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1 - r . rn ! ' A '.' ALEIGH ' 4 H VOL. XV.-4!) RALEIGH, X. C, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1879 $5.00 PER ANNUM. R News ' . ; k : A VETO PROBABLE. TIICTCirURABII NIVN4 irTO lh f IU U A M LC TO-D A V . fran (be Pmldtal I ftut In T WuiJiim, I), C. April JO The l-et information obtainable on theitub- jevt of the consideration given by the Preaident nl the memlers of the "hi- inet oQ U arnjY bill i to tlie effect that it will be vetoed.' Tne meml-crn of the administration intimate that the Cabinet is urunimou in favoring uch an action and that a xe:o uiestaage w ill b ent to the HouMto-tiiorrow. WAaUIaOTo. T Piri IrrUl la tll WrvleBlll Other aaall Mailer. VAHtSfuTo. April The .Senate Iuul uptod naei me iioum joint res olution to repeal certain daue in the Sutvdrr tivil appropriation act ol Marco ki It UMkM appropriation! for tb extension of military telegraph tine in Montana and Texas and re- the authority heretofore given to the Secretary of War to lc;ue water i4wer at Molina to Moline Power r tiuixnr. The Senate then pnced- t-I U the consideration of Pendleton's bill irivin evt on the floor of the wnte and Hou to the heads of de triment and that gentleman made nM'hta it advocacy. Morril followed Pendleton ppoinj ilie lill which wae on motion laid on the tablelo be called up hereafter. rxTt-The Legislative, Executive And Jliriary appropriation bill m rr.-eive.! from the House and referred I . the corn tn lite on appropriations. The Senate confirmed tho nomina tion of J a rue M. Melton a- collector of internal revenue for the nn.l ds- in it of Tennessee. A Bis I'leod In TfiM. Ilt sn, April '-T.-A terrible tUwl ha- x isited tbh citr on Saturday. The water roee to twelve inchc from a. in. i. a. m., and continued rising all d.ix The old cemetery was almost entirely tnun ived. and many railing around the crae wero trn away ami carried in :rcum. Manv builliii.r were nti-inenred and the resident drowned. imi IVt u avenue thn water rrse from four to ten feel in the dw eliiiikr". Many b-u-c floated away and other are still in danger. The lone bridge aeries the I .tvnn on Prton street is moiueuiari lv expected to succumb to the pressure of accumulated drill. Warehouse!, foundries, stores. etc.. are nood-d. All the buildings on the outh iie. from the corner of Mam and "ominer-e streeia to Travis utreei. have their re-4r nd- and ellar filled. Madden Death In 'nre. Waiiiisuhis, April '-- inri iuhii Kuu Clark.of ioxva.dicd suddenly in this city thin afternoon. He was in good health yeaierdav and wan c;zcd UiL morninrfat :t oclo.'k with nieuin K"irt hUh teimili-itcl I'aUily al i tint npriii'ii. rm AuiuiaU In ool I'llghl. W v&HlSiiros. April . The aKrioul tural reports lor April show that all cIasjs of farm animals has tsune out of winter quarters in an nnnsually .ho.hI condition. Tis:i.scs were not of ery jtreateatent or v irulciicv, except ainon hor in the suth and West. l-aree looses from o-vlled ho cholera are rejorted in some ountics, but in most of the-e cases the mortality an priia lv b tnu-l tn Isad sanitary coduition and to the .letlriency of .linc The Kal(rUa t'rlnee. Tikviiva, April Trie assembly of uo'.at.tew to elect a prtn- e ui Ltulana ul meet to-morrow. The Huliranun Keneraily favor t'rice lKxlnao:t Kor sakotT or ien. InatiefT. They aay that Prince Ilattertrie w ill only be noium ttsl if the oUiers refuse. It is luiproha bl that the Mwers who have the riht of v eto would appro o of any Hussian temc ele-te.l. Arrest ef fee man helailata. La?isjSt April i Three medical lu- denta named lierewui, A roUusou anil l.ielerinann. all Jewa, have been con victed io llerliu and sentenced to Im prisonment for disturlung- the public order and mainlainni- ts-ret connei--tions, Liebermann, under alias Arthur Freeman, is counectl with leading aocialista in Kurojj and America, and was on his way to S itcrland l"rvm Vifniu,' wbouo lw? had been expelled after ttmnths of inipr.soninem. w hen he was seixsi and tai.cn to llerliu on a--suinl of his communication w ith iere wit and Arta'iurteii, His Ititon showed his pJan loreaiabliahiaK in be r I in a se. lion of N'ihflKta to s-t as aa..rt of utation between Ixindou and Su IVtersbure. revolutionista. nas-esv HlsweeU frasn the fallows. York, Pa.. Apnl 4Ve-rKe Kinsi. convicted ou Friday last of muder m the first derree, for killing his wire, committed suicide in bis cell thia morn ing, by cutting his throat with a razor, and then hanging biuilf w ith a piece of rope and a towel. Death ef general Urswnlss. Kmoxville. Tv.sx, April 1?. (Jon. James P. Hrownlow. late cavalry offi cer In the Lulled States Army, sj.ds sort of ex-Senator Brownlow, died at his mother's residence here list Satur day algal. Hht remains were takesi to Franklin to-day for interment. sTABVATlOX AD DE4TII. A Terrlhle fltate of Arfalrs) In Weroeesv Thensands Dylnc of II miff r. Loxist:, April 2!. A correspondent writing from Mnpah Mocador. Moroc co, states that more than n.nim persons hare perished in that tow n from hun ger. There were dead or dying lying in every slreet in and out of the town. The dead were buried not more than one spau deep, and the dogs uncov ered the earth- and fed on the bodice. Small pox, ineaalea, cholera ami typhoid fever, the latter now rag ing, have auvesled each other. In Mullah, or the Jewish quarter, everv house has tteen turned into a hospital, starvation was not confined to men. fax tie, camels, horses. as.ses. sheep and Iooltry have all, or nearly all perished, ut the dogs have survived, and. In their Insatiable hiuiger, finding no fsxl in the towns, and abandoned by their masters, wlio are either dead or left their v illages in search of food to feed on hu man tW-eh, Hoaming over