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1HOSET TO BE USED.
The Washington Star says:
''The Republican committee ia in receipt
of letters, asking money from North Caro
lioa, Maryland, Alabama, Georgia,! Mis
sissippi and elsewhere those which usuaU
ly send sqlid' Democratic delegations to
Congress; whereas the candidates on the
Democratic ticket in Iowa, Minnesota,
Kansas and such States make like demands
upon the Democratic committee.. It would
'.seem, from reading some of the appeals,
1 hut money, after all, is the Archimedean
iever with which 'majorities are removed."
It is useless to lament that money
h agreat lever in American politics.
It li'as carried many a doubtful elec
tion in the North, and it'is not with-
I - .- . . :
out potency in the Soulb. We mere
jf - ' i
ly copy the above that our readers
may! be apprised of the plans of the
Radicals. They will attempt to car
ry the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth
Districts in North Carolina! by the
free!
use of money, provided the Radi
comraittee in Washington can
cal
furnish the necessary Bpondulics. At
hint!
accounts the campaign fund was
small, and even . the;: female
ver
clerks in the Departments had been
called on for contributions.' This is
bard treatment. They are not, al
lowed to vote, aud still they must
help furnish -the sinews of war.
When Gen. Lee concluded that
the slaves must be put in the army to
help the Southern whites achieve
their independence the game not oniy
looked desperate but was desperate.
When the Radical exchequer is j run
ning so low that hard worked and
reduced females are solicited or com
pelied to give of their earnings to
grease the campaign machinery, it
shows that the old thing is creaking
and worn out and that the cause is
beyond hope. Radicals used to give
lavishly, but it was in the flush times
-. . i . j
when they had their hands deep
down in the public money bags,
and when millions of dollars of
the public treasury were illegally
and basely diverted from their legiti
mate uses, and applied to the. vilest
political purposes to corrupt :and
buy up the voters of the country.
We do not believe that the Radi
cals can buy enough white' and co
lored voles in North Carolina to ena
ble them to elect one raemberof Con
gress. We know that many men
are corrupt and purchaseable, but
they are not in numbers sufficient to
overcome the honest voters who will
stand by honest money and the great
Democratic party, thAt alone can
bring redemption to the people, and
prosperity and safety to the whole
country. ' I
HAMPTON AND RIVE.
Gov. Rice has his feathers up. He
$'!
declines to receive Gov. Hampton's
slinging reply, or to allow it to be
placed upon file in the Executive De
partment of a State that will bei pro
bably presided over by a spoon-thief
and woman insulter. Hampton aimed
his arrow well, and it hit squarely the
centre. The galled jade winces. Even
a Massachusetts Governor's epidermis
is not as thick as the hide of a rhi
noceros. An arrow winged with truth,
and shot from a bow in strong; and
practiced hands, may pierce; tew the
central bone and make a boll-dozer
wince and squirm, and even yell, un
der the infliction. Rice's letter is
sharp and dignified enough, Shut its
air of injured innocence is rather
Wroad a "leetle" too fine. We j pre
some Gov.' Hampton will belcontent
to let Massachusetts have all the glo
ry to be derived from the sheltering
of Kimpton, a thief and fugitive from
Sooth Carolina. If violating law and
protecting plunderers and villains can
add to the name or fame of j Massa
chosetts, then we hope no effort will
v . I HE
VOL. 9.
be made to deprive her of ill. A! State
that began its history by religious per
secutions; by driving devout men and
women into the wilderness to perish ;by
burning harmless old woxnen,and even
young and handsome girls tinder the
stupid, superstitious and cruel charge
of witchcraft; by becoming a traffick
er in human blood, onjdft,bje leader in
capturing and selling !, into slavery
the ' wild African; by next- favoring
the v breaking up ' of 4he Union
because the tariff did not' suit its
cupidity; and finally, sigqalizing its
devotion to the. constitution and to a
high standard of honesty -by officially
throwing ovw a fugitive thief i from
another StaCe its broad, protecting
gis, may well celebrate jits advance
by elevating to .its highest office a
man of disreputable name, .who in
peace is a blatant and cunning dem
agogue, and in waf a braggart with
out courage, a commander with
out capacity, and a General with
out a victory. When "Beast" Butler
writes his name "Governor of Massa
chusetts," retributive I justice will
have begun j its work. It wil be a
fitting supplement to its; history to
have a bummer for its Chief Execu
tive. There is sometimes an exqui
site adaptation of the means to the
end.1 When such fellows pf the baser
sort like Boutwell and Potler. be
come representative nleti of Massa
chusetts, it is time for that State to
. . . i " i .
sins low and-its Governor mot to raise
his quills too high.
