North Carolina Newspapers

it H. BERNARD, Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON. N. C: Friday, May. 27th, 1881. "Notices of Marriage ot Death. Trfb ntes o Rfjpect.'KeeolatiOns of Thanks, Ac, are cnargea folas ordinary advertisementst bat only half rates wlen paid for strictly In advance. At this rate SO celts will pay for a simple announcement of Mar nise or Death. I . t 1 Remittances most be made by Check, Draft Postal Money Order, or Registered Letter. Post Meters will register letters when desired.! far Only such remittances will be at the risk of .VinnliliahAV 1 - specimen copies iorwraeu wura ucduv VITAL STJL11STICS. A The Board of Health, through Dr. Thomas F.Wood, is sending out some nks ' to accompany the tax-list bianK. inis is uoue uuuc tba Legislature to gather the annual regiBbriittuu ui j - solis listing taxes are called upon to ariswer certain questions concerning ba-ths, aeatns, ana certam wvpcou kilids of diseases. The, Register of Dleds is supplied with a blank of in- st notions. Here is a part of the Act ratified February 11, 1881: I'Section 1. It shall be tne duty or eacn i aou every person annaauy.at tne umewnea i befor she or they shall list property for tax- Uwfw - rf I lT?'!5?"!! ma IOWOBU1U obscsbui.uu uiau. u.vu..t I ana lurnisnea as pmuw P". X. . . I. : . mint as follows, towit: 1st. Whether mar riflW or nnmarried. widow or widower. 2d. vplr immediately Dreceding. 1 3d. Number bfideaths within the same time, and the Dames of diseases causing the deaths, as far askoown. 4th. Whether any cases of the following diseases have occurred in the family for the year immediately preceding: 84all-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria,' yelfow fever, cholera. ! Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health annually to prepare and rulnish to the commissioners of each county, atlleast thirty days before the time ap pointed by law for the listing of taxes, a samcient numoer oi disdk iorms, or usw, sumcient "?m. ou the statement required by section-one of this act. which said blanks shall be dis- tn bnted bv the commissioners, aforesaid to ihf township assessors at least five days before the time appointed by law ior me listing of taxes. The form of said, blanks shall be prescribed Dy me secretary oi me Stile Board of Health," etc. j j The value of vital statistics is very grjeat. Any effort that tends to pro mote the public health is to be en couraged. The Board of Health is doing a really very important, work, and the last Legislature, we are pined to say, did not appreciate its ireterest or value. It failed to appro- iate but the pitiful sum of $200 K carry on a most important work ir a Stale with nearly t 1,500,000 ir habitants.' Compared with the g nuine importance of the work and w iat more intelligent and ; advanced S ates are doing, the amount would have been inadequate if the appro priation had been fixed at $2,000. It.r i9 astonishing -how slowly the average legislator moves in the di- ection - of progress. He is swift enougn to make a new county liKe Vance, which is forty miles in length and but eight in width at one point, anq but tfif teen miles at the! widest point, or to vote away thousands for I r i,. j i t u needless servants and clerkships, but when it comes to doing something thaildenotes intelligence, information, . appreciation of a great State's condi tion,! he is as blind as the owl who sits in the old church belfry and never sees anything in its true light with its true bearings. Wonderful ! CONCERNING TWO OLD PAPERS. oo o ! me ten years ago we wrote an editorial concerning the old Raleigh Register office and the men who had I been trained in it. Oar information was drawn from some local authori ties. Major Seaton Gales read it, and, strange to say, did not condemn it because of errors that it contained. i - . - . i We were emboldened, therefore, to refer again to one or two points we then made, and find that we were very.-much in error. We are glad, however, that we made the reference recently, because it enables us to cor- rect, through the assistance of the venerable Edward J. Hale, the blun- , tlera we had perpetrated on two occasions. Wej referred to the late Colonel I - l 7-- William W. Seaton, of Washington city, and Mr. Hale corrects several errors into which we had fallen. He writeu: '--A :A. A'aaA- "Al ow me to state that Mr. Seaton : was a native of Virginia, (one of the counties adjoining Richmond, I believe); and he served his apprenticeship in a printing office in Richmond; that be came to Halifax, N. C, abd published a paper there for a short time; that he afterwards married Miss Sarah Gales, aod became associate editor of the Raleigh Register, (I am not sure whether before or after his marriaee). When I en tere4 the Register office, February 28, 1812, he Was there as a partner. Towards the close of the year 1812, 1 think