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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
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The first burial Of member Of the
Patrons Of Husl,ardgy viii. The Eorors
Of the order, that has come to CIR
notice, took place 4 lev DAYS since in
kickapoo, waen the remains OF Henry
Eolin were consigned 10 the.r last rest
ing place with all the poElp and finer
al pageant OF the Granger burial ser
vice Mr.. Roiin was q prominent
member, aud the attendance WAS very
large, some 400 persons being present.
The programme o. the burial was
about as follows.
On leaving the residence Ct the de
ceased, the Ee0rse which contained the
remains was thanked on either side by
three palI-bcarers, Who walked with
uncovered heads and regalias
draped IN mourning. Following the
hearse came the relatives OF the de-
ceased, and next marched the Sisters
Of the Order clad in full regalia The
Brothers came next. and following
them the vast c0ncGUTSe OF people,
who had come from far and near to
witness the ceremonies. The remains
were first taken TO the church, where
a priest went through q serYice pacu-
liar to the Catholic church, OF which
the deceased was = member. When
the exercises had been concluded, the
procession took up its march for the
cemetery, where the Granger funeral
cites were PERFORMED. The coffin was
placed on supports directly over the
open grave, and rem1ined thee until
the impressive and interesting service
was concluded. G. Is. Coffin, Master
Of the Franklin Grange, conducted the
ceremonies.
When the brothers and s.ater:, OF the
grange Of which the deceased was Il
member, hal assembled about the
grave, the Master read Il selection
from the burial ritual, followed by
second selection ~ the Chaplain, and
then the members repeated slowly aud
s0lemnly the Lords prayer, closing
with a beautiful and appropriate
hymn. The Brothers OF the Order
then stepped to the grave and threw
into the opening several bouquets of
flowers and evergreens. 4 short, but
powerful address was next delivered
bg the Chaplain While the coffin
was being lowered into the grave, a
beautiful and soul inspiring hymn
was sung, and during the singing TIE
SISTERS streWcd bouquets Ct flowers mp
On the descending cotiin until it reach.
ed the wooden box at the bottom of
the grave. The Master then sprinkled
portion OF dirt thrcwn from the
grave over the coffin, and the service
closed with the solemn 5CncGiotion of
the Chaplain.
Taken throughout the ceremonies
were very beautiful aud impressive.
This was the first burial OF n Granger
in the county, and, if We are correctly
informed, in the State-that is, with
the ceremonies OF the Order.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
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4 Voice frStsa m:ssissippi -ErEsc &c
rIElan Mercury Oh, s.tsesss "a .si;ltion.

The Meridian Mercury OF the 18th,
says '',Fhe White Conservative men
Of Alabama are about to split UP on the
question Of regulating the rascaliy
debt Radicalism has piiest upon the
State. Some OF them are making it a
point of honor to pay the debts the
carpet-baggers and negroes have con-
tracted in fraud, because they are
State debts, and the States good name
must be kept untarnished, and that
sort of twaddle. And they say, be-
cause of this disagreement among the
white people Of the State, there is dan
ger that the negroes and their allies
will carry the State al the election this
year, though the white element has a
preponderance. If the fraudulent
debts are to be recognized as good and
binding by tie white party upon com
ing into power, the best interests of
the tax payers runs with procuring its
defeat for tie present The white poo
pleonce in power, and committing them
selves to the validity of these fraudulent
debts, fixes them to a reasonable
certainty forever a burden upon the
people, Cor pride, principle and con-
sistency will hold them to it. The in
herent dishonesty and disregard of
the negroes VIII sooner or later bear
fruit i'll the utter reputation Of all
debts, the just and unjust alike. if
| they retain power. The dishonesty
which would swindle the tax-paying
whites of the South to put money in
the Negroes purse to splurge on and
enjoy freedom with. will not scruple
at breaking faith with the bondhold-
ers who furnished the means, when
ever the payment affects him with
even slight Inconvenience. All things
work together for good and if any
considerable number of the white peo-
pie Of Alabama are over scrupuious
about the States honor, and feel that
they ought to suffer themselves and
their posterity bled to pay those iaqo-
cent bondholders who traded with a
set of white and blacl, scoundrels to
swindle and Cypress the true white
men OF the State, and should they by
their utter folly defeat the White
Mans ticket, the goodness of Provi-
dence towards them will be made
manifest nthe Negroes peculiar morali-
| ty
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
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Judge Hughes successor to the late
"lamented" Underwood, as Federal
Judge for the District of Virginia, has
recently made an important decision
in case tried in Norfolk in that State
The gist of the decision, We learn, is as
follows:
''Not only, therefore, is it consonant
| with the liberal spirit of commercial
| jurisprudence and of the bankrupt law
of this court to refuse to make the
| partnership of these bankrupts the
means of disabling them from sharing e
the benefit of the exemption which they
| would have as bankrupts, but the ex-
press language of the acts gives them
| the exemption as partners. l have
| therefore made all order allowing each
Of them SO much of the $500 exemption
respectively as their individual estates
surrendered in bankruptcy may not be
sufficient to provide.
"This allowance is to be exclusive of
the poor debtors exemption which has
been set apart to them"
Now it happens that just before the
late lamented Underwood died, Judge
Bond overruled him W on this very
point.
If Hughes and Underwood be hight,
Bond is wrong. If Bond is right
Hughes and Underwood are wrong.
When doctors disagree who shall de-
eide Hughes is in very bad company
when associated with Underwood, but
then Bond is neither altogether lovely
nor is he entirely filed with the odor
of sanctity. And if Underwood is Ia
mented, Bond is certainly lamentable.
1t is a knotty case, two radicals,
counting the dead one, against one.
We do not propose to decide it.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27

