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m an i V v- -r f .. 'J 7cm INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. T.rm.iLOorrTr. OEVI,---.- NEW BERNE, CRAVEN COUNTY, N. C, JULY 12 1883. ' -'VO.: NEW BERNE ADVERTISEMENTS. .ittGHINERY. Hrivfnr taVp.n the the Engines. Saw and embracin .a line of Engines of five different styles, running from" 2 to 250 horse power, atid'Saw.:;.Mill&bft5J.terent. sizes, I am pre pared to furnish, you as1 low guresas canMbe offered for strictly First Clasi VVTbrk; and would especially nsk weignis of said Machinery with that of other ni.mutncturers. ana -araw Your own uuuuiu- ; : . V-T - sions. , - . - -' - - , -j , .. . . I carry a full line of nnd solicit a . share of Send in your orders3 Tot Engines, Cotton Gins, Presses; Ric I Tresers, &ci, as early as pos ::ble,iani:t&erejy avoid delays and dis appointments ; Kcctacij" Ca 1131. Vj ; ,wtwrL& HMbine, CookV Ersponton. i : 1 1 3ox Bard Machine, "I.xLilor"' Cidei Mill, tfwi Acme Polreming Harrow, nnsur "lixtjliai'". Corn Snellen.'. :""";-paaaad for patting in email train. E.itwj and Champion Graia Fank, ; ;Oo Easj? Feed Cutters, Eu-aia Trgiaes, all iiea.- jf V.Tennessee Wagons, I Til. n J "Wheal Threshers and " Hancock Insntrators, Separators, . . " C-trver Cotton Gins, - , ' t Vxrrer Coaaers.. I ' ' f i.-ver Cotton Cleaners, -- '" : "'' "' . GulIeU's 43Iagnoli' Gin, ; ; nvJriulio Cotton Press,'. i.;.'? Tower Cotton Press," : ' V-'r-y -"'Moora Co." Grit Corn Mills. ..... brake's Pat. Shingle Machine, . Yrrite ? for terms ami that no well , regulated be without a Gilbert Respectfuljy - yours, : 3 ohn jqi Cn.i VEX STREET. KEXT I)OOR TOOTTOX EXCHAXOE, i-5-;NEraEBN, N. C. ... . . .- ?!! f ' ' C..i.:.i'na no CALOWEIi or" othert MEBCULLAi Ingredients, but are com- r . ' jtoeed of cJ Un2iu!I:rc!:d; VcgclablqIngredients JLAKENG THEM THE -'rr t,' Safest and Best liver -Pill on the Market XX Try them and be) of their merit. XT All Dm grists and Dealers keep V , BVE A FULL zim FunnisKinG goo Gauze.'Iisle Thread and Net Undershirts, aHpnces. Full Stock of Eighmie and Elm City Shirts, guaranteed to fit, only $1 .00. Xobby Suits, Alpac&.Drap d'EU and Siciljan Coats for warm weather. Large 1 je of Dusters. See our $1& suits.' i - Collars, Cuffs, White Ties and White Teste. Straw Hats in great Tariety, from 5 cents up. ; Nobby Fear! Colored Stiff Hats. . Alraca and Silk Sua Umbrellas Wt have a few dozen Misses (iossanier Hub U-r Circttrsy which willcloaeriuiatfl.25.. ' t I jirge line of Valises and Tnmlu. ' f - If yoa need a. Straw Hatting call on ns before you buy. We are constantly receiving and seumg lu We have a nice line of Low Shoes, Stacj Adams Gent's Slippers. 'Tt-; V ' Genu Colored Half Hoe,lulI line.- ; Trv TJ& JlrsV whea you need'Anythingin our Line- GlKD'ALLEW & CO., ''tollok 'Street,' 'New Berne, N. C, PLOWS, ;: HARROWS . " ' .' In Great Variety and Aerencv for the sale of Corn Mills made by a Complete Outfit at beforeA;Tu;. buy you to compare the ' ' " - the following goods, your patronage. rr 5- .1 T! l . Cotton Seed Hollers, . SawMillsy- : Circular Saws, Gnramera, Side F3es, Swages, Shafting Pulleysy Belting, Roanoke Hand Press,' -Maid of the South Corn Mills, Ete Ete.', Etc. prices, and remember lamily , can anord to 'Force Pump. them. 25 cents per box. seplwly SOCK OF & Co.'s Patent Pumps and Offers Triickers l'eas. Sed Potatoes, Cotton S'im1 Peruvian and IJono iiano. Uood I. lick Jll:lll, Merry inn ii 'w Super-lMioIiiiti' Lifter's IMssnlved Hone, WbaunN Plow Hiand. For Trucker and Cotton Planters DS. AND CULTIVATORS, at Very Low Prices. GEO. ALLEN & CO. A CALIFORNIA MYSTERY. It Becomes an Interesting; Reality on Close Acquaintance. For fire or six years the good people of Santa Rosa, Cal., have had an unsolved social mystery to discuss and build vague conjectures upon. The rumor spread that near there a strange community of peo ple were demonstrating the theo ries ol every social philosopher Some said the community was com munistic only in its commercial relation. Oue theory was that some of the men and women of the country were not participants in profits and privileges, but were only servants, subject, however, to strict social discipline. . One Santa Rosasian seriously informed the reporter that the people of the com m unity lived in three bouses; the men participants in one, the women in another and the servants in third. But of the score of wild and absurd stories, the one most weird and eerie told to the reporter was that the head of the community had a colony of women over the hills in a deep and secluded canyon who never saw a man. These for tnnata creatures, so the renorter's informant solemnly asserted, had only to express a wish for any of this world's goods and it was sup plied to them. They wrote on a slip of paper the name of any ar ticles they required and left the order on a log in a sequestered nook. Whether it had been for a half dozen corset-steels, a glove- bnttoner, assorted invisible nets, or a sack of patotes, the articles would .be found at the identical nook the following day. The genii upon whose operations the women depended was, never supposed to remain at the nook long enough to catch a glimpse of the ordering maidens, though it must be con f eased added the informant that the temptation to do so was very strong. SEARCHING FOB THIS STRANGE coaoruNiTY. Impressed by these conflicting stones, the reporter rode out from Santa Josa a Done tnree miles. where, upon the brow of a small hill and to the right of the road,' a considerable pile of buildings marked the precincts of the com munity. Driving into the grounds by a private road, and after pass ing a number of very large barns, the reporter soon noticed evidences of cultivation not common to Cali fornia farms. The road, .- itself, wound up the hill with an evident view to picturesqueness ana was lined with carefully trained pines. There was a hot house for forcing vegetables and another for orna mental plants and flowers both unusual to the average California ranch and at a tarn in the road, a arge, handsome, three story resi dence suddenly came into view. Then lawns, flower-beds, fountains and graveled paths, surrounding a second and very pretty residence, suggested the country place of a wealthy and cultivated gentleman. But the reporter was on a still hunt for socialism, and repelled the sug gestion. Some gentlemen longing in idle comfort on one of the veran das of the large house, with some equally idle hounds, informed the reporter that Mr. Harris could be found at the smaller residence. The next object that attracted the reportorial eye was more reassuring in its character, being a large stone winery, built on the most modern and approved plan on a hillside, where the wines requiring it could get the sun. warmth and others the cave-like chill of the vaults dug in the hill. . In response to a knock at the door in the second residence a gen tleman, carefully dressed and spot less as to his linen and white vest, but comfortably coatless and smok ing a clay pipe, answered to the reporter that he was Mr. E. L. Harris. The reporter briefly ex plained that his mission was to learn the measure of success the Harris community had met with, and to favor the world with the de tails of its operation. Mr. Harris smiled and answered: "Just tie your horse, please, and step into the library room, where it is comparatively cool; hot day, this, to be abroad in the sun." The reporter stepped into a library room connected by two arches with a music room, both arches, as were all the doors lead ing from both rooms, being hung with modestly colored portieres, but of rich fabric. The richly stored book shelves extended around three sides of the double room, and a center table in the music room was strewed with opened current literature, maga zines and papers. It was a very friendly and comfortable looking place, but the reporter was deter mined to probe the wickedness of the female colony, guarded by blood-hounds, and waited silently for an answer to his original. 'Now make yourself comfort able," said Mr. Harris, " and excuse my being in my shirt-sleeves (a j servant Having onerea mm nis coat), and I'll talk to you. I am not experimenting with any one's just at present. I got through that sort of thing some time ago. This is my private residence, and I am managing here my own estate. I came here six years ago, very much broken down in health, sought this place, lived in great retirement visiting Santa Kosa scarcely three times in as many years found no place snflieient to amuse me and occupy my time, and so had no time or inclination to make ac quaintance, and the result you can guess.' " You mean that because you have been almost a recluse the peopie have learned nothing of you, and have invented all these re markable stories ?" " 1 suspect that is about it." " But yon have a number of people here !" Twenty or thirty farm laborers aiRl servants.'' NOT A SOCIALISTIC COMMUNITY. "Am" you do not control their i social intercourse !'' "Not in the least. I hire what ! assistance I require to oierate my place of 1,500 acres and exact from my laborers what every other farmer must an equivalent for their wages." k-Rnf villi uiiiL-a if Imvino oot. through with socialism." -' ' j i ... o " I will tell you what that meant. For a great many years I was greatly interested in the various attempts made to form a higher order of social life higher thoughts, plainer living, fraternal love, and all that. I am familiar with all the attempts which have been made in this country within the century. There have been between sixty and seventy such attempts and every one has failed. These attempts have not been failures because the best available material has not en tered into them. The famous Brook Farm experiment enlisted the co operation of such a woman as Mar garet Fuller, such men as Haw thorne, George Bipley, Charles A. Dana and many other men and women who have since become famous. Dana was the cook in the kitchen at that farm, and when such a man as