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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21

FROM the Raleigh Standard we learn
that at a meeting of the Governor and
Council, held on Friday afternoon, the fol-
lowing were appointed Directors of the
Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
Railroad : VIM. Sloan, Mecklenburg r.
@. Badger, Wake G. w. Mckee. CASTOR;
James Mcdonald, Cabarrus J. s. Cannon,
Norfolk, Va; J. F. Aydlott, cleveland ;
S. P. Sheriff., Lincoln.
We would respectfully suggest to the
Governor, his Council and all others con-
cerned, that there will be meeting of the
Stockholders of the Road, in this city, on
next Thursday, and that there is consider
able doubt in regard to their confirming
the above appoin tments. Indeed, some
people are foolish enough to assert that
DR.. Sloan, the Governors President, holds
his office, at this time, only on suffrance of
the Stockholders, and that these latter, the
legitimate owners of the Road, will proba-
bly, take their property into their own
charge, on and after Thursday next.
CAPE FEAR AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
An interesting and important meeting of
the Executive Committee of the Cape Fear
Agricultural Association was held at the
Commercial Exchange on Friday evening.
The reports Of the several officers and COM
mittees showed that the work of prepare
ton for the coming Fair was in an ad-
vanccd state. The new buildings are
about finished, and the track will soon be
in tha hast pnseih1a condition
The Committee, in order to make pro
per distinction between mere exhibitors
aud Annual Members, passed the follow
ing
ReSoLUed, That the payment of five dollars will
constitute person an Annual Member of the
Association, emitting such member to the privi-
lece of admission to the Fair. with his family, to
exhibit articles at the same and to participate in
the business meetings OF the Association
Mae exhibitors are entitled to exhibit upon
the payment OF two dollars, with free access to
the Grounds during the Fair or by paying three
dollars, this privilege is extended to lis family
These exhibitors, however, cannot participate in
the meetings OF the Association
Col. Fremont reported that the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad and Bay boats had
offered to take articles to and from the
Fair free. The thanks of the Committee
were rendered the officers of those Com
panies.
The President was authorized to appoint
delegates to the several Agricultural Fairs
of this and neighbo1ing States, from the
Life and Annual Members of the Associa-
ton.
The President was authorized to appoint
a Committee to cooperate with one on the
part Of the citizens, to provide for the en-
of the people who would visit
our city during the Fair.
Messrs. MeIlhenny, DeRosset and En-
gelhard were appointed Committee to
confer with The ladies in regard to the
proper arrangement of the Exhibition
Hall.
Many matters of interest we're discussed
and action had locking to the success of
the Fair.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21

President FREMONT has appointed the
following additional delegates from the
Cape Ferr Agricultural Society to the
Agricultural Congress. which assemblies at
Augusta, Ga. on the Goth instant
Capt. JAS r. Thigpen, Edgecombe
Col. Jno. d. Taylor. Brunswick d. Is.
Borden, Wayne Col. A. A. McKoy, Samp-
son o. r. Kenan, Duplin Col. w. Il.
Steele, Richmond, and Capt. H. q. Rock
we'll Columbus
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21

SCHOOLS
PriU ate Day SchO0lS-6 male AMI 2 female
teachers. Average number of students, 65 male
and Is female.
Pnrochid1 Schools male teacher. Average
number of pupils, IA female.
RELIGION.
Presbuteridn-35 members / Church Edi-
fce-capacity $50 seats Value of Church Pro-
perty; $4GO.
Editce Capacity, 200; Value of Church Proper
ty, 81 500.
Bdptist-1,l16 members Church Organza-
ne Of Church properly, 81 600.
Methoaist-S75 members 20 Church Organi-
cations I6 Church Edifces Capacity, $500 !;
Value of Church property, SO. $50.
*The report errs in the addition. It should be
$1,424, 1875.
Should add $685. 32.46,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21
Cape Fear Agricultural Association
Special Premiums.

