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vThc Weekly Star. WIL H. BERNARD, Editor and Prop'r. WILMINGTON, N. C. F.RIDAY, '. Jantjaby 14, 1886 gVIn writing to change rrour "address, alitxtyi aw&jormtr direction m weu as rrm particular aa wncre yon wisa your paper to De sent nerearter, uniesa you ao dom caaajrea can noi oe maao. "Notices of Harrlare or Death, Tributes of Kespeot, Kesointions oi -manna, o., are cnareea -for m ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for strictly in advanoe. At this rate fiOcenta will pay for a simple announcement or Marriage or ueain. CWKemlttanoes most be made by Cheok.DrafV costal Aioncy uraer or jxegisterea Lienor, row masters will register letter when desired. - fyonly such remittances will be at the risk of tae puDiisuer. , - - tSfSpeolmen copies forwarded when desired, NOTE AND COMMENTS ON THE i MESSAGE. The Governor's message if a prao tical document without rhetorio or flourish of any kind'. He begins by referring to the sufficiency of food and the escape of our people from "anarchy, bloodshed, earthquakes and floods, resulting in the loss of life and property." He considers the reports of the Departments with the chief points of which bur readers are already m possession, lie thinks it feasiblw to reduce taxation' to 23 cents on the $100 worth of property art t Ail r " I nrarrtnr " anil ' i r-a " This is good news for the people, But can this be done and the needed sum be raised for educational pur poses ? ' It is not after all the State taxes that oppress the people. The expen-! diture8 for the fiscal year ending 30th November, 1886, for general purposes were $680,572.97. The tax paid byj -the people under the High War Tar- iff, for the benefit of a comparatively few monopolists and manufacturers, was- doubtless fall ten times this sum, or quite $7,000,000. Add this sum to the voluntary tax men impose upon themselves by their vices, and you have before you the main sources of i burdensome taxation. The little State taxes are a mere trifle. Muni cipal taxes are much heavier. . We hope that no reduction of the State tax will be- made unless the Legisla turn can see its way clear to increase liib mutdtiuuai mnu witn tne pro posed reduction. j The public debt is $12,627,045 1 bonds redeemed amount to $10,-507,l-045; new 4 per cent, bonds issued!, $3,045,036; amount exchanged since 1st January, '85, $870,600; old bonds not presented for exchange, $2; 120,000. i The Governor considers at some length the construction bonds issued by the State to aid in building the railroad from 'charlotte to Golds boTo'. Of these bonds $218,000 re main to bo exchanged. The General Government has ,$147,000. No ex change has been eff ected, and the in terest is paid regularly. The $7l 000 in scattered bonds have been sold as high as $140. He recom mends the suspension of further ex change and to authorize the Treas urer to issue and sell four per cent, bonds at not less than par value to be Applied to paying the six percent, bonds whenever found. " ' ' j The Governor speaks approvingly of the work of the Tax Commission composed of Maj. John W. Graham, Judge Howard and Thomas M.-PaW ton. He says: i . "They hare met every question frankly and without evasion. Their report, to gether with the bills which accompany it, entitled 'Revenue and Machinery Act,' inT dicate much ability and learning, and are eminently worthy of your consideration.' It is not to be expected that this bill wjll accomplish all that is desired; time and ex perience will doubtless i suggest many amendments." ' J. ' He next considers ; appropriation "bills, and the -Supreme Court Room and State Library. He says the work done .on the new building is well done. Of course more money is needed to complete it. That stupen dous elephant, the "Governor's Pal , ace," as the old name was, is still on hand and more money is required to complete it. How much js not sta ted. Did any public building ever fall within the first estimates? "Jar vis's Folly" ought to le sold for Rome useful purpose if n purchaser can be found. " - The Governor oopsiders at much length and' approvingly the workjof the Agricultural Department. As much he says refers to the working of the Department through the years, with much of which ou r readers are familiar,we will not follow him, in all be says. Of the phosphate deposits he says: -: ' The following results of the phosphate survey, conducted by the Station, show where we now stand. Phosphate beds lie in a belt 15 to 20 miles wide from South Carolina line, through -Columbus, Bladen, Sampson, part of Pender, through Duplio, parts of Jones and Lenoir, to the Neuse ltiver, also in . Onslow. Total, number of acres explored, 12198. Total bounds of phosphate rock excavated, 75,495. Total calculated number tons phosphate rock in the 124 98 acres, 60,864 48.1; Average tons pe sere. 406.98. Samples analyzed 210." An Experiment Farm has been added which promises useful results. ,A State Weather Service has been organized in conjunction with the United States Signal Service. It is estimated that 87$ per cent, of the weather reports are reli ible and val uable to the farmers. The Immigra tion Department claimi to have ac complished the following results: . Farming, lands, by Northern I ettlerB. ..$189,600 00 Manufacturing property, by Northern settlers, v.. . 182,500 00 Mining property, by Northern -ettlers ...I...--110,000 00 Town property, by Northern i settlers.... ......... ... 20,00000 Total.. ..'.$502,100 00 The. oyster survey las been con ducted by the Agricultural Depart ment and very satisfactorily. Lieut. Francis Winslow, U. S. Navy; had charge. The cost was $1,914.8. Here are the results: iv- . 'An area of l 807.000 acres has been ex amioed. of which 445,000 acres have been carefully surveyed, and 852,000 generally studied. A large portion of this remaining area will not require exact or instrumental determinations. Of the entire area of 1, 807.000 acres, 790,000 acres are reported as possessing, to greater or lees extent, the conditions favorable to the growth and cul tivation of the oyster, or tbis area snout 10 400 afire are occuDled bv natural beds. and 2.800 by artificial beds, established by Section 8390 or The Code; or only one and three quarters per cent . of the available area has beeo rendered productive Gov. Scales refers at length to the Connecticut law regulating the oys ter industry, and recommends that its essential principles be adopted. He . i 1 - i - says, and we copy it with real pleas ore: .u.lifl -It is the opinion of all who are acquain ted with the resources of the State in this particular that only wise and liberal legis lation is needed to develop a great industry, tmploying many thousands of people and many millions of capital. The benefits which such a developments would confer upon the Slate in general, ana tne eastern section in particular, are so great that the matter should receive immediate ana seri ous considers' ion.'