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rJt 1 I WILSON ADVANCE. WILSON ADVANCE. PUBLISHED, -:o: Wilsott North. Carolina. 1 by- Rates of adyxxtisino. JMIMDS Willi, - IdiUr alPreprieUr 1 1 1 E 1 1 m ft The V-l : -SI? liil.wt day A vuntniK I! i I i I ' Subscription Rates in Advance One Year ... 2 00 Six Months VZ1 1 00 tWMonrjr can be sent by Money Order or Ketristcred Letter at our risk. n,',cV?Srboro Street, In the Old Post Offluo Bulldlnn. NEWS OF A WEEK uy. G AT 11 1 1 1 1 EI) FROM ALL PARTS til' THE WORLD. ZlfCll.l.lNaS QLEAK1NUS Of 1.012 convicts in North Carolina, an; negroes. Tin;' Howe Scale Company. 01 -RufUnd, rt , has failed, and a re ceiviM- has b-cn aijtiiutt'd. Rev. Solomon Pool bat? accepted the pastorate of the the Winston ethodlSt ChlUCI! Willi I Ollli-irii... . New York sheep are dying, o1 h much grub the head. Down stomach. " i : - l.v . r. laii ur i ii tr ns cotton I'm 1 '.1 f ..II .1 promises :.o no a 11 no doubt be h.j i iccess ami ,olomll. attended. 3 ears old, naJ. magistrates and couiinis was shoved ' both Catawba aiuU'Ieve Iwy and drTiieu; ff the eounty tax of 1 Monday. b lieenses. A gernimi comptitii of July it may be Misses Kenan and 'i.. iV Uowe.r lvas born Miss Alena v and waste its jireii at the .lay night. (lera IKV igo.air. ss ar e..i m it . tint Of md nth - at I III1 nun i'i i. ''v-il last.,;! v-oue eadets. Ill.ill, oil beliait,, T j es l. Aii'-viHi"" . i i preHi'Vnuiiu T Wilder, are Iroin Carolina. If you eome aeross anv grain, fruit or mineral that is remarkable either for its size or other quality, preserve it and send it to the State ' Exposition. Senator I Law ley'- will deliver the ooeniiitr address at the .Slate r'vM.iin.11 IVi-siih-nt Arthur has heeli HiVlteil, lint eoillil luu -,ie a definite answer. The Ijegislative Halls at llal- eigh are being renovated. This will lie triMMl news to all who have seen the old rans and tattered hauliers and dingy hall. Winston "llepiihliean ": Wi1 learn that the seventeen year lo rusts abound in ooi tioiis of Stokes county, and that many-hogs "arr dyinii from eating them. Kd.vard A. 14ie.hardsoii, "negro, has lieen aniioir.ted post lnastei at New Heme, in tuaiw 01 tne present iiicunibent, Mr. Manix, a white man "A ho had tilled tln-otliee to flie satisfaction of the Imisuess men. l he Jviiiston "Free Tress says, one of the most disgnst.ing and revolting sights evur seen in lvuis- ton. was a small Ihiv about 12 rears old last. Satnrday, stagger insr drunk, with a bijj bottle of eorn whiskey m his hand. j The Ivinston "I'lee l'ress says that, Octavius Tayl-r, of Lenoir, lieing weary ot the bonds which liehl him to liis legal spouse, lell a victiu ?o the thai ins of his amiable mother in law and eloped with her one day last week. A prominent and well informed gentleman tells the Raleigh "('hron cie ' mar nor, less Mian i, ooo youii"' men leave our colleges and 1 se,hoil.-i this year, their education done, to enter active lite, and not less than 2,000 young ladies. Said lion. S. S. Cox: The Til den letter leaves matters in New York very much mixed up. "It: is like the little gill who. when asked for a definition of the wok! ch;us. said 4iit was a great big chunk of nothing and nowhere to put ir." At the recenf meeting of the Board of Directors of the W. & V. Railroad, held in I.altimore, the arrangements were completed hy which the retersburg & AVeldon Railroad will .shortly pass under their management, the W. & V. Road having secured" a controlling interest of the stock of saffl loath There will he a grand old time at N'ag's Head the Fourth of July in commemoration of the tri-eonteii-nial landing on Roanoke Island of the Anglo Saxon Argonauts, on July 4, ir84. hire-works, target -shooting, eomjM-titive balloting, Uieentenuial address, etc. (,.-' Jarris will jirobably be iiresent. Asheville 'CitlMii': The 'News Observer' says the season at the Atlantic Hotel Morehead City is opening 'nicely;' a very nice word of dude-origin first made known to Southern people through the daily bulletins -of Dr. Kliss when he r,'. ported the condition of President Garfield. We wish Dr. Bliss had secured a copyright for the ex prcssion. It is not often t hat a man in t im part of the world is called upon to morn the death and burial of two wives in one year, yet this is the nad experience of Joseph Parker of Lincoln county. The " Press-', savs that on (he 17th tiny of June, i.s:j his first wife died. In 'a u.w mouths he married her sister ami and on last Saturday, June 'lit h she too, died.' Thousands will regret to learn that the health, of Mr. Sankey Mr. .Moody's ctworker, has com! pletely broken down. Ht. j,.1s sailed for the United States A telegram states that Mr. Moody receiitly said that a complete restoration to health was absolntely improbable, ami that his voice would probably never - heard again in sacred sonsj. The Marriage Cure. Au editorial in the Philadelphia 'Daily Times" of the ,isth reads thus: "There is something very pretty, old-fashioned, heVon- anil suggestive about, the story of the wedding of young Mr. aiid Mrs. Grey, who have Lteen spending the first day of two of their honey moon in Baltimore. Like a gallant bridegroom, Mr. Grey started from his home in South Carolina to seek bis betrothed in Pough keepsie, where they were to be VOLUME 14.-- .JSSSr-JS married. was u&ou 11." -"-"-" had to telegraph a postponement.. But the bride was made of mate- j :o: -rial not to be put off by an attack i rliemnatism. and so hastened . I t Tiiiltimore. in charge of her fath- er, had the bridegroom propped; up in bed and married him for bet ter or for worse. Of course the man was well next day and thinks he has a jewel of a wife. Rvery now and then young meu appear to. find help by this sort ot rm . t .1 .