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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

Company great amount 3: injury, and
on that account I have replied to it in a
public manner"
DEATH OF DENNIS HEARTT.-A telegram
from Hillsboro to the Sentinel, informs
that paper of the death of Dennis Heartt,
Esq, of that town, on Friday morning at
8 O'Clock. He was born in Connecticut in
the year 1888 and, consequently, was. in his
87th year. He emigrated to North
Carolina more than half a century ago.
and in 1920 began the publication of tue
Hillsboro Recorder which was edited and
published by him until about one year
ago. He was the oldest of the editorial
fraternity, in the State, and is universally
regretted. He was n good man, had led
a pure and upright life and leaves behind
him the light of christian works.
House BURNED.-The dwelling house of
Mrs. Ellen Beachman, says the Argus, in
the Lanes creek neighborhood, was burn
ed few days ago, with all its contents.
All her money, (she had sold her cotton a
short time previously,) bacon, flour. corn,
wheat, all were taken or burned. 1t was,
no doubt, the work of an incendiary, for
the purpose of hiding the robbery.
Another family occupied one part OF the
house. They, too lost all.
THE JUDGES UNDER THE New REGIME
In the last number Of the Supreme Court
Reports, there are one hundred and twenty
cases decided at January Term, 1870. By
reference to the Reports, it will be seen
that the District Judges are sustained in
but forty four cases, whilst the Sapreme
find error il the rulings in seventy cases
The number of cases decided by the re-
apeotivo .TudCas ia AZ fOlIOWS
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
CIlARLEY,S CRAVE

fa a. family burying ground in DupIin County
may be seen little plat of ground bordeIed by
lied CharIey's grave-laid off and decorated by
g. Mothers hand for the last resting place OF her
,zt born. But poor Charley sleeps not here.
tolv lies with the unknown" in some stranger
tvrfgI place.
sweet daughters of the South Land, in whose
,afance his young life went oat, III charity streW
,-lrr choicest flowers on tho grave of this ''un-
Lnown,'' for beneath is precious dust. hsllowed
sv 8 mothers love, and here lies all that remains
a. one who was the idol Of his parents, tho hight
al his home End the Joy 3f his friends.
In MEMORIAN.
*CuARLFS CARROLL USHER, OF the Third
North Carolina Cavalry, was killed in skirmish
car Hanover Court House, Va, on the 22d
I2y, 1864.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

A Quincy correspondent of the Tallahas-
see Floridian relates the following incident
as having occurred in Court there recent
l.:
"a negro juror was asked by the acting
States Attorney if he had taken an oat in
any secret organization when acting as a
juror not to bring in verdict against any
one of his color where a white man was
interested. he replied he had. The Judge
Immediately ordered his name TO be strick-
en- from the list of jurors"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

In marrying young white girl to a
smart mulatto in the presence OF num-
Der of the dignitaries of Western town,
Justice Garrett said: 'In the name of the
Great Jehovah. the Continental Congress
and the Fifteenth Amendment, / pro-
nounce you husband and WIFE
The editor of the Clark county, Wiscon-
sin, Republican says be is willing to give
the fair one who sent him q valentine a
practical illustration of locking up a
FORM
VIM. nj. Evarts has been paid by the
government $57, ,545 lawyers fees during
the past six years.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
FORMS OF AFFIDAvITs.

- County: A. B., being duly sworn,
says he accurately measured the land upon
which G. II. raised crop of - the PAST
season, and the quantity of land 10 -
acres and no more.
l0lSncd. Alb.
Sworn to before me, this - day of
--, loT--.
- County: c. D., being sworn, says
he raised 4 crop OF - the past season
upon the land measured by A. b., and that
the quantity of grain raised thereon was
-- bushels and no more, Tor measured
in seal half bushel rs the case may be,)
and that the statements in regard to the
manner of cultivation, &C., are correct, TO
the best of his knowledge.
Signed ID.
Sworn to before me this - day of
-. 1870.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

This, according to the Philadelphia
Press, is what is going on in that unrecon-
structod city 1" There is now a perfect
carnival of crime going on in our midst.
The thud of the bludgeOn, the gleam of
the knife, and the sharp report OF the re-
yolver have become familiar to the ewes
and ears of ell our citizens. Organized
bands of roughs walk our streets at night.
to the terror of all peaceable citizens, and
when they fail to furnish the daily item
for the reporters. the policeman steps in
to fill the gap"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
Thrilling Description OF the Accident al
the Capitol.

