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WM. H. BERNARD? X Editor and Proprietor. ; WILMINGTON. N. C: . Friday, September 23d, 1881. y In writicg to change jour address, alway give former direction as well as foil particulars as Where yoa wish ioxu paper to cent thereafter. Ungues jou do txth changes cannot be made. ; TNoUees of Marriage or Death. Tributes ct Respect, KeeolaUonsof Thanks, Ac, are charged far as ordinary advertisements, but only hair rates when paid for strictly in advance. At this rate 50 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Mar riage or Death, j "j; - .i - -r-:i tW Remittances must be made by Check, Draft Postal Money OrderJ or Registered Letter. Post Masters will register letters when desired, i f Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. j. j .-..! " -- t py Specimen copies forwarded when desired. DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT. ; James A. Gaefield, President of the United States, is no more. He died at Francklyn Cottage, Elberon, New Jersey last i night at 10.30 o'clock. After J j a long and painful Bickness borne with marked fortitude, the first citizen of our great Republic has passed into the eternal silence. The country J has ; .been prepared gradually, for this sad event. When it felt the' great j shock on J uly 2d last, when it was flashed throughout the land that he .had been shot down in open day by the assassin Guiteau, "v 1 . i I "- P ' , the consternation and horror were tremendous, and! - -i men of all parties, and all sections and classes and con ditions, deplored! the dastardly act, and one common lamentation and thrill of sadness filled the great popu lar heart All through the more than eleven weeks that have elapsed there has been a growing apprehen sion that bis death might occur soon. Suffering from many relapses, at each - ' -i " H - one the. fears were intensified that he wduld not rally. At last the solemn - i ' i il- -' ; summons has come, and the Presi- aent or nity mi lions of people stands II : ' . i rftHPRf.a nfvlhA l-J-rpftt linmr or nations and of individuals. His phy- S j - i! - H - sicians doubtless did all they could, - . " . - j - j H ' but they were powerless to stay the summons, Death, that is inevitable to the human race has stilled All - over bis heart forever. tins vastcountry. in every city and town and hamlet and home, the deepestregret will be felt. will render his ii - ,'. " His tragical fate name immortal. His memory will be ii --il - ::. - surrounded by a halo that otherwise would never have encircled it. The I . .ii . . ' : ": :- I! voice of party will be hushed over the untry's melancholy and startling si ereavement. The extreme men of - : - - Y I":- if.-.- - -:. - - . .11 sections will I for the time cease heir discords. Oat of the common sorrow, may we not trust that good o the country may come and sec ionalism, once so fierce and" unfor ;iving, may never again' dominate and ground. . "" (' ; Pkesidjcnt Garfield was . in the rime of his physical and intellectual manhood. He was born on the 19 th of November, 1831 and would have Been, therefore, fifty years of age if he bad lived nntil another anniversary of his birthday. lie was a native of Orange, Ohio. I . . . 1 , . i 1 ! "Here lay Duncan, li'ts silver ekia lacedilh his golden blood; And hisgash'd Blabs look'd like a breach in '! nature ; ' v ji;" 1 1! ::f'.-1Jf r -':A -Flir iuia'4 wasteful entrance; therefihe mur .. jvderers, ; -:.;:. -G;;-' 8eepd in the colors! of their trade, their '" I - daggers ' i l . . 'R ;- j : ; : ; ' ; Tjpmaonerly breach' J with gore; who-could I - refrain, p -.'. ' Tpat had a heart lo Tove, and io lb at heart Courage to make love.known?" - No man with a half a heart can fail to lament the "deep damnation of his taking off." Everyi manly heart will sorrow with the bereaved widow and tie fatherless children, j From han- I' dredd ' of thousands of ; pious hearts there will be offered np sincere and fervent prayers to -Almighty God tat ilia grace and blessing may com fort : and sustain j the aged ' mother,' tld gorroWidg.wife and the weeping children in' the darksad hour of a great visitation, if a people's prayers, if a-peopleV sympathy, if a people' profound anxiety and sincere sorrow oould have prevented the great ca Iamityr James A. Gaejield . would ave lived. Ion? in -the 'land of bis fathers and been fathered at'a srreen Id age at last into the heavenly foldi o-day, in these United States, there la one'vastcongTegationortaouTnersr "Mone are merj'rt ends mark,M, than Iheir lives before: The setting tun. and music at the close, r As Ibe lost taste of sweets, is sweetest list; Writ in remembrance, more than things loot; ; pa" . . , We do not now propose to consider the effect .of the President's death upon the future of the country. We must hope that his successor may dis appoint his enemies, put to naught all evil forebodings, and prove himself a man a country-lover, a statesman in the broadest seuse, and the Presi dent of a united, free, and prosperous country. Amen! - THE 80I7THS CASE. If Mr. Davis's important political and historical work causes no other benefit than that which will flow from his discussion of the causes that led to the attempted withdrawal of the Southern States, it will have done much. Both Europe and the North needed the argument . presented. Europe had not r access, somehow, to the material necessa'ry for the forma tion of an intelligent opinion. - The North had so long acoeptedhe in terpretation of the Constitution as expounded by Story, Curtis - and Webster (the latter , only at times), that it knew but one side. The arguments to justify secession were either unknown or rejected with- out due examination. - Mr. Davis has already induced some of the ablest Northern papers to consider the ques tion of the rights of States and seces sion as a constitutional right in 1860 '61, and some of them have made just such concessions as candor and trnth demanded and the Sculh preferred. We have. before gathered some of these recent opinions and placed them before our readers. : The New York Nation; since it be came apart of Carl Schurz's Evening Post establishment, has lost much of the candor and fairness that charac terized it in its beet days, if - we "may judge from some extracts we have seen from its review"of Mr. Davis's work. It has become as smartish and unfair as some of the great dailies, that ought to have written over their portals, in imitation of the dolorous and ; famous Dantean inscription, "Abandon truth and justice all ye who enter here." This paper has not read up in spite of the lessons taught bjr Mr. Davis. It treats secession as a great absurdi ty and without cause. --In this con nection let us quote a brief passage from the Charleston News and Cou rier. That able paper says: . . "The right of the people of the several Slates to resume ibe power delegated by them to the United Slates was asserted at the time of the formation ot the Constitu tion. Virginia, in ratifying that instru ment, expressly declared that the powers granted, 'being derived from the people of the United States, .may be resumed by tbem.' Rew York and Rhode Island were equally explicit Again 'and again the right to secede was proclaimed, and seces sion was openly threatened by Northern States. Nor was there any change as late as I860. Tben the New York 2ri&uw de clared that the right-to secede existed.' Other newspapers were as emphatic as the Iribune in condemning any effort to pre vent secession by coercion." - r: We could multiply easily evidence on this point. It is unnecessary now. The importance of maintaining the right of secession as being constitu tional prior to the late tremendous war is seen in this; upon' it depends the ability of the South to present itself in an attractive attitude in his tory. Establish clearly that the doc trine of secession was not" a hideous political heresy, but a grand princi ple embodied in the Constitution, as taught by the early writers upon that great instrument; and as held firmly by the New England States for the first thirty or forty years after the Union was formed, and the South stands vindicated. Mr, Davis has done much to enlighten Europe on that point. The able writer in the New York Sun has seen the force of the South era side of the great case, and was candid and just enough to - say eo. To-day we. will copy but one para graph from his review, and-it is in very striking contrast with the nnoan did and flippant criticism ofthe ia tion. The reviewer in the 8un says: . "We must no longer permit ourselves to thiok or speak of the late Confederates as 'rebels, for the term 'begs Ibe whole ques tion hinging on the purport of the Constitu tion, and is really, applicable to men who simply held and applied a conception of that instrument which teas not even disputed for many yean after tiie formaUon qf the Union, and to which Northern advocates secession had recourse long before the project of separa tion was mooted at the South. We