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i ' - - i Is .? f J it:-1 VOLXV.-99. RALEIGH, X. C, FE1D1Y MORNlXG-,"r0NR 7; 1875V $5.00. .PER AOTUM - --.,- - . c .... - 3 i r ) r -. -. . i- jl. . i, r.: n i THE MISSISSIPPI. Tilt: niMiMirn rivkr hi ktcv ACT RKPLILCO. ferwator Vr reaile L(ler from ( oiorri Men I North (arallna tallMK aa Intimidation. WiiiNOTox, June X-Sesati:.-en:tr Vti asked unaninmu eu nt 'out cf the luuruiuir hour, to . up t!ii concurrent reolutiou sub united by him yosterday declaring that rauitotiJutton of iUrr to it full re--..:ai.n a luetiey metal ami iu free cm a;: are demanded alike by thedic uit -f justice i4U.i ic lalesmariHhip. lr. hu' lr ob-1l and the reHo!u ? i wait over. Senator Ferry in tro- b.ced a bill u .mien. I the act providing f,r tie appointment ,' ihe M UnKni; pi . i . .. . . i.mt i u.pioi tin fin i ummisin ; re- nr;e:. n. ! imtk, irm me i imn ii t ..ii.uv. ::. reported favorably on the r..- utiji providing for a inm imltee t li vetiKHtti the best means of T a ! i : and collecting the public rev enue, ami u am-ertain whether any i !ui fvm iu the present ineth- f iiiAfctnc apuiittiiteut. The res- l'1'i..ti v aa tin n pa.el. It provide tU: the iiiniiii::ii ahall oiiiHint of llinc utcnlLera frun each hoove, iuwtead of U e StiaUr aii'l Vtni Keprc-cita-tne-. v. required by S-nal.r Un k'n utiAit.l f-4iuSi.Hi. 'senator ltanin. ft u th t tiuuiittee on 4 'ommervo, re rrt1 fjmt ly rn the Hon joint ""i,i'" lutthoritiu,; the urv of Mtttprt river, near Comxmlia .it 1 '. w v 1 1 Ueinl, anl it p.ie-l. I 'In llitu tMk up the iintiuthe! biiin' of yteri. v , Stn;ur "in-t- u rt i:innif hi b in .l. l iie .r tf rr rrl rf rh HepuMi.ii prlv. He f e.'err"J at bnlli to the euiort'sl eaoUn. He til Ir hiI eri-nras;J it ami lortot in tt. Senator Van. e re:ul r from ttorl mfii in North i ar otina to hor thwr there never h.k. I iH-rn any nit (mutation of ;. rt. I vottrH in tht Senator I M ii iU'it Va. j ! ittiii in i tnitr-i ention uf thtwe t.(e fW in :or Winhun. an. I . the lai!r" ti;urc were dcceptie. "I ,.., tli went into e ve, .ii i 1 he ;n. iinl when the .twr were rr- iitl the preai-hn oQn-er l-tni before it the Judicial expeiiaea bill bh li la4eil hy Uie IIu lo-lar. and it m r-. i ti e fi i : aiil .uitl lime ;wil r'- ! rre. to the .pprtiri.tin I oinuut'ee. T.ie Se-itf then adt.viriid. lli -A pro;-itin mr revokiin; ! ive- t .ient :mi.t"d to imui li .m.l re tiirni: .ill alt-nit-H t re- "ft for "Iniv imii.C'li-te!y made ry Mr. Armtteld N. " . "but uoi- .. 1 t. Tht m iking ai propria tiwita tor rrt-uii Judl ial 0jeive-. and the l-! i iiiikiiiif appropriation to p.iv tt ftfTi of in irha!" and their icrnenil Ifpiitu- were rert-d trim tln I oin miUiv iu Appririatnit. ordere! t b printeU ami referrel to the t'oin mittew of th Whole. The bill prohib iting wdtlica! aM-Mtiniita then enme up a. thf btimtj of the moniiin; hour. lr. rtirll oulit the opportunity f k;ns a-.int the hi!!, but w.io ui off bv ti- pr iou- ipittton, and th Hi pn (h-si: a.aui r"sortl to dtlaury t- tt- Mr. Atkina Tnn. , ehairinan uf a prtpriation mninuttfe. reported the JiiJi'Ul ii'- bill aro-d u -on m the m-wrratic lauriu yesterday, anl Mr. hl ( Ind t, frm oaui riu m:tte. rerrte.t a lull fr marhar u. I I'rtn: d and refrrel to t'ommittte of the Wh.li. Tbo Hoiuh then resumed ..ii Irr-ation of the bill prohibiting it -al meTtt. Mr. J Jarlield d rr. t..;j; thon, but w a not p r iiutttl; w hereupon the lleublien ti i ihuterci until th expiration of the uiormn hour. Mr. x til niittel the -(fcfi ren repirt on the le:ter rarrief' I t... and after a abort di tiioii it m i I aio.ic i. 1 1 ttii M acreei 10 appro- 1'fuirsi f4i .' for payint'tit ol' Utter tamers during the rnniiii; tial yiar and t ( I f.r nu if to ianeof bt-t-r --rr .rr during the pr-iil ! -al t-ar. Mr. .ih.n intrlul a bill amendinit the M iiippt f'lter I m -r ronement ommiioit ac t. KtVrnJ. Th liue thcu went tutu Committee f th VV'boia on th judicial eien hill. Mr . ltiaekhairn iky.i in the chair. Mr Wnarer otTre1 an ametiditn nt pf idinc that iiiuuiiMiuitruf !uror nntiuttHt Uterein aiiall l appointel from the prif.cipai Mliinal puiy in lh htri t in which rurl i held opj-oaed to thai towtifh the rlerk of the iixirt belonic. Adopt-l. Many other aineml u. rut w ere pripel but all rejected. The i-uuuittiira liien ro and the bill wa retvrttMl to Hon and tl. S r, .; naya: rT7. All the irwiKvknn present mupt Kora.vth otI iii the a'..riii.ti a. Ai;ournett. the llrIU 4 rltl. I oMhi. June a. A Ilruter Cairo tbvUch eay: "Ac-rding li authen tic informatioo reeiel from Contan tumple the Saltan ha tgie.i the tlr utau deponing the KtteJive in favor of hi u Prime Mahiuel Tewelek. In the llooe if lrd to-diy the Mar-Ui of iulbnry onittfinel the r rt that the Sultan had ordered the K ie.ii e to at-hcaie, and that the latter had a4Uiee-l. tard SauUUurv ataied farther that frwc Tew tik hal iwen m ataiUJ a the Kheii of lcypu A divpAlrb t the Heuter Telvraph ompany maya I'niKe Tew rl k will pub bh a pro-lamatin to-night anuoun enig hi at-".lon ! the Vice Ko ally f ipt. It ia bdievl that lamaci, the ex-Khedive, w ill jut Kgypt nit .VI t nday. Shealiar. AtU5t , June Jk - A -i l ! itti. li to the Constitution jtatethat Jim Itiirton hot and kiUe.1 hi hrolher-in la . J. T. link; IjoIIi are faj ner iu Marriwrther county. Hie trouble grew tit of the aetlieuienl of an estate. Hf k hewn I that llurtoii hai a-ken ottt.iv el v of ht family and sought reir-. 