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He thinks the marked progress iu that State is a iMDuiaoie maimy to me -young mfji -who are indeed the hope of any State or country. He says the young men of Georgia "are not the diA'dljug, pale-faced, soft-handed tif-iaisiates which were so often y:ibie in he uurselings of the slave. They have keen, expressive eyes; their faces are bronzed;, their hands are often the tell tales ot iabor; their step is elastic and their habits ener getic." These young men are fully Alive to the situation. They know that the price of success in life is in telligent labor. They feel the im portance of their position as factors in rehabilitating the South and they 4X1 pushing business in every direc iivn. As to the negroes, they know mtir precise worth what they are an. i what they are capable of. -They know their own superiority; hence, they "vote for htm and vote with him; uiitpu sc.his. lii nf all rrr,-?f,i In him nn i - o pu t-qu-ii footing; trade with him in J.:i.iicpj and iu politics; and lie votes ;reely in Georgia, as he does in Pennsylvania." t his ts the testimony of an inlelli jfriii. Northern observer who is will ing to see things as they are and has no "axe to grind." We mustregret that Col. McClure did not see North Carolina. He could have beeu of service to the State in letting the outside world know through his -very influential paper what North Carolina is doing" for the two races. This State has increased m popula tion far more than Georgia has. du ring the last decade. If the Colonel would spend two. days each in Wil mington, Charlotte and Raleigh he would find much interesting material to work up. We hope he Will not fail to spend some days in our State on his return trip. . But let us return to Georgia. He did not fail to note the: progress among the blacks. He found them growing in numbers and wealth and that many of them were landowners. He writes: . "When Gov. Bullock retired from office, the amount of the property of the blacks of the State was not $100,000, and now, under the' same assessment laws, it is over $ 8,- 000;000." He says they vote with the Demo crats for home offices, although Re j ublic.nis., .They have become dis gusted with the corruption among the" leaders, of their own party, and do iot wish to return to the corrupt rule of the . past. These Georgia darkeys are very sensible fellows evi dently. - Col. McClure says they have "just laws, equal protection, econom ical government, universal educa tion." Every word of this applies with equal force to North Carolina. In describing Georgia he bat des cribes our own State. There is no complaint of injustice among the col ored people as far as the Philadelphia editor, could. learn. The Georgians are not fighting the battles of the past, but are intent upon making the most of the living present; The talk, therefore, is of business of progress, railroads, tariff, factories, education, I how to make large crops these' are the ''topics. Georgia has 200,000 spindles r in .- her- factories. North Carolina has now about 125,000. We stop to note these things because they are instructive and full of en couragement, f The South has great resources. The North has very much VOL. XII. to learn concerning the South, and if more Colonel MoClures would visit our people, not as propagandists or spies, but as wakeful,"con8cientious, truthful, pauiHtaking V)bservers and would then write fairly, and honestly what they saw, the ignorance con-i uerning the Southern people would not be so dense. But1 aa long as the malignersand falsifiers, like Tourgee have the ear of the North we canooi expect that oar people will be under stood or estimated properly. " '' ' ! PAPER PULP PBUSI T30TTON ;,-i;:iTAi.k9.1-' : s v7 Some months' ago we '-'referred lta 8ome i u tersting xeri nnshatj were making irTthreauotioo of cott ton stalks to pulp, and we are glad to be able to say that the experiments promise good results. ; We have be-! fore us a 8am pie of pulp thus made, aud it is more of promise than a realization of what may be. The sample can be seen by those who are curious or interested in experiments that may prove beneficial to the South. We oopy a letter from the gentlemao in New Jersey who sends it, and who has made the experiments referred to : Camden, N. J. , December 20, 1880. - Editor Wilmington Star: Enclosed you will find sample of paper pulp reduced by me from the at&Jks. bolls, etc., of the cotton plant. There is from 15 to 20 per cent more fibre in it than ground wood, which is used very extensively by the paper manu facturers for both white and manilla paper. No doubt this will be interesting to your readers, as I judge most of them are growers of cotton. To get at the actual cost of producing the pulp it will be neces sary for one to know from the growers what cxpecse would he attached to baling it for shipment and cost of freight to Philadelphia, and I would like to hear from all the growers that tet-1 interested in tbi3'"new idea. All letters and questions will be promptly answered if addressed to Yt urs, truly, Gko. W.