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Trouble in British Columbia.

During the first week in February vast
mob proceeded to the 'arliament House OF
British Columbia, at Victoria, Vancouver
| Island, and broke up the sitting OF the
House. We say vast mob, although it
was composed OF only about thousand
men, because, considering the population
from which it was drawn, it was one of the
most imposing demonstrations recorded m
history.
British Columbia lies ON the Pacific
Ocean, between Washington Territory and
Alaska. 1t has an area of two hundred
and thirteen thousand square miles-near-
" as much territory as that within the lin
its of New England, New Y York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania and Ohio. 1t originally
formed part of the vast possessions of the
Hudson's Bay Company. These posses
sions included all the land north of the
United States, excepting only the Russian
Possessions, now Alaska, and the old prov
inces of Canada. They stretched from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the north
ern border of the United States to the North
Pole
In 1858 news reached England that gold
had been discovered in the country near
the Gulf of Georgia, and that the Governor
of Vancouver Island had asserted British
jurisdiction oyerit. Vancouver Island was
for long time disputed ground, both Eng
land and the United States claiming it.
The treaty of 1916 gave it TO Great Britain,
and colonial government was established.
Otherwise the Hudson's Bay Company
would have claimed it.
The principle on which the royal power
was asserted when the gold discovery was
announced is common to many countries.
Mineral wealth is claimed as the property
of the sovereign; and SO, although the
! land had been granted to a private COM
pany, the Crown laid claim to it as soon as
the existence of the precious metal IN It's
soil was made known. There are traces OF
this principle even in our own laws.
For a time it seemed likely that British
Columbia-for in 1850 it was madea colony
under that name, with a separate govern
ment-would become second California i
but the mines did not prove so rich as had
been expected. A great part OF the miners
left the island and returned to their homes.
MANY of them were American citizens
from California. Since 1860 the popula-
tion has been gradually diminishing. Five
or six wears ago the entire population OF
Vancouver and British Columbia together
was about eleven thousand five hundred.
The census of 1877 showed that it was re-
duced to about ten thousand five hundred,
and probably by this time there are not
more than ten thousand white people TO IN
habit that vast territory.
\ When the Dominion of Canada was Gre
atetl i'm 1867, it was intended that all the
| British Possessions in North America
should finally be united under it. This has
been very nearly accomplished. The Had-
| sons Bay Company has lost its charter.
| All the hundreds of thousands OF square
miles of territory it once owned have been
| incorporated as part of Canada. But a
fraction of it, however, is fit for human
| habitation.
British Columbia resisted confederation
for some time. She enjoyed her indepen-
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VOLUME III.
POETRY.
BEST

Mother, Isee you with your nursery light,
Leading your babies, all in white,
To their sweet rest;
Christ, the Good Shepherd, carries mine to-
night,
And that is best
I cannot belp tears, when Isee them twine
On your warm breast;
But the Saviour is puref than yours or mine,
He can love best
You tremble each hour because your arms
Are weak your heart is wrung with alarms,
And sore opprest;
My darlings are safe, out of reach of harms,
And that is best.
You know over yours may hang even now
Pain and disease, whose fulfilling slow
Naught can arr st;
Mine in Gods gardens run to and fro, tassss
And that is best.
You know that of yours your feeblest one
And dearest may live long years alone,
sJnloved. unblest;
Mine are cherished of saints around Gods
throne,
And that is best.
You must dread for yours the crime that sears,
Dark guilt unwashed by repeDtant tears,
And unconfessed;
Mine entered spotless on eternal years,
o, how much the best I?
But grief is selfish; Icannot see
Always why should SO stricken be, 5l
More than the Iest
But know tnat, we'll as tor them, for me
Ged did the best.
IL ~
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NUMBER 80.

