: S
a
H
m
M
- a
S8S82S888S?
- -
3
8SS8SSSSSI--S8SSSSSg8.SE
1
82888SS8S
83S888S8Sa: dS8S
S : S8Se.88SS8.& 2 S8S
at craDO ce ie isctaJ e3 t
S8SSSSS8S8SsSSSS8
H 03 K C( OB ' A ft) 00 k
4
4.
-t 00 lOtOt-QDAOT-t -O
!5S33S88H
Subsciiptidnl
- tv:-t;H 1
j: The subsection price of the Wekic
ly STAft is as folldws :
bin
iingleCopyl yearp.oatagtiid im, V
6 moxitbs.
3 r :
,
bbibflt stated. I
We undertake j to say that there j
was not a Democrat in NorthCaro J
Una or in the Solnth who. expected
President Hayes io carry out a peace
policy. Every paper on our ex
change list prophesied, that r to elect I
Hayes was to perpetuate Grantism. J
It either told the truth or it was mis
taken. If the latter, i why not cau
. didly. and plainly .'pay r so? And yet
many of our exchanges contend that
Hayes deserves no more credit than
Grant, and that he has puly done as-
other men would do under the same j
circumstances. -:at tnis De true, tlieu
Gran t has been grossly slandered.
Hayes has reauy - surprised the
- I i i i ' ' - 1
country by his course has surprised
J J . t t r
thif Democrats by his mild, just, pa- j
cib, constitutional j policy. So say
Gov. Hendricks, Senators ThnrmanJ
Lamar, and the ablest men in the
party. He equally." 1 surprised ' the
Kalicals who thought Hayes to be
such, as they were, - and when he
fpoke of peace aud justice he did,
not mean it any more than they did
They find themselves disappointed,"
and now they are! furious, "and swear
they have been betrayed. How be-
trayed ? By applying their own vile
standard to Hayes, -and . finding tliat
ie meant just what he promised.
Say what we wiil, he has pacified the
country, vindicated law, restored the"
. constitution, infused hope, and given
to 'two1 despoiled Stales local-self
government. He has done this, or
the record of newspapers are a tissue,
of falsehoods. - ' ' ' ; ;
. .Whilst we bold this view most;
tenaciously, we'- are just as true to
.the South, to its interests, to prin
ciple, to the ! Democratic party' as
those who indulge fierce expletives,
make unauthorized flings, and refiise
to accord justice where it rightfully
beloDgs. r We arc vet to learu . the
wisdom in extremes. -
! -i
The statue of Liberty to be placed J
in the New York harbor, when com-
pleted will be. a triumph of genius.
The artist,' or sculptor, is Auguste
Uartholdi, a Frenchman born in
Alsatia. The female figure, that will
stand upon a pedestal one hundred
and ten feet high, is draped, and is
very imposing, bhe holds a torch in
her right' hand, whilst with the left
she clasps to her breast a tablet con-
taining the Declaration of 1776. The
statue and torch are one hundred and I
forty-five feet high. The torch will
be two hundred and seventy-five feet
above the level of the bay. This I
statue and-pedestal will be higher I
than Che famous ColosBuaof Rhodes,
and equal iii height to the graceful
column in the Platfe Vendome in I
Pans. , It will have to bo cast in
pieces. It is a present from France
to America.
Sir Robert Peel, in 1840, thus
drew a picture of the condition of
Jngiand: . t, -
''The agricultural population starving in
the helds, the ships rotting at the wharves,
the manufacturing operatives rioting in
the streets, , and the . Chancellor or the .Ex
chequer seated on an empty chest over the
pool of a bottomless deficiency, fishing for
- The quotation is' famous,: but there
is a lesson in it for jAtnerican states-
Ct The Richmond "J)ispatch got into
a . discussion of the terms, "sit" and
"set" as applied to .hensand 'bereV
what has come of the muddle: In yits
issue of Friday Dispatch says the
New York editors "set; down and
lu fT- v ir - m uXai- a
ther Dnnkard's brain was Saddled";
when be "set d6wn on"
uiuuiey
Murray in that.style.
