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THE FRA AND, EXAMINER. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1874. i The Sentinel is hereafter to be issued as an evening journal, according to an nouncement, this evening and with the proposed publication of the' Crescent. our city can boast of four dailies, two of mornings and two or evenings. The supreme uourt. mere was nothing done in this court on yesterday. The court met and adjourned out of re spect to the late it v. ic M. Mason, li. 1)., attending, in a body, his funeral services at the Episcopal church. Meeting or Directors of Ipsane Asylum. The Board of Directors for the Insane Asylum, will hold a special meeting at the Asylnm-building, com mencing at 10 A. M. this morning. Carriages will be front of the Mayer's omce. where all the Directors are re quested to assemble promptly at 9 A. M. FUNERAL NOTICK-POSTPONEMENT. The funeral of Mrs. Lucy Martin Bat tle, wife of Judge Wm. II. Battle, owing to the inclemency of the weather on yesterday, has been postponed until to day, when the service will take place from Christ Chnrch (Episcopal) at half past four o'clock. The New Board of Directors of tick Deaf ah d Dumb a d Blind In stitution, organized Monday night by the election of Major R. S. Tucker as iJent, with the following executive JTSAVf-Albert Johnson. C. D. lrtnfu?-zl. Nothingof snOQTIXG STEVE LowEnr. nes-- NoRTn Carolina Twins Abroad. A - contemporary remarks : "Franco produces another monstrosity in which savans and showmen can rejoice. Miles, Millie and Christine are two colored girls joined at the lower part of the back. They have been examined by a medical commission appointed by tho Prefect of Police, and Dr. Tardieu re ports on the cen tii newness of 'tho mon ster' and on the physical and psycho logical duality of the parties. France has poKses-sion of tin ireci'u speci inei of humanity, 1 1 - Jinin.r of its production is due i -i ill Cai ii: :i, tliO pai cut h iving Urn ;ii Indian :iud a negroes." These girl- were on exhi bition atour fair two years ago. They were tx rn in Columbus unty. The John Inqvknt Pyi.ks f. l'o.vn.- the SI atlil vi: !. : : ncighbo. : men, and mains o! . whoio we i ulilisi.t Dr. Win. Ovii: ri l.i . !. Til Inl : 1 1 i . ii 1 . ;1 i il: . ling in . P.opy OK i ii k Mii.l . ..- . !'! tt : 1 d;i i i 1 1 . . i 1 1 : i li :i.;-r t . t r ! Ik- i'- ...... ICit . f" sevenup Round the Camp-Fir- The Slayers in Ambush-" Charm In g his Whisky Steve Falls Dead The iattle Tin Cnu.... Boss Strong was killed while perfor ming on a mouth harp, and this time, Steve Lowery, the last and worst of the outlaws, was shot dead while tuning a nan jo. ice last track he followed was that of a whisky wagon. Sunday night, 22nd, Steve fell in with two whisky wagons, one driven by a whito man named Burns, from Aahboro, and the other by a white man named Cros- son. It was the custom or this ontlaw to go aloog at night, with wagons of this sort passing through the county, and would boldly proclaim who he was. and defy the power of any man to take him. But that night, three old hunters. Messrs. Sutton. Patterson and Hoi- comb, armed with shot guns loaded with buckshot, took the track of the wagons and followed it with the stealth of an Indian. These wagoners camped for the night at a place called Red Bank, in Bobeson county. They built their fire, and Steve sat in the circle with a dozen other mulatto men, who bad fol lowed along, and they passed the bottle and got out a deck of cards, and all pre pared for a night's carouse. But we will allow Messrs. Sutton and Patterson to tell the rest, for themselves, as we had it from their lips in a short inter view yesterday morning. THE SLAYERS IN AM BUS II. We laid some twenty-five yards off, ready to pull trigger the first good chance we could get. They were all around the fire drinking and playing cards, and Steve was too close to e'm forms to shoot. He didn't sleep a wink the Whole night The first of the night hecmt pretty drunk, but towards day like he was Busplcfoj V1UV i .i .!.n uior:iin'. I.ii i.e. i. luis city, i -a: let in attendai ee.iiul made atlmr.xiij pox mortem dissection of the deceased. Firs 'making an examination of the body and then heopened tho scalp exposing tho skull but found no marks of violence whatever on either, and the jury arrived at the decision that John Pyles came to his death from drowning, by