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m i The Stan PUBLISHED AT 1 N O T O M -0 a If K A B IN ADVANCE. SSSS3SSS3S8S82S88' siiJiioitSl iS3SSS88S$S888S88 SS8SS8S8SSS88S88S S8SSSS888SS8S8S8S 8S88S8S888S888888 quoK l SS88888888888.8888 S8SS3S88S888 Ent-.eJ at the Post Office aOVUmtngton. N. C I 1 as Second Class Matter. . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE The subscnotion price of the 'Weekxt Star is as follows Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, - m " " 6 months, " "1 100 " " 8 months ' , " I ; ; '50 rilG OYSTER INDUSTRY. The Stab has in many !editoriala cali l attention to the importance of dcvi'loping the oyster industry , Of North Carolina; It hat je8pecially considered the New River oyster grounds' and- their importance ; to WilmiflgtoD. ,Witb the resources of IfewJliver fully developed and rail road connection with !thia oity a great canning industry would be de veloped here as well as an; extensive shipping business of fresh oysters, fisb, &c. J.- V,;,i;,':- .:. , The Star has copied more than oncu hi main facts brought out in the report of the labors of that efficient officer, Lieut. Francis Winslow, of the Navy, who has been engagad for many months in a survey of the waters of the State with re Terence t the cultivation of the by desire now to fefer to the prehensive bill now befor ier, ?ery com the Leg laiature introanced to Dr mote the cultivation of shell fish in North Car olina. The bill fills 24f printed pages, and it covers the communica tions of Governor Scales on the sub ject. The object of the bill is to ee cure fishing for migrator fish, to encourage the development of the vast area now unproductive, to de fine the loss to which the State is subjected by the neglectj to have proper laws and to protect the State against this loss. IT ' It is most assuredly a bill of genu ine importance to the Slate, and in ' telligent legislators should consider lt upon its merits and push it through. The bill may not be perfect, bat it is movement in the right' direction! r Other legislation mar be needed here? after to perfect the measure. A test . is Necessary before the exact law can he framed. The main provisions of . . it - i the demand, and will do good to the Stnto Tlio koIa nbinnt. nf .h friAnda ' '--v l 1 of the bill is to make as far as possi ble the conditions operating on oyster farms similar to those operating on anv other farm. The bill is rather. l j .1 clumsy in its attempt to utilize exist in? machioerv. but its action will be i ii i to secure to the fishermen and oyster men all and more than jtbey now pos sess, and it will add to the taxable property of the State from 600,000 to 700,000 acred of ground, jj - j Can there be any possible reason that is substantial azainst this? The State has every thing to gain, and it hajjioth'mg to lose by allowing the oyster farmers too sam ifl rights and of other oro- ! ,- I perty obtain, and this ' 1 l t- -j U is sureiy uvvu fair and iu9t. With such protec tion all around it is surely quite pos . Bible that a large business can be started in the entire llasteru section. It is to be hoped that the legisla- tors will rise above mere local inter ests in dealing with tjiis very impor- tant matter. In a question like this bo narrow prejudices lor pre deter- mined opinions should be allowed .'sway. The whole people are direct ly interested. . Thej whole people through their representatives should be heard, and snob legislation should be perfected as far as possible as will best1 subserve the public interests. There is no sound Reason why the bottoms of navigable Waters should not contribute to the -wealth of a I. 1 State, and at the i . 'i sam time should bear its due proportion of the taxes of the State, and th reby add to the general wealth and wosperity of the Common wealt'i. 4 T ie question is an important one and the Stab will again refer to it. The present Legis lature should certainlv do scTmethine in deriving benefit J from the useful and imoortant labors of Lieut. Wins- . i j f low. Connecticut has an oyster in dustry of two millions of dollars or had to CVT D 2Tc2 had to.be, bright! from the Chesa- more. The oyster industry of alt North Carolina the best ( Watered "of J "all States is only some $150,000, and III yet the area that can be devoted with profit to its cultivation is full 000,000 acres, an d 'noHHihlv twice that. . I Mrs. i author stories. Henry Wood, the novelist, of "jEast pynne": and other is dead, febe was born in Si 838SSSSSS2S8S3S83 , I ;';;,. ; ' ' S .-s -i-,.- 'A i. : -'-I d.TMi!.!-vi England in 1820. ii- . a, .... ' .. . - . ' .- - ... Sv-r VOL. XVIII. NBW COUNTIES AQAIN. ' ' .Thtt 'Hi- till -r- . ,"''V f -: . V. . lue JLianamaric has a 3aicioas editorial a the movement to create several new ' tjoanties nd especially : one oat of tlreden. and Rowan and Cabarrus M How many counties it is proposed to . erect do rtng the present session we oanndt say, but some half dozen sets of men are urging the creating of as many counties. The Landmark says; "It is one of the accidents of fortune that oume people are far from their county wwnsana otners near It tit has always w mu wui always DO 80. All ol us Cannot have ' a COUrt houdn next Unnr n more than all of us can have a great many ,";u9i we wpuia very mucn iKB ua to, u1, i As a general thing movements of this kind originate with a very few, who are on the make,Jjand who are themselves not greatly suffering from incDBVenfehce.The Landmark shows that the proposition to ereot a new county out of the territory of the three counties - named : would be a monster m shape like other counties that have been made in obedience to the manipulations of axe-grinders. It Says: i 'But if they had a perfect equity; and if me m auer or expense were not considered. and if the scheme did not leave Iredell a misshapen thing, its county seat nine miles irom tae aoutnern border and twentyithree miles from the northern--if none of these things entered into the argument, there is still the general objection jto the multipli cation of small counties, already a great evil in the State. The overmastering argu ment, against the proposition is that it was not mentioned in the last campaign, and has never i been canvassed before the PeOpl." - . . .J,' :it,:;:: The evil grows. There are now some eight or ten propositions or pe titions before the ; Legislature to ore ate new counties. By all ' means let th'em be ; made. The! : mnlti- plying of counties -is so inexpen- sive and cheerful a them be made as often , luxury, let and l as many as possible. Make a new county for every politician who has ever figured in the State. But we see no propo sition to ; name counties Blakeley, Pettigrew, Daniel, Ramseur, Branch or in honor ef any of the heroes and martyrs of "the lost cause."; . The Legislature meets' every two yeare. If making new laws and mending old ones could improve the