North Carolina Newspapers

The Weekly Star. PUBLISHED AT a. rt ILMIN OTON, AT A A TEAR, IN 1DTA8CB. SSSSS8SSSSSSSSSS3 188 ;itlllW (t I oe gg8SSSgSS8SS8 I 8S8883SSS8SS8888S -ituoK f g2888S28SSS8S8S SS888SS88S8S88SS8 licVsM 3258 KSSS 388335 3888128828888888.88 S888SS8S8S83SSSSS, 31 Is a 8 B. .......... . - . . r .i. ivd at the Post Office atTWllminfcton, K. C. ''. as Second Class Matter. y -. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. TlK' subscri6tion priicc of the WkkJ.t ptau is as follows : Sinsle Copy 1 year, postage paid, fl.50 ' 6montlis, " " il.00 " I 3 months. " ' ' ; .50 ' - TEAB IDI.B TEARS, That was a very affecting scene . nin'ii Blaine got down on bis mar row hones before Mr. Mulligan and implored him to spare him and his family the shame and ruin of an ez- ,(miio. It ought to be painted by souk-man of genius and placed in the Hull of; Representatives as a' warning for all time to, men of low instincts, b.nl morals and depraved methods. :' - It is not a matter for wonderment llv.it I'ilaine meditated suicide or suf icri4 a smi-stsoke. Prayers and trains' arc "(()!, very good when they come I , . . . I as, -i lie iuviiiipi.i" . rr I til . 1 - 1 ' 1 I . 'J - .' - ..i . '1 or iimiseii. ,iiiu auviujr wao nvt wau i "Jie" was a miserable sinner, but ibe ciunn lie feared the terrible exposure" that would bo made if his letters to Fi."tHT.were published. The first fif teen letters were terrible. The second nintt'cii are "a little more so." ; r W I i.it a hypocrite "Blaine is! 'We have m'cii how .he invited Fisher to the formation ' of a bank, he to get him the needed funds. How very watchful ho is. lie is so very anxious toih Fisher a favor "to cast an an chor 10 windward ' in your behalf" as the Artful Dodger phrased it. . He exjii-cied nothing in return. Of course not He did not get some $150,000 from his dealings in the Little Bock 1 & Fort Smith Railroad. Oh, no! He is a sort of universal benefactor, and is always going about seeking a gra tuitous helping of friends, f Blaino h'nt his friepd Caldell 2.",000, and got for this the ; benefit of:i 100,000 sale to Tom Scot. And yet when" CUId welt failed to come to tin- M-rntdi and Blaine began to think he would lose his $25,000, he writes so jiiLif iilly : "If you leave this bur 'den'on ine it will crush me." ' Oh, he writes in heart-breaking words, "if ymi knew all iho agonies I have suf fered in the matter you would pity me, I am sure." Poor fellow ! He had received for his corruption .as Speaker and Representative 'more thair 100,000 and if now ,be is to lose 25,000 by Caldwell bad faith He is suffering it will "ccn-h" hirb at the very thought. Poor, p i r .jeeine. Ami' j et he. nurvived. N 'i Fisher knew what - a scamp ; au 1 :.y:ocrite this dirty fellow' was. lie knew all aliout the large sum he nal m:i'l.-, ko when be answers Blaine's plaintive and whimpering letic r it is thuswise: "I have loaned you at various times, when you were comparatively poor, very large mm of money, and never have you paid me one dollar from your own pocket, either prin cipal or i interest. I have paid . sundry amunti to others io wham von were indebted; and theM debts you hats aUowed to stand i- pa ld like the notes Which J hola 1 ha ve placed you in positions whereby yoiP received wry lame sums of monev without one dol lar of expense to you, and you ooght Hot io iorget the act on mv part. - or an me parlies connected with the Little Rock & Fort Smith llailroad nor one has been jso fortunate as yourself in obtaining ; money I DHt qf it." A.fln tiib .f --s . - i Thirty-fiye yers and more ago we used to read the ' WadeSboro Argus afterwards followed its fortunes, when it was removed to Fayette ville. The writer nearly thirty years ago used to try his "'prentice hand on its columns in the way of ah occa-J sional commuDicatiod. It wadited by the late John , W. Cameron re cently the printer made ns' call him John K) who was a lawyer and edi tor of rare parts. ? iMr. Cameron ex-..' wiled as a writer, and in finish 'of style and humor he nis ynot ofted teen equalled bv our native vioari- na sts W havA hefnrft na a codv I aunts, we nave Detore us a copy i of the Fayetteville Argus f dated th6 lfc r tui io v i!i Li.ui,-' -uijr, xM u,-io Mze of the ' present Obseroet 'and centains about the same amou matter. It is red hot for Fillmore and Donelson. John . A :Crilmer- waa the Whig candidate fori Governor, Ths electors for that campaign wee: Jst District, ' Lewis : Thompson, lof Gertie ; 2d, E. J. Warren, of . BeSo fort; 3d. O.P. Meareslbf ttiif Han- fier; . 4th, Janies T. ; liittieiohn. pf L." J.- ' 1 T-. y - . , WriM..tl1-. ' m.S'' ' A .'i rTr OaaJ'mw f.f Chatham; 6th, Qenf J. 1L Leacbj jof Davidson; 7thGen.XJj Anson: 8th. John T). Tlvman. of Buncombe. : Of these Judge Meares ajor Littleiohn, and Gen, Leach lone survive. The3i n account Pf the discission at -Fayetteville be-.. fween pinner and Bragg that would VOL. XV. fill Borne five columns.' of the Star. It is . evidently from the pen of the editor. The number is fall of po litical matter and shows that can-; v asses were warm in v those times as now; -Bat there is nothing personally offensive in the discussions although pointed and forceful. Men of purity and honor were selected in those &ys I for high places and there was no' oo- casion. for exposure of rascality and crime. ' Since the war there ;' ia so much political scoundrelism that you mast expose it , in plain" terms or be recreant to dutyto ' the causer of public virtue and to public interests. Times have changed and for i the worse ' ' .-; " ' A VERT CDBIOrS GONTRASt.. Very , much of the most cordial praise ever bestowed upon Governor. Cleveland comes from Republicans) Even gentlemen i like ex-Secretary Fish, and President White of Cornell .University, who . wiH .vot6;TJt BlaineT have only " wor.ds "of .commendation for the Democratic candidate .for1 the Presidency. In contrast with this read the following upon Blaine by one of hia warmest supporters.' On Septem ber 30th; 1 872, the N. Yi Tribune, edited then by the man who has"! charge now, .Whitelaw Reid, said this: . 