railing into the pond whilo in a state of intoxi cation on Christmas nicht last. Tho body was in a high state of decomposi tion'and Dr. Littlo had anything but J pleasant task to perform. Fi'N eraIi Services of the Uev. B. S. Mason, D. I). The funeral services of the distinguished and beloved pastor of Christ Church (Episcopal) for thirty- threo vears, occurred on yesterday Besides tho Bishop and Assistant Itishop and Kev. Dr. Smeds,the follow ing iumiiers i;rr in itiiciiuiiiit-c. tmu in their church roles : I lev. M. M. Marshall, of Warrenton Rev. Chan. J. Curtis, of Ilillsboro; Rev, J. W. Larmour. of Goldsboro: Rev. Dr, Forbes, of New-Berne, and the Rev. Bennett Smedes. of this city. An hour before the designated time, titirens in carriages and on foot Hocking to the sacred precincts of the church, and by 11 o'clock its scats were packed, many being obliged to stand for want of sitting room, but not to be taken :nha-k. thev did so throughout the ser vices, showing their greatest reverence and the utmost respect and love lor the lamented dead. The church was appropriately decora ted in mourning. At precisely 11 o'clock the remains wrro brought over to the church from tho adjoining parsonage by tho pall lcarerH. who were as follows: Wm.E. Anderson, Dr. E. Burke Hay wood, ui II. Jones, Sea ton Gales, Dr. T. D. Hoirir and Sam'l A. Ashe, The metallic case was beautifully decked with wreaths of flowers wrought by the tender and loving hands of wo man. Upon the entrance of the ball bearers with the remains.theKigut Kev. llisnop Atkinson anil the Assistaht Bishop Ly man folio wcil by the Rev. Dr. Smedes, met them. The Bishop reciting, "I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Ionl ; he that believeth in Me though ho were dead, yet shall he live ; and whosoever livcth and beiieveth in Me shall never die." (St. John xi, '2T, li.) They conducted the casket in front of the chancel, and there it was deposit ed, thoor an rendering a plaintire and solemn dirge. Miss Love Root presid ing. Tim Rev. Dr. Smedes read from the prayer book of the church, "Lord let inoknowiny end and the number of days, that I "may be certified how long I hae to live," Ac. At tho conclusion a full choir of fifteen sang the closing sen tences, "(1 lory bo to the Father and to tluSon and to'the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end." Amen. Hihop Lvman now advanced to the service desk and read the lesson taken out of the fifteenth chapter of the first Kpitle of St. Paul to tho Corinthians : "Now is Christ risen from the dead and Itccouie the first fruits of them that slept, for since by man came death, by man camo also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive," Ac. Most leautifully and impressively read. Bishop Atkinson now ascended the pulpit and addressed the large and sol emn congregation for the space of half an hour in which he plainly but im pressively reviewed the many estima ble qualities and virtues of the beloved nastor now dead in front of him ; brielly tracing his many traits ot character from early manhood, and the positions ho had so eminently occupied through life, which had been given so well by others, down to ids death. During his remarks ho mentioned that he never knew the deceased's superior from the most abstruse poiut in theology down to the simplest matter in every day life; such was his extensive and polished learning. He was beloved by all, wher ever known, which was almost through out the extent of our common country. At the conclnslon of Bishop Atkinson's remarks assistant Bishop Lyman read hymn 2U7, commencing: "Nearer my God to thee ! Nearer to thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my songsliall bo, Nearer my God to thee. Nearer to thee!" with ih fnnr remaininsr stanzas, was litUl, thipg. CsTEVE I'UTM A " CHARM" IX It IS f WHISKY. One time in the night while they were all going on carousing, Steve took a rag out of his ocket, about four inches long, and with something tied up in it, and he put it in his bottle of whisky, and called it 'his "charm." Then lie tcok a swig from the bottle and swore that " nary damn white man could ever shoot him." Soon after, he snccked off through the busho -, (wo couldn't get a shot at him,) and after a bit, ho come back, bringing with him a half dozen grown chickens and a big turkey, he had stolen. NO CHICKEN FOR HKHAKFAST. About four o'clock Monday