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a(tooa n t of '-e Vn atler so
acoafeggS readily. " From wtiaji ' we 'nciw- of
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ei5esS522SSSS88 1 1 say ibe whole storj i a fubrication, and
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P,88.8JgjSSS8.; .vouched for k fiction. 'Ifeem due to the1 hgreas by the-f DeraocrationVention
( a-'ii memory -or tnese '8
interTiewine Andy in his rooms at the Max; lmrj a A ju,J
weH House, Nashville, shortly arter he bad; Mr. L. p Lyons, who was at the time
been elected Senator asked tbe Defepderi filling tbe ' position ofmaster michinist at
of the , Constitution if lie ;really ibelieted ; mtiiluxA lkrf War wAaY
Grant would -take a .third term" -Take'; he railroad shops 6a the west side of the
replied. Andy, with even more than' his river j : has 4 furnished us' a list of the steam
usual' Tehemencei Tak1 ' he lWoald take: ersitbat leateredv(ba hsraor duriajs the
anecdote is hot altogether unsn the galore of ; Mr. C
; ' I'. ';-:LWtoteviata .war.was.in progress.; The: Th0mas,i fnT 8hallotle Township, in the
Jw-i,tawAAw itst !s comnlete UD to October: 1864.' at V'i.. ... Tj,w-sir mnntir nH irnttn
ooiue oi Dcnnapps'woicu
had purchased.' Zt appears
misunderstanding had previously
tender the aame p, t9t yyba. when she was
temher, which, however, would be . tsoon
enough, as i he did cot suppose he would
hlana I D0(1V Ol flllSS DOItD,! W
UU Saturday night last, as.weyiearn irpm r . Halteras Light House, some weeks since.
. . - i mil iilihmu wnii tn rrnvnr.K- nr iiniiniriu'ii -m .
paiuea trom teat yicicuy.. a pumoer ji
Spirits ; Tarpentme
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h Randolph Regulator'. We learn
that an eagle measuring seven feet between
the tips of his wings was kilted last week
by Will. Lassiter, a fourteen year olil boy,
in Cedar Grove township. - r
Charlotte. Observer : Iiey. Hich
ard 8. Burwell,V formerly a Charlotte buy,
was in tbe city yesterday, und left last night
for Missouri, where he goes to assume pas
toral charge of a Presbyterian cburch.
- Elizabeth CitV Economist: The
body of Miss rjinitb,! who was drowned at
white ' inen, -consisting of Frank Norris,
Johaa ' W Hughes, William.
Bland, and a brother pt the latteivhameot
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Subscription
ajojjfiador. ho way have obtained i t
ifroni soiae ieHab)peraob t whor stiU
ishbscriptioprice of JtheWEKK
uY Star is as follows :
Single Copy ! year, postage paid, $1.50
6 months.
jof thea ZTbird.. Googreasional Difltrict,
-wh&have fofa& fifth time made-hiih
eatfdB6fwm
u , -- ! ' I time fervor, uol.iwaaaeu'8 uomioa-
!jv. 11 1 ; Grant then sive a Jonff account of j .. 1 '1: Jiin-'i" .V'.'.U'
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1DlW?mP,uf: whether there beta Republican can-
coin and Stantou, , We must copy a AlAmta in ,ka.fialli nr nt nrt if th
pan. i ' V. , I Democrats of the District poll any- Gordon
doanyS: their usual strength, his Cornubia. Giraffe. Douro. Granit, -City,
Nothing could have been more earnest and I majority will-be jvery large. Three
hearty than his treatment of ; me, . 'Now,' I , Z . ,
says be, 'tienerar, i) ao not wamtoanow i uueem ii ko uwufiuwi
seized by the "authorities on the charge of .
being a privateer, fitted out in thiB country ;
id War Un 'thev commerce of ! Spain'in the
interest of OuW-i(nd;hich is believed (0 j
iavetarned iB afletwkrds lo the shape! of :
tbft celebrated Virtfnim which, was aJzed j
;blf8pab:aat
and menbutchered. Mr. Lyons eDtered
'the name of each steamer as she arrived
upon a window' facing in the .shops and
afterwards copied the list.' The names of
some six or eight were furnished to
him upon bis return that . bad arrived
during his absence. The . following
. .. . . . . .
is tbe list: . ii-ate, ueauregara, xiizzie,
Nashville, Emma, . (Eagle,
Gen. Grant has at last given some
opinion concerning the "late unplea
santness" that are not without inter
est. The trouble with Grant is he is
not veracious. He made an issue of
vvitll Andrew Johnson, an'd
issue i with Charles Sumner,
veracity
another
and came out, of each decidedly "se
cond bUt." We will give some
. brief extracts from his most recent
utterances. concerning the war, that
will enable our readers to see how re-
lis as an historian, j If he had
tyistory of the war he
the Northern soldiers
equal to the j Southern
qualities, and would
Southern armies into
equal the enormous
of the armies of the North.
liable he
to write
would
man for
in ugut
magnify
. millions
strength!
the
make
man
the
to
We lately
strength
published the official
of the Northern army, as it
appeared in the New York Journal
of Commerce, & reliable paper pub
lished aiid edited by Northern men.;
According to those official figures
the North had in service during tbe
four years nearly three iMllion of
men.. The South could not; have had
from first to last over eight hundred
thousand, and the truth is it! was less
than seven hundred thousand. Where
were the troops to come from ?
