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WSL H. BEBff ARD, Editor and Prop'r. WILMINGTON, N. C. " x "- ri i. - ;- if ' ' ' ' - Friday' 1 - September 30, 1881. ; r j-' ? 1 -' '"; " : -: ' ;"" BpTn writing to change lyotir address, alwayt give former direction as well as fall particulars as where yon wish your paper to be sent hereafter. Unless you do both changes can not be made,: "Notices of Marriasre or Death, Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, Ac., are ohaiyed for as ordinary advertisements, but only naif rate when paid for strictly in advance.- At this rate 60 eentu will pay for a simple announcement Of Marriage or Death, r ; . - .-i ' "Remittances must be made by Check.Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Post masters will register letters when desired. . - . rag" Only such remittances wfllbe at the risk of the publisher. j r (K i - . tSTSpecimen copies forwarded when desired. ,. .i.-f- after : BTmiAli. ' ; J- : On Monday all that was mortal of the late President was laid in the grave dust " ;.tor dust. 'After life's troublous days we -hope he sleeps well. He gave his life to 'his coun try and, we may believe, his heart to his God. - Another man sits in the same high place occupied so recently by the departed President, and the wheels of Government are rolling on without jar ort friction. . Does not this fact give an assurance of stabili ty to our institutions? . The power passes from one man to another with out' diminution of confidence or of strength hi our civil institutions. The entire world has been -looking upon the scene with;; no little of ad miration. They have seen the entire machinery of a great Government nioving on safely, smoothly, during eighty days when the legally, con stituted head of the TJnion was lying on his bed in the mighty ? fight with death, - and yet every principle was preserved; there! was j not a bolt, or a screw or a piston or, any other part disturbed for a moment. In fact, so profound was the anxiety 'of the whole American people as they watched day and night over the great wrestle with death that was' going on in the chamber of the Chief Magistrate, i that there was an un wonted calm. Men's evil passions slept. The good in the human heart was asserted. No angry reproaches, no : bickeririgS, rio -contentions dis turbed the harmony of the sections. Men of opposite! parties took each hand, and, looking othe r by the into the kindly light of each other's eye, spoke hopefully, or sympatheti cally, or sadly of the heroic soul whose life was ebbing away. '' ; Why. shall discords land: evil-speaking and misrepresentations and crim inations come back presently to mar the harmony and to break up the growing sentiment of brotherhood and gentleness and ' fellow-feeling ? Shall good citizenship aid in the res-j toration of bad blood and angry con4 tention? Or rather, does it not be hoove all who love their country sin . cerely and who desire;; an era of fra- ternal fellowship to frown upon all efforts to awaken sectional discord as unseemly, unwise and unpatriotic? But not. only , did the complex Government j machinery work evenly during the lopg suspense of the eighty days of illness, j but (when the solemn honr came jrheri James Abram - Gar field was to be gathered to his fathers in the midst of the tears and anguish of his own bereaved household and with the lamentations of a vast, and mighty Republic laccoinpanying him it remained undisturbed in every part, ana r- tne sensitive industries oi tne vast country j felt no shiver and no change; Europe lean but regard such manifestations as ! so many evidences of the grandeur and sfreatness of the " i t i (i ..... i American Republic, '!.; That which - 11 ' 3 i : -1 , - . x j , j is had nri other fifTWt than tn orJve cue n lvuuuguvc; auyi uuw ill bile perpetuity pi jour civil institutions and to establish and confirm their rtroo T xr o Inn ,i ! I Let us as j good citizens, aim "to strengthen those institutions." In the tfcne of national ' bereavement and sorrow let us gather around the altar of liberty and swear eternal5 fidelity t the grand principles and muniments .. tnat constitute our hope and our safeguard. Let us all; resolve, irre- sective of party,that on these shores civil and religious liberty shall bepr& skrved, .and thai amid the ' mutations5 oi parties and the rivalries and con tests of men he ballot shall be kept, iri deed-and in j truth, ; both free and ' PFe The funeral obsequies are ended. Tile grave is closed,; The late Presi dent has "passed i through nature to elernity.", , fGood,i ' brave, . : heroic" President, a long : farewell. " " . "lie gave his honors to the world ao-am FBa blessed part i ta 4 Heaven and slept in peace. TheiLegislature' of . Georgia, have wnder consideration a bill to make ;sfcb an Appropriation for the Univer sity of that State ', as shall make it iree to ally and no charge for tuition The Senate has -passed the bilL t ( There are always grumblers. We notice that some one is "disgruntled" because the authrTtfief (are-enfeavor- ino to eret up a nue exi4tn aiiiaiiia kJ instead Tf directicg al itheir; energies - -11 on the Ralei'Fair.-HeritesHo the editor of the News- Observer .that the -State ; Department ; is working hard - Vto .