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' 1 - 1 rr a : ' ' ; " ' : r 1 - r- : : - , ' . . : : ' 1 n ! 1 : : 4 : ; E. It. C. WA Editor and Proprietor. VOL. II. MURTTREESBORO, C, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1877. I 'vwV: THE ORGAN OP THE I ROANOKE f AND MEHERRIN SECTIONS. . ! i SUBSGBIPTION-skod per Annum, in Advance. I ' ' " ' . ' " - 1 - ' ' li n i . i - it I ' 3 I . i ' - .- m " - n - . i - - ' . . i ; w - . .1 I , ". i f I a- : MURTTREESBORO. C. THUESDAY. MARCH 15. 1877. I ! O, 20. ! , 1 ! . 1 . , u . I , , 1. m , , . . t . i , , ( . i i . I i , l 1 Sunshine.. I eat in darkened chambeif Near by eSn'g a finy Inrd:' ! .' ' Through all my deep pain and sadiiess, A wonderful aoug I koftrd. i The birdling bright aaug in th sunlight From put of a golden throat ; The song of love he waa Ringing m. Grew sweeter with ev'rr note. I opened my casement wider, ,. To welcome the song I heard : Straiglxt into my waiting bosom ' Flew sansh ne and song and birdi Ko longer I now am highing ; The reason canst thou divine ? The birdling with me. abideth, , And sunshine and song are mine MY GREAT-AUNT'S WILL I am a clerk m a country' store, and, sometimra I '"wish I'd been a martyr in! i hose dvys Tvu.eu they stretched peoplej on beds .of spikes or roasted them on a gridiron. Then I think I could have taken a little comfort in Hfe. ' i One tine 'morning while I was weigh ing out half a pound of black tea, rnyj fellow- sufferer in the dry eroods and grocery infliction called out : j "Here's a lady inquiring for yon, Sam. " In distinct outline before the door stoo 1 a little weman, her skirts spread out by a triangular hoop like the skirts' of the female figures we used to draw on oar slates at school. I came up t a make! my bow, and saw she had deposited a brown willow basket on tha show case and droppeci a black glazed bag at her; side. She wore a stringy kind of ishawl,! with fearfully long fringe, and seemed to be afflicted with numb palsy. ' " Are you my nephew Sam'wel :'" ask- ed she. ' .J'.- j My . name is Simnel Haynes, uia am. "I'm your father's aunt. Ijoueezer. Haynes." . I . ' ' ' I'm glad .to see you, Aunt Lcuisa.'' She looked at me shaqjly, as if I was making fun of her. I suppose it is be-! cause the corners, of my mouth turn tip, people are always suspecting me o : mak ing fun of .them. I wish th6se cbraersl would sink, and wonder they don't. " I'm your only living female relative on the father's side," said she.! My business experience wifh females had been so imbittering, I was g lad to learn she was the only one on the father's side. ' As you've no mother, I ffeel it my duty to help make a home for jyoujr Instantly I remembered that Aunt Louisa was worth seventy-five thousand. I think I learned that fact in early years Aunt at the parental knee. . j "I'm delighted to see ybu, Louisa. I'll go right down to any board mg place with you." Hence, wjth a brown willow basket in one hand and a shinv leather" bacr in the 4 other, and my great-aunt trottiing blehind why undar heaven she didn jfc Avalk by my side I couldn't see ! wemeaqdered down the street. AVe met Evelina Angelia Plimpton. I was engaged to Evelina Angeha. I had enjoyed that honor ever sines onfr July evening wJien there came irp a sudden thunder shower and she clasped my arm and ejaculated she was so!tini-id.j" An engagement was an annual episode with Evelina. When I solemnly asked Pa Plimpton's consent, he didn't remove his pipe from his mouth, but jiisfc nodded and pursued his previous - train of. thought. upon me, Evelina! smiled patronizingly Deference to the agjed l! knew - - - - - -,-r sJie considered beautiful. ' : J My aunt didn't like my boarding pla and wasn't pleased with my !boardh0 mistress. She tliought we'd better keep house, and I spent the next fortnight house hunting with her. The great de sideratum seemed to lie tne right kind of a " buttery ;" one would have sup posed butter was to be the stajff of life with u5. Wp at last found a ' buttery ' on the northwest corner, opNinin into! both kitchen and dining-roo ai, having the requisite number of cupboards, hav-; ing shelves that admitted of b 3;ngj taken out in house -i cleaning, time, pahited a bewitching cream. color ; and e engaged that buttery, regardless of cost or the character of the neighbors. 