North Carolina Newspapers

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C. y q 2 & Iuliao aa American Uarbl'andall qaslitlea of material. Order .solicited and given prompt gaaran- tMd. O. EL ICoxxb i my agent as Klnton, a4 Alix. Fisxos regular trayeling geni. . EDITUBIA.L KOTES. "We nerer heard but one editor in North Carolina speak. It was more than twenty years ago, and he made a good average political effort co the stamp." "A Philadelphia, woman has lived five months with a broken neck." Many a woman has lived many jear with a broken heart. The Bileich Chronicle has be gan another volnme. It is a very able paper and constantl.v grow in popular lavor. A FEW more leaders like Harri- soa, Heed, Forater ana nan wonia goon pat the Republican party be yond the fear of injary. They wouldn't leave enough of it to hold a funeral over. Dallas News. Notwithstanding the original rulings of Speaker Reed, a motion to adjourn to adjourn Reed and his desperate associates to the deep obscaiity they so richly deserve ia always in order. Such a motion will bo made next Fall. Chicago Herald. Postmaster-General, Wana makeb's postal telegraph scheme, which he has been incubating so long, would, according to experts, be both vicious in theory and im practicable in practice, and is altogether characteristic of the bargain-counter statesmanship for which the pious Wanamaker is noted. Syracusa Courier. The exposure of corrupt and fraudulent methods of Ohio Repub licans which is going on at Wash ington overshadows the give and take revelations being made in a Republican quarrel in Brooklyn, which is unearthing the fact that systematic and persistent bribery and bulldozing, are customary practices among Republicans there Cleveland Plain Dealer. The bills introduced in Congress by Senator Hoar and Representa tive Wiokham are to continue the Republican gerrymander. We hardlv think they will sacceed. It is an unheard of stretch of power, interfering with the rights of the States, that will not stand a mo ment's debate. The Democrats of the Ohio legislature should go oa. They have right on their side. Pittsburg Post. In o alls may gyrate and orate, Reed may conspire, and the whole managerle of rampant Radical politicians may rant and roar and howl, but they can't block the wheels of progress in the South nor prevent the lnevitaoie. as surely as God's sunshine illumines the mountain tops, and gives verdure to the valleys, so surely will the South triumph and become the seat of empire, commercially and politically, of this Republic. Wilmington Star. To save the. Presidency, the Re publican party in 1876 left the negro (o himself, and he has been working out his own salvation and ought to be left to his own success. Northern agitation in his behalf is disingenuous a word for the darky and three woids for the party; it is claptrap and demagogy designed for use exclusively north of Mason and Dixon's line,' and with no serious purpose of taking the re sponsibility of putting the negro in command wherever the census shows numerical negro supremacy. Chicago Times. Obatoey as practiced hy our politicians between the years 1840 ond 1860 was. the remote if uot the direct cause of the Rebellion aud the long and bloody W ar that was required to suppress it. Senator Ingalls obviously thinks be can win laurels and retain his at in the Senate by resorting to the practice of the politician of thirty or forty years ago. Apparently he is frying to "fire the great heart of the North," aud by eo doing to kindle the anger of the Sonth. But it is devoutly to be hoped that he will not succeed. If no Southern Sena tor replies to him it is likely that he will make no farther effort to 'stir up sectional strife. He will be most effeotually answered by pro longed and respectful silence. The patriotic people in all portions of the land will applaud this silence by observing it themselves. Chicago Herald. The adoption of the new code of rules by a strictly partisan vote in the House ot Representatives has been the foregone conclusion of the proceedings in that body and causes no surprise. This step is more directly revolutionary than any heretofore attempted by the Republican managers, and there is no consolation in the knowledge that it relieves the minority of re' sponsibility for the unwise legisla tion which must follow, or that it fixes the burden absolutely upon the majority. The National House of Representatives is not the field for the display of party tactics, and anything which, like the new eode o( rujea, threatens the integrity of ; legislation is to be deprecated even i if its ultimate effect will be iirtnri ------- rr. . Ous to the party' which, establishes it