Newspapers / The Weekly Star (Wilmington, … / Sept. 26, 1873, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
m4: ,wrLMiiTGT02ir.: ir. c, $2.00 a Year, in advance,' sssssss SSSSSSS. a A to & 1 Year 3D -a si I- J ;3& S3SS3SS 22SSSSS5 6 Months sssssss sssssss 3 Months H a Q W a X as s ft "85 2 Months SSSSSSS ti rH to l Month 55 SSSSSSS d s is S Weeks 3 an sssssss 2 Weeks 5 O) - W w SSSSSSS 1 Week n " Z.3 1 i X 8 g e o-g 2 aw a a i? c fj3 o e ? 5 "Cat S - a- Post Office Money Orders may be obtained in all tho cities, and In many of the laree towns. We consider them perfectly safe. and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less. . tar Registered Letters, under the new system, which went Into effect June let. are : very safe means of sending small snips of mo ney where P. O. Money Orders cannot be easily obtained. Observe, the Keaislry fee, as well as postage, must be paid in stamps at the office where the letter is mailed, or it will be liable to be sent to the Dead Letter Office. , Buy and t fflx the stamp both for vostaae and reoistru, nut m the money and seal the letter in the presence oj the post-master ana take his receipt for it. letters sent to us in this way are at our risk. SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED. Ttfrs. M. E.-Pinckard, of Georgia, is about to issue a work entitled, "Bread of Heaven and Husks of Swine; or, the Curse . of Jealousy." She needs a small amount of money to enable her to defrayjthe expenses of printing and binding, the work being stereotyped. It ris a book of three hundred pages, and is said to be deserving of high praise. The price is only $1 per copy, and this small sum, paid in advance by a number of subscribers, will enable her to bring the book out in a very short tibae. gent lady of some sixty-two years"; of age, and is engaged upon - this liter-- grandsons, who were made fatherless daring the late war. She was born near Kittrells Springs, Granville among strangers to obtain material encouragement for her-book. . This work will be published by subscrip tion at the low price named above. or ine am sne aesires. sne win p-ive -f furthering the benevolent writer -euoh .aid would lthem literature, which is . yet out of. its swaddling THE F1ILHRB OP J1Y COOKE & - co. : -Jay Cooke fc; Co.', the giant gold speculators of New York Philadel phia "and Washington, have failed. The telegram announcing the failure assigns as causes the heavy advances t n " cnct.nin tlipir Triiladplnh?a bnnsA v" and the great drain. upon; their home deposits. : . . ' This break down will seriously agi tate the money market for a short time. The house , of Jay Cooke & Co. for years has carried on a danger ous gambling in stocks and gold. In f their iailure we nave, a conspicuous j example of what the speculative, and not always cleanly speculative spirit cau bring men to. Jay Cooke and the royal government at Washington have not been on such bad terms that I Iir IMI.1CJ Will rr!i IISH I.IJ Nlltfll 11 I.Hilf over the former's departed greatness. - This downfall, carries with it the ' suspension of the ; First National Bank of Washington, of which H. D. Cooke is president. THE MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRATS. Wisely concluded in convention ' yesterday at Meridian that they would not put a ticket ; iu the field. This means support of Alcorn, independent candidate against Ames, carpet bag candidate. The united Democrats . and decent Republicans of Missis sippi ought toi be able with proper concert to elect Alcorn for Governor. He is a Republican, but far more re spectable and moderate than the nominee of the Radicals. Besides, he -. is a man of more than ordinary capacity. The Credit Mobilier case, now be insc tried at Hartford before the United States Courtis so completely overslaughed in publie interest by the great financial crisis that nobody stops to enquire . anything about it. Attorney-General Williams, for the . prosecution, and Judge Curtis, for the defendants, spoke yesterday. " The housewives of England unite in one groan over the servant ques tion." 1 As misery is said to love com pany, these gentle huzwifs ought to take ian autumnal tour to.this part of the V Earthly Paradise," that they may receive consolation from full hearts who know how it is themselves. VOL. &. SENTIMENT NORTH AND ' SOUTH; ;::It is always " with regret i that we iA.c issue Willi wie jw eV x otk. . j. rt bune, a paper, we - like outside of the great admiration we have for ita ability, which is of the highest order. But we have seen of late decided tendency.; to sneer at Southern sen