North Carolina Newspapers

Ibe fcbto f tar. K N, Nhn-n-.r- -AVIV T',.- wmin5 i7. ' i m 'i h w sj nif'-mi : n . PDJJLI8H3D AT, $ 1 .50 a. Year in advance. : . 88$S38SS83S8S8888 ! I '88888888888888888 , iok9 sg8sa86S8gatgg2g ; T88888S88S888S8S8S . 88888888888888888 " - 8S888S88SSSSSSS8S . 1 888888S88S888S8SS. 888858.88888888888 ' 8SS888SS83SSS8SSS t-t Entered ai the Post Office at Wilmington, N. C, as second-class matter. J ion riie'subscriptlou price of the WERK v Star is as follows : 'iui'lft Goyy 1 year, postage paid, $1.50 " " 6 months. " " 1.00 " 2 . " " " ' .50 W ' ClinffN, W 11 r OP K i.ii ?- Whnt were the r.rtiis'H of tlie gains inale it Indiana by the Republican? l).u!ilf.i llnra were: very many c:ius hul chiefly: the following: Fiis!., he large importatioii of fraudulent votern. , Kentucky was ir.iwn upon for thousands of negr'es, whilsl the slums of New 5Tork, Phila delphia and a dozen other cities were raked for roughs and repeaters to do the dirty work of Radicals. ..-Second,' the- free use of money by which men were bought up like sheep for .he tdiambles. The Radicals had over one hundred thousand office holders upon whom to levy a heavy tax. They had the United Slates Treasury undfr the chargo of John -Sherman, who among American poli ticians is only less corrupt than Grant j and Garfield. How much of the money of the people how many mil lions of the Treasury wre extracted for campaign purposes is. unknown and will never be known to the peo ple who are the losers. Then, the grat . moneyed corporations are m.iinly Radical, whilsl thousands of the richest people in the North, are the friends and admirers of Garfield, Grant, Colfax, and that set. With these various sources to draw upon all the money needed with which to debauch the polls would Le forth c tniing. . Third, the system - of practical bulldozing adopted in the 'North which is more silent and more effec tive than the shotgun policy about which Radical speakers delighted to pipe and Radical organs delighted to croon. The working men employed in all the factories must vote as the .. bosses vote or leave their places at once. This is as true as truth itself. The cause of the Democrats is more endangered by this system of coer cion and oppression than by ballot j stuffing and bribery. It is done in silence, but it is done. fourth, the fact that the Radicals could concentrate all of their agen cies and engines of war upon one or two States. This they camiot do in a general election. Other States are' more important than Indiana, and they will have to use their professional repeaters elsewhere. Fifth, the unpopularity of Lan ders, the Democratic candidate for Governor. Senator McDonald said days before the election, in an inter view referred to io the Star, that Landers was 3,000 votes weaker than the State ticket. He said that he would' not run that far behind, be cause it was a Presidential year, and hundreds or thousands would vote for him because they knew . it meant Hancock that in voting tor Gov ernor they were helping to fix the State for Hancock. He said that this would bring up Landers' vote cimtiiderably, but that be was never theless unpopular, and if it were an ff year he would come out 3,000 votes behind the ticket. Further more, Gen.Hancook is muoh. strong er than the State, ticket. It was h iid two ; weeks' ago in Indiana by one of the Democratic leaders that be was stronger in any locality in the State than the candidates running for local or State offices in that par ticular locality These - are, as .we regard them, some of the causes the" main onesthat have operated adversely, and that have caused the Republican gains' jn. Indiana. . Now for a moment let us see the effects.1: Will the result in Indiana give the State in November to Gar 11 ll-TTll W.M ,' 11-4 L 1 1-4 ,., ,ll. .. , , 'W I .11 II' III . rr - T . i-i, II j j fv! -JUL- A X IA Jrn, j ipi '1 I'll V U . W 1 1: 'iMPW i r I if- -iv' I ! 