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But, in saying this, we must look none tho less at the paramount question of availability who can be elected. Mere excellence of character, com bined with admirable abilities and large experience in public affairs, will not answer. He must also have a jeoord that cannot be so assailed as to prove a serious detriment to the mirHr "ho xnnntru Fn onnroA of og . . . : . . tLiio wisuuui, purity aim services oi Senator Thomas F, Bayard. J At this time he appears to be the most prom inent of all the gentlemen spoken of dVi K ..nmw.nf -t loon TU I tut 4uc uuiuiuatiuii iu ioou, lucru IB no man in America who has a nobler record, and whose life, public and pri vate, is purer. Bat., it is well enough - -1 io regaru one point in coivsiuenng nis claims in connection with the election in 1880. Can he bo elected ? Many believe he can that he is the man. The Stab confesses to great admiration for his exalted qualities .and virtues. But we are now talking-of elections of getting votes. Of course Bayard will suit the South. Any man of his un spotted life and with such just and iuoble sentiments would suit the true Ipeople of the South. But how about the North ? How about the doubtful "States? How about New York? It is .just here, then, that one point should be carefully considered. What the :Soulh likes, the North, tho doubtful Si!.l.H- mav nnt. lilro Thorn ia ika .w. . - 1. IITM I . 1. it ruo. vv in iney. rally strongly around the pure and excellent Senator from Delaware with his known liberality I e : - . j i-i , I i seuLiraeui aim Kinuness ot ieenng tor the South Would not the very .lilina ii.' RsitqtiI ,Kt ..r. J i wiuuicuu i tiim so soeciallv to the Southern in. pie prove a real source of weakness to him in New Jersey, in New York, in Indiana, in Connecticut, and else where in the North? That is tho point "well worth' considering. The Stau would be glad indeed to sup-1 pori mm. lsut. mat is not the ques tion. Would the people of New York and other -States be glad, to support him ? The Baltimore Bulletin, a, Dem ocratic paper of ability, has this to say of, Senator Bayard: "Were he to receive the Democratic nomination, as many of his friends and ad mirers hope he may, he would not bo able to win. He would have to overcome not ouly the extraordinary efforts which the Re- puoucan party win make to retain power, but he would be confronted with the ignorance. prejudice and hatred of the North. The crv would be raised that the Government was to be handed over to the old Have-holding States, and the gall and bitterness which charac terized the fratricidal contest of 1861-'5 would be excited to the utmost. Stolid ignoiance would be converted into fury and urne .sonabie prejudice into malignant hate. Notwithstanding all his, purity and worth, '1 hnmfta P. Kftvant wonlfl be overwhelm- iugly defeated were lie to-recelve the De- mocratic nomination. Therefore, in our lo nominate him." The Stab does not indorse this view. It does not say that he can- not be elected. But it copies the Bulletin's objection that our friends may consider the point suggested iu advance. If there is any thing in it, then it should be duly weighed, If Bayard's known attachment to a republican form of government such as our fathers instituted, and his just and liberal views towards the South, constitute a cause of weakness as a lllll VOL. XI. and examined in advance, i We be lieve him to be one of the truest and noblest men now on' earth a real Chevalier Bay aid, without (fear and without reproach. The point raised by the Bulletin is the only element r V w vv" r in connection with Bavard 8 candir I dacy. : I A STATESMAN'S VIEW. Whilst tens of thousands of the voters in the North are drifting out into the dark and boisterous sea of centralization, and . forever losing sight of the old lighthouses that stand along the shores of the Consti tution, there are others who believe in home rule and a government of liberty regulated by law. Of these is Senator Bayard. In a recent in terview he is reported by the Phihv j aeipnia Mimes as saying: "I am a great believer ia kcal self-go vernment. I think that it is the only con dition of the perpetuity of our Union. I do not believe this Union : can be success fully governed unless the people of each State are allowed to control their domestic affairs. That is the school of the American citizen local self-government." In the same interview he shows