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He hated them with all the heartiness he was capable of, aiitl be was capable of great things in that direction. He was a very able man. , He intellectual powers gave him- supremacy over the men of the "North, and he became a tre mendous engine of evil. He was fanatical and cunning and bold, bnt he was a giant. He understood the genius of our government, although he may have despised the hindrances and guards tnat nedgea it about. His voice ought still to be potential among those he led. From his grave his utterances come up to rebuke the m.irulots of tHe hour the smnll-Vippr politicians and blatant demagogues who are .crying "revolution" and moving heaven afRl earth to place tlie ballot-box under the protection (God save the mark!) of the bayonets. Here is what the able New Yorker said, and the whole country .may lisleu ihie time will) profit: ,' . "Civil liberty and a&tatiSino army for Vie purposes of civil police like keeping peace at the polls have never yet stood together, and never can stand together. II I am to choose between upholding laws ia any part of ibis republic which eatmut be maintained yriih- laws themselves. 1 give up the laws at once. by whomsoever they are made and by whatever authority; for either our . system of government is radically wroDtr, or such laws are unjust, unequal, and pernicious. "If the founders of the Constitution had been told that within seventy years from the day on which they laid its solid foun dations and raised its majestic columns, a standing army would have been found ne cessary and indispensable meiely to exer cise municipal Jaws, they would have turned;away shuddering from the massive despotism which they bai erected. "The time was, and that hot long ago, when a proposition to employ the standing army of the United States as. a domestic police would have been universally de nounced as. a premature revelation of a plot, darkly contrived in the chambers of conspiracy, to subvert the liberties of the people and to overthrow the republic it self." ' There were never greater truths' spoken by uninspired man. i It true when uttered, how true now! Since that lime his party has departed al most entirely from the old land marks. ; To-day the leaders are in their places in Congress loudly de manding that "unjust, unequal and pernicious laws" shall be "main tained" with a standing army that "the standing army of ; the United States" shall be "employed" "as a domestic police." This is their atti tude. Above we have their just con demnation by their ablest man. Let the country read and ponder. - Til KICK WILL BB NO . "KEVOLII : TION," - -i The Philadelphia Times lias a ' i ji ' ' ' i -. t tnuuiy auu encouraging euiioriai ou the' "Lost Rebellion" of the Stal waits. It says it is settled that the "new rebellion" is ended. There was never .any purpose of "rebellion" save in the minds of a few designing and unprincipled fellows in the North who were willing to precipitate the country into the vortex of revolution or any other dismal and chaotic con dition, that their party might once more come into power, and the "good stealing" should begin again. The Times says there will 'fbe no revolu tionary action," because the Dem ocrats cannot afford : it.' It would ruin them. It says: "Nine-tenths of them are conservative, sensible, and mean todo right in the right way; but one-tenth can say and do more to feed revolutionists on the other side in one day ihan ten times as many can counteract iu a month." ;- r How very true that last remark is! The Republicans will have no "revo lution," becaose they cannot afford it. It says: . ; .',;-; t" "When Jodge Kelley made General Gar field rise before the House, and disclaim all accusations of revolutionary purpose against the majority, the policy of the Republicans was then and there irrevocably settled." til ' 1 ' '17. ryvrrrttrrr J Brnrr7 i , : U ; Mr. Hayes cannot I afford to be come ."revolutionary.". He cannot afford to bring ion, "sectional strife merely, to help Grant to a third term." It says of the President and his Cabi net: "They will all help to make fair weather and friendly j breezes i for the ItepuMican party iu 1880. but they won't veto bills and proclaim revolution when it can be grist oniy to tue uranvmiH." , j The countfy j wants , peace. The voters of the country 'demand free elections and au honest jury. .The country has had enough of Qrantism in all