'I t i f I'l I :.! ' - - - m - i l - M n I' VOL. XIJ field? We answer emphatically, I neither necessarily nor not rat all. Why so, do you ask? jWo answer, First, the causes assigned above show clearly' how the Radicals gained a temporary advantage. .J- ,; :: ., Second, Indiana, -under a fair vote, is Democratic always,, juat as Ohio is Republican. Third, the DemopraU , will work harder tban ever to retrieval all . the ground they have lost. : - Fourth, General Hancock is at least 6,000 votes 'stronger .than Lan ders. He was Mb before! the election stronger by of Tuesday, and he is that number to-day. Writing on Thursday morning with no news later than the night previous, we: assume that the Demo crats have elected MOTfty-dfvl State ticket! the Legislature, and more than half of the Representa tives in Congress. If this is so we feel confident that Indiana is safe for Hancock and English. The outlook is very much more com orting than it was twenty-lour hours ago, when we feared all was lost in Indiana, and that rascality, trickery, intimidation and bribery had so completely won the day that there wis but little i li chance of regaining lost ground and giving Indiana's fifteen electoral votes to the soldier-sjtatesman, as wise in council as successful in war. But the aspect is chiangod. We have the strongest hopesj of -carrying Indiana. If so, then what? It takes 185 votes to elect. Suppose the Southern States all vote for Hancock? That gives bim. . . .. .........133 Add New Yuik. 85 15 Indiana. . . . : 188 That elect?. Then we have at least a fair showing, j under the changed aspect in Indiaua, of Connecticut. .. New Jersey. . . Ai&iue ...v... Delaware. . . . California . . . Oregon. . 34 So the ganie is not altogether des perate, and possibly the" Radical re premature. joicings are a little bit It is not yet decided that the hun dred thousand official rats are to re main forever in the cribs, or that! Radicalism is to domi nate and curse our land henceforth. It may be that there lis enough of love of virtue and honorand country in the laud yet to prefer a soldier of marked ability and with a stainless name ua politician whose record is blurred with dishonor, arid who never rises above the dead level of acrid partisanship goguery. and superlative dema- INOI.INA. AGAIN. The Republican victory in Indiana appears to have been complete. They elect their State ticket, it is sup posed, by 7,000; elect eight members of the House of Representatives, a gain of two, land have a majority in the Legislature, thus securing ft U S. Senator. Our leader, on second page, w as w ritten yesterday ;. morn ing, and its speculations were based upon the much j more favorable re turns received at a late hour on the night before. ; Our editorial will serve to point out the means resorted to.by the Radicals to consummate their ends. The South,: New .York, New Jersey aud Connecticut, can elect Gen. Hancock. : California, Oregon and Maine may be considered besides as debatable ground. Hard work, great 'enthusiasm' and an in vincible will can' do great things be fore November 2. That is the way it strikes us now before the smofce of battle has i been lifted from the field. It may be that wo have a chance even in Indiana. Col. W. L. Smith handed us a full statement of the New Hanover Board of Commissioners, of which he is a very efficient. member, and a most encouraging exhibit it is. Under Democratic economy and . conscien tiousness the County Commissioners cost but $693 90, , which is a great Bavmg and retrenchment. The Com missioners have not resorted to con structive dodges; in., order, to fleece the people. We will only i copy the following which speaks trumpet- tongued to all tax-payers: Current Expenses of Co., 1873 $41,037 37 " " 18TSM- 31,546 95 i - u " 1880- 24.785 61 If these figures do not show most conclusively that it is thepart of wis dom to put Democrats in office then we are unable to tell how much twice two make. ; ! - . . , .. .-,;;M ,y, v-r' , ,;r ,; .; T,;r - , : ,- h, ? - , i ; , . -i?n;: i- ; WILMINGTON; N. 0., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1880. Mr. G.W. Michal, of Newton, 1J.C., writes an intelligent communication to the Charlotte Observer in .which he iusists that the. inscriptions on the King's Mountain monument , do not speak the truth of history, He shows that it omits, the names o,f Maj. Jo. McDowell and Maj. - Winston, j who were conspicuous officers in the fight and in command of troops. The mon ument represents .that Ferguson was defeated by "Campbell, S'uelby, Cleaveland, Sevier, and their heroic followers," thus omitting Col. Charles McDowell's regiment, led, in t battle by Maj. McDowell, and . a portion of Cleaveland's