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RALEIGH. N. C. SATURDAY MORNTNG, NOVEMBER 520, 1886.
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Pure,
ttua powder never varies. A mirrl of
rurity, strength and wholesomeaaav Mow
eonomlcal than ordinary kinds and cannot b
aid u competition with the uraltltad el tow
sat. shirt weight, alum or phophat powders
row only in can. , Rotai. Baas Pews
.. Wall Street, Km? York.
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BROWNS
mojy
BITTERS
WILL CURE
HEADACHE 1
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS I
DYSPEPSIA ; I
NERVOUS PROSTRATION
MALARIA t
CHILLS and FEVERS
TIRED FEELING I
GENERAL DEBILITY
PAIN in the BACK & SIDES
IMPURE BLOOD
CONSTIPATION !
FEMALE -INFIRMITIES
RHEUMATISM I
NEURALGIA !
KIDNEY AND LIVER ,
TROUBLES !
fOJf SALE BY ALL ARUCGISTS
Tbs Criln ha Trade Mark and craucd KS
TAKE NO OTHER,
BACKET STORE;
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THE GREAT - BARGAIN STORE OF
RALEIGH. -
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- TJ people knew how much Credit coat them
they would not f aeeklng iMof It U eommon-
' mi hi that the fferchast who trayi gooidi oa
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' nut and aells them on credit moat aell hto
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1 good higher t oorer hit lawa, lammlar
lines of merchandtoe them are tShrMdlstaiat
profita charged tip amd on each one there is an
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4Xtra per cent hld, to eorer the losses by
tiredit. Touoount ten pereenti'on eaoh ol
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themandyonhTeatfche,kartesthnaieiOper
jeat which you must pay to! eo?er theloi
oy aaen who nerer pay. This the oMSUner
has to pay. IX all eomes oct of the hard-
earned dollars of the laboring people. If yob
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borrow money from the bank at d per eent
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you think it Yry high, yet you will buy your
goods oa credit sad pay 60 "per cent more for
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. them than you ought to psy and you will
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nerer wink row eye at it. ThJe credit takee
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fram the Drodneen of this oountry one-hall
they make. Now how do .you like the system?
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Come to the Backet Storeand buy your goods.
The Racket Store has all the adTantages, from
navlnic boreia alwara fa the New York
: ket, with cash la hand, wh buy from houses
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Which are compelled to take their offers for
these goods.: It is the power of the alrfligity
dollar enttlOK tU war through the centre ol
'.timti which enables us to offer soods at less
than they ena be made for la hundreds of
eases. The backet Store ii sattsfied with small
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profiU and we shall make: ui1 bargains nuke
our business. Kow come to the Backet Store
ami buv tout irooda and sate tout mooey.
i hlk wtek we thall ooen some xreat bar-
nina in ttUvcr vtated Knitee and Forks,
triple plate on ateei, at :1.7S a eewworta
f;60. -alao a lob In buspenders at S3 cte.;
.orth'8&. Borne reat basm.laa in Mena1
mtre fcuiUfia Oa, worth; 0M. Great barraisS
In Ladies', and iLiaaew' toeka ad BhawU.
Nw linea' of Flints, choice, at & pit yard.
We will also open a blgl line of tieolr and
Haws' Hsu and Cane at a bexmia. all and
xamlne belore purcnaaiiur. bolicitlng oah
trade onlTii - f , J
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NEWS OBSERRVATION3.
The President is hard at work on
his annual message.
The American Ornithologists'
Union is in session at Washington,
D. C. 6
Agitators give it up that the best
temperance eooiety is a oheerfal home
fireside.
Cocaine was $500 an ounce. Now;
anybody can go orssy en it at $8 an
ounce.
The postmaster of Detroit, 111.,
suicided by taking carbolic acid. Finan
cial trouble.
The most serious charge against , a
oandidate in Pennsylvania was that he
didn't know which end of aeow to milk.