ship of the opposition during the ensuing ses-
sion. as .psa a
A Berlin dispatch of the 9th says. that the
condition of the Emperor's health causes I'M
easiness.
A royal banquet was given at Windsor
Castle on the evening of the 9th, in honor of
the Duke of Edinburgh and his bride.
ai, A Berlin dispatch of the 9th says: The ar
rest efthe Bishop of Treyes last week caused
much excitement among the Catholic popula-
ton. 1t was followed to-day by the forcible
closing of the seminary attached to the Bish-
ops See, in accordance with DEGREES of the
courts and orders of the Government. Large
numbers of people gathered around the insG.-
tuition, and tried to prevent the officers from
doing their duty. A riot followed, which
threatened to become serious. Troops came
to the assistance of the authorities, and
quickly dispersed the mob. Tonight the City
is quiet.
The London Daily Telegraph publishes q
long statement signed by Charles 0rton, in
which the writer confesses that he recognized
the Tichborne claimant as his brother the first
time he saw him, and that silence on his
part was bought with f5 paid monthly for
year arda promise of e4 ,00Qor f2 900 addi-,
tional at the close of the trial. 60.
Stanley, the New York Herold correspond
ent, telegraphs from Lisbon via London, 10th,
as follows g Negotiations between Sir Gar
net w olseley and the King of the Ashantees
have been completed The King agrees to
pay $4,000 ounces in gold and renounces all
claims to Adansi and the other territory spe-
Gifted. He consents to withdraw from AppO-
Iona and the coast, promises to keep the road
free of bush from Coomassie to the river
Prah, protect commerce, prohibit human sac
riices, and keep peace forever. If circum
stances permit, garrison win be kept at
Prasha.n ..r.sst s..s.sg.e .sz.ssS 80 z
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rejected his addresses. The unfortunate vic
tim died almost Immediately after the stab
lbing, which occurred in the door of her own
| house, just as she had retured from a walk
with her assassin. Underwood went to the
| police-station at once and surrendered him.
self.
At Wallingford, Conn.,, on the 7th, John
Anderson entered spoke factory from which
he had recently been discharged, and fired
twelve pistol shots, fatally wounding two of the
workmen. He then rushed from the building
| and cut his own throat.
Lizzie L. King, alias Kate Stoddard, now in
Brooklyn Jail, charged with the murder of
Charles Goodrich, in March, 1878, has pub
| iished statement of what she knows about
the tragedy. She says that ON the night of
G0odrich's death, she retired early, leaving
him reading paper in the dining-room. She
slept over two hours. when she was awak-
ened by the report of pistol; she dressed
| and ran down stairs, and found Goodrich ly-
ing on the floor, with his own revolver near
his feet. She thought he had committed sui
eide, but subsequent developments lediEerto
believe that possibly he might have been
murdered According to her story no con-
fesslon of the murder was ever made by her
to the police. She knows nothing, she says,
us to Lueette Myers, and never saw her un-
til she appeared as witness in the case.
Lieutenant-General.S Sheridan received dis
patches from Lieutenant-C Colonel Davidson,
commanding at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, on
the 10th, giving information from the Kiowa
and Comanehe agencies in Texas to the 10th
of February. Capt. Haworth's young men
had just returned from the Comanche camp,
where they had been counting the people, and
reported that on recent raid the number of
Indians that had been killed was variously
reported at -, II and %. But one or two of
the raiding party escaped. g This shows
says Col. Davidson, that the reservation
Indians in spite of their promises before the
council held last October. have not ceased to
raid into Texas"
A dispatch from Laramie, W. T., ON the
9th, says Last night about o'clock the pris-
oners in the penitentiary here surprised and
overpowered the guard, took the keys, opened
the cell doors of several others, and nine of
them escaped, taking three horses with them
Officers and soldiers are in pursuit, but up to
noon to-day none of them had been recap
tured.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