it was, his father-in-law transferred to him an interest in the National Inteutgeneer, which was not established' by Gales & Seaton, but by ueoerat xaarrisuu owiiu, x ueueve, aoout tbe jtime of the removal of the seat of go vernment to wasningion tor even earlier), whilst Gales and 8eaton were boys. Jos. Gales, Jr., became associated with Smith, and when , the latter retired the firm of Galea & Beaton, which bad been known at Raleigh ceased, and another of j the same name was formed at Washington, with what graod results, politically and socially, the world knows." i . We may mention that the elder aies yiosepn liales, senior) was an ngrishman, aod edited the Sheffield Remitter in cdhnection with'the poet"! Jarnes Montgomery. He had to lov Kno-land on flccoant of some too democratic opinioqs he advanced in his paper, j He came to this coon- t'ry and after awhile removed to Ra leigh and began the publication of the Reaister adopting the name of bis English ;per. was we are not informed accurately, but.; about 1800, we suppose. - His family followed him some year or two after he. left England, and we think one of the children was born pri the voyage. Mrs. dales wrote two novels when young. (They were in the Philanthropic Society at the Univer sity about the year 1847. Mr. Mont gomery . changed the name of - the Sheffield paper to the Iris andcon tinued to! edit it for many years. The Raleigh Register was edited by Xbe Rale,gh Register was edited by j08epn Gales, by, his son afterwards, Weston aies, ana me i&iier was guCCeedej in 1847 by his gifted son, tho jate Seaton Gales. Aj i ; - ... a prohibition . j We print below one of the ordi- nances recently passed by the Board of Aldermen of Charlotte: w n Ordinance Making Vie Keeping of intoxi- j eating Liquors a A'uisance. neciion i. xua lUO ttccmuit iwi uag va i - . fflL.i tt. 9rm nA I any storehouse, BUUU. EUUUU.1 cnuu, w I - i i ..n(i ,i.n einra rr nthor I Diaces. any wines, brandy fruit or alco- kM1t KiMava enlrilnnna rtP malt llATlnrfl. iT r,":vr"Str i.:.-7 -8.h ;t.io clared, to oe a nuisance. Sec. 2. That u any persoa or persons shall- opon trial be found guilty of keeping for sale or use as a oeverage any wines, brandy fruit or alcoholic bitters, spirituous or malt liquors, or intoxicating drinks, in any store-house, saloon, shop, drug store, stand, or other place whatever, within this city, after the! 1st day of Jane, 1881, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to abate and suppress' the nuisance, and to remove the same beyond the limits of the city. - - -i fk mi .1 . 1 a I t a : oec. o. luav any .peisuu viuwuug iuo provisions of this Ordinance shall be pun. or imprisonment for not more than thirty days. : AA'A '. - ' 1 It seems plain from the language of this ordinance that it is unlawful for a resident of jChariotte to keep wine in his own house for his own private use. :"; ; : This is prohibition with a ven geance. Not satisfied with a law to close the drinking saloons, these zeal ous patriots must invade the sanc tity of one's private dwelling, and pre8Cribe what he Bhall keep there for ha own ne. . I Is this zeal? or is it fanaticism? or I is it madness? Do the prohibitionists J suppose the people of North Carolina I - . s will follow them in this wild crusade I on private rights? I If the bill to be South that we rarely pay any atten voted on in August should be rati- tion to its slanders. In fact, its usual fied, may not he next Legislature be tone is so vicious and its slanders are asked to enact a law similar to the I ordinance passed in Charlotte? Are I the prohibitionists in Charlotte more ardent in the cause of temperanee(?) than are their co-laborers in the State at large?. I - j : ' ' ' There are tens of thousands of people in this good old State who lnva f rondnm Inn waII tn Wnmn f.h , - , , . ... blind adherents of the prohibition leaders who are now rallying their Iegions. The false cry that this is a war against grog-shops and liquor I dealers has no terror for those who j nave tne courage or tneir convic tions. This is a war of the people against an attempt to abridge their rights and privileges. The advocates of prohibition know that they are not fighting liquor dealers alone in this campaign. We Venture the assertion , that not five per cent, of the anti-prohibitionists in North Carolina have .