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-JUVARIABLY lit ADVA5CK.
Poetry.
Gone from Earth.
I ve been to the brink of the river.
The cold, dark river of Death,
AnI still in the valley I shiver,
Where my child yielded up his breath;
Chill, chill was the touch of the billow,
' ah it closed over my darling's bead.
Then left bim asleep on bis pillow
M v beautiful, beautiful dead!
Ob. riarK was me a ay wnen me toicen
Was sent from the palace on high,
Tuat the sweet silver cord must be
broken.
And the image all shattered must lie;
Oh.th" midnight was starless and dreary
Wheu our toy had to tight the last toe;
At length of the conflict aweary.
Iive loosed bim, and .sobbed, Let
him go."
Great Father, receive the sweet spirit
That has burst all its fetters of olay,
lie will now with the angels inherit
The crown and the kingdom of day.
The smile like an infant's escaping
From danger to mother's own breast.
. A . Aft. ft
TolJ the moment the spirits were taking
Our weary one home to his rest.
Disappointment,
If we look at a disappointment as
a lessen, we soon take the stiug out
of it. A spider will teach us that.
He is watchln for a fly and away
the nimble fellow goes. The spi
der runs aroutui his net to see
whether there beany holes, and to
mend them, with the pious ejacu
lation of "better luck next time."
Christianity.
Religion is the dominion of the
poul. It Is the ho of life, the an
chor of afety, the deliverance from
evil. What a service has Christl-
anitv rendered to humanity. What
a nower would it sun nave
a a m . . .
did its
ministers comprehend
ion ! Napoleon.
their mis-
NaturuliioK.s.
Some vounr ioIe do not
un-
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Vlv OC'V - - - - - - -
charnu, and how much they would
win by trusting to them entirely !
ners and an awkward imitation,
Their tones am! their gait are bor-
Mwed; they study they attitude be-
hm the glass
until they have lost
all tract of natural manner, and,
with all their pains, please but lit
tle. - - - - . - s
After Supper Tnlk.
This ought to be the sweetest and
mist precious hour of the day. It
Is too often neglected and lost in
families.
Mothers, fat hers, cultivate "after
iuper talk ;" piay "after supper
pirues;"keep"alter-supper books;"
take all thegl newspapers and
magazirn-s yu can atford, read
them aloud "after supper." Let
boys and girls bring their friends
home wilii them at twilight, sure
of a pleasant and hospitable wel
come, and of a good time "after
iuplr,"and parents may laugh
tonxrn all the temptations which
town or village can tet before them
tjlraw them away from home for
their evenings. 11. H. J
My Privilege.
"A man has the right to do wlia
he pleases with his own so he don't
hurt anybody else." This idea is
rrettv wide s oread and popular;
but to our certain knowledge it has
spoiled a number of good people.
Many a roan has been curried to the
dogs by what he Is pleased to call
M his priviIege.,' 44 That's my priv
ilege" is the stock In ttade of the
fool who sets his stupid opinion up
ajinst the reason of wise meu.
Why, the man never was more mis
taken in all the days of his life. It
i not his privilege at all ; it is no
more nor less than a shabby excuse
for being a fool, and is so regarded
by all men of sense. And so with
the idler, the drunkard, the spend
thrift all -have their privilege; and
they generally have nothing else.
Brethren," said a speaker,
"when I was a boy T took a hatchet
and went Into the woods. When I
found a tree that was straight, big
nd solid, I didn't touch that tree;
but when I found one leaning a lit
tle, and hollow inside, I soon had
him down. So when the devil goes
ter Christians; he don't touch
those that stand straight and true,
hut takes those that lean a little,
nd are hollow inside."
A dishonest man cannot be a
Christian; the morula of Christiani
ty are not lower, but higher, than
the worldly standard. If a 'man
lHa below the last, he is unfit for
ay Christian communion, and
ught to be reformed or expelled.
One immoral person In a church
spoils all its Influence for good.
