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V PLEASE NOTICE. J W wilt ha n. .7. ' -v THIS PAPER U pabliahed every afternoon,' Sundayi. ex cepted by JOSH. T. JAMES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. r from our friends on any and all snbjecto cA general in terestjbut : The name of the writer n out always ' furnished to the Editor- 7 --'! 4 Communications must be wiitten on nnW SUBSCBIPTIONS. POSTAGE PAID. One year, $5 00 Six months, $250 j Three months, $1 25 ; One month, 50 cents. The paper will be delivered by carriers vuc Biue 01 tne paper. Personalities must be avoided. i free of charge, in any part of the city, at the Andit is esDeci&Ilr nd TsrtfTit-i JL above rates, or 13 cents per week. Advertising rates low and liberal VOL. 3. WILMINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1878. NO. 30 stood that the editor does not alwayt endora the views of correspondents, unless so sUted in the editorial columns. arSubseribers will please report any and all failures to receive tneir papers regularly RlflEW Da , - ! New Advertisements. Ulust be Sold. rpHE. BALANCE OF MY FALL AND Winter Stock of GENTS' AND YODTHS' CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS must be sold and they will be sold, too, re gardless of cost. I go North next week and will close oat stock on hand at Low ! Lower !f Lowest 1 1 ! prices a. nnmim, i inch 5 . Market st. EXCELSIOR ! yE HAVE JUST RECEIVED AND have on exhibition undoubtedly the most magnificent display of Fine and Fancy Picture Frames, of all the latest styles, patterns and designs, offered in this city for the LAST FZVB -XZ1AHS, all fitted with the best quality of glass. Com mon Frames, oval and square, fitted with cheap glass. Also, a splendid assortment of Velvet Frames and materials for Photo-Cliromo Pictures, all of which we will sell at the low est figures. I have added to my Gallery the rooms for merly occupied by Mr. C. W. ates, which will be used as a Ferreotype Gallery and for other cheap work. Respectfully, Ac, C. M.VanORSDELL, South Side Market, between Princess and Second Streets, Wilmington, N. C. mch 5 Remember; SELL THE BEST LINEN Collars for $2 per dozen. A good quality at $1.50 per dozen. The Best Wamsutta Shirt for $1.25. Drawers C5 cents, Under Vests 40 cent3 and upwards. HZUNSON 6L CO-, mch 6 Clothiers and Merchant TaUbrs.T February 1878 BROWN & RODDICK 45 IYIAHHET ST. OFFER THE FOLLOWING IN- DUCEMENTS ! For the Next Two Weeks. No Comment is Necessary! PRICES WILL SPEAK FOR THEM SELVES! Gents Braces, 25c a pair ; former " price 50 cents. Gents 3-Ply Linen Collars, $1.50 per dozen, in all the latest styles. Gents' Wamsutta Shirts, with 2100 Linen Bosoms, 75c ; just the same as sold all over the country for SI. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE JjX REIItfE CORSET ! One Dollar a Pair ! They are made with Adjustable Double Clasps of flexible steel plates, which prevent the clasps from breaking, and are s arranged that they may be removed at the option of the wearer whenever the Corset is to be laundried,simply by unlacing the short Silk Lacers, NO CUTTING OR RIPPING OF SEAMS being required. Closing out 100 pair Corsets at 75c; former prices SI, and 81.50. Balance of Ladies' Cloaks closing out without any regard to cost. A lot of Dress Goods formerly sold at 30c, 40c and 50c; now 20c. 2-Bntton Kid Gloves 4 be, same goods as sold for $1. . 3-4 Brown Cotton 4Jc per yard. 4-4 Rockingham A, 7-Jc-per yard. 4-4 Lake George, 7c per yard. Good CaUcoes 5c per yard. Best Quality 7c per yard. 45 Market St. BROWN RODDICK feb4 LOCAL NEWS. New Advertisements. S. Jkwbtt "A True Man." 1 1 A. Shriek Mu3t be Sold. Munsok & Co Remember. See ad Wanted. - I 1 C. M. VasOebdbll Excelsjor. r Shrovc-Tuesdav to-day. Our meat market is very poorly sup plied just now. Dogs are faithful. T !hey will stick to a deserted bone. To-morrow is Ash-Wednesday, the be. ginning of Lent, Paper was used in Cfhind and Egypt over 4,000- years ago. The fruit trees hereabout! are; putting forth blooms and leaves. Good oak wood may be I clou bousht now at retail from $2.50 to $3 a cord Reperted in below Swed. fiarque Thorguy and Nor. barq.ue Bertha. -To-morrow is known as Ash-Wednes day, the first of the forty da Vain Lent. It is much more difficult it b compose.- a -r 1 baby with colic than a poem on Spring Fire is still smouldering! in the ruins of Schutte's furniture store on South Front ii i i street A white girl about thirteen ye jars of age can get a permament home by ap piping at this offices. If we arc to have any more severe weather this season it will be farewell to the fruit crop hereabouts. j 7 ' Rev. Jos. 11. Wilson, D. D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in this city, has gone North on a short visit. . r I "V . The wood fiend was on the rampage last night,, and this morning the boxes which were around some trees yesterday are no longer theie. 