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31 INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. Term aftB.OO Xer Tr. VOL. VI. NEW BERNE, CRAVEN COUNTY, N, C, JUNE 21, 1883. NO. 12. NEW BERNE ADVERTISEMENTS- MACHINERY. Having taken the theKhginesi-Sawl and T".: Tmon.LriUFfiCTuniriG company, embracing a line ' of Engines of five different styles, riuining 1 from As aMM A and Saw " Mills oi o dinerent sizes, l am pre pared to furnish you as lov tiguresi a& -can; First Claas Work; and would especially ask " weights of said Machinery-with that of other manufacturers. and draw vour own conclu- . sions. --"' i Ai.vj I carry a . full line of and solicit a share of your patronage. Send in yourj orders foirf Engines, Cotton Gins, Presses, Rice TresEers, &c, as early as possible, and thereby avoid delays and disappointments.:- , ' 4 Kentucky Corn Mills ' ; ' 4,Cook'w ETportort, ". ' 'Excelsior" Cider Mills, J - -larjlaad" Com Shellers,. .' j', V! Ho:kaw7 and Champion Grain Fans s Steam Engines, all lises, . ( Rice and Wheat Thresher and Separators, -.,, "; vv" Carter Cotton Gins, t" t'arrer Condensers, Carv-r Cotton Cleaners, -1 . Gollett's "Magnolia" "Gin," , Iljlrauli Cotton Press, Foirer Cotton Press,- V -' :ioore Co. Grit Corn Mills,'; - Drake's Pat. Shingls Machiney " u Write for terms and prices, and remember that no well regulated family: can afford to be without a Gilbert JForcePEuinp. Respectfully yours;, i , .lonVql wpiTTY, CI2A TUX STREET, . ICE XT DOOR TO COTTON EXCHAKQE, - : . ' : l-H:P'FE C. ' vavfs - "I"S - - af - CALOMEL ocotbsnMXRCTJLIAL Insredicnts, ::: r.r.3 U::!:n:t:diVcgcIabIei Ingredients T . VLLKEJQ THEM THE Surest, Safest and Best" Liver Pill on the Market. CT Trr ticim and be oonTiDcetTof their merit -) ... - -- - . - ' ' . O -A. II Brogslsts and Dealers keep thenw jeents per box sepl wly Q -mLLEtM GO., Tollok Street,' New Berne, N. C, PLOWSHABROWS - T, v - ,'y- In Great Variety and ; COWARD HAVE A FULL SiTS" FURNISHING GOODS. P. . Gauz. Lis Thread and Net Undershirts, all prices. Full Stock of Eigbmie and Elm City Shirt, grmrantred to lit. only i 1 .W. Xobby SoUa, Alpaca. Drap U Ete ami Sicilian Coats for warm wratli. r. I-irge ana of Durter. See our 110 suit. Collar. Cuffa, White Tics and White Vests. Straw Hata in freat variety, from 5 cents up. Nobby Fearl Colored Stiff Hats. Alpaca and Uk Bun Umbrella. We have a few dozen Misses Cinirr Tub ber Circulars, which we will cloe out at 1 .2. . N Large Em of ValUoe and Trunks. If yoa seed Straw Matting call on us before jou luy. Ws- arc c nstantly receiving and aelllDg it. W have a aka line of Low Shoe. Stacy Adam AM'o.'s Patent Pumps :md Gent'a SCppera. Genu Colored Ilalf Uoe, full line. Trr T7f Pint, when you need Anything in our Line- ; ' HOWARD & JONirS, '.'jaw: : . .Oppoalte Bplaoopal Ohuroh. Agency for the sale of -Corn Mills made by 2 to, 250 horse power afjA r a Complete Outfit at De onerea lor strictly before you buy I you to compare the A the following goods, "Kentucky" Shingle Machine, Cox Board Machine, Acme Pulveriainz Harrow, unsur- i passed for patting in small grain. 'Go'Easr" Feed Cutters, : Tennessee Wagons, r Hanoock Inspirators, Hegnes Graded Injector, Cotton Seed Hnllers, SatrMUls,.: Circular Saws,2 Gammers, Side File, Swages, Shafting, Pullejs, Belting, : Roanoke Hand Press, Maid of the South Corn Mills, Etc, Etcj Etc. . i Liver Pills. but are com- Trmckers Peas Sect! Potatoes Cotton Seed Peruvian jind Bone Guano, , Good Iiick Guano, ' Merrjmau's Super-Phosphato, r Lister's Dissolved Bone, Wlinnn's Plow Brand, For Truckers and Cotton Planters. AND CULTIVATORS, i at Very Low frices. GEO. ALLEN & CO. & JONES STOCK OF FIELD. FORT AND FLEET. ! Halleek's Approach on Corinth And Beauregard's Orderly Eraenatlon. i Detroit Kree Press. I Corinth was one of the charuel- apots of the war. From the time the Confederates first occupied it until the last Federal left it the spade of a grave digger never had an idle hour. The soldier who tented on its soil and drank of its water faced death as surely as in battle. Low, flat, its soil full of chills and its wa ters unfit even for horses to drink, Confederate and Federal found it a graveyard as well as a strategic point. "Died at Corinth" is the legend on hundreds and hundreds of headstones in the national cem eteries, and 'Died at Corinth' sup plies the epitaph of hundreds and hundreds of Confederates. AFTER SHTLOH. Directly after the battle of Shi loh Beauregard retreated by slow and easy marches to Corinth, and there intrenched. It has been as serted thatHalleck more than any other man waa to blame for getting Grant into a position to be annihi lated, and it is certain that directly after the battle he made no secret of his personal hostility. He at once proceeded to Shiloh and took command of the army in person and in reorganizing it he took care to humiliate lirant by virtually de priving him of his rank. Grant's own immediate command was di vided and sandwiched until he could not find it, nor was he con sulted in regard "to its disposi tion. It was tht, last days of April be fore Halleck and his grand army of upwards 