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VOL; 1.
RALEIGH, N. C.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1877;; 1
Observer Building, Faysttevllle Street, Raleigh
five cent per month; two dollars for three
months.
North Carolina.
vie vVv
!
judsjw Kerr
'Iwttmjr. - Deci
mtut.
Correspondence of the Charlotte Obaerrer.1
Mb. Editor : On my return from the
- M M S -m.
Western portion or. tnia guouaat otstnet, I TUESDAY..
I find in several papers, was very ousy
and saw but few papers whilst at court)
a report of the proceedings In the 'case of
the State vs. Lynch Yoang, at Polk court,
Judge Kerr presiding. I haTe simply to
say that the report as published Is in many
respects untrue, and in other respects
greatly exaggerated. Mr. Justice made a
motion before Judge Kerr, to order the
clerk to certify the record to the Federal
Court. I opposed the motion, upon the
ground that the certiorari bad been nled
' two terras previous, and a motion based
on the same certiorari had been made be
fore His- Honor Judge. Schenck, and
Judge S.' refused the motion, and no ap
peal from Judge Schenck'a ruling having
been prayed, or taken, the matter was ret
adjudi eaia, &c After argument Judge
.Kerr decided that I was right, and declined
Justice's motion. - I announced that the
' State was ready for trial, and an affidavit
was filed for a removal of the case to some
adioinine county, on account of - public
prejudice, and the case was removed to
Rutherford. The defendant;-young, gave
bail was not sent to jail. Judge Kerr
did not rescind his? decision and order the
clerk to certify the record, &C, ''.'.
Lynch Young would have bten tried
heretofore, but be always forfeited his re-
cognizance. .
- After the matter was decided. Judge
Keer did remark that he and Judge
Schenck agreed upon this question, and be
wished it distinctly understood that the
late decision of the 8upreme Court upon
the subject was nut. in his opinion, in ac
cordance with the law, and that if the
Supreme Court didn't hear it thunder, it
' would be because there was no moral elec
tricity in the people."
Judge Kerr has given great satisfaction
thus far.
Very respectfully, ,
W. J. MONTGOMEBT.
Concord, N. C, Oct. 5, 1877.- 4
Skobeleft. Skobeleff swam the Dan
ube on horseback to show it could be done,
and has had five horses shot under him
during this campaign. During one of his
reconnoissances near Plevna he came in view
of a delicious spring of water, apparently
inaccessible, however, because of the bail
of Turkish bullets that pattered round it.
The soldiers shrank back from facing al
most certain death, till Skobeleff dismount
ed leisurely, walked to the fountain, drank
freely of its waters and bathed his face and
hands. Stung by this implied taunt the
soldiers rushed forward to shield him ;
Skobeleff ordered them under arrest for
leaving their ranks and calmly walked
back.
A Mosstxk Devil-Fish. The steamer
Cortes, from St. John, Newfoundland,
will to-morrow arrive in this port, bringing
the largest sea monster ever captured. The
monster now coming was caught at Cata
lina, Newfoundland, last Monday.,. It was
driven upon the coast during a severe gale,
and while in an exhausted condition was
secured by two brothers named Keals,
taken to St. John, and thence shipped to
this city. By actual measurement it is 40
feet 6 inches between extremities, from
the point of one of its arms to the end of
its tail. The body is 10 feet long. A tank
will have to be built for its reception, and
200 gallons of alcohol will be needed to
preserve it from decay. New York Timet.
English Women Wkitxss. The liter
ary ladies of Great Britain appear to have
been astonishingly lone lived. Here is a
list of them with the ages at which they
died: Miss Jane Austen, 43; Mrs. Rad
cliffe, 59 ; Miss Mitford, 69 ; Mrs. Trim-
mer, 69; Miss Jane Porter, 74; Mrs.
Elizabeth Montagu, 80 ; Mrs. Piozzi 81 ;
Mrs. Barbauld, 82; Miss Fdaeworth, 83;
Mady Morgan, 82 ; Madame d'Arbaly, 88 ;
Miss Hannah More, 88; Mrs. Marcet, 89;
Mrs. Joanna Baillie. 89 : Miss Berry. 90;
Mrs. Somerville, 92; Miss Harriet Lee,
95; Miss Caroline Herscbel, 98; Lady
8mitb. 103.
.
Convicted or Robbing thx Mails.
In the Federal Court in session at Greens
boro at present. A. W Howerton, of Salis
bury, was convicted a day or two ago of
robbing the mails on the Western North
. Carolina Railroad. Howerton was not a
regular azent on the road, but bad been in
the habit of running occasionally as the
- substitute of one or the other of the regu
lar agents and it was while running in this
capacity that he perpetrated the robberies
for which be has just been tried and con
victed. The sentence of the court has not
yet been learned. Charlotte Obterver.
India Obsebvatios. It is related of
Two Bears, the Indian who visited Balti
more prison the other day, that he said to
the warden through an interpreter, "I
suppose you have people in here for all
kinds of crimes V "Oh, yes," answered
the warden, "from small larcenies up to
murder." "You have no1 people here for
robbing and swindling Indians, have you 1"
asked Two Bears, getting interested. "No,"
answered the warden. "No. nor in any
other prison,, as far as I can ascertain,"
remarked Two Bears with a good deal of
pertinency. ; I
Tnx Lxbsabt of CouGBisa. The 1 en
tire number of volumes is now about 315,
000i This Library is especially rich in pe
riodicals, nearly all the English and Ameri
can reviews and magazines being taken,
with many of the most valuable in foreign
languages. The files of newspapers alone
now exceed 5,000 volumes. The copy
riirht business of the Library, notwith
standing the depressed condition of the
book trade, shows more entries than last
year, about 11,000 copyrights having been
granted since the 1st of January, 1877.
Thb Wealth of Pbbtj's Siltkb Mens.
Panama, Sept 26. The Cerro de Pax
I mines in Peru are attracting general atten
i tion. The works are being pressed for-
ward with all possible dispatch. A Cos
! tinguished engineer has given bis opinion
- that . above the present water level of the
mines, there are 250,000.000 tons of metal
that will yield $20 per ton. He says the
, Cerro de Paxo will produce more silver
than all the mines in the world. . "
' Cossack Bbitivolbsc -"Quarter,
quarter I " shrieked an exhausted Turk,
falling upon his knees and holding up his
clasped hands beseechingly toward the
pursuing CbBsack. ' And the Cossack,
who was fighting in the cause of humani
ty and Christianity, felt the appeal and an
swered It. He quartered him. Burling.
: ton Haukeye. , r,:J ..
RALEIGH, IT. C.
..OCTOBBR IS, 18TT.