'The startling exposure of Speaker Blaine's venality in connection with the Union Pacific road, eastern division, en tirely destroys, of course, whatever credit some people may have given to his evasive dental of the Oakes Ames bribery, and pats ine whole case or ine credit Moouier on a different basis. Now it is shown T1 . A - .: eood reputation. He had taken bribes in another ease When this was written the evi- dence against Blaine was not com plete. '. Now ; all. men can see for themselves how corrupt the Repub lican candidate is, and how just was the IHbune's verdict twelve years ago. But that paper waxes' warmer in its support of the man who "had taken bribes'" in more than one case in proportion as the turpitude and rottenness of its , candidate become more apparent to all. Mrs. Morrill says that Blaine was appointed to the Senate ; by Gov. Connor, of Maine, "to save him from the further investigation (of the Mul- ligan letters) and the inevitable ver dict of the House Committee." Con nor got his reward, ne is now Pen sion Agent of Maine that pays well. Mrs. Morrill says further: . "Mr. Blaine, as he did to 'Mulligan, im porter ed my husband with tears and en treaties to use his influence to save him.' When my husband resigned to go into the Cabinet it was generally . understood, and my husband so understood, that Gov. Chamberlain would be appointed to fill the vacancy." ' . Blaine escaped by Connor's pli ancy, y - - There is a prime fallacy running all through the arguments in favor; of a joint canvass . between Scales and York. It is that Scales always makes and that without this canvass; it will be impossible to secure a big majority. An active discussion byj Democratic speakers will probably. ao as mucn to oring out . voters as a joint canvass; would. Vance, Kan-j so ni and Jarvis spoke in Wilmington in 1882, and New Hanover did splen didly. If all the counties had-dong as well there would have been 10,000 majority for Bennett. -Vance's ppp ularity and Tilden's splendid man ageinent explain the majority of 1876. Mr. Blaine's letter to his friend Phelps is artfully , drawn perhaps, bnt most reflecting .people' will re gard it as very unfortunate. - He was very ignorant of an easily under stood Kentucky law if he writes the truth. The letter however plausible will not bear analysis. It will not relieve him as he may think. ,We can - now see why he entered a nol pros sitteen years ago in the- suit for slander he brought against the editor of the Portland (Maine) Argus, the leading .Democratic paper in Maine. Blaine and Arthur are. to i have, a meeting. Important results, says t,ne ela?Ped come f romf thejConf erence, which will occur in New York. A dispatch from Washington says : y within 'the next few days there will be a conference in New York between Blaine and Arthur and - there wiil be another con ference still on j a larger scale, though not more important in its bearing on ine can- vass. AUUUl .LUIS . ilLUU JJJLLUIBWCl JJCIU. orton win iana on our snores, not mucn . h, . . f h. ,mino. na hpnHntr on fthe election, the avowed reason of his visit being that xt is to ao some necessary pusi- neasof his owfl and then eo back. 'Mr. Morton Was the principal actor ' in raising . L . - m. 1 1 : IDG laro spms wnicu iuraej spent w iu diana and were spent elsewhere to elect Garfield. 7 He is a liberal giver himself and possesses the faculty.of smiting the rock to make the fcoldett current flow. Morton has Influence among the ' Stalwarts as well as men; and he will be exDectedto exert it in both places.y It was about this: time fn September ' that Dorsey's soap ifaa-i chine was sold up , in Indiana lour years m (Wn wltan If AVtAfi'a nnntwiKiitl Ana hAtTftn tl flow in and when the: old ! ghard.ol :- Btal I warts took the ne to " ' ; I : A "Warn VM1r- aKnfDtnanl AlaiinO 1 "that bb'Sgeats hive captured in the ant- I mals which . are nndonntedly repre- sentatiyes of the pre-historic race lof mammoths." - Tliis is ridicoled as bsud.i One.; ysbbwmanj: gays they will turn out probably ' to? be "Wirf elephants.". It is well enough to know, what .is said in moderate! Republican ? papers'' as to the . political ' fdtuation.'. The New York - correspondent -of the PhiladelpbiaZicrvjrUes the 18thr A long-headed t)emocratic politician, whose political prognoalicaliooa m former I vies, even wnea uey leu sgau, ps pwji nartv. exDressed a conviction this motnincr I that the Butler diversion, together with the apathy or indifference of Tammany1 Hall, would draw off some 25,000 votes from the Cleveland ticket in this city, and, -possibly, 7,000 or 10,000 Ja , Brooklyn. To; offset this, however, it Is expected that the great popularity of Mr. Cleveland at his end of tha fitatA nr!11 inanra an iiritnoail 'VAin in aI. i 11 T.1 J a. aI : 'a. aL I that quarter, which '.will, as the Prcncbj say, save the situion. There is a vague I suspicion or rumor that Butler will with- h th ivrtth hni.r in favnr of either I Blaine or Cleveland, but perhaps it is super- j nuous to say that tbere.is , nothing , to con- 1 Arm it " ' J . ! "1 " - I' I I Gov. Hoadlv is manasrinsr the eol- I ored vote in Ohio. It is said that t.hoi,.an1s of -V them will Hrote I for I ' A X.A-: . -ri. n: cinnati inquirer, .Jbem., says jthe Republicans are badly scared land they are tapping the "barrels" very freely.-"It ia said: that the-: best; or ganized - party ' is the 4 Prohibition. They are, doing thorough still-hunt work. . - i ' 1 - 1 " Revival of Rellclan. The eloquent Quaker preacher, Rev. A L Mendenhall has heen nreachinir. bv in-1 vitatio'n to larire and serious conrrefirations in the Methodist ' Church ' at Rocky Point I for" ten days. A 'correspondent 'describes I the great upheaval as follows: "The peq- I pie have flocked from all directions to hear J him, and never has there oeen Known at ltocky Point such an Upheaval of religion. There is no excitement, but a profound re ligious a wakenjng "pervades the entire com munity far and near. .IJp to Thursday of this week about fifty " had : professed, ton- version udder Dr. Mendehball's able minis trations of the Word. Ministers of . the Gospel who hear him are greatly revived and leacn new lessons of duty, members of the Christian churches are nerved in charity, faith and love, and sinners are converted j converted to a degree and in .numbers un equalled in .religious revivals in Pender. Hard cases, and gray-headed sinners, never before showing. interest in Christianity, have been converted by dozens, and are how valiant soldiers of the Cross. Preach- ing is bad twice a day, and the congrega tions are so large that the .large church is unable to bold all. the crowds who come. The preacher is much beloved by the peo ple." A Vabm Shad. i A prominent citizen of Pender Informs us that from the 1st to the 10th of Septem ber immense numbers of young shad have passed down the Northeast river by "Brick