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for congress ; -1-t
DiHt., Louis C Latham, of Pitt;
lid " F. M. Simmons, of Craven.
Srd " Charles W. MeClamniy; of Tender
4th John w. Graham, of Orange.
6th " Jas.. W. Reid,' of ItocVittrham.
6th " Alfred Rowltjid, of Robeson.
7th John Henderson, of Kowan.
8th " W. H. H. Cowlea, of Wilkes.
Oth " Thos p. Johnston, of Hunoombe.
. FOR THE eL'I'RKMt COCRT BNCU :
: For Chief Justice.- Hon. W. N. B. Smith.
For Associate Just'cea, Hon. Thos. S. Aahc
and Hon. A. S. Merrimon.
ron tux bupiriob! coukt binoh:
3rd Dial, II. Q. Connor, of Wilson.
4th " Walter Clark; of Wake.
6th " F. T. Boykin; of Sampson
8th " W. J. Montgomery, of Cabarrus.
9th " J. F. Graves, of Surry.'
lth " A. C. Avery, of Burke.
12th " J. U. Merrimon, of tiuAcombe.
Fot tub b Lie no Hcim :
1st Dirt., J. H. Blount, of Perquitnan-..
8d " D. Worth ingtbn, of MaHn.
4th " bwift O llowaj. of Wayne.
6th " .1. Long, of DnrhHjn.'
6th " O. II. Alh-n, of Duplin
7th " Frank McNeil,' of Rockingham.
8th B. F. Long, of Iredell. :
ih " B B. Glen, ut Forsyth.
10th ' W. H. Bowery of aid well.
11th" F. L O8bome,.of Mecklenburg.
14th Q. S. Ferguson, of Haywood.
j Wb shall now probably begin to hoar
about earthquake insurance. ;
! Thi San Francisoo Call'eajs there
"appears to have been" an earthquake
at Charleston and elsewhere, and it
seems to us that we Qurselveahave re
cently heard a rumor 'of some snob, oc
earreooe. I
: Thb State of Maine; baa ; election! to
i iat
morrow for a Governor; members of the
legislature and ongresraieti. "it is
"all torn up" between Blaine, prohibi
tion and republicanism and- 'the demo
crats look on the wrangle with compla
cency. - j
Ors Yankee cousins' seem to be able
to sail all around the : Britishers in all
sorts of weather, even-in the sort that
the flatter say. thoy want , most..
Now we want 10 see them arrange that
race around tie Bermuda and beat the
foreigners clean out of their hoots. The
indention of the American centre-board
was a great thing. ;
jOwa result of the earthquake will be
the substitution as far -as posiil on the
South Atlantic coast of frame;building
for buildings of brick and stone. The
' proportion of wooden houses destroyed
in. Charleston was insignificant as com
pared to the proportion of, houses of
brick thrown down, i As the wooden
houses are the more'heathful in the
climate of, the South the change will be
one thing at least foe which Wo may
be. thankful to the earthquake;
; . - . , 1 4-
Thiri should be no doubt about the
election of our whole ticket in Novem
ber cipe iallj should the people ratify
at the polls the nomination of our worthy
fellow-citixen Mr. Tom Badger. When
. Wake county turns its back; on Tom
Badger, it will be time enough to be
lieve it we don't believe it? possible
now. Whatever come, Ton) Badger
will be elected. If not; it may as well
be! declared by legislative j enactment
that Charley ifpchurchJ has a olean fee
simple in the t ffiee he has so long- held.
Leit it in that case be n tailed forever
on him and bis posterity, so that it
may be understood thai no man need
hereafter apply I
! Ji I
Thi legislative ticket nominated yes
terday is in the line which we observe
has 'been pursued very generally
throughout the State of bringing out
strong men for the assembly.
Mr. Rutus Jones is a man of strong
sense, thoroughly practical "and pos
sessing as eood a knowledge of the re-
qoirements of the people of North Car
olina and of Wake county as I any man
, in either.
Messrs. Stamps and Mordecai need no
farther introduction to ojar readers. The
former is a lawyer of ability and char-
. acter who has distinguished himself as
the worthy successor of Col. Carter as
president of the penitentiary board and
has won for himself in that position a title
to the highest consideration of. the peo
ple of the 8tate. Mr: Sam F. Mordecai
is justly esteemed as the best lawyer ii
the State whoso hair has' not been whit
ened by sge, and he ha ehown his ca
pacity in every undertaking in which he
has engaged. For some years he hat
been chairman of the county committee
, and he has earned hearty encomruma
for the ; admirable mannor in which he
has conducted that business.