COLOR IN NEW. ORLEANS.
: Our colored friends and fellow-citizens
ia New Orleans do not seem to be con
tent with simple equality before the law,
not even when that equality with their
white "brethren is maintained at the cost of
white tax payers. , , Legal equality is ;not
enough ; nothing short of social equality
will satisfy their hungry souls. They are
not content to enjoy every right their
white brother enjoys, but they must ride
with him. and aleeo with him, and go to
school with him.
Remembering that toward the support
of the government that affords to them
every right it affords to the white race, the
white race pays nine dollars where the
black race pays one dollar, it would seem
our colored friends ought to be content.
Not so, however. They contend that the
negro and the white man shall pot only be
equal, but one and the same ; especially
do they demand sot merely that the negro
race shall have schools as good as the
white race, but they shall have the same
schools. They demand in a square, well
defined issue now pending, that negro
children shall go to the same schools that the
white children go to, and sit upon the
same benches that white children sit upon.
They demand not that the races shall be
equal, but that they shall become one. In
a word, they demand that what God has
put asunder, man shall join together.
This, however, is but the legitimate fruit
of Radicalism the very plan indeed advo
cated by Mr. BotrrwBii, late Senator from
Massachusetts, who openly in a speech
upon the floor of the United States Senate,
declared that the school room was the place
to begin the work of. welding the two
races into one homogeneous' community,
and 'to this end advocated remanding
sovereign Southern States back to a terri
torial condition in order that Federal au
thority might do that which never would
be done by State authority. The day of
remanding States back to a territorial con
dition has passed,-never, we -trust, to re
turn, and we have no fear that any South
ern State under any constitution will enter
upon the work of co-education, amalgama
tion and miscegenation of the two races in
accordance with the teachings of Radical
ism, as expounded by Mr. Bout well, and
so many other shining lights in his party;
but it is well enough to call the attention
of white people of the South' to the fact
that in spite of all the many difficulties
now in the way of the accomplishment
of so repulsive a design, the design is still
cherished and its accomplishment still
sought to be brought about.
What would be done if the Radical
party should once more gain the ascen
dancy it once bad in both State and Na
tional councils, ia easy to see. We hon
estly believe that nothing but the move
ment resulting in the control of the lower
House of Congress by the Democratic
party, and the election, of Mr. Tildes,
though not followed by his inauguration
has saved the Southern people from further
attempt to obliterate every distinction
of every sort between the white and black
races and the attempt by Federal com
pulsion to bring about a unification of
those races, , and for ourselves we hare
to say now and here that we are utterly
unwilling to trust any party that we be
lieve capable of so great crime or the Pres-
dent of any. such party, with power in
either our State or our Federal councils.
Whatever improvement has been made In
Radicalism or in Its exponents has come
about in our honest judgment not because
of any change of heart or because of any
modification .of principles or of theories,
but simply and solely because the power
for evil has been curtailed, and we believe
furthermore that if that party should ever
regain the absolute power and unbridled
license it once had, that it would speedily
return to its old practices as surely as the
sow will return to her wallowing or the
dog to its vomit. In its very best estate
Radicalism is but a wbited sepulchre, full
of dead men's bones .and all unclean ness.
Let us have none of it.
The facts of the case in this latest at
temnt to illustrate Radicalism are as we
learn from our exchanges about as f oOowsj
The city School Board of New Orleans
having decided to establish separate
schools for colored and white children,
a leading colored politician has brought
suit in the courts to test the legality of
the decision of the board and a temporary
injunction has been . granted by some
Judge restraining the School Board from
putting into execution their, plan to es
tablish such separate schools. ,The white
citizens of New Orleans pay about nine
tenths of the school tax, nevertheless
they offer to provide , educational , facili
ties to blacks and whites in separate
schools. This the blacks are unwilling
to accept, and by attempting to force their
children Into the public schools with the
whites have virtually broken up. the pub
11c school system la that city. Tha board
having determined to revise the system by
the establishment of sprtt schools, the
colored politicians, led by thVcastom bouse
ring, have resolved to resist thai separation
of the races In the schools. - Tbeyarejmls.
ing money, to fee attorneys and defray the
expenses of the suit, and are holding ToeeV
CONGRESS AND THE ARMY, j
There is not a dollar in the United Slates;
Treasury, and there has not been a dollar
there since the 80th day of last June, thai
under the laws and Constitution of tba
United States could be appropriated to tb
support of the Federal : army. The Cor,
stltution of the United States expressly
prohibits Congress in the plainest possiblfe
words from making any appropriation of
money for the support . of the army for .a
longer term than two years, and the term
of the last appropriation expired on the
80th of June. V
The object of this express prohibition
THE RESULT IN OHIO.
i. Much to our gratification and we frankly
confess somewhat to our surprise the De
mocracy of Ohio have gained an over
whelming triumph in their late election.
Last year the State went Radical .by
over seven' thousand majority, this year
it goes Democratic by over twenty thous
and majority. Last year the Legislature
was Radical in both branches; this year
the Legislature is Democratic in both
branches. ' Verily the rout of Radicalism
is entire and complete in the Buckeye
State. '"' " .." f'.:'
And Door Mr. Stax ley Matthbws.' The
was to enable the people to keep control f I places that now know him shall soon know
the army by regulating the appropriations
for its support. If too large an appropri
ation for armv purposes be granted by
Congress, the people who every two yeats
elect members of the lower House, bate
an opportunity piWplty to rebuke such
action by sending men there who kno w,
their constituents' wishes and will pay re
gard thereto. And so also if the anny main
tained with the people's money shall
applied to any improper or unlawful use,
the constitution gives the people the power
to rebuke such Improper and unlawful use,
by electing and sending representatives to
Congress who will withhold the necessary
appropriations until the Executive shall
be taught that he Is the servant and not
the master of the people. It was no ac
cidental thing that our forefathers forbade
Congress to pass an appropriation for the
support of the army that would last
more than two years.' It was their pur
pose, plain and undisguised, to make the
army dependent on the people. ; i
But of what avail is this limitation upon
the nower of Coneress. if the President
can maintain the army without an appro
priation? Of what avail is the limitation
if when the people . because, the army has
been used for illegal and' improper pur
poses refuse to contribute to its support,
the President can go on and keep up that
army by means and in ways unknown to
the laws of the land? The fact is Mr.
Hates ought to have called the new Con
greas together in special session the fo
ment the old one expired. He chose
rather to take upon himself the responsi
bility of running the army contrary to J the
known law an act for which be ought to
receive the gravest censure that Congress
can impose upon him. We are now en
gaged in the work of re-establishing, as far
as possible, the old landmarks set up by
our forefathers and we ought to see to it
that they are so set up as not to mark
the road for tyrants and usurpers toride
rough shod over the liberties of the peSpte.