In addition to those already published,
the following Special Premiums for the
Fair are announced
by WORTH & WORTH, COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
For the largest yield of Peanuts on one
acre of landau average sample of three
bushels to be exhibited, and quality as
we'll as quantity to be considered in award
ing premium, $40 in gold.
Planters contending for this premium
must submit their certificates, properly
youched for, to the General Secretary of
the Association.
For the best 10 pounds Of Butter, 81
per pound in gold.
By z. G.. WORTH.
For the best plate of old fashioned North
Carolina biscuits, So in currency.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 81. 1870.
WE learn that man named Baker she

WE learn that man named Baker shot
and killed another party by the name OF
NEEDING, about 4 miles from Rosendaie'
Bladen county, on the line OF the Viii
mington, Charlotte & Rutherford L. r.,
on last Saturday night. Both parties were
white. We could not learn the particu-
lars, but heard that Baker, to the know
ledge of the husband, had been living in
open adultery with Meetings. wife, for 10
years past. This may have had something
to do with the killing.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21

his character andposition. lie addressed h.
energies 70 WORK Ter which By nature he
was onliuently httea, the building up OF M
5npoi'"IS oeA'ol leaTnlng, Washington Col.
u}I, bic ,1onIIIy f5ro-, ~ III no pGJtcr way,
w. - i1(C45 - IiS ~ c4FlI lie, c2aid
an,,ffr;I,o, -. ~, oouVh' man hy
az he snT3It ~ n,n,,o 49, coiieGe such
charge. Whonevcr lhe oo or-o ul'dcr 7. li5
itself naturally he o7~-eys -" ~, on.l@d
of his counsel in bah,lf - -, 10 = 5i'D
Icoun1ate raeto,.ot;o,, r - gN'.o anu ,
Friendship Lefyvcon Mt, - - impaired
Never that We ce,, ,o,,,a,',I,'- - NJUth---
| a word since hia e,1,r1-,1-,, 20 no s1iu
revive iho Fa9t;opSi a11l9.' o"icHi@ted 10
wes his GREAT examnio - 14y u
all the words he oonI3 - - man
i,os 7o,,n GU - - IL - uttered tAat
faelino wl;cr tha -, 49,, ~ ~. Stt'y Of
the steadv nurs1it Of o., - 49, - II
like that which nnrar-r7 - N.-.;i%
last vears of his IifS-o,,7 49,, ''lt' curing tae
inc Of nenitnnti1I ena1r. --o' "a me Inlt.-
ar1aro a., 10 ~, az -, go scout
90 tha ,aI,ofI;r-, ~. ts''etD-o 10 coLilcI-
and from the natian,, ,,,o,,,o,, ~ MIC
not fai. to nrai r. C+a,,ersI r.. 81 - Z 2lot''I
sense and Discretion ~ a., -. ~ - alo..
throuoh the in,ifatio, - - - 49, 4J1'
in tha Sui 81 "a - n h1-c'"li'
in Iha Gorn;na',t ,iaI;t.ai - al Hit'E
Nofth' 90 We Iook Tor tne gradual rcLara
S OF thG oiu lra'c-h4i relations Ii ua...
"o'"" INC Nv" s'etloAS to& 'h'f.
From 'ha New Na.k "~a
il is not necessary 30 race t.s;,,...4
Ice ; chn!aG'or 'Hionga ina Hour "c.fa'
which it Is bat Just TO SAY f.rat b., risr,,...
eli military ability and genius af tf..',..r.
highest order, and won n 1onus4ti.o th-
will live IN history for "a. :i~.a. g4iel--
recently, aad in ,a@ .-n. q. .--.-t...
lIiI ~ 40" 'i.5 france via t...,,., s.a.
b!I45n aatnCilF pronounced t.arr:..
Lee the greatest General OF H." "ce. Ga"
passions aroused ny t-e G-latc .tgal.aa-
IN winch re perioImc" 50 conspicuous -
p:HrC are not e, sufficiently aI.ay..d n ~.
1ouioiI 10 S4t'.2 NlAei i,a" - judge l..
Pl pr .i|,y DIS - us mcf}}H ~ comparison
VIC MiIn no. oA I1e ptoAiny1t :.o,or5 on tho
onloh soc but "hIAo j,-ete 81 ..' o5H#a-.
% =; MS ll'lc 10 RANK .a,i.n3nG tie ."eas.,.:
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21

F The only son of the Surgeon Genera, OF
the German army, and physician TO the
King of Prussia, was killed at the baltic O.
MARSHA Tour.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21

Social Statistics OF Robeson and Arson
Counties Furnished fOE the Journal
fro m the Report OF the United States
Marshal.
D0DEQnN
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-21

l College, Medical School, il Ungraded
Common, and Private Day Schools, with 385
male and 436 female students; II male and
female teachers.
RELIGION.
SbytcriGn-945 Members; 10 Church Organi-
cations; Church Edlfices; capacity IA 500 seatr;
Value of Church Property, $1A, 500.
BGptist-476 Members;7 Church OrganiZI-
tions; Church Edifces Capacity, 1910; Value
Of Church Property. $4,000
AethOdtst-48t Members; 8 Church Organi-
cations 8 Church Edifces Capacity, 5000;
Value of Church Property, 81, 500.
ANSON COUNTY.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-15

