North Carolina Newspapers

Colored I of -I, the VAUor The Isa : j ft ; trii? v wonderful what an 1 ' '. r tie colors! wdi!;1. This ."WEEKLY ERA. f T 4 H'lU U lilllli-1".! - - . . 1 i j:ision. lie is niguiy ruu- ; to nave n-eeivca ? Mi" f tvT 1 ; .i ;t;ul known to have ' ,u- traininsr under the famous '.U.SuL'jncr; Many yiatra n-o J.Vu;.per came to Ilaleixh on an . Since men no i:as oeen onif I . . . . . .mvVIY o'4'- ir --- i t -moral, religious, intellectual ' 'V in lutrial training. The fruits i !,u labors are in part to be seen in !'. , iblishment of ft church, a col- 'i. .,,! school, which lie loumiea I All letters relating to Subscriptions, or A Ivertiscments, must be addressed to V. 21. KKOYTA, lluine4 Tlanag-er THURSDAY, J AX. O, 1873. Frank Leslie. Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper for January U a real gem. One dollar enclosed to the publishers in New York will get this fplendid Weekly for three month". - n Magistrate Court-Youus Clerk , Oar State. i-!numstances somewhat ad '- rse. What U still more wonder- IS tllC HU-W Hiill nv 4w"uipuoiai t'.u in a comparatively snort punou l;t:n,e and with no little srlf-sac-!i Sir. Tuppcr H not like most r" 4-...rtin" merclv for tliJ "fih i l loaves." The advancement of ... n matter of small importance Ho .see his rema in dollars and vv. ... ? i. n not o mucu The Insane Asylum. Mr. Potts from Orange county camo down to-day as Ward Master at the in sane asylum. We learn that Professor Wynn of Davidson College, who was very crazy and had to be put in'" a box 6' restraints," a muff and gloves, to keep from tearing himself and clothes, is now convalescent and improving rapidly. Is able to walk about the grounds. Ill l!ie ss'crfi KraiM.-aiiu.i lVi',",- in ' that he is movincr on i-r ana lazier cvtry uny iu.ua i.t-omplishinent of that object Intr-Hectual and n:'r.n, 't : i.. .-Tai f.K.vntinn of a race whom ifi'iu'14 v v . ' . i .,f uiiirari' anil rn fi,p4ie."iH)iiiii ui ...... rrr Ion; and dog radtxl. c.i!.T"l pcI,,- m ivaiuij;u,ui ciilorifl people everywhere, i u-r-fwtor al-jj to t!ie At 'VI His ll:lS SO "ie m;i:i 1- iruiy ;i iui;;uiinu3i, txcrtl' in SI ppiHTiritiin in mw , that cannot fail to command ,',,.,,,.111 and admiration of every v? contemplates them. I'. a iKMH'factor not only to the n-1 j.t-ople of lialeij;si,tKittotne no is men can . .,...!(. "i iit rail v: in laci, no ia u 'r : ?'ir siMjner or later the ef- - ... ,. .. ? .t,i i f.-s tins iiiTiiiiuiiicTi t;i-inic- ... .if nni.l t X- I if Iflt i. -1 . I I vv- - a - - - - -vIht v r religion, morainy, nuei- :'Ml irifiuiry ar rr';iruwi. !-t!mn t Hi-ct the mom!, relii i ii Tii i.H'T i :irni ii mil:-., iiiii tfj. ... , - , i.i :w nrfssure does a :iuia in ,..-ui:i?atin itself emally in every .I'rfi'tiork T!., ro are to-uav. uniier me train- - - . I" '( l Jll. IU lllt.i jvuu- ....... v.in ' women of color, fitted for almost everv avocation oi me in r,hkh they can rccome eminently cful mcinbers of society. And thnsi" drar little ones who rweive n.tructhins at thecrentle hands of Mr. Tupwr's talented and virtuous r. aule assistants, are buds of the f::ri-t nromise that will, in due timf. bloom with all the fragrance nd Ix-auty congenial to their na- i-r.-s. Col Ieires and scnoois line t...- ry those of Mr. Tuppcr and of Gen. t iwaru at, ;ininirioji, n. v., timnble treasures to the colored rem!.'. They accomplwi mhn- iMv more for thier elevation than any benevolent instilutions I have vtt Ufii aoiuaintetl with. I there- Ure lK)k forward. w ih niost anx- j-itw solicitude, to tin- time, which I trust is not fa distant, when, cwinirto the labors of men like llr. Tsnner. the eoloretl people of America shall have won no insi nifkant place in the bright pages of the world's history.. J. DeW. Gov. Caldwell's Pigs. The Governor informs us that they killed hogs at his house in Morganton, day before yesterday, and the nett weight of his fourteen "pigs" under fifteen months old, was 3,190 pounds. Each pitf averaging 227 6-7 pounds. II is Excellency refuses any credit h i In tel f for this fattening, it all being due to his most excellent lady, Mrs. CahlwelL for Stealing-. . ! I ; A John Ives; a young, jman employed for the last three ye irs as clerk In the store of Messrs. Primosie, Petty & Newsom of this citywason trial Friday before Magistrate W$(-kr, charged with steaSing goods from flit! !irm. Messrs. Busboc fc Bvisbee for, dip defendant, and W. W. Jones for Uj4 plaintiff. Mr. Newsom in his evjd-enee stated that the yoong man had ledn steallns from the firm eighteen months, that he had stolen some fifteen hundred dollars, and that he had prom iked to give him his note for aeveri hundred and fifty dollars with good 8ecirityt in case he would agree not to pifqsecute him for the missing goods. That he then went down to his homeHn? Smithfield, in Johnston county, and