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" - 3 months, " '":..? j f.50 ; WHATABTHUBJIIISTBO. ,h ; It is becoming apparent that Conk-: ling and Grant will be powerful, f ao tors in the new Administration. Whether President Arthur - will be come a mere automaton to .be moved about on the political chess-board pr not, remains to be seen. Ile'owes his nomination as Vice Presi 5 The obligation) is dent to Conklinff. great. Batj uan Arthur afford to be "run" by any one? Can he aarreeto so sink his personality as to become a political nonentity? Will he give up all hopes of the succession and pull the- strings for Grant and a third term? We cannot answer these questions. A shrewd and observan t Republican said that every Vice President who had I succeeded to the Presidency hal become office-struck, and the; second-term Presidential bee began Jo buzi hi-hia bonnet at once. It may be so with i Arthur. It may turn oi3hat Arthur prefers to more thepecrs and pull ;the wires in his own uenaii. If he; can allow Conk- great the deal same of influence, time be Pre may be able sident himself, he to steer clear; of ruptures and diffi- culties in . his Own party. He must all the time whilst doing his own driving. He has also a delicaie role ... I i : to perform in dealing with the Senate. lie cannot afford to do anything that will array any of his own party in antagonism. He must move warily, circumspectly, or - he will "run against' a snag. Altogether he has a difficult task lie must satisfy Conk- before, him. ling ana want, anyie must concili ate -the f rien.ds xfu Garfield, Blaine and . Sherman. .1 Ic must assert his own rights, t oe the Chief .Executive in fact, j whilst ackfiowledgingpro perly all great past favors. He'thust at the same time so shape his policy as not to alienate iany of. his own party in Ithe Senate; ; He must be a man; ne he prove ought to be 2k patriot. WU1 equal to ail this? EDUCATIONAL FACTS Th ere are, according to the Census statistics some 213,000 public schools in the United States. The number of school districts is given at.153,000 ; of school officers at 766,00' The South is advancing steadily,;althbugh Mr. Page, the young Wakecounty literatus, writes in the International Jlevieto that the Southern people are "contented" with ::: the . ignorance' that prevails. He' shonld . remember that '.'Rome was not built jn a day Millions of Jgnprant people cannot . be educated in a day or a deeade. . It requires much money and .labor, and the rich and preponderating .N 6rth, that liberated '- four ; million slaves, should see to it that these liberated millions are trained, and-educated so as to make good and usef uineBens Whilst Mr. Page seems to Sedespon - dent as to the f utur6 of the Sdttth, the New York Tribune a 'paper,Kat has been and is intensely inimical to the Southern people--has a ; cheerful view. The able letters in the rTri . bune written from the Southland of which our, readers have some know ledge, have already served to correct many erroneous impressiojt as to our people. :...jur. jr age siiuuiu , give, uis days and nights to those letters. ...The New York Nation,-: a ."Republican weekly, says of the summing npjof mese leixers : i ... ,. ' "On the whole, hopef olness predominates in his general view. ' He . finds the;; great need of the South, it i the great need of the North also, to be education, intellectual - and moral. The South.! according la Ids report, feels this need, widely, .and ia many regions is making creditable effort to supply it. It is eager that the National QoVernt ment should assume the ! duty of assisting I II UIC YIUltL. , I! lino- a and at r ' 1 ' ' " ! ' 1 i l . . 1 .. I I ' i , i I... .i.utt,.,, .-.fn-nirrm-HT- .' !, , , , n iii I ... i ... . !,.! i i j : : : 1 - ........ . : . v.. . 1 i.,.' , " ! ."imj-. .v; i-'i-t " ! 1 1 - - ! i 1 rt" : . ' .. ...... VOL. XII. if '$om .eighteen months agotthe late idnpy anier; .wrote , a , paper iforV Scribnet? MooitKly-m, the . ub ject f changing the? faiining system; in, the South.'