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8ht QwWa fa, WM. H. BERNARD, Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON. N. C: Friday, February 4th, 1881. rVNotieea ot Uarriage or Death. Tributes! Respect Beeolations of Thanks, Ac , are charged for a ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for atricttyla advance. A 50 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Mar riage or Death. ff" Bcmittances must be made by Cfceck, Draft Postal Money Order, or Eegisterod Letter. Post Masters will register letters when desired. &T Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. i , . . j, taT" Specimen copies forwarded when desirett. POLITICS in iHB somrii. Senator Ben(ffiU, m the interview we referred toiin Sunday's issued told the reporter of the Philadelphia Press, a cantankerous organ o Stal wartism, - that the Southern white people favor the appointing of ne groes to office when they are compe tent., . He said on this point: "The Administration would strengthen itself and increase the respect of the people for the Government by such appointments. It baa been a mystery to me that they have not seen that before. The trouble has been that the Federal Government is constantly seen through a smoked glass in the South. Most of the Federal office-holders are of a class who have no interest except to hold the offices. They therefore create antago nisms, and appeal to the sentimental side of the Northern Republicans by alleging ill treatment because they are Republicans. He thinks the Whigs of the South would have united with the Repub lican party immediately after the war but for the efforts of the Go vernment to humiliate and oppress their section. He says all of the threatening disintegration in the South originates with the same ele ment. He says it is growing every day. The interviewer then asks a question, the answer to which we give also: "Could it be relied upon to lead the late ly servile elements in the South as Republi c ins? w . . "...! ; "I have no doubt but it could, although that would depend very much upon the at titude of the Northern people toward them and the class of appointments made to Federal offices io that section. Before any. great change can be made.in the political situation of the South there must be a broader spirit evinced toward its people by the Federal Administration and the power behind it. The Federal offices must be filled, not with Bourbon Democrats or Re publicans having do material interest in the welfare of the sections in which they re side, but by men of character and position, respected in the communities m which they live, either white or colored." Senator Hill may not intend to re flect upon the members of the old Whig party, but when be intimates that they could be induced to join the old corrupt i Republican party, whose memory in an offence and a stench in the nostrils of all of the self-respecting whites in the South, either because they are appointed to office, or some of their set are ap pointed or some of the respectable col ored people are appointed to office, then he brings a hard and, we believe, a slanderous accusation. We do not believe that Ben Hill can take office i rum vtarneiu witnoub as once lOBing all of his influence, with the Southern whites. He would find himself out in the cold as far as political influence is concerned, and would, take bis place with Key, Mosby, Longstreet and the other Southern men who from Iu9t of office prostituted themselves before " those in authority. Senator Hill fails to read ' the signs of the times when be says the old South ern Whigs are ready to affiliate with the Radical party upon any grounds whether for personal gain or emoluments, or sectional con sideration, or for; any other consid eration. .They know that during the fifteen years that! have elapsed since the war the only friends the South has had in the North were the Demo crats. They know, precisely how utterly corrupt is the Republican party how wedded to the ideas of a strong government how hostile to local self-government it is, and how profligate, debauched 'and unprinci pled are its leaders. They would as 'soon join an army of brigands as the set marshalled by the plunderers and i. : mhii ! a i t . .' ; ! . iuiBve ui J.CWO auuuysucu creaiures as Grant, Conklmg, Logan, Robeson, Arthur, Garfield, Hayes, Matthews, John Sherman, Colfax, Hamlin, Eu gene Hale, Conger, or any of that tribe of political bummers, marplots and corruptionists. a v The old Southern Whigs in an al - liance with such a set! Shades of Badger, Graham, Moore and Gilliam! The white men; of North Carolina iviug uuwu m iu lecuerous emurace ' of the old Radical harlot who has brought ruin and disgrace upon the fair., name of our mother! Navpi-1 never! ! What say Vance and George; Davis; Steele and Jo Davis; Merrimon and Amis; and thousands of other