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VOL. XVI.-!l
RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1879.
$5.0D PER ANNUM '
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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
mii.r PHorrr.nisui or thf.
br rrmklf It. I. II. Onre More in i
ibr Kalr f m Kr former -The Com
mittee on Killrv Heard Iroui
sfcN Ti:.
M th conclusion of the reading of
journal yetterd.v, Thurman rtse
i:i l stid there - evidently no quo--itu
present and no probability that
tie would l obtained He therefore
mo e.1 an adjournment, but withdrew
the motion to allow the following buti-
t (e transacted:
Holler introduced a bill to authorize
lh I nited States to secure the title to
c rvm military and timber rewerva
t:or.. Inferred to the Committee, on
Military A tl-tr.
Mornll orTered a resolution which
wa adopted, instructing the Conimlt
ts on Public Building to inquire aa to
th ns.sitr for enlarging the site on
:L MaUtMiWuM fcwrtld Ing for Lh
! urtMU of engraving and printing "d
t'.i- prolble cost thereof.
Hi Vice-President appointed Voor-.--s.
Vnc, Pendleton, Wmdoin and
. :ie. a a committee to In esligate
tae of the nero emigration from
"itherti to th Northern St:.
r.i inmn renewed the motion for
imment and at 12 2t the Senate a I
. ti i until I ii e. lay, Januaiy ", 1 sn '.
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Mr. IV.jt. kburn. ot Kentucky, fiom
i-iuuiK on riiJi'i, sut iiutUs! a
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vta: t entrai Cuimittee met lifty
prouitnent leniocratA trom varioun
pa it tjf the Mate to decide 011 a plan tor
arranins the State c.uiipanrn.
John II. lrl y.of pr inctield. intro
il i ii a rntoiutioii wlncii -aiii-el an
ac iiiidiioud ll'a: ot four lioum,
ilriiiiiiiik' any fraud whereby the will
of the -ple l aubvrrte.1 by National
or S:a:e authority or indiv l luaN.
The mceUfij; vottnl i.n ttie aiiien-l-inn.i
exemtini; the Maine cae ir--m
the provision? of the resolution, aiol
thru defeated the rtHj!utiou.
fllttf r rliOrlr rt ytmney.
V vHt.To, I '.H-. 17. In reply to
inquiries from the Chaie National Itunk
of Ntw York ctty. the Controller of ihe
urrtiicy haa written a letter in which
he j it: " I he on I v lcc-tl tender iiality
t a' i;.i-r certif;- atf liae n that they
are 1 it .1! le tor ciii;i iii, t.txei, and
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linr tkrirlwa Arm).
-Nvv Yokk, iH. ly. A s)e'ial from
' In. Mvi that Captain W. S. "1 -tuau.e,
of the Ninth Infantry, wu Ll
and l.htly wounded day bWore m
trrday in "that city by Major J. 11.
"Miiith, of the aame regiment. The
trouble m uppoid to have jjrown out
't attentiona jud by Tremame to
milba w ife.
aaaiarrlfall Rabkrr.
' " " a RLoTTE, Iee. 19. Special de
le. u lieorvre H. t hambrUin. of the
fui aervice, bu been arretted in thi
city a nt,fro nameil Iaac Carter. tiain
hand of the iUchtuondA IajiTllle lail-
mad. who has been guilty of systemat
ic depredations upon the mails, Proofs
are coiiir. lcte and the negro is in jail.
Mr. Chamlerlain has boon working
up the ue lor several weeks.
A Lanallr'a Work.
ltTo?i, Mw., IUh 1M. I,XHt nicht
an unknown man, HuppoMed to have
been insane, ei.tertsi the eastern rail
roa iect at Saoo, Maine, and although
he wm jtlmt and wounded by the watch
inan. he kicketl over the tttove and ile
iiiolnluii the lamps, -eltliiK tire to the
buildmi; which, w ith the freight house
and shed attachel were burned. The
remains of the lunatic were found in
the ruins.
HORACE (iREELLVA I'Kl.t tl'TOIt.
A w lib Ibe Man Wh Tanrtat the
Raff of t bappaqua lMllek Type.
St. IajuI Republican.
Mr. Ansell Warren, one of the old
est printer and newspaper publishers
in tho county, calltd at the htvubUcan
office. Wednesday to look at the Hoe
perfecting prens, the latest wouder in
lue way of prlnimn luachiuery. After
tiiitc(.iiiC the preaa Mr. Warren natu
rally dropsl into converatlion, britif;
mu uj reminisoense of his early ex,e-rtem-e.
He . now in bis eibty-first
yaar, bavin bwsa buiu til TTW. In lsl2
he workeil in the Itrvnlle office at KI11
atet!itown, N. Y., forly-ieven miles
from I'liubunr. The editor was Wil
liam Kvy, a Connecticut Yaukee, k;iven
to rh niitiK. llay afterward entered
the navy ami wascapturel by the Al
Kerlne pirates, who held him enila.ed
two years. Kir ('. irosn, afterward a
uicmlxT of tJUifress, was the next
editor of the iirirille. In those days
Mr. Warren say a they u.ied to ink the
ty j -e w ilh
sTt'KrK.n nvi-us
m.vde up like cushions. He fives uu
no roin incitients of the war of 1U
whlrh fell uniler his observation. .Sub
sequently he went to l'oiiltnev, Ver
nioni, aiitl lsk charge of the .VfArt
A;rffifor in that place. While Mr.
arreii was put lnhiiik; this paper an
exceedingly awkward, urtn and
gaw ky iiuiitry ly came to the office
and applied lor a situation an ap-
iren;i-e. His name was iltracv ree
ev. His father had just moved to
W est 1 1 t en. a v il!.t.-e near Tontlney,
aii.l the ouncter wanttsl to be a print
er, lit- w as eiik: ae. I ami took ner I Co
fir '.! ji rnxl ol lour years, and thus
irra e iiririi'V be.tn a career wh.i li
.ti;i r-. ard In I to the h iht-st eminence
111 the ,tn: nalii.ic pr I wiuii. Mr.