and advantageous to the opposi tion. No greater political mistake could be made than the Repablieaa managers have made in this matter, Boston Post. EDITORIAL NOTES. Greenville Reflector has The entered upon a new volume. We can wish it no better fortune than that its patronage may be equal to its merits. The fact is, that had not Mr. Grady bad a generous and liberal people to appeal to, even his elo quence would have fallen on ears that heard not. Charlotte Chron icle. If the sun was a hollow spere the earth could be placed in the oenter of it, with the moon moving ronnd it at its mean distance of 237,000 miles, and there would still be more than 200,000 miles between the moon and the edge of the sun. New York Journal. The Republican party in this State cannot afford to drive the proposed World's Fair away fiom this city. And the people will know where to fix the responsibility if any further shilly shallying is indulged in at Albany. Having felt the temper of the public Mr, Piatt knows now the fate which awaits him. New York World, WE do not believe that it is in the power of the political aspirants of North Carolina all combined to defeat Senator Yance tor re-election to a place upon which he has re fleeted unquestioned and dis tioguishod honor. He is true to the people, and has been always faith fal to North Carolina. Wilmington Messenger. PlatT now tells his deluded followers that be has . gained more than he coateuded far in his com promise on the World's Fair bill That is to sat. he has lost his honor, four front teeth, one ear and a piece of bis noe, but he still has his collar button left and a claim on the , United States Senatorship New York World. It is not impertinent to inquire, if the tariff cannot be revised "on New England lines," what lines it eaa be revised nposT We have bad a tariff drawn upon the lines of Ohio and of Pennsylvania and the result is disastrous to the industries which, less than a generation ago, made the wealth and prosperity of these States. Boston Post. It is said that Speaker Reed has his eye on the Presidency. Just now the people of the United States have their eye on him, and will probably keep it there, but not as a possible candidate. The people of this Republic, whatever their party name, are not seeking an au tocrat as tenant for the White House. Fort Worth Gazette. A bill has been introduced in the Kentucky legislature providing for the punishment of circus men who fail to perform according to the bills. Henceforth when the flaming colored posters are posted up and the soveign Kentuckian contemplates them with ravishing delight he will know just what be is going to get when he pays bis money or that circus man will come to grief. Wilmington Star. If Vance's speech failed to make racket abroad, it is attracting much, attention at home. It is good reading for any honest, fair minded people. The Russian grip Is a small affair compared with the grip Vance has upon the people oi his native North Carolina. Long live the white haired Senator trae alike in war and in peace. Wilmington Messenger. If the Kansas farmer wants to know what is hurting him let him hanl 100 bushels of protected corn to the nearest protected market and try to trade it tor a Sanday suit of protected woollen clothing. He might thus, if he will put his reasoning apparatus in working order, discover praotically whose hand is under the biggest end of the protection cornucopia Kaosas City Times. Ohio is just now a Democratic State. She ought not to have 16 Republican Representatives in Congress to five Democratic. Abolish the gerrymander. Get rid of it right aw ay . Let M r. W i ck h a m pursue his folly. It is nothing but a ''bluff." Congress dare not pass, nor the President sign, such a measure. If they did the people would overwhelm them in their indignation. Cincinnati Enquirer. This is an age that demands that every man shall earn at least his own support. The day of the loafer and society parasite is rapidly drawing to a close. What a joy Nothing so grates upon the patience of the toiler as the sight of a man living upon the labor of others. To this leach upon the blood of others may be traced more of the uprisings of the, anarchists than anything else. Raleigh Call. Wx hear that the oyster pirate cases, returned from magistrate's court of Cmrituck county to the Sapeior Court, will be contested in the Superior Court, and the law of the last legislature be tested. It will be an. interesting trial, aQA it shoghl be 3und, that our oysters 'are not thoroughly protected, it will show us how to protect them But our idea is that the wall of protection now is "horse high, bul strong and pig tight." Elizabeth i City .Economist SOUTHERN ORATORS. There is do State in the South that has not produced popular speakers, but very lew of the States have given to the world great orators. , Orators are like comets that make their appearance at long intervals, and all men see their presence. and acknowledge It is our purpowe to write two or three articles on oratois of the South. This morning we have for our subject Orators of Alabama. Alabama has a number of living men who rank high as public speakers. The foremost of these is John T. Morgan, United States Senator. His coUeague, James L. Pagh, is a strong debater, bnt he has none of the brilliancy of Gen. Morgan. But it is of those who have "passed over the river'' that we are thinking today, and there comes up before us memories ol Edward C. Bullock, Frank W. Bowdon and William L. Yancey. Mr. Buliock was a South Caro linian by birth. Re graduated at Harvard with distinction at the age of eighteen, and immediately settled at Eufaula, Alabama. He was first an assistant school teach er, afterwards editor and lawyer. He rose rapiflly, and soon acquired a high reputation as a scholar, a lawyer and a gentleman. He was an authority in literature, and was the orator oi his day. In the winter ofl860-"61 the Confederate Con gress met in the city of Mont gomery. The Legislature was also in session Mr. Bullock being the Senator from the county of Bar boar. Mr. Davis had been elected President of the Confederacy and was on his way from Washington to Montgomery. The Legislature appointed a committee to meet Mr. Davis, on the line of Georgia and Alabama, and welcome him to the State; Mr. Bullock was chairman of that committee. The meeting took Blace on the west bank of the Chattahoochee in the presence of an immense concourse ef people. Mr Davis afterwards said that Mr. Bullock's address of welcome was the most eloquent speech he ever heard from the lips of man. "The multitude was under the magic spell of a great orator, and every sentence was cheered to the echo." Mr. Bullock, the most accom- plished gentleman we ever knew, died of lever, contracted at Pensa cola, while serving nnder General Bragg. Frank Bowdon was the Demos- thenese of the South. He seldom poke in Congress, but when he did speak it was an occasion not to be forgotten. It is said that during the delivery of his speech on the admission of Texas, Senators eft their places in the Senate and rushed to the House of Representa tives. Reporters, spell bound by resistless oratory, dropped their pencils and abandoned their posts. Senators, Representatives,reporters and spectators in the galleries stood on their feet from the begin ning to the end of his speech. As a stump speaker Frank Bow don was un approached and unap proachable. He was a Democrat, but he represented a Whig district, and the question with the Whigs was, how can we beat Bowdon! It was the custom of Bowdon to write bis speeches and memorize them ; so the Whigs decided to put up against him their ablest man, who, with the possession of other gift?, had a most remarkable memory. The idea was lor Rice to loam Bow don's speech, and on the first good occasion, when they met for joint discussion aud Bowdon had the conclusion. Rice would lead off with Howdon's speech. It was a great occasion when Sam Rice and Frank Bowdon met at Talladega. The town was full, and the woods were lull, of people. Promptly at the hour Judge Rice rose, and in his own inimitable style, com menced the delivery cf Bowdon's speech. The Whigs saw the trick and were happy, but the Demo crats were fighting mad. Frank Bowdon sat calm and collected with an occasional smile playing on his handsome face. Judge Rice sat down at the conclusion of his hour perfectly satisfied that he had taken the wind out of Bowdon's sails. Then was shown, the power of oratory. Frank Bowdon rose, and the first utterance of his lips leap ed like forked lightning from an angry cloud, and thrilled every heart. Word for word he followed Rice, and wilder aud wilder grew the multitude. Men, women and children, Whigs and Democrats joined in the applause that shook the mountains. It was Bowdon's greatest triumph. His speech ended, he turned and pointing to Rice, said, "Elect him to Congress, and I will write bis speeches for him, and then drill him like a school boy until he ean deliver, them." IJhis article being already too long remarks upon M,r. Yancey are Reserved, WILLIAM L. TANCEY. Mr. Yancey was net the equal ot Mr. Bowdon as a declaimer. but considering all the elements of ora tory he was his superior. Mr. Yancey's Congressional ca reer was a brief but brilliant one. At the very commencement he caught the eye of the nation, and Thomas Richie, then