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SDN TELEGRAMS.
EARLY IHD UIDNIGHT. REPORTS.
King Humbert' Eacnpe.
Lon dok. N or.. 1 9. A corps of veterans,
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which mnffereA a. lora of two men by the
explosion of a bomb thrown into their
ranks daring the procession in Florence in
celebration of King Humberts escape from
an assassin, was similarly attacked while
returning from the funeral procession in
honor of King Victor Emanuel., The fol
lowing is 'the' Pope's congratulatory tele
gram to King ilumbert: "'. "
"Having heard of the deplorable at
tempt made against the life of your Maj
esty, I express to.yoa my extreme cooepi,
ana. j
Lat the same time my congratulations
that you have escaped this grave danger.
I pray God for the preservation of your
Majesty s health.
The Eastern Situation. .
Loudon. Nov. J 9.- Prince DondonkofT
Korsakoff, the Governor of Bulgaria; has
arrived at Odessa; on his way to Livadia, to
report upon-the state of affairs in Turkey.
A Vienna correspondent of the, Times
ithinks." in view or the fact that Prince
able.
The Bucharest newspapers publish the
nartieulara of the Russian demands, which.
if correct, materially detract fron their
significance) They teem only to ha've ask
ed the increased facilities for the intercom
munication during the term of the occupa
tion of Bulgaria. -Nevertheless, according
to the Roumdnia Libera newspaper," the
Bucharest Government has already de
clined the Kussiah proposal, declaring that
the existing, facilities are all that Russia
needs according to-the treaty of Berlin
ana uusso-itoumaman convention.
London.'Nov. 19. It is said that' the
Pasha, formerly first secretary to the Sul
tan and now Governor of the Province of
Broussa, has been recalled to Constant!
neple. and it is rumored will assume the
ministry of pablieworks. ; This is an im
nortant indication' of the sunremacv of
English influence in Turkish affairs. It is
said the Pasha was sent into a species of
, honorable exile at Broussa on account of
his friendship for Mr. Layard, the British
ambassador to Constantinople, and his
strong ii.nglish sympathies, which were so
welUcnown that be was'hick-named "the
Englishman."
Constantinople. Nov. 19. The modifi
cations made by the International Rou
maniau Commission in the Turkish projects
lor organic reforms have been accepted by
the Porte. Prominent among them is the
appointment of a permanent commission of
seven members to be elected by the Rou
manian National Assembly.
-Marine Disaster Earthquake.
Washington, Nov. 19. The signal corps
station of the highland light, coast of Mas
sachusetts, reports the rsorweeian bngr
From ashore three miles north of the sta
tion.. The crew were saved, but the vessel
and her cafiro of iron will probably be a
total loss.
The signal corp3 station at Cairo, 111.
reports as follows : "Quite a heavy earth
quake occurred here last night which last
ed one minute and ten seconds. i The shock
was first felt 51 minutes and 50 seconds
after 11 p. m. The houses were distinctly
felt to totter but no damage has as yet
been reported. Another slight shock was
felt at 5:10 this morning. The houses tot
tered from west northwest to east south
east." -
Gordon Almost, Unanimously
'" i. it w 'j . v Elected. ' : ' . :
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 19. The Senator
il election took place in the Georgia Leg
islature to-day. resulting in the almost
, unanimous election of Gen. Gordon. He
carried every vote in the Senate aud every
vote in the House with an exception of
.five, who are republicans. Strenuous ef
forts were made to organize an opposition,
but without success. No-man in the ben-
ate could be found, who would nominate
another candidate, and four of the five vot
ing against him in the House were inde-
Jendents from the Seventh Congressional
istrict. This is considered to be the
greatest political triumph ever achieved in
Georgia.
. . , ; ? The Criminal Record.
New York, Nov. .19. A Norfolk
special says : "Wm. A. Parson, employed
as cashier of the Peoples Coal Company
of this city, has absconded taking with. him
all the funds' he could get together. It is
believed he has fled the country."
English Labor Troubles.
. London, Nov. 19. Five hundred agri
cultnral laborers on a strike left Maidstone
this morning for London. There will be a
labor mass meeting at London Bridge to
morrow, followed by a parade through the
city, and to-morrow evening a meeting at
Exeter Hall.
Th Howards Need Help.
Philadelphia. Nov. 19. Mayor St ok
ly received to-day an appeal for further aid
for the Howard Association of A New Or
leans, sicrned by the President and other
officers of the society. It states that $30,-
000 dollars will yet be necessary to enable
mc Association to pay its debts and close
The Sugar Case.
Baltimore, Nov. 19. In the United
States District Court to-day the arguments
in the Demerara sugar case were concluded
and the case given to the jury, after which
the court adjourned until to-morrow, with
instructions to the jury to brinsr in a sealed
veruici h agreed upon.