Mr.. PEABODY's HOUSES IN LoNDoN.-The Lon
don Ne,os, in noticing the workingmen's houses
erected in London, through the munificence of
the late Mr.. Peabody, says:
The first block of buildings erected by Mr.. Pea
body's money, was opened in 1864, in Spitalfeld's,
and since then other blocks have been built in
Chelsea, Bermondsey, I~slington and Shadwell.
They are not intended for habitual paupers, but,
like Miss Burdett Coutts' dwellings,, are designed
for working men and their families, especially for
those who have been crowded out of their old
houses by the recent metropolitan alterations.
'These buildings" said p well-informed writer,
a short time ago, occupy l76,9 3l square feet,
and at present there are $50 persons enjoying the
benefits of comfortable houses at n cost ranging
from Is cd to 5s per week, according to the class
Of the apartments 5s giving three good rooms in
a house drained, ventilated, with water supplies,
and dust regularly removed, with baths and laun-
dries, wringing machines and drying rOOms,w with
bath free of cost. Every kitchen is provided with
cupboards, an oven and a boiler and the families
being selected upon the principle of excluding all
persons of known immoral conduct and inteInper-
ate habits, parents are able to enjoy the sight Of
their children's sports, no longer in the pent-up
alleys and dangerous streets, but in ample and
airy spaces which form the play grounds" The
tenants Of these buildings are, with but rare ex-
ceptions, remarkable for their decent and orderly
conduct.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-15

4 LITTLE GmL'S LETTER.-Ihc most useful and
interesting letters we get from children seven or
eight wears old. This is n petrlficd truth. Happily
they have got nothing else to talk about but nome,
and neighbors and things their betters think
unworthy of transmission thousand OF miles
They write simply and naturally, and without
strain for effect. They tell all they know and
then stop. They seldom dream in abstraction or
homilies. Consequently their eplstles are prlef;
but, treating as they do of familiar scenes AID
persons, always entertaining. Now, therefore, If
you would learn the art of letter writing, let a
child teach you. | have preserved a letter from
a little girl eight years OF age-preserVed IL as a
curiosity, because it was the only letter L ever
got that had any information in it. The child
treads on my toes in every other sentence with
perfect looseness, but in the simplicity OF life she
doesn't know it. The letter ran thus
Uncle Mark, if you was here, l could tell
YOU about Moses in the bulrushes again. L know
it better now. MIR. S~owberry has got his leg
broke off a horse. He was riding it on Sunday.
Margaret, that's the maid, Margaret has taken
all the ~spittoons and slop buckets and old jugs
out of your room, because she says she doesn't
think you are coming back any more, you have
been gone too long. Sister McElrOys mother
has got another little baby. She has them all
the time. 1t has got little blue eyes like MIR.
Swinley that boards there, and looks just like
him. / have got Il new doll; but Johnny Ander-
son pulled one of the legs out. Miss Dusenberry
was here yesterday; | gave her your picture, but
she didn't want it. My cat has got more kittens
oh you can't think-twice as many as Lolita
Belden's. And there's one, such a sweet little
buff one with a short tail, and 1 named it for you.
All of them's got names nOw-Gen.G Grant and
HaHeck and Noses, and Margaret, and Deute7-
0n0mg and Capt. iSenumeS, Exodus and LeCiRcuS,
Horace Greeey-all named but one, and l am
saving it because the one L named for you's been
sick all the time since, and l reckon it'll die. lit
appears to be mighty rough on the short-tailed
for naming it for me. [ wonder how the
- Iii rko- .0N IInoIn AInrl
believe Hattie Caldwell likes you, and | know
she thinks you are pretty, because | heard her
say nothing could hurt your good looks-noth-
ing at all-she said, even if you were.to have the
smallpox ever SO bad, you would be just lis good
looking as you were before. And ma says she's
ever SO smart. {Very.) So no more this time,
because Gen. Grant ami Moses are fghting.''-
Marx IlUain.
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Word Puzzles.

