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VOL- III.
Index to New Advertisements.
jiAws Silvrr and China House.
Ki.MiSLKY & -.-lsiiLKY Architects
tV Builders.
llalfiglj ani j(ounS--glbout
Pleased to Jiave a call from Capt.
Biggs of the Free Lance last week.
The Miners Association of Wales
will pay $-J for every member desir
ing to emigrate to America.
John A. Fugg has been ousted
from the Asheville post office, and
Geo. M. Roberts succeeds him.
Mr. A. A. Banks wishes to sell his
(half) interest in the Statesville Land
murk, a good paper, in a fine location.
The decision of Judge Kerr in the
Ti ustee case, after thorough investi
gation, is favorable to Dr. Wilson's
management.
Five cases of horse-stealing are
reported in our exchanges for the
past fortnight. Animals recovered in
all except one.
The sralles, rars nnd horses, of
the Wilmington street railway, owned
chiefly by W. P. Cannaday, were
burned on Monday night.
Raleigh is so magnificently scat
tered over the hills that the placing
of letter boxes at six points in up-town
localities has been already found a
great convenience.
Rev. Dr. Sutton, of Pittsborc, will
remove this week to Greensboro.
Rev. Dr, C. II. Vaughan, formerly of
Raleigh, has become stated supply of
the Central church, Atlanta, recently
vacated by Dr. Leftwich.
General Johnstone J-jnes took an
active and iniluential part in the Na
tional Militia Convention last week.
General Beauregrrd and other Southern
officers were present, and received
m st courteous consideration from the
Northern officers.
We earnestly urge our Brethren of
the Press to agitate the Immigration
subject- There is no use of talking of
paiag our State Debt; and very little
likelihood of having crood roads, good
fn-e schools, and real prosperity until
ur unlimited natural resources shall
be,eveloed l,v additional popula
tion. A letttr from the University to
the Wilmington Star says the College
roll numbers 200. The following com
mencement officers were chosen: Chief
Marshal, J. M. Leach, Jr.; Di. R. D.
Heid. C. A. McNeil, C. I). Mclver:
I'm; J. c. Dowd, J. H. Hill, e. P.
Mnynard. Representatives: A. L.Coble,
J- W. Forbes, R. B. John, L. Craig, C.
Thmas. N. C. S. Noble. Ball Man
agers: D. Gilliam, of Wake, D. N.
Ualton, Jr., J. p. McRae; W. C. Phil
W' Wiliborne. Senator Allan
Thurman has been invited to de
VT the address, and will acc pt.
-Sp-'aking of reductions, there
should be rather a considerable reduc
Hon of the salaries of the State Judges
r they should be chosen in some other
ay. At present the pecuniary and
laical value of the office causes un
ly scrambling or iL We have
, . 0 Caiates for Judges, in high
i'ion, shaking their fists, on the
ery "Bench" i
wher uuri ,,ouse
sit , Successful candidal must
, and before an assemblage whose
must tr'! Lct tb pay b
JthMni . UI expenses, or let
hud chon differently. If
lt.rtv.eSiWere Prohibited from ever
! """is holdin:
iWoul 1 i . puiiiicai umcc it
Wrr 6 0 (Iou,Jl the present
-, seek i,,r only the best tna
iv Ihrary mo 15 70 " " '
Dr. N. M. Bonn, a man of high
character and prominence, died at
Yancey ville on Friday. He was one
of the gentlemen arrested with Judge
Kerr, and others, by Kirk's gang.
Licenses issued for the ensuing
season for the sale of fertilizers by the
State Treasurer : Etiwan Phosphate
Co., Charleston, S. C, Etiwan Dis
solved Bone; Jno. R. Long & Co.,
Baltimore, Md.; Long's prepared
chemicals for composting; Xavassa
Guano Co., Wilmington, N. C: Na
vasa Acid Phosphate.