W.ti it 1. 1 v s 1 1 e i.ew appieutice was
the lii.--t s tilioui a 1 1 I persntent
worker lit r saa. 'I here w ai an
other apprt'Htl-e lia:ned . . 1'iWe,
m.'i Ii.iiI been h.i.ii-r 111 theotii.e ai d
I" r u liMin it .e 1 i.a I l . i.ed ;t t I li n
Is ".ell ' ill 1 p.
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V oilni il IN e to
separate them -:ui II14 the j-.i-es of
an argument, i .1 nrra'-iy lla-v were
a verv humored p.'.ir. Mr. NS'ar-
ren 1 1 s t h- li r : a! tempt . rts-ley ever
mil.- ; write .11 1 v 1 1 11 11 t r pu I i i-at i n
.1 1 : .e I 1 1 1 in thl W.IV. -lllflM'ilv
to t!ie
liee a monstrous
s'ji. i-h as a ip 1 micii ol lariii products.
:i:i I - li r.tl ol tlest tlilp'.oyed illnMit'
t.i :! wrote dt-seript ioti of it, tlie
ui.-i. 1 1'.andtm; bt'in that the best ac
count would be published. tireeley
Wiksamorii; the competitors, but was
n : stieccsiful. His siiash item went
into the wsnte basket. Shortly after
the publisher of a pajs-r, llie Jr.. pub
lished in a town near by, 1. tiered a pre
mium for the best story contributed.
treeiev competed, semlitii; in a story
about (ienerai Stark, and thouuh he
iln! not et Iheprire.hN story was jub
lishtsl. and that was the first couiJHsi
tioii of bis that eer appeared in print.
1 1 1- friendship for Ilowe lasteti Ion
alter he hal lectiiie eminent and pros
perous, an. I Mr. Wh ren also liad let
ters showing that in later years Mr.
tireeley !id not forget themployer
who bal first civen him instruction
in the craft heallerward mastered with
audi success.
(Grant's Hand-Shaking--
The following i? cident of "invnt's
visit to I'hiladelphia, is taken from the
l'htladelphia .Vrm.-
From the Nation s Itirthplace to the
Cradle of I.ilerty w as but a short jaunt.
Here the people, the rank and file of
tke populace, were on Hand to enjoy
the privilege of jersonally greeting the
iteiieral ami taking him ly the hand.
While this ceremony t a very twdious
one to the -rson w bo has to le shaken,
it is something which people will talk
of and sK-ak of for years to come. In
the dim future, when the General" hair
will Le whitened by age, men will tell
ot the day they shsik hands with t irant,
just as an edd veteran remarked to the
tieneral vesterday, as he grAsped his
hand: "I shook hinds with Iiifayette
In l-4." That was a red-letter day in
thai man's life, just as yesterday was in
thv hum-drum venture of the lives of
some three thousand persons who
grasisM the hand ol the hero of Appo
mattox. irant h is probably sh tken hands
with more sple in liie last four years
than any other man that ever lived dul
in the same time. He has .shaken
hands with the whole world, and has
m altered the thing so well that there is
about as much satisfaction shaking
hands with him at a public reception as
there would be to touch the hem of his
garment.
rti i-t.N, 11 u am' nNr as iia-
K Kits.
The coldest and mit unsatisfactory
loan lo -hake hands w ilh in Ameiicais
Samuel Jones Tilden. To clasp his
hand is ual lo embracing a pump
handle on a frsy morning. Hayes is
ditb reiit. He is w arm and cordial, and
makes cv er v 01. e V ho lakes his hand
feel m 1 1 they had met a long loM
I r i 1 1 . t 1 a 1 1 1 is .1 com p roll 1 ist I H I wee n
the two. As he stood in Independence
Hall his tiignitttsl, nserve-1 manner
ihowe.l it-elf plainly. Ti.e lines about
his mouth weic slroncly marketl, and
there was no irtovemenl of the uius-i-es
to evince pleasure or displeasure,
e t w l.en a strong vtiuth Irt.m the
country Miit-eid bun so tihi tliat be
w nii-iii, and then looked down toward
hts U is to see w hether they had gone
111 the direction of the uisappearing
cttt tails of the rash young man. He
appe trtil as near an autoiuaton as it is
p-iih!e lor a 111 111 to be and yet have
Iwing. W hen the doors weie throw n
oj,eli thecrowd surged III.
inxi bless vim, iciiera!,' lervently
e l.iiincd an old lady, vigorously
shaking the it neral s hand.
Among otiiers was an old colored
w m.m, w ith an viininense black limi
ne:, who cMirti-jtied low a.s tho General
too her hand.
'"Kiss MY It.VIlY, tiKXKHM..'
"Kiss mv labv, ieneral." said a lady
with a rosy -checked infant in her arms.