the country in bauds of Ji. ;j) or thev sometimes even attack any human being they met and devour him. Some twenty "men, women and children were eaten up within one mite of the town. The Miner Hated. WiLKKasaiuuc, PaApril:X AU.ut Ibur thousand persons visited the scene of the Sugar Notch disaster to-day. The principal tunnel Into the vein of coal has beam driven a distant of about &i feet, but thegangwuv has not vet Itsjti rca4 hel. It is lelicved that the g-ang- a in w men tne iuriet men are nu prtsonod is tilicl with water at leicst four teet deep. The pumjo are kept wording slediiy, and are decnjasitig ii:e volume or water to some extent. ritiLADKLrin v. April "JS. a Wllkos- ivirre sieciai savs : i ne enorrs to rescue the men imprisoned In the mine at No. K slope has proved successful. At nine o'clock this morning the men were reached nud all taken out alive and well but sutlcriiig much from exhaus tion ami wan: of lood. Thev were im- piLsoued over four davs. Kclicts of lalsircrs have b-eu coitsi.mtlr at work night and day. and finally these siic- i-ssiei in mtKing a cnannei tnrougn a tiftv foot blaak of is ml. The imprisoned men had built a tire and MUsUilmsJ themseivesoii tne meal ol a mule which was caught with them in the fall. The stream of w ater running through the mine quenched their thirst and thev were found in grod condition lutving suffered v ery little from their confinement. Cien. Alfred Hull Dead. w . . t- ..ui, Anril A soecial from l'nrlhnil. urtv.ii. .toooillTces Hie le-ith of tJeueral Alfred Bully, of the lf,it..l s.tt. Artnv. ut van touxers b-vr racks. Cnrnmerelal Ii is reported that J. tJouM, of New York aldts one million dollars to his .-ink &,ssont tx- the resiit rne in Kansas Pacific seiurities Last week. Th New York Sun savs that it Is quite w ithin the limits of probability. not tosar possiiMiuy, mn m j ' from now. the interest on the 4 ts?r cents will le paid in silver, the prox is- lons of their issue ls?iiig tuat tne pnn cii.al and ifiterest t' le payable in com ... i : l .... w hie ii mens eitner goin pr nnrr. At A'l itita. ia.. a few- days ago. a eol- sl v,.msii x isitetl the olMec of the Stiiic I casurer, and depositing in voui tne result of her own savings, -.L.d for its worth In 4 iht cent Geor gia ;.onds, an. I declaring at the same time thai she "wanted to put it into a shipv where it xvoiiid Iteaileand at the same tune increase. ii i -,ild of northern Texas hx- the tllAs Herald thai the tillers of the soil there make far more provisions than thev have anv use for; always have ..trn Mil d meat for sale, and their cattle oi. I .sit ton crots ctune in as cleiir profit. Thev are rapi.lly growing weaitnv , an-i in less than tilteeu Tears ironi now North Texas will be as prosperous as the blue-gra.ss region oi ueniucav nn was in its palnnesi days. Tha l'niil States I'ircuit t'ourt at Philadelphia has rendered a decision xvhich xx til not tend to jopulari.e com- mercial agencies with the imsiness commuuitv. A business nouse in mm citv. trust imr to the rcKrt of an agency gaxo credit to a man w htse assetis xxere not etiual to one ier cent of his liabili ties. The agt-ncx was -uei, anil inc i-ourt uruitcil a ucilion for noti suit. holding that the agency was noi uaoie : . . . i 1. 1 . tor the loss call! iV lis inxes.ors lufornxatlon. In New 'rk the ixth Avenue t.rotsrtv ho ders thtnK that, owing 10 tne dci.rts-i.it iou ol renu. causcil by the elevated railroad, tneir taxes anouiu i . . . i "i i i - re-luc-!. With this in viexv a nuniner of them c-.Uled n the tax commission ers. They siiil their property had de creased t'hirt v-lliree per ceut on ac- count of noise alone, and that it was liilMcult to rent a vacant house at all. A house which had rented for i XR) w as now let lor J-"iis. and another that cost t,oun three years ago. has jut been sold for etc. the com missioners said thev xxould give the matter their attcntiou. Ioxxa begins to realize that Foreign capital, w hile it liasteileJ tho Jevelop- m..nt of her resources, now iirovee a serious drain. lftlie seven inousami exen hundred and ninety-nine hold ers of her rluO.oou.lM) of railroad stocks . 1 I a !--... I i w ilk I llA VilfA and isxinis, mix i.vj mo and thev oniv own Jl.-Mi.oivt. Lite and iir in.iir-anee als have taken over V,ouo.inaj in premiums out of the State in the last fourar live years, of which altoot ct.iuu.iss only was returned -in pavineiil of biases. Hut low a rmuat not Us-omo restive. I'apital is only accu mulated br long and patient industry-. and the F-astern Stated have fairly w reached theirs from a far Ioks fertile soil and sloxvly increasing manufac tures. A special dispatch by cable to the New York Herald gives a gloomy ac- couut of tho commerce of Knglaud xvith China. It declares Kngland s foreign trade to l-e iti as unsoiintl a state as her home commercial and manufacturing interest. The Angio-inaiaJi uanws ar in a mst unsatisfactory condition. Knglami's trade w ith hina. whlcti lias l'eii l-creasing steadily year by year. It in now said by uiwrchautsto lie :isgood as altogether iiropisl, owing to the lack of profits on t he business and the unsatisfactory state oi r.ngianu s reia- ti.ma with Cliina. In fact It seem probable that Kngland s trade with China will have to be atutmloued. for it isadmittevl that American opjiosition and enterprise have entirely killed Knglish rivalry in mat pari oi me world. The N. Y. World publisher soveral col umns of retsxrts from business centres all over the United States, show ing a state of activity in the commercial world which is truly gratifying. Edi torially, that paper'says: Kverv pbvsicnn knows that the con sciousness of cenvalesceuce and faith in Its realitv mark the passage of the crisis in perilous disorders, und ev ery