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v : II :'r-. 1r t "v. ? i': 1 ii : ''. TliprWeekly Star. 71L H. BEENABD, Editor and Prop'r. WILMINGTON, N C Feiday, j - November 11,1881. writing to ebange lyouj-address, always sAve former direction as well as full particulars as where you wish your paper to be sent hereafter. "- .Unless yon do both changes can not be made. ., ; "Notices of Marriage or Death, Tributes tt Beroect, Besolutions of Thanks, &c., are ohared i for m ordinary advertisements, but, onljr half rates when paid for strictlyjn advance. At ; this ': rate 50 cents will pay for a simple announcement . of Marriage or Death.- . - WEemittances must be made by Check,Draft " Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Post ; masters will register letters when desired. ; . ,f " ' g-Onlyuch remittances wQl be at the risk of : the puhlisner. . - ... ". i;i "Specimen copies forwarded when desired. THE SCHOOL ' FUND FOR THE DrJWoolsey, ex-President of Tale College, expresses himself warmly in - favor ,of Government aid for South- ern schools. He thinks Hayes's re 1' ' commendation to appropriate funds : ;from the IT. S. Treasury for that pur .' pose is right and proper. This is : ; the Northern idea no doubt, i The ' "Nation" must undertake the work that properly belongs to the States. "Dr. Woolsey thinks it "an act of ; self-preservation", . for . the - "Nation" to take the matter in hand. ' Over priding' State lines might in the end prove dangerous. The tendency of ' the Federal Government is to enlarge ' -, its powers and to encroach upon the domain of J,he sovereign States under V.the Constitution. ; The plea is plausi-y-ble that"- tike ffltition" must educate "its wards!." There is a pressing -v need of help to make the negroes less ignorant if possible. Outside of the . towns it is the opinion of many intel ligent farmers who study negro life and character that' there is no im- provement among them as a class, ' but they are going ack into barba .risrnv ' Jilany think, if the influence fthkhites was withdrawn and the ' negroes were " placed to themselves . that in a decade or two they would be fetish worshippers and not much s better than their ancestors in Africa were three hundred years ago. i " JBut theory and ' practice somehow did not tally. 4 When the South was to be dealt with the wise and puffed up' North .'said "Let the ignorant . and - superstitious negro become an elector be clothed with all of the I rights and responsibilities of a free . man, else the objects of the war will " not have been attained in all of their - efficiency and entirety." The North was mad and blind and daft for the Jtime, and it -sat down violently and .incontinently upon theory and the most foolish thing of ; the ages was " complete. A million negroes semi- civilized, : ignorant, superstitious were lifted to the ' height of electors . and became the factors in shaping . not-only the destinies of the ; van- . quished South, but really and abso rb lutely of the victorious North. There is then great need of educa tion among them, i The triumphant Norths with its head made dizzy by the wild whirlings and zig-zags of the great fandango it had been . ; dancing, when the Constitution was . trampled under-f oot madly and era .. zily, and Seward's belf became the alarm signal of despotism this tri umphant and jubilant North threw up its hat and swore not only that the negro should be free, but that he " should become a voter a sovereigi In that hour' of bitterness and death a great blow was inflicted upon our 4 institutions. The theory of the North A -1 ' 1 ".-1 ''J-. ' i .1 ' m naa neen -ior tnreeriourtns oi a cen tury that education was the mud-sill Of popular government that the . safety,' perpetuity , and purity of a republican government depended and " rested., upon the education of ; the masses 1 This was sound ; this was common-sense. If men are to vote a great power, properly weighed and estimated they should know" assu redlyybr what they are voting. ; , The fact now stares the North in . the face that has stared the South in the face for sixteen years; the negro '.SJiia a voter icithout auy qualification. What shall be done about it? Is he - to remain bo? : Yes, if i to make him other than he is the Constitution is to be violated and local self -govern ; ment under that sacred instrument '' is to be interfered with. . y i . . What , then do we propose? We '10 said recently that the South is trying :r;.:-:'j;to'doits duty.' It is not doing all it ' ; ought to do under a better system of ; ' farming. J It appropriates some six million dollars annually for popular education.:-' lhis sum is divided be . tweenthe races. 