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J. iiiDEiENDEisrT risr all things; ' Tajx-Mxae CS-OO Z. ' or T..f , w ri1 i'pVe H 'rNEW BERNE, GRAVEN COUNTY, N. C, DlvCEMBER 7, 1882.; : VOL. V. 1J . . .-. Professional Cards. GLO. II. LE7E3AT,-J;.', Attorney at.Law; SMITHFIEtD, . C, Will pn.-Uc whenever professional aarcleee ,w Hm. A. 8. MTlmon, Jph .... , . . ; . I. , . ...... J Us .JUi( v . o;.:.zy at layt", iOe sppoolls east Hs New lierHe,' N. C : , ...,. ... ;,. ihal'iuintUs Of CrWfV. .,.. '., ..!,! . .,;..w. !"nmltcvanU IVaveo; also l. . '. 1- i.i.'....tk'i)ur1. I r -A Iittcnuou piU to the eolleetloa of p. rrjr.rnr peahsall,,. AIH ltSET AT LAW. 4 TUr.NTON. .TOXICS CO. X.. CL,, u ':i ..-i.-t'iT In CoimiiM or Onalv. I ..... - . ami J'-nea: " ... . . . ,-,...... eiJ9-aJtWtf. r.rr-3 Advertisements. D. Y. IIURTT,. . I I 1 .lklll . -' - - " ." ! Olil ., i , J .STAN I, ::;tt r.;rr., ir. c. 1 Ulrich, ; ir?-! GOODS I". it. Oils Can- ! ...kum. t.l'.AIX SACKS in !.Ai:i) SM'FF by t!.e til. UTS ami SFINTS. . vi.WEESNX.jr.C. . ... l hn i f!l t US of '. i tvi m:h. , NAIIJS, CAXVASS, - - i L J ii w..lki j:;g stock . nil. an J for sale . Oil CASH. . z.::. iiailn, ; MiJJIe Street, :A CLurch and' Odd Janel5w-Cm Li) ;: no TH Ens, . A 1AZ it RETAIL. Z U'!0CERS:4 C r. 1 and Cuen Strt T '''" r - T- T- r Tf J- , O - -3 C - - Mar. 30, It ,10: IN' DUNN, " 1T FACTUKEK OF - -And V I. a!e and Retail Dealer iaf Stein rcHnsd Confectionexy. FKESII & CANNED FBTJITS, Crackers and 'Cakes,. '1 cigars'.!! Ao l all Kinds of Children' TOtS WAGONS &el &cl 'poixbc3C,st.,- A;rl3,l7W . 2fsw Bern, C WM. LORCH, , tain e: - aiir.nr.Ai, merchandise r:2 ACCcncsATrxt- J 1 Jrwd St. Saw Iiim. t ";: dwHsr. ko. DATE BROS.;u WHOLESAE .GROCERS AND' . ( ;, NEW BEBXE.K. lprtlwlT THE BEARS. Railroad Battle. '-' v . . . ' rr Some .days, go we r published Geueral Lewis' report "as. an.tex pert, on the condition of the A. & N. C. B. B: This was the "Bear" side and decidedly bearish it was. To-day we give the Balls h showing, and they too ate- rampant, propos ing: to butt'; eVerythinjroff tbe bridge that stands in the way. -; A. & ST." C B. B. stock dropped" from 13 to 9 on Gen. Lewis7 report; now it ought to go uplol. We give on ly extracts from Col.' Andrews!jie port; tbe whole wonld le too . long for, a newspaper article: V t Rt'pST mt J. W. jkmdrtws. Chief K&adc Supt mm CamvslltlaK (fAUutk sft M. C. R. R.. iMlmsUBK Reports mt oaesn Midland X. C. Bail way Go.;-' New Berne, 'Not. 22, 1882. Wm. J. Best, Esq : '-f TrMilonf. AT, V. Ti'v ? ' V1ien 1 firat came . upon- this Boad in July, 1SS1, as Superintend ent, I foand the rolling stock, roal- bed and structures in such ft , wonij oat and broken down condition that without the extensive repairs which were immediately made by the Mid land N. C. Bail way. Company,, it wonld long ago have been impossi ble to ran a train of cars over ' the road from Goldsboro to . Morehead City..- - - - '--". . Imn1edii.tely.0n taking charge of the A. & N. C B; B. property, Gen. Manaser Yates aaded one man each to tbe laboring force of every Section, and an additional Section was pat in, with a thorough ly equipped construction tram on the line; and for the six . summer months of our occupancy of the road an extra construction: train was employed. On taking , charge as Chief EugiiA-erand Superintend ent I added another man to each of the Section forces. - Gem rul Book-Keeper Dill reports that we have expended for mainten ance of road-way f296,73,ll; and for permanent improvements and equipment $33,431,34, And that the labor and improvement of these Station forces and expenditures are apparent along the line of the road is manifest in the fact that daring the past summer, a schedule was maintains! bet ween Goldsboro and Morehead City one hour and forty minutes quicker than the running time when the Midland Campany leased the road. . '.1 The failure of this Ehode Island Locomotive Works to deliver our new freight Engines by the- 15th October, which they contracted: to do early last summer, threw the weight of onr heavy Fall business upon the old, light locomotives, which, for the most part have been in use on , this road , for the f past twenty-live years, and this draft npoa our motive-power resources was such as to embarrass ns in onr operations, and regular Schedule time has often been lost-and several connections missed daring the past thirty days. Added to our embar rassments two of our latest -overhauled and best Engines, Lewis Coleman and W. J.. Best .were thrown from the, track bvi broken axle and truck, at Goldsboro, and temporarily crippled,", .the:. Lest requring to be , towed down and put in the Shop for repairs. ;. But no defect .of road-way or structure has caused an hour's de lay to any train, a dollar of damage to any rolling stock, or for ' a ; mo ment endangered life, limb, or- pro perty; and the road-bed, superstruc ture, and bridges are in condition to render sale any ; Schedule it ' has ever been found neccessaryor de sirable to run over the road.- : - Under the Midland management the details of operations have been left in the hands of snch men we found at the heads of various de partments and these have had com mand of ample resources: The very skillfull and highly ac complished Master Machinist, i Mr. Manly, we found in charge of the Machine Shops, and Motive Power nnder the old management, while under this he has governed with in creased forces and facilities. For Motive Power and maintenance of Cars, Mr. Manly has expended $40, C1G,SS; - Permanent Improvement and Equipment 25,7G3,40. , His department be reports in good order; though Expert Lewis says it has deteriorated thirty per cent, for the past sixteen 7 months! .. Ab surd and preposterous. The thoroughly competent Boad Master, Mr. Murdoch was with the road at its birth, and as Master of Boad-way,has performed his duties in a thoroughly satisfactory man ner. Lie has expended on main- tenance of way and Permanent I in provement, I2,34L6o. lie pro- j nonnces the road safe and in good condition. - Upon tbe statements of these officers of detail, and Dr. Thos. D. Hogg, the chosen Expert of the A, & N. C. R. B. Co, III of whom are accredited, to ns and the public as .honorable and reliable, men, I might safely rest tbe present con dition of the Boad before the pablic and your Company; and upon their statements and my own intimate knowledge' of the condition of a property t which ; I superintend, I pronounce Jthe 'report of Expert GenL W, Gaston. Lewis untrue in statement and in detail. 