at the head of the Democratic press of the South, pronounced him ''the Chatham of America. In his speech on the admission jot Oregon, Le used language that i brought a ch;;!' nee from Thomas L. Clingman, aua the fiery South erners fought a bloodless duel in the swamps of Maryland. Mr. Yancey retired from Con gress of his own accord. In reply to the convention that renominated him he said, '-I cannot accept your nomination. I trust that I shall always be at the service of my countrymen, but I am too poor to go Congress." It was an the hustings and in conventions that the power and genius of Mr. Yancey were most signally displayed. His speeches in Congress had given him a national reputation, and at the be ginning of the Buchanan and Breckinridge campaign he was in vited by the Democratic National Committee to canvass the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. He opened his canvass in Tammany Hall, and the speech of that night indicated the line of his campaign. The oppo sition papers In the city of New York said that all Tammany was drunk; Democrats replied that Tammany was not drunk but happy. Perhaps Mr. Yancey's greatest triumph in that campaign was in the city of Boston, When the hour to begin his speech arrived the hall was closed, and a noisy, hoot ing crowd stood in front of its doors. When, at leDgth, the hall was opened, the multitude rushed in and made the building ring with aenant snouts. Mr. xancey ap pears on the platform and is greeted with a etorm of hisses. For ten minutes he stands silent while waves of passion beat upon him Now he speaks! His splendid courage stills, and the music of his voice charms the multitude. For two hours the men of Boston are spell bound, and exultant friends lift the orator to their shoulders and carry him away in triumph. No one who was present can ever forget the thrilling scenes of the Charleston Convention. The discussions in Congress of the vexed questions oi the day had inflamed popular feeling through out the Union, and when the Con vention met sectionalism was laebed into fury. The North insisted that the people of a Territory had a right to exclude slavery. The South declared that it was the duty of the Federal Government to protect slavery in the Territories. On this issue the destinies of the Union were suspended. The platform had been for two days under discussion when Caleb Cnshing, of Massachu setts, the president of the Conven tion, announced that it had been agreed that the discussion of the platform would be closed by Mr. Yancey, of Alabama, on one side and Senator Pagh, of Ohio, on the other. The announcement was re ceived with great applause. Each side seemed confident of victory. Mr. Yaneey at once appeared oa the rostrum to open the debate. His first sentence was received with tre mendous cheering. Mr. Cushing ap pealed to the Convention to preserve order. Mr. Yancey asked that in asmuch as his time was limited, he be permitted to proceed without further interruption. Order being restored, again the orator com menced his speech, and again the great ball shook with applause. Prosident Cushing rapped vigorous ly on his desk, and called out, ' Order, order !" Isaiah Reynders, of New York, leaped on the desk in front of him, and shouted, "Mr. Chairman the only way to prevent cheering is to prevent Mr. Yancey from speaking." The orator con tinued ten minntes long and ap plause burst forth in all parts of the hall. Then it was that John Coch ran, ot New York, exclaimed, "Mr Chairman don't misunderstand us; we are not applauding sentiments, we are applauding oratory." At the conclusion of Mr. Yancey's Bpeech no man could have got the ears ot the Convention. McCook, of Ohio, said, "we brought Pugh here to take Yancey's scalp, and Yancey has taken Pugh's scalp and the whole Northwest can't take it from him." Mr. Pugh rose to reply. Bat he could not speak. The Convention was in the wildest tumult. Mr. Stevens, of Oregon, then chairman of the executive committee, seeing Mr. Pugh's embarrassment, moved to adjourn, saying it was impossible for any man to speak nnder the circumstances. Whereupon the Convention adjourned. Bob IngeRjSOLL says Harrison's administration reminds him of a couple who got married aud quar relied as to whether they should have terrapin or duck for their first dinner. The husband wanted ter rapin, the wife wanted dack, and they finally compromised on cab bage. Beeoham'a Pills cure bilious and ner vous ills. XORTH CAROLINA I?EW8. From the State Papers. A site for the Prasbyterian Synodioal Orphanage haa been bought at Char lotte for 84,000. The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railway was opened for business on Monday from Wilmington to Mt. Airy, 248 miles. Raleigh Progressive Farmer: There have been seven deaths from la grippe reported in North Carolina. Four of these occurred at Oxford.