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EDUCATION A 80CBCB OF
WEALTH. ' ,
Governor Jarvis,in his inaugural,
says: "y ;';.'. :-" l-
"It is susceptible of proof ttiat education
is a source of wealth to a State'. The dif
ference is inconceivable between ibe ef
forts of an untutored mind and the efforts
of the same mind quickened and trained by
education. It is observable in the humblest
sphere of labor, for labor is nothing but
contrivance, and contrivance without in
telligence is but the groping of the blind.
10 every outer respect us cucuu oicoutaiug
and everywhere visible. We have but to
go into a State or country where universal
education exists, to find in its Unproved
agriculture, its ingenious mechanic arts, its
tprospeious commercial interests, its solid
institutions of learning, the wider range of
thought and discussion in its papers and
magazines, (for these are made to suit tbeir
readers), its better mode of living, and its
higher tone of manners and conversation,
unmistakable evidences of its advantages."
On .ooaro mill rompmhpr that
some time ago we went rather elab
orately into an argument to enow,
when viewed commercially, how
much more valuable an educated man
ma a Vian nna TOittirtTif odnrntinn. VVfi
think we established clearly that, as
the Governor says', "education is a
source of wealth' to any! people or
country. If a man does not know
this it appears! to ns he is not. yet in
the hornbook of investigation. The
world teems fairly
with evidence to
establish this. JLet any sceptic start
from . .Baltimore and travel throu h
Philadelphia and Hew York to Bos
ton, stopping at intetmediate points;
or let him consult the suggestive and
instructive statistics of our great
conntrv if he won
d gather proof of
.
the truth of what
we affirmed, and
team eomeiuiDg oi
the capabilities of
education and knowledge (for they
are not convertible terms) to elevate
and enrich a people. j
i It is known to all intelligent ex
plorers that the Northern centres of
trade and manufacture are much
richer than any portion of the South.
The same case exists in England.
That country is richer than any other
a f r ar a fnrrA infr f A 'farvifnrv
intelligent. Bat let ns confine oar
selves now to our own land. We
have- not the results of the census of
1880 at hand, but what does the cen
fias of 1870 show in regard to. this
. question? Does it establish the fact
that the richest sections are those in
which education is most general ?
Let us turn to the Northern States.
In 1870 the popalation was 24,546,-
578. The number of persons over
10 VAArfl rtf flora shn nl1 n nt" rand
and write was 1,941,045 The popa
lation of what is classed as Southern
(bat many of these States were with
the North mainly in the war) was 14,-
009,315. The Illiterates are given at
5,573,646. i Of these nearly one-half
were whites. A large proportion of
the illiterates in the Norths were of
foreign birth. Now let us' see what
the wealth of the tiwo sections was.
The North was credited 'with $24,-
493,917,830 ; the South with $1,559,
524,092. , j; . -
It is true that a jarge part of the
wealth of the Soath had been swept
away by the war, and that recupera
tion had been comparatively slow
since the war ended .in 1865 up to
the time the census! was taken in the
summer of 1870. Bat, deducting all
this there remains j still a great dis
parity in the wealth of the two sec
tions. It is believed bv statisticians
that the disparity will continue as
will be shown by the late census
when the results are ascertained.
We would be glad to know that the
progress in the South had changed
the figures considerably, bat marked
as nave been the growth and devel
, opmeot in our section we apprehend
" corresponding advanc will be
found in the North. The following
from the Chicago llhier Ocean is
very suggestive and ' strikingly per
tinent: ;
"ABjaaalysis of the ! wealth statistics of
the Northern States shows ' that, almost
without exception, the wealthiest of these
States, and the wealthiest portions of each
Slate, are the ones which expend the most
tor puniic ecnoois. Witness in New York,
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, in the
Eist, and Ohio and Illinpis in the West.
This may be merely a coincidence, bat then
you can't make the people in these States
believe it, and they keep on voting the ne
cessary funds from year to rear, not onlv
to maintain' but to increase the number
ana eniciency of their schools.'
Education is certain to create di
versity, as was shown in these col
umns.' The statistics of the country
establish, we think, that education ia
A tremendous- factor in the race of
lite and multiplies dollars wnust ig
norance stands with surprised face
and bands in pockets and wonders
how it was done. . v
UORIB HVIiB POK1REL4NO.
The aim of the Irish Land League
U evidently to secure local self-government
throughout the, island.
Nothing else will answer their: pur
poses or desires, and until it is se
cured there will be no permanent
tranquility. There is certainly bo
crime in agitating for reform or
change in this important particular.
