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fy dfhathnm Record THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1881. H. A. LONDON. Jr.. Editor. THE ELECTORAL COUNT. Yesterday being the day appointed by law the electoral Totes for Presi dent and Vice President of the United Stateu weio duly counted in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, and Garfield and Arthur formally declared elected. THE IRISH AGITATORS. The Irish agitators are making things lively not only in Ireland but in England, and even in the British Parliament. The proceedings of this august body were more exciting last week than at any time since the days of Oliver Cromwell. Thirty five Irish members of the House of Commons were forcibly ejected by the police for resisting the Speaker's order, which of course created intense ex citement and has greatly incensed all Irish sympathizers. The English government is determined to make these men obey the law, and will take vigorous measutt to bring them to their senses. LEGISLATIVE DOTS. One half of the session has now passed, so that our Legislature must work more expeditiously, or many important bills may be lost in the hur ry of the closing days. Toe much busi ness is usually left for the end of the session, and much pernicious legisla tion had because our Legislatures do not then carefully scrutinize the nu merous bills that always crowd the calendar on the eve of adjournment. We hope that this Legislature will profit by the experience of its prede cesgors. "Wo regret to learn that so many of the membtrs are continually ah sent from their seats, that it has more than once happened that there was not a sufficient number in the House to make a quorum for the transaction of business, and it is seldom that one hundred out of the one hnndred and twenty members are ever present at oue time. We think this absenteeism is simply disgraceful. The bill to create the county of Durham is sti.l attracting much at tention. It passed its second read ing in the House last Friday by a vote of sixty-six to twenty, and we suppose it passed its third reading yesterday, it being the special order for that time. Both the Representa tives from this county voted for it, but wo think a large majority of their constituents do not favor the new i county. It is possible the bill may be defeated in the Senate, though the Durham " Bull " has a way of butting everything out of its path. The Senate has passed a bill, which will no doubt pass the House, to ap point Judge Bynum, and Messrs. Thomas Ruffin and John S. Hender son a ode commission to codify our statute laws, so that a man may know tho laws of Nort i Carolina without searchiug dozens of books. We are pleased to notice that it is proposed to reduce the price of our Supreme Court Reports to $2 a vol ume, and the Laws to seventy-five cents a volume. This will induce a more general reading of them. Tho Senate has passed the resolu tion to have Maj. Moore to prepare a roster of North Carolina troops, but we do not understand why the reso lution should provide for a copy of the book (when published) to be given to each member of the Legislature. It would be more appropriate to give a copy to each surviving soldier! It is thought that a bill will pass compelling all capital executions, or "hangings," to take place at the peni tentiary, the prisoner to be carried there from the county in which he is sentenced In order that there may be no doubt as to hw much cotton seed makes a bushel, the Legislature has passed a law fixing it at thirty pounds. Several new railroads are Dronntwa. but of course few will be built. A bill has passed chartering a company to construct a railroad from Winston to Fayetteville, to f ollow the route of the old Salem plankroad. We can not see the need of such a road, or how it would pay, as it is so near the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail road, but still, if mybody will build it, by all means let it be done. We wish the State was covered with a network of railroads. It is thought that no attempt to interfere with the "Midland" charter can succeed, but that Mr. Best will be allowed to act under it undisturbed. We are pleased to see that a bill has been introduced to increase the number of our Supreme Court Judges, and hope it will be passed. We regret that by some mischance our usual interesting Raleigh letter has failed to come for this week's RlCORD. TARDY JUSTICE The dilatory manner of deciding contested seats in Congress is repre hensible in the highest degree and amounts to a mockery of justice. Two recent instances will illustrate the truth of our statement Bisbee, of Florida, a republican, contested the seat of Hull, the sitting member; and Yeates, of North Carolina, a demo crat, in like manner contested the seat of Martin. All these gentlemen were candidates at the flection held in 1878, and tho contests began at the first session of the Congress, for which they were candidates. The matttr was referred to the proper committee, who finally reported last month! It does seem that