. I I . ' The Governor next considers the Raleigh Industrial School; He thinks the sum hitherto appropriated "made quate and asks for additional appro priation. . lie says: "To tltii end luittion should be free. and such arrangements made for board and lodging tail all the pupils who were not able to pay board might still attend tne school and be fed fiom home. The bene fits of such a school would reach alt classes. give great satisfaction to our people, and tie a fitting capstone to common school educa tion in the Htate. All the other States, so far as I am informed, without exception, nave entered upon this work, and While it is not yet ojyoaa ins dominion ot experi ment, tua progress, everywhere is sattsranto ry and encouraging." j. - I Industrial schools are "growing in popularity .bot-h in the North and in the South. A sehooi of teshnoiogy is necessity j for Very ' progressive State. North Carolina can not well afford to be behind its Southern lis ters in the important work of teach ing the white people of the State. The Stab has for years favored such a school of technology. The one to be established at Raleigh i9 only one of many that the State will eventu ally neeJ. Private, enterprise may start othert. The system of teach ing workman to be skilled began in Switzerland and theuce it went to Great Britain iwo with most' efficienl results. Tcchni- cal Education is now common in Eu : rope, and in the. Northern States of our own country j industrial schools abound. So excellent have these schools been found that railroad and manufacturing corporations j have found it to their interests to estab- blisb such institutions; .The result of the combined labors of these multi plying schools hasj been to jsreate a large class of belter workmen per sons thoroughly tj-ained in mechanics ana manutactures. We hope that the Legislature- will do whatever seems wise and prudent' to foster the Raleigh school; and we must hope that the benefits arising will be so con- spicuous that Wilmington and other points may be favored with a similar school. Skilled lbjr is always the cheapest! labor and it can always command fair wages, j I ' The Penitentiary is next discussed by the Governor., The number of convicts is 1,3 15j. During 142 died from . disease and 1885-'6, 18; from injuries total 160. This is very ex ceFsive mortality', ' What causes it? The cost is $386,810. 18.' The ippro priation' aa $256,232.59. The earn ings were $339,1(580.49, but of this but little was received in cash the work being on Railroads, k The Governor and humanely j properly says:" -. .1 I would also call your special attention to the large Dumber of bovs in this table between 8 and ,15 yeais of age, atd between io won -at i oese a&ould not be mixed up with the older and; more hardened crimK nals.-buts m-i pre Vision should be made by which ibt Be boys should be kept . sepa rate and apait from them in the Peniten tiary until uttier legislation, under the Coo stitutioD, nhall provide for houses of cor rect iou The religious instiuction of the cmvic's. hlle it is reported t bci bene ficial, is yet not what it should be. and I earnestly rt-com meed lhat the appropria- uon ioriui- pii'.pe oeiBcreaseil tol,000. He says by reason of the enlarge ment of the Western Asylijm ijhe ap propriations wilj have lo be $320,000 instead of $280,400 as they were. The Governor jsays there ae 700 helpless insane i:n the State unprovi ded for.i He appeals to the LWisla- H i I ture to cure this evil and to begin it at once.! He save: ' I 1 'It is believed that additions cm hn mide t the Asjlums in Raleigh andGoIda boro, by Which amDle. but olaln andanh- stantial accommodations can be made for them, at the rate of $300,000 per capita, provided the Legislature will authorize the brick and all common labor ta : h fumlch. ed by ;be Penitentiary. I recommend that 11 snail be done gradually and by annual appropriations, so that the burden may not fall all at one time; upon the people." He speaks approvingly of the Deaf and Dump and Blind Asylums, and addittonalj aPProPr,at'OD8 are needed for furniture, repairs, fcc. Whatever the Legislature does in the way of retrenchment will be ap proved by a discerning pnblio so it is not done at the expense of the helpless insane and the other smitten and afflicted and the poor 'children of the State that need schooling. Bat oar spaoe is np points in the e and there are other aborate message un touched. We will close np the dia cussion in another editorial. . Governor Scales indorsee the opin ion of the Superintendent of Public Instruction that a longer school term is a necessity. I The Supreme Court has decided that the act of 1881 is unconstitutional, . and this seems to cut off an increase of appropriations for school purppses. The Governor thinks it is clear that the framers of the State Constitution proposed to give four months schooling each year. and so it appears from the wording of the Constitution. The way to avoid the conflict between the limi tation as to taxation and the guar an tee of ? four months schooling is thus pointed oat. 1 he Governor eays : "I heartily join in the hope, that your honorable body, by -reduction of - the reve nues, or otherwise, will find some way to j . em . i li. give enec io inn purpose. . " f - The Governor also recommends normal schools for both races.' J If properly ... conducted , they are- bene noial. But have the summer- nor mals- conducted for a few ..weeks- been really of much' benefit? In matter of this sort we would not like to give a hasty opinion. ' But we are not assured of their . utility as at present conducted. . The - opinion -of experienced, level-headed . teaoherg familiar with the results would be worth more . than outside editors. The Legislature would do well to secure the opinion of judicious teach ers bp fore making farther appropria tions in this direction.' If found to be of decided , benefit then ', such schools should be fostered. ' Bat is it not possible to improve on th0 ' pres ent system? .; ; f ;.;v. ' !'' '":' There is a movement on foot al ready to curtail the usefulness and retard the progress of the University The Stab is opposed to the law send ing beneficiaries from the f ounttes because it is unjust to the denbmina tioual -i uollegett and the i Classical schools of the State.. It is also opposed to all abuses of law and privilege. Bat it favors making the University a great institution, equal tq.the best, and the crown ng glory this re- of North Carolina. To do quires money. To think f reced lug from the advanced ponltion and allowing the Uui verity to fall back into jt he old college rata not pro gre.tivv It shows a narrow view and it would kop North Carolina forever in the background. Let the enlightened men of the Si ate heart ily uke in placing the University in ine forefront. Make itjthe equal of. Harvard, Yale and Princeton in all respects. It can be done, but not in J year or a decade. We shall be sorry to see any man Who loves - i . - - - - Noitb Carolina using hip influence .L L.i. ...i.. .1 j,. .l J j- i jii ippie aim iiesiroj ine most ven erHole and valuable of pur eduoa- tional institution!. The Governor Wbtt Uuivt rsitv is uow well manned and equipped in tvr ry fesfuct for its work The Uus'ws have enlarged the faculty from nine to fifteen. The work has! been great Iv eittnd.d. and the fullest instruction in all branches of literature, philosophy and eckbee is offered to all; a prist graduate course has been established, at d is open lo students of any college without tuition chafgiB. A college of agriculture and the mechanic arts f ffera snecial inducements to 8!ukois, and she stands to-day in every nerMCtinUie froot rauk nf. Ihembttdis tioguUhed colleces in our land This ven erable inbtiTutioo bad hr oricin in the Con st i unon of 1776. and is the foundation of all t'ducatlon ID the State. Rhri hun a nrnnri history one well worthy in the past uit pr miae to be la tne ruturc, or the State, ttie ponslitution and of