I ffrmfoUfi i Star, I . i J!' , - BfitlBWKD AT- 1 3r &1.50',&!T&arV In" advance. 888S88888S8888S8S ca oa ' -' a s c; S K 2 S S 35 10 e o s 3 3 3 i2 S flsil8lSS8i 8 8 8 8 S S 8 s"c oi eo oo oo r-ri io o 15 eg s 00 3; o eS8S8S888888888SS S S 35 eo co ti -a" w 10 10 w fc-1- 88888888888.888888 ei a eo 09 so t- rm 00 cO 88888888888888888 8288888288888888 53 a Entei-od at the Post Office at Wilmington, N. C, as second-class matter. Subscription Erice. The siibscription price v Star is as follows : of the Wkkk injrlf! Gopyl year, postage paid, $1.50 " " 6 months, 'j " 1.00 v " 3 " " " -50 .NnilKCONCBHNIAiG 1IIK OENSCS Irho Northern Republican organs ur! using-- their columns daily in endt'.-ivoring to make good their charges agaioat the South as to frauds in the census. They repeat from day to day that the graveyards have been counted and that all of the tiiuinerators were Democrats aud went to work to get up bogus returns tsj preset ve the intluenco of the South in th; Eleetorai tJollege and in the House of Representatives. The south will not object to the retaking of the nensus provided one of each pariy is appointed in every district. But this is precisely what the Radi cals will not allow. They opposed the appointing of one deputy mar shal from each party, or an equal jdiwti ibution between the two great --parties, and they will oppose the f 'ieouon of one from each party to take the census. . - J Wo have given the facta concern ing the census in South Carolina, which will satisfy every fair-minded man. The Richmond Dispatch shows that the Washington Republican has told throe falshoods concerning the census of Virginia in 1830, in 1850 and in 1860. It also shows that its Htatements in regard to Georgia that it has increased out of all dispropor tion since 1870, are not well founded. 1 1. T5TTVS : "Liok at the faefs The increase in Ue-riiH from 1790 to 1800 was nearly 100 per cent. From 1800 to 1810 it was over 50 per ceut. From 1810 to 1820 it was over 30 per cent. From 1820to 1830 it was over 50 per cent. From 1830 to 1840 it was over 84 p'er cent. From 1840 to 1850 it was over 31 per cent. From 1850 to 1860 it was over 16 per cent. Father Clapp is contradicted by the facts in every statement be makes. "These are figures enough to show that there ia nothing extraordinary in an in crease of 25 per cent, in ten years in a southern State. The States that are already over-crowded cnnol increase very rapidly hereafter. The ' South has more arable land than the North, and a much better climate, and will hereafter increase more rapidly than any of the, densely-populated States of that inhospitable clime." Lot us now turn to North Carolina. Iul70O the population was 393,751. IttH-SOO it was 478,103 some 18 per cent, increase.- In 1810 it was 555, 500, or some 14 per cent, increase. In 1820 it was 638,829, or some 14 cent, increase. In 1830 it was 738, 987. In 1840 it was 753,419. In 1850 it was 869,039. . In 1860 it was 992, 622, and in 1870, with four years of war, it had risen to 1,071,361. It was well known that after 1870 there had been a steady influx of immigration, and it was expected by the intelli gent men of the State that the in crease would bo at least 30 per cent. The Star niany months ago made such a prophecy, and placed the pop ulation at probably 1,350,000. The liual i eturns ; will show probably 1,400,000. We are satisfied that the population is greater than will be re ported by lonswof thousandn, as the omissions are numerous doubtless, lieu. Walker is a Republican, was a soldier jn the war, and he says he knows of no frauds in the South. Will the Stab be good enough to inform the public ' what rights once belonging to the States have been taken from them? tiUitemille American. When.llolden .proclaimed martial law in Caswell and Alaman6e and cut-throats arrested peaceable, un offending citizens without warrant of law or justice, and had them put in . prisons, there was a complete over throw of. the rights of the people of North Carolina." If Gov. Jarvis were to do precisely what Holden did and 'aise an army pf 4 ragamuffins and scoundrels, and then arrest Lewis Wanes, Judge Edwin G. Reade, Judge Buxton, W. W. Holden, Judge 488888888888888888 n - . ei ii , ii .:;--! v i in -i . ii-.