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' v " . . - : j i : , i .00 a Year: CORNELIUS HARNETT. A NATIVE SOX. If on. George Davis Adds a Word lo Col. Wheeler's Sketch. Proof that the Cape Fear Statesman was Born in North Carolina. To the Editor ofthk Sun : A perusal of Col.' Wheeler's short,' but interesting, sketch' of Cornelias Harnett in the last num ber of the Soxith'Atlaiitic has tempted me to add a word about his birth place a sub ject which Col. W. leaves just where my Chapel Hill Address! left it more than twenty years ago. Mr. Harnett was one of the really great men of the revolution, and it is much to be regretted that we do not know more of his historv. But what we Ido know is nuite enough to show that the people of WfC mington ought not to! be indifferent to anything that concerns; a character so con secrated to their remembrance by great in tellect, virtue, patriotism and pnblic ser vices. , , . i When I began the preparation of my address in 1855, I had, in common with all others, accepted the only account we had of him; viz.: That he was born 'in Eng : land, and had emigrated from thence di rectly to the Cape Fear,. But my investi gations soon satisfied me that there were two persons of the name in North Caro lina, father and son; arid it was.: then'. an effort of love to establish, if possible, that so fine a public character as our revolution ary patriot was a native born son of our State. It was known from the inscription upon his tombstone, which is still stand ing, that he was born in the year 1723, and in the absence of any direct testimony, the only way to get at the place of his birth was to ascertain where', his father resided at that time. Authentic- records estab lished that he removed to the Cape Fear in 172C, and that he was ! living in Chowan, and taking a prominent and active part in the affairs of that precinct, in ,1725; but beyond that he could not be traced. Never theless, upon a careful! consideration of all the facts to be gathered, a confident opin ion was expressed that the son was born in North Carolina, sin the precinct of Chowan. 1 The object of this note is to state that the evidence which was then wanting has since been suppliedT Four years after the address was delivered Dr. Hawks publish ed his unfinished history; and in volume 2d, page 62, he gives authentic lists of the freeholders in all the precincts of Albe marle connty in the year 1723. These lists were prepared under sanction of law, and are official.and their object undoubted ly was to ascertain who were eligible and liable to public dutyjas jurors, electors, representatives, &c. And in the list for Chbvfan precinct is found the name of Cor nelius Harnett, the elder. l imnt it may now i be accepted as an established fact that JCornelius Harnett, the younger, was a native son of North Carolina. : . ' i Mr. Harnett owned and lived at, Hilton, where he built and occupied the mansion still standing there, but considerably mod ernized and improved. I have often heard ' from the elders that so great was the love and feneration in which he was held by people of Wilmington,! that they procured a special law to be enacted, bv which he was made eligible as their borough repre sentative in the General Assembly .although he resided a mile without the borough limits. My lamented friend, Mr. Wm. A . Wright, informed me that, years ago he had seen this act, but ?I regret to say that my own researches have not enabled me to find any trace of it. It is to be hoped it may yet be discovered! by some more dili gent student of our history. Geo. Davis. GREENSBORO LETTER. Coble Cleared Personal A Queer . Swap. St Correspondence. Greensboro, NY C.,f March 10th. The trial of Daniel Coble, who was caught in the act of firing Vanstory's livery stable, last fall, came off todtfy. As was expected he was cleared of tne crime on the ground of insanity, he having been suffering for several years with a demented mind. Dr. Benbow is still j erecting handsome residences in the Southern part of the city. He believes in improvements, never tires in making them, and don't seem te teel the pressure of hard times. The Rev. Samuel jM. Smith and his lovely bride are spending a few days in our city. He very ably supplied the pulpit of the Presbvterian Church on last Sabbath evening. From here rhe goes, to his field of labor, Washington, N. C. Mr. A. II. AJderman, the junior leader of the Greensboro Band, received this morning from' the manufacturers, a beauti ful silver cornet, which will be a great ac quisition to the band, f ; In a lonely and sequestered spot in ''Henry county, Va., at 'the base of a small mountain called "Rattlesnake Hill," there lived two men, both married, who had sev eral children. XQt some cause or utueij they did not get alonglvery well with theirrmust come, to the front as the controlliu I.' x. K,i at.x had it element of the Democratic majority in tha rpHrwoMirn snnnses. Dill eacn oue hankering after . the i other's wife; and finally they proposed to make an exchange, hich was accordingly ' done, and the one lhat had the.homeliest wife received an old . shot gun as boot. Since the exchange all parties seeni to be getting along as well as anyone that never made such a queer and novel exchange. . If. H., Jr. The South unci tlie Government Xew York World. -an uu&ervuin, ocoicnraan" who "has re .