The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina • 2

ItALEIGII WEDNESDAY MARCH IS 1STS THE UNITED STATES ISH COMMISSION i ii 1 or some years past it has been known that the food fishes of the Eastern coast of the United States have been decreasing in The general government some time back requested Prof Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institute to ascertain thecause and suggest a practica ble remedy This seems to'have been very thoroughly done as we judge from reports to Congress in regard to the waters of our Northern coast but the annuaiap propriation made by Congress to the United States ish Commission is usually embraced in thegeneral appropriation bill and not available until the 1st of July too Hate to afford anytajd to hatching operations In the Southern States as the season is over in these States before that time It occurred to someof dur Southern members that this was a griev ance which it would be reasonable and just to ask Congress to remove Ac cordingly at the instance of the Hon Yeates tha North Carolina member from the first district the House of Rep resentatives on the 21st of last November at the extra session appropriated $17500 for the propagation and distribution of shad and other food fishes to be immediatc ly available The success of Maj Yeates in passing this appropriation was one of the most signal triumphs of the session attained by his untiring zeal and personal popularity Prof Baird in a letter to Major Ykatbs on the first of last November Congress' pass the necessary appropriations in time I will take great pleasure in doing all I can in securing suc cessful results the general supply of shad: and herring on the South Atlantic States has greatly diminished within the last fifty years quite large numbers still continue to be captured in the sounds and bays but not until lately have 1 been able to learn anything definite in regard to the places therein where these fishes spawn am happy to say that practical impedi ments in hatching tish near or on the coast no longer exist The employment of a very ingenious apparatus invented by Mr erguson the fish commissioner of Mary land and employed by the United States ish Commission at Havre De Grace du ring the present year does away with all the obstacles mentioned By this pro cess in which the machinery is moved by steam the work is done in a very much more thorough manner than is possible in any region even under the most favorable circumstances by the old fashioned appa ratus while the number of eggs that can be hatched is limited only by the supply Eleven millions of shad were hatched by us in the Susquehanna near Havre De Grace Md in the course of a few weeks in the spring of the present year and ten times that number could have been treated by the same apparatus and in the same time had they been procurable as would have been the case I have reason to be lieve in the Albemarle sound and other Thus assured that Prof Baird the highest authority on ish in the United States will use his best efforts in replen ishing our Southern streams we have every reason to be confident of success find to expect that Albemarle Sound will profit as much by the light of science as have the waters of our Northern coast Under his direction arrangements are being made we learn for shad hatching in the Albemarle Sound on' a more exetended scale than has been attempted in this country or anywhere else It is also stated that the ish Com missioners of Maryland Virginia and of our own State will co opcrate in this great work With a view to these operations an exploration of the Albemarle Sound says the Richmond Whig was made in December last when it was found that the conditions for obtaining shad eggs were equal to any on the continent and would equal the utmost capacity of the parties for manipulation The prospect is that hundreds of millions of eggs may be obtained there The Virginia papers urging dhe Legislature to appropriate $2500 addi tional to the $2500 already appropri ated for her ish Commission in order that she may come in for an equal share with Maryland and North Carolina 4 Our a Commission will have no trouble on this point North Carolina hav ing made one of the most liberal appropri ations of any State for the benefit of her agriculture and stocking her waters with sb Twenty two thousand dollars have been ppid into the Department of Agricul ture as a tax on ertilizers during the last twelve months North Carolina has always exercised a wise liberality towards her citi zens when the proper time came The seventh annual meeting of the ish Culturist which recently occurred in New York has again directed public attention to this subject It wasstated at the meeting that the shad caught in Neuse river were the best of Southern shad both in 'size and flavor and were surpassed only by those of the Connecticut river Ibis last statement we doubt The first essays made in fish culture were made by Dom Pinchon about the year 1420 lie wrote a short account of his discovery which is said to be in exist ence still He was a monk of the Monas tery of Reome in rance and it was doubt less the love of good eating for which the monks wereelebrated that impelled him to become such a close observer of their habits But with Dom Pinohon died bis discovery? iTbree hundred and thirty years after Lieutenant a com of Hoen hausen made the same discovery The method adopted by Lieutenant aoobi was nearly that of modern times butlittle use was made of the discovery at the time or for a hundred years after