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nn Rale I OH EW StaUUbr&rr n li liT JL11A VOL XVI.--!M RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1879. $5J0 PER ANNUM FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. niii.v rRni'i:rniX(.i of MLIAti: .. HOIS). TUT. Tm and ConVrTbi r lida 1)1. Xe. S KM ATK. ftHtxuTo.x, Deo. The Vice- , lent UKi before the Senate a com .ii nation from the Secretary of tle . -,iirr transmitting in compliauco .h the Seoate resolution calling there- -. ii. formation concerning the effect re enu and upon consumer of -. . repeal of July on tea and cofTV in I '7 Referred U iho committee on :ltiar. iwoaior SauUberry froni the commit tee ou privilege anil elec tion, reported a resolution that the attachment iue V the orMnt tl-krtiM, eomnundlng htiit to bnu? to the bar of the Senate, f..r contempt. Sir. Smith arwl cbee wft-i.-vw tihirftal by the ub-coiniuil-in infUi(te the rhtriPS rint 'tutor I tf 1 1. anil who he refuse-l t-tifr. tsf adopted. . n-tr Hour presented a petition . . 0 by Kohl. (". Wimlimp. Charle : Adam ami other dltini?tiibed -.mi, mfailr?i of the M aoun huetta :. ,-.ortral Society, praying a suitable : rprt4tlon for the erevtion of a iiiinMt to commemorate the victory ..rktown. lteferred to tbecommit . lihrarr. - n.itor Ifoar pre-eiusj petition; of . in aakinic for the Mfvpointaieni of . n-or roniaiiMion. Referred to the t lui'tee on ertaewOon and labor. i ..e resolution introduced by Senator 'in, of Weat Virirmla. reorted y - -r iy froi tbo committee on acricul re. iiiiructiinr the agricultural cim- :e of l-o'h to roni.liT the . . t of agm uhure, and report what to te ini e b v t In- gi iver n menl to Hi-- the i ultur.tl interests. .m i -t. . : t 1. S. consul U ttl.c-ifnw, Sot t. m hi 'li-v :" 1,1 'be Department re;-ir. n t: . ere in t lie it li -I ii..-.i S;.i.h :' - iut- to l ; . iron from : ..f Mr. for ct ii ii iii i ; i ce . j : . 1 1 1 iii- , i ;. l . ..-Ml . . : . . ! i 1 1 1 V . .. . .tu-! : i;c OI t. In the viuc on !: I, iCto x iTilcri t public tu ' w tieher a'iv cit i nr rM"ei i'i . i for ;he U . , ir:n.i'i : l - li '-tiii. i!:.v hic 'irll III w . .t n . . r i ; he ' r a o i II. en ! r. or ;:;" I . r 'l i In i lc. .11. d : i -ri-i ler the ll I . . i . .Ill' I it w a I ii I: l. t I II pr- r w.. 1. Ser.ate tn lip . "rhcis rco- II for Urn a pi - 'in ; imii : if a i-"m- -e 1 1 un'.i.' iii1 t ! . c. i i f : i.i) etmratiiiii Irmu lhe .:r:i. a:..r U ,1 un i t '. r the ap I nd. in s .i I .in ;:. d an Mr. V(v.,1im i ei i i poifit meiii ol .t i niiiiiii;- t i.i :i t : mesti;a;e ". he c ....red ii.s. "I sic auiendme'il nistrifts ii. . . tintii" lc '. 1 1 c i ' 1 1 1 ais. he: ( i r ! ! : . ire. J p- '' :n Jlies.,u:f li.no l.'Mi ri iifliV u. .t-d for p"iiti al or nther reif.ms; .-. . ifl'.fY fjte l-eM deprived n( .my : i.e.r nh:.s as fttiii-.; h ether it ill ( se ji-ii. v to distnb'.ite them t ; e "unl r v , sn ,t.s to remove anv ' -: tha: may exist fir interlerring ! .: i r ihri'L'tiik' their rich's, wheth- would noi Iss iso to set apitrt ct-r--.s territory tor them, and what terri- -v. tnd resrt wiiat action Congress . tl take in the utat'r to sts-ure the .- ..:s i f i-tlorel citizens. i c ;.tkiiig up bv the Senate if Sena- - V. oiht-es" re utioii for the ap- ritment of a couimittve to Investi . . ihe negro exivius from the South, a lon ami iiuite aiiiinatetl tl-btte. ... h ovcup.cd inosi of UiM afieriioon Hs;on. Senator Yoorheen said it was desirable to know whether the exodus a, or waa not, cause! as alleged, by ur ;ust political treatment of the ne ' -s in the South Indiana did no' h to be eoloniietl ty negrt any u re than California w ihed to h cn r. xsj tir the 1'hinese. He considered Mr. W-ndom s amendment a provi- ; . . ... cit g tor eoouirv wiui retram i seiunif " .Ifij4l. ; jrt separate terriioriea lor netro txi- i. sts .is premature, iivtter let Uie o mmil'ee act on its own discretion WiTh reward to such suggestion. Afte a brief detence by Senator Win d 'tn of his amendment. Senator Hill i.i said he was tired of these Cou nal InretvUcations. The neirro eimlu would tetiie itself, and the talk atout the cmus-s of the movement was all gam moo. The negroes were toiitenUsi Id th direct prosrtiou to li.e time that UiB Southern States had ln freed frotH carei-lstg rule. The number of colored school children in iforgia woaiKi probably reach ninety thousand thi year, ami the tax Ustk's showed that the colore 1 :spl.f that state own mora than five million dol lars in real property. The discontent among the negroea was, in the main, with the w or ih leas classes, w bo were t urked upon by designing men. He hd doubted the capacity of the blacks to I ecome gotsi liltzeiis, but was triad :.j sdmtt that they bad done U!t r than w s t'Xs-ts. Tfity hvl found out rh.it their old masters, instead f leii g tl.ir worst ci.iiiius, al Issti . I. were their best fiiends. lie would . however. f if.i.i op ... otlthan to dt J . 1 u.e J . it t f -1 s. A e .t : i i ' N 1 1 1 t . Ill s ; 1 1 I . . 1 . . Jf Its i i 1 f . r s I 1 i til With t . f be, . . . ' 1 i.e 1 ie I .-t ' e v t : . S na i r ll.r " ii. : N aai I f.e ot"i .' -f -'-a ; 1 se 1; 1 i it , .1 1 . 1 - se the res -it on general 1 .11 - en "or . i if) n.ii 11- 1 11 !.n I o- ti 1 .m,.ii.i, 1 " dlln-i t a-si 1 in J . I 1 t re.! -I !. I his 1 ' to ei - tl .1. t h tl the in i e I ! v t he w I. i es. W .i t ' he . s... 1 , . I o 1,1 T.or ii.-; ..11. li- ii. I . I .a s erkl lb- mi . a;i : i e i tiew and pr- u.u i nt ' . North Caroh , w h- . e . 1 1 oiiorrd ii .f ti. it it,- c.t:. R -r ami 1 1 -1 :o--t . lis of I to the had Hot IsLfii unfair! v . : 1 . Mr. Ransom 1 1 . r : ! .:ith'rn t r. a: men t of r. -s . 4 . j . . in : 11 e la- r ' 1 v w 11 h '.he N r :!.! i, tleilllillS. ti r ce w 1 r, . .it iinprov in.;, lin'..;!. ' I ineli t of 1 - .1 i 1 nd . .s i( jie.il - li I r m eartti. i'ri t'.i.r Hoar, of Mass t.