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TEAKS,
TEARS, IDLE TEARS.
A disgruntled Republican writing
rom Ralijigh j to the Washington
Republican, givea a touching account
of the disappointments of himself
and friend, and" in piteous tones
wauls the idiior of that wicked sheet
toive hiiu some comfort, and lo
pity the eovrovvs of a poor old! man.
The gravamen j is that- the North
Carolina Radicals have been almost
altogether Ignored by Hayes in the
matter of appointments, and that
sundry Democrats had secured favors
at the hands of the Administration
and are now in the enjoyment of
nice little o fices that of right belong
to the Republicans. '
There is a good deal of justice in
t be complai nt, and we are too sym
pathetic uoi, to feel badly when we
read his painful jeremiad, and behold
the tears trickling between the lines
and. all along and through the dolo-
i .-'--.
rpus Kentences
We must reproduce
lagubrious and de-
a! little of this
i . i i i
ponding epistle just for "the fan of
the thing," ind jo Bhow our readers
how downcast are the "leaders" of
the opposition, now that their grubis
growing scarce and their arms are no
longer thrust into the "public crib."
Hear this hungry and yet disappoint
ed patriot as be peals forth his deep
anguish: i j
i i .
"It is a well known fact that we cannot
eveo get an appointment in the depart
ments. Out of sixty-odd which belong to
us in the Treasury Department under the
act of Congress, we have about twenty
two. While Democratic members of Con
gress id this State have their Democratic
friends appointed in the departments, our
Republicans are snubbed and sent off; with
the remark of fJSTo vacancies.' i Be
ing thus snubbed and ignored at
Washington, what can you expect from
us ? Are we to straggle and quarrel with
our neighbors and our brethren about poli
tics merely to gratify and strengthen our
Northern political friends, who think we
are. good enough to nse in national conven
tions and be forgotten when the election is
over ? It is well enough to talk about fight
ing for principle; we have done that to our
hearts' content. - What is there to
fight for ? North Carclinacould have been
saved if its Republicans had been properly
treated. We are in want of a leader.
We have a few charlatans loudmouthed
who are ready with all kinds of remedies,
such as stirring up the 'Old Whigs' with a
long pole; but they represent nobody, and
all they want is office, and, really, most of
them are unfit for office. They are the bum
mers and camp-followers of the last cam
paign. .: ! A . '
"With Euch treatment as I have detailed,
how can you expect us, Mr. Editor, to have
much enthusiasm ?' j
Th is is indeed a melancholy case.
nl i . i j
"Dreadful is their doom, when despair has
- driven j . ' , f . .
To censure fate find pious hope forego, j
ANOTHER MARVELLOUS 1NVEN
' ' TIOW. j -
Ed ison has made: another improve
ment upon bis'pbonograpb. He calls
his riew machine the Auraphone, and
it wUtalk on its own "hook justlas
well as the phonograph will record
the sounds m:ide by persons. The
invention is too wonderful not to de
serve special consideration. We give
an extract from an interesting ac
count that appears in the New York
Man
"la the ceiling bf bis private office, con
cealed from view vcilh lh rent inn nt a
smau, ear-shaped funnel, of dark color, lie
has fitted between the rafters and the floor
above . one of hid double recording and
speaking machines, iln the room above a
portion of the machine rises through the
floor, and attached to it is a small wooden
box, said to contain the coils ef the pipe of
'he trumpet, the bell; or mouth of which
opens through one side,' and is made of the
new substance discovered by Mr. Edison,
and alluded to elsewhere. With the ex
ception of the bbx, all other portions of
'ne machine are open to inspection. Every
word uttered in the room below is repeated
in the room above, with about treble or
quadruple the volume of sound (although
u can be arranged in vast excess of this),
wnile at the same time it is being recorded
n the matrix plate for future reference
and preservation through the electrotyping
Process. The eflEept produced by the aura
Puone is not only comically weird, but,
in many ways, alarming. Sending an as
sistant to thn
Jte capacity for catching whispers, the 6ra
'or, directed by Mf. Edison, bent down his
er to the litUe box only to he deafened by
1,
VOL. 9.