- Abteuus, Jr., 713 Linden street, Camden, N. J. Col. McClureV last letter to his paper, the Philadelphia Times, of Tuesday's issue, is devoted, to an ac count of his visit to ex-President Jefferson l)avis. The letter is writ ten from Mississippi City, and he de scribes the home of M r. Davis, . the Dorsey place. We copy oqe inter esting extract: ' "Soon after I had been bowed into the parlor Jefferson 'Davis entered alone, and his greeting was the cor dial welcome of the proverbial hos pitality 'of the South. I-confess to disappointment in the. general ap-' pearance of the man, who stauds in history to-day as the soldier-statesman .without a country. I expected to find the strongly-marked traces ot a grievously disappointed life,and se rene civility and studied reticence in discussing all things of. the past; but those who believe Jefferson Davis to be misanthropic in temperament and embittered against the nation and the world greatly misjudge him. Nor is he the broken invalid that he is gene rally regarded. His yet abundant locks and full beard are deeply sil vered, and his face and frame are spare, as they always, nave been,' but his gtp is elastic and steady,' and the hard lines of his brow. which are so conspicuous in his pic tures, are at . once effaced when he enters into conversation. Instead of impressing the visitor as a habitual recluse, who has no interest ra the land to whose citizenship he will live and die a stranger, he at once invited the freedom of the planter's home by- chatting without reserve, save when bis contemporaries are likely to be criticised, when he adroitly and pleasantly turns the discussion into inoffensive channels. He is yet the same positive man in all his convic tions and purposes that1 made him the leader of a causeless rebellion. He well understands that he oast the die for empire or for failure that must make him alien to the country and the world, and that he lost, and be knows that be is to day the most, powerless of all men in the land to re trieve the fortunes of those who fol lowed him to bereavement and sacri- fice." Amos T. Ackerman, one of Grant's Attorney Geaerals,: whose death was announced recently, was a native of New. Hamphhire. He went to Georgia when a young man, ' soon after completing a collegiate 'course, served in the , Confederate, army (bomb-proof department) and be came a Radical as soon "as the cruel war was over.". The Savannah iJVewJS says of him: . : ' .7. ' . " '.. "While MrM Akerman was one of the bit terest Republican partizina io the South, he was .believed to have been sincere and honest - in his convictions: His personal ability and integrity were above suspicion. for. be was acknowledged as a lawyer of superior merit, and was always accorded the credit of meaning to do what he be lieved to be fair and right. - His politics was, however, a fanaticism, though a stern, fearless, right-meaning fanaticism, tie, in a word, was never able to free himself from the Puritanism aud prejudices of the New England 7. ideas imbibed, by him : in' early. childhood." - i 7 The Stab sends heartiest wishes to its: friends for a ; joyous, delightful Christmas: yi 7 v: -' i'-- . NQBTHRBFl GBBDCIil'Tr-THB f '7' OBT OFilf EQUALITY. - 4 ; 1 The willingness of ,t intelligent Northern people to believe anything they hear or read concerning, the South .would be remarkable if it were not so 7. very common. The, lates example jWe have seen of the kind is a report, that the negroes are leaving some portions of the South in suchj great numbers that the owners of the, plantations have.had to go to work as field hands. The ootlon crop alone 011880 ought ,to satisfy -every ajn tXhat the exoojfl fcas . itot Jten Jiar enoughs to ..seriously irn?- dangerthOj prosperity : of the tSouth. ... But suppose the exodus was as! great as some Northern people would! have it to be, would not the North suffer in the end almost as much as. the South would suffer? Can the cotton fields grow, up in weeds with out the teas of thousands of looms in New, England and Pennsylvania and elsewhere remaining silent?, . T "v The cry heard mostly' in Radical organs is, that the negro cannot get justice in the Souththat there is nothing to encourage him to remain that he cannot get political equali ty. In point of fact the colored peo ple, save in a few localities, have as many political rights as the whites have, with the one exception that they cannot secure a share in the paying offices. But whose fault is it? Is it not to be laid at the door of their, political friends and associates? As to the colored people being badly treated and having nothing to en courage them it is all posh unmiti gated untruth.'