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In other branches 1 of trade there have also been diminutions rather than increases." There is no doubt about it, the Radical marplots and tinkerers have about destroyed the country. A financial crash began in 1873, and it promises to be worse in 1878 than at anv previous time. The truth of the matter is, political quackery and po litical corruption ; have very nearly knocked the breat4i outfof that indi- vidnal known hs Uiiclo Sam. He is evidently very sick sick near- ,y unto ueaui-auu are now around his bed-side loud t . . .1 T . 1 J . death and: the in their opinions and ready : with their nostrums, but there is noagree- mentveither as to the diagnosis or -the remedies. Dr. Ilardmoney ia con I -. - ,. . : -r - - - . I naeut that ne can cure mm Dy tne free use of a plaster he has called "Resumption." Dr. .'Greenback is equally hopeful and certain that the patient only needs frequent doses of his favorite elixir of life, known to the medico-political world as "Ex pansion, to put the very sick patient agaid on bis feet and send him forth as a strong man to run the great na tional race. But we cannot particu larize, for there are a score or more of doctors all clamoring to be heard, and each boastful of the' wonderful curative powers of his respective medicine. In the mean time poor Uncle Samuel is growingmighty thin and shadowy, and be is. even now breath ing with exceeding, difficulty. The prospect is he will become still mqre 'depleted 'till at last, we fear, he will not be able to make the least pecuni ary shadow His heirs are becoming very-tineasy, and the prospect of a rich legacy is hourly growing more doubtful and desperate. Some of themt are already on "short com mons," and if the old gentleman grows no better by the end of 1878, his children in New England will be able to eat beans and pork bnt once a week, and bis beirs elsewhere will be thankful for exceeding small f avors. And all this, because the country has been afflicted for seventeen years with a party that was corrupt, in competent and unfaithful. Some of the Stale papers are show ing what a poor tobacco State North Carolina is. She is rated the lowest In the scale, but two, as to quantity, and at the tale end, or next to no thing, as to pounds per acre. We have only two remarks to offer: first, that not one-half of the actual to bacco raised i inj North Carolina is credited to North Carolina; second : that there are sections of this State in which there is more money made to the acre than in any other portion of our great country. We can name ten men in Granville county who make $400 to the acre, or $1,000 to the hand on tobacco alone, exclusive of corn, wheat, fodder, oats, pota toes, peas,, &o. .North Carolina is mighty slow in many things, but some how she can beat them all in raising the finest weed in America. Selah ! VOL.,9. - V " tUK UOOTlANB OF. HLl. v Canon Farrar lias .published abet ter in the London Guardian relative tohisTOrmon on the doctrine of "bell. i "We would" tool njUrcpresettt' tbim; specially as be is an,' Author of. on- gomfaour gifts and a JpreioSexof jjen- J ain&elonuencp. VV nuotn frnm hU -, - . explanation: -. - , ; cl n.A-lr H ljuy, as these reports' bxsd Juae, that I deiiQU&.ced tbe. dcclrtna" f eternal jpun Ishment,' or expressed a- bopV that ; the word ejtern&l mltu not appear hi tbe re vised translation, is. as most of yohrreaders "will (ave seen at a glance, utter, ponsease. TLe loblect of my swrmuu was - to prove thai pe word - eternal - did ot becessarlly eoncpta eadlesBnesa; andst tne same time to viiuhcate that faith in the nossible effects oi Crlsts iaflolte redemption eyeu beyond 1 futd-f Ihe text jfcom vrLich I preached NeitherTlhe' AaglicanV nor e-i.!(i beKSveV -the Hofcush' Vfiurcb, has dtqtaticill decided ag&Dt Jtbe pemUai bi. f oluch a hope; aodaa bjiowb, to all str jjti" of Church history,' It has" been wi. JV-eldri different vus. -both by 'Very !eimenir4thraiHinb by spme ot toenouestoi me saints 01 uoq. We think the gifted divine is ra ther "taking water,? i which we are glad to see. We judge so from an editorial in the London Christian "World. That paper says: ' - "He discoursed for a whole hour, with bis customary eloquence, on the question of St Paul to the Romans: 'Shall we con tinue in sin that grace may abound r Jrrom some oreliminarv .remarks it was evident that Dt. .Farrar bad . receiveu aunng ine week a number of letters of remonstrance for his bold utterances on the two previous Sundays against the popular