the inquiry, V What do you think, of the
auraphone?" shonted in tones thai almost
made the house rock, followed by g. laugh,
so mockiDgly hideous and unearthly as td
make the blood curdle with, horror. Thia
we soon disco vei ed to be one of the peculiar
jokes incidental to an iatroductio toiU
auraphone, a ways hugely,, eajoyed byl the
Inventor and few attaches Stibsequent ex
ptrhneuts proved the exquisite ;seneiiive;
ness of the machine. The faintest whisper,
the ticking of a clock, the rolling of a : lead
pencil pver the desk, the tearing of a small
piece of newspaper, a , sif.h, a tune hummed
in the low est register---all were successively,
delivered in the room above in exaggerated
volume. At night, when the quiet is more
profound, Mr. Edison informed us that he
could plainly hear the purring of hi cat in
me omce Deiow." . . . . ... ;.,- . ,
: There eeeins lo be no end to. the
fertility of Mr.! Edison's inventive
powers. If he should not j finally be
bereft of his reason he may discover
other principles or machines i . more
wonderful thtn bis marvellous phono"
graph or his 4 astounding auraphone,
. , r ; -H ,WJ
r geuma tofuwveuwoo man any man
yet known to the world, i
: We begin seriously to doubt if
Senator Lamar is the great statesman
he is represented to be by his extrava
gant admirers. That he is an able
and eloquent speaker no one can
doubt. But how abbut his states
manship? He has given more erratic
votes than any other Democrat in the
Senate. His last independent es-
capade was to vote
to place Grant,
'liberty and of
tne enemy ot civil
every Southern State, upon the re
tired list of the army, with a salary of
not less than i- $15,000 annually.
Grant did not need any such help,
for be is rich already, and, is the
"Great National Dead Beat," as some
one called him. Mr. Lamar often
blunders. It is, however the fashion
just now to attribute bis recalcitrant
performances to excessive back-bone
and a tremendous burden of inde
pendence.: . j
Ben Hill got in a heavy blow upon
Jim Blaine's right eye in -he discus
sion of the proposition to place Grant
on the retired list as a General. Hill
told the Maine bellower, according to
the Washington correspondent of the
Richmond ZispafcA, that the Ameri
can people honor the brave men who
fought during the war and stopped
fighting when it ended, but that they
have no respect for: those iwho only
commenced to fight whed the war
was over. j j
Hill made another ! good point in
the discussion He said be would
gladly vote for the bill if it "would
really retire Grant for life, but the
trouble was he would not! stay re
tired." Here is yet another "jo-darter"
for Blaine. He said be would
be willing to help Grant if the time
should ever come when he would
need it. But the Senator from Maine
(Blaine) was a very fast man, and
wanted to help a man before he need
ed it. "I don't vote for men, I vote
for principles," continued Mr. Hill.
"I don't know what the Senator from
Maine votes for; I've never
to find out." ' i i , I
been able
When Harrison (Democrat), of Illi
nois, moved to investigate; Oregon
and South Carolina the Republicans
were taken by surprise, the vote
standing ayes 71, noes 50. Only two
voted aye, Cox, of Ohio, andJKelley,
of Pennsylvania. Whereupon Har
rison got the floor and said:
B mm ,
"Not desiring to obstruct business, and
the Republicans having failed to vote, I
withdraw my resolution." M
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This was a heavy blow, as the Re
publicans bad been ( complaining
about the limitations fixed by the
i M i -
Potter resolutions, j Our readers al
ready know of the passage of the
Wilson resolution immediately after.
The National Democratic Commit
tee is solid in its indorsement of the
movement to investigate the fraud.
They think the Democrats will gain
thirty in the next Congress. A com
mittee was appointed to co-operate
with the Congressional Committee in
their action with respect to the pend
ing Congressional elections, i as fol
lows; Mr. Barnum, of Connecticut;
Mr. Thompson, of Ohio; Mr. Ran
som, of North Carolina; Mr. Ross, of
New Jersey; and Mr. Soott, o
sylvania. Z iT t'VU',-r ; -
Penu
lt is now generally. understood that
Russia has backed down from her ad
vanced; position, f and to avoid a
war with ' England. She knows her
own interests and condition best, and1
acts wisely no ., doubt. ; J The peace
outlook is even . brighter than, before
rennrf ' nl- :-'!, -'"( :''--v i
Gov. Vance has been re-elected
President of the Mecklenburg Monumental
Association. -,: , I r
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WjGLMiyGTQy, jSt.gRPDAY; MAY 31; 1878.
. - IMPORTANT' iVibBttteKt VTH T.i.-'nViA.-'' J ' i
UQV.4r. A y, jiiMrr,toZ Cfcft- jttt ;iob- aside fin 89me w way. . Our
!ta" :Rep,3.a;iativeX4ift Congress Jshopld
ayine oi'tbe rrebyteaa
Olrmrch of the SouiKHe is certSlhi
ly one of -the greatest , preachecs now
living in the Slate, f. He' Kasf the highi 1
eBL vurisnaucoaracier ana is a goou
scholar," He is a native North Caro-:
i j - n . .
.uuian oesiues.1 oo mucn tor me man.