timent, manners and morals. Once or twice wo have called attention' to this. Another, instance is under our eye. - Speaking of the" late brutal murder in a Georgia school room, where petty spying yand censorship wer Tesorted tbfW the wife of the teacnei, and bowie kitives.were used .by the pedagogue, her husband, as a means of punishment, and by the refractory, young man in defence,' it says:; , j ; . . ; ' t ' "Now we make no pretence to any su, perior merit, from, the statistics of crime-, above our. Southern ; brethren. : Robbery and murder with us are usually instigated by avarice or more brutal passions. They reach too, sometimes, a sublimit of horror, as in the Probst and Walworth cases, un known to these-; hotter-blooded people, wlinaA tilrrs nrntriA hntcip.t nift nrwbota For even the boys. But we do contend that public sentiment is with' us more clean and healthy. A Northern teacher might murder one of his boys, but iu what school would aiemale spy be tolerated, or where would the dagger be habitually substituted for ruler or birch ?" ? . The admissions made in this ex cerpt from a long article almost nei tralize the effect of the charges. : And really .we would like to know how a public sentiment can be " clean and heal thy,' where " robbery and. mur der are usually' instigated "by avarice or more brutal passions?" ' ' But let us examine the charges the monstrous charges. . The Tribune denounces; the spy system in schools, or rather it denounces the employ ment of female spies. Now we agree with the Tribune that the system is wrong, but we do not know that it is not employed in Northern schools. We do know that it has long been abandoned in the best Southern schools. . Whether it is healthier moral sentiment to regard murder as less abominable than spying we leave such casuists as the Tribune caters to at the North to determine. As a class our people reprehend both. But-the idea of the Southern people being lectured by a Northern journal on- over-inquisitiveness is ab surd. ; The gravameit of her THJto broadside again st the. civilization of the Southern ; States is contained in the last phrase of the last sentence quoted above: " Where at the North would the dagger be .habitually sub stituted for ruler or birch?" The Tribune, like the senseless partisan papers of Hs section, makes a . sweep ing generalization of an isolated fact. . This is the first instance we have heard, of in which corporal punishment; was inflicted by a school master with a dagger, in these States. There may have, been instances; we only assert What has been the result of our- information. .In the border States, wher civilization partakes of the wild ways of theaborigjnes, such a thing may . occur occasionally, it is possible. At least t is not unreason able to suppose that a pedagogue out there' would imitate . in th;, school room the fierce . people who live around him. But that daggers are habitually substituted in Geor gia or any other Southern State for thg rod is a gross mis statement that a ' ' well-informed and representative journal like the New York Tribune should blush to make.; It does the teachers of the South grave injustice, it wrongs the people of these States, whose civili zation is as pure and elevated as that of any people in the world, and it re bounds in the end upon the author of the charge. The Iribune owes it to itself, its own reputation as the first journal in America, not only to cease these attacks, which begin to assume the appearance in this latitude at least of sectional animosity, but to make re paration for the errors of the past. . POLARIS. The crew of the arctic ship Polaris, who remained on the vessel after the .Tyson party left, were picked up at sea in a boat by an English whaler on the 20th of July. When we consider the great perils to which; they were subjected and the long months of separation from human kind, first in their battered ship amid eternal ice and then in the open shell of a boat on the wide sea. we are disposed to place this ill-fated expedition of the brave Hall at the very head of arctic explorations. " Some of the disloyal newspapers are talking of Blaine and Booth for 1876." ; Beautiful alliteration, "rival led by the lofty tomfoolery , of the suggestion. I - WILMINGTON, POLITICAL MATTERS 1NJ WIS- CONSIN. -' ,.