- I a i ' i t a i i i cently enjoyed and improved unusual op portunities of looking behind the scenes in American politics frankly says that noth ing here seemed to him so weak, illogical and cowardly as the disposition of North ern men to dissuade Southern men from bringing forward the true feelings, wishes arid purposes of the great section which they represent into the. arena of public af fairs. He likens this disposition aptly enough to that manifested by a considera ble number of English public men towards Scotland after the suppression of the sec ond Jacobite rising in the last century, Had such men been allowed to control the policy of Great Britain the llighlandregi ments which the Great Commoner boldly burled uuder the Union flag against the veterans of France would never have been summoned into the field, and the Seven Years' War would have ended in disaster and not in triumph for the British arms all over the world. The stalwarts oi the republican party never speak of the Southern people .excepting as one might sneak of , a erijrantic were wolf panting to feed on the flesh of babes and sucklings, and too mariv Northern Democrats even are given o whispering it about that' it will never do to elect South ern Democrats to high national offices lest the Northern people should ba frightened batk into. the arms of Grant and Babcock, and the election ot a Democratic President be thus; prevented in 1880.- In the House of Representatives which is to assemble on Tuesday next the Southern Democrats will number no less than 100 out ot 4he 148 Democrats elected to that bod V, and yet there are Northern Democrats who venture openly to assert that a Speaker cannot be safely taken from a body constituting two- thirds of the whole Democratic representa tion ! We shall not now consider this matter with any reference to the personal qualifications or pretensions of any partic ular candidate for the Speakership. But looking at it simplv and solely in its national aspects and from the point of view from which an intelligent foreigner would contemplate it, it would certainly be a most unique exhibition of selt-abase-ment end self-stultification if one hundred Southern Democratic members of the American House of Representatives should present themselves betore less than half their number pi xsorthein Democrats, like the burghers of Calais, on bended knees with ropes about their necks, confess their unworthiness to be honored or trusted and entreat their Northern fellow-members' to order the House and all its business in the light of their own superior wisdom and patriotism. Any Northern Democrat who thinks the Southern Democrats OHght thus to disport themselves simply admits that the Democratic party ought not tp have been called under the Constitution to control the legislation of the land. General Grant is currently reported to have said that if the. Democrats are left to themselves they will kill the Democratic party. The same thing used to be said of the Whigs after the Democrats had for so many con secutive years monopolized the National Government. It was just as true and just as false of the Whigs then as it is of the Democrats now, and 'for the very same reasons. The Democratic party had no training whatever in the responsibilities of national government from 1860 to 1875. in 1875 the House alone passed under Democratic control. Next Tuesday the Senate also will come under Democratic control after eighteen years of unshaken Republican supremacy, ", No .doubt the Democracy, from pure inexperience in ad ministration, may blunder, as the English Conservatives did when the Liberal nomi nation in England began to break down, and as the Republicans in-our own country did when they came into power first in 1861. Of the Democratie -members who will organize the House and the Senate a week from to-day many are ncw to Federal affairs and strangers one tto another, and it will be a work oi sonfe little time, for them to get into their natural relations as a political body. No doubt immature and unwise projects will be brought forward. Even so experienced a politician as Sena tor Blaine has not yet got himself thoroughly shaken into his slides since he left the familiar ground of the House for the unfamiliar ground of the Senate. But immature and unwise proiects will be worked-;off in thehatural formation