-build up the State of lieorgia." Raleisrh has had a Fair yearly latSStn pr twenty years, it is an old thing. About the same Jte6ple( kttend;; each I jearrAhalf dozen or- more surrounding counties pour in by hundreds, and a half dozen othei-s send their : fif tiesj , and - then a dozen or so from some other counties, and a few scattering one all .through the State, and this is the air. ' The fifteen hundred thousand people; with these exceptions, take but little interest in it and know but little of What has been done. Horse, racing, rifle-shooting,v military displays .do not impress the , people asjthe. best way to develop our resources or to make two blades pf grass or two bolls of cotton grow where only one grew before. . . We do not say this to express in difference to the State ; Fair -e. We are always glad when" it, is, ' a, pro nounced success. iWe have attended several, and have seen many things to commend whilst seeing a great deal that mightrhave been improved. We are pleased to hear that the pros pect of 'a satisfactory FjrtrjnOcfp ber is very good. We hope that the attendance will . be large arid the benefit? obtained excellent, but it is far more important that North Caro lina shall : be represented at Atlanta, than that the Raleigh Fair shall be "a big thing." . The Atlanta Expo sition is for one year. It will not be repeated probably in ten or twenty years, if. ever repeated. The South mut do its utmost in 1881. Now is indeed with North Carolina and all the Southern States the-accepted time. Next year will be . too late.; Time and opportunity come not back: again. :) "' r'--' ;! ' So we are glad to learn from, our esteemed contemporary . that .: the State Department is making a strenu ous effort to have North Carolina represented fully at the great South ern! Exposition. We hope the De partment will be sustained amply by the, people. , North Carolina has it in its power to - make a most creditable exhibit. Let every section of the State pull together. Let every man of ' enterprise arid thrift "send some thing to Atlanta. : If you must select between the State Fair and the At lanta Exposition as to which you will favor, then send to Atlanta. ; This is a necessity, r State pride and self- interest appeal in behalf of the Geor-; gian city. Not because it is. Georgia, but because 'it is North' Carolina that is involved, that we would urge the choice to be in favor of Atlanta. If you can patronize both, then do so; but if one only, then at -every cost help in swelling , the achieve ments of your grand old State at the most important Exposition the South has ever known. ' - j ; tiN. JO JOHNSTON. In August, 1864, Gen. ; Joseph E. Johnston wrote a letter in defence of his course that has just been made public. ; It appears in the ; Philadel phia Times, and. is addressed to Col. Lewis Washington; He shows that he pursued the same tactics' that Gen. Lee pursued after the 'battles of .the Wilderness, and that Grant penetra ted more extensively into Virginia than Sherman did into Georgia. He says Gen. Lee's course ' satisfied te Government and country and "added ta his great glory." . ' . ' The following is instructive, and we have no doubt true, for it is con firmed fully by other writers and participants; i Geri. Johnston says : "The relative strength of Sherman's army and mine made the chances of victory , in ease we attacked, in his favor. At Dal- ton he had a fortified pass close in his rear as a place of refuge in case of mishap. In moving south he advanced fortifying, "and therefore always had an intrenched position Close behind him. . Victory could not have been decided far HS under: such, circum stances, while defeat would nave been ruin ous. , We therefore. . kept near him to take advantage of any exposure of hinjse tfeat he might make, , but he made none of a general character, such as would have lusti hed battle and repelled his almost daily partial assaults with trifling loss, while he on all such" occasions isuffered heavily.; . We fell back before ' him ninety-three miles in seventy-two days. The sunt of , our losses was about 10,000. His we estimated at five times as much--f rom the opinious of expe rienced officersi'repprts of prisoners taken daily, and statements of Northern papers. " Gen. Johnston impressed most f a vorably Gen Grant with his, high sol dierly qualitLss.. ' During a two hours .conYersjiQQ..a1 in November, 1865 Gen. Johnstoii was the only Confederate commander he praised - for his generalship. Jfe said when Mr, Davis remove4 hW as he was falling back before Sfyerriian "he was conducting the campaign use a soiaier..' we neara a eoera i " ' ' 'soldier, who was "with -Sherman in the Georgia campaign, say in April, d jusly.id thit.the Federal losses wre great -W$re than the "Rebels" "gupposedx.Whilst not agreeing with him we know that an able Federal General held- the opinion that John: ston was siperiir ftol Lee a&.4 ..i3vidfir,'rin"gh--t:Mi-'ft-JaAtopif had m.ucb, he mostiengagingquali- ties. - . f 11. r n n 1 . -t: fi j :a i. Wben'the -Senate" meets -onsr5the 10th prox., 'there ought 'riot tobe any wrangling. ? With . the . condition of the respective parties in that body it looks as if aft organization '. could be effected without' debate and" certainly without bad feeling." Counting Sen ator Davis the Democrats f can give 3 8 votes, or 37 -v without him. - The Republicans have 35 votes- with Ma hone, who is called by the Philadel phia Times a f'Democratic .Repudia-? tion free-booter." There are two Senators, Xapham and Miller, of New York, who are : elected but are tipt qualified. t They, too, r are ; Republi cans. Gen.' Ambrose Burnside's death creates a , vacancy from Rhode Island, but f his successor.' will -' be elected before the - Senate meets.. i,v If . all the Senators, including the three not:; qualified, meet promptly on the ' 1 0th the. Senate will stand 38 Democrats (including Davis, Inde-i pendent, . who will ..vote .. with them probably), and 38 Republicans," (in cluding little Billee Mahorie, who will vote with his 'new'.