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Tin: j or un a i j 1 1 l; s i i . St .- v , M v r. J W. cll.ri..-.l la . (hi J o i it r I j II r ) Uur Lenoir r rl TV.:- -V.u"iri is : : I U' rrvs '.: 1 e ' - : Wo hav wur- i t . c. r r-poM i en '. 'v rv -a. - . ' t in an ir.'.er-sii-tle M hvw i lf.'-'.iin ns. column i- n c nt tr i-.i lion. rtT -eniii per '.tee f r quent in"rti-n. F-r -i . .VT. J -a;. pi v at .)(",: i n ' y V1 r r e Kinston Items. Ktnaton Intuitu'. run papil on it --ct n l we. k Kin.st n i " i V' i n lt M .ndv v. papiU. I " L L A- - v X ' t . s i ' his wU'rmel. r.j jr. ! .l ' board of tho 1 1 re it i'l--.. til expected '.. -v Aujuk 3 1st !:nt Then, i: " - rth t th' r -'" ' t?Teo ! i-! I .-- r r r : '. iDH Id wen ! H 1 1 .1 1 r- . doa. Tb "olJ Cm. iK-T !'. : i: wtchful ej" r. 1 a ; ri -hti of 1 rr. i y ; i. . .:. lit of rel wh'.sk-'v : t o matter tivt cru-.-. -f r . TsMtUy night. Parrott aal Mr. Sunn l'. 1 -t of lk lo W. (.' Vdierf . re Lhoach dbtinctlr iunii .1 . r. K Tbanidar. liev A IP. focmiac rTic. Him HU Wlh..th h. Urotinr Joph h- rn. v -.l N. C, to rii win th :r -Jn II. fV'l TV- r rr t Waih, o wear i i bcoo wirfhoori" :n the r. v Mr. F. C. Loop, with h. Km LwJi left hre l.vn T Kilwmk, Ww-omin, wh-i y u 1 7 r" r .yr Mr- n ", i ! I ': rr irr ,i:is(. U-r tJ 4 y f r he wil, flnirh her Miacatioa. ' "jr kovttvr, wiil Trtry n return t. eaansj of th j:rl he U.e Ihe har ten raeted tr iay ti.at I protUbitioaiflta of I.ncir ciiur. ty wil. BUl it Th IT lT hooi id Kint. i. on tik tSth ot SpCmb-r, in-t-. for the o orxeaiain a county P.- kiwHio. Society. Th re w no p.d:t.. I i in thifl movement flu hint nf TTimrr n Institute nd lialw t private chtxU orwnd lat Jaoodaj. W have bvw-n unable to ob tain tk attend aiv 4 of uroo the rim 4-, txcwnpi tba of Hma Amelia Hardeo. wV-a with 19 pupil with U-.e -llilkia of forty in a few day more. Tha bf trader. Rich-rd Dan-hen j , watdtlrfired to conetable of Craven oowinty lart Satarday on a warrant . 'aiilnl by a jxutice of the p-ace of that MMOtT bf 6ra whom the reujwl w tavkt for hearing. It a said qait a . naC Of Uliw-ra are i-opJic.trd in th irf I affair. Th "old campaigner' m learning political wuuiom by the earth ihocks he aaa recently had. It la ruiw aaui he .,-atiTi Krvka ool thin campaign far the afBo of corooer and aave hia SOI botUea of fad whiake-y. Cabbage Cox xi.d the aarth,aake pat thia bee in hi new h-u. Tba Repabltcanji of Falling Creek laar-Moin, at taair meeting taut Satur 4ay, iwor into Uva party ooa hard -shell Dawawauiaa BUI Be boo. and forthwith -fMamiaatawl kisn for towneh rp ooatable. Tkia, kl k aaid , almoat pat "c-uea word " ioao Uao Baoath of H ih Deacon fien CiaaiJU tha px-aeot colored D-tmorratic OCtAbW-M Oat- lownafcip. ' r--2neWaj had Ueir aaiial WraaWlBlhwirDa'f Tne-rng Vrere taaa, gaOarday. The Dcmocrata. of ana I, aw. joy ad thn fun. forgauia that ' war m iktapfMin ut U.j bwi ruiatod familioa' IsalMd. W" aoi .nformotl f ihar t-t r U'wjwm' ri ki Ot til Jtoftlrrai met-tinci It - ail troxxghi an, ajay way by trie foily of Uie fOoLB Tirgtaa. '' fh& 'aiaawnar Trant, on het retam trftff f 1&t abora Kinaton iMtratar if x araek a larro atvag in the river TliTloai"' lira mries above Kinattin. aarrln! Willi fn the br l t h r n h which m tanaji light t The boat w.w fum 9 fptt aatoa beacai ahoot two milew jf 'Bt-yat Iwail the accident, where, with tmH x( tha Biancbe, sao waa rot off aOd faachati tbi place laat Monday. TVa Toarabia Jack Ijoftln, now px-t Ala nlghtlata nmiMr, waa on a viait to a- t n j 1 in . . uwwia waa jv iwintuij. uw uvtt(in lafailiaf. Jit t kaaping hi onual With aM Mpeai-anca. The great ratIln.OJf dVf boatwi' to the Saper't-U Uoatrt laat waak, and tha awful earth " p-hock na &a Bight of Aoiruat 2lat La- lawaaa hiaa avt totaik arhout th oar and woaxlwft BaW going an in Uie wrv4 . f ila a ty aoinanjaiwooera keid their I aa i la I BioolhJy meet ing last Monday. tWrfwMag of B- N. Kiald tn rec.il lptaxra aa) tha Samkb aid of thr rivr amc ioa iron bridge waa laid over to Ibaaail wining Threa other rotitioae WUkwtBart, ana from Hand Hill and tara, iXfxm Jtfoaaly Hall uwnahip. met ainailaa. kmalimnl Deputy ahariff, OaU kTortSw, waa ailowad $J for wr ticra at paga to laat term of ou r So per u r CowTk, "TJapaty SbarUTi Wartem ar.J A vorj atartad to Kaiaigh laac Wedivt-adair wan convict Xor the peniwcuxry. . ,z Kami Howard. Alex Spance. J.rrj Pcaa and &sa Dawwon ail whiu ataf ap ior larceny, and Squire Jo nee. 0ajradfor bxrceoy, and Jew. McD-ir.iei. OoiomS tot Bvanalaughter Jcui.o Wooiaia, colored, charged with iarc-nv. aaw takao to the tnaane uilum at OqliieOQTO. Tba whitea appear to J rw fea color Una in thia dalegaucn - a Tdewl Bral earriar from thus place u 4UlartaO( n DwdIih county reports the ootooma of a aJ rue of inaanity near Allaartaom poat ornco. Mr. William Harpar, a yoang farmer own.n a mill avaar f , who baa Uen aiV.ict-ed . n ih.i way aaaarai ywrw. uxk a de-ir-o-Uva pall laat Taeaday. breaxmg :v h naaaaa laraiturv ana uurmcg n.s bad alatbuxg. autiiDg ap his r. 1 auattlf txig the feath-rw in t-r.-ry p.-,-c , tioai taking up hra mill r -k in '. braaaloat down th wavr u..- N oaa as yt baa uriird i.'Ifn,v fr kixn; bat the mar! carrier :wrj U ::. ta(? ofl WiOl lightning wri-d . a hear thai iaaaaa aaaa cail for hi- gu- TW waparior Court lock up the -dockat reuiarly Ixst Tucwilxy a. rr. Tna eaiaadar bad ben pr.n.e 1 n '. eaLatad. and saitor in terewte.i a wataVaeaea. promptly aaeemhie.! Uie . t-1 larr ocmrt room, wher- :t m t.-r . thay ramain until th.e coy;:, ad j- urn. Taa fiotjing ric" o' the court .-ner s j aiavar heard from the court h u- w :r. daia- I" attntii f'-, l:gK.t'y tl the aalja of the neeri -.i r-rsor. w th.'.n th.e ( eo)rt tooari. Thi- is i gr-a; reP-f f r tikacVfer. an well - gr--at .n . g f Uma U tiwt cm rt. The civil act. on '. ClaiaB aisd Ia?ii very A .britton vs i vr aaaor -waa decided m favor of pl.v.c.'i:' Tha land iuii- A t-r - P- . w is eallad laat Tueaday a't.-rv. tha court has b.n et:gi-.! ir: ! - - a working There wu j u : u- a '. . r it i . i - - '. laat Friday morning un :r - i--vy ; one Richar i I -jghertv '. r r Creak. Crvr -.ni-tr w .::. irt .-1-: q vary fine tr-w-nh ' .-..-'-.."-kaaf . While Pang-. - ; i " ..' iai beef to th- cix.-t-t '. -a c. i J. Bryan. aio fr--m - : r -ap and charge.! Dugr. rt' a :. cany of the Nf . jtat.cg ".: ' '-'" conflrmaiory of the -r.arg- ... .g . ' tuBctent tJ male ut -,ie- .' i guilt. Bryan ha 1 "': Pi..:. ; - the beof the ever.irg ; r--v.. '. Daagheny ts-i 1 - .-. - -rg- ' John Murvry f : ftki Jecieti he - g 4. t Rry an wa- s.-s:-. i ; . r .i. : hoaae. Paugfaar-.y r. r -i ' uj neel th h 1 -Uayor to, at Rcu -rti- -. i Will bold C. .rv. ' i a : r i Craven v :. t I - - b its' A frightful 'a.-.h .v t e'.r: K i Mti'n ten m.njsw tf re ten .. i tha night of August '.'. .if. '.t.er- f '. wvi mi in f k in .tr.'i r- k r n r.uLi-n t : t ! ru i .-t i r. r . (iv i in i r i 1 luiu-ni. . r pruvr h the har.i, m ! .ur: e !.M with t. ha- t e.T, in n V r . ; I. v.r- 11 Irt r. r. t : 1 t.-rni. Us A , -c t ' u: rt ! in m . ' t e r r with v i i -r'.A'-ltV t! b. lr r. I a trie i. Pr f r .11. .1 t I r h r r -1 . 4 I ' r . . i .v i v I . -1 v . . : .. r. - f r . ! i v i- c ,rt are 1 1 1-1 r ' ! u t .. '. : '. r--;i! in 1 per-4-Tvil ,,r 'trt v of J W Pr-..pi.iy. d--eeas'.i .x-.-ii;e.1 thrtv ,1 iv f tr.e J ii sir- e.g. J. F. W .-ten ir. ! I ' F. P.-rrr r. i r. entin; p' r-t::- ir-. 1 V. 7 p r'..-'c. J ' .Jek.. n .