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kly WJtH.BEESAED.EdiforandErop'r. WILMINGTON", N. C. Fbiday, - : Mabch 27, 1885. give forwur direction as well as foil 6 J ha Ant hereafter. rni. imii An ht.h nkanews can not be made. MT-NotioB of Marriage or Death, Tributes of EeSeot, Resolutions ofThaniB, o., arecmuTwj for ordinary advertisements, but only half Mteswhen paid for strictly in. advance. "At i thto rate 60 centewill pay for aimple announcement VI ill 1 Iff tw v . -Bemlttanoes must be made 7I&2" - j77 1 -r rteM T?iao-iatTSVl Lector. . .f OtSl nHii MirintAr Iflttsn when uesirea. . r-Only raoh remittances wffl he at the risk of tne puiuisuer. - "Specimen copies forwarded when desired. BEPCBUCM ."CHBBK." There is a wonderful amount of Belf-complanenoy in i that portion of the Republican party that is insist ing upon the retention of most of their set who are now in office. They seem to think that the offices of the country were made :for their benefit alone. After having held all of the offices for twenty-four years if they did not have the cheek of a Govern ment mule they would be willing to step down and out and give another set a chance at the j swill tub. The European system of Civil Service has become all of a sudden yery charm ing. It is such a nice thing to have a tenure of office that knows no break or interruption if perchance your party have the ins. There is a vast deal of unadulterated humbug in this cry for Civil Servioe reform as understood by the Republicans. They mean a retention of themselves in office. True Civil Service reform looks to securing competent, faith ful, honest officials. I The Democrats have just such men to put in office. They propose to turn out the twenty four years men and put in men more reliable and capable. " Postmaster General Vilas lias had 4,500 applications from postmasters to be allowed to stay in, and nearly all of these are Republicans. They have swung to the great Government -teat through nearly a quarter of a century and they are loth to turn loose. ' -' ' ' ' Why should not the Republican postmaster in j New York City be turned out? He controls .'no less than 1,Y00 appointments. The pa tronage is large. How can a Demo cratic Administration expect to build up its party and perpetuate its offi cial life if it retains a man in office with such "large patronage?; How can President Cleveland secure to the country sound Democratic rule by employing Republicans mainly to do the work? People with heads will say very properly, j" Wherein does a Democratic Administration differ from a Republican Administration? The cry in 1884 was that the people must have a look at the books and the "rascals in office must be turned out. If, however,-' George - William Curtis and the Civil Service Reform ers are to dictate how the vast pat ronage of the Government shall be distributed, wherein will the people be benefited?" The Republicans must be turned out if there is to be a De mocratic administration. With a Republican Senate and 85,000 of the 111,000 officeholders Republicans, in what sense would there be a Demo cratic Administration? 7 No General ever placed the officers of an army that had surrendered to him in com mand of all bis divisions, brigades, regiments and companies, whilst merely selecting a few men of his own army as his Corps Commanders. We' suppose' the Administration will turn out, but if the progress is as slow as is apprehended we'fear that Cleveland's four years fjrtll ex pire with half of the Republicans still in office. But let Evarta or any Republican succeed Cleveland and you will not find a Democrat in office twelve months thereafter. The Dem ocratic Administration that the coun try heeds is one that is honest, pure, thorough, just and democratic. To have this only Democrats must be entrusted with office. y - THE NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE. I . Ex-Governor James D. Porter, the new Assistant Secretary of State, is a native of Tennessee. He , is said to be a man of Tgood abilities. He was an original Union man, but after Tennessee seceded he entered the Confederate 'army and" served' throughout the war as Adjutant Gen eral of Cheatham's division. He served in the Legislature before and since the war, and was a Whig be? fore' 1861. ' He; has .also been Judge, and in 1874 was elected Governor, defeating , Maynard by 47,000 majority. He was reelected in 1876 by 50,000 majority. He was President of the Nashville & Chatta nooga Railroad for several years, re signing last September. A sound lawyer, with - considerable political experience and with a high character for integrity, he is thought to be a good selection. He is said to be a conservative politician. : It is proper to say that the ap pointment of Mr. Porter is very dis tasteful to Senator . Harris and other Democrats in Tennessee. They con sider it as a blow aimed at them and a majority of their party. The cause of their "disgruntlement will be seen in the following from! a Wash ington dispatch to the New York Evening Post. The correspondent ..says: , ; i-i ?:iV. "In the campaign 0f 1883 in Tennessee senator Hams and other nmmiiin.t tv- crats succeeded in harmonizing the party - vw vvu. viuaiuuu, an9 a compro- W83 -aia rrhia niatfArm was distasteful to Senator Jackson, ex-Gov. Porter, ex-Sena- o.ii. . nthori who insisted upon a positive declaration that tie State was responsiDie ior au uio uuuuo uoucu. Senator Jackson led the bolt, and organ ized anotner convention ui i"wiw- tta was anatidned bv Gov. Porter. who is Jackson's brother in law. Thebolt- ; .nmlnotwl tinVet nrmn a nutf firm afflrmlnir the State's liability for ii,o i,aU riht At the1 election Senator TT-; .V nanamwl 1 thfl fiffht -: TOT the Democrats, carried the. State, poll ing 111.000 votes,, v wnue aa : uoiuhk ticket got only . a : little over 4,000. Harris , was re elected to the ; Senate and the following spring while Congress was in session senator jacusou kk cwub tor Bayard down to TeBnessce. 5 Bayard waa made an honored guest at the noted Belle Meade farm, the heme of General Harding, Jacasons ramern-iaw. aw. T . aa aloft taAIl wwaa faxw w ille. and "big men" of that secUon were .... - : TX Tn invitea to meet mm. ju-vruraum iwb was with him most of the time. At the in stance of Jackson, Porter and : others, Mr. Bayard made a speech, in the course of v- vivtnalla imtniwH the stand taken HlUbU m by Jackson in favor of the payment of the -j . -. . . t-rt i - Iw .uni1 HA UHIa Their organs admonished Mr. Bayard that . . . . . . . ! .1 1 ?M A 11 ae waniea tv nuua wo Kuuu " Tennessee Democrats he wouid better let their internal question alone." t The appointment will notstregthen the Administration in Tennessee. LEGISLATIVE WOBK. . The Stab ventured to say that fi ve practical, common-sense, industrious lawyers could have done the work of the late Legislature in twenty days. Our friend of the Raleigh Regitter takes issue, and the Asheville Citizen refers with dissent also to our "pro fessed belief." We may err in our opinion, but we nevertheless hold it. Upon reflection we i feel that it would not be a difficult thing for five lawyers to do the work. We