The Stewart Body Outragists Com
mitted. ,
iEw Yokk, Nov. 19. Henry Whaler
and Wm. Burke, charged with stealing the
Douy of A. 1. Stewart, were ta-day com
mitted for trial.
The Ohio Grave Robbers Indicted.
, Cincinnati, Nov. 19. The Grand Jury
at Zanesville, have found bill of indict
ments against the grave robbers Lyman
H A At A TT'll . .
xasion, uapt. imiiard and Dr. Hegle. It
thought that Hilliard who is . much af-
xecwa by ms position will make a full con
fession.
tt-. i..ari .1 v :- . i
ivorsaauu nan expresircu uis uppuiium iu i plague
tne treaty oi iserun, tne appointment oi i
anoiuer as wuvernor oi uuigana is iruu- i f.f nch
TOE H XITAKV ASSOCIATION.
Opening Seioii Addresses Gov.
Ilolliday Ireide.
IUcumosI), Nov. 19. At the opening
session of the Annual Public Health As
sociation, at which one hundred members
were present, besides many members of the
medical fraternity from abroad and local
physicians and citizens. The proceedin
were opened with praver iv Kev. it.
Peterkin. . . '
i)r. Harris introduced -Gov. Hollidav as
the presiding officer of the evening'. The
Governor extended to them, in behalf oi
the city, a cordial welcome, and "said there
never had been a time when the health of
the body and mind were not. needed to
wrestle successfully with the aims and
objects of lite. lie alluded to the conven
tion as an audience of special culture, and
Bpoke of lhe Association
as one or vital
importance to public health. It is, he
said, of perpetual application, and goes
throughout every department of life and
enetrates .every pursuit. Public health
as a vast deal to do with public morals,
and immorality is the most fatal blow that
can be struck at public health. One of
the great and beneficent objects of .this
Association is to investigate causes and if
possible find remedies. This alone would
justify such a convention as the present.
Iq provide a remedy for, ueh the dreadful
that but vesterday-swept the lairest
ion of our land is a noble work, worthy
men. In conclusion, the Governor
said :
"But, gentlemen, bevond the immediate
objects of the Society, other ends will be
attained by your gathering. Coming from
every section of our common country, bring
ing your learning and culture, ,your expe
rience and earnestness, you will imbibe that
gentleness and atlection which are the very
genius of unity, and when yo-u go to your
homes, wherever .they may be, you will
carry with you that feeling of fellowship
that is stronger than political and sectional
bonds. Here, in this beautiful city, where
suffering of warfare was endured that will
never be known till the great future, when
all hearts will be revealed"; here, where
prayers will be offered that need not be
blotted, even by the tears ol the recording
angel ; here, you have come together, from
North, South, East and West, as one
brotherhood, to show by vour words and
deeds how peace hath its victories no less
renowned than war, and how we cantby
the divine instincts of pur nature umkfi our
republic one and what fche ought to be
the mother of a mighty race.."
Prof. Cabell, ot the University ol ir-
- T 11-1
ginia, followed uov. iioniuay, introducing
the president of the Association, Dr. Elisha
Harris, ot rsew; lork, whose anuaai ad
dress had been announced as the leading
feature of the evening's exercises, lie
paid an eloquent inouie to jr. iiarris as
a lifelong and zealous devotee to sanitary
studies.
Dr. Harris, after a brief introduction, in
which were recognized many laudable ob
jects contemplated by this movement, sug
gested the following modifications as prac
ticable :
1. That each State 'Board of Health
should be entitld to one seat in the Execu
tive Committee of the Assaciation. Said
member to be elected by his associates and
hold office for one year. ' ,
2. That members of State Boards of
Health be ex o fficio members of this Asso
ciation. 3. That "the ; members of the Executive
Committee annual!- elected by the Asso
ciation should be equal to the total number
of members ex officio, and that this com
mittee be henceforth the- designated coun
cil of the American Public Health Asso
ciation. I
,4. That for 4he purpose of shaping ex
pert investigation and scientific repertory
of the same, and I for further encouraging
continual research, 'there should be appro
priate committees on all sections differing
from the plan designated by the original
construction of standing committees.
5. The maintenance in each Stateand ter
ritory of a system of periodical reports,
weekly, monthly and yearly of all epidemic
and other prevalent .diseases, supervised
by the State Board of! Health, and where
there are no such boards bv resident mem
bers of the Association designated for that
I 'lit
purpose, all studies and reports to do on a
method ot yielding conquerable results.
6. The study of mctorological and at
mospheric condition with reference to epi-
dimology and health.
7. 1 he mamtainance ot a committee for
study of and consultation in regard to bi
ological and anthropological investigations,
including contributions'from census and
other national and State svstems of regis
tering. ,
8. The introduction of a clause in the
constitution of this Association to provide
for editorial and supervisory duty in the
publication and diffusion of sanitary infor
mation. ' .
