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- f $7100 a Year. SI X LETTERS. A Fire 'that was Put Out Kaptist I'estivail. : Lalkimu k. X. C , May G.Iiast night between 12 and 1 o'clock a fire broke out in the store occupied by Messrs. Tcinken k Co.,. known as the drug store of Mr. J; S. Mct.'allum. Luckily for those in that locality, some yoKng men of this place who were paying their best respects to some of the fair sex in and around town, and were cntertunied tn a late hour, saw (he smoke and hear ! the cracking of Mhq fire iu time logive the alarm. The fire was extin guished before it Irad . made much headway. The damage to the building is estimated by some at $25, and on" the goods $f0, but the writer thinks the damage considerably greater on both. The fire started .inside of 1 he store. The doors were all perfectly fast. Some think rats; did the work with matches, others think -differently.- The IJaplist festival which is to come oir the last of June, bids fair to be one of" the largest and. most extensive ones e;er held here. Due notice will be given-as to the precise day, Arc. Ccncral Taylor, of your staff, is especially invited. Alpha. - As election matters had 'been antici pated by telegraph, this part of our corres pondent's letter is omfitted. - imm '. Congress uml the Military Issue. iYcw York World. Let ns briefly review that contention. After the disgraceful and humiliating'' ex hibition of Federal bayonets made in this city by Grant in 18X0 for the purpose'of over-awing- votes in the November election of that year; after the even the more dis graceful and scandalous conduct of Grant in surrounding the State-House at New Orleans with bayonets and rendering possi-' ble the military . outrages which Mr. Evarts denounced with so-much earnest ness and emphasis before a great meeting of the best citizens of this city ; after Mr. Taft (now likely to be the next Republican candidate for the Governorship of Ohio)- haq issued in I84G his orders and opinions authorizing the use of nearly five thousand Federal troops at the polling places and arownd the State returning boards in three of the Southern States, it would have been the height of imbecility in the leaders of the' Democratic party not to perceive that the ' Republican managers had m;tde up their minds to use the army and navy of the United States as partisan ends. In the spring of 1877, therefore, the Democratic majority in the House refused to make ap propriations for the army unless the Re publicans would consent to legislation con fining the use of. the army within its legitimate limits under the Constitution. The Army bill in that year therefore fell botween the Democratic Douse and the fctill Republican Senate.- In June. 1878, the Democratic House insisted on a. posse romitatus section in th.e Army bill whiheh the President approved on the 15th of that Month. Subsequently it was discovered that section 2,002 ''ex pressly" declared that the army or navy .could be used "to keep thg peace at the polls." and the Democrats uletermined to expunge those seven words from the sec tion. This repeal was resisted on avow edly party grounds by Mr. 1 Garfield, and the Republicans in ths Semite opposing it the Array bill fiiled again at the last ses sion between the two houses, and the Pres ident therefore called the" present extra Bossion. At a Republican caucus it was threatened that if the Democrats en deavored to -introduce the repeal in the House as a separate measure the Repub lican minority would filibuster and use "the rules to prevent them from doing so. There upon the repeal .was again inserted in the Army bill as before. 'Mr. -Garfield' im mediately, .took up his parable; and in heart-rending accents proclaimed that such a repeal would not be germane to the bill, would be a "rider"' and would be a wicked attempt of un tamed rebels to coerce a loyal President. Superficial or unreflecting peo ple were distressed by this clamor for a time, but as a reaction of common sense soon set in, Mr. Robeson, in the course of the House debate on tjie bill, was selected by the backer: of Grant in Philadelphia to make a new issue. That gallant tar prumptly sent Mr. Garfield; below fora lubber and put him under hatches, while ho himself made the point! hat the pro- posed Democratic repeal j would prevent tinted States marshals from . a -posse of civilians to aid in the exe if such a be armed, the libra se . -cutiuti of judicial nos.se : of civilians process should Mr. Robeson assumed that "troop's 6r armed men"' in section 2.002 embraced armed civilians, and tried to infer from this assumption that if the repeal became ""a law, "'civil officers" could no longer use "armed" civilians us a posse on Voting day's at voting places. The point of the argument seemed to sensible law yers and practiced interpreters of statutes too triflingto deal with seriously or even to talk about But Mr. Hayes, "solitary and alone," and without the knolwedge either of Mr. Evarts (who, it is said, is