I how much absorbed the people of I the great State of New; York are in local politics to the exclusion of na tional. In that State of five million people, tho centre of commerce and wealth, there is very much to exer- cise ana attract tne interest ot us citizens. Said Mr. Bayard: "State affairs always override Federal affairs in New York, and the result is that the rest of U9, who are what you may call national men, men w no are members or small communities in which the national fpplinfr is alw&va overrulinc cannot judge of men and events to whom I such i considerations are seconoary in i nolitica. Therefore theV have in New I York their rings and cliques and their I intrigues, oi wuicu we &uuw duuuuk i and which control their action on Federal I affairs. New York is chiefly 1 affected by I I mm ft m.T . . mi 1HIS nine ui tuiuga sou ubiiuusi auiuo us ID tUrQ SHedCd DV rteW lOfK. inese local causes, which are the controll- ine influences in New York, and which we know nothing at all about, nave their enect UDon national affairs. The Federal theory is always subordinate to biateanairsiu tnai State thoroughly and btate affairs and the State interests govern." i John Kelly has declared against Bavard. He is -mad because the Delaware Senator declined an ova tion on his return from Europe at the hands of Tammany.! He means to have another candidate, and to that end has invited a dozen or twenty prominent Senators j and Kepresen- tatives to visit New York before they go to Washington, for the pur pose of consultation. The careful New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Zedgert on the 11th, writes: j "Among those -who ; have already re- ceived invitations are Senators McDonald of Indiana, Gordon of ; Georgia, Beck of I -rr . T1 J I 1 .1 r TL . lveniucKy, xianuoipa anu iixcxrueraou ui i New Jersev. Wade Hampton of South I Carolina, Congressmen Hill and btepbens I f xf,.f;7 i!i0. xriMrtn,s xT,rja I of Dlinois, and, in short; almost every man I who has any influence in either Mouse. I Mr. KeUv'sl professed motive in calling I upon these gentlemen lor counsel at i lhj lime is to elicit their prefer- ences as to the next ! Presidency, in oroer tnai nis own course may be truided in the best interests of the party at large. He has just demonstrated that he can command ou.uw voiea in iuib state, auu a8lnat 8 lbatcan be exercised to 'kill' Mr. Tilden or any other candidate WUICU IU WIUWIB IIIH .IMPIIOI i. jg matter of nresent importance to rore- cast as far as possible the feeling of the redUlU W6U V& WO fCMlJ UVW1UW - ,MW State.1 New York is absolutely necessary for Democratic success that is con ceded by all. Kelleyhas power that too is certain, lit is interesting, therefore, to know who I is his man. The Ledger's letter adds : . "The Tilden men are offering to wager that not one of the Democrats named will walk into the Tammany trap, but that, like Senator Bayard, they will in due time notify Mr. Kelly that they have no sympathy with. much leBS a desire to affiliate with, a fac tion which occupies the position of a rebel against regular nominations. That sort of contempt and inde pendence loet New York. Will it be tried again? 1 M r. Tilden will soon have an organ in Charleston to blow his claims. This is asserted on the - authority of the Evening democrat, which "has been requested to announce that at an early day after the Mayor's elec- tion the publication of a first class morning daily with sufficient capital I J . . to back it will be commenced in that city The new- dany wju 8up- port Samuel J. -Tilden for President, and Martin Witherspoon Gary for Governor of South Carolina." A ban- dred organs can never revolutionize publio sentiment. (As soon as people learn that a paper is started in any man's interest, they do not pay much attention to its advocacy of his claim8 1 18 ?aBt &B 11 8h e The Democrats may, gain a U. S. Senator in California; in plaoe of Booth, and lose ; one in Virginia in I plaoe of Withers. WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1879. DBinOCBATIG CHANCES-WHAT Is UKfllANDBD BT THK NORTH. The Boston Herald is classed as an Independent paper. . Generally its tone is friendly towards the South. It has the largest circulation of any New England paper, and its opinions have necessarily weight among its haif mm,oii readers. It ,. . . has been chances in uiaifaaiug me .ueinoorauc .1880, and some of its views deserve, to .be published in i the, South, that our people may know what the bet ter class of people in Massachusetts add other Eastern States think of the South in connection with die political situation. It says the woik of the extra session of Congress has been decided in favor of the Republicans. We quote: ,..