there could not possibly have been any ne cessity or excuse for so long a delay. Congress at once acted upon the re ports of the committee, and both the sitting members were ousted and the contestants seated. As one xf the successful contestants was & demo crat and one a republican, thirir cases did not change the political status Of the Houso, but it does seem such a mockery to take nearly two-years to consider the cases and finally, when only about a month of the session remains, to declare Yeates and Bis bee entitled to the seats that have for so long a time been wrongfully occu pied by others. To decide, just upon the eve of adjournment, that these gentlemen have wroDgf ully been kept out of their seats for two years, is very tardy justice, to say the least. PUBLIC SCHOOL STATISTICS We are indebted to Senator Mer ritt, Chairman of the Senate Commit tee on Education, for a copy of the "Annual Report of the Superinten dent of Public Instruction," from which we have compiled the follow ing statistics concerning our public schools. Ihe total receipts for the school fund amounted, to $523,555.22, of which the sum derived from the poll tax was $108,201.37, and from prop erty tax $146,517.63. The disburse ments amounted to $352,882.65, of which $200,438.24 were paid to teachers of white schools, and $118, 014.91 to teachers of colored schools. The number of children in the State between the ages of six and twenty-one is 459,325 ; of which num ber 150,372 are white males, 141,398 are white females ; 85,089 are color ed males, and 82,465 are colored fe males. The number of those, who at any time during hurt year attended school, is 225,606, of whom 136,481 are whites and 89,125 are colored. This shows that not one half of those between the school ages attended any school ! The number of public school houses in the State is 3,766, of which 2,730 are for whites and 1,036 for colored. The number of public schools taught during last year in 81 coun ties (the remaining 13 not reported) was 5,312, of which 3,523 were for white children and 1,789 were for colored children. The average length of school terms was only ten weeks ! At that rate how much do the children learn ? The average salary of teachers was $21.91 per mouth! If the children of North Carolina are dependent for their education upon teachers who are paid this scanty pittance, they will surely grow up in ignorance. The statistics for this (Chatham) county show that there were 50 white and 26 colored schools; and 5,226 white, and 2,507 colored, children at tended said schools. New Orleans Flooded. A terrific gale visited New Orleans last Sunday, doing great damage. A telegram dated New Orleans, Feb. 7th, says : "The gale carried the water of the gulf over the low lands along the route of the New Orleans & Mobile railroad, and it is reported to-night that a portion of the track between Micheaux and Lookout stations is submerged and sevcial miles washed out. The storm yesterday was the heaviest recorded at this signal office. Several breaks in the levee ara r- ported along the Bayou St. John and ine via .Basin. Tins morning the water was pouring through the French market, and that quarter of the city is partially flooded. In a district embracing one hundred squares, the streets and side-walks are entirely covered with water. Strenuous efforts are beinrr itduIa Vv .the city authorities to close the oreaKB in the canal levees. The wa ters in the iear of the eity are rising and spreading rapidly. The indica tions are that by Tuesday noon, all that portion of the city west of Clai borne street, from Carrolton to Ely sian Field streets, will be submerg ed. A Model Judge. His said that Judge James B. Brown reached the court house in Marietta, Ga., the other day, thirty minutes after court should have been convened. He had been delayed by a railroad accident He apologized for keeping the jurors, witnesses and lawyers waiting and ordered the clerk to enter a fine of $5 against the belated J udge himself. WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Feb. 6, 1881. During the week, the electoral count question has occupied most of the attention of the Senate ; the inter occanic canal and railroad projects have had the distinguished attention of the lobby ; while society in general is divided between the gajeties of the season, and the prospective splen dors of the grand inauguration fete and festivities to take place four weeks hence. But one thing is need ful propitious weather. Unless the skies t-nall beam more kindly on Washington than now, all these eloborate preparations for a grand procession, mammoth decorations, aud a stupendous ball, must meet with, at least, partial failure, and the multitudinous pilgrimage from the frozeu lake, the prairies, Plymouth Hock, the orange groves, and one or two other localities in the Union, will have its nose frost bitten. The 4th of March is a traditionally beastly day, and I do not believe that Vcn nor himself is able to .ameliorate the edges and nipping cruelty of the proverbial weather. There is much