quite dis trusted by the Grant managers and even contemplates abandoning the State De partment) or of any 'other member of his Cabinet, as the Tribune affirms, took up Mr. Robeson's point and argument and, to the astonishment alike of friends and foes, inserted them in a veto message. Mr. Rebe l's objections us well as Mr. Garfield's objections that the repeal was not germane and was a "rider" were absurd id unworthy of a second thought by grown men, but the Constitution has, for tunately or unfortunately, made it ppssir ble for d n. verv absurd man, if only he hnnnf.n tn he President of the, Pnited States, to worry Congress intodeal lIJg seriously with the weakest and the most absurd propositions he can put forth. I he democratic majority in -Congress, thepe- f0.' n a n rR ofpatriotic patience and fttt to preserve and -I u?t" the public riu t 4i. 1 1 :tni.npTC fill 111 11(1 l j interests nroceeded to Erid ralcu now a newmeasure, intended and calcu f cto meet what Mr Lr. Hayes has cnoseu V r ri tnl rward as vetoed Army rally the backers of Grant unhappy, as, our Washington dispatches of thisjmorningshow. They know not clear ly which wiry to turn. That Fitly Dollar Transaction. The Richmond Stata, makes an extended editorial summary of the case of young Mcrrrtt, Cashier of the Metropolitan Hotef. New York, who was accused of taking a fifty dollar bill from a colored sailor, Wil liams, formerly of this city, or rather vi cinity. The case has excited much interest on account of the social standing of young Merritt, who is a nephew of Col. Merritt, the New York Collector of Custom. The story is, that the colored sailor Williams had been discharged from a was vessel in New York harbor and paid off. There wa3 $98 coming to him. and the paymaster gave him" ir. part payment a fifty dollar bill, newly issued. After wandering about New. York for a day making preparations to go home to see his mother in Wilmington, N. C., buying a suit of clothes paying his wash-bill, and making a few other pur chases, he suddenly found himself over taken by night with no change left in his pocket, and no place to put up. The fifty dollar bill he intended to preserre intact and carry home to show his mother what great things he had' done, and gladden the old mammy's heart, and had sewed it up in the waistband of his trousers for better se curity. Rut it-was necessary to change the bill as his last resort now, not having a penny of the $48 in money left. He ap plied to the clerk of the PurcelJ House for the exchange, showing him the bill. Now mark how the story grows in interest. The Purcell clerk kindly enough it.appears told him he didn't have so much change on band, (andas silver and small change are by no means desirable as large bills, he would nodoubt hnvc been but too happy to make the change), but told him he could get it changed across the way at the Me tropolitan Hotel. Hither he repaired, and approaching the Cashier handed him the bill and asked him to change it. It was night, but the gas burned brightly. The cashier took the bill and put it in the cash-drawer. Then, after a few minutes, during which the negro boy waited patient ly, he took out four silver quarters and handed them to him. "What is this?" in quired Williams. " Your change," replied the clerk; "you gave me a dollar." "On, no. sir; it was a fifty dollar bill I gave you, and if you will look in that drawer you will find it, on tl)C other side, as I saw you put it in." The clerk grew indignant, refused to look in the drawer, and persist ed in saying it was a dollffr bill; "and, 'go ing to the drawer took one of that denomi nation out'and handed it to the negro, tak ing back the silver, and said, " There's your dollar, go; and don't come here mak ing a. row, or I'll have you taken out." There was a raw, however, as the negro refused to go, and persisted in asking tor his fifty dollars, saying if the clerk would look. in the drawer and didn't find it ; there he would, be content and go, though he knew he had given him the bill. The po liceman of the establishment was called, and the negro was not only ejected, but taken to the station,' and next morning brought before Justice Otterbourg. A lid this brings us to the second act. W The policeman told his story in the usufl way,' when a poor devil as the victim ana one of better bread the accus ;r. He had simply found th.e negro raising a disturb ance at a hotel. and "took him in." But something the negro said attracted the at tention of the-justice, who, it appears, is one of those men who arc an equal honor to our common humanity and the law they ate chosen to administer, and he questioned the negro and got the w-holc story. He "at once sent for the clerk and heard the other side, and the proceeded to summons the clerk t Delyin's clothing store, who sold the negro clothes, and also .the clerk at the Puree':! House, to whom Williams bad, fir.t applied for change. Suffice it to say tho "filtv .dollar .bill was traced in the negro's