. .They are treated kindly everywhere save where they provoke hostility by bad conduct. They have every inducement - to re main id the South hog and hominy, fruits, climate, birth-place, adapta tion to the service required, and so on, - It is well enough to consider one point just here more carefully the inequality of political rights and privi leges. We would like for some truth tn I Northern Republican editor to furuish some statistics for the in struction of the country at large. For instance, we are curioas to hear how many members of the Cabinet are colored; how many colored members of : the U. S. Senate are from the North; how many Republican mem bers of the House are colored; how many Governors, Lieutenant Gover nors and State officers in the North are negroes; how many mayots of cities, aldermen and sheriffs in the North are negroes; how many mem bers of the Legislatures in the North are of the same race ? The point is has -the "colored man and bro ther" really equal rights in any city, town "or 'village, in' all th North? We do not believe it, and the facts do not warrant any other conviction. On the 16th mst. we copied an utterance from the oldest Republican paper in the country the North American of Philadelphia, (not American, as we were made to say before, for that paper is young, but vigorous and scholarly), to the effect that the negroes would have their shaft of work, "but nothing more." See Stab of that date, first page. - ' '. I Whilsthe Philadelphia American the young Republican paper of that city-r-is worrying itself about the neglect and wrongs of the negro in the South, it would do well to con sider the complaints of the colored men. of :ts. own great city. Many colored, 'meetings have been held looking to a redress of grievances in Tbiladeldhia aud elsewhere, and the protest . is strong and . vehement against the wrongs visited upon the colored people, not by the slandered Southern white people, but by their Republican allies then; aud every where else. Progress, published in Philadelphia, says : ... ... "There is not a colored man ia the next Legislature of this State, not one in the city councils or school boards, not one in the city trusts, not one in any of the other J departments or the city or State, save in menial and .degrading service." : At a specimen of what is said by the colored Republicans of Philadel phia we copy , the -following . resolu tion that' was adopted : last i week in a colored ward meeting: .:: "77 "That, owing to our hitherto political humiliation and lack of representation upon any of the committees and organiza lions pertaining to the Republican party, we deem it of ) vital importance ' to give some expression of. our feelings and lay our just claims before hepeople; therefore, be it ': . . ' lBe$ol)0ed, TheX we claim a 'representa tion upon the Republican City Committee, add a lust and equal share :of 'all the offices that are within the gift ;bf th& party; and; tnaiweaemana in au tne departments National State 4od clty-Hhe appointment of Colored Repulicapai70teH .This has'-,t,he t ldsnendeat, d?eJf respectingintabotjitY colored fwoifce claim a Just and equal, share ol&all the offices that. Are within the gift of. the; paTtv' vThis is- the . was , "to talk it." - But. , says thetyenerable! have no offices, but T6a.mav:orkit This attitude of the Radicals rtoward -i'.ii : rri!r.Y?iii r - thet negroes ea4s $1 1'prBey-nl old Iiepublicaa who supported GraOjt i :t "JThe coier,diamnf baa een, doupte 8JVj6t. firer Weoutheraf-teasterv now of the Northern rings. The one forced him to work; the other forces him! to vote for him. . The colored man of the future baa bis own destiny, iu his own hands, and there are some compensations in etore." 7 , 7 , In the South' the f white Radicals have given the negro a crumb or two whilst they have taken the pone. They have permitted the " workers" to smell the pot of good government "fixings and things," whilst they have soused their fingers and. hands into it and have replenished "their inner man from day to day. One other point: Hayes, in his message, makes a gross attack on the South and declares that the negro is not allowed to enjoy the rights of citizenship, such as freely to vote and have it counted honestly, &c. We have referred to this before and re cur to it now to quote an item from Progress. It says: "In this good Republican. city of Phila delphia, year after year, outrages upon the ballot-box have ibeen perpetrated as in excusable as any that have been charged against the Southern people." We leave the subject for the pre sent. It serves a double purpose to point to these things: it informs our bwu readers