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rm News HE a ALEIGH mi 21 in r5 RALEIGH, 2f. SUNDAY MORXDTG, MAY 25, 1879. $5.00 PER ANNUM I MILITARY AGRICULTURE. ated and he told me he didn't run- any regular farm but only raised, some sample crops on pieces of land about town to show people what could be done. Then I said "Oh!" Then the youug man snickered.

Then Benbow smiled. I asked him as to his idea about publishing a free paper and he said it ought to be done and sent to the farmers because they were ignorant and OPPOSED TO THE FENCE LAW and railroads, and needed to be enlightened. But he would not agree with me when I thought there ought to be a free paper for lawyers and doctors and merchants and others for the same reasons. He said there were not so many of them and they could get along withoiit it. Then he smiled again, Then the voting man snickered Then I said "Oh." ,1 COLLECTOR WHEELER.

THE (O.HBAT T1IH KEXS. OX YE Ac. The Charge is Lodged With Ihe Internal Revenue the Money was Handled. Correspondence of the News. Wahhenton, May Zi, 187il.

I was out of town yesterday, and failed to see the News containing tho note of Collector Wheeler until to-day. Ho says that the charges tiled by mo against him l4are willfully and maliciously false." The statement made by me in the letter published in tho News of the 7th instant was that certain charges were made on the affidavit of respectable parties against Wheeler; that among these charges was one to the effect that he had loaned the public money to the Winston National Banks, which, I wil add, amounts to a charge of embezzlement and felony, offenses punishable by imprisonment in the Penitentiary. I did not assert that the charge was true; but I insisted that it ought to be thoroughly investigated. Certainly Wheeler will not undertake to deny that such acharge is lodged against him with the Internal Revenue Bureau. Thero were other acts of gross malfeasance charged in the affidavits.

I also stated the facts that have been proven against him among them, that instead of remitting the public money to the National Depository at Richmond daily, or as soon as lie collected a thousand dollars, which the law requires, he was, up to September last, in the habit of keeping 011 hand, and for tho most part in tho Winston Bank, the public funds to the extent of thousands daily, lie thus held back an average of sixteen thousand daily, during the month oJ uly last and he sometimes retainod above twenty thousand. The report made b' J. K. Hale, a revenue agent, and an expert in the examination of collectors' accounts, shows these facts. It is on file in the Revenue Bureau at Washington; and it was idle and profitless mendacity on the part of Wheeler to deny the statement made by me.

He may attempt to explain that heilid not use the public funds for his advantage; but he cannot deny that Hale reported tho above state of facts. As to Wheeler's bravo words of denunciation and defiance, they may go for what they are worth. I cannot, it I were otherwise so disposed, stoop to bandy epithets with a man whoTstands charged on the oaths of respectable men, with being an embezzler of the public money, until ho cloars himself from it. 11.. Mayor's Court.

John Wright, Oeorge llinton and Austin Copeland ere arraigned before His Honor Mayor Manly yesterday morning, charged with attempting to defraud the city revenues by peddling without license. Tho old plea of ignorance of the law prevailed in their cases, and they were let oil" with 11 warning and payment of costs. Frank Kvans" (colored) considering matrimonial bliss rather too tame for an enterprising citizen, engaged in an argument on the subject with his wife, which was so weighty that the police interfered and broke up tho debate. Frank boards at the city's expense on account of impecuniosit'y in tho matter of a line of and costs. Tho Flemniing-Blako scabbing case came up next.

Dr. W. R. Royster, who has been in atten ianco 011 Mr. Blake, stated that lie could not speak positively as to his patient's ultimate recovery that for three days and a half the symptoms were such as to lead him to expect a fortunate termination of tho case, but this morning the lover had increased somewhat.

His condition was still hopeful, the probabilities being in his favor, but the Doctor would give no positive assurance for three or four days vet. The fever was not necessarily an indication that peritonitis would ensue, and might be due to other causes. The consulting physicians agroed with Dr. Rovster. By agreement of counsel on both sides the Mayor fixed the prisoner's bonds at for appearance at Court, and the amount was promptly furnished and Flenmiing discharged from custody.

Personals. Mr. W. B. Kindrick, the capablo and gentlemanly representative ol the University Publishing Company, leaves td day for his home in jordoiisville, and will be absent for a few weeks.

Dr. W. C. McDiiHle, a prominent physician of Fayetteville, and Col. L.

C. Jones, Superintendent of tho C. F. V. V.

R. are at tho Varborongh. W. A. Turk, who is a host of friends in this city, is at the Varboro.

He is with the Piedmont Air Line as Southern passenger agent. Prof. Fetter, formerly of Chapel lljll, now in charge of the historic Newborn Academy, is registered at the National Hotel. Mr. F.J.

Hale, of New York, anil J. (i. Renclier, of Chatham, are at the National. 1 1 OT EE AUKIVAES. Yahhono House Dr.

C. W. Blneknall, Proprietor. (i Farley, Now York; White, Richardson, Norfolk; Shannon, Nixon, Flvnn, Wr L'dgar Jenkins. Smith.W A Turk, North Carolina; Dr Battle, Rocky-Mount; Yiekers, Durham; Dr MeDuffie, Col Jones, Fayetteville; II Currio, Texas; Taylor By-num, Hillsboro; Jas Hunter, Ura-ham; Mayer, Cincinnati.