isditical ecououust knows that hard times have done their worst w hen the shadows of hard times fieglns to roll away from the homes and hearts of ine.i. Our survey shoxvs that spindles. loom, workshops of all kinds are at work all over the countiy in the spring of 179 as they have not been for five tsiusoculixe vears before. Capital is more than abundant. Of latior there neither is nor likelx- to be anx lack. In the course of these five years, too. new general urn has iased from youth into manhood, trained under more severe conditions than those which surrounded the generation ma tured netween 1SW and rST:t, and ready with new spirit and undaunted hope, to take hold energetically upon the great adventure of life. "The forces which press the country upward and onward are gatnerlng neaa uauy, ana thev are more likely to toss the isditi- cal schemers and mischief-makers w ho ignore theui high and drv uon the beaches than thev are to ls repressed and defaated of their legitiutate career by any cJauiors, however noisy, or anv contrivances how ever cunniug. (Vuipiltur) VetlasT " There is a bill now lie fore the I.e-'is- lature of TennessH to compel citizens to exercise the elective ftaucliise. Any citizen who shall fail u vote for three consecutive elections is deemed guilty of a mistlemeajtor, fined fifty dollars disfranchise! ami declared ineligible to otllc'. On the same theory the reisat- . .aa er wno si una tne Dauoi-noxes at everv electlou ought to roceive a chroino as a prize for the noble manner in which he perform his duty as an American citi zen. . NEWS OF THE STATE. JOH MfAW K K A t'OJITKT HH'KOKY. KILLED . remarkable Famllr - To the sium- inlt oT the Rtdfe A Charlotte .nan Killed Instautlj-. Craven. New bern Nutshell: A beautiful new engine whs turned out at the shops of the A. .t N. (' It. K. last Satunlav. Lenoir. Newlaru.Nutahell: lobe Stanlv. a negro, xmseent lo tin .fetutauuary tor b vears:, tor art attemm to- emnnuv rape opon lola lardyr-. wiiiM goi la years of age. . - . I . " Wsvyne. (ioldslsro Messenger: The colored llaotist of North Carolina protsjse to establish an Academy of high grade ill this tow u. A txvo H40yCTftti6prj-in iViUhweWu part of the town to be used tor a masonic lodge, .vgaiu i is oar unpleasant luty to chronicle another Dusmess laume, iui Consu muiat ion on liiursuay iasi. r. Kd wards, made an assignmeni 10 .ur. Asher Edxvarda. We learn that tne lia bilities are estimated at H,0,and vis ible asset, only at .,,. as stoleu Iroiathe staiucsoi .mi. It. Parker at Averysooro, on me nui M ihA '1st instant, and im-tsi io iuis v , tAitfn u here it xv as loumi in session of eennam r.xeievt, " iiad thief r a horse fnr the mule. The ha-uot vet been taken. w Hanover. ii-ji...!....i tar- The Chlsj r ear V lliiiioH1" . T..r.:.,..o Factory, vxtiicll xve nave u.c.i tinned as be.ng"m course of " Chcsmit, between Sixth ami seventh X " . .1. i.XIllotiMl SO iimwi is air can x aooi.i. vv,w.r. - ... , - . . . .- . ..,.,...1 r,rlh. l.UllUlllg IS nimrinw, and he uiachincry will iwi'Ui mor who - .... f.rw ivrmiinia OL ..i.wtii.l we hone, to reap a r.cu r i . ju3-i" -' im u . . .. ... molieers 111 u.m.u.-. . v w . " . . . i.,,:., r-- vv-il..,-,.rton Of tobacctiiuaiiuiaciiiiu.il inform us thatoieratioiis will probably M.nnicnconext .week.- tenl-v wastheiOth anniversary lisi.iut.-ijw v " - . - r , 1 i.-. ii. i.i h eiiox suii' "' t-..itz..i -sf .tes and thougn no ion... rec ognition of tbo fact was made nere, members of the Order in groups pleas- i- ..Uhr itnl tlieex eill. e uuuci- stand from Postmaster Brink the $10 re funding certilicates will oniy oe is,.. for atM.ui forty davs longer, little more .i th A trotting race xvui ,.ii,.a at the Fair Orounds on Muy st. We understand that several fast horses are entered, and tlicre is .june respectable amount up. Cat aw ba. Vnu-ton i:nteriri.se : Peter K-ives, of Lincoln, and lbibt. Miaxv.oi .ew nan- over. lHin roiuren luuwtn i nv . i .1 .t.-w.ti mi t hn ir roxv ;auge Kailroid near iiicKory, i ii.t a tiirht one night tins woes., vx neu f-';.vw stabbed Shaw in tne siae vx nu a knife, killing him instantly. -.-v re n...rL-aide family has beeir raisDd in i .1. - Kork toxvnsnip. .aiaxv couu lv. Michael Propst was. married to nv a ii ire I before he Volunteered as 4 soldier in the xvar of Auey uau leven children, and a(l are living to day. The tihlest is aed seventy-two, ........ rrt . 1 and tne vouugesi uii. Ship in tlio laie beat that? franklin. KevLew: Franklin Henderson Su perior Court convened yesterday. Granville. Hen.lo.son lit view : It is rumored that we arc lo haxe alJanK. xv e are Hidlv in net I oi one and iiiniK u xxiu i,av 'handsomely. Tobacconist: Hen derson has no means of preventing tires, and the plae is m danger -Mr. Claude Hunter's large and factory is nearly finished. - handsome Mr. W. A. Cheatham proposes to open a large room iu his big nexv factory, for a town hall. It w ill meet a public want long felt and felt most seriously. Our Episcopal brethren aro about taking $teps to build a new cuurcn. .iuis me are abundantly able to do, having already a fund of several hundred dol lars on hand, the result and accumula tion of various public entertainments for several years past. I'nion. Monroe Enquirer: Since the last day of September last, over thirteen thousand ."mw bales of cotton have been wtiivrho 1 al the public weigher's plat form in this place.Thia is over 3,000 bales ihmih than for the same period last. Bea ton and speaks w ell lor the growth of Monroe as a cotton martei. ii is roughly estimated that Monroe con tams a.ooo inhabitants, but there are probably not more than 7.V) people in the place. Irdell. Charlotte Observer : Capt. the veteran conductor on the run be tween Charlotte and fJreenslxiro, was caught