We do not think the rebuke to presi
dential tyranny and executive usurpation
will be at all adequate, if the next army
appropriation bin shall contain nothing to
show the sense of Congress in regard to
the enormity of the outrage of Federal in
terference in the Southern States To
withhold the appropriation for a! feW
months, the President meanwhile support
ing the army, will not at all reach the case.
Our statute books ought to bear upon their
face a still further rebuke. The position
taken by the last House of Representa
tives is as true and as sound and as defen
sible now as it was then. The Ifouse
said then it would grant no money to
maintain an army, unless there was dso a
prohibition in the grant against thereof
that army to set p carpet-bag ' govern
ments in Southern States. It is true; that
the troops have been withdrawn from the
Southern States or rather tnai iney
"inter-
have been made to cease their
rerence In State affairs. But what of that!
Are we to trust our liberties In tbej keep
ing of any single man ? Abote all
are we to trust our liberties in the hands
of a man whose whole life time has: been
pent in enforcing the right of the federal
government to interfere with State affairs 1
Mr. Hates Is entirely too new a convert
to trust in so grave a crisis .in our , jaffsirs.
"Fast bind fast find,", is our -motto.
Let us tie up Mr. Hates' hands, and keep
thom tfori no. so that he can dolus o
harm. If we do this, possibly his imlable
mood and pleasant words may coptinue,
but If we do not, we are by no means pre
tn aa-r what the conseauehce will
r J i
be. We are not willing to trust Mr.
Hates or any other man, unless his hands
are well tied. A '
We hope therefore, with the Hulsboro
Recorder, that Southern (3ongressinen will
treat alt measures like the increase and
maintenance of the army aalf he past
Southern question was still arrayed against
them in all its formidable aspect remem
beririg that any ccnoessions now will
compel them in the! future to confront it
again, with the mortification of having
once more to contend for that wiich they
bad It .once in their power to control, , y
him no more. Either Mr. Pendlbtoh or
Gen. Ewnio'or some' other good Demo-'
crat will soon occupy the scat that until
Matthews' short lived Senatorial career
began had been so long occupied by Hon
est Joan Shebmah, the man who has man
aged to accumulate a fortune of some two
million of dollars . in twenty years on
salary averaging about six or seven thou
sand dollars a year. : ' " ''
Poor Mr. Matthews! His career was
a brief one. The Democratic Ohio Legis
lature will be sure to elect some good
Democrat in his place, and soon he will go
to join poor Mr. Sakgeht, of California,
who. like Mr. Matthews, has been justjeut
down in the flower of his senatorial youth.
Of course the Ohioans will be wild with
joy over their grani triumph,, but the ef
fect of their great victory will not be
confined to their own Slate alone. The
gain of another Democratic member
of' the United Slates Senate in that
State goes far to put at rest all speculations
as to the future complexion of that body.
It cannot be . long now ere In the United
States Senate, as well as in the House of
Representatives, there will be a Democrat
ic majority. Truly, the' future of the Dem
ocratic party is a brilliant one, full of hope
and of promise. We have already captured
the House of Representatives. Next we
will get the Senate It is almost ours now ;
and then the Presidency. -Every day
brings, us Dearer to the hour of final tri
umph.' - . ''
There are now in the United States
Senate thirty-nine Radicals, thirty-three
Democrats and one Independent, judge
Datis, making seventy-three in all.
There are three vacancies now, two from
Louisiana, and one from South 'Carolina,
which, when filled, will raise the number
of Senators to seventy-six, the highest
possible number, there being thirty-eight
States. The three vacancies will be filled
with' Democrats, giving us thirty-stx.
And Mr. Davis may almost be counted
with us, making thirty-seven. So much
for the present ' Congress. In the Sen
ate of the Congress after that, beginning
5th of March. 1879, the facts are settled.
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida,
South Carolina and Ohio will send Demo
cratic Senators in the place of Radical
ones, thus giving the Democrats a clear
majority of eight. This much is now in
sight, without counting the possibilities in
New York, Illinois and Indiana. AU we
have to do. then. Is to wait with time and
patience until the fruit that is now so nearly
ripe shall fall into our laps.
. But there is a special cause tor congra
tulation to us in North Carolina on the re
sult In Ohio, when we remember that one of
her sons. Hon. Jbssb. J. Yeates, has been
there devoting every energy to the good
cause. The Cincinnati Enqvirtr speaks
in the most complimentary manner of the
effect of bis speeches. And certainly the
victory is all the more grateful to us in
that a North Carolinian has contributed a
distinguished part to its accomplismient.
A telegram from Major Yeates will be
found in another column. We haver no
doubt be feels good at the result, and well
he may, and well may wo alL -
t 300
, . 450
i , 600
800.
1,000
Let us then put our own shoulders to
the wheel and shove with all our might
The fund is indeed a veiy large one,
but the extent to which t we, will be
profited by it depends on our own exer
tions. Can' we ask more f - t ! ' ?
The following are, the rules " for the dis
tribution of the Pk about Educational
Fund. L-f- r v; w-r.
Donations are not made to colleges.
academies, -or any private, sectarian, or
charity schools. There may be paid for
well regulated public free schools, contin
ued ten months of the school year, and
having a regular attendance-of not less than
100 pupils, averaging daily 85 per
. cent.......
150 pupils, averaging dally 85 per
tOO pupils, averaging daily 85 per
250 pupils, averaging daily 85 per
cent.
800 pupils, averaging daily 85 per
cent...................... ........
In doubtful cases of attendance, the av
erage number decides the question. The
amount appropriated for larger . num
bers, in cities, cannot be fixed, but must
depend on circumstances. : The people are
to pay for the current expenses at least
twice as much as they . receive from the
fund, and io addition thereto bear all the
expenses of erecting, repairing and fur
nishins school houses. They are to grade
their echools and provide a teacher for
every fifty pupils. No claim for a share
of the fund can be admitted where a spe
cial contract has not been previously
made. Compliance with tlie "rules" does
not constitute a claim.- The application
must be made by the School . Committee
anil Trustees (if Trustees for the school
exist) to the State Superintendent, giving
assurances that the rules will be. compiled
with. The application must be accepted
by the General Agent, Dr. Searsand a
written promise made by mm to the Su
perintendent, and through the Superinten
dent to the applicants, to pay a stated sum:
Then a claim is constituted, and not till
then. 1 - ; .-v.. ... . .
Applications for aid should be made as
early as practicable after the beginning of
the school year, September first, and for
warded to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Raleigh, N. C. Each appli
cation must show upon iU face,
L. That' the school is to be a Public Free.
School, stating the race . for. which it is to.
be taught. . ; .