Nothing is 'more natural and nothing
surely is more desirable forany peo-.
pie than . tha they should have home.
rule, i So far from such a desire being.
censurable it is commendable, and no
one but a hopeless Tory can see any
thing criminal or wrong . in it. The
Southern people know what it is to
have their local self-government cor
rupted or denied them, and they
know what a positive curse it is to
have their laws made by enemies and
their rulers chosen from among their
conquerere, and the sword to stand in.
place of the civic rod They can
sympathize,- there! ore, warmly, with
Ireland in her struggle for her rights
and her jast demands. ;
It is a delusion to suppose that the
three F's are all. Give to Ireland
fair rents, fixity or tenure, and free
sale, and still these would not be
enough. It is a worthy and a law
ful object at which to strike to get
these and with them the dear right
of home raleof local self-government.
We hope sincerely that Ire
land will triumph and secure these
ends. In saying this we have no
words of tolerance for crime in any
shape. We do not believe that the
Land. League contemplates any at
tempt at revolution," nor any polioy.
of violence. The Land League will
only succeed through the cooperation
of the Liberal party of England. The
Tory (tseaconsneld) party, now-
styling themselves Conservatives, are
the pledged enemies of all reform for
Ireland. But, as we said recently;
the coarse of the Home Rulers in
Parliament does not strike us as wise
or safe. They have said and done
many things well calculated to.annoy
Premier Gladstone and to obstruct
any! reformatory plans he may have.
COTTON SllIIi8 ARO HI At! U INERT.
Mr. Atkinson, the Boston an thori
ty on cotton manufacturing, is a scep
tic so far as the South being adapted
to cotton manufacturing where large
mills are used. Bat such doubts will
not prevent experiments of the kind,
and why should they? The success
of some large mills has been so unmis
takable so much moje remunerative
than similar mills in New England
that e can see no reason why other
large mills should not be erected and
as soon as possible. In fact the South
is specially, adapted to all kinds of
mills, large, email, and those with the
Clement Attachment. Col, McCIure
understands the matter correctly as
to the great and peculiar advantages
the bouth offers for manufacturing.
In one of his recent interesting letters,
he says:
I "It is a violation of all the laws of trade
to transport the cotton a thousand miles to
an inhospitable climate, where water power
is unreliable a third of the year, and where
it necessarily costs more to snstain labor
than where the cotton is grown. Our strug
gling cotton factories in Pennsylvania would
be earning from ten to thirty per cent, on
the great water powers of the Savannah or
Alabama, where labor is cheap, where the
climate is the most genial to be found on
the continent, and where the cotton lint
can be furnished fresh from the gin.
believe that half of the whole cotton nro
duct will be spun in the South before ant
other ten years, and the. succeding de
cade will furnish Southern factories for the
enure South." . I -
; we u Ke to see such an opinion
from so intelligent an observer. The
files . of the Stab" during . the last
several - years will show just this
opinion iterated and reiterated times
without number. . We have all along
insisted that the South had all the
advantage over New England, and
Old England, for that matter, if vou
Will take -off the 'tariff embargo on
machinery. We have again and
again said that sooner or later the
.Northern capitalists would seek the
Sooth and that . the cotton . spindles
and looms of New England and the
North generally will be brought to
the innumerable streams of our
growing and progressive South. But
this will be some time in the future.
. Mills are in coarse of erection at
this time at more than twenty-places
in the Soatb.' At Vioksbarg, Mis
sissippi, large mills are to be erected
at once. There is oise pout pre
sented by Mr. Atik'mson that ft is
well for Southerners to consider be
fore embarking in cotton raanuc
facturing. ' It is that at present
the South cannot oompete
with
New England in the - production
of Jfoe.; gpflfa, This' ia simply
owing to the fact that -1,9 n?anuf ac
ta re goods of a finer .quality, reorixe
I special training as to operatives and
ation of machinery.
Bat f the lower,' plainer grades of
goods are. manufactured at less cost
now than they are in New England.
In truth, the raw material, the labor,
the transportation are less, whilet
f nel rand clothing are small , items.
We mentioned before that Louisville
.wis going, ioto. . Ibamapufactunng
business also. . Whenever the North
ern men bring their machinery, - ex
perience and training; South the finer
goods will then be manufactured and
at Jess figures than prevaif in the
North, feviii; ;-
That great parliamentary debater,
Charles f James Fox, said . seventy
years ago, that the. best way: to go :
vern Ireland was to let the IriBh have
their own way. ,The decades that
have intervened since', bat confirm
the wisdom of this opinion. Mr;
Gladstone desires to do right, bat.be
will fail probably 4 in his efforts to
bring about a happy solution to the
vexed problem. A strong, active,
vigilant, hostile minority, led by such
an'junscrapuloub politician , as Bea-
oonefield, arrayed on the one side.
and a discontented nation on the 6th
er, j with; an . uncertam puoiio senti
ment at home among his own politi
cal parly friends, render his position
one of peril. If he yield to the whole
demands of the Irish leaders he -may
be
beaten in Parliament upon the
first
vote and driven into retirement.
