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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-22

They have a wise method in the
Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. Con-
nected with the institution is farm
of t rec hundred acres and a vegetable
garden of sixty acres. The patients
cultivate this ground. The cooking
and house work and making of cloth
ing are also done by the inmates, while
gymnastics, games, and dances help
to keep away melancholy.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-22

The influence of the Changers in ia
vor of cheap transportation seems to
be felt at least by the railroad compa-
MES. The price per carload of cattle
from Chicago to New York is said to
have been reduced from Sl35 to $50,
Buffalo and Albany from $50 to S35,
Buffalo to New York from $50 to S45.
1t is evident that the Changers are grad
ually becoming a power in the land.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-22

They have engaged as foreman of this de-
partment, one of the most experienced Book
and Job Printers in the country; and the
presses will be superintendent by Skilled
FRESHMAN from one of the largest offices in
New England.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-22
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.


OFFICE IN JUNGES DRUG
" Store, opposite U. S. Hotel.
ps-Special attention to Diseases of Children.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12
The PhiIoIOgy of Slang.

A good deal of valuable information
with reference TO the ''philOlogy of
slang" may be fonnd in an article in a
late number of MacmilIan's, by Mr.. E.
B. Tylor. the author of ''Primitive
Culture. "Mr Tylor treats slang, "des-
pissed and ignored till lately by the Ley
icographers, as a :'gennin- and infiu-
entail branch of speech''-.'one of the
feeders of what may be called stand
ard language. which With little scruple
adopts and adapts the words it hap
pens to want from any source. Slang,
like other dialects, sis developed &C
cording to the general laws of IAN
guage' and Mr.. Tylor describes his
object in writing the present paper to
be "to choose few typical examples
out of the multitude of slang words in
the published vocabularies, and to
treat them etymologically in groups,
so as to display in each group philo-
sophical principle or the operation of
a common cause" A good many of
his instances are familiar enough words
or expressions. For example, he saws
that it is all 'fstuff and nonsense" to
talk of "Welsh rarebit' (the form Civ
en- in Webster), and the proper spell
ing is rabbit, the word being a "genu
inc slang term,"' belonging. to large
group Of words which dsscribe in tbs
same humorous way the special Dish,
or product, or peculiarly OF q paltie-
nlar district" Q. g., Gan Essex stile is
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12
From the Goldsboro Messenger.


The Hon. George Davis, of Will
mington, is setting brilliant example
in this particular. Before and during
the war Mr.. Davis was one of the most
eminent amongth the many distinguished
sons of North Carolina. Since the
war he has lived in comparative re-
tirement, but his fellow citizens in all
parts of the State never lost sight of
him. To the cry of the struggling and
almost strangled Democracy "Who
will lead us to battle against the cor
rupt hosts of the radical Philistines, !"
Mr.. Davis nobly responds. He has,
we learn, volunteered for the campaign
and will give his distracted State and
its oppressed friends the full benefit
OF his unsullied character and his
brilliant oratory until the great battle
shall nave been fought aud won. In
company with Hon. A. NJ Waddell,
he made his first attack on the enemy s
camp, few days ago, in Carteret
county and with the happiest results.
Now, who of all our good and great
men will join Mr.. Davis in this glo-
rious work? To be sure every county
has not a Davis, nor has every Con
gressional District, but every county,
District and township, has good. able
and influential men who ought to
give themselves to this great work OF
regenerating the State. The State at
large has its Vance, its Ransom, its
Merrimon, its Leach, it's Scales, and
scores of others that might be named,
and we may reasonably expect that
they will all as a unit fall into line,
unite their eloquent voices with that
of Mr.. Davis and help lead us to such
a victory as will redeem our State and
send thrill of JOY to every Conserva
tive-Democratic heart in this broad
land.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12