regiment, commanded by Maj. Winston, placed on the ex- reme right. There were six distinct commands in the battle according to, 'Senator Barnum, Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Com mittee, has returned to New York rom Indiana. He said to the Star of that city : 'There is nothing in the result in Ohio and Indiana to alter my confidence in tlie result in November the election of Han cock and English. Connecticut will also go for Hancock." . . The following is of sufficient in terest to be published without abridgement. We copy from the same paper : 'Mr. William A. Fowler, chairman of the New York State Executive Committee, said io reference to the results : f'Let Indiana give 10.000 Republicaolma- jority, and we will yet go up to Albany wan luu.uuu maioruy lor Hancock.. We will carry tne State ol JNew Yoik, which went Democratic in '62, '68 and '76. in some of these years under circumstances more discouraging by far than those that at resent exist The Republican disaster in line must not be forgotten, as showing the drift W popular sentiment. New Yoik, NewJersey and Connecticut will be Democratic beyond a doubt in November." vgenator Kandolph, of New Jersey, said at a late hour last night that the elections on Tuesday did not discourage him as to the Presidential contest. He could answer for the State of New Jersey which, in his opinion, would not give Hancock less than 5.000 majority under any circumstances. With JNew York and Xiew Jersey. Han cock's election was assured." TUB D ttOCRATIC NOMINEES. Elsewhere in this issue will be found the names of the gentlemen selected as the candidates of the Democratic party for the various offices of New Hanover county. The late hour at which they were received at the Stab office makes it impossible for us to more than call attention to them this morning. All of the gentlemen are well known as men of integrity and ability, and the County Executive Committee is greatly to be congratu lated on the combined excellence of the ticket they have put in the field. It is composed of men especially fitted for the several offices for which they are 'named, -and, with the right kind of effort they can all be elected. But more of this hereafter. We thought that Judge Watts ("Greasy Sambas Jo Turner dubbed him in the old Raleigh Sentinel) would never agree to undergo a reg ular skinning again after Mr. Maurice Q. Waddell's famous lambasting at Pittsboro, in 1872. But Gen. Leach is a more skilful surgeon than Mr. Waddell, and it must -have been a highly interesting operation to have seen him as he removed the hide of the. manufacturer of bed-bug poison and then wiped the ground a few times with the remains. The North Carolina Legislature ought to ap point a Mr. Berg h and clothe him with due. power to "prevent cruelty to animals." But just think: of Jim Leach pealing off the outer tegument of the great Radical saw-dust per former. Don't you wish you had been there to see? We notice some extraordinary fig ures in Cotton concerning the cost of raising the great staple in South Carolina. Mr. A. P. Ford, of Bam bug, writes "that prior to 1865 the average yield of cotton to the acre in that State was' 145 pounds lint, while now it is 200 pouuds; and the cost of production, which was for merly 8 cents per pound, has been reduced to 5f cents per pound." Can these figures be trusted? We would be glad to know that our sister State had improved so much in her farming interests. Kollector Kanaday will kalculate incorrectly he if is kontemplatmg to kollect his $5,000 as a member of the U. S. House.. Kurnel Kornegay will konsider probably such a kalculation as konsiderably beside the mark.'