condition of the people to any great extent it would seem that by this time that condition must have be come paradisaical, for thousands of laws have been made-.j",f Ij ty to-day is not in facfc purer or bet ter than it was forty years ago, granting, if you please, that it has improved within a dexsade. Do the people really heed so qiuoh govern ing ? Are the people of North Caro lina, who for the most part occupy soil that their , ancestors' for several generations have occupied, require so much law-making to keep them straight? Or is the making of laws, like other things, a growing evil and made bo by practice ? It strikes us, as not of the ' law-making set or the legal brotherhood, that what is need ed in the land we love is not more laws, but a more inflexible, unf alter. ine execution" of law.! I We hear com i . i . - plaints frequently of i how law is ad ministered, and if we were to open in the Stab a column of 'Complaints," in the course of the year a great many communications would ap year criticising laws and their man her of enforcemennt or non-enforce ment. !. - ! 4 : t ' There are too many , dead laws. The statutes are crowded with laws that are aJ dead as the laws of the Medes and Persians. Then there are other laws that are J on wise, . unfair, oppressive. It has come to pass that it takes much of the time of our Le gislature j to undo the laws enacted by the preceding Legislatures. The people believe strongly in ; we sov - I - ' I! .... ereign power of Jaw that it is the panacea of all social ills tbe cure of all troubles. Hence j laws are manufactured bv the cart! load "and dumped upon the great manure pile of laws that are already dead and of others that are passing through the processes of decay, decomposition, and extinction. I Law is good. Good law is above praise. ' i. ne Desu laws are tuuoo iuu are -needed - and are enforced with fidelity and courage. 4 Put weak men behind good laws and they become fft trmat extent inooerative. As a Western religious paper says "Law simply marks the path of the man behind it. The force Tha hoat lawn are tnoTAMhin men to nut them in force vnfrui io.tr hy malestv and terror; bad uu.vyw. " - . ... . . , men fly and good men are miea wim uot. Randall is now passing through one of bis periodical attacks of finan cial eripes and will vote against the appropriation of $21,000,060 to con- PP J manufaoture Bteel i f1l.M . a a nm mntl suns, tie is wuupk w bv r" as $10,000,000. Bat this same n-an- dall is willing to take $79,000,000 for th a Government to teach school in the States p -:i. The Chairman of the Board of Commissioners gives notice that an election wiH be held Thursday; the 24th of MrM. on the Question of a sutjscripuon oi $10(TO0O by the county oi new nanover w - '...nital stock of the Wilmington & East Carolina Railroad Co. p - ' AM EpllOde OB tba-BfTcr. ! ' . 1 The -Star's Bmithville c"corre8nohdent f Wf. :..al'9e.9t the 'sailor boarding house j Keepers in Wilmington f shipped a seaman on the barque Ifimfca, which cleared yes- Msraay, ana just before the tug was to take the, barque ; down the river, some of: the boarding house ruhnets "shanghied" a man. 'and put him aboard of the barque, taking we man asaore who bad signed the vessel a papers the day before. :: Going down the river the captain of the barque saw that the new man was not the one he had engaged, and asked, the runner for an explanation. The runner made an' insolent reply and drew a pistol oh the ciptain, when, with the assistance of the mate and boatswain, the fellow was seized and nut in irons. When the tug Italian was taking the pilot off the Monica, the runner slipped the irons off and jumped on the tug. : The captain of the vessel told the master of the tug that he had one of his men and asked him to bring the man back. I The tug ran along sjde and the crew "of the barque jutn$er aboard, put a rope on the runner and hauled him . over the side.' When i the . captain of the barque got the man oh board he put him in irons and sent him below. The captain said that he was going to take him to EDglandand prefer charges against him look oat for (be Comet. According to appointment a comet, sup posed to be the great" one of 1880,' ought to become visible in these latitudes within a very few days. Mr. 'Chandler,- of the Har vard Observatory, aays that its brightness is diminishing, as it is receding into space; but, still, as it was' spoken, of as being of the first magnitude In the Southern hemis phere, it will no .doubt be viaibre to the naked eye here, and should be looked for somewhat low down in the southwest di rectly after-twilight. ' At Melbourne, Aus tralia, the tail extended upward from the horizon about SO degs.. while the nucleus was below the horizon and invisible. There is some uncertainty as yet In regard to the exact orbit of the comet, owing to its close perihelion distance and the difficulty in ob taining exact observations; but unless some very material error exists in the olwerva tions, i the comet should become visible shortly in the southwest after sunset, and will set later every night About the last of February it will not set until about 10 30 p. m Tbe Atlaatic Coall line. mere is to be a new equipment for a limited express oh tbe Atlantic Coast Line, to be composed of new and powerful mo- live power and a train of Pullman sleeping cars, to be furnished in a manner to surpass any, other limited express train in the coun try. A meeting of executive officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line was held recently, at which ar rangements for the new express train were made. These were General Manager Harry Walters, of the Atlantic Coast Line from Richmond to Charleston, General Manager C. Pugh, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and General Manager Col. H. 8. Haines, of were ordered and a contract made with the Pullman Company. The new limited express will leave New York at9 a. m., Philadelphia will be reached about 11 a. m., Baltimore' at 1 p. m., and Washington at 2 p. m., arriving in Jacksonville. Fla.. at 4 p. m. on the next afternoon. By this arrangement parties can be made up (of sixteen or more in jxew js.ngiana towns for a special car, so that a trip can be made from Boston to Florida without change of cars. It is said that an cxpendU ture of over $250,000 will be required to set rolling the limited express. Cotton and Naval Stores Export.. Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son cleared the Norwegian barque Emma Parker yesterday for Antwerp, with 350 bales of; cotton, reighlng 165,959 pounds, valued at $15,- 850: and 3.872 barrels of rosin, valued at $3,372. . The Norwegian barque Monica, cleared for London with 2,572 barrels of rosin, Val - - ued at $3,300, shipped by Messrs. Williams fc Murchison, and 1.512 casks spirits tur pentine and 1,000 , barrels rosin, valued at $28,762, shipped by Messrs. Patereoo, Downing & Co, Br. barque Aria cleared also for Lon don with 2.547 barrels rosin and 20 barrels gum thus, valued at $2,150,' shipped by Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Co., and 1,000 barrels rosin, valued at $989, shipped by Messrs. Williams & Murchison. Associate Justice Davis. J The Raleigh' correspondent of the Star says: "At 11 c'cioca irriaay nigni, wpv. Scales appointed Hon. Joseph J. Davis as Associate Justice 'bf the. Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by Justice Ashe's death.- For a week the Governor had daily received delegations who pressed the claims of various gentlemen. It was felt that an appointment must be made early. . j ' ; "Mr.Davia' appointment is sure to give a good deal of satisfaction, and be. is indeed admirably qualified. He is fifty-four years of age, and has served three terms in Con- gress. lie is a warm personal inenat oi Gov. Scales." " "I Naval Stores. A comparative statement of the receipts of naval stores at this port, as taken from tho records at the Produce Exchange, makes the following showing: j L From April 1st (the beginning of the crop year) to February; J2th, the receipts were: Spirits turpentine this year, 60,870 casks; last year, 57.341. Rosin 281,978 barrels; last year, 247,640. Tar 56,432 barrels; last year, 40,451. uruae turpentine 21,610 barrels; last year, m.vm. Tbe Seaeoast Railroad. A trip to Wrighteville Sound by rail th is summer is even one of the probabilities, for it is stated on satisfactory assurances from parties who have the matter in hand, that the construction of the Wilmington and Seaeoast Railroad to that point ; is an $ffi& Se road wili be commen work of building commenced within the next thirty days. Cotton Receipts. . The receipts of cotton yesterday . at this port were 175 bales, against 872 the same day last year. I Receipts for the wsek, 926, against 1,578 bales the same week last year; a decrease of 652 bales. S ' Receipts for the . crop year from Sep-! tember 1st to February 12th 128,102 bales, against 88,740 for the same time last year; an Increase of 89,862 bales, ' ' The stock at this port is 8,051 : bales; against 6,178 at the same date last year. J - f Immlimlliin Invited.' v A petition Is in circulation and will be placed at the Produce Bxcbange to-da for' the signature of merchants and others, In terested in the development of this section 'Pi the State by Northern. 'immigration; is believed that the circulation of the proV ceedings of the Northern iSettlera' Conven tion, held in Raleigh in' Gclober last, will have great ioflu'enco: iai attracting a 4esir. .able class of people. '4 ';'; , !, i $i. I jThe petition is as foUowst - 4 To the Honorabls the ; General- Assembly of L .North Carolina; ii- Xt -..,-- -. -':4 J We, the undersigned, citizens -of New J Hanover county, North Carolina, realizing the benefit the great West has derived from immigration, ' and having seen its advan tage to our own State,, and being solicitous to secure for North Carolina a large part of that volume of capital and population that is now flowing from the Northern States southward, do hereby most respectfully and most earnestly request your honorable body to cause to be printed many thousand copies - of the statement 4 made 4 y ' our fellow-citizens of. Northern and (oreiga birth.at the so-called Northern hitlers' Convention which was in session at Raleigh October 26-29 1886. ..Such full reports to .be obtained from the secretary of the North ern Settlers' Association, .and when pub1 llshed to be put in charge of the State Bu reau of Immigration for disfribution in States North of ibe Potomac and Ohio rivers. ':-.! - -- Banlt of New lltaover. ; At the regular annual meetiag of the stockholders of the Bank of New Hanover, held yesterday, Mr. A4 Dayjd was called to the Chair and Mr, 8. D. Wallace was ap pointed Secretary. A majority of tho stock being represented, either in person of by proxy, an election was held for a Board of Directors for the ensuing year, which re sulted in the unanimous re-election of tbe entire old Board, as follows: G. W. Williams. W. L Gore. J. W. At kinson, 1 1 Bates. J. A.. Leak C SL Sted- man. Donald MacRe, E. B. Borden, R R. Bridgers, H. Tollers and F. Rtieiostein. j ; ' A meeting of the Board of Directors was then held, and tho following officers were elected for the ensuing jear: President I. Bates. Vice President G W. Williams. Cashier S. D. Wallace. Assistant Cashier W. L. Smith. Jr. ; Barslars aod Cblorolorm. - ; ,5 The dwelling of Mrs McDonald, on Chesnut street, between Eighth and Ninth, was entered by a burglar at an early hour yesterday morning. Mrs. . McDonald was awakened about 3 o'clock, presumably by the nok-c ; made by the burglar in leaving the house. There was an overpowering odor of chloroform in the room, which caused her to get up and light a lamp, when she found everything in a bewilder ing state of confusion, tbe clothing1 of her self and daughter in a heap on the floor, and closets and bureau drawers emptied of their contents. Other inmates of the house were aroused and it was found that tbe whole place bad been lansacked. but nothing was miesiog with the exception of a few pen--nies from the pock era of the clothing of one of Mrs. McDonald's sods. The bur- 15" I dow. Rlore About Blncbam. i The latest concerning Walter L. Bing ham, the murderer of Miss Lizzie Turling ton, is that he is believed to be wandering about in Abe mountains in tbe western part of this Stats. A gentleman living in Ban combe county tells the Asbeville Advance, (of the 10th inst.',) that a. deaf mute, an swering completely the description', of Bingham, was seen in Leicester township last week! He stopped at the bouse of Mr. John Brown and others, and tried to make his wants known by sign of tbe band. He tarried but a short while and passed on out of that settlement and has not been seen since. 4 i 4-. 'I i The same paper says that a deaf and dumb man entered tho store of G. D. Ray & Son, in the town of Burnsville, N. C , several days ago and represented that he was in search 'off work. He was neatly though plainly dressed and had. the air of a man of considerable Intelligence and seemed to be between tbe age of 25 and 30 years. He seemed nervous and consider ablv depressed. He left the store, and when last seen was going in' the direction of the Tennessee line. Some days after his departure, Mri Ray received a copy of the New York World, with a picture of Walter Bingham in it. As soon es bis eye fell upon the picture, he at once recognized it as the 'face of the deaf mute who had been in his store a few days before. All in the store who saw the deaf "mute were shown the picture and declared it to be the same face. Mr. Ray and others, after hay ing their suspicions aroused, made inquiries to ascertain whether or not the deaf mute was seen in other portions of the county; but failed to hear anything of him, which . they regarded as evidence that he kept to the woods. Tbe Savannah Naval Stores Trade The Naval 'Stores Manufacturers' Pro tective Association of Georgia has issued another circular letter, setting forth the ob jects of the 'Association and refuting the charge brought by some of the Savannah factors that tbe Association is working in the interests of the Standard Oil Company. It has the following remarks on the "horn ing" question : - ! 