The General complied with the request
smilintily. and the iufaul put its little
arms aiouiul his neck.
When he hail shaken for thirty-live
minutes, the General asked for a rest,
and steppinir back from the line he re
fused to shake any more, but spent the
rest of the time iu bowing to the peo
ple as they tiled before hiin.
A Varaa I Npae.
Peoria, Dec 19. Thomaa N'eill, a
heavy coal dealer, has failed for f 300,
0)0. He disappeared touie days ago
and hi whereabout is unknown.
THE BURNING GINS.
KTII.I, MORE COTTOX (OXSIMKD
AT WAKREX PI.AIXs.
I aeendlarlsm RifeTwo Cains Burned
Uurins; the Week Time for
Prompt Action.
Si !-1 al Dicpatch to the News.
Wakrkn Plains, Dec. 19 9:1" r." m.
To-night the cotton gin house of
Fleming it Co., situated near this
station, was destroyed by fire. There
was not much cotton destroyed, but this
was owing to the foresight of the firm
in stowing it at a safe distance. The
first that was olwerved was that the gin
house w as in a sheet of flame, and ihe
denizens went promptly to the scene.
What cotton was stored in proximity
to the burning building was quickly
removed. The damage at these advic
es cannot be estimated, but is confirmed
to the building and machinery.
Three nights ago the gin house of J
M Flits was burned. Tbee occurrences
following so closely after other burn
ings in this section, would give strong
color to the i lea that they are not acci
dental. The general destruction of
property not being confined to cotton
alone shows that the incendiary's torch
must have been applied in nearly "very
case. T.
la ti:.MKs noniEit.
How She ArleU llefore Her Untighter
was Kaallel to a Throne.
The extraordinary vicissitudes of for
tune of the late ComttH.se de Moutijo
are much talked about in l'aris. M.
I.atitie of tho Voltaire remembers to
havt, seen the mother of the ex-sovereign
of France with this exalted lady
some years previous t.i her assumption
of the imperial purple, waiting pa
tiently in the ante-chamber nf the Nes
tor lloijuephtn for gratis tickets for the
opera, w hu h they had come to solicit.
The m -uinger of the opera house did
not pay the Spanish ladies the attention
! asking them to step into an inner
r mm, but lot di'Mii 'm i- jii fil it i- ti itr
wttii the mob of iieor characters who
hung alioiit his oili.-e. M. I,:ititto re
spected the late comtese lor her clever
generalship in securing a crown for
daughter. He thinks that, if the poor
old lady bad not been ordered to leave
Paris, France miuht have been spared
Ihmur Germany. An American
correspondent writes to inform London
1', n'h that at one period of her roving
ireer the countess made a hit It in Ilriis--i
Is, and set up there a small millinery
-;-re. General llinco.-k, author of
' ii r i si, the Spirit," used to deal w it Ii
her for the lliuisies which he sent to
the ladies of his family iii the I'nited
Si ites. He flattered himself that the
noble tradeswoman h i l "a head and
heirt apprehensive of the truths set
forth in lh it w oi k."
STATE :s.
Correpotiilenci unler this hcatl Is fur
nll5ei oy rettular contributors to the
News.
KoKsVrilK.
Winsion, Dec. IS. The weather has
been variable to the last four dayi,
giving us some rain, tdect, cold rain,
fair cold weather, and now lair warm
weather.
Trade is still splendid.
Ho' killing is the order of the day
now, both in town and country, each
vieing with the other ad to heavy
weight porkers.
A patent medicine, corn-destroying,
w Art-li fling, pale face man is on our
street-s selling a drug possessing, ac
cording to his diction, qualities surpass
ing iu lotency even Doctor cele
brated "Ty-coon oil." Since Mr.
located in our town, he has dropped the
title of M. D., and has ungenerously
withheld from the needy public the
celebrated "Ty-coon oil.'' lie was can
vassing North Carolina with this oil
w hen he first came to Winston, and as
most all other scientific and sensi
ble men do, who visit our at
tractive little city, became en
amored of our c.ty, dropped his oil,
M. D., and itinerancy and became a citi
zen, and one too, by the way, of whom
w o are justly proud, for he is a poet and
artist of no mean ability, and an auc
tioneer of the first water. On his first
trip to Winston he stopped at Waugh
town and there found a man sufi'ering
the most excrutiating ain, and wlieu
entreated to relieve me suilerer he de
cided to attack him with the"Tycoon,"
trusting to the theory that to relieve a
man of a pain, you must inflict upon
him a greater one. It acted like magic,
and raised the patient with the rapidity
of lightning and with shot gun iu band
it was a sharp race between ' him and
the doctor to the Salem bridge. Hut
the doctor won tho keystone, aud like
Tom Shanter, was safe.
A negro man by the name of Tyler
1 1 airst on w as found dead four miles
from this place Monday morning. The
coroner decided that his death was
caused by falling from a horse. George
Slegle was also lound dead the same
morning iu the eastern part of the
county.
Tobacco has been coining in abund
antly of late and selling ut high figures.
This is a first clas market and tobacco
is shipped from here to uito a number
ol the leading manufacturing cities in
various parts of the United Slates.
Dr. W. A. Berry is the proudest man
in Winston since William Fred has put
in his appeal ftnee. It is li is first anil a
hoy, weighing nine pounds. Contracts,
to "rebuild the burnt buildings have
been let to Mr. H. A. Mclver, who will
begin work at once. The damaged
buildings have been refitted and are
now occupied.
