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ft A II BOA DS AND SELFISHNESS.
It is really amusing to see , how
friendly certain North Carolina pa-
pers are to Wilmington during ex-
cursion times and other occasjonB
when the interests of our city are in
no way involved. It , is all lovely
then. I How the gashing rhetoric
streams along the types. What a de-
lightful place is that "beautiful little I
City by the Sea," and so on and so
on ad nauseam. But only let clouds
lower, i Let there be moneyed com-
initiations to injure, if not destroy, the
only seaport of importance in North
Carolina let the time come when 1
we need friends when we need a I
manifestation , of genuine State j
pride and an unflinching advocacy !
of a North Carolina policy, and j
then Wilmington has but few J
friends, and all the flourishes turn I
out to have been merely rhetorical J
and nothing else. When we protest I
against unjust, unpatriotic, unwise j
legislation we are charged with sel-
hshness, and it is declared that Wil-
mington doas not and cannot offer
the advantages of rival ports in other
atales. this is not true in the first
place, as a matter of fact, and, if true,
H is made so by the fact that North J
I .i rrSi iniina amn I rt Mfhor nmln nn t no 1
markets of other btates than their But will not such a scheme be cha
own. ;There is really no such Uhing racteristio of North Carolina? yl& it
as State pride in North Carolina, not true that we would rather Bee
We have been" tributary to other J
Slates rail our lives, and will I
continue so to be, we fear, as long as I
the present generation lasts. When I
papers in North Carolina use their I
influence to build up Charleston, Nor- (
folk and Baltimore at the expense of J
the only seaport in the State, what I
else can; be expected than that rail- J
road schemes will be adopted the I
only purpose of which is to break J
down those already constructed, and j
to make, us for. all time a mere strip I
of land lying between States over I
which conduits are built for the en-
r:M.:nnf
riching of other sections.
We wish our Wilminston peoule to
h- . tha pQ0 xrrio, Statei The idea of asking a Legislature to
see how well the Cape 1 ear section refu8e a raiiroad companf the right to ex
is appreciated in some portions of the tend its linejthrough a rich country, toitMis
j,. rtnf ot i own, money, is not only selfish and unpaid
Statc-what strong friends Wilming- olic in tnl'extreme, but monstrous. Their
ton has in the Uharlotte Observer. I
and to that end vve make some ex
tracts from its issue of the 29th:
"The opposition to this bill, and the only
opposition which it has encountered or is
nicety to encounter, comes irom w irmmg
ton and its friends and from the Carolina
Central! Railroad. It is claimed that this
proposed line will divert business from
Wilmington and carry it to Norfolk and
Portsmouth. This is the whole head, front
and bowels of the opposition, which is en
tirely and confessedly selfish. Wilmington
claims the right to control. the shipping of
me products or western JNortn Uarolina.
on what ground ? Not that , sbe is able to
oner the facilities which other ports afford,
oat Decause sue is a noun Carolina cuv.
o I. r ii t .
ouBjrB, urauucaiiyi i we cannot compete
who JMorioiK ana Jrorumoutu wnen on the 1
same footing with them, notwithstanding
we are nearer to Charlotte than these cities;
it is true the people of Charlotte and of
the west can get their products and
their goods through with more expedition
by way of Norfolk than by Wilmington,
but still this is a North Carolina oitv. and
the balance of the State should be made to
pay tribute to it. Let us, therefore, go up
to Raleigh and use our influence with the
Legislature to funnel the State so that trade
can find no other shipping' and entry port
and what boots it if the balance of the State
does languish so long as we expand?'
"They may put the case differently to the
prive a great section of privileges and ad-
vantages which are offered it ' without
money and without pnee, umtply because the
business of this section belongs to Wil
uiiugion, ana to give it a livioe chance to
communicate with the markets of the world
.--u .muugemew upon cuarierea ngnis."
We do not think that this is a fair,
aimougn it is an adroit statement of
the case. We can but admire the
skui with which the Observer makes
tne wprse appear the better reason,
n certainly draws an ogly picture of
our people, and we . pronounce it'a
caricature, in Us xeal to glorify the;
advantages of foreign ports s it does
injustice to our own. Wilmington
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VOL. ID.
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does not wish its own interests to be
protected and advanced fat the ex-
pense of other sections of the State.