Gov. Vance was on Tuesday elect
ed U. S. Senator by the following
votes : Senate Vance o3, Judge
Buxton, (Republican) 12, Judge Mer
rimon (not a candidate) 1, (Mr. Brows
er.) House Vance 77, Buxton 30,
Merrimon 1, (Harrison, of Caswell,
Rep.) and Tom S. Ashe 1, casty Jo
eiah Turner. Half a dozen ' explana
tions'1, of votes. The galleries were well
tilled with ladies; the lobbies with gen
tlemen ; and there was a good deal of
enthusiasm. It will be seen Senator
Vance received mo;e than two-thirds
of the entire vote (1 G 1) cast, and
all of the Democratic votes except J.
T. From all parts of North Carolina
and the South, there is manifestation
of gratification, not that Merrimon is
displaced, but that Vance will have an
opportunity to work for his State and
section. And assuredly a man who
has been so highly and repeatedly
honored by the people of North Car
olina should dedicate the remainder of
his life to zealous efforts for their
welfare and advancement.
The Colleges. We are indebted to
the Marshals, Messrs. J. P. Alderman,
of Clinton; L. T. Carroll, Columbus; J.
M.Davis, of Henderr onville, W. T.
Jones, of Wilmington, for a handsome
ly printed invitation to a Public Debate,
celebrating the 44th Anniversary of
the Philomathesian and Euzelian So
cieties of Wake Forest. Feb. 14th, 1879.
Debaters: J. F. McMillan, E. F. Ayd
lett, I. N. Holding, H. Montague.
Anniversarv Orators : Phi. W. L
Wright, Troy, N. C; Eu. W. N. Jones,
Rileigh.
Revenue. The Fourth and Fifth
Districts in North Carolina pay the
United States Government some six
teen hundred thousand dollars annual
ly on tobacco alone in the shape of
revenue. This is enormous. Every
chew of tobacco a man takes, every
pipe of tobacco he smokes, costs him
so much tax. Win then should not a
msn pay the State, that is so heavily
burdened with debt, a tax too on every
driuk he takes 'i If one is right why
is not the other right i If a few coun
ties can pay nearly two millions of
dollars tax on one product to the Gen
eral Government, why cannot all of
the counties pay a million of dollars
to the State Government on another
product ? Both whiskey and tobacco
are luxuries. Why not make both
contribute their full share in support
of the government 'i
The United States Government en
forces its laws. There was Dever so
distasteful a system in the world to
our people as the revenue system, and
yet it is enforced enough to raise six
teen hundred thousand dollars in one
year in two Districts in this State.
Why cannot North Carolina or Vir
ginia enfoice i s own laws 'i If a
state isto be greatly benelited by a
law, there is no reason why it should
not be faithfully carried out. There
is no good reason why a law may not
be enforced when the p:ople are hon
est and law-abiding.
Ashe county correspondent : Rev.
William Calloway, an aged Methodist
minister, died at his rrsider.ee, one
mile fiom here, about ten days ago.
Joshua Baker, a highly esteemed citi
zen of Ashe county, died here on the
8th inst , aged 77 yeais. He had ben
Sheriff of this county for many years
before the war. John T. Peden, David
Price, and 8 -me other citizens of the
northwest corner of this county, killed
a five hundred pound bear lasi Satur
day &ft"r a battle that lasted two days,
in which biuin received thirty one
shotp.
RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY
Intorestin Conversation with
General Colston, of Virginia,
an Ex-Officer of the Egyptian
Army.
During the past ten years a number
of American officers bave been en
gaged in the service of the Khedive of
Egy;.t, where they have held various
positions on the staff, and on the 30th
of last June their services were dis
pensed with, as the Khedive came to
the conclusion that it was necessary to
retrench the ge eral expenditure of
the government and commenced opera
tions by an immediate reduction of
the army. The fi st batch of officers
from the United States went to Egypt
in 18G9, and since thea they arrived in
that country by twos and threes until
at one time the Khedive had about
fifty American officers in his service.
