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m -v- '.V.?. ; " Pv -- ... : . ; j'ij$tl . ' 1 . 4 t - V .uiYr.u&, " INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. ".rm.a.oorwTw,; v' - VOL. VI. NEW BERNE, CRAVEN COUNTY, N. C, DECEMBER 188 L r: V v. ' r " " - - -- - - NEW BERNE - ' -V y f r v 'Jo f. : -f - .rs'.r.T:'.: : -S "Vj . M! - t.Fotme'i comingrseason I am offering the "" following specialties in Plows, Harrows, Cul- . -tivators, .eta : - r - - J ; r ; ThG OilI0LE Chilled Plow, . " : Ti2 Zzzzi HcT7-st2l, .tts Champxqn and Granger Plows, ; wMcb I claim ka be tLe beat tarning plows in tie marlet, hd guarantee every one of them to giTe atiafaction or money will be returned. Don't buy any ntil yoa hTe aeen thein.s - ;C " , . - " ? Tha Cllnmi ! Coilonr Plow, tie bert Cotton Plow. I defy contradiction. Ii ThD "AcmaV Harrow. " Parties uaing t&em pronounce them the beet clod crusher and pulverizer in use. Try one in putting in your amaU grain. . , Tns Trro-Ecrsa Bucsye Biding and WalMng Cultivators. - L. W. Dawson, Ridge Spring. Pitt county, aaya: "Would not take S500 lor my r.iJ'n? Cultivator if I could not get another just like it-'' v, - bamuel Qainnerly, Johaaton'a Milla, N. C, saya ; "The Riding Culti Tator i ea perfect work. - TIj sure and try one. Eemcmber if it does not give perfect satisfaction ' it wUl be takes baci. J' r . ' A fall lin of Commqa Plows, Casting3, Clevises, etc., eie on .tin u .... .- '" r' .'.-;' ' ' f- Abo, 2IanufaotT.- t-' gent for Steam Engines, Saw and Grist Sliln!' :.iacllnes. Cotton Gins, Presses, Snaitings, T-Hejs; Beltlas, etc.""" ' v i - . .10HN C. WHITTY, CHA YEX STREET, TfJSXT.DOOR TO COTTOX EXCHA XGE, . 7, v NEWBERN, N. C. 'satCMsing'ut Sale! IIiTiDg determined. to wind up and eloee bis business, will sell to the public is entire '. .' NMfiaMBlSlgj Boots and Slioes Ji Less tHatr Hew York Cost. . As tLis sale ip no humbug br advertising dodge, people of limited means "iust hurry to get the benefit of it before the choicest goods are gone. A Fine Line of -Broadcloth Coats will also be r ;5 U J;qffered.t at; ;a.' . Great Sacrifice. Country merchants will find it to their advantage to call, as there are many Job Lots in stock, which will be sold far below their value. ir,'NO"''EEAS()irABLE' OFFER REFUSED. - -As ftur-time is limited, come at once to v V - B. SCHWERIN, t 1 - - -T5iUUl VW& Uld Auction Koom, 1 , Southwest corner Middle and South Front Streets. Doii't Lose Your Way Getting There ! 1 ci-LEW & CO.. )-ToUok Street, New Berne, N. C, General Hardware, -. ' - - .. 1 1 -f !'! J Li I? : PRICES YERY LOW FOR CASH. NORFOLK ADVERTISEMENTS. - Fcrnlfcro! Carpets Mianos and Organs! -S. A; 'STEVENS & CO., : V.argest and Oldest Furnitne Establishm er.t id Eastern Va. . . . PrfMa fumited M tow a Kv York Vnd K"ol are mnniif-u:ri J i? u nrul to otir - 'moiMr.tad wemoSTnunlopOTlor'lilcemenU to hoocke pcrii. V. aepl-UVtt. ---'. - S. A. STEVK1SS. S.rToUk. Va. ADVERTISEMENTS. stock of Ajrricnltural Implements Strain Eniues, Cotton Presses. llrs Power, Tli re. 1st rs. Fdim 3Iaeliiierj-. Orain Faiii. Straw Cutters, Corn Sliel lers, t itler lills. 15. ltliisr, Jai-ki"ir, I'ipo, I'lLtiii:-. I'aint, Oils :j Ci Lv-si, lame. Cement. Planter, Fertilizei s, IIHck. I'.te Pry Rceullectioii'i of tin- .'-ixt)-ixt'.i ": r:h Carolina Kegi men t Continued. Brother comrades f Company V, let us have something to say about our company officers. You all rec ollect how much dissatisfaction there was iu our company when Uasberry was appointed our Cap tain. You recollect that we got up a petition to Gen. Hill to allow us t elect our officers. How agree ably disappointed we were in Capt. Ii isberry ; if we had been allowed to elect and had searched over the whole regiment we could not have found his equal. He was so kind to , lis and would contend so earnestly 1 for our rights, I am confident eveiy man iu the compan- learned to love I him. He was wounded at or near : Gaines' Farm, and wheu he started to leave the battle-neid tie tola us Ood bye and looked as though he ; hated to leave us ; and how rejoiced j we were when he was able to take i command of us again. ! Our 1st Lieutenant was Samuel tS. Carter, ol Cnatuam county, jn. c He was a kind-hearted officer and a high minded aud houorable geutle mau. He led us through several hard fights and proved himself an officer worthy to command any company. Our 2d Lieutenant was that good man, Franklin Foy, of Jones county, who was loved by all of us for his good qualities, always so cheerful, and had such a way of winning the hearts of every one who saw him. I must, though, tell a good one on the Lieutenant. The authorities kept him in North Carolina doing detail duty nearly two months; at last he was ordered to join his regi ment at Petersburg. When he ar rived he found us behind breast works, and the enemy's shells were rlyiug and their sharpshooters were busy sending bullets whistling over our works, and the Lieutenant not having been accustomed to such a time as this, I found him creeping in to the company about half bent. When he saw me walking about as though I was not afraid of them, he enquired of me how I did to stand such as this; I told him when he stayed there a few days he would be come accustomed to it, and would walk about as careless as any of us; and he had not been there three days before