- anything whatever to do with either the sale or manufacture of intoxicating liquors. And it will be found oh 'investigation that a very large percentage of those who will vote against prohibition in August are . men who are strictly temperate. . We know that in the city of. VV Umingttfn - many of the most outspoken opponents of prohi-1 bition : are gentlemen who practice what many of the prohibitionists Ypreach bot do not practice, total ab- stmence. . -1 . ' -, A' -. . i JL UO D11UIIDU 1U VUaiiUbliO - Will have an influence on the result of the great battle to be fought in August. It U the first gun of the campaign, as the prohibitioniat claim ; but it is tne gun that has awakened the people to a realization of the "true inward- ness" of the prohibition movement in North Carolina, and; they- will con demn it at the! polls io August next by a majority that, will astonish even the opponents of the measure. ; ; ; - KEY AND BRADY.:; Postmaster General Keyjtbe South- I ern Confederate, who sold out to get an office; in the Fraudulent :Hayes's Cabinet, is somehow being suspeoted pf knowing something of the Brady rascalities in connection . with 1 the Star Routes. -To what extent he de serves to be suspected we cannot un- dertake to say. He most have known or been very blind tawliat wftS going on right under his nose. ; Hayes too, may plead ignorance, but his charac, Mr' is none too good to allow a sub- j pioion that he may have had some knowledge 06 the rascalities. Whcth er his. personal .integrity or tne per- sonal integrity of Key is to be ques- tionedor not- may be doubtful, but this must be conceded at the expense of their intelligence pr fidelity in the k It asserted squarely that respeota- ble newspapers drew attention to the dishonesty of Brady's conduct, - and that Key ignored them deliberately and irom design. - I'l-la it not a very suspicious circum stance that Key should be defending Brady - in , the face of the. widely known facts and the immense cumu lation of evidence that has been pro duced in the New York Ttmes. - the leading Republican paper? " Key knows now all about the rascalities, Knows now au aooui me rascalities, and yet be professes to believe that. xrauy is i mau oi mgu uouur,wu a victim of persecution and unjost obloquy. Innocent Brady I Wilfully blind Hey! Surely the -"innocents. areagain "abroad." Whilst Key is altempting io varnish or whitewash hia man , Brady the localities supposed tQ bfl benefited by Brady's grand schemes of government plunder are - - - ' Til HI 1 1 II IT LSI HIM HAUUHUm nUU H1H WHSIl -o r r. . " inff their hands vigorously of all ira- w panties connected; witn tne tnievmg . . , ... ... . business. Bob lngersoll's organ, the Wash ington Post, publishes another of the blatant infidel's harangues. It pur ports to be a rejoinder to his clerical critics in New York. We beg par don, for another bit qf Ingersoll, as served up by the Post: 'If there is any God I expect to find myself credited on the heavenly books for my defense of him. I did say that our civilization is due, not to impiety, but to infidelity. . if he would read his 0)d Testament with care he will find that. God violated most of His own commandments, all except "Thou shalt worship no other God before me,' and, may. be, the commandment against work on the Sabbath." TBIBVNB. PHILOSOPHER ; TUB SOU rH. ' IN We purposed a week, or so ago directing attention to a long letter in the New York 2Vatine, written from Jb lorida. and eiviner an account of what the writer saw.. It is from a - i . - . .... special correspondent from one sent to "spy out the land.? The Tribune is such a. senseless . maligner of the so patent that they deserve no con- sideration from the Southern press. But its special correspondent appears to have gone through the South with a constant succession of surprises. He expeoted to witness very differ ent scenes from those that were pre sented actually to his eyes. He had been on this tour of observation for a considerable time, and what he testified to finally must have sur- prised the people in the Tall Tower as well as the readers of the Tri- I bune, so fallen from its " first estate, I who had been taught to look npon the South as a sort of Ash an tee, filled with semi-barbarians and with the dry-rot. He saw no signs of murder or brutality. He went about unmo lested, visited "most of the mills often alone, observing and examining everything with all the fulness aad many operatives in their homes, in - specting their houses and surround- . . - - ings, learnibg as much as' possible --..jr social ana personal nanus, nse oi leisure time, their morals and general I tone, temper and character. He I says all of the bands he talked with I declared themselves satisfied. "I conld not observe anywhere any indi cations of restlessness or discontent QtriAn rw t Vi a mill rtAAnln 99 In fact, the special correspondent was taken' by surprise all the way through. . . .He 'saw things--mahy things "not dreamt of in' the philo sophy" of 'the Inbune orfice. He found the working classes more oon- tented than they are In the Northl I BQt hear from him. "The Southern operatives are more placid and contented and less restless than people of the same class iq New England They are more domestic, settled and regular in their habits and character. There is far less moving about from place to place and from one mill to another here than in the North, AU.or