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I . .' ! I - " i i : M - : f ' . . V j i- . " " -' j WM. H. BERNARD, Editor and; Proprietor. WILMINGTON. N.;C.:, Friday, January 10th, lSTfl. Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, TostaJ Money Order or Eegistercd Letter. Post masters wUl register lettere when desired. t. tSOnly snch remittances will be at the risk of the publisher, j -' "ZW. Specimen copies forwarded whn desired. the Legislature. - The Legislature of North Carolina meets to-morrow. The session should bo a very important one. There aro many veryfpressing matters that are calling loudly for a hearing. We do not know how much of wisdom, prac tical ability and backbone there is in the body. It remains to be seen whether it is a working body or an idling body; a sober, discreet, conse crated, f arUeeing and resolute body, or a carousing,weak,vacillating set of men,who have neither wisdom to de vise, ability to execute, nor nerve to do what is right. We have not had in tenyears a Legislative body that was equal to the emergency. Time and acts will show how mich worth attaches to the body that assembles at Raleigh on Wednesday.! .The people of North Carolina greatly need judicious legislation at this time. Our old State is behind in "caany things, and a prudent, saga cious, devoted, wise and firm Legis lature can- do very much to relieve North Carolina of some of its stigma and burdens, and give it a genuine impetus on the high-road to prosper ity. Will this be done? Thii is an admirable time for real statesmanship for broad views. A genuine North Carolina spirit should animate every heart. Each legisla tor should feel himself the custodian of North Carolina's good name and honor. He should endeavor to rise above mere local prejudices or party animosities, and legislate for the whole State. Bad laws should be re pealed or amended. Additional laws are needed, and they should be care fully framed so that their execution will be found possible. Among the questions that specially deserve and absolutely require the attention , of the Legislature, we may venture to mention the following: First, the, adjustment of the State debt by -fair, equitable and honest compromise. This matter has been delayed far too long. Its being post poned so long has been a real injury to the prosperity and character of the State broad. ii i - i Second, our common school sys tem needs overhauling completely. There must be a more efficient sys tem of superintendency, and a larger fund applied for education al pur poses. The schools should be held for a longer period of time, and a higher grade of teachers should be employed. ? Third,:sheep husbandry shfluld be protected and fostered. It is a great shame that one of the greatest sources of wealth to any State should be so neglected and despised. The people demand a law that will "eri courage and protect sheep raising. Fourth, the Moffett Register should be adopted, but the Virginia laws require decided amendment to make the system efficient and tho rough. Such a law, if properly exe cuted, would bring into the treasury from $8(io,000 to $1,000,000 annually. Fifth, the salaries of many officers must be cut down some of them very greatly whilst others should be dispensed with altogether. Sixth,! some legislation is needed to make the public roads of the State - better, j - - j Seventh, the freights on railroads need to be inquired into.1 Eighth, a law ought to be framed allowing counties to vote on the fence law. j - NintbVlheTteturning Board ought to be done away with, and the old system returned to if a better one cannot be devised. J Tenth, we believe that the Legis lature ought to make some changes in the pardoning power! The Stab has already had much to say on this subject. We shall take occasion to recur to it at length biefore the Le gislature has been many weeks in session. We know of nothing in our Sta.e system eo anti-republican and so monstrous as the one-man power. - The best man , who ever walked jthe earth, save Him who was , the God-man, was not good enough and wise enough to be entrusted with any such dangerous, arbitrary and imperial powers. v j , '1. We shall take occasion' to urge the passage of some or all of these mea sures, which we regard as timely and necessary. We only desire such" legislation as our wisest and most discreet men may approve of such legislation as grows out of experience and profound reflection! Hasty, crude legislation is apt to end in disaster and disappointment. H . - PH ESIDENTIAIi. ASPIRANTS. The Stab is not committed to the candidacy of any man for the Presi dency. As clearly intimated ithe other day, it is too soon; at the beginning of 1879 to be speculating as to who will be nominated in June, 1880. The "best laid plans" of politicians, like those of other men,, fis well as of "mice," will be found often "td gang agley.' The favorite to-day may be set aside before six months passes and a new man be brought to the front as the most