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" " j 1.00 .50 NK OF THE DANGERS THAT I IIUKATKN nKHlOCKATK! lNSTl TDTIONS. lit will be remembered by those of mir readers who were fortunate .i-nough to hear the very thoughtful stieech of Senator Merrimoh in! this .1 j - . j city, that he considered at some length the dangers that threatened tile happiness and safety of our icoun try trom the immense corporations. There are many ways that a people inn lose their liberties. Want of popuhitioji, the inroads of hostile neighbors, the people grown effemi nate or corrupt, the unaanctified am bition and insatiate greed ot men, the tyranny of a favored class, the j con spiracy of military leaders, unwise and insidious legislation, the combina- . . : j tions of wealth, the aggressiveness of moiiopolists, or, the growing power of corporations by any of ihese i;auses, or by several united, a peo ple's liberties may be destroyed and llieir country Iks ruined forevei.j Probably the greatest danger j that threatens the civil institutions of our vast and rapidly growing country a country that may have eighty mil- i lions of inhabitantifebefore the iceu - tury ends is in the immense growth iand iower wielded by the moneyed, corporations. Since the war many of these corporations have become so powerful that they have invaded the precincts of legislation, corrupted the sources of honor and prosperity, and bought up the men who had been se lected to make the laws of a free peo ple. For ten years or longer,lhe Kings of the Iiobby have been the real mag nates in W ashingtou. The time has come in our land when it really appears as if money could accomplish anything 4-conld 'prostrate virtue,- demoralize and corrupt all manner of men,yitiate the very fountains of justice, arid bring tinder subjection the people of a country once as pure and patriotic as they were great and prosperous. So potent has money grown in our land that it has become at once a patent of nobility (of the shoddy kind), and is what Spenser in his Fairy Queen says "the greatest god below the sky." It has n our case proved as insatiate and devour ing as the remorseless "deep sea in carnadine." ' ll has swallowed up the consciences, character, honojr and truth of the people, and made vil lainy successful and usurpation pos sible. Shakespeare knew i men, as Napolepn said he did. The immortal dramatist declares that "If money go before, all ways lie open." It is this knowledge which has been inherited or gathered by the aioney ' kings who dominate America. jWhen they go to Washington to- carry out their schemes and plans, they make then their "money go before," and he v.' find but few obstructions fin the (!-. ,vay of success. 'All ways lie open o them, as was seen when the Credit I6bilier villainy was perpetrated, nd, when so many "Christian States- en", were engulphed in that j mael strom of wickedness and bribery. The great railroads to the Pacific Ocean 'were got through in the same way "money went before," and then "all ways lay open," and the United States became the patron of hose roads to the amount of sixty or Seventy million dollars It may be thought by those who ave had no insight into the lobby usines8 in Washington and Raleigh, that there is no great danger after all from rich1 and powerful corpora The history. ofour own State jrtoc the war contains one very dis- - . 4- 1 I i ii i . i . 1 1 i ; - ) , i VOL. 10. graceful chapter. When i the carpe baggers and negroes and a few seedy scallawags constituted the Legisla ture of North Carolina liji 1863-0 dj tens of millions of dollars of the people's money were voted away by the scoundrels, and hun-; dreds of " thousands of dollars found their way into the pock its of the rascals in the way of bribes. The Fraud Commission tell us something of the villainies practiced, but after all is said it gives only a j glimpse as it were of what was done. Said the carpet-bagger Congressman, Deweese, from the Raleigh Dis trict, to Governor Vance; in Wash ington "I own a w lole block of buildings in Cleveland, jOhicy and they were built out oF yourj peo ple's money. I went de-oi n to North Carlina to get your money, and I got it. I tell you, Governor, you fellows don't know the halt of what was done. You know something about the small rascals, but youldon't know anything about the big thieves." The same . sort of eorjruptijop. has occurred on a far, more imposing scale in Washington. The arena was wider and the stakes were vaster. The game, therefore, assumed, pro portions in keepiug with