Perh aIs, writes a correspondent, you would
like to have me tell you some funny things which
[ have heard about spelling and pronouncing
There is one word of only five letters, and if
you take away two of them ten will remain.
What word is that? 1t is often. If you take
away o ], ten will remain.
There is a word of FIVE letters, and if you take
away two of them six will remain. What is it?
Sixty Take away { y, six will remain.
Here is a puzzle Take away my first letter,
take away my second letter, take away all my
letters, and | am always the same. Can you
guess that? You are right it is the L.ail carrier.
There is one word which, if you changed the
place of one of its letters, means exactly the OPP
posite from what it did at first. What is the
word ? 1t is united. Place the 4 after the {, and
it becomes united.
Can yCu tell me what letter it is that has never
been used but twice in America? 1t is a; it is
used only twice in America.
Can you tell me when there were only two VOW
els ? 1t was in the days Of Noah, before you and |
were born-in the DAYS of no a, before u and /
were born.
Can you tell me when it is that the blacksmith
raises a row in the alphabet? 1t is when he
makes a poke r and shove l, "a poker and shovel)
Perhaps you can tell me why a hare is easier to
catch than an heiress? 1t is because an heiress
has an a, and a hare has none.
Now let me hear whether you can spell the fate
of all earthly things with two letters? L will tell
you-dk, decay
l suppose you often heard, or can guess, how
to spell mouse-trap in three letters You are
right. 1t is cat.
Can you tell me in one word that we took a
late breakfast? This is the way-attenuate tat
ten you ate.)
Can you tell me what word is always pro-
nounced faster by adding two letters to it? 1t is
the word fast add er to it, and it is faster.
What is the word of one syllable which, if you
take two letters from it will become a word of
R-a c-IloIIog w., r,,e% -, 81 --oo, 49, e.
it is my last puzzle. 1t is plague take pl, and it
becomes ague.
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brother said he should want a new GRAND boy III
Il few days, for his store, and he'd give a good one
3 Il week. Now, I'll see him to-day, and get
the situation for YOU if you like"
The boys white face frightened. n L
should be so glad of it, Mrs. Beach"
.And see here Joseph, I'm going to market,
| and perhaps | can find something nice for little
Mary" The lady remembered that Joseph1s
mother though a poor seamstress, was a very
proud woman, and felt that TINS would De q deLi-
cate way of presenting her gltt.
So she found some delicate pears and grapes,
and a nice chicken 20 make some broth for Mary,
who as she learned, was i'll with a fever, before
she proceeded to do her own marketing. But lt
was a pity that the lady did not see Joseph, as ne
snrang into the chamber, where little Mary lay
wearilg moaning on her bed, while her mother sat
busiIv stitching in one corner, and held up the
chicken and the fruit, crying" Good news! good
news. I've got all these nice things for Mary,
and a place at two dollars a week ~
o! how little Mary,s hot hngers closed over the
punches of grapes, while the sewing dropped from
her mothers fingers, as the tears ran down her
cheeks.
1t was evening, and Mrs. Beach sat in the
library, absorbed in some new book. when she
heard her husbands step in the hall. Though
the morning had been SO pleasant, the afternoon
was cloudy, and the day had gone down in a low,
sullen penetrating rain.
Now Mrs. Beach loved her husband with the
love of a true wife but he was not a demOnstra-
tive man, and the first beauty and poetry OF their
married life had settled down into a somewhat
bare, everyday matter-offact existence. But her
heart was warm to-nIght-warm with the good
deeds of the day, and remembering her resolution OF
the morning, she threw down her book and ran
stairs.
ssHenry, dear, said the soft voice of his wife,
&c has the rain wet you at all? Let me take Oft
your coat for you"
ssThank you, Mary, | don't believe I'm any
injured, but you may help me just for the
of it." And he stood still, while she
the heavy coat with all the softness of
touch and movement which belongs to a woman.
She hung it up, and the husband drew her to his
heart with all the old lover tenderness.
You are very thoughtful Of me, Mary, my
he said.
And there was music in Mrs. Beach, heart as
she went up ~stairs-music set to the words
: Eyes open eyes open !"-Anhur'S Home Ga
.eXp.
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A SHAM PARALYTIC.-A correspondent OF the
4ryau and Navy Journal cites n case OF ielgned
paralysis, as a complement to a remarkable story
in All the Year Round, entitled "TweDty-one
ssTwenty-one Months of Silence . recalls to
nv mind a somewhat similar deception, which
came under my observation while captains clerk
of the United States ship p, in l848, when fog
ging was customary in the navy. We had a
col0red man on board, Charles Speedy by name,
who, from some cause or other, had offended our
captain, and whenever punishment was ordered,
poor Speedy was sure to come in for his dozen.
After drawing up the formal document for the
captains signature, he would invariably say to
me sis Charles Speedy's name there if not,
put him down general disobedience of orders
twelve lashes.'
The poor devil finally became tired of this con-
slant h0gging, and so was taken sick with a sort
of paralysis and placed on the sick list, and, OF
course, while under the surgeons hands, was ex-
cmpt from punishment. Whenever he walked
his whole body shook and trembled in a singular
manner, which ceased as soon as he sat down
again. Perhaps our kind hearted surgeon was
not imposed upon, but only influenced by pity.
but kept him on the sick list until our arrival at
the Sandwich Islands, where he was left in hos
pital. | also left the p. ut Honolulu, and three
days after her departure | met Speedy, completely
cured, and walking as erect as if he had never
had n sick day in his life. lie has never denied
to me that this illness was all a deception, and it
lasted many months. He remained several years
at the Sandwich Islands, and opened a barber
shop, and finally disappeared between two days,
in debt. At present he is in New
York, where I often see him. He engages in
whitewashing and carpet-shaking during the
but in the winter usually becomes sorely
pressed for money, and then he calls upon me for
trifiing loans, which, as an old ~shipmate, he
never fails to get.
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Eanlhert,s Violet Ink

