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TIIKKK NOTKWORTHY OPIN10N8.
The admirable speech of Judge
Thurman, the reported utterances of
lion. Horatio Seymour, of New York,
and the letter of ex-Gov. Palmer, of
Illinois, will necessarily attract the at
U'ulion of the country. Coming out
nearly at the same time, and emana
tiu from three gentlemen of distin
4ii,is'ned reputations, they cannot fail
in exerting influence upon the public
mind. We yesterday referred at
length to Judge Thurman's views.
Gov. beymour is one of the! ripest,
fullest statesmen of our dav.: He is
" ''!""
a gentleman of unsnllied reoutation.
H tnkes a dededlv honeful view of
the future. He believes that "this
y,ar will explode many errors, will
... ... i - .
shatter many new parties, and it is to
i t a ' mi t "i a .i
bo hoped, will make clear and estab-
,. . . .u m it a
ash many new truths. lie regards
the Socialists as the most harmless of
men, who will do more good than in
jury. He says: . j
niri m .
vvueniuey uik oi gatoing meir enaa
by force and their desire to wade up to
their knees in blood, they only teach our
cilizcus ttiu need of good laws j well en
forced. Their impotence here shows the
Blrengthof our government beyond that of
others. A madman may shoot a King and
shake t State, but majorities cannot be as
sassinaled." j ;
lie thinks that "general distress
makes geueral discontent,' aud then
follow "various theories about gov
ernment, labor and finances." Of
these the proportion is large that are
wild and untenable, and that under
no evtnt could tend to the public ad
vantage and reliefs , .
Ex-Governor Palmer was a Re
publican Governor of Illinois, and
co-operated with the Republican par
ty until 1872. He supported Mr.
Greeley, and, we believe, voted for
Mr. Tilden. 'He is an able man, and
was a general in the Union army.
His letter to Mr. L.: D. 5 Inger
r6oll, of the date of August the
TOtb, gives his views of the two
great parties. We copy a part. It
will be seen that he has much more
hope for the Democratic party than
he has for the old party with! which
he was so long affiliated. Speaking
of the Democratic party, he says :
"I am persuaded that, though it is now
apparently groping in the dark, i without
definite aims, it will at no distant day reach
sol id gr ou nd, and will again become the
commanding figure in American politics."
.Of the Republican party ; he says:
"1 assume it to be true that the Republi
can party only exists at present because it
has practical control of the government. If
it were now out of power, it is not easy to
imagine any good reason why it should
again be intrusted with the' management of
public affairs." ' "Its theories that
look to the increase and more general em
ployment of the army jn the administration
fif llm irAvnpnmont onrl ita annarAtit tvillu.
ingness to claim for: the Federat Govern-
ment all the powers that Congress, the
render it dangerous. ? In short, it seems to
me that the Republican party accomplished
us mission in 1870, and that it ought : then
to have been disbanded, as the army
was in 1866." " , ; "The
llepublican party has, as I before said, run
ii3 race, and it will for the next quarter of
a century attempt to answer every criticism
upon its . acts by appealing to . its records
during the civil war, and it will always
fear to yield any power for . the Federal
government which it claimed or exercised
during the war. The Democratic party,
on me other hand, is ineoreucsuy ngm
now, as Jt was befoVe the war, on the most
important and essential principles oi con-
stiiulional Republican government
He thus presents what be consid- -werPul deterring agent.. The Bal
ers tbe fundamental differences m the jj-fi JT;-;;,;;;
Wo parties, and what he says is every .' t
way worth considering, for it contains that only the restoration ; of t the whipping
nolitile truth. The testimony is the tei&tetbiSa
more valuable coming .from one who
r - - -(
"wore the blue and was-elected Gov
ernor of one of the greatest .States
by Republican votes." rle sayi: ; ; V;4
"It seems to me that the radical and con
trolling difference between the parties now
is, that the Republican party, which was
created for the -most patriotic and noble:'
purposes, , has no . fundamental doctrines
which relate to the prese
mipistrationjit pabUrrrrffairs; but it seems.
from a sfipposed necessity, to be inclined
VOL. 9.
to accep the political creed as well as tra
ditions of the Whig party; while the De
mocratic party, notwithstanding its errors
and the follies of its leaders, has a tradi
tional political systetn of opinions which,
if applied and enforced, will, in the end,
prod ace the best possible results, and I have
great confidence that, when it comes into
power, it will be.found equal toj its respon
sibilities." . .,.. j .
