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TIIKTWO-THIKDSRULE IN STATE
CONVENTION.
The Raleigh News does not agree
with the Star as to the advisableness
of adopting the two-thirds rule in the
State Convention. It says:
A m Ama n lo rcflunl irt ctI II chit ti fiiir
a, t " " " - - - - U U V . X WJ f III uuw U U
friend that the practice as at present is
c inect. In all parties the majority must
K-1 verb. The two-thirds rule was adopted
in National Conventions to prevent a mi-ii-irity
of the party from ruling the majority.
As luua very few of the Northern States
' c isi u Democratic vote, and if, a majority
f delegates to a National Convention nom
inated a candidate for President he would
Im nominated by a minority of the party.
In the several States it is different: The
vote of a Democrat in Radical New Han
over is us good as that of a Democrat in
Democratic Duplin. In State contests
every Democrat's vote counts. In general
elections a Democrat's vote is worth noth
ing outside of a Democratic State."
When the rule was first introduced
by Gen. II. M. Saunders nearly forty
years ago many Northern States did
"cast a Democratic vote." The rule
was adopted to prevent, in part, weak
candidates from being selected. But
what ever the reason it has been
found to work well, and in the Dem
ocratic State Conventions held thus
far in the North nearly all have in
dorsed afresh the two-thirds rule.
They know that they are in the ma
jority and yet they favor the retention
of tiie rule. The South favors it be
cause it does not want a man foisted
upon them who is distasteful or who
is weak.
We can but believe that it would
prove serviceable if adopted by our
State Convention. It would It least
guarantee that the man who was se
lected had strength enough to com
mand two thirds of the delegates. A
very weak man before the people
could hardly capture a body with the
two-thirds rule in force. So it
strikes us!
The Fayetteville Exam iner takes a
jvery different view of the rule from
l!vat taken by the Neios. The News
says that the rule was adopted "to
preventj a minority from ruling the
m ajority." Tho Examiner ,per contra,
says:
'- "De Tpcquevilie, a French traveler and
political philosopher, who visited this coun
try some years ago, after a careful study of
our institutions, came to the conclusion
Uial the tyranny of the majority over the
minority was the weak point in our system
of government. To put it differently, the
rights of minorities are not sufficiently pro
tected. Since then the device of cumula
tive suffrage, by means of which minorities
secure representation, has been invented,
and is practiced in some of the Northern
Stales. The minority certainly have rights
which the majority are bound to respect.
The Democratic party long
ago recognized the sound policy of respecting
the wishes of the minority of the party by
adopting the two-ffiirds rule; a rule which,
we trust, may be continued in full force
until its bad policy may become apparent;
which time, we think, will not come soon."
Both of the editors are gentlemen
of decided intelligence, political
observation and experience. They
view the. rale from opposite standing-
points. The one thinks it was adoDted
-
-to protect the majority; the other
thinks it was adopted to protect the
minority. The Stab, with the lights
before it, is inclined to favor the
two thirds rale all round.
AN I ffl PORTA NT IVI AT I Bit FOR
UERIOCRAT8.
Our reason for referring so ofteu
to Mr. Seymour's health and the
chances of his being the Democratic
candidate is the unremitting: attempt
to kill him off by misrepresentation.
It is clear to the most sagacious
leaders that he is the best man for
the place". Unless it can be shown
that his health is feeble, and that he
will not accept the nomination under
any circumstances,, the friends of
other men are fearful that the wis
dom and judgment of the party will
unite in naming Horatio Seymour as
the man. Hence, every day some
VOL. XI.
new rumor, given out as the latest,
is put in circulation that his health is
infirm, or that he will notfbe a candi
dale and so on; It is certain that
Air. Seymour's jheallh is unusually
firm for a man of his age,1 and it is
equally certain that he has not been a
candidate for the nomination, that he
is not now a candidate for the nomi
nation, and that he will not be a can
i i
didate for the nomination. j
But all this is a very different thing
from saying he .will not accept the
nomination if tendered him by the
Cincinnati Convention. We regard
this matter of sufficient importance
to reproduce some recent evidence on
the point m question the pivotal
point, to wit, will he accept if nomi
nated.