the grand old m n whi crraled her All of the either Colleges ui ui oisie nave naa a most Drusoerous ear" . I 'he Governor speaks strong words ndorsement of the St ite Guard, thinks it ought to bo sustained, lhat au aBroDriation for a li- of He an I nnial encarmmpnt. ahr.iilfJ ho mdn wi agree with him that a body of cjiiizen soldiery is an absolute neces sity in times like these. He says: ' iWilh tuch a body of men, armed and equipped, as ibey are. anarchy, riots, u un lawful aioa. maj cooie; our Suie baa nothiDe to i 99 . t We believe that an expenditure of few thousand dollars is a necessity uiider the circumstauces. Whatever is actually necessary to secure the peptnity and efficiency of the Stato Guard should' be done by the Legis lature. The Governor recommends: "I would also ask that .the salarv'of the Adjatnut Oenrrsl be increased;, so as to en able biru i devoid his whole time to i he GuikI. lu addition to Ibis, a small sum should be providod, subjtct to ihe order of toe LHivunor. to pay per diem and ex -ixresta of tneers ordered out to diseharte tbe regular aod ordinary duties eppertain-. iDK 10 meir cmte. lAaa Ibis to the amount already given, and then the cost lo you of a3tk a . ... f iuc oiaie vjtusru v aosoiuteiy trivial, com pared wih wh.t is f i7en in other States." He speaks in exalted terms of, their appearance- at the encampment at Asheville. . ,4 J .1 ' , . . G.v. Scales ' favors the increase of nalarieH, not only of the Judge?,. out of the Secretarv of Sratp. , - r Auditor, Superintendent of Public Iusiruciiuu and (: Attorney General. The Stab favors paying the travel ling and other necessary expenses of the J udgfes, gi viifg them their present salaries. It sees no pressing necessi ty for au increase of pay of the other officials at this timev j The cost of living is much less than a few years ago and the times are hard upon the people of the State'with bat few ex ceptions. It is a time for economy bat not niggardliness. The Stab would favor an increase of the pay of Super intendent of Public Instruction if the conditions werefsuch as was pointed oat some yearej since when we dis cussed the duties, &c, of the office. Aa it is the salary is enough. The Governor recommends an ap propriation of $1,000 to aid tba col. ored people in iheir proposed jFair to be held in the coming fell. A small appropriation may do good and is perhaps advisable. ? The Governor has had 188! appli cations for the Here is one of pardon of criminals the -chief causes of mob law. A sickly sentimentality prompts people to petition to save criminals from just punishment, and it also prompts! people to hang-rascals without awaiting the slow-moving processes o law. The Governor exercised his high power in pardon ing 17 criminals; in oommoting the sentence of 15 others, and in repriev ing ten others. So 32 criminals who bad been duly tried, convicted and sentenced "were dealt with -and the verdicts in each case changed. The Star is opposed to the one man pow er,! and jt 1b gUd that the-Governor did not grant all of the 1 186 peti tions. The Governor considers the Atlan tic and North Carolina Railroad, giving an, insight ioto its'operatio ns He asks that the,. Legislature grant power to the four large railroad cbr porations operating inf the State te build feeders, and to aid by granting convict labor. Unless we overlooked it, he says, nothing of, working coun ty roads by convict labor. This is a very luxuriant question . and we hope tbe Legislature will give it earnest and carefal consideration.' The county roads are a disgrace to oar age and civilization. ; We doubt if the time of the Legislature can be better occupied thanj by perfecting a system for the immediate and sub stantial improvement of the main county roads of Notth Carolina. I be Governor states that the lino from Charlotte to miles long, j The Morehead is 819 State owns two- thirds of the road from Goldsboro to Morebead and three fourths from Goldsboro to Charlotte. ' Of 'the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley road he says 166 i iconvii ts have been em- ployed upon it ; miles . completed that there are not hat there are 122 with steel rails; qaito 18 miles yet to be graded j He says of this Ion auu uiguiy important roaa: "ibis road will. I have no doubt, be pushed to completion It is now lookiog 10 w umington as up eastern terminus, and I hope that during my administration the varied and rich products of ihe section through which it rubs wilt dud a market in this, tbe chief export city of the State. The Aeheyilie fc Spartanburg (S.C.) Railroad has ; been completed, and twelve miles on the Western North Carolina road have been graded with in two .years. He thinks it will not be long before tbe toad is completed to Murphey. J : . I : ;' . ' , uov. scales has thus marked out no Jitileilegislation for the body in sesiion at Raleigh. It is, as we said at the outset, i i i i : ness -message, honored Chief Carolinian', a views, and a matter of fact, bu9j It shows that tbe Executive is a North man of benevolent common sense, broad- ganged statesman WlimIn(ton Ifablle' Balldlnz. A letter from Washington says that Hon. R. T. Bennett wis handsomely congratu luted by bis fellow members of .the House oi nepresentauvei i on bis success in pass ing ttejpublic bu Idihg bill for this city. It passed the Senate on the 9th of last Febru ary, providing; : orl an appropihtion of $200,000. On the1 18ih of March the bill was repoited frojaj Ihe House committee ou i uunc Duuuinga anu uroanas, ana as amended provided 'or an appropriation of $150,000. and contained certain guarantees as to tbe purcbasej of a aite and the erection kf a budding, to tbe effect that the limit should ut be exceeded in any event. Tbe bill provides lb it exclusive jurisdiction shall bt ceded to Ihe United States by the State uf Nuith Carolina, and an open space, not k-ss than foiti feet in width including streets and aileys4-shall be left around "the building.) This measure was reported fa vorably in the Forty-eighth Congress,.and the large cotloa and naval stores business was urgtd as a reasoa, along with others, fur its passage, fudge Bennett was evi dent y . narful that objection would be raistd to its consideration, and, after that, that tbe proposition would be defeated. He lias several times biecled on grounds of principle to hill introduced by others. When the bill was put on Us passage seve Isl noes were heard, and it seemed that the measure was lotlt. Messrs. Hatch and Hammond were he chief objectors, but pheir i,bj-ctkD3 iere merely intended to r-ester the Judge, for their' votes were changed. : : , ; ' A New bammer! Resort. Tbe Carolina Beach Company, recently formed, has already begun work on a rail road which will rjtn from near Sugar Lof, about thirtttu uiifes below. Wilmington on the Cape Fear river, across the peninsular to the Atlantic cpj-.n, near the bead of Myrtle Grove Sound, aod just below old Camp Wyatt, to bell known lo the "eld young men" of this city. The iron for the jroad has alreudy tbetn purchased and the rolling b'bek provided. The builders pro pose to naish the work in about two months. Ihe railroad will not be more than to miles in length,, but will extend from the river' bank to tbe beach. A. fast and comfortable steamer will run between Wilmi g'ton and the railroad wharf, and will make several trips each day on a sched ule which will be convenient to all. Ample provision will be made for the comfort of bathers and excursionists. The surf hath- iog is good and safe, and the beach one of the finest on this coast. At the terminus of the road, on tbe oiean. side the land dwped by the company Will be put In perfect or der, and everything done to make tbe place attractive and furnish a playground where excarsionisu can; go and enjoy themselves, in w uib uuean siue witnout annoy- BlBCban. A corresnonHfrnt of tha PMmr,n,t ruli patch, writing fjrom Raleigh on Saturday , - W last, says: "Although the officials are reti cent about the matter, there are grounds for the belief lhat thev have at lt ftnmA Mai of the whereabouts of Walter Bingham, the murderer. - He hai not committed suicide, aa some thought. Further details cannot be given just at 'this time, but remarkable developments in the case may be looked for any day." L, .