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i4ecUg Star, WM. H. BERNARD, ; Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. C: Friday, December 24th, 1880. ; TNotiees of Marriage or Death. Tributes of i. n n rnvanVa i . r charged KeSpC5, - - l . a for a ordinary advertisements, but only half rates wnen paid for strictly to advance.' At this rate 50 in - . ciKinln announcement of MaT. tciils niij w - x riage or Death. . Remittances ,must be made by Check, Draft Postal Money Order, or Registered Letter- Post Masters wOl registerletters when desired. " tW Only such remittances will be at the risk of tee pnousaer. - 1 J T n ,3 Specimen copies forwaraea wnen ucenw. CQVX riNG THE ELBCTOBAL VOTE There is very great need why the manner of determining the result of a Presidential eleotion should be set tled finally. No Democrat expects to change the result of the November election by giving the counting of the returns to the Congress instlad of to the Vice President, as Presiding Offi cer'of the Senate. But it is impor tant that the matter should be defi nitely settled before another election comes on, as very grave complications might arias if the present unsettled opinion continues as to how the elec toral vote shall be counted. In 1876 there was almost a conflict, and the change or a lew muusauu vukb m mo late election might have provoke'd . i easily a most serious obtuggic. " ' Every man of sense who has thought about the matter must be- lie.vc that it is highly necessary that, some action of a final nature should betaken. The old rule of the Re publicans was dangerous ana unsatis factory. The new rule the' Morgan plan favored by the Democrats, is no doubt open to objection. The Edmunds plan is thought by many to" be preferable to either. The Demo crats should not place themselves in a false position belore tne country. The people are tired, of wrangling, and ask for peace.-and quiet.. The Congressmen we refer to both Houses, for their members are all Congressmen of our party should be very wary and not make a false step. Too much politics in the de liberations of Democrats during the last two years may have had a good deal to do in giving Garfield his nlaAlAift1 m nT AritTT TlnTinflf t.flft last two years they maintained points, just, we believe, in them- selves, but not wise or politic under t.hA circumstances and which gave tiii? watchful enemies the advantage in the North. Without arguing the merits of any proposed plan we content ourselves with saying that we hope the Demo crats and leading Republicans can agree upon some plan, fair and equi table and safe, and settle for all time counted. . ' - On January 2S, 1877, Senator Conkling made a speech in the Sen ate in which he argued that the Pre sident of the Senate did not alone" count the votes. The unwise and untenable'position taken now in Con gress by some of the Radical leaders is that he does count them alone We make room for one brief extract from Senator Conkling's speech. He said: "Fur what was the Congress Ihus twice required to be in session? Obviously for some act, or that its members may be spec tators they could hardly be witnesses of suah an act in any reasonable sense if the act is to be done exclusively by one ner son. If the President of the 8enate alone is empowered to determine what shall be counted, and to count and adjudge 'the re sult, it is net easy to see how the two Houses can in any just and effectual sense witness and verify the truth of what he does." L Senator Edmunds took also the same ground. ' These aire the two ablest Republicans now in Congress, and their views ought to be influen tial among their party associates. It may be well to copy a brief para graph from what Mr. Edmunds said. tie took the ground that Congress ad the right to regulate the count, and said he could not conceive how it was-possible that the framers of luc vjuusliluliuu uouiu rest tnennwer to count the vote in one man. He said: !I suppose everybody will admit that the jju mi iu upcu uues uui, necessarily imply a power to couotbecause it is not neces sary to count in order to open, and an im plied power only ariBes when it is necessary that the so-called implied power should be exercisad ya order to the performance of the power that is given. The power that is given by the words of the Constitution is the power to 'open.' Now the power to count is not essential to the power to open. Ynn o ' There ought to be wisdom and pa- triotism enough among the members to agree upon some plan that shall quiet aH fears and settle henceforth a vexed question that carries with it danger to the country. J udge Morgan, of Louisiana, now U . b. Minister to Mexico, will be urged upon Gen: . Garfield as th oouthern man in his Cabinet. . He a native of Pennsylvania, and