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THEPOSTOFJ flCE.'
The animal report of the postmaster-
general oasjust been lamed to the press
in DtmDhlet form. It covers the onera-
tions or the department up to the close of
the fiscal year ended Jane 30th last, and
in its presentation of the statistics as well
as ii stiestiTe an 1 advfeory 1 features
contains some. interesting, matter. The
report Br dated Novenr4 wWeh) if In
verfood frm. as tiftj?l-)rd-inJ trie Me
partments at Washington.
Mr. James beginsjh a-Utte, finance,
fthowiog us while the ,expen4itures
of the departincm for tneHar were $39.-
251,73046 M flniri' ihhosH
equally great, the dificit being, in round
numbers, only two and a half millions, or
03 ter eent. of the exnAnriirnrn nf the. rlo.
eltii6&iheilS 6F theWnrxy Hosi!a!
service at $43,661,800, while the revenue
anticipated is $42, 741, 722,05, leaving a
ueuciency oi less man a minion 10 De pro
vided for by appropriation.
When we look into the lists which tab
ulate the sales of the department, some
enormous figures are encountered J From
postal cards alone the rsceipts were over
three million dollars, showing a popular
use of this cheapest vehicle of correspon
dence which exceeded six for every one
of the fifty million subjects of Uncle Sam.
Nearly a thousand million ordinary pos
tage stamps were sold, returning a reve
nue of twenty-five . millions; while the
carelessness or economy which prompts
so many letter writers to mail their mis
sives with insufficient postage attached in
shown by the collection of postage due
upon eight million letters which were
over weight.
Upon the subject of "dead" letters the
postmaster-general fays:
"By careful reckoning based upon an
actual count made in every postoffice in
the United States during the first week
in December, 1880, it has been ascertained
that the whole number of letters mailed
in this country in the last fiscal year was
1,040,107,348. . The number reaching
the dead letter office during the same per
iod was 2,323,621, or one in every 315.
The total number of letters, and of pack
ages that were of sufficient value to be
recorded and filed, received during the
year ended Jnne 30, 1881, was 3,074,205,
an increase of 3 "4, 023 over the number
received during the preceding year. Of
the letters and packages opened, 18,617
were found to contain money amounting
to40,587,80; 22,012 contained drafts,
money orders, checks, notes, etc., the ag
gregate face value ot which was $1,899,
002,51 ; 87,978 contained receipts, paid
notes, and canceled obligations of all
sorts; 33,731 contained photographs;
01,550 contained small remittances of
postage-stamps; and in 75,213 there
were found valuable articles of third and
fourth class matter in endless variety.
The amount of money separated from
dead letters for which no claimant could
be found was $G,5S4,40, which was dc
posited in the treasury."
So it can be seen that there are a good
many people intelligent enough to write
-letters that are too careless to properly
protect even their most important com
munications. Every newspaper in the
country has experienced the reception of
complaints from subscribers who claimed
to have remitted amounts that were nev
er received. Probably the unclaimed de
posits of the dead letter office could ac
count lor many of these missing sub
scriptions. The money order division of the post
office issued last yt ar nearly eight million
orders, having an aggregate value of
$105,000,000. Ofthis total, $150,915,74
was never presented for payment, and is
probably a net gain to the department,
making a profitable addition to the mil
lion dollars received by. postmasters as
fees tor the issuance of these orders.
This business increases largely every year,
and is becoming one of the most popular
means of safely making small remittances.
Mr. James has in this report given the
opinion that the time when the service of
the department shall be supported by its
own receipts is not far away. He advo
cates the reduction of letter postage to
two cents and the increasing of rataupon
third and fourth class matter if it be
found necessary to maintain the revenues
of the department. But the postmaster
general believes that two years' trial of
c'leap postage would result in an increase
of revenue, as was the case after the in
troduction of the postal card: " ' " ''
It takes a little army to run the nation
al postoffice. Tim noble corps of post
masters alone numbers 14 512, an increase
of 1,500 over the year before, and the
other employes bring the total up to the
respectable figure of 0 1 ,444. . One man in
every three score and ten that votes the
Republican ticket has a berth inside the
postoffice! , ,: . irs jr. -s
Occasionally some one who handles our
letters is dishonest and then the depart
ment tries to catch him. Four hundred
and sixty-one arrests were xnadoJ last
year, of which forty-two were postmas
ters not a great average of knavery, one
in a thousand.