promised to send up the note and security by Monday night's mail. That 1x6 j4idn't do it, and then he, (Newsom j-jvent down to Smithfield with a WF.rrnjit for him, met him on the street uf jpresenco of his uncle, said to him "tha he hadn't sent that note," and that Ives replied, "No, by God, and 1 ain't going to do it. I'll stay in the peniteptary, first." Mr. Busbee got bold of Mfc. Newsom and Wilmington asketh for chimney sweeps. . Tiiey closed all the banks in Charlotte New Year's day. A MAREstrayed off, and the Kins- ton uazette t.au got an advertisement. Eggs sold in Tarboro during onnstmas week :or 4o cents per ozen. Fakii labor in Edgecombe com mands from ten to ufleen dollars per month. The Sheriffs Grumbling. The Sheriffs of the State are much put out about the postponement by the leg islature of the bill ordering pay to Sheriffs for making out electionfeturns. They argue that if they failed tomake out these returns they would be punish ed and think it unjust that they should not be compensated in someway for the trouble they undergo in compiling these returns. has I our Hurt by a Hoop Skirt. We regret to learn that the second wife of Mr. Ford Hughes whs moved from Newborn to Alabama some years since, and who married the accomplish ed Mias Belle King of Mobile some two months ago, has seriously injured her self by her hoop skirt breaking and sticking into her knee. Her limb is very much swollen and she in confined to her bed from the injury. Mr. Ives, sympathy. nd police and itting over him s no more than f management A Wild Swan. Fhil Tl idms of this city lias a. real wild swan, dead, sent him from Balti more or some of those places, hung out in front of hii store. The first impres sion of the passer by is that it is a goose. And numerous ennuirios of "what is it have run Mr. Tmems around his shop till his legs are tired. So he has now placarded it with a card of this sort: "This is a wild swan. For fur ther particulars enquire of C. Weikel, Merchant tailor." Farm-Yard Scraps." Philadelphia has an ordinance for bidding the vale of any quail, psrtridge, pheasants, or rabbits between the 5th Jay of this month and the 23th day of C"Ul)cr. Id the south if Franco the vino grow- ers keep the frost oil their crops by the nvatioa of clouds of smoko to hover ov-.r the ground. They place iron ves- U full of tar at intervals over the Tir.erards and et the material on firo. la a:I rooms where milk is kept in :nter fur cream, there should be a ;.2cient and constant supply of fresh :.-,. as to keep up enough moisture the cream does not dry on tho sur- producing Hakes in the butter milk and butter, and giving a white ap- pftirar.ee to them. A dish supplied with a"er and kept on the stove is an ad- How is this for December in Califor a San Francisco paper of that "nth says: "String beans ami peas e atri.ie dearer: asparajnis has ad- l m-ed ; new potatoes are quotable at per pi.und ; green corn and egg plant .-e otit of market ; no strawberries luve lvn received for more than a k. lettuce 25c. to 30c. per dozen ; ci uailwrs, 15c. per dozen," etc To Un jkhecp skins with the wool on fjr use as door mats, rugs, Ac: .Tack liie &,in upon a board with the flesh side out, aud then scrape with a blunt knife ; next rub it over hard with pulverized e-a. until it will absorb no more. Then take the skin from the board, and oyer it with rulverized alum; double away over with the fleh side in wntact ; then roll tight together and "p dry for three days, after which un- it and stretch it again cn a board or u 'r, and dry iu the air, and it will be rowr for nac American Artisan. The stinging nettle of Australia, CV otten attains a height of forty t, witb a stem over two in diameter. " iaMt for a tree, so formidable are iU Pwportions. Armed at every point d iffi.nedl,?"Iike slinCs, it is extremely -fienlt approach even cautiously .,, oul l,oinS wounded. No irritaUon ' vun'Pare with one of those nettle "nS,. It is not only painful to torture, "Ut 9 T, . 1 - .. ... - fuajysis sometimes loiiowa a -ntturo from one of thet-o minute -orns. Horse, 8l,fl-er terribly from f, the skin instantly rising up in , T. aoove the common level, succeed 'lbT fiery blisters. . 