-'( j "The issues raised by the Democrats have Helped to make a solid .North agamst a fetronger than the South, and is growing more rapidly. The. raising of such issues by the Democrats was,! therefore, a politi cal blunder, and the most sagacious Demo crats so understand it Even those who maintain that the Democratic position in the extra session was theoretically correct. acknowledge mat it was untimely, and, therefore, practically unwise.'; This is true, doubtless, but is it a should be cause for regret that it true? The issues were precisely those that would have ! commanded the hearty support of the Northern people at any time prior to the war, if it had been .possible for an occasion to arise when it would bei necessary to go back to first principles, and make a fight for their safety and perpetuity. Wheu the Democrats lose ground be cause they stand up in a pquare fight for fundamental principles, it only shows how sadly the Northern peo- pie nave departed iiom the old ways A t .i.:iu ' :ou .ywiuo jivuuiiuij ouuvauimoicu. The Herald says the result in New v i i i.f. L -rv . . ur" "aB me emocrais in a better position than they had any reason to expect. It then considers what the ohances are for their carry- ing New York in the iPresidential election. It says,! and it is well to consider the matter in the light pre sented by our Boston contemporary : ' "The Republicans of New York were not in their best mood this yearj We have al ready spoken of the bad! management which induced a large number of them to stay at home. Others voted the Democrat ic State ticket, which was : better, in the main, than the Repubhcan.l The chances, are in favor of New York going Republi can next year, on the same issues presented this year, provided that I neither party changes its attitude." I Whilst we do not accept the con clusions of the Herald, because the Democrats were split into hostile f ac tions, and, therefore, they did not poll by a great deal the voto they would have done if they had fought together from the start; we still ad- tMt tllM A VftS WU1W """" raa "V" lu w give the Republicans the best assur- ne vofnrv ancea of victory. The Herald thinks that unless there is a Change JNew xork will vote in 1880 for the Re- publican nominee. . Now comes the . . . , ,4 . , Part to which we would call special attention. The Merald says: 'A great majority of the! Northern peo ple Ao not desire to see any interference by he national (Government in the domestic affairs of the States, but there is a deep seated feeling among them that Northern exvxuzatwn ought to and must control tne na tional Government. It is that feeling which has reunited the stalwart and the liberal Republicans in a solid phalanx so that it is incorrectly supposed that the Republi cans are all stalwart this year and that feeling will give the Republicans control of the (Government next year, unless the De mocrats are wise enough to leave their un tenable position and give assurances which will satisfy at least I the independent voters and the most liberal Republicans." What can the Herald mean by the I Demoorats "leaving their untenable position ?" Does it mean that the Democrats must agree that the ju ror's test-oath is to remain forever that the soldiers may go to the polls and control elections that the doc trine of local self-government must be abandoned ? If it refers to these, is it true then that "their position" in the late session i was really "untena ble ?" The Demoorats mado a fight for the people. The Democrats did not starve the Government or com- I mit any overt acts of treason. They appealed to the Constitution for all I they did. And yet, we must allow I the Heraldw correct when it declares j that the aotion of the Democrats solidified the North. I i To our mind the Northern 1 this only shows that pe0ple are so resolved that "Northern I civilization, whatever that may mean, j and however burdened with woes, "ought and must control the National Government," that they are utterly indifferent to the restraints of the Constitution, utterly oblivious of all past political records, and are willing t0 overthrow the liberties of the whole people that the South may