-' Republican allies no doubt). If the Democrats should allow-Jthethree elected but not qualifie4 Republican ' Senators to take, their seats before the election of President 1 df the ! Senate comes off, there would tbe a tie,, supposing Da vis and Mahone ;should vote as clas sified above." This would, necessitate, a compromise, and the result would be probably the election of a Repub lican, a thing not to be desired. What action will the ; Democrats take -with reference to the three Sen- ators? Will they do as custom au-: thorizes and as the course of Repub licanism would ; suggest?- i In . other words will they; allow , the three Senators to qualify before the Sen ate is organized, or will they say to them you cannot be sworn in until the . body is organized duly,' which will not'be before a President and all other officers are chosen? - We take it for granted that : the Democrats will obey , usage and the "eternal fitness "of things." ' We sup pose they will first organize' and then allow members to be sworn in. r As far as we know - this is custom and common sense. It is certainly in ac cordance with the practice of the Re publicans. That party would think as soon of filling a Cabinet under . a Republican. President5 ' with "Dem- tocrats, supposing . the selection lay with the party,, as to allow three Democratic . Senators, not qualified, to be s worn in to give, them, the con trol in the Senate. : Magnanimity is not a very commendable quality in politics. Self-preservation is the first law. The Democrats will best serve the country by taking care of ;them- elves. j It is settling- down fast in the North to the conviction that Arthur will make a clean sweep, and make a hew Cabinet out and but. 1 The Stal warts say this is what he will do and what he ought to do. ; One -of this sort has . been interviewed: by : the Philadelphia Times, who scouts . the idea of Garfield's policy being carried but.:". Here is the .ways ' this .leader talks: ; i-vi h'S'''1 JH' ! "The President is riot Mr. Garfield. Mr Hayes or General Grant. . . He ,. couldn't , be other than Arthur if he tried ever so much. As President he is sworn . to discharge, the duty to the best of his ability. - As Presi dent he is responsible- for the conduct of the government, . If will not d&for Mm U) say, 'Well, well, Garfield would haye done this and I'll do it' for in doing so he would violate his oath and merit the contempt of all men for such an attempt to shift the re sponsibility of : his office : upon the dead President. He is no more bound by Gar-, field's policy and to Mr. Garfield's advisers than Mr. Garfield was by the policy of Mr Hayes or to his Cabinet. '-;' fj . .. ...... ! i After thus delivering- himself he consoles the country , by assuring it that Arthur is "arman of good, plain, horse-sense' and he will so act. Hear him farther with a statement of the : " 'He will begin his administration from the beginning, and it will be President Ar thur's administration mind ' you, and the Humiuuirauaa oi- no .one - eise, , living or dead.' The speaker was a warm friend of mx. uarnaia g; personally,, though isympa thizmg more strongly with the Stalwart wing of the party. , His words so concisely illustrate a. wide prevailing sentiment that ' .1. ! 1 uijr are given a neariy as memory serves ; !. In , refusing;. to pursue . Garfield's policy, will the new President pursue the GraijtPpflklhig policy K h the important questioii for the coun- . i'- :., " i ......... .:T U-i 1 Mr. E, PujrneL ,No. 11 4nn street, New York, used St, Jacobs Oil for rheumatism W'Vii reiei writes a uew xorK jqur- TlfA,r8ifihmon4,iVa.) Christian 4dvoeaie, iooo, xuai, kionnsion punisnea ner ir in Vul"in0, iaat campaign irerf in- O UJt FOREIGN TRADE. Some Facts and Speculations InjCon - net ion with tl e Iropos .lor to I j tab! "h1i Direct i ComMU Icatlob-! y Ster m Between Wlhnlnerl in fid F :.,X.'i Ln.. . . I i eigu porta, dee. Those -wLo look upon the advent jof the British-Steamer :J3ar)mmore in ur 1 waters sas matter of nly .ordinary interest with out miportaW ot' pe'rmanenl; " significance, wasthe result of months of earnest thought anddeliberatiori,:"and with the View ''of 'in-: augurating a.new era in Jthe; commercial history of . our port; ! Her visit , here is an ; experiment, it is true, : but t there is . every j reason to hope that it may pipye a success ful orie, and that .the'JSar'.';may,'in reality prove but the pioneer of a permanent line of steamships between Wilmington and European ports. . No seaport ' town or; city has k ever j c attained to a : posi: tion of any prominence where -their leadj ing business men