Ebert Fowler, Esq writes to the Bris
toll NeUs most graphic description of his
experience il going down with the Capitol
floor. We give a few extracts:
To my right were Meredith, Neeson and
Ellyson ; to my left were Wells, Chandler,
Chahoon, Senators kindrick and Hern-
don; Immediately in my front were DR..
Brock and the reporters of the city press,
while Patrick Henry Aylett sat about two
feet on my left; in my rear were Robert
Miller, of Montgomery, Henry Bowen,
of TazeWeil, and Stubbs, OF Gloucester
all members of the House ; by my side
were two old men whose heads we're white.
At this instant, ere I had beer three min
utes in the room, there was .oud, sharp
report, followed by one louder and sharp
er than before; the main girder immediate
" beneath me broke, the floor assumed n
funnel shape, a sort Of sympathetic shud-
der ran through the vast crowd, and IN an
instant of time, ere we could start ca move,
We were hurled and dashed down twenty
eight feet into the hal of the House
of Delegates AS We sank with that
peculiar wave and tremor that accompa-
nies a falling body, amid the general shout
[ looked upward and oh, horror of hor-
rors the gallery, with all its human
freight and heavy floor, its death-dealiDg
timbers aud jagged nails, the cierl. 3 Office
with all lis ponderous deska ami huge
books, the stairway that lead ont 10 the
roof, the lofty ceiling with its great wood
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

STATEMENTS To BE MADE BY COMPETITIONS
ON THE FIELD CROPS.
l. The land must be measured by some
competent person, who shall make affidavit
of the accuracy of the measurement and
the quantity OF ground
2. The applicant shall make affidavit,
according to the forms annexed, to the
quantity OF grain raised on the ground,
entered on the premium list, which afiiaa-
Wit must accompany the application fox
premiums, together With a sample OF the
grain.
3. A detailed certified account OF ex-
pense Of cultivation must be made the
expense OF labor and manure stated; and
the kind of manure used.
4. The kind and condition of soil: the
quantity and kind Of seed used; the time
of planting or sowing stated Samples of
grain and vegetables produced, to be ex
hiDited at the State Fair, where practica
bic, and also to be sent to the Executive
Committee at Raleigh prior to the meet
ing Of the Committee In December.
3. The grain must be either weighed or
measured in legal half bushel, corn to be
measured In the ear, and al average speci-
men of not less than 20 bushels Of ears,
cleaned and weighed or measured,
az above, after the 10Th of November, ans!
the number of bushels thus eatiulatcd in
the aft lavit.
The premiums in the above will be
awarded by the Executive Comulittee at a
meeting to be held in December, 1870, buf
for grass and other crops housed by the
1st of October, the awards will be made
during the next Fair.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
COTTON PLANTERS,
STOU GAN save TIME AND MONEY
Z dealing directly with the


Z dealing directly with the
NORTH CAROLINA
AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE,
NEWBERN, n. O.
Foster Cotton Planters Lancaster Cotton
Planters, Dickson Georgia Steel Sweeps, 90
Do not stocked, 90
Mitchell < Allen Cotton Plows,........... 90
3orum Cotton Plows Observation-Disclosures. 90
Flows No. 6, 10, II, so, So 50 each.
Cotton Gins, all kinds.
Cotton Presses OF every make. Address
MITCHELL, ALLEN Il CO.,
Newborn, N. G.
april S-3m
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
MARRIED.

