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It v. jejefelg Star, , Witt. H. BERNARD, Editor and Proprietor. ' ' ' ! -J 1 ? WILMINGTON. N. C: 1 Friday, April 22nd, 1881. "Notices of Marriage or Death. Tributes of Beipect, Beeolations of Thanks, &c , are charged fori ordinary .advertisements, but only half rates whn paid for -strictly in advance. At this rate 60 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Mar nage or Death. ;.; .- I '-':'. J3f Remittances most be made by Check, Draft Poltal Money Order, or Eegiatered Letter. Post Masters will register letters when desired. i - I kr Only such remittances will be at the risk of the'pnblisher.. . , . . L HB" Specimen copies forwarded when desired, j i ' ; JiiOTHBa:isXODlJS-HOW,IT WltLt ' A Memphis paper says that five hun-; d ed blacks left Huntington, Tenn.,j f r Kansas a few days ago. Other p irties are expected: to. follow soon, bat for other sections. We suppose the emissaries have been at work again, and the credulity and igno-j rnce of the negroes . have been worked upon. As long as there are ( lesigning knaves the negroes will be he victims. Whilst the Southern eople understand and appreciate the :olored people as laborers and citi zens, and prefer that they should re main, they will make no special ef-j forts to dissuade them from seeking homes in the North and Northwest.1 We do not believe that many negroes will go of their own motion. They are not a migratory people. They love old homes and scenes. In : them ! local attachments are strong, and if aot deluded by false promises and aperated upon through their j fears ihey will not go off into remote -egions, and especially where it is rery cold,and living 13 hard and labor Severe. .;' ;-;.' ; : j Unfortunately for them they are gnorant of the climate, and do not know that many hundreds of their ace who were rushed off to the North- est for political purposes have per ched already. This part of the story is concealed from them. They are Id of What a glorious land of j free- om and wealth that great Northr est is, and they at once, with the redulity of children, become infatu ated with the alluring picture. For iue sake of the deluded we may re jgret another exodus movement. If hey were treated badly and perse rated and oppressed, as the many ying accounts in Northern papers epresent them,no good-hearted white an would regret their departure if hey were really going among friends. hey will learn, when tod late, what the promises of false friends amount to. They will find in the end that ten years in the sunny South are worth a quarter of a century of life i a the bleak regions to which they are enticed. V j The Philadelphia Press, aj very cantankerous Radical organ, that nows far less of the true condition f the Southern people, whites and colored, than it does of Timbuctoo jr Zaluland, is quite confident thai the negroes leave the South because they are oppressed, are denied the tight of "personal liberty and to live in peace under the law." There is not one word of truth in this stale- ment. The negroes are not oppressed. They have liberty in essence j com pared with the diluted form of lib erty which is the thousands of white inheritance of slaves in the North. There is not an intelligent and fair-minded and truth-telling colored man in North Carolina or the South who will say that the negroes are denied their rights, are not in the epjoyment of the fullest personal liberty, and have not just as much protection as the whites have. It is all nonsense and falsehood to be say ing otherwise. The exodus among the negroes originated in the North that is known to every one save the editor of the Northern Republican organ. - 1 ne movement was ; never heard of until emissaries from . the North began their nefarious work. The Press says: ' ! VThese people are the acclimated labor ers of the South. No other people npon the earth can fill their places upon the sugar plantations or in the cotton fields. The South is in pressing need of their labor, and the North is not. Bat under the new order the colored man is free to eo and come, and just so sure as the eun rises and sets tne south will nave to change entire her treatment of the black race, or sit down in desolation and see her great plantations growing up with weeds and underbrush for want ol hands to till them. Such would be a calamity to the North as well as the South aoq to the South 11 means rain." The South will not' become! deso late or a "waste-howling wilderness." Many Northern people "of a certain type may desire such a result, but i wilt not come. In all the world there is 60 more Inviting portion than the maligned South. Here the huBband man can work outdoors full ten mpatiig in the year; farther south ward he eao work more than eleven mqntbs. If.. there ! were no negroes the) South would sot remain1 many jreArs a land of "ruin." The naoessl- ties of the North would compel it to prevent such a oilamity. If there was never made again a pound of cotton in the South the North .would suffer a hundred times i more thanjthe