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THE IRISH QUESTION.
The Irish disturbances are assum
ing a threatening aspect and promise
to become of the utmost importance.
The present Cabinet appear to be un
fortunate. The wars in which Bea
consfield has engaged are extremely
costly, and not very popular. The
spread suffering and loss throughout
TCnoflanrl anrl Smit.lanrl Th shnrt.
o .
crops necessitate the expenditure of
over fifty million dollars in the pur
chase of foreign cereals with which
to feed the people; and now the Irish
land question, with all of its porten
tous' issues, rises up to disturb the
government and to arouse the atten
tion, of the world.
England is responsible for no little
of the embarrassing condition of af
fairs in Ireland. That naturally
very beautiful island has been badly
'governed much of the time for the
last two hundred years, and the
troubles now threatening so seriously
are resultants of chronic discontents
growmgj.out of persistent injustice
and protracted bad legislation. We
. do not. purpose entering ' at large
upon any discussion of the difficult
problem the Government will now
have to solve. We have not the
necessary information to intelligently
treat such a subject. But : we are
permitted to refer to discontents that
are threatening to precipitate a revo
lution, and may bring untold misery
upon tens of thousands. ; It is known
to all who are in the least informed as
to the condition of Ireland and the
character of British legislation, that
Ireland has always been treated in a
way to increase dissatisfaction and
intensify the long nourished antagon
isms prevailing among ! Irishmen to
British role. As the Philadelphia
Press truly says: ,i
"British legislation respecting them has
been for several generations repressive and
arbitrary. Ireland, an integral part of the
uiiviuuximinc, una uu ucuieu us propor
tionate share of political power and control.
Special disabilities of a civil character have
been put upon its people. These disabili
ties have been equally applied to matters of
Slate and to matters of Church legislation,
and, indeed, to the subject in every relation
of life.
"Under the late Ministry of Gladstone
the iSnglisn Government bad the intelli
gence and Integrity to disestablish the
English Church in Ireland an act which,
by the apprehensions which it excited in
otaer parts of the KiBgdom, was a patent
element in the overthrow of the Liberal
parly. .Valuable as this step was in the di
it'Ction of simple justice, it was more valu
able as an indication of oiber remedial
legislation which might be expected, to
follow; but in the reaction which swept
nway the Gladstone Ministry hope of other
amelioration vanished."
Injustice the world over provokes
alienation and bitterness of nassion.
. Whenever a people feel that their
government is oppressive and une
qual there must follow discontent,
disgust and a spirit of resistance.
The present agitation in Ireland
grows out of a threatened eviction of
the tens of thousands of tenants. The
agitators the wisest aud most pro
dent of them do not appear to
sire or court any outbreaks,
it to
eek a redress of crleauce8-foy brings
s . i i .u t:.:u r-..czl I
lug tu uear uuou tuc jjuwsu uruveru
ment an overwhelming pressure of
publio opinion which they cannot
withstand. Bat it isto-be feared that
open hostilities will follow in spite of
good counsel. The Irish are brave
and excitable, and they have long
nurtured their wrath. To quote again
from the Press :
"Oppressed at home, driven into exile,
embittered against law, which has rarely
been their shield, and oppressed by autho
rity, which has nence become a symbol of
tyranny, they readily sink a sense of duty
in a desire for revenge which is often in
discriminate and always destructive. The
leaders in the present movement have
shown skill and a shrewd iudement of their
relations to the Government, and by pru-
fim .
1 WE
VOL. XI.
dence have conciliatedj instead of by rash
ness alienated sympathy. And it is no doubt
the deliberate judgment of all intelligent
classes everywhere that the Irish people
have a tight to claim, on the issues between
the masses of them and the. Ministry and
people of England, tbat those principles
Shall be applied which obtain in all civilized
countries, and that their tenantry are en
titled to protection in their labor, to gen
erous legislation for their educational inte
rests and to the fostering aid of Govern
ment in the improvement of their condi
tion." !
TOOMBS GRANT AND GEORGIA
POLITICS.