are quite sure that three could do it and do it better. Why do we say so? The lawyers draw the bills. But for lawyers the legislation would not amount to much.' But in a body where there are fifty or seventy-five lawyers there will be much useless talk, much speaking for 'Buncombe, much rivalry and much conflict of opinions. If three lawyers, such as we mentioned, could have charge, they would frame all the nseded laws; would get rid of the hundreds of bills introduced to die in commit tee, but that cost time; would lose no time in wasted eloquence and filibus tering; would go te work at : once and in seventeen days would adjourn, having done the work better, we have no doubt, than it has ; been done. The first three weeks of the late session amounted to but very little. The time was almost literally wasted. In fact Raleigh correspon dents, and we believe Raleigh papers, said not more than two weeks before the adjournment that nine-tenths of the main work of the session remain ed still to be done. So we are in clined to . hold on to our original opinion which we "professed to be lieve." ! If Gov. Graham, B. F. Moore and Robert B. Gilliam j were living we have no doubt that they could easily do what we have said could be done. J- FOB THE BENEFIT OF THE SICK. We publish a copy of the Act that passed the Legislature concerning the practice of medicine in North Caroli na. The law was needed and like all just laws it has no retroactive power. Men who are now practicing are not to be deprived of that right however incompetent and however successful in killing people they may be. We say the law was needed: The Bible tells us that man is fearfully and won derfully made. The study of medi cine requires the closest application. and a proficiency in medicine requires a fine discriminating and acute intel-. lect thoroughly exercised and discip lined. The successful physician the great doctor is the man who knows how to distinguish diseases at the bed side of the sick, to ascertain the ob structive causes in preventing a re- turn to health," and ready resources in aiding nature the great medieatnx in its tremendous fight to overcome disease. "The tendency of disease is to cure, as a great practitioner said a quarter of a century ago. The work of the physician is to diagnose disease and help nature in its effort to throw off disease. ' 1 It is the part of a wise legislation to elevate the : medical profession that deals with human suffering of all kinds and human life. The wrong remedy proves an enemy; the wrong application of a force applied inter nally obstructs nature and increases disease. How .important then that the physician - should be a man of true science, of thorough study, of large acquaintance with the best teachers, and of la ripe experience. How important 1. that legislation should be directed in the prevention of disease and in the healing of the sick. To make it morn diffinnlr. for empirics to practice upon the cre dulity of the human family and ad minister nostrums of the potency or effects of which they can know but little is not only an act of genuine benevolence but it is a duty. The Stab is a friend to the-human race and an ally of all workers aim ing to protect the health and lives of the people. It has sought to do something , in improving - and ele vating the medical profession in our State. The bill passed by the Legis lature is a strike in that direction and as such we indorsed it. The measure was needed and the results must be altogether favorable. Two prominent physicians of this section Dr. Satohwell, of Pender, and Dr. Wood, of this city have been very active in behalf of this important worku Their efforts bave been crowned with success although loifnmi nn thn . Hfiht nuestion the fight has been protracted, i Dr. Satchwell visited Raleigh twice du ring the session of - the Legislature and worked with assiduity and ardor until a law was secured that is em phatically and strongly a measure for the improvement of the public health and the protection of : human life against quackery and ignorance. We congratulate him - and his co workers in the success that attended their efforts, and the people should be thankful.' '; : The Paris correspondent ' of : the New Tor k Times suggests a theory that Gen. Gordon was killed earlier than reported. He thinks the last several dispatches sent to Wolseley were Arab forgeries and were in tended . to lead to destruction the "guileless Wolseley He says: : "How the British authorities could bave accepted the letters of the 9th of September and the I4tn or .November as nona nae documents is astonishing. If the signature to the first be authentic, the wording of the missive is vague and high flown, evidently the composition of an Arab. That "of the 9th of November neither bears Gordon's signature nor his seal, and is in direct con tradiction with the one by which it was pre ceded. But its form Droves that it was the work of a 'European fabricated in the Man ors camp by some one ramiuar witn tne English language. r And the famous dispatch of the 14th of December. 1884 : 'Khartoum all right!' written on a piece of paper no bigger than a postage stamp, of which Wolseley guarantees the authentici ty, and which was brought by a messenger whose oral statements of the situation were not in harmony with the ostensible tenor of the written message ? And the fac simile of that little bit of paper brought to the British camp at Korti on the 11th of Janu ary, of which the bearer must have been-an impostor, as he represented the situaUou at Khartoum to be excellent, provisions abun dant, and the health and morale of the gar rison most satisfactory." The Richmond special to the New York TTorW, dated the 23d, says the parties to the Richmond tragedy are of famous ancestry. It says:.' . "T. J; Cluverius, the young lawyer in jail charged with the murder of Miss Fanny Lillian Madison, is a grand nephew of President Tyler and a relative of Samuel B. Witt, the Commonwealth Attorney of this city. The girl, it will be remembered, waa of the family of President Madison. Mr. Witt to-night decided not to act as prose cutor in the case and is probable that Con gressman George D. Wise will represent the commonwealth when the case came up for trtaL" : , Charleston last week had 8 white deaths and 24 colored total 32. This is about a fair average, we suppose. Wilmington averages not more than that any month, unless it be an exceptionally sick year like 1884. Put Charleston's population at 55,000, and the death rate would be, If last week was the average, about 24 in the 1,000 inhabitants. Wilmington has rarely gone above 19 in the 1,000. . Two New - Orleans men, named Drausin Perrett, and Hamilton Sal - arin, fought a duel' with foils. Both were masters of their weapons. A dispatch says: "The fight was a vicious one, yet after half an hour's fencine neither was hurt. and the seconds interferred and stopped lurtner combat. Mutual concession waa made and compliments exchanged upon each other's valor, and the two brave young Creoles are now fully restored to each' other's friendship." Mr. William B. Bonham, son of ex Gov. Bonham, accidentally