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WM. H. BERNARD, Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. C: FridaV, : Jxtne ! 7th.il 878. , . .:. - ; . I .-- " .. ' - ; ' ZW Remit ances most be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order, or .Registered Letter. . Poet Masters will register letters when desired. -; . . t3& Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. . j, .a .;. ' j . fs gg" Specimen copies forwarded when desired. prof, ft mm. v Uev.iDr. Pritchard, who is corres 'ponding editor of the Biblical jJte TUB FRAUD INVESTIGATION. The first day's proceedings of the investigation weresuch 'us 4,6 give Sadden Deatn of an Old Cltixen. i -. "(Par communit y'was startled: yesterday! afternoon,', by the announcement ?of the; ' 1 . if. I j O I r-r y T - iii. , ; r . '.t v .. ' .soaaen; qeaw pi. Vsapiaio -g jr. reck; -oneott last now Georcia heroine. He though t Reorder, has ibis kind i mention of the promise of some: substantial results. olir oirf.it and' most . .tmri hm; ir-rtf the matter over,' and knowing that hState ideologist : p U Andersons testimony is da4ging, saj event occurred on the steamer X 3. We like Gov. Cdlquitt's ".grit." A perfect flood of letters poured in upon him . to pardon Kale .Southern, the THE DIFFICULTY OF HANGING v :". I MEN. - . . K J. A. HarraU, of Selmaj Ala., de- liberatelyL shot down in cold blood .-Captain Ap. Catesby Jones, j Accord ing to all the accounts at the time the killing took place it was a case of murder. He has, however, been ac quitted on the ground of self-defence. : It does really appear as if it were: impossible to hang any man of de cent conections in this country. Al though moiifi murders occur in a month now than occurred in a year previous Lo the war, and murder has ofeased to be gone of the fine arts," as De Quincey considered .it, but has degenerated into a brutal pastime,1 the difficulty of punishing grows greater daily.1 Between a false senti ment upon the subject that will work . a fearful amount of, evil in the end the impsrfection of the j laws, the incapacity of prosecuting offioers, ine numouggery or trial by ju ry, the plastic character oL J ndges, and thi '- excessive- humanitarian- ot Gov- with the she had been fairly tried and con- .victed, concluded finally after exam ining all-the evidence' that she was guilty of" manslaughter,, and- hence commuted her sentence to ten years In the.' penitentiary. The Augusta Chronicle says that "it is stated that renewed exertions are being made to induce the Governor to grant the wo man a free pardon. The Governor "He is a decided Christian, nd a gentle- not because he is trustworthy, but be :;JJSr. cause his story is confirmed by facts &UVn IvUKvi OUU iOn U1CII Uftio BCIf CU LUC1I I- -, -. . . State and course, many -complaint are preferred f JitkiriRir will do well to hesitate before complying with quest." ' Kate attracted a' long time such a re- ..f-.-'i?--- 1 a-, -.1 . : attention at Inevitable, first,' from the fact that the State is laree. and it would t reauire the ace f a Methusaleh for one .man to visit . and in spect every part of It; second, he lias ha out very limited resources at his command the exchequer of the State since the; war has allowed put small appropriations; and third, his health, never robust, has seriously declined for the last four years." ,:-n.L ; He' is entitled7 to this 'stTtement. We have known him long and esteem bim highly, jHe has done a compara tively quiet but ureal , and, . important work for North Carolina. His la bors are precisely of a kind that can not be seen at a elanoe. but must be followed up and inquired ''"into to be appreciated.. We know' the fact that his .work : which, was , published .con cerning - tne mineral and ,other : re sources of North Carolina is not only The aged and brave j old Emperor very valuable,' but it has been warm- of the Germans has again been shot ly received ' in other States, both at by an assassini and badly wound- North and South. . ,We have seen VnderhUl. which left here yesterday "morn- ing, about a quarter past lOo'clock, to take; j VUoiOt and etidenceduced from oitz&? ffcj.Io0i. down to : Smith- nany complaints4 are -preferred IV'Jl iAilM1 ..I.:i.:t,i-ci,-'- vnusf asth boat arrived at a point; man, bat he refers' to n ikiaunews; as being in possession of the originals of 'Led'ta tbe' lower one t very important documents, and refers I ami had reached a sp steps on uis return, when be was seen to stagger and jail against the aide of f he boat, oppITTe'thrrjfl tat? tattoU'CaprrPelil woo naa peen oo.tbe upperaecic, descena-,- taget a drink ofVwaterr spot near the foot of the either confound or Here- great! Atlanta, and large crowds gathered to see her. She did not appear to fancy the notoriety. Bob her hopeful bus- handand her babe ; were with her. Bob will live with her in the peniten tiary, but will get work outside. This is the latest. to certain persons by, nanie.,, whose testimony , will confirm his own statements. fers to J udge Harlan'; of the ? ITnited States Supreme ' Court,, as having copies of thp documents, in possession of .Mr.; Matthews. . These persons will, of course be examined, - unless Mat thews persists in re f usi ng - to1 go -before the committee. :!'