intelligent, able, honorable members or tne ; vv nig party ot old? : If the Republican party never builds ap in the South " until it . draws into its fateful meshes the best men of the : oj.4. Big. party n . wui remain zor ever what ituow is uniattnfal toits pledges and principles, corrupt and I vicious, and an enemy to the true in terests of the whole country, We have taken time to write what we have that the Stab? might not; seem to give consent by its silence to; Ben Hill's notions, termed "liberal' by the Press, concerning tens of thou sands of as faithful, as true, as honor able, as patriotic, as pure' and as lib erty lovine. citizens as there are in the land we love. ' The Republican party must change its whole life- must cleanse itself of, all of its vicious and dangerous, principles, and get rid of those men who are always associated in the Southern mind with its deep est, most implacable enemies,before it can command the respect, much less the affiliation, of ; either the old line Whigs or the old line Democrats. - No man can go over to the Repub: lican party in North Carolina ; ana take office under Garfield without be coming as; powerless among the men he deserts as are all xhat set who have been in fellowship with Radicalism since I865,and who have done so much by that allianoe to degrade and ira-; poverish North Carolina. It is singular but true that not one solitary man of intelligence and influ ence in this State has ever joined the Radical party that did not get office. If a half or a fourth of that class had declined all remuneration all bribes all pecuniary inducements, and had gone through tbp years without any gain or hope of gain, they might have said with some show of credibility and decency that they had acted from conviction from principle. Bat every mother's sou of them got pap at ouce. . Some of the small fry have not fared so well, but they have stood hat in hand willing and anxious. Immediately after the war. there were some hundreds of good paying offices to be filled in North Carolina, and there were found enough-of the pliable kind to yield to the tempta tion. . We never heard; of but one man of character who joined the Re publicans and showed by his life that he acted purely from principle. That man is dead. He was a brave, con scientious, devoted Methodist. He held an office worth $700 or. more. He-made up his mind that it was his duty to unite with the Republican party. ' This was in 1 865 or 1866. He did unite with them, but he resigned his office , and never re ceived a cent in that way afterwards. That man acted from principle from a high 6ense of duty. 'He never lost the respect of any man in his county, for all knew the honor and worth of the man. A man's motives are al ways to be suspected when he bolts and gets jay for it in some way. Mr. Hill is mistaken. The - old Whig party is just as much opposed to Radicalism as the old line Demo crats are, and there must be. a vast change in the whole structure and management of the Radical party be fore the South will tolerate it. It must purge itself of the dogma of a centralized despotism before it can be or ought to be trusted. As at present organized it is a standing menace to the liberties and rights of a free people. 1BOV r SCHOOLS AND TEACHING ! MR WHITE AGAIN. We gave some extracts from Rich ard Grant White's startling paper on the public school system . of the North. Since then he has supple mented bis - paper by a statement in the New York Times concerning the decay of apprenticeship.' : He notes as the result a marked diminution of good ji mechanics in the . North and a failure of thoroughness. in workman ship, ii He says j there ' is no doubt of the correctness of his charge, and - as a remedy suggests public workshops, which shall be publio schools of the various trades or crafts, into which boys and girls might be received un-i der conditions something .like ap prenticeship. The point Mr. White raised in his . paper ; in the North American Hevieto concerning ' the failure of the common school system as reformative or elevating, has an noyed the. Northern editors no .little. We are ' not surprised at this, for they i have made their schools their boast. In many respects tbeirisystem is good. But recent developments, even in Massachusetts, show that the teaching is by no means as accurate and thorough as has been supposed. Even! the spelling appears to, have been, neglected in some of the best Bchools. -j.