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THE IIOMIIIIQ OTAE. by wn. n. be&naui. PUBLISHED DULT EXCEPT MONOartt. eitcs or iDuourmHi m advamob : oneydar, (by mailt postage pabU. ft w HU month, v " 00 rarwo months " - " IM Oae month ' " t 00 To City Subscriber, delivered In any part of the ctiy. Fifteen Cents per week. Oar City Agenta are aot authorised to collect fer mere than three meat m advance. Entered at the Poet Office at Wilmington, N. U., aa second daaa matter. , OUTLINES. The Republicans of Maine will teat tbe legality of the House orgaaizilioo Blaine ia reported to have had a violent fit; physi cians were with him for five hours; startling developments are expected when the Bribery Committee net to work The military power la conspicuous at Au gusta, Maine, and the distrust increases; Wallace B. White, a Republican lawyer. Is the name of the would be briber. Frauds to the amount of $31,000 were dis covered in the New York Produce Ex change; the defaulter' name is Benj. C Bogert, and he died suddenly, supposed suicide. Hamilton Fish was elected President of the New York Uoion League Club. Col. Nicholas Brewer, oldest survivor of war of 1S?2 in Maryland, is dead. Manchester market is quieter. Fifteen Afghans have been executed; the other prisoners have been released. Herr Pretoria. ex-President of Trans vaal, has .been arrested for high treason. Get,. Chamberlain has issued an order announcing that in view of tbe extraordi nary condition of affairs he would assume command of the Stale government of Maine and proitciibe public property, &c t until a successor to the late Governor is legally elected and qualified. The Senate committee investigation into the negro exodus movement will begin uext week; witnesses will be summoned from this State and Indiana. Senator Blaine, of Maine, is implicated on the. charge of bribery made against certain Republican members of the Legislature of that Si ate; in a persona statement to the agent of the Associated Press he denies the charge; the Kusiuniat leaders appear anxious at tbe sit-, nation of affairs; fears are entertained that the Republican will swoop down ou them and capture the government. A Texas madman killed one man, wounded another, and tbeu killed himself. A col lision of trains occurred yesterday in Baltimore, with no serious result. New York markets: Money 64 per ceoL; cottou steady at 12 13-1612 1516c; Southern flour quiet and heavy at $6 00 8 50; wheal dull and heavy and l2c lower; corn closed weak at 5750c; spirits turpentine dull and lower at 46461c; rosin firm at $1 G5l 70. No Raleigh News in three days and but one copy in six. What is to pay? The dry goods business io New York is light. Prices firm. Foreign Hoods chill aud steady. TheBalliniore Gazette has rather improved in interest since it came down to a one cent paper. An Irish relief meeting has been held in Norfolk, and a committee ap pointed to solicit subscriptions. The latest Washington talk about the appointment of a Minister to En gland is that Stanley Matthews is the man. A Republican anti third term club has been formed at Albany, New York. This, mind you,in Lord Roacoe Conkliug's beat, at that. The Kellogg contested election case is to come up soon. The opinion in Democratic circles in Washington it that he will be ordered "to step down and out." Another collision occurred on the New York Elevated Railroad, but fortunately no persons were. injured. The guards saved the trains from falling mto the street.- We prefer to walk. Representative March is the only member of Congress who is now on duty in Washington from the rebel lions and bellicose State of Maine. The remainder are doing guard duty at home under General Blaine and Captain Hamlin. John McCullough drew a big house in Richmond, Va. The play, "Vir ginias was admirably rendered, the State says. He is to play Othello to Mr. Ward's Iago. A large house awaits Mr. McCullough if be will visit Wilmington. The. Supreme Court of Virginia sustains the decision of the Hastings Coirt of Richmond in "every point in the Poindexter case that attracted so moch attention. Poindexter will go to the penitentiary where be mast serve two years unless ho is pardoned or dies. Mr. Archibald Forbes, the most famous and successful of English newspaper correspondents, went to Dublin the latter part of December to-thtrer a lecture. Four years be fore he had written some severe let ten about Ireland and its people. The result waa be did not. lecture. VOL. XXV. NO. 93. Many of our readers will remem ber Rev. Samuel S. Bryant, one of the most eloquent, superbly endowed Methodist preachers of the South. His sermons were fine, and his lite rary lectures aud addresses of marked excellence. This gifted man has just died in Kansas.' His death occurred on December 2 8 lb. We do not know hts nativity. Wo do not think he was boru in' this