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r tstsUbrary ..mliT9 ALEIGH VOLXV.-73. RALEIGH, X. C, TUESDAY MORXING, MAY 27, 1879. $5.00 PER ANNUM R News HE THE SENATE'S WORK. hi r i irn.r. doe i the rrPEn r RJri lld EdMimdi Rpi m the Oafeai-llary ('! Bill r. IrtVonald's Dill. tl I tu, May '. Skmatk. r v iuio t-k up the bill reported s.nitor Bynl to prov id for the , , of -ubi.liary coins for lawful v. At. J making such miin legal , , r t:i uui nitl exceeding twenty s. . . r Edmund oke a:i;it lite vr tiat eon-idered the I. ill hre . ,. n:n-luced by Senator McDonald. , ntin; the employment of the . x :i 1 cite Und ami naval force in , i .--. an. I to repeal the election k :Vr remark upon the bill by , i r M.'U'iuM it w. laid jlde. .- (resident !" teu. nnounce hi :,trt' the legislative spproprU 1 which now goe to the Presi l !ir -nate afterward di-cussed ii; rUtiv e to the transportation of v l. t:; the confirmation to-lav w ere y .. In ler. of New York, to Ik? - i. general at Home, and lavid II. wv, v ..f hio. to le n.iil-i;eiu ral t lrtll-i of m 4 alhe-dral. . Rk, May '-". The new Sint k athedr-l .on b ifth avenue' and .:. T-e:.w a dedicated to-day un ; :i cation of Sjtint Patrick with : - finn and imxvina; serv i-e. . h;Ht..ry of the Koinau Catholic ki in A nir'"a no event ha. teeii -I w uh aiii'h magnificence or !t A I .out rive thouaand per in the building. Anion.; iv litmguihed Csthdic eler . h. participated in the cere w.'re Archbthop Gihlon, l'..-h-p- l.ynh, Gro. Moore, I ;,1. r. tuinlanand Mi l 'lokv. t The Old Himrj. i'lM'n. M y 17. It i learned from : i f Cjuia that the former presi- . ' i r?ece. candidate of the govern .: art v. iria and all revolution--v S, are prisoner of war. The "t the party under Zanche, who ... .:.n to surrender to (Jen. I'ayan, . . r-ni'e for the present all opjwisi :' the elevation of iteneral ilnn u . wl. otn-e e?tabliheii in jower, . : ! .' trdly will keep his seat. Ililalille I . 4olqulll. ioiik. . rerepiioii i.-. nd-.Ted l-iAt niuht to l-. t'ol ,. tts-rria. and hi wife, at the -. .i-i.. of Mr. T. i. Smith, lnk- 1'in-re were no lonu.il siKM-hen, i i i J Mk loIUitl were warmly j . -1 lUiol on eery ile. The is- t - re xni'iiiij the let and most I - ti: ettieriH of Ilnxiklvn. itov. . uill otart for home Monday. nllly . Otv. May "J". The jury inthe trial in this eity. Here out a little ' .r'Y h'HiiM, when tlwy returned : nr: with a erdirt of iruilty of i i.-r in th tirt den-e aifainM lth Ir. inith an.l Bennett. 'oiin-el for rtink eenteen eeeitio:iH to , i.-;-. '( thejudkce'' eharjie. and. on ap ; t -r of iiuini,l, the prisoner- er" t:i i.-l until judgment for wnteri- . T t-k their conviction ery oollv. Ufrman)r m nt 1 ki 1 1 r o I.'.mniN. May "J. - -A Keuter di- i-. h from Koine slate that the ru mors ' S- approaehiot itrnatur of a in--:! l- w n liermtny anl the ati dniel. It i statt.I that Jer iui will not ai---pt the Vatin' Nerotiatioti for a m-"n re pro-ee-luij but an airly re-.-.: n-.i eipe-t . l arlbrr Arlla at I'rewal. ntN'iTi.i, I I"., May ji. 1 I mo-ratn- laiii'iii t 'oinuiittet to i . -U-idel ti submit to a joint ineel--.( the Senate anil llius t'onl-r- uultevx t-niorrow evening a inien lotion that no future mode of lure ! determine on bv a rr.v until the Warner silver bill is ..-..-.I of bv the Senate. rr)lnf ! AI4 lh Hlrlbr. K .ro. Mav . -The weavers and itiners in Fall Kiver hel.l a aeparate j a I 1 1 1 aturlay eveninir. an.i ea-n at p'.tl rsolutlons t the end that am ; '-;e arrangement mav le made :u their em plovers, and the inevita 1 uiiwries atten-iinc a strike be avoid- The LUJa Male Lottery. N.w Orleans, May In the Stales 4ourt Judge Billing r. ! r.-l a decision deelaring the art of :!. I ..islature repemliiig the charter wr:h.- Ixusiana State Iottery 'ompany iii-.jrati ve. and granting an injunction r-v r iitimg the State and city authority tr .in interfering w ith the oni.iny. Nleanier unk 1'imrn, May The British T'i ha Steam Navigation I'ompany's s:amr Ava was in iillisiin with an- :hrr esi and the Ava sunk. Sixty .i of the crew and four passengers Te drowned. The Ava was an iron r- ste-amer of , I tons, built at I Miittwtrton in ls7:t. i I lhlnlnff Dstn't Agree With Powder. lie May :.. The Oriental l'ow- t-r .tiij.nv s magazine near Brigh-'- . 111., containing .'iO.kio keg of pow-!-r. uasHtruck by lightning yestenlay ' 4 entirely consumed. t(nf fmrm Duel. ''.. May . Ie Soir announces tf.j: iu . .-,,n. Is of M. Paul It. 4aa- an.i M.Coblet have le idel that there s n.,f sniticient cause for a duel. Admiral Saisset is deal. Oa Ilia Trairl. It m.im, My i-The I'rinee f Bnl rir.t has arrive-1 here and haI an . :.eu, e with the Kmperor William t iv. and w a.s present at a atale din :his evening. 4'ardiaal .iewmaa III. I'.'-'i.. Mav iV. Cardinal Newman is .'' ring from pneumonia. Ol R TKOOP IS f.4XUU Rfilnfal Olearallaa; the tlaeva'a Hlrthday. Momukal. May .. Her Majesty's r'i.dtv was celebrated with ftrand . i' vesterdav. nuaml tf visitor -re present from the I'nitetl Slate ' I various portions of the iMminion. like display matle by the troois was v-e.-duigfy tine. The Brvjoklyn regi- tit. in iii bright, gray uniform, re- .ved a perfe: ovation as the men 1 .r.-he-l along to opular British airs, ve.l bv their own band of lortr-one i "es. Vhen the Marquis of Lome r I the Princeoa Iauio appeare.1 on - review frroun-l. ecorte.l by the I. ago n iuanls. they were enlhusias- tically clieere-1 by :in,imu e jle, who iisst nil. I. to wi;n s the pageant. The J-arty to.k up a xsitiou at th fUtatr in the center ,f the tiel.i. atlonlin them a line view ofth" interesting s. ene. Shortly alter, nci-oiiipaiiied bv the general iu-chlef. His 1 1 xcel leucy and tiie 1'riliit-M.s rinle Io;ig tbe line oftlie in -;, lum U pi tying the National an them, anil the artillery thiindei iug forth a royal aahite of t w enty-one guns. A sham battle was succi-MHftilly fought, and a banUe: was ii!' picnllv giv en nt the t'rystal Palace, at which the max or preti lc I. Many pcociic w ere in e. and Mie.