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VOL. XIII.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12 1876
NO. 2,413.
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DHALCR IN-
BOOTS, SHOES D LEATHER.
A FUI.I, LIXE OP " I
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FALL AND WINTER GOODS, j
AT LOW PRICES.
All MM SSoes BoiM from li Honse WarraMei as Represktea
TRADE
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STREET.
F V U If I T U It
BURGESS NICHOLS.
WHOLESALE
BCD ROOM AKD PARLOR
OF COFFINS OF ALL
sarT
2?" 353
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S. . 331 iD
FURNITURE
I have just received
A very handsome assortment of
A TINE STOCK OF
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T.OTTNOES. ALL
CHAMBER
Springs' Comer
dealersiin;
ri3ga AflG&i oinos,
Tarnish, Glass,
I
FANCY ARTICLES, PERFUMERY? BRUSHES.
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' ouwmkwuTjnaA. . m
THIS- WELL EIIOWH1
LOCATED IS CENTRE
r s sssasjsMbJ- .
TO THE TEaVFLLINQ PUBLIC.
Ik UusiiU use is iiBBletass9 tlio Irase Is
GAS and ELECTRIC BELLS ABE IN EVERY BOOM
To Invalids, Florida Tourists or Persons Traveling
FOR PLEASURE, THIS' HOUE OFFERS EVERY FACILITY
. ; JFOIl COMFORT. , , ,
fl& TRRM5 3 OfS Krt 1 40!
Rooms. .
CHAELOTTE, 35T 1 C.
l E 4 I, E It 8
E. A. OSBORNE.
& RETAIL, I
DEALEiS IX
ALL 1!ND8 OF
FURN IT
BEDDING, &b-.'.
Jo
s, wct Tra St.,
CHARLOTTE
C.
JUST RECEIVED
A.
FULL
or
GHILBRENS CARRIAGES,
(SETTS, AND A FULL LINE
GRADES, OK HAND.
& OOD
G-3SS B. S ,
WAREHOUSE.
a fresh Stock of
e o Cfi CT 17 1L IT o
fttS IU 3iiair$ ClOtll MOPS
GENTLEMEN'S EASY CHAIRS.
PRICES. CHEAP SOFAS. CHEAP
SUITS, &G.
TNc
1 of
N connection with the Furniture Business
Mr E Q Roeers. at mv old stand on
South Trade Street. I will conduct the IJn-
dertakine Business on my own account,
riving it mv nersonal attention. 1
I will keep a complete Stock, from the
Cheapest Wood Coffin to the finest.Metalic
Burial Case.
Orders by telegraph or otherwise, prompt
ly attended to. Respectfully f
F. M. SHIliTON.
Sac- ia
Charlotte, H.- C,
Ghomic&le, Oils
Dfe-Staffe ;
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OF THE CITY, 6FFERS
flrt n iarmrdincr t looation, pf
H O ECCLES, Proprietor.
Noon Dispatches.
SOTJTH "cIrOLIHA,
A FIENDISH ATTEMPT AT
WHOLESALE MUltDES.
A Whole Tillage Condemned,!
Sixtten of the Murderers Captured
and Reported Lyached Hon
. George A Trenholm Dead
Cottoa Report.
The Canvassing Boaro Released
by Jtidge lioud-of Course.
Charliston, Dee 11. Sixteen n
groes were arreited in Abbeville coun
ty, charged with themurder of 2 white
men, whom they ambushed and shot
near Lowndesville on Monday. Six
of the negroWaSeian confesion
implicating their felto prisoners, and
divulging a plot for the -murder of all
the wite men of .thelf illage and the
capture, f the women. Twenty of
thetii were in the conspira, and they
had begun the buiJery by slaughter
ing the two white men. Of the 16 ar
rested, 13 were started from Lowndes
ville to Anderson, the intention being
to send them from Anderson to Abbe
ville by railroad. This round-about
course was adopted to avoid lynching
by men who were said to be on the
direct road from Lowndesville to Abbe
ville. The prisoners started for Ander
son on Saturday under a strong guard,
but up to thia evening, have not been
heard from. It is rumored that they
have been intercepted and lynched by
a party-from Georgia, but no confirma
tion of this report has vet reached
Charleston. Two of the prisoners had
been liurt when captured, and the
party may have stopped on the road to
ease the wounded, especially as the
weather has been so cold.