-hiis..;;. . rd it tt.e l.erot-s ttre we.i lnn'-. m tl... s.,ti:h. and wht tlity w ti e en; irai 11 : iub"pitable cln late. -tiator Ransom a-sked ill return, whv o :t.e isiple were well tre.ittsi in Mas a. I 1. sells tl ev wt-re emigrating to :ui.svse. If tlie cause w its oppres ti m one ca, whv not in the other. s; s..aior Ransom thought Ihe exodus aa ttue lo misrepresentations of the tartous eople perh ol some Re publican Senators. He would like to aasw why colored emigration bad been Jiterteil Irom Kansas to Indiana Se 1 a tor W ludom srrbapa, Liecause the lie-Kf.-es as svenator Hill aays are so fond : ih Ieniocralic mle, and Indiana is atsjut the ouly Northern Democralic h:ate left. Aeraslight mollification of Senator t o. .rhea' reaolutiou.tbe vole waa taken the reiin and resulusl, ayes '17, uava 1- The senate then adjourned, uot ii;. s'u diouou of Mi. OilsKjn, of Louia- iana, resolution was adopted author ising the committee on the MiHsiasippi levees to proceed over the Mississippi river to its mouth at such time as the committee may direct for the purpose of acquiring knowledge of its peculiar condition and want, and gathering in formation relative to the lost method for it improvement, with iower to Uke testimony. The call of committees for report in now progressing. The War In blllnn Ionoon, lw. 18.- The details of the Iir Chilian victory state that the allied f.-rce the Peruvian and Bolivians are elexen thounand strong, and marching northward irom Novia, to effect an injunction with a reinforcement of five thouaand men under the command of the President of Bolivia, was attacked on the twenty-tirst near Chilian, the advanced corps of six thouaand men who occupied an Intrenched position at lUlorea near AguaSanla. Th Chilians heavy cannon committed great ravage among the ranks of the enemy, whose cavalry charged three1 time upon the ruiis ami attempted to carry them, but their elTortN on each oeotaion was un-auit-ensful. In the evening the rear of lnCtuiaa (art eame nn ami TWranad the day. The allied forces were driven back and their camp taken, in which thirteen cannon were found. Many wounded officers, including Bolivian teneral Villegoa were taken prison ers and another of the allied Cicnerals killed. Too loHee of the Chilian fonts are heavy. Elaine Klertlen. Ai-iirnv, Me., Ie. If. Full details ol the count wa made by thetiovernor and council shows the following result: In the Senate Fuaionist are given J0 uiembers and the Republicans 11. In the House, Fusionists 7f; Kepresenta tixes; K.'pufli-Hiis 1; and live citiea with 1-' HepublicMii repreeiitati ve Portland, lU'h. lxwiston, Rockland and Sati are disfranchised. The Ilcuae will thus be 1J members short alorgau-iz-tlioii. I'orelc -ews. I.osrMN. l-c. Is. A Candahar dis- i'Stch sas a contlii-t ovurreil between lerali and i ohnli troops near Herat. It is iincert.-iiu t liidi party cr victors 1ml A ouli Kli.tn ht.H been impriontHl liv (timli who holds the it.idel nn lcr leadership oi a low adventurer who h.-vs been proclaimed tioverwor in Ayouli Khu.spUce. The A fghai.s hold 1'ala, liiwir in I Ili'aiil. OlllillHlioil. rov. 1 1 Tlie Presi- W A s 1 1 I N d.vit sent the I llit Senate to t.i be I'mted t.iw. I hina : ilownik; in iin i Ti;! i hi s (o lay : t' lin ( '. illiauis Slrt'cs t 'ollsilhUe Ht S ;l- Saiiiiiel niiiiwn, of Pell lis , all ! I, to ! it al thent. Poj.'iln.istefs - I. I A liorough, Kv. I nited S:a;es t'on- II Ib'Iio, at i w cii.s- Kepnbl'ran i:xe-nlle 4'omnil t Ice. VY siiiM,roN, Iec. 1". At a meeting of the National Republican Rxecutive Committee vesterday. Col. 1 lumias It. Keotfh. of North Carolina, was elected secretary to succeed e.-iioveror Mc t uriii i.-k . mii: m: u s . i ls. leeueral liraut will be fiftyjeight years of ae on the 17th of next April. The New York Klevated road carried, in the year just reportetl to the State Pngineer, thirty million piwsscngers. .lush Itilli'urs is reading hi" lecture, ' I lie probability of life, pet hips rain, erhspa not," one hundred nichta this winter between Ha.stport, Me., and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The Indianapolis clearing-house 1 itl a business of i-'..'"""!) the other ilav, the largest ever tlone in one day. The city has cut down the business of it courts one-half in the past year. Minnes.Hoia has built three hundred and niuetv-six miles of railroad this year, a greater mileage than in any vear siui-e 171. wheu the Northeih I'acitic suddenly spanned the State from Dululh to the Red river. The receipt of the Suer canal foil off over $Joo.mm during lf7t, and have still further diminisheti this year. About .0--...,.,.. . r" . throiicrh the canal tarries the. itritih tlatf. Cincinnati has completes! her South ern railroad at a cosi of Sl.nu,s, and now the htiiues men of that city are talking of "getting up a mammouih ex cursion party of fifteen thousand South ern merchants," who may visit the Paris of America at dead-head rates. None but Southern merchants are wanted, and the shrewd business men of Cincinnati ought to pick, out only such aa want to buy bills of goods. A Washington dispatch to the N. Y. Wui lt says : '"Mrs. Sprague has au thorized her attorney to draw u paers for a divorce from irovernor Sprague. It is said that she intends to push the case to the courts as speedily as ios,si ble. She has made arrangements to leave IMgewood, and is titling up a house in Washington, ou Connecticut s enue." Turning miny Chinamen from facto ries in California, has been "from the frying !aii into the lire." They uni formly set up on their own account, and repay the compliment. The new woolen mill proclaims "no Chinamen Aiil te eiuio ed," and pressure is be ing mad to get other mills to oust all Mongo.ians. "Very well," say China man, "w e w ill employ oiirse l es,' and llns it-suit is sure to follow, as hereto fore, r . John W. ;.irre:t, F.s.i., ha 1 just been re-e,s-tsl for the twenty second time 1'iesi.ieiit of the liaUllnot and I l in ra.lroid In his hands ihat vast entcr piise has llourislied almost wilhoiil pieedenl. 