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It is true there are some poll iii:;:nN lio are disappointed in not SHCiiri" certain places for their fneniv-nd who are. breathing out revenise and opposition. But these recilcaraiiif- will speedily be disposed of, we take it, by the rank and file of Use party who are, uot i in office a..,.) h't are not seeking office. Then -v.rf sre a good many persons who bi' M'Ught office and have been dis siip i tit rd also. Some - of these are re!ii;nel to their fate j some, are soar aii i iii.sgruni.iea, oiners are reaay to b..ii. ' i:t;;: Wbt-n a 'man gets it into hid head tbti he in of great importance to the Dirty and, has rendered tremendous services which ought to be rewarded, and then fails to receive a fat job he at once poses as an "indignant citi zen," and all because the Adminis tration 13 nhnnt t.n trn !9-lr rtn if a 'prouii-.es aud bo no better than the R -publican Administrations. Bat happily for the country the number these disinterested patriots is not wry reai. . In 1 lie1 meantime the Cleveland Ailmiiiisiraiion is steadily advanc ing in the public confidence. The ...I 1.. ..:. i.i. u er ror is Lin re and there committed, atil i tie President is much imposed up-in deceived by politi cian ii.. h.ive fallen out with tfirli- aii.l are more bent on m iking capital for themselves ihni in advancing tlie beet interests of the i-otiiitry, that . the direction ati'i teii(l ii(;y of the new Administra tion is to reform and economy. VVe venture the prediction that whe'ri the first. jearV work is complete atd a fair review is written of it that it will he found very satisfactory to the honest and candid men of all parties. ThVie'will be no division,' of the Dtnioeratlo party as yeti ""In the North the Democrats have no reason for splitting up. They 'are very moi-h agreed as to the right policy to lx pursued, and there are but few Democrats among them who favor a High Tariff or abolishing the internal revenue. j I ... - ....... Iu the South there is in localities a considerable sprinkling of" High Pro teciive Democrats, and in a few man ntacturrhg centres ;like Birmingham, Ala., there is a large number of Pro tectionists, but the proportion is af ter all small as compared with the great bulk of the party. There is instates like Virginia and North Carolina a very largely prepondera ting sentiment in favor of abolishing the tax on those choice -luxuries, ci gars and whiskies and . beer and wines. Those nice" things are abso lutely too nice to be taxed. It is so much healthier and wiser and'juster to pnt them on sach ' of the - poor man's necessaries as traoe chains and cotton ties and window glass and crockery ware and knives and forks and so on. Bat whilst such Js the sentiment in North Carolina, there are many thousands of Democrats ho will not tolerate any such econo mical monstrosity and are for taxing lho willing vices and not the necessi ties of men. Bat in spite of such divisions of entiment there will be no split as yet. The Democrats know that a 'plit amongst themselves meang negro supremacy. This fact will keep in subordination for awhile great economic questions. White wen cannot afford to hand over the State to the control of the negroes Pon any issues that concern the raising of money and the expending of it Eliminate the negro from the field of politics and in the Senate the emocratic party would dissolve 1,ke snow in the sun. Bat as long 88 the negro is solid the Democratic Party must remain solid. The men who try to break it up in toe South will go into deserved re tirementr Mr. Cleveland will - be gI8tained as long as he aims to give VOL. XVI. the people honest and : economical government and administer accord- i 'The South has but a" poor opinion' (of that kindTof Civil iServiee that merely retains Republicans in office where there are as capable Demo crats who could fill 1 their places.1 The vote might" be taken to-day in the South and, we sincerely believe, that ninety-nine Democrats in the one hundred would go for turning out the last Republican.' They ex pected it in the . last campaign, al though the Chicago platform favored CivU Service. , The speakers and pa pers said but little of j - this , feature and bat few of the people knew any thing of the Curtis-Pendleton move ment.' The Washington Post states it correctly when it says: : "In the platform adopted by the National Convention which nominated Mr. Cleveland there was a civil service plank, and in his letter of acceptance the President recog nized the doctrine enunciated In that plat form. The campaign was fought npon that idea, and an observance of the provisions of the Civil Service law was pledged, as well as a purification of the service itself. It was the high ground that was taken in this re spect that attracted to Mr. Cleveland's sup port many Republicans who had become disgusted with tbe insincerity and corrup tion of their own party fir. Cleveland took .occasion to reiterate his pledges in regard to the Ciyil Service law after his election -and again in his inaugural address, and his ac tion during the time he has been in office has been in perfect consonance with the promises he had made. In pursuing this course the President has: not : only main tained the cordial support of the bulk of his own party, but he has compelled words of praise for his frank and manly policy from political opporifenta." ' . ' . A ACOMPtAINr. ' ' Mr. George William Curtis thinks Attoney General Garland has rather abused his -privilege and made too many changes in his office: We take it that Mr. Garland, who is certainly a cool headed, reflecting man,knows .what he is aboat. He knows the civil service law and what his office requires, and when he gets rid of a half dozen Republicans in one day and supplies their places with trusty Democrats, it may bef inferred that there was necessity for the changes." Mr. Curtis thinks this violates the civil service Jaw. j We do not know how this is. It was jin the "claims branch" of the Attorney General's office" that the changes were . made. The Petersburg Index Appeal takes a sensible view, it strikes us, when it says: - - . -1 "But inasmuch as the election last fall turned upon the" extravagance of former administrations, as much'as upon anything, and a very considerable and increasing amount of money is yearly paid out upon the adjudication of matters under the con trol of these six or seven' geatlemen, it seems to us very proper that- new men should be substituted for those wbo bad controlled the ' claims ! branch " for so many years. . Every cabinet officer has the right is bound is duty to take all legal measures necessary to prevent a continu ance of the alleged irregularities ; he be lieves to exist in the department he is called to preside over." ,'-r.