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,ITm,Cn t"t7' o -0- mn" Jobn Cousins, a mulatto who way long time ago.
woman made a
Smithficld.
Go it, Smithfield. We learn they are
to have a plank horse railroad running
from Selma to Smithfleld. And she's
goingo have a cotton factory, too.
IJaclly Burnt.
We learn that a little daughter of Sam
Upchurph csiloml) while picking cot
ton in the Yield with a bag tied in front
of her, got it afire in some way and was
badly burnt.
Assistant Assessors.
Maj. W. D. Jones of this city. Asses
sor of the 4th district, received orders
this morning from Commissioner J.' W.
Douglas, revoking the commfcsi: .is of
five of his special assistant assessors to
take effect after the 31st instant.
was formerly a citizen of Burke county,
but recently of Clay county (Mo.,) was
arrested in Burke county, charged with
the murder of a half breed, name un
known, in a bar room in Kansas City
(Mo.) in August 1SG9. Cousins confess
ed before James Gallian of Burke that
he killed a man, but upon examination
before Justice W. F. Avery, he denied
that he killed him, but acknowledged
that he was present and jumped on the
deceased through mistake in the dark,
alter he had been knocked down by a
comrade. lie further states that he was
arrested for the offence, but claims to
have been discharged after an examin
ation before a magistrate. lie has been
committed in Burko county jail until
the authorities in Missouri can be com
municated with.
A. three year, old child In Iowa died
from bleeding of the gums. j
Mrs. Bloomer is alive in Iowa and a
believer in Mrs. Woodhull. j
-i-The scratch pf a kitten recently
killed a New Hampshire lady.
--Athens, though in the midst of
Greece, is to be lighted with gas.
i-A sarcastic lady says the only thing
which keeps Lent is her best silk um
brella, i -
Partridges In; Illinois . are tamo
enough to eat from the hand when
properly cooked. j
4-1 1 will certainly do it. We knew a
man who had one pulled. And he never
suffered from the same tooth azain.
f-At Elmira Fenale College the fair
"sophs" have interdicted the wearing
ofjlalse hair and jbustles by the fresh
Seized.
We learn that the, Christmas, Foote
A Co., Distillery in Warrenton, com
posed of six whiskey stills, has been
seizod by deputy collector C. W. Up
church for Unitei States revenue taxes
and will be sold the 27th of this month.
Granville County.
The value of farming utensils in
Granville county is sixty thousand four
hundred and twenty dollars. Horses
2,783, valued $183,395; mules 858, valued
$02,727; 10 jacks, valued $175; 5 "jin
nies," valued $105; 131 goats valued
11,791 cattle valued $9229; 26,764
hogs valued $50,313; 8,226 sheep valued
$10,786.
says grandma, " I
as still as a mouse."
still, grandma."
Horses and things in Wake.
e see In the Auditor's oOlce that
Wake county is reported for the last
year as having 2,446 hons valued at
$183,350; 1,730 mules valued at $145,938;
seven jacks at five hundred dollars;
nine "jinnies" at two hundred and
twenty -one dollars ; G49 goats at $1,0(5 ;
14,822 caUle valued at $150,822; 35,061
hogs valued at $65,053; and 8.S19 sheep
valued at $16,503.
New Country Store.
Dr. Tom Nixon opens on Monday at
Millbronk in this county a large country
store embracing merchandise of all
sorb. This is what the people of that
r section have long needed, and we are
glad to see tho county so flourishing as
thtt stores of this sizo are springing up.
Tin is an eld college chum, ait old
zeta psi ;" and we give him this per
sonal that the boys of '56 and '7 at Chap
el Hill may know "what has become"
of him. 1
IJevenue.
An examination of affairs in the 3rd
District discloses the fact that the collec
tions of revenue in that district, which
ex-collector Woolen was in office, ex
ceeded the deposits by over twenty
i seven thousand dollars. Ex-Collector
Woolen was an appointee of President
Johnson and was succeeded by the
present collector W. B. Richardson un
der the administration of General Grant.
Collector Richardson's accounts show
all right. It seems that Mr. Woolen has
been badly handled by his deputies.
A Harnett Man Blind from
, Small Pox.
As the freshest new- from Harnett
county we are permitted io publish the
following letter, written yesterday by
C. S. Barbee. to Judge Bunting of this
city. He says : "There have been but
. two deaths, and but two new cases since
I wrote to you last. Both of the- new
cases have been varioloid, and conse
quently will be light. I heard from
Mrs. Sion F. Crowder's family yester
day; they are all recovering very
rapidly. We are all hopeful that the
disease will not spread any further.