1 National Hotel Street Son, Proprietors. 1 ProfM Fetter, Newberne, WT Tin ker, A Mrs, Tin ker, Miss 1 Tucker, Sanford, Henry Miller Hale, Jr, New York; Mrs Anderson, Lulu Anderson, Cincinnati, Reucher, Pittsboro, C. Congregational Kinging. If you have a hymn book take It, to church with you to-dav, join the choir in singing and you will enjoy the sermon more than usual, in feeling that you have added something toward th worship. Hymn books in great variety are found at Alfred Williams A Co a book store, Raleigh, N.

C. Why is It No? It is too bad that the ladies of Raloiirh will buy from the northern merchant by mail in preference to dealers at home. Whv is it? Can't the merchant of Raleigh retail as cheap as the merchant of the North? It is a momentous question, and one that involves a million or more to the dry good trad of thiu Statw. mated, by our most prudent growers, to be not moie than one-fourth of an ordinary crop in quantity, and the berries inferior, as the first, which wre killed by frost, are always larger and better. "There are about 20 acres cultivated in straw lerries at this place, and up to this date about quarts, have leen shipped, which, after deducting cost of picking, packing, shipping and selling, gave a net return of 10 cents per quart.

will be seen that after all casualties, which have been more than ordinarily severe this season, the land devoted "to berries has yielded a net roturn of $'i0 per acre. The cultivation is about tne same as cotton as regards quantity and cost, and js a less uncertain crop. I have been careful in collecting the facts that I might call the attention of others to this as an enterprise worthy of attention. There might be from 5O0 to 1000 acres nlanted in strawberries alone along the railroad in this county, and the profits would be much greater, as it would induoe transportation companies sto make greater fa -ilities for shipping, and would gre itly reduce freights. All our lands are adapted to their production and with the same preparation and attention given to cotton, strawberries would not often fail to be remunerative.

Why not devote a part of the land near the railroad now cultivated in cotton to straw berries, and, by multiplying the sources of income lessen the chances of failure? Caldwell. Lenoir Topic. Plenty of rain. Bees have commenced swarming. A snake as killed on West Man street one day this week.

The contract for constructing the bridge across the Catawba river for the Chester and Lenoir N. CL It. K. has been awarded to Col. Murdock, of Salisbury, N.

C. The marriage fever is on the wane in this county only a runaway beg pardon were requested not to say anything about that. Franklin. Ixniisburj; Times. The Centennial Kxeeutive Committee will meet in Louisburg on Saturday the 24th instant, to perfect for the celebration on the 4th of July.

The recent rains have thrown the fanners back a great deal deal witli their crops, as the ground was so thor- oughly wet, that it prevented them from plowing. Hev. C. A. Jenkens has moved his place of residence from Louisburg to our neighboring town of Franklinton.

Mr. Jenkens ana family have made a verv large number of friends in our midst, during their stay among us, and we think we express the sentiments of the entire community, in regretting their departure. We are glad to state, however, that Mr. Jenkins will still continue to have charge of the Baptist 'lun ch here. On Saturday morning last a special Coroner was apsinted to set on the body of an infant child, found in the woods on Dr.

W. C. Lankford's plantation in Cedar Hock Township. The child was not dead when found, but lived only a few hours. The mother, Bwttie Davis, a colored woman, tl.ut and concealed it in the corner of the fence, where it was found next morning in a dying condition by Mr.

Presley Murry. The child was exposed to beating" storm. The jury decided that the child came to its death, by la'ing abandoned by its mother, Bettie Davis. The mother was arrested and is now in jail. I hIhh Imi.

Hickory Press. The closing exercises of Hickory High School will take place on Friday, public exercises beginning at 2 p. 111. The final examination vrill occupy Tuesday and Wednesday preceding. It is now against the law of the town of Hickory to sell spirituous liquors within the incorporated limits either with or without license still we have reason to believe that there has been and will be a great quantity of it sold "between suns'" and in dark corners.

Hit iicomiIm-. Asheville Citizen. We have had an abundance of rain throughout this locality during the last week, and the crops "have doubtless been greatly benefited thereby. In the section immediately north of Wea-verville we understand a heavy rain, accompanied by hail, fell on Friday afternoon last. Some damage was done bv the hail.

"During the first week of Federal Court in this place, ooth Messrs, J. 11. Neill, of Yancey, and J. J. Justice, of Havw ood, hail "some of their splendid apples in town, and they experienced no dillicuhy in selling them at 82.00 per bushel, while other apples in town were commanding much lower figures.

Captain Neill pursues the same general plan that is used by Mr. Justice in keeping his fruit through the winter, and meets with great success. Ambrose and Robert Williams, brothers, aged repectively thirty-two and thirty-six years, were drowned in (ieorge's Branch on Friday. Kichmoml. Ie Dee lice.