- - '. " . On the 1 4-th instantj: pursuant ! to a call of . the joint committees of' the Democratic anVLiberai parties, the opposition eleraeuts in Wisconsin will meet in convention at Milwaukee for the purpose of inaugurating th cam-. paign in that State and, perhaps, to form a strong permanent party ; ; ! J There is a movement on foot to nominate Gov. Washburn 'who has. a strong .Republican following.1 But this is energetically opposed by Gen. Paul, the chairman of the Democratic committee, for these reasons, given to a correspondent who interviewed him: "In the first place because he is the sup porter and apologist of this corrupt . Na tional Administration, standing up for it ou all occasions, and defending' all its acts. Why, sir, he went out of his way and stul tified himself, by defending the Credit Mobilier in a apeeck in ibis city last fall after he had denounced it years before" On the floor of Congress. Secondly, we can not support him because he is an uncom- Eromising high tariff man, while - all the liberals of this State and of the West are Free Traders, or believe in a tariff for reve nue. Thirdly, he is a salary grabber, not in the last Congress, of course, but the last time he had a chance he voted for back pay and took it , Fourthly, be in the tool of the Madison Regency, an office-seeker, and got his present place by bargain with Senator Howe. Fifthly, he professes to be an anti railroad monopoly man, when he only op nnp nna railroad tn favor another. Sixth ly, he is in favor of centralizing in the Gen- f erai government me powers now oeionging to the States, and introduced in Congress a bill to transfer the cSntrol of the telegraphs of the country to the United States Govern ment There are many other reasons that I might mention." ' . , ! Thus it is seen that the railroad question enters into this Wisconsin contest as well as it did into the recent election in California. Gov. Wash burn is said to be working in the in terests of the Chicago and North western, while the Democratic party, and particularly the Milwaukee mem bers of that party, are in the interests of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- way. ThcSe charges are denied on both sides, but where there is-; so much smoke there is at least a strong suspicion of some fire. The feeling of the people may be iudicated in the following view of a leading Madison Democrat who had become tired of corporation rule and of the sham of keeping up the old Democratic or ganization after the life had clean gone out of it: . "Now. we are tired of the rule of this corporation, and of the illiberal policy by which the Democratic party has been gov erned! If those fellows down at Milwau kee desire to continue butting their heads against a stone wall, they may do so, but they can't use my head for a battering-ram any longer, and there are plenty more who feel as I do about it The 'Democratic party is dead, and it is indecent that the carcass was not buried long ago. We don't care what a man's political antecedents are, or what he calls himself; if he iihonest and in favor of reform we will support him. If the Convention at Milwaukee nominate a good ticket we will vote for it; if we like part of it, We will split the tickets: but if upRing' men we shall support that part of the Kepublican HCKet we like and scratch the names we don't like." ' So, it means that there is a prospect of lively times in the joint convention which meets at the headquarters of the railroad people on the 24th. Gen. Paul thinks that the nominee for Goveror : by the coalition or hew party, will be Mr. Taylor, President of the State Agricultural Society a moderate Democrat, not known in political circles, and that the candi date for Lieutenant Governor will be a Republican, ; with the remainder of the ticket equally distributed between the, Liberal Democrats and Liberal Republicans. The farmers seem de termined to break down the control of the railroad corporations over the politics of the State. ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL FAIL VBES. : - ' ' The money kings of Gotham are fearfully flurried.1 A considerable number of failures occurred after the downfall of Jay Cooke . & Co. The failure of the great house of Fisk & Hatch created tremendous excitement.