The naval estimates for the next
fiieal year are $10,000,000 less in
amount than the estimates for last
year.
Lieutenant C. N. Clinch by the
will of Mrs. A. T. Stewart becomes
"the richest officer in the army." lie
is a nephew of the dead lady.
The tread of Amerioan justice, if
not always swift, is generally sure. The
last of the Manhattan Bank burglars
commences his expiation of the crime of
eight years ago.
lawyer Brothers report their" win-,
Dings last season to be $193,181 66 net ;
Racing pays some people. The Dwyers
made money as butchers but are beat
ing even that reoord on the turf.
The Chicago Tribune estimates the
recent strikers in Packjf gtown as 50 per
cent Irish, 30 per cent German and 20
per cent Poles and Bohemians. About
600 hoodlums, ambitious to shine at
pugiliutf, are said to create all the
rows.
Charles Dudley Warner, who h
making an extensive tour of the 8cutb,
says that all elapses are at work; that
there is a growing love for literatnre
and soienoe and that the brightest fa
ture seems to open before the old Con
federate States.
The legislature of New Jersey is
very close, and it looks as though the
two parties might be tied, 40 and 40,
lesaing the balncee of power with the
81st member, John Donohue of the as
sembly, who was chosen by a combina
tion of labor men and democrats. Chief
Justice Beasley has five votes still under
consideration. Donohue refuses to sat
whom he shall vote for for United States
Beiiator, but says be shall vote for the
man most acceptable to his district. The
leading candidates For the Senate are
Got. Abbett, democrat, and Senator
Sewell and William Walter Phelps, re
publicans. There have been some re
counts, one of whioh elected a democrat
by one plurality. The recounts are or
deredby the judges upon application.
xnere are six democratic judges ana
three republioen, and there .is general
confidence in the honesty of their con
elusions.
The slightly rough camel's hair
fabrics are preferred by many ladiee -V'
rrrencn cast mere, and soft gray camel t
hair wul be muoh employed this winter
for dressy house wear, with aooessorief
of black, wine or blue velvet. The oolor
gray, found most becoming, has not tb
slightest tinge of sine in it, but is a soft,
beautiful tint, whioh gathers no metallic
shades after gas-light. Toned with any
of the colored velvets just referred to.
or with golden brown, it forms a gown
complete, that is one of the most lady
like and becoming that a woman can
ahoose. .
Wheat has been successfully raised
with as and our crops, in a warm cli
mate, have been as good, when properly
put in, as the crops of almost any ooun
try under the sun. And 1 say this
boldly because I wish to encourage our
people to raise their wheat and to be
lieve in ao doing, if properly done, that
we cannot be beaten. And this is the
way it is done: Bun the land in peas or
olover until it is loaded with humus
then cultivate a corn crop; when the
corn is well gUsad cut it up and let it
dry and then remove in from the field
as they do at the North. This gives the;
ground to the plow early in September
Now go over the land with a good two
or three horse plow; follow this with a
two or three horse subsoiler, the three
howe plow and subsoiler bejng decided
ly bee, and see that your land ; ia
friable, whioh it must be, if filled
with df composed clover or peas, and
then drill in the wheat at the rate of
two or more bushels to the acre; alwajs
bearing in mind that large oropsoan
only be grown by putting in the grain
(either oats or wheat ) so thick thit it
oannot litter or stool out. In drilling
also put-in a heavy, dose of highly am-
momated guano, composed as follows
100 pounds cotton seed meal, 50 pounds
acid phosphate and 25 or 50 pounds
of k ami to. A heavy manuring of this
on such land would be 400 or 500
pounds. Lnd prepared and sown in
this way should bring from twenty-five
to forty bushels of wheat to the acre,
and the season would be quite unfavor
able if it did not approach the latter
figure. And of oats it shculd bring
from eighty to 180 bushels to the acre.