IUM omiik.
AsiiKVii.it: Dec. I'i. The vveitheris
such to-day as would foretell the coin
ing of the "holidays Chi isimas weath
erexcept that thoro is no
snow ; and the weather is
not the only thing (besides the knowl
edge of the fact that they are coming)
that would remind one of the nearness
of their approach, for "What shall we
do Christmas?" is tho general topic and
the incentive lo action among quite a
number of the villagers. All the
churches aro meaning to have some
kind of an entertainment form Sun
day school children, but what ail those
entertainments will be I am not fully
prepared to say. Will say, however,
that some of them are going to have
Christmas trees, and in the Methodist
C hurch w e are going to edify onr chil
dren with a magnificent ''magic lan
tern" show the pictures to be Uible
illustrations.
In the midst of its enjoyment the
Methodist Sunday school, of this place,
was, on last Friday, very much bereft
by the death of one of its most atten
tive aud favorite members, Miss
Maggie Cowan. Miss Maggie
was in the bloom of youth, twenty sum
mers ol age, and for that foul disease,
consumption, to lay her in - the
rae, does indeed seem hard,
ut as we have unwillingly consigned
bt r there, we Mil peacefully let her
rtst, with the full assurance that she
will some day be lnleaven, fur she
was undoubtedly a gfcqd girl.
There are others in t-fnr midst quite
sick. vi
Considerable gratification among the
people to know that the first engine
has passed through thoSwannanoa tun
nel. It passed through yesterday.
No police or political news has oc
curred in this section for some days.
The extra term of the Superior Court
held for Haywood county terminated
on last week, aud many of the legal
fraternity of Ashevilf ar6 now attend
ing Federal Court at Charlotte.
Wedding are the order of the day.
The Register, who issues licenses, is
sick, but if those who seek for the nup
tial certificate can give any consolation
he has plenty. Cob.
GREKXK.
Willow (Jreknk, Dec. 17. The
weather is clear and frosty. Good rains
the past week. Wheat is generally up
and looking well. There has besn a
dearth in business owing to the fall in
cotton, which is only worth 104 cents
per pound now.
Mr. John Walston, who lives near
Snow Hill, lost his dwelling house last
week by tire. The cause of the fire is
not known. Ixiss about $2,000. No in
surance. Ttev. W. II. Call has returned to this
the Snow JJill Circuit, for the next Con
ference year. A worthy preacher and
a good circuit.
Dr. Frank M. Rountree will leave
Hookerton to-morrow morning for the
city of Raleigh after his daughter, Miss
Florence, and Miss Emma Carr,
daughter of Mr. R. A. Li. Carr, of this
Flace, who are attending school at Peace
nstitute. They will spend Christmas
at home and thn return.
I attended a sale at the residence of
the late Col. Owen Jones on yesterday.
The property sold well, corn for in
stance, brought $1.3.) per barrel, cash.
The negro exodus fever has abated
somewhat; a party left this county on
Monday for Indiana. They arrived at
Goldsboro and returned, the cause of
Uefe return is not stated by the party.
E. II. H.
THK HOMAX'Ji EXtHAXKE.
Ureal Sueeess of the Xew York Insti
tution ft xtent of the Iltislne.
The New York Exchange for Wo
man's Work, a society organized for
the benefit of needy gentlewomen,
opened its rooms less" than two years
at'o, with .'H) articles for sale at a com
mission of 10 per cent. Since then the
receipts for sales have amounted to over
Ji'.'kki, ?1;,412 of which has been paid
to consignors, .,313 for incidental ex
penses, leaving a balance in the treasury-
of over 5fl,(HK). A verv large girder
business has been done, besides keep
ing the rooms stocked with a great va
rieiv of beautiful articles for house,
toilet and personal adornment. Hun
dreds of w omen w ho have seen better
days have ut.i le it profitable to send the
results of their indutrits to the ex
change without the slightest publicity,
one branch of ill's business is the sale
of home-mado cake, preserves and
pickles, large orders comii.g for them
even from England. Some rare old
laces, historical china, etc., have been
consigned al.-o for sale by persons
obliged to part with them, a nuriber
c uning from the Southern Stales. Tho
whole house, in which the society at
present has only three rooms, is rented
from May 1, and many new branches of
industry are to be opened. The small
cminlission ' barged would not pay the
expenses of tho exchange. This is
done from the subscription of vV a year
o' each of its members. Mrs. A. T.
Stew art made a gift last year of ."oo.
AUKK'tlilTKAL DEI'ARTMEXT.
A Taint I'rospeet That the Country
Mny be Relieved of It and I.e Due
More f'.xpeiisive Than I seful.
Boston Herald.
There is a "faint prospect that the
country may be relieved of the burden
of Le Due and the agricultural depart
ment. The committee on agriculture
are discussing the propriety of report
ing a bill abolishing the department en
tirely. Many of the committee regard
itas an expensive humbug. Le Due
has added greatly to the unpopularity
of the institution. A member of the
committee is reported as saying that
they would abolish the department in
order to get rid of Mr. Le Due. Mr.
Covert of New Y'ork, chairman of the
committee on agriculture, said to-day
that he favored the abolishment of the
department, ami that a bill was being
prepared with that end in view. He
said that the department was far more
expensivethan useful, and that all the
legitimate duties of the department
could bo better and more economically
performed by other branches of the
government. The expenses of the de
partment have been constantly increas
ing, and without corresponding ben
efit. Con ltl n't Cut It Short.