The Democratic party is the friend
of uivil liberty. Its priociples are the
mad-sills of national safety, pros-
penty and content. . It is
the great
conservator of our social and political
iftstilntions. It is the national break-
. ' j . j
Water. ' Remove its landmarks: take
away its walls of defence, and a flood
tide of woes will whelm the land and
sweep away all that is cherished and
valuable and necessary. The Repub
lican parly has betrayed eyery trust,
and stands condemned and repudiated
as the great enemy, of i civil freedom,.
t a cnoigfe,4Nd repuiabh;
government, sua 01 tnai system,
which was . conceived, shaped, j and
set in motion by the grand, wise men
of the eighteenth century.'
THE WHIPPINU POST.
Ihe papers - of the . State . some
months ago had 'much to
say cou
cerning the restoration of I the whip
ping post, and nearly or Cuite all of
them favored it. The Star gave its
opinion at the time and the reasons
for the same, and it is not our pur
pose now to repeat them. It is jvery
certain that tbe penitentiary, sot far
as North Carolina is concerned, Jdoes
not answer all the purposes intended,
and is neither reformatory nor suffi
ciently punitive in its character.
The ordinary criminal such as finds
his way most readily and generally
into I our courtsdoes not .regard
penitentiary life as very afflictive,
There is but ttle degradation asso-
dialed in his mind with such penalty
or residence. He does, 4 however,
. . t , . (
dread the whipping post, and in pet-
rr r i i:
ty cases it is a much more emcacious
J i i ! j
and potent remedy than
one or
five
years in the State prison.
Virginia has restored tbe whipping
post, and capital has been made in
the North out of the first" instance in.
which it was resorted to.; A white
woman who had
crime was whipped
mmitted some
1 i
negro con-
stable, ana the - illustrated papers
rated
have taken hold of it, and quite a
sensation has grown
of it. A
handsome woman stripped to the
waist, with tender skin and rounded
figure, is tied to a post, and a great,
savage-looking, haw-buck darkey,
with a whip with many tails, is ad
ministering a severe chastisement
upon the shrinking, shrieking vCbman.
This is of course very horrible and
so is crime. Cartoons are often pow
erful weapons, r i i
Since we wrote the above we have
seen an explanation of the Virginia
matter in the Richmond Dispatch
from the pen of Hon. A. M. Keiley,
of Richmond. The facts are these.
A white girl named 1 Ida Cook was
convicted of stealing a pair of shoes
and stockings. The Sheriff of Eliza-
Detn jity couniy, air. n. naas, writes
to Mr. Keiley : . '.. :'J M j
I "The Justice gave the girl her choice.
. either to go to jail for thirty days, or to re
ceive nrteen stripes. - ine girrs mother,
who was present, did not wish her to go to
jail, but told her to take the whipping'.
The Justice urged that she had better go to
jail. The girl and mother both then in
sisted upon the whipping, and to be then
released. The Justice, after much hesita
tion, directed that the girl should be! whip
ped and released. The sentence of fifteen
stripes was then executed by Moses Ander
son, the constable of that district, who is a
negro. None of tbe prisoner's clothing was
removed, and the punishment was mildly
inflicted, no one being present but the con
stable and myself." i-. '..i: : , . ,
The county in which the whipping
occurred is the banner i Radical conn-
I ty in V lrginiil. . AU
the
officers con
berned in the' affair were Radicals,
ahd every white man concerned is of
Northern birth and rearing. So the
T . , ., : . : t ,
bartoon was a lie. The girl was whip-
ed through her clothes and at her
own option. -" ' - yy-''
I But despite any benevolent or sen
timental views, the 'whipping post is
growing in public
States. It is used
favor in j .other
with benefit in
t? j :a ti. Uaor VrV
England, and in Delaware, New; York
i and Ualifornia. ine lash nas Deen
found -: very effective, and acts as a
wiimfc v ws - -
which prevail throughout the country, and
which are making new villains and victims
n dftv. : Of late a number otStates have
returned to the old system and found it the
only remedy against me progress ui wme.
There has been no means of punishment so
ipfrttvA thfl lash since eovernment was
invented. For wifebeaters, thjXejJn-T
oniipra nri owtriri,s-of -TWomen . and.
children, fortheJrijhjBeM; aU.BStT
invoiTiDjtqmuce,. especially, w vuut
rTTSSIi should supplement a senwjDce iu
hard labor, and such crimes wouia : soon
disappear from the court calendars."
'.. ' 1 1 :. . " "":! ! !l l' liV-r .'-.!-" '
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. rn w,, ...way. ni,r - .raw
! ' ' ' i.M -Vr ,-''!(''f i - l- j M' " 4 j ' ,
VyiEMmGTQN, "CiRIDAY- AUGUST 23, 1878.'
