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9 n RALEIGH, 3ST. C. FRIDAY,. ...AUGUST 2. 1S78. as v, THE ELECTION : t 93 i Passed off quietly . yesterday. - Such re s' turns as have reached us are printed else 5 where. - The State ticket is elected with- y, Willi VIUSlliiUli. M. V . --, show some cliunges, tne uemocrauc gnuis exceeding tbe Democratic losses." ,f .iB .., TDE ' UXIVERSITV SORMAL SCHOOL .-CLOSISQ EXERCISES.- The closing exercises of the University formal School last wees were oi , excep tional Interest. i-Thc concert on Wednes day night by the " members of the vocal music class gave great satisfaction "and pleasure, ana snowed, most caretul in struction in music by the Messrs. Wilson, ; Tne j- kindergarten exercises on Wednesday, morning, showed that the children, i nearly ?, sixty in .number, had , been trained to a decree wonder ' ful,: considering how short' a time they have been under the charire of Miss Coe N and her assistants. . j t' ; f On Thursday a grand procession of Not malites and visitors moved to the Chapel. The welcoming address was made by Prof. Ladd in a most happy style. Rev. Mr. Ileitman. of ' the Methodist church, offered the prayer, and the hymn was sung by the Normal vocal class. Af ter these Mr. A. J. Jones, President of the , debating; society, Vat request of Pro fessor Ladd,. .called out the speakers according to' the programme. The "old est' inhabitant" avera that never were ' better speeches and essays on the com 1 mencement rostrum. Some very good readiDg of selected pieces, by members of the school, cliosen by 1'rof. Uwkss, was likewise done. After the conclusion of the exercises, Prof. Woodboven, of llender eon countv. on the Dart of members of T r the Normal School, in a felicitous style, presented a cane to Prof. Ladd; and Miss Marshall, of Raleigh, on the part of the ladies, of the school, and of the village, presented a clock to President Battle, t hich elicited short' and appropriate speeches , from those 'gentlemen. The address . of Miss Maksiiall was par ticularly approved by the audience. Tbe school was closed by lion. P. C. Cameron, President .of the Board of Trustees, in the absence of the Governor in his usual forcible, .earnest and happy manner. The closing hymn, composed by Mrs. C. P. Spksoeb, especially for the occasion, was sung with much spirit. The Normal School of 1878 has been a wonderful success in numbers,' in the variety and character of instruction, in enthusiasm, in good effected. We pre dict that the school of 1879 will be still grander. LETT Kit FllU.n WAKK COUNTY., Correspondence of The Obskrvkr. Wake County, July 29, 1878. Messrs. Editohs : We would like to ask by what authority did our County Convention, on the 22d June, appoint dele gates to the Congressional Convention ? As we understood it, and as stated in the call for tnat convention published by the very excellent chairman of our County , Executive Committee, it was held for the purpose of nominating! our county candi dates. There had tjjjen nothing said in the papers, or in Vfivate conversations, about appointing such delegates, and we think this action ' was a sunrise to nearly every one. It was not then generally known who were candidates for the Con -gressional nomination, and as tbe District Convention had not then been called, the people had not given the matter much thought. It is true that Nash county had already instructed her delegates to vote for Mr. Davis, and Johnston for Gen. Cox, .but we have heard persons from each of those counties say that this action by each of these conventions was a surprise, and was not entirely satisfactory. We do not . wish to appear as meddling with the affairs of another county, and I therefore will not presume to make any suggestions to our friends in Nash and Johnstpn, but we do think that here, inWake, com mon fairness and -justice; demand either that another Convention be held for the express purpose of appointing delegates, or that the different townships hold meet ings and instruct their delegates who arc already appointed. We desire only that the will ana the wish of the people may be fairly and fully expressed and no honest Democrat can object. All the gentlemen who have been spoken of as Congressional aspirants are worthy of our confidence and support, and we feel assured that any one of them would spurn a nomination wherein the wishes of the people were .not fairly -represented. We do not; intend to inti mate that our delegates were appointed by trickery or fraud, but we do insist that our Convention had no authority to appoint them, and that, these delegates may, and then again they may not, represent the wishes of our people, and their wishes can best be ascertained in one of the modes above proposed. By doing this we avoid any pretext for grumbling after . the nom ination is made and will secure for our nominee the hearty and united support of the whole party, thus ensuring his election over any independent, brindletail or bolter. What say you to this fellow Democrats ? - ' ' ; ' Many Citizens, -r Shooxkd bt Liqhjnisg. Mr. W. W. Foreacrel son of Col. G. J.. Foreacre sup erintendent of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway Company, has in charge the registry of thequit-claim deed which the former owners of the late Atlanta & Rich mond Air-Line Railroad have made to the present owners of the road as now-organized, which deed must be registered in ev ery county through vbich the road runs. He was in Charlotte'last week for this pur pose, and Tuesday was at Dallas and had the deed recorded in the office of the regis ter of deeds of Gaston county. This done he started in a buggy; accompanied by a negro, i for Gastonia; ia order to