CMs shonld be sown about the 1st of
September, or even the middle of Au
gust would be better, and wheat should
be sown about the last of September,
say the 20th -Jos. H. Wilson in Char
lotte Home-Democrat.
GENERAL NEWS.
RAILROAD MATTERS PESTRUC-
TIVE TRANS-ATLANTIC ,
FIRES.
laboi bcsrnkss transaction sots! mb
cofbt officially notitid cfix
pbksidsnt Arthur's diath
oth1r riws bt
WTJUI.
Niw Yobk, Nov. 19. A. Dutenhei
fer who has been prominent in Georgia
Central railroad transactions, rtates that
no syndicate has been formed, but that
friends of General Alexander have been
-buying stock to be voted for him at the
coming election. The stock: held by
Mrs Hattie Green- 7 620 shares was
not sold, but p?cxy on it was bought
by j General Alt xsnder's friends. 1 he
terms on which the proxy was obtained
are kept secret.
An Important INrclalon Bandervd.
Jackson. MifB , Nov. 19. Judge
Hill, of the Federal eonrt. ban rendered
an Important decision in the Viokeburg
& Meridian railroad cace, which is now
in the hands of a receiver of his court,
which authorizes the recover to fix the
transportation rates of tbt road, from
point to point in the State, so as to pay
the rninii g expenses and give six per
cent profit on the cash capital of the
road. The decree provides that the re
ceiver is to ml aittbe tsriff rates formed
by him to the railroad commission, but,
thisitutmissicn reads in the decree like
an act of grace and not of right. It ex
pressly sets aside the tariff rates sow
nxed by the state railroad ocmmission
so tar ss applicable to the Vicksburg &
Meridian road.
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DcatractlT Trana-Atlantic Flrea.
LpiiDOBT, Nov. 19 3 p. h Hampton
Court paltoe, in Middlesex, on the
Tbimep, twelve miles from the city, was
Set eh fire tcdsy by the bursting of an
oil lamp. The fire started in the apart
ments abutting on the tennis court, and
all these apartments have been dettroy
ed. : The fltmes havesinee spread to the
adjoinirg buildings and are now raging
item a few yards of the chapel end
royal state apartments, which are threat
ened with destruction.
Lateb 6 p. m. The fire has been
subdued.
S' Lara BMlaeae TraaMttloa.
Lticebcbo, Ya , Nov. 19 A special
from; Pulaski to the Daily Advance says:
George T Mills last night sold the
Fncf Valla nrnnn.iv Q 1 (VI .mm nt
ay a v u( J 9 ai avv atvi so vi
mineral lands, to a Philadelphia syndi
cate; for (150.000, one-third wsb. A
large iron furnace will be erected on the
property at once.
Wantatafftoa News. j
Washisgtoh, Nov. 19. Attorney
: General Garland today formally an
nounced to the supreme court the death
cf ex-President Arthur, and the oourt
adjourned until Tuesday next, the day
after the funeral.
The Bartboldi statue of liberty in
New York harbor will probably be
lighted next Monday night under the
supervision of the light house board.
'Two Br t Mali Steam Collide.
Nw Yobk, Nov. 19. The steamer
Beaeonffield, with a oargo of 79 .000
bushels of wheat, outward ' bound to
Aberdeen, came into collision off the
battery this morning with the steamer
Britannia, bound in, from Mediterra
nean ports. The Beaeonffield struck
near the coal bunkers and the water
poured in, extinguishing her fires. 8he
is being assisted by tugs. The Britan
nia! came to anchor with her bow badly
damaged above the' water lino.
Hahtsaa Aalg)ni,at.
Chicago, Nov. 19. A Times special
from Houston, Texas, says:. W. L
McCate, one of the largest cotton fac
tors and importers of cement in this city,
has assigned. It is estimated that his
liabilities will approximate $40 000; as
sets 50.000. The indebtedness is lo
cated ohitfly among the local banks and
m .Galveston, Chicago, at. Louis and
New York.
Tb WIIaon-Moan Cut.