and lets the Northern Republicans understand that there are two sides to the question. LIFB INSURANCE BlRKBDPIOY. The decision of Judge' Hughes, in the case of the Piedmont & Arling ton Life Insuranoe Company, of Richmond, Va., will be approved heartily,,we wouldvippeji-A: Life Insurance Compaayj if eeonomlcally and honestly managed, cannot fail possibly unless it has had to meet ex traordinary losses caused by the prev alence of a death-dealing epidemic, or a financial crash generally. The margin is so large that a well-managed company must grow rich very rapidly. . Years ago we utudied two leading insuranoe authorities with some care and interest, and it satis fied: us that the best companies charged far too znuoh for the insur ance granted. We believe that if proper economy prevailed and a se vere conservatism of (risks was ob served invariably, that the insurance could be given at from 25 to 40 per cent, lees than the prevailing rates, and that, too, without endangering the safety of the .companies. It is the extravagance of companies, and in many instances the rasoality of officers, that necessitate ex -cesBtve premiums and thus make the people pay - very much more for protection than ought to be the case. Think of a President of an Insurance Company receiving $35,000 as a salary yearly. Go and look at the palatial buildings, the fine furniture,the oart loads of costly documents gotten up in the most ex travagant style, the large salaries for dozens of employes at home, the sumptuous suppers, the $10,000 spent annually for wine suppers, and you will see what becomes of the money of many of the companies. . Judge Hughes holds that the fail ure of a Life Insurance Company is prima facie evidence that Ithere is fraud. This must be the case unless some one of the causes mentioned by him has intervened to produce a collapse. Wide-spread contagion or sudden financial convulsion might Wreck a company, r But in this vast country disease would be able hardly to "do this, as v the risks are. too widely soattered to effect the com panies to such an extent as to cause a failure. Injudicious risks are more hurtful than any other cause where the management is honest. We have r known 1 unfaithful agents to take risks for $5,000 and $10,000 when the subjects were either dying from disease or killing themselves With drink. The temptation to pay travelling expenses, board bills, etc., was too great for the honesty of the agents and they resorted to improper risks (by manipulating the ' applica tions) to secure the large ( commis sions given by their companies. We could mention several such, risks. .If companies . would, employ only .gen tlemen of the .highest character, tnir ing them remunerative. salaries "they would make in the end very greatlyj A rAsoally agent in a few minutes may fasten a ; 110,000 loss upon a tnpan v-enoushf tolteDtlSree or, four first-class agents ioihe "field for! HW?xJBw.0ir fa- fe w? exit It iaCa mistake to suppose; that tbej marry is-: universal ' or meets, with geaeraiapprovA;-.inBjQyefioD -against the movmeut 7ft: is . not; 1 j .1 .1 Li .i...?J will cause any harm to the civil . and: social rights of; the, Jews, however; jnuch temporary, annoyance it may; give them. We correct an error into which we were led by a Northern exchange. The Empress is not a1 Catholic but a Lutheran. She is not; patron of the modern crusade. Her husband is thought to be the head of the movement. . It is said that every day that passes sees the United States grow ing richer by $2,300,000. If correct, this is wonderful. The annual accu mulation is set down at $825,000,000. Germany is estimated at $200,000,- 000; Great Britain at $325,000,000; and Fiance at $375,000,000: The average annual income in Great Britain is $165; United States the same; France, $125; Germany, $85. Valuation of oapital: Great Britain, $44,400,000,000; France, $36,700,- 000,000; United States, $32,000,000, 000; Germany, $22,000,000,000; Rus sia, $15,000,000,000. Mr. William L. Royall is an able lawyer and a strong writer. He was a decided success as a journalist. His forthcoming pamphlet (fpr such we believe it is to be) in reply to Tourgee; the carpet-bag slanderer, will be read eagerly in the South. The North will not be so glad to see it. The Norfolk. Virginians says : . Captaia Royall has had the opportunify of S3curing bushels of facts relating to Tourgee's 'Knaves Errand' in North Caro lina, and if be has failed to avail himself of the material he alone will be to blame. No rascal ever went so unwhipped of justice with as little ease as Tourgee did from North Carolina." Some North Carolinian should take him in hand and publish to the country the exact and full facts concerning his career in North Caro lina. There are several important chapters in his performances in this