'The North, rich to ' ; overflowing, has given in all less than three million dollars to the education . of the ? negro ' since the war ended. ; ;The Stab insists ihat the North, nd not the South, ia responsible for the education , of the ' negro. ' The Stab insists that the plethoric ind extrava :4 . j gait North should : raise a voluntary V fun;d as many millions as may be needed tp guarantee a good common school education for every negro, in the South. If itvd6es less, it fails in a dhtv that lies at its dqorby,itsfwn act in the past. , - - ... - Llfjj the;.; Southern -'people, were re ieved of the burden imposed upoii themf by providing for the education of thejcoiored man and brother," as they ught to be, they would he able to'doj their duty much better towards the white children fof the South who have the highest claims npon them and by a hundred ; fold J ; Let the North! measure its duty; and then let it march up to its performance with out dodging or -proposing tor violate the Constitution and rights of States to avoid it. - - -. ' r There is one part ;of Dr Woolsey's remarks we indorse willingly. He says :i t ""Rverv communitv in the . United States should have not only a public school, but -a public fechool which does thorough work. I fear our public schools do not train the young as. thoroughly, in s the elementary studies as ao ine puouc suuouis oi vreiiuaujr. The common schools of England have-also : reached a high grade of excellence within the last twenty-five years, and : their thor oushness should attract the attention of the people pi this country, xi is uesirauie not only tol have a public school in every com munity in the United States, but to have a good school. - - r Well said. The Stab is fighting on that line. It is. aiming to improve the schools of the State. To do this it insists upon two things as f unda- mentall thereto, namely, to have a large lappropriation, and, second, to ly .teachers well. Without the money i and without thoroughly qual ified teachers there can not be "good schoolsL" WILMINGTON BOYS -IN THE FAST. It is interesting to Wilmingtbnians to know that a nifmber of youths born and reared in this ancient town have achieved uncommon distinction in scholarship in the Navy - and at West ijoint: ' Capt. John A. Wins low, who commanded , the Kearsage that suik the ; Alabama during the late war, was born here. He is now dead, i William A. Boudinot, still ring, ranked No. 1, of his grade when he resigned from the Navy. He too is a Wilmingtoniani Archie bald McRae, brother of Mrt Donald McRae; stood so high above all others that the second man could not.be graded. He died young, j He also was a native. Robert Savage, son of the late Timothy Savage,! was the first man in his class by common con sent wof the students, but he was tied in the examination by Richmond Au lick, son of Commodore Aulick, who was a member oi , the i examin a m . ' ing board, and they drew swords for the highest place and young Aulick obtained it. Mr. Savage died young also. - : j ! Wilmington, had two West Point ers who jreflected much credit upon themselves and their State.' William Henry Wright was graduated at west ioint with .tne nrst; nonors. General i Beauregard . stood inext to him second. Mr. Wright, died at the ag of thirty-two. William Gibbs M,cNeill became very distin guished Jas a Civil Engineer in the Army.: jit is well to remember these things. iTh ey may prove as mcen tives to the young men of the present MASSACHUSETTS NINTH. ; Massachusetts must-, have emptied its prisons when the Ninth Regiment of that State was formed. . How. else can you account for their disgraceful, infamous! behavior ? It is a wonder ... . f j .. .. ----- . -f the scoundrels were not slaughtered The investigation of the Commission sent from Massachusetts to "Rich mond, '. Val, ls ended, and the evi dence was overwhelmingly damag ing. Several young girls have testi fied that the roughs made indecent proposals to them. We gather some specimens pf the testimony from aJ special from Richmond: '' "A well known merchant testified to the bad conduct on Main sireet "of tfi group headed by a soldier wearing the stripes of a non-commissioned officer. An ex-detective officer testified that his daughter was slan ped and knocked down by a soldier and her hat " thrown j into the street, and a voung lady accompanying her was kissed by one of the soldiers. A lady school teacher tes tified that as she was driving in a buggy a group of these soldiers stopped her horse and beat the animal over the head. The number of guilty members is supposed to be about fifty. It had been leported and generally believed that the militarv rouarhs had wrecked a street car, but the car driver testified, to-day that they had only kicked their feet through the window. It was in evidence that the rowdies snatched baskets and buckets from girls and . women, took teams from drivers, and committed many oiuer aeis oi uevmry. sstrange to say, the ponce maae no arrests. r ; Bismarck has been handled rough ly, and he now appeals to the dourts in one case. , He sues Von Bunsen for slander in a speech made by the latier to nis constituents. - . 