1 'He has wilfully ignored and shut his eyes to every improvement this Company has made along the line of the- road.v Into the Pier, ap proach, or bnlk-heal" of the Ware house at Morehead, where he lodges his first complaint, forty piles were driven in June and July last. Not that they were really needed, but In deference to an expressed desire of Gov. Jarvis. Gen. Lewis recom mends driving heart piling in salt water, whereas, if he knew enough to write himself "Expert" he should know that worms will not attack timber with th bark on; that they make slow progress through sap; While they go through the heart in a single season. This worm is cal led ToredOy and it is not praticable to ! construct anythng of wood in these salt waters to resist his rava ges in the absence of artificial pro tection. "; THE BULLS AND The embankment : at' Morehead and along, the entire line of road is quite as high, and wide as we found it, and his recommendations regarding 1 raising,, widening and weeding out the road-way, ditching, etc, as a reflection or criticism on this management come with bad gracef at the dictation of a manage ment which ibr years had neglected themjall and suffered them to go down under its perishing policy. There appears to have been a conjunction in finding a dangerous cattle guard near the residence of Appleton Oaksmitb. New stringers were put in here within the past six 1 months,; and some neighbor having 4iailed rough timbers 011 the stringers to prevent hogs walking over led this Expert into tne idea that the cattle guard ' was ' unsafe. The cnlverbvhe pronounces danger ous 011 this Section, have, according to report orKoau master, . had at teurion'writhiir the past few months, and are nil absolutely safe Bespectiug the croHS-ties in the road from one end " to - the other, their condition and distance from itn t re to centre; those which-- are three- feet were laid so by precedin managements, not oars. . In his last report, before the lease, , President V hitford said he had disturbed fifteen (15,000) thousand cross-ties during the year.. Dr. Hogg, the A, & N. C. B. B. Co.s" Expert esti mates that we took up and replaced with new ones 28,400 rotteu cross ties: Mr. ; Dill our ' Gen. Book Keeper reports that we have paid for and put down during the past sixteen months ; 27,922. cross-ties, costing 90,004 Jji. --- - . Great stress is laid by 'Expert Lewis on sap ties... Dr. Hogg says they are new, consequently safe and sound at the present time. Their life time may be short (not as short as two years), but as an indictment of tbe unsafe condition of the road the sap tie count of Expert Lewis fails. : Exiiert Hogg says to his President, CoL Whitford, in special report. Not. 9: "I' conclude that the cross ties are in better condition than when the road, was leased." . There are no bridges on the road in 1 bad- order. cOn , the contrary they are all in good order. - See report of Boad . Master. - Trent bridge Ihave personally tested with, axe nd , auger tva - well as Neuse bridge. I find the stringers to be of heart cypress, with an occasional sap edge showing slight signs of decay in the sap. I find all the timbers in these structures soun d, and the ' bridges bare ? a factor of safety of six, .all that is required of a new structure of this kind. Some lateral braces are out of Trent bridge, many of them originally; left out. for - the -accom modation of small boatmen, but none in a dangerously decayed con-: dition, and their absence is not an 1 important consideration. ' This bridge and all bridges have, by my ordeis the constant attention of the Boad Master, and are kept ab solutely safe. : .-" : . .' Beaching New Berne, this Expert finds parapet walls on the (General Warehouse which he recommends should come down, and the eaves made to project over the platforms. What platforms f There are no platforms. to the -warehouse, , the tracks running tbe cars close along side the building. Parapet walls did once run up one side the warehouse, 1 but these were long since removed, taken down I sm informed, under! the i administration of President Humphrey in 1875.- What sort of Expert is this that don't know the difference between a warehouse platform and a railroad track, and can't tell a flash roof from parapet walls ,.sj; i"A t i: -;. iihit ' ' - - His statement as to the leaky con dition of the Shop roof, &c, is ab solutely and unqualifiedly untrue. See "report1 of ! Master Machinist Manly. , The repairs he recommends to shop roof, &c, were made by us a year ago. These did leak . under our predecessor's management,' the shops tumbling down and danger ous. See Manly's report, and also files of a paper published in New Berne in the .interest of a - lease to .Wilmington &- Weldon Bail road, 1880-'S2, from which the re port of Expert Lewis appears to have been, compiled. This Expert values our new pas senger station and President and Superintendent's offices at $1,250 ; they cost &L500. He says the Pier at the Biver. Warehouse is built on inferior piles. This is not true. They were ordered eat of long leaf pine, and were the best to be had up Neuse Biver. This 'report is an exaggeration and misrepresentation from