North Carolina Newspapers

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Phil delphia Times says the proposition J meets wnu no layor among j tue i Democrats. ! The Constitution does I not forbid it,' and hence' the talk. J But the organs are glad of any theme I over wuicu lo uiow, aua wey are leu- i ting off a certain amount of gas brer j a proposition uiai no sensiuie jeiuo-i drat entertains for 'a moment. r Why I snouia r iney . go outsiae wuen uiey i can elect insiaer ' ine Jtsaitimore American thinks tliat this, would give them the Control. : It says "Suppose, for example, the Democrats should choose some ex-Senator. .They I could thentain all their strengH and break the tie. I In other words, they would I put a Democrat in Mfc; Arthurls plac with- I r -- and,ti id 'pledged out the loss tola Senator, K,howeveT;frTJ " z?5:5" u?,t they should elect mr; JBayam or Mr. uecK, 1 to iaciutate ana. acksaaae- just sucn aKulKeSa be,a temptation to Democrats to bring back so able a man as Mr. Thurman into the Senate to preside; but they Will not venture to do so. j . There is no necessity why the Dem : ocats sWld venture upon such! an I : '.:! L -vr I unusual . course, o rtsvoiunuiiai jr project -wili) come from ; the Demi orats tt is the other side that , are always originating startling plans "NtA I doubt they would take advantage promptly, and, gladly of such ; a brand-new dodge if they occupied the precise position occupied by our par ty. The American says: 1 "There" is nothing in the Constitution which forbids the Senate to do sb, although the precedents! already estaDlisned do not iustifv it.! The Constitution merely pro vides that 'the1; . Senate shall choose rtheir. .other officers, and also a President jw tern-" pore in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of the President of thri United States.' ; By custom; . i t l .1. .r 1 J 1.. f a ' mey eieci uub dl iueir uwu wuv, um me This state I of the case would be sufficient to answer Republican pur - . i - ...!: - ' -. : : poses if the 'opposition were in need of an extrai Senator, lnev never ; ; - j - I . ." " "J : '- - - - !- r I - stopped in the evil days of Grantism and the threatened Empire at Consti tutional limitations, and they .would not hesitate surely now. ' to take ad vantage of the silence of - the Consti-: tution if the exigencies of the hour and party triumph and domination required it. r But the Democrats will snot avail themselves in : tnis critical our of any opportunities and con tractions that i are not legitimate air and according to well considered fbrecedents. Mr. Bavard ' will be lelected in all probability, , and : the iDemocrats' will then take their Schances for j success. By electi budge Thurmah they would purchase j la very costly success, ihey will content themse ves by conforming to usage, custom, M-oing ithis they will not allow the three Re- publican Senators elect to take " their seats until organization (has been j ."?r. r" 1 effected. 1 This will! give the Dem- ocrats the President of tho benate. . . ,. ...r 1 . j fBR. sure rsov are bight, then I rl,K41''' ' W. a. tl... Davis, 01 the iioylestown 1 mocrat, is apareful -editor, ?who,,befpre rom carei by .makinghi assistant giye onas not 10 cnamre me douucs ui me oa- 1 r during his absence.". T, Sun. : 1 1, auis was sensiuie, ; ,uet us 11 ai ittle stpry. ; lAbput 1834 there was n influential paper called ' the JEk miner : published :(t:-i Oxford, is lit upported ':$$ijton& iVan Bureii Mr." Yancey was the isditor a man of. some talents Hertre say, ;is the law as; written; in blood, v&s a Jeffersonian-Jackson t Demo- :rat. il was liecSsarvTfor him to eave home i for ;i some weeks, m s He mist have an ediibr'prtf iefhl l -Therc: las a singularly gifted lad of spme . 5iS';';;i'" 1 - ff 1 ..-, i-s-- . rrs i'i "(i.U 3 VTX ri In: ;o, oiffi'i" Ml WX : j2JinW vored Hugh JjFMV hitfe, -TetnaeSsee,r hiia t6 edit1 in his' abseAee: "' He was a clerk iii & stored hut fKe wrote ihis .edi-' tprials at night.s ' "madtheV amine? rea-uotj o against '! -J acKson. There was great eicitetaent' amonff the subscribersiS mostly Detocicrats.- What was to pSywTttfTTanee .neey, any- ,how? had' overtaken Turn? Thepe5'W(tfffsibnaHia in - j. 4;- !lignation jn the, .Uemoctatic .camp. vuraes new imcK . ana last, ana sud- J sclera dropped off." For weeks this . . .continued.. The excitement ;i and m- dignation - grew:- apace, when fortu- . - .natelv Yaneev anoeared UDon the scene. It took him- six, weeks to put xnmgs scraign -to mouiiy tne irate Jacksonians.: ;Her!had made.;ho 'in- or preferred, but .left .him in charge - to run tne macnine," ana ne ran it That lad 'was the late' Geh." Charles P. Kingsbury. rThe successor of Mr. Yancey as editor 'was ' Daniel Ri ' "voouioe,; JiSq., one pi tne pest gonr- xialists North Carolina'; has' produced.'' xx was: long pne pi ,; pne stan: pi tne Kew York Times Hunder ' Henry. J naymona, tne great eaitor. WHAT Ttt"W"A SETTtiEI.rr . i Fraternizaon apdL reunions ofrithe I jBlue and Gray, is the , ordeN;bf tnfe day iusi now.' Our; dispatches" of :yes- gaveleMaiit Accounts of suchi manifestations of.