CixoR, Dec 11. It is reported that
that the ten degroes who murdered
one white man, and "killed another at
Lowndesville, were taken from the
sheriff and ppsie, and lynched by
Georgians.
Charleston, Dec 11. The Hon Geo
A Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury,
of the Confederate government at the
time of its collapse is dead.JAged 70
years.
LATER.
Columbia, Dec 11. Positive inform
ation has been received here that the
juunuucsYiuo iuuiucicio were uvi
lynched. They hare ben moed to
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caution against violence. Investiga
tion discloses that the plot to murder
the whites indiscrimnately was horri
ble, which aroused excitement am one:
the whites to the extent of threatening
summary punishment. Ihe precau
tion taken avoided this, and everything
is now quiet. On; of the captured
murderers took iaudamum and died
from the effects. A jury in his case
rendered a verdict unanimously : "We
the jurors upon our oaths do say that
the Sam Benton came to his death
from the voluntary use of laudanum,
taken by himself, and received by him
from the hand of his brother!" The
prisoners are new ail sa:e in Wftinaiia
jail.
Judge Bond has delivered a decision
discharging the board of State canvass
ers from custody, on tne ground tliat
that the Supreme, Court of the State
had no jurisdiction.
The November report of the Charles
ton Exchange on the South Carolina
cotton crop based on fifty replies from
25 counties is as follows : Weather re
ported by S3 more favorable, by 15 as
the same, and by 2 less favorable than
the same month last year. The crop
of the State may be regarded a9 gath
ered, 34 report picking as finished at
the date of their replies; 16 say from
85 per cent to 95 per cent already pick
ed, and that all would be gathered by
the 15th. The average of replies show
a decrease in yield in counties heard
from of 16 per cent compared to last
years proportion of crop already sent
to market from 50 to 90 per cent. The
average is 76 per cent- The drought
in August, and the early frost in Oct.
are reported as having reduced the
crop from 25 to 33 per cent, and the
present condition of the country is
causing it to be marketed more rapidly
than usual.
s FOREIGN,
Th Ministerial Crisis in France Ar
reting Trade Turks Enter
ing Ronmania.
T.nmn?r. Dec. 11. The Paris corres-
Tnndnt of the Times says : The min
isterial crisis is beginning seriously to
affect trade. Up to midnight on Sun
day, the Left have refused to let M Da
faure have a portfolio, ihe difhcuities
do not appear to have een cleared
away by DuFaure's conference with
Limsn. There is n chance of the list
f new ministerv appearing' in Mon
day's official journals.
MiTjRTD. Dec 11 The Cortes has
passed a law making education com
pulsory. j
: London, Dec. 11. It is reported th at
the Turks are about to enter Rouma'
hia. '
Chindler'i Telegrams Demanded
The Senate to Investigate the
Oregon Election Got G rover
and the Secretary of Stats
to be Summoned.
Wasington, D. C, Dec 11 It is
stated that the Congressional Commit
tee have demapded the telegram sent
by Secretary Chandler, also those sent
by Wm E Chandler, who has been in
Florida during the canvass.
The Senate passed the House bill
appropriating $21,000 to defray the ex
penses of the special committee of the
House, to investigate the recent elec
tions in South Carolina, Louisiana and
Florida, with an amendment appro
priating $10,000 to defray the expenses
of the Committee on Priviliges and
Elections in making the investigation,
as authorized by the resolution of Mr
Edmunds.
The Committee of Elections and
privileges- of the Senate. agreed to take
up the Oregon investigation as propos
ed in Senator Mitchell's resolution.
-The ipvestigation has been referred to
a sub-committee, consisting of Sena
torst Morton, Igan and Kernah. Gov
Grover and ih Secretary of State, of
sOreg.on,..will be)iummjned The pro
gramme telegraphed dtSaturday is in
all other respects, adopted..
The committees fer Florida, South
Carolina and Louisima leave for the
scene of labors1 to-day.
The Judiciary Committee of the
House considered the Representative
from Colorado this morning, and will
take action to-morrow.
ALABAMA.
Twenty-Five Dollars Reward.