doctrine Of His congregations are immense. It is generally understood in London that both Canon Farrar and the able and gifted Dean Stanley, both of West- I minster Cathedral, are opposed to the doctrine of hell as held by all ortho dox ' churches.! The Philadelphia Times states r r I I t ! "Not only Canon Farrar,of the English Church, is preaching against the doctrine of hell, but Dean Stanley has taken the same position. The Dean preached a long and eloauent sermon to a large congrega- tion'at Westminster, .which is likely to si- tract a good deal of attention, and perhaps to create controversy." j APPOINTMENT'S TO OFFICE, The Radical bull-dozers have made a great fuss over the jDembcratic ap pointments of President Hayes.' You wouia suppose ne nau appoiuieu about ten thousand. Uow, how many ato . , -l ' A:ntA(1 tl Democrats have been appointed to office by Mr. Hayes? How many in North Carolina, to start with? None, va heliava. TTnor man v in Vircinifl? -T 4. -T ,A . TsTnt. nvpr torn or tnr. In fftct the only important offices held by Demo crats are the Postmaster Generalship, the Marshalship of Georgia, and the Mission to Brazil. Mr. Key hab tho- rouerhlv "oented himself." Mr. Fitz- Simmons, appointed Marshal of Geor- . w - parties in that State. 1 Mr. Hilhard,of Georgia, formerly of Alabama, is a erood selection. He did not seek the place. He is a Methodist minister, and a man of talents. These are about all. Now, it is stated as a fact that Grant, the Representative Radical the great successful BulKdozer- the choice of Radicalism for the Pre sidency in 1880 the greatest enemy of public purity and public honor the friend of thieves and rings and rowdies this veritable tirant ac tually appointed more Democrats to office than Mr. Hayes has appointed. The Washington Jost puts the case thus: .... !-. "There was a slight -difference in their methods, but hardly worth elaborating. Before Grant appointed a Democrat, he required public recantation of his" old faith and affiliations. Hayes takes it for granted that such a recantation will follow as a matter of gratitude, and of course. s Presi dent Grant appointed Akerman, of Geor gia, as Attorney-General. Akerman was a mean Democrat, and, consequently, easily became a very much meaner - Republican. General Fagan, of Arkansas, was made by Grant, Marshal of that State. He jwas a Confederate, a Democrat, and cleverly dropped : down to -political, neutrality.' Longstreet, . of Georgia, and Williamson, of Louisiana, were other notable examples of GrantV liberality, i It is questionable whether either of these appointments paid any large percentage of profit, although it must be admitted that General Longstreet attempted to discharge the whole debt him self;' - - '--, :;; ri: :- ;.;H ' : : , ' It was all right for Grant to ap point men from the opposition; it is all wrong for Hayes to do so. Why it not sauce for Grant also sauce for Some of the Democratic papers that advocate the cause of the bond holders speak harshly of those who are f or . remonetizing silver. They are the advocates of but one standard gold. The others are for the two standards gold and silver that pre vailed for more than eighty years, even until 1873. when the people were swindled, and ignorance and corrup tion prevailed. ' Three Presidents lie buried in Tennessee Jackson. Polk and Johnson. FhHadeU j phia Pre. t And they were all born in North Carolina. j . ' - V ' " j; WAY 1 "i j i WILMINGTON,, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4; 1878. THBRIKANI1IO OF WORDS. . Tbe secular papers discuss all aorta of topics. ! They even dip, into the-? ology, and sometimes manifest more ignorance than learning. In the oaee of Canon Farrar we merely gave the popular talk without undertaking to xKscuss the question " which he had sprung in his Westminster ' sermons. His "Life of Christ" is a splendid literarv performance, and we are tin- willing to believe that so gifted adi- vine has become" as thoroughly un-1 as become" as thoroughly' nn i sound in some of his views I as'hehas I been credited with. We have some reason to hope that he is not really an advocate of universal redemption, and does not discard the teaching of evangelical Christianity in regard to a future state of rewards and punish- ments., Itis possible that he has been mis- J nnafotnml on ft uiaT awatt. ,f nrthpr 1 developments.