1 The next momentous step wa3 to get my aunt's " things " moved. ! I had to go to her former,' place of abcjde to see about getting the things en route, and Iliad to " meet thjmr with a carriage " at our depot. I f lti like a col lector of antiquities just getting! an as sortment Over from Egypt. I j shall ever feel grateful to the small boys of our vil lage for their self-restraint on this tempt ing occasion I don't recollect a single opprobrious epithet. They treated my loads with a respect to which nothing but hoaryhairs could entitle tiiem. j There xpna ache Asa nresfl. and I don't know: but a cider mill j there was some thing, with four tremendously heavy legs j I always believed to be some thing in disguise' of ; a bedstead. ' There were j seven bandboxes (four large and three; small), five feather beds, seven f teen comfortables, and a firreat rfpal Af crockery which evidently came over in the Mayflower, but had much better have put back to land in the Speedwell. j I need not say hat our residence when furnished was - neat but not gaudy. I slepfc,under a " rising sun " bed quilt, and had a round braided mat to put my feet on.wlien,rl-got,out in themorningv I sighed for my former cozy quarters, but I remembered my aunt's valuation, and reasoned that if she was my only living female" relative on the . father's side, jl must of necessity" be her only living male relative on tlie mother's side. Soon after we were domesticated, I found that my aunt was subject to mys-. terioiis attacks, which attacks invariably seized her in the night time, and made it imperative that I should run for the doc tor. Liability to these attacks precluded the possibility of . my being away from home evenings, excepting Sunday and Thursday evenings, when I was expected to see my aunt to prayer meetings and attend her home, though Evelina went off in an opposite direction with another fellow. I didn't know. but justice both to myself and Evelina demanded that I should have a conversation with my aunt, and setjbefore her, in. Language which even a child might understand, my views of the duties and privileges of an en gaged man ; but I felt extremely doubt ful of her j sympathy, and seventy-five thousand was a good deal to risk. We kept one servant, whose wages my aunt thought it right I should pay, be cause, as she said, if there was no one but herself, she shouldn't keep a girl. Our cuisine was managed with strictest regard to economy. " " We lived largely upon; soup, which consisted principally of broth. My aunt highly esteemed mar row bone3.! I wonder if it is generally known among physiologists how long a healthy person c .a subsist on a persist ently boiled marrow bone ? For two or three years I had been in the habit of smoking a single cigar at the close of the day's labors. One even ing I was sitting ' on the piazza indulg ing in this luxury, when out came my aunt. j'Sam'wel !" cried she smoking ?" are you f' Yes'm," very meekly. f Well," said she, calmly but firmly, "none of my money shall ever go up in cigar smoke. " Then again : ' 'How much do you pay for cigars ?" "Ten cents." 4 Now, Sam'wel, I want you to take your pencil and calcidate how much ten cents ? a day will amount to in a year, then how much in fifty years, then I want you to put this sum at compound inter est, and see how much it will amount to by the time you are seventy-five Years of age. , It struck me that ,1 had. somehow, during my lifetime, met with similar problems, but I conscientiously- made the calculation. -"Aunt," cried I, 44 I'm perfectly ap palled. Never did I dream of this. Of what mad extravagance have I been guilty VI and wildly I hurled my cigar into tke camomile bod- It became, generally known through out bur village that my aunt was wealthy and I was heir-expectant, and I soon per ceived that whether or not I ever ob tained the gold, I was going to have the gloryi At a'ntown me e ing, legally call ed, and with the moderator in tke chair, I w3 elected one of nine prudential committe-men ; duty 44 to se about getting the wood."" 