Chimney," in that county. They run in a body aimilar to a school of mullets in the sound. . It is also a noticeable fact that they run in the "middle of the stream," near the top of the water. They swim slowly, taking about five days to reach the ocean from Rocky Point. The fish are seemingly about four months old and are some two and one half inches in length. It would no doubt do Commissioner Worth good to see the little frisky fellows. Our infor mant adds: "They will be here again on schedule time, March 1st to the 10th. 1887. Come up at that time and take dinner with us, and we will give you baked shad and New River oyster trimmings." Thanks I The temptation would be a powerful One to ye writer. yy,. -yi For (be Exposition. ( We yesterday examined a lithographic drawing in the , hands of Mr. , Orinr T. Thomas, which has been kindly contn billed by Cap t. James A. Walker, to swell our couutyV exhibit at the Stale Exposi tion. : The drawing shows the order of at tack on Fort Fisher by the squadron under, command of Rear - Admiral D. D. Porter, U. S. N , in the combined naval and mill tary operation which resulted in the cap-i ture of tha Contederate defences ftt New Inlet, January 14th and 15th, 1865. Also,, a handsome illustration of the bombard-; ment 'of Fort , Fisher ; by the attacking squadron, with the name or each ship ap pearing on her side. ' There were two other larger pictures of the. engagement at Fort Fisher, which will be sent with the two we Aid for (ho Soldiers? Home. " f We learn from, the Richmond iStote. tbat the Board of Visitors of the Soldiers Home of the R. E. Lee Camp, Confederate Vete- rans, have contracted with the ' Harris Dra malic Company, of New , York ; city, to give a.series of performances for the Home fund. Local aid committees of ladies and gentlemen have been formed In the follow ing cities-. Richmond, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Wilmington, Charlotte, Charleston, Colum Via, Pensacolaj Savannah, Macon, Cofufcn- bus. Rome. Auffusta. Atlanta. Mobile.. Bir- mingham, Opellka, New Orleans.Memphis, woman. One of tbe .balls waa subsequent Vicksburg7 Cffiatn8oKhoxville?N4h- ly picked up bom the flbor, where' it had ville, Frankfo!rt,v Lexington, ? Ky.,' Loilis- struck and rebounded, simply makingjan jville, , Cincinnati, St . . Louis and Jankas Citv. and from the tenor of the letters dailv received by the Secretary, says the State, the movement lent promises to be a grand silo- j ially and fraternally., ,' 1 f X ceas-financi: Fruit, for the SxpoalUon. . . , ,. i -.w-. fc. .. '.i i .if. :Ja wn o u, " -f floor, of BriggaVdfug store, prepmtory being sent to the JState fruit is Very fine, especial are splendid .specimens, very large; and beauUfuL Sulphuric acid has been found to be theest 'ireservatWe .Utef alh; The iruit yuk uy iuw,jcwolu;pgiv!. solid, while loses its color, discolored that : advantage.! : We ham fieen' s&tisfied dunnir the nasi few weeks lhat ': New'Hanover will make a tsLtTWA week.lasV jeari aa -incrfflse oi W oaies. I ZiTl i"?.i -S S 3. fr V.Ac.mF tha MAAinta twiner H.40T bales this flfw.F". rr.z -rrr since me commeuueiMvu ui iuwup jm, however, the receipts being 349T hales this year as against 3,972 bales; for the oorre- sponding period ast year. ; that put up Jn alcohol not only . - windwrere tendance is expected; n m KtmA .riraf i';bt; tt .ll . Lw.wt hur was bktf-r .Ln-1 'm m " ' : I. blacksmith, dangerously wounded J, JL,t thefruUcannotl)e seen; to . .m , , , A "lr .U a, .vu V?,k1 .Tvis' with a. shot-gun. "While Shafer was .; . . - i . . , , v., r I y : -y .i , " ouj. uuuiiu, ui i at work ; a ahop, Uftvis, woo naa-Deeii- ' ' ' ' ,r I ... Twn rklrkl Anw . nAlirhhnra of Nixon. I- wlin naa o KtT miMiailml'ltv' i ruatAl hall I ltnl,;n nmnmuul In. fioht him : hnt wna very 'creditable display at tM I&posltiotn2 about t nail-past ococs4 ous uiougui recovered as to, b0. tWtojaaw Jit?,, door wklt his5 hand updn his hh pofeket;' ' ' ' ' 'j '.I Zic i ft"!' x nothing of th,e circumstance at the time, j Ue. r He wSl ptqbably re whereupon Shafer threw a- hammer, and ""'W; yy f'lj Two of the halls fired into the room port for duty, i-te'v&x . him,, bitf missed, The receipts pf cotton during .tb week . . -- Trrf theafi M hefor8 ; . y- n t, ' terwards came to Shafts shop and pombM ;WILMINaT0 N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBERS 26, THE t GREAT B UGBEAR. ; ; foaMT Sim4' BxamlnitUa .Veater- Or-rTlie cinrt . Hon; iTfcrenfea eld' la ; One Caw "Two Cm Some time, before 10 o'clock yesterday laorping, the iour set, for the preliminary -? -, r. with a BDrinkline of white, all anxious to " - -ll 1 T ge asign pf pne wnose .oioneiy uu . jung ly m u u ieu ' evading the process of the law thus mak-1 ine himself a sort or terror to a portion or 1 the community. . A. few 1 m inutes after 10 o'clock the object of so mich curiosity J w geen aonroachinir the court hoase.sand- I . 4 y - I . WKshed between two colored officers of the law, and walking slowly, and deliberately oa account of wounds he haflreceived, on the occasion of his capture at . Goldsboro. In a few minutes -more all the available space in the large court room was packed Yllh PP1 ther and iude'fl 8tand;Pre- flenUngnceit to tbe generU squeeze 'aAdJamf Magistrate Hill was seated in the chair of justice, -and the prisoner, a dark, pow erfully built negro, with broad shoulders and larce head, occupied a seat a short dis tance in front of him. S : f Justice Hill called the first case, which 1 .. I-..-...., was that of the alleged robbery of David Hall, colored. This individual,: who is a a. - . 