-;-...--; - , Wllaalogtoa rBl 8oa Blval Hich moad. " The Greensboro North JState, in a recent Issue. ays: ' ; , . Wilmineton is now considerinirPrefiiden Gray's offer to! extend the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway to that city; For a subscription Df $150,000, Mr. Gray will agree to commence work within a few months. This looks like a small amount to hesitate over. With this road Wil mington would soon become a rival to Richmond and Northern cities for the trade all through this; country. The merchants of Wilmington alone, if they could see their own interests, would secure this line once, rneirj wneiesaie business would become immense." - ,. Mr. John T. Dowell. 102 8. nhi street, Baltimore, Md.. writes: "For lum bago and neuralgic affections I consider Salvation Oil an excellent remedy. f Always keen it on hand Tr . cough or cold use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrun. It will cure you; A FORTY-NINTH. CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. CenteitnlBl Celebration Ineians Tbe ; Iaier-otate oommeree Bill Debated Keaanrea lotrodneed la tne Hons ' : By Telegraph to the Horning Star. . . SENATE, , Washihotoh, Jan. 10. Mr. Hoar, from ihe select Committee on Centennial Cele? bration, reported resolutions declaring : it expedient that action be taken by Congress lor me aue ceieorauon t la Washington about April 80, 1889. of the adoption of the constitution, ana directing the commit tee to consider and propose the best mode of celebration., . Adopted. t On motion of Mr. iDawes. "the House amendments to tbe Senate bill to provide laous ior me inaians in severalty were non-concurred in, and a conference asked. The Senate at 12 50took up the inter-. State Commerce bill, and Mr. Beck took the floor with a speech in favor of the con ference report That report, he said,(which must be either adopted or rejected as a whole,) presented the issue fairly between those who believed that great interstate railways were and of right ought to be sub ject to law, and those who thought that tbey ought to be a law unto themselves. After a struggle of ten years, .the commit tee of the two houses bad. agreed upon a bill which they said was the best that could be had. They said that it was this bill or nothing. Of course the railroads wanted nothing; no bill could be framed which railroad advocates would not oppose. Be cause this bill was supposed to be imperfect and lo have some shortcomings, thev insist ed that tbe railroads should continue to ex ercise unlimited control of inter-State com merce. The defeat of the present mea sure, . ettner atrectiy or : by amend ment, would accomplish their purposes. In support of tbe right and duty of Con gress to legislate on the subject, be quoted the opinion of the United ' States Supreme Court last October, in the Wabash case, and the still more . recent decision of the Massachusetts Court in the case against the Housatonic Railroad Company. It must be apparent, be said, that the failure of Congress to pass a law to punish railroad officials guilty of discriminations and ex tortions, was simply to license them to con tinue the practice, and no Senator would attempt to justify that. He : believed that ine country would, accept the bill as an. uuuusl. earnest enori to create up the sys tem of favoritism and' extortion which some railroad managers had exercised and maintained for the last twenty years, j He read from a book on Railroads of the Re public, by,J. F Hudson; a chapter upon the history of the Standard Oil Company, which is represented as having, in eighteen months, received from railroad companies rebates amounting to ten million dollars and having thus crushed out all competi tion in the oil trade. He commended that chapter to tbe perusal Inf those boards of tradOy and chambers of commerci that were pow so earnestly" protesting against the passage of this bill; and he asserted that, if the facts therein stated were laid before any commercial! body in America, not one of them would vote for the con tinuance of the system under which such monstrous outrage had been committed and might be repeated. He declared that not only the commerce of the country, put the fortunes of all engaged in it were at the mercy ! of a few railroad magnates, i Yet Congress was told by boards or trade, pro fessing to b8 the euardians of cnmmnm that it would ruin the countrv if it wonld prevent discrimination rebates and draw backs. I He knew of no higher evidpnm nf tbe omnipotence of those railroad people than theii ability to obtain from respect able boafds of trade such resolutions as were daily sent to Senators, urging them not to interfere with railroad despot ism iThe creat fundamental nrinni nla which the Dassace of this hill wnnM Miih. lish was that Congress! not only proposed hereafter to regulate inter-State commerce, but proposed to reeulate the' carriera f it, and to compel tbem to do equal and ex- au justice to ait persons dealing with them, i The oiieinal bill had niuri th Benate last session, bv a vota of 47 m i. and had passed the House by a vote of 192 to .41; and now, when the conferees of both Houses had agreed upon this bill, it teemed to him that it jought to become a law No.man could justify the conduct of many great railroad corporations in the treatment of tbe vast interests cnnfMful t their care and management. He referred 10 tne autnracite coal pool as a specimen of the combination aeainst nuhlic and Stated that the aggregate capitalization of the companies engaged in it was $500, 000 000, while tho actual cost was onlv (114.000,000. In conclusion, he said that ne was not an enemv of rai toads- thev hnrl done more than all other aeencies to de velop the resources of the continent; but he would require them to do eoual and jusuce 10 air. oeueving mat tne mil would do so without injury to any of the legiti mate rights of railroads. He should vote ior ine mil. i Mr. Culloin addressed the Senate in fa of the conference report, confining his re- maras principally to the 4th section as to lone and short hauls ThA hill ha utii naa stood remarkably well the test of the general and particular'scrutiny to which it uau ueeu Buojeciea oy the press and rail- roaa companies. Its general provisions uau ior ine most ' Dart met with annrnval wuue others were most stronelv obieeted ... . . , i - X" - ' io. i ne iourtn section was misuniforntnnri if not misrepresented. 