Efforts are making all the time to facil
itate the mail service by securing fast
trains on the great trunk lines, and much
success has been lately met with byt the
establishment between New York and
Chicago on the; Pennsylvania's limited
express. Star routes are becoming fewer
as railroad Unes are pmpleted, apd a few
more years will find them extloctl 1
With a flourish in favor of civil service
reform, of which some of us have before
.heard, Mr.Jamesdoses his repqrt. :jt
may be of himHhat ripflemn
! who understands his business, and" It is
1 unfortunate that the country is soon to
lose his service tor bepxpetiia,eiiUl vcri :
tures ot a green
lows. '
Lleblff Co's Coca Bee Tenlc
Has received Highest Medals at Principal
Expositions, and is endorsed and pre
scribed by tm. Medicah acuity,
abroad i as thief fetawdrri hmmbt c
It embodies the nutritive elements of
the muscular fibre, blood, borie, and brain
of carefullylected. healthy bullocks, com
bined witrrthe' TVowerfuMonio4 Vlrtuesof
Coca, or Sacred, Lv?t plant ot the lncas,
and a choice quality ot Sherry wine. .De-
ware of worthless imitations under ours
and similar names It iaf invaluable in
dyspepsia, billiousness, .etc. (
Decatur, Tennessee, has given up its
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WOE AHEAD. '
An English. Almanac's Gloomy Horo
; scope for 1882 Forecast for the
United States Another Assassin
1 tionPronxisedandaGreatrire - :
"Zadklel's Astrologicol Almanae" for
. 1 3S2 has fast appeared in London. From
the fact that several of the predictions
-aade by Zadkiel for the past year were
fulfilled, those for the coming year are
attracting considerable attention. In his
preface the author jays: "The twelve
months that hare rolled away since wc
last addressed the publTo have been pro
lific in the manifestations of planetary in
fluence. The most autocratic , ruler of
Europe, after havjpg escaped the ballets
oof the w6uld be assassins for many years
of the Nihilists, in Jit'Trtfo
foretold would -fe his last on earth."
Turning to the predictions, the first in or
der is thesun's entrance into Capricornus,
December 21, 1881, at about 9 p.. m.,
New York time, at the ineress. "Venus
Land Mercury in the meridian will improve
trad and commerce, yet, inasmuch as
Saturn is in the second house, we are told
that "the revenue will be deficient"
The position of the Mars in, the fifth
house is 7 degrees and 56 minutes of New
York's governing sign, Cancer, in "un
fortunate for the theatres and places of
amusement, and the burning, of one
(probably in New York) is only too likely
te take place about the 27th to the 29th
of December, 1881." Then because
Uranus is in the . seventh house and in
square to Mercury, the lawyers are prom
ised plenty of work, while there Is a pros
pect of especially live times in our divorce
courts. "At the lunation Mars is in the
tenth house, which presignifies that tax
ation will press very heavily on the peo
ple," the taxation threatened most prob
ably having reference to the advanced
price of all kinds ot provisions. "There
will be much violence in the United
States, and some great men will suffer de
gradation or meet with a violent death."
At the same time we are assured that our
railroads will be prosperous. For Janua
ry, 1SS2, we are reminded that no less
than five large planets, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are to ret
rogate at the beginning of the year, near
ly coinciding with Neptune's stationary
position on the 23, warns colliery mana
gers to take extra precautions against ac
cidents. "The emperor of Germany will
feel the effects of Saturn stationary on his
mid heaven. Socialists will disturb his
empire." In the latter part of February
we are informed that "great excitement
will bo witnessed in New York, and a
great conflagration is likely to take place.
The sun enters Aries on March 24, at
about nine o'clock p. m., Marshas jus
risen at the ingress ; the sun, Venus and
the moon are in the tenth house ; Saturn,
Neptune and Jupiter arc in the eleventh;
Mercury is in the ninth ; Uranus in the
third. These po&itions presignify much
excitement in the states, alarms of war,
turbulence and bloodshed. Also some
vicissitudes, if not panics, in regard to
railways." Moreover, we are informed
that certain portions of this country in
March next will be visited by an epidem
ic of diphtheria or small-pox. About
the middle of April "Mars will transmit
the ascendancy of the vernal ingress at
Washington, producing great excitement
in the states.' The president's position
will be an unenviable one. About April
10th, a plot will be discovered in Russia
in which women will be greatly concerned,
and will go near revolutionizing the polit
ical system of the country. Oq May 17th
the sun will be partly eclipsed in tl e
sign Tarus. The ancients averred that a
solar eclipse falling in the sign presigni
fies 'a scarcity of the fruits of the earth
and corn,' aud in the third decanate of
the sign, 'pestilence, famine and destruc
tian of great cattle." Consequently a bad
harvest is predicted for Ireland. At the
entrance ot the sun into Cancer, on June
21 sf, at about 0.15 in the afternoon,
"Mars' is in the ascendant and Saturn
in the meridian, the moon aud Uranus
being in the second house. This will be
a critical time for Americans. War can
scarcely be avoided. The greatest ex
citement will be witnessed in the states.
