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VBKNOK. j
Speaking of the place for holding
the Slate Convention, the Kinston
Journal says: j
" The ltJe gates have been , t Raleigh so
ofieu thai there is not bint; new to be seen
then-, while Wilmington would seem like a
new niace to its visitors. It is very nearly
as r Hsily accessible for all parts of lite Stale
a It ilt-ib. and it is a good idea for our
people from all over the state to De person
ally acquainted with every locality in our
iinrijtis. - !
"Then," too, the impression prevails with
in.iiiv that the sharp, shrewd R4leieh politi-
cirtii, by virtile of their numbers and inti-
jnacy wrh the leadiDg men all over tue
JSlale. i xercise an undue influence in -the
noiniuating conventions when held in that
city, ana tuereoy sometimes secure nomi
nations contrary "to the choice of the people.
Whether this charge' tie .true or not, it
would perhaps be well to 'heed the intima
tion and hold the Nominating Convention
at another place.
-ft
We would be glad to have the
Convention in Wilmington. There
are hundreds of delegates who have
never visited this section . of North
Carolina. Probably if they would
-.ome among na and see for them
.selves they would be stronger friends
)f the chief commercial town ever
hereafter. But anide from any such
considerations, we would be pleased
to see the Convention here. As ug-
e!ted by our esteemed contempora
ry, the Kinston Journal, Wilming
ton would offer something new in the
way of attractions, and is easy of ac
cess by rail or river. Our hotels and
boarding houses can entertain them,
ana our Handsome upera House win
iic iiiciu Tvigo aim luuiii cijuui;h. i
- The Journal is pleased lo add:
"The Cape.Fcar section ought realiy to
be allowed to name the next Governor,
and Wilmington U the proper place to give
hi in a good send off "
It is 'some forty, years since the
large Cape Fear seotion .gave the
istiite a Governor. Our people have
tiot been obtrusive or clamorous for
place., ; They have been content for
four decades, during-which time the
Stale has nearly doubled in popula
lion, lo do regular, unfaltering ser
vice in behalf of principles they held
to be . right and honorable. They
have paid a large share of the public
taxes during those forty! years, and
have steadily voted for all wise mea
sures that looked lo the maintenance
'of. the credit of North Carolina, and
to the development of its resources,
When Democratic principles were to
be asserted and upheld the people ot
the Cape Fear have been found at
the front.: They have not been pre
. datory soldiers of fortune doing bat
tle for provender and pelf. They
have stood fast, because they be
lieved thai the Democratic party was
a necessity, and upon its perpetuity
aud success depended the prosperity,
limor ant glory of the State.
The titiie has come when the peo
pie of North Carolina should be will
ing to take a Governor from this im
portant section of the Common
wealth. Our people have been modest
lonir enough. It is high time that
they sent their delegates to the Con
vention instructed to vote for one of
their capable and honest sons.. If
they will unite on some man who is
worthy every way of the honor they
can carry great weight when the De- ;
mocrats meet in council. There are " Tbe RePublcan Baltimore Ameri
Democrats from various sections of can syas of Bayard's speech that it
North Carolina who would gladly
vote for a candidate from the Cape
Fear section.
"If the people of the Cape Fear
think forty years is long enough to
wait, and that the time has come
when one of their fellow citizens
should be honored with the choice of
the whole people as Governor of the
State, then they must move in the
matter. Let it be remembered that
VOL. XI.
Morehead, Graham, Manly, Raid,
Bragg, Ellis, Vance, Worth,! were all
from other sections. j
We feel sure that the delegates in
Convention would listen very respect
fully and, possibly obligingly, to any
claims that might be urged for the
nomination xf ono of the favorite sons
of the Cape Fear section. If the peo
ple desire it, then let them ( in their
township and county meetings desig
nate the man ; let delegates be in
structed, and let the whole Cape Fear
country go up as one man and say to
their brother Democrats, it is becom
ing that after forty years our true
Democratic section should be honored
again, and we name for the place one
who is every way qualified, j
If our people are agreed among
themselves astto the right man for the
place, and will pull together earnestly,
we do not see why the Cape Fear sec-
tion may not, as the Kinston Journal
says, "be allowed to name the next
Governor" ,
The New York Times publishes "a
strong protest' against J ohn Sher
man's nomination by the Republi
cans. It appears in the letter of its
Washington correspondent, and is
creating no little talk in the great
centres. The writer is showing up
the "ways that are dark" by which
the able,' wily and unscrupulous John
is endeavoring to compass his ends.