between two flat cars on the tide-track at the meeting point, night before, last and slightly injured. He came to the city yesterday with his train but was taken worse and may be laitl up for some time. Beginning to-morrow, trains on the Western North Carolina Railroad w ill run to the east eud of the big tunnel, and-regularly every day thereafter. All pas sengers, freight and mail for As-heville will be delivered at that point. The F'ederal Court in Statesville adjourned yesterday. Most of the cases tried were for fraud against government blocka- i ding, illicit distilling, selling whiskey aud tobacco without license, etc Over twenty persons were convicted on these charges, and a number of them were sentenced to confinement for a year and one dar, the terms of which sen tence requiie t iat the prisoners besent lo Albany penitentiary. -" Lincoln. Lincointon Progress: Iast Monday night Mr. 11. U. Onion's dwelling house was forcibly entered by some lawless villian, who evidently Inteudod to com mit a theftof no small insignificance. as the presence of chloroform was de tected after the thief had left. Mecklenburg. Charlotte Observer: XV. I,. Thorn burg, a well known carpenter of this city, met with a violent death near the Hrew er mine in South Carolina, twentv hve or thirty miles from Monroe. Tiie accident occurred Friday morning Friday night after the "family of Mr. Joseph Freeland, who lives in the sec tion of the citv, had retired to bed, a ersou passed along the street and fired a shot which was heard to strike the house. Mr. Freeland went to the front door xvith his pistol iu his hand, and as he opened it another shot was tired and the party went on without his iden tity having been distsovered. An Knrlneers Bravery and Prfsrsft of Mind. Charlotte Obssrvsr. Friday afternoon .while the train on the eastern division of the Carolina Central Hail road was on its trip from Wilmington to Chaflo tie, a most uno sual occurrence befel it. . Stopping at a certain point, the tender was filled with dry pine wood, and six miles fur ther on the whole mass of wood was dieox-ered by Engineer Cook to be iu a bright blaze. The material was so very inflammable that before the traiu could be stopped the flames had taken hold on the box -car next the engine. As quickly as this could be done tbe engine was uncoupled from the train, and leaving Conductor Everett, the traiu hands and passengers to fight the tire on the box-car, the engineer, in the intense heat generated by the burn ing pine, stood at his throttle and ran the engine three hundred yards up the road to a point where he knew he would hnd a pool of water on tne road side liy the time he had made this distance, the engine looked to the passengers in the rear like a sheet of flame ; the en gineer's clothes were ' scorched, his flesh blistered and the rosin drawn from the cab over his head ; but with buckets of water carried by the hreinan and wood-passer, Mr Cook finally ex tinguished tne names, inroxving the wood ox-erboard as fast as he could put out the fire ou it. nytne time it was nbi almost to the boili.o? point, but lor all that no damage had been done, the party behind having in the meantime extinguished the fire on the box-car. Engineer Cook's presence of mind in uncoupling the engine from the cars saved a great part of if not the entire train from destruction, and by sticking to his post on the engine and running it forxvnrd to where he could get water to p it out the tire, he prexented great daiuogc to the engine. Appointment of Cadet 7th Congres sional District. The conipctitory examination, insti tuted by the Hon. K. F. Armtield tor the selection of a Candidate for admis sion to West Point Academy, will take place in Statesville at the iiale Acade my on Saturday, tho 17th day of May beginning at 9 o'clock a. in. Every applicant must be a resident of the 7th Congressional District. QUAL1FIIATIONS. (Kxtract from Circular of War Department.) "Tho age for the admission of Cadets to the Academy is between seventeen and twenty-two years. Candidates must be at least five feet in height, and free from any infections or moral dis order, and, generally, from any de formity, disease or infirmity which may rentier them unfit for military service. lhey must be well versed m reading, in writing, including orthography, and in arithmetic, and have a knowledge of the elements of English grammar, of Descriptive geography, particularly of our oxvn coiinl rv and of the history of the I'nited States.'" John 11. Hill, ) Kev, J. B. Boonk, Examiners. M. F. Fref.land, j Dr. XV. M. Campbell, Medical Exam iner, Statesville, N. C, April lsth 1S7U. ;?-ir-Editors of papers published In 7th Congressional District and also others who have subscribers in said district, are requested to copy, and call attoniion to the above notice. .w York letter. Correspondence of the News. New York, April 2T. If it were not for thes9 few weeks of rest, from the end of April to the end of J une, just coming as a season or quiet between two seasons of dissipation, the life of a New York man of society or xx onian of society for that matter, would compare rather unfavorably with that of a galley si axe. We are even too heathenish to accept the respite offered by the Lenten period, and laugh at the few old fashioned houses where the weekly reception evening is discarded upon its approach. We are fan) il liar with some quaint old traditions of events whose anniversary occurs about this time, traditions we understand to have been held in veneration by our accentric progenitor, and theirs for some goneration back ; but then we know so much more than our grand fathers did; the faculty of reasoning has been developed to such a wonderful extent during the past century, that xve cannot be