take the train that night. Leaving Dallas just as the black, angry cloud, a part of g which emptied itself upon Charlotte, was coming up, they bad not proceeded far ere a flash of lightning struck an object on the road side, near which they were passing, throw ing both pf t ts occupants from the buggy and leaving them "prostrated and uncon scious in the road. , Consciousness returned first to the negro, when he found himself lying in the gutter, the rain falling heavily and the water, which his body had tempo rarily dammed, rushing over him. Hasten ing to Mr Foreacre, he found that young gentleman 'stiH Insensible, but , a vigorous rubbing soon restored him and the two made their I way back to Dallas. Neither sustained serious injury, though both weie severely shocked and thoroughly drenched Mr. Foreacre piojeeded to Atlanta byyee- ZiiZgBAWrtU NEW YORK COnilESPOKDEniCE. Correspondence pf Thi Observer. New Yokk, July 30, 1878. In alluding to Judge Francois Xavier Martin, in my letter yesterday, I intended to mention nia History or .North Carolina, but was interrupted. His law books were all, so far as I know, published before he left North Carolina, and included, if 1 re collect aright, a volume of Reports, a Re- visai, a uoiiection of the Private Laws, and a Vode Mecum, but his History of North Carolina was published, and proba- bly written, long after he went to New Urleans. I think it appeared inl830-'31, for, a number of copies, which he had sent to me to sell for him, were burnt m my office in the great - fire of May 29, 1831 For some reason the book did not sell, and 1 doubt if tnere are a dozen copies now extant. 1 have not seen one in many years. Histories of , our; State have not been paying works. Lawsons, ; vviluamr son's, .Martin's and Hawks', all failed to find an 1 ; appreciative ; public though a copy of Lawson's, believed to be one of only two now in the State, was sold at auction DerhaDS twentv or thirty years ago, for $05 (if I recollect aright,) and the State ordered a new edi tion of iL Williamson's and Martin s were poor books. Dr. Hawks would have made a valuable work if he had not been pre vented from completing it by a want of public appreciation and by the war. J ndge Murphy and Gov. Swain collected valuable materials for a History, but neither under took their embodiment and publication. No doubt somebody will Derform that dutv , , . r at some aay ; ana u so a nope ne ana nis publisher will fare better than those who have heretofore essayed to accomplish it. 1 once saw a large octavo of perhaps near 1,000 pages, being a History of a town in Massachusetts, of which not one person in a thousand out of that Stale had probably ever beard Mcdway 1 think was the name of the town. What the town was noted for 1 never heard ; but its people had pa triotism enougn to look into tbe book tor its record,- whether of good or ill, The "baby -carriage case" has been de cided, and of couise in favor of the baby, which will hereafter be wheeled to its heart's content over the fifth floor of the fashionable apartment house in Madison Avenue, whether Mrs. Pool, of the fourth floor, likes it or not, and Mr. Pool pays the costs oi suit and f i(Jj to Mrs. Higgm son as damages. And this case being disposed of, eight persons nave come iorwara to "miunct a nuisance in the shape of four dogs kept by a widow lady named Bassford, one of the complainants making affidavit that he and the .neighbors were kept awake by the howling and barking of the dogs. Mrs. Bassford, on the contrary, says that the dogs arc all pets, kept in the house at night, and seldom bark except in tbe day time. "As for Fido. a poodle aged 14, he never barks except when he sees a cat, and then his little bark is the sweetest of music. Here are more pickings for the lawyers. Clouds obscured the sun yesterday during the eclipse. I saw the little of it that was visible. Passing along the street at 5:30, I noticed that the clouds were very thin near the sun ; so 1 stopped, and in two minutes the eclipse was plainly visible, about one-third of the sun's surface being obscured, in one minute more it was past. I had seen the last solar eclipse that my eyes can ever behold, tor another will not occur during the 19th century. In the west, where the eclipse was total, the "envious clouds" did not interpose, and the view was perfect. There is an amusing case in court here. which has come up before a referee daily for two or three weeks past, in which a Mrs. Cooper, as she is called by one side, and Mrs. Marshall by the other side, and by the papers as Cooper-SIarshall, has been too much for the lawyers and the court, She is as sharp as Mrs. CapL Jenks before the Potter Committee, and smiles and laughs at everything. She keeps a board ing house, is pretty and dresses well. Her controversy is with Cooper, her first hus band, from whom she claims to nave been diverced before she married Marshall, and who contends that she is still his wife, though they never look at or speak to each other. (Perhaps some cynic will say that this is prima faae evidence that they re. ally are man and wife. But let that pass.) On yesterday the following forms part of the evidence of a witness "The first I remember Cooper saying to me was that he loved his wife and children, that his i wife wanted a divorce and he thought he would give it to her. Some time she might sec her folly and come back to him." At this Mrs. Cooper laughed heartily, with the end of her fan in her mouth. "Do you remember one Sunday morn ing when Mrs. Cooper called af, your mother's house ?" . "Yes." "Where was Coopcfs room ?" "Next to mine." "Did you hear anything ?" "I was awakened by somebody crying; it was a lady's voice, and I heard her say ing something about "Why don't you stop the proceedings agaiust Marshall ? Cooper said if Marshall would give him $25,000 she could have him, and he would never bother her again; if Marshall wouldn't give him the money , he would take her back and he wourd be a good man and she could be a faithful loving wife." j , - Mr. Ten Eyck said : "Then, as you un derstand it, Cooper was trying to sell his wife ?" . "Yes." ;- , "What did she say ?" 