If he go half , way he may fail to sat
isfy the Home Holers and Land
League If he does nothing there
will be long protracted violence,
perhaps an attempted revolution. So
he is beset on every side. No states
man of the century has been placed
in ja more embarrassing situation.
Which ever way he turns is one of
peril and threatened disaster. And
all this is caused by the Tory Lords,
The vote as to eviction did the busi
ness. What Ireland needs is a strong,
brdad land act, and not coercion.
Senator jYestmade some capital
points in hjs speech i,n opposition to
placing Gen. Grant on the retired
Hat. He presented the case exactly
when he said Grant had left the army
deliberately for political life, and he
should be made to abide the conse
quences that he shoald stand the
hazard ot tbe die. We do not be
lieve that Grant is half the military
man' that Senators Vest and Hill
conceded. He fought always an in
ferior foroe as to numbers, and made
some great blunders, as for instance
when he attacked Gen. Lee at the
second battle of Gaines' Mill. S win-
ton, fairest and best of Northern
writers upon the war, says Grant
lost 12,000 men in a very short time",
and his army refused to make aae-
oond assault when he ordered it to
advance. Not a man obeyed him.
We heard a Northern soldier (who
was close to Grant during his cam
paign against Lee) say in 1865
about July that no man in the Union
army was so much indebted as Grant
was for bis reputation to the silence
of Jiis friends.
There is said to be a lowering
cloud over French finances, and it is
feared that it wilt so extend as to
darkep the skies of , other countries.
There U a great deterioration re
ported in the specie reserve of. the
Bank of France. That Bank has
been weakening for years it seemaj
and now financiers. are looking each
other in the face and saying .1 What
'is to be the upshot of this menace to
the money markets of the world?
The Boston Herald gives these fig
ore's, of the Bank of France:
Tbe table given below shows its condi-
uon at me cioae or isio, as weii as me ae
generation wbleh its specie line had under
SM mA A 1 iL . Jl. 1
ment of gold by overvalued silvercoips
ooKPoamoH of erica vt auk ott&uwm.
On 1 . Gold coin . . Silver Total
Dec 31. andbolUen. coin. . BDecie.
187S..... .,..$308,080,00) fm.mCOe $48330.000
1877.. ........3a,7S0.Q00 173,180,000 495.440,000
1878 4 198,790,060 . 811.6SO.000 , 408,340,800
'In two vears there was- a decrease of
$10968,000 in the gold coin and bullion,'
balanced to four-fifths of the redaction by
an increase of $83,900,000 in the silver five-
frana pieces. Toe proportion of gold ia
the specie line had fallen from iOSit
cent. I on December '31, 1876. to 418.2 per
cent. ion December 31, 1878, -a dacreaaa of
V'3.3 per cent, un the other hand, the pro
portion of silver had risen from 29.5 per
cent. 1051.8 per cent, an increase of 22.3
per cent.".
This was the condition two , years
ago.1 Here are . the figures ' for 1879
and 128): ; - .
xamfMVfvas op enga s or nuoi.
' On ' Gold oIq - Sllrer' Total '
Deo. 8L ' ; and bnllioa. eoin. . aoocie.'
18T8..J... ...$198,73000 $SH,6W,0( $408 840,000
1879.. 1 ..... ...14S 8 W.000 S45.630 000 . 8&40,OOO
1880.. ........ .113,853,000. 84481,003 857,374JX
'Thus the specie line exhibits a decrease
of $78.428,0(Kt" The proportion of gold
has dropped from 70.5 per cent, to 31.6 per
cent.J m decrease of 38.9 per cent., while
uie proportion or stiver com has risen irom
29.5 per sent, to J58.4 percent.; an increase
h
1
w.ti.
W.l I. Blair. Danville. Via:, aavi: I haav
r long suffered from Torpor of the. Liver and
ihio buicfiyer .derived half the benetit
that Xaaye from ; Tntt's Pille. I recom
meua tBexnto all who ate siictd with
DyspepaJaTEiek Headache or .'Biliousness .
Knowing pr. TftU personally, it gives me
pleasur to add myestimony to the merits
Of hl3pill9,V ' ' . ;v;-i... ,
- 1 TUK III A I LED HAND. '
After we had written oar editorial
yesteroay v relative tog Ireland ; the
dispatches informed u's that : Mr.