the magni tude of the plans and the absolute grandeur of the proposed viljlainy. To rob a State of twenty iriillion dollars , is no insignificant achieve ment. But to run a great Govern ment; to control its all his subordinates; Headj and to ramify a continent; to: manipuiatej and direct its legislation, whilst appro priating hundreds of millions to their own uses, is a performance worthy of any age or people where vice, and immorality, and i self-assertion and unadulterated impudence, and un blushing knavery, and j manyisided cunning, and magnificent J swdgger, and polished villainy, are the fadders to places of trust and preferment, and passports to social renpectalbilityL The last ten or fifteen years have been aptly described as "the gilded Those who are familiar!, with i .i i history with France in the days of Louis XIV.. or Louis XVI.. or with England in tii e dily s of Ch arles tl. or Horace Walpole, may be able to find some approximate parallels to the wide-spread vice and the (general cor ruption of the times of the Grant Administration, btifto so;me such pe riqds they must appeal if they would seek illustrations or examples. j The times have been altogether fa vorable to all of the plans of the great corporations. Thej public con science was dead: adventurers and placemen had gained the public ear; legislation was in the hands of fa- 4 i 1 natics and charlatans, and the rail way and other corporations J found everything prepared to. .heir hands, The result was the Credit Mbilier plundering8 and a general robb'ery of the people. ill I When we began this article our purpose was to illustrate what we . , - , ! i I had. to. say. by extracts frpm some re marks made bv Hon. Gebrere W. Ju - j p - ; lian upon the threatening danger to democratic government ,in ' America in the growing and aggressive jpower of great corporations. We mqst de fer this to another time. ! j THE CHARGE! OF JBIiECTlUN fkauds. : ! ;. j ; The Radical organs 'charge that there were great frauds perpetrated in' Louisiana at the last election, and, of course, by the Democrats, a4 they banged out the Returning Poard candidates and elected their icket. Considering the fact that for ten or fifteen years thJv were compelled to look ari and see the State taked from them ' by open, fraud and force, it would not be surprising iif they had learned something, and lad become demoralized enough1, njot only j.o pre vent a repetition of Radical trickery and violence, but to imitate toj some extent their vicious ancl deplorable .... - i ! i ' example. But of thisty? as yet know nothing, ' The charge is directly made by the Radicals, and there may be something in it. j At any rate, in Newi Oilean i there are loud complaints, and the Pica yune calls for the truth about the matter. ! That is right.! J If thjre has been fraud let is be fully exposecj. The only safety of oqrj institutions lies in a pure and free ballot! The Radicals for ten years have allowed 7 . " i i ' . , i v neither, -and the liberties of ti he peo- pie were well nigh lost. Let the ' machinery of the courts be put it motion, and let a f,ull in- vestigation be had. The Picayune 'I WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 1878. thinks that the frauds were perpetra ted by the Radicals! This is alto gether probable if bucIi a thing.wero possible. It says: j , i i "Where there is so . much smoke there must be some fire. Where there are eo many charges of fraud, made and reitera ted with. iso much persistent energy, and repeated by the best of citizens undeif con viction of their trutfr, there must be some- tiling to give tnem color. ; u- "The matter has eone to such leneth that the honest public are obliged toi take cog nizance or n. Alter a dismal (struggle or ten years, the true citizens and honest men of this city have at length been able t0 hold an election under honest laws, enacted by honest legislators. Radicalism was ! ideas tinea with ftaud, was fostered in! ras cality, was fattened upon I spoliation, was stimulated by Successful plunder, and was kept alive by the! conjunc tion of internal with . external scoundrel isra. i We were all made forced; wit nesses of the corrupt, 1 base, knavieh and atrocious manner in which our intrusive adversaries debauched the elective I fran chise in Louisiana for a series of weary years. When at last it became our happy privilege to bGry the monster, lit was the fond hope of all patriots that we might consign him and all its filthy adjuncts and at tributes to the same foul sepulchre. Is it possible that