1 He admitted that any measure that could be passed by Con- ktoss migut prove meaecuve and unsatis factory in some resnects. until aunnlpmpnt. ed by State legislation.! Just as State leir- islation now in force had been fouud un- saiisiactory in some respects because of the aosence ot national legislation. He be- nevea mat u this legislation could be fairh testea it would i prove beneficial both to rauroaas ana the ireneral Dublin . whnn once faiily in cpsrationi and when business had adjusted itself to the changed con- UlltlUU. ! i HOUSE OF KEPRESTCJTTATrvma Under the call of States a number of bills weieintroauced and referred, amnno thpm the following: j y f Mr. Wheeler, of Ala.. & reBnliition providing that the Committee on Elentinna of the Fiftieth Congress shall be appointed by the two senior members of the majority and the senior member of the minority party. Also, a bill making an appropria tion for an investigation of the peculiarities of the formation and structure of the earth's crust ' '1 By f Mr. Oates, of Ala., making a ten years residence of aliens a prerequisite to naturalization. . By Mr. Davidson, of Fla.. to establish a natiosat Quarantine station near w. Fla. , . .1 J By Mr. James, of N. Y.. a reaolntion calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the authority under which ceriaiu wua xnaisns are absent from their . reservations and engaged in presenting be- ivi iue uuuiic scenes renrccnntinop ihoir lowest characteristics; and whether in his opinion it is calculated to elevate and ben efit them, and in what wav. and to what extent the exhibitions are under the alls pices of the Government of the United Btates. as claimed bv the exhibition. By. Mr. Green, of N. C. to crade on the basis of income. i Br Mr. Tillman, of 8. C! tn nnt ti.. destruction of human life bv flrn in rail road accidenU. It forbids the use in mail or passenger cars of any 'stove or heating apparatus containing an inflammable sub stance except illuminating gas. The bill also requires cars to be heated by steam and lighted. by gas or electricitv rand to r-Qrfir saws, hammers and other tools for wreck. Ing purposes. The bill provides for the punishment of railioad directors who neg lect to observe its provisions. u- Mr. Morrison, of Ills., from the Commit tee on Rules, resorted a reaolntinn . in,. apart Wednesday and Thursday next for ine copsiaeration of business reported from the Committee on Jndioiarv a t. I This order includes the Edmunds-Tucker Anti-foiygamy bilL j - : Tbe floor was then eivpn tn ih n;..t of Co umbia Committee. A large number of bills were passed affecting the admlnis tralion of local government, the most im J?n 5nt.vne '"B one appropriating $110. 000 for theconBtructionof ibridg! across the eastern branch of , the Potomac river at the foot of Pennsylvania Avenue. I aujournea. ! 'J ' : SENATE. t WASHIlIGTOir. Jan 11 Vr. - at.. introduced a bill to reimburse the deposi tors of theFreedman's Saving and Trust Company, for losses incurred by the failure of Vie Company. The. bill provides that the successors in office of the Commission ers of the Freed man's Saving and Trust Company be directed to mv tn ail tors of the defunct Company whose ac counts have been , properly verified and balanced, a sum of money eaual to th i verified balances due depositors at the time of the Company's failure, less- the 'amount of dividends which may have been declared from tbo assets-of the Company. ; The sum of $1,200,000 is appropriated for this purpose . It is also provided lhat claims not presented within' two years for pay meot under tbe act shall be barred by limi tation, and that nothing in the act shall be construed to entitle depositors to the amount of any dividend barred under existing laws. Mr. Hawley presented the memorial of some residents of Washington -county,; Texas, stating they had been denied their rights at citizens by the citizens and autho rities of that county, and appealing for re dress to. the Government of the United Statt s. Referred, r ; ; . .- -.. . . -, Mr. Sherman, by request; introduced a bill ' to - reimburse the depositors oV the Freed man's Bankrof- Washington. -' Re f erred. Y; : . , -- $ : Tbe Senate at 2 o'clock resumed consid eration of the Inter State Commerce bill, and was addressed by Mr. Coke in favor of the - conference - report. " The . intelligent judgment of the country, be said, would apnrove it, not because it was all that the people had a right to demand, or because it gave tbem justice. -but because although falling greatly below the standard in both these regards, it was a beginning, a good long step in tbe right direction, which might be added to and supplemented in the future and might be,' by the light of experience, perfected so as to be absolutely right aad effective. In conclusion, he said that it remained be seen whether the corporate power was so entrenched in the Senate that the pending bill was to share the fate of its predecessors. - '.'-'.;--: ; ": Mr. - Harris,' one of the three Senate con fereea, made an argtAient in favor of the bill. The country, he said, had for more than ten years, and still, demanded that the carrying trade be justly regulated by the Government. ; The construction sought to be given to the fourth section, as to long and short haul, was simply absurd. The plain meaning of the section was lhat a car rier should, not demand a larger gross sum for hauling a car load of gram or other freight over a part of its line than is de manded for hauling a similar car load of the same class of freight over its whole lino One effect of it would be to put an end to those ruinous competitions - for through freight, known aa "rate wars." When ax railroad company was made to understand that the law prohibited it from charging a greater sum over a part of its line than it demanded for its whole line, it would be somewhat reluctant to commit the financial suicide involved in through freights which were not infrequently fixed by anery, unreasonable and reckless rate waus. It would allow fair and healthy competition and would fix rates on its through traffic that would be tbe standard of its maximum local rates. Mr. Harris was several times interrupted with questions-, and the debate took a coi -loquial form between himself, McPherson, Camden, Aldrich and Saulsbury. Mr. Call Obtained the floor, but yielded to a motion to go into Executive session, Mr. Cullom in the meantime repeating the notice ber3 tofore given by him, that , he would ask the senate to remain m session to-morrow till tne bin was disposed of. The Senate then, at 4 15. went into secret session aod when me uoors were reopened, adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES On motion of Mr. Bragg.Jof Wis., Senate amenamenis were concurred in to tbe bill providing ror a school of Instruction for uavairy and Ught Artillery. Mr. Willis, of Ky., reported back the mver ana Harbor Appropriation MIL i Re lerrea to Committee of the Whole. Mr. Oates, of Ala., from the Committee n ttevision or the Laws, reported a bill to prohibit the appointment of Congressional committees to attend funerals at public ex pense outside of the District of Columbia, and also to prohibit ihe draping of public ounuiogs in mourning except upon autbori ty of Ihe President. House calendar. In the morning hour the House resumed, id uiDumite oi tne, wnoie, tne consider uon oi ine mil ror erecting a public build ing at Charleston. 