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VOL. VI
WILMINGTON, N. C, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1881.
NO. 66
will p Wreport any
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nUEuMEGINKET-Votice
' yRTSAVAG-Doff Ordinance
i jfc I Shbiek Keep Cool
r ff YatW Pianos
' au5SBW0KAmerican Book Exclvamge
Corner loafers are standing nuisance?.
A new strawberry joke will take tbe
9vurt ckc.
it of rest, men often tire them-
In pursa.
fjTfcf.
The failure
of one man is tb1 oppor-
ssitj of another.
Tbe sweetest hirbiagers of spring
lie organ-grin Jera.
berc is but one kind of lore, but a
thousand copies of it.
The receipts of cotton at hi3 port to"
lH foot op only 24 bales.
1 fin is indispensable to a woman
,ho can ho longer blash.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the
pablic for being eminent.
There are men who take a dozen drams
without a single scrapie.
-
Three men and two women are now
confined in the county jail.
Aminsweshis success in life to the
tananwuo walks beside him.
Decisions in law suits are rendered the'
i.mc as lard is rendered by trying.
Xo City Court this morning, nor po
lice arrests Saturday night.nor yesterday.
Tou can now buy Improved Heating and
Cook Stoves at factory priccsat Jacobi's.
To give your sn (Term g rheumatic neigh
bor a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, is true
clarity.
Go to Jacobi's lor Doors, Sash and
Blink, pure White Lead, Oils, Varnishes
WinJow Glass, all sizes. All at the lowest
pres
Capl W. H. Parker, of our city, we
reyret to learn, received notice on Sat
urday of the death of his mother at her
tome in Connecticut.
It was 2,500, and not 25,000 barrels of
rosia sold on Saturday, as was stated in
oa issue of that date. One cipher ton
many made the difference.!
Good newspapers are driving novel-
re&din? oat of prists w cwi h
age of practicability yet, and j then
there will be no fun in iivln?.
"ewcre wronz in statins that the4J
ctoryClubofSt. John's Church will
u $T0O by the Festival held last
o
The amount will notexceed $500.
ft mistake was ours.
Xt Friday, the 20th insL. U a trftn.
1 holiday. As to whether onr "oTer.
.orkd" merchants will avail themselves I
" oosemnce and the opportunity
Some Ivrr,-Qf; -.r a- i-
uu, icmama vo do Been.
B. n. J. A Tirana -
,i ""una mux wuiuicuvc
rUieait corner of .Front nr nu-V
lt' lheloer story to be a store, with
Portable halls in the second and
stories. -
. c notic that Goldsboro is taking
P toward -. . .
.
tbnrT FroTiamg a circulating
hlk liJB!Uar nterPe might ac-
Sod m oar own city and enable
ho 3 10 lmProc their leisure
Pairs on the steamer J'asspoW
vua,PM and steam
was
t .--luay w see how she work
. jeryUiiBg was satisfactory. It is
iainn. UCQ improveasUe
rtraQce and comfort.
The
r' l 6b8 wUl be raised mor
dfs3haTu beCa SWCpt M
hauling her to the top of . the
8u jTTTr ' ' :.-t. -
U J! We gave a description
Jtttorf . 10 have beended-
Wak7p 7 lbe itch-
S-T. Jordan, and
The Streets-Oarboge
Last Summer, it will be remembered,
tfaw streets of this city were very filthy
an 1 the Health Officers averred thit
there were not supplied with a sufficient
number of carts to haul the garb.ige off.
We hope that the evil will be ic iv-frfA
this summer and that p;lcd oi Vijud
and decaying vegetation will not Le per
mitted to remiin on th streets.
Tilt? ( rsrps.
The recent favorable weather baa been
of immense advantage to crops of every
description. All along th line of rail.
road3,in every direction, the labors of
the .farmer premise tor be abundantly
rjwardtd. In ?ome 'section however
the worm is making ci-nsiu. ruble havoc
among the young cotton plan's in the
upper portion of Duplin and in the tor
ders of Wavne counties.
Badly Hurt
A colored man, whose name we could
not learn, was severely hurt on Saturday
afternoon by jumping from, a train on
the. V. c W. R. It. while in motion.
He was '"booking" a ride from the depot
to the Cape Fear Tobacco Works, and
as the train passed the factory he jamped
off and was thfown violently against a
crosstie which was lying alongside of th
track. Hra head was badly hurt and it
is thought his injuries will prove fatal.
The Diocesan Convention.