1 he Ra! 1 1 more aiftl ( hio is probably the Is-st conducted and most ptoiii.ii.ie railroad on the continent. It is rei r s uted to be 111 superb order and is doing an immense business. tiii; w. it i ri:iu . Tlit liillansMill II n iug Tlir'r Ow 11 i3 . P n t M s. Iee. - Advices from I.i ma to Notember 'J-i states that (ien. liueu dia at tat ked the Chilian arrny on the p.: h ult.. at a place called S ill Francis co, on the railway which stictches in land from Pisagu t. and that the a. lies were forced to retire demoralized and with cry heavy lov. The Chilians were entienched. lien. Iiaza, with his army of 4,OX' Itohvians, left Tarn a for thw scene of action ou the 11th. marched- for two day, and then his troops refused to go further. At last accounts they were re turning to Africa, and it was presumed that some trouble would ensue between the Peruvian forces and their allies. The prefect of Innuhjue, tieu. Lopez Lovllie, having sent all the men under his command to join Gen. Ruendia, hamlet! over the town to the foreign consuls before an intimation to aurreu der bad been made by the Chilians, and took the tl rat steamer for Arica. The gunboat Plloaruago has been cap tured by the Chilian friga'e Rlanec EncaJda. TVeatb mt Mmnrl C Perkins. IxDiAKaroLts, Deo. Samuel E. Perkins. Chief Justice of .lie Supreme Court of Indiana, died at midnight. IRELAND. THE DISTRESS I3T IBELAXD. I'aatoral filler frem Cardinal Han dId(. The following pastoral letter from Cardinal Manning was read in the Ro man Catholic places of worship in his diocese at all the masses and other ser vices ou Sunday, the 30th of November: "The early and severe cold which has Mat in warns ua to look for much suffer ing thjs winter among our poor in Lon don. Nevertheless, we invite you to think first Of others at a distance, who are already suffering severely, and who, as the winter draws on, will prob ably have to endure want of food, fuel and clo:hing of a kind happily un known to us. We have received pri vate letters from well-informed and responsible persons In Ireland full of anxiety for the next months. Ther de orib wfca to day by day before 'their wrsnmrt they assure us tETirtfio" west of Ireland such hunger, poverty and want as are to be seen have never ieen known since the fatal famine of li47. Fever has already shown Itself, especially among the school- children. The dioceses w bieh are already su tier ing most are Ross, Kerry, (Jalway and Tuam. It may belittle that you can send; but you will be glad at "least to show the stuypathy and love of vour hearts toward our suffering brethren in Ireland. We therefore affectionately and earnestly call upon you to give promptly and generously, as far as you are able, for their relief, and in thanks giving to our Divine Master for all the blessings we enjoy. A collection will L made at all the masses and other ser vices of Sunday next, Dec. 7." A Dublin corresiondent of an English journal is of opinion that the meetings in Ireland on the land question are now nearly over, the agitation haying burn ed itself out; and he adds that now the more serious matter comes up of how the eople are to be employed and fed, not only in the rural districts happily there are not very many so circum stanced where there is Ieop poverty, but likewise in towns. There will be during December a great scarcity of labor, and, although pressure from this cause will be somewhat mitigated by the board of work loans, the number of those already memorialized for does not give encouragement to the hope thai, by such Imrrnwings and conse quent works on the estates, the whole diihc.iity will le surmounted. Unfor tiinaie as such further intervention may be, it is possible enough that a more direct. use of public money will become. in exceptional casess necessary, and ihe public mind should be in time directed to the nature of the operations which, in this sense, may yet be en gaged in. ;ui.r HOME 4 THE Kill.. I lie nr In tileh lie Has Crossetl tlie Continent. fieneral ('rant's homo since he left the l iolden iate has been aboard the private coach of Mr. (ieorge Pullman, a palace on wheels, which has taken away so much ol tho monotony and dis comfort that would have otherwise at tended his sweep of the American Con tinent. In this car he has spent many an hour with Mrs. ('rant, his thoughts and his cigar, and by reason of that as sociation, it becomes an object of inter est to all admirers of the man. The main compart men t is like the study of a persou of wealth ami culture. It is furnished in oak, and as one enters he treads ujon a soft gray Axuiinister, while hia eye rests upon raw silk up hoistery of similar design. In the right forward corner standi an opened writ ing cabinet w ith some of the General s private papers pigeon-holed, and others lying on the desk, and in the letl cor ner an ornate upright piano. About the compartment are disjosed com fortable chairs, and underneath a hand some chandelier is aeeu a commodious centre table. The throe other eomoaxtments mak ing up the coach are finished in waluut, mahogany and white maple, and are in all other respects in keeping with the main chamber. The coach, when in motion, carries its occupauts so softly that, when driving along at the rate of thirty-five milts an hour, the motion of the train is scarcely perceptible. General Grant has come, in this coach from San Francisco to Philadelphia, and has it at his disposal during the re mainder of his tour over all roads upon which