that, for the sake of principle, will do such work, and the experiment fails, it is not be cause of the men who try. After the Brook Farm failed Bipley and Dana went oh the New York Tri bune, which Greeley was just get ting into shape, the former at $15 and the latter at $ 10 a week, and they tried no more at social refor mation through the community plan, at least. Now, although I knew all these men well, heard them discuss Brook Farm, even worked with some of them on the New York Tribune forty years ago, I was not yet satisfied that the ex periment that a community of the right character of people, with a higher social life as an end, might not be successfully operated. Well, once having the wealth to inaugur ate the community, I did so, and, as every experiment of the kind in this country must, it failed. That is why, although I was for many years identified with such move ments in the Eastern States, I want no more of it, and am not trying it here now. I have had visiting me nere at tnis place a number o: friends from the East, who were once as . strong in the socialistic faith as I was, bat they are all now of my belief that in the present state of society in the United States, no pare communism can succeed. Our people are- too strongly indi dividual. If you remove from the members of any community the spur of individual necessity and reward, yon have a community of partial non-producers. This has been the experience of the Shakers and Quakers and every community in the United States that has tried it." San Francisco Call. A Bed-Headed Reformer. N. Y. Times. The genial independent Congress man from Texas, Col. Tom Ochil tree, who is now in England, has already expressed in a forcible way his disapproval of some of the cus toms of this "blasted countrv." He discovered that Englishmen, when getting into a bus or railway car riage, hold their umbrellas or canes with the points directed toward the faces of other passengers. In aletter written by him and published- in a London paper, he describes the way in which he began "a prac tical reform." Weary o"f dodging the threatening points of canes and umbrellas, he determined, he says, "to clean out" the first man who should annoy him again in this way. ' As he was riding in a 7 bus down the Strand a man came in with "an air of importance," as if he had just purchased a controlling interest in the outfit." The point of the new comer's umbrella struck the Texas member in the cheek. "At the same moment," writes Col. Ochiltree for the edification of Englishmen, "I anded him one between the eyes, and he went the length of the 'bus, dropping in the road hatless and eye-glassless.'' Col. Ochiltree pick ed him up, kindly explained that he 'was inaugurating a reform," and he was called an American 'cad' for his trouble. He urges Englishmen to join him and some of his friends, 'cattle men from Texas," in reform ing ''this glaring abuse.'' Gratefnl. Joseph Barber, a raw reeruit at David's island, New York harbor, is the hero of a little romance, which is likely to give him a fair start in the world. A few days ago the commanding officer receiv ed a letter from a lawyer in Wor chester, Mass., inquiring if such a person as Joseph A. Barber was there. If so, the lawyer would like to communicate with Barber, as he had been left a bequest of forty thousand dollars by an aged Brook lyn gentleman who had just died. It appears that Barber was em ployed as brakeman on the New York & New Haven Railroad last fall, and one day, as cars were be ing switched, this aged gentleman attempted to pass from one car to another, and would have tallen be tween them and been crushed to death had not Barber caught him and saved his life. The grateful man inquired the name of his rescuer, and, on his death, bequeathed him the above liberal sum as a token of remem brance. Barber is still in service at David's Island, and will probably remain there until he attains his majority, as lie is not 21 years of age yet. Presence of Mind Wanted. The proverb that Providence takes especial care of drunken men was illustrated on .Market street the other day in a striking manner. Au inebriated hack-driver ran into another vehicle, near the Lotta Fountain, and fell on" directly on his head, the wheels of both wag ous passing over his neck. A crowd of horrified bystanders rush ed to pick up the supposed corpse. "Wasmasscr you (hie) fellers?" said the victim, staggering to his feet and brushing the mud from his clothes. "Ef i had (hie) 'uuther drink I could 1 (hie) fall otl'en Pal'ce Hotel!" ; And yet nobody had the presence of mind to stand treat and urge him to try. Ex. NEWS. . h Gleaned from oar Exchanges, Elizabeth City . Economist: Mr, Thad Butt lost his little s&nMallie with rheumatism last week.