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News 1HE EIGH :7. Wi Y .' A CI J ; - I If StateUbrary mh 1H VOI..XV.-97. RALEIGH, TS. C,. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1879. $5.00 PER ANNUM ST. JOHN'S DAY. nit 4 I l.CnRA iu IORD ORPHAN AT Tim AHYLIM. OX. 1 I ri ( nfarw-, tddrrM by Hon. 4 - - 1rrlm--A Snmpin. l lrh lnlhrSirii. Mnr June 24. This is St. John's .: .! i et fr the celebration hv via.. in.- fraternity at the Orphan , . Iuiu at ttiit pi. ice, founded by the . ntv if the Order. It w.s a splendid '...! there uu quite an influx of j.,.t.:. frvui nei.;hliriug vill-nre. V 1 1 i .!"!. there er fully two : , ..kv,. j.p! it.mhlc-! the As,--; ; u :": i, te in the tvU t.iitn.il. ;-. n v. i thing w .x re.i.'y W.riip f i. M k:T . II. A. Willi.itn., f T,i. . .. I .i '. d-Six cred the id Ire of . i ". h-ic ! v re Minting whit the il.'ii.!.:..'!i4l.!..!ie tK'thr with it . t 1 1. ch? tntrl'i in;; the V. . M rrtri.n. , uxili for his - .'. . 1 h mtv." He jke ; , m t l.mr, auA his addrcut : wr'iv -f the m tu and the 1 1 'i J. .; Iil it . I . r .:i ! V "" f :i i'ex word .... :''. .f rli in: .uid jroj.r.tl A . i. n t i I i cirrx in out the .r W . h r--ilt d in th? ra.;n of , , . f tie si i-n. . : i ; i-..i 1 1 n ii. r x a then scr ed. . x.'iv - .i.-m: fill julii-e I. thf I ' A r t: I n n- r w a ron'Iu.e lr fi delivered a hrt 'i.ation.'" vin.li .w " rid . ilr-l. .... K-t.rtk'h l.sht Inr'antrv Hand -t--ii aiel turnihet the iuui. . . thin j -.-! orf pleA.4iiUv. and r iti' 111 in v e x prti."ns of sur- -x prtions . jit t he amount of .xwi the mtitu- . a -i .n'. an 1 thi ii.i iin ill . uii.t lartiv t the eredlt of tlie I lh lr''.liren of the 4 ant rr i ... I"fi ' r-. : M t i.hi f", : .1 J .1 ne ;. -v: - p. 1. 1.. a tle time ot . 1 1-i r n -". i ei in :in of 'nt'ivr lavi. W -'. VirMii i, r--uiiiiit: I t t f i - i n, ri Al i.roi.ri itioe. Senator '.. t I v 1 1 : I A llie'll. i i t -.!- i: ii tin i t . 1 of the tn'e:itiii t tlie Navv I itt.a: the . . iitjrv it. :- i t t-' S!i.'i - N iv.1 or M a- . 'i ; irlei:i. Ke.'erre 1 : '.riimi.'. N i .! Atlur. s.-n.i-; - I U k i 'in it ! 1 a itxii'iirri'iil n-"- . ; r . . idin j f.r a i. Milt imiuilte ot :n i tor jiii. I e en liojft,.ti! I - '.. t. rejrt at the next e-ion n hat . hin.- if anv o;iht t I made in :!. ui.!e f ardiiik; r o!U-tiim rev-r't..-. i i.-d on tl. e-aleiidar. The v i jip thni t-W iij V'n.iro ,omt re t!f.;..n relating t. i 1. 1 1 1 ; m.! pay if the t tu pe of lth II..iie and after t'i.. .of l ;.ti o niulrv amendiuetit Jin.; .n.lifi the further onderaU. n 1 1 . i f tbe ' x.ijotirnl a: J; l'. II ! . Mr. I!..iie Ten n. o'Terel rr 'tit i. n t'-r the final a l-o'irtunent of .e. r at " .--k elnw.l.iv, June .th. Mr. rt.e'..l UMpure-i !. ether Mr. Ilou ."ulil mv that the appropnatn hii; i.iiM I paed ly t': tune, t ut r-ei ed n ner. Mr. T"" nhend III.) ol'tet-fi1! t delate. The rr.!iiii..n a .'iete.ti eI: yea 11 t'i. Ncn;rl I einT at olt in re:ne. anions I hem Mr. Stephen Mr. ;n." -t iti. r , :t ' I a ;;i.n of I a-..n tt priiJev-. m eitt to the "Irk hi l f..i. an arti' le fnm th tf.e N e , ..r k un of the J.WI intaiit. cnti iitirf hi iMun relativa to the I - .'I'lr,' '( the tlo er report. llain t:ri. e. that U rtl.,i h i l ln writ-"e-i I t ioer hiuiif. a man for whom h h d lrem ntmpf . Tiie lou ti r r uuei einilera'.in of the hill f"hl itin Iit.-jl a.'-iiieiit. hut :.. JC--p-i 1 .1 ie ii III 1 1 ti;er. I to preein a "...n t r . r i j n until th expiration t'.e in. .riiin l.oiir. Itnine .ti the : ir( lek al.ext taWen up and jet- In.,' th rvtiS).rratoti of t'.e I U r.'i Ti-ij; : the i tir!!innt and li en n..r . n..; j roj.;!. i..ilv .y i.. or tn"-rnai in tie -a. i . tiie .ine t i j-.r i t. T r-m h I In IrrUnii. June J. Tlie anti-!an.!hr 1 a'e.fi in th et of Ireland ha. i e, t . en eauinK-. ,;jio apprehi lioli K.ht II- ii. Jame- Iwther. t'hief . rtary fr Ir-ln.. replyinr t a tw-tion m lh Ioiio of ' ni man lat niht. :arrd tbt the .vernuint a f iii !i to tha n-e.ity of ileal In j promj tlr with the matter. He i I that the.e.ntT mj-or general e f . i. 'ahii ! tr v had !-mi lipat luil on a ; a-:al uuion to t!i dltri-t iin rrrnfi to . oiiilt with the UiaC at r ate ar. t U-al i-ntatuiary and report what a. I iiitonai poiiee are re-pi ire. I in order to iniire full protec tion to all rffm in exer-te of their leal right: thxt eirailerahle reinforeeuient are temi; !ra.el into the diatriet eneerneJ. and notiee haa len given that in the ' ent of any outrage the trt if the me laiire- r til tx levie. uoii the di-tr-. t lu re it o"etira. i e w Shipping Project. l'Kt I'.ol t.. S. .. June A nun- ir. i .. of the l-ard of Trade of Atlanta In t: ittl Port 11 -val harUr with a v .' a of miking t'tit h ir tr their iii; p;iikr termmu dtirniif the ii:iin .'.ion and :ratu -a.oii. I'.v the tiuie the e;'lll olw-li a eotnhiuatlon will h n e lvn firm I het w ecu :- .i !. I'm iiiii I of Trade and the r.ul :eamship line and direct coiiimun lat ion estah ..;.ed v 1 1 For: Ilov il N txx tvn the in tere r fsMiits xxts. and south and for :cn oumtriea upon the same la.i an. I at the .n:e rate that fright i ii..w i-arrse. I hv the New 'ork I'enfral a;i I IVnnsvlvatiia n.lrai h and hip p. from New York. ( 'oiiiuiitte of t! e Ijniille and I'incinuali llardi f Trad- art exp" Ul to make arrange i: rti- with the shipping company re cently e;ahl.he. o a to utlllo the the superior advant as of Port I.oval har.r r-r tpr;.tinii, im-ortation anil immigration. Ieforw(le 4 anm Wvui..rox. June '21. A joint tr.tr itiaC d the I eun-ratic c-a i'-u co ui mittei to-day a.lo-.irinl liritil lo-nior-rw itlio it taking doiiuite ndion. It i ratable that the velnsl hill will 'iixniisl into two . rale mwjiurr. ' 'ne makirn apprepriattona for fs for I i',:.. Sta"." marshals and prohibit- : the apfsuntiueiit tr kam-nt of : ntv marshals for ele.