-:' . ' People are asking, what next ? The excitement continued all through yesterday,' both in , New York and Philadelphia, many other houses suspending. In the late after noon, it was positively announced in New York that the Secretary of the Treasury would come to the relief to-day, by offering to buy from five to ten millions in five-twenties, which it was hoped would quiet the finan cial pulse now so feverish. There Is profound interest all over the country in the critical situation of the finances in the; large northern cities, and the impression is that the end is not yet. - It takes the Northern historical critics a good while to -settle the in tellectual primacy, of their civilian chiefs during the war. Now comes old uncle Gid Welles with a long argument in the Galaxy to refute Mr. Adams and prove that Seward -was not superior to Lincolj. N. C, FttlDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1873. A Terrlfie Storm-Dam0 FepieeB, - On Friday 'morning,1 between 1 and 3 o'clock, this city and vicinity was visited, by one of the severest storms of 'wind and rain ever known by. that oft-quoted, indi vidual, the " oldest inhabitant' The streets were deluged with water while the ikewalks in many places were rendered almost impassable Several trees and pan nels of fences were blown down and a new ly constructed house on the corner of Tenth and Dock streets came near succumbing to the fury of the" blast, being blown partly from its foundation. A house on Walnut, between Second and. Third streets, was also nearly washed from its foundation, and ;a new. chimney on the corner of Third' and I Walnut streets was washed down. Mr. D. S. Sanders' place, about seven miles from the city, was visited by a per fect tornado in the midst of the storm. It lasted apparently only about a minute, hut during that short space it levelled to the ground nearly ; all the trees in the yard, blew down his barn, cattle shelters, fences &c. Four of his finest milch cows were crushed to death by the falling of the shelters and several others were more, or crippled. Mr. Sanders estimates his loss at about $500. ' A gentleman fromWrightsville Sound in forms us that the storm there was certainly the severest he or any one else in that lo cality has ever experienced, the wind blow ing almost a perfect hurricane and the . rain coming down in torrents for the space of about one hour. A large number of trees in," the" neigh borhood were blown down, fences levelled with the ground and other damage done. A portion of the roof of the building known as theBurr house was also torn ofL A large tree which was partially blown down a few years since and which, having been allowed to remain in that position, had taken root, was torn up by the fury of the blast and its position completely reversed. We expect to hear of many disasters on the coast and much damage in the surround ing country. T " . , State and' County Taxes. The Sheriff is likely to be embarrassed by the recent tax excitement in this county, and fears be will be under the necessity of selling a great deal of property. Only about $13,000 of the Stats and county taxes have been collected, and if he was to col lect $1,800 a day, on an average, from now until the 1st of Novembe.Tie would fail to collect what is still due xm. his books. ' We know this to be a fact, as we have seen the calculations.. By the way, while, we were in the office yesterday, one individual from Masonboro Sound came in and paid 13 cents the amount due by him which caused a cheerful smile of hope and encouragement to flit over the countenance of the worthy Sheriff Tt all f oliotr ttfe example of the Masonboro man, and thus lift the financial pressure. TIMELY TOPICS. Mosby's status as a politician is still the subject of discussion, as if he were of any particular importance. The Washington Chronicle, the mouth piece of the Adminis tration, grumbles at the Virginia Conserva tives for continuing to report "that Colonel Mosby recently wrote letters to the Post master General explanatory of his position in the present canvass as an opponent of the Republican nominees, stating that if, because of the patronage bestowed upon him in the distribution of certain offices a different course was expected on his part it would be gratifying to Mm to have the said appointments revoked." The Chronicle de nies that Mosby wrote any such fetter or letters and that the alleged Radical dele gation, comprising Hughes, Pratt and other prominent men ever visited the President, and says there has been no request for the removal of' any one on account of his op position to the Republican'ticket. . An Indiana journal describes a remarka ble aerolite which fell in La Fayette county in that State. Most aerolites are solid me talic substances; this one is quite different. A box of the fragments have been sent to the Smithsonian Institute for examination, classification and exposition in the museum. The mass seems to have been hurled in liquid state" through the ahv The frag ments are curiously honey-combed. The outside presents the appearance of a soft body thaf has struck upon solid particles, as the indentation of grass blades, straws and sticks are plainly