80,000 men were ready to move on Corinth, and in the inter val he took dne care to keep the nation on the watch for the end of the rebellion. PICK AND SPADE. While Halleek's proclamations and . dispatches carried the idea that he meant to walk right over Beauregard and into Corinth when he got started, he had scarcely left the Tennessee Kiver behind when be began to intrench. There is not today a single mile between Shiloh and Corinth where his old intrench- ments cannot be foun d. W hene ver his advance struck a Confederate picket and a dozen carbines were discharged, the orders went back for spades ;tnd picks. The army moved like a hobbled horse. Its average advance was not half a mile a day. Corps and divisions and brigades left one line of breastworks to advance and erect another, and had Corinth been twenty miles farther away Halleck would have been all summer reach ing it. From the 3d to the 21st of May Halleck advanced only five miles, although the Confederate force on bis whole army front had at no time numbered a division. Every day he had a dispatch for the Northern press, and every night he hugged bis intrenchments and routed out the-whole army at every alarm from the picKet posts. BESIEGING COEINTH. Beauregard had in and around Cor inth not to exceed 45,000 men. His lines of work were . erected for temporary defense, and were not begun until after Halleck began moving. ' The Federal works built three miles out of Corinth, and rbuilt in thirty six hours at that, were far stronger than any erected defend the city. And yet Halleck not only got it into his bead that he must fay siege to Corinth ifter the regular fashion but he got such a train of siege guns on hand for the purpose that half his army was worn out in get ting the monsters over the country and in position- Beauregard had cause to dread a prom ptf and rapid advance of the Federal army, with a quick and vigorous rush upon some one point of his works, but there was no cause for alarm over Halleek's programme. DELAYING HALLECK. That the great Federal army marching on Corinth would eventually arrive before it and that its evacuation was only a question of time, must have been clear to the Confederate commander, but yet, to delay the time as long as possible, he delayed Halleck. Two of the Confederate attacks made upon portions of the Federal army while on the march were digni fied as battles, although only a few brigades were brought into action. Whatever Beauregard did puzzled and delayed Halleck and proved his incompetency. None of his corps commanders could have committed greater blunders, while Grant or Sherman were far more qualified to command the army and push it ahead to victory. Outside of the two attacks men tioned, the Confederates delayed Halleck by such skirmishing as would have delayed no one else. Whenever the Federal advance struck a Confederate picket which ne wfoie dered up, and if held its ground for any length of ades would be or- f a scout came in with the report of n Confederate division in position on one of the roads the matter was serious enougli tor a council of generals. IN POSITON. On the liSth of May Halleck had fairly invested Corinth, and his siege guns were up and in position. Beauregard did not have an earth-' work ou his whole line that Held artillery could not have battered down, nor was there one single point in hisline which was consid ered impregnable. It was pretty con clusively shown, when the l-eilerals; liually occupied Corinth, that had I Halleck massed on his right audi attacked sharply he would : have doubtless broken through.! Indeed, a sudden dash by 10,000 men at any point on the Confeder ate line would have tried it se verely. Halleck neither massed for a crushing blow nor tried it sudden dash, he was going to besiege Beau regard, the same as if the Confed erate troops had been shut up in a walled city with no lino of retreat and no way to renew supplies of pro visions. Having doubled the force of Beauregard, intrenchments i equally as strong,HaIleck waited for attacks instead of making them.and for three or four days routed the army out upon the slightest pretext On the 30th day ;of May he fully expected an attack along his lines, and that without further excuse than heavy picket firing. EVACUATING COUINTH. Beauregard had known for days and weeks that he must fall back when Halleck moved np. The val ue of Corinth as a strategic point was not worth risking a battle in which he would be outnumbered, and must attack intrenched lines at that. Therefore, on the last days of May orders were given lor the evacuation of the place. 