1 lot l prtirM met In the ro:i, and Hick demandoot a retraction of Hurton, who w armt with a lol tun and li diargcd It at lin k, who cli ileal iitLaiitiy. iturton i at laige. : : I aim to haveactc! in aelf de!eue. Tk ltwa4artlst arrMla. I mk. June 'Jfk rheOnlre. Itoubrr" f i ergan. rrprlu( ea and coneeiit- It j.atbftili'atf an nwunt of an inter v iew in tU t. itouttei'a replv ing to the i'ir-tio( a to aim would Ut the .jnt of the d - I l'r line Imperial, ,1 Prune Jennie w 111, if he actepta that rriut rrjnil'ility. iallforwla llllra i x R4Vi imd, June irl. Hie tata .n t eutHxi of the New' Constitution i-rt .mbleJ at Kacramento y enter- ij Marion lUgir. chairman of the ie.-vtise cotuuitttee w aa appolote4 t m t ra t c bai r a-ai. Ccxu tuitia- were affia!ej atnl the rwnration )iifrnj unlit lo-4ay. ad- ISaJate Mp!laa (trallaa U a. June "ATrie stale ICepu b i,. :i 1 DtnuiiKHiu.', here W-day and taesj by eW-tiO A. i'la 1 a n, aa laoipormy chairman. On thouHund two hiimlre 1 and thirtv-four ilflesiaUi were present, lion. I. F. DavU, of Corinth, was noiuinaied for governor on tlie third ballot. The Fire KeeorU. HfKKuo. June 25. An incendiary tire in 'IVyUr A C'rKte'H lumber yard at luidniuht doHtrojed a large amount of luink-r xtioils, etc. Ism from $V2,(AH) U Z -ii,oou. Nkw Oitr.RAs, June 20. A. Schnei der' a tol,utt factory on New Loves street and Cochrane ami .Mim a ma chine hopw were t.uri.ed niiht.. Ioj eotim i:n1 at ?7.Vin)o. Xentmllly. IiMi, Juiip'j!. Tho Uritlsh ad miralty have onbT lor detention of the torpedo Ixmt iirrha.al by the Peruvi an tiovernment, which jutt into Sliuer neva for rejKiini. XI i e I'cortb of July Orntor. Mj rtnrlrlU Rpt:l i-an. At this late da.i. when people had be gun to doubt whether any gentleman could a induced to furiiiau the elo rjutneo for our Fourth of July cele bration, the orator hxi been secured. He i not an ex-rebel, but an ex-carjet-iMgrer. KxdJocernnr I ::i i-t 11. Cham lerlaiu of South Caro'itia v$ the choice ol the mmer of the eouimittee who ban licen delegated to secure the apeak er. The action of tho Springfield com mittee man ha the beauty of thorough conItency. He Iwtn done the most atalwart thing otihle. Hero is a man 1-itteil btraight over tigaint Wade l.uuptoii and the rebel brigadier, a wanderer from South Carolina, victim of the State right doctrine upon w hich tho aUegcd new rebellion ixiobe based. Whether the people of this region, who hae given plain and reiteruted ex pres aion of their de-ire to have the South welcome-i to a share in Northern cele bration of the national holiday, will be ati-tied at the tabstiiute offered th.-ni, doe not appear to have been consid erel bv th able committee. The com-mit'ee-uiau ha at len.st been nllowed to alify hiinelf. lr. Chamln'rlain i? a very go-xl public jH-aker, out he will not adorn the liuiu or the place. The ora.or i H Worces ter county man, a lawyer of undsual ability aul holding many friend in New llnglaiivl. lint M r. ('iiaiuberl iin" record in South Carolina i what he i known by, ti r-l and lant. He gained hia national prominence a attorney general and governor in the carpel-bag rule ol that State, by all odd. the mowt corrupt government that ha lieen known in this country. That during hi term a- governor he snowed the dlpoltloii ofrefoin. in well known, and he had cie lit tor it, from the ite- fuiblican a peneronalv and encourttg ngly as from partisan hepublican. He profeeel t h ive been aware of Ue ox- traragam e and ra niitv ot scott. Moe and other, and that fie nnavaiiingly opined their iniquitous pra. ti e. litit the revelation which loll. .wed the overturn ot that gov ernment, the ex ig nition of the land cniinii-ioii hw indie, the iugeni4tia sir k fuitd commi.iou ami the financial agency of l.i friend Kimpton, have aeriouaiy damage that reputation which h had partially re trieved, and left him under the gravest auHi.ii ions of official dishonor, if not in thedefenaive in the matter of eron al boneaiy. iHiubtlesa there are lhoe who have conttdenie in hi probity, but he ha not yet even m ide a goMl ex parte clearanc.. from thecharge made agamt him in Sou h Carolina, soiiie of w hi.-h, w e I eli v . ai e pending in the ha of indictment lefore criminal cnrt. Jail tetlerj In I l ii.irl .tie i l..-rv r. Monday morning, Sheritf lbbinon w cut iil to ative the live lueoliilon. at I.incolnton, iif tair iu the i.ri.ioners their break lait. A h the room in w hi opeuetl the door of ti the five were con fined, having hi pitol iu hi hand, one of tin in. a negro n.tme.1 t i 1 1 it n i . ei7etl him around the arm and vv.u'. '1 he attack w.ia a!tirvthr uuiii-s iJ, the her ill hav ing I ft the pr ioi.ei maii-al-l the night In to re, but he iiiad a m.mful re. -tan. e. In atumptiug to cioMO the Ptr liehind him. in- had it dammed to, and one of hia bauds tiadl v lac r.te.l. and at tin juncture he w .ia ov erjiou -erel and the j.islol w rctl from his h.ci'N. l hrensliots were tired at I. iin. l it! happily without cited, and four of the prisoner rusht.l down the lairi. and with a piece of iron biirt a panel out of the door. Through tbis they r-si-ajs-.!, while Sheriff Itohinwon engau.1 the luudmoat prisoner and Umi him ba k into the cell wish the handle of a brni. A crowd was raised and pursuit wa iriven iln fugr.iv -s. All tartl across the trestle ov er thi Suith Fork, but one I e oiiiiug frightened stoppel on the trestle, and wa retaken. Up to last account the other were still at large. Ail ol the prisoner were colored. The one w ho w rented tho pistol from the her iff hands w a.s a notor iois deera iln narni! Johnston. It is supposed that they relieved themselv e of their shackles tin ring Sunday night, by means of a spu handle which waa fund in the cell next day. tenatwr (iorilon'i Mheep Kmnr ti. S.l. li!e A tin rican. Seuator tionloti'a rauch i at Ty -Testation, Jt cujuprbtat Mo.isio acrea of giMMi land. Tlie Senator". stalwart son. It ugh