very nearly all, the hands in Southern factories are Southerners, natives of the re gion around the mill in which they work; ana tneyau neiong to a more primitive, simple and old-fashioned order of things than is now anywhere in existence in coo nection with the factory life of .New Eog- iaa." He filoses' fris view with the an nouncement: ' Io'varlous parte of the South I see signs or tne graauai accumulation or capital, and of the work of laying the foundations .for new or expanded business enterprises, a coral-insect kind of work going Oo out of sight.' but which is sure to be manifest by and by." It not being . election times an oCyearao to speak nowthe IriA I bum sent centleman - who would , " . ...... . .. . ..... , , write the truth. We thank him for his candor. When the Radical parly wto he served the Tribune will be true to itahHlincu and will send one of the old hellers'' wkb Win r. dp his ! tlif tyx,Worlc in aTtfaite maBteriy raan ion. l ractioe makes peneci. -since.te .are giving Republican Uie Soulh -we may riot -overlook - another - witness, if A writer ,-i in 1 the Cincinnati Gazette says'; hd has traveued for five years in the' South, and he fa 8atifified fully that many of the so called "outrages are - lies out of the whole -'cloth."' lie s saya some happen, : bu 1 not in ibe ; wky .- related and not "from ' the causes usually assigned n.- He is1 not -a one sided witness, however, and he testifies' that many horrible outrages" have ' oc- ourred for poluicar reasbn8,, such a8 the ChisoimTredyynhe Cain! ft0j (S. C.) and Silverton massacres, the Coushatta, Colfax, and Feliciana troables. and manvV mor But he says other reported "outrages! did not occur as given nor for the reasons mentioned. Ut this kind be men tions "the' Vickeburg massacre of 1874, the Clinton riot, the killing of Dixon at Yazoo, and the Heath mat ter, lately ventilated in Congress.' He says of the notorious Vickeburg tragedy: --:...'.' - "Dixon would have been killed in Ohio if be bad .openly charged one man' with murder, . another with theft, and a third with incest, as be did In Yszjo. A man who habitually talks that way in the West or South is sure to run against the wrong man soon or late." : - ; ',. . u He says after deducting all such cases, "there biiu remains a ratner heavy and black residuum; and im- partial history will write that there I was either a good deal of bad blood I down there in the years following the war, or that Government blundered badly in its way of treating it, doing just enough to irritate and not enough to govern," , Doubtless there were outrages in the years immediately following the war and for "political reasons. This was natural when it is remembered how the South was persecuted, op pressed and robbed. The negroes were otten tne aggressors; some times they were the pliant tools used by bad, designing white men, and now and then the avenger did his re morseless work. . The Government is mainly responsible for the bad blood and the severe redress. But why go back to the pas to ten -years ago? Only a few weeks ago, old Dawes, in the Senate, stigmatized the whole South and paraded his liar, Heath, to make good his infamous, groundless charge. Last year the outrage mill was in running order and the grist was abundant. The South ' was one wild scene of disorder, bulldozing, and murder, according to the Radi cal correspondents of Radical papers. But now, all is peace, even according to the very papers that were most oonspicuous for teeming falsehoods and unblushing slanders. Grant's biographer, Badeau, ir. his glorification of his hero, is a very nn- trustworthy fellow, as we had ocea- sion to intimate recently in his ac count of Grant's losses in the cam paign against Gen. Lee. The Fhila-; delphia Times says: "To make out his claim he has liberally falsified public documents, and where a point was to be gained ignored others. General Boyntpn 1 case which illustrates many. After I the capture of Fort Donelson Gen in Li ir i. -ji.a want Save P w unrjnateu commander, Halleck, was seriously I i.Tmo tnrha ormv najaa iQ;ma in his socaUed history that no evi- dence of this could be found in Wash ington, but Gen. Boynton produces iromtbe War department file the whole correspondence, which is worth presenting." Grant got on one of his old fash ioned drunks andi forgqj all about I tnQ safety of his army, : We may give tne correspondence hereafter. In Gen. Halleok's last letter to Gen, MoClellan, dated March 4 tb, 1862, he writes: "A rumor nas lust reaonea me a A a ' that, since the taking of Fort Donel son, tieneral Grant has resamed bis former bad habits. If so, it will ac count for bis neglect of mv oft-re peated orders. I do not deem it ad- visabla to arrest him at present, but nave placed General Smith in com mand pf the expedition up the Ten- iicoDur. i. iuiuk amiiin win restore order and discipline. 