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illUKB ABOUr FARMING IW NORTH
CAKOLINA.
The Stae has riot worked without
reward in its efforts to make known
the best farming results in North
Carolina. We are pleased to know
that our labors in this direction are
appreciated. We would be glad to
spread well authenticated facts con
cerning North Carolina industries
generally. We always copy any en
couraging statements we can trust.
L We notice in the New York weekly
entitled Cotton a letter from Rome,
Georgia, giving aD account of the
raising of over four 500 pound bales
of cotton on an acre by Mr. T. C.
Warther, of Washington county,
Ua., in 1873. The letter says:
"lie was competing for a premium of
fered by the Georgia State Agricultural
-Society,' and gathered from an acre 6,891
pnuuds of seed cotton, yielding 2,096
pounds Hot, or a little over four bales of
500 pounds each. The rows were checked
off three feet each way, and one stalk was
l:tt io each hill. This distance gave him
4JOO sulks to the acre, and, allowing 100
holla to the nouod.. he most have had 140
bulls lo ihe stalk in order to produce 6.391 1
pounds of seed cotton. Mr. JJuVid Dick
son, of Hancock county, Oa., reported in
1SG7 a 16-acie field which averaged 2100
pounds of seed cotton per acre. He es
tiniKted lliai a por ion f his 10 acre yielded
ut the r lit- ot 6,000 pouuds to the acre."
Can any of our North Carolina
planters show auysuch resultH ? Our
recollection is that some years ago
Mr. Littleberry Manning, of Halifax,
made about three bales on one acre.
Edgecombe and some of the adjacent
counties can furnish some very en
couraging results. Some years ago
a Mr. Dickon, of Edgecombe, made
twentj-one bales ou a one-horse
' farm, if we remember aright. The
figures were published in a farming
journal of that county.
We find the following sales of to
bacco in a recent number of the Ox
ford Free Lance: -
"The result of the tobacco crop of Mr.
15. F. Aiken, a Knap of Reeds farmer, shows
whui a Granville man can do. Mr. Aiken
planted last year 13,000 tobacco hills, not
quite three acres. 'lie worked one hand
and one horse, fie raised 2,750 pounds of
tobacco and sold the same for $1,000. He
H.ld 1,065 pounds at tbe Granville Ware
house, Wednesday, which netted him more
uThq fCOO. Besides his tobacco crop, Mr.
Aiken made a good crop of corn and wheat
working the same force." j
The Torchlight, published in the
same town, gives some interesting
figures in a pamphlet on "Yellow
Tobacco," which, are worth copying.
They show what good farming will
accomplish in Granville county: .
"Messrs. Hobgood & Hunt, Oxford,
woiked this year two hands eight months,
and two horses. Expense of labor $112.
Cared 12 large barns fine yellow tobacco;
average weight 600, pounds, or a total of
7,200 pounds, which, at average price, ob
tained for last crop ($25). is worth $1,800.
Iu addition to this they raised corn, wheat,
oats, etc., for home use."
Mr. Samuel C. Hobgood worked two
hands and two horses. Sold his to
bacco for $2,800. He harvested 150
bushels wheat, 100 barrels corn, 250
bushels oats, and killed 3,000 pounds
pork. At a fair valuation his results
Bhow $3,775, or $1,887 to the hand.
We put his wheat at $1.25 a bushel,
corn at $4 (crop short in that county),
oats 75 cents, pork 7 cents. The
world cannot show better results.
One thousand eight hundred and
eighty-seven dollars to every hand
worked. If
We shall continue to publish from
time to time any facts and figures
that will illustrate the best farming
in North Carolina. We hope the
papers published in the best cotton
and tobacco counties will aid us in
this important matter. Let them
gather home results; we will help in
making them known.
Very few blackberries and huek
lebenies (usually so plentiful) have come
to market this season.
VOL. XL
A VOICE Fit OU VERMONT.
The most admirable view of the
political field and the demands of the
country that we have met with is in a
long and able letter that appears in
the Bennington (Vermont) Reformer,
from the pen of Mr. E. J. Phelps, a
distinguished gentleman of that State.