State, although he was for a long time connected with the North Caroliua Conference, M. E. Church, South. According to Mr. Tom Keogh Grant talked freely on his trip through this State about our manu facturing .and mineral resources. The Baltimore, Sun's special from Wash ington thus gives Keogh's account of "the strong man's" talk: "He expressed the opinion thai there was a great future io store for the South if the people of that section would give attention to manufactures, and to the adoption of all meanr for the developing of the coal, gold, iron and other rich metal deposits which may be found io North Carolina and seve ral other States of the South." The Louisville Courier Journal is responsible for the assertion that a machine very much like the Clement Attachment was in operation in the South more than forty years ago. Who invented it, where was it used, who saw it? If this is true then any one can make and sell the Clement machine. We shall uot believe all this until we see more. The military of Maine have now possession of the State. There is no Governor, and a militia General is sues his orders and assumes command. If this is uot revolution what is it? The civil authority has ceased and buttons and bayonets rule the day. Attention! Shoulder, arms! For ward, .guide right, maroh! Rub a da dub! Commissioner LeDuc wants to be a member of Hayes's Cabinet. Has the Agricultural man a hankering after fraud ? Seud him to Maine or Louisi ana. Tbe Commissioner thinks the head of the Agricultural Department should be a Cabinet officer. It is said Senators Davis and Windom favor his project. There is a hi scare among Penn sylvania railroad officials. Uncle Samuel Jones Tilden is said to be about to get possession of the Penn sylvania Railroad. Ho and friends have formed a syndicate to that end. That old man and his "barls" are a power in politics and railroads "certain sure.' Little Ewgeen. Hale kicked the Republican fat in the fire when he stayed in- and signed the roll, thus giving the anxious Fusionists enough to form a quorum. They do say that "cubs, words' are flying like brick bats around the head of little Ewgeen. "He had'nt ought to have done so." Spirits Turpeijxine. The expenses of Duplin county in 187d were $5,972.69. Nearly six miles of the Oxford & Henderson Railroad is graded. Nearly half done. The Goldsboro Messenger is booming. It claims a bona fide subscrip tion list of 3,113 copies. Very good in deed. Raleigh mortuary statistics for 1879 show 126 deaths 54 white and 75 col ored. Charlotte Observer. That was for six months only. Stab. Goldsboro Messenger'. Fourteen hundred sacks of salt were received at Morehead City, one day-last week, and shipped over the North Carolina line via Charlotte, to Augusta, Gs. Raleigh Visitor: Of the thirty one applicants for law license, at this term of tbe Supreme Court, seven of tbe number were educated at Trinity College, all of whom passed successful examinations. Ex Speaker Moring, of Chat bam, was bitten on the band by a hog, and he is now ill from erysipelas. Cnlef Jus tice Smith Is still confined to his bouse. Mr. T. H. 8elby, of Raleigh, is very low. James Culbretb, a miller at T. L. Emry's mill at tbe canal locks, five miles above Weldon, was drowned Tues day night, but "whether accidental or not has not yet transpired. He was from Vir ginia. New Berne Democrat: We speak advisedly and, knowingly, when we say, tfeat with tbe Northern merchant, the name of ifew Berne is a by-word and a reproach; this is certainly humiliating to every citizen of New Berne who has one spark of town pride. The Rockingham Spirit tells of a lively serenade In Utah section. Little Ri ver, Richmond county. A mock serenade, wKh bells, horns, &c.,wae given to a daugh ter of Mr. Nash, who had recently married. Old man Nash didn't fancy it, so he opened Are with a double-barrel gun. List of casual ties four wounded in the legs. Nash was put under bond. ' New Berne Nut Shell: John Weeks, a colored boy, who was employed in Capt. Gray's plate factory In this city. Was woxklsg around a log-cutting machine when all the Angers on his left band were WILMINGTON, caught in a cog-wheel . and almost com pletely cut off. Several large lota of corn have' been sold' since our last report; 58 cents by tbe cargo. Charlotte Democrat: Mr. Ham ilton D. Smith, of Steel Creek Township, in this county, informs us that he raised thirty-two bales of cotton off of twenty-five acres of land. He used a small quantity of commercial fertilizers, but made on the farm most of his manure. ' When such re sults as that can be -accomplished here why will men be so foolish as to move to Texas, or to any other section under the sun ? Mr. Smith's case is not an isolated one. Mrs. A. J. McQueen sued for a divorce in Richmond court on the ground of cruel treatment. Much interest attached to the suit. The