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BALEIOH, Q. vVF.DNESDAY .DECEMBER 23, 18S&. nOMKSTKAD LAW. Stiperlor Court Fall Term. Davidson's Reports, Vol. B3.J B. FJ.ORA T. ACGU8TIK HOBBIHa Homestead Allotment of. . i t. Wh rt a judgment debtor owned town lots, some ot which mclud reCiih cl were encumbered by prior liens (iivi iir:iKt-" 'he. extent of their full val ,.. aid the others were unencumbered ; Htl'L that lie had the right to have his ) ,nnte.td allotted from the unencumber ed !:iih1 without reference to whether the; .nii riicul his dwelling and other build il! IT" 2 Thf homesteader should make his se-1,,-iinn at the "time of tl.e appraisal and ;)i.iiiiiieiit, and give notice of any excep lieii' in the action of the appraisers then, or within h reasonable time thereafter and i,t itr- sale. "i ' , upheld v. Murrill. 90 N. C, 208, cit ovi ami approved). . This whs a controversy presented by ex-c-j.tii'n to sn assignment of homestead, hr.ti'il before Gtidger, Judge, at Fall Term, ;S4. of Bertie Superior Court. From the judgment of the. court ovcr rufini; the defendant's exceptions and con tinuing the. action of the appraisers, the ,i, i niiiint appealed. The .sheriff of the county of Bertie had in jus hands ou the 17th day of Septern-U-tL lt84. an execution in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant, for hi -urn of $85.25, with interest thereon fron. the first day of December, 1882, f. umk d upon a judgment docketed in that c-niinty-nn the 1st day of February, 1883. Th' defendant was a resident of that ,.uity and entitled to a homestead. The -li ritT summoned appraisers to 'value and asii;ii the homestead of the defendant. y Accordingly, on the day first above mentioned,- the appraisers valued and laid ..ft k the defendant his homestead, and made return of their proceedings. The defendant objected to the home--umiI so laid off to him,- and filed his x- reptiim, whereof the following is a copy: The defendant. Aogastin Robbins, in the above entitled case objects to the homestead heretofore allotted to him by ii.e appraisers summoned unaer the exe cution in this case, for this: That the real estate set apart for him by the appraisers : under mortgage, and the legal title to aid lands so allotted as his homestead is not in him. and that he has only aneqnity .1 reoempiion in saia lands. 1 be assign merit made, a copy of which is hereto an nexed marked "A," has the effect to'de feat the defendant in obtaining a home stead. Th" return of the appraisers simply re- i ,t a the appraisal ot tne parcels of land - one at $700, the other at $300, and that the s;im' were laid off! as the defendant's h'-mestead. and no reference was made thin in to the fact that both parcels were :nmvi!ered by mortgage. It was recited t.i .r 'ne,.nrst tnct and buildings thereon ere ov r.ed and occupied by the defend- m u noinesK hq ; tnat tne second was a lot f mud in the town of Windsor, and the buddings, thercoa "ere owned and er::pitd by him. It i -iated in the case, settled upon p :i' by tiie Judtfe, that tNo question n aiie as to the facts of the exception, s-. id fact.- were admitted, and upon ap- was i but the. !.i aring. the Court overruled the exception u eit iy the defendant, and confirmed the rt port of the appraisers." It appeared from the return of the sher- i!T. ii'ered upon the execution mentioned, hat he levied upon the "excess" of the homestead '-a lot in the town of Wind sor, adjoining the lot in said town assigned .d allotted the said Robbins as home stead, bounded," fcc. The defendant excepted to tne order ir.d judgment of the Court, overruling his ctpuon ana connrmmg tne return ot tin appraisers, and appealed to this court Mr. E. B. Peeblet, for the plaintiff. No counsel for the defendant. ' Merrimon. J. (after stating .the facts). It is admitted as a fact that the allotment made by the appraisershas the effect to de tect the defendant in obtaining a hom-e stead."' ' How tnis enectis wrought does not, in terms, appear, but the plain implication, from the facts stated in the exception of the defnndant, is that the land allotted as homestead will not more than discharge the two mortgage debts that, as is admit ted. constitute a first lien upon it. If this is so. the appraisers ought not to hau- set apart the land embraced ly the 'iiortgage, eecially as the defendant had other land unaffected by any lien, so far a- appears, except the lien of the judg ment upon which the execution of the plaintiff issued. The law does not intend tlu-.t the defendant shall have the empty frm of a homestead, but the substance as e!l, when he has land that may be laid 'if to him for that purpose, and this with "tit reference to whether it embraces the dwelling house or not. Generally the dwelling house and buildings used there with, must be embraced, but there may be reasons why this cannot be so, as when ttie land on which they are situated is en cumbered for all or more than its value This is the spirit, if not the letter of the constitution and the statutes in execution thereof. A judgment debtor may have homestead in lands that he has mortgaged, whether he has the legal-right of redemption or the equity of redemption, but it does not lol low. if such lands embrace his dwellings .and buiblinirs used therewith, that he must have homestead in such lands and Mine other, although he may have other hinds free from encumbrance, or subject to only partial encumbrance. Indeed, in the absence of any encumbrances, it is iiiional with him whether he will select a lot in a city, town or village, owned and ' i-upied bv him. not exceeding in value fl .000. in lieu of the homestead embrac- the dwelling house and other build- iii'j-. In this case: the land of the defend oi! levied upon, and which the plaintiff ' 1 K- to sell to satisfy his judgment,) is a situated in a town, and he Lad the r-g!.t to -elect that, or a part of it not ex " lino in value $1,000, & lieu of the land 'i ''which was situate his dwelling house i' d thir buildings, even though these had been "free from encumbrance. But as 'iii- land w as cncimbercd to the extent of its fuli value, he had the right to have home oi set apart to him ia any land he had h r than that. This is so, because the i i w favors the homestead. The debtor wi.