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TIIK SDFPLEtnBN T.
The supplementary rules issued by
ihu Democratic Central Executive
n.wmniM.co. ttiihlislmil in vfterdav'
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Stau, will relievo the previous rules
o! Hume very serious objections. They
o!iviu!u tin; tusk we proposed of ex
amining one or two points. We think
it" tho plan as modified and explained
is carried out faithfully that only good
will result. lhe party at large will
lift doubt willingly conform , to the
rules and thus insure harmony and
uniformity of action.
"We notice one defect
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in the plan,
even as amended. As it now stands
the whole city of Wilmington (five
Wards) is only entitled to the same
vote in electing a County Executive
Committee that Federal Point Town
ship is, that Township polling only
about 25 Democratic votes. The ob
jection wo make applies with equal
force to Raleigh and Charlotte. We
hope the Central Committee will fur
ther amend us plan so that each
,Ward iu towns and cities may have
an Executive Committee of five mem
born. .
fiAUPIELD AT 120M K.
Do you think Garfield is popular
at home? Do you suppose that his
Credit Mobilier record Was pleasing
to Iris own people and added to his
strength among his constituents?
Do you consider the people of the
nineteenth Ohio district 60 corrupt
themselves that they would coudune
all that Garfield did 111 the Oakes
Ames' matter and give! him an in
creased majority? Is this the way
you look at it? The truth is Garfield
ran nearly three thousand votes be
hind Hayes's vote in 1876 in his own
district. We copy from the Phila
delphia Times'. '
"It is a practice will) some of ihe organs
tu Jisdaiu,aoy defense of Garfield's records
on the ground that the people of his dis
trict, having indorsed him since the Credit
Mobilier business came out, it ought to
that something more than defense by the
organs is needed in Garfield's case, but to
an unprejudiced observer it must seem
very unfortunate that" the papesr have no
more wisdom than to refer j to the vote of
G-iriield'a district. In 187t5.i for instance,
when there was a full vote and these
charges were brought, against Garfield, the
vote, as compared with that given for
President, was as follows: !
uartieid, Casemate, Hayes, Tilden,
'toon ties. R.
I.
K. D.
AehtabaJa... 5393
Geauga 2641
Lake 2562
Portage 3508
.Trumbull.. 5408
3547
905
1378
98J
3562
11349
6771 2)4
3004 803
2941 1141
3712 3006
6133 3030
Totals. 20012
Majorities 8663
22S61
10279
12282
'This table, taken from an almanac com
piled by the present Secratary of the Re
publican Congressional Committee, shows
that Garfield ran behind Hayes 2,549 votes
in five counties casting a little more than
0,003 votes. Had Garfield been the can
didate for President that year, and ran be
hind his ticket in the same proportion
throughout the State, he would have been
b-aieu iu Ohio by nearly 50.000 votes."
Garfield beat his opponent 3,619
votes less than Hayes beat Tilden in
the same five counties. Hayes only
carried Ohio by 2,747 majority. So
Garfield, if Be had been iu place of
Hayes, would have lost euough votes
-in one district, and that his own", to
have given the State to' Tilden. It
was the Credit Mobiler rascality that
caused this revulsion of popular feel
ing. j
Garfield has a very: badly damaged
moral character according to the ver
dict of hU own people. His is one of
the oases in which no j amount of
white washing will answer. Then
there ae the DeGolycr pavement
contracts, the Electoral Commission
and other damaging records.
And now old Thurlow Weed says,
Republican as he is, that Hancock's
nomination is a strong one. Just so,
but the country is saying that daily
and Uarfield feels it.
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VOL. XI.
SIIARPSBUKGI. i
The Stau expressed a hope j that
Mr. Curtis' paper in the North
American Review relative I to the
strength of McClelland and Lee's
armies would be replied to in the
same publication. Gen. D. H. Maury
has undertaken .he work, bat the
Review in question declined to pub
lish. This is very unfair and disin
genuous. The editor of the South
ern Historical Society Papers perti
nently and justly says : "The editor
seems to act on the principle that his
toric accuracy is a matter of small
importance where 'Rebels' are con
cerned, and that he ia under no obli
gation to correct misstatements made
concerning them." The Review will
not make any capital for itself or for
the Northern side by -such manifest
injustice.