- He tlppears to have beenj discussingthe meaning of cer tain words, which is; clearly permis sible. , It is well known that at this time a large number of very eminent European and American scholars, representing the various leading Christian denominations, are en gaged in re-translating those portions of the Bible that by the consentient voioe of all learned men greatly need it. They meet; regularly in the famous "Jerusalem Chamber" in the great English Abbey. ' ;Dr. Farrar is the Canon of this Cathedral, and in the same building has been discussing the meaning of those words trans lated "to damn," - everlasting," "hell," fcc. He thinks, as we gather, that these words . are . not correct translations of the original, and that the ! Bible revisers should consider them thoroughly and render them into1 their equivalent English terms. If this be the front and height of his offending, as we are inclined to suspect uow, the learned cannot take any! exceptions to it. The point is to have all of the words of the -Bible correctly translated not according to the - necessities of any' branch of ZhZ Crlhnt according the Christian Church -but according to sound scholarship .and the estab lished canons of criticism and inter pretation. Every lover of the truth must favor such a work. Whether i Va Anna rr nnt. ia mftro tllOTl we can undertake to say. .Wo can only hope that it will be done. We find an excellent editorial in the Philadelphia TYmes. upon the Farrar controversy. . Here are some .adiciott9 remarks upon one phase of the ! discussion, which is : interesting' enough to be copied: i . "What is the 'orthodox doctrine upon future punishment it is not our province to discuss, but there is nothing in literary cri ticism more certain than that the popular idea now attached to the word hell has lit tle or no connection with its etymology, or with the sense in which it is most frequent ly employed in the Bible, this, like many other old words, having acquired in mod ern times a special significance that did not belong-to it three centuries ago. The word itself is Anglo-Saxon , and its associated verb is helan, to cover or conceal Luther's Bible has Hoelle, which is nearly the same as the German Hoehle, a hollow; a dark, hidden place. Halla, or - Walhalla, is the : abode of departed heroes. In short, our English word hell corresponds as nearly as possible with the Greek Hades, the Latin inferi, the obscure abode of de parted spirits, the unknown land beyond the grave, and this is precisely the signifi cation of the words which, are commonly translated "hell" in the authorized version. The Hebrew School is used very vaguely and in a variety of connections. It is doubt ful if it ever signifies a . place of torment, and often it is properly translated as the grave. Jacob, for instance, says: "For I will go down into the grave unto, my son mourning." Here and in the correspond ing passage, 'bring down mygray hairs with sorrow to the grave' the Hebrew word is Dreciselv the same that is elsewhere trans lated hell, the Greek Hades. '. Sometimes it has very plainly its etymological meaning, as when Job says: u mat tnou wouiasi hide me in the crave (in hell), that thou wouldst keep me secret till thy wrath be past.' Li is douottui, as nas , oeen saia, whether Bheol, in tne oiaer oooks ai jeasi, ever expresses a place of torment; it is rather the place of detention, the interme diate state between death and the final con summation of things." j . We do not purpose to cumber . oar columns with any discussions of tho points at issue. We have given what we have given as times" as news. sign of the steal the .Florida electoral vote; is very mad and disappointed because Hayes did not give hini an office, and now he, is on the witness stand to tell: what t he t knows' about stealing the Presidency. Let him "blab." Out wit all you know. ' V .', . . - ; -It is stated that the Galaxy has been sold to ih& Atlantic f Monthly and will cease as a distinct publica tion. Another statement is that it has been sold to Messrs. W. C. & F." P.1 Church, and will be continued.