-; : .. If. Mr. Garland .was; heard from we have no doubt ,he would give the most conclusive reasons for his ac tion. Heis a man who thinks before he speaks or acts. I - The venerable and scholarly editor of the Elizabeth City Economist thinks we are not entitled to give an opinion on military matters because we spell Colonel with a K. That is done only when men of the peace es tablishment are trotted ' out. He forgets that we had : two years at a military academy. Not content, he then makes fun of bur Latin, and says we write it peccavi instead of peccavft. He ought not to hit us in that way, for we once truthfully de clared that we knew 'little Latin and less Greek," as one great poetT said of a greater. But is peccavit cor rect? Here is what ZelPs Cyclope dia says, the only authority at hand as we write: j: .i-' : "Peccaei Lat. I have sinned. A. col loquialism employed to express acknowl edgment ot an offence." ; v Now what do you cry? " Adjutant General Jones says in hid report of the State Encampment: "It is gratifying to be able to state that Colonel Black, who witnessed the competi tive : drill, expressed himself as highly pleased with it; and his judgment as to the relative merits of tbe three battalions, as shown in this competition, accorded with that of the judges, as I am informed. - "The diversity of dress in the First and Fourth Regiments detracted somewhat from their appearance, while the uniformi ty in clothing and equipment of the Second Regiment added much to the effectiveness of their display. The! white cross-belts were particularly striking and attractive." Hurrah! for the Gray. - Rev. W. R. .Coovert, pastor of a charch at Pittsburg, Pa., since the Grant funeral, has. brought suit for the recovery of certain lands, River side Park included, i Ben Butler for $5,000, has guaranteed the success of the suit. The Boston Post says: V 'There are about 100 of the Coovert family and if tbey get the property they are after there will be about $6,600,000 for each one before the lawyers are paid. After. tnat there will not be so much." State Chemist Taylor, of Virginia, disturbs the stomachs of : the water drinkers in Richmond by telling them that "they- are drinking ' urine a little weak, perhaps,' but genuine as far as it goes.n Frank Leslie's Weekly for the last week was filled with well executed pictures of . the Grant .burial. ,. According to the Philadelphia Times it was meat, money and mala-, ria that whipped the South. : ' " W1P :-.V:' ':: ICni? W'T : - V' ':- ' ;! "'Alli :'; " JO v JOHNSTON ON STONEWALL -JACKSON. . , i Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is unquestionably-an able soldeir. r It would not be possible -to : match Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney JohnBton, Thom as J. JackBon and Joseph E. John ston on the pother side. ' Gen. Jo Johnston is now a very old man, but is still remarkably preserved. He has" been cntioismg "Stonewall" Jackson, and, like Gen. Longstreet, does that splendid' soldier; marked injustice. He regards Jackson as merely a great division commander and by no-means a great strategist. His opinion is being reviewed in the Southern pa pers, and there is no -cause for-fear that the great soldier's fame will not be taken care of. Gen. Johnston says: , - 7L "The action" for which he got the most praise was a defeat, and that was the battle of Cross Keys.. Jackson and Ewell's corps were opposite to Fremont and Shields, and Jackson i was in command. ' Shields was advancing on the other side of the fiver from Fremont, and. had a comparatively weas corps, jiremom naa a strong one. .Jackson's corps was the stronger of the Confederates. Jackson detailed Ewellto attack Fremont, while he watched Shields and prevented him crossing the river; Ewell defeated Fxemont, and then Jackson crossed the river and attacked 8hields, but he was beaten until Ewell came to his as sistance. Yet Jackson for this received the thanks of Congress. . The idea of a man -with a superior force watching an inferior," while he despatches a weaker force against a superior, is scarcely t strategy." - t Now this criticism is unworthy of the merest tyro in war, and because it is not founded upon actual facts. Gen. Johnston shows most conclu sively that he has not studied Jack son's most brilliant and startlingly successful campaign, f He wonld do well to read Dick Taylor's .vigorous and most entertaining bo6k,Dabney's Life of Jackson, and recent, articles in the Century Magazine, ; He would do well to study. Jackson's, own re ports. ? If he will do this he will not speak of Ewell's corpst when Ewell commanded a division in Jackson's force. He will learn many things of which '.he is clearly r very 'ignorant now; tf there is any one thing upon which Europe and ' America,' . the North and the South, are agreed as to the civil war, it is that Jackson's genius shone out with exceeding splendor in 'his 'wonderful Valley Campaign. It gave him a great rep utation in military circles in Europe and England, and caused the famous war correspondent of the London Daily : News t "Archibald Forbes, to say recently in a magazine article that since Napoleon the world had seen but two men "with genius for war," and they were Jackson,; the Southron, and Skobeloff, the Rus sian, i . - , .. ' ' .