Messrs. Strickland an4 Blaiehard ,arc
most- excellent representatives of tht
best sentiment of the county, fully con-
' versant with the netds, of our peoph
ad sterling democrats who will worth
ily represent Wake in ihe cdming as
sombly. - :
IHK UtS Vf ajOMIBKKM.
The county convention titd :its wor
well. The nominations Tor ihp vricu:
county offices, for the senate and forthc
house are all excellent and indicate th
viotory will surely perch! upon; the ban
nor of the Wake democracy this year ii
victory be within the range pf poasi
bility, and wo know it s. No bottei
men than Nowell, Badgef, Jones, Pae
Dunn ani Blake could hve befn cboaeu
to lead the demtoratio J column. No
better men than JoiivS again andStriok
laud, tSUmpe, Blanchard - and Mordecai
could bae ben selected to chamion
democracy or '0"reprei7t OttT p'Op'ein
the halls of il e leiaiattlre. ' They are
All good mei und j true (bj $g9 of ft
Tory beet people of good old Wike, and.
they are of. the soundest democracy.
That they will redeem the! oounty
wholly from republicinism and keep it
from falling Into the hands of those who
are the direct heirs oft that dying politi
cal faith we confidently believe There
is now undoubtedly such a possibility
of success as we; have jnot had for years,
and we believe that the men whom the
convention in its wisdom has nominated
are the men to turn that possibility into
an assured reality. -To that end, how
ever, the hearty eupprt of evory dem
ocrat in Wake is fcoos8ary. Shall
this be withheld ? Nobody; could
make, us believe such a thing. Lot
us then agree at ono4 to ivo:; a long
pull, a strong poll and a pull altogether,
and elect the; men whq. were soi wisely
nominated yesterday. ' . ?
EKCOIBAUE TUX MILITAKT.
The business men of Raleigh should
cnoourage the mtlitari companv recent
ly formed in oui niidt ul they should
do this positively and not negatively
only. It is hardly necessary o argue
the importance to the community of a
well equipped, well 'disciplined, body of
the sort. This is pretty generally ad
mitted. It does seetji to be neceafary
however to ask thatthe organization
wh ifh has beun- formed, which- is coin-
fioacd of first rate material and which is
ikely therefore to bo a credit to. the oity
on all occasions at wel as a permanent
protection, shill rcaiTe the active en
couragement of employers. The com
pany in necessarily composed- in the
main of employees and if these are made
to feel that their absences from business
for the purpose of attending drills and
parades are viewed wjth disfavor they
are not likely to ask; for such; leaves.
Yet the drills and certain regular though
infrequent parades are essential to the
efficiency of. thoi company. Or busi
ness men, realizing thej importahoe of a
respectable military organization to all
the interests of the city, and certainly
not least to the bosmesa; interests, should
in the first place encourage thf young
men in their emloymejjat who can afford
to do so to join the mpany and then
they should in every way make known
their willingness to accord all reasona
ble liberty to those who may have joined,
to the end that the efficiency of the com
pany may be promoted M far as ossible.
So. only can; Raleigh have a company of
which it may be prou and on which
it may rely for military aid, should such
ail ever become neoebsary. Bo only
can the I city; have a body the
moral effect of whose simple ex
istence will be a cons cant safe
guard about all the interests of the com
munity. Let the business men: take the
active interest in the new orginization
which the importance of the ljitter de
mands; let this interest be "made un
mistakable to the youn men who must
form our citiz n soldiery, and Our word
for it Raleigh will soonbave a Company
as una in every respe as any town in
the country- can poast.
B. Kl(HOia ADDBIJUk
Looking further at Mr. Nichols' ad
dress, we find some other things that
are wcrthy of comment.
We showed the otcr day that Mr.
Nichols has been cne of the most down
right republicans in th practical nature
of his politics we have ever hid in this
community. In the light of 'this re-
membranoes the following extract reads
somewhat oddly;
1
"An intelligent observer is bound
"to be convinced that- party divisions
"are of name only when he reviews the
actions of 'the representatives of the
people' during the past twelve; months
or more 'f &o.j j "T$e tariff,
the internal revenue, nter-Stjfct6 com
merce, silver currency, &c, 4c, and
every other vital matter of legislation
of any importance to the people demon
strates a lack of unity of purpose on the
part of both parties.'' I
Now, we are 'not going to tike issue
with Mr. Niohola.on that; we Only pro
pose to fee what it iaean. JDoes he
not mean that the right of individual
jud gment is largely Exercised by the
"representatives of the people," who
seek to refket the wishes of their con
stituents in casting voles in Congress t
Does Mr. Nichols complain of that? it
so, how inconsistent k proves:; himself
to be r Ha cites- as anjevil that demo
cratic and 'republican niembers are not
controlled by the genei 1 policy of their
respective parties but vote independ
ently, and then announces himself as an
independent and proposes to ; do the
same thing. That MrNichola-r is a re
publican no one doubu and yet he re
viles other republican! for having the
manhood to vote according to their
oonviotions, while making a
little ; platfoim for 3 himself
If it be an evil that republicans do
uot fctand fquarely together in Congress,
Mr. Nichols should propose to let them
a good example.: If if ia, right-for him
to lay down a platform for himself, it is
right for other republicans tot do the
same thing. There is'nn inoosistency
in his reviliog others about not being
governed by general party policy while
claiming an exemption for himself. But
perhaps he has called-in some Superior
power to absolve him from doing what
he thinks other people ought to do.