. In the meantime let .the. Democrats at tend to both. . The Democrats generally will re- gret that Frank Hurd was defeated inOhio. He is one of the ablest men in the present House. . I The.; address, r of ( the Perfl4orativ National Committee is ifispiriung.i It calmly, surveys the whoted, points to the. incentives to actic$,;EOunds the bugle note for ai fiercer .onset,, and lejaves the issue with the Gd of bat tles. W hilat,-, it 'i must &e i acknow--longed,, the . results in iObioand In- I jana change the .advantages ; to a, cdn?iderable ex-tes t,. , they do not, settle the . contest. ,On .tjie, morning of the election, it will be remem bered, the Stab gave it as its opinion that -the loss of ti Indiana, would not necessarily lose thePesidenyWi: We peat that opinion nvw.that Indiana haa been lost, ,; The Democrats , may win. ; A ,, greats viotoryj ; has', , been sqiatcbed .smeUmes out. o the very jaws of , defeaC The Democratic party has not been reduced yet to such a strait. It occupies still a yantage ground whence it may burl hi lines upon the enemy. !lt takes J85 to elect. ... With proper effort the 138 votes of the South will be secured. If .the Democrats are re solved they, can carry New York by a arge majority. It is believed confi dently, by the leaders in that great State that we shall win. That , will give Hancock 173. But 12 votes are acking. Cannot the Democrats se cure them when they have Connecti cut, Maine, New Jersey, Indiana, Cali- ornia, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado and New Hampshire as good ground for a contest ? Surely, we must hope so. The t Democrats have, been much worse off than they are now. Other parties . have gone into a fight and gained a great victory with much less showing ' than our party iiow has. Wjhen the Democrats nominated James K. Polk in 1844 their fortunes were much, more desperate than ours can be said to be now, and; yet they defeated the Whigs with the illustri ous Henry Clay at their head. We must fight. We must fight hard. We must fiht all the time. Wfe must fight with hearts to win. We must bury all local prejudices and personal antagonisms. We must work and vote for our candidates, National, State, District and county. One day even is enough io gain a victory where defeat is expected. It was to in Maine. The Democrats ex pected nothing. They had ; given up the hope of success, but they worked -they and their allies. And what was the result??; We all know it. That day a victory was won. It was done mainly on that one day. We said, and we -believe it, that Han cock is 6,000 stronger in Indiana than the. State 'ticket. IIemaybe made 10,000 stronger even. It is possible to carry that State in spite of the defeat brought about by fraud and bribery. We shall be dis appointed if; Hendricks and McDon ald and Voorhees and English and the remainder of the Democratic leaders in that State do not continue the fight until November 2d with a strong purpose nod a good hopj of success of retrieving the day. They, know by what corrupt, and flagitious methods the late defeat was brought about, and they will set to work to repair the damage and to restore Indiana, to the , Democratic column, where it belongs rightfully. In North Carolina we must leave no stone unturned. Our enemy will gain fresh ardor and- perhaps fresh supplies Of the "sinews of war, and will put forth redoubled efforts to carry, if not the State, at i least the Third District,' and, perhaps, three or four others. ' ' ' The Democrats of the Third Dis trict must do their full duty. Let us forget the past' and shoulder to shoulder march T forth to deliver battle for a pure ballot and an honest count; for the right of the people to elect their own President; for local self-government; for a government of law; for peace between the sections; for economy and reform in the ad- ministration of the government; for honesty and purity! among officials, both high and low; for civil liberty and soul liberty and a restored bro therhood, ,.;;. .-. TUINK WBLIi BEFORE VOU BOLT. Whenever a Democrat begins to feel like' breaking ranks before the November election our advice is that he sit quietly and reflect upon the occurrences of the last fifteen years. Let him go back to 1865, and bring up before him the precise: condition of the country at that time; let him call up the South as she t stood de feated; then coming down the stream of years let him 'I recall all the inci dtnts and-events of reconstruction; lei hi m go oyer Grant's eight years of .oppression and misrule and corrup- UhL-icity ntj.v.