- Ijet the surviving Confederates in the Army of Northern : Virginia be allowed a word, and they will tell Gen. Johnston more than he knows. The soldiers know who were Gene rals in fact and who were only Gene rals by title. Gen. Lee bad the fullest opportunity of knowing Jackson's merits, and when his great Lieuten ant received his fatal and most un fortunate ' wounds, his commander wrote to him that the Confederacy was better able to lose Lee than him self. - He even said - he had lost his right arm. - There can be no better witness than - the noble and great Lee. C When Toombs and Jo -JohnBton and Longstreet undertake to reverse the judgment of contemporaries and of the clear statements of histo ric records they are simply engaged in a very unprofitable and: idle busi ness. It was the owner of the gun who was kicked over when he went out for "duck or plover." - The Stab strongly favors a suffi cient annual appropriation : to make Chapel Hill equal to the best. It is opposed to making it the rival of de nominational colleges and "the. best high schools, such" as Bingham's and others.'' It, therefore, is opposed to the free scholarship plan. This is construed by injudicious and blind friends Of Chapel Hill to be hostility. Time will show who are the wisest, discreetest, truest friends of the Uni versity. If the Stab was really hos tile it would ' fill a few colamns with reflections and criticism and letters on hand that would give the infatuated blowers something to think about for a month. The Stab will not pursue this course, because it at heart only desires success for the oldest literary institution in the State. Even anony mous &nd unfair articles shall not draw us oat in "opposition beyond fighting the free scholarship' misfor tune and mistake. . . -: Mr. Carlisle carries open eyes and is not easily caught napping. Mr. Curtin found oat this when he pro posed to nominate him '.for Speaker.' A special to the New York Times saysT . ' ', . , , "Of course if Carlisle became Mr. Curtin's candidate the Randall Democrats, of whom Mr; Curtin is one would feel as if they were entitled to guide Mr. Carlisle's hand when he made out the committees. This may have occurred to Mr. Carlisle, for it U reported that he courteously thanked Mr. Curtin for his kind offer - of assistance, but frankly told him that before deciding to accept his offer he would like to consult with some of the gentlemen who had long been his friends." . ... ' - .The Fifth" Artillery is . encamped in Riverside Park and guards Grant's tomb. - ' WILMINGTON, N. C.,j IFRID AY, AUGUST 21, 1885. AND THE Even supposing that the Demoorats of Virginia stood with Mahone and his crew on the publio debt "question no patriotic Virginian could hesitate as to which party he would affiliate with and support. In Virginia it must be very much like it is in North Carolina. - There are variant views among 7 Democrats as to the Blair bill, the Tariff, internal' taxation and so on, but when it comes to handing 'over the State unto the keeping of the party that robbed, defamed and impoverished it there is no difference of opinion among the true men of the State as to what should be done. All national Issues are laid aside for the time and an earnest, united fight is made as against a common-enemy. " In Virginia aside from a question of honesty and financial policy, there afe the most pressing reasons why the white - people. of that "section 1 should ha ve 'control, of the State! It will not begin to do for a party made up of . a few white1 leaders, an igno rant white following of some ten of thousands and over 100,000 blacks, to dominate a great State. That means ruin and wrong. 'iThe Philadelphia Times is . a semi Republican paper with credit for sagacity. It stands aloof and sees the drift of affairs and says of the Virginia outlook: i "The Democrats talk like men of settled convictions and definite principles who are trying to do the best that is possible for their State, while the tirade of tbe Mahone people suggests nothing more than an un disciplined gathering of freebooters and camp-followers in pursuit of spoils. "And this is really the present position of the two parties in Virginia: Since the practical settlement of the debt question there are no longer any well defined issues that are not wholly absorbed in the one paramount issue of an orderly and honest administration, and the intelligence and honor and integrity of the State are arrayed upon one side, -with ignorance and scoun- drelism and lawlessness upon the other. The contest is of the deepest importance for "Virginia and indirectly for every State, and tbe mental condition is not to be envied of those Northern partisans who give their sympathy to Mahone and his men because it suits them now to call themselves Repub- licans. MISS ROSE CLEVELAND'S ESSAYS. We have not read Miss Cleveland's volume of essays. We have had no curiosity to do so " and have been awaiting the judgment of critics to see if it would pay to read and to invest $1.5.0 in a copy. - It takes just as much time to read a third-rate production as it does a first-rate pro duction. Time is precious, especial ly to a busy man. Well we have waited and thus far have seen no opinions in the best critical journals or monthlies. The Chicago Current is a very clever literary weekly, bnt.it is not specially Btrong in . criticism. It says of, Miss Cleveland's volume: "These essays show the writer to be a studious, deeply-religious, earnest, and somewhat aggressive woman. They are not remarkable for scholarship, logical thought, or profound insight That some ability in handling the various subjects corj.passed in the book is shown may be readily conceded, but for argument the reader is too often given mere assertions, and for facts insubstantial idealizations. Her use of teima technical with the great philosophers renders her at times unneces sarily obscure, and her diction is often marred by colloquialisms wholly out of place in a professedly scholarly treatise." The. severest and most elaborate review of the volume is in the New Orleans States. There are an editorial and a special critique upon it. Of coarse we cannot undertake to say how much of justice there is in it, but the States is thoroughly Dem ocratic and a faithful supporter of the Cleveland Administration. It would, therefore, probably say what it could that ' was favorable to Miss Cleve land's literary adventure. We have given' the opinion of a Northern literary journal, and . we will repro duce some extracts from the dictum of a Southern daily from near the Gulf. : The States says editorially: "In the mere matter of literary composi tion alone, to say nothing of the higher ele ments of thought and argument, they are not above the average of articles in a fairly gcod school magazine. It is not a very encouraging sign of the times that this volume should have been rushed through seven editions. Why, the thought of it is enough to make the corpse of the late Mr.; Robert Montgomery turn about n the grave." . : !. , . " .' ' We now turn to the book