have lacked those indisT pensable requisites to- prosperity jjm and energy o To these important qualities Nor folk to-day owes, whatever ; of commercial prosperity she enjoys, and,. the diversion of the products of our, own State from pur own ports to build up that of a neighboring Commonwealth is One of the natural results: Norfolk though possessing- better natural advantages j than . some other ports,' made very insignificant I strides in ,;comniercial progress until her business men resolved to have direct steamship connection, with Europeanports. This was the great incen- tivc:j which has among the most Lsing of Southern; - given ' her ' a ! position prosperous and prom- cities, while : the lack of it has, kept .Wilmington, as. it, were, .in:, a state of commercial, vassalage and conse quent poverty. There is- no reason .to-day why Wilmington should ' not be among the foremost of her Southern sisters in ! the struggle ; for wealth i and -.commercial pros-; perity if, her .business .men , would . only awake from their seeming lethargy, . ! . . One argument in favor of steam in con nection with Our foreign exportatioris is its superior reliability as compared! with sails'.' When a steariter starts for' a 'foreign; port some -idea- can be formed: as to when shej will . reach her, destination, which is a matter of , considerable import-, ance, especially to shippers in the interior, who sell for delivery' in Liverpool in the following mdhth," which at the beginning5 of the .season is the most profitable busi ness.. All such shipments as these have hitherto passed . Wilmington and gone, .to -Norfolk, ., Port Royal, etc. .Another, point for consideration in this connection is .the fact and we are assured that it & a' fact that a steamer;' sailing ' every week from WUmington, at' current rates of freight,1 would j (in all ; probability) double the hotton reeeipts in a year. ,r .- ;,;.'i:-",.f: j . ...'. TheBarnetniore will remain here about ten days, anl will, we., understand, leave not less than 5, 000 cash' for pressing sup1 plies, paying pteveddresj etc.',: which fact is adduced in answer to the oft-repeated as- sertion that steamers : leave no money : in Wilmington. ; , , . . ., , I When the -ship returns to Liverpool Capt. Trenery will " make his report, exhibit his account of disbursements, his log showing whatever difficulties or inconveniences he may have encountered . in making this, his first trip to Wilmington, and we. are as sured that from present indications the ex hibit will be exceedingly favorable to our port, j There is every reason to expect and at a very early day, a still further improve-' ment In our bar and river, but even with the present jdepth of water Capt. Trenery is of the opinion that a line of steamers could run here without any trouble". .We are sat isfied j that Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son, the consignees of the fine steamer 'how here,5 have ventured upon' the exper iment of , introducing her as much with the view of benefiting Wilmington and en deavoring to place the city upon the high road to prosperity, as from a desire to min ister to theirown personal aggrandizement, and that nothing would please them better than to see a general interest awakened among our business men upon this subject with the resulting cooperation, so neces sary in bringing about at once a system of direct communication by steam with Liver pool ana other foreign ports. t; ; : 1 FEARFUICCIDENF. A Toung Man Has Both Hands Blown : off While Firing a Salute In Honor or : the Bead ' President. . - Yesterday ; afternoon, shortly before 3 o'clock, after about the : tenth or twelfth gun had been discharged In the salute which ' was being fired iri respect to thenriemory Of President: Garfield, nearly opposite the Custom House, 'a premature discharge of one of the pieces took i place,: resulting in a terrible accident to Private John Sneeden,: who at the time was. engaged in ramming the cartridge. . His left fcand was blown enJ tirely f rpm his wrist, ieavirig oiolythe thumb dangling by a small portion of the skin, which had to be cut off; arid shattering his right hand fearfully. , He fell off the wharf upon a flat which was lying immediately under v the mouth of the cannon, ' from which he was removed to ; an . improptu stretcher and taken to his residence on Third, between Nun and Church streets,1 the flow; of blood having been previously stopped by Lieut.! Maffitt, who had had ex perience in such matters during his connec tion with the Confederate, navy. , Subse quently the left arm of the sufferer was amputated, just 'below . the elbow, and a portion of the risrht hand, including thumb and forefinger, leaving three fingers, which,' aowever, may aiso nave to come 011. tarn face Is also badly burned, but it is hoped that 1 his1 'sight inot injuredi to any, . great r extent., Mr.;- Sneeden, o who is a ! young man, . employed in the establishment of Messrs. P. M. King & Co. , as a tinner, and who , is the only support of an agea motner, Dore his sufferings with a great deal of fortitude; The report that he was under the influence.; of liquor at the. time we hear. contradicted.,.by those who have the best right to know. The sad ac cident has caused touch feeling and eym1 :pathy.4 t vvi.,-i. k,; i?V''-&wrs:.rn: , It is stated that a piece of the lef f hand .; :oi me uniortunate -young man, together :TO:thei.jairjmer, were blwu.