North Carolina Newspapers

A BEPUBLICAK WEEKLY NESW- FAPER-TIIE CENTRAL, ORGAN 0F THE PARTY. 4 UUUWX, Muiiafer. qffick on Newbern Avenue, some fcjt or seven hundred yards east of the Oipitol. . BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION : One year. - - " 10 vix month, - - - - 1 05 Three months, - 55 IKVXRIABLT IN ADVANCK. Jfincellaneous. iiMK Ships- On the 29th of ,hi. month, if nothing goes wrong in iht meantime, there will le t Portsmouth the most ,werful Iron-clad ship ever con Itructed. Thin is the ship Inflexl 1. She limy te considered as the jHf-t result of the efforts made to ..ri.ve that a ship may be built p.ng enough to resist the most jMiw-rftil guns. "'The five most pow erful ships now in existence are the Monarch, which has an armor 10 inches thick, and which carries 4 ulls of 25 tons each ; the Thunder er which ha? 14 inches of armor and 4 guns of 38 tones; Peter the Great, with 14 inches of armor and 4 gum of 35 tons; the Redoubtable, with 12 inches of armor and 4 guns of 1- ions; thelndcpendenzia, with 1 inches of armor and Cunsof &" tons. But the Inflexible, which is f larger tonnage than any of these, I,;1S an armor 21 inches thiek, and nrries (or will carry) 4 guns of 81 tons each. She is 321) fc-et long, 75 f.t-t wide ;shedraw25 feet of water, Hnd she is exp-etd tot-tulat the rate of 14 knots an hour. No ship has yet ten made to carry such im mense guns as those which will be placed on the Inflexible ; they will discharge proj-ct iles weighing 1, 4tM guilds, and iU-y art- leaded by Ivdraulie machinery. The whole equipment of the ship is monstrous. A L'T Ikon. The oldest piet-es .firn (wrought iron) now knrwn p- i.rohably the siekle blade f.u.d l.y llelzoui under the I a s of a -phinx in Karme, nearTheb-s; the Made found by Col. Vyse imbedded in the masonry of the gnat pyr amid, the portion of a erum cut naw , xhumed at NirarrKiTy-Mr. Lnyard. mil of which are now In the British Museum. A wrought Iwr of le :m;iMiis steel as pres'iiteil ty King l'.. res to Alexander the (ireat, and ) he razor steel of i'hhia for many eititurii-s hass.urpa-se.1 all Eorop an ?tetr in temper and duribility of il;e. The llindinw appear to have made wrought iron directly from the ore without passii g it through the furnaee,frofu time immemorial mid elattorateny wrought pievs of iron nresiill found in Imli i, which date from the early eeiiiuries of the hritian en. Iron ire has lxn found in the I h lan hHiigh district of India, whieh is hjih! to intain -ighty "T cent, of pure m -tal, to . get her witha sUu'ht admix. ore ol in iin.iiittt. Tliere is said to Ih'jOO Huare miles of this ore in th lm iiioda coal fields. A Vkky Dioxifikd Man. Mr. Kortright, her Britannic MeJ--sty's nm-iil in Philadephia, is a gn-ut HI, and repriM-nts his Queen with all osihle dignity; No one can him without lieinj; impress l hy hisapiiearance. The story U told that one day a he w as walk ing down Walnut street a stranger .accosteil him as follows: "Will you . kind nough to tell met sir, the irice of that house?" pointing wn the road. 4tSir!M wild the unsut, "do you take m for a real 'ale jgent?' i4Oh no, Indeed, rT-sied the other respectfully, "but lhUTpQsed from your appar ar.ee that xfjuNtwrntl the whole eity." Til e K i v n nv Sta mm oUfcvJ' ORE Fatiikus II An -We were sh yesterday a two hundred and dollar note, issued in 1779. It is printtJ on stiff paste-board-like IIer and displays very poor taste in iu get-Up and workmanship. Below we jfive as goKl aVxc simile "f the hill 8 our types will admit of: ZZ7A!arolina Jurreney .LLLLL& 1 fItjtj ,f .1 J AM 14 tmtm mm mm mm ----- Two Hundred and Fifty IXk lars. No 417 State of North Carolina. rills R n. I. entitle the iiur- mm er to receive Two HUNDRED nd FIFTY Bpanifh mine 1X)LLAIIS, or the Value thereofinGold or Silver agree Able to an Act' of 'Affeuibly .Zm 5 H;paffed at Smithfield, the 15.h Uiy of May, 1779. O f A Righteous caufe John Taylor , the Protection ox, 5 Providence. 