- brotherhood.. We sire to see a genuine era of good feel ing restored all over the land.- ! This can be done without recurring to the past; without stigmatizing Southern mMi qj TiplwJa arid 'Without. rpinh.nl-- - , , .' " -7 - ., ' ing that;the South sl( stultify itself by denying the v cause ;fbr; which it fought and sliall abandon the great underlvinff principles that entered into that gigantic struggle. As long as there are Stalwart organs like the Chicago Inter- Ocean; " Philadelphia JPress, and Baltimore American, it will be necessary to meet their- flihgs ana misrepresentations, oucu papere seem incapable of. doing justice7 to either the motives of the South or to. the facts of historv. j Only yesterday the American', in a coarse and nmanneTly editorial on ex-President Davis, made a statement. that is not correct,; ' We have noJhe copy by ,U8 but 1 chargeMr., Javis with desiring to teach the children of. the SQithr "secession and '"stated that' ihlst ' '.dpctrine.'-hadj been ,aban- doned: generally, by the' intelligence of the South, 1 Npthing fcbuld, ;lbe more? ? untrue. Mr. Davis expressed a desire to write a rSchobl ' History of ' the United States which should present the ttyXh Ad not ithis gross" misrepresentations that ''fin , 's'alie histoiiesl ; ;Mri Aletander?'H.' !Ste phens, so often eulogizepT ir . the North, and evenrilT Statwnrt organs, has done 'the very . thing, and done iti well,; that . Mr,, .Davis r expresses a 4 desire tor have ; done.1 ' Northern sehd?6rb6ok'sr 'ieiiitiile Sou't'f as "rebeis" and "tmtora.!Yit is asking a great, deal of a brave: and ? self-xe- ; gpectmg people to sit quietly : under nsoleiit misrSpjesetotipiv Tlie children f . theNfiTO are: tangm. lies in regard toifie3 SbiM? nM?? 33ayis iaoes not wisu tuose nets juu ue- ui:" t 'imrrfibiein'i ieT-is vani' - . -, , iw ri ; -iir i ..- - trom J5ammprejp Austin, xie wisnes V truththfen-whole.! truth, : and nothing but the truth to be taught to fiaTO ja nnW tha and a.TTWvjrp rTne SouthembeouTeTiave accepted rx n m r rr.- wti .? t. .. ,... : the issues p.: the iW&t:. ill Tthe" utmpst gwu ta""-"A,t" t "'i They agree fully and unreservedly tP the fact established by . the sword, .that. secession is Hot a right under the A 'ccin-withcMO'JonfilM 1 twWJ lha and the South hasao desire to change the law or tpjseejatll.' ; 1 fq Now thisas (one thing: rH'Bujt-theri :w another twng'altpgethet different; J Thewar did notf destroy the fact fid i-r: ;&,Orr4tf '1 5 '- i f '. V-.. 1.Y..V that before, 1861, .under the Jiatural, clear, amj t Unanswerable jinterpreta . tion: oil the:, Constitution,. ' it wa & I right of the State t-Tetire fromthe Uriiori1 for cause. this., work, Mr. Stephens in his f War Between the States i" arid Mr. ;'l)a vii in hia re- and this interpretation and their ar guments have not peen answered, and Cannoi'-be answered.' -Someof-the ablest ortheirn Republican . papers 1-jave .-. admlitte f aimps as muchjysjt is no. Crime surely; ta attempt to jus tify thelaction: Pf i the Sbuth in 18611' can lie11; ddtt fteith'-'tMtntesf'- loyalty ncnet toxthe, ' TTnxchi. 'Mr'Ste-' - r frit, i jv-- ftii-; '- .- . phens, ,;among Southern men. is , a favorite all . through the Nprto,- ,His, present loyalty ia not suspected, ' and still Mr. ! Stephens" believes in the doctrine' of .State Rights'," and in the doctrine ' that '. the .. South under the Constitution had a right to- with-1 4raw f rom the tTnipn.' He is just as ed in those questipns as Mr. Davis" 18.- i-: - -r: ,:: Vv;-'t C---Ht - '':: f As long as the Southern people are branded as traitors, so long .will Southern men be ' found ' who wiH manfully ; meet the accusers and in- suiters, ahd: by appealing "to the.