In Sampson County, on the 18th instant. by
the Rev. Mr.. Il. MoAlpine, Mr.. ROBEhE ~
11ineton N. C., 10 Mis, VIRGINIA F. BARDEN,
Ian@hter CT Mr. John Barden, OF Sampson
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
EXPERIMENTS AND EssAYs-

For each of the two best experiments
or series of experiments on the fol-
lowing subjects, premium as fol-
lows:
l. Effects lin profit and ioss) of the
usual mode of saving corn fodder by
stripping the green blades and cut
ting off the tops, $40
2. Cost and effects of sub. soil plow.
ing, under different circumstances
OF soil and sub-soil. SO
>. Action or non action of lime as ma
nure above the falls of the tide water
rivers, $40
4. Action or non-action of gypsum be-
low the falls of the tide water rivers
and on soil respectively rich and
originally poor, and on the latter
after as well as before their being
made calcareous, $40
5. Cost and effects of bone dust, for
phosphate Of lime) as manure, $40
g. How late, in reference to the growth,
the last tillage, by ploW or cultiva-
tor, should be given to corn for the
best product; and whether the said
last tillage should be shallow or
deep, S.
7. Best series of comparative expert
ments in the guilty alton of corn, SO
s. Benefits and products of guano,
compared to costs; to be tested by
not less than three different expert
ments, made under circumstances
moro OF less different, $40
.. benefits or profits of preserving or
applying human excrements as ma
nurc, whether prepared for sale and
distant transportation or otherwise,
but the whole operation to be in
North Carolina, $40
10. Tide marsh mud, or swamp muck
or peaty soil, (either kind to be ac-
oA<,Irr I L.
ized,) as manure, in compost with
lime or otherwise, $40
II. Value Of charcoal as an aid to fer
tiIity, So
II. Value of sulphate of barytos as RI
manure, eapecielly for clover, $5
IL. IoOaccO- Culture, cost and profits
Of cultivating, and comparative eff
fects on production, from different
distances of planting, modes Of pri-
ming, topping, &c., comprising at
least three different experiments, 80
II. Cultivation and comparative feed
ing value of Rye, %
For each of the best five, on any of the
following subjects, premium, as follows
ESSAYS OR WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS.
1. On enriching and improving poor
land-whether naturally poor, or
naturally rich, or good, and sub6e-
quently exhausted by severe crop
ping, $40
2. On draining, Sc
B. On rotation of crops, $5
4. On the accumulation, preparation
and application of the stock yard
and stable manure, $40
3. On the ''green sand' or gypseous
earth of lower North Carolina as
manure-and the facts and causes
of effect or non-effect, So
6. On the properties and value Of the
Southern pea Tor ''cornfeld pea" of
any variety, and the culture thereof,
whether for saving the pea ripened,
or ploughing under the growth,
green or dry, for manure, and as
preparation for wheat or other grain
crops, 80
Z. Best essay on the advantages of
Red Clover as hay, and as fer
tilizer, $40
KEN p. BATTLE, President.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
RATES OF ADVERTIRING

square, of 10 lines or less, for each and every
insertion, 81.
Special Notices will be charged 5000 pers square
f0reachand every insertion.
All Obituaries and private publications OF every
charac ter, are charged as advertisements.
sS-No advertisement. rejecting upon private
character, can, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, By
admitted.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
Warning to husbands.
From the Revolution-edited by ATian Gre"r
ANTHONY.

From the RevOlUtlOn-edifHd hp Mian &"r"r d.
Anthony.l
Tie great want of women at present is
money-money for their personal wants,
and money to carry out their plans. I
propose that they shall earn, that they
shall consider it as honorable to work for
money as for board, and I demand for
them equal pay for equal work. [ demand
that the bearing and rearing of children,
the most exacting of employments, and
involving the most terrible risks, shall be
the best paid work in the world, and hus-
bands shall treat their wives with at least
as much consideration, and acknowledge
them entitled to as much money, as wet
nurses.
The meaning of this is, that wives are
about to strike for greenbacks so much
for every baby born. No greenhacks, no
more population, no more boys to carry
on the great enterprises of the age. The
scales of prices for maternal duties are as
fellows
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

