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OF ADYXRTI8IK0. SUBSCBfv -.... VMt.. Six Month- OFFICE-Tarboio &fc OOiue Huildinsr. , PENCt . 1. 1 .vcs l. : -The greatest of fault .is to be conscious irdan & Key, of Uilcd. Lialslities r7f.f. Id 10M). Aorth (Jan lint newspa . to the in!!"- ,0 suecumlted he dull season and p;is- cd rhceks. . Republican for Govern r. was said week, lie is hunt.' v . . I Cot into I" . bouse A ' a oilier day. the lawyer SIIC- ; him. ,:,. jllf f;..tnes Shell'.v --v"- iliotiv, 'sl,w; t-tioiis- Media. n. (it rTiaT- iH'ti susiieml '',... . Us: "When is Wine to move. fhe hrst on are tout, none wait ioi d man to lnention the siiltject I second time. -Attorney General Kenan gives Out that county. Superintendents of Public Instruction should he elect ed by the Magistrates ' the tirst Monday in June. The mother of Senator - John A. 'Logan, of Illinois, was a native of Mecklenburg count v, North Car olina. This probably accounts lor the Senator's bad spelling. ipjf- .lohn . Adams, of Alabama, a V widowei with fwenit y one children, ; has gone to Texas In marry .Mrs. Jackson, children, ill" team a widow with Thev "will make nineteen a spauk- I Soys, can you tell ine Remark aide in the life' of asked a Sabbath school in t him? Mosesr' teacher. "Yes, sir !' honied one of the boys; 'he broke at once." ill the commandments -Mr. Corcoran, the Washington ha tanker, is said to "lory in the tact that his father was a shoemaker aik.l tit tro-iuini. Hi., .a. I ,.,.1.1.1..,., MiiiM"" xhis choicest pos session The New Ilaven ews" makes the following rather startliiiK -iii- iiotuicenient : r red Kyle, niai-mires Boston's habv -show has failed. lull ties -$:. 71 l,W, assets ,oo bor- Nl babies. t . - j '''-' -1 f'.i'igham .Young's g: i is ut- lieglecled, and his widows Visit it; They'" weal- there to cry over ln lemain -hut, if the giciiiiid "-so sloppy that! till caught cold. ' :alph Heaiimont. of. Klmira. President of the Kni'vhts ut' will make a tour of t he o:i foot, from Maine to t-'ali-i fornial advocating the claims of P.. F. Bugler" for the Presidency. tSoluie b(y.s were shooting tm keys in ISeriie county. A man was moving) about m the bushes, and one of tttie boys mistaking him- lor a tu ike V tired on him, inflicting wounds hu h will prove, fatal. - ( - Cinblutre 'Observer:" A drunk en man in -Concord ran up to a lady rn the street anil hugged her. He was a,restel and carried before Mayor Mtis yesterday morning and was tin , forty dollars for the offence. A man, whose knowledge is .based 'on :,etiml experience, savs that, when calling on their sweet hearts, youig lxwn should carry af fection in their I: carts, perfection, in their manners and confection in their pocket v At Angtiiia, Ga.. I lie other day lightning stluek a hen that was sitting on a nest of eggs. The eggs were r,(tery destroyed and j the nest scattered to the Grinds of! heaven, but the mi SiiM sat on. A ! hen loves to sit. 1 i The Fayetteville i'Suii" savs ! the editor luis seen crystals of su gar made in Duplin county, and the fanners ol" that county ' are well pleased with their success in .rais ing the sugar cane not- sorirhuni. but t he gen nine tropical cane. The Loudon correspondent of the New York "Siln" notes a recent marriage in a provincial town in vvhich the bride ltrings a good for tune to her groom in the shape of -.thehearydamag.es she got out nf him in a breach of promise trial. The managers of tlieNew Or leans Exosition haying allowed !?.i,000 for expenses in making the transfer, the State Department of Agriculture will remove the "Bos ton Khibit" fioin I he Baleigh Ex position to New Orleans, as soon us : the latter closes. Umbrellas are regarded as per son al property in Delaware. a! man has just been sentenced in 1 Wilmington to 'pay '"the cost ot pros ecu tion, 50 fine, one hour in the pillory, twenty lashes and three 3 ears in .Newcastle .jail, all stealing an umbrella. or ' The Xew Orleans . y'Picaviine" is now prinieti on paier made from a substance calleil begasse, which is the refuse of sugaf cane fibre. The. paper is said to 1h superior "in .every "respect to that maile from wood pulp, ami to be cheaper. The enormous demand for a" 'better ar ticle of pajter than is now furnished to the itress of the TTnitiVil s:t..... ; - - - . ! ,01' makes this discoverv an ftiinm-r.., one. It ought also to le interest ing to the monopolists of won.i pulp. .....v NEWS oA 'GATHKlMiU WHOM ALL l Ts' -TWft , tit THK WORLl- V Tbeen . AND 1M)1M,11U.V ' yin stocks. ,000 of mon ey iii"- Av. jaie 4 per cent. iv .sfnien'iJntr yet we are to lie convinced tbat Gen. Grant' really expected 40 per cent, dividends lYom an honest transaction. The verdict mac releases hini from be- ;i knave proclaims him, as his u did, a fool. liuand Ward, of the firm of Ward the "Napoleon of - has been arrested on a l hand. Of course so mag: i swindler was not taken jongh. Ho is in the enstn- mi. , to jail ,H ol a deputy sheriff, but, nr. tftP same time in luxurious qnarters at the Metropolitan hotel. Life insurance companies make a iiisciiinination against the negro on the theory that his life is short- .1 .... .lint t' 41.. .. er iikoi "i me winte man. Some experts believe this to lte er roneous, and the Massachusetts Legislature passed a bill forbidding such distinction; .but Gov. Robin son hesitates to append his ' signa ture a negro named Sam Watkins on.f his wile and her parents at Old Ilumlred," on the Caroliua iiitral. He was arrested and jui.v. i.ivr- jnariotte "Observer" Kays : Gfat informant was not eer- Stain about it, but was under the i.iiiaession 1 hat tlm mntimr was tlie most severely hurt of the n.