There is so much elevation of senti
ment, huch a dignified and just pre--sentation
of the duties' of the hour,
such a high appreciation of Seymour,
Bayard, Tilden and Field, such a
thorough understanding of the re
sponsibilities that rest upon tlie dele
gates who will assemble in conven
tion at Cincinnati on June 22, that
we wish we had space at our com
mand for much that he says. We
must try," as it is, j to give some ex
tracts from Mr. Phelps's letter
from time to time.. To-day we
mtrslr" content ourselves with the
following extracts from the beginning
of the admirable disoussion. We
are glad to know that such wise and
statesmanlike views prevail in Ver
mont. It it a healthful sign. It
shows that there are men in that sec
tion as well as in this who have high
political ideals, and who demand
pure, honorable, j high-minded, able
statesmen to direct the Ship of State.
Mr. Phelps is not in politics. He is
an attentive observer of the drifting
and tendencies of the times, and he
sees clearly what is demanded.
Referring to machine politics and
machine politicians, Mr. Phelpss says:
"It has seemed to me, as an observer
merely of what is going on, that politicians
oa both sides are not giving heed enough to
the Bigns of the times. They are so accus
tomed, in the pursuit of their vocation, to
see the genuine public! sentiment of the
country overslaughed by a spurious public
sentiment, manufactured to order, and
maintained by newspaper clamor, that they
can hardly believe the independent intelli
gence of the people is ever likely to assert
itself against party dictation. And they
actually conceive the coming election to be
what many past ones have been merely a
game to be won by the most adroit play
ers, of which tbe people at large are only
spectators, with very little power to control
the result. I .
"I hope and believe that in this instance
they ard mistaken. Public exigences have
lately teen so serious, threatening dangers
so imminent,, political questions have been
brought so near in their consequences to
the homes and business of men, that
popular feeling is beginning to be aroused,
and the attention of a class of voters at
tracted who have usually little or no con
cern with what is called 'practical politics.'
Turning their eyes to the political fields,
these men perceive what tares the enemy
has sown theie while they slept; how fast
the aff tira- of tbe couolry are passing into
the bnnds of a horde of tricksters and ruurs
ceiianes; under the contiol of adroit and
unscrupulous leaders.; They see there iead
ers marching tbeir forces by battalions info
the nominating conventions, and the repre
sentation of whole States there, bargained
and conveyed at the dictation of single in
dividuals, who control much machinery,
but personally command very little re
spect. There are indications of a
wide spread upheaval in the better intelli
gence of the land, against this condition
of aff aii s. Unorganized and unconcentrated
it is true, and therefore making but small
external show against the serried ranks of
the politicians. But i not the less likely
lo produce its effect. , There
is an earnest looking out on all hands for
some candidate who is fit to be President
who is not seeking the office, nor likely to
prostitute it to partisan ends. Like Dioge
nes, many people are out in the political
market place.with their lanthorns, in search
of a man. I i
"If either party should be sagacious
enough to respond to this demand, and to
retire for tbe time being their professional
candidates in favor of some statesman Of
tried ability and experience, and unques
tionable character, . the result, as against
the party taking an opposite course,
would be a foregone conclusion. It
will be of no use, this year, in my judg
ment, to offer to the public suffrage any
hack or machine politicians who may be
in pursuit of the office, any representative
man put forward by such a politician and
under his control, any unknown or obscure
candidate who must be supported by affi
davits, or Backed up by witnesses to char
acter, or any military gentleman, however
distinguished, whose life has been spent
la an experience which has disqualified him
for statesmanship, and the control of civil
affairs. Tbe votes which can alone decide
an election cannot be obtained for such a
person, unless both ! parties concur in
leaving to the people only a choice of
evils." !
There are o.ther views of Mr.
Phelps that are so well considered
and expressed that we must try to
present them hereafter.
Wade Hampton says that Bayard
is gaining strength daily, and will be
nominated "if the South comes to his
aid." Gen. Bradley T. Johnson thinks
he knows all' about it, and says:
"As far as tbe South is concerned, he
will have the solid delegations of Dela
ware, Maryland, North and South Caro
lina, and Mississippi, besides a number of
votes from Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama,
and - probably from Kentucky and Ten
nessee." -j
If he can say what North Carolina
will do he is wiser than any of her
sons. Mr. Seymour is the choice of
a majority, we have no doubt, and
will be warmly supported if it should
turn out that there is a good pros
pect of nominating him. The dele
gation will not be instructed, and it
will be apt to go for the most avail
able man.