promising and con spicuous i claimant for Presidential honors. The Star will be content to accept the nominee of the National Convention, if he be-fti.man of solid parts and unblemished integrity, and is governed by broad j and patriotic ideas. The 'country needs a. wise, pru dent and able statesman. Political adventurers and (nameless nobodies have had the reins long enough. The perils and, distresses j of our great country have all flowed from legisla tive quackery and unbridled corrup tion. A reform, i deep, wide, tho rough, is needed. j We are inclined to the opinion, from the; present outlook, 'that either Judge Thurman or cx-Gov. Hend ricks will bo nominated. Either will be a strong candidate1 and will be ac ceptable to the South.) Gov, Hend ricks is an able and pure gentleman, who is by right the Vice President of the United States. He is a strong man with a good deal of personal at tractiveness. His heart is warm, and his life is pure. In his own State, Indiana, he is held in i deserved es teem, and is the favorite of the peo ple. The probability is he will have a strong following in the next con vention. The fact that he can carry Indiana, and the necessity of having that State, may weigh heavily in his favor when the hour comes to make a selection, r , Judge Thurman is a cold man, with a great intellect, and a character with out stain or suspicion. He is, in its best sense, a statesman. He is prob ably the ablest man I in the United States Senate, and is generally re garded as the ablest lawyer. He always makes capital speeehes clear, logical, plain, forceful. He is a wise man as well as a pure man, and has great influence j among' Democratic leaders. He will probably be com pelled to run for Governor iu Ohio, although he has declined, and evi dently doubts the wisdom of making the race. If he is elected it will be a great feather in his cap, and will do a great deal towards securing him the first place on the next national Democratic ticket. If he is beaten, he is done for, as no; convention will select a man to be the candidate' for President who has been defeated in hs own State. Recent Washington news is to the effect that the pressure upon him from home is bo great he will be forced to yield and to accept the nomination "of the Democratic leaders of Ohio! all of whom are clamorous for his election. The position of Judge Thurman on the financial question, as set forth in his Mansfield speech of last summer, is the right one, as we said then and still believe. - He can win upon that platform, we cannot, doubt. He has been often misrepresented and often misunderstood. He is a conservative not a radical, in finance, as in other questions of statesmanship. The Richmond Dispatch is a cold, calculating, sagacious papery very chary in its praise, and 'well posted in financial matters. It fought the Greenback craze with exceeding vigor pertinacity and ability. It is so much a friend of gold it would not support Thurman if it believed him unsound on questions of finance. Because of its views on the money question, and because Judge Thurman has "to be denounced by certain organs of the bondholders, we copy some . remarks from the Dispatches that paper does no more than justice to the illustrious statesman and patriot from Ohio. It says: jj. 1 "He is a man of liberal culture. He is statesman of enlarged! viewa nnd -miAa horizon. He is a man of exceeding great prudence not a 'rappniw virino) i.;. case. He is not a 'goldbug' nor a 'green- - m a lair representative of the popular creed noon financial lions. He has consented to the idea that the Government rather than the banks should issue all the currency of the coun tryan idea which has I yet to receive the popular sanction; but he placed his ac quiesence partly upon (the fact that ihn present system could not be continued after the public debt was all ! paid off. inasmuch as there would then be no Government bonds tapon which to base bank-circulation; and partly upon the assumption that uie vroveroment would save money by the change. He also took pains to let it be Known inai ne was not willing to do any iniDg mat would Interfere with the business interests of the country, but would favor a very gradual substitution of greenbacks, for bank note, issuing the former onlv in nlam Ar th J I banks whose charters had expired by limi tation of law. In fact, his whole course during the Ohio campaign of 1878, as well as all his antecedents as a Democrat, shows that so far la he from' being a greenback lunatic that he really holds all advocates of fiat money in contempt Some people have , thought jthat he conceded too much to the' Greenbackers; but we are inclined to say, with one of the shrewdest of our New York contemporaries, that he Is entitled to the popular gratitude for baying switched , off to a track.which.JLf not the best, is .at. least one upon which the country may travel. wUMiout pern to its dearest interests, we know Mr. Thurman to be sound on the" financial question; and