'A f " Z VI did't hear het say anything." . i This is the highest price for a wife that has been heard of. I remember that one was once sold in England, with a rope around her neck, for a shilling. .... H. LORD DITFFEIEIX'S SUCCESSOR." A She fell or tbe marquis of Lonie, Victoria's Koniu.Law. . From tne New York World. July 29 J A cable dispatch from London says that the papers have announced upon official authority that the Marquis of Lome had been selected by the Earl of Beaconsfield to succeed Lord Dufferin in the Vice-Regency of Canada, and that the Marquis had accepted the office. The Marquis, who is the eldest son and heir of the Duke of Argyll, it will be remembered, was mar ried in 1871 to Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, that being the first instance of the marriage of a subject to the daughter of a reigning sovereign. The Marquis has been in public life for ten years past,, for in 18G8, when he was only three-and-twenty. he was; returned to Parliament 'as member from Argyll shire. ; When his father in 1868 went into office under the Gladstone adniinistration as Secretary of State for India, the son acted as his Private Secretary. The Duke of Argyll, whose titles descend to his eld est son, is the most powerful of the Scot tish noblemen, v He is hereditary master of the Queen's household in Scotland, chancellor of the university of, St. An drew's, a trustee of; the British 3Iuseum and hereditary Sheriff and Lord Lieuten ant of Argyllshire. . His political service has been long and active, and he has also written an elaborate book entitled "The jReign of Law." His son is also an au thor, and published several years ago a volume of poems. 1 1 C vi v ; -':. It is very safe to say that the most fas tidious guest never leaves tbe Colonnade HoteVphUelphia, Pa.; disfie ifcfied witn SENATORIAL CON1LICT. ICorrespondence of The Observer. i Wilmington, N. C, July ,29, '78. L Messes. Editobs : "Civis" is very much mistaken if he thinks I attempted to take him to task for advocating the "hon esty and integrity or the Democratic tau- -W . 4 A V A. A ., J eus. i at was vice vera mai, a anempveu to take him to task. I am surprised that "Civis" could not understand my position when I stated as plain as I could express it that I would be as strong for Merrimon as I am for Yance if Merrimon bad vance 8 political record, and "Vance had Merri mon a. uan uivis say as raucn jo re gard to his friend? I am of the, opinion that he cannot, for he seems to be trying to hold up the hands of his 'friend Rafter thev were laid violently on the integrity of the Democratic caucus in leva. ; a may ue "ignorant" of many things that transpir ed in 1872." but I am not ignorant of the fact thaf the honesty and integrity or. tne Democratic caucus was violated in the Senatorial contest of 1872. It is known of all men that Vance was nominated to the United States Senate by the Democrat ic caucus m 1872. It is also known and read of all men that Judge Merrimon iwas elected to the place that according to; the rules of honesty and integrity belonged to Governor Vance. Will "Civuj" contend that Vance was not the regular nomineee of the caucus in 1872? and will he contend that there was no violence done the hon esty and integrity of the Democratic caucus bv tne election oi uuage .Merrimon (over the reeular nominee? As "Civis"! has only "bid a pleasant but not lasting adieu' to the columns oi the ubsekvee, i ope he will answer these plain questions. I am aware that it is sometimes the case that conventions and caucuses are bo managed that the will of tbe people is set aside, but I am also aware that whenever this is done that the people are not slow in bring ing those that would thus defy their wiH to judgment; and tnere is a way to dotnis without doing violence to the honesty and integrity of their party. If Judge Merri mon was the great favorite of the people in 1872, that "Civis" would have jus be lieve he was, why didn't he fall back into the arms of the people and bide bis time for his own and their vindication, instead of becoming a party to one of the greatest violations of party integrity known to the history of our state? . It is well known that two wrongs will not make one right. i The wrongs committed in the name of liberty are legion. The wrongs committed in the name of packing and pledging was the election of Judge Merrimon i to the Senate of the United States over the regu lar nominee of the caucus Gov. Vance and the defending ot that great wrong by "Civis" and others who I claim to be Democrats and to love honesty and integrity m the party caucus, &c. Oh, consistency I what a jewel. Admitting for the sake of the argument that the charges brought against Gov. Vance and his friends were true, that he secured a maiority of the caucus by manipulating county conventions, etc. , yet tne action or that maiority, when done in accordance with the usage of the Democratic party, was as binding on the mmonty as if there had been no manipulation, no packing, no pledging, nor no anything else connected with the campaign, but a fair and square election. And all who worship; at the shrine of the honesty and integrity of the Democratic party are bound to admit that this proposition is true. I would like to hear