shot himself with a thirty-two calibre pistol at Rock Hill, S. C. The ball entered the left breast about two inches above the heart, ranged up ward and lodged on the inner side of the shoulder joint in front of the shoulder-blade. Synopsis of tne Act la Reference t - I.a8l for Taxes. , No more important act was passed by the last Legislature than that to enforce the collection of taxes due the State on lands sold for taxes and purchased' by the State. This act, it should be stated, refers to lands sold previous to 1880, since which time the lands have been purchased by the county, which becomes responsible to the State for its part of the tax. Section one of the act extend- the time for the redemption of land sold for taxes and bought by the State to January 1st, 1886; the person redeeming the tame to pay taxes, 10 per cent additional, and taxes subsequently accruing. Section two pro vides that the Secretary of State shall fur nish to the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of each coun ty a statement of taxes, costs and charges due from each delinquent, each of which .latter is to be notified by mail; creditor . by- judg ment, mortgage, &s., also to be notified. Section three says if the delinquent can't be found, notice is to be posted at the court house door, and published in a newspaper where the lands are situated, the Secretary of State to 'make record of the notice. Section four makes it Obligatory upon , the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners to bring action for the recovery of the lands when instructed so to do bv the Secretary of State, in the name and at the expense of the State. Section five pro vides that the defendant, before he shall to permitted to plead, answer or demur, shall pay into the Clerk's office all taxes, costs and charges and 25 per cent, additional, to be forwarded to the Secretary of State, the defendant to give security in a sum not less than two hundred dollars to pay such costs and expenses as the State may recover in the ; action.- Section six makes the Sheriff's deed conclusive evidence that he or the tax collector has complied with the law. - Section seven provides that a person not a party to the action, but claiming an interest in the lands sued for, may be made a party, and the court is authorized to dis miss the action when any person shall ten der to the Secretary of State the full amount of taxes and costs and the additional per cent, fixed by the court.and aa allowance to. the attorney for the State of not over 20. Section eight provides for suitable compen sation to the Secretary bfJState, to be fixed GreneraL Aoditor Trea8urer "d Attorney A certified copy of the law can be had on application to the Secretary of State, The new and handsome pilot boat Jtd die, recently built at the dry dock and pur chased by Capt J. J. Adkins and others, of Smith vtlle, was towed to the wharf in front of the Custom" House, yesterday,' where she proceeded to take In thel nece sary ballast, though she is not expected to go down the river until to-day. She has not yet received the finishing touches. - She oMtwo state rooms and a very handsome cabin, and is painted whits, with green trimmings. Her sails and rigging are not In position yet. . BASH BALL ZIATTXZiS. Tbe North Carotin . Association What the Seaside Boys Are Doing, ' The grounds west of Oakdale Cemetery, formerly the Athletic Club grounds,- are being put in the best possible condition for tbe coming season's games, and the "Sea- aides' are showing, themselves fully alive to the importance of being in proper trim for the exciting contests which, are. before them. The grounds are being enclosed by a board fence eight feet high In all parts except that next to the creek, which will be six feet high. It is nearly complete. vIt is also proposed to erect a grand stand at as early a day as possible. .- . .-; .; The club will be composed of eighteen active members, from, which will be select ed seven of tbe best players to take the field, together with a "battery" of two pro fessional players a "pitch" and a "catch' in accordance with the terms of the As sociation. . - There are six clubs in the North Carolina Association, hailing from Raleigh, Golds- boro, Durham. Oxford, Henderson. and Wilmington. : During the campaign there will ba twenty games played with the'Asso- ciation in Wilmington, two of which' will come off on the 12th and 18th of May. Ten of the games will be played before the Seasides leave home, on their first trip,: which will be some time in June. - After playing ten games at other points they will return home and play ten games with clubs of the Association, and then they will close the season' with ten more at other points. - Arrangements have already been made for the proper accommodation of the visit ing clubs, ! and ' for their transportation hither.1 Reduced back rates will also be obtained for transportation to the grounds of parties desiring to witness the sport. - The young men of the bat and ball pro mise us a lively season, and the games will be the occasion of visits from quite a num ber of our up-country friends, ' which will have a good effect in more ways than one. We hope to see our young friends properly encouraged in what would appear to be a harmless and healthful sport, only liable to the accidents and mishaps common to all manly pastimes. - CO UNTT COMMISSIONERS. : , Special meeting Yesterday. V The Board of County Commissioners met in special session yesterday afternoon for tbe purpose of revising the revenue act, which waa done.' The only change is in the sectioo In reference to spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, or medicated bitters, which is now as follows: 1st For selling in quantities leas than a quart, f 10 for each quarter. 2nd. For selling in quantities of one quart and less than five gallons, $6.25. 3rd. For selling in quantities of five gal. Ions or more, $25. 4th. For selling malt liquors exclusively $2.50. ' This provides an increase of $10 in the tax for retailing. Heretofore there was a levy of $10 for the State, for school purposes. New there U an additional levy of $10 by the county for county purposes. - This makes tbe entire retail liquor license in New Hanover coun ty $30 per quarter. . The contract for painting the court room and jury room, for the sum of $150, was awarded to David Williams, he being the lowest bidder. It was ordered that the matter of chang ing the office of the Sheriff for the Grand Jury room be left with the Chairman of the Board. The Board then adjourned. ' Sixth Jarflelal District. According to the law New Hanover is to have no i more- court for the trial of civil cases nntil October, when His Honor Judge A. A. McKoy will preside. The following is a list of the dates of the respective terms in the District: JonesAugust 17, one week; November 2, one week. Lenoir August 24, two weeks; Novem ber 16, two weeks. Duplin September 7, one week: No vember 80. two weeks r f Pender September 14, one week. New Hanover October 5, two weeks, for civil causes. Carteret October 26,' one week. . Onslow November 9, one week. . For the Penitentiary. The following prisoners,' convicted and sentenced at the late term of the Criminal Court, start for Raleigh this morning, in charge of Deputy Sheriff James Elder: James Powell, white, larceny, 1 year. -Chas. McLean, white, larceny, 1 year. ' D. Holm, white, larceny, 1 year. Walter Shaw, colored, larceny, 8 years. Tucker Townsend, colored, larceny, 8 years: . I Henry Pollock, colored, larceny, 4 years. Peter Pickett, the escaped convict, will also go ud in charcre of Denntv Sheriff Elder. All Right Again. " Our Baptist friends will be glad to learn that Rev. R. W. Sanders has got into his new: church at Chester. 