-.r 1 I . ft;:. -V ii untr. .1 ; -;'ir:?' - f r derndint .Th.e 1 1 . Cs i:re .ut 'f tht- all-g.--l I ' . : . ;ti v-r f the your.;t children . f Je-e . Kr- ad wit. dec-.-v:d . his .-ldet living - -n Fi war.l St-mtv Br.adwv. the d.f. nd- in t i r. th, se it: c. , -1: 1 y I ic i ti m i he 'ather Th- v:Uue v iiv.l in th.-s-- u;t thouflnd ,Lpar-4. bwn fcriv.-n the j 1 a: rr. : to N t he : r f h ,s decea.-, i of th.e prci-Tty : :: : .'i;im!f.l : ;i Tht- ra.t- had not ii rv at the 1 1 n: e w. e Tht- So peri, r . ' r: r: f i .'ne r r.iiintv, J u , 1 - W 1 1- r C I a r k p ree i d l n ir . ad -j..arce.l !.jjt Saturday morning. The civil aui t Kerr i 1 1 It road way - - f r a Jiyino and distribution of the estate of J. W. limadwav de-ejv-d , were de cided in favor of plaintiff, the jury dndmg William. Alice and Mead Froad wav lawful heir- and entitled, with F-iward H. "'roadway, the defendant, to ejual aharrw of their ft-her a estate. The defendant, FA H. Proud way , gave netK-6 of appeal. Motion, for new trial in State r. Job I Stroad, convicted of tr.vlinir hogs, w-ji ma-!", the motion wu denieP M.Hmi for the r-miiwion tf the wnt-ncp in Stat- v. (hax. IP Ilr wn. ctr.victrfvl . f embracery, wa d.-nie.P Tho- hae ,-l.w.sJ the newt memorable Sorw-rior Curt hell I-n.or ,-ounty sin.-t- the war. J SarvcriorCoart "ttandlng Rale . T. art tiaenm ti the county and W of time in the nrmeceaeary attend ance of witnewsee, the following Stand ng Rule are adopted All capital caea are returnable on uie Am day of the terra. j A to all other caAee. wiaoeauiee. h.Hh before the grand Jury and the court, in caaea on criminal docket will attend as follow: 1. Scioth side of Trent River - C.vse from the Hen th side of the river ill be taken up Moaday of each court. I 3. North aide of Trent River. W it- I neiwee in cxsei nl up for the township north o the river will not attend till Tuead.ty of each eourt- l aw- will be marked and osetgn ,sl to I the side of the river in which the ,.ffne-.n-t-nrrt-,1 . u,ln. to the low nh ip ,f the com ru Utiti; Justice of Lhwe PeA.-e tier of the rt-nidence of tlie defendant. Vlxgmtratee in binding over defend ant-, will bind them o,r. and riH-.nir itnt-eet. Ut that ilay of tach court which i- et a)iart vs ab-ne. u their rep-ctivo uwnshi4. Witn-fii Ix'foro Uie grind jury, while Uiey nt-.l not arf.-ti I ! fr.rt- the days rxNive spx-1 tu-d . will attend there after till .1 wwjh.xrge.P Witn.tktt in ail civil i'ah. fr,.m whau-vt-r part of UM oxinty. will rut atu nd befon- W.lne"dy of ea. h court. Witnoiw-, whether in cuil or crimi nal caaee, attend i n beforn days as above sps-citiod, cann.t pmve tiieir attend inco for such prior time. All wiinoaeoa in both civ.l and crimi nal civsea will take notice "f ti.e at- ve day, and ara not t. bo re -ubp-i r-.aed lo stich timt-. and no f.,e f, r issuing or serving subf... riu contrary to this rule w : 1 1 b- LXX.-.1 in il,e cet-. Ti.e Clerk of the C. -u r t will place u ; - n the :'ir-t iia;e of the criminal d.-k t at each court, an Index gripping the ,Yu--.-.''r ,-f the calico, which, by thi.- rule, will tx- for hearing on eich . f lb" d ivs aa aN.ve st--c i lu-s 1 . A copy of thee Standing P ile be printetl and k-nt u each of tk-'Ju-ttat-- of the Pe.xce i n tht- rou nt y . with re jueet t.' p.ist.- in his d s k. t, and to n,. tify witr.ees-- :ir. i P f.-i: ! o.t.- in e- rv ca.se there-f. TVeae art- vrm.in.'nt rule an 1 n ill remain i u f orct- u r. le-? re v.k .-1 , r m -I i .1 hi s rn e ticrt to ".(U'T t curt, i Mag i-1 rat an I d-je pP ' I th ..y lii. cj n t h. i in ni.iiic i'jicklv i v:r,c f 3-) -t.s. ail ir-ig-uit.- i r de.il. l I: eradicatee . . v : r t 1 e c.i a i n P. :- ,-t. ri ; i .-v l ick 11 t'l If. 1 IP'!, ppil ntrnen : . '". :: m , i: pi yt .1 I I- y . -f r h r. Hi.' ;t. j I III II I 1 . . . - I . I'l iv ll r-r . '' - - ,'! :- ..'! Ituthsam Tilers I ih the Journal ! luh Kite havf mail arrangement with th- f !! I u M i "t ion . among the iN t .in 1 m-t v u able, of the country . whereby Milm.-nboni to the Jv I HN.il. in "- urn : y f tr. bel'.w naraM, at t! ' . . " r .n i -r-, -t r i.-i ! v i n ad - J I n. an Farmer StM' r;..-r r. A r iru 1 tu r ii t 2. VI -eitin rn 'u i 1 1 .it. .r ! ''i; r--t ' M ij;a.'il.-' ' e'nf.tie Am-ri'Tin 4 J r t. N.ch,.l:i.- 4 . 1 k"' . : tLirv " A1 i ' r- it Fr--t- l'r.'H 'J.Au ".'.x i.-i Sif t ? i' N' rtii A::ir. Hfview ri 'J"i N-w V rk W, ri.i. - 2r) Stiir - 'J' 1 .u t r v II nl it J n.' ! rue in 1 Farm . t. fX'i '.ith-rn I'lvnuii . i 'ure r J Mirnal J '0 N ! n.l l.-rv-r. 'J "' Hir;-.T' MiiKsnii.' 4 . Weekly 4 7'1 Young I'e't'le '.0 rib-r ri'-eei v i hit the J-'l'H- 1M I leeinri: to hare any of thee hv in:ik'.Il HT'pl leation to :!. ;n ..t. n r l.y letter, have a r t ! t't.'ir 1. . . tint on our txx.ko i i r I. it thfy i i I have to remit to rl.. in t.. mv "f tlie ahova put.li- r . :!;. in : e 1 c t . y UTll Kit 1 M !". CMKSTS. u .in !.. l.y jviyinx 51 w in r ; .' the J . i KN a I. kit m-nli; ni-.M; - 1 th.e I i Ir 'it 'rrm f. u r f J ,r. ad var.ee. will .ii.cti, ri with the J. 1 K New York H' .ri f -ix CITY AND VICINITY. Me. -it ad vane. had thir ,rh . f An. r, t t1 e r r- r.t -t 'A n 1 1 n t . . n n i n .--t. deatPs i n-u ranc. will i.su ,- tr. . t s. . " a 1 .n:nii..i.,n.'! n V. i.lu, I tu rned . u'..-d him e tAX The ! I d: K- i v . ,er tl h i n i i rt l r n t year t- next Mondav i m Tie r; r I'll e , -i tiii gt: m an r-. u nees n is U n and other ru He kee Pro--.1 11. -e Pi th -te I ,,n the market and obtain the boot prirw. knew- I t, V ith I jit!, im '.mm r. f rem from the first d istrict, the second, and Me- Clammy fr ni the third, the interest of F-a-UTTi North Carolina and the Stat at large will !x- in good hands in the Fif tieth Congree-s. The townsh.p Iemocratic executine committees . f t'ravf n county will meet at Uie ofTioo of Guion A I'ellelier in tha city on Saturday, Sept. llta, at 18 o'clock m. for the purpeww of electing a coonty executive committee. Ad memtx-m are reiueeted to be present. We publish Uxlay "standing rulee'' for the government of Jonea Superior Court, which if obecrved will aava much j ciwt to the county. Judge Clark ball introduced this nieth.nl of conducting the ci.iirte. and we believe it will work ad vant-ageonsi y to both the county, suiuirw and defendants. The ILaleigh .Yeir .m.( I Hjtnvr kr hibited its usual enterprist- in giving the news during the earthquake excite ment. The evening edit ion was eagerly sought in this city, each night, as it con tained the news up to to p m. of the name day. It is a pleasure to commend such an enterprising journal to the poo pie tu.tlkrr IirUlmkr lliMk. A few tninut- afK-r 11 o'clock Friday night another earth. lusko shock waa felt in this city It lantod about fifteen aecond ami a severe enough to rattlo the w ii. do ws m 1 ir ge br jck bu il d i ngs. Tilt- 1 Ut Ti.e Judi Thunalay r S-. .tland Nt ond di.-trict Hon. W. 11. ne v of the c .lion a l W rldon, i 1 .-i.iivi nti.in at Weldon m mated W A. Dunn, of k, It S.IiciUt of the aoc Mr Dunn is a p.irtner of Kitchen and is now attor- iunty of Halifa x . fur Th Charlraion Haflcrer I he agent of the Southern Fxpreee ( -.. has instructions from heaiiquarters U. forward any g.stda, free of charge, that may be contributed for the Charles ton sufferers. From accounts published in the papers, the doetituton must l.a great, and anything forwarded for re lief will be greatly appreciated (aria InJ t n ii t . Mr P. M. H.