- ii need be. may have it allotted to him in any land owned by him available for the purpose. It does not appear affirmatively, as reg- nlailv it ought to do. that the defendant :'! the time the appraisers proceeded to lay oil the homestead informed them of the uinbrance upon the laud, and selected "U.ci hind that he desired to have laid off ' hi in, but we. think, if this were really necessary, that ibumciently appears by Im- p.ication that he did. lie excepted to their x uoii, and upon thefound that the land laid off to. him as and'for his homestead vva- encumbered by mortgage for its full v .due. He had other land a lot in the b'wn of Windsor and the reasonable in f'Tcnce is that he selected that, or so much ' f it us would not le of greater value than tl.OUU. But if he failed for any cause to give no tice at the time the allotment wan trni.de- hc gave notice of his objection and except cd shortly afterwards, as it appears from 'the fact recitjwl in the sheriff's return on the exec8tio-, that notice of the appeal was served upon him on the 27th day of wmuiTjioo, ana ne ma not'imtxe sale of the lajrxd levied upon . as the excess of the homestead. V- The defendant objected and excepted lieforo the sale of the land was made, and when It appeared to the Court that the allotment of the homestead was practically nugatory that it was a hollow form it should have set it aside. The appraisers, following the words of the statute, may have thought that. t.hv were required to lav off the homestead in such "way as to emhrr the riwpllintr house and the buildings used therewith, but no matter what consideration con trolled their action, it deprived the de fendant of his homestead, and he applied within the time to obtain relief. Shep herd l MurrilL 90 N.-C. 20R There is error. The iudffment of th Court confirming the report and return of the appraisers must be reversed, and the exception of the defendant sustained. To this end let the opinion be' certified to the Superior Court of the county of Bertie. jrror. 3 ; .; -. ; Reversed, j LITERARY GOSSIP. Aout Bone Nartl CaroliM Book. The Hon. Robert V; tluches-the anthor of " The American Dollar," has just issued in pamphlet form. two", " ftutynlmtl Chapters" to that book, in which he armies. that the only real money of the world is gold ,and silver, that no other substances can be substituted in their stead i and that the quantities of these metals extant.' de termine the prices of all other rjrooertv. He considers the pecuniary savings of a people the best index of the degree of their prosperfty, and thinks it a dangerous error of Government to overlook, in its laws for tne coinage and distribution of money, the facilitation and encouragement of savings. This he thinks can best be done by putting circulation a large numDer oi silver coins cf small denominations, which will enable all poople to conduct their dealings in cash-down. Who has forgotten," he says, " the twelve hundred millions of. dollars, which the French Government, in 1871, derived, almost entirely, from the savings of the peasantry of France, for the purpose of paying the war indemnity demanded by Germeny." The policy of France is to supply small coins for circulation in profuse liberality, ana tne influence of an adequate circula tion of small coins (necessarily silver) upon economical habits of the French people is very marked. Our people do not hoard small sums, as j the French do. because they are denied the coins that embody small values. The real object of debasing the smaller silver coins is to prevent their beiug hoarded, and force all savings into the banks. ' The old women's stocking-toe, and the old man '8 snuffbox, saved, France in '71, and Judge Hughes's reasons would with magic rapidity hide awaj the tbree hun dred millions, which Gen. Grant express ed a strong desire to see hoarded ' by the people of the Lnited States, if the smaller silver coins were made full standard in mintage, and legal tender for all amounts. Judge Hughes speaks of Mr. Wm. H. Oliver of New Berne, N. C, as a cogent writer against the demonetizing of silver, and quotes largely from the papers recent ly published by that gentleman on this question; also, as confirmatory of Mr. Oliver's views, from Mr. Morton Frew en, of London, who, in a recent letter to Mr. Wm. H. Hurlbert of New York, says: "The idea that in the States silver is going to drive out gold is, as they say in the est, rather too thin. The bankers, of course, say so;- that is their business. The banks have been boy cotting silver for the last eight years. If you, in the States, only knew how gold monometallism is crippling our commerce in Great Britain, you would not think twice about sharing our bed." Judge Hughes says: "By demonetiz ing silver, we import and make institutional in our land, and domesticate in New York as a periodical epidemic. The Monetary Panic; a "more destructive pestilence than fire, sword, or famine, than the leprosy of China, the cholera of India, or the plague of Egypt." Those of us who suffered bv and still remember the Black Friday will most hear tily say from all such " Good Lord deliver vs." The work of another citizen of New Berne is also attracting notice abroad. In 1 he Dear Mute Optic, published in Jj it- tie Rock, Arkansas, the Principal of the Institution for Deaf Mutes in that State, who was lor some years Professor of Math ematics at the New xork L. M. institute. highly compliments "'Forty Lessons In Practical Double Entry Book-Ktepmg, by George Allen of New Berne, N. C, saying that it is by far the best book for teaching Deaf Mutes book-keeping, which, in years of experience, in instructing this unfor tunate class, be has ever seen. Which is tantamount to saying it is the easiest and simplest code of instruction for any one, as the only difference in teaching intelligent deaf mutes and hearing pupils is the ne- - I - - - . .... M cessny oi siinpuiying more ior uie iwnier than for the latter. He has given substantial proof of his ap preciation by sending Mr. Allen an order for books enough to supply the Arkansas Institution, and incorporating the system into his curriculum. Why can we not have it in the North Carolina Institution? It is endorsed by all of the leading teachers of the State, as fill ing a want long felt in business school literature. M. B. C PUBLIC SCHOOL MATTERS. County Treasurers In Default of Duty. State of North Carolina, Department of Public Instruction. Raleigh, December 22d, 1885. The Hw makes November 30th jthe close of the school fiscal year, and requires the County Treasurers to make immediate re ports to the State Superintendent of re ceipts and disbursements of school funds. The penalty for delay in; complying with this requirement is severe, as it ought to be, because it involves delay in the Super intendent's reports. It is now the 22d of December, and sixteen Treasurers have not reported. Why this delay I do not know, but it is to be hoped that this complaint will not only cause the delinquent Treas urers to forward their reports at once, but will prevent delay in the future. 