- ' It Was a very remarkable 'paper to' ' be .written by 'a' 'poet. ' ' He was advance ot $he census of ast yearn som ,Qf1,the facts he . gave.' We learn irom a bulletin of the Cen sus Bureau issued " recently that he riiimber of small farms in the South is incrftasinjjatjy. The following is instructive1 sh6W' th'e 'drift : '. l'tn Alabama the number was 135.864 in 1880agabst T,381n 1870; In1 Arkansas there were 4,i33;! dgainst ,49,424 in 1870j ' m jnpraa, ,J,43a, ; agamst(MV,5S4J.; m Georgia, 138,626, against 69,956 ,andl in South Carolina, 93:864, against 51,880.' ; Of these; in! 1880. "; 7,T54 were crftivateJ by the, owners ; 76,883' were rented for money, and 134,585 on shares of the produce. , Scfme 662 of these farms contain less than three fecresv and their size progresses in. irregular ratio upi.to 1,000 acres,, a large proportion. being oetween twenty. and nity acres These 1 small holdings';, have been found .very profitable. We regret we canript give th figures for North aroiin& u But the small farms have increased considerably since 1870, jve feel sure.- f: Whether i ' these small farms' are 'j necessary f absolutely to insure rapid prosperity we will f not undertake to say. , The prevailing opinion, ' however, seems to . be that ; the South jvilliprove and develop in proportion to the increase '6f small estates. - We" will not undertake now to uphold ; this theory j . nor , will we gainsay it. it may De tne correct view. , It is noticeable that the increase of small farms is greatest in South Caro lina and Florida. In former years before the war -the farms in South Carolina were unusually large. Now: it leads all others in- the increase of small farms, with the exception of Florida. The Census bulletin shows the number of farms cultivated by owners, on .fixed rental and on shares. Here are ihe figures for six States : - r abxs occuriEp. i By OnFixed' Owners. : BentaL - On ' Shares. i i v No. p. C. 40,761 90 19,272 ISO , 8,197 87 8,692 16 43,618 82 25.S45 27 M ' " ' ' No. p. e. No. p. e. 22,888 17 9,916 11 , 511 6 3,548 15 1867" 18 81,947,23. Alabama 12,215 63 Arkansas. ... ..65,245 ' 69 Delaware - 5,041 : 57 ; Florida ..16.198 69. Georgia...... .76,451 65 Sioatbuarouna4ti,o43 oo SENATOR DAVIS AND THE BADI . : - CA COUP-DE-MAIN. . ? The' manceuYring of the Republi- cans was successful. Mr. Bayard was turned out of the Presidency and Senator David Davis was elected in his place. It has been an established rule of the Senate all through its his tory, with one exception only, to elect a President of the Senate ! who should succeed to the Presidency of the United States under certain con tingencies. He has never been turned out to please or meet .political neces sities. The Republicans stand at no thing, j Neither precedent ; nor law is regarded' when party ; behests and party exigencies require it to.be dis regarded or ignored altogether. The Stab, is not surprised. ,; Nothing that the Republicans can ever do will sur- prise us. . ;The history of : that party for twentyjears warrants the state ment that, exeale Gonstitation; itself has not been a barrier to their usur pations and reckless disregard of law. The Stalwart organs that : have been swift to denounce the Demo cratic Senators for obeying precedent and usage, will be. equally, swift to sustain - and ; applaud the action of their party in kicking aside precedent and usage in their revolutionary pro ceedings. So, their .party gams a temoorarv advantage they care nei- ther for consistency, nor . right. v :" ; " But: what - about Senator David Davis, eliepnlent?JHe has beeii voting, WHU ine rvepUjUiiujwis t gpuci- ally , thus :far. .;What good ; has he discovered in that jarty, so suddenly that he should become its ally ? 1 Has he gon over bag and baggage ? yW"e hope not. -olf he had done his duty he might Jbeprevented the disr placement of Senators-Bayard.; Sup iVose he : had refused to serve as the tb4loi ;lepubliQanism and had voted for Bayaf-d, could tljey : have elected : -i'1" ----- "-- A -wrr 't a ". n a. anyone eise rvn we mm not. rui the temptation was too great. The lust of office and honor was too great a strain, and the .. Independent Sena- tor caught at the bait and was there by hoisted, hung to the Radical fish hook,' into ! the place that .belongs rightfully toenator-Bayard. This is not ithe4 0rstJbi.p1 been snatched 'wrongfully from the ; jpemoCTats; ?;C;;'( : J M ; v- Senator Davis will-doubtless ;ihake ; a good presiding, officer. ,. IIis ability is conceded. He has borne always a WILMINGTON; high, character; for, integrity. ,He will not be. a partisan officer, ; we;- appre-.; hend.,itJf be sh9uld,uccee4.tQ Ithe Presidency, of ; the United . States, if Gen. Arthur ; should t die, he. would make, a good Administration,' we riiay: not jdoubt,; 4 .His; recent: caurse shows he -would be mostly a f Republican in- his official, ac,ts, but he, , is. by mature conservative in bis. views, r . He is vpry ambitious, clearly, . . Ppssiblyhe Pre sidential bee has begun to; buz again in ms Donnec : ,: - THE ABBEST OF VAXUtnilVL. ' The arrest of