-n na tion ; let him read the repressive and bulldozing and vindictive, measures passed by a Radical Congress; let him come down to 18.7.6 and the free use of the bayonet to determine elec tions; lei hira turn to the vote of that jear. when over a quarter of a million majontyof .tbe, free electors declared ibjat;SaninjBl , Jj jTilden, waa their choice or President, of tbo A United , States, add oyer a million majority of the free white voters rendered the . same yer diet; and, lastly, having fairly con sidered the character of Garfield, all ' befouled with his own cor rupt, evil "deeds, and then consid ering HaricockV character,' '-his de votion to Constitutional Government his patriotic action in Louisiana when clothed with despotic powers, then say and determine in your mind whether' the present is a good time for breaking ranks; for lessening the chances of repressing-, wrongs for purging the government of corrupt of ficials; for vindicating the right of the people to name the President of the United States; for bringing back the administration of public affairs j to a basis of economy and fair dealing; add for restoring the Constitution as it came from the hands of the fathers, preserving iutact all amendments thereto. This is the work to be done. These are the facts to be considered. We think you will conclude jit is much better to stand firmly by the old, true, tried party than to go off after : new gods and new . financial will-o' the-wisps. ; I In your reflections turn to North Carolina and recall the days of Can by and the carpet-baggers, the times of Holden and the .Kirk war; the days of debauchery and robberies and wastefulness; and say then, will j you break ranks now to help eleot such fellows as Buxton and Barringer, who stood by copsentiqg to, if they did not "participate in, the crimes and outrages; such fellows as Jenkins who was the paymaster under Hol den when the Kirk cut-throats were abusing, cursing,' threatening and imprisoning the eloquent and ; pure Judge Kerr, the estimable Dr. Roan, the defiant Joe. Turner, the excellent Mr. Bow, of Yanceyville, and twen ty or thirty others of the best i citi zens of that portion of North Caroli na; such fellows as Dr. Norment, whose speeches are said to teem! with violence and vulgarity, and young Moore, of Edenton, whose grand-; father, Judge Augustus. Moore would have died sooner than be found cheek-by-jowl with the crew of plunderers that robbed and degraded aOd persecuted the old State. Think of these things, and then resolve that come what may you will be true to your mother, true to yourself, true to the pure principles you have es - poused hitherto, and from now until November 2d ends you will battle for the Democratic party on whose suc cess, we believe in our heart, depend the safety and perpetuity of our re publican institutions; including the right to vote as you please, and to h$ve your vote counted, and to en joy both civil and religious liberty. The Republican party has departed sq far from the true Constitutional paths of the .fathers .that they are utterly incapable of even understand ing what those principles arc that give safety to. the citizen, perpetuity to civil freedom, and local self-government to the States. In France, id the last century, they talked of liberty when the streets of Paris were running with blood, and the most cruel and remorseless tyrants were wreaking their vengeance upon those they hated. So now, in this land of the free, the Radicals prate of a pure ballot when they are con stantly, pertinaciously, deliberately corrupting it; and talk of liberty and law flippantly and eloquently, when they are destroying the one and trampling the other onder their re morseless feet. .. There is no doubt than Hancock is stronger in all the States than the State candidates. Judge Thurman says he is stronger by 5,000 than the State ticket in Indiana and 10,000 stronger lban; the' State ticket in Ohio. He will be stronger in North Carolina than any man of tfcie' j State ticket, arid ' possibly by thousands. But this :is not exceptional, j Han cock is immensely popular every where? In this sign we conquer. j The official statement of the census of South Carolina ia 995,006. , NO. 52. i jHoh; Ben.' Hill has been interviewed by ihe'Atlanta Constitution relative to the late election?, and. wc make room to-day Tor a small portion of wpat he says. We give the salient points. He was confident 'ten days before the election that Indiana and Ohio would go -Republican and so wrote to his friends privately. le has spent recently three weeks in Npw York. But to the interview: ' . J 'Do you ! think these Republican suc cesses assure the election of Garfield ?" i f'By no means; by