North Carolina Newspapers

-PDBLIBBBa AT rrxijiisrca-TOisr. isr. c $1.50 a Year, in advance. ' SS88S8SS3SSSSSSS3 sinuorc I I SSS8SSSSS8888S- , . I SaS22S2SS92S2885 St 9S 22 00 ?2 -"5 0"0 S 95 SO 00 CO - ft CO cents 288 838 88 t-otteMcVte3e 8 888 ooooeoa 88 loiM. 88 eeo 188288888888 tat-a iSS 15 888S888S oo oi o fj o 88 S8 etc iiosot .' Enteret at the Post Office at Wilmington, C, as second-class matter. N Subscription Price. - -: ,V. . .-v 'I'M ' - The subscription price Of tle WiSKft v SrA is as follows - I inrle 6opy 1 year, postage paid, $1.50 r months, " " 1.00 3 " " " I .50 iviiiiowrGBr.()AB. Wn recur to the narrow railways wlncH we have discnuaed .more than onoK. - All that .we can larn concern 'iZ them l)uL il'fjtiirt unr Conviction that ilu y :r -"an -unmixed ; liieKHinff Httii ail-t!M pit;nHarIy to the South, 'Htnl pKii:iliy to the hiil and morin t tin o-iinueH of our Mate. A nar row yaslge road fr.om Snthvrlin , on lin- llicjiinmiti 5e Danville road via M .!;o:i aii'l Iti.xboro to'Oxford would f ..i" rai. benefit i to that Hection. i)i -..)) i il th money is forlhcom- ! tr i-i-l iIih- jM?MjIe . prefer the wide r in ' lui!l iu liut the -ar rn: itii would ansvver t-xeelleiitly an 1 Ciuid lie ooiiHirucled ami run for a!uL half thcii!t of the wide ianre. When we jo farther west the nar row auye rojul .will b found loan-v-r. vvery puij0!! txept for long iriiik linen. i here are a dozen ,4r morfof conn ties in the hillooontry of North Carolina that would be ad v.iiiocd immensely on the high road io juosjenty if they would make. Micritictfrt fur the time and construct i)Hiri vv liauge rt:idi to the main trunk We have met recently -with- an iu elructivp illnstration of the great utility of the narrow gauge roads,and we desire to use it! at once for. the heiif 6l of our State,' so rich iu unde veloped rt-pources, aRd bo bleened of Piovilnce. : Amongthe 8purn of the LJiUiitllidge in Virginia, by reference to the map, you will find Franklin :ou ity. Taking the Midland ear at Dinville and riding over thirty miles von reach what is known as "Franklin Junction." j Here you find the terminus of a narrow gauge road forty miies long. -By taking the cars yon will laod at the county seat of -FranklirJ, Kocky Mount. . Now this narrow gauge road of forty, miles is not owned by any tich corporation abroad or at home. It was built by . thtf people of Franklin county them selveH. They needed au outlet, and iiiny ueierminea io nave u. ine roid is excellent, and meets their ' , : - - i neoi-ssitics admirably. That you may nee something further of this capital narrow road, we will copy from a very interesting and spirited letter in the Richmond Christian Ad , vocate, from the pen of the editor J He Las been- over the road recently, and writes admiringly of it. He says : ' "The track, with narrow bed. and light rails, clings to the sides of the cliffs, glides through the cramped gorges and scrambles over the rtrigea. The road belongs to the cuuoly of Franklin. With wine public spirit the people voted the money. Tne prosperi ty by this coo nection with the great high ways is seen everywhere. The town of ; Reeky Mount has doubled its population. New building and new business are spring ing up Before the road was finished a citizen, to get to Richmond, must needs go ncross the Blue Kidge to Big Lick, on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, stay all night there, and start at 11 o'clock the next day. Now he can, by close connection, tret to the capital by early sapper on the day of his departure from home. "We became fond of our toy engine and road. It was clear, the people on the line were proud or their iron path and plucky ponies. At the depots they walked up to our nag, fondled and admired it. It brought us to our destination by 8 P.- M., making ; eleven miles an hour."' .! ; ; j Markyou,tbe conntry through which the narrow gange passes is very broken ; and hilly. The little engine takes you alonjj quietly and smoothly orer this rugged, and, in, the winter time, rauddy country, at the rate of eleven miles the hoar, which is nearly as good as l,ho Raleigh & Gaston Rail road was accustomed to make about" the year 1845. The people are de lighted with their investment. Tluy own it and they boss it. Such a road, we repeat, is .the very thing for a score or two of counties in Western Carolina, and might be i : it- i r . ". ' .. i t ' ' " ' s ' ;-; ' " ' j . " : - . ! . - . . & . r . i : r vol: xir. used generally with profit as feeders to great Hunk , lines r outlets for; counties otherwise cut" off. , A road of this kind from Clinton to War-' aw and one from ;doiowto flome point on a raiiroad would be of creat advantage to the people of those icountiop, Wilmiugton , might con- iBtrupt one, from .hero Xfi Bmithville. Thia will be done whenever there