capt Gilbert and several: other
gentlemen contributed what they could
spare to assist htm, and soon afterwards be
again disappeared. '. He1 next turned up at
Beaufort, y in this. State, where, - at ' last
accounts ecorcliog - Tto4resJoifc
dent't'of ! one f!ot the .RaleigV'i papers
be was representing lo the good people o
that' towUhat bis schooner, the Fannie Jt
Vaughan, had ' been! sunk on the ; 26th tf
March, off Tybee, by a collision with ' the
steamer Dictator, and that bis vessel and
cargo'of old j iron, wreck stuff, &c , had
proved a total loss; that he was bound at
the time from Fernandina to New York,
and that he was then trying to raise suffi
cient money to take him to his home in
Elizabeth CUy. From the many ; contra
dictory stories told by the alleged Captain
Howard there seems to be no doubt that he
is an imposter, especially when, upon ex
amination of the maritime registers, no
such schooner as the Fannie J. Vaughan
can be discovered, j
Bain Hall.
This city and vicinity was visited
by a
delightful shower yesterday afternoon, ac
companied by thunder and lightning We
learn from, passengers on the W. & ' W.
Railroad, last evening, that the storm was
quite a severe one further up the road, and
that through Duplin and a portion of Pen
der it was accompanied by a heavy fall of
hail, the ground being almost literally co
vered with it in some places. At Kenans
ville it was reported that a horse was
knocked down.by the force and severity of
the hail storm. j .1
We learn from Captain Everett, of the
Carolina Central Railway, that the hail
storm between Lumberton acd Moss' Neck
was terrific, the stones in some instances
being as large as goose eggs. ' He also
slates that for a distance of three miles be
tween Moss Neck and Lumberton the
ground was 'literally covered with hominy
snow.
The hail slot nt is also reported to have
been very severe in the neighborhood of
Flemington.
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The Telephone simplified
Having heard it intimated that the tele
phone at Fremont, which was claimed to
have been in operation before the one in
Wilmington, was not constructed exactly
according to Hoyle," we inserted a! query
in the Stab a few days since, to which a
correspondent, "Fremont," responds as fol
lowsr vWejanswer your query asito the
telephone a Fremont, by saying! that we
simply use .from two to three strands of
shoe-thread, waxed and twisted, with each
end attached to a small drum covered with
sheep-skin tightly drawn. We run the
thread through hangers made of strings, as
insulators, attached to posts or sides of
houses along which the line is stretched;
and, while we boast aot of Edisoa'd Corben
telephone, still we can easily hear the
gentlest sound or words spoken a distance
of two hundred yards or more, and can also
hear conversation several feet from the
drum not intended to be transmitted. We
call' 8imolv bv eivioe one or more strokes
upon the string, which readily attracts the
attention of the party at the opposite end,
by producing a.long vibration. A number
of strings fastened to the main line and
running into stores and dwellings, with
small drums attached, does hot impair the
sound. A half dozen persons or more can
readily converse upon different subjects and
are plainly understood, or, in short, can
carry on a running, mixed conversation
very distinctly.
A Vleer Apeatolle to be Appointed.
We see it stated that Rev, Father Keane,
who has recentlv been anoointed BishoD of
Richmond, 'was not appointed Vicar Apos
tolic of North Carolina as well. Hitherto
the two offices have been one, and
GibbonB, up to the time of his acceptance
of the Archbishopric of Baltimore, admin
istered both. They have; however, been
disconnected, and the. Vicar Apostolic of
this Diocese is yet to be appointed, Unless,
indeed, 'Father Jaussens, of Richmond,
who was appointed to succeed Bishop Gib
bons temporarily, shall hold over I in the
charge of this Diocese. -BonM'AaeBKrrr'":
i Mr 4 Thomas H. Stovall has received the
appointment of Route Agent on the Caro
lina Central Railway, between this city ana
Charlotte, in place of Mr, W. R. j Porter,
transferred to another route Mr. Stdvall
went to Washington and secured the ap-
Dointment through the influence of Hon,
A. M. Waddell and others. He will no
doubt make a good route agent.
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WllnInKton Colombia Aacnata
Railroad, v; '
We understand that under the foreclo
sure proceedings- connected -with the Wil
mington Columbia & Augusta Railroad ,
in the United States Circuit Court,Hon. R.
R. Brigers, President of said road, ! has
been annointed receiver dv juaee uona
and we also' learn that Hon. D. L. Russel
has been appointed Auditor of this road by
the ams.omcial.
jt,f J
NO:.25.:
A Narrow Escape. , , ,. .