Tho Richmond Dispatch 61 Wed
nesday says:
"Now, we have in our hands a letter
written on the 14th of Mav bv a well-known
New York journalist who is a pirsonal
ineua or jvirj oeymours, ana who has re
cently had a number of conversations with
that distinguished statesman, in which
letter he writes as follows: I
"i'Nbw ork. Mav 14. 1880.
" 'My Dear Sir, , : I believe, after
half a dozen conversations with !Mr. Sey
mour, that if he were unanimously, called
io Decome me uemocrauc candidate he
would accept' or, jto speak literally, hej
would not decline. He docs not seek the
office, but if I he believes the life of the
Democratic party to be at stake be will not
refuse to be the standard-bearer.".!
'A Washington letter in the Alexandria
Gazette of Monday confirms the statement
oi mat journalist, it says: Mr. S3. S.
Cox informed a gentleman last night that
everything was favorable to a union of, the
Democracy in New Yoik, and that his" in
formation, direct from Utica, was that
Seymour would accept the nomination if
tendered him.' Mr. Cox ought to be good
authority. Kecollect, lob, that he spoke
after the New York World's last effort
to kill off Mri Seymour had been made.
Mr. Seymour could in a moment end all
controversy . by saying positively that he
would refuse a nomination. Why does he
not say so ? Because be! does not wish to
demoralize the New York delegation to
Cincinnati, nor to withdraw it or any part
-of it from Mr. Tilden, uior to offend Mr.
Tilden or his friends, and because he really
prefers that somebody else should be Pre
sident. He will accept only in case he must.
He would prefer not to do so."
We hope; our readers generally
read in yesterday's issue theextract
from the Philadelphia limes, a pa
per of unusual political prescience
and judgment. That paper,
amonsr
other sober and wise things, said
"He is the strongest of all thej leading
men who have been discussed fori the Cin
cinaati nomination, not only as an availa
ble . candidate,! but in all the quaiities of a
great Executive, ami in the uncertainty
that now clouds the decision of the Con
vention ihe selection of Horatio Seymour
is auogemer within the range of possibili
TIIK KALKIUII NEWS AND
THE
STAR. I
The Star
copied a' brief
extract
from one of its exchanges in which it
was charged that Gov.j Jarvis, when a
member of the Legislature, haci voted
for the special tax bonds. It was
tho purpose of the Stab, to give also
the denial. Just as soon as the long
editorial appeared in tne News in de
fence ot the Governor, an editorial
was prepared: for the Star in which
it was stated that I the Gover
nor's organ - strongly1 denied the
charge and offered proof to sustain
the denial. li was farther said, that
the Star had written 'nothing con
cerning the truth or falsity of the
charge, and inasmuch as the conh-o-versy
as to the point raised promised
to be heated aiid prolonged the
Star at present at
take no part in it,
give no opinion of
least ! would
i
and would.
itts own. It
wanted light-fit wanted facts. The
editorial referred to contained other
matter) and becauseof it, for certain
considerations it was tiot, published.
The Star recogoizes the propriety of
the heathen maxim audi alteram
partem. It may not app'rovc of much
that Gov. Jarvis has hone, and it
may not think his nomination the
wisest and most popular, under the
circumstances,1 but it will not be a
party to any attack uplon his record
unless stating j as much in defence as
is given on the other side.