-t ion, and the '" . r untAiiij; the remainder of the X-- I hili. IVrath m( m 5llel Anlhor. I "M.x. June '2t. .;. W. M. ICey t ..; !. welelv known aa a writer of ti aiio:ial fid i on. is dead. Deemes! aai I titration. I'Viiv, June 2. Tho Time nr '"i" n.. it at Pans mv: "The prea m the i bamkr f leputie on Sat nr ly Nt ,.f M Iefurton and Itaron ' of, h,a former under eTeiary In f ministry of the Interior, when other Ilon;t.."rtiM alxiented ther.isel ro as a token of respect t the tie -eased Prince I in i . ial. is deemed hii indica tion of their t!.im!onment of llonar ait im. Ueutnrkx Outrue. Cim inn ah, June 21. A 1 Y :i.kf i t. Kcnucky. dispatch says at Sawdrifle Saturday tdirht a party of unknown men attacked the bouse of Sam Faulk ner, severely wounding him as lie ran from the honne. They set tir to the dwelling:. x hieJi v, .if etiiMuined xith the inmate-. Il.-.r-v IIu-.-..-;!. aired . en teen. iu aUo Hiiot. ami tii eniMien of Faulkner, Hired eUveu .im! t'i . No i-.iue is Civen hr the I riii.d nlhii Jrroiuo Mautfeato. I'aui. Jul e J. - Sever ! i: "v.h; i, ; Mate that I'riiu c .l.-i jine ftoaa u te pi.t'linha man i ,e-.;o ihi rv'iiuir d- rui.' he rem. tint tml.tul t. his Aia-eio prirHinme, in whi.-.'i he au iioiui.e.f In li-piilli--au pt-;m-ip:e, anl that lie not n reren.ler to the lal mi.-. -e-Ni'in. Miil'.t th Hinm tinr. he aya hi l.irm n.t -i tim h i: the nee --i.n of any ether pirU it 'er. InrnUblriK Material foe Another Vef. Wahhimimx, June '24. The j.,iut aliiry omiiii'lee of the Senate and 1 1 -. a :ii'i!ei ...t r I p. tn. fr pup.w iii a iu mil making pm tuioii for the jiili-i.l expense of th i;o en-mi nt for the hs.-al vear of svi, Turkish Arfalra. Iimv. June 21. The Times' N'ien ii dipateh ava the Turkish Cahinet rriii wo tei min.ited hv the placing on the retire1 ht of Fued l'a.h." and Mii nd l'ahi. who hid aifiiaed tKnian 1'as'ix. SHretary of War, of malversa tion. V nklucof a S learner. I iviNMii, hio. June L'h -The larve p.i-.eukrer !eamr ii neral I.vth. stru.-k a l- fitteen miles In-low thi riiv this morning and sank in ten feet water. No 1 1 x Jot. A Iteruarkahle Dirorr) . Irti. llle i Mo. lre. I.it week, out neir Mount Air ehiir. h. Mr. Win. Ilea.ln.i;. proud- nenl farmer and per:e-ily roliahla u'ni- I iieman. ma.ieam.si stiiKUtar hti i re luirkal.'e dieoerv. lie had 1ut .'Ml d'lun a whiti' niR tree t'Afiitv-loiir i; ein-s in diameter, ami was sphtliti, upthaend next to the stump, whei he eune .vtoM.iii oak pin aipo.j. one nu-h in diameter whi' l had leeu driven liitorii auer hole. Upon (retting thin out w hat v a ht a'oni!iment and am ireiiu nt io t.n.i in the ircei hole a Im k of a woman hair. : a l-autilui aul.iirn color. 111 Jerhs-t and lifelike preservation and ltweeii twelve and fourteen inehe in length. The pin and hair w a '- ;' over v ith at lea-- e-nfen vear croxvth of the tree, whi'-h .-e:iii i-M iiii ve that it uri.st have hat-n where it Uii fotin.i lioin twenty in tx ent -t.x a xear. Fxentiie root of the U'k of hairxverw in perfect preer at hn and h el I If r n of havmc i.". l-et . ,i i . . hi., of the head. The whole i-iitter is in interest int; nxs-erv. as thi- oldest citizens know liothitic nl-oiil it. It in y have heeti smefrolikoin'- 'reak of xoiithlul lnv ers lontf since u rox n uiuy and pusseij in er the dark rix i r. or inov (s aw :ir to dttant land, or it ui ly haxo heen thi scene of omc tr rri n.r ly lx w hi.-ii some hi itf ht-ex el. !r hi -.om... girlih form, which t.ne h it t!i- kninn,' tar. thi dim ii w ind. and the uiiir derrr hmiw'l as w iti-et-. laid 1ow u her vhiiu life ra'.har than her honor. ,f. in tad T 1 1 y mrnml. i n '.on Iteu!iran. M I Tied in Winston, on .! i e I llh.bv the Kev. H. H. Wi!' .. Mr. J inn IV gram, to Mr, iiiiiio Vire, all of in slon. In relation to the aln.ve event, the follow ii.w- m 'ic efTniori h i 'm -'i lin ! I to u. There i "leu. on- h . !- lr ii i in it w hi' h makes u fl i r p"et; hill onr venlid atlll rnn" ! "vjrve. I hi m r i i;ht - none 1 ii I 1 1 -e 1 ! a v e disc.-x e t ha f j i r : Sweet liillie Win- ha xx e I and le. Sin- xx ith Janii- I'l-cram now ; And i'exitiiiu lux lox imj arm. .She ii -.m.. th hi xxrinkii-l ':. . hi! ri-Iin f t m e.irriace w H-r i tiii-x in Mlllhsl. A x passed her lika fary wild, i eei Up home; ir tlowers of heauty l..x el v form. I'ii -it lovely llower, ao blight and fair. In all the glow of life; W :th 1 1 1 1 1 ( I I cheek and beauty rare. Ke a ne J im Pcgram's wife. I g- a ml S b ee p i hr i-.I t- itiwiur. Here i something for our North Carolina farmer to think aliout: In the Conn x of .iiula, Va., they have a-s-Hfe.i and leviel a tax on dogs, out of which la, when oolbi-t, the county remunei aU parties xvho have lost sheep throughout the county during the vear for which the Lax is collected. There were S sheep killed by dogs in thecoiintx during the year eiidiuif the lt of May. for which the sum of -U.tr IJtJ, jKe paid. Panthers In tieorla KiU rton t ia-i tiaaette. On Monday last lr. ieirge Dye killed a full grown panther in his moth ers yard. The animal had come into the yard anil caught a chicken, which he via. leisurely eating, when his pres ence was discovered and he was imme diately killtsj. He had been seen re H"ie.tly by eopIc along the Wahache, ami a number of peapls had hunted for him w ithout discovering hun. It is snpseosl he had made his escape from some traveling menagerie. Another I'lsh Story. New I'.eriie Nut Miell. hie of the li..le holier of the steam fire engine F.lijah iil I is, informed us yesterday that the engine "sucked up"' a cut tish and an eel Saturday niht. from Trent river, ami that these inhabitants of the deep xvere forcl turoucli the no.le