be ruled and oppressed. States Rights, in the opinion of the dominant North, is a crime against "Northern civili zation." The Herald is pleased to add : 'The Democrats themselves must present lnwuwawBaiiBB, oy iut.t . n. vu- I.I - I I' gress and by their National ticket, mat the Infill to AP f n A waw vtti M A O I IAtVP1 I OTttn1 I nTZZ SI flrfditato shau mfl vive." i . . .. The Herald, one of the best of its kind, in this talk shows precisely the condition of the Northern mind. The South, in no particular, and in no way has attempted to interfere in the least degree with "the results of the war," and the Herald cannot "specify to make good its empty charge. The South long ago accepted the situation in the utmost good faith. But is it a fact that the war so altered or so destroyed the Constitution that the teachings of that great instrument, in letter and spirit, are to be regarded no longer, and that any people or party who shall insist upon its limi tations and requirements being re garded shall be considered as flange- i -1 -J wkfoT the best treatises in orose an4 liar foaif capital cases fer trial; one, the case ous and as warring sjfatBst ilW'ii v .(ftsfwriiww.w.! fj,7:k . . . , . XNonnern civilization, wuica me Herald is also pleased to describe as "the fittest civilization?" Can this be true ? If not true, then what guaran tees must tho South give ot good be havior ? I The head and front of its offending is that it insists upon a strict construction of the Constitu tion of our fathers, and a return to the good old honest ways of the past in the administration of the govern ment. But it must give up all this must accept all that is meant by "Northern civilization" and, select a "national ticket" that shall represent "thn fit t oat rnviltTatirm " I wn ! n .t,: a tu- tt en, icaiiy. iuib id uaiUi xuc I South wishes to do right. The South ia rAt.riot.i and if it. trnnA fnllnw the I demands of the North and give the "nositiva aflanranna" rennired. it will I r - -j. , i have to nominate Grant for Presi dent and Ben Butler for Vice Presi dent, and make Ward Beecher Chap lain of the Senate. Garfield, Col fax, and a few other of the "Chris tian Statesmen" will have to be placed in the Cabinet, and with just such Foreign Ministers as Grant had before, we shall then have in office fit representatives of that "Northern civilization" that, according to the Herald, is "fittest" "to survive." EVUOPG EABL BBACONSFIELDS SPEECH. There is some prospect of another war in Europe. The millions of armed men may be needed before many months. How the nations will be arrayed we cannot undertake to say, but the probability is there will Vv a n -t ws-y f m An stwn 1 w A w t fr An A C V Alt 11 u0 a. F.v..j gDuCiai wai , begin. ; In the recent speeoh of Earl r c.i.j u t a r banquet, he gave expression to fears that peace might bo broken. Eogland, however, would endeavor to avert a gigantic struggle that was threaten- Tho "Nfiw Ynrle .Tnurnal " of Commerce says of the immense armies now ready for the work of destruction : "Not only the governments bat the peo pie themselves seem determined to keep up these great armies with a view to the ulti mate settlement by force of living national issues. ; The popular voice in Germany, France, Russia, Austria and Italy unmis Sffi J - rnn military forces. The Disarmament Con- a fruitless session of three hours. Great preparations had been made for the gather ing. Its projectors fondly thought that its deliberations would have a marked effect all over Europe. The Congress failed utterly because public opinion in all parts of Europe still justifies the governments of the various countries in not reducing but increasing and strengthening in every way their armies and navies." The speech of the British Premier, by the way, is meeting with pretty sharp criticism. His views concern- ing Ireland are deemed unwise and as calculated to inflame still more the people of that country. His reaffirma tion (that English influence must) make itself felt on the Continent is thought to be injudicious at this time. He is silent, however, as to the great, wide-spread agricultural distress, and this is noted as an adroit evasion of an important and pressing issue. It is well known that Beaoonsfield is the strenuous advocate of what is known as personal govern ment such as was the govern ment of the Stuarts and the Georges. Victoria, at the beginning of her be- nign reign, quietly waved that claim