- re-; cords prpve that the brand is false and that '2 the. bharge is not ' well ws tained. .' The. most moderate men in the' South are the firmest Tbelievers in those doctrines. They agree fully that the war settled ; the , doer trine, and that the Union is "one and indivisible." This paper holds that opinion thoroughly and unwavering-- ly, but it believes none the less ' that .before tJte tear the true.theory was as given above ..: ...., ;. ANOTHER APPEAL FOR THE FOR. Large quantities of Walnut timber are being- shipped down, the road, destined, it is supposed, r for foreign work shops, then to be returned from -whence it : came and old at higher prices, while our boys loaf around, smoke .and curse. -Hielcory varo- The ' ' Star would warn again the owners of forests not to sell - walnut and, . other valuable trees ; for i any thin g' short ''of - very high prices. Walnut and other lumber, necessary for furniture and decorating building purposes are oecommg : scarce, in the great lumber : region of " the Northwest. Manufacturers must have lumber, so they are coping into North" Carolina and Tennessee in search of cheapo landsT"" We have heard ttiaC 1 6000 acres pf Ifclie 'public lands of North Carolina . timbered excellently, ; . have been sold for... 15 cents an acre to men- who' came f rom the exhausted region in search ' pf walnut,, cedar, maple," and so pn. Is this wise? " Why - should our public lands be f.'fopledraway?",? Can they nPt i be utilized towards paying off our public' debt? '.Let . private; indi viduals hold on for big prices'-for their . forests, or, what ( is far,, better,' let them refuse to Bell. altOgether,and let .our people manufacture them into. .furniture&ci'"; :".ri '-;Vi A 'tree that will "be sold ? for a dol lar or less, when converted intp'fur iiture, vehiclesjgriUfeicli 'tweri if, or fifty timeshto-We repeat "with", empnasisj1 and 1 we "wish we could make every, man in. North Carolina see it,, believe it, and; act upon it the profiti lies in manufac turing thecrude1 material,'iip in sel ling ' it. s When 1 Nbrth 'Carolinians begin to study their ' o wn interests as the Nprthern man studies his own" in-. terests,; then, their lortunes.t will. ; oe made.":! -t -.i.'r- 'b- .r: ; During all the past ? history of our State the f crests; Hch with;timber of a. i most valuable arid ,' much needed kind! have been .remote from market and were npt used; for any purpose other than burning; save in small and inappreciable v quantities ' Now th railways' have been constructed, arid others are to be constructed, and put lets; , to tiie r, world .'. beyond to , the Northern markets I and to : Europe--are opened, and others will follow; it IOOKS simple, very unwise, to oe seii ing Jff the wooded landsJf otV Bll pay! If 'you , nay e beeri able, to retain ppssessipn pf ypur f prests,. all; alpng .the oinprofitableryfplrSirtryTiot wait longer? fr In a ;-f ewf yas at !f aiftbst ; you can begin to realize handsomely frPm tneir retention," or- you ; can embark in i5niamTfabtiiirig.' ; aridtWs make the large ;"prfitst)iiit are "se cured b v-the .Northerft JPanrii acturers, who begin to need your timber mpst pressiugiv. Dr. Bledsoe, m his; very able ;"Is; Jeff & avis -a raitor; cent able' histoncaK work; have made the arcnmeiniaf to sns'rkmlthls ricrht J North i Carolina. , has its Jiands, f uli just now. ; It is preparing for th; Sate; Fair, f pr ,the big rnfct-4ub pef- f ofinanoe jatr YorktQwxx, audi for tbe X latter, aesery es to receiye te marea attention, of 1 every North ' Carolinian vfea ; 8; interested jn. the progress andr deyelppment pf ; his : State ,ome . pf . his time. should ?be; giyen.,tp:Jtho &prr proaching great industrial, Exposition ofrthe South. . ; It begins onPctpber ,! 3d and onjthe.27h pf thatmonth the Gqyernprs pf niany States are expectK edtp be present., . j We would be glad to' see it announced, thatj' therej wpuld; ; be ; an Editprs day,, when the repre-. sentatiyes pf , the, Fpurth j Estate may , assemble and grasp each pther's hand arid leajn impre; of eaehtherj Edi-. hpuld , not , the , , power- behmd.. The throne be as great at , Atlanta as tbe throne itself ?,;,.. . A Stalwart j conference has ,-been held at Conklirig's house at . Utica. Senator Jones, -of Nevada, who enter tains President Arthur at present at his Washington home, was one x or them. ; Grant was expected at once. This is not reassuring. t The ' intelli gent arid discreet. New -York corre spondent of the Fhiladelphia Ledger writes ori. the 28th ult. as follows: - ii"Every hour events are happening to strengthen the conviction that ' the ; new President is to encounter a deal pf trouble from the political factions of his own State. ' The Republican State Convention assem bles in this city on Tuesday next, just five days before the assembling or tne extra ses sion of the Senate, and already not a few of the leaders and wirepullers are mapping out an infinitude of workr not only for the Executive. but for that . body ;' also. ;- One : would suppose, from the way they are talk ing and writing, that the administration 01 tne entire f ederal government nas some-; how devolved upon them, and that the principal function of the Convention will be to prescribe a certain line of conduct for, Mr. Arthur, from which he cannot depart hut at his peril." j ;';-. - ' If England's good Queen on Tues day, the day. after the burial of our murdered President, sent the follow ing to Mrs. Garfield, through Minis ter Lowell: I . .