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LA PREUvE QUE LIE Sol DEs Alta
KAPAs EST 1NCoNTEsTABLEMENT DEs
PLUS FERTILEs.-Nous aVons, dams un
num6ro de notre journal, qui ma guere
endoss6 qu'une yieillesse de six semaI"
pes, cite un fait de f6condite extraOrdi-
re : une femme de couleur, a Abbeville,
paroisse VermilIon, qui nit au monde
quatre descendants de la race atricaine'
Auiourd ct maintenant, il s'agit dun
cas- peu ordinaire chez la race blanche
qui q 6prouvG tant de commotions diver
ses, qu'elle t6moigne, g6D6ralement par
LIANT, dune d6g6n6rescence incontesta-
BILE certains patriarches ont Vecu des
9OO.ans ct, dams lie XIXe steele, les
privil6giGs n'atteignent pas toujours ~
ans.
Nous nous sommes encore laiss6 en-
trainer par le courant des digressions;
mais la bride est mise au coursier frin-
giant de imagination et' au petit pas
il va parcourir rarene de la r6alit6.
lily quinze jours de celia, ct dams Get
Eldorado qu'on nomme les Attakapas'
une femme dune blanche envelope
nit au monde, beaucoup trop tot, trois
petites blanches creatures qui n'avaient
pas s6iourn6 assez longtemps dams le
sein de leur mere. Comme les pharma
ciens sont, par professions, a meme de
recueillir certains details qui ne par
viennent pas toujours a la connaissanoe
des iournalistes, nous avons enprunte
ce fait aux acquisitions yari6es de notre
estimable concitoyen, Mr.. Latiolssis'
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PREMIERE COMMUNION. - Dimanche
dernier etc, VermiIlonville, un jour
OH IN grand nombre d'enfants des deuz
sexes ct de jeunes personnes en- renouN
vehement Sc sont approaches de la sainte
table pour recevoir leur R6dempteur.
L'orgue ct les ch9urs, parmi lesquels il
y de jeunes talents, ont contribu6 d
donner a cette cGrGmonie un caehet
auguste ct en- meme temps imposant.
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plus de profit que sur les terres hautes
de pAlabRma ct de l'Arkansas. Je suis
pIeinetnent convaincu, d'apr9s mon e1-
p6rience de ce printemps, qua celni qui
ma pas Ia connai5sance des Attakapas,
devrait aussi faire usage du drainage
dams cette cCntree.
Mes veches de l'Ayreshirs sont dams
de bonnes conditions, ct promettent,
aveo peu de soin, de s'acclimater sans
inconv6nient.
Votre, etc.
j. E. TORREN &c.
z juin 1873.
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I@le d,ua Chemln de fer.


y AaHhal des Etats.U Unis nit
!. ..s.'al, 7endredi dernier, 10 che
g ier Dc Ia Nouvelle,orlaans,
!, y Texas, d'aprss m avis in,
aaasee journal depuis un mois.
{, midi, on yoyait devant Ia
=, - au lien Dc Ia vente, IN grand
~. Y V peFsonnes raunies, atten-
4. Venue de Mr. Packard, non
NJ. sesllea d5sirassent aoheter.
GO. oassaea supplement par La
~. asl's a'assister i une vente oa
!. question Dc 81 crosses som,
IL |, ,.l'tions Dc Ia yente furent
o,ss !. 'o'ls ttait prat pour les ac-
~ ,''l's ain Qu'ils pussent choisir
" lots N''''''
eIl.n., ion % Mobile j ii Nou-
ans ipt oiBerte. Ia seule
eelle a AIr. II. j. Gard
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Insertions LegaleS.
AVIS IMPORTANT.