! " whereupon two or three pcrsans ; took hold of him. '-'He was'tben borne,- pursuant to the CttInsliusJio FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. James D. melVer; if Bloore Noml mated for Solicitor - tSpecial to the Morning Star. i l.fT- 1 ? j : Fayettkyillb, June 5. The Fourth Judicial District Convention was held 'here to-day. j CapL James D. Mclver, of Moore, received the nomination for Solicitor on the nineteen ballot x -Tliat Peae r V d a I y So ske. " ." pome time in 1877 we gave an account of an enormous rattlesnake i. ; that , was, killed near Burgaw, Pender countyv in which it was stated that his : snakeship, at the time he was discovered; 'was in the acf of swal lowing a yearling deer, the head and shoul ders of the animal havine disaDDeared m Spirits Turpentine. -r- The revivai still continues in the Baptist Church at Lumberton. Raleigh handled 391 bales eoU ton last week. Total thus far 44.005. T- The merchants of Charlotte are t--"-t in fofjOf taxing drummers II-gMivCaweif 4'Seal,of Wake was seriously injured by being thrown fr m his buggy. ' - j . ; -; Thirtyour applicants before the Supreme Cbart to practice law. Rurotu the law must pay. f. j oureiy -J We are glad to note that a few :.f.H.u..-i'Rw: occasionally in the nuh lift nrTnU Prit .lf Pu- th? W'oas j mouth, and throat, of 4be upon.reachlDjr'which a physician, who was! monster . reptile. This description, given ViroiniH" pulse antf pronounced life extinct H nJ neighborhood. was "received with ai UciL te.0T Vltb delivered fveVnforStfkwoitfoV -nrfni "er school scioo8ness after he was attacked j The de- oor up-otintry exchanges, where Xthey ceased baa been- subject to heart disease for! have any snakes worth speaking ot. .some time past, and no doubt isetttertained'l we?e disposed to be a litlle,?acetious at our ism anjl philanthropy ernors invested unwisely pardoning power and who have to be re-elected byjthe people, the trial of murderers has become the merest farce, and human life is held as cheap as it is in those regions where you must take a drink when asked or be shot upon the spot. I : When sickly sentimentality, de fective laws and other causes ": men ; tioned are not equal to the acquittal of scoundrels and cut-throats, then ed. The shot must have been small, as thirty have been extracted from his body. He is in a favorable con dition, so his physician s think. The assassin is named Nobilmg, and he is a Spoialist or Communist. He bad recently made application for oflice, but was unsuccessful. Our dispatches are meagre and unsatisfactory. It appears that JNpbiung was very se verely wounded as ho was 'taken to the hospital, and one report is that he is dying. There is uo language too strong to use in condemnation of such base and cowardly conduct. The principles of Socialism nieau destruc tion to life and property. A sound public sentiment, as well as the strong arm of the law, should crush out such' enemies and conspirators. i P. S. Since the above was in type late dispatches state that Dr. No biling will die I from his self-inflicted aged his own cause by, thevagueness of . his a'nswer.; TJp to this writing he is the loser, Of this there' is no doobr.' His friends- are. endeavoring- to- re move any unfavorable 'impressions, but the general sentiment in1 W ash ington is that he has injured his cause excellent notices of it in leading pub- I and evidently feels that he is stand- Mr, Sherman ' nas, evidently dam- tr was thejnalady with which he was; I expense. . Well, it was a rather prodigious there is one sure redress, j A theory I injuries. He s a Protestant, of good of insanity can be set up always with I means, and well connected. He had the certainty of turning the "prisoner I accomplices. at the mumty par" loose upon; A! murderer can tne com be easily We have received the first cata- acquitted on the grounds of insanity, j logue of the North Carolina State Co- never be sent to the I oreo Normal School, Fayetteville, N. C. This school was authorized by things. She is ahead of most States the Legislature and the State Board I n the very department over which but he jwill lications of Virginia and Missouri, in which it was urged upon those States to follow . the example' of our own Statej andhave just such, a. survey and such a publication made for their respective States as Prof. Kerr has made for North Carolina. : We think it is : to be regretted that a much larger edition of his very valuable work was not published. We believe