State. The last Oxford Free Lance gave some particulars concerning the law firm of Tourgee & Horsfall in Granville county a firm mnch more rascally than Quirk, Gammon & Snap, if not so well known to fame. Radical organs will note. The Election Commissioners of Warren county, Mississippi, who were indict ed before the U. S. Circuit Court for throwing out negro votes, were promptly discharged by the Federal Judge, he saying that they had obeyed the law in every particular. "Thar now." Another Radical; lie spiked and by a Radical Judge. Botlncii improvement. Some of our prominent merchants and dealers tell us that business has beeu better in Wilmington during the past month than at any time in several years, and the Indi cations have certBioly beeu suchs to bear them out in the assertion. This state of affairs is owing in ag:eat measure to the good crops made in" the' country, and to the good, prices obtained for, the -produce of this section, including cotton and naval stores. . Thus what starts out as a benefit to the few becomes in the end a benefit to the many, and trado and commerce is made to flourish upon the foundation constructed for it by and through labor and mutual de. pendence. . , ":;iv:j.' Blcii way Robber Captaredv ' 7 -1 -: . The negro who clubbed and robbed Mr. Armline Hufham, at Jones' Section House, on the Carolina Central road, referred to by us yesterday, was captured the same night by Henry Porter, colored, and turned over to Justice L. Murrell. The most of the goods taken from Mr. Hufham were found in his possession.:. So we learm from a "postal" from Mr. W. P. Andrews, of "Swinson's Cut." Good Time. ' Engineer John Rlddick, with six cars including one sleeper, started' from Flo rence, on the W., O. & A. R. R., yester day morning, one hour and three-quarters behind time, and arrived at Wilmington just twenty minutes behind the schedule time, making the run in about 40 miles per hour, making due allowances for. stops pages.'' - v Deal b of an. Old Citizen.. Mr. John A. Sanders, a venerable - and respected citizen ; of - this county, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. George Harriss, in this city, yesterday, in the : 72d year of his age. A Colored man ia Brnnawitk Arrest ' eel and commuted Jauj on tne , Cbaret ol Caoaipcjbe Death t tale There is a colored manj Earned ' Sam Hurst, now-TalBvmtn." the serii oas charge of causing tile death ef his own child about six drears o!dv; It seems; that about fiv ,or six weeks ago .Hurst aod; his ,wlfe, who are. employed ,pn the Kendall property, ia Brunswick county, about eighteen nijiles from fhis city, left the child In the Shan ty ' whef la they lived from eiriyj XiiQ morning '.MDtip nearly night, on a certain day,;and ia:themeantirh9 the door shutter. Avfalch as oblyT held in its place Ihy propj. f ell, ppoothe.child, and. it re-j maineu in mat posiuon, . unoer me neavy in ; the' '"evening wheoiU was -taken ' ohi badly bruised and crippleJ. J Then, again; on Sunday last, ibe wifv, . having been ab-; sent in Ibis city , for a week- or two, Hurst got up in the mornicg, buili a big oak fire in the 'fire-placv, " placed the child on ' aJ rrioes 'mattress .in very close proximity to the same and then fas tened the door and went off, and about 3 o'clock in the afternoon the shanty was dis-j covered to be on fire. Parties in the neigh borhood arrived at the spot too late to save the shanty, but they might have rescued the child had they known it' was in the building. Hurst. him3e!f came up in the meantime, but turned off without making any effort to ,sve7hi:, property or rescue. his child. The charred remains of the lit tle one, which consisted of little more than a portion of the f-kull and backbone, were found among the debris in one corner of the spot where the shanty had atoo J, show ing that the child in its agony had crawled as far away from the fire as possible when it was in its incipEeecy. . On Wednesday last Special Coroner Ar nold held an' ir quest over the. temiins, when the above, facts, in substance. : were elicited, which were strengthened, by other corroborative circumstances, and a verdict was rendered accordingly, Hur-t being committed to jail' to a Wait h:s trial at the next term of the Superior Court for Bruns wick county. Pender superior Court . This Court was , expected to adjourn Wednesday evening. The .only criminal cases of importance disposed of were those of Rafe Bryant and Aaron Tate, both col ored, charged with burglary. -It was shown to the satisfaction of the Court that the charge in neither case would hold good. and the defendants were therefore avowed to submit to a verdict of larceny, Bryant years in the Penitentiary. In the case of Bryant it was shown that he got possession of the key to the house of a man in whose employ he had been for