- Twenty two psssenger trains arrive and depart irom urreensooro every asy. Ualeigh News and Observer: Ar rangements are pending between the several male colleges of the State for the holding of an Inter-Collegiate Ora torical contest in this city in May. It is almost settled that the contest will take place. Kinston Free Press: The Seven Springs property was sold by W. C. Fields, mortgagee, in Ooldaboro, on the 17th inst., and was purchased by J. A. Bryan, Eta., of New Berne, for S3.215. This is very valuable property and the price paid is regarded as low. Of the Baptist University, the Biblical Recorder says: "By common consent, the institution is to be of higher grade than any other Female College in the South. We have the brains, and the scholarship, and the girls, and the money to make it such, and such it must be." Wilmington Star: Seldom have we witnessed as much feeling displayed by our people, and of all conditions in life, as was exhibited in this city yester day afternoon when the startling an nouncement was made that Dr. William George Thomas was dead. Dr. Thomas was born in Lou is burg, N. C, about the year 1818, anl was seventy-two years old. Ia 1851 he made Wilmington his home aad has resided here since that time. The Divie Times says that one of the largest pair of shoes that was ever con structed for the use of mortal man is now being built for Reuben Oaither, colored, by Mocksville's shoemaker, Mr. Jas. Poplin. When Completed, this enormous structure of leather will measure 131 inches long and 5 inches in width. They are considered as No. 14. More than four pounds of leather was used in tbem, Wilmington Star: Mr. Warren O. El liott. President of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company, arrived here yesterday and made manv ac quaintances among railroad officials and citizens generally. He will make Wilmington his permanent residence some time next month. The Cham ber of Commerce of Wilmington has decided to bold a gala week in May or June to celebrate the completion of the uape rear and Yadkin Valley railroad to that city. Raleigh Correspondence of Wilming ton Messenger: Rev. T. M. Joiner has taken charge of the Northern Methodist cnurcn at Oberlin, a negro village a mile from here. He is rather a hard looking customer, as far as looks go. He arrived there Saturday and preaohed his first sermon Sunday. He wilt be remembered as the fellow who preaohed social equality and that sort of thing in Randolph county and was driven away by the indignant people. He then went to Washington, D. C. , but soon returned to Oreensboro, where he remained until be was sent to the church at Brooklyn. The negroes do not appear to have much faith in Joiner. The latter still claims to be an English man. He lives in Oberlin. near hia church. He may be very sure that the white people here have great oontemnt for him. Winston Daily: North Carolina now has sixty Young Men's Christian As sociations. These are expected to have over 200 delegates at the State Conven tion to be held at Qoldsboro on March 18th next. In his sermon last nisht. Rev. Mr. Oattis stated that there were new 240 preaohers in the North Caro lina M. E. Conference, and that the membership of the denomination (in this State) numbered about 93,000. -A gentleman named Wm. Lane was out bunting with a rifle near Walnut Cove, last week, and on returning home met with Another gentleman, when the two stopped and got into conversation. The gentleman with the gun blew his breath in tbe muzzle of his rifle whereupon the gun want off. the ball passing through his own head killing bim in stantly. Raleigh Call; Major E. G. Harrellhas returned from Morehead City, where he went on business oonnected with tbe N. C. Teaobers' Assembly and tbe Southern Educational Association. While there he arranged for a thorough renovation of the Teachers' Assembly building. He also arranged for the en tertainment of teachers, during the sessions, in both Morehead and Bean fort. It is probable (hat there will be two thousand North Carolina teachers at the next Assembly, and as for the Southern Educational Association, noti fications or attendance have been re ceived from teachers in every Northern and soutnern State, and most of the Western States These two great con ventions of teachers meeting annually at Morehead, together with the many coming educational institutions of high grade, will entitle North Carolina to tbe name of "The Eiuoational State " Let it be so. Dr. W. T. Harris, TJ. S. Uommissioner ot Education, will at-1 tend the Educational Association. Wilmington Messenger (Raleigh Cor respondence): Hon. Han n la Taylor, of Mobile, Ala., formerly of this State and an alumnus of the University of North Carolina, and the author of a great work, "Tbe Origin and Growth of the English Constitution," has received tbe degree of LL. D. from the University of Alabama.