nrA oil Vvot- mir0 tV,0n (nr-trr and all through her more than forty years oi ruie buuo uevw aneuipicu to assert the rights exercised by her nrAnagn nr to p.mw thair at. r. r - - ------ -- ampies. ueaooneuem me earner advocate of what he calls "Impe- Tiitno Ti,.t ;.tA.av riumetLibertas. That is to say, he believes in an imperial Bystem ana personal government. All this awa- kens alarm in the conservative British mind, ana it is aimosc certain inai : , . , , . -kt , I uanai is easy oi accompuaumeui i. very i aie-aeeu iaav wno uau imaginary me. I uur street lamp EE?."1? Jl?" " """kS small cost, and that when completed it will After manv wise inauiries about her at dusk, and gets "u'c'- " r." TEr" not onlv afford thenvmeans ot Aransporta- " ".r ' "a t i;r u a hurry. Norcross' R'ff ZTTftTrl lion, but will likewise drain a vast body of " "- I Pany has disbanded, -11 Jjf f H-cs!iv(' ' !-:,; r. '.. ;. .. .... before two veara elapse Beaconefield I ! , , , a anA :,.f...m , ., n , r ; I .F-?jr k . I A L. . I luo uoiaiB -I power. . is - ceuevea ms speech will hasten that event. . Mr. Hinton Rowan Helper is a North Carolinian who made himsett; , . . 'L i... u: iti'Jii ; , , , . . J , ; , . ' I ry dook oetore tne war, and Dy nis "No . Tonne" hook after the war. Ho i I. - r , ',r3X!neituet;au a bill receipted be sent,' If it is now on a new and more commend-1 ig necessary to have the words, please re- able role. He is trying to build a, p double-track steel railway .from , a, point high up in North America to a.joi superior, coort-tue wea. Point far 80utb South America. lu wituwo su uuiutcii uFu, yuuu.u- ., uoue route bysteam from one end, or nearly so. Of our Continent to the end of the other Continent. An exchange 1 , . , .. , p ,f T says ne nas deposited nve uiousauu dollars, to be distributed in five prizes. . - - ... asked three prominent citizens of St. and they have oonsented ' to do so. Mr. Helper has talents and push, and he may yet accomplish something in the new field he proposes to operate in. - The idea is grand, to say the least. ; Gov. Vance, as our readers know, has been speaking in South Carolina I Tho Columbia Register does not ad- I m1r .tnmn.nnfltlrW and "wonld not 7 ;. I like to carry a bundle of anecdotes roond the coantry and PeddIe them "uw kv ,VB"ufi ouukuvot, - I knowledges Vance's power and says: I - , Tvery extordK public er. He does move vast assemblies of men thrill8 the popQlar heart at times with mas- terlv force and instinctive eloquence. -it : i:f;i ;t : tr and he may have their 'winnin' ways well developed. But he is something more he is a man of genius; he has that touch Of nature in him which makes him akin wun all men and their pursuits. Again, we be lieve, with all the ex-Governor's wit and humor and infinite drollery, he feels the high promptings of statesmanship. "We told you so." Grant is really in the field as a candidate for the Presidential nomination in 1880. This is what the Washington corres pondent of the Baltimore American, x i i- a ; ia otataA Republican, says, and it is stated upon the authority of "a confidential - letter" received in Washington "from a close friend of General Grant." We quote the significant part of the American's special: "The obiect of the writer of this letter, who is one of the principal managers of the third term 'boom, appears to be to re move in good season wnatever impression might exist among the admirers of General r a. m . 2 1 J a.. m lint Sam Grant that he is Indifferent to a re-election to the Presidency, and to infuse renewed I vieor into the urant movement, ine let- I greatest prudence and discretion, states 'VSJSZ I ican people, and that meanwhile it is ex- SSh. I tinn and will lose no onnortnnitv to en-' I . . - i . i ? . M nance nis pouucai lnieresw. , Referring to the vast bodies of land along the eastern shore of North Carolina that need to be reclaimed in order to make them valuable, the Ra leigh Observer says: "No one can gainsay what these citizens affirm, that the construction of the Duplin I .. . "Thev are movine in the matter in earn- est and are willing to contribute liberally of their private money, iney win neea nu muewuKuuiiuoowwi. "Convicts comine from these Kistero counties can do the work without its cost ine the State anything for their transporta tion. The convicts from the neighboring counties alone can do all that is needed." It is to the interest of the State at large to have the eastern lands