Gen. Maury shows conclusively
that Mr. Curtis has erred egregrions
ly in every important statement. He
shows it from the official statements
of the Confederate and Federal Go
vernments. We have not space to go
into the matter in detail, but refer all
interested to the reply published in
the June number of the Southern His
torical Society Papers. Gen. Lee's
General Orders No. 116 tells the
story' plainly and! grandly, and con
tradicts Curiis's misstatements em
phatically. No niau was ever more
measured and cautious than the peer
less Lee in his congratulatory orders
after victory. The Northern writers
have been diligent for fifteen years in
falsifying history and they will suc
ceedlin deceiving all who read but
one aide and leave their intelligence
outfof the question as they read the
gEfrjbled and false accounts.
McClellan admits he had 87,164
men, actually in battle, and one corps
not engaged. He! admits a loss of
28,469 men. This is 1,000 more men
than all the infantry which Lee
fought at Sharpsburg. Gen. Maury
concludes his review of Curtis in
these words : j
"There has been to much disposition
during the war and bince to overestimate
the strength of the Confederate armies, that
I again call attention to the official state
ments of the United States War Depart-
meet relating thereto,
They are very con-
elusive. When we
remember that the
white population of the Confederate States
was only about 5,000,000, and) of, the
United States 16,000,000, the War Depart
ment reports show the men enrolled in
Federal armies, 2,600,000; men enrolled in
Confederate armies,! 600,000; white men
from South in Federal armies (principally
from Missouri, Kentucky and West Vir
ginia), 400,000; in 1863, when our armies
were greatest, their strength did not much
exceed 200,000; Federal prisoners held by
us, 270,000; Confederate prisoners lost by
us, 220,000; Federal prisoners who died in
our prisons, 22,576; Confederate prisoners
who died in Northern prisons, 26,436.
These figures are of unquestionable au
thority, and should ! always be regarded
conclusive in considering questions which
arise about relative forces, treatment of
prisoners, &c. ,
"After the generation of non-combatants
who harked us on to war against each
other, while they traded in our blood, shall
have passed away, these figures, with all
they prove, will fix in history the conduct
of the armies of the Southern Confede
racy and the character of the Southern
people." .
Mr. Tilden is satisfied with the
nomination, wilt give it his hearty
support, and thinks the prospects are
very favorable for success. He will
earnestly cooperate with the j New
York Democracy, and that means a
great deal. The country knows that
he is unsurpassed as an organizer, and
if he does not actively engage in the
management he will give those in
charge of the campaign in New York
the benefit of his large experience, his
uncommon tact, his great resources
of judgment and "the smews."! We
can but believe that New York is not
only safe for Hancock, but it will
give him a rousing majority. ! The
only ugly spot thus far developed is
Virginia. Whilst the outlook is not
flattering just now we must hope for
an improved condition in that old
Democratic State. j Pennsylvania and
Ohio may be now classed as doubtful
States. : ' : i ;
In regard to the improvements
needed in the navigation of Eastern
North Carolina, Captain Phillips says
of the Tar and Pamlico rivers; I
"I would recommend that of the $9,000
thus appropriated the sum approximately
of $3,500 be used for tolling out stumps
from the southern side of a dredged chan
nel about one mile below Washington. N.
C, with the view of widening it southward
ly. After these stumps are taken out the
required dredging can be done at a reason
able cost. To dredge and extract strumps
at the same time would involve unne
cessary expense, and the amount appro-
. s .1 M At m rt -
puaieu lor me xar ana ramnco rivers
would be inadequate for widening this
dredged channel to the ! extent desirable
were it all used for that purpose, t The
widening of this dredged channel is nearly
all of the work needed on the improvement
of the Pamlico river. I would recommend
that the balance of the appropriation be
used in putting in cheap jetties in the Tar
river between Taft's Landing and Tarboro'.
and in taking out fallen trees and stumps
and in cutting away over-hanging trees be
tween those points, being the most impor
tant work now needed on Tar river."