- There were 3,440 crimi nal oases triad at the spring terms of the courts in 1889, and of these SI were for capital crimes. Of the latter 4 were sentenced. It appears like a small proportion, but Attorney General David eon tells me that in most States, and perhaps countries, two per cent, is the average of such convictions. Here there was eight per cent. The summary of tbe cases at tbe fall terms, and the year's total will be given you this week. There will probably be fewer cases than at tbe spring terms. There are more crimes during tbe winter months, This is particularly the case with regard to larceny, the most com mon offence, and tbe one which puts nearly two thirds the criminals in the penitentiary. Three Incendiary Fires in Succession at Rocky Mount. RorKY Mount, Febiuary 18 Sunday night tbe cotton seed warehouse of R. D. Armstrong was burned to the ground; Monday night the large carriage estab lishment of Hackney Brothers was also burned; and tonipht, about 7 o'clock, the incendiary applied his torch to the Floral Hall building at the Fair Grounds and burned it down. There is great excitement among the eithsens here and everybody is on the alert. RA.LEIQH, Feb 20. A speoial to tbe News and Observer from Rocky Mount tonight regarding tbe negro troubles there says: Captain Henry Thorpe re ceived yesterday, through the post ofHce, a notice saying that if tbe Light Infantry were under arms last night every member would be killed sooner or later if the negroes had to shoot tbem one by one from ambush. A notice re ceived by the Farmers' Alliance said the way and the only way to stop the fires was to send a puree of three or four hundred dollars to Prof. Martin, of Petersburg. Martin is tbe negro emigration agent who was advised to leave town last week. CRIME IN K0RTH CAROLINA. Summary of Criminal Statistics of the State. The Raleigh correspondent of the Wilmington Messenger has prepared the following interesting statistics from the court record s of . the State for 1 889 : It appears from the reports, which are made under the new act for the col lection of criminal statistics, that 7.695 cases were tried in 1869. Of the crimi nals 4,409 were whites, 7 Indians and 3,279 blacks. The races, therefore, held their own in the Drooortion of crimes, as a reference to population will show. This removes tbe current opinion that there is more crime among tbe blacks. There were more crimes in the west than in the east, certainly more of what may be termed cruel crimes, as these reports show. Of the 7,65 criminals 6,841 were males and 849 females. The average of all was a trine over bo cases to each county There were 114 capital cases tried. The division of these was as follows: F6r murder, 58: rape, 18; arson, 6. and burglary, 81. There were 9 convio tions of capital offenses, divided as fol lows: Burglary. 2; arson, 1: murder, 5, and rape, 1. There were two execu tions of those convicted during this year. There were, of course, other executions during the year, of persons convicted in 1888. but who had ap pealed or been respited. Of larceny there were 1,227 case?, and of misdemeanor 6,854. The larceny cases furnish tbe bulk of the peni tentiary population. That crime is more common in tbe east. Ia the west assaults are most common. All over the State there were many cases of fornioation and adultery. Tbe defend ants were in very many cases white men and negro women; but in all the State there were only nine cases in which they were negro men and white women. Ia one case a negro bad mir ried a white woman. Both were tried for fornication and adultery, and were sent to jail, while the marriage was annulled. Of the Indians tried five were Chero kee and two Croatans. Of all the criminals tried only one was a Jew, and he was acquitted. In Warren county a negro woman, Ritta Alexan der, was tried for burglary. So far as your correspondent knows this is the only case where a woman has been tried for tflia offence. The more common crimes other than larceny, are assaults, assaults and batteries, assaults with intent to kill, fornioation and adultery, retailing liquor without license, carrying con cealed weapons, disturbing religious worship, forgery, maiming stock and cruelty to animals and malicious mis chief. Among crimes less frequent were riots, wnioB occurred in three