This is the way a western editor
announces the advent of spring:
"The gay and festive jaybird will
soon fill the hillside with his swell
ingstraln8,and pluck the voluptuous
hopper-grass from cereal luxuriance,
ihe variegated caterplller will soon
crawl over occiferous continuations.
The thump of the woodpecker, as
he i . goes after the- xyolophagous
millepedtrwiU 80oaundelude the
rentle-spring morning. As Phcebea
traces his course -through zodiac,
Kently touching up recuperative
y nature, the vindictive bee will
Esther treacle from the pendant
primrose. Salubrious June, -with
ts somnific effect upon the juvenile
element, will usher In that speck
jeu grazer the fun loving potato-bug.
the bllthsome jackass will escapade
on the virent sward, and pursue
aappipessin Its various ramifications."
VOL. V.
EBITORIA L.
bince the stunninsr renlvnf T)r
Sears to Gov. Brogden's Jette, the
uemocrauc papers of the State are
as dumb as an oyster about their
beloved Superintendent of Public
Instruction Even the Sentinel.
whose watchful reover,the rogues
arm scoundrels of the party, has
been Ils constants. boast, has not a
word togay. Perhaps Turner thinks
that his proposition to run all the
rogues out of the Democratic party
will so thin them out that hardly a
corporal's guard will be left, and
Turner wrould be sorry to break up
the party entirely
There is Martyr Cox, too, who
has never ventured to explain why
it was that he never fixed up things
for Pool, and prevented his expos
ure. Pool thinks hard of Cox about
such treatment, and it teas too bad,
that's a fact.
Death of Calvin J. Rogers, Esq.
We regret to announce the death
of this well known citizens of
Wake county under circumstances
of the most painful character. It
seems that a few days since Mr.
Rogers left his home for the pur
pose of fishing in a pond near by.
Not returning in a reasonable time
a search was instituted which re
sulted in finding his body lying
face downward in the Water.
Mr. Rogers was for many years
intimately connected with Wake
county politics. He was before the
war sheritf of the county, and at
one time represented Wake in the
lower branch of the General Assem-
bly. Under the first term of Presi-
w
dent Grant's administration, he was
postmaster of Raleigh. He was a
heart; and his loss win be deeply
regretted by a large circle of ac-
GQ11intances. He leaves a Jarere
J .,
family.
The local department of the daily
AVtr has been converted into a re-,
ceptacle for petty flings at Repub
licans. A local in that paper of the
29th ult., entitled "The Day is
Coming," is full of venom directed
against white gentlemen belonging
to the Republican party. We can
hardly believe that the local editor
is the author of these dirty flings,
as in ereneral conversation he dis
claims party malice. In fact, we have
seen-the time when he claimed. to
be a pretty good Republican, espe
cially when acting as local for the
Era a few years since.
Such dirty allusions will do him
no good, and perhaps may unearth
somereminiscencesof by-gonedays
We woull suggest a careful hus
bandry of his spiteful resources ;
that is, if he writes them. The ar
ticle, "The Day is Coming," is al-
most as contemptible as the fam
ou3 yital rr0r," of last Summer,
and if the local of the Aews contin
ues to resort to such dirty attacks,
he may expect 44an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth," and he
shall have it.
The Reason TVhy.
The letter of Dr. Sears, agent of
the Peabody fuud, to Gov. Brog
den, published in our last issue,
fully explains the reason why Su
perintendent Pool has failed to
publish a full statement of his ac
counts. It will be remembered, that Pool,
in one of his cards, states that he
had received from Dr. Sears the
sum of fourteen thousand one hun
dred and fifty dollars, ($14,150) and
had paid out twelve thousand six
hundred dollars. Dr. Sears states
that he had turned over to him
fifteen thousand one hundred and
fifty dollars ($15,150.) Thus it will
be seen that Pool falsely states the
case by only coming in one thous
and dollars of the truth.
