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'3W3MYJi.a r r. ft4 ill ... . " " VOL XV.-38 RALEIGH, X. C, WEDNESDAY MORXING, APRIL 9, 1879. $5.00 PER ANNUM State Library " mix 18 7 vtfl " ME Raleigh A DEAD CALM. OT A RIPfLE OR A WAVE. Hlrhlsaa nmy b Coasted Kepabll. rmm n Appropriation Cora Milter rtr Hons BlllXot m M ardor. Fire, Hen mi Ion or Any Cmrlteaaoal Wbat rrln thr toon try. WsniTON, April s St.NATC The cna!e committee on appropriations bv a tri-l party vole. decided to report Uu-k the Army Appropriation hill ithout any amendment and rnvoiu uieud i: aj.sAge in all urticular prc v ,.;v a il inuii) from ilie House of RcprrentaU cs. Withers rejortOvl bark from the com uiUtee on appropriations the army bill without amendment. Blaine gave notice of an amendment making il a penal ofteiue, punishable mth hue and imprisonment, for any CiUiUiry, civil or naval oihcer or any ott.er person, except for purjses tamed in lite bill to appear with a deadly 'ran of any description with in a mile l any xiiiug place in the Untied State, where a general or sig nal election lor Representative tut on gres is beiug held. Mr. Wither' will tuil up the bill after the New Jlamp iluru senatorial question shall In? de cided. The Senate adopted Bayard's resolution, calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury fo r a statement of the tutus of money paid to John I. Daven port since 1"C0. The Senate resumed the consideration of the New Hamp shire Senatorial caw. The New Hampshire senatorial elec tion caa continued without action. Carpenter maie legal auguiuent against his admission. The lloue went into a committee of the whole on legislative, appropriation bill, and after diMoHlnjj o! sixty a;es of the bill, adjourned un til to-morrow. Hoi'sL Frye, of Maine, had read a letter from the editors of the "Ukalo Di Mates," which Muldrow, of Miss., had stated did not represent any re peetable element of the Mississippi, Iiemocracy aud enclosing an extract from that 'paper of August :lh, 17. uporliug Muldrow as Representa tive from the First District of Mississippi- lie had nothing further to say on the subject. A debate has sprung up i to the pro priety of of instructing lue chairman of toe Committee of the Whole when the House ah ill be in committee on the Legislative Appropriation bill and to award th tloor in accordance with the rules of the House and not to be bound by any list of Speakers hich may be formed. . I". N, Sapreme ('art. WashInuTo.v. l. C, April !. Chief Junce Wait announced in the I". S. Supreme Court to-day that the Court would her the Attorney General of Virginia, Monday next, iusuort of e tiUona for the Habeas Corpus and Cer tiarl in Rives Cole case, and esjeciaJly upon the question of the jower this court has to issue w rits praved tor. Mlrkl(an i:leellou. Detkoit. Mkh., Apnl Returns from oo hundred ami sixty towns, in cluding Detroit, with a iK'inocratic ma jority of over l.aov, Kv Campbell, rep., for Sepreme Court Judge, 7H; GrMsvenor. rep., lr Ke.eiU. O', ami Shearer, rep., lr lU;ent. ." '. majority. The majoritv on the Kcpublicau Maie ticket i estimatcsl frtm .".ia to 10,nJ over tl lemo.ralic and Greenback coal J ion Ueket. At Grand Rapid. Ibe eitizeua ticket, composed, of hard i none y republicans and democrats, was electelL At Lousing, the republicans elect their entire city ticket. At Jack son, the democrats elect the Mayor, and the republicans the balance of the city ticket. At Eftt Satranaw, the republi can elect the Mayor, the balance of the city ticket I mixeU. At Adrian, the republican elect the Mayor. At Mtis kexoo, the republicans elect the Mayor fTi.i the democraU the balance of the cltr ticket. The Coalition elet the en tire city ticket at Kay City; the re pubUcana elect the Mayor and the dem ocrat and nationals divide the balance of ihe city ticket. Bsr Jteaey tuaa tbey eaa la vest. The Tttueetinancial article save. Con sols louehed'Hs on Monnay, for the first lime aince llsiS. 1'ru-es on all tirst class ecuiities are so hih that capitalists are at their wits end to Know what to do with their money. Ixnnlon discount houses were obliged to refue large de posits otlered Ixotu cwviuces. on ac count of tho Impossibility or using them profitably. Three niouths bank bills euoted tlH (4 U Pr cent- dLscouut. Claetaaati t lections. CiKCl!NATi, April h. At 1:45 o'clock this mornin returns showed that Ja cob Republican) was electel beyond doubt. His majority will be from l.WW toj,:joa Tae Xatloaals In Toledo. ToLipo, April The city elec tion yesterdav was quiet and orderly". A verv full" vote was iolled. At an early hjur this morning returns from ail but one ward indicated the election of Cie entire National ticket, with the exception of police Judge by front ) io 5o majority. Tho Hoard f Alder men auuids, two Republicans, 2 Demo crats and four Nationals. The National ticket was headed by Jacob liowes for mavor. The vote of the Nationals shows about the same strength as the elec tion of Last fall. Another Cable 4 ompanjr. IjoytMiX, April 8. The Daily News aavs the whole capital of the l'oyer Huertier Calde Coiuiaiiy amounting to lortT-lwo millions fanes has een sul scTtlcd, and one quarter iaid up. Con tractors, ensiunecrs and officials have received. InstalmenU on an-ouut of the Cable Manufacture salaries, etc. Theo facts should be made known to the shareholders of the Anglo-American 'Cable Comieny at their meeting to liar. Batter's Motion Qn ashed. t IkMTO!, Mt., April !. In the Uni ted States District ourt to-day, a nm Uounifle bvtieneral Hutler to quash tho indictments atrtinst a nnniler of il iacal voters at the last election was de nied. Eansvllle,!n4Wna Bepabtlean. Ctt iSMAtt, April In Kvausville. Indiana, the Republicans elected the: entire ticker. Tk fopo Aids the fteheols- ROMK, April N. A letter from the j4 to the Cardinal Vi.