8. C. The bill appro- pnaies iuu,uuu icr tne purchase of a site ' hdu tsuu.uuu ror me erection or a buildine. Mr. Hepburn, of la . moved to rei imp mis latur amount to 1200,000. The citv he asserted, was in its decadence, and in tupport of tnis assertion he Btated tbat be tween 1860 and 1880 the white nonulatinn had increased only 1.700, and between 1870 ana laau the entire noDulation onlv 1.053: while between the same periods the govern ment receipts from all sources had steadily fallen off. Mr. Dibble ihought that Mr. Hepburn's BiBiemtrzit was noi a rair one. m the pe riod between 1860 and 1880 Charleston had passed through all the misfortunes of four ieara or war, and at the close of the war gra?s was growing in her streets; but the' peopie naa acceptea the Situation: had be come once again loyal citizens in spirit as well as in name and had laid their heads ana uearts together to revive her fallen Ior tunes; aad statistics would prove that they naa aone so As be oid not wish to im perii me Dili, he asked the committee to agree to Mr. Hupburn's motion. This was aone. The committee rose and the bill amended was passed. 88 The next committee on the list was the uommitiee on raciflc Railroad. Mr. Crisp, oi ua stated tbat It was the intention of tbe committee to call up the Pacific Rail- roaa c untiing bill, but as a portion of the mornm" hour had been consumed hpaafcpri that the remainder of the hour be dispensed wim ot-iore me committee was called. The Kenueman irom Illinois (Springer) had sub muieu au amenament which Was not yet ptiuitu, anu mat gentleman was not pre- pareq to speak today. He desired, by uuauiiuuus vuunnut, mat me previous ques tion on engrossment of the hil! h remnvpri so that it might be open to amendment and io two nours -debate. ' - Objection was made to Mr. Crisp's pro- ijuoai, auu a aesuuory debate followed. some or ihe gentlemen taking part in a vuuYcreaiiuoai ulscussion, ior the purpose of consuming the hour and thprphv ifVAm. pushing Crisp's desire not to have the com mice on faclfic Railroads called. These lacucs were successful, and tbe morning hour expired without action on the bill On motion of Mr. Hatch, of Mo., and in spue or the antagonism of Mr. Willis, of a.y., wuu me jtuver and Harbor bill, the House went into committee of the Whole on me oi ii creating the Department of Ae- ricuiture and Labor. An amendment was adopted increasing from $4,000 to $5,000 ug smaijr oi me commissioner of .Labor. ihe committee then rose and the bill was (jaBBtu 33 a io 3JO. ; ' . : .. . Mr. Herbert. 'I Alabama then called up the Naval Reorganization bill, but he was aniaganizea By Air Hatch with a motion mill me uouse go into committee of the m noie ior me purpose of considerinz the bin amendatory of the act establishing the uuicau ui auiuiai industry . ir..uatch8 motion was agreed to and the House accordingly went into commit- leooime wnoieon the bilL stated. Mr, ciaicn said tne nresent lav v iunpfl.;.i as far as it went, but that it did not go far Btlminli T ... t pa r . . . " .UUUKU. n wfuincmcieniaiia inadequate to suppress the spresd of pleuro-pneumonia which ir not controlled by national legis lation would in a short time ahaointpiv stroy the value of the cattle industrv. The danger could not be overstated. The loss in dollars and cents to people of the United Btates when the first gun fired at Fort Sumter ushered in the rebellion, was not greater than that threatened bv the ontJ break of pleuro pneumonia. m SENATE' Washington. Jan. ia Wr n.. the Committee on Cairns, reported Senate bill to extend the time for filing claims in the Court of Claims, under the French Spoliation act. for twelve months addi tional, and on his motion tha kiii sidered and passed. .wThe.-8ena.t?5. H115 P m resumed con sideration of the Inter-State Commerce bill, i JTtt addre;8ed by Mr. Call, who del i.,, incurrence in tbe great objects of public pohcj that were sought to becar- ried into effect bvthe orhrinaf mii .Tk. the conference SpS? g m by -r KW f , : Ohtlnhi... I Air. inealla exnrMsmi tKa hmu v u i Vuuom would not insist on a vot tnA The debate had developed in the press and other organs of public opinion a feeling of intanaa inlaw. 1 , ... n v& .uiwcoi, ouu mucn naa been ex- ieeu wnicn ne regarded as profitable to those who were engaged in the considera tion of the subject. . . . , Mr. Call referred to the fact staled in Poor's Railroad Manual, that the capi talization of the railroads of the coun try exceeded their actual cost by three thousand dolllars. and onmnlalno that th. rates chafed for transportation were to pay interest and dividends on this fictitious and pretended capital. The people were now pa j inn an annual tax of thma hnn, ti j1. w ' w a -aaaww UllliUlvU UlAA? lions on this fictitious capital. He could to uuiumg iu mat, 11 k were permitted to continue, but the ruin of thA regulation of inter-State commerce could be made that jermitted this enormous annual ;taxf: .Did the conference .re port propose tt remedy this evilt - It did not: Op- the contrary, it impliedly licensed It, in failing to provide any remedy for it. The reasonable rates sought to be established by the bill should be reasonable rates cal culated on the amount actually invested in tbe construction and operation of railroads. If that could not be done, then the bill was futile.1 He was in favor of going much farther than the bill went. .' He was in fa vor of a law declaring that rate only a rea sonable rate which permitted a fair return. on tbe capital actually invested In railroads, He would, however, vote for the pending bill, because it would accomplish no great harm; but he regarded it bb no remedy for existing evils and as no triumph for those who desired to see inter-State commerce regulated . Although he would vote, for the bill,, he would prefer to have it further considered by the conference committee. . -i Mr. Brown made an argument, in op position to the bill. The two most objec tionably features of the bill were those as to long ana snort hauls, and as to pooling, Io regard to the first, friends of the measure differed among themselves as to its true meaning; while its opponents were at a loss to give it correct interpretation. The seo tion was uncertain, indefinite and doubtful in its meaning. He did not propose to at tempt io interpret it; no living man knew what its authoritative interpellations would be. - As to its practical result, however, he naa no aouoc. - From tbe very necessity of the case, railroads would be compelled to retain their present rates on local freight and to increase rates on long hauls, and this would very seriously cripple the inter change of commodities between the differ ent sections of the country. He had no de sire to predict evil, but he could not be mistaken ib stating that the bill when put into, operation would ' derange both ine '' - internal ana ' foreign commerce of thecouBtry. As to pooling, he said that practical experience bad demonstrated the fact that unbridled competition- always re aunuu in ruin to raiiroaa companies, and to (he absoluta loss of money invested in the,1r stock, while it produced no good to mepuDiic , vvnaiine mercantile comma nity wanted was reasonable transportation raws mat were umrorm, equal and just. fooling bad been found to be the best means of establishing reasonable rates and uaiLiug mem Bteaay ana umrorm. it pre vented consolidation and monopoly, while uuunuieu competition produced both. He instanced the case of six railroad compa nies which now covered the territory be tween the Potomac and the Mississippi, the vino ana me uuu. froliibition of their pooling arrangements would end in their unbi idled competition and their eventual bankruptcy, and one man in New York could afford to pay thirty millions