Dr. Miller was.not satisfiea' with; the
Arguments used by those who had H
attacked the authority of th Meck
lenburg Declaration of Indf-'tHionoe.
In' the Chaflo'ttd i Ots'tiiL
be publishes a singularly tNiti9Aiis
communication. . ne reers,;vp.vBOGB.e,
jof the statements made by President
Lis paper iu the North America '.Iter
WMficlTattenuon3 ai thei! :time.
Dr.:
Miller quotes as follows from this ar
ticle :ofMr. Welling i
' "While the question , raised respecting
the authenticity and genuineness .of the
Mecklenburg Declaration stood in the du
bious attitude in which it bad been left by
the publication of the North Carolina Leg
islature, that indefatigable antiquarian and
devoted student df American history, the
late Peter Force, of Washington, in com
piling materials for his 'American Archives,'
came upon a series of declaratory resolu
tions adopted by 'the committeemen of
Mecklenburgb county on the 81st . of May,
1775.' This manifesto, it appears, had
been widely disseminated at the time of
its promulgation, but the memory, as well
bf its existence as of its preeiae form and
contents, had entirely faded away from the
public mind soon after . the revolutionary
war. It was seen at once by Mr. Force
that these resolutions, comprising, as they
did in their terms, a virtual declaration of
independence, offered ' themselves as the
'missing link' which might serve to identify
the ambiguous tradition of North Carolina
with a veritable fact in her documentary
history." - I - .
Dr. Miller then makes the follow-
ing comment and statement:
"No one would suppose from this state
ment, or from any other in the Beview, that
the American Archives of Peter Force con
tained the Mecklenburg t Declaration itself
of May 20th. Not possessing the work,
which is voluminous, (9 vols, folio), and
costly, I wrote to a friend in Washington
to consult it in the congressional norary,
and copy for me what related, if anything,
to the above document. His answer came
to-day, with the enclosed extract, which is
the identical declaration With which we are
so familiar, and containing the additional
very important statement, that after the re
solutions of the 20th were unanimously
adopted and signed, 'a select committee was
then appointed to draw ja -more full and
definite statement of grievances and more
formal ; declaration of independence,
which,' we suppose, was presented in the
subsequent manifesto of May 31st."
Tbia in indeed very importaut, and
tie North Carolina members of Con-
gress would do well to examine the
volume referred to by Dr. Miller,
and over their signatures make a pub
lication to the country We say this
because there are mauy intelligent
North Carolinians, who, like our
selves, fully believed in the fact of a
Declaration of Independence, but
who did not believe that the exact
words of that Declaration were ex
tant, and yet who would rejoice to
have all of their doubts removed as
to the authenticity and genuineness
of the said document.
Let us mention wo reasons,among
others, that prevented
cepting the ipsissima
present Declaration.
us from ac
verba. of the
One was the
fact that the elder ' Alexander ex
pressly stated in a note affixed to his
copy of the Declaration, that it was
not the original one,
been consumed wheu
was burnt in 1800, we
or that bad
his dwelling
think it was,
memory. It
first saw the
and that he wrote from
was this last copy that
light in the Raleigh Register of 1819.
The note for some reason was not
printed with the Declaration, and
was not exhumed discovered until
1844, when Rev. Dr. Chhrles Phillips
came across it. ; i
Another reason was that Mr. Ban
croft found the Resolutions . of the
31st of May in the British Archives
in London, and first.
made them
known, but could find no Declara
tion. Peter Cooper had in his collec
tion the same Resolutions as they ap
peared in a South Carolina paper five
weeks after they were adopted at
Charlotte. We further understood
from a friend who knewr Mr. Force
and to whom the old gentleman ex
hibited the South Carolina paper
containing the resolutions, that Mr.
F. did not believe one word in the
Declaration,but rejected it altogether,
but held firmly and necessarily to the
Resolutions. 'MM ,
It is, therefore extremely . gratify
ing to us to read Dr. Miller's very
interesting: letter, and to ; receive the
statement that the 'American; Ar
chives of the veritable "Peter .Force
contain the "identical ! declaration
with which ; we are so familiar," be
sides the other r important statement
as to: the appointing of the committee
"to draw amore falP and;7 definite
statement of grievances and more
formal declaration of. independence."
leaatng
jtakaihe matter; in hand ;at onceex.
araine" closely Mi. FereeVa volumes,
land rnfcsh Vo the COunW all thfi tev.'
frjlence
ttheir ,signavares.. ? Such.; a , statement
pu .tueir;n$rb wouuixtierye. a ao.uoie:.
purpose;1 iv; would silence forever the
eoeptical !nd the ' cavillers; aftd it
would' BttracV tbe attention ot, the
jeountry to the important claiin. set,
tup by North Carolina, wib the con
fclnsive proof adduced.