1 I I The reverse' sfde'of the bill is as Allows: - , . . " Two Hand red and .Fifty DOLLARS. Wilmington: . Printed by HUGH WALKER 1779. W. M. VOL. V. Piper's Cdnlej;sIon---Tlie' Story of tho Kelfry Mnntercr. The Boston paers bring full de tails ot the confession of Piper, the murderer of little Mabel Younu' Not only does he admit the murder of the little girl in the belfry, tmt also confesses to killing Bridget Landergan in the Dorchester dis trict, a deed which until how has been shrouded in mystery. lie also claims to have committed the as sault on Mary Tyner, on Oxford street, in July, 1874. While Piper was repeating ner vously to his counsel the old story of Mabel's accidental death, Mr. Brown noted several contradictions. At the close of the story he said, Sternly, Now, -Piper, (yaiv are hot telling me the truth. - You have not told that story as you told it in the first place. If you have any thing to tell me that is true, I will hear it, lait if not I must bid you 'good -bye and leave you.' The criminal hesitated a moment and then said huskily : "Mr. Brown, I will tell you the whole truth. I KILLED THE LITTLE GIRL." How did you do it?" Mr. Brown then asked, and Piper replied : 'I took the bat from the lower room, before or about the beginning of the .school, to kill somebody. , At that time I carried it up to the audito rium, but during tne session of the Sunday-school took it from the au ditorium and curried it to the bel fry. After th close of the school I came down stairs and opened the doors. Then I went up again at the time I sent away the boys who were playing in the vestibule. After the boys had gone out and I was still in the vestibule, the little girl came upstairs, and I induced her to go with me Into the belfry. There I struck her with the club two or; three times, and she fell where the blood was found. Then I picked her up and carried the body to the place where it was discovered." After Piper had told this, in much agitation, Mr. Brown asked if that wasall he had to confers. ' No, sir," replied the miserable man, 'I KILLED BRIDGET LANDEKGON.' ' Without waiiing for further ques tioning Piper proceeded to tell the story of his earlier murder, as fol lows : "On the night of the affair.I start ed out with two of my brothers to go to church. After we had got a little way I told them "that I did not feel wry well and that I wouid go back. Afterward I wentinu-a place where they sold opium. I got some and then went and get someWhikey. I put them togeth er and drank them. I then went back to my house and went down stairs. I took a saw and sawed otT the pii-ce of shaft which was found afterward. After I had cut off the piece of shaft I went out, walked around some and hid the piece un der the fence. Soon an alarm ol fire was rung. I went to the fire, and then came back andstood with my brother at the corner of (Jotting and Stoughton streets. While I was standing there I saw Dr. Eddy pass along, and I also saw a woman on the other side of the street. Imme diately my brother and I went into the house and I said, ,4I guess I'll po to bed." I went d6wu:tO' the kitchen, pretending that I was'go Ing'to botl, but instead of -doing that ,1 went out the back door. I fcotthe club and started after the woman I had seen. I followed heralongand overtook her near Glover's corner. As there were i e pte about there at the time, I followed her down till we got to Columbia street. Then I was so near her that she looked around and saw me. I struck her immediately ; she fell down and I struck her again. While I was stooping over the body I saw a man coming, so I started up and ran away." Mr. Brown asked him if that was all he had to say. "No," replied Piper again. "I ASSAULTED MARY TYNER.' He proceeded to tell the story of that mysterious affair as follows: 'I was sexton of the church at t ho time. 1 was down, town in the evening and near Lagrange