- The county commissioners held their first court in the wtw Court House yesterday. Our farmer friends report to us the promising condi tion of the growing crops. Cotton has been looking a little sickly bnt has very greatly improved during tne last two weeks. we see from the Norfolk Ledger that six German immigrants came down on the steamer Ola Dominion from New York on Wednesday, for Gatesville, N. C. They went ph to that place! Durham Tobacco plant: Eggs have been sellings twenty cents, wneat tnre&iiing will soon commence. i armors are still in the grass, bnt are iighting it man fully. At the residence. .of,; Mrs. M. F. Green, on Wednesday even ing, the 27th ot June, Mr. George Green, of New Berne, was married. to Miss Ida Green, Rev. H. T. Dar- nall officiating. The ceremony was performed in the presence jofpjjby a tew relatives and friends, and: the briae ana groom, accompanied by. Miss Mamie Green, left immediate ly lor Asbeville and the ; Warm Springs. Tarboro Southerner: From pres.-. ent indications, there will be good crops m Edgecombe this yean, but deatn prices for cotton next fall Ex-Sheriff Cobb says he will bet barbecue and trimmings that Stephen Crisp and Jimmie Corbit in Barterfield have the prettiest crops in the county. They are both young men, who ten years ago worked for wages. Now they have nice farms and are $5,000 ahead. They make their own meat and bread! Clip this but and paste it m your nat. lion. J. J. Martin who returned from Williamstoh Court last week informs us that the case of S. F. E. Gruber. against the J. & W. Railroad, in which plaintiff ciaim ea 3,uuu damages tor the scaTdiner of his child two Years asro. on the steamer Juniata, resulted in a verdict of $2;500 for the pmintiff. This road which runs from' Wash ington to Jamesville and thence by steamer to Edenton is, so lieavily mortgaged that Mr, Gruber will un fortunately be unable to enforce the collection of the judgment. Mr. Martin was of counsel for the road and ex-Judge Moore for the plain tiff. - ' ; ALL OYER THE S0UTH. Of Virginia's 5,587 schools, o-er 1,500 are colored. Mastodon bones have been found near Tampa, Fla. There is a negro girl inNewbern, West Tennessee, nineteen years old, who is said to weigh three hundred pounds, A vein of silver ore three feet and a half wide has been found on the property of Mr. P. Williams, of Floyd county, V a. ihe alligator bide business is as suming large proportions at Orange, Texas. During four days last week 5,000 hides were shipped. The States that brew no beer are Arkansas, Florida, Maine, Missis sippi and Vermont. Last year Alabama produced only eight bar rels, and North Carolina thirty one. Marshall, Texas, is excited over the filing piLa claim, by a Mr. Brown, forQventy-six acres of land, situated in the principal part of the city. The property includes several bnsiness houses, and takes in the whole Texas Pacific railroad shops, yard and depots. The wnole amount involved is worth over half a million of dollars. His claim has some prospects of being gained, as his mother willed away the proper ty after his father's death, and be claimed the right of a minor. Only last week the Bnrness heirs filed suit for twenty acres in another portion of the town, and have some chances of winning. Waldo (Fla.) Advertiser: B. W. Campbell, of our town, has just pur chased the famed Fort Harley tree. This tree was planted sixty-five years ago, and is to-day the largest orange tree jn the world. Its dimensions are: Height thirty-fear feet, spread of branches from tip to tip fifty-eight feet, and girt one foot above the base of trunk nine feet and two inches. It has borne more than twelve thousand oranges in one season. It stood the cold Friday of 1835, which proved so destructive to vegetation, and to day stands the noblest and grand est of all orange tres, monarch of the citrus family. He Realized It. Au old colored man familiary known as "Colonel," who gains his living by doing old chores and er rands, was yesterday discovered in an ice cream saloon with a ten cent dish of the luscious desert be fore him, and the question was asked: "Why, Colonel, isn't this rather an unusual circumstance!'' "I reckon it am, sah." "And pretty steep?" "Y'es, purty high up." "Can you afford such luxuries?" "Not hardly, sah not hardly. Time I has paid ten cents fur dis, five cents fur a glass of sody an' bought half a dozen oranges to take home I shan't have mo' dan nuff left to buy chicken an' green peas for Sunday !" Detroit Free Press. Really in Lore Some years ago a rich man's son in New York fell in love with the chambermaid, but, unlike many rich men's sons under simular circum stances, wanted to mary her. His family thought this was going a little too far; so he compromised the matter by agreeing to go a good deal farther that is, to Europe for two or three years. Having a fortune of his own he placed the girl in one of the best schools, and she. being ambitious and devoted, improved her opxiortunities so well that on his return, finding her more attractive than ever, he married her and she is now a noble, refined, charming woman. STATE HU Wife'&Nose.' Two gentlemen, at a large recep tion in NewYork last winter, were uiscussing one ol tne toremost poiiti cians of the country, a man- who, whether in ofhee