Tnat is an elastic story that a child has recently been born to the wife of K. L. Adams, of Currituck county, which weighed, ithout clothing, tti etti-eiiht poionls." Mr. V. H.

i'ssery tells us that he has a parcel of pigs so bad to suck his milch cow that lie was compelled to put them up in a pen. Whoever heard of pigs sucking a cow? It is so. Mr. Thomas Jenkins told us a few davs ago that he killed a large eagle which measured six feet two inches from the lip of one wing to the tip of the other. He said his claws were two inches long.

Craven. Xcvvbern Nut Shell, Dewberries are plentiful and sell on our streets at three cents per quart. We received a communication last night from a reliable party in Kinston who states that Mr. Owen, the man who was shot on Tuesday by S. B.

West, went to Captain West's store, and both cursed and abused that gentleman and his wife. He was told by Captain West that he must retract his offensive words, or sutler the consequences, ami replied that he would not do anything of the kind, continuing the cursing until he was shot. There has been a heavy freshet up Neuse river and a large jHirtion of that stream flowing by our city has been much discolored in consequence. We learn all the Long wharf canoes will be entered in a liling race on the 4th of Julv; the course to be sailed from Ferrv wharf to the lower blockade and back. Ulsters and tires ere not extremely uncomfortable in this section yesterday.

The change in the weather was quite sudden and may prove epizooti-cally advantageous. Wilmington street is a hard road to travel on Saturday evenings. One or two policemen to" keep the walks clear would be an improvement. I I liie.tii.. ift ni.c tnrre the tto hrothen pu on rw and firin- orr ptroU.

Thev Mi re hv itv M.trhaf Mur- nne onei1i.ll.tr for he I hi mtde the hrot her "very anvrrv. ami ThoiniMoii merlin Murroii'liH on the treet ilan- i iinrrouiiH sti. to strike when the other hnther np-are. on the ene. and the two drew pittoU and opened fire on HnrrougliH.

h.iaU,(r.H hi, we.ip..n and refurn- the tahlte. Ifo linvl nliotn one of inst intlv killed Thotnp- on Mi.rriM and another fitaliv wound del ho f.in.-e died. Ilur- nniirh eMi the vollev tiled at him unhurt. Ad anrt- ZululNml. 'apetowm.

May via St. Vim km, May 21. Ailvaii. on the ill eommeiu-e in few davs. Cd.

WimmI will take the offensive" ilirci'lv I.rd roiidiM Kamh.il.t hill, where he i daily eo'tel. Thoraaatfll remale College. Currrvpoiidrnee of the Ncvta. T110MASVI1.1.E. Mav 2Tt.

The C0111-tnont emeut eereiat thi, wWiool will take June 'Ul and 4th; nermon at p. tn. 011 the 3d, bv the Hev. I)r. T.

II. rnt. ird. of lUleiufh. Addre.H bv Ir.

A. 11. llrow of Virginia, at 11a. m. on i ine in, lollowed by the delivarv of diploma, rwadin.

of eniava, etc. Hound trip tieketa will be sold June 2d, VI and 4th by all ajjeiit-H of the K. A I. II. 11.

in aiolina, k.km! to ret 1 111 mi davs. H. W. Kk I Ml 111 ItrrnrnUllr Academy. of the Ne KMM.HsVtl.l.K, Msv 22.

You are idmi.sI to attend the el.rsini; of Kernersville The annual aermon will le (leliverel bv the Hev. I. Jovner. of Winston, oh Sunday, II a. ni.

Kver. ises by the M'hiMil, June 2d. at on the .1.1. at a. m.

deel The literary will be end bv J. Ittixtou, of Winston, at II o'eloek a. on the The aiitui il party in the building on the ellin of the at l. k. I lie mirsh.ils aief.

W. II int. II H. a v. narrow s.

i w. 1 1 and K. T. Hunt. I.iii.l- Ilallfaa taller.

Cor risjii Vn, of lit Nrui. Halifax, May 2:1. -The Inferior I'oiirt met this moriimc at the usual Inxtr. all the juMices on the bench. solicitor 1 'ollin came up to I iy, bring-a-'t pissf.l mir l.t.st ieiiiritiir all witnesses iiii a oipy of th legislature, C'l's ta'tore the irralld jury the foreman of that 1 he urn mIv.

This threw things into a Witnesses to c.lse. as all the rc he con i had I 11 1 1 forim-rlv r.sj.iu.sl. minor work, the the present term. lei Alt. I lie coil i as little oil I adj for "I I.

lilU'h cost will accumulate lv the slowness in "lit the ads pissed bv the last legislature. Some of I c.is.-s will ha. to remain o.r until the next term; 111 fat all that have not heeu tn.sj. The eoimii issioners" bills went throng Net til. oil the same L' Toll II t.

So MM ll IV Hot 1 il II I slu'il. 4 lis iliil.f-11,1 Itliiilrable. ILiiIi vi iinn; Th. lailv Ni.ws of this city is in many nsMi i. a sii.erior sheet, especially in so far as nd its to current topics of the day.

Its make-up is ad mirable. I nu (iullly tan Lirapr. Hi I ll News. We are of those ho doubt the propriety of hanging for any crime lea than murder; but so long as the law stands vv are in favor of it enforcement to the letter. Let no guilty man escate.