drain ed as far as practicable, and to aid in opening up new water routes. What- ever contributes in developing a given section tends to increase the common resources. We join heartily vith our Raleigh contemporary in the follow ing hope and opinion: "We look forward to the lime when we shall have not only railroads, but canals and the best waeon roads wherever the con venience or the interests of our people shall require them. We have the labor in abundance; all that we need now is intelligent direction to put these North Carolina internal improve ments in the very best condition! ! The State, and every part of it, is interested in the matters. Rev. W. R. McNeer, of the M. E. Church, South, living at Laurel, Maryland is under a great coloud . . , , tt t and has left. He went to Washing- ton and returned bringing a box con- taininjr a live babv. Scandal ! fol . i J ioweu, auu uouepr xur kn0WD. He placed the box on his Dack steps, and the babe was after- bd, uu mo o waru8 taken in as a waif and kindly a . , , Cotton goods have had another ad i vance mnew jors. I LUC VCiV IWUGOt tauu TT a tutu mv.mw.m. I X A. 2. I I LUC lUCLUUCja Ul HJO ;i NO. 4. ! Useful Postal Information. 1 i 1 P""484 reguiauon uasueeu iow.kuuw for two monb- whlch is not weU known i.mong business men, or it would, be more. jgenerall y availed of. We.reftr to the fact that statements, bills, etc., can now be stamp. Thus the many monthly statements p,Thich re made out by wholesale and retail dwlers each month can be mailed for one cent, hut no writing other than . the legiti- m'& be. plaeeaopon the-itatewqu No such words as "please remifvcan be. nut" on the statements or bills, tiiey can ;be j printed as part of the heading. Our Lumberton correspondent; A. B. c; gTeg U8 some items connected with the Hu- Jjperior Court, Judge Seymour presiding, j which nvened on Wednesday last. Basi- ne8a on the State docket 13 progressing sa- tMactoriiy and a number of cases have ; Qq disposed of. On Monday the jail had twenty boarders, nearly all colored. There of Jim Currie, colored, near St. Paul's, came up on Friday, and a verdict of not guilty was returned. Yesterday the case of the State vs. Peter Leach, "colored, for the murder of Sam Townsend, was to be tried, and to-morrow (Monday) the some what noted case of the State vs. Amelia Linklaw is set for trial and a venire of two hundred and fifty good and lawful men ordered to be summoned. This case, our correspondent says, will create quite a sen sation. Our correspondent adds: "The weather is the warmest and driest ever Know9 nere m ovemoer, wnn a nmanoAt truau nf rnin TCiioinaoa triia1 fall hb been quiUs ,afge 8atisfactory to! the merchants, who have had to add largely to iubh 1011 tyuiuaocs, auu iuo njjuiuu unto! stores and cotton has had a good ettect Old Times. In an article in the last Raleigh Christian that was held in Camden, S. C, commen-i cing December S4tb, 181s, and ending January 1st, 1819. The Conference bounds then reached from Upper French Broad, in North Carolina, to Southern Georgia, and from Wilmington, N. C, to the Alcovi river, in Georgia, was divided into seven Presiding Elder's districts, each district embracing about seven appointments, with forty-eight stations and circuits in; all. Among the appointments was W. M. Ken nedy, to Wilmington, N. C. Not one of the seventy-eight ministers who then re ceived appointments is now living, i The Kev. W.M.Kennedy alluded to was the I husband of Mrs. Catharine G. Kennedy, I WQO 13 Bu living, ana, as jrresiaem oi me Ladieg, Benevofe'Dt gj devoting her I energies to the noble and self-sacrificing I a. i Tf-v - m l work of providincrfor the poor and destitute in our midst. He was also the rather ot the present Mrs. Dr. A. J. DeRosett, of this city. Robbery of a Farmer. Mr. Thomas Mashburn, residing below this city, was robbed on Friday last of about sixty dollars, mostly in silver. It seems that a well known youth of this city,' by the name of Antone Swarn, had been stopping at bis house for the two days pre vious. On Friday, about 12 o'clock, he (Mr. M.) went into the woods after a load of hghtwood, and, upon returning, found that bis trunk was missing, and also di&- I covered the boy hurrying off with a small bagin hishand. Mashburathen com I menced a search for the trunk and finally I A.v,t i t !h li i o ttrtfv nan Kiir.oI llnrfnr fTm i f". """.2- : . sixaw: auu ilia muiicy liuuc. ja.e uicu xur lowed after Swarn. but