the Legislature would act wisely, if it were to have an edition of at lesst 5,000 copies printed for free distribution. Inquiry from abroad is often made as to where it can t)c purchased. I There . is too much disposition on the part of our people to complain of Prof. Kerr's wad t of energy, &c. This is a mistake. THe is an excel lent worker, and he does a good deal of labor. . The real; trouble is, he has a. vast territory in which to work. It stretches for five hundred miles iu one direction. Xhere j are ninety-four counties. He can ". only do so much, but what he undertakes is well done, we have reason to believe. North Carolina leads in but few ing on very ticklish ground that may give way under his feet at 5 any mo- ; The New York Herald correspon dent writes: 'f:...'. .. if" 'S' j.. !'."' j "But the documents brought out to-dav. especially the agreement between Nash, the colored candidate for Congress,' I and Anderson, taken in connection ; with An derson's testimony, ; have certainly pro duced a strong impression, not only, on Democrats, but also on manv ReDublicans. that the Democrats rightfully carried East Feliciana and some other parishes enough to have entitled them to the electoral vote of the State. On this point Anderson ; has produced a deep impression, and so far the investigation has . undoubtedly, to-day been a marked success for the Democratic side, and the Republicans will have diffi culty in overcoming that impression. 1 ' I "This result is especially unwelcome to them. It is vcrv well understood that th Republicans do not care how deeply lhe visiting statesmen and the Administration are involved aud besmirched, but they wince when the testimony- beains to show that they were not entitled to "the electoral vote of the State. Their hope was that this could not bo made clear, but that the ex posures would affect only the. conduct of. the visiting statesmen and the Administra tion." ! stricken with such a sudden and fatal result. I aiuuuu was Known inai tne nnior J tunate geDtleman Was aeadilDapt. Latham had the' steamer turned about nd came hack folVilmingtonjwheo the 8adntelU- genceiwas conveyed ,to, his , sou, Mr. GeoJ J Peck,, the most of the remaining mem bers of his family being on the boat' with hiiri when the sad calamity occurred. - Gapt Peck: was a native of Milford,Oon4l necticut, but bad been: a resident 'of this; city since 1821; jwith the exception of a: few: years be spent in California. He was in the oiu jrcnr 01 uis age, out looKea io oemuch younger. r lunatic asylum. ; lhe last and surest resort for all whose hands are red .with! the blood of their victims is ' the j Governor. Armed With authority to set aside the findings of courts, aud backed up by the petitions of lawyers,1 solicitors, juries, and the sympathetic part of , the community, the Governor with a dash of the ben liberates' the Victim of Education was empowered to se lect the plan land Control the mao ageSent. The obtect is to teach and train young colored men so they can become teachers'! '" in I the common schools of the! State for the colored race. Two thousand dollars for two years were appropriated. The State Prof. Kerr presides so ably and effi ciently. The abolishing of his office or. the loss f his Services .w ould in the end prove an afiiictionl and restores him to the palpitating Board appointed three well known and gushing bosom of society. gentlemen of Fayetteville, Messrs. J. The Governor we speak of all H.Myrover, E? J.Lilly, and W. C, who have the power to pardon is TrOyas a Local Board bf Managers. FIVE REASONS. The Philadelphia Time gives sever ral excellent reasons why there can be no serious attempt made to dis place Hayes from the Presidency: He has a 'title from the Electoral Commission that is as lawful and as bindine "F"" luo wuuujr oa u u naa oeen given by not to blame so much as the peo ple and the it trials are law officers, j Of course unjust their- results set aside. But as long criminals are There are three teachers, and 75 pu pils attended, divided into 50 males I The New York Star has published another letter from Elizabeth." It was written in March last, and is the very one that Plymouth Church kept so carefully concealed. It is a painful, confession of a grea't crime. We re-!. produce a paragraph: i "The stings night and day of my Con science can only be appeased by unbur dening my soul of the enormous lie lo which I have consented for the past four years. The charge of adultery between Mr. Beecher and myself is true. Therefore, t cannot one moment longer permit the friendship of your beloved family. Up to the time of my leaving home I had never lied, but when inquired of confessed it; but since then expediency has seemed right and I have tried to be happy. You know how well I have lived the lie; but let me say that whenever I have been overcome by weeping before you, it has