8. -M. Finger, -- Supt. Public Instruction. IN TIIE AUDITOR'S DEPARTMENT A Few More Laborer for the People. The following sheriffs have brought con victs to the Penitentiary during the last week. Dec. 15, T. M. Carr, deputy sheriff of Mecklenburg county; 9 convicts. Dec. 15, P. D. Leonard, sheriff David son county, 2 convicts. Dec. 16, Sam'l Albertson, deputy sheriff Duplin county, 2 convicts. v. v Dec. 16, D. W. Jones, deputy- snerirl ; Sampson county, 1 convict. i Dec. 17, J. u. rioages, deputy snenn Beaufort county, 4 convicts. Dec. 21, 11. Neill, sheriff Sampson eeunty, 4 convicts. " , The. port receipts of cotton last week were 230,x7S Dales, against 207, oou last year. t ne total season receipts are 3.140.400 bales, against 3,270,510 last year, The total visible supply f cotton for the world is 2,877,729 bales, of which 2,580, 329 bales are American, against 3,058,531 add 2,589,431 bales respectively last year; crop in sight 4,049,750 bale. THK NEW TEAR MAGAZINES. ' The January Harper. . J New York Journal of Commerce. J This is another holiday number of Har per's Magazine as brilliant as the one ex pressly designed for Christmas, It marks out the lofty line of excellence in literature and art which the veteran publishers in tend to follow in 1886. The contributors, the artists and the engravers are among the most distinguished of their kind now living, and they are all engaged in a gen erous rivalry to exalt, if possible, the repu tation of Harper'. The richly illustrated papers for which the monthly is famous fill a large space in the January number. They are: "Winter in Devonshire." by Lucy C. Lillie; "Domestic and Court Cus toms of Persia," by S. G. W. Benjamin; "A Lampful of Oil," No. IV of "Great American Industries," by George H. Gib son, and "Christmas-tide with the Ger mans before Paris," by Archibald Forbes. Each of these articles is a masterpiece of word painting, and docs not need the sumptuous work of the designer and en graver to chain the reader. The pictures exemplify the overwhelming profusion of good things which the publishers are in the habit of providing. The experience, wisdom and patriotism of the late General McClellan appear in a powerful essay full of original suggestions of great value in "The Militia and the Army." Every cit izen should read it. Mr. Howells intro duces us to the "Editor's Study," the new literary department where he will receive his admirers every month and talk with them pleasantly about new books. It promises to be a delightful addition to the contents of the magazine. Part VII of Mr. Howells's "Indian Summer,'' in the 'same number, is, one of the best instal ments of that novel thus far given. Gold smith's beautiful drama "She Stoops to .Conquer," is continued, with more of Ab bey's fine illustrations. f The Janaary Eclectic. The January issue of the Eclectic Maga zine opens a new volume, and if the future is to be measured by the initial number, the promise of a feast of good things is well justified. The first paper is by Hon. W. E. Gladstone, who, amidst the excite ments and toils of a political life, finds time to do a good deal of literary work of the highest order. "The Dawn of Crea tion and Worship" is a highly interesting contribution to the natural history of reli gion. H. R. Fox-Bourne gives us a forei ble paper on "Socialism and its Diver sions, 'Vand. the great naturalist. Sir John Lubbock, is represented by a study enti- tied,1 " Recent Observations on the Habits ot Ants, W asps and .Bees. I here is a symposium on "The Theatre," discussing the condition of the stage in England and America and the practicability of follow ing Shakespeare as a literary model. Prof. Sonnenschein gives us a capital paper on "Culture and Science," which touches on a vexed question in education with a full knowledge' of all the conditions. Among other articles arc Miss Gordon Cumming's " Rambles in Canton," a highly interest ing description of the once famous Mmc. Etnilc de Girardin ("Delphine Gay"), a study in practical philanthropy, by Hon. Mrs. F. Jeune, called "Helping the Fal len." and a brief but strong sketch of the celebrated English political satirist and j prnj;, William Churchill. Attention may ' be called t several of the minor articles, 1 such as "The Edict of Niintes," and"Birdd- hist Philosophy." from the Saturday lie viev, aud "Grace" and " Poets and Poli tics'1 from the Spectator. There are two striking short stories, "Daniel Fosque" and -" The Atheist's Mass," the former be ing in a dramatic form. Tne number is likely, we think, to arrest attention and is a fine example of a magazine which stands at the very tip-top of literary worth. Now is the time for all to subscribe. The Eclec tic is published by E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond Street, New York. Terms, $5 per year; single numbers, 45 cents; trial subscription for 3 months, $1. 'Eclectic and any $4 Maga zine, $8. TREASURY NOTES. The Week Drummter' Lleenoea. Dec. 15, Craxton, Wood & Co., Phila phia, Pa. Dec. 16, Whitall, Tatum & Co., Phila delphia, Pa. Dec. 16, Dunham, Buckley & Co., New York. Dec. 16, W. M. Wilson & Co., Char lotte, N. C. Dec. 18, Hatcher & Stamps, N. C. Milton, Dec. 18, The C. F. Simmons Co., St. Louis, Mo. Medical Bond Transaction. 