'Our abbath school pointed me" delegate to a conference at : rningf ord ; privileges lose my time, Jtrv". iajPiOv,-:i lareciiange cars ' twice, stage it five f miles over "a country read and' through a November landscape; prospects add res3 by Deacon Thomas Jones; music, 44 Shall we gather at the river?".. "iN; v I ' ; . I secured tlie position of watchman at our store ! every ' other Sunday i night. Annt asked me if I expected extra pay for this service, and I said I did, Eve lina had talked of green reps for our parlor, but I found that calculations had now ascended to some kind of rose-colored something, value about treble that of the reps.' , r ' Auiit was at length seized with an '.'at tack' of mo.e than, ordinary violence. I called three physicians, for I shrunk from exposing myself to tho irresponsi .ble village gossip which might accuse me of not employing every effort for the pro longation of her life. With three doc tors in attendance, she not Unreasonably felt that this attack would prove final, and sent for a lawyer. I was in a state of great nervous trepidation. ' : Is there anything I can do for yon, aunt?" ' ' .'.:. - ; Nothing now." ' Jlas your nurso arrang vour pil low3 cjuite cgrnf ortable ?" t 'f Perfectly comfortable."' i Solemn . scenes have no place in this narrative, and I pass on to the time when we were assembled for the reading of the will then lawyer, thie doctor, the minis ter, and myself. That instrument ran as follows . "fr . . f - 1 " After paying my just dues and my funeral expenses, and providing a suit able monument, I give and bequeath to my beloved nephew, Samuel jO. Haynes, his heirs and assigns, for their use and behoof forever, all my wearing apparel and personal ornaments, with the excep tion of my gold beads, which j I bequeath; to mv i namesake Louisa Havnes. of St. Joseph, Missouri; lall my beds and bed ding, household utensils and furniture, with the exception of my great arm chair, which, as it came ir on the I Jones side, , I wisho go to some; deserving member of that family." 1 1 also give - my nephew Samuel five ddllars, with which to buy a reference Bible in my remembrance, and also the sealed paper of instructions ac companying; this instrument, which I wish him to read a year hence in the presence of the witnesses now assembled for the reading of this my will. ' "Tfie remainder of my property, both real and personal, with the excep tion of! the legacies hereinafter named, I bequeath to the American Missionary Society, neither legacies nor bequests to be paid until a year and a day hence." When the lawyer was through reading, I had no clear idea to whom these legacies- were devised, but I remarked that the American missionary society was a most worthy organization. ; Thcnature of the will was soon made public. Popular sentiment was that of resignation, j not to say satisfaction, on my account. ! My companions, who had never een why deserving merit in my case should meet such disproportionate reward, while their own plpdded along on a weekly stipend with no great-aunt's estate fin prospective, naturally experi enced a revival of confidence in the equi table government of the universe. El derly friends in church and Sabbath school felt that I had cause Jpr rejoicing in being spared the snares and tempta tions jwhichj accompany wealth. My employer privately expressed: the opinion that I had been getting above my busi ness, and he was glad to see mej tat en down a peg. Evelina said : 44 Never mind ; we don't care for money." But not many days ,itett Evelina told me she had be gun to realize what a solemn ordinance was matrimony ; she and I were both young? and had our way to I make, and she thought perhaps, for the! present, it would be better for us to consider our selves nly friends. I said: 44 Very well," and I felt that I was a lonely bark tossed on a wild and watery waste. j I had read of instances similar P mine wherothe sealed packet or the od Bible proved to .contain bank notes;; but finger the paper left me as I ; would, could make nothing of it but paperj ; For a yearj l went calmly but hopeless ly forward in the dry goods and grocery way, and - we then assembled for the opening of my sealed orders-the lawyer, the doctor, the minister, and myself. The first " words that met my eyes a3 I unfolded ' the paper were: ; 44 And all former wills by me made I do hereby re voke,") etc. I With palpating heart I passed the document to the lawyer. Af ter provisions and legaciesl similar to those in the first instrument, I this lat ter, document proceeded as follows : " TO the American Missionary Society I give and bequeath the siim of twenty five thousand dollars. " " "To my beloved nephew; Samuel O. Haynes, wh6 I hope may