begin ning to end, grossly and wilfully so, and it was procured for a purpose. Instead of applying to this Com pany lor a hand-car to go over the road and examine it as often as they see fit, which is the right and the privilege of the A. & N. C. B. B. Co., they hire a man, disguise him, and send him over the road on foot, in secret, who, when he be comes tired and foot-sore above New Berne, annoys and quarrels with our Section men for refusing his persistent demands to be taken on. A report thus procured was not intended to be truthful, honest, manly, fair and impartial, and it is not. He dwelt upon the needs of a warehouse at Newport, but could not see the new ones we have built t Wildwood, Havelock, Dover and Falling Creek. He caine making observations aud seeking informa tion, but he blinded his observation to everything favorable to this Company, and in seeking informa tion studiously avoided everylxdy conneeted with the Boad. Al though we have built and put umii the road nineteen (19) new freight cars, and have seven more nearly ready to go on, he passes by such an important fact to recommend that some old cars on the material train be discarded as unfit for nse. The suggested improvements of Gen. Lewis are such as would make of this a first-class mad. The A. & N. C. B. B. is not and never was a first-class road. It is not a second ; nor was it a third or fourth class road when we received it. The locomotives and rolling stock were valued for i he lease at $50,920; machine shop and foundry at $12.000. Entire personal or movable'' property, including iron rails, $247,880.78, exclusive of Bridges $24,438, and Station Houses, Tanks and Turn-tables $17,090. Total inventoried value of A. & N. C. B. B., July. 1881, exclusive of road-bed and right of way, $289,408.78. Dr- Hogg, the lessor Company's own Expert, says in a letter to President Whitford: "The lessee is maintaining the property fully up to the requirements of the lease, for in fact he could not use to ad vantage a progressive property like a railroad by permitting it to re main in the same condition in which he received it." Inviting your attention to reports of officers enclosed, f a in Very Truly, J. W. Andrews, Chf. Eng. & Supr. Supplementary Report or Mauler Ma- rhtutat. New BerseN. C.Nov. 10, 1S82. J. W. ANDREWS, Esq., Chief Engineer and Sup't. M. N. C. Railway: Sir: Anticipating the necessity for more motive power to meet the increas ing demands of our transportation de partment, two new and powerful loco motives were ordered of the Rhode Is land Locomotive Works last summer, which undertook to . deliver them at Goldsboro on the 15th of October last. During the early part of that month I inspected the engines at 'Providence, as they were turned out of the shops com pleted. We have the telegrams that thev were shipped on the 8th inst., af ter many delays by , the Pennsylvania Raad, and the engines should reach Goldsboro early next week. With these engines to do the regular freight busi netts. our motive power,,, with the im provement ".nd additions we are making in the shone, will be adequate for all purposes. As a comparative, statement ot tne general condition of rolling stock, en gines, cars, shops, tools, and machinery, and improvement to same for the six teen months ending October 31, 1883, I beg to submit the following: - PASSENGER- CARS. Total cost for repairs etc., 94,843.57. Of this amount Si ,500 is for re-building second-class car No. 9, and - attaching air-brakes, Janney platforms and coup lers: and 830 is for equipping one oth er 2d class car, two baggage and mail cars with same, and : re-painting. The passenger, baggage and mail cars are in good running order, except first- class No. 4, (old) in repair shop requiring $1,200 to put it in first class condition. The two first-class cars purchased in August 1881 have been in constant use ever since, are now in first-class order and running every day. '. OLD FREIGHT BOX CARS. All of these cars are' in rood running order and are in constant we. except No. 88, now in repair shop.. We have put under these Cars in the last sixteen months about 60 new wheels and 18 new axles, which cost 81,010. . FLAT CARS. We have 83 Flat cars in running or der, Five been broken up condemned as worthless since June iooi. xnese cars were valued in the inventory of Messrs. Yates and Harding at $150 each. , The old wheels axles and Iron on one of these cars are worth to this Company 60.00. --;-'-" .NEW FREIQT CARS. , We i have built since July 1881 10 box cars of 13 tons capacity : 5 fiat or coal cars of 10 tons capacity ; 4 coal cars cf 15 tons capacity, all eight wheel cars, ine coal cars ol 10 tons capacity are equipped with the Iron channel-bar truck of the Thielsen pattern. We are now prepared with the patterns and everything for building cars of. twenty tons capacity, cheaper tnan tney can dp purchased at any of the regular car building estabXisnments. we nave lum ber on hand and framed ready for the iron work for seven more box cars of 20 tons capacity. Total cost of new freight cars to date 87,965.26. ENGINES. The engines out of service 'are the Charles Fisher and Dr. Hawks. We have iron on hand and paid for, for building new boiler and tank for the Fisher. The machinery is in good or der, and the engine will be put in hret class condition for $3,500. Engines "3" and "7" are the mate rial and switch engines respectively. Engine No. 4 is in good running or der and has lately been equipped with Westinghouse air-brakes for engine and tender at a cost of 400. Engine No. 6, Wm. Gaston, is now in shop having new barrel to boiler put in, and will be readF for service in about two weeks. Has been equipped with air-brake attachments to engine and tender at a cost of $400. Engine No. 9, rebuilt in December and January 1881-'82, new boiler &c, at a cost of $2,700 is in good