possession right up to the clcrk's desk at the Metropolitan and it was quite satisfactorily shown he had no 'other money. The clerk pleaded his standing, brought a cloud of witnesses up to sustain him, and some ty try to prove 1 thiil it. wsis-n. dollar he received, but IlOUC of them could testify to that fact. Though present, thev had not seen the money. The case looked verv bad lor the clerk. There was no doubt in the '.mind of any that the negro boy had taken this fifiy-dollar bill with him. to the Metropolitan and that it was the bill he tendered the clerk The case was continued for further evidence, and Merritt bound over.' )Vhen it came up the next day :i new com plication met the iustice. And old washerwoman, whom Williams had paid that" same day $1.50, being his wash lull, appeared as a witness for the clerk, to swear that- after Wil liams had left her house she picked up from the floor a fifty-dollar bill, which he no doubt had paid hcrJVr mistake for fifty cents, and which she littd shown 'to the neighbors, thinking it one of those spurious advertising cards so :common formerly; but as they all told her it was genuine, and as she had heard of the" trouble the hotel clerk was in, she came at once to assist him. This seem-; ed to relieve the clerk, and yet how ; come Williams to have his fifty-dollar bill , at Devlin's and also at the Purcell House I after he had paid his washerwoman ? The ; mystery was ratlier deepened than dissi-' patedljy this new witness. But it Was not loujg before Justice OtterbouYg reached a very plausible and highly suggestive but probable solution. The negro woman ad- ! mitted a white man had called at her : shanty, and after talking some time about j Williams and asking her as to what he had paid her, went away, and it was after his ', visit and departure she found the fifty-' dollar bill on the floor wrapped around an 1 nther , note, which she ' picked up. and thought it the money Williams had paid her and which she had dropped out of her pocket. - -Vould you know that white man again if you were to" see him inqujred the Justice. "Yes; dat I would." was thc'reply. "Do you sec him here?" asked the Justice. The old woman looked around, and fix- ing he eyes on the stenographer ot the ! court, at once said "Par ne . , a V-lSh0 aid, "i.ar ne : 1 nere was that pro- l.i rod when llawkshaw, the selective, , uuvv . . . suddenly appears m Jus real character on ! the stage. The secret was apparently out the and the line link ia the chain . was a..u p o essed the connection, . employed l,y Xfitui WILMINGTON, N. Merritt or his friends to drop the fifty dol lar bill in the negro woman's shanty, that its discovery might bring confusion to the negro accuser and relieve Merritt of the slightest suspicion. And had the evidence dove-tailed in with this circumstance all would have gone well; but not only did the negro declare it was not his fifty, but he even refused to receive it, saying he only wanted his 'own; and there is very good evidence that it is not the sam bill that was paid; to the discharged seaman, Lemuel Williams, by the paymaster of the navy.. The resclt -was that the Justice committed Merritt before the grand remarking: . JUI7, If there is probable cause to hold Mr. Merritt, as I think' there is. Mr. Merritt has done his best to make the probable cause his own creation I feel it my duty to hold the defendant in $1,500 bail to ap pear before, the grand jury." 1 At this jtimouncement the audience ap plauded Wudly. When order had been re stored Collector Merritt arose. Ho said : Yoor Honor, I do not often arise to ad dress a court. It was my fortune to have been absent from the city when this offence was charged against my nephew, and in this case I have taken no part.except what I deemed my duty, to defend an upright and truthful young man. 1 wish to read a paragraph from the New York 11 11... ..ii b'tH, I wincn appeared last Sunday. 1 lie para graph puts these words into my mouth: "If the complainant Wil liams must not suffer by being confined. 1 am ready, sir, to do every thing in my power, to make his position more easy. I know I cannot go on his bond, but if there is anything I can do for him, that I am ready, aye, willing to do it.' Now, "your Honor. I never made any such remark in this court, and I wish to make this public denial, I said last Saturday, as I say now 'if an offence has been committed let the offender bo punished,' but your Honor (placing his hand upon young Merritt's head), I believe that this young man is as innocent of the crime charged against him as the Judge on the bench.' . "Justice Otterburg: My personal con sideration for Collector Merritt has in duced me to allow him to make this ad dress. 