have learned, during the year that has elapsed, lessons of wisdom more valuable than money, I bequeath the sum of twenty-fife thousand dollars which I direct my xecutor to pay over to said Haynes as soon as may D3 ? convenient I further (direct my executor to annually pay to said Haynes the income from the remainder of my property, both real and personal, and to pay from the principal to said Haynes on his thirtieth birthday, if he be living, or to his jlieirs Jor assigns if deceased, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and to pay to Said Hayne3 on his j thirty-fifth birthday the remainder erf m j property, be it more or less." I I went down to the store just as usual the next morning, for I wished to show people that I had loo good sense to have my head turned. When I filled our best customer's molasses jug with kerosene, I knew I haol demonstrated my coolness. The chairman of the board of select men wanted jto know what I! should ad- ise in- regard to rebuilding the Piper stone bridge j; the doctor asked what my candid opinion was concerning the com parative merits of muriate of ammon'a a id iodide o! potassium in! a case of pleuriti3 where egophony denotes slight effusion, but with strong indications of adhesion of the mediastinum; and the minisier said there, was an article on " Serni-Pelagianism in the Fourteenth Century " in the Bibliotheca Sacra he thought I would enjoy -perusing. As I stood on the hall doorstep after singing school that evening, Evelinft game out and said she, trfth a little back or me; shiver : ' Oh, how da-ark it is !" J- It flashed! across pie, as I offered my arm for escort home, that to the femi nine '" imagination matrimony on the in come of . seventy-five thousand is natur ally a less ' solemn ordinance " than on a precarious salary of ! eight dollars a week, and nothing found but peppermint drops. i Presently Evelina remarked : ,' Aren't you very lonely since your aunt died ?" tender emphasis on the onelyV My aunt had been dead a year, and j Evelina " en gaged " at least once in tho mean timel 1 Not at alf; my time and attention vkare Jikely to be'ehtlrely absorbed in busi- -r , -' j . , --. , " No one can rejoice more sincerely in your good fortune than do I, Samuel." 44 1 don't doubt it, Evelina; I shall al ways feel"c6nfident of your friendship." I leave Evelina at her cottage gate, and I feel that , ! i v j 6f all the glad words of tongue or of I pen, The gladdeft are these "It wasn't to have been." j .- , . The next afternoon my employer in vited nieto be seated behind the railing that fenced in our office, and, said he, laying his hand on my shoulder with a confidential, a parental, a sacrificial air : j 44 Samuel, I have been reflecting upon liny duty to you. "Kou are a young man just starting in life, and starting in some respects under favorable circumstances, but everything depends upon your start ing right. You have always been faith ful to my interests, and I have deter mined to show my appreciation of that faithfulness. I have decided to sell out 0 you !" j A glance at the door showed ' jn e that 1;he way of escape was not cut off. 1 44 With all the varied interests of the business you are already -familiar; wre are yearly drawing in more of the trade from 4urrounding towns; we have the confi dence of our customers; we have the Confidence of wholesale dealers jwe can buy to the best advantage. . To all these privileges you will succeed. Rarely is there such an opening for a youngj man. Consult our books, consider our profits, reflect upon the income from the; post Oftice " I 44 Sir," interrupted I,in thunderous tones, 44 by the blessing of Providence and the benevolence of my aunt,! who is to have a .monument that will bring a glow to the bosom of the president of our cemetery association, I am now the recipient of a modest competence and shall I squander more years of precious life on vulgar, soul-wearying dry goods and groceries, subject ever to the fluctu ations of Amoskeags and Pepperejlls, or shall I live, on my income and avail my self of the humanizing influences of lei sure and culture ? Conscience and the voice of reason within my soul cry, 4 Live on your income 1' Never more will I lift my aching eyeballs to scan yon top shelf for cotton batting and Agawani mixed; never shall my trembling fingers seek to fit on -warped pasteboard box