we are-ready and willing Jo trust him: in the, Jrresidential chair, though We may not approvo all of his recent utterances."; " ': We have only space to add a word when 'we would like to say more. The country the Democrats of every section may agree to lay aside, ques tions of finance in the selection of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, in view of more im portant questions that will be upper most. The preservation of the liber ties the safety and peace of the country may demand that all other questions shall be kept in abeyance, and that all good men of every sec tion must unite in 1880 to drive from power the robbers arid thieves who hold office through fraud and vio lence. In that event Hon. James A. Bayard, of Delaware, may be a for midable candidate, and he may get the nomination. He is a man of un spotted' jname, and of real abil ities. He can get New England and the Middle States, and he may get a considerable support from the South.! His financial views are not those that are generally , held in the Northwest and , in portions of the South. He is regarded as being tho roughly identified with the extreme goldites and is too much of a favorite with the bondholders,. But he may be nominated in spite of this, if the delegates to the National Convention should unite in making the great test question in the campaign the salva tion and peace of the country. Buti at present the chances of Judge Thurman. appear to be best, and ex-Governor Hendricks next. "Gath'Ms not a newspaper corres pondent after our taste, , but he is gifted. The trouble with the reader is he can. never tell when "Gath" is telling the truth or drawing a long bow. We find two paragraphs taken from one of his letters to that not very veracious paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer that are worth copying. Of North Carolina he says: "In North Carolina was captured one of the two great armies of the Confederacy ; her representation in Congress since the war has been the I best behaved and least recriminating from the South. A dexter ous and able politician who could put this State with the North in the next Presiden tial contest would make her the most powerful political community in the South." "Gath" has interviewed Mr. T. B. Keogh, the chairman i of the North Carolina Radical j State . Executive Committee, when . there was one. He represents Mr, Keogh as saying: 'The Democrats in our State have no sympathy with the rifle club business, and 'dividing the time of the South Carolina Democrats. I went there from a Western State, am well treated, and like the people and the country. It has the most forbear ing and Christian population of the South." If "Gath" would always be truth ful he would be interesting, and if the Enquirer would stop its sensa tional lies it would not be suspected when it stumbles on the truth, i Some Radicals say if Judge Thur man Bbould be the Democratic nomi nee for the Governorship of Ohio, that Secretary Sherman will be nomi nated to run against him. The Wash ington correspondent of the Baltimore American (Radical) writes: "The Ohio campaign of next fall is at tracting greater attention among politicians than any other topic! Every one appears to believe that its result will exercise a powerful influence on the Presidential con flict the year following. Despite his de clinations it certainly looks as if Mr. Thur man will be the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio. This will unquestion ably bring out Secretary Sherman as his opponent. ' The latter, his friends say, will be glad of the opportunity to defeat Mr. Thurman, and will1 cheerfully resign from the Cabinet if the Republicans of Ohio se-f lect him as their standard bearer in the gubernatorial fight." ; Conger the, great, the illustrious Conger, has been in Wilmington, and on yesterday went down the "Raging Cape Fear." When he got to classic ground that is to say, athistoric Fort Fisher, where the greatest bom bardment of the world occurred the immortal Conger blew his "wreathed horn,' which awakened all of the minnows and Tritons and' mermaids of "the vasty deep," and even the alligators were seen to wag their tails in token of extreme delight. Con ger's horn is not ! only musical, but tremendous. He blew . so long and loud that seafaring men twenty miles out at sea thought it was Gabriel's trumpet, and began to take in sail for the day of ' wrath. ' " ' .""' J Hon. Alexander-Stephena, of Geor gia, we regret to learn, is worse. Bfat for the fact that he lias been'so often ill, and has shown such an common recuperative powers; we might . ex pect the worst. - jiji ... iJi.;' , :t The Roanoke at Weld on . was frozen over on Saturday night. , SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS. From the Raleigh Observer wo copy the list of ''successful - applicants for , license to practice Taw in North Caro- linaK ' ! V - V Jacob Thomas Barron, -Edgecombe county. William Wainrieht Barber. Wilkes. i. Qenree Samuel 