I "3.
The ntxt extract cof tains a powerful
arraignment of his ol party frienda,
who have administered the affairs ol
this government now ver since 1865
until Mr: Cleveland was elected. Ht
says : "Ti e intelligent laborer cannot
believe but that there is something rad
ically wrong when hug monopolies are
permitted to agf ran diz I privileges that
result in the reduction of wagca and the
oppression of the working ra ani where
colossal fortunes amounting to tens ol
millions and hundred! of millions are
accumulated by individuals in a brief
period of t me, while the toilers : are be
coming pooter and poorer evcrjr day."
Accepting this arraignment as well
founded, the question Irises who is re
sponsible for this statf of affairs? It
cannot be the democrats, for they have
not heretofore had control of the gov
ernment; it must necessarily e those
who have been thi parly associates and
: party f needs o Mr. fNich ds Thev
Mr. fNichds;
j inaugurate tha poLovj they put the
. vtola a n ptWDj tad tho ttMfa am
ft
-Hr ?
been going on for a quarter of a oen
tury. Mr. Nichols has never before
complained, but has stood by the G. O.
P. with all his might, holding. high of
fioe as its favored representative, and
applauding all! its acts of commission
and omission. But we rejoice to see
that ho has " 'pented hisself" and how
ho' da up the ruthless policy of his old
a -aooiates for the condemnation of man
kind. But in this connection Mr.
Nichols makes a mistake and speaks too
plainly. Mentioning the "Wheel"
party in Arkansas, he says it is com
posed of farmers who "have revolted at
the present party domination," aud
"So, too, r.ll other organizations of la
bor throughout the land have had their
origin and development in the distrust
and want of confidence in parties and
politicians, past and present, that have
had control of the destinies of
the nation " It is understood
that Mr. Niohols early joined the
Knights of Labor here and procured
himself to be elected its president. lie
might then bo supposed to be speaking
by the book, and that ho is divulging
a secret of his organization in affirming
that its purpose is of a political nature.
Bat we shall suppose no such thing.
We shall Buppose that the organization
accurately asserts the : whole matter
when it declares that its purposes are
non political, and that its objects are to
advance the interests of the toilers of
our land financially, ' sooially and
morally. With these laudable objects
in view, the general purposes of the
order commend themselves to the hearty
sympathy of every statesman, every
patriot, every lover of humanity.
Bu- Mr. Nichols' would have it other
wise. ' lie would havo the Knights of
Labor turned into a political marVne to
make him its local head; a pr-jpoli-
tician. and send him to ion? 03 : 1 lie
would prostitute his order to the purpose
of his own , advancement. He would
make this purely industrial organization
minister to the gratification of his indi
vidual ambition.
We submit that he speaks too plainly,
and that he gives himself away. The
Knights of Labor are not going to
dance to any tune Mr. .Nichols may
choose to pip. They are not going to
subordinate their organization and be
subservient to the gratification of his
personal ambition. They do not belong
to Mr. Nicho.'s and never will.
Mr. Nichols touches on a variety of
subjects in ' his address, among them
"Business Depression," - about the
remedies for which he talks as learnedly
as editors do about the cause of the re-
recent earthquake. The gist of his
patent remedy is "that production shall
be regulated by the demand, and not
by the desire of men to do the best they
can. By this we suppose he means that
where there is a falling; off in j demand
there shall, under force of some! govern
ment regulation, be a falling off in pro
duction, and where there is no demand,
there shall be no production. So that, if
a factory has no orders in band, it is to
stop work. Eh, Mr. i Nichols? That
miifht be well enough for the capital
ists, but it would be death to the opera
tives. We submit that Mr. Nichols is
not an entire success as a political econ
oniist from the standpoint of labor de
pendent on wages for its daily suppsrt.