It has been known lor a long time
that he was sedulously striving to
obtain control of the Southern States
through the influence of the office
holders. It has been known, too, that
he was aided by the Hayes Adminis
tration. We copy from the TVmes's
article: I
"These methods are beim; applied with
all the dexterity in political management in
which Mr. Sherman, is an acknowledged
adept, and with as little regard to his offi
cial responsibilities as the least scrupulous'
politician could desire. Despite all this
opposition, however it is very apparent,
from conversation with representative men
in Washington, that Oen. Grant is still, and
is likely to continue, the foremost candi
date of the Republican party. Mr. Sher
man may succeed in securing a portion or
the delegates from I the South that is to
say, he may secure; pledges from them
but there is a very ; shrewd suspicion that
when the time comes they, will go io a
bodv to Grant, who is undoubtedly the real
choice of every really earnest Republican
in the cotton states. The more enthusias
tic friends of the General claim that he
will certainly be nominated on the first
ballot" !
The fact that the Times is regarded
generally as the ablest and most in
fluential of Republican papers gives
peculiar significancy to its opposition
t0 Sherman, who is as corrupt as
Mr. liright's proposition to the
English Government. is full of pluck,
for he is speaking to a race that is ne
cessarily prejudiced in advance, Eng
land may not yield because it is not
willing to make concessions, or be
cause it does not believe the scheme
is wise or desirable, but it will ljsten,
and Beaconsfield will consider. When
J ohn Bright espouses any cause the
people of Great Britain will listen
with strained ears, for he is no agita
tor of 'he hour, but aripe statesman
of the first order. As the Baltimore
American says: I
"There is no more loyal Englishman in
the Queen's domain than John Bright, nor
one less given to rash conclusions. His is
a fearlessness which arises from profound
convictions, and good of country is the
mosi power mlly impelling motive of action
witn him. When such men, therefore, not
only urges upon the Crown the necessity of
taaiug tne most generous measures to re
lieve Irish distress,! but advocates the
appoiutment of a commission to carry
out Mr. Par.neU'a plan of selling the vast
estates of the nobilitv to the tenants
who make them productive, the Gov-
erumeLl can no longer refuse to .listen,
however determined it may be not to yield.
So lung as puhHc dissatisfaction is confined
to Irelacd, Beaconsfield can afford, per-
uaps, losnap uis nngers at it; but when it
mautfesis itself at home and in the-person
of a great popular leader, he must either
concede something or lose all. j If it has no
other effect, we may be pretty sure Mr.
ungnrs speech will, at last, stimulate the
ministry lo adopt such measures of relief
as win save it from the odium of having
abandoned its Irish subjects to the charity
01 America. i
The last quotations from the Maine
political stock market represented
the Da v is Chamberlain-bavonet-Sn-
.
preme Court stock firm and stiff;
whilst the Garcelon Smith Pillsbury
I stock was quoted as very weak and.
rapidly declining, j
"itJ prononnced by competent judges
to nave Deen one or tne best nnan-
cial speeches ever delivered in Con;
gress.
Mr. Columbus C. Benson, the Chief
of Police,of Norfolk, Va., whose death
by suicide was announced by tele
graph, was a faithful soldier in the
war, serving as a Lieutenant in the
Sixth Virginia,f and served for six
years as Chief of Police.
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1880.
XII li WAR OP THE nAlLBOADS.
j" We have been deterred from men
tioning editorially the great railroad
fight ,an account of which fills jour
leadiug Southern exchanges, because
of the 6pace that wonld be demanded
to give an intelligent and full view
of it. In order to understand j the
merits of the struggle our readers
would have to be familiar with 1 the
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many roads embraced in the fight,
and besides have before them a rail
road map with the route laid down
before them. j
1 The Louisville & Nashville Rail
road has bought a controlling interest
in the Nashville & Chattanooga
Railroad and its dependencies. The
significancy of the purchase lies in
the fact that these two roads have
been competing for many years to
get control of the trade of the South.