always been for the false thing I was. As now I speak the solemn truth, with God's spirit bringing, me to judgment, believe me when I say the unanimous vote of the TCttAr i nii-.i I me lo judgment, b and of the people. All parties ioined in that M.r- ?a uaa no knowledge Of my kann.:. i . . " - Draia nil v no avoa trr and 25 females. ranst ao nV uiauy , criminals j are par doned, I crime must increase, and the maiestv of the. law be dpar&AeA . , o The State Board and commodious 35 (feet, ; two, sto- well adapted j to the secured a large building, 70 by! ties high, and. purpose of such a school. For par- We are clearly for a change in regard J ticulars address Robert Harris, Fay- to the pardoning power, and we boDe I etteville, JS. UJ to express Our views in the future with care and elaboration. We are glad to know that our editorial of some . months ago, in opposition to the Governor's being invested with this great and dangerous one man's power, met creating the tribunal:! all nartfoa hmmi toemselves to obey its decision, and all yielded to its judgment as the solema and lawful judgment of the republic. "2. The South doesn't want revolution, and doesn't want Hayes displaced. The Southern people have had . enough of disorder and desolation, and they want uajrea uas given mem sen-government; has manfully maintained home rule state, but believes me living in the same stoical condition. OhI how I have forgot ten Christ and God, caring for man's repu tation and hie cause." 1 The Georgia! people! are quite : apt to select pious men to fill the highest public ofiices. Mr! Stephens is a strict disciple of Christ, Senator Gordon is with a cordial apprecia tion at the hands of a few of the most thoughtful of our editorial brethren. We would not give the power Of life "uu ueatu 10 me apostle Paul or John, if he 'were on earth. ; No man is bt to bear such a weieht and MirtH To ierr is human Colquitt is a of its leading I the Church; a respon to forgive the crimes' of ike a politician,' . ; others is a Presbyterian, Gov. Methodist, and other ! men are members of North Carolina has three Methodists among its members of the Housed Vance,! Robbins and j Scales is a member . of the Presbyterian Church.' But,ac- cording to the Richmon3 . Christian Advocate, & could never viz: Messrs. Steele. Gen Methodist in Virginia be elected Governor, ;or even United j States Senator. Thai paper says: 'You could hardly make a Georciftn. who saw the laymen from Virginia stand ing first in the General Conference, bel that Virginia never had a ; Methodist Goi. vernor, nor Lieutenant Governor, nor At torney General.nor United States Senator,; having no Congressman of that persuasion, no representatives in the State, Education al, Agricultural or Uiailroad , departmeats, nor aDywherel'V . f Such a confession as this,' taken in connection with Bessie Turner's tes timony and the letters of Beecher, would appear sufficient to settle the nauonai support that would have been I Iore tne public lor so many years. UCU1CU VJ X ilUCU. ( ' f'3. The Republicans don't want to dis place Hayes, although many of their lead ers would be glad to see him ejected in dis grace. They will not assail his title because they dare not..: Having conceived and exe cuted the frauds themselves by which he was given the place to which Tilden was elected, they won't confess their own crimes in vengeance against flayes. ' "The Democrats don't , want to unseat Hayes. It would be revolutionary to at tempt it, and they wouldn't, revolutionize if they could, and they couldn't do so if they would.,. They want no rump victory; no second-table feast at the spoils. They know that the removal of Hayes for Tilden by any process that is in sight, would unite the Republicans and demoralize the Democrats "5. The hungry placemen.the mendicant organs, and the crop of average idiots of both sides, talk seriously about revolution nu unseating uayes; but all sections ani The Liberian fever has broken out again in the Eastern section of the State. About 1870 there was a visii tation of this disease, but it finally P" present, and about seventy-five lots subsided. It is now stated ibatt.her 7..