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.--'-'v,-.tv..V- : - t ; v SY.'.lnv - . I vll '' "5'i"' -'iVw '.' '' , INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. VCmrxsa-m $0.00 Xr" Vr. ' fc. HlHf KB I f (rm. VjOL.vVI. f : NEW BERNE, CRAVEN COUNTY, N. C, OCTOBER 4, 1883. i .-..ft : UEW-BEKNE APYEBTISEMENTS. From IAe . New Orlcan Times-Democrat. J Ia onx papt to&rv will" t fonnd thcairtisemerit of tat jnstiycel "k. ebrated cotton pin the Ooett MjtgnoliaJiaWe, have traversed with tha f Iia Antim fntton belt from" Texas to Virmma, ami throughout the States combined tlii3 noted gm is beyond caTil or question. ; .it stands nrsc ana loremoai. with all, ia mechanism, durability and perfection. , And, indeed, no ea ierprise could fail of success, conducted as is the business of this com ' pan v. Originally under the contror of Benjamin -I. GnlletL a man r,,;?-.,,. ,r?,nnl. tha Rr.nfh. nt his "death its management devolved i: pon ' one whose name.is in itself a To his side this gentleman has called, as general manager, air. oo. A. Teete, than whom, in executive ability, none abler can be found. Truly is this establishment ft home institution, everything used in the construction of the machines, even. to the.- eastings and saws, be izz made at their oni factory? while tho majestic magnolia and long l:if yellow pine, of which their gins ar8 manufactured, grow-thick on their own immediately adiaoent:Und&In fine, the Gallett Magnolia," a it u. cannot be excelled, and all who nse it sound its praises ever afterward. . - -orsaleby . - v - . wwrr : , ,:...),',," J. C. WHITTY. carry, a' full line :oV ? tBe- follq wing, goods, solicit a share of tbtir patronage. , ana S end in y bur p'rdei -for 'Engines, Cotton Gins, Presses, Rice :,Tresners,&c., as early as p o s ible, and thereby 'void delays and dis- appomtmentS.;v;":;X;; rook's" Evaporators, , " J.Box Board Mchuie, - . r I ic..iioT,'Civier Blills, - ;V ;' ?r fAeme PulTerixing-Harrow, unsur : r i.-ylini Corn Shellew, - - ) ptaeed for patting in inull fram. : iiirsy and Champion urain rana, .. " .rrrrrrin. all aizes, " '- i I".; aai Wheat . Threshers Soparatojs, ' t'l"' t'jrver Cotton Gins, - ,' - 'a.-7tf C.:r. len-vrs,. ' '' V. ".' aad a (.'IfAuers, ' v ;-?Iag!iolia'. Gin, Cctton Press ;' . '.ion lVess,X IT j Iriulii -a Co." Grit ConwMiUs,. . Drake's Tat. Shingle ilahui, ' .; Write for terms and prices, and remember that no well regulated family can afford to be without a Respectfully ; yours: V , ;JOIIN C. WIUITY, . CliA rEX'STEEIlTKEXZ OrQSTO COTTON EXCHANGE, u Ai 2,000 ;DALES.fl 0 0 ' BblsEocli Lime. Rosendale, Iortlo.iil Selinitt9 Cements. 7 - v PlasterVGoat' Hair, '&c. aXT.FS EOOJI-Craven Street," below Express Office. ' : Anr 19 dAw "tfY' New Berue. K. C : James Eeamond, EERGHER ;.--:'f CELEBRATH) BOTTLEI) . LAGEE BEER - i FCSAI CRATE. . Also on hand a full stock of Groceries, Provisions, Cigars ; "Sl;C.J.i '.''.--.'".W.' ND TOBACCO. . ' ' '" Open Fa'ont Brict 8tore. MllDIiE 8TBEET, '3EO;-TffiL'tEN & CO., i Follok Street, Jfe Berne, N. C, General Hardware, - ; j - :' i;h PRICES VERY. LOW FOR CASH. in that district the reputation of tower of strength Albert Baldwin, j !"U xiasy eea c-mters, Tennessee Wagons, IIncck Inspirators, .. ' TTosBea Graded Id jector, f .Cotton Seed Hollers, O'.Saf Mills,--L.. w,i - , ' Circnlr Saws, Gunmen, " -.Side Files, Swages, - ;; ShaftingrPnlleTS, Belting, -,v. Roanoke Hatfd J'resV "V . ' , t Mai of the South Corn Mills ' T' ',. Ete.. Etc, Etc. ' E-iiEi'O'DCSEi 0 It THE It II HAY. JIUOK DEALE It. & EN GEL'S Agricultural Implement. Steam JESiijrinep, Cotton Presses. Horse Powers,' Threshers, Farm Machinery,' Oral n Fans. Straw Cutters, Corn Sliellors. Cider Mills rieltiiifr, Pocking, IMir Fittings. Piiint, Oils (ihiss, Ilme, Cement. Pliitor, Fertilizers, Itrick, i:ic THE VEGSO SHAKE FABMfcR. The October number of the American Agriculturist gives a pen picture of the "share farm ers" in the South which we copy that our readers may see how much information a Northern writer can pick up on a trip through the South. The writer's idea of the "negro share farmer", seems to have been based upon what he saw in Georgia. While much of this description would apply to this sectiou yet there are exceptions. There are many colored men in Easterir North Carolina who are well to do farmers and own the lauds they work. The changes wrought by the civil war in the South have produced one character whom we iound one of the most interesting studies of a recent trip through the South. VV e allude to the Negro Share Farmer. ,At home, in his ramshackle cabin, amonfr his lean pigs, his bony cattle and his always numerous family, or in the market place, with his spike team, often composed of a mule and a cow, which he has driven a long day's journey to sell a dollar's worth of wood or a couple oi Dusn els of potatoes, he presents a gro tesqne and. interesting type. It would be difficult, probably, to get down to poorer .and less profitable agriculture than the share farmer practices. But be manages to scrape a living out of the ground, exactly how he would perhaps sometimes find it difficult to ex plain himself. -Yon come upon his cabin among the pine woods, with . a patch of scraggy cor behind it, and the ground around .strewn with faggots, among which pick a straggling crew of rusty fowls. A couple of curs bark furiously at you. and a coupLo of pigs, which look like dogs, they are so bony and long legged, trot granting away into the brash. The mossy roof is sagging on its yielding beams; there are great fissures in the mud-plastered chim ney, and the wind finds ingress through the cracks between the slabs and logs of the walls, from which the mud has fallen. The conrtnotlon your approach has aroused brings a troop of children tumbling over one another out into the road, to watch you with wide open months and eyes, and shrink ing back when you look at them. A sturdy negress, with a cob pipe, gives you a curtsey in the doorwayj behind her you see a figure like the witch of a fairy tale cowering in the big fireplace; the figure of some old grandmother or grandfather. carrying; the. weight of nearly a century, on a bent back. As you ride on,you perhaps come upon the farmer, sturdy and uncouth, hoeing in his potato patch, or wandering among his corn or cotton. , -.. The share farmer obtains his title from the tefiure by whjph .he holds his land. ' He rents it at the simple price of half its yield. It is com monly a portion or some large plan tation, often of the same one on which be once labored. The real crop et a share farmer in this section is cotton. The farmer raises corn and sweet potatoes for himself and bis brutes, and only enongh lor them. The rest of his land he puts in cotton. 