he was walking along the breastworks as careless of the shells and bullets as ever Lieut. Bynum did. Our 3rd Lieut, was the brave Jackson Kinsey. lie was as brave an officer as there was in the 66th Regiment. He was killed at Mor tar Hill with a shrapnel shot. We all lamented his death, for it was a serioas loss to the company. As brave an officer as ever lived was Captain Windal Robinson. He knew no danger when duty called bim. He was loved by his com pany for his daring, and he would not snfl'er his men imposed upon, stood up for their rights every time. Quartermasters need not try to iuir pose spoiled provisions on his com pany, lor he would send them back and tell them his men shonld not eat spoiled meat, for it was poison ous. Capt. Eobiuson's 1st Lieut., I think, was our own Lewis Bynum, of Maysville, Jones couuty. No better man ever lived or braver officer ever drew a word than he. The men of his company all lovart hiui; all the men of Company F loved him too. I will in my next tell you some thing about Capt. D. S. Davis and his officers and men. This company and its officers were the equals of any in the G6th Regiment. I will now proceed to give some more of the movemeuts of the 6Gth regiment. On the 20th of December, 1S64, we were ordered to prepare rations, as we were ordered back to North Carolina. With light steps and buoyant hearts we marched from Chaffin's farm to Richmond, Va., and found the cars awaiting to transport us to our beloved North Carolina, where we had a long time been wishing to go. Our journey was to us one of joy. We arrived at Wilmington after a four days ride on the cars. The weather was freezing cold. On the iiuth we were marched from Wilmington to Sugar Loaf, a distance of about 10 miles. We suffered a great deal from cold. We were halted about five miles above Fort Fisher, formed a line of battle and were soon eugaged with Gen. Butler's land forces and du ring the whole of the engagement we were exposed to terrible shell- inn from the enemy's fleet. December 31st, we marched from Sugar Loaf to Wilmington and weut into camp and stayed there until the 13th of January, 18Gj. Egypt. Trenton, Nov. 20, '83. Arctic Monotony. The Arctic explorers in the Je.in nette, during the long winter, found the darkness hard to endure. The enforced close companionship made large demands upon their patience and amiability, and every one was possessed with a strong desire to go "somewheres.'' When the sun reappeared, after seventy-one days of absence, each man was found to have a bleached look, owing to the want of exercise and to the steady living by lamplight. During the next summer, the Jeanne! te remained frozen in the iee-paek. The monotony was ter rilile. There were the unchanging round of hours, the awaking ro the samu conditions, the .--ame faces, the same dogs, the same ice, that one saw just before losing one's self in sleep. And with these was the conviction would be the saint that as 1 1 to-!!!' '1 i'!iY dav. it not more disagreeable. At night, the sil. f-ct that one stain t nice from the ship believe that no life own. ("apt. le 1 his journal. '-It is 'ill r ling felt was so ier i little dis inclined 10 existed but i.l- tig records in lositivelv mad- (leiiing. The silence was so pain ful as to iuducc me to go back to the cabin, whore my own kind could be seen and their voices heard." Such facts as these indicate that an Arctic explorer must not ouly jtossess courage, but a bountiful supply of hopefulness and nervous vitality. PARKNi AMI fill LI). By Pa -K. 1'.. W. s.v nil. i'rim-i! rial IV.lkpi'c.i Loxll-.j:: I think that the Bible commands jest as much of an obligation from i the parent regarding their duty to- ward their children as it places the ! injunction upon the child; the same Divine authority wh-t saith, "Child i ien obey your parents in all things, ! for this is pleasing unto the Lord." Who says, also, in the same place. "Fathers, provoke not your children ro anger, lest thev be discouraged.'' Col. iii., 20, 22. And yet they seem at times as if the duty w-as all upon the child's part, and theie were none for themselves to perforin. I have seen households where the children felt all the while as if treading upon the floor where nitroglycerine or dynamite might be stored beneath, and with a sudden expectancy of a concussion at any moment. If they made a pleasant remark it was just as likely as not answered petulantly. Where it was an incessant scolding and fretting. Sometimes the parental government was cruel aud harsh, and at other times loooie and entirely free from discipline. Where the child was taught its duty in the most exasperating way pos sible and all the finer feelings of the child crushed, and they did not care what was right or what was wrong so long as they were shielded from corporal punishment aud dis grace. Some men and women are perfect tyrants in their households, and speak to and treat those around them as if they were slaves worse than they would a dog. I have known where parents have treated their children when ill tempered themselves by whipping and pounding them on the back and head, boxing them across the ears with a Bible or hymn-book, and throwing books at their heads, (and this among people who were considered respectable and mingled in the best society,) until the child became disheartened. It was