for con trolling interest in these railroads and then harry them on as a great combination mo nopoly. The same thine would annlv to other sections of the country.! This would ue me practical working of the system. -j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. : ! The Speaker announced the annoln tmpnt bf Messrs. Skinner, Peal and Perkins, as vviuereea on me oui ior tne. allotment of land in severalty to the Indians. . ' The floor was then under a special order; accorded to the Committee on the Judiciary, j Mr. Collins, of Massachusetts, called up the bill providing for an additional Circuit judge in the Second Judicial Circuit. ; Pa'sed. j - The House then proceeded to the c.onJ sideration of the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy bill, and Mr. Tucker's substitute therefor.) After the reading of both measures, Mrj Tucker, of Virginia, stated that he would permit debate to continue for four hours, ta "be divided between friends and op-i ponents of the bill. j j Mr. Bennett, of North Carolina, one of the signers of the minority ; report, con- sidered the tinie inadequate. : He would consent to it because he could net get any more. In his opinion portions of this far reaching measure were simply atrocious. Mr. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, opened de bate in a speech in favor of the bill. He was followed, in order, by Caine, of Utahj in opposition in a speech which won for him the applause of the House; by Mr. Bennett, of North Carolina, who opposed the bill upon the ground that it was a meas ure of injustice to helpless people, and that it was in part export facto legislation, and in! conflict with decisions of j the Supreme Court of tbe United States, and In viola-i tion of the basic principles of the American! Government. Mr. Bennett j also objected to it because it imposed a "test oath" upon all male inhabitants of Utah. Mr. Reed of Maine and Mr. Casweil of Wisconsin supported the bill. j tMr. Randolph Tucker of Virginia closed the debate. He said he was confronted with a speech delivered by himself four or five years ago against Edmunds' Anti-Polygamy bill. (Tbis was an allusion to the iact that copies of that speech had been distributed upon the desk of members.) He supposed that this speech had been brought forward to embarrass him,; but it did not emoarrass him. in tbe full and ample con sideration be had given the Mormon ques tion in connection with the pending bill he had taken into full account the views ex pressed by him on that occasion. He had men uttered no sentiment that was at all in conflict with the mild and just provisions of the pending bill. There was only one point on which there seemed to be contra diction, and that point had been settled bv the Supreme Court. The. Supreme Court had held that, there was no right of suffrage bv anv in babitant of a locality as there was right of suffrage bv the citizen of a Utat- that ,tne aostru8e determination of the question pf suffrage was m the power of Congress, subject to the Constitution, and that whe ther man or woman should be allowed to oie was a question ror Congress to decide. jThere had never a question been brought to the attention of the committee that had been examined with more earnest care, and jiue committee naa came to the conclusion mat tney were unable to cope with the question of Mormonism. The territory of the United States did not belontr to thn Aim . a . ... o T unutucwiuall OI men wnton mmn nnri squatted upon it and said! '-We aremon- archs of all we survey." It belonged to the vmjeu oiases, ana it was the duty of the United States to anv that this T.!i. Should not be monopolized by any class of men or any Church. There was no doubt about the power of Congress in this mat-, ter. The bill violated neither the letter nor the SOirit Of the nonatlt.nt had reported the bill, he would vote against in it which trenched UnOD.- the rnnoripriro i uo-iuuuaui inai mem vu - nno th n. !fTei of Mormons. He did not care what the Mormon believed, but he must not put .his belief into acta, if thereby- he infringed i....Suhi lujiumur man. Wbat waa polygamy? It was a crime bv the law .of T.erT state in Christendom. Ever since jChrist interpreted the Judean law nno iin tout, tberefore shall man leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife and they twain, and' not a whole htmriio ir.ot and applause Ever since Christ littered mat sentiment all Christian nations had adopted monotramv rAnninii . Tk. nucleus of the nation was in the homes of the people one man and one woman one man loving supremely none but her, and one woman lovino- Him. Thank Ood. thor. oro bomes vetl T Annlanap 1 Th.t ... the foundation of thn hAx Without it there would not be a Christian State that would be fit to lira in r plause.l In Utah the heart of the husband was diffused amonv a tinmlur Th. ... the basis of civilization that went out 9 nnn years ago. Except in Asia ours waa the nasic principle of civilization of to day. the Mormons that of thn be brought together? Could they lie side by Bide? Was there a man who would vote to admit the polygamous State of Utah into the Union? Cries of "No!" 'Nol"l Then What was Con arena to An Th. A..t. from Utah (Caine) said, "Wait. If we are wrong we will Bink:"' Rut th ."Miiai uuo as one or the aa onA 'of ttip. fit n.n TT r. .. . . l .k W.D aiaK not come in? Because wf8 1,50'000 Mormons who wished to establish nolwaamw aa i .:....! . ,l. a. . VTJ . uo lUBUlUHonS dicJt ai was tne duty of Coneress toj)repare Utah tooome into the Union and to prepare it by extirpating, rooting out, that which waa ai;n STi .t' 2Hf "Nations. He believed that if this bill were enacted into a law and fiU!e.mend by e Proposed constitu tional amendment.- Mormonism would goto t?7fQl a PolJRMWM. institu Uon and thai Utah would be peopled by ?itorte and Sou,d 09 'eadTto come into the Union. , He was going out of pub lic life, and if .. ho nnnW A establish a proper avstem fn thin aaJoterritory to uproot this thing that uw upon its iame, ana permit it to come into the free sisterhood of the atates, . based on tbe idea of Christian bomes. he wonld feel that hla 1, llflKlA a.valk lie life would not be in vain. . fLond and long continued applause. ; ' M'- Sc011. of Pennsylvania, askedHv; to offer an amendment lo the bill Mr. Tucker declined lo permit 'him t., ,, so, saying that he wanted to pass tbe liViY' here and now, so that the 12th of Januarv 1887, would be memorable in the b2 of the country, r Applause! . - The House substitute was agreed to ar.i the Senate bill as thus amended wa? passrri without division, only eight members risic" to demand the yeas and nays, a Adjourne J. , ; Spirits Turpentine. Wadesboro Times: Thi tn tire Eection will bo grieved to learn of v . unexpected death of ex-Sheriff T. J Hr dison, which occurred at his home iu town about 8.80 o'clock Sunday niht r! anna In tha R7th ,o.. u: - ..V informed that his death was caused In aggravated case of pneumonia. - ire cif ; i Tarboro SoutJierner; ' We 8y u, pathiza with our distant friends, but th present is not a good time for new coumicsL Mr.