- nnt.rf 1 n r ftl cure, .rue otuer nay n jwuuk j,tl"t at Manayuiik was near dying oi typhoid fever, but his affiance ar rived in the nick of time, married what she supposed was a dying man, but from that hour the lever left him. These are only a couple of recent instances out of many known and unknown wherein tne ministry of woman becomes divine and all-healing the nioineui u takes some true and noble relation ship. -to unfortnnate and lonely men It seems to verify a pretty old saying. Certainly it is not good for man to be alone, especially n e is a sick man. People are now saying if President Arthur had had a wife lie might have got the Chicago nomination. Of course he never i a m: 1 .1 . 1. . 1 grew sick enougu. ii xiuieu u.m beiii a married man no Electoral Com mission would nave nareu io count him out. Selfish old bache lors will sav the marriage cure Iocs iiot last and so frame some . , i . i excuse tor tne tiepretiauons ot their-unburdened existences. But (he facts And the ladies are against such cranks, ami witn either ar rayed in opposition to him a bach elor had lietter get married or die, especially if he is . sick. It ap pears to be a certain cure. Hon. W. i. Smith. In a private letter to a friend in Raleigh, Maj. Smith has this to say relative to his leaving the Repub lican party: . "My sympathy for the distressed and poor, together with my natural prejudice against the Democratic party made me a Republican, with out sufficient reason. But no ae,t or vote of mine in any legislative body or elsewhere has ever leeu given against my race or State. lilaine is "the straw that broke the camel's back." The most of my personal friends, in county, state ami nation, are ' Democrats and in my old age. I prefer to le' with them in every respect. I have no ambition to gratify, nor do I want an office of any kind. I like my friends as well as any living man, and while I lcel some regret at leaving my old Republican friends, I have the satisfaction of not doing so until they disbanded their army and put deserters in the lead as their army and chosen generals." Mot So Crazy After ill. A few days since a demented colored woman came to town and ajiproachiiig a well known poli tician of this place, informed him that the Lord had appeared uuto her and had shown her in visious that the Republican party had brought by its sins and corruption the evils that now inflict '.sorely the people. She said that the Ijord had' shown her that the white Republicans were the cause. The sin of the negro was in follow ing too blindly the evil disposed white, men. Beyond a doubt the old woman is sane in some re spects. "Tarlvoro Southerner." Cotton Tree. Mr. Hezekiah Da is, of Bachelor's creek, this county, tells us ot a wonderful tree that has been dis co.oreu in ins neighborhood. It is called a "cotton tree," and produces cotton that has been spun and made into cloth; in fact, the fruit appears just the same as that grown upon the cotton stalk. It is altout thirty feet high and has been known to exist for qnite a milliner oi years, it has been noticed but never known to bear until re cently. A sample should be brought down for the State Expo sition .New Berne "Journal," A Queer Suit. A young man of Delaware, whose gin went back on him ami yet re iuscd to give up the engagement ring, sued her for it, whereupon her father sued the young man for the coal ami oil that were burned in the parlor while the love-making -was going on for the nieuls Hint the young man ate at. the, house lining his courtship and for the fodder and corn that was fed to hi horse during the same time. The case was decided in the old inaii favor. The Church Militant and Agricultural. Rev. Maj. N. M. Juruey, of Bean fort, N. C, claims to have the larg est watermelons and cantaloups in me sstate... He says that they are as huge as his list, and that he expects to have the first ripe- met ons in-.North Carolina. Some of ins friends may not know that he is a military nun, but he was com missioned by the Governor some years ago as Chaplain, with the rank of Major. For-Half a Life time. Mrs. JolinOeuimcl, Milroy, Mitlin Co., l'a., in the spring of 18ti4 injured her spine and partial paralysis en sued. For nearly twenty years she was unable to walk. In the spring of 1883, Rhe was advised to use St. Jacobs Oil, the great conqueror of pain. "The first application gave instantaneous relief. . Before the second bottle was exhausted she was able to walk and is cured. In no other medicinal prepara tion have the results of the .most intelligent study and scientific in quiry been so steadily and pro gressively utilized as in Ayer'sSar saparilla. It leads the list as a truly scientific preparation for all blood diseases. THE CONVENTION. - ojmoiuji in u uai.-a GOOD TICKET NOMINATED. A FINE LOOKING BODY. A few minutes after 12 o'clock, Wednesday, June 25th,, in the Met ropolitan Hall at Raleigh, R. II. Battle Esq., chairman of the Demo cratic State Executive Committee, let fall the gavel and called the con vention to order. The hall was packed with 19 delegates, half that number alternates, and a largo number of spectators. It was the finest looking liody of men we have ever seen and it was a singu lar fact that a large majority of the delegate were young men. It was estimated that the average age of the delegates was 3G years. After reading the call of the con vention Mr. Chas. M Cooke, of Franklin, was apj ointed temporary chairman. On taking the chair Mr. Cooke made a practical,-, sensi ble and forceful speech. Committees on credentials, plat form and permanent organization were 'appointed, and during their retirement speeches were uiade by M Q Waddell, Col. Walter L Steele, ', and Hon. M W Robbins. PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. The committee on permanent or ganization, through Col. V V Rich ardson, made the following report : For chairman Hon Thos Rumu, ot Orange ; vice presidents 1st dis trict, J M Woodhouse; 2nd, Thos. W Mason; 3rd. E T Boykm, 4th; A E Noble; 5th, E F Caldwell; Gth, E S Cowan; 7th, T F Klultz; 8th, R Z Linney; nth, Frank Coxe. Secretaries 11 A London, chief; assistants, Democratic, editors. Hon. Joseph J Davis made a very short but pertinent speech. The report of the committee, was adopted. ITie