Weekly'
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN GAME IS
We have already referred to the
partisan action of Hayes in vetoing
the Deputy Marshal's bill. The in
tent of the bill was to divest tbeelec
tion laws of those very reprehensible
partisan features which Gen. Garfield
admitted and proposed to remedy by
his amendment. On the part of the
Democrats it was a sincere and frank
effort to get rid of jvery obnoxious,
one-sided, and oppressive laws. It
was an effort solely and purely in the
interest of an honest and fair elec
tion. But Hayes would not so re
gard it. Something must bo done 1
for party and hence the veto. . In his
action he squarely antagonized the
Republican candidate for the Presi
dency. He has indorsed the action
of the bull-dozers and plug-uglies.
He has said to j the American
yoters, there must not be a free elec
tion. He has made a blunder as well
as committed a crime. His party
will find out that the bone and sinew
of the land understand his devices
and plans and those of his advisers
and backers. They will know what
the purposes and responsibilities of a
party are when they retain laws that
have been woefully abused to further
partisan ends, and when every effort
to mitigate the evil is resisted stead
fastly, even to the arbitrary and un
justifiable exercise of the veto power.
Gen. Garfield cannot afford, in
view of his past course, to abide by
the position of Hayes and to indorse
the recent action of his party friends
in the Congress.
But there is another matter re
quiring Garfield's attention. It is
the conduct of his party with refer
ence to settling the manner of count
ing the Electoral votes. Every in
telligent person knows how much
trouble and even danger has been in
volved in the old rule of counting,
and the crying necessity for a change.
The Democrats in Congress had
agreed upon a new joint rule provid
ing for the Electoral i count. It was
to all intents and purposes identical
with th! one proposed by the late
Senator Morton, the great man of his
party. It is acknowledged even by Re
publicans to be a very great improve-.
ment upon the oldjrule. But the
Republicans oppose it, filibuster over
it, and postpone it until after the
Presidential election. I Such conduct
is without justification, and may
prove very hazardous. It is clearly
manifest that the Stalwarts mean
mischief, meaji wrong, mean a great
crime against the people. They are
preparing for a repetition of the ras
calities and frauds I of 1876. The
votea of the Republicans in Con
gress show this.
That we are not excitedV by undue
fears or doing injustice to our politi
cal opponents, we jwill reproduce
some passages from a lecent double-
leaded editorial in the Philadelphia
Times, the fairest and one of the
ablest of the Independent papers of
the North. Read and consider. The
Times says:
"The revolutionary efforts of the ReDub-
licans to prevent the adoption of a law to
regulate the Electoral count, even when the
measure proposed is the creation of the
highest Republican authority, must place
Gen. Garfield in a false and most perilous
position be'fore the country in the cam
paign, unless wiser and more patriotic
councils speedily prevail. It is Gen. Gar
field upon whom the blow must fall if his
party, with his active or; passive approval,
exposes the Republic to anarchy by revo
lutionary efforts to prevent the majority
from passing a rule that is in perfect accord
with Republican precedents, and that dif
fers from the Republican rule only in its
greater protection to justice.
"Gen. Garfield should well weigh the fact
that none mistake the revolutionary pur
pose that auimates bis partisan friends in
the House. They mean; by revolutionary
opposition, to prevent the adoption of any
iaw to Dina jongress in counting the .Elec
toral vote, and they do it for the avowed
purpose of placing the absolute decision of
the disputed vote of any State in the hands
of the Vice President. In short, it is in
tended, in case of the defeat of Garfield, to
compel Vice President I Wheeler to recog
nize bogus Garfield returns from Lousiana
or some other State, and declare Garfield
elected as Hayes was declared elected after
his overwhelming defeat by Tilden.
- "If this revolutionary policy shall be per
sisted in by General Garfield's friends In
the House, it will be notice to the country
that revolution is to defeat a just law to
regulate the electoral count, and to open
the way for a revolutionary defeat of the
popular will in the choice of the next Pres
ident. The nation has borne the
consuming shame of Vice President
Wheeler's occupancy of the chair of the
Senate, but it will not fear should the crea
ture of that shame attempt to transmit a
perpetual reign of fraud upon the Repub
lic. Peace now rules throughout the land,
and the party or candidate that attempts to
disturb the public trancmilitv. or to make
its disturbance possible by revolutionary
nuia, win ua ueieuieu iu j-ovemoer as cer
tain as night succeeds the -day."