Rockingham Spirit says: The complainant is Mr. -McQueen's second wife, and is, perhaps, a score of years his junior. Mr. McQueen had several children by his first wife andtwo by wife No. 2. Both parties are of -good "family, each of them having two brothers engaged in the ministry. The jury , were out some three hours and rendered a' verdict for the plain tiff, Mrs. McQueen. But from this decision the defendant was granted an appeal to the Supreme Court. Goldsboro Mail: A mad dog at Rocky Mount, ou the 20th Inst., bit a ne gro boy and several dogs and hogs, which were lulled or shut up. Mr. H. J. Mc Duffle will, on the third Wednesday of this month, begin the publication of a weekly Saper in FayettevUle, to be called the Cape Tear Banner. Its politics will be Demo cratic. The Chairman of the Inferior Court in Granville, in a charge to the grand jury, on Monday of this week, said,' among other things, that, with perhaps one or two exceptions, there had been no indictments in that county during the last fifteen years for a capital felony. Raleigh Observer: We have a nobleman among us. A New York paper says that "Burke's Peerage" states that "the present Baron Fairfax, of Cameron, in the peerage of Scotland, is a native born American citizen, who has always resided in America. According to the above au thority, bis lordship is a medical practi tioner somewhere down in North Carolina. Revenue Agent O.'H. Blocker has been ordered by telegraph to New Orleans on special duty, and will be absent two or three weeks from this State. The Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina will meet on the 22d of January, instant, at 7 ;30 o'clock, P. M., in the Governor's office in the Capitol. The object of this meeting ia to perfect the or ganization and increase the efficiency of tbe Association. Mr. Wo. A. Bobbin, of Tally Ho township, came to Oxford Wed nesday on business, apparently in good health. He was taken suddenly ill during the day and died this morning. Mr. B. was about fifty -eight years old, and was a highly and respected farmer. The following citizens of Gran ville held Judgeships: Leonard Hender son, Chief Justice of North Carolina; John Williams and Robert B. Gilliam, Judges of the Superior Court of the State; and Henry Potter, who afterwards removed to Fay ettevUle, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of North Carotin-. Robert H. Burton, a native of the county, was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina from the Salisbury District. The following natives of the county held judicial office in other States: Broomfield Ridley, Chancellor of the Middle District of Tennessee; John J. L. Sneed and Micajah Bullock, Judges of the Superior Court of Tennessee; L. Q. Dubruler, Judge of tbe Superior Court of Indiana; and Robert Goodloe Harper, Chancellor of Maryland. Oxford lorch light. (One important name is omitted, that of Judge Richard Henderson, father of tbe Chief Justice and his illustrious brother Archibald, of Salisbury. Mr. Harper lived in Granville at one time, as did Bishop Ravenscroft, who died and is buried there, but neither were native. Stab.) Goldsboro Messenger: Mr. Ar nold Borden has seventeen acres in straw berries this season. The tobacco area will be considerably increased this season In this section. There are in all six teen prisoners confined in our county jail fifteen colored and one white. Two of the colored, are charged with murder. Alex. Howard is under sentence of death, but awaita the action of the grand jury. A little negro girl, about seven years old, was killed in Bentonsville township, John stone county, by a negro boy fourteen years old, on Sunday, the 28th ult. It is the old story, he didn't know the thing was loaded. We learn that the boy fell oat with the girl while they were playing together, and seized the gun to scare her, when it went off, and the whole load passed through the girl's bead,, just below the eye, killing her in stantly. He was taken to Smitbfield jail. The Board of Directors of tbe Colored Insane Asylum will meet here on Thurs day, the 23d inst Gen. Ransom's farce is now at work near Broad hurst's Landing, in this county, and all who wish to see mon ster logs tossed out of the river should make good of the opportunity. We witnessed a novel sight at William Bonitz's Hotel yes terday two live monster eagles and three live eats all together in one cage, and all of them eating off a big chunk of beef together. A telegram has been received here from the sheriff of Craven county.asking that the negro Ben Hill alias Ben Williams, now in, the jail at this place, aad whose arrest in Sampson county we noticed last wesk, be held until he can send for him. We lssrn that he stands charged with wife murder in that county. Charlotte Observer: Before the expiration of the present month IConnty Treasurer Belk will have paid tbe last of the debt of the county contracted by the issuance in 1857 and lt or f 50,000 o bonds, for the coostruclioa'of the Wilming ton, Charlotte & Rutherfordton (now tbe Carolina Central) Railway,, falling due in 1878 and 1879, and on Which interest at tbe rate of 7 percent per annum has been paid. A story comes np from Greensboro. We tell it as . 