-t. and her wounds mar r.v;l ' , .. , MicKorv -j. ress in. con versa tion with Prof. W. E. Didden, who was in town yesterday, we learned that he still has a force of hands at work in his Hiddenite mine at Stony Point, Alexander county, ami with very satisfactory results, lie showed us a scarf pin made of Hiddenite. taken from this mine t hat was very beautiful and valued at $1 .""(). " . In France thev have deter- mined that all religious references j shall be expunged from the school books, and in conformity therewith the new school books are altered. Wherever the Avoid Creator for merly was used, noyv Jupiter ap pears. "Thanks, my God,r has lieeii ehanged 1,o "Thanks, whoever thou are, 'Vtr., &c. -"This is Frenchy to a degree. Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon, of -Canterbury, .Vermont, who is hale aud hearty and never was sick in her whole life, says that she can pro duce proof of her birth, April (it h, 1782; boasts that she ha been a persistent pipe-smoker all her days, and. believes that if she- had been equally addicted to whiskey, and opium' she would have been born at least live years earlier, A base ball club collapsed and went, to pieces in Baltimore yes terday. Thisiis a bad omen. Wall sheet, uambleis niiiy suspend and banks ma. close their doors with out seriously distui lung the conn 1 1 v. oui nen a nase tan cum lies down and disband.-; it is very .plain that there is -a screw loose in our poliiieal and social economy. ,, four Bishops-; were elected by j the Nortlu -ru Methodist Episcopal j General Conference ; '-.the mantle i falling upon' Be v. aide n, of Cin- Uiniiati; Bev. W, F. Mallalieu, of I Boston, Bey. V. X. Ninde, of Chi ' c:.go; and Bev. 1C. 11. Fowler, of New Y)trk. C eat interest was manilested in the election, and it I required live ballots to settle the ; mauer. in reality six ballots were taken. On lasi Mondayj night a most cowardiy and ; dastardly attempt was made to assassinate Mr. Frank J). Polk, at his .house, on the Elk Mountain Farm, about four miles north of this city. Several shots were fired at liim! as he sat writing in his room. Ue fired u repeatmg rilie several times but it was very dark outside. Thiswe learn irom the Asheville' "Advance." There are no snakes in Ireland, but l:.e eels make mi ij-.i tiii ilrtii- ciency in tins regard. It is a com mon thing to catch eels mi Ireland ten feet long and as big Ground as a man's thigh. I They are found only in the deepest water where they lurk under the rocks. When one is caught he lashes around like a boaeonstrictor, and if he gets a man's foot into his mouth he will not let go until his head is cut off. -A correspondent' from Magno lia under date of Xfav 22d. writes to the "Star:'- Bex. Mr. Menden hall, the (Quaker Iivatigelist, began to preach at this rVaee on last Sun day. Ihs preaehuLrhas. been ear ii)st and faithful.! Some interest was manifested sooiila Iter the com mencement and increased until last mght there were upwaVds : of thirty penitents and a nunlbXr of profes sions. The meeting still goes ou. Life's phases. The Ifaleigh ; armer Mechanu st.s this illustration of them : . i A ,i ,v j.t week a j.rocession ot knickers went -dancing ami si I. aiol,, the street, with a hr.w V., s'U lOUl- ia cor-roces-v. The tug ai tneir tiemr. Tu ; ner they met a long tm sum moving in slow solemnit' """j wiii-.n mis ie.il uiir.i i i ones passed, and then the clamor broke out afresh. - It was :i ctj-j0ns "oiMiaiioii ot me in term inglinVr of uie s jtnases His Offspring uss Ksmerelda r Longcoffiii, tnougn very . beautiful, is uot mosi. intelligent young hidv .Aiisiin in- any manner of meaul a young gentleman who is some! "iiii": ot a uoet.. hiio been paviui , ., . ..vi ii ia)iii, her considerable atteiit ion. Beferrin' ins new poem, he asked her; a n.i.y-s ;ij;o, in tlie presence of a -om inn oi comoanv. iro. seen muse?' -ine latest otlsi,niir ,,r ' "Why I didn't know ; a niarried man! That Ws I yon wFre s the I ffv it. Is I la I tirst hoy!- I've heard of UNDERSTANDS IT ?i Tanti or no tanll iirotectionior no protection that is the 'question anil we farmers are as much inter ested in it as anyltody for we le long to the consumers ami are the users of most eveything that is protected. Ever since I was a boy this question" has been bandied about like a shuttle-cock and if is still unsettled. I remember .when the great whig party was for a high protective tariff and the dem ocrats were on the other side bat tling for .free trade. Then the whigs got over on that side and the democrats took the other side. That is always the way. But it is" getting Owerfully mixed ' now and both the great 'parties of this day are afraid to take a stand. I've noticed the'platforms of both parties Th Pennsylvania, and it is twindle duin and twiudle dee. You can't tell tother from which. They- say they want a tariff for revenue only ami if it protects let it protect for thev don't want to do anythinir that will .'cripple or injure the manufacturing interests of the country. What does that mean? Who understands it? I don't. The "Constitution" had a splendid article last week on free trade, and my judgment approves it every word. The theory is good but how is it to be carried out in practice? ! A tariff at all is against it. You can't make up a. tariff' for revenue that wont be protecting somelody and keep out foreign goods. A little light tariff wont support this big government. It takes about five hundred millions a year. Noyv while free trade the world over is the best, for the "World the quest ion is' what is best for this country for governments are selfish like individuals. Then there is a bigger question and that is what is best for the "new south" as they call it, with her growing in dustries and I misrht add that so far as I am concerned there is a bigger question than all, ami that is what is best for inc. Every man lias got a little world of his own to look after and he feels like the sun moon and stars were made for it. and the seasons come and go ami the rivers run for him and his folks. We hare a broad philan thropy in ideas and emotions but not; so very broad in" works for wife and children, and food, and clothes, and a thousand wants and gets between a"iid throws a cloud oVer the wants ami necessities of other people. 