The Diocesan Convention of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church convenes in
Raleigh on Wednesday next, the 18thf
inst. The clerical delegates from the
churches in this city leave here to-morrow
"morning and the lay delegates will
go up, some to-morrow nightand oth
ers on Wednesday morning. ' It is ex
pected that the attendance will be larger
than usual this year. On the first day
Wednesday, Bishop Lay, of the diocese
of Easton, Md., is to preach the Memo
rial sermon on the deceased Bishop At
kinson.
, .
Howto.De your own painter : Buy the
N. T. Enamel Paint, ready mixed and
warranted at Jacobi's. t
Capture era reultenliary Bird
Officer Jno. W. Bryant arrested this
morning Simon Gregg, colored, an es
caped cpnvict from the South Carolina
penitentiary. Gregg made his escape
about two years ago and came to this
city. About three weeks ago two of the
men wh were employed as guard3 at the
time of the escape at the penitentiary,
saw Gregg and mentioned the fact of his
escape to a colored train hand on the W P
C. & A. R. R., who upon his arrival in
Columbia notified Col. Litchford of the
whereabouts of the fugitive. Yesterday
Officer Bryant received a requisition
signed by Gov. Jarvis from Col. Litch
ford, and this morning' arrested Gregg
and turned him over to the SherifF.
Bryant will leave with'his man in a day
or two. Gregg has been running an eat
ing "shop in Paddy's Hollow since ne
came to this city.
VPhp Caa Beat Xnlil
A friend in Pender county sends us
the following interesting item:
It is well known to farmers that one
of their standing difficulties is that our
colored laborers dislike to spht rails and
but m few hands are able to split
more than one hundred and fifty
a day out of ordinary pine timber. But
there is a one armed Confederate soldier
living at Burgaw who easily splits his
three hundred rails a day out of common
pine trees. It is Mr. I. H. Brown, who
has remarkable desterity in the use of
the one arm he brought from the war,
having liost the other at the battle of
Gettysburg. He mauled that many on
last Friday, the hottest day of the year.
Wc are infprmed that he is able to go
out any day, when well, and split and
make in fence two hundred and fifty rails.
If any one-armed ex-Confederate sol
dier can equal this hard working man let
him be known. His Pender friends are
ready to bet any amount, jrom hve dol
lars up to one hundred, that, with this
one arm, he can average five hundred
rails a day ths year round out of ordi
nary pine timber. The gauntlet is
thrown. Who will take it up?
This section was visited last night by
a terrific thunder storm. There were a
number of rery sharp peals of thunder,
evidencing that something was struck
not far off, but we have heard ofjno dam
ages. There was a heavy rain which
must bare been worth thousands of del
Iarso the truckers.
Advertkement.1
A CiRD
As I have been a citizen of Wilming
ton for mauy years, and during that time
have derived Iroaa its good people a lib
eral and encouraging patronage, as well
as have enjoyed among them a character
of ut.qafehtioat d integrity, I deem it ray
duty :sOt only to myself, but to the com
munity in which I livo and which has so
ge ii' "To usly pitrortized and sustained me,
but More especi isly to those in this com
m itiiiy who have allowed long acquain
tance to ripen into frleudahip for, me, to
make this publication 1 am a private
busi tess man and expected that I would
have been spared this necessity, but my
own feeling of justice to those who hare
been vilf ly slandered with myself, con
cerning the mtters in this' publication,
kavrs we no room for hesitation no mat
ter how different from the usual course
of my private business life Uis action
may be.
With this preface, therefore, which I
hope may not be deemed inappropriate,
I have tnis te say: The report has beem
circulated that I, as superintendent,
have been guilty of misconduct, not to
say 3 corruption, in the management ef
the repairs of the Marine Hospital at
this place. Now, to those (and perhaps
there are some) who wish to believe ill
of me, and who would if possible distort
a plain, unvarnished statement to suit
the desire of their slanderous, irrespon
sible and ill-disposed minds, I have noth
ing, nor will I hereafter have anything
publicly to say.
To men of justice those who are rea
sonable, and who when they hear the
voiceof calumny will stop and consider,
will examine the facts and figures, will
investigate from whence the vile calumny
emanates, to those I address myself.