is jcapital iii vested in making Batd HeaS a groat surfbathing resort, as it ought to be, and a fine hotel and other accommodations are erected. In the flat eo an ties much better time could be made over a narrow road than- in the bill country. We would suppose at least fifteen or sixteen niiles the hoot might be made, possi bly eighteen. . , , , j iThe following graphic and amusing pesdrijnion :'ofJthe" Franklinrrow gatige -from ''Mr. LaferCya pen will be relished as a pleasant supplement to what has been paid: "The yearling cngine-7-a sort of Shetland pony, as it were,, hut true and plucky as the whet-l horse of the old stageR presently tigh:en d the trce and trotted off. The speed whs the gait of the tmmac bull to the country bicyclts familiar to Halifax street, i'e'eiebimr. when lie m on the home stretch forthe toitil.-r stHck out m Dinwiddic; his stip iSvm'fh y hvelv' for the size of the critn-r ' The gradcB are rapid dps nn-l oownf, like the shaking of a car let. Th rnivt'8 are worse than the let ter 8- ; If jiiu re -concerned as to the wherrabonta uf : the spirited Iittlo loco motive, jast look oat of the. back door of 1I10 hindmost couch I nnd glance to tlx- lighT or left, nnd the trallsnt Mustang is eiilu-t uHilopint; , through the chinquapin bu?hrp on one side or careering among the e'dtr -hfuhbi ry ftlung a branch on the other Kido. 1: they dou'ifciraighten tmt tbedoub Hinii at certain poin's some will play a practical j"ki. by tying th- bnch pin of the r ar car to. the. cow-caK:hrr with a trunk Mrap wblh- p'lintf around h bend, and ham- s rmg ihia tnnt Bintio. . 1 bese last two par aernphs are xiiiten a a sample of pure and nrunixeit llyiwrhidu, ami to assist tHschrs in ihetoric iu illustiating that fig ure.' 2 ,:. -iii .-;'- : ,. '".--..i fThe more narrow gaugo roads North Carolina has the better. Bat to get them the people interested must emulate the example of the peo ple of Franklin county,Virginia,and, determining to have them, let them make sacrifices to secure them. j j According to the rt-port of the Census Bureau the total production of tobacco t in North Carolina is i - - - - 27,000,000 pounds. -This knocks to pieceH the pt-cuIations'or writers that the crop was much larger. North Carolina ranks seventh in the list as tO( quantity, but as lo - quality there is rone to compete with her. Bat thi fact does not appear in the re port. There ought to be a State Tobacco Association, and one of its chief duties should be to report an nually the sales of. North Carolina tobaoco in the .Virginia markets, and to disseminate the result throughout the world. The very superior grades of North Caroliua tobacco will never be known abroad in the North and iu Europe until this is done. There is one house alone in Richmond, Va., that sells a great deal of oar fine golden tobacco, and at high figures. This tobacco is credited to Virginia, when that State cannot produce any such weed. ; . The people along the Northern border of our State arc resolved evi dently to crush out the whole breed of rapists. --The quiet people of Stokes county, which adjoins the county of Rockingham where the other hang ing occurred under the .decision of Jndge Lynch, have given a . quick journey to another world to two ne groes: in prison for "deflowering a white girl and a white woman. The white, tneu of North Carolina will break cp this devilish business or hanging will beeome as common as it irin Texas. . The brutal, lastfal ne gro who yiolates the person of a jwhite . woman will - be harried into eternity without awaiting the uncer- Jainty of a verdict or the forms of aw. It will .be .understood after awhile that the negro who lays his hands in violence upon a white wo man dies, ill is a stern and swift process, bat necessity regards no law. We print in this issue a letter from Hon. O, L Dookery on the prohibU tion question. We shall ' probably have letters from one or two promi nent Democrats on the .same question in a few days..;; - , . ' , As wo pablished , .what N. B, Brougiiton said of "RevS. B. Brown," the speaker of the late anti-prohibition convention, we ; will now state that Rev. S. D. Brown publishes a card in the. Raleigh State Journal denying Mr. Broughton's statement that he was unfrocked and proves it by the "mirtutes of the second anpual session of the Elkin Baptist. Associa tion held in November, 1880." Rev. S. D. was-, the speakerreferred to.-f Tarboro Southerner. 