talk and discussion of means for the entertainment of the unusually large number of visitors who nre expected to bo in the city during the week of the inauguration. Many of tho military companies pro pose to sleep in the Pullman cars that bring them here- Some propose to challenge the horrors of wur by bivouocing in the public porks. Baltimore and Alexandria are making preparation to accommodate those whom it is thought will prefer to seek lodging outside the over-crowded city. No matter what may be the disappointments and the regrets of the occasion, those who come here to see a crowd will be satisfied, if not happy. The question of the organization of the Senate, whether it will be Re publican or Democratic, has gained additional interest from the equivo cal attitude of Senator David Davis. The ponderous Illinoisan does not moke a graceful weather-cock, but just now he is thought by many to be as fickle as those effigies of the " bird of dawning " which ornament the barn minarets of his western state. They say that, while the Demo crats were in power and everything looking promising for them, this hugh indicator voted after the lead of Thurman ; now, when times are ticklish, he votes with the Repulli cuns, and many think he will tilt the American upper house of millionaires and bosses to their side. Senator Conkling's speech on the Morgan resolution denying the right of the Vice-President to count the electoral vote, was the event of the week. As usual, when it became noised around that the great New York Senator hod the floor there was a rush for the Senate galleries, and before the closo of his brief speech they were comfortably filled by an attentive and admiring audience. Th radical ground ho tuck in support of the main proposition of the resolution and his refusal to follow the lead of the body of Republicans in their re fusal to vote, thus raising the ques tion of a quorum and preventing the disposal of the resolution yesterday was the subject of much comment at the time and throughout the city last night. Startling Divorce Statistics. Norfolk Virginian. Some startling facts in regard to divorce were given by tho Rev. Samuel W. Dick, at the last "Mon day lecture" in Boston. In Verment, according to recent reports, the pro portion of divorces is one to every fourteen marriages; in Rhode Island, one to every thirteen ; in New Hamp shire it is large; in Maine it has in creased a third in two decades; and iu Massachusetts, the heart of New England, where once divorces were granted for only two causes, while they are now granted for nine the Commonwealth copying the vices of Connecticut just as that State was ridding herself of them the ratio of one to every fifty-one has grown to one to every 21 4-10 marriages, the number iu 1878 being 600. The New England States granted 2,072 divorces iu 1878. In Ohio the rate was one to twenty five for a long time, and now it is one to eightesn. No city has had a worse reputation than Chicago, yet statistics prove that the ratio of divorces to mar riages is smaller than in either New Haven or Hartford. Wherever New England influence is felt there has been an increase. The Western Re serve, consisting of the twelve north eastern counties in Ohio, is said to contain a New England stock purer thau is to be found anywhere else, ex cept in a few counties in Maine, and here the proportion of divorces to marriages is one to eighteen, while in the rest of the State it is one to nineteen. Paying For Papers. Mr. E. J. H lie, in a late letter to the Fayetteville Examiner,in speaking of paying subscriptions to news papers, says: "In connection with this I recall the venerable Winship Steadman, of Pittsboro, who for many years, thirty or forty I be lieve, always paid in advance to a day his half yearly subscriptions to the Raleigh Register. If all news papers subscriptions were like these, I would be some thousands of dollars better off than I am; and other Editors could doubtless say as much. The fact is that payment in advance is best for both printer and subbcri ber, and is the only system on which a newspaper ought to be published. It is universal here, I think." w A etilch in time saves nine." A bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup will often save large doctor bills. Keep it handy, for it costs only 25 cents. Important To Cotton Planters. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, who it considered the highest authori ty on all matters that pertain to cotton, has recently said: "There is no great staple of the world so waste fully handled and prepared for mar ket as cotton, unless it is sugar. I am satisfied that if cotton were prop erly packed and baled it would bring from one to three per cent more than it now brings, because then the buy er would be certain of the quantity and quality of what he is buying. If it were properly handled in the gin house and properly picked and carried to the gin all of it that is now ginned below middling would command from two to five per cent more, because it would be rid of the motes, leaf and dust that level it to a low grade. But more important than this, I venture the assertion that cot ton the greater part of the crop, anyhow is deteriorated in value ful ly ten per cent from the time it is picked in the field until it is turned out from the compress for shipment North. A very important and costly part of the work in the Northern fac tories is remedying the errors of picking, ginning and packing that is, removing the dirt,, sand and grit that has unnecessarily been allowed to get in with, the i fibre. Beyond the cost of this work the fibre itself suf fers from the- excessive handling ne cessary to clean it of dirt that should never hate been allowed to get in it. 1 am frequently asked, "whether or not I think the cotton factories of New England will gradually drift to the South." My reply is that the manufacture of cotton is a unit. It commences when the cotton is ready for picking and ends when the cloth ife ready for the merchant. The most important part of this work is that which must be done near the field in which the staple is raised viz , the picking, the ginning and the baling. And it is my conviction that there is much richer profit to the Southern people in improving their methods in this part of the work than there is in trying to do it a!l. The utmost profit that can be expected in the manufac ture of cloth below No. 16, is two to three cents a pound, and on in dium i numbers three to four ceats. To cret this requires heavy, investments, pro portionate risk and the utmost skill of management. But by I gLt ex penditures in improved gins, a little more care and intelligence in haud liug the stnple, aud with no risk, the planter could make more clear profit by adding to the value of his cotton than could be counted on in great factories for converting the fibie into cloth. For $500 to $000 he could have attached to his gin house a ma chine to hull the seed and press out the oil. It must be understood that the oil will be clear gain, for taking it from the seed only improves the seed either f r fertilizer or stock food. Th value of the seed which has usua'ly been left to. rot and waste, may be t-stiina-ted when I say?: that if there was a variely of the cotton plant that, would row in the North and produce no lint, but simply the seed, it would be one of the most valuable of our crops, just as flax seed is uow in the West. I think, therefore, that the best course for the South is to devote its capital and em rgies to improvement, econo my and efficiency in getting the cot- r,77 juC "C1U u pranu? for the factories, to buv improved l gins aud build improved gin houses, to get machinery for properly hand ling the seed, to secure new presses and use new methods of baling. There is an enormous margin of prof it here one that is safe and certain." Electric Lights. The new method of creating a bril liant light by electricity is becoming quite common, and will no doubt soon be in general use. The New York correspondent of the Charlotte Demo crat in a recent letter, says : " Many stores, and some streets, are lighted by electricity, and new instances of its use are exhibited nightly. As to t the Tribune office, the light is manifestly, even seen as I saw it, 400 feet off, far superior to gas or anything else thus far known. What a change since I used to set type by the light of two tallow caudles we never arrived at the dignity of spermicetta in those days. Gas was a wonderful improvement upon candles, and now. gas is "no where" in comparison' with electricity. In no business is a 'clearer light needed than in type-setting, and especially in settingtthe almost invisible types now generalyused by the morning papers, millions of them being picked up and all in toe night. 1 don t know what is the relative cost of gas and electricity, : but even should the latter be more cosily, though probably it is not, its use ' cannot be avoided, for people must and will have the best, cost what it may." A Town Washed Away. A dispatch from Carson, Nevada, dated February 2, says : At 3:30 this afternoon, the dam of the Franktown reservoir burst The reservoir was one mile long, three quarters of a mile wide and fifty five feet deep. A few hours before bursting the people of Franktown moved their honsehold effects. The Virginia and Truckee Lailroad authorities, apprehensive of danger, tapped the dam and were drawing the water off when it broke. It went all at once. A dozen men were swept down by the torrent and escaped by being cast np the side of a ravine. No lives were lost. The water at the narrow portion of the ravine was 100 feet high. When the town was reached the houses went before the flood like chaff. The town "Was only a cluster of houses. It was almost totally destroyed. Nearly one mile of the railroad track was washed away, and some of the rails were snapped iu two. 1 OOnZU3S2?OZ73SI7CD PiTTSBORo, February 8, 1881. Editob Record : The bill to estab lish the county of Durham is now pending before the Legislature. It proposes to form the county out of portions of Orange and Wake ; no part of