though some little effort was made toward the increase of salmon and trout in first one country and then another? No material progress seems to have been made until about 1848 when De Quatrefages of Paris suggested method as a means of replenish aingthe streams 'of prance He was qot aware at the time that Joseph Remy simpleflsbc mum of Basse1 a village in the Vosges had by his own ingenuity discovered the general theory of artificial fecundation and again carried it into ef fect and much more efficiently than did the methods of Jacobi The subject was then taken up by the rench government and the final result was the erection of a great national establishment for the arti fleial cultivation of fish At the present day there are few countries where fish cul ture in some form is not prosecuted The Chinese do not appear ever to have been aware of the natural process of fish propa gation theftigh ids claimed that they were the earliest to practice pisciculture Their system was to gather the fecundated eggs and transport them from one water to another In this way they have stocked every foot of water in the kingdom The Romans who paid great attention to in creasing their supply of fish which was done by transporting live fish from one water to another it is said wont to feed their fish withdead slaves or dilapi dated gladiators to impart a rich rank moribund flavor in which their diseased palates delighted Many interesting facts have been devel oped during the rapid advance of the sci enee in the last few years such as accli mating sea fish in fresh water full grown shad in 'considerable numbers have been taken in Lake Ontario In Vermont salt water fish have been transplanted to fresh water with improvement of their quality Hybrid fish produced by crosses between closely allied species are attracting much attention in certain parts of Europe ish thus produced though for the most part barren are of very superior of tender flesh and grow with great rapidity The consumption of trout has notably increased during the last three years ow ing to the fact that its excellence has be come more widely known Trout are the most difficult fish to raise and always command a good price Pacific Salmon are not held in as much esteem as the Sal mon from the Atlantic and do not com mand so high a price Salmon are now cheaper than ever before We trust that the efforts of the United States Commission aided by our own de partment will constitute the beginning of an extended system of propagationwhich will fill our waters and supply every man woman and child in the State with fish fresh or salted the year round A LITTLE HISTORY We have been reading for many years with great pleasure and profit the and of the New York Journal of Commerce on questions submitted for solution by its correspondents and so soon as we got back into editorial work the old habit of sharing that pleasure and profit with the North Carolina public was resumed or a long time the decisions by the accomplished editor our old neigh bor have been regarded by himself and ac cepted by the public as final on questions of business law morals physic or divin ity and it has pleased us to see that our brethren of the North Carolina press have appreciated our selections sufficiently to aid usin circulating itspithy answcrsBut we be gin to aount mere are signs or snakiness in our old friend The silver lunacy has made a lunatic of him We have noted some very singular lapses of late and quick upon the heels of them comes a most remarkable blunder in regard to facts in our very recent history In the Journal of the 9th among the questioners is who asks there ever before an in stance in the history of this country where a bill was vetoed by the President of the United States and passed over his head the same the Journal promptly and emphatically answers that recent discourtesy to the President alluded to above is the first instance of this kind in our national 'r Now if the Journal will take the trou ble to ascertain the facts it will find that on day of March 1867 Presi dent Andrew Johnson vetoed what was known as the Tenure On the same day the Senate passed it over his veto yeas 35 nays 11 and the House passed it over his veto yeas 138 nays 40 On the twenty third day of March 1867 President Andrew Johnson vetoed the Reconstruction Bill" On the same day the Senate passed it over his veto 'yeas 40 nays 7 and the House passedit over his veto yeas 114 nays 25 How many more vetoes shared the same fate it would require search to ascertain These which occur to us at this moment will suffice THE SUPREME COURT We with to the decisions of our pet court this morning They may not be altogether nice as yet but they are no longer naughty Whom we love we chasten' and by not sparing tfic rod it to be hoped that we have saved the child from utter Thrice beaten with rods on the first sign of amendment we hasten to wash theirstripes They are not likely soon to forget dhat the people have judgments prepared for1 scorners and stripes for the backs Of or to put it poetically the court having a fond ness for license poetic license we mean the time is not distant when the people may destroy them razing the court rom turret to foundation New York Journal of Commerce of the 9th quotes the new silver dollar at par in gold and no sellers only bidders And editorially on the same date the same paper says the silver dollars are not likely very soon to be available as for any other purpose than the payment of import duties the green backs being plenty cheaper And so we