-i-.'i ik .11 j 11 ..jh-wa i ii 1 1 . is. was . . , , , , j ,p j - - - ., - . VOL. XI. Bynum and twenty other citizens and throw them into prison, probably the American would begin to realize the enormity of .ho crime, i When Grant took possession of the South Carolina and Louisiana! Legislatures with his armed soldiers; he trampled under his ruthless heel the moat sa cred rights of a free people, ishowed himself a usurper and tyrant, and deserves the eternal execration of every man who hates oppression and wrong in any and all of their multi tudinous forms. If the game were worth the candle wo could easily ex tend the list. The real point is, States Rights is a groat political heresy and crime in the opinion of your true- blue Stalwart. - ' Thereare people' (whether Radicals oi not wo are not Informed, but pro bably "feuco" men without princi ples,) who pretend i to see no differ ence between Grant and Robert E. Lee, between Garfield and Hancock, Benedict Arnold and George Wash ington, Robespierre and La Fayette, "Kurnel" Jenkins, of Kirk war fame, and Dr. Worth, Gov. Holden; in 1868 69 and Gov. Jonathan Worth, who preceded him. It is usoless to argue with men of that type. If with the history of the last fifteen years staring them in the face they are unable to dincern any difference between the Radical and Democratic parties, then they are utterly unfit to be the guides of any people, and by reason of an obliquity of moral vision they are unablo to distinguish between good and evil, corruption and purity,peace and strife. Such men are calculated to do a great deal of harm, specially if they strike a pious vein, and make God the author of all the villainy and corruption in the land. The public debt in 1865 was stated at $2,756,431,571. It is now stated officially to bo $1942,172,205. So in fifteen years the debt has been re duced $814,259,276, say the figures. This is a reduction of a million a week. Is not such a reduction a pro digious strain upon the people of this generation a million a week? But "you have -only a third of what the people have paid. The interest amounts to $1,500,000. Thus in fif teen years, alter an exhausting war, the people have paid nearly $2,500, 000,000, besides tens of millions known to have been stolen and wasted by tho Radicals. It has not -been thought wise by other countries to burden one generation with a public debt that should go over in part to future generations who inherit the present possessions. Our Radical law makers, whilst running the go vernment at extraordinary cost, said let us put on the taxes, and wipe out the debt at tho rate of a million a day. 1 ; . . g. ii field and the elbotobal commission; ; Gen. Garfield was opposed to the Electoral Commission and spoke against it. lie spoke as if he meant what he said. He declared that, the Electoral Commission was unconsti tutional, but he also declared that it had the power to go behind : the re turns. But ho nevertheless agreed to become one of thejjfifteen although it was an "unconstitutional" body, and he took a solemn oath to "im partially examine! and consider all questions submitted to the Commis sion of which I am a member, and a true judgment give f thereon." But when : manufactured returns rl and fraudulent certificates were brought before him how did he act? Did he remember his oatli ? Did ho "impar tially examine and consider" these returns and certificates, "arid a true judgment give thereon?" j Very far from it. He declared that the Com mission could not go behind the re turns, and that too in the very teeth of the speech he had made only a few days before.; ! He voted with the, majority and is one of tho forever infamous 8. . I ' i - Why did Garfield forget his own words? Why did he accept a posi tion in the body , he declared was unconstitutional ? The necessities Of his party demanded it. Without Lou isiana and Florida Hayes would be counted out. To give him Mr. Til den's place fraud must bo reoognize4 and approved by the Electoral Com mission. Garfield saw tho peril, agreed to become one of tho fifteen, and after his oath given, above, refused "to impartially examine" and to render "a true judgment,", and thus robbed the people and fastened WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1880. ia" the White House for four years a5 Filud, and continued in offide thou sands of plunderers. - Such is Gar fieljl, Tero is no public naii Atnlerica who has a meaner, a more dspicabie a more vulnerable recor4t andj the Republicans ! have found it out; On November 2 they wji learn more. He is one of the 8. - .V.1 - iWO BRIEF BEMINISVBNisES. . ,': .An