1 he following therefore are the facts
and figures of the entire matter and ot
them I challenge the'mmutest scrutiny,
emphatically assured that even the most
cursory iavestigation will satisfy any
well meaning persen, and they are the
only ones whose opinion I regard, that
not only those whose names have been
joined with mine, but myself also, have
been most crnelly, most vilely and most
shamefully slandered and calumniated. -
The total amount paid by the United
States government for repairs" of the
Marine Hospital, and labor and services
connected therewith under my supervis
ion, coveriag everything as sbawn by
the records of the Treasury Department
at Washington, is $5,8154.77. This
amount includes the salary of the watcn
man, who was employed directly from the
department at Washington before my
appointment as superintendent of the re
pairs, and my salary, I also being em
ployed directly from and by the Treas
ury Department at Washington, at a
stated sum per day, both amounting to
$1,114.00, leaving the sum of $4,750.77,
which was all paid to the following per
sons in the amounts opposite their names,
for which I hold the receipt of each per
son or firm respectively for labor or ma
terial furnished, as the case may be,
leaving therefore properly only the
amount of 4,750.77 as being disbursed
by me.
The following are the disbursements:
FOR MATERIAL.
James F. Post . .
W. E. Hill & Co. . . .
N. Jacobi . . .
Jas. H. Chadbourn & Co .
Altafl'er, Price & Co.
E. G. Barker & Co. . .
Giles & Murchison .
Worth & Worth . . .
Parker & Taylor . . .
S. S. Burtt ... . .
740 00
553 64
90 05
81 64
57 87
3G 40
32 69
24 75
19 56
14 75
51,651 35
S 346 50
315 00
101 50
205 62
174 75
- 173 25
178 94
81 80
63 00
152 00
29 00
14 00
90 19
' 68 81
7 12
4 37
7 31
FOR LABOR.
Perry M. Rice . .
Coleman Twining .
William Litchy
King McCall . .
Barton Burnett . . .
James K. Cutlar
Robert Martin
F. C. Sadgwar . . .
Wesley House . .
Moses J. Merrick .
Henry H.Hill . . .
Abram Betts .
William Whelding . . V
Samuel Clayton .
James Cultar .
James Winfield . . .
John Faison
Joseph L. Roberts and Henry
Edward, for plumbing, mate
rial and labor .
1,080 26
$3,099 42
Making for salary of self and
watchman . . . $1,114 00
For material . . . 1,651 35
For labor . . . 3,099 42
Total expenditure by U. S. .
Government . . $5,864 77
The foregoing is an exact exhibit
It was a simple business transaction. I.
was in full charge and control, and no
one in this city was connected with the
matter or had anything whatever to do
with it, either oneway or the other, ex
cept those who were paid the sum3 stated
above. The Treasury Department at
Washington employed me. I made my
reports to them direct received com
munications and instructions from them
direct, and was alone responsible to them
and no one -else had any supervision,
charge or control, even the most -remote,
over my actions in the premises, in any
way wbatcTer. The ; estimates for the
material, prices, &c., were submitted to
the Department at Washington, and the
same were approved and authorized
before any purchases were made. Tbe
bills and pay rolls were all certified and
forwarded by me to the department at
Y ashington and paid by . checks made
payable U those who famished the ma
terial and to the employed. The checks
were all turned over to the proper par
ties at once by me. In some instances
as the payments of the laborers were
monthly and they t required small suras
weekly to pay their billsjto support their
families, I advanced these small amounts
m sach cases without any compensation
or security whatever and when their
checks came to hand I cashed them at
their request upon their endorsement and
retained the amounts due me.
During the month of November last
an error occurred in the time of four of
the employees by which they were allow
ed altogether to the amount of $22 88 too
much time. In checking off the amounts
coming to these four with my time book
I discovered the mistake and deducted
the surplus and made the necessary en
tries in my books to deduct the same in
my final settlement with the Depart
ment. Ihe men, however, were of the
opinion that the money belonged to them
on tne ground that ths cnecks were
made out to them for these amounts; and
to show that I had no isiproptr interest
in the matter I paid them the amounts
previously deducted and notified the
Department, inclosing the amount of
overplus, with the request that these
amounts should be deducted from their
checks on the last payment but it was
too late. The men themselves, however,
when they understood the matter.prompt
ly refunded me the amounts, with ont
exception.
It is proper for me to state in this con
nection, as this is a full and absolutely
correct statement of the whole transac
tion, that daring my absence as superin
tendent of the repairs Mr. Joseph L.
Roberts was my manager conducting my
business, as I was not supposed to shut
up and discontinue my business on ac
count of being employed by the govern
ment; that the estimates of plumbing
material were submitted to the depart
ment at Washington and authorized to
be done and the amounts for the labor
and material of the plumbing was turned
into my business, I having Mr. J. L
Roberts and Henry Edwards regularly
in my employ and paying them a stated
salary.