-ax is pubtisded, a which the roe announces that as U9 ancceasof the movement for increas ing and improving Catholic schools in Rome, will greatly depend ui-on pecu niary means. He proposes to contrib ute annualty, as lare an amount of money as his private means will ier aiilt. and as the conservation of the faith lu Rome is connected with the interests of thecathoUo world he will also devote to Roman schools as much of Teter m pence as (ho needs of the universal ch u re h will permit. Alaaasaa Medleal Convention. Him , April K.-AIabam State M. d Ical Asaociatbn convehed here thw auoming with a full ottendanco. roll lies In tanee. Taeis, April s.Tbe Uonapartlst aro much elated at the almost certain tri umphant of M llodelle, Ronapartist can didate In the district of Champ Klysca on the second ballot. Paul De Caasag nlc was banqueted last night by one hundred and eigbtr student of the Latin quarter. In' the coarse- of hi speech ho related conversaiio betw een himself mid the Prince Impe rial, in which the latter said mv Cither's niisrortune was to mistrust his health, so he wished to place two reigns sim ultaneously, namely, his own which was antoruairs and mine which might le liberal. I am then forced to recom mence to resume the antorilaire reign and to leave the liberal one to mv suc cessor if events allow it. At Horde-iu x at the supplementary elections Sunday, for members of tne Chamler of iH'puties, Iouis Hanqiii, still imprisoned for conspiring against the government' national defence, jolled TT.WW votes against Ii ertujoin, (iamlHttist Republi-Hii, who received 4,7(; vote?. Two obscure Radical polled one thousand live hundred otrs each, and if on the second ballot, which is necessery, these otes .should swell Ulaiiquis' s4-rc his return is quite pos sible. This is considered significant. Halifax. The residence of J. 1'. (illara, (Cil.i Republican candidate for Coiisrress, on the suburbs of Kntield, on the ."th inst, at nojn was totally destroyed by tiro together with his" furniture, valuable library, etc. His wife hard v escaped with her life. The loss is estimated at three thousand five hundred dtilars. Cause a defective tlue. No insurance. Ktokes, Mumps in Danburj Hog cholera in the cunntv Suierior ctmrt on the 1 tth Su.lge Sehenk I'y State and 101 civil eases The child of J. Y. Allen was found dead in IkhI hetwetn its (tarents one morning alnxit ten days atfi, as we learn from the Dan bury Reporter. TV m j nr. I'u irt met in tollsboro Monday The curs on the A. V N. C. R. R". are very h.nds4iiic in appearance Mrs. Fushia, the blind H uakeress, is con ducting a larire reial at Hood Swamp iiM-e'.ing lnuse in Sail 1st on township. The (toldsboro Missenger ays ( Jeueral Roltert R.iiis4-m is in charge of the Neuserixer iiiiprivemont work. h:us notitienl our IWiard of County Commis sioners that by the month of J une'next, thev must provide the bridge at White Hall, and the Arriiigton bridge, each with a draw for the puiose of opening jhoMream fr invitation. This will involve a few hundred dollars of ex ense. but the benefits will fullv com pensate the i-oiinty for this small out lav. Fos the. A Sundav school in the Kpiseopal church has ln'cn orirani.ed iii Vinstoii. Says the Winston Republican: Pursu ant to notice, a large concourse of peo ple, citizens of Salem ami Winston, met in the Courthouse to hear discussion on the question of Consolidation. The meeting was called to order bv Siws dortf. uton whose motion T. V. Host. Ksq., was called to the chair. The meeting was then addressed by C. It. Watson. F.sq.. in favor of Consolidation, and by Judge Thomas J. Wilson. Those opMsed to Conoliiation, although in itel to do s... failed to have present their representatives, or if present did not sjveak. On a motion to adjourn. Rev. Mr. Pegram otTcred an amendment to the etrect that the meet ing adjourn to Tuesday evening, for further discussion, which was agrood to. It nn com be. The Asheville Fein ilo College w as to be sold on Momly last. A Hank has lctoM orir:inir-l in Ashe ville: J. P. Sawver. Preiiletit; K. Kan kin. Vice-Prcsidcn;; l. C. Waddell, Cashier. The Rtnk is to commence work this week. A cng of negro loy thievi-s are de prcslating on the citizens of Asheville. Tilt: iitiinx ai.stov A Itemlnlseenre ef ?lorth I n rolinn. Hob Als.ou came of a prim-elv stock. His ancesters sett lee in Ifalijax, North Cerolina. nearly a century ago. They were imjerious, dauntless eople, of enormous wealth, lavislusl habits aud stirring traditions. They were of a stublorn strain of fighters, dominating over everything and broklng no con tention. They were known over the country as gentle but a reckless race snd came to be called the "Halifax" Alstons. Manv a time have 1 heard Alston tell, iii his frank and bright vvav, of the traditions of these people how thoy traveled from one of their estates to ano. her in almost regal state with the old King Jeorge coach and four and an army of sable attendants how his grand-mother used to carry her own sheets and pillows and loaf sugar with her every where she went and of how, in her mettlesome days, racing with her husband ov er the coun-tiV-side; she would put $100 on a cock fight and follow the fox. hound where none but the Alstons daie 1 ride. Or of how his grandfather otlered his estates to Jefferson when war was declared, and drank