Io the argument in the mysterious
Wilson-Moen case before Judge Carpen
ter in the United States circuit court
in Boston, Robert Morse made the plea
for Phillip M. Moen. the defendant. He
opened by referring to the claim made
by Wilson that Moen owed him a large
sum ($113,000) as compensation for the
servioes of Wilson in settling various
suits for breach of promise, but con
tended that, according to Wilson's own
admission, he had received sums very
muoh larger, sums amounting indeed to
2350,000. It was argued that the case
on the part of Mr. Wilson rested solely
on his own testimony, and that on every
oocaaions when he came in contact with
any bctsp of documentary evidence he
wss shown to be full of contradictions.
The defense contended that the posi
tion cf Wilson toward Moen was one df
blackmailer taking advantage of the
weakness of the latter in consenting to
pay a sum of money for the conceal
ment of as act with which he had noth
ing to do. A letter purporting to have
been written by Wilson demanding
money was cited in proof of the claim
that he was a blackmailer, in which it
was set forth that Wilson threatened to
hire his brothers to swear to anything
he wished against Moen. The fact that
Moen oould have been induced to pay
the large 6ums whioh he did in late
years was in part accounted for by the
natural desire to avoid the odium of
having psid the original sum to a
blackmailer.
George J. West, of Providence, made
the argument for Wilson. After speak
ing of the great Business ability of I
Moen and saying that up to this time he
had never met his master, West char
acterized Moen's story of the alleged
blackmail as unqualifiedly false. He
obarges that the letter of February,
876, asking for $11,000 was a fabrica
tion from Moen's brain sinoe the trial
est December. -It was a forgery and
Wilson never wrote it. He denied that
counsel feared to ask Wilson what it
was he threatened Moen with, and said
they were ready and anxious to know
al), but Moen had told so many different
stories that they did not know what he
might concoct Eext. No patent was
ever owned or sold by Wilson. Moen
had that paper made so that he could
tell the people of Worcester that he had
business with Wilson. It was another
piece of manufactured evidenoe. Moen
did not, he says, tell the whole truth at
the previous trial. The man who under
oath does not tell the whole truth is
guilty of forgery. The case was given
to the jury Wednesday and a verdict
was rendered in favor of Moen. Ihe
atter put in notes of Wilson as an off set
and as a result of the trial gets $96 522
instead of having tQ pay the $113,009
demanded by Wilson.
DAVIS VANCE ;
THE JEFFERSON DAVIS LETTER
TO GOV. VANCE BROUGHT 1
OUT. f
Th Marquis of Hallabary'a Kp!y-
Londok, Nov. 19. Lord ib jobury
has replied to the social demoorauo fed
eration that be is willing to hear the
oomplsints of the unemployed working
men, but that a previous engagement to
meet friends at the Hertford house will
prevent his reciving a dopu'at.on on
bunday aa desired by the federation.
Bualnea Failar.
!Nxw Yobk, Nov 19 The business
failures occuring throughout the oountry
iq the last seven days as ' reported to
R. G. Dan & Co., number for the United
States 207 and for Canada 35; a total
of 242, compared with a total of 23
last week and lbb the week previous to
list. The casualties reported from the
Western and Southern eta tea and Can
ada are muoh above the average. In
other sections of the country they are
light.
Au "Aira Party."
Cor. of the News and Observer.
KlTTaSLi, N. O , NOV. 19.