whites of the South would. Let the actories of the rich North stand still and then you may well talk of "ruin.'' The Southern people can live, come what may.: Their soil will mate them enough of breadstuffs with even half abor. Their streams abound in nsb ; their smoke-houses at home, . now empty, will once more be filled, and in a few years there( would be quite as much of real comfort and possibly more - of real happiness than there is under the present condition of affairs Relying less upon negro labor, the white man would ? become more in dustrious and self-reliant. Then po itically there would be no element of discord. The North would have the negroes and all -the expense and an noyance in dealing with' them. ."They would become the greatly-sought- after, and a V bone of contention. When the North gets : the negroes the South will wish it a happy time and a safe deliverance. ;; e But none of the calamities looked for, and desired possibly by the Press and papers of its school, wul come to pass. Jiefore the boutn is relieved or its colored laborers, . Pennsylvania, New York, and all New: England would be excited from one end to the other, and such a row among them selves has not been in this century. The North cannot afford to see the South become desolate and its "great plantations growing up with weeds and nnderbusb." The North will not permit the i negrophylists v to destroy the vast manufacturing in dustries of the North just for . vile Dolitical ends. We have no fears. Let a million or two million go; let the cotton crop fall to 3,000,000 bales, and cotton will fell at 30 j cents a pound, and the South will be - really better off as far as money making is concerned than it now is. That it would be better off politically is very certain. The time will come when the negroes will be a source of evil in politics when the ; whites: split up among themselves.? . f So viewed politically,! socially, economically, a deportation of two million negroes would not be an un mixed evil. It would injure the North quite as much as it would in jure the South. The philanthropists and capitalists and manufacturers of the North are quite as much con cerned, if they did but know it, in the exodus as the South is or can be. But the exodus will never cease as long as political propagandists and incendiaries are at work in the South. The monetary conference will meet in Paris in a few days. The United States Commissioners are now ori the Atlantic' The refusal of England to participate will cause the conference, probably, to amount to but little. England, at present, prefers the one iinetal gold. We notice, however, that a memorial, largely signed by capitalists, asks for English represen tation and that the question be now settled. The object of the conference is to establish a bi-metalio .currency. The United States, it is believed, will not enter into any agreement! without English cooperation. The Pbiladel phia American takes this view of the matter, in referring to our j country aoticg without the accession of Eng land to the conference: 1 r - "To do so (that is to act without Eng land) would be to arrange the commerce of the world for ner convenience, and to ena ble her to pay her debts in silver, while she refused : anything but - gold, when the balance was in her favor. It would be the first step to gathering into England nearly the whole sopply 01 the more valuable and convenient metal of the two, while she went on with her old policy of discrediting and depreciating the silver, to whose use she left the rest of the world, for our part, with twice as much gold in the I National Treasury as in the vaults of the Bank of England, and with the certainty! that our importation from Europe' this- year -will reach a hundred millions, we can afford to wait until Europe has been so drained of gold that the remonetization of silver wil have become a necessity." The immensity of this country is what astonished Bernhardt. . : She says she laughs at the foolish: notions she had before she came. She was also astonished at "the immense num ber of big towns where wealth and fashion seem to exist."" She also did not fail to note the energy and vital ity of the people. She said ; v "Everybody does something all the time Everybody works. Even artists . work without rest, and in some places work on Sunday night as on all other nights, and at two mattinees besides. .The whole people seem to have a con 01 springs ; push, push, pushing all the time. I like it. but it gives me a fever. I feel the pressure. I feel the excitement. It's all the came wherever I go." . ... There lies the trouble. It w push, drive, go. . All work and but little play. The machinery of life runs fast and "wears rapidly. . j! Mr. Wm. Morrison, of ilredell lost a valuable mule ?: by his going over a bridge, and the Siatesville Landmark says $400 besides, which be had in his coat pocket. Ue was working in the stream trying 10 save nis two mules. I DBAlH .OFIiOBD DEACONSFIBIt The telegraph 'flashes the intelli-: gence that -the great leader of the j Jiingusn