11 alt the product goes to the. landlord, iend often enough it is a very poor rental indeed. The year's crop of many a share farmer never rises above two bales. The landlords, as far as we could discover, are asy-going and indulgent. They levy no tax on the food crop' of the tenant, and not rarely get the smaller bale when division day comes around. The farmer's share of the cotton is commonly bought up' by traveling agents, who scour tbe country in search oi just such bargains. The farmer gets as little for it as the agent can persuade him to take. The share farmer sends his cotton to the nearest gin, which geperally belongs to his landlord, and there the division of the crop is made, and a toll levied on it for the clean ing. The very poorest qualities of the fible produced are probably those which come from these wretched settlements. But the price of his-cotton crop is about all the ready money the share farmer ever sees, and it suffices to supply his home with those meagre neces saries he cannot grow or make him self. Formerly the women on some of these farms used to spin and weave a portion of the cotton for! their own use. but the introduction of factories has made cloth cheap enough to be bought by them, iu small quantities as it is needed. The system of share farming has given existence to another type be sides the farmer himself. This is the banker, as he calls himself; the usurious money leuder as he really is. This worthy, like the class he thrives off of, is a negro. He is in a small way a capitalist, and his business is simply ieudiug money on the security of the share farmer's crop. Few of the thriftless blacks I can resist the temptation of antiei j patiug their gains, and t he banker is an obliging Irieml, when he con I siders it safe to do so. In business I he is, by all accounts, desperately ; hard and grinding, otherwise he is i eminently respectable, and not iu i frequently a preacher of uo little local fame. Betweeu the money he ' owes this creditor and his store ac count for molasses, tobacco, etc., also secured by his crop, the share ; farmer ia often saved tbe trouble ol handling any money at all for it, when it has been gathered. Such as it is, the existence ol the i netrro share farmer is not devoid of. elements of picturesqueness. His labor is hard and his fare coarse, but he is a tough, rude man, and has uo craving for unknown luxuries. Among the fogs of early day he is at work, when night falls he fiddles or croons his simple melodies be fore tuo yawning fireplace of his cabin. He generally h-is an old gun and wages war upon such grime as the woods around him shelter. What little leisure he enjoys he spends iu sleep. In the scale of education he ranks very low. He cannot read or write. -His ideas are Jreqnently clouded by superstition, though quite often he exhibits a pe culiarly keen native wit and cun ning, which makes him a great bar gainer, and stand him in good stead in his dealings with men oi better knowledge. His dress is a mess of patches and of rags. But he is as well dressed as his neighbors, and has no ambition to outdo them. His children wear a single garment, a shirt of coarse cotton, apparently never washed. The women folks own a dress of calico each, and a showy cotton handkerchief and shoes for state occasions.- If the farmer has any money he ties it up in old rags and hides it in holes in his fireplace or under the hearth. Baking out his money at night and counting it by the firelight is his greatest, perhaps his only luxury. But we have forgotten to mention the circus I Even the contempla tion of his hoarded dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars, does not confer on him the bliss which the tenting season brings with it. From miles and miles around on circus day the share farmer will travel to town. He will bring his whole fam- lly with him, from grandsire to suckling, park his wagon in a sub urb or a public sqaare, along with scores like him, the night before the eventful occasion. One might fancy he was in some captured town in war time to strike such a camp at night, with its camp fires blazing, its cattle picketed aronnd, and the campers busy preparing the evening meal or later slumber ing around the flames like soldiers sleeping on their arms. The share farmer's one vice is that of all of his class. He will drink. But even his drunkenness is rather grotesque and amusing than disgusting. Still with all his faults and weaknesses, the share farmer contributes nothing to the criminal or danger ous elements of society, but pre serves a primitive honesty and de cency, which are both noteworthy and praiseworthy. STATE NEWS Cleaned from our Exchanges. Greensboro Patriot: The price of is somewhat fluctuating roasting; ears in this market. If sold on the market they rate at fifteen cents a dozen, if eaten by a stock law man's cattle on an anti'a farm, they are valued at $1.75 per doaen. Ashboro ourier: Mr. D. M. Burrow, of Cedar Falls, has a stalk of corn that that measures 17 feet and 7 inches in hieht How is that for high? The oats crop is about the, earliest and from present indications w'e may predict that it will be needed next year on account of the short corn crop. Wilmington Star: Rev. Robert O. Burton, Presiding Elder of the Wil mington District of 4he Methodist Church, recently paid a visit to Lynch burg, Va.. and thereabouts, where he connected himself with the church and was licensed to preach y Rev. (after wards Bishop) John Early. In fifty- one years nearly all of the old members of the church had gone to their reward, and not a member of the official body when he was one survives. Charlotte Journal-Observer: The lo cal freight and passenger train on the Carolina Central came in considerably behind time yesterday afternoon, the delay having been caused by the extra ordinarily heavy freights to handle. Freight business is picking up wonder fully on all tne roads. Frank Snider came into the city yesterday from a Ca tawba River seining expedition, and brought a one horse wagon load of catfish- He retailed them at . 