we have slain and buried Rad icalism, and yet left Fraud, her twin sistel alive to corrupt the ballot box r j "This is a serious matter, and it be hooves honorable citizens to treat it serit ously." ! XT - .1 t.s c e :i "a8 auu 11,8 irauuuicut laiuuy aavo been holding a solemn pow-wow over the Democratic frauds in Lou isiana, it is certainly very probable that the main frauds were the ! work i of the Radical party. Hayes's "pals" the fellows who stole the Presiden cy were candidates, and di,d all the rascality possible, no doubt, on elec tion day. THE PLOT. The fact that such bitter,uncompro mising partisans and unscrupulous bull-dozers as Zach Chandler and Cameron have the ear of the jPresi dent is a very Buspicious circum stance, and bodes no good to the country. We have already published some interesting letters from the care ful correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. It is quite apparent from what he says that mischief is brewing ib? the White House, and the fraudu lent President is ' listening f with a charmed ear to the evil! whisperj- ings of very depraved and designing men The letters from Washington to the Philadelphia Press, Radical, and to the limes, Independent, and indeed to other papers, all show that the President is yielding to- the per suasions of the enemies of the coun try, and is "stiffening up" in his pur poses to aid the waning fortunes of the corruptest party known to civil- ization. We have already briefly stated what the chief aim of the conspirators was to capture the j House of Rep resentatives. It is not to be believed for a moment that Hayes and his crew would go to bull-dozing the South after the election if there were no satanic plot to carry out. The entire movement! is made in the inter est of Radicalism; the sole end in view is to steal the House as they stole the Presidency. Old Zach Chandler was the chief agent in the former theft, and now he is cheek bv-iowl with him for whom he aided greatly in filching the high office.' The Washington Post gives the plan of the conspirators so far as it has been discovered. According to that paper the following is the plot by which the corrupt fellows flope to accomplish their wicked and devilish purposes: "The modus vpernadi is to be about as follows: It is to be assumed that twelve . of fifteen Districts in the South were carried by the ! Democrats through 'intimidation' and 'violence.' Wholesale prosecutions against Democrats in these Districts are to be instituted in the Federal Courts under the operation of the Bayonet Act, techni cally termed the Federal election; law; ava lanches of negro afiidavits are to be gaincred and nourcd all over the North." through the columns of the Radical press, to Are Tfab Norther if heart and produce a .popular feeling in that section sufficiently bit ter to tolerate and sustain the revolu tionary measure contemplated . Then, the first" Monday in ! December, 1879, the Republican members elect, ' sup ported, if necessary, by the military forces of the General Government, are to take possession of the Hall of Representa tives, seat enough defeated Southern Re publicans to make up a legal quorum, and proeeed to organize tne Mouse. "We give this rumor as it comes to us reiterating our expression of hope that it may prove to be without; foundation. '. The Post says that old Zach said the other day that! ffihe Democrats gave up the Presidency rather than fight for it; and, for his part he didn't believe they would fight.for the House of Representatives, if a dead-set were made against them !" It would not be altogether Safe to presume upon either the cow ardice or Ions-suffering of the Democrats; They might;: take a no tion in their heads to resist, and then what? The Post says a failure . to seize the House might result in a re- sort to hemp. Mr. Hayes might not , . , r De muuoeu io go tuau iai-w imuh to armed force; in order to capture Congress. Then again the Radicals are largely in the minority, in the Union. They nave not a maioritv ib over Jive States. (According to the Post, "so far as; can be gathered frork the incomplete returns at hand, not over 80 out of the 133 Republican . . .M : --I - r members-elect represent majorities of their constituents,! the other 58 stand ing ..upon the insecure footing of pluralities, in many cases slender and in all cases falling far short of ma jorities. The returns show not only that the 148 Democrats were chosen r by a popular majority of over half a million- in the fa ol tj" ' uu ,-aiow I that the 133 Republican