-lgert, of m.inuf-cture r of cart wheels, ax lei etc. Mr. Kin-U.n. 19 a and wagons, J. C. Whitty has a cart from his factory which is a moiel of durability, noatneee, light run ning and convenience. A farmer who once boys one of H.xlgee' carts or wag on, it i.s said, will haul a few more ads ,1 ii ring the day jiit because he like- the vehicle. Read his "ail" in this ..sue an 1 gtve hire, a triil. T1e lamp Mrrllni at It r rl if to aati. l'r paralmn u going forward with oierov f, r tie- camp net-ting to coui iii.'!: -- ii- it . ,'. k at I tar r i r. gton Wis si s. 1 ,i i-.ni" pivi'1.;. n is gomg u p and a ".:.e or i tr: ur-. .f .-. . u-1 rue 1 1 on at the 1 m.l ir.g. The undergrowth will t cut out and a beautiful ar. 1 picturesque grounds wil 1 -hade c . r : g r ( S.I d '..nil, th it rt to will the IMp T "A ( harlrilon , o e r the -t.ite are send ing Pari st. 'ii ( ' .; r p- i !e are ow s note ;- acceptable : - no imiur- --. - in i harie-ton . the 1 to -ulTer u n volu n r - are -,r.t Thousands i til. -"it shelter and in ". he J Its M. will for n t r . ; u t ions left at 1 a knowledge re- ir i I t r niuiif. are aiitl. , ir: i . d t. -lii.g tat. that Neus coi. tr itu te Tile Klril Itals of I ullon '. - : r-1 I ..i . . '. new c. i i '. t 1 i hang.1 tu.n was re- e oil Moll, lay. !i A Ns'hite uiitv, and u as s;i ':' It w- fr P -i i r 1 1 . It .d j It I a- - h i v e . 1 !. f Seplelll n.v r.c,. i re ! S . the m j . . 1..UUU er.q can iii.-t y ear .In II V s II. ir. iw I v " I at I.. I w iL. ll vrr k i . .r.g tl..' r and Mr i his gun .lay I.eXt .it w hat it 1 h ,u-o until he f uud the -an.e dv -Pe KrelatTIti t p no I n lc1 . The eouritv rommirt!. regtihir nv r.tl.ii meet in apvin'.e-i the fnilow.ri the eleetion in November N "e i towr.hir 'ir:ri i . r- .a Hit-. ; n M i. 1.. rci-i rar- r w ; : iris. -. ! ( ; ir ; F.:iiR..n 1' -t. ner. N" J t. r Whitf.-r N .' t. A I, 1 k Th - . W. H. t mple -' t .): :tV.n. i.H - t.ir;. . 1 . Ik r is. 1 . It. . r !. n N : t' - 1 A'f ! t 'hep tn 1. 1 . N o. 7 to w. n.hip - r Hard uon . Jamfxi L'lty . H i 'erry . No - townphip Canip Pulnw-r. N. M Tindale. I'leanant Hill. Fn.Kh Wa.ln worth 1 t uur.!. J. T I ir. 2.1 war.l S. R. Street, jr '1 war.l. K. J. Mat thewi. 4th ward. I.tort lianaom, jr. 'th ward. McCarthy's j.ririnet. W. V Mettn. St Phillip' Marshal 1 . No 0 T -wr..ahip- t ' a r ni a n . A ro w restrain I m i'v rry v. .tcr ho hall t i n the 1 1 -n ni u t iin.l hav,. hi t W. I!. 1!: -t. re M. ha:- hi i n ordered . d iron to east his in N v. n.t.t r to t t name ri'i-t.'r. .1 rf I r r p r it t 1 1 o it i.f Karla. Our eeteemed but recently offended o. ntemporary. th.e Wilmington St i-. in its issue . f Friday last begins nn edi torial in reply to Plaine's fa!-e state ments about the South in tho. e w. r ls "It is astonishing howjmen aud news-pap-rs will misrepresent and deceive.' The identical thought contained in this ser. t. r. et- had ju-t 'lashed through our mind when tut a minute bef. re reading this we had read the following item in the same iasue of the S7 i- "There were 29 interment.- at N. w Perne in A ugust . ' We have seen no report publi-h.ed of the interments at New Perne for August -ave that published in the J t its.M. of Sept. 1st, when the following appeared. The city clerk's record shows only one interment in Cedar (trove cemetery for the month of August, and death in this caae wan cau&od bv drowning. During the month of July there were five interments, death bicg produced by the following causes: One chronic hepatite, aged 59 years, one paralysis, aged J; one cancer on face, aged 70. two typhoid fever, one aged 2t. one 4?. In Greenwood Cemetery, colored, there were 24 interments during the two months, 15 of whom were under 10 years old and one 104 years. There may he "rhyme and reas. n"' in such blunuers, but we confess wo are unable to see it. Put wo will sus pend judgment until the .S'fiir has an opportunity of correcting its error. It surely will not allow its ill folin to wards the Jot 'R-A I. to let a statement so untrue and i injurious to the repu- tation of New Iterne for corrected . heallh go un- Hw lUrnr'i l.umbtr Tradr. The saw mills of New Ilerno do much to keep the old town alivo during the summer aoason. Around and about tho depot the immense mills of I). Stimson and Congdon & Son make the air ring with music from the numerous sawn and planing mills. Mr. Congdon is building a wharf that will hold a mil lion faet of lumber at one time. Mr. Stimson has started up bis old saw mill that ha been resting and waiting for repairs about a year, and he is building a large dry houao for drying lumber, the capacity of which will bo thirty thousand feet per day. While theeo gontletnon are making things lively up town, Oiwrann, near the city market, and Hilton, on Fst Front, are keeping things alive down town. Tho beneficial t ffectrf of th.e mills reachee far into the country, sjs they furnish a market for the lumber along tha creeks and rivers which is brought down in Largo rafts. We occasionally soe rafts of timber here from high up in Letioir, near the Wayne county line. They also give employment to a large number of hands. Mr. Stimson 's run ning day and night. When his dry house is complete Mr. Stimson expects to put in more planing machinery. F VI SlTf.TIO MlJIHATKn. A telegram from Wilson Wednesday erening informs us that the Democratic convention nominated by acclamation F. M. Simmon. Keq., a.s a candidate for election to the Fiftieth Congress. In th.a th- convention did well. The Demo crats, and the whole people of the dis trict, have in him a candidate worthy of their support, and wo predict for him a triumphant election in November. F'urnifold Mcl.indull Simmons was born in Jones county on the farm near Quaker bridge which wa.s then and is now owned by his father. Mr. 1 . (i. Simmons in the year '.-"! lie received h:s i nr'.y e luca'.i -n tit the country sch.f.ls while yet en the farm, and was j ri pared for college by P r f . J.te. Km-ey . : . o w ' la I irange. He t r.tered lrinity t. il. ge ic. ce' an 1 graduat.-d therefrom with hole r in June, 157 studied law under the late A. IP Hubbard and obtained P. ei.se , f the Supreme court to practice before he was vet 21. In 1.74 he marn.-d Miss h"'.:7i Ilumjhrty. .laughter of Co! I. W. Humphrey of ( ! .id -1 - r. . who dudi in April. leaving tl.r. e ehildr.-n. liecently he ntarried M is.- P. 11" ( P1P-. daughter of ex-Si. .-riff It:!!-. . :" ilvie cou r.ty . In 17'. Mr. Siinmcr.s w a.- ti.ei ai.li ilate of the DeniiH-rat: party of J -t.ee cxiunty f. r a seat in the constitutional conventi. ui of that ...:. 1 1 1- .q ; n el: t was the late Jac o P. S sli re wd est sn.l m : t- t U. oil.' of the '. ar i i;e n f his ' c. -unty h.uiig c: rse it w as a party of that .lay. TP" c, strongly Re( uhlican. . f ceil forlorn h qnu but he tnt. r car.v.i.-vs with such vigi ran 1 tion. nr. 1 discussed th" i-. day w ith su 'li force and . !- , his coponi-.n !iti :. w a- . u every - uie. In th" w .r.t. r , f -7 :: d the : ; r i li the that - of H New Peru. 1 I eg , fall . pr ,o of law , and .:. ti. ne s racy . f l 'raven front to .,c, I, ud ti Ugh U ti'.e f.l I il ten , arupa gri A - a , l.lTill aril a- ii i v : : . e of t!. ... i t-, I 1 the H '11 -e , f tl," I ma 1 a t ho r u g ii a:.,l iiid.-l mate thw I Vm H-rat i ' v, II f til- in : f n-i. T. Pa I ri f .m.i Ju !g' M.ii.P S . iri : : Ju ig' be rem.e d-h partner-:. ,p il. th- ra t. 'turned to N i i irtner-!,;p Mir.lv ii : r. . M 1 un l.