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.' ;" f 1:3 Tri-Vc :!:ly Constitution, ' I f ; rtti .-, micriYtPTM 'TOT thirty The Tri-Weeklv Constitution. Is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. rii :r-r nr :i fire cents per month or one dollar for "jree i ! - out the cash accompany inline oraer. be All It n i a n " - 7 - - adJre'sM to V. 11. Urown, Raleieh, N. ipft with Mpsrft. b. KTC5 OK ADVKBTISiya 1 sqn.-renitf week, i 'A coiuiu uue month, 5 Oo three " u 04 Job work done with neatness and dis n. Vcxlc i I. J. W. Cole, N. L. Brown or W. 1 I Mellaril oa. - - - -OiAce on 2erbern Avenue, some seven OUR S T-A.TE -O OISTI TUT N" -A. S X TV I S. Thk Voick. of thk Peof. k. Joziic lw I at l authorized to receive and make en n tracts for Advertisements and re Vol.1. IULEIGH,N. aySATURB patch. Work solicited. ceive eul jcrtptions lor this paper. I t 3 11 H S N li- J nil riM I 1 ' I III mllllll i VX TheTri-Veekly Constitution, "JOHN It. HAY, News Editor. No dost.' A delightful rain. Hurrah for McDonald I Governor Hayes is the man. And Wheeler, of New York. The winning ticket In November. . . The TT.S. Circuit Court adjourns : to-day. -" - "All right, doctor," is only a week old. . Now: transplant - cabbages and sweet potatoes..- Blackberries are riening.and the a verage loafer Is happy. Kinton, who recently escaped from our jail, is still at large. An excursion train will run from Greensboro to this city on the 4th of July. The late Sultan Abdul Aziz, can only be remembered now as Ab-dul-cw-traz. Lot's play pedro," said one of the boys the other evening. "Dom Pedro I" snapped his morose com panion. "Paid, if the dam thing sticks," Is what the fellow said when he stamped the letter. We'll stick if the darn thing pays. Tho Baptists of this city have re cently completed a new church edi fice jn. Rhainkatto. hldiwIUJte dedicated tomorrow. When a-local reporter goes forth with fire in his eye, several sections of stove pipe over his legs and a blunderbuss on his shoulder, look for a b'u item in the next issue. They pin 'em back now just as tight as ever, and it is said that a new invention has been placed upon themarket to increase their beau ty. Wo haven't seen the latest. " Whero could such a roomer have gained currency ?" remakeda land lady the ot her evening, as she heard hti impecunious Itoarderjingling two new issue half dimes in his pocket. The Democratic delegates have como and gone, and tho average grog seller has made a deposit in hank and resumed li is accustomed position on he head of a rum-barrel. Morgan street school house is still open, and being terribly abused. Times are too hard, and the school fund toj low, to allow the public school property to ' be thus de stroyed. The l ull frogs are suffering out at Beaver Dam. A party of the boys recently captured sixty-four of these melodious-voiced bass singers in two days. They, say they are contracting the green-back currency. Some of the boys have returned from college, and are strutting around our streets with society badge pins on their shirt fronts, which would knock the ancient breast-plate of Aaron into the shade of insignificance. A full attendance of the manufac turers, dealers and all persons hand ling tobacco is urgently requested on the 20th' of June, in this city. This convention will be a very im portant one. Let everybody inter ested attend. See call in another column. Charlotte is not represented t raD(J e f thePKrdgnte of Pythias, in session in WiimingtoSf We acknowledge the receipt and return thanks for a copy of the cor respondence on the subject of extri dition between the government of the United States and Great Britain, which was brought about by the rs cent difficulty in the Winslovv case, nnrl ereatetl so much interest a short while ago. ; ' An anti-Chineso plank is spoken of in the platform to be "adopted at tho Cincinnati Convention. Let this be passed, and let ' our State Convention condemn t he j?m ploy: ment of convict labor on public works, and every sensible working- man in the nation will rally to the support of the Bepublican party In November. Knights of" Ptiit s. The Grand Lodge, K. of P., on Thurs- day,in)session at Wilmington, elect ed the following errand officers for the ensuing year.