wnom ne .f wight, ft e?o objection
t hiR doing so.: -: ii be npon tane
008 freo, nn forced that w all. roi
caniot niannracture that itVd if sen
timeut hicb tyili , prompt oivwhrt
Mrorte. the graytb iay- ahapietl
flowert upyn the f grave r hjVh wfid
wore "inW blfev It' must; coralinbldi
M0;; '-"feerr :rj.HfWi)l; not
Wadj,Uini:KiotbuKhonOT
And yet, ater the fight is: etided,'
is botaitrrl that m&a; whc-;wtjc
JogeiKeghpajld grpu ndjarqisanc
grasp the Hand, and then , peacefoU
talk of HW pti TheViet
mea J who ishensh ehmity; afe
rf ""rUHfisuio-j greais neater J
brings ; neither , ; f orgtf ulness no
f orgi venessL i- Thiy coiiM tfot ; wreathl f
a ihbnfinierttUhat hd enreareiHf
ioognu isat tnere are others t a dlf-j
terent temperament. As they recede
from the heat and fire of battle their
pulses become calm and their tempers
become cool. They cease to be bit
terf and they can do fall juslice to
the bravery of an enemv. Such men
cau
lay a floral tribute upon the
grave of a Northman and say from
the
heart, " Rest in peace." v !f
V
Ve find the folio wing in the Baltic
more
uuzette concerning , the me-
mortal ceremonies that are so tenderly
observed, and which we hope will
not Tall into desuetude for decades to
come:
"The days of memorials or decorations
are approaching. . This custom, which grew
uif ov uaiuiauj auu ouuutautuuoif t uao uur
lasted the enthusiasms of the war. Atfiret
nends or the dead soldiers strewed
flowers upon their graves, and the poetie
beauty of the ceremony brought it into
general use. . i nen tne two sides vied wun
each other In the profusion and beauty of
the floral decorations. After this it. was
made the means of a reconciliation. The
Federal soldiers decorated Confederate
graves; and the Confederates decked the
Federal graves, aud the heartburnings of
the war were laid to rest under the flowers.
Every true soldier knows how to honor a
foe who Tell fighting in a cause that he be
lieved in. When the Fifth Maryland Regi
ment went to Bunker Hill two years ago,1
one of its first acts was to march out to Ibe
soldiers' monument and
place upon' it a
cbaplet of flowers. ' In
doing this they;
touched a chord that vibrated sympatheti
cally throughout the land. Mr. Watterson,
who delivers the address at the Decoration
Day of the Union soldiers at Nashville,
calls the soldiers of both sides 'comrades.1 "
THE DIFFICULTIES IN : FRANCE.'
There appears to be but one opin?
ion among English papers as to the
blunder perpetrated by President'
MacMahoo. : The leading American
papers . that have come under our
eyes hold the same view. The con-4
sentient voice is that the President of
the French Republic has yielded to
bad advisers, and .has taken a step
that may lead to very unfortunate
results. . ;
As we said days ago the French
people are at heart Republican!' The
trouble is that the regime which con
trols France now is only nominally
Republican. The President is an
imperialist out and out,, and the
i. .
new i'remier stands iortn as
the representative of clericalism
over liberalism. He cannot,! there
fore, give such, assurances as
may be demanded by Germany
and Italy; Those countries will natu-
rally distrust an admiuistration that'
is coniroueu oy an; liupeiiuiusitu i
sident and a reactionary Premier. As
far as we can learn the latter, M. de
Brpglie, proposes to reverse what
ever has been accomplished by the
Republic, to form alliances with cer-
tain parties or factions af home and
abroad that are known to oppose all
Republican and Liberal sentiments,
to make himself too strong to be
overthrown by calling to his aid the
powerful clerical party, and to crash
any further buddings of ; Liberalism
under the grinding heel of' the Pre-;
fectures a system of discipline and
restraint as hostile to liberty as poi
son is to health
' It appears that : the coup d'etat
sprung the other day had been long
in nreDaration. Vlt was not, there-
fore, the! impulsive action of a brave,
I. X . . ... ;.. . .. " . . .
defiant nature merely, :- bti t the well
considered purpose of melx of ability
and boldness. The Philadelphia Sress
says:;' . , :S'r ii r
' "The trouble which; President: MacMa
hon has caused in : France, we might . say
throughout Jiiurope, Dy me suaaen aibmia-,
- ... r . o- r '-i 1. t.U .n n
sal 01 me JUies pimon ministry, wuiuu i
appointed -only four "months' ago, is ex
plained by French, English,' and, Germans
ioumalists as having been the reverse of
sudden in nrenaration. everything having
been "cut and dried" beforehand , For
some lime there has been contention, in tne
French Legislature between two parties,
the Radicals and the Clericals. The Rad
icals object at heart to the support of Ca-!
Jholics.Trotestants; arid Jews out of the
thit?t".irWt i. Dap1v Jtio-
i 500,000 V for the - Catholic clergy
and
churches, and $686,900 for the
Pro-
teSttOit knd Jewish. deifeY and eliHiHes
Manj i able j publicist, -tticoiselves good
mea in Uieir differing relieious persoasions,
contend taaf,'- a in iha United States, all
ciiurchea and clerevmen .should be? bud-'
IVlrtCll : tin thn , snlnnto r . uioloin V TM.rt
.Cfericali: opDOaine ' this brincibte. ' wdiiitl
gladly idcrease the State nrotiaiun fnrtfcd
inouj, as well as ILlGambetta:; are at one:
xtrenie of Jiberaliam, ?!an4jexT?fldetf
, uiers. ui iue oi ner , nas never cooceaTCq
anai uw lympatliy goes with thejjwdlciil
forced on. any? diuasioniiabouit.-Tfed
Clerical party, and out. of tue FjreptJ
Legislature; expresses unlimited eyfnpjitirt
wua rope nus as aralnst VictorErnaduelJ
The faction.- of ' Presideni - .MkeMa
hdn lln fdhohArMhMfTm
wbmiilfc ififfkneQej8Aiaffe5?llrd
that she -: should havia 'fDofiee ra
peace. J Germany ib not bnr? PrOtes
German
vfttiouLrfoti paceibetwep jthe, 'tj?
countries : will' become "more difficul
tkan ever. fWHh a strong personifi
V.