1 will simply say now, that I have done my whole duty, ns I understand it, U complainaut and defendant. If I had a nephew in this predicament I would ten thousand times rather he should be declar ed innocent by a grand jury than by a magistrate. The conplainaut. Williams, is held in $500 to appear as a witness." Nothing of i criminal character that has occurred in New York, or in anv other 7 . part of the country, for many a year, as we remarked, has excited the, interest that has been created, not only in that city, but throughout the whole country, by this "fifty-dollar bill," and this, together with the singularity of the case, must be our excuse for devoting so much space to its proper explanation, which could not have been made clear jn briefer detail. .. i Governor Garcelon, of Maine, the first Democratic Governor that State has had for twenty-five years, and who is also ar. M. D., is in Atlanta attending on the Medical Convention at present in session there. Shorter Telegrams. The longshoremen's strike continues in New York, putting the steamship compa nies to considerable inconvenience. The National Woman's Suffrage Asso ciation, convened at St. Louis, to-day. It was attended by the oldest and most promi nent workers in the cause. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Central Committee, met at Harrisburg to day and decided to hold a State Con vention on July 1G, at that place. The West AVoolen Company, of Pitts field, Mass., is bankrupt. Liabilities $75, 000. The assets consist of the stock, ma chinery and mortgaged mill property. A decision is expected to-morrow on the motion for a bill of particulars entered in Chicago yesterday, as well as on motiou to quash indictments in Custom House cases. Theodoro II. Helton of New Orleans, aged 25 years, was fouud dead in his bed this morning, with a pistol shot in his Believed to I head and a pistol by his side, I hvc suicided. The vote the city on the new Constitu tion is very heavy. Probably 40,000 op ponents confident of defeating the meas ure. The information received is insuffici ent to warrant the estimates of the result. Mrs. Sarah W. Underwood, a lady of high social distinction, was yesterday ar rested in Milwaukee charged, by Harvey S. Haydcn, of Chicago, with altering forged paper. Bail was promptly fur nished. Etner Parr, who murdered his daughter Susan, yesterday, at Philadelplia, was committed to-day on the charge of murder. rarr sav he acted upon the impulse j v 4 of sudden passion. He had frequent quar rel with members of his family, and he was a notoriously bad character. A large number of. the sporting fraterni ty and representatives of the press, took the Lake Shore railroad, at Buffalo, this afternoon for Gue, were, it is rumored those who are to participate in the Elliot Dwcs prize fight, leave to-morrow morning for the same noint in Canada, in the reg- gion of Gravel Bay, nearly opposite Gue. Lougshorcmen'si Strike. New York, May 7. The strike of the Longshoremen appears to have been par tially successful, lue Agent of the Paelhe Mail Steamship Company finding it impos sible to get his steamer off on time yester dav decided to give the tmen their former wages. He had no difficulty whatever in finding plenty of the Longshoremeu ready to go to work. It was rumored last night that several of the coasting companies would follow this example to-da3T. I h French line finding it impossible to get the Canada ready last night took on old hands giving them old "wages of 45 cents per hour tor night work and 30 cents for day work. Garfield has ffone to Ohio to watch Sher man, who has also gone to Ohio to watch Garfield. If thdi' erreat men of Ohio can be kept busy watching each other the rest of the countrv mav erct a chance now ana then, thinks the Philadelphia Times. m m tm ' The Kobesonian reports the prospects rain continue for a j good.. good crop of gmall C, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1879 SUN TELEGRAMS. EARLY AND MIDNIGHT REPORTS. WAMIIIXUTO.Y. Congressional. SENATE. . Washington, May C The Senate, on motion of Mr. Iugall's adopted a resolu tion calling on the President to communi cate to the Senate what measure had been taken to prevent the occupation of the Indian Territory by white settlers. The House bill to prohibit military in terference in elections was read twice. The Senate, by a vote of 24 against 31 disagreed to the motion of Mr. Edmunds, to refer it to the committe on Judiciary, and then laid it. on the table, the subject to be called up hereafter, The Senate resumed consideration of the Louisiana contested election case. Mr. Edmunds' amendment was rejected". Mr. Conkling then offered an amend ment to the pending resolution, providing that the enquiry shall be confined to the matters alleged in the memorial of Mr. Spofford to be new and different from those covered by the previous inquiry, which was also disagreed to. The committee then accepted an amend ment enquiring whether Spofford used cor rupt or unlawful means. After consider able discussion, in which Louisiana affairs were alluded to with much animation, the Senate passed the resolution of the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections, author izing them to take testimony iu the mat ter of the memorial of Spofford contesting