4 " ; "The Association has resolved to break up tbe nefarious practice of 'horning rosin. and does - not propose to be 'bluffed or turned aside from its honest resolution in the matter. . There is no doubt of the fact that a gigantic swindle has been flourish ing right here in our midst for several years, and it is a lasting reproach to the Twirling' naval stores factors of Savannah that they have tolerated the practice, if some of them, indeed, have not 'winked' at it. A system , of doing - business under which hundreds of thousands of barrels of rosin have been foisted upon, distant con Burners at from one to three grades above its original inspection and return rendered to the innocent oroducer in the country, calls for the condemnation of all honest men. and must be effectually stamped out of existence at this, the leading naval stores port of the world, where it should never have been allowed to exist for a single mo ment. Anotner Ontrase. x i The passenger coach of the night train on the Carolina Central Railroad which left "Charlotte Thursday -evening and arrived here yesterday morning, was stoned by some unknown persona near Mulcahy's Turnout, forty or fifty miles east of Char lotte. Two' pieces of 'rock that would weigh about half a pound each crashed through one of the glass windows and fell on the floor. One of the pieces struck a passenger on the shoulder, but inflicted no injury. ' 1 1 -. I FORTY-NlNTn CONGRESS. iOA H I-MK4SjmtaS8I(ll fe ' .j t wfim -X-iivvnU ' ifit ttt ,: ' ; i. . - :r Cblnese .Indemnity BUI Tbe CbarlesV ;'- ton Jettles-Paslle- ;Bnlllncs-Ie- 8bl RSllwar Bill- -Consnlsr and Diplomatic ApproptiS' , tlttna DUCBSsed ; i. V'41. :,; i i;..' t?y TeleKrapa to '-the. Morning StarS '4 vli "SENATEi.; 44;4 -ASHDiGTQK Febi'50.-rThe presiding efllcer presented? resolutions 'of the joint couveMioH :of . the. houses -of ; the "General Assembly of ladiaoa (Republican member8 protestine' against the 'validity of the elec tion of David Turpie aa U. 8. Senator. Referred to committee on Privileges and Elections. mi -.-nvv.-v - . , i ? Also, metsage from the House of Rep-r rwntativea, with a substitute for the Sen ate Chinese Indemnity bill. . . . ; ., Mi, Edmunds said the two bills appeared to amount to the same purpose, except that perhaps the House substitute did it In. a m6re simpt wayi -He moved that the substitute be concorre La. Agreed to. - -Mr.vButler presented resolutions of the New York Chamber of'Commerce, heartily "endorsing the proposal oC ao. Immediate and Jibcral appropriation toV expedite the completion of.tbe Charlestdn harbor jetties Referred to the committee pn Commerce - House amendments to Senate bills for publie buildings at Huntsvilie Ala , and Augusta. Ga, were,, concurred in. The August building -bill as passed limits the costs of the site and building to $150,000, and provides that the erection of tbe build ing shall not be commenced until lbs site has been purchased and plans made for a ouuoing w cost a sum not exceed ice- the amount remaining of the $150,000. The House bill prohibiting the importing and landing of mackcral caught during the spawning season, was 'after some debate passed with amendment yeas 34. nava 11. A comtnit-ee of conference wsr ordered and Palmer, Gray and Hall were appointed. 4 The Senate at 2 45 resumed consideration Of the Eida Tehanntepec bill, and was ad dressed by Mr. Gibson in support of it. He iavorta any ana all attempts to pierce the Isthmus, and was not even jealous of De Lesseps' Panama scheme, r He was in fvnr of the Nicaragua canal, hut he .preferred mis lebauntepeo routo above all, because it was wholly upon the territory of a friendly neighbor who proposed to aid it materially, and because it would be wholly free from international comolication. and ould be defensible, if need be. before & foreign force could reach it from the Uni ted States wholly by land j He had a par ticular fear, be said, of the British lion. If treated properly, that animal was a peace a Die one. tie proposed to legislate on this question without reference to any resent ments mat might still linger in the minds of some against Great Britain. The neonla of the United States and of Great Britain un- flerstooa tnat whenever an! American right was invaded the United States were, in the laneuage or John . C. Calhoun, "one and inseparable." Mr. Hoar spoke in favor of the bill as one of the most important steo that the American people had taken for a genera tion and of which the prize was to be the control of the markets of the world. After sketching the course of commerce in tbe past and in tbe present, be said that here. after commerce was to seek direct paths, although tbe continent had to be severail. He wished to disclaim the suggestion made tne otner a ay by senator Morgan, that the Gadsden treaty of 1853 was still in force and could be enforced on Mexico; also, the suggestion that the Clayton-Bulwcr treaty had expired through lapse of time. Both those propositions were encountered by the declarations of tbe American Government, through its Secretaries of State, from Cal houn himself down to Blaine.. whirihaton- nerl the A mpri " 1 - lri a FTa hiM 4fiSHhEJiA&;yof the- Clayton-Bulwer treaty as applied Co the i location of the Nicaragua Canal, was the only theory con sistent with tbe true interests of tbe United States. , Without finishing bis argument the Senats at 4 25 adjourned. HOUSE Ulf KKfKKSlfiNTATlVJSS. Mr. Merrimoa. of N. Y.. was appointed a member of the Committee on Naval Af fairs, to fill the vacancy caused by tbe re signal ion of Mr. Hewitt.!. On motion of sir. Ttiomas, of Ills., Wed nesday next was set aside for the delivery of eulogies upon the late Senator Logan. The Speaker announced tne appoiotment of Mr. Hammond, of Ga., as one of the conferees oa the Anti-Mormon bill, in place of Mr. Tucker, of Va., who has been called away on account of the death of his daughter at Natchez. Mias. In tne morning hour- air. Weaver, or. Iowa, on behalf of the committee on Ex penditures in tbe Ic tenor Department, called up tbe Senate bill providing that in the General Land Office there shall be ten chiefs of division, who shall receive a salary of. $-3,000 each. Mr. weaver explained tnat the simple purpose of the bill was to put the chiefs of division in tbe Ueneral Land ur- flee on the same footing; as chiefs in other bureaus : Mr. Steele, of Ind.. inquired whether the effect of the bill would not be to take those offices out of the