silver folk have not been cheating any body after all' 1 Shipments were made the other day from New York of 141000 cigars for lam don A trade has been recently started with England for the Sale there of Ameri can made cigars which already aggregates $4000000 per year A Philadelphia firm has just shipped a cargo of twenty seven locomotives to Russia and another is soon to follow THE WORLD'S AIR Commissioner General McCormick has published a list of the American exhibit ore (artists excepted) to whom space has been: allotted at the Paris Exposition Two United States ships have already sailed with goods for the Exhibition The United Jjtates ships Wyoming andyPorts mouth now loading at the Navy yard Brooklyn will sail on the 16th inst and the United States ship Constellation on the 23d inst offering exhibitors the last opportunity send their goods free ref cost for transportation No goods will be received at the Navy yard after the 20th inst and no more permits for spade at the Exposition canbe granted ln printed list of exhibitors we find but three from North Carolina Jlr Wm Coleman of Concord sends flour and cotton4he Shelton Tobacco Manufac turing Company of sends tobac co and Messrs Wallace Bros of States ville send herbs medicines The whole number of exhibits and houses ex hibiting according to this list is 578' rep resenting 24 States pf the 'New York heads the list having 224 exhibitors 196 from the city and 45 fromother parts of the State Pennsylvania has 104 ex hibits the from Philadel phia Next in importance according to the number of exhibits is Massachusetts with 41 exhibits Thirty eight exhibits come from Connecticut New Jersey sends 20r and all the Western States together enter but 50 ex hibits Louisiana sends 14 entries' By far the larger part of the list is an enumeration of machinery for almost every conceivable purpose to which machines can be put Of agricultural implements and machinery there are 32 entries the number of mowers and reapers being 10 The leather manu facturers have made a combined effort and they are to be represented by 27 ex hibits prepared by the leading firms in all parts of the country American hardware will be exhibited by 18 firms The absence from the list of the names of well known piano forte manufacturers is and very few sewing machines are entered Among are vulcanized wood anti friction metal toughened glass speak ing telephones the Prayer in 500 languages revolving boot heel and type writing machines There arc nine entries of canned provisions and fruits Colonel' Committee "oh' Post Offices and Post Roads strongly recommends the establishment of ocean mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil Col report favors two one from New York the great head and of our com merce the emporium of American trade and theother from New Orleans the natural outlet and inlet for trade between South America and the United States The re port very truly says that the considerations involved in this question of the ocean mail sefvice reach beyond the mere postal in terests of the Government and contem plate mainly the revival of American com merce by opening new avenues of trade and quickening all our industries A lib eral compensation for carrying the mails is not only legitimate but at this time is absolutely necessary to encourage and aid our merchant marine in promoting the national welfare 1 The South Carolina Legislature has made provision for a legal determination of the question of the lawful issue of a lot of State bonds If the Courts decide the issue to have been in accordance with law taxes are levied to pay the interest as on the acknowledged lawful debt of the State AYETTEVILLE AND GOLDSBORO RAILROAD Correspondence or The Observer ayetteville March 9 1878 Messrs Editors We are very much obliged to you for your no tice in our behalf in your paper ot yester day to the remaiks of the Messenger" You are right in telling our Goldsboro friends that the matter of the ayetteville and Goldsboro Railway not dead only sleeping through the dull The President and Directors at this point have kept the organization complete and propose as soon as the monetary pres sure is a little more relaxed to make an other effort to wake up the people con cerned in the construction of this great and important work They would have done so earlier but the financial condi tion of the country and the continued low price of the chief production of our friends along the contemplated route have pre vented our asking tor the liberal subscrip tions they 'promised us We trust better times arc dawning and that this too long delayed enterprise may be soon com menced and quickly completed In our efforts we ask the co operation' of the and its friends and hope to receive something material from them We are aware that labor is abundant and cheap that railroad iron is alsounprecedentedlylow but notwithstand ing this railroads cannot be budt without sbme money We say with the Messenger us licgin to move and see if the road cannot be completed for the next Very respectfully your friend I MaoRab I lli President Railway i Our Tobacco Interest Statesville is making rapid strides in the tobacco inter rest There are two spacious warehouses for the sale of this commodity within the corporation The Statesville ware under the management of Mr A Barksdale has been in active opera tion for the past two years Within the last few months Messrs West and tp Bryan have established the which is fast growing into popularity and receiving a liberal share of patronage The weed