Garfield's party, be it remembered,
resisted every ' effort of the Demo
crats to have the new rale adopted,
and its further consideration was
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postponed until December, 1880,
when it may be too late to save the
country from a far; greater excite
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY,
ment and much more imminent peril
than that of 1876. The party of
Garfield in . Congress are alone re-,
sponsible for this condition of affairs.
SOME
OF
GlRFtELB'S RECENT
, votes;
The
Democratic papers know that
Hancock has a pure and unsullied
record! They know that the Radi
cal game is to try to put them on the
defensive by hatching all manner of
false and toolish charges in order to
shield their men from the ugly offi
cial records of the country. Bat the
Democrats do not mean to be thrown
into any such attitude. They will
dispose in shorfc order of all such
silly and mean , accusations as have
been trumped up thus far. In their zeal
to slander Hancock the Republicans
are -blind enough to expose Garfield
and to invite a closer scrutiny into his
record than would be otherwise given.
We gave an instance in the reoent
charge about Hancock and Hayes.
Another one is found in the absurd
and groundless charge that Hancock's
nomination was secured by certain
fellows who had jobs to urge. The
Philadelphia limes reminds them
that this is dangerous ground for
Candidate. Garfield. It Bays:
"The Post Office Department asked for
an appropiation to make up a Deficiency of
$1700,000 for the year ending June 30,
1880 a deficiency caused by the criminal
extravagance of Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Brady. The demand for this large ad
ditional appropriation in excess of the De
partment's original estimates led to the ap
pointment of an investigating committee,
of which Mr. Blackburn was chairman.
This committee made an exhaustive report,
criminating Brady, reflecting severely on
the Department and allowing .$1,200,-
000, as the work had to be done
or was done. ' In the discussion on this
bill Mr. Garfield took ground in favor
of Brady, or, in other words, in favor of
the voracious and favored contractors, and
voted first in committee of the whole and
afterwards in the House to strike out the
restrictions placed iu the bill and to give
Brady the full amount that he asked.
Again, when the regular bill, making an
appropriation ot $7,500,000 for the present
fiscal year, came up, Mr. Garfield opposed
the committee s proviso to have all the con
tracts relet next October on the new basis
of prices, and it was defeated. Then an
amendment was offered by Money, of Mis
sissippi, ordering a reletting under certain
restrictions. This, too, was antagonized
by the department and the contractors, and
Mr. Garfield and his immediate following
voted against it. With Mr. Gar
field and in favor- of the contractors voted
all but eight or ten Republican members of
the House. By the. way. the three largest
contractors and two-thirds of the whole
number of contractors are-Republicans, and
the chief of them is on record as offering
to give $50,000 to the Republican campaign
fund in the event of General Grant's nom
ination." The organs would do well to go
slow. They have a candidate whose
political record will not bear the light
of day, and ordinary prudence would
suggest to them the wisdom and
propriety of singing low about the
record of i any one. In defending
Garfield and Arthur they will have
their bands full.
I FRAGRANT.
We admire "cheek." When it is
in large development something co
lossal, so to speak we stand in its
presence and wonder as we gaze.
We confess the doings of the Stal
warts Tather crowd our astonishment.
They do things on so sublime a scale
of impudence that we are amazed.
"And still wo gazed and still our wonder
grew."
Consider their recent votes in Con
gress in connection with their
speeches. They talk glibly, force
fully, eloquently even, about the
rights of ! freemen, the purity and
freedom of the ballot and an honest
count. They denounce vigorously,
unmeasuredly, all forms of ter
rorism, all ' violations of law,
all efforts at bulldozing. Bat
what does it all amount to ? Words,
idle, foolish, vain words; only that
and nothing more. It is vapor, bosh,
rant, and endless nothingness. Whilst
denouncing and berating they are
practicing, doing, performing. They
give the lie direct to all their utter
ances. Inj Rhode Island, in Massa
chusetts they disfranchise tens of
thousands of laboring white men. In
Philadelphia, in Ne w York, and else
where they resort J,o the most effec
tive and cunningly devised system of
bulldozing, and thousands of free,
qualified electors are disfranchised.