street met this girl, :Mary Tyner. She spoke to me, and we had a little chat together. I invited her to go nto a saloon ana sne uiu so. nei had some refreshments- 1 went homevwith her anu remained sumo time. iHjhe course of the night I a woke anufonnd she was asleep. I saw that I couloget out by either a front or a back whdow, and so I took up something . inthe shape of h hammer and struck hse vera! Mnu'a4a to cimflxh her neaoSin. l then left the house4 ahd went' the nhiireh. where I soenr the its of the night.'" Piper also ackuowl ed soveral minor crimes. , , , ; . i Judge Buxton. Judge Ralph P. Bjxton recently spent three Sabbathin this city. On his way to hold Lincoln Court he spent a day with Judge ByUirT.andionhis Lway toGaston ourt ne was me Jfgestof2 J.'Hi Alison, Esq, The Judge Ie!d:i the ( courts -or Lincoln and Gaston, having 'exchanged with Judge Schenck ln'conquence. f t hfl hitter's connection as an Attor- ney In many? of the cases on ; the QOCKclS OI OOlii wuuuia n nvw 4k rnle of -Lincoln ' arid Gaston speaV In the highest terms of Judgel Buxton's conduct in ana out oi me, a. . i ..rrkA Hiniintrw nwinW' espedallyeemed to be well pleased with' hlmV' He is a christian and a gentleman! in ,deed and in truth. Gaston court adjourned on Satur day and the Judge eptnt yesterday In this city on the way to bis home in, FayetteviUe- Charlotte Democrat, RALEIGH, N. isloody Campaign Begun'. A War of Races in Louisiana. Twenty Negroes Killed and Wounded The White Liners Escape Unhurt Sheriff of Fe liciana Calls for Aid Gov. Antoiuo Appeals to General Auiriir New Orleans in a Illaze of Excitement. ' ' New Orleans, May 15. A Times special, dated Sumnijt, Miss.', May 15, says information was received there last night of a "riot between negroes and whites at L turel, West Feliciana parish, nar the Missis sippi line, on Friday night. About thirty negroes went to .-care 'off a white man in that vicinity,; !and called him to the door and riddled him with bullets. A posse pom Bayou Sara went out in pursuit ion Saturday for the body. The negroes would not give it up. A fight jdq, sued, and three negroes were killed. TWo white men are missing.' The negroes are gathering, and, as they tww - - "O ? J V ( said to be under arinSj the whites Agoing downiirom neighDorilig are .are going counties in Mississippi. A serious fight is expected. j The Republican correspondent at Bayou Sara, Louisiana, May 15,-tel-egraphs as follows: This is what I consider as reliable as to result of Saturday night's doings: Eight colored men have been shot down and four hanged. About twenty were wounded. No whites were killed. Persons just from the scene report sixty blacks killed, but - tills, statement is considered as exag-, gerated. Twenty colored men are reported held as prisoners. Their fate is uncertain, but the supposi tion is that they will be killed ; also, that the number of negroes killed will never be ascertained, "pVecaations having been taken to remove the dead secretly. The number of regulators under arms is said to be 500, from East Baton Rouge and East and West Feliciana; and - Wilkinson J county, Miss. Tne colored people are said tu .be.arun fyrelf-defense, rand Satu rday night n u rVi bers jof ' Col rjred men are said to have crossed to Point Coupe to escape those who are hunting them. --. SECOND DISPATCH. Bayou Sara,, May lo'There has been a regular . engageTneutvt Laurel HilP between ;,whlieafid colored; irienfTh';whitesre reported , ki 1 ledlGod only) kuows where this will erMll?.;f Tha-'.cpnntrf U ablaz iwilrre citement.? Allthe whiter are arm ed andlnfee,SadrIlc.;Af Acting GoyernorAntdrie received the following ispatch frorn-Dr. KaufinanrSheriff ofSast Feleciana parish'.dated Bayua Sarato-day : "In reply to your telegram I have to say, that seventeen colored ..P?