Gladstone" had yielded to the pres-r
sure finally,' 1 much to the- delight .
of" the Tories, and had agreed to
strong t coercive measures before
Attempting legiafation as to the set-
tlemeni of Irish grievaooep. lhe
Secretary for, Ireland, Mr. Foister,
declared that- the : Land League, as
now organized, is RUpreoie, and that
law-abiding men are in constant dan
ger, .wnile tne- - violators or law are
safe. ; He declared that the "crimi
nal" must be. .arretted, and to that
end theViceroy shoald have power to
arrest persons, , As the Land League
is supreme throughout Ireland, ac
cording to the Secretary, arid as a
greater part of .the men are involved,
it wiil be' a nice question to determine
who' are to bo?' arrested, unless 'i the
purpose be to ymake the business
wholesale. It will be rather dimcuit
utterly impracticable to arrest a
whole people, : or nearly so. We
suppose 8 tew: nunarea will satisty
the Goveraieji';:fr5i:4f ' ...
Mr.' Gladstone: said it'was regarded
s impo8Bfbie by the Government that
a land bill could be dealt with before
they had dealt with the existing' coV
dition of affairs,in Ireland. If this be
a correct opinion; it is much to be re
gretted. We can but believe that the
first step the important step in the
way of restoring tranquility to Ire
land was to have reported, a jadicious,
strong land bill, ibis would have
brought a" great measure of quiet at
onoe.' The Irish know their op
pressions " and tt they are 'in ear
nest about - this matter of evic
tion. They need, they demand, and
sooner or later there must come, re
form. A redress Qf grievances is
always better tban harsh and repres
sive measures. ; Said an old Metho
dist preacher to a young minister
who was hesitating whether to preach
about God's love to the sinner or a
future judgment "Brother," preach
about love; you can catch more flies
with molasses than you can with vin
egar,' ou can win a people's
oonfidenoe and regard by acts of
justice and mercy and . kindness,
when dragonading and prisons and
banishment and the gibbet will utter
ly tail. Oar idea has been that first
give the Irish assurances that the land
laws would be so ohanged as tQ agord
them relief, and that then quietude
and satisfaction would supervene at
once, and the coercive measures
would not be deemed necessary. Bat
Mr. Gladstone and: bis associates in
tberGoverment think othe wise. They
may be correct for we are not in pos
session of all the facts."
I We shall await with interest to see
what will be the effect of the coer
ciye bill : whether it will serve as an
explosive or as a pacificator. We
fear there is great trouble ahead.
Ireland ; has" a right to demand
home rule. "Ireland has a right to
demand fair, just treatment, which
she has. never received from England.
Ireland has a right to the sympathies
Of the world. She has the last, and
we hope she will yet gain the others,
LBr THB UR1TBB81TT FIND
" V FBIKJIDS. ;
The Biblical Recorder, the organ
of the Baptists of North Carolina,
has been devoting a good deal of its
space and brains to what seem to be a
disparagement of ' the University,
There are intelligent Baptists all over
the State who cannot feel sympathy!
with any attempts to impair, under
mine or destroy this important eda-
cational factor that had prepare
thousands of students for usefalness
and success in life before Wake
Forest or any of itsivals had been
thought of. Wefjire satisfied that
suoh native song of North Carolina
as Rev. Drs, JJafham, Pritchard,
Skinner, and dozens of other able and
devoted Baptists, will never agree to
any war that will lessen the iijfluence
and usefulness of the old . University
that began . itat career in : 1795, and
has been fostered by the intelligence
and statesmanship of our best men.
lo Ndrth Carolina there are-not
less than" 2,000 young ' men who
should be at our, various colleges and
at the Univeisity. There ia room for
all. r. i The harvest '; .field is - large,
Where are the reapers? i We see no
occasion for jealousy or bitter an-
tftgonifms. He is no friend to North
Carolina, who would' rejoice in . the
destruction of the - University, and
he is a vandal who .would lay bis un
sanctified hands. ; upon ' its . hallowed
walls and level them with the ground.
..The Stab -is the sincere friend "of
all educational institutions. It would
do what It eao jto Jnreae the pa
tronage, usefulness and excellence of
all of our colleges'and private schools,
ft would-not cause one to triumph
upon tlie Tuins o; another. ' Let xll
grow and .oariab togetner. ' i " y
If the, University is not equal to
Berlin or. -Heidelberg, to Oxford or
Cambridge, to Harvard or Johns
Hopkins, ; then it is clear thifr bur
legislator should not rest I satisfied
until all has been !one in thai direc
tion that can be doii. Let the- Uni
versity be endowed v properly, r Let
the legislators get atraehistoi'yaof 4
that institution; let them familiarize
themselves with the 'condition of
North Carolina afte-r the Revolution
. i
bad brought independence to oar
forefathers and how they' then ap
preciated the pressing necessity for
higher education, and then let them
emulate the high ' example set them.
