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- -1 - INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. J Brarttre. a Sjll.O Xs r T'Mr NEW BERNE, CRAVEN COUNTY, N. C, AUGUST 1G, 1883.. NO. 20. VOL. VI: '.. V - C- v -J Y A . - i "new biirne advertisements. 5 :J I:, i .j II 'trAm the New Orleans Timet-Democrat.) Ia oar paper today wlU be foaad the advertisement of that justly cel ebrated cotton Kin the "Gullet. Magnolia." We hare trajersed with- yuowuvv k-i fprtm nviu to Virginia. - la vne past gu muutus Micuiwfu - --- -andtbroazhoottbe States combined in that district the reputation of & ... . ,. ii T nt anil foramAHT. this noted em U oeyonq cani or quemwu. ui with alL in mechanism, durabaity and perfection. And, indeed, no en terprise could fail of success, conducted as is the business of this com pany. Originally under the control of Benjamin D. Gullets ft man familar throughout the South at his death its management devolved upon one whose name is in itself a tower of strength Albert Baldwin, Ear " To his side this gentleman has called, as general manager, Mr. Geau A. Peete, than whom, in executive ability, none abler can be found. Truly ia this establishment a home institution, everything used . ia the construction of the machines, even to the eastings and saws, be tnjr made at their own factory? while the majestic magnolia and long leaf yellow pine, of which their gins are mann&ctured, grow thick on their own im mediately ad ia cent lands. - In fine, the Gullett Magnolia,' as a gin, cannot be excelled, and all who use it sound its praises ever Z-"4 . - v.', i.c. WHITTY. ; I ' carry a tiill line of the following goods, and solicit, a sliare, of your patronage. ;Send in youir- orders for. Engines, Cotton Gins, loesses, : Rice Tresbers &c as early as possible and thereby avoid delays and dis appointments. 'Kentocky Can MHls. , Cook,a''ETaporators,t-," '" EiceUior" Cider M'dla, " ilarylnd" Corn Snellen, - , Hockaway and Champion Grain Fans, Staa Engiaes, all aiaee,- ; '"' t Eke and Wheat - Thresher and Separator!, v -Crrer Cottoa Gins, f V rr;r Condensera,; ; " ; trTer Cottoa Cleaners, . - ' " . : rt a "Jtiagnou um, .'. '..-a!; Cottoa Prea,'-;' , ,: I-, irer Cottoa-Preai, ."V.v-.s.: ' '-.:rS Co." Grit Cora Mills, Pat. Shinrlalfaehiae, Trite for terms and that no well regulated bo YrithoutaTGUbertF Respectfully yours, e J OHN C. WHITTY, CSATHY STREET KBXT' DOOR TO COTTOK EXCHANGE, : . ?: NEWBERN, N. C. - 'f " l- . . . . -: y 3&ca&4AiE: r.xt:oR' dealeh. :: vv; ; eergher a mux - , ' ' rrr.TRPATgp 'somn LAGER BEER : FOR SALEBY THE CRATE. Also on hand a follstock of Groceries, Provisions, Cigars . ' : ; 'AND TOBACCO. ,Opeat Front Brick Store. MllDIiB "STBEET, - Apr I fv It'-V."' '-' l-r':.-.- VEW BEKMF. V CO, : ToUok Street,! NeBerae, N. C, General ; hardware, . PRICES VERY ITOW FOR CASH. C 3 WARD . . HAVE A FUU. STOCX OF . . Gawxe, Lisle Thread and Net Undershirts, all price. -'- ' Fall Stock of Eighmie and Elm City Shirts, gnaranteed to tit, only $1.00. JTotby Suits, Alpaca, Drap d'Ete and Sicilian Coats for warm weather, r -arge line of JJosters. gee por 110 aalts. 1 . ' - Collars, Cuffa," White Ties and White eeto. Straw lists in freat Tarietj, from 5 cenU up. . :XobbFeari Colored Stiff Hats. --.Alpaca and Silk Sun Umbrella. We have afew dozen Mlh? (.osrnnit iHuh Ik r Cirenlara, wbkh we will close out at 1 1.25. Large line of Valites and Trunk?. " If you need a Straw Matting call on us before you buy. We are coustauth reeeiTing and selling it. We have a nice line of Low Shoes, Stacy Adams & Co.'s Patent Pumps and Cent's Slippers. GenU' Cdlored Half Hoae, full line. Trv Us First, when you need Anything in our Line HOWARD & JONfcS, 'Keatacky" Shingle Machine, Box Board Machine, Acme Palverising Harrow, unaur paaaed for patting in mall grain. "Go Easy" Feed Oattera, TeoaeasM Wagons, Haaeoek Inspirators, Hogves Graded Injector, Cottoa Seed II oilers, Saw Mills, CireaLr Saws, Gammers, Side Files, Swages, Shafting, PalleysBeltiag, ? vBoaaoke Hand Preas, ' " Maid of the Bomth Cora Millfl, ' Etc., Euf:. Etc. prices, and remember family can afford to Asrrteiiltaral Implements, Steam KnKinea, Cotton Presses, Horse Powers, Threshers, 'Farm Maelilnerr, Orain Fans. Straw Cotters. Corn Shelters, Cider Mills, Bcltiuff, Packlitfr, Pip. FiMlufTS, Paint, Oil, Glass, LUtie, Cement, Planter, Fertilise r, Brick, Etc. ippcxalte Xplsoopal OJinrota, FIELD. FOET AND FLEET- Grant's Siege and Capture of Ticks-bara-. Lone- Days of Anxiety and Long Sights of Danger. Mole Steaks and Boot Soups ttood Eatinp. After tbe failure of the second assault on Vicksbnrg, Grant made nr his mind to a siege which he knew would be drugged through many weeks. It was neither the lack of eood generalship nor des perate fighting that had beaten the Federals back. Vicksourg was im pregnable. Pemberton could hold his lines against infantry, and Porter might bnrl shot and shell all day long at the blnffd without lining enough damage to pay ior tbe uowder. When the real investment be gan, a cat conld not have crept ont of Vicksbnrg without being discov- ftred. Everv vard of river and foot of land was watched and guarded, and the horrors of a siege were felt alike in tbe streets of the city and the trenches at the front. "GIVE THEM NO BEST.'' Grant learned here what he after wards put in practice at Peters burg. If he could not hurl Pem berton from his works he could wear him out. Sharpshooters