H. W. Grady, the Atlanta, Ga.,
correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times, furnishes a Jong letter con
cerning Gen. Bob Toombs. As the
Georgian just now is attracting so
much of the attention of the North
em people, and specially of the Stal
wart organs, we must gather a few
salient points for the, delectation of
our "numerous readers." First then,
the old General recently went to a
newspaper office at Atlanta "looking
for a reporter who had asserted that
he was blind drunk when he sent the
dispatch. He carried a knife with
which he announced himself ready
and anxious to slit oh! the ears of the
offending journalist. No sane man
will believe that General Toombs
represents any part I ot the Southern
people. He does not pretend to do
so.' He has no political ambition and
is not a candidate, for Governor, as
has been announced." He says
frankly he is for Grant and the Em
pire. He believes it is inevitable,
and says:
"When the North by the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments, injected 500,000
savages into the belly of the Constitution
iney made popular government impossible.
Grant is a man of power! Alex. Stephens
thinks he is the greatest man, probably, in
public life to day. I like him well enough
myself. A d d sight better than I do anv
of his crowd. He has to a pre-eminent de
gree what will command the irresolution of
these times. And that is a dauntless cour
age." As lor the Democratic candidate
he thinks Bayard is the only man
who can possibly save the country.
Here is bis opinion of him and his
ancestors: i
"He comes of the purest and bravest
strain of blood that ever flowed through
American veins. If be has the nerve of the
old Bayard who turned his back on Burr
and his party because he said Burr had led
the party where no clean-handed gentleman
could follow it, he will do. I suspect the
blood is not losing its temper. Tom Bayard's
father gave as s faint of the. old spirit when
he left the Senate in 1860 because he would
not swear that be did' not sympathize with
the South. But if Grant wants the Pre
sidency, and I think be does, it will require
a man that- can meet! the lightning open
eyed to stay his steps to the White House.'
Once in there, you might as well try to tear
the lightning from its seat in the clouds as
to get him out. But let it come. Grant
and the Empire. That is the prophecy of
an unrepentant re Del
Well may Mr.
Grady say that
Toombs "represents no part of the
Southern people." It is well too that
the old blower makes no pretension
of doing so. Mr. Grady thinks
Bayard is the favorite of the South
and by a great odds. That depends,
we apprehend, upon the course Sey
mour will take. If he does nothing to
stay the tide how setting in his
favor with an irresistible momentum,
he will be nominated. Of the Grant
movement in Georgia among Demo
crats, Mr. Grady has this to say:
"As strange as it may seem, there are
many Democrats who think that the South
should make no party nomination, but
should take Grant, aa they tried to take
Greeley. Among the business men this
feeling is quite strong and may result in a
sweeping revolution. If Mr. Stephens were
I to take position for Grant and it is said
that this is not impossible and hardly im
probable and Grant were to plant himself
on a non-partisan, non-sectional platform,
he would certainly break the solid South
unless, indeed, be carried it solid, as Gree-
icy enure very near oing."
We do not believe that this is true
and by "a long shot." In North Car
olina the Grant boom among Demo
crats is so small yon must have Lord
Ross's telescope to discover it. The
very fact that the South for the sake
of peaoo and reconciliation supported
Horace Greeley and failed in their
end, has forever prevented any such
sacrifice again. The wounds will have
to be healed in some other way. If
Horatio Seymour is the candidate of
the Democratic party we believe
that he will be elected and that too
"by a large majority," Grant or no
.Grant.
The New York Herald thinks it
not improbable that the Stalwarts
will attempt to strangle Grant, now
that he talks so pacifically and shows
signs of friendship for the South. The
Stab thought and said as much. The
Herald says:
"Since General Grant's return home his
expressions toward the South have been so
kind and considerate as to excite the dis
trust of the Stalwarts.' Thofe who have
been loudest in getting up the Northern
boom may cease to think him a desirable
candidate. The friends of Sherman and of
Blaine will not be idle in such a conjunc
ture, and they have a common interest in.
running Grant off the track. Stalwartisoi
is becoming inconsistent with Gen. Grant' is
candidacy, and the Stalwart feeling h as
been too thoroughly aroused in the party to
be easily abandoned." v
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY DECEMBER 5. 1879.
thanksgiving.