Taking Dr. Sears' letter for true
(and no fair minded man can doubt
it,) Pool is a defaulter in the sum of
ttco thousand five hundred and fifty
dollars. That is, he he has used the
difference between the amount sent
him and the amount paid out.
Dr. Sears, in the concluding par
agraph of his letter, clinches the
nail as follows :
I have no doubt he has used for
his own private convenience the
money I paid him for all the schools
not on his list, which should have
been paid to those schools."
Thus it is, that the Democratic
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, the only State officer of his po
litical slrlpe,stands thoroughly con
victed, not only of defrauding the
poor children of a sacred fund set
apart for their benefit, but is proven
beyond question, to have resorted
to tl)Q most infamous falsehoods to
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R ALEIGH, .
cover up 'hfs tracks.' ' WjiilVtbe
whole country, both Democrats and
Republicans; were 1 loud 3 In ' their
condemnation of Belknap, the Sec
retary of War, arid rurg'ecLrnb bjily
h!s resignation 'but prompt fmfict-
mem, yei, ynen me man came, ior-,
ward and ax'tnowledged wUftpeni
tence the high " crime, there were,
not a few ' who jWera4,rnWec r&t
hjs sad fate.'. It wnrnoJbosot
Stephen D." Pool. TnereSnferrio
pity or evenihe'sTighest, palitfon
ofTered for the' unmanly course he
has takenl Itthere' are any of his
own party press whoin'th'e remot
est degree excused his offense, i'ffey
must now, after1 his' final exposure
be disgusted at th6 mariner in
which they havesuffered theriiselves
to be misled by this man. ' ' '
But one of the saddest features' of"
this transaction, Is the actl'rjri' of the
Democratic State Executive ,Cotq
mittee, the members of whfch must
have been cognizant of all the facts
of the case and who, it seems, haye
studiously studied to ' shield this
monstrous piece of fraud. Twist and
turn as they will, an indignant peo
ple will hold them to a strict ac
count for this dereliction of duty to-
wards the masses of the people Of 11
parties. 1
e anxjousiy await tne com
ments of the Democratic press upon
the changed condition of things as
set forth by Dr. Sears' letter.
The Presidency.
The New York 7mahas for
several weeks past, had a correspon
dent traveling through the Sduth,
Informing its readers on the views
of public men regarding the Pres
idency. One letter was written
rom Richmond, another from
Raleigh, and the last we have seen
rom Columbia. This " correspon
dent's information, in the main is
very correct. His letter from Col
umbia, under date of the loth inst.,
especially so ; and the' utterances
he places in the mouth of Senator
Patterson is a true reflex of the Re
publican sentiment of this section.
He says:
Among all Southern Republicans
here is a deep-seated conviction
that President Grant could be easily
elected for a third term. Among
he neeroes he 'Is regarded with a
kind of blind idolatrywhich 19 truly
pathetic, and their white; leaders,
eeling secure under, ins ruie, are
most anxious to perpetuate it. In
this feeling lies all the 6wer of his
Excellency. Were he plainly- to
express desire in thatjidirection,
there is no question , that the .dele-,
gates from every Southern , State
would vote for his' renomlnatidn,
but just here his strength nds ' he
canpot transfer it to another can
didate, at least not to those, who t
have been mentioned as hisfavorites.
Situated as they are, and having k
much at stake, the Republicans of
the South feel tliat they nnot af
ford to. throw their influence.foi; any
mau whose chances of success are
considered doubtful. ih As' tJnlted
States Senator' Patterson assured
me this morning, "they wanti a
man - who is sure, to win.",. He
might have added that they were
willing to leave the choice of that
man to the States that can do most
to elect their candidate.