Maryland, Missouri, Eastern North
Carolina; Louisiana, Arkansas, Ken
tucky, - West Virginia, were either
overrun completely or in part. Take
the voting population of the States
not overrun, and then add the actuaf.
force gathered from those States that
were , wholly j or partially jsubdued,
and you will see at once how foolish,
how untrue are the statements and
opinions of Gen. Graut. This much
prefatory. !
Gen. Grant has been interviewed
by a New York Herald reporter in
Paris 'concerning the war of the
Slates, a id specially concerning the
allegations made by Gen. Dick Tay
lor and afterwards adopted by the
late Gideon Welles? ex-Secretary of
the Navy under Lincoln, in an article
published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Gen. Taylor had said that Grant's
plan of moving on Richmond was by
the way of the James River, and that
"he adopled the overland route in
obedience to the wishes of President
Lincoln and Secretary of War Stan
t his own judgment,but told
them it would cause the sacrifice of
your plans. Tell me what you need to car
ry them out That is all I care to know.
And when you go to see Mr. Lincoln you
will do well to observe tbe same discretion.
Mr. Lincoln may not want to know any
more of your plans than I do, but I can
understand bow you might; naturally seek
tbe confidence of tbe President Now, Mr.
Lincoln is of a gentle and tender nature,
apt to confide in many people, and what
you tell him about military movements he
may teil to the nest Senator with whom he
has an intimate conversation.' I saw Lin
coln. He was as cordial and.bearty as Stan
too, if possible more so, because he was a
man of more affable and gracious manners.
When Lincoln and I were alone, the Pre
sident began the conversation by repeating
a story from an article oy urpneus u. Jerr
a comic article, satirizing tbe conduct of
the war. It was.as I remember.a story about
Capt Bob Shorty, tbe Mackerel Brigade and
the anaconda policy; something about Gen
erals in tbe field being .hampered by a flood
of orders. When he had finished, Lincoln
said very much what Stanton had said .
that he did not care to know what I was to
do, only to know what I wanted; that I
should have all I required. ' He wished me
to beat Lee how I did it was my own duty.
He said he did not wish to know my plans
or to exercise any scrutiny: over my plans;
so lone as I beat the rebel army he was
satisfied. He spoke of a plan he had long
thought over, and took down a map. He
drew an imaginary line between two of the
Virginia' creeks or rivers, the names of
which have escaped) me, and said that I
might move on that line and have the
streams for supplies, i l looked at the plan
and saw in a moment that if I put my army
on such a line I would be in much the same
position as tbe Army of the James. I would
be powerlesss; could do no good to our side
aod no harm to the other. : I would be
locked up. I told Mr. Lincoln I would
consider the plan,' and that was the last of
it. The route was an impossible route, and
was never mentioned again by Air. Ldncoin.
Thatis, as far as I remember, the exact
story of the conference between Mr. Lin
coln, Mr: 8tanton and myself, when I took
command of the army." :
- He next goes into a specious and
elaborate argument to show that the
Confederate army as a whole was
very nearly equal to the Union army
as a whole. Every man in the South
ern States knows that such a state-
ment has not the .faintest semblance
The editor of the Boston Daily Ad
vertiser, staid Republican paper, is so
alarmed over the movement to hives-;
tigate the Louisiana and Florida
frauds that it proposes to telegraph
to Grant to come home at once and
Flora, Pet, Merrimac, Siren, Vance,
Engine, Baushee, Brittania, Ella & Annie,
Fannie, Margaret & Jessie, Phantom, Sum
ter, Venus, Modern Greece, Sarate, Ben
digo, Virginia or Little Flora, City of
Petersburg, Alice, Arabia, Victory!, Dis
patch, Elizabeth, Gladiator, Charleston
Hahsa, Gem, Spunkie, Lucy, Don, Dee,
Constradt, Antonica, Hebe, Big Scotia,
Juno, Wild Darrell, Heroine, Presto,
existed . between v Norris and .Wilson, and
8ooij . after the tparty had! gotten J together
Norris made, some remark to "Wilson' to
which the "laiter fa(eCtd rey.-j it being
HUDDosed bv some of tbe party that he d!d
-boetldliiiah .Wlhhard:&r
hearing; t ae huiiww w pi i . mbwct,
however; was taken by Norris as an inten
tional insult, aa the. sequel will show, for
almost immediately afterwards, as Wilson
was in the act of passing by Nbrns, the"
latter stabbed the former, the knife enter-
ing the back of Wilson just below tbe
shoulder-1 blade. At the same moment,
Hughes, who was a friend of Norris, blew !