Chatham territory is taken. It was first proposed, I learn, to take off the Northeastern part of this county, embracing Williams' Town ship ; bat, to satisfy Mr. Manning and secure his support, this was abandoned. If the bill passes in its present shape, bow will it effect this county in the near future? I think nearly every intelligent man in the commu nity believes that the consequences to our county will be disastrous. No one doubts that at the next session of the Legislature petitions would be sent up from Williams' Township signed by the great mass of its citi zens praying that that Township be cut off from Chatham and attached to the county of Durham. The peo ple of that Township trade to Dur ham, and the larger portion of them are much nearer to Durham than to Pittsboro. Petitions in this case, would easily be gotten up by active, interested men, and, no doubt, nine out of every ten would sign them. Would the Legislature grant them ? Does any man doubt its doing so ? The case would be different from ihe establishment of a new county. There is justly, in ordinary cases, a preju dice against the establishment of new counties, for the reason that these little counties have more than their just weight in the Legislature. The House of Representatives consists of one hundred and twenty members. Each county has one member of this House. There are about ninety-four counties. It is clear therefore, that one voter in one of these little coun ties would have as much weight, through his representative, as two would in the larger counties. Hence the unwillingness on the part of the Legislature to establish these little counties. But in the case of peti tions only to cut Williams' Township off from Chatham and attach it to Dm ham, the case is entirely different They would be granted beyond a doubt. What would be the conse quences to this county, or to what would be left of it? The lioe of Dur ham county on the East and North east would be about eight miles of PittHboro the distance from here to the Southwestern part of the county is about thirty miles. Now does any one doubt for a moment, that the Western part of the county would, in the case supposed, be either clamor ous for a new county or for the re moval of the county seat some ten miles west of here ? Would they not have plausible grounds for their claim ? Indeed this question of a new county to be carved out of the Western part of this county is al ready begin uiug to be earnestly agi tated. It is proposed to cut off the Gulf Township and thence along the line of said Township to a point on Rocky river near Peoples' Mill, and thence up said river all on the West of it to constitute tho new county. So we see that this proposition is al ready assuming shape. If we commence cutting up the county there will not only be an earnest continued effort to mak6a cq Qufc Qf era part m.i...l. vr , , K , h)b but also another county out of New Hope and Cape Fear Townships and the Western part of Wake. Now, Mr. Editor, some one will ask why these sinister forebodings ? The Durham bill does not take any of Chatham's soil. Thi is true ; but there is not a well informed, candid man in the county who does not be lieve that the establishment of this new county will result, in the near future,, in cutting off from Chatham and attachiag to it a large territory iu the Northeastern part of this county, with the results hereinbefore stated. If any member from this county has been inclined to support this bill I do hope he will pause and consider his course well. I am much gratified at what I hear, that our Senator, that sterling man, Haywood Mrritt, is opposed to this bill. Should this be true, I am satisfied he will be sus tained by a vast majority of his con stituents. A Citizen. Albright Township, Chatham Co., January 31, 1881. Editob of Record : Like yourself, I am truly pleased to see the subject of cotton factories exciting so much interest in the county. Many good and timely things have already been said by your county correspondents, and yet not the half, or even the tenth part of the advantages which me county would have in various ways, from manufacturing cotton has oeen told, or will be told, as there would not be room or space in your most valuable and interesting paper, to tell one half from now until after the time, when the citizens of the county should, or ought to have, two or three factories in full blast in the county. So I don't think it worth while to spend much time it tilking about the profits and advantages of manufacturing cotton, as every one who has given the subject the slightest atteutiou, knows that the profits are enormous and the advan tages extremely great. If we are to have a factory or factories in Chat ham, we should settle upon some plan to get the stock taken at once, as time is money, and life too short to be always about a thing that might be done in mnch less time. If no objection, I would suggest that in order to come at the thing at once, and know whether or not, we are to have a factory as proposed, that yon mention a man in