General R. E. Colston, of Virginia,
who served with Lee. Jacks m and
Beauregard during the rebellion,
joined the Khedive's service in 1873,
and has recently returned to this cify
af ter five or six years active service in
Egypt. A reporter of tin Herald called
yesterday upon the General at his
hotel and had a talk over the present
condition of aifairs in Egypt, as fol
lows :
"How do you arc unt, General, for
the action of the Khedive in reducing
the army ?'
It was mainly owing to financial
difficulties that entailed a certain
amount of retrenchment in expendi
tures, and the army was considered
the most available branch of the gov
ernment se v:ce in which to begin, to
economize."
"What does the p esent standing
army amount to?"'
"About six or sven thousand men.
Quire sufficient for household and gar
rison duty. I do not see any necessity
for Egypt maintaining an army, as
they are themselves so feeble that all
they could really do wt uld amount to
nothing without the assistance of some
other Power."
"How would it be if they we e to get
in another war with AlvyssMiia:"
"They have had a great many men
that have f erved in the army, and if
necessary they could call out thirty or
foriy thousand men from the reserves
that they could arm at. very short
notice. They are well supplied with
Remington rifles and have a number
of Kruj. p batteries in excellent work-
ing order."
DUTIES OF THE AMERICANS.
"What were the duties of American
officers in the Khedive's se.vice?''
"They were almost all on staff duty.
There have been about fifty American
officers on the staff since 18G8. I was.
like most of tire others, a Colonel on
the general staff. My services were
generally devoted to explorations. I
started in May, 187.'?, up the east side
of the Nile, between the Nile a'nl ihe
Red Sea, through the Arabian deser
of Egj'pt. I went there in search of
the ancient gold mines of Derehib.
My second expedition started in De
cember, 1874. We went up the Nile
about two thousand miles to a place
called Debbe. We went by water as
far as the second cataract, and then
U6ed camels for the balance of the
journey to Debbe. At the latter place
we got a fri sh supply of camels acd
started in a south A-est direction to Et
Oberyad, the capital of Korlofan, a
point about four hundred miles from
Debbe. 1 then received a severe sun
stroke and was very ill, and was car
ried back on a camel's litter 1 200
miles through the desert to Suakin, on
the Red Sea, where I found a steamer
waiting, which, the Khedive had sent
from Cairo."
"How many people did you have
with you ?"
"About one hundred soldiers and the
necessary amount of camel drivers,
cooks and camp followers.
"Are there no American otticers
in the service of the Khedive at pres
ent r
"General Stone still retains the
nominal position of chief of t he gen
eral staff. I call it a nominal position,
as there is at present no statf."
"How did you manage to give your
orders to the troops? '
"Being on staff duty we gave our
orders to the Arabian olficers, gradu
ates of the Military College. These
orders were given in French."
"Were the lives of many of tbe
American olficers lost during the cam
paign V"
"A few died from natural causes. I
think the death roll contains the names
of Genenl Reynolds, Colonel Rey
nolds, Major Hunt, Major Campbell.
Major Paris, Major Lawson, (.apt tin
Irguins and Major LoscIib, who died at
Suakin about eurht months ago. Col
onel Jennifer, formeilv of the Khe
dive's service, died in Baltimore shortly
aftjer his ieluin to this country, and
Colonel Riiert, of South Carolina,
an6tuer ex Egyptian ollicr, died re
cently in Pans.'1
General Colston has had an experi
ence of about live years witii the
Bedouin tribes of the desert, and is
also thoroughly familiar with desert
life and caravan travelling. During
his service in Egypt he has travelled
some five or six thousand miles on
camels. He has brought back a num
ber of interesting sketches and photo
graphs, and intends to give a series of
lectures through the country, illus
trating the scenes that he Las visited
with tiie most improved apparatus.