EXPLODED THEORIES.
." - i '
We have had occasion jto mention
before the unexplained mysteries of
yellow fever. About every theory
that -has been heretofore held has
been scattered to the four winds by
the great pestilence of ;.878. The
whole matter will have to be re
examined U novo. 1 Even the old
idea of contagion or infection
will
probably have to be discarded.
W hilst many persons in Memphis and
Grenada aud other terribly infected
places have succumbed at once, and
the papers say the healthiest and
strongest go first, the condition of
the atmosphere has acted as an abso
lute tonic upon others, and they have
become 'healthful and robust under
the malarial influences. The poison
of the atmosphere ' has proved a
remedial agent.
Again, there are places sontiguous
to New Orleans, ,and lying immedi
ately in the so called fever belt and
in almost hourly communicationwith
the infected city, that have escaped
the fever. Why this is iio one can
tell. In fact the physicians are at
sea, and their theories have been' torn
into shreds. The origin cf thei dis
ease and its propagation are j still
profound mysteries, and the leading
French physician of New Or!
eans
confesses his utter ignorance
hopelessness. :l 1
and
eans
So satisfied is the New Or
Times that the contagion cfr infection
hypothesis will have to be bandOned,
that it grasps at the theory of spon
taneous generation, and believes 'yel
low fever originates in this country.
It says:
"An unprofessional person called jupon
to pronounce -judgment would be apt to
say that this thing we call yellow fever is,
in the United States, simply a malignant
type of bilious or malarial fef er, liable to
breakout spontaneously in anyiplace where
the sanitary and atmospheric! conditions
favored its development. If this be not
true, why does it devastate small interior
towns quarantined to the point of extinc
tion, while it spares suburbs of Neitf Or
leans in hourly commnnicatiOn with the
fever foci ? Why or how, did jit appear in
Galhpolis, on the Ohio riterj more itban
seventy-hve years ago, at a time when a
journey from New Orleans consumed two
or three months, or more, and when, to
build up a theory of infection j from here,
one must assume that the yellow fever; pre
vailed here in March? The truth is that
the infection hypothesis will riot'Btand the
simplest test of experience and fact. Where
one set of events seems .to support! that
hypothesis, another set, equally genuine,
contradicts it as positively." 1
The Times says the doctors will
scout the opinion, but ins sts that it
is just as tenable as any of the theo
ries heretofore held by them, and
which have been completely ex
ploded. It adds:
"The fact is that at this season the fever
!
has wandered at its own sweet Will all over
the Southwest, skipping one locality; ana
nmineinz noon another, though both have
suffered equally from the dangers of inf ec
tion, and generally demolishing the most
hoary traditions of the disease, j If nothing
else has been proved, we think it safe to
say that no one will question oiir proposi
tion that the total absence of kny specific
knowledge has been proved, and, such be
ing the case, yellow fever becomes at Once
a national peril and a national calamity."
Wo tiAva before mentioned that the
altitude theory has been destroyed.
Itis now. at Chattanooga and other
places that are probably from eight
to ten hundred feet above the sea. It
hoa VtAPn Rhnwn that negroes jwill
have it, for hundreds have been seized
I V
a AY in -ttS. ssfJ
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WILMINGTON, N. C FRIDAY,, OCTQMt-tL,iaf8.v
by it this, summer,, and many have
died. Persons who have :h ad the fe
ver before hav died f rem it recently.
The theory that it will not attack the
inland, towns and the Atlantic coast
towns during the '.samV ieason alone
remains to be exploded.