I etroit Fre Press.
A day or two ago a woman entered
the telegraph office and said to the re
ceiver of messages that she desired to
telegraph her husband, who was in
Chicago, for money. He pointed her
to the counter supplied with blanks
and told her the rate for ten wonis.
She struggled away for a quarter of an
hour.and then handed in the following :
" Won't 3'ou please send me ten dol
lars bv next mail ?"
" I t'lon't know- whether that will do
or not," she said, as she felt for her
money. " If you were to receive such
a dispatch from your wife, would you
forward her money?'
" Well well. I might," he replied
in doubtful toues.
"Now you wait! I don't like the
dispatch at all, because 1 tried to keep
it within ten words. I'll write anoth
er. She tore it up, walked over to the
counter, and in three minutes habded
in a new one, reading :
' Am out of food and fuel, and want
ten dollars as soon as you can get it
here! If you can't spare it I'll spout
the parlorVarpet !"
"That would bring the money from
me," said the ro'-eiver, as he read the
lines and marked the number of words.
" Then I guess it will from him.
Send it along, and if I don't get the
money inside of two days you'll hear
somebody ripping up forty yards of
Brussels carpet otf the floor !"
I'rintlnffthe Debates of Congress.
Washington, Dec. 1". Senator
C inkling to-day presented a proposal
irom Franklin Rives, of Washington,
to print and bind the debates of Con
gress, and a memorial praying that the
contract be awarded to him. He offers
to print what is known as the ' vs
sional Record under all regulations . i v
governing this printing, the Govon
ment lo furnish the paper, at the rau
of 1 4-10 mills per printed page of tho
book edition and to bind 'the same for
60 cents per volume.
Mr. Rives asserts that he is and has
been for the last s'x years ready to do
the work for at least thirty thousand
dollars less for each Congress than the
real cost at the Govern ment printing
office.
Cypreaa Shingles
cheaper than ever before offtrjd in
R deign for sale by Jones, reen &
P well.
THE TAX PAYER'S BOOM.
THEQIESTIOX AGA1.H ACdTATEU
IN THE SOl'TllERXER.
The Demoeraey of the Tiling Are
the Figures Correct ? And Other
Matters Pertaining- 'I hereto.
Correspondence Tarboro Southerner.
LETTKR NITMHKUTWO.
Before the communication which ap
peared in your last was submitted to
you for publication, a proof sheet had
been sent in a confidential way to a
large number ot influential Demo
crats in various parts of the State, to
obtain their j udgment as to the propri
ety of publication, and if that was
deemed advisable, with a request for
suggestions as to amendments. The
almost unanimous reply was, "Pub
lish, of course ! The Democratic party
will support nothing that will not bear
discussion." The suggestions made
by them were incorporated and the cor
rected and revised copy was published
by you. A- copy of the unamended
and unrevised proof sheet came into
the hands of a paper that supported the
"subsidy" side of the question and was
published by it. The statements put
out by "Taxpayer" are intended for
discussion and criticism', and should
abide the same fate that is reserved for
the "mud cut" appropriation, to wit:
If they can not stand fair discussion
and in vestigation, they should go un
der. But it is to be regretted that par
ties intending to criticise had not
waited till the matter intended for dis
cussion had been put out instead of
publishing an incorrect proof-sheet
submitted to friends for the very pur
pose of suggesting corrections.
So far as criticisms are concerned,
they seem so far to fall under two
heads. The first impeaches the De
mocracy of those who question "the
right divine to rule"' of "mud cut."
They are like the heathen of old who
thought to refute the truth as preached
by Paul by "crying out for the space
of two hours, Great is Diana of the
Ephesians."
We think we are taking the only
step that can save the State to the De
mocracy by seeking to render this
"subsidy" a non-party question''
A quasi-endorsement which we may
have given the matter when the rail
road was at Ilenrv, is a very different
matter from continuing the endorse
ment when we have gotten to Ashe
ville, when we have experienced the
expense and the uncertainty of railroad
building across a mountain chain, and
when the interest on the public debt is
coining down to add to "ur burdens.
Those w ho cry out, "You'll split the
party," remind us of Governor Vance's
anecoote of the little boy who cried out
to his father, "Pa, make Ben 'have
himself." "Well, what's Ben doing?"
"Why, pa," replied the incipient mud
cutter, "every time I hit him he hol
lers." So when the great tax-paying
sections begin to move uneasily-, these
gentry, with their arms up to the el
bows in our pockets, cry out, "'Have
yourselves and hold still or you'll split
the party." The Democratic party is
made of stouter material. It is strong
enough to do right, and it will take
something stronger than the advocates
of railroad subsidies to split this grand
old party that has done so much for
the rights of the people.
The second ground of attack of coin se
is our figures. That the taxes paid by
the seven counties through which the
Ducktown Railroad is to be built is
only "?8,ijo7, or 1-60 of the State tax; that
their total vote for Vance was 3,6s.1,, or
about 1-3.J of the Domooratic vote of
the State; that the assessed value of
their real estate was only 1,76,000, or
about one-sixth of what the railroad
w ould ost fcom Asheville to Duck
town these facts, and the similar
startling figures as to the Paint Rock
branch, seem undisputed. These facts
can readily be seen by turning to the
Auditor's Report for year ending Sept.