out the only light in the store and Norris
walked out of the building. .1 Wilson, al
though badly wounded, seized a turpentine
dipper, to which was attached a long hahv
die, and made for the door through which
Norris had just retreated, upon opening
which he Was confronted by his late assail
ant, armed with a spoke from a cart wheel,
with which he struck Wilson a severe blow
across the left hand, breaking his J fingers.
Nothing daunted, however, Wilson made a
quick advance upon his J opponent and
struck him across tbe . head with tbe tur-
doubtless, would recognize the hopeless
ness of the ! contest, and; in fact many of ;
them had told him that if they must have a
Democrat he would suit them, better than
any other, as be was honest and a gentle
man, In . which assertion be heartily con
curred. : 1 t ' "f V -:1;;4'"'J! .
In "conclusion, Colonel Waddell dis
claimed - tbe possession of i any unkind
feeling whatever towards any one who had
opposed his nomination, except those who
had wilfully slandered him, if there were
any such;' spoke pleasantly of the other
gentlemen who' had been named" for the
aomtBatjou! paid an eloquent tribute to the
X3oolderj&te- soldier, whichs Vwass iherWyj !
applauded, and withdrew. f "r
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-SAMPSON COUNTY.
If all the people I Rothesay Castle, Index, Mary Anoie, Fan- penline dipper with all the force of which
of truth. We
give' a few salient
100,000 tnen.
gives hi most;
- To all this Grant
explicit and: emphatic
deuial. The case then simply stands
thus: Stanton and . Lincoln aire dead,
and cannot testify fany more than
Charles Sumner could testify in the
issue raise d by Grant after the states
man's death. Gen. Dick Taylor says
he received bis information from a
trust worthy and an authentic source.
It may have been from either Lin-
points:
"I sometimes ask where were all these
able-bodied men of the South during the
war? If we are to believe history, not many
of them were in battle. It always struck
me that I saw enough ol them in every en
gagement, and that I bad but little advan
tage in force none, ( if you "consider the
fact that the Southern men were always on
the defensive." I
Again he says
- "In foreign lournals and. foreign assem
blies it is put this way, that we overran the
South with the scum of the world with
Hirelings and Hessiansj No one could do
more honor to the foreigners who came into
oxir ranks than myself. ' 1 They were brave
den. and earned our eratitude. But so far
from our armies being foreign, I question.
m I . 1 nn '...Awn .liana "
II more man lureta per tciii. ncis ousuo. ..
Now will not this be news to the
boys in gray who fonght at Frede
ricksburg, Chancellorsyille, 4&c.? But
hear the General yet farther:
We never overwhelmed the South, and
I am only sorry we could not have done so
and ended the war and its miseries. What
we won from the South we won by hard
fighting, and the odds, when there were
ndda. were never decisive. . We had to
fight the Southern States. They were a unit
and we were divided.! Every able-bodied
male in tbe South from fourteen to sixty
was in the army, or was supposed to he
there. We had to depend upon volunteers
and the conscription.'' ! . . d '
Ha RftvR the whole Soutb was freal
save tbe couutry.
were as stupid or knavish aa that
editor the country would not be
worth saving. But the proposition
is worth noting, as it shows how the
ordinary Radical mind of tbe North
regards Grant and the government.;
The country must be ruu in ! the in
terests of Radicalism or there shall
be no peace, no liberty, no local self
government, no prosperity. And now
read the following choice morceau,
whieh appears in a Vermont sheet of
the Radical kind:
"W do not wish to indicate Mr. Hayes
duty in the premises;; but we will say, in
closing, that if Andrew Jackson were in his
place be would arrest every one of tbe
Democratic plotters in the House for treason
and conspiracy to overthrow the Govern
ment" i
If such fools could have their way
what a lovely country this would be
to live in. j
Chattanooga, Tennessee, is pro4
bably the sickliest town in the United
States. Tbe population in 1877 is
given at 11,488. Qf these there were
1,598 deaths. This is simply awful.
Nearly obe out of every seven persons
died. It is a Black Hole of Galcutta
on a huge scale. The negroes died
like "rotten sheep." Out of 3,947
there were 850 deaths, or nearly one
death to every 4 persons. The
white population was 7,541, and the
rfflnt.hs 748. or about one death
out of every ten persons. This
showing is bad enough. We never
read of a better plaoe to go from
than that place known and feared as
Chattanooga. j
nie & Jennie, Caledonia, Annie, Coquette,
Thistle, Wilio'the Wisp, Minnie, Edith, j
Hellen, Grey Hound, Atlanta, Young Re
public, Little Scotia, Tristan Sbanty, Per
vancy or Kangaroo, Lynx, Mary Celestial,
Let Her B, Lillian, Florie, Badger, North-
heath, Lady Sterling, Flamingo. Evelyn.