the scat of Kellogg, with the amendment of Mr. Hoar as above mentioned. The vote on the adoption of the resolution was yeas 2G and nays 17. The Senate took up the House bill pro hibiting military interference at the polls. Mr. Rlaine offered an amendment im posing severe penalties on persons who shall carry a concealed deadly weapon at any place or within a mile of a place where a general or special election for represen tatives to Congress is being held. HOUSE. j Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi, called up as the question of privilege, the resolutiou previously offered by him for investigation into his conduct at Fort Pillow. He said that his friends had pointed out to him the difficulty in the way of such investigation, and that he himself recognized the danger of rekindling the flames of passion and- prejudice which air good men desired to see covered up in their ashes. But it was hard thing to ask soldiers, who had lost all save honor, to permit that also to ;be taken from them by the repetitions of accu sations that were utterly untrue. The ac tion of the House yesterday had, however, satisfied him that the gentlemen were not willing now to go into that investigation, and, therefore, he had concluded to accept the advice of his friends and to make his own statement. He proceeded to narrate the incident of attack on Fort Pillow, in which attack he had been early iu the day on command of Confederate cavalry, but about 9 o'clock in the morning General Forrest had arrived and taken command. He admitted that a number of the garrison, making a rush for the gunboat, had been fired at and killed, but if any had been killed in violation of the usages of war, the most searching examination on the part of the Congressional committee had been un able to fix any responsibility for it, at least in the general olhcers in command. He denied that any wounded men had been burned up in their quarters that had been set on fire the morning after the capture of the fort. He asrerted that 40 per cent, of the garrison were saved wholly untouched; parjt of the Federal troops had run out of the fort, and nearly all of those were killed or wounded. Rut a large number of the garrison (mostly white men) had remained and had gathered around General Forrest and himself for protection, and had been protected. As to the Confederates taking advantage of the flag of truce in order to gain a better position, that statement was not true. He said so in vindication of his dead commander. For '-"Glory is the sol dier's pride 1"' i In reply to questions by Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, he stated that the garrison1 of Fort Pillow numbered oTT men, of whom abou 40 per cent, were.saved . 'J hat about 300 were killed and wounded and about 250 on the Confederate side. Remarks were made by Mr. Garf;eldas to the impolicy of reopening the subject with intimation that the officers were not so responsible as had at first been supposed, but the general impression at the time had been strengthened by the order issued about three weeks previously by General Forrest, that if the fort was surrendered the garrison should be treated as prisoners of avar, but the works were stormed, and no quarter might be expected. He was ffhui l hat so much had been done by the; gentleman from Mississippi to disconnect: his name from responsibility in the matter.! After further remarks between Messrs.; Chalmers and Burroughs, the subject was; finally laid on t lie table. The House dis cussed with action the bill directing the Executive officers of the government to carry out the eight hour law and then pro- ceeded to the consideraticn-ot the coinage bill discussion, which was continued until adjournment. M isccilaueons. Senator Call to-day introduced a bill appropriating $150,000 lor the purchase of sites and erection of public buildings and for improvement and repairs of the; United States buildings jn Jacksonville,- Pensacola and Key West, and for the ac commodation of United States Courts, Post offices and other Government purposes It is generally believed that the Presi dent will sign the Will prohibiting military interference at the poll?. - i A. M. fc O. II. R. Kelbrc the V- S. Circuit Court 4 Norfolk, Va., Man 7. In the United States Circuit Court this morning Chief Justice Waite Presiding, in matters of the Atlantic, Mississippi & OhiofRailroad the petition of Graham's Executors was heard and dismissed. The petition attacked the validity of the entire consolidation schemed; Mr. .McFm-land.