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We have been in a good many of the Southern States, and have found none that is to be preferred to North Carolina Where one man succeeds of those who leave their homes five f ail. v Industry, well directed and continuously applied, fortified by habits of sobriety and economy, will win in North Carolina as easily and as certainly as in any other section of our vast and5 growing country. It eeems from the following, which we cut from the Charleston News- and Courier, that those who leave South Carolina do not differ in their expe rience from those who leave the larger and richer Carolina: V 1 "Qcivernor Simpson is in constant receipt of letters from South Carolinians, who have emigrated ; from the South and Southwest aiuce the war, the burd-n of all of which is that the writers have been sadly disap pointed in their plans aod expectations.and m e anxious to return with their impover ished aod suffering families to this State. &ome of the appeals made to the Governor for help to enable the petitioners to return, or fur a promise of. remunerative work upon their arrival, are touching in the ex- treme " - j We have known two brothers to separate one remaining at the old home, the other wandering into new and strange lands; both intelligent and frugal and industrious, and after ten or fifteen years had passed the wanderer returned and tbeo'said: "I have worked hard in a State thought to be much richer than North Caroj- lina. 1 find you have prospered more than I, and have a better home every way. I would even return now, but my children would be Btrangers here, and they would grieve to leave the place where they were born." WHAT A NORTHERN COLORBD ' MAN SATS. : j ' Southern papers have often asked why the extreme men of the North who were eternally mouthing about the negroes not holding office in the South did not see to it lhat.thejr fared better among, themselves. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a negro in either branch of, Congress who hailed from a Northj ern State. We have referred to this fact several times, and asked why Northern negrophilists did not nomi nate and elect negroes if they were really so deeply interested in their welfare and elevation ? If the negro is so qualified to make laws for the South why not select - him in the North ? Why complain of the South so long as the North fail3 to appre ciate his superior claims and his ex ceeding aptitude for framing lawB and developing the resources of a great country? . A Northern colored man, Cyrus Bell by name, has written a very pointed letter on the subject to the Omaha Herald. We think it quite probable that it will never beat tempted to reply to the points he raises, and if the attempt, should be made we are quite sure they will never be successfully met. Cyrus Bell clearly apprehends the injustice and absurdity of the Northern com plaint. He sees . that the South is under no more obligation to send negroes to Congress than the North is. We must reproduce a portion of Bell's letter. He says, for instanoe in replying to the charge that the) negro was not qualified by reason of ignorance and unpopularity : "When and for what reason was this standard of universal intelligence among a certain class made the condition of eligi bility to office of every member of that class, however well fitted some might be tor the discharge of the duties of office? It is needless to go further in discussing this point. It is-a miserable subterfuge VOL' 10. that could; never beaf .investigation.- An other : reason that is generally given i n explanation of this systematic practice of political rascality upon colored men is, that fibouid nominations of members of their class be had npon the Republican ticket, ititi effect would) be the weaken ing' of the support I of that ticket. So by this it is easy to see that the party which has heretofore claimed prerogative of our ballots in consideration of past friendship towards us, virtually acknowledges, when called upon to make palpable 'manifests lion of such friendship, "That it would faint before it cuu!d complete the demonstra tion. Or, in other words it is saying that the act of nominating black men for office upon the Republican: ticket would bring about sucfai a degree of disaffection among the white imembers of it as would insure the defeat of its ticket To use a vulgar expression I ask, 'How is that for high ?' The colored men, in North Carolina have acted more like slaves than free men in the past. They have gone crazy over the election; of white men of their party, when it was plain enough that said white men only hob nobbed and fellow-shipped with them to get their votes. The colored vo ters in this State number some 85,000, whilst the white Radical vote does not exceed 20,000. Why should 85, 000 colored men go crazy during elcc- r . ; i - tion times; to place ) in office some of the 20,000 effice seekers ? Cyrus Bell has intelligence, and be understands perfectly the insincerity of those men who profess so much interest in the