9. A formal recognition of both national
and international obligations ih the work
of this Association, by means of correspon
dence with the State, National aud Inter
national sanitary authorities, and especially
to conduce to reasearches that are already
in progress in Europe in regard to pesti
lented diseases and eontajrion. viter a
brief recitation of nature, and extent of the
epidemic, Dr Harris disclaimed any inten
tion of offering a theory or expecting to
work miracles, expressing his belief, how
ever, that scientific investigation can assert
a masterv over the scourge, an opinion in
which a recent body df evidence accumulat
ed confirmed him. I he gentlemen present
had come to investigate, and the Judge,
on evidence, presented the cause of the
disease, without regard to previous theor
ies whatever of their nature. He predicted
a free and frank expression of views, and
allnded to the fact that the movement was
approved by sanitarians, jurists and legis
lators, whose object was to determine the
State and city obligation as applied to the
suppression of the causes of me pebuience
Whenever the human race is iu sucn a
situation as to lose its strength, courage,
liberty, wisdom and lofty emotions, the
Dlacrue of cholera or fever comes not
committing havoc perpetually, but turning
men to destruction, and then suddenly
ceasing. As a lost.: father speaks to his
family, and a slight epidemic to. city, so
.ai .a it a;-. i
xne pestilence speaKs to tne naiions, iu
order that greater calamities than nntime-
ly deatn Of the population may De avoid
ed. . , ."" ' ' i
A distinct - shock of an earthquake was
felt at Little Rock; Ark., last nisrht. Con
siderable excitement prevailed.
WILMHSrGTejST, N.hCv
Mr, Scharz and .Gen.
Sheridan.
Washi.voto.v, Nan 19. The Secretary
of the Interior ha wjitten to the Secretary
of War, taking earnest exceptions to the
recent reports of General Sheridan, in
which the latter mentions the Indian situa
tion -as unsatisfactory, with additional
comments upon the -management of the
Congressional appropriations by the. em
ployers of the Indian Bureau. Mr, Bc-hurz
hopes that Gen. Sheridan will communi
cate any facts in his" possession, which will
warrant the charges made by that - officer.
Mr. Schurz says he makes this request, in
the view of facts that the certain military
officers seem to have fallen into the habits
of indulging oflTidally and publshing in
general reflections n the Indian service,
without taking thfc trouble of substantia
ting them withsueh statements in detail as
would facilitate the discovery of the cor
rection of abuses. "?
SHORTER TELEGRAMS.
The Ship Mangum, from Quebec.'arrived
at London with the crew of the Brigv!V.
H.'fucker, from Bull River, abandoned at.
sea in latitude 37, longitude 32. V 'j
Joseph Geaning,,of Toronto, 'Ontario,
contractor and ex-alderman, absconded
with from $12 to $15,000, leaving . several
contracts unfinished. - j ' f
An official investigation of the navy de
partment incline, the' officials to 'believe
that the party claiming to be Buder, lost
on the Huron, is an imposter. 1'4 "
At Indianapolis, Warren Tate shot and
kiiied Win. Iove hi .the Court House late
this afternoon. Love had been a Svitness
in a case wherein Tate "is plaintiff.
The Court of Errors and Appeals at
Trenton to-day, ou motion of Geo. M. Ro
beson, fixed Monday,-25th, as a day for ar
gument for a new trial in the Hunter, mur
der case. --
LATEST MAILS.
Oil urn's Contest.
doldsboro Messenger.
The question to be determined is as to
whether the County Canvassers had the
right to throw out certain precinct returns,
because of the informalities uon which
they were rejected. These informalities
consisted in that tho poll holders were
either not sworn tit all or not sworn in con
formity of the election law. In one, Edge
combe precinct, they were sworn by a Nash
county magistrate, in another by a justice
of the Inferior Court who was not a mag
istrate, in another' by the registrar who
was no a magistrate, and in other in
stances they were not sworn at all. The
law says: "The said Judges
"of election shall attend at the places for
"which they were severally appointed,on
"the day of election, and they, together
"with the registrar for such precinct at
"township, who shall attend with the reg
' istration books, after being duty sworn
liby some justice of the peace or other
"person authorized to administer oaths,'
etc." There would seem to be no difficul
ty in interpreting this law, and the Coun
ty Canvassers no doubt construed it cor
rectly. ' - The question then arises as to the duties
and powers of the Board of Canvassers.
There is no doubt that the law confers full
powers upon the Board of Canvassers "to
open, 'estimate and canvass the returns and
niake abstracts,'.' and it became then clar
ly the duty of the canvassers to throw out
all votes not cast in conformity to law.
where such informality was brought to the
attention of the Board. That some "such a
body is necessary for the protection of the
legal voter, and as a check upon fraud
which formerly prevailed in many of the
Bepublicau counties in this State, no one
can deny; and it is clearly the intention
of- the present election law that the
County Canvassing Boards shall exercise
such authority, and their action would
seem final and conclusive, as much so as
was considered the work of the "Louisiana
Returning Board." There can be no go-
a i mi T i a
mjr behind tne returns, x ne legislature
has seen proper to lodge the power to de
cide who has or has-not been elected in the
County Canvassers.