25 cents a bunch and there-were about six to the bjincb. The average weight of each bunch was 7 pounds. It was the big gest load of catfish ever seen in ' Char lotte. Clayton Bud: A protracted meeting is in progress at the Clayton Methodist church. Rev. Mr. Hartsell of Smith field, is assisting the pastor, Rev. A. M. Lowe, in conducting the services, which are held at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m We are informed that a colored man by the name of Pool, and working on Captain B. P. Williamson's farm, near Kaleigb, one day last week, undertook to whip his son, a boy about sixteen years, old, and broke his leg just above the knee. A gentleman called in to see us yesterday and informed us that he had a watermelon vine on his place that measured 62 J feet long, and has given him fifteen melons. -On the vine at this time there aie thrpe more, and promise to be larger than those already obtained from it. Quije a fruitful vine, wp think. If he had carried one of the melons to the Bud office we would have known the gentleman's name. Ep. Journal. Durham Tobacco Plant: Judge David Davis remarked that Durham was the livest town he had seen in all his travels. In the past few months he has taken in the South, North and West. Quite a compliment to Durham. Last week a farmer sold tobacco in Durham who can sit in bis house at home and see the smoke rise from the chimneys in Dan ville. Durham is drawing trade from all around Danville. Alex. Herndon, colored, formerly ol Durham, is in serious trouble in Lexington, Davidson county, a tew wpens ago aioX. made nis appearance on our sireuis ior iue first time in many months, sporting a white beaver and swelling us big as ever. It was not long till a telegram was received from Lexington instruct ing our police to arrest him. He was lodged in jail, and the authorities of Lexington sent for him. He was charged with terribly beating a colored man of that town. The day after the arrest the man died, and last week Alex, was tried for murder in Davidson county and convicted. We learn he is to hang on the 11th of October, but think that l must be a mistake. 10th of Tarboro Southerner: On the this month, about 2 o clock in the morn-! ing, Mr. Geo. W. Howard discovered i State ticket was nominated. The nomi somethinir among his sheep, so he took 1 nee for Attornev-General is not a law - I his gun to investigate matters. lie found two dogs with a sheep apiece. He I killed one outright and the other was j wounded as he ran off. The next day i he informed the owner of the wounded ! dog what had happened, and at his re j quest the dog was killed. Out of a flock . of twenfy-three seven had been killed land wounded. We submit this! j proposition to the voters in the Htate: ! Legislators who will not give us a law to protect sheep, are as "mean as sheep j killing dogs." Dr. W. J. Lawrence brings us the pleasing news that Mr. Benj. O. Savage's cotton picker is a suc cess. He has seen it at work. In rank cotton before the present of little leaven are off it is at account. The leaves cover up the bolls so that the bristles do ! not reach them. When the leaves are ; off, the cotton is picked out cleanly. As ; a pea picker it is a complete success, ! doing its work rapidly and well. It can ' pick at least five acres of cotton or peas I in a day. Dr. Lawrence now thinks that it is only a question of a short time when it would pick any kind of cotton, j Mr. Savage has sent a picker to the j Louisville Exposition. He should also i send one to Boston. ! Florida's taxable property in 1S79 amounted to $129,-171, (US', whilst! this year it will aggregate ,(,-1 000,000, au increase of nearly 100 j per cent in four years. ' GENERAL NEWS. Twelve locomotives were shipped from Philadelphia for Brazil last week. Peovidence, E. 1., Sept. 24. A considerable number oi weavers in the Lorraine mills, at Pawtucket, struck to-dav on account of a re duction in the price of wages. A fire at Memphis, Tenn., Sunday night destroyed a building, 418 Main street, occupied by S. Levy, trunk manufacturer. The loss is about $15000; insurance $10,000. Lightning ran along the wire in to an Indiana telegraph office. The operator thought that a phenomen al man was at work on a hasty message. "Don't send so fast," he protested. Illiteracy has increased in Maine, New Hampshire, Nevada, and Call fornia, and decreased in,, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ten nessee and Virginia within the past ten years. New York, Sept. 24. Seiden bach, Schwab & Co., wholesale clothiers, have assigned giving preferences amounting to $118,297. Their liabilities -are between $350,000 and $400,000. Natchez, Sept. 24. Postmaster H. H. Ming, of vidalia, La., was arrested to-day by inspector Geo. A. Dick, charged with stealing registered letters from the mail Ming acknowledged his guilt. One "F. M. Shields, inventor," says that he bas patented a gun that shoots 4,000 balls at the ex plosion of one cap, "will kill and wound, 800 men of a regiment of 1,000 men at a distance of 100 yards," and "fills a want long felt." At the burial of a colored man recently in Catoosa county, Ga., there appeared at his grave as mourners his real father and his stepfather, his real mother and stepmother, - his real children and his stepchildren and all of his real brothers and stepbrothers. AULENTOWN, Pa., Sept. 24. Twenty young women, engaged as warpers in the silk