O'Brien Again. P. S. O'Brien,
who gave San Francisco such a big
sensation the other day by registering
at the Baldwin acd letting people
know that he was after the uead mil
lionaire O'Brien's money, has disap
peared as mysteriously as he presented
himself, liie millionaire's sister and
th San Jose heirs were in consultation
with the new claiment the alleged
bi other on Wednesday of last week.
Soon after the end of the conference
P. S. was hurried into a carriage, his
lace being covered with a broau scarf,
and driven rapidly away. Floods, the
millionaire's partner, was present at
the consultation, and the fact that on
Wednesday morning he drew $5000,
000 from bank leads to the belief that
the mysterious stranger fiom North
Carolina compromised his case.
Philadelphia Times.
TiiE Views of a Level-Headed
Paieh. The B iitimore tiun, an able
and in alJ lesj ects first-clats newspa-
per, presents in its editorial columns
a half column summary of the pro
ceedings of the Northern settlers con
vention, recently held in this city, and
copying from the findings of the body
ados: -Nothing could well be more
explicit than tueso declarations, and,
coming from the source they do, they
ought to sec at rest th j question as to
whether Northern men who do not
by their conduct cast discredit on the
Northern name are well received in
the Sjuth. The remainder of the- ad
dress sets forth in stroog terms the
advantages presented by tiie South to
Northern emigrants.
Attend to It. The great success of
the Convention of Northern men re
cently held iu Chariot-e, and the now
generally conceded importance of the
movement, induces us to insist that
Northern men in Wilmis:gton who
represeot both intel igc nee and wealth
snould take an interest in the call
for the County Conventions to be held
on the loth of February, for State
Conventions to be held some time dur
ing the month of March, and for the
geueral convent ion to be held in
Charlotte on the 4th of July next.
L t New Hanover h dd a Cjiuiiy Con
vention. Star.
Burnt to Death. We uudendand
a man by the name of Jetfries was
burnt to death in this couuty near
Goodsoa and Payne's store last Thurs
day night. The accident occurred in
tbis way : Several young men. in
company with the deceased, were
coon hunting, and all of them took on
too much whiskey. The sober part of
the crowd seeing that Jeffries was
p ist walking, laid him on the ground
and built a lire around him while tbey
continued their sport. When they
went back to Jeffries he was fou-.d to
be burnt so badly that death claimed
him in a few hours.
We cop' from a recent special in
the Baltimore Gazette: I cannot
save any of my salary, said Senator
Lamar to-day to your correspondent.
it is imposoioie. l never paid a cent
'beyond livery hire and a few little
kindred items of election expenses in
my nie, ana 1 have been in politics a
long time. I could save $1,000 a year
if 1 would do certain things, but I
don't think my conscience would be
satisfied if I did For instance, I piy
about $300 a year for newspapers ; I
like to read them. 1 have passes over
railroads ; I could travel all over the
United States free, but I pay my fare.
It costs me $07 for each member of my
family every time I come and go be
tween here and home. I have tele
graph passes, but I never use them. I
do not think it would be right. I can
send anything I please over the ex
press lin?s. yei I pay my express bills.
1 spend my salary, and never nave any
money. Some Senators use all these
privileges of dead heading, and they
bay it is right. I think otherwise "
Mrs. Weatherly, of Shoe Heel, was
found dead in bd last; Friday morn.
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A man in Yadk:n sro.e to de:if h on
Christmas eve.
Dr Bobah ("ray. of Winton, will
move to Danville. Va., to live
Keidsville promises to run an even
dozen tobacco factories this year.
Go-d lield hands hire for $6 per
month and board in Halifax county.
There is talk of converting the Sal
isbury fair grounds into a cemetery.
Mr. Merrimon Webster, of Alexand
ria county, was kdled by a falling
tree.
Judge KV-rr lost a littln daughter
last Sunday from d phtheria. He
himself is improving.