Total, 83. !
As before stated, the list ia complete up
to October, 1864, but subsequent to that
period there may have been a few arrivals
which are not included iu this list.
Onr Cbarlotie Vlilior. : j s
The mail train on tbe Carolina Central
Railway, yesterday morning, brought down
about seventy-five excursionists, composed
mostly of merchants and other business
men atd citizens of Charlotte. ' They re
ceived a cordial welcome at the depot, and
were" then conducted to the wharf, where
he was caoable. knocking him down and
fracturing bis skull. At this stage of
the difficulty Hughes, tbe friend of Norris,
made a fierce attack upon Wilson, who
was hardly able to keep on bis feet from
loss of blood, when Bland interfered on
the part of Wilson, whereupon a desperate
struggle ensued between Hughes and.
Bland, both armed with knives, during
which the1 former received a severe cut in
tbe abdomen and the latter an equally
severe one in the back, when the : parties
were finally separated by Bland's; brother
and others. ( . - f . I'M ' - if:
It was thought at the time our informant
left the scene of the desperate conflict that
both Norris and Wilson would die, the
'former's skull being fractured, as previoust
ly Btated, and the latter being dangerously
subbed, the blade of the knife entering
the cavity of the body. JThey are both.
Proceed! us ol tbe Democratic foDnly
, j t ConventlOD.
In answer to a call of the County Execu i
tive Committee, the Democrats of Sampson,
county met in tbe Court House In Clinton,'
Saturday, May 25th, to appoint delegates to
the Congressional, Judicial and State Con-!
ventions. . ; J-; . i-
K Peterson, Chaitman .County Executive;
Committee, called the meeting to order and.
explained its objects.
On motion of H. E. Royal, a committee
of one from each township was appointed;
oa resolutions, as follows: Dr. C. T, Mur-i
phy, D. A. Cooper, D. Lackamy, E. A.i
Colwell, Wm. Kirby, J. C. Hines. G. R.I
Williams, H. Mathis, J. W. WTight, J.i
RoyaL ! v j
During the absence of the committee
Messrs. N. H. Fennell and John D. Kerr,'
on invitation, addressed the meeting. ,
The committee; through their chairman,
Dr. C. T. Murphy, reported the following,
resolutions, which were, adopted :
Whereas, It is the duty of all good citi
zens to consult fur the public welfare; and'
whereas, by the recommendation of the
Executive Committee of Sampson county,
a convention has been called for the purpose
of appointing delegates to attend the en
suing conventions of the Democratic party,
viz: Congressional, Judicial and State, also
(or other purposes; and, whereas it is
the duty - of our delegates in con
vention assembled to express their
views upon the political questions and is
sues that agitate the public mind, and
should see to it that if our candidates should
be elected to prominent representative po-r
sitions they should carry out in good faith;
those principles regarded as cardinal and
important, and an economical administra
tion of affairs of government, both national
and State; therefore, be it '
Resolved, Tbat our delegates to the Con
gressional Convention be instructed to sup
port those only for nomination as candidates
to represent us in the, United States Con-
. 1 i 1 . Jl ; .1 1 . . L '
gress wno win pieuge memseives ,io ine
principles ot honesty, economy, ; reirencn
n.on on1 Vafnrm . ! ' t.l , J' t . f
Resolved.'' That 8ixtyfive delegates b
mnnointed to atteBd-the Coneressional Dis
........ d
trict Uonvention,io.fl3senioie ai tne town or-
was found at sea, between Hatferas and
Ocracoke, with her neck broken; aod & hole
.in. her side. :.".r.:--. -J"-"--i. -h: -
ttr Wilson iAdpancet Oui county
was visited by a very; destructive storm ou
last Saturday nightJ The destruction in
StantonsbUrg township ; was very' severe
Fences were blown , down, trees uprooted,
and great damage done to tbe .crops. ... In
some cases tbe youag cotton was so badly
injured as to necessitate planting. over.;