--. When'Mr. White tells the; Nottb, and he is "native and "to the manner born,!, that its publio school system is such that f 'crime has increased year after year almost pari passu with the development of the system," and that "instead of lifting the masses'? it "has given us in their plaee ajnondesoript I and hybrid class," be arouses their op position and dislike."' He goes" even farther: he says that the school sys tem has diminished "filial respect and parental love," i and, "as for the mo desty of our young men, and even of .our young women,' they do cot even blush that they have I lost it." This is a sad . picture. Mr., White is cer tainly an able; man writer, of very distinguished -.reputation, -; He ,ia Northern to the central. bone, and ho surely knows whereof he affirms. - $ Some of the Northern papers are trying to show errors in his statistics. Others insist that the criminal statist tics of the North are the strongest' proof ... of ithe excellence of the school system, and in this way : that it is the illiterate who find their way to prison, and not the taught. In other words, that 15 per cent, of the crimi nals in the North -are illiterate. VVe doubt this. How epuld this be in New England ? We apprehend that four-fifths of , New Eoglaud : bora criminals have been to the pnblio schools. ! , r - ; ! . " , -Wl The fruit lies in the system and the want of Christian teaching in the. homes, jit is well known that the increase of native population in New England is very small, and; this be cause of very unnatural and sinful causes, i It is known that infidelity is . ... j ... . i - very common in New England, and that the , Saviour of the .world ; is ignored by the scholarship . and i cnl tnro of that, portjop of the world. The minds are oared for, but the home teaching does not reach the heart or the moral ' life as it' should. The sohools are relied upon, and they do not care for the spiritual nature and deal only with the intellect. Hence, surely and inevitably there is failure. Men and women "grow np . without any fixed moral convictions, and al though I they can read and write, they are an easy prey to temptation ' and vice. - Hence come crime - and . pros titution and (he Ifing ; catalogue of iniquities that mark those who are in the houses of ill-fame and peniten tiaries.'! ' ' 1 f : , ." The higher school system of the South has been always far in advance of that of the North. We have no doubt whatever that the best classi cal . and mathematical schools of North Carolina and Virginia are to day much superior to those of Massa chusetts an 4, New York. It was so thirty years ago. : A class , of boys from the school of the late William J. Bingham would have . eclipsed easily any class from any school in New England The proof of this statement could have been found in a proper test. It is certain that when a Bingham boy of thirty years ago happened to be thrown in a class with boys prepared in the North he was able to assert, bis supremacy. , He had been better taught. Mr. Bing ham did not neglect the , morals of his boys or banish the "Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ from the school room, fi, " , ... !-.- '. .s .- ran ley isitthewi. -. JThe Memphis, Tennessee, bar must be composed of extraordinary mate rial. Whilst leading Independent Northern papers, and even influential Republican 1 papers, ' are regretting that Stanley Matthews has been no minated to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court Bench Because of his character and disqualification, . the lawyers of Memphis are so enamored because of his very peculiar ' reputa tion that they unanimously instruct the two Tennessee Senators to vote for his confirmation They are either ignorant of his singular i defects,- or they! are indifferent as to the fqualifi cations that should distinguish . him who should bold a seat in the highest Judicature in the land. When such papers as the New, York limes, the ablest of all ' Republican papers, the Philadelphia .Evening JSulktin, &n able! Republican paper also, and the' Philadelphia Times, one of the ablest Independent papers in ; the .country, not to mention many others; are con demning ithe appointment,' of -iMat- thews, it would be prudent, to say thej least,' for "Southern lawyers to remain in the 'rear, and see what be-, comes of it." ' ' " ''' ' " ! ' : ' I , If Matthews Were not 'bn;good. grounds ; suspected of being a soper serviceable tool of great 'moneyed manipulators, and had not smrrcbed his good name by his associatfon with : those ; engaged ' in '' the 1 grat Presidential fraud and rape of 1879, he might do well enough for the Su preme Court, as he is a good lawyer and a man of ability. 