On Thursday last a large congre-
gation assembled m the Baptist
Church to join in a general thanks
giving to Almighty God for His mer
cies and blessings. The sermon was
preached by Rev. E. A. Yates, pastor
of Front j Street Methodist Church,
and it was exceptionally appropriate
and interesting. Without puffery we 1
most here record our judgment of the I
effort. It was animpressive discourse
from beginning to end. There was
euough of unction and ardor to give
force and edge to the body of the re-
flections, whilst here and there were J
passages of real pathos and thoughts i
of singular felicity and sweetness.
The sermon contained several happy
illustrations that were touching, and
one the block of marble and the
plastic hand of Michael Angelo was
managed with exceeding skill, and in
its beauty almost bordered on the
poetic. The discourse was thorough-
y practical as well as intellectual, I
and no ordinarily sensible person
could listen without understanding,
and being morally, if not "spiritually,
improved. The entire services were I
in good taste, and were solemn and
impressive.
There is something decorous and
becoming in such an assembly. Why
should not the whole people meet I
once a year in the sanctuaries of I
Jehovah to worship Him, and praise I
and magnify His name for all the
blessings and benefactions which He I
has so graciously and generously and I
mercifully bestowed upon them ? I
Why should not all hearts be grate-1
ul unto the Giver of every good and I
every perfect gift for all His con- I
tinued benefits? Let ns consider to-1
day for many who will see this did
not join in the worship on Thanks-
giving Day what we should thank
Almighty God for. Of course we I
can only touch the points without I
elaboration. I
We should thank : God for our I
being that we have life, and that
the soul is immortal. We should
thank Ilim that we have a way of
c u I.: c : a 1
esuapo iiuiu iuc peuaiues ui biu auu i
transgression- that Jesus Christ, the
God-Man of the Soriptures, the In
earn ate Son of God, is the Saviour of
all sinners who believe in Him,' who
trust unfeignedly in Him for redemp
tion and pardon, for He is the way,
the truth and the life. We should
thank God for the Bible to be a lamp
unto our feet and a light unto our
path. We should thank Him for the
preached Word, for a faithful and
consecrated ministry to proclaim the
unsearchable riches and the glorious
Gospel of the Son of God. We all
need warning and entreaty, guidance
and incentives continually; we need
day by day to have line upon line and
precept upon precept; we need help
and strength and hope and wisdom,
Leaving these topics that belong more
to a religious than to a secular paper,
let us consider a few points that con
cern us more as communities, as citi
zens of this Commonwealth.
We should be thankful for the aga
in which we live, for it is one of as
tounding and unprecedented pro
gress, in which new foroes and activ
ities are in motion. It is an age of
unparalleled energy and enterprise
and ingenuity. The very sinews of
activity are being strained to the ut
most to give momentum to the car
of moral, intellectual and material
progress.
We should be thaukful for our
country, and especially for the physi
cal character of our Southland. It
is a goodly heritage. In this State
of ours the God ol nature has Bpread
onftor the enjoycaent of our people
a magnificent domain, admirably
diversified with broad savannas,
towering mountains tbat look eter
nal, and the majestic rivers. Na-
ture has done muoh, man but little.
. .1 f 1 ' ! . t I
yet me variety oi son, me weaun
of mines, the vast water power, tne
rich productions of our virgin forests
have been but little utilized Or devel
oped. We should be thankful for the
character of our people as oompared
wi'ih other peoples. The people of
th e South are mostly a rural people,
with those habits of life and princi
ples of cond not that belong to that
class. The corruptions and vioes of
the large cities are not widely dis
seminated amongst us. The blasting
isms, the noxious poisons of sooiety,
blighting as with the kiss of death
the flowers of virtue and morality,
find nothing congenial in the simple
tastes and habits of our oouutry
people. In no other country, is there
suoh a high regard paid to woman as
in the maligned South. We believe.
too, that it may be truthfully affirmed
that here there is a greater reverence
for things sacred than elsewhere. In
no other land is the marriage relation
maintained m such purity as here.