realizes 'good prices at both of these warehouses There is ample room for them both What we need now is a larger array of We must have thcni States mile Landmark I An 80 year old Sir Wm Thompson of Tally Ho has a gander that is 80 years old It belonged Mrs Mary Ki great grandmother' That old gander has tilled five feather lieds and it is said he is likely to fill five more Can make as much noise ns any goose The truth of this is vouched for Ox ford Torchlight i on A Good Time When they get telephones in the hotels it will refresh the wuary traveller whoissent upto the fourth floor to sit down quietly and impart to the clerk down in the office his private opinion of that Home Sen ti nets' i i i i I WASHINGTON OVE D11LT EESVMt WASHTNOTON NEWS By our Special CorreaponJeat LMonday 9 jl March A little additional explanation abOMt the bill to pay Southern mall contractors The bill now pending and which will hardly survive the shock it received in debate directs the Auditor to pay all claims audi ted up to date Under the legislation of the last Congress the Auditor refused to pay any claims until all the claims from that source were audited The original bill contained proviso excluding air claims liquidated by Confederate Gov ernment In the present bill that proviso is omitted "about taxing' The bill introduced by Mr Robbins some days ago exempting banks from the tax on deposits made by Sheriffs tinder an act of the Legislature of North Carolina is an important one By act of the Legis lature Sheriffs may deposit money belong ing to the State in banks designated by the Slate TreaSarert Comnussioner of Internal Revenue decides that these de posits are taxable The banks realize no profitsjrom them as they are not subject to notice of thirty days on call Mr bill remedies the injustice by exempting the deposits from taxation ith the gracious permission of the amia ble editor of the Raleigh armer and Me chanie I will here add that Mr Robbius is not behind his distinguished colleagues in zeal ability and efficiency He does his work quietly ps vu pensioners of 1812 i i The Pension bill will become a law as soon as it receives the approval of the de facto President The bill pensions all who served 14 days' also those who par in any engagement also the widows of all soldiers without qualifi cation and restores to the rolls all who have been dropped on accotmt of their par ticipation in the late war The necessary information and blanks can be had upon application to the of Pen sions Washington I1 THE WHISKY TAX 'f By direction of the Committee on Ways and Means Mr Sayler of Ohio presented to day a resolution extending the time on whisky now in bond one year and on whisky hereafter manufactured three years Assurances were given that oppo sition would uot be made to the passage of the resolution IIowever a motion to suspend the rules lacked a thirds vote and failed The resolution will be called up again to morrow iii id BEPUBIJOAN CIVIL 6TPVIC2 Abram Hewitt made a capital speech to day on the civil service reform of the de facto President The diplomatic bill afforded him the opportunity He quoted Irom inaugural: ask the attention of the public to the paramountmecesslty of reform in our Civil a reform not merely as to certain abuses and practices of called official patronage which have come to have the sanction of usage in the several depart ments of our Government but a change in the system of appointment itself a reform that shall be thorough radical and com a return to the principles and practices of the founders of the Govern ment They neither expected nor desired from public officers any partisan service They meant that public officers should owe their whole service to the Government and the How have these promises been kept Noyes chairman of the Ohio delegation in the Cincinnati Convention Minister to rance Lee his Private Secretary ap pointed to a foreign mission on personal grounds IIowclls the author of appointed to an important foreign mission Cowgill and McLio of the lorida Returning Board appointed to foreign missions McCormick member of the Republican National Executive Com mittee appointed Commissioner General to the Paris Exposition These were some of tue give the said Mr Hewitt with some empha sis every utterance Mr Hayes has I DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY The accompanying table explains itself Total amount recommended bv this bill $1036935 Total appropriated last year $1138 37450 Total estimated for 1879 $121439750 Last appropriation law $113837450 As recommended by thisbill 103693500 Reduction below law 1 102439 50 Estimates for 1879 1'214 39750 As recommended by tills bill 103693500 Reduction below estimates 177462'50 PERSONAL The festive he that carries in his official pockets the bar of the Wes tern District and a trump card in the shape of a letter from Hearne to Judge lingers in this gay and ungodly city of magnificent streets and beer shops The de facto President is a kind hearted man and he would be doing violence to honest conviction of Christian duty to longer subject a young man of the excellent char acter Mr Douglas maintains to the strain of his civil service reform The new fis cal year find of a President" affectionately taking leave of Mr Douglas 'Li 1 i it at all clear that a thing will be annihilated because It is unpopular or even deadly philosophically queries General Clingman in yesterday's Capital General Clingman was not ex pressing any opinion about the Western District Hie was simply combatting the dogmas of i Ingersoll