or out, always keeps himself prominent before the public "I knew him at college," said one oi tne gentlemen. "Me was a man with a dear head, extraordi nary memory, and much personal magnetism. But 1 cannot under stand why he chose a public life, or nas pustied nimself forward so per sistently., He was a lazy, thought ful, visionary fellow, absolutely aestitute oi ambition.'7 "I can tell yon the secret," said tne otner "Yoa will find it in his wife's nose. There she is! Did you ever see a more perfect incarnation ol energy . and love of command? Napoleon would have . chosen her i for one lot his : marshals on first sigmv His friend was amused at the guess, and said, presently, "There f$. another of my old class-mates, P r He was a thin, ambitious, scholarly fellow, with refined taste and high aims. ." He now is a fat, inaoienc animal, witnout a tnought, apparently, , but his cognac and terrapin. Who is to blame for that?" "His wife's month and her monev, I willshow her to you.'. He, pointed out a gross, volup- tuous woman richly dressed. "P ," ne resumed, "has lived m idle ness since nis marriage. He was not strong enough to carry the weight of so much wealth and so much vulgarity. : They, have borne mm down. He will never rise." Young men at. school and college are very apt to be enraptured with a sparkling eye, a ;rosy. . cheek, or some charm, of manner in some young woman' that thev happen to meet. They are hardly masters Of tnemseiTes: and a moonlight night. of & song, suddenly tempts them to ask the enchanting creature who has bewitched'' them' to share their futnre. They do not consider that she will be' the most feal, active force in their whole lives;" almost irresistible with power to drag them down or to lift them tip in body, mind and soul. Ex. Encouratfn? a Young Man. Free Press. A young man, twenty-two years old, a resident of Detroit, had, by strict economy laid by a couple of thousand dollars. Feeling that he needed advice as to how to invest it, he Called at the office of a capital ist and philanthropist, and stated nis case. "Yoa have done well exceeding ly weH,'' replied the philanthropist, "you snonid invest that money in a suburban lot, and profit by the rise." 'Pve thought of that: but whare can I find a lot?" "Oh! that's easy enough: in fact. I have several lots myself in mar ket, and I will give yoa a bargain." T he map was consulted, bnt when the young man saw the Ideation of the lots, which had a soap faetory on one side and a tannery on the other, with a ravine at the back of Dotn, lie tnought 92,000 too great a price. "Bnt the title," protested the philanthropist "the title is without a flaw. There is where yon gain." "How?" "Why, when you come to me six months from now to mortgage that lot for $1,200 it wouldn't take us over . half an hour to complete the whole business. As a philanthro pist I'd advise you to invest in solid real estate. As a capitalist I'm al ways willing to take a mortgage where the title is perfectly clear." Seeing the Superintendent. In the office of a certain Western railroad superintendent it was un derstood that when a common-looking stranger entered the outer office and asked for the Great Mogul, one of the several young men there in employed should claim to be the official wanted and thus turn the bore away. The other day a web footed stranger with a business squint to his eyes, asked to see the superintendent, and the chief clerk promptly replied: "Yes, sir; what can I do for yout" "Are vou the man?" "I am"." "No mistake?" "None at all." 'Then it is all right. Six months ago one of your trains killed a cow forme, and yon have been just mean enough not to answer any of my letters. Old hoss, I am going to lick 35 out of you?" "But sir, you see " "I see nothing but you! Prepare to be licked!" And the proxy superintendent was not only mopped around the room and flung into the wood-box as limp as a clothes-line, but the cow -owner Kicked tne otners out doors and upset the desks and ta bles with the remark: "The next time I do business with this corporation I want you not only to reply to my letters, but to put 'in haste' on vour envelopes." Wall Street News. The Home-Coming Graduates. "Your daughter graduates this month, Mr. Thistlepod?" "Yes, she'll be home about the 20th I reckon." "And your son graduates also?" "Oh, yes; he'll come home about the same time." "And what are they going to do?" "Well,"said the old man thought fully, "I don't just exactly know what they do want to drive at, but Marthy she writes that she wants to continue her art studies on the Continent, so I think I'll just send her to Greece in the dairy and let her do a little plain modeling in butter, and Sam he says he's got to go abroad and pol ish up a little, and as good luck will have it, he'll be home just in time to spread himself'ou the grind stone and put an edge on the cradle blades against the wheat harvest." And tbe old man smiled to think that he hadn't thrown money away when he sent his children to school. JIawkeye. From