2. The number of pupils enrolled, with
the average daily attendance.
3. The amount of assured fund for cur
rent expenses, and the sources from which
such fund Is derived. .
4. That the school is to be 'graded, sta
ting the number of grades and branches
taught in each.
5. The location of school house, with
the names of the Principal and Assistant
Teachers, and the nearest poetoflice.
6. The amount of the Peabody Fund
applied for, and that the amount sub
scribed by the people, and the amounts
which will be received from the Public
School Funds and from other sources,
counted together; will be at least double,
or more than double the sum asked for
from the Peabody Educational Fund. The
cost of erecting, repairing or , furnishing
NEW
TOBK
- CorresptmdeBce of THjrr. jjsBBVBaJ
It is forty-two years, sinop the, original
Constitution of - North , CarolicA, adopted
in 1776, was amended,' and; tc ; "rotten
borough" representation in the Xegislature
abolished. . This la so lone a2o that prob
ably a good many of your readers may not
even know that the towns ojf. Wilmington,
Fayetteville, i Hillsborougb, i Salisbury,
Newbern, Halifax and Edenttf d were each
entitled to a representative In' the House
of Commons and still mort tjftiiem who
knew nothing of the practici effects ; of
that borough system.! .: mesioncd some
of them as to the. town of Halifax In my
last letter But it was much the same in
te other towns excitenWat unparalleled
before or since : in our elections. This
arose partly from the eminence of the can
didates usually arrayed against each other,
and more from the small pumber of the
electors. It is doubtful it even Halifax
exceeded in zeaL and bitterness the con
tests in Fayetteville between Strange and
Cameron in 1824 (I think it wasVor
Seawell and Hybaha '1834,or Eccles and
Hybart In 1S35. JM thirt4time: the
free colored people were allowed , to vote
In Fayetteville and some ther parts of , the
State, and they were so Numerous In Fay
etteville as almost to tun,. the eale when
a iHed. as they generally ?ereT Prodigious
efforts, were! therefore mads by both par
ties to secure thiiir votes., . They were
plied with liquor, anil feasted at barbecues,
and joined jn dances many most respect
able citizens being led by the excitement
of the contest ' to join lb these carousals.
On the moruing,bf the ejection,' after one
of these dances, th&lohg -line pf floating
voters, black and white,' would be marched
up from Cumpbeflton to the .Town Hall,
with nmsic and cheers,.? anijj. voted. The
demoralizing effects-of Uieae : congests bad
much influence in deciding the Convention
to abolish borough- repr&tauonr though
the members from the towns were gener
ally men of the hlghti character and
leaders of the, Commc.DSiHalL Among
those-seut from Wilmington 'were Corne
lius Harnett, uliato Hooper. Arch'd
McLaine; ward- Jorijg, ! J.' G. Wright,
Gov. E. B. Dudley,: .Wf&'.Mearca. R. H.
'Cowan, Joa-vA. HittV Vf i
From Fayetteville,1 Qief Justice John
Louis Taylor, Wmf Du ty, Judges John
A. Cameroa and. liobert: Strange, John D.
Eccles, Louis D. Henry James SeawelL
From JLIfllsbCTp l f Jiidges Norwood, ,
Ruffln and Nasli, and Gov. Graham. '
From Salisbury, Jeecph Pearson, Archi
bald HenuV.T$on,vCharles Fisher, "Judge
CaldwelL . U 5 ' : ' "'
From Newbern, Governors Nash and
Spaight, Thos. Badger, John Stanly, Ed
ward Graham, Judges Nash, Martin. Gas
ton, Badger ahd Manly Francis L.
Hawks. , , - ' ' .
Vrm f mfirflr-iWitlin : Jones. Peter
Brown,' $ udge Daniel, i Governors Davie,
Ashe and Burton. '" 1 '. '
FroinE4enton Josopji Hewes, Hugh.
Williamson; Governor Ldell. '
The same argument against the demoral
ization in these town erections would hold
good to some degree Against, all ; and in
deed It may well W' doubted If the fre
quency 6f elections iu oi: r country .is any
thing better thanf a- mixed good and evu,
with a predominance' of he, latter. .
leaned- to see air u puena tuis arter-
school houses can not be counted in the t noon, at tte elegant resi.nce "of his friend
TBK PSlBODY ffTSD ASD ITS DISTRIBUTION.
Th Cotton Year of 1878-77 closed in
New York with prices very slightly differ
ent from those ruling' at its beginning.
The season ; opened with , quotations of
mlddUng uplands at 11 to 11 ft-16. and
closed at 11 cents. The highest price
during the year was at the end of January,
when sales were made at 13 5-15; the low
est price at the beginning of May, when
sales were made t 10J. :, Most of the cot
ton carried to New York during, the year
For the information of the public on
this important question we present to our
readers the rules and regulations laid down
for the distribution of Mr. Pbabodt'
munificent bequest, as furnished us by
our State Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion. - v.;1
Dr. Sears, the zealous and accomplished
general agent, also writes to Superintend
ent Soabbobouoh that in the plan laid down
for its distribution, the aim of the Trustees
of the Peabodt Fund is not so much to
keep a few public schools alive as to foster
and encourage a general State system of
Instruction, and to this end when the State
does much the Trustees of the Fund will
do much, but when the Bute does
little they also will do little. In other
words, the Trustees will help us just in pro
portion' as we help ourselves. Looking
to this same end the Superintendent of
Public Instruction is requested, in select
ing applications for aid, to approve those
that hold out the best promise of strength
ening our whole system of schools, those
that will be in all respects both permanent
and model schools, and not have regard only
to mere numbers of pupilsl To carry out
their plan, the Trustees think the begin
ning must be made with towns and large
villages, where the means can be found to
make the schools 'what they should be.
They think general public sentiment can
be educated up to the proper, point oy
above to make the required amount.
Scboola for colored children will receive
the same assistance as schools for White
children, and upon the same terms.
Two schools in the same village or dis
trict cannot be counted as one school. The
different departments of a graded school
may be taught in separate
semrate houses.
5 The contract for assistance is in all cases
made with the School Committee (and
Trustees, if any) who have the school in
charge. It is never made with the teacher.
Each application should be signed by the
School Committee and be approved by the
County Examiner and by the Chairman
and Secretary of the County Board of
Education.
i At the close of each half term of twenty
weeks, the principal teacher should report
to the Superintendent of Publio Instruc
tion full statistics oi tne.sciiooi.
Every application for payment of the
amount promised must give full assurance
that all the rules for the distribution of the
Peabody Educational Fund have been or
will be, complied with. This assurance
must be .given and signed by the School
Committee and county Examiner and by
the Chairman. Secretary and Treasurer of
the county Board of Education.
