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BbVCATIOJU. PBOOBESS AHD
PRONUNCIATION. "
It has been announced that "some
eminent educators from abroad"; will
be the f 'attraction" at the. meeting of
the North Carolina Teachers's Asso
ciation next year. The Stab, through
all the-y ears, has shown a profound
interest in the cause - of education- in
the South and especially in North
Carolina. The hand that wrfcfcs this
wrote the Jirst article that was writ
ten in North Carolina probably for
the resuscitation of the University.
It would not be a vain boast if we
were lo say that we have written a
hundred articles on education since
1867. The Stab takes an interest in
any movement that concerns educa
tional progress in North Carolina." It
has not been able to regard, with
much favor the importation of new
educational theories and notions that
seemed to be little less than destruc
tive or revolutionary. When "eminent-educators
from abroad are in
vited those having' charge should
know what sort of theories and ideas
they are about to import.' There I is
a vast deal of bumbuggery in the
world, and it would be marvellous if
some of it did not find its way into
school books and Teachers Assem
blies. ; ' T
It strikes us that the teachers '
that is the old and ; honored ... word
of North Carolina ought to be equal
to all demands. We would in the
utmost loyalty to higher education
and with fnil sympathy for the best
ends sought by the Teachers' Assem
bly, ask if it is not something like a
reflection upon the capacity and in-,
telligence of our North Carolina
teachers to make the chief attrac
tions of such gatherings dependent
upon certain imported teachers who
come loaded with novel ideas and
methods? We understood that the
chief "attraction" of the last session
of the Teachers' Assembly was so
extreme in some of his 'views as to
be almost a revolutionist. Perhaps
he was misunderstood or we failed
to receive the right impression. 1
The Stab stands ready at all times
to advocate ,any measure or plan
that shall impress it as being really
favorable to a genuine advance in
erdacation. It believe in progress.
It believes in utilizing all agencies
and methods that are of unquestioned
merit from whatever point of the
compass they may jcome. It does
not believe in retaining any thing
served its day, and newer and better
th'mgs have superseded it. Nor, on
the other hand, does it believe in .ac
cepting any thing merely because it
. is new.'--A new thing, may be more
worthless than a thing that is effete
and well worn.
True progress is the end to be
aimed at. When a - lecturer is im
ported and he begins to show what
fools we are and what fools our an
cestors were, we look at ; him with
'suspicion, and he will have nothing
conceded that he cannot establish by
irrefragable proof as far as" we are
concerned.
In one thing we would fight all
Northern innovators; in - their : at
tempts to fasten upon the South
many of the new-fangled pronuncia
tions of that section. We ought to
keep as near the best English . stan
dards as possible. Just ip propor
tion as any American lexicographer
departs from the English, standard is
: he to be suspected and resisted. The
departures from correct standards in
the United States are very numerous.
Referring to the colloquial speech of
this country, Prof. Lounsbury, of
Harvard, says this in the Interna
tional Magazine: : v L v
"The colloquial speech of. the educated
class in America is to some extent archaic,'
compared with that of the similar class in
England.", j. . :;.;v.lW
He shows how this is. The trans
ported language, undergoes "an arrest
of development." The old forma
and phrases are preserved, while at
home the , language is . undergoing
changes. The transported, language
clings to the old while the language
at home is being constantly - devel
oped. This tendency .to archaic
forms of speech prevails more in the
South than in any ' other ; other sec
tion. There are certain words -that
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are used that you cannot find oven in
the speech of the hid country. Mr.
r W Aldia . Wright Bays this even ex
tends t& the. Bible and the .Common
Prayer. '. " j ,: ' , ". , v
.Now the South does not; like
ohange for the mere sake of change.
Its scholars ptefer the pronunciation
01 their ed ucated ; fathers, to that
whir.h'dM Kaon i Ja..!. it'.
: - ut.wvpu iu we i
Aorth. They -would , rather pro- j
uuunce woras according to the 1 best
English sUndards! of-the past, using
recent English "authority . for those
words that have been introduced into
the language during the last-fifty
years, than to-adopt the absurd pro
nanciation of Webster or any North
erh authority that sets up a 1 pronun
ciation of its own. .. '. f
DBA LIN Q WITH CHI9IINAL. .
It has been the practice , inall .the
States, we suppose, to- confine -boys
t.---. ' L "a-".' '. '
wuu usvb ueen;onvictea..ei crime
with those of riper years "and who
have been hardened .by . frequent
transgressions. -This is unfortunate,
and we note that the grand jury of
Charleston oounty, S. C, have been
considering the question and -have
recommenaea , separate incarcera
tion. It is said that there is -a pain
ful increase of crime among young
culprits, and that reflecting people
in several States are looking into the
matter. Punishment is not the only
end in view ' in - dealing with cri mi-
cala. The reform of criminals should
be - considered. f -Maoy -men - have
gone into prison moral lepers '; who
have finally- emerged thoroughly,
radically changed. If the -youthful
criminals are '- Oonfined ? "with ; the
"hard cases" tbei probability is that
m every , instance the young rascals
will come out . intensified in their
villainy to be a curse and to prey
upon society. The Mobile Register,
in considering this question, says:
"This is one of, the great objections to
the hiring out of convict labor. Youthful
criminals are thrown into constant associa
tion with hardened offenders at the coal
mines and elsewhere, and when their term
ef sentence is over the last state of those
youths-is worse than the first. Too often
they are so inoculated : with evil that they
continue the downward course on which
(hey have started.
."The people of this and other Southern
states are too inoifferent to this matter.
though much interested in others of a mo
ral and religious nature, or of a benevolent
Character. i .
ROBLE WOSSKN.
It was Mrs. Ann Pamela Cuning
ham, of South Carolina, ;; wha began
before the war the good work of pur
chasing the Mount Vernon property
and protecting the tomb of Washing
ton. It will be remembered that the
late Edward Everett delivered bis
celebrated oration on Washington in
furtherance of this scheme. Before
Mrs. Cuningham began - her noble
work of savingl Washington's tomb
'to the whole Union it was in a most
shameful condition of neglect. There
is a South Carolina Boom at Mount
Vernon. , ; It has been elegantly fitted
up and portraits of Moultrie, Sumter,
Pickens and DeKalb adorn the walla.