Vye have confidence enough in the
people of the State to believe that
they will much sooner sustain the
legislator who builds up : or oreatea
than him who, bound by some nar
row view or some intense fauatiuism;
smites all others, save those of-bis
own parly or sect, and who can pro
nounce "shibboleth. Whilst not
agreeing with the disparagement of
the following paragraph from the
Biblical Recorder y that is just to
hand, we are glad to see that it fa
vors so much, and that itis so much
mbre than we were led ' to expect
from its tone latterly. It says: '
' ".The University is a State institution
as such, we favjr its support by the State,
and would not: be unwilling to see .lhe
present Legislatuie make such ': appropria
tion for its support aB will: raise u to the
high position of a University in fact as
well as in name, and thus relieve it from its
present, position of a mere rival college
with the denominational alleges of the
State If this is ever done it must be done
by direct appropriations irom the State
treasury." v - -
The 'present Congress expires on
March 3 some five weeks hence.
Mr. Martin, from the First District,
in this State, has held his seat until
now, and has drawn nearly $10,000
as his pay. The Committee on Elec
tions report that .Maj. Yeatee, the
Democratic contestant, is entitled to
the place. He will of course draw
the $10,000 also. This is by "no
means an isolated case. If Mr.
Yeates is entitled to the place why
wait two years to so declare? There
is no sense or justice in such delay.
There is no reason or honesty in pay
ing two men when the Constitution
allows but one Representative. There
has been culpable neglect in this and
Other cases J acted upon recently.
People should see to it that there is
reform jast here. Congressmen do
jnot appear to think a few thousands
worthy of conikJeratlQD. The whole
thing is rotten and wrong.
i Certain Massachusetts Republicans
are very desirous of honoring Ruther
ford B. Hayes, who has been permit
ted to .sign himself, for nearly four
years, President of the United States.
To do this they propose to procure a
portrait of Rutherfraqd and put it in
the Memorial Hall of Harvard Univer
sity. The committee having the mat
ter in pharge were green enough tq
write to Charles A. Dana, editor .of
the New York Sun, asking for a sub
soriplioo. The reply to the request
is jast what might ' have been an
ticipated by any one save a Boston
committee composed of some of the
supposed literati. Mr. Dana will not
join iq the sahacriplion. He will aid
in no way in honoring Hayes. We
must copy a part of his letter. He
writes:
"He was not chosen President. He was
defeated in the election; and then a band of
conspirators, Mr. Hayes himself conspiring
ant conniving with them, setting aside the
Uoc8titution and the law, acq making use
of forgery, perjury, and false counting, se
cured for him possession of the Presidency
to which another man had been elected t
and when he had got possession of it, his
most sedulous care was to repay with
offices and emoluments those authors,
managers, and agents of the conspiracy to
whom be bad been chit fly indebted for its
infamous success. .
"How great an insult you are proposing
to the two illustrious Presidents of the name
of Adama is m&de manifest by the follow
ing words from the son of the one and the
grandson of the other: - .a : o
" 'I think Mr. Hayes waa elected by a
fraud, and I do not. mean to have it said,
that at the next election I bad forgotten it.
1 4o not say that Mr. Hayes committed the
fraud, but it wag committed; by bis party.
I have no enmity to Mr. Haves. : but after
the fraud by which he became President-
X could not vote for any person put up for
President on the Republican side who did
not disavow tbe fraud committed. . I would
not support any member of that party who
had any sort of mixture with that fraud.
I feel that the counting out is just as much
a fraud now as at& time it was perpe
trated.'" " -:i
TBHNESIBE THURDEIIS,
: Yesterday, on the 30th ' ballot,
Howard E.: Jackson, Democrat," was
elected to the United -States Senate
by the Legislatur e of a Tennessee.
This is the ; best news we have re
ceived for many a day. - Three cheers
for Jackson, and three times .three
for 0 gallant Democrats of Ten
nessee, This result gives the Dem
ocrats control - of ' the next genatV,
we believe. ,
The cool winds chill the heart of tbe Ice
Cart driver, and he noWT sits shivering on
his box, a blue nosed victim of despair; the
striking words' "use Dr. Bull's Couh
Syrup,' etaje hini in the face. . . : . f .
wbereutra boss System is Uppermost there is
the greatest danger : of . sending political
nonentities to tbe Senate of the United
tiavco. itw(inuH lAmmercuu. 1
There is a mvetrsnt on foot to
divide Tenness e into two States.
Cast Tennessee wishes to separate.
It is a . trick of the Republicans to
get two more Senators, as East i Ten
nessee is largely that way. ' Two bills
are now before the Legislature look
ing to-such a division. -Very i well.