I instruct the committees who petition
for assistance to take bold of the schools
and see to it that they are Free Public
Schools in fact as well as In name, and
that they.comply strictly with these regu
lations in every particular. The schools
must come up to the requirements for the
amounts asked for, and failing in that they
fail in all. Ask for no more than you can
be sure of reaching.
Two or more school districts so situated
as to make it convenient, and practicable
for all, may unite and have one good grad
ed school for the children in such districts.
I advise this course whenever practicable.
Mr. Jbhnsdrri Sixtv-fcMirth street, a few
doors from fifth ayemuj'aqd Central Park?
He was one o? the selceed. contributors to
Johnson's Cyclopedia, tj It ,is wonderful
what an amount of .worlt so frail a being,
much of his; tiuie prostrated' by sickness
and excfuciirtinsr rheum Hie pain, has been
rooms, or in f able to ; accomplish. : 11 is (ponderous vol
umes on tue Lxausea? oi?inB jitu rar, oi
which sotnd seventy the usand copies have
been sold ; Ibis i vblutuw- in! reply to the re
viewers of hat work ; iiis; History of the
United States, of wbicl. about thirty thou
sand havd been sold liiscontributions to
the Cycloppliaand now ht has a small book
ready on' the Hampton Roads conference
Just before the dose of tfie war.about which
there baa lately orison a discussiou, if not
a controversy; fi His speeches, too, ..before
and since the warj f all collected,, as some
of them have been.s would fill several, vol
umes. i He .dges not, as baay well be sup
posed,;'lo?)krfor length pf Hlays, Indeed was
surprised at bjs recovery last spring. His
rheumatism4; was the" result of his three
months' fmbHsonmeni' after the close of
the warjjn tbedam'vaults of Fort War-j being the month,
ren." Wli . .':ft !--"5-- ' " I of some kind, at
In this raorningV, World there is an' ac- I taken to raise a small amount to place a
with PrdsideuJ Hajes,- in. which he urged
Caswell comrnr letteb.
Correspondence of Thb ObsbbvebJ ,i '.
Yascbtvluje, Oct, 8, 177.
Mbssbs.' Editors : I arrived ' aif this
place. Monday morning,1 via Danville, ac
complishing the feat of "going aroundmy
elbow to reach my thumb." j
1 Reaching Danville Saturday night! very
much fatigued, I went to the : m
If '.ABUN6T0S' HOTFX, j "
where I was made to feel at home by the
accommodating and gentlemanly proprie
tors, Messrs. Scovill & Selden. whose
great aim is to please' their guests. They
keep their rooms nice ana comfortable,
attentive servants,' and a table supplied
with "th6 best the market affords." j These
gentlemen have also bought an interest in
the Norvill House at Lynchburg. . jlf you
wish to be taken well care of, stop - with
them. . ' v ? ; ... : " i ... :, .
While in Danville. I met with Mr.
Manning, of the Daaville Newt, to whom
I am indebted for favors. He seemed to
be very much smitten with one of Wake
; county's fairest daughters, who was spend
ing some time In Danville. By the way.
Danville is very much made up of citizens
from North Carolina, and properly, if re
ports are true, belongs to this State. But
I did not set out to . write a letter about
Danvme, but : ;
JOASWBLL OOCSTT.
: This county was formed m 1777, by
cutting off a piece of Orange, consequent
ly it is one hundred years old in (Novem
ber. It was named in honor of j Richard
Caswell, the first Governor of North Caro
lina under the State Constitution.;
The heathen philosophers endeavored to
.write their Mythology on the heavens
beyond the pages of history by naming the
planets and, stars after their divinities and
heroes, indulging the hope that as long as
their radiant effulgence existed, these
names would be known to all time, and
venerated in all ages. j . '
So has . North Carolina preserved in
perpetual memory the names of her purest
patriots and devoted sons; amongst whom
was - j
, ; BIOHAKD OASWKLLv i !
His name is worthy of such si country.
His example is left to urge us to follow
his .acts of honor and patriotism, '
Like Washington, Caswell was true and
loyal to the government under i which be
I lived. But as soon asthe Colonies threw
off the British yoke, so soon did.be re
nounce his allegiance to King George and
cast his destiny with the colonies. ; In
their struggle for Independence, and as
early as 1774, we see his name in the first
public meeting held li North Carolina. : '
He was a patriotic statesman, a coura
geous, vigilant, successful soldier, a paral
lel to Washington. Nathaniel Macon said
of him : " Governor Caswell was one ' of
the most powerful men that ever lived in
this or- any other country.", j I said his
name was worthy .of such ia country.
What has North Carolina done to perpet
uate his memory save to name a county
for faunf For the three years he-was
Governor of this Commonwealth . he did
not receive one .dollab. Had such a
statesman and patriot lived Inf Virginia, or
anywhere else except in North Carolina,
his last resting place would have been
marked with a monument worthy the man.
How is it with Governor Richard Caswell r
His remains lie buried In a private grave
yard near the banks of the'Neuse river,
two miles west of Kinston, in Lenoir coun
ty, with nothing to mark ,t heir last resting
Dlace save what nature has supplied that
is a monument in the shape of an oak tree,
which has grown up lust over bis breast.
The grave is not even enclosed, but is open
to the ravages of hogs, cattle and other
stock. Shame on the Masonic Fraternity,
shame on us North Carolinians, that we
have so long left undone a duty that we
owe to the memory of Richard Caswell 1
Now, Messrs. Editors, as the State which
he served so faithfully as soldier, states
man and Governor, and for which services
the Siate paid him nothing; as the Mason
ic fraternity over which he presided as
Grand Master, and which annually appro
priates fifty to seventy-five dollars for
glinting the portraits of living Grand and
ast Grand Masters, have up to this time
takiu no step towards erecting even a
marble slab to mark his grave : I hope I
may be pardoned for suggesting to
the people of caswbll x .
that this being the centennial year 6f the
existence of the
spacious passage running through the en
tire length. . The various offices are on the
lower floor. ' " The court room Is on the
second floor and is well arranged. The style
of architecture is !'Romaneoue.n It is en
closed by a substantial Iron railing, resting
on a granite wall. It was completed in
1860 and cost 928,000. - "
I Kirk and his horde of tramps quartered
in the court house and defaced the build-
log very much. - , ' , - r --. v
I .visited the' room in which J. W. .
Stevens was' so mysteriously murdered;
some signs of blood are still to be seen on
the walls. '.v - . ' - - -
thb cotjbt. 1 V; ;
i Judge Buxton arrived on -time, and
opened court promptly Monday morning.