-r i r:- A M- ; n i r 1 f r. -in dert-1 that if gr g 1 I 1 I . 1 I . K' tVil.d t- f r an! 1 1 1 e r a i -Lie I - i ru s-r i ngre I. at iv an 1 opinio!, el. sued ai. 1 to th I'.f tl. - 1 .1. r.pr, I'l.I tie I ridf and Triuiporutlon. New Berne is Retting in good trim f rtl..' fall trade and a Reason of un u.ual activity may be expected. Our trannp. rtation lir hare arranged for '.! .ptnekest and cheapest trangporta t: ri possible, and our merchant are buy um largely . ao that the sharp com -pe tition in trade will make New Berne a -. iry desirable plaoe to purchase goods, w !..!e our ci'tu.n buyers will use every i iTort f. r cheap freights and ineure the hihwi market price for cotton. V!th her cheHp water freights and f iihties for handling cotton, grain and other produce. New lierne ought to command a larger trade from adjoining c unties, and bs our merchants adapt tneir hu.:i;eno to the changes wrought I v ti.e navigation of the various stieame, w. i xp.ot t nee her take an advance st p in ei tnmercial emerprie. In the meautimu i.ur business men have other IranityirtHlinn ft...ilitiAfl in vImw whi(-h will ln of jjrent benefit U a rich and productive section, and materially in crease the busituss of cur city. The purchase of th lare and valuable v, j -T. the Neuse and Trent wnari property uu- ..euse am, Areunf thn . ftnr, 000 r,..r,heH K; r Steamboat Co. is a step in the riiit direction. If this company will Im-l and its resources it will in the near iuture ue aoie v. liiauuraie ;mi ' "f t- pr:-e that vill infuse new life in lliis i.t ; re s, rt i..n . I In the meantime we invito our reader- to come to see us. And when you I want to trade search the columns of the I J. i I.N il and find out w ho has gcxxls to r ,roi,at it, nomof otttt wanting to sell his goods he will let tho people kn..w through bis local paper. IH' M0CKA1 1C ( 0N(iRESSI0N AI. C0" V E'TI0'. A Harmonious Convention F. M. Simmons, Esq., Nominated by Ae clnmaticr.. W -oil AJvaiiee. The Democratic Congressional Con vention of this, the second district, as sembled nt the court house yiwterday evening at 4 o'clock. . apt. K. H . Peebles, chairman or the xecutive commit- distiict Democratic e tee. called the meeting to order, and in doinr; so made a practical, forcible speech. He referred to the fact that when the other congressional districts of the State had power and intluenoe in nominating conventions we always split up so that our strength was frit tered away. C. C. Daniels, of the .-Pi panoe, was requested to act as secretary. in motion the following committees were appointed : I'ummittec on ( clcnt iili. Craven O. II. Ouion. Lenoir A. T. HiH. ireene R. W. Taylor. Wilson Jno. E. Woodard. Kdgecombe IP T. Bynuin. Vance W. S. Parker. Northampton R. H. Stancill. Warren Capt. H. M. Collins. Jons C H. Fov. Halifax A F. Sherrin. VrmarKTif OroyinCrnfem. Craven C. Manly. I-noir A Milhell. lireune Capt. W. A. Darden. Wilson H. F. Murray. Kdgecombe W. H. l'owell. Vance W. S. Parker. Northampton W C Bower Wayno P. H. Fjaton. Jonoe J. IS. Hanks. Halifax Jno. O. Burton. I'latform. CraVen H. R. Bryan. Ienoir Robt. Rountroe. (ireene Capt. W. A. DarJen. W'ilson F. A. Woodward. F-dgecombej IVn. Gilliam. Vance W. S. Parker. Northampton H. J. Calvert. Warren Capt. B. M. Collins. Jones J. C. Parker. Hal ifax Jonafl Cohn. Bertie Not represented . While the comrn i ttees were out short spoechoe were made by Major John Hughes of New Itarna, Judge Gilliam of Tarboro, M. DeW. Stevonson, Esq . , of New Berne, and Col. H. CP Williams of Wilson. The committee wn credentials report ed, through its chairman, Mr. J. E. Woodard. Aid that every county except Bertie was represented, and that the majority rule bo adoptod. The report was adoptod. Committee on permanent organization made the following report, which waa adopted: Permanent chairman, II. F. Murray; secretaries, C. C. Daniels and W. H. Blount. Mr. Murray made a few very happy remarks upon taking the chair. 11. R. Bryan, chairman of the com mittee on platform and resolutions, made tho following report, which waa adopted without a dissenting yoice; Resolved, That we the Democracy of tho 2d congressional district, in conven tion aaeexnb led , do hereby reaffirm our devotion to the principles of the Demo cratic party aa heretofore enunciated in tho platforms of the party, both State and National, and will in the future, as in tho past, defend tho same. Reeolved, 2d, That we heartily en dorse the present system of county gov ernment, and pledge the best efforts of our party to perpetuate the same. Resolve.! 3d. That we heartily ap prove the present administration of our State and National affairs, Bnd will to the best of our ability, sustain it. Nominations for a candidate for Con gress being next in order, Maj. John Hughes, of New Berne, placed Mr. F. M. Simmons, of Craven county in nom ination. In doing so he took occasion to aay some specially good things. which want of space prevents our reproducing. The nomination w as seconded by Judge (iilliani and Jno. E. Woodard, Esq. Capt. W. A. Darden moved that the nomination be made unanimous, that P. M. Simmons be declared the nominee of the convention. Carried without a dissenting voice. Mr. Simmons being loudly called for. reeimnded in a speech which greatly pleased the convention. He urged the Democrats of the district to work earnestly, prudently and zeal-oii-ly. Sai l he expected to be elected. We r. gn t that w e are unable to give I ni r- . f his speech this week. lie will I'ar.ui". rvary county in the district, an.l . ur people w ill have an opportun ity of hearing him for themselves. Don Gilliam, l'lsq., of Tarboro, was called up r. and responded in a short speech tilled with good sense and fire. Judge Gilliam offered a resolution . lodging the Democrats of the district t. . the nominee of the convention, which was unanimously adopted. lhc following executive committee w,'i- elected Craien TP. Daniels. 1-noir A. T. Hill. I i reene W. A. Darden. Wilson F. W. Barnes. Bertie-- J. B. Martin. P lgt'combe Don GiUium, N-Ttl.ampt..n-R. B. Pe. 1.1 Warren - IP A. Foote. Jones-J. IP Banks. 1 lal ifax 1. K. G reene. iinc. t ol. W. 11. Burgwyn. It was moved and carried that the . l.-:rru iri ap oint a committee of one f r in e:t, h c unty P c operate w ith the ii-tre t ex- , utiyo committee to more .tiioroiigi.lv irganie pverv county .11 th. point I'riv. Ii-rti 1 l r- el district. Tile foii. 1 i Clement Man! y P K ( unlaw. w i ng w ere ap el'.e -Tho'. Pd IV lird- I-oii h . A . W Lstd ar. I. W nhe - James -N J Rouse -W Par P M P-ir-a W c Pirk N i r lent I'xrtlleiif. Chief of P,,, Kilo w r.teo re- of ' M v f am 1 1 v and I tl r most e X Ct'l lei, t It K . i. g '- N w Discover I r i n I i', : t:g f 11 nd 1 1 to be all in chum for it . d .--ire to tes- irti: - M v friends to w h"in -. o i 1 1 .!., i . I u praise it at ..rtii ii it v . g - N. w Pi-c viry for en- n l- guarantc.Hl to cure ugh-. I. rou,-h it i 1 1 ff. ft loll asthma, croup, and n of throat, chest and bottles free at Hancock e Parge si e ? P oo Tn .1 1 rug -t. -11 . p. THK (iRF.AT HISTORIC. iL EARTH i TAKES. The following is usucriuct r.corj of the most destructive eai tbquaken wliich have been recorded from the eighth centuiy tlown to the present time 42 Awful earthquake in Syria. Pal estine and Asia; more than SCXJ towns were destroyi . und tho loss of life -ur-paased all calculation. 