-rTx "1I'H,U 10 P"om Colored ATavu DrowBtd A young colored - man, by the name of Osborn Cowan, aged about 22 years,, wai drowned off the steamer A. P. Hurt,aboui twenty miles above this city, near a place known as the Devil's Elbow, while on her upward tiipf from this city to Fajetteville on Tuesday. He was seated on a flour barrel, when, by; a sudden motion of the boat, which: was rounding a curve: in the river at thatj point, which gives the spot its name, the young man was thrown into the river. A gentleman, in describing the ac cident, says: when first seen after falling he was some distance behind the boat and on the opposite side from which he had fallen: The gentleman shouted and waived lo him to make for' the shore, which he did, and, as be , appeared to be a good swimmer. it was at one time hoped that he would suqeeed in reaching it It is supposed j however, that he became ex- hausted, or got into one of the dangerous eddies caused by the sudden turn j in the river, as he was noticed to be making a fearful struggle soon after starting in the direction of; the shore, and finally disapr peared f ronj view. A boat was lowered from the steamer as quickly as possible but too late lo be of any service. -( The unfortunate young man was well known in this city, bore an excellent repu- tation, and at the time of the accident which cost him his life was on his way to Fayette ville with a lady who had taken a fancy to him and employed him. tAt last accounts his body had not been recovered. Criminal Conn. , i The June term of the Criminal Court for New Hanover couVty, His Honor, Judge O. PI Mearies, presiding, convened at the Court House in this city yesterday morning at lOo'clock. The following comprise the Grand Jury: J ....: ... ... , . -.j Clayton Giles, Foreman; John H. Hanbv. C. F. Vonlampen, Solomon Reeves, Qua Davis, George F. Alderman, James N. Ma cumber, Thomas W. Howard, Edward Still, Thomas B. -Carr, Iley Greenfield, Philip Newman, William Buchanan, Ed- waru Jones, Henry Kuhl. Jas. R.. Guthrie, Edward D j McCabe, William Pratt! sat asw I - -Land SaU at Bnrgaw. - j ! J - We lear' from a correspondent at Bur gaw lhat yesterday was an important day in that rising little town, the occasion being the sale of a number of lots heretofore ad vertised. There was Quite a larse is a considerable movement going on in the Pasquotank,Camden,Currituck and Perquimans section, but it is con ducted as quietly and secretly as pos sible, owing to the fact 5th at a similar movement in Halifax county- was frustrated in 1870. It is stated fur ther, that the ship Liberia, to which we referred recently, will sail on June 20tb. and will take out a colonv fr0mlhe tioned. Whilst we ao not iuiuk mucn ot tne wisdom ... !-' I.- - . . me lowesr, 10 f 110 ror hglf acre lots. The town is all; laid off jin blocks of six half acre lots eaeh, with an alley running through each . block.) ., General satisfaction was expressed by all at the result of the much General Scott wasj not only a good soldier but he was no little of a statesman. He. had that -prescience that belongs to men who govern wiaely : .General Sherman; m his speech! on the Unibn ' Memorial . I)ay in New York,; said that General Scott was asked in 1861, how long thenar would! last . His reply is noteworthv: . AUO .c"uulcl 01 will endure uuu vueen v ictona costs Hhe ed. We can most truthfrillv aa ...o . five years, but; willta :fniirt u British peoole something HkW Sonnn. "V : - .""f -"r nu.v,,,., . 1 i . " t "3 1 - - . . j n " ' mat we nave conversed with no man till nTinnAiiw--) ir a. n )moon.'l : It must be admitted that these reasons are just and forceful. The is right,1 the people do not want revolution, tut peace and quiet. The South especially would avoid all undue alarm ori. excitement. It an of such an exodus we wish all con cerned, a happy deliverance j The exodus will continue ' until the i folly or wisuom is iniiy esiaonsnea. ' The Baltimore ArhericarCs corres pondent in ' Washington admits that only recuperate under the; benign in- Sherman : is now standing on the fuce ;;jp?ae a Peae I prolong "ragged edge,'! and that his esoape "1? 01 DBW strite Phe. -"V? Tna whrx;favprs disturbing: the. title of tip 1 1 1 nor nr. M A . . . 1 in ,nmmn lr .11 1,1 . ini j a . - - r, i . : . l wo, vi euiuu -uw&'vu tue ,- u,w.Vuft. ne snowed be "wr vvx vue ogusn, .w i findin r.f th T5!iMi nrtmv:: onn. ... .i 1 : .,... tJ.llk... . ..I' . i I O" .wvv.. vvmuiiooivu. twwwu ; ueiore tne war fairlv ,c'uu,eu1' itue oest in ine worm, if beganj its great; magnitude and im- 80 itis a - small ! affair , to pay the portance. j He showed: also he an- noblest of a11 female sovereigns a million dollars. m Why. Ring in Cincinnati or d steal that sum in' six under Grant's nose and be any the wiser or so- predated fully the .character of that ealar7 of fi large jclass who do the fighting when the Whiskey the wjar is over although -the smell t l100" oou of battle never was upon theirgar- months right meuts. For thirteen years the Rlainoa he would not! llales, and other "bellieerent nn. berer. It is nennv wise nnl nAnn combatants," have kept up the "angry folwb to.pay a Sovereign like Grant .Strife:" and it is kn hat na a'," . : $50.nnft. anil nlliOT tr. sands, of corrupt men in office, .. and then make J a Republican fuss. -oveV paying a pure and! honesti Queen a matter of $2000,000 (oroodjust, beneficent government.i u fei.'is.