1 ;j ii ' 1 j. : . k T - said to have a considerable Quantity of In dian blood in his veins' and has but1 one I leir. Was invited to the stand. He said he was the proprietor of a shoe shop near the site of the old Union depot, knd that about .... I 8 o clock on the night of the 3lh of June. While engaged in mending a pair of shoes, Pompey Sneed, accompanied by two other colored men, came into toe room. The confederates of Pompey immediately seized- him . and held him securely until Pom pey went into , his bedroom adjoin ing and took from tne mantelpiece a clock and watch, with which he ran off, his two confederates releasing , witness and following him ; all three running in the direction of the Little Bridge, on the county road. As soon as he got loose he (Hall) hobbled to the door and shouted an alarm, which was followed by the appearance of Emanuel Merrick and Dave Richardson, both colored who started inj pursuit of the robbers, but failed to overtake them. 1 There two men testified that they saw ; Pompey when he ran put afi the door with a clock under his arm, and poth identified the prisoner as the man. Hall also identi fied him. Sneed had no counsel and made' no de- -fence. A justified bond for his appearance at the Criminal Court was reauired of him. , The next charge against Pompey was al 01 weaaing open tnesioreoi nuiiam Steindorf. on the night of the 20th of July. and taking a watch and other articles. This case was finally, continued until next Friday, the State not beingteady to go into an examination on account of the absence of two important witnesses, one in South Carolina and the other in Wayne county, who will be sent for. , He was continued under the same bond of $500 previously imposed. Magistrate Hill then left bis seat and Jus tice Millis occupied it for the purpose of examining the defendant on the charge of assault with intent to kill one Henry Moore, colored, on the night of Sunday, the 20th of July last. This case was also continued until next Friday, on account of the ab sence of material witnesses. . The prisoner was then, remanded to jail j . ATTEMPTED MURDER. Three Pistol Balls Fired Into a Home Harrow Escape of Some of (he lu- jM(e Ho Cluo to (ho Wonld-Be Murderer.- ' . V" On Thursday night, between 9 and i 10 o'clock, at the residence of J. O. Nixon, colored, on the north side of Brunswick street, between Seventh add Eighth streets, there was one of the most deliberate and cold blooded attempts at murder that .we have known to occur in this immediate sec tion in a long time. It appears that Nixon left h6me about 8 o'clock to go to a meet ing of some sort. Before starting he was impressed with the belief that he had seen the form of a 'man prowling , about the premises, but be shook off the suspicion as the product of Itus imagination, ;es- pecMlly as the , a form I .disappeared (as suddenly as it had been - seen, . and he departed for the : podge. Between 9 and 10 o'clock Caroling Artis, . the step- mother of Nixon, thought she discovered the form of a person in the lot back of the tinnaA thn'vlew hpiino- ntitained throucrh a window the lower sash oi which was raised and the blind open. :sle-stepped to the 'window, pushed up me siats anu lowerea the sash, and at the sanie moment the 're - port of a pistol was heard and a ball came crashing through' the Window. This dia- charge was followed by two more in rapid, succession. onelallgrazQig the wrist ot tne 1 indentation in the . wall ; another had gdne r through into a trunk in a corner!of the bed- room into which the. shots were fired, and the third imbedded itself I into a pilloWjon thebedin the opposite corner of the same room. This waa the bed which was to have been occupied by the stepmother, . and the pillow was tlwowopon which in a few 1 minutes more she would haVebeen resting hedaa lhe light had already been ek ' , , --llnW . joining room, with only a thin partition jn- ' knother Dedstead. UW , , - nf W(U ; ,,f- ttx iWttw' trunk. ?.The one ,..AA . . , 'M b .h low.-NlTnn ..concluded to leave there fr the, present, while he awaits fuf I. . . . r rr. -r . f- ther developments. - u v - t, - - ; , Persons residing in the neighborhood Expiuohe raiho By the pears,wht 1 -jj - ". , - . . : , . T . - I lima Yia aTisvfta wapa fipArfT WhllA iff ATI Rfl- two bedsteads beimr head to head. : Two eurgawna we new ina a vyw;a:, , V" " ,oii.!-.iwa- i,l 1 , I W it, -nr-. y " T. ' " . " . j I say tbey saw tne man enter tne -premises on the night of Beptember 1st, naff-so far i uruureu wjr. 1 , . . .- . .. . . .... ..I .,.y j- . C.: " f hn wnt. soon name hack and Stood in the hearp the firing but; when they had ascer tained the cause of it 5 the jfould-be-mur-deror had 'made bis , escape.. There is' no .clue at present ,.to e ' party who did the. shooUne. . , .. -1 y 1; j:5 ? ... ' Ub ! -V . John O,,. Nixon, the. proprietor, of Tthe uuuki iu uuesuont. is .a Drominem ana in telligent colered man,. He showed jar ' a m of big house, giving the location 1. were urea, Me Deq, upon , which (nefbiia 1 .u" JT: ilV,;.v J 1 Wftfft Ivinir AnH tViA fminlr whinh nna rf flto penetrated.,. Also the bed .in the ad.: joining room upon wbick his wif waa , rrnt cine straws . ' - J- 1 fP ot lore from pine straw, made by tlje new process advertised in the Star, were ehown us yesterday.1 ' They ere of yesterday. : "They "were of diffeient grades from coarse to 'fine-l-the fines! being ' of a soft woolly texture and alnaoit perfectly white, wbile the coarser grades f' were-; more ' elastic and of"a dark' I brown color t - all, however, possessing the I stront aromatif mW Wmiliar io the rne I stronj aromatic odor peculiar to the pine whirl hM lhorlP ithmp flhrM annnnnlor 1 "t with upholsterers and other manufacturers I paring pine, nnres, it is ciaimed, is simple I and inexpensive, requiring- no- machinery J nr nliflmioila nT ia oarioniall ' DnloA ' advantageous operation by turpentine; dte tilleries, necessitating' only a small outlay for utensils; ; By this '' means the general introduction of a new industry in the pine' forests of the South would ' seem to be ca pable of accomplishment giving employ-- ment to larfie numbers of women and chit aren. both in gathering the raw material d in preparing the fibre. The source of supply ia practically 1 unlimited, and; the I , ... ... .... a. . t low cost at which it is said the fibre can he produced by this process would doubtless stimulate an already increasing demand from the trades now requiring it- and. further, lead to a large consumption of the finer grades in paper and bagging manu factures, for which use they seem to be es pecially adapted. 5 - - ; S-. Bfore ThoroBR-hbred Jerseys. 