what "Civis" has to say about it, whether he considers it sound Democratic doctrine or not ? I would also like "Civis" to point out what he considered nbt sound and prejudicial in my former letter. He said, "evidently 'one of the people is ig norant of what transpired in 1872, or else he is so blinded to the interest and welfare of the Democratic party on account of his peculiar rapture for Gov. Vance as not to be capable of giving to the publiq a sound and unprejudiced opinion." I ask him now to point out in my former letter what called forth that declaration ? "Civis" has a strange way of reasoning. Hej says the Democratic party represent to-day the in telligence and virtue of the land. Upon ! the success of that party the future of the country depends and it is assuming a high responsibility to under take to pervert and falsify the principles upon which that party is based."; "Tbe caucus is one of the most valuable pieces of machinery resorted to by the party to successfully carry out its purposes S3 as to preserve harmony and unity in tact, and that machinery when operated in its legitimate way drives every element of the party with wonderful ease without difficulty." ' j , How any man can lay down this as a proposition, and then defend tbe men that refused to go into the caucus by saying "Ihere was no bolting, those Democratic gentlemen faithfully representing their constituents, refused to go into the packed caucus, because they knew it to be subver sive of party principles, and destructive of party organization." By these men Merri mon was elected. I It would seem from the propositions and conclusions laid down and arrived at by "Civis" that Judge Merrimon had a few friends "sewed up in a bag" claiming to be members of the Democratic party that were determined to elect mm ai an cost regardless of the principles of the Demo cratic party. i I never heard before that it would be subversive Of party principle, and destruc tive of party organization" for men claim ing to be Democrats to go into a caucus of tbeir party. i ' -It is adding insult to injury! to claim that the men -who refused to go into the Demo cratic caucus m 1872, were the true repre sentatives of the Democratic party of North Carolina.- :,' ', ... ' Time has shown the devotion of some of them to the Democratic! party. One illustrious example can be found in the 2d Congressional District, ! recently de feated in the Radical Congressional Con vention by a negro for tbe nomination to Congress.- - - This may be j considered a "fling," but "Judge Meirimon cares no thing for .the flings of Mr. Jaryis' friend," "one of the people." No, J don't suppose he does, but there are so many of the people that j will get a "fling at him in a few days, that he will begin to think that he didn't ."fling" the right kind of a Demo cratic stone in 1872. I am loot Mr. Cicero Harris, nor am I in possession of any pro mise" from Mr. Jaryis, or Gov. Vance for place or office, but I remember seeing an old maxim that I always considered true. That the proudest people are those that always think, others are proud. Civis must be expecting something ; nice at the hands of Judge -Alerrimon. i . One of the People. ! A SSAKB CHABMnSO AjsrIXIGATOR.-- At the ' plantation of ; Mr. Turner, near Lake City, Fla., a most singular scene oc curredthe charming of a thirteen-foot alligator by a rattle-snake. The snake first saw the alligator, and with his rattles at tracted the tatter's attention- ?Then began the charming process, 'which lasted fully half an hour. -; The alligator at first turned his head once or twice, jbut was imme diately called to, order by .the rattles of the snake. Toward the end of the half hour, with fixed eyes, the alligator moved slowly toward bis terrible enemy until" within striking distance, when the snake curled himself more compactly, and with all the Strength he could muster, struck the alli gator. For a moment the. alligator shook tremulously, and then; as if by magic, made a semi-circling backward movement peculiar to the species, j and brought his tail down upon the snake with - fatal Lake City (Fla.) Reporter. The Senatorial Question, Correspondence of The Obexrvbk.J Beaos Hollow, July 81, 1878. Messes. Editobs i I was among those v ho condemned Mr. Merrimon for accept ing the election to the Senate, under what 1 then considered circumstances of insub ordination, but subsequent developments have served to condone, ii iney ao not eminently justify, his course. At any rate his career in the Senate has bees such as to win for him the admiration of his friends and resnect of his- enemies . And they are many who, in the light of late disclo- sures,-beiieve that ; he did nent and com mend him for - having the courage to do what he conceived to be due to.himsclf and his friends in the face of tbe cry of bolter", from the disappointed.' In all the tirades against him none have had the te merity to Question his devotion to tne state. The whole "head and front of his offending" Is not that he violated Democratic usage and precedent, but that he beat Vance for the Senate, who, it his mends wno write for him, represent him properly, has a pre emDtion claim on tbe State and the best offices in its gift. Gov. Vance has been ntiy and deserved ly honored. He makes a good Governor, and the people will be unwilling to release him from his obligation to "serve tbem, u elected, to the best of his ability, in the gubernatorial chair.", j. There are many good men in the State who could serve her acceptably in the Senate. Certainly the party need not be disrupted in the interest of either Vance or Merrimon, neither of whom have been accorded the right to dictate to the party and State exactly