One of the worst cases to live, was
John W. Stewart, I am sad to say he
will be blind. He can ijarely tell day
light from darkness, at the present. As
soon as I can ascertain the pecuniary
condition of Mrs. Crowder and her
family, I will let you know."
The Hood-Early AVar.
A little tea thrown out of an old gourd
caused the bloody revolutionary war.
A horse lly stinging the left hind leg of
Mrs. Mahoney's red cow caused the
burning of Chicago. And now a little
speech made by Gen. Hood (who keeps
one of the best drug stores in Georgia)
In front of the Yarboro House in this
city has caused old Gen. Early (who
practices in all the courts of Virginia)
to make another speech which has set
all the editor in the South to writing
what they know " of the war (which
half of them neversaw) and all the majors
and the colonels and the generals (who
are for the most part doiug fine in the
insurance business) to neglect their pol
icies long enough to tell what they know,
and the probability Is if this thing keeps
on that w e'll have another war and ten
thousand lives be lost by talking and
writing themselves to death on the sub
ject. '
A Stricken 3Iother.
Pity the mother. Aye, pity her!
God knows this mother must have suff
ered. It is about the death of little
Eddie Roberts in Newbern the other
day, an account of whose death by
burning we published a few days since.
There the little fellow satin the door
tha( morning as lively , as a bird and
full of the joyous prattle of a two year
old child. But great Heaven! what a
horrible blackened Death, with its fiery
red tongue already licked out, was then
reaching after, this fair and innocent
little boy. nis mother left him awhile
in her room and when she came back
he met her in flames. But we will let
the Newbern Liberal tell the rest :
She immediately grasped him in her
arms and endeavored to stifle the now
ramdly spreading fire by wrapping her
dress around him ; but the great terror
and distress oi vu uim
with superhuman strength to elude her
irraso. They had now reached an outer
d,or when the devoted mother, from
what we n lcarn feI1 with the thild
down the steps, when both were now in
a light blaze, exposed to the
open airand wind. Neighbors and per
sons from the street rushes in, but it
WM Hometiiue before a blanket could
hanrovided with which to extinguish
Zfli Alas! too late, too late.
Blackened, unsightly and swollen was
the little face, while the arms and body
rli'.LfVrriblv burned. The little
sufferer was not permitted by a mere
ful Providence to linger long, for he was
already fast breathing hi life away
.n.A th oft repeated moans of his dis
tressed mother, "you cannot save my
can no i mm o o
couia
dreadfully uuiucv, -" -' , ', r;
nntuMuiT poor child.' Yes, bright
Our State.
Salem has had twogrxxl icecrops.
Tar river has a new steamer
called the Isis.
The Warrenton Gazette is a good
paper for local news.
A dressed turkey is 25 cents per
pound in Wilmington.
Trinity College has one hundred
and thirty-seven students.
B. II. Brixson has terrapined
Baltimore with the critturs.
Winston is to have a barber sIiod
and three tobacco warehouses.
They have employed a carpenter
to work on tho Newbern Times.
, Goldseoro has a negro woman
that preacuca reguiarly at a church.
Two young men in Charlotte
drew $75 each in the Louisville Lottery.
The Times records the price of
bear meat in Newbern at six cents per
pound.
Kinstox has 4G men that play
horns, scrape on fiddles and pick
banjos.
Sheriff Ilellen of Pitt is im
proving from the broken leg he got
while in Raleigh.
Wallace Williams of Warren
ton was stricken with paralysis Friday
night. They think he will recover.
At a recent sociable in Scuffletown
Stephen Lowrey and Andrew Strong
looked so nice that the girls all fcll in
love with them.
TnE lecture by Governor Vance,
the music by Herr Von Meyerh, and
the Charlotte Female Institute saw a
good time last night.
The Warrenton Gazette says;
Mir -bile dictu- W. S. Hansom, Esq.,
luis asked our Temperance Society to ad
mit him as a member.
The colored citizens of Greens
boro will celebrate the first day of Jan
uary as the anniversary of their eman
cipation. Rev. J. W. Hood will deliver
tte address.
The Plaixdealer publishes
the death of John M. Walton who was
well known to the people of Wilson and
wh recently died of consumption in
Burke county.