Something has been said about the
charge of $1.25 for a capstone to cover
a manhole in a cesspool. The stone
was individual property, not the prop
erty ot the government, and the price
($1.25) was an exceedingly reasonable
one and was a charge in connection with
the plumbing. It seems to me that per
sons must be hard up to find fault when
they make a charge of that small value
a cause for it. These are the facts in
the matter,honestly and candidly stated,
and to them I call the attention of my
friends and those of the community (who
are well disposed, and the great majori
ty of them are) who may have heard the
vile and unfounded slanders that have
been circulated against me for some
weeks past. Respectfully,
D. M. Dart.
D. M. Dart, being duly eworn, says
that the facts set forth in the foregoing
statement are true to the best of his
knowledge and belief.
Sworn and subscribed before me, '.this
the 14th day ot May, lboL.
S. .Van Ajirinqk,
Clerk Superior Court, New Hanorer
Louaty.
Well Said!
The Newberniant of last Saturday's
date, pays the following handsome trib
ute to the memorial address delivered
intiat city last Tuesday by Col. Burr:
The address of Col. James G. Burr, of
Wilmington, the orator of the day, was
most admirably conceived and forcibly
and gracefully delivered; it was chaste,
refined, pure and classical, and stamped
Col. Burr as a ripe scholar and polished
speaker; it was listened to throughout
with, wrapt attention, and won the ad
miration and approval of all, and was
pronounced by competent judges, one of
the finest eulogies of the kind ever de
livered in this city; the peroration was
peculiarly appropriate, and in its simple
beauty and grace was truly sublime. We
in common with the citizeis of Newberm
return to Col. Burr oir sincere thanks,
and tender our kindest wishes lor his fu
ture happiness and prosperity.
Al tiuue and Abroad.
The May issue of At Home and
Abroad has been at hand for a week or
more. It is a an excellent number, bet
ter, we think, than the initial issue.
Professor Ton Jasmond concludes his
rather heroic sketch of Bismarck; Dr.
Bernheim give3 us a few chapters from
his travels abroad; Mr. Norwood Giles
tells us all about the turkey buzzard and
Col. Waddell contributes a sketch of
Waccamaw Lake and the legends and
traditions pertaining thereto, told so
quaintly and so hnmoronsly that we
would be glad to give it to our readers
had we the space, hoping that its perusal
would afford them as much pleasure as it
did U3. These are the salient features
of the issue but the departments are all
fall,nelping to make op a Tei7 interest
ing issue. -
District Conferences
The District Conferences of the North
Carolina Annual Conference of the
Methcdist K. Church, South, convene
as follows for the present y.-ar:
Warrenton Dist , at Weldon
Washington Dist., at Washing
ton . . .
Hillsboro Dist , at Pittsboro, .
Wilmington Dist., at Elizabeth
town.
May 12
May lg
July 7
July 7
Faretteville Dist . at Carthage, July 14
Kaleigh Dist, at Gary, . . July 21
Charlotte Dist., at Monroe, . . July 28
SUtesville Dist., at Newton, . . July 28
Greensboro Dist., at Kerners-
Tille, . July 28
Salisbury Dist, at ML Tabor, Aug 11
Shelby Dist, time not yet appointed.
Troublesome Children
that are always wetting their beds ought
not to be scolded and punished for what
they cannot help. They need a medicine
having a tonic elect on tbe kidneys and
the urinary organs. Such a medcine is
Kidney Wort. It has specific action.
Do not fail to get it for them.-xciane
MARRIED.
snORT ME ARES In St John's Church,
Wilmington, N. C, on Thursday, Mayl2tb,
by the Kev. Thomas D. Pitts, assisted by the
Rev. Geo. Patterson, D. D., HENRY B.
SHORT, Jr., to MAUT ALLAN, daughter
of Horn. O. P. Meares. No cards.
Hew Advertisements.
Lime and Shingles
1KOfi BBLS. FRESH LIME AND
fJKjyj Cement at low figures.
O SHINGLES, very low.
U,UiJU WOOD 50c to 70c per load.
may 10-St
J. A. SPRINGER.
Received this Horning
LARGE LOT OF FLOWERS for
Miilinery aid evening wear ; also Ladies'
Llaea Ulsters.
MISS E. KARRER,
may IS No C Ssuth Front Street
Notice.
TTAVrvo rmr.v oTTAT.TFTTrn tv tttt?
1 proper Court as the executrix of &e
last win ana testament oi the late .Levin
Megimney, notice ia hereby given to all per
sons having claimi against my said testator,
to present the same te me ou r before the
15th day of May, A. D.f 1882, or this notice
will be pleaded In bar of a recovery. All
persons indebted to the estate will please
make immediate payment.
VALERIA MEGINNEY,
mayl6-law6w-mon Executrix
Keep Cool.