each township in the county, to canvass their townships respectively, solicit ing subscriptions, and report to you within thirty days after their aupoint- ments, the amount subscribed in each township. In this way we can know right off what the prospects are, and whether or not it is worth while to agitate the subject any further. Then sail the stockholders together, or ganize, look out for the most eco nomical water-power, and go to work as soon as practicabla, or when spring opens, like men who intended to do something for themselves, their families, their country and their county. I have no fears as to the result, provided, the subject is presented to the wide awake citizens of the coun ty in its proper light. Times are good and lively just now, with toler able plenty of money in circulation, beside I am pretty confident that there is enough capital lying idle at this time in Cnatbam to build one if not two factories, which ought to be in use developing the resources of our county, and paying the owners a liberal per cent., thereby proving an advantage to all classes of our peo pie. Enterprise. "On the Wing," Feb. 7, 1881. Editor Record: It seems, and everything evinces, that although, from different causes, there is over hanging our Southern industries a cloud of retarded energy, gloom and depression, still throughout the Southern States generally, and North Carolina particularly, there is to some extent, going on a process of growth and recovery which the best of eon sequences we must anticipate. How long we shall have to wait before our former, but stolen prosperity, which is at work silently and secretly be neath the surface, will put forth its full power in the full harvest of pro ductive activity, is, of course, impos sible to foretell. What is chiefly im porfcant for us to know, however, is that we are on the right road, and the progress we are making tends to prosperity and not to adversity, aud that it promises to lead our industry and commerce to a brighter, and not to a darker day in the drama of a fu ture life. By referring to the census of 1880, we find Chatham has about 23,000 inhabitants, white and colored, but of the former we iutend chiefly to speak. Of this number, we venture to eay, there are one thousand young men (not always young men, either), who have nothing to care for but themselves, are to-day sitting on the stool-of do-nothing, viewing the skies between their toes, saying: "hard times, Chatham offers no induce ments to a young man, he can't get a start here, and must go West to get rich, where greenbacks grow on trees and milk and honey flow in abundance." What does ail this mean? Stupidity, indifference, and down right laziness in the first de gree. Wake up, and make the best of what you are ; don't conclude that your calling is too low, either, but be sure you are equal to the emergen cies, and go at it with gloves oft', with a view and will that must succeed. There is no excellence without labor is as true as it is old yet, how many, unwilling to pay the price, pine their whole existence away for want of the almighty dollar. There is a contin ued rush from the cradle to the grave for this sordid stuff. Ask each dol lar its history and how it came into existence each will tell a different tale peculiar to itself some will say they respresent the tears of a widow, the bartered honor of a man, the meanness of a ring, the shrewdness of some villian; the defrauded Presi dency, and the thousands of other stories which we need not relate. Benjamin Franklin said the road to wealth was as plain as the road to market. Yes, it is the good old fashioned road of honest toil. But how few care to travel this road ? It is some times said that the day of miracles is past, but certainly there is one still existing the miraculous result of hard labor that is accom plished only by the sweat of the brow. Surely, the value of monev should not be placed upon what it buys, but upon what it actually costs. Some men's money cost them too much ; others too little. A man who gets his money at the expense of his health and honor pays too much ; he who gets it by lucky hits pays too little. The goldec mean between the two extremes is beautifully express ed in the prayer of Agar, who said : "Give me neither poverty nor riches." What a beautiful country, if every body would pray their prayer in sincerity and in truth. The Sun ny South would bloom like a gar den. These old hills would blossom like a rose. The crowded millions of other lands, who have long had their eyes turned in this direction, would throng our deserts and waste places. Let us hope. Elm. A Prohibition Argument. A Pennsylvania paper says : " In Potter county, in this State, iu which no licenses to sell liquor have been granted since 1852. fourteen out of twenty-six townships levied no poor tax whatever for the year 1879. The jail is empty the greater part of the time. The cost of boarding prisoners for 1870 was $C0.3G, and the com monwealth court costs for the same year were 8448.87." These are some of the results of doing