were advanced as close as possible at every point, artillery pushed for ward, new pieces mounted, and every arrangement made to keep the Confederates on the anxious seat. The crack of the rifles of the sharpshooters was never hashed, even at night, and scarcely a day passed that some demonstration was n$t made to create apprehen sion. A regiment would make an advance at some point on the lines as if an assault were intended, and the Confederates would be stirred np on a front a mile long. At night some bold Federal would creep forward among the Con feder ate rifle pits and raise an alarm that would extend to a thousand men. There was not an hour -in tbe twenty-four that the besieged felt safe in resting, and anything like sound sleep was out of the question. THE SHABP-SHOOTEES. While a constant artillery fire was maintained on both sides, most of the loss was occasioned b3' the sharp-shooters. The Federals were in rifle pits or behind rocks, and in some cases near enough to have killed a sparrow resting on the Confederate works. One of their objects was to silence the big guns by picking off artillerists, and in a few instances tney were quite saccessfnl. There were cannon in the Confederate forts which were struck by as many as sixty bullets. A wooden shield in use to protect the man At one of the gnns was in eight hoars bit by forty-four balls. A Confederate soldier baa oniy to raise his bat above the works to have it plugged by from two to five ballets, and the man reckless enough to expose himself at any point was certain to do nit on tne instant. On the other hand, the Federals suffered even more from the Con federate sharpshooters, because less sheltered and almost constant ly making new movements and taking new positions, a iouisiana rifleman who bad dng a bole for himself in front of Fort Hill and rendered himself a dangerous ob ject, made a long shot one day and killed or wounuea an omcer. Within five minutes, as he relates, five or six pieces of light artillery were turned upon the spot where he was 'concealed, and a score of Federal sharp-shoot ers likewise gave him ineir attention. jor thirty minutes he was doubled up in a hole just aeep enougn to snei- ter him and over and around him swept- shot, shell and bullet in a way that leu tne grounu a signi to see. While ne was not nurt, a piece of shell and two spent bullets rolled into his door, and he was almost buried alive by the dirt flung into the hole. THE PENINSULA. One who looks over the battle fields of Vicksbnrg will wonder that the peninsula (now an island) op posite the city was not captured long before the event took place. Porter's mortars were so far up stream that they were of little ser vice, and whenever he came down with his gun boats to run past or engags the batteries the distance he had to make was so great that the Confederates bad warning and were fully prepared for his coiniug. The Confederate force holding the peninsula was always weak in numbers, and could have been routed weeks before it was. When the Federals finally took possesion ot the ground the mortar-scows were brought down within rifle range of the city. The wooded peninsula hid them from sight and served as a protection, while thej bad but to elevate their pieces to cigar the tree tops and their mis siles would carry to the Vicksbnrg banks. After the siege began, and i after Porter secured the new posi tion, the Confederates could never look forward to an hour of rest. ALONG THE BU FFS. Porter's fire against the batter ies along the blurts was steady and annoying, but attended with far less loss ol life than ouo. would antici pate. It was indeed a rare thing when a man was killed in one of the forts. The missiles from the iron clads and the gun boats buried themselves in walls of earth from twelve to twenty feet thick, and , the descemliug lombs were not particularly dangerous generally falling beyond the works. A Con federate relates that lie counted thirty-two bombs which fell and ex ploded without injury to life, and that only two out of 108 created any destruction whatever. Never ; theless, the bombardment was a terrible thing to liear, and though i so many shells were thrown away no one was safe from being torn to pieces at any moment. Here it was demonstrated that an iron clad which could be kept on the move was hit only by chance. Those which attacked Fort Sumter made a square stand up tight, bow ' or broadside on and stationary. I Those at Vicksbnrg fought while , under motion, and though one ves I sel was often a target for fifty guns the damage was never serious The Cincinnati, in advancing to a position within pistol-shot of a bat tery located at the water's edge, was fared at over lorty times witn out being hit. She was then sunk bv a single shot and about twenty of her crew were either killed or drowned. SEEING THE SIGHTS. It was not until near the close of the siege that the Federals knew of the existence of the caves in Vicks burg. During the day, when a lively bombardment was in prog ress, the hillsides would be covered with women and children. Ot a sudden they would disappear, but in five minutes they were back again. Women learned to distin guish one missile from another by sound; aud to anticipate the points against which the heaviest Federal ffre would be contracted. Seated on the hillsides, with umbrellas held up to shade them, they would watch the bombardment with deep interest until a