-en are killed and many wounded. A large number of armed white men are approaching this town. I can not summon and seciifp a 'posse crji Mains for the support of, the civil authority and the suppression of the, rioi&. audfMvJ5Pfventi of further bloodshed. - Nothinglibut the military authority will keep peace here. I therefore respectfully request that military aid be. 'placed at my disposal." ' The dispatches have been laid be fore General Augur, commanding department, who has referred them to Washington. --National Republi can Sth' inst. ,, ' m ,' ' !- Wealth of Presidential, Aspi rants. ,'' The Koslons:iy4fTilden is the wealthiest of all the candidates. He is put down at $4;6b.OOO;6i, 000,000. Judge Davis -is the.ipos sessor,QfJ4or tmn,.S;l,(K)00QNand TKarrVian is very richl Bayafd is well-to-do. although not a million- Hancock has some property . - i a it issoid. Of the llepuoiicnnsiwno are nromlnent candidates Morton is in be the poorest, ana poorestt and Blaine ----- - is undoubted! Jtheirirhest of all. Coqkling is iM).ssescd of something over i,ojvj,ow, pari- like Blaine, has made irailroad speculations, ,He . is alsoirsely paid ly, goveraL weaJthy i.cor tions. . Bristow and Hayes mbg 'twillioff.y Cliieifortnbriliairo bpth-roo- tow. Aire, was arrested here.. on last Monday;moiraing,at!the4ihsto xh outrageu auu iiiuiguai, qcuc gambian for stealing two1 women, the wives of other; meri.K Uroti trial it could jiiMt h ascertained whether 'William had stolen tne women, or the women had stolen William,and the Magistrate dischargedu the warrant. Winston Sentinel. ftbly,$J .000,000,, -and fois'lfe asjp 'ceived alegacy of 150,000 withimd year. Hayes is Tich'eflthatt'igns- .1; U b ? : -r C.; II I'olifcical CilciUattoilS. i i - .V ri V"1-tl'i J Lfl .!;;-- . In. view. ither great ftcresl which will, attach io, ine ioiHicai history of the present. year, yetgive the following extracts from an edi torial in.the 'Washington liepublic reviewing the situation : (tr j. VOf the twenty-twp elctiunaUeld since-Auiiust. 1875, thirteen of them were triumphantly carried 1 lyy -the Republicans. Nine are recoraea in the Democratic uqluinn. Of these, five, at least, California,,- Connecti cut, New York, Oregon, and Mls Slssippr;!bugtrttrt1 earried for the nominees present ed by the Nation al t Republ ican Un veiition at j Cip cinnati. The Empire State elected a Republican' Legislature last year, and the town elections during the present year have shown a remark able Republican activity; resulting in a general victory. The elections for supervisors are watched with very great care,' as indicating the drift of public opinion on the Issues of an impending national campaign. Connecticut t.caii. be carried by the Republican party with proper local Organization and active effort. In California the - Republicans united -ought to be masters of ihe situation. In Mississippi , there is a legitimate Republican majority of at least 30, 000. The shot-gun policy pursued therein by '-the Democratic White League may prevent this majority from voting; but, aKany, rate an honest effort must be made to vote, and then legislation may be had hereafter to cure with the appropri ate punishment such crimes. It must be so iramed that even , a technical Supreme Court, that di videth on the letter in' order to kill the spirit, may not be able to decide it unconstitutional, -v Since the Presidential election of 1872, forty-six regular' elections have been held. Orthese the Dem ocracy or opposition' have carried twenty-five, and the Republicans twenty-one. So it : appears that in 1873 and'74f the, opposition carried fifteen States and the Republicans but eighty while in 1875, and up to April of the current' year, (1876,) the Republican carried thirteen and the Democracy nine ; a major ity of the latter being fairly, as for the Presidential fight, to be classi fied among the doubtful" States, at least.; . ; ; Besides the regular elections, spe cial Dolls have been had in the Stat'es of Arkansas1; (October, 1874.) California; (October, 1875,) Con necticut, (Oetoler, 