morn ing, wo got the best chance at Steve we knew we could get, and it was toler'ble skittish shooting, at that. Ho was sit ting about two feet from the man next to him in the circle, and another man was sitting just behind him. We all three took aim and tired at the same time, and he fell back dead without even throwing up his nrins. We shot him in the breast and head. Nobody else was touched except the man that sat behind him, and one of the shot just gave him a slight wound in the head. There were lively times around that fire. Some of the crowd ran off, and tho rest hollered and prayed. I, (Sutr tor,) stood guard over the body, while Mr. Patterson went off for a wagon to haul the body in to Sheriff McMillan, in whose charge we left it, and came on here. STEVE WORK A CROSS. We found an old tin cross and a silver quarter in Steve's vast pocket, a kind of backwoods religion, ho had of his own, and no doubt, he'd sooner have lost one of his fiue pistols, than go all day with out that cross. Ho was heavity armed. He had on threo pistols, repeaters, a Winchester rille that shot sixteen times, TTXE LATE DB, B. ft. MASON. A Meeting- of th Illsbops and At a meeting of the Bishops and Cler gy in attendance at the funeral of the funeral of the Rev. Mason Ij.D., held at the Rectory, there were present the itight Bey. Thomas JitKinson u. D., LI D., Bishop of the Diocese,- the Right Rev. Theodore li.. layman" ix.JJ.t Assistant Bishop, the Bev.E.Morbes, the uev. A. smedes, V. V Bey. John E. C. Smedes, Rev. O. W. Phelps, Rev. B. smedes. Rev. M. M. Marshall, Uev. C. J. Curtis. Hey. . A. Rich, and Bey. J. w. Larmour. . . The Right ' Reverend, the Blshoo of the Diocese, stated it to be the. object of the meeting to take action in reference to a suitable expression of its sense of the toss sustained by the chnrch, the Diocese, the Parish, and the comma nity, in the death of the Rev. R. 8. Ma son, u. u., the venerable and beloved rector of Christ church, Raleigh. 'The Rev. J. W. Larmour 1 was requested to act as secretary ' - - On the ; motion of the Right Rev. Bishop Lyman, it was resolved to ap point a committee to prepare a suitable minute. The Right Reverend the Bishop of the Diocese appointed as said committee the Kevs. ur. umedes. E. R. Rich and C. J. Curtis. The - committee retired. . and shortly afterward returned and report- t a me following minute : The Bishop, the Assistant Bishop.and a portion of the other clergy of the Dio cese of N.r.,havingbeec brought togeth er from their respective fields of duty to follow to the grave the remains of their venerated and beloved brother the Rev. Dr. Rich'd Sharpe Mason, feel that they ought not to separate without some ex pression or the sentiments which the occasion has awakened in their minds. and in which they are snre that they rrinrTC" -uiV'iiUriWT wm?Treucfe,va and the awfulest looking bowie knife you ever saw. He made the knife him self. It looked like a scythe blade and weighed ten pounds. He had all kinds of roots in his vest pocket. Steve Low rey was about 28 years of age. THE REWARD. These gentlemen will certainly get five thousand, and in all probability, sixshousand dollars, for destroying this last relic of the Bobeson Outlaws; Their county, also, gives TOO- Uov. Caldwell being absent from the city, so 8xm as tho required written authority be obtained, they will receive the f5,000 through the bank of New Hanover at Wilmington. They left for that city this morning. Cotton Factories. What has bo come of the mooted cotton factory we were to have established in our midst? Has it all died out? We hope not. See what the Wilmington Star says on the subject, in and near Augusta, Ga.: According to recent computations there are about 250,000 cotton spindles in operation in the Southern States, and at least 125,000 of these are in Georgia, or near there. Perhaps the most re markable example of success in the spinning of cotton in the whole world is found in the city oi Augusta, 'mere aro two mills there running 16,000 spin dles with 500 looms, producing sheet ings, yarns, drills, and osnaburgs. Ihe company have sieauny paid uiviuenus of twenty per cent., and have accumu lated a surplus ot about f-ioO.uuu witn which thev are building a new mill oi 8.000 spindles and 250 looms, and this entire sum has been made by the mills. Tho Granitevillo Company, near Au gusta, runs over 20,000 spindles anu uu