-al irood foiling pre vaiied. The M anpiis of lirne ad ilr9stI the viviting troops as follows; "Hi. ers ami soldiers of the gallant Thirteenth: I weh-ome you in the ijueeii n iiu.uu to Canada, and I thank you for coming here to do honor to Her MaieMy" birth.lav. We are brother to-day in boo, and I rejoice to see von here a. brothers inarms." The Thir teenth cheered this speech loudly. In the evening Colonel Austen and theoliicers of the Thirteenth were enter tained at dinner in the Windsor hotel by the lieutenant-general commanding and the otlh-ers of the militia in this city. The .essoin 1I y was very large, and the banquet of the most rerhrrchr descrip tion, tteneral Sir Selby Smyth pre sided. The seivhes w et e not numerous and none of them long. In promising the health of the President of the I'nited State the Marquis of Iirne said: "I desire to express the earnest wish that comes from my heart, and I speak a tbe reprenentative of the country which I vn. The w ish is, 'May Uod bless the tnwerful nation over which he rules.' " The St. Jame street Methodist church was crowded with avast surg ing rniwil long Iwfore the hour for di vine service this morning, w hen Kev. II. W. Beevher was to preach to his regiment. His text w a First Corin thians, xili. : n. It was proiiouneel generally to have Iteou the most elo quent eHsition of Ii ine truth ever leliere by that -elebrated preacher. There were over .'t.ii persons reseut. Tin: . x. . U. K Hornet blue About a 4'unlesl Itelween nirrlara of ihr I'.asiern and Wislfrn Division. (1i:vrlolte ! rv.-r, i.tli. Having heard some minors of a -on-tt Iwlwii'ii the director-, of the K ast ern and Western divisions of the West ern North Carolina Kaihoad. at their late meeting in Asheville, a reporter of the observer applied tt Colonel Wil liam .lohnston, a uiciuler of the lioard of internal improvements, which met in conjunction w ith the directers, for the fa.-tM in the case. Colonel Johnston very kindly consents! to give the in formation asked for, and made sub stantially the following t itc incut : The l;it Legislature p.Lssed an act atMthsliin t lie d i v isions in.iili'iiiider the adiiiuu-.tr : son ol Sw cstu several years ago, and requiring the directors of the Western division to turn over all the ussc'.i ill tl.eir Misesstoii or under their control, to the directors of the Fastern Iiv ision, w jtliin thu t dav . after they are demaiuie I. The .i : ...;ihcr pro vider a penally for a refusal to comply with its requirements. In accordance with the pro isions of this act, iov ernor Jarv is, at the 1 ite iiieelingof the boards in Asheville, furnislusl Major Kollins, president of the Western Hivision, w ith a copy of the ad, and made a formal de maud in vv nt ing umiii him for the as sets. The ileiiiand w a.s refused on the ground that tne assets--etiisi.stinc in part of ninety-four thousand dollars of Flor ida Istnds. suposed to le worth alout tilly-rive cents on the dollar were then in useas sit-urity for the prosecution of other claim of the road now going on in Florida. Major Hollins and his lsard still have nearlv a r.....i, i, which u .... v.ci stota lo me treasurer of the Kastern Iiv ision, but it is understood that they are fully deter mined to adhere to their recent decision. This will make a direct and exceed ingly unfortunate contest between the iov ernor and the lNard, and may lead to v crv unpleasant things. Colonel Johnston joes not hesitate to condemn the action of Major Kollins and his tntard, an. I sys that they will be unable to jtistily their conduct under any pre tenses. In addition to the assets now in the hands of the Kollins Uiard, they ex l t to obtain hImhiI lim.ni i from the suit iii Florida for other assel-s made ov ur to the road by Swepsoti in his set tlement. With these amounts in the possession of Major Wilson and his board, the work can be rapidly pushed to completion. 'olonel Johnston is impressed with the fact that i tovernor Jarv is will hmok no delay on the part of the Kollins Iniard that he is determined that they shall comply with the full requirements of the act of tne legislature. In less than thirty days the matter will le settled or w ill come to a dire t issue. Tronklr la Store for the British ff'.m plre. The latest diapaU-he from northern India represent its pr-seut condition jus deplorable. The long smoldering tlis ct.ntent of the native population, aggra vated bv the recent pressure of cholera and famine, seem to have exploded in a kind of miniature nihilism, with the same adjuncts of anonymous menaces, incendiarv tires, deliberate murders and seditious manifestoes. Men who can threaten to "put a price on the h: 1 of the governor of Bombay,' and to "stir up another mutiny," unless their demands are granted, must be either very confident of their own fttrcngth or fully convinced of the weaknes of the B'ritish administration. In any ease, such phenomena are not to le slighted. Thanks to the marvelous freemason ry of the Hindoos a freemasonry which i still a sealed lnMk to Europeans news of everv kind frequently travels among them'quicker than it can e con veyed by sst. A robber hotly pursued, entersa native village, is furnished w ith the means of disguise by its inhabitants, and passes undetected by his pursuers among a group of simple country-folk, none of whom, of course, hav e the least idea where ilu inroiY (brigand) can be. The anie robber, a few day later, w ill intelligence, through the same cabalistic sign know n only to the ini tiated, where he may jounce iion a subsidv of government money or get a chance" of killing some unpopular ofli eer. Should the movement, which is alrea.lv employing the whole energy of one'thousand soldier, extend Usell into Bengal, its consequences may be formidable enough. A Mink Atlarka a Hot. N.