Are these empty statements with
out foundation in fact. We have
already, in! previous editorials shown
by irrefragable testimony that the
disfranchising is largely practiced in
Massachusetts, and to a considerable
extent in Rhode Island. We need
not go into the matter again or at
this time. As to the bulldozing in
New York -and Philadelphia that
too has been made plain. We will
not stop now to restate the evidence
as we wish to refer to a matter more
especially in which the voters of the
whole countrv are interested. We
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J ULY 23, 1880.
wish to offer briefly Borne testimony
as to the character of the Republican
peaoe-preaervers who were employed
in 1876 to do political work at the
polls. It will be seen what a lovely
and fragrant boquet decorates the
buttou-hole of the party of Garfield
and Arthur.
In the Presidential election Of 1876
the Republican party used .11,615
special deputy marshals. Of this
number 10,874 were placed in Demo
cratic precincts, as the report of the
Attorney General of the Unified
States shows. Why this? Can there
be but one answer ? Was it not to
mtimidate, to bulldoze, to terrorize ?
It was a great shame. Gen. Garfield,
only a few weeks ago, admitted in the
House that 4here had been abuse.
Of course there has been and of
the most alarming kind. In the
State of Pennsylvania many of the
feading Republican politicians are
under indictment for attempting to
bribe the Legislature, and the Presi
dent of a leading Philadelphia bank,
and a Republican ex-Treasurer of the
State, W. H. Kemble, plead guilty .in
court this very year that he had at
tempted to bribe the members of the
Legislature. When the leading men
of the party are thus corrupt what
may you expect to find in the charac
ter of the toolt they employ ? Let
us look into this matter bv the aid of
another.
Representative E. B. Finley, of
Ohio, made a speech in the House of
Representatives some three months
ago. He spoke in the presence of
the Republicans from Pennsylvania.
We quote from what he said about
the deputy marshals employed in
that State, and we ask our readers to
ponder and remember. Said Mr.
Finley :
"Why, Mr. Chairman, of the seven hun
dred marshals employed in Philadelphia in
the last election, I find from a report of a
committee of the other House, that thirteen
of them were convicted of crimes, such as
murder, burglary, shooting, with intent to
kill, &c. Two of them were keepers of
houses of prostitution, two were keepers of
low doggeries, and the whole lot of them,
every one of them, Was an active working
Republican at the polls who wore the badge
on bis breast of it special deputy marshal,
I Laughter.! r - '
"I will give the gentleman the names of
some of his constituents and probably he
will remember them. One of them is Philip
Madden. He was a special deputy marshal
at the polls who bad been convicted of
highway robbery and served two terms in
the penitentiary. Laughter. 1 Francis Mc
Namee, of the Seventh Ward, had been ar
rested five different, times for different
crimes, some of them as high as burglary.
Daniel Redding, who also wore the badge
upon his breast; had been tried for murder,
and he was the gentleman that the testimo
ny shows had voted no less than eight times
in onefday. He was an active, working Re
publican and wore the marshal's badge on
his breast.
"Michael Slavin, marshal Fifth ward, is
described as a thief and notorious re
peater.' J. Roberts, marshal sixteenth
division, bad been a policeman in the City
ot Brotherly Love. He had blocked up
the polls and arrested citizens who went
there to vote, and be had a beautiful record
He had been keeping a house of prostitu
tion, and bad there a lot of Republican
policemen that were paid out of the Federal
Treasury for keeping the peace at the
polls I"
After reading this then remember
that the Democrats, during the late
session of Congress, endeavored to
have the election law so amended as
to divide the deputy marshals equally
between the two great parties and to
give the appointment to the Courts
instead of allowing the Marshals to
select them, and the Republicans
voted against it. Remember also
that the bill passed nevertheless, but
was vetoed by Hayes, a Republican
President who holds his office by
fraud. Such is the Republican record
as to the deputy marshals. Such is
the Republican record as to bull
dozing in the past. Such is the Re
publican reoord as to a fair, free and
honest election about which they
preach so mueh. Was there ever
such an exhibition of "cheek" in the
face of such a record ?
We are glad to see that the Wilmington
Stab, though tardy, has noticed that ill
advised article of the Biblical Recorder
which we called attention to last week. If
our Democratic press allow such a state
ment from a religious journal of the influ
ence of the Recorder to go unanswered, we
might as well give up the fight. Warren
News.
