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GREENSBORO; -N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1883
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GREENSBORO, APRIL 2a. iSSj.
A postoGce ba been estab
tished at Salem J a action, with - J.
Van Lindley ns postmaster. Now
when our enterprising nurseryman
is fatigued with the labor of the
CLaj ho caa rather himself around
a kerosene lamp and while away
an hour or two reading the postal
card that parses through the 6a
lem Junction office. Happy man!
Frank Payne, with Lindsay,
Harm & Co., iRcidsville, made a
narrow escape yesterday from a
serious accident. Whilst crossing
a bridge on the road between Reids-
villc and Madison hU horse fell
throagh4njariog himself, breaking
the sulky and I throwing Its occo-
pant some distance into the stream and aortd rather too rapidly,
below. Fortunately he caught on rj. u bat ,t woullrnt
nia tee in nis oeacensana sustain
cancU Ileeae Blalock. Thej
warrants for both Trircbard
Kath Carpenter, hU mistress,
waa ulso in the hoase. Pritcbanl,
who waa a powerful man and ana-
ed mad no attempt at resistance,
bat sail the woman waa too aick U.
be taken frco tbehonse,and asked
G Bnr!eon to go for a doctor who
Uvea half a mile away. .Scarcely
had Unrleaoti gone when Pritchard
mzwI a ran and snamwl It Ht
-
Jaxnea Dnrlesou. Qnick us thonght
tl Utter fired and nljot him in the
braut with bis heary revolrer.
The im4s of tbe firing brought back
Etlwartl BuricKOU, and both broth
ra opened fire nnon PntchanL
11 fongbt like a demon, attempt
ing to club out the brains of the
nstah!e with the gnn. The wo
man aidrd in the fig it. Pritcbanl
waa shut twice in the bend, twice
in the hrcaaf, and diet! on the fioor.
Doth constables and the woman
were painfully injored.
A CxtaXT IIosse Occasionally
there is a horse that are ms to be
crazy. At timea ft will be all right,
and again it will be all wrong. Such
an animal belonged to a Cockingnam
mm awhile ago It was a valuable
one, coating the owner -Cfoo. It
had always behared well until one
morning not long ago when he
waa driving it In a baggy to this
city. The horse seemed pretty
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JEW SERIES NO. g53
A new French gun is twenty
nine feet six inches long, weighs
fifty tons and costs $ITO,CO). It is
wire-wound and U expectetl to put
a ball through fifteen inches of ar
mor, heavier than any on our mon
itors, at a distance of seven and
a half miles.
Postmaster General Gres
bam has reached Washington. The
trappings of mourning bav6 been
removed and be is now ready for
business. It is predicted already
that bis administration , of the
Post-oQce will give blra the Presi
dential nomination la 1834.
lne volume of the Conare
thnal Kcca d that relates thedoings,
the white population of Hew Engl
land. It will alao be seen that th'
and more eiecially the sayings, of percentage of prisoners in South'
me x oriy-seventh Congresa at its Carolina, including both classes o
For years the Massachu
setts Sate almshouse was run by
the highly retprctable 3Iarsh fami
ly aa a corpse factory, and the
Marshes gatherrd shekela by the
aale of the products of the factory
to medical achools and other custo
mers. In 1870 the highly respect
able legislators of Massachusetts
investigated the almshouse and
whitewashed the Marsh family.
The men who managed the institu
tion in which the insane the idiotic,
the crippled and the sick includ
ing hundreds of yonng mothers and
tht-ir babes were hurried . out of
life, aneeml at and rvvilrd Gener
al Butler as a "bold, bad man,"
wbe election to the chief mugis
tracy wonld be u9 diKgrxoa to our
beloved commonwealth." " What a
revenge the grim ohl man is get
ting on bis enemies by turning the
lights on the diabolism of Tewkes
bury. . j .
The New York girl who has
been sued for breach of promise, be
gan her letter for a while: "My
darling Benny," My own dar
ling Benny," "My own dearest
second or short session alone will
contain more than four thousand
pages, exclusive of the index. Of
these, several hundred pages will
be taken op with speeches that
were never delivered.
gle to escape her captors, cr, more
iiKeiy, to save uer boy, for ; the
iuuge aireaay lay dead, and she
then, poor, weak woinani ntterlv
defenseless herself, was bell' child's
only protector. Io trace of; the
boy could be discovered. INo fim
print cf his j little feet - could, be
The monster fish yarn of the
aejixoti is wafted from n Florida
fish ' pond. The President is're-
ported to have hooked 10 five-pound I yesterday, j The main point of dif-
her population, is less than in any
of the New Kugland States with;
the exception of Maine, which -has'
an equal percentage. If the white! nl anywhere upon the fgroitnd.
population only of this State bd YkiSJ!!? ePjaiPwl:
. 7i When the bnckboard waa stopped
iuo ireonuigoi pTisi oy tne fait or the horse Mrs. Mc-
-The Lynchburg strike ended oner Js 8lx times iTater in Marnei ot5as ondonbtedly seized the lit-
trout Sunday.