of debate, and the candid, courageous people of the North who ' are not politicians will agree with us, we suspect, iriv thinking that the capacity of the sec tions to work together systematically and freely may as well be tested now, since sooner or later the test must come. The real "convictions and inner mind of the Southern States in particular onght to be clearly, sustained, and may as well be as certained now. The country can certain ly bear the experiment this year quite as well as ever can. If the Southern States are bent on makiug war against the North ern States under the form of legislation, as the Republican stalwarts allege, let the j country be satisfied of this as soon as pos sible. Let hs see where we stand before the Presidential electron of 1880. If the South in Congress can withdraw the heavy and mailed pressure of the General Government from the several States and set the States free henceforth to manage their own elections in their own way, as they did before 1870, without working in jury to any race or class or section or in terest, a great burden of anxiety will be lifted; from the public mind. Possi bly new' legislation may be found necessary to protect either the Chi nese in the Pacific States or the Africans in the Southern States oi natur alized voters in the Northern States. If this proves so to be, the necessary legisla tion can be speedily had when it is called for.. Say what we of the North will, the ,time has come when the South must be freely trusted, and recognized as trusted, with the power which lawfully belongs to it under the Constitution in Congress, and the 100 Southern- members of the House Till Good government cannot be estab lished and maintained among men by sys tematic deception and humbugery and by cowardly suppressions of the real charac ter and wishes of the people of any sec tion. The people of the North need to see, and as soon as possible, what the in telligent and influential people of the South, as represented in Congress, are ac tually bent on getting into-our national WILMINGTON, N. policy. The no-party element of the na tion, that large element which is the fringe of both parties, and which rarely or never decides till a day or two before an election with which party it will act, must, bear in mind that the Demo cratic party is a State-rights party. All Democrats, Northern and Southern, who are really Democrats believe that while the National Go-vornment is called to direct our foreign afiairs and to regulate a limited and specified number of Federal con cerns, "it ought in all things elce, like the British sovereign, to reign and not to gov ern. Democrats look to the State govern ments, in the chief part of the affairs of life, for protection to life, liberty and pro perty. And when Southern Democrats en deavor to bring the Federal Government back to the teachings and the practice of Sefferson, it concerns the permanent wel fare of the republic that they should have fair play and be judged by their proper work openly done in their way and out of leading-strings. Seuator Hampton's Condition His Views on Prominent Questions. A Charleston (S. C.) dispatch states that tha only visible trace'of suffering Senator Wade Hampton has undergone since his accident is a slight increase in the gray in his whiskers. His general health is excellent, except that the change from his former active out-of-door iife to the necessary confinement of the past three months has developed" dyspepsia, which causes him the loss of mucn sleep. His leg still gives him great trouble and fre quently intense pain, the end of the re maining portion of the bone being dead. The physicians are waiting to allow this an opportunity to coming off itself, but should it fail to do so during the next month it will probably have to be am putated. Senator Hampton, who is now recruit ing his health at the Lowndes plantation Colleton county, S. C, in an interview with a correspondent Sunday last, said he was as yet uncertain whether he will be in Washington at the extra session, al though, he would go if he possible could and his doctors would allow it. In case the business was particularly important he will go anyhow. In reply to a question as to his opinion concerning the action of the House in refusing to pass the appro priation bills, he replied that he thought the House was right. He would favor Congress sitting forever if necessary before it receded an inch from its position. He did not think Mr. Hayes would have a right to opposejthe amendments if Congress continued to urge them, as such action wouid show that they were the will of the people. On the Chinese question he ex pressed the opinion that Mr. Hayes's ac tion was right. In the first' place, he did not think Congress had the power to ab rogate a portion of a treaty. He thought that body wrong in yielding to the clamor irom California. Jeu. Gordon's Reply. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has written a letter in reply to the late letter of the wife of Representative Felton, of that State, in which several private business transactions of- the Senator were severely commented upon. Senator Gordon de clines to recognize Mrs. Felton in the con troversy, but addresses his reply to her husband, who is charged with being the real author of the attack. The defense of Senator Gordon's strong and spirited, and he challenges the most thorough scru tiny into all his acts, whether as a public man or a private citizen satisfied that nothing derogatory to his character can be exhumed. - aV- -awM The Walking Match. New York, March 12. At 20 minutes past 10 o'clock this morning, the scores of the pedestrians were as follows : Kowell 231 miles and 4 laps : Harriman, 215 and 2 laps ; Ennis, 201 and 2 laps ; 0'Leary4 197 and 5 laps. At 11 a. m. the score was, Rowell, 235 miles and 3 laps ; Harriman, 219 miles Ennis, 205 miles ; O'Leary 201 miles. By advice of his physician O'Leary has lelt the tract not to return again. U .L.eary lett tee tract at 6a lm bus, on his 215th mile. He returned again at 5h. 35m 3s, and walked 1 lap and retired from the contest at 5h 37m, having walked 215 miles, 6 laps and 110 yards. As he left the track, ne simply remarked to the scorer, "I'm off." He was 'very sick, and was immediately driven to the Metropoh- tan Hotel. Shorter Telegrams. The town elections in New Jersey show Republican gains. The coroner's iurv rendered a verdict that the killing of Alston by Cox, at At lanta, !Ga., was wilful and premeditated murder. Cox is in jail to await trial. At a meeting of theBoard of Directors of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Com pany,-held at New York yesterday, Gen Eckert tendered his resignation 1 as Presi dent and Trustee of the Company. On motion it was laid on the table, and he was earnestly requested to withdraw it He declined, however, to reconsider his action, and withdrew from the position of President of the Company to-day. California Republicans so Back on Hayes. Sax Francisco, March 12. At a large Republican mass meeting,' held here last night, the sentiments endorsed were that while crediting the President with the honesty of purpose in vetoing the Chinese bill, his action did not represent the views of the Republican party in California, and the party declined the responsibility ipereior. Charlotte Observer : Some States have provisions that if a judge is too unwell to hold his court, at a time when all other judges of the State are engaged with theirs.it shall be the duty of the Governor, upon receipt of proper notification, to ap point some competent lawyer of his or an adjoining district to ride the circuit 'until the judge shall be able to resume his seat upon the berifch. Such a provision as this in our laws would be just and is desirable, since it would prevent the locking up of the bourts. and would not only expedite the administration of justice but gave heavy costs to the people. THURSDAY, SUN TELEGRAMS. EARLY AND MIDNIGHT REPORTS. OVER THE CABLE. The Old WorWs Xews." Loxdox, March 12. A dispatch to the Daily News from Szegedin this; (Wednes day) morning at 8 o'clock says!: After a fearful night of anxiety all the efforts are useless, the water broke through with resistless force at 3 o'clock,! carrying away part of the railway station embank ment and rolling stock within. The houses in town was many feet deepen water. Terrible suffering is commencing and shrieks and cries from thousands afe heard. Houses are crashing in by the score and in many cases carrying their inmates with them. God knows what we ' shall do to night. There is no gas, the works being 15 feet in water. I fear we shall run short of food. One boat was just going to save a large house full'4 of people when there came a fearful crash, and carried with it the whole living freight. The! scene is simply heart rending. Over 80,000 peo ple are out of houses and home. Hundreds are drowning and the water is still rising very rapidly. i The Duke of Edinburgh will take the place of Prince Leopold, who-; is ill at jjarmstaat, as tne lmse oi uonnaugnts second suppoiter at the royal wedding to morrow. ! . , The Times' Paris correspondent tele graphs as follows : "A number of the Deputies of the Left will, of course, only vote against the impeachment, on condi tion that its rejection shall be effected by passingan order of day so couched that no member of the Right could agree to it. A very large majority will certainly sup port such an order of the day. j Ihe condition ot Butt is lavoirable and hopeful. 