running or der. Engine No. 8, Wm. J. Best, which was overhauled last Spring and put in thorough order at a cost of about $800. and has since been hauling freights, met with an accident on the morning of Nov. 7th at Goldsboro, caused by broken ax le under engine, which threw her from the track and overturned her. Dam age to the machinery about $300 only, but as we have her in the shops we shall overhaul her at an additional cost of $500, and put her on the road in much better condition than before tbe accident. Engine No. 12, Gov. Bragg, received from A. & N. C. R. R., as "scrap" valued at $1,500 has been carefully rebuilt with new boiler of iron in shell and wagon top: i inch in tube-sheet'; steel tubt from National Tube Works of Bosf.on; new tank of i inch iron, and iron trucks. This is a complete new engine except the frame, cylinders and wheel centres, and built with all the modern improve ments, air-brakes, injectors, &c. Put on the road Nov. 6, and cost to rebuild her $6,000. SHOPS. The shoos, machinery, tools, &c, are all in good running order anil show many improvements and additions in detail. None of the shop buildings or Round House have leaked since this Company put them in order and over hauled them last year. Basil Manly Master Machinist. Summary of SI '. Hogg aud JUttn ' Report. August 2j. 1882. Road-bed in good order. Sufficient cross-ties west of New Berne; east insufficient, aud for permanency and econom- better quality reeo- mended Bridges all in good order. Scott's creek bridge re-tinned and painted. Batchelor's creek bridge re-built. Core creek bridge new sills. Trent river draw repaired. Neuse river draw repaired. Heavier rails wanted on Trent bridge. Stony creek bridge re-tinned, repaired and painted. New piling in approaches to Morehead warehouse. New depot buildiuy at Wild wood 150.00 50x150 wharf at New Berue 2.700.00 Old wharf rebuilt .ViO.OO New platform to New Berne warehouse iOU.OO New house for New Berne a;ent 2."0.00 New car shop (to date of report) 1.200.00 New paint shop ."iUO.OO Repairs to foundry roof, shops round house 500.00 New station building (to dat of report) 2,500.00 New supt's office 500.00 New station at Dover 150.00 Bridge tender's house at Neuse bridge 350.00 Warehouse and platform at La Grange repaired. Goldsboro warehouse and plat form repaired New 30x150 nlatforni at Golds boro 350.00 Timbers renewed in Morehead turn-table Newport, Core creek, Kinston and LaGrange water tanks' re paired and housed in New tnk and well at Goldsboro 950.00 Iron rails on line in good condi tion. Mile No. 38, new steel rails Iron complies with terms of lease. Tools of same value as last year. New material on hand in shop 5,201.45 Expended on scrap Engine Bragg" (to date of report) 2,500.00 New iron for boiler to "Fisher" 500.00 Engines all remain of same val ue except Lewis Coleman, in creased $2000 and Nob. 4 aud 6 $400 each , 3,800.00 Old flat cars kept to same value '""""' Old box cars kept np to same value. Eight new box cars $3,600; two new fish cars $1,000: two new Gondola cars $800; three new Hat cars $1,050: Total for new freight cars by M. N. C. Railway 6,450.00 Two baggage cars improved $150 each 300.00 Six second-class improved ISO.OO Two new first-class cars -H ;7,000.00 New official car valued by Capt . Devhie , 4.600.00 Total $41,751.45 Suplememtal Report ot ' Dr, Thos. Hogg, Expert. Goldsboro, N. C, Nov. 9th, 18B2. Col. Jno. D. Whitford, 4 President, etc Dear Sir: There are about 2,100 cross ties to the mile in this road, and in the ninety-live miles 19t,oOO; bo if the miles tabulated above (tables omitted Kd. Journal area fair average of the road, as I take them to be, there would be in the whole road 15,500 sap ties, 12.900 heart ties, 9,950 rotten ties, 161, 150 sound ties. The ties denominated sap and heart are new, and have been placed in the road since the lease. So 28,400 rot ten ties have been taken out by the lessees, and there remains in the road 9,950 rotten lies, as above stated. Hence, I conclude that the cross-ties are in better condition .than they were when the road was leased. ' - The estimate above given applies to the road west of New Berne. 1 did not have time to go eabt of that place so as to report to this meeting, but in my former report, I called attention to the fact that -the cross-ties east .of New Berne were not sufficient in number. Therefore, the; ratio above given may be too large for that part of the road. -1, began my examination at mile 47 because I could not get a hand car until I reached that point on. a material train from New Berne. . I find on this trip that the new ties which are now coming in are much bet ter than those formerly used. Yours very truly; Thos. D. Hogg, Expert A. & N. C. R. K. Road Master's Report. New Berne, June 27,1883. J. W. Andrews, Esq., Chief Engineer and Sup't M. N. C. Railway: Sir: As directed I herewith hand you a comparative statement of the work done in tne Koaa Department of the A. & N. C. Division from July 1st to i May 81st: j Months. Road Dept. 1881. 