jiiMr.; Pariiejl, : the,. Irish agitator.and head of the' Lnd ieagj s sudden and : like a Ijoinb in its eneexs. xt wiuawaKen "great. indignation-and- excitement through out' -i Ireland and ; among - many, j of the Irish people' living in the United States. It inayt ieveh hasten a'cOn- fliet between the Land-. League' and, the British Government. : Other lead: ers are "to be arrested also. We may expect to hear stirring news from lre- and before many weeks. But what immediate good can come; from this conflict ?.; We fear none to ; Ireland. It is evident that the new ' Land, act is regarded with ;mncft favor by the Catholic Church, and that the people at large are rnuch i divided; upon its merits, there being probably" as many in favor of: a fair trial of the Land act as there are opposed to it? .We : are in profound syrapathy-with the Irish people in their' troubles. ' We have hoped that the new law would1 prove a blessing. " But that cannot be the ease amid the fires of revolution or. the noise and dismay of mobs, or without a fair. test. , ' Mr. Parnell .has done an unwise thing in so arraying himself against the law in the : outset as to give a color of right, to his arrest,; He does this in the face of the fact that the highest dignitaries f in the Catholic Church are very hopeful of the best results from a fair trial of the law. It was never' intendedand never as serted by Mr. Gladstone that the law was a finality, never to be improved or enlarged as time and experiment might suggests ; ; The attitude pi the British Pre mier is seen clearly in his speech at Guild Hall, London. He had Mr. Parnell arrested because he is "at tempting to destroy the authority of law." -Here is -his position-, stated plainly: '' . ' " '" ; - ' We are not at issue with the people of Ireland. I firmly believe that a majority of the tenants earnestly desire a fair trial of the Land act The power with which we are struggling is that which endeavors to say how 'far the "people shall. obey the law. ; We have no fear, of the people of Ireland, but do fear lest many should be come demoralized or intimidated. He said he would rejoice at the adoption of any form of local government .Ireland, pro vided it did not impair "the supremacy of the Imperial government. " s; ; BEDUCTION IN ; TAXES. :: ,The Stab, as 5 has ; been stated, ra ther favors a reduction of the system of .Internal Revenue 'than its total abolition! ; It , would . play , into the hands of the Northern manufacturers and capitalists exactly if the Internal Reveuue .was '.abolished. This has been pointed out often, and it is cor rect. The Government must be main tained. The taxes have to be raised in some way.5 They must come frpm foreign imports, which is a - form i-of indirect taxation, or from Internal Revenue, which is direct taxation, or fromboth. lt ,tif ,1,, ,,- The very, excessive i amount raised last year byi the system of Internal Revenue points clearly to the wisdom of reducing it r and, equalizing it. When it is a fact that; the .Govern ment collects inore than one-hundred million dollars in ; eicessT of ' Vhat is heeded, there is an argument ,at hand of a very powerful and unanswerable kind why there should be a reduction of taxes and the burden upon the people lightened , Our esteemed con temporary, the FayettevilleuE&ai nert says pointedly with reference to this important question to the people : - ..lint a- m$ -t- "But we, lake , it ithat w. isuch -sudden revolution can be expected in. our system of raising revenue With a debt of about two thousand millions to be met. ' the govern' ment can hardly afford at one single dash to throw away one huadred and: thirtyrflve millions a year, leaving only .enough barely to carry on its operations to be deriyed f rbffl other sources. .We trust, however, that the internal revenue taxes' will be re duced. Tobacco has become a necessity to ur whole Deonle. and its production . and manufacture is a squrce of wealth to many States, both North and South. A fcducf tiott or total abolition of the tax on tobacco could not burT Wnencial to,; tne whole country.":;; . , , ;. ' .,; ; : .-. viThe Stab stands committed to two cardinal principles: Firat to insist jipon a areauotjoni oi stuiaMjma Revenue tax, and, 1 second; to insist N; C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER1 21, 1881. upon- a modification and eqailEzaiidn oi the present tariif which' i is ; adipit- ted in the 1 North by. both parties to be . excessive and t on . a ; wars basis 'tfc-fl- oTt1 VkiTrt-n jr1t?wrf-,v SOISE CHANGES PBOPOSEli. 