Mobile, Dec. 1L $25 will be pail for
the arrest and detention of Samuel L
Nicholson, about 19 years old ; a scar
extends from the eye across the fore
head. He is about five feet eight inches
high; weighs about a hundred and fif
teen or twenty pounds; has on a rough
black overcoat bound with black braid,
left arm slightly crooked from ) aving
been broken. He is charged with em
bezzlement of office funds.
(Signed) W. Sandfokd.
lid Wight iispateke.
WORK IN CONGRESS.
Iayestigation the Order of the Day
Shall the supreme Court Count the
Vote.
Washington, Dec 11. The Senate
resumed a consideration of the un
finished business, being a joint
resolution of Mr. Edmunds, proposing
anamendmentto theConstitutionof the
United States, so as to have the elec
toral vote for President and Vice Pres
ident counted by the Supreme Court,
and the amendment of the Judiciary
Committee authorizing the electors to
vote viva voce, instead cf by ballot, was
agreed to.
Mr Morton oppo?ed the clause pro
viding tha Court shall in the dis
charge of the duty, disregard errors of
form and be governed by the substan
tial right of the matter. He argued
that this clause would give to the Su
preme Court a boundless jurisdiction.
It would authorizs that body to do
almost anything, perhaps to go and
count the votes in the State of Ver
mont. Such a jurisdiction should not
be conferred upon any tribunal as it
was dangerous.
Mr Edmunds said the object of the
clause was not to authorize the Court
to exercise boundless jurisdiction or go
any where to count the votes of citi
zens. but it was to authorize the Court
to do exactly what the Courts do in
matters which they are called upon to
try and that was to disregard forms
and decide substantial right of the mat
ter. He then explained at length the
provisions of the joint resolution pro
posing the amendment to the Coniti
tution. No action was taken.
House. Among the bills introduced
and referred were the following :
By Darrall of Louisiana, authorizing
the State of Louisiana to close the
mouth of Bayou Lafourche, where it
opens into the Mississippi; also to ap
ply the proceeds of sale of public lands
to the education of people.
Banning of Ohio moved to suspend
the rules and adept a resolution recit
ing the eulogium passed on S Madison
Wells of the Louisiana returning board
in Senator Sherman's report to Presi
dent, aud calling on the President for
copies from the War Department o
all reports, orders, and correspondence
connected with Gen Sheridan's remov
al of Wells from the Governorship o
Louisiana in 1867, was feated by-141
& 80: not the necessary two thirds.
MacDougal offered a esolution for
the appointment of (elect committees
on election frauds as follows: Com
mittee of nine for New York, Brooklyn
and Jersey 'City ; five for Virginia-the
second and fourth Congre3ional dis
t.rir.ta: ninft for Mississippi: five for
Philadelphia and 3 for Alabama. Nega
tived, yeas, 124 nays 88, not the neces
sary two thirds.
Cox then offered a resolution for a
select committee on fraudulent regis
tration and fraudulent voting in the
cities of New York; Philadelphia
Brooklyn and Jersey City; adopted;
On motion of Goode of Virginia, the
Judiciary Committee were instructed
to inquire and report on the legality of
the circular letter issued by Attorney
General during the late presidential
campaign, to United States Marshals
in relation to their powers and dutias
on such elections.
A resolution by Spencer of Louisiana
for inquiry into intimidation practiced
on government employees during the
late e'ection, to compel them to contri
bute to election funds, was defeated for
want of two thirds vote.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
The Democratic Senatorial caucus
after discussing the political situation,
appointed Thurman, Bogy, Bayard
Kern an and Eaton, a committee to
confer with the committee of the House
caucus for adjusting the only differ
ences regarding counting the electoral
votes.
The House Democratic caucus to
day after a very animated discussion
agreed on motion of Hunter to instruct
the Judiciary Committee to report
what course the House should pursue
regarding the count of the electoral
votes, and what legal powers the House
and Senate respectively possess on the
subject. Some excited speeches were
made, but the general determination
was to take no other action until the
receipt of the reports of Southern in
vestigating committees. -
From that distant region, "where
rolls the Oregon and hears no sound
save its own rushing," comes news
that imparts a feeling of infinite satis
faction to all true patriots. Franklin
Pierce said, in his funeral oration upon
the occasion of the death of Daniel
Webster, "The great heart of the
nation beats silently at the portals of
the tomb." This grand nation has a
heart, which has for four weeks beaten
silently at what threatened to be the
portals of the tomb of constitutional
liberty. The danger is not overpast;
but there is good reason for hoping
that the action of the Governor of
Oregon will result in the seating of Mr.