expected even in our adolco- cense to treat as sober, credible, history stories which gained the belief and lox e of men who really did not have nearly so uiucu to uo with their time. But that is a digression. The pleasure of asserting our disregard for holy things and seasons ending with Easter Sunday, we immediately become apathetic and are atlicted with an epidemic variously known as ennui, blase, or soring fever according to its severity. Not a few of us find relaxation in the occupa- , tion of lovemaking and become objects of admiration or suspicion (according to the reports of our eligibility) to papas and mammas. We are to be found, as far as regards the male por tion of us, standing round quays, with our hands in our pockets, watching the process of scraping and varnishing and painting, and carpentering our yachts are undergoing in anticipation of the summer ; whilst our other halves elect oceupy themselves with the appalling succession of unholy rites yclept "shopping," and with an endea vor by long drives in the park every afternoon to coax back to their cheeks the banished color of health. Only a few weeks to think in, and love in, and be natural iu, and then heigh for Sara- toga and Newport and artificial life Telltalk. again. Mexican Veteran' Turee Months' Pay. To correct the numerous erroneous reports that are afloat relative to what action the Treasury Department is going to take in the payment of the three months' pay provided for by the act of February I9,inquiiies w ere made with the following result : An advi sory board has been constituted consisting of the Second Control ler and Second and fourth Audi tors. There have been up to yes'erday afternoon 1,138 claims entered : of these 140 were from the Regular Army, the rest volunteers. Of the latter 8is have aire dy been disallowed, having been paid under the act of LS4S, and 100 are still under consideration. The claims from the Regular Army have been di vided into three classes 1st. Officers who have been continuously in the service and are noxv : 2d. Officers who joined the Confederacy, and 3d, heirs oi oincers v uu nave. uieu. since tne Mexican war, in service. No question has vet been submitted to the Attorney General in regard to this matter ; but the advisory board will prepare a test case, and it will be sent through the different offices for payment; and with the objections made, if any, will be given to the Attorney General for his decision as the meaning of limitation specified in the act granting this pay. ine .avy,noi naving received the ben efits of tlie act of 18-f wi :i, it is staled be paid at once. Rare C'lmnce. Mr. X. I j. Lankan, of Baltimore- Artist in Fresco and Eu-caustic Paint ing, is In our State again. He is at present frescoing Wake Forest College and will remain there a short time longer, for the purpose of soliciting ortlers. Parties who appreciate art can have work done on very reasonable terms. Orders may be left with Wrm. Simpson, the druggist, or communica tions sent to Wake Forest. P. S. Mr. A. Ij. I a. has frescoed Metropolitan Hall, also painted the sceneries 8 years ago, which will show its durability. ap29-3t THE ARMY BILL. n s ni' ati s rpio Tins wkitixci IS SET FORTH. Mill It be Vetoed?Ttie President's Private Secretary Says No. The Question ofRiarhu From our Washington correspondent. vyashixoto.v, D. C, April 20. The army bill passed the Senate Friday and was promptly signed by Mr. Thurman, r-res. pro tem of the Senate, and the Speaker of the Hoiise. The bill was at once placed before President Hayes, by Mr. Keuna, chairman of the committee on enrolled bills. I "Will it be vetoedf is now the absorbing question. When . i ., . .. . .. i"B special session was called it was published by authority, seemingly, that the President) Would not veto a section liftne army "bill prlyentirig the presence of "troops at tli3 polls." That authority was no less man Mr. Kogers, thePresident's private secretary. His statement has never been denied or q ues- tioned. Now the Republicans are con f'identthat he will Veto the bill.whilethe Democrats are divided in opinion. The President has the safnb constitu tional right to veto this bill that he has to veto an act changing the name of a steamboat. He has the same right to veto bills of the greatest importance as he has bills of the most minor import ance, lie nas me same rigm. io veio bills passed by overwhelming majori ties in both branches of Congress as he has to veto bills passed bv a majority of . . i . i a i lie. Tlie rresiqeni nas jusi as goou a ri.rht to disapprove of a bill passed by Congress as Congress has to pass such a bill. The Constitution places no limit ... - i . . . . nil on tne resmeni s veio power. iie matter is committed absolutely to the discretion of the Executive. "Every bill." savs the Constitution (Article 1, Section 7,) "xvhich shall have passed the House ot Representatives ana tne Senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President of the United S:ates. If he approves it he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, xvith his objections, to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal Rnd proceed to reconsider it." The President has! no direct initiative in matters of legislation, but no bill of which he disapproves or which he re fuses to sign can become u law but in one of txvo ways. If he refuses to sign the bill but fails to veto it within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it has been presented to him, it becomes the law the same as if he had signed it. And if disapproving of the bill and re t ii miner it' to the House in which it originated within the ten days' limit, two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives vote to pass the bill notwithstanding