The South wants 4a man4vho is
sure to win, be he Grant, Blaine,
Bristow or Hayes, and North Car
olina Itepublicans are. willing to
44leave Jhe choice of that man to the
States that can do the most to elect
their candidate"
The southern Republicans are more
truly interested in the success of our
ticket than any others in,, the na
tion. Upon success depends our weal
or woe. It has been declared by. a
Democratic leader that the fate of
the inhabitants of Sodom and. Go
morrah would be .merciful to the
fate that awaits us in the event of
Democratic success, and weknow
that this, declaration is .no fdje
threat. It would be so. This well
informed correspondent- further
adds :
44 People at the North are entirely
unable to appreciate the intensity
of feeliug wiiich . prevails , here re
garding the subject in question. In
New York or Maine, what does the
success of the Democracy mean?
cvrtainlv not much more than a
change in the political complexion I
of a few Post UOice, uustom-nouse,
and other Government officials Of
course, there would be more serious
results than these, but they would
not be felt directly by the people, of
the North. There, business would
go on as usual, Democrats and Re
publicans would meet socially, as
they do now, and men and women
of all clases would work, eat, sleep,
and live, just as they havedoneall
their lives. In the South ail this
is different ; here the very right ;of
domicile is involved in the question
of who shall be President. If the
Democrats are successful, the Re
publican party of the cotton States
must die out forever, for.1, by one
means or another the negro voters
would be prevented from exercis
iug the rights of citizeuship which
were assured to them by the re
sults of the war, and their white
N; O. T
I ttirjHifuti'OT
At
. r . Til i, t
leaders woukl4ev
-obUged
to leave
the .country .and seek-. homes else-
Where." a . .
Of- num. ui,' vli.iu rus. 'J.
Tiiis, cyrrespoA3ent states the
sltion plainly and triathfUlly, 1
riJriilrialiori of W resiaenr
t'mIUL'mi! L'!&iwf&i&Utt ri
XKjJrff S?i?fOTJ?ft3l??J:
,-5,,, . - -w '
ffl IW ? a . pve
n upiiv Buuwuiu wiinicvn uta-
eV may' 6e nominated at CIncin-
riatl. Tt Is truly a matted of victory
Tlio '.Vance Trick.
h ave- never been among those
whd entertaihed the ideathat the
Democratic 1 party1 would again
'place Z:'-B. Vance in the field as a
candidate for Governor.1 1 We are
aware of the fact; that he fa the pe
culiar pet 6f the hotspurs of his par
ty, and, being such; It1 fa their in
dention to run him for 'some place
to which he can stand soriie chance
of election. ''
Tne- leaders' of the Democratic
WHr MhnwAVPr rrirWi ihpv mv
.
. t
nuu cuut-avw! w wwici " f
their cause, are well aware that the
action of the late Convention and
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.legislature, nas so aisgusiea me
people of the State as to render it
an impossibility for them to carry
theirState ticket next fall. If the
leaders of the Democratic party be
lieved that they stood a ghost of a
chance to elect their nominee for
Governor,1 they would not hesitate
to put Vance on the track.
But it is evident now that their
game is to demand the withdrawal
of Ashe ' in the Charlotte District
and nominate Vance in. his stead.
This, of course, will be a deep in
justice - to Ashe, but the hotspurs
care very little what becomes, of
him, so that their darling pet war
Governor ? can be. . rewarded. The
Democratic party is ffast degenerat-
ing; into a Vance party. Nine-
tenths of the party look upon him
as a demirgod mainly because of his
ultra wa r-recordr No man with
them is. entitled to even considera
tion who does i not breathe blood
and. thunder against, all who love
the . government of : the United
States; or who opposed their Infa
mous designs during the late rebel
lion. While the; whole rebel crew
would delight in again seeing Vance
lording it in the capitol at.Raleigh,
they knpw fujl weJl tbajt .ihe cries of
women and . children, whose thus
bands and fathecihe so mercilessly
sacrificed- during: the? war, would
tell; against i hinw while the votes
of hundreds of i poor men torn from
their families and friends at his in-
stigatioti and recommendation
would consign him to overwhelm
ing : defeat. No,: the .Democratic
pkrtyiwlll not nominate Vance but
will' look aroqed for: a victim for
whose fate' they: care but little.