critic who discusses the book, with some elaboration. He is very sharp in his analysis of her discussion of George Eliot, and it must be said that there is no little force in the way the critic applies his logic, but we can not fol low him. - Here is ' what . he says of the style of the book: "Her style of writing is no whit superior to her thinking, and is, in fact, a fitting vesture for it. Lightly glanced at, it seems to have a dash of buoyant vigor, a fibre of uncontrollable muscularity, which might be the expression of teeming thoughts and fancies that crowd too thickly for regula ted utterance. Read and examine, it is a etude congeries of stilted and pedantic verbiage, a string of high sounding phrases, well calculated to conceal, by carrying the attention from, the vacuity of thought that lies underneath. The - style, : moreover, is so overladen with uncouth and incongru ous similes and metaphors- pitchforked in discriminately together, ; that it is quite damned for any purpose of . reading with enjoyment.". : He regards the other essays in the" volume as much better than the one on the English woman which is placed in front. He says some of the essays are fairly readable, but the one on George Eliot is "first-class fustian." He complains' of - the dogmatism throughout, and says the thought "is invariably second-hand." As we do not purpose' reading and reviewing ourselves we have given the above judgments, supposing that our read ers would like to see what is said .of a work that has passed through seven editions at home and is to.be printed at once in England. f We shall be in terested Wj what the British critics may say. . I .-.- , ; Our good friend of the ; Wilson .Mirror corrects a slip of the Stab in saying that Judge Shepherd was the youngest Judge oft the bench. It says he is 39 and Judge" Connor is but 33. ; We knew that our friend Judge Connor was not' more than 34, bat somehow we had received the .impression that Judge Shepherd was about that age or .younger. They are . -both excellent additions to the bench of the Stated " " ; I Republicans are talking of Fred Grant for Governor of New York. They rely oo the name. Fred is not over stocked with brains. He ia Colonel -by special favor and not by merit, as his classmates are all lieutenants,- with possibly a captain or two. - I "Wanted to Separate. . x ; Standing in front of Justice" Minis' office, yesterday morning, we" overheard a con versation carried on between the magistrate and a colored man and his wife. ' It seems the two latter had come to the conclusion that they could not live together peaceably and tjpppy aud had therefore determined to separate. - The trouble was how to go to work about it. Something was said about an agreement being drawn up by a lawyer for the two to sign. The husband said he would readily sign such a document, - but the wife would have to pay for drawing it up. The wife was anxious to accommodate her liege lord in the matter of , the separa tion, but positively declined to go to any more expense on his account; "because," said she,- "haven't I taken care of you ever since we were married; fed you, paid the rents and done every thing I could for yout" The husband did not deny the soft impeach ment, and at last accounts tbe wife was in consultation with a legal gentleman with reference to the easiest way of getting her head out of tbe noose-matrimonial. The magistrates have a great many such appli cations from colored people anxious to have tbe knot untied. The 'Iron Bridge Over Smith's creek. The new iron bridge over Smith's Creek, on the county road, to take the place of what has heretofore been known as "Little Bridge," a wooden structure, is about com pleted, as it will receive the finishing touches by Monday, if not before. H. A. Bagg, Esq , Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, and Dr. W. W. Harriss. Chairman of the Board of County Magistrates, who paid a visit to the bridge on Wednesday, report' that the iron joists were being placed in' position on that day.;"-. ';.:,-'::" "t--- , The bridge is of 160 feet span, has 16 feet of roadway and measures 24 feet from the bottom of the floor beams to the top of the structure. It is known as a double intersection bridge, and was put up by the King Iron Bridge Company, of Ohio.under the direct superintendence of Mr. H. P. Graham, . a veteran bridge builder. Mr. Bagg also visited and inspected the work from time to time during its progress. The piling for the foundation of the super-' structure were driven under the direction of Messrs. Hanby & Russell, and Mr. P. Lineham did the masonry. It s expected that the work will be tendered to the county by the contractors on Monday. Camping Oat. .. . J ' We alluded a few days ago to the fact that a number of young men from this city were camping out at the Sound. Well, the camp was broken up Thursday. Their experience in that line proved not to be ap preciated with that degree "of fervor that was expected. - Their venture , turned out to be a peculiarly unfortunate one. Their camp equipage did not seem to be proof against the depredations of man. or beast, and as a consequence ;1 ' - " Thieves did break through and steal ' And hogs went off with all their meal. . Pending their decision to abandon camp J life and return to tbe bosoms df their re spective families, they were seriously de liberating as to the propriety of attaching themselves to a base hall club under the title of the "Starving Nine." They loved darkness rather than light, too, at this par ticular juncture in their life's history, though their deeds were not evil. Thursday evening they bundled their camp equipage, cooking utensils, etc:, into a cart provisions they had none and started homeward. " Alas! their unenviable fate still clung to them. They had come about half the length of the turnpike and were felicitating themselves on their hear approach to home and grub, when '' suddenly a 'crash . was heard " and the cart broke down and precipitated its miscellaneous freight in the midst of the public highway. Then it was that these long suffering young gen tlemen had their courage and forbearance put to a final test, and it proved too much for them. - They succumbed once more, pitched their tent and waited for daylight and ' such assistance as was obtainable to help them on their journey home. Their ideas of camp life have undergone