Kuveruiuenb ju r ranoe, 4 wnen. peace
or war may be m the bands of one
man, and he a soldier' under; priestly;
influence, it may be that Protestant;
Germany has grounds for alarm, and
when tie great Bismarck is recalled:
so soonj to take the helm, it may bej
too that the Emperor believes that;
the peabe of Europe is endangered
and that of all men the great states
man cap best preserve it. I
Not only out of France does the
opinion prevail that the President has
made a great mistake,, but at home:
among ihe friends of MacMahon him
self the; same opinion- is held. The;
bllowiag is a part of a telegram to;
the New York Herald of May 23d; :
'Presedent MacMahon has evidently a
one struggle before him. Some of his
most earnest friends are beginning to see
wbat a false step be took in dismissing bi-
mon on what now appears as personal
grounds Fresh changes in the prefectoral
administration were gazetted yesterday af-
lecting iourteen departments, some or the
newly -appointed prefects show a disincli
nation to accept their posts.
- "Foreign newspapers are lo be closely
watchedj, and none will be permitted to cir
culate in. France except they have first
passed through the hands of the censors."
No one whoihas any knowledge of
France; can wish her evil. She is one
of the
greatest
natidns
of modern
times-tgreat in the arts and the
sciences; great in : literature, invent
tion and enterprise; - great . in elo
quence, and great in arms. A peo
ple that can produce such meu as
JodelleRacTne, Corneille, -aad Mo-
lierre in the dramatic world; such;
men as Bossuel, Fenelon, Massillon
and Bourdaloue in "sacred eloquence;
such statesmen as Richelieu, Talley
rand and Turgot; such men as Thiers,1
Thierry, Guizot and Michelet in his-i
toric composition; such orators as
Mirabeau, Danton and Gambetta;
such poets as de Musset, Lamartine,
and dozens of others; such essayists
as Maiherbe l'ascai, ana oainie
Benve; such great scientists , as
Descartes, Boileau and Bayle;
such female authors as de .Se-
vigne, de Stael and George Sand j
such' novelists as Balzac, Sue,
Victor Hago, Dumas and others;
such men of military genius as Tu-
renne, Conde, Napoleon, and many
others, must always command the
high. respect and sympathy of every
intelligent mind. It is because we
rejoice' in the' spread of civil and re-!
ligious liberty among the nations of
the world, and because we have such'
a high admiration for ' the ;: French
people that we regret to see - the re-;
cent action of President MacMahon
that may eventuate in misfortune, in
intestine trouble, if not in foreign
war. We sincerely wish the people
of France a happy issue out of all
present and future dangers and diffi
culties. . : " .
We were misled by the Baltimore
Gazette in the broadness of our State
ment in regard to Marsh si MacMa
hon's responsibility for the surrender
at Sedan.: ; Not having read the ao-
count since immediately after the;
event occurred. we" thought .the
statement in the Gazette was literally
cdrrect. By referring to Appletona
Nevs Encyclgpcedia : it appears that
Marshal MacMahon was disabled by
a slight wound io-the thigh. He fe
signed the command to Drucoy who
was superseded by, Whimpffen. He
took no part . in the capitulation,
though he assumed tne wnpie fesppn
sibility for the march On Sedan, :and
the catastrophe hithrvdjjrom
it, : before, : the Committee at Ver
Bailies Sept, 4,":i8ly;$bt itia
incorrect to-charge -that toe jis" the
man who actn ally suirrehdered 1 70,
000 armed men, it is not ; incorrect to
hold him responsible for. the surren
dr,' : inasmuoh as the Marshal bas
himself assumed all the' responsibility
! bithfcctf Oqf blitridwas- slighii
venlaPaWd: uniiiterttioiaaf.P Wenever;
consMoVstymikrpf&fe facts, ho fdJ
any.nia an iuusupe .and .Vwer never
ate.tp.porrecn rpr.
-U2,iv'r
here is , trouble brewing, in ..Tur-t
,kfy,fe;!CJiftse ofsiaxei very -mystw-f
rious fellowa, aed iwhlrf .: ever.i they;
cotnV upon the sceHe -tuev are quite
Bucce38iui in creaung a rumpns ot
BQme . eortrra .. little , ktllinff, . or-. de-i
thro'pirjj?, ;oy ; jsmgothe'f brm of , . de-'
lliTheJafik?MjpKt3enuth8tCou4
stantHiopl had 'been declared in a
taipf slegeanol "alf oti'acbbdnt 'of
!tne '' manoo vnoEof Ib'e'lo'f tas uTlie'
puuau. is iu h i j iji . vu ppn uuru ( o t
the (Prophet that ; to;brhi g io his
f tzpportl to : ma oy Moslems, . wh i Is V
Russia preparing'3 toH niobilke -heif
eh fire arnTy,eon sider able over a mH4
.Hr 'lr-l i V f it' W r -t .';:vi J
When Muscovite 4 meets Mussulman ;
Then comes, indeed, the tug of war.