unusually, interesting series of' parjiaye been appearing in the" Atlantic Monthly entitled "Reminis cences of Washington." They arc productions of some man who has' -.s . . . ' a t . . . -i v : . . ... hadj a IoDg-politioal,life and who was itfiWasbington - thrwighi - many Ad ministrations. They are strikingly fresh and piquant. In the Septem ber series he gives an account of . a threatened duel in which three North Carolinians were involved. Col. W. W. Seaton, who married a daughter of the first Joseph Gales, of the Ra leigh Register became offended at some remarks made in the Senate by William R. King, of Alabama, on the reception extended to President-elect Harrison upon his entering tho Capi tal of the country. Col. Seaton- was Mayor, and made a reception speech, and afterwards, in his paper, the Na tional Intelligencer ', wrote a compli mentary notice of Gen. Harrison. Col. Seaton upon reading Senator King's remarks at onoe challenged him.) Senator Willie P. Mangum, of this State, was his second, and Sena tor W. C. Preston, of South Caro lina, acted for Senator King. The matter was arranged satisfactorily without a fight, "Mr. King manfully avowing he was in the wrong." Senator King, a .native of Samp son county, was a very ; high-toned and honorable gentlemanand com manded great respect. He was un fortunate during the session. He and Mr. Clay bad a difficulty which cul minated in a challenge from Mr. King. I1m second was AJr. Levin, of Missouri. Mr. Archer, of Vir ginia, acted for Mr. Clay. Several Senator interfered, and after four days' mediation the matter was ad justed .honorably. - Mtv K. withdrew his challenge and Mr. C. the epithets he had applied "false, untrue and cowardly." -While Mr. Preston was making a statement to the Senate, Mr. Clay walked to the other side of the chamber where Mr. King was sitting, and said in a pleasant tone to him, f'King, give us a pinch of snuff," Mr. King sprang to his feet and ex tended his hand, which was warmly grasped by Mr. Clay and cordially shaken. This greatly pleased every one, and Senators and spectators joined in the applause. j THE . EXPERIMENT STATION AND - FISHINO INTERESTS. j We have received the 'Third An nual Report of the North Carolina Agriculturial Experiment Station for the year ending April 15, 1880." It is a volume of 148 pages and indi cates usefulness, skill and industry. Prof. Ledoux, the Director, says: 1 "There have been made at the Station, up to date, 912 analyses, requiring 3,000 quantitative determinations, and 10.000 welgbibgs." ., i He fthen gives a table which shows c.'the effect of the fertilizer control at the Station." By the system of analyzing all brands, the average prioe has fallen $4 in three years per ton, and ,the commercial value has risen $2 per ton. He says: "The total income of the Department of Agriculture (up to April 15th) was $80, 117 81. The total, expense of the Station for the three years ending April 15th, was f 14,344 w, or an average of $4,781 3G per annum, --M '"' I s'- "TheVe have been written 5,000 letters to farmer and others, and nearly 15,000 copies of repohs, formulas, &c, have been printed for distribution." j From a hasty examination we think the "Station has done a serviceable and important work, and shoul d be fostered as long as it continues i,o be useful; - We quote a paragraph from page 13.8 concerning our fishing in terests; He says: "Nowhere in our country are the fishing interests of greater magnitude than in North Carolina. It reads like fiction.ltut it is a fact that at a tingle haul of a single seine in Dr. Capehart's fishery more than 250,000 fish have been caught, tho single seine stretching in unbroken length one and a half miles, and being operated by steam. ' . "There are immense numbers obtained In every haul which are commercially val ueless. These 'refuse fish' and the entrails, cuttings and cleaning of those which are salted Gownf make a valuable fertilizing material, which. is more or less used in the vicinity; of the fisheries; but would need drying and other manipulations to render it transportable to any great distance . "Dr. Oapehart estimates that this) waste or 'offal, on the Albemarle alone, which, is utilized as a fertilizer, amounts to nearly two thoutend fite hundred tons per annum. When we add to these ficures the refuse from the Pamlico Sound we see a great ag gregate Of fertilizing material which Would be of immense value were it properly pre pared. . "TBetSTAB i long ago insisted that until jhero , wats a better school law thetre'mnst bo inefficienp. Nearly oi jiu ii three years ago -wo insisted that a law should be framed that should i provide, first, larger means; sec ndahigherl grade of teachers; third, a much more efficient Supcrin-tenaencT.