shell came too close. Then there would be a scattering, generally accompanied by a irolic, aud in a short time all wonld re turn. The caves were resorted to at first upon the firing of a single gun, but during the last two weeks of the siege, when the fire was hot test, many families remained in their houses and trusted to good luck to escape. THE FOOD SUPPLY. In June the rations of the soldiers were again decreased, and citizens were brought face to face with the fact that nothing must be wasted. There was little or nothing for sale, the city was entirely cutoff by river and land, and the woman who could invent some new dish from the crnmbs of a former meal fared the best. It was not nntil tbe last week that mule meat was resorted to, and it was still later on that rats came to be looked upon as'good eating. A negro woman told me that she killed and ate a dog, and never tasted better meat, and another made soup of a piece of rawhide and fonnd it very palata ble. The mule meat was passable good eating, though tough and stringy, and soldiers ate it in prefer ence to some of the pork and bacon issued with their rations. Although the troops in Vicks bnrg were cnt down to the lowest possible point in issuing rations, it was not so mucn from lack ot sup plies as from seeking to carry out Pemberton's ideas. His first was to take the garrison out in case Johnston came to his relief by an attack. The second was to protract the siege to the last hour. If he got out with bis garrison his army must have rations. If be conld not get ont, every day that he held Vicksbnrg held Grant's army there, and was an advantage to the Con federacy. In his omcial report he says he had in store on the day of surrender, 40,000 pounds of pork and bacon, 50,000 pounds of rice, 5,000 bushels of peas, 2,000 pounds of sugar, 400,000 pounds of salt, and various other commissary stores. Thus it came about that the garri son turned to rats and roots while their store houses at their backs contained plenty of good rations. SAP AND MTNE. Grant was impatient' at delay, and when neither assault nor bom bardment would bring victory, he began to approach the Confederate works at various points by sap and mine. The most important mines were driven under Fort Hill, and late in June there were two ex plosions there which nearly shook the fort to pieces. With each ex plosion there was a rnsh of Fed erals to get in, and a rally of the Confederates to keep them out, and no material advantage was gained. The first explosion caught about a dozen Confederates in a counter mine outside. Four of the men were blown so high into space that their bodies were almost lost sight of, and those who saw them alter they had descended could find no resemblance to hnman beings. They were simply blackened balls of pulp. It became certain after awhile that Grant would get into Vicks bnrg if he had to tunnel under every hill, and Fate sat down with Pemberton whenever he rested, and glided along beside him when ever he rode. Johnston could not gather force enough to warrant an attack upon Grant. He was a menace, but not a danger. It was the same with Taylor. The only chance promising success was an attack by Johnston in coif junction with a sortie by Pember ton. This plan would certainly have been tried could the details have been ierfected. The Confed erate couriers were intercepted go ing and coming, aud Pemberton could not arrange the details. Without a perfect understanding as to the hour and point it was use less to attack. WEAKENING. In the last days of June Pember ton fully realized hjs position. He might repulse another assault upon his lines, and the .river batteries might now and then disable a gun boat, but the end must come. Grant was determined and Porter full of courage. Neither Johnston nor Taylor could furnish aid, aud the Confederate troops were begin ning to weaken under the rule of short rations and constant vigil ance. From the 20th of June to the 2d of July no Confederate let go of his musket, and no man slept for an hour at a time. Every foot of the lines was under fire, and every lort was being approached by a mine. lu the city it was still worse. Porter had opened with a vengeance, ammunition was giving out in the batteries, aud men who had been under call for over forty days and nights were at last wear ing out. THE Sl'BHKNDEH. Grant never exhibited better generalship and greater pluck. Porter never showed his fleet to better advantage than right there. Then let history, no matter by whom written, add that tbe Con federates had done all that brave men could do. Oh the 3d of July, having given up all hopes of outside aid, and feeling that further defense was but useless slaughter, Pemberton raised the white flag of surrender, and next day Vicksburg was in posses sion of those who had fought so long and well to win it. It has been charged that Pemberton was a mau of great persoual vanity. If so, he was also a good fighter. It has been charged that he disobeyed the orders of Johnston to evacuate Vicksburg. If so, where are the charges and the courtsmartialf It has been written that he defended Vicksburg by the positive order of President Davis. If true, the President had the right to make the order, and he must have felt that Pemberton made the best pos sible fight under the circumstances M. Quad. Railroad Matters. Possom Quarter, Aug. 6, 1883. Ed. New Berne Journal: In writing up the last meeting of