permanent chairman was theu escorted to the chair by Messrs W B Glenn and John E Woodard. Judge Rurtin was introduced by Capt. Cooke, who congratulated the convention upon having so fine a presiding officer. He was greeted with 16ud applause. Judge Rufnn said lie thanked the convention for tins great honor, and as the best assurance of his gratitude, declared the convention now ready for business. W 11 Day,ot Halifax, in response to calls, made a speech pledging his efforts to the Democracy. He said the Anglo Saxon race would carry North Carolina. Capt. W 11 Kitchen made a stir ring speech. Said the campaign would be hotlv contested and would be no walk over. J W Reid, .chairman of the com mittee on credentials, submitted a report refusing to allow counties represented by proxies to vote. This created considerable discussion. The convention decided to allow all counties represented by proxy to have a voice. Th other part of the committee's report was adop ted. - NOMINATING SPEECHES. The chair now announced that nominations for Governor were in order. Mr. Henry R Bryan, of New Berne, placed t he name of Al lied Moore Scales, ot Guilford, in nomination, in a well timed and well received sjieech. He recount ed! the services of Gen. Scales as soldier and statesman. Of Mr. II G Connor's speech seconding the nomination of Gen. Scales, ithe ''News-Observer" well and truth fully says, "Mr. II G Connor, of Wilson, in a speech ot marked vig or and grace, seconiieti uon. Scales' nomination, saying that he was a superb representative ot North Caroliua's noblest men and her best Democracy. For twenty years he had served his State, ever contributing to her honor and to her material worth and prosperity. He said such a standard bearer as Scales was needed now to assure Democratic success ; a man who in every walk of life has won the grand old name of 'gentleman,' " Mai. Louis C Latham, of Pitt, placed Hon. Octavius Coke in nonir inatiou. In the course of his j or nate speech, he paid a high compli ment to Gov. Jarvis' administra Hon. "Coke's name," said Maj Latham, "is the 'open sesame of success, and bis administration would be a credit to every North Carolinian." . Mr. W II Bowen, of Watauga, seconded Coke's nomi nation and took up and in a logical manner met the objections which had been made to Coke. Mr. R Z Linney, of Alexander, in seconding Scales' nomination said that he is loved by old soldiers and bv the youngest voters. Said he would make one of the best cam paigns ever made. Chas. M Busbee Esq., of Raleigh seconded Coke's nomination in an elegant speech. He paid a high tribute to Coke as a man and to his powers as a canvasser. His speech was welf received and was worthy ot the man and the occa sioti. Before the ballot was announced Capt. Coke eniwred the hall amidst great applause. He said his groat est comfort as a soldier in losing his buckler was that such a noble soldier and chivalrous, christian geutleman as Alfred Moore Scales hat I found it. He moved to make the nomination of Gen. Scales nnan imous. Col. Paul B Means seconded the motion which was carried amid the wildest applause. The secretary read the result of the ballot, as fol lows : Scales, 552; Coke, 244; Holt, 23. ;'... FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. The chair announced that nomi nations for Lieutenant Governor were in order. Then rose a wild shout fn Coke for Lieut. Governor, and a motion was made amid cheers aud confusion to make Coke the candidate by acclamation. This was ruled out of order and a ballot "LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIUl'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 4. 1884. ordered. . Mr. Charles M Bnsbee said that Capt Coke would not be a candidate. Capt R B Davis nominated Mai Charles M Stedman. Mr D H McLean seconded Sted man's nomi nation. Mr E S Parker nominated Maj John Hughes. F M Simmons seconded the nomination in an ex cellent speech. The vote was then taken- aud an nounced as follows : Steadmau 495: Hughes, 310; Holt, 14. Maj Sted man's nomination was made unani mous. SECRETARY OF STATE. Maj C W McClammy, of Pender, nominated Col Wm L Saunders for Secretary of State. He character ized him its that ' patriotic, big hearted, big headed Democrat. There was no oposition and Col Saunders was paid the high compli ment ot receiving every vote cast, 81!). At C oock the convention took a recess until 8 o'clock. EVENING SESSION. At 8:30 President Ruffin again called the conveution to order. Hon J J Davis said he had receiv ed a .dispatch from Gen A M Scales, which he read as follows : Washington, D. C, June 25, '84. IIon. J. J. Davis : My gratitude- is profound. If possible 1 shall deserve success. If successful the best services oflfiv head and heart shall be devoted to the wellare of my State. A. M. Scales. A motion was made that to ex iMMiite nusmies no speecn snail ex ceed five minutes. The first business was the nomi nation of a candidate for Auditor. Col John N Staples nominated Gen W 1 Roberts, of Gates. Col Har ry Skinner, of Pitt, seconded the nomination. Capt N A Gregory nominated Capt Randolph A Shotwcll. Capt Swift Galloway nominated Capt Wm A Darden. Capt W W Cairaway seconded Dardeu's nomi nation, a s did Capt King, of Stokes. Mr Geo 11 lirown, ot Beaufort, seconded Gen ltobert's nomination Mr D II McLean nominated Capt L K Exhne, of Chatham. Mr W W Fuller seconded Capt ShotwelPs nomination, Mr Kope klias that of Gen Koberts. A vote was taken resulting as follows: Roberts. 4548: Darden. loH; JSliotweli, 177S; Exline, 34. Cleveland gave one vote, for J W Gidney. The nomination ot Gen Roberts was then made unanimous the contest for treasurer Mr Cam Buxtou placed James S Battle, of Nash, in nomination in a good speech, litis was seconded in a good speech by B II Bunn Esq., of Nash. Chas M Busbee, in an excellent speech nominated Donald W Bain, and James Reid seconded liain's nomination in a felicitous speech. Messrs S McD Tate, John M Worth and Samuel Wittkow sky were also placed in nomination The first ballot was as follows : Tate, 258$; Bain, 233; Battle, 177$: Worth. 