Suppose, for instance, that the South
and India should make a good crop of
ootton this season, enough for two years,
which in a good season all around would
be the case, should all the plantations
stop operations for a year? if so what
would the millions engaged in ootton do
for a livelihood Our new philosopher
would, we fear, get things awfully
mixed; freedom from government regu
lation is better than that.
About the internal revenue Mr.
Niohols is eloquent. ; "It is one of the
lingering relics of the war." Yes, and
Mr. Nichols' old friends, the republi
oins, established it and maintain it
The only representatives favoring its
repeal are bouthern democrats and a
few Northern democrats. The republi
cans will never consent to its repeal
On the subiect of the tariff our inde
pendent candidate is very pronounced.
His notion is ttut "we oould build a
Chinese wall around this country a
be the happiest people on the earth
And the way to accomplish this he points
out as folio we: When any goods arc
imported into this country raise the
tariff and stop the importation. That
would be one effect of tie Chinese wall;
but then the Chinese wall would-prevent
our exporting any b tuff as well as our im
porting any. If the other fellow couldn't
set over it. neither could we. And
then what would we d with our im
mense surplus wheat crops, and im
mense ootton crops and tobacco; our
provisions and surplus manufactures?
Foreign countries cannot buy unless
they can sell. We could not ,soll our
surplus. : Have the ; toiling millions
who make wheat and ootton and tobacco
and provisions for sale abroad no right
to work and livr r Is their work to be
taken from themV We fear very much
that Mr. Niohols is a dead future as a
humanitarian and philosophical states
man. He may have made a very good
republican postmaster, but he would
play the wild as a political economist.
On the question of civil servioe reform
he indicates that he favors the principle,
but bo is '.'constrained to disfavor the
rules for its operation. They are al
most exclusively theoretioal and smack
strongly of class supromaoy.
And here again Mr. Niohols hits his
old associates a hard lick. The principle
is of democratic ; origin, the bill having
been introduced and pressed by Senator
Pendletin, a democrat, seme years ago,
with the hope of getting some demo
crats into effioe, notwithstanding the
uct that the administration was republi
can; while the rulis were made by
President Arthur and commissioners
two republicans and one democrat. The
rules are the work of tho republicans.
They were made by the very President
who appointed Mr. Nioh Is to four
ears term in tre pesteffice !
Mr. Nichols closis h s uddress wi h a
refert nco 'o the fact that he is simply a
workingman. Weil, B' mo years ago,
be was a printer, tnd a very good
printer, too; but he qu t that
long ago. He will be iecollected as art
r ffioo-holder the principal of the asy
lums for tho deaf and dumb and th
blind, and then later ra the postmaster.
and now having bee me used to being
k politician he wants to follow the trade
I pfyJitifi g0 to Wahjjjtojj. ;
EartbqnafcM tlilr CaM.
imcTs or BiKTiiQoaats on mix akd
ANIVALS. ; ,
E-ttracts flora Humboldt's Coxmos.
"Kirthuuakcs manifest; themselves by
qtkick and successive vertical, horizontal
or rotary vibrations The two first-
named motions have often appeared to
occur to me simultaneously.
The vertical action from below upvard
was strikingly manifested in the over
throw of the town of Riobamba in 1797,
when the bodies of many;of the inhabi
tants were found to have boen hurled to
Cullca, a hill several hundred feet in
height, and on the opposite side ot the
river Licftu. ;
; "The propagation is most generally
effected by undulations1 in a linear
direction, with a velocity bf from twenty
to twenty -eight miles in a minute, but
partly in circles of commotion, in which
the vibrations are propagatod with de
creasing intensity from a centre toward
the circumference; this latter circular
motion is the most uncommon, but the
most dangerous walls were observed to
be twisted, but hot thrown down; rows
of trees turned from their previous par
allel direction, and field covered with
different kinds of plants, found to be
displaced, in the great 'earthquake of
Riobamba, in the province of Quito, in
which 40,000 people perished, and else
where. The phenomenon of the dis
placement of fields and picoes of land,
by whioh one is made to ocoupy the
place of another, is connected with 1
trahslatory motion or penetration of rep
arate terrestrial strata.