' '' ;;: go TcwroBit. H
: The Democrats - of this District
should make no mistake.- Although
no open enemy is in the : field it
should not be concluded that there
will be none and there is no danger.
What Col. i Waddell has to fear, is
concealed foes and not open enemies.
The Democrats have it in their power
totsend him to Washington with a
larger . majority than he ever, .te
ceived, but it cannot be donelby sinix
ply making speeches orf writing ,edii-.
torials, U must be donttiyl fcoaiaiv
persistent work. If the Democrats
of the twelve counties Were" all on
the alert,as full of zeal and activity as
they were in 1876, it would be the
easiest thing in the world to elect
Col. Waddell by two thousand ma
jority, in spite of all tricks and plans
and combinations and conspiracies.
We do not at present apprehend
any serious danger. That an effort
will be made to defeat the Democrat
ic candidate, and that a Radical op
ponent will appear before the day of
election, although he may be in dis
guise, we may well expect. All the
Democrats have to do to insure Col.
Waddell's electiou is to do their whole
duty. This cau not be done without
good, hard work. It cannot be done
save by beginning at once.
WJKNDEL.L PHILLIPS'S COW
PLAINT. Everybody knows who Wendell
Phillips is. He is the most eloquent
of the original band of abolitionists.
He hates everything Southern much
worse than he hates sin or Satan. His
soul becomes the seat of every bad
and vengeful passion whenever he
thinks of the South. Wendell is now
in much trouble. His verv unri&ht-
I
eous soul is sorely vexed because he
sees the time approaching 1 when the
South will be in power, or a great
political factor again. This stirs the
evil one within Wendell, and makes
his bile very bitter. He. has written
a letter to Jim Blaine a very mourn
ful letter iu which he lets out some
of his bile and shows how disturbed
he is at the political prospect. He is
a Radical of the Radicals, and he has
seen the handwriting on the wall only
with too much distinctness.
The trouble with Phillips is, that
the Radicals have not acted more
wisely in regard to the finances. It
seems that he has been urging a
change, but the leaders did not heed
his warning. Here is the way he
puts bis case:
"If your party had offered a plan for the
government's issuing of all the paper note
currency (a doctrine to which the best
European thought is hastening, if it has not
already reached it), the same to be legal
tender everywhere, -and for every purpose,
and interconvertible with bonds for a long
term and at a low rate of interest, the prin
cipal and interest of which should be pay
able in coin, that would have saved us
from the Bourbon South in 1880.
"What I hear from Republican business
men convinces me that if they could have
been countenanced in such a platform by
trusted leaders, such leaders would have
carried the country. I do not say that
such a financial plan would have wholly
satisfied me, but it would have held the
country.' j
"It is sad to see a party that has led - the
world in advanced yet conservative opin
ion, quit its place and fall behind the best
financial thought of Europe, clinging to
obsolete if not exploded theories, losing
the helm in defense of ideas that ten years
hence men will smile al. One great con
cern with me is that thus they Insure
Southern Bourbon rule for the next dozen
years."
Greenbackers will please note that
the Radicals are committed, accord
ing to Wendell Phillips, to a finan
cial policy that has been tried and
found wanting to a hard money pol
icy that persisted in will insure the
triumph of the Southern people in the
affairs of the government.
While some mouthing ignoramuses
are endeavoring to persuade Demo
crats to leave their party and coope
rate with Radicals to bring about a
financial reform, we see this great
Radical, Phillips, overcome with fear
lest the goldites who have control of
his party should so .cripple and de
stroy it that the Southern Democrats
will again get in power. .
livery-' utterance from the North
but confirms and establishes the un
deniable truth that the old Republi
can party Is committed to the policy
of contraction and hard j money, that
has already brought the greatest dis
tress upon the country, and if per
sisted in will bring about univer
sal bankruptcy, and continuein def
fnitely the universal stagnation of
the last five years. What Demo-
'ill "1.. i j3M31..l7'jJ.;I ,s,,1!,'tii,
(tiiiu! 'XjJ.ir'
i doit H it iiini i i . v
crats can gain r h'
cvu au uuuavuiai aiuauuo uuu luiiuu
as is prbpqse
icals getting m the same truckle-bed
would puzzle any . sane man, - ana
in, - and
would turnisn a perpetual riddle to
tne mnnt : lncrpmrtiiA
most, , ingenious- inmates, ot toe
most advanced ward, in lunatic asy-.