140. There was no nomination, so the second ballot Jat once began. In a few moments Mr Geo S Brad shaw withdrew the name of 1) Worth in favor of D W Bain. Great cheers. The result was an nounced as follows: Bain, 433tj Tate, 2G-.) 5-0; Battle, 10$; Worth, 5 Mr H A Gndger moved to make M Bain's nomination unanimous, and it was done. TnE CONTEST FOR GENERAL. ATTORNEY Nominations for Attorney Gen eral were next in order. Hon Thos 0 Skinner placed before the con vention the name of Capt Robt Peebles. Mr W B Glenn made B a very strong ami able speecn iu nominating Mr Theodore F David son,, of Buncombe... He appealed for the west, to the east. Mr R Z Linney placed in nomination M riatt D Walker, ot Mecklenburg His speech was vigorous and was well received. Col Walter L Steel seconded the nomination of Mr Walker. Capt John E Duckett, of Martin, also seconded Mr W alker Mai George II Gregoiy placed nomination Col Thomas S Kenan saying that ten volumes of the Su preme Coutt Reports sjioke for him Mr John E Woodard, ot Wilson, sec on tied Col Kenan's nomination graceful language. In his speech he recounted Col Kenan's faithful and efficient services and urgod his renomination. Mr F v Strange of New Hanover, seconded Mr I1 Walker's nomination, and Capt Thomas D Johnston, of Bnncombe, that of Mr Davidson. Mr Thomas W Mason, of Northampton, made most forcible speech in support of Mr Peebles, in which he thanke the west for the services rendered the east. His speech was one of the most eloqnent delivered durin the entire convention. The ballot finally began. The result of the first ballot was aa nounced as follows : Davidson, 139 Peebles, 217: Walker, 270; Kenan 103. A second ballot was at onr taken. It resulted as follows : Dav idson, 291; Peebles, 177; Walker 277; Kenan, 74. Mr 11 G Connor, of Wilson, withdrew the name of Col Kenan, returning thauks for the support given mm. ine ni.ru ballot was then taken. The result was as follows: Davidson, 820; Peebles, 192; Walker, 307. The fourth ballot was then taken. By this time it was long after mid night and the galleries thinned "fast, 'but the excitement on the floor was no whit less than during the long hours of the day. The fourth ballot was as follows : Dav idson, 317; Walker, 207; Peebles, 305. A motiou was made to ad journ, lint the convention voted it down. The litlh Daiiot oegan, ana in the course of it Hon. Thomas G Skinner withdrew the name of Mr Peebles. The result of the ballot was announced as follows : David son, 39G; Walker, 390; Peebles, 33. The sixth ballot was an exciting one. The result was : Davidson, 420: Walker, 391. Thus ended the most exciting contest of the famous convention. On motion of Col. Walter L Steele, the nomination was made unanimous. At 2 o'clock the conveution ad journed. THURSDAY MORNING Judge Ruffin called the conven tion to order at 10:15. After reading the platform, which was on motion recommitted, the convention went into the nomina tion of a candidate for Superinten dent of Public Instruction. Mr W G Burkhead placed iu nomination Major S M Finger, of Catawba. Col. Walter L Steele nominated Mr A H Merritt. of Chatham. Mr Bond, of Edentou, nominated Mr John C Scarborough. Mr John D Stanford, of Duplin, nominated Mr B P Grady, of Du plin. Mr W W Fleming, of Meck- g, seconded1 the nomination of Mr Finger. Mr W C Trov. of Cumberland, nominated Alexander W Graham, of Cumberland. Mr W T Caho, of Pamlico, nominated Mr John 3 Long, of Craven. Mr E A Alderman, of Wayne, nominated Mr M c S Noble, ot New Hanover. Mr E II Abell, of Johnston, second ed Mr Noble's nomination. Mr Geo . S Bradshaw. of Randolph. placed in nomination Mr J L Tom linson, of Forsyth. Mr Jobs Gray liynuni, of Burke, seconded Mr Fin ger's nomination, as did also a del egate from Pender. A delegate from Buncombe urged Mr Scarbo rough's claims. Mr F H Busbee, of Wake, endorsed Mr Scarborough, as did also a delegate from Chow an, white Mr Kerner, Irom Forsyth, endorsed Mr Tomliuson, and a del egate from Chowan seconded Mr Long's nomination. Mr A D Jones, of Wake, endorsed Mr Noble The result of the the first ballot was an nounced as follows : Scarborough, 20H: Finger, 327; Graham, 59; No ble, 41; Long, 11: Dugger, 22; Ab eruathy, 5; Grady, 37; Merritt, 73; lomhnsou, St;. The second ballot, was at. once taken. Votes rapidly changed to Finger, and it. was soon seen that Finger's election was assured. The vote stood : Finger, 700; Scarbo- ough, 118; Noble, 1. It was made unanimous for Finger, upon motion. The rules weie then suspended md Judge Merrimon was. nomina ted for Justice of the Supreme Court by acclamation. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The members of the. State execu tive committee held a meeting to choose a State executive committee Tue atate executive committee is composed ol lour delegates from each Congressional district, as fol lows : The firstdistrict is represent ed by Samuel B Spruill, Frank E Vaughan, W D Pruden, Charle F Warren; the second, II L Staton, M D W Stevenson, J W Grainger, R B Peebles; the third,' A J Gallo way, J H Clark, J D Stanford, AB Williams; the tonrth, II A London, W H Pace, A W Graham, J 11 Abell; the fifth, A E Henderson, M W Norfleet, R B Glenn, N li Caua dy; the sixth, W J Montgomery, J D Shaw, N A McLean, II B Short Jr; the seventh, Geo. S Bradshaw, J G Hall, J P Ca Id well, R C Bar ringer; the eighth, G 1- Bason, J C Wilboum, W C.Erwin, M U Hoke ; the ninth, Johnston Jones. W W Stringfield, "W 1 1 Troy, Frank Coxe General Johnston Jones, chair man, announced that the following were chosen to compose the State executive committee: R II Battle, chairman; Oct. Coke, Charles M Busbee, George II Snow, J J Litch lord, R G Dunn, P C 1' leming, b Ashe; W J Yates, 'of Mecklenburg: R B Glenn, of Stokes; Jas. S liatth of Nash; John Hughes, of Craven Thomas W Mason, of Northampton James W Wilson, of Burke; Paul 1 raisou, ot Wake; l'aul 11 Means. of Cabarrus; J J Lilchfield, secre tary. DELEGATES TO CHICAGO. A motion was made that the lour persons receiving the highest mini ber of votes lie declared delegates and the four receiving the next highest be alternates. Carried The following was the result : Thos Ruffln, 727i; Jnliau S Carr, 704; W T Dortch, Geo. 11 Mrowii .Jr. 578 (these lieing the delegutt Richmond Pearson, 100; Charles M Cooke, 51 1A; Rufus Y McAden, 540; Walter L Steele, 462 (these lieing the alternates); E R Stamps, 441 A II A Williams. 