-i P r We ; have met hone, on' the other hand, . who, object's to .investigating thoroughly , the manner in which the great fraud y was .' consummated and could not 1 guess ' in - a year, r- -jW by, upon what ; interpretation he,jSherL man, , put upon ' the words "stand ltrm" in his letters, u He told Ander son and Weber to "stand firm." ,, He must be . allowed to ; Say iwhat Jie meant whether they were to "stand firm"in oerDetratina"- fraud or iither- - - - Planner's Battery.. a writer in the JSewbernian says his 'at tention has been called to the recent article, written by Major Henry G. Flanner.of this city, which first appeared in the Southern Hiiiorical Papers, "wherein he very Justly claims for the battery which he command, ed in the late War, the honor of saving Pe4 tersburg from the halnds of the enemy upon the occasion of the springing, by Grant, of a mine familiarly known ; as the ! Crater," and he returns his thanks to Mijbr Flanner for thus putting on record .the gallant bear ing of his battery upou that occasion ; !To'Fiabermen. -ipa. : -,i ' ;..'jfL; The following extract from tne laws of 1871-'72 may be of interest to fishermen in .uis vitiuiijr -o tenst to-iaose wuo use nets .... : .- snake story, and we confessed as much at the time, but now comes a letter from a correspondent1 in that vicinity, not only eorroborating bur "snake" yarn,"' is iome were -pleased to i term it, ?tui acconK panied i xby i .a, ,piece: of the dried skin - of ..his .snakeship, .which 1 is just fifteen inches' inlcireumference. by actual measurement. As it must have naturally contracted some by drying it is safe 'tosup- pose that it wai at least eighteen inches In circumference when first taken from the. snake, and judging from its dimensions it5 -mm5m w luintue mat sucu a snake would not have much difficulty in swallowing a small-sized deer. ' The piece of skin is now on exhibition at this office, where the curious are invited to call and see for themselves. The following is the letter referred to: .. :-Vm ' "' ". ' ' . ila. Editob. I know you have not for- guiicu mat ai or near Burgaw, in 1877 a5 rattlesnake caught and swallowed a year-; ling deer. Sooie people were so incredu lous as to deny the statement. Now, sir,in order to establish the fact more clearly, and to set aside all doubts concerning the mat ter, I enclose you a nart of ih bio tst hia snakeship. An examination of the piece u. ca.uj,wuiuu IHOQlVaOOUt Onn Iwitnlv fifth- part ot the whole,- will, I think, set . aside all doubts as to the enormous size of the snake. You are aware thut thia i not life size, having considerably con tracted, iy.j BUHGAW. ; Connty Comjmiaaloners. The. Board' of County Commissioners met in adjourned session: yesterday after noon at 4 o'clock; present, John G. War ner, Chairman, and Commissioners D. S. Sanders, B. G. Worth, J. W. Atkinson and Duncan Holmes. The resignation of James Smith, Con -stable of Harnett Township, was read and accepted, and T. B. Carney was appointed in his stead. . On motion of Commissioner B. G. Worth, the following levy was ordered: . County Assessment Valuation of real and personal property, $4,750,000. On the one hundred dollars valuation, 42 cents, amounting to $19,950; 2,561 polls, at $1.26, amouatingto $3,226.86. Total, $23,176.85. On the one hundred dollars valuation, 20 cents; amounting to $9,500; 2,561 poUs, 60 cents, $1,536.60. T9tal, $11,036.66. On the one hundred dollars valuation, 20 cents, amounting to $9,500; 2,561 polls, at 60 cents, ; $1,536.60. Total, $11,036.60. On the one hundred dollars valuation, 18 cents,; amounting to $8,550; 2,561 polls, at 54 cema, amounting to $1,382.94. Total, $9 -932.94. j - Schedule B Tax, $5,000. Grand total, $60,183. i . The taxes are distributed as ' follows: Curren t expenses, 42 cents on the $100 val uation and $1.2ff on poll. : Criminal Court, 20 centa on the $100 valuation and 60 cents on poll.! Bonds and interest, 20 cents on the $100 valuation and 60 cents on noli; old debts, 18 cents on the $100 valuation' and 54 cents on poll Total, $1.00 on the $100 valuation and $3.00 on polL 4 It was ordered that Commissioner Holmes be instructed to repair a small bridge lead-; ing from the Work House to : the Poor House, providing he perform the labor free of cost to the county, furnishing the planks only lor the same. ! S. Van Amfinge, Clerk of the Auditing Committee, turned over to the Board cer tain warrants received from the State Aui ditor, for the maintenance of. the county insane, whicbwere ordered to be placed in the hands of the County: Treasure for col lection. . . - . :-7 ; ,- The Board then adjourned. - V1 "WPlinieiited in the Ox fordnd Raleigh, papers. Mr. James A Robinson, the spirited I associate of the loreldigM, read an essay1 on the "Web of Life." in which he referred to .his favorite Iheme, "babies." Ah Jimmy ! Goldsboro Messenger-. We learn from our Greene county correspondent that a most destructive hail storm passed over the Bullhead section on Saturday, the 25th nit. Fences were blown down trees uprooted, and