The schooner M Frances, Capt.
Jones, had his Shackelford flag surmounted
yesterday afternoon with an additional flag
with five game roosters j cleverly painted
on it.
AIUBRICAN COLLEGES AND DE
GREES. '
; There are too many colleges. We
need fewer and better. Make! the
standard of education higher, land
offer larger advantages, and the col
leges will do a greater work. Multi
ply high schools, classical schools,
and military schools as fast as pos
sible, but let there be fewer colleges
and make them of a high grade.
President Barnard, of Columbia Col
lege, New York, delivered an address
before the University of the State
of New York. In it he took the
ground that it was unwise to increase
the number of colleges because "as
the number increases, the . strength
diminishes, with an effect upon , the
average quality of collegiate instruc
tion as unfortunate as it is unavoida
ble." He mentions a fact we were
not prepared , to see, .to-wit -that
there had been an actual decrease of
20 per cent, since 1840 in the number
of baccalaureates compared with the
total population. Whether or not the
multiplication of colleges bad any
effect in causing this diminnation we
are not informed. We should sup
pose the increase in the number of
the little one-horse institutions would
tend to swell tbe uumber of, bacca
laureates rather than otherwise, i ! We
know they tend to swell the number
of the D. D's and LL. D'a. j
According to President Barnard
there is one baccalaureate to every
2,500 of the total population. For
merly, when, there were fewer col
leges the ratio was one to 2,000.
There are about 18,000 undergrad
uates. New York State with 5,000,
000 inhabitants has only 1,800 stu
dents in colleges. Our readers know
the opinion of the Stab relative to the
conferring of degrees. It has
insisted again and again that no man
was worthy of receiving a degree
who could not establish his claim by
actual examination. We are glad, to
note that President Barnard sees the
evil of such indiscriminate and sense
less showering down of honorary
titles, and insists that the right should
be ream ved to the State. He says all
colleges should be placed upon the
same footing as Cambridge and Ox
ford j in England, "each State estab
lishing for itself a State University,
supervising all its colleges, examin
ing; all candidates and conferring all
degrees."
We are not prepared to say now
that we ate in favor of the last part.
We rather favor a law requiring the
University and the colleges to, be
limited in bestowing all degrees to
those who have undergone a rigid and
honest examination as to qualifica
tion before a competent committee
and been approved. j
A FHISIOLOOICAL FACT.
Gov. Vance in his reported fine
lecture on the "Scattered Nation,"
pays a high and deserved tribute
to that people who are in many re
spects the most remarkable that has
ever lived on earth. We do not
know whether or not he refers to the
uncommon physical development of
the Jewish people, as we never heard
the lecture, but if not he is guilty of
a capital omission. We refer to the
matter for the purpose of calling at
tention to one fact connected with
the Jewish race, the race of Isaiah
and Moses, of Solomon and David,
and of "the grandest gentleman"
who ever walked the earth if re
garded only from the lower plane of
his manhood. It is not generally
known; nay it is known 'tobat very
few, that longevity is much greater
among the Jews than among Chris
tians. There, is no doubt ot this.
An intelligent correspondent of the
North Carolina Presbyterian shows
this superiority and says:
"The vitality of Jews, compared with
that of Christians, from tables of vital sta
tistics made up from observation in the
great centres of civilization, England, Ger
many, France, etc., show in the first five
years of life of hundred. Jewish children
twelve die; of one hundred Christian chil
dren twenty-four die. - Among one hun
dred Christians thirty-eight . attain fifty
years; among one hundred Jaws fifty-four
attain fifty years. Thirteen Christians in a
hundred attain seventy years, while. out of
one hundred Jews twenty-seven attain sev
enty years. One-quarter of all Christians
attain only six years and eleven months;
one-quarter of all Jews attain twenty-eight
years and three months." i
The writer gives 'this to show how
beneficial an observance of the Mosaic
law-is in the matter of human life
how it prolongs existence, and makes
a race hearty .and virile. Through
four thousand years the la has been
observed, and it has developed a race
of unique physical vitality' and en
durance. The correspondent gives
this as illustrative of the Jewish ap
WILMINGTON, Nil C., FRIDAY,
preciation of the excellence of their
law: .; ,; -t y-j : : i4--
"General T. J. '(Stonewall) Jackson tried
the effect of argument, on one occasion, on
the religious opinions of a Jew. ; The Jew
-listened patiently and attentively7 to all he
had to say, and then replied : .'Sir, our
religion produces better mutts than yours
there are fewer ' invalids amongst Jews,
fewer inmates of jails and houses of vice
why should We change a better for a worse
religion A . h
J Why is this race, so peculiar, so
marked, so distinct from , the races
that ; surround them, possessed of
greater vitality j and of better physi
cal development ? We think pbysm
ologists might find here material for 1
consideration. We do not know whatw
the cause is unless it be the one sugrh
gested by the writer in the Presbyte
rian, as being the possible one,
to wit, abstaining from animal
food. He thinks that abstin
nence from blood may mean
abstinence from animal food. He
says it may be a sin to eat flesh but
it is certainly not a sin to abstain.
