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. to or Y v WASHINGTON GAZETTE. A -k T n ' ' " ISSUED , EVERY THUESDAY. . - i - -.-. ': tekms op subscription,. (cash In 'advance.) 1 ' ." "ff-' . . . N fc . -- v ':-'vf Copy, one year, . .. 1 ; " six months, . 1 'V. three months, 1 ..'- s" Papers." will, be deliver ea .to town subscribers estfeli Thursday morning by thetarrier. 4 ;' -v .':; '-l.io ; v j,, ; -. : ..j j , t , . y ,. - -,: .. ;.. ; . . . j-, ; . . ' , ' :,!. . .: - , V .00 y ..;-v ' . : ' ;;V. ". "The Old North Stao Forfever." :. , " ' v y': . i" , . : vol. vm. WASHINGTON, BEAUFORT COUNTY, N. 0., THURSDAYj JUNE 5, 1884 N0.8. sertedfree. AlloverSt:. f 3J?18lent Xrtisements must be Dmrf ! for inadvancer Yearly iiml other ml ver tiser may pay monthly o?q3fierlJ' accoildinto contract. 4 "H BetoittaniBes must lie' made by cheek stsd note, or by registered letter"- V THE GAZETTE, vasfnngton,JS'.C. JK)St Address, : y 'gwffisiojjaaii gaging carfli y DR. W. P, SM ALL y Office in Opera House Block. :; ' Residence, East Water Street, Wash- , inptCin, N. t;. . w ; . mQ DR. H. SNELL, SURGEON DENTIST, WASHINGTON, X. C. J. t MM MV f. v; -c' -i Tenders his pro- lessionai services f2i to ine pnuuc. " - r 8-Lr-i:. Free. . Oifice over Brown's Bank. BANKING HOUSE OF Main Street, Washington, N. C. . Collictions 'solicited and remittances made pxomny. tgg" .Exchange bought and sold.; y febiitf ' . , , . '. S. H. WILLIAMS, TOBACCOIMIST ! Head Quarters for all kinds of I :l oI,icco, Simfl and Smok j ers' ITIatcrial. . '; Main Street, -Washington, C. - aprllTf ' , , i. A ; y &0ti$; J ; ; .'MERCHANTS' HOTEi, WASHINGTON, N. C. V FRANKCREDLE, Proprietor ' This House has been newlyfurnished ii throughout and will furnish Pirst Class i Accommodations. , ; r I -.' RATES. ; ! TAJ5LK BOAHD, - . 15.00 Tlh, SrOKTH. ' .oetllrtf. THE FARMER'S HOME. Just the place "for pail ies" from the country to stop while in town. f. . - - Located on Second. Street, near Court House. Apply to dec22tf. t P. P. WILKINSON. n ojvn n q us e, Etlenton,' V. C, ' Table supplied with the best the mark? et affords. i- -.. Polite' and attentive waiters. Omnibiis connects with every train .and boat. ' .' People poing North liave ample tinfe to get dinner before departure of traiii, D G BOND, Proprietor.';? The Traveling Public will ,; FIND THE BR 1J HOUSE, TA XiliOltO, IV , C,, A first class Hotel. .Omnibus and Car riages from the Bryan House connect with every train and boat.; ' II B BRYAN, Proprietor. -W Ths Traveling, Public w;hen stoppilg at Bethel should always; go to the JSJE THEIj ho use kept iy W A James, Jr. Good board and rooms at reasonable rates, y INSURE YOURJSTOCK INSURE YOUR STOCK! . Tv INSURE YOUR STOCK J 4-Where ? in the '. - M-U:T-U-A-LK " LIVE STOCK iilSURIlllCE A Hew Company andLive Men ! . ct . Losses paid l'roiiiiifly. jtf O S CAL XJST O-. rr;a nnmDany affords he lest protec- j.,.. . man. If vour horse dfe'in n. d-suWer, you need not lose if vou are insured in this Co. iir-w Vk. money from vour K)licy you Vlt.h.iSn. iSEemember the cau punu " . ... j name, the , j ITOTUAL LffE STOCK IHSURAKCE CO. of Washington; N. Ci , ;J ifcTlOLSQi' Tteasur B NICIIOLSON, secretary. M. TANKARD, General Agent. 210 Mai" err ! Main Office, 'ton, NO. St, Washing- '"Wirt i OWCE MORE IW A LIFE -TIKI E THE STOCK OF THE 1 inrar . -.tKisli flu 1 Mas. been reirioved to Washington and jSffust be Sold at dDnce. at joss? ; w. v"" ; 1 .j : ' .. , : . '; ; t 45 to ?. f , at 5 cent,s. 5 cents.' ';;, ' 1 .ndl 1ozen Mats, wortbiroifii .(Irfbzen lien's Mats, wortli il & nieces of Cretons, cost to import 3:5: cents, at s cents. ILawiis, IL yarrt wmIC, worth IS cents, at 5 centsi k I jQPQPQP pieces fiques, worthya a cents, to be soirt at $ cents. A fiew more of those Towels at & cenlts. fit 1 S cents nd up I . ." in : ... i- . if 111 M mjrm ttmjetk mws t mm moium. Messrs. VVeinberg;PenlKau'doipir& dofehirattelidfvo you riglkr Don't forget the place, Corner Water and Market Streets, John W. 31ayo's Old Stand. 7 (tSen, Li. O'Brian Branch ' ' j " " " ' pii'mehiorial day iu Ealeigh, Maj. I T...1.