1882. July 1880 $1,340.07 $1,514.20 August Sept. " Oct, Nov. " Dec. Jan. 1881 Feb. March " April " 1,887.5Z 1,804.45 1,774.58 1,315.01 1,806.29 1,416.71 1,221.75 1.323.87 1,873.90 1,638.51 3,249.95 2,423.08 5,125.64 2,962.05 1,696.93 1,761.84 1,423.53 1,537.47 4,211.75 1,963.82 May 17,246.66 20,424.76 Steel rails not included in the above, 5,280.00 Extraordinary and per manent improve ments, being now con struct at New Berne, car shed $350; passen ger depot $750; car shop $650, 1,750.00 $17,246.66 $33,454.76 Cotton Manufacturing. (Atlanta Constitution.) I had pleasant talk with Thomas M. Holt, the most prominent mem ber of the family at present. He went to college for a year or two, and then weut into a shop and mill and learned the business to which ho was to.devote his life. He start ed with-his present mill at Haw river, which then had 528 spindles. Out of its earnings he has added to it until he now has $455,000 cash invested in buildings and machin ery, and is just now finishing a large addition. He is himself worth much over a half million, ev ery dollar of which was made by cotton manufacture. Tasked him ! to-day: "If yon were a youug fellow just starting life would you adopt the same course of life you have fol lowed V "Certainly. Nothing pays so well and so surely as the spinning aud weaving of cotton when it is properly looked after. It is assured wealth to any man of intelligence who will attempt it near the cotton field. To show you my faith in it, my son is now working in a facto ry in Chicapee, JNIass., aud has just finished his study of the card room. He will soon be competent to take charge of a mill, and then he will have one." "Do you consider the growth of cotton-spinning iu the South as sured V "Beyond question. It is ouly a question of capital and education. New mills are springing up ou all sides of us and all through the South. Our most remarkable prog ress, however, is in the quality of our goods. We are now making the grade of goods that New Eng land a few years ago was supposed to have the monopoly of. 1 dyed with my own hands the first piece of colored cottons ever wove in the South. Now it is being made in many southern nulls."' "The South has the advantage in cost of manufacture V "I can demonstrate to any man that there is a clear and indisputa ble advantage of 1. to 2 cents a pound in favor of the South over New Kugland. In this day of com petition and of swift transportation this difference must tell at last. We are in the dawn of the greatest in dustrial development any see! ion ever saw." Try planting sunflowers iu your garden if compelled to live in a malarial neighborhood. New Berne as a Fish Market. BY MA J. D. T. ?AB EA WAT. - '' '(New Ronth.) While them sire no large fish eries on the NeiisH Biver or Pamlico Sound, as there are ou the Chowan and Albemarle, yet this is by far, tne largest n-n market m the state, and is likely th largest south of Norfolk indfid, it has been so long conceded that Norfolk is the largest, that no one seems disposed to question the truth of the assump tion but it is in my mind a : ques tion ot great doubt. As stated a hove there are no very large lisii erics from which -New Berne draws her supply, t ut there are iiinnm era hie smaller ones, and bv the diMiet made of taking them iiim-ii greater area ot water is drawn from (ban by the great seme-bench process. They have their annual, or, at least, their semi-annual seasons, while our season is well nigh perpetual, xiiey are coiihueu to but two vari eties they fake, except as to the season in . which each variety is more abundant. Thev have miles ot seines but their points of opera tions are stationary, while those of the netting parties are here, there and everywhere., - V The waters of Neuse Biver, Pam heo Sound, Core Sound, - Davis Straits, Bogtie Sound aud a nnm ber of creeks aud bays are' drawn from, and lately the Atlantic Ocean itself has been levied upon by the enterprising dealers of New: Berne. There are many miles of nets of all classes: a great number of boats' of 'all builds and shapes; and over five hundred men almost daily em ployed in the catching of fish for this market, whose efforts are rewarded by the capture of one hundred varieties of the finny tribe. The value in money of the annual sales, by shipment is estimated at over two hundred thousand dollars besides a local sale for home con sumption of not less than twenty five thousand dollars more, making a total sale ol nearly a quarter of a million ; dollars annually at this place. - There is estimated to be six hun dred persons whose business is catching and haudling fish, repre senting a population in the town and country of not less than fifteen hundred persons whose living is obtained directly from the ancient calling of St. Peter. The capital invested in boats, nets, and other necessary apparatus falls but little, if any below twenty five thousand dollars. , The supply is drawn from the waters named, but the demand comes - from a greater distance. Shipments are made to Norfolk and Baltimore, north of us j and to various points in Soutb Carolimiv Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, South and West; while the whole State of North Carolina along the various railway lines is our customer. As an article of food fish furnishes many mouths a ' sumptuous meal which would otherwise be left to the cravings of hunger, of, at least, only spared that suffering by , the commonest food to be obtained. The scores around the wharves of the city in the seasons for taking fish with hook and line, exhibit a practical faith among the colored people that would bring a blush to the most eminent prelate, by com parison with his own. Old and infirm people ; young and gay ; lads and lasses; children just large enough to understand the art; mothers nursing their infants, all sitting for hours patiently watching the cord dancing merrily on the riffles, in blisful hope of getting a bite even if only from a catfish or eel. How trustfully they watch. How persistently they readjust the bait aud try again. How phil osophically they conclude that the wind or tide, and even "luck" itself has temporarily (inspired against them. And yet they hold ou firm ly, believing that "there are as good fish in the water as were ever taken out." And when patience receives its reward aud an active eel is "hooked, the merry laugh, the excit ed hoys and delighted girls, would fuini-.h a splendid miniature of a "great haul'' at "Avoca." How dare wu to say that the thankful hearts of these humble people might not cause another blush if compared with those who are much more highly favored. All must admit that the occupation frishfis