covers; never shall my wearied ears be greeted by the ceaseless tinkle j of the money-drawer bell, or my sated nostrils by the odors of the grinding coffee ! No more shall the brown paper bag and the white cotton string mingle in all my dreams ! Sir, I hate tea, detest salera tujs, abhor codfish, and loathe that post oflice and three-cent stamp 5 !" ! I was done, and I knew by thehivsh that fell upon that store that whatever else I uiijrht be. I was an orator. Harper' Magazine. A Sensible 3Iother. ! It is really pitiful to see a good, con scientious little mother resolutely shut ting herself away from so much; that is best and, sweetest in her children's lives, for the slake of tucking their dresses and ruffling their petticoats. How surprised and grieved she will be to find that her boys and girls, at sixteen, regard 'moth er " chiefly as a most excellent person to keep shirts' in order and to make new dresses, and not as one to whom they care to go for social companionship ! Yet, before, they are snubbed put of it by repeated rebuffs, , such as j j? 4 Knn away, I'Ai too busy to listen to your non sense," children naturally go j to j their mothers jwith all their sorrows and pleas ures, and if 4 4 mother" can only enter into all their little plans, how pleased they are ! Such a shout of delight av l heard last summer from Mrs. Priendly's croquet 'ground, where her two( little girls were playing ! Oh, goody j goody. momma is coming t play with us !'! She was a busy mother, too, and I know' would have much preferred to use what few moments of recreation she could snatch, for something more interesting than playing croquet with little children, not much! taller than their mallets: She has often said to me : ' 44 1 cannot let my children -grow away from me, I must keep right along with them all tho time, and whether it is croquet with the little ones, , or Latin - gram mar and base ball with the boys, French dictation and sash ribbons with the girls, I must be j in it 1 as far as I m."- ferf&fter fr wh. The Electoral Commission. Mr. Evarts argued for the Republicans "thjat the certification of .. electors by & State is firfal and not reviewable by Congress or any tribunal that Congress can create." He held that the: Federal government can confer nothing uppn a State, since it came into existence by the consent of -the States ; that it has the right Sto create electors, and that the general goverumebt has no right to inquire behind the' fact,, and that the only power that could have been de f egated by Congress, to the commission is t power to count without scrutinizing the el torai votes. !; ; . . 1 1 He took KTOuhd in regard to tho certification oi ine jLiomsiana electors. -fclrst Tnat Keuogg, whom thj9 opposi counsel liad admitted to be governor fie faext in their printed offer of proofs had a right to mate the certrhcation. 1 - Second That the facts rendered to the & ernor concerning the election warranted him an making it. Also tnat the certificates of tne alleged ineli gible electors Brewster, surveyor general,- and Levisee, port commissioner formed a proper antL lawful part of the recorded resnlt. ijie held that the commission could not understand the real condition of Louisiana, and charging intimidation as an offset to the usurpation and illegal action charged, he said : "Tho violen tnat ' raviunes. or tne iraua tnat secretly p loins the virtue and the right of American ci zens which is the worst j In regard to the , ineligibity of IJrewster ai d Levisee he said that the Constitution was n )t guilty of the folly of prescribing that aSta e should not elect to the office of elector i n honored citizen who fills , within its borders a Skice of public trust. The State has a right 1 o ecide for itself what electors it will choose ; ' to Bay that an ineligible man can't be elected is to say that the forbidden fruit couldn't I e eaten. In respect to these two electors, they (have been elected, and the State is not to te tripped up in a transaction satisfactory to i self by any extraneous evidence of the fact." f Judge Campbell, for the Democrats, said the t the President, being a Federal officer, the p htical head of the whole people, and their cr -ation, they have a right, through this tribuna to inquire into hi origin. " Vhere," he aektc 4 4 where else will every man in the United Stat s be represented in