2so point was over abandoned in a more or derly andsystematic manner in the face of an enemy. Every infantry corps was ordered to move at a certain hour, by a cer tain rendezvous. Every baggage train had its position assigned and was given a particular hour for leav ing. Every ammunition train and battery knew its position in the line of retreat, the strength of its guard, and the spot where it was to halt on the other side of the Tnscnmbia. While four-filths of the infantry vere to begin the re treat at a certain hour, it was un der such instructions that, had an attack been made by Halleck at any point daring the night, every brig ade would have wheeled about and marched back to the trenches with out confusion. About one-fifth of the infantry was left in the trenches for some hours, and cavalry in con siderable force was at the front. The cavalry was- to skirmish and annoy and keep up appearances until the last of the infantry was miles away, and then in falling back to destroy bridges and ob- 8truck the roads as much as possi ble INCIDENTS OF THE EVACUATION. The whole history of the war does not furnish another such cool and deliberate proceeding as the evacuation of Corinth. Much of the Confederate line was under fire. Halleck was moving bodies of troops here and there, and his siege guns were expected to open fire every moment, and yet the Confederate evacuation was without hurry or excitement. Beauregard had two railroads to send away stores by, and he did not leave $10 worth of public property behind him. All his guns, ammunition, tents, wagons, ambulances, lorage and other stores were sent off in safety. The orders to each corps, division. brigade and regiment were so clear and plain that mistakes were im possible. The programme mnst be carried out in the face of a great army ready to spring at a moment's notice. The Confederates, there fore, resorted to Yankee cunning to conceal their movements. A balloon, not large enough to hold a man, but big enough to fool Hal leck, was sent up on the night of the evacuation ana nekl suspended for some hours. The glare of the camp fires made the balloon plainly visible to the Federals, and the amount of iron and lead fired at it would hare been a load for a freight car. At stated intervals through the night the railroad locomotives at the depots blew whistles as if trains were arriving, and soldiers detailed for the purpose cheered the "rein forcements" so vigorously that Halleck believed the whole South ern Confederacy was massing in Corinth. Another of the tricks was to keep the camp-fires burning and now and then send up signal-rockets and open picket-firing. The Feder al picket-line was thus kept disturb ed and anxious, and Halleck was sorely puzzeled to know what new plan Beauregard was carrying out. Worthless teuts and ammunition and broken wagons were left as prizes, but whatever was of value, no matter what the trouble to move it, was moved. Several artesian wells had been bored in search of better water. The machinery of these was not only taken away, but the wells themselves destroyed. The programme of evacuation was carefully followed and on the morning of the 30th Halleck had before him only the Confederate cavalry pickets. OPENING THE SIEGE. At daylight on the morning of the 30th, when Beauregard's army was miles away. Halleck opened the siege of Corinth. His great guns roared, his army cheered, and round-shot and shell pounded at undefended earth-works. When he finally became satisfied that Corinth had been evacuated, he rushed in, captured 400 convalescents who had failed to move, as many old muskets, a few half-burned freight cars and disabled locomotives, and that was the end. BOMBASTIC POPE AND HALLECK. On the 4th oi June Halleck re covered sulliciently to report that Tope had pushed Beauregard many miles, capturing 10,000 prisoners, 15,000 stands of arms, twelve field pieces, a train of wagons, nine loco motives and many cars. Pope had not captured 000 priso ners; he had not even attacked Beauregard in force: he had not pressed him at all; he had not captured 800 muskets, nor a single field-piece, nor an army wagon. He captured some cars and disabled locomotives, but had himself lost prisoners, and had abandoned many mules and wagons. Beauregard deliberately withdrew to a new position at Tupelo, and Halleck left for the Hast to se cure a grander tield for his military ambition. He left no friends be hind. Arrogant and conceited, he had perilled a campaign, disgusted a nation and shown his utter incom petency every hour in the dav. Had Halleck stuck to the West 'it is doubtful if Grant, Sherman or Thomas would have been even continued corps commanders. M. Qr.u. A colored witness in Washington testified that she didn't know why Sal assaulted her except that Sal had been very hightoned and ram buctious since she served three months in jail. THE LIME-KIO CLUB. Detroit Free Press. The lecturer who, it was hoped, Would show up at this meeting having failed again, Judge Chewso arose and suggested that it would be a good Idea to give members of the club a chance to mate a lew re marks on pertinent subjects. There were many orators in the club, many pertinent subjects, and such a programme as he had suggested would tend to increase confidence save fuel, cure bad breath and res cue oratory from the swamp into which the State Legislature had consigned it. "Werry well," said the President as the Judge sat down; "we will now listen to some oratory from Brudder Chewso on de pertinent snbjick of divorce." The Judge arose, removed his coat, pushed up his sleeves, cleared his throat with a sound like a tin pan rolling along a gravelled roof, and began, "Ladies an' gem'len, I ." "Dar am no ladies present," in terrupted the President. "Jess so, sah jess so. I'll begin agin, sar. Fellow citizens an' fel low patriots: Go back wid me 3,000 y'ars an' stan' on de banks of de Tiber. It am night an' de " "Brudder Chewso, what has 3,000 y'ars ago got to do wid de twenty- four apphcashuns fur divorce filed in Chicago in the space of forty-five minits one day las' week!" asked the President. "NufBn, sah." 