North Carolina Newspapers

WM. H. BERNARD, ' Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON. N- C: Friday, January 9th, 1880. larNotiees of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, Ac , are charged for as ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when nald for strictly in advance. At this rite SO cents will pay for a simple announcement of Mar riage or Death. ' Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, Pnatai Mnnev Order, or Registered Letter. Poet- Masters will register letters when desired. . (3?- only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. - . ' Specimen copies forwarded when desired. BISMARCK'S PEACE PLANS. Whether the European Govern ments shall favor Bismarck's -new peaceable scheme or not; or whether or not they are disposed to give him credit for his pacific propositions, there appears to be some grounds for believing that he is sincere at least id desiring to have the armaments of the Gieat Powers reduced very con siderably. It is stated by the Lon don correspondent of the Scotsman that "the attention of the English government has lately been- directed to the projects of disarmament put forward by Prince. Bismarck; that desDite the recent qualifying state-1 . r T: 1.1 .t I - i manTH iini'H iiiniii i. linn iiiui lcu a scheme' for gradual disarmament. but Austria is the only Continental I Power which has yet given absolute I adhesion to the scheme. In diplo-1 matic circles, the correspondent says, I it is exnecLed that Prince Bismarck will make a declaration on the sub-1 r ifip.t. shnrtlv. bat there does not seem I 4 . a to be much confidence felt in the in-1 tegrity of his motives." We had occasion to say recently that Bismarck had discovered at last that the main cause 'of the great prostration of trade on the Continent was owiner to the immense armies and the expenditures incident thereto. When we look at the military I strength of the various countries it is not difficult to see why their pros perity should be imperriled by the vast cost thus entailed upon them. Russia has a military force number ing 3,016,800 men, of whom 600,000 belong to the reserve and 2,446,800 to the standing army. The regular army-of France comprises 1,689,000 soldiers of all arms; the territorial army, 1,208,000; total, 2,289,000; to be increased in 1892 by the addition of 300,000 reserve men to 2,723,000. The German power, of all classes, is represented by 2,004,300 men, of whom 1,076,200 belong to the stand ing army, 307,200 to the landwehr, and 620,900 to the reserve. Italy has an army of 698,000. and a militia of 310,000. In 1892, when the reserve ' will number 1,016,200. her total strength will reach 2,024,200. Aus tanding tro-Hungary possesses a s army of 800,000, a landwehr of 999,- 3ic, and a reserve or &,oou men; total, 1,194,318. The grand total of all these forces amounts to 16,471, 918, the standing armies alone num bering 6,925,000. Think of sixteen million men being withdrawn from all kinds of produc tion and becoming consumers merely. These men are learning nothing by which to make a country great and " m . prosperous, ineir sole business is destruction. The Manchester (Eng.) jucammer, considering the magni tude of European armies, says: "They form the first line, and all would, of course, be at once called out in the event of a general war. It is nevertheless true that the great military powers have at their disposal 16,000,000 men who have learned, or are now learning, the soldier's art, and are Douna to re-enter the rants when re quired. 1 he mind refuses to grasp the full significance of these nortentous fig ures, but it may safely be affirmed that so long as these bloated armaments are suffered to exist Europe can count neither on last- Ting commercial prosperity nor on a long -continuance oi peace. As we understand it, there are not more than 7,000,000 who are on duty, the' remainder being on furloughs But they are not produoing; they are merely consuming what the labor of others produces, so they are a burden upon society. Bismarck's plan ought to be met in a spirit of fairness, and if Germany will set the example of reducing the army the other Pow- era ought to follow willingly and in good faith. Col. Wm. J. Clarke, in his new Republican paper, The Signal, made some comments unfavorable to the whites, in which he eharged that the negroes were not treated fairly and with justice in the courts. We did not see his article, but we find the fol lowing reply in the Kinston Journal, which, at the close of an editorial, beaded "Slander," says: "This charge of injustice comes with pe culiar crace from Jndae Clark xahn holding Superior Court in Lenoir county a four VnflH la amamIm wmvswA. . 