and Beecher It is av dexterous blow well aimed these wicked and ungodly people In1 his Summing up What would we think of a he asks should deliver lectures on the streets in favor of drunkenness gambling licen tiousness and tell the boys that there would be no danger to them if they would steal cautiously and skillfully and gratify their passions generally Has the human race a greater enemy than such a person who exerts himself industriously to make mankind as vicious and wicked as possi i i rr Southern Gen John Wilder of Chattanooga Tenn reports that Gen A Pardee and his associates have resolved to build a narrow gauge railroad from John son City Tenn to the Cranberry Iron Works in Mitchell county a dis tance of 30 miles tapping the great magnetic iron ore region and connecting at the works with another narrow gauge road which is being pushed from Chester South Carolina affording direct communication with Wilmington and Charleston South Carolina when completed Engineers will be put to work next jnonthand the enter prise 1 pushed to' an early consummation This will enable the owners of iron mines in this rich region to ship ores to our mills in abundance and will' largely facilitate the manufacture of steel iu every Chattanooga Commercial Whales at Norfolk A school of whales spouting and sporting in Hampton Roads in the vicinity of the Horse Shoe light astonished sailors and everybody else in that neighborhood yesterday No attempts at capture were made I II I If A I i Gov 'Vance Invited to Lecture Here An in vitation has been extended Gov Vance by the Benevolent Society to deliver a lecture iii this city for the bene fit of pur Wilmington Renew W1NSTOX TOBACCO JNTEHESTS Correspondence ol The Obsxkvxx' Winston March 9 1878 Messrs Editors': In looking up material for a letter from this place 1 find that the ground has been so well covered by the Winston Salem correspondent of Thb Ob server that I can get but few items with out writing over what has already been written The main point of interest to this whole section is tobacco The scope of country that sells tobacco here is large embracing several counties both in Vir ginia and North Carolina The present season there will be over a thousand hands employed in manufacturing the weed The growth of this trade as well as the rapid increase of business has been remarkable Tlie sound of the hammer can now be heard in every direction and many new business houses as well as pri vate residences are being built Nearly all of the old tobacco factories have had large additions made and many new ones have been built ranks as the second tobacco market in the State and will handle from six to eight million poundstliis year Plug and twist take precedence with the manu facturers At present there is no smoking factory in operation) but will be soon In looking over the twbacco interest I find those that are engaged in it comprehend the advantages of the point to supply them exactly what they want I also find the tobacco men up to the times and ener getic and in evefy case pushing their business If this Interest' increases here during the next five years as it lias for the past two this business will be immense and will be a rival of many points that handle and manufacture more tobacco than Winston In glancing at the different tobacco interests'! find that warehouse was the first one opened in Winston This house is operated by Brown End Carter They established themselves hero in That year they sold only about two hundred thousand pounds which was all that was sold In Winston' This year they expect to handle over three million pounds andfrom the number of lots already sold will probably increase this large Their warehouse is 200 by 70 seet giving 14000 square feet of floor roonfi They have twenty two large sky lights and also every convenience for handling large quantities 1 WAREHOUSE ii operated by Mcssss Pierce Ilancs and Brown is two hundred feet by GO twenty one large 'sky lights This is the second oldest ware house and was established in 1873 Their sales have steadily Increased until liiey ex pect' to handle" three millions of pounds this year The firm of Brown Bro and II Hanes Co are interested both in this warehouse and in plug manufacturing warehouse expects to purchase from a million to a million and a half pounds of leaf for these' two firms The third warehouse is managedby MESSRS NORLEET AND VAUGHN' This hpuse the main floor 190 by 60 feet and the 70 by 40 feet mak 14200 square feet which is said to be the largest the State Two thousand nine hundred and fifty panes of glass furnish light This warehouse was originally 100 by 40 feet but has been recently enlarged to its present mammoth dimensions Since the enlargement of this house their sales have greatly increased and they ex pect to handle two millions of pounds this year Mr Norfleet is the authorized agent of Messrs Gail Ax for the pur chase of grades which tney use The largest plug factory in the State is BROWN This firm came to Winston last year They had been engaged for many years in the business at Mocksville They are just completing a brick factory 136 by 50 feet four stones high with five floors This factory will be fitted up with steam and all the machinery will be of the best and latest improved kind 'Their machinery comes Messrs Talbot Sons of Richmond The capacity of this house is a million of pounds They will commence operations with two hundred hands and ilia mnrlrnf ia txt run fwm dred and fifty They will manufacture several brands ana will use lor tbeirnne