7 Badeau tries to ignore all this, and lies about it. Grant was so bad off that Gen. Smith had to be sub stituted. It was Mr. John Carmichael, of Loudoun county, Va.. who lam pooned little Silly through the mail. He wrote to Senator ' Vance on a postal oard:: ."Please send me your speech on the d d dog, : Mahone." The postal was stopped at the Wash' ington poBtofHce Mr. C. will be ar- rested bv a U. S. Denutv Marshal. , ; ... ,.. . When did Nortb, Carolina pass the ordinance ot Secession ? I Was it on Mar ooih or Mav Slat. 1861 ? Onr 1 recollection' is tnat; it was on may 20th. But the Charleston News gives the latter date and upon the follow ing authorities: T A 'Haven's National Handbook of Ameti-j can Progress ; McPhersbn's 'History of the: Rebeilionaad The-AmerlcaD Cyclops lia, all or which- concur ,io saying that the Ut- dinaoce of Secession was passed by North Carolina on May 21 1861." -' ,"- -. ! I Polk's "Hand Book of North Carof lma" is the only work' by us. That says the Legislature "waa "called ; by the Governor to meet in extra session May 1, 1861, that it met' and .passed a bill calling a convention to meet on May 20th, and that'on the first day of the session an ordinance was unani mously adopted which declared, &c." t tit is to be feared that many editors I who are not as familiar with the old revision of ,the New Testament as they might bet will make some very' inconsiderate and .- untenable criti-j cisms upon the new revision , Al ready there are sign's of such blun ders. He is a verv rash - man who will condemn the work of some forty eminent Biblical scholars and critics extending through ten and a half years, and that too after tho most superficial glance - -t The New York Times gives ac count of some thefts in the U. S. Treasuty Department, for which the 1 Chief clerk and the custodian of the, building are responsible. Secretary Windbm made the discovery, and the I Times savs the mvestiffatiou rro- . " a ... : 1 fin anAnnanr.Ai" . - -I I tion of affairs. Suppose the DemoI crats could get. into power wouldn't there be a ripping up and exposing of the Radical concern ? It is reported that Conkling had to make a bargain with Gov. Cornell to secure his support. " The understand ing is said to be that Vice President Arthur surrenders control of the city "machine" to save' his friend Conk ling. I Bargains- are in order.. Gar field once bargained T with ; Oakes Ames, and afterwards" with Roscoe Conkling.' Now Lord Roscoe tries his hand. Dr. Loring, the new Commissioner of Agrioulture, goes into office July 1st. Dr. Loring is thought to be qualified eminently for the new post. The ousted man is Le Due, and has cause to blame the luck. A Flourishing Town. Laurioburg, the sprightly town which so many of our citizens visited on Sunday last on the occasion of the church dedication, is in Richmond county, ninetyfive miles from Wilmington, on the Carolina Central Railroad. The shops of the C- C. Road are located there, and some of the beat work in the country is turned out- from them, under the management and direction of Mr. James McGlynn, Master Machinist, who baa now under process of construction the second largest engine and boiler in ihe United States, all the work; . npon which is being dose in the shop, including the forging of the axles. Mr. H. Behkens, of Wadesboro, baa the cjntract forbwldiog a new round house for the company, which will bo commenced soon.1 The town is I improving very rapidly.:ahd even the de- structive confltgrations which have almost devastated the place two or three times itim to nave resuuea oenenciaiiy . in some respects,' as the " buildings .which were destroyed have very generally been re placed by belter and more substantial ones. The town has .nearly' recovered, from the effects of the last big fire, and it is said that going up in different locations, while prepa rations are being made to build others. In the meantime house room is in demand, and building operations will be pushed forward as rapidly aa the neccsaaryj material can be secured. Messrs. M. G. McKoy & Bro. are I now engaged in making iheirown brick for the construction of three! brick stores on Main street. There are four very neat churches in the placer the Presbyterian, Rev. Mr. Coble, pastor; the Baptist, Rev. Mr. Stowe, pastor; .the : Methodist; Rev. Dr. North, pastor; and the Catholic, which. will be supplied from -Wilmington. There are I also two colored churches, Baptist aod Me- thodist. An attractive place of resort in the neighborhood Is the mineral spring, located about one mile north of the town, the waters of which are said to- possess very . decided health-giving properties. Laurinburg has the good fortunate to be situated in the midst of a flourishing section and no doubt has a bright future before it, especially as it has a very good newspaper the Enter- prise established there, which is calcula ted, if the efforts -of Bro.