TexarOueM'tbrdrfTJ?(nntrfour
StateB, for it has territory enough to
make six Slates as large as Tennessee
now is. ; That would give the Dem
ocrats eight Senators.' Tote fair ye
Republicans. V - . - ' -".
. ' i ' " .
Later English oewa represents that
Sothern died f rOm ' cancer.-Edwin
Booth had a long' interview with him
a few days before his death. Sir
William Jenner and Sir James Paget
were his physicians, i
Two steamers 'rafclas m Ban Areantf
; , f on Tbeir Own Hook.
Quite an adventure befel the steamers
Passport and Orlando on.Monday night last
It will be remembered that on that night
there was a marquerade' ball at Smithvillei
and a large proportion,-ol thegood people
of that place was present, t Capt, Harpei,
of the Passport, was there, of course, being
one of the managers. ,He left his boat
moored as nsafel at hef Vnarf, while the
Orlando bad her lines attached to the Pass -
port, being on the outside. At about 11
o'clock they were in their proper positions
at tbe wharf. At 2 o'clock in the morning,
when Capt.. H. and a friend, fatigued with
the ulght's pleasures, and anxious to secure
a little rest preparatory to the duties of the
coming day, started to go on board, they
found both, boats missing, haviD evident
ly been seti, adrift. Capt. Harper aDd his
friend procured a pilot's skiff and smarted
out. to bunt' the missing steamers,! aQd
finally discovered them on the shoals be
tween the main channel and what is known
as Snow's Marsh Channel, -opposite Fort
Fisher. ; The engineer and fireman of the
Passport were in their berths asleep, and
Captain Williams "and crew of the Orlando
were in the same unconscious state, when
the boats were tamed adrift When Capt.
Harper arrived in sight of the steamers
those on board were in the act of getting
up steam, the jar of the boats when they
struck upon the shoals having awakened
them. Tbe boats were gotten off the shoals
without much difficulty, and steamed back
to Smithville. The night -waa intensely
cold, and Capt. Harper and. his friend were
nearly frcgen when they got "up with the
missing steamers.
It teems that Capt. Harper, as one of the
managers, refused to allow certain objec
jectionable parties to participate in the
ball, and suspicion rests upon them as be
ing tbe ones who, in revenge for the im
agined slight, unfastened the lines of the
Passport and set her adrift,, carrying, of
course, tbe Orlando with her.
Public ITIeeilnc Kocky Polo.
i At a meeting of the Democratic voters
and tax-payer? of Rocky Point, on Satur
day last, to consider the question of a spe
cial tax, Mr. W. B. Hocut having been
called to the chair, with Mr. , W. F. Ro-
bitzsch ofl3ciating as secretary, after some
discussion by Mr. J. T. Bland and others,
the following preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted, viz:
I Whrkeas. The magistrates of our couna
ty, (Pender), in called meeting on the
second Monday, 10th inat,, passed resolu
tions asking onx representatives in the
Ieiislatqre to use their influence to secure
tbe passage of a bill for a special tax on our
people for the purpose of paying the pre
sent indebtedness of our county, andj
whereas, it appears that at such meeting of
magistrates there was no quorum present;
therefore,
Eeaokxd, That we, the Democratic peo
ple, do enter our solemn protest against the
levying of any such tax, . as being unneces
sary, onerous and wrong, as it appears
from the reports of our finance committee
andoqr various officials that our county
debt is now less than $5,000, and can be
paid from the savings of our present taxes
in less tban two years. . j
ResolyeQ, That we would consent to a
special tax for the erection of a court
bouse and jail but for that alone. . f
Resolved, That we earnestly recommend
for the position of magistrate in this town
ship the name of James M. Westbrook, as
one every way worthy and competent to
fillsqch position, and earnestly solicit our
representatives tQ secure his appointment
for that position. -n , ; j ' ji
Ji&olvtf, That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to the Wilmington papers with re
quest to publish the same. , "
Supreme Court.
In the Supreme Court on Monday, as we
learn from the Ifewi'Observer, appeals from
the Third District were heard and disposed
of, among which were the following: - ;
State vs. William Murphy, from Pender
argued by Attorney General Kenan for the
State, and D. J. Devane for the defendant.!
? C. P. Mebane va. Martba C. Mebane,'
frornNew Hanover; argued at last terra;
court took: tbe papers. " - -
. Harper Williams vs.; Mary C.' 'Williams,'
et als., from Duplin ; argued by D. J. De
vane for the plaintiff, and H. R. Kornegay
for tbe defendants.-- . ' . :' . . - ;
Jas. M. Williams vs. Robert Teachy,
from Duplin; set for hearing at the end of.
tbe district.