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DOCTORS W1LJUDIFFBB.
impressive poem.jtjl?iAre are a . &ttpT6
or so of lines ibat are peculiarly
IBJlUIKUUBj ouu uctia-UUUj Jlt
mean master. We - admit there! "ia
considerable force' iqVfeilMtoK?
of the Index-Appeal tcHthe: refrain'
oe aF9jWe y n4.7wi?e.IarQ qney"
',' We undertake to say that the expres
sion is not good English. We are sure that
we never encountered it in any other wri
ter, whether of prose or verse, . and still
more sure that the phrase violates the logi
cal form and meaning of the exclamation.
Woe is vt, the usual method of expression,
is easily explicable in the theory that it is
elliptical, standing for 'woe is to us,' the da
tive form which stands for possession iq
the Latin language; just as the, words 'I
have a book' are - translated, not Kabeo
librum, but liber est mihi."
) Whilst all this may be true, such a
defect ; cannot rob the poem of its
olaim to be a success, according to
our apprehension! , We judge 'it by
the impression it makes upon our
mind and heart.
We have read it
carefully more than once, and the
effect is ghastly and depressing, and
the poet accomplishes the very pur
pose in view. Hej has thrown an un
earthly solemnity a sort of troubled
glamour over the whole poem which
stands as a picture or reflection of
the whole land of
sorrow and death.
It seems to us that there is singular
truthfulness in DS Profundis a cer
tain solemn and weird effect. The
descriptions are very terse and
graphic, whilst the poem ao a whole
is a translation of the silent language
of anguish and suffering, permeated
with a holy, solemn, reverential feel
ing, clothed in words of aptness and
sweetness, and relieved by poetic
turns of phrase.
; The Philadelphia Times, thinking
that the poet is dead, takes this view
pf his last sad, sweet notes: -,
"Father Ryan's last poem, 'De Profun
dU, written in view of the ravages of the
plague to which he fell a victim, was print
ed in the limes of Sunday last- It is pro
bably the only true poetry wrung from the
heart of the South, or called forth from any
quarter, in contemplation of the present
solemn visitation of Providence upon the
South."
THE RESOLUTIONS OP TUB SEC"
I OND DISTRICT.
The Democratic! Convention of the
Second District adopted some very
judioious resolutions. They will com
mend themselves to every thoughtful
voter in that District. They "accept
in good faith the recent amendments
to the constitution, and renew their
pledges to protect the absolute
equality of all men before the law as
secured by the organic law of the
land." They denounce the "contrac
tion of the cuirency, brought about
by the Republican administration,"
because it "has crippled trade and
business; brought
ruin upon thou
sands, aud poverty upon millions of
our people; has deprived labor of em
ployment and thus forced thousands
into idleness and suffering, thereby
threatening the integrity of our insti
tutions, both political and social." j
They denounce the"preseut National
Bank system" as "an odious monopo
ly, supported by the government for
the benefit of capitalists and moneyed
rings by an oppressive and prohibi
tory tax upon State banks," and they
declare that the "said system is en
tirely unstiited to the wants of the
agricultural sections of the country
on account of its exhorbitant rates of
interest." They, therefore, "demand
the repeal of the National Bank law;
the retirement of the National Bank
currency, and the substitution there
for of greenbacks, j which greenbacks
shall be a legal tender for all sums,
and shall be receivable by the gov
ernment for all dues, duties and
taxes; the amount of such issuance to
be regulated by legislation or organic
law: as to give the people assurance
pf stability in the volume of currency
and the consequent stability, of the
value. . No further increase in the
bonded debt, and no further sale of
bonds for the purchase of coin for re
demption purposes, but the gradual
extinction of the public debt, . rigid
economy, and the reduotion of ex
penses in all branches of the public
service."- '-". ,
i These are timely declarations.