were chosen mainly by pluralities in triangular contests, and represent on the who a minority of their constituents." So stealing the Jwbuse may become a dangerous undertaking. . Georgia claims pinety-four thousand four hundred and fourteen, dogs, all told and so far this year there has been but one case of hydrophobia. Exchange. business appears to be overdone in GeOreria as in North I - i i i Carohna If but one dog had the hidrophobia in that State, how many sheep were killed and what was their value ? How much do 94,000 dogs cost the people? j These figures are eloquent. They contain at least a hundred stump-speeohes and a cart load of editorials.! We wonder how many dogs North! Carolina has to de plore i i Gen, Joe Johnston, in an interview in Richmond with a reporter of the Washington Post, said : . ""The South is now as close a part of the Union as is New England. Virginia has the same interest in the "general prosperity of the country as Massachusetts, and her representatives and ; the representatives pi the South will be found to be as active in support of all measures "tending .to the general good of all sections of the qountry as the gentlemen from Maine or Vermont. We have not room for further re- ference. but will recur to General Johnston's views hereafter, The New York Tribune has set its outrage-mill a going. Horace Gree- lev stopped it in 1872, but Jay'Gouid has got a new engine for it, and for the next two years it will run by steam. Its first day's grinding turned out the 'in formation that seventy-five negroes were MITeo?iri"TJaddo parish, Louisiana, duriug the Jate canvas. This beats-the negroes' tale. They said sixty. j A certain amount of rest and sleep is just-as necessary for health and longevity as food. No man is steam; engines in trousers. Edis a violated every law of nature, and in ideavoring to do the work of ten men he is broken; down at thirty-two. We hope quiet and a lpng holiday will restore him. j If he dies the gas companies may get the upperhand. Is bur "rotten navy" improving under; the management of that old salt, Secretary Thompson? During thei vear sixtv-ihree vessels have been wholly or partially equipped lat the navy yardsi Is the Secretary ready) for xoah? If Judge Bond (the modern Jef- frevsY is to trv Southerners on a charge of violating the election laws, it can; be told in advance which way the beam will bob. Bond is a capa e but an intenselypartisan Judge. TnillD DITHICT. The following isithe official vote of the Third Congressional District,at the election held on Tuesday, the 5th of November 1878: i . ; 1 .. ! WADDELIi. Rdssell. Bladen. ......... ....... .J. 795 1295 697 476 765 1538 858 438 397 2411 408 1160! 1168 Brunswick....... Carteret 433 W 11)52 1325 Columbus C u mber lan d . ." .". . I - Duplin . . . . 1494 587 C92 1078 451 ,716 1400 ' 10,730 Harnett......... Moore New Hanover... Onslow. . . .. .. . . Fender..:....... Sampson........ 11,611 10,730 .. K-i ' . Russell's majority. 881 Quick Time. , The 8.35 tram on the Wilmington, Co nmbia & Augusta Rail road , wh ich did p ot leave this city until 10. 43 yesterday mornn ing.in consequencebf a delay in the arrival of the train on the-W. & W. Road, reached Florence at 1.45, making a run of 110 miles inthree hours arrftltwo minutes, including eleven stoppages, in which it rs estimated that about thirty-fivo minutes were lost, thus showing the actual net running time to be two hours and "twenty -seven minutes. The rbad bed, we are informed, is in such jex cellent condition -that the difference in speed iwaa scarcely perceptible,: and no un pleasant sen8atonj whatever was ; expe rienced bv the passengers. Captain James uowoen was the conuuc- t tor and Mr. W. H.Petteway engineer. ! I The above is what may be considered getting over the ground pretty lively, even in this sge oi iast iravei TRUNK. ROBBERY) A Dashtus Voons Stranser Arrays Hjmaeir In Niolen PlDniase and Comes to Grief. ; ! j ' . i Four or : five days ago a young, well dressed and somewhat prepossessing stran ger applied at a certain private -boarding house in this city for board, which he secured without trpuble, and was assigned a room immediately opposite one occupied by a young gentleman living in this cfty. He stated that he had come here to start a book bindery, and not the slightest suspi cion was entertained that be was other than what be had represented himself to be. 1 On Wednesday last, as it has since trans- i" i " opposite side or the street from his board-I ing house and borrowed. , a screw-drivef, armed