called, "You stupid fellow! you great dunce!" and if they expressed nn nnimnn of thpir own. ir. wns laughed at with contempt and in formed in the most scurrilous man ner that "they had better be seen and not heard;" "That they had no brains, and simply made an idiot of themselves;" and they have gone away to their rooms to weep and feel that they were indeed ''nobody." And thus lor a small grain of approbation their disposi tions have become soured, fretful; and at last heedless of all love and respect for those whom God placed over them. And where the parents have professed to be church mem bers, they have looked upon religion as false, and became so disgusted with the whole thing as to turn away from sacred concerns forever. It is no wonder that petty jeal ousies and bitter soul-resentment will sometimes creep into the heart of a child, marring all its happiness, and often leading to estrangement between parent and child, if not retaliation besides. Children are just as human, just as mortal as fathers and mothers are themselves, and instead of ridiculing aud look ing clown upon ail their opinions 1 and ambitions with utter contempt, the parents should endeavor to study how to show their apprecia tion of them. The parent is not al wavs iu the right, nor iust toward the child. There has been ton much friction betweeu them less of love and forbearance. The at mosphere is made uncongenial and the infliction hard to bear, and their one hope is for the period to hasten when they can break away from home and plunge into the woild for themselves, where they will not forever be retrograding, but ad vancing and developing as their heart and better feelings shall pre scribe. I have known of parents who thought it beneath their dignity and a breach of correct discipline even to thank a child for anything they may have done, much less to apologize when they had made a mistake aud were in the wrong themselves. Mothers have often imposed too much toil with little or no reward upon their children. A mother should remember that her child needs all the strength, all the j encouragement they possibly can 1 give them. Let there beasynipa-j thetic companionship between ! them. Always have a quiver full : of surprising pleasures in store for them. Do not be cold and distant with them, but mingle with and accustom yourself to them. Do not rub oft' all the golden edges of their disposition and confidence by rough, overbearing behavior and rash words, that they become afraid and tremble iu vour pres ence I was made acqiuruted with : a child some time ago who really was so afraid of his mother that he trembled in every limb, turned pale and hardly breathed when called into her presence. The baneful influence of Lord Byron's mother followed him all through life, aud throws from his lonely grave to day, at Missolonghi, a foul miasma of bitterness, disap pointment and sorrow. But how different had been the influence el the mother of John Oiiiiicv Adams, when he exclaimed 1 egaiuing her up 111 one occasion. "1 owe every thing to my niothei!"" And brave, true-hearted. honest Abraham Lincoln said of his mother to a tiieud, long alter her .-cm-it i e heart and weary h ind- had crumbled into dust had climbed to life again in forest flowers, i:l; tears in his eyes, "All that 1 am, or hope to be. 1 owe to niv angel morher. I'.u mgs on her memory look upon your chil simple, heart throb! ions, not as an inei must neccss.u i! i c (). mot I her: n is loving, g c;m;;.n-i-ia.-'-.-e that i -e boi lie i'eca use prevented. 1. 00k git" be-towed by 1 a:!; i vai e and i,i woi id a ml a .is! it could lior lie upon them as a Heaven for ou : tluetiee for this eterni ty. ( lod has commit t e i hem into your saeied keeping until molded and fitted for life's conflict; and then be the issue what it will. He will require at your hands the accounting before His inquisitive bar whether you were faithful or deficient in this duty, l'emenibei, that you may grow old, the heavens may pass away, thou mayst turn to avhes, bur your influence for either good or bad will continue to grow and live through all the ages. Gently, mother, gently. Chide thy little one, "Tis a toilsome journey, it lias just bogun ; Many a rugged steep Lieth in its pathway, And full oft 'twill weep O then, gently, gently. Kindly, mother, kindly, Speak in tender tones, That dear child, remember, Lchoes back tbine own; Tench it gentle accents. Teach it words of love, Let the softest breezes It young heart-strings move Kindly, mother, kindly. Would 'st thou have the setting Or a gem most fair, In a crown of beauty It were there to wear? Mother! train with 'aution That dear little one, Guide, repose, and ever Let the work be done. Gently, mother, kindly. Lexington Observer, A Father's Letter to a Son. My Dear Son, What would yon thiuk of yourself if you should come to our bed-side every night, and, waking us, tell us that you would not allow us to sleep any more? That is jus t what you are doing; and that is just why I am np here a little alter midnight writing tojyou. Your mother is nearly worn out with turn ing from side to side, and with sigh ing because you won't let her sleep. That mother who nursed you in your infancy, toiled tor you in your child hood, and looked with pride and joy upon you as you were growing up to manhood, as she counted on the