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(- i ry- - ? TJ JW7f rC A'-l : .Ltt- "VeitTll jf-r. . : : ts-.-r-i r -. -. w jl- ' . ----'-4:-i -s-. - - ' - n ' , -r- ' i m i i i 'J ri J ' - IKKKIfl . .ti- ' State vol. r. Nun:. It may prevent mi-apprehension to statu thai tliM managing editor of this paper docs not attend to the business anl mailing departments of the ofliee. This will explain why some of our friends who wrote him have not received direr replies. Hid hands are full attending to the Editorial con duct of the paper, for which alone he is responsible. Though, of course, all letters addressed to the ollice will re ceive prompt attention. K. A. S. llnUifjIj and Jioun&bouJ. Wayne sent .1. Cumberland 4.' to the penitentiary last week. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon Sunday night next. Prof. Kerr's article on the Big Meteor will he read with interest. Gov. Vance has appointed J. W. Purdie. a commissioner of Bladen in place of I). M. Hallow, resigned. Young man, read the article on ' Pawing," printed on our 2d page. You've often been guilty of it : you know you have ! Rev. Father White spent Sunday in Baltimore, witnessing the. ordina tion of Archbishop Gibbons, by con ferring the Pallium. The Masquerade Ball,kwhich is de signed to close up social festivities prior to Lent, is the topic of chat among young folks of Raleigh. At Wake Inferior Court last week Henderson JelTreys, and Joe Lewis, negroes, were sentenced to 2 years each in "Pen," for stealing. North Carolina is quite a railroad State : half a dozen, or more, persons have been killed, while walking the track, since the lirst of the year. The article last week on our farm page headed "Ashes and Salt," was from the Prarie Farmer, of Chicago, 111., a most excellent farmer's paper. Coloring photographs by the new process is now the "rage." There is a 'secret' connected with it, and that secures it popularity among the ladies. Thanks, kind frieudsi; you that have been sending us words of cheer. "We value your good opinion and would like to answer each letter, had we the time. Happy Milton? The little bob-tail Iron Horse trotted into the ancient town on Monday last, announcing the completion of the Milton fc Sutherlin N.G. R. R. Halifax handed into the State Treasury last week, $11,700.93 : Curri tuck, $i .908.13; Watauga. $1,030.54; Madison, $l,689.oG ; Yadkin, $3,061.55; Pamlico, ?,4T8.4'2. Mrs. Judge Meirimon and daugh ters, Mrs. Jos. J. Davis and daughters, Mrs. GenT A. M. Scales, Miss Mary Robbins and Miss Gales are spending the winter in Washington. The. ladies of the Edenton Stree M.E.Church gave a pleasantand novel Valentine Party at the Metropolitan Hall last night. It was an entirely successful affair, we believe, and no lnibt Tipftftd m ftniipr sum. Sea going vessels are rated in five grades, A No. 1, A 1 J, A 2, A 2 J, and A 3. The latter is equal to condemna tion, and insurance men will under write no lower grade than AUK The lost Metropolis was rated A2J ! "We congratulate friend Bonitz on his change of base to a new and hand some office designed especially for the Messenger. Now, send us the Tri AVeeklr instead of the Weekly, and good luck will follow you if it never catches you. The fact that Parepa Rosa, Nilsson Cary, Kellogg, and other Prima Donne are growing stout actually fat, and Aldermanic is attributed to the in halation of oxygen in their lungs as they screech out the high notex. We suspect it i3 the good living resulting from a pocketful of bank-notes ; but adies, xho desire to be corpulent may now see how to do it : they must talk .i i iu bereecn more. Library no 15 77 Mr M. A. Park will take thefore nianship of the Farmer and Mechanic ollice to-day. and, as there is no better printer or more efficient foreman, in the Stat-, we expect to see the Me chanical Department much improved. The Laiies of the 1st Presbyterian congregation will hold another "Dime Party," at the residence of Mrs. Julius Lewis, to-morrow night week. It will be a very charming aifair. we doubt not. and we have begun saving to get our dime ready. " Don Pasquele," in English is pro nounced xqueal, and people unaccus tomed to operatic airs, will consider it squealing, indeed ! By the way, Brignoli's high-priced, falsetto oico is attributed to a $230 set of false teeth he recently lought. Prest. Jones took 3G convicts from th Pen, on Tuesday, to begin work on the extension of the Western R. R. from Egypt Station to Greensboro, When the road is completed we shall have three routes to Charlotte, and two to