The Raleigh Sentinel learns that :.
is contempt, ted at an early dan ~
place on the North Carolina Rail-
daily train to run from RaleioL ~
Salem, leaving Raleigh in the morn;a "
and returning in the evening.
The Raleigh Sentinel says a: Ata lot,
Republican meeting in ASHORE the
members were called into dinner hu
tens. The landlord ANNOUNCED tay
white and ten black, will go in tooa,h
er. No civil rights bill is neede5 H.
Randolph. III
The Monroe Enquirer saws. Tho
farmers speak encouragingiy Of the
wheat and oat crops, with the excan
ton that the rust has slightly dan
a ed both crops. Cotton and Corn
prospects are not as encouraging %
desirable. A farmer tells us that ths
cotton prospect is sorrier than known
for a number of years. With plent1
of rain from now out tolerable Cor,
crop can be made.
The Lincolnton Progress saws. Two
pretty, well-di essed Yankee oi,,s
(whit.) taking tea at dirty. t,lthv
negro hut, Another invited euest .
big, bla buck African, who after
wards escorts them to their uuarters
in "Negro Town" where their Puritan
parent has left them unprotected
Such an occurrence took place in this
village the other evening. From such
q commingling and mixture, Good
Lord, deliver them
The Magnolia Monitor says Ib.
Radical nominations made at the con.
vention held at Kenansville, on the 9th
inst, resulted in the nomination az
Amos McCulloch and Irwin Beaman
both colOred, for the House of Repre-
sentatives. The Conservative nomina-
lions were approved as Sheriff, Cltrk,
Treasurer and Coroner, and three out
OF the five County Commissioners, viz
D. j. Middleton, d. T. Mcmillan and
G. V. Lamb. met their approval.
| The Hillsboro Recorder saws: Fl. r.
Jones Il Co. the well-known manufac-
turers OF the celebrated Tar Heel and
| Occonneeche smoking tobacco, received
| last week an order from a Liverpool!
| house for two thousand pounds of
| their tobacco. The letter accompanv
ing the order bore most fiattarine
| testimony to the high character Of the.
article which had already found it's
way into that market We have reason
/ to believe that it is bat the beginning
of a permanent business and all en-
tering wedge into the British kingdom
for product Of which Hillsboro has
good reason to be proud.
The Charlotte Observer says A
gentlemen who lives in the southern
part of Iredell county, told rs that "a
neighbor of his has a cat which is now
raising three kittens and four youn g
rabbits. She furnishes food for the
rabbits and otherwise treats them just
as if they were her own children, and
the whole family I've together on
terms of the most perfect concord, the
old tabby and the kittens making no
discrimination against the rabbits Oh
account of trace or color" This is a
rather curious state of affairs, but the
| facts are true.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12

The nominations made by the Radi-
| cal Convention on Saturday last, for
members OF the General Assembly
from the county OF New Hanover, de-
serve something more ttala 9 mere
passing notice.
New Hanover county, with white
population of II, 779, is to be repre-
scented IL both branches Of the Legis-
lature by negroes. and by negroes
alone. New Hanover county, with a
white population unsurpassed by any
in character and intelligence, is to he
represented in both branches of the
Legislature, not only by negroes, but
by negroes of the most Ignorant kind;
SO ignorant, indeed, that we venture
to say that the whole delegation by its
own unaided efforts would be unable,
III whole years time, to write cor
rectly a single sentence. New Hanover
county, with property to the value OF
five millions Of dollars, is TO be repre-
scented in the Legislature by four
men, from whom individually and col
lectively. we venture to say, it will be
impossible by any process known to
the,law to collect as many hundred
dollars
And to this complexion we have
come at last. White men are to be
represented by negroes and by negroes
alone: intelligence is to be Represented
by Ignorance and by Ignorance alone,
and property and property owners by
men who have no interest IN either
Will white men and property Own
ers in New Hanover bear these things
in mind VIII white men and prop
eriy owners in other counties bear
these things IN mind and note the de-
termination with which the negroes
enforce civil rights and adhere TO the
color line whenever they have the
power to do SO -?
Does Judge Russell endorse these
nominations and would he give these
negroes his vote if he were citizen
of the county ?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12
KU.KLUX TOM MY-THE PROOF
OF HIS INITIATION INTO THE
ORDER IN COLONEL POO l. , >
4ANDS-POOR TOMMY!