'tis told Jiere. They had a leap year hop, it will he remembered. Now it happens that a very large number of young people In that .town do not engage in tbe exhilarating dance. Some of them were implored to break over just this once, but persistly refused until it was agreed that an organ should "play a part" in the music to kinder; tone down the tbintr,you know. It Is learned here that a-man named Jeff London, son of Mr, Ned Lon don, of Clesveland, was arrested in Cleave land county two days since, charged with having been connected with the burglaries recently , committed In Shelby. Some of the stolen property was found in his possession. He was detected in an effort : to dispose of it, but . asserts that ho gt ft ttom a man named Calvin Wilson. London is a young man and a wild, reckless character. Miss Pome- roy broke her engagement in Raleigh to go to Salem. Just too ;bad. Mr. Jacob A Ramseur, an old and highly respected citizen of Llacolnton, died at his residence day before yesterday afternoon of paralysis, and was buried yesterday. Tbe barn of Mr. John L.Thtfer, a1 substantial brick structure, in Llncolntonwas - entirely de N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1880. stroyed by fire two days since. The origin of the conflagration is supposed to have been accidental. The following items were gathered at the collector's office at Statesville: Receipts for December, $59, 788.40, 718 gallons of spirits, 7,500 eallona of beer, 125 gallons stngllngs, eight stills and fixtures, and one wagon and two horses were seized; shipped from this district, 53,995 gallons of spirits, an increase of 12, 820 gallons, over, last month, and 34,433 gallons over December, 1878. THE CITY. NBW AOVBBTHB1BEPIT8. Munson Overcoats, &c. Hkinsbergeb Blank books. Cronlt & Morbis Bananas. O. Ditson & Co. Music books. Fist Nat. Bank Dividend declared. Local Data. Flies were in greater numbers in our office yesterday than in July last. Capt. W. J. Potter leaves for the Bahamas to-day,on tbe British schooner Julia Elisabeth. It will be seen by advertisement that,the Directors of the First National Bank of Wilmington have declared a divi dend of three per cent., payable on and after tbe 12th inst. In our extra issued yesterday at 1 p. m., giving a brief account of the hang ing, together with the confession of the doomed man, we used the term "yester day," when we should have said totay. To-Day'a Indication. For the South Atlantic States, northeast veering to warmer southeast winds, falling followed by rising barometer, partly cloudy and clearing weather, preceded by occa sional rains. The friyetery Solve The Body Fount The body of Samuel Davis, the colored man whose mysterious disappearance was aliaded to in the Star on more than one , occasion during the past week, was found about twelve or fifteen miles up the North East river, on Wednesday eveniag last, by Mr. T. B. Burnett. Mr. Burnett arrived here Thursday night and reported the cir cumstance to Coroner Hewlett, who dis patched some men up tbe riveryesterday to bring the remains to this city, where they were expected to arrive last nih,his inten tion being to holdan inquest over the body this morning. Mr. Burnett reports that there were no indications of violence about the body, sa far as he could see. Aeeaalt with Shaath Knife. A while man by tbe name of Charles Peterson was before Justice Hill, yesterday, on the charge of committing assault and battery upon the person of a young colored woman by the name of Kitty King. It was brought out in evidence that the diffi culty originated in the refusal of tbe dusky Kilty to go to South Carolina with him and get married. Peterson was required to give bond in the sum of $50 for his appearance at the next term of tbe Criminal Court, in default of which he was committed to jail. mayor Court. A party, evidently hailing from the rural districts,was arraigned for drunkenness and ordered to be discharged, tbe Mayor being satisfied that he didn't mean any harm by it. Georgiana Gause, an old offender of the colored persuasion, was up for being drunk and down. She was ordered to pay a fine of $5 or go below for lea days. Wm. Norment, colored, was arraigned for disorderly conduct at Mr. H. Haar's store, yesterday morning. Decision re served. mortnmrr statfatlea usee Store. We have before us the official mortuary report of Dr. J. C. Walker, Superinten dent of Health, which givts the total nam ber of deaths in Wilmington for 1879 at 863, of which 124 were whiles and 239 col ored. Of this number, 5 whites and 16 colored were still-born infants. . Our report, as published in our last issue, gave the ac tual number of interments in Oakdale, Bellevde and Pine Forest cemeteries o wit: 404. Thermometer Record The following will show the state of the thermometer, at the stations mentioned, at 4.81 yesterday evening, Washington mean time, as ascertained from the dally bulletin issued from the Signal Office in this city: Atlanta 52 Augusta 61 Charleston, 68 Charlotte .49 Corsicana, 71 Galveston .73 Havana.. Indianola, 75 Jacksonville 76 Kev West 79 Mobile... 