13rad8haw, Randolph. - -George WilliamBritt, Sampson. - ---raw . William Franklin Carter. ,KocKingnam.i: .Parislr Alexander Cummings,' Madison"; James Alexander Davis, Orange; ' John Hamlin Dobson, Surry. .. ..,,. Theopbilus Burt Etbridge, Guilford. . Swift Miller Empie, New Hanover. ; Samuel James Erin, Burke. . Benjamin Stancell Gay,' Northampton. . - John Steed Gibson,' Cumberland. Eugene Early Gray, Forsyth. , James Madison Gray, Rowan. Fernando Godfrey James, Pitt. if ; -t Robert Hasell McKoy, New Hanover. , Thomas Hall McKoy, Jr., Sampson. ' James Bryan Martin, Bertie. ; ' Zaichariah Boardman Newton, Cumber land: ' : Benjamin. Posey Henderson. , Addison Guy Ricaud, New Hanover. Bernard Philip Ryan, New Hanover. -Foster Alexander Sondley, Buncombe. George Archibald Shu ford, Transylvania. . John Peyre Thomas, Mecklenburg. Thomas Devereux Turner, Orange. David Mitchell Vance, Mecklenburg. George Henry White, Craven, William Roberts Whitsou, Buncombe. Robert Clarence Whitaker, Wake. " The Radicals pTofess to have found an important witness in a man named St. Martin, who is a cousin of Gov. Nicholls,'of -Louisiana';' ' He served as. a -deputy sergeant-at-arms to the Steuger committee, that visited New: Orleans last summer. We know nothing of this Saint, and he may tell the truth in what he testifies. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore American writes on the 6th inst: "Mr. St. Martin has made an affidavit, charging with a minuteness of detail that of itself corroborates the truthfulness of his statement, that money was raised and paid to secure those witnesses who came before the committee and denied their former tes timony before the Republican Congression al committee. . Mr. St. Martin furthermore declares that Mr. Stenger, the chairman of the Louisiana Potter subcommittee, di rected him to ascertain whether the wit cesses summoned would give testimony of value to the Democrats, and if they would not to return them as not found." - It will be in order for Mr. SteBger and the others of the committee tp speak out and say whether St. Martin tells the truth or not. Senator Sharon all the way from Nevada after an absence a holiday of two years, has appeared in Washington and occupied the place it was foqdly hoped would know him no more forevqr. The said Sharon proposes to celebrate his return to the scene of his glories by voting to seat Corbin in place of Gen. M. C. Butler, of South Uarolina. The cal culation is, according to a Baltimore Sun special, that it will be a tie vole, and the Vice President will give the casting vote for Corbin. But this nice little arrangement might mis carry if Senator Davis should vote for Butler, as that would give him a majority of one. So it may depend upon Judge Davis whether South Carolina shall continue to be repre sented in the Senate by its ablest man, who has high character for in tegrity and honor, or by such a crea ture as Corbin. Senator Voorhees has made a timely speech in favor of trade. He spoke in behalf of making the trade dollar a legal tender, and for its recoinage into the standard silver dollar. There is no earthly reason why the resolu tion should not pass. As tho law now is, the trade dollar is a fraud, as Mr. Voorhees characterized it. . It is heavier than the standard dollar, and ought to be as valuable for purposes of commerce. The Government ought to be compelled to receive it for 100 cents for all purposes, such as cus toms dues, &c. The first stage of the Louisiana in vestigation by the Teller committee indicates either great lawlessness in one or two parishes, or great lying on the part of the witnesses. If Sena tors Garland and Bailey agree in Ire porting that intimidation and violence were clearly ( established then we shall; credit it and deplore it. -Lawlessness must be suppressed, and legally qualified; : electors must be protected in their rights. "The Wilmington (N. 0.) Star ad vo c&tes General -W. R Hnnnb- tha rtam ocratic candidate for.President in 1880." uaaimore uaselte. Wrong again." The Stab advo cates no man for President . or any other office; The paragraph quoted by the Gazette did not appear in this paper. Please correct. ' ' Carolina Central Hallway, We learn that the Carolina Central Railway Company, and (he people of Hickory, in ' Catawba :ounty,': have con summated, or are about to consummate an arrangement by iWhich $10,000 are to be raised to build a branch of the road from Lineoluton to. Hickory,. with the view of .tapping at the latter point the Western North Carolina Railroad 'Tt U i - - n . j - be desired that the Carollha'Centrai should form all the con nectiond origin ally contem- piaieo rin its construction. 