- ; G. C A. L. Blow, oi'Greenville. V. G. C E. A. Ebert, of Salem. G. K. of R. & S. E." G. Harrell, of Raleigh. G. M. of Jb . Geo. Zeigler, of Ral eigh. . Supreme Representative for two years w. 1. lierKen, ot Wilming ton. An Impostor. We find the following card in the Charlotte Ob server, and publish it that our peo-. pie may look out for the fellow if he comes down this way : A colored man who Signs himself C. C. Taylor, D.D., has been living in this city for the past two morith3. lie pretends to he a Mason and a preacher of the Gospel. He is on arrant impostor, being1 neither a Mason nor a preacher. Jle is said to hail from New York. The pub ic are warned against him. JOHN T. SCHENCK. We return thanks to Mr. J. C. Jenkins for an invitation to be pres ent at the commencement exercises at Princeton College, which takes place on the 23d inst.; and also to Mr. Chas. N. Otey, of the Law De partment of Howard University, Washington, D. C, on June 9th. We regret our inability to be pres ent on either occasion. If our entire assets were converted into railroad tickets, we wouldn't dare attempt to ride ten rods on tho "cow-catch er" of the locomotive. and it's too late now to walk over. A Dangerous Piiactice. We earn that a few nights ago, Mary Alston, living near the railroad on Fayetteville street, came near losing her life by a pistol shot, fired from the railroad by a young man who was with a crowd of boys on a lark, and "just shooting for fua." The bullet entered the win dow, passing through the room in which the woman was standing, and lodged itself in the wall be yond. This is a dangerous practice, and these reckless bovs should be looked after by the police. For the Constitution. A CAMPAIGN SOXG. BY TIM3THY TARBUHKET. Come patriots all, both blues and grays, From streets and lanes and country ways, With garlands of the greenest bays. And crown our chieftain, R. B. Hayes ! When Freedom saw her darkest days. Who in the battle's frqnt did raise A braver arm, or win more praise For knightly service than our Ilayes! And when sweet Peace, with gentle rays, Dispelled the gloom ot war's dark days, Ana brothers ceased their bloody frays, Who better ruled than K. 15. liayes ! 'Tis nothing new for him to place A black eye in a bully's face. See Pendleton and Tuurnian's case, And Old Bull Allen, thrashed by Hayes! Then flaunt it in the Nation's gaze, The flag that floats o'er blues and grays, And with the breath of victory plays The banner of our Buckeye Hayes"! Some one shot and killed a fine horse recently belonging to Mr. J. G. Wagner, of New Hanover coun ty. . : ; . Supreme Court l ' , - m , Court met at ,9 o'clock, Thursday morning, all the Justices present. Causes from the 5th district were called and disposed of as follows : John D Wil'laras et al, vs John T Council et ali from Moore. Terms of compromise 4i,ed and judgment aeeordinjriy. : . Earle Ilampauy vs R W Hardie, sheriff from Cumberland. Con- tin ued. r, v - ' : B A John B Green vs George J ureen, tro.m. Lrjion ; (2 cases.) Con tinued. - . V i -;-?:? - J W Ln u ra li n $ c t ;al, vs Alex CMas&H : f ro t n f2esG& 1 thn dV: Pu t a t end of district. - :' - James IvyJ.o vs town of Fayette ville, J W Mairett and L C Line berry, from Cumberland. A dversari at last term. Papers; handed up to Court. P C Bowman, assignee, vs C E Turner, adm'r, et al, from Harnett. Continued. ;. Grizzella A Sfdrphy vs N W Ray et at, from Cumberland. Argued. Aaron Clattm & Co, vs D J Un derwood, from Cumberland. Ar- Martin : Home vs Mary Jii Home, from Anson. Argued. J J Hasty and wife vs Robert Si m pson , from Union . Dim i n u tion of record suggested and cause con tinued. . rr&j SUite vs Cimeron Watson, from Anson. Argued. T E Ashcraft et al, vs T N.Lee et al, from Union. Argued. Erwio Meillia .vs Wm C Steele, from Union. -Argued. Adjourned. Address of the Late Hon. Jo. W. HoLDisN, Delivered at the Press -Banquet in 1874. At the fequest of several of Mr. Holden's intimate friendi in whose i earls his memory will ever be resh, we re-publish the following beautiful address delivered by him while Mayor of our city, in response at the banquet given to members of the Press by the Raleigh Board of Trade, on May 23d, 1874 : . Mr. President and Gentlemen as sembled : So much ; has been said, and so many thing things have been presented to the enjoyment of our honored guests since their arri val in this city ; they have been sj war uly welcomed and so hospita bly entertained ; they have heard the story of our growing wealth and vigorous enterprises so much better told - by more eloquent lips than my own, that nothing on" these matters has been left for me to say ; and yet, as at thi. moment I must speak, and as my .thoughts have held a different flight, therefore, per force, I'll speaxpf that which strug gling hardest foran utterance, comes readiest iii answer to the sentiment which your President has just so pleasantly enunciated. The name oi tnecity oi