the final decision i" The jurisdiction of: the Federal government over the decision in this case is, he .argued, abac i lute. The State received permission to appoir t Presidential electors from the Federal Const t tution ; nay, it received a command to tha i effect. . Each State, by the terms of the Con stitution, " shall," that is to say, is required ta appoint Presidential electors. He said that thfr count of electoral, votes has more than ones been proved to be by the sufferance of Cor -. gress, since Congress did use its power to r -ject the electoral vote of seven States fcr President oh the ground that they were in rc bsllion. He remarked that the power in tha States to appoint electors was a trust power rc -turned to the States, and 44 not a. bauble to be played with. If," ho said, "the voice of a, State, as uttered in the choosing of electors, tb& an uncertain voice,! Congress can refuse to hear it. You must be (assured that it is the Stat ii that speaks to you before you count its vote?;! The State's voice is not sure to be uttered br a corporation, a rehurning board.1! j j He said that unless Congress could remedy i fraud the people of Louisiana would be lefjt without, remedy at all against! any, even th most atrocious and transparent, frauds of "a r turniner board. I That the Election act of 187 in Louisiana repealed all acts and parts of act J A 1 A.1 .? 1 i. 11 previous to it, ana consequently wipea out in sections in the act of 1868 providing for a mod of election. Therefore, as" the subsequent ac of 1872 provided no method, the returnra board was required by its oaths to count th original returns made by the commissioners -o election; but, iastead of doing this, it accepte what a witness has called a "con tabulate statement " by the supervisor. That the omis oinn rrrm flinn 4-Viof Via rnflKtal rf fVlia rfitnrTl ing board to fill the vacancy wliich occurred, ana which, in despite of the provision of 1 the law under which it acted, providing that all poli tical parties should be represented on it, acted throughout with four members of one :politica party only, vitiates all its proceedings. 4 I In secret session of the commission Mr. Hoar submitted the following : - , , I f Ordered. That the evidence be not received ' Mr. Abbott offered the following as k substil tute: Resolved. That evidence bo received to show that so - much of the act of Louisiana as estab-f lisb.es the returning board for that Sta e is un-t constitutional, and the acts of the said return ing board are void. This was reiected bv the following vote Yeas-r-Messr3. Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, FieldJ Hunton, Pavne and Ihurman 7. j Navs Messn. Bradley, Edmunds, Freling huysen, Garfield, Hoar, Miller, Morton aiwl Strons 8. A number of ! other resolutions of a similar! nature were presented by the Democrats, but m every case thev were voted down the vote standing in each cae 8 to 7. Senator Morton then offered the following ? Iiesolved. That the persons named asj elector H in certificate number one were the lawful elec tors of the State of Louisiana, and that theh votes arc the votes provided by the Constitution lit the United States, and wiould be counted lot President and Vice-President. i The resolution was adopted by a votie of 8,td 7, as follows : . Yeas Messrs. Bradley, Edmunds, Uiiysen. Garfield, Hoar, Miller, 3Ior Ufivinnr S Freling on tiixcL j Nays Messrs j Abbott, Bayard, Clifford, Field Hunton. Pavue and Thurman-7, . I ! Justices Miller and Bradley and Bep;resenta4 tive Hoar were then appointed a comiiittec to lro-ff a rotvirt tf ihf i1rvinnTi. .with a brief statement of the reasons therefor,' to be signed by the members agreeing theremv-aild to b transmitted to the Joint session of the twq houses as required by the Electoral act. If The report was signed by Measral 3Iiller, Rtroner. Bradley. Edmunds. Morton, i rehng huysen, Garfield follows r- i The Electoral ana iioar. ;i ne report is aa "c3tumidsi6n having received! certain certificates and papers purporting to bd certificates of the electoral votes of the State of Louisiana, and certain papers accompanying the sarne and the objections thereto, report that it has dnlv considered the same, land has decided and doe3 hereby decide that the votea tf.Wm. Pitt Kellogg. O. 1L Urewst A. T TT Levisee, Oscar Jeff non, Peter Jotev Birch, L. A. Sheldon, and Morris Mark in the ertmcate or win. 