rye coffee to his death, le causo he drank it during the war of how honest Willis Alston, his grand uncle, had to confront the whole State of Carolina because of his assault upon a defaulting State Treasurer, and of the lordlr way in w hich these t w o brothers fought and frolicked alternately with the gentrv from Virginia totieorgia. The elder of these "Halifax" Al ston, the grandfather of Hob Alston, came to Georgia with his family, and lought the Sl.oulder-lwme lauds," now owned in part by David Dickson. He had by this time lav ish ed much of his wealth, but was still immensely rich. He has three sons Willis (Hob's father.) Augustus and (iideon. Rich of these men came to a violent death. Wiliis Alston became involved in a fend w ith the Ingrains of Hancock county, a very brave and honorable family. KKVKRAL KENCXiNTRFS TOOK PLACE li KT W K E.V Tl KM, and their feud was tho reigning sensa tion of that section of the State for months. Colonel Alston always went armed with a "vager" a funnel-shaped gun deadly anl heavy. He, had, how ever, several pairs of tine duelling pis-' tols. One night a general engagement was exeeted ami the duelling pistols were all out for insiection. Young Gideon Alston was at home on a vaca tion from the University of Georgia, where ln hail risen to sophomore. I have heard Col. Mark Johuou say that he was the most winning ls- he ever knew, and a boy of great lrilliany. There was also in the house a young Castilliad namen Pepin that Willis Als ton had picked up when he was m Nashville, paying bis suit to Miss Trimble, who afterwards married Gen eral Sara. Houston. Colonel Alston saw this friendleas loy and adopted him. He was a great favorite with the family. He and Gideon ott this night left the room with some pistols to try them. In lew moments Pepin came bacn and announced that he bad shot Gideon through mistake, and killed him. Pe pin was given a place in the navy and was drowned in one of tropical seas. It is notable of this Alston-Ingrani fued that a dramatization of it was writ ten aud published. The MSS. was dis covered, without ai-rusture or cine. In the hat of a lady, who was fearless and widowed. She published iU Had the author baen known they would have, in all probaoility, been killed. Go aud Tuesday. hear Patterson uez WASHINGTON. r.FFKCT OF THE DF.IIATE OX TIIF AK1Y Itll.I BETTER IX- U E RST A I I B ET W E E PARTIES, Prospects of a Short Session Growing Brighter Anticipated Action ol the Senate Had Results Like Ijr to Follow the Pres ident Veto. Washington Correspondence of the . Y. lh-niUl, Moiuhiv , pril 7, EFFECTS Of Til E UKBATE IN THE IIOISE. The nine days debate in the I louse on the Army bill did a great deal of good, lr .'Io immI :v:iv collie of the l'ocr w hich beset the subject in the beginning, and it lett the House- m a oeuer iiumor than at the opening of the session. It gave men on bo.h sides time and occa sion to think, and thus answered one ofihe most important purposes of dis cussion. It eliminated from the con troversy the foolish assumption of the republicans in.u pulling a nuer on an appropriation bill was a revolutionary act and a measure in itself so ollenive to the President that he would be jus tified in vetoing the bill on that ac count. There is some reason to believe that the President had been persuaded that hejcould justify a vtto on the sim ple ground tnat there was a ri.ier on the Appropriation bill: but General Garlieid s intuk admissio-is on this point last Friday show tnat this opin ion is no longer entertained. .Second The republicans have rece ded from the untenable josition as sumed by them early in tho session that thev would use the rules of the House to keep out, to use Mr. Con ger's words, "any bills except those which relate to "appropriation." As the debate began to cool their heads a little they saw ih it to lorbid the intro duction of measures" as separate bills and then to denounce iho tact of put tiug those measures on the privileged appropriation Lulls was absurd. t hird Further, the progress of the debate showed tueir abiesi men that they could not utlord to put themselves be:ore the country as as.ser.ing that it was absolutely right ami proper to keep troops at the poll. Hence they had to cast about for safer ground, and this General Garlieid took last Friday w hen he said: Your proposed modification of the law affects not the army alone, but the whole civil power of tne Lulled States. Civ il otlicers are included in these sec lions, and if the proposed amendment Le adopted you deny any power w hat ever to summon tne armed posse to help him emorce the processes of the law. It' you pass the section in thai lorin you impose restrictions upon the . ivtt 'authonucs of the I nitcu Slates never beiore proposed in any Congress by any legisla.or since this govern ment began. 1 say, tl.ercioie, in the snapo you propose tliis n is much the w oi st of all your riders.-' In the be gnmmi; of this eonie.l we understood ihat you desired only to gel the army away Iroin the polis. As that wouul h: illleav o the civil officers full power to keep the peace at the sills. 