ooms, paj-s ten to twelve per cent, uiv dends, lias a handsome surplus, and is building a new mill. The Langley Mills, eight nines from Augusta, (where principal sto.kholders are enterprising .cv ork merchants,) have 10.000 pindlex and looms m pro- ortion ; eapi'al, ?:?U0,0O; and during the recent panic, the stock sold in Au gusta lor !cn t twelve per ccni. prcini- i inn, although the null hatl been running ut eighteen months. Many other sim- ir companies aro alluded to, all of which realize la rue dividends, and it is ... . . . . i i . remarked that in no instance nas asuu stiiutial cotton manufacturing enter prise with sutlicicnt capital been started in the cotton States without paying handsomely Irom the beginning. Nothing will redound more to tho Irospcrit3' of Raleigh than the estab ishment of a cotton factory. Give it voir consideration, capitalists of (ur ciy. only of our own Diocese.-but of the whole of our church in thiscountiy. First: We heartily thank our Heavenly Father that it pleased Him to crown the prolonged lifeof our departed brother with a death so calm, so trust ful, so humblo j et so confiding, as to give assurance that it was the " peace" that is the " end of tho perfect and the upright man" that to him, to live was Christ, and to die was gain." ' Secondly : Among the many traits of his character which we recall with pleasure, we mark especially his "sim plicity and godly sincerity.' Though the last person to boast of himself, he might have said with Obadiah, "I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth ;" or it might be said of him, as of Na thaniel, " Behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile," or he might have sat for the picture which David has drawn in his fifteenth Psalm : Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle, or who shall rest upon thy holy hill ? He that walketh upright', and worketh righteousuess, and speaketh the truth from his heart." Or he might be supposed to have most successfully modelled his lile after the wonderful pattern the Apostle has given us ; "Fi nally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever thingsare of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Thirdly : While thus the moral in- tegrit' of our brother made him a light and a guide at a time when such an ex ample is especially needed, and evinced the genuineness of his religious belief, his soundness of doctrine, his faithful maintenance of "the truth, the whole truth," as embodied in the standards of the church to which he had vowed his allegiance, no less entitled him to eur respectful recollection. He was a churchman of the school of Hobart and of BavenscrofL No "novelties that dis turb our peace" ever found iu him a moments toleration. "Rooted and grounded in the truth as it is in Jesus," and thoroughly master of the "reason of the faith that was in him," he stood in the pulpit, in the Diocesan Conven tion, and in the general council of the church, a "workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightfully dividing the word of truth." Fourthly : Feeling how utterly inad equate any tribute of such an occasion as this must be to the memory of such a man, we, the Assistant ;Bishop, and the other clergy present, respectfully and earnestly request our honorable Bishop to prepare a fit memorial of our departed brother, to be deiivered at our next annual council. Fifthly. We feel a sincere sympathy with the congregation whose pastor and father, after serving them for longer than a treneration. has been taken from them. Their church shrouded in mourn ing, their tears, their sorrowful faces, attest their genuine grief. May they have grace so to recall the instructions they have heard, and the pure example is itself a daily sermon, which they have beheld, that they may be his " joy and crown of rejoicing in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ, at His appearing." Lastly. We devoutly and earnestly commend the widow and the children of our departed brother to the gracious keeping of the husband of the widow, and tho father of the fatherless. They only can fully appreciate all that, in the removal of our brother, God has taken, to Himself. May the blessing which the dying husband and father was ena bled to invoke upon tho head of each member of his household kneeling at his bedside, bear precious fruit in all their earthly pilgrimage, and, at length, have