i "When I made the plan of the ruined
town of Riobamba, one particular spot
was pointed out to me where all the
furniture of one house had .been f
under, the ruins of another. The loose
earth had evidently moved like a fluid,
in currents, which must be assumed to
have been directed first downward, then
horizontally and lastly upward. It was
found necessary to appeal to the audi-
encia or council of justice to decide
upon the contentions that arose regard
ing the proprietorship of objects that
h; d been moved to a distance of many
hundred toi&es (A toise is 6J English
feet.) The opinion that a calm and op
pre&eive heat and a misty horizon are
always the forerunners Of earthquakes
is erroneous. They do not cause,
but are the results . often
of earthquakes. But it. cannot
be denied from the observations of cen
turies, but that they most frequently
occur during the vernal and autumnal
equinoxes. 1 have felt them in fair as
well as in cloudy weather. The inten
sity of the hollow noise which generally
acoom panics an earthquake does not in
crease in the same degree ai the foree of
the oscillations. The most terrible
phenomenon above mentioned at Rio
was unaccompanied by any noises what
ever. These noises are heard twenty or
thirty minutes after the shock, and
sometimes a muoh longer period elapses
before they are heard ; the nature of the
noise varies also very much, being eith
er rolling or rustling, or clanking like
chains when maved, or like near thun
der. As solid bodies are excellent con
ductors of sounds (burned elay for in
stance conducting sound ten or twelve
ttmos quicker than the air), the subter
ranean noino can be heard at a great
disL.c3 from the plaoe of its origin. In
Caraccas a tremendously loud noise
was heard, unaccompanied by an earth
quake.onthe 30 h of April, 1812, whil-t
at a distance of 6 J2 miles to the north
east the volcano of St. Vinoont in the
small Antilles poured forth a copious
stream of lava. ;
"Elsewhere the same facts occur
The sounds were certainly not propa
gated through the air, but through the
earth, and at a great depth. These phe
nomena of sound, even1 when unat
tended by any perceptible shocks, pro
duoe. a peculiarly deep impression, even
on persons, who have lived in countries
where the earth has frequently been
exposed to. such shocks.
: "A striking and unparalleled instance
of this kind is the phenomenon known
in the Mexican elevated plateau, by tha
name of the 'roaring and subterranean
thunder' of Guanaxuato It seemed
to the inhabitants as if heavy clouds lay
beneath their feet, from whioh issued
alternate slow, rolling sounds, and
short, quick olaps of thunder. Neither
on the surface of the earth nor in the
mines located there, 1,600 feet in depth,
was the slightest shock, to be perceived.
Thus clefts are opened or closed in the
interior of 'the earth, by whioh wavis
of sound penetrate to us or are impeded
in their propagation. In the great
earthquake at Lisbon in 1755, the earth
was simultaneously shaken over a spaoe
of its surface four times larger than all
Europe ; also at the Barbados islands,
in the West Indies, the tides, usually two
feet in height, roBe to an altitude of
twenty feet, and the shock was felt in
the takes of Switzerland and in lake
Ontario, N. A. There axe many instances
where the earth has been shaken for
many successive days in the Andes, - oc
curring almost hourly, far from any
volcano." He here mentions severaland
says, "also between vcr, Madrid and
Little Prairie, north of Cincinnati, in
the United States of Am. ioa, in De
cember, 1811, as well as through the
whole winter of 1812." There Reel-
foot lake was formed by an immense de
pression, in which were seen the
trees of the forest . standing in an
right position years afterwards, and
onvulsion was said for a moment
oause the Mississippi river to run up
stream.
"If we could obtain information re
garding the daily oondition of all the
earth's surfaoe we should probably dis
cover that the earth is almost constantly
undergoing shocks somewhere, and is
continually influenced by the reaction
of the interior on the exterior. The
advance from south to north was most
striking in the almost unintfcreepted un
dulations in the Oi ia and Mississippi
and Arkansas valleys in 1811 to 1813,
Shocks proceeding from the south west
appeared to advance gradually north
ward, the strata of obstruction being
slowly removed, at the sanio time Cara
cas felt first those shocks agitated by tho
same centre of oommotion, whilst the
volcano on the sland of St. V moout was
in eruption.
' In the tropical regions of Huuth
Amtiioa, whsre sometimes a drop of
does not Cal l in ton months tgeihtr
th? ntiTei eo&fuUr tbe rea4 Acts
geihsr,
1
of aartkquaies, which do not endanger
thelow reed huts they inhabit, as auspi
cious harbinger of fruitfnlne&s , and
abtndant rain. The danger from earth-
quakea increases when the openings of
the volcano are closed, but tho;: des
truction of Lisbon and Caracas, in 1812,
(March 16,) Lima, Cashuiir and many
other cities, shows on the whole that
the force of the shock is not always the
greatest in the neighborhood of aotivo
volcanoes.
' 'A eolumnlof smoke which had been
observed to rise for months together
from the volcano of Pasto, in South
America, suddenly disappeared, when
the 4th of February, 1797, the province
of Ruiijto, 102 miles to the Bouth, suffer
ed from the great ear hquake of ltio
bambo. An old geologist writes :
" 'Since the craters of Ktna have
bees opened the country on the sea
shore has not been so mush shaken, as
at the time previous to the separation of
Bioily from Italy, when all communica
tions with the external surface were
closed.' ,.