-w rle:n Picayune. Yesterday morning the resident in the vicinity of the corner of Meljouieiie and Clara "streets w ere startled by the cries of a child w ho was calling for as sistance. A numler of person ran to the spot whence the cries prin-eeded, and to their great astonishment discov ered that a loy eight years of age, uamed Johnny Patterson, whose pa rents reside on Ciarn street, had leen attacked by a large mink, w ho was bit ing his toeo. Two men, whose names Could not be ascertained, hastened to the child's rescue, and with sticks at tacked th animal, which only released its hold on the boy's foot after !?ing killed. A physician was called in to examine the boy. whose toe was bally b.tten, and expresaed fear of being ct mie!leel to erforin an amputation. WATAUGA COURT. l MAVSIDE OTi:S FROM TO BOO.N L I. r. VOIR A in on I tie .Mountains Tlie Two N p r 1 n it that send tnelr A'ater In "H'ldly IMfTerent Direction. Correspondence of the News. Bmnk, May 10. Your correspondent left Lenoir, May the "th, for Watauga court. En route to Boone we passed "Patterson Factory," which is situated seven miles from Lenoir, on the road from the latter to the former place, at the terminus of the "Yadkin Valley." This place has grown to bequite a town. The factory is owned by Messrs. Har per, iw inn tt Co. Mr. Gwinn, who is a thorough business man and gentleman is superintendent of the factory. Two miles alove this place we passed through the toll gate on the turnpike road; from there to the top of the Blue Ui.lge, a distance of ten miles, there are only a few houses on the road. Just before us were several wagons loaded with merchandise; we think, from the the foot to the top of the Blue Hidga that the wagoners lost at least a sack of cotfee, and for miles along the road we found old women, children and hogs picking up coffee. After a wearisome ride we at last reached the top of the Blue Kidge; liehiud us were the Ca tawba and Yadkin valleys; on our left w en the " i ramlfather and his old lady," the grandmother, overlooking the upper John's river valley, called the " ilole," we siipjMise from the fact that it is entirely surrounded by moun tains; and far oil' in the distance is the "Hawks Bill." "Table Kiwk" and "Short off mount uns. Near us is the "Blow ing Kock,' which, by the way, we think, is a great big blow of nothing ; in front of us are the beautiful valleys and verdant fields of Watauga; on ourj-ight is nothing but mountains as far as the eye can behold. A few hundred yards from the top of the Blue Ridgo are two springs about one hundred yards apart, ov er each is a signboard with the respec tive inscriptions, which explain them selves: "Yadkin Spring, the source of the Orcat Pee Iee distance by this stream to the Atlantic Ocean, 4.50 miles." "The New Kiver Spring.tributarv to the Great Kanawha, Ohio and Mississippi riv ers distance by these to the Gulf of Mexico, 2,."0 miles." Wo arrived at Boono about throe o'clock p. in. Monday and found the court in session. Judge J. L. Graves presiding and Solicitor Jos. S. Adams prosecuting for the State. The local bar is very weighty, but consists of only one pe'rsonage, Maj. H. Bingham. The visiting lawyers in attendance were Col. Geo. N. Folk. W. H. H. Cowles. Col. C A. Cillev, Maj. Jos. B. Todd. Maj. F. Neal. ii. L. Green, Col. J. Clay Vill.oi lie, J. M. Station! and Capt. Thos. Smith, of Taylorsville, Fast 'IViin. Very few cases of importance were tried for the reason that there were none to try. The State docket consisted of a few asault and battery eases and one boy. George Cole bv name, was con victed of larceny, and his Honor Judge Grav es sent him to the county jail four months w ith instructions to tlie county commissioner to hire him out. The boy is a perfect ignoramus and we think is sutfering from w hat the medi cal profession call ''Kleptomania." Ho steals everything he can lay his hand on, pistols, "watches, leather, old iron, cow bells and even rain s-horns, and when in jail and he can get nothing else to steal fie w ill steal his barlow knife out of one pocket and put it in the Some of the correspondents ol the press have charged J udge G raves with being "alarmingly slow" in the dis imtch of business, w hich we think does him great injustice. He gives entire sat isfaction, and while we think he adopts the motto of Crockett, "Be sure you are right then go ahead," we think he is one of the best judges in the State and does not leave one stone unturned in the line of his duties. Solicitor Jos. S. Adams is one of the youngest and ablest solicitors in the State and is getting better ev -rv day. He bids fair to make one of the best lawyers in North Caro lina. Mi. J. H. Harden, the ieik of the Superior Court, and A. J. McBride. Slier ill' of Watauga county, are excellent ollicer. Boone, named in honor of the great pioneer. Pauiel Boone, the county seat of Watauga, and has the highest eleva tion of anv town east of tho Koeky Mountain"," is a thriving village; it has two hotels, the "Bryant Hotel," W. L. Brvan, proprietor, and the "Cotlev Hotel. ".Cortey Ji Bro., proprietors; and three stores, the firms are W. L. Bryan, Cotlev .t Bro., and Estes A Co. The citizens of Boone and vicinity have just completed a large and -om-modious academy, aituated in the suburli of the town, anil they now have a flourishing school, male and fe male, numbering eighty-eight students. Mr. J. F. Spainhour is principal of the school. Board can be had in town at from JTito s per month. Three young ladies edit a newspaper, which one of them reads to the school every Tues day evening lit is only written; it contains all the news of Watauga Co., and is filled with wit and humor. W o give tho title page: "The Weekly Watauga Times, published in the town of Boone, N. C, ev erv Tuesday evening, wlitetlby.Misse Rosa Montana, Mary Morton "vv Co., one door north of-the Branch Bank of Bonne. Subscription .