comfort and support you would give her iu her declining years. We read of a most barbarous man ner in which one of the Oriental nations punishes some of its crimi nals. It is by cutting the flesh from the body iu small pieces slowly cut ting oft' the limbs, beginning with the lingers and toes, one joint at a time, till the wretched victim dies. That is just which you are doing; you are killing your mother by inches. Y'on have planted many of the white hairs that are appearing so-tihckly in her head before the time. Your cruel hand is drawing the lines of sorrow ou her dear face making her look prematurely old. You might as well stick your knife into her body every time you come near her, for your conduct is stabbing her to the heart. You might as well bring her coffin and force her into it, for you are pressing her toward it with very rapid steps. Would you tread on her body if prostrated on the floor? And yet with ungrateful foot you are treading on her heart and crushing out its life and joy no, I needn't say 'joy,' lor that is a word we have long ago ceased to use, because you have taken it away from us. Of course, we have to meet our friends with smiles, but they little know of the bitterness within. You have taken all the roses out of your sister's path way aud scattered thorns instead, and from thejpain they inflict, scald ing tears are often seen coursing down her cheeks. Thus you are blightiug her life as well as ours. And what can you promise your self for the future? Look at the miserable, bloated, ragged wretches whom you meet every day ou the streets, and see in them an exact picture of what you are fast coming to, and will be in a few years. Then in rue enu a uruuKara's aoom: ror the Bible says: 'No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God.' Where then will, you be? If not in the kingdom of God yon must be some where else. Will not these considerations in duce you to quit at once, and for all time? And may God help you, for He can and He will, if youearnestly ask Him. Your affectionate, but sorrow stricken father. What Modern Preaching1 Woefully Lacks. Among the most alarming signs of the times are the lack of moral scruples which distinguishes many men iu haste to become rich, and the bad uses to which much sud denly acquired wealth is put. But do the churches freely and persis tently criticise, as the Christ iau code requires, the methods of the dishonest financiers who pray in the best pews ou Sunday and prey on their fellow men duriug the other six days of the week? Has any one of them ever been formally held to account, by his brethren, for his lack of comou honesty? And when iu the vulgarity of ig norence, a.nd in the ostentatious spirit begotten of wealth that has come faster than knowledge of how to use it, one of these men rushes into extravagances that cannot be (lisunyuisueu irom vices, w nu is u more willing guest and genial apologist than the squander's own pastor? The vulgar and dishonest holder of great wealth is always a moral coward, and the tongue of a conscientious and practical preach re could lash him into some sense of decency and honor. But he is never subjected to such treatment. Why not'.' If the church wants the great sins of the age to disappear, it must preach against them as well as pray against them. There are evils that can best be suppressed by being let alone, but theft, profusion, and call ous consciences arc not among them. The but deal church nee -ds not fewer saints. more lighters. It has a great leal of conscience, but it is woefully deficient in courage. Its theories are niarvelouslv skillful, but i ts methods are stupendous in their stupidity. Perhaps the pre-ent generation of preachers has been unfitted, by defective training, for the work before tln-in; if this be so, the .sooner the fault is remedied the better f powerful of the needed. - sc wor sci 11101 period wil lie. I'lam. ie vices ati vel v against tl ue impel e:r York Hour. The (Jrcat Stai!(. Yc.- tci'daj- a sample of cotton of the ().icr silk variety, the same as that which took in'iniums at the WVLton. Tarboro and Rocky Mount fairs, wns on exhibition at the Cotton Exciumg.'. aud was much admired. The Simple wi.s received by the well known Iii m of Messrs. Rountree. & Co., and was raised by Mr. Carter Pope, of LJattleboro. N, C. Norfolk Landmark, V, A S II i t O N L L i Tz. i. November 27th, ls.s Politics have taken possesion i f Washington. In fact iis iutere'N.'s of all kinds are based on polities. They are the Capital of the Capital. Its trade, its society, its art, pict ures, successes, hopes, ambition rest upon politics, and politics arc at war just now. There is going ou a vast struggle for power and place, emoluments, and honors. Political elements arc the factors in this strife. Influence, or as it is : called here at home, intlooeuce, is the particular commodity which is beiug .trailed. Men's opinions, seutimetits and popularity, their j talents, wealth, position and occu-! pation, all enter into the fabric of I influence, and Washington is its I market place. Here we are ready to sell our iuilooence! For a Speak ership this one will give so many chairmanships, for this chairman ship this one will give so many votes for a Speaker. Hero is a good vote offered iu exchange for a doorkeeper's place, here is an other going at a