great damage doce to the crops. In some instances the young cotton Z1JJly .lnja,'?d M to necessitate T- Granville tobacco is looming Wesley Lyon solds lips at $42. thirds fi5' seconds $72, best $llb. . S.J. Helton! ffe $82: ' Fifty sixty, seventy and eighty dol lars are now too common to pole for best We must give one Granville lady's sales' Mrs. E. E. Bullock got $34,50 for Kpsi $35 for lugs. $55 for fourth grade, $66 for third grade, $82 for second grade, and $200 for first and bestj. - Hillsboro Recorder: The Orange Guards, byinvitatipri of the President of tue university, ana also of the Literary So cieties, wiil attend the commencement at Chapel Hill, and take a place in the pro cession on Thursday. , Several parties from the vicinity of Rock Spring, in ibis county, Were before II. S. Commissioner 'W. D. Strayborn, on Tuesday last, on lhe iObarge of .illicit distilling. . Raleigh Observer: Messrs. Black well & Co., of Durham, are tryintr a new machine for packing tobacco, which is pat ented and invented by A. C. Cowan, Esq of Orange county. The machine is in the form of a circle, hdlding thirty "shapes", or packages. It is so arranged (hat it gives exactly the same weight of tobacco to each package, and makes the packages uniform in size. . , Charlotte Observer: The coro ner's inquest.which was held over the body of Kate Harrineer. the coloted woman wh,. was killed in Concord last Friday, by Wm 1 Nicholson, after a long discussion, decided that Henry. Ethridge. was, accessory to the crime. - The water from the mineral bpnng nas oeen analyzed by Prof. Hanna of the United States assay office. There is no uoudi oi .us Demg Among the mineral. young men who were licensed to practice law by the bu -preme Court, are the j following, which we find in the Raleigh Ifem: Edgar Thomas Albritton, Wayne; John Thomas Bland, Pender; David Sanders Koonce, Carteret; Neill Archie McLean; Jr., Robeson; Duu can Rose, Cumberland ; George Rountree, Lenoir; Julius Claxter Stephens, Wayue; Thomas Wright Strange, New Hanover. William Nicholson shot and killed a negro woman named Kate Barrio ger at Concord on last Friday. The Char lotte Observer says: Nicholson was at one time a young man of high character, moral and industrious, and is well connected. Ue has, however, been yery dissolute of late years, and it was generally known that au improper intimacy existed between him and the murdered woman. Raleigh' News: Chief Justice Waite cannot be here during this Circuit Court. He has exchanged circuits, and is holding court in New York. This is the first time during the century that a Chief Justice has held court in that State. In the Criminal Court. : Tpurgee was asked directly whether he was the author of the "C? letter?. He declined to give aa answer, thus leaving the case where it was befere. j Lenoir Topic: We learn,througb one of the counsel in the case, that Mary The Charlotte Excaralonlata. Mr. Caldwell, of the Charlotte Observer, gives a very interesting and spirited acs count of the recent merchants' excursionto this place, land the scenes and:Jncidents feonnected therewith, winding up as fol ! W8;: ; "The boys were as merry as larks, and in addition to the . other amusements got off at every station, until dark caught them, and ' wrestled for bets, in charge of Captain 'Butts' Everett to whom all Char- I lotteans are so partial, the train arrived at 5.30 Sunday morning, with a tired, 'sun burned, but happy load.' The pleasures of lw0 Ko:Hon.R. Y. McAden.Col.W. R. the occasion Were unnllAvprt .Thk: SJ,B'B f ' Hamby, the woman I charged with killing her mother, Mrs. Watson, in Wilkes coun ty, was acquitted of the charge of murder and was simply found guilty of an as sault. The Solicitor, Col. Cowles, could not find any positive evidence upon which he could base an action for murder, so he iuuuKufc it. aavisaoie.even though the accus ed was a woman of desperate character.to have ber tried simply for assault, upon which defendant submitted. The only wit ness in the case was the father of the pri soner, and husband; of the de td woman. Publicopinion.it seems, is divided about the matter. " 1' " - Raleigh News: . Justice Magnin, on yesterday, tried) the case of D. B Sorrell, Lynn Allen and AlphonsO Haynes three white youths, Who were arrested on Saturday night, charged with the shooting Of the negro boy John Lockhart . The trial gave no evidence to phow that these parlies did the shootine, but it was proved that they made the assault. The defendants were represented, by counsel. After care fully hearing the case the Justice required each of the three to give a bond of $200 for their appearance , at the nextlterm of the Criminal Court. Judge James Grant, or Davenport, Iowaj and formerly of Hali fax county, in this State, was, on motioD, Monday, in the Supreme Court, admitted to practice law io the several courts of this State. - During