1 writing.1' They favor beginning' wth?. out tne stereo tyyea . uear iir," r(. TM$i PprpttYJmP:mmi the ( winding up. . .They.; -favort'iclosing with the simple ; superscriptidriiWith- . iouiivfYery; truly, iyoural: or f Yoirs Verjrr I re'spectf ullyjVi orWany iiOtheJr!i form. 'Address the:' letter itp--John mithj-Newi. .OfleansyXallBgu, WibungtMiKi.C 0th o Sept.p 'p.; Sign, Thomas Brown. !;A--great'4eal j of writing would be saved , thereby and many falsehoods with it. Such a proposition is not ; new.' - The New York Times favors the change. The u style is ; absurd. - The Times, says";: :'; .: ! A '-i- JiKL.j j "What can be , more false ' than the ? per petual luear sir at tne beginning or every letter, used indifferently whether the ad dressed is really dear to us, or is simply in-. dnterent, or is worse than inaiiierent? s A letter which duns, or approves, or expresses : a conviction , that the ? recipient is- a : con teniptible scoundrel is conventionally reJ quired to begin by ? affirming' him to be dear,' as. he may be to sqmenody. but not to! the writer.' You may begin, if you choose with simple i"Sir." . It thinks it absurd to address a man as Mistery save, in con versation. Mr. is an abbreviation ioi 3aje8t$r--i. e. teacher. It says: f . 'When not addressing one of the im mense family of 'Rev.,' MJol.,' and.'Hoh., we! are 1 bound to tag on-', the ridiculous 'Esq.,' unless we evade it by prefixing the Mr.' ' We must sign ourselves 'Yours re spectfully" albeit we have no respect, lor 'Yours truly albeit not in any sense his, ' truly or untruly." j j i But the old way' will prevail and he two million "Kurnels" andi "Hon- orables? will still flourish like : a whole grove of green bay, trees. ' ; i There is hot an honest' man in all this land who would not' rather be a thousand times Thomas i Bayard, sah riextrl sans reproehe. than! David Davis, besmirched in his good name by his sell-out. Said the revolutionary-Republicans: ' v 'x ; Let us have a man about us that! is fat." We confess that Davis disappoints us. I We knew he was very ambitious, for it was his ambition that lost Til-, den his seat. If he had remained on the Supreme Bench Tilden iwould not have been cheated by the Radi cals out of the Presidency. But, alas, hislambition was too great for his vuv tuel , .! . . '. i: 'For Siich things, in a false, disloyal knave', Are! tricks of custom; but, in a man that s just, .j .;....; . i ft i They are iclose denotements working form .1 the heart, . . That passion cannot rule. ! Ah, Ambition, Ambition, .what ;a' : r - . ' ? Master; ; art thou, and what stings thou earliest! How many have been ruined i whilst kneeling at thy foot- stool! 1 . ' ' i The resolutions adopted by the ex? Confederates in their recent reunion at Raleigh are in good taste. -We were pleased that they emphasized their devotion to the Union. Au whe knojiv the material that made up the North Carolina ' Confederates know that they are loyal and true, and may be trusted in their plighted word. They did their duty grandly in the late war. They have done their duty to their country in the sixteen years of peace. f , -T be lynching of negro ravishers is still progressing. 1 Another : case re ported from 1 Arkansas. Unless the negroes, learn the stern lesson that death, speedy ' and certain, ; will fol low crime, the hanging business by armed mobs wilt continue indefinite ly. r jThe rviolation 1 of : the persons of white' women bv 1 neerroes will be punished With death always. ' f The New York Michigan Relief Fund amounts to $100,877.73. . Large shipments ol ; clothing have been made already. . t ; -.; . ; Tb iaeea and tbe President's DcAtb. r jLondon jCor. N. Y. Tribune. , .. , . Everybody knows that, there is no such stickler for etiquette in all ! Eu rope as the Queen of England. It was inconcelv blethat"she should have, broken ' awav frbrh' - the' 1 pre scribed formula. But those who had been withj her said ; anything; . might be expected oi.iiiertnat !w:oui(L.iex press- with emphasis her distress and grief ) for the President's death; ': and her: womanlr'sympathy.; with , Mrs. 