(m per year in advance. The cheapest and livest newspaper in N. C." The question submitted to the voters of Watauga county on last Thursday, w hether or no the county would take stock in the C. L. and W. K. K., resulted in a majority of UN) against subscrip tion. . We wore pleased to meet with Mr. K. E. Blakey, editor of tho Lenoir Topic, during court last w eek; he was here in the interest of his paper, which has a largo circulation in Watauga county. We were several times taken for Mr. Blakey; we insisted that we were a better looking man than he, but I suppose w e w ill have to let the girls de cide this. In our next letter we will give your readers a description of Watauga coun tyits fine stock, tine meadows, trout fishing, the inhabitants. etc. Jakk II. H. Moral Uraadear of (he Hontliern People. In a recent sermon tho Kev. Henry Ward Beevher is reported as saving: "This great nation was divided by an invisible line, morally visible enough, on both sides of which the North and South had stotxi in bloody antagonism for five terrible years. In'my own judg ment, when I consider human nature, when' I consider that a proud people have seen themselves emptied out of power, their political existence almost annihilated, their property swept out of their hands as by a consuming flame, the ascendency of the despised slave es tablished over them bv what was to him a foreign arm, I should not have won dered IT there had been ten times the resistance that there has been to recon structive measures. Never in history has a people borne so much with so much patience, gallantry and patriot ism a spectacle of moral grandeur and ofsubstanti.il good intent and honor in those who have been so terrifically scourged which is without parallel. The spirit which would set the North against the West, the Germans against the old Puritans or the Puritans against the Germans, the whites against the blacks or the blacks against the whites, is not only politically criminal, but it is absolutely subversive of the funda mental instincts ol humanity. There is yet the power and the honor in this country to hold men together in chari ty and "unity. When it was the need of the u n tempered North to be nerved to resist the arrogance of plantation domination I was not wanting. What we need now is love, charity, union. I speak again. Though I hated slavery I did not hate the slaveholder. I loved him and I still love him. I love all mankind, not only for what they are, but for what they are going to be." ( TIMOrM AE('DOTKS RELATED BY OI.I KKVEM'E OFFICER. A Profitable Traveling Troupe A Bridegroom Happy Thought How to Dreaa a Pig-. . IjeiKure Honrs. Perhaps tke oddest phase of smug gling (for smuggling it really was) was patent in a practice which prevail ed for several years in Dover, and was carried on openly in full view of the preventives and" all the inhabitants of the town. About 1819-20 the fashion came up of wearing Leghorn bonnets of exorbitant dimensions. They were huge straw plaits, nearly circular, and averaging about a yard in diameter; they sold in England at two to three or more guineas each, according to their quality, and nearly half their cost was the duty paid on importing them. Now, according to the law, duty is not demandable on any article of dress worn by travelers. A clever dealer in Leghorns contrived to profit enor mously by this law. He hired a nu merous troop of the poorest women and girls--ragged, squalid and wretched looking creatures they were, to be sure and paid them almost a nominal fee for accompanying him daily in his voy ages to and from the French coast, con tracting with the captain of one of the steamers lor se:ison tickets for the whole ol them. The troop regularly left Iover in the morning with scarcely a handful of bonnet on their heads; they dined at Calais, if they could af ford to dine, and came back in the af ternoon two or three score of them, each with a bran new Leghorn of fullest di mensions on her head, the rag of bon net work worn in the morning being st lifted in her pocket. On landing they were all inarched to the speculator s warehouse, denuded of their luxurious coiffures and dismissed foi the day. A hundred times at least have I seen these forlorn and tattered purveyors of fash ion both going out and coining in, and I could tell the boat they traveled by, while it was yet miles away, by the straw-colored amber line which under a cloudy sky would glimmer like a streak of sunshine ere the hull of the vessel was distinctly visible. "A form of smuggling,," savs a writer to the Pall Mall Gazette, "wliich is not likely soon to die out is that practiced by tourists, who think it allowable to shirk paying duty on things which they have bought for their own use. Public morals on this point are slight ly clastic and those of the gentler sex especially are apt to think that nothing compels them to 'declare' volumes of Tauchnitz cases of eau de Cologne, yards of Lyons silk or pieces of Brus sels lace. Here is a story which will illustrate feminine notions on this sub ject and perhaps convey a moral. A Belgian bridegroom, being ul""Vas start for Paris on his bridal tour- oYc7.VJ.!Llirk!PtYiousaTHl francs' worth of lace about her, hoping by its sale to pay the cost of their journey. The