Capt. Kennedy, of the schooner Cala-
loamteak. which i- arrived here yesterday
morning from Rockport, Maine,' with ' a
cargo of lime for Messrs.' Worth & Worth,'
reports' that when off .Fry tag r Pan Sboats
Light Ship, on the 6th inst, the vessel en-?
countered a gale of wind which threw her
on her beams-end, and while, in " that posif
lion ' the 'water cbmmunicared-i'with j the
Ime in the hpldrausing it to. take flrej As
soon as possible after the vessel righted ail
the openings .to the s vessel were: tightly
sealed so as to exclude the; air, alt . band?
remaining on deck during the remainder of
the time until the Vessel ' reached ; port, a
barrel of flour being the only '; article ,pf J
provisions secured upon which to subsist
in the. meantime. ! ; The vessel paw; Jies' an
chored in the stream', by directions, ef j, lhe
Harbor Master, wnere sue will remain until
to-morrow, when the batches will loe
Opened and: her condition examined Into.
Capt. Kennedy ia confident jthakuthe-nre,
has been effectually smothered. . .' b ..
Admitted to Bail. , L... fcn'-.U
- -. i
Mr. John Quincy Ad.'ms, of. Robeson
couniy, arrivea nere yebi vtay v era com
mitment' from U.'S.' Commfssiooerullariij
of that coanlV,' ch'aried wili Violating iHe
internal revenue laws. ' He' Vast atoiHted
to bail by TJ.' S. CommisBioaifcr McQtiiggi
of this city, in the sum of $500, for his ap
pearance at the approaching . term of the
U. 8. District Court, which will convene in
this place on the 29th inst. j
- Hurled to Instant Deatb.
rSpecial Dispatch to Washington PosLT
, Sybacuse, N. Y., April' 10.
A' horrible accident; occurred at
East Syracuse this morning, resulting
in the death of a lady named Murphy,
aged forty-live, of Ulyde, JN. Y., and
her niece, Miss Nellie Brossel, aged
eighteen, of Saline, N. Y. The De
Witt special tram was late in arriving
at East Syracuse and a flying shift
was made from track .No.! 1. to track
No. 3. The unfortunate ladies got
off the train and, started across the
passenger track No. 2. Jast at this
time the second mail train from the
East with double header came along
at a frightful speed. I he engineer
blew his whistle and Miss Brossel
suddenly became aware of her dan
ger. A quick movement on- her part
would have saved her- life, but her
aunt was ahead of her, between the
rails, and the brave girl, j forgetting
herself, rushed to her aunt's rescue
and seizing her by the arm endeavored
to pull her from the track.: Ihe en
gine struck them both, hurling them
into the air a distance of nearly one
hundred feet, and they both fell a
mangled mass of flesh and bones,
Christian Cnarltles.
Rev. Dr. Deems, in Frank Leslie's Sunday
Magazine tor May.
Nothing can be done without
money. The use of money lies in its
being a representation of real values.
Christianity does not need money for
any other purpose, than to purchase
what is absolutely necessary bread,
clothing, shelter, training places and
working places for her workers. But,
as she must have all these, and these
cannot be obtained without money,
sne must nave money, it requires
very much skill and great Christian
prudence to obtain the requisite
funds without really doing more dam
age than the funds can enable the
Church to do good. f
One of the most melancholy as
pects of the modern Christian Church
is seen from the financial-side. Chris
tians profess i that all they have be
longs to the jLord: that "it is more
blessed to give than to receive;" that
they are to be "ready to distribute,
willing to communicate," and yet'ap-i
peals made to them are addressed to
some weak spot in their characters,
rather than to the consciences. A
man's pride or . vanity, . br personal
ambition, or sectarian or local parti
sanship, must be appealed to. Men
must be collected in masses, and ha
rangued and tickled, and otherwise
manipulated, to extract from them a
portion of that which they -should
have voluntarily given. Tne " speak
ers on such vooca8ions are selected
particularly with reference to their
ability to so agitate the audience as
to sucte the money out. ;
TbelSontn and the European Sltna
, j..'" tion.
Baltimore Sun ;
- Southern members view with much
anxiety the threatening situation in
ILurope, beoause, as they say, it
would be much against the interests
of. their section, if war ' should ensue
between England and Russia. - In
case of war the European market for
the great staple of the boutb, cotton,
would to a large' extent' be shut off,
while the demand for breadstuff s, of
which: the ' South' is also a :- buyer,
would be vastly increased. On the
other hand, the Western people are
rather hopeful of war, as tending to
open a profitable outlet for their sur
plus products ;.