The department of agricul
ture reports that the winter wheat
in Ohio has suffered severely from
freezing. .East of the Allegbanies
the condition is good in the north
ern belt, declining slightly in. lower
latitudes It is not up to the aver
age in any part of the South. , The
average for the crop is 80, Last
April it was 101. The most observ
ing reporters have .examined the
roots, and in - many cases found
them healthy, while the plants are
brown. There is good - reason fur
belleving.that the real condition of
lereuce was the payment of job
hands from the wages of roll mak-
ere, and was settled by an agree
ment that the operatives do part of
this work, the manufacturers agree
ing to pay for the rest.
-In view of the popular dis
like of the new penal code which is
in force in New York, the Wall
Street Areir has bnsied itself in get
ting up a substitute which class-
twenty times greater in Massachnl
setts, eleven timesj greater in CW
necticnt and Rhode Island, anil
seven times greater in New Hamp-'
shire nd- Vermont than it is ixi!
South Carolina, . ji
The startling contrast presented
by these official figures will donbtr j
less be met by the assertion that in
the Sooth the pan ishment of crime'
is less certain and
in New Nncland.
unfailing 'than!
and that 'the
number of prisoners reported is,
tie fellow and held him to her lo
som with the desieration 6Ti de
spair, and wbeu finally torn from
tier arms he was placed and held
upon a pony or at once carried
away." . . j. : j
The tribe of Indians who are re
sponsible fotL this outrage have
been fed and clothed thronrh I the
winter at the expense of the Gov
wnment.5 They are a hieackful
tttDe as long as one- regiment of
soldiers is covering them jwitf re
peating rifles' and another ladlinir
ifles; certain crimes according, to therefore, not a fair indication ofl on 8oaP to them but as I sooA as
u !, , m lD,S ctTial crime in the two sections,
fashion : SU-aling upwards of t5r Tbis to a extent b oufor
000 000, reorganization; upwards unately true, though the advantage
of $2,600,000, great financiering; of vew Enrfand in lthi u
wheat is therefore less unpromising upwards of $1,000,000, financiering, not nearlv so irreat as manv nf on.
thau it seems.
Even the sleepy-beaded old
town of Salisbury is talkiug cotton
factory. - - I
upwards of $900,000, softening of MendA down paa, plflim anA -
the brain; upwards of $800,000, haps boneaUy ..beUere it to be . Cek
mismanagement; upwards of $700, tonlp ifc 11 nred that th
000, misfortune: np wards of $C00,
these civUitis are dispensed Irith
the slaughter begins.; , Inj solving
the Indian problem the Govern
ment should always keep: in jriew
the fact that a dead ; Indian gives
no trouble.
or isr
el no other ' injuries than some
slight bruies ami a good ducking.
The ho IX was; bailly bruised and
the sulky demolished.
-i-A valuable farm is offered for
f ;
sale in to-d.y paper. See adver
tisement, t
--Best's Uwyers are now pop
ping suits to him fur fees. lie has
been sued by bis late partner. Judge
Carmth, for $10,000, and by Gatlin
and Merrimon aad Fuller, for $15,-000.
The recent lottery drawings
ditl not prove remunerative to the
ticket holders in this community.
-Rev. 8. C. Alexander, of
' Wade nbo ro, N. Cn has receirel
and aeceptetl a call from Busk,
Te xa-i He departed this morning
for bis new field of labor and will
move his family in a few weeks.
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Car No. 5, alluded to yesterday,
was built in lSC7,by Mr. B, E. Ser
geant, f the Sergeant Manufactur
ing Company, of this place, who
, then had charge of the N. C. IL B,
Hops at Company Shops. Four
other cars were made at the same
time nuder Mr. Sergeant's supervi
sion and direction, and these cars
are still in us and are as son ml aa
anew silver" dollar. In 1S71 the
N. C. B. B, Cx, bail three cars
built in Delaware. In seven year
time the Delaware cars were tori
up and thrown away, leing literal
ly worn oat. The home made cars
' c-Mt $3yS00 a piece. The Delaware
cars coats f (L300 a piece. It is
- easy to make the calculation in the
difference between Sergeant's bome-
made work and the Delaware work.
Encourage home industries and
men who do honest work at half
the price of the shoddy.