-acrpss twq naw ana jnio ine river peyona ! gKINNYl jMEN.r-Wells' Health Rfe newer, t Absolute cure fpr nervous debility apd Weakness" of .he generative functions, 4ruggisf si '-. t)epoj C r H tjhps, : Wdnuijgfoa. - ,.;fv t I" - 1 . ''I'll ' :: : :-- '- ;"-. i THE DEAD PRESIDENT. if 1 t be Ct I In r arnlnst VKemornSery vlc ln ,he ChnreheiIdne ! Ii enV -One of the Iiargest C Meei 1 AS Ever Held : mlnston Assembles . House Speeches on - at the Opera the Occasion Resolutions, Sce. ;----- r BuWilTeis) wai JiieWfcrl erely suspended one of humiljat9ny mA spmfsr in;; conse-1 quence of the death of: the President, of; the I United Jatates. 11 The churches, ana a large number of stores : and private . residences we're : draped in5 mjourniHg;' and' 5 feigns of j grief were visible on f every hand.' -Im- i pressivo joint memorial services 1 vwere hel ! at.the ;Fnt s .pst:t churchf and i at tS James', Episcopal church.j whicli.were pa ticipate4.in.by riearly all( of our clergy and by a large number of citizens. ' ? 5 V At 2.45 P. M: His Honor, Mayor Smith1, in accordance with a previous arrangement, called to order in the Opera Bouse tme of .the largest, meetings ever , held in Warning--ton, explaining ' the objeet to be .to, "take some action .in connection with the great national loss which the people of the coun4 try have "sustained 'in the death" 'of; PresiJ dent James A - Garfield, "and to express the: sympathy of the peoplert-of this community! in. the great bereavement; He .then called upon Rev. jLi jA., Watson, JX D;, .of 8t James Episcopal church, to open the ex-j ercises with prayer,1 which e 'dio! in a inost touching, appropriate and impressive5 ihari-1 ner.'1 h, 'p'i;;;'!';' g&MfiS .. At the . conclusion of t the prayer. :Mr, P. H, .Darby then moved , that -His" Honor Mayor Smith, should . preside,; , which mo-, tion was prit by Mr. Darby and carried. ' The f other officers 'of the meetirig were, then announced! iri accordance with a'res'o1-"; lution of MrrDaTbyrastollowsr Secretary Stacey VSri Atnringe. ; Vice )iVeite-TrBoger Moore, r-H.-.lA. Bagg, S. H. Fishblate, Maj. Ja&:..Beilly, Alfred ; Martin, Coht K R .Brink,, ;j. E., Sampson, Owen; Burney, Capt. E. J. Pen nypacker, C. P. Lockey. f '" ' : Committee on JsolutiorisA--Co. ' D. K:s McRae, Robert Si 1 Radcliffe, John Haar, Jr.,. DuBrutz, Cntlar, Geri.. J. C. Abbott,; Jos. D. Sampisorij W. H.: Gerken, Ff W4 Foster.!''" i; "T ,"v ; ,, ' V'-j '.. The Committee on Resolutions retired, arid during 'jthehf . absence Col. J. -G Burr, being' called upon,1 responded in tbrichirig terms; alluding to the effect of the sad an nouncement of. ithe ; President's death; al luded to. the admirable traits of- character displayed - ,by ' him, f especially during his illness," and the heroic fortitude which sustained him under the great suf- , ferings and pain the endured. ""lie also al- luded in fitting terms to his devotion to his: noble wife, and the response, he made to" her first; inquiries of ''Never, ,fear, sweet-; heart, 111 pull through!" He also spoke of the probable effect of the great calamity in bringing about ar restoration of . " peace and good will between the sections' ' rl " iV -The Committee ; on- Resolutions having come inj , their Cltairman,. Col. I D. Jry Mc Rae, read their report; as follows: , .. .. . ., .. Resolutions commemorative of the death of James A. Garfield,, late President of the United States, passed at a public meeting 01 tne citizens 01 Wilmington, .North Caro lina, held on the 26th day xt September, i88i. ' -' 1- ; r ; , Preamble: Within the "century of our national: life,, the people of the United. states nave been summoned to witness the 'death of four Presidents while serving their, official term. ; , , ' . ? Of these, two have perished by violence, at tne nanas 01 assassins, thus - aggravating: the calamity by" a criminal agency. - On the I9th day of this month of Septem-' her, James .Abram Garfield, President of the United States succumbed to a mortal wound received on the 2nd day of July; arid after a protracted struggle for . life,; main tained by great force of will, under suffer ings which he bore with philosophic pa tience and, inflexible fortitude, departed this life. '.' ! '-' " ' " : He has died ' at the ineridian of a career pf rapid ; and enchanting success ; , at the highest point5 of ) official elevation;' in the possession of : grand intellectual I faculties, ripening into a rich maturity,; and abound ing with promise! of usefulness of which our entire - people would be beneficiaries. His life, his worki his success and his un timely end have embalmed his memory in the sympathies , of humanity -throughout the civilized world. ;.A ) 'As a portion of the comtnon brotherhood of this Union,., sharing with our fellow citizens in this dread bereavement, we unite in the great expression of sorrow arid sym- j i.i J 1 1 pamy, ana join in me saa ana. solemn serr vices ordained for the occasion. Where fore, be it ' ! i' 4 ' ; Besolved, 1st. That it is the duty of a re ligious people to recognize the will of God in their natural affliction." m" ' 1 v. ; L 2nd. That having watched: with- anxious commiseration the long and painful .agony Which the deceased sustained