They are precisely in accord with
what we believe to be the matured
: i
Sta r.
M .1 V
in North Carolina.
j Tne resolutions also denounce the
'great f And, W which the 'Presidency
was. stolen, demand therepeal of the
Resumption, act, favor a tax on in
cpmes, and a reduction of the. unjust
.taxes on tobacco and brandy distilled
from fruit, and "favor the taxing ,ojf
every person ,in proportion to uie
changes.and should favor them. Cant.
hop, goes before tne people advoca
ting wtthjZeal and force thesemea-
4 ti-j t - )' tic M'.
.""i'-K" iwiiiAun i Jiwi' ; i i ,.
it tne.peopn
tue they will accept ne. issue 'ana
hciiu uuu to vvuif rem.,
:J ,U ...i.TRicT-j ;
- The attempt to set aside the colored
Vman and brother', OHara. byname,
who was. duly nominated for t Con
gress in the Second District,; will not
be altogether successful, if we may
trust reports. O'Hara has emphati
cally declared that he, will not be
slaughtered after that style, to give
place to Col. Humphrey or any other
of the newly converted, or any of the
"fire tried." He says he means to run,
Humphrey or no Humphrey.
There is no little of disingenuous-
ness in the whole procedure. We
always understood that the conven
tion which nominated O Hara was
regularly called. I According to the
time-honored usages of the Radical
and Democratic parties, a nomination
made regularly settled the matter,
however many aspirants were disap
pointed and disgruntled. O'Hara
having been properly nominated
must be regarded by the "trooly loil"
as the regular nominee of the party.
No doubt ex-Gov. Brogden,a worthy,
honest man, or Col. Humphrey, but
newly fledged with Radical feathers,
would be delighted to go to Wash
ington and draw the $5,000 per an
num, but then they were not nomi
nated, and their party in convention
assembled has declared that they
must stand aside.
It would really appear to be very
unfair' for the bolters to meet at
Kinston and place an opposition can
didate in the field. O'Hara is a col
ored man. His people are vastly in
the majority. They have heretofore
sustained white7 Radicals. They sent
ex-Judge Thomas and ex-Gov. Brog
den to Congress, and now that they
prefer to send one of their own race
and oolor, their wishes are to be dis
regarded, and their selection is to be
ignored. Whether they will allow
this remains to be seen. If they have
learnt anything by the past, and have
any self-respect they will hardly
yield to the crack of the whip
whether in the hands of this
man or that man. j If thirteen years
experience in politics has not taught
them that they are to be used as
means to an end, and that end the
advancement and promotion of the
white men of their party, then they
are Blow to learn.' They have been
used systematically during all those
years to pull the chestnuts out of the
fire for the gratification of their white
allies. Chestnuts are toothsome
things, and it is but common fairness
that they should be distributed now
and then among those who have so
long time done the pulling. But
those who live will see what comes of
the Kinston game.
It is the common custom among
the best papers in this country to
publish the notices of their brethren
concerning their enterprises. This is
done upon the principle that the
press is supposed to reflect the best
public sentiment, and because news
paper men are supposed also to be
competent judges of the value and
"get up" of their contemporaries.
We have followed this custom, and
have no apologies to make for so
doing. We have only published
those that came ; from -persons who
had no connection whatever with the
Stab. We have been grateful to
many of our brethren in and out of
the State for very partial and friendly
notices, and they hare been incen
tives to us to strive - the harder
to deserve their good opinions.
England ought to have a plenty of
money at home when she has to buy
eight bushels of breadstuffs for every
man,1 woman and child in the British
Islands. Such was the case daring
the year ending September 1, 1878,
as is shown by the statistics of the
country. There is a very great ; in
crease in the imports - of . breadstuffs
over the preceding year.
NO. 50.
Inrormatloa Waati. , , ,; j ., . .
j A correspondent writes that there is a
lady in : Franklin Township, Sampson
county, who has lost her husband, and
,-wants to know ' through our columns his
whereabouts. She says she married a CapL
Howe, formerly of the privateer Jeff Davist
bf the. la,te ponfederacy. . The last seen of
him, to her knowledge, was when he. hove
his bbai, the Little Adrian alongside of her
watf1 on 'January 28th, 1885, abdshe thinks
that i i : all probability he was drowned.