is no sense a representative Southerner. WISDOM Vt&XMt BOSTON. The Boston thtald is art Indepen dent Ilepublioatt paper, j It has tne largest cit-culalion.of any New Edg land papef It is not a vicions pa per, and its course, however mistaken at times, is in what it conceives to be the interest' of good government and the whole country., Io other words, it is not a bitter or a sectional paper. It supported Garfield with zeal and ability, and we rather wondered at this knowing than it generally favored the candidacy of men of honesty, and good reputations. But it did not descend to vile abuse of the South and general misrepresentation of the motives of our people. We refer now to its course because we wish to copy a paragraph from an editorial in the Herald since the eleo tion of Garfield. The seutiments do it so much credit and are in such pleasant contrast to much that we see in Northern papers and periodicals that we are gratified to give them a place in the columns of the Stab. It says : '. ' I- ' '.- - . :;: 'The merchants of the North and South have no antagonisms. -Their planters and our farmers are not at war j The business classes of both sections are: alike intent just now in improving the main chance, which is to make money, not to wrangle over poli tics. Even the editors are on amicable and politely argumentative terms. Why should the politician class on either side,' or both sides, be permitted longer to seep the country in a turmoil ? And yet this must be the result of .the Stalwart policy, if the attempt be made to carry it out. The South is not to be nationalized in her spirit, nor practicalized in her politics, by taking her by the throat and beginning over again the process of reconstruction, j And yet this is what the Itadicai programme- amounts to. It will not do. The party will fail and go to pieces if it shall be undertaken. That is wise talk. That is the it ought to be truth wtf believe, and sent to every member; of .Congress, and it ought to be printed on slips and pasted in their hats and on their desks.' The Herald is correct; the people of the South gonaded or bullied in opinion or policy, j sannot be dra ,o a change of The man - who curses you or threatens you is more apt to get a flattened nose than a cor dial grip oC the hand. The Bout- well programme is the programme of a fanatical fool, and j an attempt to enforce it would be but the repeti tion of sowing the dragon's teeth. The Herald says an attempt to co erce the South will Only cause the Radical party to fait and to go to. pieces. If we felt sure that this would be the inevitable result, we might be reconciled to the proposed programme however revolutionary and oppressive. T.be JJcralit says the following may be done: "If any Republic in contestants can make out a good case, &a again3t fraud in counting or returning votes actually cast, let them be seated, and rigid laws for guarding the ballot-box be passed and en forced. Anything beyond this would be more revolutionary than the wrones which it is sought to right. And let a generous, trustful, constitutional policy toward the ooutb be adopted. This way I129 peace. progress, unity." If the advice of he Herald and those who sympathize with it is fol lowed, then there will be peace among the sections. To expect the South to give op-its own convictions of right and to surrender its life-long prin ciples is stupid and cannot be realized. The Louisville Courier-Journal says: I 1 - "What the Southern people claim is simply that they are ia the Union, are Americans and brethren, are endeavorinz to prosper in the world and add their con tribution to the glory of a common coun try. They have political preferences like the people of the NortbJ and only object to beiDg denounced as aliens and enemies be cause a large number j of them vote the Democratic ticket. People can not be forced to change their opinions in a repub UC." ! The South is devoted to a strict construction of the Constitution. It believes heartily in1 construing the great charter of our liberties literally and as the abler and purer Presi dents understood it. It believes in local self-government and constitu tional liberty. It will never abandon these under any pressure. HATBS ANU StJBUDIG. The Stab, in its analysis of the President's message,and in one of its running comments, referred , to Hayes's bid for subsidy schemes, and the subsequent elation of the lobby, which was a great! power in the days of Grant, and which succeeded so completely in debauching Radical Congressmen . and securing thir in fluence. Garfield, Ames, Colfax and the rest of the crew went under, and the maelstrom of corruption swal lowed many a reputation. . We cannot say we were surprised to see Hayes in the last message that he will ever