eome time previ ously, entered the same and took a suit of his clothing; that be then took the man's horee out of the stable, saddled him and rode him to some kind of a public gather ing, dressed in his borrowed plumage, but afterwards returned the clolhiDg and the horse to their proper places. In sentenc ing him, His Honor, Judge Gudger, inti mated to the prisoner that he was lucky to escape with his life, as the crime under the statutes, so far as related to the taking of the horse, could have been made a cap ital offence. Aaron Tate's crime consisted in breaking into a house in the day time and carrying off number of articles, the property of the owner of the building. ThP remainder of the time of the Court was taken up in the hearing of civil cases. On Hie Travels. The Private Henry Hammond alluded to in our telegraphicpolumns this morning, in a dispatch t from .Washington, is said to have victimized the First National Bank of this city to the tune of about $206. He was in this city on Saturday, and conside rably intoxicated, it seems that Hammond was acting in the capacity of clerk in the Quartermaster'd office at Fort JohDslOn, under Lieutenant Niles, and during the latter's absence he stole the Government checks and transportation requests referred to, on the latter of which he can keep on travelling ad infinitum, or until he is fairly entitled to Grant's soubriquet of "Great American Traveller," unless stopped injhis wild career by the strong arm of the ljaw. At last accounts from the enterprising dis ciple of Uncle Sam be was trying to nego tiate a check at Raleigh, Tne Embezzlement Gate Mr. M. A. McNair, who wa3 arrested in. this eity on Wednesday last, on a warrant from a Justice of the ; Peace of Columbus county, charged with embezzlement, went to Whiteville yesterday to answer to the ac cusation but upon his arraignment the prosecutor failed to appear and the ac cused was discharged. Mr, McNair re turned to this city last sight. . He says that the affair grew out . of a business transac tion between himself ; and Mr. John T. Harris, of Columbus county. . He claims to have been, badly treated . in the matter, and is naturally very indignant thereat. 'If eW CoaCtl ;. :;.,7;; -m.-J We noticed at, the W., C. & A. Railroad depot yesterday morning a new passenger car recently turned out of the company's ahopsHat Florence, r 8. C.!, for the North Eastern Railroad. The car is fifty-six feet from corner poBt to corner post, and built in the latest style, without end windows. It is finished Inside with' maple and Hun garian ash, and presents a very, light and cheerful appearanee. r' '"It has the Janey coupler attachment. The ' bar was built under the supervision of Mr. W.-H.-Day, formerly of this city and is a credit to the workmen of the Company.. . : : ' - I ' .,"..' , i q The fair recently held in Phila delphia for the benefit of the First Regi ment armory fund netted $31,850. :.-t t John' rlt VVh eelet.r iwei I knowo TO NdrihiCaVMlaWs f.fei ectir of very.copieua aadnhifttueifteititical mi- teriala. ie hoeirgly eiM4Hi.d--atimay jUiuoReti jigr atjiv-4;9ni yrrl M ! Carried, at - Gib r Epittcopal Church, in Weldort, ui. :ihe lHto,. at 11 o'ctocfe A.. M , by. litvs A. t Ajhaq li. D D., Wm. W. Hall,- of tlia Koaq.ik iNttM. tu Miss Maria W: L og, b:?'h.iythiini. - New Berniaw. Aa a3i:?iden6e that careful and 'ptoperi jd'ahia1C.'oiiiareij -the price;etc itljak we wHf dtiremM-tot uf twenty-odd b!es ssot tu mrie tw sea son by-Col... John. N . rWhiyimba pur chasedby Messrs D'ai; tkaCntliffr c ia t per pctuna, jifflsoeujgipbej biftlet pi ice paid for cotton, on thoe days. . 7xne taroora aoumerner has completed nttyi-eignt years of a wiell;spent life. .It !waa established in 1822, and it baa been a'usefuL and faithful ' friend of th people all along Its'pHgrimage- We hope U will celebrate in first, ceniennial onatr the management of the "genial editor who now shapes its course and siys kibd things s -7; J acKSon items in VVeldpn" ivetos: There was a rumor in town last week that a Mr. Squire bad killed a mac named Bradley in the upper portion ot this county. ' We did not learn the particulars. Dr. FAnson had a hearing at the rtceot term of the court, and was sentenced to j ul for 15 months.' His wife was on the stand rnd stated that he was kind to her when sober, . but a perfect fiend when drunk. . . Durham . Plant: Mr. VV. D. Cole, the sawyer at Cole's Milh. ou Eao river, while attempting to lower the water gate, fell upon the saw which ueariy sev ered his left arm and leg. ,Drs. Battle aud Blacknall Wtite called in, and his arm and leg were so terribly, lacerated it - required the amputation of both. They did all ia their power to save, the unfortunate mas, but his injuries were so great that he died ' early Friday morning. y Weldon . News'. We learn