The Columbia Register says:
j '.The first distinct move in the game was
the purchase of the Southern or Kentucky
link of the Sfc-Looirtfe -Buutheastera Rail
road between , Nashville nd E$ansille.
pwhich naoTlbeen a feeder of, the Nashville
& Chattanooga Railroad : m its' Ot. .Louia
business, and thus made the Nashville &
Chattanooga Road independent of the
Louisville Railroad, its old feeder. This
was a very natural and necessary move
ment on the part of the Louisville company,
for with tbe St. Louis business turning one
flank of Louisville on one side and the Cin
cinnati Southern on the other, the fair
Falls City of the Ohio seemed to incur! the
risk of being stranded and left high and
dry in the great struggle for Southern trade.
The very necessities of Louisville, there
fore,' made her fight like a rat in a corner
for a trade that naturally and geographical
ly belonged to her. The Nashville &
Chattanooga met the movement with a
broad and comprehensive counter-movement,
and laid its plans for a grand scheme
which should control the St. Louis and
Northwestern trade from the Mississippi to
the sea, from the lakes to the Gulf, and thus
to make Nashville the controlling head cen
tre of the vast traffic." j
j Colonel Cole had charge of the
last movement. There are other de
pendencies that come in. It is unne
cessary to mention them as they
Would merely perplex J the reader
without a map. At one time it was
thought certain Colonel Cole was
master of the situation. The Register
says:
! "The lease of the Georgia Central and
its dependencies from Atlanta to Savannah
by Colonel Cole and his friends was the
complete transaction by which the Nash
ville & Chattanooga, through its great bead,
Colonel Cole, gave its powerful rival the
amp de grace."
But the "best laid plans, &c.," fail
in railroads as in other things. In the
meantime the Louisville & Nashville
Company was busy in making pur
chases and forming combinations. It
purchased the South and North Ala
bama Railroad. It bought a majority
of the stock in the Mobile & Mont
gomery Road, thus securing an unin
terrupted line from Louisville to Mo
bile. Its next move was to buy the
Louise, New Albany & Chicago
Railroad, running from New Albany,
opposite Louisville, on the Ohio; to
Michigan City, on Lake Michigan,
some sixty miles south of Chicago,
j It was thus made strong. The next
move was a proposition from the
other great rival road to consolidate.
The Louisville Road got possession
of the Georgia Western. This gave
it a shorter route than the rival road
could give. Finally the Louisville
Read went to work to buy a control-
ing interest in its rival. The Register
says:
I "Without the knowledge of the Nashville
and Chattanooga parties, the Louisville par
ties naa succeeded, in getting enough of the
stock of their rivals to give them a majority
of the outstanding shares provided they
could capture tbe holdings of one of these
gentlemen."
It is not necessary to show how
this was accomplished. It was
great stroke. The contract was made
in New York, and was announced at
the time by telegraph. The road thus
purchased owned $3,500,000 of stock.
If the other roads interested should
confirm the sale, then, according ! to
the New York Times, the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad will have abso
lute control of 3,500 miles of railroad
-p"the largest aggregate under one
management in the world." The Times
says:
"The combination will include what may
be denominated the Louisville & Nash
ville main line, from Louisville, Kentucky,
south to New Orleans. Louisfana. via Nash
ville, Tennessee, and Decatur, Montgomery
ana Mobile, Alabama, with a small branch
line from Pollard, Alabama, oa the Mobile
& Montgomery road. to Pensacola.
Florida; the Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago road, from Louisville north, via
jjarayette, Indiana, to Michigan City, on
Lake Michigan, whence connection can be
made to Chicago by way of tbe Michigan
Central, Pittsburg & Fort Wayne and
Grand Trunk routes, or bv a new road
sixty-five miles long; a branch of the Lou
isville & Nashville road, southwest only
from Memphis Junction, Kentucky, to
Memphis, Tennessee: the St. Louis &
Southeastern road, southeasterly from
St. , Louis, Missouri, to Nashville,
lennessee, via Jfivansville, Indiana
the Nashville & Chattanooga Road, stil
southeasterly from Nashville, Tennessee, to
Chattanooga, Tennessee; the Western &
Atlantic Road, from Ckattanooea. Tennes
see, to Atlanta, Georgia; and the Georgia
wentrai itoaa, irom Atlanta to savannah.