Ashe :will. doubtless be made the
scapegoat; and the leadership of
the forlorn hope now looks likely
to be conferred on him.' What hu
miliation it is for' him to submit to
such treatment t TheTact has doubt
less gone forth J ho wever and It Is
thatiOT nothing with him. How
he mnst hate i '.Vance ! How Vance
must laugh in his" sleeve at his poor
victim I The harlequin plays hjs
role well.
Interesting Relic The fol low
ing -oorrespondence will doubtless
prove of interest to our readers es
pecially s this; is the centennial
yeaiv -
! ' .' Sausburv, N. C-, )
.. - . y &hiiyti, 21st, 1876. j
If is Excellency, ti H. Brogdeni
s . 1 ! Governor of North Carolina.
Dear Slit Herewith find Gen'l
Clarke's pay-, roll, No. 22, of the
orti'Cwlinaj jLine, ..containing
the I nam oftheoflicers who were
in the siege or, made . prisoners at
the fail of . Charles Town, South
Carolina, war of the Revolution.
From pencil; endorsement upon
thepay roll ypu will observe that
it was presented to.meln the spring
of 18C5 by Benjamin Durkee, ofthe
128thrIndiana regiment.
; I take great pleasure in present
ing it to you. Many of the names
on this pay roll are , familiar to the
readers in this Centennial year.
They were imtriots of the noble
sort.
Jtoccursjo me that the publica
tisn of .this pay roll in the news
papers of the State would be a fit
ting monument to the memory of
the dead heroes
, z : j -2 Very truly yours..
H. H. Helper.
State of North Carolina
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EXT, V
Executive Depaktm
Raleigh, March 23; 18
H. H. Hctpery Esq.
Dear Sir: I acknowledge with
EKJBSDAY
are ae scukb. xn mis emergency, an se I '-government,
dJeSttafiito oVmuth' ask Joy.ment of civil
VttMAVMtJlihU a'A'erty.'' It contai
If
a'v Mmmm vi invi a v a a . m.
NAY 4, 1876.
I pleasure , the receipt of your
vpry
I acceptable letter of the 21st mst.,
. with the .pay roll of officers of the
f "Nnrtli f Vimlina Tiinp. who were in
thesiegeor made prisoners at the
fall of Charleston, South Carolina,
for which I tender you my thanks.
This pay roll is an inten sting
relic of the war of the Revolution,
i T . i i :
wnen me-American whoihw
I tended for.the inestimable right of
ana ior tne en-
and religious lib
ns the familiar
I names oi some oi me pairiois oi
I L ? A. rf
Korth Carolina, who by their forti-
i mae. ami oraverv assisieu m me
achievement of our liberty and in-
dependence.
The names of such gallant men
as Gen. James Hogan, Col. Thomas
Clarke, Capt. Grffith, Jno. McRee,
Capt. Thomas Pasteur, and divers
other true patriots whoso names
appear on the roll, ought not to
fade from the page of history. The
story of their patriotism and
their struggles and trials,
nd valor,
their
hardships and sufferings, is part of
our revolutionary history, which
has not 'et been effaced by the
hand of time.
In this centennial vear of our
National Independence, liberty is
enjoyed by the people throughout
our great American Union without
any regard to race, color, or previ
our condition.
I T"T TU t- 1 . 4 il. . ...41.
"eu wecoimempmie uiegiovv lu
I art1 nrnnrroaj nr nui nrrr
Tfr thA DftSfc OPnflirV. IN VHSt t'V-
tent of territory, its boundless
wealth and resources, its com
merce and manufactories, its di-
I V CUIUIUVUIClll illlU IIIUU8
tries iitf4 railroads and public un
I provements, its development of the
useful arts and sciences, we have
the most abundant cause . for grat
itude that we are American citi
zens.
Very respectfully,
Your ob't servant,
C. H. Brogden, Governor.
North Carolina Neivs.