Wilmington says, here is a seaport
nnnn which hnnranf tlinnaonrlgnf
f - ' i-w-
dollars have been expended in deep
ening the channel and making it ac-
cesalDie to snips pi large tonnage, vy e
have already a large 'and growing
commerce - We are much nearer to
the West Indies than . Charleston or
Norfolk as to iht 'time Required in
making the trip, i We .olfer certain
groceries cheaper r than Baltimore or
Norfolk. We can! offerj still farther
advantages as j we grow stronger.
Wo can offer as many and as great
facilities to the West as can Norfolk
or Charleston, h Wilmington, there
fore, protests against any and - all
legislation that puts her at a disad
vantage and that Tfatoijrtoinu
other States. , 'i
We repeat,-1 Wilmington . claims
that she can offer land, does offer as
good inducements to Western North
Carolina as Norfolk offers, that a
has already been constructed at
a large expense connecting Charlotte
with Wilmington, that the is a North
Carolina city, and that she has a right
to expect from the; btate government
a true parental watbh-care -a genuine
fostering spirit, and not a j system of
rule and legislation that j will retard
her growth, if not cause her streets to
be covered with grass and her marts
to become desolate. She insists that
thenruc North Carolina policy is to
help develop home; resources, to pro
tect and foster home interests', and to
do nothing whatever that shall de
stroy those great lines of transport
tion and travel that already exist.
Wilmington asks the; Legislature
of North Carolinafto give; her people
at least an equal chance with those of
other States. The Western people
have already outlets to the North and
South. It is now j asked that a road
shall be constructed that will give
the finishing blow to some hundred
anj ninety miles jof Yailway, and all
that a foreign corporation" may carry
oat its ambitious schemes, the end of
which will be to impoverish or greatly
injure North Carolina and enrich sec
t 1 - ' J ; - ;
Norfolk, Richmond, Charleston great
and prosperous than to see Wil
mington or Moruhead growing or wi
dening in itr i operations? North
Carolina has been so long a hewer of
wood and a drawer of water for other
peoples that we suppose it must con
tinue to be so to the end
The Charlotte Observer in its zeal
to injure Wilmington, and to aid the
managers of the L'ttle Ambition,"
as Joe Turner ! was wont to call the
Raleigh & Augusta road, says fur-
ther of -our people:
"We are astounded by the position taken
upon this question' by some of eur Wil
mington friends, i They seem to have en-
tirely lost sight of the remainder of the
position upon Una ! question cannot be
defended upon grounds of, philanthropy
or business principles. They are playing
llie part of trie dog in trie i manger. They
cannot offer us the advantages which other
ports would, and they are not willing that
those other ports should be put in a position
to do what they thus confess they cannot
do. Theit argument falls to the ground by
its own weight. i j
, "We shall hear much, ; when this bill
comes up for discussion, about the 'North
Carolina system,' and keeping trade at
nome. we are just1 irreverent enough to
take no stock in this antediluvian system."
How does the I Observer know that
the proposed road will be built "with
its own money?"- I We j have not the
.i:-!, f,.-Mft- ikM- thd-tniA to Ham.
- "i i "
let from Raleigh was built "with its
own money, i We nave no doubt
that at least a half million of dollars
was expended in its j construction,
much of which belonged to women
and children all over North Carolina
-in Wilmington, in - Raleigh, in
Hillsborough, iu Oxford, and indeed
jQ a hundred places. That road
t " Fawo? , "
ought toibe made! to disgorge. The
in hand, and show for all time that a
" L -i ' u .
I UK uuv "uo ujvucj
J of the women and children of North
l A u t.' - i
Carolina who haye been , greatly re
i aucea in circumstances, to build up
I railroad lines for foreign corporators
I who have no interest in the welfare
bf North Carolina beyond their own
I selfish schemes, j f
j The Observer is pleased to assume
all along that Wilmington cannot of
fer the advantages of other ports,and
that, therefore, it is highly proper in
North Carolina legislators to do al
I they can to put her farther in the
Weekly
WILMINGTON,
rear, and to make it only . a question
of time as to her final and complete
decadence We might "retort with
propriety that the Observer is as
selfish in its own argaroents in favor
of ''Little Ambition" as it charges
our people with ' being. Its .whole
burden is that the road ought ' to be
built because it would benefit its own
section. It forgets that in enriching
itself it may bring . rum or. disaster
upon its neighbors. It oannot be
shown that the people ofc its section
would suffer a great' and serious loss
if the schemes of "Little Ambition"
are nipped by judicious " legislation.