1 Ihe question ot further reduction in the wages of cotton operatives, in Northeast Lancashire, is under serious consideration. The Padiham masters met Monday and agreed to reduce the wages alii roundJ if two-thirds of the Blackburn masters did the same. " The Preston and Blackburn masters will meet to-day. The majority iof the Blackburn masters is said to: favor the reduction. The Operatives' Association, will oppose it vigorously. According ;to the feeling 'on both sides, a further strike is probable. The Standard's correspondent at Paris says : "The impeachment motion is likeily to have a result which its authors do not contemplate, viz : The beginning of a cru sade to put down noisy demagogues who aim at rendering the government impossi ble under every regime, and who j are now adopting against the Republic manoeuvres to which they resorted to against the Em pire and monarchy of July. The feeling of irritation is general throughout the country against these mischievous fanat ics who whenever things happen to be set tling down andthe Chambers seems on a point of directing their attention to the business of the nation, and start Ian inter- plation or defamatory attack against some os the ministers or a motion for the im peaenment oi a iormer minister or a reso-J lution for the rehabitation of the commit tee. Ihe time and temper of the country as well as of the House require the protec tion against the incendiaries, and if the government shrinks from taking; the meas ures to render them inocuous the country will get tired of the" government. The unanimous outcry is, "we have had too much of all this, we want to be let alone, and have no more playing at ! the 1793 committee of pnblic safety and the reign of terror." The Republican papers which support the impeachment are The Rappel, The Kevolutian b rancais, The Marseil- lais, The Lanterne, The Petite Pariden, The Evenement and The Petite Republi- que r rcpicaise. those which oppose jit are, l lie lempsa, lie&eide, The resse, The Liberie, The National, The Digc. The Times Paris correspondent says : ''The orders of to-day stating the impeach ment scheme in order to securei the sup port of the majority of the Republic must be crouched in such terms that DeBroglie and Rochebonet cabinets whiles escaping the judgment of any of the formal tribunal will be none the less condemed,) Such an order of the day, though the right could not. vote for it, would receive the support of a large majority of the Republica and would be adopted. Such will doubtless be the issue of the debate. i -On the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Connaught to Princess Louisa Margaret, of Prussia, the corps of gentle man at arms will be entrusted with the es cort of the procession, and with! duty in side the St. George's Chapel andi the State apartments of the castle. . j ; The Duke of Connaught's Guard of Honor will consist of officers, rans and file, selected from his own battalion of Rifle Brigade, three hundred of the Metropolitan Eolice, are detailed with the Royal house old police for the raaintanancei of good order. j t All morning now worn for the Princess Aliqe, will be laid aside on Thursday, to be resumed on Friday, except by the Queen and her ladies in waiting, jwho wear black. The extra preparations in St. George Chapel consist of temporary galle ries, North and South of the" naive for the spectators, a tribune for the representatives of the press, another for extra choristers and musicians, and a high dais for royalty before the altar: Broad alleinations of blue and white bunting in festoons line the passage by which the Queen isto enter. Then comes a crimson . bordered pathway with ornamentations of blue and gold fringed with bullion. The J Rutland and Bray chapels off the north and south aisles are fitted up as retiring -rooms. In Windsor Castle the stair case and state entrance are ornamented withj flowers, pahos, terns anu shrubs, l ne great cor ridor communicating with the ( Queen's private apartments is richly decked with flowers. By Tuesday night every room in the Castle was occupied. St.' I George's Hall will present a erorffeous .spectacle on Thursday. There the great bodyi of guests will partake of refreshments while tne royal party breakfasts in the diciings room. At either end of the hall will b$ piacea a mafimificent hnffett.. on which will be a part of that gold plate in which W indsor Castle is said to be richer than any other royal residence in the world, and the long narrow passage will be! lighted up with a blaze ot color from the rpbes, MARCH 13, 1879. uniforms and decorations. The town of Windsor will de decorated during the day and illuminated at night. The music at the ceremony will be rendered by 70 chor isters including a selection from the Queens private hand. The music will consist of a march forHandels, "Hercules" mendelrsohns march from "Athalie" and Handel's "occasional overture." Rome, March 12. The Vatican organ, Voce delta Venita, gives great pominence to the following: Several Liberal papers have reiterated the statement that the Pope, in consequence of the pressure of Cardinal Manning on the Frencn Bishops, has ranged himself behind the non-pos-sumus and vindication of temporal power. We are able to most decidedly contra dict this fiction. The Pope in no other way than did his predecessor, has pro tested, and will protest until such provi sions are made as right and reason require for the dignity and liberty of the holy see. Pesth, March 12. The greatest excite ment is caused here by the Szegedin disas ter, but as preparations were made before band, it is hoped that no serious los3 of life has occurred. 