"Before we leave the important phe
nomena whioh we have considered, I
would advert to the deep and peculiar
imprMsion left on the mind by the first
earthquake whioh we experience, even
where it is not attended by any sub
terranean noise. This impression i n-t.
in my opinion, the result of a recollec
tion of those fearful pictures of devia
tion presented to our imaginations by
the historical narratives of the past, but
is rather due to the sudden realization
of the delusive' nature of , the inherent
faiih by which we had clung to the-be
lief of the immobility of the solid parts
of the earth.
"We are accustomed from early child
hood to draw a contrast between the
mobility of water and the immobility of
the soil on which we tread, and this
feeling is confirmed by the evidence of
our senses. When therefor we sud
denly feel the earth move beneath our
feet, a mysterious and natural force with
which we are previously unacquainted
is revealed to us as an active disturbance
of stability. A momeut destroys the
illusion ot a whole life ; our deceptive
faith in the repose of nature vanishes,
and we feel transported as it were into
a realm of ULknown destructive forces.
Every sound the faintest motion in the
air arrests our attention, and we no
longer trust the ground on whioh we
stand. Animals, especially dogs and
swine, participate in the same anxfcus
disquietude, and oven the crocodiles of
the Orinoco, which are at other times
as dumb as our little lizards, leave the
trembling bed of the river and run with
loud cries to the adjacent forests.
"To man the earthquake conveys an
idea of some universal and unlimited
danger. We may flee from the crater
of a voloano in active eruption,
or from the dwelling whose de
struction is threatened by the approach
of the lava stream, but in an earthquake,
direct our flight whithersoever we will,
we still feel as if wo trod upon the very
foous of deetraetien. This condition of
tha mind is not of long duration, al
though it takes its origin in the; deepest
recesses of our nature, and when a se
ries of faint shocks succeed one another
the inhabitants of the country soon lose
every trace of fear. '
'On the coasts of Peru, where'rain and
11 a . h
nau are unxnown, no less than the roll
ing thunder and the flashing lightning,
these luminous explosions ar& replaoed
by the subterranean noises which accom
pany earthquakes.
"Long habit and the very prevalent
opinion that dangerous shocks are only
to be apprehended two or three times
in the course of a century, cause faint
oscillations of the soil to be regarded
in Lima with scarcely more attention
than a hailstorm in the temperate
ones "
We have here, Mr. editor, given the
views of the greatest geognoscist the
world has ever known, and who was an
eye-witness to many of these phenome
na. The view of the News and Courier
that its cause was located in Greece may
be true. Our view is that the cause is
located in Yucatan, Mexioo or the An
des of South America, as w
judged the course of its motion to be
from west of south, or perhaps, as far as
from southwest, and these countries are
located in that direction. A few days
ought to suffice to give us the desired
information.
. We have shortened the article above
quoted, only giving some of the main
facts, leaving out many matters of much
interest and importance.
It is necessary here to state that only
between the Rocky and the Alleghany
mountains was the earthquake of ,1811
'12 felt, and not on the Atlantic coast,
according to the same great authority.
M F. B.
AN END TO BONB PCRAPINO.
Edward Shepherd, of Harriaburg, 111., says.
Having received so much benefit from Elec
tric Bitters, 1 feel it my duty to let suffering
humanity know it. Have had; a running sore
on my leg for eight years; my doctors lold me
I would nave to have the bone scraped or leg
amputated. ' 1 used, instead, three bottles ol
Electric Bitters and seven boxes Bucklen's
A mica Salve, aod my leg is now sound and
well."
.Electric Bitters are sold at fifty cents a bot
tie and Buklen's Arnica Salve at 26c per box
by all druggists.
THE NORTH CAROLINA
HOME INSURANCE COMPANY
OF RALEIGH, N. C.
(VrfanlKd In IMS.
Has beea insuring property in North Caro
lina for eighteen years. With t geoU In neaily
everv town in the State accessible to rail
roads and eat ot the mountalcr,
THE HOME
Sollcitnthe patronage of property owners in
the State, .offering Uem safe indemnity for
losses at rates aa low cs ttoa of any com
pany working in Nrth Carolina,
Classes, of Property Insured :
Dwellings in town and country, mercantile
risk, church, school, court-bouses, society
loug, private barns and stables, farm pro
duce aud live stock, cotton gins.
Insure in the orth C arolina Home Insur
ant C niij y.