by the Kixverful pressure of water which was "played" on the burning stables. This is not a fish story, for the "cat" was only sup mcs1 to t about txvo feet in height. Isueeesvarnl Hunt for Ilea era. Meridian i Mis. Mercury. Yeierdav Jiim-s Shack lel'onl invittsl some friend to k'o xv ith him on a beaver hunt. The beaxers had dammed a bram-h iu his held, ami the time of tlie vear had arrived for them to depredate on tha corn crop, and the safety f it required breaking them up. The dams were cut, the xxater let off and the bea vers hunted in their holes by men w ith guns and dogs nnd small boys. Six leaver, old and Voung', were cap tured. A Knakf tiobbles ax tnrk;'i eal. Ml!aa lrx.) Ilerahl. The oilier day, on the farm of a citi zen nainisl Wallace, in 1 ray son coun iv, a ai x-fiail chicken miuke i-oiled it ii'elf in a turkey neat while the old hen sat thereon, swallowed all the efg and a th or-knob beside, which happened anion; tl...:r. A MAN BADLY MIXED. MIS II K ART tiik MAhw a aiiiEr T MIGHT .SIDE. The Doetorijri't to Work at II I in anil 1 Kellexe Illm ofaexeral (jallona of lrsleAl .Matter. I New York Times. 1 ue physicians ol this city are very I deeply interested in the treatment of a j man whose heart has innome way been shifted from its natural aide, and ha-s 1 I een dinr duty in an iuiu!eiuate fash ion in this novel location for two yexrs ' past. The patient is Lalhrop O. War- fonl. a naii ve of West Trov. who was ' fon'e I m jrive up his place as cashier in ; l-'retu'li's 1 lotel two years R0 on ac ; count of hU malady. His lirst seizure, and the first serious illness of his life ' lae'ai. r::: I-, in : he winter of 177. He j i mi traded a v eiy tuver cold, which I hatlleil meilicatl akill, and must haye heen pleuritic. Th cold ran its course with great violence, and the physicians j agreed that the patient was well ad- vaiiced in the first stae of raid con- suinption. Lato in the spring of 1377 Warford had become emaciated to a skeleton, and so weak that he xvas xent home to die. In West Troy he put himself under the care of a physician, who was at s loss to account for the absence of some of the most characteristic symptoms of consumption, and made a thorough souudiuic of the chest of his patient, lie soon found that the left lung was so w ithcred that it performed no func tions w hatever; hut, singular to say, he iuld find no disea.se therein to ac count tor its atrophied state. He was dumbfounded when, extending his ausculacloii to the right side, he l ul NH THK HfcAUTOK HIS PATIENT beating there piite regularly, and with all the strength that was to lie expect ed from a peiston as had tTfT as he was. Warford himself whs ignorant of tne change in the location of his life-pump. He xxus ofsuNi robust constitution that his attention riad not been called to it by any moi bitl symptoms, hut when he h id last felt for it he found it in its riifht pl.ie. This was proof enough that the displacement had been forci ble, and not genital, so the doctor sst al.oiit tindim; the cause. I iropsy of the thorax sometimes pro duces displacement of that organ, but no recordtsl case told ot any such radi ; cal change ot location. Many of the ; most charai-tei itic symptoms of drop sy were wanting, but physicians in consultation finally agreed that War ford's disease xxus dropsy, and located the spot where the dropsical effusion .s poured im'o the thoracic cavity, lint Warfon! whs so far gone that they did not think he could bear the kuifw. l iio-xpecteilly he rallied, and one day 1UI.V FOltTIKIKH HIM WITH HKANDV and began to operate. The primary incision, alsiut eight inches from ihe spine, between the fifth ami sixth rilm of the left side, fortunately struck the verv center of the deceaseti portion. Through a rubler lube, in five minutes nearly a gallon of purulent serous matter was drawn oil. For a month alter this Warlord improved, but then he began to sink again. Six weeks iif'er the first tapping the operation was repeatisl, and .seven pints of matter were r moved. Then his improve ment xx a . rapid that for the lirst time his physicians began to think of perma nently curing him. He has now been tapped six times, anil thirty-nine pints of ihe dropsical matter have been drawn ofT. The l ist tapping xx as done three mo'-ths ago, a;il his physicians hope that another xxill not be needed lor three months to come. The patient is so much better that he has returned lo this city, an I is about to engage in ac tixc business again. Whenever it sh II Ikh-ouic ue.,ary to pump him out agoin, his physicians intend to try- to introduce active inflammation in the dieasel art, hoping thereby to cure it up radically. There la no active dis ease in the atrophied lung, which ex hibits some signs of returning activity. Should it Ihhduic iiillatwd again and go to work, they hope that the heart may be induced to return to its normal plae. The only recorded case at all similar was descriled in the Knglish medical journals a short time ago. The patient in that case was a contortionist xvho managed to displace the organ once too o. - :i. His natural constitution was inferior to Warfords, and ho died. The 4 losing-oT the lulel Wilmington Ilevlew. Now that a due appreciation on the part ol our eitiams has been a knowl edged iu a proper maimer by a meeting called for that purpose, of the inior tant part that our esteemed fellow citi.cn, Henry Nutt, Ksq., has taken iu the great work of Kiver and Itar im provement, would it not be a wise and projer move also for our merchants and riti.ens generally to make some public demonstration of the important event which has lately transpired, viz.: tlie closing of New Inlet? That the closing of this Inlet is an important work toward the commercial