bargain for a clerk ship, and they even sell down to the sub women's places. "Do you see that young lady bowing to me?" said Mr. , a member of Congress from Ohio, to me; I'm her "inHooence;" I don't think she knows me by any other name. The women in the depart ments, to abbreviate matters, speak of their representatives as "my iu ilooence," "There goes my iufloo- ence," or "I am going to se my in tlooeuce to-night,' just as if influ ence was an actual entity. But to return: While this political strug gle is going on, the bystanders hold their breath. Society has too much to think of to begin its pleasures; the shop keepers are idle, for peo ple wont buy until they are "set tled;" in a word everything wears the air of expectation; Washington is waiting for Congress to auiust itself. Concerning the theories as to who will be Speaker, etc., I conclude that your readers are already weary of the gossip and speculation. There is every reason to believe that no important information will be forth coming uutu the two parties meet in caucus, which will be next week. The arrest of ex-Senator Spencer in the West by authority of the Attorney General, has revived some interest in the well worn Star Route topic. Silencer is supposed to know something of importance to the prosecution, but just what it is, is not known. Spencer was a carpet-bag Senator from Alabama and was more noted for extreme modesty in the Senatorial body than for anything else; he was not np to the intellectual level of his colleagues, but he had sense enough to know it and kept quiet, relying mainly on Conkling for his political attitude. I do not thiuk his arrest will bring out any new develop ments, but the Attorney General j will probably insist on bringing him to answer for contempt of court in not obeying the mandate ot that body at the time of the trial. The Attorney General, by the way, has sent iu his aouual repoit to the President aud it will be em bodied in the message; among other things it is said to reflect very severely upon the court system of the District of Columbia. It recom mends certain changes calcula ed to eliminate effete forms from the. trials of future government cases. It might well carry its suggestions to other courts and legal methods, for it is the opinion of the public, and what is of more importance, of the legal fraternity, that the am biguities of legal proceedings do more to defeat the ends of justice than do the witnesses, the jury, or the judge himself. The Editor of the 1'ost is being boycotted by the Printers' Union here. He has been hurt so badly that he comes out in a column card iu the paper asking the public to support mm in ins etiorts to con- j duct his business in his own way ; huu promising me orniieis a sci 01 libel suits for a Christmas present. ' Ten Cents a Day. No matter how large your salary, you will save nothing if you spend money too freely. Men are contin ually indulging in small expenses, saying to themselves, that it's only a trifle, yet forgetting that the ag gregate is serious, that even the sea shore is made up of petty grains of sand. Ten cents a day is even thirty-six dollars and a half a ,cnr. and that is the interest of a capital of six hundred dollars. Th? man that saves ten cents a day only is so much richer than he who does not, as though he owned a life es tate in a house worth six hundred dollars, and if invested quarterly, does not take half that time. But ten cents a day is child's play, some will exclaim. Well, John Jacob Astor used to say, that when a man. who wishes to be rich, has saved ten thousand dollars, he has won half the battle. Nor that Astor thought, ten thousand Jmucii. but he knew that, iu makingsuch a sum. a man acquired habits of prudent economy, which would keep him ad vancing ill wealth, llow niiliy. however, spend ten thousand in a few years in extra expense, and then, 011 looking back, cannot t. !!. as they say, "where the money went to." To save is to get rich. iV. squander, even in .--mall sums, is the first step to the poor-house. '''; l,.,liit,.rivti'.i-iir.ii,.,. I. r.-ioilv I" . iii " ' . - cu, our aimosi impossible 10 ii.v.t. 1 , . Father Gavaz.i writes to some of his friends in this c Mitrv to s i . that in the evangeliat no sensational method nor any eccentric prea'. has been so much re!i tanism in It.ilv that G, o;i are no more c He is nor preachers, ; tion Army away from dislikes the thev oiih nai in in A iatai:s favor will Italy K it ii. I day 1 tluv Roman Catholj severely dislikes ; 'on who some time ago '. ostant, and who net of his own in Rome. up 1 Ijais-lin.-t: i:. CONFERENCE. XO a CAROLINA It Meeting; ami Organization A p- poliitmriit of Committees, etc. , FIRST DAY'.S PROCEEDINGS. The forty-seventh session of the 'North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, convened iu Statesville, N. C, at 9 1. m., Wednesday. November 28th. 1 .".