1875,) Missouri, (November, 1875.) and Colorado, (October, 1875.) Of these only that of California was for the election of a State officer. It resulted in a Re publican! triumph. In Arkansas and Missouri the ballot was for the rejection or ratification of new State constitutions. The Democracy by whom they were framed triumphed at the polls; ; The vote in each State was, very light. The t Connecticut vote ratified constitutional amendr ments framed by a Republican Leg islature. Nebraska ratified anew State constitution.; New Jersey approved several , , amendments, and North Carolina elected a con stitutional 'convention. E-ich of these results were favorable to the Republican party. .. It appears, therefore, that out oi the fifty-one general and special elections held since that for Presi dent im 1872,- twenty-seven were carried by the Democracy and twen ty-four by the llepublicans. In North ' Carolina the vote of 1 8751 'tt lion the election of delegates to: the:: constitutional convention, was much, heavier than that of the State election ot 1874, and resulted in a. Republican majority of oyer 10,000." We regret that we have not the space to give the tabular statements of the Jiepicblicf but. the t"oiicluamii Is plain, that the noiiiinees or tne bver the pol i t leal d est i n i -s o f t h is country for the next four years. Peculiarities op thh Mooth di 'May. In May; says the St. LoutS' Republican people hunt for MayfloWers-and they don't1 find them. ' - ' 1 In May the iaml 18 nrely!seourgi- edwltii strawlrry festivals '-and other device which ethjity pockets andyisordefstomabhs. J"H n lnis- lIrflMay a tiiah who can't ' -afford his 1 wife a hired'vgirl 1 can 1 spe'nd thirtycentsa day for buck beer. ! 1ln May banana jkiiW cripple more people th'an'cititmn balls. " "In May croquet works Woe ; with youthful if ll hearts '''and 'ybuthfUl corhs." r d-!ir s:;-r:l'; In May iietpie t orn over a new IifJ and move loavOid back" rent. &p'rous bllce7 rnore'vand as of old hao higher1 ftlbftioii Hhuii ' ii 1 ' In tay-meif'i rn Vest all i f lei r Weal th n Hnbiis,pbitseoaii;i.luW frf 4 wealth ver bothers1 1 1 tiieiii animbrei In May a man' loots long and rekrncstly for ' lils1' last suramer's croh'esand'finds 6uly a!,palr fcneayvascsijJ"?;i -l 1- teMajr1 'a$aragbs apMars on the table ahd is as' delicious us a dish of Ijoiled pine clothes-pins. In May Sunday schools pick up . i m-r Lttz w - ms , MAY 25, 1876. marvelously, preparatory to ex pected pic-nics. -'In May ail that a boy hath, yea, all that he can borrow, that will he give to see a base ball match. In May little girls stretch ropes across pavement l and "jump the rope' and everybody that passes that w ay falls over the rope and wounds his nose. ! In May radishes are strong Enough for base balls bats, and iarber greaso will blister the scalp of a coeoanut on a single ap plication. in 3lay a w man no longer warns a spring bonnet. She has repented her ways she wants a summer bonnet. . . North Carolina Neivs. Bad boys in Concord throw stones at old men. The crop prospect of Edgecombe is excellent. People are attacked by owls on the streets of New-Berne at night. Salisbury has a Young Man's Christian Association. Charlotte is to have a city hos pital. The Fayetleville Public spirit is no more. Charlotte is afflicted with Canada thistles. Brandy peaches are iu demand in Greensboro. The crop prospects in the east are excellent. A Universal is t preacher is "hoi l- ing forth" in theeastern towns. A Stokes county cat is suckling two kittens and two squirrels. The Greenville Tar River Bea con will be removed to Tarboro. The Wilson Good Templar has suspended indefinitely. Wilson court divorced a couple n fifteen minutes last week. Kingsboro Postoffice, Edgecombe county, has been removed to iiarts- boro. O'Haraand Argo were each fined $200 by Judge Henry for misbe havior. In the court-room. The Greensboro prohibition law has helped