with which.it appears, he entered the room of his opposite neighbor and succeeded in opening his trunk, from. which he abstracted a fine shirt, a( pair of pants, a pistol, and a lot of jewelry," after which he pulled off his own shoes and put on these of his unsuspecting victim, and then took his departure. The theft was not discovered until Thursday evening, when our young friend went to his room to dress for the hop.". Yesterday morning a warrant was issued for the dashing youngster and officers placed on his track, and during the after noon he was overhauled in a bar-room in Brooklyn and arrested. He bad on the stolen shirt, pants and shoes at the time.but had pawned the pistol with a saloonkeeper down the street, where it was subsequently recovered by one of the officers. The enterprising stranger gave his name as J. C. Blanchard, and, said he was origi nally from New Orleans, but came here from Augusta, Ga. He was required to give a justihed bond in the sum of $200 for his appearance, be fore Justice Wagner this morning, at 10 o'ejock, in default of which he was lodged in jau. A 8tory of the sea strange Conduct of a "Sea-cull," and.a Pleasing In stance of the Power of Human Kindness. One of the most remarkable, and at the same time pleasing, incidents, showing the power and influence of human kindness and gentleness, even 'upon the "fowls of the air and the beasts of the field," has come to our knowledge within the past few; days. The incident occurred on board of the light ship off Prying Pan Shoals, and is to this effect: During the prevalence of the severe storm of the 12th of September last, I after the darkness of night had set in, ren dered doubly gloomy and forbidding by the howling tempest that thundered through the rigging, broke with furious vi olence over the staunch vessel, and sent the salt spray in phosphorescent clouds over th very mst-heada, one of the sea men was leaning bis eioow upon tne port rail of the ship, watching the storm as it raged in all its grandeur and sublimity, when a large black bird dashed through the blinding mist and lit upon the railing near where be was standing. Me took the bird, which proved to be an ordinary sea gull, all wet and drabbled by the storm, and warmed and dried it in his bosom, after which he placed it in a little bed improvised for the occasion, after first feeding it, as if it had been a little child. ; The next morning, the storm hav ing subsided, our seaman turned tne Dim loose, of course with no expectation of ever seeing it again. Very much to his surprise, however, on the very next night, at about the same nour or its previous visit, the gull again put in us appearance, alighting upon the ran or the ship as be fore, when it was fed, carressed and cared for as on the occasion of its first call; and from that time up to the 9th inst., nearly two months, when the latest information was received from the ship, the bird had continued its nightly visits andv.had been regularly fed and consigned to its "little bed," where it would remain until released the next morning. This is no fancy sketch, or draft upon the imagination, but is an "o'er true tale" from a source entirely re liable and trustworthy. A suspicious Character. Yesterday morning, a few minutes before 3 o'clock, Officers W. H. Biddle and M. E. Walker, of the police force, came upon a colored individual on Fourth, oetweeh Orange and Ann streets, who was acting very suspiciously. He was taken into cus tody and conveyed to the station house, his answers to the questions . propounded to him beiDg, if anything, more auspicious even than his previous conduct. He was brought before the Mayor yesterday morning and asked to give an account of himself, and his attempt to comply only made his case look more dark and suspicions in the eyes of those who listened to the contradictions and inconsistencies with which his state ment abounded. He gave his name as Jas. Smith, and said'he was a barber, which to gether with his personal appearance, leads to the conclusion that he is the hero of the following adventure: r A few days since Chief of Jf once Brock received a letter Trom one U. S. Adkins, dated Robin Hill, Cumberland county, asking for information concerning a colored maa by the name of James smith, known, the letter says, as a hrst-class barber. Ad kins goes on to state that he left in Smith's charge a trunk and other things, while at Clinton, Sampson county, and went into the country, informing umun wnen ne mignt look for him back. Upon his return to Clinton shortly