-.., iisiiop .J. c. Keener, Presi d.uit. The Conference was opened with religious exercises, conducted by the tnsliop. Bishop Hargrove, of the M. E Church, South,, was introduced to the Conference. I he assistant secretary of the last session, ltev. N. M. Jurney called the roll of the Conference. On motion of Kev. N. M. Jurney. Donald W. Bain was chosen secre uin.anii ivev. n. M. jurney was elected assistant secretary. On motion of Kev. li. G. Barrett, the presiding elders were consti tuted a committee to nominate the regular standing committees. lieport of Dr. W. G. E. Cun nyngham, the Sunday School sec retary of the Church, was presented and read to the Conference, and was referred to the Sunday School board. A communication from ltev. J H. Hinton, D.D., editor of the Southern Quarterly Review, was read to the Conference and referred to a special committee consisting oi lie vs. E. A. Yates, J. T. Bagwell and J. 13. iiobbitt. A communication received from Kev. David Morton, secretary of the church extension board of the M. E, Church, South, and referred to the Conference church extension board. Kev. D. C. Kelley, D.D., treas urer ot the missionary board of the M. E. Church South, was introduced to the Conference aud made a talk explaining the work of the board, and at his request, Kev. J. T. Ken dall was appointed to take subscrip tions for the Advocate of Missions. lieport of the Southern Methodist Publishing House was handed to the Conference by L. D. Palmer, business manager, and after being read by the secretary, was referred to the committee on books and periodicals. L. L. Palmer, business manger of the Southern Methodist Publish ing House, was introduced to the Conference and made a talk relat ing to the work of the publishing house. A communication was received from the central centenarv commit tee, and referred to the Conference centenary committee. Committee on nominations, through Dr. Hudson, secretary, made its report, nominating one minister and one lay delegate from each district upon the regular standing committees, aud the re port was adopted. On motion of Dr. Wilson, Kev. L. L. Hendren, P. E., Rev. J. T. Harris and J. B. Connelly were ap pointed the committee ou public worship. Ou motion of Dr. Wilson, it was ordered that the present church ex tension board hold over till after the next General Conference. Question 18, Who are superan uated? was taken np, and Ii. P. Bibb, G. E. Wyche, W. S. Haltom, Miles Toy, J. W. Floyd, Henry Gray, W. W. Albea, E. Howlaud, D- Culbreth, were referred to com mittee on Conference relations. Question 17, Who are supernu merary? was taken up, and Gaston Farrar, T. W. Smith, J. F. Keerans, T. C. Moses, W. U. Call, J. F. Craven, were referred to the com mittee on Conference relations. Kev. T. V. Guthrie resigned his position on the board of missions, and his resignation was accepted. Question 10, What local preach ers are elected to deacon's orderst M. N. Smith, from the Fayetteville district. On motion of J. T. Harris, J. B. Carpenter secretary. was elected statistical )tl motion of 11. (). Burton, W. n. j)l)ub was elected financial sec- , retary. The parchments of Rev. Jas. I O'Brien were handed in by the P. E. of Fayetteville district. On motion of P. E. of Salisbury district, F. M. Johnson was substi tuted iu the place oi' W. A. Well 1 born ou board of education. On motion of P. E. of New Berne district, V. A. Harden in place of Geo. W. Neal, 011 board of educa t ion. On mot ion of D. R. Brutou, J. K. Griliith substituted lor J. H. Guinn nn committee ou memoirs. W. C. Gannon was relieved from board of missions and J. E. Bris tow put iii his place, and M. II. Ilo'e in place of T. W. Guthrie, excused. On motion of A. R. Raven, a com mittee was ordered on publication of minutes. A. R. Raven, D. W. IJain. A. II. Merrett were appointed. I; was moved and adopted that the committee of the fust year ex amine certain young men who ' failed t get to Statesville in time for examination. Announcements for usual com mit ice meetings were made. i); . K. A. Yates was announced t 1 preach at Methodist church to night and Dr. Ii. T. Hudson to ;;e:a'n ,it the Associate Reformed l're-;- icrian church tomorrow at 1 ! o'.-i, ck. On motion of R. ( ). Km ton, it .as ordered on to-morrow the Con ference adjourn at 11 o'clock for Thanksgiving service, and that Iii hoi' Hargrove be requested to preach at that hour. Ilonr for adjournment having ar rived. Conference was adjourned with iieuediction bv liJiop liar A J! ii i-ier liolil.oil. !..:-! :;i,hl afouf 10 o'clock, as Rev. S. V. '.' le. of the North Carolina Coufer v..rt. v. ::s walking down I'road street, !! w:;.i : topped at its intersection with " tin,; street, by a white man who .', i i.mi that a man was dying in an .-, :.j em back lot. lit; went with the !!.!. r into the lot in the rear of V. ":i!!:.i e 15 1 us. store aud saw a negro h i n i .11 the ground, lie bent over him ; -.! a.- did so the negro clenched him t v, confederates, both wliite, loliii,,! hm of sol Ml. Sttitexrilln Land- TI1K OLD HU RT IIOI'IE. A Letter Irom Texas. V publish below a letter from Mr. J. II. HutchiDS to our townsman, W. 11. Oliver, in which he takes issue with our historian concerning the time of build ing the old court house. The time of its burning having been definitely set tled, it is now important to settle as near as possible upon the time of build ing. Mr. Hutching, we believe, is the author of the poem on New Berae which we published sometime last spring, and seems to take a lively interest in the old town yet: Austin, Nov. 23, 1888. Wiluam H. Oliver, Esq.: Dear 8ir To-day I had the pleasure to receive the New Bebne Daily Jour nal of the 15th inst., containing an ac count or the ceremonies that attended the laying of the corner stone of the