send probably to Con grees using his position and whatever of influence he may have in behalf of lobbyists who come to plunder are prepared for and get rich. We! anything from Mr: Hayes. In some respects he has ' done well, but in other respects he has been as com plete a failure as he is a ; fraud. He closes up . his last half year by ma king war upon the South, and by a bare-faced befriending -of schemes that are schemes of spoliation ' and subsidies, however specious his plea of ulideF whatg vf forms 6f gxpfes- sion they tnay B8 covered up. The ..Stab has: very often warned i ts readers r'agauist the insidious and dangerous encroachments of tne Washington Idbby, IthaS time-and again opposed, the various plans set' on foot to. promote this or 'that TaiN road.orteamship i the . treasury of the 'people.:" We repeat, we are not surprised to see that Hayes, obtaining his seat as he did, and showing; by his course as Chief Executive that bejbas no fixed principles, has magnified his office after the true Radical plan by recom mending schemes that must .be nothing else but subsidies,; although he calls them , by other names. We are glad to see that such a conserva tive paper asjthe New York Journal of Commerce sees through the guise and punctures it. That reliable and influential paper says : ! i 'The fact -.'remains that the i subsidy seekers are greatly elated by the conviction that the people have thus declared them selves in favor of high protective tariffs, and therefore of subsidies, which are but one form of protection. Acting on this strong impression the lobbyists have already mustered in force at Washington. Every steamship-builder and every railroad line in the country heretofore ao unsuccessful applicant. fur Federal aid, now thinks the prospect much improved, and is; renewing efforts to procure the desired legislation. "Such is the inauspicious time chosen by the President to recommend steamship sub sidies to the support of Congress. He never sys 'subsidies' ' once. That word is subcharged with odium and is no longer used in polite political circles. To avoid it eny amount of circumlocution is employed. The President calls it the 'development of our foreign commercial exchanges and the building up of our carrying trade.' But the thing is the sams whatever the ti le and whatever the excuse offered for it. His arguments in behalf of increasing our commercial marine by bounties aie all the lobby could demand. This is especially true, as the President limits the suggested bounties to no definite sum. It mieht bo claimed that $20,000,000 a year wus not too large an appropriation to carry out the President's broad ideas." ILAND LEAffDEBS AND TOKIKS The speeches of Mr. Justin Mc Carthy and other Irish members of Parliament indicate much confidence in the failure of the Government in its prosecutions. The crisis in Ire land is of great moment. The mis rule of the Tory Government has given the Liberal Premier a most difficult role to perform. The action of the Tory Lords in the last session of Parliament was as unwise as arbi trary, and brought about a condition of affairs that would have never occurred otherwise. Mr. Gladstone bad. just come into power, and the course of the Opposition at once in creased the difficulties of the situa tion. The consentient voice of his countrymen is that he is the purest and greatest statesman of the age, but even Gladstooo cannot perform impossibilities. If he and John Bright were not handicapped by the implacable hostility of leading To ries of the Beaconsfield stamp, they could much more easily dispose of the questions at issue and solve the most difficult problem that has de volved upon any Ministry in fifty years. Fromll we have been able to learn Mr. Gladstone is the friend of the Irish. If not hatnpered by the traditions of his country and by a strong, watchful, aggressive, rich and resolute minority we believe he would settle the present embarrass ments without bloodshed. If the dispatch from Dublin that the Irish Land Commission would report a scheme which will extend the tenant right of Ulster to the whole of Ire land should turn out to be correct, we may yet see the difficulties set tled in a way that shall bring tempo rary peace and contentment to Ire land. That the Irish will be ever satisfied fully without home rule and land reform it is quite idle to think. The trouble with the English Tory in dealing with Ireland that lies at his door is that in the nineteenth cen tury he has been constantly applying the old feudal system of six hundred years ago. He is worse than any French Bourbon. He not only never learns himself, but he is unwilling for any one else to learn. We desire to see Ireland in the en joyment of home rule. The faults of British rule, are many