J. C. KiDg, who has been con
fined in Guilford county jail, and
who waa tried and convicted at the
October Term, 1SS2, at Ashevill-,
X. Cn for robbing the U. S. mail.
, was to-day sentenced to one years
imprisonment in the peniteitiary
at Albany, New York.
,4She wouldn't and she couldn't
sad she wouldn't come at all," is
the aong which has been partially,
hot in voluntarily, adopted by a
Greenslioroite since but Easter,
and the aourat of his voice ia rever
berated from the hills of Cumber
bnd county,
j . mmmmmm
The Federal Court, last week,
devclojHl a clear case of forgery of
a ; distillers bond. Zimri Foost
and o'bers, of this county, were
sued as the bondsmen of Green
Wharton, but the evidence of Mr.
Foust and the other allegel bonds
men eub)ihed clearly that their
sijrn&tures were a forgery. Green
Wharton, the principal in the bond,
i ded.
C4nlactorDo!sonreirts sum
mer weather in Goldsboro jester
day. : .A DC3PES4DO KiLiEDv A hair
lifting report reache here of the
shooting ami killing of a denperadn
by the name of WillUtn Pritchard,
nearILikeraviIle,Thuralay. Pritch
ahl was a notorious outlaw ami for
five years has been operating In the
wildest, part of No-lh Carolina, in
the lofty mountains of the Bine
Bulge. H shot seven men, killing
one, has atoleu horses and cattle
ami counterfeited money. Three
yexra ago be was outlawed, but es
caped capture by alipjHng from
county to county, liviug like a
beaut of pre . He baa repeatedly
been nought for by United States
and State officers. Yen ten lay two
brothers, James and E. Barleon,
both constables, fonnd Pritchard
at the house of his brother in-law,
mind the bit, and before long it
was on a wild run. liemenioering
a tobacco shed by the wajsKle
that usually bad a door open, the
driver determined to rein in there,
if posible, and he succeeded. Of
a sodden the runaway horse
dashed into the shed, where fir
men were at work upon tobacco.
They were astonished, and so waa
the horse, which had fallen among
the lath and rubbish. The driver
and the buggy were unhurt. The
men got the horse on its feet and
led it out ofthe door. But its tantrum
was not over. Nobody could hold
it, and it broke away. It jumped
the fence into a lot, jumped a
stream that ran through the lot.
and finally, after one leap, landed
with his head caught in a peculiar
ly shaped intersecion of two
branches of an apple-tree. There
it hung helpless, and before the
men could get to it it bad choked
to death. There were no mourners.
The owner would not even go over
,o nee the beaut, much less to claim
him I
Michigan advices state that
as far as heard from there is a plu
rality of 10,065 for the head of the
Democratic ticket. The Iribune
ilarling, "My only darling love, lays the responsibility for the re-
"My darling Ben," and then drop- cent. Republican defeat at the door
ped down to "Friend Ben.
---Blackguard Ben Butterwortb
of Cincinnati, has been appointed
n pedal United States .Attorney to
prosecute the South Carolina elec
tion cases. lie voraciously swal-
Iovs the dose that was too nasty
for Dick Crowly.
The Georgia State conven
tion compromised on Henry D. Mc
Daniel as the Democratic candidate
for Governor, and he was nominat
ed by acclamation. It was found
impossible to nominate either Boy
ton or. Bacon. !
Georgia reports allliabilites
met and a round million in the
treasury. No wonder so few vote
the republican ticket in that state, didates, and also printed and dis
tributed CC0,000 State tickets." It is
of general apatby, but the Lansing
kepubl'canj not willing that the
party should be lulled into a false
security, repudiates this idea, ami
says: Circtilars and letters al
most without number from time to
time were sent to the chairmen
and each member of the coun'y
committees. Again many thou
sand copies of this paper, especial
ly prepared, were sent to every
Republican paper in the State, to
all committeemen, and to the Re
publicans generally in every local
ity. In addition to. this work,
which was commenced weeks ago,
the committee undertook the extra
work of printing and circulating in
small quantities slips for the can
000, irregularity; upwards of $500,-
000, breach j of trust npwards of i
$400,000, defaulting; upwards of
$300,000, embezzlement; npwards
of $L00,000, peculation; $100,000
dishonesty; $50,000, larceny; $23,
000 of under, thieving The pen
alty for the several offences is not
designated -by -the A'ew, but we
take it for granted that the indi-
nly it cannot be urged that the
difference of the certainty of pun
ishrnent of crime n the two sec
tions is sufficiently marked to ac
count for the enormous disparity
between the number of white per-
sins imprisoned for' crime in South
Carolina and Massachusetts. j
A pleasant feature of the census
figures is the fact that the percent-
age of prisoners to' population " nr
South Carolina, including both1
4
vidua! who kteals $10,000 or under races, is much less than in any
gets such a dose as will cause him
to wish that he had been smart
and fortnua e enough to steal $5,-
000,000.