welfare of) his race He knows that unmitigated selfishness lies at the bot tom of their acts and utterances. SOUTHERN ILLITERACY. The negro Congressman Cain, from South Carolina, to whose statements we rel erred several weeks ago, j con cerning illiteracy J in the South, ap pears to have been at fault in his statistics, lie blundered egregiously in his statements in regard to the State be represented in part, and hence he may be ) presumed to have blundered as to the other Southern States, about which he must know less. : His charge ) wasj it will be re membered that the ! white people of the South are more illiterate than the colored people, and he bltempts to prove hi' assertion by the census of 1870. an appeal to It turns out that the figures ho pa raded in his speech are not to be found in the Census Report. But this is probably not to be wondered at. He has made a damaging contrast by inventing his facts and figures. : We will copy from the Charleston News and Courier a paragraphj relative to South Carolina, j Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus He who is false in one particular will be so in all is a Latin maxim, that is sometimes true. The Charleston paper says: f. "It will not be denied, we presume, that among adults a larger number of whites than of blacks have some) education. A comparison which is confined to children is, therefore; the most favorable to the blacks. Congressman Cain gives the pop-, ulation of South Carolina as 270,000 whites and 480,000 colored, ! According to the statements compiled by Superintendent Thompson the average annual attend ance at the public schools, during seven years of Republican administra tion, was: Whites 37,429, colored 66,481. Under the Democratic administration the annual average is 50,281 whites and 59,036 colored. Otherwise stated, 44 whites at tend the public schools against every 56 colored children. There is a difference of 12 per cent, in the attendance with a dif ference of 75 per cent.! in the population. This, too,. without taking into account the attendance of the whites at educational institutions other than the free public schools. Congressman Cain, true to his nature, was more anxious to astonish and amuse his audience than to get at the faCtS."- i ! It I THE POLL-TAX QUESTION. Good government is the most de sirable political and civil blessing that can be vouchsafed. Good ; go vernment costs something. To have due protection in I life, liberty and property is a: great boon. Why should not all men who enjoy .this boon pay something to secure it ? Why should one man pay fori the blessings enjoyed by another man ? A man pays no j taxes whatever. What does he do to sustain and carry on the government? He enjoys all the privileges and I blessings of safe citizenship, and j yet does not con tribute one penny towards perpetua ting those privileges and blessings. Why then should a man vote without paying for the privilege.) The ballot is the expression of sovereignty. Why should a man ) be a sovereign a factor in ; government who pays nothing to. sustain it ? Why should a man, in other words, be allowed to vote who never pays a cent of taxes? It is uot important; for such a man to vote. If it is not worth some sacri ficesay, a dollar or two dollars to have the grand privilege of casting your ballot in favor of those who) are to be delegated as) your servants in discharging the functions of govern ment, then you will scarcely appre ciate at its full worth such a pnvi lege. Why should a man be urged or allowed to vote; who says he cares WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 187?. nothing for the right or privilege, and would not pay a small considera tion in the way of a tax for such a right or privilege? What does such a man really care for government? He enjoys life, liberty, and property, if he has any, and ho pays not ) one cent for the benefit. If all men were just like this voter, who pays no taxes whatever, how long would there be a government, and how long would the right of franchise exist for any one? Georgia not only compels all voters to pay a poll-tax, but its new constitu tion requires all arrearages of taxes to be paid before voting, j The ballot should be sacred. It should be kept free and inviolate. Every qualified elector should have the right to vote once for whom be pleases, but eyery citizen should be required to pay a moderate poll, tax before j being duly qualified as an elector. DEATH OF REV. DR. WING ATE. We are exceedingly pained to learn of the death of Rev. Dr. W. M. Wingate, President of Wake Forest College. He died at his resi dence on Thursday afternoon in his 51st year. He was a native of South Carolina, was graduated at the col lege over which be presided so ably and satisfactorily for twenty-five years, was married in North Carolina, and spent all of his manhood in edu cating the young men of the State. He was a very devoted Christian, was a man of exceeding amiability and loveableness of character, was well educated and thoroughly equip ped in his peculiar departments of