and flagrant and the Irish are now suffering under a rule that is utterly unbearable. Contrast British rule with that we suffered under Radical reconstruc tion and our evils were light. We are the true friends of local self government. In 1775 Washington and the patriots of that day went to war for local self-government for home rule. We are sure that the best government known to man is local. Liberty cannot long survive, and peace and happiness with it. un less there is home rule. But we do not yet see that the Irish will get their wishes by at tempting revolution by resorting to arms.: We believe in the right of re volution,, but it is madness to at tempt it unless there is a good chance of success. We do not know that the Land Leaguers have made np their minds to try their strength with the great resources tifthe Govern ment. S rather think tfiey will not, and in that belief we must have hope-thai they , will secure - in - the end very important land reforms and. in some f measure home rule. ;An ,Natiemp.C lojfistabirshr-independ-' ence would be very, full of .calamity unless success crowned the efforts of the Irish people.. It would bring un- told misery, and prevent reforms for a long time that otherwise must come at no distant ay. , If we thought that Ireland could gain its independ ence : we should rejoice, and would hail with satisfaction any outbreak that would -precipitate a revolution. But it is because we are the friend of Ireland that we would see its leaders moving wisely, cautiously, without disturbing personal rights. It is to, be feared that any lawlessness will only strengthen their enemies while paralyzing their ; English - friends. The Tories will rejoice if Ireland so act as to force che Gladstone 'Go vernment to resort to the most strin gent measures. The Tory organs are censuring Gladstone1 for delay, and they are watching the lawlessness of the Land League very anxiously, as they wish to see a conflict that may inciease the chances ofj a return of Tory rule and perpetuate feudalism in Ireland. ' . EDUCATIONAL KMtOGRRV . Some of the members ' of the pro gressive Faculty, of the University are availing themselves of the press to spread intelligence. Prof. Man gum published recently a communi cation in the Raleigh News-Observer on the claims of the University as such. Prof. W.' B. Phillips fol lowed in a paper on North Carolina gold mints. We notice still another article by Prof. Charles W. Dabney, Jr., on tbe value of cotton seed and rice straw as fertilizers. This is an excellent way of making the Uni versity felt. When: the people see that practical knowledge can be ob tained as well as some familiarity with "the dead and sceptred sover eigns who still rule us from their urns," they will be ! more willing to bear the burden of a higher taxation for educational purposes. The Star hails every step with satisfaction that leads to broader and more cosmopolitan intelligence, and to more accurate education. It views with unfeigned satisfaction all efforts to spread education and knowledge among 1 the masses. It looks to our University and the Col leges of our State to perform faithful service in higher education, and in this it is not disappointed. Pro gress is blazoned on the banners of our eduoational institutions general ly, whilst the University, bulwarked by an awakened public sentiment and manned by ai body of teachers emulous of success and fully abreast with advanced scholarship, is moving steadily on the grand highway of success and securing year by year new friends who will manifest ap proval by action. , The Stab would raise its voice and, if possible, would make the Leg islators who will assemble at Raleigh in January bear its voice. It would say to them, devise carefully a plan of improvement for the public schools of the State. Ask! such tried, able, experienced teachers as James H. Horner, Robert Bingham, Major Lynch, Rev;. Mr. Long, ofJAlamance, and half a dozen others to meet a joint committee jof the Legisla ture to consult as to the changes l that are imperative so the common schools of the Staie shall be made such as they should be and must, be to prove of much; benefit to North Carolina. When the plan is agreed upon, then pass it into a law, and be sure to levy tax enough to carry out faithfully and promptly its provi sions. A few days ago the ignorant and vicious editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean, in a long article that con tained but one truth, and that teemed with phariseeism of the most pro nounced Yankee type, threw this at us : . "If the editor of the Stab will refer to the recent statistics upon education in North Carolina he will see that this 'utterly ignO' rard negro' ia trying to fit himself toper form the duties of citizenship. Fifly-Ueo