70 Montgomery . . . . .73 New Orleans,. . . .72 PnntaRassa 76 Savannah. ...... .66 Wilmington 56 Free Exhibition. Daniel Howard, jailor, requests us to say that, as there are so many desirous of in specting the' gallows upon which Allen Mathis perished yesterday, ho will open the gates to-day to all who want to take a look at it. - ( HIVKK AND lWAfeSlNB. The bark Stanley sailed "from Liver pool, last Thursday, for this port. ;. The British brig Gem, Dakin, hence, arrived at G lasgo w on the 0th inst. The steamship Regulator, Doane, from this port, arrived at New York on trie 7th instant There had been a. two-inch rise in the river on Thursday, when the Gov. Worth hit Fayettcvilley.but the river is quite low. - r The bark j : S. Ward, Atkinson, and schooner John Douglass, Parker,' both load ed with guano, sailed from Navassa for this iport on the 20th ult. THE DEATH PENALTY! Execution of Allen mathis for tho BM, arder or Hon ben Herring Full Particular of the Haaslac-Ooa loaalon or the Condemned Nan, &c, dee. Yesterday Allen Mathis, colored, who was convicted at the December term of the Supetior Court of New Hanover county of the murder of one Reuben Herring, col ored, near Burgaw, Pender county, in Sep tember, 1878, and whose case was removed from Pender to New Hanover, expiated bis crime on the gallows in this city. The trial of Mathis came up ou Wednes day of the term, and the prisoner was ably defended by Messrs. Edwin T. Boykin, of Sampson, and Bruce Williams and J. T. Bland, of Pender; ' the prose cution being conducted by Captain Swift Galloway. The evidence showed a state of bad feeling between the parties, superin duced by criminal intimacy previously ex isting between Allen Mathis and Lucy Her ring, the wife of the murdered man. This culminated, finally, in the murder f or which Mathis stood charged. The case was given to the jury the same evening, and in a short time they returned a verdict of guilty, where- upon his Honor, Judge Eure, sentenced the prisoner to be hanged on Friday, the 9th of January, between the hours of 11 and 2 o'clock. Same of tbe ministering brethren, together with Jailor Howard, remained with him until a late hour Thursday night. Yester day morning he stated to the j ailor that he spent the remainder of the night very com fortably; that be felt Of a surety that' the Lord bad pardoned him, and that he was ready and willing to die. He ate for his breakfast a biscuit and a piece of fried fish, and drank a cup of coffee, and seemed more cheerful his last morning than he had since his conviction. Rev. C. O. Brady, Episcopal; Rev. J. G. Fry, Methodist; Rev. G. W. Price, . Methodist; Rev. D. G. Sanders, Presbyterian; Rev. Cornelius Sampson, Methodist; aod Rsvs. Conway and Morton, Baptists, of the colored minis ters, and Rav. J. P. King, Methodist.white, visited him during the morning and re mained with him, singing and praying, un til the last moment. For tbe past two or three weeks different ministers of the city have, been in daily at tendance upon the doomed man in his prison cell, endeavoring, io bring him to a sincere repentance of bis sins, and espe cially of the grievous one for which he was so soon to suffer. He appeared anxious to experience relief from the heavy burden of condemnation that waighed down his soul, but it was hot until a few hours before bis execution that he was able to say that all was well with him. Notwithstanding the fact that the execu tion was to be strictly private, about two thousand persons, principally colored, as sembled on Fourth and Princess streets, in the vicinity of the jail, many of them standing there for two hours or more, eagerly waiting and watching to get a glimpse of tbe condemned man as he was taken from the sidedoor of the prison to tbe scaffold. During this time a colored woman got to shouting very lustily, - and created considerable excitement among the colored people. Many of tbe latter class of the population were loud in their condem nation of the privacy attending the execu tion, whilst others were noising it around that those who went in had to pay t twenty five cents for a ticket of admission . At 11 A M. tbe persons provided with tickets were admitted to the jail enclosure, and nearly all of them proceeded at onceto inspect the