1 can see better at home and hear better. When my wife or my daughter tell me affec tionately that they are just, obliged to have a new dress or a new cloak or i new bonnet 1 hear it and feel it but people uvay off. yonder I can only lead about and think about. I am sorry for 'em but am sorry for my self lii -t. But I ha ve just got an avenge selfishness and it has got some religion in if, for St. Paul says "he that provideth not for his own household is an in fidel and has ilen ied the faith". Now suppose I have uaked and scraped "and saved oneway and another two thousand dollars and have got it invested at Auiiiston in the iron business and it makes ine right, straight along aerage of 15 per cent -which" is ."jjtfoo a year and me and my wile and our .children bank on it. and - depend - on it and talk about it and it brings in,a lot of comforts aud some luxuries don't you know we want it to jkeep on doing so ? Why it is the salva tion of my family. .My farm cost me i, 0(M). and this year it has brought me only 8250 "from rents and I have got to pay out 7o of that for taxes and how could we get along without the dividends from the iron stock ? Well now the free trade proposition is to let Eng lish iron come in at seven dollars and fifty cents per ton. I dident understand how they could make it for that money, but 1 do now. It cost us to make it at Anniston fifty dollars a ton. I wonder how many statesmen and politicians and editors know how much a ton of iron cost in the rough before it is ever handled. Take the ore in the mine and the charcoal in the standing timber and the lime rock in the quarry. Enough of all to make a ton of pir iron and it costs only sixty five cents aud when it is made into pig 'metal it costs 15. Fourteen dollars and thirty the cents is represented by labor, man ual labor ami sweat and toil. Well we pay the laborers -an average 'of 1 dollar and a quarter a dav for that, while the English people pay only sixty cents a day there is the difference.-' That is the reason why their iron costs only 7.f0 per ton. But our pi'ople can't afford to work for sixty cents a day, When sixty cents will buy as much clothing and provisions and fuel and pay as liiuch house rent as $1.25, then thv can afford it but when will that Ik- ? Will free trade cut down the .price of tloui and meat to half its present price ? We are shipping those things to En rope now and paying no duty. Why should they come, down I am all at sen about the So business. The duty on pig iron is six dollars and fifty cents a ton. Now suppose we take it off and buy English pig iron at seven dollars'-and. a-' half. Then I can buy a 'wagon for seventy dollars that now cost me ninety. I can buy a nlow for seven dollars that now costs me ten. 1 can get everything that is made ol iron cheaper ami so it is to my interest as a tanner to have the duty removed. But then the question comes up' what am 1 1 get for 'my corn and my cotton and my hay and potatoes aud who are going to bny them ! Those 2,000 workmen who are making iron at Anniston and Ce- dartown can't buy if their wages are cut down to sixty cents a day. 4 shock will lie too great for our peo pie io stand it. Somebody will lie hurt, badly hurt. If we can have the protection reduced by degrees every year until onr folks get ust d to it I think it will be a good thing. The people want to do what is right if they know ifc but nobody knows what is right. Congress don't know for they are always quarelling over it. The tariff com mission don't know for they had a majority and a minority report. Maybe! we had better let well enough alone and maybe we can do no Itetter and ought to make a change. One thing is certain I've got to bii3r a wagon and I would like to get it for fifty or sixty dol lars. 1 want to buy some blankets and I would like to get a pair of five dollar blankets for three'dol lars. The lice trade men say that all these things will be that much cheaper when the tariff is off but what I yvant to know is when they take the tariff off where is the gov ernment to get its revenue and when the tariff is off can I get 75 cents a bushel for my corn ? Joe Brown is mining for iron close to me and he biys all my products at ii good price-and sends his teams to my barn after em, but suppose that Joe. can't sell his iron, what then ? He can't sell his iron unless Bising Fawn will buy it and -Rising Fawn can't buy it unless they can get fifteen dollars a ton for it after they have run it into pig and they can't get more than half of that when the duty is taken off and so 1 don't know what is going to happen. I wish I did know. I'm hunting light I am. My origi nal principles are all for free trade. I was born that way and raised that way but I want to kuoyv how the thing is going to work out. Now I have just been writing about iron because iron is a big thing in this section, 'but there are other things just .is important. There is the wool busines. They tell me that we can buy good wool en enits in England for ten dollars thatjWill cost sixteen dollars here and we can '-'buy' a pair of blankets for two dollars that will cost us four dollars here. Well all that is to lie considered and if it is all so, lam for free trade but I want to know where the money is to come from to run the government and provide for stealage if we take the duty off. - 1 want some light. Bill A hp. The Shooting Affair at Jacksonville. AN OLD FAMILY DF.ATIf TO ONE FF.1ID KKKIJLTS IN OF TIIF. l'AUTIKS Correspondence of '"Messenger." Jacksonville, X. C, May 1M, HI For some time past an alterca tion between Dr. Chas. Jjesesne and Mr. A. C. lluggins. clerk ol t he court, has been expected.