the A. & N. C. Kailroad Company you take occasion to compliineut Col. T. M. Holt, aud strike a lick at the action of the stockholders of the N. C. Kailroad Company for refusing to consolidate with the "Mullet road" thirteen years ago. I observe that Col. Holt's speech has been copied in several papers pretty much upon the order of patent medicine, but I suppose the papers get better paid for Mr. Holt's advertisement. It is strange, very strange, that the authorities of our State will never trnst our own people, and always believes any attempt by them to form companies to lease or develop any part of our State is hatched in fraud, and everything must be done to defeat any enter prise they may desire to enter upon. Hence the injunction against leas ing the Mnllet road the proposi tion of the N. C. Eailroad Company to buy the Mullet, road and the withdrawal of the Yadkin Valley proposition. But let us look at Col. Holt's speech aud see if there is anything in it, if he is "a plain. blunt man." He states that tbe lease of the N. C. Road will end in seventeen years, by that time the E. & D. Company will have a line built from Danville to Charlotte and will have no further use for the N. C. Railroad. Mr. Holt continues: 'Cut off at Raleigh bv John Robin son, blocked at Goldsboro by the W. & W. road and dictated to by whoever may control the Atlantic road and where will we be?" And further that a railroad commission is one of the necessities of the times, and a tariff of rates will be fixed at so much per mile, then freights will seek the nearest tide water, and therefore the N. C. Railroad Company ought in self protection to buy the Mullet road. Bully for Col. Holt, far seeing statesman, profound legal adviser. Excuse us if we examine Mr. Holt's speech a little, and prick the bub ble so it may not frighten our good people or make them believe the stockholders of the N. C. Railroad Company acted the fool in not con solidating with the Mullet road thirteen years ago. The Richmond and Danville Com pany now controls over four thou sand miles of road South and South west and can in three months or a shorter time extend their line to Charlotte by building a link from Winston, N. C, to Statesville, which is about thirty-eight miles. Their trains are now running from Richmond to Winston and they own the road from Statesville to Charlotte, and by building the broken link from Winston to States ville, they will have a through line from Richmond to Charlotte, only two miles longer than via N. C. Railroad. But you will say why don't they build this link and give up the N. C. Railroad ? I will tell you why. The R. & D. Railroad Company pays the N. C. Railroad Company $260,000 per annum for the lease of the N. C. Railroad, and does not get more than $180,000 net from the N. C. Railroad. You will say this is a clear loss to the R. & D. Railroad Company: of $80,000 per annum and why not bnild this short link and give up the N. C. Railroad ? The answer to that question answers the speech of Col. Holt, and shows that some thing else was behind his speech besides the fear that the "N. C. Railroad would bo given up, cut off at Raleigh by John .Robinson, blocked at Goldsboro by the W. & W. Road, and dictated to by who ever had the control of the 'Mullet road.' " I will proceed to show yon why the R. & D. Railroad Company will continue, the lease perpetually if thej- can, and why the stockholders of the N. C. Railroad Company are compelled to lea.se or lose the divi dends upon their stock. In the first place there is about ($600,000) six hundred thousand dol lars worth of freight passes over and from its local stations an nually. The most of this six hun dred thousand dollars worth of freight is controlled by the R. & D. Railroad Company, and after pass ing over the N. C. Railroad, it is made to swing off at Greensboro, and pass over the R. & D. Road, and the West Point Road, owned by the R. & D., thence by steamers owned in part or the whole by the R. & D. Railroad Company to Bal timore, Philadelphia and New York. You will see at a glance that the R. & 1). Railroad Company will never give up the N. C. Rail roal, as they carry this vast amount of freight over their owu road 180 miles long, over the West Toint Road owned by them and steam ships heretofore mentioned. This i causes them to make large : proms over their own lines where no j profits were made before the lease. (The profits are made by controlling I the freights and passengers over i the X. C. Railroad, j By building the link from Win ston to Statesville and giving up the lease of the N. C. Railroad, they would lose all of the local ; freights of the X. C Railroad, : which docs profit them now, (hav ing to pass over their own lines) ; much more than any other company could pay for the lease, and ten times more than the X. C Railroad could make if consolidated with the A. & X. C. Railroad. You will naturally ask why is this? How can the R. & D. Railroad Company pay more for the lease than any other road! And if it does not lease the N. C. Railroad why could not the X. C. Railroad make as much as now for its stockholders by consolidating with the A. & N. C. Railroad. I will- tell yon why. The 11. & I). Railroad Company owns the Air Bine Railroad from Charlotte to Atlanta, Georgia. It owns the Columbia and Augusta Railroad from Charlotte to Au gusta, and other roads South of this. Therefore, ll forced to build the link from