'Den let 'em alone." "Werry well, sah. I'll begin once mo ' san. jmends, nayDurs ana conspirators, what am divorce? A band of pilgrims leaves England on de Mayflower. Dey sail, an' sail, an' sail, an' finally de crew becomes alarmed an' threaten to frow Columbus oberboard if he doan' turn back. It was " "Judge, sot down!" called the President. "What fur!" "Bekase your style of oratory am crackin all de plaster on de walls an' puttin' de seazun back at leas' ten days! Ize wilin' to gin you a chance, an' I hope youll. some day be heard of in de halls of Congress, but jist at de present date you kin aim ten dollars beatin' ca'pets whar you can airn ten cents tryin' to ride de wild steed of oratory. You am a mighty good man when it comes to helpin' move a coal stove or breakin' a mule colt, but de minit you reach oratory your feet begin to slide in all direckshuns1 an' you soon land on de back b' your head." The Judge sat down, and it is understood that he will resign from the club. ELECTION. Sir Isaac Walpole said he desired to state, before passing the bean box, that he had tried oratory, and gone to bed hungry;, he had tried poetry an' been obliged to go bare foot; he had tried philosophy, and had been ejected for nonpayment of rent. He had therefore come to the conclusion that ten shillings a day and steady work, with a little quinine to tone up the system now and then, was about as fat a posi tion as any colored man could ask for. He then passed around, and the following candidates were duly elected: Vesuvius Jones, Suedown Davis, Elder Cahoots, Colonel Smilax, Judge Stivers, William Blossom, Lord Joseph Watkinson, Prof. Canebrake John son and Sarsaparilla Jackson. SUSTAINED. At a meeting held in March, Prof. Swingback was fine 116 for leaving the hall without permission during a session. He explained that he dropped his jack-knife out of the window and ran down to secure it but the fine was not remitted. He then appealed from the decision, arid the committee of six now reported: "Dis committee has come to de seclushun dat de President was right an' dat Prof. Swingback was wrong. We sustain de President in sustainin' de fine." The Professor himself rose up with a melting smile and apolo gized for having appealed. His conscience had troubled him ever since that occasion, and he now desired to borrow 1C of sixteen different members, and pay the fine and have the affair off his mind. THE CLOSE. "In disersin' to your varus homes," said the President as the triangle sounded its notes of warn ing, "remember dat civility am de grease which keeps de wheels of society Irom stickm' last to de ax letrees. An obleegin' disposishun may keep your wash-tub an' flat irons lloatin' aroun' de uayborhood leben months in de y'ar but de same reason will bring in chicken broth an' kind words in case you have a run of bilious fever. Some body wake up Elder Toots, an' let us go keerfully down sta'rs." This and That. Young married men have ceased to emigrate to Iowa. 1 he State produces more twins than any oth er in the Union. Wild geese never take a secoud mate. It is a great thing when a goose once recognizes the fact that there are already too many geese in the world. Arthur takes the straigtit old stuff. And not an inferior order of goods, either but old Kentucky bourbon whisky, at 818 a gallon. Washington Critic. A certain rich man says of his wealth: "This is what I have often sighed lor, even cried for, some times lietl for, and nearly died for. What should I let it slide fori" Oak placed in the lihine L',000 years ago by Roman bridge-builders is being taken out and made into pianos to be thumped by conquering young women who play Mollie Dar ling. A lady wanted her little girl to bathe in a room the windows of which opened into the yard, in which were some fowls. "lint," said the little girl. "I don't want to bathe before the chickens."' "Oh never mind the chickens," said the mother, "Well," said the little wo man, "I won't bathe before the rooster, anvhow." Little CJ iris at Home. ALL OVER THE SOUTH. Nearly a million acres of land in Louisiana have been sold recently to a Kansas speculator. It is said that there are twenty-five thousand women in Tennessee who support themselves. A disease thought to be pink eve is raging among the horses in the upper part of liappahannock coun ty, Va. 