Panics and a great fall in public securi
ties are sure to take place. Shocks of
earthquake will be felt in some states.
The weather of the quarter will be marked
by intense heat and dryness." July prom
ises to be a momentous month on the other
side of the Atlantic. "Explosions and
deedsof violence will be rife in London."
In India there will be "much excitement
and bloodshed." Fortunately for the
United States, Jupiter is in Gemini our
ruling sign "showeriDg down fortunate
influences," while the fojourn of Mercury
in Cancer will tonefit the trade and com
merce of New York city. In August the
prospect is still more pleasing and reassur
ing. "The United States," says the star
interpreter, "are in a prosperous condi
tion, under the beneficent influences of Ju
piter in Gemini some important measures
of -reform in the direction of trade and
commerce may be expected." At the
autumnal equinox, September 3, at 8:30
in the morning, the prospects remain
mainly favorable. "Jupiter is in the as
cendant, which presiitnifies peace, pros
perity, and health to the Americans. The
conjunctoin of Mercury and Mars falling
in the fifth house foreshadows, I fear, a
panic of fii e resulting in a dire catastrophe,
probably about, the middle of : October.
-.Uranus in the tourth house indicates some
great storm and cold snaps; but as J upi
ter is in the ascendant less damage will
be done than .would otherwise be the
case." Zadkiel predicts that the king ol
Spain is likely tone plaeed in a tight place
in November, 1882. "The sun returns to
this longitude in the king's horoscope at
midnight November 28, Madrid mean,
time. 1 he sun and Mars are nearly con
joined in the lower meridian ; the moon
is the place of Saturn at birth, and is ses-
ruiquadrate; ! aspect . with M ars. : These
positions presignify' a period of trouble
and great danger near at hand. Assassi
nation is to be feared." In August and
September. 1882, this young monarch is
under vif directional influences, and
therefore, foreseeing .the danger,' ? like
the wise man spoken of in the book of
proverbs, should hide himself" some
what in the fashion of his most illustrious
sacred royal brother of Russia.
THE STAB E0UTE FBAUDS.
The New York ITerald of Friday has a
pointed article on the "Government and
ine otar route frauds, in wnicn it
warns Mr. Arthur that he cannot afford
to be indifferent nor even lukewarm in
pushing the prosecution of the star route
swindlers., 1 Speaking of the progress of
the star routers, under Hayes adminis
tration, it says : , y .
Why it .was or how it was that this
disgraceful pubho plundering was suffered
to flourish throughout the fours years of
ftne iiayes administration ' is a wonder
' that is . only ' increased by every new
development." ! It has been ' known for
some time past that a very significant re-
port on this robjeet was made to Post
master General Key in August, 1879, by
hUJ First ; Assistant, Gen. Tyner, but
which was suppressed for the reason as
Judge Key himself is; reported to have
admitted in a recent interview that he,
the then Postmaster-Genera), looked
uponThe investigation of Brady" as "a
delicate' natter," and was "afraid we
should have a row" if Brady should "feel
that Judge Tyner had invaded his juris
diction: and intermeddled in his affairs."
Since this startling admission was made
it has oome to light that as early as Octo
ber, 1877, there was made to Mr. Key
by Mr. Taloott Williams a report setting
forth some glaring and very suspicious
abuses, to nay the least,! in the star route
service. Bat this important communica
tion seems to have had no more whole
some ftffect on the placid mind of the
that made by Gen. Tyner two years later.
How far Judge Key or others high ,in
authority under the administration of Mr.
Hayes may be responsible for the star
route frauds is a question on which future
developments may possibly shed more
light than we now' have. But enough is
known to justify the i belief that the
shameful corruption that went on for
years might have been detected and stop
ped by proper vigilance and enterprise
on the part of those whose business it
was to guard the public interests.
It calls attention to the widespread
apprehension that the : prosecution will
fail through the influence the guilty par
ties have with the administration, and
their close connection with the leaders of
the Republican party. ; It is even inti
mated that they have received material
aid from District Attorney Corkhill,
while Attorney-General Mac-Veagh's
strange conduct is unaccountable. Cork
hill charges the failure to Mac-Veagh;
and Cook, whom Mac-Veagh employed
to take special charge of the cases, says it
was Corkhill, and MacYeagh is as dumb
as an oyster, and absolutely refuses to
perform the duties of his office, though
the President declines to accept his resi
gnation. Brewster and Bliss wash their
hands of responsibility by alleging that
the harm was all done before they were
retained in the cases.