1 thought it was the least iniioitaiit and the least dangerous of your demands, but as you have put it here it is the musl danger ous. If you re-enact it in the shajte preseiiUsl" it becomes a later law than the Supervisors' and Marshals' law. and pro tauto repeals the latter. As it stands now on the statute book it is tho earlier statute, and is pro tanto itself repealed by the harmless, so far as it re lates to civil olliccrs. liui if you put it in here you deny the power oi the mar shals ot the L "nited States to perform their duties win-never a l iot may re (juirc the ise oi an armed j os e. It was in jniisiiance oi una change that Mr. Conger, who had originally declared his party's determination to prevent the introduction of repealing Uills. yesterday guaranteed that if the Democrats would bring in bills repeal ing the statutes enure Kepublicans would support theiu. ON T11E DEMOCRATIC SIDE. On the Democratic side the debate developed the fact there was two opin ions among members to the course that ought to be pursued in case the Presi dent vetoes either or ooth lite bills. One part of the Democratic members hold w ith Mr. Tucker s declaraiion on Fri day that in such a case the appropria tion should be allowed to fali; another very considerably and increasing num ber" hold that this course would uo un- wise and improper, and are detorniined that the Appropriation bills . shall be passed in any event, and if the bilts with the riders are vetoed the political rejeois siiail be brought iu soparate bins. They are so determined iu this that no douot thoy wiu carry their party with them in this direction, but, it uiey do not, there will I enough Democrats voting w ith the liopuojicans to pass me Aonroru-iation bills pure and simple, to mako these secure in any contingen cy. 1 his fact, "which is now sulllcieiit- u- well Known, nuts aside all the lool- ish Republican thunder about 'revolu tion and coercing ine i resiueui which has been fulminated from here .1. .1... ... . .. I . . . ....wIa ill speeches wnie;i loose no mwv them are already ashamed ol. ACTION IN CAUCUS. The follow ing accurate statement has some interest in this connection, iu ti.A orisrinal caucus to arrange tho Dem ocratic programme Mr. S. S. Cox mov ed thai a bin repealing mu ouoo. lotis statutes sho.ild uu pro-onted sepa rately and independently of the appro priation bills. This, vvku other piopo sitious, was referred to the eonimi.iee, which conferred with a line committee from the Senate caucus. In tuat cau cus Mr. C ox again renewed his prop) sition, but Mr. living, of Ohio; otlered au amendment that tne repealing stat utes should be attached to the Appro priation bills.- Warm discussion on tins point followed, lasting seven hour Sena. or Thurman made a strong speech f..r Kwinif's Dionositioii. wiiiie senator iviivto ii i.ir l.iiid. aiid Kernaii. of New York, suj)ported.Mr. Cox. Evviug proiosiiion won, how ev er, but the ar guments reveaUd wide debateable u round ami . much dilierence of opinion. Yesterday, previous to the passage of the bill, Mr. Cox made a bignincaut inquiry of Messrs. Conger and Garfield if they would accept the bills separately, ami he suggested that the Senate would return them as sepa rate bills-ill case tho President should tiwim on the A uurourialioii bills; Senator Hansom ami others sitting near Mr. Cox at the time agreed witii him after he had taken his seat, and thought hi plan wise. . After all, however, there are consul eratious of great importance which should make the President hesitate be fore vetoing tho appropriation bills, i Mhmii.i mnWo triM Democratic Sena- Avtremelv caretui so to amend the .. .i;, ;..,.i ridrs as to remove from them all reasonable objections on the part of the President. IFFECr OF THE VETO. The best men of both parties must ... nmiAnrnd session will, work very serious injury to the real interest of the counirv. v x i iji.iml-. . . . . i. nwlAncr tha "session . Will. pwrn'"; f ""-a , , -.yen with the most reasonable condact 0a both uiaes, auu w - blv open the door for general legisla tionan event which neither the Presi dent nor the Secretary of the Treasury can wish to bring about, and which sensible men of both parties has so far united to avoid. ' Congress has now been in extra session nearly three weeks, and by the watchful and persis tent etl'orts of its wiser heads nearly all legislation, except that for which it was specially convened, has been prevented. The House has adjourned over three Mondays sueeessively.vvhicb are private bill days, to protect itself aud the coun try from the avalanche of bills that will inevitably be poured in on the first call of States and Territories. The Speaker has so Air diclined to announce the standing committees and all general legislation has been successfully block ed" It is evidently the desire of the House to confine its work to the pas sage of the two appropriation bills, and, if these are approved by the President, to adjourn, leaving all other business to aw:ait the December session. For the President to veto the two appropriation bills which will be sent him would be to make a prolonged session almost in evitable and would open the door to general legislation, disturding to tho whole country. ACTION OF THK SENATE. There is little doubt that the debate in the Senate will lead to s$cb. modifi cations of tho rider on the Army bill as may be sho.w n to be necessary to ac complish the purpose to keep troops from the polls in anticipation of disor ders, and to do more than this, suul with such modification, the President will scarcely venture on a veto of a measure which was approved by the leaders of his party at the last session, and now again, and the tacking of which to the Army bill has been declared by General Jarfield himself to be an order ly ami. constitutional proceeding. FRREXT OPIXIOXS. The President's Back -bone. Atlanta Constitution. The organs are engaged in a nervous attempt to manufacture backbone for Mr. Hayes. But in this they are mak ing their usual mistake. If he has any backbone at all, he will