what they shall or shaU not da - K If, however, the people want a Senator who has the training, intelligence, courage, dignity and experience necessary to a proper representation of their interests in the United Stales Senate, Hon. A. S. Mer rimon is the man. Senator Withers, of Virginia, who occu pies a seat next Senator Merrimon in the Senate chamber, and has an excellent op portunity of knowing, is reported as say ing, in substance: "Senator Merrimon occupies a high stand here : he is popular, dignified, influential, learned, industrious and painstaking, and it will be difficult to find a man who will serve North Carolina and the Democratic party more faithfully than he." : He has I taken a high position in the country, and North Carolina will do her self honor in returning him to the seat for which he is so well fitted by education, training and experience, or some other equally dignified and capable man, say Hon Geo. Davis or Gen. Scales. Justice. LETI'EK FBOJ1 BEAVFORT. Correspondence of The Observes. Atlantic Hotel, Beaufort, July 30, 1878. Messes. Editors : The tide of gavel y may be said lust at present to be at slack water here, it ebbs and flows with tbe company, and last week the fun. though neither fast nor furious, was abundant new it is more quiet, as many have gone home to vote and others won't come till they have voted. But we are by no means dull and fishing and flirtation alternate with surf-bathing and the German. Mrs. Slater has a class for the latter three times a week, and has invited me to join it, but so far I have contented myself with being a looker on at the morning lesson where alj the fun is concentrated. Our best leader is a distinguished member of the Raleigh bar, who, under Mrs. Slater's tui tion is fast becoming as famous as a waltzer as he has long been distinguished as a law yer. But North Carolina is not without a formidable rival from Virginia, in the person ; ot a brotner lawyer irom tne Richmond bar whose specialty is the glide, in which he takes lessons from Mrs. Slater. I shan't "tell tales out of ; school," even if it is a dancing school, but only say Raleigh has another representative who does credit to his tea cher, and if you will send us a few more. we will teach your Raleigh boys to dance to more tunes than one. But pray don't imagine us a purely frivolous set ; we are scientific, and some of us in earnest in the pursuit of other knowledge beside that of the intricacies of the German. Professor Jourdan, of Indianapolis, who has been on a walking tour through the Western part of the State with a class of fifteen young ladies and gentlemen, has made the "Atlantic his headquarters for the present, with some four or five of his pupils, among whom are two ladies who are hard at work making a collection of studies for future class use. They came down on the same train that brought me, and consequently had made no acquaintances when 1 first met them, and I could find no one to in troduce me to the "curiosity hunters," as the servants call them. But 1 was not to be repressed, and having the last Popular Science Monthly in my trunk, I pulled it out,! and walking out on the gallery, book in hand, as if I never condescended to read a novel or knew anything .but science I - introduced myself in the way we ladies have, and soon found I could abandon my bait to the Professor and get along as pleasantly with the ladies as if they were as ignorant of taxidermy, con etiology, botany and ichthyology as I am, which greatly relieved me, as 1 should soon have been beyond my depth in all or any of the sciences had our conversation been connned to tnem. l hey gave me a most interesting account of their tramp through tbe mountains, during which one of tbem walked from the top of Black Mountain to Aaheville, thirty-two miles, in one day, and felt no extraordinary fati gue, but she admitted she could not have done so in the usual dress worn by ladies, even minus the pin-back; she wore a loose blouse of heavy waterproof cloth and knickerbockers, without the addition of three or four skirts. . The party have to work round in the village and prepare their specimens generally out there. One of the gentlemen is a good shot and kills the birds which his wife preserves, not for tbe table, but for the class-room. Going up to Newbern the other day, was of course loaded with commissions. Our host wanted : a hundred or so of lemons, for we have sherbet here some times. One lady wanted her breastpin mended, another had broken her earring. and all wanted candy and material to make dresses for the fancy ball Miss Slater is getting up for her German class. ? Bring me a New York Herald, and me a South Atlantic, and me a novel, was heard on every side, till my list was getting por tentous in its proportions. ! "Can 1 do anything for you ?" I asked of the pretty taxidermist, putting my head in net window as 1 spoke. . . i Oh, yes " was tne reply, "brine me a pound of arsenia. .1 lost a beautiful fern to-day for want of some."' - .. i And so I astounded one of our druggists JJ CU VlUbl 1V1 ESVrVUVA VI LU1W . AJy and got a news agent to promise to estab hv an rwnav tap a ivnnri ff imim rkivan " lish a stand for the sale of papers and periodicals in the office of the hotel, for the benefit of those who cried for read ing I matter and . "hankered" after a - New . York Herald, for by all means - let us encourage such visitors and North Carolina do what she - can. through her sons and daughters, to Show she is progressing at least in the desire for. if not in the attainment of,' scientific knowledge. ; When I see bow earnest these ladies are in the pursuit of their specimens I wish . I could share their ardor, until a recollection of what Huxley calls "the necessity of making .messes" . in pursuit of practical scientific knowledge, comes over me like a bucket of cold water, and the sound of the music diaws me back to tie ball room; so I am convinced I can never be an imitator, though always an admirer oi ineir energy m the pursuit of knowl edge under difficulties. H : ! - Before closing this bit of gossip let me say that in speaking in my last of the ice. water on the Atlantic road, and the atten tion paid ladies ' by our conductors, ,1 did not mean to cast any blame on .the conduc tors of the North Carolina trains. - i ; ; I presume they would have ice-water if it were ordered by their superior-officer, and I know they take the best of care of lady passengers., I was sorry, therefore, when told they felt themselves included in my grumble about the absenee of ice on jneir trains. 