mills here, struck against a reduction of wages. They were paid four cents per hun dred strings, and made $1.66 per day. A reduction of half a cent was made some time since, and last week a further redaction to three cents went into effect. One young girl stopped, immediately, and the others have since followed. The Calhoun, Ga., Times says: "There is a child in that county which was born with only one hand. Some months before his birth a brother of his mother had bis hand and a portion of his fore-arm so badly crushed in a cane mill that amputation was necessary. The child's mother saw the operation performed, and also took hold of the arm, and the impression made upon the nervous system was so great, that when the child was oorn that portion of his arm was gone. The child is now about two years old and is well formed, with that exception." There is a saying in California that if a man buys water he can get his land thrown in. The literal fact is that the value of much of the laud depends solely upon the water which it holds or controls. Four systems of irrigation are practiced. First, flooding the land. This is possible only in flat districts, where there are large heads of water. The second is by furrows, by which a large head of water is brought upon the land and distributed in streams as small as will run across the ground. The third is by basins dug around tree roots, to which water is brought by pipes or ditches. The fourth is by suWrrigation; the water is carried in pipes laid from two to three feet below the surface, and let out to permeate the soil. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. New York, gept. 25. Great excite ment was caused in the neighborhood of the British Consulate this afternoon by a report of two pistol shots and the spectacle of a hatless man running at the top of his speed. The fugitive was pursued and captured by a policeman. He gave the name of feeney and it was learned that he had attempted to take the life of the British Consul by firing two shots at him. When the prisoner was brought to the New street station house he described himself as John A. Feeney, aged 26 years, an Irishman, and a coachman by trade. He appeared sickly and said he was recently discharged from the hospital in Buffalo. He declared that he had come from Canada on pur pose to kill the British Consul who had been libelling his character. It was evident that he was of unsound mind. Complaint being preferred against him by Edmund Prentiss and David Oak, of the British Consul's office, he was taken to the Tombs police court for examination. When Feeney entered au out room of the Consulate he drew a seven chamber revolver and tired two shots apparently without any definite aim and without hitting any one. He was arrested immediately afterward by officer John Carr of the first precinct. BOSTON-, Sept. 20. The Greenback committee to-dav unanimously nomi- nated Gen. Butler for Governor. A full yer, ana oojection was raised to mm on this account, but a delegate said that in Butler they had all the law necessary, and it was no matter who was Attorney General. Louisville, Sept. 26. The only point of importance in the colored convention this morning was a resolution by W. S. Wilson, of Louisiana, endorsing the ad ministration of President Arthur. The resolution raised a great stir and much oratol.y Was indulged in. which was only quieted when L. D. Herbert, also of Louisiana, moved to refer it to the committee on resolutions, which was adopted. Nothing of note .has yet been i accomplished. Washington, September 20. The I postmaster at New Orleans has notified the postoffice department that iu pursu ance of instructions he has conferred with the United States district attorney on the subject of the injunction ob tained against him by the New Orleans National Bank, aid that the latter will take immediate steps to have the case transferred from the State to the Fed eral courts. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 20. A fire this morning destroyed the Sternberg ele vators. The original cost of the build ing was 100,000, and the grain in it was valued at $102,000. The total loss is estimated at $173,000. Springfield, Mass., Sept. 26. The Democratic State Convention to-day renominated Butler for Governor. A MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS. Petition of Citizens of the State of North Carolina and the Owners and Masters of Vessels Trading in North Carolina Waters, Resident and Non- - resident, Praying the Congress of the United States for an Appropriation or Appropriations for the Improve ment, Development and Extension of the Great Inland System of Naviga tion from the Present Terminus of Eight feet water in Neuse River, through the Various Creeks, Rivers, Sounds and Bays to New River and the Cape Fear. And for the Improvement of White Oak and New Rivers and the Tributary Water-ways of the Inland Route Be tween Neuse River and the Cape Fear; for the Necessary Protection and Im provement of Beaufort harbor; the Improvement of the Navigation of Bay River; and the Development of at least one good narbor on the Coast of Hyde County. Also asking that the Light House Board of the United States be authorized and instructed to place the proper and necessary Lights, Beacons and Buoys to mark the several Inlets, entrances Channels and ways along the North Carolina Coast into and through the Inland Waters of the State, from the head of the Pamlico Sound at the Roanoke Marshes, to the Mouth of the Cape Fear River. To the Honorable President of the Sen ate; the Honorable, the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and the Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States: Your petitioners respectfully repre sent 1st. That they are citizens of the State of North Carolina, comprising residents of the counties of Dare, Hyde, Pamlico. Lenoir, 'Craven, Carteret, Jones, Onslow, Duplin, Pender and New Hanover, embracing, according to the census of 1880, 132,263 souls: a terri tory of. square miles, and including the two principal coast commercial cities of the State, New Berne and Wilming ton; and also the J;wo principal deep- water inlets between Norfolk and Charleston; besides, among your pe titioners, are the owners and masters of vessels, resident and non-resident, trad ing in North Carolina waters. 