.i Taroro ' Southerner: Teu-pins
have been, introduced in' Salem. Female
Academy. This exercise is supposed to
reader the popils more : expert in knocking
a fellow's nins from i Under him.- Our
eminently worthy townsman, Fred. Phil
lips, Esq., Ws eleeted President 1 the
Pjiralico Insurance and Banking Company
on Monday, vice Hon. George Howard. At
the same time L Jtlorrias, C. C, Lanier and
B. H. Bunn were elected Directors,' vice J.
B. Coffleld, X B. Dancey and K P. Battle.
Cotton . is. suffering lrom cold, floods
H. Griffin and parjy J
fish in one day above
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wej cuiuumu uu iub vti , j marnej oaen, JN orris oeing .tome oo oc o. uiintro, on j! naay jiex, meaiBi. aay ol
which had been awaiting their arrival, and . . 4d About The ly- r VPy-ftJ rUf .M
Lnn- .Kn fnn, f ui'v.. Th, yew ot -3? t L jTjr ti I J ResobedJThul aixySve4H6tfe8ljse ap4
"uut" Ql '" -m--, , . niher memberajiOIUieuPanywwiBgitr i An,ni tnkit. ttnJitrtiVUl TVistril f!nn-
- , LTVJU1 lrVU& irw MVUUV .BWW w - v - .
Whilst Southern papers and South -em
Representatives are halting over
the propriety of investigating the
Presidential frauds, the leading inde
pendent papers of the North approve
of such a procedure. The New York
Journal of Commerce is one of the
most discreet and honorable papers
in the country. It does not of course
favor any project or purpose to dis
place ! Mr. Hay es but it approves
heartily of tbe proposed investigotion.
It says:
"Wc do not expect
tions a full exposure
from its invealiga
of the frauds that
n
He says "the
coin, Stanton or Grant
ly an organized army
North .. and the South were not as
unequal in force as alleged that the
himself. I South had advantages which we (the
Grant, however, pointedly and earn- j North) never possessed." ( - And this
estly denies the whole story, pro
nouncing
thority.
Lincoln's
it the merest fiction" a
positive untruth." Gen. Taylor will
have' to come out and give! his au-
Ex-Secretary Welles, of
Cabinet, believed the story
is the way that Grant would write
history if he were "to take pen in
hand." V He admits in his official re
port that he lost over one hundred
thousand men in his campaign wiih
General Lee. He thus fulfilled what
ability is Mr. Welles had heard enough
knew enough to satisfy him that
there was a strong foundation, of
probability and truth in the; state
ment of. jGenl Taylor. Those who
know Grant's treacherous memory
will understand precisely how much
reliariPA ia tn Ko in fiia ' nnsns-
tained statements. Unfbrtonately !JiHS
Iv died. .Tnhnson: A correspondent in tne aci or
'J ww - .
and repeated it, in print, thus giving he had said, to Lincoln; and Stanton
it his decided indorsement. The prob- according to General Taylor. So
much for Grant and his denial "and
statements. :, j'-, ? j . Xv:y)
The Washington . Post , thus dis
poses of the. matter, and probably it
is the. best way:
"General Grant denies the truth of some
nnn -,i-.ino of Oflnl Dick Taylor re-
specting the Wilderness Campaign; he also
oVoo loon, nith thA venerable ! Gideon
ex-Secretary Welles recent
were perpetrated. .So long a time has
elapsed that some traces or me gross cor
ruption will doubtless be obliterated. But
. . & ..a . M a 1 1 1 tn nk
we do nope mat tne mam iacui win uo k
forth in a blaze of noonday light, and the
real criminals be held cpto tbe public gaze.
If this can be done it (will prove a more
effectual safeguard against a repetition oi
the wrongs than any that can be estab
lished by the promised legislation that is to
IOUOW 11. vnen lnsiruiueuwi
rendered Infamous, they must war against
the good more openly, u at an, ana.tueir ui
designs can thus be exposed and defeated."
The Iowa Democrats are not of the
Alex. Stephens ; kind. They are for
investigation for a "thorough in
quiry into election frauds." . So they
declare in their State Convention.
;' Mr. W. A. Prather, of Char
lotte, one of the excursionists, while at the
Sound, on yesterday, shot and killed a sea
chicken, a bird about the size of a sparrow
with a small size pistol, at a distance of 125
yards. Those Charlotte felloWB " woke
things up" on Wrightsville beach with their
expert pistol shooting,1 &c. . ..
The handsomely embossed testi-.
monial recently presented to Hon. A. M.
Waddell, by "the Postofflce Aid Association
of New York, as a token of their apprecia
tion of his late lecture 5 on Morse and
Maury, for their benefit,' was displayed in
, the show window Of Messrs. Green &Flan-,
neri yesterday; and attracted much atten
tion. I: " ' ;
thj;i jjxucejeded to . the Puwll r Blouse and
breakfasted,- after which, Ma accordance;
Willi previous arrangement Ihey iobk pasi
sage on the steamer Passport for Smith ville
aod other points of interest below. Several
of our citizens accompanied ; them On the
excursion, among whom, fortunately for
our visitors, was Mr. Henry Nutt, who is
well posted in regard to everything of in
terest on the river, and especially at the
mouth of it ; 1
The excursionists stopped for about a
half hour at Smitbville, after which the
boat went outside for a short distance. The
ocean was unusually smooth, and none of
the excursionists got sea-sick.