Let us make examples; but let the-examples be every sin glo ev ildoer ho is dearly guilty. A Had Returning Ilomr.1. Turls-ro Southerner A. W. Arrincton.

a gloriously good fellow, of Itocky Mount, wanted to make Tom Bowers, a half witted galoot, feel also gloriously good. So when the Bishop preached at Itocky Mount a few days ago he sat by Tom. After awhile the ine itable contribution plate came around. Al. handed Tom who had never in all his life ban.

II. si so much money at one time; his cents to put in. Tom quietly MM-kcted it. When he went out he observed: 'llar. fore liod.

bin gin" to preach-in' all inv lite an' it's de fuat time der eler pan! Kellea or Ihrlllilrn Time. ihservcr. Iir. L. Hunter, of Lincoln, was of irse.

at the.i'th of May celebration, and with him he brought s.uire relics which were suggestive of the earlier history of thi s.M tion, one event of which were then celebrating. One of these was a chipped from what is known imComwiilliV table. This table is a large Mat rock situated four miles Uvoml the river, in Lim-oln county, and on this rock ornwallis and his officers dined 011 each of the four davs while thev remained there waiting for the waters of the river to fall. The incident is well authenticated ami the has ever since been known as fornwallis' table. The other relic waa a piece of an old milk crock.

Two vears ago lr. Hunter visited the site of the old Polk home stead, near I iiieville, in this county, in thehojor finding some relic of Jas. K. Polk. Kv erv estige of the old house is gone; not a brick remains; cotton was at that time land most probably right now growing on the ground 0 stood the house in which Folk was born.

Bight at what was represented to have Uen the door-step, how -fiver the doctor found a piece of an old crock, and this he has landed "a pier Mrs. sumuel Polk's milk crock. l. in. itiu lir.

Hunter jocularly Jo rL. the then ellll.rvotlic i reaiuei.i drat.k the milk which made of him the gnat man that he afterward came (0 1 Dr Hunter did not bring with him the bullet with which i Jen. Davidson was killed, which bullet vv as recently Picked up at almost the exact ss.t where Davidson fell at Cowan rord; neither did he bring ith him the molar tooth of Ferguson horse, which was shot dead under his rider at the battle of King's Mountain. Vlrnlwla ot Alne. havetcen arrested in Terre Haute.

Indiana, charged with Ion intermarriage ctw een whites and negroes leing isuitrary to the laws of Indiana. They were lour negio men and four white women. The I Jnrv has indicted two noted Col ons 1 nreachers for marrying them. The are ereatlv excite.1 in tsmse- quence of the indictment against the reverenu geuwemen. Maaonle.

Hill Ixslge No. 21s F. A M. will hold its regular meeting on A m. ovtMiing next at ciock, full attendance is risjuested Basil C.

Manly, M. 1 LOVE AND LEAD. iiy iish 1.1 1.1.1 shot yt iSH HL1.A 1IKAK.V. A MarylaiMl Ulrl'a Jealona Ixte for Urlrl iiipanloii horn Mie Iearl Iiv etl. Philadelphia Times.

INm-omoke Citv, Mav 20. This quiet little Kastoni town in a quiver, of excitement. Mi as I.illie Iuer was suintnoned to appear before the jrraiidjury to-day. is with shooting tt eoinpanion, with hom she had been on the dearest terms of friendship for a long time. The en.se is so curious, tilled with startling facts, that this eek has been looked to with the greatest interest.

It is not often that a young lady takes the life of her intiuiate friend out of pure jeal ousy. 1 et this seems to have been the motive which caused Miss Lillie Duer to hhoot Miss Klla Hearn at this place. It is. Hrhaps, the strangest rase on record. At the time of the shooting, in November hist.

Miss Hearn was 18 years old. In figure slio was rather stout, yet symmetrical. Her features were clear-cut and pretty, her hair black ami wavy and her eyes brown, large and expressive. Miss Duer is 20 years old, though apparently younger. She is about the medium height, of a slender and graceful figure, ith large, brilliant hael eyes and dark brown hair.

I Ier features are delicately chis-led, the eyebrows well curved and the lip thin ami held fi mil together. II face is a verv striking one. She was much sought after, and, indeed lwth young ladies were reigning belles. Thev became acijuaiiited in the winter of They attended the same academy and were room-mates. Between them a st rage fondness for each other's society existed, and for a time they were inseparable.

Both were highly educat.sl, both were titted to shine in the highest social circles. Miss Hearn was natiiradv of a retiring disposition, and disliked anything approaching notoriety. Miss lhier was different, and it is said she has more than once donned male attire and gone on hunting expeditions in the woods. When the year 17 was draw ing to a close Miss Hearn began to evinco a dislike to the intimacy which had sprung up. Her companion, however, was only the more devoted in her attentions.