1 -; 1 A SUB It JUAN BIAKING HIS OWN Gen. Sherman - is generally consis tent. - He is almost certain: to betray the cool insolence 'of his nature! and its 1 inherent ; meanness, X06. .when ever he speaks or , writest He bas written a letter to a Capt.f T. H. Lee, of New; Jersey; " that is so char acteristio of the infamous fellow who, harried and burned and plundered as- he went, that almost ' any one coald rhave4.guessod the authorship if there had been no name attached. In this choice specimen of epistolary writing; he says ' that the ' North ought to write all the histories of the1 war as ,the Nortb "conquered the rebeiiion.? If the authors of the histories were charged , with $ as much . vr vindicv tiveness, consumed with asmach hatred; " filled wltn ; ; ' as inucb depravity and animated with a simi lar spirit of diabolism and untruth as this Northern Alaric, those histories would be preoious monuments of bile, slander and falsehoods. : This nine teenth century vandal dares" to say actually ' that the Southern people should not be allowed "to write their old worn-oat theories, and impose them on strangers as a troth fal ac count of what they could not help." Bat let us hear this house-burner farther, fie says : - "We must sneak and - write, else Europe will be left to infer that we conquered not Dy courage, stun, and patriotic devotion, but by bruto force and by cruelty. The reverse was the fact. - The Rebels were no toriously more cruel than our men v We never could workup our men to the terrible earnestness of the Southern forces. Their murdering of Union fugitives, burning of Lawrence, Chambersburg, Paducab, &c, were au right m their . eyes, but 11 we burned an old cotton gin or shed it was barbarism. I am tired of such perversion, and will resist it always. ! ; If the reader would see how this fellow acted in North Carolina how he devastated : and burned let him read Mrs. Cornelia Spencer's "Last Ninety Days of the . War.w If he would learn; of the vandalism and brutality of the Federals in the Val ley of Virginia he can find it in a thou sand sources of information. Hun dreds of dwellings, some of them costly smd ancestral; even tho very mills; that ground f the broad for the- hundreds of thousands, were destroyed by the torches and turpentine of the army of plunderers. The outrages perpetrated iu the Val ley werein many instances as horri ble as those that have marked the most horrible wars : of the last five hundred years. That Southern sol diers, knowing the wholesale deviltry and destruction practiced, sometimes retaliated is only too true, for brave and compassionate as the true South ern soldier was, he was i yet human and the worst passions of his breast could be aroused by the beastliness and savagery of the enemy he fought. But let usjturn to the Great Bummer himself. Let us seo how he bore him self as an invader. Let us see what qualities of mercy he displayed. The South Carolina papers have before proved their case that Sher man burnt Colombia. They are again proving it. Let the reader get the touching, graphic, truthful ac count of Sherman's doings in South Carolina as set forth by the trained pen of the late eminent William Gilmore Simms, if he wonld see what sort of a barbarian the vain glorious Sherman ; is. Then read again Halleck's hint to the Bummer and Burner that he should sow Charleston with salt, if you would have your hatred of meanness and deviltry intensified. Said the virtu ous Hall eck to the child-like and merciful Sherman : - "Should you capture Charleston. I hope that by some accident the place may. be destroyed, and, if a. little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of Nullification and Secession." j-:-.. ''?'; .,: :,;5. . Sherman's1 reply we - have pub-? lished. Ho tells his twin-brother in villainy that he would bear it in mind and a certain corps would attend to the inhuman suggestion; ; " " ' ' - j . Mr. Daniel .-; Hey ward, ; of New f 1 York, writes to the Charleston News & X Courier; on 1 the 8th instant, as follows : ' - "I beg for myself to say that I saw the first soldier of Geo. Sherman's army who crossed the Savannah River, and with him camerc In a very short time, on the west side of the river, every dwelling; negro cabin, barn and everything that could burn was on fire. From where I was I could see bis fires for forty miles. .. ; 'After leaving Savannah he ' went to Beaufort and crossed at Port Royal Ferry , into South Carolina proper. I was there' again before him on the Combahee River. There again every building, dwelling, negro quarter and barn - went down , before his torch . And so on did he go in bis march of one hundred and fifty miles to Columbia, driving the women .and children into the woods and swamps, without cover and with-' out food." jr 1 v.ivc.i fit.' i: -1ijj'. J WILMINCTPN,: Ni; C;, EKIDAY, ; ;Of ih'e:.burn '. Mr, Hey ward -flay ai riVVi;??f 0t!-ll!?C;4 s M YaiiIb sheaUied his 'i&oord and with aj torch in his rigbt hand he led Mb . 