'Tis said that that the English sparrows have driven nearly all the mocking birds from around Golds boro, N. C. Texas bluegrass seed is being tried in west Tennessee. In the absence of lime this grass, it is thought, will thrive best in that section. Mr. John Berger, of Montgomery Ala., has lost six calves within the past few days from eating mock or ange leaves on the streets and roads. The State Capitol of Texas will probably be built of fine granite instead of limestone. It is claimed that this will make it the best State-house on the continent. Prof. Hallett, of the University of Virginia, win be President ot the University of Texas, which is en dowed with a cash income of $35, 000 a year, besides 2,000,000 acres of land. The grave of Charles Lee, first attorney ol the United States, is located two miles from Warrenton, Fauquier, and as a matter of course has beeen for nearly a century un- cared lor and neglected. Owen Conner, a boy twelve years of age, has taken a position as tele graph operator at Wheeling, Va., at $60 per month. He has been an operator at Uniontown, Pa., since he was seven years old. The citizens of Charleston, S. C, are to erect a monument to John C. Calhoun, in that city. It will be surmounted by a status, on which a Roman sculptor is engaged. The statute is fifteen feet in height and will be cast in bronze. Atlanta Constitution:, Daniel Dowse, aged ninety, and Eacheal Jones, aged seventy-five, of Burke county, were married last week. The timid bride clutched nervously to the arm of her groom, who bore himself with manly pride. The Halifax (Fla.) Journal says a black snake recently jobbed a sitting hen at the Ocean Yievr House and swallowed the eggs, j Three game, hens and a rooster at tacked him while unable to travel briskly, owing to his greediness, and killed, him. Six thousand baby alligators are sold in Florida every year, and the amount of ivory, number of skins and quantity of oil obtained from the older members of the saurian family are sufficient to entitle them to a high place among the products of the State. Savannah Keics: Joe Brown's income is said to be $1,000 a day. Of this amount he gets $500 a day from the Dade-county coal mines. There is no doubt that he is making money faster than any other South ern man. His fortune is now esti mated at$2,000,000. The Senator's son denies the soft impeachment. Mr. Wm. J.. Goodwyn, of Cullo den, Ga., has invented aplow;with a wheat sower, cotton-seed planter and cotton chopper. He claims it will save the use of from, two to three mulea and three to four hands labor the year round. He has ex hibited it to our most practical farmers, and they all agree with one accord that, it is the most per--feet thing yet invented for cnltivat-; ing cotton. He has also invented a car coupler which is, automatic in its actions, and will couple on two cars regardless of iifference , in height of bumpers. Sparta (Ga.) Ishmaelite: A calf was born on the place of Hon. J. W. Moore last week with one body and .two fully and distinctly devel oped necks and heads. While its body was very stout; the only un usual feature of it was that just be hind the front 'shoulders : On i the back the spinal column seemed to divide, and its present and shoul ders were very broad. Each was beautifully formed, there being no no connection between them ex cept that they both came from the same trunk. Each head was of usual size, a perfect and handsome formation. The calf was dead when found. New Orleans' Times-Democrat: At Hollywood Cemetery, near Rich mond, Va., in the Soldiers' Section B, Row, 27, is a plain granite mon ument inscribed "Catherine Hoges Company K, Fifth Louisaua; 1863." It is said this grave is never over looked on Memorial Day. She came to Virginia as the vivandier of the company. It was her intention to nurse the sick and care for the wounded. Her life was devoted to the Confederate cause. In some of the holidays parades that marked the presence of Southern soldiers, in the early days of the war, with gay red cap and zouave-like dress, she marched at the head of the command to which she was at tached. Her mission was to nurse others, but she herself soon re ouired nursing. She fell sick and died, and was buried amidst the' soldier. Richmond Dispatch: A German woman immigrant is teaching the farmers in the neighborhood of Norfolk something about sheep, shearing. The Virginian says: "The modus operandi was simple, but very effective, and a great improve ment ou old Virginian method, which requires two negro men to catch the sheep, two to hold it and one to shear. After catching the sheep and tying its hind feet to gether, the woman sat down on the ground with her legs stretched out in front, and bound the animal's feet to her right foot; then taking the sheens head under her led arm she rapidly and skillfully plied the i shears with her right hand. The1 work was beautifully done, the : tleect' being removed very evenlv and the skin tree from all cuts, When necessary the sheep was shitted from side to side." STATE NEWS, (ileaned from onr Exchanges. Wilmington Star: Mr. G. Z. French, from Rocky Point, and Capt. R. P. Paddison, of Point Caswell, both report that the sub erabundance of rain has been quite a set-back to the crops in their sec tions of Pender, but if the heavy seasons stop now upon the quarter ing of the moon the damage will not be material. Raleigh News-Observer: Thirty- nve thousand and lour hundred dollars in old bonds were