While W. J. Morrisett of Cam-
d was in his bedroom Sunday night,
a thief relieved his breeches pocket of
several hundred dollars. So says the
North Carolinian,
Five hundred bales of cotton
were sold in Fayetteville last week at
174 cents. And fifty thousand barrels
of rosin of the present crop are to be
shipped from that place.
By the Newbern Are John Pat
terson lost $-',500; Wm. Fife for $1,500,
'was insured ; White Bros. $2,000, cov
ered by insurance; aud Henry C. Rus
sell for $l,0u0 was insured.
The Charlotte Observer gives this
railroad item : Our young friend John
S. Faucette is running as Conductor on
the A., T. fc O. Railroad at present, vice
Captain Crutchtield, resigned.
A young lad named Pate, in Le
noir county, lighted a match to warm
his hand, in tho lint room of Mr. R. B.
Taylor's cotton gin. Mr. Taylor's loss
is five thousand dollars. The lad is
buried.
The Journal tells of the Wil
mington, Columbia fe Augusta Railroad
running off the track, the sleeping cars
and the coaches' turning npside down,
and nobody getting hurt, but just a little
bruised.
Thomas D. Carter of Asheville
writes us that he will start a new paper
(Democratic) in that place early in Jan
uary, and wishes an exchange with the
Era.- He shall have it. It is to be
called the Western Expositor.
The Winston Sentinel office sends
its devil to sunday school. Reading
about Judas hanging himself, the other
day, that young imp remarked to the
teacher, " that if he'd a been Judas he'd
have divided the thirty pieces of money
with Grant and got him a revenue
place."
Compan y Shops generally begins
Christmas, Saturday night. We don't
say it was that, though. The Washing
ton City Star says: A friend at Golds
boro informs us that'passengers by the
North Carolina railroad, who were at
Company's Shops on Saturday night,
report that they distinctly felt the shock
of an earthquake at 21 o'clock A. M.
The hotel was considerably shaken and
the colored waiters were badly fright
ened. No damage.
. Well, the court house in Wilr
mlngton is now on a drunk. The Star
saya : Some of the officials in the court
housa are considerably exercised about
spirit rappings,- which they allege fre
quently take place in the court room
above. The Register of Deeds was
started from his equanimity a few nights
since, while busily at work, by a tre
mendous noise in the apartment of the
building mentioned, which sounded as
if all the chairs bad been seized simul
taneously and knocked againat the floor.'
Here he is. He's found at last.
And he not only chews tobacco, but
raises it for family use. The Leaksville
(N. C.) correspondent of the Danville
Time says : Yesterday an "old gentle
man by the name of Mitchell, from near
Pen s Store, va, came into town, pull
ing a load of 87 pounds of dark Leaf, in
a small wagon, such as bakers use to
carry bread in. This looks like energy.
To walk 25 miles on a raw day and pull
a cart loaded with tobacco deserved re
ward. And from what I could gather
they paid him well for it.
Rev. Charles P. Jones, for
merly of Fayetteville, writes from
Springfield (Mo.) describing the prices
that rule out there as follows i 1 have
been offered corn in the field at 15 cents
per bushel. Fine timothy and clover
hay and other varieties are offered at
1U per ton delivered. Some varieties
at $3 and . $9. Pork is now selling at
2i to 3i cents per pound gross. Will
range net at 3i to 4, I think. Strange
women.
? Now. Johnny,
want you to sit jus!
" Mouses don't sit
Sure enoutrh !
4-Despite the large amount of rubber
gords destroyed by tho Boston fires,
steak remains at ?twenty-two cents.
Danbury Sews, f !
Stokes, at h is coin i ng trial, will prove
that Fisk shot aiuj tried to stab himself,
but was prevented from the latter by
the presence of Kdiviu.
-t-Wby should we celebrate Washing
ton's birthday more than mine?'' asked
a teacher. " lieoause he never; tola a
lie," shouted a little boy. . j
--The Postmaster General ha? decid
ed that all postmasters are-1 liable to the
government for the value or all regis
tered letters lost in. their offices, j
-r-A gentleman can get a beautiful
frigate jabbed upon his arm by paying
Mr. M. 11 itde brand, the tattoo artist In
New York, ten dollars for the same.
-f-A finger-nail artist from Paris has
hung out her shingle in New York, and
removes the sub-soil from the delicate
digits of Gotham.belles and beaux for a
dollar or two. - ' j
It is decided that any letter posted
with a stamp on it shall be forwarded to
its destination, and if insufficient post
age has been paid, the balance shall be
collected upon delivery. j
. --A Kansas law, we notice, gives moth
ers control of their children. This is
an! admirable law, and every family
should have one. Without it too many
children have control of their mothers.