do his duty. Hash Warmed Over. Cincinnati Commercial. Lively times yesterday in the house ! Old John Brown's bodv was not allow ed any longer to liiolder in the ground but he was dragged out and put to inarching. Then we heard from Fort Sumter and bleeding -Kansas. Revolntion Either Way. Wash. Tost. It was "revolution" for the Confede rates to leave the Capitol and it is"revo lu'io'i" for them to come back. This is the K ulical Southern idea con densed. He Might, Out Me Hasn't. Wash. Post. Jumes Gordon Rennett is entertain ing w hole acres of titled people in Eng land who probably eat his dinners and wonder w here the d I he camo from. A man with Bennett's means and op- Mirtunities might make his mark in the w rld if he had the wit or lnclina- ti n t properly use tho one or take aa vainage of the other. But ho hasn't. Of Course They Want it. Wlls. n Advance. The Kenublicans of course desire the retention of the bayonet law . because by its atrency, they hope to be able to steal the Presidency again in imj. Rnt It Depend. Wash. Gazette. Hayes is happy because he has a "party at his back" Now it depends i great deal on the serenity of the mind is to what a party is doing at one's back: if it should be applying its boot to any part of the body, the results are not satislaetorv. ltutler's Tear Drops. Wash, flassette. The tears that General Butler shed hen speaking of his relations with vv iinon. w ere caught bv an enterprising in in from Ohio, and will be rallied otl to get nil a torchlight procession wneu he leaves tow n. Valuable as Seare-C'rona. Wash. Gazette. G.irtielil Vrv. Conner and other Radical elect-ricities would be valuable as patent "scare-crows" or "crow anni- hilators" in a corn-field ; but they ain t worth a rent as Congressional "lntinn dators." All "Dived Out." Concord Sun. Tue Raleiirhe News is "diked out" in a new dress now. This paper, under Capt. llussey's editorial eye, and Jor dan's mechanical eye, w ill be second to no daily in the State. The Hired Man of the Republicans Talks. Okotona Southern States. Thurman has never endorsed the amendments. This is the biggest and brightest jewel in his senatorial crown. Let, tho federal brigadiers take back seats in the work of restoration. The republicans has no fun nor use for the . o . . 1. ....... (in. Laiieom -nireungs. i-ue r, kees don't it make you feel queer to think that we've defeated you lellovvs alter all, and captured the capital? The Plan of Cauipaig-n Uncertain. Philadelphia Chronicle. The organs say that the conteaeraie brigadiers have captured the capital. Congressman Frye, of Maine, speaking in tho name of the republican party, save the confederates have not captured the capital, and never will. It seems that the plan ot campai rn uau v o-n quite agreed upon. Too JInch Revolntion. Springfield Republican. 'Revolution" is in the air again at Washington. This is the-tMra" time In three years. There was one vvnen naves ;tK,i.Ar thn tmons. one wnen tne democrats passed the Potter resolution, and now Mr. Garfield waves his red fla'atthe approach ot anotner revo- tion." TheFtinny Garlieid. Washington rost. Mr Garfield is seldom facetious, but he must have meant to be very funny when he referred to the "immaculate record" of the republican party. Even the marine cavalry would have laughed immoderately had they been among his auditors. I nn for the Dark none. IMb.ur1.,r!: snorted ill. and Tilden .t .inwn to a whisper. v ith those two presidential candidates off the track there would be fun for the dark horses, there being about one from each state anil four from Ohio. A Red Hot Comparison. V V Clur A constitutional argument addressed to a Republican Congressman has about as much of the desired eifeet as would an attempt to propitiate the devil with holy water. Enter Poor Emera-ed Rich V ' star. ii inhn Jstiermai.'s star is creeu- inz toward the zenith. :-eiiator Bayard sa ve a good word for his financial nian .iment What a pity that Wendell pfiilinna should have summed up John' honesty o terseiy: no 7i- feirt ffre poor man, and left it a kbona." t hnnAutv ao tersely: "He' en- THE SAMPSON HORROR. A WIFE POISONED BY BAND. HER ni- Mrs. nnrtha ftpell- The Wife Is slrfc l rv . . ' ...I I . The Pills The Liquid and the Corpse. Goldsboro Messenger. Clinton, X. C, April 2, 179. The litest excitement in this county is in regard to the death of Mrs. Martha Spell, in Little Coharie township, Thursday morning, the Tth ultimore. Her murderer was, without doubt, her husband, W. T. Spell, sort of mechanic and "man of all trades," who is about thirty, 5 feet 10, erect, 150 avoirdupois, has black hair and beard, and a pleasing address. The facts in the case are briefly as follows: Spell, whose house stands immediately on the stage road leading from Clinton to Fayetteville, about fif teen miles from the former place, on the morning of the tragedy called on Dr. Holiday, the physician of the neigh borhood, to obtain medicine for the de ceased. Dr. H. prescribed and gave pills, and Spell at once returned home. Beaching home he gave his wife a li quid, showing her the quantity the doc tor had prescribed as a dose, and she immediately took it as directed. Fif teen minutes after swallowi.no it SIIK vvas a-cop.psk. The above facts, alone with other sus picious circumstances, being reported to the Coroner, Dr. Holmes, he sum moned a jury who assembled at the residence of the deceased, on Monday morning last, and rendered a rerdict that, "Mrs. Martha Spell came to her death from the effects of poison swal lowed at the instance of her husband, W. T. Spell, and her death