-J. .-tt: : .1 .1 .1 ouuji; jiiiiies juciiveicu au auuiess - i - - . i npon the-life and seryices of Gen. Branch. It willbeinterestingtb many readers of. the Gazette. AVe make the follow iug extract from the Keics-- i i i Observer ,: I . ; I ; "Maj. Hughes theu entered on a biographical sketch of Lawrence O'Brfan Branch, whose ancestors, he si) id, had been prominent for iuany .generations in the affairs of North Carolina, lie was boim at Eufie d, Halifax county, NoveEiber 28, li 20, and was early left an or lKau. Gov. John Branelj, who was his gi ardian and uncle, having "been appointed secretary of the navy by Gen.' Jackson Jin 1829, took young Lawrence with him to Washington, where he liad superior' educational advantages. Eyent&ally he grad uated fat Princeton with the first honors , before he was IS years of age. At his gradnation lie spoke the English salutatory, his . elder brother, Josei)h, having spoken the Greek'', salutatory the yjear before. In 1839 he went to Tennessee and studied law, ably edited a political paper there and in 1840 re moved to Florida, beginning what prove to be a very brilliant legal career. Ju 1841 he, servers ai4f. tbiSen Iieid, in the' Seminole wur, and in 1844 niarried "the accomplished daughter of General Blount. In 1848 he; returned, to North Carolina and took up his residence at Eal eigh. In 1852 he was an elector on the Pierce and King presidential tinker, "and was also president of the Ealeigh & Gaston railroad com pany, serving; until 1855, when he was nominated for Congress. He was thrice "elected to Congress, and in December, 18(59, was tendered by President Baclianan the position of the Unrtea Ktates- . in ja.prn, iooi, he joined was soon the Raledgh Eifles, but called to organize the quartermaster's departmeii u of the State, iln September, 1801, he was commissioned colonel of the 33n regiment, and January 17, 18G2, was commissioned brigadier general. He was assigned to the command of the forces about New Berne,in March of that j year, and nfadje a gallant stand against' the Federal forces under Bnrnside. Shortly afterwards he won hew honors at Hanover Court House, ya., Gen. Lee waiting' to him as follows : ; . i " I take great, pleasure in Expres sing my approved of the manner in which you have discharged the du ties of the position in which yon yere placed, and of the gallant man ner in which your troops opposed a Very superior force of the enemy." Then rapidly followed the brilliant battle" in front of Eichmond, in each of winch he displayed the jitmost coolness," courage and ' judgment handling' his troops in a -manner to command the admiration and com mendation of all beholders. His bravery, in fact, vas-so conspicuous that he became a hero in their en thusiasm and devotion regarded him as being in his soldierly qualities. : "As constaut as the North star, Of whose true, fixed and lasting quality There is no fellow in the firmament." ; Maj. Hughes then gave a succinct and graphic account of those terri ble encounters on the peninsula, quoting the words of Geiu Branch's congratulatory, address to his bri gade, as follows : " Though rarely able to -turn out &000 men for duty, youjiave in six pitched battles aud in several skir misdies lost 1,250 men in killed and wounded. 01" five colonels, two have been killed in battle, two wounded and oue.taken prisoner by an over whelming force. In making this bloody -but briiliant record for your brigaii Idlers modest, uncomplaining and regard ful of what is due to others." Then followed the battles of Ce dar Eun, Second Manassas, Fairfax Court House,. Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg. His brigade in .the brief space of six months was enga ged in mose than fifteen pitched battles, besides skirmishes. The in tense activity of this campaign was almost unprecedented, and can be better appreciated when I say. to you thakduring that interval Ghen. Branch averaged one battle "jfor every twelve days, while during the revolutionary War Gen. Washing ton participated in scarcely half so many, all told; averaging about one battle in every twelve months. Sharpsburg -was a fatal field for him. He had with his comntan'd jst swept the enemy before him- and driven them in sueh confusion and dismay that all firing had ceased in: his immediate front, when Generals Gregg and Archer directed his "at tention to the V-shaped column of the enemy that was j advancing against the troops on hs left. He stepped forward and formed with those generals a little group, which evidently attracted the attention of some sharp shooter on the Other side. For, Just as he was raising his field-glass to his eyes, a single shot was fired and a bullet was sent to do its deadly work, which, strik ing him in the right cheek, passed out back of his left eaiy and he fell dying into the arms of the faithful and gallant JLy. Engelhard, of his staff, than whom North Carolina sent no truer mea to the front. Gen. Branch's death brought gloom aud grief to his family, iiis friends, his brigade and his native State, and was regarded, as a proline jcalamity. His' remains were escorted to liah eigli by Maj. Engelharcrand Capt. James A. Bryan, of his staff, and A. DM. Noble, of his brigade. The citizens of Raleigh, in: mass meet ing, passed resolutions expressive of their sense of the great loss that the South has sustained, and of sympathy with his family, the leg islature took action in the samelr rection and his f uueral'sotege was grand, solemn and impressive. Thus ended upon earth the career of this distinguished son of North Carolina. It would be doing him injustice to speak of special acts of gallantry and braverv. lor his brier me as a military leader was one coutinu ous act of such heroism and dant' as the world from which they drew them. He never lived to how, at Petersburg, for iustrace. our so? diers were kept for weeks at a time in the trenches, with short rations, loss of sleep, and scarcely-any cloth ing, under constant, fire, day and night, stretching but a line which was only strengthened at the point of attack by doubling up the atten uated thread on that point and leaving the one from which it was taken unprotected; And after, re pelling the- attack, stretching out again what was' left, as far as it tould reach, and feeling that each gap it grew shorter and thinner and lessaMe to resist. And so went on try rfna- tn shplterthfe whole RhiVeriiisr o f - t : body of the Confederacy with a few tattered remrentS of the garments that had onje covered its ypung and vigorous frame and protected it ft om every assatft from without, until at last camethe supreme moment of the finalirreiKler, with all its agony when tlise wTar worn ami battle scarred eterans, wlio had been the manliespf men, cried like children, and thi jonce splendid army broke up mtui,L5 lnijjuiBuis Aviiicn vvau l-TVl le.vqn' have been. AS WTfS ' - - rv--.fTvJr,K, liii. ti.Anna n a m o rbc th ft MVPH of butlZSS 5 f.l thither, hungry poor and heart in search ot the .-.distant few men. lie died as a soldier would prefer to die, with a consciousness of duty well and bravely performed; with friends and comrades around him, ministeringto his dying wants, and tenderly and tearfully bearing from the field that bodyhich had but now, been the tenement, of no "wretched soul.brusied with adver sity," but one with the sounds of earthly victory ringing all about it and wafting it in joy and gladness to a blessed immortality. He had fulfilled the patriot's' mission; he had sacrificed self and life for his country and its cause. ; How much of suffering and anguish was his generous heart thus savedJ Think of ' the varying fortunes that, so soon after, came upon iis; of the lmnfls and fears, the doubts and anxieties, to which these who surviv ed him were subjected ; of the awful heart sickness that would come, un bidden, even to the bravest when tVior- envr onr ranks thinn'inff out from disease and want and the cas ualtiesof battle, and knew that they could not again be filled because we had no more met, while the re sources of the enemy, both in men nnd material, were as exhaustless - deredfiither; and and faked and which had been left beauti- i.i. 