iWe do not concern ourselves now
With the moral aspects of the law,
but with , its probable effects upon
the physical man. It is certain that
the Jews live longer and are gener
ally healthier than the Gentiles. Why
this? If it is not beoause of a faith
ful observance of wise laws, what
then?
OUR KOAINER.
;We purposed j yesterday laying a
brief sketch of John Williams
Shackblfobd, the Democratic can- i
didate for Congress id this District,
before our readers, but we could not !
get hold of the necessary data in
time. ,The material we now have is
hot abundant, but sufficient to make
us better acquainted with the very
worthy gentleman who was honored
by his brother Demoorats in the Fay
etteville Convention.
Mr. Shackelford was born in Onslow
county, November 16tb, 1844. He
is, therefore, in his 36 th year..
While being prepared for a col
legiate education he volunteered and
served as a private in the 3d North
Carolina Cavalry. He was taken
prisoner near Plymouth, in this State,
was imprisoned there, then at New
Berne, was confined in jail at Norfolk,
Va., thence was sent to Fortress
Monroe, and thence to Point Look
out. His prison experience extended
through fifteen months in all. We
do not know what was his rank, but
he is called in the newspapers both
Captain and Major. That would
prove nothing, as nearly every large
f&rmer, manufacturer or politician in
North Carolina is referred to in the
papers as General or Colonel, save
only when he is called "Honorable.
If we were to imitate the prevailing
bad style, inasmuch as Mr. Shackel
ford has served his State and county
since 1872 as a member of the Legis
lature, we should refer to him before
he is elected to Congress as "Honora
ble." But the people will confer
that title upon him in November, and
we have no doubt he will wear it
most worthily, in the last Legisla
ture he represented the Ninth Sena
torial District. The Raleigh 06
server says of him:
"Ie entered tbe Confederate service in
1863 as private in Company H, 3d N. C.
Cavalry, was elected a sergeant and pro
moted to a lieutenancy in the 35th regiment,
but was prevented from joining this com
mand in consequence of being captured.
He was confined in prison till tbe close of
the War. He was a very useful member of
the Assembly, and will make an excellent
canvass, and his election is assured."
i After the war Mr. Shackelford read
law but never practiced it. He en
gaged in agricultural pursuits in
which he has been quite successful.
He is now a farmer, and a good one.
He has been a member of the last four
Legislatures. We learn from gentle
men of other counties, who know Mr.
Shackelford well, that he is a man of
decided capacity and character, a
true Democrat every inch of him, a
man of reading, of intelligence, of ex
perience in public affairs, a forceful,
earnest speaker, a good worker und
organizer, well posted in political
affairs, and an excellent presiding of
ficer. They prophecy that he will
make an effective,earnest, industrious
canvass, and that he will receive the
largest vote (hat has ever been polled
in this District.
1 Mr. Shackelford was beaten in
Onslow two years ago by an Inde
pendent. We learn that the cause
of this was the apathy that prevailed.
In Duplin," that gives generally seven
or eight hundred majority for the
Democrats, the majority for the Sen
atorial candidates was only some two
or three hundred. This shows that
the apathy prevailed in other coun-
I ties. We are assured that Onslow
J DNE 11, 1880.
will be all right in the next election,
and the people of that excellent county
will rally warmly to Mr. Shackel
ford's support, in whom they repose
great- confidence. We anticipate a
thorough canvass and a grand victory.