Greensboro. Was Fanny Davenport 40 years old, or only 28? This is the question which racks society . But for all the dreadful possibility of the former being the fact she had a $700 or $800 house in Raleigh, aiid sold $500 worth of reserved seats in Charlotte. The Boston Agricultural Flajxloo dle asks this conundrum " Why does a black hen lay white eggs?" We reckon it is because she is opposed to negro suffrage. If that isn't the an swer, give us another that isn't one of your family secrets, you goose !. The amateur concert for the bene fit of St. Paul's church, Wilmington, was a large success. Prof. Van Lear was assisted by Messrs. Geo. Myers, W. F. Hargrave, W. II. Northrop, Prof. Hater, Hall, Johnson, Thorpe, et al ; and lady performers ot high talent. At a fashionable ball in Baltimore last week, the tickets of admission were $20 apiece; every lady had a boquet costing between $12 and $20; and the aggregate cost of jewelry exhibited was above half a million dollars. But the times are very hard. We regret that we were not in the otlice, when Bro. W. J. Yates, of the Democrat called.IIe is one of the level- headedest editors,in the South, and the only one in the State, who can give his check for half an hundred thousand, the fruits of his own industry and foresight. 24,000 copies of Fanny Davenport's photograph have been sold; Maggie Mitchell and Clara Morris had 25,000 apiece; Parepa Rosa's picture sold to the number of 50,000 copies greater than any other in the world. Mrs. Siddon's went to 40,000; John Wilkes Booth's, sold 10,000. Greensboro Patriot, established in 1821, P. F. Duffy, Editor and Proprie tor, Wednesdays, $2.10 a year Nur serymen preparing to do a large busi ness. Survey of Fayetteville Rail road making good progress Bal masque at the Beubow, and lots of poetry in the description of it. Judge W. A. Moore is one of the Honorary Commissioners to the Paris Exhibition.He will have G.W. Childs, of Philadelpia, as a colleague and can amuse himself making funeral ep taphs as they sail o'er the the salt seas. Gen. Pierce B. M. Young, of Georgia, is also one of the commissioners. Rev. Wm. Grant, with Miss Kate, his daughter, of Jackson, Northum berland, chaplain of the State Grange, pent a day in the city last week. He was appointed to act as lecturer for Eastern North Carolina ; Rev. Dr. Davis to hold the same position in Wes tern Noith Carolina Good men for the work. Bishop Gibbons, who was installed Arch Bishop of Baltimore, with great pomp and ceremony on Sunday last, was born in Baltimore, July 23, 1834. He was ordained a priest in June 1861; was consecrated Vicar-Apostolic of N. C. by Archbishop Spaulding in 1868 ; and succeeded Bishop McGill of Rich mond, Oct. 20, 1872. RALEIGH, X. C, THURSDAY FEBRUARY Speaking of Turkey, (not the big one over there in the Orient, whose bones the Russians are picking,) then is in Neuse township, Wake county, a turkey hen owned by Mr. T. C. Robin son, that laid 200 eggs la.st year, and didn't half try. She began laying in March, and after hatching a line brood let loose again, and kept it up until Christmas. When you come to think a!out it there ar few more remarkable facts than that the old man, Pio Nono, who died in liome theotherdaywhileallthe civilized world stood upon tiptoe of expectancy, listening for his death-gur gle, had for more than thirty-two years controlled the hearts, and to some extent the lives of above twenty five millions of human beings. Of the fifteen bridal parties among the upper-ten of Richmond, Va., says a dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer, ten were elopements. The latest sen nation of the kind happened last night when Miss Nannie Freeland, a beauti ful belle, 17 years of age ran off with James Fox, an attache of the Rich mond; and Danville Railroad. Miss Freeland is the daughter of a deceasd millionare, and Mr. Fox is poor but handsome. The trial of the steam; hand and chemical fire engines on Monday night resulted in a drawn battle. There should have been a fire for each com pany, instead of allowing the third engine to play a part of the time on each of the two fires. The working of the chemical engine, however, was quite satisfactory, and shows that this apparatus is the very thing for small towns where water cannot be obtained in sullicient quantities. Jake T. Brown, formerly a Republi can member of the Legislature from Davidson, was found'on Monday morn ing, lying in a pool of water in the public road, frozen stiff. The similar ity of the death of Creed Young,(who wa3 a member of the Ho.ise