It cannot be shown that trade- with
Wilmington would not prove as ad
vantageous every way to the people
of Western 'NorthK Carolina- as it
would to have a new outlet to Nof-
olk. On the other; had, Ht can be
shown that to build the new road i
proposed by. "Little Ambitionwould
result iu injuring veiy seriously a
on; line of railway already con
structed, as well as a - large sec-
ion of : country, i and the ; chief
commercial citv in the State. '
With the! lesson before us we are
tempted to say that we hope never
again to read in j a North Carolina
paper anything about State pride, or
a North Carolina policy, or building
up our great material interests. , It
is the veriest humbuggery and clap
trap it seems. It is. all sound and
ury, signifying nothing. It is wind,
wind only, nothing but wind. The
real thing to do is to join the popular
chorus in singing the praises of for
eign towns, foreign corporations, for
eign enterprises, foreign manipula
tors. Let us all bow down and
worship the Great Golden Calf now
set up, upon whose ample forehead is
written in letters of brass Dowsr
with State en xbpbisks Up with
foreign schemes an jobberies, j
Whilst it might have been too
much to expect Charlotte not to favor
the scheme of "Little Ambition," it
was not too much to expect it not to
be blin ! to the interests of other
sections equally important with its
own. j I
If the present Legislature charters
a road from Cojcord,- via Honroevor
through Union between Monroe and
Charlotte to Columbia, we wonder if
the Observer would advocate it with
the same vigor and heat it does the
scheme of "Little Ambition?" We
trow not. It would- then find out
that it does make a d:fference whose
ox is gored. i t
There is a strong lobby at work in
Raleigh, as we learn, in favor of the
new scheme. We learn there are in
fact two schemes which "Little Am-
bition" has in hand. Possibly the
Observer does not understand that
one of these projects may not be so
very beneficial to Charlotte after all.
One proposition is to build a road
from Hamlet, N. C, to Bennettsville,
S. C, with the " rieht to cross the
Carolina Central i ani the Wil
mington, Columbia & Augusta Road,
with the fixed purpose of extending
the road to the North Eastern Rail
road. This will give the Raleigh &
Augusta a direct line from the South
to JPbrfolk, leaving Charlotte out in
the cold. I .- .... i
The Robinsons, who control the
"Little Ambition" and Raleigh &
tiaston, that makes ; heaps or money
but gives no dividends, al control
the Seaboard & Roanoke to Norfolk,
and the Bay Line to Baltimore. They
also control the Richmond & Fred
ericksburg road. They will not run
in connection with the Richmond! &
Danville road if they can get either
or both of these new schemes carried
out. Of course they will force I all
freights to go over their lines, as they
cannot go the other way
Our Wilmington delegation at Ra
leigh are not selfish as charged. They
are fighting both schemes. They in
sist that the Bennettsville road will
seriously injure Charlotte,'as .would
be the , case inevitably. A road
North between Charlotte and Wil
mington would very seriously injure
the former, because the party who
controls the new road controls also
the line beyond Richmond, Va, and
would not' connect with the only
other outlet Charlotte has. Wil
mington would be injured but Char
lotte much more. It will give the
new road an air line from Augusta to
Baltimore.
We had other points to urge, ' but
our space' is up. We may reour to
the matter as necessitymay require.
w e ciose wica me aeoiarauon ina
tne legislature win ao a oaa tmng
for North Carolina if it charters
either road.-
N. a, FRIDAY; FEBRUARY 7: 1879.
A pliAN TO BBBVOB au4 VAY OFF
BIR1LLT THB rAT DEBT.
The conference between, a Sub-com
mittee of the Virginia Legislature
and the bondholders adjourned' with
out results. No propositions were
made nor indicated by th reditors,
Whether this is ominous :. er not we
are not informed. . It is a good Bigq
at least - when debtors , and' creditors
get together and talk oyirj the mat?
ter. -' We hone good will orie of U.
Our own iJtate debt is at feast at"
tracting tie attention of tho press.
The larger part of our exchangesj W6
believe, have had some sorejbing to
say 4 about it, and all are Agreed
that the Legislature shulp make
an . honest effort to .effeei. a
settlement by oompronois. : Our
esteemed contemporary, ueolda
boiQ Jfail, in itsMSt sVerrof'
f era its own plan - for a settle
ment. It proposes that a- sinking
fund off $300,000 annually be created,
to be used in cancelling such out
standing bonds as may be voluntarily
offered at market value. The Mail
believes that : by - this means "the
Treasurer would settle up the whole
debt of the State fairly, honorably.
and to the satisfaction of all honeBt
people, both of taxpayers and bond
holders."