14.00Q men Into thatHty, whose very atmosphere was terror; "Tne horrors of .'that night no' one can tell ' Old men and women, moth ers and children and maidens,- iu the ; dead of night, turned into streets arched with fire and filled with 14.000 soldiers, flJs jtis the nineteenth: century hkd MlA Mr. Hey war,d then gives an account! of an intet vie wiwithi Gem Robert E. LeWhen!thcrand old 4BoldieruWhs on; hi$ ;yaytd'Flbrida in -ieafchr health. Ho asked the foliotng "qiiegjr-, tion: . ypas Gen. sfaerniari justiGcd, under' the usages !of waf id- burning, as be passed thxeigh. South Carolina, Jho houses of our jwomei-apd children "while our men were iin ;b .field, fighting him 'bravely?"' His Seye'.flasaed as oil U battlefield, and half rising frm Us sgal,he8aidTn S voice more emphatio than I ever heard him: "JVJj, sir) No. sir. It wig the act of a mvaae. and not justified by tAtsass of toar" , : ..... j t A writer in the News nnd Courier gives some account of the burning of Columbia and of tho testimony off a gentleman connected with' the.' en graving department of the Confe'de- fete JStates, located at Columbia. t t is this: . ,-i iu&., - .- -.'.' I "He said spies from Gen. S.'s army in Confederate uniform were in Columbia several days before the city was occupied by the Federals, and they told several per sons that Columbia xoouid be burned by Gen. Sherman. Certain dwellings were spared because their occupants were i of Northern birth 1 How could the winds so direct the flames from the burning cotton a9 to leave those houses and destroy Christ Church and other detached buildings?" . . , Mrs. Elizabeth A. Meriwether writes to the Hartford Times an ac count of the way she was treated by Sherman. He robbed A her : of ; her property because her husband was in the, Southern army. ; Sho , gives . a most pitiable .history of , tho ; affair. She sought an interview with the Northern .Vandal. . She had nothing left to live on. Wo can make room but for the following : . ; ; , . , j . ! ? t ; "Gen. Sherman then told me that as long as my husband stayed in the rebel army he would not restore my property 1 said to him: 'Gen; Sherman, it you take from me my utile rents, I will have nothing to feed myself and my little children upon.! Gen. UUDtlUBU A V (pitVVa IU U WOW - ; TV Ut UD U(J MAV glanced down on his shirt front: 'twould give you a set o: shirts to mane tor me 11 .1 had not given them to a woman who says I have robbed her of all she has.' ' : "I made no rejoinder, but took my two little ones by the hands and left bis pres ence. ;" ' .'-'."--.'..?..'" - " : "Shortly after this Gen. fihermaa ; pub lished io the morning papers an order, say ing that for every one of his boats fired upon by the rebel soldiers, he would banish tea Southern families. My name was among the first ten ordered to leave. The names of the ten Southern families, among which was mine, were published in the New York Herald of that time." ' Mrs. Meriwether is the author of thenovel, "Master of Redleaf," and is of North Carolina ancestry. Her home is or was it Memphis. , j l it - ' . 4 DR. GKISSOIS AND THE DEJAK- l ' NETTE CASES. v We have before us the report of Dr. Eugene Grissom of the trial of James T. Dejarnette, at Danville, Virginia, for the killing of his sister on July 8, 1880. It is from' the ad vance sheets of the Jane naVnber of j the North Carolina Medical Journal. This case excited much interest throughout the conntry. The deliberate killing of a sister, the former . respectability of the family, the intense feeling manifested against the prisoner, the wide-spread com ments of the press, the grounds of acquittal these causes all conspired to give to the case a very uncommon interest. r The press generally condemned the finding of the verdict upon the plea of insanity. The Stab, amongst other papers, did not approve of the ver dict. It did not believe that the plea of ! "emotional insanity,", set up' so often in the North, ought to find its way in the South; ; It condemned on what it saw, and it condemned hasti ly. ! After reading Dr. Grissom's able and thorough discussion) f 48 pages we are ' constrained . to say :this: no jury ; would have been justified in hanging the ' prisoner in tho - faoe of such testimony.1; ; In other wprds Dr. Grissom has . proved his case; that the mind' of the .prisoner was disaased,and that be was a victim. not of "emotional insanity," for no such plea is pretended bufr of heredi tary insanity. The evidence to estab lish this chief point, on which the whole defence hinged, seems to be conclusive. No , man could be con victed in f any court in the face of such evidence. :-, -. uim-ui . It is not necessary that we should go into the matter at large. There was insanity on both , sides of the prisoner's family, and for more than one ; generation. The witnesses all testify to his . strange conduct for months previous to the murder, and of the very perceptible change he underwent. ' One 'physician had ( t4 sJj IT' a is '-u' uifat ij treated., a