27,000 construction bonds were funded during the week. WILD WAYS IN ATLANTA. How the People get Drunk There. New York Tribune. J Judge Lochrane has been known in New York, where he comes frequently on busi ness as attorney of the Pullman Car Com pauy, as oue of the lovers of good living and fine wines. He came up from Georgia last week and astonished his acquaintances by the announcement that he had become a faU-fiedged Prohibitionist. " Atlanta is a Prohibition city," he said to mc,'and I helped to make it so. I turned all the good; liquor in my cellars out into the streets. It had to ruu in the gutter or down my throat, and I concluded that it had better be in the gutter. You see, our Government had come to be a Government of whisky, by whisky, and for whisky. The liquor dealers asserted their owner ship of the entire country, and 'their con trol of the entire population. It is only a question of time under such a condition of things when men will rise up and smite them hip and thigh. It is a thing that must be done in order to preserve the man hood of the country. You see drinking in the South is not like drinking in the North. Here in New York if a man comes into a barroom who is intoxicated the bartender will refuse to sell him any more. If the man raise a disturbance he is promptly led out and away. But with us a fellow comes alonybent on havinga 'bender.' He goes into a saloon and takes possession of it. He announces that he is the Red-handed Gray Wolf, or Blue Ruin Jake,or Kaintuck Mose. He drinks till he is wild. He makes everybody who comes in drink with him. Sooner or later' there re a row and some one is killed. If it was onfy the chap who got up the muss who got killed we could stand it, but nine chances out of ten it is some innocent passer-by. Then when we attempted to regulate the sale of liquor so as to have things decent as you do in New York, the liquor men defeated every effort we made. It came to pass then that we got up and licked them out. It is what Will eventually be done everywhere unless they see what is coming and take a modest back scat to get out from under." (lOiLD AND VAND EH HILT. A Novel la New York Real Life. New York Times. Here is'a story that has never been print-' ed. Jay Gould and old Commodore Van derbilt are its subjects and Jay Gould ia sponsor for it. " I never was really scared but once in my life scared so badly as to lose my head." Mr. Gould's own words I give, for it is best, perhaps, to let him spin his own yarn in his own way. ' I never lost my head but once in my life. That was a year or two before Commodore Vanderbilt died, and it was in the Commodore's boose; Hoo!" (This is Mr,, Gould's pet ejacula tion). '"Hro! It makes me shiver to think of it even now. A dead man. I was sure, whs on my hands, and visions of the galiows mid alt the long list of horrors indescribable daneed before me, stupefied me, drove my sense away, made me for the time a imidm-.m,' ti d down hand and foot, and brain in a tanuli of circumstantial ev idence that was fairly paralyzing. It was a horriule night horrible I wouldn't undergo its ton tires again' for millions. " " Commodore Vanderbilt and I had been having some pretty lively fights over Erie and other properties,' Mr; Gould continued with a shiver. " And the Commodore had made a miscalculation or two that had cost him heavily, and I hadn't found the war fare altogether full of profit, either, and, as often happens among Wall street men, we both put ourselves finally in readiness for a compromise. It was arranged that we should have a formal interview and fix up things amicably all around. He sent me an invitation to visit him at his house, saying that a conference could be held there free from all danger of intrusion or publicity. I was to call early in the even ing; and promptly on time I climbed the steps of his old down-town house. The servant answered my ring, ushered me up stairs where, she said, the -Commodore was awaiting me. He welcomed me in his bluff way, and apparently was never in better health than at that moment, a fine type of the well-preserved, hale and hearty, stalwart man who spends much time out of doors and isn't afraid of hard work for exercise. "'We are quite alone,' said the Com modore, as he waved me to a seat in his library there. 'We are quite alone; only one or two servants are in the house, and I have given orders that nobody else shall be admitted. So we may talk freely ; there is no danger from intruders and we'll come right to the point.' : "For an hour we discussed our business L relations as we sat there in that upper room alone. We-were not trien s exchanging confidences and compliments. Neither of us tried to hoodwink the other into be lieving that our motives were philanthropic and unselfish; that would have been a silly waste of time. But we were determined to bring about a truce to open hostilities in certain directions, and as a business matter we naturally talked long and earnestly and as if upon intimate terms. Many trouble some features of our antagonistic relations were disposed of aud we seemed just on the verge of a final settlement of the whole war, when of a sudden the door-bell below rang violently. The Commodore seemed strangely affected. He stopped short in his conversation ia the very middle of an animated sentence. His manner amazed me, but I could say nothing. He sat silent, with a stern look on his face, glaring at the door as though momentarily expecting an armed enemy to enter there. The silence was oppressive; I could almost feel the at mosphere Of the room pressing with a crushing force upon me. A servant soon entered. A telegram,' she said, simply, as she banded the Commodore an envelope and withdrew. Slowly, and as if- nerved to defiance of some bitter foe, he tore the message from its covering. Restlessly I turned to caze at a picture as I saw him begin to read. Cold beads of perspiration stood on my forehead. Why I knew not. A terrible tremor went over me. 1 felt as though I were at the edge of an open pit. Foolifh, ridiculous, I felt the sense to be, but every second added to its horror, till suddenly I was startled by a sharp noise behind me. I turned. I was bewildered. Commodore Vanderbilt lay in his armchair gasping wildly for breath. A rattle was in his throat. His face was ghastly white, his legs and arms were