11 But he-is of very questionable character; be ' is a partisan J he can never be respected ' a 'I J ndge ' shonld be, by 5 a large proportion " of the American' people, No : intelligent1' and 5 well : informed DemocratjcanrespectJtiis iritegrityc and virtue as ,a. Judge. should be re- epected, 1 whilst; Jens ot jthonsands of reHectingKepubUQan8:haye: -iTjot. enough confidence in him to be satis- fled with his nomination. The Phil adelphia Times says of him among other thinge: - - f b VHowever Rreat, Mr. ilatihewV kliaia meats may be as aa'expouudfir of law, or however well fitted by "taste and study for the purely formal functions of a magistrate, the impropriety of placiog him on the Su preme Court bench is none 'the less marked -bearing lrr mind bis past career, Bis sin gular incapacity to realize ine interval oe twixt honor and dishonor, exhibited in bis ncgotiaiion with the Southern men pending the electoral dispute." Nor Can bis know ledge, oLlaw.ad otherwise acknowledged fitness .for- the duties of the bench out-, balance bis' associations aod' partisan me thods. He maybe :tb first lAwyerintbe (anaA but that will render bis presence en the bench only the' more dangerous. ' The very force of character which has carried him through crises unJer ... which a less masculine oature must have succumbed in ignominy, bat emphaszes the peril, of placinc him in a position wbeie Lis -domination would be; a menace to the rights of the people " ?- " - ' " ' TUB VUDK OaTrliuicINO-1 11K We learn that. a petition has been sent to the Legislature, signed by the: people of Duplin' and Pender counties, ; asking an appropriation from the State of r $10,000 to aiof in the construction of the Duplin canal. The State owns 44,000 acres of land, now valueless, in Angola Bay. ' It is believed confidently that the proposed canal will relieve the State's interets of the overflow of the rivers and swamps which now environ it; and so drain it that the ordinary , plantation ditches woujd be sufficient in cultivating the large body of reclaimed land Ji; If the State can hve any reljabj? assnFanoe that by .an expenditure of $10,00P in oanaling the extremely rich ' lands owned by it can - be made i profitable and valuab(e, then it would be a stood investment certainly. We learn that the people of the interested sections are tiite unani mous in their desire -thati the Slate should aid tfaera. Those sections have known no'.hipg of the fostoring hand of the State Government. The peo ple say thd' only knowledge they have of the Governrqent is in the constant visits of the tag collectors. They ask the Slate to show some paternal interest In that part of its domain, and to aid in developing what might be a source of wealth to both the State and the people of several counties, f We' understand that a petition is circulating for sig natures among Wilmington people; Certainly this town is much interested in the construction of the canal. Some of its more enterprising citi zens have contributed already -'towards itj and other sums ought to be given. Wilmington ought not to hesitate a second until the first fifteen miles are constructed. It ought to give at once $3,000 additional, whieh is much needed. We hope our busi ness men will feel and manifest a proper :- interest in this important scheme, and that the work will not be allowed to lag' for a r day for the want of funds. . . . . ; ; 4 The Legislature should consider three points, as it appears to ns. First, what profit to the State would accrue from the reclamation of Angola Bay if it oould be sold and placed nnder cultivation. ' ' : Second, if there are any good grounds for believing that thexon struction of the Duplin Canal would so drain the 44,000 acres as to utilize them for cultivation with the aid of plantation ditches, The i engineer says such willbe the result. ' Third, to consider the value and importance of the : sluicing process now being used by Maj. Young. If the first fifteen miles are constructed, this process, so well known to engi neers in other countries, ; will be tested fairly and thoroughly. There is hardly any doubt as to its suooess. It has answered capitally elsewhere, and there is no reason whatever for supposing that it will not prOve an entire success in this enterprise If the sluicicgin the Duplin canal turns out as its f f riends hope ' and believe then ibis success must be "ot Untold advantage to the State id - other sec-, tions. It will ' have :a : tiemendons effect upon other schemes and hun dreds of thousands of - rich alluvial lands can be reclaimed elsewhere. : Wie hope the Legislature will give a proper and patient consideration to this matter1 that is of much impor tance to New Hanover, Pender, ; Du plin; Wayne and other counties. ' 1 -New York is to have an extensive Zoological .Garden similar to those Of Paris and Xondoni I Certain capi talists have s formed ia: company : for the pnrpoBer "1 " r, v? 7 , Alex. Stephens' is.s" preparing anv elaborate reply to something said by. Col. Alexander r McClure,' of 'the Philadelphia Times, in one of his let- : : A.? reliable saviogs i bank. L One, box-of Dr. TatCs.PUls will save you many dollars In " doctors" bills. They7 will surely cure ; Chills and Jever J Dyspepsia Disordered Liver or PoweJs,.Sick fleadacbe. Jaundice or Chronic 'Consttpaaion. and 'expel every impurity f rOm th0 sysjem. r ; .? Ln.f : - Prof. . Rerosen, of Johns Hopkins University, has been