its perfect consummation in the reunion of all of them, in the blessed region where tears and parting are unknown. After the reading of the above min ute, it was unanimously resolved that it be adopted ; that a copy of it be seut to the family of the deceased ; and that the papers of the church and of the city be requested to publish it. . A ney caper kcrsviDayC.C. Gilson Bri bible prin ; "A" daughter attending schoo About JnPpot. y. . is trrbe started at Ba of Uh Ion county, has a , tpnewall Jackson Charlotte. ' s i A daily mail Is to be established be- iweea ouuavuiv uu ii um3muu 7 The hub and spoke factory, near Char lotte, is in a prosperous coudition. -Forty Scotch immigrants are on their way to settle in Mecklenburg county. ; The colored children in Norfolk have military company, the xouave. uni form. - ,yu . '.W.Nr;-.:'!'J 1 Tiv? J.):r$H A man was rceentlv locked bp in Sta ting, Pa-, to keep him sober for bis son's funersL t v& -. : .is f The funeral of J. A. Saddler. Jr.. oc curred in Charlotte on . Tuesday morn ing last. 1. "7:7: No robins have Ieni seen in theChar-M lotte section this season. Plenty here Jh The Masonic IfonUor ot Goldsboro an the Bright Mason of Concord are to be consolidated. v? A Virginian hasn't yet riven it nn a . a.1 . . mat uie crnei war is over, and drills an hour every day. . A love sick swain of 16 was united toff J an antlquainted spinster of 45 in Yadki county recently. . , - , t A couple of Woodville. Iowa. hav been divorced four times and are bent on marrying the fifth time. " A couple in Iowa have resolved them selves into "a committee of two, with power to increase the number. ; . A man who had been married twenty years, says he . never crave his wife, a snort wora. Jie cid'nt dare to. f. At last wa have iC Fashion nor . - m - . Sk - . ' yfiar a-yn, if, ynoirn. hm. - sr plainness nu uer than rumes am 'A new disease has broken outil sections of the country : it bai doctors, but yields with case to the sons. , Strong-minded women of Connecti- cutt refuse to pay taxes because -they cannot vote. Sheriffs', fees are accumu lating. ''--f--z,A "Hurrah for General Watson !" shout- ed a colored school boy in Norfolk, wnen the teacher said he'd break up school in honor of General Washing ton's birthday. " -. , J. W. Hartley was elocutioning it be lore tue Uhariotte institution for young ladies Monday evening. The entertain ment is reported to have been one of the - highest literary excellence. The rumor thSt Ex-Gov. Vance and Col. W m. Johnston are contemplating tne establishment of a newspaper in Raleigh is untrue. They have no such intention says the Observer. How is this Woodson? The New York Herald says : The Raleigh (N. C.) News calls Mrs. Harriet Beeeher Stowe "an old ghoul." The editor probably meant to say "an old gal." A portion of the family of the late lamented Dr. Mason left on the Weldon train yesterday on a brief visit to rela tives in Washington, including Mrs Dr. Mason and her son Wm. M. Mason, Esq. Cbas. N. Vanco has been elected as sistant cashier of the Commercial Na tional Bank of Charlotte. Mr." Vance was for some tim a clerk in the Mer chants' and Farmers' National Bank of the same place. 7 Rev. L. McKinnon. of Concord, vct& r( nnri araanfoH a sall fmm second Presbyterian church of Char lotte. The Rev. Mr. Harding wnisue- ceed Mr. mck. as pastor of the Presby terian cnurcn in uoncoro. Gov. Allen of Ohio says pf the women temperance reform in that State: "If the movement is to succeed keep the men out of it, if it is to fail let them con trol it. For my part, I believe it to bo of an ephemeral character at best." , Chas. T.-Neal, Esq., the unfortunate victim of the States ville homicide, was interred in Hollywood cemetery, Rich mond, Va., Monday last. The Rich mono urays, orwnicnhe was a mem-1 uer, accompanied the remains to their final resting plaee. Miss Becky Kitchen died in South ampton county, Virginia, a few days since aged 120 years, and only a short time since Mrs. Beaton died in the same county, aged 104. The swamp and low lands of Southampton are very un healthy, but perhaps the use of tobacco aided malaria to carry off these poor be ings so early. A brother in the western part of Cal ifornia writes that their chnrch is in need of a pastor, and adds: "Theyi want mm to live on urace street, come of .Penitent alley, at the sign of the cros next door to Glory. He will find