1, did not mean to say our conductors were more polite than they were, but I did mean that our water was cooler, and our President much more con siderate of the comfort of Dassengers than their commanding officer, whoever he may be, for I don't know who ought to order ice, but I do know we ought to have it on the North Carolina as well as the Atlantic road. M. B. C. LETTER FROJI PHILADELPHIA w Correspondence or The Observer Philadelphia, July 28, 1878. Messrs. Editobs : The "heated term' rages, and the churches are thinly attended in consequence. - Thousands upon thou sands of the wealthier : people have left town, and Cape May and Atlantic City, the favorite outlying summer resorts of Philadelphians. are crowded with sojour- ners courting the breezes and the waves. There is a lull in all kinds of business. Merchants, doctors and lawyers, in large numbers, are snatching a vacation. The prospects of Southern trade are excellent for the coming season, which will open about the first of August, A few orders are coming in from the commercial tour ists. They report fewer goods on the shelves of retail dealers in tbe South than was ever before know, and a healthier financial condition among the country merchants. The North Carolina trade here is mainly from West of Raleigh, and it is regarded as the best that comes hither, The commercial honor of the North Caro linians stands very high amongst those qualified to judge by comparison. They do not buy so largely and recklessly as the Western men, but they are considered at together safer. They don't buy more than they pay for down, or expect to pay; for, and they do not make exaggerated repre sentations of their ability and resources. The "Permanent Centennial j Exhibi tion" is now open to the public Ion Sun days, like its neighbor, the Zoological Garden in Fairmount Park. The mana gers have reduced the price of admission to fifteen cent' for grown people and five cents for children. The principal attrac tions, which drew great crowds fin 1876, remain undisturbed, and a good deal is to be seen for the money. Sacred concerts are given On Sundays, and the receipts are much larger than on week days. The theatres are all closed till Septem- ber, except two or three cheap vanety halls of a low order, where vile songs and more or less nudity of brazen female per formances are relied on to attract an at tendance. ; Rev. Dr. Magoon, formerly of j Rich mond, Va.. is the most popular,! preacher in the city. Whilst his church, at the corner of Broad and Brown streets, is un dergoing repairs, Dr. Magoon is preaching at Beth Eden Baptist Church! at the junction of Broad and Spruce. He is sen sational, of course. City audiences re quire something startling and eccentric in the minister, and they go where they can gratify this morbid taste. As instances of the sort of remarks that please, i I give these choice extracts: "There are some swell-heads in the church with a little money who are so large in their pwn esti mation that Gabriel's great-coat wouldn't make them an under-jacket."! ."There are some orthodox preachers who are more anxious to fill hell than heaven, so as to make good their mean, cruel theology." "Some old fogies will go into a Sunday School and read several Jong chap ters from Deuteronomy, and pray from Noah's ark all over creation and back again till the children get disgusted, and go away damning religion and every thing connected with it." It is this style of preaching that brings four or five thousand people equal to the entire population of an average North Carolina county to hear the Rev, Dr. Talmage at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. And yet these preachers keep within the line of sound doctrine as set forth by their churches, and thus escape canonical cen sure as heretics. These odd and wild out givings attract the multitude, and give the clergymen a cnance at tbem. I And so It happens that some remain to pray." "who come ! to laugh Dr. Magoon makes a liberal use of these sensational expedients, and bis ministry is acceptable and success ful. By the way, the Reverend Doctor dedicated the Baptist Church in Mur freesboro, North Carolina, in 1841, and is kindly remembered by the citizens of that beautiful and social village. The North Carolina colony here appears to very generally favor Gov. j Vance for Senator. So far as I have taken the j vote amonst them, it is unanimous, i They are pleased with Armfleld's nomination for uongress. ine western uaroiinians ex press an earnest desire for the election of Dr. William A. Lash, the regular Demo cratic candidate for the State Senate from Forsyth and Stokes. Dr. Lash is a young man, not far from thirty. Besides ! bis practice as a physician, he has a large farm which he manages most successfully, and he runs a flourishing store and a tobacco factory at Walnut Cove. He is liberal and public spirited, in full sympathy with the people, and thoroughly familiar with their interests, buch men as Dr. LMh are needed in the Legislature of North Carolina,: and, in fact, of every other State. I j ; ' Psi Upsilon. . Shooting- tne Wrong .TIan. The Baltimore Gazette says : j The revenue officers in South Carolina started out to arrest an alleged illicit dis tiller named Redmond. They went; to the wrong house, and shot down an un offending man named Amos Ladd, in the presence of his sisters. After he was dean they found out that be was the wrong man. They fled to the next county and surren dered to the Sheriff. The New York jS sums the case up thus Blood has recently been shed in South ft 1 , T : . j -as! r v&ruiuut uv u ouea Diaies omcers iu hu attempt to enforce a revenue law of the United States. 