We should be very thankful for
our religious ! freedom. No man is
prevented from espousing any reli-
gious opinions he may elect; nor is
he restrained from their free advoca-
cy so long a3 he does not become a
propagandist of revolutionary or in
cendiary dogmas and principles. It
is impossible to overestimate the im-
portance and privilege of this freedom 1
from all civil disabilitiesthe right
to enjoy our religious convictions
without fear of molestation. When-
ever religion is controlled by legal I
enactments then there is inevitable
decline in its purity and power, and
thus it becomes assimilated in charac-
ter and form to human governments.
We should be thankful because the
people of the South both understand
and love the true principles of a re-
publioan form of government. Our
I w
people know at what a saorifice of
blood and treasure our civil freedom
was obtained. They remember the
oenturies of blood and convulsion
through which our ancestors passed
betore the guerdon of liberty was
wrested from the strong hand of
tyranny. They know how Sydney
and Russell fell before the execution-
er's axe in behalf of human society
and its rights. They remember how
in halls of stormy debate and in secret
conclaves the effort was made to
strangle liberty forever. They know
how muoh it has cost already on this
continent to first gain and then to
preserve our liberty. Knowing these
things our people are true to consti-
tutional liberty, and will cleave to it
as a mother cleaves to her first-born
through peril and storm. They who
obeyed its voice and followed it with
steady courage and indomitable will
and burning enthusiasm amid fields
of carnage and death, will bs true to
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iw ucuiauun auiiu Boeuw ui uietuuc i
and peace. , ... . ..
We should be thankful that our
whole people are at peace. Our
people, alas ! know what war means.
There is not one scene in the tragio
drama that our people need to learn.
But we have peaoe now. As Herodo
tus Bays, no longer the old bury the
young, but the young bury the old,
and the "rude clash of .hostile arms"
hat yielded to the dulcet piping notes
of peace. Let us see to it tbat peaoe
is preserved.
Then we should be thankful for
tha large measure of health that our
people have enjoyed. We are blessed
with length of days, and we
should be grateful, for it is ap-
pointed uuto man once to die.
We should thank God also because
of the bountiful crops. How easily
He could send the blighting drought,
and could make the heavens brass !
How easily could he fill the whole
land with leanness and famine, so that
strong men should wax faint and our
homes should beoome only charnel
houses of mortality. But God has
not scourged us with suoh terrors.
Ris munificent and merciful hand has
been Btretched out to feed us. He
has caused the fig tree to blossom,
the vines to bring forth their wonted
fruit, the labor of the olives to be
productive, the fields to yield their
meat, the flocks to be increased, and
herds to still stand in the stalls. How
gladsome the heart, and how grate
ful it should be ! Prosperous crops
are really the source of great domes
tic comfort. What a vast impetus
do they give to every department of
industry! How commerce whitens
the seas, and the maohinery of fac-
tones clatter day and night, making
the air glad! How the busy haunts
of meQ are made ioound with
the
noUe of lhriftI How the
great,
na-
tional arteries of wealth swell under
their magic touch! How even the
very morals of the people assume a
higher and more hopeful tone!
In all we have said, and we could
add much more if we had time and
space, we see God's faithfulness,
truthfulness, power, goodness and
wisdom. These lessons teach men to
be obedient to God's law, to reve
rence and adore their Maker, and to
join in swelling the universal chorus
of thanksgiving and praise.
It is now estimated that at least
three hundred thousand feet of lumber were
destroyed by the late fire at Messrs. Col
ville & Co.'s mill.
fcOinrnRKN slanderers in Eng
land. The Northern fanatics have sent
agents to England to raise money to
further the schemes for depopulating
the South. Not content with "firing
the Northern heart," with deluding
the negroes with promises the most
barren and deceptive, and with scat
tering broadcast their lying, slander
ous attacks upon the people of ( the
South, they have gone over the great
deep in search of "pastures new."