A communication in the Charleston
News and Courier says : ' . .'.
i "The floor is covered-with an elegant
Turkey rug ; the original sideboard has been
put in complete order, and stands opposite
the fireplace, with its old fashioned brasses
and furnishings, while Houdon's bust of
Washington, mounted on a pedestal of pol
ished palmetto, the gift of the Grand Lodge
of South Carolinaj stands in an appropriate
position. The peopl-of South Carolina
owe this gracious s work to the energy and
taste of Mrs. F. W. Pickens, the Vice Re-
gent for South Carolina." . .
She has also had a portrait of Mrs.
Cuningham to he painted and hung
in this room. .The inscription is on
a shield below;
: Ann Pamela uumneham.
! : of South Carolina,
First Regent of the ML Vernon Association.
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Born 15th Augusl815, Died 1st May, 1875.
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- EDCCATIOlf :IH THB SOUTH.
I Rev. Dr. "Pritcbard, of this town,
recently prepared careful commu-'
aication for some Northern ', paper
upon "Education in the South." . He
deals in facts and figures. We were
pleased to see; his discussion for. he
told the : Northern - readers some
things of which they were ignorant
and much needed to be informed.
There was nothine in the way- of
statistics given by - him that would
be new to the readers of the Stab,
as from time to time we have pub
lished all or the most of them; Some
of his points it may be well enough
to refer to that the memories of our
readers ma v be refreshed." Of the-
total population, in the Union there
is 10 rjer cent.! of illiteracy. In the
South there is 20 per cent. North
Carolina has 26 per cent.. Mississip
pi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and
South Carolina have a larger per
oent. I West Virginia shows the low
est, 8 per cent, and South Carolina
the highest, j 32 per ; cent.; . Nortb
Carolina is crawling tip.: In 1870
she stood Z in the jclass. ;The fol
lowing is instructive: -
"The last census shows ,855,468 illiter
ate whites in the South; and 1,991,624 col
ored, there being; 1,088466 more illiterate
colored than wmte people in uie oonm. ui
the entire conntrv there Are 8,056,468 illit
erate whites and 2,147,600 colored, which
flmireft whan comnared with these above,
show that in the North there are 1,100,995
whit nniona who-cannot read and - write.
more than half; of the! whole -number f f
illiterate whites, and 166,260 colored.",
V There is one voter in every five in
. the United States who cannot .read.
1 tiJ W jbiE KJL TAR ' : ,
And yeVMr, Cable,and men of hissort
Southern men who have ; eaten .of
the insane Northern root and lost their
judgment and natural attachments
would have the Northern people be
lieve that it was wise, statesman -like
and ; beneficial to the conntrv . to
clothe with the ballot over a -million
of ignorant superstitious, creduhSus
rra
nagroesv mere was never a more
foolish and unjustifiable act done by
power, and the highest intelligence
in the North in 1885, sees it just as
the South saw it .in 1865, twenty
years ago.
The ignorance of ' the Northern
people concerning the South, has al
ways been most extraordinary. The
educated Southern man knows more
Of England to-day than the most - in
telligent Northern men have known
of the South, its people, institutions,
habits, &4. . ' We heard Senator Tip
ton, of Nebraska, sajXn-1 8 12, in JBa-1
leigh, that a short visit to . North
Carolina was a positive revelation to
him. He said everything was so
different from what he expected to
find it that he wished in his heart
that - every,.. Northern man , could
come . and ? see for himself. He
thought that such a visit would
so open their eyes that -they
would bold very different views
ever thereafter. The people in the
North, are very much surprised, to
read Rev. Dr. Mayo's '-reports from
time to time. He is a : most estima
ble Boston clergyman, and has spent
several years in the South in lectur
ing on ed u cation, visiting the vari
ous schools in- different States and in
&c. What he tells the North is not
new to any informed Southern man.
but it is very needful in the North.
' The Stab years ago showed from sta
tistics some facts that are now being
better known thanks to lectures,com-
munications and reports of travellers.
The Stab showed that before the
war the South expended more money
for higher education than the North
did, and we have no doubt had bet
ter schools. - The North does : .not
seem to have known that' the South
had a free-school system, and that
North Carolina had a particularly
good system, all things considered,
Dr. Pritchard says:
"In North Carolina we beean this work
as far hack as 1845, and in 1860, there was
a school fund of -over $3,000,000 in her
treasury, and this fund was sacredly guard
ed from all encroachments, and applied to
the education of our children, till the very
close of the unhannv strmurle. - when -it
shared in the general bankruptcy of the
South and was lost, ,
It is not claimed that the common
schools equalled those of the more
populous North, but it is claimed
that the South expended more mo-
ney according to - vrniie population
for education than the North did.
There is no doubt of this. The Stab
has published A this fact time and
again. We again quote from Dr.
Pritchard:
'In 1860 there were 8.000.000 white peo
pie in the South to 19,000.000 in the North,
and vet there were 262 colleges in the
South to 205 in the North. - In these col
leges there were : 4,810 professors in the
South to 4,650 ia-the North; there were
more nrivate schools in the South than in
the North, and for the support of these
higher schools the South paid f 1,800,000,
while the Nortb expended about Sl.WU.uou
I speak in round nnmbers and quote from
memory from an address by Rev. Dr. J.
L- M. Curry, Agent of the Peabody Fund."
We have not doubted that before
the - war the best, educated men in
the - country were in the ; South, and
Dr. .Pritchard s is of the same opin
ion. The war played havoc with
our literary institutions, and to this
hour the most of tbem are struggling
for existence. :: . But there is progress
and the publio schools of. the States
are being improved year -by- year,
North Carolina? is on the. upward
grade. It has a better ; school law.
an active Superintendent of Public
Instruction, - and in many of - the
counties efficient County '.Superin
tendents. Classical schools abound,
and the most of them - are ; better
patronized than ever before. There is
a generous rivalry among the leading
teachers, and they rely upon them
selves much more than they do up
on the Quixotic notions and theories
of many imported j. teaohers who
think .when they come -into North
Carolina they are entering Dahomey
or some other: benighted land. Dr.