discernible. One of the fragments had fallen on a large stick of wood, and conforms to it exactly. The very texture of the wood can be seen. Lit tle halls of the same material, perfect spheres, were found lying near where the main body fell. Gen. Jno. D. Imboden, of West Virginia, has brought suit for libel against the Charlestown Courier, for publishing an ar ticle severely denouncing the Galey-Kan-awha Coal Company. The General who seems to be " some " on libel suits, as he was "some" in a cavalry fight in "the days that tried" assesses the feelings of the " soulless corporation " at a cool quarter hundred thousand. Whether a Charles town, qr any other jury will take the diag nosis of the case accordingly, cannot be predicatedn any information in our pos sessioi respecting the merits of the matter. Butitjis assuredly ludicrous to expect to recover such damages out of a West Vir ginia," pr, indeed, any "other Southern pa per. Like our amiable friend Griff, of Baltimore, however, Imboden may only be fighting for the glory of the thing. ' Col. Tucker, of Raleigh brought a mermaid home with him from Europe it is all stuffed. . 5fjn ' 7C 1 J) 5 Roafr,Cae '.wi . Nothing offidal can be obtained at head quarters in reference, to the case of jCapt, ;. Rosafyy referred to in this paper some days since. In fact, a gloomy reticence is observedat the aforesaid headquarters; but 'we have learned from other sources that the investigation has closed and that the papers have been forwarded to Washington, where the case will be decided. '1" ' ;' . :,, J The charge against Capt ROsafy, who is an Inspector of Customs, located at Smith ville, was the forging of vouchers fdr'the purpose of fraudulently obtaining money from the Government; and the evidence, is so strong against 'him; we hear) that,his early removal from office may be confidently expeciea. . ;i Patrons or Husbandry. .. Geo. Z. French, Esq., of the Executive Committee of North Carolina, informs us that John S. Long, Esq. , General Deputy of the State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, will finish bis present course of lectures about the 4th of next month. If enough Granges are wanted to encourage his com ing, ne wM then visit this vicinity , Any township or neighborhood in th& Cape Fear region wanting Granges organized shojild communicate with Mr. French at this place immediately. Nine men and four women are required to organize a Grange. The Rosafy Case Again. . A correspondent at, Smithville writes as follows: "It is understood here that vouch ers have been forged by E. M. Rosafy for extra help, &c , which labor it appears was never employed by him. . , The parties deny, we understand, . any ; knowledge of : the vouchers or the employment, and that they have never received any of the money .drawn' by E. M. R, from the Government for services sworn to have been performed by saidj parties. It is reported that Rosafy endeavored to get the parties to sign vouch ers on Sunday and Monday last, covering the forged vouchers rendered the Govern ment, in order to cover him, but. they re fused," Another Case of Highway Robbery A drover by the name of Wm, Vann, hailing from Sampson county, was pass ing in the vicinity of Mr. D. A. Smith's furniture store, on Front street, at a late hour on Thursday night, when he was as saulted by some person, knocked down and robbed of $10, all the money he had about him at the time. From the appear ance of the wound, which was just over the left eye, it would seem that he was struck with a sling-shot or brass knuckles. Owing to the darkness and the suddenness of the assault, Mr. Vaun could not speak with certainty as to the color of the individ ual. The frequent occurrence of these highway robberies and other outrages on the streets after night not only calls for ex traordinary vigilance on the part of the po lice but would indicate the necessity of an increase or me lurce, Aid for Shreveport. The ; Committee appointed by the Citi zens' meeting on Thursday night, to solicit contributions to aid the Shreveport sufferers, succeeded yesterday in collecting about $400, besides a considerable amount which was subscribed but not collected. This is pretty good for Wilmington in one day, especially when it taken is into consideration that the Committee were prevented from making much of an effort by . the stormy, weather which prevailed. . Since writing the above the gratifying in telligence was received here by telegraph that the New Orleans Howard Association, at Shreveport, needs no ' more physicians, nurses, or money at present, the funds on hand being