-. We trust the last repon is obrrect,asr it has certain admirable " features of! its own we find in none of its rivals. the vmtiTr oF TUB ' TBIBEI. ' INDIAN It is quite an error, to suppose that the Indiana are becomirj extinct. t It is not owing to the humanity of .the whites, or to the tender mercies pt the. United States Go mment, thalf they are not all dead Icrj aga ' But as a matter, of fact the are reducing ins VBr7 siowiy. ;.vten,. x,a- ton, -Commissioner ofX ' nation,' has recently pnDiisnea a pa:, pnie wmcn fiontams uie esiiraaiea tne. present. contains the estimate cl - .number of Indians, and some ! inter esung tacts conneciea wttn tbem. in 1789 the Secretary of Warestimated meiruumoer at o,uuu.?jin,A06,tne secretary ot w ar estimated; them at 129,366. i, In 1836, theyjpere estima ted at 253,464; InrlE50r:H. R. Schoolcraft placed themt at" .388,229. In I860, the Indian lOJScs estimated tnemt atM,30aila meU4teill4yxy5suM; Stateffcensas. gave 313,712. M-The In- dian Office in 1876 gave them at 291, 362.1 In this estimate the Dakotas are niot included. So there has been but little if any decrease. ' j ' The pamphlet contains an interest ing article prepared by . Majj S. N. Clark, of the Bureau of Education. In 1060 the "Iroquois Confederacy numbered 11,000. - Tho last report shows that their descendants number 13,668. No diminution here. Maj. Clark remarks that this conclusion is undoubtedly under rather than over the true number,, as .will be shown at a future time The Iroquois Nation, Maj. Clark says, has inils history ex perienced almost every test that can be applied to the. vitality, of a people emerging from -barbarism into civili zation, and here are the resul ts as af- fecting their numbers. In conclusion, Maj. Clark says it may not be impertinent for the writer to observe that tho above and a tnul- . . - .i tilude of other facts that have come to his knowledge during Beveral years pf study of he question of Indian civilization, have convinced him that the usuaf theory that the Indian pop ulation is destined to 'decline and finally disappear as the result of c W -mBl con tact with whito civilization i must be greatly modified and probably abari doned altogether. - il In this connection we- may 'men tion that the' Indians are about to Congress for admission to the ana P"eges ot - cuiaeuuip. A Dili will oe rcportea to tne nouse soon after recess authorizing the civ ilized tribes of the Indian Territory to elect a delegate to Congress ; and to prevent the superserviceable, in defatigable and everlasting carpet bagger from descending "like a wolf on tbe fbld" upon the uninitiated, un suspecting and unprotected noble Red Man, the bill is to provide ex pressly that "none need apply" save a member of one of the Indian tribes. We respectfully submit that this is not explicit enough. It should state1 that he must be of Indian pa rentage, and must have been a mem ber f the tribe he would represent for at least twenty-one years. If this is not done some John T. Deweese will Mflop down" upon them, armed with1 his dollar and a half carpet bag and a box of paper collars, and in six weeks he will be at the head of the lodge, chief cook, and bottle washer, the engineer who runs "the machine." Our advice is, make the provision deep, wide and strong, er Jhe invincible carpet baggerpwill cap ture the Red Man, and cheat him as he did ; the darkey in the era of Re construction. , , . ; . Perhaps the time has come when civilized Indians should be admitted under proper guarantees and guards, It is. scarcely consistent to keep the civilized Red Man out in the cold af ter, admitting thi Black Man just liberated from slavery, and without the necessary knowledge or expe rience to qualify him for an intelli- gent discbarge of his. duties and re- sponsibilities. It is, scarcely fair to excep- make the civilized Indian an tion to a rule that provides that no man shall be proscribed because of coior, race or previous , conuuion oi servitude. Many of the Indians are said Xo be intelligent and : partially educated, and to possess such qualifi tions as entitle them to the privileges of citizenship. We do not insist upoa their admission! The point twe make is that those who caused the XVth Amendment to the Constitution to be passed, and who gave the ballot and theother privileges of citizenship to the recently liberated negro, can- . . 1 i.t. not very consistently or juquy wim' hold them from a civilized and ' edu cated Indian, IV'- ' y'' ' . V ' , . i f V Fire at Gerre Gr . 1 - l . , . t j ,. 1' We learn from a correspondent at Cerro Gordo, 'Colambbi county, that the store of Messrs. Ai Sessoms &Autry; at that place, was destroyed by fire on Christmas day. How it came to get on Are seems to be. a 'mystery, though it is thought probable that it may have been the.work of an incendia ry. ' The stock was' partially insured. I Fire Near Whltevllle. . r . 