A good deacon being asked to sub
scribe for buying a chandelier for the
church objected, saying t "Now, what
is the use oia chandelier? After you
get it you can't get anybody to play on
H ' !
f-We are pained to notice that papers
taking our items and appropriating
them as their own, seek to palliate the
theft by publishing a column. of relig
ious miscellany. This may look well
enough in the eyes of heaven, but it
don't satisfy us. .
A Boston gentlemau who could not
waltz, offered a young lady f 100 if-she
would let him hug her as much as the
man did who had j ust waltzed her. It was
a good ouer, and showed that money
wai no object to him, but they put him
out of the house so hard that his eyes
were quite black.
-!-At a seance in Atlanta recently an
intelligent spirit, which had answered a
number of fccriptural questions correct
ly.' was asked. " Was the ass that lla
l.tara rode aud the ass that Christ rode
into Jerusalem one and the same 7" The
answer was, " Yes ;'f which shows that
this remarkable ass was oveM.OOO j'ears
old.
J-A gentleman who had left his wife
alone in the theater while he went out
to get a whiff of fresh air, "apologized"
on his return. " Dear me," said she,
I thought you went to give me a chance
to flirt witli that man with the lovely
black moustache." I She has had no
cause to complain of any want of atten
tion from her husband since.
4" Oh, madam, I have stuck a fork
In' my linger." " Oh, that's nothing,
Francoise, you will mot feel It to-mor
row." "I should not be afraid, madam,
If I was sure the fork was silver."
" You may then be perfectly easy ; it is
silver; all our forks are silver." i Fran
coise was cone the next morning, and
so were all the forks:
Fists.
SST The new dolls for Christmas
are the rubber dolls, that being filled
with water, you squeeze, and they shed
tears.
One of the girls who went
in glee with song to greet Gen. Wash :
ington as he entered Newberyport,
Mass., has just now died in her 97th
year.
S&" Among the last consignment
of birds received in Atlanta for sale, are
African Parakuets, African Cutthroats,
West India Love birds and Silverbeaks
and Bishops and Magpie Finches.
The meningitis killed one col
ored man near Newberry (S. C.) in the
morning; his friend who assisted in
laying him out died with it in the even
ing; and the third one . sometime that
was a corpse. '
Stop using chloroform for
neuralgia. The wife of a prominent
San Francisco man stopped it the other
day. She had put the handkerchief
over her face, and becoming stupefied,
was unable to remove it. When it was.
taken off she was a corpse.
SST The London 'Telegraph ob
serves : "Seldom can the President of
the United Slates communicate a mes
sage to the Senate so f ull of peace, so
free from any tone of apprehension, so
devoid of any phrase from which cal
umny itself could draw a menace."
iBST" An open air meeting was held
in Stockton, England, last Sunday, in
favor of Fenian amnesty. Twelve hun
dred persons were present. The meet-
lng ended beautifully.
ISF- The Lunatic Asylum at Co-
I lumbia is having mnsical hops. ; V
SST They pitch " heads or tails"
for kisses at New England sociables.
Watchout for $5 U. S. Treas
ury note counterfeits. The engraving
is rough and the paper is too rough to
take well the large amount of ink.
night
The Ensrlish
and Welch made a charge on the Irish
and outnumbering them, carried away
their flags and trampled them in the
mud.
535" We tliank the clever managers
for an invitation to the Christmas Bil
at the Benbow House" in Greens
boro the 25th of this month. Nothing
would please us more than to assume
the wavy attitude with the beaux and
belles of that charming little city, but a
quarter a dozen of little ones are call
ing us (pappy now.
JBgy The Richmond county, ( Wis.)
Independent says because a farmer set
his dog on an Indian out in that county,
the Indian came one night and turned
loose in the farmer's bed room a box
full of rattle snakes The farmer shot
the largest one just as it coiled up at the
foot of his bed ready to strike.
2? The Baltimore American tells
of a very amiable young lady of that
city who just before her death from
consumption, and in the full possession
of her faculties, conversed with her
dead aunt, and told her friends that she
would not die till a certain day, "when
her aunt would come back for her."
f-The sharpest so far this month is
tue Troy gin wuo makes ner unsuspect-
inK daddy the daily bearer of sweet
missives to a clerk in his office who has
been forbidden to visit hi employer's
house. She pins the letter in the old
man's cloak, and when he reaches the
office and throws off the garment, clerk
gets it and responds by th same carrier.
t Some drummers on a train from
Raleigh to H illsbo ro recently wished
to open a bottle of whisky they had with
them, but had no corkscrew. "I'll get
one," said oneof the number, and rising,
he called out, "Is there a gentleman
from Ilillsboro on the train ?" A gen
tleman responded. fWill you lend me
your corkscrew? said the drummer.
