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TWO AMENDMENT'i
The Raleigh Observer "directs at
tention to the proposed amendments
to the Constitution. These are.to be
voted upon in November. The first
concerns public charities. It is to
leave. the matter of providing for the
poor and helpless insane, the deaf and
the dumb to the option of the Legis
lature. Under the present law it is
compulsory. Are we to understand
that the Stale desires to recede from
its advanced ground? We had for
gotten the facts that two amend
ments were to be submitted to the
people, and we do not remember
clearly now why the amendment re
ferred to m the beginning was
adopted. If it is to remedy evils
growing out of county management
it will be necessary to explain the
mailer fully to the people, or else
they cannot vote intelligently. If
there id a crying evil to be cured, and
if the proposed amendment will cure
it without impairing the reputation
of North Carolina for humanity and
good works, then of course it will be
wise to adopt it. VWarc opposed to
aay change thai will affec& the repu
tation of our people abroad. -When
North Carolina decades ago uuder
toolT to keep abreast wilh the en
lightened and benevolent people of
oiher States and countries, aud end
ed her two noble charities, the Insane
Asylum and the Institution for the
Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind, a
grand work was done. There would
be neither wisdom nor necessity nor
glory in a retrograde movement, if
such were contemplated. Whilst other
States are enlarging their benevolent
operations North Carolina ought not
to curtail its charities. We are far
enough behind now in education and
other marks of a progressive people;
we should not get tired of doing good.
In some way God's helpless and smit
ten children must be provided for,
either by "the State or the counties.
B,ut, as we said in the beginning, we
do not remember accurately what ar
guments were urged for the proposed
change. There must surely have been
good grounds for the amendment or
a body of sane men would not have
ordered it to be submitted to the peo
ple for ratification or rejection. We
shall await farther light before com
mitting ourselves for or against. f
The other amendment concerns a
certain class of bonds that are speci
ally obnoxious to our people, jand
known as special tax bonds. It aims
to prevent the payment of all bonds
declared unconstitutional by the
State unless the people the source
of power shall so order it hereafter.
The Observer says:
"An amendment so important as this is,
and one which is so much in harmony with
the sentiment of pur people, will, we are
sure, receive their favorable consideration
and approbation at the polls. Like all the
other oroposed changes and measures of
the Democratic parly, it is conceived in the
public interest, and is calculated to, secure
benefits to the people in a contingency that
may hereafter arise." Already parties are
.seeking to enforce recognition of bonds
and coupons to the amount of $18,000,000
a sum nearly three times as large as our
public debt will be when the present fund
ing operations will have been fin
ished. This amendment will render fruit
less any recovery that claimants may make
in these suits."
HOW 1HB B1ACHINB WORKS.
The Republicans do not relish the
idea of seeing Grant nominated by
States that will not vote for him any
more than the Democrats relish the
laeaot seemg.Tilden endeavorin to
force himself upon them through the
votes of States that are strohalv Re
publican and will vote inevitably for
the Republican nominee. Whilst
tws condition of affair exists it
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VOL. XI.
I
seen that Grant! is immensely popular
with the Democrats, and Tilden is- a
prodigious favorite with the Republi
cans. Each party is anxious to name
the candidate for the opposition, feel
ing certain that he can be beaten
easily.
The friends of Mr. Blaine are very
much stirred over the fact that their
favorite is destined to be slaughtered
again, probably, and by the votes of
Southern Republicans. They have
great disgust at such arT outlook.
There are good grounds for sore dis
gruntlement, it must be acknow
ledged, in such 1 a prospect. This
accounts, no doubt, for the vigorous
and boisterous way with which they
open the contest for ! supremacy in
Georgia.- In Pennsylvania, where
Blaine was born, he is very -decidedly
thefavoriteif the canvassing of the
State can be trusted to show popular
choice. But Grant 1 will capture
- .
the entire delegation, it is said,
because the Camerons have so de
creed. If the Cameron clan had
gone tor onerman it would nave
given
him a tremendous boost and
him far more formidable at
made
Chicago than he promises now to be.
This is the era of "machine" politics
and politicians, and New, York and
Pennsylvania are illustrations in
point.
THG INL1ND ROU lE.
On March 22 Mr. O'Connor, of
South Carolina, introduced a joint
resolution relating to' the establish
ing of an inland coast line of ship
navigation continuing from the Cape
Pear River to the Saint John's River
and the Gulf of Mexico, and author
izing surveys and estimates of the
cost of improving the natural water
courses for the extension of such a
line.