When both were in Poco-mokei'ity Lillie w.ls to be found at the Hi. irn mansion, and when Klla would tell her laughingly to go home the 1 11 Iy answer Miss lucr would give would be to place her arms around the other's and kiss her and tell her she loved her. Miss Ihier ould daily try to get Miss Hearn to walk with her in the wiwmIs or remain with her alone in the parlor. Finally Klla struck up a friendship ith a Miss Foster and then Lillie grew very jealous. Along in )ct fiber last the two young girls st rolled into the woods together, as they had frequently done before.

When start ing home Klla went tirt. while Miss Oner loitered behind. Suddenly Miss Duer caucil 0111 ivot imieo 011 ner 1 wnv. Miss Inier then raised her pistol, which she usually carried with her, and deliberately tir.sl three times, narrowly missing' her. Miss Burr then ran up la-hind her, with the pistol still in her hand.

Klla turned, and as she did so knocked the pistol from her friend's hand. "Lil, did you intend to shs.t me' asked Mis Hearn. "No." replied Miss Huer, "I only intended to frighten you and make you wait for me." Miss Hearn never walked with Miss Burr in the woods after that, and their intimacy seems to have ended ith that incident. It was on the 5th of November that Miss Duer called on Miss Hearn and asked the singular question if she loved any one better. Miss Hearn replied aflirmatively and absolutely refused Lillie's invitation to walk ith her in the wood.

Then, it is said. Miss Duer, In great excitement, walked to and fro from the front door to the yard gate several times and finally entered the passage where Miss Klla stood and closed the door. Walking hurriedly toward her, she tried to kiss her, but" Miss Hearn resisted and pushed her away. Miss Duer slipped and fell, and as sho was rising drew pistol and tired. The wound, which was in the cheek, was by no means considered a dangerous one.

Miss Hearn was taken to her room and suffered greatly from nervousness and at times she vvas delirious. During her sickness Miss Duer called upon her and appeared very sorry for her act. On the tith of December Miss Hearn died. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict that "Miss Klla" Hearn came to her death from nervous depression, caused bv a ball shot from a pistol in the hand of Miss Lillie Duer, at Poco-moke City. Nov ember the 5th, 17." Thrs days later Miss Duer gave bail in :j2.5oi to answer in court and the trial now in progress is still stirring up the most wide-spread interest.

J'roba-blv no one can recall such a case as this. These girls were devotedly attached to each other, at least for a time, and Miss Duer was so much in love with her friend that her jealousy overcame her isunpletely. That is the hole storv in a nutshell. KI ATK 5IKV. Hanover Star.

Whortleberries have commenced coming in. Strawberries were selling in market yestcrdav morning at twenty-five cents for threenuarts. and green peas at fifty cents per bushel. Four or our "heftish" citizens got in a notion to have themselves weighed, a few days since, and ere found 10 aggregato eight hundred ami ninetv-one pounds, being an average of a fraction under 22-1 pounds per man. Sunday there will be Lutheran services in this citv in this city in three dilierent languages, Herman, Knglish, and Norwegian, a circumstance hich we are quite jMisitivo has never happened in this city before.

Hev. Mr. Slandt, of Baltimore, ill preach two sermons in the Norwegian language at the Seamen's Bethel, and Hev. Dr. Breiiheim will preach two sermons at the Lutheran I in the Knglish and the other in the lieruian language.

(abnrrui. 'otironl i-eiMer. A irate post at Mr. Nat. Johnston's wa-s Struck l)V llglllliuig omnif, tne utorni hist Friday, and torn to pieces.

The railroad question is still being earnestly pressed, along the line from Poplar Tent to Taylorsville. Concord still rests quiet. S01110 day soon, she mav hear the rush of the train abou. two" miles away, running around her That road is going to be built. Warren.

Warren Sewn. Our Kidgeway corresjiondent says our fruit growers continue to ship strawberries yet, though the price has falleu considerably, owing to lateness of the season, hich brings the crop of sections further north into market. The berrv crop of this section is esti- a ti 1 1 THE GOLD CASE." imiirTL or to. willi An HITII. or IKilXI4.

Trl In wkkk rruMfal I Trtl Aiknl iW.xn. Miv In the Cuited Circuit Court to-day the jurv in of the In ted Stale iMii rnor William Smith ren-'. verdict fr the defendant. Thi t'in; ctiderel a te-l ru-o, it in thl th tlher ouiU 'about a I -mi in nutnfx'r will le Iicr. Attorney I.ewi hx enteral a in to wet the verdict an.

I to rant anew trial, which wh ri for ure hearing. iMiiMuru.x, May 2T. Hoi sj filibustering niht. during which omsiderable plou-iant ry wm in. and some ill humor mani-.

tinier, the 1 Iou. oVck lu.Timu', adjourmsl to meet at The ei'n of Sttnrd.iv opened at ti with rayer by the chapl.iin. -re a ery thin atlcudancr of The h'cilatix lull as presented. us nicncd bv U. "j--aWer an.l h.

ii to the viule for xnatiire of the pn-odinc officer of llv Mr. Hi. in-Il i I tns I a Tiititu- mimi.iii. nt a to the elei-tiiMi Ur. -i i.

ut and 'nv -President. Referral. rti Iloue then took up i.i iHiinrst 1 the morning hour the lill relating the tr.lifT "if from to the IoiiicM ti ti'i the Hum iu-tlon. On that tlu ri' no iitirnm onlv 4-1 for i I ii. ncaniot and a iilf if the 1 II ordered, hi.