per cent, of the negro children are found to be enrolled, es scholars. in the .public schools, while only forty-eight per cent, of the white children fire so enrolled. - Tbe more recent and unpublished statistics may show a change in these figures; but those published give an idea how the colored people of the South,! under the most dis couraging circumstances, are aspiring to fit hemselves for citizenship." We who live in the South under- stand this. The first five years after the . surrender of Gen. Lee thare was a wild craze in the North over the negro. Some true philanthropists gave liberally, whilst fanaticism ran riot, ; fed constantly by an undying hatred of the Southern people. School teachers rushed to the South by hundreds. They came like locusts and lit every where They tattght the infant 'dea of the freshly liberated negro to shoot quickly, and they taught him to sing his geography most delightedly. There was ra-V perfect i 'furore I of ex citement. School houses, churches.. and - asylums went ' up like magic: The ; cornuoopia ' of the? rich - ple .thoric , North ,was emptied into the lap of wondering,- gaping, stolid ignorance. Yankee 'sjobool marras" wrote enthusiastically, to the North ern press that the negro idea could ontshoot tbe white idea, and that the progress of the race was astounding. The whites, on the other hand, were the whipped. Their property had been snatched from them by the strong hand of the conqueror. Their homes were desolated, their , fields grown up in briars and weeds. ;There was no money and but little hope. The damnable reconstruction laws were put in motion under the engi neering skill of such devils incarnate as old Thad Stevens and the other sons of Beelzebub, and the while people sat down in sorrow, in almost despair; This caused them to care but little for education or anything else. .. The schools were neglected. The Radi cal vampires got hold of 1 the funds, as in North and South Carolina, and wasted it or stole it for their own uses. No money worth mentioning was used for educating j the white children. The University was closed and the old Facul ty dismissed. There is no wonder that the census of 1870 should show the result indicated by the Chicago fellow who would like to suck up the very life's blood of our people. We shall be disappoint ed the figures of the last census do not put a much better face on the educational returns and , show that the whites are beginning to recover from their lethargy and indiffer ence. In North Carolina, prior to the war, the common school system was better than that of any Southern State, and compared 'favorably with even some of the Northern States. The war and the carpet-baggers set back the cause of education full tweuty-five years. The negroes are the most imitative race Known. They excel in studies where the imitative faculties can have full play. Th6y are very im pressible, love show and display, and are "death on holidays." They take readily to secret societies, to political organizations that furnish lanterns and cheap uniforms, and will go a hundred miles any day to a camp- meeting or a picnic. When the Northern teachers and emissaries ap peared first among them, and the political propagandists promised "the forty acres and the mule," they were swept away by the exoitement, and, like a contagion, it spread from one end of the South to the other. The school-house, they were taught, was the great essential. The school teachers came among' them with spelling-book and geography, and the South became , a bee-hive of ex citement and emulation. This was all well enough. But the poor whites were neglected or peeled, and education among them almost ceased. But, as we said, there is a revival. The people of the South have ex pended millions in educating the negroes while trying to educate also the whites. North Carolina in her poverty, appropriates annually hun dreds of thousands of dollars to edu cate both races, and the sucp is dis tributed equally in proportion to numbers, ' But there is much more tobe done. We hope the Legislature will not fail of its duty, but will provide lib eral things for the white and colored children Of the State. A large ap propriation and better teachers and aj longer school term are v pry, much needed: The -most important mat ter that -will come, np before the Legislature will be tbe eduoation of the masses. We are pleased at the announcer, ment that Senator Lamar is much improved in health, and is looking better than he has for , a long time. His return was. greeted warmiy by his many friends in Congress. X Lightning Trala. The fast train, Capt Geo. G. Lynch conductor, and Mr. John Hessinger engin eer, left Weldon Sunday night at 6.10, fifiy minutes behind time, and arrived at the Wilmington Depot at 10.10, on time, hav ing made the run, including four stoppages, in exactly four hours, the distance being 162 miles. The stoppages aggregated about ten minutes. Pretty good traveling", thai. D. Bull's Cough Syrup has been before the public for years, and is pronounced by thonsanda annerior tn all nthar ortinlaa f a. the cure of Coughs, Colds, Influenza and all other Pulmonary Complaints. - It costs' ooly 35 cents a bottlo. . Syuephlft9f Proceeding ttl 3j rued sesSlonl .