We very willingly mention that
the News is making a strong
fight in vindication of thej Go
vernor's legislative record, whilst
he is being assailed byjone or! more
correspondents of the Raleigh
Observer. The Star editorially has
kept out of the fight of I the various
candidates for office because it did
not care to ventilate th records of
men of its own party, some of whom
might be nominated. In thus re
maining silent it did not mean to say
thereby that it had no convictions of
its own as to the best policy to be
pursued and the most available candi
dates to be nominated. Gov. Jarvis
and his friends ought rather to thank
the Star for withholding its hand
than to bo swift to seek a contro
versy with it.; i
The News, iri its notions of jour-
nalism, is pleased to refer by name
to a gentleman connected with this
office. Of course it is readily seen
why this was done. As that person
cannot carry on a; controversy in
these columns, where r impersonal
journalism k the rale, he will seek an
audience through, some Raleigh pa
per if it be necessary. He has no
concealments' of his opinions about
men and measures. That person, it
may be allowed to say jast here, was
surprised at the charge brought
against the Governor, and was equal
ly surprised that anything could be
made out of the charge. He would
be very reluctant , to believe that
Capt. Jarvis was a traitor when it
was believed that he was one of the
chosen leaders of "the noble little
band.?' He will - not S believe that he
voted for the speeial tax-bonds ex
cept j upon strong evidence. The
Journals of the House ought to show
conclusively how Capt. Jarvis voted.
The News complains that the Star
copied another charge, to-wit, that
Capt. Jarvis failed to vote some two
hundred times, &c. We give the ex
planation very willingly. It is that
he did not vote because it was a sort
of tactics resorted to in order that
oppressive legislation might be de
feated. The Star of course does not
remember Jarvis's votes how many
times he voted and how many times
he failed to vote. It was a surprise
to learn that he had not voted, but
the reason therefor was not known
to us until given by the News. We
give Capt. Jarvis the benefit of the
explanation.
We have seen and heaid other
charges, of a more serious character
against Gov.. Jarvis, bat we did not
publish them. We were unwilling to
believe them true, and we hoped they
had no foundation in fact. We will
take leave to add that oar recollec
tion of the carpet-bag days did not
prepare us to hear anything deroga
tory of Capt. Jarvis. We supposed
that in 1808-'69 he was all that; his
friends claim for him a true Dem
ocrat, with clean hands, battling ' for
the right. In those days, as far as
we now remember, we heard nothing,
saw nothing, that was not to his
credit. The Star would be glad to
approve as heartily of his administra
tion "as it approves of all it Jcnoios
or remembers of his course in the dark
and troublous days of 1808-69. ;
One word more. The owner of
the Star shapes its policy and con
trols its destiny. The opinions of the
Star are not the opinions of this or
that member of the staff, and it is,
therefore, not in good taste, to 83y
the least, to single out a particular
person and undertake to place him on
the stand as a j witness. The News
itself has been on both sides of sev
eral questions and has advocated an
opposite policy to that which it now
espouses since the year began. It
would not bo fair to hold the present
editor responsible for such contradic
tions and inconsistencies. It would
not be journalistic to parade some
editorial utterance of the Observer of
three years ago as the opinion of the
News now. Individual writers are
not machines. They have opinions
of their own. They may think one
kind of policy ought to be pursued in
a given instance when the directing
head thinks otherwise. The way to
get the opinion of the Star is to read
its editorials. "What the staff may
have writteu years ago for other pa
pers does not concern the Star.
' COMPARISONS.
Some men are very unreasonable.
They expect a morning paper in a
place of seventeen thousand inhabi
tants to be as large, as newsy, as di
versified, and as able as the New
York Herald, which is published in a
city of over a million of inhabitants
and has the world for its field and an
immense fortune to back it. Quoth
such complaineis and critics, why
spend your money for a little paper
"with nothing in it" when you can
get the Herald for three cents ? A
morning paper in Wilmington that.
gives more and later telegraphic news
than any other paper in the State;
that gives a fuller and completer
digest of State intelligence thany any
of its contemporaries; that gives
all the important local news:
that discusses thousands of topics
in the course of the year, besides
furnishing the comments of our
State contemporaries and current
opinion from papers . beyond the
State, whilst giving full reports of
home and other . markets, cannot , be
said to fail in its duty even though it
WILMINGTON; N. C, FRIDAY,
is a small sheet and Very inferior to
the "big dailies" in the big cities.'
For fifteen cents a week six suc
cessive mornings when the grumblers
are asleep this digest of news and
of comments is delivered, and you
are put in possession of all the im
portant events of the world of the
preceding twenty-four hours for the
trifling! consideration of 2 cents, a
sum which you would have to pay a
boy for the performance of a small
errand. If you would grumble less
and be more reasonable and just you
would have a more approving con
science and a better appetite.