no means, i It will be . a great mistake for our people to think so, an,d allow themselves to become discour aged.' Indeed, the worse effect of these elections will be this feeliop: of discourage ttifnt. The Republicans will press this ef fect with great ekilK and Dcmocnits who yild to it will be doing efjeciive service for Garfield. Some of the causes which have wrought Republican success in the State elections wil aot even exist in the general election in November, others will be less -poteBlial,Bd still other causes which aided1 the Republicans yesterday will aid the Dem ocrats in November." j ''You think, then, that Hancock can be elected without Ohio and Indiaoa? ;' ?' I certainly dq. I have never placed his success on those States. I thought it pos sible we might carry Indiana in November, and think so yet, but success docs not de pend on that State. Defeat in the Western States docs not destroy the plan pa which Democratic success is expected, though it was thought we could carry Indiana even on the plan intimated with Mr. English on the ticket. Perhaps I have not said enough on the subject for the present." ; Penitentiary Escape j ' Deputy Sheriff j Daniel Howard, who has just returned from Raleigh, made inquiry while there as to the alleged escape from the Penitentiary of Maria Hall, sentenced to confinement for twenty years for man slaughter, in the ' killing of a Bailor in this city on Christmas morning last, and was told that it was a mistake, as she was at that time an inmate of the institution. He was informed, however, that one Virginia Hines, colored, who, in connec'ion with one Sarah Allen was tried and convicted of manslaughter for causing the death of a colored child, by beating and starving it, and who was sentenced at the February term, 1878, of the Criminal Court, to ten years imprisonment in the Penitentiary,' has escaped and is -now at large, and it is probable' that the report of Maria Hall's escape bad its origin in this fact. Cotton for Liverpool A Good Carso. i The British barque Minnie Gray, Capt. Berrels. consigned to Mr. C. P. Mebane, has completed her cargo and will sail for Liverpool in a day or two. It consists of 1,460 bales ot cotton, which is estimated to be 1,955 pounds to the registered ton. The cargo is shipped i by . Messrs. Williams & Murchisoa, and was pressed by the Wil mington Compress Company's hydraulic press. Not a bale of the cotton we are told, is stowed in the cabin or forecastle. Fa bile peaking. We are requested by Mr. T. M. Moore, Chairman of the Warsaw Democratic Township Executive Committee, to state that Major C. M. Stedman, Gen. J. M. Leach, Mr. D. H. McLean, Col. D. K. Mc Rae and Major D. J. Devaue will address the people at Warsaw, Duplin county, on Saturday, the 23d inst. Everybody is invited. i , Xo the Voters of New Hanover County The Democratic Executive Committee pi this County, In pursuance of authority vested in said Committee by a resolution adopted at the last Convention of the Dem ocratic party of New Hanover County, has nominated for your suffrages, to fill county Offices, the following citizens:. House of Representatives Abner S. Mosely, Walker Meares. For Sheriff Horace A. Bagg. For County Treasurer Owen Fennell, Jr. For Register of Deeds Hugh W. Mc- Laurin. For Coroner Wm. M. Hayes. For Constable Jesse J. Dicksey. Rooms Democratic Executive Com ; mlttee New Hanover County. 16 the Voters of New Hanover and Pender Counties The Executive Committee of New Han over County, by and with the consent and approval of the Executive Committee of Pender County, baa placed in the field for your suffrages at the approaching election for the office of State Senator, the name of DAVID G. WORTH, of New Hanover. By order Executive Committee: F. H.