After remaining outside for a short time,
and some trying their lack at fishing, tbe
boat returned to Smlthville, - where about
an hour and a half Was spent in securing
rest and refreshments and rambling about
the old town, visiting the garrison &c,
after which they embarked for the passage
to this city, reaching the wharf about half
past 6 o'clock, our j visitors, we are glad to
say, expressing themselves delighted with
their trip. j
Mr. J. P. Caldwell, of the Charlotte Ob
tetter, is among the excursionists, as also
CoL C. W. Alexander, of the N. C. State
Guard. ; '
Among tbe notables is Major Thomas
Beggs, a veteran of! the Mexican warl now
a merchant of Charlotte. Ma j. Beggs, of
Company H, was 1 Color-Sergeant of the
celebrated Palmetto Regiment, of South
Carolina, and bore the flag of that regiment
in the battle of Churubuaco, it being the
first American flag to wave in tbe Halls of
the Montezumas. At this time,-however,
it was not borne by Maj. Beggs, he" having
been shot down on the 20th of August,
1874, before entering the city. He speedily
recovered from hisTwounds and is now a
hale, hearty, well -preserved gentleman.
Fire In Brunswick. I
The barn and stables of Mr. Henry F.
Walker, at Town Creek, Brunswick coun
ty, about ten miles from this city, were de
stroyed by fire on Tuesday last It seems
that Mr. Walker bad built a .fire in the
yard near the stables on Monday night to
destroy fleas. Tuesday morning the fire
was found to be nearly out, and as every
thing was damp from the rain of the pre
vious day he had no fear that it would do.
any damage. During the day, however,
Mr. Walker being temporarily absent and
the sun having come out hot, the fire blazed
up again and communicated to the stables
and barn and they, were ; destroyed, : the
flames having been discovered in time to
save tbe contents of the latter. The stables
were new ones, and none of the buildings
were insured. "T!:r
men
This is the most desperate and aggrava
ted personal encounter, and likely to prove
the most unfortunate in its results, that has
probably ever occurred in this section of
the State, and what makes it more singular
is the fact, as we are told, that none of the
men at the time were the least under the
influence of liquor, as they had just met
and commenced drinking when the diffi
culty started. . ..
A. in. Wadftflll Last
Hall storm. r?. . .-f ; :
We learn that there was a severe hail
storm in a portion of Brunswick' county on
Monday afternoon, which did a great deal
of damage, ;, A gentleman from Lockwood's
Folly informs us that at Mr. Moses Mc
Ketyan's plantation, seventeen miles from
this city, the corn was beaten down badly,
the entire crop being apparently almost
ruined. " :'"
addreti of lion
NlKbt. " . j " r
In response to an invitation tendered by
the Young Democracy of this city, the
Hon. A. M. Waddell, Democratic candi
date for Congress .from this District, ad
dressed bis! fellow-citizens from the portico
of tbe Western Union Telegraph office last
evening. Gol. Waddell was Introduced by
Mr. Wm: JL Smith, Jr., on the part of
the Young j Democracy, in a short and ap
propriate speech J j!
After three cheers from the crowd Col.
Waddell thanked the Young Democrats for
the honor they had done him and expressed
bis heartfelt thanks to his constituents for
his renomination by the Clinton Convention,
which he ( regarded as the greatest victory
of his life and proceeded to discuss the
public queBtio'ns of the . day in a brief but
logical Btyle explaining his connection and
position in regard to several of them. The
speaker staled : be had opposed the bill
creating the 'electoral commission an
had filibustered against its deoisibn; untfl
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the last, when in deference jvo me
greatest tribunal known to the American
people the will of the majerity-fhe had
accepted Uie situation; that he, in agree
ment with! the almost unanimous will of
the Democrats in the House of Represent
tives, favored the bill of inquiry known as
the Potter resolution, the purpose of which
was to investigate the frauds in the late
Presidential contest, but that in f avoring
this measure neither he nor the Democratic
party proposed to revolutionize the country
by unseating Hayes; though the uemocrauc
party had grit enough and judgment enough
to dare do whatever in their opinion the
exigencies of the situation might demand
Col. Waddell referred to and explained
the manner by which appropriations for
works of internal improvement are obtained,
and said that he was glad to bo able to state
that an increase over the amount specified
by the House committee, to the full amount
named '' by j the engineer in-cbarge; had
been obtained by him from the Senate
committee, and which, be was" confident,"
would eventually pass both Houses, for the
improvement of the Cape Fear and harbor.