7 w Jour buckwheat flour A "'j in this city enjoyed the luxury buckwheat cakes a few mornings p anerparukingof them quite ere all scizh1 wiih Kissinir on the Cars. The conductor informs us that on tho Raleigh !k Augusta Road, just about twilight the other evening, as the train approached the covered bridge over Haw river, that a handsome young chap seized the opportunity, and as the bridge was entered, "smack !" he kissed his sweetheart in the mouth. She folded in ms arms as sweet as a downy puiow, and the kissing was so good, and the train went through so fast, that they smack, smacked, the other side of tho bridge, before they remembered them selves. was giving him a rnerry time cross examining him when; we left. One of the questions was, "if i i was his custom to employ thieves that he knew were thieves, in his store.? Mr. Newsom answered, "that It wa until he could catch them." Mayorj Whitaker by courtesy of Justice Wicker was on the bench with him. Mr.iNewsom under the cross fire of Mr. Busbee stated that he had discharged a! Colored man for stealing from his store, j but had taken him back, and was fAenlemploying him. Things missed were'flirs, cassimeres, bolt of domestics,' Ac as a young man, What the magistrate three lawyers are now for, called, "stealing,'? a heinous indiscretion that he wasn't smart Enough to keep up and grow rich - it and, then be called one of our dear country's "own "great men." Those who know this youth do not believe Jijm guilty of so deliberate and mammoth a theft, but that the goods, having been missed for the "last three years,'? have been made way by other parties than him. Of course he is a little "fast," liko all young men, but the Sheriff of his county told us that from the evidence now given us he " didn't believe John took this amount 'of goods, " and that John acted like a high-toned honorable fellow ; that he camo to him even be fore his arrest and told him he was going to be arrestedj for stealing, and that he wanted hini, the Sheriff, to make tho arrest whn it was done. And even after the warrant was served, that he went homo and slept that night and came and delivered himself up, the next morning. Tliis don't look much like a thief. His family is one of the best in Johnston county. He was i bound over to court in the sum of $200. Stunsr by an Oak Worm. Dilsy Cross, a mulatto girl, as she went to the well, on the farm of Dr. William Strudwick in Orange, was stung by one of these long green Oak worms, as it dropped from the tree and stung her on tho neck, just beyond her left ear. It mado her deathly sick at the time, and though it was last October, there is a largo knot on her neck yet. And very recently it has broken out in her blood and theie are boils and sores all over her. Thj left arm sho can't uso at all. Dr. William Strudwick is at tending her. He says if sho had stepped on the worm and been stung in the foot, it would have killed her. Ilillsboro 'Hop Hotel. Hayes of Salisbury, who moved there from Ilillsboro some years since, was married there the other day and the bride and groom were given a reception at Hayes in Ilillsboro Thursday night. The hop Friday night was nice. Six couples on tho floor whose hearts were already yoked arid only waiting to be bridaled. Doctor Thoma3 of Wilming ton is Tisiting in Ilillsboro. Mr. Has- scl and lady from Plymouth have taken charge of the Orange Hotel. We can assuro the public that it is now one of tho best kept houses in the South. The table is extravagantly fed, and Mr. Has- sel with that lavish that characterized him as a hotelist in Plymouth, is fitting up tho interior of the house in fine style. Our Exchanges.! . ' The Tarboro Soutftemer berates tho Yanco organs for their "ceaseless slan ders" on Judge Meirjmon, who is"iu every waj-, politically, intellectually aud morally, tho peer of the gentleman whom they seem to look up to as a be ing superior to orilinary mankind. When these attacks qeaso then the agi tation will cease and not before." The Wilson ridindeatcr is for the New York, Norfolk imd Charleston Railroad being built whether advantageous or not to tho interests o Wilmington. It is for chartering all railroads wherever capitalists, without taxing the people, ask to build orie.-j Tho Battleboio Advance heads a piecje "Harmony" and ad mi n isters sooth i ng py rup to tho Yanco and Merrimon factions. The Wil mington Post is for aibetter man to suc ceed Boutwell in thq Cabinet appoint ments after the 4th j of March.-. Tho Goldsboro Messenger heads with "Col. Humphrey's Address" and says of it: "It is a long one covering the whole ground in controversy, and we ask for ng. Wo have no make.'.' The edi- twoen Yance and The Ivinston Gazette has "Pontoroy's Democrat," it an impartial read further comments td tor stands neutral b& Morrimon. an article on i and talks of "Brick"! as a , "fearless de fender," outspoken," "manly," Ac. The long stop come in at the words, "dowtt-trodden South." The New born Times is filled up with Mr. Yirgil A. Crawford's "Eraa icipation Speech" in that city last Tuesday The Wil mington Journal ask i the Era to cor rect its statement "that Seaton Gales Started the first daily paper ever in 51. The Journal nee at that date. North Carolina in 18. (Daily) w-as in exists (Old friend, we beg phrdon, you are the ever as you are Wilmington Star very oldest and as venerable.) The fcenr 8kknes3' tlie symptons being uurely similar in each case that it u immediately '-iwneat aseof it. surmised that the flour was in some way the Art In 1-. t : r . as found that the castor bean Sobered with the wheat and rej v V With U at lh0 miU. imparting Juh-cast to the flour and operating tiffed J Upon tboso wfao ln- C ! 