1137 Catania, in Sicily, overturned and 11.000 persons buiod in the ruins. llTiS In Syria, etc.; 20.000 perished. I 126t In Cicillia "n.ooo perished . 14i"i. December '-At Naples; 4" 0C 0 perished . I 1509, Sept. 14 Constantinople; thous ; ands perished. 1331. Feb. 20 At Lisbon. 1. 000 houses . and C0.0011 persons buried in the ruins; ! several neighboring towns engulfed, j 159(i. July 2 In Japan ; several cities I made ruins and thousands perished. 1026, July 30 In Naples; 30 towns or villages ruined ; 70.000 lives lost. 1607. April 0 Raeusa ruined: 5.000 I perisnea. I 166. At Schamaki. lasted three 1.500 months; 30,000 perished. lb. 2, April 14 At Rimini ; above perished . 1G92. June 7 On the Island of Ja- maica' ""uich totally destroyed Port Royal, whose houses were engulfed 40 ! . AA,, . ... " , lf,9;i, Sept. 11 e in the Island of Sicily, which m irned "4 cities and i 'o .-es. 01 t.atania ana us i?.twi intiaDitaiits not a trace re inhabitants not i majnp 1 lost. more than 100. 0eO lives were 1703, Feb. 2 A piila. 5,000 perished. 1703. Feb. 2-Jeddo. 200.0W j. .rished. 1700. Nov. 3 In the in Italy, ruined : JapaD. ruined: A hruzzi . 1 5 000 At Algiers. 20.- i perished. ', 1"1'. May and June 000 perished. 1720. Sept. Palermo nearly de stoyed: ner.rly 0.000 lives lost. 1731, Nov. 30 Again in China, and 100. 0K people swallowed up at Pekin. 1732. Nov. 29 In Naples, etc.: 1.940 perished. 1740, Oct. 2.-Lima and Calao de molished : 1 OoO persons buried in the ruins. 1754. Sept. At Grand Cairo: half the houses and l".0vO persons swallowed up. 1755, June 7 Kaschan. N. Persia. destoved ; 40,000 perished 1755, Nov. 1--The great earthquake at Lisbon. In about eight minutes most j of tce noUHe8 anl upwards of 50,000 in- oaoiianis were swallowed up, ana tnAKij.siu. , oepi. o, ioou. whole streets buried. Tho cities ofl Throughout South Carolina the earth Colmbra. Oporto and Braga suffered ' quake shocks were felt strongly from dreadfully, and St. I'bes was wholly I the coast to the mountains. Every overturned. In Spain, a large portion : where the most exaggerated rumors of Malaga became ruins. One-half of-j were spread about the condition of Fez, in Morocco, was destroyed, and things in Charleston. The first impres- more than 12,000 Arabs perished there. About half the Island of Medeira be came waste, and 2,000 houses in the island of Mitylene, in the Archipelago, were overthrown. This awful earth quake extended 5.000 miles, even to Scotland. 1759, Oct. 30 In Syria, extended over 10,000 square miles; Baalbec de stroyed; 20.000 perished. 170 At Tauris; 15.000 houses thrown down and multitudes buried. 17S3 Feb. 5 Messina and other towns ir Italy and Sicily overthrown; thousands perished. July 23 Ezinghian. near Erze roum, destroyed, aod 5 000 persons buried in iu ruins. 1797, Feb. 4 The whole country be tween Santa F'e and Panama destroyed, inoluding Cuzoo and Quito: 40,000 peo ple buried in one second. 1805, July 20-at Frosolone, Naples; 0,000 lives lost. 1812, March 10 At Caracas: 12,000 perished. 1819, June 16 Soveral throughout India ; district of Kutch sunk : 2,000 per sons buried. 1822 Aleppo destroyed; above 20,000 perish; shocks on 10th and 13th of Au gust and 5th of September. 1829, March 16 In Spain: Murcia and numerous villages deyastated; 0,000 persons perished. 1830, May 26 and 27 Canton and neighborhood; about 6,00 perished. 1846, Feb. 14 At Ternate: the island made a waste, and thousands of lives lost. 1842, May "--At Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, which destroyed nearly two- thirds of the town; between 4.000 ad 5,000 lives wero lost. ISol, Aug. 14 In South Italy; MslB almost laid in ruins. 14,000 lives lost. 1856, March 2 At the Island of Great Sanger, one of the Moluccas: volcanic eruption and earthquake: nearly 3.000 lives lost. 1857, Sept. 10 In Calabria, Monte- murro, another town was destroyed, and about 10,000 lives lost. 1859, March 22 At Quito, about 5,000 persons killed and an immense amount of property destroyed. 1361 March 20 At Mendozr, South America, about two-thirds ot the citv and 7,000 lives lost. 1863, July 2 and 3 Manilla, Philip pine Isles ; immense destruction of prop erty: about 10,000 persons perished. Ib(s8, Aug. 13 15 The cities of Are- quipa, Iquique, Tacna, and Chencha, and many small towns in Peru and Ecuador destroyed: about 25,000 lives lost and 30,000 rendered homeless: loss of property estimated at 60,000.000. 1875, May 16-18 San Jose de Cucuta and other towns near Santander, on the boundary of Colombia, destroyed; about 14.000 lives said to be lost. 18.8, April 14 Cua, v enezuela. nearly destroyed : about 800 killed: loss about 30,000. 18S1, March Severe shocks in South Italy: much destruction and loss of life at Cassamicciola, a town in the Isle of Ischia; 289 houses destroyed, 114 lost. about 30.000 loes. March 4 , more de struction by another shock. 181. April 3 Scio the town and several villages destroyed , about 4,000 perished; much destitution ensued suc cessive shocks, beginning 1:30 p. m. lr?83, July 23 The towns of Cassamic ciola. Forio and Lacco Ameno, on the Island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, almost entirely destroyed; 1 990 lives lost, and 3.4 persons injured. 1883, Aug. 26 The Krakatoa cata clysm in Java, in August, which was the most stupendous on record. An island was shattered and sunk, and sixteen others raised their heads above the surrounding waters. Nearly 100.000 people were buried beneath volcanio debris or swept off the face of the land by the volcanic waye. The lloor of the ocean over a wide area to the southeast of Sumatra was raised into a plain above tho waters, and the effects of the gen eral upheaval were felt as far as the America coast of the Pacific. 1884-S5 A long-continued series of shocks in the Spanish peninsula, which began on December 26, ISM, and con tinued with irregular interruptions un til the middle of April, 18S5. The greatest destruction life and property was in Andalusia. Altogether 745 per son! were killed and 1,485 injured, and 17,000 buildings were more or less dam aged. 4.400 of the number being com pletely wrecked. Widespread destitu tion and sutTuring resulted from this visitation. Towards the close of Novem ber there was a renewal of the disturb ances, which extended also to the adja cent African coast. l"-?5 A seiies of shocks began in the Vale of Cashmere on May 13, and ccn- tinued at irregular intervals until the1 middle of August. The city of Serinagui ; and numt rous villages were almost j completely destroyed, thousands ofl lives were lost, pud great destitution resulted from the killing of cattle and destruction of crops. I l-?0. Augu-t 2- In the Morea and tho neighb. ring island of .ante, several villages being completely destroyed and thn hundred Pvcs 1. AP . . r ti..- country f r,. m Bo-tciiin die North. Chicago 111 the West, and N-w i ii Leu s in the South, noble re--p uses of ai 1 have been sent the -u:P r-er- at i I. .rl. -P n arid Summervoie. A it Old 1 l Urn J M. Norri-. an ( hi. . ki -. that h 1 nil ki'ii.ev -peaks. .11 res. lent . f had been hiuPy "iii pla in t I or a Mr. Koine tl . ill. great in iiiv three eai -walk and 1 w ith. ut h.-n Kl. ctr ic Pitt and fe. t w it or- and w itii eczema f--r at time could scarcely 1 tre-d many remedies It. until he began taking - and an. cuing his hands Buokleii's Arnica Salve. This treatment ..:T .riled him great reli.