provisions of the Civil Service act; and upon receiving an af firmative answer, moved .to strike-out tbe enacting clause. The Republicans re framed from voting and left the House without a quorum, is i which condition it remained until the morniag hour expired. The House wept into committee or tne 'Whole on the Consular and Diplomatic bill. Mr. Allen, of Miss., attacked tbe bill in a humorous ana sarcastic speecn. on me ground of its extravagance lt appropri ated, be said. $446,000 more than the bill under which the last Republican adminis tration operated, and it was clearly lu vio lation of lhe pledges of the Democratic Mr. -mil. of Illinois, oerenoea me oiu The increase of the appropriation, be said, was due to tbe chance made by tbe but or the method of paymenfof consuls from fees to salary, and tbe fees of tne service would become Dart of the revenue. Mr. Clements, of Georgia, defended the bill, and especially the Consular provisions of it. contending that the interests of tbe people would be best conserved by me ctanco from the fees to tbe salary system. If people knew tbe truth of the foreign service, thev would demand of Congress that the service be made emcient ana honest. - - 4: ; . - Mr. Belmont, in closing the debate on the bill, replied to the attacks made upon it. Alluding to tne ainerences or - opinion with regard to the bill which existed upon the Democratic side, he said that he did not care whether gentlemen on the Repub lican side were interested or not in those differences, because he believed that many years would pass before they would obtain anv benent rrom mem. ine mu, ne saiu. was an increase over the actual amount carried by tbe bill of last year of $196,000; but the increased collections to tne Treasury under it would at the lowest estimate be 150.000. Tbe whole bill was, therefore. an increase over tbe last year of only some $40,000. - 11 Tne committee rose ana tne aouse su journed. , i, r SENATE. Washington, Feb. 11. Bills to increase the Naval Establishment and "to provide lor an increase of the Naval Establish ment.", were introduced, the former bv Mr. Cameron, and the latter by Mr. Hale, and were referred to the committee on Naval Affairs, after a statement by Mr. Hale that the two bills related, to different branches of Naval Establishments. . : ' . : . ! ; ' A rnpnlnHnn ViprAtnfnrn . offered bv MT Blair, directing the committee on Educa tion and Labor - to continue during the cess, and complete the investigation as to the relations between labor and capital, was taken un and adopted. v Mr. Standford introduced a bill to pro vide mortars and heavy guns for armament of forts, coast defences, and vessels of , the United States. , ' ' . J The Senate then, at 2.10, resumed .con sideration nt- ftada' Tehauntepec bill. and Mr:' Hoar continued his argument in support of it. When he had concluded the bill was laid aside temporarily. The Pnstoffice Appropriation bill was taken up, briefly discussed and laid aside. i ' ,8uch items as were likely to lead to! politi cal debate were passed OverA -'- On motion of Mr. Ransom, ihu H,. bill to authorize terms of the, United States. iiruuu .vourf n , yv nmington, ftt ut1, j was passed.;-- p, . s!. ; .',,;:; no On motion of Mr. Mabooe. the i Si-nate bill to authorize the. 8ecretv"df Wat- tb exchange guns with those of the. volunteer battery of Petersburg, Va.. was taken lip and:-passed. -. ' i t : - '. j . Adjourned till to-morrow, .:,; 'j ,; ... . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE m This being Friday the' Houm' proceeded to the consideration of private business " - Most of the afternoon was conxumMl 4a dweussion in Committee of the Whole of the bill extending the patent or JaroHs J.' Johnston, of Columbiana. .Ohio, for; imr proyeroent in the process for evuporaling liquids; but no action wsa taken, y ' !' - At 3 45 the President's private secretary was aooonced and presented a' message from the President, transmitting without his approval tbe Dependent Pension kitl The reading of the message was followed with an attention, more strict than ;i generally accorded to such documents. r , j ; 4 - i t At its conclusion -Mr. c' Matsoa. of - Lid 4," moved that tbe bill and accompanying noes age be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions,' promising that they would lo re ported back within the comiag week. Tbe motion was Bgreed to 137 to 27 v j The House then, at 4.20. bok a recess until 7.80. the evening session to be for the consideration of pension bills. ( j :! -. p-Jrr SENATE. "4''.p i ' WasinaaTON, Feb. 12 Mr. Caiieron, from tbe Committee on Naval Affairs,: re ported back whh amendments, the bill (in troduced by him yesterdaj) to increase the naval establishment, and gave notice that he will callit up on Monday immediately after the morning business. . j x The amendments made by the Naval Committee have the effect of fixing the bonus to be paid the contractor for, the first knot in excess of the contract ralo of twen ty knots to be attained by the proposed row cruisers, one hundred thousand dollars, anil for each additional knot two hundred thou sand dollars. The aggregate of the appro priation $31,800,000, has not been changed. Mr. Hale repotted back from the Naval Committee, with an. amendment, the bill introduced by him yesterday to provide for an increase of tbe Naval Establishment, and gave notice that he will call it up at an early day..-. ,,.,., .; - Jv ,. The amendment appropriates $3,000,000 for the armament of the vessels, for the construction of which the bill provides. The bill now appropriates $15,400,000. The Sena'e, at 12:59. resumed considera tion of tbe Post Office appropriation bill; the question being on tbe amendment ap propriating $500,000 for mails to South America... . -;f j . Mr. Morgan moved to amend tho subsidy amendment by inserting instead of the word "built," the words "owned and offi cered.'' so that the sentence will read, "For the transportation of foreign : mails by American armed and officered steamships." Also, to add a paragraph as follows: "Such Steamships, so owned and officered should be entitled to be registered and li censed as American built ships are. while they are employed in the execution of said i contracts for the transportation I of foreign mails." .. , ! After lone debate, which drifted into the question of tariff and free trade. a vote was taaen on Mr. Morgan s free ship amend ment, and it was rejected yeas 19. navs 31. as follows: - , ) ' Yeas Beck. Berry. Call. Cockrel I.Coke. Eustis, George, Hampton.Eenna. McPber- sou, Maxsey. Morgan, Payne, Pugh, Ran som. Haulsbury, Vance, Walthall and Wil son of Maryland 19. i Hays Allison. - Blair. Bo wen. Cherrv. Ingalls, McMillan, Mahone, Miller, Mitch ell or Oregon, aiornn, t'aimer. nan, Plumb, Riddleberger, Sawyer,! Sherman, ; Spooner. Teller, Williams audi Wilson of Iowa 31. Several pairs were announced. Mr. Morgan moved to amend