Thi lines of the M. E. ohuroh -at
Kitt.-t l gave au apron party last eren-
iog, nit a oysters, ice cream, oake 'and
otter anusements, so to speak, to the
YvttQg fjlks. The party was for the
Darobje of raising funds wberewitn to
get an organ for the ehureh. All had a
nioe time and $45 wu taken in. '
H1W YOBK BOODLB ALDIRMIN T1STTVT
PRIZE riOHTBBS IM PRISONS D IN C4LI
fOBNIA THB LTNCUSURO AID
DURHAM B B OTBXR
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Baltiiiobb, Nov. 19 The Sun i will
publish tomorrow the letter written by
Jefferson Davis, President of the Con
federacy, to Gov. Vance, of North Cr
olina, in January, 1863, whioh is - be
lieved to be the letter referred to by
Gen. Sherman, in a recent controversy,
and upon whioh Sherman based ! his
charge that Davis threatened to use
Lee s army to ooeroe the southern
States. The letter was published
in the Rtleigh, N. C, Standard,
in January, lcoa, but has been out
from the files of that paper and waa
given to the Sun by an ex-Confederate
tffioer, who found it among the effects
of a gentleman recently deceased, who
was preparing a history of North Caro
lina. .
The document whioh is quite lengthy
rehearses the futile efforts made by Mr.
DaviB to obtain a conference with
Northern leaders looking to a peaceful
settlement of differences.
Naw Yobk, Nov 19 Ex-Aldermen
Waite and Fulgraff testified today in
the trial of ex-Alderman McQuade, for
bribery in the matter of the Broad
way railroad fronohise. They explained
in detail the ciroumstanoes attending the
granting of that franchise. Fullgran
said his understanding: was that the
company had paid half a million dollars,
of which amount he had received $18,
000 out cf $20,000 whioh was promised
him. The money was paid to him by ex-
county clerk John Keenan, and reading
clerk Wm. Maloney was the go-betwecc
fer the railroad men and the corrupt
aldermen. Waite's testimony : was
equally explicit, and it is said that ex
alderman Duffy, another of the bribed
am . a . t.
men, will be pat on the stand by the
prosecution to confirm Waite and Full-
graff. The story of the bribery and
the carrying eut of their corrupt agree
ment by tLo aldermen, as told today.
was full and explicit.
these meetings was the formation of
temperance club of over 100 members
all of whom wear red ribbons as a badge
of total abstinence. The party went
froni here to Greensboro, where' thev
gave one entertainment, and then left
quite suddenly for the North; why, no
one knows.
A walk around town yesterday con
vinced me that Winston is a good place
for a poor man to live in. I saw butter
selling for 10 and 124. cents per pound,
obiokena at 10 and 12 cents, and there
were loads of fat turkeys, 'possums,
rabbits, birds cabbages, cheatnuts,
apples, and the markets were filled
with good meats, the groceries with
ohetp flour, fci. We need a good
market house in order to have a better
ystem of handling these products. I
noticed some teams that had oome a dis
tance of more than seventy-five miles
and they were ox-teams too, and the
heavy wagons were loaded with apple',
chestnuts and eabbages.
Owing to the try weather our tobaooo
market has not fairly opened yet, but
the little that is being Bold is bringing
fair prices. Gaw.
Xtno
gntaned
for
Fatare at BJw Yorfc.
NswYubk, Nov.. 19. Greene Co
report on cotton futures sayr: The bul
business has been done on a strong and
advancing market. A gain of sOme 7k
So in to was slightly mod fied .alter the
emand was filled, but the close proved
Steady and the offering was moderate.
Against such short interest as existed,
there was a general covering.
Tb Prpoa 1
From the Chatham Record.
An outrage upon the State of North
Carolina is threatened, against the per
petration of which we hope the muted
pi ess of the State will urge its vigorous
protest. We refer to the attempt or offer
of the Richmond & Danville railroad
company to renew its lease of the
North Carolina railroad. A lease of this
road wu made when the republi
cans had control of our State gov
ernment, and it was openly charged
then, and has generally been believed
sinoe, that the lease was obtained by
bribery and corruption. And now when
the term has only about half expired it
is gravely proposed to extend the lease
or another long term of years I
There is plenty of time before the
present lease expires, within whioh to
consider this proposal to renew it. And
before the year 1901 shall oome, there
may be, and doubtless will be, other
and more favorable proposals from other
railroad companies to lease this valuable
road. But there is no need, and indeed
we do not think it advisable for the State
to lease the road to any company. This
however can be a matter for future dis
cussion and consideration. At present
we utterly and emphatically oppose and
protest against the proposed extension
of the lease to the It. & D. Co., and we
hope the press of the State will unite in
this opposition. Ihe Raleigh Nsws
and Obsibvbb deserves the thanks of the
public for its recent editorial on this
subject.