Any information as to his whereabouts will
be.thankfully received. , . ;
, Cat'Tupman. -of the British barque
LiliaA, arrived in -below, reports that on
the JLs instant Frying - Pun lightship, bear
1 ihg, south-southeBst, distant forty miles, he
.passed the' Norwegian full-rigged ihlp JUerl
itif TffnsS: Wfttfirlntrcrp nnA phnnrlhnnrl'' annl'
i; r -. . -bo w
rahtp decks-lewel I with s the:? W'We
are j&dtbtedV) to Sergeant .Seybb, signal
; I Since the foregoing was written we have
some further ' jparlicurai " TM ikier is a-full-rigged
ship," Captain C.9'lversen, 783 ;
tons register, was built in WallaQe, Nova
Scotia, in' 1857, and was owned byR.:M
Petersen & Co. Captain Tupman also re
ports American brig Dauntless, of Bangor,
Maine, at Ceara, and about ready to sail
for the West ladies on the 10th of Sep
tember. All well, and asked to be reported.
The brig Lilian is from Ceara, and con
signed to Messrs. Alex. Sprunt.& Son..
The Braiiawivk Eleetlon Case
j The above case was argued before Judge
Buxton in , Chambers at Smilhville, on
Thursday, ex-Judge Russell for the plain
tiffs, and John D. Bellamy, Jr., forlhe de
fendants, at the conclusion of which the
injunction was dismissed. Judge Russell
gave notice . of an appeal to the Supreme
Court, and applied for a rule to restrain the
parties interested from qualifying until a
decision could be had in the higher Court,
but it was refused.
Severely Injured.
Mr. E. W. Taylor, Postmaster at Easy
Hill, Brunswick county, had some dispute
with a colored man a few days since, in re
gard to a letter, and some angry words
passed between them, when the colored
individual, whose name we did not ascer
tain, struck Mr. Taylor over the head with
a stick, inflicting an injury from which he
is now said to be suffering intensely.
Colored Insane Asylum.
We learn from Col. 8. L. Fremont that
the contract for erecting the Colored Insane
Asylum at Goldsboro' has been awarded to
Mr. Geo. S.. H. Appleget, of Salisbury.
The next lowest bidder is the firm of Wil
kins& Harding, of Portsmouth, Ya., who
will get the contract in case of; a"failure on
the part of Mr. Appleget to give the re
quired bond, -i
We learn from a gentleman just
from Columbus county that diphtheria is
raging among the children in the neighbor-,
hood six miles south of Whiteville, Mr.
John Singletary having lost two of his chil
dren from the disease on Wednesday,
CURRENT COMMENT.
- Colorado has given a pretty
loud and positive answer to the ac
tion of the Democratic House at
Washington, electing a i Congress
man for that State after the people
had chosen, another man. : It was a
most barefaced fraud to seat Patter
son, Democrat, when Judge B elf ord,
Republican,had been elected by near
ly a thousand majority in the fullest
vote ever polled, and it was a most
offensive display of ignorance or ar
rogance for Patterson to go before
the people stained all over by his
usurpation of a seat in Congress to
which the people had chosen Belford.
The manly sense of justice that has
ever been a conspicuous attribute of
the pioneers of the West, must have
perished to make it possible for Pat
terson to come within sight of an
election, and Colorado has very pro
perly emphasized her .content for po
litical jugglery by increasing the ma
jority for the whole Republican
ticket. Phil. Times, 2nd. .