-, ' ;,. , ...i:.,-. "Would you iexpress my sincere, condo lence to the late President's motherland in- 2uire after her health, as well as after ilrs. tarfleld's V Her Majesty adds: "I should be thankful iff you 1 would procure me a good photograph of Gen. Garfield. ,, . . ja.rs. ijarneia repiiea as ionows: ! VPlease request Mr. Lowell to express to Her ; Majesty the ; Queen the grateful ac-. knowledgment of the mother of Gen. Gar field and my own for the tender, womanly sympathy she has . been; pleased to send. also, mat Jier iuajesiy o wbu wiu uc; m- plied with at an early day. - : f 1 i !VH , . JrjCRETIA K. UAKFTEJLD. Here are two noble women. May God bless them both! ' ' ' ! M8mBcli MI Able. i ;-; ;;; ' Marion (S. C.) Star. s f ; i ' " The WiiiMikGTOx Daii,y Stae.1 Last Friday was the fourteenth anni- - .1 . . . .1 . 'J -1. 1 1 Tk - ! - versary oi tnisrstauncn ana ame de mocratic journal. It is out ' in a new dress which ! fits it to a "t.n it continue tcf live and be as useful in the future as it has. been in the past in the Democratic ranks. 'Of Secular Paper None Valued Mom . ; North Carolina' Presbyterian. Our neighbor, the Mobnetg Stab, enters upon his fifteenth volume ag bright arid happy as "a J May 'iriorn. Its new ' dress .would befit a "bridal. Of four secular exchanges there ; is nP "paper we value more highly '.than' the Stab. Wewisb, jnany happy returns of its amiyersary, 5 it-jj . $(None Hrlgliter rMore Interetlns, Norfplk Ledger.! i 1. ' -The jEtood old State of North, Caro- una -can. jusuy opasii-o, a larg jiiiuu, berf pf excellent papers, always true; to principles and the interests pf ; the people ; but among the whole ,num- per none is Dngnjer py njpj-e interest ing than ! the Wilmington 1 Star, i" It has just entered : his . fifteenth y ear, with ft new; outfit arid we trust will survive its - centennial celebraticn, losing none of the vigor, and ; enter 1 i 1 1 - . it A prise wnicn nav e j maae 1 it ; tne , most popular and 1 readable,' of .the 7 daily papers of 1 JN prth Uarplma. 4 ! i ourWllmlnctOn Nelcibbor ' ! Columbia, (S.- CL) Register ri 1 p Our neighborrathS' Wilmington Stab, lrilbegiririiriga irriewty61time, comes to us 'in .a new" dress. ' We scarcely recognized 'our trusted pld tucker.", i Who wpuld know 'that this wad !the same" v old Stab' that had twinkledput ' frpm Cape " Fear for fpurteeri Ipng years ?- Our neighber is nearly aii adult arid we whp are yet in the tender yearsof bpyhppd lppk up to our senior in his" hew 'clothes' with profound j'admiratiPh !and,.'1woriderl' .The' Sxli is 3 af solidly gtjbd aper, wprthy bf corifiderice, '' just,' manly it don't c6tt6ri!to bccasi6riy but hblds ifast: to that which . is ' gPod.' ;:, Our neignDor aeerves an- tne patronagi arid ; Corifiderice 'it" enjoys,' 5 arid; w hope.it wUlOTpT,a'cesitgrpws apace ihd,' TiQwever 'much' ' sit may Cnange its lace,-tuab n. may u?ver lose its place in the journalistic' race. iliVif lit rilifli;ifri';2.f 4 . r 'The following isoricertisthe 'family 1 fI6mridplde4J, i iue k$ '-infereW Wriytpf HbriTeaders; : tfajJSaimls 1Wbig mfcerviewed,f i iridVdrig "Pthef thifiW teHs' the5 fpl- 'Gen: Garfield's studV remains iustaafhe left it, and onej pfih.sprrpwingf widow rst' steps" was to go to ; the room where she aa spent so many nappy noura: ' ane is uauy; recovering , frotnthe .blow. .1 , k she will snend her summer ai Mentor t the old home! ;Dmirig the whiter season ie WU4 spend part of ,the, j thne wath her. latives in Cleveland.'and part eit the time; l Williamstown,Mass:,t where t shiE! will iie; ear her eldest boys, Harry Land: Jinunie, ; mle they are in attendance- at Williams 'ollegtL The boys will leavet for Williacnw olleffe on Friday night or, Saturday morn- k ig"of this' week' ' Groridma Garfield in the iture will maker her- home; withtMrs .Gar-, eld. Wherever the bereaved, wife goes . te ' Isorrowiri' mother wilf ed: 1 ASThe aged dmpther , is very lwail, aAp; will spend. ,er last days with the family , of ler dead 'CoTioari:tWoTneV ismariiy aort'of niaril' prior to the Svar. '"Erpm t&lto 188 e coOperateol with the "Republicans ejditing two papers m support of that artyV He could riot, stand ,'the ' cor- - liiptions of that party;. 