The Riohmond & Danville combina
tion lease of the North Carolina railroad
from Goldsboro to Charlotte has fifteen
years yet to run, and now they want to
have it extended twenty-five years. The
democratic party has enough load to
carry now fer 1888 without the addition
of this burden. Let the present lease
expire before even talking about anoth-
er.-Laurinborg Exchange. 4
The whole press of the State is loud
in opposition to a renewal of the exist
ing lease of the N. O. railroad, which,
by the way, does not expire until 1901
The proposition is two previous, and is
exceedingly cheeky. The lease will
hardly be renewed now. The "fore
sight" of railroad people is very good
they ean tell a good thing fourteen
years on, out r there is no
need for a renewal now and there may
never be a need in future. The State
may be able to run the road itself Wj
the time lease expires. Salisbury
Watchman.
iprii
Frla ft'Kliiina-
Chicago, Nov. 19 A special? from
San Francisco says, yesterday, Martin
Costello and Tom Cleary, convicted of
felony for prza fighting, were, sen
tenced. Cleary to three months in thetato
prison at troisom, and Uosteuo to ser ve
six weeks in the state prison at San Oj den
tin. The judge said the manner m
hieh the two men had testified in
fluenced him in sentencing them. Cos
tello had evidently told the IrutX.
He had testified' that he did his beet
to knock Cleary out. He therefore was
sentenced to only six weeks Cleary
had lied upon the stand, saying that
he was not knocked down, but lay
down so as to bring the fight to a close
on aooount of the presence of the polioe.
ine jaoge tnereiore gave nun mure
severe sentence. This is the first time
in the State that prise fighters! have
been convicted and sentenced for fight
ing, . ?
Comparative Cotton titattnai.
; NawVoax, Nov. 19 The lol'owlng la the
comparative cotton statement lor the week
endwHoV. 18:
-, 1886. 18SS
Net receipt, at U. S. ports, 08,169 26i),322
Total receipts to date, 2,119,708 2,116,240
Exports for the week, 113,209 209, 96
Total exports to date, m 1 124,924
Stock t all U. 1 8. porta, 865,784 778,i2
Stock at all interior towns, 198, 42 144,222
Stock si Liverpool, 410,000 Km
TararsatSrttsia, 271.Q0S mooo
Forelar.
Bomb, Nov. 19 King Humbert has
instructed his chaplain to oonvey his
sympathies to the Pope on anti-clerical
agitation. The papal nunoio at Madrid
has asked the Spanish, government to
oo-operate with Austria in supporting
the request of the Vatican to the Italian
government for the amelioration of the
position of the Pope.
Sofia, Not. 18. Gen. Kaulbarshas
bidden a farewell to the different diplo-
! i 1 .
mass acre prior to ua aeparmra.
1 yuebbarg- to Durham.
Dahvilli, Va., Nov. 19 The Direct
ors iof the Lynchburg Virginia & Dur
ham North Carolina Railroad com
pany, ' Roxboro & Durham Railroad
; .a W '. t w a
com nan v and the Roxboro jtsuroaa
company held a meting here today with
a ; view to making arrangements
for! building a standard gauge
road from Lynchburg to Durham.
Subscrintions have been made Lto the
road all along the route, and the work
of construction will soon begin: Ihe
road will be about one hundred miles
long. ' i
1aUI Mat KaealDta.