The Chicago TiYaes reports the case of a
family named Blood, of Grinnell, Iowa, con-
sisting of thirteen persons, who some three
months ago began eating hams affected with
tricIina, and one after another the various
members of the family were attacked by the
loathsome disease, two of whom have died
and another was lying at the point of death
when this report was written. Strange tc re-
late, however, the nature of the disease was
not suspected by the stricken family until the
two mentioned had died and the rest of the
family were more or less affected, the attend
ing physician being of opinion that it was a
case of arsenical poisoning. Attention being
called to the pork eaten, however, portion
of it was sent to DR.. Allen, of Chicago, who
upon examining it under microscope found
it literally alive with trichina.
Miss Ada Moves ada Clare), New York
actress, died recently of hydrophobia. She
was bitten some two weeks previous to her
death by pet poodle, but did not consider
the injury ut all serious.
DR.. John G. Waters, of Nashville, Tenn,
came to his death few days since by breath
ing the fumes from an exploded gasoline
lamp.
James Dwight recently shot and killed VIM.
Mclaughlin in clubhouse at Charlestown,
Mass, and then attempted suicide. Dwight
was arrested.
Daniel Farris, a grocery-keeper of Topeka,
Kansas, was murdered, it is supposed on the
night of the 9Th inst, and his body buried in
the cellar of his store, under pile of pota-
toes. A young man named Fred. Olds is
charged with the crime, and both his father
and mother were arrested as aecompliees.
Farris was shot through the head and also
had his throat cut from ear to ear.
At Detroit, on the 7th, VIM. 7. Underwood
fatally stabbed Miss Anna Pridgeon, a beau.
| tiful and accomplished young lady, who had
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The women engaged in the temperance
crusade made an energetic and determined
onslaught upon the liquor-sellers of Dayton,
Ohio, on the 9th, but only one saloon-keeper
surrendered. AT many places liquor was
freely sold and drank by ribald crowds of
men while the praying and singing were pro.
crossing, and some proprietors announced
their determination to prosecute the leaders of
The praying bands.
As result of the women's temperance
movement in Ohio, the, principal wholesale
druggists of Cincinnati have agreed not to
sell or fill any order for spirituous liquors ex-
cept TO physicians or druggists, or when there
is reason to believe such liquor is to be sold
or used as beverage.
The main portion of the Hillsdale College
building, at Hillsdale, Mich, was burned on
the morning of the 9Th. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance $50,000. Fsss
The women's temperance movement reached
San Francisco on the 9Th.
The troops sent to the relief of the Red
Cloud Agency reached there on the 9th. They
met no Indians, and everything was quiet in
the vicinity of the Agency, although trouble
was still apprehended.
Advices from Cincinnati, Columbus, Day.
ton, Toledo, Bellefontaine, and Steubenyille,
Ohio, on the 9th, report the temperance move
ment as progressing with various degrees Of
success, but with no present signs of abate-
ment.
Senator Morrill,, from the Committee on
Indian Affairs, has reported that no obliga-
ton rests upon the United States to reim-
burse States and Territories, and citizens
thereof. for expenses incurred and damages
sustained by reason of incursions by Indians.
The Central Pacific Railroad was blockaded
by snow on the Sth and 9th. The snow at
Summit Valley was reported to be twenty
five feet deep on level.
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Mr.. HENDERSON of Danbury was APP
pointed constable on Thursday afternoon.
In the evening he officially interfered in
fight in the saddle-factory tenement, and in
the space of three minutes was knocked
down, dragged over a rough floor on the
back of his head, kicked down two flights
of stairs, bitten on the back of the neck,
lost two teeth, and was showed through q
fence in his shirt sleeves. He resigned the
next morning. He said he was afraid he
was too unobstrusiye in his nature for the
ce.-Neeos.
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FOREIGN.