-' We met with no response. Th4 orafee; 'were , dumb.. In 1880 the5 same-ol(i .system prevails giving: chiidren -only five or ' six weeks of : S -1 1? r .1 . . r pou(r .Bcuooug, ior tuts must part, lor thejentirer; r:The schojjl; houses arijfshantiesiibe ; teachers are badly paid, and very many of them have no qualifications. Some years ago, and for many months, we had the privilege of examining scores of let ters; from the common school teaohers scattered throughout the State. We saw but two that were creditably written. When we had read these - ... specimen letters we could out de plore a system that provided such teachers for the white and colored children of the State. The Superintendency is worth realjy Dur' veiT uttie. under tue present law a Horace Mann or a Barn as Sears could accomplish but very little. How could such men do anything worth mentioning by re maining in Raleigh doing an hour or twoj clerical work daily ? The State provides no means of travel for the Superintendent, provides no clerk, and gives him a small salary, just as if the office was not the most impor tant in the State. Look at Massa chusetts. What manner of men have been! her Superintendents of Public Instruction ? Such men as Horace Mann, who when in the United States Congress ranked with the fore most; Rev. Burn as Sears, D. D. LL. D., one of the ripest scholars the North ever had, a graduate of an American College, a graduate of a German University, and one of the most successful Professors in all the North; Rev. Nathan W. Lord, D. D. LL. P., another scholar of great emi nence and u8eLalaesa.V Wfcyf. theso menj when they visited a sclipol.wero such Ipracticed teachers and bo learn ed, they readily heard any class in any high school or college, and had the art of imparting information by lecture or otherwise. But you will never have any such offioils in North Carolina until edu cation is more generally appreciated, and our public men can bo induced to combine in the creating of a healthy public sentiment that shall demand the highest talents and learning for the educational supervision, the most liberal allowance in the way of a school fund, and the best teachers that remunerative salaries can pro curd. Whenever the politicians oease to beieve that the Superintendency of the Public Schools of a State with 1,400,000 inhabitants is not of much force or importance, and that every other Stf.te office is more important than that, then we may expect such provisions in the way of salary, tra velling expenses and clerk hiro as will guarantee the securing of the best talent combined with the greatest tact and enthusiasm. The late Su perintendent of Missouri was in manytrespects the ablest man in that large State. He was unquestionably its acutest thinker. now. can the Superintendent mag nify his great office by remaining in his home office the year round ? How can he supervise without going over the State ? How can he stir up the minds: of the people dn the greatest question that concerns them the education of their children unless he, talk to them face to face ? How can he lecture before the schools of the State: aad give the teachers in all the schools ad vice, aqd often instruc tion (as is the. case in Massachusetts) unleasj he go from, town to town and from school to school ? How. can he travel! unless, the 1,400,000 people provide the means? How can he leave his office in Raleigh for six or eight months in the year without a competent .clerk being provided? How can you ever have a Dr. W. T. Harris; or a Dr. Nathan, W. -Lord, or a Dr. Barnas Sears, or a Horace Mann j supervising, directing, . ani mating your pubhc schools i unless the 1,400,000 people interested regard the work t!o be done of such high impor tance as to demand, the expenditure of three or four thousand dollars? There was never such an instance of the penny wise and pound foolish saw. '1 A day of the Legislature costs some $1,200. We have seen a dozen days in a session almost literally thrown away in filibustering and idleness costing from $10,000 to $15,000. But when you come to consider the most