conscience.' Another four years of the "Rings," big and little, would bring such dismay and ruin upon the country as were never seen before. TUK'TVBF. I . The three victories of Parole, in England are quite remarkable. The English are masters of the Turf, and spend more time and money in racing than the remainder of the world. That one American; horse should win three races within a week,' beating England's best horses, is an event worth dwellingj upon, especially in view of the American horse's antece dents. His record I is fine, and he is unqestionably one. of our best horses. In four years, at home, he ran thirty five races, in which he was victorious twenty-three times. He was second in eight, third in- one, and unplaced in three. His gross earnings are estimated at $38,708. - As we under stand it, high as his place is among American horses there are better. It will be remembered that Tom Ochil tree beat him. three' times. Virgil beat him twice.) His victory over Ten Broeck may be classed as an ac cident. The latter was disqualified for the race. ; He would have beaten Parole easily at an earlier day, and could beat him bow if he was the horse he was three years ago.! Parole, however, is a better horse" ; than he was when he beat Ten Broeck. He began to run in 185. One account says he has made thirty-four races and won tweuiy-Oue. In 1S78 he was beaten once, coming in second. He is still entered for other races on the English turt, butjLorillafd is overdo ing it. The strain is too great, and we expect to j hear that Parole - luia been beaten. . I: ..'..'-..,! FKKa ULECTIONX AN D 1IOHB8T s' " -'j juki KM ;, The Stab has never justified out rages upon the ballot. It never will. We believe that the right of suffrage should be inviolate, and that the ballot-box should bJ kept pureand kept free free from bulldozers free from the manipulations of ballot-stuffers free from .bayonets free from Re turning Boards. The Stab believes that men who tamper with the bal lots, who resort to, violence or threatB to intimidate; voters, whether in Rhode Island or South Carolina, whether in Massachusetts or Louisi- ana whether in Pennsylvania: of Arkansas,- should be fairly tried and then punished, if -found . guil ty. The Stak advocates an . hon est electious and an honest and fair jury trial. It believes that the Federal election laws, that have been so foully abused, should be wiped from the United States Statutes. It believes that ; the juror's test oath should be wiped from the Statutes, as it was once, ( but was kent in - j ...... . through either a mistake or trickery. 5 Until this is done, there will be no fair trial .he fore .Federal Courts for j political offences.! The, Philadelphia Times, commenting on the action of Attorney General Devens, in bringing1 to a sudden end the trials of political offenders in South Carolina, says: j "There will doubtless be bowls from the stalwart Hepublioau orators and organs,but the general public will applaud this dispo sition of the matter;. Outrages upon the sanctity of elections ought to be punished, but! little good was. to be expected from trials conducted ia so partisan a manner as has characterized t Ue : proceedings at Charleston, as illustrated by the presiding Judge allowing the prosecutor to enforce the teat oath provision against jurors who were democrats, while be waived it as to others who had : served ia the rebel army but are now Republicans. Trials so con ducted are not calculated to eaMvate reve rence for the law, and mora is to be hped for from the growth of public sentiment against election frauds, even if it is to be slow, than from hasty trials by partisan Judges before packed Juries." j We have 'one more remark. We cari see no , good . objeotion , to a law to prevent men from go- ing to election: precincts, armed; Before j the' war, . fights were an everyday occurrence at elections. Often pistols' and knives ; were, used with fatal effect.! In this State no liquor of any jina . can be soli ; where elections are progressing, and the bar rooms everywhere are closea on that day. Why this? Because experience shewed that men inlionof : " ' I i more ' quarrelsome and morpjtJio . -. . - . . ... . fight than when their blood was . cool and they werp eBtlrejy 'sotier.;-Tlae jaw has worked admirably. Why not try the effects of a law that will keep men from going ' to the" polls ."armed and equipped" for a "fight or W vendetta?' If Blaine's