2nd. That they, your petitioners, rep resent more than a thousand miles of sound and river navigation .in constant use, much of it good and all susceptible of being made very good, with com paratively slight effort on the part of the General Government. 3rd. That, in great rart, the products of this large area of land and water now seek, and much more would if properly connected up seek the great highway of these connecting inland waterways as their route to market. 4th. That for such want of transpor tation facilities as this present unim proved chain of inland waterway from the Neuse to the Cape Fear imposes, very many of your petitioners, especially those of Onslow county, are forty and fifty miles, over heavy sand roads, from any market for the sale of their produce or the purchase of supplies. oth. That they are thus compelled to haul their produce over these long, heavy roads, 'or, shipping by such small sailing vessels as the present un improved navigation on White Oak, New river and the connecting sounds will admit, they are subject to delays, sometimes of five and six week's dura tion, to say nothing of the risks they suffer iu sending the fruits of their year s labor outside to sea in small schooners of three and four feet draught, and 80 to 40 tons burthen. 6th. That your petitioners of Onslow county, on New river, and of Jones, Carteret and Onslow on the White Oak, are thus inconvenienced, taxed, an noyed and jeopardized while rivers are flowing past their doors of from t .velve to fifteen feet depth of water, but so obstructed at their mouths by oyster rock formations as to preclude the en trance of vessels of any draught; but that sin 11 effort on the part of the Gen eral Government would remove these shoals and open good, deep draught to the ocean. 7th. That they, your petitioners, of the counties of Onslow, Carteret and of portions of Craven, Jones and New Hanover are immediately on the great route of Inland Navigation, which, if only slightly improved, would enable their shipping to roach the markets and trade centres ol tne country witnout going outside to encounter the dangers of "the sea. 8th. That your petitioners embraced in the county of Pamlico, are for the most part, contiguous to a deep estuary of the Pamlico sound known as Bay river, that it is an important tributary of the Inland Coast System of Naviga tion, and that very slight effort on the part of the General Government would work some necessary improvements to that navigation of vast importance to that people and to the commerce of our State. 9th. That the county of Hyde, a terri tory of large population, great fertility and yolume of productions, by reason of the low-lying lands, only slightly elevated above the sea-level, presents a shelving, unapproachable shore in con sequence of which there are no harbors, ports or convenient snipping points along Up coast; but that there are bays and creeks, which, if only slightly im proved, would enable vessels of good draught to load and discharge in shore and not subject the people to the annoy ance, delays and great expense of lightering off from a half to a mile as during all the past years of their exist ence they have been and are compelled to do. 10th. Your petitioners submit that. i 1 fv, rfu . ..-Fr.. Tu. V;:"ri condition appeals to the large Heart oi the Nation in sentiment, and to the business impulse of the great Common wealth of Agriculture and Commerce, practically. 11th. And lor the unal and crowning merit of this, their petition, they appeal in behalf of that safety of human life and security to property which the opening up, development and extension of the great System of Inland Naviga tion wijl afford; and the power of pro tection and the facilities for the Nation al Defence it would present in the event of war or attempted invasion by a foreign foe. LIGHTS, BEACONS AND HUOYS. Respecting the manifest want of lights, beacons and buoys along the coast and in the inland waters of North Carolina: Your petitioners represent 1st, That no light warns the mariner of his ap proach to a dangerous coast betweeu Frying Pan Light Ship and Cape Look out Light. 2d. That of the many inlets between Cape Fear and Cape Lookout, including tlio entrance to Beaufort Harbor, no range or other system of lights has been provided whereby a ship in stress of weather can make harbor in the night time. 3d. That between Beaufort or Topsail inlet and the Frying Pan lightship, off the Cape Fear, there is neither light, beacon nor buoy to make the way in. although good inlets for small coasting vessels occur every few miles. 4th. That in New river, White Oak river and Bogue sound there is no stake or buoy of any kind, or for any purpose whatever, placed by Government au thority. 3th. That in Core sound the only light. Harbor Island has been extinguished, and the way is very inadequately staked. 6th. That Oeraeoke is an important inlet to a portion of the coasting trade, and a convenient harbor in some emer- gencies; and that an inside or swash light should be placed to make the way n. 7th. That the entire coast of Hyde county is practically without buoys or stakes and has no beacon or light to warn the inside coaster of the danger ous shoals; and that the safety, in large part, of the commerce of Pamlico sound and its tributary waters demands the erection of a light on Gull Rock Shoal. 