vouseryauve party is aeau. The event was not altogether unex pected. He had been ill critically or weeks, and, although there had been improvement, f there was not. confidence felt in the certainty of his recovery. ; A: very uncommon man has passed away. - His life is stranger than any fiction.'' -The son of a Jewish man of letters, belonging to the per secuted and despised race, he begins his career by writing brilliant, frag mentary political novels,' enters Par- iahient, first fails as a speaker,' but tells them that the time will come when they will be glad to hear him, then rises step by 'step, becomes one of the factors in the British House, becomes the recognized leader,' holds high offices and finally becomes the Premier of the British Empire. " This office he held twice. 1 In 1868 the Queen offered to raise' him to the eerage but i this he declined. A ew years ago he was cre ated Earl Of Beaconsfield. " The pet aod dictator. of his ; party, the speoial favorite ; of the tueen, the boldest leader of the Tones, the re cipient of the. adulation "of the no bility, honored as few Englishmen were ever honored,' is not his career really marvellous,- more wonderful than the history of any hero of' any novelist ? ' He was a splendid party eader, full of resource, enterprising, bold, not T scrupulous, fond of .sur prises, ready to take advantage of the mistakes of his adversaries, and to even make capital by adopting their measures that had been rejected, and making them his own. There have been few British states men who equalled him in epigram matic point, or who carried more of sting and bitterness on his tongue. But the great politician is silent now. The active, inventive, brilliant intel lect is quiet at last The surprising statesmanship will concoct no more surprises.', - Full of years and covered with insignia of distinction and rank, he descends to the tomb all "Await the inevitable hour. The paths of glory iead but to the grave." His place in English politics - and his rank in literature will be deter mined hereafter. None of bis wri tings will live, we suppose. " They will be read by the curious only fifty years hence. They were numerous and clever, but they were not works of high genius, and none of them will ever receive, as we believe, the stamp of immortality. He will al ways live in Euglish history. His fame at least, is immortal. He was born in London in 1805. His father was Isaac Disreali, author of the ' "Curiosities of Literature," and two or three other very readable works. In 1825 young Benjamin surprised the English reading world with his first novel, "Vivian Gray." It created a sensation. Then followed the "Young Duke," "Henrietta Tem ple," 'fVenetia," 'Tancred," "Sybil" and "Coningsby." Some few years ago he published "Lothair," and a few months ago "Endymion." In 1848 he was the leader of the Conserva tive party. In 1852 he became Chan cellor : of the Exchequer. Again he was appointed to the same office in 1858., So again in 1806. In 1868 he became Prime Minister. His party was soon after beaten and' he i ' . was succeeded by Mr. Gladstone. In 1874,we think it was, but have not the date by us, he was again Prime Minister. In 1880 he was beaten and Mr. Gladstone came - in again. We have not space to give even the briefest but complete outline of his astonishing career. ? We must . men tion that he was probably . the most conspicuous figure in the Berlin Con ference, certainly was so with the ex ception of Prince Bismarck, and was the author jof a work entitled a "Vindi cation of the English Constitution" and of a "Biography of Lord George Bentick." He was 76 at the time of nis death. . lie- will create a great gap in his party. While nearly every other South ern city is excited over the grand railroad combinations now going on, Wilmington keeps cool and collected. We can afford to wait while others wrangle. We see nothing in the situation yet to excite alarm. With our prospective aeep . water naviga tion, the port " of Wilmington will before the lapse of five years be one of the most important outlets on jthe Sonth Atlantic coast. Prtmainrs Lois of itae Ualr Sowadaja may l& entirely prevented by the use of BmusETT'a Cocoaine. It has been used in thousands of cases where the hair was coming out io handfuls, and has never failed to arrest its- decay : it nromotes a healthy and vigorous growth, and it is at tne same time unrivaled as a toft and glotty dressing for the hair. BURNETT'S5 FLAVORING EX TRACTS are the best, strongest and most neaiioiui. ooia every wnere. f TUB N. O. niDtsIID. , j The action of the .Virginia. Mid land Railroad directors .in ; deterjmini ing to extendlbat road -from Dan ville, "Va., ya Mooresville, NC counectiog at Charlotte, and thence to Spartanburg, '3. C, meets -witb much favor,we notice, lij Btaltim,pre All of the papers of that-growing,-- l fi r i v ing " ci t y s-v ie w ; t h e7 m at t e f w itb much fat is faction, and prophecy that the North Carolina Midland Railroad, or such it is td be calle d; will-con tribute no little to ' the 'growth