received at the treasury yesterday for ex change. We have been shown by Mr. G. W. Atkinson some very fine peaches of the Early Hale vari ety, grown at Apex in this vicinity. This is early for North Carolina Who can beat Apex. Greensboro Patriot: Eggs con tinue in demand at M cents per dozen. Col. Connally's two ser mons at the Baptist church yester day were masterpieces of robust pulpit logic. "What shall the harvest be t" has been settled by the rains of the past few days. It will be as fine as last year in this county and a better wheat year was never known. Ashboro Courier: Giles Pickett's wife was found dead in her bed last Thursday morning. Mr. J. N. Elder of Trinity township shot a mad dog in his yard a few nights ago The recent hail storms in this county have done more damage than was at first estimated. The damage is considerable and exten sive. In some sections of our coun ty wneat ana oars nave Deen com pletely ruined. Clayton Bnd: Mrs. Griffin, wife of Dr. J. A. Griffin, was stung, or bitten, by a spider, on her upper lip, she supposed, while asleep, one night last week, from wbich she suffered severely for two or three days.- The refreshing rains are making corn and cotton do some pretty growing now. Cotton is looking well around Clayton. The young crop of grass will keep the farmer busy for awhile. Twelve persons were baptised in Neuse last Sunday by Rev. Mr. W. C. Nowell. After which he preached a sermon at Liberty church. Elizabeth City Economist: The residence of the Bishop of the new Diocese of Eastern North Carolina will prdbable be in, Wilmington, as a Bishop's house, purchased for Bishop Atkinson, is there. Raise stocks and stop talking about the scarcity of labor. Every beef that is fattened pays for the corn he eats $5, a barrel. Sow your land down in clover, hogs grazing on the field will pay' one 1 hundred per cent. Sheep pay well if you adopt the shot gnn management for dogs. AUkinds; of stock' will pay except dogs. ' Mules will pay 100 per cent. It costs no more to raise a mule than to raise a calf and at three years he will sell for $100. Greensboro, Patriot; Mr. J. F. Lookabill sustained a painful injury yesterday from a fall. i Capt. Vanstory is engaged today in har vesting his magnificent crop of rye, oats and barley. It is a sight worth looking at. -McLeansville shows the first new wheat of this year's crop. It was raised by Mr. E. W. Smith and harvested Monday. The heads are heavy with large plump grains and is free from all blight or rust. A&showing an extraordinary yield Mr. Smith says he has counted j.6 stalks from one grain of, wheat. Airthe reports from the' county agree that the crop will not fall but little bf hind last year's magnificent crop. . There is much less straw but the. grain is heavier and better de veloped. The heads are chuck full of sound grains. Smithfie'fd Herald: Two hundred shad were captured at one haul in Swift Creek, near Smithfield, last Thursday. This is the biggest haul of the season. In digging the railroad cistern at this place, a log 19-f about two leet in diameter ana feet long waft found sixteen feet in the-ground. How it got there is a mystery unsolved.- The recent rains have given new life to the crops. Good crops are reportod all through Johnston, and tire, indica tions are that the crop of cotton will be the finest for many years. Corn is looking well, wheat not as good as last year, and oats pretty much a failure. Durham Tobacco Plant: The wheat and oat crops have been greatly im proved by the recent rains. Mr. Geo. M. Harden informs us that a few mornings since he saw quite a number of very line carp playing in the pond of Col. Blackwell. Col. Blackwell has just had constructed another about a mile from town and will stock the pond with carp. On Monday morning, the 1th. instant, Charles E. Crabtreo left home under peculiar circumstances and since that time no cluo has been obtained as to his wherea bouts. He left before breakfast, taking his overcoat with him, and .remarked to his wife that he was going out in the country to collect some bills. He left on foot and went iu the direction of Fayettville. His family and friends are auxious to'hear from him, and our exchanges will confer a favor by mentioning the above circumstance. Charlotte Journal-Obscrrcr: One of the most terrific rain storms that has ever been known to fall in this State, visited Salisbury and vicin ity last Saturday night. So fright ful was the downpour that many of the people are inclined to the be lief that it was a genuine water spout. Be this as it may, it was no ordinary rain storm. Min glod with the roar of the torrents, came the roll of thunder and the crack of lightning, and the course of the turbulent streams, with mill houses and bridges tumbling and rolling down their swollen currents were lighted here and there by blazing barns. Little streams that inordinary times could be stepped over by a child were quickly con verted into rivers, and ruin was being worked on every hand. The storm appears to have extended for ten miles around Sali.duiry and wa severest up the line of tlie Westei i North Carolina .Railroad, where two overturned engines and a buried tram, bore evidence of it disastrous results. The trial of W. T. Dodson, charged with mnr der, arson, and embezzlement, in Danville, Va., was closed Saturday He was found guilty of manslangh ter, lor which he was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years, of arson, for which ho was sentenced for three years, and of embezzle ment for which he was sentenced to two years; ten years in all. He plead guilty to the two latter charges. Dodson belongs to a re spectable family, bnt had fallen into the habit of drinking and gamming, anu embezzling money ot tne warehouse where he was em ployed, until becoming desperate he insured his life for $5,000, and on the 23d of April employed two negroes to bring him a dead body, his object being to burn the house he slept in, with the body in it, thus leaving the impression that he had met his death in that way, leave for parts unknown, and let his family get the benefit of the in surance. instead ot Dnnginjr a dead body his employees brought a live man whom they knocked on the head and turned over to him and got the money which be agreed to pay thm. He then arranged tne Dody, nred the bouse and de parted. But the fire was discovered in time to prevent the destruction of the building, and the game was exposed. He was arrested at Chatham the following day and brought back to Danville, where he has been since held await inff trial. It was one of the most deliberate crimes on record in that State, and throughout the trial Dodson showed a surprising amonnt of coolness. Catharine Lake Items. ! Mr. Harvey is doing s gcod trade at Snecd 'g Ferry. The mouth of New Riv" deserve some appropriation from the govern ment. Any one can see it who will go and look. A heavy rain and wind storm every where on June 2d. At the mouth of New River, it was almoet equal to (he great August storm. The flounder is like tho flee "when you think you've cotched him you hant." If you don't think bo, ask some green-horn in the business. When the Yankees came to Onslow county, they found three strange things Old George Young, a tame wil4 goose, and a dead live-oak. The hog cholera is playing hvoc among the hogs in the lower part of the county. Can some correspondent give us a remedy in the Journal? A good doctor can got a splendid practice by settling at Snood's Ferry. They are anxious for one and expect to advertise in the Medical Journal. Our county was represented at the Kington College commencement by Col. 8. B. Taylor and family, Edgar and Nick Cox, Miss Lorena Murrill and others. They report an excellent time. Our county might be called "the land of figs." Mr. W. W. Lewis has some bushes on the bank of New River, which bear very fine figs. He says they grow almoet as large as a man's fist. Fishing is getting to be fine sport at Catharine Lake. Col. Taylor caught 21 very large porch in less than an hour Just as he was drawing up a perch a jack began to chase him. He caught the latter in his hand IH inches long. The Sneed's Ferry section is almost populous enough to be called a town It has six stores in about a mile square, about 200 school children In the Peru district, and many other signs of pros perity. Mr. Jas. Williams is now teach ing for them. , Mrs. Jos. E. Rhodes has been absent from home for some time, visiting her daughter. Mrs. Howard, of New Berne, who has been very sick. Mr. Rhodes has become disconsolate at a bachelor's life, and will be absent for a few dav at least. The colored people of this county will compare favorably with any in the State. It is commonly remarked that they are generally peaceable, quiet, and hard working. They have several up right men among them who preach and set a good, moral example. Mr. Q. W. Taylor, who has been merchandising at Jacksonville for some time, has lately' moved his furniture from the Lake, and Mrs. Taylor will sow be able to arrange ber own sweet uuuiu, w aiiiii us tunics ura uvujtitb ui the heart of woman and man too. Wallace Lewis, at the mouth of New River, has the largest gun which I have ever seen. It is a full inch in the bore, and about five feet in length. He says he has shot a half pound of lead out of it at one time, and is apt to kill some thing. It was made to order to kill wild geese and other large fowl at long range. Vandemere Items. M. Fentress is hilling corn. Cotton is looking very backward. Mrs. U. C. Holton is visiting Mrs. Fowler at the Ferry this week. Messrs. E. O. Robbins, J. R. McCotter and G. Jones went on a deer hunt Sat urday, and killed a large buck and were home by 11 a.m. Capt. Balluncc, of Washington, N. C, E. O. Robbing, J. R. Jones, J. L. Win stead and I. Jones were on a fishing spreo Monday with a drag net, and only caught about forty liuli and three bushels of oysters. S. F. McCotter expecta to ship fifty barrels of Irish potatoes by Elm City on tho 14th it)Kt.,and several other farmers are digging to ship same time. It has been so wet this spring Irish potatoes are rotting in the ground, and the farm ers are compelled todigtliem to save them. Mr. J. It. MdCottur says ha has five acres of corn that the curlew bugs have destroyed. Mr. Fentress also says he has one or two acres destroyod by the bugs. They say they think it is caused by planting rice on the land the year before. 