the President's objec tions, it becomes a law. So much is necessary to guard against misconception. Congress has a perfect right indeed, it is its duty to pass such bills as it thinks desirable. On the other hand, the President has a perfect right and indeed it is his duty to re turn to the House in which they origi nated such bills as he lor any reason in his official discretion disapproves of and thinks should not become law. And si r i bills cannot become a law unless txvo-thirds of both Houses agree in overruling the President s objec tions. There is no question of constitutional law involved in the measure. Congress has the power to limit the use of the armv in the wav proposed in the present "bill. This is conceded. Now the plainest mind can compre hend this. Just as plain is it, a veto means that the President has yielded to the sectional appeals and revolution tionarv efforts; of Garfield, Blaine and Conkling. There is noting in the bill to which he is opposed. The appropri ations are all that the administration desires, and the clause or political rider forbidding the use of troops at elections is a publicly favored principle by the President and the entire cabinet. It is admitted by all dispassionate peo ple that the policy of legislating by political riders on general appropria tion bills is vicious. So Republican loaders have taught xvhen they were in the minority, but they uniformly pro posed and passed such amendments xvhen in the majority. So the Democrats have taught when powerless,and when in the majority thev have uniformly supported and enforced such legislation. Conkling, liiaine and uarneia, and Hav es himself when a member of the House, earnestly favored such political riders in the days of Republican poxver, and the one now repealed by the pend ing army bill was enacted as a political rider with the support of all the leading Republicans, wrho haxe recently con vulsed themselves in their damnable efforts to convulse the country by de claring it revolutionary for the-Demo-crats to do what; they had done them selves. The intelligence that comes to us from Washington we believe is trust worthy. The President will veto the bill. Such action will be in keeping with the hypocraey, insincerity, incon sistency and cowardice that has disin guished his administration. In this event what will be the action of the Democratic majority? Shall crimina tion be answered by recrimination? One of the two things can be done: Either the appropriations can be con tinued by resolution until the regular session of Congress, or bills can be passed as separate measures repealling the test oath for jurors, repealing the authority to use Federal troops at elec tions and modifying the national elec tion laxvs so as to revoke all arbitrary powers of Federal officials. Tbe Cape Fear and Yadltiu Valley Rail Road. Greensboro Central Protestant. Two hundred hands w ill soon be em ployed on the Cape Fear Yadkin Val ley'Railroad, one hundred at this end, working in the direction of Egypt. Bar racks will be oil tho Distillery lot, near the Depot. It xvili be determined first at what point to make the crossing of Buffalo, and the engineer is noxv en gaged in the calculation. Portable sleeping quarters will be provided, so as to facilitate the work of removal from point to point. President Gray wilt be " a live factor in the work of building this important road. As to the location of ithe Mount Airxr end of the road, little or nothing is positively knoxvn. In the nature of things it is evident that the road will take the most direct way to Mount Airy, or de flect to right or left according to the weight of subscriptions assured in fur therance of the work from this side or that. Tbe JI an Who Didn't Vote. Detroit Free Press. The man who had fully made up his mind never to poll another vote was "around" at the; last election. He was heard of on our street corners and in groceries for a fortnight previous, and it did him a heap of good to have men reply to his assertion; - 40h, don't say that, Mr. Jorkins. We can't spare you from politics, indeed we can't." J . , But he was obstinate. He had delib- 4 erately and carfnlly made up his mind not to go near the polls, and no argu ments could move him. Even when men predicted that both parties would be smashed to pieces if Mr. Jorkins didn't x-ome out, he wouldn't relent. During the morning of election dav he expected callers influential citizens to entreat him for heaven's sake to come and poll his vote and save the mnntrv but they didn't call. He also expec ted to hear rumors that the whole elec tion had been declared "oil'" on account oi uis auseuce, out no such rumors l. i . came. Mr. Jorkina walked out after dinner- He trul v hoped that he would not Til AO f any of the candidates and be rushed to the polls, and hedid'nt meet any. He expected that every oitizen would wild ly.demand if he had voted vet. but not one of the hundreds he met said a word about election. On the contrary, thev talked about billious fever, catarrh, the weather, etc. Even wheu Mr. Jorkins accideutly walked past his ward polling place no one rushed for him. He went home and gave rders that no callers should be admitted, and had almost option, IiCw tr& 4),,,,,. W nn . . ' - said it was .a tttw i . " heard of. AAi Lu 1. A , "But I didn't vote,' persisted Mr. the party xx ent Jorkins. "I know, father; but right on, just the same. "It did?" "Yes, father; and xve saved the coun try." "You did ! Didn't they ask for me?" "Well. I heard one man ask for you, and some one told him vour vote wasn't worth sending a hack for, and so they didn't send." And now he rubs his hands and says: 'By the greatMogul! but didn't w e inst clean em outol, tneir boots .' Convocation of Raleigh. CJhapel Hill Ledger. This body will meet at tho Chapel of the Cross, in this place, on tho 30th inst. (Wednesday,) and continue its meet ings through that and the two follow ing days. Its Bession will begin on Wednesday with Morning Jfrayer ana the celebration of the Holy Communion at 11 o'clock, A. M. The sermon on this occasion will be preached by tne Rev. John E. C. Smedes, of Raleigh. The other public services of the Convo cation will bo pn Wednesday, lliurs day and Friday' evenings at 7 o'clock. The subjects to be presented and the speakers assigned for each topic, at these meetings, are given below: Wednesday exening Subject The Value of thk Soul. 1 Topic: "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his oxvn soul?" Rev. Dr. Mar shall. 