1 - made:manfon8 .i - W , , 74 o the Grand Jury: 2 charge you, gentlemen of uib oury, not w uuce upmewneoj uie Uourt in finding MUa on petty and frivolous mattert, at for STEALING A CHICKEN OR A PIG.' " 8ANITAKV ENGINEERING. We referred before to a pamphlet by Wm. Cain, published by the North Carolina Board of Health for the information of the people, with the title written at the head of this article. It gives just such informa tion as every community needs. The remedies and necessary instructions how to use them are laid before the reader in a plain, concise manner. The North Carolina Medical Jour nal for November i has a short article upon the subject of sanitary engi neering, from which we copy a para graph or so for the benefit of all con cerned. It says: L - "The drv-earth privy system as set forth in this pamphlet should attract the atten tion of the officers of every municipal corporation particularly, and the public in general. The utter neglect of any system, and the vile ana aisgusung way me great majority of .privies in oar towns and vil lages are allowed to remain," is a sure sign that our boastsd civilization has not reached its acme. There is hardly a town on the Southern Atlantic coast, where the night air is not loaded in the summer ana iau months with noisome effluvia, ineary earth system is a remedy for this evii, and should he generally aaopiea. xnepeopie should not wait for corporation officers to get it through their slow brains, but each citizen should commence for the reform for himself, for poverty could hardly be an oo- stacle W this improvement, as the whole cost would be exceedingly small. Once initiated the dry-earth system will take firm hold upon those communities having no general water supply or sewerage system. The way to make this reform general is for its adoption by a citizen here and there, and soon its superiority would be so appa- rP.nt. that others would follow, and eventu . L,. a A1IV & ne&unv DU011C UD1UIUU woum uo - j If what the papers tell of the shooV ing of youug Morgan in Washington is true, then the; sympathy of the public will be with the injured young Lladv. Miss Horton, who fired the , shot, is a daughtar ofnhe late Gen. Horton. of Alabama. Here is her . own story, as told to the correspon dent of the Baltimore American: "In 1877. when she was in her seven teenth year, young I Morgan paid his ad dresses to her in Alabama, and they were soon betrothed. Under the promise of mar riage he wronged her. Subsequently young Morgan came to Washington as private se cretary to bis lather, and lett ner to dis grace. She wrote to Senator Spencer and Senator Conkling, detailing her wrongs; but, accomplishing nothing, came to this Uliy last spiiug. aiwi cumiug oti buiibuu obtained a position in the Treasury, from which she was removed a few weeks ago. She subsequently learned that her discharge was due to the influence of Morgan's friends. His friends have persecuted her beyond endurance because she has refused to de liver them the love letters written to her by Morgan, which she intends to introduce as evidence in the suit. Wherever she has ob tained lodgings they have come and repre sented to the owner of the house that she was an improper character, 1 j .' "Toe meeting to-day on li street was en tirely accidental. She1 had had the pistol some time. When she saw Morgan she could not resist the impulse to shoot him. 'for ' she said, 'I would rather be hanged for murdering him than continue to lead a lire or misery. - "Miss Horton, who has a very preposses sing face, with dark hair and eyes, was neatly attired in black. She appeared to be very cool and unconcerned, and answered the usual inquiries of the station-keeper very concisely. She said she was eighteen years of age." ! ' - '--I i THE THIUU TEltm. Our readers will probably remem ber that in May, 1875, Gen. Grant wrote a letter to Mr. H. White, Pre sent tne Pennsyvania Republi can State Convention, in regard to the third term, j He pretended then that he did not want to be nominated again as he pretends now that he does - : i not desire it. But. it j is well under s stood that he is in "the hands of his friends," and that he will yield to the pressure and so on. jWe -quote from his letter of 1875: 'I would not write or utter a word to change the will of the people in expressing or having- their choice. ! The question of the number of terms allowed to any one Executive can only come up fairly in the shape of a proposition to amend the Con stitution a shape in which all political par ties can participate, fixing the length of time or the number of terms for which any one person shall be eligible for the office of President. Until such an amendment is adopted the people cannot be restricted in their choice by resolution further than they are now restricted as to age, nativity, etc. To recapitulate: 1 am not. nor have I ever been, a candidate for re- nommation. I would not accept the nomi nation If it were tendered, unless it should come under such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty circumstances not likely to arise." Grant will no doubt conclude if the nomination is tendered him that ''such circumstances nave arisen as - maice it an imperative duty" for him to ac cept it. But it is to be observed that no amendment to the Constitution has been made "fixing the number- of terms." Grant will not mind that so I he gets