Our article was written days before
it was published. Being a news pa
per we give the preference to the
latest and freshest.
The following concerns our great
leader, and will be read with sympa
thy. A New York letter of the 14th
says:
"The remains of the little grandson of
Gen. Hancock were taken from Governor's
Island to-day, and sentloNorristown, Pa.,
for interment, in charge of Mr. Russell
Hancock and Lieut. Ward. The General
came over in the boat with bis sorrowing
son, but bade him goodbye at the wharf."
The Virginia Democrats appear
partly well united in their determi
nation to make no compromise
with the Mahoneites.
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NO. 39.
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We do not get the New York
Times, the leading Republican daily,
and some times miss matter that con
cerns North Carolina. Its Raleigh
Correspondent, we notice, claims that
he Grant men got the victory in'
prganizing the Republican State
Committee. He writes:
"The marrow of the fieht was (he con
trol of the State Committee. The . Grant
men were determined that it should not be
made up so as to secure an indorsement of
the delegates .who voted against Grant.
The other side fought -to retain the control
they had. in the committee before the con
vention met. With all these complications,
with no organized movement throughout the
State on the part of the Grant men, with
Colonel Thomas B. Keogh, the real leader
qf the Grant men, absent from the Slate,
ana- wun iun organization 'oy me oppo
nents of the Grant men, the Grant men
carried the convention, adopted the plan
of organization as reported by the com
mittee, and succeeded in having a State
Committee; appointed by Congressional dis
tricts and by the convention, and not by
the President of the convention."
Death of Uxr. Thomas Williams, of
Pender County.
The numerous friends and acquaintances
of this estimable gentleman were shocked
last night to hear of his sudden and unex
pected death, which took place at the Pur
cell House,! in this city, after a little over a
week's illness, of gastric fever. Mr. Wil
liams arrived in the city about a week ago
from his home in Pender county, and has
been confined to his room in the Purcell
House ever since, though his condition was
not such as to occasion any alarm until yes
terday, when the fever, which bad been
continuous for the past ten days, Sit in with
increased violence.and resulted in his death
last night at 8 o'ekek
Mr. Williams was born in this county, in
what is now a part of Pender, and though
at the time of his death he bad only reached
the age cf 32 years, had already obtained a
position of prominence in bis county and
in this section. He was the Democratic can
didate for Sheriff cf Pender county several
years ago, and was the representative of his
county on the Democratic Congressiona
Committee for the present campaign. He
was a genial, kindly, clever gentleman, a
useful and public spirited citizen, with hosts
of friends, to whom be was warmly devoted,
and who, together with his many acquain
tances and fellow-citizens, will mourn the
loss of a man of solid worth and true man
hood.
The remains will be taken to Rocky
Point by this morning's tram, and the iu
neral will take place this afternoon, at 4
o'clock, at Pike church, five miles from
Rocky Point
Crab Culture.
A Water street friend, who has had con
siderable experience in crab culture, and
who read the article in our last on the Bub
ject of "Breeding Soft Crafts," says he bas
often recommended a similar plan to our
Sound fishermen, and is certain that it
would prove a success. He takes issue
with the assertion therein, however, that a
crab remains soft after shedding for three
days. He says that when the crab first sheds
he is as soft as velvet, but after the lapse 01
six hours the outer skin assumes the con
sistency of writing paper, and continues
gradually hardening until the "soft" be
comes once more a "hard-shell" crab. We
never knew until we heard our friend talk
on the subject yesterday that there was so
much really interesting information to be
gained from a discourse on "Crab Culture.
Inter-State Glaas Ball Contest.
1 We are indebted to the Committee on
Invitations, Messss. T. W. Dautzler and
H. 8. Evans, for an invitation to attend the
Inter-State Glass Ball Contest to take
place in Henderson ville, N. C, on the 28th
of July. The citizens 01 uenaersonvuie,
the committee inform us, offer a purse of
$100 to the winning team. Other prizes.
aggregating $800 in amount, are to be shot
lor. Special excursion rates are onerea on
the railways, and the hotels there extend
low rates to visiting guests. ; A grand oai
will wind up the festivities. Crack teams
from Augusts, Raleigh, Charleston, Atlan
ta, Aiken, Spartanburg and elsewhere have
been invited, and are expected to attend.