in 1870 with Brown) is rather a remarkable coincidence, or would be, if they could reasonably be attributed to the weath cr. Other causes, doubtless, produced the deaths, and the bodies were froz en alter life had ceased its functions. North Carolina will receive about $4,000 from the Peabody Fund this year. Schools which enjoy his mu nificence ought to have a portrait of the good old man ornamenting the wall above the clock, so that the youthful mind might be impressed and stimulated to follow his life-example. Most of them probably have a very vague idea that they are enjoy ing the benefit of a philanthropic lib erality ; but if they daily looked upon the noble features of Gen. Lee's friend, they would learn to set a higher value on benevolent actions. Decorating bottles and earthern ware is becoming all the rage. Don't you know how? Get you a vase, a button-pot or ginger-jar, and put on a thick coat of black paint. When it be comes fully dry, get some of the col ored and embossed pictures, (fancy la bels from the dry good stores will an swer) which sell for 25 cts. a sheet, and cut out such as you like; paste them on the black back ground, and when dry, give the whole a coat of white varnish. Then show it to your beau, who if much " schmidtt," will vow he never saw anything half so pretty. When Mary Anderson was play ing Partfienia in the play otjngomar, at Memphis, Col. Lewis Selby who sat near the orchestra, and had a hatful of liquor under his vest, became in censed at the rude barbarian, Ingo mar, for his treatment of the beautiful Greek girl. So when Ingomar called j her a "slave," Selby sprang up and j called him "a liar!" Of course there ' was a sensation, and poor Parlhenia j (Miss Anderson) looked in amazement ; at her unexpected champion. She performed in the same play at Wil mington on Thursday night to a large audience, winning raptures from many but criticism from a few. I We feel tempted to publish 'Judge Kerr's letter reviewing th indefensi ble action of the Supreme Court Judge Reade's opinion) in reversing thw sen tence of one Driver, tried at Yadkin Court in lb77 : but really the conduct of this unhanged villian (whose full name should have lxen given by Judge Kerr, so that eternal' infamy might cling to it), is so abominable we do not wish the public outside of 'the State to know there is such a wretch within it. And, by the way, the testimony in the case of Alex. Hendrix, of Davie coun ty, and his mother, for maltreating his wife, hastening, if not causing, her death, shows how brutally some wives are treated. K. of P. The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias convened in this city on Tuesday Grand Chancellor W. C. Troy, of Fayetteville, presiding. Nine lodges were represented. G. C. Troy was re-elected for the ensuing vear. The Meteor. Since the article in another column was written, parties in Greensboro hare informed me that the detonation was distinctly heard there ; and a friend in Charlotte states that the report was heard also at that point, distant 130 miles. W. C. K. Our Valentines. As to-day is Val entine Day, we send, with our paper, the complimants of the season, and Tish that every one of our readers may have, during the coming year whatever his merits entitle him to ; and failing that, may enjoy ths next best thing, naniely CONTENTM ENT ! Labor Movement. In a letter from B.Duncan explainingthe objects of the call for a convention of delegates from the "National" (or Labor-Greenback) Party to meet at Toledo, on,Washing ton's birth-day, (Feb. 22) and giving the list of the signers, we notice that Mr. N. Plumadore, of Raleigh, is spo ken of as a zealous friend of the move ment. This gentleman informs us he will attend the convention, but mainly with the view to impress upon lead ing delegates the advantages of North Carolina for immigrants. State Grange. Our last number left this body still in session. It ad journed after the night session on Thursday. The changes proposed by the National Grange as to reduction of fees, etc., were adopted. The stock law was recommended. Messrs. Win ston, Cobb and Harris, of Iredell, were appointed the committee to decide about a newspaper organ. Granges that are dormant will be relieved of past fees for membership while dor mant, if they revive and go to work. Next meeting to take place in Raleigh, on 1st Thursday in February, 1879, when the subject of " Sheep Husban dry " will be reported by Messrs. Cobb, Cheek and A. T. Mial. The Ex-com. reported that on the 18th of October, all delinquent granges were