1 so t hejjsup-i, iricpck,! ' and- is npw" ejiiting an interesting and able Inde plerident eniiopratic paper in ,'( Phila- elphia. i In his last' pape, Progress, he jastte carioj and Courage to say this: iH'.;;Mf.; ..:;;! ' - "Havihff: known -all tlie Southern states:l njen pf niy time, many of 'them intinaatelyj : ljnever nesita.ieu.iu asserting uie utuei loiat I I had been born, south, of Jlason and lixon's fine; I would, in all probability, aye supported the Confederacy, "and this' entiment is one 'Pf the chief reasons why I eparafed from the Republican party,, and supported Hancock in 1880, after more than '. twenty years' . service "in , the ' Republican; rj nks.';, I could hot co-operate with Korth ei n meh .whose phief inducements were to n aiutain an organization by. the ppmbma-' ti an of Federal office-holders,' the employ;, n ent pflcdrporate capital' in, the elections a id the ; perseverance of hatred and ven g ahce against the Southern people,",". t The Stab has no -authorized travel ling agent except. , Mr. -M. 1. Craw- fprdi coTTour: it ii: jStatement or tbe Crop for 1 8 8 O-' 8 1 . :.-.;'. , .r.Bradstreety ; , At lH.. The regular statements of the. cot- tPn crop issued each' year.) ire com- ppea entirely, irom tne snipping port, movements and do not in any way indicate: trie place :ot i growth ot trie cottons We i have; n therefore, com piled a careful estimate of the actual growth of ; each State, ; based on the census return . of ,;i 880, to wlich; we; havet added; the h increased, .acreage planted, and the increased yield of. the past year. .' These' figures are in teresting as; showing jhetf,aetualj growth. 01 i each state;, ana ! will; also be valuable in connection with our monthly reports of the' growing croj, : a from thisstatemerit " it cari be seeri, how much, cpttori is;i effected by, each of our detailed State reports: -.Vv: i-'.-ij North Carolina .bales 449,000 602,000 92-3,000 .6O7OOO . !784,000 South Carolina . , Georgia 'i'lUt .' Florida, v. i. v.". . Alabama'. . Mississippi,1.,. Lbmsiana. . . .r Teas'V:'i'.'?i:i . V. .1,051,000. 553,000 1,038,000' -691,000 Arkansas :v t-vi Tennessee,.:. . 94,000 Virginia,;. Missouri,, Indian s 1 erntory,- etc ....... j TPtalcropiVt; Jf. -57,000 e,6oy,ooo , 1 .? Exiled Southern, Famlllea. r jh ? i Tepic Letter in the N;.; O. Times.. 7 The res r: Marias re three well kpowri small islands,' forty miles .off the coast5 from" 'Tepid:' 1 Maximilian sold i these islands to, five : Confede- rates in 1864. :. These men went;? and purchased therii also frpin Juarez or fl ---'-r-rfiL: -r i LL 111. lLixfCf -il tl-LLJ tne ijiDerai government wneu it was in the? field. Theskthree islands have about i 8,000,000 acres of Sea Island cotton land. There? are , now., about seventy-five i or eighty Confederate families bn these islands. They each have an lriitnense piantationj ana.pne who is here iiPWiMr. Jaccb.AshlPck, of Kentucky says lf that . their t crcp vear after, 1 vear averages, one .and three-fpurths bales to the .'acre. : ' ) vf AOeod One oa Gen.. Early k' ; ; . i. ReidsvllleTh ' tWe all know that our solid "Old Jube" likes to talk about' the war, Well: therptherday at FrariklinCpurt- hpuse;; an old ;f fiend .with Va f spice of humor in bisi eve told; the General there was .a young officer in . town he would like to. introduce ' to' . "him and they could ; talk over the1 ' war to ferether-! .-t '"ti u -it, ' Jubal said hetwould be ; pleased to know hinv ' ; t - ;f No sooner said than' done.- '. i "General ' Early,?' : said1; the ' old f rjend, "allow one.-1 to smtroduce you "td Captain Jonsna jU.pd friend walked off., . ; ; v ., '.. 4 " The handshaking was hardly: over before theGeneral asked in his1 'fine saueaking. rvoicej intu ; j m- ; -4 1 i t i " What, command siri the, , Army did ibhf ps1ia"!1f GerieraVTsaidtiij vduiig? hiari blusnmgl"! wasn't an officer ia the; army I'm juKt ar Caj; tainrof a basejbaM crab.."(t tt.Ui f (h holl V fimwl'ftM Til ' Triat DroKe up trie war cnat, Wit , il i.-'ill " ., ( - ji 4 .wit i-rcA ... One of Our Oldest Citizens Called Sud denlf to Pass Throns'n' jtfke tfarfc Ex.Mayor 1 John DawsHi--diedi i&lM VesV dence m-this city yesterday mormng, about. I 3(o clock, of neuralgia of the heart, f H hM been 'hi had health for 'a considerable' "hut for: some weeks hadbeeri able to be up and ride.ot t m take; .occasional; waIk.:i.'On Wednesday he' was up about" tie hpus.M 'The aim0uncemeTitfM8 death yesterday morning therefore, was jeceive. j ueceasea..waa born in j ijondonderry'ilre-f and. and came to this cniintrv when a mprA DbyV in company with A. T. Stewart, after wards the Merchant nnce of ; JNew York. MrJ Dawson, ctone tovOisiSelftibttttzid went td Fayetteville, where he clerk for. some time for Mri Janies'KyleV ah Esteemed 'citi--zenh of t .that ; rplacea r. who t- preceded I liim through the 'fdark yalley",.but a few.short months.'f He moyedto this city about fifty--fiyehyeara,4gaiand -went' into theifijenent aderchandise business. at -the northeast cor-? u?rpi rruui anu mantel sireeiff at present occuDiedtJiv.' Mr. i J.., K,(Mcrihennv,? ?the druggist), under , the firm name of Kyle & DawspnanaTtKer the aissoratiPriPf theco partoership between himself andMrKvle he continued in the business until some six or eigM "ye"gp'iwheiSfie tieter-J mined to -devote himself entirelv:to the hardware business,' which- he did until a few;riionths.agOj when! he sold outhis in terest to iMessrs, Wnv,K Spnnger.