and wealth of: that city.;J ITiey' think it will make ' Baltimore1' in the-'end- as important a cotton market as it is a grain market now.'1 It is -understood that Spartanburg is' merely the termi nus for' the time. Railroad manip ulators uow sweep the whole horizon with their mighty ' glasses, and i tfyey1 plau a railroad scheme extending for t housands of miles as readily as - they used to think of a railroad of. a; hun dred milesr Atlanta is said to be the objective point. ' When ' the- road is constructed to that city then: Balti morA will have a through - line that will be a strong rival of the old com peting lines..' The Baltimore Ameri can thinks this new line most become eventually ' the "main artery of the' South. - It says: ' " 1 : - "Other. :'ciUea have already ' sent- their tributary roads down into this section,; but none by such an incomparable route as this. The Midland road, completed lo Char' lotte and Spartanburg, will not only openf to Baltimore tne gates oi me great cotton country, but it will intercept, in Baltimore's interests, the traffic of a dozen railroads, which now pour wealth into the laps of other cities. It will open direct connec. lions for our citv with those parts of North Carolina and East Tennessee, ; which in former times used to get all their goods from Baltimore. . When the new Midr land road is completed, there w ill only need a lew snort links to be supplied branches and feeders of the main , artery in order to eoable thai road to become the most important Southern trunk line east of the Alleghanies, a line equally convenient if not indispeosible to tramp east and west of it, from Knoxville on the one hand to Charleston on the. other. -It will pierce like an arrow through existing combina-: lions, and compel . others to be made, of . wbich Baltimore will ba . the . focuB. r The local trade of the country that the new road will penetrate is important and valuable in itself." . i ........ , See how Baltimore looks far' and stretches out its network of railroad lines to catch trade and draw to its port' the prod notions ' of the Great South. That is the way to build up, to grow, to thrive. But in the mean time what has become of that glori ous and magnificent "North Carolina system" of which good grey heads dreamed and politicians mouthed and editors wrote? Other cities and towns but in the regions beyond are to be built ud. but Wilmineton is - ' .''.: -L, i' to be left out as of no consideration, to be taken care of by the General Government, or to be neglected for ever. The American says: 7 . j ' "We - have the excellent authority of Maj Hairston for SByiog that if Baltimore can break - up this system of exactions by completing the Midland 'Road; it will re ceive the produce of all the tributary parts of North Caroliua In Winston alone 3, 000.000 pounds of tobacco are manufac tured. There are 50.000 bales of tobacco and 2,500,000 bushels of wheat annually produced in these sections, ' wbich have a population of 250,000 the best part of the State for agriculture and for minerals: with a splendid water power and manufactures daily developing. No wonder North Carolina tobacco the finest in the world is sold abroad as the Virginia weed. No wonder people begin to talk again of North Carolina being "a strip of land between two States." The Baltimore Gazette says: . ."' --j'-"The route selected is an excellent one. It cuts the leading North Carohoa railroads at right angles, taps the South Carolina roads in the widest spread of their fanlike 8V8tem;and offers the best opportunity for a final air-line extension to Atlanta; such as will make Baltimore a better port io ship cot' ton from than either Savannah, Wilmington orworfoi." - " " : This is the way this new and im portant route is viewed. Who blames Baltimore? Who blames Richmond? They are wise to get all they can, even though it drains - our State and - strands- our ships and makes the grass grow in the streets of. North Carolina seaports. Who cares a fig for the ?North Carolina system?" Elsewhere to-day we pub lish some instructive extracts from a Raleigh letter in the New York Times. There is a good deal more of truth in what is said than will be ac knowledged in some quarters. HISTORICAL KBROBS III SCHOOLS The Stab more than once has had something to say ' about Northern school histories of. the United States used in Southern . schools. ; Most of this class! of books are la bo . con demned, because cf -the unqualified perversions - - and "even 1 falsehoods which they palm" off as truth. The South ia invariably 'misrepresented. So 5 very unfair and false are these writers they cannot give : the facts cpnperciog battles. ' So ; tremendons .was the ' disparity in the number of soldiers on either side, and so very much larger were the Northern ar mies than the Southern in nearly all of the battles of the war, ' that - the writers of "epboQl books are; actually loth to be caught in the neighbor hood of the : exact truth, No 1 one could form an approximately correct idea v of what" occurred ; really from these