study, and was a preacher of very exceptional and high powers. When at his best he was a great preacher of the Gospel of Jesus. We cannot undertake at the hour we write to give any sketch of his life. He was a true man every inch of him, and his loss to the State is great, and to the Baptist denomina tion apparently irreparable. We have never known a man of sweeter character or of purer life. There is no earthly doubt that he was ready for the summons, and is now at rest in heaven. A YELLOW FEVER REPORT. The Special Report of the Homoeo pathic Yellow Fever Commission that was made to Congress recently came into our hands through the courtesy of the late Dr. Freeman. We have examined that report, and it is replete with instruction and in terest. The report was made by eleven eminent membeis of that school of medicine who reside in as many cities. The able and scholarly Dr. Wm. H. Holcombe, of . New Orleans, was the chairman. Dr. H. is a Virginian by birth, and is a brother of the late Prof. James Hol combe, of the University of Vir ginia, j We have not time or space to avail ourselves of very much that this able report contains that would prove of general interest. We would like to reproduce the opinions of the commission on the causes and prevention of yellow fever, but it would occupy more space than we can give it. We will copy the sum mary of the report, which is very thorough, as- to the success attending the treatment of the epidemio last year. In New Orleans, 1,945 cases were treated homceopathically. Of these 110 died. In the towns and cities outside of New Orleans 1,969 cases were treated, with a loss of 151 pa tients. Total cases of yellow fever treated in 1878, 3,914, of whom 261 died. The report also embodies sta tistics from 1853 to 1878, showing that during those years 6,569 oases were treated by homoeopathic physi cians, with a loss of 360 patients, it being a mortality of 5 4-10ths per cent. The mortality among ' the col ored patients in New Orleans was less than 3 per cent. " Of the cases that had black vomit 125 recovered. Out of 1,630 cases in New Orleans there were but six families in which as many as two deaths occurred. . The report says that if New Or leans is kept "in a perfect sanitary condition" that then "the great val ley of the Mississippi is safe." To prevent the development of yellow fever in JJew Orleans it recommends and eloborates four points. First, the thorough drainage of the city. So cond, the constant irrigation or flush ing of the street gutters and canals by fresh river water, pumped in daily by steam apparatus. Third, the con sumption of all city garbage by cre mation. . It refers to the great suc cess that has attended experiments of the kind in New York. Fourth, the generation of ozone to supply any deficiency in the atmosphere when detected oy proper instruments. These recommendations are enlarged upon by the commission, The re port is well worth examining care full j. '..!-)' V.t!. ::; v THE: CASE OF RENO. Gen. Reno will probably be re garded hereafter as the) -man who from ; either a want 1 of ) ;" proper manhoood, or from an ) improper 'jealousy of his superior pfficer, al lowed the latter : with his command to be sacrificed without striking one vigorous blow in his 4ebl Wa have not been swift to condemn this soldier, although we knew; his moral qualities were low, and that he bad been con victed of a gross and wanton insult to the wife Of another officer. We have not accused him in advance of an investigation of behaving badly at the battle of the ' Little Big Horn. It is now clear enough,; from the trial, that he did not do his duty on that disastrous occasion when the gallant Custer and his little band rode into the very jaws of death. Gen. Reno was second in command, but he did not second his superior as was expected, but i left him to his fate. The testimony elicited by the . . , - court, or inquiry is noi oniy seriously damaging to Reno, but it places Captain Benteen in a rather ugly light also. We avail ourselves of a resume of tho evidence that: appears in the Philadelphia Timesl That paper says editorially: "It appeared that General Custer's ar rangements for giving battle were well considered, and depended for success only on the zealous co-operation of his subor dinates, Reno and Benteen. Both of these officers were jealous of Custer's fame, dis liked him, and confess their lack of confi dence iu his military judgment. Custer was left pretty much to himself, and everybody knows what befell him and his men. Reno made up his mind to retreat within five minutes after Custer left him, and, appa rently demoralized by the killing of a scout at his side, put spurs to his horse and led a stampede. Benteen was almost as culpa ble. Both of them must have knows Custer's plight, but neither went to his re lief, although the firing was going on for two hours. For a while Reno could not be found except by his adjutant, and when he reappeared it was with a flask of whis key in hand and giving evidence of intoxi cation . Benteen came to Reno's assistance in the inquiry."