Jdipease- he suffered tuat is often allied" lnumaten insanity. Two ,skilful, experts, gave it as their decided : opinion that he was laboring under "delusional in sanity'' that" alf off. the faculties of ii'J JilfJJiy ;;Ui-; ---i uis uiiiiu weru ltuuutrcu. . : Dr. Grissom's testimony was clearr ! unwavering;, decided. He was very sharply cross-examined " and at great i t-vr. - TT- v jKtMtrui. i y o quoit) iruiu um partem ItbeReport becaaso it corrects error into which the Stab was led' th:: i ?The crosa-examination continued f or the retnainder of the day, taking a wide range concerning the causes, manifestations and characteristics ; of insanity, tho physical effects of the disease, its hereditary trans mission, and the responsibility of the insane Sot their acts, developing only the reiterated expression of Opinion by Dr. Grissom that he recognized insanity only ax mental impair' merit produced by a disease of vie oratn, and did not believe in a moral or an emotional in sanity existing without a diseased brain, tho physical basis of all mental faculties, and that his ' opinion' was, that the prisoner suffered from ordinary insanity with delu sions, the opinion being based upon the family' history of the prisoner and his own history.?.-- .yv k-n r. ; 1 j Dr. Gri880in through somo twenty; pages number quotes i; at large from a of .writers , upon Medical Jurisprudence in ; justification of iis theory as to 'delusional J insanity," writers of celebrity in Europe, Groat Britain and tho United j States. He gives the opinions, of Dr. Gray and other medical experts who ; have treated hundreds and thousands, of cases of insanity.' All the authorities go to sustain his theory and to justify hia opinion in the Dejarnette case. In; introducing his long arra'yof authori ties he says: j; .,- . .1; 1 "The corner-stones .of. absolute cod elu sion in Dejarnette's case are:: - j ) "1. The existence, of hereditary predis position to insanity. 'I - ' : "2. Its development as exhibited in many ways, and notably by delusipne. j '.: i "It is true that the acceptance of the fact of the power of !i heredity baa long formed one of the elementary propositions of medi cal philosophy, but in view of efforts to debauch and mislead, the public mind, it may be not unwise to return to these fa miliar principles ' which have been charac terized as visionary and peculiar. -'" ! "Let us record from the vast number of facts industriously gathered from the expe rience of mankind a few conclusions : from the first authorities in medical jurispru dence in England, on the Continent and io America. ... i; ' -.- ' i , :-. -:U !"It will be found that from the earliest observation to the present day the weight of intelligent opinion, and from the most skilled observers, grows steadily more and more; as information widens, to the ac knowledgment of , the overwhelming im portance of JieedUary in the development of insanity." f- . j ?;-.-5-,--s-;- j;; -: ' iDr. Grissom deprecates the haste with which the! press condemned the witnesses and the jury and the voice of the people which demanded that the prisoner should be hanged. He acted from a high sense of duty and in the interest of soienoe and humanity. He quotes appositely from a lecture be fore the Royal College of Physicians by Dr. Conolly to this effect: 5 "The same ' courage which causes ; the physician to brave the dangers of pesti lence, should support him in this duty, be neath the assault of pestilent tongues and pens. Not the voice of the people calling for executions, nor the severities of the bench, frowning down psychological truth, should shake his purpose as an inquirer and a witness. His business is to declare the truth, . Society must deal with the truth as it pleases.' Dr. Grissom says that after the prisoner was acquitted he was placed in the N. C. Asylum under his charge, and that "there is no reason to doubt that he was not only insane when the homicide was committed, but that his disease has affected his brain to the present time." . . The. Report is well , worthy , of being ; read by 1 all lawyers, ' Judges, 'experts, and men who sit as jurors.- 7- -. -;. ; ; - Fender Superior court. -' In the case of Addie Howard, colored; charged with infanticide, which was tried before the Superior Court of. this county, on jThursday, His Honor, Judge Graves, presiding, the jury at about 11 o'clock the same night returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. , . I ; " -' -: j . a , Messrs. Bland rand Powell appeared for the defence and Mr. Solicitor Galloway for the prosecution. ! ; -'- , . .c , ; i " m, m m . . ! j. - ,' Prohibit ion Verr WeaU. 