-f and he -trongly recommends Electric Bitters to all who sutler with kiint-y compli'-nts. or need a b! 10 '. purifier. Sold hv Hancck Bros THE RUINS OF CHARLESTON. No Further Disturbance Clearing Away the Rubbish. The latest newa from Charleston is that the people are becoming more cheerful and are beginning to clear away the rubbish on the efdewalotS and streets. The work in hand now is to relieve the immediate wants of the Buf fering, and for this purpose contribu tions are going in from all parts of the country. We give below the de scription of the ruins asgnen by the , Baltimore Sun's correspondent: 1 New York, September 4. The follow ing bulletin was posted at the office of the Western P'nion telegraph company here this morning: "'Charleston, S. C September 4th. Last night's shock has greatly impaired contidence. The slight est noise, such as tha jarring of a door, yv ill empty any house of its inhabitants. It is still very difficult to deliver tele grams, as few people can be found at their usual places. At 5 o'clock this morning the Western P'nion telegraph company succeeded in clearing up its business with all cities, for the first time since the earthquake.'' Charleston, Sept. 4. The shock last night caused great alarm on account of the condition of the nerves of the people. Those people who had ventured back under their roofs hurried into the streets, which presented for a few mo ments a? tragical an appearance as Tueedav night. But little actual harm' was done by ther shook. Two unten anted houses are reported to have fallen, together with part of the coping of the Charleston hotel. The vibration during the shock was not especially great, bat the moaning and howling sound was sufficiently alarming. Grad ually the people had come to the con viction that the shocks were at an end and the disappointment was agoniz ing. The sensation today is the falling of showers of pebbles in the lower part of ' the city. The first fall was at half past seven o'clock this morning and the second at about 11 o'clock. They appeared to fall in a slanting direction, from the south to the north. There are morals Of flint among them, and all are plainly abrad ed and worn by the action of water. Some few have sharp fractures and have evidently been recently broken. The fact of their fall vouched for by several trustworthy persons. The bulk ! of the pebbles fell in and around the AVir.v and Courier office. sion of the city itself is that the earth quake story had been greatly oyertold, but closer investigation quickly removes the thought. The city at ten o'clock at night was as quiet as a deserted village. The only sound was the rumble of the wheels of the hotel omnibus, which gave the impression in the lonely local ities through which it passed that an other tremor was coming. The gas lamps were lighted in the streets, so that the debris from the wrecked houses could be seen in gTeat piles in the nar row streets. The terror of the people still held them so strongly that very few of those who had been compelled to fly from their houses had ventured to return to them, and thousands are still encamped this Friday morning on yacant lots, in the public parks, on the battery, on the citadel green and in the . country around the suburbs. Nothing , of the sort was seen in Charleston dur ing the long-continued bombardment; attending the civil war, when the Swamp Angel sent every hour of the day and night messages of death into the devoted city. Nor in all this bom bardment; nor in the destructiveness of the great fire of 1861; nor in all the hur ricanes and cyclones to which the city is exposed by reason of its situation, was so much damage done as during the few minutes of the earthquake laat Tuesday night. The terror inspired by those few minutes will be a memory forever. My first visit was to several of the camps in the public squares at night, and again early this morning. Bed quilts, with every shade of color and every variety of fancy pattern, sheets and awnings spread over poles, consti tute the temporary shelter of these homeless people. Candles and lamps gave them light, and comforters and blankets and winter clothing preserved them from the chill September night air. Camp fires are of course not al lowed except on some of the vacant lots, where the poorer people were ob liged to do their cooking. Whites and blacks alike nocked to the security of these temporary habitations, but the larger proportion of them are colored people. Hundreds of women, with large broods of children, comprise the bulk of those reduced to the hardships of this sort of life, and the deprivation of many of them would form a pitiful story. 1 saw on the Battery a family of ele gant ladies from one of the large man sions in that neighborhood, reduced to the extremity of reposing on the park benches under an awning, their stately home in ruins just before them. In another quarter a poor mother was struggling with an infant at the breast and feeding a family of seven or eight children with braad and water under a quilt stretched over some boards, with a straw bed for all of them to sleep upon. The colored people displayed a good deal of ingenuity in devising temporary homes for themselves on some of the vacant lots which are not yet built upon since the fire of 1S61 in the lower part of the city. At the breakfast hour this morning things were as merry in some of these localities among the blacks as at a camp-meeting. Cooking was going on and food seemed to be plentiful for the time being, and the careless African nature was satisfied without caring to look beyond the present meal. Many people have been out of their houses since the eventful Tuesday night when the tumbling walls sent them half-dressed to seek safety in the open air. The number so living, however, is decreasing every hour with the subsid ence of commotion and the return of confidence. On Wednesday night the parks were full of people. Many of them were women with infants in their arms, provided with only a blanket or quilt to cover them. In Washington Park, where hundreds of people so con gregated, the terror, was intensified by the excited religious enthusiasm of the colored people, ted by several colored men who prayed and exhorted with loud and impassioned voice, driving sleep and repose from those who needed and sought ret. The religious enthusi asm waa kept up until exhaustion came to the participants. The police were not permitted to interfere. In all the excitement, however, it is creditable to the entire population that there are no reports of plundering or violence of any sort. It would be natural to expect that in a case where the whole population was forced to tlee from the houses, as on Tuesday night last, there would be plunderers, but tha police control of the city has not been lost for a single hour, notwithstanding the main station-house of the force was ! thrown in ruins about them. Careful inquiry among the authorities of the city places the total casualties by the earthquake at 30. All things con- dered. this is a very small mortality, it is remembered that some damage was done to nearly every house in town, and that three or four hundred are so very badly damaged that they will have to be nearly or quite rebuilt. -V great deal of the preservation is due to the solidity of the buildings. Charles ton has a peculiar architecture, in which thick and durable walls play an important part. It the houses were built like the most of the paper-s'uell rows of Baltimore and other cities, it would be