II. Cordon, is the manager of the ranch in his father absence. lie 1 an euthuaiawtic aheep farmer and is jut starting with a stock of l.Tuo. The rau b ta being liulov. w ith walls built by negrtr convMs, who, according to the tieortfia system, are leaseai out un der contract. " Already seven mile of w all have been put up. Senator" Gor don w ill make hia o,juo acres one vaat sheep ranch. Wata tbe Matter. Htjklmvllie landmark. Melvin Millern, the ring leader of the gang who burglarized the house of Mr. Nicholas Stikeleather, ha leen at large for the al month or six weeks and till uo reward from tho Governor has been offered for his apprehension. Though hi confederates haves been tried and condemned to death, this criminal ha l-en allowed to elude jus lice without a reward teing otTered for hi arrest. We rr pert fully call Gov erner Jar via' atXvntien to this matter. Make Yowr Hread. Cl.alHrl Ititl Iifrr. In view of the fact that we have had to send to lUieigh for our corn and corn meal this month or two past, is it too much for us to urge upon our Urlg farmer the ne-eitv of planting mora corn tin aaon? It is really a ilia-j 5 race to this section of country that we o not make our ow Ii bread. ' Arul the flour made In our mill is not what it ought to be. Our lawt bouokoeiert end abroad for flour. Such farm ill l suicidal in the huig run, and we feg our fneLa to consular it. Wit now t a Joa. Atlanta coaatiuitlon. After all, there were only alx nr eight tbtMjwarfcl rehired men made paupers bv he xod movement, audi the uiotrattf'St i i art end. To Virions HeyBUIlcaU relief ' er.mmlrterw are t.ow without a job for the summer, and ther Im aoinethlnc oniiuous In the com plexion of ti future. COX'S CONFESSION. 'WHATEVER YOU IM. kill nr. I0 NOT How he ItandaajeU Iter Idea that he waa Kxereialnjc Vlwlenee to C'auae her Death. In describing the murder, Cox says when he was in the room of Mrs. Hull she awoke, and, recognizing the peril she was in, exclaimed: "Whatever you do, don't kill me." He then placed his left hand over her mouth, she struggling all the time to release herself. Finally she became quiet, he holding her firmly all the time, and, taking the sheet in his right hand, he tore it w 1th his teeth into strips. Me placed one ond of the sheet over her mouth, and then proceeded to bind her aa hor body waa afterward found. Hia object in tying hor to the bed w as be cause he feared that she might manage to roll off 011 the floor and therebv make a noiwe which would arouse the inmates of the house, lie say-she had no idea that be was exercising violence sufficient to muse death, or even that serious results would follow the affair. At this juncture he did not have the leat idea that the woman was going to die. After tying her feet, he says he lighted a piece of candle ho happened to have in hia pocket. He returned to the kitchen, where he got possession of the watch, and subsequently found the rest of the jewelry in the bureau draw er and in the bed chamber, finding Mrs. Hull breathing hard lie beoauae frightened, and seizing the bottle of co logne poured its i-ontents over her face. As she continued to breath hard he daahod a pitcher of water over her per son. When he was searching for the jewelry he went through the trunk of his victim, and after pouring water over her hastily tied by the front door, w hich he left open after him. Ue says he did not outrage the inxir woman, and, further, that such a thought never entered his mind. On leaving the house he returned to his lodgings, on West Thirty-sixth street, and got home and into bed with out any of the inmates knowing it. He never drank anything, so he knew what he was talking about. The first he knew of the murder, he says, was on the next day, w hen riding 011 an Eighth avenue car, the driver remarked: "What a terrible athiir that was l;ut night on Forty-second street. I see Mr. Hull has been robbed and mur dered." Cox bays when he waa told this the llod rushed up into his head, and he felt a. if he was burning. After leaving the driver he went up to Forty thud street, and on passing opposite to Mrs. Hull's house, saw detective Schmittberger aud other detectives, llusaid he did not dare look at Mrs Hull's house, and went to his lodgings. He started for Boston on the Thursday following the murder, reaching there Friday morning. He returned to New York "to get the things at his boarding house on the following Monday, and, w hile on his way to his old lodging, pa.ssed the New York detectives again. They did not suspect him, and he went back to Iloston safely on Friday last. The oiiicera to-day recovered at the (Miwushop of one Cohen, No. 17 Green street, a diamond ring stolen from the Hull mansion aud paw tied by Cox. The remainder of the missing jew elry taken from Mrs. Hull waa recov ered from Helle Johnson, a mulatto girl, in a house of ill fame on Fifth av enue. In her xreMion were the topaz necklace, a pair of diamond ear rings and pawn tickets for other jewelry. She admitted that Cox gave her the thine. A Pualte .V u Isanee. llttiircro liecorv!. The mail schedule between this place and our railroad station, Moni ure, is so irn-on venient as to te a public nuisauce, and should be changed. The distance from here to Moncure is only Hi miles, and yet the time usually taken touring our mail that distance is nearly yfee hour. The train for Raleigh passes at G:!J a. in., arid yet it L generally 11 o'clock, and sometimes later, before our mail arrives here, lint, to those who have seen the miserable bag of tioncs 1 called a horse) that carries the mail, tbe only wonder is that it conies that quick! In contracts for carrying :hc mails the Government requires "-elerity, certainty and security," but if there "is any "celerity" in taking five hours to carry the mail !J miles, we can't see iu bur frieud Gilliand some times arrives here with his mail from Simmon Grove, twenty miles distant, before the arrival of the mail from Moncure. The convenience of the pub lic here would be best promoted if our mail lett here at 6 p. in., and returned at y a. m. This schedule would make close connection with both trains. As it is, our mail for all points south of Moncure lies over here all night and again all rextday at Moncure. though w e are only 32 miles distant from Italcigh, yet the daily papers printed there are Xi hours, and twice a week 00 hours, in getting here. On Tuesdays we get the Sunday papers of Italeigh and New York at the same time! Frequently we read in the Wil mington Review extracts taken from the Raleigh dailies, which arrive here in the same mail. That is, a paper can go from Kaleigh viaGoldsboro to Wil mington, and remain there long enough to be read ami have an extract printed from it in another paper, and then ar rive here at the same time as if it had come direct from Raleigh. Now, have'nt we cause to complain? Bob Yaneej 'a Storj . A i-orreMpondent of the New York Sun believes Bob Yancey's story to be aa entire fabrication. It would be alto gether contrary to Daniel Webster's no bleness of nature to allow his son to be sold and kept in slavery, lor he was known to contribute money and to use his most eloquent pleadings for the free dom of individual slaves. It is hardly reasonable to suppose that he would take the mother to lloston and give her freedom, yet let his own flesh and blood be sold into slavery. Fletcher Web ster, iHuifel Webster's son, was not a Captain, was not in Sherman's army, and was never in Atlanta, He wasap-. olntd by Governor Andrew, Colonel of the Twelfth Massachusetts Volun teers, and was killed at the second battle of Bull Run. Consequently he could not luvve been with Sherman's army. ft'orfot ten Uoara. MUt Ikf Tribune. The most godforsaken ot in Utah, so tourists tell us for Mormon or Gen ti!e never visit it is Brigham Young's grave. The lot appears to be the recep lcl of old trash, and tbe grave looks as tloucb nineteen lorn widows had for gittlatt to two arp it to any alarming ex trot, -''" sn Ma Bouquets. Tlie high school commencement at Fort Wayne, Ind.. was quite a lively affair. The school board bad forbidden any presentation of floral tributes, but early in the proceedings the ordar was violated, bortquet being handed to a graduate, who refused to surrender it to the President of the Board, Hon. A. P. Edgerton, amidst the wildest excite in en L shouts, yells, and hisses. A squad of olice appeared on the stage. The recipient of the bouquet . relin quished it to one of the officers and lef the stage, followed by eight members of the class, who refused to participate further in the-proeeedings. This added to the excitement, and for a few mo ments the hall was a perfect pandemo nium. Mr. Edgerton; after repeated efforts, succeeded in making himself heard, and the exercise were allowed to proceed, although great excitement and confusion existed until the conclu sion C, OSS 1 1 FOB THE Love's Ecstasy. Since first the sunlight of thine eyes Beamed lovingly on me, I've missed the sunlight of the skies, And know no sun but thee. Since first thine accents soft and low Made my sad heart rejoice, I've heard no sounds to thrill me so 2o musk: like thy voice. Since first thy svvcj- lips, pure and chaste, In ecstasy met miue, I've dreamed that man could never taste A nectar so divine. And when I caught thy balmy breath In our first sweet embrace, And other odors touched by death To that perfume gave place. There is no sky however bright, No scene however fair, That has for me the least delight, Unless thy form is there. Nor is there any sky so drear. Nor any scene so vile, But would be bright and pleasant, dear, If lighted by thy smile, There's naught to cheer me, naught to bless, On land or swelling sea, No pleasure anywhere, unless ' l is sanctified by thee. While I can press thee to my heart, Thrice happy is my lot; There is no Hades where thou art, No Heaven where thou art not. A man died in St. Louis recently, and in his will, after stating that he never forgot a favor, left $1,000 to an individu al who ten years ago ran away with his wife. The principal of Vassar College step ped suddenly into one of the recitation rooms and said: "That person who is chewing gain will please step forward and put it on the desk." The whole school stepped forward with one accord toward the desk, while the teacher slipped her quid beneath her tongue and said: "Leallv, guls,I'm surpriseld!"' Oil City Derrick. Talk of the bravery of the sterner sex! Do you remember the tint time you asked her. "Will you take my arm?" While you trembled all over like the narrative of a stump-tail dog, and ex- eriencotl the sensation of having swal owed your Adam's apple, what did she do? W by, she took your arm as coolly as she would eat a pickle. Botton Traiixcript. The man who has a sulking wife Can't please her with a sonnet; There's just one way to end thestrife, Buy her a summer bonnet. At a Methodist conference meeting a henpecked dominie said he had long wished to speak, but thi9 wife wouldn't lethim. His wife had, died however,and having his liberty at last he proposed to exercise it. In about two minutes the entire conference wept over the death of the lady a-s over the loss of a Iersonal friend. Erie Herald. Little Freddie was undergoing the disagreeable operation of having his hair combed by his mother, and ho f rumbled at the maneuver. "Why, 