vvas premedi tated," or words to that effect. Spell vvas presont when the investigation !e gan, but seeing the evidence of his guilt rapidly accumulating, he "folded his tent like ttu Arab, and silently stole (ran) away. THK STOMACH OFTJIK DEAD WOMAN was forwarded to Prof. Redd, at the University, yesterday, and should the analysis reveal the presence of poison (strychnine is suspected,) it is the al most universal expressed wish of the good citizens of the county that His Excellency, Governor Jarvis, will, up on proper application, promptly offer, a suitable reward for the arrest of the murderer. SIIOT uun.v ix a CABIX. iiAIBOAT The Tragic Death of a Ken.ttiekian" Who Belonged to a Fight- I iiiff Family. Another bloody killing occurred dn the stearal)oat Vigo, Thursday, atGratfe, on the Kentucky river. At Lock port, four miles above, a young mau named Newt Abrams took passage, intending to go to Carrolton, on the Ohio - river. At Gratz.Ky., the boat was boarded by an old man named George Roberts, with his brother and nephew. An old feud existed betvveon Roberts and Abrams, which had once caused, a shocking aria-ay. As soon as Roberts, w ho was a stout, wiry man, able "loir any one, despite his sixty years, saw Abrams, he announced his intention of whipping him forthwith. With thin intention he caught Abrams, and at tempted to throw him down. Abrams backed into a corner, placed his head against Roberts' breast, and pushing him back attempted to draw a pistol from his hip pocKet. Roberts divined his purpose and caught his iirm, and the pair went around and around the cabin in their efforts to get 'he best of each otner. When hall way down the cabin Abrams succeeded in getting his pistol out of his pocket, and placing its muzzle under his adversary's left ear he discharged the contents of one of its chambers into his head. Roberts dropped, and as he was falling Abrams fired another chamber of his weapon, but the ball went wide of its mark, ow ing to Roberts" rolling over on the lloor. A moment later Abrams came forward to where the terror stricken passengers of the boat were huddled, smoKe sun curling from the muzzle of his pistol,and said, as he placed the weapon m his pocket: "Gentlemen, I am sorry, but this is something that l naa to ao soon er or later." No attempt to arrest hin was made, as he had acted in sell-defense. A doctor vvas summoned from the town, who examined the wounded man's injuries, and pronounced them fatal. Abrams then consulted with the officers and passengers of the boat, ask ing their auvice as to whether or not he should give himself up to the oil:- vers of the law. lie was aa viseu io re turn immediately to hie home and await results. He took the advice, and walked home. Roberts lived on a larm; a little way uacK irom me river, uovu a mile from town. When the boat ar rived at his landing he was p laced on a cot and sent to his house, where ne died soon after. The doctor whojat- tende'd the "dying man remarked to Borne of the passengers, as he pointed to a knoll back of the town: "Over be-t hind that hill lie twelve men who died with their boots on in fights with the Roberts familv." Abrams has not yet been arrested. Died at Raleigh on April 2nd. 179 MrCiiarles C. Lamb of Oxford N, Cj i To Mr. Martin Thompson. The thanks of the Ladies' Memorial Association, are tendered to the Raleigh Silver Cornet Hand, lor tneir kind offer of services at the Memorial Ceremonies, on the loth of May. . A. rAKTRlUHh. Raleigh, April 8. Secty. L. M. A. ( rjlXABElirPArTEKSOS. Madame BonaparteDirects theOmis sion of Bonaparto From Her Death Aotice. i Baltimore Dispatch to N. Y. Herald. The official obituary notice of the lady, who, upon presenting herself at the'Napoleonie Imperial palace, once told the attending chamberlain, "tell your master that I am Madame Bona parte," reads strangely as follows in the Baltimore papers : Pattkhson. On Friday, April 4, at twenty minutes past one P. M., Fliza beth Patterson, in the 9duf year of her rKven those charged with the "make itp"'of tiie various papers were astonf ished at this peculiar aiinoueement and the omission of the word "Bonaparte."! But, as a friend of the family stated, she died in the Presbyterian faith of the Pattersons, not in the Catholic faith of the Bonapartes, and the lady's wishes have therefore been religiously complied wih by her grand-children. The coffin plate also gives no iudica tion that the remains are those f the ladv who, during life, insisted upon beiiig called a Bonaparte. It reads as follows: ou(KHXOOX0000000rM00000 0 ELIZABETH PATTERSON, 0 0 Born February 6. 1 7ts, 0 0 Died April 4, 187'J, . 0 0 Aged 94 years. 0 0000000000000ot000( -Vonr eorresnondent had an interview X a no I eon Bona parte, grandson of the late Mme. Eliza beth Patterson Bonaparte, at his resi- i uoiko, . , , streets, tbie evening. The Jfolone I Jooked fatiSued "r n, devoted atten Aarna mmer or rarK ana teuiro - . . ntL , iOionei dence at the. death-bed of his, grand mother. I spoke to him in reference to the omission of Bonaparte in the Madame' s death notice. . Colonel Bonaparte. Really I have never given the matter a thought., ' "It is also 'Elizabeth Patterson' on the funeral invitations and her coffin plate," I said. - i Colonel Bonaparte. You, no doubt, know that whenever a lady is divorced in America she takes again her maiden name ? "Then Mme. Bonaparte was divorce ed ?" Colonel Bonaparte. Most certainly. If you will take the trouble to go to Annapolis you will see a record of the div orce, which was granted in January, 1813. That is the date, I think, but