GONE OF THIS UNRIvALLED INK, ON
- hand and for sale III 10 cent, 81 and 81 so bottles.
esq I'm II. VI. WHITNEY.
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Back numbers 81 the leading Magazines, also Of Harp,
Weekly, Leslis's Illustrated ana the LONDON News-aIwaya
hand. Files made up ut short notice for whalemen and r.
elers.
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Indexed Mem. Books.

A VERY CONVENIENT ARTICLE FOf
n Bill Collectors and others Pcr sn'> BY
COS Al "A. WHFrNEA
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-11-11
Wheel In! Wheel mi!

Wheel in the Democratic ranks
For hearts beat high, aud hands are here
To greet old friends with many thanks
And hail them, too, with many a cheer.
What though, lost brothers. one by one,
Yol left us midst the battle din,
Now welcome back Shine out, bright sun
Take up your arms Wheel in
Wheel in new friends are passing near,
To join the struglge-wheel
Advance sensations now, Of fears,
Are not for gallant hearts to feel
Stern memories come OF darker days,
When vainly Valor strove 10 win
The clouds are gone Shine out, bright rays
Take up your arms Wheel in
Wheel in though dust and shadows thus
Obscured our dense but broken lines
Though Waterloo il seemed TO us,
Yet now again the sunlight shines.
Hard hands are clasping hands as hard
Our thickening ranks await the din
No power can now our course retard
Take up your arms Wheel in
Wheel in the poor mans place is here;
Mechanics form In solid line
For Equal Rights we'll persevere
Let White men everywhere combine
No more is heard, ''What Of the night ?"
The shroud Of darkness grows more thin
Tue watchword, soldiers, Victory Right
Take up your arms Wheel in
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-11-11
ONLY A SHADOW.

story is told Of well-known gentle
man who sometimes imbibes too freely of
the ardent, going home late at night rece Mt.
~ and installing his shadow outlined on
the door for a man. He paused a little in
surprise, and then lifted his hat, very grace
fully, babe him good evening.
The shadow initiated his politeuess by
raising his hat, but of course said nothing.
"A very pleasant evening" said the gen
tleman.
No reply.
This is my house, L believe, waving his
band.
The hand of the shadow went through
the same graceful curve
Il should like to get in sir, if you'll stand
aside but the shadow made no movement
to let him pass.
The gentleman was evidently surprised
He repeated his desire to pass in but the
shadow remained still.
His wife hearing her husbands voice
looked through The window blind, and see l..
ing no one but himself asked why he didn't
come 10.
so I would, my dear, but this gentle.
man, pointing to the shadow, insists in
blocking up the door,
His wife quietly opened The door, re-
marking that was your shadow
Indeed, said the puzzled citizen well
now | thought he was a mighty fine look.
ing fellow to be so impolite,' and went in
Whenever he shows disposition now to
remain out late at night, his wife has only
to remind him of the shadow on the door
step to insure a speedy return.