by adding to the Senate amendment tbe wor.ie, "One of the lines of steamships to carry mails provided for in .this act should be required to sail to and from a port of the Gulf of Mexico or the Mississippi river, " Agreed to without divison. H After still further discussion the amend-. ment offered by Mr. Frye was: agreed to without division. It makes the committee amendment apply to all South; American and Central American Republics . f The subsidy amendment, as amended; was then adopted yeas 86. nays 14 - The bill was then passed without divi sion. ana aiur a secret session tne senate adjourned, r i I HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Immediately after the reading of the Journal, Mr. Scott, of Penn.. demanded the regular order, and called up the Senate bill for the retirement and recoinage of the tradedollar. i, . I Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri, raised tho point of order that the Committee on Labor was entitled to tho floor . under - a prior special order, made in May last; that the special order had been made under a suspension of the rules in May last by a two-thirds vote; and he contended that it could not be set aside by the majority vote of the. House noon tbe resolution reported by tbe .uom mittee on Rules. Such a course would turn the making of a special order by a two-thirds vote into a farce, j The Com mittee on Rules could nullify the action of the House, and to-morrow report a resolu tion setting aside the remainder of the ses sion for the consideration of one particular job, to the exclusion of every prior special order. ., ! ... i - - - r ... ,t The Speaker stated that the order award ing the floor for one day to tne committee on Labor had been made in May last, and was a continuing order. . Subsequently tbe House, not the Committee on Rules, bad set aside a particular day for tbe considera tion of tha Trade-Dollar bill to the exclu sion of all other business.. He overruled tho rwiint nf nrner. If! Mr. U Weill men raised me question pi Rnnsirl oration. ! ' . I. .! ' The House decided yeas 142. nays 101 to consider the Trade-Dollar bill The debate was limited to two hours. At the end of that time, in which over a dozen members had sooken. an amendment me joint production of L&nhani of Texas and Warner or Missouri wasagreea to, previa ine that the recoinage of trade dollars re coined under this act shall not bs consid ered as part of the silver bullion required to be Durcbased and coined uoaer tne provi sions of the Bland law. Tho vote -oh the amendment was yeas 127, nays 99. The hill, as amended, was passed 174 to 86. As passed, the bin provides in us nrsi section tnat lor a period oi bix mourns aiier the passage of this act trade dollars if not defaced, mutilated or stamped shall be re ceived at their face value in payment of all dues to tbe United States, and sball not be again paid out. Section two provides that during the above period a holder of trade dollars not mutilated, defacedor stamped, mav receive in exchange, on presentation o same at the Treasury, or any sub-treasury, like account and value, dollar for dollar in standard silver dollars, or j m subsidiary silver coins. . at the option of tne bolder. Section 3 directs that trade dollars received bv the government in payment of dues or in exchange. shall not be 1 said outj but shall be recoined into standard silver dol lars or subaidiarv coin at the discretion oi tha Secretary of the ' Treasury: provided, that recoinaes of trade dollars recoined un der this act, shall not be considered as part of the ailver bullion required to be pur-. chased and coJnedto swnoara aouars m t 7 act .W chased and coined Into standard dollars as Section 4 reneals all laws authorizing: the nninsjra and iasnahce Of the trade dollar, r - The House then went into comminee oi the Whole on the Diplomatic and Consular AwnrooriaUon bilL- Points of order were anotained affsinat ita increasing the salaries at miniatars tn China. Turkey, and the Ar gentine ' Republic. " The committee rose withont f nrther action. ' Messrs. Breckenridge. of Ark., Maybury and Reed were appointed conferees on the bul making a i close season ior macaerei Ashing. i-s ' ' -i The Graham Gleaner is twelve years old. - It is a good country paper and merits tne support oi its section. j :i.-r . NO J 16 i WASHINGTON it Hov 'Another Fenalou;; BUI Wtl-Con cernusi tne.issae .or Oti;and Two JDollarVotf s. 4 . ,J '---:v -I By Telegraph;t6 the Horning Stari ; w WASHtHcraOH.' Feb. 11.-The President has vetoed the Dependent Soldier and Sol dier's Parent Pension bill. ""- j 3 iRepresentative Wever,,of Iowa. states that he has to-day received ..word, from President Cleveland that he has directed Secretary1; (Manning to obey the law con cerning one and two dollar United States notes; and to issue them'. ? That the order was emphatic and given to Manning orally, but would be reduced to writing and de livered to ; the Secretary to-day. : Weaver also states that some days ago, at, bis re quest, a consultation concerning this matter was held at which Speaker Carlisle, Messrs. Morrison. Weaver, Warner. Mills aod. Wil kins were present. Pay sou, of Ills!, and1 Brumm. of Penn.,' were also consulted by Weaver, as were ; also, several other . mem bers of Congress. The opinion seemed to be unanimous that the - law ' bad ; been vio lated, and Mr. Carlisle . was . requested to bring the matter to the attention or tho President. One of these gentlemen Is au thority for the statement that when , the President's attention was called to the mat ter he very promptly declared iha the Treasury Department was wrong, ' and hence his order as above staled. " ! . At the : White House no information in regard to the foregoing is obtainable.except that the President has "written ' no such letter to the Secretary." Beyond this s'atc ment the President remarked that he did not care to say anything on tbe subject. Treasurer Jordan said that no instructions to change the present practice in regard to the redemption and issuance of United States notes had yet reached .his. office. WESTERN FLOODS ' Klslnc Blvers In Indiana and Mlcbl can Great Destruction Threatened V Towns Submerged and Houses Waabed Away. J: . ! : (Bv Telearapb to Lite Morning Star.) Chicago, Feb. 11. A special from Fort Wayne, Indiana, says: Tho Maume. St. Josephs and Mary's rivers rose five feet last night and a flood now threatens to surpass the memorable one of four years ago. A number of families residing in the flooded district of the city have removed to the upper stories of their residences, or have abandoned them altogether, j At River Point, between Fort Wayne and Toledo, great distress is reported. Many factories have shut down and the employes are put to work surrounding the works by dykes. The water is now within one foot of the floor of the principal bridge, and the city must shortly be cut off from communica