hovv ed the pren-. meinlMT. A subsequent bv and nay on the motion to further prikiiiliii un-. the call, and another at- 'tu to cet a vote on ccindnii; the r. 'ItleHtloll.

iN1'Ul(x the entire li 1 'riiin lioiir. I I it ruli Niil pass and -irner il er ill taken up and .,,....1 a of 114 T. The fo- a in mar of proviiont I' e-. the weight of the tan lard il- d-'Uar at cranio. authorire the of er bullion to jvit the i-tieatany mint to formel into i.d-rH; 111 ike the rce oniinc hii.

the t- it, market value of and lejfal tender value of irv -iiii ti tnceable at the Tr-Mniry for leial loouev to the amount of J2i': tiitie-, dollarn lejjal l- in all pixtneiit, their i- iiunal alue require, he 1 to out cin viithottt di-rimination, the t- eoin. in 1 1 1 ti I at 1011 of all kind -in obligation, iln anthoriret the issue ertifi- to oi cld or iler 'iii or bullion; also Miithorie, the of rt ili'-at-s ri-preoent mg -in in treasury in p- nieiu interest on th. pul-Iie delt. Isth r.i-s frtiti-ar" ls re-en pa im nl diiti. tn ini)rtjt.

rtih-N for bul bolt are ii I'M os market value in eom of like metal during (he pris-edmir week in New rk and an i.old and OT Nnllion to is-- ininni 1 the full capacity of mints in i-onnee- of Iter ami 11 uie oui- 11 for dos not mount t.i tl su twenlv million dollar-s it treasury is to iurehae diver bullion to com that amount. The act is not to ls construed authonnmr the t.mar.. of silver as iiito standard dollars. I I. House adjourned until Tuesday.

w-r 1 1 a lUnk ltrrlr. May 24. The ifovernment unlrr the Jneutioll of the the West of Unirlainl and Hank at Mristol. on I he r-s th thev were cuiltv of their annual reMrts Trauaal Dltlur Uc1 I ox. May 21.

A dispatch to the l4ilv standard, dattsl aist bu bf Ia "'th. sivs: "Sir lUrtle Krere has graphed asking that a battery of Is disatchel to the Transv aal verawethe lUwirs. Ki'v er and dys-rv prevail in f'olonel 1 division. I'earson is Snll llul Male TrMrfr A it. May 21.

The jury in the of the State of los.rtfia John J. i es. late Trea.su rer. and his T. 1 i rani and A.

Nutting, ren- r.d a verdid this morning, after Uvn mil over twenty-four hours. f-r The were good this amount. Hrllisb Icrtfrnral lib Vakl ban. May 24. -The Times in a eiinc ishtorial article sav "reat lu U-en taken not to imperil 1 a-k Khan's ssitioii bv ileuiauds inicht excite the jealousy of his i ts.

liritain demands no ir 11. lemnitv. and the hylier and M. luii which she annexes run iti the territory of independent In the "assigne. districts will havethe riw'ht to l.s-jvte wherever she it to const ru'ct military highways.

I he mcer will a- in to Kritish relative to foreign rtdatioiia and affairs ith intertii.sliate frontier A Uritish rideiit al labul iM forthwith Thetreatv 1 i i real Britain the right to ap-I- int residents at Herat, andahar and frier cities, but this rnrht will not at I ii( availed of." TH Rlrhmaml rery. Uiciivjoxt. Mav 24. iHtistives John Wren and Win. K.

Knox were arrested vesterdav on a warrant the I'omnioii- up ait am.iavn 01 a th anomcv. on susoi. ion of hav- ing harl-red. maintained and con-ceuled I banning P. Bedford, ho as arrested hi Baltimore Tuesday charged ith forgery in this city.

Il appears that utseUent to the arrest of Bed ford in Baltimore requisition j-ai-ers were forwarded to Annapolis, and Knox went on under authority, to bring the prisoner back. arriving in Baltimore he found thAl Bedford was gone, having, it is len turned ov er to the custody I. Wren a few hours lfore. However this may -th returned to Bichiiioiul VAiinoui uiw prisoner. Hen.sa the suspicion 01 rs.i- lusion.

The were tKiore a this avening ho iiecme 1 10 to-morrow morning. hen tke case will I "urt. heard in Police ui.okuia TRAwr.nT. Ttt Bilbn BtlUs I nr-Sle la Atlanta. Mar Si.

A double trR- dv of a latal 1 hano ter cs-curred iving ino-t Tll citv 1 'i ik.tnMin iiiaralial at Acworth, accompanies iy hia brother, Joaoph Morria, went to a TIIEOLD JIAJf OF T. UILEAD AP-PEARS IX THE ARENA AO A IX. It is Xot Clear Which is Amasa and Which Joab-A Talk With (he "Eminent Ag-ricultnriwt." Correspondence of the News. CiRKENsnoRo, May 21. I received your letter with the packet of enclosures sent to me in your care, as well as the letter of "Col." Polk in reply to mine.