P. S. rhe whipping does not ap- I
pear to have cured Ida f of a "propen
sity to appropriate to her own - uaes I
other people's goods.'. A special from '
Norfolk of August 13th,; to the Rich-.
mond iA,.ays: - . m?WS,EE& SfS&-
"Ida Cook was aitaih arraiened before'a 1
justice ye8terdsy, but this time she was ap-1
prenenaed on the grave charge 01 house- I
breaking and grand larceny. The evidence
snowea inat.sne had access to a Key that
would fit the door opened, and that she was
She was sent on for indictment at the next
v..u.uu. iviiu. ... .1
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TWO inPOUTAMT DBC1HSNS. s
I We publish elsewhere 'two deci
sions of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina that are of general interest
and affect a large class of the people.
It will be seen that it is substantially i
held that ithe lien of a docket
ment is destroyed bv,! proceedings; in, I V
bankruptcy.; ftet It'be borne in mindf
that the Act Congress repealing
ihe Bankrupt Law will go into ope
ration on September 1st, 1878. The
time is. therefore, short, and all eon
cerned should take due notice thereof
and govern themselves accordingly.
? THBPR1IIIARIBS.
The primary election ' system was
ried under very! unfavorable circum
stances in Union county, and yet it
was not without success. The Mon
roe Express has a Jong editorial ex-
plaining the conditions under whioh
ft.-' ... f
the new system was tried for the first
time. It thinks it was far more suc
cessful than the old convention sys
tem would, have -been! under the cir
cumstances. It sees nothing in the
experiment to render it unpopular, or
to show why it should jbe condemned
as unwise. The editor of the Ex
press was in the county, fully, under
stands all the difficulties under which
the plan was operated, is an intelli
gent and capable observer, and gives
the following judgment, which
should ii"t be without weight in in
fluencing the course of other coun
ties. After a full survey of the whole
matter he says : !
"It seems to as that the advocates of that
svstem have verv little cause To' feel "dis
couraged at its results, but tht they should
SS.SSSTm ai BJ-dM.";w"
will not have another election fir this coun
tv for two vears. and we cabnOt ptetend to
say wbat plan of making nominations will
be adopted by the Executive Committee,
but we do say that we believe the people
will demand the primary election. We
have not attempted in this article to insti
tute a comparison between this system and
the county convention, but will probably
do so in our next. That there are objec
tions to it we do not pretend to deny, but
with a proper understanding of it the peo
ple will demand it as the medium through
which to make their preferences known."
THE REBEL ITiB CtAinS.
: The New York Tribune is without
doubt the most unprincipled paper in
the North. It lies just from force of
habit and the fun of the things It
hR daliharatelv falsified time and
again about the "rebel claims."
When it made its first charge it said farSy ww asceuaam, m me xem-
the "rebel claims" aggregated $150,- 0cratic party-the party of true re
000 000. Not long afterwards it put
the figures at $200,000,000.. But this Economical government.
was not enough. , The "rebel claims" I - ,
must be made the great bugaboo in We have long desired to know
the Congressional campaign, so the whose pen prepared the articles of
next leap was to $250,000,000. Last agreement between Gen. Jo. John-
week it swore ! that they actually
amounted to $300,000,000. Even this
huge lie was not enough, so a few
days ago, Monday or Tuesday last, it
actually added $50,000,000, and now
s wears again that if the "rebels" get
the next Congress $350,000,000 will
have to be paid. - In view of this un
mitigated falsifying, and ajl done for
the vilest political purposes, the Phil
adelphia Times is movtid to inquire:
i "Isn't there danger of iit,exhausting the
limits of arithmetic . before election day if
it keeps on bucking 1 against ilseu ? c 'ihe
older organs undersund regulations belter,
and make baste nowiyv, staying gov up iu
. .AM.l. mUlinnB mil of nPtt l(
nothing, they are content with their figures,
Chairman " Gorham sboukl ndmonisn tne
new. organ that i one tolerable; falsehood
u . : . - xu.tsn ahnnU : admnnmii inn
well stuck to - is better iuan one wun a
dozen variations; however sparkling the
variations may be." ' i ' -
Whatever the -National dodge , may be
elsewhere, in North Carolina it is very
clearlv of Kepublican ! origin. aawmnan
origin.
News. ' - ' - - -
Every word tftte?c
to out Indenendents l- in 1 the : field
originates with Radicals, jo iur-
ner, in the metropolitan aisirici,, wm
be aupported by every RadiqaL They,
know that for ten years he denounced
them as a oartv of thieves aud scoun-
: - ' ' . . ' - . . i 111
drels. " But thbtaakes no difference.