8th. That Wilkinson's Point on Neuse river is dangerous, and for safety of commerce through the Pamlico sound, to and from Now Berne it should be lighted. Wherefore, Your petitioners pray that the Light House Board be authorized and required to pay that attention to the coast and inlet waters of North Car olina which their extent, magnitude and importance, and that of the public safety and .welfare demand. And for the progress and prosperity of tbe com mon country; for the welfare and hap piness of its people; for the States and the Union; for the Congress and the Government, your petittoners will ever pray. Note: The above form of petition it is proposed by the New Berne, Beaufort and Onslow Inland Coasting Company circulate throughout the territory named in the petition for signature in time for the assembling of the Congress in December. It is published here to invite such attention or amendment can oe suggested ior its nnal prepara tion and printing on convenient sheets. The newspapers of the portion of the State included are invited to notice it, and persons best acquainted along the coast and on the inland waters to give it their attention and 'unite their tug gestions and criticisms to the New Berne Journal. Jones County Items. Dr. F. A. Whitaker of Chinquapin Das purchased an engine of 20 horse ca pacity, and is now prepared to gin and grind for customers on short notice. Through the influence of H. R. Brv an, one of the Penitentiary Board of Di rectors the convicts heretofore em ployed on the Quaker Bridge Road are now engaged at work on the Trenton and Core Creek road near Trenton. Messrs. George Credle and Phillemon Holland of New Berne were in town re cently on a trip from Richlands whith er they had been, it is supposed, in' the interest of the "Old Dominion Compa ny " endeavoring to secure a right of way for the much discussed "tram road." It seems that P. & N. P. of this coun ty threw a kind of damper over their scheme a few weeks ago at the meeting at Jacksonville. The sentiment of the people of this entire community seems to be running strongly against this com pany gaining control of this road. It is claimed that its object will be to break down Trenton in the interest of some other section. They prefer the "Trent River Transportation Company having it they say to a foreign company. Be ing identified in interest it is believed that the latter company could and would do more for them,' and besides they judge from the past. This compa ny they Bay has proven its friendship by its acts. "Deeds are .fruits, words are but leaves. ' ' Their reasoning seems at least plausible. Messrs. E. R. Page and C. H. Foy went over to Onslow and made arrangements for the transportation of the convictl to this place. Arrangements are now "in progress towards the erection of a suit able building for their accommodation. This road will be beneficial to Trenton in that it will open up a large travel through the two sections and thereby bring them nearer together. Our mer chants if they are wise, and 'the funny man" of the Journal, W. D., says they are, will secure if possible the trade of this hitherto remote section of country. We look forward earnestly to the day when our town will be able to have a first class school to elevate the char acter and develop the intellectual and moral capacities of her children. That education may be sown broadcast through our midst, and that our people may grow better and wiser and happier thereby, and that they too may be ena bled to point with heartfelt gratifica tion and pride to their temples erected to the worship of the Living God, whose "spires point heavenward," and con tain congregations whose eyes and hearts and thoughts too will be lifted heavenward on the wings of faith invo king blessing on all around by the prac tice of that beautiful religion as taught in God's revealed word. The author of "Piney Grove Scraps" says his neighbor says that Polloksville sprung up all &t once, that it rose up mightily out of the earth. Now per haps if W, D. had visited the church at Polloksville in all due reverence and humility about which he takes occasion to gush so beautifully and with a meek and bumble heart, and upon bended knees asked for "that light" to guide his devious ways aright, he might afford to be more ingenuous in his replies. But he writes like a Saint and acts like a sinner. "Thou shalt not bear false wit ness against thy neighbor," is one of the Commandments he seems to have forgotten. Now then, this idea of "spontaneous production," which he seems to have a faint conception of, and which, as every one knows, originated in his own fertile imagination, might lead to fatal results, to-wit, W. D. has suddenly sprung up like a mushroom as an author, and his sudden growth, according to his own logic, might with propriety be termed a case of spon taneous production. Judging then from the gigantic proportions he has so sud denly assumed, if he were to as sud denly disappear, why then that might properly be called acaseaf spontaneous cumuuMiuu, don t you seer And alas! he would fade away perchance "like the baseless fabric of a vision and leave ' not a rack behind." Neighbor is pained ; to learn that W. D., the critic, is him i self not infallible, that he should fall himself into gross inaccuracies when trying to act as the censor for others. , But he was not surprised, after Beeing j his own communication, at the vague , theories into which he had fallen of ! spontaneous production, etc.. and was , prepared to believe, after learning the j above, that he was a disciple of those distinguished scientists who trace the origin of the human nice hack to an in I ferior species of animals. The assertion j that "the human race sprang from the I monkey '' is no more startling than the idea of spontaneous production, and of I course if he is prepared to believe the one, he is equally prepared to believe i the other, and consequently there is ' no end to his idiosyncrasies. Now then the proposition that "all men are ani mals is admitted, but the commerce is not true "'that all animals are men. . . I It it were, it would then follow that a monkey is a man, and D s. reasoning I wouni recou agaiuht niuiseu anu ne , would be forced to admit that some monkeys are men and that he was an evidence of "the survival of the fittest." To further illustrate the quotation "hope springs eternal iu the human breast," is correct; hut whether it is correct to assert that "hope springs eternal in the monkey's breast," is left to