1 I Geo. W. Price, Jr., of this city, was to have delivered in Goldsborpj last evening his lecture entitled ''The'Negro; His Past, Present and Future." 'j . . Church Services. j ST. J0IIX S CltURCH, , 1 March Gth Ash Wednesday Morning Prayer at 11 o'clock, .Evening, Prayer at 5 o'clock. ( ' 1 ( I Daily Services Th&rsjday, Friday and Saturday. Morning Prayer at 7 o'clock. Evening Prayer at' 5 o'clocjk. Economical Tea Cake. Two quarts of flour,! ( sift through it four tcaspoonfuls Dooley's Yeast Pow der, two tablespoonfuls of butter or lard, one pound and a quarter of : sugar, dis solved in two and a half cups of sweet milk. Spice to taste, jand bake in small moulds. 'i i 1 l t i His Ilonor, Mayor l Fishblate, left this morning for the Northern markets, where he will make his purchases for( the Spring aud Summer trade1. He 'will be absent not more than, two weeks and during that time Alderman Toilers will be Acting Mayor. - Messrs. Clayton Giles, of Giles & Murchison, and S. Hans tela left here yesterday for Philadelphia ' and New York. Mr. Giles goes to replenish his stock and Mr. Hanstein was called to Philadelphia by a telegram stating that his wife, who was on a, vis.it to that city, was seriouslv ill on Sunday last. -i 'i ! Comfortable. 1 Capt. Green, who was .accidentally shot on Saturday, is getting along very com- fjitably. The ball has , riot yet been ex tracted on account ff i its having lodged in close proximity to a large , artery and be tween two of the muscles of the legs. Festival. (.' ' The ladies of the First Baptist Cnurch will hold a festival in the store m Granite How this evening Ice cream, oyters etc., will be served up to please the most fas tidious ; and during the evenirjg a novel mode of disposing of good things will be inaugurated i " ' ' 7 - i "Who Knows! There is an advertejl, letter i in' the Postoffice in this city for George Wash- ington. As the ! father I of his country has been dead for over 70 years we call upon his next of kin to'go up and get 'the letter as they way hear of j something to their interest. There is no telling about anything in these days ofjthe ''materializa tion of spirits. "Suppose,- thoughT that the F. of his C. should be 'materialized' and be walking around the1 1 country, don't you think that Zach Chandler Stanley Matthews and the "visiting; Statesmen would get it "side of the head." Comity Commissioners. The Board of County Commissioners met in regular . monthly session yester day. . .. Petition of J. M. llardwick... S. W, Noble and others, for the continuance of the old Newbern road as a public road, was granted, and S. W. Noble appointed overseer. Ordered that from and after , this date all bills will bo audited on the first Wed nesday in the month, and1 in no event will aUybills be audited at any other time. Ordered that Dr. W. W. Lane be al lowed to renew his contract at the Hospi tal for keeping kthe sick i f the county; that said contract expire on the 1st of December, 1878, the same beginning from this date. Ordered that Sheriff S. H. Manning be allowed 3Q cents per day for feeding all inmates of ti.e county jail, the same begin ning from this date. ! 7 Report of Register of Deeds) was pre sented and ordered referred to the Finance Committee. 1 Report of Committee on Poor House was ordered received and spread on the minutse and placed on file. j Report of Dr. W. W. Lane, in charge of the City Hospital,' was received and ordered on file. Ordered that the public road from the seven mile post on the Newbern road be extended to a live oak at the lower side of a small cape on the lauds' of A. R. Black. ' ! , - . Ordered that the Chairman of this Board be instructed ih furnish "nine spades akd nine shovels to the Overseers of tht plank road from the city limits to the seven mile post. I Report 'of Committee on Out-Door Poor was ordered received, spread on the minutes and placed on file.' The following was read and ordered referred to a committee of three, consisting of the Chairman and Commissioners" B. G. Worth and D. S. Sanders, to investi gate the matter and report to the Board at the earliest date : 7 i Wilmington, N. C. March 4, 1878.' To Chairman and Board i j "- County Commissioners : We, the undersigned, citizens and tax payers in New Hanover county, do - here by certify that, since the last assessment of real estate m the City of Wilmington and County of New Hanover, there has been a general reduction in the value of all real estate in said city from twenty-five to thirty-two per cent., and, jn accordance with laws 1876-77, chapter 155, taction 26, we respectfully ask that the valuation on said real estate may be reduced twenty-five per cent, at the pjext assessment, on proof on part of applicants, for I the year 1878. 