'Garfield J I eard repeated y esterday what I heard weeks : affo,i- and -pro bably then ' mentioned, "The Queen thinks Taria J- talks1 of" Nothing' elsej said this member of her household. - Some f sensible people are in favor of -'changing1 'the' manner of -fetter, OBITUARY. Sadden Detta of Dr. J. 6. Holland, Editor, Novelist and Poet. , J(; r Philadelphia Times. " ; . . . Josiah . Gilbert , Holland - a writer long familiar to the American public under his pseudonym of Tnnothy Tit cbmb, 1 and one 1 of the' founders and : the editor of 'Scribner'-a Monthly i riow : Century -, Mctgazifyp, died suddenly at. ; his, home in . e wrprk , early yester. ,day 'morning," For, the last nye yearsj he had; suffered 'more ;dr less severely! at times from angina pectorisithoijgh h had bee,n. .comparatively - well dur ring, thepast twelve months and as' it' his office as usual , on '. Tuesday, so that his deaihi1 while readily account ed ' f or,-; was no less a; shock " to5, his. , friends, f lie leaves : a, , wjf e and two grown daughters, and a son,, who i& a' scuaent av: aie. xjr. i-oiianu was in his sixty-third year, liaving been born i- at 't Beichertown, j ' Hampshire county, massacnusets, j uiy iiy. His father was a machinist in humble circumstances, and young . Holland s rly education '-was ' rather frag mentary; but he worried along, ' and at ; the. age of twenty-five graduated in medicine at the Berkshire College. ' or ' three I years he practiced j in iringfieldi '' That is to say, he hung out his sign and occupied his time-in writing, with Indifferent success. In 1847 he started . a . paper, the May State Courier which lived six months. Then ' he ' went to Richmond as a teacher, and afterwards was superin tendent., of . ) . the i public i schools at Vicksburg. j In 1850 he .returned to Springfield and entered the office lof the Republican; and here at last his. success becran. ' He ' was !a profiise writer, ; n..,- .; ;:: Dr. Holland's , career in , literature has been industrious, honorable and useful, rathe1 than brilliant. ' Beside the great 'amount' of ephemeral writ ing that he did, he leaves perhaps a dozen volumes of stories, essays and poems, all of which have been widely read 'and hone of which are likely to leave any 'lasting impression on American letters. ; : ?u , ; ? ; I THE FALL OF DA VID DA VIS. .. Washington Post, Dem. We have, always- desired to enter tain a high opinion of Judge David Davis, his motives and his procedure' even when we have been compelled to doubt the wisdom of the one pr the ; potency of , the other. , But Ve must confess that the course pursued by that gentleman yesterday, is so thoroughly at varianee with his fre quent solemn : protestations that it can only be attributed to an almost insane' ambition to crouch. beneath the shadow of the Presidency, or to inducements j which j while they will occur to very many thoroughly im partial observers, . we , j will not with out larger provocation put into en during print Although frequently predicted, we have never been wil- ling to believe ;that Judge Davis would permit himself to be elevated if elevation it can be called -to any position by the means lately em ployed. 1 ; ' ; "M :' Baltimore Gazette, Dem. ' :: The act of jthe Republicans in de posing Mr Bayard and electing L to the Presidency of .the Senate; Judge Davis, of Illinois, will brand with h! famy the Corrupt leaders of, the " Re publican part.:l It is another hail in the Presidential coffin in 1884, driven deeply and firmly by the men who stole the Presidency, and who un- blushingly bartered political patron-. age m exchange tor the vote of tne Virginia traitor. (.Whatever respect honest men may have had for Judge Davis' integrity, has been swept away. now that he has permitted himself to be used as a pliant tool in the hands of the; Republicans and descended to the low level of Mahone. '-- He knew that without his f vote Mr. Bayard could not have been unseated, and as there was every f reason to believe that Judge Davis would not lend his vote . to elect j Mr, ' Anthony ! . or . any other Republican, thev with charac teristic cunning shamelessly offer him the f prize in the lottery of assassma tion' as Mrw Edmunds terms it ; and he, forgetful of , hisi honor and. man hood, accepts,! and, like Mahone, ex- cnanges nis inaepenaence lor tne comparatively! paltry office; j ' 1 ' ; J . , , Philadelphia Times, Ind. ; 5 j a The Democrats forgot that the Re publicans are I politicians like, them selves; that they have already.bowed -down into the slime and mire of Ref- pudiation to capture the political free booter. Mahone; that David Davis is only mortal, with a great, deal of hu man nature in his composition; that his on dream is 'of the ''Presidency, and that-he is the devoted 'friend of the new Stalwart President ; and for getting these .things, ; the Democrats marched ,into the, .IJepnbiican carnj) ior wool ana came duck not oniy -minus booty, but shorn of all they pos sessed. ' '' s' ': 'J -" : ' ' '' :';FU2 :j2V"ii THE SENATE. " ! How the Laugh Went Up Over Davte'a Election. , Charleston ' !KTews and Courier's Washing- -. tonljetter. " 1 ? There' was great : excitement in the galleries, as the roll call progressed. Some thought; that Senator Davis would vote V against" himself. Of coarse he did1 hotand in consequence everybody .'