via , macon, besides numerous minor
branches. These will give an uninter
rupted route from the fresh-water lakes to
the Gulf on one hand, and from St. Louis
to Savannah on the other. A. complete
monopoly of through Southern traffic will
be secured; every outlet fram Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama qand Georgia below
Cincinnati, on the Ohio, and Memphis on
the Mississippi, will be controlled, and all
competing or other lines will oe made pure
ly local or contributary." r j
Whether or not the victory is com
plete remains to be seen. Col. Cole may
still be able to make a fight. North
Carolina has some" interest in this
battle of the magnates It is not
simply a great stragg between
competing capitalists, buf a fight in
which States are interested. It is
possible for Cole to form a alliance
with the Cincinnati Southern. . If
this is done the victory may not be
all on one side. The Augusta Chro
nicle says: i
"There is no denying that tbe Western &
Atlantic Road is still the key to the' situa
tion Cole and his friends iBOotrol thai
Suppose tbe Cincinnati Southern , offers
him what he has lost at Nashville? The
Cincinnati Southern has four lines to Cbi?
cago and the lake region. Why not CoL
Cole get his alliance liere. andta a menttt
hae aonlg tJiom. U JUmmM -tofae I
ocean, without ouuamg a iooi or roao, as
good as the one be has lost?"
While the Louisville & Nashville
Road is thus forming its combina
tions for the trade of the South and
Southwest, it gives no consideration
to the tradeof North Carolina. Un
less that road regards the trade of
this State as important North Caro
lina must look to Chicago or Cincin
nati, possibly to the latter, for an
opening of a continuous line from
Cincinnati to Wilmington.
THE PROPOSITION TO feKIiI. TUB
W. N. C. HAILROAD.
The Stab has bad nothing to say
about the effort to buy the Western
North Carolina Railroad by f. Syndi
cate represented by a Mr. Best, of
New York. The papers of this State
that have discussed the matter are
considerably divided in opinion as to
what ought to have been done. The
proposition is stated to have been
this :
"Mr. Best proposed that the Legislature-
should be called in extra session to transfer
the road; that he and his associates would
form a new corporation, with a capital
stock of $4,000,000; that the new corpora
tion should have power to mortgage the
road to the extent of $12,500 per mile; that
they should complete the French Broad
branch by the hrst or July, 1881, ana the
Ducktown branch by the first day of
July, 1885, that they should pay the in
terest on tbe mortgage or $oo,yuu now on
the road after the first day of May, 1880,
and, of course, the mortgage itself (lot
which tbe State is not bound); that they
should give tbe State $850,000 of stock m
the new corporation; that the State enouid
furnish 500 convicts per annum until the
I 1 GQK nUln Via .n.il
the company paying nothing for said con
victs except expenses in guarding, clothing,
etc."
We have, heretofore, withheld our
hand in this controversy because we
had not the time to give the mat
ter that matured consideration which
was necessary to write understanding
ly about it. We desired to be go
verned by facts, and not by any sel
fish or narrow considerations.
The Charlotte Observer deprecates
the sale of this road. It evidently re
gards such a procedure as fraught
with many evil consequences. It
takes this view, supposing the sale
made to a Syndicate which would
have the power to dispose of the
right to make all connecting links
between Charleston and Knoxville,
thus crippling, if not destroying,"the
North Carolina enterprise":
"But on the other, hand, suppose tbe
State holds her grip, the completion of the
road between Asheville and Wolf Creek,
being a necessity, cannot be long delayed,
and she will then be in a Condition to turn
this vast trade in the direction of her own
seaports, and Charleston must come to
North Carolina towns to buy her Western
supplies. With this little link in unfriendly
hands, with Norfolk on tbe north and
Charleston on the south, and tbe Richmond
& Danville Railroad a feeder to Richmond,
Charlotte and other North Carolina towns
would have" a rough time of it."
If there is money for a Syndicate
in the road there sought after, there
ought to be profit for the .State in
the same road. From what exami
nation we have been able to bestow
upon the merits of the question, we
have arrived at this decided conclu
sion: that the sale ought not to have
been made, and that Gov.' Jarvis de
serves credit for his action in the mat
ter. It would be a great blow to the
interests of the larger portion of the
State. Viewed in all its bearings,
as far as we have been able to dis
cover them, we can see no good and
sufficient reasons for yielding to the
Best offer, but we can see most satis
f aotory reasons for ppposing it with
all due emphasis ana vigor.
We shall consider the matter o
the road and the interests of the
State under a new aspect in our next
issue.
The colored Republicans in Mary
land have revolted against the regu
lar party organization. They Io not
like theVay their white allies manage
matters. They are evidently getting
I tired of being used.
BT A K
: TUB COURTS.