He defended himself from the attacks of
the New, York .Sua, Which paper had
charged him ("with lobbying for the "John
Roach bin," and explained the bitf and his
connection therewith. - ;.t! t .j ;
Airntn h stated that the . present pro
longed session of Congress and his constant
attendance thereon had fatigued him, both
bodily and mentally; that upon its adjourn
ment ' he', proposed taking ; a long rest,
and would hot, therefore, begtahUcaayaai
ojt the district before the latter part of Sep-
ventlon to. be held a. tbetowh: of Golds
boro, on the 8 th day of June next, and that
tney oe recommenoea to sappori, in turn.
Convention John-D. Kerr, of Wayne
county, aa a candidate for Solicitor.
Retolved, That sixty-five delegates he ap
pointed to attend tbe State Convention, to
meet in the city of Raleigh, on the 13th day.
of June next, and they are recommended
to support for the position of Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court Hon. W. N. H.
Smith; and also the name of our own coun
tyman, the Hon. A. A. McKoy, is urged
most respectfully and earnestly upon the
Convention for Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court.
Rooked,' Th&t the delegates for the three
Conventions shall be appointed by this Con
vention upon recommendation of the dele
gates from each township represented, and
that each township represented in these
Conventions , shall have the same number
of votes and equal rights in the nomination
of candidates.
Resolved, That a Democratic Executive
Committee be appointed by this Conven
tion, consisting of one from each town
ship, to serve for two years , from date Jof
appointment.
Resolved, That the recommendation of
tbe County Executive Committee be adopt
ed, calling a county convention for the se
lection of candidates for county offices and
members of tbe Legislature, on the 22nd
day of June next; and tbe townships that"
have npt already made their appointments
are advised to hold primary meetings and
appouit five delegates each on Saturday,
the llth day of June.
The list of delegates, . which is very
long) we are compelled to omit for want of
space. Stab. J
On motion; 'the delegates of townships
not represented in this Convention should
be accepted as delegates in the Congres-
atonal convention. .
On motionj all good Democrats of Samp
son county, who may attend either Con
vention, at Goldsboro or Raleigh, t)e con
sidered delefitat.es.
The following were appointed an Execu
tive Committee," one from each township,
viz: Clinton, M. C. Richardson, Chairman;
Little Coharie, M. White; Turkey. L. R.
Carroll; Taylor's Bridge, L. A. Powell;
Lisbon, J. J. Bronson; Honeycutt's, R, M.
Crumpler; Franklin, Eugene Colwell; Piney
Grove, C. F. Thomson j McDaniel's, J. W.
Wright; Westbrooks', G. R. Williams;
Hall's, O. F. Herring; Mingo, N. B. Bare
foot; Dismal, J. R. Maxwell.
On motion, the thanks of tbe Convention
were tendered tbe President and Secre
taries, i
On motion, it wasordered that the pro-,
ceedings of the Convention be sent to the
Democratic papers in this Congressional
district with the request to publish the same,
and that the Raleigh Observer and Golds
boro Messenger be requested to copy.
On motion, the Convention adjourned.
i P. Mekritt, President
J. Royal, ! I RrAtri,
W. H. Thomson, ) - ;
and worms. T.
caught' four hundred
Bellamy's factory last week.
Lincolnton Netosi The com
mencement of the Shelby Academy takes
place June llth, 12th and 13th. ; Sermon ,
before the school by Rev. B. F. Dixon, of
KiDg's Mountain, and the address before
the school and society by Lemuel J. Hoyle,
Esq.,. of Cleaveland. Rev. R. Z.
Johnston, ' of this place,' delivered the
literary address at the commencement ex
ercises of Rock Spring Seminary, Lincoln
county, on tbe 30th ult., and Rev. Mr. An
derson, of the North Carolina Conference,
preached the annual sermon. W. Hi
Motz, Esq., has clover three feet and six
inches high in . his lot, and an acre of
ground on which this ' clover is produced
forty -four bushels of Fultz wheat last year.
Salisbury Watchman: A colored
woman named Hargrave was found dead in
Yadkin river, last Sunday, lying against one
of the pillars of the old Locke Bridge. She
was subject to spells or fits of insanity and
was usually fastened Op when they came
on. Our farmers say tbat the wheat
crop is much damaged this year, owing to
rust. We notice along the line of the West
ern Railroad that tbe wheat is in very bad
condition. Mr J W, A. Weant of
this place, showed bis patent self-acting
switch and smooth frog,-and- also the
switchman tbe engineer having - perfect
control of the track, lit is the best thing of
the kind yet invented; so say the railroad
men. , - Some fear exists that the court
house will be washed away during some
storm unless the drains in that vicinity are
cleared of obstructions. Judge Cloud is
missed a great deal) in this section. The
roads also need working, which would be
done if Cloud was holding our courts.
A countryman forgetful of the day; drove
into town last Sunday.to do bis trading.:
v WxoBtote SetUinel The ither
mometer has already indicated as , high as
92 degrees, in this latitude, this spring. The
highest thus far in our office is 83. Stab.