- Wm. F. Thome, who superinl tended for Capt: W. S. Long ma-le with six plows on one hundred and twenty acres of land no less than one hundred md thre bales .of cotton, three hundred andsixu. barrels of corn and six hundred bushels c"f sweet potatoes. We must sound a note of warning to the farmers, for the ten dencyisto pay more wages than th re turns next fall will probably justify. i?ar ly every farmer' to the inquiry, wages are you paying this year? " responds "about the same as last year." But a lime further questioning brings out the fact that the wages of last year are to be slightly.in creased for 1887 i j Charlotte Chronicle: Sixty ebrda of wood arrived at the , North Caroli na freight depot in this city Monday morn ing for distribution among the needy poor. It was contracted for. by the city author!. ties for the purpose indicated . The board of irustees for CharlotteiowDshin have made a new departure in tho manner of furnishing lumber for bridge buildine purposes. The. board has just purchased several car loads of lumber and has had it stacked at the county stockade. Ln Sunday Dr. Millerpastor of tho First Prcs by terian Church, referred to this new source of worldly amusement ("progressive eu chre"), and pronounced it an evil from which church members should desist, and spoke of it as an amusement that could no; b3 countenanced by tbe discipline of the church.. Dr. i Miller's stand against "pro gressive euchre" is decided. "Mrs Wm. R. Cochrance, while descending tho steps Of her back porch, slipped and fell, tree ing her left arm at the wrist. A litti,. son of Mr: Timmons slipped on the ice and his head struck the pavement with, great force, inflicting a painful but not ictioui- scalp wound. " A colored woman, at the corner of Seventh and Church' streets, slipped and fell, badly spraining loth of her wrists. " j. v Durham Recorder: Mr. Adol- Ehus Hopson lives six miles east of Dur am. Last Saturday morning his two lit tle daughters were playing in the fire with a piece of paper when the dress of the older girl caught ou fire and she was so badly burned that she died before night. The girl was only ten years of age, and her suf ferings were terrible to 'witness.; This morning, while in the music store of E. A. Whitaker. we were shown a waltz entitled "Golden Belt." The waltz was composed by Miss Nola Woodward, of Purham, and was dedicated to J. 6, Carr. Maxwell Gorman, from Washington City, is regis tered at Hotel Claiborn. He has been en gaged by Mr. Carr as assistant editor of the Plant. Mr. Gorman is a native of Raleigh, but for several years has resided in Wash -ington and acted as corresDondent for sev eral papers. The laree factories of. P. T. Faucett and Pogue & Cameron this day consolidated under the name and stvle of the Faucett Durham Tobacco and Bnuff Company, with a capital stock of $100,000. On the organization of the commnv Mr. Tf T. Faucett was elected President; W. 15 Davie, of Richmond, Vice President and Secretary; and Wm. A. Kirkham. of Pe tersburg, Treasurer." The object of the company is to manufacture smoking to bacco and snuff on an extensive scale for the domestic and foreign trade. -Raleigh News- Observer: Thos. J. Fields, a colored Democrat from Hali fax county, has been appointed janitor in the House branch of the Legislature. Dr. Tyre York seems to possess hard, com mon sense, but he is death to the Queen's English. 1- The people of Raleigh will learn with regret that Rev. Dr. W. A. Nel son, who has for several years been pastor of the Second Baptist Church of this city, and under whom the church has crown largely in every particular, has accepted ii call to the pastorate of the Baptist Church in Asneviue. Mr. Pearson, in nonii nating his friend Mr. Daviea for the posi tion of Engrossing Clerk, spoke of '"trai tors," we suppose using the term derisively because of his present political Btetus. There was never such an opportunity in Raleigh for sleighing as the present. The snow is fine, packed hard and the sleighs glide over it almost without leaving a track. A private letter-from-ChSpel Hill to u gentleman in this city sayst Prof. Toy will go home to Norfolk to stay until he recov ers from the effects of the accident which happened to him December 23rd. He i3 now able to walk about the room. Mr. R. L. Uzzell, a post graduate of tbe UniversiL ty, will take charge of the French classes, ana Air. . a. weeks, also a post graduate, will take the German classes for a while. Both are well fitted for the positions. The snow is four and a half inches deep. Rev. J. Cavanaueh. a one-armed evangel ist, stood in theBnow on the vacant lot be-fl tween me posiomce and tbe court house yesterday and preached to quite a large au dience. , The streets are in such a con- amon as to seriously interfere with the hauling of wood, merchandize, &c. Horses slip on the sleet and packed snow and cau- not pull. President Stedman. who is conceded to be tbe handsomest man in tbc Senate, is a most efficient presiding officer. He dispatches business systematically,' rap idly and effectively. President Tav lor, of Wake Forest College, is contempla ting using granite in the new laboratory building instead of brick, and estimates arc now baing made by a contractor as to the cost for the same. . Charlotte Chronicle: Mr. James Thdmas, a bard WOrkinp. honrat farmer. of Charlotte township,' made with one mule lass year lourteen bales of cotton averaging 600 pouLds each; 40 bushels of wheat; 100 bushels of corn, besides potatoes, good garden and other patches. He had only two children to help him. It wus learned in the city here that Jane Morrisont who recently killed her husband, John Morrison, in this city, has been heard from in Wilmington, where she is said to be staying with some of her friends. Oapt. T. R. Robertson, Clerk of the Criminal Court, yesterday issued a capias for thej woman, and it is probable that she will lx brought back to Charlotte th a xpo.t lr arid jailed to await her appearance before Judel meares ror trial. Messrs. W.T. Bsnum, ir.;W. R. Burch.W. T. Dortch. jr.; B. P Beard, G. F. Smith, O. P. Meares, ir , J M. Walker, ir. : Huch Dort.h ,nH v. E Jurnev left vesterdav for 3 They go to that place in the interest of thJ juwcoanis protective Union, of which branch office has been in nnpmtion in this city for several months past. Lewi Thompson, Esq. a resident or the eastern section of the State; donated the Bronsoo property, located at the eastern terminus pf Trade street in this city, to the Episcopal Church for the purpose- of establish ing an asvlum for th nrnhorrjrl una homeless children. The donation in eludes seventv two acres of Unit and A IrtfCC and elegant brick building, which vrus originally built for a college. Accommo dation is now afforded for twenty children.' and it is hoped that the capacity of the in stitution will shortly be' considerably in creased. Col. A. B. Andrews, it givies as pleasure to state, will have almost un controlled power in the management of the affairs ot the Richmond and Danville Com? pany in this State. , This company controls 894 miles of railroad in North rroiina.out of 2,675 miles in the whole svstem. 4- Bbmewhat of an excitement pt!u in our neighboring town of Fort Mill over the discovery of what is supposed to be a plot to assassinate several of the leading people Of that Dlaco. A ChronMj, day learned those whose lives are threat ened, are Drs. , Kell and Massev. These two gentlemen have received written mes sages from colored .people well known to them.jgtatiDg that they, the writers, be longed to a secret organ ization or negroes, and that this organization had planned to kill the two eentlemen named . The wri ters of the notes gave certain details of the plot, but we have been unable to get the lull particulars, j ! - t
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