the nomination.' N If there be anything in signs Grant's nomination is almost assured.1 The probability is that Blaine I will be the second on the ticket if I he will agree to it. It looks strange to a student of American history that a man 1 of Grant's civil record should be thought of in connection with the Presidency. If the Constitution contained a clause time and terms that any one man might hold the office of President, and Grant could hold it for a third term without doing violence I ' i ( to precedent and in compliance with the letter of the law, it would then be very strange that he should be se lected, by any party as a candidate. I His administration, from first to last, 1 . " - ries of blunders. There was never so dishonest, so incapable, so vicious and so asurpiag an adminis tration in ourconntry.. . If Grant had not been a successful soldier "and the popular Northern idol he would have been tried and broken of office. Judge Thomas 1 Settle, formerly of North Carolina, but now of Florida, is one of the two Judges who visited South Carolina in! 1876 for the pur pose of securing . that State for Hayes. They tried to bribe General Wade Hampton after the Canvassing Board bad had an opportunity to go over the returns. These two nice Judges, so Senator Hampton stated recently, told him "that if be would say, on any public occasion, that the State of South Carolina had been car ried by Hayes, the troops would be withdrawn and the Hampton govern ment be recognized." Gen. Hampton of course "declined the honor." We thinkSettle will do to hitch on as a tail to the Grant kite. The Grant travelling party have discovered that there is no such thing in the South ad a Democratic Grant boom. Grant, whilst in South Caro lina, spoke in high terms of Hampton and his condemnation of the tissue ballots. A Washington special to the Baltimore Sun Says: "Being told that tissue ballots were used to neutralize the overshadowing negr ma jority, and thus, as his Democratic in formant alleged, preserve civilization, ne replied that be hoped the necessities of Civilization would not call for a repetition of this sort of thing." The special says Grant is much pleased at bis reception in the South and at the cordial manner in which ex-Con ft derate soldiers have treated him, I THE THREATENED WAt IN EUROPE. The reports in regard to a threat ening war between Russia on the one side and Austria and Germany on the other will be a surprise to many as it is to us. There has been a bad feeling existing for a year or two be tween Russia and England, growing mainly out of the encroachments, of the former in the direction of India, and we were prepared. to hear that a crisis had been developed between them at auy time. Bat the news of yesterday representing Russia as pre paring rapidly for war, and the free talk among its soldiers of an impend ing war with Austria and Germany is a little startling. We are not in possession of the causes which have led to this threatening condition of affairs, but we suppose it grows out of the settlement made at the i treaty of Berlin. It will be a little curious if a war should occur between Russia and the two Powers men tioned as a result of the arrange ments made at Berlin. Germany mainly secured the settlement 'made by that, treaty,1 and upon Austria it was devolved to hold certain territo rv. I5ut tor rnnce uisraarcK it is probable England and Russia would have been at war. Now, if we are to credit the rumors, there is a pros pect of war between the peace-ma king Power and the Power that was called! upon to occupy certain pro vinces with its army, on the one hand, and that other great Power that was then strueelincr with Turkey and threatened by England. We must hope that war will be averted. It would be disastrous in many particulars. If Russia should be unwise enough to engage two such Powers as Austria and Germany it may eventuate in a general war. France may take sides, with Russia in order to regaid her lost territory and settle a part of the old score she owes Germany for what she suffered in the late war with that country Turkey may be disposed to take a hand to regain what she has lost, and England may find it to her interest to participate in a struggle that may, lead if hotly pressed to important changes in regard to the outlook in Asia. We merely, suggest a probable condition of affairs in case of ar be tween Russia and the "'two Powers mentioned in the dispatches. : The effect of a Continental war, whether confined to ' the countries named, or whether it becomes gene ral, would be very damaging to the South, as it would very seriously af fect the price of cotton. The manu facturing North and the grain-grow ing, pork-raising West would be ben efited, no doubt, but the South would be a heavy loser, SFDHlOltlS BDTTEH. We are pained to see that, the are muoh troubled with that wonderful compound about which we have aforetime written,and known in commercial centres as "ole omargarine." It has come to J pass that it is extremely uncertain" now, when you sit down to your