failed to overtake him. It has been ascertained since that the boy was spending money quite ! freely in this city Friday night. The loss is quite a severe one to Mr. Mashburn, who is a hard-working farmer. A Capital Prescription. A rather eccentric, vet eminent physician was called to attend a mid- I Si a i-a i- : :n I down the folio win 2 prescription : I D) something fob somebody." He hftr,ded ; to the Datient and left. ,. , . , , . i, : f .v "wr ueaiu uuiumg lady for a long time. On Christmas mormnsr he was hastily summoned to the cottage of her Irish washerwo- man. "It s not meseli, doctor, it s me wrist that's ailing. Ye see, I was afther goin' out into the black dark ness for a few bits of wood, when me foot struck this basket. It stood there, like a big mercy, as it was, full of soft flannel from Mrs. walker. She towld me that your medicine cured her. doctor. So. if vou plaze to nnt a little of that same on me wrist, I'll be none the worse tor me s - - nice present. "lt is a powerful remedy," said the Jnftnr nravelr. And morA than once, in alter years,, no wrote tne prescription : "do something fob somebody." SOUTHERN ITEMS. Col. E. Richardson, of Jackson, Miss., has given $2,000 for tho improve ment of the cemetery in that city. Increased attention is being given to the fish culture in Virginia. There are now three batching houses in the State, gouth alone has raised this year 600,000,000 pounds - of tobacco, which is about 12,000,000 more than she ever raised before. Jn homkQ cmnty Ark last week. a ouarrel between McArmstrone. Just ce of the Peace, and Pink Saunders, resulted in the shooting of the latter. Death occurred instantiy. james h. Mitchell, of Hancock, S. C, made this year on a two mule farm - SSTVSgST-iC i apuomer iarm prouucis in proportion tine. MV. Willy 'Taylojy' of Oxford, while hunting, accidentally ?iot bimspif in his left arm. Salem Iresa: Bishop Ljnian preached two excellent sermouf i - S Paul's (JhaoeLon Sunday .and Hilministtud , baptism to- one aid confirmed fw'u i, ciu!i- dater. . . - The last Charlotte sensation is i a negro whose ion gun was paruljzcd be- 1 cause he brushed his Ix ol? en ruuuny. j Speech occasionally returns, wheu lie tt lla of visions. That darkey means busini'Eo. I'armer and Mechanio : A meet to organize a State Lumber Dealers' As sociation has been called to meet in liuleipli on tne autn lust, lue call is sigDed hj number of prominent saw-mill owners, mul the paper named Bays it naeaus Easiness. Oxford Jfree Lance: The Raleigh & Gaston Railroad will pass for three cent: a mile each way persons attending the Me thodist Conference at Wilson, 6u Decem ber 3d. The Baptist State Convention contributed $115 91 to the Oxford Orphan Asylum. - . v Weidon JSews: Captain J, 51, Grizzard, of Halifax, had his gin house, about six bales of cotton and several bushels of cotton seed destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. When the builcung took tire hu was ginning cotton and It'ilr thought that was no insurance. . Kinston 'journal: The "exodus" move seems to be' for Indiana, instead of Kansas.- The exoditca sent Peter Wiftiams and Sam Perry to examine the situation iu Kansas. On reaching Indianapolis and finding wages higher and friends abundant, they returned, tmd are now making ready t&ttep'&rt from this "land of bondage" with a aombet t WW prethroB. f , ,w Raleigh Jxeics: I he eighty-first volume of the "North Carolina Reports" is out. The cott'n gm and storehouse of. Mr.W.T. Doss,eU, ileadley'pMills.Chatham county, were burned last Tuesday. Most of the goods in the istore were saved. Clayton item: The revival at the Methodist Church closed Sunday night. More than twenty persons professed during the meet- ... ... ritsboro liecora: Mr. VYilhaia Fikej of this county, died last week. Ilo was nearly eighty years old. Only a few weeks ago a younger brother, Elijah Fike, died, eged abont seventy years. In this family were seven brothers and two sister?, the youngest being about sixty years old. and all nine being alive until the death of Elijah. Think of n-iae brothers and sis ters all living, and tne youngest being sixty jearsold ! JNew iserne ju&uacrat: we have heard with much regret &f the death of Mr. James H. Pool, who died ,at his home in Beaufort, N. C, on the evening of the 12th mst. Mr. Pool was long a resi dent of this city, where he had many warm personal friends; he was a warm hearted, kind, generoul gentleman, and was the