counties, Moore, Wayne and Mitchell; escapes, gambling, secret assaults, removal of landmarks or boundaries, burning buildings, not occupied, slander, reecue, and enticing away laborers. Tbe latter was more common in the west than in the east. Among what may be termed the rare crimes were the following: Dynamiting (in Maoon and Mitchell); grave robbery (in Buncombe); highway robbery (in Catawba and Cherokee); poisoning (in Cumberland ) : selling unsound meat" (in Haywood); blackmailing (in Jones): waylaying (in Lenoir); burning church (in Lincoln); abduction (in Mecklen barb); "killing chickens',' (in Montr gomery); libel by editor (Jn Moore) ; inoest (in Wilkes end Nash); contempt (in Swain); obstructing river (in Tran sylvania) ; passing counterfeit money (in Wilkes); "prohibiting" (in Yancy). Only a few of tbe clerks reported as to lynohings. Some say there has never a lynching in their counties. Such re ports come from Chowan, Duplin, Graham, Madison, Onslow, Orange, Randolph, Swain, Wake. Brunswick. Cherokee. Cleveland, Craven, Jones, Lincoln, Stanley, Warren and Yadkin. A good many oases of escape were reported. In one case (in Jackson) the sheriff was tried for "escape, ' con victed and sentenced to be removed from offioe. The average age of criminals is about 80 years. There are a considerable number of young negro criminals, some under 13 years of age. A curious report is made by tbe olerk ot Orange court: at the spring term. 1889, a man was tried for burglary and aoquitted. Later in the year the real criminal committed suicide. The clerk of Randolph says that there has been only one execution in the history of that country. In Brunswick there has been none in twelve years. The clerk of Johnston suggests the restoration of tbe whipping post as a punishment for minor offences, while the clerk of Moore says a better execution of tbe laws is needed. There was a curious sentence in Stokes, where a white wo man, for f. and a., was sent to the peni tentiary for two years and was then to be given ten days in which to leave the State. The olerk of Warren reports that in that county there has been no execution since 1878, and that was the only one in fiftyyears. Citizens Arrested br U. S. Marshals. AUOCSTA. Ga.. Feb. 17. This morn ing, at 4 o'clock, United States Deputy Marshal Corbett, of Macon, and five deputy marshals, appeared at Sharon, Ga., and arrested during the day seven teen prominent citizens of tbe town and county, charged with intimidation against E. S. Duckworth, tbe newly ap pointed postmaster at Sharon. Ibe marshals were armed with Winchester rifles when they began making arrests, but tbey met with no resistance, and later in tbe day Marshal Corbett in structed his deputies to lay aside their guns, having been assured by those under arrest and other citizens, that tbe arrested parties would accompany them voluntarily wherever ordered. The entire party arrived in Augusta tonight, and were taken to the Arling ton hotel. They will have a hearing tomorrow before United States Com missioner Irvin Alexander. United States District Attorney Marion E. Erwin will be here to prosecute the case. The warrants are based on testi mony taken by postoffice inspectors who have been at Sharon for several days investigating the case. The Chronicle will say in tomorrow's issue: "Citizens of Sharon foolishly showed their indignation against post master Duckworth, because of tbe way in which he received his appointments While claiming to be a Democrat, he promised if appointed to support tbe Republican party. On account of his duplicity tbey burned him in f fSgy This was very silly, but tbe action of the government officials in dragging seventeen citizens from their homes is an outrage on the rights and liberties of the people. The President and Post- maetsr General should be swift to con' demn this exeroise of arbitrary power It savors of the so called light of kings rather than of a government of the people, for the people, and by the peo nle. The whole affair looks as if it was gotten up to make a little cheap politi cal capital at Washington." AuaUBT., Ga., Feb. 18. The seven teen prisoners from Sharon, brought to Augusta last night, were given a hear ing before United States Commissioner Alexander today. They are charged with unlawfully conspiring, combining and agreeing together to prevertby force, intimidation and threats, E. L. Duckworth, postmaster at Sharon, from discharging the duties of the office The prisoners were bound over in tbe sum of $600 each-to appear at tbe April term of the United States Court, to be held in August. All gave bond, and left for their homes tonight. 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