-McDuffle are properly seconded by the business commu nity, to bring the place into prominent no-- tic? and stimulate well-directed enterprise among its ciiig9os. Wilmiogtqa naturally feels a warm interest in the place, so many of her former citizms have become identi fied with it. i. v'-i '. i' -. - An Unrivalled Hair Dressing. PRODUCING AS BICH AND CXKANLY APPEAR AHCK AS IF NATURE ALONE HAD IM PARTED IT. , I BUP2TE1TS COCOAINB is the best and cheapest Hair Dressing kills dandruff. aiiays irritation ana promotes a vigorous ana neaitny erowm or the hair. JSo other compound produces these results. '1 he superiority of BUKNICTT o FLA.- VUKiitu JJtl KAUl'S consists in their per fect purity and great strength, j They are war ranted tree from the . poisonous oils and ds whicfr enter into the composition of I SiM8 fftCUliU8 1 fl4TOr8 noV . .... - ,i . i -. Oed;cailon of a KornmnlCaiDollc Vbnrch at Laarlnbarg; -ree Crowd In Attendance, f ! ! ' ' 1 Sflndavlaat was hq occasion lone to be remembered by the Ca holic&of Wilming-' ton , and Laurinburg. It ;bad been ao- .nounced by advertisement ttie Wilming ton daily papers that a special train would be ruo to Laurinburg and back on that day, in order to allow all who wished t attend i r . ',, , i.rtTniiT-nnrrrmrr4hi''l"'ni''Ff Uointy Y-ntrrtY. as manv tjpportoniiy of 'doing ; lot 'AilIrgetjcrdrw"'d - - - - 1 wbicu completely tilled ' tour coaches, availed themselves of the privilege. 'Ar rived at Laurinburg . Marge congregation assembled at thernew Catholic church on McLaaria Avenue at theaDnoioted boar for the dedicatory services. Rev. Father GroEsj of St. Thomas' church, WilmiogtbnV offi-f Rev. 'Father Hohmaa;of the same , churcbl ' The clergy and assist- ants came out and formedjo prccesaton at the entrance to the door,rand went around the church, spriokiiog : the walls with hal lowed orlblesaed" water.. rTJpon: going into the church airkoelt in the sanctuary before; the altar and recited 'the LHaoy. of j the Saints. I A prayer was then recited, dedi cating the church to tho Befvice of ' AI-' mighty Ood under the title - of St. August- tin, after the Bishop of Hippo, Africa. The ceremony was followed by High Mass and a sermon by tlev.l Father Gross, in which he gavej a, learneq and very lute'restingl sketch of the Roman Catholic ' church,' its modes of worsbio and of the distinguished Fathers Who have figured from time to time in the: progress of its bistorv. v. mk t The music on the occasion 'was rendered by the choir of St. Thomas' church, of this city, and was exceedingly appropriate and artistic.' " '. " f The new church is a wooden ' structure . i j , , , 1 , altar-piece is a very! handsome picture of the Crucifixion.about eight feet high, paint- ed b7 ODj of the Sisters of Wilmington aod presenieu,- to tne caurch by Kev. Father ." nm i l? - - ro8S- "BMwcn ssworiDymonument tn thn rplicrinna 7-a1 if t ha f oar Hsthnllnii i Lanrinbnrer.who number onlvahnnt a rinzen families: and especially to Mr. James Mc Glynn. They were aided in the erection of the sacred, edifice by liberal .contributions from persons of other denominations, the Catholics Of Wilmington also kindly assist- g. i , I . I ' : '.. ; -i The running of a special train proved to be a successful venture, about one hundred and seventy-five dollars being realized over ana aooye expenses; which sum will be given to the church at Laurinburg. The company was oho orderly and well-be4 haved. -A . :. i ! The kindness of Capt. V. Q. Johnson id furnishing the traini is, we are assured; The church will be attended one. Sunday in each montb from Wilmington.. 1 Citizens of Laurinburg turned out in large numbers to witness the ceremonies attend' ing the dedication, j . v .r ..-.j At 3.30 F. M. there! were farther services and a brief sermon from Rev. Father Gross, who remained in the town that night with the expectation of making a trip further up the road yesterday, i j Personal ". 1 ' f The friends of Capt Geo. G. Lynch.acd there is an army of them scattered from Wilmington to Weldon. will hear with pen nine regret (that he has'; resigned aa conduc tor on the Wilmington; and Weldon Rail- road, to accept a'positiph as train dispatcher and assistant master of ' transportation at Florence, j 8. C. Capt. Lynch has been a tftot on the Weldon road for twelve or ia,Ieo years pasi, ana nis ramuiar iace will be sadly missed by the traveling pub lic, though it is pleasant to know that bis new situation is an advance, and that in leaving us he goes to accept a better situa tion, i i - ' : i: - f Fatal Aeeident in liranawick A : Yonne nan Killed by a fflole. j Particulars were furnished the Stab yes terday, through the mail and by persons from Smithville, of toe terrible death pf Mr. Randolph Williams, a son of Thomas M. Williams, Esq.. who lives about a mile from the village. . He had been ploughing about a mile from