'reddie," said mamma, "you ought not to make such a fuss. I don't fuss and cry when my hair is combed. "Yea, replied the youthful party, "but your hair ain't hitched to your head' Mrs. A. "Somebody's iu the next room. I wonder what they're doing." Looking wistfully at the keyhole. "I've a good mind to peek." Mrs. B. "Oh, I wouldn't; tisn't right." Mrs. A. "I don't care; I'm just dying to know.' Puts eye to keyhole, but im mediately takes it away, disconcerted. "Hem! the key is in." Mrs. B. Yes; so I found before you came in." N. 1 . Times. "O didst thou know what now I feel!" He murmured in her ear; Her train went r-r-r-ip beneath his heel: " do you feel your beer!'' ' Temperance Journal. Miss Caledonia Linton of Texas whipped an enormous alligator, tied him with a rope and brought him home. That girl is a self-constituted old maid, unless the Texans are greener than the rest of the w orld. But such instances as these w ill do more to put down Cur rieism In Texas than all the judges and the laws; for whatever might be said about the allegation no xne will doubt the alligator. There is one poor boarding-house keeper who is going to be just perfect ly miserable lor the next week at least. She has ii new set of servants, and green servants are such a vexation ! They haven't the faintest idea of geometry, and it takes the average landlady at least a week's careful drilling to teach them how to arrange the tablecloth in such a scientific manner that the holes will be under the butter-dish, the cas tor and the coffee urn. Louisville Ctn-rier-JoHmal. Who leaves the dimly-burning light, That I may find my way all right, When I coule home a little ? I My wife. Who'll weep when death has sealed my doom. And plant sweet roses op my tomb, And not marry again until they bloom? My wife. A New Peat. The Valdosta (Ga.) Times says that a new-fangled worm has appeared on the farms in Lowndes county and is doing great damage to corn crops. It appears that when the corn is about tasseling out, this little green worm with a black head, lores into the stalk at the .ground and eats out tbe pith, and the first slight wind breaks the corn down. Some of the farmers have alreadj suf fered a serious loss, and if the pest con tinue there is no telling of the amount of damage that will be done. Historical Relies. Capt. Jim McCooL, of the Air-Line, na3-s the Charlotte Observer, has in his museum at Atlanta a finger of Lot's wife. The large oak tree in front of the Yorkville (.S. C.) News office sprung from an acorn of the tree on whieh Fer- fmson, of King Mountain fame, was tanged. Alt' Best. Atlanta Constitution. In the eud, however, capitalists will discover that it is altogether better to build mills where strikes are impossi ble that is. among the cotton fields. The business is up-hill work elsewhere, as all will find out after a waile. THE .SEA SERPENT AGAIN. VYIIAT 1HREE FISHEBXE.t SAW 'OFF ROCK. A WAY YESTERDAY. A Thrilling Adventure-Tlie I'u paral leled Coolness of Jlr- Michael Bran Under Trying-. C'Jrcumstnnec. New York Star, 24th'. At A o'clock vcs.eidav umridna:, John McMahon, proprietor ot allot el at Sbeepshead Bay, Captain Wjtlliati) Van Nostrand, one of the best known- -lish-ermen oii Long Island, and Me. Mi chael Ryan of this city, sailed from Sheepshead Bay on a blue-fishing ex cursion to the waters off Roekawa.v. On arriving at the fishing grounds the party began to troll for blue-fish. At about 4:45 o'clock Mr. Ryan, who was sitting in the stern of the boat, noticed an immense agitation of the water a short distance to the left, and called the attention of the party to the occurrence. He had hardly finished speaking when the head of an enormous serpent ap peared above the water. What followed is best describe by the three blue-fishers themselves. Mr. McMahon tells the following story. "I had no weapon with me but a jack knive, but I drew this and determined to sell my life dearly. I saw plainly that if the lives of our little party were to be saved I was to be the hum'ble in strument or aenverance to my com rades. Captain Van Nostrand'had noth ing but a 10 cent corkscrew, and Ryan's only weapon was a religious traet that had been handed to him just before we started for the Bay. Well, sir, it was a terrible sight. The beast or repiile seemed to be about 102 feet long, and its head was as big as a barrel. It rose out of the water over twenty feet, and then as quick as lightning darted clean through the sail oi our boat and landed head first in the 'water on the other side. One of its scales dropped on the deck, and it was as hard almost as a stove lid, and of the same size. We sailed straight fer home, and didn't see the thing again." Captain Van Nostrand' s story differs somewhat from Mr. McMahou's. The Captain's version is as follows: "The moment I saw the water a tum bling I made up my mind it was caused by the sarpent I had seen onee when I was a boy, forty years ago, off Rocka way. I wasn't the least bit frightened, aud I drew a revolver, determined to kill the sarpent if possible. It had a head on it as big as an alderman, and its eyes were as large s saucers. Ryan and McMahon w7ere as white as sheets, and each of them picked up a stone from the pile we were carrying as bal last. I took good aim at one of the sarpent's eyes and fired, making a cen ter shot. But, Lawd bless me! the ball bounded took no more effect on that eye than it would on a common ball; it simply bounced off. The critter gave a snort, and whisked its tail at our boat. I thought we were gone, sure, but the sarpent's tail missed the boat and just caughtRyan on the top of his hat, tak . ing the hair off closer to the skin than a clipping machine