7 F. W. Foster; V D. O'Connor, 7 J. K. Brown, Cronly & Morris, H. VonGlahn, 1 John L. Holmes. , Coming South. Sometime since Messrs. A. Rawson and H. Britton, of Whitings ville, Mass., were sent out on an inspecting tour through Virginia and North Carolina by parties at Whitingsville who proposed emigrating to the South. After carefully looking through Vir ginia and the Western portion of this State the gentlemen decided to locate in the old North State, stating as their reason of preference that the climate suited them mucn tetter; tnat tne iarm lanas were better adapted to their wants and that t,he mineral resources ottho soil were very rich, and when dp - ped, as they would be at no distan; , that wealth, intellect and industr ould "concentrate themselves in Western North Carolina. They were particularly pleased with the water-power of the mountainous country, which together with the fertile lands and good pasturage would eventually make North Carolina one of the wealthiest and most prosperous States of the Union. A large tract of land near Charlotte has been bought by Mr. Britton and Mr. Rawson left a few days ago for Massa chusetts to make arrangements to bring his party out to their new homes. They will bring their horses and cattle with them and Mr. i F. Wj. Clark, Genera1 Freight and Transportation Agent of the ri g t rr . i j. u. liaiiway, nas onerea , to give them any assistance in the power of his road and will cheerfully do all he can- to expedite their coming and1 comfortably settle them in their new homes among our people, i -7 : An experienced traveller says . "After a weeks sojourn at the Grand Central Hotel, I have no hesitation In saying that it is the best and cheapest first-class hotel mnew lork." iw Board of Aldermen. The Board of Aldermen met at the City Hall last evening. j . ! Finance Committee referred the applica tion of Mr. McKoy back to the Board, and' on motion of Alderman Foster, the appli cation was laid on the table. Committee on Streets and Wharves re ported progress. Committee on Alderman Hill's resolu tion, relative to codifying! the city laws were allowed further time. Sanitary Committee made a report, rec ommending the election, at this meeting of three health officers. . Alderman King moved that the Mayor appoint five health officers by the first olr April. Lost. 1 Alderman Foster moved to postpone the appointment of health officers until the next special meeting, and, under call for the previous question it was carried. Capt. I. B. Grainger, Receiver, being present, was invited to address the meet ing relative to a petition for the extension of the Carolina Central Railway wharf. That gentleman came forward and address ed the Board, and the petition was granted. The Finance committee, in the matter of the petition from the lawyers, reported that their petition would be considered in the next tax levy. Same committee reported in j the mat ter of D. M. Dart, recommending that h be paid at the rate of $50 per month. The report was amended so that Mr. Dart be raid at the rate of $90 per month, and then adopted. Committee on Public Buildings made a report of repairs upon the City Hall building, cost of repairs, &cj, which report waaaddpted. k Committee on Fire Department re ported adversely to Alderman Foster's resolutions requiring fire companies to keep record books. Report adopted. Committee on Lights roported favor ably upon the petition for a lamp on the corner of Castle and Surry streets, and on being amended to read, oil lamp, it was adopted. The following report of special com mittee in regard to Mr. London's petition was read and adopted. On the petition of M. London for pay ment for legal services rendered the city, the committee recommend that he be paid One hundred and fifty dollars in full, and further recommend that in the future, no sum greater than one hundred dollars be allowed for the prosecution of any suit or suits before the Spreme Court of the State, r6r any United States Court - held outside of the city of Wilmington. J H, G. Flanner, Ch mn. 7 II. Vollers. F. W. Foster, Report of Chief of Police, in the matter of ditches, &c, on Dry Pond, was made and adopted. . Alderman Foster's motion to reduce the police force was reported and laid oh the table. ,- Petition for an appropriation of $150, to send petitioners to Washington to soli cit an appropriation for the River and Bar Improvement, was taken up, and, after discussion, was lost. " The following resolution was Offered and adopted : Resolved, That upon all delinquent property prior to the year 1877, the tax upon which still remains unpaid upon completion of said delinquent list, no waiving of advertising be allowed. Also, that all parties waving advertising for the year 1877, who do not pay