Winston to States ville, by the X. C. Railroad Com pany refusing to lease them their road, they of course wonld control the through and local freights and passengers over their Southern line, and they would pass over their own road and have the XT. C. Railroad simply a local rosW. Therefore it is mutually to the benefit of both the R. & D. Rail road Company and the X. C. Rail road Company that the R. & D. Railroad Company shall control the X. C. Railroad. As without it the R. & D. Railroad Company would be a large loser, more than they conld or wonld afford if they can continue the lease at the present figures or even higher. And the N. C. Railroad Company cannot refuse to lease unless they make np their minds to run their road without dividends. It is plain to me then that there is no danger of the R. & D. Railroad Company re fusing to lease the X. C. Railroad Company at the end of seventeen years, which is the end of the lease. If such was the case, however, why cut its own throat by consolidation? Why not hold itself so as to get the best terms with connecting lines the lines from Raleigh, owned by John Robinson, would compete with the W. & W., and the man agers of the A. & N. C. Railroad wonld also compete for its local freights, and by the competition it might pay expenses, but never dividends. So much for that part of Col. Holt's "plain blunt speech." Mr. Holt, fearing this part of his speech wonld not put scare enough on, he continues, "A railroad com mission is one of the necessities of the times and the tariffs will be fixed at so much per mile, then will freights seek the nearest tide water." Every lawyer in the State knows that any commission appointed to fix the amount of freight to be charged per mile on railroads char tered before such a law, would be unconstitutional and void as much so as if the same commission should fix the price of corn, meat or wheat, or any other marketable matter. It has been tried in many States by demagogues, and men who wanted office, but in every case a failure. But if the Legislature should hereafter put in all new charters that their charges should be managed by a commission, so well and good, but you would find but few who would be fools enough to take stock in snch companies. Now, be jabbers, who will step upon me coat tail? Yours very truly, Old Giusley. Stirring to Death on n Mountain Peak. When the train emerges from the Raton Tunnel into the daylight of New Mexico, and off on the arid plains you see the bald head of Starvation Peak, you feel that na ture did as much as man towards drawing the line you have just crossed. This peak tells a story of Indian cunning and inhumanity. An Indian raid years ago on one of the settlements was followed by flight to the mountain. A gang of Mexicaus, in swift and angry pnr suit, were decoyed to a point from which retreat seemed safest in the direction of the peak. Then in sudden and fierce attack the In dians bore upon them. The peak was sought and gained by the na tives, who thought perhaps that they might destroy the enemy by figUting thorn from above. A single narrow and dangerous way affords the only access to the peak or de scent from it. The Indians scat aered themselves among the bould ers that guard the approaches to this pass. They could neither be reached nor seen from above, and both courage and men were lack ing to trouble them from below. The Mexicans discovered soon enough that they had been trapped, but too late to help themselves. Like snakes the Indians lay in wait for the prey, and so keen was their watch that whenever night or day a hnman form entered the pass it fell under a shower of venomous arrows. Provisions carried to the peak, scant at first, soon gave out, and the baud who had rushed forth to punish the ravage rs of their homes, lingered uVder a blistering sun and through the, chilling nights until the smell of rotting bodies re leased the savage blockade, and the Indians mounted the peak to gloat over its corpse strewn hidc ousness. And so the mountain took its ghastly name. A Fair of Loss That Could be De pended On. During his stay in Denver Dave Day endeavored to entertain a number of Eastern friends who had come to participate in the Grand Army reunion, lie went to Col. Dave Gage, at the St. James, and j begged him to devote a large room to the purpose of affording the Mis souri visitors sleeping quarters. "You can bet your lite, Dave," 'said Col. Gage, warmly, "that your friends shall be attended to. Xo i rebel soldier shall be turned awa-y from my door. Why, Dave, J lost a. leg in the rebel army myself. Bring your friends right up here, and we'll organize Jeff Davis Xo. 1 in the front parlor." "Col. Gage," said .Mr. Day, sternly, '-yon seriously misunder stand me." It is true, i was a Con federate soldier myself, but these friends of mine wore the blue, and battled with patriotic valor for the dear old flag." "Very well, very well," said Col. Gage, smilingly, patting Mr. Day on the back: '"jess so. jess so. Bring them right along, and I'll take good care of them. Most my other leg in the Union Army, you know." STATE NEWS Uleaned from onr Exchanges. Lexington Dispatch: Last week we were shown some hand-sewed ladies' shoes made by Wr. H. Wet- more & Co. in their factory at Thomasville. They were made of the best material, in good style. and finished equal to the best Northern made shoes. The manu facture of this grade of shoes is a new