1 y Since the appearance of the article in re ference to the Hanover stock farm of .Mr. W. R. French, near this city, our attention has been callad to a fine Jersey bull belong. ing to Capt. W. A. Cumming "Roanoke" No. 8115. He is a solid fawn; rich yellow skin, fine escutcheon, beautiful curved horns,- black tongue and switch, and is in every way perfect. His sire, "Don Tomas" (2006), took the first prize at the Virginia State Fair. His dam, imported "LeGallais Fancy," made 16 pounds of rich butter in one week, and, on repeated trials, made one pound of butter ...from 5 quarts of milk. Capt. C. has also some beautiful cows and heifers, amongst them an : Ayrshire cow, imported by Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina, a most superior animal. Also a heifer, a beautiful creature, from; a twenty-two pound two and . one-half ounce cow. She will be an extraordinary milker herself. " - The Star is glad to find that so much attention is being paid to the introduction of first-class thoroughbred stock here, and ; hope sthat the good example set by a few! mav become infectious. ; Hlchway Robbery. j A colored man by the name of Joe Mc Neill, employed as a stevedore, was being paid off yesterday,, together with several others, when a dispute arose as to the amount due. McNeill, thereupon, seizing a favorable opportunity, snatched a sum of money out of the hands of his employer, took what he claimed as his due, and the remainder (a considerable sum), falling uppn the wharf where they were standing at the time, went through the cracks into the dock and was lost. - . y I The employers immediately had a war rant issued for the arrest of McNeill on the charge of highway robbery. The case was heard by Mayor Hall, in his capacity of a, justice of the peace, and the defendant was required to give a justified bond in the sum of $100 for his appearance at the next term of the Criminal Court, in default of which he was sent to jail. . - . : : : " A monster Trou(. - A Correspondent at Excelsior writes : us of a monster ' trout that was caught: in Waccamaw Lake a few days ago by the sons of Mr. Eire Williamson, an old fisher' man. ' The oldest son hung the fish, "and, failing to pull him out gave the pole' to his younger brother, waded in, gilled him and brought him ashore;' The flh measured three feet eight inches in length and twen ty three inches around. ' ' ' T i - I The early pine. . , . i i J A gentleman of this city has received a I request from Mai. J. C. Mann, formerly a resident of this place, but now ofe.Califdr nia, for a specimen of -cur, curly pipe wmui ne fuiu w. uuiui nuuug tun 1 friends as a curiosity., About the time the J gentleman was speaking of the matter to 1 us, we had exhibited to us, by a gentleman who was passings oaa- of the finest speci- meug oi mis peauuiui wouu uu wouav ever seen. meeting at Point Caswell. .... ...t j Major C. W. McCjammy, Presidential Elector, and Messrs. T. W. Strange and E. W, Kerr addressed the people at Point, Cas well. Pender countv. on Wednesday. .The I atndance was quite large and the speeches J were ;reoeiTe4 with 'W'of.ipterest great and enthusiasm. . The JJemocrats oi Jf Jten- der are pretty thoroughly aroused,, and Will iveoa good accpnn; of thenaselves on the 4th of November- ,'. ... . , '!' it To Pender Demoeralev ' ; !T:- 1 is Our Democratic irkndsia Pender county wiU observe that the-day- for htolding theJ County Convention has been changed to? Monday, Sept.! 9,t.Thhy, is th; day on ! which Stedma and Fairdotht speak at Captf ToirewlreTrom ths I , Trt.'ttri Tn. ' RiVti"' vkterdav. 'hv for. Pcrt-'au Prince ' Hiytf. ' yesterday, far, i.-'-. .AAmJl .-Ufc', w Messrs.. 'Kidder & Son kith 1505 f,et I i i... ..J ia onn .hlnnlna' vslnul at luiuio auu. My .'yj. , -,-..r?-. t 't- P $2,263, 8,. ti'T i ' 1 -n . . T" ; ' m. I - fllllll I nl I la 1884; frr. An Ain.erl4wn. Crew; Beaten In a Bout Baee t Soatfaampton AfllUrii '"'mt y unoiera , rUcmH In HnplMnar tallty .from tne D1mm m France-' 'BiialneMTroables In LtT$rpool : --' ytjJByCaWte tDttMKornink8tarll i 0,f -v Twrww Bant' 1A An .-wit X t maica occurrea yestera&j at Bomnampton Md rivar boat hM eihfeen t Thefdia- ? a ?y?l! neat nas eignwen. ( lfle 01- ta&ce rowed was five miles, and the amount or money at stake was sixty pouadsJ At ine atari Deuing was tnree to one in favor of the Americans. - The Amencaas gained a sliirht lead at first, "but theleeat crew fioon passed ahead of them and "won byi 200 j yards, f The time of the winnine crew was I 42 minutes and 27 seconds. In the evening p toe amaieur- ciuD pi Houmampton enter-; tained . both crews. Bailey, coxswaip of the ' American 'crew, in responding to a toast, said that the 'Uncle Sam had: never been beaten before. The crew of the jan caster were prepared to back the Uncle Sam dv iuu to 1,000 against any other bdatin England. The match excited great interest. A dispatch front Hong? Kong says : jThe renca man-or-war Aiaianta ooaraea i tne reRlJ,ar Hon Kong trading junk and threw it. s: J. . o auiniu, gum wu ' nuimuiuuuu uicrr board. This occurred-in- the- immediate ig the only trade left, and junkmeq are! atraia to - venxure Tar outside the harbor WUBOUICDBOB cannon -for fear? of' 'pirates, (Go vernor isowen Is absent in Japan on a lunougu. deputy uovernor aiarsnj ue clines to interfere. Disgust ; a . the mde cistons of the French is increasing daily. ' Madbid, September 5 ifL Heavy floods' are destroying ' crops . in ; many ; parte of Spain. ? " h y j 1 1; I j -. Naples, September 18. Excessive heat prevails, but the general : condition ofj the city is improving. The gloom and depres sion which have been overhanging the city since the epidemic became serious, are be ginning to disappear, and the street are : .i i , . -fc. , regaining their customary : actiity. Some alarm, however, r is felt at the increase in the number of cases in the Buburbs,and! the municipal .. authorities have postponed making any change in the present quaran tine regulations, i ; J A (Rome, Sept. 18, Young .ladies belong ing to the aristocratic .circles have been holding a fete in aid of the cholera suffer ers. Other young ladies are volunteering as nurses in the hospitals. , , i A report Is current here that Slgnor Man- clni. Minister of Foreign Affairs, has sub mitted to the Powers a scheme for an iater national sanitary code,, with a lazaretto on the Red Sea, and the compulsory isolation of each State in which cholera appears. : ' j Paris, Sept. 18. One death from chol era has occurred at St. Ouen, a suburb of Paris. In Perpignon and . vicinity yes terday there were eighteen deaths reported; at Marseilles two, and at Toulon none. Du ring -the continuance of the epidemic in France there have been; 10,000 cases and 5,000 deaths. , y jy y j- Rome. Sept ia Today's bulletins of the progress of the cholera ia the city of Naples, daring the past twenty-four hours, shows 507. fresh cases and 283 deaths, j Liverpool, Septe'mberi8. The Journal of Commerce, oi this city, states that dis quieting rumors are afloat concerning the stability of certain Liverpool firms, owing to the low prices of. cotton, corn, provi sions and sugar. During the day the ru mors slightly subsided, owing to the partial improvement of the grain