4i . ; Young Astor, ra. very, rich ' New Yorker, was a candidate and badly beaten. He is said to have . soyred gold coin ' that he might reap ' votes But the , harvest is ended ; the crop had the dry-rot, We would again warn all South-- emers against the, course pursued by me, xiorwt American -uievzeic, wiiicu during the last f our years has been : extendingjts circulation in the South beyond all former experience. "It is" the organ of atheism and the enemy of the Souti. -:'These " are no idle as sertions. We believe them. , to te trne-x ,.. We mentioned yesterday ihat. Judge Black was out in reply to Bob; Ingersoll, the intemperate and blatant scoffer and infidel. ; We have read the three columns in the Philadelphia Pres&y and like all' that emanates from that very able writer and logi cian, it r is v vigorous, pointed, sharp and incisive. , ; Judge Black explains . why he Aid not reply to Ingersoll : in the .North ' American . He says he was not a volunteer in thediscussion.- The ed itor of the Hevieto made two jour neys to the Judge's home to entreat him- to answer IngersolL : He at last consented with the distinct under- standing and proviso that his articles were to follow . Ingersoll's articles. The editor . told Judge d31ack that Ingersoll was leading people astray. with his blasphemies,and he, the Judge alone, could furnish the antidote. We quote from the Judge: "From the beginninff it was distinctly understood that my defense was to be inted in the same number with the accu sation. The editor was or at least pre tended to be) a firm believer in Christianity, and he would not for the world publish Ingersoll's poisonous stuff without putting the antidote right beside it to do so would not onlyafflict his conscience, but greatly injure the character of his Jieview." Mr. Ingersoll was tok have the privilege of reply, . and the Judge was to go in the same number in re joinder. Here is what followed : "Three months afterward lifty pages of the foulest and falsest libel that ever was written against God or man was sent to me. I was entirely willing ta treat it as 1 had treated the other ; that is, give it the answer I thought it deserved and let both go to gether But it came when I was disabled by an injury from which I could not hope to get well for some weeks, and I so notified the -editor. To my great surprise I was informed that no contradiction, correction or criticism of mine or anybody else- would be allowed to accompany this new effusion of filth. It was to be printed immediately, and would occupy so much space that none could be spared for the other side. I .pro posed that if its bulk could not be reduced so as to admit - of an answer in the same number it should be postponed unto a reply could be made ready for publication in the next succeeding number.- This and divers other off ers were rejected for the express reason that 'Mr. Ingersoll would not con sent.' Finding the Eetieio controlled by him to suit himself, I did not think I was bound to go further." Judge , Black is indignant very naturally at such treatment. He says the object of the editor was not really Vto get the truth vindicated, but to make a sensation and increase the sale" of the publication. He is cor- rect in this doubtless. Judge Black shows how shamefully the lievieio treated him and other Democrats concerning the Great Fraud of 1876. He says he ought to have prosecuted the editor, Rice, for his dirty work. He says plainly: "It was weak s in me not to prosecute those libellers in. a court of justice; still weaker to condone the offense and put my self in the way of being similarly mal treated again, .remaps, also, it was un wise at the beginning to look for better be havior from adventurers conducting a mag azine without avowed convictions or prin ciples and without capacity to contribute an original thing of their own except rags and lampblack. " ;It is a fact that the editor contri butes nothing and, "we believe, hires help to persuade others to furnish literary .wares for his market.' So much for , the treatment of the dis tinguished and .venerable: Judge Black, a Democrat. If is clear that the editor wanted atheism and in decency to hold audienoe with its readers without any - challenge from as able a 'controversialist as Judge Black is whose sword is keen and heavy. Now as to the animus of the JVorth American towards the South. A lite rary man writing himself