80 ook out for the castor i:iCfod ( Fa.) Slate Journal. An Obstinate Conductor Tho Public "Go For Him." reached Hickory Tavern last Saturday it stops at that station Jive minutes- two young law students en route for this city to be examined to-day for license, got o"ff and went into a house near by, and hadn't been in there more than two minutes when the whistle sounded and off went the cars. The young men ran out and waved their handkerchiefs, and the passengers on the train interfered and begged the con ductor (Patton) to go back for them as they were not more than four hundred yards olT. But the conductor obsti nately refused to do so, and the train went speeding on. The young men . -w-k 1 A. J were bound to do in iwaieigu w-uay, else lose their examination, so they started off afoot for Statesville, thirty miles, and when they reached that place, one of them fainted from sheer fatigue. They then hired a horse and buggy and rode to Salisbury so as to take tho North Carolina Road Sunday night, and they reached this city tfcia morning. Tho conductor it is said conld easily have gone back after them as there would have been no delay of either passengers or mail, both laying oyer at Salisbury some seven hours. We give this statement as it was given us, remarking that it's on the fly about these streets, and if th young man's ears don't burn, it isn't because he isn't talked about. makes a pass at thfr Pennsylvania Cen tral and Southern Security Companies for letting forty barrels of turpentine, delivered at one of it depots for ship ment to Wilmington, remain at that denot for seven tceeis. The North Carolinian has an articlG on "Elizabeth City." In 1SG0 100 vessels sailed from its port. During the war its inhabitants, on the approach of the enemy, left it en masse, first setting fir4f to and burning all the public buildings and the best built portion of the plkpe. Since the war Northern immigratioQ'has flocked to it and it now covers anj j area, two miles long, and one wide and numbers four thousand souls. . It hKs two canals to Norfolk and a daily liKe of steamers. Scotland. Neck. Professor Fetter, so 4 ell known to tho University boys as " Cjid Fet," has given up his school in Charlotte, and goes to Halifax county to take charge of the famous old accademyiafr Scotland Neck. He opens the school the twenty-third of this month. This old: academy was me piep school for manyiof our able men, Mr. Bat Moore of thicity having been trained there. Prof. Fetter and daugh ter are now at the Yajboro House. S. J. Hinsdale, of Fayetteville, has put up over 75 tons of ice for the Summer. The IZobesonian at Lumberton is one of tho neatest printed Weeklies In the State. They are drumming up laborers for the turpentine business among the colored men in New Berne. Dr. S. A. Bernard of Battleboro has been prostrated by a sudden attack. of paralysis. He is improving. De. Singleton who was Port Sur geon of Fort Fisher during the latter years of tho war died in Hertford the other day. During the recent eold weather several farmers around Salem lost whole litters of pigs from exposure to the snow and sleet. The Sampson sow and two pigs that hare now gone to the smokehouse are the champions of the State. Aggre gate weight 1,554 pounds. The town of Murphy in Chero kee county numbers two hundred and fifty inhabitants of whom twenty-eight are marriageable young ladies. Sam Lane a young lawyer, Johh B. Baker, Sam Smith Jr., and soven other citizens of Wayne county leave Goldsboro to-day to take up their abode in Texas. Louis Ingram was quarreling at Mrs. Elizabeth Stepp's ; Mr. Millington Lyttle commanded the peace, and In gram turned on him and stabbed him to death. All 13 miles from Asheville. The Greenville Spectator says : Wo ask what young gentleman it was that tried to force his lady love to say yes, by snow-balling hor, and with each ball asking " Will you have me now." Hon. Rums Barringer "goes for" Gen. Early in red pepper style in tho Observer of Saturday. Somebody's go ing to get " hurt" yet in this Hood- Early war. Eet's hold a mooting and let somebody speak apiece. Well ! Let's all go to Goldsboro. Tho Baptist Sunday School mado Bon itz of tho Messenger a Christmas present of an elegant cup and saucer. Dr. Hunter gave him a pair of elegant flower vases. And Messrs. Strause and Dr. Street lit erally mado him rich with presents. The Washington Express says : Wood is five dollars a cord. Wo pity such as are without it this weather. A covering of ice from side to sido has been seen on this river but twice before within the memory of the " oldest in habitant" in 1S3G, again in January 