important of all questions concerning the future wel-. fare of the State the virtue, the intelligence, the ability and wisdom of those who are to succeed those h6w on the stage of public affairs, . i i ' : toed a violent spasm of economy su pervenes; the eyes of the dear closet fisted tax-payer is thought tq je fixed upon your legislator; xne oroaa views he indulged but a little while ago become suddenly contracted .and the fountains of public spirit are dried up within him. We intended referring before to the action of tho Teachers' Associa tion held at the University. A me morial was adopted that contains several highlv important features. and we hope when it is presented to the: Legislature that every member will give special attention to each of the several points. The following points are thus given in our ex changes: "1st. For a school of four months in each district. 2d. To give to each district the right to tax itself for educational pur poses. 3d. To require commissioners to erect suitable houses, the expenses to be defrayed from district fund. 4th. To au thorize county Boards to give not less than one hundred dollars for support of county Teachers' institutes. 5th. To require coun ty Boards to appoint as examiners only persons who have taught three years, and are competent in every respect. 6th. To require each examiner to: visit and supervise all schools in his dis trict; his expenses to be paid from school fund. 7tb. That county Boards, upon consent of a majority, shall fix a uni- form series of text books. 8th. That only two grades of certificates shall be given; one each for the Primary and the Grammar school. 9th. To give teachers such sala ries as shall be agroed upon between them selves and commissioners. 10th. To intro duce studies in our common schools which will promote industrial schools." , This is a preliminary article to more systematic discussion. Let the press unite heartily in this great mat ter of educating the girls and boys of North Carolina and even your con ventional legislator cannot afford to be indifferent. : ;',,4 LiJo0ica,tfcit steps have beentaken 1 1 ,'m z- v --ljr TW V """" -1 ' to fbrm a corporation in Virginia known as the "Virginia Angora Com pany!." Already $1,300,000 ' have been subscribed, and a charter for $2,000,000 was granted by the Legis lature. The name indicates the ob ject. ; A Virginia paper says: "A 'contract has been made with Califor nia parties to transfer their stock of tho roughbred Angoras to Virginia, and to furnish also 20,000 ewe goats of original Maltese stock, to be purchased in and brought from Mexico. Although the in dustry has been successful in California, yet the conditions for success are so far su perior in the mountains or Virginia as to warrant the transfer of herds and an ex penditure of about $200,000' in making the transfer and in improvements." North Carolinians With level heads and well lined pockets can imitate the example of Capt . . Edward Cuttle "Make a note on it." The next number of the Southern Historical Society Papers will contain a letter from ex-President Jeffersdn Davis. . In L860 tho fifteen Southern States expended $2,000,000 for public school purposes. ' Determined Attempt at Snlelde. Mr. William McLaughlin, of Robeson county, who has been in the employ of the Wheeler-& Wilson Sewing Machine Com pany ib this city for some 'time past, at tempted to commit suicide; last night while suffering from depression of spirits. About 9 o'clock he purchased an ouace and a half of laudanum at a drug store, and repairing to his room over the office! of the Sewing Machine Company, on Princess street, swallowed the whole quantity be fore it could be prevented by a friend who Was present. Physicians were at once called in but he resisted every attempt to apply the pToper remedies; untU from the effects of the narcotic he was powerless, and un-f conscious. Etexy effort was made to arouse him and counteract the effect of the drug by the physicians and a large number of friends in attendance; but at a late hour last night his case was thought to be very critical! indeed. FIS KalilDE ( KockrFolnl. Our ' correspondent "Zoe," at Rocky Point, Pender county, Informs us that Mr. John EL Wood, the enterprising telegraph manager at that place, has at bis own ex pense erected a fine pole and . thrown a Hancock and English flag to the breeze, and that it is his intention to present it to the Hancock and English Club at their next meeting. Our correspondent, adds that there is great enthusiasm in that' section for Hancock and the other Democratic candi dates. ; Religion. ; . . - From a postal card received by a gentle man hero we learn that Capt. W. J. Potter, the Colporteur, is at Little River, S. C, working with Rev.