alimidnnt nnnnrfnnif v for meditation aud reflection; two srreat i ' I' - vr - helps to self examination so earnest ly enjoined by St. Paul iu his writ ings to the early christians. Fish ing always assumes something of a sacred calling to my mind, although generally the men engaged in it, would not lead to such a conclusion. Fish were so often employed by the Divine Head to exhibit His miraculous power, that it creates that impression. It was a fish that was employed to proserve Jonah from the perils of the sea and send him on the journey to Nineveh. A fish furnished the tribute money wheu demaded f our Savior and His disciples. It was the miracu lous diaught of fishes that convinced Peter that Jesus was the Lord. It was fishes twice used by Him to display His almighty power feeding the hungry multitude. It was of fish that lie partook with the dis poud disciples after His resureetion. And they are still furnished daily by His direct providence, at the little expense of taking to a multi tude much greater than five or seven thousands. As a fish market then, New Berne stands well up in the front ranks of any town in the South, and some of her finest dwellings have been either built or bought with the pro ceeds of an energetic devotion to dealing in fish. Fatal Railroad Collision. Pout JEiiVix, Nov. !'.). Express train No. 1 on the Hriu Railway, which was two hours late, ran into the rear of a freight train near Greenwood at noon to-day. Con ductor David Luuuingof the freight train was killed. The engineer of the express train, Andrew lioekett, and the fireman, Charles E iger, were injured, but not fatally. The track was blockaded two hours. " Slce Culture Protected. As we see new industries spring ing up in the South . coming into comietitiou with the skilled labor of the North as well us the cheap laoor oi Europe; and as we. recog nize the importance of changing our section from an entirely agri cultural to a partial manufacturing centre, our views on tree Trade have gradually changed, and . we recognize ; that ; the . agricultural South, far more than the manufac turing North may stand in need of a protective tarilt. And this pro tection is ,: necessary not . only to manufactures, but even to bue very important agricultural , product. Kice culture is the coming crop of our rich swamp hinds, and but - for the duty imposed,' the Celestials would drive us out of the market, The editor f the Mobile (Ala Reyuter, a paper; of great abilit v and wide circulation, thus discusses tne subject, and his views are. wor thy of thoughtful consideration The time now is when the culture or rice enters Very largely into, the commerce - and economy i of the Southern farmer. The time is rap id ly coming wuen it will tie crown very generally! upland as well ' as lowland in .air the vast reiriou caua- Die oi its production. n , Tbe status of this prime article of consumption as respects the tar iff is therefore a subject of very deen iwiu. general luiereso. . , . ... , .. .. .i i . . The Tariff Commission, at its re cent session Held at Savannah, paid marked attention to the conditiou of the rice market . and tbe effect upon the home planter of a reduc tion of the present duty upon im ported rice. Mr. John Screven was spokesman for the Savannah mer chants - and.- rice planters. Mr. Screven is well and favorably Known to many Moouians as now. or lately President of the Atlantic and Gulf Baihoad, which should be pushed through to Mobile. He is a gentleman of the ' highest social standing, and so often : has he re ceived marked distinction . at tbe hands of the Democracy .. of Savan nah that his loyalty . to Southern Democracy cannot be questioned. We may therefore ' assume that? in advocating high protection for rice MrScreven is not in hostility to the Democratic sentiment of Geor gia and South Carolina, as he is un-. uou bteuiy not so to the sentiment of Louisiana. , These three flour ishing Southern States favor the present duty of two aud a half cents or half as much, as the present market price of rice, if necessary. to exclude foreign competition. Mr. Screven, addressing the Tar ff Convention at Savannah, showed plainly the history of rice produc tion since the civil war. . He said : "If, under the change of the sys tem of labor, and . the consequent changes of the price of labor, we bad been placed under the contin ued manipulation of Mongolian and East India labor, the rice industry of the- country must necessarily have succumbed and been oblitera ted from American . soil. . But the facts are these: In the crop year 1805-18GG there were produced 11,- 600,000 pounds of rice: in the crop year just passed 1880-1881, the pro duction nas . been , 117,700,000 pounds. I may say that the whole of the American' product of rice is consumed in this country, for ' but 150,000 pounds of the American crop were exported in the past ear. And the same instructive lesson is to be derived from the in- igation of the facts' of the de cade anterior to 1881. The gross production of rice in the Southern States from 1870 to 1880 was C67,- 000,000 iKiunds. Of this, nearly the whole crop was consumed. "Now, couie nearer to the point. You must be aware that there is a ery large importation of Eastern rice into the American ports. Therefore, iu the decade I have named there were imported into the United States 039,000,000 pounds. It must strike you with remarkable force that the Ameri can lieople are permitted to con sume as much foreign rice as they please, and that the quantities (if American nee and foreign rice con sumed iu the United States are so nearly equal that it absolutely puts the foreign rice and the American rice iu a system of competition, and purely under the influences of the present duty upon foreign rice. "I have only to add that the to tal consumption of rice in the Uni ted States at the present