418; W F Beas ley, 209; M J Hawkins, 99; Octavi us Coke, 38; J E Woodard, 233; V Richardson, 236. THE ELECTOR. The next business was-t he lection of two Presidential electors. The names of William M Robbins, John N Staples, William 11 Kitchin, Oc tavius Coke, were presented. Mr. Bunn withdrew the name of Capt- Coke by his authority, de claring that his best services should be given the party. Throe cheers were then given Capt. Coke. The vote was taken amid cheers for the various candidates. It re sulted as follows: Kitchin, 085; Staples, 542; Robbinn, 347. Messrs W II Kitchin and John N Staples were declared to lie the electors for. the State at large. After considerable discussion the platform was adopted. Capt. J R Thigpen opposed the plank favor ing the acceptance of an appropria tion from the government for State Schools, as did W H Kitchin, Jas. W Wilson and Joseph J Davis. It was favored by John S Henderson. W II S Bnrgwyn, D F Caldwell and others. ! PLATFORM. We again congratulate the peo ple of North Carolina on the career of peace, prosperity and good gov ernment on which she entered after the inauguration of a Democratic State administration,- and which has been unbroken for so many years since; upon the just and im partial enforcement of the laws; upon the efficiency of our common school system, and the great pro gress made in popular education; and upon the general improvement and enterprise manifested in every part of the State. And we again challenge a comparison betweeu this state of thiugs and the crimes, outrages and scandals which at tended Republican ascendancy in our borders; and we pledge our Tlir GOD'S, AND TRUTHS selves to exert, in the future, as we have done in the past, our best ef forts to promote the material inter ests of all sections of the State. Affirming our adherence to Dem ocratic principles as heretofore enunciated in the platforms of the party, it is hereby Ifrsoi ved, That we regard a tree ami fair expression of the public will at the ballot-hox'as the only sure means of preserving our free American institutions, and that the corrupt aiid corrupting use of federal patronage, iu influencing and controlling elections is danger ous to the liberties of the State and the Union. Resolved, That we are in favor of the unconditional and immediate abolition of the whole internal rev enue system, as ah intolerable bur den, a standing menace to the free dom of elections, and a source ot great annoyance and corruption in its practical operation. Keaolvtd, That no government has a right to burden its people with taxes beyond the amount re quired to pay its necessary expens es ami gradually extinguish its public debt. Aud that whenever the revenues, however .derived, ex ceed this amount, they should be reduced so as to avoid a surplus in the treasury. We therefore urge upon our Senators and Representa tives in Congress to exert them selves in favor of such legislation as will secure this end. Rexolved, That with respect to the tariff we reaffirm . the life long ami fundamental principles of the party as declared in the National Democratic platforms and that the details of the method by which the constitutional revenue tariff shall be gradually reached, are subjects which the party's representatives at the federal capital must lie trusted to adjust; but in our opin ion the duties on foreigu importa tions should lie levied for the pro duction of public revenue, and the discriminations in its adjustment should lie -such as would place the highest rates on luxuries and the lowest on the necessaries of life, distribute as equally as possiolethe burdens of taxation and confer the greatest good to the greatest num- Ikt ol the American people. Mcnolved, That the course of the Democratic party in furtherance of popular education, by efficient pub lic schools in all sections, ami the establishment of graded and nor mal schools in the larger towns and accessible centers, is a sufficient guarantee that we favor the educa tion ot all chisses ol our people and we will promote and improve the iiresent educatiou.il advantages so far as it can be done without bur dening the jieople by excessive tax ation. And WHEREAS, lhere is now more than a hundred millions of dollar in the treasury of the United States, wrung from the pockets ot the peo ple by unjust taxation on the part of the Republican party, there fore, Resolved, That we will accept such distribution of said surplus revenues of the government lor ed ucational purposes as may be made by the Congress of the United States, provided always, that the same shall lie disbursed by State agents autl not accompanied by ob jectionable features ami embarrass ing conditions. Resolved. That it is due to the white people ol our eastern conn ties, who have so cheerfully borne their share of our common burdens, that the present, or sonic other eoualiy effective sysfi m oi count v government, shall be maintained. Reolved, 1 hat in view ol the ex isting ami increasing harmony aud kindly feeling between the twi races in this State and a similar condition of things which we lie lieve to exist generally iu oilier Southern States, we deprecate the attempt of the Republican party in its recent platform at Chicago, to force civil rights as a living issue, and we denounce it as a fire-brand and a hyjiociitical expression of in terest iu the black race, a wanton insult to the whites of the South, and tending to stir up strife-, be tweeii the now friendly races. The following