prosperi ty of this city the testimony of every seientiiic engineer who has ever made a government survey of this coast ami river will bear witness. Among the first to declare this opinion was the eminent United States ollieer of the F.ngineer Corps, w ho visited this city many years ago, and was tlie guest of tl'ie fate P. K. Dickinson, Esq. We allude to Professor Uache. This gentleman ventured the opinion that unless the New Inlet was closed we would eventually be without a bar altogether. Hut our purpose in this article was simply to suggest the pro priety of some public demonstration in honor of the completion of such an im portant undertaking, and we would further suggest that it should not be simply a local demonstration, but let it te state wide. A gentleman of this city, a member of a prominent Water street firm, who has just returned from Kaleigh, says that during his recent visit to tho Capital, ho had numerous inquiries projHuinled to him by per sons from every section of the Suite in regard to this great event, the closing of the Inlet. It xvas something that no one in other jorlioiis of the State had expected or looked for. His Ki cellency, Governor .larvis, we also un derstand, thinks that some demonstra tion ought to be made, and signified his Willi ngness to attend at anytime, and so did other prominent officials of the State, among them Colonel William Johnston, of Charlotte, President of the Stale lioard of Public Works. Here is an opportunity offered for our citizens to oring together the represen tatives from every section of the State to our own doors. People from the mountains ami our extreme Northern and Western borders, who have to far shown no community of interest with this section, may come and bring their sisters and their cousins and their aunts, 'there is an intimation in the in quiries made by gentlemen from other parts of the Suite that they are really beginning to realize the fact that Wil mington is within the boundaries ot North Carolina, and a demonstration of the kind mentioned may be the begin ning of an awakening on the part of North Curolinians everywhere to a lit tle more State pride, which may cul minate in a little more patronage of our home institutions instead of visiting the commercial ports of our neighbors on (he North and to the South of us. Who among our citizens will be the first to move in this matter ot a public State demonstration of rejoicing over the long wished for closing of New Iulet? SWEPT IMJWX WITH TIIE MEfiTII I.(J FLOOD. French Eatly Stooping: f Drink of Water Eosea her Ital n nee and la Swept Away. Hl kkalo, June '21. Another sad ca tastrophe occurred at Niagara Falls this morning, which resulted in the going over tin falls of Mrs. A. Rowland. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland arrived at the Falls on the lSth instant from the West. They registered at the Falls Hotel as Mr. and Mi a. A. Rowland 2i Rue Magran, Pat is, France. They took rooms at this house but had their meals at J. B. Romarn's French restaurant, on the corner of Main and Falls streets. They had visited the various points of inter est at the Falls several times, and seemed to have enjoyed themselves very much. It was their intention to leave at noon to-day for New Y'ork, Tickets by railroad had already been purchased; thence they have been in tending to take the first steamer for Franco. After breakfast this morning they though they would like to see the falls once more, and started out. They walked leisurely to Goat Island Bridge, which they crossed, taking the right hand road "on the opposite side, which led them to Luna Island. They stopped at the Cave of the V inds, but con -eluded after reaching there not to go through. Thev then went out on the point where Terrapin Tower used to stand, thence they turned to the Three Sisters Island?, which they reached about half-past nine o clock. They crossed to the third island, went down the steps to the right, where they met tw o gentlemen coming up. following a boy'nexahi'lk. They also saw a loy getting water out of the river at tlie end of the third island, where the bank is a little more than a foot above the water and where tho rapids are exceedingly swift. At this point they stood for a few mo ments enjoying tho scenery. After the two gentlemen and the boy had left Mrs. Rowland asked her husband for her ocket cup, saying she wished to get a drink. Mr. Rowland took a small silver cup out of a leather case that he had in his pocket ind handed it to her. He thou walked away a few sleps aud took a view up the river. His wife in the meantime went to tlie place where she had seen the boy dipping up water and attempted to till her silver cup. In doing this she must have lost her bal ance and fell into the seething rapids. ovkh tiik ruKt iricK As she fell she uttered a frightful scream, w hich caused her husband to turn aimut, and seeing his wife strug gling in the water he rushed to the edge of the bank, but she was out of his reach ami beyond all human aid. Af ter seeing his wife pass from his sight in the boiling, seething rapids he turned aud ran nearly the whole dis tance to the French restaurant, where he dropped completely exhausted in a chair. He groaned and wrung his hands when the proprietor, Mr. Ro main, came up to him aud asked what the matter was. He replied, "My wife is gone under the water," and when he bad recovered his breath sufficiently to Uiik, related the sad occurrence. ON A I'f.KASIRE TRIP HofND THK xv OR l.t). Mr. Rowland is a manufacturer of firearms, his place of business being at No. "d Boulevard De Arroy, Idege. Belgium. Hois about forty yeairs of age, tall and in delicate health. His wife xvas about thirtv-five years of age They xvere married two vears ago, and after visiting the Pari Exhibition started, in October last, for a pleasure trip around the world. Going through the Suez Canal, India, China and Japan thev crossed the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco, dsited Chicago, and, as men tioned aliove, reached the Falls on the 1Mb. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland could onW talk English a verv little. They were noticed to be quite(loving, and the theory that was first started, that there was a suspicious look alout the affair, finds no credence among his French friends. Mr. Rowland seems to suffer intensely from this sail affliction, which, in a moment of his great happi ness, deprived him of his faithful and loving wife. He will remain at the Falls for a week in the hope of recov ering the body of his wife. He will use every effort to find the body, and, if found, will take it to France. Peilestriniiisni Throug-h the .Moun tains. Charlotte Observer. A popular mode of traveling over the mountains in the western part of our State is to go on foot, taking it leisurely. Parties are formed, of three or four persons, who start from some point on the railroad and walk till they have seen all points of interest, stopping on the way for fishing and hunting as often and as long as thev can find amuse ment. A party from Cabarrus, com posed of three young men returned two weeks ago from an extended trip, ta- ing in Warm Springs, Asheville, Black Mountain, and many other points. A week or two ago Mr. J. S. Manning, Itobert Strange and A. C. Springs, re cent graduates of the University, left Charlotte on an expedition of this sort. They were in Lenoir the early part of the week and were joined there by two other parties. They carry a change of clothing in a small wallet the whole not weighing over six pounds, and ex pect to be out six weeks or more. Those w ho have tried it, say it is lull of fun, and affords advantages which cannot possibly be enjoyed by the ordinary methotfs of travel. It is likely that there will be many parties of this sort in the mountains this season. A Hen With Teeth. Nexv York Herald. David Fishel, of this city, is the owner of a fowl that settles lor all time the question of hens' teeth. The hen is alKuit a year old. She was hatched iu Ohio. She has no bill, her head being something like a monkey's. The teeth are small and look very much like a baby's flrsttwoor throe incisors. They areset in both jaws. Tho hen fell into Mr. Fishel's hands in the regular busi ness way, but he has fixed tip a coop for her in his store window. Ilanrock Agrnin. Cincinnati Enquirer. There are a good many Democrats in Pennsylvania and elsewhere who be lieve General W. S. Hancock is the dark horse who may yet come in and win the race. When Ewing and Rice are elected in October he may be uu-blanketed. HIS WORKSDO FOLLOW. ATTEXTIOX IKVITED TO A SERIES r t'OMPARISOS. Some Advice to the General Assem-lly---Ir. Urlssoiu's Wants nndEx pe lUiluresA Poor Invetl-tient. Correspondence of the Xews. OiiKK.NsBORo, June "Ji. "x j.ivr j,.t. tiently awaited tho closu oi eximin -tions and college commehcem. n:s, I trust I may prove a more welcome vis itor to your valuable columns, in at tempting to give the people some light upon the management of their noble charity. The legislation under discussion is not, nor was intended to be, as sup posed by the State Medical JouviK'l, a reflection upon the Directors of tl e Asylum. This is shown by their re tention in office under the act. The t-ieneral Assembly would be very slow to reflect upon such gentlemen as these, who undertook their thankless office without pay and in a pure spirit of pa triotism and benevolence. Indeed it will be easily seen that if it took the committers, when armed with the ju dicial power of examining witnesses on oath, weeks to arrive at an approxima tion of the true state of facts, the Direc tors, without such power, however superior in intellectual endowments, could never have accomplished the same task in annual sessions of onlv oneortwo days' duration. Nor could the Executive Committee, vigilant as they were, effectively go behind the scenes without this lever to prize open the way. Both the Board and its Exe cutive Committee had to take a vast deal on trust from Dr. Grissom. The simple truth is that practically under the old law, the Asyium has been, al most necessarily, KNTIRUI.Y IN TIIK HANDS OK DR. GRIS SOM, and its inner workings hermetically sealed to the outside world. He and not the Directors is entitled to the cred it or the blame of its good or evil man agement. Which is it? We shall see. The act complained of endeavors to remedy these things and changes the powers, duties and compensation of the superintendent. Jliuc Mcf lachrynur.' I do not hesitate to declare, and will show hereafter, independent of the evi dence already adduced, that if its ap propriation shall be faithfully adminis tered, it will be found that the General Assembly has not abridged a sin gle comfort of a single inmate of the Asylum, nor in the slight est degree impaired its efficiency as a curative institution. Tlie committee thought 45,000 amply suilicient; but out oi abundant caution they gave an additional $-3,000, contingent upon the certificate of the Directors, endorsed and approved by the Governor. They had eutire confidence in the Directors (meeting quarterly) and in the clear, cool and excellent judgment ol" our Governor, and were therefore content to give the additional sum upon the double safe-guard of their approval. But without exception of Democrat or Republican so far as I know, they be lieved it unnecessary and relied upon these gentlemen to CALL A HALT TO TIIK DOCTOR at the end of the S45,000 if not