notified to pay arrearages to first January, 187, or surrender charters. The European Complications. The eyea of the civilized world are in tent upon the march of events, which seem crystalizing into a condition of hostility bet ween England and Russia, with Austria and Italy leaning with the former, and Turkey inclining to favor the latter. The Porte refuses to allow the British fleet to pass the forts at the Dardanelles, and sail up to Con stantinople. The Russian government has warned the English that should the fleet go to Constantinojde, it will find the town occupied by its troops. At this, the London Times, and nearly all the English press, declares that British honor, and British interests, now have no alternative but to go to Constantinople. The channel fleet has been sent to reinforce the squadron at Gallipoli ; and the English navy yards are working night and day a condi tion of things unknown since the Cri mean war. All army officers in Ameri ca and elsewhere have ben ordered home by telegraph. Still, there is evi dent reluctance on both sides, and a war of words mav end the matter. 14, 187$. Fit M Ciwbkri.aMv Fa y v t u?t i t U Gazette, J. H. and G. G. Myrmrr, prv prieton. Thursdav, 2 a ar. Mrs H. I. McDutlie u us looking when the j cars ran oxer old man Merritt at FaT j etteville. and wa m overcome she fell down in a swinm. Merritt liad been complaining the sme day that his lot was so haul it mattered little whether he lived or died. The FayetteTille National Bank lias a signette of Gen. Lee upon its checks. Recently one was returned from Morris, Tyler Co., of New Haven, Conn., having a en-and-ink gallows erected alovt Lee's head, and a roj attached to his neck. Bet you that was did by some sneak who never dared face "Uncle Robert's" rag ged Rebs when bullets were Hying. An issue of constitutionality has been raised as to Judge Buxton's holding the special term of Cumberland court. The constitution forbids but an act of the Legislature authorizes. Well, then ? State Scraps. Geo. Pethel of Mooresville, Iredell county, gave his wife with whom he had quarreled, a white powder, after which she died. His actions were suspicious and he was arrested, but subsequently discharged. A new warrant is out, but so is he, and cannot be found. Davenport Fe male College will mortgage its prop erty to raise funds to improve the building &c. The Jones bridge over the Neuse will be completed next week. A new plug-tobacco factory will soon begin operations at Ilill.boro; Webb & Co., owners.-- The negro, Roljcrt Jones, has been convicted of killing Randolph Eaton at Rocky Mount. Geo. II. Bellamy's store, at La (.range, Brunswick, county was burned on Thursday night; insured for $900. Jesse Davis, a negro, was jailed at Louisburg on the 6th charged with attempted rape of Mrs. Margan t Champion Miss Ellen Sellers, step daughter of J. M. Oliver living near Princeton, drank by accident (being deranged) a cup of lye, designed to bo used in making soap, and di 1 in great agony. Rachel Murphy, colon-d, near Wilmington. died suddenly undrr circumstances indicating poisoning. MEN-TION. Col. W. L. Steele is said to be the only N. C. Congressman opposed to the Southern Pacific Railroad. Better go for it Colonel ; every mile of rail way helps the South, no matter who builds or steals it. John Ah-xander, of Iredell, eloped with Mrs. Margaret Sherrill, who left two children to con sole the abandoned husband. John hns dark hair and complexion, and is 3-1 years old ; Polly is 22, has blue eyes, fair skin, and very light hair. Hus bands with light-haired wives will make a note, and shoot any dark-haired chaps caught "hankerin" round the premises. Alfred V. Dockery was confirmed consul at Leeds. Osmsn Pash a w i 1 1 c e rt a i n 1 y 1 e cou rt - m a rt ia I ed He is charged with burying Russian prisoners alive. -Although Wah. ington, and Washington's ways, are no longer fashionable, or even remem bered, it seems there is some danger of his bones leing stclen. as a burglar alarm telegraph has been arranged connecting his coffin with the old man sion on the hill. Judge D. L. Rus- sel. having discovered that he would have to live in Raleigh if he took the District-Attorneyship, vacated by Mr. Badger, withdraws from the race, and thinks Judge Albertson will get the place. Who wants sour grapes, any how ': A class of 5'J students has leen formed at the University to take lessons in vocal music from Prof. E. A. Wilson, employ ex.1 by the Faculty. Gideon Wells died at Hartford on Monday. John E. Davis, and a child of Mom-b Walters both of Union county, though in different neighbor hoods, were slain on the 1st inst. by falling trees. Rev. D. McQueen has resigned hi3 pastorate of the Presby terian church of Wadesljoro Messrs. T. C. James, T. C. WeRosM?t, and II. 31. Green, are the new Lieutenants of Wilmington Light Infantry. 