t church without inquiring, on Frbsi street, corner of Frozen alley, at the sign Shun the Cross, next door to Vanity Fair." a 4 . a iew evenings ago a certain young man went 10 spend tne evening with hisloye. During his visit he told a few stones and called them tales. The lady reprovea nim ana teia him he should say "anecdotes." After a short time he went out to see his horse. When here turned she asked him, how his horse was getting along ? "Oh he's all right. only the d n calves have chawed off his anecdote. pbkmb Coi'p.T. This court met at Lsul hour--all the Justices being t. Anneals from tho ninth district were argued as follows: Carson and Grier vs Lintfjergor JfcCo., from aiecxienDurg ; R. Barringer and Vance for plaintiff, J. II. Wilson for defendants. Brem and Means vs Thomas Jamison, from Mecklenburg; H. W. Guion for plaintiff, Vance and Burwell, McCorkle and Bailey for defendant. John Walker, Ex'r vs J. B. Johnston et al, from Mecklenburg ; J. II. Wilson and Son for plaintiff, R. Barringer, H. W. Guion and C. Dowd for defendant. Atlantic, Tennessee A Ohio Railroad Company vs Wm. Johnston et al from Mecklenburg ; McCorkle and Bailey, Jones and Johnston, and R. Barringer for plaintiffs, Vance, Guiou, J. n. Wil son and Son, Arm field for defendants. The argument of causes will continue to-day, also, from the ninth district. sweetly sung by ihe ch ..r, many oi the congregation ioiuing. Services at the church were here finished. A long rn neral train wended slowly to Oakwood Cemetery the place of final deposit. Upon arriving at the grave in the above cemetery, while the corpse was marie ready to be laid into thecarth.the Bishop recited, "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to li ve and isffull of misery. He comes up and is cut down like a flower. He fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay." Ac; and when the corpse was 1 ud in its final resting place, its silent casement, the other forms of the burial seivice were gone through with and the beloved pastor, the eminent citizen, and one of the mnt learned of his day, after a . h mored lire oi yer r ih ace with bis Father, respected by all those lie leaves behind him. fhus closed one of the grandest and most Im posing ceremonies it has ever been our mclan choly privilege to witness. The San Francisco Minstrels. Thi excellent troupe opened at Tucker Hall last night and were greeted with a very fair and appreciative audience con sidering the inclemency of the weather. Killearney was very sweetly snng. Backus was simply killing in "its Hand to Love" his facial expression was very funny and mirth provoking. Little Darling" was superb, but the ballard "Mother bear roe to the window" was the crowning feature of the first part by Mr. Read. A charming alto. Many de claring it to be the voice of a lady. "My Gal," song and dance by John son and Powers, was excruciatingly "illegant," just as good as Johnnie Prendergast used to do it. The "Dutch Opera" we have seen Ricardo in before. He still holds bis own. "Living pic tu res of great artists," very fine many recalled Edwin Forrest to mind. Backus is a "Corkist" of the first water. you laugh to look at him. ''Merry wives of Windsor," very immense and laugha ble. The music of the troupe is exceed ingly artistic, and rendered in most ex quisite time. Give them a rousing house to-night. The TEMiMiitANCE Reform. We do trust our southern ladies will not catch the Ohio temperance reform, but we are looking for it to break out most any dav. Somebody said yesterday, there had already been a little spell of it in Richmond. Old topers don't say much about 1. but tuey keep a sharp eye on every squad of women they see on the street. Fancy a fellow cut off entirely from supplies. See him pulling lm atrinary bricks from his nose, or walk ins up to a bug and feeling it to see if it is a bug, or scratching his head to tell whether bis. hat ia raally nn or off. butting; up acrainst everything that's not at all in his way. Stepping high over smooth places. Shieing about at things. It's a miserable fix truly. Why it might drive a man' into hogmen tia. which is said to be a kind of deliri um that's instant death he sees a hog and dies. We trust our ladies will have more respect for their country, and not have our towns and cities crowaea witn the best talent for business, and for writing poetry, and for. making speeches, and all