plate of "gilt-edged," that yon are not really devouring lard or beef tallow. ' We are becoming very sceptical, for. the cooks tell as when you test the North em "gilt-edged," by applying heat in the process of cooking, that you are almost certain to 'find that beef suet- is a chief ingredient in the com pound with a shining name. - But as we 'said, in" the Northwest the people are i much exercised oyer the deceptions now practiced by the imitation batter manufacturers. At first the spurious article was mann- actured by using beef : suet , and churning it in milk. But the inge nious rascals have gone) beyond that. The chief stock now sold in the west- era cities arid towns has never seen the-churn at all, as we are assured by the Cleveland, Ohio, Herald. Here is the way the beautiful "gilt edged" butter is now made: "The manufacturers take one part of good butter and three parti of lard, gene rally buying the leaf, gur rat, ana otner atty parts ot port, and render me iara out themselves. The lard is melted, poured into brine, and some chemical added which takes away the flavor and changes the color. The briae is then poured off, and the but ter being added, the whole is -melted together in a huge caldron- immersed in boiline water after the manner of making glue. A thermometer is kept in" tbema89 ali ortne time to guara against giving it too much beat. After having un dergone a sufficient amount of cooking the stuff is poured into a mixture of milk and water, where it remains a snort time, is men taken out, dumped on a table, and manu factured into the nice, rich yellow rolls of 'home-made -butler.' It is stamped with a WOoden stamp of five-line pica; according to law." " : : , .. If the Railroad were open all the way to Hickory we could eat oh our tables nice mountain rolls of butter instead of filling our mouths and stomachs with the compounds now manufactured and labelled butter, and sold at a high price. The Cleve land Herald says it is almost impos sible to get pure butler in that region where once the finest article was made and in great abundance. Gen. Grant has smooth words for the South now. His little speech at Fernandina was kindly in tone, and under the circumstances may be re garded as a nice bid for Southern support. We prefer his words of jus tice and approval to his hostility, but he will hardly gain any votes by tell ing the South that after' all it was not at fault for what occurred daring reconstruction times and the years that followed. The country will be glad to know that Gen. Grant will henceforth strive to make the people of this country "a united people." He Las done a great deal in the past to make them antagonistic and discor dant. We hope he will act as well as talk Representative Reagan, of Texas, Chairman of Committee of Com merce; reports that this body have agreed to a bill "regulating inter State commerce," The announcement gives much uneasiness to Yanderbilt and other' railroad kings. Cadet Midshipman Smith Salis- bury, of New Mexico, has been dis missed from the Naval Academy at Annapolis for "hazing" a fellow stu dent. The Increasing Commercial Paclll flea of Wilmington The Prospect for the Future &e. .- The sMa of vessels coming to this port seems to keep pace with the increasing depth of.water at the entrance to our hai bor and-river. On the 31st of December the Argentine Brig Enrique, Capt. Payson, registering 583 tons, was cleared for Liver pool by Messrs. Williams &Murchison with 2,500 bales of cotton. On Tuesday last the British Barque Bessie Parker , Capt. Tucker, registering 685 tons, was cleared for the same port, by the same firm, with a cargo of 2,720 bales of cotton. Oa Tuesday we recorded the arrival here of the British Barque. Maggie O'Brien, Capt. Flemming, registering 700 tons, and consigned to Mr. C. P. Mebane. We learn from some of our oldest citizens that she is the largest vessel that ever came up to this port to load. A dismasted ship or some 900 tons put in here - some time in the year 1648, ; with troops from the Mexican war, the object being to obtain some ne cessary repairs before proceeding. : The constantly increasing depth of wa ter at the mouth of the river, as the works of improvement progress, is an encourage ment to vessels'of large tonnage to visit our port. By reference to our files we find that on the 1st of January, 1879, the pilots reported the soundings in Bald Head Chan nel, at low water, to be , nine feet.. The re port handed in for the first of the month this year ; places it at twelve feel. The prospects j for ' the . future as regards our shipping - facilities are decidedly bright : and brightening, and we hope to see the time When ships of heavy tonnage can come up to our wharves and load. About the year 1826 a ship of 664 tons was built to trade between New York and Europe, being a very large vessel for that time, and she was named the Colossus, as one way of expressing the owner's idea of her huge dimensions. ' Now take glance along the wharves and through the harbor of that great commercial metropolis