W e have no doubt that the Canvassing
Boards of Halifax, Edgecombe and.Cra-
in rejecting illegal precinct returns,
discharged their duties in good faith and
were cuided bv an honest desire to do
justice and to guard the purity of the bal
lot box.
Inundation oi Rome.
The Tiber is still rising upon Rome
Though there is nothing so far as we know
in the atmospheric conditions under which
this inundation began to warrant the fear
that it may attain the terrible proportions
of that which overtook the Eternal City
jeight years ago, the history of
the "most
regnl ot rivers Irom
the earliest time of
which wre have any record is of a sort to
make people rearard every such demonstra
tion as formidable. Castiglione enumerates'
no fewer than thirty-six great floods oJV lhe
Tiber between the birth of Romulus "ad
the year- 1598. The picturesque Ponte
Rotto still bears witness to the fury, of the
inundation which in that yearj beginning
on the 25th of Pecember, made the Roman
Christmas a fast bf despair. Its violencejs
attested too by the hignest of the tablets af7
'fixed to the outer wall of the Church of Santa
Maria Sopra Mineral the church, by the
way.whicn was assigned to the Archbishop
of New York with his Cardinalitian title.
Yet neither in 1598 nor in" 1557; nor in
1530, all of them disastrous dates in the
municipal annals of Rome, did the waters
rage more periloxsly than in 1870. They
began to rise seriously in that year on De
cember 26th and in three days attained
their greatest height: For many days be
fore the 26th, however, the clouds had been
dense and the rainfall heavy along the
whole upper course' of the Tiber. At
midnight on the 26th a clap of thunder
shook the houses near - the Ponte St.
Angelo like an earthquake, and a pic
ture was struck by lightning over an altar
in the Vatican. During the inundation
the postoffice was closed for nearly sixty
hours, and for two nights the city was in
darkness throuirh the submersion of the
c--nrlr! and the nines. It 'was in the
midst of the desolation caused by this ca
lamity that King Victor, ' on the 31st of
December, for the first time entered the
new capital of his crowned and completed
kingdom of Italy.
WEDNESDAY,
i SllSlS
A NIGHT IN THK CELLS.
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.nauager Clair's Charges Against
Gen. Milton N. Littlrflcld.
Xo York World, 7,
The first prisoner brought before Justice
Morgan yesterday, at the Jefferson Market
Police Court, "was .Gen. Milton S. Little
field, who comes from Jacksonville, Fla.,
pnd who had been a guest of the Park
Avenue Hotel from the 12th of October to
the 9th of the present month. The pris
oner left the hotel suddenly and without
notice, and had neglected to pay his hotel
bill, amounting to $94. The arrest was
made on Friday by the private detective
attached to the hotel on a warrant issaed
by Justice Morgan on the complaint of
Mr. Henry Clair, manager of the hotel.
The" General, after leaving' the hotel,
both wrote and telegraphed that he
wauld return in a few davs and
settle his account.
He arrived
in town
for him
some days ago, and after
t put in an appearance,
the matter in tne hands
-waiting
Mr. Clair placed
of his detective.
On Friday afternoon the General was found
in the neighborhood of the Astor House.
He was allowed to enter the restaurant
and there the warrant was executed.
When arrested, he said it was his intention
to pay the claim at once, and that, in fact,
if he had not been detained he would have
paid the bill at the hotel before dark. He
was taken to Jefferson ' Market Police
Court, but the business of the dav being
over he was locked upl in one of tne cells
for the night. He had about $20 in his
possession. After midnight on Friday a
representative of the General called at the
hotel and tendered payment of the claim on
his... behalf. The . case being then before
the, -Court the offer was not accepted.
Mr. Jos. R. Stewart appeared as counsel
for the General, who was Colonel of a negro
regiment during the war. Mr. Stewart is
the gentleman recently arrested m a cun
ous suit to recover a bond of a small
amount, and, as was noted at that time,
claims to have followed Wilkes Booth
across the stage of Ford's Theatre on the
night of the assassination of President Lin
coln, and he was a notable witness or
rather was not in the Credit Mobilier in
vestigation. Yesterday he argued that his
client had no intention of committing
fraud; that he was the President of one
Florida railroad and a director of another,
and that his railway business frequently
necessitated his leaving town -very sud
denly. Mr. Stewart had met the General
some time aco. and thev Jett together m
such haste that tht? General had no oppor
tunity of going up to the hotel in question
to settle his bill. He was prepared then
to satisfy the claim, i
Mr. Clair agreed to receive the money in
payment for. his claim, and on its being
paid over, Justice Morgan dismissed the
case. r . . . .
Rose Ey tinge's Farewell.
New York World, 17.