Every Democrat who has any right
to call himself suoh cannot fail to
vote for our nominee. When he goes
to the polls to vote for President, for
Governor, and other State officers,
for members of the' Legislature and
county officers, he will vote also for a
candidate for Congress. There will
be a Radical and a Democrat to
choose-between. Can any Democrat
hesitate for a second as to choice ?
We are sure not. Why should he
hesitate" ? Would the Radical repre
sent a Democrat's principles? Would
a Radical vbtrfor Democratic mea
sures? We trow not. So there can
be no-hesitancy about the choice. All
Demoorats who are worthy of
the Uame will vote for the gentleman
who has been selected to uphold the
Democratic cause in the Third Con ¬
gressional District and to bear the
banner to victory.
Mr. Shackelford has been men
tioned favorably for the position of
Secretary of State. In some of the
Western counties his name was sug
gested for that place by some of the
gentlemen who had learned to esteem
him and know his worth by being as
sociated with him in the Legislature.
He is a capital parliamentarian.
Gentlemen of this eity, who were at
Fayetteville, say he made a presiding
officer of marked excellence. That
fact is enough in itself to establish
his claim to being a man of capacity.
Let us all go to work and elect
him. He has a right to expect that
every Democrat will do his duty.
SHEEP, GOAX8 AND DOGS.
The Columbia (Ala.) Enterprise
says:
"David Atfkins, of the southwest part of
our count j,WaB ia town this week, with 996
nnnnda nf , vnnl thf linnincs from 277
head ot sheep, for wmenne realized $doo.?
. . . ' ..... . . Aruh . .
rt&iih Thm r over si.4U Der ueaairom.
each -sheep, and. counting the increase of
tbe nock, wnicn is not less man super cent.
per annum, it is easy to see mere is some
money in sheep-raising. The wool was sold
at 39 J cents per pound."
These figures tell a pleasant story,
but they are all lost when laid before
North Carolinians --We - have spent.
a good deal of time writing about
sheep-raising, and the only result we
have noticed is an intensified convic
tion on the part of the legislators of
our State that one sheep-killing dog
is worth twenty sheep any day.
Sheep-raising can be made very
profitable in North Carolina, but not
until that industry is properly fos
tered and protected. Of the ninety-
four counties probably half are spe
cially adapted to sheep-raising. In
deed, there are but few counties, if
any, in which the sheep business may
not be made to pay.
By way of encouragement we may
mention the success of a colony from
Maine that settled in De Kalb coun
ty,; Alabama. They devote them
selves to pastoral enterprise. The
Montgomery -470erfi'ser says of their
experiment:
"Thftv had invested, soon after their set
tlement (about two years since), in Angora
goats, i ne aaveniure nas proveu extreme
ly gratifying. The wool of these goats is
mnh mnrn vklunhlA tha A tha WOOl of the
best breed of sheep, and the experiment of
tnese enterprising eons or ine sou, irom iar
away up in Maine, has proved that the An
gora goat business can be made a lucrative
industry in Alabama."
Our farmers might note this and
test for themselves how profitable the
Angora goat business can be made in
North Carolina.
Georgia is availing itself wisely to
a considerable extent of the benefits
of sheep husbandry. The New York
Commercial Bulletin publishes a let
ter from a Georgian, Mr. Francis
Fontaine, in which he says it costs 6
cents in that State to raise apound of
wool and 54 cents to keep a sheep for
one year. Unwashed wool fetches
27 cents net. Each sheep averages
94 cents. The average price received
for lambs sold to the butcher in
Georgia is $1 87. The average price
of stock sheep is $2 58 per head.
The average price of mutton is $2 15
per head. The average profit annu
ally received from money invested by
sheep in Georgia, despite the ravages
of dogs, is 63 per cent. The next
Legislature will probably create a dog
law to protect sheep. An owner of
,500 sheep in Georgia- declares that
his sheep cost him annually 14 cents
per head, and that his clear profit is
90 per cent, on the money so invested.
No food or shelter is required at any
time during the year.
We will only add that whenever
sheep husbandry is properly, en
N0.33.
couraged by the laiv makers of North
Carolina it will be largely developed
and become a source of great profit to
our people:
The Raleigh Christian Advocate
publishes an entertaining letter from
Rev. Dr. Deems, written from Con
stantinople, and dated May 5, 1880.