Why are there not wholesale dry
goods stores in Wilmington with a
thousand men employed like in Claf
lin's, N1 ewYork? Why have we no
marble retail palaces grand and im?
posing like SttfWaft's? Why have We
no mammoth clothing establishments
like Devlin's or Wanamaker'e? Why
have we no immense book concerns
like Harper's or Appleton's? Simply
because Wilmington is not New
York. The reason the Star is not
as large, as enterprising, as able, as
full of jnews as the Herald is, is be
catiso it is published in Wilmington
and no in 'New York. It is just as
unreasonable to demand that the
Purcell House shall be as large and
as complete as the Fifth Avenue Ho
tel, as it is to demand that a paper be
published here that shall be judged
by the standard of the greatest news
paper ir the world. The whole thing
is stupid, and is iiot worth the con
sideration we have given it. We
have merely shot at folly as it Hies.
TUB DECLARATION ONCK MORE.
"We commend the admirable address of
Maj.C. Dowd, delivered in Charlotte on
the 20th I of May, and published in the
Daily Observer of yesterday, to the kind con
sideration of the editors of the Wilmington
Star and the Statesville American. In it
they, as well as the public at large, will find
some new, facts to establish the authenticity
of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
pendence and some old facts presented in
a new and attractive manner. Let critics
and theorists doubt if they choose, but the
people of this connty will go on celebrating
the day all the same. Charlotte Observer.
Years! ago wo read many columns
by Maj. jDowd on the Mecklenburg
Declaration. We will examine his
"new facts to establish the authentic
ity of the Mecklenburg Declaration
of Independence." We are not too
old to learn. We are not wedded to
any theory, but are always open to
light or any subject. As we said
before, vre do not doubt the fact of
an inflammatory and treasonable doc
ument being read and adopted on
May eotp, 1775. Our scepticism be
gins and stops at this; wc have not
the slightest idea that the document
is extant, or that we have the precise
language used and adopted. We
believe the evidence to disprove the
authenticity and genuineness of
the present document is simply over
whelming. We think it just as con
clusive as the evidence to establish
the fact of a meeting at Charlotte on
May 20th, and the adopting of a very
treasonable document. That is the
way it appears to us, after examining
into the matter with considerable
care. Gov. Swain was compelled to
yield all credence in the genuineness
of the document. Rev. Dr. Hubbard,
Rev. Dr. jCharles Phillips, and dozens
of lawyers we know have been forced
to a similar conclusion, and that
too after
being life-long believers
genuineness and aathen
the present Declaration.
in the
ticity of
But that i n no way 'affects the pro
priety of celebrating the 20th. We
wish the whole State woul do so.
The writer of this article urged that
this should be done as far . back as
1858," but not one response was made
to the appeal on the part of the Slate
press then. We hope the people of
North Carolina will adopt -May 20th
as a legal holiday, and celebrate it in
fine style.!
We do not think our friend of the
Observer treats the Star with its ac-
customed fairness. Latterly its re
ferences to the Star have been of a
character io leave the impression that
it is a sceptic in regard to all that
was done on May 20th. We are one
with the Observer except as to the
preservation of the document that
was read and adopted. We are proud
of what was done on May 20th at
Charlotte, j We are strong believers
in the fact of a declaration, and re-
gret that the document adopted was
lost or destroyed.
Would you believe it? The bio
graphical sketches call her Marian
Evans. But she writes her name
plain Mary Ann Evans now known
as "George1 Eliot."
JUNE 4, 1880.
COTTON JUIKLS AMD TUB ATTACH.
... j .; - .. ffltENT ., r ... ?s.
'Georgia is setting all of the South
ern States a n-axcellent -example. It
easily lead a all of . its sister States of
the South in the race of prosperity
and enterprise. : Already ahead- of
all of them in cotton, manufacturing
by very large odds, it is to have a
new factory at Augusta, with a capi
tal already, subscribed of $600,000
When it has been found .by. the
actual test of fifteen years' experience
that Georgia mills earn annually
frbm eight to twenty per cent., why
should business .men and capitalists
hesitate to try. this form of invest
ment ? In North Carolina there are
some fifty mills, but as they are run
by private individuals, with but few
exceptions, their earnings are not
kqown. It is knownhowever, that
some Tf the owners' have grown
steadily rich. ' .