N.w Yobk, Nov. 19. The follew-
.1 i a. .
in a are tne totat- net receipts ui
e - ... . ,
cotton from all porta since EjeptemDer
1, 1886, in bales: Galveston, 366.52U;
New Orleans, 555.799: Mobile. 76,409;
Savannah, 437.411; Charleston,2l9 802;
Wilmington, N. C, 74 633; Norfolk,
237 555: Baltimore. 1U Uob; ew lorx,
16 991: Boston. 11.842; Philadelphia.
11 885;West PointrlUl,08Z;urunswicK,
12 589; Port Royal, 9,585; Pensacola,
7,019. Total. 2,149,708. i
VStnatoM Haws,
Cor. ot the News and Observer.
WlNSTOM. N. U , JNOV IS. 1880.
Our people have about recovered from
the election excitement and returned to
business, with a determination to work
harder two years henoe for democracy
The defeat of Mr. Buxton in this sena
torial district was a genuine Surprise
and a matter of regret to his supporters
Mr. Buxton is a valuable man, in any
nosition, and one of North Carolina
praotioal and progressive young men
and he has before him a future of use
fulness to his town and his nation- Tho
Democrats won a big victory in Forsyth
county, as it is so close that both par
ties claim it. Mr. Henry Fries,
Salem, is our representative, and is just
the man to represent a progressive peo
ple. He is a successful business man,
intelligent, popular, and looks olosely
after the interests of his people. It will
be remembered that Mr. i?riea was sec
retary of the State Exposition, in which
.F. V. J:J ...J ..... fA. 'tUanii.
pOSitlOU no UlU guuu wuia. iui ,ui Bitw-
oess of that great enterprise.
I A revival of religion is in progress at
the Protestant ohuroh under the man
agement of Mrs. Moon, the lady evan
gelist. Scores of people are turned
away every evening, being Unable to
get seats
Messrs. English and Maybe,; two men
from the North, have been holding a
temneranee revival at Brown's hall.
They were accompanied by a man and
his wife, who furnished the musio while
English and Maybe did the speaking
Thev" spoke well, too, and had large
audiences everv night. The rosalt f
. m
Advocate m
lot
SI a 11 road Conamta-
Cor. of the News and Observer.
You have done good service to the
State in calling public attention to the
danger of renewing or extending the
ease of the North Carolina railroad to
the Riohmond & Danville company now
W hether oircu Distances at the expiration
of the present lease would justify an
other on the same or similar terms of
course cannot now be determined, but
most certainly it would be exceedingly
unwise to resolve on sush a step fifteen
years in advance of any necessity for it.
t would have an "ugly" look and
savor too much of undue haste. I am
ouvinoed the Board of Directors of the
North Carolina railroad would not favor
such a proposition. They are North
Carolinians,. Intelligent, patriotic and
upright citiiecs. It will not be pre
sumed that they will favor a policy of
so doubtful propriety, and sure to be
exceedingly distasteful to a vast ma
jority of their fellow-eitisena.
1 agree with you in the conclusion
that the effeot of the lease upon the
oommerce of our State has been in many
respects unfavorable, but in other par
ticulars it hs, perhaps, been beneficial.
am much impressed with your edito
rial in Thursday's issue in respect to
the question of freights. Doubtless the
ease has something to do in the pro
duction of these gross earnings, but it
is by no means responsible for them en
tirely. They exist on roads and in
communities where the leased road has
no cunneation or iifluenoe. They are
the subject of bitter complaints in other
States. Experience has demonstrated
but one method by 'whlob. thev mar be
remedied, and that is by a railroad com
mission clothed with powers for. investi
gation and correction in a speedy and
iaex tensive manner. Publio sentiment
has long demanded suoh a commission
in this State. It would be fruitless to
call attention now to the means b
hich ttii demand has hitherto been
refute 1 Nor is it necessary in this, day
of intelligence to reiterat the argu
ments m support of sich a commission.
It is sufficient to say that wherever tried,
they have grown in public estimation,
and in m to of the solemn prophecy ol
most direful conseqienos. The railroads
nave not only oonuauna to increase in
value, but the construction of new lines
has gone on with wonderful rapidity.