He thus in rapid outline presents
what he has accomplished siuce he
landed at Alexandria, Egypt:
"My whole time has been crowded. I
have gone up the Nile to the First Cata
ract, passed through the land of Goshen,
crossed the Bed Seal and gone on a canal
to Sinai, and back through the desert of
Suez; from Ismailia
I have been through
the Suez Canal to
Sow Said, and by
steamer to Jaffa; and! on horseback I have
traversed the Holy Land from Hebron to
Casarea, Philippi, and swept around Syria,
crossing both ranges or .Lebanon, taking in
the ruins of Baalbeck. and by steamer have
come from Beirut to the Golden Horn,
stopping at Cvorus and Rhodes, nasiine in
sight of Patmos, standing by tbe tomb of
Jfolycarpin Smyrna, and, running among
the beautiful isles of Greece, have gazed on
the site of Homer's Troy, and run up the
channel of the Hellespont to this wonder-
rui city. To-morrow.! 1 expect to go, in a
chartered steamer, up the Bosphorus to the
Black Sea, and on Friday start for Athens.
Thence by Venice and across the continent,
I shall strive to make rapid strides to Lon
don, where 1 have engagements which will
probably demaud a fortnight, after which
I sail for home, and hope to preach from
my own pulpit, ou the first Sunday in July."
NODIINATION FUR CONGRESS.
The Democratic (Convention of the
Third District, held at Fayetteville,
nominated for Congress on the 32nd
ballot Mr. John Vy. Shackelford, of
Onslow. At the time we write we
have not the particulars of the bal
lotings and are not informed how
this was brought about. He was not
spoken of prior to ihe meeting of the
Convention as a
probable "dark
hdrse." His nomination was a sur
prise.
We do not know
much of his polit
ical record. He is a Democrat in good
standing, has been; a member of the
Legislature for several sessions, and in
both " Houffes,- and has," therefore,
sornluabiVIegilactive experience.
Wjhat his - debating - powers' 'are or
what kindof -a canvasser he- is we
are notable to sayjat this timeT "He
is some thirty-eight years of age, we
believe. A strong, earnest, long
canvass is before the country, and
all who cherish Democratic princi
ples will have to
ido battle in their
behalf. The Star!
will 6ndeavr to
do its datyfbr thofee principles upon
the maintenance of which it believes
the safety of true republican institu
tions and the prosperity of the coun
try depend.
Slier man v. Grant.j
The Washington Gazette of a recent date
has the following, which Bpeaks for itself:
"A Mr. Cannady, of Wilmington, N. C, a
Sherman delegate . to
Pinkham, Esq , Grant
Chicago, and A. J.
alternate from the
same State to the same Convention, had a
fracas at the Ebbitt yesterday afternoon
about 4 o'clock. The dispute arose upon
the latter's offering to bet the former $10
that upon bis arrival in Chicago he would
vote for Grant. The former stated that he
would not bet f 10, but! would bet $100 that
he would not vote for! Grant; whereupon
Pinkham said he would not bet that sum,
because it might be an inducement to Can
nady to desert Sherman, and then a fight
ensued. The Sherman delegate knocked
the Grant alternate foff his pins' twice.
'As it is in the beginning, so it will be in
tbe end.'" j
The extract of courso refers to ex-Mayor
Canaday, now Collector of the Port.
Reduced Fare for Delegates to tbe
State Convention.
The following reduced rales for delegates
to the Democratic State Convention have
been agreed to by the companies mentioned,
and are published by authority of Capt. S.
A. Ashe, Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee:' I
The Western North I Carolina Railroad
Company; the Raleigh and Gaston Rail
road Company; the Raleigh and Augusta
Air Line Railroad Company; the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad Company; the Spar
tanburg and Asheville Railroad Company;
the i Wilmington . and Weldon Railroad
Company, and the Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad Company will charge
three cents a mile eacn way.
The Carolina Central! Railroad Company
H cents a mile each way, and $7.85 from
Charlotte.
The Steamboat companies on the Cape
if ear, hall rates. I
The Atlantic and JSTorth Carolina Rail
road Company, 6 cents a mile for the
round trip.
Certificate on back
of ticket must be
signed by the Secretary
of the Convention
Oar Nominee for Congress.