bridegroom was not smitten with this frugal project and pointed out that there were custom-house officers and a female searcher at Erequelines, who were sometimes struck with an accoun table fancy for examining passengers' pockets. "This ho said, being a timid man, and his bride, to humor him, promised to give up her plan, but then she secreted the lace at the same time without tolling him about it. Now, as the train approached the French fron tier the husband reflected, that if his wife were not searched his fears would be mocked at as having been groundless, and he would start on his married ca reer w ith prestige impaired. This was not desirable: rather it was essential that he should from the very outset as sort his infallibility. So when the train stopped at Erequelines and the passengers alighted the Belgian bride groom left his bride's arm for a mo ment; and sidling up to a (loictnier, whispered, 'I think if you search that lady yonder you may find some lace' The I'louanier winked; the happy bride was accosted with an invitation to walk into the female searcher's room. She turned pale, tottered, but was led away, and live minutes later dismal sounds of hysterics were heard. Then the ilui iiier reappeared, and said to the horri fied husband, 'Thank you, sir; it's a good capture. The lady will be taken to prison, and half the fine will go to von.' This was a painful adventure, but it does not follow that all husbands are so inconsiderate, nor that all ladies who smuggle lace are caught." A more amusing anecdote on this subject was lately told at a public din ner by M. Ferdinand Duval, prefect of the Seine. He said that the octroi men of Paris, who levy the municipal bar rier dues, are a most vigilant set of fel lows, but that, having boasted of their merits, he (the prefect) had been caught. A friend of his, residing in St. Cloud, had made a small bet that he would in troduce a pig into Paris in his brough am without the octroi men detecting it. Mr. Duval took tho bet, and strict orders were given at all the gates to Paris to look out for the brougham of the friend in question. Within less than a week, however, the prefect re ceived the sum of eighty centimes, be ing the amount of duty leviable on a pig, and the request to come and assure himself that the quadruped had been successfully smuggled in. It turned out that the pig, killed and scalded, had been dressed up in women's clothes, and had been driven into Paris seated triumphantly on the box beside the coachman. Since then the octroi men, it is said, stare with some fixity at plump women when they behold them on carriage boxes. In The Hlotxl of the rape. ( 'harlotte Observer. It is stated that Kitchen and Russell, who were blackguarding each other at such a fearful rate a couple of weeks ago, are now hob-nobbing on most friendly terms and wiping out their animosities in the blood of the grape. Much more sensible than making faces at each other across the floor of the House. Raleigh im a Market. Henderson Review. We often see in our warehouses here Cackages and bundles from our Raleigh Harness men to parties in this county. We presume that they are such goods as cannot be obtained in our town, hence thev send to our capital for them. Ral eigh is composed of first-class business men who understand their business, having made it a life-time study and practice. AT THEJZORES. A RALEIGH BOY'S VISIT TO TIIE WESTERN ISLANDS. The City of Ilorta .Low Price of Labor Exercise for a a Limber Tongue--Annexation Prospects. Correspondence of the News. Island of Fayal. April. 1879. The little of interest in the Azores has been so often written upon that it is with difficulty one can find a burden for a letter. Fa3al has the best harbor of the Islands, and its chief town, Horta, is the principal shipping place. Hortaisa dull old city, with steep and narrow streets, and with shops that have no windows but depend upon one or two doors for ventilation and demi-daylight. Over all the shops are dwellings, some of them veneered with glazed tiles and all of them with projecting balconies. The names of the streets are also glazed tiles with the letters in blue. One street bears the name of our consul Rua de Consul Dabney who is held in high esteem by the natives. The Dab neys have been consuls, father and son, since 1807, and the present incumbent was born on tho Island. They have several estates here, and their town residence is very handsome with gar dens tilled with exquisite tiowers ttiat are with us exotic. The people of the Azores are simple in their habits, and the price of a day's labor is about twenty-four cents. One noted feature of Fayal is the capote worn by the women. This capote is a cloak of heavy dark blue stufl, falling in folds to the feet, surmounted with a large hood stiffened with buckram. The women are not handsome, but one may occasionally find a pretty face after exploring many a hood. A strange old custom still exists in Fayal of making prisoners on their way to jail let their trowsers fall down over the ankles so as to embarrass them in walk ing. One readily sees that it would have that effect. Opposite the town of Ilorta is the Island of Pico, some four miles off, furnishing a natural break-water for winds and seas from the eastward. This island rises from the sea on all sides to a peak nearly 8,000 feet above the sea level, and for this reason the Island is usually spoicen ot as tne " Peak of Pico." Happening the other day to meet a man named Pike who liv es there, 1 could not neip associating his name with his home, and the rythm of this association suggested an im provement upon "Peter Piper." I give it to you : Pike, of Peak of Pico.picked a peck of pickled Pico peppers. If Pike, of Peak