departure. Wilmington Star: Hilda Henry, colored, aged between 40 and 50 years, was walking in her yard on Saturday evening las)., on Dawson, between Fourth and Fifth streets, when she was taken suddenly ill and fell to the ground. She was taken in the house and died in a few minntes afterwards. Heart disease is said to have been the cause. Xo inquest. Wilmington Reriew: There is no mistaking the fact that t he crops on the line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad have been suffer ing for rain, so much in some in stances as to seriously reduce the amount to bo harvested. Especi ally is this the case on high and dry lands. It is to be hoped that the showers which began to fall yester day have visited the sections indi cated. Elizabeth City Economist: Rev. G. W. Sanderlin called in to see us on Friday Over two hundred guests at the Xags Head Hotel. Good times. On Friday night the store of T. J. Jordan was en tered bv burglars and robbed of $300. The thieves have not been apprehended. BillBasnight, the great bear hunter of modern times, was in to see us with his winsome daughter last week. He talked to us of new conquests. Greensboro Patriot: An ad journed meeting of Orange Presby tery will be held here Wednesday next. It being an adjourned meet ing any regular business cau be transacted." The pastor of Hills boro church, Rev. J. L. Williamson, has made application for a dissolu tion of his pastoral relations, and tne church has been cited to show cause why the request should not be granted. It is expected that Turner A. Wharton and Egbert Smith will present themselves at this session as candidates for the ministry. Raleigh Netcs and Observer: Sun day night an old man, all the way from the edge of Harnett, came here to see the hanging, bringing with him his two sons, aged 12 and 14. He bore his disappointment bravely, drank a pint of whisky, ate the larger portion of four water melons and so managed to get through the day fairly well. Ia the afternoon he said he only hated missing the hanging for the boys' sake. As for himself he had seen plenty of men swung off, but it was hard for the boys to come thirty miles on Sunday and see nothing when they got here. Charlotte Journal-Observer: Not a single watermelon could be found in Charlotte last Saturday. Re ports from all sections of the county say that the crops are needing rain badly. When the mountain tour ists write home now, they always add in a P. S. "Send us our winter clothes and overcoat." Hot Tom and Jerry is the favorite drink up there these nights. The biggest threshing we have heard of this year was done by Rea Brothers, in Providence township, last week. In one day they threshed 1532 bushels of oats for Mr. W. M. Matthews. Maj. J. G. Harris, who has been on a trip through upper Mecklenburg and lower Ca barrus, informs us that in some sections the crops have suffered from drought and are not promis ing, while in other neighborhoods where rains have been more fre quent, they are very fine. One farmer in Cabarrus who has thirty acres in cottou expects to make forty bales, and from one ten acre field he expects to gather 5,000 lounds of seed cotton per acre. This so staggered us that we forgot to ask for t he name of the fanner. Wilmington Star: A terrible affair occurred in Sampson county on Monday last. Mr. John Matt hews, a very worthy citizen, re siding about fifteen miles from Clinton, was returning home from the latter place, when it is supposed that his horse ran away and caused his death. Parties passing along the road about four or five miles from Clinton, on Monday night, discovered the unfortunate man lying across the front axle, with his head caught in one of the wheels of his buggy and his neck broken, and it is taken lor granted that he fell from the vehicle. Deceased was a mau of many fine qualities and was much esteemed by all who knew him. lie leaves a family, who have the profound sympathy of a largo circle of friends in their sad bereavement. Gov. Jarvis has telegraphed the officer in charge of Lynch, the party who is accused of abducting a young girl from her parents in Sumter, S. G, telling him to hold him uutil he is called for by the authorities of South Carolina. Lynch still remains in jail here. Clayton Bud: Some fifteen or twenty years ago Mr. James Price married a very nice lady, and after they had lived together several ' years, some nine or ten years ago she tried to induce him to go with j her to Baltimore where they could , educate their children. He would not, and she moved to Baltimore, carrying hei children, leaving Mr. 1. in Goldsboro. They correspon ded ashort while. Mr. P. lived here i alone, not hearing from her in seven or eight years, he knew not but ' what she was dead, so he married a second wife, some three mouths ago. Last week wife Xo. one came ! to Clayton thinking she could iu j duce her husband to acconipany lier back to Baltimore, now that she had accumulated some proper-. i ty. She heard of his second mar-1 i riiige and did not go to his house. , but went out and stopped with one of Mr. U's neighbors. He of course went over to see her, and a scene followed. She told him she would j return to her home and leave him ' undisturbed. So yesterday even ing they passed our office. Mr. P. was carrying tbe valise of bis first, or Baltimore wife, to the depot, where she took the train for that city. Several days ago, at Mr. Jno. Wilson's saw