resoluMon Teally contemplates the preservation ot peace, and does not contain any I machinery that can be perverte'di into an engine of party oppression, we do xipt see wny it snouia not oass. . YY e can See no reason ; ' it ' r-t . j . win y any citizen, yfho is patriot and a' lover of jus-' tloe and fair dealing, can witk.to at tend elections with pistols or other ajrms upon, his person, provided all, .othe? men. areuaarmed. f.jWa oanaofc doubt but that, elections . would ;,be more free and more honest if all xuen were, prevented from going o the polling places armed. We know that with soldiers presiding oyer, the polls there are no free and honest elec tions, r : KOSCOE C9NKLINO, , ; We have not seen the text of Mr. Gonkling's speech. It was : no doubt able and ingenious, for he is an able, adroit and ready debater. From the brief abstract sent by telegraph we may learn that it is thej specious at tempt of a canning advocate to make the worse appear the better reason. When a manfConkfing's intense pride and extreme good opinion of himself, and who has 'reading and ability and experience throws him self into the arena of debate as the champion of a bayoneC policy, we see at once how little of the genuine principles of true republicanism re mains among the leading men of the party of Grant and Hayes. ' Whilst we concede willingly Very high abili ty to Mr. Conkling, we can see no evidences of either statesmanship or patriotism in his course concerning the arbitrary, dangerous, and op pressive election laws. . If the whole case were reversed if the D mocrats had enacted those laws for the very purposes for which thby were enacted by . the .Republi cans; and if they had beeu 'abused and made instruments of tyranny and corruption just as they have been by the Grant set if the Republicans had at last become dominant in . Congress, and were resolved to get rid of the ob noxious lawsin the precise way in which they had been passed, is there a man of ordinary candor and intelli gence in the' whole land who does not believe that, this very Senator. Conkling would be foremost now in advocacy of the Republican plan, and would make a speech from the opposite standpoint to' that which he now occupies? In other words, Conk ling is a traitor to his own. honest convictions when he advocates the bayonet machinery of Radicalism: He knows it is wrong, oppressive and dangerous, and when j he champions such measures he sinks all semblance L of statesmanship into a mere party hack. ' -:. -; If we had hot seen the New' York Sepator on other occasions fail to do his duty to civil liberty ,to a pure and free ballot, and to his ; country, we might have expected that he would have pursued another course in : the great -struggle now going on in both Houses of Congress. But in i these, latter .times not . much of true statesmanship is exhib ited. "True, statesmanship.? it has ben said, "is the art of ! chang ing a natiou from what it is Into what it ought to be."Buf this is not Mr. Conkhng's idea. It is sure ly iot his practice. His "art" consists in passing war measures for times of peace, and in "changing a nation from what it is into' a far worse condition. If there were no restraints upon such demagogues ;it would,, not require many years for the government of ouij fathers to : be "changed" into a despotism more absolute and unbear able than that of Russia. Fortunate ly for the. good of mankind and for thei conservation of civil liberty,there are. restraints, and the Democratic party is m a position 'ttigeT them to Some extent.,, J. t. . f fi , Conkling is for Grant in the con tesi ,1880. AU of the Stalwarts will rally tinder the Grdnt flag. Tey had a good time nod at. -him before, and they know ..wha ::Hh& plucking i w&its them. tf t they loan, only. win. Ropeson andhe Ring generally hay declared for their old leader.. He represents their ideas and principles. WILMINGTON, N'O.y FRIDAY, THE CHtRACTEB OFiTHB; DE f BA'lES. ' , We have watched the debates du- :ring.:tbe extra session "of Congress pn the exciting questions BtilLun- er consideration, and we have been atihed with the decency and eood temper that Southerji speakers have splaved under suq provocation as as never offered before to any peo pfe.,- it surely requires,, an immense tameti.nt of patience forbearance, and Beii-possession ,xo sit: xrom: nour, to hbur and front day today under the fMqus lashings of , irate and in; 'dl olive eaemie8,! -and - to - listen to repeated ,: ties . and slanders cupon-, youf own peoplev tU;6ft 4 heaped O jQne can read the. debates . as re pprted' .'intlitf' UM&resnMSlCecora h?.'' Ji .rT sf---i.. T''i . ! i.