new court house, now being erected in the dear old town we mutually claim as our birth place. I assure you I was muoh gratified to learn that "while waiting tor toe urand Lodge to open and form the procession. " you could take a hand with the boys in a game of ball and "could knock the ball as far and as many times as the youngest boy in the game. ' My special object in writing to yoa just now is to call your attention to what I conceive to be an error in the paper prepared by Col. Jno. D. Whit ford and read br James A. Bryan. Era.. to the assembly met to witness the lay ing of the corner stone of the new court house. This error I should regard ss one of the printer, were it not that it is only a repetition of what Mr. Whitford says in his "Bits of the history of New Berne." published in the Daily Jour nal, January 7th, 1888, on the same subject matter. Both in "Bits of the history of New Berne," and in the pa per read by Mr. Bryan on the occasion just mentioned, after quoting what some one wrote about New Borne in 1798, Col. W., speaking of the old court house that stood on arches sars "this old court house gave place to the brick one built on the same site about forty years afterwards, which was destroyed just before the late war by fire." This statement makes the building of the court house that perished by flames some little time before 1861, to have oc curred in or near the year 1886-. Now, there must be many people in New Berne who know that this was not the case, and there must be some. who remember the structure that went up in smoke, as standing at the crossing of Broad and Middle streets more than sixty years ago. I have a distinct recol lection of it for some 63 or 68 years, and I have a dim shadowy remembrance of its predecessor, the older court house that stood on archss. I have no recol lection of the pulling down of the older structure and the rearing in its stead of the one that was destroyed by Ore, but am satisfied that the latter was not constructed later than the year 1820 and tnat the probabilities are that it was erected one or two years before that date. I should not have deemed the error to which I have called your attention a matter of sufficient moment to justify troubling you with this letter, only that it has been twice asserted; and as I conceive the truth of history even with regard to an old court house ought to be vindicated. Yours reppectfufly, J. EL Hutchins. Polloksyille Items. The wire for our telegraph line is be ing put up. Prof. Wynn gave his students holiday on Thursday. Miss Nellie Pearce comes home to en joy her holidays. Cotton is getting to be a thing of the past in our town. Sociable Wednesday night at Mr. Perry's. All seemed to enjoy the occa sion. Col. Whitehead will organize a lodge here to-day (Nov. 80th) of the Home Guardians, with 14 charter members. Mrs. Samuel Hudson was called to the bedside of her brother, Mr. Ed. Holland, of Onslow, yesterday, who is very sick. No Thanksgiving here on Thursday. Every store in the place was open and all of the gins were running except Mr. H. A. White's. The Trent could not carry all of the freight here for her on Tuesday, so the the Cutler came up on Wednesday, re turning on Thursday with a good load. Mr. Geo. White made the best shot on Thursday that I have yet heard of; he shot a bird half across the river and when the bird fell it was at his feet. He never moved after he shot the bird till the bird fell at his feet. This re minds me of the fisherman's turtle, he was dead but not sensible of it. Stonewall Items Mr. Wm. Kedditt and Miss Nannie Davis, of South creek, were married last Monday evening at the residence of Hon. W. T. Caho. No cards. 1 am the last man to do any one in- , justice, and especially a personal and political friend, but 1 see in my items 1 that I have censured Judge James K. i Shepherd in stating that some injustice had been done in the court held in I'ain- ico last spring. It should have ri ad fall term, 1882. No more honorable or unbiased Judge has ever prenided at our court than Judge Shepherd. He did his whole duty. Mr. John Freeman, one of our Lent citizens, died at his home Monday night the 2Sth inst. DeWit, son of Mr. Seth Muse, died the same night at his father's home. He has been a sufferer all his life, caused by calcubus in the bladder. Mr. and Mrs. Muse have the true sym pathies of all who knew Wit. Khoda. wife of Miles Walston, colored, died at her home on the same night. A good old colored lady gone. Vanceboro Items. Cotton is very sorry, lint short and price still shorter. Rice about the same New dwellings are being built below I Vanceboro. What is the matter, bovs, 1 getting aired of batchloring? i Married, Nov. 21. 