of America, and it will be seen that a ves? set of. the dimensions of the once - famed Colossus would be a pigmy in comparison with, her ,grown-up" Bisters around hi We may see the time, even in our dav. when the Maggie O'Brien would be rated as a-Bmall craft by the "merchant princes" of Wilmington. Stranger things have hap- . peneo. -- . . , ; Preiudice'often rules in the physical treat ment of babies. They are allowed to sut ler ana scream with pain from colic, flatu . lence, bowel - disorders, etc., when some simple, reliable and sate remedy, as Dr. Bull's uaby svrup. would eive almost im J mediate relief and perfect ease to the. little 1 sunerer. j FBBBDRIAN'S JUNE. meeting of the Depositors of the Wil mington Branch Petition to tion- Kress, dee. Pursuant' te a call made through the columns of the Morning Stab, by the friends and depositors of the , Wilmington Branch of the National Freedman's Bank, quite a number of the depositors met at the Court House at 71 o'clock yesterday eve-ning.- -"';r; 'v Col. Geo. L. Mabson called the meeting to order, and in a few brief remarks stated the object of the meeting. After whicbj on motion, Col. Mabson was chosen per manent chairman, and J. E. Sampson secretary.. - . On motion of Daniel Howard, the fol lowing persons were appointed a committee to draft a memorial petitioning the. Repre sentatives in Congress to pass the bill now pending before that honorable body, as offered by the Hon. N. P. O'Connor, viz: G. L. Mabson, Job. E. UiU and Henry A. Ward. The committee presented the fallowing memorial, which, after being thoroughly discussed, was unanimously adopted: "The undersigned Freedmen aud De positors at Wilmington humbly pray your honorable body to consider and to pass the bill for the relief of the sufferers by the fraud practiced on them by certain parties in the name of Congress and under color of an act of your honorable body, which has been recenily introduced by Hon. N. P. O'Connor, of S. C." The meeting was- very enthusiastic, and before adjournment the memorial was nu merously signed by depositors, and it was ordered that the memorial be placed in the office of Joseph E. Sampson, Register, for signatuies. A vote of thanks was tendered the Coun ty Commissioners for the use of the Court house, and after appointing a lime for a future meeting an adjournment was had. Probable Fatal cutting Affray. On Monday night, betweeu 7 and 8 o'clock, at the Belvidere plantation, in Brunswick county, three or four miles from this city, Robert and George Everett, both colored, and half brothers, got into a difficulty about some' meal belonging to George, whu accused "Bob" of appropria ting it to bis own use. The quarrel finally resulted in a collision between the parlies, during which George was cut across the abdomen with a knife, inflicting a terrible wound. This euded the affray, and Bob Everett immediately fled, and at last ac counts had not been captured. The wounded man was put into a boat and brought to this ciy, reaching here between 11 and 12 o'clock the same uight, and not knowing where to go, or where to find a physician, be finally went to the station house, where he remained until yesterday morning, when he proceeded to the office of Dr. VV. VV. Lane, who examined his in juries and administered the proper remedies. Dr. Lane pronounces the wound a very dangerous one. It is about four inches in length, extending iuto the cavity below the stomach, and leaving what is known as "leaf fai" protruding from the oii(lee. We found the sufferer lying upon a lounge in Dr. Lane's office. He was very weak, scarce'y able to . articulate, and said he was io intense pain. During the after noon he was taken to a bouse on the corner of Fouilh and Wooster streets, in the ssutbern section of the city, where he could teceive proper attention. We under stand that he was in the employ of Mr. Dixon Mcltie, near this city. It is very unfortunate that Wilmington has no hospital to which such cases as the above can be taken Attempted Arrest ol m Dealer lu Dry Goods. A colored individual by the name of Wm. McKinnon, who had been woiking near Point Caswell, left the neigbbothood a week or so before Christ mas, going in the direction of Fayette ville. A few days ago he returned to the vicinity of Point Cas well with quits a 1 t of fancy dry goods, cloaks, &c, in his possession, which be was selling to those whom he could induce to purchase. Suspicion was soon aroused that McKinnon had been raiding upon somebody's dry goods stare during his ab sence, as it was knows that he could not have been in possession of sufficient means to buy the goods without obtaining it dis honestly, onerm faddisoa attempted to effect his arrest, but he succeeded in mak ing his escape, leaving the goods, however, at the house of a man named Walters, where ho had been stopping, "till a mystery. The f mystery -enshrouding the fate of Sam. Davis, colored, whose disappearance was mentioned in our last, has not yet been solved. Parties who left here to look after him report that he had not been