,Ve areled.tp make, M1 suggestion.
jbeeause ihose who . have .. questioned
jtbe' genuinesess and authenticity of
the Mecnenburg Declaration" are for
the" most.part' able " ' and ? echblarir
men. Mr. Spofford,. the learned and,
accomplished librarian of ; Congress,
attacked the Declaration in a paper
characterized by terseness, compact
ness, lucidity and logical arrange
ment. It is very singular that so well
appointed and extensively read a
gentleman was ignorant of the fact
Btated by Dr. Miller. It is almost
equally remarkable that President
Welling, having had access to the
Congressional and other large libra
ries, should not have known what the
American Archives contained' con
cerning the very subject . he wrote
upon. It is equally singular that Mr.
Force should have rejected a docu
ment he had published as genuine
So it will be well for our Senators
and Representatives to examine into
the matter at once, and theu publish
a clear and explicit statement as to
what the Force papers really testify
in regard to the Mecklenburg De
claration. We suggest this, as we have said,
that all doubt may be removed, and
all cavillingmay.be silenced.
Mr. Randall's suggestion relative
to gerrymandering Ohio was quickly
followed and with good results. They
were so unexpectedly liberal, how
ever, that even the New York Times
regards it as not so very bad. It
says:
"A careful review of the field gives rea-
sou to believe that the redisricting leaves
six' sure Republican districts, Be Ten sure
Democratic districts, two doubtful which
were Republican in 1876, and five doubtful
which were Democratic in 1876."
This is certainly a good showing
under the circumstauces, for the Re
publicans, but we-opine it is rather
better on paper than it will prove at
the polls. The Democrats succeeded
in crowding 32,000 Republican ma
jority in seven districts and 25,000
Democratic majority in thirteen dis
tricts. They have also compressed
13,000 Republican majority in one
district. This will do. That is what
you call gerrymandering. But then
this is child's play compared, to the
way the New Hampshire Republicans
arrange matters up .in the hill coun
try. In the six cities of that State
8,990 Republican votes elect sixty
two Representatives to the Legisla
ture, and 7,470 Democratic votes
only elect fourteen Representatives.
Now that is science.
The N..Y. Sun has a large circula
tion in the South, and still it does not
like our people. It said the other
day:
"If Maryland wants to build a ship ca
nal from the Chesapeake to Delaware bay
let her build it with her own money."
jTbis is the spirit of the North. To
.this the Baltimore Gazette replies as
follows: ": . ,- .
ylf New York will pay back to the Uni
teq States Treasury all the money expended
in clearing Hell Gate and improving her
harbors and approaches, the State of Ma
ryland will take the matter under advise
ment." Drowning; or a Colored Girl.
A colored girl by the name of Betsy
Griffin, employed on the steamer A. P.
Hurt, her step-father being cook of the
boat, was drowned on Saturday last. . She
was last seen about 3 o'clock on that day,
while the boat was lying . at. .the wharf at
Fayetteville, when she suddenly and mys
teriously disappeared. The officers of the
boat, however, were under the impression
that she had seized a favorable opportunity
and for some cause bad left the boat; but
this theory ; was exploded on Thursday
morning, when the- body f the unfortu
nate girl was discovered about three miles
below Fayetteville, the supposition being
that while engaged in playing around the
boat or wharf she accidentally fell over
board and was drowned: Deceased was
about 13 years of age.
Duplin Convention--.
bTbe Duplin Democratic County Conven
tion assembled at Kenansville yesterday.
A brief telegram from Magnolia informs us
that the Convention adopted the two-thirds
rule. Wallace, for Sheriff;-had a majority,
but not two-thirds. The Convention finally
decided not .' to make . a., nomination .for
Sheriff, ; but to leave the field open to
Wallace-and Hurst, .The del,egates td the
Congressional Convention go uninstructed
The Battle of tbe crater Wboj Saved
S Under this head tbe Petersburg Index
Ajjpeaicontains the following extract from
a paper recently ., contributed .to the. South
ern Historical Society by Major Henry G.