books that the Southern people tolerate in their schools. If Southern parents would" do , their duty , they would not permit their I children to study them. . i We are induced ' to j refer ' thus briefly.! tolthtjlinauer because of a comnJiiincallbnrw"e "noticed r- id the. New Yoik'iJwi written by. a f clergy man In that oiiv.Vj It aeema7lhat 'thed1 man ual'6fJhi6tofjr. ,used '; in; certain schools, and j.col leges - in that State abound in errors that are misleading to the Northern mind Without in dorsing what is said we copy a para- grsuu iruur iub uummunicsnuu w shbw:?b6w uotru8twortby the bisto- Ties are regaraea in matters; pertain- ing to religions bodies. ; The writer It is a well known fact that Puritan his tory of New England's early colonization has been written in. a thoroughly parti-an and untrustworthy manner. Our children are taught notions that are entirely one sided about the, Ply mouth Rock settlers. Intelligent parents are compelled to' correct these distorted I acta. Hall truths are lies. Therefore our children are taught lies. , "The new edition of Bishop White's lie moirs, by that careful student of ; history. the Rev. B. F. de Coara. gives facts tnat change the whole complexion of the cur rently received New England opinions. ,. : : ' Thi8 generation should ."be." laught the whole truth aod notbine 'butlhe truth, concerning this or uy other Government." v We echo . the sentimenu that "the whole " truth and: nothing j. but the truth" is what history ought to teach. It history becomes J a mere tissue of misrepresentation and perversion ; if it is full of errors of various kinds, of what' value is it. Ordinarily the style of - American histot ies is not : ' worth CODsidering for it scarcely rises to the level of respectable ? journalism. ; Inl some instances it is crude, incorrect,; unsobolarly. . , So history of this kind has no claim other than to be cor rect. If not that then it is really of no use, and does a deal of evil rU j In what we have said we refer to history whether of Northern or of Southern origin. If a book teems with inaccuracies it hi unfit for the school room. If children are taught falsehoods they cling to them through life. It is the fewest number of people who ever unlearn what is fake or get rid of , what is injurious. ; . : DeJarnette, who murdered his sis ter, escapes punishment on the plea of insanity." That is the old, well- used,' never-failing dodge. In this particular instance the grounds for acquittal may be just and proper. but if he is insane he ought to be confined in an asylum for life. When a man's insanity is of that sly, hidden type that no one suspects it, and he yet may be capable of very desperate deeds, he is too dangerous a "fellow citizen to be turned loose upon so oiety. We give no opinion as to the finding of the jury, knowing but lit tle of the evidence, but we are clearly of the opinion that if he is too insane to be punished tor murder, he is too insane to be allowed to walk about unguarded, having free access to peo-' pie's throats. , v ' They are beginning l to talk of withdrawing' Riddle-bargainer, as Senator Morgan called MahoneV man, and putting a Union Virginia soldier on tne track in his place. But the Democrats will not take Mahone in that questionable shape any sooner than they ,will take Riddleberger. They will ; not have any Mahone bitters mixed with their, "Old Bour bon Whiskey," not if they know it. The cause of the , talk is , accounted for by the following " paragraph in TBildad'a" letter in the Richmon d State : " -' - l: "Senator Beck has set the outside world to speculating upon what is to come by remarking In debate that - the Democrats would not allow, Riddleberger to be elected now or at any other time, and intimating mat in JJecemoer tne .Democrats may nom inate for - SergeantatArm8 an ex-Union soldier, for whom at least, one Republican Senator would vote." m - . Garfield professes to be muoh an noyed by the long-continued dead lock.1 Glad to bear it. Hope he will continue to be anhoyedJ Any man who takes up a Repudiationist after professing holy horror of repudia tion, deserves much i wore things than mere annoyance. r The Richmond .Dispatch is . level headed on ; Conkling's specious .and artful scheme to secure Democratic help by what ne calls the , "courtesy of the Senate." . It says: ' fThis scheme appeals to the vanity or ; every oenator. r 41 was invented by cunning and malioe. No Demo crat, ho wever, should be beguiled by either a soft phrase or personal con- siaerations into a oetrayai 01 - his trust.; The fathers of the republic never for a moment designed that the ; Senator ; f rom a single State should i navel an absolute veto over the ' appointments ' made : for ' that State by. the President i : ; . - Ten years of experience has firmly rooted TuuVl Pills in pubjic estimation.. Their wonderful adaptability to the various forms of disease is a marvel to medical men of all schools. They are lagely used in hospitals in gdrope and America as well as in the army and navy. Cuba and other.' countries