mill, three miles from Clayton, Burt Scott shot Neal Stuart with a shot gun, the lond taking effect in the thigh. We learn from his physician, Dr. JV. J. Jones, that he is getting oa well, aud will soon be over it. The par ties were hands at tbe saw mill, and it is said, had been drinking, GENERAL NEWS. Louisville. Ky., August .7. The returns come in very slowly. Thoaa received indicate alight rota with no decrease in the Democratic compara tive majority bo far aa heard from. The counties usually electing Demo cratic Legislators have done so, while the Republicans held their own ia the counties generally .carried by them. Knott for Governor will have about 45,000 majority, this statement being based on the returns now in and a com parison of the vote of tbe same counties two years ago. It is impossible to sup ply detailed returns owing to tele graphic difficulties. In this city a small vote was-polled but Knott's majority will be 4,000 or 5,000; a solid Demo cratic delegation is elected to the State and Legislature, and Thompson Demo crat is re-elected city judge. Henry Clay, grand-son of the great commoner, was defeated for the Legislature after the hottest political fight ever had here. Both he and Caldwell, who defeated him, are Democrats. Philadelphia, Pa., August 7. The Timet will print an elaborate answer from Jefferson Davis to Judge Black's reputed exposure of aeoeesion secrets some months ago, in which the ex-Con federate President reviews in rather pungent sentences the assertions and record or Judge Black as President Buchanan 'a chief cabinet officer. New Yoke., August 7. The follow ing has just been issued from the exec utive office of the Western Union Telegraph Company: new York, August 7. 1888. "Notice." It has come to our knowl edge that in connection with the strike of the operators and line men an organ ized plan of cutting and crossing of wires oi the Western Union and other companies in New York city and vicin ity has been agreed upon and is now being carried out in pursuance of such Elan. A large number of our wires ave been cnt during the past week and fifty-nine were cut last night in New York city and vicinity, the work showing all the marks of having been done by skilled hands. One thousand dollars will he paid by the company for the arrest and conviction of each and every person wilfully injuring or des troying any part of the company's tele graph lines or appurtenances. (Signed) THOS. T. ECKEBT. New York, August 8. Last night another onslaught wax made upon the wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company, the consequences of which were far morn disastrous than that of the preceding night. Press Agent Somerville, of the Western Union Com pany, said this morning that twenty wires were cut on one route and four teen on another between Passaic and Elizabeth, N. J. These were the wires to Philadelphia and other points in the Southern division. Twenty of the Mu tual Union wire were cut between Long's bridge and Soarsdale. AtTar rytown twelve were cut. The Hudson river wires are down, and eighteen wires in the Eastern circuits were ds stroyedfbetween Portcheater and Green wich, Conn. The cross-arms were aawed off in the latter instance and the wires cut besides. The first wires to go down were those on tbe cistern circuit, which were lost about 11:80 o'clock. Last night others went down , shertly after midnight. A large force of line men was sent out to repair the damage, and the lines are being repaired aa rapidly as possible. 8T. Paul, Minn., August 8. Tbe telegraph office at Bismarck was mobbed last night by the strikers. The striker consisted of twenty-five men, who en tered the office and compelled the new man to quit work. They then took him and put him to bed in the hotel. Man ager Draper moved the office to the Tribune building. No further trouble is expected. ST. Locia, August b. jno lurttier withdrawals from the Iron Mountain railroad are reported. Six wires est the Wabash railroad were cut about ten miles north of this city on Monday night. The wires were clearly cut with nippers, and tha poles show marks of the steel pronged climbers used by line men. Locisvillf, Augusts. Returns come in slowly, but Democratic gains are re ported from many of the counties, which render almost certain Knott 'a majority for Governor not less than forty thou Hand, while the State central committee think it may reach fifty thousand. Aabury, the Republican candidate for register of the land office, a colored man of ability and good character, ran mnch behind his ticket in toe interior coun ties, but was well ahead of his ticket in this city. One year ago he ran against Joe Blackburn for Congress. Baltimore. August 8. A fire broke out shortly after 8 o'clock this afternoon in the tinware I factory of Mattbi, In gram & Co., on Lexington street, corner of Arch, which soon extended across Arch, Markell'g spice mills, the re formed Jewish synagogue and sixteen brick dwellings were burned. Tbe loss will be over S100,000. Warm Springs, N. C, Aug. -10. Yes terday was a gala day for the Warm Springs. The Inter-State Tournament between Knoxville, Tenn., and Abbe ville, N. C, teams of five each, was wit nessed by two thousand people frem all parts of the country, and was a brilliant affair. The result was in favor of tbe Old North State, the medal having been awarded to the Ashevill team. New York, August 9. The Western Union Telegraph