H-aleign, gentlemen, awakens a train of far reaching associations; It summons from the placid deeps of the past the memory of a grand and gallant hero, the towering shade and cen tral figure of England's, golden Elizabethian age ; it evokes, in quiet majesty, the form of Sir Walter Raleigh, the statesman and soldier, the sailor and courtier, the poet and philosopher, the chemist and historian,and the martyr,in the cause of human . freedom. On him it was once said, the old world gazed as a strtrt whiLe from the new, where chrystal cliffs of Mt. Raleigh, amid the solitudes of arctic Seas, shimmer beneath the aurora's rays, the reflection of his fame flashed back ! flashed over old ocean's wrinkled wastes three cen turies ago, when the keels of his in trepid fleet first cleft the inland waters of the hemisphere which we now inhabit. Here, too, on the soil of North Carolina, he built a monument of enduring fame, for here he planted the new home of the Anglo-Saxon race; and here, among the vines and flowers of our Eastern shore, where the breath of Spring is filled as of old with the perfume of blos soms and tho . cool forests are still made harmonious . with the carols of innumerable birds, in a land whose loveines3 fires the imagina tion and enchants the heart, he laid the foundation of a colony, destined by lofty fate to imperishable re nown, and gave to it, the island city of his hopes, in those distant years, the glorious name which has been so often uttered here to-night, the name of the city of Raleigh. Let us then for a moment, as we gather about the festive board, roll back the chilling: tide of the fast- flowing decades, and listen amid the rising notes of triumph over toils forgotten and sufferings ended, o the wierd story of the fate of our scarce-remembered mother city. It was a lonely settlement on a wild and stormy coast, the sole inhabita tion of civilized man from the cir cle of the Hesperides to the Pole. One hundred and fifty persons made up its devoted band of pio neers, who had faced the terrors of ocean, the invisible levers of the land, the starvation of the wilder- nfi&ianUiheimpLacable. malice of treacherous ioes : and wno, nnaiiy. faced an unknown and mysterious doom, whence no record has been rescued from the tombs of eternity. By the spell of this story the words of the historian have ever thrilled into tender and mournful harmony, for into the midst of that unhappy city there came one, whose name has grown into a house hold word a babe, the first, sweet, lily infant of our English mother, born on American soil, a heavenly gift, a merciful memory from the skies ! Virginia Dare, the first born citizen of the first City of Ral eigh, the first free born citizen of a land consecrated to ireeuom forovermore. ; And, therefore, may wo not now, with this memory in our hearts, indulge our fancy with a dream, as all have sometimes dreamed, that if there be a tutelar divinity which guards the grove, the fountain, and the hill, that surelyl from the balmy arc of this May even- mg, somewnero among me snau ows of yon floating, fleecy clouds, clothed in the thin radiance of the stars, the spirit of Virginia Dare looks down to watch o'er our second city of Sir Walter Raleigh, wmcms aioue,siuu iier tfuuaiouuu to ethereal realms, the true daugh ter of the island city that was bless ed, three hundred years ago, with the brightness of ner natal morn ing 1 Aye, it is well thus to dream, and to believe, and to consent, in varinnpf with the callous scenticsm of the hour, to the presence of so pure, so gentle, so angelic an ideal at our least; i v lrginia -uare i v ngi" child of a virgin land ! May thy spirit watch o'er our thresholds and guard our hearth stones with unfal tering love! And yet, forever, metninKs, be side her form there stands another shade, dissimilar but - insep arable, rising from the placid deeps of the past in - serene and tranquil majesty. It is the martyr and the babe, the statesman and the child, the" poet and the angel of his song. It is the oak and the vine the .English oaK and me Caiollna vine the vine, whose trailing - tendrils wander among the branches of our City of Oaks ! It is more. ' It is the Virgin and the hero! ,Oh, then let this be our prayer, that the fame of the spot less purity of Virginia Dare may re main a memento to me unsuiiieu sweetness of the maidens of the City of Raleigh, and that the mem ory of Sir Walter's virtues and his achivements may stir the hearts of our young men, as with a bugle blast, to emulate the deeds of him whose name is perpetuated by the City of their nativity ! North Carolina Items. The