resolution, offered by Mr. W. li. Pruden, of Chowan was adopted : Resolved, That the Democracy of North Carolina, in convention as seiabled, endorse the administra tion ot the lion, liios. ). Jarvis as in all inspects just ami patriotic and do assure him and ins as so ciates in the State administration that when they shall retire from office they will carry with them the esteem ami confidence of the peo ple ot the State. On motion of Mr. Cam. Buxton, of Forsyth, the t batiks of the con vention were tendered its officers. The railroads were also thanked lor courtesies shown the delegates. On motion of Mr. R. M. Fiiimau, at 3:45 the invention adjourned nine die. Poetic Justice. Mr. Dossey Battle is not to be unrewarded for his advocacy of the "Bell Law." Last week a prolific canine took up her abode under Mr. Battle's house, and in a day or two presented him with fonrteen pretty puppies. They are all liv ing, and at the time of going to press both mother and offsprings are doing well. Mr. Battle is happy- There cau be no question that she recognized in Dossey a friend and protector. She went to him to have her loved ones belled ro that when Dossey's direful edict, "the Dog must go," goes into operation, she will not be like. Rachel of olden time mourning for her young be cause they were not Tarboro "Southerner." No injurious effects; can follow the use of Ayer's Ague Cure in the treatment of malarial diseases. It contains, besides a sjieciflc and un failing antidote for miasmatic poi son, other remedial agents which unite to expel the poisonous hu mors, purify the system, and leave it iu a healthy and invigorated condition BILL ARP'S TAjiK. -:o:- ON POLITICS. WHAT 11E THINKS OF JIM BLAINE. THROUGH THE HARVEST. Politics is on the boom. Fifty millions of people are going to choose a president, and it looks like most every body is in a good humor- about it. .1 km, and so are my nabors. There haseu't been a time since the war that the people leit so easy about an election as they do uow. The nation is safe. Both of the great parties will put up their best men and there is not much ot principle or policy to di vide rneiii. xne country is pros perous. We are all doing pretty well, better than any other nit ion of tieople on the globe. There is a good, humble, old-fashioned preacher not far away who always prays. "We thank thee, oh, Lord! that we live in a laud of freedom. where the gospel is dispensed with, wc tliaiiK Thee that we have a plat and grant and a clear chain of titles to a field in the promise land." Well, we know what the old man means, and it is all right. I wish we all eonld reao our title clear to mansions in the skies. Laud is cheap enougu down hereon the ton side oi mis Kieiu eanu, nut I'm atraiu we will find it very dear up yon der. Jnis 13 a blessed country for the poor. We cyn't realize how blessed until we read about the old world and talk to neonle who have travelled there. Just think of land rentiug for $60 a u acre in England aud $40 in Ger many. Jnst tnink of tne average laborer working twelve hours for forty cents and boarding himself. No wonder they keep coining over here, and they would choose the south instead of the north and west "if they were not fooled bv those agents who are paid to work for the railroads and get settlers for their lands. The south has got no agents. W tried to establish agencies of immigration and we had pamphlets printed telling all about our climate and productions and the first thing we knew them fellows up north had great hit maps printed aud stuck up every where showing the Dismal swamp to extend irom Virginia to Texas, Nearly all of Georgia is covered with it. W ell, our folks couldent make the foreigners believe Imt that it was all so. and they wouldent come. Those northern rascals have been swindling us for a hundred years by all sorts of tricks aud devices. But we will get even with them after awhile see if we don't. The time was when we had statesmen of pnnci pie lor our presidents ami cabi nets. Who ever heard of a presi dent plundering the goverumen or befng mixed up in auy moneyed scheme liefore the war? The war seems to have eonupted the whole yankee nation and made stealing respectable. How came all these charges against Grant and Gar liehl .nid Uayesaml Arthur, and all tho.e chaps connected with the Credit-Mobilier and the rai road subsidies and the star route Transactions? mere were noj southern men in those schemes. But what surprises me now is to see a big lot of them fellows up there splitting off from the party and saving they wont . support Blaine because 'he plundered the treasury. When did Mr. Beecher and Mr. Adams and the Harpers and Judge Tourgee and the other editors take this new departure? When did they reform! They have supjxirted the whole repub lican shebang ft-., twenty years and just now begin to preach po litical morality. There is some thing iieciiliar aliout ..'this. The truth is Arthur had a slate autl these fellows were on it. They were all interested in some way in that ring, and now they begin to holler wolf. Why, Mr. Blaine .is aliout the liest man they have got. He is the best statesman, anil has the biggest brain, and the grandest way of doing things. Why, even when he steals there is Homing nine auour, u, ana lie divides liberally and tells uobody. I never exacted any respectable republican to find fanlt with him for 'plundering the government. They have all een doing it so long that we thc-jht it. was a plank in their platform. If we have got to take a republican for president we, want Mr.. Blaine. He has got enough and won't want any, more and he will put a stop to the business. He is no little trickster. He wouldent stoop to put a da'tkey in as chairman of the great republican convention that was to nominate a president not him. 1 heard, a Blaine man say the other day that he had a letter from him since his nomina tion and. if he was elected he would make a clean sweep of every darkey that waft in office. But Mr. C''velaild a reformer