Rossiter Johnson, a ced-hot, fuliginous Stal wart,,, published i in this -Review in September last - an article entitled "Factitious History." -it was a vin dictive, " abusive, slanderous, lying assault- upon ; the late Chief Justice Taney, ex-President ; Davis and the South generally. It was bitter, vi tuperative,: coarse, insulting and .des picable., r It showed f the - writer was ignorant, untruthful, -and malignant; Mr. James A. Pearce, of Maryland, prepared a reply, - entitled "Slander as an Element of History," but the editor of the North American refused to publish it or to give Mr. Pearce any hearing. We have read the re ply of Mr. Pearce, which appears in the American Register of the 5th inst., and it justifies' fully all we have said of Johnson's mean and dastardly screed. ; : We quote a paragraph from the reply which will give thereader a correct idea of the vile paper pub lished by the North American and that allowed no reply. Mr. Pearce says: ' ? The truth is that ; Mr. Davis' hook af fected-Mr. 5 Johnson as the red flag affects a mad bull.v Blinded with t&sd he seeks to wreak his vengeance upon any object witb iu uis reacn,ana in ma unmanly attacks upon the dead he has shown himself to be a veritable political jackal. In his vera cious historical record, Andrew - Jackson ' was a, common murderer, whose election.: and inauguration would have justified in surrection, and the submission of the lTorth' to the administration of - fPolk, -Pierce and Buchanan, was the fruit of: Christian for- Jjearance. ; Chief Justice Taney was a knave as weu as an imbecile. ;; lienerat .Liee was. incapable as a military man, and Stonewall Jackson was simply a brutal" .butcher. There was no- oualitv of heroism except. physical courage in rthe i' struggle madchy, the Southern, soldiers and people against'. overwhelming .numbers and resources, '..anq the lost cause was not only the most stu pendous -political' crime, "'.but the. most vulgar known in historv. . Let. him cherish without animadversion his en venomed regrets, (which Have survived the softening influences of fifteen years,) j that none of the Southern 'leaders were hung, and that the Southern soldiers ifcre not tied- ud in bundles and blown from the cannon s mouth like the . Sepoys in Indiaor shot down by platoons ; like the Communists in France. Let all" this pass . for what it is worth in the estimation 'of generous and. manly minds, whatever may be their views of the war, or 'their present political affilia tions. . . ' . . , t : After this will anv Southern ,ma'n; who is informed,' pay his money" 'for. such a slanderous and . indecent pub lication as the North American Re view f , Such an atheistical organ is not fit to enter a Christian household. Such a slanderer of the South and such a bitter enemy of its people de serves no' support or countenance from any self-respecting Southron. , I THE CAROLINA CENTRAL. ! We have refrained from publish ing any of the many rumors that have been ., current during the past, ten. days concerning the Carolina Central Railroad, preferring to wait until we could give something which we knew to be definite and reliable. We are , now enabled to state that negotiations are pending , between Capt. D. R. Murchison, of this city, and Mr. John M. Robinson,, repre senting the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad, for the sale(of a large por-J tion of the stock held by Capt. Mur chison in the Carolina Central. j If this sale is effected, as it proba bly will be, it will be coupled with guarantees that there shall be no dis- crimination in rates against Wil mington or any other North Carolina city or town; that the Carolina Cen tral will .- be extended into South Carolina, and probably in another di rection; and that Capt. Murchison shall have " the management of the road as long as he sees fit to occupy the position of President. j Capt. Murchison made repeated ef forts, here and elsewhere, to raise the money necessary to build branches or feeders to the main line; but fail ing in this, and .with the Carolina Central cut off by the Richmond & Danville combination at Charlotte, h could see no prospect of an ex tension of the road except in a sale as indicated above to parties who had the necessary means to carry on the work. , . ' . jThe fact that Capt. Murchison will retain the management of the road is a sufficient guarantee that all that is possible will be done to protect the interests of "Wilmington. HOW NORTH CAROLINA RANKS. In examining the Census Tables of cotton production we note two f ea tures that are interesting. There are 13 counties in North Carolina which produce over 10,000 bales each. They are as follows: Anson, 11,857 bales; Edgecombe, 2650; Franklin, 12,938; Halifax, 