anyhow, she was divorced. She signed all her legal documents "Elizabeth Patterson." "But did she not sign all the receipts of her pension from Louis Napoleon 'Mine. Bonapaparte ?' " Colonel Bonaparte. Ah 1 that was be fore my time. . "You know she vvas fond of being called Bonaparte. I should think you would have left that to her name to the last?" : Colonel Bonaparte. As I have said before, thai matters but little. She is known ail over this country and Europe as Mme. Bonaparte and anything done now cannot change that y but really X. have not thought much of the matter. In regard tothe funeral Colonel Bo naparte said i "It will be very privatie. Only her family and one or two friends are to be invited the families of her granduncles, the Pattersons, Mix. Clarke, a relative, and some few others about fifty in all. There will . be no flowers, as she objected greatly to them. The funeral invitation is writ ten on deep monrning paper and is as follows: A1. , you are respect fully invitod to attend the tuneral of Mine. Elizabeth Patterson, which will take place from the residence of her late son, No. 85 Park avenue, on Mon day next, April 7, at 10 A. M.' " i In an interview- with Dr. McKenzie he said that it was Mme. Bonaparte's desire to leave out the name of Bona parte in the death notices and on hqr coffin plate. She had always in her lifetime clung to the name of Bona parte. When some lew called and ad dressed her as Mrs. Patterson, she re fused to recognize them, as that nanie grayed upon her. Dr. Mchteuzie said : "I suppose it, must have been by tho wish of the grandsons that the name of Bonaparte was left out of the death no tices and also on her coffin. It is cus tomary when there is a separation to do that." The Docter said that there had been no divorce and Mme. Bona parte wished none. She had said to him. "I am so thankful the Pope did not annul! my marriage!" lie tolli her that the Pope had no authority, as the marriage was as valid as he could make it himself. Lots of "Revolutions. New York Run. Whenever a republican thief is caught and stopped from stealing, he cries revolution. If the army is forbid den to interfere with elections, it is revolution. If barbarons test-oaths are stricken trom the statute books, it is revolution, If free elections are de manded and creatures to control them are abolished, again it is revolution. They are likely to get plenty of such revolution beiore congress adjourns. A Zoological Romance. No sweeter girl ewe flever gnu Elian Betts Marten s daughter Sue. i With sable care, small, tayir waist. Aud iiss you'd gopher miles to taste; Bight, lambent eyes, like, the gazelle, Sheep pertly brought to bear ao well; i Ape pretty lass, it was avowed, Of w hom her maruio to be prouu. Door girl! I love her as my life, 1 And vowed to heifer for my w ile. Alas! a sailor, on the sly, Had cast on her nis wnetner eye. TTevaidmt) love for her was bosh, Aud my allcciiou I musquash. He'n dog her fovtsteeps everywhere, Auteaier in the easy chair; ITe'd setter around, this sailor chap, And point her out upon the map. i Where once a priate cruiser boar Him captive to a shore. Tho enipl cantaiii far outdid The vaks and crimes of Robert Kid. i He oft would whale .lack with the eat And say: "My buck,doe you like tiiat?" What makes vou statr around so; say ! The catamount to something, hey?" ! Then he would seril it with an oath. Aud sav: " You are a' lazy sloth . , , f T il starve vou down, ihy sailor fine, Until for beef and porcupine!" j v H ttiirv hoarse with fiendish laughter' Would say: "Henceforth, mind whaf girafletar: In short, the many riks he ran Might well alarm a braver man. Then-he was wrecked and castor shore While feebly clinging to aima; ; II vena cleft among the rocks j He er pt, sans shores and minns ox. ; And when he won Id goat to bed. He had to lion leaves instead. t Then she would say with troubled face! "How koodoo liv e in such a place. t And siraitway into tears would melt, And say; 'How badger must have felt, j While he, the brute, woodchuck her? chin, And sav: "Ave-aye; lass!" and grin. . - v 1 Excuse these tears. It s over now; There's naught like greifthe hart can cow. .loi-tuss'il her to be his. and she She gave Jackal, and jilted me. And now. alas! the little minks Is bound to him with Hvmau's lynx. Pool A Hunt. Attention is directed to the advert tLsement of Pool iV. Hunt, tho most el tensive turbine water wheel builders in the country. This linn has been in successful operation for the past thirty six years, and from the smallest be idnniiiir have grown to be on of the best known engine, water-wheel and mill bailders in the United States. There are nearly ten thousand ot their wheels in use and with the great re duction made in prices last month thev expect to do a largely increased business this year. They invite cor resiondence from all in want of ma chinery and wiil send their large new pampmei iree 4 mm a o"aa Tho Ttantists In Chanel Hill hold sun rise prayer meetings. Business on the Hill is improving very much. The Pieibyteriaa church at the University has been grea-tlr lmproveir lately. County Commissione -a. All the members present. Business began at 10 a. in. . ; Mr. Snow addressed a letter declining the tender made him of Attorney for the Bond. Mr. E. R. Stamps was elected to the position. Sunday bills approved for building brides and keeping awny rafts. Exemption froin the payment of poll taxes in certain cases was granted. A Graded School tax election was ordored for May 5th. 1879, for the purpose of taking the sense of the voters of Raleigh town ship on tho question of levying one tenth of one per cent on property and 30 cents on the ioll for the support of graded schools in said township. W. D. Haywood Esq., was uppointd register for the election, which will be held under the State law. The Africans holding the city elec tion will also preside ovor this ejec tion. $ The following persons were appointed to hold the outside precent. -VV.