Company reported this morning that there had been no wire cutting last night; that tbe business was all cleared up this morning when the day force took their desks; that one lady operator, who had been out with the strikers, returned to work this morning; that there was no truth in the statement that the company was losing $50,000 a day in consequence of the strike; that the company was not losing anything at all, and it was probable that the net receipts were little if any below the average, there was, of course, a falling off of the gross receipts, and this upon good authority was stated to be less than fifteen per cent. On the other hand the company 's expenses have been diminished, as many small offices were not open, and tbe force was smaller in all the larger offices; while the company was not makiDg as much perhaps aB before the strike, it was not losing anything. In regard to the amount of business now actually handled by the company, it was said that it was equal to more than three-quarters of its ordinary bulk. It was not true that the Ameri can Rapid iiad been employed by tbe V estern Union to transmit delayed messages; the Western Union was fully capable of handling its own business, without resorting to the wires of any other company. The strikers are still confident of success, and exhibit no indications of weakness. They insist that the railroad operators in the West aiealiout, notwithstanding the state ments to the contrary made by the representatives of railroad companies. Cincinnati, August 9. A freight train on the Cleveland and Iraiu road ran off on a sw itch five miles south of Massillon. The train was wrecked, (iraliiiin. the engineer, and Wilson, the' fireman were killed. Others were iu- I jured, but not fatally. Professional Cards.' GEO. H. LINDSAY, Attorney at'L'aw vow mix or r , a. e. IWkmmti Hon. A. SL MmrfnMtrt, Itrti. T. a Vol lor, Halslgh. . tt; A. Hotm, Ma. Var ton N, C. - m Will pnuttlos In ths eoantloa of Omens, ta IKrtr, Joma s4 Vurla Cnllanun n4 un vevannlna; a ptAmitr. Hu1n hntrnMMl It m will r Ivs prompt euasltoa. ma W LEOKtDAS J.KOORE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, (Oslee tppMlU Oaatra Dnw,, Jfw Berne, N. O. ' Will matins la (fee (Ymntlse of njwM, I. noir. Jon, Onslow, l-amlkmand (JravsnjalM In ths U.K. IHslrlflt OiiurL. Prompt attonlloa paid to ta eollwiMMi ev claims. - ' - ' aavlwly P. H. PELLETTEll, Atomey-at:T-a.v . roLyxM-KSTiixsy , . , " Will praetfc In ths ttooru r ttertaret, JottSS, Onslow and Cravam. . , Hrwita.1 attcnUfld firm In tha enifcwtkm ot el uuma, ana a ttllDa aatal f danaaanil fmr snasj uariwtr a. w. Nixon. . m: mm m NIXON, 8ILUJQNS & VML1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW.1 . ,i .. - Will prmrtlAa In thaOnartanrCraw-a. Jtnaa, Onalow, HwtwK, Paraltanaarf Lawnlr, and Im tha KadarmJ Uoart at Maw fwraa. fi4tly P. MTJRPHY PEARSALL, ,. ATTPRa'KT AT LAW, f, , . TBENTON, J05ES CO, Will pnvtlne la ttta CoantUa of OimViw fjStlOtV. ODUMtlaeaapaetaMjr. .., ', iiapna, rwnnaon ana JooMt. sanfls-dAwtf a somas v. muiM. ' . altrfei n. vsa v, RftlalBU, N.O. , . , , lUiuUm, ft. U, STRONG & PEHRY, ' 1 'nJ-kinrrov. : "' i ATTOIIITI HI aOSElLCES IT tlW. Having formad a enfiMrtitaraklp tnr U Ctetlea of tba law la Joneaaonnty, HI ra ly attend UiaeoarUof vtm asm a.. fraii attention paM to eollanlnna. oajria-dAwU . - 01 avwMO A I'KRJIT. phiu sioiXAirD, ja. vn a. acion. HoixiiAND'.auioir, Attorneya tvt - Lawt (Ofllos one door wsstof Qaslon Hoaas.) WU1 praffttoe' In tha CkMntlaa of Oavaa Jonaa, Onatow, Ouiarat, Hamllooana Iwnlf Prompt attention paid to eoliaattoaa. ... apraV-davlv. ., - '. DR. G.' EL .BAGB7.7 , Surgeon Dent last. : i if' nl i ' 4 r WU1 be In Haw Barn front the -,"'' ; - ' . 1 st to the 1 6th of each Month. In Beaofort from UUl to tba B3U. ' i r . t . , Offloe la Haw Berne, ever K. W. A a. W. Small wood's, earner Boat front i Orever streeta.' '-, " Tetk extrmeted. without pala t tba aaa ot nltrooseaVde. ,. marX-Aewtf- DE. J. D.;CLARK, DENTIriT, ,- .!' turvrBXKS. . c - Offloe on Craven street, between Poilera and Broad. ii .it ! M"rt7-1rl - . . , i . .t 1 ! New .Berne Advert Ucments. A.;Ii;;POTTEH S CO., WBOLtSALE AKD RETAIL . COftFEfiTIONEBS, Hisnsrkcrvma or ' ! FRENCH & 'American And daalara la rwivn and tlomeatle Frnlta, Nuts. Alao Cigars. Totiaooo, Tays, ate. Pollock ttrmt, 4 to Ot.AlUm& Co. wjr . jftw.s5iui. (!.. i i TT ure i.t- . Wba " eoaae ta Haw Baroe tor Psral' . tore be aura o oaU at. . , (, . ( JO ' SUTER'S, , ON WpDyE STREET, ' Senond door above fc K Jones'. He kepe on band Parlor Malta, rtnefcihaf Mala, Walnut Bedstoarfa, HurMuia, WamrnhM, Mattrratea, Phalra, lxxjnave, fcolaa, Centra 1- . alee, etc. r or aale at ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. JanSwly .. .i.i i.. . ,t i the hue lias co:.:e For us to announce the fact that OUR SPRING STOCK IS COMPLETE, OONSIHTIMCO1' PART Of GEO TKRTKS OF AIX KINDS, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTb dc SHOES, FLOWS & HOES. THE OEM COTTOJf PLOf 1 A, SPECIALTY. ' Gall and an ua or write for aasaplas aa4 piicea. TIi oa. Uatea & Co., aprldawly Opp. Uaaton Itonae. Walter P. Burrus L Ca; COMMISSION MERCHANTS, V Irurnit AND DKA.LXKB M .f GRAIN OF ALL KINDS. (Corn a Specialty.) NewZ3arn, Wa O. r Ontara end Cnnale-nmente raaneawultf aolloltee' Jaa4-Oal7 DAIL BROS., WHOLESALE OROCEK0 AND OOKMI88ION atHCIAWTI lTEWBKKNK.lt aarll j.tm J 4.
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