2. What God has done for the soil. Rev. C. J. Curtis. 3. What man must do. Rev. Dr. Huske. Thursday Evening-Subject -Growth in Oeace." 1 Topic: The Christian life a slow, silont, gradual growth. Rev. A. S. Smith. 2. We grow in grace by obedience to God in all His appointments. Rev. J. E. C. Smedes. 3. Our conformity to the likeness of Christ, the measure of our growth. Rev. E. R. Rich. Friday Evening Subject In ptffer- EKCEASD CAKKT.KSHN USS IN THE CHRIS TIAN L.IFK. 1 Topic: Half-hearted service "No man can serve txvo masters." Rev. E. R. Rich. "2. Formality "This people draweth nigh me xvith their lips, but their heart is far from me." Rev. Dr. Huske. 3. Instability "Unstable as water thou shaft not excel. " Rev. Dr. Marshall. It will be seen that the subjects to be presen !e I ;ne t mo-t practical concern toeverv Christian nay, to every man; and it is hoped lh;vt the meeting of this body of clergy in our town may be a means of promoting the growth of true religiou and godliness. III Bl.Vf F. IH';Kll-MI iiKR? riil HaeUe.v IHdS hemtely Ieceive UimatMi the Public? Senior Rltine. with :i great flourish and show of sat isiaciiou, read in the Senate Friday, a telegram he had lust received from E. W. M. Mackcy, assis tant United States Attorney of South Carolina, to the elfect that the Harnwoll election cases had been dismissed on a technicality. Mr. Blaine read this dis patch to support a statement he had made in a discussion with Senator Voorhees the dav- before. J udge Bond, in his charge to the jury before whom the Barnxvell cases wore tried said there xx-ere five counts in the indictment. The lirst four charged the traxersors with conspiring to prex ent certain quaified voters from meeting peaceably for consultation in respect to public affairs. The counts, he said, "cannot be main tained," because the right to meet, etc., wras not a right guaranteed by the Con- I stitution ; it belonged to the people be fore the Constitution was adopted. These four counts were dismissed on a technicality, but iu regard to the other count Judge Bond said: "While the hlih count charges an of fense under the statute, i. e. the right to vote at an election without distinction of race or color, there is no proof offered to sustain it. "We think the jury in this case should find a verdict of not guilty." This last count was dismissed bo- cause there xvas no proof to sustain it, and the verv same witness who testified before the Teller committee test i lied before the court. The Negro Exodun. New Orleans Democrat. The leading colored men in Missis sippi appear to regard the colored exo dus from that Slate in a different light from our Louisiana darkies, for where as, the so-caiiea taoor convention, sit ting in this city last week, refused to respond to the call ot bov. Stone and a number of merchants and planters of this State and Mississippi, to send col ored delegates to a convention to moot in Vicksburg, May, 5, to consider and discuss this exodus movement, the Mississippi negroes hive generally answered the call, and xvill consequent ly be xx ell represented at the Vicksburg convention. It. is likely that the full discussion between these colored repre- . - .1 ! . seniaiixes ana iub w nue planters and merchants who will be present at the convention, will result in some irood and put an end to this silly emigration movement, xvnich the very negroes themselx'es cannot explain. The Californians are not the onlv people agitated over the Chinese ques tion. The citizens of British Columbia are becoming alarmed, hav ing already six thousana Chinese out of a popula tion of twenty-five thousand. They ap peal to tho Government at Ottawa for relief just as the Californians appealed to Washington, and precisely with tho same arguments and on the same grou nd. The people of Oregon also are up in action against the Chinese, and the Board of Trade at Portland hnv adopted a memorial to President Hayes, condemning strongly Chinese emigration to Oregon. Should the ne gro exodus from Louisiana continue we may possibly call upon the mnntrv on the Pacific slope to send hither it surplus of Mongolisms to till our cot- ton and cane fields. PRUSSIC ACID: ATr.RltlBLGTKAtlEDT. i r lz mi Mi ll daughter PttUbiuty of the Keeo very r the Little Clirt. Special Dispatch to the. Courier Journal Njcw Yokk, April J4. A terrible trag edy was enacted here early this morn ing. Albert Deffarge, a 'Frenchman, about thirty-live years old, and a drug, gist by occupation, being jealous of his wile, whom he accused of improper iu timacywith other men, administered poison to himself, his son four veara of age,aud his litt le daughter two years old, , His oilorts resulted in the death of him self and his son. Tlie little girl i In a fair way to recover. Albert leftarge, eleven yours airo. be- uuiumuiwi W UU UIS wue. I'Uru X UefLirirH w in i.m..i;,.i i. n lctairvovarit .Sci,.;... -.uJi iliT.' T?Yl ler. ..nrhV ti i 2"7' Z; i' j w- iihiv vi iUMUi im rc obflflLj e ;.i m&mfcvs&x4tfyrbjsrpiknL thji three years ago. Deffarge has not been in business for a long time, and it is said that he lived on the earnings of clair voyance. For several months they have not lived harmoniously owing" to hi jeal ousy. About a week ago he left the house, taking xvith him eighty-seven dollars, which his wife affirms she in tended to use to pay the rent. Ou Saturday he seut his wife a wild letter in English. Dutfargo called at the house two-or three times since Satur day, but his wife refused to see him. 