Without indorsing this suggestion,
for we doubt its practical value, we
have this to say. nj honest, well-
meant plan isbuterthan no plan.
Our Legislatures in the past have
dawdled so long and done so little
that the creditors do Lot believe that
our people have resolved to make a
sincere effort to pay their indebted
ness, in part or in whole. Something I
should Ld done to remove uiisimores-1
, . a .
sion aud to restore confidence between
the dobtors and c: editors.
It strikes us that the proposition
of the Mail will meet v ith this diffi
culty. As soon a i it is known that
the Su terms provided au aunual
sinking fund of 30O,00G, the market
value of bonds will at once be en
hanced, and it may turn out that the
price1 paid may be excessive, or more
than we can afford to pay. It strikes
us. tbtrefoie. that a compromise i is
better, and will work out more satis
factorily to all concerned. v -
The Mail says, in addition, that an
economical administration of the
Government abolishing all unneces-
sarv offices will leave a balance of
$100,000 in the Treasury with the
present r-te of , taxation. It also
wisely, as we think, favors the adop
tion of the Moffett Register, and
thinks it will make $200,000 at the
lowest calculation. This is a very
moderate estimate if the law is en
forced. It ought to raise $500,000 at
the lowest fizures. and will if oroner-
I lv enforced.
The Mail concludes:
"Our plan, in a nut shell, is to purchase
our own bonds at their market value, and
to raise the money to do so cut down ex
penses: have our officers to live on small
salaries while ar people are made to bear
heavy burdens or taxation, all mutually
suffering for the ultimate good of all."
A well i known colored legislator,
Syphax by name, lus written a letter
to Senator Windom, in which he
strongly opposes that Senator's reso-
tion in regard to the migration of the
colored people. Syphax clearly sees
through the whole movement, and
does not like it. He understands
Mr. W mdom perfectly. We quote
one paragraph: , 1?,'
"Your measure refers to Congressional
districts iu which it is alleged the colored
people are denied the right: of i tnrrrage.
JNow there is no material trouble in any
seetion in which the whites are in the ma
jority, but in such as have majorities of co
lored men. So the effect 3 would be to get
rid of this problem by retfiOTlng Amrtca
citizens from their native -omea in order
that undisputed control shaltpasa into the
hands of the whitea Let such a request
come from Southern Senators, if they de
sire it, who are interested in this matter, it
interested at all, and tot from a Senator
from Minnesota. Who able to state that
it is less possible for the white people of
the boutb to live, on proper terms with the
colored DeoDle or their section, wnen the
coljweb of confusion shall be swept away,
tnan it is lor tnem to live on sucu terms
with the pedple of the North f " Have time
aud opportunity justineu such a judg
ment?"
Why do the legislators, delay in
the matter of cutting down . the sala
ries? Are they afraid to do right?
Are they afraid of the people? The
peoplethe tax payers r-of North
Carolina are with them. Nay, they
demand that the expenses and. sala
ries shall; be lopped. Then go i to
work at onee and do the lopping.
Do not wait on the lobby any longer.
Of course all- present office-holders
and their friends, and all expectant
Barkises will din your ears, but act,;
I men of ; the Legislature, and act at
i once
Wilpon has just sent fonrcon-
I victs to ike penitentiary, an tor stealing.
-y 4t;? ?r : - . ': "- . ' '.
The Charlotte ' papers - are piping
sweetly about free railroads - and
broad schemers of 1 policy. They no
doubt think Charlotte willet a ben
efit.; It matters not bow much the
injury visited upo i others so they can
get a big lift, fancied or actual. The
whole railroad system s of our: State
must be made to shape itself hence
forth for -the benefit of r Charlotte
abd the tegiorbeyond N$rth Caro;
lina. And thif is the 'golden age
When a new pojicy -was to be adopted
ftnd a grand North ; Carolina 'system
of internal improvements. was to be
set in motion. - Bat it is to .be only a
continuation of the old. policy ba p-
tized with some' new name, - which
makes North Carolina a mere:;feeder
.of : other sections. Jt is really an ex
ierhal policy for ll the good : goes ;
dutside. " . .