market. Only one firm has made a private assignment. This firm was engaged in the sugar trade. ' thesouth; Eneonraelns Reports as to lite Busi ness Oatlook. (Br Telegraph to the Xonun Star.l Baltimore. September 18. The Balti more Manufacturers Record will publish to morrow special reports from all parts of the South as to the prospect for fall and winter business, showing that the outlook is very favorable for an active trade. The cotton crop will be less than was expected a month ago, owing to drought, but this is largely counterbalanced by larger crops of corn, wheat and fruits than for some years. Owing to the enlarged production of food stuffs the South will not have to purchase so largely of wheat, corn and provisions from the West as heretofore; the difference in this as compared with last year being fully $50,000,000. The late stringency in the' money market, according to many of these reports, prevented planters from borrowing as freely as usual in the spring and forced them to close economy, so that the cotton crop has been raised at a much lower cost than m other years and planters are less in, debt than at tbe corresponding time last year. In manufacturing and mining enter prises rapid progress IS peing made. VIRGINIA i - The Stale Debt An order (o Dlrcen Untie the Fandlnsj of Tax-Reecfv abje Coapoos. Richmond, September 18. The Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of the State to day, after consultation . with Attorney General Blair, Ordered ' tbe discontinuance of the funding of tax-Teceivable coupons maturine after July 1st, 1882, which cou pons the recent decisions of Judges Hughes and Bond, of tbe U. S. Court; had decided; to be fundable dollar for dollar.1 with six percent, interest. The Legislature, during the late extra session, passed a mil amend ing the Riddleberger debt bill so as to; stop this leak, but between the time ' of Judges Huebes and Bond s decision and tne pas sage of the act $300,000 of the said coupons had been tendered, and under another de cision of Judge Hnghes $100,000 of them had been funded. - This funding; is noW stopped, and the case will be appealed to the U. o. aupreme uourt li vac wooie amount of $300,000 of these coubnsj is funded the State will lose $220,000." m - xjuAlNE- Official Returns of tlltf Vote for Goyer Poutland, September 18. The foHojw ing has been received direct from the Sec retary of State:-'"' -S; t.-.-----; t. Augusta, Me., September 17-1 give you the footings of the vote for Governor Robie 78,912, Redman 59,061, H. B. Eatoa S 137 "Etistish 1.190. W 'F. Eaton 97.1Biat- tering 16. This compilation is made frpm -the clerks' returns to: .this office, excepting the towns of .fiaulter. Sherman, Kingman, New' Portland,"NorUipbrt, Eastport and Waterboro, ; and the' plantations of JCi4tle Bill and. Number 14, la Washington coun tv. Tha returns from, the seven towns and two plantations are from other sources, hut rri believed to be1 Butiatantiallv correct. B.U of the cities, towns and plantations of ibe J state are included in the above compilatipB.' I (Sigfned) " ' Joseph O. Smith; i a -.:-: ? i f.r, H-cretarr of Stalel - l .iThis shows a Renublican .plurality Of i 19,851 aain lover 1380 of ,2.002 fbe "j?? tl --n n v a ,t w I Iif-ifa- nl VIRGUflAi i ' VIRGINIA I ...... I ShootlBc-AdEra taw Henry County-A Seemingly ndihlo HenUeld. sumehkrwerk. MUa A W I into the abdomen of Davis, who iewfth Into the abdomen of Davis, who Jf with i the shot f&Kffi; I . . . v,, ' . . . . . gun in his hand." ,Somn of Dayis', .i upon oiiaier, out job was rescue anu 'sent to MarUnsvyie for tpaj NO.! 48 'u- GEN. A ju., a jsj Bisy. i-i 5 Uj;;;(fUTy Threwa Ott m;'?"iieinlea-s' VP toil ! Cwm nantaln-.l?liraen ' toMfEMafeTkc Gara Baaiy BralnVBiUr'IS Bones Rreen -Xterw sl site A p point, amen as CnarlotM T-ay. . ; J.f isKltSpeblal Stat Telegram, . j'' Ohabioi, ,N. O,, September 19. Gen. A. M. Scales,. the Democratic candidate for Governor, met with a serious accident on Monday last. While crossing Cowee Moun tain,' Jackson county,' in a buggy. Monday, the horse ran- off and ' the: buggy turned over and fell down a precipice one hundred feet high.-. Gen. Scales lodged in a jtree, fifr feet below. The tree saved him from being killed. No bones were broken; but he was badly bruised and wrenched! j His doctors .'command quiet and 'rest! ' Gen. Scales Will be able to fill his appointment at. Albemarle Monday. . -. Gov.; Jarvis repre sents him here to-morrow. Another. Aeronnt of the Accident. , - (Br Telegraph to the Voramg Star.l Chablottb. N. O.. Sentember 19. Gen. Alfred M. -Scales. Democrstic- candidate for Governor, has been canvassing Western North f!rnlina " ' Wo m u n una junk l(H,ucu here that his horse ran awav while crossing Cowee Mountain, Jackson county, and fell aown a precipice a distance or one hundred feet. No one was killed, but the buggy, was destroyed. Gen. Scales was caught in a tree and barely escaped with his life. He reached his home at Greensboro this morn ing, very much bruised, and is now in bed,' bnt he hopes to renew the canvass in a few aaya. y . . - U GEN. GORDON. . . .. .. .. -' y He Sends an Identical Cypher Die. paten to. Three High Officials In Cairo What Is hla Situation and What . he Intends to do A Pile or Money and Xroops Needed. CAino,. . September ,18. The Khedive. Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minis ter "and Sir Evelin Boring. British repre sentative in Egypt, have received an iden tical cypher dispatch from Gen. Gordon. The dispatch left Khartoum August 26th. and reads as follows: . - "I am awaiting the British forces in order to evacuate the Egyptian garrisons. Send me zeoenr, ruynims yearly salary of 8,000. I shall surrender the Soudan to the Sultan' directly the 20,000 Turkish troops arrive. If the rebels kill the Egyp tians you are answerable for the bloodshed. require 300.000 to . pay my soldiers, mv daily expenses -being 1,500. Within a lew days 1 snail taxe Berber, where 1 have sent Col. Stewart, Col. Power and the French Consul, with troops and Bashi Bazouks, who, after staying a fortnight., will burn tbe . town and return to Khar toum. Col. Stewart will then go to Equa tor via Dongola, to bring the garrisons thence. I disbelieve the - report that the Mahdi is coming I hops the Soudanese will kill him. If the Turkish troops arrive they should come by Dongola and Kassala. x ou should give them 300.000." GEORGIA. A Domestic Tragedy In Atlanta An Outraged Husband Shoots his Wife and her Paramour The Woman