We are not all angels at the
South, and in Kentucky and Tennes
see they do have a way of occasion
ally taking from jail negro men for
violating the persons of innocent
white women and hanging them,
tfyjg depriving . them of the privilege
oitelling thousands from the gallows,
how they are going home jto glory,
and how sorry they are for poor sin
ners doomed to a longer pilgrimage
on earth. And yet it does not be
come New England to upbraid us, in
season and out of season, about our
wickedness, for every mail brings
us accounts of robberies by bank
officers in the States of Rhode Island
and Massachusetts, and to-day's I pa
pers are yet full of Connecticut's
latest horror, the story of j the man
who killed his friend at Bridgeport,
in order to sell his body to the Yale
medical school. Then, too, ' there is
before the courts the Norwich case
of Bishop and Mrs. Cobb, a man and
woman moving in respectable socie
ty, who are said to have poisoned,
the one his wife and' the other her
husband, in order to remove all ob
stacles to. their guilty love. Of
course the man now declares that the
woman was the guilty party. Rich
mond Whig, Greenback.
j Raleigh i,News , .We observe.
with much regret, among the list of deaths
from the vellow fever, the name of the
Rev. Duncan Cameron Green, rector of the
Episcopal Church, at Greenville, Missis
sippi. The Churchman says of ; him i 'Mr.
Green was the beloved son of the venerable
Bishop of Mississippi." j.
Spirits Turpentine
Misses Cora '.and Daisy Holt,
daughters of Col. T. M. Holt.of Alamance,
and Miss Dora Williamson, combined ef
forts and raised $100 for the yellow fever
sufferers. - . t j -
Ra&g&Olwerver: The Orange
Presbytery ia ia session at Haywood,
Mrs. George B. 'Wetmpre, of Rowan, has
sent Mr. P. A. Wiley f 7 50 to be sent to
the Sisters of St. Mary, Memphis. 1
Morrissville, Wake county, has
contributed $13", GO; Ashebero, $8 !47;
Weldon Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F., $25; -
Uamden Lodge, $12 75; D. Worth, Com
pany Shops, $3 00, for the fever sufferers.
Goldsboro Messenger: The an
nual session of the Newbern District Sim- :
day School Conference . of the Methodist
Church will be held at Mount Olive, com
mencing the 18tb"of October, and a niost
interesting meeting is expected. -k "T
"The Rev. 3. W. P. Fackler, latt- r
of Greensboro, is shown do bv his in
jured wife, Mrs.., CeniaFackler, in the
southern Baptist papers.! She furnishes
letters written by him that prove him to be
a bad man. Mo treated her verT shame
fully. ' ; - ' ;
Newbern Nut I Shell'. General
Ransom's force is busy cleaning away lh
ob8tructious, etc., in the. bottom of Keuse
river,-at the blockade:' Many of our citi
zens have been down'to witness the work
going en. Yesterday was devoted exclu
sively to blowing up old wrecksiund it will i
probably take two or three days longer to '.j
cpnjpletethe. . . r 4
! r7,Wilkesboro Witness On the
24ih hltimo Wm. Anderson was stabbed
by t3tbnJhioa on Hustiaf ftreekt in. this
county . It is thought Anderson will die. t
Johnson has' been committed to jail.
We learn that Mr. Brower candidate for
Congress in this District, came near being
drowned on the 17th, on his way to E!k
villejlo meet his. opponent,; Col. Armfield.
Washington (N. C.V corresnon-
deht of the Tarboro Southerner: D. N.
Bogart has been elected 4 Captain of the .
Washington Light Iofantrv. vice .Taa. K
Sheppard resigned. An enterprising
colored member of the rising generation
mounted a perfectly gentle, though sick,
mule a few days since near Pactolus. The
boy was violently thrown, breaking bis
neck, and the mule died a short time there
after on the same day. .
Winstou Sentinel: About half a
mile east of town the negroes have erected
a stand, shed and a camp, and for two
weeks have been running a high pressure
revival such a one only as the colored
population can get up. - The tobacco
crop, a few weeks ago, promised to be very
fine, but the late cool, wet and threatening
weamer uas prevented it from ripening -properly
in the hill, causing much of it to
be cut green..
Raleigh News: The diphtheria
has not been prevalent in .Wake county,
but has broken out With some virulence in
a portion of it. News now comes that the
disease prevails to an alarming extent: in
the neighborhood of Fletcher's Chapel and
Barbee's store. Several children have died
and . numbers are dangerously ill.