51. t 'ThedistHlervof.Mr. Alfl. High,situated about four miles south of Whiteville, Co- mmDos? coaaty,; was uesiroyea uy fire a few ntgnts smce, ; togeiner with foifr J hundred - barrels - of rosin, l two whiw hiJ been backed to the vicinity of the distiUery. Mr High's store and dwelling between which and the distillery there was a sort of declivity, also f maqe a narrow escape irom esirucuun jy the burning rosin, wnicn poarea aown nae i a stream or: fire i the direction ot we j buildings. The flames were communicate to one of thebuildings, but were fortunate mated at upwards of $i,0Q0, upon which there - was no Insurance. The tire caught from burning' dross,' which Md hoi been rproperly extinguished. ?r ' : , '. . -M.- ':' -: ! . . .For the Stsr, : . Sabbath Sebool Bntertalament. j Mb. EdiJtok Among the ' many, and we can say the most enjoyable occasions witnessed by us during tbe tJhnstmas.holi- days, i was an entertainmsnt by the Pike Creek Sabbath School, on tbe 26th instant. It was really refreshing to- see with what dignity and grace tbe little ones, to say nothing oi the young ladies and gentlemen who took part in it, deported , themselves. It is encouraging to parents in this vicinity to know that the foundation is being laid for a higher order of society in this portion of Pender, and they no doubt feel under many obligations -to those who have this good 'work in 'charge, especially to ,Mrs. John P. Hand, who directedjthe affair. Un der the auspices of this lady a Sabbath school or any other institution of. learning must always succeed. " ! ' P. i For the Morning Star. Mr. Editor: Having been summoned to Pender county as a witness in a case pending before the Superior Court, ! spent: four days, last week, at Burgaw or. Stan ford, the new county seat, and was most favorably impressed with the marked hos-i pitality and kindness of Its citizens.,1 Several acres of land have been gene rously donated to the county by the W. &, -W. R. U. company; which have been sur veyed and a suitable site selected for the Court House; the remainder to he sold in lots to individuals, .the price of which will go far towards meeting the entire cost . of the necessary public buildings. As an ev idence of the'energy of some of the citizens, I may mention that aJarge hotel and guard bouse for prisoners were erected during the four weeks immediately preceding, while another building was, during the 6ame pe riod, fitted up temporarily for a court room, with offices for i the clerk, sheriff, grand and petit jurors, &c i . i ? Among the public officials of the county, A. H. Paddison Esq., High Sheriff, was specially distinguished for the promptness rTdSofyh with which he dis- his office, as well as for tbe uniform courtesy of his manner and address. No cases of special interest were tried during the week, except perhaps that of one Bullard for the alleged larceny of a spool of cotton. ' This case' has been pending over two years in Bladen county, and was removed for trial to Pender. The State Solicitor was' aided rn the prosecution by Messrs. E. W. and John Kerr, of Clinton and Goldsbbro, while the prisoner was de fended by Major D. J. Devane and Hon. D. L. Russell, of Wilmington; ( The speeches of counsel in this remarkable case were very able, and although' the tes timony was positive and direct yet the jury failed to agree, so profound was the impression produced upon their minds by tbe arguments and the eloquent appeals of Major Devane and Judge Russell, of whose efforts in behalf of the accused it would be difficult to decide which was the more powerful and effective, i , v ' Much to our disappointment we failed to hear any argument from Hon. Geo.' Davis, of your city, who was present on Wednes day, as tbe case in which he was , specially retained was continued on account of the absence of a material witness for the State. The weather during the week was re markably mild and pleasant, and all seemed well satisfied that the vexed question con cerning the location of the county seat had been settled in favor of this point. , . I , 'We take very great pleasure in recom mending to all who may have occasion to visit this place, Mr. A. H. Williams, the obliging proprietor of the hotel, as a most careful and attentive host. y r Yours, &c, ' A Cmz&s ot Duplin. Gen. Lee on Chrlitmai. ' Gen. Lee is said to have communi cated with his college boys just as he had done with his soldiers, by brief, direct and memorable, "general or ders." One of these is. now recalled as timely, and runs thus: Washington College, Dec. 24,1869. Academic exercises will be sus pended from the 25th to the 27th, in clusive, to enable the students to join in the rites and services . appropriate to the occasion, and, while enjoying these privileges with grateful hearts, all are urered to do or countenance nothing which may disturb the peace, harmony , and happiness tnat snouia pervade a Christian community. 