so close thai. you would think he is bald-headed. If that tail had struck an eighth of an inch lower the man would have lost the top of his skull. The sarpent disappeared after taking that one crack at us, and we did't see him again. McMahou and I were thankful euough to escape, but Ryan kept growling all the way home about losing ' his hair. He said -he wouldn't mind being bald-headed - in winter, but it was a tough thing, to stand in fly-time." Mr. Ryan treated his adventure with apparent indifference. Said he: "The moment I saw the thing I knew what it was. The only concern I had was for McMahon. I knew he had the heart disease and I was alarmed, fearing that the sudden fright he got would kill him. To reassure Mac, I said: 'Don't be frightened, it's only a large-sized eel." I'll never forget the look he gave me as he replied: 'Eel! It's the divil him self!' and with that he began to read like a madman a religious tract that the nsti bait was wrapped up in. Justthen the serpent lifted its head out of the wa ter within a foot of where I waa sitting. With that I hauls bark and gave him a terrible clip between the two eyes with a stout blackthorn I always carry. The blow staggered him and he dove under the boat, but came up on the other side glaring at Mac like a tiger. Mac wore a fancy straw hat that was the color fa green watermelon. 'Overboard with that hat, its that which is provokin' the beast,' I yelled, and Mac pulled it off and scaled it over the water. The next thing we heard was a grating sound, the serpent had bitten one anchor off. Two minutes after it came up under Mac's hat. and a second later we saw it making for the open sea with the green tile on its head, and the anchor be tween its teeth. I wanted to pursue the serpent, but Mac and the Captain wouldn't listen to the proposition, and we sailed home." STATE XEVVN. Craven, Nit SI rrhe Shell. le festive porpoise still sporteth in our rivers. Soft crabs are being brought to this market quite plentifully. They sell at thirty cents per dozen." Our young townsman, Mr. John I). Howard, has just returned from Wash ington City, where he has been spend ing several days iu examining the many different self-couplings for cars (over three hundred in number) with the view to patenting one which he has for some months been working upon, and he has succeeded in filing his caveat for the most improved, useful coupler now known. Robeson. Lumberton Itobesonlan. Labor has been hard to command; and always will be while the turpen tine business is going on and while provisions are sold at low prices. Joseph Regan, of Hovvellsvilie town ship, who was in town last Frida3 re ports snow at his house last Thursday afternoon. He says it continued to fall for some length of time, very fine at first, but increasing to very large flakes. Others report frost in this vicin ity last Friday morning, and indeed it seemed almost cold enough for frost. We credit Charles llalcombe with the first cotton bloom of the season. It opened on the 18th instant. And for the most prolific rye, Archie Baker takes the lead, having a cluster of fifty stalks, that sprang from one grain. Mr. Fred Harden, of thiscouuty, who will be 102 years old on his next birth day, has just professed religion. Mecklenburg-. Charlotte Observer. Alderman John T. Schenck who was recently so seriously injured by the train, is improving, but it will be two months or more before he will be able to be out. The loss of his arm will prevent the possibility of his using i.riittioa nod mrififviiionllir ha stannnfr move about until his broken leg is able f to bear his weignt. Two young men ef this citv who have given some time'- already to pe destrian exercises, are likely to have an exhibition contest on the race course at the fair grounds within two weeks. Parties have offered to back them for $50 a side and the young men are qnite eager for the undertaking. They pro pose to walk for twenty-four hours on a dead stretch from 12 o'clock of July 3d to 12 o'clock of the 4th without rest or sleep. i tin I ham. l'ittsboi . Ilcixml. Mr. A. J. Bynutn, of this place, showed us a few days ago a most won derful freak of nature. It was a chick en (or chickens?; with four legs, ' two bedies, three wings and one head. It was indeed quite a curiosity. Mr. W. 11. Hardin is on a visit to friends here. He was an honored citi zen of this community many j'earsago, and although now eighty-two years of age is remarkably well preserved in body and mind. Randolph. Asheboro Regulator. The wheat crop of the county is re ported as being very good.- "The corn crop is better cultivated and is looking better than for several years past. There is a good prospect for mast, and consequently there will be an abun dance of pork, corn and flour in this county next year. There will he held at Asheboro on Tuesday, 15th day of. July, a railroad meeting for the purpose of taking steps to forward the interest of the ("ape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad. Everybody is invited to be present ai.d participate in the deliberations. Speeches from railroad men from dif ferent sections may be expected. A firm in Greensboro that sold one hundred thousand dollars' worth of goods last year gave in their purchases $11,734. Consequently according to their own statements shows a profit of $88,266. Hard to beat and a very inter esting statement to those who bear the bnrdens of taxation. Jason Dolberry, who has been acting United States Marshal for some time, was arrested in this place on last Thurs day morning by Marshal Hyatt, of Stanley, upon the charge of retailing liquor without license. He was im mediately put in ropes and hurried off