'fins morning ho called at the house a few. moments after six o'clock, and was admitted by a servant. He appeared cheerful, and there was nothing unusual about his manner. He asked the servant to go up stairs and bring dowu the little girl for him to dress, and she complied. He seated himself in a chair and received tho child in a most affectionate manner, fondling and kissing her, and began putting on her clothes. ' He told the servant to return up stairs and bring down his little boy. She dress ed the child up stairs and Drought laiu down, when lie was also receive 1 by the father xvith marks of affection. Once again Deffarge requested the servant to go up stairs, this time to toll his' wife that ho xvauled very much to seoher. His wife was in bed, and said She did not want to get up then, and moreover would not see him any way. After about fifteen miuules, the ser vant returned down stairs xvith this message, and was horrified to tiild tho father and his txro children stretched out on the floor of tho kitchen, the chil dreu in convulsions and fouuung at the mouth, and Dellargo quiet anu appa rently dead. The wife was at onco summoned by the servant, and paying no attention to her husband, did all alio could for the relief of the children. In a few minutes the little boy was dead. About 7 o. clock an officer on his beat near by was summoned by the excited servant. He found the mother with the little girl in her arms, and the father arid son lying where thoy had died. Several memoranda and a long letter in French were left by the deau man. la the letter, evidently written for the eyo of the coroner, he charges his wife with improper relations with throe dif ferent men, xvhoni lie names, and men tions places where they had bocn in the habit of meeting. He"aays: The conduct of my wife having lo come moro and more disgraceful from day to day, the tortures I have been made to sutler thereby for the past three months nave become du groat that 1 wish to live no longer. It is better mdi and take my children along with me. Whatever misery she may endure sUo must blamu herself lor it. Her own' conscience will punish her, and tho miserable cause ol my misery w ill pun ish her. .May God visit with terrible affliction tho villian, and may my malediction follow him to the end of uis days. .Mrs. Deffargo showod lew symptoms of grief, and took the tragedy very sto ically. She denied all tho charges. When the Coroner left the room, she threw herself on tho Moor and embraced and kissod her little bov, appearing finally to be greatly affbeted. The Dep uty Coroner, on slight inspection, was of the opinion that tne poison used w as prussic acid. Taxing- Revolver. The Missouri Legislature has conceiv ed a new and brilliant idea by which it expects to derive considerable revenue arid, at the same time, to put a stop to to some extent at least, to the Univer sal habit of carrying concealed weapons. A bill has accordingly been introducod taxing every pistol and revolver c uried into the State one dollar A revenue of two hundred thousand dol lar " is onfidently expected to be de rived from this pistol tax. Tlie Courier Journal likes the idea and suggests a similar law in Kontucky It might perhaps, be well, at tho same time, to license pistol carrying, anv person be ing granted the right 16 carry concealed weapons on paying a yearly license of ten dollars. TheJeww In Patent Ine. The London Standard calls attention to the way im which the Jews scatter ed throughout the World,' "are begin ning to turn their eyes towards their own land." The shrewdest financiers of that money-making people are re ported to be buying up Palestine. The Jewish Chronicle reckons that there are some eighteen thousand Jews Jn Jerusalem alone, and that thev annu ally receive about LfiO.ijoo from their brethren abroad. Whether depeiideut ujmmi others or able to support them selves, they cannot bo persuaded to ex patriate themselves from tho old moth er country of J udea when thev haveonee returned there. It in provable that Ird Beaconsrield's oriental ambitions and his known sympathies for tlie re generations of Syria have given anew impetus to this movement. America' Trade with the World. A correspondent of a Nexv York pa per, writing from Germany, savs that trade on the continent is very had the poorer people are iu Serious distress and capitalists are earning lesa and less by their investments, the limit to the profitable employment of money seem ing to have been reached in manv In-anches of industry. There is alao great uneasiness in Germany and Hol land on account of the grow i.ig favor In which American product are held and the .oninual increase in their aale. Amebic m stoves and hardware are largely sold In these countries, and now "American butcher shop" are be ing opened' in Amsterdam ami else where which will sell American meats exclusively. Holland finds that its butter trade with England which has been very extensive and profitable menaced by American competition, 'the butter furnished from this country while less esteemed for omtllfv h Dutch article, being cheaner- In nri and more salable in the present hard 1 u men. CmU at Wtan', For jour grocerlea, they ire not only heap bat the best, .: ,
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