a seri ous revulsion. - ;:, : , ' - - Inci dent at The Boeka. . . On Thursday morning, while seven or eight shark fishermen, including Mr. J. L. Maffltt and five of the Shelby excursion ists, were standing on the gang-way at the " Rocks," on the eve of embarking on an excursion in search of the " finny mon sters," ; a flaw- of wind, slightly on 1 the cycionish order, ; filled the sail of their boat, and dashed it violently against the foundation of the structure, when there was a fearful crash, down went the gang way and down went the people that were standing npon it. Some of those who un derstood the situation quickly scrambled to the beach, bnt one of our Shelby friends, who had no idea of the depth of the water, stood on a fish coop (which was really on the bottom though he was not aware of it) and yelled lustily, " Help 1. help! I help!!! The fall was about ten feet, and some of the luckless fishermen got braised a little and frightened still more, , but none bus-. tained any injury worth mentioning. NEWYORK. Loa or Life and Great Damage to - Property hy 'a Cyelone A Blarderer HangedRallroada . Damaged by m ' Water-Spout. ' - Nobwood, August . 13. The damage by the cyclone here last night was somewhat over-estimated. ' The loss of life, so far,' includes only , Michael Martin, ; a . farm hand, and Mrs- .David FitzKibbons.( he injured are Myra Ormsby, aged 18, proba-' bly fatally hurt; Mrs. George Cramerr 8,' E. Leslie, Mrs. Oliver Sundernan, Carl and Rufus - King, and Charles Minor. The storm raged over a territory fifteen' miles in length and from one-half to three-quarters of a mile In width The wind was accompanied by a terrific hail storm. - The damage done to growing crops and to fruit, cannot be estimated.' The principal losers in Norwood are the Norwood Lumber Company, the Ogdensburg & Lake Cham plain Railroad Company, by damage to bridge and station, and A. M. H. Pearson, by damage to broom handle and hoop fac tory. Over one hundred residences and innumerable barns and sheds were destroy ed or damaged. The damage in Norwood and immediate vicinity is estimated at $150,000.- v , . ? Schbnbctaut, August 13. A water cloud buret in Glenville township, near the New York Central and Hudson River Rail road track, six miles west of Schenectady, last night. . .The railroad culvert and road bed were washed away, making a break ef 120 feet. , Enlire . fields of rye and hay were 'washed away. vNew York- Central and Hudson River trains were delayed last night, but this morning trains meet at the washout and passengers are transferred. ' " Tbot. August 13. James Horace Jones: was oanged at Troy jail at 1 30 o clock this morning, for the murder of his wife, Amelia Jones, on July 3rd, 18S4T : ijj v "I, Nbw Yobk, August 13. The stock mar ket has been -unusually, irregular and at times feverish. Sales were in small bunches, .and accompanied by as much noise and ap parent excitement as possible.' Many stocks were weak in the forenoon after displaying some strength near the opening, rallied again . after midday only to sell off again after . one o'clock, and the de cline then continued : with 6nly slight interruptions to the close. - As a rule, the highest prices were in tbe first hour, and the lowest during the last hour; the mar ket closing heavy and within' a small frac tion of the lowest figures. The most prom inent exception was New Jersey Central, around which a great deal of mystery has been hanging for sometime, and which was therefore easily manipulated. Louis ville & Nashville ' was another strong stock, but its strength was directly tracea ble to the statement that the company's an nual report, about to be issued, would make a very favorable . showing. It was strong nearly all day, and closed with a gain of 1 per cent Grangers were promi nent for the weakness they developed in the afternoon. ' Naw Yobk, August 14. The ' slock7 market has been active and doll by turns. By iasuiog orders to their brokers to trade in small lots manipulators were able to give the market an appearance of much greater activity than it really possessed, and the official sheet of the day's transactions is fully as large as when more than twice the amount of business is done. The sales to day were distributed and amounted to 270, 400 shares. The feature of the day was continued activity in a number of low priced stocks that ordinarily receive no at tention. In the early dealings the market exhibited a good deal of feverishness and irregularity some stocks going up while others declined; but this was followed later by greater attention to tbe whole list, which exhibited considerable strength., With only a very slow advance the market continued strong, however, with only slight reactions throughout the afternoon and closed strong generally at or within a small fraction of the best prices of the day. The gams this evening are with few exceptions only fractional, but no active stock is low er.; Conservative brokers, however, Bay the strength is purely artificial and caution customers to keep out of the market The number of believers in such a state of things is daily increasing. Louisville & Nashville made the greatest gain, closing 2r higher: The enormous cotton crop, now nearly ready for harvest, and the decision to continue the New Orleans Exposition another year, are expected to have a decid ed effect upon the future, revenues of this road. Vanderbilts are up f, and also Northern Pacific preferred ; Northwest & St. Paul gain f and each, respectively. Western Union is up f, and Union Pacific T. Missouri Pacific was not traded in. Texas Pacific rose If. The fact has de veloped that the International &'. Great Northers, a part of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas property, has absorbed all of the Company's surplus earnings, and become indebted to the Missouri Pacific for $300, 000 besides. These International revenues were not given in the recent , statement of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas of its condi tion. ' . .: . ... ' New York, Aug. 14 Schedules of the assets and liabilities of John Roach are ex pected to he filed this afternoon. They show the liabilities of Roach to be $2,222. 