If the' present Legislature u nder-
takes to carry out the plans of the
raiload schemers, and to thus destroy
old and important lines of railroads
as well as to injure the only commer
cial city in the State,- and all this to
benefit a few clamorous foreigners
who have no real interest in North
Carolina beyond what they can make
oat of her, then it will pave the way
to some astonishing - results in 1880
in the Cane Fear section. Our reo-
. . nftt - . avfi the:r' :n.
..a B.n.., . t, ftf
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their friends. If jobberies and plots
succeed then a profound silence will
follow, and that silence will be
on'
nous.
Bisbee, the present Florida mem-
ber,-will keep his seat.
The Demo-
cratio sub-committee on
Elections
have reported favorable to him in
the contested case. That is right.
If the people elected him he ought
to hold his seat. i V
Tne Uamlet connection.
In Bpite . of the Weakness -of the flesh
where it was least expected, a manly voice
in beha'f of Wilmington is -heard at Ra
leigh . The News of that city, in iM issue
yesterday mernin proclaims that oi" pro
test against the Harriet (or Sanford) con
nection is r.jtsonable. It says: -'-
"The Gentral I sembly. are earnestly
neutioned by tbe pre i and people of tne
cnier cur oi jxonn ufouna to , rvtuse tne
Raleigh & Augusta Air June permission to
extend that road to Ubsrlotte. i
'.They sa and say truly that such .per
mission once granU.4 will be used to ea-
tablish a trikde channel in every phase of
its make-up inimical to their most vital in
terests. Their city . -iust now developing
an important commerce with Europ' a
commerce Having forf ts cnief support tne
ireignts or toe uarolina uentral Kaiiroad
The building, in f"eat part, of. this high
way is the riucipal return by the State to
tne (Jape v ear pjople tor their uniform
liberality of half a century towards i all
other sections. -:
"It seems but plain justice to protect
them in the exclusive and ' unchallenged
enjoyment of this. .Neither- native nor
alien Ahabs. should be flattered ' with a
gleam of hope that tbe vineyaid of our
generous JNabothcan be coveted wrh suc
cess.'- -
"That Norfolk would set much trade at
the expense of Wilmington, if this charier
is granted, will hardly be denied, and we
are uuauvi: 3d of any advantages, wnicn are
likely to follow tbe grant, that wor'd serve
as a set-off to tins certain loss." i
The Railroad Excitement. .
Under this caption the Raleigh Observer
of; yesterday says: "The Treasurer's pri
vate offloe was filled jes erday evening
until there was scar' i standing room by
the crowd of interested parties and'Jookers
on in tue railroad war. - Tbe committee on
Internal Improvements sat patiently and
listened to the arguments of Ma-jor Winder,
Major R. S. Tucker and E. R. Stamps,
Esq.; .in favor of the extension of the R. &
A. A. L. R. K to Charlotte, and of Major
C M.. Stedman and D. R. Murchison in
opposition to granting a chatter for such
extension. The speeches were interesting,
and those of Mr: Stamps and Major Sted
man (the only ones that , we heard) of a
high order of ability. - Major Stedman
speaks with peculiar force and earnestness;"
Tbe Pentienriarr ' h flew Honover
Representation. .
This coHnty, while its people are not par
ticularly immoral, is well represented in
the State prison. The,;"roll of : honor" of
that institution bhowa that New Hanover
ranks as ore of the five counties which
sent the largest delegations. The count of
noses runneth thus '. Wake 27, New Han
over 23, Edgecombe 21, Rowan 24, Wilson
23. Seven are sentenced for life,' three for
20yeara, and five for 10. .The result in the
whole Btate, for larceny 367 are sentenced,
40 for. larceny and receiving stolen goods,
18 for manslaughter, 0 for : murder, and 9
for assault with Intent to ; rape. Oar
county is third best in the list i for num
bers, m m m
Sheriff A. H. Paddison, of Pen
der, has settled the taxesMue by hia county
to' the State. He paid in for public taxes
$1,848 62 and special taxes to the amount
of $1,678 S3 in all $3,622 95; Well done.
- A Word for Wilmington.
Raleigh News. J
THtf the pros and sons were even our
vote should be cast for Wilmington.
That fine old town ought ; not to be
refused a reasonable request at : the
hands of any representative body of
North Carolinians, and such we be
Here the present - Assembly to be.;
NO, It.
A - Plea' for
Wilmington
from the
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LCorrespondence of the News. !
Mqnt Aiby, N. C, Jan. 28.