Pritchard mentions - that in Wake
county there were fifty-two new pub-.
lie school-bouses built' 'in fifteen
months, ana m 1883, there were
thirty-three : educational . institutes
held. '''--;
Dr. Pritchard also quotes from the
address r delivered by Maj. Robert
Bingham delivered in 1884, at sev
eral places, we believe, and which
the Stab . reviewed at length. ; The
address contained . many admirable
things as we showed.' Maj. "Bingham
(they call him Colonel, but he won
his Mayorship in the war by actual
service) showed that North Carolina
in 1880 paid exactly as much for ed
ucation as Massachusetts did accord
ing to actual - taxable . property. T It
paid $1 out of every $40Q of taxable
property, which was ' precisely what
the rich and ! flourishing Massachus
setts . paid." We copy from Maj.
Bingham!' - J.,.J
' And, what is -more -cinety-nine hun-
dreths Of what is raised in North Carolina
WILMINGTON, N: 0., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,
is paid by the white people, and three-.
sevenths of it goes ? to the children of the
blacks. -And besides the State tax. manv
of our towns tax themselves and keep up
schools eight or nine months in the year
bo that as a matter of simple fact, four-
sevenths of our population, raise as much
as seven-sevenths of the population in
Massachusetts do on every one hundred
dollars worth of property, and tax them
selves heavily besides -. to continue the
schools after the public money is ex
hausted. :" :';
And we have other terrible difficulties to
contend with. We have 1,400,000 people I
in norm waronaa vvanig norm uuouua
and Massachussetts again as the unit of
measure), which is 800,000 less than the
population of Massachusetts: but the area
of North Carolina is seven times as great as
the area of Massachusetts, and the dimcuty
of reaching so sparse a population is very
great. Ana not only so,' out la jnassacna-
setu WW.O0U more than halt of . the peo
ple-r-live in cities and towns of over 2,000 in-.
habitants, while only 60,000 one twenty
third of the people in North Carolina live
in towns: and the rest twenty-two twenty
thirds live scattered over an area seven
times as large as Massachusetts, larger than
new i orfc. and nearly as large as all new
England and many of them are 100 .miles
from a p 'stofflce, with its mail only once a
week. That -is,', with only (1-10) or the
monev which Massachusetts has. JNortn
Carolina must Teach seveac(7) times the
"area which makes our difficuties seventy
(70) times as great as those of Massachu
sstts. even if area and money were the only
caewws. , -
North Carolina is even; doing bet
ter now than when Maj. B. prepared
his address. There is more money
expended in 1885 for educational
purposes than at any time in the his
tory of the State. : - r ; i-
The Fence caaea. ..; i.
Yesterday was the day set apart in the
Criminal Court by his honor Judge Meares .
for the trial of . what are, known as the
'"Fence Cases," in which a number of far
mers" and others throughout the county
were indicted for keeping unlawful fences
during crop time. A test case was made
the State vs. Win. Blood worth. Messrs,
Marsden Bellamy and Caleb P. Lockey
appeared for the defendant and Solicitor
Moore for the State The jury rendered
a special verdict as follows:
"The lury find that the defendant was
the occupier and cultivator of a farm, and
that he did not have and keep a fence five
reet high around the same, during the crop
season of the year 1885. . But whether the
defendant is guilty or not guilty under the
bill of indictment the jury are not instruct
ed, and pray the instruction of the Court.
If the Court shall be of the opinion that
the defendant under this finding of fact is
guilty, then the jury find that be is guilty;
but if not, then that he is not guuty.
Whereupon, the Court gave judgment
for the defendent, and from - which judg
ment the Solicitor for the State craved an
appeal. The appeal was granted.
The New Winter Sctaednle on the
At-
laatle coast Line.
The adoption of the winter schedule on
theAtlantic Coast Line last Sunday has been
followed by the inauguration of the Poll
man sleeping car service for the accommo
dation of the winter travel between the
principal cities at the North and South.
There are now three daily trains running
each way and all of them are provided
with through sleeping cars.
With the new schedule there has been
introduced a special fast accommodation
train between New York and Jacksonville
for the benefit of the Florida travel This
train leavesNew York at 4 30 a. m. and ar
rives in Wilmington at 9-55 p. m. ; reach
ing Jacksonville at 1 o'clock the next af
ternoon.
Seat to Albany Penitentiary
Owen Richardson, colored, convicted at
the recent term of the U. S. District Court
in this city and sentenced to one year's im
prisonment for using the U. S. mails for
fraudulent purposes,has been sent to Albany
(N. Y.) Penitentiary to serve put his sen
tence. Deputy Marshal Carr took the pris
oner to Portsmouth, Vs. , where be was de
livered to. Marshal Hill, and in company
with two postoffice officials from Newbera
sentenced to two years' imprisonment for
embezzlement, continued the journey north .
Incendiary Fire In Bladen County.
The dwelling bouse of Mr. Luther
Leonard at Beatty's Bridge, was destroyed
by an incendiary on Wednesday night.
The family were absent at the time, visit
ing friends in the neighborhood, . and lost
all of . their furniture and clothing. Mr.
Leonard had insurance upon the dwelling
to the amount of $1,000, in the Virginia
Fire andlMarine Company, represented in
this city by Messrs. Jno. W. Gordon &
Smith. . " -'
Consul to Montevideo. '
1 Mr Preston L. BridVera. of this eltv.
was yesterday appointed oy president
Cleveland ; TJ. S. Consul at Montevideo,
TJraguay. The first information received
here of the appointment was through the
press dispatches to the Stab. We learn
that Mr. imagers nas not yet aeciaea to
accept the henor conferred upon him by
the President The STAB extends its con
gratulations. -
Judge Boykln.
Gov. Scales yesterday appointed Major
E. T. Boy kin, of. Sampson county, Judge
Of the Sixth Judicial District to fill the va
cancy created by the death of the lamented
Judee McKoy. Mr. Boykin is a lawyer of
ability and a gentleman oi nign cnaracter;
and we hsve no doubt he will prove him
self worthy of the honor that has been con
ferred upon him. , , r i- M . ;
Kev. Drr Pritchard, who is an
ardent and an admirable sportsman, reports
a maenificeht day's hunt he and a friend
had, Friday, about nine miles from Char
lotte. The two nagged "75 partridges.