2s0. IT A u bar before remarked. IZaitigh i4t!nt!allr a city of rhun .-lie and hool Th Episcopalian, Pr bUfiiaru, Methodit, Baptists, har eac h two churches, and undaychooU. Thr are tix churches within pistol hot of the capitol ; Uide the present worshiping place of the 2nd Presby terians. Iu school, the city U no le rich : the PrtubyterUut, Episcopalians, and Baptists each having a w4J known femalejseminary : and there being Wv eral academies for jouth, not of a de nominational status. Pubfic schools aUund, and the graJed school pro idc.s for a little army of children. A city tax of alxmt f-1,000 support thi. institution with foOOfru.'u the IVaUxJj fund. Besides these school for white, are Shaw University, for colon-d youth, and half a doen public school for the same color. In short, the mu nificent bum of fO.rnJ.TS. nearly ten thousand dollar, in Piw-nt in Mfpport ing ntKK tWiools in JUk igh ; m addL tiou to the widely reputed subscrip tion and 1 warding schools above mn. tioned. Nearly n.Ooo is spent in Wake county for th support of public school. Northern men dextrous of tattling where they can cnjv ufqden. did climate, high" healthy "location.' good Nociety, and ut;urawsed church and f-chool facilities, lnuM enroll as titizeus of UALKIUH. 1nsa.nl Asylum Vili-uny. When Cha. Reade and Dickens portrayed the wrongs and torture ..of imaginary victims of false imprkonnteht in Lu natic Asylum, people said the picture was horribly over drawn, and Uyond the range of possibility. But within the past year, and iu our own enlight ened country, more than one or two or three instances of wrongful confine ment in the mad cell of both private and public asylums, have come to light. The fulfe imprisonment of a minister's wife in Columbia some years ago, is familiar to many of our reader. A recent c;ise is mentioned in the cdi torial columns of the New Vork Sun, showing that a lady h.is been ( oniined by her relatives for nrrrn y nrM. w hoi " not now insane, and has never len insane." Well may the editor add j ' This is a startling fact, equalling in real life the wildebi dreams of lom.wiee. The state of the law which renders such an occurrence possible in alarm ing ; for if this person, perfectly aane all the time, could : imprisoned, without relief, here iu the heart of great city, for (-even long years, who may not he imprisoned Jjkewj ? (, one i.s safe.'' But prhap-. it will J.. interesting to plot the Sun' statement jn fuj . "MUs Dickie was committed to the Biotjunngd.de Anvlum in ljj on th4. certificate of Dr. William Hanford White that she wa inline. The tes timony of Dr. White before ?jf. SheriiTs jury who have jut parsed upon the question of Mis Jhcki" hu ity, is almost incredible. Dr. Whit stand condemned out of his- own mouth. It is amazing that a practicing physician, enjoying the conjjdence of the communitv, could do what this man admits he r f i f . It would b charity to fclier ihit l) ttr him.elf insane. Dr. White testified that h had not himself treated Miv Susan Dicki. bad not spoken to h.-r, and had only h-en h-r in pacing through tii rooms of the house when attending her father. Hj examined her for a few uunute, and tnen certified that he was insane. H did not know the day or th year when the certificate wa- made, and refmel to tell what he " paid for it. He also uduuttei tiiat he had git en rtdicates tirxm whi h other person, had U en confined under similar circumstaiis. The motive which led to the unlaw ful imprisonment of Mlv Dickie ap-!-.-xs to have b.n money. Hcr aged lather was worth not les than a mil lion of dollar. If h wan iriaaiie, r jr co'ild not dUjK'se of her inheritance o! of any legacy left her out of ihl es tate ; but it would ultimately go to the other heirs. The conspirac y against Mis Dickie was worthy of the dark age. Ererr person concerned in it deserve to b confined as long as she has ben, not in a lunatic asylum, but in a State prison to oiy nothing of theenormoo ii-cuniary damages to which d.e is justly entitled. An immediate overhauling of insane asylums, their management, and the defectiTe and dan consigning jeople to seclusion within the impenetrable walls of these insti tutions, is imjeratively demanded.'
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