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"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.