must not forget that even after the Giilf. States had seceded and formed a new confederacy, so careful a student of American Constitutional history as Horace Greeley: acknowledged that the right of peaceful . withdrawal seemed to lie by application at the root of the powers and guarantees reserved to the individual- commonwealths, and that Ite could discern no power in the Federal Go vernment to coerce a' Slate,?' - , ; We may -mention here that a : dis tinguished and:, honored j gentleman of Massachnsetts ;Wiliani'$iflivan,: a scholar and writer of parts: and a iover of tratht" historto- and- other, some half a century ago published a work entitled "Men of the Re vol a -tion.r We do. not know that it is in 9 . ..... print now. Our own copy is gone. ;W 'never sawu but, cine other. But it is of the greatest value in under standing the political opinions and purposes of the New Englanders in the first twenty years of this century. You will see from the' letters of that time that secession was as much talked of in New England as it ever was in South Carolina in the ripest days when Jail men were stirred. : LAWLESS iOODBINAI IONS. ' The behavior of the stevedores at Savannah was most censurable. What right have they to interfeie with the rights and liberties of other laborers? Not content with refusing to work, they declare that no one - else shall work, r Is not this tho very extreme of lawlessness? There is but one way to dear' 'with mobs-to put ' them down - An oflSoer of the -Jaw is shot down at Savannah While in the dis charge of duty.- It is time that ne groes as well as whites had learned the lesson a very important les son that ; liberty . does not mean lawlessness, and that this is a free country in which every man, be he of whatever race he may has the right to aocept such termr of labor as he may choose, and not as a mob or a body of conspirators may dictate. . Think where all this would' end if such drunken deviltry is to go un checked. The time would soon come when there ' would' be no safety to life and property, and violence would rule and slay at will. Who 'would desire to live in such communities or amid such surroundings ? ' " ' It is conceded that you have the right to say you will not work at $1 or $5 a day; but who gave yon the right to say to me, your equal before the law, with the full rights of a freeman; that I shall not work at any such prices? The truth is that the man who dares to interfere in this way - with the rights of any freeman deserves to be dealt with very ; Eummarily. When there is a combination, a conspiracy to interfere with ' others in proper, lawful work it becomes a positive crime, and should be dealt with as such. We write these things because lawlessness is on the increase, and bad and violent men in the South are endeavoring to outrage the rights of the people. Such crime ought to be met promptly by the constituted au thorities' wherever it shows itself, and a sound public sentiment should sus tain without hesitation or reservation all efforts to preserve peace and pro tect citizens. . ; u CORN BLI US ; HAKM BTT. - We have been asked twice within a week "Why do joa not; write an editorial concerning the anniversary of Cornelius Harnett's death and stir the people of Wilmington np relative to erecting a monument over his re mains T This shows how attentively a paper is read. ' The fact is, an ao complished gentleman of this' city on March 6, 1881, wrote and published in the Stab an excellent article on this very subject, and it was that article and nothing else that reminded the people here that Cornelius Har nett died April 20th, 1781, and that this year is the anniversary of his death'.1 If that article had not been written we would ' not have been asked about a supposed neglect. We refer all concerned to the Stab of the date given above. ' 1 - Cornelius Harnett; a native of Nbnh' Carolina,' ' was - the moving spirit of the Cape Fear section. He wasr a man of superior abilities, ; of great personal courage, was a 'born leader of men. ' Josiah Quincy, when he visited him at his home at Hilton, foond him more advanced in his opinions concerning - the indepen denee Of the colonies thin any of the New England men. This was years before the war.' Such a man should not . be forgo'tlen."' The State ! has' honored his memory by calling a county after him f but the State has placed no memorial fehaft to mark the resting place of one of the tov& most men of the prolific Revolution" ary era. 1 " ' "Such graves