in his conflict with death, in .the earnest hope that his life might be spared for the comfort of his family and the welfare of his country; 'we have received with profound sensibility the annuncjatiori of his, decease, feeling that a life capable of great good and full of bright promise has been cut short. , The unparalleled grief attests the public's esti mate of its loss, :!;.:'.;::':. :"''' '; ! , 3rd. That we. tender our kindliest, con dolence to the" stricken family of the de-" ceased mother, widow arid orphaned chil dren and commend them for solace in their woe to the companionship of a world-wide ; 4th. That while any passion for revenge islunsuited to the solemn feeling of awe arid grief inspired by this - heartrending event, it is fit that we express our abhor-' rence and detestation of the dastardly crime from which it has resulted. l Liberty and social happiness an pnly be s preserved through the 'ministrations of law and the maintenance, of .-order and he is a public enemy who practices violent resorts for the redress of real or supposed grievance, " : 1 5th. That: a copy r of the proceedhigsof this, meeting be transmitted, by the chair man to : Mrs: ' Garfield as a testimonial to ' her .wifely .devotion, and true .womanhood exhibited throughout this disastrous ordeal, and that a further copy be furnished to the member oi; Congress-elect of this district, to be; placed with other like manifestations of respect In the public archives. ' ! J h! I Col; : McRae : closed the reading : of the -resolutions with a fewTemarki appropriate rtp the occasion, after which,, they were! unanimously adopted. ' " ; i Speeches, were then ne sjiccessively .by; iW P.? CanadayrtEJolIecto 'f the Port; .'.alisony'1 1 rMacki.Esq.: k. '.E,: Scqifk EjJqV .Mabson, Jr., cqlored, and Jfo Tv B. KJngs iR3Tf of . the ST4B4 all ., pt wheonr naade rej marks" peculiarly appropriate to the mourn-i f ul occasiof yV notes of the dif-i .ferenleyAes, i, pndii- to give a brief, topsi. Df each, 1 nave not tne space at; I Lt tht lose of Kingsbury's remarks LXmm..mg adjett.edt ALIjUSrON9 TO THE PRESIDENT'S DEATH; IK " "r "THE'CUl'KCHES SUlfDAY. Very touching and aroj$riatefiqs were delivered bv Rev J. Rn Wjfffon of th Fi18 JftfePr- E. A. Yates, of the Front Street Methodist church, and Rev.'Jas.'B, Baylor, of the First Bap tiit ciiurchi 3bri"Sunday( riiorriuig,' allusion being inadei' to the great- crime which Has convulsed" the oaori iwith grief' and called forth. -universal expressions of sympathy and regret from the. entirejciviliz.wprld.Thley treated the riiatfer, from a" religious stand point and spoke-very feelingly ofthe Chris tian fortitude displayed W the . President during the,;, fearful , ordeal, of '. suffering through which, he was called upon to pass, the ripble traits of : character displayed.' by his devoted wife at the bedside of her wounded and dying ' husband,' and of the shock to. the aged mother when it was made lqiowhtQ her .thaf hex. beloved son had passed . throughj , the j dark , .valley.; , Many tears were shed during the touching recital of the, main features attendant 'upon the great national calaniity arid the attention and sympathy were profound throughout. We 'also learn that Rev. Dr. Watson, f StfJroesE Gross: 6f.""St.-s Taomas. Catholic church,; aiMiJ,tolnisters -: of -ther;1?cTiurches'j falsci preaclied seraioris appropriate to the solemn occasion, j ' -' ( ! Quarterly Meetings Wilmmgtpri 'District,' M E. Church, South. -.; J5 ourth iteund. Topsail, at Rocky Point,-; Oct.' ! 8. 19 Smithvfflei , Oct. 12.13 Wilmington; at Front Street, u Oct. 15:16 Wilmington at Fifth Streetvi W Oct. 15.1fr Brunswick . s WOct. .19 : WaccamaW,' Cypress Creek,1 A. Oct. 4 20.21' Elizabeth f-Bladen Sprines;' " Oct. 26.27 i Bladen, Windsor, ' . . -i Oct1 29.30 ! Onslow,-Queen's Creek, ; Npvyi 5. 6 Duplin, Wesley Chapel, . Nov. 9.10 CUnton, Clinton, -. Nov.- 1.13 Cohane. ; w , . . , . . ; , Nov. 16.17 .Cokesbury' 1' Nov.' 19.20 BTLet all the officials be present , I '- .. L. Si BURKHEAD, i P. E. I ill' 1 uYORKTOWm . Arrangements to Provide forhe Mul 1 tltude Expected at the Centennial Cel- ebratlon.,, "H iii -.: x-U '--Iv'Ai I Cfey .TeiegTaph to the Morning Star! L haying arisen reirding the inability of the : managers of the Yorktown celebration to provide subsistence for - the vast crowd cx fpected to attend,; the Commissioners desire to state that so far as invited .guests of. the Commissiori,visitirig military and Masonic lodges are ' concerned!, . arrangements have already beeri perfected by which they will be j comfortably accdmmodated ' at Yorkt town. . 1 ney aione are expected to numoer 25,000. f. Tn addition to this four hotels of good size are being erected on the grounds of a capacity, to feed 10,000 to 15,000 guests Small restaurants in " the town will accoml imodate fully one-half as many more. Thev ?will probably be able to. lodge 10,000 peri Isons. The; Commissioners say besides' this an hourly ferry service has :- been arranged between yorktown arid Fortress -Monroe. Norfolk,' Portsmouth. "Richriiond. West Point and Williamsburg,- all of which points are within a few hours sail. ;The Commission is confident, there will be no) difficulty iri. procuring ' lodging , and subf sistence for all who desire to attend the celebration f ' ' "" '' " ATLANTA 8 EXPOSITION. ExhJM tors Prepartns for the Bisplay ! i The City , Filling up with Visitors. 