itcau be drawn. STATE MEWS. Correspondence under this head ls fur nlKhcd iv regular contributors to the .Sfw's.1 HARNETT. IIakiunotox, Dec. 17. The weather is lair now, though we have had con siderable rain, the past few days. The ground may now be considered wet for the brat time since spring. In Upper Little River township on ;bo 11th, by Rev. A. Campbell, S'eill Mc-Lean to Miss Mary Ann Salmon. There was a gay party at the residence of the groom and the dance was kept up till ! o'clock next day. Neill was nick named Pig. but I guess he must be rated a full grown porker now. The Magistrates are out of business except a lew tritlling cases of mort gages A c. A large quantity of cotton is being ginned now which is to be thrown on the market to purchase Christmas .sup plies, mid the reported fall has some w hai 1 .1 1 1 1 ( cued the older of the hold ers t ho were expecting it to reach l." ecu is at least. Everything in the way ol news is dull now. Is it the lull that precedes the storm that is sure to come about Christmas ami new years. Mr. A. R. Patterson. Sr., has killed the only deer that has been killed in this section this season, much to the old in.in h jov for he has hunted faith !udy. Partridges are more plentiful this season than for several years past. The creek mills are at last able to grind, though there has been nothing like a freshet in the watercourses. A Poplar Wmf Com Inc. New Yokk, Dec. 17. At set,-.-o'clock this morning the thermometer at Chicago indicated 10 degrees above zero, a fall of l." degrees ; at Omaha, two degrees above zero, a tall ol 23 degrees; at Milwaukee, zero a fajl of lti de grees; at lireckenridge, 23 degrees be low a fall of 24 degrees : at St. Paul, b degrees below a fall of 2 degrees ; ai Duluth, degrees below a fall of 8 de grees ; at La Crosse, 4 degrees below a fall of is degrees, facta About t ualralin. Melbourne AT us. Australia, with Tasmania, is only . little less in area than Europe. The hotest climate in the world probablt occurs in the desert interior of Austra lia. Captain Stuart hung a thermomtei on a tree shaded both from sun and wind. It was graduated to 127 degree F., yet ao great waa the heat of the air that the mercury rose till it burst the tube, and the temperature must thus have been at least 123 degrees F., ap parently the highest ever recorded in any part of the world. For three months Captain Stuart found the mean temperature to be over 101 degrees F. iu the shade. Nevertheless, on the Southern mountains ..and table-lands three feet of snow sometimes falls in a day. Snow storms have been known to last three weeks, the snow lying from four to fifteen feet in depth, bury ing the cattle. Australia is a land oi drought and flood. The annual rain fall at Sydney has varied from twenty two to twenty-eight inches. Lake George, near Goulburn, was in 1S24 twenty miles long and eight broad. It gradually shrank till, In 1837, it became quite dry, and its bottom was convert ed into a grassy plain. In IS'io it was a lake again, seventeen feet deep; two years later it was only two feet deep, and in 1S7G it was tweuty feet iu depth. A FISE SHIP MS AIR. It Wlari its way Toward the Empy rean I'ntll Dropping, It sets a Field Aflanfe. In overhauling a lot of traps left over from the Fourth of July celebra tion, several young men, and BOie old ones too, last Sunday came across a paper balloon, which they thought, as it was a still, quiet day, should be sent adrift. Suiting the action to the word they retired to the bank of the river, inflated the airy craft by attaching a handful of burning excelsior saturated with turpentine to the basket, and af ter freighting it with several weighty prayers for the good of mankind in general, and for themselves in particu lar, they cut the rope and "let her rip." Gracefully it rose from the ground and sailed away toward heaven's ethereal vault, followed by the admiring gaze of those few devout' worshipers, still standing on the banks of the placid Poudre, whose benisons were being rapidly and proudly wafted toward the peirly gates. Waiting until their mes senger Iwl disappeared in the blue depths ol the atmosphere, they retired to their peaceful homes, feeling that it was good to have been there. Soon, ah ! too soon, was the happiness of the favored few turned into bitterness and gall. That cursed balloon, instead of keeping on its course, returned to earth to torment its former enthusiastic friends. Dropping into Alex. Barry's meadow, it set tire to about twenty-five tons of hay in thestack, and before the lire could be extinguished the whole was destroyed. Fortunately by the utmost exertion and constant watching through the following night, twoother and much larger sticks close by wore saved. 'Iho hay destroyed was worth between four and live hundred dollars. Of course tho parties engage I in bal looning that day arc so much ou'. Sixty dollars each is about what it will cost tlicni. XVhat lie Meant lo Say. A few days ago a citizen who docs business on Congress street, was drawn to his office door by a windy war of words between two men. Roth seemed ready to tight if they had backing, and the citizen was looking as if ready to back the smaller one, when a man with a still neck and a painful gait came along, took iu the situation, ami said to the citizen : "Keep still -don't :iy a word don't palliate a conflict ! " The conflict was de -lared "oil " and the men went their wavs, and the citi zen returned to his dish. In the course of the afternoon the man with the stiff neck entered the olhce, passed the time of day and said : "Out here this morning I made use of a word which 1 want to correct. I asked you not to 'palliate' a conflict. I meant'participate,' not palliate. Good day, sir ? " Next morning at 8 o'clock, when the citizen got off the