4; I ; R. E. Leb, President. ! : ' 'Arrest ofa Leslelatef. ' O. F. Bullard, . a member of the Peiinsvlvania Leeislature f rom Dela ware county, has been held in $5,000 to answer two charges or emoezzie ment. , At the hearing Bullard plead ed that, as he is a member of the Legislature, and at the time of his ar rest was oa his way to Harrisburg, to attend its sessions, hecouIdhot legally be taken into custody, and he therefore asked for a discharge. 1 The iiagistrate held that be was properly arrested and should be held for trial, I whereupon the defendant' made ap- plication for release upon 1 a writ of habeas corpus, and the question "was to have been argued; before ; J uage Clayton, at Media, Wednesday. "TO 1 ft w v , ; ! The wBiae Blood'? FoeahoDUi. ; In Wheeler's N. C. History, in his account of the early times and men of tMbemarle county, he quotesfrom Stranoheys (Secretary of the colony Of Virginia in 1610) "Historie of Tra vaile" the following notice of th'e In dian Princess: "The young women go not shadowed in their own company until they be.nighl eleven or twelve returns of the leaf old, nor. are they, much ashamed thereof ; . and Po cahuntas, a . well feathered but wanton young girl, Powhatan's daughter, sometimes resorting:to-our fort, of; the age tenipr twelve years, got the s ,boys forth . with her into the market place and made' them' wheel,1 falling on- theiriaridV turning their; heela upwards, whom.she would foii0L odr wheel fio .herself, naked ftH fih ii Vhe fort over.' The gre King Powljatan calle a ydut 1 daughter of his, . Whom: he Jloved' so' j well, -Jcahuntas, whiom:may i sigt i i Gen. Shendanfs. testimony asJLotpe condition of the oountrf .on ,tbe lti brrande ana . tae disposition oi. tue' ieope bti either side of the rivei has the value of a statement that rests on' positive knowledge, and must, webe lievej be accepted as finally punctu ring the war balloon that has been so industriously ; filled by the persons whose-interest it Was to bring about a war with Mexico. ;Gen. Sheridan has no faith in the reports of cattle stealing that have been so industri ously spread, and directly affirms that the only invasion of our soil from the Mexican side was made. by troops in. pursuit of an expedition that had first crosses trom our own territory, xnis entirely puts the outrage boot on the other leg, and thempre closely the case is examined the more reason therg is to believo that the less, we say about outrages in this connection the better it will be eventually for our own self-respect. X SHOKINGCRlME. A Well-Known citizen Living Near Boylcln'e Depot Foally Murdered. . ' lpecial telegram to the Dispatch. 1 I f 1 Norfolk, Va., Deo. 26. . On Monday morning . Mr. Wl H. Fuller, a very estimable gentleman, who lived about three miles from Boykih's depot, .'left home about daybreak for the purpose of shooting wild turkeys from a blind which . he had erected t on the low-grounds of u the , . Meherrin river, on. . the land of I Mr. N. T. Ridley. As Mr. Fuller did hot return home at night or .Christmas morning a party of neighbors started out in -search of him. "The search "resulted in finding the1 body of Mr. Fuller lying a few feet rom the blind, presenting a hor ble and revolting spectacle, A knife wound about one and a half inches deep: had penetrated his right breast, a gun-shot had carried away the en tire right Bide of the head, and his clothing was badly burned, by wad ding; from the gun. Mr. Fuller's gun was lying ' across his breast fully loaded. -' No arrest has been made as yet. . . .. ; t;,y, ; ..j,; . . A FE1BFUL TBAOEDT. Col. Wm. Randolph 15erlceIr;KIlled The Murderer tnen Kill Himself. Fasmyiixb, Va., Dec. 27. The most . terrible tragedy ever known in this section occurred in Farmville to-day. Shortly after noon Col. Wm. Randolph :Berkely, an emi nent lawyer, was seated in his office conversing witn . Mr. ; ivitrea motn, cashier of the English and American Bank. A knock was heard at the door and Col.' Berkely arose to an swer it. On opening ,he door he fell back, shot in the breast. Capt. W. H. Kennedy then entered ' and fired again upon the prostrate body as it to make sure of his murderous work, and then going behind the desk he shot himself in the head; Mr. Moth says all he heard said was a remark of Kennedy's as he fired the first shot, intimating the existence of - some grievance against ithe, Colonel. . Kennedy has made three attempts on his 'own life within tbe past month, and has for some time past been in a moody and despondent condition of mind. -The excitement in town is; in tense) as Col. Berkely was One of the most hospitable and popular men in Virginia. He was to have a grand entertainment at his elegant mansion to-night. Col. Berkely died almost Instantly, Kennedy still lives, but without a possibility of recovery. ': ;'- Hendrleke and McDonald. . : .'