Miss Rose Ey tinge and Mr. Cyril Searle
have been playing a two weeks' engage
ment at the Bowery theatre, which was to
conclude last evening, Miss Eytinge and
Mr. Searle playing the leading characters
iri "A Woman of the People " and "Oliver
Twist," The former play was concluded.
'Oliver Twist" was proceeded with until
the fourth act, when Mr. Searle appeared
on the stage and announced to the au
dience that the play wrould not be conclud
ed, giving as the reason thatUhe contract
under which he and Miss Evtinere were
playing had not been kept. It guaranteed
them Id per cent, oi the receipts. He ask
ed the audience to see that he received his
just dues. Mr. Maurice Pike, treasurer of
the theatre, attempted to state his side of
the question to the audience, but they
shouted him off the stage. The pantomime
of " The Schoolmaster'' was then pro
ceeded with amid groans and hwses. At
the conclusion Miss Eytinge came upon the
stage and asked the audience to give her a
'God bless you "and then to disperse quiet
ly, which was done.
Scene in a Railroad Car.
The following laughable incident is told
by a well known government office-holder
who has numerous tales, to tell of his ob
servations and experience :
"There were two seats in the car turned
so as to face each other. One was occu
pied by a lady and the other bv a China
man. Evidently, the lady did not relish
the presence ot tne Uhinaman. bhe ex
plained to him that she wanted to take
the cushions and their frames and place
them lengthwise1 across from seat to seat
John said 'all lightee,' and got out in the
aisle while she proceeded to lie down on
the bed 'thus improvised,with her head
resting on her valise. Shev supposed that
tht Chinaman would take the hint that
the ;lady wanted ?to rest in the space
usually occupied by four persons. But
John proceeded at-; ouce to crawl in and
stretched himself by her side, with his
hand on a little bundle of his own. These
i Chinese a,re an imitative race and and like
to do a3 others do, you know. The lady,
assoon assne discovered that she had a
bedfellow, got up a little wildly and start
ed for the next car, to the infinite amuse
ment of the passengers, who had been
watching the little scene with some inter
est. John took rid notice of the fun he
fcad created, but went to sleep with the
whole bed to himself.
, 1 Uriin IFumor.J
'"The New York Express, a Democratic
Tammanv organ, indulges in some .grim
humor over the recent desertion of ex-Gov
ernor -Tilden's political fortunes byMr.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York
Sun.' It quotes the climax of our New
York namesake's editorial in retiring Mr.
Tilden from the field as the presidential
candidate of any party, and adds: "Human
laniruasre can no iurther ro.; mere is
nothing now left for Mr. Tilden i but to go
and. hang himsejf. And as for-Dana, the
political renegade, -who has been in all par
ties, and cursed all the. parties hfe has ever
been in; who has made a trade of politics
in order to get money and office '; who ha3
run a republican paper owned by repub
lican stockholders and started for republi
can object on a democratic -line to make
it profitable and further his own ends; who
has played sycophant, dictator and mar-
Elot till nobody can act . with him and no
ody has confidence in him he need not
hang himself; his recent action has saved
him that trouble." , .
NOVEMBER 20, 1878.
C -f - . "WH
NOTES SOBTII C1ROLIMAX.
A wild cat has been
ton.
seen near Lincoln-
Some doga bitten by a mad dog in
Burke county are at large.
Mr. Jacob Higgs is to start a hotel in
Raleigh on the European plan.
The Mountain Island Mills, Gaston
county, make dress .ginghams.
Rev. Mr. Cohen has been conducting
protecting meetings at Windsor.
The Burle Blade reports the loss by
fire of Mr. Wm. Fullwood't dwelling house.
Linville township.
A daughter of Mr. R. T. Rhyne, of Bre
vard Station, had an arm broken, a lew
day ago, lays the Iineolnton Artrs.
The Governor has made a requisition
upon the Governor of South Carolina for,
a brace of f ngitives, escaped convicts.
The Governor has respited Robert Bos
well, Orange county, sentenced to be hang
ed on the 22d for murder, until February
7th, 1879. 7
The Messenger says Mr. Whitfield Tart,
of Sampson county, has had the misfortune
of having his hand and arm lacerated in a
cotton gin.
Charlotte Observer : If the Raleigh &
Augusta Air-Line Railroad should carry
out'the threat, with which it is credited,
of continuing its line from Hamlet to Char
lotte, it would make our sixth railroad.
Raleigh Observer : Mr. Geo. B. Enniss.
a farmer, living in St. Mary's township,
had his cash box robbed, a few days ago,
of $113. We are glad to state that he has
a clue to the perpetrator of the deed.
Aurelia M. Barr and Miss Luzetta Man-
yay were riding out, when the girths of
both saddles breaking, the young ladies
were thrown off. and sustained slight in
juries.
Mr. McCraw of Henderson recaptured
an escaped convict named Robert Leach,
last Saturday, but as he was taking him
back to the penitentiary 1 Saturday night
McCraw says the negro choked him until
he became almost unconscious, and then
got away in the darkness. This is from
the News.