18S3. at 11 o'cloc k, ! a. m., at the residence of Mr. Onirics Ipock, the bride's father, Mr. -K. It. j Stewart to Miss Tavie Ipock. Mr. J. F. Heath, Ksq., officiating. Who w ill be j next in the neighborhood? We don't i know, but think. ' Married, at the residence of Mr. John ' P. Ipock, the bride's father, Mr. Win. j A. Tingle to MissMollieM. Ipock. Wed- 1 nesday, Nov. 21, 1883. at 3 o'clock, p. 1 m., Mr. J. F. Heath, Km., officiating. We all had a lively and jovial time go ins home with Mr. Tingle and his young J bride to the infair. After supper, while i nil u'arii an imrim. llunnnl.. ' Ui. ..t.u,. jij ii iiiiiimci icd niilll llilt that little one, rlyiug squirrel, the little horning crew came along .vith their smutty faoes. guns and pistols, making big sport, as they thought. Tramps. Seven tramps were lodged at the sta tion house Saturday night, and Kundav morning Mayor Hall told them he was not going to let them out to prey ujon the community, but would keep them confined that day, and ordered some thing to be sent them to eat. Yesterday morning he had them brought up and told them that he would give them twenty four hours in which to leave the city, and if found here after that time they would be arrested and dealt with as the law directs. One of them pro fessed to be a photographer, and raid he had a wife and several children. The country is overrun with tramps. Wil. Star. Professional Cards. LEONIOAS J.f'Ocf.E, ATTORNEY; AT LATT, fOAea mppmutt OmUi Hotms ' New Iicrie, W, C. Will practice la tbs OmnttM -f Otwaaa. i. - nolr, JniiM, Ormlow, fcmUooAd " In the V. H. UlHlrtat Court. " Prompt BlU-nthm paid to the soIlatMom at , OI,n"- ; . aprtwl P. H. PELLETTEEtt, .A ttorney-atLaw POLLoCitairrujR, - Will pnvtloe In th Ooarta af CfcrUrst. Joaaa.' OiiaKiw and Cntvoa. M ner.lol attention givon to tha a!lantloa a I mil, and aatUlna asuta iW...ii SODS, iwtr DR. G. K BAGBY, : ' SURGEON DENTIST, Uavln located In Kaw llama, off.r fets services to Kw Berne and ' aw maV!aa; conntry. , , . ' Office corner of rVmLb Front aa4 Oavaa streets. 1 - J av ozokoi y. to6, umii a. rT, hilelh.N.O. . . nat4a,N.U STROffQ & FERRY, Kinrrov, . c, ATTOaXEYa lit. COlSSELLfll! ittit. Having; formed a eopartneraMp f-r tha Cractloe of the law In Joneeeuvitiy, will man. itiy attend the enurta of the aawa. )-pmub attention paid to ooileettone, mayli-ddwtf MTRoNO A TKHHY. raiu holla bd, ja. . ovii a. oi iua. HOLLAND & GUI0N, Attomeya nt -nwt - (Offloa ona door west ot Uaetoa Boaaa.t Will practice In tba Oimntlea of (mm Jonea, Onalow. CTarteret. rauillnnand Lauutr Prompt attention nul to aoUeeUoae. -. aaras-dawlv.- a. w. aixoa. r. m. mm oumxt MAX It. NIXON, SIMMONS & f.!AKU ATTORNEYS AT tAW., Will practice In IhtnonrunTIYarm lion Onaluw, Uarteret, Pamltonene Lrnolr, aad la toe r euersi wan um Mimu feMkuAirUr DR. G. L SHACKEUm Surgeon Dentiat NEWBrUN, jr. c Having looated hertnanratlr n Nnrlvtu. f reapeciiniiy ten.,r my prr.-atnna Brvi.-a to the poolie. IHItce cm Middle afreet, la - teraon bulldlus, oppoelte Manuel Church. Tea Tears Vraeltaal Bperteee, acplWdawly t .,, DR. J. D. CLARK. mwitii, m. c. Offloa on Craven (tract, bet wee a roller and Broad. ABrI?-dwlr Norfolk Advertisements. S. W. SJELDNER, till 1 "a- m - ea wnoiesaie Liquor ues icr. 9m. l Itaaaake tqware,-' . HOUrOLK. Order, promptly attended te and satui tlon Kuaranteed. KalH.bll.il ed lKOfl. eepldtwtal Nn thaw Toms, Ubo. W. Toms, Perquimans C'o , 9. C. Hertford, K. C Jim. K. Toms, ' ; Lata or ltalolch, N. C NATHAN. TOMS & SONS, Commission Merchants, ro TBS SAM w;,'' ' " Cotton, Lumber, Grain, Paaauta, aa4 all Country Produoa. tl: SO Vrere ITkarf; ' ' aulS.lilwlm . KORVOLK, 0. M- ETHER1110E & CO., Norfollt, Vsw, . Gren'l Commission Merchants ftellall klndu of country produce ead Boaae prompt return. ' ( i . Corroapoiidenoe solicited, aaia-dAvOB i Elizabeth Iron Woikt?, ClIAs. W. I'ETTIT, Prop., . 280, 382, 284 and 886 Water atraai, NORFOLK, TA M A If XJT ACTUBEJt-C ENGINES, B0ILEHS. Saw and Grist Mills, .t SHAFTINGS,',1' " ; ' ' "; l'ulleys, II cm sro ' FORCINGS AXD CASTIXQB, Of Kvery Description. ' ' " - Complete facilities for ALL WOir la -our line frul-4AwLr . JtEAl) ruin. The Globe House v No. 177 Main Street, - - KorfbIk,rTk RATES OF BOAMDIKO: Klmil lv JIM I ue Vt. j Two lity I Thife Iikv. ,,,rM,M 1 I'er Week TkIiIi' Hoard, n r Seek- Hnpper, liixUlni: and UreakfMal MM IrfMleitiic i -i TIiIh lioune hfin liern t.horonrhty rernrnlaliea and iii'wl v pniuleil The talile WUJ be ) Buppuoii wild iiie neel in liar hIwiivh nUx-ked Wilt) Hanoi- mid rliE'trn. Uie Dneat wlaae . (live N.i I ih iiio llotiMo a TriaL 7 Muln Klrei t, Norfolk, Va. n evnin.a Jull -.l.lwHm Jiepe ), KeTAni.iHHKn UT7&. CARE & PATT0N,. ; :t General Wholesale Commission KercluU, . : No. 407 KIKU ITBEET, "Wiliialmton, Zal, ; Speeinl ul lent Ion itlven lothe aala of Tl , ami Hum Ii.-t n produee. Flub, Ecsa, eev -. rrmpi Krlnrni made. lU KkHF-o r-lUrv.-y a HUler, WlUela (in.r.TK, I mlnn A I hiikr, J'rovlolea Iweleoa, Flt-Kt Nut Hunk, Wilmington. Del. awlr Job Printing 1 1 f you wanl PoHlrra. ftrriilera, .. land Bill,, Lter eaeV oi nn Hi i i u iimii. II, done In Job I'rlBttM rll-I H, MI'IhI oriU'TN IO - ' w a t ii -tow km. opptcat ",; Weehlamtem, . : , vi" i ii i. ;i, mi, ,11 iiven to orders frees S ,llNlun,' RIVER VIEW HOTEL'; II Z AIJUTH CITY,N, C ... A. L. I'KXDLETON.PnOPEfffOS. Tliln hotel I Hunted near the steamer e. lux. unl In the litiKln n li.-n-k t eneh of Vh Hi-rlval of train. Hntea Ilaonable. trtofUtetowntnea , road depots ea Ike ' epj-dawira ".' , GEO W. J. HARVEY, ' a.10 HICHMOWD ST., ' r'. rniLADBLTRIA. KHTAHI.IBHKD !. i n.iiM'i leiae Roola & KUeee t the Lateee SJtea I BKST UKAUES. Would refer to Meeera. B. Bryan . Oe Hrndereon, Oeo. H. Robens, Oee. A, Oliver and othera, all of New Kerne. - ; mm- Orders ey Kail eel te. ' -'- ; julydwly CEO. W. X. HABYlTT a. 1 i "' : v -.. -
New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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