A
ND THE SUREST WAY to do that is
by coming out in full Summer costume,
BOUGHT AT SHRIEK'S,
Clothing Emporium ou Market street.
We are selling all of our goods at ex
travagantly low prices ; the stock is full
and must be sold.-Call early and make
selections at
A. & I. SHRIER'3,
may 16
)
Market street
Office Treasurer & Collector.
City of Wilmington, Kt C.
May 10th, 13S1
Doe Ordinance.
mHE DOG ORDINANCE of the city goes
iato effect on the ICifc day of June next.
All parties interested are hereby notified
that Badges cen be procured on application
at this office. HENRY S A. VAGE.
mayl6-2tsac Treas. &Tax Col.
i Pianos.
jjAYlira BSfiN APPOINTED BOLE
Acoat for the sde of tha D ?CK Ell t IAN08,
I womM aaaoaaee to the public that they
earn bo seem at my Warerooxs Th-s Pjaros
are ma rivalled as to tome and fiiih. We in
vito UnUeUai sal the publio to examine
the iMtrwmenta critically. Ther can te
obtaiMd tor le mosey than aaj other
rinVCtact PUao. We will alio have ia
stoek a ehsaper grade of Piaaoi ia a few
oys
C. W. Yates' Book Store.
American Book Exchange
mHB 0BCAPS3? PUBLISHING Hos e
im Amcriew -All Boikx pubIL ei bj tie
AJBtrieiB Book Exeaiag e are f r tali at ?
HEIY 4BKRQE&'
Live B. ok rita.-e
Fianoa and Organs,
LARGE ASSOiTMZST jut received,
aad for sale oa the popular Hoi tb!y Instal
msat Flan at
' wT 1 Uto Dook and lloxic Store
: y
17e7 Advortiscmonta.
Editor Review : 1
QBLIGE A SUBSCRIBER by stating to
ihe readers of your excellent. paper, that '
OTTERBOURG, owing to the rush of bail
ee's during the past week, was uuable to
get out as usual his regular advertisement.
I make the explanatory reque-t in his be
half, knowing, the dUa.iutMent man,
will experience ho peruse every Monday
Otterbourg'e ORIGINAL v sayings. TcU
them further, in behalf of the "MEN'S
WEAR DEPOT", thit OTTERBOURG he a
just rczeived an decent line of DRAP
D'ETE SUITS, the best at 613.00; also
SILK ALPACCA FROCK and SACC
COATS, ranging in price from $1.00 to
$5.00. Mention the "MIDDLESEX" BLUE
FLANNEL SUITS, bearing the tag cot
taii:ii,g original guarantee from manufac
turers, as to substantiality oi color; NONE
GENUINE WITHOUT TAG ON SLEEVE;
price $12.50. Impress upon their miads the
advisability cf buying Clothing and' all
Men's TTear from OITERBOURG'3 "Iron
Front Store", the headquarters for Style
and Quality. And this deponent will be "
entirely tathfled with the Ood results ac
cruing from such 'statement; laaylfi -
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.?.
ON THE FIRST OF JUNE, or
sooner if necessary propose lo
establish a regular System of Do
livery for
THE CQUVmiEUCZ CF HESI0ENTS
CH THE DirFERENT SOUNDS.
I will deliver free of any oxpenro
whatever, all goo Js bought of me ,
at either Masonboro, Greenvillo'cr
Wrightsville Sounds, my Wagon
leaving my Store every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
This being rather a now depart-,
ure, and of ths greatest benefit lo
the many families summering it on
our Seashore, I hopo my under
' "
taking may bo rewarded by receiv
ing many orders from all.
Bespectfally,
JNO, 1,80 ATWH10HL
Ios. II & 13 N. Front St
RED CESAR PACKING CHESTS,
SASH, DOORS AHD BLINDS,
RACKET3, MOULDING, LUMBER, &o
ALL SIZES WINDOW GLASS,
AT
ALTAFFEB, PIUCE & GO'S. I
Factory:
Foot Walnut at.
ma j. IS
OlSc
Nu?, near Red CroeYs
PASSEKGER3 FUR SMlTHVULE
GAN FIND PRIVATE AND TRAN!
stent board at Mrs. Davia' on the water
front. The table w 111 be supplied with flsh, "
crabe, oysters, etc. The rooms are clean,
neatacd airy. Board per day $2, Single
Meal 50 cents.
TSJ" Bath House free to boarders
MRS. E3DIA J. DAVI3.
OW RAftld For au. ktaai of fnut r
Persons reridtssr oat cf tae elty cm' JTTw
their prlitisiz euefoliy exsssul ana naUcd
to thea;trs cf posits