-counael lor plaintiO s trus tees, presented a petition of the road, which was takeu by the court for consideration, after which an adjournment was held. OVER T1IL ( AltLK. Tlip Old World's News. London, May 7. The following are the probable starters, betting and jockeys in . the race for the Chester Trades Cup, at the Chester meeting to-day : Seven to four on Parole, Archer; 4 to 1 against Lord Roseberry's brown horse Touchet, Consta bles; 10 to 1 against Wadlow's chestuut gelding Zdcchero, Galtou; 10 to 1 against II . Hall's chestnut colt Astronomer.Coates; 12 to 1 against Jardine's bay colt Tan Glen, Greaves; 20 to 1 agaiust any other of the following probable starters : Lord Roseberry's bay colt Pidalto, McDonald; Sir J. P. Astley's black herse Drumhead, Lemaire; R. Peck's chestuut gelding Reef er, Luke; Sherborne's chestnut horse De luder, Hopper; Etche's Yotary, Roe; Lord Rosslyn's brown filly Mountain Ash, Bar rett. The race for the Chester Trades Cup was won by Reefer, with Touchet second and Ilidalto third. The Pall Mall Gazette says if Archer had not eased Parole when he found he could not win. Parole might have been third. The St. Petersburg Journal says : ' The news published abroad about the state of affairs at St. Petersburg is untrue. There has been no. prohibition against the possession of arms, but persons possessing ammunition inform the authorities that all traffic is entirely free and unimpeded. The statements that theatres tould not be vis ited without official permit, and that lights in houses would not. be allowed after 10 o'clock, are . ridiculous inventions. The city lives and works -in the same manner as heretofore, without "excitement, and undis turbed in its daily life and intercourse." The weather here and throughout the Kingdom is variable and very cold, with showers, hail and snow. The race for the Chester trades cup came off to-day at the Chester meeting, which opened yesterday, aud brought out a field of ten starters. Parole was the favorite, but failed to get a place. The winner was Lord Dupplin's Reefer, while Lord Rosebery's brown horse Sjfouchet came in second, and the same owner's bay colt Ridotto third. Sir A usten Henry Zagard, the British -Ambassador to Constantinople, has ar rived in that city. Aleko Pasha, Governor of Roumelia and the International Commissioner, will go to Philopopolis in a fortnight. The Crown Prince of Austria, the Arch duke of Rudolph, will arrive in Madiera to-day, and will be received in great state. Prince Alexander, of Battenberg, the Prince of Bulgaria, dined with the Em peror William at Wiesbaden, yesterday. Empress Augusta, of Germany, will visit England this month. General Todleben has arrived at Odessa and assumed command of that Governor ship and the Crimea, and the greater part of South Russia, under the Czar's Ukase establishing martial law. , In the House of Commons to-day there was read a second time, without a division, a bill authorizing the establishment of volunteer regiments iu Ireland upon the same principle and subject to the same regulations as English volunteers. The bill originated with the Home Rule mem bers. The second reading was assented to by the government, with the understanding the bill would be considerably modified. A London correspondent of the Edin .burg Scotsman says the Spaniards have concluded a convention a convention with the King of Anam, Cochin, China, for the purpose of supplying California with Ana- mite laborers, and Mr. George Errington, Liberal and Home Rule member ot the House of Commons for Langford county, Ireland, intends to ask Mr. Rourke, Under Secretary of State for foreign affairs, whether he knows of such a treaty and whether he will ascertain what provision has been made for the proper treatment of the Anamites. In the House of Lords last night the Prince of Wales presented a petition of 3,258 Norfolk farmers favoring the bill legalizing the marriage with a doccased wife's sister. He believed the measure would be of great advautage to the com munity at large and he would support it. Lord Houghton, liberal, moved the second reading. The government represented by Lord Cranbuok, Secretary of State for India, strongly opposed it and second read ing was defeated byia vote of 101 to 81. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edin burgh and the Bishdp of Repou voted with the minority aud fourteen Bishops with the ma'ority, showing that the layopinion rather favors the measure. In the House of Commons a diliatory resolution favoring and abolishing action for breach of promise of marriage, except in cases where actual pecuniary loss ha3 been incurred by reason of the promise, was carried by a vote ot 106 yeas to 65 nays. At the annual meeting of the Iron and Coal Institute to-day, the Bessemer medal was awarded to Peter Cooper, of New York. Cologne, May 7. The Gazette says Prince Alexander, of Battenbunr. will visit the Czar at Lividia before receiving the Bulgarian deputation, which is to ten der him the throne of Bulgaria. 4 Simla, May 7. Yakoob Khan reached Lugdullak yesterday. He left a regiment of cavalry there on account of the scarcity of fodder, and proceeded for Gundamuk, with an escort of 120 infantry. He will probably reach the Britishcamp to-morrow morning. -..