-"-'To avert trouble, Mr. .Hugiins, on yes terday evening, meeting linn ou Uie streets, toroaue mm to come upon his premises again. Some unpleasant words ensued, the two then separating. About twilight Bi'sesne came out of his housi loudly swearing his determination to enter Muggins', house and either kill him or to lie killed. Then he approached anil attempted to enter tin' yard. Muggins, taking bis gun walked into the yard, toward tin trate, ami sa.nl, "It yon come in here, I'll stop you !'' Lesesne per sisted, ami tired. 'bis pistol, but without enect. Just, as tie was aiming a second time, lluggins dis charged his gun at Lesesne, deal ing him a deadly wound. The load going a distance of some ten feet entered the left side just lielow the short ribs, in a wad. It passed through th-.? lower spleen, causing part ot it to protrude, and appa rently ranged along the abdomen wall to come near the -surf ace. ou t he back, left of the spine. Lesesne walked a few feet, dropped his pis tol cocked, and fell with profusi hemorrhage. Mr. Muggins inade no attempt to escape, and is now under arrest jJrs. lloy t and Thompson arc. in attendance upon Dr. Lesesne, and consuler-the wound mortal. The whole atlair has grown out of Dr. Lesesne' s domestic conduct, the nature of which is well known throughout the county. While the wonder is that the attacK, aud the result has been so long averted, the occurrence. is none the less sad an lamented. Dr. Lesesne's first wife was Mr Muggins' sister ; the present Mrs Lesesne is Mrs. Muggins' sister. C. Since the above was received we learn that Dr. Lesesne has died, and that public sentiment m the matter is strongly on the side of Mr. lluggins. The Confederate Soldiers Home. A .meeting in furtherance of a movement to establish a home for disabled Confederate soldiers, we learn from the Charlotte "Observer" was held in the courthouse at Charlotte one night last week, with Gov. Vance in the chair. Upo:i taking the chair, Governor Vai.ee explained the object of the meetinit anH in a few well chosen and 'happy remarks commending tthe object, introduced Col. W, F. taritrlpeasley, who entered into the de tails ot the plan ol operation. Among the resolutions adopted were the following: liesolved, That the name of this association shall 1h the "Confederate Home Asso ciation of North Carolina." Be soh'ed, That, when a sufficient amount has 1 teen raised to - justify the step the president, directors i aim trustees snail meet anu select f a site and plan and immediately j commence the erection of the j Home... - Resolved, That Joseph J. j Davis, of Franklin county, J. M. Worth, of Randolph county, and ' Julian S. Carr, of Durham county. j be and they - are hereby elected i trustees of this association with j power to fill any vacancies that may occnr iu the body. ION.FBANK Ifl-. . .. teriaTTK J.UROH In the Mouse of ltepresentatives. on the LUth ult., Mr. Murd, of Ohio, leetrihed his hearers by a brilliant speech. Mr, nurd said that while the tariff was first paid by the im porter, it was ultimately paid bv the consumer. When, it was levied for; the jmrpose of Govern men fc, it wa called : revenue; tariff; when it was levied for the pVase of aid-. ing individuals m business enter- uisesl it was called a protective tariff. To the Hrst. when laid fair ly aud without discrimination, he had no objection ; but to the latter," he was unalterably opposed. On what ground should the Govern ment luteriKKse to help the busi ness of one citizen at the expense of anotheif If a. man's business were a profitable one it did not need the protection of the Govern ment if it were unprofitable, that was a good reason why he should not put his money into it, but no reason why he should compel his fellow citizens to pay t wo prices for the article ho made in' order to make good his losses. If he (Mr. Murd) were . compelled by legisla tion to pay-150 for what would otherwise cost $100; then the sell er had been armed with the taxing power of the Oovernmeiit to take from him $50. Medenied the right of the Govern nient to surrender the taxing power and allow an individ ual to exercise it. Wheu he earned wages they were his own, and he had a right to expend them where he pleased. M he could .make a better contract with a Frenchman, i Mexican, a Canadian, or an En glishman than with an American, he had a right to do it, aiid the Government had no right to inter pose, except in so far as the needs of the revenue .were concerned. If he hail in one day earned a dollar, it expressed all ot that day to him. It represented his hopes his fears, his toil, and his anxiety. With that dollar he went to purchase what he wanted lroiii a French man, but the government stepped in with its power anil said : "You must not buy from a Frenchman : you must buy from an American.' lie went to 'an 'American, wnosaid I charge $2 for this article." He must go back to hi toil, and an other day must go out ol his life to get the additional dollar. hat was the significance of the transae tion: lie had been, by the power ol law, compelled to work one dav against tns will lor an American manufacturer. All of his hopes, all ol Ins toils lor that day were made the manufacturer's. In other words for one dav he had become a si tve Every dollar of increase - in the price ol all goods winch the protec five tan It occasioned was an hour or a day' of slavery, lie rested hi whole. 'case on. 