that sort of thing, and then to have them all .walking ricketty aloncr the sidewalks, runnine up against each other, and trvinir to keep out of each others way, and the same time shaking hands every three minutes, and then forgetting they had-shaken, and shake over again. It would destroy the business turn of this country, and lose us a heap of our talent in congress too, this temperance reform would. . Distinguished Visitob. W. L. Bradley, President of the Sea-Fowl Manufacturing Company, of Boston, is on a visit to Raleigh, and was in to see us vesterday Tbe fertiliser from the Sea-Fowl Manufacturing Company, has attained a high and successful reputation, and since it is established that a good, fer tilizer pays at any price, and that a poor article pays at no price, it , be hooves every farmer to look out for the best. There can be no discount on the Sea-Fowl, and the visit of Mr. Bradley may be availed of with profit to our farmers and dealers. Requisition from Govjernor Kemper. A requisition has been re ceived from Governor Kemper of Vir ginia for the rendition of George Fresh, a fugitive, from Wythe county, Vir ginia, charged with grand larceny. Fresh is in jail at Salisbury. The re quisition was duly honored and the agent left here Tuesday night for Salis bury, with the Governor's warrant of delivery. W. H. Finch, Esq., the general super visor of the Southern agencies for the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company, ar rived in this city on yesterday, and is quartered at the National hotel. He has his headquarters in Atlanta, but neces sarily travels through all Georgia, to gether with a good portion of Alabama and Florida. We are glad to shake the hand of this genial gentleman and good friend. Mr. F. is decidedly ranked among the first of our Southern insur ance men, and deservedly so. He will be in our city a few days longer on bus iness of importance to himself and the splendid company he represents. An affecting scene in a church. The New York Herald of the 22nd inst. says: Last Sunday evening sixteen young converts were thus baptized into the Christian church by the pastor, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith. Mr. Smith had been catechising the candidates previous to administering the ordinance, and had used in his address the conversation be1 tween Philip and tbe eunuch, as rV ported in the Acts of the Apostles.Tb dates was in the audience, and was so convicted and impressed by the services that, rising in his place in the church, he called aloud to the pastor, in . the words of the Ethiopian. See, here Is water, what doth hinder me to be bap tized t Mr. Smith, not afall surprised at this interruption, though his congre gation were greatly so, in the language of Philip promptly replied,, "If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest." The - gentleman again , re sponded "I do believe with all my heart; and, walking down the aisle to the baptistry, he was then and there pdbllcly baptized. The scene was a memorable one, and the Urge congre gation were affected to tears by it. Father and daughter went home re joicing in a new found Saviour. , The Bone of a Black Cat. Mr. James H. Leach, of Thomas ville, for mer stewart of the deaf and dumb asy lum, was in the city yesterday, making an affort for the pardon of a negro, who is In the penitentiary from his place, for stealing. The negro is sentenced for three years and has served out one year, v The circumstances ; of this steal ing are both novel and funny. The negro had always borne a firstrate char acter in Tbomasville and was consider ed a reliable and honest servant. But some stave negroes from Norfolk came to Thomasvule, getting staves, and they cuniured" this boy into the theft. They told him they, could give him a receipt for s:ealincr any thine he wanted. and it never would be found out. To kill him a black cat and bake it in an oven and then get a bone from its body I ana carry it in his pocket, and he might free a a bird. ' This bey was; simple" enough to follow out the instructions tp tha laftatf an A V.A1 MV.a kvnoH It. hip I fU- pocket when he stole the meat from the store . of 'Messrs. r, Lambeth Bro'& of Tbomasville. - Mrs Leach thinks he can get everybody in Tbomasville to sign the petition for pardon. , t I
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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