The corkscrew was forthcoming.
j Judge Gary of Chicago is a merry
dog. rue moune reports mat aner nav-
ing granted his third divorce on Satur
day last, be said to a lawyer, who want
ed his case heard in open court, to save
- 1 T 1 -
me expense oi a neanng oeiore a mas
ter : " They are all in such a hurry, I
am afraid that I am 'overstocking this
market with second-handed married
women." I
An Ohio landlord kept tavern near
some mountains and he conceived the
idea of establishing a magnificent echo
for his guests, so they could hear the
echo when they halloed. So he arrang
ed with a little boy to hide behind a
clamp of trees and to repeat the words
of any one he heard talking on the roof
of the hotel. And jthen he carried ms
guests up to hear the echo. They called
lor half an hour but no echo responded.
At last, when the landlord bad become
crimson with rage and was about to
Rive in. the echo came but not in the
shape expected. .It said: "Bin down
to the spring fur mother. ire away
now. I'm all right." The guests smiled
and mine host suddenly disappeared.
It is dangerous now to mention the
word "echo' at that hotel.
A Narrow Escape.:
The venerable land distinguished
physician and surgeon, Edmond Strud-
wick of Ilillsboro, is now on 4 visit to
his son's in Dayton. Alabama. Wo
heard the other day of quite a narrow
escape from death bis son. Dr. Edwin
Strudwick, made, j While eating an
orange, he had peeled it in quarters, he
put one of the little pieces in his mouth
and swallowed it. Suddenly springing
to his feet, he dashed off his coat and
rushed out in the porch, when he fell
face foremost. His father, very much
alarmed and not knowing the matter,
rushed after him,' and seizing him round
the middle he raised him up when out
popped the piece of orange. ' He had
sucked it in his windpipe.
I .1 .n r ..l i. I. : i
nntuveinT poor cuiw. um"' f ji 7..
!-?.... VAAits wasalreadv be- than pork. Mutes and Horses are low
vond thereacb ot human skill, and the ' in value. I fa
ffineSfneighbors and friends, or - horses f.r $00;
h.ln of physicians who were, hordes a id mule
i attendance, were alike of no avalL
ave been offered eood
have seen lately good
ules sea at auction in this
city at 40 and i6a"
A Cataract Kemoved.
i . i
Dr. Hooper, :. former president of
Wake Forest College, and for eight years
professor or toe languages at Chapel
Hill, is now living in the town of Wil
son in his seventy-tiinth year. During
last month bejrisited Dr. Chism of Bal
timore aud had a , cataract removed
from one of his eyes, and that, too,
without the use oif chloroform. His
many friends throughout the State will
be glad to learn that the doctor's health
and mental vigor are 'remarkably well
preserved.
jKsT The Richmond Enquirer says
that .Virginia is nevermore the nursery
for idle, tippling, self-styled chivalry;
that the work of the hand and head and
that the sweat of the brow are go
ing to be more largely profitable; and
that all greatness mnst be built on
common sense and common honesty.
At Chappaquat on Saturday,
the goods and chattels on Mr. Greeley's
farm were sold by auction. On the
" old Alderny cow " being put up the
auctioneer said "I will offer you the
old histoi ic cow. (Cries of Where's
Barnum.') She is 24 years old and
gives a quart ot rich milk daily. This
is the cow that fed all Mr. Greeley's
children. This is the cow whose milk
Mrs. Greeley used to churn in a cup.
This, gentlemen, is the cow of-Which
Mr. Greeley said, She is an imported
cow. She has stood in the stable for
several years doing nothing but eat, be
cause my wife says she has given milk
to my children and she shall not be
killed.' How much am I offered for
her?" " Five dollars,"- cried a man in
the crowd. " Where's Barnum?" shout-
ed a dozen men at once, as the aged
quadruped was knocked down to Squire
Archer for $7.50. The horses were next
sold; "tho old sorrel mare" bringing
$27, while Miss Ida Greeley's well
matched team brought 8160. Utica
Herald.