1 hear several parties are done planting rice News of Xouse River. The Rteaim r Snow Hill went up Tues day heavy loaded with merchandise I Our old friend V. H. Ward was on i hoard with the samo old hottle. She ! did not k UP tiar C'reek. Vour correspondent wan in Beaufort county Monday. The farniern are hard at work and their farmn are in a pros- j perous condition. Heo robbing wan in j full blawt Monday and 1 left the county 1 j a sweet boy. 1 On my way to Washington Saturday I stopped ut Vanceboro; card playing was the order of the day. That place is noted for card playing and A. McCaffity I and K. II. Anderson are said to be the : champions. i Tlu wi m f 1 ii-r i-. l'cllilur mi i wiirin 1 shall only tal;c on one-half doz.en of i Dawson a beer I his week ; that is cutting my r tlollH down h:ilf: I don t l.hink I they will Tuscarora growl at that. I and your man are s.nd to be theonly while men that drink at Dawson ' bar; wo don't think ho. I.itti.k Hii.1.. Professional Card. : GEO. M, LINDSAY, ! U Attorney' at, Tin w now tttvL, omM t.ir, c. BfrMwa: Horn. A.. B. Mrr1mnn. T. C. Knllr, Balelso, JS. C4 .Jturoa, lny Von N. Cm , i 'j - - Will pmetloe In Ui noontlM of Oimiw, I nolr, JonMMd rn. Or)iMilnc nl o-.n-vayanrlng tpwSnUj. Muainxaa rntrit.i to ras wllLreeelvi prompt iteniun. oauat wir ' LEONIDAS J. f'OORE, , . ATTORNEY AT LAW,,, Nw Derne, N. C ' Will pnutUns la tha OnmIm of hmm, t. nolr. jopea, Onaiuw, I'MUkwand Cwan; , In th U.M. iMalrlrt CVmrt. s claims. rrompvaiMAUon paid to tli ef!lM-tm P. H. PELLETIEE, -A-ttorney:at-Ijaw. Will praotlo In tha Courts af Oartarat, Jonaa, , Onaiow and Oravwa. ' Hpaelal attention 1vn to tha nnlWtJon vi elalma, and aattllng aateta or demawd inr aone. ( ; ... PKLLBTIKR'I NILLs, niarlwtf Oartarat Caur. IK c. w.jrixbif. ' '"' . a. sraa.i . 1 UWUr, , ... ,. .. nixon,' Simons & my ATTOKNET8 AT LAW, Will nrartlna la thrviraif v.. 1.-' Onalow,Uartrpt,Jn,imaiHl lair.V-l in ttaa radatal Court at Naw brrna. (),! 1 r P. MimPIIY;-PEARSALL, " ATTORBKT AT LAW. TEENTON, J OSES OO, J?. J. Will arantifla 4n tha rhaaiiai r w. . . fjanntr. lHiDllti. hmi.in .i.m,m. OoUacUntaapaolaUjr. aniMlAwtr oaoaoa V. wnmiri BAirtBT. rc. . Klu.toii, K r. Hilalgh, STEOffG & PERHY, . 1 KtnrroN, m. c- ITTOMEYS. AXD COLtSELLOM IT Uir. Having flnrmad a fnrartnmhti f.r i Kractica of the law ta Jmiramiiniv, will f. . 1 irly attend tha anarta of tha auna. rrt.,,,,.i attention paid to eoUarllnna. EQBju-aawu BilUiNa dt TERHY. rntL.HOLLArj,JB. ol K.an. HOLLAND &' GUION, Attorn oym ,at, Jit w , (Office one door waat of OmUmi Ilouaa.) ,. Will imtrttaa In tha rminiiM at t 'm n Jonas, Oliaiow, CTwtorcl, l-n,nni aid Ltnnr rrouipi attention rll to roJimiUoiia. aprfaWarvlv. ,;. DH' G.'ir BAGBY, ' . Hixrjrcon Ucntint, Will ba In Now Items n-ou the 1st to tli e 15th of eaci. Month. In Beaufort tum I5lb to U Wto. , , Office In Jfew Uerne, aver R W. An. w. BmaJlwood's, corner South Front and Cnvm Btreeta. 1 . . Teeth xtrncted with oat pale by tha bm ,r BlUotnvozUe. ' ' marM-dawU n 1 ; DR. Jl D. CLARK, Offioa on Craven, street, between Pol b wit . aprl7Awl j , and Broad. , ', tf 1 ; Ne-w, Berne Advertisements. A. H.,P0TTE C CD,, WHOLESALE AXD RETAIL tt ' lit CONFECTIONERS, MAjrerAcrcsxHS or FRENCH &;'AMERIOATr And dftAlen In Foreign and rtnmwllo Frnli , Muta. ' Alao Ogare, Toliaooe, 1 o, air. Pollock ttreet, hert to Geo. MUm d t . .' w-ir w btnii ,i. c ; .H2 Furniture I , , 1 1 ' I 1 pi I i ii 1 in tit . 1 m4 i , When yoa coma 1 to Mew Berna tar Furna' tore be vara to oall at . , ... , , r .I'd -l ' . . , ON MIDDLE BTREET,': 1 1. Hiwond door sonve IT, K. Jmim. He kenaa on hand far a nlta. fliamtMr ' BM, Walnat Hmlataerfa, IIuimm, Werrirolina, Mattmaeca. tHiatra. Ixniiuma. Hulaa. tawfcra 'I - blea, etc Koraaleat . . . . , . ;, UOCK BOTTOM nilCJSS. jan2wljr ' ' . ' T7 t t GEORGE DISIIOP, aajaaiTfi n if ' 1,-1 , aV NKW BER.KK. If. C , Kuoi coiialantly an ' na'CT tha FINtjsf UUAUTf (it ., , Metallic BeulalCaeketaaBjd wood and WalaetfCaahotf " In all alu-a, handaomeljr BMraatr . r Popljur Cou of ail v , . - . i . t'-ill',-, Orilpra a' tflrfrfcph 'AuTor1 nlgnt promptly , ahlpnxd tif ftretlralaaXter order la aaaetvad. V w octlllwlr . . Guano; and Cdr.lL.;: l,500iiok Vine Island"rjonn, 1,000 aacka Kiah; liune aud Potash, 1,000 sucks KatuU, at 113.60 A too. . 500 sin ks I'liciUc uuano. A . 500 sack Royrter's High Grade 'Acid. I'hnHiilmtn. ' " ' 700 sacks Norfolk FertiUivrat 118a too., Peruvian Guano. . , -r.t. E. n. MEADOWS & to; Corner l'ollock and Middle . WarchouHey-Cottoo Exchang Itact,' . NEW BEHNE. N, C Sail bros.; WHOLESALE O RO OERb m AND "V '"v. r' COMMISSION KXaCOAjm. prll j, d w . ,.. FAOtRS AXD COUSiTRT mOUHTS-" ; t k 1: IS 0 11 G 1.3 1" : We are niiuln at our old aland, la oatW KTOKK. We have a full line of GrOCOriOS, Diy Good, onrl RVinAa Boot ( " of which we are retail. ortorttig vrry low at tlall and take ir"" . : drra anlh'ttmL i lw and art our low prlore. ur MatUfeMkm snare hImhI. ' IU IBKKT UlUi. 11