THE "PINKEYE" DISEASE.
MalMmore Sum.
Messrs. A. S. Abill ti- Co.:
I am afraid "pinkeye" has broken out
among the hor?es in this locality, and
should like to be informed through the
columns of your "weekly" as to the most
approved remedies and treatment.
J. R. T.
Lampworth, Nov. 12, 1881.
In answer to the above question would
say that the disease has two forms, the
typhus and rheumatic. The typhus Ihe
first sympton dullness with loss of appe
tite, watery discharge from the eyes, the
mucous menberane lining the eye very
much inflamed and of a yellowish cast.
Pulse weak, from 50 to 60. Temperature
105 to 100. At first the bowels are con
stipated. From 24 to 48 hours purging
takes place, the pulse becomes stronger
and the temperature falls gradually to the
normal point.
Treatment. Nitrate potash in one
ounce dose night and morning until the
fever has subsided. The horse will rarely
eat any grain; feed them hay well mois
tened, apples, carrots, grass, or in fact
anything they will eat. The after treat
ment consists ofliberal food and tonics.
The rheumatic form of the diease, the
first symptom varies. Sometimes the
horse is lame in one or two legs for twenty
four hours before he stops eating. Again,
he becomes stiff during the night, all the
legs swell up, and it is with difficulty he
mdvea about; loss of appetite, very thirst: ,
pulse very weak, from 00 to 80; tempera
ture from 106 to 108. I
Treatment. Nitrate potash in one
ounwe doses night and morning in water.
Half ounce doses three times per day ot
Fowler's olution of arsenic. Walking
exercise as soon as able. The potash
should be discontinued as soon as the
fever subsides. The legs may be rubbed
with some stimulating embrocation.
Again you have a mixture of the two
types combind. This is' the form that
generally proves fatal. The symptom you
have in this is not spoken of ia the others:
Partial or total blindness, puke imper
ceptible, the brain is affected, horses will
brace themselves with their head against
the wall, they stand with great difficulty,
the least excitement will throw them in a
spasm. Turn them loose in a box stall
and do not excite them in any way.
Treatment the same as the others. The
solutou of arsenic being a dangerous
poison, care should be exercised by hav
ing properly marked and kept under lock
and key. j 1
TERRIBLE DEATH.
The Newbern JSlut ShtU says: Sun
day morning at an early hour Mr. WTm.
A. Nutting, and his son, Burnette, aged
17, left this city in a canoe commanded
by Allen Barnes, colored, for the purpose
of visiting Mrs Nutting, at South River,
near the mouth of the Neuse, and when
near Adam's Creek, about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon, the boat capsized from the
gibing .of the sail. The entire party at
once crawled up on the bottom of the
boat. - ; j 1
After waiting several ; hours for aid,
through terrible suffering! from cold and
anxiety, and finding that it would not
come.youog Nutting undressed and started
to swim ashore, three quarters of a mile
distant, in search of succor. The two men
remained on the bottom of the boat until
4 o'clock Monday : afternoon, when they
were discovered by Mr. Joshua Taylor
who took them in his boat and carried
them home. Mr.; Nutting was found
unconscious and speechless and at last ac
count was thought to be dying.
Mr. Taylor organized a party and went
in search of Burnette Nutting, who had
risked his life to obtain aid for his father
and the body of the brave youth was found
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his arm twined around a sapling.. He
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his arm around the tree when nature gave
way and death relieved him of his suffer
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dent of this place, but recently he has
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STATE'S WEALTH.
North Carolina's Bounteous Store of
Minerals The Development of the
SiBr. Industry, Etc.
Raleigh News Observer.
In yesterday's issue we gave some notes
ot an interview with that talented gentle
man, Prof. W. C. Kerr, our State geolo
gist. The subject discussed was our na
tive woods, and the notable exhibit of
them as made at Atlanta. After condud
ing the chat on this subject, the conver
sation turned on minerals. This was but
natural, as the minerals of our State are
noted the world over for their variety and
value.