30, 1877, ind the returns of the vote for
Governor. Y'et, it is upon these figures
must turn almost entirely the question
as to the propoiety of building an ex
pensive road, at the tax-pa3Ters' ex
pense, in a poor country.
They devote the energies of their at
tack upon the question of how much
each year the State is spending, as il
they can reduce the agony by spreading
out the waste of money over a longer
term of years. But let us examine
these figures. The taxes raised by the
tax list, by the aforesaid Auditor's Re
port for year ending Sept. 30, 1877, was
$518,000. One half of that is -?25!t,000.
Now, this railroad subsidy is made up
of fiv8 items:
1. An annual and perpetual appro
priation for iron of $70,000, (see laws
1876-'77, p. 170.) Finding that the slow
ness of the work would not allow them
to draw the full amount for iron, they
got the last Legislature to allow 20,000
of this to be used for "constructing aud
operating."
2. The Legislature, by laws 1874-'75,
p. 173, directed the re-purchase of the
W. N. C. R. R., on which it had already
lost 4,400,000 of State bonds by giving
&v)U,0-0 of mortgage bonds on the road,
bearing seven per cent, interest, the
State paying the interest if tho road did
not, (which of course it does not) and
thus there is another $.:i9,500 annually
drawn out of the public treasury.
3. Having put the State in for paying
their interest, the mortgage bond
holders next proceed to secure their
principal by having the railroad pushed
on, every dollar of the additional work
of course passing under their mortgage
as fast as added. An act is passed ( law s
1876-'77, p. 170) giving the 70,000 as
above for steel or iron rail, and furnish
ing convicts to do the labor, the State
to feed, clothe and guard them. The
last Penitentiary Board Report p. 2,
shows that the 'cash drawn out of the
public treasury for that purpose on the
N. C. R. R. was for two years ending
Oct. 31st. 1S78, -"?!fS,126, or siiy Sio.oou per
annum. Now we have in these three
items cash, annually out of the treas
ury. Appropriations for iron, carts,
cVc. 70,ou0
Appropriation for interest - .")!', '0
Feeding clothing and guard i tig
convicts on said work - - 40,000
Total cash
- 178,5;0
Nor is this all.
4. There is the value of the labor of
the five hundred and eighty-eight able
bodied laborers w hich the report shows
to have worked on the road. This rail
road work is generally paid high, and
the laborers are able bodied. In most
other States the convicts are hired out.
In Tennessee, after paving all expenses
of clothing, feeding and guarding, at
me time, they brought in a net reve
nue of 125,000, which reduced by that
much the taxes of the people an.l reim
bursed to that extent the cost of con
victing them Probably it is less now,
but States that hire out their convicts
get always a net revenue therefrom af
ter paying expenses of clothing, guard
ing and feeding them. The Peniten
tiary Board Report, page 21, estimates
that tLe work of these laborers was
worth to the Western North Carolina
$101.0o0 per annum.or say f "2,000 above
the $49,500 oaid for clothing, guarding
and feeding. This $52,000 would, if the
convicts had been hired out to any
body else, have gone as cash into the
Treasury to reduce taxation. The $40,
000 was considered high for feeding,
clothing aud guarding, aud was re
duced to $41,000 by the last Legislature.
But this makes no difference, for if the
labor is worth $101.000.and the clothing
and guarding and feeding is reduced to
$41,000, the fieY revenue would be $00,
000. So add to the $178,500 the $52,000
net revenue form labor which should go
in the Treasury ,and we' ve $230,500. Now
we come to the last item, which is the
onlv one wo have to guess at. By the
act "of 1874-75 one-half of the net earn
ings of the Western North Carolina
Itailroad were to go toward paying the
interest on the mortgage bonds, as the
State was only surety. Reports show
ing how much these "net earnings were
are not accessible. Under the manage
ment of W. A. Smith they were $30,
000 per annum. It is to be presumed
that under Maj. Wilson's excellent
management they have not decreased.
This $30,000 is not a large net earning
on a railroad one hundred and eighteen
miles long and if not put into construct
ing the railroad (by stopping further
constructing beyond Asheville would
be available to reduce , $30,000 of the
outlay the State has been put to in the
last live years and relieve taxation to
that extent. AdcTthis $30,000 and we
have a total of $260,500, being over one
half of the $518,000 raised by the tax
list in the w hole State as above cited.
But, it is said, the State is secured by
a second lien. Space fails us to argue
that point. Here is a property recently
sold at public auc tion for $200,000, now
encumbered with a first mortgage of
$850,000 on which it is unable to pay
any interest and a second lien is grave
ly argued as a good security. Aud that,
too, when all the additions to the prop
erty come solely from the second
lien holder, who is adding to his debt
and the first mortgage holder's securi
ty, and is that most notoriously unprof
itable of all w ork, to wit: railroad build
ing in the mountains. There are some
collateral points, such as Mr. Mc
Aden's willingness for the tax-payers
to go on and build the Paint Rock
branch. As the Spattanburg road, and
not the W. N. C. R. R., is to profit
by building the connecting link in the
Cincinnati ifc Charleston railroad known
as the "Paint Rock branch," this is not
surprising. But, if under these circum
stances, the Spartanburg Railroad is
not willing to build it when it will
profit by it, ought the tax-payers of
North Carolina (anil the Western N. C.
Railroad), who will not profit by it, be
wil.ing to build it ? The Spartanburg
railroad people have declared them
selves willing to build it, but it is true
they were not then engaged in their
present delightful occupation (which
we will in time see on the Western N.