todav a complete masr of irre trievable ruins. The Charleston Hotel, where I write this dispatch, was opened last night for the reception of newspaper guests. The house was built in 137. and covers a block of ground, with an interior court sodded with grass. There are several nundrM commodious roms in the hotel, and only twenty of them are hit for occupancy. The press gang has them all. The court-yard is covered by debris, and the rear wall of the front p.art of the quadrangle is split from the roof to the bottom. The plaster outside of the structure is peeled off. and the front cornice has piled up one or two hundred cartload- of bricks in front of ' the niniu entrance. The house is a mas sive and gloomy looking building, as solid in construction as an Egyptian temple. If it had been less strong it would have boon a heap of ruins UDder the impulso of the earthquake. The north side of the hotel is very badly wrecked, and it will cost ten or twenty thousand dollars to repair it properly. You may imagine what were the reflec tions of the tired traveler who turned out the gas and Bought refuge under the mosquito net on the reopening niht of the hotel during these 6haky times. I could give you no better example in all the city than this house affords of the earthquake shock on the architecture of the city. The Charleston Hotel has more bricks in it than you will find in any block in Baltimore, and it is as solid as a fort. Nevertheless when one lies down in it to sleep he does not know but that it will be his mausoleum be fore morning. A very large number of the houses are of wood. These stood the strain, and are safer than brick houses. Nearly all the inhabitants living in frame houses returned to their dwellings after the first night of the shock. Some of the notable buildings of the city, which were reported to have been destroyed. are not actually thrown down. The most prominent example of tl.is is the Church of St. Michael's, at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets. The spire of this colonial church was the target of the swamp angel during the bombardment by the federal forces. The clock in the spire shows that the shock which stopped its work and did the damage on the eventful night of Tuesday last came precisely at 9:55 o'clock. The hour hand is on the X of the dial and the minute hand on the XI. The time stands recorded by the earth quake itself high up above the house tops of the city. The front portico and the front wall on Meeting street are knocked a foot or more out of the per pendicular, and it is thought the spire will have to como down hefore repairs can be made. On the opposite corner tho portico of the guardhouse or chief police station is knocked into ruins. The front portico is down, and a colored woman was killed under the debris. Tho roof is crushed in and the building; is wrecked. The city hall and the old court i ouse. on the opposite corners, are not serious ly damaged. Little or no damage is done also to the splendid custom-house building, on East Bay street, nor to the old postoffice building, in front of which the salutes for the secession of Virginia were fired when the Mother of States followed South Carolina oat of the Union. The Hibernian Hall, where the secession Legislature met in 1860 after the exodus from Columbia, is I adly damaged. This is probably the solo re maining building intimately associated with the events of 1860-61 in Charleston. It was here that Anderson arranged the details of the surrender of Fort Sum p ter. The structure was built in IS 10 by the Hibernian Society of Charleston, and has a large gilded harp of Erin over the main entrance. Massive Grecian pillars supported a portico in front. These are all thrown down except one column, which stands half broken. To judge by the wav things lie, I should Sayt' e terrestrit.. waves w hich worked the present ruin moved from southeast to northwest. On the ground lie many columns, and on the roofs many chimneys, whole, just aB if they had been laid there by a careful hand. Pointing in the direction indicated, as the dispatches have frequently men tioned, the chief damage to the city is in the lower part, where it approaches the apex of an angle between the Ash ley and Cooper rivers. I walked over the battery at this extreme point early this morning and found all the splendid old Charleston homos shattered ; Reyeral of them in ruins almost beyond repair, and every one of them, more than two dozen in number, not habitable. The sea wall of the battery, running around two sides of the grounds in front of these mansions, is not cracked, and the harbor, so far as known at this time, has not been affected by the upheaval. It would take a long schedule to enu merate all of the many important pri vate dwellings involved in similar ruin, but in the most of the cases the damage is chiefly to top stories. Here and there walls are badly cracked from top to bot tom, and here and there a house is pros trated, but these are exceptional cases and not the rule. Still there are many of these. Among the houses on Broad street, west of King street, I noticed the episcopal residence of the Catholic bishop of Charleston, which is in ruins. The steeple of St. Phillip's Church is damaged, and the venerable building is a bad wreck, inside and outside. The front portico of the medical col lege is down on Queen street, and the top of the steeple of the Unitarian Church, a large structure on Archdale street, is broken off and fallen through the roof. In the midst of the earth quake, fires breaking out in several localities added to the awfulnees of the situation. In the lower part of King street a block of buildings was burned up, and many people were beggared. Capt. Dawson, of the Aews and Cour ier, tells a graphic story of Tuesday night's incidents. He lives in a massive brick mansion on Bull street, near Rut ledge street. He was in his room on the second story. The first shock was followed quickly by two others not so severe as the first. The house seemed to be turning as on a pivot. In a few seconds the air was filled with shrieks of women and children from every side in the neighborhood. Tho cries for the help of God were heartrending. Every room in Capt. Dawson's house had cracked walls. A huge tank on top of the house, used as a cistern for rain water, broke and poured a lined of water into the bedrooms below and into all the other apartments of the house. In the parlor several statues were thrown down and broken. The furni ture, picture frames and mirrors were broken. A large porch in front of the house with marble pillars was demol ished. The beautiful home was a wreck, and like it one or two hundred more equally large and elegant man sions suffered to the same or greater extent. As nearly as can be ascertained, five distinct shocks were experienced dur ing the night, each diminishing in vio lence from the first. In every part of the city the people fled frantically into the streets, fearing that they would be buried beneath their own walls. It whs in this way that many were killed who would have been spared if they had re mained within. No instance is recorded of any one meeting death indoors. The list of casualties is chiefly made up of people who wero killed by fulling chimneys, cornices, porticoes, etc., on the street, and one gentleman was killed on his own doorstep in the act f leaving his house. The case is related of a lady who was about to