car, the old chap was waiting for him on the corner, and baldng him against a stone wall, he said : "I called upon you yesterday to ex plain that 1 meant 'participate' instead of 'palliate.' " " Yes, you did." " I -.ow desire to inform you that I didn't mean either one. I mean 'pre cipitate.' I have used the word a thou sand times, and I don't see how I mis spoke myself as I did." "( n, that's all right no harm done," laughed the citizen. "No, no particular harm, but I want things right if they can be made so." They separated. Near the close of the second dav thereafter the old man enured the office again, placed his hat ou the floor, wiped off his chin and said : "I now desire to inform you that I didn't mean 'precipitate' after all. It was probably the excitement of the moment which made me use 'palliate,' and then I got mixed on the others. What I meant to have said was 'pre cipitate.' I didn't want you to precipi tate a conflict, you see. I am now set right at last, and I bid you good-bye ! " Some two or three days after that the citizen was over on the market. He saw the old man there, and he looked as if he wanted to say something. The citizen therefore: approached and said: "Well, did you get tho right word the last time? " "Say!" replied the old man, with a sudden gesture, "I've been thinking it over, and I wisli we'd let them infer nal fellers banged each other's heads oft!" The TVashinjcloii Monument. Washington Star. The joint committee on the comple tion of the Washington Monument have submitted a detailed report to the House, showing that t-i7,9:ii -" have been expended in the work of strength ening the foundations, leaving availa ble :W2,!'u.l0: 31 ,3oS. 4" have been ex pended upon the completion of the monument, leaving S,o43.54 available. The total amount unexpended of the appropriation and now available for carrying ou the work is Slu(i,730.ij"). This amount will be sufficient to com plete the strengthening of the founda tion, providing the iron frame work of the interior stairway for two hundred and fiftv feet, to construct the shaft and add twelve feet to the height of the monument. To continue work till 0 -toner 31-st, Ibid, will require 300.0X a Idilional, ami to complete the shaft to ihe proposed height (300 feet) will re quire ?)77,321. It is estimated that tlie entire work can be accomplished by the spring of 1S3. 1 Woman In .Man's Attire Xlne Years. During a drunken row in a Buffalo saloon Thursday night, between John Ward, Alfred Paintou and Charles Ward (an alleged brother of John's) the startling discovery was male that Charles Ward was a woman, ' 'at her right name was Sarah Jane N ib -. formerly of Hartford, Conn. She h... been wearing men's clothes for nine years, and has kept a boarding house .or a number of years. Alfred Painton tmarded with her, and discovered that she was a woman, married her, contin uing to conceal her sex, but in the row he had his leg broken, when he called for her, announcing that she was his wife. The masculine Sarah Jane has at times worked in a brick-yard and pei -formed other duties of a like nature. The New Berne Nut Shell alludes to the number of marriages in that place, ealla It a "shew er of marriages. DEAD IN HIS TRACKS. THE EAST OF A JfOTEl DES PERADO. II oh Bob Pharr, After Killing Two Persons, and t Career of Crime, is Shot A Man With I hree Names. Charlotte Observer, bsth. About 12 o'clock yesterday, the city was startled by the announcement that Policeman Hill had killed the noted negro desperado and criminal, Bob Pharr, alias Henry Johnston, whose last act iu the drama of crime of which his life, for the last several years at least, has been made up, was the mur der of Kerr Watt, colored, at Pineville, on the 28th of November. The report spread rapidly, and in a few minutes a crowd of people were hurrying to the scene of the tragedy, a small house on Church street near tho intersection with Morehead, owned by Mr. V. F. Beattyahr1 occupied by Isaac Jenkins, colored. The house has only two rooms, a cooking and a sleeping apart ment, and it was in th latter that the killing occurred. The bed clothes and slats had all been torn off the stead, and within the frame, in a sitting pos ture, with one arm supporting the head on the frame and the back resting against the side, was the body of the noted criminal. In front of it was a small pool of blood which had run from his mouth and nose A small holein his forehead, slightly to the left side, marked the place where the ball had entered and from it flowed a small stream of blood. A cursory examina tion of the skull failed to show any hole on the opposite side, so it is likely the ball is still in his head. He had on a new suit of clothes, and a silver mounted pistol protruded from his hip pocket. llns was the scene presented when the reporter arrived at the spot, and no change had been made in the position of any thing in the room at 8 o'clock in the evening, as the coroner, who was sent for as soon as the occurrence be came known, had not arrived. THE STORY OF THE KILLING. is thus related by those who were pres ent when it occured. Aboutll o'clock a negro went to the house of J ustice II. C. Severs, who lives a few miles in the country, and told him that Pharr was in Isaac Jenkins's house. Mr. Severs came to town immediately and inform ed Policeman lleury llill. They got Constable John Orr md Charley Iiaker to assist them, and the four men start ed for Jenkins's house, taking different routes. As they approached the house, a negro named Palmer came out, ami from his conduct they discovered that Pharr had seen them coming. Justice Severs went to the window while the other men guarded the doors. He fail ed to see anything of Pharr at lirst but soon discovered that he was under tho bed and told his companions to