12 M. The synagogue has fallen in, burying numbers of people who had sought refuge in it. P. M. The latest telegrams announce that the flood, with terrific roar, ismshing frcm two sides over Szegedin. The hor rors of the situation baffle all description. The town is, in fact, destroyed. Two thirds of it are now submerged, including the citadel and the post and telegraph offices. Whole raws of houses are falling. The orphanage and synagogue are de stroyed. All the inmates of the former were buried in the rums. Two manufac tories are on fire. The inhabitants are flying to New Szegedin and the more elevated parts of the town. The munici pality of Pesth is making every effort to send assistance to Szegedin. Two relief trains have already started, and the accommodations for the fugitives have been provided in the barracks and public buildings of Pesth. London, March 12. An official tele gram dated Pesth 6:30 p. m., just received confirms the report of the terrible aspect of the town and the destitution in hun dreds of houses. It states "that the re moval of the inhabitants is proceeding without disorder. So far only 4 corpses have been found. The dams are being cut in several places to allow the water to run off. No excesses are reported, but precau tions have been taken for the protection of the property. Paris, March 12. The Committee of Inquiry on the acts of the Ministry of the 16th of May, met again to-day to receive a communication of a very important docu ment which had been addressed to its President.! It is reported that during the debate in the Chamber of Deputies to morrow, M. Louis Blanc will make a startling revelation. The debate will probably proceed as followi: M. Leon Renault will combat the Committee's con clusions. M. Waddington, President of the. Ministry, will explain why the gov ernment opposes the impeachment of MM. Brisson and Madier de Montjar. Louis Blanc and Lockroy will support the im peachment. M. Levoyer, Minister of Jus tice, will make the matter a Cabinet question. It is believed that none of , the Ministers of the 16th of May will speak, and probably none will ever attend the sitting. The new Prefect Police, M. Andrieux, has decided to suppress the detective corps, known as the "Political Brigade." Fatal Accident at Gilmore's Gar den. New York, March, 12. A panic oc curred at Gilmore's Garden at 8:25 p. ra A section of temporary boxes, about 45 feet long and 20 feet deep on the southeast corner of the Garden fell in, owing to be ing overcrowded, and nearly a dozen per sons were injured, one man fatally. Sev eral women were among the crowd. LATER.' An accident occurred at Gilmore' s Gar den to-night, causing a panic and terrible excitement. At 823 o'clock while there were nearly 19,000 'people in the building, a crash and roar was heard and a long section oi the upper gallery on the south noor ot the building snddenly sank down ward, with; a mass of living struggling humanity on it. i hen a course of shrieks prayers and curses. A panic ensued and men rushed wildly and frantically around A rushed was made for doors and a cry of nre rang out. lne scene that followed beggars description and for a time it looked as if numbers of lives would be lost. Some men endeavored to stop :the panic by shouting out that there was no dan ger. In lessthan ten seconds every window in the building was smashed open, and many dozens of persons jumped out, and went home quickly as possible. When the accident occurred Rowell. Harriman and Ennis, were all on the track', and remained there at the urgent request of parties who were trying to stop the panic, when it was found that the building was not on fire and that only a portion of the gallery had fallen. The panic then subsided. WASHINGTON. General News and Xotes. Washington, March 12.r The Treasury made another call for five-twenties to-day. the amount a?srreeratinsr seven millions of coupon and three million registered bonds Dr. Wobdworth, Surgeon-General of the united btates Kevenue Marine bervice, is dangerously ill. There is very little hope of his recovery. An Illinois Ilnrriemne. St. Louis, March, 12. -Information has" reached here that a violent wind storm, amounting almost to a tornado, passed oyer the southern portion of Macaussin county, III., yesterday, destroying houses and barnes and other property. Frm Xoaisianav. Nkw Om.baj.