877: The nominal assets are stated to be $5,108,098, and the actual assets $4,481,478. New Yobk, August 15. The stock mar ket has again been active and strong, espe cially for Vanderbilts, Coal stocks, Louis ville & Nashville, and some of the lower stocks on the list. Grangers were, however, barely steady, and North Pacific, Oregon Transcontinental and Chicago, Burlington AQuincy. The heavy advance in Vander bilts was due to the announcement pub lished this morning that tbe Central Traffic Association had elected a commissioner who had agreed to the formation of a pool on a money basis, and had adopted a reso lution to restore the. rates next Monday. The strength in Lake Shore was further stimulated by the report that a settlement had been effected, with the Nickle-plate bondholders on the basis of 3 per cent, in terest on their bonds. ; The chairman of the bondholders' committee denied the ru mor, but his denial came too late, and had no effect upon the price of stocks, specula tors being ill to believe only favorable re ports. Still, the - conservative , operators shake their heads and advise extra care; in fact, some of them have abandoned the market for the time , being, and have left the city for a vacation. Even the more thoughtful bulls, who have taken active part in the recent advance and profited thereby, ; are growing timid, believing the upward movement has been altogether too rapid. Lake Shore closed 2 higher; New York Central touched par for the first time this year, closing with a gain of If; Michi gan Central is up 2; Delaware & Hudson If; Louisville & Nashville one; Texas & Pacific one, and M. K. & T. H. Other stocks are fractionally higher, except the few which are slightly lower. Sales 334,000 shares.- - Syracuse, August 15. Wm. A. Whit lock, representing the Rochester PoztEz prett at the Firemen's Convention, was run over by a train on . the New York Central Railroad at 4 o'clock this morning, and died an hour later. ,.' N ' A '.' .'-rr- . t Br'"BaW'HBa"nWm" i i" i ' NEW JERSEY. A Large Fire la Jersey City Six Tene V men Boases Destroyed Narrow Es cape ot the Inmates. . '-. fsi -' ' . Jkrsbt Citt, August 13. Fire broke out at 430 o'clock this morning in Michael Day's bavrel factory, on Warren street, be tween Newark and Railroad Avenues. The fire spread to an adjoining tenement house on Warren street, and then to a two-story store house belonging to the Suppert Fur niture Company of Williams port. Pa. - All these buildings were destroyed. The flames then spread to a tenement house on Rail road Avenue, around the corner from War ren street, and continued up Railroad Ave nue until six three-story double tenements, occupied in all by 75 - families, were con sumed. -The tenants of all the bouses were driven into the streets in their night clothes, and many, of -them narrowly escaped with their lives. Several buildings facing on Newark Avenue were badly damaged In the rear. The total loss is estimated at $50,000. Tbe origu of tbe fire is unknown. NO. 43 WASHINGTON: National Bankw-Investlgatlon or the Alleged Case of ; Cholera In Camden,' iJ ;K::tf?;-v: --&i ' ; . r IBv Telegraph to the Koranic Stair.l ; " Washihqtoh, August 15 The Coinp-' troller of the; Currency has extended for twenty years the corporate existence of the First National Bank of Lynchburg, Va.,; that First National Bank of Charlotte. N. ;C, and the First National Bank of liar-, risonburg, Va. ' - r An officer of the Marine Hospital Service has. been instructed to Investigate the al leged case of cholera in Camden, N. J. . Wasbxroto August 14. Acting Com missioner Walter, of the General Land Of ifice, has declined to issue any more patents to the Northern Pacific Railroad, pending the decision fixing the legal status of the road. In, this regard he follows the rule laid down by Commissioner Sparks in re lation to the California & Oregon and Ore gon & California roads. The question at issue, briefly stated, is that that road was not completed within the time required by1 law, and that until Congress takes definite! action-In one way " or the other no steps: should be taken to place it beyond the power of the legislative branch of the gov! ernment to protect public rights. 1 - JJ, S. Consul Mason, at Marseilles, in a cablegram to the Secretary of State to day.; says that the cholera in that place is Asiatic and veryf fatal t The disease Js.spieadiog to the interior. . - ' ; - v' ' . ' It is understood that the newly appointed Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco Has ' been instructed to take possession of the sub treasury there and : to continue the count.- of moneys and securities in such manner as may be deemed best for the in terests or tne service. - ' It is in , contemplation to appoint an army officer to perform the duties of Indian Agent upon the San Carlos reservation, Arizona.. The Indians upon this reserva tion are among the wildest and worst with which the Government has to deal, and re quire the constant presence of a military force for police purposes and restraint. - Some ' time ago Secretary Lamar ex pressed the conviction that an army officer should be designated to represent both the Indian and War Departments, and the Sec retary of i War recommended to the Presi dent that! Captain F. El. Pierce be assigned to the position.. The President has not yet signified his purposes in regard to the mat ter." ., j .. , . Washington) August 14. CoL Wrieht, Commissioner of the Labor Bureau, to-day had the appointment of C. P. Judd, as spe cial agent of the Bureau revoked, because of his recent, arrest in Colorado on tbe charge of horse stealing, and bis admitting his guilt; and also, that he had served two terms in the penitentiary for the samV offence..- o-' - : v i 5: rzxifSYLrANiA. '-.