8. C. The old building was destroyed by the cyclone of February, 1884 The building is of brick, and is of Gothic architecture, the interior being so arranged that the main auditory and the lecture room can be thrown Into one room, thus increasing the seating ca pacity. J The first services were held in the new building last Sunday. Rev. Mr. Sanders, ; who preached here several Sun days in 1883, is pleasantly remembered by all who heard him. . Superior Court, T . , We find that we were mistaken in sta ting yesterday morning that there would be no Superior Court in New Hanover for the trial of civil cases until October. The first court under the new law will not be held until then; but as the new law does not go into effect until the 15th of July, the final term under the old law (which meets in June) will have been held.! Judge Gudger will preside at the term in June. -. Fire at Long Creek. - r The store house and goods of Mr. George H. Bryan, at Long Creek, in Pender coun ty, were consumed by fire on Monday night last. We have not learned the supposed origin of the fire. We are informed that the property was insured. 4 The store bouse stood very near the residence of : Bruce Williams, Esq., in that town, but as the night was calm It fortunately escaped un hurt. Baptist Association. A Union meeting of the Baptist Eastern Association will be held at Magnolia next Friday. All the prominent pastors of tbe Association, including Rev. Dr. Pritchard and Rev. Messrs. Kennedy, Stewart, Band ling and Barlow, are expected to be pres ent. - : Since publishing the account of the fire at Long Creek, Pender county, on the night of the 23rd inst., which de stroyed the store of Mr. Geo. H. Bryan; we learn that - the property burned was fully insured in the North Carolina Home Insurance Company,represented by Messrs. Atkinson & Manning, UNITED STATES SENATE. f - EXT it A SESSION. -.- ' - Washington, llarch ' 23. After the reading of the journal the Senate went into executive session. . At 4 20 p. to. the -doors were reopened and the Senate adjourned until 13 o'clock tomorrow. - "vWashtootoh, March 24. The Senate reassembled to-day at noon, and the Vice President laid. before it several communi cations and memorials relating to Tnatters in the Western States and Territories. At 12.10 the Senate went into executive session, for the purpose, it is supposed, of considering the Weil and La Abra treaty nrith MnTlfiO. T 4 The discussion was brought to an end by a half-hour'a speech by 8enator Vest in Vmnhfcition to the treaty. No action was taken. - There were about a dozen Senators in the chamber when, at 5.50 p. m., the Hnnra were reobened. j - The credentials of James H. Berry, Senator-elect from Arkansas, were presented to the Senate bv the Vice President, v i Senators Voorhees and Spooner were ap pointed by the Chair members of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy at An napolis. V i:- : -X '., . : :' - ' - At 5.35 p. m. the Senate adjourned till 12 o clock to morrow. ' ; . V, : Washington'. March 25. Senator Jones.' of : Arkansas announced, that his colleague elect, James H. Berry, of Arkansas, was DreaenL and was ready to take tbe oath; The oath was administered by the Vice President. .---,. Upon motion of Mr. Miller, of Cala;, the Senate then-went into Jfixecutive session, and continued "the consideration of tbe Weil and La Abra treaty. - - t Consideration of the Weil and La Abra treaty consumed the day, and was not con cluded. - At 4.10 p. m. the doors were re openecland the Senate adjuourned.' - , HENDERSON, N. C t Fo or ten Baslness Houses Destroyed ; I . y Fire. . -' . Raleiohy N. a. March 23. At half past 7 o'clock this morning fire broke out in Henderson, a town forty-five miles from Raleigh; on the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad. Despite the fact that snow was falling and the roofs were covered with snow the fire spread rapidly, aud by 9 o'clock fourteen business houses bad been destroyed. Among them those of E. G. Davis, Cheatham & Co., Lassiter & Sons. J. K M. Misfillier, Owen Davis, M. Dorsey, M. Summerfield andT. W. Finch & Co. Assistance was asked of the Raleigh Fire Department but at 9 o'clock the fire was reported as under control. ' The losses and Insurance canno yet be positively stated; but is roughly estimated at from $60,000 to $75,000. Property of the railroad was at one time in great danger. WEST VIRGINIA, The Fatal Boiler Explosion atCharles- ton. ; : " VBy Telegraph to the XomtaiK 8tar. - Ceablestoit. March 24 Workmen em ployed in removing the debris from tbe KutiDer building this moraine found the body of George Welcher, a porter, under tne exploded Doner, ilis bead bad been blown off. The persons who were in lured are improving. It has been discovered that the safety valve of the boiler had been plugged with iron and it is supposed that it was done . intentionally. 1 Ruffner Bro's safe has been opened. All the books and $1,300 in currency were destroyed. The I068 by tbe burning of Ruffner Bro's store and the Halo House is much larger than was at first supposed. It will amount to fully $175,000, with $48,000 insurance on the whole. . MANITOBA. , . Rebellion in the Northwest Oatrages by Hair-Breetfs. Wihkbpeg. ; March i: 25. Nothing is talked of here but the rebellion in the northwest. Rumors and counter rumors of the wildest character continue to fly about.: It is reported with some confirma tion that fifteen of a detachment of mouot- ed police which was attempting to enter Carleton were shot and killed, and that tbe rebels , have made forty whites prisoners and are threatening more. E. O. Hughes whose stock at Duck Lake is now in pos session of the insurgents, and his manager imprisoned has arrived here, and states that the half-breeds under Riel have been preparing for an uprising , all the winter, and that the men are thoroughly armed, well drilled and disciplined. NEW YORK. ' Cotton Brokers Commissions ataal elpal Election. New York, March 24. Tbe constitu tional amendment at the Cotton'Exchange, removing all restrictions from brokers in regard to commissions hereafter - to be charged, was adopted by a vote of 146 to 43. Alba st. March 24. In the Senate to day tbe bill changing the time for holding municipal elections in the city of New York from fall to spring, was defeated. - . . Chicago: . War Rumors create m Feverish Feel , Ing In the Wheat Bfarket. Chicago. March 25, 9.45 A. M. Private foreign advices of a warlike tenor, accom panied by another drop in British consols. created a very feverish feeling this morn ing, and a rather sharp advance in prices. May wheat, which closed at 79c last night, opened at 80a, rapidly advanced to 80c, and then fell back to 80fc.. at which figure the market was more settled, but the gene- j ral feeling is very nervous and unsettled. POL ITICAL POINTS. The three prlncpal foreign mis sions have been filled in a manner most creditable to the administration and befit ting the dignity of tbe high stations to which the nominees bave been assigned. N. T.