- . i The Board of County Commissioners met yesterday afternoon in dj ufnd session; present.' Col." Win. L7 Smiiu. Chairman, and Commissioners (B G. Won b, .1. A Montgomery, E. L. PeafCe and H A. Bagg..J tt.-'. . I'-'- ' " T. OTSunf fng prtsen ted h is efflcial boo d as Constable for'the Township of WflmiDg ton, wbieh was accented, and he whs duly qualified. r ! J..A.; Sharpies?, Constable elect for Cape Fear Township, was allowed until the Or t meeting in January, and the Cleik was instructed to notify him to ihat effect. 'AvR. : Black was, on motion, appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction for the county of New Hanover, in place of R. W. Chadwick, resigned. Ordered that the double tax of J. W. Telfair, in Masonboro Township, be re mitted. x . ...... -f . . . T The application "of J. E. Lippilt was not granted. -; J. H. Hankies was ordered relieved from paying poll tax owing, to physical disa bilities. , - John H. Savage,havingeceived a ma jority of the votes, was declared keeper of the Poor House. andJHouse of Correction for the ensuing year. ; iThe contractlfor furnishing medicine to theout-door poorjwas awarded to J. K. Mcllhenny at 12 cents per prescription. ; The contract for furnishing coffins to the county poor and burying the .dead was awarded to Nora Sampson, she being the lowest bidder. I The annual report of the Register of Deeds was received, and also those of the various magistrates of the county, showing the amount of fees collected by the former and the amount of fines'"collected by the latter. :E. Hewlett, County Treasurer, presented his annual report, which was examined and found.correct, showing a balance in hand credited" to the General Fund of $23,815 34. Educational Fund $16,290 25; Special Fund $1,242 21. Sheriff S. H. Manning presented hi9 re port, which was referred to tbe Finance Committee. . 8. VanAmringeV Clerk of the Superior Court, presented his report, showing the amount of $222 15 paid in. On motion the Board then adjourned to meet on the first Monday in January, at 2 o'clock. Accident on tne Carolina Ceutral Railway. Intelligence reached here yesterday of quite a serious accident on the Western Division of -the Carolina Central Railway, and as usuafin such cases, the first reports were greatly exaggerated, particularly with reference to the conductor, a son of Capt. y. Q. Johnson, the superintendent. The accident happened to the accommodation train at what is known as the Indian Creek trestle, four miles beyond Lincolnton. There were but six or seven passengers on the train which consisted of only one pas senger, a mail and a freight car the pas sengers being bound for Charlotte. The train broke loose from the' en gine and ran into the trestle, breaking it down and precipitating thenars over it. The cars caught fire and tbe mail agent, a Mr. Bloom, said to be a brother of Mr. H. H. Bloom, of this city, together with a colored brakeman, perished in the flames. The other brakeman was taken out of the train dead. The conductor, Mr. Harry Johnson, was only slightly injured. Two or three of the passengers, who were not seriously hurt, together with the con ductor, were carried to Lincolnton, Superintendent Johnson left this city for the scene of the accident on a special train, being under the impression at the time that his son was killed, but at Lumbenon a tel egram intercepted him with the gratifying information that the young man was only slightly hurt. A press dispatch, dated at Charlotte, and received at 11 o'clock last night, gives the following particulars of the disaster: "A fearful accident occurred on the Carolina Central Railroad, about three miles beyond Lincolnton, at 4 o'clock this evening. The entire passenger train, ex cept the engine, which passed over safely, went through a trestle, which at this spot is fifty feet high. Full particulars cannot be learned yet, but it is definitely known that Mail Agent Daniel Bloom and a pas senger by the name of Joseph W- Goodson were disabled by the accident and subse quently burned up by the flames, which were communicated, it is supposed, from a coal stove used on the train to the shattered and splintered cars, which were piled one upon another in the chasm. Capt. Harvey Johnston, the conductor, escaped with slight injuries. There were very few per sons on the train and it is not known that any one alse was killed." Foreign Exports Featerday. The Danish barque Elene, Capt. Dahl, with 1,972 bales of cotton, was cleared from this port for Liverpool, yesterday, by Messrs. Williams & Murchison. The fol lowing were also cleared for foreign ports : The Norwegian brig BanghUd, Capt. Han sen, for Rotterdam, by Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Co., with 750 casks spirits and 645 barrels rosin, and the German barque Amaiia t Hedteig, Capt.Gehm, for Lon-don.