adequate, as now believed, to meet all apparent wants. j While the money raised here, which has not yet been forwarded, will probably not kbe needed, as indicated above, our citizens have at least shown a willingness to con tribute liberally to relieve' the sufferings of the affiicted people of the' stricken city. We see that a similar dispatch has been re ceived at Charleston. ,; Mortuary. Not a single interment in Oakdale Ceme tery, during the past week, which is con sidered a remarkable circumstance at this season of the year. , I i In Pine Forest (colored) cemetery for the past week there were five interments, all of which were children. Raleigh News. The Vote on the Constitutional Amendments. . . , j The late vote on the Constitutional Amendments, leaving out the coun ties of Camden and Polk, which have not been heard from at the office of the Governor, and counting Dare from .report sent ns this county having furnished no official statement as yet stands as follows: i Public Debt For,.70,457; against, 28,447 majority for 42,010. v I Sup. Public Works For, 69,293; against, 28,806 majority for 40,487, Jensus a or, 70,U77; against, 27, 343 majority for 42,734. t j Exemption from Taxes Fof, 39 47S; against, 26,2.07 majority for 13 266. . . university Jb or, 68,938; against. au,zyi maioniy ior as.oov. : Sessions General Assembly For, 59,668; against, 28,563 majority for 31,105. ' ! Code Commissioners For, 70,545; against, 32,318 majority for 38,227. .Federal Office Hdlders For, 68, 222; against 29,285 majority for 38, 337. ..- :7V : ' . ,- I At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Agricul tural Society, held in Raleigh, Thursday night, resolutions returning thanks to do nors in and out of the State of useful arti cles for the approaching fair, were passed. NO. 48. THE RALEIGH ADDUCTION .' t.;! ir-:yi - -- v.! : - ; f -1 j.iVi , w.'.i , U;jr.'. i- - . , . 1 - Blore About the Police Outrase-BHaa Powell- Tormented by Her Relent less Persecutors. i:;ir ; ;; l . - ;, Raleigh News. t- ' ; Thanks to good fortune,' we have obtained positive and unimpeachable evidence that will justify ns in assert ing that the article that appeared in the News Sunday: morning,'SeptJ 7th, headed - a Diabolical. O utrage," is correct in every particular and- jeach material fact is well and firmly 'sub stantiated. We re-assert that tbje'at tempted kidnapping and abduction of j- Miss . Powell by a policeman of the city or Kaleigh, in which, he, forced her against her will into a house of ill-repute, is an outrage of " the most damnable and horrible character, and we cannot understand -whv the au thorities retain him in ofiice, . -; Two weeks have elapsed since we charged that this negro policeman, after forcing Miss Powell in this no- toripus house, sought the advantage gained by his fiendish act and there taunted her with insults : yet, he still wears his star and exercises the func tions of his office, and is virtually sus tained in his lawless act by the May or of the city. . . , T , , . , ' L The woman "procuress," bolstered up as she is, is now in Johnston coun ty, and has sued out a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Watts for the removal of her suit for the recovery of Miss Powell as her, daughter to that county, where it is understood, by the aid of her "rich man's" money she can procure evidence suitable ; to her purpose. . This fact was made known to Miss Powell, -who, in her defenceless, friendless and penniless sitnation, and smarting nnder the indignities and in suts alreadv heaped upon hex by the police of Raleigh, became greatly alarmed. But there was no cause for alarm. The good citizens of Raleigh have been watching the movements against her, and are fully posted as to what is going on. Jb ayetteyule, the home of Miss Powell, Where she is known af a respectable,' virtuous white girl, has sent a delegation ; of gentlemen to this city to inquire, into the affair and offer her protection, etc. On yesterday the delegation of citizens from Jb ayetteville and this city waited upon - Miss Powell and assured her she was not without friends . and to have no fears of further oppression. We have also received letters from different sections of the State inquir ing as to what disposition had been made of the case, whether or not the citizens of Raleigh would permit! it pass without an investigation. , ,! J - We will state to our. friends that the citizens of Raleigh are and have but in conseduehce 'of the slanueroicsBi reports circulated to the effect that the negro procuress was . the mother of the young lady, the matter was purposely quieted till evidence to the contrary was obtained. The case will probably come up be fore Judge Watts at Chambers in this city, on Monday, for the removal of the young lady to J ohnston coun ty, as before stated. Miss Powell is ready, with good counsel, to answer here, there or anywhere. THE COLLISION NEAR COLUMBIA. Accident on the C, C. & Augusta R. K.