to the place where his men were working. At the house of a colored woman living about nine miles up the river they, learned that Davis left some things with her. about two weeks ago, saying he was going to meet his .flat and would get the articles as he came back. The men on the flit say they have not seen him since he came here a week before Christmas. ; j ' As no tidings can be received as to his whereabouts, the conclusion is forced upon his friends that something has happened to him, especially as he was known to have a considerable sum of money on .his person when he left here, with which he was to pay off his hands. ( Davis enjoys a very good reputation here. He was a member of the Front Street M. E. Church before the war, and has never severed bis connection with that body. Wilmington Industries. The new steam saw mill being erected on the site of what is known as the "Burnt Mill" property, near the Wilmington Cotton Mills, is rapidly approaching completion, and the proprietor, Mr. Wra. Wilson, a gen, tleman from Canada, informs us that he ex pects to commence operations about the 1st of February. The mill is covered whh sheet iron in place of weather-boarding, only the frame-work being wood, and the boiler room is of brick. It is furnished with the latest improved machinery.and we learn that the lumber will be entirely for ship ment. Mr. Wilson and those interested with him own a large amount of timber land in Bladen county, from which they expect to obtain their material . Abstract of Proceedings In Regular : " - Session - !' The Board met in regular session yester day afternoon; present, W. . L. Smith, Chairman,' and Messrs. B. G. Worth, H. A. Bagg, James A. Montgomery and A. J. Grady. ' ;j . : "A Proceedings of last meeting were ordered approved. . -; ' ...v-. ' Petition of sundry citizens of Federal Point township, asking for a discontinuance of Section No. 1 Of a public road, extend ing from the fifteenth mile post on the Fed eral Point road to the pour house, was granted, public notice of the same having been made according to la w,and there being no objection from citizens of said district, said section of said road is hereby discon tinued. Ordered, that the tax assessed Egiinst the steamboat Passport for theear 1879 be held by the sheriff in abeyance, to await the de termination of a controversy without action submitted to the Superior Court of New Hanover county, to delermiut. the validity of said assessment and taxation. The Treasurer submitted his account fur the month of December, 1879, as follows: General fund showing balance in bis hands of f 15,131.85; bcLool fund showing bal ance iu band of $4,618.23; Special fund showing balance due the Treasurer of! $33.24, and the surrendering of eighteen coupons of $3 each, which were burned by the Board. The Treasurer also submitted his annual statement, which was refeired to the Fi nance Committee. The Register of Deeds submitted his re port for the mouth of December of fees re ceived from marriage licenses, showing the receipt of $32.20 paid over to the Treasu rer. W. J. Mott presented his bond as Over Seer of the Poor, with A. B. Brown as sure ty, which was accepted, and he took the oath of office as Superintendent of the House of Correction. On application Eliza Taylor was ordered admitted to the Poor House. Ordered by the Board, that the building on the Poor House lot, known as the Pro vision and Forage house, be constituted a part of the House of Correction, for the se curity of prisoners, and the Superitendcnt is required to make the same secure, and is authorized to build additional room at his own expense. It is reserved by the Board to discontinue this part of the House of Correction whenever they shall deem it ad visable and for the public good. Applications were received from the fol lowing persons for licenses to retail spiritu ous liquors, viz:- Robert Portner, F. A. Schutle and C. Vanorsen. Application of G. M. Altaffer for abate ment of tax of $500 as income tax was granted. C. W. Oldham offered his official bond as Constable, with Wm. Larkins and W. P. Oldham as sureties, which was accepted. I Nicholas Carr offered bis official bond as Constable, with George F. Tilley and W. H. McDdde as sureties, which was accepted. E. D. Carney offored his official bond as Constable, with A. D. Wessell and A. R. Black as sureties, - which ' was ordered ac cepted when the sureties justify before the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners. The bond of T. O. Bunting.as Constable, was presented, and ordered accepted when the sureties shall appear before the Chair man of the Board and justify. Wm. O. Johnson was appointed a mem ber of the School Committee in Cape Fear township in place of Claus Sehriver, dee'd. It was ordered that the tax oh $680 valu ation on lot-part No. 5, Block 205, listed in the name of J. W. McLeod, be remitted. The following named persons were drawn to serve as jurors at the February term of the Criminal Court, viz: Lisbon Payne, Julius Hahn, John M. Clark, W.' T. Eilers, W. H. Northrop, Ben