It reads thus: 4
"Whereas an inland coast line of ship
navigation now exists from New York to
Pamlico Sound, North Carolina; and
" VY bereas under act of Congress approved
the eighteenth of June, eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight, surveys and estimates
have been made for its extension to the
Cape Fear River; and
"Whereas it is important, both for com
mercial and military purposes, this naviga
tion be extended to the Saint John's River
and the Gulf of Mexico :i Therefore,
"Resolved by (he Senate and House ofBepre
senlalives of the United Slates of America in
Vongress assembled, Tbat for the purpose of
ascertaining its feasibility and cost the
Secretary of War cause surveys to be made
and estimates of the cost of uniting and im
proving the natural waters for a continuous
line of navigation from the Cape Fear to
the Saint John's River and the Gulf of
Mexico, utilizing former surveys so far as
deemed advisable, for which purposes the
sum of - 7 .dollars is hereby appropriated,
out of any money in the Treasury not
otheiwise provided for.
-It was read twice and then referred
to the committee on Commerce. Our
readers are familiar with the reasons
why this important , inland water
route should be completed. It is to
be hoped that, Congress will pass the
bill. It owes it to the whole country
as well as to the South to construct
this grand coast line from New York
to Florida. It could! not fail of be
ing of great utility and profit, and in
time of war of the utmost advantage.
PBKSIONS-THB ATTITUDE OF BE
PUBLICANS. It is acknowledged by members of
Congress of both parties that the pen
sion business is threatening very seri
ously to swamp the Treasury of the
United States. The pension question
not only consumes a great deal of the
time of Congress but the pensioners
themselves consume a vast deal of the
revenues of the Government. Demo
crats and Republicans alike recognize
the gigantic proportions the evil has
already attained, but both parties are
afraid to interfere or grapple with it.
They say the business is very largely
overdone," and that if something is not
done to keep it within smaller bounds,
the result will be that it will become
a greater drain upon the country than
the war debt." There is but little doubt
that greater safeguards' are required
to protect the Treasury. It is said to
be a fact that there are more pension
bills now pending than could be passed
in three months due caution being ob
served and the entire time of Con
gress being devoted to them. We
gave the other day the amount of the
pension bill for the next fiscal year-
$32,400,000 which has passed both
Houses and been approved by the
President. 0 ;
But it is to be noted especially that
whilst Congress ! votes millions to
pensioners who fought on the
Northern side- against the South, it
refuses to pension tbe comparatively
few survivors of the " Mexican, the
Black Hawk, the Florida and other
small wars. ! In a recent vote in the
Houso 'mo8t .of the Republicans voted
against suspending the rules to pass
mm i 1 tj.-; j -u
mmSBt
a pension bill for the benefit of these
survivors. The Democrats voted
aye and the Republicans no. This
will prevent the passage of the bill I
this session probably. The Demo-
crats desired to reward, to eome
extent, the few men . who, remained
who had served their country faith
fully in those wars. But the Repub
licans would not hear-to it, and
why? The following extract from
the Baltimore American a square
out Republican sheet shows the ani
mus. Says that paper :
-Of course, the maior part of iti-a pro
posed pensioners would be from the South
ern States, and moat, of them' ex-rebels.
The presentation of the bill at once excited
the Republican side to the pitch of stub
born resistance," I :V : . : i
' Representative Frye a sort of
secondar'ys?'Congerb
bilt ill-timed.
while - thousands - of
soldiers of the
late, war; who are
poor and needy, - stand waiting tor
the pensions they have earned. He
thought the Republicans of the House
would meet the case squarely and
put the question to a test of strength."
This is sufficient. Seventy Republi-
cans said by their votes that the men I
who fought in the wars jotherl
thn i
that between the South and the North
should not be pensioned although
nearly thirty-three million dollars of
he people's money was to be spent
in one year to pay JNortnern pen
sioners with few exceptions. Of this
vast sum probably ten millions or
more was paid by the Southern peo-
Pe i : I
iHB ages of WORKMEN.