'k jcki ioei.- uut were now ueso- latand deserted. All this, and mol, he was si)aEed,' and this fact, whli his family and friends think of i should "give to them beauty foashes, the oil of joy forrn'ourning, thigarmeUt of praise for. the spirit ofieavinessr' casting a retrospective glance ovr the hie and. services ot the dis- tituished North Carolina, Law- Bftje O'Brian Branch, as citizen, sttesman and soldier, 6veu as fee w and imperfectly as they have jet. been sketched, one cannot -fail 1 feel how entirely applicable to I n are those beautiful lines of Ten i son, written of another : ' b gallant head which all men knew (Joice from which their omen all men Vew; ' O on nerve to true occasions true; A ' O illen at length that tower of strength V ich stood four-square to all the winds ' at blew ; i S li, was he whom we deplore." . j . Don't SpSTthe Milk. (' There is no use crying over spilled n says the old saw. If you are not o Jjald, but have no life in the roots o aur hair, there is no use-crying over tl , either. Take both time and your st by the forelock while there is a fore lo left. Apply Parker's Hair Balsam tr )uf hair before matters get worse.: II ill arrest the falling off of your hair ai restore its original color, glos'sl. and sf ess". It is a perfect dressing with- lean,- richly perfumed, cools and the setup. ! :- . .: Fences and Stocfe. .a.w. ! " Hickory Press. In looking intofhe new Code of NoitffCaroJiua I find in the Chap ter on Fences' and Stock Law a pro vision which ought to ba known tl the peojjle, We regard it as ! very; important to the interests of the for mers. There are many neighbor hoods throughout the State where rail timber is scarce andwhere;as a consequence the kee'pingup offences isa heavy . tax on the farmer. - This is'not simply a tax on the landown er; Those who cultivate the land as tenants have the fences to keep up ; and a great part of the land is cultivated in that way. Now it of ten happens that in a township or district there are not quite voters enough to adopt the stock law ; yet the owners of the soil are by a large majority iu favor of such lawJ If they depend on adopting the law, by a popular vote they will be de feated. A man with a two acre patch in cultivation, and with no land at all, and having cattle and hogs running at large, has the same vote as the man cultivating three hundred -acres and spending one; hundred dollars a year to keep, his fences in order. To. meet just sueli a case the code juovides, chapter 20, section 2821, as follows : r "Any number of land owners, whose land are contiguous, may at any time, build a common fence around all their lands, with gates across all public highways ; and no live stock shall run at large within any such enclosure under the pains and penalties prescribed in this chapter." 1 . L This provision enables the owners of contiguous- tracts - to adopt' thej stock law, so far as their lands are concerned. I think this provision will be found of especial advantage in our eastern counties. ' ( , ; , important to County Commissioners and Bridge Builders. ' The Eiver and Harbor bill con tains the following item : SEC. II. That any bridge or oth er, structure that inay hereafter be; erected over or in any river or har bor of the United States, for which: appropriation has herein been made,; shall, be subject, for the securing: and convenience of navigation, to such regulations as the Secretary of "War shall prescribe, and to se cure this object the party -desiring to construct such bridge or struct ure shall submit to the Secretary of AVar drawings and descriptions of the proposed work, which muskbe approved by the Secretary of War beiore afly such bridge or structure, can be constructed ; should an bridge or other construcfaare, erect ed' tinder, this authority, be found to obstruct the free and convenient navigation of a id river or harljQr, it shall be subject to modification or removaKby direction of the Sec retary of War, at the expense of the owners tliereof, and to the' rev ocation of such authority by