That cotton spinning is profitable
in North Carolina there can be no
doubt, and it is to be hoped that each
year will witness the starting of new
cotton mills in our State. That the
Clement Attachment, about which so
much was said some months since,
has merit we cannot doubt. The evi
dence is sufficient to show that under
proper circumstances it is a very good
and profitable invention. Our readers
are familiar with the Westminster
mill in South Carolina and its large
profits. We will give what Mr. C.
T. Harden, manager: of the mill at
Windsor, North Carolina, has to. say
about the Clement Attachment. On
May 10th he wrote to Mr. J. R.
Adams, of Montgomery, Alabama, as
follows:
"We started last June, and have been
running Smoothly ever since. We are
pleased with our mill and have already en
larged it, and are going to enlarge it to
double the size it is in the fall. We are
now running two attachments, 612 spindles.
Our mill cost $11,000 as it now stands.
We are averaging three hundred pounds of
- first class yarn per day. Our mill is paying
d5 per cent, on the investment, and we ex
pect to make it pay 45 per cent, as soon as
our hands become expert. We have not
got a hand that ever saw a mill before.
Wc have met with no reverse, and had no
mishap to stop the mill a day since starting.
There is an unlimited demand for our
yarns. We get the highest market price
for our goods." j
Here are two mills, one in each of
-the Carolinas, and both are very re
munerative and both use the Attach
ment. We note these matters be
cause one of the true means of recu
peration and prosperity is to be found
in the multiplication of cotton mills,
with or without the Clement At
tachment. As to the use of the lat
ter, it would be well for a number of
largo cotton planters in a township
to form a manufacturing compa
ny and use the Attachment. By
this means the necessary facilities
will be secured and success guaran
teed. Washington gossip from "Bildad's"
letter in the Richmond State may be
thus condensed:
Grant men uneasy about Ohio.. It
is believed he cannot carry that State
if nominated. Blaine claims 306, or
73 less than enough to nominate. He
says Grant will not capture the Chi
cago Convention like he did the
Springfield, Illinois. Hayes thinks
the result uncertain, with chances
favoring Grant. A member of the
Republican National Committee said
to-day that 30 of the 47 members of
that committee are against Grant,
and that majority is too large to in
timidate or to bribe.
In four recent elections, held since
the general elections in England, the
Conservatives (Beaconsfield's party)
in every instance either won or gained
substantial victories. This shows
how easily a popular election in
England is affected by what appears
to be a trifling matter. The cause
of the change was that the Home
Rulers voted with the Conservatives
instead of with the Liberals as in the
general election. At Oxford and
two other constituencies they were
victors. .It is difficult to understand
why the majority a month ago should
be reversed by another election, and
why the two elections were held. It
is not certain, so volatile and capri
cious is public sentiment, that if a
general election were to occur now
that the large Liberal majority might
not be either very greatly- reduced,
if not reversed.
Governor Dorshiemer, of New
York, says Seymour would carry that
State by full fifty thousand majority.
Good enough.
Representative Acklen is to be
"exonerated" after alt by ra report of
the committee. They used to call it
white-washing. "
NO. 32.
CRiraiNAI COURT,
jne Burslarr Ctie Continued.: Ac.
Yesterday was the day set apart for the
trial of George Myers, colored, on the
charge of burglariously entering the house
of Mr. Daniel C. Davis some weeks since.
and stealing a sum of money, which was
continued over from the last term of the
Court in consequence of the severe illness
of - the principal witness. Upon the open
ing of the Court counsel for the defence
submitted an affidavit to the effect that their
client could not get a fair trial here,- and
asking for a removal of the case to some
other county, the grounds upon which the
affidavit was based being that the prosecu
tor, Mr. Davis, was acting in the place of
the Sheriff, who is absent from the city;
that be, (the prosecutor), is a man of ioflu
ence by reason of his ..position; that bur
glary is a common crime in the community,
and that sundry prominent citizens had
expressed the opinion that .he ought to be
hung as an example, etc., all of which ar-
gud a prejudice against him. .