16,6fil;' Johnston, 15151; Mecklenburg, 19,129; Pitt, 14879; Richmond, 12,754; Wake, 30;115; Wayne, 14,558; Wilson, 13,- 049. We find that the first unofficial reports placing Nortli Carolina next to. . Mississippi in the - amount pro duced to the acre were erroneous and exaggerated. Missouri leads its bales per acre being 0.63. ' Louisiana, is next, with 0.59. Arkansas third, with 0.58. Kentucky fourth, with 0.51, Indian Territory, 0.47. ' Then come Mississippi and Tennessee witli 0.40. each. ; Then come North Caro-' lina and Virginia 'with (0.44 each. South Carolina stands, 0.38; Texas, 0.37; Georgia, 0.31; ; Alabama, 0.30; and - Florida .0.22. So seven States' produce more to the acre thau North Carolina, Virginia ties, and' five .are bebind some largely so.. It is remark -able that Wake, which 4s separated from the Virginia line only by Gran ville, should - grow the most', cotton.7 This was in 1879. It produced more In 1 1880 and by several thousand bales, we believe. ' The stimulation of cotton produe- tion in that county during the last ' decade shows that if the same energy and concentration of effort were to distinguish all the .counties that North Carolina would produce easily its 800,000 bales or more. , ; BURNETT'S COCOAINE, unlike All othkb UArxt DKE8SIKGS. m the best f or pro moting the growth of and beautifying the l nair, ana- rendering, it dark. and nlossy; The CJocoaikk holds, in a Uquid form, a large proportion of deodorized Cocoanut Oil. s prepared expressly for this purpose; No other : compound possesses the peculiar properties which so exactly suit the various conditions of the human hair. ' i i -The superiority of BxjRireTT's Flavor- ino HiXtracts consists in, their perfect pu rity and great strength. ; Ay ;The Republican- party . is responsi ble for the. Mat Aie-Repudiationr ylci-l yl if it Should turn out-Uiatkhey I i tory itself to the:.men . who - are ruVung -4 -x&epuaiation, ana aia au m us power to defeat the white people of, the State,' ; Nor onl y so, but the Repudi- agonists tecftired jsiibstanjtial aid and eomf ortiit-T-the - bestowment-ofTOom than $7Q,0(0 by the" North, where '"it is pretended that-'an honest payment' of 'national debts " - is the ; founda-' t'.o "Stone of ' Radicalism. : Of l; this sum $ 40,000 came from the .National Republidan3onimittees, "A dispatch from: Washington, 'of ' the; 7th inst.y to the Charleston, Neios and Courier referring ?to this prostitution ofi the Republican ' party o the vilest : of ends, and the powef of Billy Mahone says: " J ' "- - "This shows ' irrefutably, if anyi'proof were needed; how completely Mahone dom inates the -Republican party in all its branches.1 Half-breeds and Stalwarts emu late each other in the dirty business, i The repudiators claim that they will spendxorty thousand dollars in paying poll taxes for the negroes,'i the payment being a prereqinV site to voting. What the rest of the money will be used for is rot stated." o . . , ! Whatever "may be the result', and as we write it is doubtful, the Arthur Administration is responsible fori the effort '' to ! build up Repudiation ' in j Virginia at the expense of honesty and fair dealing. ' The Northern Re publicans ji should never again talk about repudiation in the Southl and they need ifcot pretend that to pay the national debt is the' first of duties according to their standard of patri otism. But after their 'evil and i de moralizing : example 'in the Virginia election, how can they expect that at will not4nflnence public sentiment in regard to the, public " debt? If they, sow the dragon's teeth' of Repudia tion in Virginia they may expect to see thousands of men ' spring up in every section who are insistent that the same principle shall be extended and applied to the "national - debt." And for all this the Arthur- Administration- and - Republican Senators are responsible. The', bargain and sale with Mahone did the dirty work. 5 THE COTTON CROP. That the cotton crop : of 1881-r,82 is short of the production of last year is universally admitted ; but how much it is short : is just what "no fellow can find out " until the season is much further advanced. The "bulls" and the "bears" are making their estimates, the various cotton exchanges and . bureaus are making their estimates, and the news papers ares making their estimates. Accordingly, the Star ventures ) to offer an estimate based on all the in formation attainable, and made with what it considers a conservative view of the situation: - - .p . As a preliminary step we give the annexed statement of the production of last year, by States, as we find it in the New York,., Commercial and Financial' Chronicle : - '" . r ' crop of 18801881. North Carolina bales South Carolina . . .... .. " Georgia . . . ; ..... ... Florida. .;L Jl.. ...... .1... ' Alabama. " 460,000 625,000 978,000 . 