the trade of the grocers and druggists amazingly. the 1st Congressional District meets in Hertford on the 22nd of June. The Wilson Advance is getting up sea trip to the Centennial from Morehead City. Two Democratic voters were re cently sent to the Albany pen i ten- . . WVTI -i. iary irom vviimingLou. There were sixty colored persons baptized at Henderson on Sunday, he 14th inst. Interesting revival meetings are being neia in me meinouist anu Baptist churches of New-Berne. The people of the west seem to have lost interest in the JUt. Airy Narrow Guage Railruad. The press Association of North Carolina closed its annual session yesterday in New Berne. - Tne Beaufort whale was 72 feet long instead of GO, and sold for $1,0(54. So says the Beaufort Eagle. Duplin county Superior Court convenes on Monday next. Judge McKoy will preside. Mr. R. H. Graves, Principal of the Hillsboro Military Academy, is dead. .Notwithstanding the departure of the 'R" months, oysters are still eaten in New Berne. The Craven County Historical Society was recently organized in New Berne; i, The stables of Wm. B. Thompson, of Wayne, was destroyed by fire last week. The rumor that Col. Freemont will retire from the Carolina Cen traf Railroad Is untrue. Mr.1 Harrison,of Warrentorihas a peeuliar peach tree, ltbioomeaa second time on the 14th of this month and has two crops of peaches. Laud U-a4d-to-besorich in Cas well county, that the, vines run away with the pumpkins and don't give theui time to grow. Fourteen persons joined the Bap tist church at New Berne on Sun day, 'and alut the same number the Methodist. r The, Episcopalians will erect a brJcK cliurch at Rocky Mouut. The contract has been awarded to W. TTaylor, of Whitaker's. H! Fishermen on the upper Roanoke are meeting with great success nett ing the' rockfish. The run is said to oe unpreceuenieu. : , ulpart Winston fost $3000 . by the- la i I u re f Meado w 4 Hros., to bacco ciiuAiiiissioiii uieichantsy of Atlanta. . ; ; - n : ,-1 : ' TlieFirruien of :Char?otte are making extensive preparations i for the celebration, which win es off in thajcity on the 20th. .Cwpt.'D W. Fuller, f Johnston count,vVnhas a cow which ogives daity five gallons of milk. 8 says the'-Ooldsboro Messenger. . .... f. ' , , The concert for she benefit of the Orphan Asylum, given at the Fe male Academy in Silem on last Friday night, was well attended. NO. 49- It is generally circulated that a change of schedule on the Rich mond and Danville Railroad will take place at an early date. During court-week the ladies of Hillsboro gave two entertainments and realiz'tl some ?JtM. net f r the University. Rev. Sam'l C. Pharr, D. I)., of Charlotte, has withdrawn from UK Presbyterian church ami joined the Methodist. A mad do? was recr-utly killed on the farm of Mr. Elvington, mar Goldsboro, after biting two other dogs. At one haul recently, at or.e of our eastern fisheries, 1,0S0 rock fi-h, weigh i ng 3 1 ,525 pounds, were ca u g h t and 300 shad and nerrmg at tne same time. The entertainment given by the Girls' Orphan Aid Society recently in Goldsboro was a success, and netted 10 for the orphans at Oxford. Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Wil mington, will deliver the address at the commencement exercises of the Thomasville Female College, on June Gth. A gentleman in town, who is never known to exaggerate, says he has a horn of a cow measuring over five feet. We believe it in a horn. Beaufort Eagle. Frank Owens, of Stokes county, blowed into his gun one day last week to see if it was loaded. It was. Only one half of Frank's head remained stationary. Polkton has an' aged citizen, who says he has read the Bible through forty three times since the war. This does not include the "scatter ing" reading he has done. Amariby the name of Henry Gray attempted to commit rape upon the person of a little girl 12 years old in Tarboro recently, lie was caught and incarcerated. A fish called