'Atlanta, Ga: September 28. The pro gramme of ceremonies at the opening of the exposition on Monday, the 3rd of. October has been' completed:'"1 The ceremonies will be exceedingly; iinpressiyen.A large num ber of representative .citizens from every part of the United States have accepted in vitations to? participate. Full details .will be given to : the press' ; in a day " or two. Jlost of .they'buildings'; are finished and ex hibitors' are rapidly putting their ' displays in shape. The city fast filling with vis itors. ' Prices for entertainment at hotels, boarding houses " and private .' dwellings range at about the same ' rate as" at Phila- delphia jduring the Ctenteniial. ; Thursday i October! 27th, has- been decided upon for the Governors' day, and all State Executives are expected at the conclusion of the York" town; Celebration : to' visit the Exposition nere Deiore.returnuig to then homes, t The Iirst Connecticut regiment and other mili tary organizations are expected to take pare ! .1 l .1 . . r i iu uie cMMciaeg pi uiai. occasion. , 1 -.; , f THE GARFIELD FUND. ' Solely for the Benefit of the Late Presi dents Wife and Children Subscrip tions for. the Benefit of His Mother. ) I ;" By Telegraph to the Horning Star. v ! New York, Sept. 28. The projector of the fund for Mrs.' GarfleM. in a card reJ ferruig to the suggestion that some of the; Mwjucy iue giveu we ueaa jxesiaent s mother, states that uader the terms of the subscription papers sent, out not a cent of the sum 1 subscribed can ' be diverted to another) juse than that I specified m; tnei suoscnptipn papers that, js ior me; iresiaents' wife and -children. He has this afternoon received I two checks, one for $500, and one. for $250, for Gen. Garfield's mother; which he will forward, with any other sums received,, or. to invest, as she may prefer. .'The fund for Mrs. Garfield now reaches 324.675 67 - f THE TVRF. Keene's Golden Gate Wins the Grandly j staites at Newmarket. lospoif, September 28.-At, the New market first 1 October meeting, to-day, the Grandly f stakes ; for two-year- olds was wori by J, R. 5 Keene!a ! bay, colt Golden Gate ; Lefevre's brown colt, Nickel second ; Craw, ford's bay colt fey E3ng AlfredTout of Supa third. , . Only the three horses ran. li'vhinglbri Ityessi fisticuff : between !two colored r men occupied the at tention jof the Mayor's court last week. Thirteen? stabs witK 'a' pocket-knife 'was i found upon the person? of one of .the par-. uca. ne are lniormea of a murder j which occurred hear Jamesville last week. ' -A. -, negr0 named .Capehtrfe icnt upon tbe head of fa brother with an axe, , an4 then left for parts unknown. A family qiiarrel , is said fa haypta.Mi8aactt-l,jrwi-r,J ! BURlfETTaOOCOAINE, forfhesa ttke xoss of the hair A PhUadelphian;S Qpiriion.t-Oqe-year-4 ago "my hair com- Baenx5ed fallhig out until I was almost bakfe; After usjne Cocoaine a, few tnantha bave ,DOW a thick jgrowtri xf neto hjalr. - ' ' : 'ufj f I t. ALEXANDER HENRYj.-hi. , uvuaiiii a x-a.YU11LNV XJlTKACTS alWaVS "laWHCI,' : ir-tHtUiiTtt ft HP. liit T L . 1 Prof. Charles Phillips is not dead, as the Rockingham Spirit thinks A spake;bandle And shuttle f ac " tory is at work in Winston, North Carolina Persimmon wood is used, and the material M abpndaiitin the vicinity.; j ; j ;ai The Shelby Aurora has beo-un its sixth annual volume. It is a usefufria per- and makirfg its way in the soot opinion of the people of its section. . " -" Asheboro Courier : Give the R 4s D. Co. justice, say we, but remember that it can be done without impeaching the mo tives of true and patriotic men menwho bves and works attest their honesty and na . triottism i'j?.5;-i? -.i '. r ' j 4 r Salisbury i&Watehrnan: Mr Smithdeal sold last year '$40,000 worth of buggies. So far this year, he has sold 280 ' buggies. 7 i-The second month of the fall sessiori of the graded school in tlii place opened with 170 pupils. f j- itoxDoro Herald: Mr. Robert W. Jones, of this county, sold at Durham last week, tobacco at the following enor mously high prices: 132 pounds at $70 ner hundred; 190 pounds at $80 per hundred 182 pounds at $45.50 per hundred- as pounds at $305 per hundred. ' , f Greensboro Protestant : Wade Harris, the genius of Concords Sun, pre sents his readers vith a home-engraved por trait of ra local Weather prophet that is very suggestive ofJsuch a dignitary. Ever since Wade penciled the kicking mule his friends have watched his progress in the art of drawing and engraving. x y. , ii States ville Landmark: Prof. W. E. Hidden forwards us sketches of a lot of splendid emeralds which were found in. a small pocket in the Hidden Mine "near Stony Pointy Alexander . county, on the morning of the 20th inst We concur very heartily in -Prof, Hidden's exclamation VHsrrsJi for. the old North State, everahead mineralogically 1" - v ' Morebead City (N. C.) letter in the Raleigh Visitor: : I have to-day seen a turtle five feet across the- back and weigh ing 470 pounds, arid strong enough to carry the weight of a large man. For fun I step ped on his back. He started and I held on so and he got so fast that I was afraid to let loose,f and only, relinquished my hold as he ; made one, desperate spring over the dock. ; Oxford Torchlight: Corn crop - stripped of the fodder looks bad. Tobacco - has turned green and grown wonderfully. : It will be too late to turn yellow and cure bright. At the surface Col. Andrews and his attorneys may have Vance at a dis ; advantage," but when the whole truth is out we believe' it will be found that Senator ; Vance has been making an honest fight in .the interest of the people. ? Charlotte Observer: Our States- ville correspondent writes under date of the ; 25th: 7 A negro man was run over and in stantly killed by the Charlotte train last night. - He is supposed to have been drink ing and lay. down ; on the track just below .the depot. Engineer Gruber saw him but not in time to stop the train. -States-, ville; .like Eutaw, Ala., can boast of a j "white" negro with black parents. p. Concord ! Sun: Gov. Vance Iwas in iown Thursday, to look around on thepeople and attend court. We we're glad 5to have him in our office and enjoyed a few passes over ' the railroad with him. The 3ovemor inspected our . pile , of exchanges to see "which way they shinny, "and finally picking up one that was on his side ex pressed great pleasure to find one paper that .was with hirn,; anyhow. He would not talk about what he intends o do in the fu ture, remarking facetiously that he - "never tells his plans to the enemy.". He insisted that, however things look now, he is right and "you will see." - -rr Milton Chronicle:. The late rains seem to have benefited the tob&cco crop on the hills considerably. The corn crop in this section, -after all the -gloomy fore bodings, .turns out much better that, was ex pected,, and there will be bread enough for us all and some to spare. We are told by ; competition cosmopolitan judges that jthe; tobacco crop in Caswell and Person counties, mcludiiig a belt 'of country that takes in. Barksdale's depot, Halifax county, Va! surpasses all other sections in the to bacco country, and an average crop of good tobacco in this section will be made. I t- Durham Plant: A. M. Riggs bee; has just contracted with T. C. Oakley to erect a building on Mangum street to be becupied by Mrs. Mahoney and Miss Beasie Fanning, hi which to conduct the Durham female school. ,The building: is, to cover B,000 square feet, arid will be complete in fell $ its arrangements, f :' ; A'' few weehs ince Mr. Joseph H. Hicks left Durham in the; full bloom of youth and wended his Way -to 'Arkansas; On Sunday : last his vidowed mother, Mrs. Dr. . Thomas Hicks receivea a telegram at Searcy, Ark.-; -.: announcins- his deflth. if-i Goldsboro Messenger: As we predicted, the railroad war is making bad uiwu. a ins una lnsiance oi mis is an as sault; through ' the -press of - Mr. D. M. Vance, .son of . the Senator,, upon John B. Hussey; Esq., editor - of the Greensboro Patriot,: --The Goldsboro Graded School has on its rolls 415 pupils. It is amus ing! to hear our Republican friends talk about sending Dockery to the U. S. Senate. We are no prophet, nor the son of a pro phet," but we feel quite certairi that Senator MattJ- Wi . Ransom,', will be his own suc cessor.. He is trie right man in the right place. - In response to a call, an. assem blage of our citizens met in the court house pn Thursday night,, for the purpose .of giv ing expression to their sorrow at the death pf President Garfield. Appropriate re marks " were made by ; ex-Judge W. J. Clarke. Col. K W. Hnmnhrpv T ' "R Ht- man, -A. K. Smedes, H. P. Grainger, Rev.. P. H, Ivey, W; S. O'B. Robinsou, and Others, and resolutions adopted requesting a general suspension of. business during the1 hours of the funeral services. - Reidsville Times : Mr. Wray, at his revenue office ,ohe day last week, sold over forty-nine hundred dollars worth of stamps. There is a hill on Mr. Giles jueuaues plantation, near iuiiion, inaiNior long years has been known as ''the busted hilli"! It is called this because of the pop . ular notion, in common phrase, that long years ago it was "busted" up by a volcano. At any rate the hill is well worth a visit. All sorts of rocks and. pebbles are found cemented together arid sometimes in masses as large as the fiat of a table, and there is little else than such rocks to be found on the hill. A farmer's tnlionr in Person was! bought at- the barn and sold the other day in Danville on the floor of the Banner Warehouse for eight hundred dol lars more than the planter had sold it for at the barn. - -Cheering reports from - the : corn crop iri Caswell; they say they had no .idea therewould be so much corn. - At 'a colored baptising, near Milton last Sun day week, the preacher was talking about John : the I Baptist ,i in the wilderness.. He said ' there , was a difference' between the i locust and '. the locusscs, "the locust was these little pods that growed on trees, but mekKnisses wBA Hvbiar 5 insects, and thar- L fore John the Baptist lived on living in sects, and the honey was called wild be cause the bees thamadejit was wild." ' llUKD'01tD . A.VU) r'llObi'HAl . makes a delicious drink DrZ1I. II. Hen ry, the widely known, and .eminent family jaiysician, of New. York, says ' J "Horsford's. Acid' Phosphate possesses daima aa a heveracm vnnd : nvthins- I jsjaqiw of . in the form of medicine, , and in nervous diseases I know of no preparation to equal it," - f
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