A Hamilton, Ontario, dispatch says that Il
few days ago, Matte Holbrook, alias Mary
Hay, who was in charge of detective en-
QUITE from New York to Chicago, on the
charge of stealing $4,000 in bonds. escaped
from custody there by leaving the train and
throwing herself into the arms of a police
man and claiming protection. She was taken
before magistrate and discharged, as she
could not be detained.
Official advices have been received in Lon
don, stating that the Ashantee King was a
prisoner at Gen. Wolseley's headquarters.
The new British Parliament was formal
" opened on the 9TH. Henry Bouverie
Brand was reelected Speaker of the present
House.
The steamship Zebra, from Newcastle, Eng,
for Port Said, was lost in the recent gales, and
thirty persons perished.
1t is stated that the English Government
will be obliged to maintain three millions OF
people in India for three months, and that ex.
penditures on account of the Indian famine to
February last are estimated at over seven
millions.
+ A large cotton mill was destroyed by fire
in Musselburgll, near Edinburgh, on the 5th
The loss is estimated at f150,0O0 and 900 op.
eratives are thrown out Of employment.
The sale of photographs of the Count de
Chambord has been forbidden in Paris.
The Anglican Bishop of Ontario has form
ally exeommunieated the Rev. j. B. Stacy o.
Ottawa, for participating in the reform
church movement.
a Berlin telegram of the 9th says that tht
Bishop of Treves has been arrested for viola
ton of ecclesiastical laws.
The report of the killing of ex-Presiden
Cespedes of the Cuban Republic by the Span
ish troops is confirmed. His body was takel
to Santiago de Cuba and buried on the 1st inst
1t is stated in recent London dispatch tina
Mr.. Gladstone has declined the active leader
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a PACK of wolves in Sherburne county,
Mimi, chased couple of lawyers five
miles, and the New Orleans Republican
thinks it showed lack of professional
courtesy.
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"AND did you hear him call her my
dear or anything ike that?" asked the
lawyer. mo. sir! of course not: why,
she his wife, answered the lady wit
ness,
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1874. 1878.
Net receipts for past week
all u s. ports. ........ 9S ,6S3 S0,713
Total receipts from Sept.
to date ali U. S. ports. 8. .155, 493 2,7S1, Az
Exports for past week
from all ports ........... 124, Az 53, ,5Oi
Total exports from Sept.
to date from all ports. 1922, 7a l,e65, 2SI
Stock now on hand at all
u. S. ports .........-...- ,9i2 DOB, so
Price of gold in New York. 1l1A 1855
Price of middling upland
in New York..........-. l65 20I
The Iowa Legislature has passed string
ent railroad bill, fixing the maximum rates
for transportation of passengers and freights.
Under its provisions railroads are divided
into three classes, A, B and C. Roads in
class A are allowed to charge three cents per
mile for transportation of passengers; class
B, three and half cents; class G, four cents.
Roads in class A, for freight, 10 per cent. less
than the printed schedule in the bill; in class
b, five per cent. more; in class c, 20 per cent.
more. Penalties for violation are very severe,
and the State provides $4,000 for the prose-
eution of roads, to be drawn subject to the
order of the Governor. An individual may
recover five times the amount of damage sus-
tanned.
Commissioner Douglass states that the ag-
gregate amount of internal revenue collected
during the period from September, 1862,
when the internal revenue law went into
effect, up to February 2s, 1874 Qast month esti-
mated), is 81, 1872 ,555, 900. OF this amount,
there is now due the United States, from late
collectors, $2,525, ,199, which is about fourteen
hundredths of one per cent. of the total
amount collected.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

The Congressional examination into the
affairs of the District Government began at
Washington on the 5th. Mr.. Baker, Comp
troller, was the first witness called. Senator
Thurman acted as chairman of the commit
tee, in the absence of Mr.. Boutwell,.
Judge Pratt of New York, on the 5th,
vacated the order of arrest in the case of
ex-President Baez, and discharged him from
custody.
The Civil-Service Commission have agreed
to report to the House, with a favorable re-
commendation, a bill declaring " that no offic-
er of the United States shall, directly or indl-
rectly, receive, or be paid to or for his own
use or benefit, any money or property what
ever of the United States, except the salary
to be fixed by law, and that no public prop
erty shall be used by officials, or by any per-
son for private purposes; but that this act
shall not be so construed as to prevent pay
ment from the Treasury of all actual and me-
cessary travelling expenses of United States
officials when performing legitimate and me-
eessary duties pertaining to their offices.
General Schenck, Minister to England, has
returned home on leave of absence, and will
return to his post in May.
Ex-President Millard Fillmore died at his
residence in Buffalo, N. T., on the night of
the Sth inst. JE
The President, ON March 9th, issued a
proclamation announcing the death of ex-
President Fillmore, and ordering as mark
of respect to his memory that the Executive
Mansion and the several departments at
Washington be draped in mourning until the
close of the day on which the funeral shall
take place, and that business be suspended ON
the day of the funeral; also that the War
and the Navy departments cause suitable mill
itary and naval honors to be paid ON the occa-
sion to his memory.
The Supreme Court has refused petition
for an appeal in the case of Governor Kellogg
of Louisiana VS.. FL. G. Warmoth, on the
ground that the record does not show a final
decree.
The Kansas Legislature adjourned sine die
ON the 10th. About one hundred and forty
bills were passed during the session.
Scattering returns from the New Hamp-
shire State election, received on the night of
election day, showed Democratic gains gene
rally, and the Democrats claimed the cleo
ton of their candidate for Governor (Weston)
and majority of the Legislature.
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Mrs. JONES always believed her Freder
ick when he told her the club /" was for
social intercourse and discussion of pro-
fessional topics until the other night, when
he came into the hall with rush and
eyinced desire to sleep on the front
stairs. q Mary said he, his voice broken
with emotion, Mary, you have been
partaking of the Intoxicating pledge; you
have broken the cup. Itsh no ush d'nying
it, Mary, shee it in your breath and smell
it in your eye. Oh, Mary!n With some
difficulty he was put to bed, but since that
night he has not visited the club.
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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