Some time ago we gave the sup-
posed average ages of certain callings
in lite, but confined our statistics
mainly to the professions. Dr. Al
bert H. Buck has published a recent
work on "Hygiene and Public Health"
that is well spoken of. He gives a
table of the average ages of men of
various occupations in life that is full
of interest. We avail ourselves of it
to copy a few j of the avocations
those that more; particularly concern
the South and this section. He says
blacksmiths average 55.1 years; brass
workers", 52.2: brewers, 50.6: butch
ers, 56.5; cabinet-makers, C0.62; cloth
weavers, 57.5-50; confectioners, 57.1 ;
cotton operatives, 47.50; dyers, 63.7;
fertilizer makers, 51; file cutters, 54;
gasmen, 62.65; workers in gold, 50.3;
grave diggers, 56.60; laborers in arti
ficial flowers, 40; day laborers, 52.4;
laborers in distilleries, 63.5 ; masons,
55.6; potters, 53.1; printers, 54.3;
railroad employes, 39.7; rope makers,
42.45; saddlers, 53.5; salt boilers, 67;
scavengers, 58; workers in turpen
tine, 62.3; stonecutters, 36.3; tanners,
61.2; workers in tar, 60; workers in
tobacco, 58.3; varnishers, 45; wea
vers. 51.9. I '
A short communication in the Ra
leigh Observer of yesterday, signed
"Anxious Sale Men," is to this effect :
"Will you please inform tbe public, if
you can, why that Best contract has not
yet been signed. Tbe air is filled witu ru
mors to the effect that there is some hitch
in the matter. We understood the contract
was to have been signed by Best & Co. last
Monday week, and now it is rumored that
some of tbe gentlemen with Mr. Best de
cline to sign. Why this delay ? What is
the trouble ? Will the parties comply or
not?" I'
That sell-out is becoming decided
ly interesting. It is beginning to as
sume "a very ancient and fish-'
ike
smell." Or is it a weasel ?
JDORtESTIO ECOHOOTY-SOOTK FACTS
WORTH CONSIDERING.
The Scientific American for April
24th, contains an interesting illustra
ted paper on the manufacture of Mege
oleomargarine and oleomargarine
butter. It gives several cuts to show
the process, and thejtext that accom
panies them is instructive. There is
no better authority in matters of sci
ence, mechanics and chemistry in our
country than the Scientific Ameri
can. We wish every one-could read
the article referred to. It corrects
many false notions, removes'doubts
and imparts needed information.
"We oan only glance. very briefly at
one or two points. -
First, it shows that oleomargarine
is healthful. Beef fat is constantly
eaten in some shape. It next gives
the origin of the new manufac
ture. Some . twelve years , ago
the French Government became
anxious to utilize as an article
of food the vast excess of fat con
tained in the 12,000,000 beeves annu
ally slaughtered in that kingdom. If
each of this vast herd could be made
to yield only a few pounds of edible
fat an enormous and ' valuable addi
tion would be made to the material
food supply, v It is just here we find
the beginning of the discovery. M.
Mege, a distinguished chemist, was
iiilw
commissioned by the Government to
investigate this important matter in
-domestic, economy " He c began, wfr
are toldwith a comparative study of
beef tat and butter; We - now quote
from the JScierMJZe American;
"The essential part of butter, its oil, dif
fers from the oil ofeuet in containing a per
centage of butyric compounds which give
to butter a part of Us flavor, and in lacking
the larger proportion Qf tearine which gives
to suet its hardness and rough grain. - ' v,
- "While investigating the origin of batter
in the animal economy.M. Mege found that
cows, when deprived of A ood containing
fat, still continued 16 give, milk yielding
cream, i The only possible source of ths fat
thus exhibited was the stored-up fat of the
cow's body.' Hence, beet fat could be con
verted into butter-fatijiBut - how? ' Physi
ology taught that the Change was wrought
in the living organism through the with
drawal of the larger part of the stearine by
respiratory combustion; the secretion of the.
remaining oleomargarine .: by the -: milk
glands, and its conversion into butyric oleo
margarine in tne uaaSHjneer me influence.
mammfkr3rpepaim7 . . .. , .:.
"Id the process of making butter by the
ordinary method, daring the process of
churning the cream,- the .finery divided
butter-fat is united in masses containing,
by mechanical admixture, from twelve to
fourteen per cent, of water or dilute but
termilk, carrying a fractional percentage of
cheese, j The latter ingredient of butter
contributes somewhat to its flavor, and at
the same time furnishes a ferment which
ultimately spoils the butter by making it
rancid, litis purely an accidental ingredi-
ent, and one not at all desirable. And to
some extent me same may pe said oi.ine
soluble fats, which .give to! butter its-varia
ble, though characteristic, aroma. They
are unstable compounds, decomposing
readily, and furnishing the acrid products
which make so large a portion of the butter
of the shops more or less unsavory and
unwholesome." . -
We cannot undertake to follow the
interesting account and trace, step
by step, the process by which M.
Meee accomplished the end in view.
Tt hi now known tnat h was Ruccess-
fQl. , To show this, although we have
published before other analyses, we
copy the following:
Analysis of Natural and Oleomar
garine Butter t by Dr. II. A. Mott.
No. 1,
Natural
Batter.
11.963
8:.032
No. 2.
Co.
Batter.
11.203
83.797
100.003
24.893
56 29
Constituent?.
Water
Batter solids.
100.000
23.824
51. J
I fOleln
L jPalmitin..
Insol. fats..- Biearine..
i j Arachin ..