tion by wagon roads from tbe north. Tbe river is rising six inches an hour and rain is falling. - j ' Dbtboit, Feb. 11. Tbe Evening Jour naVs specials from Lyons, Mich , indicate that there is danger that a considerable portion of the town will be swept away by the flood occasioned by tbe gorging of ice just below the town. Maple j and Grand rivers intersect at Lyons, above tbe gorge; both are at a flood, and every tributary stream is in a similar condition 1 Another great ice gorge has formed near Lansing, which is on Grand river above" Lyons. There is great fear of its breaking, in which case there will not be much left of Lyons unless the Ly ons gorge breaks first. Three houses at Lyons have be?u swept away and demolished. K large num ber have been damaged ty tbe pushing wa ter and ice. and still more flooded four to' six feet in depth above the ground level. ths!an8atn&d IcwTe: Three Rivers is Burroundedf with water, all the railroad shops are closed and mil lions of feet of lumber piled in the yards are afloat. I A slight abatement of the flood was no ticed last night at Lyons, but it is on in all its force this morning. Rain fell in torrents till about midnight, when it changed to snow and by daylight fully eight inches of snow and sleet bad fallen. There is a reg ular northeaster with a twenty-mile wind. People are worn out working night and day to save tneir property, a rougn estimate of the damage makes the aggregate between $75,000 and $100,000 tnus larJ . The Journals special from Monroe says:. The river Raisin has been slowly rising fori the last 24 hours, but the ice j has broken,! giving free paesag3 to the lake. ' The banks of tbe river are lined with immense walls of ice and frozen snow, rising eight or ten: feet above the present high j water mark; and great fields of ice of the same thickness fill all the streets adjacent to tne river. j ! The Journal Jackson special says: ine pressure of water in Grand riyer on the mill pond opposite tbe city was too great, ana last night the sluices were opened, with tbe result that the water rose several feet and the Grand Trunk bridge is now under water. The Hurd Hotel basement has two feet of water in it. Cellars in business blocks in the centre of the town are all flooded from 18 inches to 2i feet. The State fair grounds are completely sub merged, and at the large tract b of land In tbe south part of tbe city known as Mitchell's addition, the water is up to the floors of the dwellings. Tbe tate prison wans stand in tbe midst of a lake. i ; ..: . -.; GEORGIA. .,::. ; . . j j l ' Terrible Fire In Angusla- Opera Home, masonic Bail and - Otner Bnlldlngs Destroyed Tne Globe and Central Hotels Badly Damaged. ; ; - : - Bv Tele&raph to the Horning Star.; -' ! Augusta. February 12, 7 P- M. A terri ble fire is raging here. The town is Jit up from market to market a distance oi a mile and a half and everybody fs wild with excitement. The fire department seems powerless to check the flames, and a most disastrous- burning ;is precicteo. The splendid Masonic Hall land Theatre, where the fire originated; the Globe Hotel, the stores of Daly & Armstrong and James G. Bailie, are already gutted, and tne cen tral Hotel. J. B. White's extensive whole Bale and retial stores, A:.J. Gouyer's shoe house, tho Chronicle office, ana intervening building are seriously threatened. ! t Th fire broke out at 6 o'clock and is now ' 1 MAM AamaIv tk.n . . .n Mma olVioo tbe burning was begun. 9.80 P. M. Tbeflre-Ts now under con- trol. -- . . " i 1-1- The-Masonic building, a large and im posing structure on Broad street, and the Opera House, in' which Mrs. Bowens play ed "Lady Audley's Secret," at a matinee this afternoon, ana tne large stores ui Armstrong & Bailie, and Ccstkery are to tally destroyed. The Globe hotel, Central totel and stores of J.B. White & Company re badly damaged.but to what extent can not yet be stated. ' ! Mrs, Bowens ana ner company jobi iueir wardrobes. ; U't ' r' 'J' r . The Are is still burning, but mere is no apprehension of further .damage. Several mall stores were destroyed. -. : , ; S ' NORTH. CAROLINA. Hon. J, Jm Davis Appointed to sue- eeed'Jndse Asbe on tne Snpreaae Conrt Benen. - . ' j . : Br Telecraph to the Horning Btar. j . RAT.BTGH. N. C. February 12. Gover nor Scales last night appointed Hon. J. J Davis, of Franklin county, to the place on the Supreme Court Bench made vacant by the death of Associate justice Asne. ms. Davis was a member oft the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses from this Dis trict. - FOREIGN. Destruction of tne Hotel Continental i-. j' - in Berlin t Fire. Br Cable to the Homing Star. . ' Nbw Your. Feb.' 12. The American Exchange in Europe have, received a cable dispatch from its Berlin agency, that the Hotel Continental, in that city, is envel oped in flames. The fire is raging through out tbe building. Great excitement pre vails. ' , - ! - ' Spirits Turpentine. Ex-Representative H Held :': has not returned to his borne as reported nor is it known in Rockingham county" that he j has settled with his creditors.J ; , - j 4 j - Washington Progress: The fish ing season has fairly set in and tbe catch is f very good. An old fisherman informs us .1 that he never saw terrinea in such onncti- "r I, tieitbis early in the season. before: white snaa, - too,j ate plentiful, one; fisherman catching twenty in one night last week. . ! 44 Greensboro . Workman: v . There h was an exciting affair yesterday in the im- j mediate, vicinity of Sandy'Ridge church, iai the western part of this coutyk. Tho names L of the persons figuring in the affair will sp-1 pear in the rccitaL Squire I: J. A; Davis j was in his low grounds engaged in doing a I job of ditchibg: ; Bbury llol brook ) sp j proached Davis, saying, "your tithe- and ; mine, ft about up. and yours is up now," Wheni these words were dnished Hoi brook j ' drew out a pistol, aimed at Davis and fired, i the ball striking him in a fishy part of the ; arm. Davis closed with his antagonist, j : tripped him, secured the pistol and I used j " tne duw over uoiorook's head until he was Subjugated. , ; v -i : w uson ..- Mirror: The Kev. Robt. P, Pell has been called to the Pres-1 byterian Church in this place, and will reach here about tha middle of this month J tHe is a son of theJateRev. W. B Pell. a. prominent Methodist. --Etar. j- Tbo Bar of Wilson and other citizens have peti-i . tioned to Gov. Scales to appoint the Hon, J.