tobaccos me Desc jeai in me rnarKei They wiil manufacture plug and twist To Dr Brown I am indebted for courte sies for which ho will please accept many thanks MESSRS BITTING AND WHITAKER commenced curations last year They manufacture plug and twist Their trade is mostly in the southwestern States Their capacity is a half million pounds of leaf They use the hydraulic power and run twenty box screws and six retainers They manufacture all the grades used in the southwestern trade" Their factory is wood and brick and use five floors Mr Bitting is president of the irst National Bank of Winston and is a very energetic and public spirited man i MR REYNOLDS ii has been in Winston four years came from Rock Spring Ya was for many years engaged in the tobacco manufacture with Reynolds Son He manufactures plug and twist employs 75 hands runs twelve box screws and four retainers he manufactures alxmt two hundred thousand pounds of leaf He uses the nia cjiipery and utilizes the hydraulic press in manufacturing His trade is mostly south west I 7 MIL 0 HAMLIN ii'b? manufactures plug twist' and smoking to: bacco lie moved nere trom itoxboro Person county in 1874 and was in the tobacco business there for years He has recently enlarged his factory and employs tfom 50 to 75 hands and manufac tures two hundred thousand Ibi He manufactures the Powhatan brand of smoking) tobacco I Mr trade is rtastern nortn Carolina Baltimore and the Southwest and he has an excellent lot of customers that appreciate his goods I Id IL LEAK 1 Everybody knows Davy1 He was burned out in Charlotte two years ago then came to Winston He has been manufacturing plug and twist tobacco for forty two years Mr Leak says plug to bacco does not grow on trees and cannot be knocked off with poles if 'Horace Greeley did say so He manufactures about eighty thousand pounds and em ploys twenty five hands 'His trade is principally in North Carolina He says his tobacco is good Wc know it for the plug he gave us was par excellence none better VAUGHAN built the first tobacco factory here and has been in the business in Winston five years He operated the second factory here The capacity of his factory is about two humL red and fifty thousand pounds and man factures exclusively plug tobacco He employs from 60 to 75 hands ten screws andfi ve retainers' His trade is in the West and South west His brands are popular and fullv meet the wauls of his customers 'The firm of MILLER WOODRU AND WOOD is composed of young men who have plenty of energy and push They just com pleting a three storydirick factory 100 by 40 feet have done all of their own carpenter work They propose to do their own bossing as each one takes a foreman ship of a floor and thus have everything under their own eyes They will employ 75 hands will use hydraulic power this year and put in steam next winter This house has been running a factory at Jones ville Yadkin county" They are on the corner of Church and 5th streets MR LUBLETT manufactures exclusively plug He man ufactured last year a hundred thousand pounds and will manufacture much more this year He run last year eight screws and four retainers but is preparing to in crease the number He manufactures the which has an ex tensive trade in the 8outh and South west The capacity of his factory is tMc hundred and fifty thousand pounds MESSRS HANKT Airo OO were burned out last year but have re built a large brick factory 50x120 feet three stories high on the same ground They employffrom 75 to 100 hands now use fourteen screw? and six retainers and use hydraulic This bouse was es tablished in 1872 They have a large trade in the South and South west The firm consists ofl and Hanes The firm of OGBURN HILL AND CO has been GJ Og burn was employed in' the tobacco house of Sullivan of Walkerstown for seven years Mr Ogburn and Mr Hill for many years have been known to the tobacco fraternity This house will em ploy from twenty five to thirty bands andwill manufacture' from seventy to seventy five thousand pounds of leaf MR MARTIN GROGAN manufactures plug exclusively estab lisbed bis tobacco here 1873 has been the tobacco business thirty years His original county was Rocking ham IIe employs thirty hands manu factures sixty thousand pounds of leaf His faqtory is brick and wood sells mostly in Georgia and Alabama "Mr Grogau is j'also an enterprising merchant 'and docs a largetrade The firm of 1 I I ''ijy HAIRSTpN AJi'P OX man ufacturo plug exclusively This house has been located here three years Air Hairston has been' in the tobacco manu facturing business for several years His former home was Danville Va Mr oy is a young man who came from Wilmington This is bis first entree in handling the weed i They wjll einploy about filty hands and will manufacture about a hundred and twepty five or fifty thousand pounds Their trade is in the Southwest where their brands are wjdl and favorably known MESSRS BROWN AND HALL will ileal strictly in smoking tobacco They are now building a three story brick fac tory 40 by 60 feet Tliis is the initiatory smoking factory They expect to run it to its full capacity and will manufacture for the general trade both in the United States aud foreign ports New York and Boston will be their distributing points These are all the tobacco houses there are here at probably more will go into the business this summer It would be ap interesting item to notice the business houses but time aud space foibid I capnot close without noticing the Hotel under the manage ment of Messrs Pfohl and Stockton This hotel is a favorite