- Evening Post, Ind. Sep.. Mr. Blaine called on President Cleveland the other day, - "I am glad to see you,' Mr. Blaine. What do you find to do with yourself , these days? " 'I am writing history. 1 "Well, you are welcome at all times, Mr. Blaine, to come here and j see us make it." Chicago Nem. ;- It depends upon how you lodk at it: Higgins writes it civil terviee reform. The Democratic Party writes it civil Ser vice reform; Mr. Cleveland puts it Civil Service REFORM, and we lent the kind of type Mr. r. D. B. Eaton uses to a circus agent. Pittsburg (Penn.) Chronicle Tele graph, Sep. . -j .:i f i . ; The office seekers had another surprise yesterday, t Of the four men nom inated rot omce yesterday : tor important foreign '. muslons, only one had been even "mentioned ' as a candidate lor omce, ana this one was the very last that the party managers of his State would have selected as the recipient of honors. PhU. lima,' Ind. Sep. ' - , When a man wants an office he wants it bad. He keeps thinking of it. He keeps hoping. He is suspended be tween hope and fear. It is a jumping toothache which . jumps all the time. On the other band, the President can appoint or refuse with a word, and give it no after thought. Gentlemen, let us pity the right man. Detroit Jrree treir JJem. PERSONAL, Vanderbilt is having a $250,000 tomb built. v - ' v George Eliot is Queen Victoria's favorite novelist. - ; ! 1 - , . - Quiet Queen Victoria refuses to permit Col. Valentine Baker to serve on Lord Wolseley's staff. ' ' Matthew' Arnold was asked to accept the Merton Professorship of English Literature at Oxford, a post worth 900 a year. He declined, however, as he wished to be free to devote himself to his literary occupations. . It is noticed that the only Cab inet officer absent.from the President's first state reception was the Attorney General. Getting into a swallow tail coat and stand ing behind a boutonniere are problems in statesmanship Mr. Garland was never able to solve.: That was never the fashion out at "Hominy HilL? fdttle Soec(Art.) Gazette. gtonewaU nferprtee: : -Ciir. Jo siah Hardison, an old and respected citizen of Baird's Creek, was found by the road side dead on the 17th inst. :''.', : WASHINGTON. Presidential NomtBUon of Foreign ministers Senator Pend.eton's Nom ination Immediately Confirmed A l Sketch of the Sew minister to Eds . land Death 'of the Newly Appointed Assistant Secretary f the Interior. Washington, - March 23. The Presi dent to day sent to the Senate tbe following nominations of envoys extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary ofthe United States: ' 1 : Edwin J, Pbelps, of Vermont, to Great Britain; ; ' Robert M. McLane, cf Maryland, to France; - t t t George H. Pendleton, of Ohio to Ger many; M - Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, to Mex ico. - - - r Maecenas E. Benton, of Missouri,.. U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Mis souri. The -Senate immediately confirmed the nomination of Senator Pendleton, w Edwin J. Phelps, who was nominated to day aa Minister to England, is a promi nent lawyer of t Burlington, Vt. He is about 60 years of age, and lathe pos sessor of a moderate fortune. He is ex President of the American Bar Association, has practiced before the Supreme Court in Washington," and is highly esteemed as a lawyer and a man of culture. . He has' sev eral times been - the Democratic candidate for Governor of .Vermont, but as far as is known here has never held public office. For two-years past he delivered lectures on law to the graduating class of Yale College. Mr. Phelps is a son of ex Senator Phelps, of Vermont Senator Edmunds : was - his legal preceptor.1 E. D. Clark, iof ' Vickaburg, .the newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Inte rior, who had been ; suffering from an at tack of typho-pneumonia for about' ten days, and who was last evening considered out of danger, had a sudden relapse about midnight and expired at an early hour this morning. . ; , T ., ; . ,'s Washtnotou, ' March 23. Mr. Phelps, the new Minister to England, is a personal friend of Justice Field," of the Supreme Court, who speaks in the highest terms of his learning and ability. v h- Henry Kootes Jackson, nominated as Minister to Mexico, is a native of Georgia and is 64 years of age.' He graduated at Yale College in -li39, . and was shortly af terwards admitted to the bar. ' He was Colonel of a Georgia regknent in the Mexi can war. and for four succeeding years was Judge of the Eastern- Circuit of Georgia. In 1853 he was sent to represent the United States at Vienna, -Austria, where he re mained five years. During the late civil war he was a Southern Brigadier General, and had command on the upper Potomac Since the war Gen. Jackson has practiced the' profession of law in Georgia. ; He has of late years held no public office. He is a man of independent fortune and is highly endorsed by prominent men of his State. Gen. Jackson is author of several poems, "Tallulah" being among them. ; - l c : ! Robert M. McLane, of Maryland, nomi- r atea as minister to ranee, was txrn la Wilmington, Del., in 1815. He was ed ucated at St. I Mary's College, Baltimore, and at College Bourbon, in Paris. France He was appointed Dy Gen. Jackson a cadet at West foint and after graduation there in 1857, served in the Florida war and : in the Northwest as Lieutenant of Artillery. He resigned from; the armv in 1843. studied law in Washington and removed to Balti more, wnere ne began to practice law. He was a member of the Maryland Legislature in 1845-6; was a member of the 30th and 8l8t Congress;! was appointed by President Pierce in 1852 minister to China, and was appointed by President Buchanan minister to Mexico in 1859. but resigned in 1860. He was elected to the 46th and 47th Con gresses, and declined nomination for the 48th Congress. ' He was elected Governor of Maryland in l883,for a of term four years Beginning January 1004. j George H. Pendleton, of Cincinnati, the new minister to uermany, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 19th, 1835; received an academic education in the schools of Cincinnati and afterwards - in - Europe: studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has continued ever since In practice at Cin cinnati; was a member of the State Senate of Ohio in 1854 5; was representative from Ohio in the 85th; 86th, 87th and 38th Con greases: was the Democratic candidate for Vice President on the ticket headed by George B. McClellan in 1864; was tbe Dem ocratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1869; was elected to the United States Sen ate as a Democrat to succeed Stanley Mat thews, : Republican, and took his seat March 18. 