J
The last war news is indefinite.
There are no signs of peace, v The
movements of the, Russians are, re
ported as yery rapid, and in a day or
two we may expect some startling re
ports. -There is general. uneasiness
throughout Europe. No nation febk
assured of peace. The prospects of a
general war increase hourly, and be
fore thirty days a half dozen powers
may be added to the struggle now
raging. In the meantime trade is
suffering or stagnant, and the outlook
all around is very unpromising.
Americans -have great cause .for
thanksgiving, to Almighty God that
neither pestilence, nor famine, nor
war is amongst us.
The New York Journal of Com
merce is excellent authority in many
things. It is specially good in ques
tions of commerce and grammar. We
copy the following, which school
masters will "make a note on " af
ter the manner of our old friend.
Capt. Edward Cutfle: .
The verb to drink has for the perfect par ;
ticiple either drunk or drank, at the option
of the writer. It was formerly drink, drunk.
drunken; now it a drink, drank, drunk or
drank, the latter being optional, "I have
drana" iat tnereiore the same as "L have
drunk," aud equally proper.
General R. D. Lilly; of Staunton,
Va., an ex-Confederate officer, who
has many warm 'friends in . Wil iuing
ton, writes as follows ot Hayes:
'I think the fair and just course of the
present Administration towards the South
will have a happy effect upon the whole
country io promoiinir peace ad good feel-t
ing, as well as the prosperity of all busi
ness interests. The .President was not only
a good soldiery but is proving himself to be
a patriot and a statesman." t
Fire In Cape Fear Towoililp.
The house at ,the well-known Williams
place, in Cape Fear township, about five
miles from here, the property of Mr. A.
Latta, of this city, was destroyed by fire
yesterday' morning.; It was occupied by
Mr." A. J. Mott, -who; with his family, we
learn,' made a narrow escape, the fire hav
ing attained considerable headway before
it was discovered," having to all appear--ances
originated in the kitchen, which was
some yards distant from the dwelling. The
house, which was valued 'at $1,500, was
insured for $1,000 with Ma j..J. A, Byrne,-
of this city, in the Imperial and Northern,
of London. Mr. Mott, we are : sorry to
learn, lost nearly everything, having had
no insurance on his furniture and effects,
but a small portion of which was saved.
The Williams house, attained considera
ble notoriely.haviDg been the usual polling
place in Cape . Fear township, as well as
the point where the politicians were wont
to hold forth to the dear, people, and show
them the nearest road to political salvation
and personal good fortune.
Two buildings escaped, and .the actual
loss to the insurance company is $900.' .
Tne Carolina Farmer.
It will be teen by announcement in. the
advertising department of the Stab that
the publication of the Carolina Farmer as a
monthly agricultural' magazine will be re
sumed September 1. When the Farmer
was merged in the "Weekly Star ' it was the
intention of the proprietor to resume; the
publication in magazine jorm; ana, with
this object in view, the name has been re
tained lnie'' Weekly Star . continuously
from the day of consolidation.'
The' new series, of the Carolina Farmer
will be fully up to' the old standard, both
in matter' and appearance; and it is hoped
the old friends of the magazine will go to
work ia its behalf.- - Mr. Hamilton McMu
ban will be associate editor, t
Ba u
Railroad Humor.
1 The Raleigh' '.AfeiM says it is hinted around
1u railroad circles that quite a lively scram-i
hie is in progress for the control of the Pe-;
tersburg & WeTdoa Railroad, which is now
in.th'e hands of a receiver.' The competing
parties'are the Seaboard & Roanoke Rail
road and the ' Atlantic Coast Line,' which;
embraces the Wilmington & WeldonRail
, Wad and liaei'furthet South. ;h ;t v
Concord Swn; Leroy jGray, the'
pegro tried, in Gaston - county , for jape,'
owes his life perhaps, jto. a Yery little , cir-;
cumstance.; i During court week . the pris-i
oners in jai made their escape by breaking
through thejwalli 7Ali;,left but CLeroy,:
who declared that he was .innocent of the;
I charge and would stay and stand his trial.
uuu pi xnUy tuat sne may. crusn inu
bammdan .'oiriwrop
? Uat Ru.a heeds is a good navy
If sle had England's -navy she would
end the. war. m thirty days. ; Her ves?
selsare greatly mfevror to thoTurkisb
vessels.- he is beginning, to buudi
but 1 1 .is to be- hoped the war will be!
long over before a vessel can be. , got
ready fpr sea She.is, to build. a ves-j
I of the size of the ISrttish Inflexible:
I on the same model. s This vessel
carries four 81:tbn guns, and wears
ati . armor J averagtug . from '16 to: 24
i ii Whoa' f. ntp.lr: . -" i
WASHIMCtTON.
i la the Cabinet to-day It was resolved to
appoint Jery M. Brayton, collector of iu-4
ternal revenue i for South Carolina, vice Ll
as8 Carpenter. . ; ,; l iidi'wmMM
Morton publishes a letter on the situation
in answer toanopen lettet publiehed in the
New?Tork r2 BWf. and other private letters.