? A strong fight has been made for Reno. Custer sleeps in his grave. A whitewashing report has been made, and the case will be dismissed, and an officer who has been found guilty of a gross insult to the wife of a brother officer, and who was proved to have acted badly) in the fight at Little Big Horn., will retain his place as a General in the army,and will be a big man among those who) do not require virtue and fidelity and honor in a soldier. The Times adds: "The acquittal, according; to the dis patches, is not complete. Tiat would be too outrageous in the face cf the overs whelming testimony taken at Chicago. The whitewash is in the form of a report that 'the inquiry has not addaced evidence against him which would wattant trial by court-martial.' It is a contemptible Way of disposing of the subject" According to a communication that appears in the Raleigh Observer on the Agricultural Departmeat, that new part of our governmental ma chinery is very expensive. It cost the taxpayers of the State from April 12th, 1877, to April 15th,1878, the large sum of $15,435 St. From April 15 lb, 1878, to December of the same year, it oost the taxpayers $8, 850 29. Total amount drawn from the State Treasury up to December, 1878 a period of some ) twenty inonths was $25,950 00. The writer of the communication says that the second year ends April 15,1879, when the whole amount will reach $30,000 for two years.- And yet there is no need ef reform and retrench men t,and the State can only pay 15 oents in the dollar it owes. " Radical Senators are irate. They charge Kellogg with duplicity. They say he promised tovote for Corbin and then dodged. The Richmond State's Washington correspondent pays one of the i oldest itepublican Senators declares that Corbin's title to a seat is twice as good asKellogg's, and though he voted to admit Kel logg as a political necessity, he knew of no political necessity that would compel him to vote to keep him in after the duplicity he practiced in the Corbin case. . . The enemies -of the new I tobacco tax say that it will never become a law. The improvements of the reve nue machinery for collecting the tax are said to be great, as ' provided in the law just passed. lROUOLn. Iateret!oC-.uvetls:atlona middle Sound, lu ibli Couutr-Iudlan Be main, &c. On .Thursday last Rev. J)r. Bernheim, President of the New Hanover County Historical and Scientific Society, accompa nied by Rev. Dr. Wilson;' of the First Pres byterian hurch,;nd Mr. gdward Kidder, visited the plantation of A-R. Black, Esq., on Middle Sound, about ten ; miles below this pity, for. the purpose of continuing the investigations as' to the'eharacter of the re mains already alluded to on several occa sions' as bjmng been discovered on Mr. Black' 1 in d, "which has attracted the atten tion and 1 enlisted the interest of quite a umber, of thecientifically inclined in this immediate section. They opened two burial places on this oc'casionandlre phei in which thVthree sktim? Were7 found on Monday -last, referred to-ia th&ftatauof Thursday morningthere cifrn1iBceTtred sevchi skulls altogether, one of them that of a child. These skulls, with the accompany ing bones, were in heaps, each to itself, and in such a position as to suggest the idea that the individuals to whom they be longed had been in a standing or sitting posture while undergoing the process ef decay, and bad eventually tumbled down in heaps, with the bones at the bottom and the skulls on top. These remains, as before intimated, had to all ' appearances been placed in a trench prepared for the pur pose, but without any particular order jof burial. j A short distance from the above spot another and complete skeleton was ex humed, its position indicating that the individual had been lying on his back with his face turned to one side. A root was found growing through the skull, entering at the top and protrud ing through the lower portion, manifesting a softness of the skull which in itself would suggest great antiquity. j These remains were all found at a depth of from one to three feet below the surface of the ground; but this by no means indi cates the depth of their original interment, as, being in a sandy soil, the action of the wind has no doubt brought them much nearer the surface than they were at first placed. The visitors, after as careful an investi gation as the circumstances would permit all came to the conclusion that the remains, were those of Indians. This opinion was arrived at chiefly from the mode of sepul ture.thc graves having been filled with oy ster and clam shells, evidently conveyed some distance for that purpose, which it is safe to assume would not have been done by white people, to whom the soil would have been considered so much more con venient. The finding of an arrow head and a specimen of Indian pottery, in the grave or trench was Still further evidence to our scientific explorers of the correctness of their theory. The jawbone of a deer, with teeth attached, was also among the relics found in proximity to the remains, j