KU.KLUX TOMMY-THE PROOF
OF HIS INITIATION INTO THE
ORDER IN COLONEL p q OIL
HANDS-POOR TOMMY!
At Winston, in Forsythe county,
Colonel Pool asked Mr.. Purnell If 1t
was possible that he was a member OF
the Ku-Klux organization-an organ
ization which had been denounced
from Currituck to Cherokee by the
Radical party? and if his membership
was the reason why he had not abused
she Ku-Klux, either at Halifax or
Winston? To this pointed inquiry Mr.
Purnell was as dumb as an oyster.
Ten days later an authoritative artl-
Gle was published in the NeWhern
Times, the editor of that Radical
journal affirming that Mr.. Purnell had
told him that the charge was false III
every particular.
Mr.. Purnell told Colonel Pool that
the statement in the Times was made
on his authority, and affirmed that he
had never taken the Oath OF the
White Brotherhood or other kindred
order.
The editor of the Winston Scntinc
has written Colonel Pool letter II
which he states positively that he wa:
present at the initiation of Mr.. Pur
nell, into the "White Brotherhood,
and that he had written to othel
parties who were present, whose state
ments would be furnished at an earl,
day.
We learn that Colonel Pool vii
thoroughly ventilate this whole matte
at Morganton, on the 10th inst.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12
NS.

The Chicago Inter- Ocean, one OF
the most prominent Radical papers III
the Northwest, expresses its views Up III
the Civil Rights bill IN the following
plain terms. There surely can be no
ground to doubt what is meant. 1t
says:
Parson Brownlow Gays this bill will
array one race against the other. Or
course this is the old story, but what
does he expect to do ? Will he go on
educating the races separately, teach
ing the black to hate the white, and
the white to despise the black, as they
necessarily must do under such sys-
tenn Does he expect peace and unity
to grow out of a practice like this :?
There is sign in the Southern
heavens that Southern men and
Northern men, too, may as well OBJ
serve. All over the South, in spite of
this ostracism, ia spite of the contin
ued attempts to degrade and retard
the race, the colored men are slowly
creeping toward the front. They are
temperate, frugal, and are contract
ing habits of industry which will
tell more strongly for them every
year. The coming pl0nteraCH be black.
Adapted by nature to the climate, they
will ere long monopolize the cotton,
rice and sugar growing of the South,
and will constitute the wealthy class
of our Southern zone. The richest man
i'll Mississippi to-day is a negro who
in 1860 was n slave. Wealth brings
refinement, education, influence; and
the colored mel of the Carolinas and
the Gulf States are just as certain to
WELD the power there in the future as
they are to inhabit those States.
With these facts staring us IN the
face, what folly, as we'll as injustice,
would it be- to say that the doctrines
of caste shall be perpstuated. estrang-
ing the races and intensifying the bit
terness which is beginning to be al
ready displayed. The assertion
! that this is but another act OF
revenge on the part of the Nor
is the shcerest nonsense. 1t is Cor the
! purpose of ending the long continued
| strife and forever settling this Ques-
ton that the measure is proposed. We
| but give to the South what we accept
! for ourselves, and we ask them to sub
NIT to no humiliation that we do not
share. Shall this idle, foolish preju-
dice forever blind the people of that
section ? Do they not see the uttdl
impossitility of continuing this sys-
tenn of inequality The negro has
been made citizen. This IS the high
est honor which can be conferred.
Being such, the minor privileges
must be granted, aul there can be nc
settlement otthis question until this is
dole. We reiterate what We have he
fore remarked, that, however strong
the opposition, there must and will bs
an end to all distinctions. on account
of color, in the privileges of American
citizens. Until this comes there can
be no peace on this question.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12
che Agricultural Congress-.