He says, regarding the credentials of Kel4
logg, after tbev had bees referred to his
committee : ; "The committee on Privilege4l
ana jecuoes soon anerwaras ana it r
that prima faeie S. B. Packard was the faw
am in ciiivmr .
rui U over nor of Louisiana, the Legislature
was the lawful Legislature, and that Wm.1
P. Kellogg bad been elected in conformity
to the act of Congress, and was entitled to
be sworn in and take his seat. " As a nura-i
ber of the members of the Senate were ab
sent and the subject would lead to a long
debate, and there was general anxiety; to
adjourn, the report was not laid before the
Senate. - If the majority of the Senate shall,?
at the next session, be of the. opinion that
Kellogg was lawfully elected by the Legis-i
lature of Louisiana, he will be entitled to
his seat, notwithstanding the events that
have since occurred. No subsequent break-!
ing up of that legislative combination or
arrangement can in . the least affect
is title or destroy the. legality of what
tooK place at that time, though the very
memoers who proclaimed the election ot
Packard and made that of Kellogg should
subsequently declare that of Nicholls and
take part in the election of Spofford. It is!
too clear for argument that they could not
take away the rights' which bad vested,'
or make that unlawful - which had been
done as lawful before. Unless Kelloere
voluntarily withdraws, the Senate will have
to decide the question of his election as it
stood at the time of adjournment.; The
Republican governments of Louisiana and
South Carolina have yielded to force. They
have gone down before an armed minority,
whose threats of future violence were guan
anteed by a long train of bloody deeds
done in tne past. 1 regrer that the real
character of the transaction should be ob
scured . in the least by pretended
investigations or : negotiations. 'Stripped
of all disguises and pretenses .the
simple fact is that Packard and Chamber
lain were not able to maintain themselves
in authority, and the government of the
United States, in the exercise of its discre-'
tion, refused them its support. . The Le
gislatures, finding themselves defenseless,'
ten to pieces, ana from their ruins in part
new Legislatures have been constituted,:
whose legality consists only in the fact that
there ate none to oppose them. The law
and the rights of the majority have yielded
to an armed aggressive minority. r
. Morion, after .describing ; what Grant
might have done, intimates that had Hayes
proceeded to maintain-Packard and Cham
berlaia by using the array he would bavd
proceeded to inevitable1 defeat. He say a;
upon the Southern question is but nominal j
if it existed at all. Five Republican Senators
voted at the late executive session aeainsE
seatihe KellOgK. tkod to refer his credentials:
to eamrnittna, thus refusing to recognize;
the Packard government; and ajiumber pt
Republican Senators,sufficient, When added
to the Democratic members, to constitute
a majority, have steadily refused to recog-
nize the Republican 8tate governments in1
Louisiana since 1873. by voting against
seating a Senator chosen by it. While, in
my judgment, it was clearly the right of
the President, under the Constitution, ;io
recognize the Packard government and sup
port it by military power; the underta-?
king would have been futile and the failure
disastrous . With a divided public opinion
in bis own party; and both Houses of Con-j
gress against him, he would have failed in
the end. The Democratic House has power
to destroy the army entirely, and from my
knowledge of the Senate I am sure the Re-
publican majority couia naraiy ne reuea on
mm a. a m - . I
to support him in such a course."
We give addiiional extracts from the let
ter as follows: H . )
"I do not believe that President Hayes
intends to destroy the Republican party
and attempt the erection of a new one upon
its ruins, i believe in his patriotism and
high integrity; in his undivided purpose to
make the administration a beneficence to
the country. ! ,; ;
"The large body of the white people who
engaged in the rebellion are. firmly -united
in favor of several things,- and they wil
stand by the party that favors them, and op-f
pose, to the bitter end, the party that op
poses them. Among these is the payment
tfor rebel propeity taken - or destroyed by;
our armies. When Mr. Tildea wrote his;
letter, lust before the election, against these'
claims, be lost his bold upon the South and
was made to feel it in the late -struggle in
Congress. No Democratic candidate will
repeat the blunder. ; jh: ? ;i
-,-,. , . , ;
; "In the late House the dividing line be-;
tween rebel and loyal claimi was ignored,!
and in a single Democratic administration
would be obliterated, i When this comes to
pass about clalms.the distinction in the rebe
and Union debt will be obliterated and lostr
slaves will be treated as other property sa
crificed by our government. It will not all be
done or avowed at 9nce, but step by step,!
already more rapid, until the public mind
has become demoralized.-? The vrebellion,
has ceased to be a crime,: scarcely a .mis-j
take. ; The complete restoration of the fra
ternity will demand abolition of all distinct
tions in law between - loyalty and treason,:
The Republican w party w&s never more
necessary to the nation . than . it is to-day.