They would have done still better ' but for
the fact that neither of the two dogs they
had would retrieve, though fine fielders. in
every other respect., ,; . ,
Foreign Export. -
Messrs; 'Williams & Marchison cleared
the British steamship .Oyanus yesterday,
for Liverpool," with' 5,245 bales of cotton,
valued at . $217.712. . and Messrs. Alex.
Snrnnt & Son cleared the Norwegian
barque Deodata, also for Liverpool, with
l,oo5 naies, vaiuea at fo,iuu. maaing a
total of 6.810 bales of cotton, valued at
$284,812.
Cotton Receipts.
The receipts of cotton at this port for the
week ending yesterday foot up 8,668 bales,
against 5,229 bales for the corresponding
week of last year; a decrease of 1,559 bales.'
Thareeeints of the eron-vear to date foot up
58,032 sales, against 01,476 Mies to tne same
date last year; a uecreaseoi 8,44 naies.
A Brnaawlek Tnlef Caagnu" ' ; -:- ;
. A negro man - charged, with larceny in'.
Brunswick county, and for whom a' war
rant had been: issued, was arrested at the'
foot of Princess street yesterday afternoon
and carried to jaiL . He made an effort to
escape from the officer who made the ar
rest but did not succeed.
Manors Abandoned and . l.eft on a
Mr. J. W.' Jannett, a former citizen of
Wilmington and who it will' be remembered
spent some months here last winter, look
ing after several cargoes of guano for
which suits were brought by parties from
the North, has written a long letter to Sec
retary Bayard, in which he says he made a
contract with Samuel C. Sloan and Samuel
K. Schwenk, of New York, and E Lucien
Ritchie, of Philadelphia,4 to' work a mine
and ship guano from the island of Ronca
dor, in the Carribean sea, to the United
States. On May 23, 1884, having been fitted
out with three months' provisions and wa
ter, twelve men and a cook sailed with two
vessels for the island.? The oarties men
tioned above were to assume alMhe respon
sibility.! They furnished everything. .- - The
laborers were hired for six months from
their arrival on the island, butrwere to be
paid in three months. On arriving at Ron-
cad'or island the men proceeded to get out
the guano and load the ships, . The ships
sailed away and the men kept on with Jhe
work, expecting that the vessels would, re
turn as soon as they could go to the United
States' with their cargoes. - Three months
passed, and the vessels did not return; The
provisions were nearly exhausted, and what
remained were full of maggots and weavil.
The men began to fish and gather a few
eggs, but they suffered greatly from want
of water The Island is a barren and
rocky one, without water.';. By one means
and another they finally managed- to live
for seven months, when Mr. Jannett de
cided to take a small yawl, the only boat
they had. and to sail away to Aspinwall,
two hundred and fifty-six miles distant.-
The horrors of this trip can be imagined,
when it is known that they had no compass
or other maritime instruments,' and the sail
of the yawl was rotten. : Two young men
volunteered - to accompany Mr. Jannett.
They sailed on Dec. 20, and on Jan. 1,
1885, they arrived almost dead- in Aspin
wall. In Aspinwall Mr. Jannett chartered
a vessel and took food and drink; to the
destitute men. He found them more dead
than alive, but they were nursed and cared
for and finally restored.' . Mr. Jannett then
took out three cargoes of guano and sent
them to Wilmington. E. L. Ritchie & Co.,
put in a claim for the cargoes. Mr. Jan
nett arrived here on March 14, and was im
mediately laid up with rheumatism for four
months, from the effects,; as he says, of the
terrible exposure in the yawl while sailing
from Roncador to Aspinwall,
Several of the men who originally went
to Roncador are supposed to be still there
if they have not died- from exposure and
starvation. Mr. Jannett charges Sloan,
Schwenk and Ritchie with the crime of
marooning, and asks that they be prose
cuted for said crime. He also asks that a
war vessel be sent to rescue the men.- The
matter was referred to the Navy Depart
ment, and Commodore Walker has ordered
the Powhattan, which is stationed at As
pinwall, to go in search of the distressed
men. It has also been referred to the At
torney General to decide whether the par
ties mentioned shall be prosecuted for ma
rooning.
Supreme Court.
The following cases were heard in this
court on Tuesday last;
Worthy vs. Brower, from Moore. Argu
ment concluded.
Slate vs. McMillan, from Moore. Con
tinued.
Sutton vs. Hall, from Bladen. E. T. Boy-
kin for defendant. No counsel for plain
tiff. ' Appeal dismissed. :
State vs. Bracksville, from Richmond.
Continued.
Fry vs. Currie et als, from Moore. Put
to the end of the district
Worthy vs. Brady & Brady, from Moore.
Put to the and of the district. j
Navassa Guano Company vs. Bnd-
eers. Argued by Jfranx mcJMeui for tne
nlamtis. - " .,---.-.-.
nercnner vs. MOHacneraei ais,irom ucn-
mond. Argued by Burwell & Walker for
the plaintiff, and Frank McNeill for the
defendants. , .- : f :
Pending argument in this case court ad-
lourned, .
Opinions were meq in tne iouowmg
cases:
State vs. Bordeaux, from Pender. No
error. -
Reese & Co. vs. Cole, from Johnston.
No error. '- - '.' - ' 1 .
Brown vs. Hale, from Pender. No error.
State vs. Collins, from New Hanover; No
error.!' -:
Dempsey et als vs. Rhodes, from Duplin.
No error.
State vs. - McNair, from Onslow. No
error. , .
Tbe Blee market.
Both New Berne and Goldsboro claim to
be the best market - for rice - in the State.
The Goldsboro Messenger says "we are as
sured by gentlemen who deal in rice that
the Goldsboro market is the best in the
State for this commodity. The market
price here is from 90 to 95 cents per bush
el.' This is from 5 to 10 cento higher than
the Wilmington market.
In the New Berne market, the Journal
of that city says, "for several days rice has
sold for as much as $1 06 per bushel, in
cluding sacks. We notice the quotations
in the Stab range from 80. to 90 - cents for
upland in Wilmington. Whether the rice
sold here is of better duality, or whether
our buyers are more anxious for it, we are
unable to say."