After reading that, 1 am fully satisfied that I did him very great wrong in attributing to him the capacity to redeem his department from that paucity of good works which has hitherto rendered its existence a puzzle and a riddle to disinterested spectators. He even seems to have become angry at me for my endorsement of what I had the best of reasons for believing to have been his own individual scheme instead of the result of an eighteen month's gestation by Mr. Benbow, the "practical He quotes scripture at nie, too, with the most puzzling iniscellnncousncss. 1 don't mind his calling me "THE OI. I MAX OF MT.

IHLEAP" because Mt. liilead is a very respectable place, an I a point of some impor tance, 100, as win ue eviuent wnen you are informed that it is just halfway between Kdinburg and l'ekin. It is true THE OF THE EARTH don't stick out visibly there, as am told it used to in Polkton, where the Commissioner began h's military career and agricultural development, by running a country newspaper, before he was promoted to Colonel by virtue of persistent registration as such in country hotels. I cannot make out his scripture lesson to save me. Why didn't he put it all in? In my Bible it reads thus: "And Joab said to Amasa, art thou in health my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand so he smote him therewith in le fifth rib, and shed out his howels to the ground and he him not again and he died." The "Col." puts a period after tho "rib;" mine has none there. Is mine wrong or his defective? There is evidently a joke and a good one too, in that parable if one could only worm it out. Apparent' he means to insinuate that he and I are typically represented by Joab and Amasa, but whether I am Amasa and he Joab, or I Joab and he Amasa, I am sure can't make out. I am not conscious of any intestinal defalcation, and the forty-seven inches which the tailor denominates my "waist measure" would seem to unfit me for the part of Amasa, so I take it he intended to cast nieasJoyb. That being the case Iain truly sorrv for in Amasa, for though I never took him by the board and certainly had NO IDEA OF KISSIXW HIM.

1 do regret that my letter should have hi WillSf illifiau'riry' fieen his 'services. Indeed, I had understood that hen something like olliicial syncope threatened him last winter his language was almost identical with that of a great king of whom I "have somewhere read, perhaps it was in Mr. Pluto's lives or wMr. parables or it may have been in "Col." Polk's book, at any rate he was ABOUT TO DI when some one happened to mention the sad plight in which his death would leave the country. The poor earnest, old soul struggled back from the banks of the Stvx to say "Ah, yes, I would be willing to live ten years longer for the sake of the country." If the "Col." is in Aiiiasa's uoudition however, ho had better retire immediately for in that case neither tho Board, Jarvis, Robinson A Co.

nor Benbow, "practical agriculturist" can possibly nreventa stench in the "Department" much he ever got the notion that I had ever been tooling wiui beard or kissing him I don't know, I did not see Mr. Benbow's letter his un- til I CAME THROUGH CHARLOTTE this morning on niv way to Richm.md, where the "Old mail of the ti Head" happens to have a little business just now. It interested me immediately and I determined to stop over in Greensboro a day and enjoy the privilege of an interview with tho eminent agriculturist who devised this elegant plau of a free State paper, to be run without politics or religion, for the beneiit of the farmers who aro too poor to pay and edited by the 'Commissioner" etc who didn't approve nor "endorse the plan." So I stopped off and went to the Mc-Adoo House whore I got breakfast and after that was over 1 went to tho counter and asked Mr. McAdoo, very politely, if he could tell me where I could find Mr. Benbow.

THE EMINENT AGRICULTURIST and self-sacriticing philanthropist." He looked sharply at me and said "Which?" and when I repeated my question, he just rolled his eyes up to theceilingand his face grew purple and yellow and green as if he was going into a tit. After awhile he managed to say some words you would not like to print, and thev seemed to relieve him somewhat. Then he told me that he supposed the man 1 wanted would be found right across from the post otlice. I'm no doctor but its my opinion that my host is pre-disposed to apoplexy. I went down and filed across from" th post office as directed and found myself in front of a powerful big empty looking house that seemed about a size and a half too large for the town.

There was a short dry looking chap sitting in front of it a playing with the ear of a mighty pretty setter dog. I was afraid I was wrong so I asked him if "Mr. Benbow the eminent agriculturist, "etc, lived there? He turned his head on one side and looked up at me as if he was taking mv measure, and said he reckoned so." 44 At least," he said, "there was a man of that name lived there who could raise MORE GOOD ADVICE ON A.N ACHE and get more money for it than any man in the State." He seemed to be a guileless youth so I sat down and talk-aA with until Mr. Benbow came. He told me in answ er to questions I asked that the "Doctor," that's what he called him, had been a tooth-carpenter, before he was a merchant, and a merchant before he was a hotel keeper and a hotel keeper before he became a "practical farmer" and was not an old man vet.

Just about that time Mr. Benbow came up and I introduced myself and bv way of conversation said that I wrould have come to his house, if I had known he had so fine a hotel, as he was the verv mnn I wanted to see. Mr. Ben bow smiled, a queer sort of smile that didn't seem to have much fun in it, and the young man gave a chuckle that had A HEAP OI' FUN IN IT. Mr.