Will not-the JNiws avd Ubsbbvs con
tinue its good work by presenting this
matter prominently before the public!
Perhaps no better period for its settle
ment oould occur, ihe tienerai a?
semblv will soau convene. Theie are no
excitii)? political tonics to engage the
o r . l
attention of its members : no other grave
Questions of general importance are
. . a .a 1 V
likely to be duouBsed; the public mina
is in a q iiet eondition; there are no
bitter controvjrsie", and the qaestim
can now be canvassed and determined
with as little of nreiudioo as will ever.
be possible. - Xbho.
For Assistant Dorkpr f tat !.
Coir of the News and Observer.
Tatlobvillb, Nov. 17, 1886
C Thomas Sharpe, Esq.. of this
oonnty, was in to? see me a few days
ajro. and requested me to write you to
announce through the columns of your
paper that he would be before tne aem
os.-atio caucus for the Dcsition of assis
tant doorkeeper of the Senate. Mr
Sharpe is a democrat and a wounded
Confederate soldier and one in every
waj fitted for the position. He has been
treasurer of the county He has been
for sometime a justice of the peace and
is now I notice from his call for a meet
ing of the justices of Alexander oounty
to clcot two new county commissioners
chairman of the board of magistrates
He will. I suppose, in due time notify
each ben" a tor of his intention be before
them for this position.
The .magistrates meet next Satur
day to elect two county commissioners
a v ma1 t- i
in place ot tt. an. Stevenson, jq ,
chairman of the board, elected to the
House.
The prospects are still good for the
completion of our railroad from States-
ville in a short time. aisci.
BUtcball Boelaty.
Cor. of the Nkwsiand OSsbxveb.
Unvixsn os- N. (L Chapil Hat.
The last meeting of the Mitchell So-
oiety. Tuesday night J was very interest
ing. Prof, love read a well considered
paper on thei "Time Sjstora of the
world, " showing tho difficulties and un
certainties of the existing method. For
example, when the gjreat exhibition at
Molbourne was opened, the telegram an
nouncing the fact reached London ten
hours before. The chief of the Western
Union telegrsph company says that by
the reform, fifteen millions cf letters per
SBWiwawiswa annN Vila a ota tk iatnivaartk!
uuw.au .vuaAi lv osa j us iu a-iifs raivgi spuj
of the United States by dispensing with
m. and pi. in. Prof. Love proved
the new or VCogmio Time," begianing
midnight at 180 of longitude from
Green wioh and! movixjg to 24. o'clock.
By this , Chapel Hill dinner hour (1
o'clock) w?ula be not fir from 18 o'clock.
Dr. y enable; next showed a valuable
improved lamp! for laboratory purposes,
explaining its uses j
1. Wm. a., Phillips followed with a
t, whioh he had made, of minerals.
containing near one per cent of phos
phoric acid, inj number 109. He stated
as a remarkable fact that not one of
these cry s tall "z 7s in the regular sys
tem.
Prof. Holmes then olosod with two
papers, one giving the discussions of
rof. I ooke on the changes being made
on the New Jersey ooast, and the other
on the rate of recession of Niagara Falls
towards Lake ? Jfine. ! As it will take
some 30,000 ci 40,000 years, if ever,
for the river to eat itq way to the Lake, '
some of us have hopes of seeing the Falls '
yet before they are finally swallowed up.
The changes on the New Jersey ooast
are analogous to those on our own. In
a conversation which j ensued, Dr. Phil
lips mentioned a fscit stated by Prof.
Kerr, that some old Salt, pans used on
the Brunswick ooast ih 1812 were, from;
fear of a British cruiser, hauled over the
sands to the sound fide of the sandy
strip between the sound and the ocean,
and that since that time the shifting
sands have been so blown towards the
and into the sound that now these pans
are on the oeean again.
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