-with 3,017 barrels rosin, the German brig Eelias, Capt. Borgwarts, for Fiume, in the Adriatic Sea,5withl2,834 barrels of rosin, the Britiah hnrnnpntino TTnftla 77 Capt. Cochrane, for Bristol. England, with i.ow oarreis or rosin and'SUO ossks spirits tumentine. and theiRritish hrior 7?m Tioo CaDt. Graham, for TVinrinn with 1 hor! rets of rosin and 823 casks of spirits' turpen- uae, aii, Dy messrs. Alex, sprunt & Son. Badly cat up. " - Mr. Wm. Canaday, a resident of Topsail Sound, and well known in this city, was terribly cut up by being caught in a pea machine a few days ago! He received a gash in the side, another in the thigh. ouuiuer in me arm ano another still in tbe face. The wound in tbe side is a terrible one, and it ia feared that it will ultimately peeve fatal. Our informant states that the inTured man's head wonlrl h ered from the body had it not been for the pieoeuce 01 mma ana promptitude of Mr. Frank Grier, who seized one of the teeth ofthestemmer and jerked it with such force that the belting was thrown off and the machine stormed, hia hni ha;n - rr- ww.ug wwu siderably lacerated in the daring but buc- wbhiui aci, wrougn which Mr. Canady was doubtless saved from certain and in stantaneous death. HORSFORD'S ACID . PHOSPHATE! in Indigestion and General Dahilitv T have used the Acid Phosphate in my own family in case of indigestion and crnnnrn! debility, with entirely satisfactory results; naianapoii8, ind. . H. Moore. M. D. Spirits Turpentine Concord liedisieri'Ari'Kiij cent looking white citiisn was brought be fore 'Squire Hillvon Wednesday charged with steaiiug- five shot guns from various' persons Hboui town. The guns were found in ..b s possession and delivered tn their owners.- and the kleptomaniac w. i lili'd t answer. . r Franklin (Marion county) lie-porter-.: Gov. Ribioson baa recently pur chased the corundum" mine belonging to Mr, Uoustonr On Saturday night last JJr. LI.; Gr Wopdfio was : attacked with hemorrhage of .the - Iuugs, aod for a day or two was in a critical condition, but we art glad to know that" he is now much im proved;"- --,' - -'-,---.- H:;; Lexington Exchanqe : Mr. E. D, Stimaun, of this place; has received ati appointment in the Census Department a Washington city, and left a few days eg., to enter upon the discharge of his d mice -Mrs. Emily Reed, an old lady, widow of George W. Reed, who lived with Mr Lindsay Wherlow, in this township, cither from accident or in a fit,' fell into the fire on the 3d inst., when no other person was in the house, and when discovered was fa tally burned aod died the next day. Concord Sun: It is a strange sight to see the farmers of Cabarrus sowing wheat and picking cotton, , at this time ut the year, yet they are just as hard down to it as they can be. When a stranger v:s'.(s town and asks to :-e shown the at tractiors, he is invariably directed 10 "ihe factory" for tbe first thing. The facto. y is our pride. It is located at ihi.- hed of Main street, one milo from the coun huiise. upon an eminence that overlooks the towi ' The building is of brick, five stories huh and covers about an acre of ground. Goidsboro Messenger: A report reached here Saturday evening that Mr. George J. Robinson had! been killed thar evening at Priocejloa, by Jessie Pierce, by a blov on the head with a demijohn fi.leJ! with liquor. We are glad to learn that the; report is unfounded, and that Mr. Robin son is now doing well and no fatal conse quences are expected. -The dwelling of Mr. Joshua Danley, an highly esteemed citizen residing in the LiGrange neighbor hood, was entered by burulars one Digbt last week, and robbed of a trunk contain ing $240 in money and other valuable--. Newton Enterprise: Mrs. Vv P. Wilson got too near the fire one day Una week, when her. clothing caught and she was severely burned before the flames, coul 1 be extinguished. She has been in baa heibjpr some time and her mind has be come somewhat impared. Tbe cotton receipts so far this year are about 500 bale in excess of the total receipts lsi season. Just after going to press last. week, we learned of the death on Wednes day, of Mr. N. M. Seagle, of Hickory. Thft littlft fpllnw waa Antincr npsnnto umtt by asme means got a piece of tha shell ira