The Fayetteville correspondent of the
Raleigh Observer says : During the past
week the High Court of Appeals of New
York at Albany, decided in favor of the
Western Railroad Company, the suit of
eight years' standing, against L. P. Bayne
& Co., of rew York, for the recovery of
$425,000 of the first mortgage bonds of the
Company, issued by Andrew Jackson Jones
as President in 1869 or 1870, and which he
had passed to Bayne & Co., (Chief Justice
Fearson, of our Supreme Court, in 1871,
compelled T. S. Lutterloh, of Fuyetteville,
to surrender $460,000 of the same issue
found iri his possession.) and decided as
fraudulent ana void all the . other claims
set up by Bayne & Co. as advances to An
drew Jackson Jones and T. S. Lutterloh
on account of said Company, amounting to
some $75,000. This suit had before been
decided in favor of the company by the Su
perior and Supreme Courts of New York,
which decisions are now amrmed by the
highest legal authority in the State, and
ends the matter. The SI 5,000 of bonds
given by Jones to three individuals to act
as trustees in his mortgage is still out of
the possession of the company, (making the
$900,000 issued,) but it is'presumed that
the company can take care of them.
Comment on Senator Merrimon's
Card.
Raleigh Xk$.
So that the absorbing question, Will
Senator Merrimon abide the action of the
caucus, remains unanswered, a. nasty com
parison of his card of June 1st, 1878, and
his letter in ,the Observer, as presented
below, shows that the Senator's position in
regard to the action of the caucus is un
changed :
If-the will of the
people honestly, fair
ly expressed is
against me and in
favor of another I
shall not complain.
Senator Merri
mon's card, June
1st, 1878.
All that I ask for
myself is, that the
people may express
their will and judge
ments freely and
fairly &c. Ibid.
The pledging of
caucuses, primaries
and conventions is
the bane the ruin
of party organiza
tion. Ibid.
"I am without
motive and have no
disposition now, nor
have I had at any
time in the past 1o
thwart the duly ex
pressed will of that
(Democratic) party.
According to par
ty usage the Demo
cratic members of
our Legislature have
the right in a party
sense to select and
elect the United
States Senator to be
elected by that body
in January next I
have no desire to
oppose the free ex
ercise of that party
right, nor shall I
oppose them in the
due exercise of their
power.", Senator
Merrimon's letter
to" Messrs. Up
church, and others,
Nov. 17, 1878.
NOTES MOUTH f AROLIMAX.
Reuben
was killed
miles from
rest.
Russell, a colored desperado,
rear Woods store, fourteen
Brunson's, while resisting ar-
Fourofthe witnesses in the Columbia
election leases were arrested on the 18th
for perjury and committed to jail, having
no bail. A , warrant was isssued for an
other: '1
. At Florence the Radicals indefinitely
postponed the trial of CoL Law and Messrs.
Cannon, Outlaw and the Kellys. The
prosecutor will probably be sent to the
penitent :ary for stealing tobecco.
The rote of South Carolina in the Con
gress districts by majorities is as follows :
First district 8,470, second 8,087, third
18,020. fourth 20,448, fifth 15,759 total
70,784. The AVirs and Courier saysthis
is the true majority in the State on" the
basis of the rote for Congressmen, there
being no opposition to the election of the
Democratic candidates for State offices. . -
General Beauregard is writing a book
to be called "A Narrative of the War of
I Secession." v I " 1 "
- . , . 'gSSBB
IVANIIIXCTOX.
Notes aad
General Sherman, ia conrenatiou yes
terday, expressed hi belief that Grant
would be the next republican candidate (ot
the presidency and wxmld be elected. n
thought the country was rapidly setUiar
down to the belief that Grant wasth oaly
man who could bring safety aad coat,
dence. .
Undoubtedly it is . possible Uat treats
yet to occur mar ncccsciute the meeting
or CongTess in advance of the usual time
but it is not at all nrobable. Far raanr
years the Senate haspnrariably wt imme
diately on the expiration of as Coogreaa.
Whether it will meet on the fourth of next
MhUfortheJ&ea
Ttie Pacific railroad question entered
more deeply into the congressional elec
tions in the South than has heretofore been
supposed, and in more than one district It
had much to do with determining the re
sult. It is reported here that the Hun
tington party spent money in several dis
trictsin some to defeat and others to
elect the democratic nominees.
It seems that there need be no doubt ai
to the political status of the" MIdepfid
euts" elected to Congresa from the South
ern States. So far as those from Georgia,
Alabama and Texas are concerned, it is
learned from friends that they are, if any
thing, more uncompromisingly Democratic
than the regular nominees. Had it been
otherwise they could not hare been elected;
and self-interest, if nothing elae, will
prompt them.to vote with the Democratic
majority; while as to the Greenbackert,
leaving their past political affiliations out
of the question, an -M.C remarked "men
of that stamp always gravitate toward the
majority." i
RESUWITION.