John W. Shackeirord, Esq., our nomi
nee ; for Congress, arrived in the city yes
terday and registered at; the Purcell House,
where during the day .a large number of
his political and personal friends called
upon him and congratulated him on being
chosen by his Democratic friends to bear
the banner of the party in the approaching
political struggle in this
Congressional Un
met.
Fatal Accident. !
We learn from a private letter of thesud
den death of Air. Alexander Brown, of
Rowan county, father of the young minis
ter who officiated at the Lutheran Church
summer before last, during the absence of
Rev. Dr. Bernheim. On Saturday af ter
noon, May 29th, he and! his daughter were
just leaving church, a fw miles from Salis
bury, when his horse tobk fright and both
father and daughter were thrown out of
the hrnrpv. the former beine killed instant
lv anrl th latter hainc her collarbone
broken. Mr. Brown was 70 years of age
a ? j j cm a i3 1 : 1
Bqu resiueu iiiieeuiuucq nviu nuauurjr.
Spirits Turoentme
- Winston Sentinel: llev. J. B.
Cheshire. Jr., of Chapel Iliil, ras ordained,
to Prieai'a orders in St. Paul's church iu
thi9 place, on Sundhy. Dr VV;!sm
preached the ordinatiuu t-ermon.
Kaleigh Visitor: Died, at the
residence of Mr. P. E Uetvey, in this city,
on Tuesday last, Miss!. L K iwlir.s.of Pe
tersburg, Va., aged' m c ;r The- de
ceased came here ifceatiy to viii Mr.
Hervey'a family and wes ihkviith infla-
mation of the bowels, !ru wlm U alie died
after lingering tifu-eu .
Raleigh Ayctcs: An iuie rosiintr
feature of tbe coiumeocmm :it t-xircis sai
Peace Institute Monday niirln tvas not on
the programme. It. was the presentation
of a gold medal lo Miaa Linda ltuinple for s
diligence and proficiency in music. The
meaal was luegutof i'rof. Bauinaa, and 1
was presented oy ittv. VY. s. Lacy.
I Raleigh Neics: Ex-Speaker
Moring's health has improved, and he is -
now able to leave his room We lem n
tbatlhe name of Hod, John Manning will
not go before the nominating Convention
as a candidate for Judge in the Chatham
district. Judge Gilmer's renomination will
be pressed, and Judge Rulfln's friends will
urge hi3 nomination. Bishop W. M.
Wigbtman, on hia way to Shelby District.
Conrerence, was iu the city on Wednesday.
The temporary chairman called
the 3rd district to order, and he now calls
himself tbe nominee of the Demor.rntta
party for Congress! (J W. Shackelford.)
What wonders a neat, weil-mmlaled little
speech will sometimts acciiranlish. lial-
eigh Post. You are out of it. Ha presided
for eleven hours during the mosi trying
and boisterous part of the mouiiug " He
gave great satisfaction and it was his nar-
liimeulary skilhthat drew nubhc lavor.
Star i
The Greensboro Patriot savs
that "the Greensboro Spoke and Handle
Piactory, and ILe Nouli Carolina Handle
Company, located here, are doing an ex-
' ft A '
tensive ousmess. &. rew aays ago tne for
mer shipped a car-load of SDOkes and han
dles to California, one to England and are-
now preparing 10 sena a car-ioatt to Kussia.
The North Carolina Handle Company ship
from one to two car-loads of handles and
spokes twice a week to New York city, to
oa transported tnence to otner points."
j New Berne Nut Shell: We learn
from parties who came up on the Sunday
School excursion train yesterday afterno hi,
that shortly after leaving Morehead City,
six cows were killed oh the track.' " - -The
census enumerator who was working in dm
4th ward yesterday, called at the house of
a colored woman and knocked at the door.
"Come in 1" said an old woman at the wash
tub. The enumerator, went in and com
menced with his stereotyped introduction :
"I am the census-taker, and have called to
take the census." The old lady hastily re
plied: "Bress your heart, honey, I haven't
got any to save your life 1"
j Oxford Torchlight: W. H.
Winstead, Roxboro', has sold his steam
whiskey distillery to Messrs. Pass & Tuck,
for 20,000. Mr. Stephen Wilkerson,
of Person county, aged 84 years, has now
on hand his sixty-sixth crop of tobacco,
that is to say that he has raised afid cured .