as liis are pilgrim's shrines, Shrines to no creed or code confined ? ! ?, . The Delphian vales, the Palestices, , ' The Meccasof the mind; r " ; By referring to the courmanication in the Stab the interested . reader will learn something of how Harnett died . from the brutality of his British 'captors ; - how: no . stone marks . his grave f jn St, jf ames's, church-yard; how the State has taken no steps to j provide a suitable monument. The iaotbpr.Maj. Chraham ; J)ayes sag, gests that the ladies of, the Memorial Association shall, take s tho matter in hand andhaVe"lhe""'remaihs of the 'patriot and friend of . ndmanity'te- znoved to Oakdale, There 6ught to I be I ' appreciation enough ambn.g the men and women of the Cape Fear; section ( the most conspicuous lead er of the tlayit that tried men' bouIs to prompt tho raising of a fund suffi cient to ureet a beautiful monument over Cornelius Harnett. The very suggestion ought lp be so weighty in itself that nor other plea or argument should . be , necessary. , A . grateful, proud, brave and appreciative people should delight in ' celebrating t he- deeds and treasuring the memory of its truest and greatest men.. ,., j . . . "For there are deeds wbicb should nut pass away. And Dimes tbat must rot wither.".! f i PBEMDENT A KT 11 17 K . i .? . -r,- The Vice President was sworn in as President of the United States yesterday, Judge Brady, of the New York. Supreme Court, administering the oath of office, -j The ceremony took place at the. residence of j Gen. Arthur, in the city of New York, at 2.15 A. M. He left in the afternoon for Long ' Branob, in ' company' ' with Secretaries Blaine and James,! and others. May he grow in righteous nessl He has since retdrnod to New York.. Grant, is supposed to have gone with him. COHRBLIVS HABNBTT. -Bditorof the Star: There 4s a slight enor in the article on Cornelius Harnett in the Stab of the 2 let inst. Will jou excuse my caning attention mereir ? . . Alluding to a communication in the Stab of ibe sib or March, 1881, you cause the writer to say of Harnett ibat "no stone marks hia gravo in St. i Jamea's church yard." j. .''" " .Reference to that communicati ml will show tbat what was caid was as follows: -. "There is nothing to rrark the grave of Harnett who died as much a martyr to tho cause he upheld so ably as any who fell upon the field of battle exec pt a bat tered old headstone, with its inscription al most obliterated, in the churchyard of St. Jsmc'8 churcb." . : j . : . j -r s Respectfully, .' ... O.-D. - It has been some time since j we' read Major Daves's article. We have never seen the headstone that marks the grave of-the first man of the Cape Fear section in Revolutionary times, Upon the headstone, as we learn, there is the date of Harnett's birth and death, with a couplet taken from Pope's Fourth Epistle, lines 131, 132: i I i "Slave to no sect, who takes no private . road, , '."! 1 -.1 But looks through nature up to nature's Gcd" - These lines express free thinking. - i We may 'mention that four y ears ago Col. James G. Burr read an elo quent . and instructive paper before the Historical Society of this city upon Cornelius Harnett, in which he gave the inscription from his grave stone, referred to Josiah' Quinoy's visit ? to Hilton, when (be pro nounced in a letter to be found in MoRee's Life of James Iredell, that Harnett was the ;Samuel Adams of North Carolina,) and insisted , that a suitable monument should be erected to h "rs memory, whether .his remains were removed to Oakdale or con tinued to repose where they, had been for nearly; a hundred years. Some steps were taken soon after to re move the remains to Oakdale, but the plan fell through owing (o -some cause of which we are not in posses sion, f-lt is never -too late to mend. In this centennial year of the patriot and sage's death it is a good and pro per time to have him interred at Oak dale near theheroes of the late war, and to place a shaft of native granite over his resting place. . : Maj. - Roger P. ; Atkinson, as . we supposed be would do, is out in a let ter in the Raleigh News- Observer in reply to Mr. Williamson and Mr Stamps.