enter. The three men went in and Severs fol lowed. They commanded him to sur render, but he refused, saying. i'll dik first. They then attempted to move the bed so as to get at him, but he moved with it, thus managing to conceal his person. Finally Severs caught one of his hands and wrenched from it a knife and a bunch of keys. I5v this time Henry Hill had gotten on the backside of the bed, and one of the party jerked the bed clothes oil. As this was done the negro raised himself up with pistol in hand and leveled it at Orr. The lat-, ter grasped it just in time to run his hand under the hammer, when the desperado pulled the trigger. The flesh prevented its striking the cartridge, and the weapon did not go off, but the next moment Pharr jerked it from Orr's hand and was in the act of cov ering him with it again when police man Hill tired. Pharr struggled a mo ment, then sank down in his tracks, and never spoke afterward. It was all the work of an instant, and before the officers realized that the struggle was ended, the negro lay stone dead at their feet. Policeman Hill surrendered himself to tho sheriff, who, becoming acquaint ed with the facts, allowed him to wo on his own recognizance. The remainder of those engaged in the affair stayed at the house to protect the body until it should be placed in the proper hands. RKCKLESS AND DARING CAREER. Pharr has been long known to the police as a most daring and reckless criminal. Their first encounter with him occurred about two months ago when an attempt was made to arrest him in a uagro house in First Ward. On the occasion, three members of the force surrounded the house. Discov ering their presence, he leaped from the window, firing several shots Irom his pistol as he went, and after being shot at himself three or four times by members of the force, and a long race, he escaped. A few months prior to this occurrence he escaped from Lincoln jail and liberated four other prisoners, by shooting Sheriff Robinson, with the pistol which he snatcbed from the sheriffs hands. He was confined there for larceny and was known by the name of Henry Johnston. The sheriff of Lincoln offered a reward of $50 for his arrest, and this was the occasion of the eflort of the police to get him. In the house from which he escaped, was found an express receipt made to "Robert Pharr" for shoes shipped to Pineville. This with the description of him, at once identified liim with Bob Pharr, who shot and killed Kerr Watt on the 2Mb of last month. For this crime a reward of J20D was offered for him by Governor Jarvis, and the police and other oHicers have been on the look out for him ever since. Three nights ago they were informed that he was in the city, and night before last Police men Hill and Farrington went to the house in which lie was killed yesterday, expecting to rind him, but he happened i ol to bo in. But the story of his crimes does not stop here. There is abundant prool that about two years ago lie Ml'llDEKED HIS WIFE in Union county, S. C, and a -t: ng ef fort was made to bring: him to justice, the Governor of that State orferiug a re ward'ot 200. His daughter, who, with her husband, is now in jail here umier the charge of implication in the Pine ville murder, confirms the story of lii murdering his wife and her mother, so that there can be no doubt as to hi.s identity. There is also another story that be killed a white woman named Spear in or near Harrisburg, in abarrus county, about seven years ago, but tne proof in this case are not established, and th fact is denied by his daughter, men tioned above) who says he was then liv ing in Union county. He is also known to have some con nection with several robbeiies in this section of the State, and it is said thai when the examination is made to-day, there will be abundant proof of this fact. Yesterday in the room wnere he was killed several chickens stolen from Mr. E. P. Dodge on the night before, were found, but it is not known whether he or the occupants of the house stole them. Both Jenkins and his wife were arrested and sent to jail to await the in vestigation. Th sheriff of Lincoln waa tele graphed for yesterday to come down, with a view to his identifying the body as that of Henry Johnston who escaped from him. While there may be some cause of re gret that such violence had to be resort ed to. the community owes to those who have rid it of such an outlaw i debt of gratitude. They have cer tainlv earned the rewards which have been offered for him, and there should be no question as to their right to them. CZAR AI.tX lXlll.lt EXCITED. Ill Sou and Heir Attempts to Die tate to Him. Vienna, Dec. 16. The Pesther Lloyd Correspondcnz alleges that serious dis putes have takeu place between the Czar and Czarewitch, which have cre ated great excitement in Court circles and generally throughout St, Peters burg. The main facts, as alleged, is that the Czarewitch, whose sympathies have long been with the popular party, demanded of the Czar the immediate institution of certain reforms which he claims are indispensable to the welfare and safety of the Kmpire and the con tinuance of the existing dynasty. The Czar on receipt of the communication containing this demand not only re fused to take any steps toward acceding to it, but peremptorily ordered th ar rest of the Czarewitch. This order, however, is said to have been counter manded on the receipt of a telegram from the Empress who is still at Can nes, protesting against wlrat she as serted would be viewed by the Powers as a harsh, unnecessary measure, cal culated to bring additional scandal and trouble upon the Government and Im perial household. The startling intelligence comes through the same channel that several prominent Russian Generals threaten to issue a pronunciamento expressive of their dissent from the methods of rule now in vogue in Russia, and of their purpose to withdraw their alle giance from the Emperor unless he con sents to grant a constitution to the peo ple. Deep feeling prevails upon the subject, which, it is feared, may culmi nate in a crisis of the gravest possible, character. 