There are in North Carolina, said the
professor, no less than 180 minerals, be
ing a larger number than are known to
exist in any other State 4hk--&id0&. Col
orado. - many of these, of course, arc not
economic, that is they are not used in
manufactures or the arts. The exhibit of
minerals made by the State at Atlanta is
not complete, so far as variety goes, but
is "economic," being composed of useful
minerals alone, and not of scientific curi
osities. The minerals shown there are : Coal,
gold, silver, the various ores of copper,
zinc, lead, manganese, plumbago, the
various ores of iron, such as magnetic,
hematite, limonite, specular, black band
and spathic; corundum, kaolin, soapstone,
both talc and pyrophyllite; millstone and
grindstode grit, whetstone, such building
stones as red, gray and light colored gran
ite; white, pink, gray, black, malted and
banded marble, of various shades; mica,
chrome, pyrite, baryte, etc.
All these are more or less abundant.
The iron ores are especially notable, not
only on account of their wide distribution,
but for their exceedingly high grade. The
specimens shown at Atlanta arc large
masses, the value of each plainly given.
The mica exhibit is without a parallel in
the whole world. From this State, the
world's display of this useful mineral
comes. At Atlanta our mica is shown in
eighty different patterns, arranged in a
circle five feet in diameter. It ia the only
mica exhibit made and is marvellous.
Some of the sheets of mica shown are the
largest ever taken out. Such large sheets
are worth $10 per pound. The variety
and beauty of our marbles, which come
principally from three counties west of
the Blue Ridge, surpass all description.
Going into the museum, the professor
showed us a dozen varieties, each worthy
of note.
Of gems there is also an exhibit at At
lanta, of such as beryl, amethyst, ruby,
sapphire, and a famous 'hiddenite. We
have in the State a wider range of min
eral species and a wider range of the val
uable ores and minerals than in any other
State. Diamonds have been found in
several counties. A few months ago a
fine one, loaned by a gentleman of Ruth
erford county, was in the museum. No
funds are available for the purchase of
needed minerals and gems, so this was
sent back. In a few days after the gen
tleman received it, he placed it on a man
tel. A negro servant, seeing what she
thought was a pebble in a little bottle,
tossed it out of a window, and so was lost
forever the finest diamond vet found in
North Carolina, for no amount of .search
served to find it.
Prof; Kerr went on to speak of the con
stant search for rare minerals, gems, In
dian relics, etc., made in the western
counties by people from every State in
the Union. These "rock hunters," as
the natives term them, pay fancy prices
for whatever they want. 1 Some of them
buy for themselves, others for museums
or schools. The largest and finest crystal
of' corundum ever found was found not
long since. Its weight was 315 pounds.
It was purchased for Amherst College,
Mass., whose museum it now adorns.
North Carolina's museum should have
had this magnificent specimen of one of
her most valuable minerals. The collec
tion of minerals made by the late Prof.
Humphreys, of Greensboro, is the finest
ever made of the minerals of our State.
He was a man of great scientific attain
ment, much wealth and untiring energy,
and had for years devoted himself to a
search for rarities. His museum is now
for sale, and ought to be secured for the
Stale. People who go up weet among
the mines carry away many valuable min
erals, while many others are sent to the
Smithsonian Institute, at Washington.
Some people leave funds in the hands of
parties in the west, giving them carte
blanche to buy anything that turns up.
Having . discussed the minerals, the
next subject was something peculiar to
the east, and which is to be one of our
greatest sources of wealth marls. These
are shown at Atlauta from the entire east
ern section, and some of the specimens
are of high grade. Then there are shown
in glass jars specimens of a dozen differ
ent soils, from the coast to Buncombe.
As is also the case with the marls, the
analysis Of each specimen is plainly given
on the jar, with locality, etc.
The next subject taken up was one
which is particularly interesting, and
which has always had an attraction that
is silk culture. In this at Atlanta, our
state stanus pre-eminent. I here are
shown the cocoons of various colors, reel
ed floss, spun, and woven silk, the whole
forming a display which would attract at
tention anywhere Seven counties con
tributed to make it up. Wake leads and
then come Cumberland, Harnett, Wayne,
Lenoir, Granville and Vance. In 1873,
when Professar Kerr was at Vienna, he
saw some people engaged in silk culture,
and brought to their attention the fact
that North Carolina was an admirable
place for the culture of the silk worm.