Solicitor Moore asked permission of the
Court to prepared etuoter affidavit, which
was soon afterwards submitted. : This enV
braced a statement under oath from Mr.
Davis that he was not the prosecutor; that
he had not used his influence or made any
effort to prejudice the minds of the com
munity against the prisoner, and that he
had not taken any part in summoning the
special vmire to try the case; also a- state
ment under oath from Deputy Sheriff W.
H. Shaw, to the effect that he was the
principal Deputy during the Sheriff's ab
sence, and had control of the office; that
Mr. Davis had nothing to do with summon
ing the special venire to try the case, and
that, although in a position io hear such
remarks, he had heard nothing to the pre
judice of the prisoner from persons visiting
the office.
After the Solicitor had read and com
mented upon the affidavits, his Honor,
Judge Meares, declined to grant the request
for a removal of the case.
Capt. W. S. Norment, of counsel for the
defence, then arose and craved a continu
ance of the case until the next term of the
Conrt, giving at some length the; reasons
of himself and Associate counsel, as well
as the prisoner at the bar, for theirequest;
among which was the fact thai Sheriff
Manning would then be present, and do
away with the objection to Mr. Davis' act
ing as the Officer of the Court; ithat the
counsel, being assigned by the Court, had
not had an opportunity of consulting fully
with him; that there were additional wit
nesses to be summoned for the defence, of
whose materiality they had had no oppor
tunity of judging, and thai it was not a
matter of costs to the county, but of life
and death to the prisoner at the bar, etc.
His Honor then stated that the motion
for a continuance was granted, and the
witnesses were accordingly recognized to
appear at the next term of the Criminal
Court, "the special Tenire being discharged.
Capt. W. S. Norment and Mr. A. 6.
Ricaud appeared for the defence, and Mr.
Solicitor Moore for the State.
The following additional cases were dis
posed of:
State vs. Sarah Martin, charged with
slander. Defendant discharged.
State vs. John A. Jones, charged with
forcible trespass. Case continued for de
fendant. State vs. Wm. Dabhey. Former judg
ment stricken out, and judgment now that
defendant be committed to the County
House of Correction for thirty days, i
Several other cases of minor importance
were continued for the term.
At 11 o'clock last night the jury in the
case of Sarah Waddell, colored, charged
with infanticide, brought in a verdict of
"not guilty."
j
About tbe Census. j
" The Ceusus Enumerators for this District
have received from Hon. Francis A. Walk
er, Superintendent of Census, portfolios for
use in the enumeration of their districts,
containing schedules for population, agri
culture and mortality. Also supplementary
schedules 1 to 7 for the defective, depen
dent and delinquent classes, such as insane,
deaf mutes, paupers, criminals, &c.' Each
of the first named schedules provides for
the return of 2,800 inhabitants, 40 farms
and, 72 deaths.
Schedule No. 4,having reference to social
statistics, has, under authority of the 18th
section of the act of March 8, 1879, been
wholly withdrawn from the enumerators,
and intrusted to Special Agents of the
Census Office.
The collection of the statistics of manu
facturers in all cities and towns having 10,
000 inhabitants or upwards, according to
the census of 1870, has been charged upon
Special Agents of the Census Office, and
Enumerators will have no responsibility
therefor.
A single sheet of Schedule 2 (agriculture)
is senttoall Enumerators in cities, in the
view that their districts may contain a few
farms, market gardens or nurseries, which
should be reported on this schedule.
Criminal Court
The following cases were disposed of
yesterday:, .
State vs. Owen Boreham, charged with
carrying a concealed weapon. Defendant
found not guilty and discharged.
State vs. Jno. Burnett, charged with as
sault and battery. Recognized to appear
at next term of Court.