Wilmington has a letter box.
The Catholics are to have a col
lege at Woodlawn, Gaston county.
The new court house at Concord
is finished.
Beaufort county reports twin
calves.
tifyjng x$ streets.
Some of the Morsran ton peaches
are said to be alive yet.
An inimigation meeting wras
held in Charlotte Wednesday night.
Three run-offs oceured on one
trip on the R. &. A. A-L. recently.
Capt Willis Tillitt, a prominent
citizen of Darj county, died re
cently. .
Forty persons have recently been
added to the Fifth Street Metho
dist church -it Wilmington.
The Blade says the Burgin Tun
nel, the 5th in order approaching
the top of the mountain,is finished.
The oldest inhabitant cannot re
member such dull times as now
prevails in Scotland Neck.
The banks of Charlotte have com
menced paying out silver coin
fr
fractional currency.
"Prohibition" or "No Prohibi
tion," is the question in Greens
boro.
A Greensboro man has invented
a car-coupler which is attracting
considerable attention North.
Lord & Lindsay's flouring mills,
near Salisbury, were burned on the
21th. Loss $9,000, with no insur
ance. The Odd-Fello'.va' excursion and
pic-nic at Charlotte was a gran d
success, and every one enjoyed it
who participated.
'They have found a centennial
bell in the ground near Greensboro.
It is old and corroded, and on one
side bears the figures "1776."
, Mrs. Beasley, of Charlotte, will
run a boarding house in Philadel
phia during the centennial exhibi
tion. Owing to the hard times, the
number of orphans to bo received
at the Oxford Asylum has been
limited to 100.
Mr. D. J. Green, of Wilmington,
was severly injured on the 21th, by
barrels'falling on him from an up
per floor of a store.
r Orion Lodge, I. O. O. F. of Wil
mington, gave a ball on the occasion
of their third anniversary, yeter-
day
A Masonic convention will be
held in Asheville on the 12th prox.,
for, the purpose of aiding in O r
phan Asylum at that place.
1 Temar Lassiter has been com
mitted to Halifax jail for attempt
ing rape upon two little girjs, aged
respectively 5 and 7 years.
Wm Ethridge, of Salisbury, the
maker ol the celebrated Etnridgu
walking canes, was found dead in
his bed on Sunday morning last.
Two men, Davis and Steele, were
killed near Bakersville, one day
last week by the premature explo
sion of a blast in a mica mine.
Mr. Chaddick the clerk of the
court of Dare, county, . was at la-t
accounts, suffering greatly with
dropsy, and expected to die.
The Aut-Siell .-ays a 70 foot whale
was captured near B aufort a few
days since, which wm yieid about
2,001) gal iou of oil. Since the de
cay; 'ol the .whale fisheries, the
whales seem to be hunting the
whalers.
NO. 46.
The store of Mr. Jo'.m Patterson,
of New-Borne, was broken into and
robbed of three tubs of lard and
17o pounds of bacon, on Friday
night.
The appropriation for the assay
office at Charlotte, N. C, was re
duced by Congress on the. 2Sth,
from $4,00.) to L'.TfHi and is a part
ofthe bill.
Capt. B:nnister Midyett, of Hyde
county, for many yt'ar- rn ul airent
between New YnvH and Han Fran
cisco, died at his home on the 0th,
aged 77 years.
Capt. Ligon, the popular con
ductor on the Central Carolina
R-tilroad, was married in Spartan
burg, S. C, on the to Miss
Mary II. Taylor.
The Milton and Surlh. rlin Rail
road, from Milton, Caswell county,
N. C, to Danville, Ya., will be
built. The Chronicle says it is an
asssured fact. It is a .arrow gauge.
Not more than oi.e fourth of a
crop of tobacco will be ;dt in this
State this year, even un
favorable circumstanc
the extreme scarcity of
; . uie raos'
. owin to
;la:;!s. '
The ladies of Hillsboro proj..?
on Tuesday night of Court week o
give a musical entertainment to b?
followed by a supper as a ladies
contribution to the University of
North Carolina.