Three or four of these people, Germans,
came here, bringing with them eggs from
Turkey. They chose a spot near Fay
ctteville, where there are large mulberry
orchards, containing several thousand
trees. They raised one crop of eggs and
then gave up their work. The silk ob
tained from the cocoons was taken to
Philadelphia, and shown by Professor
Kerr to the gentlemen in charge of the
French exhibit. They declared that no
finer silk could be raised in France, and
also expressed great surprise at the size
of the leaves of our native mulberry,
which were shown them. The next year
Mr. Ed. Fasnach, a Swiss gentleman, liv
ing in Rileigb, established a cocoonery,
and began thebusiness of rai&iog eggs,
which he has since continued with marked
succes?. His cocoonery is about a mile
and a half southeast ot Raleigh, and he
has there planted thousands of mulberry
trees. He finds it more profitable to raise
the eggs of the silk worm for shipment
abroad than to ship the cocoons. The
eggs in France are attacked by disease,
while here they are perfectly sound. Mr.
Fasnach ships eggs to Marseilles and also
to Philadelphia. For them he obtains
from $3 to $0 per ounce. The cocoons he
sells at from $1 to $1.50 per pound. Reel
ed silk sells at from $6 to $7 per pound.
Mr. Fasnach raised about 120 ounces of
eggs the past summer, it taking oaly one
month to raise a crop of eggs. The silk
industry is bound to develop in this State.
It is progressing near Fayctteville, and in
other counties which contribute to the
Atlanta display.
THE NORTH CAROLINA CHRIS
TIAN. CONFERENCE.
Kale gh News-Observer.
As the churches composing this body
are spread over a large section of our
State, as well as portions of Virginia, . a
few words concerning the work of it late
session, held at Catawba Springs, Wake
county, North Carolina, November 18 th
22d, may interest your many readers.
It met on Friday, November 18th. A
large delegation was in attendance from
the various churches. The Rev. Profes
sor W. S. Long, A. M.. of the Graham
Normal College, was chosen president,
and Rev. W. W. Staley, A. M., the su
perintendent of public instruction lor A -
amance county, Ts standing secretary ."
ne pons ot standing committees were
handed in in due time, and each report
elicited a discussion of interest. Those
of special interest were: 1. On Relig
ious Literature, which commended among
other things the Sunday School Worker,
of Raleigh, North Carolina, the Cliristian
Sun. of Suffolk, Virginia. Also, anew
book. Life and Labors of the late Key.
Dr. Wellons. 2. On Education, which
showe'd the prosperity of the Graham
Normal College, Graham, N. C. It also
discussed the projection of a theological
seminary and steps were taken looking to
that end. At the suggestion of the com
mittee funds were raised to assist minis
terial students in prosecuting their stud
ies. 3. On Home Missions. At the
suggestion of this committee the confer
ence decided to erect a house of worship
in the city of Raleigh, and appointed
Rev. William G. Clements to raise the
funds, with the following gentlemen as a
building committee to supervise and
manage the erection of the house: Frank
(). Moring, R. E. Petty, W. B. Mann,
It. L. Heflin, J. D. Edwards, W. T.
Herndon, W. G. Clements, JohnT. Ball.
Alfred Moring was appointed treasurer
for the committee. The sum of $1,400
was given during conference for this new
enterprise, besides, the handsome sum
previously raised. 4. On Temperance.
This committee ' submitted a report and
the conference adopted it, which for pith
and point is not often equaled. The fol
lowing is a brief outline of the report,
which was offered by Rev. J. W. Holt,
of Company Shops, N. C:
Resolved, That if the manufacture,
traffic, and use as a beverage ot intoxica
ting liquors be not means of grace, and do
not promote Christian holiness; if they
do not make men better citizens, better
husbands, better fathers, better neigh
bors, more pious, devout, humble, spiritually-minded
and God-fearing Christians,
then we declare their manufacture, traffic
and use as a beverage, habitually, by any
follower of our Lord Jesus Christ, to be
a sin against both God and man, and
should disqualify any one for membership
in the Church of God.
JiesoJved, That as admitting the sec
ond resolution denies the fist, wo assert
our firm belief that the seouud resolution
sets forth the truth.
Resolved. That we ask the general
convention, through our representatives
to that body, to so change our form of
government that no such church be allow
ed to retaiu a member who habitually
makes, traffics in or uses as a beverage
intoxicating liquors.
Resolved, That wo ask all religious
bodies in this State, and throughout the
United States, to join us in the second
and third resolutions.
Now, Mr. Editor, that 'is sharply put.
but is it not a consistent position t
A tremendous crowd was in attendance
on Sunday. Itjwastho greatest success
ever attained by the body in its annual
meetings. J. Pressley Barrett.
A COTTON PLANTER'S SUCCESS.