W. D. to decide. If your correspond ent in his elucidation of W. P's. favorite theories has succeeded iu exploding his fallacious reasonings, then he feels that he has been amply repaid therefor, and W. i. he feels assured will bestow upon him a multitude of thanks for kindly taking him by the hand, and lending him away from tho dangerous paths of doubt and scepticism and planting his feet upon the lirui and unchangeable rock of truth. A friend at my elbow says that he would not notice the "bad boy " of the Joprnal's personal allusions, etc., that perhaps this is his forte and ho cannot write otherwise, and he ven rom M iaras to say that 1 am "yulxotio'Mn my notions in noticing him even at all, I cannot see why or in what rwpct resemble the doughty knigbb In Caet feel that there ia not even the align teat resemblance between the fanton knight of La Manoha and myself except in tftif one instance, that we sometime! ,"aa- Warnings U the Teopla. Mr. Editor: In a recent iano of your paper we were struck with an ar ticle relative to the Quaker Bndze rmu) and your comment opon tbe same. We nave noticed from time to time article that have appeared in vouf columna upon this important Subiect. bat the ode of which we have here to apeak ia the first communication which haa in the least degree opposed the construction Of tne much talked of tram road. And are are constrained to say farther that H m toe only article we have Been which savors of the true mint Of nnblid ban. fit and commands the earnest considera tion and approbation of the neonl of Jones and Onslow. Bo far a we hare been able to learn, there haa been bat little said or done by tbe people of Ons low concerning this 1 question, which is particularly of great importance- to them. They do not soem to hare pb served the drift which affair in this direction are taking. They bars' mof reanzea wnat interest thers is at stake for them. But, Mr. Editor, if their eyes are not opened by what they liars already seen and heard, they had better keep them 'closed' forever. If the un expected assembling of the represent rives of two contending factions on "first Monday" for the so-called par pose of ascertaining the will of tbe peo ple oi a wnoie county, signifies nothing, then let them remain inactive. . If the distorted newspaper .reports of' these same meetings signifies nothing'-and- if there is nothing in the uncommon in terest manifested for this tramroad by capitalists, who look solely to j their financial increase nothing in the sancti monious seal of partisan 'newspaper editors, men let tnem oe quiet suiv Yousav, Mr. Editor, that "you happen to know that it was the original -intenr tion of the founders of this scheme to make it a tramroad or railroad when completed." This idea ought to hare leaked out earlier. It ought ' to have been stated that the scheme was intend ed for the benefit of private parties when application for convict labor was made. .This idea should hare been ren- tilated at tbe "first Monday" meetings. Mr. Editor there irtnore than one man in Onslow oounty who is -"opposed -to steam," according to pour application of tbat expression. I am well acquainted with the gentleman , whose article you saw fit tq head with the above quotation and there is not a more1 energetic, pro gressive and public spirited man in the county of Onslow. But he prefers going slow "to taking a leap in the dark. FESmra. Leittb. , Beauregard and Bntler. ..... What purports to be an interview with Gen. Beauregard is going the rounds of the press, in whibh tbe old hero is quoted aa saying that Ben. r Butler, .whsa Mrs. Beauregard was dying, tendered bim a a safe passport into New ' Orleans with liberty to leave the city ta safety after Mrs. Beauregard hould be laid at -vest. It. was certainly; a., t ononis loincu in stance, and would have been. .rerr creditable to old Ben.' Bnt now comes the State, andsugfreeta that Gen. I feau re gard must be improperly1 quoted, (or' Mrs. Beauregard died in leo4, when Butler was in Virginia and General Banks was in command at New Orleans. It was Banks, says the Sfae, who granted the passport for the "General to come to his wife's sick bed; and when. Mrs. Beauregard died he ordered' that tha funeral, which was attended by thoua- ands of the New Orleans peoples should be guarded from any interruption. The General ' or the reporter ' has - simply made a mist ike and given Butter credit which is not his due. , - ; . The State seems to be quite ngtn. The interview fixs the date about tbe tins of the battle of Olustee, which was fought January 20, 1864. Banks was then in command of New Orleans,-and three months later Butler was beina bottled up"' .ia Virginia. Newa-Ob- server. A Case of Sadden Death. On Saturday night last a colored man by the name of Thomas Dunn', who was convicted of some minor offence si the late term of the Criminal Court, and who was farmed Out to "Wl H. IItwe, sr., for the costs, called at the 'hosts of a woman by the name of Holmes, living near Howe's plantation, formerly the Prigge place, where h - worked, and asked that he be given shelter,; as he, felt unwell. He was allowed to sleep in the passage, and some -time during the night, it is alleged, the woman heard such a scuffling and struggling in1 the part of the house where the man' had been bleeping that she became badly frightened and fled to a neighbor s bouse. Sunday morning the husband of the woman, who had beenfoff some where, returned to the house and fosnd Dunn lying dead in the passage. 