1857, and now, the third time. Says the Salem Press: Christ mas Trees were lit up in almost every house in town. Some very elaborate decorations were indulged in, having quite a pretty effect. Cottages, foun tains, grottos, hills anfl dales, making many pretty miniature landscapes, and displaying a healthy rural taste. , tiiey masicea tneir laces and danced the Old Year out in Wilming ton. The Star says : As the hour of midnight approached that would strut out the old year, they all joined hands to dance the new year in. In the centre of the circle stood tho New Year waiting to be unveiled. At the hour of twelve all faces w ere to unmask and the veil lifted from the New Year. The hour struck, veils and masks thrown off, and all greeted with "Happy New Year" and joined hands to dance it in. The Wilmington Star records the following losses from the fire in that city, Thursday night : Mr. Iliggin's stock at from $2,000 to $2,500 insurance $1,000; Messrs. Parker A Taylor estimate their loss at from $3,000 to $5,000, caused by breakage and loss in removing. An examination of their stock shows that it was badly damaged, while everything was thrown into apparently almost in extricable confusion. Messrs. Craig A Perdew, gunsmiths, estimate their loss at $300, upon which there was no insur anco. A countryman got married in Pitt county and that night heard the Old Boy kicked up at his door. The Spectator says : When he arrived at the door, lo and behold what a sight met his gaze, Ladies with Cow Horns, Bells, Tamborins, Tinpans, Ac, stand ing before his door blowing ringing, and knocking as if their lives depended up on the amount of noise each one made. The bride and sroom supposing the the good intentions of their friends, after a hasty toilet, threw open their doors and welcomed their visitors to the hospitality of their new abode. TnE editor of the Age of this city descanting on the newspaper puffery of these times, and of this city, (we ac knowledge our share of the puffing stuff) truly says: Every speech is "a magnificent effort" every politician "a splendid orator:" every advocate of temperance "a brilliant lecturer," and every preacher, though his sermons may be dry and "middlin thin," is "an eloquent divine." This is true. Our plan usedto be to charge a X for one of these. Think we "will adopt it again. It paid. But when the puff is merited we don't charge. Ten lines nicely writ ten, written to "take," is worth fifty cents per line from any aspiring indi vidual or just-beginning-to-branch-out enterprise. Twigs. ". v" American apples bring ten dollars a bushel in Australia. According to the census of 1S71 the population of London is 3,251,804. Mr. Webb of Dinwiddie sold twenty coons in the Petersburg market, Wednesday. The Custom House officials, who are members, havn't resigned from the Louisiana Legislature. Tho first Presbytery in the Uni ted States was organized at Philadelphia in 1704 by seven Presbyterian ministers. " I live by my pen," said a poet, wishing to impress a young lady. "You look as if you lived in one," was the reply, ,. A tailor named Straight in New Or leans was caught robbing the church of some silver articles belonging to the sacristy. The first lightning rod used in the world was set up by Benjamin Frank lin in Philadelphia, September 1752, at his dwelling house, south east corner of Second and Race Street. Chesterman, the local editor of the Richmond Enquirer, received a basket of frozen young rattlesnakes from an admiring friend in the country. He says he will thaw them out by steam. " Wild Oates" has a comical hit at old Santa Claus. An old bach, whose head is as smooth as a billiard ball, finds a comb and brush in his stocking and ex claim, "Just what I wanted, by Jingo!" At a New Year's party at Mr. Ker- ony's in Brooklyn Miss Marcella King got up from her chair and Walked across tho room pressing her hand to her head. Sho uttered a faint cry and fell dead in her twentieth year. A pumpkin pie ten feet in diameter and four feet deep was the chief feature of a California dinner recently. The en joyment of the guests was marred somewhat by a child falling into the pie and drowning before their eyes. A happy corpse is respectfully men tioned by a Massachusetts newspaper. " The doctor," we are told, " looked perfectly natural as he lay in his coffin, seeming to say to his old friends, What's all this fuss about ? I am hap- py." The Southern Claims Commission have gone to Alexandria (Ya.) to get the personal testimony of old Mrs. Anna Fitzhugh in support of her claims or $375,000 worth of timber said to have been destroyed by the feds during the war. Thus tho Richmond Enquirer on its holiday legislature: The General As sembly will reconvene to-day, after a recess since Saturday before Christmas. Their brief cessation from labor was taken at a cost of $24,000 and yet we hear some talk about economy. Fists. r . A nine year old thief in Iowa attributes his accomplishments to dime novels, .' ' ' y.:'.'