Bureau du Collecteur des Taxes PEtat ct
de paroisse.
Vermillonville, 81 mars 1873.
Toutcs les personnes intGress6es sont
prices lie prendre note one, par un Acte
special, tous les delinquants ont etc de-
charges des peines ct intGrets pour nom
Placement des taxes dues, pourvu, toute-
fois, que ces taxes soient pay6es dams les
quatrd-rGagt-dic jonrs partir du Ia du
present mois. A default d'exGcution de
paiement, les peines ct interets seront
maiatenus, CONNIE FrecGdemment-
I. MARTIN,
CUllecteur.
NM. Z. l.. SALES OF D. A. CoCKHAN
sont ddment autorises par moi, CONNIE
mes deputies.
LIE Bureau pour Ia collection dUs Taxes
est rue Main, a YermillonvilIe.
f. MARTIN, Collccteur
2a--3m dc Taxes d'Etat ct dc paroisse.
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TBMPs.-Que dire de cette peIsistan-
ce du CieI a deverseF sur nous le pro-
duit de ses chagrins domestiques Som
mes-nous trop heureux pour gull nous
envoie un tel correetif! HelaS! n'etait-
ee done pas assez de Grant q Gle pour
notre affliction. sans que lie Ciei y mela'
ses incessants grains de plaie qui de-
truisent 10 pain des traVailleurs !
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CARTE DEs TERREs FORFAITEs. -
Nous lemons la dispositions des per-
sonnps qui peuvent en- avoir besoin pour
Sc renseigner sur la position exaote de
ces terres, la carte topographIque qui
repr6sente leur situation dams cette Sec
ton. Prix de cette carte : SIS, ct la liste
descriptive 50 so.
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=! .4.5i5f7EssTON DE JOBS

. I'M. s.psce, eoncernant les Carries
D Ios3s sID.,,ss I ID Features, les Regus' les
3, Z lll55i,9E 55i,9EDtsrrement, les Affiches GU
BSI.s.,d.. Sils,sd ! lbs Briefs d'avooats, etc, Ie
PIlsala,' aslnoy.nfement ct soigneusenent i'm
t5I " P'y .oit en- anglais on en- franG@is'
PnnSS' S lss y, ordrBs sont laiss6s d notre bq
lll1u .'s pp' Washington, pres lie bureau de
~, ~, an donn6s a notre Agent
E0s0' : .-Prix ModerGs..--
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youreIles des Chomins dc fer.

IA vents du chemin dc fer Nous
uHeorIaans, Mobile & Texas, fut
royoqu6e par les porteurs deOil>
r,Hons de cette Compagnie, ct Ton
goit oue les acheteurs, qui sopt les
nsmbres dune nouvelIe Compa~
ns organis6e reinforcement pour
,,beyer Ia vote dTci au Texas, va
jccuper imm5diatement de faire
ariger les trayaux pour atteindre
70 but.
Les operations au-dela de Donald
SnyilIe ont 6t6 suspendues pour un
utain temps. Les membres de
ancienne Compagnie mont pu SEN
tsndre lougtemps entire eux, ct des
Wmplications sont survenues par
h fait de Mr.. Charles Morgan ct
fautres membres.
Il etait evident pour les actions
iaires ct pour les porteurs d'obliN
llations que les travaux du chemin
lls fer no pouvaient pas continuer
Imgtenlps, ct celia en- raiSOn de Pes
AZ des chooses. lie cr6dit do la Com.
mrnia 6tait altere par ees dissiden-
@s, ct une reorganization 6tait i'm.
arieuse. La faillite etait necessai-
npour sauyegarder les int6rtts des
pateurs d'obligatioDs, quOiqu'l sott
lnisemblabIe que 81 tous les ittte'
Rss6s avaient pu s'entendre, on au'
hit pu eviter &c fatal d6nouement
pour un grand nombre des action
niFes.
Dams tout celia, 10 point interes-
can't pour ID population louisianaise
ut FaCh6yement de la ligne JUS
EaH Texas, ct nous sommes infor-
nS d'apras les meilleures autorit6s,
OHe u travail d'aCh6yement sera
poursuivi sans d6lai. Lopposition
iiie, tout r6eemment, d la vente
par Mr. Kellogg, CONNIE gouver-
nuE, ct par d'autres, n'empechera
asla yente qai est consid6ree CON-
nsparfaitement ltgale ct exempte
q iaqs empechenlents. Certains
Rlaonnages qui agaient quelques
Hisona Do compter sur des b6n6fi.
US dla yente ne s'etait pas effec-
i& % tropyent aujourd'hui passa-
Clement dtsappointts.
Aaintenant, touchant les bruits
aaOat couru de Ia perte qu'6prou,
aait lEtat pour des qualifications
lall laurait aecord6es d eette Com
Fgale, nous pouyons assurer qu'ils
@tsa0s fOndement.
laehenin d'ici Mobile a etc con.
aialt avec Iargent des actionnai.
Me pas IN dollar provenant de
'aisso Dc pEtat de la Louisiane
" sl4 dome a Ia Compagnie; seu.
y portion du chemin entire la
S'aVele0Fldans ct DonaIdsonville d
sla si5Q,OOO en- bonds de l'Etat.
aaQaS sommes excitement rem.
aset nous avons pulse aux
cures sources,--il est permis
aAeiteF Ia population louisiana.
a perspective d'ayoir mainte.
~ chemin de fer qui la con.
''fa 81 Texas.
lafadeit da Picayuae.)
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Nos Agents.