77 With those properly Tormed, and a Wise admiuistrativ policy, the vast traffic which now flows t other; points would , soon find its way t Wilmington, where it naturally belongs. Xhe Warsaw Row. j The Star of the 2d of January contained a reference to the Christmas Eve row at Warsaw, our informant as to the disturb ance avowing, that. Friday Hill, colored, aftfr the row had about been quelled, rode thr'fiueh the ' streets with a cun and T tried to incite ...another liot, for which he was promptly arrested, and; bound over in the sum of f 150 'by Mayor uavis tor uis furure appearance to answer the charge. In a communication to ua Friday states thal; injustice was done him. " He admits that he obtained ills sbootiug iron , but de clares it waa only for- the purpose of de fending himself in case he . .was attacked. He did not, he says, attempt to incite riot, that he is a law-abiding citizen, and thathe regrets the occurrence referred to. How ever, Friday had to give the' bond demand ed by the Mayor of Waraaw,;:and time will either vindicate or convict him .before a proper tribunal, when we will give him the benefit of the decision. A Man. Frozen to Death. i During the recent cold soap, John Bart- ley, a' mulatto, came down to Fair Bluff, Uolumbus county, this btate, on a rail bound for Georgetown, S. C. He was, for some reason,' discharged from the service of the owner of the boat late one afternoon', and accompanied only by a dog attempted to return to his home, some distance from Fair Bluff, on foot. He was compelled to, cross a stream, and instead of availing himself of the ferry at that point, waded across and was fouud next morning, on the opposite bank from his place of departure, cold in death. The dog was fastened to a bush near by, and the supposition is that Bartley, chilled by his passage through ihg waterk tied the dog and essayed the build ing of a fire, but was unable to relieve himself in this way and perished from the intensity of the cold. Robbery of a Brunawlelt Store. Information has been received by us of the recent robbery of the store of Mr. J.W. Wilson, at Calabash, in the lower part of Brunswick county, of several hundred dol lars. It seems that Mr. Wilson kept his store open quite ,late on the night of the robbery, and it is supposed that the thieves unlatched the windows, which had been previously closed before his departure, and, at a latef hour, on this account, were en abled to gain admittance to the store and possession ot the funds. A negro, "George Stone, " who was present in the building just before Mr. Wilson - closed bp for the night j was 'arrested on suspicion,, and after wards confessed " his guilt, implicating Henry Mahler and two other negroes whose names our informant did not remember. All of the parties were thereupon arrested and lodged in the county jail at Smithville. Only thirty-seven dollars of the money stolen has been recovered, that sum being in the possession of George Stone, who was unquestionably the ringleader of the robbing raiders. 7 Hon. Omar D. Conger HI Arrival add Entertainment. As.Was intimated in the Star, the Hon. OmarD. Conger, M C. from Michigan, arrived here by rail Tuesday morning, and after a brief stay in the city, accompanied by a number of prominent businessmen in which there was no recognition of sec tion made a trip down the river in the revenue cutter Crawford, Capt. Gloven Among others whom we recognized were Mayor S. H. Fishblate, A. H. VanBokke len, Esq., President Chamber jof Com merce; H. Nutt, Chairman Committee on River and Harbor Improvements; C. H. Robinson, President Produce Exchange; .F08 1 master u.; K. isrink, lien. J. (J. Ab bott, ' Dr. A. J. DeRosset, and Messrs. James H. Chadbourn, George Chadbourn, Edward Kidder and L. E. Rice. We un derstand the trip was one of unmixed pleasure in a social sense, and that the visiting Congressman was not only gratified by what he beard and saw. but was special ly impressed with the judicious manner in which national appropriations have been expended for the improvement of our river abd harbor. We are clad to note this re sult, because the better our necessities are understood at Washington the sooner will justice be done in the measure of govern mental aid. The Crawford returned, with her human freight, before sunset, every one nartici pating manifesting the utmost good humor in referring to the excursion. The comna ny were unstinted in praise of the bearing -r r . ji i ' . rr ot sapu uiover uuu ma associate umcers. : ' For the Star.1 Mr. Editor Much of the argument used in your editorial on the cause of Eng land's distress, in the Star of yesterday, may safely be applied, to our own country. The writer desires to commend you for so plainly pointing out the source of poverty crime and wretchedness to a people, as is found in the article referred to. If. no jj2Uii .au. unu yivojjciujr mill it ICCUILI that gives an average annual expenditure of n Ann v.. J .L!1J fv w tiy iuau, wuuiau uuu vuuu I or . JJS1. .1 - strung unuu., iucu are we in a worse con dition and with a darker future, unless the evil be corrected, than England can pos sibly be; and it behooves us to look the matter sauarelv in tha face. Ynu utntP that the - sum spent in the United States for liquors in me last ten years would nave paid off the