' Wilmington rice dealers are of the opin
ion that these ' were probably exceptional
lots; that the prices paid in Wilmington
are as high as anywhere else, and say that
for fancy lots of upland rice even as high
as $1 20 per bushel has been paid here.
Our revised quotations for uplands are 80
cents to $1 00 per bushel.
Sudden Deatb.
- Mr. Wm.1 Lynch, the well known tailor,
died suddenly in his room over his shop on
South Front street at an early hour yester
day morning. . He had , recently experi
enced great difficulty in breathing at times,
and was thought to be Buffering from heart
disease. Coroner Jacobs, with Dr. Potter,
viewed the body, but an . inquest was
deemed unnecessary : Mr. Lynch was a
native of Ireland, -but had lived in" Wil
mington some thirty or forty years. . He
had no relatives so far as known in this
country .. r,,-i;,..
Death ofgmr. jr. K. Brown,
Mr. John Kent Brown, city surveyor;
and well-known as a civil engineer and
real estate - agent. 5 died last night at "his
home in this city after a prolonged sickness
that had for months almost entirely incapa-
-citated him for business.
Mr. Brown was a native of Bladen conn-
ijL was about fifty years qf age and. had a
large and influential connection through
out the Cape Fear' section. '
1885.
-UujiWASHIKOTOll: - .
Cnolera Virtually Ended In Italy Tne
. fflexlean Dommerclal Treat Speak
er Carlisle III. . . .
', By Telegraph tp the Morning Star. " ' '
'' WASHTOGTOlt Nov.' 19 Consul Carrhll.
at Palermo, telegraphs .to the Secretary of
State, "Cholera - virtually ended. The
quarantine from Palermo Is suspended." '
Mr.. Bayard, . Secretary., of State,. and
oenor ' Komero. Minister ; of - Mprlnn at
Wasbingtonre about to exchange ratifies-
uuua u bii suuiuonat arucie to me com
mercial treatv between the TTnitf-d RtAtpn
and Mexico of January 20, 1883;' extending
the time to May 20, 1886. for the approval
of necessary laws to carry into effect ope
rations of said commercial treaty; ---j-'-1
; Speaker Carlisle was so ill when he ar
rived here " this afternoon that he was
obliged to take to his bed at once. Visitors
are not allowed to see . him, and cards are
not laaen to his room, , , .
WAsmNQTOK. 'Nov. 20. The Coast Sur
vey reports great earthquake waves on the
Pacific coast. 'At Sah Francisco, as indi
cated on the Coast Survey tide gauge, these
earthquake waves were noticed: yesterday
afternoon between 1 and 8 o'clock p." m.
They were ,thirty-tlve minutes apart and
were as great as those observed during the
great upheaval in Java some years since. ' "
. The Department of State has been ad-
: vised " of Htheyreappearaoee -of cholera in
Gibraltar. . .. --
' Attorney General Garland has notified
District Attorney White at Tacoma.. Wash
ington Territory, that he will be given
whatever legal assistance be may require in
prosecuting persons arrested for complicity
in attacks recently made on Chinese resi
dents of that locality. ' , - - -
Washinqton, November : 20. Speaker
uarua:e s conaiuon is very mucn improved.
He was able to leave his bed to-day. . -
ijouis ommerneid, a role, aged 52
years, to-day shot and instantly killed
bis wire and Gotlieb Eisenbaum, at the
latter s saloon in tne northeastern part of
tne city, uommerneid s wire, it appears,
left ; him some weeks ago and has since
been living at Eisenbaum's. Eisenbaum
was 'a son-in-iaw of Mrs. Sommerfield.
Various reasons are assigned as causing the
tragedy; but a bottle of whiskey found in
pommerneld s pocket when arrested was
probably the most recent and direct cause.
Washington, Nov. 20. The President
made the following appointments to-day
uonsuis rreston u iindgers, of North
Carolina, at Montevideo, Uruguay; Wm.
H. McCordle, of Mississippi, at San Juan
Del J Norte, Nicaragua; Joseph W. Mer-
riam, (a citizen of the U. S.) at Iquique,
Chili; William C. Emmett. of New York.
at Smyrna, Turkey.
Jfourth Class fostmasters is: If. . Sear-
son, Allendale. S. C ; Thos. L. Goodwin,
Koe, H.C.- ' , -
Washington, Nov. 21.- Lieut. General
Sheridan and Inspector General Baird will
leave Washington in a few days.by direction
of tne f resident, to visit Arizona, in connec
tion with recent Indian troubles. .
The Secretary of State is informed by
cable that the Greek Government, prepara
tory to approaching naval manoeuvres, has
placed torpedoes in the straits of Lytolia
and Salamis, and in certain other waters of
the Vicinity, and that entrance to such
waters was forbidden from yesterday.
The u. d. fish Commission Car .No.
will leave Washington Monday night with
carp for the supply Of applicants in South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
The distribution to South Carolina will be
made from Columbia by express; for
Georgia, from Atlanta; for Alabama, from
Birmingham and Montgomery; for Florida,
from Jacksonville. (Jar no. l will leave
Tuesday afternoon with carp for the supply
of applicants m West Tennessee, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
ARKANSAS.
Helena
Astonlsned by a
Fllgnt of
' I ' Graasnopper.
r.Uv Teleirranh totheXonune 8tar.l
Hklkna, Nov. 20. The citizens of He
lena were aroused at an early hour yester
day morning by what many of them at first
thought to be a heavy ram storm, but on
looking out they were surprised to see the
clear sky filled with' what appeared to ba
snow-flakes and not rain, that was patter
ing with such force agamst the roofs and
windows of the houses. Investigation
proved that the air was filled with grass
hoppers. Citizens who have seen the dread
ed pests sweep down and consume whole
fields in .Kansas say that in numbers the
visitation last night exceeds anything ever
seen in that country ten-fold. They were
passing from east to west. Great numbers
of them were disabled by hitting against
buildings and . other obstructions, as they
were nymg very low, and porters and
clerks had to shovel them from the side
walks into the streets. They are genuine
Kansas grasshoppers.