1879. His term expired March 3,1885. ! v .v i". -v-vi. The remains of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Clark will be sent to night to Holly Springs, Miss., in charge of his wife and Senator Walthall. Inasmuch as Clark had not taken the oath of office, Joslyn is still Assistant Secretary of the Interior and has promised Secretary Lamar to remain in office., until his successor can be appointed. Clark was in bad health when he arrived in this city, and intended to return to the South. He had secured tickets to leave Washington to-night by the Western ex press on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and that train will convey his remains to his home in Mississippi. The opinion is gen-, erally expressed that ex Representative Post, of Pennsylvania," Secretary of the last Democratic Congressional Committee, will be nominated to fill the vacancy caused by tbe death of Clark. It has been said that Secretary Lamar intended to transfer Clark on July 1st next to the position of First Assistant Secretary (a new office created by the last Congress to be. established at the beginning of the next fiscal year) and to appoint Mr. Post on that date to the posi tion vacated by Mr. Clark's promotion. me senate confirmed the nominations of Messrs. PhelpsL Jackson and McLane. and of Ben. H. Hill, Jr., to be U. S. Attorney .1 T .1 T-v . i . . ioc iue nuriuern isuinci 01 ueorgia. Washington. March 24 The Presi dent sent the following nominations to the Senate to-day: . - Henry L. Muldrow. of Miss., to be As sistant Secretary of Interior. Wm. A. j. Spar KB. or III.. Commissioner of the General Land Office. , Daniel McConville, of Ohio, to be Audi tor of the Treasury for the Postofflce De partment. ' i ' x , Henry iiowndes Muldrow, whose nomi nation as Assistant Secretary of the Interior was sent to the Senate this afternoon, is a : native of Mississippi and a lawyer by pro fession. He was graduated at tbe Univer sity of Mississippi, and was admitted to the oar in lootf. tie entered the Confede rate army in 1861; held various positions in tne line, ana at tne close 01 the war sur rendered at Forsyth, Ga., as Colonel of Cavalry. He held the position of District Attorney for the Sixth District of Missis sippi from 1869 to 1871, and was elected to , tne estate legislature in 1875. He was a Representative from MississiDoi in the 45th, 46th, 47th and 48th Congresses. but was not re-elected to the 49th. In the last Congress Mr. Muldrow. Was chairman of tbe committee on Private Land Claims and a member of the committee on the District of Colombia. 1 ' :- , . : Wm. A. J. Sparks, the new Commission er of the General .Land Office, was born near New Albany, Indiana. . November 19, 1828; removed with his parents to Illinois in 1836; attended country schools, labored on a farm and taught school: was gradu ated at McKendree College, Bis. ; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1851; was U. 8. land receiver , from 1853 to 1856; was subsequently a presidential elector, member of the : Illinois Legislature in 1857 '58, State Senator in 1863-'64, a dele gate to the National Democratic Conven tion in 1868, and was a member of the House of - Representatives from 1875 to March 3, 1883 declining to seek a re-election, f During his last term of service in Congress he was a member of the Military commiiiee ana 01 we committee on ISxpen ditures in the War Department. A committee consisting of Joseph Pack ard and Wm. Winchester,' representing the Civil Service Reform Association of Mary land, waited on the Secretary 'of the Trea sury to day and preset ted him with a copy of resolutions . recently adopted by that Association, protesting against the appoint ment of Eugene Higgins as Chief of the Appointment Division of the Treasury De partment. The Secretary promised to give the matter due consideration. Edwin W. Knightly, Third Auditor of ther Treasury, to day tendered : his resigna tion to the President, to take effect Apri ; 1st. It is expected that the office will be filled in a few days. Judge Knightly is a native of Indiana, and was "appointed to hia present office by President Hayes March 1st, 1879,. He is an active politician and took part ip the last Presidential campaign in the interests of the ; Republican ticket. He resigned; at the request- of Secretary Manning. , The peefing of the Cabinet today' was attended by all the members except the Attorney General, who was engaged at the United States Supreme Court- Secretaries Manning and Whitney remained in consul tation with the President for some time af ter the other members had departed. It is understood that the session was devoted to the consideration of appointments to be made before the adjournment of the Sen ate ! : . : : ..:.w. f -. Mr. McConville, who was nominated to day to be Sixth Auditor of - the Treasury, (assigned to the Postofflce Department) la a resident of Steubenville, Jefferson county,' Ohio, and At present fcohiavthe-offlce of private . secretary to Gov..Hoadley.. He has always taken an active part in politics, and for. several years has served ' on the Democratic .State Executive Committee. He is about 42 years of age." ' - WAsmHGTONi' March Ij J-The President sent the following nominations to the Sen ate to-day: v-'-.-i--."H".f it - Samuel 8. Cox, of iT. 'Y.. to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Turkey. , Capt David B. Harmony,- of N.- YM to be Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks In the 1 Department of the Navy with the relative rank of :CtommodofeA,...,.,"w:;, To be postmasters Mrs. Elizabeth S. Herbert, at Newberry C. UX 8; C j Donald J. Ould, at Sumter C. H.P8, C; W. D. Whelchel, " at Gainesville, Ga. ; J. R. Mc Collum, at Newman, Gajif L. . Hensley Grubbs. at Decatur, Ala. 4 . The Republican Senators held a caucus this morning, to consider the Sherman res olution, which is as folio W8:. ,.; . i '. Besolved, That so much of the several resolutions of the Senate, passed since the 1 1st day of March instant, as provides for a. clerk for any standing committee of the Senate during the recess of Congress, be and is hereby rescinded. ' . No action was taken, and another caucus will be held to consider the matter." r : About a dozen resolutions authorizing the standing . committees of the Senate to employ recess clerksjhave been introduced, two or three tf which are still pending. WAsnnrGToiT, March 25. The Senate in executive session, confirmed the nomina tions of Samuel S. Cox,- to be Minister to Turkey; Henry L. Muldrow, to be Assist ant Secretary of the Interior; and Wm.;A. J. Sparks, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office. - ; At the Republican 'Senatorial -caucus considerable feeling was manifested and it was stated by some Senators who have se cured employment for . their , clerks that if the Sherman resolution was adopted they would favor an entire revision of; the committee lisUr The subject of - final ad journment was I alluded to and the Presi dent 8 wish that the Senate should remain until J the end of the week was made known. Without any formal action the tacit understanding