60,000 750,000 1,015,000 529,000 1,040,000 ,705,000 . 392,000 ' 55,000 Mississippi .. iu ... . Louisiana ... t.. .. .. Texas... ... ... . .. Arkansas . . . i, . , ... ; . Tennessee. . . .n. . . . . . Va., Mo &c."..'.... Total crop 1880-'81 . . T. ; : We estimate. the : "6,609,000 decrease from last year as follows: ' ; ; -North Carolina. ; . .15 per cent. , South Carolina.1, i I 20 ' " ' Georgia J'.L.... 5 " " Florida. . ... . .. ...10 " , Alabama.... '.i.'.: 110 V ' 'f Mississippi: .. !. I'.: 15 :" ' " Louisiana. . i;J" 30 " ' v "v Texas t,.. 30 . ' Arkansas.; 18 '.' ". Tennessee 1 25 Va., Mo.', &c.;. .'.. 5 v69,000 125,000 48,900 6,000 75,000 152,250 158,700 ,312,000 126,900 298.000 , 2,750 1,174,500 Deduct 10 per cent: from estimated decrease . 117,450 ' '' Net decrease 1,057,050 Crop of l80-81.,.v..-'."h . . : : 6,609,000 Estimated decrease ' in crop of " . " ' 1881-'82. . . 1,057,050 Crop of 1881-'82. . 5;551,950 Twelve . ; States. held elections ; ori Tuesdayjas follows: Colorado, Con- necticut, Nebraska, NewTersey, "Newi York; Maryland, Massachusetts, Min-i nesota, Mississippi, ' Pennsylvania,! Virginia . and ..Wisconsin."; Five of these elected i Governors, namely: Massachusetts, Minnesota " Missis sippi, Yirginia and Wisconsin. : The electionfor the Legislatures in Mis-, sissippi and, Virginia are "important as United States Senators are to be chosen by them. J" ,r , Headacbe, Torpid Iilver Costlveness. f Simmons Liver Regulator, by its mild ca thartic properties, relieves the bowels f rem, obstructionsand cleanses the system of all impurities .without sickening or weakening: Cures headache; indigestion and liver com plaint even the most 'confirmed chronic cases. , . i t Genuine nuine prepared only by J." H. 2leilin & j' .-" , t5 . - Co. jCO UNTY COMMISSION EliS. Abstract of ijfroei dln in - Regular Th4Baard met in regular session yester day afternoon ; present, 3Ir: A.! Bagg, jQhauTQiani i and X!oii)missioners -f Pearce,. Moore and Worth.". ' '-'- ' I Applications for licenses to retail spiritu-1 ous liquors Were granted to John u. wl schen, J. W,.Gerdts, J. Hj Busch andH. Schulken. -4 ' M -t v : i It was ordered thatr the poll tax of John (Jore be remitted, he being over" age: "'. :i The application of J. H. Ilanby, for" re duction of -valuation on property; was not granted. -V - il t f - ' !.,:'.- r The application of David Hall, to be r& lieved from the payment of poll-tax, .was not granted. . f " ' ' . . r ;f The application of county officers, to be furnished fuel for ; their' bfflces, was not granted..," ,r ' I n'i, ij The application of. J.. C. Hill in regard to tax on property, was referred to Col J. T. Taylor.- . . , : .jThe Treasurer submitted his monthly re port for the month of October, which was as follows: - V'- ' ' , 'Vj " ' General Fund: Balance on hand. $13, 454. 43 Special Fund: Balance on hand: I 92498 Educational Fund: Balance on j - -hand,..: 1 9,394.53 :tHe also returned 13 coupons of $3 each, and one coupon of the denomination lof $15 which were burped in the presence jof the Board. ' . ' 4 " ; jThe Register submitted his report for the -month of ? September," showing the amount of $14.25 received from marriage licenses, and exhibited his receipt from the Treas urer for the same. ( Also the report for Oc tober, showing the amount of $19 received from the same source, and exhibited his re ceipt for the same. - lM j ' 1 . It was ordered that J the' petition of the Register for a stove, in the Register's office, be granted. , . t. , J j . . The application of Norwood Giles & Co.,; for a reduction of assessment on property, was not granted, there being no legal au-; thbrity, in the opinion of the Board, for such action. - 1 " .!-. j The regular venire of jurors for the spe cial term of the Criminal Court was drawn as follows; . ; v : " "i ;! I fbl.-' Crapon, Lewis Bryant r":A1 Kmgsbury;" F. V. B. Yopp, C. C. Parker. " Wf Hi M. Koch, N. F. Parker, Joseph F. Craig.i John Dyer, James H. Lane.jWm. L. j Duke, Joseph Doane, John T. French, Isham, Quick, S. W. Durham, H. McL. Green, F A. Newberry, A. L. Freeman, Thos. E. Davis, Wm. KeUogg, L. Flana agan, Benj. Todd, M.. Cronly, C. M.j Bon ham; J. D. H. Klander, John" W; Gerdts, KF. Johnson; C. n. Ward, B L. Hutch ing, C. H. King. - jj The following ; regular venire for the De cember term of the Superior Court was drawn: . .