The Warsaw Brief Mention, dis
cussing the necessity for certain
changes in the court system, thinks
there should be four Superior Courts
or each county yearly, except in the
smaller counties for which three
would answer. It is for abolishing
all Inferior Courts, special proceed
ings before clerks, and all final juris
diction of magistrates. In developing
its plan it says:
"Let the County commissioners of each
county decide how much time the criminal
docket would probably consume eacn term,
and let the parties and witnesses in civil
causes be summoned for the day after; then
if the State business was through the civil
docket would be taken up, otherwise the
State docket would be continued until dis,
position had been made of all tbe cases,'
then the civil causes would be taken up. If
the State causes were disposed of before
tbe day for civil causes, the judge would
remain until that day and then proceed.
The four terms would render it probable
that civil causes would be reached by
Wednesday or Thursday in most counties,
and the. parties and witnesses not being
fiummoned until the day appointed, would
be an immense savlae to the people, while.
if tbe State business was dispatched before
the day, no one would be at any expense
by the Judge watting until that day."
It assumes throughout that the
creation of more Judges and circuits
is a necessity, and that by it the peo
ple would be very greatly benefited
and money would be actually saved.
Not being lawyers we do presume to
speak from practical knowledge of
the deficiencies of the courts. If
they are as is represented by the legal
editors then some changes ought to
be made and will be made sooner or
ater. Tbe Stab will very cheerfully
avor any changes in the judicial
system by which the tax-payers are
to be benefited and money actually
saved. In the present system as far
as the jurisdiction of the justices of
the peace is concerned there ought
to be changes made of a most radical
kind.
GRANT ON GEN. LGB.
John Russell Young has been
giving Grant's opinion of Robert E.
Lee. . We knew long ago that he did
not appreciate his great adversary.
When, in 1865, he said, in response
to a direct inquiry, bow. General Lee
impressed bim as a military leader,
that his greatest quality as a soldier
was his ability to excite enthusiasm
in his soldiers and that he was a good
man, we were prepared to hear him
talk as Young reports bim. We
copy from the Philadelphia Times:
"Lee was of a slow, conservative, cau
tions nature, without imagination or humor.
always tbe same, with grave dignity.' l
never could see in his achievements what
jusunes ma repuiauon. ine illusion mat
nothine but neaw oaas beat mm win not
stand in tbe ultimate light of history. I
know it is not true. Lee was a good deal
of a headquarters general a desk general.
from what 1 can bear, and' from what ma
officers say. He was almost too old for
aotive service the best service in tbe field.
At the tims-of the surrender be was fifty-
eieht 07 fifty-nine and I was forty-three."
"His officers used to say that he posed
himself, that he was retiring and exclusive.
and that his headquarters were difficult of.
access.."
Lee had capacity of a high order.
He was graduated 1st at West Point,
Grant 36th. In Mexico he showed
himself a most capable soldier. As
to his being beaten by heavy odds be
ing not true, as Grant says, we have
only this to say now: Grant admits in
his official report that he had more
men killed and wounded than Lee ac
tually had men in his army. At the
close of the long struggle Grant still
had some hundred thousand men
whilst at Appomattox Lee surren
dered some 8.000 muskets. There is
w
one interesting historical fact given
by Grant, which we copy:
"Mv nursuit of Lee was hazardous.
waa in a position of extreme difficulty. You
see I was marching away from my supplies,
while Lee was marching back on his sup
plies. If Lee had continued his night an
other day I should have had to abandon
the pursuit, fall back to Danville, build the
railroad and feed my army. So far as sup
plies were concerned I was almost at my
last gasp when the surrender took place.
Gen. Ben Butler made an argument
before the House Committee on Elec
tions, in which he showed that one
hundred thousand voters were dis
franchised in Massachusetts by the
educational qualifications. That State
gets credit, however, for theBe one
hundred thousand discredited voters
who never vote. The Baltimore Suris
Washington letter says:
Attention has more than once been
called to tbe argument that a strict en
forcement of the fourteenth amendment.
Buch as those States determinedly insist upon
where the South is concerned, would
abridge tbe representation in tbe lower
House of Congress of at least two of the
New England States."
The Philadelphia JPress Republi
can organ, says that; "the declaration
of General Mahone, the newly-elected
Readjuster Senator from Virginia
that he would support for President
either Blaine' or Sherman in prefer
ence to a Bourbon Democrat, is a very
important political fact."