Reasoning from analogy and. the
success of other States it will seem
that the ratVoads ought to converge
to a common centre, and that centre
should be the best seaport. ' Look at
tbe railroad 7 maps; fesuth Uarolina
has : her Charleston, Louisiana her
New Orleans, Maryland her Balti
more, Pennsylvania her Philadelphia;
New York her New York, Massa
chusetts her Boston, Alabama her
Mobile, Georgia her Savannah; Vir
ginia her Norfolk and Richmond, and
so on through many more.
vJn ortb Uarolina has her, W liming-
ton, but does her railroads radiate to
the mountains from the mam com
mercial centre? No.' If we had a
more important seaport where the
nost of the citizens could resort to
as is usual with a real metropolis,
.wouldn'ot lour -people, be better ac
quainted? Yould notthre be more
unanimity and t concert of action,
more homogenity more State pride
and prosperity f : How many North
Carolinians go to Wilmington to buy
goods aye even groeeries and tropi
cal fruits? Every true North Caro
linian, if he will reflect a little, will
see that theBe things ought not to be
so. i unarteston reioicea noi
many , months . ago at the pros
pect of tapping by rail our western
transmontane section - at Asheville.
Why should not Wilmington rejoice
at the prospect of tapping the nearest
mountain section to her ? Would it
not look fair since the long way of
the State has one road , from the
mountains to the sea that the short
way should have one too ?. I was
glad our patriotic Governor recom
mended State aid to the Fayetteville
& Greensboro Kaiiroad. This through
the Cape Fear, would for the present
be a step towards' recognizing more
fully than we have heretofore .done
the fact that we have a commercial
metropolis. But to make this a pay
ing road to the State, and thus lower
the taxes and more fully carry out
the first named object, it should i by
all means be extended further north,
near Danbury, Stokes county, be
cause it would utilize ,and develop
the great mining interest of that
section highly favored by nature,
but hitherto much neglected by man.
Here are to be found inexhaustible
mines of iron,, coal and lime which if
developed by means of a railroad
would in return make it yield rich
dividends to the State in the way : of
freight and travel; for be it known
that these mountain counties are ex
ceedingly romantic and attractive,
not only as affording delightful sum
mer and winter homes, but especially
attractive to the summer tourist, who
needs the eool, invigorating moun
tain air and health-giving waters,
which are no doubt designed by the
great Designer for the invalid of the
low country. Let them have a short
and cheap Narrow Guaee to set to
these places. But this road should
not only penetrate Stokes county,but,
to ensure its success as : a .dividend
paying road beyond a possibility; of
doubt, it should be extended to the
village of Mount Airy, near the
Blue Ridge, not simply because
this town has a very extensive
back country . never in the na
ture of things to be much if at all
penetrated by any similar roads,
which : might direct trade to the
detriment of the scheme under con
sideration, but also because this
grand back country must necessarily
come to this railroad at Mt. Airy.
And why so? The dirt roads! many
in number running through i the
mountain gaps, all converge to this
point, aud they are remarkably good
l roads coDsidenng thev are not
graded. The citizens in the adja
cent counties of Virginia will come
south, because it is so-difficult to go
north to the Virginia fc Tennessee
Road. Horses,: cattle, hogs, bacon,
lard, hay, rye, oats, apples, buck
wheat, iron - ore. . coal, lime, corn,
wheat, tobacco, &c, would swell the
business of this road. Would : the
Virginia & Tennessee Railroad lose
something? Uf course it would.
But Virginia is-pulling for the trade
of the Dan and Coalfields, and why
not pay back in equally good com?
Wnleb One Owns I7 ?
.. . Raleigh News.
Raleigh will only be a way station
between Norfolk and Charlotte, so
faros western freights are concerned,
if the R. & A. Air Line get leave to
extend to Hamlet.
It is well enough to have two lines
of travel to the West,-but this we at
present enjoy. It is fallacious to re
gard the increased competition which
is promised in the light ot a blessing.
Richmond is now building up at our
expense by reason of the switch-off at
Greensboro and our. representatives
are asked to build up Norfolk by al
lowing a foreign line to enter Char-"
lotte.
- We have the miserable and unman
ly satisfaction to know that our sub
jection to Richmond is in part paid
for in the lease s of. the jn.A. Jtt.
which yields a quarter of a million
dollars a vear.t Norfolk would have
us don our hat .without getting the
customary shilling. We are fallen,
but perhaps not so low as this.
-Let salaries and fees be reduced-
Let - the- - officeholder receive " a ; fair,
but not an ; extravagant compensation.