C. Railroad ) of the mortgage bondhold
ers 'freezing out" the men whose mon
ey built the road.
A. T. X I'AYKIt.
V A x in: u i; 1 1, l mH it A 1 1. K OA IS.
Report ol the Central mill Hudson
River as Made to State Engineer.
Ai.i5-V.NY, Dec. 17. The report of the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad, received by the State Engi
neer, is as follows: 'Capital at $89,42,
300; funded debt, $39,801,133.33 ; bonds
and mortgages given or assumed by the
company upon purchase of real estate,
$685,174.61; rate of interest on funded
debt, 6i per cent. The total cost of ro:id
and equipment, by last report, was $99,
894,095.45; total cost, bv- present report,
$10.1,773.416.71 ; length of road from New
York to Bullklo, 411 75-100 miles. The
company own 61 engine houses and
shops, 594 engines and S dummies, 304
first-class passenger cars, 95 second
class passenger cars, 167 baggage, mail,
and express cars, and 16, 186 freight cars
of all classes.
Lines owned : New York to East
Albany, and A I ban v. to Buffalo. Total
miles of track, 2,156" 45-100.
Lines leased : Troy and Green bush ;
Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua,
Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Junc
tion (Buffalo), Syracuse Junction, New
Y'ork and Harlem, and Lake Mahopac
roads. Total miles of leased track, 335
4-100. This company have also operated
the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley, and
Pittsburgh Railroad, 104 miles, under
lease from Dec. 1, 1S72. The operations
are not included herein, as separate ac
counts have been kept and a separate
report made.
The number of passengers carried
was 8,130,543; transportation expense
and maintaining roadbed, $2,845,740.33;
repairs of machinery, $2,763,716.45; o ae
rating, $10,513,616.05.
Receipts From passengers, $5,953,
101.94; from freight, $18,270,250.38; from
car service, $1,023,037.41; from rents,
$1,209,889.45; from mail service, $494,
447.78; from telegraph, $672,043; from
interest, $382,444.23; from use of road,
$227,427.37; from miscellaneous, $829,
26161. Payments -For transportation $16,
123,072.83; for interest, $2,749,761.14; for
dividends (rate 8 per cent.) $7,139,528;
rentals of other roads, $1,929,263.67; bal
ance, $454,937.96.
The capital of the New York and
Harlem is $10,000,000; subscribed, $9,
450,000; paid, $9,450,000; funded debt,
$106,173.29; bond and mortgage prop
erty, $700,0)0.
The following statement is of the city
road, the steam line being embraced in
the report of t he New York Central and
Hudson River road:
Receipts From passengers, $496,
S67.3n; from other sources, $123,021. 3.
Payments For transportation, 336,
977.16; for dividends, $2h3,5O0.
The capital stock of the Central Park,
North and E ist River R-dlroad Com
pany' has been erroneously stated as
being $1,500,OGO. It is $l,S00o0o.
The Situation in Russia.
Rod lamps having been put on every
house in St. Petersburg, as lurid to
kens of official panic, the next now re
striction is that every coachman, pub
lic or private, must servilely obey every
order of a policeman, so that if a private
coachman driving his master to the
doctor's, or to church, is directed by a
policeman to drive him to a secret
prison, or into the country, or toward
Siberia, he must obey without hesita
tion. Coachmen are also not to get oil'
their sledges. Thus the terror of the
royal household is to be visited on the
whole people.
fieareit.v of j!me in franco.
Game is so rare in France this 3'car
that the sportsmen have recourse to
strange ex pedients in order not to come
home empty-handed. Ot-.e is to buy
half a dozen "hares and to let them free
in a meadow, after having carefully
attached a collar to their necks, with
the name and address of the owner
legibly inscribed upon it. I f the sports
man misses his mark, and gets away,
its owner is sure of finding him again.
Each of Warner's Safe Remedies
the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. Safe
Pills, Safe Nervine, and Snfe Bitters, is
asserted to be the best of its class and
the intention is to keep it so. If any
medical expert can add an Ingredeut
which will improve any one of them,
he will be paid a high price for the im
provement. Billiard Table For Sale.
One new Nonpareil Novelty Carom e
Table Brunswick .v Balke make for
sale. Apply to M. Bills, City Bottling
Wark, Raleigh, N. C
THE AFGHANS IN ARMS.
THE MOI XTAIX STROXOIIOI.Ds IX
POSSF.SSIOX OF THK REIIKIAI.
General Roberts Cut Otrantl Tlireal
euetl by an Overwhelming
Foree of Xatlves.
1 .on iON, Dec. 16. The news from
Afghanistan grows hourly more seri
ous. It is feared that the tragedy of
1S42 may be repeated, and t lie entire
British force now in Afghanistan be
annihilated. Private advices from Cal
cutta give a view of the situation far
more alarming than the authorities
have permitted to be made public. The
Viceroy of Egypt telegraphs that com
munication with General Roberts Is
cut off'. The natives have cut the tele
graph wires near Rugdullak, and thus
have intercepted all communication
between General Roberts ami his re
serves. The situation is extremely
critical. The whole ot Afghanistan is
TrTa state of violent agitation, and every
mountain pass and stronghold is in the
possession of armed insurgents. The
tribes beyond Gandamuk are disputing
the advance of General (ioughwho is
endeavoring to eifect a jubctioit with
General Roberts.