Brains will find or make a pathway to
success under any conditions, and brains
have been the wealth-creating factor in
the case of large planters, and it is by
brains, and not by the mere vastness of
his farming operations, that Edward Rich
ardson, of Mississippi, the greatest cot
ton raiser in the world, has amassed his
immense fortune, now estimated at from
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000. The means
by which Mr. Richardson has achieved
his phenomenal success as a planter are
worthy a moment's study for the lessons
they convey. His business is a compre
hensive one, including everything rela
ting to cotton. He not only raises cotton,
but gins, spins and weaves it, is a large
dealer, and has oil mills as well. He was
clear-sighted enough to perceive that
there is a special profit in each process
and operation through which the cotton
passes from the field to the consumer of
cotton goods, and he had the capital and
ability to organize a business which makes
all these profits his own. He own9 some
52,000 acres of land, and last year raised
over 12,000 bales of cotton a greater
number than the Khedive of Egypt, who
is the next largest cotton raiser in the
world.
Mr. Richardson is not a "high" far
mer, a bale to three acres being the av
erage production of his land, which is
largely tilled by tenants on the share sys
tem. The 30,000 pounds of seed cotton
which he annually gets from his land are
ginned by his own gins which do publio
ginning also and pressed, baled and
compressed, so much as is shipped as raw
material, on his own plantation. The
seed, which is ordinarily worth not more
than $6 a ton, and is to a great extent
wasted by other planters is ground snd
pressed lor the oil.'. The hulls are used
for fuel in this process, and the ashes sold
and used for fertilizers. From a ton of
seed he obtained thirty-five gallons of oil
worth thirty-five cents a gallon $12.25.
The cake remaining after the oil is press
ed out is worth rather more for feed or as
a fertilizer than the seed itself, selling
readily for home use or shipment to Eng
land at $6 to $7 a ton. Each too of cot
ton seed, therefore, nets rather core than
$20 the bulk used as fuel being taken
into account. Mr. Richardson's mills at
Corinth receive and manufacture a large
part of his crop, aqd another profit is
added on the sales of yarns and sheetings,
drillings, cottonades, eta, a profit which
is considerably enhanced by the elimina
tion of shipping charges, insurance,' bro
ker's commission aodother tolls levied 00
cotton shipped to distant mills.
Persons who stand noon their. feet.
whether men or women, are often troubled
with serious pains and weaknesses in the
back, loins and other parts of the body.
It has been proven beyond a doubt, how
ever, that Warners Safe Kidney and
liver Cure is a certain preventative of
thete troubles.
Two car loads Rock Lime received
weekly by 1
t B. M. Privmt & Co.
36 inch all wool Black Cashmere, at 50
cents per yard, at A. StrOUBk & So.
; NEWS STJUMAKY,
Berks county. Pa., has another grave
yard insurance subject; John Hick, aged
SC, who died last Friday with $100,000
insurance on his life.
-ZiP4' "uiaUo, " who was "in
jail at Athens, Ohio, for an assault upon
a white Woman, was taken out Monday .
night by a mob and hanged.
New Orleanawill , bo connected by rail
with San trancisco by December 1st, and
then travellers can go through to the
I aafio without snow blockades to block
their progress.
That was a bad case of lynching at
purand. Wis., last Friday. . Wwoonsia ,
regulators do not stand on ceremony,
bat go right into a court-room and noose
their man. It is evident that the law is
Jaxin Wisconsin. ; ,v
- Notwithstanding the fart tfcif '' tia1r .,
rHoxea er o-ef'trar and stage, robbers- '
S? . n 8ent t0 lhe penitentiary- for
life in Texas, within the past few weeks,
that business still goes on as lively as 1
ever. , : .
Mr. Baldwin, the eccentric old Ohio
gentleman whose gold was lately carried t
off by burglars, sends word to the treas
ury that some 7.30 bonds were also stolen'
from him, the payment of which he
desires stopped. N
Senator Hill, of Georgia, has arrived in
Washington. Mr. Hill speaks with a
perceptible lisp, but he says he has been
assured by his surgeons that this will
wear off, and that the cancer of the ton
gue from which he suffered may cow be
considered as cured.
In Thomas county, Ga., while Mr.'
David Clews was absent from his home,
some one entered his bouse aad murdered
his young wife and child and then plun-'
dered the house. It is supposed that
rape arid robbery were the motives. There
Is no clue to the perpetrator.
The clamor of the 45,000 disfranchised
American citizens in Rhode Island has
induced the oligarchy, which rules that
State, to consider a proposition to let
"honorably discharged Union soldiers"
vote at elections. In Rhode Island hun
dreds ot ex-soldiers are denied the ballot.