stiff, his mouth was set rigidly, his eyes were extended. I felt that I was in the presence of a dying man, and, as he had assured me so emphatically, practically all alone. " Men that have not been through an experience like this cannot have-even the faintest idea of what I suffered. My first impulse was to render aid. A dozen things I tried to do and in every one I failed to accomplish anything. I le thought me of giving relief ly loosening the collar, and my hand wan. upon the Commodore's scarf, when a million new horrors crowdndupon me. What if some one should come into the " room now? What if I were found bending over the dying man, my hand at his throat? My head began to swim; all presence of mind departed. I was benumbed in body and in mind. It flashed upon me that I was recognized as an opponent, if not an ene my, of Commodore Vanderbilt. What would men say when it was reported that he had met a sudden death and that I alone was wjth himf Would not the very worst be guessed and believed? Our finan-. cial warfare was widely known. Would men hesitate to suspect or scruple "to ac cuse me of murder with all this chain of horrible circumstances clinging about roe? That room and its books and its pictures and that stalwart man dying in his chair went whirling round and round in my vi sion. I lost all control of myself, gave up the purpose of assistance, and sank as helpless even as was the gasping victim stretched out there before me. " I looked again ; the gasping was over; the face was ghastlier than ever; all con sciousness was gone, and so 1 felt sure life was extinct. A desperate impulse seized me. I reached for the bell cord and pulled it violently again and again, but no answer came ; it snapped in my hands. Then I jerked the door open and called loudly below for help. Two ser vants answered then. One hurried for a doctor, the other with a resolution and a presence of mind that I had been unable to command tore off the shirt collar and bated the breast. How I sought with that woman there for some sign, some slightest scrap of evidence that Hie was not gone; but it seemed a hopeless task till the doctor came. The Commodore then was taken to a bed and at the doctor's suErcrestion I went to a room down stairs to await news of what the real condition was. I sat in the dark room below pur sued by devils in vision after vision for an hour or more. Then the doctor came. In my excited state I could scarcely wait for hjm to articulate one word after another, and in my impatience I broke in : "'Is he alive? Will he recover? Tell me, tell me quick !' " ' Mr. Vanderbilt is out of present dan eer.' said the doctor, his calmness in stranpe contrast with my wild worriment "' But, he continued, 'of course no more business can tie talked to-night. The Com modore has lately become subject to at tacks such as you have witnessed to-night, and he will rate it as a great personal favor if you will please try to forget what you have seen, and let nobody el6e know of it " What a load those words lifted from me. I hurried into the street scarcely knowing or caring where I might go. It was ecstasy, the feeling that was upon me then. Only a man who has been rescued from direst danger can understand the sen sations of the moments that followed Then came reaction; a fever attacked me. and weak, exhausted, over excited, and overstrained in every nerve, I came close to serious sickness. The horrors of that one nicrht surpass all the unwholesome ex periences that I ever endured. I would not eo through it again for any treasure that could be offered. It was a hideous night, hideous beyond all hint or descrip tion." In Lane's Creek township, on the 14th mst., after a lingering illness, Mr. Steven H. Parker passed away, aged 78 years. In the death of Mr. Parker the county loses one of its oldest and best citizens, and the Baptist church one of, its most exemplary members. No man, we suppose, ever lived of whom it could more truthfully be said "he feared God and loved his fellow men." -Monroe Enquirer. WASHINGTON NOTES. What la Dolnc In and ont of Congress. -.Tin': promptness' with j which tlut bill granting n pension of $5,000 a year to the widow of Gen. Grant has passed both houM-s of Congress with an entire absence of debate and a practically unanimous vote makes tli- act conspicuously graceful, j The only negative vote came from a Re-i publican member of the house from Wis con sin. A etc Xerle World. It is said that Mr.' RosetU-, postmaster at De Kalb, Illinois, will not 1m; confirmed by the Senate for the reason that he pub lishes a Democratic "organ." Uudsr the Civil Service Reform principles of the present Administration that is cause enough for rejection, even in the case of a small country postmaster. The editor of an Administration " organ " is certainly an "offensive partisan" from the Civil Service standpoint. New York World. It is understood in Washington that Speaker Carlisle will so frame the Com mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, to which silver bills are referred, as to give the preponderance on it to those who favor the repeal of the Bland act. The Speaker, those who enjoy his confidence say, thinks it his duty as a democrat to so frame all the committees of the House that they shall give favorable and not unfav orable consideration to the recommenda tions made in the Message. New York Herald. Now that the change of rules which di vides the money bills and half a dozen committees makes room for all sorts of ex travagance, it is reported that Mr. Randall proposes to bring forward an amendment to the Constitution giving the President power to veto separate items in appropri ation bills while approving of the remain der. There could be no more effective means provided for checking extravagant appropriations, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Randall has the intention which is credited to him, and that he will use all the influence and skill that experience has given him to carry such an amendment through. JSew xork limes. Mr. Randall suffered a crushing defeat in the House on Friday. The distribution of the appropriation bills, against which he had fought with all the energy he could command, exhausting every resource of