where yellow fever prevails, consume mil lions of boxes annually. ! " f i '" : 1 I- Prominent Lawyer or AVbiteviIla rf Bloffl Bis Brains Out. ri I Intelligence was received here yesterday of a very distressing occurrence, at Wbite ville, -Columbus county; j On i Sunday morning last, about 9 o'clock, Capt. VV. J Stanley, a prominent lawyer j of that place, requested bis wife to leav , the room in which tbey happened to be at the time, and she complied, 'soon after which she heard the pop of a cap in the room she had left,1 Dbe hurried to tne door and tried to opes when 8he found that it was locked from oafasteo the bolt she was shocked by the report of a pistol in the room where she had jU3t parted from her 'husband. She gave the alarm and a crowd Boon collected, when the door was forced open and Capt. Stanley was found prostrate upon the floor, weltering in his blood,' which was flowing freely from a wound, in the temple; and upon examination, it was found that he wna quite dead, while a large navy pistol was lying by: his side.' V - " : I -; ; -'-"' '- I Capt. Stanley is represeolcd to have been a .man of some considerable kneans, ' was in no wiae pressed floancially,1 bis domestic; relations were of the most pleasant charac ter, and the only cause that caa be as signed for the desperate deed is the course1 of dissipation upon which be had entered,! particularly ' during the past two or three years of bis life.. - He eojoyed a good prac tice in bis profession, and bad a fair share of the business at the late term of Columbus Court - He' was much esteemed in' the community t; aOd but .for hiB unfortunate" habit,., which pampered1 bis1 energies, he might have risen to distinction:! fie was about 40 years old, and leaves a wife and six children to mourn his untimely fate. The terrible affair has naturally created a great deal of excitementHn Wbiteville and vicinity, and. much heartfelt sympathy is felt' for the family in their sad bereave- ment. . i-i' - i--'.y. Tiie Naval Stores trade. A circular , from' Mr. John : Judge, of Charleston, S. C. gives a statement of the business in Naval Stores at the porta of New York, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannab for the four years! endiog April 1st, aa follows: - - L ; SpiBiTa .- Ttopkntise Keceip(8:i-1878; 247.198 casks; 1879 254.033 casks; 1880. 259,365 casks; 1881, 243,618 casks. Total four, years, 1,004.219 , casks; average per year, 231,054 casks; average last two years, 251,491 casks. '-' '-' ." " " 'I" 'I i JZ!grft.-.1878, 150.955 casks; 1879, 163, 706 casks; 1880, 121,036 casks; . 1881, 153, 277 casks. Total four y ears J 588,974 casks; average per year, 147,243 casks; average last two years, 137,156 casks! i i ; Domestic Deliveries. -1878, 91,209 casks; 1879, 92.653 casks; 1880,- 123,401' casks; 1881. 107,203 casks. Total fouryears 414,. 466 casks; average per year, 1103,616 casks average last two years, 115,302 casks., , : Rosnr Beceipts. 1878, 1,166,712 bar reU; 1879, 1,272.460 barrels; 1880, 1,298,433 barrels ; 1881, 1,192,283 barrels. Total four years. 4.920,888 barrels; average per year, 1,232.472 barrels; average last two years, 1,245.358 barrels. i ; ! Exporl8:--1878; 859,269 barrels; 1879, 961,650 barrels; 1880, 932.658 barrels; 1881, 815,443 barrels. Total four years, 3,569,020 barrels; average per year, 892,255 barrels; average last two years, 874.050 barrels."! i Domestic Deliveries. 1870 ! 303,272 bar rels; 1879. 281.480 barrels; 1880. 331,932 barrels; 1881 815.785 barrels. Total four years, 1,233,469 barrels; average per year, 308,367 barrels; average last two years, 324, 353 barrels. . i The falling off of 15,747 Casks of spirits turpentine in 1880-81 Mr. Judge attributes rather to unfavorable weather than to car tailed work. The prospects for the coming year favor an average crop (251,000 casks), for although the season Is six weeks late, it by no means follows, he thicks, that there will be a proportionate loss in the aggregate. It will not be lost sight of, however, that production in the Gulf States will be one third short from causes heretofore " stated, and that the deficiency will be in effect the same as if occurring in the Atlantic States. The shipments during the two years of 1877-79 were ezcesaive,and resulted in ruin ous prices, while those of 1879-80 were cur tailed by abnormal causes, not' likely to be repeated in this generation. Domestic de liveries, on the other hand, show a marked increase during the last two years. ; In the matter of rosin, a consideration of the figures presented above leads to conclu sions somewhat akin to those reached on Bpirits, though differing in one important respect. The foreign demand appears to have reached its maximum,: but the domes tic trade while improving, does not increase in the same proportion as spirits turpen tine.;; -j.'2Hj:;ni). ' V j !": Badlr Burned. ! ? A few days since a little child of Mr. F. M. White, living near Shalloite, Brunswick county, was badly burned, j It appears that the mother went out to get ! some potatoes, leaving the little one in charge of two larger children, and, hearing it cry, ran quickly into the house and found the babe lying on the fire. ; Medical assistance-, was immedi ately summoned and at last accounts there were some hdpea of its recovery. t. r.