'I lie l ie Surrender. Wii.-liir.gioii Star. :Tih. A telegrim was received by Secre tary Schur. last night from Commis sioner Chalk's Adams, dated South Pueblo, Col., December bi, saying: "Yours of yesterday j list received while traveling home. Your dispatch of the 0t li was received by us on the lllh and communicated to Ouray, who immedi ately left for the camp of the White river Utes to hurry up their move ments. Before the receipt of your dis patch one of the twelve designated by us, a son of Douglas, had been brought in, but we instructed Ouray to keep him and others until the full number was ready to be delivered. Before I left, I understood that a few others were at his house, but not all, which was hardly to bo expected, as only live days had elapsed with snow very deep, traveling slow, and the Indians much scattered. I consider the surrender an accomplished fact, and cannot think of a possibility that it will be prevented, although Gen. Hatch may be delayed in bringing them out, as Ihe snowfall in that country has been unprece dented, and transportation can hardly bo obtained. Further negotiations in Washington as to the reservation will be easier of accomplishment than our tasiv so f.r. Will write you fully."' The Coldest I own in I lie iVorltl. Hucyrus Journal. Here it mav relieve us when the mer cury has crept into the nineties, to think ofatownwhica Humboldt, and other travelers have pronounced the coldest on the globe. This is Jakutk. (or Yakootsk), chief town of the province of that name iu Eas ern Siberia, on the left bank of the river Lena, 02 deg. 1 min. north, longitude 119 deg. 41 mm. east, distant from St, Petersburg o,951 miles. The ground remains continu 1 ly frozen to the dep h of 300 feet, except in midsummer, whe i it thaws three feet at the surface. During ten days in August the thermometer marks eighty five degrees, but from November to February u ranges from forty-two" to sixty-eight degrees below zero, and the river is solid ice for nine months out of the twelve. The entire industry of the placepopulation 5,300 is comprised in candle works, and yet it is the princi pal market of Eastern Siberia for trallic with the hunting tribes of the Buriats. The former, mostly nomadic having large herds of horses and cattle, bring to market butter, which is sent on horseback to the port of Okhotsk. The Buriats, also nomadie, bring quantities of skins of sabies, foxes, martens, hares, squirrels and the like, and many of them are sold at the great fair iu June, which, with May, is the active period of tho year. In May the collected goods are conveyed to the sea ports, whence they are sent in every direction. The merchandise, chiefly furs and mam moth tusks, sold at fair amount in value to 400,000 roubles ($300,000.) An Anwloleor .nily Jolmsoii. A son of Parson Brownlow recently told this story of Andy Johnson, the event happening about the year 14.: . r i 1 1 . 11'. . . . . I . .. I "It seems mat, jouusou imu onomifn a certain class of Detr.ocrats, and tho local politicians, who ran the constitu ency, had arranged to nominate anoth er man. Word was brougnt to John son of the fact alter nightfall, and the convention was to meet next day. It seemed improbable that he could. reach the spot in tune to change the aspect. But he got on his horse immediately, riding all night, appeared in Jones borough at daylight and cillcd on the heads of the conspiracy. They admit ted that they had promise'.' their votes to another candidate, and could not re tract. 4 Verv well," said Johnson, -then I will show" you what I propose to do with you. You expect to run for sheriff of thfs county, and you for county clerk, and voti for coroner. 1 will run independently, and, though you can beat me for Congress, I will beat every one of vou for your places and elect Whigs with the voie I mean to draw off.'" This kind of appeal always touches the politician, and when the convention mei that day the old slate was br ken, and Andrew Johnson re uomi naied. ilanlan Kejeet Courtney Propo sition. Toronto, Out. Dec. 10. Hanlan de clares he will not entertain Courtney's proposition to wait till next June to row for the 3,000 prize. If Courtney's ieposit is not made good by the 22d inst. for the race on the Potomac Han Ian will make a formal demand on Mr. Soule for the prize, and will base his future action on that gentleman's reply. Should Rilev, or any other oarsman in America, challenge him for a race to come off iu April or early in May he might be disposed to defer his proposed English trip for a month or two. nilliard Table For Rale. One new Nonpareil Novelty Carome Table, Brunswick .v Balke make, for sale. Apply to M. Bills, City Bottling Warks, Raleigh, X. C. GRANT IN PHILADELPHIA. II1S JOl'ItXET A ROOD THE WOK ED COM PEE I EO. Once Aronnd the Track In 913 Daja I lie Wandering I'lysses Welcomed Hack on Yesterday. Philadelh" hia, Dec. ltl. Ex-President. Grant arrived in Philadelphia this morning, and was tendered the grandest demonstration of welcome ever seen in the Quaker City. The tour of the world, which was completed by his arrival here to-day occupied 943 days. The day opened clear and bright and the streets were filled with people long before the hour at which the Gen -eral and his party were expected to ar rive. The special train carrying Gen. and Mrs. Grant, Gov. Hoyt and staff, the committee, and the City Council of Philadelphia, left Harrisburg at 6:05 this morning and arrived, at Gorman town Junction at 10 o'clock. At the city