-ihuckiediand -smiled ex-; eept, Senator Davis himself, f who tried to look indifferent, and failed. NO; 51; f When Senator Bayard's name was called he did not belie his record as a gentleman and t .as a . statesman.' Rising, he said with dignity and f-: plicity: f'Mr. President, T'.beg j to withheld my rote 6n: the question. I have never ; :obtauied ' offi.ce-', bV' my yojie ana, .x snait never, retain ,-it py, that means.r-vjfr" r aHow small must Senator , J)av s's huge body! hiy ereasr nayB rx.toit Wsj J U he man on. the -fence had; gotten a' potttf&rtablefi and pTSht seatj last oh the Republicattide. and' i ist thfenf there was a d6m.oustration that t have shamed the.; raranizprs stnd aiders of the soheme-uddeily Mid ; rontaneously';iBveyody'.b " intib''laus'hterl-!th& floor ana in ihe: galleries. Every wher&.was:thei fini niness of the situatioaatmrectatedJ ; rSenatonr s"Bayard-End Anthony. lauguiug uieiusutvpi, , escorteu , me newl5r? elected" to Itheji ehau;; itle' reached it, took a glass of water-ahd made his1 ' inaugural -address, : stating'; that if his election-had carried party , obligations with It he ' would : jiave' been -constrained to-decline it. He WmAV&ie. thtsit'Ssjiot ihis vssortte which ! had j paused hjf election. He believed' it had ,been . effected as' a recognition of his' independent posi tion in politics."1 ' ' ji At this deliciously modest acknow ledgment there was a subdued snicker all around. : . I :,t Tack! Cartoon. ' f Richmond (Va. State. i-' Puck has -: a very 'good ' Shake-' spearean. cartoon ; this week repre senting' President Arthur in the cha- racier oi rrince xiai, newiy pepome Henry . V., encountered by Jackr Eikl staff, PistoL Bja-dolph, Nymj Justice Shallow, and all of the associates bf his youthful follies, in t.he . streets bf ' London. ConkliUg , represents itne' tat night, and Piatt the shallow jus tice, while Grant and his set stand as silent lookers, on upon the other, sicle Jay Gould and Vanderbilt acting as pages j and bearing the ' train of the royal robe. To the confident "famil iarities I ; of j. Falstaff-Conkling, - 'the Prince-Arthur makes reply; . ; j! 1, I know thee not. old man.f fall to'thv t - ; prayers, -i Presume not that I am the thine: I was.! For God doth :; know, so shall the world ' i perceive, --: ' . ' j That I have turned away my former self j - do will l those that Kept me company: A Wheh thou dost hear I am as I have been; t Approach me, and -thou shalt be as thou 5 (wast, ; - - ; ; The tutor and the feeder of mv riots. : Till then, I banish thee, on" pain of .death Railroad Blatter. .'.! i The! Raleigh Farmer and Mechanic of yesterday's date stated that Capt. John If. jucxaiure, vpi.; donn a. jiaves ana Xj. p . Churchill, Esq.J of Rutherford, were in that city en route rfor WUmineton. and added!:! ''They! go by invitation, to talk with the railroad folks in that city relatiye to extending the Carolina Central Railroad to Rutherfordton, thence to' Marion, and on into Tennessee via Cranberry, mines.". We learn that the' authorities of the Carolina Central Railroad invited the County Com missioners of Rutherford and representative citizens of itutherfordton to come to. this city to consult about the proposed exten sion, but up to the present time hone of tnem nave maae tneir appearance nere, ana itwassuppotedby bur railroad men that the proposed "talk" had been abandoned by our Kutnertora inenas. , . -, ..'..:.. Death ofRev A. A. Bosnanter It was with deep, regret that: we learned yesterday of the death . of .this young, but able and Dobular divinel of Ithe Methodist 12. Church, South, at his residence, in Ra leigh, j. Mrs Boshamer was well known and had many friends in this city, haying served as pastor of the Fifth Street 'Church several years ago, since which time he' labored for four years in Charlotte, and at the time of his death was pastor of the Edenton Street Methodist church, at Raleigh, to. which ap pointment he was sent by the last annual Conference' for .the present year; but. ere the Conference year closed, his labors were completed upon earth and hef was called to his reward. . J- For the Star. RAILROAD SIEETXNG. large , and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of