Six ;of the skulls alluded to as having been found in the trench or grave were brought to this city, and are now in the possession of Mr. Kidder, who will be glad to show them to any scientific gentleman who may have a curiosity to see these in teresting relics of a pre-historic age. The other bones it was found impossible to re move intact, as -they crumbled and fell to pieces when handled. T . : The mounds at the same place were not visited on Thursday, but will form the sub ject of investigation at some future time. ! I Dr. Thomas F. Wood was to have formed one, of the. party,, hut was disap pointed at the last moment. ' Magisterial CHange. The following good and true Democrats have been appointed as Magistrates in this county, to take the place of the Republican appointees of the last General Assembly, whose terms are about to expire. These appointments are in accordance with the recommendations of DuBrutz Cutlar, Esq.', Chairman of the County Executive Com mittee, who has just returned from Raleigh, and will nodoubtive general satisfac tion: Wilmington Township Col. John D. Taylor, in place of Anthony Howe, col ored. P Cape Fear Township Iredell JohnsoD, in place of B. E. Scott. i Harnett Township Gerret Walker, in place of J. A. Holt, colored. Masonboro' Township John A. Farrow, ia place of J. G. Wagner. j , Federal Poiat Township J. P. Mont gomery, in place of Stephen Keyes. i We learn . that J. A. Holt, of Harnett, holds a six years' commission but his ap pointment was only for two years, and he will have to vacate ia accordance with the law. i To Be, or Rot to Be. j We learn that the Sheriff of Pender counn ty says he has had no official notification of the pardon of James Moseley, colored, convicted of rape at the last term of the Superior Court for that county, and sen tenced to be hanged on Friday, the 14th instant, and that as far as he knows at pre sent there is no reason why preparations for the important event should not be pro ceeded, with - at the proper time. But, ac cording to the old saying, "it is catching before hanging." Moseley was released from jail by. the) Sheriff of New Hanover, on the strength of the Governor's pardon; which was addressed to "all whom it may concern," after securing legal advice, ' and the culprit is now at large. The granting of the pardon, . on seemingly sufficient grounds, was one of the last official acts of Gov. Vance. supreme Court. ) The following were among the cases be fore the Supreme Court Wednesday: E. F. Moore vs. Mayor and Commission era of Fayetteville, from Cumberland; ar-4 cued by B. Fuller for plaintiff, and N, Wi Ray for defendant: j gtate vs. J. A. Lambetb, from Robeson argued by Attorney-General Kenan, for State, ana w. jr. Freach for defendant, l William Griffin et al vs. Josephine Grif fin, (two cases) from Robeson; continued for absence of counsel. , NO. 19. Arrested on Suspicion. : Mr. John D. Burch, formerly of this city, but now of Winston, state in a letter to us from that place, dated on the 26th ult., that a negro corresponding to a letter with the description given in the Stab of Eli Be thune, who is alleged to have committed the outrage on Miss McDuffy, near Laurin burg, recently, has been arrested in Stokes county, thirty miles above Winston; : and the party arresting him has telegraphed to the Sheriff of Richmond county, asking for information . The man has tried to escape several times, and has given several differ ent names. Attention Sportsmen. ) Under tho law recently pasfed by the Legislature the close season for partridges begins April 1st. Any person who shoots a partridge between April 1st and October! : 1st will be fined ten dollars for each offence. All sportsmen should be on the lookout for the nest robbers, as the same law makes it an indictable offence to break up or rob a partridge bcBtr-The law applies to 2ew Hanover, Pender, Duplin, Sampson,' Co lumbus, Union, and some other counties that, we do not now remember. - Sadden Death in Jail. Washington Andrews, a colored lunatic, was' found dead in the county jail at Smith ville on Thursday morning last. Deputy Coroner D. W. Manson held an inquest over the body the same day, and Ibefury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death from cause or 'causes to them unknown. It is supposed that he died from the effects of a fit of some kind. THE SEW PRESIDENT OF FUANCJU His Ancestry, Tastes and Family Affairs. : Paris Letter to New York Tribune."