the taxes upon tne expiration or tnirty aays, tne same shall be advertised. , Alderman Flanner offered a scries of resolutions relative to not renting the City Hall, except under ' certain, conditions The previous question was called, and the ayes and nays were demanded, when the resolutions were lost by the following vote: i Ayes Aldermen Bo wden, Flanner, Myers, VonGlahn and Vollers. Xavs The Mayor, and Aldermen Foster, Hill, Lowery, and King. The Mayor explained his vote, assign in4he reasons: 1st, that it was a reve nue to the city; 2d, that it had been let for two nights next week; 3d, the petition should come from citizens in the borhood. neigh Communication from AlexanderOldham was read and referred to the Finance Com- . - I mitlee . The Mayor stated that he would soi)n be absent from the city, and it was, unani mously agreed that Alderman Vollers , b and he was duly elected Mayor pro ttm to serve during the Mayor's absence. The city Attorney was allowed to em ploy two assistant Attorneys to assist him in litigating the city suits, the assistant Attorneys not to receive more than $100 each.-1 1 J i Petition from i firemen arid others, for the establishment of fire alarms at various specified places, was referred to the Com mittee on Fire Department. Adjourned. Pender County Board of Coramission- . ers. The Board of Commissioners for Pender County met at Stanford (Burgaw) Mon day, 4th inst.. in regular monthlv session. present the Chairman, Mr. Croom, and Commissioners Shaw, Humphry, Arm strong and Tate. Resignation of L. D. Cherry, as County Surveyor, was received and accepted . II A. Colvin was thereupon duly elected to the vacancy and the Clerk of the Board was instructed to notifv him of the fact and that he come forward and qualify at the next meeting of the Board. It was ordered that $1,000 be remitted on Dorcas Atkinson's ,tax assessment in Holly Township. I The Treasurer of the ' Couuty was au thorized to pay Deliosset j & Northrop g23.0 for insurance on the Court House, The official report of C, M7 Galloway, books and furniture. , late Superior Court Clerk, was received and accepted. The matter of roads and bridges was 1 relerredj to the magistrates of the several townships. r 7, Application of poor for relief was refer red to Commissioner Armstrong, withj power to act. j Ordered, That C. M. Gallcway, late Clerk of the Superior Court, be notified to turn over-all books and papers in his of fice to R. K. Bryan, who has been duly elected, and the Clerk of the Board is here by instructed-to notify him immediately of this order, Commissioners ShaW .Croom and Armstrong voting in the affirmative and Commissioners Humphrey, and Tate in the negative. , ' . 1 Ordered, That A. vj lllorrell be al lowed until the first Monday in April to give in his official bond as Clerk of the Superior Court of Pender county. 1 ' , ' BOA.11D OF EDUCATION. The members of the Board of Commis- sioners were called together as the Board of Education, when it was j Ordered. That Win, Huffham be ap pointed a School Committeman in Rocky Point township, district No. 2, vice Thos. Hill. ' 1 I Ordered, That a petition from citi zens of Union township relative to being attached to Disjtrict No. 2, in Columbia township, be relerred to .Chairman with power to act. Ordered, That school' matters in Col- umbia township, district No. 3, be refer red to Chairman with power to act. ' Semi-Weekly Mail between Rocky Point and Long Creek. The citizens of the thrifty town of Lil- lington (Long Creek) in 'Pender have peti tioned for a semi-weekly mail in the place of their weekly mail from Rocky- Point. QurReprssentativo in Congress, Hon. A. M. Waddell, ha3 succeeded in obtaining for them such a semi-weekly mail. It will go into operation on the 16th inst., and will be a great convenience to the people alonz the route as well' 'as to the inhabitants of t Lillington and other sec tions. Other improved -mail facilities are in prospect for the new county, as Col. Waddell informs the good people of Pen der. Richly do they deserve them and Col. Waddell cannot work for a mqreap-1 preciative people. This semi-weekly mail has long been needed. Lillington is de serving and improving. I City Court. Alderman Vollers, Mayor pro presiding: ' ' tern. Henry Davis, colored, arraigned ' for disorderly conduct, was fined 2 50 ahd costs or five' days in city prison. Mary Eliza Williams, colored, for a similar offence, had a similar sentence pronounced, j , , John Dahmer and John Bigtoe, for rapid driving through the streets and disorderly conduct, were dach fined the cost3 of the! Court. i There being no further business, the Mayor pro ton., stepped down and cut and the Court stxd adjourned for the day. ' The Xew Silfer Dollar. V The design of the new dollar is said to be by far the most beautiful ever pro duced in the country. The figures and characters on the sides are intagln, and in execution as well as design surpass any thing ever before, seen on an, American coin, in elegance of proportion and beauty. Calisthenic Exerclsei. 