- As we were certain would be the case,h is reply is conclusive. A distinguished Presbyterian Doctor of Divinity,' who has known the Ma jor from .bis boyhood, writes ; to us Within two days: "No one who knew Roger ; Atkinson eould; be made to believe that he J was ever inhuman or cruel to . apy . one." ' . Maj. John "C. Winder writes ps that . the late Col. David M. Carter said to him on seve ral occasions that the Board, of which CoL. C. was the able President until his Iamen ted deatb,: ought to give a. vote of thanks to him (Maj. W.) be cause it was through i him that Ma j. Atkinson ha'di been placed in charge of the -convicts, and that if he were to eave the :d30ard. would not know how to get along - without his valuaa ble services; vr We: think Mr. Stamps would have been : guilty of a great wrong if he had attempted . to. place Maj. "Atkioson on the defensive after admitting that God had sent the cold and - the cold, had produced the scur-r vy. : We publish a; portion of -Maj. Atkinson' letters The: Jetos- Observer says:!mtf7Ti'iriv-i5 1 --f&,i&J .-f--?'-- - '('"f 'V:- -t--;f - t Via rektion fo Msjp Atkinson's letter elsewhere . printed, we , merely say that we did not intimate that he had been forced to resign. We had no such information. - As 8000- as we had particular information ,oo . the subject we slated that he - bad not been forced t resign." jjii vtasvifxAt. lis. - I pnu uyiia,. KOACHES. Rats, mice, ants, flies, vermin", moeaaitoes. insects. &o. i Cleared est by "Roogh on Rats,"; 15c boxe fii uiituuia. .... -i ,. .v- . inlrv Aikiaaoal lsarad f br'h Boart. From Maj Atkinson's Letter In'the Rtleigb NewB-Observer. : As to my treatment of them, etc.,- you will please pardon me for reter- rioer to the following resolutions of the board of directors of the penten tiarv. Dassed July zu, iui, on ac cepting my resignation: Resolved, That we regret sincerely that Mai. R. B. Atkinson found cause for severing his connection with; this board as its oflicer Jlo supervise and manage the State convicts upon the Weste rn No r th Carolin a Rail road, as we have ever found in him .an eni- cient, courteous and capable officer, untiring in his efforts for the care and protection . of the ' convicts ' in his charge, and we feel, sure it will not be an easy matter to nil bis place. " Resolved, ;Tbat Jwe cheerfully, re commend Mai. Atkinson to the .fa vorable consideration of an v and all concerned in him io his new field and wherever his lot may be cast in the future.. He is so well qualified that . we trust and believe he can at all times find suitable and profitable em ployment. -; " ' Resolved, That these resolutions b spread upon our: minutes, and a copy of them sent to Maj. Atkinson at Greensboroi You can' well imagine,' living the life I have, and' having earned some little reputation tor honsiy,. ana a plain, straight-for ward, old-fashioned way of trying to walk uprightly in the path of duty, how indignant I should feel at seeing my name pa raded in the papera-and criticised as one who violated the trust reposed in him by treating prisoners inhumanly. The -Wilmington ' Slar did me but simple justice in saying lam incapa ble: of such conduct, and I have charity enough to: believe even that Mr. Williamson will, when he finds out something more, accord to me a different opinion than the one he now insinuates. , I will add that all through 'the. fall and winter months, and as late in the winter as oould be procured, this force bad beef once a week, molasses two or three times per week,' flour once - every ten days, and! peas and tobacco once per month. The sick were fed on chicken?, crackers, rice, and whatever diet the 'doctor prescribed that could be obtained. . So that the' charge made first by the railroad au thorities that scurvy was, caused by improper according to the doctor, is not founded -in fact. Coupled with this charge of lost time from scurvy, caused from improper diet, was another,that from "improper clothing a good deal of time was lost from frost bites. True,' there were some frost bites rather the excep tion than the rule. . There are some nearly every winter. All bands Ldo not take the same care of themselves. And yet last winter the statistics show that they used more coats, pants and shoes than usual. .Upon an average the hands were supplied with new shoes every sixty days, be sides having old ones repaired. The winter was very cold, but generally' dry. There were no deep snows in the mountains. Besides, orders were given and executed that alb the -working parties shave big firep, and the prisoners were allowed to warm often.; .. Upon several occasions I Ordered in the hands, deeming it too bold to work. But it seems to have settled down that it was "overcrowd ing and foul air" that caused the scurvy. Capt. Stamps says the cells were such as .had been - used .ever since the force