! Grevy's character is misunderstood by the English press. He is a man of Spanish race grafted on a Franehe Comtois stock. Spain long held the Franche-Comte, which Charles V. thought one of the most important of his military positions. He garri soned it strongly with Catalonian and Arragonese troops. Grevy has the cold dignity of the Spaniard, and the capacity which we have seen in the Carlist wars to devote himself to a cause, though it is a losing one. He has also the indolence of the hidalgo, though' but little of the gran diloquence or the showy chivalry. His patience is Franche-Comtois, and his simplicity of tastes Swiss. I never saw Grevy in the chair that I did not think of a Presbyterian elder" distributing the elements at the Lord's supper. He is not a picturesque man quite the contrary. The Spanish soldier, bis ancestor from whom he took his intensely dark eyes, his gravity, his disinterestedness and laziness I sup pose was. If Grevy finds official life a bore he will resign. There is, how ever, one great attraction for him at the Elysee. It is the billiard room. Without billiards and chess he would not think the Presidency worth hav iqg. He resigned the Presidency of the Assembly shortly before the 2,4th of May to get back to the Cafe de la Regence and indulge there nightly in his favorite recreation. He is an ex cellent speaker in a small room where the acoustic conditions are good, but he never cultivated oratory at the bar. It was a bore to walk or drive to the law courts, to robe, to walk about in the Salle des Pas Perdus, to go home to receive clients, and then to sit up working at briefs. What he liked was business in chambers, which he could attend to in a dressing-gown and . slippers, and smoking a cigar. This kind of professional employ ment poured in upon him during the empire. If he found his brain too sluggish for work he got his wife or daughter to play the piano, and him self performed a flute accompaniment. He interspersed his legal occupations with literary studies. In the country he goes about . dressed like a peasant. Madame" Grevy's quarrel with him arose from his hatred of fin6 clothing. She has lately been reconciled to him, after a separation Of five years. Killed for bis Uold. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. . 26. A dis patch to the Avalahhce from Iuka, Miss., gives the following account of a double murder perpetrated i near that city yesterday: Major A. M. Hntobens, accompanied by Thomas MoNatt, both highly respected citi zens of this county, left Iuka in the afternoon to go home, being neigh bors. Hutchens had drawn $1,700 in gold from the express office, sent by a Cincinnati house to be used in pur chasing a farm. Late in the evening McNatt's horse reached home rider-: less, with blood marks on the saddle. This aroused the suspicions of Mc Natt's family, wbo feared foHl play, arid a search was instituted which re vealed the dead boy of McNatt ter ribly mutilated about two milea from his home. One hundred yards further on Major Hutchens's body was found in like condition. It is thought that some parties who knew of the gold being at the express office waylaid and murdered both men in order to secure the money. . And now it turns out that the account of the killing of a man named Hensley in Mitchell county for assaulting a preacher named Martin is all a lie. The Bakersville Hepublican says: There is .no preacher by the name of Martin living in the county. There are only four men by the name of Hensley in this county, and all of them are high-toned, honorable gen tlemen. One of them is the sheriff of the county. .7, Winston Sentinel: Five miles of the Winston & Mooresville railroad is graded, and work is progressing rapidly. The road will soon be under contract to Mooresville. The Charlotte Observer praises Professor Hartley's recitations. The Northern settlers wore to hold their convention at Raleigh on jes'er- ay. Fayetteville will invite Colonel K. McRae to deliver one of his lectures D in that place. Mrs. Elvira Cbilds died at Lin colntoa on Saturday, the 22d pf February, at the age of 93 years. Aaron Skinner tried to poison Turner Battle at Winston, both colored. Turner was made deadly sick by a copious drink of whiskey Administered by his enemy. The Winston Sentinel will henceforth be a semi-weekly, and tclhia end Mr. Matbes has associated in business with him Mr. S. T. Darliagton, late of the Dacbury (Stokes county) Reporter. - The farmers of Castalia . town ship, Nash county, held a mesting and re solved: That we will not buy any manip ulated fertilizers at a price to exceed oue bale of good cotton weighing 400 pounds for 2000 Doands of such fertilizer nuvnh!.. Nov. 1st, 1879. Polkton Argus: Two lawyers, one from Alabama, and the other from Mississippi, appeared as counsel in a case before two of our magistrates last Friday. 'Mrs. Sam Birmingham who lives about a mile and a half from iliia nlace. r.r.nidnt. ly smothered to death her infant about six : weeks old last Saturday night. :- Winston Sentinel: The ques-, ; tion of consolidating Winston and Salem is being discussed. The two committees have agreed upon terms and a charter is to bo presented to the Legislature.