to Montgomery, to appear before the United States Commissioner. It is bad for the officers of the law to be caught violating them. We suspect, however, that in many cases the officers block it more than citizens. Stop it, or all hands will eventually come to grief. A VOl DOU MAID, Who Has Been Frightening- a Whole Family by Her Vagaries. New Orleans Democrat. Mrs. Mathe, residing on Duuiaine street, between Rampart and St. Claude, has a female enemy who wishes to an nihilate her and her whole family, and she proposes to do it by Voudouism. This fact has been openly demonstrated by the vicious believers in the power, but so far she has not been successful. Her attempts have been often and va ried, yet fruitless, except in so far as annoying Mrs. Mathe and her family. Friday a week ago this wickedly in clined woman, whoever she may be, while Mrs. Mathe and her family were asleep, repaired to her residence and covered the steps leading from the street with oil, teeth of animals, horses' hair, herbs and fins of fishes. As this amount of trash did not pro duce the desired result, the Voudou missionary repaired to the house Sun day night and applied another dose to the steps. Mrs. Mathe, on arousing yesterday morning, discovered the work of the voudou woman. It consistd in the steps being firt covered with a heavv coat of coal tar, which was dotted with large drops of candle grease. On the third step was placed a small coffin containing the figure of a bah', and around the coffin were placed several small candles. On the lid of the coffin rested two matches, crossed to represent cross-bones, which was in keeping with a little skull tint was laid at the head of the coffin. To the right of the coffin was a cake of red soap in the shape of a heart, while two large ani mals' teeth were to the left. When Mrs. Mathe discovered the things on her doorsteps, 'although she is not a believer in voudouism, she was terribly shocked, and nothing can per suade her to believe but that it is the forerunner of some terrible catastro phe that will happen either to herself or to some member of her household. Some gentlemen have interested-them-selves in the case, and are on the watch for this voudou mischief-maker. orth Carolina Agricultural Society. The Executive Committee of the North Carolina Agricultural Society held a meeting at the Yarborough House last night. A Creech, Esq., in the chair, and C. B. Denson, Secretary. The Secretary made reports in re gard to the progress of the work lor the fair, and especially the intended exhibit by the tobacco producers and manu facturers, and reported various dona tions. On motion, regulations were ordered to be embodied in the premium list that all manfacturered tobacco exhib ited for premiums be required to be certified A the regular article pre pared for ordinary trade under its es tablished brand. Also that 'the award of premiums shall be given only to tobacco which has been stamped, placed in blank wrappers and numbered, and adjudged without knowledge of the name of the manufacturer by the judges. On motion, a gold medal was offered for tbe best fancy smoking tobacco, in addition to the medal for the best standard smoking tobacco. The entire tobacco interest is cordial ly invited to take part in the antici pated great display of that important product of our State, and the various specimens of its manufacture. M ake .Superior Court. This court met pursuant to adjourn ment. The following cases were dis posed of: State vs William Ilerndon, false pre tense ; plead guilty ; discharged on pavment of costs. State i..v John Phoenix, petit larceny; dis .-barged; defendant to pavT costs. Ijondo.i Grice i' Lucy Grfce ; divorce ca.-.e; li orce granted. State cs Prince Jones, larceny ; ver dict, guilty; judgment to be prayed. Stale v Cherry Thrower, Edward Jones, Dudham Alston and Robert M i tchel I ; d isturbing religious congrega tion; defendants plead guilty; fine 1 pen ny and costs. State rs Thomas C. Horton; forgery ho I pros with leave. State va Thomas C. Horton (5 cases), forgery, nol pros absolute. (These cases were removed from Franklin county to this court.) State Ann Upchurch (colored ; larceny; defendant plead guilty; judg ment suspended. Court adjourned until ten o'clock this morning when the murder case of Hen derson Alford will be called. Witnesses in other cases are dis- charged until to-morrow(Saturday) at 10 o'clock. The Grand Jury of this court returned seventeen more true bills of indictment yesterday. FABLES ANDAPCDOTES. A MISSIONARY AJffONCf TIIK !f A T1YK JflGOEMftV -- C'an't Bevote his Whole Id fa to one EmotionThe Heathens Chans; or Baao A Bltf 1,1 ft. San Fran eisco Argonaut. , My Uncle Ned which las beon in Irjy and evry where,, he, says one time there wos a feller which, was alicku his whife, and evry timei he hit her there was a dog, and it hollered, the, (log did; like a looky motif, 'then. the feller he sedto his wife: "Can't you do yureown hollerin?" , Then he thought a wile,, and then he went in his house and brut, out a oiher white, and licked thatn tooand wotched the dog, and tlie dog ft how Id agin. Then the feller he, sed; Whose whife is this I'd iike ,to knbw, mine or yourn ?" Then he got a other whife, and licked her, and it was the sauje way. Then he thot a wile agin, and then, he was a goin for a other, but the dog it sbnke lis head and walked away, much at tOSij: ."A feller can't devote his hole, life to one emotion and forego the chase; the jack us rabbit is forth, and duty beckns me a way. May be the other ladys can sou re the serflc.es of a fresh dog." Master Jon nice, which has, got the wuden lec he says a sientlfHcle man was a lickn his