A New York paper says that the body
of A. T. Stewart was recovered last week
upon payment of $37,000 and a pledge
that the robbers should not be prosecuted,
and that it was placed in Garden City on
Tuesday night last. It is a little oyer
three years since the body was stolen.
In Rockdale county, Ga., a negro bav-
ing robbed a store attempted to escape,
a posse chasing him ordered him to stop.
He refused to do so and attempted to
draw his pistol. The posse fired at him,
killing him instantly. The jury returned
a verdict "justifiable homicide."
A Sicilian crank named Maccaluso
threw a loaded pistol from the gallerey of
the hall in which tho Italian Chamber of
Deputies meets at Rome, which dropped
to the floor below without exploding.
Ho had designs on the life of Premier
(Depretes, who was speaking at the time.
The autonomists have obtained a ma
jority in the provincial deputation of tho
province of Havana. Cuba. Gen. Blanco
has selected Don Carlos Salanrigas, an .
autonomist, to act as president of the
deputation. The permanent selected by
the Governor-General from the deputa
tion has a majority of Conservatives.
Tho Democrat's Little Rock special
says: At Oil Crough, Independence
county, Henry Ladd, a leading citizen,
had some trouble with his wife, originat
ing in a disagreement about a passage in
the Bible. After a bitter altercation,
Ladd drew his pistol and shot her through
the body. He then tried to shoot him
self, but waa prevented by the neighbors
and jailed. Mrs. Ladd will del
Most of the Russian Jews who Lave
beon expatriated by reason of the pre
judices of race and religion and are now
tu-ning their faces to the New World,
Eropose to become farmers and settle in
ouisiana or Texas. It is said that about
five thousand may be expected during
the wiater. They are assisted by the
Allianco Israel Univcrsellc of Paris.
Frank Cnppernul, keeper of the Hub
House, at Clayton, N. Y., his wife, two
small children and Charles Wilson, keeper
of the Cliff House, and his wife and two
children were drowned in Eelbay on Sat
urday morning while going to Ganonoque
in a shall boat The bodies of Mr. Cnp
pernul, a boy and child of Mr. Wilson's
have been recovered.
The New Vork Banker and Broker
says: The alarmists are busy with the
bank troubles. They will frighten the -foolish
and.profit the wise, who will study
securities and take the good at low rates .
and leave the, bad tor chance future's
booms, or for obscurity. Few, if any,
more important banks are likely to fail, .
but there will be a great weeding of
collaterals. '
Gastonia Gazette': A negro child about '
three years old was run over and killed '-'
by the west bound mail and passenger. "
train Thursday evening at the sect iop .
house lour miles west of Gastonia. The ,
engineer was running at a rapid speed on "
a sharp curve, and saw the child on the '
track but too late to take up. It was
terribly mangled, lhe place seems to be
an nnfnrtnnatii nn. if waa iimf k-
one hundred yards from the spot where
. m 1 11-1 . .... .K v.
xur. josepn unite was killed last year.
Patrick" Monahan, foreman of a blast-in-
nnr in Kaf MnHr-t,twl
New York, hung 'a number of dynamite'
cartridges out to dry on a steam pff and i
caused an explosion which sbookthe en
ure neignoornoou ana sbivered doors and
windows in fifty-five houses. The flying
glass and splinters and falling brick In
jured Mary Toner. Nellie McGorlick and
Mils Schweler. Thj carele 1 man was at-
restea ana lockrea up in the police court.
Mr. Robert Coleman, a
lionaire at Lebanon, Pa., who owns an
"iron estate," is something of a magnifi
cent curiosity. His wife died a year ago '
in Pans, lie has entombed her
balmed body in a $250,000 mausoleum,
and demolished a palace that he had ex.
a .t a "
pectea 10 snare wun ner alive. To divert
his mind, he has turned his attention to
railway experiments, which -promise to
be nsefuL His grief will probably turn
to practicality ia several ways. It is too
stupendous to last always.
Richard James," colored, was Kanged
at Marion. 8. Cm last Friday, for the
murder of D. M. HarrelL A brother of
Richard James, who participated ia the
crime, was hanged in Jane last The
prisoner went to the gallows with a firm
step.' He claimed to be innocent. Ue
di4, 1101 ther his brother was
gttiltyv When conducted to the place of
execution he obtained permission to ad
dress the crow Jin front of the jail, which
he did, in a wild harangue about his feel
ing sure of forgiveness and eternal hap
piness. r: At 12.07 tho rope feJL Hie
nu.1r wa nnt KrnVon U .1 i
very little lor about five minute?.