. Ex-Goyernor Hendricks 'attended the meeting of the Indiana-Democratic State Central committee, at Indianapolis, on Thursday, and in a brief speech . urged. ; that the Demo crats in no county in the State should nominate a man for- the Legislature unless he was well qualified and could receive the .hearty and entire support of the Democracy of his county, be cause, he said the Democrats of In diana must carry the next Legislature to wipe out the outrageous appor tionment bill and elect Hon. D. W. Voprheea to the Senate in 1879. Sen ator McDonald alsjnade a speech; in the coarse of which he was partic ularly . severe upon the seating of Kellogg in the United States Senate, and the part 'that Hayes and the ad ministration Senators took in the put- fa t The Central Protestant believes that prohibition saves fifty thousand dollars a year in Greensboro, and that the people drink less' than one-twentieth of the liquors formerly consumed. Itf t , , j ; ' Spirits Turpentine: ' Mr. F. ClSeldent haa.rbrought ; 150 bushels mountain apples to Tialeigh to barter.'';.;; - . '" , ; - ' " Superintendent Mills says in the 1 last Orphan' xFriend that be has resigned, . . : and addsi am nevertheless Lre, doing v the best I can for- tbe orphans, until my successor shall be ready to enter upon bis '1 1 duties. And I am wUllng to give the Grand - Master ample time f to make a judicious Belection. " -;- '; ,.ViU V ; ''V - Danville ' News: Through the' energy and perseverance of Ma j. VV. T. t Sutherlin, bis road is nearly completed. -"It runs now witbia a few miles of Milton, and will be run through'early in J aquary." The .little engine and a few fiat cars have al- ' ready been put to running on the five miles , , of.Iaid track. ; . ' ., ' 4 ff-Newbern Nut $heHi f Several cases i of assault and disorderly 'conduct,' probably brought about by the. use of too t , much' Christmas whiskey, were disposed of .-. in the) Mayor's Court yesterday. " One . of our ; city ;pbysiciaas was' engaged yes-,' " teiday in dressing the wounds. of a colored st -man's hand. Shot at a shooting match.. . -jxvateigu j.i vws; . ya euuesuayr ; ;. . evening a party of our ybang gentlemen, .;, admirably disguised in the;.most absurdly grotesque Tco8tumes, - paid - a visit to the - ' yoang laaies ai me jreace . inaumiej ana . v upon their entrance into tbe building found " , tbe lair ones similarly masked and equally; , difficult to be recognized. . A requisi tion has been made .- oy tbe . Uovernor lor - tnttmaD, a rt fugitive from justice from Robe son county, wnere ne was cuutv ot horse stealin.i,4' Brady is now lniailf at Marion,. - O. $ The Governor - has: appointed J?,. H.t Hoffman a Commissioner of Affida vits for this State, resident in Baltimore. - s mitQfZ0m99:end' So f arasT wt-caaHeJI, at the vidurof i&fcjt to v iressj oie orpnans win enjoy a lively ijnnsi- mas: ' Home nave gone to spend the week with their friends, though several received their money too late. Some dine in the village and others infthe country, while those remaining here will eat a good dinner also. The good people of , Mt. Zion' and Berea, living on the upper waters of Tar River, made large crops and divided'' them with the orphans. The flood did them no harm. People on some other ri- ' vers did not divide with the orphans and their - crops went away with the -flood. "Fabula docet," &c. A Yadkin county correspondent gives a long account of. "the big hog kill ing" in that county, in the Salem Press. He says : Three. years ago Messrs. Adam HauBer, J. H. . Jenkins, R. C. Poindexter and P. H. Poindexter got up a bog race, and the animals when killed weighed 328, 360, 865, 302i pounds., Since. that time they have improved that, 431, 500, 626 pounds, until the great, baffle of 1877, be tween R. C. Poindexter's hog Conny, and Adam Hauser's Bob, two of the finest ani mals that ever set a hoof on the sofl Of Yad kin. The crowd - gathered to see .Bob weigked, and he turned out 684 pounds net. ' His gross weight ' is not given; Conny weighed 828 pounds gross, ahd 735 "pounds net, or 51 pounds more than Bob. Conny was 38 months old. Bob only 28 months. ' Bob ought to have' been allowed ten months longer. ; . . Salem JPressi The colored Me thodist Church of Winston is fast approach ing completion. - Mr. J. S. Speas, of Vienna township?