Politics are polioy, with them, and bo
they can split the Democratic party
they are . willing to resort, to any
means.5 They; would advocate and
vote1 for His Satanj
weraJa-NcTthtarolina if
rive id ! twain :;the j party , that baai
I cinven i,nm irom me Duuiwxnuiuu
the Dablio treasury. ; '
1- The Phik: Jphia Press thinks it
aa pcsnetrl'.: pthe ineanin of the
iuDnoedrTji - Watie revolt in TCnrth
1 Uarolinai Mli aji" j -Xi .al , !
'Tbfl old 71 '-t''ow control the Demo-
9taie admhilstr loni i ThiB does i not suit
me orthodox j: ocrats, and many of them.
aecianng 11 useives inaepenaents lor
the parpoae t; , reakiog down the Whie
I The iris has missed the causes of
he. Independent movement as widely
it
vi liomR nt n-r i ipmnnrxiin moio av.
4hangft.hayemissed .them. The oth
er day. the Press said, Jo Turner was
She leader of the. Independents. Now.
'6 ; is pos8illy . the mest thorough
paced Whiu-jNprth Carolina : He;
Pver hw bltter dlriike
We
iudg-iH'S: r0:
Qeaki wbat'ire do know. Frank
jys&thervIndpsdont iead-
r, is of, the saniev old Whig party.
ilea Mepane -.is -another wool-dyed,
indigo-blue old Whig liner. . And so
With others. The Press is very ig-
forant of North Carolina politics.
j A very hopeful article as regards
the recuperation of the South appears
Iu the Philadelphia North American.
tt thinks the next! census will show
tn increase. in population, and a very
decided increase in actual wealth,1
inanufactures and agriculture. It
. . 7, . " 4CAas w" ,CttU'
Vrgima will come next. It says
Georgia will show no increase in
population but will make a prosper
ous display in material wealth. It
says .North Carolina has made con
siderable headway. It says: -'.V.
f "The cotton cnlture has ' recovered its
fullest ante-war ; proportions; and must
nave enriched tbe planters and dealers.
The tobacco coltnre has not recuperated to
the same extent, but is doing welL The
rice culture his Ukeii a great start, and has
proved very profitable in Louisiana, Georgia
and South Carolina. New Orleans baa
done49aucb for rice; sugar and cotton, now
Withstanding all har political distractions.
In all the Southern : States - great progress
has been made in wheat, corn and live
Stock." . 1 .
We do not think these views im
portant. There is a manifest want of
prppor knowledge to qualify the
writer to give a judicious opinion.
We have no doubt there is progress,
Pbably not more than has al
ways distinguished the country.
The working people of ' tbe United
States, including all producers, are
estimated by the Advocate, the
Greenback organ in New : York, to
number eleven million. It urges
them to unite and take possession of
the country; This is absurd. The
same class have always had a con
trolling power at the polls. The
men elected to office have been elec
ted by them. We think that bet
ter selections could have been
made sometimes, and we hope better
selections will be made hereafter.
The working people have always been
ston and Gen. Sherman. They are
so admirably drawn, show so much
teal statesmanship, that we know not
o whom to attribute them. We
thought that possibly they , were
drawn by General Sherman, or
more probably by some able Federal
lawyer, v It appears , that General
Johnston has the credit of writing
them, although the Richmond Whiff
does not believe it, as it '. rather inti
mates that General Breckenridge, of
rcnlnfev anht.Ad them
l ; , .
American aristocracy is a heavy
institution. vParan Stevens was once
j a boot-black in a Boston hotel. He
I . m . r . . r tt
rose to roriune u noi io tame, rte
became immensely rich. -His j wife
kept a boarding .; house in the same
pity..; Well, they in due time set up
bn establishment, put on airs, and be
came leaders of the codfish, , It was
their daughter who married the other
day Captain, Arthur. Padget, son of
Lord Alfred Pad set. Captain Ar-
thur wm hardly ever be a British
I 5 -' .!-(--- - ... - ....... ...... ,
jx,r$t then he can .console .him-
gelfv for 'haVhe not, married a leader
pf American aristocracy, and do we
not all 'know how very fine a thing
that is?
! "Shakespeare never repeats,'!, is one
of those untrue sayings' that .have
found their way into the ourrent lan-
j guage of the
nstanoe,
words And thereby hanga a
taleV in fouir ''(DluplayiamtD
of the Sbrew; "Othello," Merry
"As Ton
i w ives ui miuubui, nuu
l h.
vatUaalt Biie.i-,p,j i:-v j
( A gentleman; jost from Lockwood's Folly,
Brunswick, county,' Informs us of a sad in
stance of lhe: fatal - effects of - rattlesnake
bitsH Mrslf Rowena Drew, wife of Mr
Christopher Gi Drew, of thatr place, - was
Out in her garden picking beaast on Tues
da morning t last, ? about . 8 o'clock, when
the was bitten on the left leg, j just .below
the knee,-'by what she' represeated to be a
large snake. A physician Was Immediately
Sent for who resorted to all the. usual'
Remedies Jn such caaei, but wilhonl yailL
the unfortunate lady, breathing ber last .on
Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock, or exacts
ly twenty-four hours after-she wis bitten."