'the proposition that, subject to the needs of t lit government ' every man . had the right to sell where he could get the best price for. what he bad pro. din ed anil buy where he could buy the most cheaply. This was" the ipproved doctrine ol political econ omy and tlie plainest teacliiug ot justice. The present American tarin was a high protective one. It increased the price of articles im ported into this couutrv more than 43 per cent. It was perfectly man i test that, its influence on our for eign commerce could only be dele terious. Trade was merely mutu ality or exchange, and foreign trade was t;he exchange of products between citizens of different, coun tries. Every hindrance to the im portation of loreign goods w as an embarrassment to commerce, for to the same extent, it, prevented the exportation of American goods More injurious still was this system on the carrying trade; and it was the question of only a little time wheu. under this policy, the -American flag would entirely disappear from the high seas. What was the effect of the ruinous system on the farmer?-- It increased the price of all articles which entered into his daily consumption, and this in crease anJounted to an annual sum of .350,(00,000. For this there was absolutely no compensation in the prote five system. The system operated to increase the price of transport ition of grain from the West to tlie seaboard and from the seaboard to Europe. When the grain of the American fanner reached Liverjiool, it came in com petition with the grain of every other farmer ot the world.. The protective tariff of America was unable to help him there, and ev ery dollar of increase of price which transportation occasioned to him diminished the profits of his sales. But the' protective' tariff did more injury to the farmer in the injury it. occasioned to his foreigu market. It Uas already robbed America of one-half of the markets ot the Old World..' England, because the American tariff prohibited practi cally the importation of Engl-sh gootls, has sought, to find food sup plies elsewhere, and under the im pulse of the necessity the most amazing fact of modern times had been' .developed. India, old and effete, hail become to Great Britain the country from which her grain might be obtained. The efl'e. t of this on the markets of the United States within the last niue months had been a decline in the exporta tion of American cereals of more than 47,000,000 bushels, and wheat lias gone down in Chicago to less than SO cents, and this develop ment of the wheat production of In dia was entirely the result of the protective policy in America. The. Morrison lull, continued Mr. Unrd, as it stood, proposed a small reduction of the tariff, which must satisfy for the time the great agri cultural interests of .the people, but if the protectionists would not ac cept a compromise, in less than a the braiu on r America on forth, "it w from this con; ii . me nations o with the walls 1 here are 2,000,000,01 want to buy what you maVft Bise up to the trut h of the great thought that these immense peoples can le supplied by you with all of the in struments of husbandry and the tools 'ot artisansh ip. But they will not taice your goods unless you take theirs. Let vour tariff disao lear, and then, oh, manufacturers! your attention will be diverted from the home markets to t he gen erous rivalries of foreign trade, from which a wealth will come to you ol which you do not dream-'" . (Ap plause Me thru ''discussed' the tariff question as adeeming the rates ot wages for labor, declaring that, so far 'as that laltor is concerned, the fruits of protection were want, penury, and starvation. Those were the jewels in his crown. He wished that the working men would cease to believe in the delusion that protection was a help to them. The pendiug measure reduced the reveuue nearly $30,000,000, and it reduced taxation. It gave to the people cheap salt and cheap fuel and shelter. Who would object to this relief? Would it be a Demo crat, whose party's last national platform bad declared for a tariff lor revenue only? If it were a1 Democrat who did noj; agree with the resolution of the national plat form and approved rather of the Ohio resolution, he asked him if there was anything in the Morrison bill inconsistent with the Ohio plat form?" "And 1 will answer, yes," inter jected Mr. Warner, of Ohio. "And I want to have yon and those who agree with you on the record," continued Mr. Murd. "I have hOjed that no Democrat on the floor of the House would sav that there ever was a Democratic platform which would not, allow the people to take off t he war taxes of lift years ago, loud and long con tinued applause on the Democratic side, and if that be the meaning of the gentleman,- it that be the con struction he gives to the Ohio plat form, then I say here aiid now tli.tt I shall .appeal to the gallant Dem ocracy of my native State to repu diate .he heresy of that platform, and I have no fear of the result, that it will place itself where it ought to be close to the great national heart of the Democrats of the' Nation. Renewed applause. Some gen tie m en say that it is not policy to agitate this question' liov. It. is too late for a Democrat to ,--:iy that there is nothing in the prin iple of this hill, '..which takes off the laxes of the war anil gives ihe people cheap 'feel anil cheap shelter to which any gentleman"-houht -oh: ject. From time ''immemorial it has been the us ige that the majori ty of a party shall iletenniiie what it is expedient and politic to do, anil this side in .caucus,- by a - two thirds vote has-' decided that it. is expedient to consider this bill. Even if it had not, you could' .not prevent the consideration and dis cussion of. the questions that are .presented in this bill. Neither the admonitions not the force of -men could stay it. The agitation has already begun. The-people, long silent and quiet, are moving now. The culture and chivalry of the na tion, long anxious for this, hour, are already to take the lead. The con flict canrot long be delayed and then the result cannot 'be doubtful. Private - extortion must ..yield to public rights; selfish interests iniist be