-Two Persons Instantly KDled and One Fatally. Injured No Pas- i r sensers Hurt The Way the Accident Happened. By Telegraph to the Charleston News and Courier. . j " Columbia, S. C, Sept. 17. A fatal collision took place .on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad about twenty minutes past nine o'clock this morning. The scene of the catastrophe was about four and a half miles above Columbia, where the down passenger train and the paymaster's flrain came into col lision. Paymaster William "Elliott Orchard, of -this city and a col ored road hand, named James Archie, were instantly killed; Row land Williamson, the engineer of the paymaster's train, was severely, and it is feared, fatally injured, hav ing his thigh crushed, besides sustain ing internal injuries; a little colored boy, named Sawney, was also badly hurt; and the express messenger, Wi. C. Graham, was slightly wounded. The last named was the only .person on the passenger train who was in jured, the engineer of that train hav ing saved himself by jumping from the engine a second before the colli sion. Another train was immediately dispatched from this city which brought in the dead and wounded and the passengers. Both engines were a complete wreck, and the . ex press car was badly smashed. j r The accident is explained in this way: The pay-train was endeavoring to make Stock's Turnout, three miles ahead, upon the presumption that the passenger train was twenty minutes behind time, as it was when last heard from at Ridge way; but the latter train had made up fifteen minutes of the lost time, and hence the collision. Both trains were going at the top of their speed. W. E. Orchard, the pay master, who was killed, was the son of W. H. Orchard, of Columbia, and about twenty-four years old. He was a young man of - sterling qualities. :'. . ; , Qui VrvE. The small-pox in Henderson county is light and confined to the two or three original cases, says the Jnoneer. Spirits Turpentine. Greensboro reports finest corn crops in year&T l J; VV -; s , ., -. r r- Its i2jprter says Sampson ex pects a fine corn crop, izllij f fit. . ' """' : xm jaapnst jieotew, JLa Grange is building ; itself an ofaee. j . - ru-: r - Senator Merrimon and, .family have returned to Raleign f rom the, moun tains. - - ' ' '- '. ; - Uapt. BiggSj editor 'of the Tar boro,lni.iareeQverinff ;from his ill-'- J no- G "Carter,1 twelve months ago a Raleighite, is the champion type-setter in Louisville, Ky. "i! --v .-,t . . r According to the Reporter the ravages' of the cotton caterpilar have been creat in Ramnann pnnnhr'. .-, . , o -- x . ,7 M:An interesting Presbyterian re vival is in progress at Lenoir. There have been a large number of accessions. " Four ; mineral springs have re cently neen discovered on the farm of Mr Jmes B. H. Boddie, in Nash county. r Nine feet and a quarterin length was a coach-whip snake killed, by Mr Red fearn.at Brown Creek Bridge, Anson.' A Raleigh News ; correspondent says Nash crops are looking finely, though farmers complain greatly of the recent rains. The State Pen. at Raleio-h r?Kt all the wrongs on our criminal record, only the Governor will sometimes blot 'em out. The Tarboro Building and Loan Association" was organized on Mon day ; night, with Hon. George Howard president.. " . , ( .. . Barnum proposes to send down from thetJentral Park, New York, to the State Fair a couple double-humped camels provided safe transit could be obtained for them. r:--. - If is News to ,ns that a young PSJly the -name of Dennis, formerly tor in a tyne-settine match at. TTnrtfm. Conn., a short time since, ; ' -T-. Southerner: Mr. Geo. P. Peck Revenue Collector for this District, has ap pointed Mr. A. McCabe. of Tarboro, As sistant Collector for Edgecombe and several adjoining counties, v The Ninth Annual Fair of the Sampson county Agricultural Society will be held at Clinton, on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th days of November. The arrant. ments for the affairare most creditable thus iar, we are glad to learn. . Raleigh iV.