-'Dakbt, Chairman. Jas. W. Kikg, Sec'y- -Wilmington, N. C, Oct. 16, 18S0. ; ; For the Star. BOCKX POINT DEMOCRATIC CLCD Mr. Editob: By invitation of this club, Mr. J. I. Macks, of your city, made a tell ing and eloquent speech to-day at Rocky Point to the crowd assembled to hear him. He was handsomely-introduced by the president of the club, Thomas J. Arm; strong, Esq., and proceeded to make one of the most effective speeches that the people of Pender have listened to ia this canvass. He sketched with power the enormous oppressions and corruptions of the Republican party, both in this State and throughout the country, and depicted with a tkillful hand, Mr. Garfield, Judge Buxton, and other Radical, leaders. It was also a rallying speech in its true sense appealing to Democrats to rally from their apathy and to . put their shoulders to the wheel, as in former times, in behalf of our chosen standard-bearers. He paid a fine tribute to Hancock. Jarvis and Shack elford, and assured . bis delighted audience that both our State and National tickets are sure of election, even if Indiana had tern- Eorarily gone for the Republicans. Mr. Lacks is a capital speaker and well-vereed in political matters, and did himself great credit here to-day. Rccky Point, N. C, Oct. 15, 1880. Tarboro Southerner: On Octo ber 1st Mrs. Hattie E. Thigpen's gin house and SO bales of cotton -were burned. The fire was the result of an accident, but it is not understood how, unless it came from a match' casually- getting in, :or friction. Lobs 2,000. covered by insurance. Dr. 8. Westray Battle. Assistant Surgeon United States Navy, stationed at Pensa cola son of our townsman. W. S. Battle. Esa ' was married in Boston on Tuesday to Miss Alice, daughter of Commodore Belknap. About two-thirds of the cotton has been gathered. : The yield, 6ta pie and everything, is satisfactory. Favetteville Examiner'. There ia movement nn fnnt v nnrlnratani.1 lui. ing in view mr. jfiasou's-return to t-4 a livid laoor. . . - - . Salisbury! .Deino&fiti hv!lVli ilaUghton.Esq., an.otd and highly .ipeci j cmzeu ui iui8"piactt, UiPd uti riuimlav noit g. . . : - .. ... . . . ..... :I i Tho Anson Times' trubliKhed t. VVx desboro. and etiu.d tiv Mr I? H ! Ciwan, price $2 a4 cm, " is to h unt. Ii' succeeds ihc Herald, Hpii b'cii ii :bh giet improvement: The-nist uumtxrr pmniises' well. It is a neat nn.l inv ii.ir tiukiu r Uur bfSl wishes cniimitiii- iiiiw i..;. r notice. Charlottte Democrat: Wn lsum lhpt Mrs. Prtwly, w-ifocf the Rtv. Neill E.- irEeBsiy tiormeny of Cabarrus c.-umy), at present Missionary in Mexico, h to iftut uiit ku uer uiu nouie in w mnsooro, a. U., u account of bad health and will . rr.n.uin lime some months? Rev. Neill E.'Pre88lv a son of the Rqi Dr. John E- Pissty, j wuii auuwu in mis eeciiou. Charlotte Fre&si Mr. Robert Mbrlon, SupeiinteurfenVThe Amtiican lion Telesrranh CmniMhV rmn(Mi.iinn this district, spent the day in this city The wuea i me vjompauy wM riacb Charlotte . , . "c iiia uo, uy I lie 111IUU it) yapce agents of the GrcauLondou VArcn were in mis cny ooi yesterday arranuiug a, rohtc South. Thi8 circus wiil be aiifg lo December.- PittsborcC; M&ordi Thort. i ctaured 'than named Martin timith livinc- iu'tthe wtsiern nan of this c- unlv wh is probably. iha taliest," uiM ip Chathbm, be-... n six leci seven, aud three qu irtcr iuclu a 3ieb. i-We are nleaseil iu Ifxm ni ' rt, - - ------ - w.jju F(?ar & adkin Valley R.iilJt.ad will be; cornpleted by the 23d day of litis niouih' thfe euliie distance froin the Gulf lutitui'i oofo. ii ia cDiinaentiy uxpecieu lliui ttm Cats will be running between those plnct in -less than eight mouths. ; ; The Norfolk Virginian gives' the following concerning the foUilh day of the Weldon Fair: The races at the fair to-dav were as follows:' At 1 n'MnrU scrub race, half, mile, repeat, the first io ie-i cejve $15 and the second to receive $5. was J. 1 Li . t T . . . -W . -W 1 won oy Donmern uoy, enierea oy j. Hhz-i Zardshoit. The Secnnil rann. rnil- jmrl t- peat, for a purse of $150, the first to re-i ceive $iuu ana me second lo receive foil, zirdshort. Governor Jarvis passed thrpiuu nere mis anernoou hut did not slop to do liver his promised uddreep. . ? j Wadesboro THrnes: Wc arc itai u ui iu uuiui luuaig auuiuuuy that occurred near Grassy Island, in liich- OAVPU In Uttrn "f nAt n n I .Ani.ln.l monu county, on last DTiaay. Mr. Hiben Ingram was trying a gun in his Btorej when, bv some means, it fired. Then happened to be a keg of powder near by from which he had been using, and by some means a spark from the gun ignited the powder, causing a tertible explosion.' Mj:. Ingram and one of his clerks, whose name we did not learn, Were seriously io jured. Goldsboro Messenger : About one hundred con vies from the Southern section of the C. F. & Y. V. Railroadj where the grading is nearly completed,! passed through this city this