afterwards he found that Smith had taken his departure, saying he was boun d for Wilmington, and had car ried the trunk and other articles with him. Adkins has been written to, and in the meantime Smith is held to await, further developments. The Unapproachable conktlns. rWnahincrton Post.l Mr. Hayes has -seen many superb specimens ot tne turjcey goDoier au- ring his recent rambles among the county fairs: but he will detect in lioscoe uonKiing a Dniiianoy oi piu-; mage, a lofty bearing, a sublimity ot strut, and a glorious abandonment of all meaner thin est while he bathes in his own unapproachable grandeur,! that might well startle a more expe rienced connoisseur in tancy poultry.. i$ayard layior nas so iar re w- m m ' 0 covered from bis attack of the dropsy as to drive out. NO. 4. FKOfll WASHINGTON. The President Interviewed on the Subject or tUo Solid soma He Ad mits Ills Southern Poller to be a Failure Determined and Vigorous Action Decided Upon for the Future Special dispatch to Baltimore Sun. j Washington, Nov. 12. The Na tional Republican, of this city, will tb-morrow publish the following "as the views of the President in regard to the 4 situation in the South. In answer to a question as to whether the Southern policy had been dis cussed in the Cabinet, the President iS reported to have said: M That is a rrnRtake: the time for discussion has J.oa4 hing but the most determined and vigorous auiiiuu. xue ucLei uuiiiiLiuu was reached several days ago and the deUberations of the Cabinet on 'this subject since then have been comparatively brief and confined mainly to the consideration of the duty o the Attorney General in the premises." The President has always thought that his policy would.' win back the South. He was asked how he accouBted for the result in the face of the fair promises of the South. "That question, said he, "leads di rectly to a discussion of what has been latterly termed the boutnern- policy of the Administration. When that policy was first inaugurated it was with an earnest desire to concil iate the Southern leaders to round off the sharp angles of sectional differ ence and. to soften the asperities of political strife. No one will deny that the attempt to eniorce this policy was most earnestly made, nor that it was carried out with a conscien tious desire to accomplish the re Suit for which it had been in augurated. Of the personal and partisan sacrifices I made in this effort, and of the consequent inter ruption of certain relations which had previously existed between myself and some ot my supporters, l nave hothing to say just now. But it ap pears that the leaders who made those pledges either did not exert them selves to keep them or were unable to do so. In fact, I am reluctantly forced to admit that the experiment was a failure. The first election of importance had since it was attempt- ea has proved tnat iair elections, witn free suffrage for every voter; in the South, are an impossibility under the existing condition of things." "It is not because the Republican party ap-. pears as the .sufferer in these results patiTcomplain," continued the Pres ident; "it is because free suffrage and freedom of political rights have been interfered with thatl am called upon to take cognizance of these distur bances. If the facta were exactly5 reversed, and if the Republicans had committed the outrages upon the Democrats, my duty wouldj be the same. It will not do for me, or for any official before whom these ques tions may come, to treat them other- Wise tuau iu auuu-paiusau way. xne .i : : . : : mi.. partisan press will naturally jtake a partisan view of the case, and I will be held to account lor aiding the Ke- publicans tne stalwarts, j. mean in flaunting tne biooay-smrt, as it is called." Mr. Haves said further: "I can't expect to hold the office I do without being kicked and cuffed a little, you know, but for all that I hall do my duty as Chief Magistrate Of all the people, Democrats and Re publicans alike, and if, in the faithful execution of the laws, justice shall demand the punishment of ! this or that man, whatever his political con nections may be, I shall not I be de terred by partisan criticism. All that. T know ia that crre.at nrimps havo Wn nommittpVI. nrl it. i nW dnt.r t.n ; . . ' j -j - aid in the punishment of the crimi nals." The President said that uijrovernor Hampton, tor example, has tried repeatedly to repress the vio lence which has characterized the cam paign in South Carolina, and failed. Such Republicans as Judge Lee and Mr. Rainey and ; ex-State j Senator Swails, of that State, have advised me of these facts. They say that -jHampton cannot control the 'red shirts,' as they- call them, and they have repeatedly informed! me of speeches he has made deprecating violence in the conduct of the cam paign. And it appears that Gov. LNicholls, in Louisiana, is earnestly opposed to these proceedings or the same kind of violence in his State. What tne Whole Thine Means. jErenmg Telegraph, Rep. The fact of this whole business is jthat the old Grant clique, because of the recent successes of the Republi can party successes i that were (achieved on the strength; of an issue that had nothing whatever to . do with the prominent issues of the war and reconstruction periods are mak- ing a desperate effort to capture Mr. Hayes, with a view ot having him ad minister the Executive branch of the government for the promotion -of i their interests, even if those interests shall be antagonistic to the best inte- i rests of the nation ; and i. Mr. Hayes, for his part, shows a decided disposi- !110? to permit himself to be captured and to Decome an even more super- serviceable tool than was Grant. How rottchlsan stand. XWashington Post.1 j The Republican vote in Michigan is 121,000. The vote of the opposi tion combined is 154,000, The Radi cal party of Michigan is in a minority. of 33,000. But no little thing like that can ' deter Zach Chandler from i advertising Michigan as the "banner Republican State, ' and plotting an other grand steal on the strength of it. Person county sends two con victs to the penitentiary, j A correspondent, writing to the Raleigh Observer .from King's Mountain, says: "Allow, a , former citizen of this Dis trict to nominate the Hon.! A. M: Waddell as a compromise candidate for the United States Senate. We snail have more to say hereafter." ; , , I . j Washington Press: The port of Washington now has three large fine, schooners engaged regularly in the West India trade, besides others that make occa sional trips. , -H-r Jim Williamson foot all the way from Lenoir county, put in an ap pearance here on Tuesday Jin search off a fugitive and faithless wife. Baltimore Gazette; North Caro lina has for some years been shipping cot- ton-seea ou to Italy in a clarified state. where it is used in place of the iriore ex pensive olive oil. It has I of late beuiu shipping peanut oil. It is strange ihat the Italians have never been attracted to our refined petroleum as a substitute for olive oil. . ! . ! . . t- Rev. J. C. Alexander filled the Presbyterian pulpit on Sunday, at Graham, and preached to a large and attentive con gregation, after which the installation cere-f monies took place, conducted by Rev. J. (J. Alexander, and Rev. A. Currie. Seven teen connected themselves with the church, and the ordinance of baptism was adminis tered. : The services closed Sunday night by a sermon by Rev. J., 'Cj Alexander, j Charlotte O&seraer? "The extra ordinarily large shipment of chickens from live west 49 Deuer. .loan toe signal station for foretelling the early coming of a Meth odist conference. - A little daughter of Mr. H. T. Rhyne, of Brevard Station, on the western division of the Carolica Central Railway, fell a day or two ago and broke an arm above the wrist. Seve ral merchants and shop j keepers report theft, within the past two days, of petty articles exhibited as specimens of stock, at Jtheir store fronts.:5 Raleigh Observer: Mr. I. II. Davis, of Louisburg, writes under date 1 of the 12th, that his wife "gave birth to three little boys on.the 28th and 29th of October." All of the returns not yet in. It is thought it will take the official count to ascertain the result. In the Free Church, at Company Shops, there has been a large re vival, resulting in the conversion of seventy five or eighty persons, conducted by the Quakers. There is aldo in progress now a revival of religion io the Baptist Church at Reidsville, Rev. P. II. Fountain, pastor. The Shelby Aurora gives -an ac count of a shocking murder committed by one Jim Jeffries, a negro, j Me beat a negro boy named Lewis Gaffrey with a stick first. He then kicked him and said he was going to shoot him. Lewis ran and Jeffries took down a gun and shot him. The load en tered the bodv in the region of the heart, causing death in a few minutes. The little boy Charlie gave the alarm as soon as he could, and Jeffries made good use of his legs and left that section as rapidly as he could. The citizens turned out in a body and succeeded in arresting and lodging him ' in jail, in