'Cor oner David Jacobs was notified -f the facts, but, after examination by Dr. Jf.. W Potter, an inquest was deemed un necessary, it being the' opinion of the physician that the man died from soma natural cause, ne was about 40 years of age. The coroner had him buried at the expense of the county, as be was, a stranger here and had no family. Star. Twenty-Four OVlork. The railroads are moving to h we a new standard of time adopted that will soon throw us into the big figures, and to see a man pull out his watch at nooii and say "it's 24o'olo-k." will be no unr usual tiling. The theory is the estab lishment of a "time standard," as the railroad mon term it, to be put Into operation on all the railroads in, .the country. The proposed standard WOuld simply add the hours after midnight-to 12, so that 11 o'clock in the morning would be 23 o'clock and noon would be 24 o'clock. The dials of clocks would be made into twenty-four divisions of time, and the troublesome a, m. and p. m. would be avoided. Uniformity' and certainty in the movement of trains in all parts of tho country ia one of the greatest advantage claimed; for the new standard, andTi Sirpplihcatiou of time tables that the public would be quick to recognize and appreciate would follow. II 'il. Rrriew. Just a Little Absent Minded. The friends of (leneral R. Barringer were surprised to see him walking along the streets yewterday morning with a hearth broom under bis arm after the style of a walking cane. The General went into tne posiomce anu started to 1 l. ... nn ,!....-., n (..1,1. v. II,, 111.-, , , 1 1 1 , VI VI II u v., viic wt J ,-v.iwn.i.l ltia mail Whan ha c a i. mhiil w)rt of a can(? hf had carried from tliti ,., ,,1.ollirh 1h otr.-nt tn th post- oflice, a blubh sulTusod his cheeks, and looking about to see if he was discov ered . he picked up his mail and scudded out. Ho wan not long in returning home, when he mot the servant and handed her his cane. She had been hunting for it to sweep the hearth with. JditriKtl-Obierver. MENSMAN'S I'KITONISKU BvKKF TONIC the only preparatoin of beef containing its entire nutritious pJoperties. It con tains blood-making, force generating and life-sustaining properties; invalu able for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, ner vous prostraion, and all forms of gen eral debility; also, in all enfeebled con ditions, whether the result of exhaus tion, nervous prostration, overwork, or acute disease, particularly K resulting ; from pulmonory complaints. Caswell, ! Hazard & Co., Proprietors, New Yorfc - Sold by druggists. salt. ' Professional Cards. GEO IL' XIKDSAY. A-ttorno'y at Law iMw mix,' ta rnMri , SI. c. . Hafrrncest 3mu At sk firlwn. tl. T. (5. Fnllr, liclalfh ft. C4 A. Horu, ten N, C. .! , , . Will pmrtl In Oi emirttlxa nr riwt.o, I, ttelr, JoTM-a itf4 wyn. nii-titv ..( .. -ynr!n a uotalt7. KuaiiiMa io, i M WIU rtxel y jroad MianUan, v tl ,'"LEOKiDnj.r:-z, - ; ATTOEKLr AT LAY?, (OSaxa eiMtta taaatm llnMu "' t Ww Deraa, M. C. will practioa In fh rvwmtlaa or nrna, I m. Blr, Jcm, now, linluiuanl Vjrmvmtti mtmn la tha CM. lHainotlkxirt, PmnhtallMilbin a Ik. a. . 1 1 I . claim, ,.j . , ,,. . ajxiwiv , p. n. prLLETirn, ' ' FOLLOWS IU.K, Will nmHIr In tha rv,arta f naj-taraL. Inkaa Onaiowa,ml (Yara. fcrrlalaVUintlon glvaa a tha avlln.m i eUlma,an4 Battling ol 4-"t r r. aanau rr. . CLIMKIT HOLT, ;r -ATTOUNJCXa AT LAW. - Will ajtalglA. U-HMArttft. - Onslow. )rtm-t, Itmllwind I-ir M, 'irinnipnY peatisall, tmnntt, Uupltn. MaJnnaua ud ji-a. OollaoUii- aapBoimty. oaonoK V, aran: Kttelah h, M. O. ' K IliaViMl, IS. 7 I ftTTfflWfl. Jf, "irTTV i'l ' K!STt1. w. C ' , ' ' ATTUMirnsL 'cnascuxm it ir.r. Tlarln TnrttMl . a. MmHjmnli In Itvr Ih. ternrtlcw of th law in jnnn niuni,, i; i run. lrljr attrn lb miiu t tha aaM l r.. , t attention paid toouUM-l'-m. iwtmj uhmwu .-Mi tMru m iH.KKT, wim ffoL-JLnn, ." 1 ' ows sr. et-ion. -! HOLLAND '(Jc 'OUIOII, AttoftieyM tit Ii i v, 1 1 (OOoSOMdoor wwtf OaaWMt Hon.) Will imMIni In tha Ocnintlra of tvvm Jenna, Onalnw, CTarlorot, 'amnv and 1anmr frompl attention pld to auiiaetlona. , apraMllT. H ixrsr epn' -i X e n i 1 n t .... ,v -t. Wjll Win Nsw BM fttwa tk : lit to the 13th rjf each Hoxtth. In Beau for iron lSth to the Kith. Offlea tjt Kewitana.vsr X. W. K t. BtamMwood'a, mnwt Hnuth Pmait and tv.,r Testa trhMM vrUa-nit fmi ttl aaa nttroajaeslde, mutrU-itnt DRaJ. D CLARK, i. , , . n. v. Olnoa n Cruras atrart. Batman and Hro4. - ;Hfif ; aiwl rr ,a Norfolk AdmtJsc rarqnl Banna CO C , : :,. ,, TOMS A'SOJ Commission Merchants, u- i - run tbi sal sr Cotton, Lumber, Grain, FeabaU, and .--aui uonntry 4-roaaos. , , :mm. mm six' t. aaJMwm ' , . ORroi.K.T, 0.M. ETHERIDGE.& CO.. " ' - 13T---V-l la: TT,.. -. ' Ofen'l Commission Merchants 811 alt klnU of coantry produca and innk prompt ret unaw U . . il ' OurroaptaMWCOaavllatlaWU " niilS-llaa Siizabeth Iron Works, CltAB.fr: W2TTIT, 'Pni., ' " 880, -82,' M ! -S8 "Water-strt, j ,. lonrowf, WJU'- ;,v '., MA.KrPACTvmKB. or v- ENGINES, BOILERS, 4 'fift-vr'tnd Grist Mills, 4JT ."' SMAFTITfO.V IuIleVM;IIant?r-. ' FORQIXVaAXn CA&TISGR. rt Of XViry 'Description. '1 1 - a- PiwDlnta rarlliUM ass AM. STORKta orifllna . ,. .i ul7-LAwtr B. IMBftlQKHOUSE . MannStnSlinfrMt rjMUnrln . b 'tl "f A '. U. ' ' - Carriages, Harness; Etc, : . 41 & 43 -UNION 8TREET, "4 Uiia .i i i i i : i MOAXFUL.K. VA. aull-dAwSm I ,11 . it , The Globe IIcuco. Io: Wim Street; . ' - loM, Tk " "iutes or kiuwa;" " ' -l Hinei" ayi ';, ' ... , ., ni,i) . ;,.'. Two Unyu .. "Phrei IM a .... tut. . no Table Hifo7prr',7w.'ii'T.'! Hupper. L-tdttlng and Hraaltfaal t . ' Vl-mfc Tli la honaa haa bean thonmarhly iwrarnlabaSl 'iiikI niwly painted. Tba tnhla wUi ba a I way a IW al way "looked with llqnorannacicara. i .' WHO tha bast In i uia aosst wums Uive tbe Globe House; JTH al.,:, No. 177 Main Htraflt, Norfolk, Va. . rsnaLB, ' flill-dw6ui , yraaw fy s. w. seldkeb; j - - -Wholesale Liqnbr' ;Dealcrf -;: :. ' ir. a I Knkf Sajattra. ' arORroLK, ' Ordora promptly ntaradod to and aaAtntno. ' tlon giutrttnleiMt. Kalanllahrd ISW. - Sapid wSB GEO. W. J.'HAEVEY, U3 RICHMOND ST .' ' pmUPUTHU- l-WTAnUISHED MSS. ' Makrr of Oaastlaaaan Boots Kh.n of tha BRST OHADKS. Lattaot SMWa Would raHnr to Menare. B. K. Hryaau l. HendiM-anii, (ioo. H. Holrta, Ooo. .Ollv and otliera, all of New Berve. - J a- Ordara r aollalta. 'wW ' ji.lyWAwly OEO. W. t. HABVT JIHODE8 JEIOTE W1IXI A.M8T0H, V. C 1 " I mi aanWanMaaBafcaai .' ' FucUsn'ajV-ijaUtB wrVs.ii good awcommodalioo ft w
New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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Oct. 4, 1883, edition 1
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