LMyristin .
fBatyrin...
Sol fat ' CaPrlon
hoi.- rat. , -i caproin ..
LCapryim..
Casein.. ..L
Salt.. :
Coloring.matter
:::::!
..1
t 7.432
1.823
.21
5.162"
Trace.
.192
51U2
Trace.
88.032 88 79T
"The low percentage of the bracketed
compounds in artificial butter may be re
garded boih-fta defect anoV-as a merit, in
asmbch as they give to natural butter much
of its savor and fragrance, and at tbe same
time furnish the elements of its speedy
spoiling.! Lacking them, oleomargarine
butter does not easily become rancid, and
is, therefore, pleasanter and more whole
some when long kept."
France has been immensely bene
fited. In the United Stales the man
ufacture of oleomargarine butter is
already; very great. The danger will
be in the manufacture of a poor ar
ticle of j oleomargarine. As long as
it can be obtained from such firsts
class manufactories as those of Phila
delphia and Baltimore there will be
no difficulty in procuring a prime
artiole, provided these establishments
do not allow their article to depre
ciate, j j
As the Star has urged again and
again there should be a law to com
pel tbe sale of oleomargarine as such
and j not as butter. The Scientific
American 6ays the practice -of selling
it for butter is greatly exaggerated
as wholesale and retail dealers sell it
for wllat it is. It says that beyond
all question "oleomargarine is a fact
in the commercial world and must be
treated as such."
We make no apology for again re-
f : , f onUiant A
'V" " J V,.
discovery that adds some fifty million
of pounds or more of a dietetic com
pound to the resources of a country
as it has in France cannot be ignored
or despised. It merits the most
earnest attention, of our own political
economists and legislators. We avail
ourselves of an additional paragraph
or two in the high authority upon
which we have drawn already:
"Producers of butter urge that oleomar
garine injures their profits by preventing
high prices for butter. If this be so, it'
argues good to consumers, whose interests
must also be considered.
"Another important benefit to consumers
is that oleomargarine chiefly interferes with
the sale of common grades of butter, to
which it is far superior, and it is mainly
dealers in this grade of butter who raise an
outcry against the new product; although'
this outcry has been taken advantage of
by parties outside of the dairy interest to
curry favor with dairymen: and serve their
own selfish ends.
"The complaints of farmers against oleo
margarine are unfounded in fact, and are
kept up only by appeals to unthinking pre
judice. Oleomargarine is as much a farm
prodafit as beef or butter, and is as -wholesome
as either. . It is as legitimate a com
mercial product as tallow or lard, which
might be as well proscribed as oleomarga
rine. j- . -.v.'..:."' .
'Our Wilmington grocers should in
troduce this excellent compound.: It
should be of the best, and should be
sold at the prices it fetches elsewhere.
We believe it sells at about 20 cents
at retail. ' Give the people.. an oppor
tunity of buying butter or oleomar
garine as theypreter.
PBNQ8K - COCRTT. i
Democratic County Convention. - -
Pursuant to previous general notice the
delegates to the County Convention called
to appoint delegates from - render' to tbe
Congressional Convention,! to be held a
Fayetteville on the 2d of June, and to the
State Democratic Convention, to be held at
Raleigh on the 16th of June next, assem
bled at the Court House in Burgaw, at 12
o'clock M., on Saturday,- April 24th 1880.
Dr. E. Porter, Chaurman of the County
Democratic Executive Committee, ; called
the Convention to- order, and, on his mo- -
lion, Mr. Thomas Williams was appointed-
temporary President. JJrs. George P. Lucas
and W. C. Murphy .were elected temporary
Secretaries. -;. - .1
Tbe President explained the objects of
the Convention . in some approipnate re
marks. On motion the temporary officers
elect were .made the permanent officers of
the Convention. . ;v;-: - , .-. ' ;; .-.
A committee of one delegate from each
township in the county was then appointed
on BesolutidnB. The following gentlemen
composed the committee, viz: . -C
Lincoin-w. E: Scott: ; '." " " - ,
Grants-JsmesW. Foy. 1
Rocky Point E. Porter. . -
Caswell James F. Moore.
Union D. W. Rivenbark.
Columbia A. C. Ward.
Holly James M. 8haw.