MEyNIER Jor. a Ia Nouvelle-
w.. u. q ost d6ment autorisG d faire des
il,aga i,.larsmerts au CoTToN-BoIL ct au SU-
iaollDS,pTDa BoW,I en- recevuir 10 montant ct a
4 ioaner quittance' nrro
= ,sats1a Nouvelle-O -OrlGans-Mr. THO
gs s'I MCINTYRE, No. II, Commercial
W.ns
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IT Ut. EEANSEEL,
3D. F"hticaht ct Importatcur
DE SEJLFRIE.

Ruiz dos Mngasjns, No. "a, NIlc-Orlrans,
A pu%St Il vcudre I'M fort lot de mar
rhNnUiSrS pr0vcmmt dies vcntes du Con
rnnemrnt, tcllrs que Couvertures, Ettcts
dhahllrmemt, etc., etc,
l2mar--lN
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A UGUsTE C. mELCmTOR,

Carencro, Paroisse Lafayette,
NJ. Melchior eXercora sa profession dams
les p rOisses d'Iberie, Vermillon, St. Mar.
tin, st. Landry ct Lafayette.
Les Mercredi ct Samedi, on 10 trouvera
a son bureau, Office du Collecteur de Ia
xes, Vermillonville.'
Les autres jours sur rhabitation Rice,
an CarcucTO.
NJ. Melchior SO charge aussi dc colleos
li0ns.
lily
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Lc Nclleur SgHsOP contre Ia TOUX
dams lie monde

Est erInl TUl COmp0rt0 TeIficacitC,
lagrGablc ct lc bon marchG.
lie SlROP PrctorHl Balsamiunr de DU-
EONGk rempIit toutes ccs conditions; il
est 81 AGREEABLE an palais que los cnfpnts
le preuncnt avcc plaisir; il est compose de
telle sortc quill ne tcrmcntc .jamais ct pcut
Gtre employG jusqu'a Ia dernitro goutte,
ce qui est un avantagc pour la pochc; ct,
entim, autre consideration, c'est sa supG-
ri"rite dams les cas- de Rhumes, Catarrhcs,
Bronrhrcs, Crachcments de sang, MauN
dc gorge ct TouX aigues, qui est rec0nnno
par tons ceuX qWi en- ont use elepuis trenr
te ans. --- Uscz-cn ct yOuS en- Screz con
yaincu. +. P.MEi irCONGE,
Pharmacitn ct Dr0guiste cn grosr
5m---1y 80, rue dc Chartres, Nllc-Orl.
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LA FLoRA.-Le steamboat du Capt.
Pharr, mettant a profit la hauteur dc
l'eau dams lie bayou Yermillon' Went
maintenant tout pres da pont oa on Pon
peut le trouyer tous les meTcredis.
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NOUVELLES LOCALES.

NoUtEAt MAGAs,N. - lie Dr.. Del
mouIy a aohet6 le stock des marchen-
discs de Mr.. j. Falk, ct ouvert an ina
gasin, rue Lafayette.
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MERCUREALE.