& Co., He was elected Mayor, or Magistrate of the Police of the town prior to the war. and was filling that, position in February, 1865, when it became . necessary for him, in his official capacity,; to surrender the place ibto tne hands or , the Federal troops... lle,also: advanced liberally of his. private means' to' sustain the credit of the city during the em-t barrassments incident to the war. , In 1879 iic was agaiu eieuieu mayor, uui soon ai- terwards resigned, i ?le was lor many years a director, of the Wilmington & Manchester R. R. Co. and also served as President of the' Wihmngto4 branch- of the Bank of North Carolina. During the terrible yellow fever scourge in 1883, when still at the head bf the town affairs,; lie stood man fully at; his. post and did his duty to, his suffering peo-. pie, being also at the tune President' of the Howard Relief Association. As a merr chant he was always very successful and managed Z toulamass quite : a considerable fortune i He was always very liberal inhis dealings withiis fellow men and his sym- patme8 :: were vespecialiy-:i enlisted- m i the! struggles of : young men '. in whom he h&p pened to ake an interest. , y . K s Deceased,; who had been .twice married,. was in the 80th year of, his age. His funeral will take s plaee Saturday : morning,!;; at -;9i- o clock," from t. i James. church, Mn James Dawson, brother ' of the deceased; f having telegraphed, from. New York, asking for. delay until he arrives. . t ' 1 :'!- BOAUD OF,AX,DEB,MEN. J ProeedlnsUn Relation to tn Death ; ; j; .-'; ( of Ex-Mayor Dawson, r I v, -At a called meeting of the Board of A1- dermeri,' held at the' City Hall yesterday,8 the following proceedings were had; Pres ent, His Honor Mayor Smith, and Alder- man WrwrtH TT11 frrri na A 1 ri firm a n 'RwlaTi Chadbourri, Telfair, Willis and Sampson: I hMlayor stated that he had . called . the Board together to announce officially to them; the death of ex-Mayor John JDdwson and ask what action, they desired to take in the matter. - i Alderman Huggins moved that a Com mittee on Resolutions be appointed, which was carried. : .. i-; . -.,!,. The Mayor appointed on said committee Aldermen HUggins, Chadbburn -and ' BOW'' den. j ., . . t ; , ;.. r. . , v The committee retired, and on their re turn presented the following Tesolutions, which were unanimously adopted: ; ..",., .. Death, has removed from our midst one of the most prominent citizens of Wil mington, j Alt was .'' with ; sorrow. that the Community received the" announcement of the death of ex-Mayor John ? Dawson", who expired on , the . 29th . of-" September. , ;He came to the banks of the Cape t ear in early manhood; and bf iridustryand strength of will he became a successtul merchant and achieved liigh places pf honor in this city; Durina: ' the scouree of yelk)W!if evef that visited Wilmington in 1862 he remained manfully at his post, and discharged his duty as Magistrate of Police , to hid afflicted and suffering people.; therefore, be it . ; i -! Jiesolved, .That we, the Mayor: and. Alder men of the cityof Wilmmgton iRnview of the death of this eminent citizen; who, as former .Mayor of this city, rendered such numerous and efficient .servioes, ,feel called upoB to give.this public official expression of our feelings upon the sad event ; ' j i Resolved, further. That inithevdeath of ex-Mayor John .Dawson the city; of Wil mington .has : lost one of her most efficient and devoted friends, and the: community one of its most prominent and useful mem bers. - .. ;; .;. i ; On motion tha meeting then-adjeurned, tT. S. I)ISTRICT CO tTJRT. ' , To Meet on tne 1st Day of Noremler '- The following is a list of jurors drawn to serve ai,iii approacuing lerm oi urn u. ,o District Court, fpr ' the T&trict-of Capi Fear, His Honor,' Judge Geo.:W. Brooksj presiding:' , The 'jurors' are Igummoned to appear on. Tuesday, jthe 1st day of Novem her. -;.. ( j; .. .-y..,, i i -!? . ji-i-fiil New Eanover.