ma wmupipe, ana strangled to aeatb in t short time. Asheville News: Capt. Foster Moss, Chief Engineer of the S. V. R. R., has. just passed through, looking out the best route for the -extension" of his road running from Hagerstown, Md., through Virginia, coming through Ashe, Watauga ami Mitchell counties, to Marshall, Madi son county, the whole to be an Air Line from Hagerstown to Atlanta, Ga. At. the Commissioner's Court of last week. Sheriff Young was inducted into office, be having given the bond of $78,000 as re quired by law. There are 13 hands hk , work on the Ducktown branch of tbe W N. C. R. R In other words the woik being pushed with energy." Statesville American: On tht? 17th ult., Bob Tates, a young man of Asbe county, while carelessly handling a pistol, accidently shot his neighbor, Hansforrt Blevins, about 18 years of age, through tbe body, from the effects of which wound be died in about twenty-four hours. Oa Monday of last week, at Ore Knob, a young man by the name of Press Reeven, was 6tabbed by a prostitute named JShz t betb Miller, in the small of the back. Sb and her friend, Geo. Absher, of Wilkes, were imprisoned, Absher being thought to have given the woman tbe knife wih which the deed was done. At lastaccounts it was thought that Reeves would recover from the wound, but there is an uncer tainty in regard to that. We also learn that diphtheria has been prevailing to a great extent in Ashe and adjoining counties. Statesville Landmark: In the store of Messrs. Poston & Ramsey, Wed nesday afternoon, deputy sheriff W. W. Hair was eyeing a little darkey who was. , "fooling" with a toy pistol. "Shoot the deputy sheriff," said Mr. J. S. Ramsey, ad dressing the little darkey. "Yes," said Mr Andy. Allison, "I'll hold him," at the same: time catching hold of Mr. Hair and turn ing him around. The little darkey acted upon the suggestion, blazsd away and Mr Hair felt tha charge enter the fleshy part oir one of hia legs. . It made a hole an inch or an inch and - a quarter deep, and though the doctors probed tbe wound they failed to find tbe charge. Tbe cartridges are marked "blank," and what this one con tained cannot be told, but-Mr. Hair knows that it was not blank not by a large ma jority. Miss Ida, a young girl about 12 years of age, daughter of Mr. Lawson Shu ford, who resides about two miles fiom our town, met with- a frightful accideot yesterday morning by falling into her father's uncovered well. She bad gone into the well house for the purpose of get ting out some butter for breakfast, and re turning stepped out backwards, Dulling the door after her. The well had recently been uncovered and the wall taken out for twenty-five feet down, leaving fifteen feat still walled with a thick . board extending across and resting on the rock circle. Into the ' yawning mouth of the well the unfortunate young girl stepped, and she scarcely bad time to realize her fearful situation before she struck the plank twenty-five feet below. Tbe plank snapped like a straw, and down, down she went until she struck the dry bottom of the well. Tbe plank checked tbe force of the fall and prevented what must have been instant death. As it is, the young girl is badly bruised about the body aad limb3. She . is io a precarious condition, and her life depends entirely on the nature of the, internal injaries. Lincolnton Pro gress. Toisnot Home: Give Wilson a railroad to the tide water section of North Carolina, and it will be the mo3t thriving and prosperous town in tbe eastern part of the State. A Baptist Church will be organized in this place next Saturday. Rev. J. E. Carter, of Wilson, Rev. Mr. Barkley, of Nash, and Rev.. W. P. Blake, of Weldon, will be pre3ent and take part in. the eervices. Mr. H. A. Davis, of: Nash county, while on his way from Rocky Mount last Saturday evening, was thrown.. from his buggy and very seriously injured. At last accounts be was unable to sit upT A colored man on tbe plantation of J. D. Wells, one mile from town, had his a:nv canght in tbe sin on Tueadav mornincrinst inflicting a very severe and painful wound me nesn on me arm trom the wrist to the shoulder was terribly lacerated, though the bones were not hrnfcpn . n. a Thursday night, in Gardner's township, in luiauuumy, we learn mat A. Li. Wiggins, GusBarnett and others were nlavlne cards. Tjen a dispute arose between Wiggins and Burnett. Wiseins caught Rnroelt urnnml. the waist and held him - while hs . brother, Charles Wiggins, : used his knife.: very freely, dangerously woundirg Mr.. Burnett; and the last reports are to ihe ef fect that his recovery ia very doubtful Charles Wiggins made his escape and has not since been heard from.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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