All talk about laying! down the Republican
organization to take np a new one with a
new title, into which old Confederates may
enter without wounding . their susceptibili
ties, would be a crime if it were ' not' fiu-;
.ye
A Wlie IBTMIDWOW A;
r i -, c Lyxfora Orphan's i)riena.
I The city of iRaleigh hasri.voted jib;
levy a, tax to: support free public;
schools, for the yqngTherStateis
paying' ien" thousand dollars a month
to support ignorant and vicions, meni
iinVT i women Sihli3 thnitehtiai;y.
These people - are tod ignorant to be
penitent. They: fee ""guilty of being'
caught.. X It would have been cheaper;
to have taught themi tp read the Ten
Commandments ? i when
were-
young. - :
' STATB OKBDlCaL CONYENTlO( j
This body met at; Salem un"r JTues
day. Dr. G. .-A.:- Foote in. the -Chair
CoL R. L. Patterspn made tho ad
dress t of welcomed :.We condense
from the Raleigh JVewsi I
. (Keadiwg of papers being declared
iu uiuct, xji. varr lepurieu an opera
tion of tracheot6my.-fl!f' -fi
; A - communication jtvas read f roin
Pr. HE. T,i. Manning offennfif tlie
columns of. the - Maryland Medical
vvu.i tvi iue uses ,ui tuia uouitity
nd.'!t'me'mbersi;Jw Wvt?tfi
iDr. :'J.i KVi; Hall .reported, da i ihl
teresting case of , incysted mnwr-of
the liver.. .. ' ,' "- '. . .;-r .
DK Satch well asked thai VtUfr t&
morrow be named for the formatioij.
of the State Board of : Health, in ; ac-j
cordanco with legislative - enactment!
A committee of five ,was appointed;
to select the time and place for the
next meeting, and the committee op;
Credentials reported that, the i'fPee;
Dee Medical Association "be reco,
nized and, admitted as auxiliary, a
that Dr. Joseph (Hollingworth ' an'd
- m . a ... -a. . . . .-
membership, and that.tbey .find DrJ
H. E. T. Manning a duly accredited
delegate from the Maryland Medical
and Chirurgical Society. u ; " '' I
Dr. Satch well moved that a com4
mittee be appointed to memorialize
Vongre8s to have the duty on quiuine
removed. ;
Dr: Kelly reported some in teres
ing cases in his practice.
: ,: A communication was iead by the
Secretary from the Arkansas Medi
cal Association. ,
Dr. Eugene Grissom read, an iii-i
terestibg paper on Epilepsy. ' ,
- The thanks of . the Society werej
tendered tq( X)r! Jas. iMcRae Xfcir
bound copy of Transactions from'
1845 to 1870.
v Dr. Hyatt reported two cases d
eccentric epilepsy.
; .The use of. bromides was; discussed
by Drs. Hyatt, Duffy and OTIagaBi
Dr. Lane read a paper on amputaM
tion of the leg treated fby antiupticj
dressing, which was . discussed by
Drs. O'Hagan, Sharp, . Duffy : s ; "and
Wood. ... v " . . -,, !
Dr. Lano read a paper Dn extrophy
of the bladder. ' ' ' ; . j
: " Dr. McKee tendered his resign a-t
tion as secretary of the Society,'
which, on motion, was accepted, and
the thanks ot the Society, tendered
hin for past services.
Second Day
IVe condense from the Raleigh Observer !
The Society, which is the State
Board of Health, elected the- follow-;
ing gentlemen to act as representar
tives in the relations of the Board
with the State government, andx toj
report, as f the' law directs, to; the
Legislatnre, through the GoveruoTj
Dr. S. ,.S. , Satch wellChairman Pjeh-j
der county; DrDiQniiss .?4.Wbr! J
Secretary -and, - Treasurer, s.Wilming4
ton; Dr. Josepii Graham, Charlotte;
LJtFote,"::Warrent6br. Charles
uanj, r .m e w Dern. . ; ; w-i j
- Dr. Graham, of Charlotte, read an
able and very elaborate paper.bn gy-I
naecology, that, in research and inter-,
est, invites comparison with any sim
ilar production from the North tor
South. "It a"on'ce makes him a rep-;
resentative man ' of - the 1 profession'
in this State. : : ? ;
: Dr. Wood, of Wilmington, follow-!
ed with a highly valuable and impor-j
tant paper on vaccination in relation;
to smallpox, &c.