Here's the way the wild and
dashing Joe Shields, but who has lately
joined the Methodist Church and sober
ed down, got Miss Lizette Bruce in
Atlanta the other day. They fooled the
old folks to death. The Herald says :
The parties met at a house out neai the
Medical College, and put an end to all
further opposition of the old people, by
the aid of a Justice of the Peace. What
is remarkable, after the marriage
which occurred in the afternoon about
three o'clock, tho young lady walked
back home, took her tea, retired to her
room and packed her trunks, without
once exciting suspicion that anything
out of the ordinary current of events
had transpired. At nine o'clock she
was visited in her room by both her
father and mother, who admonished her
of the imprudence of remaining up
without having a fire. She archly re
plied, she "was not cold, and would
soon retire." Sometime between ten
and eleven, when all had become quiet
in the house, her new made husband
drove up and took her and what things
she desired, away. They remained in
the city Tuesday night, but left yester
day morning on the Western and At
lantic Railroad for Nashville. , .
S6F13ennie Hupps, of Westchester
county. New York, was clerking for
Mr. Barrett, of White Plain, and fell
in love with Miss Louise Conklin, and
was engaged to bo married to her. But
Bennie met another girl and was sweet
to her, and soon they were engaged ; aud
Bennio met his first love in the stree'.s
of White Plain and refused to recog
nize her. But Louise at the mouth of
a pistol forced Bennie to come to time,
and he married her in spite of his sec
ond love. But Bennie looked sharp.
He wrote his "Dollie" the following
letter, and sloped the day after from
White Plains, and Mrs. Hupps is now
alone gnashing her teeth in jealous
rage. Bennie was a handsome dry
goods clerk and parted his hair in the
middle. The letter reads : "My Dear
Dollie, My Dear I have Been all the
morning trying to buy my Boss out.
But I cant make it out but I am Goinr
to live in Hopes if I die in Despair.
My Dear Doll if Bennie had you down
here I would soueese vou - half To
Death. -
To Day is friday but wait until 1 more
week and 1 more Day rolls By, then
Bennie will see his dear Dollie Pet
sweet Girl I bet I will my Dear Dollie
Sugar."
SST Since the ' first of last July 157
vessels have shipped from San Francis
co for foreign countries ladened with
4,920,462 centals of wheat valued at
57,297,515. " ;
The foreman of The Tribune
office, Thomas Rooker, thus testified in
the Greeley contested will case now go
ing on : Q. Were you present at the fu
neral of Mrs. Greeley ? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you observe Mr. Greeley par
ticularly ? A. Yes. I observed that he
was very strange, and my wife remark
ed it also ; there was a look about him
that seemed unearthly ; he looked as if
he did not know where he was ; as if he
had waked up out of a dream and was
entirely lost ; he looked to me liicea
man that was erazy. ; :
Q. WThen after that did you see him?
A. The next after that I saw him for the
first time on the 11th of November.
Q. Where? A. In his room in The
Tribune office.
Q. Describe, what you saw? A. I
heard he was in his room and I went up
to greet him ; he was apparently asleep
in his chair ; Mr. Cleveland was in tho
room, and when I saw that he was sleep
ing (I had heard that he could not sleep
or eat) I thought thatJ would not dis
turb.him ; as I was going he waked op
and said, " Rooker, I want to see you ;"
I went be?k and he shook' my hand and
then went off inn doze again and said
nothing: Mr. Cleveland left the room
and Mr. Greeley remarked to me,
am ruined, we are all ruined, we are all
broken up ; you have got some proper
ty ; I have none ; I want you to promise
me that you will take care of my chil
dren." (The witness here was visibly
affected.) I said,. " Mr. Greeley, I will
do so ; I will give you my word I will
take care of them to the last cent I have;
"I then thought (Objected to); I then
said, "Mr. Greeley, I wish you would
come home with me ; I believe if you
will come to my house where you will
see no one except my family the rest
will do you good ;" he said he could not
go; I insisted on it; he told me, "No, I
cannot go; I have been writing all day;"
his desk was covered with paper writ
ten on; he said,
"I can't write anything that
suits me;"
he had written on Boston, on the effect
ofthefireon Wall street, and none of
them suited him ; Mr. Reid came in,
and I said to Mr. Reid, "Mr. Greeley
has been trying to write something
about Boston and Wall street, and says
he cannot do it; Mr. Reid said, "He need
not write ;" I said to him, "You take
that manuscript, and I will take him
over to my house ;" he said, "I will set
Mr. Congdon to work at those articles." j
Tho witness continued : "I wanted Mr.