1 Upon tho invitation of Misses Burr &r James a pleasant and appreciative1 audi ence assembled in the Rankin Hall last evening towitncss the calisthen'c cier cises of the pupils of this school, "i . The little ladies were becomingly dressell in calisthenic uniforms and presented a'very' fine appearance. It was wonderful to see them going through the exercises with a precision which could not be expected and this fact alone spoke well jor the disci pline of the school which is prompted through love, 'and not fear of the ladjet who have so long conducted this school.' Theexcrcisrs tend to develop the mus ch s and ivc that grace to woman which1 is ... much admired by the sterner sex. The txerciies.have' been reccommended by several prominent physicians of the J country and we are delighted to see that they arc.lKMU introduced into our schools generally. . Tiie instrumental and vocal music of .some of Mrs. Cushing's scholars was also very fine, and" gave .great satis faction to t lie audience who expressed their delight by well deserved encdres. ifter the exercises were . concluded the little ladies and their guests indulged !in Terpsichorean deliglits and at a scasonabio hour the dancing ceased and the guests and pupils; parted, expressing themselves well! pleased with the evening's pleasure. Postal KuHns. If. A stamped envelope-' cut opcu and used as a wrapper for a newspaper loses its. original value, and a package so enclosed cannot be so transmitted through the mail unless postage h prepaid thereon by a postage stamp of the proper denomina-! tion affixed. . After a letter has passed from the mailing office the delivery .of it cannot be delayed; but "if the writer there of requests the return of a letter placed iri a post-ofi:c3 which has no! left in. the mail, the postmaster may deliver'- it, pro vided h is furnished wit a proper evi dence that the party applying is t lie writ er. In the east; oi a letttir in transit' ibe- ' " 'I ' : i twecnithis tind an v foreign nation 'the' " i i i aforesaid regulation would only governs until said letter was placed in the1, lhands of the postal officials of the ; foreign , na tion, where it would be subject to postal regulations of such foreign nation. Now that we are on the ragged edge of . i i spring, the man who remarked last, fall that this would be a winter of unusual' severitv is entitled to the flocr. - I-''--'-, Hotel Arrivals. , 1 1 Purckll House. Wilmington; NL 0.. March 4. Cobb Bros, pronrietors. Norwood Giles, city; E C Iryin, Phila delphia; Mr and Mrs RN Reynolds, Fall River, Mass; John, P Ralle, AVra G !II Uooper, Missllalfe, liroolvlyn; GEverdell, E M Jones, V T Wilson, New York; J E Campell, Little Rock, S C; A C Mcttair, ' Robeson county; Edward. Glavm, jisorth Carolina; O S Hayos, Pates. N C. March oth F G Holt, New York; U Conklin,1 Charleston; A F Powell, White ville; II Jeff T Mason,,' wife nurse and child, U S Navy; M O Teasdale, Phila delphia; T II Tolson, Baitimore; Thos Christian, Richmond; H M Backus, Cleveland; J D Elliott, Fayettevilld. Consumutloii Cured. , An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India missionary tho formula of a simple vegetable remedy, for tho speedy and permanent cure of consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for nervous debility -and all nervous complaints, after having tested, its wonderful curative ipowcrs in thous ands of cases, 'has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Ac tuated by this motive, and a desire to re lieve human suffering, J 'will send; free of charge, ,10 all who desire it, thu? recipe Sn German, French, or English, with fall directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by add ressing with stamp, "darn ing this paper, W. W. Sherar, 12C Pow ers' Block, Rochester, N. Y. 4w 'i 1 -,'7 Mothers, Mothers, Mothers. 7 , Don't fail to procure Mrs. WnfsLCKv'a Soothing Synui for all disease? of teeth ing in children, ilt (relieves the child from pain, cures wind cqlic, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to the mother. warned, LiTTE WUITE GIRL to titti. 1 famil j. She will be properly jc&red for fcut muat be under the control of the adrertufr. ApplV at this office, i I -I ' inch & " ftnr lay; ca mado 1y V-LU t- QZU AgentM Belling our Chro mo, Crajona, and Reward, Motto, Scrip tard Text, Transparent, Picture and Chrojnoo Cardi. IOO aAoiplea, worth S4, tent postpaid or 75 cent, liloaf rated Catalogue free. , J.H.BDFirORD'agONS.lBOSTO.V. 7 may 14 (tablubedl8J0. 1 '. '': .-; 7-- ' ' I . -t
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