argument, persuasion and political associ ation, was carried by a vote of more than three to one. There is no doubt that the infliction of this rebuke upon Mr. Randall was the chief object of most of the Demo crats who voted for the new rules. It was very effectially accomplished, but as we think, at a cost quite out of propor tion to the gain. The Republicans who joined in the movement are mostly of the high tariff stripe, and the calmness with which they aided in slaying the cham pion Democratic protectionist is only to be explained by their confidence that they were securing themselves much more strongly against any tariff reduction this year. When Mr. Reed and Mr. Morrison lie down together it is only Mr. Reed who remains visible from the outside. New York Times. The House and Senate on Monday ad journed till Tuesday, January 5, 1886, but not berore both bodies had been well del uged with bills and resolutions. In the House 1,004 bills were introduced, though the call of States for bills had proceeded only so far as to the fourteenth of the thirty-eight Mates. in the benate the most notable event perhaps was the attack made by Senator Beck, of Kentucky, on the silver policy of the Administration. His chief complaiut is that the Secretary of the Treasury, with the President's ap proval, has continued to pay the interest on United States bonds in gold, instead of complying with the law requiring the pay ment of interest in such coin, including silver, as may have been received in the payment of duties on imported goods. The effect has been, he says, to discrimi nate against silver in the interest of mono metalism. Among matters whioli,kill give rise to no little criticism is the movement both Houses to introduce absurd bills to pension everybody that took part, even for a few days, in the war of 1861-65. Baltimore Sun. A quiet smile ran around the Senate Chamber Friday when Senator Wade Hampton gravely introduced the funniest bit! so far offered in the Senate. The bill was headed by a couple of preambles, in which it was stated that additional legisla tion was - necessary to carry out the pur poses of the present civil service law, and that the soliciting of appointments by Senators or Representatives was contrary to the spirit of the law, and seriously in terfered wittrthe performance of their leg islative duties. Accordingly, the bill at tached makes it unlawful for any Senator or Representative to recommend or solicit, directly or indirectly, the appointment of any person to office under the government of the United States. Such an offence, Mr. Hampton defines as a misdemeanor, aud be proposes Jo have it punished by a fine of not more than $ 1,000 nor less than $500. In case of conviction for the offence. one half of the fine is to go to the person or persons on whose testimony conviction is had, and tne government is to get tne other half. Whenever the appointing power asks for information concerning a possible appointee, the request must be in writing, and suca answer as tne senator or Representative may make must also be in writing, over his own signature, and must be filed in the department or bureau whance the request comes. New York Times' Letter. The Senate last week passed Mr. Hoar's Presidential Succession bill, the points of which have been printed in the Register. The bill passed without a division. The only vote that was taken was on the Ed tnunds amendment intended to secure the retention of the present law for special elections when both the President s and Vice-President's offices shall be vacant. This was defeated by a strong vote. The bill goes to the house where it will come up after the holidays, with several other bills on the same subject. Mr ttanaan has one which provides that tne .rresiaenuai Electors shall hold their offices for the term of four years; second, that whenever, in case of the removal, death, or resigna tion of the President, the Vice-President shall have become President of the United States, the Electors shall meet in their re spective States and elect another Vice- President, in the same manner, in case oi the removal, resignation, death, or disabil ity of the President and V ice-President, the Electors shall elect another resident and another Vice-President. It is also provided that in the event of the death, removal, or disability both of the Presi dent and Vice-President, and in case no Vice-President shall have been elected, the Secretary of State shall act as President until an election can be held and consummated, and if there be no Secretary of State, then the office is to revert to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Attor ney-General, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Post master-General in the order named, who shall act as President until an election can be had, as provided in the bill; provided that no one of those officers shall be com petent to act as President who would not be eligible to the Presidency of the United States as provided by the Constitution. ITEHS OF GENERAL NEWK Foreign and Domestic. The Atlanta Prohibition case has gone into the United States Courts, and will be heard on January 6. Vermont's Governors are long-lived. Ryland Fletcher, aged 86, died .on Sun day; He was governor 80 years ago. ! Ex-jGrovernor Hiland Hall of Vermont, a well-known public man before the -war, died on Saturday at the great age of 90 The State Penitentiary Board of Texas has purchased a plantation of 2.800 acres of cotton and , sugar l uids in Fort B'-nd county to be worked by convict labor. The State now owns fiv such plantations. Convict Itibor is, also bired out to rich planters and railroads. , At 3 o'clock, Saturday morning, fl-.e jail at Rockingham was surrounded by fifty masked men, who forced an entrance, and secured a white man, named John Lee, who three weeks ago murdered Solomon Welsh. They carried Lee out of town, and hung him to the limb of a tree, Lee murdered Welsh for money. The French President GrCvy's term of office expires on January 30. In conform ity to a constitutional provision, his sue- i cessor will be chosen by the Senate and Chamber of Deputies convoked in joint meeting next Monday. Although it is very doubtful whether he can live throogh an other term, the