A jealous necrro in Ilobeson county
lodged a load of buckshot into anoth
er, killing him almost instantly. j
' The negroes of Graham, Alamanco
county, are excited over the leport
that a bear conies into the town eviry
night.
A fire in Tallahassee, Fla., destroved
the Episcopal church, recfory and
school house. Loss, eight thousand
dollars.
Mr. Talma e, on Sunday last, de
fended in his lecture the sensational
style of pulpit talk, ami said sensa
tionalism is life.
A little girl in liowan county.
daughter of a tenant on the farm of
Dr. Cliunn, was accidentally burned
to death last week.
Ane-'iowMit into Dr. Woodruff's
room at Reidsville last Sunday night,
says the Times, snd stole $ uS from the
drawer, lhey caught him.
Dr. E. Benbow. of Yadkin county:
recently lost a housj in which he kept
whiskey, by fire ; supposed to have
been the wrork of an incendiary.
Harvev Farrow, colored, was drown
ed near Newbern. He was attempting
to walk from a schooner to the shore
on the ice, when he broke through.
Rev. Mr. Kearney, of the Episco
pal Church in Elizabeth City, preach
ed recently on the sec nd coming of
Christ upon earth. He pointed to
1882 as just the time.
We regret to learn that o-.e of Mil
ton's fair daughters, who recently
removed to Danville, was struck with
paralysis on one side of the face
a f ew days ago. Chronicle.
The Spartanburg (S. C ) Spartan
says a daughter of Noah Mills, of
Polk county, N. C., was killed by a
falling tree a few days ao. She was
cutting it down for firewood and was
caught by it as it fell.
Wm. Lawson, colored, of this
vicinity, was killed on Tuesday by the
falling of a tree which he and two
other men cut down. William ran as
he thought a proper distance out of
the way. but a limb struck and killed
him. Chronicle.
The Greenshors Xeic Xorth State is
informed that a farmer residing in the
upper part of Guildford county is com
pelled to get water every evening from
his spring as the rabbits are numerous
enough to drink the spring dry during
the night.
Hillsboro Recorder : After the sub
sidence of the freshet in Eno River
last week, the dead body of an infant
was found on the bank near Faucett's
Ford.' A cord was drawn tightly
around the neck, evidently for the
purpose of causing death.
Mt. Airy Visitor : Mr. Thos. W.
Bray, in cojapany with several other
persons, on Sunday last, were skating
on Brower s mill pond, when lom
ventured a little too far, and went over
the dam. We are glad to state, how
ever, that 3i3 escaped without a
scratch.
Concord Register : Our town was
startled on Wednes lav evening bv the
report that Geo. P. Wetter had shot
himself, at his residence oa h.ast De
pot street. George had been drinking
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neavny since nnsimas, anu was m-
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ooring severely whq ine -jim jams.
Recently he had lost $390 in money.
He died at 2 o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing. Danbury Reporter : Everything is
about froze up in Danbury. Trade is
one of the victim of the cold. Some
stores are seldom opened. A sad
accident occurred in the Dakon
neighborhood of this county, on Mon
day of last week. Miss Westmoreland,
daughter of Dr. Silas Westmoreland,
while upon an ice pond, slipped and
fell, her head striking the ice with
such violence as to produce almost
instant death.
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Polkton Arj is : As nn ext:a train
turned thi curvo at Bogan's Cut, U,i
Sunday, a man and wonuu were di.
coverei on the trestle Just ahe-id. Tie
ma i hearing the traiu ran ami suce.-t d -ed
in getting oir, having the worn ui.
who lay down on one of the sti in
gvr" aud thus aved her lif.. l h,
parties were white.
Alamance G turner: Capt. A. A.
Mitchell died suddenly of heart diseue
on the evening of the tirst of thia
month, In Cincinnati, uhio. Capt.