dog killers of Charlotte are not doing their duly. A new Baptist church was ded icated in Greensboro on the 4th. The business men of Ashboro are spending thejsummer playing drafts. The Methodist Sunday-school of Greensboro will excurt to Winston on the 27th. A Stanly county rattle-snake, recently killed, had twelve - rattles and a button. - - The editor of . the G reensboro Patriot ha3 in his possession a walk ing cane over a hundred years old. Maj. Haigh will take seventy five men of the Fayetteville In dependent Light Infantry to Phil adelphia as a part of the Centen nial legion. , ; ; The wives of the colored Odd Fellows of Charlotte, propose to have an excursion to Indian Springs, five miles from Lincolnton, on Tuesday next, the 20th inst. The dwelling of Gillis Sanders, in Bentonsville township, Johnston d fvit.ro ved bv fire on Wednesday of last week, and his corn-crib the Thursday following. Nothing was saved. At least one North Carolinian has shaken hands with Dom Pedro; thU was. Mrs Letitia H. Walker. Vice Resrent for North Carolina of the Mount Vernon As sociaton. Charlotte Observer. The Norfolk. Virsrinia. cotton exchange reports on the condition crop that fifty-nine re i) lias received irom mirty-iwo counties In .North Carolina and Vinrinia show in seventeen counties the samo acre age as last year : in four, ten ner cent; increase ; in eleven fifteen per cent, decrease. The bodv of Alex. JpnninoNr whn was recently drowned near Ash- bo ro. wa not found until aiv rlnvQ auer me urowniug. xne body was i t . : .r. . . f so uecom posed, and one side of pis head so badlv crushed, that recog nition would have been impossible, but for the surrounding circunr- stances, and his clothing. Prof. Doub has boon nrfpn tnd by Dr. Nobles, of Edoreeombe coun ty, with a niece of meteoric stonn weighing some eighteen pounds. It is oxceedinerlv hard: the color of slate, and bears a greater resem - bianco to flint than any other rock we know of. It seems to be a com bination of cobalt n.nd iron Greensboro Patriot. News tiwmmary. The crop prospects in Georeria. never were better. The mouth of tho Mississinni is dammed ty mud and shin con tains. Dispatches of tho loth, sav that Winslow will bo immediatelv ro- leased.; ; W. H. Miller has hnnn nnmln.W.. ed by the Democrats for Governor ot Arkansas. Tho Texas people don't take much stock in Mexico, but tho greasers tako a good deal of stock in Texas. r Visitors to tho Centennial for twenty days : Paying admissions. 401,903 ; free, 321,148 ; total, 723,111. iteceipts $zuu,uug.ou. 1 A'd&tii i v Forepiutgh tho ci rewf) manager, is said to bo tho richest showman in America. His homo is in Philadelphia, and he is worth $1,000,000. A dispatch of the 15th says that General Belknap is already vir tually acquitted, as the Senate failed to assert jurisdiction by a two-thirds vote. A New York Judge has decided that no policeman has a right to force his way into a place of amuse ment where prices of admission am charged, without paying the admit tance, fee. It is reported that the intrinsic value of the chicken feathers thrown away every year in the United States is equal to the money we pay for cotton. The plume of the feathers,if separated from the stems, forms a down which, it is stated , sells in Paris for nearly $2 per lb. Lightning recently struck an oil well near Bradford, Pa., setting it on fire. The flames spread, de stroying a large iron tank contain ing twenty-one thousand barrels of oil, several small wooden tanks and five Erie tank-cars, all loaded ; also, burning several dwellings. A number of wells caught fire and were badly damaged; The oil tanks were the property of Mc Kean & Co. and the Pope Line Company. The estimated loss is $125,000. x . CONVENTION OF J jLturers and dealers in tobacco and peddlers, is called to meet at Kaleigh, on Tuesday, June 2(?th. ? Business of great importance will come before the meeting. A full at tendance is urgently desired. MANUFACTURERS. 32-tilljo20 PANIC PRICES AND SPECIE PAYMENT THE UNDERSIGNED RESPECT fully announces to his numerous friends, and to a generous public, that he has resumed specie payment, and is now selling tine Gold and silver Amer ican and Swiss Watches, Clocks, Spec tacles and Fine Jewelry at bottom prices for CASH. . Call on or send to him for Price List. Goods sent anywhere in the Stale by 'Mail or Express on receipt of price, or by Express C. O. D. 20" All kinds of Watch, Clock and Jewelry work done on short . notice at the old stand of J W. COLE, -Scmthstde of Market Square, c2-6m. KALEIGH, N. C.
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