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TOE tf. . 4c T. T. B.
The editor of the Chatham Re
cord -attended the stockholders
meeting of the Caje Fear & 1l ad-
kin Valley
other Southern State. It is even
more gratifying tq note, that the
percentage of white prisoners Jn
South Carolina is far less than in
any other Southern State, the ner-i
ceiitage of white prisoners in Texas
being thirteen times as great, In
North Carolina and in Tennessee!
seven times as great, in Arkansas
and Louisiana five times as great,)
in Alabama, Florida and Missis
sippi three times as great, and ' In
Geeorgia twice as great.; So that
South Carolina, which so many
people insist in regarding as tie
enant terrible of Uticle Sam's fam
As Oram. The Pelztr cotton
factory at Greenville, S. C-, has be
gun work. Water was turned on
the wheel for the first time last
Wednesday, and within an hour
cotton was going the opening ma
chines. The Pelzer it one of the
finest mills yet erected in the South.
The electric light has been adopted,
and all the latest improvements
and inventions have been introduc
ed. The capital of the company is
$o00JD00, mostly held in Charleston,
aud the mill will give employment
to several hundred operatives, the
most skilled of which have been
brought from New England.
Before the Patziot reaches its
centenary anniversary---oot many
years distant we hope to see such
an enterprise successfully icangvr
a ted ia Greansborcv
The President narrowly es
caped the bite of a venomous rep
tile while fishing Wednesday. But
for his agility he would have felt
the fangs of a Florida snake. In
his leap for life he knocked Chan
dler from his perch and' be in ' turn
was rescued from the jaws of a vor
acious alligator.
.The first comptroller of the
Treasury baa notified the Attorney-General
that the appropriation
for "fees of witnesses' is entirely
exhausted for the present fiscal
year ending June 30 next, and that
there is only $190,000 fees of jurors
available. A circular has been ad
dressed to the oncers of courts
notifying them of the deficiencies
and suggesting that trials lie had
in only the important cases. :
i
The familiar green three
cent stamp will go outt)f fashion
with the leaves next autumn. It
will be succeeded by a new two-
rent stamp, with the noble face ofl
Washington upon it. The green
stamp wllll have had a run of 13
ears. ..;.
plain that the g. o. p. in Michigan
is in the last stages ! of consnnp
. . 1 i
tion. !
ily,1 is really a very jpropcr sort bf
member of the sisterhood of StatesJ
TUB LATEST INDIAN Bl'TlUERV
Ohio, as the October State,
is already astir. The busy note of
preparation is borne upon every
passing breeze. We I hear the ar
morer closing rivets np, and soon
the mailed and mounted warriors
will flash upon the field. We can
not say, with Patrick: Henry, that
the war has - actually begun; but
the next gale that weeps from the
North may 'bring to our ears the
clash of resounding arms. The En-
quirtr says, "let it come. It will
1ms a merry note to Ohio Democrats
who have right, justice and the
god of war on their side, and
wouldn't give a dried apple to be
insured against defeat."
Alluding to the Tatiuot's
Raleigh letter discussing the ber
na to rial succession, the Stateaville
Landmark nominates 'lion. R. F.
AnnfieU suxt JIvR-T BetruetL
The ZadMr well says: "The
State knows Col. ArmfiehL He 4s
one of its most majestic figures
one of its bra rest, aad brainiest
sons." It would be hard for the
Lamdmark to say anything in favor
of Col. Arm fit II thst the Patmot
has oat many times' said, or that
the Patuiot would not endorse.
But .Arm field is a Scales man.
They have known each other from
boyhood's hour. They fished aud
played marbles together on Sun
day, thus cementing ties that time
and separation has never disturbed
in the slightest degree.' It is the
support of such men as Armfield
that makes Scales invincible. In
calling attention to the importance
f bis nomination so early we did
not 11 ,-ud to forestall public opiu
ion, but limply to refiect it. There
are scores of wise, and brave and
true men in the Democratic party
in the State, but we know of uot
one that so fully meets; all the re
quirements of the situation, as the
potiiicitl horoscope now reveals it.
It Is unnecessary, to say that the
Patriot will support the nominee
ofthe Democratic party. And we
shall make every possible effort to
save the party from the irretrieva
ble blunder of making an unwise
nomination. - ,
..The report of yellow fever
in Charleston S C is denied.
i-Mr. Reagan, who was the
Postmaster-General of the Confed
eracy ami who now represents a
Texas district In Congress, Is lying
very ill in W ashiugton. lie Is
hardly able to talk, an seems de
spondent as to tls recovery.