500 TO $3.50 Hss Issd '"os@ gt@s 9S@s9n, pay.~
Wages paid weekly to Agents everywhere, selling
our Patent STEER Mould White Wre Clothes
Laes. Business permanent. For full particu-
lars, address
GIRARD WIRE MILLS, Philadelphia, pa.
april % 12-weow2m*
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
he Decrease in the Negro Population of
South Carolina,

General Haygood, in his recent address
as President of the Charleston Agricultural
and Immigration Convention, made the
following statement with reference to the
decrease of the negro population of South
Carolina3
In 1890, it numbered 1O7 900; in 1900,
1876, 6,0OO;l81O. 1876, 900; in 1920. 25O, 900; in
1880. 315, 900; in 1910, $4,000; in 1850,
394, 900; in 1860, 100000.
According to the annual average, from
1910 to 1860, the population of freedmen
in 1865 may be presumed to have been
421, 900. But according to the State census
of 1869. it had diminished to 386, 600, leav-
ing deficiency of $4,000, or an average
of 8,776 per annum in the State of South
Carolina alone
If might be allowed TO speculate on
this question, I would say that, in my
opinion, the decrease has been not less
than $4,000. But taking the figures them
selves. even at that rate, in less than forty
four years, the entire colored population
of South Carolina will have disappeared.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

The above afiidavits may be made by the
owner or manager OF the farm.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

Terms-C o. d. No credit beyond first
child. the motto being, "Pay up or dry
up" Husbands who desire to transmit
their names to posterity will please notice
and take a new departure.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20

Petition to sell
Real Estate
to make it
Assets.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-19
domestic Nems.

The Portland papers announce the death OF
James Harmon, Esq, of that city, which
took place last Thursday, after long con-
finement, of heart disease. Mr.. Harmon was
a native Of Portland and practical printer.
He served part Of his apprenticeship with
Messrs. Day & Sumner, who then published
the lions Advocate, and was afterwards con-
nected for number Of years with the Eastern
Argus, at one time carrying on the printing
Of it by contract, with Elijah Williams and
VIM. A. Toby. With Mr.. Williams he also
at the time carried on a large job Office. Mr..
Harmon was mail agent between Portland
and Boston during Mr. Buchanan's admins
tration. In 1868 he was member of the City
Council, and again in 1862 being President
Of the Board the last year. Last year he was
Vice President of the Maine Charitable Me-
chanic Association, and only the Thursday
preceding his death was reelected for the
coming year.
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FASUINGTO.N NEWS.

President Grant has signed eighty two bills
| and vetoed one since he came into office.
Once more Vallandigham, it is said, is
looking eagerly towards the halls of Congress
and anxiously hoping to obtain enterance
therein.
The Savannah Republican, bitter organ
of the rebellion, has come out in favor of
Chase as the next Democratic candidate for
President and Gov jenkins of Georgia for
Vice President.
1t is stated that thorough canvass of the
L. S. Senate shows that the Bingham amend
ment stands no chance whatever of being
adopted, although its advocates are working
energetically to secure its passage.
Gen. Butler has not been overruled by the
Judiciary Committee in his determination to
compel DIR. Bliss to tell who had received
have to make the statement demanded or go
to Jail.
The bounty bill passed by the House in
February is not likely to be acted on in the
Senate. 1t was intended to reach the soldiers
who enlisted under the call of July, 1861, and
were discharged for disability by reason of
sickness before the expiration of their two
years service. The late decision of the SUI
preme Court in the case of Major Hosmer,
18th Massachusetts Volunteers, settled the
point at issue and renders the bill unneces-
sary. The Treasury Department is receiving
applications for this bounty, and good deal
of money will be taken out before the whole
thing is settled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-19