lecturing on im pure drinking water. Many of. the Cities are' afii icted in this way.'We quote a passage from a brief abstract of his second lectare before aarge aodienuv iu Baltimore.. We copy from the Gazetter - . T. He. said..pure .water js a necessary coo ,ditloD yf oodJu;aI.lh, while .impure water lias been lue" cause of an i&fiaile amount Of sickness and of an nnto d number of deaths, Typboid f.vpc especially has been com- 'municatcd by waters which were agreeable to the taste ' rsol only is there danger or communicating , active fevers in this way,, but it is presumable that, less serious diffi culties may arise from the use Of impure waters .. Now, waters when contaminated with certain definite impurities, recognized by chemists,-are dangerous. The impuri ties pronounced dangerous .by sanitarians are such as arise from refuse animal matter," which contains carbon, hydrogen, -oxygen and nitrogen. We speak . - of it as organic matter." Water for .drinking purposes should not contain .more than 50 prts total solids, organic matter s parts,, cbiorioe 0.8 parts, nnd nittic acid 0.4' pans This statement - is the result of the nombined wisdom of hundreds of able men." ., There is ; a paper in the. last Inter, national Review upon ; Tennyson's new volume ; of ' poems, r It Ulby a London critic, George Barnett Smith It .amounts 1. to ibis: that it is -not equal to his best workand'by a great deal, and yet, says Mr. Smith it ; is "excellent work, aud ' some of the poems could not have been written by any other living poet." He says: ;. ,'lf I seem cot to speak with pronounced enthusiatm, 4t is because I remember s the work which Mr. Tennyson: has dons in the paBt work , which M the delight of his own generation, and must equally; be so of fu ture generations. Our great lyrical poet bad a perfectly magical touch in his early lyrics.'and these he has never excelled in any class of effort. EJe is not b,y nature a dramatic - or ; epic . nuei, . but ,.' a singer. His fame burns with a pare and steady flame." . - i There is but little doubt that Ten nyson's best work- is done. 1 The cre ative period is passed, . He is in his Tlt year, , . - , i If the University after nearly ! a century of usefulness Bhould be closed, no doubt, there are eectariana who woqld rejoice, but the true friends of North Carolina would be sorrowful. It would cause hundreds of our most promising young men 10 seek education abroad. It is a grand mis take to suppose that a cultivated man necessarily prefers a denominational college merely because be is a Pres byterian, or Methodist, ;pr Baptist, or jEpiscopalian, or Lutheran, or Christian, or what not. We know men of various churches who are the staunch friends of- the University, and who are convinced that it is im por.tant.and necessary to have a col lege that is undenominational. Bat some people will be unhappy as long as Mordecai sits in the gate. North Carolinians generally will sympathize with the people of Ply mouth in the most disastrous fire that has just visited them. Nearly the whole of the business portion of the (own is in ashps. This is the second fire of the kind .that has occurred since, the war. It will be remembered that almost every building, including residences, in the town was burnt some twelve or fourteen years ago. It has about 1,000 inhabitants, we sup pose.' Plymouth is a historic place. It was here that Etoke's Division won fresh laurels in capturing the town when defended by more troops than he had, and they assisted by gun boats, forts, breastworks, fco. Gen. Matt Ransom's brigade distinguished itself greatly, losing very heavily. Ex Gov. Smith, Republican, of Alabama, has been to Mentor to see Garfield. . He reports the latter re solved upon a kind and liberal policy towards the South We quote : ; . "Gen. Garfield said he wanted to inau gurate such a scheme of civil service reform as to make the Republican party in the South respected and respectable. : He ex pressed a desire to gather all possible infor mation about those he appoints, in order to select the best and to give the country a good and faithful Administration. In this conversation he stated that the composition of most of his Cabinet was aa yet unsettled,, intimating that be had already decided on one or two, Gov. Smith thinks there is no Question but that Blaine will be bis pre mier. 1 - In 1860 the pppular vote for Presi dent was 4,680,193. In 1880 it was 9,189,813. r In twenty years the vote has nearly doubled. : The negro vote swells the gain no little. 