Flanner of this city, late Captain of Flan
iners North Carolina Battery,' touching the
Battle of the Crater, which "will be ; read;
withinteresby many: 1 r - i r.si mm
I M' After reading Capta in Gordon McCabe'a
Article in the southern Historical Society Jfa
prs.'dn the defence of Petersburg; I think I
have tbe right to find fault, not with what is
written, but what was omitted in the article
refeneditOiit ,u-r i-F- --nh -i rt
! -"Icuum that the battery commanded by
me,: and. composed entirely of North: Caro-"
iiaians, js entitled: to tnp credit or prevent
ing; the FederalO'fatmy '-from (ientering
PetersDurg on tbe: morning of the springing
of -tthe mine. MTheii facta are these: The
mine waa sprung about- dayheht of. the
!29th Jof July,raod was immediately followed
by the capture-and i occupation of oqr.liae
of iireastr-works by the enemy. They re
mained in the works; auitiJ .8 o'clock before
jmaMogvreparationa' f or the.dvancei
About that ,.tmie they . reformed 'line of
battle and began.: advancing toward the
city. Flanner'a battery was posted in
the main road ; near the Gee House, about
two hundred; yards in the. rear of the: Con
federate breast-works, immediately in rear
of the mine, forming what might be; con
sidered a second line, but entirely without
infantry support. Immediately upon the
advance of the enemy we opened on them
(.with shell and canister, and they soon
Sought shelter in their trenches In a few
minutes they again formed and commenced
. advancing. Again we opened - on them
with our bix guns. The enemy pressed
steadily forward, when our guns were
double charged with canister, and a deadly
fire poured, into their . ranks. Their lines
Were then broken, and they fled to the
works and there remained until our infantry,-composed
of the brigades of MahOne,
Girardy and Sanders, all . under the com
mand otMahone, arrived, and were placed
in position preparatory to making the final
charge, which resulted in tbe recapture of
tbe works about 2 o clock in the day.
lhe nre or the enemy, from nearly one
hundred guns, was concentrated . upon my
company for two hours; but amid this terri
ble rain of deadly missiles these brave
North Carolinians stood to their guns land
repulsed every advance made by the enemy,
holding them in check alone, and without
infantry support,untiltbe arrival of General
Beauregard with the troops commanded by
Mahone before mentioned. 1 !
"We claim the honor of saving the day,
and preventing what might have been a
very serious disaster and probable loss of
Petersburg. J !
. JNoone save those who went through tbe
fiery ordeal can form the slightest concep
tion of the fury of this attack. No less
than fifty shell a minute were hurled at the
company; and but for tbe protection afford
ed them by the sides of the road, they
would have been swept off the face of the
earth. There, are those now living who
can confirm my statement; and if this
should meet the eye of the gentlemen
cognizant of these details, they will doubt-1
less do us this justice, lhe history ot a
battle cannot be truthfully written irom the
same stand-point of anyone man, although
present in the .engagement. It is due,
therefore, to the brave men who composed
my command that they should be properly
placed upon the record..
Bitten by a Kattleanaite.
Mr. Robert K. Hewett, of Lockwood's
Folly Township, Brunswick county, was
bitten on Friday, tbe 17th inst., by what is
known as an ! Oakleave rattlesnake, jit
seems that he was engaged in carrying out
a lot of shingles from the Royal Oak shingle
swamp, and was in the act of lifting up a
bundle of the shingles, when the snake,
which was underneath, inserted its fangs
into one of his j fingers. As Boon as he
found that he was bitten by the venomous
reptile he made all haste to the house of the
nearest neighbor, who happened to be a
colored man. by the name of Cato Wilson,
to whom he applied for assistance, and
was coolly informed by the industrious
darkey that be was too busy at plowing just
then to stop for that purpose. Mr. H.
then hurried to the next house, upon reach
ing which be was in such a feverish and
exhausted condition that he could have
gone but very little further. Here he met
with tbe kindest i attention, and remedies
were applied to the wounded hand, which
had become very much swollen. A physi
cian was also sent for and arrived early
Saturday morning. After two days of in
tense suffering, during which he was in an
unconscious state, he commenced gradu
ally improving, and at last accounts was
apparently out of danger, though the
wounded hand is. represented to be per
fectly black, and some fears are entertained
that mortification; may set in. i
Arrested at IiaetM
Daniel Hayes,. Colored, who committed
an assault upon one Harvey Higbsmitb, co
lored, on the night of the 25th of January
last,' cutting bis throat with a razor while
at a frolic somewhere in tbe neighborhood
of Burgaw, Pender county, and who has
since been at large, was apprehended at
Kinston, tied and brought down to Burgaw;
yesterday, where he was surrendered to the
proper authorities!.' So we are informed;
by a gentleman who came down on the
train last evening. Highsmith did not die
from the injuries inflicted, but made a very!
narrow escape. m 1
raeetlnsfor Orgranixation.-
The Memorial Association of the Third
Regiment met in the city court room, at the;
City HalU last night, according to an-1
nouncement. : ' v:
i Sergeant Alex. Wiggs was elected Presi
dent, Sergeant F. V. B. .Yopp, Vice Presi
dent, and J. H. Pdgh, Secretary. .