Nouvelle-Orleans, JUN 1873,
(Pour lc march6 du Sucre ct Cotton, voycz
Ia partie Anglais.)
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ID UPTURE GUEREE
Ii par le
nr & 0ILEAIE.

(de Ia Faculte dc MGdecinc De Paris)
Specialize pour lc Traitemeut de toutes
les diffurmitGs du corps.
N. 8, rue st. Oh rles, Nlle-Orleans, lie.
On peut Sc procurer Ia brochure ct ~
circulaire de la lnGthode de traitement du
DR.. Folleau, On envoyant de5 timbres
p0ste z O. Box 20l9.
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FLOR

.ksa54L IL Paquebot entire Brashcar-Cyty
ct Vermillonville.
lie Capitaine JOHN PHARR,
correspondent aveC le cbemin de fer Nor.
ran ct Texas. fera des VOYAGES REGU-
LIER5 t0ufes les seBSniHes, quittant Brash-
ear City, CHAQUE LUNDI AiATIN, pre-
nant des narchandises Of DIES passager3
pour tous les points du bayou Fermillon
jusqu'a Trahan Ferry, a six miles de Yer
miIlonviIle. 26mar-lY
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N III. LAROSE,
I N. WELSHANS,

AGENCE D'ASSURANCES,
No. 46, rue du Camp, encoignuro Gravier,
Nouyelle- Orleans.
Capital.
Agenco des Underwriters, New
York. S 1900. 900.
Georgia Home, Columbus, Ga. S 100000
Queen, Liverpool and London. SIC, 100000
American Central of st. Louis. 5 1875, 900
Mercantile Mutual (Marine)-- S LOO, 900,
Toutes les Pertes sont promptement re-
gl6es ct pay6es In NOuvelle-O Orleans.
Les Policies sont faites, dams cette con-
tree, sur les Fabriques de sucre les Cot
ton Gins, les Oranges on Gremiers, les
Maisons dhabitation ct les Magasins de
marchandises,
VIM. ROBERTSON, agent de la localit6,
Ia Nouvelle-IbGrie.
o. BARBEE, agent dc la localitG, a Baton
Rouge.
Henry MAURRAS, agent-g6n6ral voya~
geur pour Ia Louisiana.
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p EsTAURANT COsMOPOLITE.

ID ESTAURANT COSMOPOLITE.
IL I3 ct 15-RUE ROYALE-13 ct IS
Entire les rues Canal ct Dodane, Nlle-Orl.
Louis CHAPLAIN, Propri6taire.
On y trouve toutcs les primeurs de Ia
saison, ainsi que des wins de choix ct do
toutes qualities. Repas dc noces executes
promptement. Cabinets particuliers.
Chambres GlGgamment meublGes. Res
taurant ouyert jusqu'a minuit.
Ii "
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Yentes de Successions par le Sherii
pAROTsSE LAFAYETTE.

Point de ventes nouveau aunoncees
dams Ia paroisse Lafayette.
pARoIsSE ST. LANDRY.
Point do ventes autres que oelles que
nous avons annoncees.
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n BAYLE,

INaFmIcltn tt Df0gul5te On gross
3m---1y 30, rue dc Chartres, Nllc-Orl.
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THE COMMERCE. OF WHINING
Ton.

We publish this morning our Annual
Export Table, giving in detail, a full
and accurate report of the commerce of
our city for the past year.
1t exhibits gratifying increase in
every essential branch of commerce,
and indeed, in almost every one, how
ever 1,nimportant.
From this comprehensive Table our
future business, and make his calcula-
tons accordingly here the capitalists
abroad can learn something of our great
and increasing commerce here our
Legislators can see what vast interests
their prejudices are ieopardizing in
This mirror we can see ourselves.
Looking then ut the commerce OF
our city as herein exhibited, We have
! much reason 10 look hopefully to the
future. In spite of great commercial
drawbacks, in spite OF extravaganza
and corruption in our home govern
ments, and oppression and corruption
in the general government, in spite OF
every and all disastrous circumstances
which have interfered to retard and
! prevent Our progress, Wilmington is
destined to be a leading port on the
| South Atlantic Coast.
Let us look hopefully to the develop.
ments Of the New Year. -4r
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uUR STATE PRESS.