'According to the Philadelphia . Times Almanac Garfield has a majority oy6r Han cock of. 2,330. The JVibune gives more. The Baltimore Sun makes Hancock's majority oyer 6,000 So when such authorities differ the -final count will be necessary to 1 ascertain which is correct. - - " ; ,VV, ' . Bank of New MnoTer... The annual ; meeting 'of the stockholders of this bank will be held at 'their bankina: house, in this city on Thursday, .he 10th Inst. - A eemianoual dividend of four per cent, has been declared, payable on and after the dale of meeting, x" 1 j HORSFORD'S ACID '.o PHOSPHATE FORi DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUSNES8,C. t-r-il have prescribed Horsford's Acid Phos phate, -and am. very "much' pleased ."with what I have seen of its action, and -purpose'; using more of it as occasion requires.:- f ; ;V 4- 9... COTTON, M. D., ; i - Turner, 111, I Hlce OoUBr., i j The 26m; Jy B letin;: issued by the De-r partment of Agrj alture after alluding to the fact that btf, .;e the war the Valley. of the Cape Fear possessed a. mouopoly of the rice crop in thU Stit while now it is becoming oser'drthe staple products' I of other sections of the 8tate, lbe couut) of Hyde alone producing if tupb statistics as are accessable maybe trusted nearly as much aa'lheebiTrVtaeeairV'hey before the War, goes on to say : 'v"It is noi )lkely that its ! culture elsewhere wHl seriously .militate against the success of ; rice' culture in the Cape Fear Valley. , The rice of that region ,was. unrivalled. It j was 5 ad mitted that it was grown there in its greatest, per fection. : Hece much' the larger , portion was used for seed." 1 When the difficulties growing out l of the want - of labor and capital there shall be surmounted, aod lhe culture of rice, again .placed upon a firm foundation the rice of that region: will enjoy its old ascendancy ib the marke' This rice will be demanded far seed; that Of other sections' of the' State will be -con sumed as food." i f-i nor der Near Fayettevuie. A colored man by the name of Andrew Nash, well Koown in Payeiteville was shot just beyond the suburbs "of that ;placef on Wednesday last and died on Monday, 'the load taking effect in his bowels." Our in formation la to Hie effect that "Nasi 1 repott ed one Peter Ray, colored, a very disrepu table character, who has been in the Peni -tentiary once or twice for stealing wood from his (Nash's) employer, and when the. fact came to the knowledge of Ray, he em ployed a colored boy about 16 years old to waylay Nash and kill him, which he did at the tfme aod in the manner described, and for which be (the boy) received in payment the sum of led. dollars. The. boy, whose name our informant could not recall, was Subsequently arrested and is . now in jail at Fayette ville, but Ray is still at large. s ; : Andrew Nash, - the murdered man, en joyed a good reputation in' Fayetteville, where he was better known a. having been formerly the late Judge Shepherd's carriage driver. - ., -. '--" Burned to Demiu. .. : , , .." : At Rock Hill, about five miles above this city, on the Northeast river, a old eolored woman, by the name of Sukey Walters, discovered late Saturday evening tint her little grandchild bad set fire to the woods, and that considerable dunuga would be likely to eaaua, whereupon she attempted to arrest the progress of the flames, when her dress caught fire." Her son, attracted by her screams, rushed to the scene and. tried to save her by wrapping bis overcoat around her, but the flames, which had com pletely enveloped her and were, blazing above ber head when he reached .her, had taken such a firm : hold upoQ the poor woman thai his efforts were. of but. little avail. She lingered in great agony until Sunday- morning, about 5. o'clock, when death put an end to her sufferings. ; The unfortunate woman was about seventy years old. :.t: Redo? iia of Local Passenger Fares.; . . We are glad to Jesrn, through circulars from Col. A. Pope, General Passenger and Ticket Age'ht, that the management of the Wilmington & Weldon and Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta railroads 'have con sidered it expedient 'to . reduce the local passenger fares upon said roads to a basis, where tickets are. purchased at ' stations of agents, of 4 cents, per mile for first-class and 3 - cents per mile for second, class tickets,;' '" : -:' ' '"' ; '. We know that these - reductions -.will be acceptable to the public, and we believe that they will eventuate in increased reve nues to the roads ia question. s , j lbe Daplln Canal. As one indication of what is likely to be accomplished by the cutting of what is known as the Duplin Branch Car al, . we would mention ithe fact, that; in conversa tion with a gentleman yesterday he' in formed Us that land in what ia known 'as Goshen . Swamp, in . Duplin , county, for which the owners would have been glad - a year or two ago to have got one dollar per acre, could not now be' had for ten dollars per' acre During the conversation Mr. Lewis Hicks, one of the most prominent citizens of Duplin', who is engaged in busi ness at Faison's Depot, came up and added his testimony to the truth of 4he assertion. Fatal Accident.