. - Slttlna Bull as a Literary Cose.'
i R. D. Clarke, TJ. Smarmy, sends to
the President copies of a number of
the writings of Sitting . Bull, includ
ing intercepted letters and some- of
his poema, They show that the war-'
rior is not the untutored savage he is
generally supposed : to ,be. One of
his letters to Father Frene, the Cath
olio missionary, is in French, and an
other to (Jhief Joseph is lnXatin-
lranslalions j of . both are lurnished
The letter to Joseph is from the
"Camp Beyond the Boundary Line,"
or m Latin, ruastris Imns Termv
nos." -'--,
. It costs . $50,000 per; annum to
Keep a British Iron-clad in repair. -
sixteen convictions up to dale in the Fed-
erat Court, and. three acquittals. Thirty
tew bills of indictment have been found.
The suit of the Bank of - Mecklenburg vs,
heirs of Thos " Tate has been compro
mised.? ' It is.; said ? by some persons
that Judge Tourgee did not write that let
ter for which Judge Fowle attacked him in
Raleigh. ) ' ' - -
" Sajisbury Watchman: Hon: W.
N. H. Smith stands in the front rauk in
this section for Chief Justice. - Give
us Judges with State reputation. It is a
safe rule,' and will rebuild the solid charac
ter or our Judiciary.s. Few are aware
of .the -extend pfthe-oil business 'in this
county. .jFour firms in Salisbury shipped
during tue year 1877, 32,202 pounds of sas
safras, and 1.350 Dounds of oennvrovaloil.
Averaging the sassafras at 35 cents per.
pound, we have tlLS70.70: the Dennvroral
at 85 cents, we have ' f 1,147.59 making a
total of f 12,418 20. . , , :
r- Sajem iVew: Oa April Vtbhir-
teen persona; oioe bv confirmation anil fuur
by baptisnd: were received into full commu
nicant membership of the Moravian r cunr
gregatipo at Friedburg." - , There arc
twenty Metbodistcburcfaes in Forsyth coun
ty.i -8.LTJujckev:7enort hia neaeh
trees yet aafe from trostr with tbe excep- ,
tion of tbose .in the. ! low land - Oh
Thursday evening of last r week, - after re
cess,' Eagle Hill school house, ia Davidson
county, was borate with ; alt the contents,
books, furniture, slates, &aL It was a
pleasant day and the several, places of wor
ship (seven in number) were Well filled J oo
Sunday, -sno ; 'r-'.i .lv-..-,
t -Tarb oro Southerner: The followi
ing tobacco blockadersr were arrested and
iakcq yeiore- a u. -.D TKmjs.w,r-M
Greenville, JC C. : DMJtoberfBi-of Gran-
tue . county, in .Tarbpeo Jail jn .default
t banl'BL- A' Bullock bt GranvHIe.irave
baiU--4sCox";or Alabama.' gave bair. This
loekade bu8ine8r:ia' a ".fraud, on honest
dealexstipoT e are glad tonote the efficien
cy of M'Zoeller and' his determination to
break It up. v; - On Tuesday last Jack
Bryan, a fisherman at Washington, caught 1
a sturgeon that weighed 250 pounds' and
irom wnicD iuu pounds or roe were, taken.
In February, 8 white and 18 colored
couples were married; in March,- 5 white
and 14 colored couples. : "
Goldsboro Messenger : The De
mocratic press of Eastern North Carolina,
mat is, east of . Kaieign,- is unanimous for
Chief Justice Smith, with the exception of
the Weldon Nem, and perhaps one other
paper. .In addition to papers already men
tioned by us. the Beaufort Atlantic. : the
Fayetteville Gazette and the Louisburg
limes bave declared for the present worthy
Chief Justice j The Directors of the
colored Insane Asylum met here yesterday.
Col. E. R. Liles, having resigned, was not
present. We understand that Col. H. B.
Snort has been appointed in his stead.
We are glad to be able to state that so far
the. prospects for an abundance of fruit
and , vegetables this season are highly .en-
couraging in this section. .. . .