The Democrats will have to
take Randall or do worse. From
the present outlook they cannot do
better. !
-About the time when Bout-
well. Dawes. Hoar and the rest
were making the welkin ring with
their shrieks or horror and manu
factured "Southern outrages,w the
bodies of men, womeu and children
who were permitted to de of want
aud nerlect in the Massachusetts
State poorhouse, were being skin
ned and the skins., tanned and
manufactured into; kid gloves.
Horrible, isn't it t
-----The Republicans have made
a clean sweep in Pelhara,' N. II.,
for the first time since the days of
Somebody ha sent j Jay
Gould an infernal machine, Wonld
rather be a poor editor than a rich
man like Gould and be eternally in .-Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
uretvu. ui ujiutmiie. l.icnes rani
bny peace of mind. Bettea iuaure
your life and die a poor but happy
man. - 1
' Work will be commenced to
day on a monument eighteen feet
high, to be erected over the grave
of Thomas Jefferson. It goes with
out saying that this cloud-cleaving
shaft was provided for by the last
Congress.
The Baltimore Saa "mashes"
Justice Gray on i the bewitching
Nilsson.
Canada has it now. Great
excitement prevails in the Dominion
over a reported explosion of dyna
mite in Castern Block, and the re
turn of Prince Louise his been
delayed in ronsequencc. No dam
age was done, and there is a differ
ence of opinion as to whether any
explosion ocenrred. Detectives are
investigating the premises, and un
less they find as seems probable
that a cat baa knocked a jar from
some cupboard shelf, poor Canada
will not recover in a twelvemonth.
It doesn't take a Northern
invalid very long to get well in
Florida. When the first week's
hotel bill is presented, he generally
says, "I guesH Tra well euough to
start for home this afternoon.
A disastrous fire, caused by
a qnarrel over a game of cards, in
flicted a lata of two lives and over
$1K),CC0 of proderty in the towuof
Westminster, Md.
Grumblers about the weather
may find some comfort in the news
from Minnesota, One of the worst
snow storms of the winter was in
progress in Minnesota Wednesday
night. Street car travel aa sus
pended mid railroad trains were
delayed. ' The weight of the snow
caused the roof of tie Minneapolis
skatiug rink to fall in and general
discomtort prevails. If, with us,
winter "lingers, etc,n in the West
he has evidently, not been yet un
seated. , .. . ,
A Democrat who has been
eating green-apple -s pie, " .breaks
forth in the following, melancholy
strain : - !
"I have studied the politics of
the world in evcrr ace. We are
drifting as other" nations ''dri'ted.
Aristocratic, and class feeling, fos
tered in the growth' of' monopolies,
is pervading all society. The liest
of our public men'are slowly yield
ing to the inevitable tendencies of
the day, because they wish ' to be
iMDnlar; to go with the crowd, aud
haveut the moral courage left to
attempt to lead the people aright.
Look at the parties. I dismiss the
Republican party with one word
money 1 The Democratic party la
dying of Inertia. The principles
that once stimulated its great men
to grand efforts for the liberties of
the people are forgotten. ' The pa
triotic Instincts that were Its breath
ing spirit for forty years are smoth-ered."
The investigation of the
Tewksbury alms-house nianage
meut i continued and further dis
graceful transactions are revealed.
Railroad, at Fayette-
ville, last wwek. ; We reproduce his
impressions as follows :
The earlyj completion of the Cape
Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad
seems to be an assured fact, and
we way reasonably expect to see
the cars running thereon between
Favetteville and Greensboro be
fore the close of the current year.
Two 'important meetings of the
stockholders of that road were held
last week. )'"- Of course
MlvJulias Ai Gray was re-elected
president, for he is the life and
mainspring-of this whole move-
men and without him at its head
it would joon collapse.
The directors will hold their next
meeting at .Greensboro, on the 3rd
of May, at! which all their plans
will be definitely arrauged. We
cannot expect the work of track
laying to begin until about Septem
ber, but when begun it will be
vigorously pushed forward. It will
require two or three months time
mortgage bonds will be printed, traveling in jan open
and then there must be some delay
The butchery of Judge McComis J obtained in these
andhiswi.e and the capture bf at only a small pe
Al !. 1 Ll. . ' i
meir nine uoy oy iue xnuians in
New Mexico is the
by the red devils, and ought to t how
the Government th
temporizing with
past. Judge 3icAjomas was
ployed by a mining company
latest outra
i
at the time for
the Indians lis
!