j. Farrow, W. K. Taliaferro, Baalam Fuller, Henry Schulken, W. E. King, R. Greenberg, James Cowan, A. G. Han kins, Wm. Cromwell, J. C. Walton, T. A. Shep hard, Iabam Quick, C. H. King, A. G. Mc Girt, Benjamin Hollis, E. Lilly, W. A. Wright, 8. W. Noble, M. J. Heyer, Thos. H. Howey, W H. Taylor, 8. W. Holden, 8. G. Hall, J. W. Taylor, E. F. Johnson. - A petition from citizens of Masonboro' Town ship,' for the continuation of the pub lic road from j Henning's western gate to Masonboro' sound, was granted, said road to be in as near a straight line between the two said points as the nature of the ground will admit, provided the right of way is re served to the owner of the land over which the road passes. The Board adjourned to the first Mon day in February, at 2.30 p. m. The Rocky Point Ball. - ; A friend at Rocky Point gives us a glow ing account of the Leap Tear ball at that place, on Friday night last. He says the management was excellent and the pleasure of a bright social order, the counties of Pen der, Duplin, Onslow, Sampson, Wilson and New Hanover having each representatives from among their fair daughters and brave men. The "tripping of t&e light fantastic, etc., was kept up the entire night, and "all went merry as. a marriage bell." Altoge ther, our correspondent avers, it was one of me most eujoyaoie occasions inai nas Deen known in Pender or the surroundine coun ties for many yearg. He' further declares that Cupid was hovering busily around and that it is alreadv mnnterl nhnnt that goodly number of marriage licenses will uaie meir origin irom mis elegant . jeap Year ball. The music was excellent, and the refreshments all that could be desired. steamboat Enterprise. : We interviewed Capt. R. P. Paddison,' a day or two since,' with reference to his re ported movements on the Neuse. He says he expects to put a boat on that riyer to run between Newbern and Whitehall, in Wayne county, about seventeen miles be iow uoiasooro, in lime tor the. spring trade. He has not yet decided whether to build a new boat,- or use an-old one. He has a very good opinion of Gen. Ransom efforts to improve the navigation of the Neuse, and thinks the work will materially benefit the good old town of Newbern: missionary to tbe Babama Islands. . Capt. W. J. Potter, so well known among our citizens "as an ardent I worker in the cause of religion, is expected to leave for . the Bahama Islands in the course of a week or so, we understand, where he goes in the interest of the American Tract Society as i missionary. The good wishes of our Wil mington and Smithville friends will follow him to his new field of labor. ' Spirits Turpentine. The Constitution is the name of new Daner Dublished at Lincolnton. - It leans to the Democrats. Neither: pub lisher or editor's name is given. ; The Pittsboro Record mentions that Capt.. W. London, of Pittsboro, made Rev. E. N. Joiner, Episcopal minister in that town,' a present of a horse, saddle and bridle on Christmas day.. : - v. A Roxboro correspondent of the Raleigh News savs that one A. C. Brooks has been arrested for ruining two of his daughters, one of whom had had four children by him. He has been -arrested and is now in jail. ' New Berne Democrat'. The - Steamer Pamlico, of the 'Old Dominion Line, sailed on yesterday with a full cargo. consisting of 600 bales of cotton and gen- " eral merchandise. The Steamer Tuckahoe, - f . I S T - ' 1 . rw . . ui.iue viyue. ijine, aaitea on inursaay ior Baltimore via Bay River; she had on board 40 bales of cotton and 125 barrels of naval, stores; she will complete her load at By River. Greenville JSxpressi We have just heard, of a most distressing accident which occurred near Bethel, in ibis coiiuty. on Christmas day, whereby Henry Keel, aged 17, son of Mrs. Emma Staton, lost his life by the accidental discharge of a gun in the bands of his brother. Gray Keel. - Mr. B F. Jolly, a worthy citizen and eood man, died very suddenly at bis home, about three miles from this town, on the 20lh tus. The Deaf Mute's Journal of New York says: "To Mr. Wm. D. Cookt , formerly Principal of the North Carolina Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. may be properly given the credit of pub lishing the first Institution paper . in the United Stutes, which he called line Casket." The Valley Virginian also adds, that to the . same gentleman is due tbe credit of first in troducing the art of printing as one of. the mechanical branches into any Institution in the United States, and also the first steam power press in North Carolina. t'napel amieager: Mr. Ihos. Lloyd, a worthy citizen living some three miles west of Chapel Hill, met with a seri ous accident on Saturday, December 20tb. He was returning from Hillsboro when he was thrown from his horse, tbe horse rait in? on him. : - We understand that Dr. Ledous has succeeded in securing an assist ant. An investigating committee to look into the affairs of the Experiment Station, will meet here next week. Tbe committee consists of President Battle, Col. Thomas M. Holt, and W. H. Cheek, Master