1; The United States officers are charged with murder. ' !; i The State courts assert jurisdiction. The United , States disputes their juris diction. - I A collision may ensue. ' i ; , It can result but one way. South Caro lina cannot nullify a law of the United States.-- - " r ' I There " are several errors here, i The blood was . not shed jn an attempt to en force revenue laws." - The man killed had not violated them. Moreover,! illicit dis tilling is a misdemeanor, not a crime that justifies the shooting of an accused who tries to escape arrest. The officer had no more right to shoot Ladd than a revenue officer in New York has to shoot an editor of the Sun. The State courts properly as sert jurisdiction, but if the United States courts deny that jurisdiction there will be no "collision. There may be a legal con test which will carry the case to the Su preme court of the United ; States, but nothing can be tortured into ! "nullifica tion." . The New York Sun is usually bet ter posted as to facts and sounder in its opinion of law than the editorial we have quoted would indicate. .A-W INCIDENT IN NAPLES. HOW AN INSULT TO A DACGHTER OF M. l.W WAS RESENTED BY 80XK OF HKH. COUNTHY MEN. ., , Letter to the Columbia Register. Naples. Italy, July 10. It has been considered to be proper by a number of Americans now iu this city to give your readers an account of the shameful treat ment of a distinguished American lady by one of the proprietors of the Hotel Royal des E'rangers, one ot the largest hotels fn this city, and of the jnst punishment which he received at the hands of gentlemen who wt re ready to peril their lives in the cause of right and truth against imposi tion and oppression upon an unprotected lady. , .;, Miss Mary Custis Lee, a daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee," arrived here a few days since in company with some lady friends from Malta, who registered at the above named .botel. , It appears that dur ing the night of the 8th inst. the mosquito bar around the bed 'ignited accidentally irom a candle wnicn Miss JLee had lighted. In a few moments the flames spread and caught the lace curtains, and the room was soon enveloped in flames, which Miss Lee heroically endeavored to suppress, but without success, and fearing that the hotel might be burned, she gave the alarm of fire, which ; was soon heard by some gentlemen wno were occupying rooms on the same floor, ; when ex-Judge aamuel W. Melton and Mr. w. A. uiarK, oi uoiumuia, . u., were the first who came to the rescue of Mits Lee, and succeeded in saving her money and valuable jewelry from the flames. The morning following the fire, Miss Lee expressed her willingness to pay all dama ges, though the fire had occurred from ac- cideut. The proprietor taking advantage of the lady, demanded 2,000 francs, which was a preposterous and enormous charge for the damage. A gentleman from Ohio, a Mr. Poland, a guest of the hotel, who has , been vice-president of an insurance company for a number of years, estimated the damage at $70. The friends of Miss Lee at once demurred to this enormous charge. The American consul, Mr. Dun can, at this place was exceedingly, kind, and protested against the payment of any such sum. The proprietor now being foil ed in his disgraceful effort to overcharge for damage occurring from accident, be came insolent and spoke in a manner which reflected upon Miss Lee. The insult was quickly resented. Mr. Clark, of Co lumbia, S. C, struck him over the head with an umbrella. In a few moments the f roprietoi was surrounded by a number of talians, who were clerks, waiters, and attaches of the hotel, - but they weie met by Judge Melton, Col. John T. bloan, Jr. Mr. D. A. P. Jordan, of South Carolina, and Dr. I. B. Roberts, of Georgia, who by their courage and determination caused them to stampede and call for the police. A large crowd soon assembled about the hotel. The proprietor was denounced by Col. Sloan for his conduct towards MTn Lee, and challenged bim to go into the garden and answer for the same with swords or pistols, which the proprietor declined to accept. It would be well for all Americans to avoid this hotel when coming to Naples. "JIAK11IED ONCE, HUT O.'MI.V A UTILE,'' Some men are fastidious in selecting wives. Others are not at all nice in mat ters matrimonial. But a breach of prom ise case in Arkansas, in general, is too rare and serious to leave a loophole for a laugh to come in. Mr. Johnson Topp moved from Tennes -see across the Mississippi into A i kansas. lie was a man of means and a bachelor, lie was not wholly averse to matrimony, but he had a fear of widows. Grass widows especially were a terror to him. He had moved from East Tennessee to Middle Tennessee, and that section to West Tennessee, and finally over into Ar kansas to escape from real or fancied mat rimonial danger arising from enterprising, perhaps charming, Tennessee