sure enough. - He comes from that kind of stock, lie has got a south ern name and a southern edigree. His ancestors came from Caioliua. Cleveland is a Carolina name. They Were tiie old cavaliers and wouldent stoop to do a mean thing. The Clevelands are all attout in Carolina uow, and are still the Maine proud and noble stock. When firover Cleveland gets to lie president he will clean up things generally. Fie is follow ing in Mr. Tilden's lead and will wear his mantle when the old man is gone. I'm free to say that I believe Mr. Blaine is the smartest man, the. grandest man, but Cleve land is the safest and most relia ble. When Ben Hill whipped out Blaine iu the Andersonville mat ter Blaine didnt go off and pout and plot revenge but he gave it up nobly and went over and congrat ulated Mr. Hill and they became warm personal friends, and could be seen together arm in arm walk- NUMBER 22 mg ou Pennsylvania avenue. 1 like that. It did me good. And when we wanted to build a monu ment to Mr, Hill he was among the first to send down a liberal contribution. But he has gotten a man tied on to him that would ent have done that. Logan is dead weight. He is a half Indian that is he has got an Indian's hatred without his love. He has been waving the bloody shirt ever since the war. He will do some dirty work if he gets in power. I have a contempt for him. He shouhlent come in mv house. He shouldent ston in the big road and say howdy. He has never said one kind word about the south and would put us all in chains and bondage if he could. He is a turbulent disturber of the public tranquility. He is no cen tleman, and I'll bet ten dollars that Mr. Blaine feels handicapped V. !.: i .- . . t . uj liutlllg mm OU U18 11CKCI. mil such is politics. That was the way with Garfield. They tied Ar thur on to him. He was nothing but a ward politician bumming around among the brothels of New York. History is still reneat ed. The great men of the nation who won't stoop to meanness can't be made president. It all goes by favors and by rings for nlnnder aud office. Blaine is a great man and I was hopeful of the sign but the respectable republicans are against him. The Tribune is for him and that is the leading iapr but you see the Tribune Tax on his slate. Whitelaw Reid is to lie minister to England and that u all right, ne will make a good one. He is smart and lold ami has got money enough to do him and his children. So let him go. Well, we can't please everybody, and so if we can't get our man, let's take Blaine, and be thankful that we live in aland "where the gospel is dispensed with." 1 heard a .good man say the other day that he knew Blaine was a good man, lor he was a Presbyterian. That shows our prejudices, and it is all right. We get our leligion from our fathers. You couldn't make that man believe that Blaine is a bad man. Aife are all very selfish and we can'tTielp it not so selfish aliout money, but about, honors aud office and the like. I thought oi mat wnen listening to the call ot counties in the convention at Atlanta. It looked to tne verr much, like it was city against coun try. We have a great big territo ry north of the Chattahoochee ; but we were ignored, there wasent offices enough to go round and so the big cities of Atlanta, and Ma con, aud Augusta, and Savannah, had to be supplied first. That is all right and the men are just splendid, and I honor them all, but somehow l coUIdent help feel ing mortined when they left out our man. We had a man, and we are a good big fragment of a peo ple hi norm ueorgia. we extend from Athens to Columbus. We thought we had a right to repre seutation, and we put forward h mau who, of all ot hers, is the liest known mau for a national conven tion. At the last national conven tion General Young was the chair man of the committee on creden tials, the most important commit tee of all, and he did his work well. He is a harmonizer. He knows liow to pour oil upon the troubled waters. He has hat more experience in such matters than auy bod-,- and yet lie was left out severely. I thought ntaylie that it was because there were not five places instead of four, but I hear some hints of bad faith, and l hat he was tricked out. Well, we will see what we will Gen eral Youug will not lie ignored nor isartow county nor Cherokee Georgia. We will be heard from later for these kind of things must be equalized and harmonized. Well we are through our har vest. The wheat shocks stand thick in the field, and are a solid comfort-to look at. I'm looking at them now. ixext thing is the traveling thrash," and I shall sit down liy it with a piece of soft pine in my hand and cut a notch for every measure as it is pouretl in the sack. There is no jMilitics about that, and everything is calm and sere nt;. Co be is hopeful and holds his head up. When I asked him last summer abont his crop he said: "Major, it's about null autl void, and if the weather don't adulterate soon it will lie miller and voider." But he will have biscuit soon aud be happy. Bill Ah p. - A Subject for a Snndaj School Book. Mr. James W. Johnston, lately deceased, who lived at Castle Hayne, in Pender county j seemed during the latter days of his earth ly pilgrimage to be as poor a man as dwelt in our vale of tears. He died suddenly in Wilmington. Af ter his death a number of londs and securities were found among bis plunder which wild at auction for 1110,000. And still more recent ly jars that were buried under his house have lieen discovered which contained 22,000 in sjiecie. Beecher says he will not vote for Blaine "for any public office in the. United States " When asked if be would support Tilden, he said : "No, sir; I would as soon think of vot iug for a 3,000 year-old Egyptian mummy as casting a ballot for Til den." He says if Cleveland is the Democratic nominee he will vot for him. lie gave this testimony : "I think he has made one of the liest officers we ever had in this State." Hendricks ou being interviewed with-regard to Tilden's letter of declination, said he had been ex pecting it, and added: v"l should have esteemed it a great honor to have been renominated and elected to vice-presidency on the ticket with Mr. Tilden, not solely because of the honor in the office, but be cause ft would have been in the nature of a direct rebuke .from the people for what they regarded as a great fraud io 187G.n One inch. One Imertlon.. 