60 tobacco crops. - Professor Fetter's
School, the.Oxford Male Academy, closed
a very successful session on the 27th ult.
The attendance was large, and the progress
of the-pupils entirely satisfactory.
Mr. John Beck, of this county, sold four
grades of tobacco in Dnrham, on the 23th
ulU,.at an average of $76 per hundred, and
averaged for his entire load $52.26.
Raleigh Observer: Governor Jar
vis pardoned S. P. Mull, the man who in
Greensboro, a few weeks since, made an
attack upon the editors of the Patriot,
Messrs. Falghum and Pell, and inflicted
many blows with a whip upon the latter.
Mull was sent to jail for this. The peti
tion for bis pardon was signed by over 200
or the citizona of Greensboro, and was ac
companied by a certificate by Drs. Greg
ory and Glenn, Mull's attending physicians,
and also by Dr. Lindsay, Supeiiotendent
of Health of Guilford county, that Mull was
in a critical condition and that longer con
finement would endanger his life. The
pardon was granted, on condition that Mull
pay all costs, including j nl fees.
! Statesville American : From
a letter received we learn that Maj. A. C.
Bryan and his force, on a raid from the
Lewia Fork and Reddie's River, in AVilkes
county, seized seven illicit distilleries, three
coppers, &c., about 8,000 gallons of beer
and fifty gallons of whiskey. The Wil
mington Star says that Gov. Swain, Rev.
Dr. Hubbard, Rev. Dr. Charles Phillips
and dozens of lawyers have been forced to
doubt the genuineness of the document
now called "the Mecklenburg Declaration,
of Independence." To the names men
tioned by the Stab we beg leave to add
those of Judge Gaston and 'Chief Justice
Pearson, both of whom so expressed them
selves to men now living. "
f Statesville Landmark: The
wheat harvest is now in active progress.
The crop, generally speaking, throughout
the country, is turning out well, r Last
Sunday two girls, sisters, aged respectively
nine and sixteen years, were buried in the
sa me grave at Tabor church, in Turners
burg township. They were the daughters
of Mr. Samuel Forcum, of Eagle Mills.
They died of some kind of fever, within a
few hours of each other, and after an ill
ness of about two weeks. A squad of
revenue officers, in command of Capt. Abe
Bryan, was fired upon by moonshiners on
Lewis' Fork, Wilkes county, last Monday,
and Mr. C. C. Grumpier, one of the party,
was shot through the body. His wound,
while dangerous, is not considered as nec
essarily fatal.
From the Raleigh Observer we
cull the following from tbe proceedings in
the State Dental Convention: Dr. Isaiah
Simpson read a highly interesting and in
structive essay on dental education, which
was discussed by Drs. Flemming, Turner,
Rice and Crawford. The subject of pa
thology and therapeutics was resumed, and
disease of the teeth and its treatment was
discussed by Drs. Griffith, Turner, Flem
ming and Rice. The committee on me
chanical dentistry submitted, through their
chairman, Dr. J. E. Griffith, a valuable
paper on the subject, which was discussed
by Drs. Flemming, Turner, Crawford,
Rice, Hoffman, Griffith and Beasent.
On motion, tbe election of officers for the
ensuing year was held, resulting as follows:
Isaiah Simpson, President; J. F. Griffith,
1st Vice President; J, D. Clark, 2d Vice
President; W. H. Hoffman, Secretary; J.
H. Crawford, Treasurer.
Charlotte Observer: Thirteen
persons are quartered at Cleaveland Springs
and another family went up yesterday
morning. Capt. R. D. Graham states
that the report that a new hotel is to be
erected immediately, on the site of the old
Atlantic at Beaufort, is untrue. Ven-
ner's cold wave came sure enough yester
day. He said: "Probably tbe first of June
will be fall-like with frosts again." His
predictions refer more especially to Canada
and northern latitudes, and must therefore
be taken with modifications in the South.
; Mr. Best and the party that accom
panied him up the Western North Caro
lina Railroad day before yesterday morn
ing, went on through to Asheville, which
place will no doubt be the headquarters of
the organization. There have been no
positive developments as to the policy of
the road or indeed anything as to the.man
agement except that it will be in the in
terest of the Richmond & Danville Rail
road, with all that that implies, a condition
of affairs not very satisfactory to Charlotte,
at least.
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