- The annual . oration : by that able
writer and accomplished physician,'
Dr. Shoffner, of Salem, was delivered
to-night before a highly appreciative
audience. . ;
Suitable action was taken in rela
tion to the death of Dr. Thomas
Duffy, of Rutherfordton, and Dr. Wi
G; Hill, of Raleigh. A memoir of
the life and character of Dr. Hillj
prepared by Dr. R. B. Haywood, of
Raleigh, was read. ; ' -; ;
The' next annual meeting of the;
Society will be held at Goldsborb on
the second Tuesday of May, 1878.- ;
; Drs. Satch well, O'Hagan, Graham,'
Daffy and A. A. Hill were appointed
a committee to memorialize Con-;
gress, through our Senators and Re
presentatives, asking that tne tarin
on quinine may be taken off. , :
Cbrrespondiag legates were, ap-J
pointed to the next annual meeting
of the Medical Societies of Maryland,
Virginia and South Carolina, and to
that of the American Medical Asso
ciation,
' t .The . following members will fill,
for the next year, the offices designa-
Dr. R. L. Payne, Lexincton, Pre
sident. - .. . r :'' ;; Wi- .'j
: Dr, Stith, of Wilson, and Dr.
Rountree, of Hookerton, Vice Presi
dents. :' ''l ' ' ' :'M 1
; : Dr. L. J. Picot, of Murfreesboro,
Secretaiy.
. Dr Wm. T. Ennett, of Pender,
Orator,
;:;:;T.v, i-' : . : Tnlr4 Dar.: -i
, ; - News Report Condensed, j
H After some discussion in regard to;
what should or should not be record
ied on the minutes, Dr. Picot" was "al
lowed an-; assistant. The s President
abbointedrDr,1 Wood as Assistant
SecreaaryrBfl
i Drl; Wood read a valuable and in-.
teresting paper on f'Why We Fail in
the treatment of -Tape Worni; After;
Borne remarits uy ju r. ivrr, uu muuou,
of iTJri'Picot JtlwMeferrdtq'vthe
Committee on PablicaUon&T f :-;4?a
'di Ora,tpr, WTEuhettit- Pender;
cduntv-" Ppmn ;?
" Delegates toi the American Medi-;
cal Society Drul; Kelley, Whitehead,
gyTISforcpy SBLULZ' HayWcd, ":v i
Duffy,Walker, .Jones, Smith tahdSf V
oodfpfi-Tvn j
Piib1it4inCimihliCeej Drs. Shaff- " - V
nerBahnson RoanSummerell Hall
Mid; lqt'pii-iS
; Delegates to the VirginiaVMedical t
Assobiation, ' Drsl McKee, II icks, Liiv
cas, O'Hagau and McDonald. ' ; I-"'
Delegates to the-Medical anh Chi
rurgical: Society: of 'Maryland, Drs. . -;
Mooro and : HalLii.fe:' "ti Sl:;-' I
; Delegate to the Medical Society . V : -
V)f rSontbarolina,4Dt3e -: - V. :V . .'
La neHolmes 65011011 an d Lewis; pf Wi-KS
.Dr..Grahajn:sobmiued: acpaper ' mi 0
laceration bf,the!?:cer
was discussed by Dr. "O'Hagan. ; . ' ; ' v s
-The .'hour' havihit faMvedPe--:VV-fivi"i
dent Fbote delivered his addrtws,' and
it was; a.valuable,-paper:.-indeed (n ;
Hy pod ertnic f Med ication ) ,; and met" -with
rounds of applause. . ' ; :v " -
': Un motion, -xi r Foote 'was re
quested to transmit a copy of his able
address to the '.'" Committee on Publ i- :
cations,.and the. thanks of the Socie- ';
"ly were tendered to Dr .Foote, both
for his address and for the impartial
ahdk - able ? manner in which he had ,
conducted the business -of - the ; ses
sion.;. , ; - :U:-y :MBk0W
;'Drs. O'JIagan and Haisb conduct- . .
ed the newly. elected officers to their
respective stations. ; . ; ';-
Dri -Payne; made a 6hort .but elo
quent address to the Society. , . '
jur. pannson reao.. a paper oi.puer- '
serai cbnVulsKmii;which -was' ordered
to the - Committee -bri Publications.
This paper 1 was v listened to with
marked attention,and drew from Drs. -
O'Hagan, Duffy, Haigh and Fbote
some very complimentary remarks. -
- - uiuuuir ui. ui, ( uuu, iue oof ;
ciety adjourned to meet atGoldsboro
on the 14th day. of May, 1878. B r,
Spirits Turpentine.
Oxford Orphan's Friend: Two
years ago a man took a cow- belonging: to y
the Orphan- Asylum, penned her alone in a
solitary thicket and kept her concealed un
til he was betrayed. - He had Several times
denied that he - knew, anything - about: the ; r
cow ; but when she was, found,-. in his pen, :
he claimed great credit . for : having "kept
her to her milk' His fmpudetoce was
equal to his Tilhiihy: " '.. ,;..; :
--The - lightning- - struck the tele
graph office at; Tarborof 6u?the'22nd A
dispatch to4he Petersburg Index-Appeal .
saysr "The lightning-- ia-'-Hs-'.-mad3career
passed over the whole length-" of the room, ,
tearing up a considerable -portion of the
roof and; plastering, and- entering the
ground on the opposite side' of the room '.
from where it - struck ; During the storm;
the - warehouse vadiominr ahe telegraph
office was strnck in three places No one '
was hurt.'! '- ;
- Charlotte Observer:' . A corres
pondent at Greensboro writes us that the
seventeen-year locust -have, appeared in ,
that section oE - the State .'in - considerable .
numbera The locusts first makes its apr-
pearance in a large grub, coming out of the . .
ground backward; its wings soon unfold,
when it at once attacks the nearest tree.