act of Congressif the.public good shall so require. . The Recontruciion Acts. T A Blind Spot in Your Eye. Somervilte Journal. . . - iere is a spot iu j our eye that Hal. Retfister. .A terrible blow, however, was im pendincr. and it fell with fatnl tp. suits, upon the enactmehtfof theEe-1 construction Acts. - Space does not admit of more than a short summa ry of the political effect of those acts. They were equally terrible and arif bitrary. i They were pervaded -by a spirit of which mocked at Constitu tions and trampled upon all law. The Government of the State; which had just (been established, was swept away ; not a vestige of it was left. Governor Worth and all of our State officers were 'driven out of t he Cap itol at the point of the bayonet. Every office was vacated; not a peace officer was left in the State. A General, with an army at his bkek took possession of the State, which at once ceased to be known as a State, and was designated as a Mil iary Department. No satrap under the Turkish Government was more absolute in his dominions than was the Commanding General here. He controlled the treasury, the courts, indeed everything at I his will. All men who owned a certain amount of property, all men who had been con cerned in the administration of the government of the State, were put under the ban. They w ere not only jendered incapable of holding office; they were deprived pf the right of suffrage. At the same time the whole black population were invested with the right of suffrage. Wholly uned ucated and therefore' utterly igno rant, as well of letters as of the du ties of citizenship, they were, under the government which followed mil itary rule, given control over the State; for with the ruthless proscrip tion of the white, race, the voters among the negroes were humerical ly'superior to those among the white race. ; ' 1 . This was the work of the Eepub licnu party. is npt sensitive to light, a part of the eye with which we do not see. The folic wing directions for finding it are goir g. the rounds of the papers, and may bp new tvn?9si,,Qf Ourljoys ani girjj : '- Shut your lefteyeand with, your riglilt one look' steadily at the cross I below, holding the paper 10 or 12 incites from the eye. 55 - : . C) " Now move the paper slowly to ward the eye, which must be kept fixed on the cross. At a certain dis tanceithe'other figure the letter O w 11 suddenly vanish; but if you brng the paper nearer it will come again into view, ion mayjioi suc ceed in the experiment on the first tria can and , but with a little patience you. hardly fail ; and the suddeness with which the, black spot vanishes reappears is 'very striking. Arnold's Philosophy. , He was late, and he was not al together as he ought to have been; He i saw by' the light in the window that she was waiting for himj and he tretiibled, welf'knowingrtha no-, merited severe rebuke. As he entered the room sue be;' ganl : y . tThis is a nice of-'? ;. "3ly dear," he interrupted, "you can't tell what I was hie thinking of jc st now. Rather what you re minded ; me of as 1 came iri. The lamp on the table and you sitting close to it. You and the lamp re- . minded jme of ; the philosophy of whieh Matthew! "Arnold is the 'pos-tle-i-you and the lamp see 1 11 ' "IpOf I don't see.. This is a nice"; i "tVell, hie I'li show you. Mat- . thew is the-'ppstle of sweetness and lighjt. Well, you and the lamp fill the pill sweetness and light. The lamp is the light and you are the sweetness." u Xou foolish fellow," said she, with a sinile;,. 'what are you standing there fori Let me help yoa off, with your coa. ' - - ' -. . . , . Recent chemical investigation has shown that potato plants do not absorb- and assimilate the arsenic of Paris green and other preparations used for destroying the: Colorado po tato beetle. Fears that the tubers migkt be rendered poisonous are thus proven to be groundless. The productiveness of the soil, however, is impaired by the use of arsenic in considerable quantity, 1 . Hi' G 7 1 ': -'! riff Ml . 'y JL v 1
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