almost every section of Louisiana comes up reports of too much rain for cotton. Our Steam Transportation Lines. Our transportation companies, rail as well as bj water, all appear to be and are prospering, those which concentrate and those which radiate from oar port. The fact is one which should stimu late our people to further exertions in extending and multiplying these facil ities. We have observed what no one here can fail to appreciate: the in creased volume of business and the im proved condition of , all business and manufacturing enterprises in New Berne following the establishment of the lines of the Clyde, Old Dominion, Nense River Navigation, Trent River Trans portation and Pamlico Transportation Companies, the Cherry Line to Vance boro and the Snow Hill Line on Con tentnea Creek. Hut it is in the sections of country watered by the Trent, Neuse and Bay Rivers, Contentnea, Swift, Adams and Broad Creeks, that the improved con dition wrought by better transportation facilities is most seen and felt. . Wher ever the sleam-whistleof the river boat nas souaaea, its ecnoes .have awakened the people and aroused the spirit of progress, until ft is 'safe1 to say that the past six ; years of. steam navigation on the Neuse and its tributaries has done more to improve the condition of our people and section of country than the railroad has accomnlished d urine all the rears of its existence. Yet the amount of monev invested in these river lines combined, is very lim-i ited compared with results. Hixtv thousand dollars, of which the steamer Elm Citu represents about : one third. will fully oover the -amount of monev invested in all these enterprises, and not less than twenty per cent per annum has been earned by them in dividends. In other words, a profit of $13,000 a year has been derived from the - in vestments in these steam lines. When, therefore, a section of countrv is shown to have been so prosperously affected by its transportation facilities. and the transportation lines are all at the same time so prosperous in the earn- j mg or dividends, it argues a very satis factory condition of affairs 'all around. and should lead to the investment of more money and the establishment of new routes. When a public spirited ciuaen ib appealed 10 lor money to in' augurate a new . enterprise having for its object progress and improvement, he rarely -withholds his aid according to his ability, and to such spirit of pub lic euwrprise our ajreaay estaoushed lines lartfoly owe their existence. Now whan results are shown to have inatified weir inauguration, in tneir effect upon dub in ess prosperity, and -what was measurably begun as public enterririse has turned out good paying private in vestment, mere snouia not be round among our business men. or the neonla of any section wanting proper transpor tation facilities those who shall hesitate to invest their money in and aiding to provide them. The pecuniary success which has attended the enterprises al ready inaugurated should be sufficient to induce an investment, in new ones. k say notning oi tne nenents and con venience which steam lines confer and afford... , There is the county of Hvde. cut off in large measure from intercommunica tion with the world, and in its commerce restricted to the slow and uncertain movoments of sailing vessels. The peo ple there are all well-to-do, if not wealthy sand a. subscription, of fifty thousand . dollars to the establishment and equipment of a first-class steam line, giving all necessary lunding facil ities, would not be felt by those Deonle. Such line Would not only afford them quick, frequent and certain communi cation (a sufficient consideration for the outlay) but, according to all experience and observation, such line could not fail to return to its stockholders fifteen percent of their investment, every year. The people of Onslow are suffering for the want of steamboat communica tion with Morehead Citv. Thev are amply able to provide themselves boats for the navigation of the New and White Ooak Rivers, and Bogue Sound, and such line there would pay fully twenty per cent. It is quite safe to say that if the peo ple of Hyde and Onslow would them selves move in the matter they would be met half way. The business men of New Berne" and steamboat people would readily join-them in the establishment of lines, but they must first show a wil- mgness to help themselves. Owners of steamboat property will not generally employ it on an experimental line with out the people to be served manifest their faith in and purpose to sustain it by pecuniarily interesting themselves. The New Berne and Pamlico Line was established, and the Elm Citu built by the people' along the route interesting themselves, and the isame is true to a greater or less degree of the Neuse and Trent River and tributary lines. New Berne and Beaufort Canal and Iti ' Tributary Navigation. Reports from the work progressing on the old Clubfoot and Harlowe Creek Canal, now known as the New Berne and Beaufort Canal under a