the Jiering hawk, weighing one hundred and fifty pounds and with entrails like a hog's, has been caught at Wilming ton. Dr. Newball, of Milton, a highly rtspected citizen and a leading member of the Baptist church, was killed on the 18th, by being thrown from his buggy by a runaway horse. A woman and her two children were burned to death iti Chapel Hill last Sunday. The children's clothing caught tire, and the moth er was burned in attempting to ex- unguis uiu o-ow Dr. Falemau John and Hon. Jos. J. Martin are appointed delegates to the National Convention in Cin cinnati from the 1st Congressional District, and Hon. J. R. Page and Geo. M. Donalds alternates. Mr. Appleton Oaksmith, of Car teret, is suffering from a severe at tack of neuralgia of the heart, and the work on his proposed centenni al packet has been temporarily sus pended in consequence. The revenue officers recently captured 34 barrells of blockade whiskey in Wake county, 10 bar rells of which they destroyed, not having means of transportation to remove it. They also destroyed two stills belonging to John L. Whittington and sixteen others. At a meeting of the "Brooklyn Zouaves," a colored military com pany of Wilmington held on the 18th, W. H. Howe was re-elected Captain, IIilrty Durham 1st Lieu tenant, Fred. Hill 2nd Lieutenant, and Julius Brown 3rd Lieutenant. John Ilagland (col'd) who was tried and "convicted at January Term of Edgecombe Superior Court for perpetrating the revolting crime of rape upon Miss Cornelia Bed good, a respectable young lady of Whitaker's, came near escaping from the Tarboro jail one night last week. Lydia Garrett, colored, was struck on the head with; a hoe by Blouut Jenkins, colored, on the plantation of J. C.Bellamy, in 'Edgecombe, one day last week, from the effects of which she diedthe next day. The murderer escaped. The Wilmington Star learas that Elias Powell, colored, one of the murderers of the Jewish merchant Cohen, killed in Edgecombe county some months since, whose case was taken to the Supreme Court on anneal, will be re-sentenced by ! Judge. I. L. Henry, at Halifax, to day. The execution will lake place on Friday of next week. W. T. Taylor, of Edgecombe, is now shipping to a Liverpool (Eng.) firm a large quantity. of oak sills. Miss Harriet Tilghman, a young of Halifax county, recently climbed on the roof of a house on fire, ex tinguished the flames -with buckets of water, thereby saving a large amount of properly from destruc tion.5 "J Alfred Rush, colored, a member of the Legislature frcm Darlington county; South Carolina; was re cently shot and killed, ; while on his i way to his home in a buggy. Two whitemen, W. D. Purvis and Spencer Langston, have been ar rested, charged with the murder, and committed to jail. 'A' disastrous hail storm recently visited some portions of Richmond county, destroying growing crops of corn, cotton, wheat, gardens, &c. Wheat fields will have to be converted into pasture. Much cot ton will be replanted. The size of the hail stones varied from that of a partridge's egg to the size of a p ulfet's egg. PUBLISH s (SEE KATISOF, OX THIS PAGE.) i?-Jon Wore executed atsuW tice auu iu a stylo unsurpassed by afiyX similar establishment in the State. RATES OF ADVEUTISINO . Ono square, one time, - $ 1 00 ". two times, - - 1 50 " three times, - 2 00 Contract advertisements taken at proportionately low rates. General News Dr. Mary Walker's coat tails are still bobbing around Washington. The New York World has been punl asel by Wm. Henry HurN hurt. An aligator supposed to bo 150 years old has been sent to the Ccn tennial. Up to the 14th inst, $1,221,000 in silver coin had been paid out under the recent regulations. The Turks at Sfatau had it cele bration over the murder of the Ger man and Freuch consuls at Salonica. An explosion occurred at a mine near Richmond yesterday, killing eight persons. luvnt t in ine iiiuruereu Consuls will each receive $200,000 