Battleboro and vicinity, on Saturday, the 8th inst., on motion, T. ri Braswell, Esq. , was called to the chair, and O. D. Mann requested to act as Secretary. Capt. J. U. Exum bdng 'called'upbn to ex plain the object of the meeting, did so yerjr briefly.! . Whereupon, the chair appointed a committee of five, ; to-wit, J; U. Exum, F.; M. Rawlins, W. D. Stokes; A; C. Taylor and J. U.: Herbert, to draft ; resolutions ex-! Dressive ,of the sense of the meeting. The committee retired s and soon returned, with: the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : -.i : : WHBBBASrtailred-dlscriminations have become; so oommon, h fearftuly oppressive and. detrimental to many of. our people, towns and cities, and whereaff we, as true North Carolinians, desire a speedy reforma tion, J '; ! ' . . , ,. . ' i Besolwd 1st. That we ; are in full sym- Dathv with Z. B. Vance, and heartily en; dorse every effort he has made m pus di rection.: i?..jli--.Ki '1-:; ",: ' 2nd. That we recognize tn him the; states man the patriot and the champion ' of the rights.' of the people of North Carolma. i ; ; 3rd, That we, urge him not to relax his energies, but rather strengthen and push the fiffht With more vim and zeal, till our common foe is driven if ram the field, and our wrongs are fauy. redressed, 1 -' 41, That the alarm having been sounded and war! declared, : we exclaim,' Lay on Mclluff; and damned, be he who. nrst cries hold, enoueh." ' -'" ' '' 1 t Moved that a copy of : these . proeeedines be sent to the Charlotte Ocserper Raleigh 'JOm. Wflmihgtoh STAK,'TarborO Southerner ny.So,. Wilson 'Ad- vanee, with the request to publish them. '.'";' -! t: r. braswell,, unairman. O. D. Mahit, Secretary. - Raleigh ' . Recorder renorts . re vivals as follows: -Jackson einintv 11 ad. ditions ; Abbott's Creek. 22 conversions 1 s additions; Perquimaas; 12addiSons; New imon jaontgomery county, 15 baptisms. W aT&zw jBrief vMerttim: 'The eotton is nearly all picked out , We regret to 'announce' the -death of Thomas O. Hall,-iwho died at i his home to Turkey Township, Sampson' county last Sunday, of consumption. ;.. v Mt.i Airy. J?ew:t 'i Our 'farmers are sowing a large quanity of wheat this fall. ' The - tobacco in this . section has im proved very much since the . rains a few weeks a.go. ' There -will tie a stood deal of . -r- Wilson Advance.' Mr. J hn H. Lucas, . of Cross Roads Township, due a sweet - potato ' a few 'days ' ago,'4 which weighed f five; pounds and twelve, ounces. lie then dug an entire . am. getting seven potatoes, -which averaged two pounds each. aijd exaetly filled a peck measure.' Mr. Jaa. o pieal oaed suddenly on mpnday night last, at : his residence about (six miles T.tf-JmTxs ;-nfr yr. ., Raleigh Advocate: reports, re vivals as follows: ' Robeson "circuit, 70 pro fessions, 73 accessions; 'Winstoa circuit, 23 accessions ; . Stokes circuit, 3a ' accessions ; . Guilford circuit, ;43 conversions; Elizabeth circuit. 15 conversions; Newton circuit. 21 additions; South Fork circuit, 41 profes sions, 37 'additions ; Robsville circuit, 20 professions;. Montgomery.' circuity, 80i pro- " fessions, 57 additions. . . ; ). r- Greensboro Pano.' It was ru mored on the streets last week ' that the grand jury had found a: true hill, against Dr. Wheeler, ex-Collector of Internal Rev enue for the 5th District, f Upon careful inquiry,-however, we : found the report was not correct. - The district attorney invests gated the matter; and' found the evidence insufficient o justify a bill being sent, ; and aceordihgly the proceedings were dropped. Oxford Torchlight :" We, are pained to announce the death of youhgfJos. Cooke, son of Dr. Joseph Cooke, of Dur ham, and 'nephew and adoDted son of. Wm. M. Blackweli, Esqli of . Granville.5- ' Hedied 1 - C( 1 ? A 1 J Wii puauay, luommgv oi , lypnpiu iever, aii the age of twenty-two years. - We un- derstandthat new county troubles down in Vance over the court house threaten., her existence. Oil up your machinery, ' gentle- -ttt Henderson ville Herald.