-A"-Toiored girl reported to Chief-of police King, that she -was knocked down by a soldier on Fast Mar tin street and otherwise insulted. , She did not know the man, but could identify him by recognition. He; will probably be ar rested to-day. . We learn from the Herald that a fire occurred in the vicinity of Melton ville on Monday last, destroying an old ne gro man's house, all his furniture clothing, etc - Another negro man was 'accused of the crime, was arrested but subsequently escaped, ' Wadesboro Argus : The Bank of New Hanover has opened business in the old Banking House of the "Wadesboro Bank, at this place, withM. P. Leak, Esq., Cashier.' An institution of the kind was needed here, with the prospect now before us of a large trade this Fall. The Wadesboro Argus : We were shown some more coal, by Mr. John Rhyne, on yesterday, which he found on his plantation, about two. miles from this place. It looks very much like the speci mens shown us of that found in "Boggan's Cut;" which we noticed last week. ' ' Wadesboro: Herald : We - are credibly informed that,one:day last week, while two negrpesiWere-crossingPee Dee river. ookrr.-Btanback,s; Ferrv in' a canoe " isjeUtiera picked, gnn. that was in the Doat ami comnrcnceo tanjpwiDfif with it, whenit was discharged, the load enter ing his body. We did not .ascertain the extent of his injury. ZThe Raleigh. Sentinel says, that on Wednesday while Green Boon, a brake man on the W. C. R. R.; was between two cars endeavoring to uncouple them, - the train moving 'slowly his shoe heel caught in a "fog," he was thrown down and be fore the train could be stopped two wheels had passed over his right leg, lacerating it in a shocking manner. ! ' ' A large railroad meeting was held in Troy last Friday after Montgomery court adjourned. It is said stirrin? speeches were made by CoL O. H. Dockery Dr. J. M. Worth, Major . Andrews, L Capt. Bar- ringer perhaps othersin advocacy of the proposed Tailway from Greensboro, N. C, via Ashboro, Troy, Mangum and Wades boro or Lilesville to Cheraw, S. C. j The JPlaindealer is pleased rto learn that the County Commissioners have revoked the order putting it. to a vote of the people whether the county shall, .subscribe two hundred thousand dollars to the Nor folk and Charleston Railroad or - not: 5 It would certainly have been defeated if the question bad. been, puttoaha people. From a gentleman: living near gaged in farming;' the Fayetteville Gazette learns that the cotton crop in that, section has been, considerably, damaged- by the heavy rains of the past month. - - The corn, however, is very goon i .ana.tne. season has been particularly favorable to the growth and: saving of hay, a larger crop being har vested than we have had ior several years, Newbern "Times : ' A young man named Baxter Spencer,1 a hand on board the schooner? Patron, was drowned on Wednesday morning, from off the vessel, near the point of bluffs, about ten miles from Wysoeking, and twenty-five miles northeast of Brandt Island light-house. The young man was . standing on deck, close by the taffrail, near his uncle, Cap tain Spencer, when the boom jibed and in the endeavor to keep clear of the sail he fell overboard, and not being able to swim, as drowned in about twelve feet of water. i St. Paul's, one mile and a half yest of Newton is one of the oldest Luther an churches in the State, having been built by the pious German people who settled Western North Carolina in the middle of the 18th century. The first building in which the congregation worshipped was succeed ea about the year ii3, says the Hickory JVss,., by the present structure, which is a large two-story log house, weather-boarded with wide plank, beaded on the edge and fastened with wrought nails on the substantial style peculiar to that day. The revolutionary patriot John Wil f ong is buried in the grave yard adjoining. He wrote an account of the Battle of King's Mountain, in which he fought, but it has not yet been published. -T-" Is it true ?" asks the Watch man: "There is a report in this city that a recent Rig suit, in the Western part of this State, was compromised to prevent the ex posure of several prominent politicians of both parties. The report says that certain gentlemen high, up in the ranks of the "Conservative" party were about to be swamped were about to be connected with swindling transactions and exposed, and the case was squelched. We don't know any thing about the truth of the ru mor, but would be glad to hear. If we can get the facts we will do the gentlemen the onor to give them an airing. We care not whom it hurts.M Fight it out on that line, brother Bruner; the 'people are with you.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 26, 1873, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75