--;4C , r Bofeberr la Brauwtck. 1 1 . ;--; On the night of the 12th inst. some thief broke open the door of the smoke house of Mr.' Moees Hewett, in the lower part of Brunswick county, and stole .a quantity of meat.leaving him in an almost destitute con dition. Mr, HewettTa an old man in feeble health, and the loss will prove a heavy one to him,- especially as hehas several chil dren to care for:;'" : ' ' I ' ' '' ' Died saddenly. . ; -;. V, ;1 ' . I ' The wife of March Campbell, living at the Thomas Williams plaqe, in ' Cape Fear township, dropped dead on Sunday night.' She ia said to have been seized . with a spasm and died almost instantly. She was about forty years of age.! : - Capt :E. T. Love," who! waa pa the steamer Vesta when she. went ashore near Portsmouth three or four weeks ago, has arrived home. . ' lie reports that be had succeeded in getting her off into the chan nel, when, on Thursday evening last, there came up a terrible tornado, during .which the steamer parted her .hawser; for the second time . and again went ashore. It was during this storm that the Schr. Lorik lard, with a cargo of ' corn,; was wrecked near by, and the Schr. CZe&pdlra was dam aged to considerable extent, i mention ! of which has already been made in this paper. Capt. Love left the steamer,' bu Saturday morning last, in charge of the pilot, and expects to return in a few daya, ,when he thinks she .will be gotten off without much difBcuity: " He saysshe is" not damaged to the least. The owners. Messrs.' Love and Bagley, have not made up their minds defi-i nneiy where tbey will run berj ; 1 ; MEADE & BAKER'S CARBOLIC MOUTH WASH is a fragrant and delight- ful toilet article, and will positively cure air diseases of the ijouth and gums, arrest de cay, purify the breath, and preserve the TRETp. It will also .relieve Ski Sickness, and is an excellent gargle for Sobs Thboat. Price 0 cents a bottle For sale by drug gists generally.' The trade supplied by the wholesale druggists in 'Richmond and Bal timore. r mh368meod SVICIPB. j; spirits .Turpentine Newton Enterprise: Best is no 1..... n uj . ; j . . iwugcr - uuuiiuoi - 1 iceiueui, ana : ne was: never, more, but Andrews, of the Rich-i mood & Danville, who baa been the m.il president all the time.is now the recognized head of the new .organization. j Marion Lamp Post: That the1 legislatuie, at the called session of 1880 ! syld the W. N. C. R it, seems to be nci logger a question of debate, but to whom tbey sold it has not yet; been settled to the satisfaction of the interested and natnmli irquisitive public.;:;;", cf ; t y -: . 1 Marion Lamp Post: The hy4 draulic pipes for the Vein Mountain gold mines arrived at this depot Saturday, ann will immediately be conveyed to the mines. w ucu, bo buuu j. lucy . rs in place, the company will begin operations for separak ting the gold from the gravel. While run ning the ditches to conduct the water many rich veins of auriferous gravel were cut through, showing a much larger extent of gold-bearing tenitory than had at first been anticipaled. -. 5 , , j '- Warrenton "Gazette: The meet ings at the Baptist cburcb bere this week have been unusually interesting, as mani fested by the unusually: large audiences. Up. to last night twelve of our citizens had made a profession of religion, while many others were at the altar. 1 Ia there au intelligent man in the good old county of Warren who cannot make more this year than, be spends? And. ia there a sensible man who will spend more than be makes? And if he does spend mora than he makes is he strictly honest? r- i j The Raleigh Register, of the date of 1802 had the' following, which we fiad in ibts Jfews-Observer;, "An instance of voluntary abstinence has lately taken place, perhaps uoparalleled. Horatio Se ney, of Church Hill, in Queen Anne's county, Md., a .few days ago completed a fafct ot 44 days, being determined, as be frequent! declared, to outfast our blessed Saviour During this period he suffered not anything but pure water to pass his lips. On the morning of the 45lh day he broke his fast by eating a perch and two mouih- fuls of bominy, observing : that as bis last meal was fish, his first should be the samel" Redmond, the outlaw, was shot -and killed in Macon county by some reve nue officers who were: Concealed in the ' bushes .near his. bouse. The Ashe vijle Citizen says: We learn Redmond was car ried, after being shot, to Charleston, wher he died on Friday. He said to Ry, who shot him, "Ton have shot me. j I never . surrendered and never would have dobe so." For several years Redmond has been living a peaceful life, farming on the Ten nessee river some twenty miles below Franklin. He desired to be let alone and to be permitted to live an honest life. J :- ' Concord Sun; Last Sunday, when Mrs. Hulda Benson, Who lives a mile or two . above Mill Hill, returned home from preaching, she found her ! bout,e, kitchen and smoke-bouse a pile of smokiDg ruins. Everything contained in the three houbea was burned. - Fire number two occurred Monday ' night on Peter Earn -hardt's farm. r The stable of Tobe , Probst and Bud Nesbit, two tenants, was burned with heavy los9. One horse, one mule; a a wagon, corn, bay, fodder, plows, harte s and all such were burned with the barn. The fire is thought to have been the work of an incendiary. x ... j .