-y -i A Sane Wowan Confined rorTtventy 7 Seven Wears In a Lnnatle Asylum Three Violent Deaths In Reading. - Philadelphia, August 14. A woman has .just been discharged from the State Lunatic Asylum, where she has been con fined twenty seven years, on a charge pre ferred byi her father of "extravagance and eccentricity." She had been a woman of extravagant tastes and a society leader in her young days. Her father, who was a physician, became impoverished, but the daughter j did not accommodate herself to the changed . circumstances, continued to run up heavy bills for dress, and finally ordered a handsome set of furniture, which she sold before paying for it. Because of this act, and to save the family honor,- the girl was sent to tbe asylum in 1858. . Her father died and his daughter remained in the asylum until attention was called to her case at the National Convention of Char ities and Corrections, held in Washington last June. - Investigation developed tbe fact that the woman never had been insane, and is now a woman of 40 vears. with sound mind and healthy body. She has made her home with a friend who has con stantly labored for her release. Reading, August 14. Henrv Johnson and James Badger, employes of the new Reading & Pottsvllle Railroad, were killed to-day while attempting to board a moving train. Charles , P. Duston, another em ploye, had his head blown off by living stones from a blast GEORGIA. Proceedings of the State Agricultural -, j Convention. ; :. Atlanta, August 13. The Agricultural Convention of Georgia, in session at Mari etta, has elected Hon. L. F Livingston President for the ensnintr vear. and will hold its next session at Columbus. The general report was that crops are excellent. Before adjourning the following resolutions were adopted : Besotted, That the Georgia State Agri cultural Society shall' be represented at the American Exposition to be held in London in 1886, by a commission of three, appoint ed by the President from its members, whose duty it Bhall be: First. To visit the said Exposition to carefully take notes and gather information, from all possible sources, of all agricultural and mechanical matters, and to report fully on these sub jects. 2nd. To inquire into and report upon the progress of agriculture in Eng land and upon the continent 8rd. To aid,as far as possible, in the establishment of di rect trade between European and Georgian ports. . . , A8HEVIle, N. C. Arrest ofTwo men Charged with M or dering the Joyce Family In April Last. ; ;' A shevHiLB. August 13. This morning W. H. Davis, of the detective force, brought to this place, and lodged in jail W. BL Jones and his son, of this county, charged with the murder, on the 3d of April last, (twelve miles west of this place) of J. H. Joyce and three other members of the Joyce family, then burning the house and the remains. The parties accused will have an examina on Monday next The murder created in tense excitement . at the time, but no clue to the perpetrators has been discovered un til now, although detectives have been busyatwork. MISSOURI. The ntJf Lonls Hotel mnrder Alleged ; to ; Have been at Plot to Defraad an Insurance Company. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 13. According to a telegram from San Francisco, published here, Maxwell, the alleged murderer of C. Arthur Preller, now says that in due time he will produce Preller alive and well, and show where he got the body found, in the trunk." Maxwell asserts that the body in the trunk was brought by himself and Preller and left in the hotel ; for. the ; purpose of procuring the insurance money upon Prel ler'8life. .. .. - - -v U- new Jersey. Cholera Fright In Camden A Uledleal " Investigation In Progress. : Philadelphia, Ang. 14 Camden,' N. J., opposite this city, has a cholera fright. A young Irish girl, only two weeks landed in this country, and employed for the last ten days by a farmer in the suburbs of Cam den, became violently ill Wednesday and died in less than tiro hours. - The physician gave a certificate of death from congestion of the brain induced by cholera morbus. The coroner and a physician who was called to attend the girl express the opinion that the symptoms, were those of true Asiatic cholera; The girl died before a physician reached her bedside. : A medical investiga tion, is in progress. ,'i,: ':-c :tM:: Raleigh Hecorder: ' As a result of a thirteen days meeting with the Beth lehem church, closing on the 2d inst. Rev. J. F. Moore baptised eleven willing souls. Rev. C. A. Jenkens during his vaca tion of three weeks preached twenty five' sermons. Many of our brethren rest du ring the summer by hard work among the churches. . - State Grleanings.. Raleigh Advocate: Rev. T.'H. Perram. of onr Cnnfp.reiuta Bl Kaon na Jln . afflicted in the death of bis-son, Lemena M Pegram,. who was 23 years tf Bge, and v was just on the-threshold of a vigorous -and consecrated manhood. "T, The new Edenton Street Church, of this city, the outside work of which is now about fin 'i ished, presents an imposing and handsome appearance. '.Work is now steadily pro-' gressing on the inside. ;; The floors are laid.-' the ceilings are all up, and now in a short while the building will be ready for the-plasterers.'-4' Raleigh JRegister: In the death of Dr. Kerr the State has lost agoodciti ' zen,. whose labors have been to it of infi " " uiva Tamo. - juany men uougni mm iale and careless of his duty, because to them it -seemed that the delay in making his Report or in publishing his Map could only come - -of idleness or carelessness. On the con- -trary,' Dr. Kerr was the most industrious ; man known- to the. JReoister, and hi vnrk by day and by night was for North Caro ' " ' lina, and was effective. '- ! k -fi; Raleigh f Ittetds Observer: New Berne had a $2,000 firt yesterdayi A- j singular murder has leaked out at 'Jones-, boro. t Nineteen years age, in 1866, three white men, McDonald, McDuffle and 8pi- -vey, killed a negro boy. All three of them ' are Republicans, - died in the wool The ' first two were arrested last week. Spivey was arrested Saturday, and Baturday night ' 1 Judge Walter. Clark, en-route to Harnett court, was. met at Stanford by Splvey's -counsel with an application for a habeas corpus. - The writ was issued, and the case 1 -is to be heard t LOlington . Spivey relies -" on the amnesty act News of Mr. J. ' rr wKiuviu a wdiuuuu u xJ u UluCK last -' evening was that he was. critically sick. , .: . Concord Times:. An accident: happened on last Monday morning- to La fayette Patterson whichdepnvehlm of the -use of a leg for life. .He was hauling wood . to town and was riding on - the wood driving four horses. At a point about a v mile from town, just beyond the three- mile brahoh, the horses . in front became frightened and began to run off. The wood - supping rorward threw Mr.; Patterson -down behind - the horses in a very precari- ' ous position. -In his efforts to free himself : his left leg was. caught beneath the wheel . of the wagon and horribly crushed just above the ankle. He ia but 19 years old. r On Monday evening, at the factory, Mr. Charlie Russoll and James Cook, son of Mr. Frank Cook, .