's 1 i State Journal. . .. ., A correspondent from r Guilford, with excellent means j of knowing, sends us the following: "Set ! down Gnilford 500, Randolph 250,' David son ;500, Stokes 650, Rockingham 1,000,. Caswell 800, Person 250 and Alamance 1,000 ' majorities against prohibition, iri Augusti" t All j right, but we Can do better ' than - that5 my friend: Watch and wait. We are making up OMr, figures,1 and from the way it looks now, you may set down the State at a little short of eighty thousand majority1 against.. A. well informed correspondent writrngfrpm "Lenoir;' county says: "Lenoir county will vote against pro hibition by over 2,000 majority; Jones 1,000 majority and Onslow 1,500 ma jority, To tho West the same writer sends greeting: ", We will cross the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, go ing west, with a majority ; of 40:000 against prohibition." ' ? Asheville Female College, had 190 pupils during the year. - - 1 -I t - i . - I ... . ,. . f . J .. - ; ,-'T ... ! NO. 35. ! t 'J I.' s .1,:. 1 . THBJPEAHDT CROP. , PABTJAI. , PAILTJEBl . IK f4 THNNKSSEB - CONDrriOlI.AND rEOSJfKCTS IN VIB? GINIA AND XOBTH CABOtlNA-PBa- BABILITT .OF BCTTB PEIOKS, ETC. - J .In reply to a dispatch: in .the Baltimore. i uaseue irom rtew xoris, pascu uu uus uum Nashville, Tennessee, in regard to the fail ure of the peanut ' crop - in that State,' the Ciacinnatidcalers" say:; "Hundred of letters have been received ; here , from all parts of. the peanuttQHhiscct.ipulofTen reporting a bad stand, numbers of the far mers having planted the third ' tlme,! and tetiH 'failedHa get a fioodtstand. f Erwy pafge house lar CincinDati;'ha a. resident jrepresQatatlve jn Tennessee, aod . their re porta of an almost .entire failure of the crop" are nearly unanimous. Some say there will pe a vnira ot a crop, 8orjaq,uv ai uoe fiurthf atnliitherf evctf as low - aa'io per pent. For.tHe last five or six years there as been no Eastern capital invested in pea uts n Cijqciunali on speculation. ,.,, The atest. advices from there Btate that the prospect for a crop must depend entirely pon the plants that are now up, as it is en irelyj top' late ,to; plant .more. There has. een a iair average demaqd for the Ten nessee peanuts during the present year;, and the demand! would have' been much larger rut forthe intensely cold winter.". J .- ., - . In reply to a letter from Mr. W.!L Gore, a prominent dealer of this city, Messrs. John croggs' & Co.', of Nashville, under date of June 17th, says: ''Our peanut crop last year vas oyer 700,000 bushels. This year it will got exceed 200,000 bushels. , This is a large estimate; and it would not surprise us if it tould drop to 100,000. Thc secd rotted in e ground and the farmers plowsd them tjp aod replauted . in corn. 5 ..: I Another; letter from the same firm, of an earlier? date,' says: . "The? prospect in our tate is almost a failure. Two-lhirds of the seed planted failed to come up. There will not be over one-third of a crop with us," ' f Messrs. Weller & Worth, of Cincinnati, in their circular of June ISth, say : "Pea- uts are lower now than they will bo within e next year or two. It is an absolute certainty that the .Tennessee crop will be almost a complete failurefnd we have a large number of letters containing very discouraging reports of the Virginia crop.? I Advices from Norfolk are to the effect that the acreage in Virginia will be less and the stand not so good as last 'year. i " j j The crop in North Carolina is estimated by prominent dealers here, based on relia ble information from .the peanut sections, ai about onefourth as to acreage, with the stand not very good. I After- a careful review of the field, we Would not be surprised to see this article of luxury and use, after being so plentiful and Iqw for the last year or so, become scarce and much higher in the season before us. i i - Extensive and Damaging Foreat Plree j On Sunday last, the 19th inst, during a severe storm, lightning struck a pine tree at the head of Colvin's Creek, near the di viding line between Sampson and Pender counties, when' the tree became igniled.and 1 the flames , continued to spread until they had swept over Bome six or seven thousand acres of land, destroying box trees, fences, turpentine, timber and other property, in eluding a large part of the growing crop of corn . belonging to Giles Hayes, colored; which happened to fall within their devas tating course The principal sufferers are Messrs. J. R. Hawes, tL. Vollers, G. W. McMillan, Archie Corbett and Geo. How ell, the latter of whom lost about thirty or thirty-five barrels of turpentine, some in shipping order and some in boxes. The firia was still raging up to Tuesday night, but our informant, Mr. C: C. Woodcock, thinks the rains of the last day or two have effectually stayed the devouring flames in their onward course. J ttlanop Keanc, " f - Our Catholic friends will regret to learn that there is little or no improvement in the condition of