before. And they will pardon me for suggest ing the impossibility of carrying out the spirit of this law, without thorough ly overhauling matters and deliberate ly "setting their pegs" in the begin ning. Delay will, I respectfully warn them from the teachings of the past, inevitably result in the same old song of "insufficient appropriations," cou pled with the same old appeal to the Legislature to supply a heavy deficit. And here in the name of common de cency, as one of the tax-paj'ers of the State, I protest against what I under stand to be a not unfrequent habit of this institution of exceeding the appro priations of the General Assembly. It is a practice reprehensible in the high est degree, because a violation of law and of morals and a mischievous as sumption of the powers of legislation. "Set your pegs," gentlemen, and force tho Doctor to come to them. If he in sists that he can't, what then ! Why every consideration of honor aud pro priety points to but one simple answer, "Let him give place to one who can.'" I assure the Doctor and the Board that there are many sons of the State, not withstanding an industriously CIRCC LATKD OPINION Tit A RY. TO THK CON fully capable of performing his duties wi thin the appropriation and without the slightest detriment to the comfort or efficiency of the institution. But to return to the report. A com parison is instituted in which the im pression is plainly conveyed that it costs more to leed the convict than the insane patient. The State Medical Journal seems to be so impressed. A very slight examination of a brief extract will show the sort of trash (if the Doctor will pardon me) with which the people are gulled. Here it is slightly condensed: "The cost per capita of the entire pris on population attached to the peniten tiary 1 am informed is 'M cents. It is evident that the portion which live wholly within prison walls must far exceed the 13i cents margin between 30 and the 404 cents appropria ted to the insane. (Page 17.) What then is the humiliating fact? It is that the highway robber and the murderer rinds the treasures of the State freely poured forth for his guardianship and comfort. But vou, venerable lather, and you, lovelv girl, yesterday unfolding with the freshness of the primrose poor fluttering dove must be al lowed onlv such food as half the con victs' allowance will buy (pp. 18, 10, 20, 21.) What can that action mean - which fattens THE OUTCAST IN THE JAILOR S CELL and starves the stricken child of woe?" (p. 22) Now when the above was writ ten the Doctbr had in his possession, or within easy access, the penitentiary re port which, on page 40, says: "The average number oi convicts irom No vember 1, 177, to November 1, 1M7S, w ;is o-2 cost of feeding each per day 7 48-100 cents. The whole cost, inclu ding officer's salaries, guards" pay, food, clothing, and all necessary ex penses, 06-100 cents per day. Of these the average number on the West ern North Carolina Railroad, 427; entire cost as above, :il 48-100; and the average on the Fayetteville Road 87 entire cost &i 58-100. Now for the Doctor's prob lem: What is the cost of each of the :.s7 remaining in prison walls? Major Bingham's smallest boys will demon strate in a twinkling that it is just 42i cents, and not "far exceeding 40i," as declared by the Doctor. But fairness demands that the comparison be con lined to the same year for both institu tions, which the Doctor does not do. The relative figures for the yearly 8, w hen the Penitentiary paid $20,000 in salaries more than the Asylum were 36 and 62i cents. The appropriation for the Penitentiary was greatly more re duced than that of the Asylum, as that the proportion for 1879 is stiii more largely in favor of the latter. The truth is that when the convict got 7i cents for food, the insane patient was getting 19i inclusive of whisky, ale, ctcyand this i.t nas never been reduced one iota. But assuming that it has been and in proportion to other items, then as the provisions last year were 28 percent, of tne entire appropriation, the same per cent, now would give the patient 14 cents for food. So that from his own stan I point our distinguished friend is entreated to explain how the 19i cents or even 14 is one-half of the convict's al.o-.vatice ol 7i or Jess! and how the latter injures will "fatten the outcast in the felou "a cell," at hard work all day, and the fnrmr "starve the stricken child ot woe on no work at all. If he will do so satisfactorily, I think I may saiely guarantee unanimous endorse ment by the next State Medical Con vention of his side of the Hammond con trove rsy. IK IN YOUR .SCHOOL-BOY DAYS, DOCTOR, you ever made such a sorry exhi bition ot figures on recitation to "oil d Doctor" Wilson as you have here givn to the public, he soundly rapped your rnetoricai neaa witn his fertile and stood you blubbering in the corner of the school house torelearn your lesson. nut joking aside, will our mend at tempt to escape by including in his estimate the $40 ,000 cost of penitentiary buildings? Even then his position is untrue, and the fallacy so transnarent and puerile as to render it unworthy of notice. J nere seems a want ot ingenu ousness about this statement absolutely amazing until it is discovered that the above extract (page 17 ; is what THEATRICAL TKI OUMEUS CALL A "CUE, necessary to introduce the next per former and place of entrance ou the stage. Without it, as it is, those "ven erable fathers" and "lovely girls" could never have appeared at' all, and the world would altogether have lost the pendant six pages of the very prettiest UiiK in the whole report. In fact, the chief if not the only fault of this produc tion is that each ot its material positions, upon examination, become