- j : Mr. S. A. . Smith, who was in the city yesterday, informed us that Eddie Dees, a son of Mr. Edmund Dees, residing j near Elkinsville, Bladen county, was cattiog down a tree near - the house a day or two ago, when - it lodged against another tree and the butt was thrown suddenly around in such a way as to strike him on the back of the ' neck, which was broWa by the force of the blowr r Failing to go to his breakfast at the usual- time his Bister went to look for him, when she discovered the dead body of ber unfortunate- brother; got it out from under the trunk of the -tree with herown hands and conveyed it home. It is suppose that his death was instanta neons.' Deceased was aged about IS or 14 years. ' '!"' r"': ' ytJ .M ; . Forelcn Shipments. ' The foreign exports yesterday consisted of the f ollowing; .The' Norwegian . barque litania, for Trieste, AuBtria,' by Messrs. J. R. Blossom Evans, with 2,801 .barrels of rosini the German barque Kosmat, tot Lon don, by Messrs.. Paterson', Downing & Co., with 4,450 barrels of ' rosin'; the German, barque Vender Eey'dt, for Bristol, by Messrs. J.R. Blossom & E van s7wi th 'T, 1 60 barrels of .rosin, and the schooner James A. Brown, f or Miragoane, Hayti, by Messrs.' James H. Chadboorn .& Co., ,with '120,880 feet , of lumber -,- -.t- , f f,v . JCvte See. , j ,1.1 v ttuui vua juvnuuy jjuueul Jje- paHment f Agriculture that the pommis sioner ofT Agriculture at Raleigh has about 150 packages 0 jute seed If pounds to the package-which he: will distribute to' parties having lands suited to the growth of jate, and who will promptly report to him the results 6f their experiments.' "'- n'" . 1 i ' . s- . .f ' (-C. T.'Fay, Holyoke, Masi,: writes7;AI imoil H of the children's shoes we UlL have ' the A, S. T." Ca.. Tip on them; in fact,-we. cnuld not 'sell thern without. "It ha be-' come a necessity to nave ihera; Spnits , Turpentine Kaletgh Visitor: The temper ance sermon by the ; Rev. Dr. Atkinson, at Metropolitan Hall, yesterday vfterooon, was a very able one. -He h id quite a large au dience to bear, bim i We are glad to announce rhat the Rev-R H Whitaker.edi itor of the Friend and jemptar, of this "city . who has been quite ill with pneumonia for everal days past i is gradually improving. : , - The Legislature has under nnn. sideration bill requiring every person when listing-taxes; to report the following Whether married or unmarried, widow or widower, number of births in lbe family Ouriog.tbe - preceding year, deaths and canses, and whether any cases in the family -of small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, yef Jow fever v or, cholera Winston Leader This bill ought to become a law. 'It is ar easy way pf arriving at important vital statistics, &c; " :..,,,.. Hickory'Veasi The spring term of Rutherford- College opened wiih over 100 students.: Prospects are very flatterine for a good attendance. : Gen. Cling man is doing great work in advertising bis native State, particularly the western por tion of it, in New York. In a recent interriew with a reporter of the New Yoijc Sun, he gave some information concerning the productive powers of the land, and of the mines of the State, which cannot fail" to attract- attention; and that's what wfe want. . j . -Raleigh JVeu)$- Observer: There is, unfortunately, not a cotton factory io Raleigh; but there are no less than five large planing mills, two f foundries, two boiler manufactories, and two carriage and boggy -manufactories besides- other mi: or industries, ; employing altogether several hundred workmen. There are two of tbe best book and job printing establishments io lbe South, aod there are more newspa pers 8ml periodical published here than in any place of equal size in the country. There re no less than four white and five, colored colleges aod large schools, and ou city offers superior educational advantages. i Raleigh News-Observer : Died at Concordia, Mississippi, on .January Slst Col. Wm. M. Sledge, a native of Franklin, county, this Slate, and fifty years ago salesman in the store of Ruffln Tucker, de ceased, of this city. The eighth an nual session of the North Carolina Slate Grange will be held in this city, beginning taxday. This will doubtless be to the or der lbe most important 'meeting everhelrii in North Carolina. Sixty-two Sheriff have thus far.paid their taxes to the Statr Treasurer, - The house of Robert Ro ger colored, in that part of Oberlin vil lage near the fair grounds was burned Sun day afternoon. Twenty convicts were yesterday sent up to the Western Noilh Carolina Railroad. -Their addition to the present force will bring the number of able- bodied oonviots on the work up to over 600. Some months ago we i referred, to a I peculiar formation which had been found io a well which was being dug upon the premises of A. C. Sharps, Esq lous and a half miles from Statesvillek tx the. Taylorsville road. The