He is making quite a favorable impres-'
si on by his promptness in business, and
his patience manifested during the trial of '
causes.' - ;
There are seventy-four eases on the
criminal docket, and thirty-six on the '
civiL . No-case of special interest to be
tried, and it is thought that the business
will be gotten through with by Friday
afternoon. ; ; ' -i-.' V .';; -
; i-..--' ' THB BAB,
Colonel Thomas Ruffln says, is as usual,
more weighty in numbers than in ability,
abounding in briefs, and as huugry for
f ees as wolves. - i . v
The resident lawyers are : R. B. Watt,
J. A. Long, J. F. Terry, A. E. Hender
son.. " Visitors : Geo. N. Thompson, Leas
burg ; John It. Winston, Caswell county ;
J. H. Dillard, Rockingham ; Thomas Ruf
fln, J...W. Graham and F. N. Strudwick,
HillsborO ; Jas. A. Graham, Graham ;
P.' B. Johnson, A. J. Boyd and R. B.
Glenn, Went worth ; E. B. Withers and
Thofc Hiunlin, Danville, Va. . - ; -f .
' The last two gentlemen, are natives of
North Carolina, and have settled in Vir
ginia, and as they have license to practice,
in the courts of both States, parties having
business in either State in the border coun
ties will find it to their interest to consult
them.. ' . "--:' 4-'' - :' ; .:-.
SHXBLTF I. O. flBLTFTTH :
is still persistent in not praying for the
Court. When Judge Tourgee came here
to hold, court, Sheriff Griffith swore he
would not say "God save the State and
this Honorable Court," and he never did. '
. !THB OBSBBVEB.
The course of Thb Obsbbvxr Is highly
commended by the people of this section..
They do not take any stock in Mr. Hayes ' "
and have no use for a paper that does.- I
am instructed to say to you in the discus
sion, "North Carolina at Gettyburg," lay
on McDuff, &c . R. A. Leigh. -
LETTER FROM MOORE COUNTY.
Correspondence of The Obsbkvkr.
: Cabthaqe, N. C., Oct 5, 1877.
i Mbssbs. Editobs : We are not much
in the habit of "flinging ink," but if "Bad
Sam" from the Log-town on the classic
Yadkin, where no one ever roams but
blockade distillers, revenue nosers and law
students, can, leaving out "Old Jerry", and
the "lime Rock," collocate enough epis
tolary pabulum at one time to entitle him
to a half column In Thb Observer, then
Moore,, with its agricultural, mechanic and ,
mineral interests, demands whole pages
land volumes to be written. . And now,
while a political calm, the inevitable se
quence of a terrific political storm, is per
vading all sections of our noble old Com
monwealth, is the time to discuss and re
animate our agricultural, mineral, educa
tional, religious and matrimonial Interests.
. Owing to natural causes and dispositions,
our county is not so well suited to agricul
tural developments and improvements as
many others ; however there are many sec
tions in which this all-important interest is
carefully fostered. In a mineral aspect we
are prominent, standing in the front rank
with any of our sister counties. We have .
nowia successful operation several gold
mines, a copper mine', a soap-stone quarry
and a mill-stone quarry.: The Eagle Mine, ;
one of the most noted in the State,, is un
der the lease and control of Jonathan War
ner & Co., a wealthy and enterprising firm
from Ohio, and we are informed by the.
Company that the yield and quality of ore
are very satisfactory indeed. What is
known as the Bell Mine is owned by and
under the immediate supervision of Messrs.
Worthy & Mclver, the former of whom is
. . . ' . J . . 4
our wormy townsman ana reaiueuu uui-
I V.a loftA. a nrnmrnATit atfnrnpV in t TlP
county, ana JNOvemoer i Jt -1' J: " v ;
, thevhave a celebration county, ine ore iruui ju,.
which time let steps be superior quautyand is pronounced by (
- We invite especial attention to the letter
of Mr. Solicitor Mostoojiebt, printed In
another column of this morning's Obsbb
vxr in reference to the action of Judge
Kkbb at the recent- term of Polk court in
the Lynch Young case. It will be seen the
Solicitor disposes very effectually of the
silly statement going the rounds of . the
press in regard to that case. It would
take so much more than the prejudiced
statement of an anonymous correspondent
to convince the people of North Carolina
that Judge Kkbr had committed a judicial
impropriety that we have paid no attention
to the matter. As long,- however, - as the
Solicitor, has taken the trouble to wnte
the letter we give it a place In our columns'.
the anoointmcnt cf Judge HerscheH Y.
Johnson', to be va$ncy ton the Bench of
the Supreme Oout bl the United States.
It is there 'sald thj the iPresldent uttered
the patriotic nUflient tiiat, there were
now no sections lb. the country, in his
view.' (I quote frf m "memory. ) Mr. Ste
phens say that thy Is not correct: that the
President listened .tespectfully but neither
said that nor mariCSuiy other remark. ''
I notice In the Ub North Carolina Preu
Jyfma a 'curious instance of chruuan
charity. It seem that there is a paper
sorde where JforthVPresbytetian I believe)
called 5- the Uhrutron Intelligencer, l nat
very distinguisued diyine, the-Rev. Dr. R.
L. Dabney, of Hampden Sidney, recently
published, in' theSowiAerf Presbyterian
Review; a review ft the late Vice President
Henry Wilson's ;Rtbry of the. Slave.
Power," iinting, out the . libels of Mr.
Wilson upon th'! Southern people. As
mav'be snDrjosedjibis was not done in any
meaty-mouthed i nguage, but in the ner
vous stylo for whi p Dr. Dabney is justly
famed'l i iWM InteUigeneer de
nounced it as "ej ceedlngly bitter. Ill-tempered
' and ; untHjthful." The Dr. there;
upon wrote; to tl; JnieHencer, closing as
follows . : i-J-i - . '
"But the charge of ("untruthfulness" is
definite- and it involves a responsibility
which the Intelligencer must now un
flinchingly meeti TH charge must be
proved. ToUid In performing this imper
ative duty I'make this proposition : Let
the InteUigeneer point out and prove
no more than
a granite shaft, to mark the grave of bim
for whose honor me county was namea,
and as j; , " ; ' !
THB WOMBS OF NOBTH CABOLTNA
are ever ready lb lend a helping band in all
laudable enterprises, and the fair daughters
of Caswell county being no less so, i can
upon them to move in the matter, ior so
surely as they take it in! hand, so surely
will it be accomplished, j Will they do it ?
: Caswell county, previous to the late war,
was among the most prosperous counties
in the United Slates. !