In 1851 North Carolina had forty
three newspapers one tri-weekly, four
semi-weeklies and the balance weekly
or monthly. Major Seaton Gales, OF
this city, then published the old
Raleigh Register" and was the first
to ever attempt the publication OF a
daily in North Carolina 49,.
Printing was introduced into this
State in 1749, by james Davis, who
published the North Carolina GA
zette' in Newbern, with freshest adj
vices foreign and domestic. 1t was a
weekly on post size folio. Raleigh
Era. sF'ss'-y*s~- 's'rs s5fsr-. 2
The Era is mistaken in its state
ment of the State Press i'll 1851. The
DAILY JOURNAL was established III
September, 1851, and has been con-
tinuously published ever since, except
for few days during the Terrible
plague of 1862, when not enough COM
positors were left to get out the regular
edition (and then an Extra was
published daily and also for short
time follow ing the surrender of Will
mington to the Federal army, the
military authorities having. taken pos
session Of the office, and used it for the
purposes of the Government.
The Era must therefore correct
it's statement We know not when our
friend. Major Gales began the publ
cation of daily paper. 1t must have
been anterior to September, 1851, to
have been earlier than the publication
of the DAILY JOURNAL by PRICE X
F'rLToS. The JOURNAL is the only
daily paper in North Carolina that sur
vived the war. The others have been
established since-possibly the New
bern ':Times," during the war. The
Raleigh Sentinel is the only other
daily, we believe, which was established
as early as 1866, now published Hf
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-10
COMING ftOME TO ROOST

The local editor OF the Philadelphia
Press has been convicted of libel be-
cause he told SOME unwholesome truths
in regard to the yirtuous Radicals of
that city. Whereupon the great and
good Forney periodically remarks:
"a public which can be tolerant or
patient under such a gross prostitution
of the forms of law scarcely deserve
the blessings Of freedom. -s'-f ~
What timely Indignation. How pat
riotic! How bold. /. uts .r--..
This same Forney has, for five or
six years past. urged on the blood
hounds of his party against the helpless
people Of the South. No act of Con-
gress, or of the President, or OF the
military satraps sent to rule over us,
has failed to receive his warm approval.
Ha has, with fiendish JOY, gloated over
the diabolical 1abors Of Bond, 'Carrow
and Hester. 1t quickens his blood
with delight to read of the sufferings
of their imprisoned victims. These,
indeed, are TO be endorsed as in ac-
cordance with justice-at least, justice
to whipped rebels. But the filming OF
his city editor is not to be tolerated by
free people. <T.--
The suppression of the New Orleans
Times by drunken and corrupt judge
is hardly the subject of an indignant
editorial, but the punishment of one of
his employees is cause for revolution.
The destruction of the State govern
ment of Louisiana and. the overthrow
of the right of suffrage in Alabama and
Florida are treated with much more
forbearance than is the decision of a
petty Philadelphia Judge doing inils-
tice to member of his editorial staff
For our part, we are glad that the
shoe begins to pinch the Northern toe.
We have suffered unuer the tyrannies
of the Federal Government, and felt in
our lives and person and property the
corruptions of our judges. And We
will suffer for aye, unless our sufferings
find something more than mere echo
i'll the hollow hearts of Northern
leaders. The only hope for the South
is that these troubles are to be duplicated
North And they will be. As i'll the
case before us, we begin to hear the
low mutterings of the coming storm.
Occasionally the victims cry cut with
pain. Soon the whole heavens will
resound with the Indignation and re-
sistance of alarmed freemen. Until
patience. .....
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s.nSTAu APHH.