--HCCM National Board ot Health. Atlanta, May 7. The National .Board of Health taday discussed the question of railroad qnarintine and passed resolu tions regulating the Fame. Resolutions from the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Council were also fully discussed. They provide for thorough inspection of all boats, barques and tug3 at New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis and Cario. . The Sanitary Council power is of great value to the board in sqggesting a sanitary need of the South. i Northern Klectioiif. Terra Hactr. Isu . May 7. In tbe city elections yesterday the vote for Mayor was: Havens, Democrat, 2.022; Wildey, Greenback, 1,832; Hook, Repablicart, 920. The Democrats elected their Treasurer, Marshal. Qlerk and five Councilmen. The Greenbackers elected one Councilman and the Itepublicaus the Assessor. IV K THE JURY. Cox Found uilty ot the Harder of Alston and Recommended to Imprisonment. Atlanta, Ga., May 7. The jury iu the Cox case were oat all night and came in at noou to-day to be recharged in full at a quarter to 4, this evening. They came and announced' that they had agreed upon a verdict. It was detained to correct a formality and was then read as follows "We the jury find the prisoner guilitv and recommend that he be punished hv imprisonment for life." " . " Cox received the verdict with calmness and stoicism, having evidently nerved him self for the worst. Hiswife.on hearing the words so fatal to her hopes, satTi a moment trembling and then rushed for the open window near by for the purpose of throwing herself to the ground below. She was wild with grief. As she rushed to the window she was caught by Cox, who held he? fast. She threw her arms around his neck and clung to him wildly, exclaim ing, "Oh my God ! oh my poor darling!" Her shouts were heartrending, and theoc cupants of the crowded room could not re strain their tears of pity. Cox used all his power to calm her, and finally soothed her grief until only her deep moans broke upon the solemn stillness. Judge llilger sentenced Cox to "be confined in the Pen itentiary, or such qther place as the Gov ernor may direct, at hard labor, for and during his natural life." , General Gartrell gave notice that the defence would make a -motiou for a new trial, and praying a writ of supersedeas. The execution of sentence was therefore stayed twenty days. I his penalty is vir tually the extreme of the law in this State, as a law passed with Alstons and at the last session 6f the Legislature gave' the juries the right to recommend the life im prisonment in all cases of murder as they see fit. Iifeffect it abolishes the death penalty. Cox is the first man convicted of murder who receives the benefit of that law. The verdict is received with general approval. , Tlie Peruvian Troubles. Lima, April 1G, via Panama. Admiral Mortero has assumed command of the de fences of Erica, where he has over 2,000 soldiers. A powerful battery is already in position on Morn Hill, overlooking the port. Pisagna is also well guarded, and a strong division under Col.Suarez, hasbeen pushed forward from Iquiqua to Quillaqua, an outlying town on the boundary between Bolivia and Peru, on the river Los, and in the neighborhood of the Chilian advance detachment. General Doza, President of Bolivia, at the head of nearly 4,000 men, is expected to reach Tacina about the end of this week, and will continue his march through Ta rapaca to the Bolivian territory, occupied by the Chilian army. Whether he wil be accompanied by Peiuvian forces is not yet made known. War enthusiasm in Lima is still extra ordinary. Donations of money are still being made. Several regiments of the (Na tional Guards have been pi iced utider arms, and itdarly all foreigners, resident in the city, have organized themselves into an urban gfRrd to protect public and pri vate interests when the police are sent to the front. This, we understand, will be in a few days, and as the Gendarmes compose one of the most effective organizations in the army, their presence at the seat of war is to be desired. v In Ecuadon although the preponderance of sentiment is in favor of Peru, the gov ernment is determined to maintain the strictest neutrality in the war. -, - Strike 011 ttie t'auudu Pacific. Wixxkpkg, Manitoba, May 7. The strike on the Canada Pacific Railway still continues. About one thousand men are now engaged in it. The cause of the strike is the reduction of wages from. 2.00 per daj. It is owing to bad board, and a de mand for a decrease in the price of hoard Irom 84.50 to S4.00 per week. The men are determined to hold out, and either will seize or havealready seized the works. N 0 violence yet has been offered. Mr. Bains, the Contractor's Solicitor in Winnepeg, has represented the situation to Chief Justice Wood, administrator of the Government, with a view of having repres sive measures taken. The Chief Justice , telegraphed for authority to draw upon the 1 local volunteer organizations and proceed ed to the locality with official force Jo breakup the .strike. A Free Press spe cial from Cross Lake says no trouble is an ticipated as the Superintendent says Mr. Whitehead is prepared to