wife, and evry time she waa hit there was a ccko, wieh sounded jest like a other mau a liuku hisn, and the sientifflcle man. he wasdlited Bime by he stoppt and sed: "There is some thing singuler bout this ecko; ttsoems to repeat the hard ticks n a other knee from tne mild ones. Most xtroddinary thing I ever herd. My deer, we must xperriment further." SOMENAT1P NIOGER8 IN AFR!X?Y' ! thay had a big wuden idle1 wieh th'ay worshipt.l'os thay sed it was a god, and one day thay shet up a pig in a pen wieh was bilt a round the idle, cos thay sed: "To morro we will sactlce that pig and make a burnt offer to Oar god." But nex mouin wen the preestawent to kil the pig there was a mitipnary preecher, and the preecher he laft like he wud bust, and he (wd 4I trot -you now, you galoots, jest look. wot kind of a god you got wieh piiits . such libbar tys as that, cos he can't hellup hu sef."' ' '. - ' 1 So thay looked, and there thay seen the pig a scratchn hisself agiuL the idle and gruntn like it was mitty nice. Jest then the pig it stop scratchn and went to roo tin with the fcnoot of his nose, and biuie hi it got under the -idle and up set in a minnit in the mud. Then the mitionary preecher hd danced, and slapt his leg, and hollered Wild, and sed, "Wot a powfle feller yure god is, to be shure, set him up agin, hoo ray!" Then the high preost 'Was the furf ousest feller you over ; saw, and 1 he jumped in the pen and, kicked, the idle hard as ever he cude, and bust all its hed with his toinmyhock, and all natif niggers they sed, "VVot a tfolly be dumb busted ole frod that idle was, jest like the mitionary, preecher aed." Then the preecher Went rite of and held a thanks given preeeh, and rote' to his bishop the joy fie news i about the natif neggerses change of hart. Jlu wen he cum back with a bole of wotter for to baptize em thay was all down onto their kauees a worshippiu the pig. Pigs tails roasted is splendider than eny thing, but a Sunday scoohl book is the feller for me. A PIONKKK's HKl MKT. . Virginia Chronicle.. An old pioneer was huggllig t'lfc his toric stove in Judge Knox s court room last evening, and as is usual with. the old-timers who viBit that temple of justice, was in a reminiscent frame of mind. Though poor now,' he had, as A matter of course, been once rich. "I was a leadin' citizen of Muckalla my Hill in T2." he said. "In them days I was in the dnst-buyin business. I had mv sign out S. Compra Ora Aqul upstaiis, you know, and all that sort of tiling. I tell ye, it takes a smart raaa to get along in thai 'ere trade. Jenkins A Co. was the lioss at it when I firsf went into it at Muckallmmy Hill, but it wasn't six months afore I'd took, half their trade away. I had to rustle to do it, You see the boys was alius anxious to do well an' the first that offered the col rr made the riffle. JenkinsACo. was pretty high-tonM, an' used to wait every, night far thar man to go down the hill to the express office an bring up their money in a handcart. I saw my chance an' used to be on hand when the stage came in, air list shouldered, my own, coin when the driVer thrbWed it off. Nick Monkins was the driver In I them days. He was afterwards killed. .by road agents. Many's the time Nick s. throwea me uown my sac wun auean $400,000 in gold coin in it,, an' I've' chucked her across my shoulder an' trotted up that there old hill and bad every bit o' dust brought up afore Jenk ins & Co.'s handcart arrived." "How much did you say you packed up the hill on your shoulder T'r asked Judge Knox's clerk. . "Four hundred thousand oftener than , less," replied the pioneer with melan choly pride. "See here," said the clerk, figuring rapidly, "gold's worth $18 an. ounce., and there's twelve ounces to the" pound . worth $216. Now, 210 into 400,000 leaves something over 1,851 pounds pretty i nearly a ton. How far up the lull did you carry that did you say t " , ; . The old pioneer looked at ,tbe cleric with fixed contempt for a moment, and then merely saying: "You're a plagued i Jehnny-Come-Iately, that's what you , are!" arose and left the court-room. j Observance of the Neutrality lawL The Secretary of the Treasury has is- -, sued the following circular to collectors -of customs and to whom it may ooiW cern: This department has received in- U formation that the governmeut, of Bo-ti livia has decreed the issue of letters of marque, with authority to privateers to seize Chilian property in neutral vea- sels, and that agents have - de a parted for the United tatee.i Collec tors of customs, in whose ports at tempts may be made to fit out . warlike expeditions in aid of either of the bel- . ligerent powers, will take , care to. aee--that section 52SHiof the Revised Statute. ; be vigilantly enforced against.ali. vem- n sels that appear to be destined jto..Yio- late the neutrality laws of the United States : . '' ' M" - . i ' ' Nuureme Conrt. ( 'ourt met at 10 o'clock on yesterday ; . all the justices present. The consideration of cases from the Fourth Judicial District wan resumed.: i and appeals were disposed of as .fol- , lows: ' Kt w ard K inney ra: Thbtrias C." Mc-! Ilhenney, from Brnnswickt called and ;- argued by A, T. and John London for,! -the plaintiff, and E. G. Haywood and, . ' A. W. Toil rgee for the defendant. , J, ,7 Pending' argument In the"abdve-,U cause, the court adjourned ... until this ( Friday) morning at 10 o'clock. ( , (1 , At the conclusion of the above case . this morning, the court will hear oil ar- ' J gument the question as to the' validity' of taxing attorney's fee at causes de- cided at January Term last.
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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