ol" Pico, picked a peck of pickled Pico peppers, w here is the peck of picked Pico peppers that Pike.of Peak of Pico, picked? Recently a strong disposition has arisen among the natives of Fayal to attach the Island to the United States. So much has the idea gained ground that the Portuguese Government found it necessary to send out a man of war to put dow n any overt act that might en sue. If w e did wish foreign possessions, this Island, near the coast of Europe, would be of importance to us. Its high cliffs, render it impregnable on one side, while the other side could readly be make as invincible as Gibraltar. A breakwater, one is constructing now, would make the harbor excellent. But an elVpYiuWl'lWS?,i-si- think the American people long to add to the menagerie, Portugal does not allow the soldiers stationed on the Isl ands to remain iaore than :l months in one place. This its to prevent them from affiliating with the inhabitants. Afraid of her own soldiers! Poor old Portugal, sunk to a low rate power, under the protection and advice of England, her ships gone from the sea, her riches swept away, counted scarce a factor in the politics of Europe, how she has changed since the days of Vas -o di Gama. The decay of Rome, furnishes hardly a sadder history. G d grant for the United States that wlu a o-days of strength are over her gray hairs may be honorable, and that her docline"may be due to natural and unavoidable causes and not to superstition and religious bigot ry. Pkkhin Busiiki;. STATE NEWS. ran ville. Henderson Review. Farmers are busy planting tobacco, and getting their" old crop ready for market. There is abundance of plants and a few farmers have finished setting out, while others will finish before the season is gone. The big hop comes off next Wednes day night at Hunter's Hall. Re making vour preparations and look your pret tiest on the occasion. It may be to your interest. There were large breaks at our ware houses the past week. It brought good prices tobacco we mean. Sew Hanover. Wilmington Star, 2."th. The Thalian Amateurs will make their rext appearance before the public on the 14th of June, in the beautiful drama entitled "Among the Breakers." Strawberries were selling yesterday as low down as 6i cents per quart. Thick coats and fires are again in de mand. Blackberries have co jimenced com ing in quite freely. Jlecklenbnrff. Charlotte Observer. A telegram to the Observer from Henry's states that the first full train of passenger cars went to the top of the mountain yesterday with about two hundred and fifty excursionists on board. The trip was a delightful one and w as enjoyed by all who went. For some time past correspondence has been going on between parties in this city and Col. Duncan K. McRao, of Wilmington, witn reierence to nis ue livering one of his justly celebrated lectures in Charlotte, and we are pleased to bo able to announce that he has con sented to give our people an opportuni- tv of hearing mm on wiesuu.jeei.oi ""Laughter." Work on the Cheraw and Chester Narrow Gauge Railroad is progressing verv satisfactorily. This road, w hen completed, will open up a new field for the enterprising business men of Char lotte to cultivate. It is unusually quiet in police cir c1gs The past week has been quite a gay one for (.'harlotte, but the present prom ises little in t!at direction. Senator Vance's speech, published in yesterday's Observer, was universally read and" enjoyed in Charlotte. Wayne. (ioldshoro Messenger. Our live eagle continues to be a sub ject of curiosty a show in itself. He most made away with a little negro the other day. A word of caution to little negro urchins is sufficient. He seems fond of that kind of flesh, unless a good spring chicken or a rabbit is more con venient. We are requested to state that the blind lady preacher, Mrs. Foushee, will commence a revival at Mount Olive on Wednesday evening. Her Grange meeting resulted in about thirty penitents. The committee appointed at a recent meeting of the citizens of Goldsboro, to consider the proposition of mak ing a subscription to the Goldsboro, Snow Hill and Greenville Road, met on Friday and passed resolutions recom mending that the county subscribe $40 000, and requesting the Commissioners of Wayne county to put the question of "subscription" or "no subscription" to the voters of the county on the first Thursday f August next. The com mittee furtfter recouieud that after the county shallave subscribed $40,000, the town of Goldsboro shall subscribe 10,000 making a total of $50,000 for Wayne county. We would have the citizens of Goldsboro to bear in mind that the Goldsboro, Snow Hill fc Green ville Railway Company is to be or ganized at Snow Hill on Saturday next, and that books of subscription are now open at this office. Let Goldsboro raise $20,000 say $15,000 by town sub scription and $o,000 by private sub scriptions. This would defray one third of the cost of grading tbi road ready for the iron. Goldsboro can well afford to do this much. With the road, new life and vigor will be in fused into the community, and a new era of prosperity will dawn which will be felt by all classes of our citizens, property owners and business men in particular. The road must and will be built. Of this we feel no doubt if Goldsboro will raise $20,000. The railroad reception room, located in the southern corner of the Gregory Hotel, is now open for the reception of the traveling public. The ladies' room is fitted up with an eye to comfort, nicely furnished and carpeted and sup plied with w ashing facilities and ice water. Pasquotank. E. City Falcon. Mr. Chas. Gurkin has returned from Edenton and reports that a telegraphic line will be established between that town and this, and work will