the house.and unhitched his mule and mounted it to ride home.when the animal threw him and ran. One of bis legs became entangled in the chains and he was dragged all the way to the house, where his father and others endeavored to catch the mule; but the animal turning, lumped a fence still dragging Mr. Williams, who was alive at that time and ran for two or three miles along the road. ( Every attempt to eaten tne muie only added to its Bpeed, and free; by the frantic animal. When his friends reached him he was dead, bis body i : :ui . i j -i - . , . ,. ueiug icrnuiy vruaueu auu uruiseu Dreamine. Reidaville Time? The Raleigh Observer must have been in an evening siesta when! it penned that Prohibition was steadily I gaining ground through the Pied mont section. There is no account ing for dreams, ' . I ";' j" 1, From Anioni i I i; ICortespondence ot the Star. j H ' ' WAlPESBOEO. May 23, 1881.' Judge Merrimon, in his address on Prohibition hereon last Friday, said: "I nnderstand thatAe records show that ' the whiskey dealers in this county have paid no license tax for the last year and only fifteen dollars parch ase tax.' From1 what Tecorda I did Mr. MJget his information ? ,The records here show that the dealers in I whiskey in this county paid their license and purchase taxes promptlv. IT- i- Tklt Lj. . ;1L ( I ir. iu. -uugub io snow, if ne aoes not, where to. look for such records. He said thel records were wrong or mere was aometning rotten arnome. He shohldibe very careful how he iuaa.es ouum uuarges against tne gooa people andjofficials of Anson count v. He may, bejvery anxious for the votes of these people in the near future, as l expect. ne; will be. ;f f A votbb: MEADE & BAKER'S C A R B O LI C WASH ia a fragrant and delightful Toilet Article, which has, by its intrinsic merits, become universally popular wherever it has been introduced.; It arrests and destroys the i offensive odor, caused .by decaying jrana imparts a iragrant odor, to tne breath. Used as a remed v it will srieedilv heal all Needing, Syongy, Ulcerated and Re ceding uums. it is unsurpassed as a rem edy for Sore Ihroat, and has been usedtat Bea witn entire success for the cure of Sea Sickness. l is used and prescribed by the &'SS&& 50 abole- ". uj iuibw.. h ap Avum eou spirits Turpentine 1 Raleigh Farmer b Mechanic: Dr. P. P. Peace, a former citizen of Gran ville has given 10 the Historical Society the books of his grand - sires who were mer-l chants in Raleigh before this century was , ri New Berna Nnt Mw:;:jAbout 1 .350 persons were employed shelling ness at mAm r 1 11 1 1 1 ' nnn - .mnlnvmanf - rl nnnn.n of boxes were canned. - If Mr. Blair could eei soiucieDi iorce io wora inem no. onr truck fat mers- would probably - realize 50 cents per bushel for all ibeir surplus; stock. Henderson. Review:' The!, en gine, two box aDd two llti cars for the Ox ford & Henderson i Road, are - here.i The cross-tits are being rapidly laid and a large quantity of iron is eo routes Under the ef ficient management of Caphi JBaldyi Wil- nama tne roaa will Boon oe comnietRii jCaptj Tom Arriogtoo is superintending the iny iug ui me Bins uu iue ruao. t !T:-j Charlotte Observer'. Col. Frak . Coxei President of the Gounod Club, lis in receipt of a letter from Spartanburg,! ask- -ing the amateurs to present the ''Pirates of Jfenzance" in that place on the 26th instant, and signed by one hundred of the citizens. A member of the caste is also in receipt of a letter from the proprietor of the Green ville -opera bouse offering to give the "Pirates" the use of it if they will present the opera there, - f ; !- Here : are - some mote sales of Person county tobacco, which we find'io ineRoxboro Herald: W. F. Beade, 4,000 pounds, fetched f 1,100; Nathan Fox, 1,900 pounds, Drongnc fOUU; John JSewtoti, 8C8 pounds tobacco, X50 average; James Brad- sber- sold one load at f 50 around, over 1,000 pounds; Y. B. Warren, one load of 1,500 pounds for $792; J, O. Bradsher. 1,100 'pouads, sold for $55 per hundred; averaged for another - lot of 1,700 pouods $55." - fcrson was onjce a pait of Granville, and Us tobacco is very fine..- . 1. 1 Salisbury Watchman: Mr. John H. Enniss, of this city,, has just returned from McDowell county, where he has been examining mineral properly. He and Mr.' George M. Buis, of Marion, are largely in terested in an a&bestcs mine recently disco vered.: .They are developing the . mine. Dr. R. M. Eames, K M., of Salisbury. sailed brr the 19th instant, with Mr .William Brandretb, of Hew York city, for Londou, England. They go on business connected wnu tne company. This company, by the way, prooaDiy owns more valuable mineral real estate than any other five companies in JMorth Carolina, 1 4--lioxboro Herald:. Mr. H. A.' Reams informs U3 that the citizens of Dur ham have sub8Cii bed $25,000. to the stock of the Roxboro Railroad, upon condition that it start from Durham