We have received tile journal Of tie
It{fgruDh, containing All able and
elaborate reply TO that portion OF the
stlnaster-GeneraIs Report favorlng
the governmental acquisition Of the
telegraph We know that nothing We
could say would have the least intiu-
ence with those tavoring the ahsorp-
ton Of the Geographic lines by the
Government, for these men are urged
by political reasons, and from no good
will towards the telegraphic companies
or the people at large.
The article of the Journal Of the
Iclegruph shows conclusively that
telegraphy is better and more satisfac-
torily served III the United States than
in any ether country in the world.
Postmaster-G General Creswelfs igno-
rance Of the cost of construction and
operation Of the telegraph is so glar-
ingly displayed that his whole argu-
lnent is made ridiculous.
We trust that we are to have an end
of governmental interference with
affairs properly belonging to individ-
uals and States. The tendency of
these things towards monarchy are
too plain not to be seen, and are too
dangerous not to be needed.
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New York is briskly losing in drib-
lets what was swept from Boston in one
days conhagration. The number Of
fires in the former city within the past
few weeks, eliminating in the destruc-
ton of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, has
assumed alarming proportions, and in
volved very heavy loss of life and
property, millions worth of the latter
having been consumed. The march Of
the desolating flames continues so stead
i]y, defying precaution and preventive
efforts, that at last the conviction is
forced on New Workers that an organ
lied band of incendiaries are essaying
the destruction of the city. 1t is i'm
possible to account for all the recent
fires except on the theory that num-
bers Of them were incendiary. 4 late
dispatch states that many Communists,
expelled from Paris after the last cap
t,,re, are in New York, and their move
ments excite suspicion. Hints about
vigilance committees are renewed in
various quarters, and there are, We are
told, Ominous indications of a violent
movement for the suppression of In
ternational societies in New York and
VICINITY
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THE RAILROAD QUESTION.

The Wilmington Star perverts some
remarks of ours in regard to the
policy of making friends with the great
railroad combinations which are taking
possession of our railroad lines into a
defense of some local Encouragement,
by which freight has been detained
somewhere. We had not a word to say
about the - management p" of railroads,
outrageous or otherwise We are ready
at all times to assist in correcting mis-
management by which our people are
injured And we take it that the rail-
road officials are themselves prepared
10 correct abuses.
In keeping with this misapplication
of patriotic zeal, was the very fierce
onslaught by this same paper, a few
days since, upon the railroads upon the
Introduction by Mr.. McGehee, of Per-
son, into the House of Representatives
of "hill for the more effectual sccu-
rity of life and property on railroads"
This was hailed, i'll hot haste, as
"proper move towards crushing out
the self-important and dictatorial air
s. assumed by the railroad kings who
"now hold the scepter of power"
How ridiculous this was will be seen
when it is known that Mr.. McGclee's
blu was only to increase the penalty
and render more summary the punish
ment of those who endangered the lives
OF railroad passengers by throwing the
cars from the track, or otherwise doing
injury thereto
We expect that " railroad Kings and
railroad servants, and the people gen.
orally, will approve the provisions of
the bill.
The JOURNAL opposed, as long rs it
was an open question, the absorption
of our railroad corporations by these
great combinations. Now we desire to
make the best terms We can with them
During the past few years we have
seen interests and principles more
sacred to the hearts of the people Of
North Carolina, and more important to
their material welfare sacrificed, and
public Journals have advised an acqui-
, essence because it was ''good policy" !;
because we could not help ourselves.
Our people have acquiesced, although
it has severed their heart-strings and
destroyed their prosperity.
So, too, now We advise them to
accept this business situation, and
| make the best of it, There is no sacri-
| fee OF principle involved, but great
interests may be, and. can be, sub
! served p. -r.... ..-....
| It is folly to talk about these railroad
| combinations shaping their course to
/ build up this or that city, and to pull
down this or that place. The rail-
! road kings" have purchased theseroads
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ing, SO long the object Of his nnself,sh
charity and solicitude, will next to his
own dear family, feel most deeply the
severity of-their bereavement.=s=as=a
Although possessed of a very extern
sive practice, it'barely afforded him II
comfortable maintenance, but he never
tagged or faltered. and Was ALWAYS
ready and willing with his open hand
of charity and kindness to wipe away
the tears shed by poor suffering hui
manitv.
In the name OF our old garrison, and
his many other friends, We pray that
our-Heavenly Fathers blessings NAV
attend his bereaved ones, wherever
their lot may be- FoRr FISHER.