the month of May last, there were only four interments in Oak wood emeiery; two adults and two infants. Charlotte Observer: The follow ing is a list of the delegates to the railroad convention which met in Cincinnati a day or seines : hi. ... . . t ,t .u ackiu yrevem ine aesLrucliAti nf floh in the waters of Black River and Six Runs in the counties of New Hanoveri Cumber land, fiampson apd Harnett. Makes it unlawful for any person to catch or destroy with seines, nets, firearms; bows and Arrows, or by muddying or-tirriBg the waters, or by striking any fish of anv kinrf in ihn waters of Black br iSouth rivers in the eountiesof New Hanover, Sampson. Cum- wiouu w laiarucu, - aua or me, waters of were unalloyed: ' The trio -was thoroughly enjoyed by everybody, and the excursionists are enthusiastic in their praises of Messrs. Clark, Smith and Moody, who did all that men could have done for their guestaV SrjICvw: iuuu-, . TUB BODT SliAfCflEKs: J ora'coIeBeo baArre.ted i Ani CTnanecesaral searcb. : Special Dispatch to thea Charlestob Jours Hi ' c : V? mmerce . the great wrong upon the people was w,f;?t'M the frauds were per-sirAn'V- r- V. -7 petrated, they appear to have stood Lnfl. - Jx-!: Voot of all this ; is firm" in that direction. ; : 1 uesirea. ,4.1,. snouia go into history, and every, man engaged in the1 infamy should ,be itemized' a;s JscartoF and Arnold are itemized among the most despicable of the rtder u ' ' 5 :i : CmcixNATT . It wise. Well; as the frauds were per- "nnsinmeucounties or New Hanover i L search was made to-day lo 1 , ") aa "" iiauuo wcie pr 1 aQg Samrjgon between thlRth i1a t t 1 .ha MaAlt nlT- - u a- "6 '-"cii- re- . h New York Sun'ihw declared wdendafrom 1869 to -a 1877 inclu sive, Jaggregaii $1,196,000. Pretty o6d earnings that. - If 3 oar Scott's ( Hill correspondent "VorPopali will give as ! his name -With .Peasi:yWeTwnno The appropriations made to North Carolina by the Amended House Bill areas.'foilows; T'Z Cap Fear River,. $160000 French Broad,. . ... , :l. ...'fi 1 16,000 Sound and.NorthRiver i? Bar. ..,: .20fiAn ovuppernong Kiver,'. . . Edenton Harbor,.. . v. V ana me 10m tiay -or August id' each and i oral 'R,.4.: Tt "fc VJ every year Asfamendef bvhaX? tm 1 !r!frBeD3am"-Harnson, fori the laws of 1876-'77. a violation of the act a qs ois triend, Augustus Devine, misdemeanor, and upon conviction before n9?e,. body, was resurrected from any justice of the: peace in th'nnntw ConcreRR Rih n . . xt. where the offenceffer toornmittff: u - -"-ry, at xonn u imprtuut3u doi exceeding thirty says or fined not exceeding flftv dniior How 'often do We hear k 'rAn K'. uiun uc auuiaiaiDg tuu mailer with my blood, I have pimples alL over', We ...... our rule. 2,000 4,000 Total, B .. 1 v-.w. , , cm j.,yu a ' w V,J wwiure inai 01 jonn Scott HarrUon.;: The search resulted ln-thero finding of.-Devine's clothing. 1 hree bodies were also , found, but none of ihm was identified a tlo. Vini'l " Tho onWW T I,S'-.l'.- ' V ! ' , ciituvua are expected. , . Gen ; T i eral Harrwon has sworn- Ani en- , . .- ..; " -". r . r . . . . r . 000 would reeommenoV Dr:, Bull's Blood M x- 1 - - - e.8e?n Deing continued, tbf-'i r - -:; t 1- ' vejations are expected. Geh thT00 PQDty 3aiKM emptyvpr r the arrest of the Facult 6fh the first time n ten years. - fr if f b6Hse; pr' 1 2? DeWnlf n.ni rr. T. rown.oi. a. u. springs, CoL R. M. Oates. Charlotte is the only lowing the State that will be represented. ;- Five or six young Presbyterian ministers of this State have gone to other States to preach the Gospel, .during the . last six months, two of whom ktcio raiseu in vnanoite. 1. Rev. K. A. Miller will be installed pastor of the Pres byterian Church at jWadesboro next Sun day. Rev E. Morrison will deliver the charge to the pastori anditev. D. Parks.of Sugar . Creek Church, . this county, will charge the congregation. ' At the Baptist Church a series of meetings has becun.con ducted by Rev. J. E. Hinaon, )f Virginia. Clinton, the little son of M. C. Mayer, about six years old,' fell fmm tho nnroh of his father a, residence, on, College street. Friday evening, and broke his arm No serious result is apprehended , Char lotte has fifteen active lawyers, ranging in age- from twenty-five' to seventy years. ' Capt. R, p. Waring, of his city, has been invited to deliver the annual address before he students of the Anson Institute, , in Wadesboro, on Friday, June 14th. Yesterday Mr. H Cl iEccles, .'proprietor of the Central Hotel, closed a contract for the lease of the Metropolitan and for the pur chase of all the furniture therein, and later in the day the hotel was closed. Mr. Ec cles has decided to keep the Metropolitan closed until next September, 'when he will reopen and run it in connection with tbo V ventral.;, , ...
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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