The physician was confident! rom the char-:
acter of the wound that tbe patient wat(
stung by a rattlesnake J iiras jOrew, who
was highly esteemed in the commuoity.was
Only about 18 yeara of age, haying been I
-1 IV- . " ill i ' LL ' ' ' ' i I
marrieu a iiiue jess iubu two years, ana
Reaves one small 'child, not 'quitb a year old.
8he was a daaghterbf Mr. P. Mi Galloway,
if Lock wood's Folly J Great sympathy is.:
eltf in theemteifPicb!
husband and bis motherless child. .
Aid rr the Yelletv Feve 8affrers la
; Grenada, niMUlfal i .
j The committee appointed by the Boar,d
of Aldermen, at their meeting on Wednes
day evening, to solicit contributions fa ' aid
of the yellow fever sofferers at Grenada,
Mississinpl, succeeded in ranung the sum
of $251 75, which amount was immediately
forwarded by Acting Mayor Bowden, by
Check, to the proper authority at Grenada,
the Southern ; Express Company, through
their agent in this city, having; kindly of
fered to forward all amounts to tbe suffer
rers free of charge, i Another effort will be
made to day, and, in fact, there are ! some
amounts yet . uncollected that. . were j sub
scribed yesterday. The Mayor and Board
of Aldermen express their thanks to the
committee for what they have! already ac
complished, and also to the Express Com
pany for forwarding the sum raised free of
Expense. . -yf'-:- : '
platlied Bciwaea Two can.
j The Charlotte Observer of Thursday's date
has the following: "Yesterday morning,
Jno. White, a brakeman on the freight
irain of the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta
Railroad, met with a serious and perhaps
fatal accident at Woodward's ' station. , Be
Was standing between two cars preparing
to couple them, when they came together
With such force that the bumpers of .one
of the cars gave way, and the unfortunate
brakeman was caught between them and
bis body badly mashed. He was taken to
Blackstocks, where medical aid was sum
moned. When last, beard from he was in
a very critical condition." . ..
I Mr. B. F. White, of this city, a brother
of the unfortunate gentleman alluded toy
who was formerly also a resident of this
city, upon getting the first intimation of tbe
accident yesterday morning,! immediately
telegraphed to Columbia to learn the ex
tent of his brother's injuries, and received
the encouraging reply from j Capt T. B.
Kline that the wounded man was not seri
ously hurt, it being the opinion of the physi
cian that he would be able toj set up in one
week, by which it may be inferred that he
was not as badly injured as at first thought
Tbe Lmberaaa. - - 4
The Goldsboro Messenger has tbe follow
ing: "Rev. G. D. Bernbeim, D. D., pastor
of the Lutheran church at Wilmington and
President of the North Carolina Lutheran
Synod, was in town Tuesday. Dr. Bern-
heim has just made an extensive trip
through a portion of the State in the inter
est of the Lutheran Church, which, we are
pleased to hear, he represents to be in a
most oro8DeroU3. growing condition. At
Greensboro he organized a new church,
and the preliminary steps have been taken
for a church each in I Goldsboro i and
Raleigh, and perhaps Newbern, to be under
the pastorship of Rev. Mr. Cooke, a highly
taWnted young . minister. The . Lutheran
Church now numbers forty-five congrega
tions in North Carolina, with a membership
of nearly 5,000 communicants.',',
The nrowalar Caie at Sloep Pli
Up to late yesterday afternoon, nothing
additional had been beard in relation to
the drowning of Mr, W-: H. - Woolvin: at
SfobpUinf, mentioned ' by1 Jus; yesterday,
except that he, another white man and two
colored men, were outsailing, sod the boat
was about to capsize, when Hr. woolvin
attempted to spring out of tbe boat and
reach tbe bank; but fell into the water and
was drowned before any assistance could
be rendered hinL - Mn Woolvin was a son
of Mr; W..H.S Woolvin Sr. a brother of
Mr. J. Ww Woolvin, of: this city; a gentle-i
man well known, and held in the highest
esteem by bis friends , and acquaintances,
wbO deeply sympathise with him in the
great loss he has ' sustained 1 1 The body of
the unfortunate voune man had not been
recovered at last Accounts.
There have been very heavy rains, in the
up-COuuuy ouu wo maj juuk iui jugo
freshetsi In Daplln, we - understand, 3 the
Creeks and branches are all ; overflowed,' in
some localities travel being: seriously inter,.
rupted - A bigreshet is reported: in the.