present Chief Magistrate of the French republic is likely to be re electedt simply because there is no other acceptable candidate. Gen. Robert Toombs died at Washing ton, Ga., on the 15th inst., after an illness of three months paralysis. A full and inter esting sketch of )i is life was printed in the Register some weeks ago. He was bu ried on Thursday. General Toombs leaves an estate worth half-a-million, the result of judicious investments of a law practice of great profit. He was of wonderful intellect, but an incomplete man. If he and Mr. Stephens could have been rolled into one, the result might have been the greatest man of the ages. The San Francisco police have discov ered a socialist plot to assassinate twenty men of that city for the sole apparent rea son that they are rich or prominent. When the quarters of the plotters of assassination were entered, it is further related, " a com plete laboratory for the manufacture of infernal machines" was discovered, and four men, who boasted of their purpose to kill the proscribed individuals, . were ar rested and taken to the city prison. Among the intended victims named are such men as Gov. Stoneman, United States Judge Sawyer, Congessman Morrow, Mayor Bartlett, and Leland Stanford. Three men and two women were bap tized in the Naugatuck river, at New Haven, Conn., on Sunday. The thermo meter stood at 7, and the converts went down into the water through the ice. At least one thousand persons were present to witness the unusual sight. Hymns were sung as the convicts emerged from the water, with the frost rapidly stiffening their dripping garments. As fast as they came from the water they were put into vehicles and taken to a place where dry and warm clothing could be provided. They seemed to suffer but little from the ordeal- By the completion last month of the rail road from Cape Town to the South African diamond mines at Kimberley, steam cars have supplanted the tiresome stages aud the great ox wagons of the Dutch and British traders for about 700 miles along the di rect route toward the Zambesi. The advent of the locomotive into the very region where Moffatt and Livingstone lived among benighted savages is not only an evidence of the substantial progress of South Africa, but also illustrates the im pulse that is now moving civilized nations to penetrate new fields of commerce with railroads. From all corners of the world we are hearing of railroads projected, surveyed, or in course of building. In Venezuela, for instance, eight or nine different lines of greater or less extent are under contract, surveys are in progress, grading and track laying are considerably advanced on two lines, and are soon to commence on others. Portugal has granted a concession for a railroad from Delagoa Bay in East Africa to the Transvaal border to connect with the Transvaal railroad which it is reported will be built by German capital. The more progressive among the.- Boers say they must have railroad connection with the sea. To its railroads is largely due the fact that South Africa now stands tenth on the list of the chief foreign nations dealing with England. It is in the Oriental world, however, that new railroad schemes are most rapidly advancing. The Atlanta Prohibition injunction has been dissolved by the judge who grant; d it temporarily, restraining the ordinary from announcing the result of the election, which was for prohibition. The Judge refused to continue this injunction, decid ing the case against the liquor men on every point. There is in the bill adopted a provision that Georgia wines may be sold, but as wine from other States was excluded, that portion of the bill, Judge McCay decides, was unconstitutional, and no wines eould be sold. But he sustains the rest of the statute. The effect of the decision obviously is to make the law more stringently prohibitory than was intended by the Legislature when it was enacted or by the people when it was voted on. The growing tendency in both Federal and State courts of late has been to set aside entirely a law found to be unconstitutional in part. The feature of the Georgia law which Judge McCay holds unconstitu tional essentially affects the whole law. The part of the statute which he upholds is not the law that the Legislature passed nor the law that the people voted on. It may be that neither the Legislature nor the people at the polls would have con sented to a law prohibiting the sale of native wines. It may be that they con sented to this law only because of the ex ception in favor of home products. THE FOREIGN WARS. Peace to Iast for Ten Years. New York Times London Cable. The Eastern question is about where it was the past week. There is perhaps a little more evidence of friction between Russian and Austrian ambitions, but no thing to alter the belief that they will set tle the thing to suit themselves. The set tlement will naturally be a temporary one. A rupture is possible in any one of a hun dred ways any time, but confidence is gen eral that the settlement will last a decade. Humanity will be served by a speedy arrangement so long as it must come, for while the differences continue to exist and the little pawns, Bulgaria and servia, are kept in the field by the inability of the gamesters to agree, typhus and smallpox are raffine in both camps, an average of 30 soldiers are frozen to death daily, and the Servians are punishing self-mutilation by death, but with small results. The latest information is that the present Soudan danger has been greatly exaggera ted. The hostile tribes are simply a band of predatory adventurers, representing the Aianoi s taste ior piunuer, out not ins or. gamzation or power. BUSINESS NOTES. Raleigh received 1,048 bales of cotton last week, against 1,536 last year. The season receipts are 19,581 bales, a falling off of 7,111 bales. The receipts of. cotton at Wilmington last week were 4,830 bales, again t 3,593 bales for the corresponding period of 1884, an increase of 1,037 bales. The receipts of the crop year foot up 74,372 bales, against 79,110 in 1884, a decrease this year of 4,738 bales. The weekly statement of the New York Associated Banks shows the following changes: Loans decrease $1,152,500; spe cie decrease $1,291,400; legal tenders do crease $764,100; deposits decrease $619, 800: circulation decrease $768,000 ; ' re- serve decrease $1,810,550. . The banks now hold $27,643,888 in excess of the 25 per cent. rule. CRAT BRITAIN'S FUTURK Irish Home Rahi an Entering "Widgfe.1 .... ' 7- i . f New York Times London Cable. ' A curious and rather unexpected feature of the situation is the hearty acceptance which the bulk of the Liberal papers in Scotland give to the home rule programme ascribed to Mr. Gladstone. There are some exceptions to be sure, but the rule has.been expected to be the other way. Almost every one too, speaks of the con cession of a Dublin Parliament as a step in the direction of . British federation, under which Scotland, too. would have a Parlia ment of her own. There has been no par ticular desire for this among the Scotch heretofore, but it is evident that this grant of autonomy to Ireland would awaken a strong sentiment there which the Liberals will generally welcome and foster. In fact, the people begin to see the gigantic proportions which the change involvcs.and they discover that what is called the Irish question really raises the subject of a grand remodeling of the whole British governing machinery. Very soon we are likely to see parties throughout the kingdoms rear ranged with this question the dividing line. ODDS AND ENDS Picked up all About In Spots. A gentleman of this city who was1 'short" on a certain railroad stock was yesterday advised by his broker in New York to close his deal, as the appointment of an honest receiver for the road would advance quo tations five points and make him a loser instead of a gainer. He replied by tele graph: "I'm betting that the receiver to be appointed will not be an honest man. Sell a hundred more shares for me." St. Louis Democrat. Esquire Proffit served as a member of Company D, Eighteenth North Carolina Regiment, during the war. On the morn ing of the second day's fight at the Wilder ness he received a severe wound, a minie ball striking him near the temple and rang ing around over his eyes and passing out, as he thought. On the 2d of November last he was oppressed with a very painful headache, and in the evening, after sneez ing once or twice, a half of a minie ball dropped out of his nose. Lenoir Topic. Toombs and the Philanthropist. Southern Bivouac, j After Toombs's famous Boston speech a philanthropist came up to him as he stood in the centre of a group at his hotel and said : " Sir, I have come to ask you a ques tion, and you impress me as a man who will tell the truth, even if it bears against him." " I will try," said Mr. Toombs, with great meekness. "I am told, sir," said the man, "that Mown in Georgia you actually work poor negroes to me piougn, instead oi muies or horses. Is that true, sir?" Mr. Toombs looked like a man hit hard, but asked: "Do you know the cost of a negro man, sir?." "Oh, yes," was he reply. "From$l, 000 up to $1,500, for human flesh, sir. Man's horrid trade in man 1 " Said Mr. Toombs: "Will $900 do for an average? '" 1 ' Yes, sirJ'T said thd man : " I think we may say that."' ' " Do you know the cost of a common mule or horse?" said Mr. Toombs. " Yes, sir; the average of unimproved 6tock may be $100. You neglect your brutes, sir." " Granted," said Mr. Toombs. "Now how many negro men do you think it takes to pull a two-horse plough in clay soil like ours?" . ; " I have not thought of that, sir, but ahem we will say ten." "Then," said Mr. Toombs, in that ten der, pathetic tone which would have made him perfect as a revivalist exhorter, "then we have a mule team At $200 and a negro team that cost $9,000; and what do you think of the economy of it yourself?" The talk ended, and only one man fail ed to smile. Mr, Warner, of Ohio, threatens to intro duce in the House immediately after the holidays a bill which practically means the payment of the entire national debt in large while silver dollars. New York World. RALEIGH MARKETS. Official Report of the Cotton market. Reported by the Cotton Exchange. Raleigh, December 22, 1885. Good middling Strict middling 8 Middling .....8 8trictlow middling $ Low middling Market quiet. City JIarket Wholesale Prices. OORKBCTBD WEXKXT BT El. J. TT ABDI1T GROCER. Raleigh, December 22, 1885. Apples, per bushel 5075 Bacon hams 11(316 Bulk Meats clear rib sides 5 Butter North Carolina 2025 Beeswax 20 Com 67K Corn Meal 6062K Coffee Rio. 9uU Cheese 1012 Chickens , 1520 Egrgs, per dozen 22 Flour North Carolina 5 00 Lard pure refined- in tierces Lard "off grades," in buckets and tubs 7Ji7 Molasses Cuba 803S Oats shelled 45 Rags IXmH Sugar eranulated 7J8 Sugar Standard A 77 Sugar yellow 57 Syrup 2830 Salt Liverpool fine.... 1 50 WILMINGTON MARKET. i no r Wilmington Star, 83d inst.J SPIRITS TURPENTINE The market wa quoted Arm at 34 cents per gallon. Sales of 125 casks at these figures. ROSIN The market was quoted quiet at 80 cents per btl. for Strained, and 85 ceuts for Good Strained, . i. . j i TAR Tha market Iras quoted firtn; at 'f l.OO per bbt of i 260 lbs. with tales of receipt at these lirures M i ' s i t c ' - CRUDE TURPENTINE Market steady, at $1.50 for Virgin and Yellow Dip and $1 for Hard. f r 1 : . .' COTTON Market quoted firm. Sales re ported of 50 bales at 8 13-16 cents per lb., and 25 bales at 8 cents for Middling. The follow ing were ttas official quotations 1 1 , , , Ordinary Good Ordinary .. t 7 9-16 Low middling 8 6-1 Middling w ...... . . . i . . . . .813-16. Good middling 9 3-16 RICE. Market steady and unchanged. We quote r Rodgh : Upland 801.00 ; Tide water 1.00(31.15. Cucam Common 4H0t Wa. cents ; Fair 4?(5V cents' Good SV5W cents r Prime 569f cents Choice- (g6 cents per pound. TIMBER. Market steady, with sales as fol lows i Prime and; Extra Shipping, first-class heart, f9.00tlO.OQ per M. feet ; Extra Mill, good heart, 6.50(g$8.00 ; MiU Prime, 6.00 $6.50; Good Common Mill 4.005.00; Inferior to Ordinary, 3.00S4.00. , PEANUTS Market steady at 31 cents for Prime, 35 cents for Extra Prime, and 3940 cents for Fancy, per bushel of 23 lbs.- s NEW VOBK COTTON MARKET. Niw York. December 22. 3885.' Middling. 9 5-16 Low middling 8 Fitures dull: December 9.28; January 9.30. CHICAGO MEAT KABKST. 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