was reached that minor treaties should be considered at such times as the Senate was not engaged with nomi nations. , - : . The Commissioner of Pensions issued an order to-day directing that for the present unui uie mass or Business upon the board Of review is disposed of, members of that aivision or - tne pension omce shall begin work at 8 30 a. m. and finish at 6 p. m. Richard Devens, Superintendent-and Dis- ourBing umcer 01 tne i'ostomce Depart ment! has resigned that position voluntari ly, to engage in private business. ... . Secretary , Lamar has issued an order closing the Interior DeDartment to-mor. row, out of respect to the memory of the mieoacoo loompson, Becretaryol the in- tenor during the administration of Presi dent Buchanan. First Comptroller Durham, of the Trea sury Department assumed his official duties to day. - ' . v- Indian Commissioner Atkins was at the Interior Department to day, and will quali fy and enter npon the office to-morrow. j ' No: change has occurred in the condition of Hon. Casey Young, who s threatened with paralysis since yesterday.- His physi cian says he is in no immediate danger. ; MICHIGAN. Perils ol Lake Navigation Iee-Bonnd j ' . Vessels. : - IBy Telejrraph totheMomlmrStar.J LcprjfGTOH, March 25. The propeller Flint and Pere, Marquette No. 2, which left Chicago eleven days ago, and has since been bound in the ice about twenty-five miles off Little Point Sable, reached here last night The clerk, eight passengers and the wheelman were here' some hours before,the steamer, having left her thirty miles toff Little Point Sable, making the shore at that point They came tbe rest of the way by land.: Their trip from the boat to the shore was a dangerous one; the ice breaking up and cutting off all com munication with the. boat They left at 7 o'clock Monday morning, and-all went well until they met an opening in the. ice thirty feet wide about 1.30 p. m. It was then ne cessary for them to cut a large cake of ice, and one of the party ferried the rest across, one at a time. They met thin ice at 2 30 d. m., and crossed it by : spreading out and all : holding to a line, J the , ice cracking under, their feet At 8.45 p. m., while crossing a field of ice half a mile wide and four inches thick, they found it to be moving three miles per hour, and wind- rowing up very fast; several broke through tne ice. j. u. xoucneiie, a passenger, naa a very narrow escape. At 4.80 their chances looked slim, for getting to shore. Two of tne passengers gave up several times. At 5.30 they reached the -Point got a team and went to Meare's Station, where thev took the cars. ! They are badly used up. There are no advices from the propeller Wisconsin, ten days out nor the Citv of Ludington, seven days out since they left this port There are fears that they have met with disaster through crowding Ice. c NEW YORK. Gen. Grant's condition Considerably Improved Alleged Frands In. the Mavail Stores Trade. -j.'-j, Nkwi Yobk. March, 5,--Gen. Grant's condition this morning! showed considera ble improvement After retiring about 10.30 o'clock last nieht the General fell into a quiet and refreshing slumber, which continued with but short intervals of wake-' fulness until the morning. ; On awakinar tbe General said he was comparatively free from pain, and his sleep had been better than for any night of .the week. At noon he left the bouse for a drive through the park iu the warm and pleasant sunshine. At a meeting or the Jttaval Stores tiade to day, a report was heard from the com mittee in regard: to devisinir means of checking the fraudulent practice, which prevails among jobbers of Savannah. Ga.. Wilmington, N. C. and Charleston, 8. C, of altering marks put by Southern inspec tors upon barrels of rosin and turoentine to indicate the quality and quantity of the barrels, A resolution was adopted appeal ing to j the Southern Exchanges to have these frauds stopped by legislation. .CHICAGO, Large Orders for Canned Beef from ' the British War Department. - ' Chicago. March 25. The N. Kl Fair banks Canning Company, of this city, has received during the last seven days cable orders ; for canned - beef for use of the British army, which, coupled with an ad ditional order received this morning,- make an aggregate- amount , to be shipped of 4,000,000 pounds. The orders came from the British War Department and the de stination of the meat is Woolwich, r it will take two weeks to fill the orders. Th Armour Packing Company is' also in receipt ui writers 10 supply . 0.4UU.UUU pounds. These are the largest orders ever received here, and owing to their magnitude the supposition is that they are to meet a war emergency. The canning houses are work ing day and night, in .order to meet these demands. . WEST VIRGINIA. Great Suffering Reported In Rroaght 4.-'';' r.v-. AfBleted Counties. ! Chaeleston. March 25. So exeat a f ho suffering of tbe people in the drought-afflicted district that the authorities and peo ple of Kanawha county were appealed to yesieraay, . ana quantities of provisions have been ordered sent by the county court for the relief of the distressed. Tales of suffering men, women and children, and of beasts, leach here from portions of Jack son, Gilmer, Calhoun and Roane counties. The mountain farmers in those counties are unable to purchase either food or seed, and as the season for planting is near things look decidedly serious. Kanawha .county can take care of her own needy people, but help wyi be needed for other counties. ... The Pierce "Favorite 'Prescription" . of Dr. cures ''female weakness'' and kin- v- i - nvuuv dred affections.- By druggists Spirits Turpentine. Raleigh News-Observer: Col J. M McCorkle died at his., home at Sal', bury Sunday morning, of paralysis The trial of Mann for killing Pace wh has been in progress at Pittaboro, lesn ki it verdict of not guilty.: The not gi ven to the jury unUi midnight Satin pay night - The Jury was out only about an hour-Tr- Senior speaking at Chanti Fl VPtt1 d cE day wiU be May 1. . The officers for thi! fjccAlrion am? OmtnF. TB ; TW H.ni. vs.. . an, E. P. Mangum; prophet M. Butler poet J- R. Monroe; marshal, H. a. l' tbam. j. - . ' ' ; Special dispatch to the New York World: Raleigh, N. C, March 21 Near Concord, Cabarrus county, Robert Paul bought a gold mine which years aco was partially: opened by an - Englishman aV whose death work was stopped Th mine .filled with water, and a laree mound - .f earth:: taken from it bf came -covered with - vines. This week Paul hauled some of the earth from near the mouth of the mine to his housT Among the-gravel was a lump of cold Be took the earth to the creek, washed it' and ot $325 from a cart load. He kept tbe affair secret There are 2,000 bushels of T-th at ttiA mnnfh rf i , ,7, . uu a man named Ell Hmson made Paul a cash offer Of $50 per bushel for it which was refused It is stated by a man ninety years old lhat the Tmne was really worked by the Eos rishman in-g mysterious way and with wonderful auceees. - It was in Cabarrus county thatgold was first found in-North Carolina.; The nugget weighed twenty eight pounds, and for many years renamed the largest pn reeord, until surpassed by cne found in California, and later by one diCovered in Australia. -.Asheville Advance;1 At Try on te5, Marshal, made an effort to arrest a blockader by the name of John Jones Jones resisted the officer and ran. but find ing that he was about to be captured.'turn ed upon the officer, and fired at him with a double-barrelled Bhot gun which he carried Several shot lodged . in Fisher's face, arms and body, bat he is not dangerously wounded.