Greeley to go home with me t stay a
week or more ; I thought I could talk
with him about old times and cheer him
up and bring him back; I went up
stairs after that ; Iisaid, "I will go when
you want to go, at four or five o'clock ;''
he wouldn't give mo any answer, and I
went over and trot a carriage and took
him over to my house. '
Chapped. Hands, face, rough skin,
pimples, ringw&rn, salt-rheum, & other
cutaneous affections cured, and the skin
made soft and smooth, -by using the
Juniper Tab Soap, made by Caswell,
Hazard fc Co., New York. Be certain
to get the Juniper Tar Soap, as there are
mauy. worthless imitations made with
common tar. - ' 93 !2w.
Tha Yn.A . 7 . . -i
Liver oil is Hazard & Caswell's, made
on tho sea shore, from fresh, selected
livers, by Casweli., Hazard Co.,
New York. It is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken it
prefer it to all others. Physicians have
decided it superior to any of the other
oils in market. 93 12w.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Xew York. '
Washikoton, Dec. 23. The fire In
the Central Presbyterian Tabernacle
originated - from a defective flue. A
strong gale prevailed, and swept the
flames around the ceiling. The corru
gated iron of the superb walls, all curl
ed up. The Mammoth Jubilee organ
burned. The Church was built in 1871,
and was capable of seating 41,000 peo
ple. Total loss $95,000. Insurance $30
000.
TIlA TTpvn.lfi. S3 17 a vlifn
Horace F. Clark, President of the Union
Pacific Railroad, has been instructed
to commence suit for eighteen millions
of dollars distributed among those con
nected with the Credit Mobilier.
. Wm. Orton, President of the Western
Union "Telegraph Company has sold
fifty shares of Tribune stock to White
land Reid. Orton retains one share, and
it is agreed that he should be elected one
of tho trustees of the Association, , . .
Thermometer at midnight six degrees
above zero.
Capt. Whitehead's crew and passen
RALEIGH MARKETS.
r COTT.ON . MARKETS, v
Bjr George TV Stronacli ic Bro.,
Dealers in.Cbtlan and Xiavac Stores,
y Market and Martin Streets.
Receipts at Raleigh, 118 bales.
quotations: :
Ordinary, : : - 161
Good ordinary, 17i
Low middling, ' - ' 173
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
D
WHOLESALE PRICES,
Bf Messrs. Pool 8c Tttorin, :
Grocers and Commission Merchants,
Corner Wilmington and Martin Sits.
Cotton per ft., 172
Com per bushel, 90
Oats per bushel, . ; Go
Flour N. Carolina family. 8 u08 75;
Baltimore Family, 11 00
Bacon pet lb.," Bulk, ,910
Salt per sack, 3 25
Cotton Yarn , j 1 75
Corn Meal per bushel, 1 10
RETAIL PK1CES,
By Jilessrs. Marcom A Alford,
Grocers and Commission Merchants,
Hargett Street
Bacon Baltimore smoked, - 11
unsmoked, j 9
: strips, j 11
shoulders, j 81
-NYC. A Canv. Hams', 15 .
12
10
12
10
17
35
5
6
7
35
1 70
J&5 1 00
15 20
; 30 35
8 50 9 00
1 25 1 50
gers, on steamer St. Louis, arrived in
the George Cromwell. Shortly after
leaving New Orleans, the St. Louis
struck General Grant, sucken steamer.
Twenty-four hours after leaving a leak
was discovered, when all took lifeboats.
Wind and Snow.
St. Joseph, Mich., Dec. 23. A fear
ful wind and snow has prevailed for
the last two days. The thermometer
is from six to twenty below zero. Five
engines and four trains are weather
bound between Stevensvilleand Hager.
Butter per lb. I 30
.Beeswax per , 221
Beefon hoof, r i 5
. '-.per quarter, '
Coffee per lb.,
Cotton Yarn per bale,
Corn per bushel,
Chickens per piece,
Eggs per dozen,
Flour per bbl.,
Fodder per 100 lbs.,
Hay per 100 lbs., CO 75
Hides green, per &., 6 7
dry, per lb., . 13 14
Leather per lb., 30 40
Lard per lb., 121 15
Molasses per gallon, 30 50
Golden Syrup, , 80 (al 00
Meal per bushel, ; 90 1 00
Oats per bushel, 65 70
Sheaf, pr hundred,
Potatoes irish, per bush.,
sweet, per bush.,
Sugar crushed,
extra C,
P. R.,
common, ;
Salt per sack, - I
Tallow per H., ! 8
Vinegar per gallon, 40
25 1 50
9 10
60
40
1 20
10
15
121
40
50
00
16
00
00
25
10
50
Fire in Boston. .