- D. Haywood register; A. 11. Temple. ,W. 11. Martin, M. Mitchell, W. H. Bledsoe, inspectors. The county tax on subjects mention schedule B. was made Equal by that leviod by the State. The following men appointed assess ors of taxes. County at Large. Barton's Creek, Buck Horn, Cedar. Fork, House Creek, Little River, D. 'Honevcutt, M. B. Royster, C. li. Clark, A. M Adams, B. A. Perry, , M. Whittey, ' Jno. W. Smith, J. I). Ballentain, J. J. Duun, W. J. Ward, J. T. Nicholas, L. D. Williams, Thos. J. Johns, J. R. Rogers, J. B. Strain, E. E. Gill, : A. C. Council. Marks Creek, . . Middle Creek, Neuse River, New Light, Oak Grove. Panther Branch, St. Marys, St. Matthews, HwiftCreek, Wake Forest, While Oak. Raleigh,. , , . The asssessors will meet .with the Board at its May meeting. Reliefs was given to' tho outsido poor and some important school business transacted when the Board adjourned to meet this morning at 10 o'clock. , I". R. CominisMloncrNji'ourt. Charles Upchurch and Frank -Fuller, both colored, were tried for selling 11 lict whiskey; both were dismissed, Jos. Fuller, on a charge of selling un stamped tobacco in Johnston county; Trial suspended until another witness from Johnston county could be heard from. Anderson Bradly from Harnett coun ty, on a charge of retailing unstamped tobacco in his possession, w as held for trial in a bond of fr."u0. lie was also trial for refusing to permit a Revenue officer to enter his promises same dis position made of this as former case. Tho Commissioner has his hands, room, mouth and heart full of tho al 1 edged misdeeds of these iuuocent moonshiners. Another bevy come up to-day for trial. Lamp Postal Letter Boxes. These have proven a groai conven ience to Raleigh. Tho mail is taken out of them by a carrier, twice daily, at six a. m. and one p. m., except Sunday, when it is only collected at one p. ni. The number of boxes, hoWevtr, should be increased from fouateen to at loast twenty-four to give general accomoda tion. Treasury Notes, April tl. l7l. The Weed Sewing Machine Co., of Hartford, Connecticut, through their agent, Mr. Geo. C. Badger, lias taken out license to sell its sew ing machines throughout the State. This is the sec ond license issued under the present law. A drummer's license wiis issued to Wisenfield A. Co., Baltimore, Md.; Hall Bros., of Hickory, N. C, who paid fclOO each for the privilege. The Treasurer rec eived .11,800 in old bonds for funding. Our country is getting to be fearfully alarming, the average of life being les sened everv year, without any reason able realise, death resulting generally from the most insigiilicant organ. At this season of the year especially, a cold is such a eoiTimoii thing that iu the hur ry of every dav life we are apt to over look the dangers attending it and olten find too late that a fever or lung trouble has already set in. Thousands lose their lives in this way every winter, while had Bosch oVs German Syrup been taken, a cure would have resulted, and a large bill from a doctor been avoided. For all diseases of the throat hen's German Svnip has proved itself to be tho greatest dis- CO Verv ot Its KlllCl in muuiciue. . ivvery Druggist iu this country will toll you of its' wonderful clleet. Over UW.Ouo bottiesrsoid last year without a single failure known. dAw tf. Just the Plnee. r -.o.is.v i h tailor 1ms won an env4- i.' v . . . - ..... .. able reputation in his business, and i " . - il... ..I,.!., lit oiiil Ill'ltO. ueserves n, ioi im -, rial of his suits are not excelled. vvi,r.n this i added modcrato'oharg- es, it is not surprising that hi.roms over Tucker's store are often visited by customers. Pay him a vlsu aim in spect his stock and you win no pioaseu with prices anu goons. In alll diseases of the kldnC3's the best known romodv is the regular use oT the famous Bulla lo Lithla water from spring number 2. It acts promptly and effectually, noes not uner m other waters and to those who suffer from kindney complaints- it is an IndU pensibie necessity. For sale by all first class dmgirist. , i For Rent. A dwelling house in the city of Ral eigh. Seven "rooms, in good repair with necessary out nouses, r or parncu- far rr - AAa.....n. lars apply to vV. H. Pace, Attorney at Law. Uua muiI locksmiths. Brock well A King, near iho roar of the U. S. Court House, on Salisbury s'reet, are prepared to repair in flrst chiss stvle, Breech-loading and Muzzle loading Siiot Guns and fire arms f every description. They also repair Door Locks, Trunk Locks, and locks of all patterns. Umbrellas, Parasols. Flu ting machines, and everything in the line of small hardware, either brass, steel or iron. Sign and. Bell hanging a specialty. Orders from a distance will receive 'special attention. Keys fitted w residences on short notice.. All work atarranted. Martin A' Osborne. Just received at their grain and feed sto;e Western North Carolina R. R. iIe4ot. . lot mi bus. Oats. 1000 i drn. 9 Mm lb Timothy Hay. 20000 N. C. Hay. 20000 ' Meal. 1 car load oT Shingles, Promptly delivered any w here in the city. " w ia-o Roller Mkating-. . The skating Rink will be open this week on Tuesday and Friday nights only.
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