B. said he didn't run the house now as a man paid him rent to keep it shut up. Then I said "Oh." Then the yung man snickered. Then Mr. Benbow smiled.

I asked him where his farm was situ. Then I asked him about this Mr. Albright who knew all about that circular and remarked that I su posed he was ANOTHER EMINENT AGRICULTURIST whom he had consulted. Then Mr. Benbow, smiled a little more dubious ly than before, and said "No, Mr.

Albright, was a printer by profession, though not pursuing anr regular busi ness just now." TIIEN I SAID U-O-O-Oll Then Dr. Benbow stopped smiling any more. IJien the young man laughed outright and went oil and took his dog with him. Mr. Benbow said lie hadn't any more time to waste.

He attended to his own business. Thereupon I said good morning," and went back to my hotel. I shook hands with McAdoo silently. After a little he asked me sadly, if I didn't think I 44 had waked up the wrong passenger." Told him I thought I had. I've given up all notion of colonels, Mr.

Editor, but I wish we had a distinguished "agriculturist" for Commissioner, then we'd soon have carrots and clover, and Jersey cattle, and Cotswold rams, and horse rakes, and hotels that run themselves, and free newspapers for our poor farmers, and lots of them too. I'M MIGHTY GLAD the Colonel ever took it into his head to plow with that half-radical heifer. From this hour I'm a Ben-Bolter that 44 never votes a straight Democratic ticket." Then the 44 Commissioner," will praise me and call me an "eminent agriculturist," and the happiest man on tho planet will be, Yours truly, Jkduthun Jekms, The old man of Mt. Oilead. STATE NEWS.

Mitchell. Hiik i rs ille Republican. Plenty of wet groceries make plenty of lights, "tights make work lor the criminal Court fill the jails and the people pay the expenses in. taxes. just below our ollice we saw four men pitching horse shoes and twelve more looking on.

Who says times are hard anil money.scarce? The temperance meeting 011 last Thursday niwht -a and before proceeding to the regular business oi the evening, a prayer was ottered by Hev. S. M. Collins and a temperance hvinnsung by Prot. W.

C. Bowman, assisted by the young ladies and gentlemen of the town. Charlotte Observer. It is an open secret that a number of persons in Charlotte have made hand-sniiifismns on cotton futures within the last few month, by selling when the hold prm was UD. noim: commo.

Q.itirtiivitino- further rise, and are now meeting with the oposite luck. It was fal ing rapidly all day yesterday and the dav before, and the matter was considerably discussed on the streets yesterday. It is believed by many that the fall will be more rapid than the rise, but of course there is no telling. By a singular oversight, the resolutions in reference to the King's Mountain cente inial, several times alluded to in this paper, which it was proposed to introduce at the public gathering on the 20th, were omitted. We were so full of our own celebration that the matter doubtless escaped the attention of very one.

But it is not too late to take the matter up, and accordingly we take the liberty of calling the attention of the people of the village oi Kings Mountain and vicinity to the matter, and suggesting that they set the ball in motion. There is plenty of time between this and October, 1SS0, and the celebration can be made the occasion oi a grand re-union betw een North Carolina and South Carolina, in memory ot an event in which both States have a common heritage. Southern Home. petition has been sent, or will be, to Washington, from this county, to establish a "mail route from Charlotte to Montieth's Mills, Wallace's store, and other points inconvenient to railroads. The people through the section of country above named need better postal facilities, and we trust they will obtain them.

The fence law in lower Iredell ha8 gone into operation and all ol the have been enclosed. The persons who burned about a half a mile of the fence a week or so ago are Known ami win be Annarentlv tney nan no interest in the owned no land. matter, "because they The Pulpits To-day. Person Street M. K.

Church Services at 11 a. and 8 p. by the pastor, C. Njrinan. First Presbvterian Church Services at 11 a.

and 8 p. by Hev. m. S. Lacv, of Jonesboro, N.

O. Second Presbvterian church, services ll'a. m. and 5 p. by Rev.

J. M. Atkinson, the pastor, Christ church, services at 11 a. m. and 5 p.

m. KfcV. M. M. Marshall, l.

RChur'ch of the Cood Shepherd, 11 a. m. and p. Rev. K.

R. Rich, Kec- t0Salisburv street Baptist, Rev. Dr. Pritchard," pastor, services at 11 a. in.

and 8 p. m. Suain street Baptist, 11 a. and 8 Rev. W.

R. Owaltiiey, pastor. Mrs Mary P. Moon will conduct the services in Klenton Street Church, at II a. m.

and p. m. The young men 11 in mid the vountf la wn 1 meci .11. 1 dies p. m.

This will be th dav Mrs. Moon will spend 111 our last citv. Atlnniie Hotel, Beanfort. inier tho management of tin new cot- Mr. I a yn i' tage by the sea" promises to combine all the pleasures and comforts that can "i.l.r l.o ovnwtdi us locauou reasoiiioi is exceptionally hue, and the advantages it possesses over many other res full detailed in the ad- in another column.

at his hotel that the Press Association meets next June through the courtesy ol the liberal minded proprietor. nother pile of rocks lie on Morgan street near Wilmington street. Death may be said to lurk around such spots as those. .1.