rock which was en countered by the blasters was known to possess some unusual qualities, and upon & late examination of some of that taken from a depth of about 80 feet. Prof. W.E. Hidden, tbe mineralogist and collector who Las been operating for the past Bix months in the vicinity of Stony Point, Alexander county, discovered in it the presence of an unusually fine quality of sunstone, an awn. -turine variety of oligoclase. This sunslone Prof. Hidden describes as being as. beauti ful aa any be : has seen from an.! American locality, but it has as yet been found in loo small pieces to be used as gems. States ville Landmark. -Oxford JQreeLance : Our friend, Mr. D. W. Whitaker, : informs us that be contemplates starting a weekly paper ai Roxboro about the middle of next month, to be called the Roxboro Herald -Willis Landis, a colored barber of this place, a short time since emigrated with his ..family to Boston. We now hear be is in extreme ly destitute circumstances, having been turned out in. ihe streets for non-paymec Qf rent. An instance of Northern love for the negro. Died at his residence ia Oxford. N. C, Jan. 26th, 168 If of Pneu monia; Geo. F. Knoll in tbe 43rd year of bis age. In tbe death of Mr. Knoti. we- have been deprived of a good citizen. Died near Poplar Creek church, 1 Granville countyof. cancer, 24th January. 1881, Mr. Hilman Barnes, aged 53 years. Thus btfs passed away one of our. very best citizens. Elizabeth City Carolinian: The best hope and reliance of this country are the three S's Shops, Schools and Small farms. Elisabeth City is the county seat of Pasquotank. It contains a population of 3,000. The town government is5 Republican.- The follnwincr in o anmmnrv rif t lie .business of the town 3 hotels; 12 mer .k..i. .1 1 j . tuautt uijr. goous aou general a mercuan dise; 15 grocery and provision stores; 1 ba kery; 3 drug stores; 3 milliners; 3 hardware stores; 2 book and stationery stores: 2 fur niture 8 tores; 1 merchant tailor; 2 wai co makers; 1 jeweler; 2 banks; 2 livery stablest 4 shoe shops; 6 meat stalls markets; a steam saw mills; 2 grist mills; 1. planing; mill; 2 wagon and carraige makers; a. bar-, ness makers; 4 blacksmith shops; 1 brick; yard; I ship yard; 1 gunsmith; loot ton fac tory; 1 beer bottling establishssent; 1 sail) maker; 2 junk stores; 2 undertakers; 9 law yers physicians; 1 dentist; 2 commbsfon dealers. - , , 1 - j Charlotte Observer: At 3, o'clock Sunday morning flames were discovered breaking from the roof of M E Cfowell fe Co. '8 store, Matthew's Station. Tbe village waa aroused ana every enort made to save the store and stock; but without further re sult than lbe securing of about $200 worth, of goods.. The rest of the Stock and the building, valued jointly at between $4,500 and $5,000, were consumed. A cor respondent in Salisbury writes: "Oa Saturday-afternoon last , Mr. M4 A. Yn derford, a policeman,' was , shot and. in all probability . mortally wounded, by Thomas Taihoro,. white, whom, he bad un der arrest for disorderly conduct. : Yaiboto fired on his. the ball entering the abdo men just to the left of the umbilicus, and theu ran. Mr. Vanderford full, but raising himself with difficulty, fired three shots at him all of which took effect, none fatally, however. Yarborb was arrested and lodged in jail, and at this! writing, Sunday night, Mr. Vandeford is lying in a critical condi tion and win In all probability die.' -- Charlotte Observer: The Rich mond 5 Danville. Railroad will Sell return trip tickets to the inauguration at Wash ington, good from the 2nd of March no til the 8tb, for $18. -The Indian Creek trestle has been completed, but still the trains on the western division of the Caro lina Central Railroad run only to Cherry ville. The trestle over Muddy Fork, two miles beyond, is undergoing repairs. - Squlie Hilton was in town yesterdaynd described the accident to lbe boy Crowetl at bis mill Friday; The boy bad climbed up to put ihe belt on tbe pulley-that runs a grindstone. He-succeeded but his arm was caught. ,The pulley wa9 revolving at the rate of . 140 revolutions per minute.- .The boy was'drawn npon the shafting; but at the ? first j revolution was thrown at : full length, his arm still held by the belt. He Was ; whirled around two or three times with -such force : aa llo break off a ecantliug - four inches square which was within reach ot his body, and was nailed with forty penny nails to the timbers of tbe mill. The belt broke finally and the boy fell, but picked himself up and walked some , 8teps;away, leaving his hand, with the flesh of the arm up to tbe elbow, lying -on the floor. - He "was bruised all over, hie arm broken above the elbows the bone of the arm bent; and his collar-bona also bro ken.5 i . -.'.. .-.:;; - -'J ':.-r:
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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