Fa tally Injured. j fBy Telegraph to the Morning Star.l Atlanta. September 18. Thomas M.' Jackson, proprietor of a box factory here, last nignt shot and -sliebtiv lmured Wm. McDonald, a saloon keeper the bullet en tering bis shoulder and fatally shot his wife in the breast. Jackson.suspecting his wife of infidelity, told her yesterday that he was going out of town for tbe night. Mrs. Jackson wrote McDonald a note, tell ing him to call at the house last night. McDonald did so, and after he had entered the house and gone to bed with Mrs. Jack-, son, Thomas Jackson, who had concealed himself in (he yard with a gun and pistol,! went to the window and fired several; shots, hitting both McDonald and his wife. ASMr8. Jackson ran out he mistook her for McDonald and again fired; this time with the gun which was loaded with buck shot, the charge entering her breast. Mrs. Jackson is not yet dead. L NEW TORE. A Diabolical Attempt to Burn a Bouse Pull or People The Wife or the Alan Accused of the Crime the Only Victim Two Yellow Fever, Deaths at Long Island Hospital. (By Telegraph to the Morning Star, j . New York. September 20. An elabo rate and well planned attempt at arson in a house full of people was brought to light to-day. The diabolical crime, however,. miscarried. y Its only result was the killing of a woman, wife of the man whom the police arrested on the charge of setting fire to the house. The woman was Mrs. uers tey, wife of Leo Gerstey. a saloon keeper. at 234 Rivington street. ' The fire was dis covered in his' house. He lived on the se cond floor with his wife and child, and seven lodgers occupied the third floor. Karly this morning a police officer saw flames in the house and gave an alarm. Be and another officer entered -.the adjoining house and aroused the inmates. Then, as cending to the roof, they went to tbeTescue of the occupants or tne burning buuding. They, however, at the first alarm, had fled to J the street; all but . two Mrs. Gerstey and her, nine-year old . boy. They were iouna on me root ; me ooy nearly cnoaea with smoke and the woman dying from horrible, burns. ..The two were brought to the street, in the meantime the nre had spread, and eaten its way through to the root. : The names blazed furiously. When the fire was put out it was found that everything in the bouse had been saturated with- Kerosene oil, and the gas .everywhere turned on. A sofa was saturated with oil and chairs piled on it in the front room, and it was then set on fire. Fire was also started in the closet. Kero sene steeped wood and shavings were scat tered- everywhere in - the house.;. Mrs. Gerstey could give no account of tbe affair. She was taken to a hospital and died at daybreak, Tbe boy was not badly burned The husband could be found howhere. It was reported that be had a quarrel with his wife and went away and was seen no more. It is conjectured that the woman had a band ia firing the house.' Gerstey returned to the house; later, as . unconcerned as if nothing had happened, and was placed un- uwvrnxw , ne o i' rencuuiau anu ex pressed no concern at the charge preferred against him.' He denied that be was guilty and said be had been out of the house all rpigbtsWhen arraigned in court, , Gerstey was committed for examination. t . Two men from tbe steamer Africa, which 'arrived' here recently from a West. India port, ; and ; which , vessel - is -now lying ; at South- Amhoy. r died yesterday at Long Island Colleew hosoitaL of vellow fever. : AUUfl I. DVUfc JGV.UUT. AKTCHUIU liaa - , . C3 . CU r 1 .4 pardoned James. . Larkins, ; convicted or burglary n Queens, eounty. He regards ther verdict of the iury as invalid and out rageous, v The Governor has also, restored fifty-one persons to citizenship, i i "iMASSACHUSETTs! ; A, Woollen JDTU1 Bused Death 'of V Praacts' & Hayes. " W ttatemph to the X oramg Star. . BosTOKT8eptember20.The Merchants t Woollen Mill, x a large stone building at JJedhaco, was entirely destroyed oy . fire . i f . ' .W . - . L! . 1 . mus morning, wuu macmnery ana biock.; Loss $75,000. Pive hundred, hands w(re thrown out of employmient. . .... , ! '' .'. ' Hon.' ' Francis B. Hayes, 'nominated for Congress hy ltepuWicans of the Fifth dis trict, died to-dayvnv,::;;;::;r,;'' 4 V- t. During j the', present Tcntoiy 160.006,000 copies of the Bible have, been7 printed, in difjereatsguag rj, J - i Spirit?, Turpentine. .: iThe Tarboro Southerner reports that some apple trees in Edirecombe are -bearing their second crop of fruit this sea son- (ine apples or the second cron hav no seed.-- ;. :-?. Oxford Torchlight: -The Con gressional canvass will commence in joint discussion between Jaa. W. Reid. Dem ocrat, and L. C. Edwards, Republican, in uiumi on aionaay,; tne aathof September. Other appointments will be published next - Weefc - 1 v As We rn tn nrwa wn loam Tihat J. Li O; Kerr, of Yancey ville; has in- lormeu I u. juawaras that he is an inde pendent candidate for Congress in this din. -trict, land has requested a division of time in ine canvass. ;: ' " y . - ; r Hickory Press . Onr tohftci-o- farmers, are' now busily engaged cutting auu uunng mis vaiuaoie weea. so far as we have been able to learn they have had but little trouble in getting the leaf cured very bright. 7- The attendance at Ball's Urees camp meeting two? weeks a?o has been jestimated at from 4,000 to 5,000. Not withstanding meetings have been held at this Scamp ground for about thirty five years, i no ; more interesting services and more; orderly people have ever been known . in its long record. ' . ? ; M Charlotte ; Observer: We re ceived a pleasant call yesterday from Rev. mi ressiey. who has for several years past heen doing good service as a Presby terian missionary in Mexico. - The at tendance of scholars at the two graded schools yesterday, the second day of the present session, was 1,500, of which two thirds " were white children. Rey. Father Gross, -late of Hickory, arrived in - the city yesterday to take charge of St. Pe ter's; (Catholic) church and parish in this city Father Grogs succeeds Father Wright,. who goes to Charleston with Bishop "Nor-' throp. -'V- ; I ; . - - : -. ' iJuiertoti Hobesonian: On the 6th day yt this month James D. Bridgers died at his residence in Thompson township;- He hacT reached the age of 84 years. For a long number of years he was chair man of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Ses sions, and presided with dignity and ur banity. N. N. McLean was endorsed by the convention as Robeson.'s choice for Senator. For House of Representatives Col. M. McRae and Hamilton McMillan: Sheriff Faulk J. Floyd; Register of Deeds S. W. Bennette? Treasurer W. W. Mc Diarmid ; Coroner Dr. R Lewis; Surveyor J. M. Buie. i y y f North Carolina Fresbyteridn : The session of Ha'wficld church (Orange Presbytery) received yesterday twenty-one new members on profession of faith, eleven young men and ten young ladies, to nine teen 01 whom the ordinance of baptism was administered. A meeting of a very interesting V character was held at Chinquepm, in Duplin county, beginning Saturday, 6th inst., and closing with Wed nesday, 10th. Several persons confessed Christ, and a petition with fifty-five names of residents of the village and its vicinity will go op to Presbytery for the organiza tion of a church. Chadbourn Times : The ho? - cholera is raging in some sections of the county.