morning to begin work near Walnut Cove, in Stokes county, where the stockade has been erected. We regret to learn that Capt. George P. Oates, of Jamestown, in Guil ford county, well known as a mining su perintendent in this Slate, died of apo plexy on the 11th of September, in Soutb America where for several years be has been in charge of a gold mine. I Elizabeth City Economist: The Kenukee Baptist Association was in session near Plymouth fast week. A great many persons were present. On Sunday, while Mr. Arthur Barden and his family were away from home attending tbe Associa tion, three men broke into his house and were breaking open trunks and committing other outng a, when the cock, a colored woman, gve the alarm, nod they ran out and shot her, the load striking her in the head. The wound was not fatal. The robbers were pursued by their tracks. One man was arrested and is now in jail. A gun, lately discharged, was found in his possession. Raleigh News and Observer : .Prof. Kerr, State Geologist, yesterday re ceived several specimens of kaolin, from two points in Gaston county. They were forwarded to the great potteries at Trenton, N. J., to be tested. A fine speeimcn of nickel from Haywood county was also re ceived for analysis.' It is reported that Judge Buxton burned his hands badly at a fire in tbe hotel in which be was stop ping, at Wilkesboro. He rushed into tho burning building and helped to save it. We regret to Jearn of the extreme ill ness of the venerable Charles Dewey, Esq., : one of our oldest and most esteemed citi zens. He has been in feeble health for some time past r- On Tuesday morning a white man attempted to shoot his little son. He took aim at bim with a shot gun, and discharged the weapon. As. good ; luck would have it, Charles Crawford stood .so near that he was able to strike up the barrel and so save the boy's life, prob-r .: ably. The man made several other attempts to shoot the lad, it is said. Yes--terday he was held to appear at court. Elizabeth City Economist'. Capt. John Etheridge raised thirty-three water- -melons from one seed, and six of them weighed one .hundred and fifty pounds.. Ho i says he can raise them to any size and give them any flavor he wants. The proB- b pecta of the old "Edenton Academy" are very promising, under the new administra- : tionofFred. Fetter, an expeiienced and distinguished instructor. Fowler ia ; laying in his supply of cotton for i the year's spinning, at the "Pio neer Factory." It will require about ; 800,000 pounds for the year's supply. We are pleased to learn that the tri weekly steam communication with Fair field and Hyde county is developing con siderable trade between that section and Elizabeth City. Bertie items: Cotton comes in freely. At least three-fourths of the crop will be gathered on tbe first pick ing. The season for . picking has been Very favorable. Our county has been greatly afflicted with sickness. Hardly any one has escaped without chilis, and deaths have been frequent. - Charlotte Observer: At a late meeting of the stockholders of the Rnleigh & Augusta Air Line in Raleigh, a resolu tion was passed authorizing tbe directors to extend the road to Charlotte. The Raleigh V papers furnish nothing more than this simple announcement. An inquiry here among those most likely to know anything of tbe purposes of tbe management of that ' road fails to elicit any information on tbe subject. Air-Line trains no longer stop at Weavers, the point where visitors to the King's Mountain celebration do -.-barked, .and, as Engineer Krogg was . "streaking" along there a few nights ago, tbe bead-light of his engine suddenly revealed a black mass which looked like it might be the mad elephant escaped .from Robinson's circus. It was too late to stop, so be closed bis eyes and awaited the shock. , It came with a vengeance, but the black mass dissolved into fifty pieces, which went flying over the adjacent fields .like a flock of frightened blackbirds, except thai the birds were about as big as beer kegs and beer kegs they rwere empty kega which the patriotic visitors to the shrine of liberty bad drank dry, and which some soulless wretch had collected together cdi . piled on the track. t r it ft I it ii l 82 -II I ! 1 1 2 li 4 15 M ; PI I' m 1 43 i U I! T.1 Q 1$!- i W MS tit m ft n i ir j; i 1 fc I i Y-3