- Mr. Murray, of the South Carolina Annual Conference; in a revival of religion in that Bection. The re ligious interest is represented as being greater ; than it has been for years, with about fif teen conversions up to the time Capt. Potter wrote. NO. 44. Fire ai Ltlitneton A Lady and Cblla Narrowly Kscape rerlAblOK;in ;tue Flames. I The residence? at LillingloD, Pender county, the property of Mefsrs. J. Q. and J. P. Bell, occupied by Mr. W. T. Newell, formerly of this city, and known as the Satchwell house, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock. The fire,-it seems, originated in the stove-roomi and when Mrs. : Newel), who, with her iittle grand-child, aged about 3 years, was awaked by the : crackling flames, she was almost suffocated with smoke. ad the I clfp r-m which adjoined the sleeping rvom, wi xaiiiDg id. vs eoon as sne awoke2, she shouted the alarm, and tho Messrs. Bell hurried to her assistance, and rescued her from the fast encroaching flames, which, in a few more short minutes, would have enveloped her. Having se cured Mrs. N. 'a safety it was then disco vered that the little girl, a daughter of Mr. A. J. Mclntire, had been left behind, whereupon Mr. J. Q. Bell, at the imminent peril of his own life, returned to the room, scorched by the flames through which he was compelled to pass, and succeeded in rescuing the child . So rapidly did ths fire spread that Mr. and Mrs. Newell loBt everything but what they, had on j their backs. The Messrs. Belli who were! in a less exposed part of the building, succeeded in saving their cham ber set, but . all the rest of their furniture and personal effects were consumed. There was no insurance on any of the property destroyed. The dwelling was valued at about $1,500, while Mr. Newell's loss is estimated at about $300. This gen tleman was on! a visit to this city at the time the fire occurred, and heard nothing of his loss and the narrow escape of his wife and grandchild until yesterday about 12 or 1 o'clock. He, of course feels under great obligations to the Messrs. Bell for their self-sacrificing efforts to save the lives of those so near and dear to him. A i surveying party, consisting of Capt. Darling and others, who are engaged in surveying the creek near the scene of the conflagration, ancei rendered valuable assist THE STATE CAMPAIGN. Capt. Kitchin spoke at Halifax on Monday last. Gen. Johnstone Jones spoke at Rntheeford College August 11th. A friend writes, us that the Demo crats of Columbus are in good trim for the campaign. The Durham, Plant says the Orange Democrats, will hold their County Convention' at Hillsboro on September 4ftiJ , t ... - -Gn., Cdx -and Attorney General Kenan will . address the people at Fair)ort, Granville county, on Tues day, the 21st of ' August. Raleigh Observer. Wo learn from the Graham Gleaner that Mr. F. C. Robbing, elector, is to speak there on next Monday. On the next, day Gen. Scales. Col. Kenan and Dr. Worth will ! speak. That lonesome Green backjRadical, Col. J R. Winston, will speak also. It is proposed to organize a Han cock,' Jarvis and Dowd Club here next Monday, j Next Monday Will doubtless prove a gala day for Rockingham. MGov. Jarvis ought to have and we make no doubt will have a large crowd out to hear him. - t t. i. cr'ii ixocKmynam jptru. Hon. Joseph J. Davis,present mem ber f Congress, (he is not a candi date for re-election) one of the purest and ablest men in public life, made a very j good speech at Stanhope in Nashl The people in Nash respect and bjonor "honest Joe Davis" as he is familiarly called. Wilson Ad vance. -- 1 ' ii Ju&ge Fowld has aocepted an in vitation from the County Executive Committee , to speak here on Tues day of September court. As is usual on such occasions, we suppose he will speak in the afternoon about three o'clock. We understand Capt. Oo tayius Coke, Chairman of the State Exeoutive Committee, will also be invitdd. Warrenton Gazette. ; Th Democrats of Reaves' Ferry, Columbus county, had a grand time on Saturday, the 14th. A large crowd gathered to witness a pole raising. The pole is 10 feet high and was obtained . by those active young Democrats, J . W. Faulk, J. P. Faulk, Jackson Ludhom, Isaac Faulk Solo mon Faulk and others.