had beeu working on the Western North Carolina Railroad. In this he is mistaken. There is a de cided improvement in the quarters and cells since moving the, first time from east of the Blue Ridge; they are better ventilated, there' is more room,' they are new and ocou pied from not over six to eight months, and good hospitals. I unhesitatingly, declare that the accommodations on the West ern North Carolina Railroad, for both' conviots and guards, eto. Were better than I have ever seen on any public work, with or without convict ldboru They were well fed and clotned, pro- perly treated when sick,and not over worked. The physiciaripr; iHcFr Burgin, was particularly, attentive to his duties. . . " ., . .' ' t r ' Captain Stamps, in his communica tion, reflects on f my m anagement when he states that he "should cer tainly have taken the position -before the hoard at its July meeting that. Major Atkinson j must be made to show cause why he should hot be held responsible for the evil effects of overorowding and foul air had he. not resigned before the time," but he admits in the same paragraph that the "disease never would have occur red had it not been for last ) winter's exceptional cold" r v ; i.-. f ;x.v hiiiw i 5 Well, I did not certainly cause the' cold, and if the cells were not large enough,' why not have ordered them to be made larger ?--They were then larger than they; had - been accus tomed to, and ; far better, in : every particular. My judgment w8 that they were large enough. J'" ', Weldon A7etc: We learn that; the fast mail going north and' the through freight collided on the Wil m;ington road, near Dudley-; Stationi It seems that the: freight was going on the side track,' and, when.; half!; way on, the mail came alona at the of forty miles an hour,"' and before the ; air-brakes could stop the train, the engine struck a freight'icaV and telescoped It- The engine was badlv damaged, and five freight, cars, were broken' up. . Tfhe freight " enorinA brought the passengers on. ' !Kone of the passengers were injured. - " - ' ' -f BURNETT'S COCOAINE. Fok pbkma.-' Ttma LOSS OS THE ' HAIR . ,'PBILADEL- ' phiAn's opmiOK-One year agamy nalrl commenced ; falling out .until I was almost oaja. Alter using Uocoaine a few months,' I have now a thick erowth of new bain t n; , . ALEXANDER HENRY, . - no- oi jiasi uirara AveJ I : Utjbketts Flavoring, Extbacts. - al - Ways standard, . f , OF CHESTER ALAN ,UE. A EI n:y; Chester Alan Anhur, the son of an Irisbmanj named' William Arthur, was'bornin Fairfaeld, Vermont, .on the 5th of October, 1830. After the customary New England "scboojing he entered Union College, in ScheV inectadyfl ft "lyibJ'AnTrlvas gffoaled high "up otf ilie list (our5 y eirs later. Like his predecessor Mr. Arthur sup ported himself - whllinl" college, and .served his apprenticeship in the burna ble enclosu re of.- a conn try school r house. After, two years in a ;. Jaw scnooi ana a oriet service as princi pal of the North Powrial Academy, in ..y ermont, Mr. Arthur, came to New York and entered xhe law firm of Culyer, Paisten. & Arthur, after which, and until 1865, he was associ ated here with' Mfl1 HeriryD; Gard ner. The law career 'of Mr. Arthur includes some notable oases. ; One of his first , cases was , the celebrated Lemmon suit. J P. j ABTHTJB IS THE WAR. - ' 3 At the outbreak - of the war G6vi Morgan appointed; Mr Arthur enei neer-in-chief, then inspector generaL and in January, 1862, quartermaster gcueii, : u u uiguer cucufflium can ue pastseu upon nim man xne mention oi tne raci .mac, aitnougn tne war acoount of the State of New York was at: least ten times larger than that of any other State, yet it was the first audited . and allowed in Wash ington; and without the deduction of a single dollar, while the quartermas ters' accounts from other States were reduced from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. During his incumbency every present sent to him was im . mediately . returned.; Among others a prominent clothing house offered him a magnificent uniform,' and a printing house proffered a costly sad- aie ana trappings. .tsotn guts were indignantly rejected. . When he be came quartermaster, he . was, poor. ;When his term expired he was poorer still. He had opportunities to make millions unquestioned. Contractu larger than the world had ever see -were at his disposal. 