Every Gun Club in the State is tendered a
cordial invitation to enter the contest, a
large attendance is expected from the Car
ounas and Ueorgia,
The Dixie Agricultural Fair.
From the inducements being offered we
have no doubt that there will be a large at
tendance upon the Fair of the Dixie Agri
cultural Association, which is to come off
at Wadesboro on the 28th and 29th insts.
Officers of the Association will afford every
accommodation possible to' persons who
may desire to camp out, while board can
be obtained at from 75 cents to $2 per day.
Persons who desire to rent unfurnished
rooms or procure lodging in advance can
do so at once. Capt. John T. Patrick, of
the Wadesboro Herald, who is Secretary of
the Asssociation, will attend to all these mat
ters if applied to. Special rates will be se
cured on the railroads and all other ar
raogementmade to secure a full attend
ance and a successful zair.
Bishop AtKlnson Improving.
We are glad to learn from Col. J. W.
Atkinson, who has just returned from Bal
timore, that the condition of his father, the
Bishop, has very much improved, and that
he thinks, provided no unexpected devel
opment takes place, he will certainly get
well. The Bishop has been suffering from
a complication of disorders, his recovery
from which will be a source of great gratis
fication to his hosts of friends.
County Bridges.
Chief Justice Smith recently hied an
opinion, opposing the judgment in the
Court below, an abstract of which, given
bv the Raleigh News, reads as follows: "It
is no part of the duty of County Commis
sioners to keep the bridges of their counties
in repair, and they are not criminally liable
for failure to do so.
Fell Dead.
.. Mr. William Alderman, writing us from
Gray's Creek, Cumberland county, under
date of July 14th, informs us that John T.
Wright fell dead while walking in the pub
lie road that morning, about 10 o'clock.
near the residence of H. B. Butler. No
foul play was used. Mri Wright was about
65 years of age.
Spirits Turpentine.
: Crops are looking fine in Dare
and Bertie.
Rutherford county has 15,000
nhabitants. "
Riohmond county has a woman
who has had nineteen children.
Union county has 18,136 popn
atioc. In 1870 it bad 12.217, an increase
of 5,991.
Plymouth has a preparatory
High School, whilst Tyrrell lms the Colum
bia Academy.
Warren county will show an in
crease of 30 per ceni. in its population, the
JSews tbmks.
The Blurfreesboro Enquirer is
for sttle. - Also a half ' iuierest iu' Hie Hen
derson Review
Charlotte Home: The death of
fwo of Statesvlllea young ladies is an
nounced'. Miss Mary McClelland and Miss
Ma;gie Long, daughter of Dr. J. F. Long. .
Warren News : The North
Carolina Democratic State Committee have
issued a supplement to their plan of organi
zation, which is about one-third ihe length
of the original document. They out; In to
have taken more time and pains iu ih-j urfat
instance.
i t Farmer arid Mechanic: At
the big "draw-off" at Smith's mill pond.
One hundred shares were sold, and $250
realized. There were about a thousand
spectators, and the catch was tremendous.
Fully ten barrels of chubs, suckers, cat
fish, etc., were bagged, and maoy of the
chubs weighed from 8 to 11 pounds.
Wilson Advance: On the morn
ing of the 13th, in Old Fields Township,
ftluidecai Hagins was found dead near the
residence of J. F. Eatman. He had teen
dead, from all appearances, several daya.
Coroner Peele went out and held an in
quest over the dead man, and the verdict
of the jury was that ho cmne to his death
by a blow or blows over the left temple.
Warrenton Gazette: Reports.
from different parts of the country say that
the corn and cotton are looking better than
in several years. The tobacco is small.
The census of Warrenton shows a
population of 815. This embraces only
these who are strictly within the corporate
limits. Within three-quarters of a mile of
the, court house we count a population of
fifteen hundred.
The Raieierh Observer savs t.h
grand jury of Wake in their report refer
to the court house and say they found it a
sleeping place-to lodge in. These people
lie iu the building every night, and ibis
fact has been long known to the police.
The benches in the portico and the hall
ways are often filled with these "lazzaroni."
The grand jury recommend that a new and
suitable court house be built.