Northeast River. In, what l is known as
Rockfish Creek the Water is said to be bigh
ertbau it has been' before within the' kat
fifteen years. In portions of Brunswick we
also bear that the farmers have too much
rain for their crpps .j
n) l-r-
Falae Bmrti
tiinatiivrepofM
ay that
yenow:feverHas'Viiiih
We ssure ur . frteBds,yewUer;4Jhafc
there is not the slightest semblanca.of tooth
in these renorti. ' Wilmington was never
more healthful. There ia no, yellow fever
here, has i been'J none 'hem1' tor fourteen
years, and we hope no credit wilfbe given
to tne raise rumors m cireuiauuu.
Tka finwsisc;Ca.ai ilttf ftutb
i Full particulars "of the late drowning at
Sloop Point on ,Tuesdy last wejra received
estaroay.: Xtaeema that deceased W. H.
oolvinwas'our iing in m boat with V3
dun man named . Blk, aamall , whoa
yjaiajdopai!inenajjTiey we
oming trom the Inlet in the bold channel
hlch makes un to Mr J)bugald ' McMfi-'.
ap's shipyard,iwbrfl sroal coasUngyessela
ery Often go forrpair9, ;wbea they -were
J truck hy a heavy wind and the' boat ;as
apsized-r-j Tl parties finally righted jier
nd weftcngaged in bailing her out, when
he started to vapslzd again, upon, which
Woolvin jumped from, the boat with
the intention of trying to reach the. shore.
Which had the effect k)f overturning bet.
The rest clung; to the boat except one of
colored men swamwfs 'Mr,
Wool ym with the view of . trying , to . save
him. Upon reaching hun young Woolvin
Wi2d hold bf his would-be preserver and
the j two f wett ' dawn; together. Fhaally
bengagiBg himself the colored man rose;
anrfaw and.imt for the shore, which.'
was closest liand, upon' reaching , which
e turned to look for Mr. . W. : and be had
disappeared beneath the waters. The rest
ail succeeded in reaching land in safety. A
Vigilant search was soon after instituted for
the body, nearly: the entire neighborhood,
eeply interesting themselves in the matter,'
out it was not recovered until Thursday
morning, about daylight, when it was found
On an oyster rock, about a half mile op the
Creek which makes up near the scene.of the
accident. ; - :
Deceased was only about twenty-three
ears of -age, and leaves 'a young wife and
pne child to mourn his untimely fate:
New Remedy for a Smalte Bile. ;
A little son of Sir. Littleton, of Spring
Hill Township, Brunswick county, was bit
ten on the toe by what is known as a ground
rattlesnake, a few days ago. As no spirits
Could be bad at the lime, tbe drinking of
which in pretty large portions is said to
neutralize the poison of a snake, a new
remedy was tried, the lower portions of the
ittle fellow's legs being placed in a hole in
t,he ground and Jbe earth' packed tightly
around them. He was kept in this position
for Some hours, and btrange to say he is
iiow in a fair way to recover. :
Fire ap the Road.
The store and dwelling at Beaver Dam
Union county, on the C. C. Railway, owned
and occupied by Mr. W. C. Fergus, for
merly of this city, was destroyed by fire on
the evening of Monday last, the 12th inst,
While Mr. F. was , absent in Charlotte.
There was an insurance of $1,500 on stock
and $200 on furniture, io the London and
Liverpool and Globe, and $600 on building,
in the Le Calase, represented by Messrs. J.
WGorddn & Bro.. Of this citvj The oriein
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f
f the fire is not known.'
Sliver Mexican Dollars.
For tbe information of our readers we
would stale that silver Mexican dollars are
now only worth ninety cents, that being all
that our city banks and many j of our mer
chants allow for them.
Tbe Rev. Dr. Pusey.
New York Times.
.The much talked of Dr. Pusey
hid ward Bouverie), who created such
a commotion, years aco. in ecclesias
tical circles of Ensland. and who was
rigorously denounced for his at
tempt, as it was called, to Romanize
the Established Church, is thought
y many persons to be dead, because,
o doubt, very little is now said in
he newspapers either of him or of
be special theology named after him,
le is, however, very alive, and as
nxious as ever ; to carry back the
ihurob of England to the (imagined)
eriod when there was no difference
etween its doctrines and those of
he Papal See. . He is now seventy-
leht, and is confident that tbe time
s not far distant when Ritualism will
revail throughout the 'Established
3hurcb, and he still hopes that its
disagreements ' with , the "Mother
Church" will yet he reconciled.
A Baraiar Btaot by aXady. '
From tbe Cincinnati Commercial. 1 .
LuoiNaxoK, Mich., Aug.. 12.