-r.jj?- ,witnout oemg greatly impressea witn th dignity of, bearing and conserva-. ti am of tone tnat mark uearly every sj eaker from the abused and traduced Sbuth. iTbey have illustrated in their jdaity contests a : conspicuous feature which was not known to belong to Southern character until the war and reconstruction ; gave it expression an uncomplaining fortitude under great tribulation. The patriotism J-the attachment to the Consti tution of oar honored forefathers the earnest desire to restore the Government to what it was be fore perverted by demagogues and political tinkers and charlatans, all come from the. Democratic side of the' Congress. The violence, the vi ndictiveness, the sowing of dra g( m's teeth, all are inspired by the Si al warts whose only political philos ophy is despotism, and whose only creed is found in the "gospel of hate." isome of the Northern papers ap- preciate the long suffering and for- oearance ot me ooutn. lne Albany Y.) Argus; for instance, says mbst justly: . f 'Southern men have sat in considerable numbers in the last two Congresses. They have legislated in company with Northern Democrats and Republicans. They come in ;as the peers of their fellow members. Their attention to duty has been constant. Tiiey have legislated for the interest of the wole country. Not an unpatriotic word has escaped them. They have insulted no man. They have1 voted for economy always. They have not supported the mf ch-discussed 'claims' in a single instance.- They have set an example ot re sistance to the lobby which has made the latjt two houses a very jewel and security in tone of (the national he nor. - They have bee reasonable, fraak, argumentative and courteous. They have been the very ideal of: public representatives. The reception they have met with - has been such as the recurrence to the epithets we have quoted indicates.! Such is the effect of the restor ation of the Union on such Republicans as claim a monopoly of its restoration." Possibly some x expressions have been used by one or two Southern men, under the greatest provocation, that it would have been better if they had been withheld, but the rule has been moderation, the highest senti ments of patriotism and devotion to the good of the whole country. In contrast to all this forbearance and moderation read , the bowlings and vajpouhgs of such malignants as Con ger and Fryc and Blaine and Conk ling and Joyce and a dozen or twenty others, who Beem to delight in lying against the South and in spitting out their venom at the men who represent . . . . . our section jn ootn nouses ot con gress. Only n Wednesday, Joyce mido one of the most provoking,slan- rous. and bloody harangues yet The Vyashing the Richmond rd in the House. toi correspondent of Z?ppafcAwritcs: j TJoyce, of Vt., is one of the small ani mals of the Radical menagerie of the House; but it is not the largest animal that makes the worst stench. To-day he made an infamous speech, and accused, in coarse" terms; Southern Representatives of murder, sacrilege, flseswearing, and every crime poislble, and predicted that their butchered victims would rise jup by thousands in judgment against tbem. WhiU ho did this -the JJemocrat8 listened, and some of hisi party hung their heads in. shame; but otliers not only applauded, but congratu lated him at tho close , of his outrageous, speech." . j . fife, dismiss tle topic with a higher admiration of the fortitude and no- biuty of our representatives than we have ever had before. laiiiein' his second speech, was very hard on isouth Carolina. This was his Second ' offence within a few daVs.: ; Senator Butler is reported as gtipgihim ( some t Vy ' plain talk. Thie correspondent of ; the State says of Butler: . ; ,.'v'. ' VHe said the dismissal it the case against one of the late - State fillers had ben dii cidfed upon months ago, sod bad frequent- if en advised try ninseir. e further Called at tent ioa to misst ft fements by Blaine and told him he was ia tlie habit of mak ingi statemeots without jegard to whether their were true Or net. f . , - : . .- . i . . i ........ evJ:$,rancis7M;. EDtscobai Chnrchi in ' aker, of the is 57lh vear. .dieli suddenly ia Richmond on " '256r-praJysis; 1 . ,r-: nil ' i' '"' " ' ' ; ' '-1--J- the The premiums a the next State Fair are to aggregate $ 4,100. MAT; 2. - 1 we are advised to caution our friends in Wilmington abu4 ellieVe'KgafaslWin- dlirig concera known 'tia Lawrence1 &s06?,' Bankers KxchkngbPlace.Newi Yoijkx Tey. send, out very plkU8ble5lei'cHlara.' inviUng. persops of saUrafiaast place.Mie sup plus, funds of from ten dollars and upward ia their keeping, and stalin&lhat with tb aggregate amount thus received they 'fe enabled 4 W -nifilpulaJilie' siai ie Lntakrivery hs&solMtians; Some;Seq Bntjewen tjfisjeijyvliaveenji ii9ejk Mn. ... ; r .i. . i . I i i.'.J.i it.;i 0S3 To TJ'JJItU H.Lil ut iwemyrnve uvuar8 to, the bogus concern, upon whttb "lie eced'twoainiiri swampect' tlie whole amount " Io other words, it w&at4fl4tho puohoto ot ooffer's of Iwrence & Qpi.Hufcei-j'Wia) are no f who was consulted' i eUe6tird tiouaces the firms set of swlndlersi iff II. 8. District joart. The following comprise the jaors for the approaching term of tbe United Slates District Court, Judge Brooks presiding. which convenes iu thiscity May 6th:. , ; ''New Hanover County. T. C. Mcll henny, John Maunder, Alfred Hargrave, James U. Caraway; 1 Balaam Puller, John A. Scarborough, Louis S. Belden, Thomas H. Johnson, . John H. Whiteman, S. W. Nobles, C. F. W. Bissinger, A, R. Black, Henry Ohlandt, H. M. Bishop. Brunswick County Peter Rouarks, J. S. Wescott, William Drew, C. W. Taylor, James C. Grimes, John W. Mintz, J. Dick son McRae, George W. Grisset. . .; ; Duplin County John Wj. Cox, Thomas S. Watson, Abner Faison, S. O. Middle- ton, Robert II. Brown, Silenus Cooper, Isaac B. Kelly, Thos. PerretL Tbe State Tax (or 1879. Our present revenue act levies on the one hundred dollars' valuation the following fax for the present year : For general purpo see, 12 cents; for Insane Asylum, etc., 6 cents; for Penitentiary, - 6 cents; total 24 cents. . The school tax levy, 8 cents,' re mains the same -as formerly. The levy for State purposes this year is 5 cents less oa the one hundred dollars' valuation than was levied for the year 1878. i Forney on Grant. ' Charleston Newe and' Courier. ' J. W. Forney, in his Editorial Notes in the last number. of his pa per, devotes seven successive, para' graphs to advertising Grant's claims for a third term. 'The very next ' un iuckv parasrapu reads use a com mentary upon all that precedes it, and is as follows: J "What gratifies me in the tTnited States, and startles me at the same time," says an Englishman, is that your people bear with rascals for a long time; and when these rascals are big with power, public opinion lets the gas out of them, and Ihey vanish at once and forever." ! The history of the fate of the ras cals who were developed under the, fostering care of Grant's two" terms, perhaps led the Englishman to make bis very sagacious observation, but what ever induced Forney to pat this and that together so blunderingly and suggestively ? Sir. Robeson Speech. . - , IWash. Special to Philadelphia Timea.iSs In the House ex-Secretary Robeson made the big speech of tbe day, and occupied nearly -the whole session, his time having been twice extended by unanimous consent. Robeson has taken his place .at the head of the Republicans in the House as a parti san orator. This is conceded on both sides of the hall. His speech to-day was more than two hours long, and he had the close attention of every body.' There was nothing but strong argument in his speech. It was, in fact, the speech of a lawyer His exposition of the Constitution, ac cording to some of the able members present, Was based upon the points of the famous speech' of Daniel Web ster in reply to John C. Calhoun, Carlisle Chalmers, Tucker, and many other prominent Democrats congratu lated Robeson when he finished, and scores or members gathered' around him to extend their compliments.!, j New Rule of tbe Supreme Charlotte Observer. Court. The So piwano- Omnrt - before ' ad' journment adopted seme modifica tions of the rules governing the prac tice therein, which are of special' ini terest to lawyers. ; The districts, are. to be called in their 'numerical order and one week fs to be given ' to each district, i -The "flrsi district is, how ever, not to be called till Wednesday of the first week. ' Monday andTuesr., aay oi tnat weeK are to do , given to the examination of applicants for license to practice law. - The call of cases at the epd of the docket : will begin with the tenth week., , Appeals frem any district not docketed be fore the end of the week set apart for such district will go oyer' to the next term, and i not, as now, to the, end of the docket. . 