-slaughtered two heavy hogs,; one weighing 495 pounds, twenty months old; the other, weighing 250 pounds, one year old. On the 9th instant, nipe members were received in the Moravian Church at Macedonia, Davie county. . A letter from Gov. Vance, of recent date, in answer to inquiries, states that as yet no commutation has been granted Thaddeus Davis, and will not be, unless, as hereto-. fore stated, the signatures of Judge Kerr and the jurors are obtained to the petition in Davis' behalf;.. On and after the 1st of Janpary, 1878, the mail route from Salem to Mt. Airy,, will arrive and depart daily, instead of tri-weekly, as tbe schedule now runs. A drove of 372 fine turkeys, from Carroll county, Va., were quartered in Winston during Christmas. Good many , roasts supplied at from fifty to seventy-five cents per head. A drove of-turkeys on the tramp will average fifteen miles per day. - Washington State: The James ville $ Washington Railroad Company are making preparations to beginjhe building of a depot at this place, as-we learn some of the material has already been brought over apd work will soon begin. The body of Mr.- Paul Jones, drowned some weeks ago, was found on Thursday, 20th - instant, by Mr. W. H. Swindell. Mr. J. E. Merriain has been appointed Keeper of Royal Bhoal (Northwest .Point) light house, by Secretary Sherman. He left on Saturday last to take charge. :. The grand tournament will take place in Tel fair's old field on Wednesday, tbe"26th inst Some seventeen knights have already entered and a good time is expected. The coronation ball is to take place at night, at Armory HalL A right good thing took place in one of the families of our town a few days ago. The nurse, wanting to give a little child a bath in a tub, met with considerable opposition from the little fellow, giving as his excuse that Mr. S. (tbe . pastor of the Presbyterian Chureh)had told him, on Sunday, not to wash in a tub, but to dip himself in the Jordan. A young man, aged 35, by the name of Andrew Richardson, took his own life at Newbern on Christmas day. He used a pistol that was loaded with only powder and wad. He put the muzzle against his bead and pulled the trigger; The2fttffc8ays: "He immediately fell to the floor, the entire charge having bro ken his skull bone and penetrated the brain. He lived some two hours after tho terrible deed, but was utterly unconscious up to the time of his death. ' When the pistol was discharged, bis. brains and blood were dashed over some of the by-standers, and before he died the blood lay in a great puddle on the floor. . Tbe young man has forv many years been laboring under mental aberration and. was for a few months confined in a lunatic asylum in Baltimore. For the past few days he seems to have been meditating this terrible death, as he has frequently mentioned to his friends and relatives that he desired to die. He leaves a wife and one child, a boy of Jpar years;, who resides in Maryland with the father of the. widow; Mr. Richardson' hav ing been rendered so cruel at times, by bis malady, as to render the lives of wife ,and child both dangerous. . Raleigh I Observer : We regret . to mention that CoL D. M. Carter is con- . fined to his room . quite ill, from a severe attacK Ol astnma. Asnevuie corres- . pendent: The maoTwho murdered Hill and led the crowd that murdered the boys in the Laurel country, was himself mur- dered, but not till the year 1872.? His name was Ben Inman. In October, 1872, be was sleeping on the ground at a still house near the road.' A boy of 17 years went to where 1 he lay, and, putting a gun. to his bead, Diew out ms Drains. 1 aois ooy, . x; ra--vis, was tried and convicted of the mur der and, while - awaiting tbe result of his appeal to the Supreme Court, escaped jail. Soon he met the notorious Noah Rice, the revenue officer who murdered Woody ) and . - nr wr. Jervis, and the two murderers stood face to 4 face with pistols at each other's breasts: What a splendid chance : for the ."mills . Of the gods" to grind now! ; What an oppor tunity for two - bloody "wretches to .shuffle. off this mortal coil and let the. country be. at peace I But, for some inscrutable pur pose it could not e so then. Davis, fell dead, but Rice was only wounded Davis, .mm. a .a a . T . ..... ' the ooy wno aniea tne niooay inman; Rice,' the slayer of the innocent Woody and