national debt. Now, what would you think if the writer stated that this could be effected With about one yearns ex penditure for liquors ? Facts are stubborn thin era and fitrnrps thov cav 'Mnn't lio ' O 1 O - .uvj WWJ , . V. W U M llVt Then, from a report made by Secretary vreiia, over, ten years ago,, we nave the suitt total spent for drinks annually, or the value of the retail liquor sales for one year, which is the same thine, to be, one billion four hundred and eighty-Uiree million four hundred and ninety-one thousand eight huni dred and sixty-five dollars, ($1,483,491,865), er at that time, forty-three dollars for every man, woman and child in tiie country. No one presumes to believe that there has been much improvement since then (1867). So that we spend for drinks over double what is attributed to England. . The above figures could be moralized upon to a great length, . but the matter belongs to you and your brethren of the press, Mr. Editor, more th$a ill others, to discuss and furnish a remedy, and with the; hope that you and others, potent to direct public sentiment in proper channels, will not in the future as in the past bol lightly view this truly- vital- . question, I ,am . Pro .Bono Publico. ; . . Wilmington,' N.; C, Jan. 6, 1879. : The ! components of .Dr. Bull's Cough' Syrup are daily prescribed by the - ablest physicians, whose Ucce89 is due lathe spedifio influence .of these ' components. r Dr.. Bull's Cough Syrup, skilfully prepared for immediate use, is for sale by alt Drug-: gists. , . . f r , . , J. ( i j ' Grant has drawn a- good many cork in his dayi but. it turns out now that he isn't able to "draw" in Cork Baltimore Gazette. i BOARD OB COflpiSSIORERS. Abstract of Proceeding. ' The Eoard met yesterday afternoon, Col. Wra?L Smith,: Chairman, and Commis- eioners .lames A. Montgomery, 11. a.. Bagg B. G. Wortli and A. J. Grady, present. - The committee on poor house and pub lic buildings.reported piogress. ; Tiiu Chairman appointed Cmmis&ionere Worth and Bagg to audit and seule the ac counts of the Sbetiff with the county Treas urer. . . ' Ordered, that the double tax on A, Hp- cut's land,: in Harnett township, be abated. Edward Schriver having been appointed a constable of Cape Fear township; at the previous meeting of. the , Board, ; teudered hi3 official bond for $500, which was ac cepted: . . ' Thomas Harrell declined the appoint ment ofjoverseer of the public road, secohd division, fromiDesert branch lo Sturgeon Creek, ... i- , ; . ' The petition of A. Cair,- for hands, s in connection with the Gordan road, was re ferred to Commissioner J. A. Montgomery, with power to act. v Applications from tho following persons for licenses to retail liquor in the city were granted: John D.; Dosher and R. J Scar borough.:; j D. C. Davis tendered his resignation as a member of the school committee of Har nett township. On motion the same was accepted, and- Mr. Norwood Giles ap pointed instead. r . . , : The election of Standard Keeper for the county coming up, Mr. N. Morris and J,. C. Millis were voted for, the former re ceiving three and the latter two votes. Mr. Mon is was then-declared duly elected. The -bids of Nora Sampson, Jas. A. Lowery, Duncan Holmes, Thomas Rivera, Robert Sweat, and James H. Bryant, for furnishing coffins and burying the dead of the county, were opened and the contract awarded to Nora Sampson as the lowest bidder. . ' ; r The contract for keeping the "county poor and insane was' awarded to Mr. John F. Garrell, as also for keeping the prisoners at the Woik House. r He gave a bond in the first instance of $1,000, and in the second of $500. It was ordered by the Board that the prisoners at the Work House be turned over to Mr. Garrell on the 7th inst. . Dr.: W. W; Lane was ordered to be con tinued as County Physician under the present contract. The following resolution was offered and adopted.: Whereas, At the late meeting of this Board, it was ordered that the clerk of the Board should request His Honor, Judge McKoy, not to hold a term of the Superior Court in the month of January, 1879, the Board having been advised that the said term was not in conformity with law; and whereas, the Board is at the present time advised that there is doubt in regard to the legality of the holding of this court, some of the legal profession being of one opinion, and some being of the contrary opinion ; therefore, be it Sesolved, That the Board intended by their action no disrespect to his Honor, Judge McKoy, in making the request afore said, but only to express their desire to save expense to the county. I Ordered, That it be referred to the At torney of the Board to examine into the claim presented by H. Nutt as an offset to the judgment rendered against him by the County as surety upon the bond of J. C. Mann, and' report to the Board if the same be just, and also if the said Mann is in debted to the County in any other amount than is included in said judgment; and he be;aulhorized to indulge the execution