..' . ': The Richmond and Danville Railroad depot, at Meherrin, Va.,'was destroyed by fire Tuesday night, to gather with all its contents and tho telegraph. , , Said Judge Bond to Uie Ka- Klux Baptist minister, Mr. Ezell : " Did you ever know any other clergy man to belong to it?" "No, sir." "Didn't the Rev. Mr. Carpenter run away for fearing of being arrested for belonging to it?" " Oh yes, but he is a Methodist ; I am a Baptist minister." Laughter. Stokes has been found guilty of murder in the first degree and "his sentence will be pronounced to-day This shows the power of the Press over wealth. If the papers of the United States hadn't brought their batteries of ridicule and contempt upon the laxity of criminal law in New York city, we believe that Stokes would have been scot free to-day. But the Tress is mighty. JEsr The coroner in St. Louis gels better pay than the. President. lie is allowed for " the view of a dead body" (holding and inquest) $5; for issuing a warrant summoningeach jury, 75 cents ; Musical and Theatrical. 1 : Baltimore shouted her throat sore at Joe Jefferson tlie , other night at Ford's. . We don't know what it was, but they have "played" something at the New bern theater. The Liberal says: Wo haven't space to go into details, but must say that tho Bride played her part with the chest excellently and graco- fully. Ah! and that dancing! It ught the light of other days around us, and made us wish, " Oh, that I were a boy again." Mr. R. played tho young and the bid man equally well, and his performance was highly creditable. lu ms hotel in bu Louis thoro was a colored barber who always shaved Mr. Forrest, and was an intense admirer of the great tragedian. Whilo performing his functions one morning, the follow ing conversation ensued : ' ' Vq's going to play Othello to-night, Massa Forrest." "We?; Who do you mean?" " Me, sar, and da odcr colorde geui rnon. I wish you'd come and seo us, sar." I I " Well,' perhaps I would if I had time. Where do you play?" " Down in do servants' hall, sar. We'so got a good company." " Oh ! indeed. Good company, eh ? Aro your actresses good 7" " Well,. Massa Forrest, dat's just whar v o am t'got no actres a r Aiii rouETiin 1'iJOPti : THE ERA,; -I RALEIG-H, 1 : 2sT. C. IAIL,Y AND; WEEKLY. W Daiiy Iy or.e year, - - $2.00 - - - 7.00 ICI2VISKD, IMIMIOVED AND 1 ' ' 1 HZ ZiAIICi! ID. Tho close of the 1 National Campaign of 1672, with, tho ro election of -.President: Grant, is a "'! ! i NEW 1IIA I f for swearing the jury, 50 cents ; for each subpoena for witness, 25 cents ; for taking each recognizance, 75 cents ; for going to and from each place of inquest, 8 cents per mile ; for taking down testi mony, 25 cents per 100 words. S& A parrot escaped from a vessel at one of the Southern ports and lit iu a church. Just as the . preacher warned the congregation that unless they spee dily repented, they would all go to hell the parrot sung out, " All hands bo low." The preacher begun again. " All hands below," cried the parrot. An old lady got a little unoasy and was toddling out the church on her crutch, when Pol lit on her shoulder and screamed " All hands below." ' No, no, Mister Devil!" shrieked the old woman, "you can't mean me. I don't belong here. I go to tho other church across the way." 3? JVeic Year's night in Mich- uie; trouble 1 ses,"' -"(No actresses ! " '"Well; sar, we can't get no colored ladies to play on top of tho stage." "Why not?" "Well, sar, they won't do it: they mime 11 so degrading, sar." Mr. Forrest always told thi with im menso point, and thoroughly enjoyed tho indignation with which the actresses invariably received it, Chapped llanos,-ace, rongh skin, pimples, ringworn, salt-rheum, A other cutaneous affections crired, and the skin made soft and smooth, by using the JukipeR Tau Soai iade by Caswell, Hazard A Co., Newflfork. Be certain to get the Juniper .Tar-Soap, as there are many worthless imifeitions made with common tar. if. 93 I2w. Dr. November. Old doctor November, the old colored servant who has waited on the boys at Chapel nill and cleaned up tho college rooms ever since Chapel Hill was a college, died in that place Christmas night at the age of ninety-seven i years. The college bell was tolled at his funer al. The doctor's death will fBuch the memory chord of other days to thou sands of young men and old men all over the South. The deceased was a servant of president Caldwell of that institution and we think originally be longed to the Hooper family. Hero is one of the styles the Press went for the Stokes jury: TI10 twelve idiotic jurors who are sleeping in their chairs while Stokes is - being tried, awoke long enough to laugh when one of tho facetious