reorganiza tion etrectea Dy tne aid and under the auspices of the Albemarle and Chesa peake Canal Company, of which Marshall Parks.. of Norfolk is President, give the assurance that this short water route between New Berne and Beaufort will be open to the navigation of light draft steamers and vessels in time for the fall and winter business of 1883-'84. By this route it is thirty-six or seven miles from New Berne to Beaufort Harbor, almost the same distance as by the railroad, and it is a route that is destined to work important results in the transportation and consequent de velopment of the material interests of portions of Craven, Carteret and Ons low counties, and generally upon this portion of Eastern Carolina. Ihis subject is one of especial interest to the trade and industries of New Berne, for, if properly availed of, the New Berne and Beaufort Canal will bring to our doors large volumes of business that has not hitherto sought this port, and give us the handling of the rich products of sections which heretofore found a market at Wilming ton. Onslow, which is one of the large and productive counties of the State, through the want of steam transportation facili ties to Morehead City has been made almost entirely tributary to Wilming ton, the means of communication being small sailing vessels which, passing out at Bogue and New River inlets, nave a much shorter and better run to Wil mington than by the round about way of Core Sound and New River to New Berne, while the Railroad seems not to have been able, or to have made no proper effort to divert the trade of Ons low to its terminus at Morehead, bring ing it thence to the New Berne market. With the New Berne and Beaufort Canal open, to lighter-draft water-craft, it is entirely feasible to bring the trade of Onslow to New Berne, by the estab lishment of a line of light-draft steam boats to navigate Bogue Sound, White Oak and New Rivers. A glance at the map shows that a steamboat plying on White Oak River would necessarily draw the freight of a portion of Car teret, Onslow and the lower end of Jones; while New River, navigable to a point some miles above the centre of the county, and running midway through it, would draw the freights of the balance of .Onslow territory, and also tap Duplin and Pender counties. The same system of steam navigation would extend into Core Sound, thus skirting Carteret from White Oak River to Cedar Island and Portsmouth, a dis tance of more than seventy-five miles; a section of country of great natural productiveness of soil, and abounding in game, fish and oysters. From all this territory, its productiou, and population, New Berne is, as a j market, practically cut off. and would i remain so but for the opening of the j Canal. And even with the facilities it ! will offer, the products of Onslow iu ' large part will continue to seek tha market of Wilmington, unless Kteara- boat connection is made direct with New Berne, White Oak and New Rivers. The people of Onslow, and in lower Craven and Carteret along and contigu ous to the route of the Canal are anxious for steamboat communication, and, as as we are advised, are willing to sub stfribe to the stock of such enterprise. We have been shown a lettec from President Parks, of the Albemarle and Chesapeake, and New Berne and' Bean- fort Canals, in which he pledges the in-i terests which he represents to. make liberal subscriptions to the capital stock of such company. ' ' -. The question which presents itself to the busineso men of New Berne, in this connection, is, arethey ready to respond to the Canal Company and toe people of Onslow, Carteret, &c.. with a libera support to tnis enterprise- r An oppor tunity will be givBn.tbenti me larn in a short time, by open subscription lists to the undertaking; and a Canvass of the matter made in Carterefnnd OaaUw Letter from PhflaiielpBia. " Philadelphia, Julie 30, ''83. j EDlton JOTJEWlLS .Thre ehort rears have sped away since l ira ast in the city of brotherly, dove, auu ouiuo jiiygirsn ill IUUI. wuip 18 quite noticeable. Then the cievatea track of the Pennsylvania Ka-HrcMd Irom Thirtytfirst to Broad street was only, begun :, no,w it iainJull running order, with a magnificent uepuL l lue tatter street, it is not the L. Roads lor city travel that we read abbut in other cibies--Pail' delpbia has none of lhem but tkU is unlike any other in this country ana strictly an elevated, .railroad, supported" by a 'system of arches of substantial masonry, hot TrHthe street but on ground purchased by the company, and ,. from which buildings were removed, to maVm room lor the huge railway, itself wider than Filbert street) which' it is built by the side of. ,Th arches, except t nose over cross (tracts, Lara utilized as warehouses, and one, ( nocicea, -seemeu, to pe. uqed as an ice hodse, I 'suppose' for the t&th- pany's own use a,nd convenience. "1 The Government Iraildininv a the City Hall is styled, approaches completion : it was well progressed in 1876, but when the amount; of ten minions oi