-. Statesville Landmark: The la dies of the Memorial Association have se lected Col. W. H, H. Cowles, of Wilkts boro, as their orator 1 for i memorial day.. And in justice to : Mr. SiepheL8ob, I would say be faa3 done more for Western North Carolina in developing and working up the mineral interests of tbia eecion than all of the mineralogists in the world. 4 Mailand passenger trains on the Western North Carolina Railroad bo longer can y local freight.,, They make 30 miles ber hour and stay at a station! but a very few minutes. it is said that the. receipts of IthV road nave increased 30 . per cent, under jthe new management.- -j "" " ' t j i Raleigh News-Observer : The . revival at the Person Street Methodist church continues ; with marked interetn. There have been a number of conversions. Governor Holden left 'for Wasbinjtuu yesterday. A telegram from Atauou, New Jersey, says: . "A colored delegation, headed by ex Congressman Smalls and a colored - bishop from North Carolina, has visited this place for the purpose of buyiog the 100.000 acre estate of Mr. Rileigb.l of . Philadelphia. ' The intention is to establish . a colored colony here and to distribute be land to negroes who Can pay ior it . and -produce credentiala of good character. Colored men from all parts of the country are io the delegation. ..j Statesville Landmark: We were in conversation a few days ago with a gen tleman who i8 but lately, from Washington, and who gathered there some news of in terest. It ia said in Washington, ssys he, that our fellow-countryman. Colonel T. N. Cooper, will not get the marsbalship of this district, but that if Douglas in turned out his place ia given to Colonel Oliver H. Dockery. Dr. W. H. Wheeler, it ia said, will bold on as collector for the fifth dis trict, and George B. Everett, who has been fighting him. will be given something else. r Judge Cloud wants a post -tradersbip, or something so, away out West in Wyoming or Indian Territory. He doesn't know exactly what .. be wants, I and, indeed, doesn't - care . much j ; what ) he ' cares most for is tbe locality, and he tloesn't altogether: know ; where thai is. Mra Bettiel Lackey, of Sharpe'a town ship, Alexander county, has a turkey hen that is a wonder in the way of j egg-laying: She commences laying 5 in the! spring and continues until she has enough to sit ion, and while she rs sitting her nest has to be watched every day to keep the newly laid egg ''from spoiling, t After she batches, and while raiaiog her brood; she keeps right 00 laying until all the feathers come off of-ber, and in tbe dead -of winter has to bejwrap- ; ped up to keep her from freezing to death, i ; . Charlotte Obseever i Mr. WJ: 1. 1 Smart,f ormerly engaged in the mining busi ness here, is making arrangements to de velop new mineral property . in McDowell county.' A private letter received bere conveys the intelligence that tbe store-bouse and stock of goods of Mr. M. B. Lassiter, at Little's Mills, Montgomery county, was burned to the ground several nights since. ' At a meeting of tbe executive commit tee of the Prohibition Association, held in the rooms of the First National Bank last night.it was unanimously resolved to ire commend to the association the following as a municipal ticket for city officers: For,,, Mayor F. S. De Wolfe; for Aldermen--lst : ward, C. Scott, C. A. Fraiaer.R. M. Miller; 2d ward, John L. Brown, JL P. Hunter; 3d ward, D. W. Oates, H.. Ed wards, A. W. Calvin; 4th ward, John Wilkes, E K P. Osborne, D. P. Hutchinson. Mecklenburg Presbytery has been in ! session at Huntersville since Thursday. The attendance is reported to be very Jarge, and something of a sensational interest i has been given to tbe present session by a con troversy arising out of the application! for j admission made by Rev. J. T. Plunkett, who has been filling the pulpit of Steel Creek church in this county. The applica tion was made at a previous session of tbe Presbytery, but was referred to the. Nash ville (Tenn.) Presbytery for further informa tion concerning tbe applicant So 'com pletely baa this subject engrossed the atten tion of the Presbytery that up to the open ing of "the session yesterday morning; no other business .had - been disposed of I ex cept tbe appointment of delegates to the General Assembly. These : are Rev. Dr. E- H. Harding, oMhia city, and Rev. 8. Taylor Jlariin,of Hepderaon, with ruling . elders W. H. Fitzgerald', v of Monroe, land J. C. McLaucbliu, of Richmond county.- !
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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