sacrificed to the general good, and each .'individual's manhood must be left free, unhindered, and unhalteieil by the Government-'to work out its own destiny . A Faithful Dog. A young farmer while hunting for some stray cattle, was thrown from his horse, the .fall breaking his leg. The weather was bitterly cold, ami an exposure of any lengt h must have resulted fatally. What to do -he knew not; and he was about resigning himself to what seemed to be a decree of fate, when he thought of Ids- dog which ac companied .him. in his search, thinking perhaps he could be as sistance to iiini in his need. Tak ing a cig irette paper f oni bis pocket, he with difficulty indicted a note to his family, briefly stating his condit ion, and a-king that help be immediately sent bun. J hen taking his handkerchief he 'placed, tlie note in a knot and fastened it around the dogs neck and sent him home. :. The dog started, leaving his helpless master lying 'on the frozen ground hoping against, hope that his messenger 'would prove faithful to his trust. He did trove tine to the confidence 'reposed in him, and arrived at the young man's home completely exhausted. from hia traveling over tlie dis taiice intervening between the place where his master lay help less anil his home. The 'dog's strange actions and his exhausted condition attracted the attention of some m'emliers of his family, who discovered the . handkerchief around the dog's neck and the note it enclosed, detailing the con dition of young Smith. Assistance wax at once sent, ami the young man brought home where medical attendance was 'furnished him. The dog from that day has been raised from, the condition of ordi nary canines, and everything that can tend in any ' way to make a dog's life one continned round of happiness has ''been, and ' will be done. The Democrats carried Dan ville Va., by 300 majority. Ma hone's rule is coming toau end. yithe "Bulletin" Brogiien may be au for C-ongifss in the 3d )istrict. '- - The Wilmington "Beview" says it is currently reported on the streets that Frank Darby is to be the eo-alitionist eoudidate for Con gress in the 3rd District. As the time for the meeting of the nominating conventions ap proaches Mr. Tilden convalesces rapidly. It is the other candidates now wb: are getting sick.j Lamb, Readjiister or Republican, was elected Mayor of Norfolk by a majority of i9, agaiust 300 at the last election. Tlie Democrats have a majority of the Council. The New York 'Herald"" comes to the conclusion that the l'resi- dential lighting is quite as apt to j strike secretary Linclon as any body outside of the fa 'otites. An immense meeting of business men for ti.e, puriose of urging the reiioiniiiatioii ol President Arthur was held in Cooper Institute, New York Tuesday night. Mr. Beecher, among others, 'made a sjieech. At a meeting of influential col ored men in Raleigh, the other night, the York ticket was re pudiated aud denounced'., in the bitterest terms. They declared their preference for a straight out ticket and pledged themselves uot to supitort York. In response to the notification tha' he has been nominated for Presr dent by the National Anti-Monop oly convention, Old Ben Butler has writteu a very carefully worded letter in which he says that if eo-ple-want to vote for him foranything it is not for him to hinder them. Mr. Randall thinks that Congress will be ready to adjourn by the ITit h of June. The Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire - denounced the protection policy and declared in favor ot a tariff tor revenue only; the delegates will 'support. the "old ticket" at the -National Conven tion. Tlie True Cause of lh- Panic. The cause of the financial panic of Wednesday is the $3J9,000,000 in cash now lying idle in the Federal Treasury . . The cause of this enormous sur- rtlus is the high tariff legislation of the Republican paity. The remedy for both and all is a tariff for revenue "only. Wash ington "Post" - , Tlie Best KenSuii. The Kinstou "Free Press" says a republican, in ijoidsuoro, last week, remarked, in our presence, "I will vote for York for Governor because-. I '-" promised my folks 1 would vote for the- next -Democratic nominee for Governor and York is the first Democrat nominated, so I shall vote for him." This is decidedly the best leason we have heard- any one of the "faithful" give for casting his bal lot for the Democratic traitor. Kiikliix Urmonal. We alt know York. Why, he was the l?st. Kuklux Democrat in the St ate when t hey sent such men to the Legislature. His big mouth hadn't a word bigenough to spit against an independent or a radical. And he's the beauty ': now that the've set. up? Well the honett brave old people of North Carolina (old line Republicans and all) will 'set" right down -'on him. Reids ville "Times,", l Possible Dark Horse. The Wytheville "Dispatch," edited ly ex-Senator R. E. Withers says: 'The "'very." darkest of the dark horses in the Republican stable is (Jen. Joe Hawley of Connecticut, lie is a native of North Carolina, served with distinction in the Union army, wa '-.president of the centennial. commission, served one or two terms in the House of Rep resentatives, and is at present 'one of the United States Senators from Connecticut. He is a man of high character, not fond of t he 'bloody shirt,' good intellect, practical and energetic. The greatest difficulty in the way is that he would make a good President, ami therefore is not likely to -.meet with favor at the hands of the Republican party." We endorse all that the "Dis patch.' says of General Hawley, and if we are to have a Republican President," Joe. Hawley would lie our preference. - .Senator olqiiill f Views. . South "The delegates from the to the Chicago Convention will be almost unanimous for Arthur. The leaders of the' Republican party there will vigorously support him. j I hear of no second choice among i the Republcans at. all." "Who will lie the Democratic: choice, in your 'opinion?''