TBXA8.
A mob Applies the Lash to a Party of
- Tramps Who Refused to Work
Galveston, Nov. 21. A special to the
News, from Denton, says fifteen tramps,
who, were confined in the calaboose there
for refusing to work, were waited upon last
night by a mob of unknown men,' who
overpowered the guards, took the tramps
out land administered, thirty-nine lashes
well laid on, to each, and then told them to
'2i t." They "got." and not a tramp is seen
in Denton to day, and no more are expected
this season. "
VIRGINIA.
A Farmer murdered and Robbed by
Negro Will be Lynched If Caught.
i B v Telegraph to the Horning Star. ' '
Ltkchbdbg. "Nov. 21. The dead body
of a planter, named Hammersley, ot Camp
bell county, was found by the roadside last
night. He was returning from this city,
where he had sold his crop of tobacco, and
was followed twelve miles by a negro, who
split his head open with an axe and robbed
the body. The negro is at large, but every
effort is being made to capture him, and
great excitement prevails. He will be
lynched if caught. ---,j;. -;-v'';i
DELAWARE.
The Whipping Post and the Pillory
' - at Newcastle. . : -
1 By Telegraph to the MorntngStar. - ';'
Wilmtsgton, Nov. . 21. A large crowd,
including seven amateurs photographers
with cameras, attended the whipping at
Newcastle to-day. Wm. Turner, colored,
for larceny of a watch took five lashes;;
Alex. a. Jnelds, charged with larceny,
ten! lashes: John Manlove and Wm.-H..
Morris, colored, burglars, stood an hour in
tne pillory and received twenty lashes each.
After the whipping a new xotk news
paper man who was present bought of the
sheriff the cat with which the lashes had
been administered.' . ... ;
THE GALLO WS.
A mnraerer uxwnca iiauni
malne A Murderer Hanged at lark-
town VS.S . "
u iBrTeteCTaDhto the Honnns Btar.l s -
TH03IA8TOJJ, Nov. 20. Daniel Wilkin
sou was hanged here to-day for - the mur
der of Officer William Lawrence, whom he
shot when -Lawrence attempted to arrest
him for burglary. Wilkinson is not nis
name, bnt is the one under which he has
been tried and convicted, and he refused to
reveal his correct name He walked to the
scaffold with a firm step and stood upon
the drop without a tremor. He was - clad
in black and his arms were bound to his
side. As the noose was being: adjusted lie
said to the sheriff, "you fellows get .fifty
dollars a day"1, for such work: He had
nothing further to say.- but mtened.atten-
tively to the' service . for the jlying. At
just 12 o'clock the trap was sprung and be
fell a distance of seven feet, dying without
a struggle. , . r. ; s -
X Fortress Mohboe. Vl November '20.
Jacob -Butler, colored, -was hanged at
Yorktown tc-day for the murder of James
Griffin. ,; -yl- 'ZJ rA
NO. 5
A , BROOKLYN TBA G BDJ
Two Children Smothered br their it
. Mother. - .
IBj Telegraph to the Xoruluc riiic .. -
New Yobe. Nov. 19. The Bk klvn
Nursery, situated iniHerkimer street, was
the scene this morning, of considerable ex
citement, which was caused by. the discov
ery oi one or the- inmates smothering her
children, ; Yesterday morning, a woman
rather poorly clad and carrying two chil
dren, presented herself at the door of the
nursery, and eeeged with team in her eyes
to re admitted. ae saw she was very
poor, and had nothing to eat for herself or
children Bhe.was taken into the nursery,
provided with. food and made comfortable.
one gave her name as alary Johnson, aged
and a resident ot new York citv. The
eldest child was Winifred-: 18 months old.
and the other, Flora, 5 months old.. Her
husband had abandoned her and she was
afraid that he was going to take the chll--
aren away - from btr. v she was excited
and nervous, but she was assured
that she need have no fear. ; She retired to
rest last t night and nothing more : was
heard of herintSl this morninir. when one
of the attendants of the nursery in passing
through -the corridor looked ' into Mrs.
Johnson's room and saw her in the act of
suffocating her eldest child. Winifred. The
attendant seized Jars.. Johnson and took the
pillow from off the little one who had be
come unconscious. She thought the child.
was ueao. uoctors , were sent for. who.
after working for sometime succeeded in
restoring the child to consciousness. Mrs.'
Johnson had stuffed the child's mouth with!
rags, had held her nose and placed pillows
over her head. The baby (Flora) was lying
ueao on tne bed, having been suffocated in
the same way. Mrs.1 Johnson is thoueht
to be out of her mind, and waslocked np in
the station house, where she wept and kept
camng ior ner Children. Later, she was
taken to Court and committed for examina
tion as to her mental condition.
SUICIDE OR ACCIDENT.
A Prominent Physician of New York
- -! Kills Himself. '
By Telegraph to the Horning Star.
New Yokk. Nov. 19. Dr. William
Frothineham, one of the best known physi
cians in toe upper part of the city, com
mitted suicide at 8 o'clock this morning by
shooting i himself through the head. He
was dead when found by his family ' who
searched tor the cause of the report. The
Doctor occupied a handsome mansion at
157th street and St. Nicholas avenue, and
had a very extensive and lucrative practice.
it was Dr. Jfrothingham s skill that brought
Unas, o Connor, back from death s door,
when hope was given up by every one
else. He was married and leaves a family
oi grown children. The cause of the sui
cide is not known but the nervous dispo
sition of the doctor makes it probable that
he shot himself in a sudden attack of in
sanity. )
.Further investigation by the family and
ponce convinced botn that the doctors
death was due to accident rather than sui-
.cide..
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Suicide of a Bank Cashier In Spartan-
: j . - ; burg.
By Telegraph to the Horning Star.
Charleston Nov. 21 J. H. Webster,
assistant cashier of S. S. Ross, banker, at
Gaffney'sL Spartanburg county, killed him
self in the rear of the bang omce this
morning. The cause of the act is . un
known. . I
LITERARY GOSSIP.'