' Caintuck George W. Corbilt
Holden George A; Ramsey. '
The committee retired, and, after due
consultation and deliberation, returned and
reported the following resolutions: "
We, the representatives of the Democra
cy of Pender, chosen by-ballot at the
primary township meetings xf the people,,
do now, in county convention assembled,
resolve,
' 1st. That the steady and long-continued
encroachments of tbe Republican party
upon the cherished and sacred rights of the
people, and upon those great principles of
State sovereignty and constitutional liberty,
that are the life-blood, of our popular form
of government, are not only wrong, unjust
and oppressive, but fearfully and alarming
ly on the increase. The existence and per
petuity of that glorious form of goverment
established by our forefathers, and handed
down to us by the wisest and best men of
our common country, are more than ever
imperilled by the doctrines, practices and
tendencies of the Republican administra
tion. The history of the country for the
last twenty years and upwards shows that
the usages and objects of that party are
subversive of free institutions and of liber
ty. It combines with the logic of events
and the records of truth everywhere patent
in proving that -the freedom, prosperity and
happiness of the people North and South,
East and West, can only be nurtured and
preserved by an overthrow of this party,
and by an elevation to power at Washing
ton of the Democratic -party, whose wise
and constitutional measures and objects of
economy, local self-government, capacity
and integrity in office, low taxes and low
tariffs, fairness, and freedom at the ballot
box, and resistance to centralization, are in
direct antagonism with the principles
and practices of Republican rule, and con
tain the only safeguard of the rights and
interests of the people and of the-guarantees
and spirit of the Constitution. -2d.
That we will use our patriotic energies
to defeat and overthrow a party th
fraught with great- danger to the best in
terests and rights of the peqple, and to the
holy cause of freedom, and tnat we win
call .upon our fellow-citizens at large to im
bue themselves with that spirit of liberty
and love of country which constitutes an
animated principle and cherished boon to
every true American citizen, and to unite
with us in efforts, to redeem North Carolina
and the country by a Democratic triumph
at the next general, election.
3d. That the vital importance of redeem
ing this district, and the evident determina
tion of the opposition to run their strongest
man, Remands, as of tbe highest considera
tion, harmony in our ranks, and the
selection of the strongest 'and best man as
our candidate. Any question of section or
locality is entirely subordinate and non-
essential in this contest, aud we appeal to
our Democratic brethren in our sister
counties of the district to ignore and disre
gard it altogether, and to unite with us in
the paramount principle and high duty of
nominating the man who will make the
most brilliant campaign, excite the most
enthusiasm, and secure the most votes.
4th. We believe that Charles M.Stedman,
of Wilmington, is that man, aud we heart
ily recommend and endorse him as the
choice of the Democratic party of Pender
for Congress. In so doing we re- echo and
adopt the truthful words of our own patri otic
MeClammy, when he says that Major
Stedman is a soldier of a brilliant and
stainless reputation, a man of the finest
business habits, a graceful orator and a
changeless friend, most widely and favor
ably known; a man who rose by his own
exertions to the proud place which he oc
cupies in the popular affections of the peo
ple and for the people, who, upon tbe very
eve of the last contest, declined the use of
his name because he was apprehensive it
would create discord in the ranks of his
party; believing that bis nomination will
secure to the party a leader about whose
ability to redeem the district there can be
no doubt."
5th. That the delegates from. this county
to the Congressional Convention are hereby
mstruciea 10 vote ior mm ana 10 use an
fair and honorable means to secure bis
nomination. .1
6th. That the course of our -own gifted
county man, Charles W. MeClammy, in re
fusing to allow his name tft be used in op-
. it. . b .i H :
posuiun iu juBjur oicuiuai iui iuo nomi
nation, illustrates anew bis abiding' and
deep interest in the success of the party
and a spirit of devotion and sacrifice tnat
endears him more than ever to the people
of Pender. ' V
7th. That the significant letter of Captain
John W. Ellis, of Columbus, in which he
declares a preference for Major Stedman,
commends him also to the public admira
tion, and that the card of the Hon. A. M.
Waddell, withdrawing from the contest in
the interest of the party, manifests a patri
otic devotion that secures proper apprecia
tion and our entire approbation.
. 8th. That the chairman of this Conven
tion appoint from each tnwoship three del
egates to the Democratic Congressional
Convention to be held at Fayetteville on
the 2d of June next, and from each town
ship five delegates to represent the county
in the Democratic State Convention to be
held in Raleigh on the 17th of June next,
by and with the consent of the township
delegates to this Convention.
The resolutions, as reported above, were
then put to the Convention by the Presi
dent and adopted without a - dissenting
voice. ' -
During the absence of the committee on
Resolutions the following gentlemen, being
called upon, addressed the Convention, viz:
Messrs. C. W. McClammyi Jr., John T.
Bland, S. S. SatchweU, W. C. Murphy, R.
T. Saunders, W. T. Ennett and others.
The speeches were in good, taste, spirited
add to the point. i
The President, after due- consultation
with the various township delegates, an
nounced the names of those appointed to
the Congressional and State Conventions
as delegates from Pender county. .
N0.27.