." asked j the reporter. ' 'Tilden undoubtely; though I consider Bayard a more probable candidate and the I test equipped i ami most generally respected man that could be in the -field. The people in the South, as a rule, are . . ... . : . . ,.4-t . i. .. OOlMtseil ii iirum'-Liuii muei luiiu iu meet the necessities of the govern- ' m, ..:a...f!l.. u.J in mi r iiiMviiiinw i ii ifiui mi beettme a necessity.'? j want to say at. inis time. w tor'rninnirV: "bow twAnirMr . i .i :. . y, Senator Colquitt, "how thoroughly appreciative I thiuk Southerners j are of the attempt being made to found a hospital for Confederate soldiers. The nobleness of the charity will break down ever)' vestige of sectional feeling, though there is but little of that left now. lii Bob. ntative Bob Vance, ot Carolina, is a model Chris- a AAiiflAiAnrirtiiD adrnna ra r mperance, and aa pious as a prayer book. Ills brother Senator Zeb Vance, while keeping most of the ten commandments, takes his toddy regularly and knows tlie value of an expletive as a mntal j safety-valve. Recently Bepresent I ative Bob made a stirring tern- i peranee speech in his end of North Carolina. If was as full of Christian spirit as it was devoid of the other variety. The speech was exten sively copied in the press through out the country, aud away out iu Kansas a good and godly man saw the speech and wrote a letter con gratulating the author ou bis puri ty. But lie made a mistake in the address. The superscription read 'Senator Z. B. Vance". Senator Zeb opened the letter and read it. He went over to see his brother Bob. "Bob," said he, i4have you beeu making holy temperance speeches iu the State, recently!" "Yes," replied the statesman ; "one, particularly, was widely published". Senator Zeb handed over the letter, with the remark that I his modesty prevented his taking such angelic compliments to himself. A little while afterward, Senator Zeb made a rattling political stieech to the mountaineers in Western North Caroliua. In the course of his remarks Senator Zeb alluded to certain people iu lan guage more forcible than polite. In fact the Senator swore. A reporter forau Eastern paper reported the sieech verbatim, aud in due course of tune the Kansas inau saw it. nis pious mind was shocked. He was deeply grieved to fiud that his temperance orator was a worldly mau. Also a profane man. So, in the spirit of righteousness, he sat him down and wrote the following letter. And he addressed it to the Hon. Kobert Vauce. Here it is : "Hou. Mr. Vance, . " ij "Not long age I was induced by the exemplary piety aud godliuess ot your speeches to write you a let ter commending it and your soul to God's guidance and goodness. wax exceedingly well pleased .to find a Southern Congressman im bued with sentiments aud purioses which you exounded so eloquent ly; but I now have your political speech delivered in the same locali ty, and have concluded that you, like the rest of the Southern eo pie, are a set of stupenduous bunk eriners ami nigger-killers and se cessionists. I retract everything 1 wrote you before". Then Oonerressiuau Bob went over to see Senator Zeb. "Zeb," he said, for Heaven'; sake don't make anv more of your speeches in my part of North Carolina Senator Zeb showed the letter ami explai tied the family troubles to his Senatorial brothers, aud the laughter so disunited the solemm tv of t he Senate that Mr. Edmunds broke his gavel in half to restore order. 'Washington Hatchet". AYtry Sad Story. SHOWINO WHAT KlTM WILL DO TO DKOKADK AND DESTROY MEN John B ing: "A Gough tells the follow minister of the gosel told me one of the most, thrilling incidents 1 have heard in my life A member of the congregation came home for the first time in his life intoxicated, and his. hoy met him upon the doorstep, clapping his hands and exclaiming, "pap has come home 1" He seized the lxy by the shoulder, swung him around, staggered and fell In the hall. That minister said to me. "I siient the night in that house. went out, bared my brow that the night air might fait upon it and cool it. I yvalked up and down the hill. There was the child, dead there was his wile in strong con vnlsions. and he asleep. ' A man about thirty years of age 'asleep, with a deadchild in the house having a mark npou his temple where the corner of the marble st ens had come iu contact with the head as he swung him around, am a wife uik)u the brink of t he grave! 'Mr. Gough, said my friend 'I cursed the drink. He had told me that I must remain until he awoke and I did.' When he awoke he passed his baud over his face and exclaimed, 'what is the matter? where am I! where is my.". -boy T You cannot see him.' 'Staiul out of my way,' 1 will see my Isty.' To preveut confusion 1 took him to the child's bed, and as T turned down the sheet and showed him the corpse he uttered a wild shriek, 'Ah, my child 1' That minister said further to me, 'Oue year after that he was brought from the lunatic asylum to-(ie .beside his wife in the grave, and I attended his funeral', The minister of the gosjiel who told I me that Tact is to day a drunkeu hostler in a stable in. Boston." Now, I tell me w hat rum will uot do. It . will debase, degrade, imbrute and i damn eveything that is noble, bright, glorious ami God like tu a human being. There is nothing drink will not do that is vile, das tardly, cowardlv sneaking or hell ish. Why are we not to tight it till the day of our death T" 1 Siicide it Bethel. We learn from Mr. W. A. James that a white man named D. T, Cherry, formerly of Washington, who had been iu Bethel about two ! months, 'committed suicide Monday niarht about about 9 oeioen oy . , ; nr ir..t takmg "f,f,y anam. Cherry had been on a i " nrotracted spree, and it is