-W. E. -N. Sellars. Chas. Murphy, JJohriW; Clark Al S. Winstead; W. Al. Wright, John G: Norwood, R. Mallett, Isaac W. King, E. 'J. Littleton, Isam Sweat, D. Lu Gore, Thomas - Kivera, W. EL Moore, George; ;W. Huggins, John Jttaunder,rA.-J. Howell, John Jfi. Crow, Samuel Northop,' Jacob Johnson: E Schul ken, John B. ; Dudley. Chas. W. Bradley, .Tames H. Tavlor. Gorn,e M. Crauon H. HI Gerhardt, Heniy Turner, W. B J HiH, William Dent, C,;B, jFutch, it.ii i . Brunswick County. Alfred Brown. -1 Duplin Conntyi--O." T." -Wattera, James' Highsmith, Alien Gillespie, r W. O. Carrol ton. - - Tne Court House Improvenienta.: The improvements wrme, Court House are aoout complete, ana tne rooms wmcu have ' been added- 'are neat: well vlighted substantial and comfortable. . The Clerk of the Sttperior Court has two ! fine rooms, iri cluding the one built strictly 'fire-proof, as a depository for the county, records.. Mai. Dunham, Clerk of me Crunuial Court has vhowr' room adi oining the.' :ourt i room whifm' 19. ft irrPAt cnnvpniencfl as mmmrm with the' former ' arrangement;1 when ' his -room was on She first, floor i back, and occu Sied . jointly by himself and the , Grand uryl when court5 was in' session? ' Solidtor Moore f will oecnpyt the room r-with Mai Dunham. The Grand Jury now have this siderably enlarged and improved,.;, Messrs. is. u. Morrell & eon were the contractors, Johrilton; county, held at "Smithfield, -indorsed Senatpf..yM'd6to-ii. rail--Way controversy. ; . j I . .-- Last Monday memorial serviegi? t - ere held at Wake Forest College, at Chapel Hilv Greensboro ?and other .places; of the, r lamented President. M vwH.'- ; 1 floating itemja A fermer Jslave 1 ia North Carolina i is now -the" owner 6fa: plantation of twelve hundred cre' titot i whfchhelias;fiften; PrlottOofn Ikneaster, on, which Cadet .Midshipman Z. : B. -Fance,- Jr.i io- thi8;cityi has toeea- asv-fi signed to duty,"will not sail for the' Medi-1 terranean . until - J after the -Yorktowri'-Cen- . tennial, as it has been ordered to Yorktown?u for tna oecaBion;''' .:.;"-- i R. TT. TCTncrsimrxr J-r lrwal oJL , tor or the .Wacpr Exammer.. became m volved in a 'difficulty 'recently with a hack driver named Tonx. Toomey, in which the latter,was cut with a Docket knife, but not seriously hurt. ' ' He is from Oxford;' son '' 1 oi uussii-HJimgsburymrii ihfo .V' I -r7.New,;Berpft lWutit Shells A fco-. . . oxed man. who is well known- anion? nnr 1 citizens from -the fact that he was a public-" 1 wood, sawyer, and has probably plied his ;: vacation in nearly every yard in. .the citv. . dropped dead' yesterday,' ! while 1 sawing wood. .Tbe, unfortunate mast. called him-i-. self' Jim Braddock; and .'was probably. 70. . "f years Of ge; and had too home, 'i - ' :'' ' 5r'Snart4nbursfi SXXjiiIleralct:t We are.glad to , learn that pur old friend,, ,; ; Dr. "A. H.' Nabors," of '. Rutherford " county, " N;. Q has had : the good fortune to find a ;1' gold mine on a plantatipn, he owns hi-Mc- - ' DbweH 'c'oujr-'ittthat Stated A gentle man'whoThaa seen -some specimens ilrom ' the mine informs us that some rocks weigh-f f ing if 'potmaso ' From ;our- Teachey's corresponds . ent we learn that .that village , is grqwiag rapidly. 'Wallace0. &' Middleton have '-Hist deceived their; fall rtpek,ranl ; asrei rdnning: r. tneu still reguiariy. , a. a. .jaorria is snip-, . , . ping vanilla, or deg tongue; havii shipped 1 '' tuis seaspa nearly mree nunarea Daies,- ana lastiffhuyli'lt m'gquarieA:. J. C. McMillan has; bunt -'a" -fine tBree-iaS6ry gin- '" house, and js running pn full time vazib i. t! -rfr?ii 1AA'1.rk - - . $ r-jv umav1ace.yAT, jus-.resi-,;,, dence in this place ! Sunday riightV of conges- ' 1 tion of thebowelsi'.M. 'V7 H. Pender,aged ' 28 years.,, .-The number. of pupils en-, r . rolled this week at the Graded School is " ' "257. ? J- -f-We" regret to learn of the death i of Rev. J. .T,. Arlington, pastor of .the Me- : i . thodist Church at Beaufort, which sad" event' ' took pjacei Monday of this: week, of bilious i lever. ..-vs .;-""--; :'r?'f'rSl.-' ...?' ! : 4 r Greensboro AAPatriot: , Jharlie Ray, who lives near Greensboro.' met with" : ". a painful if ; not fatal .accident near Highi Point, Monday nighty He f fell from , a s freight tram whilst it was in motion, ' the " ' loaded cars passing "over " both ; legs.Ti i -r r -; - f Among the Davie county, contributions . to the State Penitentiary we; notice !R..? A. '" ' Caldwell,, who will be remembered here as. ,, paving forged a school order in this county and obtained bn it from J: S.' Ragland, ' 1 ' Bsq thesum pf foOOO..He has followed the nefarious business m other counties: - Hp gets ten years.;; l ine Jttaieigri Journal quotes from the speech of Judge Ruffin before the members of -the Legislature explanatory 'of the- sale -oi- tne: western; JNortn uarpuna- Railroad:-. ''The selection was left toj; us,j , with one exception. As counsel for the- State, we ; selected; Uovernor Jams and . - Treasurer Worth. ; We then called, on , Mr. Best1 to name the third man. His reply' '' was:,1 "Gentlemen,; our object is to select a ( man who has the confidence of the entire Stateof North -Carolina. We want' your peopk.tobe satisfied : of .our, intention, to, j -. complete this road; Wft therefore select as. our" Commissioner;' Zebulon ' B. Vance.