- . . i 1 1 First "Week. Robert Lee, Benj. Dunham, Jno. Ii. Dudley. A. J. Hill, D. F. Barnes, E. j.i Moore, R. Greenberg, W. R. Beery, WJ M. HanMns, Thos. Evans, Geo. W. Hughes, R F. Eyden. - . ... l Second Week. W. C. Puckett, N.IjHul lew, Geo. L Hussel, Geo. Moseley, John Ottoway, J. T. Mclver, William-Gilchrist, John B. Casteen, John B. Beery, B. G. Bates, C. W. Hawes, Walker Meares. !j 1 FENDER COUNTY. - Regular IKontlily HI ee ting of the Board if: of County Commissioners. l The Board met at Burgaw on Motiday, November 7th. - . . J Present, Daniel Shaw, . Chairman, ;i and Commissioners Alderman and CorbettJ few persons were relieved from pay ment of poll-tax and some relief extended to the deserving poor. ' ' ; In conformity with Section 1st, Chapter 25? Laws 1881. the Board will submit testi- . mates and plans to the Justices of the Peace for the building of a court house and jail at an early day. " "i ; v it ? A great deal of school business was tran .s&cted. : The attention of the Board was called to the fact that a large number of the school districts in the county rerei too small, and that it would be almost . impos sible to collect a special tax for the support and maintenance of schoolsf orthe. period of four months. 4, ' ; it ; AU road matters were postponed to the December meeting. V " ji The ; Board then i drew - the following persons to serve as - jurors at - the next term of i the Superior ; Court,' ito commence on the: third Monday (19th) of December : L. H. McClammy, F. H. Bell, T. C. Orr, A. T. Herring, R. S: Atkinson, O. R. Sav age, !RJ. Bloodworth, W. C. Marshall, C. H. Pigford, Geo. M. Murray, W. S. Pig ford; A. B. Croom, W.' S. 1 Vann, A. Ho-catt,- David. Sanders, James Thompson, Gaston Peterson, Arnold Teachev, John O. Giddins, W. H. King, Jacob Murray';-1.-Newton Alderman, Joseph French, Joseph S. Newton, John W: Rowe, G. W. High smith, Thomas B. Rockwell, B. F. 'Keith, E. McMoore, Robert T. Rivenbark, A. S. Nixoii, J. T. Collins, H. A: Bland, C. sW. Futch, Jr., John R. Paddison, Eli LarMns, Jesse Bowden. r . -. The Sampson County Fair. - We are requested to announce through the Sta3i that Gov. Jarvis will", deliver an address jbeforeJthe Sampson Caunty, Fair on Thursday, the 17th - of November, and that fc!ol.j L. L. Polk will deliver an address on Friday; Ihe 18th. - - . . ..t There is a fine breech-loading -gun" to be shot for atuhe glass-ball shooting on Thurs day. - - - ' ' , i' . Several fine steam engines will be on ex hibition , , ' " 9 . ,U ! Thre "will be the largest display of agri-" cultural implements, we ' understand, ever exhibited before. - - ' I- . ' r The Fair will commence on the 16th and close bn the 19th inst. - ' Thanks to Mr.- E. W. Kerr, Chief Mar shal, for a complimentary ticket. . ; i ! I From Cumberland. - By recent arrivals from "up the river": we learn ihat Col. " Hector McKethan died at his home in Fayetteville, on Sunday last,' and was buried on Monday, with - military and Masonic honors. CoL. McKethan com manded the Sixty-first regiment of HJC State troops during the late war. ; ..Vj f ? ! A shockingrmurder is reported as having occurred In the lower part of the county last week.r 1 The victim, was a colored man, f who was literally disernbo -named Faircloth. i", , diseniboweledk by a man THE H UN AWAY A CCIDENt Particulars of the Runaway Accident , hy TVhlch sl!Ir, James Sprunt tont : a Leg Present Condition of the w i ferer, dec. - Thet intelligenceof the. sad accident which' befell' Mr. James" -'Sprunt on Tues day afternoon, at Wrightsville Sound, and which first .reached a large majority of onr readers when they opened our paper yester day morning," was the occasion of much feeling and. sympathy " in the community, which ; was ..- intensified iwhen' it became known that amputation had actually been resorted to. As -our account of the acci dent in yesterday Star s was necessarily' meagre in detail; we here give, the partic ulars in a more extended form, and as near ly m possible as we received them from Mr. B. F, Hall, a brother-in-law of thi sufferer. t Mr. Hall says - Mr" .- Sprunt mentioned some matter of business to him after din ner on Tuesday; and he told Mr. S. he was going to the Sound. At about 3 o'clock be started, accompanied by his wife, and was soon afterwardslnformed by the latter that Mr. Sprunt and a younger sister had just preceded them by a few minutes. On the arrival of Mr, Hall and wife at the Sound they found Mr. and Miss S. already there, with an oyster roast preparing for the party. This was finally, partaken of, and at or about half past 5 o'clock they began their preparations forthe homeward trip,' Mr. Sprunt started from the neighborhood of Capt. Manning's bath house just as Mr Hall was leaving the gate at the entrance to the yard,,. After proceeding a short dis tance it, e was noticed that. Mr. - Sprunt's horse was going very fastbut at first nothing was .thought of it. In a moment after wards, however," Miss' Sprunt was seen to jump from the vehicle; Mr. Hall then hurriedly drove up as near as possible to the 'spot