this place, on Tuesday. Greensboro Patriot: We are au thorized to announce that a general amnes ty has been granted by the Attorney Gene ral of the United Stales to all persona guilty of violating United States revenue laws in relation to spirituous liquors, upon ' condi tion that they come into court and plead guilty, and pay or secure the costs. Mr. T. 13. iLeogn's cook was badly Darned, last Thursday morning,' from her dress catching fire. Mr. Keogh threw a shawl around her, extinguishing; the flames, but not till she was fearfully burned. We frequently hear complaints of destruction of sheep by dogs. We trust our next Le gislature will have the" good sense to dp something to abate tins dog nuisance. Tarboro Southerner: Have we hadr an election?" Cotton fields are nearly bare. . Is cotton staple, or un- - staple? .Edgecombe farmers com plain of short cotton crops. . Miss Re becca Moore, of Rocky .Mount, is dead. We learn from Captain liarna, lust as we go to press, that it is currently reported and believed in Hamilton, from which he had just returned, that Martin has been de feated in the First, -i "Say, . John, what's de news?" "Denewsl Why. didn't you kno' dey had count'd Capt. Kitchin in?" "De debil, you say!" "Yes, 1 dos' say so. xou see de Retiring iSodegot .de wote, an' dey say he be fleeted, an' since dat Bode in Louisianny put Mister Hayes in, dere is nuffin doin', but we mus' be sat isfied." "Well,!. I d'clar! 1 Tell you what, nigger, yer can't git 'hind dem R'tirin' Bodes no how you fix hit. V , Raleigh News: On Saturday Mr. P. H. Johns, of St. Mary's township, was out gunning for squirrels. In company with him was a colored boy, some 18 years of age, who was in his employ. Soon after arriving in the i woods Mr. Johns shot a squirrel in the top of a large tree. In fall- me the game lodged in a crotch of the tree, some forty feet from the ground. .The negro climbed up after it, and just as be reached the fork of the tree, lost his hoick and fell headlong. He struck the ground with great force, and the fall broke his skull, leg and arm besides injuring him internally. He died Sunday morning. Among the best performers in the Great London Circus is Mr. William Gorman, who has won a wide reputation as a rider. Mr. Gorman is a son of MrWilliam Gor man, a brother of Gen. John C. Gorman, who some years ago went from this city to Kentucky. - A day or two ago James Mangum, of Granville, was before U. S. Commissioner Purnell ion the charge of peddling tobacco without a license. He was put in -jail. Yesterday . be gave hail and was released. f Charlotte Observer : Reports from the Seventh District come in slowly, Brower has carried Ashe, Wilkes, xadkin, Surry and Alleghany leaving Col. Arm field Rowan, Davie, Watauga, Foisythe, Alexander and Iredell, f-. A colored wo man, Sarah Price, was sent to jail yester day by Justice ij. J. Price, of Berryhill Township, on the charge of concealing the birth of a bastard child, j The Fair had a brilliant ending Friday night in the grand dress hop at the Central Hotel. Yes terday afternoon, while riding rapidly around the race track on horseback, Mr. William Walker was thrown .violently to the ground, and when reached was found badly stunned.! A-gash! had been Cut on the back and side of his head, but upon ex amination by physicians the injury was found to be only scalp deep. During the week ending November 9th,- as is learned from an official source, new post offices were established in North Carolina as follows; Yellow Creek, Graham county; Tryon City, Polk; Pates'i Robeson; Lisbon, Sampson; Beatty's Bridge, Bladen; Hall's Ferry, Davie;! GulleyVi Mill, Wakej Old Richmond, Forsyth. Gen. Clingman is making a big effort to bolster himself for the position of "dash horse" in the race for United States Senator in January. Mighty near all our people remember Wyatt; Caldwell,' the 'gay and festive, limping pedestrian bacchanalian; the high toned, inebriate son of a gun; the poetic, grandiloquent grandson of Patrick Henry. And it may be remarked here that the sup position is that it was when Wyatt had fas tened himself on the old man, begging him for money to buy drinks the supposition is, we say, that it was under these circum stances that P. H. exclaimed. "Give me liberty, or give me death p- WelK the light hearted Wyatt has been! heard from again; he who quotes-poetry and sings sentimental songs for drinks has turned, up in New York. ci V:
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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