The Agricultural Congress which
met last week IN the Gig of Atlanta,
Georgia, and adjourned to meet IN the
city of Raleigh, North Carolina, in the
month of July, 1875, was the repre-
sentative men of the cotton States,
representation being confined strictly
to the Southern States At this Con-
gress eleven States We're represented.
The North Carolina delegation was the
second in numbers. the following gen.
tlemen being present, viz
A. Graves, DR.. C.. Mills, Col. J. L.
Bridgers, Gen. d. H. Hill, J. 81. Pow
ell, B. F. Hooks, p. G.. Carlton, DIR.
G. w. Graham, Capt. r. Il. Fulghum,
W. J. Woodward, Col. Geo. w. Mason,
Jr., and Capt. j. E. Nash.
The meeting gas called to order by
the President, Col. ID. Z. Butler, of
Madison, Georgia.
The questions which demanded the
attention of the Congress and were
thoroughly discussed, were Direct
Trade, immigration and Agricultural
Statistics.
In regard to Direct Trade it was
thought that the unprosperous condi-
ton OF agriculture in the Southern
States resulted from the unnecessary
burdens imposed by our present com
mercial habits and routine and that
the snrest and quickest relief was to
be found in the establishment of Di-
rect Trade between Southern ports
and Europe. 1t was therefore order
ed to favorably commend and heartily
lndorse the Direct Trade Union, or
ganized under charter of the State of
Georgia and to commend it to the
favor and patronage of cotton growers
in all sections. While this question
was being discussed, Col. Jno. l..
Briagers, of Edgecombe county, N.
c., made some remarks, in the course
of which he said:
"a people who cannot attend to their
own business cannot expect other PEG.
pie to attend to it for them. We have
never husbanded the means we have
made-old prices-monuments of time
are erected to our discredit. Every
body Is poor who gives up his business
to any enc. This is too much the case
in the South, and the only ga5 to
break it up is by getting people to
think of direct trade"
In conclusio, he said he did not ap-
prove of this direct trade between the
South and West, sending West for all
our corn and bacon.
In regard to immigration the Con-
g-ess looked with great favor upon
any faiT end reasonable efforts of the
States or of 'associating to intr3duee
immigration, and favored reduction
in the price of lands to such immi-
grants and the division of the same
into such parcels as will best promote
the scheme.
A committee of three from each
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12

An Illinois Democratic paper states
the truth concisely and forcibiy when
it says; "The trouble and difficulty
that the Democratic party has hither-
to encountered in past campaigns,
proceeded from those wisby-washy,
namby-pamby, Aunt Nancy Democrats,
who are ever ready to be persuaded
by anybody end almost anything to
switch off upon every side track IN
politics that designing men may sug-
gest. This class of mischief makers
who call themselves Democrats, haze
neither character nor standing in their
own party, and are totally wanting in
decision of character and fidelity to
principle. They are dangerous set
wherever found. and their counsels
should be steadily disregarded."
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12
CORRECTION.
WILMISGTOS, June 10, 1874

w lLNiNtL lor, u tlut ~, loII.
GCntlen7c1
In looking over your exchanges this
evening found the following article
in the Newbern Times
WHAT THE CANDIDATE Pool SAID
Col. Pool said at Morehead City the
ether day in reply to question as to
whether he would or did ever allow
his children 10 associate with low
white children ? ''Sir 1 recognize no
lore white children except the children
of the carpet baggers and yankees. -
How do you like that Northern men
who affiliate with Pools party. He
HkeG you as the Western man kept
hotel. fonr children are recognized
by him as ioaG, pretty is it not in a
candidate for Superintendent Of "Pub-
lie Instruction % He is candidate of
the aohite mans party you know.
The writer must have known that
he was putting words in my mouth
that l never uttered. for a constant
correspondent of his journal, and the
former editor was standing within ten
feet of nae Wien the question was
asked:
"Would you permit your ch.i1rep
to go to school with mean, low, white
trash %
My reply was: 81 consider no man
mean, low, white trash, unless he sup
ports the Civil Rights Bill now pend
ing in Congress, and votes the Radical
ticket"
NoS 9 Word WAS said of carpet-bag-
gers or yankees, my reply having been
directed to a native North Caroliniaa
who had avowed himself in favor Of
the Civil Rights Bill.
S. D. Poor,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12
o -H-1HH-'1 ~ Z liz SIIIiII 1I1l
WIN. j. DOUGHTY, Secretary.