The Duke of Cambridge is to-duy in
consultation with tho members of the
Administration staff at tho Horse
Guards, but it is fe.t that nothing can
'be immediately done to reliove Gener
al Roberts and" his army from tho ex
tremely dangerous position in which
they are placed. At last accounts
Roberts had taken refuge in Shikar
cantonment two miles north ofCabul.
aud there are grave do ibts whether he
will qo able to hold even this position
unless speedily and stronglj' reinforced.
His last report stated t lat the enemy in
ii is immediate vicii ity numbered
thirty thousand fighting men, and that
he is liable to be attacked at any mo
ment by overwhelming numbers. The
antontnents of Shikar are surrounded
by high brick walls, loop-holed, with
an outer ditch. Behind the walls earth
has been thrown up adding to their
strength, and making a platform for
the defenders to fire from. At tho cor
ners and at intervals along tho walls
are bastions for guns. The, fortification
is a strong one, but the odds against
the British are so groat a to cause the
gravest fears for tho result of the at
tack. Lonkox, Dec. 18. Later and more
detailed accounts of the situation in
Afghanistan have just been received at
the WarOllice. Lord Lytton telegraphs
that General Roberts is in a strongly
intrenched position, and has 7,000 ef
fective men, 23 guns, and supplies for
tive months. General rough, in at
tempting to advance to reinforce Rob
erts, and moving from Rugdullak, has
been stopped by a general uprising of
all the tribes in his front, and his situa
tion is perilous. A relief army, lo.ooo
strong, is now being massed at Pesha
wur. But the season is so far advanced
that operations will be difficult, and
spring may come before any effective
advance can be made.
Calcutta, Dec. 17. General Tytler
after capturing Zawa, burned the town.
He then returned and encamped at
Dagh. Tho Afghans were badly cut jip
in tho engagement. Remnants of tele
graph wire and other British property
found at Zawa show tho complicity of
the natives there in tho recent out
rages. Lonkox, Doc. 18. A dispatch from
Calcutta says General Roberts had re
ceived a warning of a general rising of
the tribes, through some agents who
had been sent to collect revenues some
days before the appearance of Mahomed
Jans' army at Cabul, but he refused to
believe the advices received, and was
taken by surprise.
The inhabita its of Cabul aro disaffect
ed, and are holding communication
with the Afghans. 1 ho
tribes number 00,000 men.
combined
The Largest Sapphire in the World
I have recently been favored with the
sight of one of the famous jewels in tho
world a stone that has its history and
its pedigree, ami is celebrated in tho
annals of the trade and in the annals of
the noted gems of Europe; I have held
in my hand and admired beneath the
rays of the sunlight, the finest sapphire
that is known to exist. This beautiful
and well-nigh priceless stone combines
in a singularly perfect dogreo, the lead
ing qualifications of size, shape, color
and water. In form, it is fiat oval, be
ing about two inches long by an inch
and a half wide. It is cut slightly eu
caboehon on top, and into a multitude
of small facets beneath. Its hue is per
fect, being a warm, lustrous Mario
Louise blue, not so dark as to show
black beneath the gaslight, but having
all the velvet softness and purity of tint
that is required in a really fine gem of
thisdesci iption. Its weight i300 carats,
and it belongs to a noble and wealthy
Russian family, in whose possession it
has been for the pa.-t two centuries, and
it has been placed by its owner in the
hands of one of the great diamond mer
chants of l'aris for safe keeping. One
of the Rothschild family has offered for
it no less a sum than 8300,000, but the
oiler has been refused. 1 asked the
courteous gentleman in whose care it
has been left as to the actual value of
the stone. He told me that, being, as
it was, perfectly unique, no precise
value could be set upon it, but that he
w as inclined to estimate it at some $100,
OK). He also showed me a string of
enormous graduated pearls of extreme
purity and fineness tho center one was
as large as a small cherry ), and he told
me that the necklace belonging to the
noble Russian was composed of six
strings of equal beatify and exceptional
size. The great sapphire was mounted
to bo worn as a brooch, being sur mounted
w ith large diamonds of some
20 carats each. Its guardian informed
trie that die pendant belonging to this
brooch was compos-d of a large pear
shaped sapphire weighing 60 carats, and
set in diamonds. The w nolo collection
of jewels belonging to this one family is
worth over ."oo.oi'O ! "There is no
such sapphire as that largest one," con
tinued my informant, "nveii among the
crown jewels of Russia. I furnished
myself 'two very line ones to tho em
press, each weighing 60 carats, but
thev do not compare with this maniti
cent gem." I'oi m L t .
One Experience from Many.
"I had been siek and miserable so
Ion" n:id had can soil my husband so
much trouble I and expense, no one
seemed to know what ailed me, that I
was completely disheartened and dis-co.ira-'ed.
In this frame of mind I got
a bottle of Hop Hitlers and used them
unknown to my family. I soon began
to improve and gained so fa-t that my
husband and family thought it strange
and unnatural, but when I told them
what had helped me, they snid 'Hurrs.li
for Hop Bitters! long may they pros
per for they have made mother well
and us happy.' "-The mother.
Practical ftCeonomjr.
Before Patapsco Baking Powders was
patented and placed on the market,
consumers had to pav 50 cents per
Tiound for the Old Rut Powders. Uu
can now buy Patapwl) for aUnit one-
liau
the popularity of Piiiho.
l,..irar amount,. 1 Ills biiiiiiw I'M