eni
in
in seliitur the bonds and -buying
the rails, wbiclrtiro to be of the best
steel. Work will begin simultane
ously at the Gulf and pushed to
wards Greensboro, aud at Favette
ville towards Shoe Heel. ,
When completed, this will lie the
longest, and in our opinion, the
most imiotant railroad that has
ever been constructed in North
Carolina, jruuuiiig iu a diagonal
direction through the State for a
distance of two hundred and fifty
miles It will run through a coun
try that is not only rich as a highly
productive agricultural section, but
whose water imwer is incaicuiaoie
and whose1 mineral wealth is varied
and inexhaustible. Not ouly this.
but this rxkd will form a part of a
great through line from Cincinnati
to the seacoa t, for by this route
that erreatMtv can find an ontlel
nn tliA Atlantic coast. 112 mile
nearer than bv any other I
The character of the gentlemen
who have undertaken this great
work, is sii h as to, inspire confi:
dence in the anccesaof their under
taking. They are all native North
Carolinians, and men of successful
hiiaiiiem exiterieiice, who have en
gaged iu this enterprise with the
ability anu ueicrininauoii w nut
ciHMl. and we cannot uoui iuai
snccess must and will reward their
efforts. So mote it be!
professional capacity, and was on
his way to Pyramujl City with .bis
wife and little boy. The family
buck-
i i
board drawn by tw;o horses. Tliej
Albuquerque s. ji.) Kerietc iurv
nisbes the details of the butchery,,
and they are horrible enough?
Mr. Wells, onei of the county
commissioners of Grant, was among
the first ou the 'ground, and be
states that McComas was lying on
his face, with his) right hand ex
tended and the left drawn back
and resting partially on his back!,
lie bad received one shot through
the right wrist; shattering ther bone
, completely; another ' through the
uYshy part of the same arm oeiow
DBVKCT1TB RITnODS
CATION.
aew England claims tq be! the
parent of the present public school
system which promises toj pervade
the entire country. Of course New
England started the system many
years ago, and has enjoyed ! the
largest opportunities i to profit by
experience in' the methods of teach
ing. And yet New England pom
plains of her public schools. There
must be soinej inherent weakness in
the system. In Boston loud com
plaints are made that the! children
are loaded with books and studies,
and yet they seem to be ignorant
of the very things they shbnld
have been taught during the ehrli
est stages of; the education ii term.
The complaint is not confined to
Boston, nor to other communities
of New England. There js an 'evi
dent baste to get what is ;called a
iiigher education, tue consequence
of which is a neglect of fundaneu
tal exercises. I
Dr. Leach, superintendent for
many years qf the public schools
of Rhode Island, but voice's a gen
eral opinion when he say : "frite
fact seems to have beeii lost sight;
.3 3 '
k-.I.il.
schd
fen
ever enter the higher grades.
"The theory is, that; children!
ter the priouiry, are then advailcei
to the grammar and the High
schools, and the whole coarse
doubtless provides for an excellent
education. But the coursd in ithe
primary and intermediate graKles
is not thorough enough, and pro
vision is made for the too rapid fad
vancement ot scholars to lucgier
irrades. The result is thai there
is not that thoroughness iiiiiinstfiic
r t t
tion in fundamentals which ought
be secured, the primary ieaclers
leaving it for the teacherl in jthe
grammar ana nign scnoois to snp
nlv the deficiencies in their instrnc
eYeryineignuoruood is
while in the aciofj shooting a sheej
killing cur dropped dead
H-Almost
enjoying a mad -dog- excitement.
Itis well euough . to shoot every
dog running a large' Uon the pre
sumption that lie is mad. ;-:
Mrs, t i'eter Fink, Cabarrus
countyltook arsenic for quinine and
died from the fleets of the dose.
She dosed lie husbandwith the
same drug but he survived j
James Lawson, Danbury, was
the rear end
struck on t
he ieg by
of a mtile and will be a cripple for
life. The led looks hko it had
been struck jby; greased lightening.
The Salisbury people are talk
ing earnestly about u cotton factor
ry. ISi J. Holmes oners j to give 4
acres of gruidfor th site, and
Mr. Uelerick has gone itorth to in
terest Northern capital in the en
terprisc. If
J -Lawyers
'Erwinarid J. P.
Sinclair, of the McDowell
county
bar, had a fisticuff in coiirt this
week. ! Neith it party was damaged
seriously, j The were fined $50
each fpr contempt of court. I 1 1 f
rood
The rail;
B. Yates an
experts, Major J.
" . W. ! M J V&4 W
agree iu their Ireport upon the con
dition of thqf A. & N. C. R. ! "1 1
Newbern s two weeks ahead
of Norfolk oh early peas, j ! j I
Tarbord
-. .i
to pasture.
that there is
of that all the education
masses of our youth and
f as been turned out
Dpssey Battle 'says
not enough enterprise
there "to beln a two-da v old half-
dead kitten to wink." ! i i
Bear Creek townshio. Chat-
ham county, Waltzes to the front
with a hen egg d inches long and
I of an inch ineircumfrence and
it resembles the figure 6. It is! al
ways safe
township.