The Treasury and the Ttaaka.
The Washington Star of Saturday pub
lishes what may bo considered a sort of
semi-official declaration of. the relations of
the United States Treasury to the, Clearing
House Associations of New York and Bos
ton, and their recent action looking to re
sumption. 1 he statement considers it to
be important that the ' action of the banks
should not be confused, with the actions
and intentions of the treasury. ..The assist
ant treasurer in New York will conform
of course to the new rales of the clearing
house In1 regard to drafts, checks and bal
ances, bathe is not at all connected with
the action of the clearing 'house in re
ference to the silver dollar. That associa
tion has announced that it will only re
ceive silver dollars on special deposit, but
the Star says that "this demonetization by
banks of a legal tender of the United States
finds no favor with the Treasury Depart
ment," and it adds that "they hare leen
premature, -at least, in taking thviibcle
matter into their own hands. Ter seem
to make no allowance whatever tor any
action, the President, the Secretary of the
Treasury or Congress may take." The
Star further says of the action of the
banks:
"Before taking the matter into their own
hands and saying that a legal tender shall
not be a legal tender because it might, if
the amount of silver coined each month is
not limited, in - time become only of-value
as so much bullion, they should hare con
sidered that steps may be taken by. the gor
ernment to avoid such an evil. They take no
consideration whaterer of the probability
that the Secretary of the Treasury and the
President may recommend to Congress that
the coinage of the silver dollar be limited
to an extent which would leave no danger
of its depreciating, or that its weight be
increased so that its bullion value will be
a dollar instead of. as now, only about
eighty-five cents. It is not supposing an
improbability that, with a clear exposition
of the danger, Congress will take action to
obvite the dancer of the new dollar a vir
tual demonetizafion by the necessary legis
lation." -
It is thought that, in spite of the fact
that the people of the country are bock'
ward about taking silver, the remonetiting
act will be of material aid in. resumption.
"and it is declared in the semi-official way
that the banks, in deciding to be oblirious
of silver on and after the day fixed for re
sumption, though using at i in the mean
while to pay customs duties, not only put
themselves at war with tne silver elemeni
of the country, but in conflict with the
Treasury Departinent." .
The Wrong Done the State.
Ttlertburg Index-Appeal.
A man who believes that the control of
ih'm vast machinery of nolitical interference
and punishment is lodtred in his hands and
ought to be exercised by him for the pro
tection of sundry wronged classes incerwm
sections, is a very dangerous man ; and. the
more sincere he is the more danjrerousheiJ
and the more of a firebrand to the peace of
the Tjeonle and the law of the land. ' Mr.
Hayes' claim to hare done great things for
the South by removing the troopt from the
State capitals, will .shrink down, to rerj
small dimensions when his counter claim is
rnnRidetd that he has the power of floofr
inr ererv election wecinctW the -country
and certainly in the South with haa.
dreds of Radical deputy marshahi and toped
visors, who have limitless powers, ana wno.
on any kind of charge, can cause the arrest
nf an v nmnhpr rf citizens and State officials
i engaged in the conduct of an elections aad
hare them tried before Radical teataxai
sioners or indicted before Radical Judge 0
United States courts, to be tried by; June
ronsistincr almost always of a Radical m-
ioritr of jurors. Of the tiro erils, we be-
lire the soldiers would be tbeless. At any
rate, there is a serious wrong done the
States and the people of the State by
these wholesale arrest . on trumped-up
charges, and it is not a sufficient answer to
say that if people are innocent, iney nave
nothing to fear, no matter what tribunal
tiv AM tried hefore. " Besides, on object
of these arrest is not only to interfere with
election officers in , the discharge of their
dutiesbut to intimidate themorejgnoEan
classes of the white"people and to arouse
the blacks by the spectacle f the ettrtrol
of everythinff bf oGciais of their ewir pen-
ties, who are often reaJiyiMem
leaders in their secret orginixaiiois ,T4
Mr.lw. F. Y69T, 'of srjK-J??
thrown from his borse st the Itockjnf hsa
Urery stable and got one ? bone oT bis lers
leg broken. . - ? - - ; i
3 - Cents a Copy.
Www LiTKATi&2 Ctsrtlos. :
gpaettt lKptk to U HVU.
Wastfrsora, Xer. 16. The annul re
port of the- 8tperintendcnt of the Life
Soytef Serriet, wkkh is ia course of pr
paratioft, will be aa intercstior docm'et
The location aad construction of thirty
eTu new life-saving stations was author,
'i ' by Congress st it last session; The
sites for nearly alt these stations harebees
obtained, but in some cases the Seperm
Undent has had diCculty in obUioiar a
rood title. Sites hare been selected at
beTTr-IiIesv Motar rVsert and at
stch Hill ILrL. but no tit fc vt W
obtaioe4 t Sc4lte. MsI No new sta
tion willbetrn i New Keglaodthis
winter, bat further dows the coast build-"
mrs hare been aniintd at ninWn r
irymm ewstt5ons, -jh! crews
Jjl be placed upon them this winter.