Every man who serves his State is entitled
to a decent livina as a reward for . his ser
vices, but in no Republican government
should that embrace a luxurious living.
WamngUm Fost. - ; " -
Spirits. TurpentmV: -i
Judge -Kerr's ' health is , still
feeble. - ; ' ' - ' v',. . , ' - . ;r
Dr. Tippo S. Brownlow, a vmt" p
table and highly esteemed citizen uf Wsr-
rtutoD, is dead, aged 85 years. " .
The Wilson Advance is in er ror, '
Col. Saunders was editor of the Wilming- -
toa Journal now- defunct and - not the :
Star. ' - " , - -
The Raleigh Observer savs there
are not enough lawyers in tbe Lower IJouse
of the General Assembly to made a juJir- ..-"
ciarv committee of lawvers. " . "
Shelby Aurora ;;There has been :
over 4,500 bales of cotton shipped fmm i he W
depot at this place this seaEon.. This ' an r
iateign uxews: "iit'irencnmwit
h l." fiaid n Drne Mnlnti nl - Hnaliik7rf
selling in this city at twenty-five ceui pers ::
aozen . in mv countv twentv-nvc rents ' '
would, buy a. waeon load ItetrechuR'ni
lucauH me removal oi inc cspuoi upytta - . .
the Ridge. . ';
- Salisbury Watchman: Messrs. 17
N. S. Qiggins, S." M. Woodward, Jwaeph -
have nnrchased the O'Neftl Sr. Snvrfir rnl.t -
mine tar xh.imni: a inn tun Tivrinr nulla nH -
are puBhiBR ahead energentically, erecting ; i
stamp mills and other machine. to extract v
Polkton.'4r7s:i -"We,- advise'
our friends in aH the townships to hold ' :
meetings at once and send up tbe names of
good men to the Legislature for Magistrates ;-
With tbe powers of the Justices of ihe x -Peace
enlacgdd it will be highly 'important- ...
that men of stability and. intelligence .
selected. : The majority of oar Maeisttales?s
are lamentably ignorant of law . -s . -
flooded Tar river. - It 'was a foot higher -
than tho hpf ftf 1HR7 ' M
Hobgood, President oHIhj Eileigh Pemale :
seminary, tens us that' lur ve months no
physician has been called in to attend a 1
case vt sicaness among the large number of f
pupils at his school. This speafes well for .
the health of the institution and of Raleigh : ;
- Clinton ChrohicleX Mn Robt.'-
Ball, a soldier of the wan of 1812, died- at -
nis resiaence in iuis vicinity on caiuruay -last,
after a protracted illness. He was -
anout eighty years or see. Mr. Thos.
tr..n. i i: o s -i i
t ciuuui nuv uicsuu'uouuj wtccav, : iicni
Kingold depot, while walking on the track -
of the Richmond & - Danville Railroad a :
few days ago, slipped and fell, which so n
stunned him that two trains ran over 'his
head while he was dowp. and. etranea to - -
say, he was not killed , .
Chatham Record: We regret to .
learn that, en last Saturday night, the store
of Mr. E. D. Patterson, of this county, had
his store broken into andi robbed of about r-
iiuv worm oi roous. r ve are
nlAnapft 1q lflnrn that strnnir hnwa rfi(n. ;
tertained of inducing Mr. IS. J. ilale. Br.. -
to tase cuarce oi tne r ayette vine uazeue. .
H7hih ronont o . enanDnnan : . nnrfciltfitinn
Such' an acquisition to tbe. journalism of -
thfi Rtato wnnlfl hft xepiinmrti with rpfn1iRr '
b t s
gratification .
- Raleigh News: : A gentleman :-
reported yesterday that on Haw River- ,
persons were destroying great numbers ofv
mite in the liver. , The committee ot -
alann AHMnSnlnj U t T A f A 4it " "
mice, ayyuiuieu uy tuc licnisiaiuiu tu . u-
vestigate the W. N. C O. R. leaves lo- I
morrow evening. They slop at Salisbuiy.v
Ntolatiotri lla VA iflrrxr MrTi9anffn a ni. Ihu r
head of the road. The following
JkuibB f iiiui Aaava i iuwi tvu -
. - -1 i e . i i - I.
appointed as an Executive: committee ot
thn I Lmvaraitv - 1 hft l-irtvpfinr. PX-oftlfiKl--
Chairman of the committee; Hon. P C. -
Cameron. Q. V. Htroner. W. li. Saunders. ;
R. H. Battle, J. S. Carr, ifl. Unssom acd
A. L. Lewis.
- Raleigh Observer: Wake pays
more than twenty-five times as much tax -
as some of ber sister counties, sne paia J::
Ibis year fB,l 41 for the support or the
Deaf and Damb and ' Blind and Insane
Asylums, and $4,130 94 for the erection of.
the penitentiary ana support or convicts.