State vs. Wm. McNeill, charged with
larceny. Nol. pros., with leave.
State vs. W. H. Campbell and Wm.
Higb8mitb, charged with larceny. Nol.
pros , with leave.
Wayne county Radical.
We learn that the Republican County
Convention held at Goldsboro yesterday
was characteristically inharmonious and
disorderly. The Humphrey faction, find
ing itself in the minority, bolted ; but, as
is customary, claim a majority of the Con
vention. More loss of life and distraction of
property reported this time from
Texas. There has been no year
within oar recollection that has been
so pregnant with disaster to human
life and material interests by simooms
and storms.'
, Judge Merrimon's address be.
fore the Greensboro Female College was on
"Woman's Sphere of Action in Life." The
Patriot says it was a fine effort, protlucrd a
fine impression and was listened in with the
most appreciative atteniioV. 1 . V.
Greensboro Patriot'. Dr. R.
K. Gregory has seen red h patent a his
corn shelter mentioned w he Patriot sev- -
eral days ago. , A tUijng biirg ary was
perpetrated in this city Iihi uint" ai ihe
residence of Rev Dr. U lit
of the Methodist Chuich. A ncktH book
which contained n fifty dollar bill ami 6eveo
dollars in change was loun empty, and a
watch, a pair of spectacles and pHir of
shoes were also mi83ing.
; Charlotte Democrat: ' It is -'a
good sign id see how anxious some of our
best farmers are to try new seed and new
methods, and we take pleasure in procur
ing all we can for their use amTirial. .
If Best and his men should fail to .do what
is right and what they promised,, all who
favored the sale of the Road (whether: Jar
vU men or Fowle men) should be willing
to take their share of censure, if any censure
is proper, and not try to put it all on Gov.
Jarvis. -
Goldsboro Mesengeri Dr. R. '
H. Lewis, of Kinston Collegiate Institute,
has been selected to leeture on Physiology
during the next session of the State Normal
School at Chapel Hill. Col. John W.
Isler, of Newhope. township, reports that
the farmers in bis section have generally a
fair stand of cotton and corn: Wheat will
make about half a crop. Oats are generally
damaged. In the event that Wake
has ho other clace given heron the ticket
the friends of the Hoiu Georgu V. Strong
will press his name strongly for the At-
torpey Generalship. .
U-Raleigh Post: The people have
the rigfcl UiM)W'froivjhe Tr.eas.urer of
the. Stale whether th3 May" ifJTcr8t tut
Western North Carolina Railroad bond--,
or any of it, was paid by Mr. Best, ac
cording to contract. A letter from
Macon county says the people there are not
for Jarvis, but for Fowle first, then any
body except Jarvis. Noted : That but
three counties outside of the first and
eighlh districts, Anson, Mecklenburg and
Rowan, have instructed for Jarvis. Wash
ington and Dare, the latter one of his old
counties, did not instruct for him, though
confidently claimed that they would.
The condition of Dr. F. B. Haywood, Sr.,
is unchanged. Judge Fowle. as candi
date for elector at large in 1876, polled 2,400
more voles than Gov. Vance. " .
Warsaw Brief Mention: The
Union meeting of the EasternAssociation
will be held at this place next Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday. Rev. C. C. Newton
will preach the introductory sermon.
Duplin Superior Court adjourned last Sat
urday afternoon. Judge Avery dis
played in an eminent degree (all the qual
ities necessary for this position. He is a
good lawyer, listens patiently, acts courte
ously, decides promptly, adheres firmly to
his decisions, works industriously, and is
constantly on the aleit for the protection of
the public interests Bhe people in
this section take no stock in Gov. Jarvis.
There are not one hundred men for him in
this county, and very few anywhere in this .
section. It will be dangerous to nominate
him. Dangerous for the success of the
party and contrary, to the interests of the
State.
Raleigh Observer: The follow
ing is a list of the delegates from this State
to the Republican Convention which meets
at Chicago Wednesday next, June 3d: State
at Large Rufus Barringer, James H. Har
ris, W. P. Canaday and D. H. Starbuck;
First District Palemon John and S. T.