time is l.5,0d0,000 to 145,000,000 jioiiiids per year. We assume that nearly half of this is foreign rice. It is plaiu that if you abolish the du:y, and take away the sustaining pow er a Horded by it Xo the Southern producer, the result will naturally be the establishment of the same monopoly which brought large quantities of rice into the United States during the late war. What was the result of that? Simply that prices of rice then rated jmt pound at froui loto 17 cents. What do we see now ! The average price of rice iu this country is about 5 to 5 to the benefit of the American peo ple, and I believe, .solely and en tirely from the beneficial influences of your tariff." This statement of the case is It shows that a a half cents a equal to an ad very instructive, duty of two aud pound, which is valorem duty ol hlty per cent, at the present rice quotations, is barely able to keep down foreigu competition. Indeed wc may say it does not prevent such competi tion, since wc find as much loreigu as domestic rice sold iu our markets. The argument o( Mr. Screven is defective iu suggesting that the tariff caused the high price of rice during the war. We may more fairly attribute those prices to the blockade and to depreciated cur rency. But after making all al lowances for zeal of the advocate, wc must admit that Mr. Screven has made out a strong case for re taining the present duty. It may be said that this is hili protection, that it is not a duly for revenue merely but purely for pro tectiou. On the contrary the vast revenue derived from imported rice proves that it is a duty for revenue, and uo one can safely deny that the protection afforded is simply an incident. AMERICAN INDL'STEIES. A Statistical Revlaw afoar Onsl - Jaetartaf lattarestsTlsa Vmattr , Haads, Capital Iavastrsl, Wast Paid - andValas of PradactsCaaprallT BxhlMts for Ifca Several tataa, ',,' f '; (Washington Post.), The census department has issue a bulletin giving full coinpreheu site statistics as to the tiitns ol tbe manufacturing Interests of thU country. The table r goes . iuto elaborate .details imd gives the capital 4uve8ted, the number of hands employed, the amount of wages paid, the value of materials used and the value of products for all tbe establishments of maun picturing industry, gas excepted, in each ot the States and Territories. the compilation being made from the returns of (lie census in 1880 The number of industrial estab lishments is 25:1,840, haviner a cai.i tal of fiJ,7T)0,2-':i,50(L Of this num ber New York has 4'J, 7.K) with a capital of $514,240,575, employing ob4,ool males aliont sixteen years of age, and 137,.'MU . females above the age of lift ecu years. The total amount paid iu wages during that year aggregated I208,534,01!!II , and tne value oi the products was 11,080,438,030. v u Pennsylvania follows the Empire Stat witli 31TJ5 workshops, 337, 11a, employees and a capital of I 9 447,400,003. The value of its pro ducts is 9744,743,045, or f 435,.sy, Col less than that of New York. In the -Northern States, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Khode Island,' New York,- New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigau, three are 153,453 places or industry, or 8,08 more than in the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia. - North Carolina, South Carolina, Ken tucky, Tennessee, - Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi. Florida, Arkan sas, aud Texas. - . - lihode Island, the smallest State in the Union, has 2,205 workshops, which is 1,450 more than Delaware, tbe next smallest, and only 701 less than Texas, the largest . Stato in the Union. . Iu amount of capital involved, however, Bhode Island is 900,330,382 ahead of Texas, and the value ot her products is 9104,103, 62L while that 'of Texus is .only 920,719,028. . .. -.. ; : , ;. The District of Columbia with 071 establishments and 9 5,552, 52G cu- Ital la ahead or Honda aud Colora do iu the value of its products 'ind in the number of workshop. The District employs 5,495 males above sixteen years of age, and 1,389 fe males above fllteu years of age, and 1,389 children and youths,, . The es- tabli diluents pay to these . hands 93,925,012 iu wage yearly, aud the products manufactured Hggregate f 11,882,310, tbe value of materials used being 93,3G5,4(K). t Colorado, the youngest state, which was admitted into the Union in 1870, can show but very little in crease in the valne of- its products over that of the District of Colum bia. This State has 599 establish ments and a capital of $4,311,714. It employs 1525 males, 200 females, 150 children, and pays in wages $2,314,427, or $1,019,187 less than is paid lor . wages in this Dis trict;" , : ;, s Forming tee rear of this long line of States and Territories tannes Ar izona with sixty -six workshops and an invested capital of $272,000. There are 210 men employed in the Territory, which added to the two females and tbe two children makes a total of 220 persons actively en gaged in industrial occupations. The total amount of wages is $111, 180, while the various products from these establishments is $015,055. In the 253,840 workshops through out the country, the average num ber ot bauds employed is 2,838,950. Of this number 2,025,277 are males 331,753 females, 181,918 children. The amount of wages paid out dur ing the year is 9947,818.0 4, and the value of the products is $5,309,- 007,700. .-"".; The list quotes the value of ma terials used in manufacturing, as aggregating $3,395,340,029. which leaves a progt on products of $1, 975,327,077. When' the amount paid lor wages is ueducted trout this, there remains a clear margin on the figures quoted of $1,027,480,- 003. Recommendations Therapeutic aa4 Otherwise. (Kuotc'H Journal of Health.) Try popcorn for nausea. Try cranlierries for malaria. -Try a sun-bath for rheumatism. Try ginger ale for stomach cramps. Try' clam booth lor a weak, stouv, ich. Try cranberry oultice for ery sipelas. Try gargling lager beer lor cure of sore throat. Ttv swallowing saliva when troubled with houc stomach. Tty eating fresh radishes and yel low turnips for gravel. Try eating ouions and horsera dish to relieve dropsical swellings. Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains. Try the croup-tipct when a child is likely to be troubled in that way. Try hot flannel over the seat of neuralgic pain, and renew frequently- Try taking codliver oil in tomato catsup it you want to make it pala table. Try snuffing powdered bo nix up the nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head." Trv taking a nap in the afternoon if you a going to be out late in the evening. Try hard three times a ider - a wineglassful day for ague and rheumatism. Try bi-cathing the fumes pontine or carlsdic acid to whooping cough. of tur relieve Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat. Try an extra pair of slocking outside ol your shoes when travel iug iu cold weather. Try walking with ymi- ImikIk behind you if you tin I you: soil coining bent forward. Try a silk handkerchief ovw the face when obliged lo go ag.iinsl cold, pierebvg WbnL t of (New y., h A grafted f t t- county, MUs., 1 . t es and this ye.ir (Only seven d.i. wedding of a imin nt fore he 1. ; . .1 . cousin. 'Mrs. Mary Ai i i : ton, Ga., who t ' been the im : l r I t dren. Among 1, r . six sets of trij u A boy f -11 from n window of a linll in L. and was caught I y 1, a high picket 1 . no apparent injury. t A spring hi St. T;i La., Imurn f ! i ' nil day long, tu t . suddenly' dry, di 1 uutil the sun d: ...i i Near the a i. : n- f tree recently rut i i ( Ky- a stone iu pound was found. grown solidly tti, i The. seven ti t !i wedding td' Mr. i Ilurd of I't n. '. been celcli ah .! . i i they le," n Lou are 81 and 7 y tivdy. The Bcv. J. P. .' refused coiuiuuix i niunicatcd iim ; ' r and the Litter ui " him. . The domi v occasion, utid t! hospital. At a Metlux1.. Graham, N. ('., ; age, who 1 , : 1 I biltll, suddenly preacher s pl.it voice proh'MMvI rt an exhortcr. All luvehii.:' it i ! i of the failure ( I si in Preaque I .-de, revealed a luryo web attached to the euduliii), t ! : . stroke. On his wed ' r " , ." 1877, Charles !.., r . . . uani!is engraved-1 :.e nmne of him- ;f n: silver half il..d..r ; Pittsburgh. In ; lat wei k by Li s I ceived buck tie i dollar. A Toronto lady, i t t start for Hiun h, k f a pair of her hi. mistake lor her : across her mm, a i , er mistake until !.. . the trousers over t ! ! lew.iiifroLt of L r. With ouly 1,2' p ; ' on spriugs, x. i ., : .huithes. The 1 ', built, has only . on i female members, it i , ol a legacy requi; ; ttilhiu Uhtatt il pi i , ' the money froui r ; i direction. A man ut W quested the l.Vv. ' . come and pray i. .. . his family who w.t ' . clergyman had n short distaix i! t : - i him, at the imi?; ' eliverover Lis v. u ud the little iiioih y i The twin daiu:U i Andrews werMnedd. 1 t.i i . and Judge Men ive s'' . i : ton, Ga., but both I i id - The widower ' more of the r.i-!. ; For the second ti. bereaved, and liny 1 i tbir time married i?d( :s. Hero is a incKineu- t ' comes ironi Oregon. A v named Funics, a pro!. i -I voyant, liecaniH cnauM : 1 yonug banker at ln; mesmerized him. st :ie til tings. This done, td.ej... ' ! with him, and they w ' by u minister pic i v mesmerized for the pm ! ,. A family of MiMli.Hon, O!,io, teen years ago purchase) a I ' r oliuus. t lien u pin wax i" it was taken from the p.ipr, after it had served itput; -replaced. If a pin was ! search was made until it w a t -I .' I I :. pins Iu this way the one itai r ! has kept the family sup; died 1 .r uiuctoeu years. - . Here is a story for . tempcr.-i ! orators: A party of nix mi I out in Wisconsin on a oi l n . ' t. After Mipper two drank 1. ; tor moderately, two freely, and tol t it iiloue. Iu the morni iterance men hhm-c i " ' f, I l. M li il fold , mid the 1 1 ly wrin ight drinkers were n! aud - hardly able to i , two who had drunk frozen to death. , Advuutagca of the Klgtl ' Vice. The range of niMjIulnima of the 1 !- weather Ken loo la belinr con in larked.' To know what kiucl morrow will be la one of Urn I iar things to the public. ship leaving port and pah!" lake! are becoming mora ami ' temaliced and penortfid. I clvin from tlie signal tUrn i l - ' w i. !rt i i t..at great flood riven of the Weft, t ... people on their banks that 'd. are Using to the danger point, I hey niih look out below for tni.ru that may sweep tha leveen. The augnr planters are told hi advn-, of coming fi ota. and tlte cartie In i . ; of Texas are fort) warned of tlte destruct io 'NortlMfrm," that work gresl Oamsye when tlni 'herds are too much eiHHl. Th fartnern' and planter hi ail arrt cultural diatricla wlthmTeach of the st have daily lulvloea by Uilefmj b and iHilletlii of ' coming wU.,r eliniiii'f. Large nunitars of tlteae tu . iIiih are sent mil dally to the fsrmW trlcta IhnHik'h tf jams-oflk-ieB. Tl' I delphia signal oflicenends out 1,17'j 1 .d etiim dally U mt many pos-e4Doee, lra they are Mmu-d for the tmfonna.Uoii of air in i ho vicinity. - A high avenge of correct redictMia are remclied, don ihau emhty-eittbt a tho bundred. a liv Uie alxrre It will be an that . ' . . fc. m At - j i VI mm r KUItry Ol WW einissrsaa naa tHi.u i -.nm twine navlgatlnn Wmn 1 -Imi.-nHsn. , Tle daogor ny Ootxia i loa ukuining atnl diaaatroaa. .At"M i m- and Iwrveattlie farmer la twdi J liirvl v In irotHCt lila crop In cooim! n sw-e i.:' tht promt ulxpatrliea wot all cer tlss country, by the Signal beryke 1 reail. "',-'.- . . - , , , ;0dd Ktorlrs from (
New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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Dec. 7, 1882, edition 1
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