too much like the old gun of the doggerel. w men, wnetner aiineu at chick or plover, Is sure to kick the owner over." But as time presses, we will leave all this tor the present, and as we have re spectfully followed, beg leave now to lead our friend a little further into the field of comparison. Mr. Editor, in a classic grove, in the suburbs of the re- nneu town ot Uxtord, ana in tne very front rank ot noble chanties, there stands the Orphan Asylum, a monument to the Masonic fraternity more beauti- iui anu lasting than jarian marble or perennial brass. When marble andbrass shall have crumbled and far beyond the final wreck of matter, its" results will wreathe themselves into a crown of Iglory for this fraternity and its su perintendent in charge. This side the grave it will be impossible to estimate the good done by tnat man. it will re quire MINDS KREKD KROM THE CLOGS OF MOR TALITY and purified by association with the in finite charity to see and appreciate it Vet how quietly and unobtrusively and successfully he works! He knows of Lobby as he knowsof Siam, only by reading and hearsay, iso subsidized press will ever gild his brow with a meretricious fame. "His worfes 4o follow him," and thev alone proclaim him. During the investigation of the Insane Asylum, one of the committee meeting him by chance on the train, drew from him many interesting facts connected with his work. Desiring to test his own memory, the same member. before this corres pondence began, and :without inti mating his object, addressed certain in quiries to Mr. Mills by letter, to wnicn the following is his answer. 1 trust he will pardon the liberty I have taken in referring to him here, and reel sure there can be no breach of propriety in publishing this letter: ) ; i vv Asylum, Oxford. N.C., f May 5, 1870. J Dear Sir: Last year our receipts were 7,781.28. Average number of orphans 130 not quite a month for feeding, clothing and teaching each orphan. During the last rive months we have spent $3,311. 11. Number of orphans 128 a little over $f a month; but these are the five most expensive months. When vegetables come in fully, our expenses will come down 30 per cent. Besides, ot this $3,311.11 we used about $300 improvement aud re pairs, which will be permanent, as the buildings are now in much better con dition than when the Orphan Asylum was opened. But General Cox (the present Grand Master) advises me to spend ?r a month on each orphan, even though I could reduce expenses to 4 a month. It has been about three since we had a case of serious sickness, and all were able to respond to the breakfast bell this morning. Not knowing the object of your inquiry, I have tried to answer comprehensively. Will take pleasure in answering any questions in regard to the orphans. With sincere esteem, J. H. Mills, Superintendent. Now then, as a matter of interest to the tax payers, to whom the Doctor ap peals, and introductory to some com parison I propose to institute between the management of the asylum and that of other institutions. I invite at tention to the following table, calcula ted mainly from the Doctor's report and showing the amounts used, the number of patients, and the annual daily per capita for each year since 1S07 in the Insane Asylum: Year. Amount Used. Daily Per Capita ISO lKfjf) 1K70 1K71 1S72 173 1S74 1X75 1876 1X77 1X78 i7,.7ia 64,750.00 80,700.00 73,352.70 66,997.70 70,000.1)0 65,000.JO 70,000.00 7:,09x.0 63,000.00 71,535.00 75 79W 7oyt 11 years 760.73 Average per year, $08,688.73: average patients, 244; average annual per capita, $282.40; average daily per capita, 771. This laule is to be approximately cor rect, and if wrong rather under than above the mark. There are some $13,- 000 resulting from the extension of the fiscal vear in 1879, and probably deficits for otiiers not taken in the account. H iving no report for 1877, the number of patients, at a venture, is put at 270, though according to my recollection it is not so large. THERE WAS A CONFLICT IN THE TESTI MONY before the cinimittee as to the average in 1878, the Steward placing it at 270. We, however, gave the Doctor the ben efit of his own statement. The Doctor places the expenditures for lb7s at $05,.").'i5.06 and I have used timt sum in discussing the contrast 1 re-ienied between the penitentiary and the Asylum; but as there was a debt contracted of 8,000 presumably in 1878, and as the last General Assembly paid that debt, ii is thought to be properly added to the expenses of that year. The table also embraces repairs" So that it will be seen that under Dr. Grissom's administration (who went into office July 6, 1878), a period of eleven years, an average of 244 pa tients, have cost the State in round numbers about eight hundred thou sand dollars $282.40 each per year and 771 cents per day. We now gve table Annual Patients i Per I Capita. 211 271,70 219 295.66 229 352.40 242 303.93 245 273.46 242 2X9.25 I 245 26T..31 250 2X0.90 257 2X4.25 270 233.33 278 257.32 2,688 3,106.61 for Orphan Asylum on the basis of 1878 for all purposes: -'' Year Amount I No of IXjVp" Tear- Used. Orphan. ptto ux 1S78 $ 7,781 Ji 130 VJ& MlMjctS 1S78 P.'HXMX) 244 oA" UI4Cta 11 years. $iao,63aJK 244 So, then, briefly to recapitulate, 244 orphans under Mr. Mills coet $14,603 per year aud $100,633 for the eleven years. While the same number of pa tients under Dr. Grissom (adding the $13,000 spoken of above) coet $09,887.33 per year and $768,700.63 for eleven years an excess of $008,127.63. To your correspondent these figures would seem "incredible, if they were not before him in gloomy reality." (p. 20.) "Oh! but," says the Superintendenti THE INSANE MUST HAVE JSXTRA FOOP, extra attendance and extra medicine. Everybody knows ho costs a great