Just so. But does Mahone so talk ?
OUR
lHAMJPACTTJRINfl
! - EST.
INTER-
Mr. J. fv. Taylor' Saw Mill, and
Rleaara AltafFer, Prlee & Co.'a Pia
nlne .75111 and Saab, and Blind Factory.-
j
Mr. J. W. Taylor commenced work at
his new mill, formerly Colville & Co.'s.yes
terday, winning a hat from two gentlemen
who had bet him that he wouldn't get to I
work before the 1st of March, be contend-
ini? that he would Rw W hpfor th 1st
of February. The mill is new, out and
out, is furnished with the latest improved
machinery, and the test yes'erday shows
everything to work to the proprietor's en
tire satisfaction. He says his brother mill
men have j been very kind to him since his
ate misfortune. .
Connected with the same establishment,
though under different proprietorship, are
the Placing Mill and Sash and Blind Fac
tory of Messre. AltafEer, Price & Co., the
former on the first and the latter on the
second floor. These will be ready to com
mence operations on or about the 10th inst. '
IThef liroDfietors are now waiting for the
uwicr anutsqgine, me rormerio ob snippeoj
iroaraenmotra orrnnonday ana tue latter
to be ready early in tbey- week at the fourf
dry of Messrs. Hart, Bailey .& Co. , in this
city. Their establishment is also furnished
with all the latest improved machinery for j
their particular line of business. They will
also have attached to their factory a drying
kiln, where green lumber will be placed
and subjected to a steaming process for
about twenty-four hours, and then hot air
be turned on and the lumber dried and sea
soned for two or three days preparatory to
being worked up. Then tbey have an air
tight drying room, where the work after it
ia framed is subjected to a temperature of
about one hundred and thirty-five degrees.
lbe building is large, and though tbe
saw mill, planing mill and factory are all
under one roof, there is an abundance of
room.
Both of these etablishments have literally
sprung from the ashes of tbe late destruct
ive fire on the sue where they have been
erected.
United Siates Mall Wagons.
At the Post Office, yesterday, we were
shown by : Col. Brink the designs of . the
new United States Mail Wagons adopted
by the Poatoftice Department for the Mail
Messenger and Transfer Service which will
go into operation at Wilmington, Charles
ton, Savannah, Chattanooga, Knoxville,
Memphis, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati
and San Francisco on the 1st of July next.
The schedule of service required here will
be to and from the three railroad depots
and the Wilmington and Fayetteville and
the Wilmington and Smithyille steamboat
andings. The advertisement for propo-
posals requires the contractor to furnish his
own wagon. there are designs tor
three different dimensions of wagons,
the two-horse, one-horse and pony wa
gon. Wilmington will require a one-
horse wagon, tbe design for which
represents a very handsome covered
vehicle, with a body eight feet in
length, three feet and eleven inches in
width and four feet four inches in height:
the sides and ends to be painted and let
tered in a becoming style. When mails are
carried ia the night the wagon must be ac
companied by at least one person besides
the driver, as guard. The wagons will be
quite stylish, and the contractor will have
to be possessed or means sufficient to spend
two or three hundred dollars for this part
of bis outfit.
Accident at tbe Guano Works
Mr. Winslow Newkirk, engineer of the
Navasso Gaarib Works, near this city, met
with quite a severe accident yesterday. It
seems that: while attending to his duties as
engineer his clothing caught in the cog
wheels, aud he was precipitated into the
mill pit. . How he extricated himself from
the perilous position in which he was
placed he cannot imagine, as the machine
ry was not stopped, and his escape with his
life would appear almost miraculous under
the circumstances. As it was be was
badly injured, receiving two severe scalp
wounds oh the head, and wounds on the
shoulder and other portions of the body.
A physician was telephoned for, and went
unto the JNavassa uompanys worns on
the littlejsteamer Busy Bee, upon which the
wounded gentleman was subsequently
brought to this city and taken home. We
are glad to learn that none of his wounds
are considered dangerous.
The accident happened about 11 o'clock
in the morning.
Knlsnts of Pythias.
As stated in our State column yesterday,
the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias
meets in Fayetteville on the 10th of Feb
ruary. The Order in this city will be rep
resented by Grand Chancellor John L.
Dudley, who will preside; H. C Prempert,
Grand Prelate; Past Chancellor L. L.