thought I i A . -VVv- nt ne WSH lUSitUe II OUI IUC cuctl" ' , . . . .. th, rink when he took Jus life. The deceased was abont 22 years oiu ami had been married about six months ago, while iu Washington. Cherry made a similar attempt to take his life, but was discovered in time to be saved. His last attempt was more successful Greenville "Eeflctor." Ont loch. On Insertion . " On Month Thre Months. " " One Jfe,r.. is Month.... LlbeTml ftinunu will be maJ tar Ailreruaeuu'iii sn.1 for Contimctt by tkt muM a. .s.aNr Ailramars THOS. S. KENA :o OUK ABLE AND FAITHH AllUK.MSl GENERAL BBIEF RECORD OF HIS Ltti i .Colonel Thomas S. Keuatt since nn, nave nitetl the ofTJi e of Attorney-General with distiuttiou to himself aud houor and prolt to to the state, was horn nesriKe- uansville, in Duplin county, Web ruary 12, WiS. I. He was graduated from the Uni versity under Judge Pesrftou in l.v8 and 1851), obtaining license to practice iu the County, and Supe rior Courts in-those years. He eutered the aiinv in April 1861, as Captain of the Duplin RiSes, and was with this com pnny assigued to the second regiment of jui vu imuiiim i uitrturerK, ji me expiration of the six months for which these volunteers were en rolled the company wn reorgauired ami Itecame a part of t h Forty third", irsf intent of--State"" troops. Captaiu Kenan whk tdectcd Litu tenatit Colonel of the teguiient in April 1862 and in a short time, was promoted to the eoloueley. Ihe colonelcy or the Thirty- eighth regimeut was also tendered to Colonel Kenan, but he declinetl it and remained with the Forty third. With this regimeut he par took of the stirring scenes of 1862 63 until the fatal day of Gettys burg, wnere ue was wounded una captured. He was imprisoned ai Johnston's Island until the end of the war, when he was released out parole, aud return ing to his home I resumed the praetiw of his pin-1 tessiou. ; M - - 1 In 1865-66 and 18tk)-f, 7 Colonel Kenan represeutetl his native 1 county iu the General Assembly. In 1868 he was a candidate for 1 Congress iu what was then the ' Newbern district, but was defeat ed by -the. heavy nesrro maioiitv. In 1861 Col mel Kenan remove) I to Wilson, his present place of residence. lie was eh-lt'il Mnvnr ol that thriving town in 1872 und served his ptople in that capacity by continuous re-election until 1876, wnen ne was called to a wider sphere of work ami iiseluliiess as Attorney-Genersl. Such are in brief the niciileiits in the public life of a man who has done his duty faithfully aud well, as a soldier and as a citizen. Colonel Kenan's reports of t he decisions of the Supreme Court, a work cast uou biin u virtue ot his office as Attorney-Genersl, le- gau with the seventy-sixth volume and. including the ninetieth now being prepared, comprise fifteen ' volumes, two each year. The work thus cast u ton t he Attoiuev-Gen- eral is iu itself enough to claim ,1 he entire time aud attention 'of almost any man. Iu order to do it as it should lie done, and also to attend to the multifarious duties of his regular office, (V'louel Kenan has, lteen Ibrceil to give up his business on the. circuit as a practicing law - yer and devote to the seiviee of the State all the jowers of hi vig orous and well trained intellect. But he ha doim this work, as he has done all other work, wdi and faithfully. So wel und so laithlul ly, that the lawyers have univer sally expressed their pleasure tit the improvement of the cxiits and have rewarded the author of these iinprovemeuts with com men -datious and thanks; Colonel Kenan is as vigorous in -body as iu mind. Time lots tie dt lightly with htm, and except that his hair ban turned white hi; might well drop a dozen years from his record. Nor will he ever sink with old age. Possessing instate de gree the Kwcr of attracting , young men and of whining their hearty admiration' anil affection, he seem constantly to renew his youth. Of Colonel Kenan's npcaniuce little need be said. In the cam paigns of 1870 ami 1880 he cau. vassed the State so thsioughly that almost all the jn-ople saw him, and he is so nearly "haiiilwtnier than any man ought to Is-" that those who hare once seen him never forget how he looks. "Bal eigh Regtster". Tbe Folly Of Sjmpithy For Grint. 'God bless Gen. Grant I He was not to blame; simple, dear did (el low, be knew nothing ol Uie wrontr". V This is the verdict Mr. Beechcr claimed for the bankrupt broker and solvent ex-President. ; It is wo: se than fustian: it is fale. Grant was not blameless and simple wheu be upheld Belknap and BalsHsk aud stood between them and justice. He wan not blameless and aim file when he made the Black Friday (tool with Fist and Gould. He was not blameless and siiupbr .when be ac cepted gifts from people who would be certain to want favors in re. turn. He was not blameless and simple when be held the presi dency for eight years, defying public sentiment aud debauching ..nl.ltA vift-tl.1 1 12 VUtt liltl fillltllli. less and simple when for years and years every Republican organ puff ed him to the Very skies as a great, shrewd, keen, wise man. He was not blameless and simple when be degraded his office aud disgraced his country by sapping from the Presidency and the supreme com mand of a nation's armies into a Wall street broker's business to gamble in stock. II Grant bad made 10,ooo,00o for himself Instead of losing 000,000 for others in hi gambling speculation)! be would have lieeti just as capable, jnst as reprehensi We as be Is now. Uis offense is in bis disregard of the high dignity 91 nis posiwiuu as in" "i" And tbe first soldier the Iip ifc. He baa degraded bis title, anrf i4 so doing bas degraded the na- 11 OU. - HW r-i ' on the sympathy of the peoplet - Wk. nlAltn filMM .III II Sfi llHll 2t.x Workl7V(ter. ; I i r I r I
The Wilson Advance (Wilson, N.C.)
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