deal more than the sane." This Is cheer fully admitted. But, my dear sir, how much? Will twice as much d6? If Mr. Mills can take care of 244 on $14,603, ought not Dr. Grissom to do so oh $29, 206? Surely an additional sum, amounting to the sum total of the neces saries, ought to furnish the extras, es pecially when the Doctor raises at the Asylum, in profnse abundance, almost every vegetable known to the catalogue of Buist or Landreth. Who doubts that this ratio would have been ample had Mr. Mills been in Dr. Grissoui's place, and that without detriment to - the In stitution? If so. North Carolina would have saved $447,494.63 by the ex change of men. But the Doctor still demurs. Ah, then, as your correspon dent likes to be generous, and. above all things, loves harmony, let the Doc tor himself fix the rat.O. Passing by hundreds of Asylums in America nnd LEAPING THE BROAD ATLANTIC to pounce dewn upon what the tmor of his report describes as instances of ex traordinary proportion rari nunte in gurgite vasto on page 34 he says: "Thus in England and Ireland, three times as much is paid for the food, clothing, attendance and management in public asylums of the insane pauper as compared with the sane." (Oh! Doctor, parenthetically, how could you abuse us so when notwithstanding It reduces you heavily, the present act still gives your insane pauper more than three times as much as Mr. Mill's sane pauper? How could you? Now let us apply this rule and it will give Dr. Grissom as the proper cost for one year 43,800, and for his official period $481,899. But the Doctor used for one year $6tt,87.33, and for the eleven $78,760.63, according to his own report $280,801.63 more than enough. Did the R. and R. Committee have no ground for the declaration, 'that the judicious economy used by a discreet individual in the manage ment of his private affairs, applied to this institution would save thousands to the State?" But hold I Our margin enables us to throw away the thousands with a Count of Monte Chrwto prodi gality. For repairs and good measure let u knock off $91,801.63 and we have left as waste $195,000. Now then THE DOCTOR fi SALARY AND PKRqUI- SfTES. for this time have amounted to about $55,000, or about $5,000 per year. Atld this aud it is demonstrated that our poor old State has paid for the distin guished services of oOr distinguished Superintendent the snug little sum of two hundred and titty thousand dollars. It is in no spirit of personal unkindness to him that I declare it as my conscien tious conviction the poorest invest ment our old mother ever made, con sidering the amount involved. Nor is it any personal reflection to say so, for $22,727 a year is too much for anybody this side the White House. But, Mr. Editor, I cannot control my unskilled pen. The "wee hours" which usher in a new Sabbath morn are In sight, and though I have transgressed all resonable limits of a letter, I am not half through with tho comparisons I expected to embody in this. So, crav ing your indulgence for another time, 1 bid you a lair good night, 'And pleasant dreams and slumbers light." One ok the Committh. When Charles Must Economize. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Charles Foster is said to be very dif fuse as a public speaker, and di flu sen ess will nut do in a summer campaign. It is necessary to come at once to the point -or the bavonet. Yadkin College. This college was established in 1849. but during the war, like most institu tions of the kind in the South, its oper ations were suspended. It was revived after the war, and it is now under the management of its President, the Rev. S. Simpson (who has had charge of the college for six years), with three mem bers ot the faculty, all able and ex peri-, encel teachers; it is rapidly gaining iu patronage, usefulness and character. The college is situated in the beauti ful valley of the Yadkin, nine miles from Lexington, a county uusurpasssd for health, climate and good morals. The faculty gives espocial attention to the moral, as well as the mental cul ture of the pupils. Atthe Commencement recently held three young gentlemen bore off a di ploma from the institution. The fees for tuition and board are remarkably low. For particulars see advertise ment in another column. This institution is commended to the readers of the News as worthy of pat ronage. Supreme Court. Court met at, 10 o'clock on yesterday ; all the Justices present. Consideration of appeals from the 4th District, was resumed. Merchants Bank of Fayetteville vi. T. S Lutterloh et a.r from Cumber land; argued. Gray & Stamps for the plaintiff, and Gnthrie tt Carr for the de fendants. W. Overby and wife vs. Fayetttiville Building and Loan Association, from Cumberland; argued. Guthrie t Carr and T. II. Sutton fsr the plaintiff, and Hinsdale tfe Devereux and McRae A Broad foot for the defendant. Court adjourned until this morning at 10 o'clock. A Parent leas Baby. The coroner held an inquest at 9 o'clock yesterday over tho luvlirAf k de id infant alluded to in yesterdav'a News a haying been found in th rar of a lot on east Hargett street. Ihe investigation elicited the fact that it was a white male child, that had not reacneu us lull term. . There was no evidence as to who its mother was This is the verdict: "That the remains are those of a foetus, not of full time, and were depos ited at the place they were found by some person or persons unknown to the jury." Itxcursion 8rt! Ptenie- This iiurninir the Fimt pwi,nia..: ... Sunday school have an excursion -to Co onel Sanson's farm where a picnic rMr u rhe wi'l leave the , (oiai rvaieign & Ofuttstn h j30!??10 ,An enjoyable time wM:i. donbtless be had. " .. ,
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