According to these precious liars the
condition of the freedmeu in the.
South now is incomparably more des i
npirat.fi than it was in the darkest davs I
of slavery. They are simply endea
voring to create public sentiment and
arouse public sympathy by the most
blood-curdjing tales of brutality, suf-
fering crime and persecutions. Tour-i J
gee, with all of his ability and skill
and venom, has not been able to con
coct anything as absolutely terj-ific as
some of those monstrous lies that are
now circulating in the North and in
Great Britain. The Southern people
are a race of monsters, and ought to
be exterminated. Such must be the
conclusion of all the credulous people
who swallow down the erroneous
falsehoods and highly colored narra
tives of suffering that are read by
them with such gusto and horror.
There is a vast deal of oruelty and
baseness in all this. Not only does it
wrong the colored people who are
the victims, but it wrongs the people
of the South who are thus grossly
traduced and lied against. It also
wrongs the people ,who lend their
itching ears to such monstrous and
horried stories that are wholly un
verified, and are really without any
foundation in fact.
The New York Journal of Com
merce, in calling attention to the ex
aggerations and utter unreliableness
of such stories as are being circulated
by the lying societies and unscrupu
lous emissaries, reminds these fellow
of one fact. It says:
"When this migration began, weremem
ber that it was not accounted for in any
such way. It was then explained as the
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oimnla MBnlt mf m flornntiAn Q ftufifl fin T h ft
poor negroes by designing woiie men ot
Kansas who wanted to merease the work"
inz and voting population out there.
These persons made the negroes believe
that they could get plenty of easy work at
high wages and lands and mules thrown in;
and those temptations alone induced mem
to Quit Mississippi and other Southern
States. At that time there was little if any
talk about the 'inhuman treatment' of the
ex-slaves bv the ex-masters. That was an
afterthought for which the politicians
found good use in the elections approach
ing.
It then gives some specimens ofjthe
lies that are published in the London
Times by a scoundrel who is in that
citv endeavoring to raise an "emi
grant aid fund for the f reedmen."
We can only copy one of these speci
men lies. The Journal of Commerce
says: .
"He mentions the following facts on the
authority of a letter he had received from
Kansas from a lady whose name and place
of residence in that Stale he does not give.
This lady Bays that a colored man who had
emigrated to Kansas at the beginning of the
exodus, went back to Mississippi for his
wife and children, wnen ne was seizea,
dragged from the house and both of his
hands eut off.' Nevertheless he returned
to Kansas with his wife and children, and
Englishmen are now asked to give money for
his aid a deserving case truly, if a genuine
one, but why this total abstinence from
names, dates and places ?"
Rev. Dr. Deems, in Sunday Maga
zine for December, has a long edito
rial headed "A Century Old." The
purpose of the article is to establish
the fact that Mrs. Efiie Barmore had
I recently attained to her hundredth
year. The Doctor says his reason for
preparing the proof is because "it had
lately been repeatedly asserted in
English periodicals tbat there is no
well authenticated case of a person
who had attained the age of one hun
dred years." He knows one instance,
and after reading his proofs we in
cline to the opinion that he makes
good his case. But the registry of
birth and baptism was found in the
reoords of the Dutch Reformed
church at Clarkstown, N. Y. We
I havfi never doubted that now and
then there is a genuine centenarian,
but they are very rare. We never
believe any reported case unless
trustworthy records are forthcoming,
Rev. Dr. C. K. Marshall,of Mississ
ippi,says the people of that State now
favor the negro exodus,and for two
reasons: first, they demoralize poli
tics, and, secondly, they are not! as
cood laborers as the white lmmi-
o
grants who have come to. the South
west. Of the latter he says:
They frequently leave and return North,
because their earnings are stolen aa fast as,
made bv the thriftless negroes. If the lat
ter would emigrate in large numbers it is
believed that their places would be prompt
ly, supplied by intelligent and industrious
white laoor.
NO. 6. j
Criminal Court.