At ; about 2 o'clock . this morning
Mrs. Esther. E. Chapin heard some
pne trying to enter the i house, and,
1 ... .. ' t i i .
witnouL waiting ner invauu uusuanu,
descended the stairs and entered tho
oom wnere ner oniiureu were sieep
ngnt A man presently appeared at
ue winaow ot ine room, uut six ieei
rom her, and raised his 1 hand to lift
p the sasn,. when sne snot a ouuei
Straight .through bis heart. , f lie ran
some steps ueiore ne aroppeu. , i us
lice Shackleton being notified, sum
tnoned a jury and held an ; inquest;
The' deceased was found to De yvn
iam Hartnell, a laborer in , George
trav's . mill, who . had lived . . about
ere two or in ree years, ana it is saia
ad a brother at Montague.
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Head. Grenades tr CoimunlM.
An unpleasant little -rumor, to the
effect that the Cincinnati Communists
Were .having: hand grenades made by
the thousand, and that one Haynes
was niimg a targe contract tor tuem,
baused a; small scare in the Mayor's
Office one day last week, -The man
itfacturer admitted 'that he had the
jrnjinitioa-in stock, but denied that
any Communists had ordered any of
:u wa 7a ibwarT implement -a
sphere: within a : sphere about tthe
size , of ' a' base ball -made in two
p(ik-lhpgv6f the kiiad
warrantea to oo. ieariui execution
and so . onJi A valif orman bad . or
dered 20,00Q of these hand grenades.
What Haynes is anxious to do is to
ell as many as he can.
jured at Charlotte from a falling brick.
V. Raleigh' ObsefverrA Letter from":
FayetteviQe centf9sabadaBi jio3 at"
fast. It irfeired that raC taia is' tdo lute
to help the corff. bat it U4alimefui n'(Ha-
iocs anujiunnuarj, i tn; wkshmtui in uio
Atlantic and , North Carolina Uatlroad.hHS
been filled in and the road is in-- good -con-1
tiitlon again.1 - -: -
Wefdon" News'i We have' just "
received a letter from an ofSccr. fo nn
Edgecombe Guards, sayisg ih&t tbaf"firifc..
Company had voledio-. attend our fair and -..
compete for the handsome flag-.-t'fTered " by -;
the Society . From present IcJica i c as "w o
are to have a magnificent .military 'display,
several other companies having already .xle-r
bided to 'fiommyuZsk:-h. ' - W.-t
Wilson Advance! 1 TIii crorr
Coaiinse to vatprove iader ih -f avpralp a
rAatttjr tiiri nrnnillnnft vimn. ' I lift nm.
too crop which started tfT so ioausplciaiisly
pids fair to be n average cmp. :---. v e
regret to' announce the death of l!rs.Ruf us
W. Edmuodson, which Sad event happened "
on i Wednesday 1 monins. about t-Urhi t
o'clock, at : the residence or Ir. jCalrm'
4 -HrF0etf Evana t is :4Jtr Milcon,
Vhrontdei Tzey beat us in the couventfoo
one vbte.-t -tdrot our buttons if kb. 2 adn't'
rather, bebesten .by the flogs ' n - Wils
yary. Those -clever democrats t. swal- ,
lowed' Wila-'Carriwlth his artuives of
gravity,? by. way of swapping jyiea , to get. .
a Democrat elected to the House, must feel
4 little badly with the wool stUking in their
throata.ti-jsj.y.g , ;
I i Witnf JSentineli There was
uite a. r response fo tie recent
call vpoa the ClUzens to meefat ttig-eotrrt -house
and , discuss the matter bf having a
I1U
fc1
air ground. It toot shape by electing li.
1 Patterson- President of the company
roposing this work; Geo. VV. Uinshaw,
''ice President: Jos. Stockton: 'Treasurer:
R. T. tedman, Secretary; Executive Com
mittee, Cuealey Hamlin,. Chairman, John
Hanes, F. G. Schaum, R. J. Reynolds, Dr.
H. T. Baboson and George Be0k. : -From
what we can learn we jnfer that the
dried fruit and berry trade this season will
be quite light compared with previous years
in this section. - J
Charlotte Observer'. Seventy
cars of steel rails are expected ia G reens-
boro in a day or two, and will be immedi
ately put down between that point and
Charlotte. The venerable father of
Mr. J. A. C Gruber, engineer oh the-Chat- .
lotte &L Statesville Railroad, anofiprof.
S. F. E. Gruber, of the Gruber family, died
uaaemy weanesuay morning, aitne resi
dence of the former in Statesvilte.
Jhere is a little strip of country, not more
ban three miles wide, between the six-
mile and twelve-mile creeks, in Union
bounty, on which no raia has fallen since
the 19th of last May. The stricken terri
tory extends to the Clay mil country, in
Xork county, b. U., and everything in it ia
)f course burnt up. ' -
. Winston Sentinel'. At tbetaeet
ae of the Fair Grounds committee at the
Court House, on Monday night, if was re
solved to locate the grounds about one mile
west of town n the land could be secured.