-: Excellent speeches were made by Captains J. W. Ejlis and V. V. Richardson. Co lumbus is all right. The Duplin primaries, to elect nine delegates to the County Convention, will take place on the 28th inst., and we trust will be fully attended The Republicans of this county are laboring hard i to induoe Democrats to run as ' independent candidates. Arrangenient8 are being made for a Democratic mass meeting du ring iSeptember, at Seven Springs. CoL Kenan, F. H, Busbee, Esq., and other prominent speakers will be pre-senk-r Gpldsboro Messenger. The Charlotte Observer scribe on his travels learnt the following: That an effort is being made to in duce Capt. Joe Mills or Col. Sam Tate to run. for the Legislature in Burke, and that with either of these gentlemen as candidates the Demo cratic ! majority will reach 800. That a Hancock and Jarvis club has been organized and committees ap pointed in every township in Burke county, which is said to be due largely to the efforts of Gen. Johnstone J ones. That at Statesville, Monday, night, a Hancock and Jarvis club was organized with a; membership of 100 names. On Friday next there will be a flag and pole raising and speeches I by Armfield, Robbins and Klnttz. - A Mr. Hand at Charlotte was overturned, was caught un!er a buiriiy dragged lifly vards. fintillv millm! himself from.under and .upon his teci and stopped the animl He was nay eUghUy bruised, says the, Observer. .-I ... j f- The Milton Chronicle ikWos the death of Mis Lydia WhHits, of Person county, aged 1)1 year?, six niutuhs and five days. She was a conrfsteut member of the Primitive Baptist Chinch i.i ?(J yr-nrs and died in the faith. New Berno Record; We rorot to know lhal our fliend' PiUman, t the Nut Shelly m citniinHs t. frffVr from asthma so much a iu confine him to the house. The steamer DtfUnce, of the Clyde Line, will sail lo-duy hi noon, wilh a full cargo, consisting of 110 bales of cot ton '150,000 woodtn plates, 105.000 leet of lumber and 3000 barrels of naval stort s. "4-Raleigh Observer: Thirteen new; school house are being buili W"ake county. These structures are fubstanhal, attdaa alule, roomy and cenvenicnt. The county generally furnishes the necessary limber, and persons living near Ibe - place erect the building and fit it for use. Thus the C09t to the county is moderate,' eay not more than $103, and a good building is se cured. Maj. James W. Wilson told the Charlotte Observer interviewer that Best was io earnest "dead earnest " He said he "ha s made arrangements for the , money that is necessary to complete ii. lie has bought iron enough to repair the road bed, change the road by Newton and lay tbe track as far as the road is graded The Ducktowo and Paint Rock branches aro being surveyed, and work has already be gun pa the P. Ii. branch." j- The ABhboro Courier says that "thej recent rains have done feaiful damage throughout our county and particularly ou the streams. Thousands of panels of fences hayej been s.vppt away, tons of hay ruined and washed away, and huudreds of acres of corn destroyed. Deep River in the south from! the eastern part of the ecuuty to the mouth of Richland Creek and the mouth of Flat Creek swept away fences and ruined all the corn along its banks, leaving scarce ly ad acre from which any thing will be realized this year. f Raleigh Observer: The three negro burglars who were last week arrested ia Chapel Hill have been tried before a magistrate and committed to jail. One f the three was a blacksmith. Ho mude skeleton key with which the others alienat ed to open a door in a dwelling. But the key, badly made, broke off in the lock. The blacksmith's participation in the affair was found out, aud he turned State's evi dence against the others. He is one of the three who burned Mrs. Long's smokehouse not long since. The gang have committed several other crimes recently. -p Durham Plant: Revs. II. H. Gibbons and A. Walker conducted a se ries f meetings at Mt. Hebron Church last" week, and some fifteen persons made professions, . This week they are holding meetings at Old Bethel, on Flat river. -The Mt. Zion Baptiet Association will be held with the Baptist Church in this place on Tuesday, Wednesday od Thurs day (24th, 25th, 26th,) of next: week. This Association will be composed of one hun dred messengers from the churches