The
factory is
to met on Bear!
-i -111
Newbern oyster canninir
d6ing a fine business.'
j' AI. tnaugular shooting frolic j
took plHceTfiii Newbern between I
the
ren
ols,
age I f
en-1 f
Judge Green and two other parties.
Jndge Gnen!kvas shot through the
thigh, but no ; mortally hurt, i
. ' it I i . -: .i - ;;i
j -Ashevillc Citizen: Mr. Branch
A. Merrimon J a native of Ashevillc.
ut who Iiasl teeu traveling for the
bast seventeen Vrnm' ftr t)m ImnsA
f j j J
of James Carey & Co., of Baltimore,
jlietl in thiji place on Thursday
morning aftcrja comparatively brief
1.. i i" t ."-..LI .. ! .
unessj lie was about 40 Years of.
Journal : Mr. J.
.it
ay three barrels
tion. while these latter take it sfor
i it I:
. j
granted that -these tundiuneital
matters have been attendee! to! in
primary schMls.
ingly graduate
Scholars : a'ecMflil
from otil high
schools with a smattering of Latin,
ia TUB
IOCTU rnst
lEfTIO.Vf i
So much has been said lately,
observes' the i Charleston j en-
Courier, as to the alleged "lawless-
ness in- me oouiueru owica iu
many people at the South bad come
. ta a
to believe that alter an we musi
really be worse than our Northern
neighbors. But the census tables.
which nobody will assert were pre
pare,! by Southern men or in the
interest bf the South, tell a very
different story. I
The census of "the defective, de
pendent and delinquent classes of
the United States in 1880" shows
the number of prisoners in the pen
itentiaries, county jails, city pris-
ous, workhouses, leased out, mili
tary prison, insane hospitals and
miscellaneous in all the states io
have been 59,235, this .number em
bracing all who were held in cus
tody. ' Ai table giving the popula
tion of all the New Englaud States
with the number of prisoners and
the percentage of prisoners as com
pared with the total population in
each of the States shows that the
percentage of prisoners among the
whi e population of the South is
less than half that reported among
thaelhows1 another throusrh I Oreek. French and German titini
both thighs, entering from the onr grammar schools, with a con
right side and passing- out at ' the
left; unother enteringat the point
of the left shoulder and passing
clear through the body and out jat
the point ofthe right shoulder; ait
other entering the back near the
right shoulder blade and passing
out near the pit (of the stomach;
another cutting the flesh slightly
IkjIow his right breast, and still an
other, cutting a gash in his left
side. He had bled profusely, and
a stream of blood marked the way
liack, from where jthe body lay, j to
.i point in the roaa where he had
either jumped out jof the backboard
r had fallen out upon receiving
the Indians.
fused and imnerfect j knowledge! of
certain ologies, all of whih tliey
find of no practical use in practical
life, while they do not, as Ja nile,
know how to keepj aecouijts, are
deficient in he knowlwlge jof fun
damental principles of arithmetic,
cannot reinllso as to be intelligent
ly understool by others, citjn ba d
ly write legibly, an are unable to
write a fair and intelligibly bi si-ness-letter.
When th is fcan Iks
fairly said of a large proportior of
the gnuluates of these schools, it
is easy to see how very little pnic-
by
Newberki Jonri
them shipped Frid;
f spring jtiirnlps, the flrt of the
ras inougui -inai ine
L .... . I. 'I ; . i
easou.-
peacnes
J
in
sect i ou
.were!
all
T f
killed, but Mil Charlie Mallett- of
Of Riverdale, informs usuthat his f
rees are pnti.V lull. i I j,
Raleigh! Xmtori A
main will come of uear this
the lstj 2nd ahd 3nl days
hext, between Mr. r alcbn,
tleton, ami Mri Holt, of A
countyl Tljeyfwill pit twenty-one
f cocksf ami fiJht for $1,000 on the
xld.