of Siate Grange. lialeigh visitor : The total amount of revenue receipts for the week ending January 3, 1880, in this district.was $3,993.33. The Supreme. Couri met promptly at 10 o'clock, with Associate Jus tice Ashe in the chair. Chief Justice Smith being detained by sickness. There are thirty-one applicants for license. - Louise Pomeroy will not fill her engage ment here at present. Mrs. Caroline Johnson, a widow lady living in Harnett county, had the misfortune to lose four horses, stables, hogs, forage, &c, by fire last Friday night. Work of incendiary. No insurance. Goldsboro Messenger : A young son of Mrs. Anna Jane Yarborough, at Averysboro, was seriously burnt with pow der, on Christmas day, by tbe accidental discharge of his gun. A son of Mr. U. 4 . Jones, in tbe same section, was thrown from his horse the same day, and had bis thigh broken. The many friends of Neil 8. Stewart, of Averysboro, the veiy worthy Senator of Harnett county, will re gret to learn of a painful accident that be- fel mm on the 23rd ult., in being thrown from a buggy, resulting in bis breaking one or more of his ribs, and being otherwise se riously injured. Raleigh News correspondence from Chapel Hill: A day or two ago Carrie Jones, colored, wife of Boss Jones, seem ing to be tired of life, tried to kill herself, as it appears from the circumstances. But she seems not to be an adept at the business and made a botch of it. She abandoned the old and well-tried and reliable plan of hanging, and simply tied a rope around her neck and twisted it up pretty tightly. She was found in lhat condition, probably in sensible. Granville point: According to J, B. Hunter, in the Oxford torchlight, John R. Knight has the largest tree this side of he Yosemite Valley, "sixteen yards in circumference." Knight lives on tbe Robeson and not the Beaver Dam creek. Raleigh News: Chief Justice Smith is reported as being seriously ill. : Yadkin Collegeitems: . The prospects of Yadkin College are unusually flattering. About all the old students have entered for the spring term and ten new ones, and sev eral others are to be in next week. Yadkin College is well blessed with nreath ers. It -has about fifteen within fls cor porate limits. Franklinton items; Mr. Fenner Pearce, who left this county for Texas several years ago, met with a ' serious accident lately - while hunting in the Indian nation. He was re loading his breech-loader when the shell exploded and came near putting out his eyes. - He can now discern day from night. Last Tuesday, while B. J. Holden was huqtingnear Forestville, be killed seven wild turkeys at one shot. Kerneis- vilie dot: Kernersville is situated on tbu N. W. N. C. Railroad, eighteen miles west Of Greensboro and eleven miles east of Winston, with a population of about eix hundred. It is said to be one hundred and seventy-eight feet higher than High. Point on the N. C. Railroad, and seventy-eight feet higher than the -town of Winston. There are seven stores, five tobacco fftHrrifa thrpn nrnflSinv nhirairlana tron , f.ww..u r J ulul,wu . w ministers, (no lawyers at all). There are two' good brick churches, Episcopal Methodist MUV MVI K rr- Oxford Torchlight: The, wheat crop of the county is very promising. TjISt FridftV vana I hp ornnrt rmanincr ri,n in the Oxford tobacco maiket for 1880. The three large warehouses were filled to jthpir utmost capacity, while many farmers were compelled to carry theft tobacco borne for the 'want of warehouse room. The. sales were highly satisfactory, and tbe far mers returned to their homes highly elated nuu uAiuiu oa 9 uiuiuvu uiar&ct. During J,he past few weeks quite a num ber of live working men have moved to -Oxford and others are coming soon. Messrc E. H. Crews. J. C. Conner Jr. ' anrl n V Meadows, of Henderson, will be quite an addition to our tobacco market; R. H. Mc Guire, Esq , of Battleboro, and Messre. Al ston & Jones, of Warren, have also moved to Oxford, j Mecklenburg county, Virginia, furnishes ? us quite a large delegation. Messrs. O. J. Hayes, J. J. Rolf and lady. a. o. opeocer, n. jeieia, o. usieo.n. urow; Messrs. B. K. Beacham and Bryant,of Raleigh; Dr. Samuel D. Booth, of Knap-of-Reed8;T. H.Jones, W. K. Jenkins and J. T. Howell, from Tally-Ho. " The Wil- miegton Star, than which there is no better paper printed in North Carolina. - Granville county furnished one signer of the Declaration ct Independence? John Penn, and one other member of the Conti nental Congress, Robert Burton. Four of her citizens represented this distrisl in tbe Federal Congress, i Robert Porter, Josiah Crudup, A. W. Venable, and R. B.. Gil Ham; and two natives of the county.Hulch ins G. Button and Archibald Henderson, represented other districts in the Stated Hntchins G. Burton was also Governor ot North Carolina. Tbe following natives of the county were elected to Congress from other States: Benjamin Wood,- of New York; Inge. xf Alabama; Mitchell, -of Ohio, Burton, ef Tennessee; Fuller, of Il linois; Joseph H. Lewis, of Kentucky: and R. G. Harper, U. Senator from Mtry land. - ;