fly into the street, but turned to bring a little child who ran back after somethinc he want ed to take with him. She hud hardly recrossed the threshold w hen the P p of the dwelling came down and a singh ' brick struck her on the hip. doing no serious injury. The child's perversity J saved the mother's life. A lady told the writer that every lime 1 a shock came her infant, right month-! of age, clung to her ir--vctivi ly. In, many parts f the city mo street lamps were extinguished by th.e convulsion. ' In localities like Broad street and th.e lower part of the citv, where many houses were damaged, the falling of the bricks and mortar created c!. u Is of dust, and the falling plaster inside wes suffocating. It is the fathion of Charles ton to plaster or roughc at the ( utt-ide of buildings, and a great deal if tbi peeled off by the rocking of the earth I noticed that the famous old l'-u'l Pringle mansion was apparently not in jured. The walls are cracked, though a good deal of the interior postering fell, breaking some valuable old china and vases. A well in the yard threw up water during the convulsion Pke u spouting 6pring. The water brought with it a great quantity of w hite sand. Sullivan's Island, on which FVrt Moultrie is located, experienced a good deal of the shock, but no very great damage was done. At one of th- l..-t.-l u-ed as a summer re-ort by Ch e le-to-nians a dance was in pro-re--, w h'cii the earthquake ended. It is stct- i t" .v. tlie shock (in the island was a:t""d' i hv a low wailing sound. The i d 1 t ot rise, nor the tide in the citv. '.':': n is -aid some of the wharv.s on t.-e Cooper river front ar. injured. I ut n n materially. The old market-house, which oven Is from Meeting st. to the w ar r. w : s but slightly damaged. It is s:,oed 1-y ob servers who were on the str.-i t at lie critical moment that the houses and trees and spires swayed considerably, and the ground seemed to ri-e a- d fall iu harmonv with the motion. I noticed that the picturesque ruin of tha old Cir cular Church, on Meeting street, bortiad during the fire of 1831, and which it now completely covered by Ivr, cinv in for a share of damage, the shook splitting one of the walls, and tbiXHrtBf down a mass of bricks from abort tho oriole window in front. In the upper part of tba oitTonlTw very few of the houses, aay one or two to each block, show outward aigtMl of the visitation, but I doubt M an; house in the whole city entirely oaoapad In jury. Up to this morning no effort waa made to remove debris and ' olesr the streets, but today this work was aotive Iy begun. Linemen are restretehlng the telegraph and telephone wires. Bus iness generally is being resumed. The banks have been reopened. East Bay street showed a great deal of business activity. At noon hundreds of drays and wagons aie coming oat. The fire department remains encamped on publip square, where it has been, with horses, engines and firemen, ever since Tuesday night. The street oars hare resumed their trips, and confidence grows stronger every moment that the shaking is over. There will be a great deal of work for all the building trades, and at the same time a great deal of sintering among the poorer classes of people will have to be relieved. Intiie m;rtFt of their unparalleled peril those who direct public actions remain rm and show a disposition to embark ootir agpcesly into the activities of tna br seaon of trade, now rt band. Char.ee ton l-as experienced many revere- , srd has met tl t-m with unfaltering bravery. There is no disposition to flinch BOW. P may bo very safely assumed that the w reckage will be cleared away prompt ly, and that tilings will soon wear their aecustomeil loot. M otliera. Often neg'oct and delay in giving proper aUertton to their children Who have become unhealthv. ilane rmr si' K'y daughter upon the useo?B. B.B. j as n tor io and general regulator; give it tn yr weak and feeble children; pre I scribe it to your husuand and sons aa a general tonic and appetizer before breakfast, and they will never have sot use for whisky bitters. Sold in Now Berne by E. N. Duffy and E. II. Meadows. .Tf A II BIED. K. Church. Wedneailav At the e vei ing. Rev. (i. Lane to M. Sept. 1st, at 7:80 o'clock, by V. . Neal. Mr. Frederick B. Miss Laura F. Wallaa. dmichterof Mr. John W. Wallace, all of this city. A large number were present to wit ness tho ceremony, and they have the congratulations of their numerous friends, and we add those of the Journal. At Kinston, N. C, on the 2d inst, at the residence of the bride, by Bev. A. J. nires, Jacob F. Parrot to Mrs. C. 8. Moore. No cards. The JouRNALextends congratulations DIED, At his residence in this citr, at S o'clock Tuesday morning, William Col ligan, senr. In New Br:ie, C, Sept. 6lh,188o, in the POth year of her age, Mrs. Char lotto F. Jones, widow of the late Wm. II. Jones. In t! is city, Sept. 6th, of paralysis, Capt. J. AV. Fulford, aged 71 rears, 8 months and 20 days. COMMEKCIAL. DO 71 KS lie lUABKET. Seed cotto;; !?3.80. OottonEekd 810.00. TtrRFENTlirB Hard, $1.00; dip, $1.78. Tab 75c.a1.25. Oats New, 85c. in bulk. Co .-,- 5"nfi0c. Rice 75:i85. Bbrswax 15c. psr lb. Bzjcr On oot, 8c. to 8c. OorrNTEY Eaw-3 10c. ner lb. " Lpj 10c. per Jb. EaoB 12c. psr f oxen. Fberh I'obk iaCo. per pound. Pfanttts 50o. ner bushet. Fopdkb 75c.aS1.00 per hundred. Oniovs 50c. per barrel. Ftkj d Pfas 63s?Oc. HiDirs Drv, lie: green 6c. Apples 2 " cOo. per busbei. F.tArs 75c.aSl.25 per bushel. Honey S5o. per gsl. Tallow 5c. per lb. CmoKKNS Grown, 80a85c: SDriaur 20a25c. Meal 70c. per bushel. Oats 50 cts. per buBhel. Tuiwrpp rnc. per bushel. Irish Totatows $2.75 per bbl. Wool lOfiifie,. per pound. Potatoes Fr-.hamas. 25a30c.; yams, 40.-.r,ne. F "ROSENS 9ic. wkoi.m als p3ck8. New Mf.?i Vof.k ?'3 00. Stiodldmi Meat 7c. C. R.'s, F. B's. B 's and L. C 7ia. Flour f3.2oa't.P0. Lard So. by the tierce. Nails list's 10's,?2 50. 8noAR Granulated, 6c Coffee Dalle. Salt SSaOOc. per sack. MoLASPtrs and Stbcps 20a48on PowiiF.it- f i .00. Shot Drop, 81.75; buck, $3.00. F. U. HODGES, MANUFACTURER OF Cav':2, Wagons, Wheels, And Wheel Stocks, Axles, &o. Repairing done on short cotice. Work guaranteed, and prices lower for the same work than can be obtained elsewhere. A liberal discount offered to the trade. CSV!-: Mk. A TJUAIi. Queen btrect, Kinston, N. U. NEAR N CNN'S HOTEL. Sept) wlim Great Reduction ! A I it H P I so- i s, ':..( i I 1. ' I '! 'I S. V i'l ' res a t In? of Im'.ia Linen, Check Kain- 'ii. . .Vciri. 1, Egyptian and Oilea ii1 ho ulTert-d at Marveloualy Low Little Store ;Sound Corner. J. F. IVES, i!Uld:e Street, One door .':om Poiloclt. INSURE AGAINST ACCIDENT. Guaranty Mutual Acci dent Association. Policy Cariied for about $12 Yearly. P.iyr L -s 1. weekly benefits, S23. ..f Life, SO. COO. f both feet or both hands, $5,000. . f . re 'oot or one hand, 8,000. WATSON & STREET, .Iu If Agents. F. G. SIMMONS, COTTON BROKER: ii n ' ixn meiits Solicited. .1 YV. I I -.-.,! ei v A N'S. on South Front iif Green Toy A Co,' en riven to tbeaalaof : 0.-. be; 'Z d-v3m E, l & J. A. Meadows, ; i.M:ifAii Onr;r.ssion Merchants AM' P KALE It.S IN Fri--izers and Agri cultural Chemicals. a- i-pe. ni attention given to th ale ef c : I - n. 1. ? r ' i-ivnru-es made on ConilgDmmU. I rtj-rs"! r-oier Pol lock and Middle (treats ". I'nion r.i'.ut. aepl dwtf
The Semi-Weekly Sun-Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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