8 ' Mr. Darwin has been gratified .to learn that the, examining , surgeon, at : Agram, Austria, has found in a batch of recruits a young man "with a six-; Inch long prolobgation ;f the verier brB spinalis, in. shape t somewhat i an alogous to a two-year-old. pis'8 With a twist." The New York printer who took away the Philadelphia millionaire's daugh ter the other day says its the first "fat take" he ever got, on the square. doubt getting ript atryg Densteor thew fdupea in;the. Siiuth andvelsewnef& An edi idr "of oncbt thei'New; Y&k ''ae wspapers'; 1 j -rlFrom.hs.Sjyefcfein iL&Ma?&Wii Themeiber;. from i Michigan (Mr. Burro wslko say in his ssip'eech thai'kli the Bm'dcratioB me"'mi: hbertf eTe traitors im3 cCnsplt-ihg to LqyertuthFAhey Government; fil hope ipiujjiojse anaoniuspn Jjimsbeard him.., I. was a Union man in a section hire to be'such was not'the toad to oVernnienti;cotitvacts l6t fcoTitical fJ reiermBnt,but.en tailed poverty and the .. ,t sacrifice ,, of , uublio ... noshion. hen. shortlv. after, the memhor fjrSM Michigan asked the unanimous uacub-'ut vue nouse to i continue nls mTkB)beyond f his 'allotted time I i?cted, and: supported that. obieo-. ;ton Jby astatement that bno wjio bad indulged' in' "sucli language' was cot bibicu ttr me counesy 01 me uem oprat&iofith e-Hduie'orof the dountrv. li san4 fey wfe.afc J bTe ;said, and am; responsible for it1 here or ebsewhere. I Lmmt.l 'bot av that the !memoierirom"micargan ! was1 a lTar .or a i 'damned ; liar.' I have too hagh.a regard for personal and par liamentary amenities and decorum to ifdulge in such, language. The cor respondent who' wrote this was try ing to promote the2 member'from Michigan, and had not honor and "moral sense enough to! understand tpat he was placing that member in a more unen viable light (than he was mein the position of having been publicly . denounced as j a -"damned liar," and tamely submitting to it. I would rather have been the denouncer than the poltroon who would submit to it if it had occurred, i rLauehter.l j It perhaps would have! been better i the f ramers ... of the ; Constitution, had confided the selection of : mem bers of Congress to these correspon 'dents and to the owners bf the venal sheets . they ; represent than to ; the people; but as that has not been done these correspondents arid their em-, plovers must "accept. the ' situation." (daughter. ! ; j None of these correspondents have any personal motives to slander me; and if they have erred unintentionally-and are gentlemen. -they will make the amende. Bnt if tbe force of habit disables them from refrain ing from falsehood flaughter, or if they are required by their employers t6 lie, and their pay is graduated and increased according to the scale of their mendacity renewed laughter, it may become necessary, in order to protect the members and the respec table correspondents, and most -of them are gentlemen of culture, intel ligence and Veracity, that we should deny the privilege of the reporters' gallery 10 these hired political Hes sians and slanderers who have thus attacked the members of . this House; without regard to truth. Laughter and applause. : - i . Seuator Tbnrman'a Ancestry. !" -': IRaleigh News. ; Judge Thurman's mother was born, raised and married in Eastern North Carolina.; Her. father, Colonel Allen, was . born , in Bertie county. Her mothe,r nee Miss Gran berry, w as a daughter of Mr. Granberry, of Per quimans county. Hence Allen Gran berry Thurman of to-day. Miss Al len married Rev. Mr, Thurman, a Methodist'preacher, and a member of the -Virginia Conference. Subse-1 quently he was transferred to Lynch- i burg, where Allen G. Thurman was iborn. In the course of itinerancy he moved to Kentucky, and subsequent ly located permanently in: Ohio. It is Judge Thurman's in tention,we under stand, to take advantage of his visit to the State University this summer to visit the old homestead,now owned by Dr. Lewellyn Warren. Judge Thurman will find a - warm North Carolina welcome. ' : ' Grant .on ine Cae of Troop roll. at tbe ; ' ; New York Sun. The Republicans of Maryland, in I860,; foresaw defeat to; be inevitable at the then pending fall elections of that : year, f unless they could , bring about a state, of things that might create "a necessity for military inter ference 'upon