- were engaged in a ' friendly scuffle,' when Cook threw Russell on the ground with such force as to break his leg. . .,. '. .-: . . ; Fayetteville Sun: At Wheeler's . mill pond a short distance from Cedar Creek church, on ; Sunday last, fourteen young people were baptised. -At a recent revival fifteen new members have been added to the roll of that church. ' Mil- ' ton Huske, a colored man of this town, ' , who has been in feeble health for some time, dropped dead on Friday last:" Mr. J. B. Troy reports that the sunflower mentioned by us as ' having 165 blossms is " nowhere." ,There is one growing in his ' garden having 224. The address of . W. C. McDuffle, of our town at the medi cal convention is highly complimented by the Medical Journal of North Carolina, and also by the Maryland Medical College. We understand that in - addition to those heretofore made public Col. Green has secured change in the postmasters at " the following points, viz:-Kenansville, " Jacksonville, Carthage, Warsaw, .Manly, Fremont, Rocky Point, Mount Olive, Point -Caswell and Sandf ord. . Amos .Garland descended into the well on the premises of Mr. R. Mc Means, of Mecklenburg, as we learn from the Charlotte Observer, when he was over come by gaa. His brother-in law, Charles Kerr, at once - descended, tied i the rope around the body and sent it up, remaining in the well himself. The Observer says: " Kerr was almost unconscious by the time the rope reached him, but he grasped it as best he could, and those, at the windlass began to haul him up. . They had scarcely given the windlass a dozen turns when the sudden lightening of the load told them that Kerr had dropped back into the well. -A good deal of confusion ensued, and it was probably three quarters ef an hour be-, fore Kerr's body was taken from the well, and he had then been dead for half an hour. Kerr leaves a wife and one child. ' Garland remained in an insensible condition for five -or six hours after being drawn from the well, and is yet in a very precarious condi tion. His back is severely injured, and his -head is badly hart, and besides there are a . number of cuts and bruises about his body. -His recovery is considered doubtfuL ' " Weldon News: The crops all through the county have most wonderfully " improved within the past few weeks, and 1 the prospects for a good yield are quite encouraging.- The Rev. A. G. Willcox ' has baptized ten converts the past week the result of his meeting at Fishing Creek during the week.- The many friends of Mr. J. N. Selden, of Jackson, Northamp ton county, will hear, with regret and sor row,! the news of his death. Mr. Selden -was stricken with paralyai3 Sunday night .about 9 o'clock, and lingered till Tuesday afternoon, when he died. A terrible Cutting affray occurred about four .miles . from Enfield on Saturday last. The parties concerned were John Pettitt and Walter-. Beavans. It seems that letters had been . written by one of the men, which one we did not learn, concerning some business . transaction, and this caused a fight when -they met on Saturday. Mr. Pettitt was not hurt but Mr. Beavans was severely cut with a knife., Nine wounds were inflicted in different parts of his body, one of them be ing thirteen inches long. . v - - . -V Rockingham Rocket: There are ten prisoners now in the county jail calmly awaiting the arrival of Judge McRae. The Baptist congregation at Alma, N. C , are making preparations for the building of a nice church at an early day. ' In the death of Hampton LeGrand, Esq., at a ripe old age, our country loses another one of the links in the chain of peome of the olden time. He was a splendid type of the South ern gentleman. Died, in Bockingham, on the 8th inst., Mrs. Emily Manship, wife of E. W. Manship, Esq., of typhoid fever. Sometime last winter a peculiarly bright stone was picked up on the farm of W. W- Graham, Esq., in Beaver Dam township, six miles northeast of Rocking ham. The curiosity of several persons was excited to know what it was and Mr. M. H-Russell proposed to take it to New York and have it examined. He did so and it passed the scrutiny and test of two well known diamond dressers in that city, both of whom unhesitatingly pronounced -it genuine and a gem of the first water. Its weight was found to be from 2$ to 2f ca- rats (10 or 11 grains) and Mr. Russell could readily have sold it for $25 a carat, but re fused. . : Charlotte Observer: Julias L. Howell has been commissioned postmaster at Crea well's, in this State. The average number of i North Carolina commissions - eifmfl'1 ia Iwa iiaw ? A fasr ihasa oiuva so wu a uaj -t- 1 AA, AO rv uiviv - North Carolina postmasters have been com missioned. They are: Henry Grady. Dud ley: James H. Barnes, Fremont; Ira P. Gaffey, Logan's Store; Isam L. Hanea, State Road., -Col. William Johnston, Mayor of the city, has been vested with the . power of appointing one student to a free tuition in the Maryland Military and Naval Academy, at Oxford, Maryland. The appli cant for this scholarship must be over thir- . teen years of age. .; Mr. Henry B. Wil- -" liams, one of Charlotte's oldest citizens, and a very highly esteemed gentleman, x gassed peacefully into his last sleep, at his 7. ome in this city, at 415 o'clock yesterday . afternoon, at the age of seventy-four years. A telegram received by Mr. D. A. ' vuuwcu uu .yeoieruay, annoances uie death, in TJniontown, AJa, of his only sis- ' ter, Mrs. M. C. Davidson, at the advanced . age of ninety years. Mrs. Davidson was a native, of Mecklenburg. The opening day of the Poplar Tent fair yesterday was . attended by - large- crowds ' of people, the grounds and buildings being thronged with -visitors as early in the day as ten o'clock. The display of cattle, which is the main feature of the fair, was' excellent and fully equal to that of last year; which was said . to have been the finest ever known in North Carolina. - Floral Hall was well filled with ladies handiwork of all varieties, A negro named Johnston was yesterday sent to jail in Dallas, on the charge of murderx. He was a gravel train hand on the Air Line X road, and last Saturday became engaged in -a f riendjy tussle with a . fellow ; laborer. - -Johnston was used more roughly than he , expected that he would be, and without any provocation he grasped a pickaxe and - -sent it crashing through the skull of his ',. companion. The - wounded negro lived until yesterday when he died.