- We have not seen the proposed charter, but from what we learn of its provisions the terms will not be acceptable to the citizens ;of Winston. Mr. George Dismukes, aged fifty, and a most worthy citizen of Chatham county, was drowned in Deep river on the 19th insL - Tho dwelling house of Mrs. Mary E. Spearman, Gray's Creek, Cumberland county, was burned on the 20th. Loss $1,000. No insurance. A little son of Henry Brooker was fatally burned near Osgood, Chatham county, on the 23d. Raleigh Observer: Rowan coun ty lunatics drew $400 yesterday. Col. Lon. D. Stephenson showed us an old fashioned smooth bore musket that was one of a lot ordered expressly for and used bv the Favetteville Licht Inf antrv in 1793 ,- J. B. Harris, a youth of some sixteen summers, was up before Mayor Manly for me very Qisgraceiui ana inexcusable ok fence of defacing the residence of Rev. Dr. Pritchard. It was a filthy action, and the prompt and energetic manner of its punish ment reflects credit upon our excellent mu nicipal chief . ! Elizabeth Citv Economist: Ovs- ters fifty cents a gallon. All on a par. ti. ne ricn and the poor can lie down togeth er now. - Pneumonia prevails to an alarming extent on Powell's Point. Therp. have been five deaths in one week. Capt. W. A. Harney's yacht,'"Governor Jarvis," intended for the shad trade, was launched from the shipyard of Lawrence & Son On the 19th inst. Some days since, in Gum Neck, Tyrrell county, N. C, while Miss Gaboon, aged about fourteen years, - was walking with a companion along the public road, a gun was discharged by a boy who was gnnning along the road, and one of the shot struck and entered the head of Miss Cahoon, near the temple. She died from the wound in a few mo ments, j Greensboro Patriot : We are pained to 'announce the death of another child of Captain Henry Smith from diph theria. Robert Williams was seriously injured on Monday at the Richmond & Danville Railroad Depot, whilst coupline freight cars; the bumper was broken and he was caught between the cars and two of his ribs were broken, besides receiving other serious injuries. The residence, kitchen and smoke house of Mr. Hiram Cobb, six miles east of this place, was burned on Saturday last. The fire origi nated in the roof of the dwelling, caused by sparks from the stove pipe, and before Mr. Cobb, who is quite old and infirm, could remove his invalid wife, the fire had progressed so far that he could save but a few articles of clothing or furniture. Goldsboro Mail: Miss Victoria Smith died at her residence, in this place, on Thursday last. North Carolina has 261 turpentine distilleries. The Golds boro Rifles celebrated Mr. Washington's birthday with a parade. Miss Jean nette Davis was badly burned near Naban- ta last week. There was an auction of the unclaimed freight in the Express of fice on Tuesday last. The highest bid for any one article was a little over $7.00. Fifty-five boxes and packages were sold, aggregating $54.46. John Edwards was hanged alSmithficld on St. Valentine's day, and . The trap was sprung -, And Edwards hung At the end of the hangman's Hoe, As the d l,j elate, Stirred up his'grate And awaited his valentine. j Charlotte Observer: During tho past year the, number of hogs that! have died of cholera in Mecklenburg county is quite alarming, and even yet the disease has not altogether subsided. The loss from this source in the county will amount to several thousand dollars. If the new county called Scotland, proposed to be taken from, parts of Richmond and Robe son, is established, Glasgow will be the name of the county seat. Mary Crom well, the Concord pump woman, fell from the lank window last Saturday morning and broke her neck. She was drunk; -. A prominent citizen thinks that a street railway from the Union depot, when that is built, to the public square, and thence down Trade street to the Carolina Central, North Carolina & Charlotte, Columbia & Angusta depots; with a few short bracchea, say in both directions on Tryon street and through cotton . town, would pay hand somely. Tarboro Southerner: On Thurs day, the 20th, a colored man, while fishing in a canal at Blakely's fishery, in Beaufort county, had a fit, fell overboard, and was instantly drowned.- Messrs. C. F. Morrell and J. R. Clifford, the Boston gen tlemen who are spending the winter in our town, have got in a barrel of glass balls and a spring trap, an4 some rare old sport is experienced in shooting. We again call on the Legislature to make a three foot fence a lawful enclosure. We so sadly need a law for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Will not the Slate press help us wail for such a law. On the night of the 12th inst. the smoke house of Mr. J. H. Mears was . en tered and about 400 pounds of meat stolen. We know ayoang man i who will soon be "Annie mated." tfotmoke News. The young man's feelings should be i Ann Eliz(ar)d, or Annie-lyzed. A young Jew, named Max Leopold, committed sui cide in Hamilton on Wednesday night, the 19th instant, by hanging himself with a small rope.made fast to a joist in Mr.! Hoff man's store. When the body was dis covered he had been dead some time. His neck was not broken, the rope being too short for him to swing clear of .the floor. He was on a visit to Mr. Hoffman, his un cle. Tis of retreuchers that I sing, r And first of Senator Graham. ! He holds a "flush," all in his hand, And knows well how to play 'em. Kt. v. -vv'- T- ' fg Mil fi ml if v m mi 3& m m m Wi m m m ' f " sli 'i ' M : m JlF m Kit'. I if? Bp: w m I! v. M7 m m if.. m f h i