widows. That being Mr. Johnson Topp's history, it surprised his friends that he should ap pear as defendant in the case of Dublin va. Topp; suit for breach of promise. But the Circuit Court docket for Crittenden county disclosed tbe fact of the suit, and the affidavit of Mrs.1 Melinda Dublin set forth the particulars. The plaintiff was put on the stand to tell how wickedly she bad been led in false hopes by the middle-aged bachelor. "I live at home with my old dad," she said, "and this feller kept comin' round thar makin' believe he wanted to trade mules. After be traded a time er two til that was played out, he come wantin cot ton seed. I knowed he only wanted an excuse to get to see me, and I told Pop when he come again to bring him in and see whether he'd talk turkey or not if be had a fair chance. And that was just what he wanted. Tou never see a man set up to a woman soon as erer Pop him, "This is my was powerful shy pearter than he did as introduced us, tellin darter, Maiindy." He at the offset : but let him git fairly started on mules or shoates and be was dead sure to end with sparkin', And it appeared like he couldn't wait more'n a minit for a woman to say yes. , didn't fool with the man as lots do, but said yes ; and about the next thing that happened he was try in' to crawfish. That's about the whole story." But her lawyer did not think it was the whole story, and he was right there was more to be told. "Will you state to the jury how it hap pened that the defendant, Topp. went back on bis word jftter be had asked you to marry him?" "Well, as I said before, he was the most uneasy man until be got his answer, which was yes. The fourth day of- J aly, allowed, would be soon enousrh for the wedding day, but he couldn't wait till then it was impossible. I told him to call Pop in and talk it over. I went over to the kitchen to git up a equar meal, and show the man. 1 could do the tallest cook ing in Arkansaw, when I let myself out for it m dead earnest." - "And what happened when your father and the defendant, lopp, talked it over ? vtJerore 1 lert em l told .rop the man was on the marry, and I reckined it was all right. Pop allowed ' they'd best have something to take. ' I set on the whisky and 8 u gar, and told them thar was cookin to do ; if they preferred mint in theirs they knowed jist where to git it., When I came back 1 saw things wa9 wrong. The first thing tbe man said, and he lookin' so- berin a funeral : Curnel Dublin, I allowed your gal, Maiindy, was a single gal till this mimL Is she single, or is sne ever Deen married afore ? And Pop he told the truth. 1 lookin' him plump in the eye. "She's been married onct, but only a little only a httle. And 1. said, That s so; he's talking the Gospel facts only a little.' The man lit out then mighty suddent ; and me and Pop thinks if thar's any law in Arkansaw be orter pay."; The defendant urged that he didn t want a wife who bad been married ever so little. He thought he had been deceived. The jury saw it differently. A little married didn't count in Arkansas ; he must pay, and be did pay. - " "r i . . Thb Thomasbubo Winks and Gbapis. Having accepted the agency for the sale of the Thomasburg Wines and Grapes a full and complete assortment i au me wines made at this vineyard will be always found at my store. Fresh grapes direct fmm the vinrvard. received every morning and sold at reasonable prices by the pound. 104f. .. JUL UA1TJS1CAH.. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. New Type! T New Presses!! f , New Stock 1 1 1 : : ! UZZELL& WILEY, -PRACTICAL ' Book ni Jol Printers 1 , Bagley Building, H ALE I C S, IT. C. Cards, Tags, , . Bill Heads, Statement, r 3fote lrcads IXter H?ads, Circulars, Envelopes, Posters, Handbills, ! School Catalogues, Pamphlet s ke AT- -'TORS PSXCEC i HPS!! We are prepared to execute the Best Book Printing in the State, Full Supply of LEGAL BLANKS . On hand at $1 00 per hundred. trw All orders by mail uromntiv onl work forwarded without dtlay. atton lt d to il -3m, RELIABLE GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES, nALEI&E, XT. C, Hardware, i Sasli, Door and liliiuN. Rims Spoke and Hub, Iron and ailx, i Iai,n4 mid OiU, r "All Riglil ?ook Moivs" 3 Frail's .11 nil Oil. No House efui. No House slmll, jnve lictlei articles or undersell us fir tlio Largest Stock in North Carolina AN PURCHASED FOR CASH. Write for Illustrated Catalogue. MONEY LOANED At eight per cent and moderate expenHen fur Deed Examinat ion. lc. on good l-'irsl Mnrtiw 'S on city proper! y. Address, with name and property, jy2-im. JIx')" Jtlst Received Extra Choice Pale Marat-alto Coffee : Old Brown Java and laiftinym Coffers: Kio Coffeea of Evi lyH.rnJt '. 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We will furnish a' notice, on close margin, the best Knw" u .faw-MIlL complete, ever sold in thtsJKaiB; .. uaiiett's steel urusn an towon 'uu,uv.Vti Gins; Farrar'a "Diamond Cotton tilu; ' Horrel Cotton Gin;" (best made for Hie F'"n Miller's Crushing and onndinir mm ",; Kinyou Thmrnvecl 11 i lit Cliopp"' Minard Harder's Fearless Railway and TnresJ- Uanhinou il Uaat nThniiiu ( O. S J"1 lag Machines. ; , ' : ' - ! i. tt. ' Catterworth's Steel Horse rower, Eclipse and Burnham Water Wheels. A. V- rK qahar's Agricultural Implements, '",.. Manufacturing Co.'s 8org Mach nery. aiy and Portable fteam Engines, crusners. vi Jhurch, School audi Farm J,e Kv D ALL OTHER MACHl.Nt.tt ') ANY AND KNOWN. fin. General Commission of Is comhlete. Best Drlces for best q"-' goods. Prompt returns made. STROXACII AIXCOTT, Corner Wilmington and Pafie StreiV- moi4-tX. , v l E V
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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