- 'borne of our citizens have been prosecuted for. hunting deer between February 15th and August 15th, but as the cases were continued we are in doubt as to the law. If it is not a law, our next Legis lature should make it bo. - On last ' Thursday night the dwelling house of Mr. TamM TT nhartHmirn waa nrtnaiiTnod hv V mmmMM& VMMU MM,M MM, IOVJ WMDUSUU J , fire. Only a few articles of furniture were saved. The family lost a good mtny valu ables, that cannot be replaced. The fire, originated in- the kitchen and the cause is unknown. The ' house was insured for $1,200 and the furniture for $300. Goldsboro Messenger'. Ourmili-y tary company are holding regular drills every Wednesday and Thursday nights, wiui iue loiecugu ui cumpeuug lor iue $300 drill prize at the coming State Exposi tion. The company is in splendid trim. -Washington letter: Miss Caroline Pettigrew and Miss K. R. Hamilton, of North Carolina, have been selected under the civil service rules for appointment to Government position in the Departments. Miss Pettigrew is a niece of Gen, J. John ston and Rev. William 8. Pettigrew. Mr. Russell H. Kingsbury, Jr., of Texas. formerly of Oxford, N. C, who is a young official of Congress, addressed! perhaps a . thousand persons at a tournament in West moreland county. Virginia, last week. He . visited the Washingtons and other historic families m that ramoas region 01 the Old Dominion during a two weeks' vacation . Raleigh News- Observer: Black- well & Co., of Durham, will have one of the most remarkable and attractive of all the exhibits. Their department is being handsomely fitted up and the papering, painting and general decoration will be elaborate. A machine which makos 80,000 cigarettes will be shown. The design of the front of the srface of this display is re markably attractive. Col. John Ash ford, of Clinton, planted last spring an acre and a half in early vegetables for mar ket. After this crop .was off, he turned the land over to his sens, Jimmie and Pen der, aged 14 and 12. They planjted it in tobacco and cultivated it without stopping Bchool. Last week they cut their tobacco, and will realize from it at lovst $150.' There are whistles -at the Pioneer mills, Adams' shingle mills, the ice factory, Briggs' ; wood-working factory, Allen & Cram's iron foundry,- Ruffin Roles' wood working factory, Upperman & Alston's wood-working factory, Ellington, Royster & Co.'s wood-working factory, the Raleigh & Gaston shops, carpenter shops and iron- working shops, the north uarouna car Co.'s shops. ; y . Raleigh News- Observer: Th'e North Carolina Press Convention will meet at Raleigh on October 7th. Mr. I. R. "wtl "n T- . j? aison, 01 r aison, uupun t county, was here yesterday. "He says the cotton crop in his section - is cut off one .; third by the drought and generally unfavorable season. - feace institute has law pupils. : This is the best opening of a session ever made. The Richmond Grays, Company D, of the First Virginia Regiment, will be here during the Exposition. - It is said that companies from Norfolk, Suffolk, Dan ville and Petersburg, Ya., and Columbia, S. C, will come some time .during the month. The State Department of Agriculture will have an : office in the cen tre of its exhibit. This will be perhaps the handsomest piece of work in the entire Exposition, in it will be artistically placed every species of wood- & the State, each specimen highly polished and elaborately carved. Along . the walls twill.: be the fish exhibit. This will embrace 200 or more varieties of North Carolina fish, all life-like. There will aho.be models of boats, both sail and steam, used in fishing, as well as nets, tackle of all kinds and other appliances. A fisherman's .tent will be one of the novelties. . I . . - "Charlotte Observer:. Travellers returning from the mountains, report that there was a : heavy frost . in ; the Western part of the State last Monday, and that the weather has been uncomfortably cool ever since. ( -Particulars reached us yester day of a bloody shooting affray, that oc curred in the town of Rockingham, a few evenings since, between the town marshal, his deputy and a rowdy negro man, in which the latter was mortally injured. It appears that on the evening of the difficulty a number of shots were heard in a back lot in Rockingham and town marshaL Stubbs sent his deputy, Smith, to .investigate the affair and learn who was doing the shoot ing. ''-When the deputy had departed upon the mission,:, marshal- Stubbs appre hending trouble, went to his . house and . secured his , repeating rifle, ' when he followed the deputy. The latter of ficer on arriving at the place where the shooting was going on, .'found it to be a negro named Bill Pickett,, who was firing at a target. " The deputy told Pickett that.it was against the law and requested him to cease firing. Pickett's answer was to turn his back to the deputy and renew his target practice.; -Deputy Smith started to advance, on Pickett for the purpose of arresting hmv when Pickett deliberately faced the officer, drew a pistol and opened a rapid fire upon him. ' Pickett fired four shots at the officer, who, in the meantime, had drawn his pistol and returned the; fire. lie had emptied all the. five chambers 01 his pistol at The negro without effect and the negro was still shooting at, him when marshal Stubbs appeared, on the scene with his rifle.- -The marshal fired two shots at Pickett, the second of , which took effect and brought the negro to the ground. The bullet struck Pickett in the "thigh and ranged downward, shattering the Txme al most td the knee Pickett, it is thought, will die.' . ' ..