A committed of thraejwasapppinted to
prepare a Constitution and By-Laws for the
government of the Association, to report to
a called meeting when ready.. 1 '!
j Capt.'A L. DeRosset made a very inter
esting speech, which was .appreciated and
applauded. M v
1 Rev. Dr. Patterson, Col. J. L. Cantwell
and Adjutant T. & James also entertained
the Association ' with some very pleasant
remarks. ---m- i -1
A vote of thanks was tendered. Captain
H. C.lBrock for the use of the city court
room.' ,r --, ' ' "":
I CoL W. L. DeRosset rendered the mem
bers of the Association some material,
assistance, which they evidently appre
ciated. ;. .. ''
NO. 31.
Tne Republican conntr Convention.'
-') This body met at the Court House yes
terday morning. The Executive Commit-'
tee Convened at 9 o'clock, and the Conven
tion was to have commenced business at 10
o'clock, but a contest arose in regard to the
admission oft. delegates from Cape Fear
township, which had 'elected two sets,
one in favor of and tbe : others-opposed to
the . nomintation of Sheriff, Manning, and
over this matter the committee wrangled
and quarrelled until 4 or" 5 o'clock ini the
afternoon ; before .any . other I business was
.transacted. A compromise I was finally
effected by admitting one Manning delegate
and' tO-of the 'opposition, the ' delegation"
being then composed of H. E.; Scott; Elijah"
Tate iand Jack Moore." -v MuMMMj :o
i IThe Convention was organized . by the
election of GeoliW.. Price, Jr, a Manning,
man, as Chairman, and appointing Jos. E.
Sampson Secretary
""Thy 4iomnia1idn8weie then made as foli
lows; ' ' ih ;." ; ! 1
I For Sheriff t-S. H. Manning, who received
17 votes, John : F. Garrell 12, and.-Duncan
Holmes, colored, 1. . .
. For Clerk of Superior Court Stacy "Van
Amringe, who received 22 votes, jand E. H.
McQuigg 8. t
. For Register of Deeds Jos E. Sampson,
colored, nominated by acclamation.
For County Treasurer Elijah Hewlett,
nominated by acclamation. ; M
For Coroner E. D. Hewlett, who
received 19 votes, J. C. Scott (colored) 6,
and I. W.King 5.
For Surveyor John Kent Brown, nomi
nated by acclamation. - there being no
Republican in the county suited to fill the
position. - r '
. For the Senate John P. Sampson,
colored, who received 19 votes, the remain-. !
der being scattered between Wilson, Hill,
French and others.
For the Housed H. E. Scott and W. H.
Waddell, the former receiving 16 votes and
the latter 17, the remainder scattering.
A committee of five was appointed to
meet with a like committee from Pender
county, in relation to ratifying the nomina
tion for Senator.: This committee consists
of Joseph E. Sampson, Hiram Hankins, J.
C. Scott, Jas. D. Dry and W. H. Howe, Sr.
j There was a scene in the Convention
during the forenoon when James Heaton,
who had been absent for several days, sud
denly made his appearance in the crowd
and took, bis seat as a member of the
Executive Committee. He occupied his
seat but a few moments, when he arose to
i
a question of privilege, explained tbe
cause of his absence, stating that he had
received an appointment to a position in
the Custom House and had been to
Washington to see about it, alluded
to the reports that had been circu
lated about him during his absence,
disclaiming that he bad received
any bribe from any source to leave the city,
and then proceeded to open bis batteries
upon those whom he charged with being
responsible for the reports alluded to,
assailing them in words of startling em
phasis, bitter sarcasm and scathing satire.
His appearance to some in the Convention
was as startling as would be a thunder bolt
from a clear sky.; Then there were other
scenes ' during the day that beggar de
scription, and which can only be denomi
nated "confusion worse confounded."
Committed tor Trial.
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Daniel Hayes, colored, mentioned a few
days since as having been arrested at Kin
ston and taken to Burgaw, charged with
making an assault upon Harvey High
smith, on the 25th of January last, cutting
his throat with a pocket-knife was brought
down on yesterday; morning, under a com
mitment from Robert T. banders, of Holden
township, in default of bail in the sum of
$500, and committed to the county jail.
He was in charge of Deputy Sheriff Wm.
Mclntyre. , j !
Tne Government and Qnarantlne
I Slattere. i.