-" FLong continued applause. His name was . , suggested by Mr. Best for himself and, the , othergrantees.-, ' . ' - Mt. Airy Post! It is announced '' .' that the Mormons are tor have a conference . , near Cadle's Ford, in - this county,' on the 7th, 8th and 9th days of - October next. A' number of their big men are; to be present, and such a tune as is anticipated has never before been witnessed in this country. S It is a fact not generally Known, perhaps,, that -Surry county has been a fertile field for the Mormons, and during the past ten orfifv i i teen years -a number of her people have ; been enticed into the Mormon church, me Mormon preachers have spent much time , and labor among the people of this moun tain region of the State arid , have inade ' " 1 many; : converts,; J particularly among the , ; women, many of whom have moved to 4 , Utah. f Winstpn Leader! There is great mortality among , the colored children in .: and around Winston. , Seven " have died , , :during ' the past week: During .the ', absence of Mr. S. F. Pierce and wife, last . Thursday night, their residence in Salem was entered bymiknown parties and ran-'; sacked from, cellar to .garret. , Furniture,., , -clothing, bed clothes and pictures were 'promiscuously strewed about the rooms; bo far as known there was notning carried. off. ' '- The recent rains raised the Yad kin; several feet on the afternoon, of -the .- ? 17th inst. . - There were upwards of 20 bushels of fish caught in one trap at Nis- 1 sen & Co. -s mill. . The rains, have:, started r the farmers to plowing, preparatory to sow ing wheat. ' 'A' few barns of tobacco' were ' " Cured before the rains, but with poor sue- , cess. - . . - - .. V. l t -r- i -. - . TLT. ' S1 ."Tljr.". P rtaieign xvews- joserver major II. A! Gilliam returned yesterday from the northeastern part of the State. He says the drought since Sept.-1 has done- jjreat dam-, age to cotton arid rice. ! Up to Sept;5 1 ,the. ' crops were never finer. Twenty-two engines are how owned by the Raleigh & iGastoh Railroad Company'- Gov. Jar- vis returned to the city last night. v He has ' ,; since he left Cleveland, whither he went 'to ' ': ' ; attend the funeral of President Garfield, ' spent a few days in New York city. ' " 'Mrs. A; D. Taylor died at her.home in this 1 ' city yesterday, after a long arid painful ill-'' " nesS. ' ' She ' was a daughter of Dr;J J. T;'':.f Leach; of Johnston county, and was aged " " ! about 80 years. ' -Mr. Edwin A. , Wal-1 , ters, who has been sick with typho-malarial M, ; ? fever,, died at Wake Forest yesterday. ; He ' -was well known in this city, having ' been !, in, business here last year. His age was 23 years. He was son of : the late Rev. Dr.! '" Walters, f ormerly professor in the College. ! Stab. " ' " -' - " "' ' ( ! Goldsbciro Messenger: The. 24th stated , session of the Presbytery of Wil-: , . mington will be held at Umon church, in r the town of ivaison, uupun county, com- i tnencing on Thursday before the second Sabbath in October.- The 'mournful event of last Monday was appropriately bb- "; served by bur people. The city was draped- '' in mourning, business was; suspended, the' ' ' church bells tolled between the hours Of 3 ,; and 4 o'clock, and the respect shown to the ' deadlPresident was universal. Appropri-.' ' ate services ' were held in tbe Methodist ' -1 church.and the public school was dismissed at noon, . -i - There is a great scarcity of laborers throughout this section, and many of the fanners ; find it .difficult to . gather then: cropswhile the effect of it is also fel by our builders and others requiring; labor- ;. era. j . . The Midland N. K C. enterprise was , , j begun at. a most.,untimely.-1rrio4,Jpr our.. .farmers. They' are paying a dollar ia' day, 'and this has completely dempralized the la-,', ;bor ' system. The Sampson . County, .', . Agricultural Fair will be held this year on . '' the J6th 17th, 18th andi9th of Noyember -..j The officers of the ; Society" are making f : . , i efforts to make the Fair a grand success, ' t X II. "8 ti !, t. W;A.AAi