This Court adjourned late yesterday af
ternoon for the term, after transacting a
much larger amount of business during the
week than any of its predecessors have be
fore accomplished in the same length of
time. Sixty-seven, cases in "all were tried,
convictions ai-d submissions being obtained
in fifty;
The following were disposed of yesterday :
Jane Williams, charged with larceny.was
found guilty and sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary.
Henry Gervine and George Hill, charged
With larceny, were acquitted.
William Pickett and John Pleasant, were
each fined one penny and costs in assault
and battery cases.
Elijah Jenkins, Henry Gauae and George
Brown were tried on & charoe of larcenvJ
and aCQUitted I
Josh Johnson was fined one penny and J
costs for carrying a concealed weapon . I
A number of parties were arraigned for
I
retailing liquor without license, bat sub- I
mitted, and judgments were suspended on I
the payment of costs.
Jane Fisher was seat to the work house
for twelve months for assault and battery.
Arthur Fisher, found guilty of harboring
an escaped prisoner the notorious Tom
Johnson was sentenced to the penitentiary
for four years.
James Daughtry was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary for larceny.
James Henderson, for larceny, was fined
$10 and the costs, the Judge being thus
lenient on account of the previous excellent
character of the defendant.
Recent Postal Rnlldisa.
Books, single volumes, may be sent by
mail, no matter whattheir weight. Other
third class matter is limited to four pounds.
Writing on the address side of postal
cards is no longer forbidden. It does not
now render them unmailable, but corres
pondents are cautioned that such writing
may confuse the direction of the cards and
prevent their prompt delivery.
Mail matter of any class may be forward
ed from one office to another without ad
ditional charge for such forwarding. For
merly first-class matter only was accorded
this privilege; now it is held to apply also
to second, third or fourth class matter, pro
vided the postage shall have been fully
prepaid in the first instance.
Illustrating ifae colored Fair.
'Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper de
votes two entire pages to illustrating scenes
and incidents connected with the late Fair
of the Colored Industrial Association at
Raleigh. : That paper, however, seems to
have imbibed the popularNorthern idea, to
the effect that everything connected with
the colored people moat of necessity he
shabby. ! In these pictures the men, women
and children have a shabby look, the ve
hicles are shabby, and even the marshals
in the procession wear slouched hats and
otherwise present a shabby appearance,
while in reality the colored people are noted
for their respectable appearance on such
occasions.
Colored Masonic Grand Iodee.
The Grand Lodge of F. &A. A. Y. M.
for this State convenes in session at Greens
boro' on Tuesday, the 9th of December.
The different railroads of the State will
pass delegates at half fare. A prominent
member of the Order gives us some statis
tics of interest. There are thirty-six Lodges
in this jurisdiction, embracing a member
ship of about two thousand. Steps have
been inaugurated for the establishment at
an early day, in some central location in
the State, of an Orphan Asylum, with a good
school attached, for the benefit of the
Order. IRt. Rev. Bishop James W. Hood
is Grand Master, and has been ever since
the organization of the Grand Lodge in
1870. . m m m
The wreck of the Norwegian brig
Prosperiia lies with her stern nearly on a
line with the light-house on Federal Point,
in about the worst position, we are told, on
the whole coast. Boats cannot get to her
withoutl going through about a half mile of
solid breakers, except from the beach. It
is difficult to tell how she got so far up. as
persons of ordinary height might wade to
her (.if not prevented by the breakers), and
the water would not take them above the
waist. Arrangements have been made with
Mr. McCall. the gentleman in charge of the
government works on the f oint, to save as
much as possible of the sails and rigging.
An Old florae.
Mr. Joseph Sneeden, of this county,
states that he lost a horse a day or two ago
that was upwards of forty years old. He
was employed in the cavalry service du
ring the war, and is known by "a neighbor
of Mr. Sneeden's to have been a work
horse thirty eight years ago. This is un-f
doubtedly one cf tne oldest animats or ine
kind on record. He had of course been
worthless for sevaral years past.