The ravages of the seyenteen-ycar. locusts ;v ;
are connnea entirely to tne trees.,; t .
A correspondent , of the Mag
nolia Records writing '-f idin -Mount Olive, ; .
says; "Our - vaiagers -and the Surrounding .
vicinity nsd quite a picaic at Winn's Cba- -
pel, near- this place, on Friday, the 18th
inst., and two very fine addresses were de
livered respectively by-Kevj L.;Britt,-of -
Warsawi and ReVi B.'F. Mafable. of Golds- v
boro. The occasion was the combination i ;
bf.tbe Sunday ; schools of - the village and ;
surrounding country ' ;ys
- Urpnan;is wiyenu ; a w iiicrray-.
the jsewa pr.pjoses 10 propagate irogs 'near
Newbern and drive them to fhiladelp
He forgets (perhaps he did' not know) that -
Pasquotank River raises every year frogs
enough to leea an ' army::, iney couia oe .
caught, salted and sent by water to North-t
em cities without the trouble of "concerts
and dime parties" by the way. But if con
certs must.be given, the Camden frogs out
sing all others. They throw so much life
and melody into their music. ' ; rV : ?; '
Raleigh Observer ' Last Sun-
day night the residence of Henry Calwell,
near Warsawr Duplin county, was orokeD '
open and robbed. ; Mr. Calwell was old
and very infirm, could barely walk, having -been
for a number of years afflicted, with
rheumatism. The family had all gone
visiting and the old gentleman was alone,
when about midnight three.' men entered '
the house and took therefrom $93 in - gold -
and silver the majority of it was gold all
that he had. -; He could not tell who they-
t -i t t . -1.1 i
were; one was wane, iue omcr twu uiacK. .
A negro livhig on his land-; was arrested,
but no clue to the robbery. . ? .
- Magnolia had a lively blow, ac
companied with sharp lightning, on Mon
day last . The Record says: "We learn that .
a 'tree was struck by the lightning in the
yard of Mrs. R. P. Merriman; and that Mr..
George E. Brooks received quite a severe
shock, though without any serious injury.
Ayearling calf , was also knocked down by "
the same nash. in the southeastern por
tion of the town the wind raged with great
violence, uprooting s trees, blowing down '
iences ana tne nae. xi aiso Diew aown ine
frame of a new house belonging to W. T.
Hannaford, Esq., and another small house, s
nearly completed, belonging to Mr. Chas.
L. Hurlburt. , -;. -' ' -;'-";f f v-':
The ladies of St. John's Epis
copal Church, Fayetteville, gave a .very
successful dime party. The- Qaietie says :
The audience was also given an opportuni
ty of en joying some rare amateur music by,
Mrs. CoL J. B. Starr, Mrs. Dr. James S. '
Robinson; -.: Missesi JBaker and Hall, ; and -Messrs.
J. C. and Charles Haigh, 3Irs.
Robinson's 4 matchless soprano was espe
cially applauded, and in the songs of ,"Auld
Rdbiu Gray" and Tender; and True,"
which were rendered with great expression,' '
she fully' demonstrated :her great musical
talent.. .-4 . . -:. . ,;i;....v ... : ..; ' .
. - States vie Xtdridmark: A States
ville genius has invented what he terms, "a
gardea.preserver, or hen-walker;" the ."ma
chine" resembles, somewhat, the spur of a v
rooster, only considerably larger, which is
attached to a chicken's pedal extremities, ;
at an angle of 45 degrees . toward the
ground. ' When the chicken, with thiB in
strument attached to its; legs, enters the ..
garden and begins to scratch for seed, as -jhe
foot is put forward in the act of scratching-
the instrument catches in the. ground, ,
and the fowl is instantly walked out of the
gardeB;fctf;t' i..- yaa-irv .j:'
. ;::-rr Yinston Sentinel: To ne con
versant with the holding of our. courts, and
bid general musters, twenty or: twenty-Aye
years ago," conclusive evidence; by con
trast with to-day, presents itself, that there
is mbre sobriety and order now manifested '
than there was then. On both of these oc- '
casions, in those days,' one could see good ;;
old and : middle-aged farmers ' reeling 00 .;
their horses as they left town, -and many a
fence corner had ; lt3 sleeper, and fights '
were the general order of the day. During '
our present court we have seen only od ;
man drunk.".' 1 !; '. - - '' , ' -,.'' '. ' ' 1 .'
;v.
. ... -J - .
- - 5-. , :
-4
'.';;'.';'i
V
-J ;
:; '. s ;;'
',; --- ---V
, :
mi