Bishop Keane's eyes, the sicht of which has been failing for some time past. He has been forbidden by his phy sicians to visit cither the springs of Virginia or the sea shore,' the atmosphere of these resorts being regarded as too moist for dis eased eyes. The Richmond Dispatch says he has now gone to Harper's ;Ferry, where he; will spend several weeks. Pender superior Conn. . j So far no cases of much importance have been disposed of by Pender Superior Court, now in session at Burgaw. Tester day, however, the case of Abbie Howard, colored,' charged with infanticide, was set for trial, to commence at 12 o'clock, a spe cial venire of fifty" men having been .or dered f rom which to select a jury. Messrs. Bland, of Pender, and Powell, of Sanlpson, were assigned by Judge Graves as counsel for the prisoner. .'l i-1 It is Drobable the Court will remain in session during the balance of the wees. eiiBaek.'.T'''-.-.-". '-'.' t ';.: SoL Moore and Green Harp, the two col; ored men! who were arrested here a few weeks aga on the charge of burglariously entering the store house of Messrs. Westj brook&Bro.,of Pender county, and robf bing it of a sum of money and other articled, and who were taken up for trial before the Superior ; Court, were returned . to our county! jail. It -seems that - the, evidence, was insufficient to connect them with the robbery referred to, but Solicitor Galloway ordered them to be sent back to this coua ty, to be held for carrying concealed wca pons, for which indictmehts are pending in our Criminal Court. - ; 1 : : I 1 . Every mail nowr brings us an number of cotton blooms, but as the first of the season were received and noticed some days . since, cotton blooms are .no. longer a rarity, and our friends will excuse us for failing to specially notice mem. Spirits !fepentm6 Lenoir; lopici The epng-of the oenst is hushed in -the land; but the thou ¬ sands of dead twigs in the oak forests show that they have made abaadaat preparation for another cropreeyeutcn;yeara hence, f- The escaped criminal Jesso-Smith, who murdered - deputy - sheriff .Bdker i d Stokes, has been seen in Alleghany, ?and is. thought to be taaklag his way to 'Watauga. As a large reward iaeffred -for: iiis arrest our friends are advised to watch-out -for -him. -ir-f' .;'ni " 1 Greensboro z?Battle Ground? VRichard Moore's" challeng to the captains' 6f the Raleigh and Asheville gu a clubs, tc -shoot a single match at fifty j pigeons, has been accepted by both clubs, and, -will take place at AsbevUlo on July 4 during the inter-State glass bal . matches, .Qick ,ia a bad 'man with aaun,. be 'having rwon the ; three first prizes in rifle.t' shooting' "at. the schuetzdnfest, in Aiken; S."tJ:; this Bpring, , and we expect him-to do credit to himself and Greensboro at Asheville; -t- f Wrnston 9 Sentinel: 'Were fa a great scarcity of labor ia- our place. Al most everyone is. wanting to hire help, but there are no idlers-. around.- The tobacco ' factories, which usually "have ail the labor ' they need, nearly all want more bands, and. any one who has had any' experience at all1 in a. 'factory can'; fiDd iready; employment here at good wages. -Work haa com menced along the rice of the North CaroL lina. Midland Railroad at 'several . points i The . only draw-back is the: scarcity of . hands - ' ' - v- j . -- - : -.: 1 Gran villeiobacdo sold at Oxford' 'oh the lOth. at ?73.12 average for four j. grades, the highest beine ; 100. K. T. ' iSork sold at $85 and $80, . V: Morton at ' W t50. $75 and filOO, ;S.tR.' Puckett j ayerBged. $54.50 for four grades. Other prices were $67.50, $60, $05, $62, f $63.50,' $85, $78, $76, $59, $50, $68, $71, $60. M.., H. Hester averaged $64.30, receiving $60, $G8, $50. and $80 per hundred pounds. ; There Were many - other -very excellent v sales.; A.' C. Parhain uv'cragcd $63 for three grades. , i J- t. , - f j Henderson' Tobacconist: Mr, , Henry - Smith, pno of our , best and mostv esteemed citizens, met with a ead andun- . timely death on Monday. He was engaged ; injpntting an addition to his dwelling and working alone upon a high scaffold, about , thirty feet from the ground, from which he fell and dislocated his neck. . Mr. Smith was the owner of the Henderson Vineyard, and wasf a man of ..energy and enterprise and t was - very successful in his under takings. He was. of English ' birth, but came here from Canada, several years ago. ' ue was aoont buy ears old. . - , ,i . ' t Mr. A. IL Temple, of Raleigh. . says through the Newg-CbserDer:'I is pro posed to have a reunion of the. eurvivine members of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers, some early day in August next, and that it may be eene- ' rally known please publish this; with the request that the Pittsboro,' iWadesboro, Monroe, Charlotte, ' Hickory "Morganton and WilkesbOro papers will copy this call.