Oen, J. M. Wood worth, U. S. Supervis
ing Surgeon, arrived here yesterday morn
ing, his visit, as we have already stated, be
ing in connection with quarantine and ma
rine hospital matters. During the forenoon
he had an interview with Mayor Fisbblate
at bis office in the City Hall, at which Dr.
A. E. Wright, Superintendent of Health,
Dr. W. W. Lane, in charge of the Marine
Hospital, and Aldermen H. G. Flanner and
L W. King, composing the Sanitary Com
mittee of the Board,1 were present by invita
tion. Gen. Woodworth was evidently no
little concerned at the lack of such accom
modations as he deemed essential for per
sons liable to detention at the quarantine
station, both for the sick and the welL The
quarantine bill recently passed by Congress
will, he thinks, prove a remedy for the UV
adequate provisions now existing ' for-the
accommodation of those subject to quaran
tine, and Gen. W. stated that if the quaran
tine station were turned over to the Fede
ral Government that the necessary visiting
stations, wharves, hospital for the sick,
house of quarantine for the well, &c,
would be provided, in which case on th
arrival of a vessel from an. infected port
the officers and crew wquld be removed,
when the vessel could be thoroughly: fumi
gated and cleansed, and all other necessary
precautions taken before she was allowed
to come up to the city. The arrangement
proposed, GenrWoodworth declares, will
not interfere nor in any manner clash, with
the duties and responsibilities of the city
authorities in matters pertaining to the
quarantine. .,j , v: - ;! -
Gen. Woodworth goes from here to Nor
foiki :( m :m- : 'Im;,;::
-'Forsyth sends eight convicts to
the penitentiaryr- Aircoiorea out one, and
he is up fop five years, for being, married
too mucniy, as Artemus ward would say,
His name is W. G. Willis. ; , j ,H
; elected of the Fayetteville Light Infantry
Company John D., Williams, Jr., Captain ;
: R-McMOlan, First- Lieutenant; W. J. Mc
Donald,' Second Lieutenant; W. S. Cuk,
Third JJentetinOTr i .-"
Ashboro Megulator: A large.
clumsy, rusty looking ! rattlesnake was
killed a mile and a half from town last
: week, by J. ; J. Betts. There was
.made at the Frankliosville bag milla, in
this county ki on last Friday, 1,014 seamless
bags. One woman made 115. ..
. . - Fayetteville Gazette. Mr. .H.
.Rose, President of the Association, de
livered - a t most .8cholrJy rand beaulifu I
oration the regular f monthly lecture
before St. John's Guild, in the Parish ses
sion; room'i 'last Tuesday -evening. -
Thursday morning, just before day, the
residence of Mr. Daniel McGuire, sonlh
Dick street. Was destroyed by fire; It was
insured for $600, which'' will tot cover his
loss.'; We sympathize with friend McGuire
in his misfortune. j
9 r-r Ualeigh News
Kerr, State - GeoloeisfJ
Professor W, C.
has just returned
from a visit to Haw river. - Doon our ma
king some inquiries as to the condition of
the crops in that section, he informed us
that the wheat . was in fine order ' until the
late cold snap Now it , is badly smitien ?
with rust The expectations of a magnifi
cent crop are much diminished. Tb'e wheat
stalks are weak and ; many wiU not ; bead ;
out. !" The blades are covered with the rust.
Ctdver isi erowint finelyi'JjutUhe neonle
j h w trad a visrtatioir - Of that dreaded pest
or me iar yvest,tne red-legged grasshopper.
Correspondent of Raleigh News:
Sparta is a 1 memorable place in tbe past
commercial history of the State. There
was a time, before railroads, when ' her
trade; extended to Wake county. The
father of Colonel A B.Andrews. SuDerin
ttendent North Carolina Railroad, was a
great j merchant here ? forty -years ago.
W hen Wm. H. Willard Was a pioneer com
mission merchant in Washington, and
opened the first strictly jobbing house in
the State, Sparta was the first naval store
depot in North Carolina. But this is all
cone now. it has become instead ore of
jthe first agricultural villages of the country.
; Winston Sentinel: Miss Sarah
Talum, a maiden lady some fifty years of
age, committed suicide by drowning herself
:m Covington's mill pond, in Stokes county,
on Monday night, tbe 13lh inst. She retired
to bed on Mondav nieht. but cot un durinu-
lhe night sometime, not known to the fam
jily, and proceeded to the; mill pond, where
she was found next morning, with a rock
tied to her neck and one to her wrist. She
was suffering from mental derangement.
j rwoert w .. juasten ateo at mot Grove,
Cooper county, Mo., on the 11th instant,
aged 86 years. Tbe deceased had been
narried about two months. Mr. Masten
was a native of this county.