'itt iseuogg overnoii r.f ftr( SfAtfl Twhich votes are certihe by said persons as appears by the certificates eubmittedj to the commission as aforesaid, and marked number one by said commission, and herewith returned) are the votes provided for by the Con stitution of the United States, and that thj same are lawfully to be counted as therein cer. tified namely; eight vot os for Buthejrford B. Hayes, of the State of Ohio, for President, and eight vote3 for Win. A. Wheeler, of the State of New York, for Vice-President. The com mission also decides aud reports that the eight persons first be 'ore uamed were amy appointee electors in and by the said State of Louisiana, j 1 The ground of this decision, stated nneny, Mihstanti&llv as follows : i TTint. it. is tiot eomoetent to eo into tevidenc aliundi as to the papers opened by the presideu nf the Senate in the presence of .the two house to prove that other persons than thosej regular ly certuied by the governor oi tne tai o; Louisiana, in and aooording to the determina iida and declaration of their appoin incut, in other words, to gt behind tb certifipates ot overnor bo far as it is founded upon the of the returning board.- j e report also states that the commission not riceive any evidence to show that any r was ineligible on the seventh of Novem- he daf of the election, on tlie ground that g. not essential to show that an elector was le on that day so long as he was eligible he caist his vote in the electoral college. find the fact appears that the alleged ineligible lectors, Ujrewster and Levisee, were chosen o nil vacancies caused bv their own absence rojmi the college, and there was no allegation of j ineligibility at the time they cast their fcote.,. .:,! li ii ' ' i ' ..!.!. SmDLUlY OF NEWS. tern ot Interest from Home and Abroad. A youngitoan named W. H. "Weldon,1 claiming d hail ' from Philadelpma and to be a corre- onsdent of the Philadelphia Press, gained ad mission to the private room of Gov. Packard in tew vneaiiu, ana wnue uio governor was coii ersihg with a number of gentlemen prepentj1 nddenly addressed a remark to Mr. Packard, t which the latter turned, oiuv to confront a awn. pisttiL He nromntlv knocked the wcaixm ifowii,' bu it was exploded on the instant, the , lall striking the governor m the knee, inflicting j a severe and painful womid. One of the gentle men "present immediately fired at the would-lio lssasein, sliooting him in tho arm, and he was isecuxed together wih an accouiplico outsifle. l"VeldlO!tt claims there were four in the .band to jihurder Goy. Packard, but tlat the others de serted at tho last momeut. i . . . .The Indians aro Icbmriuttingjall sorts of depredations in Dakot Territory X. . . .Tho revenue officers discovered an extensive system of smuggling f roni Canada, ;4nd arrested two of the principals . . . 1 .Another isteamship has cleared from New Haven. Conn., jitharnis and 'ammunition for the Turkish Rovetomeut, valued at $1,018,608, and consist ing of 10,000,000 Snider cartridges, 420,000 Winchester partridges, 5,800,000 Jlaalini shells, 51,000000 bullet3, 33,600 Martini guns, and 33, 6D0 Martini scabbards. . . : . .The interior of Mexico and 'the Pacific coast States have nil de clared for Diaz. . . . . .A fire in the extensive dry gfoodtf establishment of Edward Ma lley, New itaven, Coiin., caused daulcge to the amount W 875,0001. t.'. Ten ixsrsons were killed and a Mumier fatally injured bv a boiler explosion in President Grant approved, the bill providing' !'br a deficieiicy in the appropriation for tho Atbliifc printing and binding, which reduces tho pmpensatjiqin of compositors from sixty to fifty hbur for tine work . j . . . . The New York Stato fair itianagdrs have decided to hold rt in Boches- tfcr fifbm the seventeenth to the twenty-first of September 1.. .. .