with the traveling pub lic and well merits the popularity which it has gained for being first class in every respect Messrs Pfohl and Stockton also are tlm proprietors ok asJarge business house last year closing a business of one hundred and ninety eight thousand dol lars The Cape ear ami Deep Itivers Correspondence of The Observer 4 a Chatham County March 1878 Messrs In view of the pro posed water'' communication between Wilkesboro and Wilmington it might be in teresting and instructive to the public to know how and why was that the pro posed Cape ear and Deep River improve ment miscarried It was owing to three causes: 1st The junction of the dams to the banks of the river was first attempted by mere scientific abutments with too little reference to peculiarities of soil currents and in disregard of the experience and practical common sense of the people on the line! 'Abd when the rains fell and the rivers rose 'a large number of these abut ments were washed aroundjand an exten sion of dams and proper abutments had to oe maue at great costs i ne practical ana safe' plan of abutments however was speedily that difficulty ho1 longer operates 2 The lock walls were not duly braced so as to withstand the pressure' of the water when turned into the locks This difficulty exists only in regard to wooden locks but can" be easily and cheaply reme died 3 The bottom' the river between the foot ol Smiles alls and ayetteville does not afford a good foundation for dams This may remedied by back slopes to the dams that is by sloping them down stream instead of up stream as is usual But the best remedy would be a canal Jrom the head oj bmiu gs ails to ayette viUe 11118 was Judge Murphys and several miles of a canal were cut un der his influence Irom ayetteville to the Cape ear river udge utpby was ahead of his age in regard tpinternalimprflvements but who knows but'what thia conception of bis may be put in practice long before ids name shall cease to be remembered and reverenced in North CarpiinS As to the feasibility of such a canal reasonable costs there can be no doubt The fall the bed of the river from the head of Smiley I alls to ayetteville is about 70 feet but the elevation of the land at the' former place over the land at ayetteville In i A nr O'lKa IO UUL UIWIU 111UU AV ML AU IIHOUHIIU be easily overcome by onedock say at the Lower Little river add the other locks for connecting with the river migjit all be at ayettevihd And engineers say they can be built mucn cheaper together and'in con nection' than when separated according to the present' plan at different points of the river But not to elaborate 'too much let me briefly advert to a few incidental ideas i The finest granite in the country abounds on the banks of the Cape ear river just below Buckhorn alls It has been successfully used in a lock of 24 feet lift atLockville and can be cheaply quar ried and dressed and transported over the river and canal as they progress' i 1 2 The fall in the bed of the river from the head to the foot of alls is about 35 or 40 feet so that the fall between the bed of the river at the latter point and canal opposite to it would lie 85 or 40 feet and from that point it would gradually in crease towards ayetteville until it would reach about 70 or 80 feet what water power! And it could be easily used wherever the canal should cross a sand lull branch or creek as well as at ayette Tt fa frnn that wnfp nnwpr fa nnt much utilized in "North but such as this would probably tempt capital and especially if it should be on a con necting line of cheap communication between the mountains and seaboard Civra i A AicE gradation iNot a very great many years ago an old gentleman in Ken tucky was met by a friend who said Colonel you dined with the Governor yesterday who was there i sir the Colonel throw ing back his bead digging his bands deep in his trousers pockets and spreading wide his was me sir and beside myself there yverc four other high toned elegant gentlemen from Kentucky a gen tleman from Virginia two then from Ohio a fellow lfrom New York and a son of a gun from Boston sir Will you take a chink sir JY World 'i f' i idauLvW Tle Praudeitr Washington Correspondence of the Hertiij Washington March 10 El)r a two the air of Washington has Ixx fuji fresh rumors of intended judicial prrw 7 ings to contest the right of Mr llayesto the Presidency but they are based UDo tbe preparation of a memorial toCouft by Judge Black who has been closeted several daysfn private quartereat Weicker' vptb prominent politicians on posed like himself to allowing the quA lion of Mr Hayes' title to remain uudic among tle8e men is Mr Montgomery Blair who unsuc cessfully introduced a similar memorial into the Maryland Legislature It is this last memorial will be presented Congress by Mr Tractor Knott of Kea tucky when he can get the floor on a sw pension of the rules to morrow if puasiLle' Mr Blackbum of Kentucky was Orip nally to have introduced a resolution mli ing fyr an inquiry as to whether the Presi dent had improperly appointed persons to office Thia was aimed at theAndersun and similar cases of the Louisiana Hetu'n ing Board members who Lavmbcn iiuliea ed He was asked by Judge Black to withhold this resolution because a committee of conference was sitting to provide a wider and more searching and cfTective inquiry and Mr Blackburn surretKlerni his resolution It was substantially as lu Resolved by the' House of Repivmnin ti ves That die Committee on the udiciarv be instructed to inquire into aud report whether