W. 8. Pjii&b, Chaf. RocT,
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Office in Brigs.' Bi ili'la?. No. 210 raTette-
Tclcpcone No. t&
i
EDUATIONAL.
FOUNDED 1803.
SALEM FEMALE ACADEMY,
Salbm, N. U.
Eighty-third Annual Sewtion begins Sept.
id, 1886. For catalogue app'y to
Rev. K. Ropthaljcb, D. D ,
Rev. .lamr H. Ci BWELX.
July 13-d'2m Principal.
FOUNDED IN 1842.
St. lYIary'o School.
balxigb, m. o. -
Thb Rev. BENNETT j SMEDES, A. M.
BBOTOB AMD raiNCfP tL.
A corps of fourteen efficirnt instructors.
Thorough teaching guaranteed. French taught
Dy a native; uerman oy an a iif rican educa
ted in Germany. Latin a requudto for a fall
Diploma. Great attention is pud to Mathe
matics and Composition. Elocution a specialty.
uneoi me oesi equippea scnoois 01 Music in
the Sonth. Separate building; five teachers
one from the Stuttgart, one trvva the Leipsk
Conservatory; a tine Vocalist; -sixteen pianos
for dally practice two new.C'oncert Grands for
concert use, a Cabinet Organ; a tne
Pipe Organ, with two j manuals and twenty
stops, and the only l'edal Piano south of Nw
Ybrk. The Art Department under the charge
of able and enthusiastic! artints. The Course
comprises Drawing- In Peaeil, Crayon and
Charcoal; Painting in Oil, Water Colors and
Pastel, and Decorating China in Mineral. The
Physical Development of the pupils thor
oughly carea tor.
The 1 Ninety-first term begins Septem
ber yth, 1886. For circulars containing full
particulars apply to tne uector.
'Mens Bans in Corpora Nano."
B1NCH1M SCHOOL
Established in
1793.
The 3d yearly Term begins September 8th,
1886. For Catalogue giving ful particulars,
address I
Vaj. R. BINGHAM, Sunt,
Bingham School P, O. Orange Co., N. C
SELiCT BOARDlS&lSD DAIhQ(3L
(rotraniD 1869.)
For Young Ladies and Little ! Girls
HlLLSBOBO, N. C.
The Scholastic year of the Misses Nash and
Miss Kotlock's school will commence Sept 8d,
1886, and end June 9, 1887. Circulars on ap
plication. I ,
JJALEIGH MALC ACADEMY,
Hugh Morso, , . ,
C. B. Dkxsom, Principals.
The next a nnual Session opens August 30,
1886. Boys and young men prepared for Col
lege or for business pursuits. Full Classical,
Scientific and Commercial Courses. The
Teachers have had long and successful ex
perience. Board in the cjty at reasonable rates.
For catalogue and references, with full into
mation, address either of the principals.
Johns Hopkins University
BALTIMORE.
rMvsR&mr aid collkoiatx oorasBa.
The programmes for the next academic year
will be sent on amplication.
NOTPE DAME OF MARYLAND,
Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies and
Preparatory School tor Little Girls. EMBLA
P. O. Three miles from Baltimore, Md. Con
ducted by the Slaters of; Notre Dane. Send foi
Catalogue. I
Jvly 16 eod Mon. Wed. & Pat. 2m.
PEACE INSTITUTE,
RALEIGH,
N.C.
For T0uB Ladies,
anil Small Girls,
Fall session commences first Wednesday in
September and closes corresponding time in
June following. An experienced and highly
accomplished corps of teachers In all branches
usually taught in first-class Seminaries lor
young ladies and girls. Advantage for in
struction In Music. Art and Modern Languages
unsurpassed.- Building heated, by steam and
lighted by gas and electricity. Expenses less
than any Female Seminary offering same' ad
vantages. Special arrangement for ' small
girls- Deduction for two or more from same
family or neighborhood. Correspondence
solicited. For Catalogue address
Rev. R. BURWELL A SON,
j Raleigh, N.q
UVIL, MECHANICAL AN6 MINING
V ENGINEERING at the Rensselaer Polv
t chnlc Institute, Troy, N- T. The oldest en
gineerlag school in America. Next term be
i ins September 15th. Tb Register for 1886
contains a 11st 01 the graduates for the past 61
years, with thir positions ; sis evurseof study,
requirements, expenses, etc Candidates from
a dtotmee, or those living in distant States, by
special examinations at their homes, or at such
schools as they may be attending, may deter
mine the question of admission without visiting
Troy. For register and full information, ad
dress Davtd M. Gkxkkb, Director.
deod,f.. w.&wlm.