Mitchell was, we believe, a native ui
Caswell county, an J lived m Yancey -ville
till some live or tix years a,;o.
when he went to the city where no
died. He was sixty-two years old.
Landmark : A serious cutting atfr.iv
was participated m Friday mgut, at a
singing cla.-s, three miles eat oi Stale
vihe, on the Western North Carolina
rai'road. The purticipauts were re
spectively Hodge Krider, of Ujwan.
and Wm. E. Slep, ol this county. The
latier was bady iaceiated hy th.
former, but it is thought by physician-,
that he will recover.
James Turner died in Alamance on
the 18th, having enjoyed his JS.'jth
birthday on Christmas. And John A.
Mebane, ot the Mebane family, died at
Mew Ferry, on tne 27th ult., aged
seventy, liis remains were brought
to Alamance and buru-d from Haw -tields
Church. yi,l'0() m specif w.-re
ttjlen from the house o: Daniel l-'oust:
in Guilford, a few nights ago. All oi
which we glean from the (i leaner.
Greensboro Xeic North State, ICth:
An employe of the North Carolina
ltadroad, naiiui Rowe, was yesteiday
killed a short distance tins side f
Haw river bridge, as we learn bv u
passenger who arrived here by last
night's train. The man was on a hand
car, passing on the road, and by some
means a part of Jus clothing caught in
the cranK of the turning ge ir of t i j
car, aud dtew his body to the machin
ery, causing him to fall of.
Concord Sun: A peculiar circum
stance occurred witu the late W. (i.
Fowler, the night before he w.,m
knocked down and robbed in Moore.--ville.
He was robbed on Tuesdav
niht, and ou the Monday night pre
vious he dreamed that some men nu t
him at or near the very spot he wa
afterwards robbed, and that they threw
a rope around his neck, aud choking
him, demanded money. He asked
them how much they wanted, and
they asked for w h ch he gave them.
The cause of the failure of the Mis
souri Legislature to return Mr. Arm
strong to the United States Senate the
other day was the fact that as Senator
he had voted to coniirm the nomina
tinof the notorious jayhawker and
cut-throat, o'Niel. had bejn re
commended by Hayes for the position
of Indian Agent. O'Niel was a no.o
rious cut-throat, who in cold blood,
murdeied helpless, defenceless Con
federates during the war in Missouri
and the people of that State will ever
execrate his memory.
One of the most important and in
teresting events which has taken plac
in this country for a lung time occur
eu in Charlotte, N. C, on Wednesday
last. On that day representatives of
Northern settlers in the South from
five States assembled in convention
and passed resolutions declaring that
they were entirely satisfied with their
social treatment in their adopted
homes, and that in no section ot thi
Union were citizens more thoroughly
protected in the enjoyment of all their
rights. Stcauuah (Ga.) Xtocs.
Greensboro Xevc Xorth State : Wed
nesday n'ght of last week, about
half-past 1 1 o'clock, some one knocked
at the back door of the store of LUlsley
.fc Son. Young Jacob BaUley, who was
there alone, eot up and opened the
door to admit him. when he was ntruck
on the head with a stick and knocked
senseless. Fortunately, Mr. IJalsley
saw the motion of the man's arm when
he struck the blow, and he gave the
deor a violent push, which closed it and
kppt the robber lrom en'enng. Jir.
Halslev lav in a senseless condition for
Kome time and the back of his h'-al i-i
badlv cut.
The Kentucky Troubles A
Wrecked Train.
rrvnw i tt J.in Governor Mc-
Crery has notice of the return of the
caMlrr rrtm nan v sent to IJreatliitt
irmB - w - J " - J
onnntff Thwff afrromnlished the arrest
of William Fletcher, who murdered
Judge Burnett.
A freight train on th Detroit. Lans
ing and Northern It. lt.f wad ditched
near Detroit, killing Chas. Heed, a
hnkeman. and breaking the ribs of
conductor Kichard Bare. A broken
rail ca ised the accident.