The 9th division of the Isl collection district
(Internal Revenue) composed of the towns of
Buxton, Hollis, Limerick Lmington, Cornish
vision No. 3 (Sylvester Littlefcld, asst as
sessor) has been Recognised by adding to it
the towns Of Marlborough and Lyman from
division 4, and the towns Of Buxton and Linz
crick from division ;. Division No Charles
Hill assistant asscssor)has been re-organized
by taking therefrom the towns of Waterbor-
ough and Lyman, and adding thereto the
towns of Hollis, Limington, Cornish and
Parsousticll.
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FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, April Is.
SENATE. The Senate having passed Mr..
Edmund's resolution directing the judiciary
Committee to investigate the reported cor
ruption among Senators on the Georgia bill,
resumed consideration of that bill.
Mr.. Drake made long argument in favor
of his amendment authorizing the President
to send L. ). troops into rebellious and dis
turbed districts of the South.
A lengthy debate was held between Messrs.
Sumner and Carpenter, on the question of
constitutional power, after which the Senate
held an executive session and then took a re-
cess.
At the opening of the evening session five
Senators were present, and after waiting Is
minutes six more came in and the Senate adj
journcd.
House.. Mr.. Painc's bill for the appoint
ment of members of Congress was passed, Sc
to SO. 1t provides that after March Sd, 1871,
the House of Representatives be composed of
275 members, appointed among the state, now
in the Union, and the basis of representation
be ascertained by the Sec,y of the Interior,
from the preliminary census report. No state
is to lose any members in the 42d Congress,
and if the new apportionment increases the
number of Representatives from any state,
LUOse lot Tue f-u SOuSitss Uc Dt
the state at large.
The memorial from the survivors of the
25th Penn. regiment, and resolution direct
ing the presentation of suitable medal to
each member of the battalion first to arrive at
Washington April 10Th, 1861, was referred to
the Military Committee of the Whole.
The paragraph of the Tariff bill taxing flax
hemp and other vegetable yarns, forty per
cent. ad valorum, and buttons, dress orna-
ments and articles of gutta percha, or India
rubber, was passed without amendment.
The discussion of Mr.. Griswolds amend
mcnt to the pig iron paragraph, reducing the
duty from to dollars per ton, occupied the
session till the recess, and was participated in
by Messrs Kelly, Alison Logan, Butler and
others.
Mr.. Allison offered an amendment that the
duty on all kinds of manufactured iron be re-
duced rs per cent, provided in no case it be
less than So per cent ad valornm.
The entire evening session was occupied in
debate between the Pennsylvania and West
ern members on pig iron, and finally the
House adopted &c to Ga Mr.. Buffers amend
mendment to reduce the duty s. per ton.
Adjourned.
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FROM HALIFAX.

HALIFAX, n. S., April 49,
The Prince Edwards Island Legislature
has rejected 10 to 5 the resolution in favor Of
confederation with Canada.
The Nova Scotia assembly has enacted that
future elections shall be by ballot and unani-
mously agreed to resolution condemnatory
of the Dominion Government and national
policy.
The New Foundland assembly protests to
Earl Granville against the withdrawal of the
English troops from the colony, which is not
able to protect itself, and too loyal and i'm
portant to be left unprotected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-19

woman read in the papers that it was
fashionable to powder the hair for parties, so
she loaded her chgnon and her side pufs with
half pound of gunpowder. She looked well,
that woman did but during the evening she
happened to bend over drop light and there
was just one energetic and vigorous "siz!'
Perhaps that woman isn't disguised and NOR
tilted and sick of style and Paris modes and
perhaps she isn't anxious to purchase a sym
metrical wig, and to construct pair of arti-
fetal eyebrows
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-04-19

Don't stir the ground with plow or spade,
II field or garden, till the soil will crunble
up fine as it is turned and falls. In this case,
it will remain light all summer for the roots
of plants to penetrate readily but if it is at
all wet or clammy when it is stirred, it will
stick together like putty and soon become
hard by drying, and continue so through the
season. Be careful then, and wait till the up
turned soil will break into fine particles as it
falls from the pillow or the spade. Another
thing there is nothing gained by committing
seed to the earth before the ground becomes
warm and the weather is propitious. You
cannot hurry dame Nature. Let her tell you
when she is ready for the seed.