We bare moved fron Fayetteville street to
the
DODD BUILDING
Coa. Wilmington and Makttji Btrkbts,
Where we w.ll be pleased to have our
friends call to see us and and leave their or
ders tor
Grain, Forage,
ICE, COAL WOOD,
Shingles, Loths Lumber. &c
JONES & POWELL,
TlaJeiarh. N O
August 24, 1886. i
RICHARD &IERSCH
RALEIGH AGENT FOR
C. W. GABRETT k CO.'B
NATIVE WINES.
Mr Garrett's Scuppenong, Champagne,
Mlsh, Port, Claret and othar wines are well
known for superior excelb nce, and are offered
for sale in wcod or glasii, i;ot to t e drank on
the premises) at prices charged bythe manu
facturers. 8PE IAL DISCOUNT TO THE TRAM,
For pr pply or writ- to
HO IAKDG
KfSfCH,
Ntxt door to the Yarboro House, ILleigh,! Jf.
aug UHiia,
Removal
Horns & Carter
Will make this a NOTABLE week for'
Low Prices
In every department.
Bargain Hunters
Will find it to th'lr advantage to visit our
establishment during this week.
Special Bargains
Will be offered In
Dress Goods
Hosiery, Table Linen., Toweln, Nark inn.
flhftfttintrii. An..
p 7
cialty,
Jorris Sf Partkh
Phil H Andrews & Co
CHANGE OP
Headquarers
is. iMR OF
'i
Agricultural Building
Halifax and Salisbury St.
FIRST SQUARE NORTH 0 CAPITOL
Having moved our wood and coal yard from
the N. C Depot (tha extreme western portion
of .the city) to within
ONE SQUARE
OF THE CAPITOL
We are now prepared to furnish fuel at short
notice.
HAED AND SOFT
LONG AND C UT
Prices guaranteed. Telephone No. 108.
Jend in your orders. Call and see us; w
1 chow ti brtw w Art bnstw
JAMES McKIMMON & CO.
W have bought the business of Win.
Simpson, Agent, No 133 Fayettevilie street,
and will keep a full line of Pure 3 Drugs,
Chemicals, Toilet Articles and everything to
be be bad in a complete Drug Store.
We so'ici the patronage of our frienda and
the public generally. - i
Mr. William Simpson, so long aad favorablv
known in the State as an accomplished Phar
macist, will have charge of the Preacriptioa
Department. .
JAMES McKIMMON & CO.
Raliioh, Sept 1st, 1886.
As will be seen frvm the above announce
ment, I have disposed of my entire interest in
the stock ot Drugs, Chemicals, &c, in the
drug store 133 Fayetteville street, to Messrs.
James McKlmmon & Co. I shall remain with
the new firm in charge of the prescription de
partment, and ask for them a continuance ot
th! D&tron&ra so liherallv bestowed 11 n. n ma
Fin the past. Verp respectfully,
- WM. SIMPSON.
Don't Put it Off.
I ND 10 1 R OLDIES IN AT ONCE JOB
NORTH CAROLINA
Limo FliOsVphate
Tha Cheaj eat and
BEST .MANURE
ever used for
Peas, Turnips,
And allfthe root and forage oops. Xvery
farmer needs it, and iu low price puts it in
the reach ot all. Write for circulars and for
mulas. Refer to anybody who hasusrd it.
N. CL PHOttl'HATE CO,
RaWeh. V.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator d. b. n.
of the estatof Dolly Uuater, Utca-U la'e
of Wake county, N. C, this is in uo lfy al
persons having claims againkt said eUte tu
present them tor payment to the undersigW.l
t Mayj N. C., or tu my attornr s, Me .
Pace & Holding, Raleigh, N. C, ort or Ufi r
the Pth day ef August, 1M7, or tbU mW
will be Dlead in ir nt tK.i r ..i...
sons indebted to said est ill plw ulaia
lmmauuuc payment.
A. B. HUNTER. Adm'r d. b .
Ratetgh, N. C, Angus 7. 1. dJtwt
D Ml ISTRATOR'S NOTlcfi.
a.
Havlrar QU llfled aa aitmlniar.l.- nt Ik.
JMfm' 1 1 nun.. k . . . . l
" 1 u. vu
county, N. C, I hereoy notify all wmuw hav
uig ruiu amiar MHi tHw Q xnMM4 lh)u
fox payment to the undrtdd y. N. iv,
or to BiV atturnava. ftl mi IS. ti.. .
at Ral a, M. 0., 00 or before lh nh um Zi
August,; 17, or thU 4 v tU biOti w
bar at their recover. All tl.it ....
to said ttaW will ptvaa aU Hiauiw it
lUk'ryM.C-Auju.! UaV
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