life of the social circle. Mr. Pool removed sometime since to Beaufort, where he edited the Atlantic. Tarboro Southerner: On the 26th of December a fine programme is offered for the enjoyment of visitors. There will be glass ball shooting, hurdle races, trotting races for gentlemen's buggy horses, mile daBh for gentlemen riders, trotting sweep stakes, open to the world; gentlemen's sweepstakes, Welter weight, three-fourth mile beat, and quarter mile races. On Saturday night last the gin house and a large Jot of cbtton, tho property of John II. Harris, hying about nve miles ironi itocky Mount, in Sash county, were burned. No insurance, and the cause is unknown. Cotton is nearly all picked and the crop in Edgecombe is at least 20 per cent, short. A pink wart adorned her fairy nose, Her brow was burnt with taa But her dad had piles of stamps yxu see, And now she owns her man. The business end of a torpid yellow jacket reminds a fellow in Cokey township that all wasn't gold that giitterea. Everything has gone up exeept the price of newspapers. Drought is killing tur nips and greens in gardens. They say what Judge Buxton don't know about being the Republican candidate for Gov ernor next year isn't worth considering. We learn that up to Monday there" had been shipped, per rail, from this point, 5,827 bales of cotton. This is an average of twelve hundred bales per week since the season fairly commenced . Greensboro Patriot: Since our last issue more Texas emigrants have gone on to join those reported by us last week. A lengthy report of the big tournament last week, in Reidsville, appears in the limes. The first was $25 in gold; second $15, third $10, and the fourth $5. John Stokes won the first prize, Lee Millner the second, J. J. Verser the third, and Hugh Williams the fourth. Torch light pre cession Friday night, in the interest of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad. -Friday, October 31st, the force of con victs employed to work on the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad, were trans ported, bag and baggage, pick and shovel, from the stockade here, to a point on the road about five miles from town, where a new stockade has been erected I . . i lighter bounces a mule around to all the lamps in Fifth Avenue Com- and last Saturday night troupe passed tbiough Greensboro on their way home. A little boy at Jamestown had his hands blown all to pieces, Sunday, by the explo sion of a dynamite cartridge which he was hnnHlinir T)r T?. TT. fJrecorv and I. j p. Davis have put their heads together and I made an improvement in the steam engine which practical engineers pronounce tiio best improvement that has been made in twenty-five years. Charlotte Observer: In tho Superior Court of Robeson county, in ses sion this week at Lumberton, Judge Sey mour presiding, the case of Miss Linkhaw, for the murder of Ed Hartman, will come up for trial. The Wilkesboro Index advertises for a printer who is temperate in entinir na wp.ll A3 rlrinfcinrr nnil to whom I money is no consideration. It is like- I lv that a telegraph line will be constructed from Hendersonville to Spartanburg, along I four citizens went down to Columbia yee- I terday for the purpose of trying to make arrangements with the owners of race horses there to bring them to Charlotte to enter races which it is proposed to have on the Fair Grounds' track1 about the last of the present month. After ' collecting all dues and paying all debts, the ladies of the Catholic Church find that they have $700 as the proceeds of their fair of week before last. J This is a very handsome sum. The Home and Hospital is an institution the . beneficent objects and accomplishments of which are, we apprehend, not fully appre ciated by the majority of our people. We learn from an official source that in the past ten months the Home has had eleven patients two women and nine men and boys for au aggregate number of 324 days, and has furnished nearly 1,000 meals besides the necessary medicines and nurs ing. A negro fell fifteen feet from a wagon load of cotton (twelve bales) Wed nesday afternoon, and struck square on his head, on the Trade street hill. Hurt him ? Of course not; he scrambled up, smiled, and went on about his business as if nothing had happened. It is reported that Gen. McRae, a railroad man well known in this State, and a native of it, by the way, has resigned the superintendency of the Georgia Railroad. . . r Spirits Tarpon t.