Eliza Boyce vs. R. J. Williams, from
Duplin; argued by H. R. Kornegay for the
plaintiff ; no counsel for the defendant. : l
.The Dawson Bank vs. George Harris et
als.,. from New Hanover; argued by E. 8. '
Martin, in person, and Geo. Davis,; Junius
Davis and A. T. & J. - Lbndon, by brief,
for tbe plaintiff, and Duncan K. McRae
for the defendants. . ,
Among opinions delivered in appeals was
the following by Chief Justice Smith:
RaO. Burton, Jr., vs. Wilmington &
Weldon Railroad Company, from North
ampton. Judgment affirmed, except as to
question of damages, upon which a new
trial Is granted. - - Vf
: Nhw Biogkaphicai. Dictionabt. An
excelrent,reaturi of tbe New Edition of
Webster' Unabridged Dictionary, just is-
saedi is the New Biographical Dictionary;
in which are given tbe names of Bearly ten
thousand - noted: persons 'of ancient and
modern times, with a brief statement of the
dates of the birth and death, tbeir nation
ality, profession, etc. This is designed for
purposes of ready reference, to answer the
questions which often arise' as to when and
where certain nersona xpA nri ih r.K
factor of their achievements. It contains
marry names1 of Dersons who aria ini it v.
ing, and tbe pronunciation of each name ia
given." ' ' '. f
.j opirits iTurpanune. '
Pittsboro" Record: There is a
gentleman in tbi. county whose wife and -eight
daughters each wegh on an average '
155 pounds. - rbal ma? be called a healthy
family. ( . . ; . . . ,
3 (Mt-r. Hillaboro Observerv M r. Henry
N Brown had tt cow killed last week.- lu
tbe slim-cb of the cow were found several
Dai Is, 8 ty 10 peonies in sizj, a large tack
and turf e or four pieces of lead. The cow
wa a very tine one, and is said lo have
weighed nearly a thousand pounds.
h. It is probably known that Doctor
Deems, a ' native or North Carolina, but
now pastor of ' "Tbe Church of the -JStFanger,"
in New York City, not' long
since donated 300 to our State University
as tbe foundatiuo of -an endowment fund
for the educaiion of iudigent studenta.
AtJuvUle Necs: Dt. Deems is a native of
Maryland.. ;. He was born in the city of .
Biltimore. He came to North Carolina
when about 20 years of age. Star.
Rockingham Spirit: Mr. John
Wright,' to wbona e referred last week aa
having beeen shot and killed near Laurin
burg recently by a negro, is not dead, and
ia likely to recover. ' Mr. Neill Cam-
eron, son of the late Col. John W. Came
ron, has lately returned from Texas, whith
er be went some years ago to make bis for- -tune.
"Home, sweet .home, there's no
place like home" especially if it be located
in blessed old North Carolina. , ; .
Elizabeth CM? Economist: We -learn
from reliable information that Geo.
Wallace & Son measured ao"acrlbf ground
in corn on tbeir Dover tract, ntar Wallace
loo,-JSorfolk county, Ta.-,aod gathered and '
neasd red from the acre 110 bushels and 24
pounds of corn by weight. -They also laid
off an acre of tbeir land io corn, and gath
ered and measured from ibis acre 82 bush
els of com. This last mentioned; was raised
on. ground from which a crop of Irish po
tau.-es had been gathered the same sason.
Charlotte Some: The Wil
raingtoo fcTAR wants every man who bt-V
lteves Best will do what be proposes, to be .
placed in a lunatic asylum, i We -don't .
thioktbe asylum will have many inmates
from this section. rThe course which'
the Legislature will pursue will probably be
tais : A special election will be called for
May or August, (more probably the latter
month) to find out the popular sentiment.
If the people are in favor of prohibition,
tbe Governor will be requested to call an
citra-session of the Legislature to pass aa
once an unqualified prohibitory law. ;
: Warrenton Gazette ; 1 It is re
ported I that Ridgeway, Manson, Merry
Mount, Macon and Grove Hill, will peti
tion the Legislature to form new counties,
with county seats, of course, at the above
places. Why not T Dr. Jermaa baa
gone to Florida to attend Dr. Hawkln'a
family. - Corn is selling here for 2
and 2 25 in trade. There was a meet
ing of the citizens here, last Wednesday as
we are informed, to protest against the
formation of the new county of Bragg, so
far as Warrenton is concerned. Resulo- '
tions were introduced and a committee ap
pointed to go to Raleigh. : - j
I Monroe Enquirer: Minor Mc
Cain, a colored youth of this place, bad a
narrow escape at Winchester Morgan
mill last Thursday.-Minor was engaged
at tbe time in arranging a grindstone band
on the main shaft, when his clothing waa
caught by the beads of Screws of a cou
pling on the shaft, which Was running at a
speed of 150 revolutions to the minotf.
Around with the shaft Minor revolved some
fifteen or twenty times; when bis clothing
broke loose and he was released. He came
out of the "tussle" completely stripped of
all clothing except his boots,; qui waff not
seriously injured. - -
I -f Kiuston Journal: Some of the
married ladies in town are getting up a
masked ball for February- 14ih. We warn
the young girls that this is an innovation
and an encroachment on their rights.
Trent liver improvement is on a stand still,
waiting for the dredge-boat which U ex--pected
to arrive soon. The trucking
along pie Trebt will be. increased Jthis sea
san. - On Saturday-nightvat about' 2
A. M. a row took place at Last Chance,"
resulting in John Dunn's receiving a very'
6erious cut across the. jw and neck from
James Burrum, a carpenter 1 from Golds-
boro, now working in Kinston.
! University Notesw in the Asi e
ville News: The new map of tbe State, con
structed noder the direction of Prof. Kerr,
will be issued shortly. It is iu all respects '
a model marP-one alike a credit tails di -rector
and to his chief assistant, Capt. Wm.
Cain, Ci E. Mr. James C. Taylor, for,
lhe pasv year one of the assistant chemists v
in the Experiment Station, 'has resigned.
He is now located with Dr. A R-Ledoux&
Con chemists and assayers.17 Cedar street,
New YOik. Mr. Herbert B. Battle, of
the Senior class, succeeds Mr. Taylor, in -the
Station. Mr. Battle has shown a de
cided taste for scientific pursuits and a par
ticular ! aptness in chemistry. We con
gratulate the director on his selection. . ; .
! Milton Cu-ohicle: The White
Burley tobacco, about which So much hue
recently been written, does not stand high
in the eyes of good judges, i Old planters
say it is. worthless as brown paper or oak
leaves, and fit for nothing bm to absorb
licorice and be used as a cheat. Mil
ton could be made the Lowell of the South.
$t ia here that.the large and neveMalling
stream called Cquntryline empties into the
DaD jand it-is here that the Dan has a fall
f thirty feet for a mile up the river, all
along the banks of which factories could '
be built Died, in. Yanceyviile. on
the 19th of December last, Mr. Thomas
D. Johnston, Jr . He died very suddenly
He was walking about the house and yard
a few hours before he died. :
i YV adesboro ; Times: We have ,
received a copy of the Pine Bluff (Atk.)
Eagle, :The Eagle speaks very complimen
tary of Col. Archibald Niven.t formerly of
Anson, but now clerk of Jefferson county, '
Aikansas. --Master Frank Little, Bon of :
our esteemed counlyman, Wm. Little; Esq.,
went hunting during the' holidays, and in
getting over- fence, . accidentally di.
charged one load' of his gun into his light
foot.. The wound rendered it necessary to i
amputate one of his toes. A horse
railroad; or a railroad with ' a dummy en-
gine, from town to the depot, is being ac
tively discussed by our citizens. We un--derstand
application will be made to the
present Legislature for a clatter for tbe
same. - We regret to learn of the ill- -neps
of both Mr. S. T, Ashe and ' his wife
with typhoid fever. r-VWhile returning
home Saturday evening from town, Mr. W.
H. Braswell had the misfortune to be
thrown from hia mule, and waa kicked by
the aqimal in tbe falL . ., - i .;
- Charlotte Observer? Tr. in Atstnil
! COOd authoritv that t nrnminonl farm or
of Caldwell county is now Jying in bed as
the result of a most unfortunate and in
voluntary fight with the "batting5 kind of a
sheep." The fast mail, due here yes
terday morning from Atlanta, was wrecked
three miles east of Gaff ney's, at 9 o'clock.
Tbe -accident is supposed to have resulted
from a spread in the track. The tram con
sisted of a postal, a combination and a Pull
man sleeping ear. tAU' three of these, leav,
Jag their trucks, went1 down an;embanr
tnent twehty feet high but remained ops
right. Three passengers, Oondttotor Joo;
Humphries and two train bands were mirti
but not seriously, Conductor Humphries
receiving the ap.vcrpet Jnlnrtoa i-Th.
"oination car, belonging to the Richmond &
TlanVtllA i mad ' : A.n.lil " A. A
. ..,w .ucu, wujut uiv buu : was con
sumed, but the other cars were unicjuredi
The engine wa3 drawn from the truck by
the cars but did not go dowb the embank
ment.;. Engineer.;' Newman escaped un
ban. & . ;ts " . , : . . '