An Bnerselle Jurv
During the past week the Grand Jury of
the Criminal Court, which has just closed
its labors, found sixty-seven true bills and
four not true, and made four presentments;
and the gentlemen comprising that body
were publicly complimented by His Honor,
Judge Meares, and Mr. Solicitor Moore, for
the diligent and thorough manner in which
they had discharged their duties, i
Investing In Old War material.
A Mr. Buck, hailing fromj Baltimore, has
purchased from the Government all the old
cannon, shell, gun-carriages, etc., at Fort
Caswell, and is now engaged, with a lighter
belonging to Mr. G. Z. French, in re
moving the articles from the grounds. It
is understood that it is Mr. Buck's intention
to ship the guns and other material to
Philadelphia and other points.
A pole-punching will come off at
Stantonsburg on the 10th proximo.
Spirits Turpentine
Rockingham Spirit: In the
western part of Robeson county, on Ust
Wednesday, a negro man shot a negro c-inUI
about nine years of age. The child, died
the same day from the effects of iSk
Salem Press: Thermometer down
to 155 Inst. Rjitnrrtv Top 11 ?nf!i t.hintr fr
the shallow ponds. Mts. Melatyre, a
iauy residing near riio Janeiro, jurazu, was
at the Salem Hotel last week. She brought
her daughter to school a', the Academy.
Our friend of the Wilmington
Star has almost as much double now r.s
we hava had in making printers spell F.a
syth, Cleveland and Stanly correctly; they
insist upon e's and 'a' where e's and a's
ought not to be. But is he not wrong about
Ashboro? Asheville is all right; but Ashe
boro is all wrong Isa't it ? Ila&s Weekly.
The Stak tries to conform u the usag .
The Ashehoro people spell it with au e, as
does the Journal, published in tbat place.
We think Cleavelaad should be spelled
without the a, but then that is not the way
it is spelled on maps, &c. Bat Stanly,
Forsyth, and Guilford are often, murdered .
Charlotte Observer : Tuesday
night Mr. Jamison Robinson, who livea two
miles south of Gastonia, discovered bia barn
to be on fire. At tbo time of the discovery
the flames had so far advanced that it was
impossible to check them, and in a very-
short time the barn was in ashes, and with
it four hundred bushels of corn, eight thou
u uuuulca ui iuuuci, icu naguu iuua ui
straw 'a wheat-drill, corn-sheller. straw-
cutter, two good wagons, all of the harness,
a?a a quantity oiotner property. ine
thiaf faotnra rf Inn on f arte mm am t rf I hA
a(Jies of the Lulheran church at Oates'
Hall last night was a burlesque of Pinafore
given by a company of young men.
Raleigh News: On Friday next
Charles H. Dewey, Esq., President of the
Raleigh National Bank, will have i cached
the eighty-first year of hi9 life. Living be
yond man's allotted time, he is still hale
and hearty, with a fair piospect of enjoy
ing earth's blessings for some time to come.
Every day and every night the interest
increases iu the meeting at Swain Street
Baptist Church. Wake Forest dot:
The new chapel building is progressing
rapidly. Several new buildings are goiDg
up now, and many are contemplating com .
iog here, some having purchased lots al
ready. Greensboro item; A very sad
accident befel one of our citizens last Fri
day. A man by the name of Aiken, living
seven miles from town, was in town, and
had started home witha man who makes
and sells ardent spirits, and next day he
was found dead he had frozen to death.
Charlotte Democrat: Two new
papers in Charlotte the Mercury, tri-week
ly, by Mr. Mooring (a printer), and IheEve-
ning Press, daily, by Sir. John Bragg.
There is said to be a scarcity of small jd wel
ling houses in the city, such as cottages or
places for small families. Judge A.
A. McKoy, on bidding adieu to the officers
of Person county Superior Court, recently,
declared that under no circumstances would
he be a candidate for reelection as Judge
that he preferred private life for the fu
ture. McKoy has made a good Judge.
In this Stato the "Attachment" pro
cess has been tried, and proved a failure,
we think, in almost every instance. One
great obstacle in running a factory of that
sort in town is the difficulty of procuring
the seed cotton, farmers preferring to gin
their cotton before selling it, and we don't
think it docs much better in the country.