that $3,503 have been raised by the people ot Halifax for the proposed railroad, and it is thought the balance, about. $2,500, will ba raised with little or no troable. ; Mr. William Parrish, ihe head 'carpenter of the Seaboard road., was drowned last Wednes day in Meherrin river. He was walking acros3 the bridge and it is supposed that be lost his balance an I fell, striking bis head against something in 'his fall. His body was recovered on Saturday; ! iOtoXfahoTolitessenger'. The store of Mr. George Quinn, near Davis' mill, in Duplin county, was entered by burglars Tuesday night and robbed of about $250 worth of goods. ' The mystery envel oping the . disappearance of Miss Mary Francis Bausus and her reported deatk- by poisoning, particulars of vhich were given by us last, week, has been solved. . The affair turns out to be, as we suggested, a huge fraud instead of a mystery, and eeema to be a "put up job"- on the part of the said Mary Francis Bausus. ; . . , Raleigh News-Observer The Raleigh Academy of Medicine, last eve ning, held the regular election of officers. 7 Dr. J. W. 'McGee Was chosen President;' Dr. J. A. Sexton, secretary; and Dr. P. E. Hines, Treasurer. The Academy now has fourteen members. Two died1 during the past War. The dwelling house of John jDng, in Little River. Township, was burned a few nights since. 7Tbe firewas caused "by "a" spark Tailing ih"a lofof seed TJotton, which King bad stored in a -room. -The barn and stables of Willis Holden, near Wake Forest College, were' burned two or three nights since, together with a lot of corn, fodder, etc. Tarboro Southerner'. Mr. W. R. Moore, brought us a piece of pork on yes terday, killed by a hand full of parasites small, round and white. The- hog was filled with thm and was killed along with the rest. Died, at Norfolk, Virginia, Saturday, December 18ih, Miss Louisa F. Biggs, aged 63 years. She was a sister uf the late Judge Asa Biggs, and had gone to Norfolk for medieal treetment. A tournament comes off a! Sparta to-day wkh a coronation ball this evening. One was. enjoyed at Rocky Mount last Friday, one' at Bethel on Tuesday, one at Wilson last week and a tut by colored Knights at 1 01s- not. Gov. Jarvis' portrait ' in last week's Harper's Weekly is not a very filter ing one. - Warsaw Brief Mention : We . have to record another horrible death occa sioned by drunkenness. Wm. Blackwel and Jackson Grant were drinking quite freely on last Thursday evening, it is said, and left the village just before the northern bound fast train, which passes here at 10 o'clock P. M. When the train was about one mile beyond the village, within 200 yards of the water station, running at full speed, the engineer saw a man on the track, just as be was stricken. Whether he was lying on the iron or was knocked down and drawn under the wheels we 'have been un able to learn, the engineer not having been before the inquest nor communicated with, as far as we know, by any of our people. His head was severed from his body, which was lying by the side of the track with one leg and a bruise upon the side and one arm, while the head, which was split open, was found about 800 yards fur ther on. ' crjRBENT corn m. en t. In connection with. the revival of a discussion of the eight-hour sys tem it is worthy of note' that men employed in the workshops of Eng land toil for a smaller number of hours daily than men engaged in cor responding pursuits io the United States. Here the ten-hour system is in force in nearly all our industrial establishments,, while in England a half-holiday on Saturday is granted, which' reduces the number of regular working hours to fifty-four, or at the rate of nine hours per day. Xorney's Proqress' t "Believing that irregular practices at elections are pernicious to the individual and degrading to the Commonwealth, The News and Courier will consistently oppose fraud and strenuously support what ever measures promise to ensure a free ballot and a fair count. . Be lieving, likewise, that in popular edu cation is the surest safeguard against' the dangers of universal suffrage, The News find Courier will seek se curity for, the continuance of honest : government iu the diffusion of know ledge through the public schools, rather than in legislative strategy or political J maneonyres.- Charleston News and Courier. 7 . The Mississippi Levee Commis-' sion want to obtain from the National' Treasury $t,800,D00 to deepen the channel . and raise 'the levees of the Mississippi. The original sum asked for was $9,000,000, but : even this is only a starter, A board of Government engineers has' estimated the cost of the proposed work at $50,000,000. Another board placed it at $70,000,000. -ii. -4 n
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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