From Gov. Vance's sneech at
Charlotte, as reported in the Observer: The
ispeaker had been given credit for very
great iamiuarny wun tbe Scriptures; in
ideed, it had been said of him that be knew
more of the Bible and practiced less of it
ihan any other man in the Slate. But
however that might be, he had lately fallen
upon an interpretation of a certain Biblical
text which he did not find laid down by
any of ; the commentators. It is said that
In heaven there is neither 'marriage nor
giving in marriage, and this he conceived to
mean that there were so i many more wo
men there than men that there could not be
found men enough to go 'round.
i Greensboro Patriot: Mrs. M. A.
podson, a very estimable lady, died after a
brief illness, in this city, Monday morning,
p There was a heavy frost last Wednes
day night. Rnst is doing much dam
age to wheat in this locality. ' The rail
road meeting at the Court House, Monday
night, was largely attended. Remarks were
aade by Messrs". -O. G. Yates, XJTPTMen
oennaii, and l. w. U. Benbow. At the
close of tbe meeting further remarks were
imade by D. F. Caldwell. A resolution was 1
passed, almost unanimously, to submit a '
proposition to the voters of the city to levy
a tax of $5,000 annually for three years to
provide for the. convicts at work on the
road, and the authorities will be called upon
to submit the question to the voters.
: Goldsboro Messenger: A most
terrific. storm passed over this section Tues
day night. The heavy rain was accompa
nied by severe thunder and lightning, and
in some portions it hailed: The rain did
great damage.to growing crops fences and
property ; generally. We learn that the
dwelling of Mr. W. W. Kornegay, at Mount
Olive, was struck by lightning, doing, how
ever, but little damage. The lightning-rod
attached to1 the gin house on the Granger
farm was torn off and scattered some dis
tance, and from all sides reach us reports
of destruction to property. ( Arthur D.
Speight,; Esq., is experimenting with to
bacco this year. One day last week he
planted 1 twentyfive acres of the weed,
about 110,000 plants, on his farm in this
county. Others of our citizens are experi
menting on a large scale. . ! The heavy
rain Tuesday night, Tve regret to learn,
washed out tbe dam of Maj. B. F. Hook's
fish pond, and tbe Major lost 4,000 one year
old perch. , j
Salem Press: Thermometers 92
in the shade Tuesday. The eBgine of.
our Rough and Ready Fire Company has
been in use forty-six years; lit was brought
from Philadelphia in 1832.t Earliest
farmers report wheat harvest in two weeks.
Much complaint from all directions of rust.
Some say an insect is also at work on the
grain. The Commencement exercises
of Salem Female Academy will . be on
Thursday, June 20th, at 9 o'clock A. M.
The concluding musical entertainment will
be given in the evening of the same day at
8 o'clock., , S. T. Mickey informs us
that he has eighteen acres in grapes, which
promise the largest shipments since 1872.
.Messrs. Linville and Laughenour also re
port promising out-look for abundant yields.
The dwellers on tbe Yadkin are said
to be strictly observing the fish law which
went into effect May ist, and expires June
10th, forbidding any person to net, trap, or
;in, any way catch fish from the waters of
-the Yadkin Riyer within the , limit pre
scribed, forty-one days, during jihe spawn
ing season, i j ; -
Washington (N. C.)' correspon
dent of the Tarboro Southerner: The Board
of County Commissioners have decided to
issue bonds to the amountof $10,000 to pur
chase the bridge from Gen. Grimes. .
'The people in this section desire very much
that President Robinson, of the Seaboard
Railroad, would extend the 1 route ' of the
steamer Chowan to Jamesville, connecting
there with the Jamesville & Washington R.
R - The family of the late Judge E;
J. Warren are erecting to his memory a
large, handsome granite monument. .
Masters Bruce Small wood, Arthur Williams
and Lawrence Scott were over the bridge,
on Thursday last, gathering pebbles near
'the water's edge.' Smallwood, while so
doing, fell overboard in very deep, water
and sank twice.- Young Williams, unable
to bear the distressing sight of seeing his
companion drown without an effort to save
him, plunged boldly in, caught him, and
heroically struggled to get ; to the wharf,
t which neither would have reached alive had
hot little Scott procured a pole,' which be
extended and drew them ashore with.
He was a young man, and a granger. He
bad signs on his upper lip of what may
some day be a moustache. He wanted to
buy a package of envelopes, and stepped
into one of ! our drug stores .to -get them.
The proprietor handed him a package with
doves stamped on the fold. After eyeing
them closely, he said, D n the doves i be
was a courting man and wanted some with
owls or hawks on them,' as he calculated on
catching somethioe..n - m m Im- .rui-
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