Goldsboro Messenger: We learn
from a correspondent at Enfield that a ne
gro named Cary Alston had his left arm so
terribly lacerated in the cotton gin of
Moseley's, near that town, that amputation
had- to be resorted to. We regret to
learn from Mr. Speight Sauls, of Sauls' X
Roads, that their gin house. with lirte
cotton gins and, some-fi. bales of cotton,
also press, corn and flour ""mills; were de
stroyed by fire - last Saturday evening, in-"
volving a loss to them of fully $4,000, with
no insurance. A meeting of the incor
porators of the Harnett Railway Company
is to be held in this town on Thursday, the
4th pros. A full attendance i3 requested.
We learn from Mr. James T. Garris
that wild pigeons were never more plentiful
than they are in Indian Springs at present.
Good news for our sportsmen. His
Honor, Judge Eure, is holding Sampson
Court. A colored boy, named Wilie
Dortch, was struck by the construction
train on the North Carolina Railroad early
Wednesday morning. It appears that he
was walking on the track where the Raleigh
Road curves near this town. No limbs
broken
Raleierh Observer: The Catholic
Fair continues to draw large crowds. Ev
erything is going off as weil as possible.
The voting for the most popular man in
our midst is gelling lively. Maj. Manly,
Geo. H. Snow, Esq., and Gen. Mite are
leading. S. M. Horrell, Sheriff of
Wilson, brought up two convicts, both co
lord, and sentenced to two and five years.
J. W. Hampton, . Sheriff of Polk, brought
down one colored convict, sentenced to
two years for manslaughter. N. S. Walker,
Sheriff of Rutherford, brought down one
colored larcener. Maj. James C. Mc-
Rae, of Fayetteville, deposited $50 in the
Citizens' Bank yesterday. Ii was handed
him by one whose name will never be
known, and is for the orphans at Oxford.
The dime party at the session room of
the First Presbyterian Church last night
was well attended. At Capt. DeBson's
office are shown two bouquets of dried and
dyed grasses, which are the most bqautiful
things imaginable. They were made by
Mrs. Thomas Cowan, of Pittsboro.
There is an interesting revival of religion
in Droeress at Wake Forest College, con
ducted by President Pritchard. Quite a
number of students have been converted,
and the most glorious results are still antici
pated. Chief Justice Smith returned
last evening from New York. We are glad
to learn that his health is much improved.
Greensboro Patriot: We are
glad to learn that work on the W. N. C. 1
Railroad is progressing rapidly and satis
factorily. The first train of cars will pass
through the great tunnel on Wednesday,
December 17lh, running to a point within
six miles of Asheville. In addition to
the gold mine sold by Mr. Oliver Causey
for $35,000, which we mentioned last week,
we understand he has sold another for
$13,000, and is negotiating for Jbe sale of
one more, in which he owns a controlling
interest, in Moore county. Mining property
in this section seems to be getting into notice.
We hear that a firm in Fayetteville
propose to charter the first freight train that
runs from that place to Greensboro, over
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad
and send up dead loads of good things for
our town. We regret to-learn of an
accident that occurred to one of the young
ladies of Thomasville Female College, one
day last week. Miss Jennie Jones, of
Bethania, fell from a porch and was severely
and quite seriously injured. - An old
man, named Wm. M. Aiken, was found
dead in the woods, near his home in Jeffer
son Township, last Saturday morning.
At the house of the Rev. A. W. Line
berry, about four miles from town, Mr. and
Mrs. Bentley Owen went to the dining
room to breakfast, leaving their infant child
in its cradle near the fire, last Saturday. In
a short time tney were attracted to tae room
by the smell of something burning.and were
horrified to see the cradle in flames and
their little child slowly, burning to a crisp.
They were too late to save it, as it was al
ready dead and partly consumed by the fire.
A messenger was sent to Coroner J.
W. Albright, Monday evening, that his ser-.
vices were wanted to hold aa inquest over
I ciimer, in Madison township, who was
I found lying dead in her kitchen.
the body of an aged lady, Mrs. Catharine