indemnity. It seems that Piper had a pitiful, peculiar passion. Piper ought to be put permanently away. Citizens of Danville, Va., are try ing to shoot each other. Result of too many newsjiapers, probably. One thousand more Chinamen arrived in San Francisco on the 17th. A Jersey City paper asserts that the recent gunpowder explosion caused 100 premature births. A coast steamer was sunk near Hong Kong on tho 10th, and. one hundred lives lost. The Chinese steamer Pelican was seized by pirates and the captain and fourteen of the crew were mur dered on the 10th. The treasury has stopped paying out, silver on currency checks, and silver has advanced to two and a half per cent, premium. One hundred Christians, includ ing women and children, weremur dered by the Mtjpsulmen inhabi tants of Piedor, iu Basnia, on the 19th. Ten men were Hogged at New castle, Del., recently, and afterward punished in the pillory. The whip ping, it is said, was brutal in the extreme. The Salonica murderers, six In number, have been duly executed, and still the great nations are let ting their men-of-war slip towards the Hellespont. The explosion which was attrib uted to striking laborers in Jersey City, turns out to be a case of spon taneous combusition. The vital statistics of New York Citv for the week ending Saturday, May 13th are : Births, 108 ; deaths, 518 ; marriages, 171. Darlington, S. C, had a $100,000 fire on the 1 1th. Nearly the entire business portion of the town was de stroyed. Doe Barges, of Washington, re cently performed the hjrculian feat of running six miles in 13 minutes, on a wager of two hundred dol lars. It is reported that the small pox is prevailing extensively in Phil adelphia. It will doubtless deter many from visiting the Centennial Exhibition for some time to come. Dom Pedro has pledged his gov eminent to pay one-half of the cost to establish a line of steamers to carry the mail between New Or leans and Brazil. The Republican State Conven tion of New Jersey met on the 17th. It is thought the delegates favor Blaine, though they were notIn- structed as to who to vote for. There are about 500 Indians in Flor ida, where they inhabit the Ever glades, and are believed to hold a few negroes in bondage. They . make pets of their pigs, and the , porkers follow them like dogs. Some colored laborers near Green ville, S. C, recently found a lot of silver Spanish dollars, the number of which they have not revealed. Sixteen of them have been paid out, and range in dates from 1730 17U1. Dom Pedro was shaved by a fe male barber in San Francisco, and when asked how ho liked it en thusiastically answered : 4I fetl joost as eef all my soul vas eon my cheen and she. vas teekle eet." Hon. Newton Morse, of Natlck, the successor of the forger Winslow from the Fourth Massachusetts Senatorial District, has fled, having appropriated $3,000, fuuds of the town of Natick. A terrible gas explosion took place iu a small room in the Senate wing of the capitoi at Washington on the 1'Jth, - killing one man and fatally wounding another. The door, shelves, fioor and ceiling of the room were shivered Into a thou sand fragments. At Dahlgreen, III., last week a ' party of young men went to sere nade Mr. and Mrs. Sturman, rc- x , centlv married. Sturman ordered the party on, oui uiey not leaving at once he fired into them with mi gun, killing one of the party and wounding another, j,. The Republican- State Conven vention of Alabama adjourned at Montgomery on the 17th. Tho following nominations were made ! For Governor, Thos. M. Peters, Secretary of State, J. S. McLemore, Attorney General, J. 8. Clarke, State Treasurer, W. B. Harris, Au ditor, C. Cadler, Jr., Superinten dent of Education, J. II. Houston, Congress. Jere Haralson, colored, S. F. Rice, Willard Warner and W. H. Smith were appointed dele gates to Cincinnati for the State at large. No instructions were given, burhe delegation isunderstood to fauotBnstow. s