begin right away. W e understand that arrangements are being made to have the Lnited States steamer Huron gotten up. The wrecking of this ship and the sad loss of life attending it yet linger oui recol lection. On last Thursday about six miles from here, Mr. Henry Markham with others attacked and killed a rattlesnake which measured five feet six inches in longth and was found to have fifteen rattles and one button. Political Remarks. But as Maine contemplates Blaine'. performances, she must remember, with growing sense of irreparable loss, that she once had a Fesseuden in the Senate chamber. Veii' York Sun. That was a center shot that Senator Eaton tired into the irrelevant harangue of Senator Rlaine the other day. A considerable portion ol the speech was made of extracts that Mr. Blaine read from Daniel Webster's speeches on constitutional questions. Listening attentively to these, Mr. Eaton congrat ulated the Maine Senator on tho im provement in the matter and the man ner of his argument. Philadelphia Ledger (Grant organ). Nearly all Blaine s time in Congress appears to be devoted to proving that there was a war fourteen years ago. Springfield Republican. Bishop Haven sees a providence in the political hostility which keeps Northern men out of the Southern States east of the Mississippi. Even if they got in there, they would crowd the negro to the wall closer than divine plan is that the colored man shall himself be the lord of the soil in those States. Rut the bishop says that Texas is the great and effectual door opening for the crowded population of the East. "There," he says,"is our new and greater Kansas, where the battle for human rights must be peacefully, politically and successfully waged. Here are ample acres and and an 'am pler air'. Brought first from Mexico bv one of Boston origin (Stephen Aus tin), let it be peopled by those of New England birth or descent. Thus shall the nation be clasped in loving arms on its South no less than on its North, and the whole continent abide in one uni versal, peaceful Union." Springfield Republican. Retting; on a Sure Thin v. Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. A tough-looking citizen walked into one of the Justice's Courts yester day forenoon very much intoxicated, ami requested that he be allowed to swear off drinking for a year. His Honor obligingly put him through the solemn motions, and the convert, with a confused rumble of well-meant but profanelv-expressed resolutions, stum bled outof the Courtroom. "Bet he don't keep it an hour," stiid one of the grinning lawyers. "Bet he sticks to it a week, anyhow," observed the Court with confidence. "Nonsense!" cried everybody. "What'll you bet?" asked the Judge. "Twenty to ten," exclaimed an eager attorney, producing the money. "Done?" cried his Honor, and the stakes were turned over to a Chronicle reporter. "Constable," said the Court quietly, "go out and fetch that man back." In a few minutes the reformed one was dragged in and the Judge ascended his dais, rapped for order and looked severe. "Charged with being drunk" said the Court; "what's your plea?", "Guess I'm full," admitted the priso ner, with an idiotic smile. , "Ten days in the County Jail. Con stable, lock up your prisoner. Mr. Reporter, hand this Court that .wealth Court's adjourned. Boys, let's go and flood our lower levels." The Prince of Wales as Prompter. London Truth. tn receivinor loval addresses the Prince of Wales (who has an excellent memory) labors under a great disad vantage. Of course they are all sub mitted to him previous to delivery, and partly, perhaps, from the similarity in the phraseology of one address to that of another, the Prince often knows them by heart. Generally they are presented to him and " taken as read," but occasionally a Mayor loves the sound of his own voice too well to let tho Prinou escape so easily. I think it was tho Mayor of Chester who was once reaUng his Royal Highness a lengthy discourse apropos of nothing in particular, and who, being short sighted, aud therefore unable to consult the actual document, forgot a sentence, paused an.l looked helpless, when the Prince kindly prompted him in an un dertone. The Mayor blushed, and broke into a gallop over the remainder of the oration. At All Times Except"' Washington Post. We feel authorized to state, alter a careful study of Thursday's proceedings in the Senate, that Mr. Conkling is a States rights man at all times, except when the South is to be benefited by the use of the doctrine. W hat are Ye Oiviny I s. Courier Journal. Ohio Republican voter to Ohio Re publican politician: "What are ye giving us? Tally?" THAT SCHOOL BILL 4 k MAT. BRAMBLE TAIir.S I'P TIIE riliUEES. Can Either of the Speakers of the Two llonses Thwart the Will of the People? Correspondence of the News. Knafpof Reeds, May 24. The old man of Mount Gilead like a senti nel on the watch tower has sounded a note of alarm from his part of tho line, and now we have startling news again from Raleigh. We hear wit i astonish ment that there is a veto power known to our State law. Most plain people have fondly thought that this "jewel of the prerogative" had been left out of our organic law, that the will of the people through their representatives in the Legislature was the one power in this State which could make and un make laws. But the light of recent events shows that while this may bet me in word it is not true in fact, for it has been discovered that the Speak ers of the two Houses or either of them can at pleasure thwart" the will of the majority of the Legislature, and stifle the voice of the people, and there is no one to make them afraid. If this is not true, how is it that the school bill failed to become a law? Here are the