Raleigh News: In the census
lists for this county is reported a family
named Meal. It consists of father, mother
and three children. We desire to suggest
that in the final report they be put down; as
two square meals and three lunches. In
another family there are also three children.
The eldest named James, is 14, then comes
the next who is 11 years old and is named
Donequit. But this name was falsified by
the birth of the youngest, Robert, who is
only seven years old. 1
Toisnot Sunny South: We
learn that there are portions of Nash county,
in which not enough rain has fallen to lay
the dust since the 27th of April. The
storm on night before last did considerable
damage in the neighborhood of Dr. Mer
cer's, about seven miles east of this place.
Corn and cotton blown down and washed
up. Fences carried away by the wind and
raini Last Tuesday morning as Mr.
M. T. Williams and his wife were driving
into town, their horse took fright, and ran
away, throwing them from the buggy.
Mrs. Williams was very bady hurt.
New Berne Nut Shell: The
committee appointed by the Stockholders
of the A. & N- C. R. R. to receive propo
sitions for a 1 -ase of the road, met in More
head City W e-.iaesday night. Propositions
from Col. Bridgers, of the W. & W. R. R.,
from W. P. Clyde, the Midland Railway
1. Co., and other corporations were presented.
The committee desiring that the matter
should be disposed of at a full meeting of
the Stockholders, waived the right to act "
definitely as a committee,- and returned the
propositions for formulation of details, to
be submitted at a general meeting of the
Stockholders in Morehead City on Thurs
day, September 16th, 1880.
' :; Kinston Journal: Marion Metts,.
a small colored boy, was drowned at J. C.
Kennedy's flour mill last week. The
fishing at J. C. Kennedy's upper mill bas
been unusually good for several weeks past,
and the pood has been visited by hundreds
of the fishermen. They go in .squads,
camp out and spend several days in fishing,
capturing the perch and jacks by the hun
dred Kinston can lay strong claims
to heaUhfulness. Her death -rate for the last
year was eighteen to 1217 inhabitants, or
one I to every sixty-seven of population .
Craven Barwick, Contentnea Neck,
kept notice of the growth of a stalk of cot
ton in his field last week, and it grew ten
inches in height in three days. Elijah
fMcDauiel, of Jouesv was in Kinston on Sat
urday. He had been up in Greene, and
fays the cotton crops in both Greene and
jenoir were much better than in Jones.
! POLITICAL POINT'S.
The Philadelphia Times says
that Col. Forney is to receive $5,000 for his
campaign life of Gen. Hancock.
j The National candidate Han
cock, versus the sectional candidate Gar
field. That is the issue of the campaign.
Washington Post.
Gen. Sherman has just killed a
silly campaign story by denying that Gen.
TJnHAtAlr ATrati nrvnta Kim a lotfav tintiftrifiA
liaUUvvO. CTtl VT tUtO UlUt l;fchV& UVUlJIUg
him that he intended to take orders from
Mr. Tilden. The story was hardly worth
the denial. Washington Post.
-4 Some of the Maine men who
went to Chicago to shout aBd work for
Mr. Blaine, are now doing their level best
to, elect the Democratic and Greenback
combination ticket in that State. When
the Chicago Convention -defeated Mr.
Blaine, it was a bad day's wotk for the
party. Washington Post, Bern.
I SOUTHERN ITEMS.
No census was taken in Brad
ford county, Florida.
Mr, John R. Pickens is the
Greenback candidate for Governor in Ala
bama. There will be no Republican can
didate. ' Elder G. O. Burnett, the first
Governor of California, is still living. He
is a native of Nashville, and is now in his
74th year. .
- Gov. Wiltz, of Louisiana, who
has just returned from a trip through
Colorado, expresses a hrm belief that the
latter State will cast its electoral vote for
Hancock. . r
' une ot tn,e most sensible para
graphs we have seen this year was written
by Rev. Elias Dodson for the Biblical Re
corder. Here it ia: "Why is there so much
wickedness in the land ? Because prcfes.
sors of religion do so little to check it. . If
a minister or a private, member does not
follow two great principles, the glory of
God and the salvation of men, he is at sea
without chart or compass, and his life will
bo a failure." Oxford Orphan's Friend.