-Win slow, the teatm clerk Who letolej the 411,000 package of greenbacks, but affterard refunded the larger part of tho iajnoiiiit, h'i been sentenceoMo eighteen months' iiyipriikmn eint. He lays the c&vise of his down-1 U to the) Use of opium .A '33,uuu elevator Pyoriaij 111.', ownejd by Tyng & Brotherton, A Idestrpted by fire Weldon, who at- mpcea tp assassinate uov. l'acKara, pieaaea iiilly to an assault ith intent to muracr. ne tnuugnx to nave the attfenjiptL as h( een deranged at the time had been drinking heavily &r gome time on ac ount of a love disappoint edly . llpe steamer George Cromwell, from New Sforlt fibr Newf4undland, which has been out fo home tune, is now believed to have 'ilnicpl i-onjFCkpe St. Mary's not far from where the George W ashington, of the same hne, went ddwil p fyw weeks ago. I The thirty persons on bfaFdthe Ci-omwell went down with her . . ptoDlio .ep'nJ an Italian of Brooklyn, N. Y., wentlrto he i'ouHe of his married daughter lpseandj aftej- shooting her, beat her head ter 'riply, withj the butt of his pistol, stabbed her severail tme3 and kicked her fiendishly as sho lab. j oA the flo 3r helpless. The woman subso 43ient(y recovered consciousness enough to ex plain1, Jthe cause of: the deadly assault to be a confession offered by herj to her husband, to whom'she Wad been married but a few months, tcj the effect luat previous to her marriage her father had been guilty of gross improprieties! with IlierJ IThis led to an estrangement be tween atfraid the faniilies ; tho fathepbeing terribly of imprisonment for ins ciime, i ana turoatened ma uaugnter, wiui ueaiii. ii in 1 ? T 1 A " 1 . 1 1 Ti i . 4uU ul if thd woinan recovers. klail and fielegraphic communication has been cstabatshed n the Mexican frontier adjacent to thje jUhite':': States, and that business is begin liihg to pi 2k ub nudi'r tho confidence inspired tnf-tliei DUX administration. .... .The viceroy's officiilj di,s pitch' dattid Feb. ig, states that tho f 4nio4 ih Xorth Arcot, India, is much worse t lhn'lat fifcvptf supposed, and there is great dis tHss in Mysore Sneak thieves gained admis sion1 t j) the banking house of James G. King'i Skmsj in ichv jYoik, and during tho rush ?f bjiisinels Kucceeded in securing a tin box con tilnimg $16Ct00!J in bonds and securities. Tho vaaualdes had been deposited in the vault at the ojvtner'js "riSsj i, As most of the londs were re-gis-tej"ed,notice iva3 immediately given, so that the tWevesi will jtiot be able to realize Wm. H. SSfldle, a, bank cashier atj Minneapolis j Minn., 'vii Hhot iwl killed by Miss Kate Noonan for ntaucitig Phi then deserting her. The young 4ihari, whtjii arrested, manifested no remorso fcj: ithja dejed. Bear Admiral Chas. H. Dais dlied a Vtiaishington of heart disease, at the ago ofsetqntfJ Ho had been in active service fcr fijftv-fonr yetrs A iiroiu Medina, Ohio, de- slfoyeil tfiieiEmpire block and three adjoining bkildihgs t-o.'Jd, 25000 partially insured.. . . A t $23,000 fire occurred at North Attleboro, Miss:; by; which a nunibei of stores were roiu edl. J 4 rher Indian depredations are report ed! from p&kota Territory and Gen. Crook has jetit three dompftniea of cavalry to look after the savages.; , , consumed a row of dwellings in East Ht. Lduis and imaged the wooden approach to the bridi to the extent of 50,000.t it will tak at least to put the bridge in a con- ditio rlnsc....'. . Iho University or tne CitY York gralduated and gave diplomas ed and fifty voung doctors on the en he-thirtytsixth commencement e g match between jicijaugnun, ci Mid Ind Cavanaug ), oi ermont, iooiv fa, i. x.,1 and resulted in a victoiy m McLaughlin Walter Aiken lost his 50,- 000 residence in. FrankliUf (i i insnranre. . .... Rear Qpldsborough died in Washington of typhoid toueuaionia, aged seventy-two. He entered the nahrvlat the aze of seven and served through all the ranks. This makes the sixth admiral to th within 'a month The rinderpest u spreading in England. . , . . .E. D. Kennedy, naiisteri 'ccinimisgioner of the Garrard county cobrt! wasMlled by G. C. Kennedy, his nephew, atancastek Ky over a difficulty growing out 1' r Independent. eelerl, of the O wego (N. Y.) 'Record says: Aoivprtising agent3 aim luxei" advertisers will save stamps, envelope? andipape by not making advertising proposals to us except at our regular Id rates. We do not answer sucn i t i i i i i proposals but consign them to the watte !Our advertising epace is all basket. ) tkkenj at tegular rate3. Our paper is not, I large that we are obliged to insert If price and dead hf ad advertisement j JOT, Up.. - action Til eiecto ber. t It wa Li! J?i when d o tit wwju h!.fifc'ft of New nahamclr asion pi i wtfestina mgan. t ! ill Utl V -1 i
The Albemarle Enquirer (Murfreesboro, N.C.)
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March 15, 1877, edition 1
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