limits Mrs. Grant and other ladies of the party were transferred to a sep arate car and taken to the Continental Hotel. The remainder of the train, with Gen. Grant, Gov. Hoyt, and the reception committee, proceeded over the New York junction road to the North Philadelphia station at Somer sett and Broad streets. Mayor Stokley and other officials at once enteed the car and formally wel comed the General to the city. To the Mayor's speech of welcome Gen. Grant said: To you, Mr. Mayor, and good citizens of Philadelphia, which has always been a home to me since I first became ac quainted with the citizens of Philadel phia, I return with great pleasure. A salute was then tired by the Key stone Battery. Gen. Grant was escorted to a carriage by Mayor Stokley and driven around into Broad street, where tho City Troop, mouuted men, drawn up on one side. This troop formed a personal es ort before the carriage, four of the members riling at either side has escorted every President visiting Philadelphia since" the tune of Wash ington. Ou the east side of Broad street were drawn up in line the mili tary, with the United States troops on the extreme right; next in succession came the United Stales Marine Corps, the Second New Jersey Brigade, N. G Delaware battalion.and the Pennsylva nia military, and the cadets from the Military Academy at Chester and the Philadelphia Lincoln Institute. Tho procession was in twenty divis ions, and included all the military in tho eastern part of Pennsylvania. Semi-' military, secret and political organiza tion's, citizens and representatives of all tho trades and industries followed, so that fully 30,000 men were in line. Tho line did not move until 11 o'clock. .Its route was down Broad to Market, Mar ket to Fourth, to Chestnut, to Thir teenth, and down to Pino and to Broad .1 I o .1 again, ine route was inen uowu iroau, sixteen squares to Pennsylvania Road, where the column countermarched ami halted, with the right of the lino resting at the corner of Chestnut and Broad. The streets were crowded with pec pie, and the decorations of the various stands and buildings exceeded anything ever before seen in Philadelphia. In front of the State Houso was a trium phal arch, covered with bunting and American colors and festooned with laurel, the center piece capping the arch, being a hau lsomo trophy of flags of all nations. As the procession passed I ndepond- ence llalltne groat oou was rung in honor of the city's guest. General Grant responded to tho cheers of tho crowd by standing up and waving hi hat. Ho remained standing until it passed tho venerable Independence liall, when he resumed ins seat uusiuo the Mayor. In front ol the union lieague tno thoroughfare was roped off, making a clear space, but on the pavements was a struggling mass of people. Tho League building was handsomely dec orated. The east side of Broad street, in front of the League, was the stand where Goneral Grant reviewed tho pro cession. At 2:4-:i p. m. tho head of the line reached the League, and 4j minutes after that tho carriage containing the ieneral and Mayor Stokely reached the stand. There was a halt, and the General alighted and was presented to members of the League. There were no speeches. Iu a few minutes a sig nal was given and the procession moved forward. The General stepped to the front and viewed the pageant. At the conclusion of the review ben. Grant, after a short time, was driven to the residence of Mr. George W. Child, where he rested and prepared lor the reception given there in "is nonor to night. 1 o-nnrht Chestnut street, irom inuo- pendence Hall, where there is a general illumination, to Broad street, is as bright as day. Large crowds are prom enading the streets. Manhattan Bank BobbM. Ni:w York, Dec. 1"). Discovery was made this evening of an attempt to liberate from the Tombs the Manhattan Bank burglars, Johnny Hope, Johnny Dobbs, Policeman Nugent, Janitor Shevelin and Watchman Kelly. This is the gang, so far arrested, for taking &,0M,ix:O Irom the bank in the famou burglary of ov er a year ago. The ut most caution had been taken to prevent their escape or a rescue. Johnny Hope's father and Johnny Dobb's, father, by the free use of money, however, had bribed Keeper Morton to help the gang escape, but the warden or the prison, hearing of the plan, caused two detec tives to be locked up close to the rob bers. They soon saw that Morton was handing packages and letters to tho prisoners, and then the warden himself saw it done. Tho result was the arrest to-night of the keeper, and the placing of new guards over the prisoners. A w Treatment for lrunkfone. A new and novel treatment of drunk enness was devised and tested by a Dubuque wife. Her husband cam home moderately intoxicato 1, and exe peeied to get the usual scolding. He was astonished, therefore, when tho" woman received him smilingly, asked him if he would have some brandy, and prod need a bottle and glass. He prompt ly accepted the liquor, and drank so much that ho was helpless. Then she tir d him to a bedpost and whipped him with a rawhide until, as the 'lelegraph says, he was as tender as good beefsteak. One Experience from Many. 'I had been sick and miserable ho long and had caused my husband so much troubled and expense, no one seemed to know what ailed me, that I was completely disheartened and dis couraged. In this frame of mind I got a bottle of Hop Bitters and used them unknown to my family. I soon began to improve and gained so fast that my husband and family thought it strange and unnatural, but whon I told them what had helped me, they said 'Hurrah for Hop Bitters! long may they pros per, for they have made mother wU and us happv.' "The mother.
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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