nonara was the Bstv mated cost, ' it but seems propet' tnat some time should be consumed iu the construction. The new post office is also near ing the time of occupancy,' tbe con-, tract for the ' making of the safe having been awarded this week. and I believe .to a Boston .firm at that. Bight by the side of this, .on Chestnut street, is the New Record building, which, for beauty' arid symmetry, i think nas no equal in the city. It is shoved in between' the new post office and the pLd Penn Mutual Insurance , Company building, 'which is thrown Quite in the shade by it,, notwithstanding tne .renn mutual was a stupendous building at the day of its erection. I would advise by. all means that you adopt the Record style farchj tecure and conform to the dimen-' sions as nearly as ybii danTwHeh' you proceed to potup tb JofjllNAL building. i I met to-day ono who sneaks proudly of being once a New Berne, ooy, uuanes a. ucasiy, isaq. lie graduated this month at tire Uni versity in this city received t he- degree of B. A. and took, the high est prize for declamation. . lie speaks very highly of' Professor Neal as a teacher and frays the ground-work of his Latin- studies was laid by the Professor and were of such a thorough and comprehep: sive character as $o be pfreat service to bim in the prosecution of the same at the University. ; He" also speaks favorably of his Sunday School teacher at. New Berne, but as she is only a professor of Chris tianity and not of the arts and sciences, I will withbolcTher name! Charles is going to buckle down to the stady of the law and will sooa enter the office of George M. Dallas, Esq., lor that purpose. Mr. Dallas is the son of the Vice-President of the memorable days of the Polk and Dallas administration, during which the acquisition of three of the most promising States of, the Union was affected, Oregon Tejas and California. ' I spent a short while in Indep'endv ence Hall to-day; everything-there looks just as it ever did,, audrth strolling visitors wear, the, same "dew tell" expression of counte nance that I have always seen there. C: The University Nrmalx8liopi. The Normal Jias gotten fairly at work and settled. down, to bnsiness. There are now in attendance more than two hundred an (J twenty. The Instructors are faithfully per forming tneir arduous labors. This school is divided into four sections, for convenience. More. of the teachers attend each section than ever before. There are no shirkers. Eastern North Carolina is very well represented, .Lenoir county specially. Even Virginia ana South Carolina have representa tives here. President Battle's ever zealous interest in the welfare of the Old North State, is manifest here also. The upward tendency of education in our State is due very greatly to him. Let us giro him credit while he lives and not wait to engrave it on his tomb. Superintendent Scarborough will lecture here Wednesday uight, the 4th inst.; and the following night Gov. Jarvis will do likewise. The Association of County Su perintendents will meet here to morrow. And on Friday the Cth, the State Teacher's Association will convene, here. It would be worth the trouble for a few editors to come up here and take notes for the enlighten ment oi their readers. A corres-1 pondent, whose time is almost! entirely tilled up, cannot tell it as I an editor would. Ah aciifi,. 1 Chapel Hill, July M. A voting couple in Ceorgia, w ho liae lieen married four mouths, have separated live times. Silk culture has passed the hounds ot experiment at Knox ville. 1 Prof. I,. II. Locket t, of the Cuivcr sity of TcniMssec, has made a rac tical test ol ",()( silk worm eggs,! out of vyhich number loss tliau a hundred failed to hatch. I ' ProfeMlonal Ctrd. GEO; ZL ' AY, - Attorney at LaW lUMvnMat Hnak'A- N. JrtrHmov Uan. f. L Will practlM Id tha eonntlM of Otmix. I aolr, jaaaa a4 W )"!. k.ikaiuna an4 varmnctna a apaelaar. Boslnaaa nlni.ui ma wlU raoalva prompt MWcuoa. orut u .. i UOirtWs.x.Koc.-is,;.,!,. ATTORNEY AT,iA.W, WlU praettoa la tha CnomUa of OnwtM, 1. polr. Jonr, Onakrw, pamUoaaaa Cravra; tu In tt U. H. putrk Pcmrt. ; , , , PratiptanairUo paid to tbe aolbMimi trt;o bt-tt t'lf Umt rWr'T'. ,. .ttomey-at'ILaw.j , roLLocKTnujK, b3rJtx l toftfcmt. lb CU VMoUi anaattoa lrB Io,th aof feMlnft ix claims, and aaUllna aatafe ol doaii ...r. MM H ri ; H .-! j ilVU .wwrtoW.''4 .'' .ni" t . , . CUmBKT MA JILT. mm a - . A uivnu etfvf . - ATimaEYBTlLA.W.. , 7JI piapflea InHhaCVinMMrpMvaa.JrmM. pmlow.Caru.rat, )arohwn1 ln..lr,n I i., tto.jra4anUJqNirtMhw ftta-oai. .,.. u 1 "ir iiriapHYPEAiisix;: , TBENTpjparys CO, C. . Willi pranMaa In tha Ooontlf-a of OniJnw Lanotr. lHinlln. Hamnaoa uuUiuim ' TW,.rJ"1lf!ri$ M,ta.pjaM , . aiMlfcVlrrnnirA.'-'''' WtrtKi. 'a. rv. I t v. , WSf 9,,-.. KUmu , he V . STRONG & ITRRYn , . . 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New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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July 12, 1883, edition 1
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