On motion of Dr. Porter it was resolved
that proxies shall be given by delegates to
the Congressional and 1 State Conventions1
only to delegates appointed by this Con
vention. On motion the President and Secretaries
were added to the list of delegates an
nounced as above stated. .
The regular business of. the Convention
being over, Dr, Porter arose to a question
of privilege, and addressed the meeting.
At his conclusion, on motion of G. W.
Corbitt, Esq., the thanks of the Conven
tion were tendered to Dr. Porter for his
defence of Maj. Stedman.
un motion of M. C. Collins. Esq.. the
proceedings of the Convention were or
dered to be Bigned by the Chairman and
the Secretaries, and sent for publication to
tbeHeview and Stab, of Wilmineton.with a
request that the ..Democratic papers of the
District, and the Raleigh News and Observer
' Copy -: r -. .. -
" The proceedings of the Convention were
throughout marked by an unusual degree
of harmony, -unanimity and enthusiasms
After a vote of thanks to -the officers, the
Convention; ad jorned sine d5fe. - -
: . TrioMAasWriiiAMS, Chairman. s
: 'IKi,U. -JttOBPinr, j- , " -
NEW HANOVER DELEGATIONS.
In accordance with a rcsolutiod adopted
by the ; Democratic Couveutida 6t New
Hanover county, j on the 17th iDSt., the
Chairman has appointed the following dele
gates to the State and Congressional Con-,
ventions :
STATE CONVENTION.
D J Devane, :
R S Radcliffe,
D K McRae,
AM Waddell,
LLBoon,
H C Prempert,
J H Muse,
ChasHKing,
C M Stedman,
John G Parker,
J D H Klander,
DB Mitchell,
SHFishblate,
J W Strauss, '
Wilkes Morris,
SP Collier,
F H Darby,
B R Moore,
Thos W Strange,
Graham Daves,
H Brunhild, '
HGFlanner,
Jas H Taylor,
W m Latimer,
Walter Parsley,
J A. Montgomery, -John
L Cantwell,
John A Farrow,
M Bellamy,
J I Macks,
R F Langdon,
John C Heyer,
John W Atkinson,
W W Shaw,
John Cowan,
T Calhoun James,
E A Maffitt,
W S Norment,
W J Mott,
Patrick Donlan.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
Duncan K McRae,
P Heinsberger,
HC. Brock,
W M Parker,
Seth W Davis,
ThosW Strange,
W alker Meares,
S Hill Terry,
Jos J Bowden, -B
R Moore,
IS W Skinner,
H P West,
George Brooks,
J I Macks,
JJ Fowler,
' Samuel Northrop,
James Reilly,
DRMurchison,
E G Barker,
P T Dicksey,
James W King,
SGHall,
L H Bowden,
WH Griffith,
NJacobi,
J MMcGowan,
Norwood Giles,
Geo APeckj : . J
Josiah Merritf,
Jno W Gerdts,
John Barry,
J C Lumsden,
R P Melvin,
L J Merriman,
L T Bowden,
J H Durham,
HOhlandt,
Philander Pearsall,
JH Mallard,
A Adrian,
Geo-W Branch,
D M Wright,
Dr J C Walker. .
J VY Atkinson,
Jas C Smith, :
W O Johnson,
Jno A Farrow,
JWMurchison, I
Jno G Parker,
Gerritt Walker,
H C McQueen,
FG Robinson,' j
EGPolley, !
Arthur Prempert, ;
JBFarrar,
W 8 Norment,
A D Brown,
R W Price, :
Wm H Bernard, ;j
J E Sprunt,
Albert Gore,
Jno GDarden,
FH Darby,
Geo R French, Jr,
Jaraes Corbett,
E J Lilly, Jr,
S H Fishblate,
W L Jacobs,
Jos S Mitchell,
D J Devane, j
J WPerdew,
WT Johnson,
H A Bagg,
H H Heide,
Marcus Bear, ' :
The Smlthvllle Hotel movement.
A friend from Smithville informs us that
a second meeting was held at that place on
Tuesday night last, to still further consider
the project of building a hotel there. A
this meeting it transpired that a Bite for the
proposed hotel, said to be worth $2,000,
had been subscribed, and also $1,400 in
money. It was resolved that books of sub
scription be opened, and that when $2,500
shall be subscribed tbe company is to be
organized, but work not to commence until
the whole amount of stock (not less than
$10,000), is subscribed. It was also de
cided to employ a draftsman to draw de
signs for tbe building. Our Smithville
friends are displaying a great deal of inter
est in the matter, and we sincerely hope
they may succeed in getting tbe necessary
stock subscribed at an early day.
murder la Sampion.