facts: will some one rise and explain? Iast winter the General Assembly amended the school law in many important jar ticulars, among others appropriating about $40,000 in excess of the old appro priation. This bill was not signed by the presiding officer of each House be fore the adjournment; how this came about is a question wrapped in tho gloom of official stupidity or buried deep under the rubbish of the Temple at the head of Fayettevillo street; no charge is made of corruption, none of incompetency, it must have been one or the other, it may have been both, but the oyster-liko silence ob served by all concerned in the execu tion of this important trust has left the public completely in the dark as to which it was. All that is know n is the Legislature passed tho school bill; it was announced as signed from the Speaker's desk while the Legislature was in session: this is of record on the journals, I have been told, and has not become a law because Lieutenant gov ernor Robinson and Speaker Moring did not affix the imprimatur of their names at the foot of the bill, whereby the old school law remains in force; the will of the people is disregarded ami tho public school system choused out of wise provisions for increasing its power for good, including $40,000 in cash. The failure to sign was known a few hours after the adjournment, and the matter much talked about for weeks, until the Attorney General in an able opinion advised that the bill was law and should be signed by the presiding officers in compliance 'with the Constitution. One of those officers wont so far as to wend a message to the Secretary of State to have the bill set up in typo so that it might bo published with the laws, that ho would sign it unless "prevented by Providence," and further that he was doubtful of his lawful power to sign af ter an adjournment, hut would give the benefit of such doubts to tho poor school children; that the courts wore open to any one who wished to tost the ques tion, anil no harm could be done by signing, or words to that olleot. The other, in a letter to the Superin tendent of Public Instruction, as was flurfffslki .tt.x-ire-viAHoUvlnvtk! oS tin opinion of the Attorney General, that he would sign the bill and named a day when he would be in Raleigh for that purpose. Thus matters stood.when lo, in a moment, almost in the twink ling of an eye tho entire force tf things is changed. And by one of those un seen forces in nature known only to tho rulers of men and to third-rate politi cians, called ringcraft w hen used by tho rulers, and chicanery when the wires are pulled by the third rate, our rulers found out that this bill ought not to be signed. And it was not signed. Some inquisitive folks want to know what will become of tho $40,000 pro vided for in the new revenue bill to meet the requirements of this school bill which is not a law. Will it be covered into the general fund, the re to go the way of so much of the people's taxes, and washed down the Catawba river from Mud Cut, sunk deep in tho shoals and quicksands of Angola Bay, or swal lowed up in hatching shad for the fish ermen of the East to vend at exorbi tant rates to tho tax-payers of the center and West? Such are the plain facts as understood by a plain man. They cannot be gainsaid or denied, and the voice of the people is now heard like the low growl of thunder asking why is this? Let him or them who caused this change of front by the speakers in face of the opinion of the law ollicer of the Government beware, or this growl will be changed into the full blast of that storm which on the 23d day of June, 1215 burst on the cra ven head of Lackland John, and in tho thunder peals of Runiiyinode pro claimed the power of the people. Dis regard of that power has proved the de struction of many a well planned scheme of ambition. One Governor of North Carolina is now postmaster of his native village because no forgot the teachings of the past. The power of the people in as great now as then. The great Democratic party has no part or parcel in such things, in our conventions we will rebuke such Machiavellian policy, anil at the ballot box enter our protest against all vetoes State or Federal. Now is tho time to fix the responsibility where it belongs. "Let no guilty man escape," and let the Democratic party see to it that nei ther the misfeasance or malfeasance of individuals be laid at its door. Mat. Bhamiu.k. I The Xew York CJovernor-hli. New York Mail 'Hep;. We are informed, on excellent author ity, that within the past fevv days Mr. Tilden has soen new light on the" ques tion as to who shall be his candidate for Governor; that he has reluctantly aban doned the effort to force (iov. Robinson on the Democratic convention, and that tho Hon. Clarkson N. Potter is to be the nominee. The reasons for this change are numerous, but the most weighty -as we are informed are these: First, the implacable hostility of Tammany Hall to (iov. Robinson, and secondly, the opposition of a large number of Democrats in the interior, who have been alienated by the governor's un precedented use of the veto power. The astuteness of Mr. Tilden as a tioliticiaii has thus been again demonstrated, and he will secure the nomination of a friend and supporter, without risking the di vision of his party by insisting on a nomination that would be a defiance of of fifty or sixty thousand Democrats. This means the union of the party on a man of decided ability, high standing and strong personal connections. 130 Years on Ilia Flayers. Wilmington gtar. Talk about not living long in the "Sunny South." Why, Alabama has just lost the "oldest inhabitant," and he counted 13 years on hi- li Hirers. Next.
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