The Boston Post has this pictula of
| the Senate during an uninteresting
speech. 1t is said to he quite usual
scene:
Time, half past one O'Clock; subject
under consideration, the Civil Rights
Bill. MIR. Howe, of Wisconsin, has
the floor; Senators Hager and Mitchell
are industriously writing letters to
| loved ones at home; Senator Chandler
Is reading his correspondence; Senator
Pease is enjoying the peaceful slum-
Der OF the just; Senators Carpenter
| and FrelinghnYsen are attempting to
pay attention to the Speakers words;
Senator Conkllng is writing; Senator
Hamlin, when not squirting tobacco
JUICE on the carpet, is reading Maine
newspaper, Senator 4,elly is posting
himself on the provisions of the con
stitution; Senator Elan gan sleeps
sweetly, but snores occasionally; Sen
ator Bore man pretends to understand
and enjoy the speech; Senator Davis,
stretched out on two chairs, peruses
the pages of a West Virginia paper;
Senator johnson is writing a letter;
Senator Bogy is reading an account of
the Sartoris Grant wedding, and won
dering why the reporter forgot to de-
scribe the gorgeous appearance of the
Missouri statesman; Senator Merrimon
is studying finance from late speeches
of Morton and Logan; all the other
Senators are absent from their seats
and the chamber. At half past two
o'clock Mr.. Howe is still speaking,
but change has occurred in the at
tendance. The first relief has arrived.
Mr.. Morrill,. of Vermont. is reading a
newspaper; both the Minnesota Sen
ators are similarly occupied; Hamil-
ton. of Maryland, is listening to Jim
Nye telling funny tories; Alcorn is all
attention, and self satisfied MoCreery
laughs at the jokes he perpetrated in
his last speech, copy of which he
holds before his eyes; Flanagan's
head has fallen back over the back of
his chair, and there is great danger
that he will dislocate the spinal col
umn; Cooper reads Memphis paper;
Bogy is telling Goldthwsite, Robert
scn, Ransom and Merrimon (who were
not invited) all about the royal we'd
ding. The other Senators have gone
out to see major woman.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12

State was appointed to memorabilia
the Legislatures of each State to have
statistics gathered by tax collectors
and reports made on their tax returns.
The President appointed the follow
ing Standing Committees:
On Agricultural Statistics-North
Carolina-Gen. d. 81. Hill, DR.. G. w.
Graham, Capt r. T. Fnlghum and
Messrs. A. Graves and P. G. Carlton.
On Direct Trade--Gen. Colquitt, of
Ga; Col. J. L Bridgers, of N. c., and
Col. w. 81. Chambers. of Alabama.
On Constitution and By-Laws-Col.
]. L. Bridgers, DIR. G. w. Graham
and Capt. r. T. Fulgham. of N. G.
On Cotton Factories J. E.
Nash, E. Nj. Holt and 81. J. Gaion, of
N. c., and Col E. Steadman, of Ga.
After an address by President But
Ter, the Congress adjourned to meet in
Raleigh, N. c., in July, 1875. w.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-06-12

The grasshopper pests have already
done much injury in Iowa and Min
nesota. It is gratifying to have an as
suranoe, however, that certain insect
(name not mentionedl is waging war
against them; also that the grasshop-
per country is supplied at this season
with immense iocks of pigeons, black
birds, etc., which are feeding almost
entirely on the grasshopper. Let us
hope their appetites will be equal to
the occasion.
The Roman Catholic says that Rev.
VIM. Wayrich, the distinguished re-
demptorist, has declined the position
of Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of
Georgia, which was rendered him
about a week ago. Archbishop Bayley
insisted that Father Wayrich could i'll
be spared from Baltimore; but it is
believed that he will be compelled to
accept the next bishopric, as he is a
favorite with the Pope, and one of
the most popular clergymen in the
Country.
st. Johns Guild, in New York city
received $685. 1852 10 from October 81,
1873, to date, and disbursed $21, 12O 70
for food, clothing, medicines, funerals
and relief generally; aside from much
clothing and provisions directly given.
More than So, 900 individuals were as
sisted during the winter at their
homes, after having been visited by
agents of the Guild. and 5000 impos-
lures were detected. The goods were
generally procured at cost. The Guild
seek to have volunteer visitors in ev-
cry block of tenements. and sustain
free summer excursions down the bay
for sick children.
The trustees OF the infant Sir Albert
Tichborne have asked Parliament to
authorize them to mortgage the estate
in order to raise the money which the
Orion trial costs; the proceedings which
began in Chancery and ended with the
nonsuit of the claimant in the Court
of Common Pleas. The amount of
these costs are G92 900, and they will
burden the estate for many long years
to come. The cost of the GRIM nal
which the government
has paid, was ESQ, 900, So that it has
cost f147, OOl, or $735, 900, to thwart |
the designs of the rascal who is now
learning the trade CT a tailor at Mill |
bank Prison.