- . Oui old Colonel, Z. B. Vance, wdbbe with : us on that occasion. I request that every : surviving member of the regiment who de- sires to be present will notify me. ;' I ' 4- Charlotte Observer: Yosterdav V evening, about 7 o'clock, as Mr. S. J. War-, ren and wife were near the crossing at the : old Richmond & Danville depot, - on their return from a buggy drive, the horse be came frightened at a train, and after : making! several plunges succeeded in get ting from under the control of Mr. Warren and made a wild run up to College street. . where a turn was made and the vehicle . dashed against a ; tree, throwing, out . the . occupants. .Both Mr. and Mrs., Warren were very severely injured, the former re ceiving a bruise on the t forehead, which ,' rendered him unconscious, while the latter received a number of wounds about "the ' head, face and neck, besides having one -knee bruised. v' Oxford Torchlight: The tele- ' graph line will reach Oxford in about ten days!, -i Rev. Dr. Alexander Howell, a prominent colored Baptist minister, died at home near this place on Wednesday last. : He was in his 70th year. He was founder : of the CedarjGrove association ; was 8 years its moderator and was popular and beloved by his people. The farmers have done their! duty by placing Gran ville at the head of the list of counties wUb their four and a half million pounds of tobacco. .Now it behooves the town people, or men who have capital and enterprise, to take this to bacco from our warehouses and nrenare it for the consumer. Why, continue Mo. buildi up Durham, Henderson, Petersburg, , Danville and Richmond? It is well known . that there is more money made from man- utacturmg tobacco than producing it. .. . : iToisnot Home: Our sister towns, Rocky Mount and Tarboro, are exorcised . . no little in regard to tho location of the : . fair next fall. We understand large sub scriptions have been raised in both places, rDossy JJattle was presented with a large mirror last week, by the aid of which be is now able to see himself "as others see him." -A colored woman near this place was bitten by a snako( one day this week. , She -is in quite a critical condition and doubts . are entertained about her recovery. Wilson items: The Normal School in Wil- -son ia a great success. Nearly one hundred students are in attendance, end. others are ' arriving almost daily. We learn that . Rev. Mr. Nash and Germain Bernard, of .... Greenville, made prohibition speeches at Pactolus; Pitt county, last Saturday, and were replied to by Elder Alfred Ross, of , e. the Primitive Baptist church. . No particu-;, lars given. ; , .. - -r Warsaw Brief Mention: - We understand that Clinton Female Institute closed its spring, session on last Friday nightj with very interesting exercises by - the students. ' The prospect for good ' ' crops generally are very encouraging. Cot- ton, corn and rice in this vicinity are, as v far as our knowledge extends, very fine. . We learn that a lad by the name of Carter, aged about sixteen years, was shot 1 and mortally wounded near ML Olive, last Saturday might, by a desperado, whose name we have been unable to learn. The deed seems to have been done out of mere wantonness, as the lad had not done any-, thing to the man to cause him to shoot him'. ' Caused by liquor, ' the murderer; being at ; the time drunk. . A tremendous, forest fire has swept away the timber, turpentine, cordawood, etc., -on 20,000 acres of .land in Moore! county.. One farm-house, several out-houses, " one church ; building and a number of fences were destroyed. 4 t . Wilson Advance: J. J. Sharp spoke at the court house last ni&ht against , - prohibition. Next Wednesday night," June 29th, Dr. S. 8. Satchwell, of . Rocky , . Point,1 for many, years President of the North Carolina State Board of Health; will ; lecture in the chapel of the Institute on , "Health in Families and Schools." - We , had the pleasure of hearing Capt. C. B. Denson lecture on "The March of Science in a Century," at Wilson Collegiate Inst i-' tute on Tuesday evening.and the effort was !t a learned and instructive one and replete with deep interest. Prof. Hassell's lec--' ture on "Astronomy," Wednesday night, i , and its interest was enhanced by the aid of OxyCalcium Stereopticon illustrations. ' ' A difficulty took place on Friday, the 17th inst., at W. H. Drake's near HiUiard ston," Nash county, in which Jane Coley, colored, made an attack on Mr. .Thomas D. Drake with an axe, in self-defense, as she alleges.' He shot her with a pistol, - making two Blight wounds in her lower: limbs and one in her arm near the, shoul der. " None dangerous. A warrant - has been issued for Drake's arrest, but at last accounts it bad not been served. 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