-s, March 12.r The Bonnie Lee, with eleTen hundred and fiaty bales of cotton, sank in the Red River to-day. A wrecking boat has gone to her assist ance. The jury in the Caddo case were unable to agree, "and have been discharged by Judge Woods. THE LEGISLATURE. RESUME OF PROCEEDINGS. What Was Done Tuesday. Raleigh News, Shortened. SENATE. The Senate refused to concur in the House amendments to the salary and fee bill, a Committee of Conference was pro posed and Messrs. Henderson, Scales and black were namea as tne Senate branch thereof. The following Senate bills passed their several readings or were otherwise disposed of as indicated : To regulate the pilotage for the bar of Ocracoke Inlet and over the wash. The bill to amend the constitution so as to confine the Institution for the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind, and the Asylum for the Insane, to the care of indigent per sons was .discussed at some length, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. Subsequently the committee reported their failure to agree as to the words may and shall, and the bill went to the calendar. Bill to authorize the levying of a spe cial tax to enable Wilmington township, New Hanover county, to levy a tax to pay its debts. , The following engrossed bills passed their several readings, or were otherwise disposed of, as indicated: To authorize the commissioners of Madison-to ascertain and settle county debt. ine Din m regard to the removal of civil causes for triarfrom the State Courts to the Circuit Courts of the United States was passed. Bill to prevent tramps from trespassing or uepreaaiing on cuizens ot this State, passed without amendment Bill making persons inelligible to sit on juries woo nave servea on a grand or petit jury within two years. This bill was tabled, but afterwards, on motion of Mr Snow, the matter was reconsidered, and on an explanation .that its purpose was to get nu oi me cnronic or proiessionai juror, tne Din passed almost unanimously. 5iii lor the speedy trial of criminals. Bill' to regulate Fire Insurance Conv panies in State was discussed. . On motion of Mr. Alexander, the bill was referred to the Judiciary committee 1 he following bills passed their several readings in the Senate on Monday night or were otherwise disposed of as indidated : House bill to amend the acts relative to the Grand Falls Manufacturing Company of Rockingham. j House pill to amend the act incorporat ing ine town pt venansviile, .in Duplin county. House bill requiring: town and city col lectors of taxes and fines to make monthly reports. House bill to (prevent obstruction in Rockfish and other streams, in Dublin county. ; House bill to incorporate the. Champion Compress Company. benate bill to authorize the Commission ers of Brunswick to levy a special tax. House bill to pay on the indebtedness of the Insane Asylum. House bill to empower the estern North Carolina Railroad Company to make terms with the Chester Narrow Gauge Company. v HOUSE. The Senate substitute for the bid for support of the Penitentiary for 18T9-'80, was read, allowing $90,000 sor this pur pose, $11,000 for the W. C N. Railroad, $30,000 for the Penitentiary, and $18,000 for the Cape Fear fc Yadkin Valley Rail road. The Governor to appoint a Board of five Directors, to hold office for four years, to receive $250 per annum. Mr. Morinsr moved to amend by making the sum allowed to the Cape Fear & Yad kin Valley Railroad $20,000, as in the House bill, which, was adopted. Mr. English offered an amendment to make the aljewanee for the W. N. C. Rail road $40,000. Adopted. Mr. Carter, of Buncombe, opposed this amendment, while Messrs. English. The amendment was adopted. Mr. Coffield moved to amend by making the allowance for the penitentiary $35,000 saying the $30,000 was insufficient. Mr. Coffield's amendment was put to a vote and lost. Mr. Mebane offered an amendment to that part of the bill as to the appointmont of Directots so that the present Board would not be displaced, which was adopted. The bill as amended then passea. Bill to amend the law relative to the running Sunday trains, by providing that trains which started on through trips on Saturday may run on Sunday until 9 a. m. to reach their shops, and also permitting the running of trains with U. S. mail, or trains with U.