without rum shops. One of the wise men who knows everything declares that in a few years every physician in the country will prescribe Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup to his patients. We believe it PATENTS. Patents obtained for new inventions, or for im provements in old ones. Caveats, Infringements Trade-marks, and ell patent business promptly attended to. J Inventions that have been Rejected may still, in most cases, be patented by us. Being opposite the V. 8. Patent Office, and engaged in PatentBu slness Exclusively, we can secure patents In lees Mm than those who are remote from Washington When Inventors send model or sketch we make search in the Patent Office, ad advise as to its patentability free of charge. Correspondence confidential i fees reasonable; and no chartte un less Patent is obtained. uu -r??rQ y Pi8lon to the City Postmaster, and to the SuDerintendent of th tvt u . Order Division in Washington. Tct special refer, oces, circulars, advice, terms, c., address U. A. SNOW & CO., Opposite Patent Office Washlugtoa, D. C. State Zffews. Wilmington Star: A colored man by the name of Martha T! McFarland, living in MilhV J beiween Eight and Ninth an! S. son and Wooster streets ..I1' with a hard fit about a week aVo tfr wbitfi aha iamm'nA1 :.. i? ai" , ' V" lKen ",ufw' o "jo nuu ciQtH with Out sneakintT. onpnin h ' a" taking a mouthful of nourkhmtnt o food of any kind. Every day abou 12 o clock, however, as our inform J - -j o I o "tl olio nuuiu tamo up inner hoi get on her knees, and apparently J gage in prayer, after which she w0ai lay back and lapse into her usual torpid state. On Sunday night iast for the first time, she opened her ty and spoke, saying that she would ten all she had seen, felt and endured during her illness as soon as ehe bad recovered sufficiently to do so, and on Monday her attendants succeeded in getting her to partake of a littlo nourishment. Since the woman has been in the singular condition de. scribed she has been visited by a 1 ire number of colored people, and singing and praying have been W up with but slight intervals. Iu tte meantime the woman hs become very weak, and is now scarcely able to turn herself in bed. Alamance Gleaner : On last Mob. day morning, Oran Watson, a nen0 who was emploj'ed by T. C. Foust' Esq., and was living on his plants tion, became tired of work and took a notion to make n departure from the monotony of every day life, and diversify affairs by whipping his wife. While Mr. Foust was at work in a field, word was brought to him that Watson was beating his wife unmer cifully. He immediately sent tw men to arrest him and stalled for home to make out a warrant for tho arrest, but before he had proceeded far, he heard a call for assistnnce. He went to assist the men in inakinw the arrest ; but Watson drew a pistol and pointing it at him, said that he would shoot him if he advanced a step. Mr. Foust then sent for tha Sheriff, who organized a commnv and started after the cause of all the trouble, who in the meantime had taken to the woods. After fccouriii" around for some time, the tou-supm caught up with their game, and then tho excitement commenced. Watson ran and dodged and swam the Ala mance Creek and when cornernl fought and succeeded in getting away, once or twice, after beintf cap tured. He was finally secured and brought to town. Wew Advertisements. J. OI Chatham County, WITH V. H. & R. S. TUCKER, Wholesale and Retail Dealers and Jobbers In FOREIGN AND DOHESTIC B1RY GOOB .' HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, CARPET- INGS, NOTIONS, &C, Nos. 23 and 23 Fayetttevllle Street, RALEIGH, N. C. Jan27-lra Buggies for Sale ! POE & RAMSEY Have Just received a lot or the Celebrated Cincin nati BUGGIES which they are offering very l'w. and would be glad to have persona call ami ex amine them ; also a lull supply of Harness, Sad dles, Collars, kc. janu-2m THE LATEST SENSATION ! n mi at m. Bargains! Bargains! BYNUM & HEADER Are offering their entire stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING including a few fine OVERCOATS JIT COST FOB. CASH. A FEW LADIES' CLOAKS! Also a flno line of Ladles' DRESS GOODS, consist ing of Black and Colored Cashmeres, and our entire Stock of Goods at a very cIoho mar gin for CASH to make room for our Spring Stock. Give us a call and secure ek.AU lndobted to us will please call and settle. BYNUM & HEADEX. Pittsboro, Jan. 26, 1881. $100 REWARD! ww tuy Yuggts aim nmm I am now receiving the third car load of thosa popular and standard VEHICLES. I buy by tho car-load and do not sell on commission, but buy tor CASH, and am thereby enabled to sell at amazing ly low figures. If you want a Family Carriage, a Bon-Ton Phaeton, or a Fancy Top Buggy, I furnish you and at a price lower than you ever dreamed of. 1CV A written guarantee accompanies every ve hide that I sell. For cuts and prices, call on r address, H. C. BROWN. Jan26-tf Chapel H1U, X.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Feb. 10, 1881, edition 1
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