- The idea is under discussion -of having
a re-union or the surviving members of the v
Twehtyfirat N.' C: Regiment. Com
mencement exercises at the- Salem Female . .
'eftdemy- vrillnaketmcee
June 20th. Winston nas nine lawyers
and . seven physicians. . Salem 'has three
physicians, but no representative of the
legal profession, resident During the
tobacco working season in Winston we
presume there are abOut 4,500 people, all
told, domiciled here. 1 There were one
hundred and sixty cases on tbe Criminal
docket at our last court. The work
and the material connected with . Salem
Water Supply Company will cost about
$10,000. We are glad to learn that
John Martin, Esq., who was shot by Jim
Smith a short time ago, is not aeaa as was
at first reported, but
wound
recovering from bis
Onr Harbor Improvement.
. We hear that the Senate Committee on
Commerce have reported in favor of an
increase of the Cape Fear Appropriation to
$160,000. As the River and Harbor bill
passed the House the amount appropriated
for our bar improvement was $85,000. We
hope the Senate amendment will pass that
body, and that it will be concurred in by
the House. . i , .. .
' ' Wilev i Gaines, of Columbus
county; who was committed to. Jail hi this
city, by order of the U. S. District Court,
for thirty days, for non-payment of costs in
a case tor . retailing liquors without the
proper license, took the insolvent " oath
yesterday and was released,
Charlotte Democrat: If our
friends will excuse us we will most modest
ly inform them that we are not entitled to
any prefix to our tffcme like "Maj.," "Col.,"
'Gen.," or "Hon." The nearest we ever
came to acquiring a prefix or title was be
ing elected Captain of; a volunteer company
(being promoted from: Orderly Sergeant to
uaptam over an me i ijieuienauia; wuicu
eaused a big fuss and broke up tbe. com
pany. Since then (30 years ago) we have
never had any. military aspirations.
The Charlotte Democrat ought to be pub-
liehol nttonor than Vinon A Wfifik fifimi-
M1BU .mum " w -"
weekly or tri-weekly, iif not daily and as
the present Editor and Proprietor does not
care to undertake the additional work after
being engaged in the business for thirty-five
years, he is willing toj sell the establish
ment to a suitable person desiring to pur
chase it and increase its business. Favor-
.ui. . nM n nAn k. ihoiIa Tiv o nrnnpr nprsnn
or persons, and evidence will be furnished
as to a profitable investment It is
thought that the action of the Grand Jury
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wui a .oru a gouu ubw ui .
next Court in the way of gambling, selling
liquor to minors, &c. j A quantity of gamb
ling apparatus has already been seized by
the Sheriff. Tbe charge of Judge Cox was
plain and pointed against faro-banks and all
speCies of gambling, cock-fighting, selling
liqUor to boys, &c., and Solicitor Mont
gomery has backed the Judge in efforts to
punish those who violate tbe law in any re
spect A gentleman in this city
plucked ripe peaches from bis trees on Tues
day last. The crop in this section is
good, (notwithstanding rumors about rust)
and much of it is now being cut There
has been a good deal of rust on the blade,
but little if any on the stalk.
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? L Goldsboro Messenger: Lenoir
Superior Court adjourned on Friday last
The negro Kinsey, charged with burglary
wisely submitted to a; verdict of larceny,
and received ten years in tbe penitentiary.
We have received an anonymous letter
in which the writer says that the negroes
are much dissatisfied; at the acquittal of
Waitman Thompson, and' noia mat n
"ought to be hanged as much as old Noah." -
The writer intimates mat -mere may oe
fuss in Goldsboro bni the 14th of June."
The Rev. F. H. Ivey and lady left here
Monday for New York, for the purpose of
having a surgical operation penormeu o
Mrs lvcy. ; -An industrious colored me
chanic, named Curtis Turner, employed in
the planing mills of W. B.. Underbill, in
this town, had the sad misfortune to have
bis left arm badly mangled in the machine
ry on Tuesday, which had to be amputated.
Rev. J. E. Douglas, -D. D., of the
Mississippi M. K Church Conference, who
has been spending a few weeks pleasantly
in our little city, the guest of his daughter, .
Mrs. R. P. Howell, leaves for his home to-j
lv. and wa wish him a pleasant journey.
Dr. Douglas is a native of Person county.
North Carolina, and left this State about
fifty vears ago. The closing exercises
of the Kinston High School will take
place June 5tb, 6tb and 7th. Wednesday
evening, at 8 o'clock,! the annual sermon
will be delivered by the -Rev.,W. C. Nor
man," of Raleigh., The addresses will be
delivered Thursday morning, at 10 o'clock,
and the annual concert -comes off at 8
o'clock the same evening, to be followed
Friday morning with exercises in composi
tion, declamation and recitation. ; .