now in the sheriff's hands,;until after the next meeting of the Board. The Board proceeded to destroy two bonds, Nos. 50 and 100, each for $100, with last coupon attached to each; 13 cou pons, $3 each, and two gold coupons, $15 each. .. I The County Treasurer's ; report for the month of December was received and or dered to be referred to the Finance com mittee. Ordered that the Finance Committee meet on Monday evening, 13th inst., at 7 o'clock. The Board adjourned to meet next Wed nesday, 15th insfat o'clock, P. M. Snccesa of HTllmlnstonlane. . We were glad to learn by a telegram re ceived in this city last night that Messrs. R. H. McKoy, Thomas H. McKoy, Jr., Swift M. Empie and Addison Ricaud had all passed their examinations before the Supreme Court of the State, now in session in Raleigh,, most creditably, and have been granted licenses to - practice law. We heartily congratulate the young gentlemen on their success, which we feel assured was most richly deserved and which we are glad to make public. All four of the-new-ly fledged attorneys will return shortly, and we presume their ."shingles" will ere long adorn "the outward wall." serious. Fire In Ralelgn- Frotri Mr. John P. Hayes, of Raleigh, who arrived in this city last night, we learn that a serious fire occurred in that city on yesterday morning. The fire broke out about half-past three o'clock, in the store of Messrs. Lewis & Jones, on Hillsboro street, and extended to the store of Rush Jolley, and aftetwards to the dwellings of Mrs. Drake and R. W. Best, Esq., all of which were entirely consumed. Mr. Lewis was found on the pavement in front of the store, badly burned, unconscious, and with an arm broken, and as be slept above his store the supposition is he was compelled to jump from a second Tstory window to save his life. The origin of the fire is unknown. - The furniture Of the two dwellings was saved, and it is thought, that but for the scarcity of water the buildings might have been also. The total loss is estimated at $15,000; insurance on Lewis & Jones' stock, $2,000. -. Insured. . . , . We mentioned in yesterday's issue the fire at Dr. F.W.Curtis' dwelling in Smith ville. We now have the information that the building Was insured for $1,000 in the Home Company, of New York, of which Mr. Norwood Giles, of this city, is f agent. '"'I ' Wood," from the flats," was still at a high figure yesterday morning,retailing at from $3, lo $4 per cord. The prospect of open weather and increasing supplies will soon cause a tumble in prices. I Spirits Turpentine That must bes a remarkable body which contains 120 members and every one of whom would niuke ai capital Speaker. Selahl ' ' ' . J The Shelby Aurorct learns that several government distilleries , will be opened iii Cleaveland and adjoining coun ties in ii.few months. ; . . ; The Salisbury Neics -has ceased to tell what is going on in the busy world, and the Randolph Sun has gone out iu endless bight. ; f Rest for the weary." ' -;r ) An. engineer on the railroad be tweri Charlotte.and Concord made thirteen miles in fifteen, minutes, .The Observer says: Talk about telegraph poles looking like a fine-ftooth comb! They looked t times like a row of wooden buildings, i ": 1 Rev. F.-M.' Jordauj-the Baptist evangelist, states in Sthe iBibUcal Recorder that during the i.lasts nve-years be has preached . fifteen- hundred sermons, and there have been fifteen hundred professions of religion; This is a remarkable exhibit of zeal and usefulness. , : ;Raleigh ; Observer: The Su preme Court met at 10 A. M., yesterday. Associate Justice Ashe is retained at his home in Anson on account of severe illness, so that Chief Justice Smith and Justice Dillard were the court of last resort for North Carolina. It was a pleasant sight to see a ; North Carolina court representing North Carolina ideas, habits and justice. The people selected these Judges. - CovcoT&'Jiegisteri It is encou raging to see the success Dr. Mears accom plished by his energy and perseverance with his process for extracting gold froni sulphurate ores. He really does not leave a trace of gold after going through his pro cess, i It is putting quite a value -on the rich, sulphurate ores which have lain dor mant jso long in Cabarrus' county. There has been this week a valuable mine sold by yVm.;A. Smith, of Concord, to a Phila delphia company, , Rockingham Bee: The ixeies- you cannot find in the- Wilmington Star is hardly worth the while to look for. The Baptists commenced a series of meet ings here on Friday. A church is to be organized, and the Revs. John Monroe, F. M. Jordan and W. T. Jordan are in at tendance. Died, at his home, five miles cast of Rockingham, on the night of the 28thof December, 1878, Johu Watson, one of the oldest aud best citizens of Rich mond county, and lately a member 'of its Board of Commissioners. Newbernian: In the country round about Newport, in Carteret county, the farmers have, for the last - six or seven i years, been regularly engaged in