Boston. Dec. 23. A fire occurred on
I - n
Washington street, in the vicinity of the SrUn I O
temple place. Loss 75,000.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
JEST Book sent free.
Address Kagle Book Co. 9
Murray sL, N. Y. j 112 4 w
Markets.
London, Dec. 23. Consols 91 J.
Fives 89s. - -
M fl M F V Easily made with our Sten
1VIUIML.I nil and kflv-Cheek Outfit.
figf Circulars Free. ; 112 4w
Stafford M'Fg Co. 66 Fulton St. N Y.
Cottou opened
Orleans 203
Personal Intelligence.
liiamarcK's eon is . engaged to an
American girl.
Capt. Dossey Battle, of the Rocky
Mount Mail, is on a visit to Texas.
Maior John W. Graham and David
Parks,' of Hillsboro, are at the Yarboro.
' Ex-Govv Wells, of Virginia, is U. S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of that
State.
The Warrenton folk are much grati
fied that Rev. Mr. Hudson of this city
has been assigned them.
A New Haven reporter has settled it
by obtaining this affidavit from Mr.
Froude "I pronounce the ou in my
surname like oo in fool. I. A. F."
Wm. II. Baile3', Esq., of Salisbury,
has rented a house in this city and will
soon move down. He and the Hon. A.
S. Merrimon left Raleigh together last
night. i
Mr. Harvey A. Deal, a worthy and
intelligent young printer of this office,
left the city last Saturday night, on a
visit to his friends in Rowan.
(We liked to have said sweetheart)
Mr. John R. O'Neal, chief clerk to
Marshal Carrow, left this city last night,
on a visit to his father in Alabama.
We wish himi a happy -visit. He's full
of wounds he got in the confederate
army.
Educational Fund.
These are the several sources from
which the receipts of the Educational
Fund in this State were derived during
the past fiscal year : County capitation
tax 1,818.31 ; entries of vacant lands
7,068,17 ; fines, penalties, fcc, 6,216.97 ;
interest on deposits 400,83; interest on
United States Bonds, 421,87 ; Roanoke
Navigation Company dividends 250;
swamp lands (interest) 1,513.50; tax on
retailers of spirituous liquors 28,122.39 ;
and tax on auctioneers 188,72. The
whole amounting to 46,000.81.
Tbe Hillsboro Barracks.
We learn that the old barracks build
ing in Hillsboro owned by Paul C.
Cameron is now finished in its repairs
and ready for the military and classical
school that Mr. Cameron wishes to
establish in that place. Gen. James H.
Lane of the old " Lane's Brigade" has
been secured as tbe gentleman to pre
side over this institution. No better
selection could have been made. Gen.
Lane has been teaching in Richmond
(Va.) since tbe war. .
Iron in Chatham.
The Iron Ore Hill Manufacturing
Company in Chatham have commenc
ed operations, we learn, and are mak
ing four tons of pig iron a day. They
expect to have seven furnaces in full
blast in less than - twelve months and
will manufacture the article on quite an
extensive scale. This iron is worth
fifty-six dollars per ton in the markets
North.
The best almanac of the season we
have received from Pace Brothers of the
Mammoth tobacco Warehousa in Dan
ville.
Liverpool, Dec. 23-
easier; Uplands 10J1
Later Cotton quiet.
.new lOBK, uec. 'li. stocks very
strong; Gold steady at llf; Money
firm at 7 ; Exchange, long 9i, short 101.
government bonds dull and steady;
State bonds dull and steady; Cotton
quiet; Uplands 20J; Oileans20; sales
2,738 bales ; Flour steady; Wheat quiet;
Corn unchanged ; LPork dull ; Lard
quiet; steam 7i7 ; Turpentine steady
at59160 ; Rosin unchanged at 3.85;
Freights quiet. ; . ,
MARRIAGES.
Married, at the residence of Mrs.
Jane T. Dennis, by W. B. Jones, Esq.,
on tho 18th instant, Mrs. Sarah J.
Harrington and John G. Stephens,
all of Wake county.
Married, on the 11th instant, at the
residence of the officiating minister,
Rev. J. E. Pressly, Minor F. Brow, of
Cabarrus, and Miss Roxanner Grier,
of Iredell county, N. C.
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