Tilden, and the preservation of the
peace and prosperity of the eounty.
Richmond Dispatch.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WE expect a large ale from purchasers
who desire to be first in introducing the
latest novelties and most fashionable styles.
declO K O L.AT1 A liRO.
rnHE knowledge of our genuiae low prices
JL is rapidly extending through every town
n both of the Carolines.
declO E D 1ATTA & BRO.
Members
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V the "Junior Hp Club" are requested
to meet at the effice of Walter Pbarr,
under the '-ential Hotel, this evening at 7i
1 ock. Bv order of the President,
V P PEGRAM, Jr.,
decl2 It Secretary aad Treasurer.
JUST RECEIVED
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Pair Ladies', Misses'
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FREIGHT AGENCY
or THE
Sreat goetbera Freight
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Atlantic Coast Lines.
THE attention of Shippers and Consignees
is respectfully invited to the unequaled
ftcililiea afiordtd by these lins for the
prompt and satisfatory handling of freights
between Charlotte and &1L Northern and
Eastern cities.
GRAHAM DA VE, Soliciting Agt.
Office Trade street, in Buildig of W I
Best & Co , Charlotte, If . C.
dec!2
Books aad Stationery for Salo
AT AUCTION-
BY Virtue of a deed of trust made to us on
the eleventh day of Auemst. 1876, by RS
Phifer. we will sell n the 29th and 30th of
December, and continue uatil all is sold,
the entire stock of Goods, consisting of books,
stationery, pictures, , piano, shelving and
counter,
There is nice let of Christmas Goods, and
parties wishing to buy beforehand will find
the Goods at Koallsch's store for sale at cost.
Terms cash. WALTER BREM, 1 Trus
J H "WHITE, jtees.
declQ td
Bargains! Bargains !
TT AVIKG completed oiir stcck so that the
wants of the community .can be filled, irt
guarantee satisfaction to all purchasers giv
ing ns a call. The latest styles of all goods
in onr line to be found at OUR. HOUSE.
We are determined to keep abreast of the
times. Give us a call.
BAREINGEK & TROTTER,
N. B. No trouble to show Goods.'
declO ' ' t ' ''.V"
E. D. LATTA & BRO.,
TO THE FROWT!
Great Break in
Prices Many Say, but it is only Our Usual Low Hates.
HOT SURPRISING
That our Business has more than doubled our
Greatest Expectations,
After Seeing our Goods and Prices, and Learning
the Points in the Purchasers Favor, and the
Great Advantages to be Derived.
Our Elegant and Immense Yaricty in Stock ; The
Quality and Texture of Fabric and Material ;
Our Superior Styles and Perfect Shapes ;
Our Strict Adherance to Truthful Representations ; The Polite
Attention Which our Patrons Receive ; The Immense Fa
cilities we enjoy in Procuring our Goods; The Ex
treme Lowness of our Prices'T Our Strictly
Cash and One Price Systeni ; Our Satisfac-
i
tory Dealings with Patrons ; Our Com
plete and Thorough Mode of Conducting our Business
We solicit the patronage of the neighboring Community and offer special
inducements to Wholesale Buyers.
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And a full assortment of LADIES and CHILDREN'S FURS,
MEDIUM AND
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With a riew of reducing cur immense RETAIL STOCK, to enable us to consolidate our
two Houses by January 1st next, we, from taia aay on, oner to mo puuuc
UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITIES !! !
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Suppl themselves and their families with
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W H I T B B L ANKBT S,
From $2.75, 4.00 amd $6.00 ; worth $4.00, $6.00 and $10.
A DIE S' C L OAK S.
From $3.50 to $15 ; worth $5 to $25,
WOOLEN DRES S G 0 0 DS ,
From 121 cents upwards less than half price, -.v . i? j- r;j . v
MILLINERY 1 FANCY GOODS AT
"IT f mTTTVrn Lower thanthe lowest offered in
jAl 1 nilN IT from $30 onwards.' Gents' Famishiar
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short, onr whole BET AIL STOCK will be
From and after the 1st of January, we wish onr customers to ear in. nund that, our ,
RETAIL HOUSE will be conselidated with oar present Wholesale Heuse. ; A
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