Several hundred dollars of additional sub
scriptions were received, and it was deter
mined, if possible, to bold a fair some time
during the winter. We regret to learn
Of tbe sudden death of Capt Henry Wheel
er; of the firm of ' Wheeler I & Pape, drug
gists, of Philndelphia, which took place on
last Thursday. Captain Wheeler was a
native or this fcstate. a good soldier, a tbp-
ough Carolinian, and a popular gentleman.
- Milton' Chronicle : In . the ab-
ence of sheep some of the curs have com-
inehced. depredating oa .cornfields - by
preaking down green corn and eating the
grain off the cob. But, oh t don't tax tbe
dogs ! -The chap who- makes himself
the fawning sycophant of a man on account
pf his money, comes in for a liberal share
bf our most supreme and .unutterable con
tempt, i And the world is stocked with
just such toadies. It Is getting to be
about time for Judge Readeto tune up his
pipes and sing that "good old tune" called
r We're Going Home." It's .been along
lime since the Judge sang it, but we guess
he has not forgotten how it jingles. We
think it is sung to the tune of "Home,
Sweet Home," but we've an idea that it
would jingle fully as well to tho tune of
f there is no luck about the house."
-Asheville Pioneer: Tho corner
btone of Grace church, f Waynesville, Hay
wood county, wilt be laid with appropriate
ceremonies by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Atkin
son, ou Tuesday, the 20th day or August,
at 10 o'clock a. m. . -Asheville and her
uburbs can take care of. another thousand
ithout exhausting her accommodations.
o come along. A new industry, tbe
nufacture oi mica frames ior photo-
phs. is followed by I ladies - from the
ountrv. who construct them durmc tbe
ong winter hours for summer ' sale. ' We
iaw some at Ballard's curiosity store' a few
nays ago mat exnioitea no mueuiasie aou
tit ' They were really ! beautiful, r -Asheville
presents every day a real city ap
pearance. Its streets are animated with
horses and vehicles, and its principal side
Walks thronged with pedestrians. , - Ex
cursions to Craggy, to the Bald, to Mt.
Pisgah, to Pigeon Itiver, land elsewhere in
the mountains, are the order of the day.
j .Tarboro Southerner: tS. Bat
tle, of 1 Rocky Mount, has been Rendered
tbe Harshalsbip of the Raleigh Fair.; -,
JWbat shall we do with our fehlldren t"
Exchange. "If of the male per&aslon and
small, buck ,'em before breakfast,' sit on
'em after dinner, and shingle: them into
quiet repose at bed lime, v -If .this is not
satisfactory, we have a moreiieroic' recipe.
'. Big August Baptist meetings are pre
vailing all over the -counlyv ..The crowd s
number , tbousanda. -8 Little David
perry,! nine years, old, benaesheing the
youngest amateur editor in th State is de
veloping into a red. hot poet . The ... place
may have affected it, but he sauntered in
Our compoeiBg room the other day and set
Up some original verses without copy. -A
few; more such storms, and farmers arc
11 m . ? - J !M.a k M. .1
Undone. wnen weeqiior is ai ms post;
everything on the. inside of the Southerner
Is either original or properly J credited.
Whatever we are bung lofi will , not. be
for stealing.;, fi
toving is a painfuf lhrill ? f
When you get kicked 'tSgt, thf jbill .
I iWhew 1 - i 4' rM"s '".. ,.
Asheville CittMmdslea Ave
ry and Gudger have efieeted aaexchange
whereby Judge Avery rilj fide the Ninth
District, this fall and Jadgs Gadger the
Eighth." This exchanger li made because of
the fact that both of UfYe&1temenjbave
cases in the courts of tneir respective dis
tricts in which they haver bcnmpl6yed as
Anmausl , . ' it tha . Rnarrl
of Directors of the Western Division of tbe
Western North Carolina Railroad held
in this place on Friday Ca&tf Hessrs.' C.
M. McJLoud, T., w. atafaffaiv xi.
Clayton were appointed a fisaacA commit
tee, and this committee was instructed to
ascertain the indebtedness ofX-e company,
aad to proffer to the creditdri,:of the road
to settle their claims with tht Florida bonds
at ninety cents on the dollar.MirfOn the
Sd inst. one Oss Keith stabfcsd. an"Ukilled
James Jenkins (both whiUV tx the 5 steam
saw mill of William Bsal i a Cherokee
county; the wounded man. H - ca ly three-
nnartArn of an hour aftecciL., . cuLJ Keith
Ian en1a.VOred trt till JJUT J- znH.ehtlt
was prevented from i doing s6Itis said
that he stated,, when purcbalU , te knife,
that he intended killing Jameffsiebilhs with
it. - Keith . has - "been committed to jail in
grudge.
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