Gold closed in New York, on the 9th, at
III 81.
Following is the comparative cotton state
ment for the week ending March 7:
1874 1879
The enquirer southerner., 1874-10-23

REAp-Thcsc inp=.tapt city items
Stylish Hats, At Nhitlock'S.
Saddles, Brides ard Harness, at 0. c.
Farrar 6 COS.
Whi.iock's Cin;.sing li.s tie best
Shawls, Merino Vests, and Boulevard
Skirts in great variety, at Gatii $
Black Dress Suits, at Whit!ock's.
An elegant lot Of English Cassimeres, at
0. Z. Farrar & Cos
Boots, Shoes and Trunks. at Whi;lock's s.
Scarfs, Collars, Ruffs, Kid Gloves and
Embroideries, at Gatlin's.
Over-coats and Talmas, at Whitlock's.
LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in the Post Office at Tarboro
Oct. 2lst, 1874
Persons calling for letters on this list,
will please say ''advertised." fnot called
for in 80 days, they will be sent 10 the
Dead Letter Office.
B-W A Barton, Mrs josie Bell, Miss
Ann Barnes.
C-Henry Clark, W S Grew.
F-Mrs Elizabeth Flemming.
G-Joseph Green.
10 J Jackson.
L-Charley Lewis
S-Mrs Julia Simmons.
II. II. SHAW, p. NJ.
The enquirer southerner., 1874-10-23
PASTEGo, \. c., !
Oct. 10th. 1874. !

CIt. tttL- lCIt.N
Dear Enquirer -SoutAeIner =
On Wednesday, the 7th inst, as the GOD
of day rolled up on his daily journey; |
left this place to visit point in Pitt Co.,
known as Oak Grove, at which place a con
gregatiOn of christians have church, at
which was held the 9 State Annual meet
ing of the Disciples Of Christ in North
Carolina
| observed that the farmers were gencr-
ally bowling Gas were all the hands in their
employ to the monarch "king Cotton, ;"
if not tigurasively, literally as they pulled
the snowy locks from the bOlls, evidences
of thrift met my vision on every side
The cotton crop will be short in some sec
tions Of this county, fear, but from what
/ can see the corn crop is pretty fair.
At about NJ. l entered Washington and
found things about as usual, except the fall
goods were arriving and the '' knights Of
the yard sticks . We're busy placing them
up.
]. F. Randolph had removed from his
old stand to a store one or two doors west
of the old Bank of Washington.
Our very gentlemanly Sheriff was pre-
irons and to see if twas convenient for
them to settle their little bills.
Wednesday night was spent about :
miles from town people were busy pick
ing and ginning the Southern Idol. Thurs
day we arrived ut the place of meeting and
found about 250 persons assembled, heard
preaching. hunted mp cid acquaintances,
talked of days past by and gone, and look
ed around at the ladies. The crowd con-
tinued to increase day by day until on Sun
day there was a tremendous crowd on the
ground, estimated at from $500 to 5000.
After the business Of the day was over, We
repaired to stand erected by the road side
in a grove and listened to an able discourse
Of an hour and ! length by DR.. j. 7.
Walsh. Our attention was then attracted
by several white cloths tiuttering in the
breeze which we soon found to he prepar-
ations for comforting the inner OF physica.
man. Soon we found ourselves, with botl
hands full of good things which the hos
pitablc people of Pitt and Martin haC
spread in great abundance for us, so with
feeting but noiseless steps passed the mo-
ments away until the declining sun warned
us to give the parting hand to many Of on
associates and acquaintances, for IN al
probability the last time. Had it not beer
for the immense quantity of dust raised by
! the passing vehicles, nothing would hav'
marred the pleasure of the hour, save the
thought "1'hat pilgrims in foreign lanC
we soon must take the parting h&rd.
If was not a quadum resident Of Ole
Beaufort, I'd tell you about a couple O
Edgecombe ladies which I saw, but as it is
| wont say anything about them eHcep
that | must contend that old Beaufort
daughters took the palm.
Should you, Mr., Editor, ever visit thi
vicinity, l assure you that you will fine
that the half has not been told Of th
cleverness and hospitality of the good peo
pie of that place.
l shall take you eastwardly to Hyd
county inmy next, as | shall probably visi
that spot soon, More anon.
XARA,