'He had to pros vide for,- the clothing,; arming, and transportation of hundreds of thou sands of men. So jealous was he of ms integrity that era tracts where he could have made thousands of dollars legitimately were n refused on ; the ground that he was a ' public officer and meant to be, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion. His own words in regard , to this amply illustrate his character: ?If I -misappropriated a cent and in walking down town saw two' men "talking on the corner to gether I, would imagine , that they were talking of . my dishonesty, and the very thought would ' drive me mad." ; v:--:. .- ABTHTJB 1ST. POLITICS. .. j Mr. Arthur always tookan interest in politics and the political surround ings of his day. His .political life began at!f the . age of . fourteen as a champion of the Whig party. He shared, too, in the turbulence of poli tical life at that pefiod,: and it is re lated of ; him darings the .Polk-Clay canvass that, while, he and, some of his companions , were raising an ash pole in honor of ' Henry Clay, some Democratic boys attacked the' party of -AVhies. and voun b Arthur. who was . the recognized leader of the party,' ordered a charge, and,: taking the : front- rank : himself, drove the young Democrats from the field with broken heads and subdued spirits.: He was a delegate to the Saratoga Con vention that founded the Republican tai,y iu uorir j.urjk otatt;. xj.o was active in local politics and he gradu ally became one of the leaders.' -He nominated and by his" efforts elect ed 'Mri" Thomas Murbhy. a State Senator: When the latter resigned the vjuiieutoranip oi me irore in JNOvem ber; 1871,' General Arthur was nomi nated by. President Grant to fill the vacancy. The nomination oame to him as a f great" surprise. The post was offered tb'ex-Cohgressman Gritf- wold, ot lroy, ; and, - on his declimnEr. to William Orton, who also deolinedV; They both joined : in recommending Gen. "Arthur. He was appointed November 20.; Upon the expiration of his four, years' term he bad go ac-' ceptably, filled; the post that he was reappointed , and L confirmed by, the Senate wiihbutrthe usual reference to a committee a. compliment usually reserved for jer-enatdrsi He was removed by President Hayes on July 15J,- 18X8, aespite. '.the, fact that two special, committees made searching investigations into his administration, and both reported themselves unable to nnd anything upon which to base a charge against him. - ... . Salisbury Watchman: Mr. Chaa. Sides, of "this vicinity,, was . thrown from a1 mule. Thursday moraine last? and jeeriously Tiurt. He fell oti his headland the damage ' eastained was mainly ig the b'ack'of the'neckv-., Jim i Milton, with- three assistants, rocked; but. ninety pennyweights -of gold iir five days last' week fronithe' Mis8"Vron'a mine." This property adjoimf the "out offC;3 Jsf tik M HilIsboro- Observeri: We have 1)8,(1, several o'erajpfllajii since., oot last issue.. A , tobacco barn be longing to'Jas: ARobetts, Jr.; t in tit tle lliver: Township Was destrbyed' by.fire last Saturday morning before Jay. r Loss , about iMtytrrrr$te H. II. Strayhorn is dead. She. was appointe'd 1 postmistress at'Hillsboro ' duritfg- tfiesecOhd 1 ternx4 Jof ' Gehi1 Grant's administration, and made "a was always prompt .in the discharge of heruties K2 to-'.-yj QThe Lcmi&iUle Voeimercial cites tb'M6 of Captain. Charles X, CorrL of that.city.l nhrt Mi inpdl 1B-Q.T...i'hY 'I U erin fOT'yera.wiiUenmatiemJ3vk 7 (jfeb .) Republican . TH . r rj 8KBTC1I OF TH A LIT t. . vi. .... Spirits TurpVaurn -MrVV. Ufia'rke er. of Salisburr. was shot in the hand in aliemm.. 10 wrest a pistol from the'hands of a drunken rough - named John John ston. Vh.-. , . I New Berne "Netcs: Mr. J. j KiPsey, we learn, will go to WilmW ton today to erect, the life-savin,' station below that city, under th? contract of Mr. Stimson.; GaBtonia Gaseffe Bob Uunwr a negro employed, by Mr. J. y' Robinson.section master at Garibaldi committed an outrage on a little ne gf 0 gW only nine years old.last week pear Garibaldi He Jiasi fled. ' - t : Auurews.ig out in a long reply to Senator Vance. It was pre pared by bis attorneys, and as yet we have not taken time to read it. The railroad war is becoming rather ab sorbing. Bat we must read up. ; Greensboro Patriot: The distil lers in the 5th collection district hajve determined to buy their com fop distillation purposes in Hyde county or in the Western markets. Itjisto be hoped that others will foV low.suit.r.' - . Durham Recorder: An old co lored woman in town became, excited last week at the peouliar appearance of the sun, and made it lively in her neignoornooa with her shouts and cries. v She declared vshe saw ' Jesus Christ coming down -through the clouds. -"' :.