and gave the reins to" his wife while he saw after Miss S. , He. found her at the place where she had jumped from the Vehicle, and, in answer to Mr. H.'s inquiry as to whether she was hurt, she replied by urging Mm to look after her brother, who, slsaid, was terribly in jured. About the samB time Mr. Hall first detected the sound of Mr. s voice calling for help, and upon reaching his side found him in the act of sitting upon the Aground, holding up his wounded lek At the time Miss S. jumped from the bWgy it was about fifty or sevCnty-five yarX from the first curve, or about two hundrednd fifty yards from the bathing house, whe yr- epruni was iounu neany opposite tiiefirst curve. -:' - j . The wounded gentleman was taken to Capt. Manning's house by. Mr. Stoklcy, and a messenger ; immediately started to this oity for a physician. . Dr. . Wood arrived about 8.30, and, . upon an examination of the wounded leg, decided that amputation would be necessary, but desired the pre sence of another surgeon fotconsultation, etc. Another messenger was sent to Wil mington and arrived with Dr. Love about 12.30.- Chloroform was then administered to the patient and about a quarter past 1 o'clock the wounded limb thTr left leg was amputated about five inches above the ankle, which was un jointed' by the accident . and the bones protruding. In accordance with the recommendation of the physicians the sufferer was soon aften wards placed on a bed in an omnibus and started for home," leaving the Sound about 9.30 yesterday morning and reaching Wil mington about noon. In the vehicle with Mr Sprunt during the trip were Rev. Mr. Payne and Dr. Wood. Mr. S. bore the trip very well,: and at last accounts yesterday i afternoon was 'resting as1 easy and was. as i cheerful and in as good a condition as could reasonably be expected. ' ' 7 ' :. r The amputation' was conducted to ! the: , entire satisfaction of the surgeons i in attendance; . and here we would say i that Rev. Mr. - Payne, himself somewhat i of ia physician and entitled to the ap jpellation of "Dr.," rendered efficient assist ance. All speak in the highest terms of itjie valuable services of Mrs. Manning and iothers of the family on the distressing oc jcasion, and the kind offices of the servants jare also appreciated. . fhe universal sym pathynd proffers of assistance attests the 'esteem in which Mr. Sprunt is held by his fellow-citizens of Wilmington, and hopes for his speedy recovery are heard on all isides. Miss Sprunt was uninjured. New Berne.' items: Cor. Thos. Powers, yesterday, received an appoint ment from the Secretary o? the Treasury as Revenue Agent at large, and will, in a day or two, receive orders assigning him to duty, i : Capt. Dixon,, of the SNeuse river im provements, yesterday, extended an invita tion to the press to row through the Ran som Channel, lately completed on the east front of the city. We are informed by Gen. Ransom, the engineer in : charge that this improvement only cost the government two thousand dollars. To the commerce of New Berne it .is"; worth many times that amount. . . . ' , . . "' . I? Durham Recorder: As an nounced in our first issue, the Becorder will be issued daily ; during the session of the Methodist Annual Conference, which con venes at this place, on the 23rd of Novem ber.'! . While- in 'Chatham county last week, " we had occasion ' to ' visit the "to bacco section, " and upon inquiry, we learned that the crop was not damaged by the frost, that it was excellent and cures fine. Mr. W. " F..p Stroud, a large : tobacco grower, succeeded remarkably well in curing a large1 quantity of very ', fine wrappers, the only cures we have heard of being made this season. The 'growth' of tobacco is com paratively a f" new feature in farming in Chatham, v.:. -vVx-----;-- - - ; -. f New York "Tribune ; v In an other department ' at Atlanta gems and marbles of exquisite fineness and tint from North Carolina. -i In a third ; is' an extraor dinary collection of the bright tobacco for which that State is famous, pn the benches and floor, are masses of coal, iron,;.jcopper, slate, granite," marble, corundum, asbestos, mica and other valuable rtuneralsH Among the woods is some of the . most beautiful hickory, white, hard and fine-grained, that an artisan eet handled. 1 ' ' 1 Women that have been pronounced incu rable bv the best physicians in the country, have Teen . completely cured of female weakness by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's tVegetable Compound. . It.is a positive cure tor au rcmale complaints.' : Send . to jnrsv Lydia E. Pinkham, , 233 Western Avenue, 'Lynn; Mass., for pamphlets;1' ? ' f. -
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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