41 W Una Montuw. Three Month- X Ml t oo SIX MOOtM... , " One Tear- Liberal niseountt will tM mad for Latiar AdYerUacuu ma and for Contract by the Tear Cash muat nj aU AdverUaemeaU ttnloe rood tvtoronoo li tlven. POLITICAL POINTS. :o:- WUAT TUKPOUTICIA1T3ABE TALKING ABOUT. TUE POLITICAL' CALDRON. The Delaware Democratic State convention, held Tuesday, re-affirmed its allegiance to the national platforms of 1876 and 1880 and pre sented the name of Thomas F.Bay- -ard for the presidency. Bob Iugersoll says if Logan dont cut his hair the barbers of the coun try will not vote for him. If Logan were to cut that . hair be would re move oue of his most conspicuous . attachments. He husbands that hair aud those mustache with so licitous care and cultivation. V, S. Lusk Esq., formerly li. S. District Attorney in the Western district of this State, publishes a card in too Asheville "Citizen," giving reasons why lie will not sup port Dr. York as the Republican candidate lor Governor. Mr. Lusk was one of the . original Republi- ( cans, but cannot swallow the taint ed stuff now offered to the Repub. lieau party. The New York "Herald" states that the Hou. Roscoe Coukliug was elected a member of the Manhattan ' Club last week aud qualified Mon day. . The Manhattan Club alms to be to the Democratic party of New. X oi k what the Union League Club is to the Republican party. Its constitution declares that the ob ject of the club is to promulgate the principles or the Democratic party - and promote social intercourse. Mr. Tilden is quoted as saving In ' reply to remonstrance against bis . declin refusal to run that. "It will be all right. New York will give the convention a candidate. who will a truly represent the principle of reform as myself a good man and a sound Demo -crat." "To whom do you 'referr was, ak- eu. "l mean Grover Cleveland," answered Mr. Tilden. The lVIalllg-aa Letter ' Mr. Blaine in the latter part of April, 1876, arose in the House, of which he was then a member, and delivered a speech the point of which was a denial of the news paper charge that he nad received inl871, 104,000 from the Uniou Pacific railroad for services never performed, and that he had also -received sundry bonds of the Little Rock and Smith railroad as a gratuity. A few days afterward, he felt called upon to rise in the House again and deny that he had received certain bonds ot the Kau- . sns and Pacific- railroad. On May 2d the. judiciary corn mittee of the House appointed a. sub-committee to look iuto Mr. Blaine's alleged speculations. " One of the first points settled by the investigation was that the 1 64, 000 worth of Arkansas railroad' bonds, iu which the Union Pacific Company was concerned, had !- ., longed to Col. Thomas A. Scott, and not Mr. Blaiue, and thati they had been taken ' from the first at that price to compensate In in personally for extraordinary her , vices to the road. For a whole mouth the . uli-coiniuittMj was forced to content lSaelf wi trivial matters. Whou public interest in the in quiry was at a very low ebb, Mr. James Mulligan, of Boston, took, the witness stand, and made a . surprising statement. Mr, Mul ligan had been the book keeper of . Mr. Warreu Fisher, Jr., of Bostou had been on very intimate terms ' with Mr. Blaine, and to whom, as t the sequel proved, he had addressed '. numerous epistles. Testiiyiug tie fore the sub-committee, ou June 1, '" Mr. Mulligan said : "After my examination Jiere yesterday Mr.. Blaine came to Riggs House and there bad a conference . with Mr. Atkins, Mr. Flutter and myself; he wanted to .see those loiters i aeciinea io let mm see them; he prayed almost, I would say; he went on his knees and itn- plored me to think of his six chil dren and bis wife, and that If the committee should get hold of these communications it would sink him immediately and ruin him forever. VI did let him read them over.' I retired to my own room, and be followed me up and went over the , same history abut bh family, and even contemplated suicide. He then asked me again If I. would not let him look over those pajiers consecutively; I had them 4 N numbered; I told him would If W I J ho would return them to tne; he - . - i took the patters, read them all over. . i ne asked me if I would not give I them to hint; there waa one letter in ' J particular that he wanted me to give him; I told him then I w ould -not do it, and the only reason , I ' -; would not do it was because I saw ---V" it stated that the Blaine party were going completely to break down,-. r-5T the testimony that I had given yesterday; that they were satisfied " - . about that; I said I should not pub.' lish these letters unless my testi mony was impeached or impugned. I want this committee to get for tne these papers; JlraBlaine has them and would not give them up to me." " " "'. Mr. Blaine had obtained pos session of them to look at under promise to hand them back and " then had kspt them. " The Democratic members of the sub-committee demanded that the letters be placed before them, but t.ils request Mr. Blaine refused to comply with. On the 5th of June however, Mr. Blaine rose iu the nouse to a 'personal explanation," in the course of which he read 6me of the letters Irom bit, seat. Mr. Mulligan declared afterward that one of the letters which Mr. Blaine received from him waa not mel ded m the batch read before, House, and that those which f read were garbled in the read On bis return to Boston Mr. 1 ligan waa asked if Mr. -Blaine read all the letters in the Hon which be answered , emphatk No, sir; and he never will." i . - - '.-' : 1 ? X
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