Carrow ; Second District Claiborne Faison
and J. B. Abbott; Third District O. H.
Blocker and G. W. Price, Jr.; Fourth Dis
trict I. J. Young and Stewart Ellison;
Fifth District Thomas B. Keogh and J.
W. Hardin; Sixth District W. R.; Myers
and O. J. Spears; Seventh District J. J.
Molt and T. N. Cooper; Eighth District
D. C. Pearson and Pickney Rollins. Dele
gates I: J. Young, Stewart Ellison and Jas.
H. Harris will leave for Chicago to-day.
The delegates from- the State are said to
stand twelve for Sherman and eight for
Grant.
Raleigh Post: We understand
that Hon. Josiah Turner, who arrived in
the city this morning, has effected arrange
ments to revive the Sentinel. It is to be a
twenty-eight column weekly, and, we infer,
will be issued sometime next week.
TJie second volume of Moore's History of
North Carolina will soon be issued.
The candidacy of Hon. James L. Robinson
for Lieutenant Governor is as dead as a
door-nail in the east, and the union of
Jarvis and Holt buries it. The friends of
Gov. Robinson now propose to bring
him into the field for Secretary of State.
-The Weekly News is a large, handsome
sheet, and well worth the price of subscrip
tion. Our friend, Richard Battle, Esq.,
lately of the News, has connected himself
with the Observer staff. The .reporter
wishes him much success in his new field
of journalistic labor. -It being 'the
fashion now to figure on future results, the
Post ciphers the State, by districts, as fol
lows: Jarvis 1st District, 100; 2d, 26;
3d, 50; 4th, 26; 5th, 43; 6th, 94; 7th, 36; 8th,
104 Total 479. Fowle 1st District, 51;
2d, 115; 3d, 129; 4th, 142; 5th, 86; . 6tb, 80;
7th, 100; 8th, 54 Total 757. Majority for -Fowle
278. .
Raleigh Observer: The -Second
Presbyterian Church is very nearly ready
for occupancy. The delay in getting into
it has proved quite vexatious to both pastor
and people, no doubt. But, after all,
what does LL. D., after one's name, sig
nify ? The Convention of Pitt coun
ty, the home of Gov. Jarvis, puts him in
nomination for the gubernatorial office, and
declares that as "the author, promoter and
completer of the grand project of the sale
of the Western North Carolina Railroad,
he deserves the lasting gratitude of the peo
ple of North Carolina, without regard to
color, sex, condition or politics." Pitt also
declares for Latham for Congress. The
delegates are instructed. One of the
jolliest runaways that has occurred in many
a day happened out on the ilillsboro road
a few afternoons since. A party of four
negro women were on board a wagon,
drawn by a mule. The animal became
enthusiastic at the sight of the city from
the bill near the fair grounds, and started
down the slope at HghtniBg speed. One by
one the people were thrown out, two of
them being badly bruised.. The frisky
animal kept right on, and finally stopped at
St. Mary's, to look for the wagon.
Charlotte Observer: Mrs. Moon,
the revivalist, has returned to her home in
-Indiana. Dr. Mull, who assaulted the
local editor of the Greensboro Patriot, and
who was sentenced to jail thirty days
therefor, has published a card in the Bea
con, ol that town, in woicu he professes
great penitence for his hasty action.
President Battle, of the university, will de
liver the annual address at Walhalla
College, S. C, on June 24th:
Work vn the cotton factory building
is progressing rapidly, and all indications
are that the proprietors will be ready
to commence operations by Qftober 1st.
i Ex-Senator Gordon is expected to
pass through the city to-night, returning to
Atlanta, where he will reside permanently.
News was received in the citv vester-
day of a serious shooting affray between
Will McUorkle. of Salisbury, son of Mr. J:
M. McCorkle. and Will Bailev. son of Mr.
W. H. Bailey, of this city, which occurred
at Marlon last Sunday afternoon. Both;
the young men are members of a party of '
revenue raiders now operating in the moun- ' .
tain region. The party spent the day in 'X
Marion and the difficulty occurred while
the young men were in the town.