pay off the old hands and employ new ones. The military are ordered to be in readiness, but it is be lieved their services will not be required. The strikers did not destroy any property, but captured prisoners. First Naval Engagement In t'liiH Pernvian War. j ; Panama, April 28.The first naval cn- lUUlllCi Ol lliU lUlCC-VUlUCUU -- ,0 ing on in South America took place on the:14th off the River Loa between the Chilian corvette Magallaneo on the one side and the Peruvian vessels Union and Pilcomayo on the other. The Pettvian vessels sailed from Calloa several weeks ago to Antoboquata. On their arrival at that point they found the harbor deserted. They then proceeded north, and when arirp:it nf tlw. T?irpr Twj, sighted the f'hrii'on uKirn firmer wa3 main- l!iiiir.fl fni- Iti bsinra Vrtif it. aMK'arS that v... .-i - :rt;tnl if anv. The Chilian vessel had but six gtms to op pose twenty, and after burning a little powder without effect; the Chilian captain concluded to withdraw from the fight, which he did, running away easily from the Peruvian ships. No report of casual ties ha3 been made public, bflt Captain Garcia, in command of the Peruvian ves- sels, reports that remarkably well. his command behaved lion ExploKiou nI Fire- Wn.KK.sBARRK, May 7. There was . terrific explosion or gas in the faDl" shaft of tbe mine here last nighty 'f miners were terribly injured, and a fierce ronnap-ration loiinwfxi 1 ne iuh- flooded to extinguish the fire. Wadesboro Herald says that OgJ. the slayer of Willians, has professed religion. S Cents a Copy -v.; ir ad re tisemexts. OFFICE CLERK AND TREASURER, CITY OF WILMINGTON, N. C, - May .Vrn, 1879. rii , X A X-LISTERS W I LL ATTEND AT THE CITY HALL,m0NDAY, JUNE id. 1879, at9 o dock A M.,aud for the next twenty work ing .lays thereafter, for the purpose of nx-eiv-tng the Tax LisUof the Inhabitant! of tblsdtv u.u suojOLis or taxation wnich are to be laael for i-itv Hirposes. j HENRY SAVAGE, majfclt Clerk and Treasurer. THE V0RRIN(;MAN' FK1KN1). Ill theSC dVS nf TWklHal ir(i.liin ttMu.t.l 1.. .1. ..1- ! . . . .." hi uicxuue 01 neeti, 13 a inend ln- jeeu; aud such a f riend is DR. WM. HALL'S B A L8 A M Vfin TIIV T tTMii.il ... J VJ, His a t-ure ftr wugumiuion.Cnturhk.nnlila Abthma, Brouchitis, Hoarsenessi and alt lUiseaseg of the Llirnr. C.hont nnri Thmit I 1 iw Known reineuy nas uet n uaeu wunj jrars ana nas cured t unhands "f i-asos, many of whicfo have een given! J tt5 liOIH-lti&S. No fast tkOU'PVf'r (flu:tinotd ..a A nuil.l Ph.- healing properties of Dr. 'Vm. Hall' iii.ii ., - . ....... .... "o.oaui lorwiej.unps. mai bottles win its 'uriusueu irralUlLnliHlv to Mil v in nr r. dieted with Luur ami pectoral diseases. 7 ltemember that it is the persistent use of the Balsam that cures the worst casesi JOII.N F. HENRY, CUHRAN Jt CO., j Sole Proprietors may 3-1 w j 8 College Place, N . Y. Brooklyn Hall. OB BENEFIT OF BROOKLYN SUNDAY ! SCHOOL. Exhibition of "Fine Art Views," by Prof. J. Lester, r RIDA Y EVENING, May 9th. A .... 1 iiAi iuua aim uovi-i nii-vruuiii by the press and public everywl sion Adults 25c.; Children 15V. meritorious atid novel entertainment, nmliu'il here. Admib- It FRO Mj THIS D A T E The South Atlantic W ILL BE ISSUED FROM THE MAM- inoth printing establishment of W. T. BLACK WELL & CO., DURHAM, N. C. - i . . ' The next lwiinber, which commences the FOURTH VOLUME, will be necessarily de layed on account 01 various change which will he made iii'the typographical appearance of the publication. The type will bo smaller and the amount of reading matter consider ably increased. Several large advertising con tracts have been made, for this issue, and the financial prospects of the magazine were never better. In order to make amends to our sub scribers for the present delay, wc intend to issue an extraj illustrated holiday number, to which the most distinguished writers, North and South, will contribute. In moving THE SOUTH ATLANTIC to Durham, we Jiave been govc,rtrt?d solely by reasons of a business and private nature. We do not believe any publishing house iu the ; South vould have done the work more hand somely or more satisfactorily than that of Messrs. Jackson fe Bell. We are indebted' to , these gentlemen not only for the skill they have displayed in publishing the magazine, and for thc4reputation it has won as a .model of tyiK)graphical ta6te, but for every (tosslble courtesy under allcircumstances. The vast facilities of the Durham establish ment justify us in saying that the apjK-araiice of the magazine will not Butler. We renew our pledge to! use every effort to constantly improve its literary character. .1 MKS. C. W. HAUKIS, may N-tf Editor and Proprietor. WHAT WILL 1IIF. WEUIIER 1!E TO-MORROW ? Pool's signal seUvTck uakome- TEK COMBINED will tell you. It will detect and indicate correctly any chauge iu thejweather 12 to 4S hours in ad vance. 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The Wilmington Sun (Wilmington, N.C.)
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