K Ra
iiarts of
eil
cocking
city on js
k)C May I
of Lit-1
amanee i
all
Qbsercer : From
ill! '
the State our exchanges f
give ns' good news about.their fruit. I
It apHars to have suflered little if
any from j thej sudden and M-vere ;
changes of the j weather in March, j
In this wectidri there is every indi-;
atiou of ii
jR he jprop of frtiit of all
ades
ut precedent
n ilia
lor
T
kiud
W
i i f il a r y
all iu this pechpn is almost with
Time : The rain
land has!
not
ng condition for a
si'uiatr tiitin i :iiriMf maci atifi npnura
are very niucluehiiid. "
Lexington mutpatch: Dm to
Usndileii death occurred in our town
! .. . i.t 1 I . .. I ii .-.! t
last Monday iiyoming, .Mi-s.uzzie.
wife if Rev! J.hV. Cecil, and daugli?
rliH first shot from
The blood in the buckboard showel
that he had been I shot before jhe fagi benefit has bceu receivetl
git out, and the quantity of blood
m me rou " J - vontl, ffllo; bv force of circi m-
rore, or immeaiaieiy aiier, geinuj; r
out he had receivea.a uangerous, u siauces, uyo 6. ,,wu..
primary and intermetliate schoo
.- STATE NEWS, -j . '.
The outlook is for a fine peach
not mortal, wound. His body waa
found on the roadside, stripped' bf
all clothing except his shirt. The
horses had run but a short distance
before one of them was shot and
killed, aud its fall had partially
turned the buckboard around to the
h.rt before it had stopped. Here
was presented the saddest sight jof ton and Newbern
. m a .A. f Mr 1 my my w m m Mm W r w m .
All. AOOCl ten leefc w mo iir v
ter of l)akid
heart disease at
-Mti Ai
Armfield
iry
son
Ks., and one
tiious farmers
Moftitt, died from5
about funif o'clock.'
Monroe;
CVitrs: Mr.
of Isaac Ai m field,1
of the most ! iudtis
in Surry
he
s
crop.
ti.M buckboard lay the dead body
Mrs. McComas, her face downward
and likewise stripped of clothing,
with her skull crushed a little above
the riirht ear. evidently done with
a pistol or gun barrel. There were
marks or two oiner utows uiu
been given on the back of her head,
probablv with a pistol. No other
mark of violence whatever cohld
be discovered about the person; her
ftA rested somewhat on the left
side, and the blood had flowed! in
a pool about her face and mingled
vrith her disheveled hair. Her
shoes and stockings were lyingoff
a wav in one direction, the shoes
cut from her feet;' her corset lay j in
another direction! from ner oooy;
these were the only articles of ap
parel to be found. Her footsteps
before her shoes were cut off cojild
be seen in places on both sides of
thA backboard, land some were
deeply impressed in the soft eaHh
and ground arouna oi ine ueei j w
toe as though in a despearate strug-
Steamboats now ply regularly
ou the Neuse river j between Kns-
At ati early
. . . i i "
mninmcation between ixolua-
boro and Newbern will bj? estab
lished. ! U J
The folly of sending a small
boy into the woods to cut dwu
trees is the next thing to i cn'me.
A. A. Rothrock, liviug near ex
ington, sent his 12 yearldjboy
out to cut down a tree, and iu j the
course of an hour or two went out
himselftanndtheboy' crosheii to
death under the tree. j
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fel
lows meets in Raleigh oil tnq sui
of May, and big preparations are
being made to receive ami enter
tain them j i 1
The" Charlotte graded school
numliers lMO pupils. J j
Newbern shows a legless and
armless babv. and it is doing Jrell.
B. F. Suencer, Hyde county,
county.
lied of pneumonia at his residence
near Low Gap on tbe 8th uist.
Raleigh Ofoerver: One of the-
purest ,bred cjolts' e-er foalecl in
(North Caroliua, was" lorh at thq
stables of peofge W, Wynne: last
night. Sex iiiale, color sorrel
heiirht'i thlrtviiiiiie aud I one-half
inches form ierfect. The dam was
and
Sis tne proiHrty
I T
bred and fastest maret
try. The
noir Chief,
"Mombri
pity-
-;ryau
ft nest-
ie coap
sire of tho -o'r ish'T
by "Idol V
Ptche.ff
atjcfi-!!,'
: In
: I
i..Vfi of
The
ihc
The ; Wnippiy
Rev. Dr. Waylam
N Ihnai Jinptikt, Flili!'!pi:r., re.
a paper liefiu-e the wecUl.f nrf-liug
ofthe New Ydrk Baptise) miiUKters
Monday. He said a notaiji fcutire
of mrxleml laws for the pioshm-jjit
of eriininals whs the agits .ion p r
the refunj ttfthe whipping intl
Moses. Grrotingand wift-beatn
are so punished in England, mid
that most juHtiy," said the shaker.
Alter telling ti brutal instance of
wife-beafing tjiat came under his
own observation, he said t "I don't
j know of jany thing that would
j please me; more than-to see that
iman flogged dntil uprlo his ankles
iu blood, i To talk; ot dgraueing
Of
I
such a criminal is like talking
corrnntinif the late Mr. Tweed.
shall favor thp; whipping-post until
tue ixra makes a greater icuauge
iu my views than He usually does.'