-ff Asheville Newst j A1 terrific -hail, storm passed . over Madison county, in the vicinity., of Marshall, last week, doing immense; damage to the tobacco. 'The crops of some of the farmers are totally ruined. The damage has' been .estimated as high as $40,000 to the tobacco alone, aside from the injury to the laod by wash ing out gullies. ; ; ! " Concord Sun: Charlie Means, a well-to-do man, left his wife and children. a few days ago, leaviDg with his j wife; $10, which he told, her to use as she pleased., He sold his land and crop for several hundred dollais, and1 took his horse and spring wagon and put off, saying he would return arrr VVriah loaf Vi n rk wl fsvm t. n ; vwvuv -- uvaA iiuui ii u vv ln in Virginia, and said he wa9 gbing to Kentucky. . ; States ville Landmark; Flour is selling in this market at $4 per sack,; eera $1.15 per bushel; wheat $1.50 to $1.60 per-bushel,; and bacon 'and lard, at 15c. per pound. . It is just as well though for people ; to realize that these prices cannot last. .'- Gen. W. F. Tucker, recently assassinated in Mississippi, was formerly ot Ire dell j county, and a brother of Mr. Tbos. S. Tucker, of Statesville. 1 jDanbury Reporter: After con sulting with a number of intelligent farmers from different parts of the county, we are-led to -believe that Stokes will make enough grain; to feed her people. ; - -Arrangements have been made by wpich Stokes county will ,be represeBtfed in mine rals, tobaoco, &C, at thej Atlanta Ex position, to be held at Atlanta, Ga., this fall i - - From a communication in New Berne News: As to Governor VanceV strpidity as a railroad commissioner, we do most sincerely wisb, for tha honor of the - Old 7 North , State, that all of jour railroad men were touched With it. If they were North Caro liha would no longer be in4be grasp Of a merciie8 corporation sucking the very life-blood out of her, and we. congratulate f: the people of North Carolina . that we have Governor Vance for a railroad commissioner. Monroe Mcvress: Tvnboid fovfr J ;.- -i - - . . tl a r has prevailed extensively in ! the sur rounding- country: during :-! the dry spell,, but there has beeja but few cases In town. There have been seve ral deaths in the country, out none in wwui wb- ueiieve. - j - jx reyivai of considerable interest! in the Baptist Church at Polkton. coddunted hv i.hft pastor and Rev. T. Harrison, of Rock ingham,' was ' closed on last.' Friday night. There were three conversions and accessions to the ) church as a result of the meeting. A; revival i o the Methodist. Church, is in progress this week. . ' ' " , ' Oztora JPree Iance.'- Mr. Mon roe Thomasbn, of this county, rented an acre of land from Mr.' J A. Crews last f year, agreeing to pay for the rent of, the same one-fourth of the crop raised thereon. Mr. Tho mason planted it in - tobacco, which he re cently sold, and Mr. Crews received $60 ' as his , share of " the V proceeds. -rTrHeavyraira i f ell;vhore last Fri day and Sunday, at last breaking the drought - that 1 had prevailed all the BTimmpr 1 1. comd it fata linixra iter. to do the tobacco and corn crops any ! good, but the- gardens, & which were nearly burnt np by the fierce rays of the sun; have been., materially bene- : Gold&boro31essenffen The Mes- printing esCaibihm State. - Four fast presses ' and a"f orce' of six teen printers and pressmen gives the office a veYy busy -appearance.' WwiS roV,mUii tr-.MAA nnL ;n il uii vaou n cu, miv xviiicu vaacu Sampson county, and succeeded in making his escape, has been arrested rive here ,4 this. week ito be .taken to Clmton'on a reauisition from Gov. Jar visifr Ttev: James Mahonev i now conducting an io teres ting revival -'-..I n i7i, -11 i- Stone'wall," Pamlico, county. ; Very rge ' and ' attentive congregaliouH eyery nigbtv 'Eight brten adult per. sons . have- ioined ; the church J 4 The cotton crop is cut o short this year tqat the railroads anticipate an uarmmfF iauin? on in meir recenno. j;f. - - - . . .... . ii 1 1 fi ilkienton, lOllrwad. Bleu'! ,. ,, L . 1 1 suffered for rabrethan ayear'wUh 'odh gestion I was very bilious, bccasionaliy - having a Qamo-cnill.'folhjweu '.tiy levefH. wcica proairaiea me. o itoca , cumtnofls iiiver neguiaior aoa am a wen man. 1 . f-1 1 " 1 T i(Vi Ill UXUUA V ft - -1
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Sept. 23, 1881, edition 1
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