Tbe total tax paid, both special and pub-
Mo vana Sftft (HI i Th Tflftl hlar.k
minstrels gave a creditable performance at
Metropolitan Hall last evening, which was
xvitnnBOAd hv n. Inrcrp rrnurt amonc them
"'I " " W - - - . -.;..
many legislatois. A Martin Btreet
runaway, yesterday afternoon came near
ninvincr a hrar.a or ie?ieiators. ana . tneir
fripriflB near hv-thnnpht there wouia DBIWO
vacant chairs in the.House to-day. , ' -
Winston Sentinel: : On Town
Fork, abont fourteen miles north of Win
ston, the robins have established an im-
stream', and every night thousands of these .
birds gather there, and the neighbors : go :
with bags and gather tnem in witn their
hands in such quantities as they desire. .
-Joshua Rights, the oldest citizen of .
Winston, died at his residence on last Sun
dav night. Mr. Rights was born in Salom
on the 20th of April, 1793, in a house that
stood on the corner where the Baiem Bans
is now located. -The growth of the f
business in Winston may be gathered from.",'
the fact that five years ago the salary of ,r
the Postmaster at this place hardly reached :
$300. Now tbe offlce is a third rate omce
Charlotte Observer: It is known
to most of the readers of the Observer that the
lmnA nnnn vhiih Htfinflwall .Tftekfion Was -
riding when he received the wounds which ;
sion of his brother-in-law, Mr. Joseph
UM.J.vM mliA a t K A Alii MAWIOAn
MV1IWVW V" V Mm v ww - - '-.
homestead in .' Lincoln 'county, flrteen .or .
twenty miles irom inis cy jut. juwrrmou -
mda him rinnn voef prHav. anil Mf ' "Van
Ness, the enterprising photographer, got a :
first rate picture of him. The gallant old
sorrell Shows theesect ot age, out is- stui
able to travel and do enough service to pay
for the expense of keeping him. r- n w ,
stated on good authority that the Simpson
gold mine,' situatea sdoui ten mues east.ot .
tha nitv h hAn nnrnhaflp.il bv a "Northern
company, who propose to. operate it.
Tarhoro Southerner: A little
colored boy, son of Jim Armstrong, of
Rocky Mount, was killed by having a large '
limb cut down on him on Saturday., On;
tbe day before a little son oi nea rareer,
colored, fell from a stringer of the bridge
across Tar river at the Palls and came near
being drowned. He floated to a raft and -Was
rescued. . The colored cook on
the premises of J. H. Chapman,- near
Rocky Mount, left her crawling child in
the cabin alone with tbe fire. Theclothing
of the child ignited and burned it to death.
Another victim to criminal negligence
. - Tbe Trustee of 3i B. Coffleld offered ;
m m m . ' M . ' - - t '"ItT-
his large eight room resiaence in ; lacooro
for sale on Monday and did not get - a bid
on it There is a mortgage of $2,603" on it..
$6,000 was offered for-the place a few
vnara bito. That's hrink(?C forvou I '
Taxes are bound to be reduced,'
The galling bands must now be loosed,' ; '
Or th' - people's heads by the sherifTlf be
noosed " " , T '
in execution tney maxing me oucea-
. Est cry for retrenchment.
-Rocky Mount items: We were shown
m f.m 1.B ot.... lie U. .T :; T TOaamv a-.
B 9 T. UBJO - UUtQ . UJ MU. . A.. V. MVVUIj IS
model of an improvement - on the . street
car. Mr. K. will take it to Baltimore in a
short time to have it tested, r -A negro
boy was killed nearthis place on last Fri
day by'the falling of a tree. Whita
ker waifs:- The dwelling house and kitchen
of Virgfl Walter, , a worthy colored man,
nrorn nntirAlv mnanmMl hv flrp, .one nipht
last week. A tinsmith could find
steady employment .here, as could, also a
good shoemaker. .-Farm, bands are
commanding from $6 25 ; to $7.00 per
month t demandiogj$10.- -r--