I he Appletons have m press: a
new novel by Mr. Keenan, the author of
"Tralan" and "The Moneymakers.", It is
entitled "The Aliens," and the scenes are in
Western fiew York.-
The great success in England of
"Uaued Back" and the other spilling novels.
has been: confidentially assumed to be a
blow at the three-volume circulating, libra
ry style ot publication.
It has already been shown that
men of letters and the magazines were by
no means slow to recognize the merit of
Hawthorne's early productions, and that
while he i may have been "the obscurest
man of letters in Hmerica," so far as the
general public was concerned, be was one
of tne best appreciated witn the select few.
JSew xork Times.
"Ill my . opinion," says James
Russell Lowell, in a speech at the recent
Concord celebration, "it has never happened
to another town so small as Concord, to
produce three men who, have had so wide
an influence as Emerson, . Hawthorne and
Thoreau. j These three men, and especially
lSt-Mi-M...-. t AiA . .Vmm m11 ,V. my...
aUClBUUi U1U IUU1C bllBU BU UUiOl IUCU V
secure intellectual . independence, witn
Emerson we ceased to be provincial.
PLASHES AND FLIPS.
Wife "JMoW, sir, here you
come, drunk again i now much longer
am I to put up with this T Husband
'Don't (hie) dont get mad m' dear t Water
(hie) in twenty-six (hie) wells found to be
(hie) noxious, nr dear ! 'Sin all the pa
pers,! m'l dear!" Louisvuie-fJourter-Jour-
Lady (to grocer :) "I notice
vou keep cigars. Grocer: "ies,. mum.
uniy a dollar and anaii a dox. mum.
Lady: "Is it possible 1 Why, my hus
band sometimes pays as uisn as nrieen
cents apiece for cigars. You can send a
couple of boxes. It's the height of folly
for him to buy cigars at retail when tney
can be had for so much less by the box.
PhOa. North American.
. To what ! base ends and by what abject
ways
Are mortals urged through sacred lust of
'-.r praise. '.':v;; type.
Gayly chattering to the clattering
Of the brown nuts downward pattering,
Leap the squirrels, red and gray.
Drop the apples, red and yellow, ,
Drop the russet pears and mellow,
Drop the red leaves all the day.
--, -.--.;.- WMttter.
PERSONAL.
The death of Senator Sharon is
a great blow to his lawyers. Chicago &ev8.
Mrs. Langtry's engagement to
Freddie Gebhardt is again announced.
If Mi. XfeWS. '
Canon Farrar will soon want to
so home. The picture of him in the wood'
cut newspapers will make him homesick.
fwu,. aeeora.
At a breakfast given to Arch
deacon Farrar in Cincinnati yesterday,
nearly all the clergymen of the city of all
sects were present. -
. Professor Asa Gray, the Har
vard College botanist, yesterday celebrated
DU IOU1 UUUIUST, UU KM HU1KU WIW
a magnificent silver vase.
-Miss Burt, the young Illinois
woman who was raised from her deathbed
by prayer, has eloped with Pater Kent, who
leaves a wife ana ionr cnuaren. -
If: the late Mr. Fargus, other
wise known as iiuea uonway. were . w
come to life he would be astonished to learn
how many; stories he had written. wt
'limes. . -j . ......
i Thfl Pittsboro Some says ; that
Miss Mary Smith, whose death was recent
ly announced in the Stab, made some be
quests.! It says: Her property is estimated
at , 140,000. - uy ner win, written oy ner
own hand, she makes provisions for her
former slaves Snd dependants, ana Various
beaueata to friends, but the bulk' of her
nronertv eoes'to the "TJntversity and the
Episcopal Churchv of . which, she war a
' on,-- i 'TriTipa' flrnm" tract of
UiCWUW.. MV - v - - v .
land is given to create a fuad for the poor
and worthy young men of the State. - It is
a magnincent plantation ot aoouv i.ow
acres, and Is worth $12 r $15 as acre.
The home tract, equally valuable, is given
to the Epucbpai cuurcn.
The Star assures the Rocking
ham -Spirit of the South that the errors in
crediting complained of were not inten
tional and were not done by the getter-up
of. this department .The matter will be
corrected. There is no disposition here to
discriminate against you. j. .
- Charlotte . -Democrat: ; Cotton
has gone down so low that farmers in this
section have quit bringing it to market.
Tney cannot milord to sell it at 8f and 8.
4- The ' indecent "arm-clutch'' is still ;
practiced by some people who claim to be :
respectable: . j - Duridg the past year we' .
have met many persons on the cars immi
grating back to North Carolina; after spend
ing nearly all their means in Texas. Arkan
sas or Kansas. - Last week, on the Western
N. C. Railroad, were two or three families
who got off the train near, their old homes.
disgusted with and tired of Kansas.. 4 Expe
rience is dear to many people, but they are
"still a-taking - j;-1
Lenoir Topic: Something over "
a year ago, it will be remembered, the ,
premises of . John ; Clippard, the revenue
informer, were invaded in' the Brush v
mountains, his - stables and fences burned, '
and he. was ordered to leave the locality. -
He removed to the strip of ' land acquired -by
Caldwell from Wilkes. Since be was
raided he has at all times gone heavily .
armed. On Monday night last some boys
wen passing his house, singing, and Clip
pard thinking it was another raid, grabbed
his gun and went put on the piazza. By
some means the: gun was ; discharged, the 'f
charge taking effect in Clippard's -right
arm, shattering it badly. He lingered until '
the following Sunday, when he died. - -
Shelby Aurora: Mr. !j T. A.
Wadsworth has a perfect curiosity in the
shape, of a white ground-squirrel, which
ne oougnt irom a citizen of W atauga.
The little fellow is nearly two years old.
perfectly Umeand as waite -s. rluta cant
ue. iao ia,an A.tuuo,buauis ees are pi as.. .
Last week was a sad one in the family
of our townsman, Mr. James A. Watt, for
within five days the Angel of Death
claimed three of its members, including '
the -father of the family. In the latter,
part of the week before one of. the daughters,-
Harriet Louise, a bright little girl of
thirteen years, was taken with diphtheria .
and died Tuesday morning. In the mean- '
time several other members of the family .
contracted the disease, and on Thursday -night
Mattie -James, aged six years, died.