A gentleman having taken the census of
1860 as a basis, selected from six of the
best producing States, one from each of
the best producing counties, and upon in
stituting , a comparison j between Caswell
and the six other counties found but one
that exceeded Caawelli . In agricultural
profits, according to territory and popula
tion, 1 his fact needs no comment.
- t :' . .- - - ! . f - , '-'-if
.THE GBEAT SOURCE OF JPBOSFBBIT " . r
in this county for more'lthan tweaty years
preceding the war was the; .fine yellow to
bacco raised here. ' j'i.fi"' i "n''"" t:
Caswell was the first i bounty in the
United States to raise Lthii description of
tobacco, and for a number of years its
growth was confined almost exclusively to
this locality. The process of curing origi
nated with the Slade family of this county.
It is worthy of note 'that the yellow to
bacco grown here, including a belt of coun
ties along the State luie. 'possesses a body,'
and has the property of retaining its color
not found in the yellow tooicco raiseu
Tub Nobth Cabouna Revekub Cases..
A clerii in the Internal , Revenue Office,
says the Washington. Republican of the
6th Inst., who was sent by 1 General Ranm
to ureensooro , n. u., wuu uie rewtu -
the tobacco cases for which offers of com
promise were made and rejected, tele
graphed yesterday as follows:
. "When In the middle of the trial of the
first , case all defendants in .Mount Airy
fact that It Is sold principally in another
Stt. But" little is ves known or uie
mineral resources of
is a
' lirNEBALi
thef county. There
was tot oeuvery on . - t. hnnU t (nflnMtlal places
Tht decuneln print cloths during the - tll.Al.
i am y , , more rapidly and more effectually thab by
riwr was , WTT , aeoueu. A.i.uia
msncement ofthe season tney nau rwen
. A Fobgeb at Labob.-R. M- Taylor,
the white man who was convicted of for
gery at the June term of the Criminal
Court for this county, and sentenced by his
Honor. Judge Mearea, to confinement at
hard labor for eight years in the State Pen
itentiary, has succeeded ha effecting his es
cape from that institution, and is now at
large. wttmtngwn tutor.
8btxubx or Tobacco Factobt. The
demit v collector of this district but week
seized the tobacco factory of Gwyn, Wood
&, Co.. at Joneaville. Yadkin county, and
' with the factory about $3,000 worth of
other property. The seizure was made on
account of certain irregularities hi the op-
erationof the factory. Charlotte Obterver.
: . DIED, ..... ...
BBOOCETT At bis residence near Oxford,
Wednesday last, Samuel B. BjunofSTT, aged
about M veara. - , , , . . r , -.
SATTEB W HITE At sis restdeaee la Walnvt
Uro townsnip, li ran rule eoonty, . C on tne
; 4th. Inst., Jambs K. SAmawam. In the sviB
yewet taisac. , . . .. .
HICKS Io oxford, on the sta tast SiXBT
9t Hives, la the 4UU year o alsag.
expenses in oe suit, aou are suiuiagjucck r . . , .. .j
vance UDii in xewj K;,"j
for to 3-16, ; From that point pnees
speeches are made, the speakers denounc
ing the separate school system as a viola
tion of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments of the Constitution; -v , ,
, Of course this, effort to bring about A
wntwtinn of the two races will fail,, as all
ether efforts to accomplish that object nave
failed. The eolored man and brother will
find in the end that while his children are
educated at the expense mainly pf tbej
white taxpayers, he. will have to be con-,
tent to have them taught in 'schools seps
rato from the whites, and the sooner he
finds this out the better it will be for him
and for them. But this he never will thor-
have steadily receded, ana no
closed with quotfttions at.8J and large
stocks In the hands, o pfmuiarturer j
.Tux business in Cotton Contracts, ,Fii
tures," has . grown to jver laVge propor,
tions. ':The first sales for, fcitjife delivery
were made at the, New York Cotton Ex
change on Sept. 19, 1870, and the sales fair
the cotton year ending . .Aug. 80,' 1871,
were ,000,095 bales; For 1872, 4,38,714
bales : for 1873, 5.299,700 Dales ; ior i
more rapidly and more effectually
hundreds of loose feeble schools at other
points ; In a word, that system of schools
is not so much a creation- as a growth,
which growth a . moderate number of
good schools, scattered throughout the
State, will do much to promote.
These indlcatiohs of the policy that will
govern m the distribution of the Peabodt
Fund are published .by Superintendent
Soabbobouoh . in order . that : persons in
North Carolina seeking aid from that
fund may know what to expect and may
govern themselves sjbidlngly Tlie 8u
perinlendent begs that tile people of the
State cenerally and the School offleers In
partlcularL.?LU rebie tnebefforts In the
cases pleaded guilty, , Citizens astonished Dabney card-.? This to as bad a any sec
. IT. V i"a:a .,n i .,to tMtkop -v.,tr hVR done: indeed as B
generfd thing.the so-called religious pa
any one historical flehood, in the several elsewhere, and North Carolina, poor oia
"J- . w .. , .r j. i I .u: . nmaAit ttir Sail fhia fmra (M
places wuere i- nave, in my wwyae, im-i tuiug, 8btwuo, v ----------
pughed Mr. WUson's historical truth ; ana
tet that journal place myjustlficatlon of it
in the same channel through which. U in
dicts me - for nntrulhfulness." Thus
cleat justice will be evolved, and, obvious
lr. mminoS luatice : entities me toi.no
The I Intelliffeneer, nlscalled "chris
tian,") not only. refused to meet this- "chal
line.i but refused to publish Dr.
SPBING
,fpl-
i Kocn. a soienaia resuiu ... . r ,t-
To which General Raum replied as
lows: '... :?!,.;.-' . . :
-7 dv. . .( Tbbasury. Uepabment,
j ,' . Office of IhtebnalRevbspe
Washington, D.C., Oct. 5. 1877..