and the Bishops of the churches, and -will repre sent twenty-five churches, located- mainly, in OrJinge and Chatham counties, which cgnMjioie-flimeiSrbershipiof 2T.537. The in ttoductory sermon will be preached by Bishop J. P. Mason, at 11 o'clock A. M., on Tuesday. Goldsboro Messenger: We learn that a meeting of the directors of the W. K. C. Railroad, the first under the new re gime,1 will be held at Salisbury Saturday. Mr. Ddrtch expects to attend the meeting. The first bale of new crop cotton was brought to this market Wednesday by Mr. J. T. Daley, of Lenoir county, and bought by Messrs. Murchison & Williams, of this place. It was graded low middling, sold for 11 cents, nnd weighed 450 pounds. - Coup's and liobinson's circuses have de clared their intention to visit Goldsboro,' and others may come here. Of late we .have received many complaints from subscribers who fail to receive their paper. We' have reason to believe that in most cases the fault rests wiih the postmasters, and is caused by the pernicious habit of allowing loafers and others to purloin the paper from the postofilce. Postmasters have no right to loan out papers intended for subscribers. The whole number of druggists enrolled as members of the"N. C. State Pharmaceutical Association is one hundred and ten. A circular letter is to be sent to every druggist in the State invitiug him to become a member.' Charlotte Observer: Probably the happiest man in the city yesterday afternoon was Mr. Samuel Wittkowsky, of Wittkowsky & Baruch, who returned on the 1:25 P. M. train after an absence of several months abroad. Like Gen. Grant he comes back better pleased with his own country than any on the globe. - Mr. W. L. Sanders has returned from a busi ness trip to New York. While there be conversed with a number of theatrical man agers with reference to the coming theatri cal season. He was assured that some very excellent ccmpaniea would come South this seasoUi -Everitt is estopped from going behind the returns and showiog no fraud. It is a bad precedent, but his own party established it. - The latest intelligence from Gen. R. D. Johnston and party comes from them immediately after their arrival in Rome, and after their visit to Naples. While in England Gen. Johnston - visited and renewed , an acquaintance with Judah P. Benjamin', Secretary of State of the Southern Confederacy, and at present Queen's counsel. Gen. Johnston was treated with distinguished consideration by tbe great English lawyer, who showed him the nature of his wotk, and conducted him through several of tbe English courts, explaining their methods and peculiarities. Apparently he has lost nothing of his in terest in the Southern people, to whose cause he was so devoted and valuable an adherent. Charlotte Observer: At Piney Grove ; Presbyterian church. Buncombe, county, a protracted meetings was held last week for the first time in fifty years, result ing in th8 conversion of forty souls. The' ' preaching was done by Rev. Mr. Gammon, of Asheville, and Rev. Mr., Moore, of Charlotte, a divinity student. -The travel over the Western, road has largely increased this year over any previous year. The eounty is too prosperous to talk politlca , Conversation naturally drifts to the magnificent crops that are 'every where . to be seen. Sportsmen report that the mild winter has bad the effect of filling the fields with partridges. Apparently .obey have not been more abundant in . years. A young colored man named Pillow, a recent graduate. of Biddle University of this city, was killed by lightning at Ebe"he : zer, in York county, last week. He was walking under an ; umbrella at the time. A physician remarked yesterday after noon that Charlotte was the only town in the State where doctors have to pay a license to practice their profession. Among other things the Observer Ecribe heard That the crops along the line of the Western N. C. road, and in the counties beyond the Ridge, were never better, pro mising a year of plenty and contentment. That there is a fine mast in the mountains. That there is the greatest abundance of fruit everywhere, and but for ihe Republi-" can tax on brandy everybody would ; bo . happy in anticipation of the good limes ahead. That the heavy rains have caused the apples to fall off the trees and thou sands.of bushels are rotting on the ground. t t k m m m I I it Mi it 5! 1 it 1 i I 1

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