- S. mail and passengers. Mr. McGehee moved to reconsider the vdte by which the bill taking away the allowance of outside lunatics, failed to pass the House yesterday. The bill was then put upon its second reading, and the yeas and nays being de manded, it passed yeas 50, nays 44. Bill to incorporate Contentnea Lodge, No. 96 I. O. O. F., at Toisnot. Wilson countv, passed. f . t Bill to allow the Mayor and' Board of Alderman of Wilmington to issue $200,000 six per cent, bonds, to take up the floating debt, passed. . , Tim n inni-nnriiti the Rockingham and Salisbury R. R. Co., came up as a special ... Tha wrf nf a maioritv of the Judiciary Committee in the contested election case of J K Brooks vs. Meares. from BrunswicK county, was read. It gives an xneiacis . . : , ,i r a oiiVitPd nreapntini? a. mass of testimony in the report of lu pnmmit.tpp JRbsolved, .That J. II. Brooks is the man entitled to a seat on this floor from d not A. O. Afimrpa the sittinc member. TTrvrtn mniinn nfMr. Normcnt the reso lution was taken ip. , . Mr. Etheridge, that the entire testi mony and report be printed, which was urged by Mr. Richardson, of Columbus, who said the matter was argued before the courts,' but the decision has not yet been rendered. The motioB to print was put to a vote and lost. . , The question recurred upon the adop tion of the resolution. wbichr together with the vnlnminmw feetimonV. was read and adopted. S'Centsa Copy DIED. POTTEK At Smittxrilla V. rwv i' - uavid Sprunt, on of Capt. W. J. Potter, aged jcis nii o rnontlis. As the sweet flower that scenU the morn But withers in the rising day, Thus lovely was this infant's dan, Thus swiftly passed it life away. C. A. .II. Wimted. VO ROOMS iu a PRIVATE RESIDENCE aiso Kitchen room. Central locality a i ... pre- fi'rred. Address, through postoffiec, match 13-1 1 . BUSINESS. Just Arrived. Tha T FINE LOT OF BEEF BOUGHT BY Walter R. Bryant will be sold bv J. R. MELTON, AT M). 8 SECOND STREET MARKET. At the v. l.UWKST PRICES. th market rin Iossibly afford. I invite gentlemen ami ladies to give me a call and examine for themselves. . march Vi-t J. K. MELTON, Prop'r. KJNlv OF THE MCWT I M PORTA NU DISCOVERIES ol . the nineteenth century, aud one thatJ takes equal rank with the invention of thri telephone, the electric light and other sclen unc marvels of the ace, is that M tlUMKl'S CARBOLIC SALVE1 mis compound assesses the most re I raarkable healing properties of any known agent employed forthe purpose of curine SORES, WOUXDS, CUfS, BRUISES, mnameti and abraded surfaces, and for ALL SKIN DISEASES. Its cleansing properties remove all lm-f uiesh, and the work of cure goes on to com-l purines wiaimnaer ine iormauonoi neaiinvi pietiou with most WoNDEiiruL Kafidjtt. Let no family be without a box of It in th house. Physicians extol its virtues; and the thousands who have used it, unite in reeomJ mending it. Beware of counterfeits. Ask for Henry's Carbolic Salve; aiufi take ito other. JOHN F. HENRY, CURRAN A CO., Side Proprietors mh 13-1 w 8 College Place, N . Y. howell conn. c. d. M. conrt PURCELL HOUSE, WILMINGTON, N. C. . RECENTLY THOROUGHLY O VE It hauled and renovated. FIRST-CLASS in every respect. Location desirable, being; situated near all business houses Postolllce, Custom House, City Hall and Court Ilouse. RATES. 2 and f 2.50 per Day. Our motto is TO PLEASE! COBB BROS. ; nih 9-tf Proprietors ; Huntly House, WADESllOHO, N. C. Situated in the business portion. of town, offers special inducement to Sum mer visitors and commercial travellers. Nicely furnished rooms, good fare, polite sen-ants. DAILY CHERAW STAGE. Our daily stage line is now in full operation. Persons desiring to return to Wilmington by way of Cheraw and Florence can do so at low rates. , Close connection made whMi the up and down trains on the C . C. Railway. A ddress, decll-tf . G. W. HUNTLY, Wadeeboro. STANDARD GOODS ! AND THE Lowest Prices in the State, AT ; ; -j- GEORGE MYERS', OUR FANCY GOODS. DEPARTMENT, FRENCH AND, GERMAN j GOODS, AT HALF PRICE!! Fresh Groceries Alwav to be Found at GEORGE IIYER8'. Off. WINE AMI IDL'OH DEPARTMENT. tSf-We are selling WINES and CHAM PAGNE WINES. at HALF PRICE. f" Elegant Pure lMiUKii,u anu i MESTIC WINES at t.l SH and tl.50 per gallon. "Our Whiskers are uneqnaiieu in me State In Excellence of Quality and Cheapness. Try our Old Baker at $5 per gallon . Sweet Mash, the Best in the Worldat $3 per, gallon. SAVE 100 PER CENT. AT , GEQEGEHYEES'. J5gT Our Goods are bought from' Fir Hands. "No Middle Man's Profits." Hen we can save money for you. . ' . , tar We have the largest, Choice and Cheapest Stock of Goods in our Three Store to be found in the State. . GEORGE HYERS'. ,3 andJ6FBOT gTKEET Notice. ( By VIBTUE OF THE PROVISIONS COX- f . , in a certain deed of mortgage executed S Tor iddBank, will expose for sale at pub Sfauctlonon Tuesday, 18th day of March, lSW?at the wharf at the foot of Ann street, la JdtyofWUmlngton,atW o'clock M., for . ,A-hooner or vessel "Washington," v tojrether with all her marts, sails, tackle ap- mrel. ooaw furniture. A. T.& J. LONDON, E. 8. MARTIN, . Att'ys for Mortgagee. march 5-ts BILLS LADING, ACCOUNT SALES AN D Shippers' Manifests for sale, by..; ; jan 24 f JACKSON & BE LLC v'1
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