There will be discharged from the -Slate
Penitentiary to-day (Friday.) Frances
Green, colored," convicted in Craven county
of , larceny, and eentenced I to the Peniten
tiary October, 1877. She is about 21 years
old, 5 feet 6 inches high, and weighed,
when admitted, 135 pounds.
Winston . Sentinel: An action
has been commenced "by the Board of Com
missioners of Forsythe county, against the
estate of the late I. G. Lash, in regard to
his transactions as financial agent of ihe
county in the issue and sale of county
bonds, known as the railroad bonds. The
commissioners. claim that Mr. Lasb, as the
agent of the county, sold bonds and bough t
them himself at . much less than their full
value, and that being the case, the county
is only liable for the amount actually paid
by Mr. Lash, with the interest thereon.
Raleigh Observer: The en
campment of the State troops on the Saun
ders property, just in the rear of Major
Tucker's, is attracting a great deal of atlen -tion
throughout the State. The ladies are
in great glee at the approaching visit of the
soldier boys, and it will be one of the hand
somest features Of the occasion. The rail- -road
and steamboat officials have been
very liberal in furnishing transDortalion.
and deserve a vote of thanks for it. Twenty
eight companies will rendezvous here. It
is safe to say that these companies will have
in their ranks 1,000 men handsomely uni
formed and equipped.
Charlotte Democrat: Trade has
been very good during the week, about 500
bales of cotton selling a day. The
President of the Carolina Fair Association
announces that a Fair will be held in Char
lotte on th 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of
November. The Postmaster at Indian
Trail, Union county, has resigned, and
consequently the office : is discontinued un
til another Postmaster is obtained.
All the Colleges of the State are now in
operation. The State University at Chapel
Hill has about 180 Btudents; Trinity Col
lege, in Randolph county, , has about 175
students; Wake Forest, in Wake county,
100 students; Davidson College, in Meck
lenburg, 110 students; Carolina Military
Institute, at Charlotte, about 100 Btudents.
All of the above are male institutions.
Goldsboro Mail'. About 5,000
bales of cotton are sold yearly in Rocky
Mount. - Goldsboro has ten mercantile
houses whose aggregate sales reach over
one million dollars annually. ' The Sab
bath school of the Methodist Church here
made up and sent to the yellow fever suf
ferers, a few days since, j $82. Mr.
Benjamin Murphrey, of Wayne county.had
his dwelling consumed by fire on Monday
night. It caught from a stove pipe. Loss
covered by ; insurance. - j- Wilmington
bids fair to become one of the greatest ship-
fing ports for cotton of any along the At
antic slope. It has every facility for hand
ling the staple. I Powerful compressing ma
chines, merchants with large capital, and
railroads running out into the interior in
every direction.!
Charlotte Observer: A telegraph
office has been established at Beaver Dam
Station, Union j county, on the Carolina
Central Railroad. A telegram re
ceived here announces the death, yesterday
afternoon, at the sanitarium for consump
tives, at Asheville, of Mr. Walter W. Latta,
the junior member of the firm of E. D.
Latta & Bro., clothiers, of this city. Mr. .
Latta was a native of South Carolina.
Papers further North report that the army
of tramps coming South for the winter is
larger than ever: News from Mr. W.
S. Webster, who was shot at Gaffney City,
about ajweek ago, is to the effect that he is
improving and considered out of danger.
-One of the very oldest . citizens of
Cleaveland county, Dr. Anderson S. Elam,
died at his home on the 25th ultimo, hav
ing been stricken With paralysis, at the ad
vanced age of JK" year 8. " A telegram
received, in this city yesterday afternoon
announced the death at Floral College, in
Robeson county, of Rev. Archibald Baker,
a prominent Presbyterian minister.long the
beloved pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Salisbury. Mr. Baker! died suddenly.
Information reaches us from Monroe
that a negro was brought to that plgce and
jailed, yesterday afternoon, for cutting the
throat of another negro, Tuesday night,
about seven miles below the town, inflict
ing upon his victim a fatal wound. .Tbts
makes three murder cases- to come on for
trial at the fall term of Union court, which
is to be held this month, rr- The receipts ,
of cotton yesterday amounted to 540 bales,
which is unprecedented for the season.
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