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.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
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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. -
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- 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,
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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
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-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.
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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
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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.
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