- We re gret to learn that Miss AllieMaxwell, daugh ter of Jonathan Maxwell, or Blue:iudge township, met with a very serious accidnet a lew days since. , sue was superintending a - kettle of boiling sorghum, .when a temporary-scaffold which had been erected over the same, suddenly ve way; ' falling upon her and hurling her left arm into the boiler, where it remained until the removal of' the plank by her friends.15- It- is thought' that she will recover- without having to suffer amputation oi tne mjured nmD. J:-, Raleiirh '' News- Observer;. ', The Bingham, cadets, made a splendid appear ance, vesterdav. ;Thev were "olaved in" hy tKunkel's fine band. -, In the evening they visited the schools, much to the de light of their fair friends. . Yesterdav a horse belonging to one of the .marshals, ran away, and threw a small negro boy against tne granite curbing of tne capitoi square. The lad: was badly hurt. -Capt., Bo- gardus is certainly, a remarkable shot. ., His pertormance.yesterday: showed his powers in this line. . - His son, Eugene, is a: sure ' hand with the Winchester, .while . little Henry is a clever shot. -- . Fayetteville Examiner:' Died, nil tTia Orr rlaxr rf 0tylvr t Tila TooSr1anA in Cumberland county, . near Littleton Ri ver Academy, after a long and painful ill ness, Dr.. Junius o. vv llhams, aged oo years. The Nineteenth Annual Fan of the Cumberland County Agricultural Socie ty will be held at the fair grounds, in Fay etteville, on the 8th to the 11th of Novem ber. At his residence, four miles west of Fayetteville, on: Sunday -; morning, the iu umh., uieu uexauuer ooimson, m me 86th year of his ; age.- He had for twenty years of his life, filled the office of , high sheriff of uumDeriand county. Oxford Free Lance: The tele graph. IJne betweenp.xford: and. Henderson m promfees to be remarkably Tucratiye to the stockholders. The business' far I exceeds the hopes of the most . sanguine of its-projectors. -Prof. A. F. Redd, formerly of the State, University, is now connected with the Howard - College, Marion, Alaba ma, - and ''- fills the chair of chemistry and commandant of r cadets. The ..well known hostility of President Robinson, of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, to the Ox ford & Henderson Railroad, has culminated' in i his declared purpose of constructing a narrow gauge road from Henderson to Ox ford, with the avowed intention of break ihs down the Oxford & Henderson line. This statement is not based upon mere nunor, but comes to us direct, . upon the best authority. " ; . i Laurinhurg Enterprise: In the early - part of last week, while the eotton gin on ths premises of Mr. L. W. McLaurin was in operation,' the gin-band slipped off, and one of the mules attached to the ma chinery of the gin took fright and started to run, but striking his head against the framing was felled to the ground. ; Upon examination it was ascertained that the ani mal's skull was broken just above the eyes. No inconvenience from the injury is as yet apparent, however; the mule looks as well as ever and appears as lively. ; -A fight occurred at Stewartsville. in this .county, : last . Sunday, between Bill Evans and a negro man, name unxnownn wnicn juvans was . severely cut in several places on his left arm and on the neck with a pocket knife, and shot through the thigh with a No. 82 cartridge. Jt is thought Evans will ' ' - Raleigh News- Observer : Miss Louise Montaguej Forepaugh's famous $10, 000 beautiful woman, was m the city yes terday, on her . way west from Goldsbpro. She was at the Yarborough House some hours, and attracted much attention.; She was a few weeks ago badly injured In a -railway accident and is . still slightly lame therefrom. She is really a beautiful woman, both as to form and face. ; Yesterday the attendance at the fair was very i large, and the grand stand was packed all day, while the other buildings were crowded. There .were a number of interesting events. A verv laree number of ex-Confederate sol-- diers were present and some " five hundred participated, in the reunion. ' Inthe glass ballshooting for, the prize guns yes terday morning, Mr, J. PuTen.broke twen ty balls notmissihg "any'and'-won an $85 gun.4:Mr.- Furman, of A8hville,hroke nine teen balls,' and had the second, prize. The anti-prohibition convention' meets here to-day. It will,: we learn, issue an ad-. dress to the people upon; the' liquor ques tion. It was our good fortune td at tend the reunion of ex-Confederate soldiers and we derived a great "deal of. pleasure from the proceedings. J The speeches were ' all impromptu, but were admirable in tone and patriotic in sentiment;' We trust that, " the ball being started, : it Jwill roll on per petually and that the organization will em' brace all of the old soldiers of ' the State. Let us. have a reunion next year numbering as many thousands as there were hundreds present on yesterday. ': 'v J;- Hf U-' Of the 116ninisters of the Presbyterian Church Norths who died last year, two were overt 90 years otd 18Iw.ere between 80 and 90, 35 were between 70 and 80, and 50 were under 71. i ' '