which their last hope of success rested. President John son referred the matter j to General Grant, who 'reported on the' 24th of October, 1866, as follows:' "So far there seems to be merely a very bitter contest for ascendancy iu: the "State. JxLihtary interference would be inter preted as giving aid to one of the fac tions, .no matter how pure the inten tions pr. how guarded and just the in structions.; It is' a contingency I hope never to see arise in thra i country while I ccflDV the nosition of General-in- ;Cnief of the Army, to have s to , send troops to a btate in full relations with the General Government,! on the eve of: an election, to preserve' the peace.1 H 'i "DVS.Gb ant, General." .tare (or Drnukenneat. ' 1 j : IPhiladelphia -Press.1 : ' Drunkenness-in Sweden and Nor way is cured in the following man ner: The drunkard is put . in prison, and-his ;only, Nourishment, is bread soaked in wine. During tbe first day the prisoner receives the bread and wine with much pleasure. On the second day the food is not so accept able. iAf ter that he : takes hisi food with great repusnance. In general: eight or. ten days , of this treatment Suffices to produce such a disgust of liquor that the unhappy man is com pelled to absolute abstinence i After leaving tf prison, . his ldrunkenness -is radically cured, . with an j. occasional, exception,' and the odor of liquor pro- uuces an invincioie repulsion. Isifrbs1 Turpentine, King's Mountain has twa hotels and three churches. - A'ootored boVfeir into' & well )al Durham at eight. It was foitcnatfij but n leeraetn anu ne was not much Lurf. - At Moorehead "correspondent of e.Raleih News aavs tlip wlml nxiitTl.i m Ilhe 11th was the largest cxer caught n the iiuiiu varonna coast, anu auds: Hbe was ,'SiHy feet rong,' and the bone was eight feel , three inches long. The blubber was from eighteen to twenly-lhrce iuebes thick. -Taeysaved three thbusaod -six hundred ' ; afad seventy-eight and a half gallons of wfl, afad One thousand two hundred' and fifty five pounds of the wlmle-bone. which wn sld td.ay.m Mr: iTkomas Daniels,, of flewuern. al ihirty cents ne'r sallon lorihe 1 -and one dollar: ahd ten cents per pound fvr the bari& makinir tntnl f AAA nn Tjlifee haVe been, caught this veur. - - t . ... m . ' nil - ni i i iiicmoco mi va&uHie ouu ocuooi will Ke piace.un iliursay, ilay 22nd.i; Jaa Bpyd.-oft Graham,, $f. C, ,will . delivir d afaiiU'al address. TrUekine in ihe 't ek3trn nart of (he Hi djustry in a double , sense. , CVJ." Voihees. ae manager ofine' Southern Express',' ia ftrms us that Jastiweekhe m&decontracis I fr the delivery jn Northern cities of 5,000 r ousiici green peas, - vve Understand ial petnioB- u acirculaljou to open the bkrTrooms in fhis place. We don't think ht will tucceed. Botwithstandinc tho ' fet 4aV many .of our people are disj-ustd with tae lax manner iu which the law is en firced.-'; ' 5 - .;.....)' . ' w w m A 1 V V Sj a - ziD8 of Davidson College held a meeting ia that town on Tuesday last, for the pur pose of nominating ; candidates for ; town officers, to be elected the first Monday iu. May." "The old officers were unanimously renominated,' as follows: For Mayor, .YV. P. Williams; Cwnmit8ioers, F. J. Knox, Junes Allison, II. P. Helper, R. L. Query, aiid W. J. Martin. ; Within the last three weeks about fifteen negroes have been arrested in '-"Five Points" on the charge of vagrancy, and as many more have left that disreputable resort from fear of arrest on the same charge. Sere nadera are out every night now. The mid night air is literally laden with song. Fayetteville Gazette: Died, in this town, on Sunday last, at 3 P. M., Mar- snaii Jiiramoert, aner a lingering and pain ful illness. Rev. J. C. Iluske performed the funeral services, and his remains were escorted to the grave by a detachment of the La Fayette"" Light Infantry. On Saturday, May 10th, the Ladies' Memorial Association will appropriately celebrate the day set apart for tribute to our Confederate dead. Mr. R. T Gray, of Raleigh, will deliver the Memorial Address, and Rev. N. B. Cobb will act as Chaplain. . We have oeeri informed that, James Qiddens, of Clinton, Sampson county, a few days since, in an altercatiou with, his wife, beat her over the head with a club Or some Other blunt weapon, to such an .extent that her death is almost certain. i Charlotte Observer ; An empty beer keg, s on which Mr. John -1). Roberts MwwawwMa luuuiiJivi a U M. lJ j CSICI UBJ afternoon, tilted near the corner of Tryou and Fourth streets and threw him off the wagon.. One of his legs caught in the wheels and was broken between the ankle and, the knee. - Judge1 Kerr tele graphed the Sheriff of Gaolon county, yes terday, that bis physician would not con sent to his attempting to hold the Superior Court of thatcounty, which should; begin Association have .invited Colonel' J. P. lbomas, of the Caroliua Military Institute, tA rrniiDoii Iho vnamArSfll at)oDa n tka 1mt v uviiiut iug iuuiviiai ouuigoo ju tuc x vtLl of May, and the invitation has been accepts ed. Mr. Walter II. Page, of Wake county, is on the staff of the new Southern independent Democratic paper, Vie Age, Louisville, Ky. : Tarboro Southerner: . We re- trret to hear of tlii HAntli nf Mrs. Holla Cotton,, wife of Adolphus Cotton, Esq., in Baltimore, on Monday last. Mrs. Cotton was the , daughter of the late Judge Asa Biggs, -i B. F. Long, Esq.. of Hamil ton, informs us that the steamer L. O. Cannon is a total loss. Special Depu ties Duggan and Hardiaon, of Martin county, passed through this place on Mon day last with two colored nrtannern fnr tlip. State prison. According to appoint-. ment. Bishop Lyman preached -in Calvary Church, at this place, on Sunday last. - He administered the rite of confirmation to eight applicants, five white and three col ored. Richard Smith, colored, was brought down from. Whitakers. on Monday and lodged in jil. He was tried before Justice Hilliard, of Whitakers, on a charge of threatening to kill Maj. J. . M. Mayo of that place. Heis ia jail. - Raleigh Observer:. The 218th meeting of - Orange Presbytery convened yesterday at Eno Church, Orange county, six miles north of Hillsboro. This venera ble Church Court has some of . the ablest ministers in the State amonr its members. Sheriff W. J. Sutton, of Bladen coun ty, brought up Henry Corbett, a petty Iar- cenerv. to the penitentiary. ; D. F. Stevenson, Sheriff of Iredell, turned . over Dave Allison, colored, sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for stealing, and S. H. Taylor, Sheriff of Surry, put in John W. Banner for an attempted rape for five years. . Mrs. Mooa and Miss Painter continue to draw large crowds. A lit tle son of Mr. John E. Williams had his hand very badly mutilated at Ellington & Roystet's shop on Tuesday last.' He was playing with a rip-saw and came very near parting company with the bestpait of his hand.- Weldon News'. We ' learn that there will be a large meeting of negroes here on Saturday next to consult .and ar range for going to . Kansas, and two hun dred are said to be ready to eo. -3 We had the : pleasure - last week ' of r iding through and examining Col. J. B. Zollicof fer'a farm and Orchards. The Colonel has over twenty thousand trees, all in their prime, and it was a beautiful soene. - We are named to have to annannce tha death of Mr. Robert F. Nicholson, which sad event. occurred at the hotel, ia Qarys- hnriv nn lnat rThnrQiav mnrn inrr Mi 1SJ t cholson was the son of our townsman, Dr. S. Nicholson, and the junior member of the firm of Nicholson & Bro at Garysburg. Battleboro correspondent: B. Frank ' Pitt, who gave bail at the lastjterm of Nash Superior Court, has left for parts unknown. - 1 unier8iana tne sureties are trying to nnu hinu: He was charged with forging a draft on. Arrington & Sons, Petersburg. Virginia. ' u1 -: - - Farmer ' and Mechanic: U. S. Entomologist, Pref. C. V, ! Riley, is urging the adoption of silk raising not on a grand scale but by country families, as a "side issue" for the 'gude-wife' and children, and . instances the case of our townsman, Ed ward Fasnacb, 'who for several years has Deen snipping to irrance the cocoons reared by his family. He sends in -bales aver- Bgiug huuui lunjr puauus, siinea or cudkcu . vvv wuk va- nuiyu MMM uaa VVtBIUCU CB 14 IK U as f ou per pound net. ;The freight ; iiw JU.BIDCU1C9, f rauuo, ia uuijr fo per uwv. Ike South lOmtrated is tbe name selec ted for the Illustrated Magazine,' which is now being prepared by Mr. George ' H. vu(iiU aiowu uj xa 4-a juv vUBIU Jk Chatham. The ' prejeur" ieditidn "Wul be mainly devoted to North Carolina,' and will I contain wood cuts , of. all the principle , I'henm flBoiataii tr tf A 'U nkAtviM ' ; ouuaingi in ruieigu ana ouier . cities, to gether with the information most, needed by the Northern home seekers. ; Copies of wide through the agencies of the well ' known Boston Advertising firm.