Boone, from Stonewall Lodge No. 1, and
Past Grand Chancellor W. A. Gerken,from
Germania Lodge No. 4, while several other
Past Chancellors will be in attendance,
leaving for Fayetteville on Monday, the 9th
nroximo. '
The Supremo Lodge meets at St. Louis
on the second Tuesday in September next.
D. B. Woodruff, of Macon, Ga., presiding;
- ! m m m .
meeting of tbe state Republican Ex
ecutive Committee Tbe Result.
At a late hour Thursday evening a pri
vate dispatch was received here from She
riff Manning, at Raleigh, announcing that
the State Republican Executive Committee,
which had been in session there dnring the
day. had decided to hold the next Kepubli
can State Convention in that city on July
7th.
At the same time aa entire Sherman del
egation. consisting of W. P. Canaday, D.
H. Starbuck, James H. Harriss and Rufus
Barringer,! was selected to represent the
State in the Republican National Convert
tion.
New Coin to be Issued.
There seems to be a prospect of the in
traduction of several new coins into general
circulation. A favorabls report has been
made on a bill creating three new coins
Specimens of these coins have been struck
off at tbe mint. They are the Stella1,, the
25 gramme silver dollar, and the. goloid
metric dollar. The "stella" is a four dollar
coin, of six grammes of gold, three-tenths
of a gramme silver, and seven-tenths
gramme copper. It is larger, than the five
dollar gold piece, and very bright looking.
Spirits Turpentine
j ' Wilson Advance: The Baptist
! Church of this place has called. to the pasto
f rate of the CtmreriU Re. Joseph E. Car
' ter, now of Lexington, .Ky. It will be a
matter of congratulation not only to (he
people of Wilson,' but to bis friends in the
State generally, if Mr. Carter should accept
JyJ"Q tl,e cal1 and retQ"n t the Old North State.
Jiilizabeth Uity Jicononust: lilue
fishing has been a failure. The shad aud
herring fishing is opening, and fishermen
are all ready. They are sending off some
to market. Isaac Hughes, a young
man, was seriously wounded in tbe arm
last week by tbe accidental discbarge of a
gun in bis bands. He is improving.
Alamance Gleaner: Two sold
mines are now worked in the streets of
Concord, as we see from the papers.' We
have one in our town that has been worked
some, and there is talk of working' it again.
Un bunday we bear that tbe dogs
killed seven sheep for Mr. Geo. 8. ttodeer.
and on Monday Mr, Rodgers . killed rsome
uo8 lOT ma neignoors
Raleigh Observer: News was
brought down the road yesterday of the
explosion of the engine SwaanMpi, on the
Western North Carolina Railroad, three
miles this side of Statesville. The fireman
and engineer were both Jnjuted,, but not
seriously, it is said. The .engine was one
of theoldest on the roafl, and haj eeen
more service than any.-
A negro woman .named Marv
Kennedy beat her daughter most unmercifully.-
The CharlOttentaJWTw says: The
next morning she gays-birtb to a child
which was born dean aTad died herself eoon
afterwards. Her bpdy was considerably
bruised, and she had received severe blow -
on the head, inflicted by i fire shovel in the
hanas ot ner mother.-, ins brutal mother
III l " V. 1 1 1 ' T J . j m 1 i
h-u. prouauiy ywuuivvup ior muruer,' -
Charlotte democrat i ; One or two
ad-dogs have beeu heetr running through
the streets of the city within the past two
weeks. So Mrs. Conkling-js not ieal-
pus of Mrs. Sprague. But where is Mr.
Sprague? Poor fellow. - The Wil
mington bTAR, it seems to us.nearly always
take a conservative, sensible view of public
matters. It is rarely that we feel disposed
to differ with what 'it says. .
New Berne Nut JSheU: The
Methodist people of Swan Quarter, Hyde
county, desired to build a church on a cer
tain spot of ground, but as the land in
question was in litigation the church wns
erected about 200 yards distant, in the rear
of a jail. During the August storm, the
band of frovidence removed tbe building
bodily to the very spot on which the people
so much deBired to erect it.
i Greensboro ships large quanti
ties of articles of trade. In fact, as we ga
ther from the Patriot, the following were
shipped in 1879: Chickens, 19,963; eggs,
22,330 dozen; butter, 4,020 pounds; dressed
rabbits, 3,580; green peaches, 4,220 bushels;
rabbit skins 273,749; opossum skins, 13,899;
muskrat skins, 5,800; fags, 179,089 pounds;
bones, 25,000 pounds; dried peaches.apples,
&c, C3.800 pounds; sassafras oil, 10,241
pounds; wool, 14,379 pounds.