counsel wanted to know " if there were an v doubts that Fisk was dead?" During tho cold spell in New York a belated individual sought refuge in a station house. " Will you help shove! the snow out of the yard in the morn ing?" asked Capt. Kennedy. "I didn't put it there," replied the lazv lodser. and he walked out of the house. The Washington Chronicle says " Miss Tackbury, a spirit medium, of Raleish. N. C. permits her mouth to be sealed before entering her cabinet, after which hobgobling voices and blue lights do their weirdest." This is news to us. If Miss Tack ever lived here we are at the first of it. "I have forgiven and almost for gotten every unkindness and injury that have been done me ; and I would rather be ablo to recall and be forgiven for every unkind word and act of my life than to be president of the United States ; for then I could lie down to die, a3 I soon shall, in peace." Horace Greeley, 1S72. A smart boy in one of tho pubic schools of Cadiz, having been required to write a composition on some part of tho human body, expanded as follows : " The Throat A throat is convenient to have, especially for roosters and minis ters. The former eats corn and crows with it ; the latter preaches through his'n and ties it up." Milton Malone, tho young man sentenced to death for the murder of Frank Phillips, of Atlanta, was seem infflv indifferent to his fate until a brieht little girl, the daughter of the jailor, called him to the door of his cell, and kissing him through the grated bars, said, "I won't let them hang you, Mr. Malone." Savannah News. 1 ' A school girl in one of the rural districts of Pittsfield was overheard try ing to convince a school fellow that she liked him better than she did some other urchin of whom he seemed jealous. " Of course I like you better than I do Bill," said she, " for don't I miss words in my spelling lesson on purpose, so as to be down to the foot of the class where you are 1 Says Stokes in his testimony : I had grave fears for my personal safety, Mr. Fisk told me at one time that he had graveyards for those who erossed his path, and that his touch was soft and clammy. He made use of that ex pression on the 22d of February. He further added that Dorman B. Eaton had crossed his path, but that he wouldn'ttroublehim any rnore. an Five Thousand for Killin Outlaw. Col. W. Mac L. McKoy, attorney for Wm. Wilson, drew from the State Treasurer to-day five thousand dollars for the latter, for the killing of Andrew Strong, the outlaw, j Robeson county had already given him a thousand be sides.' If this Local don't hear from .Gen. Grant very soon he will have to go hunting for - the other outlaw. As it is be has on now his last fresh biled shirt, has worn his collar, this makes the third week, the first week with the right side out, the next week inside out, and to-day it's split. Possibly the wind might be raised by the sale of some old socks, but there are no manufacturers of amonia in this city. mond old Mr. Wade heard a rap at his door. Went and found a basket in his doorway and he commenced unpack ing. Tucked away beneath a lot of com fortable flannel of firie quality was a beautiful female infant, and a note ad dressed to the old man and his wife ask ing them to take care of the child who the writer said was born of a respectable but imfortunato woman. Mr. Wade ad vertised in tho Richmond Dispatch that "the owner or owners will come forward, prove property, and take it away ;" but if this is not done, he declares that it is his intention to do the best he can for his new charge. Tlie engineer was asleep o his box on the up passenger train of tho Macon and Western Railroad and was waked up when the lever hit him in tho mouth as the engine collided with 1L0 down passengar train. The smash up was awful. Carlolta Patti and her troupe were on board, but were unin jured. Eight wore killed outright, three of whom were negro men, three women and two children. Connnected with this was the father and husband sitting on the samer seat, for four long hours, with his dead wife and children, unable to move any part of himself (be ing so completely fenced in) except one hand, and with this he could reach over and touch her, knowing that sho was dead. jgT" The Philadelphia Inquirer says of the shooting of Andrew Strong, the Outlaw : There can be no doubt that the late Mr. Strong was an undesirable neighbor, and that his taking off will not be likely to eclipse tho gaiety of na tions, nor to plunge North Carolina in sombre gloom ; but it does not seem to us that the chivalric Mr. Wilson, who quieted Mr. Strong by putting eighteen buckshot into his head and neck, when his back was turned, is so superb a hero as the reports allege him to be. Such a circumstance in itself argues a condition of society that very few could bring themselves to believe