and connect with the Virginia Midland Railroad at Danville. Whiskey -seemed to be plentiful: in Roxboro this week although its tale is for bidden by law. Armstead : Cooing- bam, colored, while bathing in McGee's mill pond last Sunday, in company with one of Mr. Green Evans' sons, was suddenly taken with cramp, in the middle of the pond and. immediately sunk and . was drowned.! Moral Don't go bathing Ion Sunday, j ': ' ' - ; : --u 1 Hendersonville Herald: i There are in tiendersonville twenty stores, dry goods,' groceries, hardware, furniture, books, etc. Five hotels offer the best pi entertainment to the tourist or , traveller. Two l and a half miles from Hender sonville is the picturesque little village and 'surroundings of Flat . Rock, the summer resort of the wealth and fashion of the I seaboard of. South Carolina! A mass meeting was held at Rut be I fordton on the 18th ifist., to consider the construction of a railroad . from Johnsoh; Tenni, onl the East Tennessee and Virgiuia. Railroad by way of Rutberfordton to some point on the Air-Line. The! proposed road is to pass Cranberry Iron Works and cross the Western North Carolina Railroad at or near Marion. Greenville and Spartanburg are both contending for the new road. Raleigh News-Observer: Mr. John 8pelmao will resume the publication of the Slate Journal this week. We under stand the Journal will vigorously oppose the prohibition act. The centennial graded school now has 705 pupils. It mast be the largest school in the State. -Tbere aro now more murderers in Wake jail than ever before at one time. - The Governor (has reappointed the following! Dotanes public, . who have' renewed their commissions under the new law, which re quires them to be renewed every two years': Omega H. j Foster, Raleigh; W.-L,r Smith1, Jr., Wilmington; O. D. Davis, Salisbury; Oeorge H. Roberts, Jew lierne. - uen;. W. R. Cox has appointedj Mr.' John Wj, Hays, ' of Granville, alternate to Mr. W. H. Wilder, for the West Point cadelship from this district. Mr. Hays was a close second to Mr. Wilder in the recent com petiti ve;exam'mation. - - - :a Hew Berne Nut Shell: The army worm is "playing wild workb" with most of the gardens in this city. The passenger train on the A. & N. C. R R. ran off the track Saturday near Falling Creek,r while en route for this city and the first class passenger ' coach was badly smashed up. - Fortunately no one was bun. The scarlet fever is raging to an alarm! ing extent in certain sections east of us. At Hunting Quarters, there is hafdly a family that has not been visited,. and we presume the same may be said in regard to neigh-j-borhoods on the Core Sound, and on South River. Mr. Willis, living at Hunting Quarf ters, was in our city a few days ago, and he said out of Beven children bright and healthy up to a short time ago he has lost five by scarlet fever and expected to find the sixth one dead when lie; reached bomeJ - Goldsboro Messenger t We learn; that Capt. U. W; Vick, of New York, melj with quite a painful accident in ICinstoo, & day or two ago. In passing over the roots! of a large tree standing on the sidewalk pa foot slipped, and, twisting the leg "in an unnatural shape, dislocated the right knee. Rsv. Israel Harding has move4 to Kin j ston and taken charge ot the JSpiscopal church. A neat parsonage has just been completed bv the members of this church. It is said that Mr. Jesse Caudle, of Mt. Olive, formerly a citizen of good re pute, bas left for parts unknown to escape the vengeance of -the law. There are ru- mors connecting him with several robbe ries. He leaves his family behind . him The many friends of Kev. A. Jv Fin- layson will learn with sorrow, that be has taken a relapse and la now; in a very crit- cal conaiuon, and nu recovery is now des paired of. " j ' -1'. ' ' ' ' Watauga items in Lenoir Tonic; Maple Sugar has been selling on the streets at 10. cents ; per pound.' The ' sugar trees on main street, opposite Coffey's hotel, afford a delightful shade. To a per, son coming - from across the Ridge, the great abundance of grass in this cloud land is a revelation. It grows everywhere, even in the woods. Every cleared hillside that is not in cultivation, is a meadow. We have received from Dr. Wj. B. Cou cil a specimen of almost pure iron ore taken from a tract of 1,500 acres of -land lying near Coone'a Gap,' and belonging j to the Tin f alia Iron.,; - Company The ore s said -to be abundant on the tract, Dr. W. B. Council. Presidtut of Ibe Watauga & Caldwell Narrow Gauge Rail road, proposes to effect a consolidation with the Imboden road, and after securing a $50,000 subscription.whicb is pledged to the work, he will obtain 150 convicts and begin! operations as soon as practicable. The Imboden Railway survey, which has pro-j greased nearly to Day's Gap; is reported o be turning out finely. A satisfactory grade will undoubtedly be obtained.' 1