Raleigh News: Our newsboy on
the N. C. R. R. reports that on vesterdav
afternoon,, as the ; western . bound train
passed Clayton," Johnston county, a very
severe hail storm broke over the town, do-
i j 1 1 . . . .
ing cunsiueraoio. uamage'in me way ol
breaking windows, &c. ' Persons who were
so unlucky as to be out of doors at the
time of the storm, were compelled to seek
immediate shelter to keep from being in
jured by the stones, which were very large. -
A man named r lannagan was run
over and killed by -the construction train at
Monroe . this morning. : Since . receiving
this intelligence we learn that after the ac
cident Mr. Flannaean said that he was
from Raleigh, and that his occupation was
that of a school teacher. He died in thirtv
minutes after the accident.
Milton - Chronicle: The public
schools in this School District have not
oeen wortu a cent in tne last tea years.
They are a disgrace to the State and the
county; Nor do we believe that $200 have
been paid for the public instruction of
nunc wuuicu iu kuia luvu BUU TIUlDliy 111
three years. Ruffln in the interior,
Howard in the east, and Schenck in the
west, are our choice for the Supreme Court.
- It is even sol we are still wearing our
old clothes and keeping the same company
we Kepi oeiore we were recommended for
a seat in the Legislature. Don't think we
shall cut the acquaintance of any one.
On Tuesday evening the Court took a
short recess to give the people an opportu-
- i i ji -i . .
nuy io noia a rauroaa meeting, in wnicn
we are glad to see our Person . friends are
taking interest in earnest They mean busi
ness, and that'sMbe music we want them to
dance to.. J : . .
.Winston 'Sentinel: Gen.J John
T. Wilder, of Chattanooga, Tenn., reports
that Gen. A. Pardee and his associates
have resolved to build a narrow gauge
railroad from Johnson City, Tens., to the
Cranberry Iron Works, in Mitchell county,
N. C, a distance of thirty miles, touching
the great magnetic iron ore region.
We learn from some of our best farmers
that they will not put in as much tobacco
as usual this season,! but will try to make
what they raise better, and make up in
quantity. - There will be a considera
ble falling off in the use of fertilizers
through this section this season. Dealers
estimate' that there will be from thirty
three to fifty per cent, decrease in their
sales. : Some of our citizens who think that
the town might as well derive a revenue of
$1,000 or $1,500 from licensed bar rooms,
as to have liquor sold without- license,
are talking of getting up a " wet' ticket,"
We regret to learn than F. ' W. Reese,
Esq.; near Booneville, Yadkin county, lost
his dwelling house and most of his house
hold goods by fire on Tuesday night of last
week.- The fire is supposed to have caught
from the kitchen stove. Loss about $2,000.
Wi W. Farrow, a printer from -Abbeville,
S. C., died in this place on Friday of
last week, of consumption. He was buried
on last Sunday with Masonic honors.
Deputy Sheriff Wm. A. Morris, a resident
of Middle Fork township, died on Sunday
morning of cancer, aged about fifty-three
years. ', .... -, ,,-r .
: Raleigh News : Mr. B. W.
Starke, Manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Company in this city, has re
ceived a telephone. , The law class of
Judge Strong now - numbers twenty-three.
Sheriff J, 0. Gnffitb, of Caswell coun
ty, brought down three prisoner, all con
victed of larceny; Ned Love, ten years;
Dowd Farmer and Joseph Whitefield, two
roariAQph U. Wm T?no nf t Vi o AT
C. ''Fish 'Commission,' arrived from - the
Hatchery af Avoca yesterday, with 100,000
shad, which he placed in the Neuse at Mc
Pheeter's Oil Mills, about ten miles from
this city. Hon. A. S. Mcrrimon, his
wife and daughter, returned from Wash
iqgton City yesterday evening. Lieu
tenant Governor Jarvis is at the bedside
ef his dying father, ia Currituck county.
Twenty five thousand dollars worth of
'fish bave been shipped this season from
Washington," N. C, over the new James
ville and, Washington B. Li. - It seems
to be now the prevailing opinion that Jno.
B. Grctter, of Greensboro, is the author of
the VC" letters, particularly of the last one.
Governor Vance made requisition on
the Governor of Virginia for two fugitives
from justice.- .vr-H Major J. M; Blair, fer
merly ol the Yarborough House, is now
clerk of the Bowden House at Salisbury,
CoL-, C. S. Brown,, proprietor.
The authorities of the Slate peniten
tiary will discharge to-day John Williams,
white, convicted: of -larceny in Forsyth
county, and sentenced May 14th, 1877. He
is 19 years old, 5 feet 8 inches 1 high, has
blue eyes and light hair, - and weighed,
when admitted, 160 pounds.