A gentleman who arrived here' from
Clinton yesterday ; reports that a murder
was committed near that place a few days
ago, but he did not ascertain the names of
the parties to the tragedy. It seems, from
what our informant could learn, that the
two men, both white, have enjo3red the
reputation of bullies in the neighborhood
where they lived, and that in two personal
encounters between them one of them was
Drettv badlv used ud by the other. On
the second occasion the defeated bellige
rent; who had been badly beaten, swore
that if tbe other ever attempted such a
thine again he would kill him. Another
difficulty occurrine between them subse
quent to this threat, and the weaker one
again getting the worst of the encounter,
he hurried to his house, got his double
barrel gun and shot his antagonist to death.
Greenback meeting.
; The Greenback County Executive Com
mittee met at the Court House yesterday
at noon, T. M. Gardner, Esq., in the
Chair. The purpose of the meeting was to
appoint delegates to the State Convention
at Greensboro, to be held on the 5th of
May, which Convention will appoint dele
gates to the Chicago National Greenback
Convention.. The delegates appointed were
Cam. F.r M. Wooten and J. A. Holt. Al
ternates: Capt. 8. W. Nobles and A. A.
Dudley. ! "Col." William Tecumseh Cut
lar. in attempting to "paralyze" the meet
ine. caused considerable amusement to
lookers-on. His language is represented to
have been, anything else but cnaste and eie
gant.
Jailed.
i DeDutv Sheriff Jas. H. Colvin. of Pen
der, brought down; Joe Campbell, colored,
last night, and lodged him in jail here, un
der a commitment from' Magistrate R. N.
Bloodwortb. of Rockv Point, to await trial
at the next term of tbe superior uoun oi
Pender, i Camobell is charged with break
ing into the store of Air. Thomas Williams,'
at Rocky Point Quarry, on Wednesday
night, : and : abstracting about $75 00 In
checks and money,
Spirits : Turpentine:
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Milton Ckrohiclet Mis. Jane
Murphy, of Caswell county,-gave birth ta i
three children, all of -whom were sound Mr
and healthy at last accounts: - All three are JtW
girls. ; : --; - 1 . .'-1
Raleigh Observer ?: Webster's
Weekly comes out souare for Geo Scales .
The Enfield Sentinel likes Jarvk but nreHrf
rers Fowle, and tbe CktLthti&BBeitfhg'-J?Mt:$
Bays ''there Is not so much taik for Jorvis ia l?S
tnis region." - -
Kinston ' Journal: fThe meeting
of the stockholders of the Atlantic & Not th
Carolina Railroad to consider the leaso to
Mr.Uest has been indefinitely postponed.
Brother Best don't seem to be in much of s
hurry to buy the Mallet road- . . -
Raleigh News: Up to the pre
sent writing the following are tire fruits oF
the series of meetings biog beWJo tbe
Salisbury Street Baptist Church r Fifty-two
conversions, -twenty seven received 1 for
baptism and twenty baptised. j.jv . -
r Wilson Advance: We are happv
to announce that Co). Ed. Graham Hay-j
hood has accepted tbe invtUUod ottha La- t
dies' Memoriat Associatibn of Wilson to de- i
liver tbe annual oration in honor of tha
Confederate dead on the lOthjof May.- . ' r
' Kinston Journal'. . In con versa-
lion with Col. Polk, several weeks co. he 1
stated that some Northern canitalista were 4
desirous of erectine a lute factory either in .
Kinston or Goldsboro, provided , the farm- i
era would engage inthe cultivation suffi
cient, to furnish ihe raw material. - :s
been quite, a slaughter of dogs in he Gum
SpriDg neFghborhood,- four miles from here."
and many persons think they die from eat-,
iqg the carcass of a mule that was recently
killed by lightning. ' They assert that the
electric fluid poisoned the flesh of the mule.
- Alamanoe Gleaner: We think
that the 'sentiment of the party in this State
points to Unratio Seymour as its first
choice, in Ci.sa he cau and will accept the
nomination. If we except Seymour, it
would seem thatBayard, of Delaware, is a
little nearer the White House than any De
mocrat just now.
Charlotte Iress The irrepressi
ble Josiah Turner, it is said, will revive the
Raleigh Weekly Seniinel He wants to tell
something about rings, official corruption,
tyranny and oppression. Mr. Turner knows
all about it and can tell it to a dot; says the
Salisbury Watchman. Of Course he-knows
it, and that's why "they" say he is crazy.
Wadesboro Herald: r Friends
of Judge Fowle, apparently well posted,
say that a decided majority of the Legisla
ture were favorable to bis nomination when
they left for their homes. - A mad dog
was killed on Mr. Benjamin Ingram's
plantation a few days since. We are
for Judge Fowle for Governor of North
Carolina against the world, the flesh and
the devil.