gallows. This was erected immediately In the rear of the jail, and was so enclosed that only those inside and upon the platform could witness tbe execution. ' Tbe enclosure was about fifteen by twelve feet and the platform was reached by a flight of steps. In the centre of this plat form was a. trap door four feet square, working upon hinges, aad when closed rest ing upon a wooden bolt which was with drawn by working, a lever at the bead of the flight of stairs. The Sheriff and his. as sistants arranged the: rope a 'half-inch new manills, well lubricated so as to give jthe condemned man a fall of eight feeL At 12 o'clock Mathis was brought out of the jail and mounted the steps to the plat form, attended by the jailor and the colored ministers who had been with him all the morning. He was a bright, intelligent looking young negro, brown in color, and apparently about 80 years of age. His arms were tied and he was dressed in jacket and pants of brown jeans, which were new and apparently provided for the oceasiqn; but he was bare-headed and bis shoes were old and . worn. He mounted tbe steps quietly and without assistance, but when he reached the platform and saw the preparations made for his death, his color seemed to turn a shade lighter, to a ghastly Pkshy hue, and his agitated and tremulous manner betrayed his deep emotion. He took his position upon the trap, and the Sheriff in a firm voice read the finding of the Court and the certificate of the clerk. Mathis was then asked by Sheriff Manning if he had anything to say. He responded that he bad told the truth about the mat ter, and that he felt that, he had made his peace with his God. With closed eyes he continued to repeat "God have mercy upon me." while a .hymn was .sung, beginning "There is a fount;" After the hymn, prayer was offered by Rev. J. G. Fry, one of the colored ministers, the prisoner kneeling, and with closed eyes continually . repeating Jdiiavemerc', ."."V,; After the completion of the prayer Mathis arose from hU'kneeliog'position and said: WHOLE NO: 3,871 "I am much obliged to all the ministers. I have nothing against anybody." A prayer was then read by Rev. C. Q. Brady, of St. Mark's Episcopal church, at the conclusion of which the ministers all advanced and shook, hands with Mathis, bidding him good-bye. He said that be was much obliged to them for what they had done for him, and asked them to sing "I want to hear sweet singing when I die," said;he. Tbe Sing ing of hymns was then resumed. During its continuance the Sheriff advanced, adjusted the straps upon . the prisoner's limbs, and shaking. handa with Mathis bade him fare well. Mathis responded to the Sheriff with a firm voice, bidding him good-bye, and adding that he bad nothing against him. He also shook hands with tbe jailor aod thanked him for his kind treatment. As the Sheriff adjusted the black cap over Ma this' head and then the fatal noose, the hands of the prisoner trembled violently, and it was evident that only by a strong ef fort was he able to control himself. At twenty minutes past 12 o'clock the Sheriff pulled the lever, the wooden bolt flew back, the trap dropped, and Mathis' body fell with a loud thud and spun around in the air. There was but slight motion of the body, merely a muscular contraction and a tremulous movement of the extremi ties, which lasted a few moments, then all was still and the corpse dangled idly in the air. After hanging ten minutes the body was exsmined by Drs. Walker and Lane. The pulse was stilled, but a faint motion of the heart was thought to be perceptible. Two minutes afterwards, however, Mathis was pronounced dead, the rope was cut and tbe body lowered into the coffin. His neck was broken by tbe fall, although the hang man's knot had slipped from under the left ear' around to the back of the neck. The Sheriff's arrangements -were very complete. There were admitted inside of the Jail yard about forty or fifty persons, exclusive of the guard. Shortly after the body had been placed in tbe coffin the remains, were put in a wagon and taken to the "Potter's Field," just outside tbe southern limits of the city. The following confession was made to Depu'y Sheriffs Daniel Howard and T. C. Miller, and taken down at thetime by Rev. C. O. Brady, one of the ministers in attend ance: "I was intimate with Lucy Herring about four years. Last December, two years ago, I was arrested, charged with criminal inti macy with Lucy Herring. There was no bad feeling between myself and Reuben Herring, deceased. Reuben Herring bad abandoned Lucy about the lime that I first became intimate with her. Lucy came to my house with Tom Hayes on a Sunday, the very day of the mur der. Tom Hayes wrote a letter for her and left Tom Hayes had left about three or four minutes when I came out on the piazza and discovered a man in ttte bushes. I went back in tbe house andogot a gun and walked out in tbe field. I told him hot to come to me. He came up cursing -and swearing, and drew back his stick and struck at me. I fended the blow off with the gun, walking backwards until I got a chance to run,: and he ran after me. I ran into the bouse and threw-The gun down; then grabbed an axe and struck him with it about tbe hip the first blow; be advanced on me and I struck him about the bead as he was coming up to me. As I dealt him the third blow he fell to the ground. I let him lie there about fifteen minutes, and then he was about dead.