existed within the limits of the Union. Not only was it considered a perfectly justi fiable thing to shoot down, in cold blood, when his back was turned, this ruffian, Strong, but the one who did it was re warded by county and State and eleva ted to the position of a hero by the country beside. It is not in a new coun try, not among the rude miners of the Territories, but in one of the oldest States of the original confederation, that these things are done. It seems simply impossible to reconcile them with, the spirit of civilization that ought to prevail to-day from one end Of the country to the other, that ought to be as alive in North Carolina as in Massachusetts. JS& How New York rung out the Old Year. 1 The Sun says: The inside of Trinity Church was lighted up and tastefully decorated with evergreens. Such as were able to obtain admission, at the eminent hazard of their necks, climbed up the winding stairs to the belfry, where Messrs. Ayliffe and Shirlwall were hard at work on the ropes, relieving each other at short in tervals, j Far above the heads of the ringers the great belLs were giving to the city the news of another year ended. At a quarter before 12 the exercise began with the ringing of the changes on eight bells. This followed by "Yankee Doodle," and as the well known notes of the old song were heard by tho listeners in the street, a hearty cheer went up, and people began to wish each other a happy new year. Then, midnight having passed, the bells burst into the hilarious tune of Champagne Charley," followed by a number of airs of a similar description. At length came the Christmas Carol, and as the sweet notes rang out upon the midnight air the hearers below tes tified their appreciation of its correct rendering by cheering lustily. A Scot ish melody Irom the opera of "Guy Mannering " followed, after which Yankee Doodle" was given again. The exercises terminated about quarter past 12, with the playing of " Home, Sweet Home," and the visitors of the belfry, of whom one .r two were ladies, began to descend the winding staircase. An Anecdote of the North Caro lina Bar. . Some thirty years ago one Margaret Patterson sued Wm. McKoy in an ac tion of trover in the county court of Cumberland county ; and, as was usual under thg old system, no pleadings were filed, but simply entries on tho docket wall, showing the nature of the action, Ac. Whereupon the counsel for the de fendant ; demands a declaration by the following entry on tho docket: Billy McKoy, for his satisfaction, Demands of Miss Margaret tho causo of her action, And wants to know why, in this public place, She has undertaken to sue him in case. Whereupon tho counsel for tho plain tiff enters tho following replication : Miss Margaret replies, with a kind of a snigger, Why Billy, you know, you converted my nigger. Converted him not to tho God of the sinner, But, converted him to cash, and you're the winner, So having received and failed to pay over. You ate; therefore sued in an action of trover. ; KAjLEIGII markets, cotton markets, Br George X. Stronach A: Ilro., Dealers in Cotton and Ifavai Stores, in rorth Carolina, tl)o South, and the whole country.it i worth whilo to take note of, for it marks tho beginning of an era .of perfect , L 1 ', Peace and Reconciliation throughout the whole country, and between every section of tho country. Believing that "peaco hath her vic tories no less renowned than war," and that tho conduct of the Southern people can' be as illustrious in peaco as the bravery of her soldiery teas noble, grand and thrice illustrious in the. late war ; and that in tho person of Ulvskeh S. Grant, the soldier with whom our LEE erosFcd sword, wo havo a living and illustrious cxamplo of tho renown; of the soldier in war, and the victories cr tho civilian lu peace, T II E I E R A ! ' 1 t - 1 from a Southern stand point ias endt-av-; orod to aid tho " victories" of " Peaco") by aiding tho re-election of tho great and illustrious citizen-aoldior-PresU dent. ; Tho first part of tho mission of T H Ei E Ii A is accomplished in tho ro-establishmcnt of tho - Republican party in power for another four years from March noxt, and now it enters upon the work of following up that mission in gathering and preserving the fruits of tho great National victory a victory slgnhlcant of no I North, no South, no East, no West, but of a Union restored, a people re-united by tho bonds of peaco and good will, and each and every ono in tho quiet enjoyment ;of ! tho blessings of LIBERTY and! tho bounties of PROSPERITY. E R A Market and Martin Streets. Receipts! at Raleigh, ' quotations: O rdinary, Good ordinary, Low middling, - bales. 171 171 1SJ "WHOLESALE IaItIC'I!S, Ry JTIessrs. Pool & Moriiijj, Grocers and Commission Merchants, Corner Wilmington and Martin Sts. 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