- Jones made -his escape. The man shot at Highlands, Macon county, last week, while attempting to rescue prisoners was Wm. Ramsay. . The officers made prisoner another man . who succeeded 10 making an entrance to the hotel. Two other men are missing and are believed to have been killed. The attacking party, an soon as they saw the effect of their work scattered and ran. Ramsay was buried, in trim TnnnAconn -t- Tttucjr. news comes from Swain county, North Carolina, of a desperate fight in which one sheriff and. two negro desperadoes were killed. On the night of the 5th a store was robbed in Oconee, S. C . and burned by eight negroes, six men and two women. The thieves fled to Tennessee, but were overtaken by a sheriff's posse and . the rflght ensued in Swain county, in which one of the women killed the sheriff with an axe. Two ne groes were shot and killed, and two of the gang arrested are cow in jaiL : - Monroe Miquirer-Mcpress; On Monday night last an unsuccessful attempt was made to destroy the college building by incendiarism. -. On Saturday evening last near Little Zion Methodist Church, in Lancaster county, 8. C, Sam Crawford, colored, killed Ernest Hood, colored, by knocking him in the- head with a hand spike.. The boys were each about 18 yeais of age. Crawford is in jail in Lancaster. A bold deed of ' highway robbery was committed on last Thursday night on the Lawyers road, in Goose Creek township, in this county.;- Constable J. H. Lilee, of New Salem township, son of Mr. B. C. Liles, was the man assaulted and robbed. The facta are as follows : Mr. Liles was rid ing along quietly in his buggy about dark about one mile northwest of Mr. Joab Griffin's, when very suddenly a man ap pea red and siezed the bridle of his horse and ordered a halt And as he moved his hand back for his pistol another man sitzed it, ana anotner still rushed up and seized the other hand, while a fourth man sallied forth and took from his Docket his niatol and purse, containing thirty-two dollars, ana aisappearea at once into tbe woods. The. work was quickly, done, and as he started he felt a keen wave of wind about the back of his head and then heard and felt the crash of a blow that stnirlr the body of hisr buggy behind. The blow WAS A nAWwfnl nna anil vith a fiA.n itfnl. and was aimed at his head. He was only saved by the sudden fright and jumping ef his borsew'"iM;:-'i "rV; ---The following-is taken from the account in the Asheville Citizen of the at tempt of Georgia distillers to rescue some of their set captured in Macon county, this State, and, taken to Highlands: The latter (Georgians) soon after put in an appearance ana aemanaea me release or tne nriaoners and. being refused attempted to force an entrance into the house, firing as they did so npon the house. Three of the men got inside of the house with pistols drawn. The firing was returned by the officers and posse with fatal effect one of the leaders being killed,; another , mortally wounded, and. the three men who had effected an en trance were captured after - which the raiders escaped, carrying with them their wounded comrade, but leaving behind them the six men who had been arrested and the dead man.'; The prisoners , were subse quently conveyed to Webster, reaching there on Thursday," and had a hearing on Saturday. Commissioner Davies presiding at tbe trial. Gen. E. R.. Hampton appearing for the prosecution and Mr. Kope Elias for the defense. . Some dozen witnesses from Highlands accompanied the nartv to Web ster,, and we understand several prominent citizens of Highlands were arrested, charged witn oemg accomplices . or in sjmpathy with the raiders that made the attempt to rescue the prisoners. The three belomrinz to the raiding party who - were captured were bound over in the sum of $1,000 each, but failing to give bail were jailed at Web ster. The whole affair created much ex citement in Macon, and the trouble is pro ably not yet through with. ; ; Raleigh News- Observer: Yes terday the police arrested and lodged In the station house a white man, Charles Lewis alias Lewis Lyon. ' He was held by order from the New York police authorities. He is charged with committing an offence there. To-day an officer from New York will come after him. On his person the police found some $540. ' He had been here about a week. A plan is, on foot and it is hoped will succeed, to give Raleigh and Dnrham telephonic communication. The idea is to make it nracticallv one "ex- fienbers at Darham.- - It is proposed that iKa-a ali.11 tu A : rm a . perature yesterday morning was as low aa m ucKicca. juvcrjuuug waa -irozcn Bona. The snow did not not melt much -during fiA Jl . n . f . ... the day. ' - - At the meeting of the State Meaical Board yesterday Dr. J. -W. Jones was elected President of the Board, to Dr. Whitehead..- deceased. Dr. uRichaid H. Lewis, of this city, was elected, to fill the vacancy caused by Dr. Whitehead's death. Governor Scales appointed Mr. Arthur Winslow. of this City. Civil Engineer to the Board. Dr. S. H. Liles. of Franklin. Macon county, and Pref W, G. Simmons. of Wake Forest College, were chosen mem- oers 01 tne lioard. By the recent act of Legislature the powers of the Board have been CTe&tlv enlanrear An ftnnrnnrmtinn was made especially for the use of the Boai d. - xesterday a reporter bad a verv in teresting interview with Gen. Wm. Gaston Lewis, State engineer to the board of edu cation concerning the great Swamp lands. owned by that DoardV These lands, said Gen. Ijewis,aggregate perhaps 1,500.000 acres. Angola Bay and ; Hollv Shelter swamps are perhaps the best known to the general puonc, out large as they are in ex tent, they are not the largest for in Hyde there are greater ones, and in Dare county perhaps the greatest of all . " These swamps are remarkable in many respects." Much of t. Ik at V anvfoAA la Knniarl aba mi t .A v Buiiaw aa uuaud vTt cava j cui nuu of course there la an immense amount of vegetable matter. There are as a rule not many streams in them, and in some places one can wm easily. a most places. How ever, where there is an absence of under-: growth walking is tedious, as the grass grows in tussocks:. Most of . the swamp is a tangle of vines and bushes, which form a sort of base for the larger trees. : Vegeta ,tion is luxuriant - - Ozabk, N. C, March 16. Mr. Harrison Norman's house was burned this morning at 11 o'clock. Miss Fanny . Shepard, sister in law of Mr. Newman, was badly burned. i8he was up stairs getting some things down and her clothing caught fire. She ran about 200 yards to a branch before it was put out- It Is thought she will recover. Everything in the house was cured.
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