draining i swamp lands. The colored ditchers are occasionally surprised by finding in the ditches, several feet below the surface, large j bones, for which they can find no, name. The bones are all, as far as we! have observed, the remains of themasto don; in animal that existed in what the ge ologists called the CenozoiC times the age immediately preceding the age of man. .Raleigh; News: Stepping into the Yarboro yesterday evening, a News re porter was greeted by Dr. Blacknall with one of his blandest smiles, and confidently told that at that moment he had nnder his roof three men whose combined height was twenty seven feet nine inches. The community were shocked on Sabbath morning to' learn of the sudden death of Mrs. Jno. B. Burwell. '- Conversa- . tion with members of the Legislature dis- , covers a general recognition that retrench- ; ment will be the real issue of the session, and a pronounced ambition to make it efficient enough to at least satisfy some what the demands of the people. Charlotte Observer: Twelve colored people were buried in Pinewood Cemetery last month. While skating on Park's pond, Monday, Mayor Smith got a very hard fall, his head striking first. He was stunned for several minutes by the fall and received a painful cut just above the eye. There is no demand for gold, whatever at the city banks. Only a few persoss have expressed a desire to have it j instead of greenbacks. The vestry of j St. Peter's Episcopal church have invited a minister of Canada to come, to Charlotte and survey the, field with a view to a call from the church, and he has accepted the invitation. ' - Raleigh Biblical Recorder: Rev. Wm. J. Fulford, of Nash county, has been" called to the pastorate of the New Hope and Society Churches, in Davie county. -Rev. fi.; Petty, of Chatham, Va., has re signed the charge of the Church in Greens boro. ' Rev. N. B. Cobb; of Lilesville, has been called to the pastorate of the church in Fayetteville, and has accepted. - Rev. Jacob Utley has resigned his charge of the church at Moorebead City, and has accepted the pastorate of the three churches in Onslow county. His postoffice address is bwansboro, N. C. Rev. J. L. Carroll, a native of North Carolina, and recently of Warrenton, Va., has returned to the Old North State to work in the inter est of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. A number of Mecklenburg coun ty bonds were sold in this city last week at 91 cents. This is not bad, and considering that the county, is in debt $300,000 it is, a striking evidence of the public faith in the county's ability and, purpose to meet tis obligations, r r-A citizen of Gaston coun ty reports that scarlet fever is raging there to quite an alarming extent. Two young men got into a squabble on the ice pond yesterday and drew pistols on each other, but the row was quieted without se rious results.- Many horses have died in this county recently from blind staggers. The Messrs. Warlick, the enterprising young proprietors of the Lincolnton News, will, in the course of three or four weeks, establish a newspaper at Newton, Catawba county, to be under the immediate super vision of Mr. George A. Warlick, Mr. W. M. Warlick to continue in charge of the News at Lincolnton. , Oxford Ifree Lance: All our ice houses are filled with a most superior quality of ice, averaging about three inches in thickness. The fact was developed in the late county election that every Demo cratic candidate .was a member of the Ma sonic fraternity.. Every one was a farmer, directly or indirectly, and every church was represented by the candidates, viz: Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and Protestant Methodist. We under stand that Rev. Mr. Shields, of Winona, Miss. has been called to the Rectorship of the church of Holy Innocents, Henderson. We. regret to learn that Mr. Thomas. foreman of the lorcldight office, met with & painful accident yesterday. While work ing the job press one of the fingers of hia right hand was caught in the machinery and badly crushed. The Rev. D. E. Jordan, pastor of the Oxford Presbyteriau Church was the recipient on New Yeaa day of quite a number of "substantial" evi dences of the high appreciation in which he is held iby the people, ia Oa Saturday, while Mr. S; S. Haithcock was . engaged -ia m patting up ice, he had the misfortune to ' drive an ice book entirely through hia right hand,- disabling him for work at present. It matle an ugly wound. " It is gene rally conceded that . Granville ,cunty ia nearly unanimous, in favor of Governor Vance remaining 'Governor1 hn'd Judee Merrimon goirjgback to Ithe Senate.. :.Uur members will make a note of this'. .. jNow ihaV General Sheridan and General Schurz' are i at it the Indians have stopped fighting and seem to enjoy looking on better than their old occupation, i A pa per war is somethiig wholly hew to them. Boston Post. ' i' ; j ; 4
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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