- I took him up then and buried him in the well, and Lucy said, "Let's hide him, and if you will not tell it I will not do it." And then I said, "Well, if you don't I will not;" and then she went home and came back and prevailed upon me if I would never tell it she would not. I saw her several times af terwards, and she would tell me to "Keep ill Keep it!" About five weeks afterwards I saw her, and she said to me that - they were going to arrest her. about it, and asked me what to do about it. I told her I did not know;, and then she said, "If they do I'll tell them that he is gone away," and then I told her that I would go off .end get a letter written and make out like he had gone away, and she said, "All right !" and told me to write the letter back to her and she would take it and show it; and then went over South river and got a letter written back to her in the name of Reuben Herring by Mr. C. Melvin. This is the only crime I ever have committed. . "I was raised at John Mathis', on Little Coharie, in Sampson- county. My mother and father are dead. I have one sister living. She is in Sampsod county. I formerly belonged to John Mathis; he raised me. I am a cooper by trade." This is the first execution that has taken place in this city since February 28th, 1868, when William Wright Parker was banged for the murder of William Childress in 1863. Babies are too highly prized to permit them to suffer with Colic, Flatulence, etc, when Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup will at once relieve them. Price 25 cents. f Quarterly meeting; Fob thb Wiuaxexox District or thx Mbthod is K.Chcbch. South Tibs Bound,' 1880. Elizabeth, atKUzabethtown, Jan'y 17, 18; WMteville, at WaltevUle, Jan'v 24, 35; Waccamaw Mission, at Betheeda, Jan'y 28; Brunswick, at Sharon, Jan'y 81 , Feb'y 1 ; Smlthville Station. Feb'y 3, 4: Wilmington, at Fifth Street, Feb'y 7, 8; Wilmington, at Front Street, Feb'y 14, 15; Topaall, at Prospect, Feb'y 21, 22; New River Mission, Feb'y 25; Onslow, at Swansboro, Feb'y 88, 29; Duplin, at Magnolia, March ($, 7; Clinton, at Andrews' Chapel. March 13, 14 . A fall attendance of the District Stewards Is re quested at the Parsonage of the Front St. Church, ia Wilmiflgton, on the 13th of February, atlO a.m. L. S. Bubkhkap, Presiding Elder. WHO IS MBS. WTN8LOW T As this question ia frequeatly asked, we will simply say that she is a lady who for upwards of thirty years Has untiringly devoted her time and talents as a Female Physician and nurse, principally among children. She has especially studied the constitution and wants of this numerous class, and, as a result of this effort, and practical knowledge obtained In a lifetime spent as nurse and physician, she has compounded a Sooth inu syrup for children teething. It operates like magic giving rest and health, and Is mpreover sure to regulate the bowels . In consequence of this ar tlcleMrs. Wlaslow is becoming world renowned as a benefactor of the race; children certainly do sax up and bless her; especially la, this the case in this city. Vast - quantities of the Soothing Syrup are daily sold aod used here. We think Mrs. Winatow nas immortalised her name by this Invaluable arti cle, and we sincerely believe thousands of children have bees saved from an early grave by Its timely use, and that millions yet unborn will, share its beaeflts,'and unite in calling her blessed. No mo ther baa discharged ber dnty to herlsuffering little, one, in our minion, until she has given It the bene-' fitof.MK Winalow's Soothing Syrup. jTryitme thers tbt it' bow. 28r'FWtorvNew -York city. Sold by all Druggists. 23 cents a bottle, - ; RATES OF ADVEB I IS1NU. , One 'Square one day,..V.. i'.Vr;; ; ." : it 9cr 1 11 ' 1 " -' - "r Uuree days, ,16 Ave days.... une week,.... a t m . 8 60 s ".4 00 6 60 -8 60 10 00 . . . . 17 00 84 00 ... 40 00 60 00 " two weeks........ ' Three weeks,...' " " . .