Methodist Advance: We copy
in this number of the Advance, from the
Wilmington Stab, an article on the life of
Rev. Thomas G. Lowe, by T. B. Kings
bury.. We do this for the following rea
sons: Because of its superior literary char
acter. Because we jiesire to perpetuate the
memory of so good a man. Because we
hope thereby to inspire in the hearts and
minds of the young men of North Carolina
the cultivation of tbe graces of oratory,
which were so conspicuous in his character.
Raleigh Visitor: Dora Gordon
Steele's Hallowe'en Burlesque Troupe will
be in this city on the loth of February.
The students .of Shaw University or
ganized a military company on Monday
last. Tbe following are tbe officers elect
ed: D. P. Lane, Captain; Buford. 1st
Lieutenant; Henderson, 2d Lieutenant;
Dixon. 3d . Lieutenant. Mrs. Dr.
M. T. Yates and daughter have just ar
rived in the United States from China, and
will arrive in Raleigh early this spring.
It is said that Milton Nobles will be
here on the 5th of next month.
Charlotte Observer: Col. Cal
vin J. Cowles, one of the stockholders in
the Copper Knob Mining Company, in
Ashe county, a report of the operations of
which was published in this paper two days
since., was yesterday negotiating with a
representative oi a sieam engine manuiac
tory in the city, for an engine for use at tbe
mine. As appeared from the report, the
company was organized with a capital
stock of $300,000800,000 unassessable
shares at $1 CO each. The mine is situated
fifteen miles from tbe famous Ure Knob
Mine, which is now being worked most suc
cessfully by a wealthy company irom li&ni
more, who employ several hundred bands.
Hale's Weekly: We live cheaply
in North Carolina $158,533 is the whole
amount of net income and profits returned
on the tax lists as filed in the Auditor's of
fice and summed up in his late report.
Only in twenty-eight counties was there
either income or profit. The grading
of tbe track for tbe Cape Fear& Yadkin
Valley Railroad is going on rapidly, the
convicts working well, as tbey do on the
Railroad. Guilford. Stokes and
Surry have added $65,000 to tbe capital
stock, but the progress of tbe road lo com
pletion must be very slow until the State is
in condition to pay the $50,000 appropri
ated at the last session of the Legislature.
Reidsvjlle Times: A Raleigh
correspondent to the Durham Recorder says
that the fight for Governor has settled down
between Jarvis and Fowle. Of course. They
are the only two we know contending for
it. But suppose tbe people give it to some
peaceable, good looking brother outside
who has never fought for it ? As a few
papers are for holding the convention right
off, some of the "fighters" may get in be
fore the people are roused up to go to tbe
scene of action. There is a good deal of
pulled hair lying around Raleigb now, and
the "fighteis" are almost on their backs
from exhaustion. '
. Kinston Journal: A negro man
had some white mice in a cage in Kinston,
on Saturday, which he said be caught last
week ploughing them up in the field.
-The negro who was shot last week in
Jones county, Bays tbe "man who shot him
had tried to conjure him the week before
by putting a lizzard in his chittlings.
The shad are making their way up tbe
river. Tbe first one was caught at Cow
pens on last Thursday night. Judge
Eure, in his charge to the grand jury, which,
by the way, waa a very able one, was par
icularly severe, ana a. minis jusuy so. o n
the "retail liquor dealers" in this town. He
said "intemperance bad caused more suf
fering and slain more men than war, famine
and pestilence combined."
Of the young actor, Paulding,
the Charlotte Observer says : His real name
is therefore Frederick Paulding Dodge,
and be is a grandson of John R. Dodge, for
merly clerk of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina, and a gentleman who was widely
known for his pungent wit and quaint hu
mor, a specimen of which-is preserved in
Wheeler's History of North Carolina. Tbe
venerable Mr. Dodge is now living in
Rockingham county. In tbe same county
resides an aunt of tbe young actor, Mrs.
Chalmers Glenn, while not far off across
the Virginia line are two other 'relatives,
Mr. and Mrs. James Glenn. . These were
all present in Danville when the young ac
tor appeared there,and with them he celc
brated his twenty-first birthday. Young
Paulding was born, we believe,, ?n New
York, his parents having resided there for
many years. y