To United States - District Attorney,
Qreensbonf, N. C.: . ;
"I karri ihat the tobacc manufacturers
have all plead guilty.. It is expected that
suitable punishment will be meted: out to
these men. The offers in comprorrrise
, J -.A 21 fiu MAnailUfltlAn Tr
were mecwu bktsm mtAj thousrh it shall be a
prominent sna weaitny vioBuors ul e , n
punishment . now, , a i w.yrrM"!:. I . ,
six miles northwest of Yanceyville. be
longing to Mr Jna! 8.' Park, brother of
B. F. Park, of Raleigh, ;whlchfor Ha ton
ic, alterative and diuretlo properties is at
tracting considerable), attention. ; ' '
It is used with marked success in dys
pepsia, indigestion,' diseases of the urinary
organs, anil nervous: proBtrauuu. ,
pert at the North are ' full Cas bitter and J ft U'carried from ithej spring y persons
uniair wue wur?i-v-n wce.uku k-
The "Friend" Wilmington who was kind
ehoiigb to send me the cop of Dr. Hoop
er's address baa written me; making a sug
gestion that I ive my recollections of sev
eral pw-liiacnlE ei;:.ajus f Fiyetteville of
theoldetf llUHw awa - or lnciaenxs- ana lo
calities there. s his letter is anonymous, I
can onlyln -tjils ; way state' that I fear I
could not uo fusjice to we eminent inu
. - ..... . V i , . i . . ii i .
law are brought to
hava htirh hones that it will, be the com
mencement ef a new- era: in the enforce
ment of the internal revenue laws fen your
8tate.-.rs-:-.t'His 'Gbbbn B Raum, j
.i 4, ;ii,;;-.ij-. , . Commissioner , :
M ETBSDiN(i the LisE. The '.work -of
I constructing the Chester & Lenoir Narrow
6,187.700 bales f for,1875, 8,$5g,000 tales; I cause of edacatipn and ,makeir the schools
for 1876. 7.233.650 bales j ior isn, iuf-1 ni Dr. sears aeairea tnem so ue,
i Vebt-v Bad i f Tbem.tA Louisville
preacher was sketching with vivid imagery
the seena in the Garden of Eden, And in
bis earnest progress came to this sentence s
ieeching.come ia what shape itraay. m excess, sales being made Carolina wiH be sure to gethet fun thare JJJ St? completed ui to the Carolina Ce
4 MWhy is 1 the happiest vowel in the
alphabet f -Because I is in bliss, --JB is In
hell, and all the others in purgatory."-
and not reported at tb Cotton Exchange, of amgregatkMi laughed- loud atithe
1b the distribution of tnat zunu .ino ruisj w i unintentional ' pun. ixwotiu vommer.
Tawidcinarket is gutted ' '
Oauffe'RallrDad bevond Lincolnton com
mettced a'few days ago. " For a long time
itcbuld4 not be determined whether, the
road should" run i by way of Hickory or
Newtpn. FinaHy the question wae settled
by Newtoncpmplylng with the conditions,
inn aprainncrxne nau w wu wuu. wu-
1 ri . ., . .J 1- 1. ' mAnuJtni. t that
w Gauge has been
Central Rail
road, a mile below . lincolnton,' and Ywill
nan thn irwv nf that road the remainder of
the waj; to the town. Charlotte Obterver. in the South.
at a distance. It does not deteriorate or
become impnre when I kept In glass vessels
closely corked." '--h W !T V -':"i' ' .v '
. FBOMtifEirr-mes1; '
This county has jbqeo the birth place of
many prominent juifcn, men who have
made their -mark.ln the -world, among
whom are Bartlett Yancey, Marmaduke
Williams, Hon. Jacob Thompson, now of
Mississippi, f Hon. j Bedford Brown, Hon.
R. M. Saunders, Anderson Mitchell, the
Graves's. Raineysj Kerrs, Leas, McAdens,
and a host bf others nd less ' meritorious.
nohla aires, whose offspring are some oi
the principal citizens of the State. . . , H.
-. i, j b . TAHCETVILLE, v. -i ",
the capital of the county, was once a place
of considerable business, but its remote
ness from a railroad and having sustained
heavy losses by fire in the burning of the
principal part of the town the greater por
tion of the trade has gone to Danville. It
has about three hundred innaottania, ana
thirteen brick residences. i. m-i
u- THE odUBT HOUSE rHK"
is one of the finest buildings of the kind
comnetent assavers to be very rich. Ow
ing to the respective avocations " of . the
owners thev nroDOse to sell, and some one
will be made rich by the purchase. Ton
after ton of soap-stone is .being shipped
from the quarry of Polk & Imboden, which
gives employment to a large number of
hands and Is of advantage to the county ,
In several respects. , '
The copper mine is conducted on an en
larged scale by Jones & Frlcker and will
no doubt prove a laudable success. Moore
will have no lack of gold eagles and cop
per cents," ''. - '' i-
The Mill-stone Quarry, owned , by our
distinguished representative Jas. D.,Mc
Iver, is for sale at . very reasonable fig
ures. ' --.;
Well, 1 must not pass by our mechanic
interest, or I wUl undermine the subst ratum
of our existence, and neglect to speak of
the bone and sinew of our town,, which is
borne In a measure upon the shoulders of -Tyson
& Jones, the buggy builders. The
junior partner of this firm, W. T. Jones,
is a Hercules in his calling. ' . .
Our educational interest is hopeful, m
fact flourishing I may say. We have at
the University four or five young men,
our future orators, poets aQd patriots, a
Washington, a Lee, a Graham, but no
Grant. Our country schools are flrst-eiass
in every respect. Carthage High School,
under the supervision of W. J. . Stuart,
of Davidson College, is a most excellent
institution for the training of youth. The
mental, moral and physical man, under
his nurture, grows to high altitudes and
perfect stature. - .
- Rev. Mr. Tillett, assisted by Rev. B. R.
Hall, has just closed a two weeks revival
of religion and the moral man feels much
invigorated. -Brother TUJett is a terror to
dram shops and miserly men.
. . Lastly I will speak of that interest which
neither life nor death nor famine nor pesti
lence nor any other creature has ever been
able to completely abate. I mean the mat
rimonial interest, which the quill of "Bad
Sam, alias Trojan," alias "Claud Harrison"
was descanting upon. Our : matrimonial
market has 'on hand a good fall stock,
where even the most fastidious young
man could be suited, the most peculiar
fancv aurtnlied. ' We -understand ' the
market will be greatly reduced at or before
Christmas. .:.
. , Thus much said, we beg leave to close.
; NrNoius.-
Growth of thb Human Haib After
Death. r Dr.: Caldwell, ,.of Iowa, states
that in 1862 he was present at the exhu- .
(nation of a body which had been buried
two years before. - The coffin had sprung
open at the joints and the hair protruded
through the. openings. On opening the
coffin the hair of the bead was found to
measure eighteen inches and the whiskers
eight inches. The man had been shaved
before being i. buried. In 1847 a similar
circumstance occurred in Mercer County,
Pa.v j In- digging a grave . the . workmen
came across t be skeleton of a man that
had been buried ten years. The hair was
as firm as during life, and had grown to a
length of eleven or twelve Inches. Louit
wille Medical Neas. c i,,.wur-x A' '
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' CalIfoeniAGrapxe. a bunch of grapes
from the 'mammoth grape-vine of Santa
Barbara is on exhibition at San Francisco.
It is three feet long and six in circumfer-
R is 99 by 50 feet, with a 1 ence, aud weighs ran pouuds.
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