the President of the United States lias in violation of law appointed to 8r retained in office any person or icrsotis convicted of a felony or other infamous crime anu saia committee is Hereby tn structcd to make said report at as early a day as practicable While Judge Black has been preparing bis memorial telegraphic communication has been had with Mr Hendricks Tie memorial will be very elaborate which some of the friends of the movemeut do not approve of because they say what is wanted is something short and terse on the record The memorial asks an inquiry into the facts of Mr election and sucli steps further of a legal or legislative character as it may be proper to take 1 inancial Amendment JlSpeoial to Richmond Dispatch lain i Washington March In the Itoire to day General Ewing of Ohio num duced a joint resolution proposing a six teenth amendment to the Constitution providing that Congress shall legislate for issuing million Of dollars of United States non bearing interest notes which shalbbe a legal tender for all debts puli he and private the aggregate of such notes shah be increased elicit year at a rate equal to the average annual ter cent of in crease of population of the United States as showu by the next preceding census: to which shall beadded a reasonable amount for less of outstanding circulationjof the first issue of said notes as much as may be necessary' shall be used in retiring all the United States notes bearing interest now and the remainder in re ducing the interest bearing debt and each yearly increase shall be applied to the extinguishment of such debt or to neecs sary public works No notes of the Lnital States not bearing interest shall be issue! except as herein provided and no law of the United States or of any State shall authorize the issue of notes payable to bearer on demand by or for the benefit ol any son association or corporation Congress shall provide 'for withdrawing from circu lation all bank notes now A Wealthy Death Cincinnati March 9 Jerry Tullis of this city died last 'night from s'ckness caused by lack of food and self neglect and exposure Tullis was worth $2 DUO but) or $3000000 in realestate bonds ic most of wnich be had accumulated by ex treme economy and close but strictly hon est dealings He owned a large amount of property in Cincinnati Chicago aud bt Louis was the heaviest land owner Butler a wealthy county adjoining this and owned about one hundred thousand of land in Iowa and Missouri He was very peculiar in his habits buying his clothes only at second band and living al cjl5apz restaurants He had been ill for spinitinie before liisi death but refused to employ a physician on account of expense He was a man of fair education ami hail studied law with Mr Carey of tins city in order to fit himself to attend to ins own business and save fees He was very eccentric aud self denying bis habits avoiding society living in a wretch ed dirty room in an obscure alley or in a log but on one of his numerous farms dressing wretchedly having the appear ance ot a third rate tramp Ha was un married and had few frieuds or relatives He remarked shortly before his death that he cared little what became of his properly except that he hoped those who got it would enjoy spending it as much as he had its ac cumulation 11 A good thing is told of one of our city belles Miss noted for her wit At a dinner party the lady in ques tion who was a dauglitet of adhtinnslci judge was Seated next to a gentleman whom she had not met before and who was on a visit to the city on business which had brought him contact with the judge mentioned who had shortly before decided acase against him At the dinner the gentleman who had not caught the name of the lady when: introduced took occasion to vent hia feelings and express his opinions of the judge terms any thins but complimentary An awful pause the conversation indicated something wrong and the gentleman took occasion to express to the lady his hope that the judge was no relation of hers to which to the infinite amusement of all present she replied Oh no only a connection of my niotlivt by A shout ot laughter couW not be prevented and the gentleman after a little reflection came slowly to the con clusion that the family were too much for him Washington JJerald a Ml An Interesting Young A phy sician well known hereabouts was recently called to see a lady who was reported to be suffering with a terrible pain The physician hastened to the residence of the lady and found her in bed He felt of her pulse looked at her tongue and com menced writing a prescription hhe said to him think you un derstand my yes I stud he understand it very After a little while the ladv remarked to hint again 1 think you know what's the matter with me that you un derstand my The Doctor re plied yes I do madam I have a up town a young man just in your fix Buffering with the same An hour afterwards the lady gave birth to a ten Dound bov How the voung mau got along our informant did uot Juan Times Bury Me by An Alallliia taper says that there was a negro imuriUb1 Talladega a few davs ago and a fe minutes alter the ceremony had been per formed a rejected suitor of the bride threw his arms around her neck and in the pre cnce of a number of persons inflicted upon her eight or nine stabs from which she died almost instantly He then mounted the court bouse steps and proclaimed done it hang me or kill me just as you please only bury me by side Modesty is a priceless virtue but if lite the paint on a cheek it is I put on it loses its value.