Raleigh Observer: At the second
Baptist Church, where Rev. A. W. Nelson
has been assisting the pastor. Rev. W. R.
Gwaltney, there have been up to this time
ninety-six conversions. The meetings have
been largely attended, and are the best ever
held in this church. - There have been six
teen baptisms, and this afternoon, at 4
o'clock, the ordinance of baptism will be
administered to several more.
Fayetteville Examiner : The
frost of the 10th which followed the snow,
has damaged the peaches in some localities,
but a large proportion has escaped any in
jury. The prospect now is that a fair crop
of fruit will be gathered. --It is a noted
fact that the most prosperous towns in the
State are those situated in the tobacco
raising districts, and in which the manu
facture of the weed is carried on. Durham,
Winston, Reidsville, Henderson, and lately..
Oxford and Hickory, are examples. Around
these towns fine tobacco-as raised, and beta
town and country are enriched. The farm
ers of Granville, where fine tobacco is a
specialty, are the most prosperous body of
agriculturists in Ine state, j
Charlotte Democrat: A gen
tleman who has traveled through some of
tbe adjoining counties a good deal within
the past three months, says that whea he
gets outside of Mecklenburg he finds milk
and butter scarce, especially butter; but in
Mecklenburg and part, of Cabarrus be
rarely ever finds a farmer who has not an
abundance of both. So much for the Stock
aw in Mecklenburg and Cabarrus.
Dr. T. J. Moore of this city, has been
selected to deliver the address on Memorial
Day (10th of May) at States?ille. Con
sidering the numerous fires in our nice City
qy the Sea, Wilmington, it seems she has
more fires than any other place of its size
the South. Are there not a great many
loafers and idlers about there who live by
thieving and burning.
Raleigh Observer: Sheriff J.
J. Hasty, of Union, county, yesterday
brought down three convicts Jim in.c-
Maness, Ephraim Wall and Noah Little,
and placed them in charge oi ine peniten
tiary authorities. - Board of Directors
of the Penitentiary met and a considerable
amount of business was transacted, l ne
Board determined to go forward to some
extent in tbe worki on tbe buildings,
ahd'hope to have the "domestic" build
ing commetea aunog ine . summer.
lu compliance witn an act passea at
the late special session of the General As
sembly, the Board ordered twenty-five con-
victs to be put at work constructing a roao
through and draining certain lands in Jones
and Onslow counties. It is hoped that this
will develop valuable lands in those coun
ties which belong to the "Literary Fund"
of the State. ' -
Goldsboro Messenger : We
learn from Sampson county that Jethro
Caison was killed by Wm. Cashwell, in
Hall's township, on Saturday last. It ap- '
pears to be another cross-road grog shop
affair.! The parlies are white, and it seems
had been drinking together and afterwards
bad an altercation, in which Cashwell
came out second best. Enraged at this be
lefffor his home, about a mile distant, and
soon returned with a double-barelled gun,
when, without further provocation, he shot
Caison, killing him almost instantly. The
murderer has fled, and at last accounts not
been taken. Good Democratic doc
trine : When the majority of a ward meet
ing or convention nominates candidates,
all good Democrats, and especially those
who participated in such meeting or con
vention, are honestly and duly - bound
by the action of the majority. -No bolting.
The gin house of Mr. John W. Jones,
of the Contentnea section in Greene county,
was fired by an incendiary last Sunday
night, and the building was totally de
stroyed, together with the gin, about 6,000
pounds of rodder, tarmmg uiensns, esc. - -. .-. ty
Mr. Jones' loss is about $1,000. No insur-- ! ;
ance. we are pieasea o learn inai
Hon. A. S. Merrimon has consented to
deliver the address, before Prof. Troy's'
Goldsboro Seminary, at the close of the
present session in June next. The
Warsaw Brief Mention heartily endorses
Rev. N. B. Cobb for the office of Superin
tendent of Public Instruction. We
are Dained to learn that the wife, of Mr.
Thos. H. Stanton died at their residence,
in Brogden township, a few days ago.
They were married but a few months. ;
We learn that for satisfactory . reasons
Judge Avery has suspended the sentence
passed upon tbe negro Alex. Rusher, and
in consequence be was not sent to the pen
itentiary, but is still confined in jail.
Raleigh correspondent: Mr. William J.
Best, .with bis son ; and secretary, ar
rived in this city yesterday. It is said that a :
much closer connection exists between tbe
syndicate of which he is the representative
aud the Richmond & Danville Railroad or
Pennsylvania Central, than was supposed
at the time oi the meeting oi the Legisla
ture.
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