Allen J. Denton, one of the col
ored health officers of Wilmington,
was severely injured by a, fall from
a fence ne was ciimoingaday or
two ago.
All the prisoners confined in Con
cord jail, made a long pull, a strong
pull, and a pull all together at the
outside iron door, last Saturday
night, but all to no purpose.
The U. S. Circuit Court adjourn
ed at Statesviile on the 2-3ih. The
Rev. Henry Turner, who was
tried for robbing the mail, ws
found guilty, and sentenced to three
Itl .it 41V
years, ham laoor in me .a many
Penitentiary.
We learn from the Xew York
Herald that at Ocracokie Inlet,
N. C, both the buovs were displac
ed during the late vn inter. The sea
bouy is altogether j;one, ana the
buoy at the entrance h is been re
moved from the channel.
The Star savs that tiie colored
regiment in Wilmington, known
as the "Brogden Guards," of which
Geo. D. Mabson is Colonel, received
on Monday, from Raleigh, one
hundred Springfield breach-loading
rifles, of superior finish, to
gether with accoutrements, tfce.
On last Thursday night the stiil
house of Isaac Atwood, in Yadkin
county, was destroyed by.-firc, and
a man named Mike Myers, who
had been locked in there the night
before, in a state of intoxication,
was burned up in the building.
Western Sentinel.
We are sorry to learn that a
daughter of Mr." Win. Critcher,who
lives four miles from town, was
injured on Wednesday, by a pair
of run-away . horses which knock
ed her down, the wagon passing
over her and brusi ug her. Oxford
Torchlight.
Parties in the neighborhood of
Sugar Hill, Old Fort and Marion,
report heavy and tremendous
rumbling in the vicinity of Bald
Mountain, a few days ago. The
shocks are said to equal to the most
exciting of those a few months
ago. Asheville Expositor.
The Biblical Recorder this week
contains the outlines of a deep and
practical sermon on "The Lord's
Supper," preached in lh- Swain
street Baptist church. Raleigh, X.
C-, by the Rev. A. C. Dixon. Many
of the journals are now classing
him among the first preachers of
the State, which is nothing more
than he deserves. Shelby Banner.
Mr. Nelson llagler, of Catawba,
sustained very severe injuries by
the accidental explosion of two
kerosene lamp?. He was watching
by a sick bedside, with one lamp
burning, when, by soma unknown
cause, it exploded, and in his ef
forts to extinguish the flames, an
other lamp on the mantlepiece not
lighted also exploded.- Concord
Sun.
Henry Washington, colored
caused some excitement at a quilt
ing on last Saturday night in Old
Richmond township by an un
ceremonious entry and indiscrimi
nate slashing with his knife into
the gay and festive crowd assem
bled. Three per-oris were wounded,
one it is thought fatally. Washing
ton was arrested on Sunday morn
ing by Henry Scales, colored, and
brought to jail. He states that a
white man paid him ten dollars to
kill the three persons whom he
wounded. Western Sentinel.
In Saturday's Review we stated
that a report was current on the
that street to the effect, a Magistrate
in North West township, Brunswick
county, had killed his wife last
Wednesday by striking her on the
head with some heavy instrument,
and that jealousy was the cause of
the act. We have sinco learned
that the report is only partly cor
rect, inasmuch as the woman is not
dead although she is very seriously
injured. The blow was inflicted
with an axe and the jawbone ofthe
woman is broken. A judicial in
vestigation is to take place to-day
or to-morrow. Wilmington Review.
The railroad ticket office at Hills
l oro was broken into and robbed, the
21st,of a numberof tickets. The thief
was arrested on his presenting one
of the stolen tickets at a staticrrf ber
low.
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General News.
Savannah is shipping green peas.
A SiiO.ooo failure is anounced in
Canada.
The Dowager
is dead.