All this time Mr. Watt himself was lying
critically ill with the disease. Anxiety and
grief: added to the ravages of the disease,
and. on Saturday morning he breathed his
last -
Clinton Caucasian : The finan
cial failure of Dr. Jno. H. Faison, which "
occurred last week, is much regretted by
his many friends. Rev. J. L. Stewart is
his trustee. ' His liabilities are supposed to
be about $12,000. Judge Allmand :
Alexander McKoy, son of William and
Ann Hall McKoy, was born in Clinton,
Sampson county, JN. C.. on the llth ot
October, 1825, and died at his home in
Clinton on tne morning of JSovemDer tne
llth, 1885, aged just sixty years and one
month. '- His paternal grandfather, Alex
ander McKoy, came from Scotland and -settled
m Iredell county. His father, . Dr. '
William McKoy, came to Clinton about '
seventy years ago. His maternal grand-,
iatner was Aiimand iiaii, wno resided in
Wilmington and edited the Gazette there
for several years. , A devoted husband, a
fond and indulgent father, how' much he
loved and cherished his family only ' God
can estimate. His devotion to his daugh
ter, Mrs. Griggs, was sublime.and many of
his friends date his decline from her death.
i Concord . Times: Mr. A. J.
Blackwelder tells us that on last Saturday
morning about daybreak he saw in flames
the barn of David Hompton, Esq., who
lives near Concordia church, in itowan
county, just above Enochville. It is known
to be the work of an incendiary, but the
perpetrator has not as yet been discovered.
The entire contents of the barn, except the
stock were destroyed. On ; Monday .
night of. this wees, the ltstn inst., Mrs. a.
3. Pemberton, of Albemarle, was sitting
by a table in her room reading a letter from
her husband, who was absent on a trip
North, . Her three little children were
playing around her, when it is supposed
one of tnem accidentally KnocReu tne tamp
from the table. It exploded, and in a mo
ment Mrs. Pemberton's clothing caught -
Hreand her screams soon' brought to the
scene Mr. 1. J. Jerome, who was in his a
room up stairs. Dr. Anderson simply said
to him that she was very badly burned.
One of the children was burned slightly,
and Mr. Jerome's hands quite severely.
.Raleigh Chronicle: In Octo
ber 894 couples were married in Wake
county. Can the record be beat 1
Mr. James A. Briggs has been appointed a
director in the Deaf, Dumb and Blind In
stitution. The impression prevails
that Mr. Boykin will be appointed, but
that the Governor will not name the Judge
until next week. Mr. Arthur Wins-,
low is in Western North Carolina gather
ing barytes for the Board of Agriculture
who will convert them (the barytes) into
Sulphuric acid. The Christian church
a - handsome and imposing edince on
Hillsboro street, was .dedicated Wednesday,
at 11 a. m. There were ten Christian min
isters present, and the occasion was one of
profit and : pleasure. Rev. D. A,- Long.
President of Antioch College, Ohio, (a na
tive North Carolinian) preached the dedi
catory sermon. Blow 1 the horns I
bnoot tne minute gun i . striae tne new
gag 1 The Washington correspondent of
the Newt-Observer says that Gov. Jarvis
will Bhortly "distinguish himself " in Bra- .
ziL If a man ever needed to pray devout-j
ly, Minister Jarvis ought to offer the peti
tion:. "Lord, save me from my friend."
Charlotte Observer: At Mr. C.
J. Fox's gun store (formerly Keuster's) yes
terday . afternoon, . w uiiam uxennam, one
of the clerks, was accidentally shot in the
hand and painfully wounded. He was
handling a revolver. Senator Z. B.
Vance arrived in tne city yesxeruay morn
ing, and is at the Central Hotel. He will
remain here until Friday, when he will
leave for Henderson, where he will be joined
by Mrs. Vance. - He has an engagement to
deliver a lecture at that place on the even
ing of the 23rd inst. We understand
thaS a petition is now being circulated for
signers, asking Gov. Scales to commute the
death sentence of the two burglars sent
enced to be hanged in this city, to impris
onment for life. The petition was present
ed to Capt Strickland for the burglary of
whose residence - the negroes are to be
hanged and he very properly refused to
sign it -T Capt. June Gardner, one of-
the cleverest railroad men in the state, ana
a well known conductor on' the Carolina ,
Central Railroad, has entered suit against
the Monroe Enquirer for damages by rea
son of the publication, of a joke that has ,
caused his friends to carry puis to present
to him when they chance to meet hhn.
i Raleigb News- Observer: The
funeral services of the late Donald Camp-.
bell will take place from the First Presby
terian Church at 11 o'clock this morning.
Mr. Campbell came to this country in 1832
from Scotland to work on the present capi-.
tol building, and is the last of the stone
cutters who assisted in erecting that edifice
who settled in this section. The At
torney General of the United States 'has .
appointed R. B. Peebles, Esq.. of North- ?
ampton ; county, to be Assistant District
Attorney for the Eastern District of North
Carolina, and the appointment is to be
Commended in every way. There has
been much talk in these columns, and vig
orous talk too. about Wake jail.' The .
County Commissioners, despite all the row
the condition of the jail has raised, do
nothing. Apparently they do - not care.
There are thirty-seven prisoners in jail,
eighl of whom are white. Six weeks ago
the ' prisoners mutinied and being in the
corridor refused to go in their cells. Last
evening they did the same thing. The pris
oners on the lower floor behaved most out
rageously. Two of them, John Morgan and
Farnsworth, negroes, were apparently ring
leaders. They are both under sentence to
the penitentiary- Deputy Sheriff Rogers
called-on the police for aid to get the men
in the cells County Commissioner J. C. S.
Lumsden went to the jail at his request A
detail of policemen under charge of Maj.C. '
D. Heart was present This was composed
of Officers Llewellen, M. Thomson, G. M.
Jones.' J. D. Thompson and Matt Moore.
Deputy Sheriff James Robere and Jailor ,
Kinion Jones were present The prisoners -refused
to go into the cells and close the
doors. The levelled barrels of half a dozen
pistols and one shot fired made them "take
water9-and go in. Morgan swore loudly"
that In two hours and a half (it was then
1.15) they would all break out The atti
tude of the officers was most determined,
and great trouble was probably averted.
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