Thirteen of these new stations are on the
V:0 North Carolina, three on the coast
of'DeUware.'ooe oa the cosit of New
Jersey and ooe oa LocglsUod. The UUl
numoer oi Ufc-ariaf statutes in operation
this winter wiU be 168. The serrfce is in
7tncxlcmditkix and has
pushed more this rear than ersr before in
tht salvation of life and property. The ,
work done upon the coast of the lakes has
been is many cases extraordiaa nr. and n i
great number of lives have been sared!
there recently.
Some Chinamen in San IWum am
greatly troubled, because, a few days ago,
when they unearthed the dead body of one
of their compatriots, intending to take it
back to the Celestial Kinrdom. nhither all
good Chinamen long to go when they die,
they found the body turned to stone.
The Lee Memorial Association. Le sine.'
ton, A a., hare made arranremeats to tar
the corner stone of the bsilding now iu ,
course of construction and dcaurned to re
ceive the recumbent figure of Geo. U. K.
Iieethe work of Ed VJ Valentine. The
ceremonies will be held in Lexieirton tm
the 28th insC at the Lee Chanel. HenaUr
R. E. Wither will deliver the address.
The committee hare issued an address in-
ntiujr. the citizens of the countv and
State to be present and participate ia the
ceremony.
IF ANY OXE WISHE -TO 1M
N Axr or a Hoe, a Rake, or a apdr,
LS fur the farm of wry klixl,
TTERE b can buy them cheap a thry air '
XX made.
ANDlRONSand Shovels. Pokers and Toner.
Obit Coeking 8tove mm! alt thattielotitr
' ''-.. '
N flnkliH stores la the Hardware lt,
LEI i A NT machine to t bop auarc fine,'
jrON'P roll of Hope, Unre hail 'of Twine !
JUTE Liltra for roar plow, and t-otlon one
too,
II ALTER for your hornr, a platol for you.
RRT Comba, Bruxbea, Patau la ev'rj hue
T the rmrnbnw't arth that vpaiui th' elbrr
blue. .
E sure to mof niter end give ate a rail,
Have a warm welcome and Uanrala for all.
N. JACOBI, No. lo South Front L
nor 19-tf WUmlnirton.
Fife! Firo!! FiroM!
TXEEP TIUC CHILDREN OUT pF IT BT
y bujlojc our Fenders ; keep them wares
by buying our Heater ; light up your rooiat
with our beantifal lamps, mh aa our Parlor
Stand, ourBilver Library and nllver Bracket. ,
Tlsve good bread by using the RoMioore Cook.
Hunters can be rare of their game .by natng
our Gone that never ml Fire, which we arw
selling at cost. .
DOT 17-11 rAM. IAILUB. .
i DcROSSETfi. NORTHROP,
FIRE AXD MABKE LOTASCS AGENTS.
TXPEEENTINa STANDARD AMER
ICAN
AND ENGLISH COMPANIES.
37 Votth Water tkree WlutlliTOif, N
octma
If YouWantjChoah Clothing,
OOD and DURABLE CLOTHINU, call at
You will Had there rafta from 17 7H to 112 00,
iv . i snd upwards.
GENTS' FURNtaniNO GOODS.
TRUNKS, VALISE8, Ac.t A-.
EyerytalnjT sept In a
t.u Wrsti-tlasi Cletniac; IWnse.
' AD we aak It an esamination of stock.
'swlMsi'-. , - .-'A 8HRIER.- -
TOnEtlT.yITHOUT BOARD
Tu
iVrh LARGE AND COMFORTABLY FUR-
tnshed BED ROOMS, tn a good iiefgunor-
aad. near the boatnees poruon oi v
City.' Convenient UM roeuwae mm
roadtDepoU. Apply at ,. .
tnotMf- J - TTIIS OFTICE.
tlOBTGAGEE'S SALE.
lZtel nSTty, tnBook
STL ' - it and S3, 1 wfll, on
dadeceKer XyoV?
touiSX K KbHe JAttion,
ningtoo, LTirHbed Piece or
I0r own. the fouowja; : f'T " rTurnl
ITr TZr Tin ihniu to the city or m u
iihaeWSyof New Hnorer,n ;
JtJTt. Irm tine of Fifth tftreet
wwUVni the eastern n " owee
SoJ rire eaat
zSfJrVttb' t oorth line of Lot No. and
SXL wS Harnett Street on hundred and,
rrTTthlrty-two feet to the eastern too of
fTftH Street, and thence tonthwardly thlrty
taree feet wtthsakt eastern ttnc of Fifth St. to
U beelnning J beinaf part of Lot No 4,
Block SJ7, Turner's pun of the City of U
TStoii. ' LUTIR VOLLERS.
mfnrton.
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