-j One month,. ... . . . M Twomontha,...., ;' Three months,... " " Six months, . " , One year, .......... ty Contract Advertisement takes t profo tfonately low rates, v Tea lines ealld Nonpareil type make one nquart THE MORNING STAB can always be had at tne following places in the city: ThePurceH Ronre, Harris' News' Stand, and the Stab Office. Book. Biwdkut. TaiMounna Btab Book Bind ery does all kdads or Binding and Ruling in a work manlike manner, and at teaaonable pricea. Mer chants and ethera needing Beceipt Book, or other work, may rely on promptness in the execution of their orders. ; Eminent Dr. J.J.Caldwell, Baltimore, Md.. states: "I have used Oolden'a Liebig's Liquid Extract or Beef and Tonic Invigorator largely ia debility, feb rile and nervous diseases, and I have fouad it one ef the most reliable of nutrient tonics now in use or to be found In pharmacy." Qbxxn & FiiAKXZB, Agents, Wilmington FINEC4 NQLISH GUNS. The attention of sports men Is invited to the advertisement of Messrs. J. a W. Tolley, manufacturers of fine -breech-loading guns, Birmingham, England. Their guns are made to order accorfling to specifications and measure menu furnlt&ed, thus ensuring the right crook, length of stock &c GUILTY OF WRONG. Some people have a fashion of confusing excellent remedies with the large mass of ''patent medicines," and in this they are guilty of a wrong. There ere some advertised remedies fully worth all that Is asked for them, and one at least we know of Hop Bitters. The writer has had occasion to use the Bitters in Just such a climate as we have most of the year in Bay City, and has always found them to be first class and re liable, doing all that is claimed for them. Tri bune. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ; S Bananas at Auction. THIS MORNING, AT 10 O'CLOCK, WE WILL sell at enr Sales Room . 50 BUNCHES RIPE BANANAS. CRONLT A MORRIS, Auctioneers. jwlO It First National Ban of WiliiDgton. DIVIDEND OF THREE PER CENT. HAS been declared by the Board of Directors of this Bank, payable on and after the lith inst. jan 10 4t A. K. WALKER, Cashier. Overcoats DAPTED IN WEIGHT TO TUB 8EASON, together with the small balance of other CLOTH ING on hand, will be sold very low. MUN80N, Clothier and jan 10 It Merchant Tailor. Blank Books. QALL AT THE LIVE BOOK STORE FOR BLANK BOOKS. A LARGE ASSORTMENT J tut received and for eale cheap. Pianos. Organs, QHROMOS, STEEL ENGRAVINGS, and Fansy Goods In great variety, at HEINSBBKGKR'S, jan 10 tf Live Book and Music store. The Newest Music Books. American Anthem Book, & per doz.) By J. H. Txhmxt and A. J. Albct. Edited by A.N. Johxsoh. The Anthems are exceptionally good, and sufficiently numerous to provide two for every Bunday in the year. Dow's Sacred Qnartets lgli Price $2.00, Per Dozen; $18.00. This is a fine collection, which furnishes excellent material for bringing out the talent of the Male Quartets - that can now be formed in almost every choir. Oltia Trolniro NBW CANTATA. By St: Saxns. 1 UC " JJulll&Ui Trice In Boards $1.C0; Paper to eta. : This Is just the time to adopt a Cantata fcr Chorus practice, and the Dxlugb has the ad - : vantage of good and striking music, and Impres sive words. Not difficult. Parlor Organ Instrnetion Boot, ff-s&fc SON. A complete easy instructor for Reed Or gans, adapted exactly to the wants of those who wish to learn both -easy light music and easy sacred music. Oliver Ditson & Co., BOSTON. CHAS. H. DITSON A CO. I J. E. DITSON St CO 843 Broadway,- N. Y. WS Chestnutst., Phila jan ll-d4Wtf Wed Sb Sat DuPont's Powder, JJIFLE, SPORTING AND MUEKBT. All grades in Whole, Half and Quarter Kegs. Fresh supply just received. O. G. PARSLEY. Jr., jan 9 tf , Cor. Orange and S. Water sta. . Busbee's Criminal Digest NOW READY FOB DELIVERY. Owing to the cost of the volume being much in excess of the estimate, the price will be advanced after January. Price up to February 1st, post free, $4 50 - Price after February 1st, s 00 Address, EDWARDS, BROUGHTON CO., Jan8 4t - Raleigh. f ILK CAPS ! acd UMBRELLAS ! HARRI80N A ALLEN, Hatters. jan 8 If Spirits Turpentine Barrels. CAA FRESH EMPTIED UVV :. SPIRIT BARBELS, For sals by CHESS, CARLE Y & CO. jan Gtf Just in Store, SOUCED PIG FEET, 8. O. HAMS and SHOUL DERS, Beef Tongue, Fine Table and Cooking Butter, Honey Strained and In Comb, Horseradish in Boots, Lin so Beans, GarllcAppleaBeets, Car rote. Parsnips. Cabbage. Saur Kraut, Ac Call and see for yourself. Prices as low as the lowest at L. VOLLEBS', jan 7-tf 23 and 38 South Front street. Turpentine Still. -yy ANTED TO BUY. EITHER A NEW OR Second Band STILL and WORM Capacity SO io 80 Barrels. Please give price, and freight to N8MB1B8 A CKAFT, jan9tf Mobile, a ia. Bead It ! A CUSTOMER BAYS, "MY WIFE ADVISES all her friends to get the 'PARKER COOK' if they want a GOOD STOVE. She is delighted." So they go and so they are JUSTLY POPULAR Send In your orders to jan4tf PARKER St TAYLOR. Plows I Plows ! . w B HAVE IN STOCK A FULL UNE OF Plwsand Casting usually sold-In Uda ecUon. Also Barnes, collars, j-racea, oa p"". Band Webbing, Ac, Ac All of which we bought low and will ec-H low. 'a ' '2:t' an4tf GILES A MUBCHISOJC
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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