-J. Davis to the Judgeship made vaoant by ,tha death of Judge Ashe.i A glori ous scene was witoesgedat the Meihodiet" Church on Sunday mornlngj when a goodly number of our best and)noblest hearted and most prominent, and influential citizens ; Stood at the altar and announced their emancipation from tha bitter thraldom of a wicked life, and vowed their consecration to the glorious cause of Christianity, j j Monroe Enquirer-Express: It is an indisputable fact that during the past year drunkenness and disorder have greatly-diminished in Monroe. It is to be -hoped that we will neverl aet back to li censed grog shops. -Gto. Hoke says: "The railroad will assuredly be built." Whether Monroe will get it or not depends ; largely upon the encouragejrr.ent which tho enterprise will receive at the hands of our people. With the railroad completed from Monroe to. Atlanta we would have one of tbo best grain markets in tbe South . Cabarrus and Stanly counties aro among -the best grain counties in the 8tate, While a large amount is raised in I Union, 'Meck lenburg and Anson, and all of this would find market here to supply the trade on tho . uoe oi iub roau. " I - 1 i Wadesboro Intelligencer: On Friday a colorod boy, aged 111 years, living with Mr. A. D. Liles, near1 this place, was killed by a falling tree, his skull being crushed: One year ago we chronicled the death of Mr. Thomas Tucker,- of this county, who was the father Of twenty-eight children. The Ptanly Observer beat this by citing Mr. David Coble, of that county, 76 years old and still hale and. robust, who beat Anson's time by one he being the -' father of twenty-nine children.. Pat Hawkins "gin a fcstibal" atl his house one , night last week. A cake was put: up at auction, and Pat and Henry Leak were the chief bidders. Pat out bid Henry and they 4 got mad and quarrelled . . Henry went out doors; fired off his pistol, and, started back -In the house, when Pat drew bis pistol and -shot through the door, but without aiming at anybody. The ball Btruck a colored boy, passing through his arm. j j ; Charlotte Chronicle: Columbus Eaker, a son of Mr. John Eaker, a farmer of Gaston county, was killed by a falling limb last Thursday. A vigorous war fare is being waged in Charlotte against sin in all its forms. Not that our city is more wicked than other places, "but because the christian feeling is becoming more active in tbe effort to do fellow men good. When some one started in the direction, of the two negroes (after the train on the C. C. Railroad was wrecked) they ran off and escaped in the darkness. Tracks in the soft mud showed where the two men had made a detour and came back to the embankment overlooking I the' wreck. A tbeir capture almost certain, uoi. .u. u. 'Jones, Superintendent, offers a reward of $500 for the capture of the- guilty parties. The engine is badly wrecked and the bfx cars damaged to the extent of $1,500. j Salisbury Watchman: j From all parts of the State come reports of the arrival of the mining machinery, destined to the various mining districts. - Probably not less than $100,000 worth has arrived this month. Some enterprising noitn- j i ernere have opened a new corunarum mine near the Buncombe county line in Madison, and have begun operationn on an extensive scale. - Transylvania is one of those mountain counties which depends almost exclusively on railroad invasion for its development,- At present it is abould 20 miles to the nearest depot from Brevard, the county town. - The proposed At lanta, Asbeville aod Baltimore I railroad ' will bisect tbe county in a line conformable with the trend of the mountain, ranges bordering it. The Georgia Legislature has granted a charter to the. company, and the Legislature of this State! will do the same thing in a few days. The contemplated route will touch the counties of Macon, . Jackson, Transylvania, Buncombe, Madi . son, Yancey, Mitchell. Watauga, Ashe and . Alleghany. It is a grand scheme s one th at will require money and energy, j " Charlotte Chronicle : An Order of the Brotherhood of. Locornotive Fire men is being formed in this city, and a number of applications have been received. ; The Statesville American newspaper and job office this morning passed Into the hands of Sir. A. B. Gillespie, as editor and proprietor, Mr. E. B. Drake, long Ita ed itor, having retired to engage in another pursuit. He is perhaps the oldest editor in the State, having entered journalism in 1840, in Mississippi, -j Tne ! Salvation Army band will leave ! this city ou the 1 nvtnrk tmin for Columbia. S: C. this af ternoon, but Capt. Yoder amttwo young ladies from the North will remain here and prosecute the work of the Army. Hence forth the Salvation Army will be composed mainly of converts made in Charlotte, and as they number over 100 souls. ( the Army will be no small affair. I From all in dications it seems that the Republican lead- . era in this State are again at loggerheads, and this time over thej Railway Commis sion bill. The breach la still open, and Dr. Mott and J. C. L. IHarris have locked horns. - . - i !'-.' , Raleigh News-Observer: It is said that H. W. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, has been invited to deliver the addressjbeforetho literary societies of Wake t College next June, and that be will probably accept. (- The military con vention met in this (city yesterday at 3 o'clock p. m. A good number of the offi cers of the State . Guard were present. A resolution was offered! that a committee of five be appointed to meet at Raleigh or at some convenient point at some convenient time, and draft a bill to regulate and con trol the military service of the State. The resolution was adopted, and W. B. , Rod man. Jr., C. F. Warren, W. J. Griffin, E. B. Engelhard and Wj A. Bobbitt were ap pointed. A resolution was offered request- . ing the Governor to organize the several ' regiments of the Slate into a brigade, -and. appoint a brigadier-general. A substitute to the resolution was offered that tbe mat ter be referred to a ( committee to be ap pointed to memorialize the Legislature. A committee to memorialize tho General : Assembly was appointed, consisting of Dr. h Eugene Grissom. Gen . JobnBtone Jones, j Col. John W. Cotten, Major: I. A. Sugg, Captain T. R. Robertson. Captain W. A. , Bobbitt and W. B. Rodman, Jr. : The corf- V' vention adjourned to meet this morning at 11 o'clock. ; Examinations of appli j." cants for license to practice law were con cluded yesterday, and licenses werre grant ed -to the following1: John C. Slocumb, : Sampson county; Hueh K. Boyer, Allegba- , ny countv; Charles D. Crawford, Rowan, county; William J. Exum, Wayne county; Benjamin F. Wood, Cleveland county; Ed ward T. Cansler, Mecklenburg county; T. N. Winslow, Perquimans county; Joseph -C. Pinnix. Jr., Cas well county; Charles E. : , McLean. Guilford county; Isaac A. Mur chison. Cumberland county Stephen P. , Graves, Surry county; William S..Thomp- son, Sampson county; Lillias B. iChapin, Beaufort counjy; Richard C. Gulley. John- . Bton countv: James! A. Hartness, Iredell county; James B. Woods, Iredell county; TrVr A Mnnrn. Pitt countv: JamCS I. J TVpw . Hanover countv : Aaron R. Bridgers, Edgecombe county Jos. Hutcbc- son, craven county. '-4-;,;;4 -',s ..'iv .v'?4i 4-ai!n' m. i Y 1 r 1-5 U.i mm j 4 ' m Uvi't WW m IS . - 'l 4-1 '1 pi- ::. ti 4r ll; A,' '-ti ' . .i ft "I. t-