Countess of Derby
Gen.Sehenck's daughter will sum
mer in Ohio.
Governor Kellog, of Louisiana, is
in Washington.
Ex-Governor Archibald
of Kentucky, is dead.
Dixon,
Spring freshets continue in Can
ada. i
The Mississippi Hoods areabat-
in
San Francisco
of 270,000.
haVaiopulation
Wars continue in Cuba, Mexico
and Turkey.
Numerous suieidis renorfod nil
over the country.
The funeral of A. T. Stuart cost
more than $12,000.
The Governor of New Hamp
shire is in the Yosemite.
Congress has appropriated $50,
000 to the Apache Indians.
Tiie Irish Rifle Team will sail for
the United States in August.
II. C. Bowen has withdrawn
from the Congregational Union.
The French Atlantic cable is bro
ken two hundred miles from Brest.
Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris will be
presented to the Oueen-Empress
next season.
Indians in Wymoning are at
their old tricks again, killing and
scalping.
A shipment of $100,000 in silver
bars was made from New York to
Earope Wednesday.
It is said that Government Prin
ter Clapp refuses to appear before
the Committee on Printing.
A shipment of twenty-fives boxes
of Chinamen's bones was recently
made at San Francisco for Cuba.
Five thousand butchers In uni
form will parade in Philadelphia
on the opening of the centennial. "
Some of the Indians on the front
tier are in a starving condition, and
a raid on the whites is anticipated.
General Braxton Bragg was re
cently rejected as City Engineer by
the City Council of Galveston,
Texas.
Fresh butter, at wholesale, will
cost the hotel men of Philadelphia
$1 per pound during the centennial
season.
Wild turkeys and geese are being
exported from San Francisco to
New Zealand, in order to bo accli
mated there.
A majority among theScotch and
Irish members of Parliament an;
strongly in favor ot a woman's
franchise bill.
John Murray sat in a window, in
Baltimore, to cut his toe-hails, fell
out, stuck the knife-blade in his
side and bled to death.
A numberof set Iers from Ohio
and Michigan have recently gone
into Prince George county, Va., to
grow up with the country.
The Scot tsvi 1 le ( Va. ) Courier says :
"The fruit has been but littlo in
jured as yet, and the prospect is
very good for an abundant crop."
Mary Sherman, a German cham
ber maid of Cincinnati, was found
in her room on the 27th, with her
throat cut. Suicide and infanti
cide. The Southern demand for provis
ions and corn from the West this
year is said to bo not more than
one-fifth as large as it was last.
Judge Dillon, on the 2Gth, over
ruled the motion and arrest of
judgement and sentenced Col. Wm.
McKee to two years in the county
jail and ten thousand dollars fine.
Tiie workmen in the M. L. Finly
stove factory, Troy, N. Y., struck
on the -oLh inst. .Non-union men
were employed, but were driven
away by the strikers'.
A skiff was upset in a Kentucky
pond the other day and James
Tyler was thrown into the water.
The local editor calls it a clear case
of tip-a canve and Tyler too.
On the afternoon of the 20th, at
Peoria, Illinois, John Goble shot
John Lockwood. literally blowing
his head off. Lockwood had beaten
Gohle's wife.
The Cardinals of Rome, at a meet
ing on the 27th inst., unanimously
declared that peace with the States
was impossible unless the spiritual
independence of the Catholic church
was acknowledged.
One of the New York car compa
nies is said to have on its hands a
full bushel of counterfeit nickels.
This, too, after the conductors have
passed off as many as possible in
making change. -
The Chicago council has declared
the recent city election null and void
on account of frauds, and has ap
pointed anewset of officers. A com-
mittee of citizens has requested!
Mayor Colvin to resign. il
The National Executive Com
mittee ot the Union League met in
Philadelphia, on the 28th. The
Secretary's report states that th era
is a united move to abandon 0
crecy, and claims that this new do
pa rture meets with universal cp
proval at the South and West.
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