The New York Tribune, says the
Baltimore Gazette, makes fun Ct the
attempt to constitute Butler the scape-
goat of the Republican party. and
drive him to the wilderness with the
sins of the Franking Privilege, San
born Contracts, Salary Grab, Imitation
and other iniquities which weighed
heavily upon the Republicans III the
New Hampshire election, and VIII
weigh still heavier in coming ones.
Alas Butler refuses to bear the bur
den. No wilderness for him while his
lot is cast in a land overlooking with
milk and honey-revenue moieties,
back pay and Credit Mobilier:
The only trouble now is, lie doesn't
90. He is loaded, but he eVlnces no
disposition to seek the desert. lie
looks wonderingly into the face and
eyes of the high priest. The Boston
Idrertiser says to him, with great
JUNCTION and in double-leaded way,
':Shool" The Worcester Spy throws
up its hands and remarks also ''ohoo.
AS one with lifted foot to the strange
dog in the entry should say, ''S-s.t!
so Beacon street gays, with great sibil.
alton, "S-s-t. S-s-immons-s! Get cut!
The Brothers Hoar point him to tue
desert, but he goes not; the Republl-
can party OF Massachusetts wants to
see him start; he only looks in a con
templative way over his shoulder at
the load, then at the high priest, and
then at the Great Silent man; and
though he stirs not, there is that in
his mien and manner which seems to
say plainly and distinctly that he is
not that kind of a goat. And still
there are more people waiting to see
him start than there were to witness
the launch of the City of Pekln.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
From the Conrer- Journal
Preparations for the Wedding TT
the ~ k,Efs KS0s1so.

And now 1t is rumOred that Miss
Grants wedding is to be FASTENED, and
the names Of her five bridesmaids are
given. These arc tine Misses BOrie of
Philadelphia, nieces of the eX-SE creta-
~ OF the Navy; Miss Drexel, daughter
of the Philadelphia banker; Miss Kitty
Cooke, daughter OF the ex-banker
Henry -. Cooke, and Miss Anna
Barnes, dtughter OF llIe Surgeon Gen
eral l have not Yet heard the names
of the groomsmen. OF course Col.
Fred. Grant Will be Miss Cooks
groomsman: she is his fiancee. It has
been Thought best since the arrival of
Mr.. Sartoris to allow the marriage to
take place next month instead of wait
ing until October. The secret Of the
engagement was we'll kept, until the
arrival in Philadelphia of Mrs Fanny
Kemble, who is DIR. Sartoris's aunt.
She mentioned the fact first. When
the elder Mr.. Sartoris and his son met
Miss Grant on the steamer coming
from England last October year, they
were ON their way to Michigan, where
Mr.. Sartoris owns lands, and he in
tended to locate this his second son il
this State, for him to earn his own liv-
ing. The sudden death of the eldest
son took place while they We're travel
ing in the West. and a telegram was
sent to President Grant to learn
their whereabouts and inform
them of the sad news. OF course
they returned to England Immediately
upon receipt of this intelligence. Now
that the young man has such different
prospects, he will not cultivate wild
lands in Michigan, but take his bride
to his ancestral halls. I wonder if
there is as much sorrow felt when
death is SO advantageous to
the brother ~as there is among our
plain folk, where all the children
have equal advantages Every day
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
Hundred Years Ago

One hundred and ten years ago there
was not q single white man in what is
COW Kentucky, Ohio. Indiana, or Hi
mons. Then, what is now the most
tiourishing part of the United States,
was rs little known as the country in
the heart of Africa itself. 1t was not
till 1I76 that Boone left his home in
North Carolina to become the first set
Ter III kentucky. And the pioneers of
Ohio did not settle till twenty years
later still. Canada belonged to France
115 years ago, and Washington was a
modest Virginia Colonel, and the Uni
ted States the most loyal part OF the
British empire, and scarcely a speck
on the political horizon indicated the
struggle that IN a score Of years was to
lay the foundation OF the create t Il :
public of the world.
y hundred years ago there were but
fo1r small newspapers in America;
steam engines had not been imagined,
and locomotives, a. q railroads, and
telcgraphs, and friction matches, and
revolvers, and percussion caps, and
breech-loadlng guns, and stoves, and
furnaces, and gas for dwellings, and
sewing machines, and India rubber
shoes, and anthracite coal. and photo
graphs, and crOmo paintings, and
kerosene oil, and free schools. and
spring mattresses, and wood engrav-
lnSs, and Brussels carpet, and lever
watches, aud greenbacks, and cotton
and wooden factories, in anything like
the present meaning of these terms,
were utterly unknown.
A hundred years ago the spinning
wheel was in almost every family ard
clothing was spun and woven and
made ~ III the household. and the
printing press was Il cumbrOus ma
chime, worked ny hand: aud Il nail, or
a brick, or Il knife, or q j.: II Of shears
or SCISSORS, or a razor, Or wOOvcn pair
I OF stockings, or an axe, or hoe, or
/ shovel, or Il lock or key, or Il plate OF
| glass OF any size, was not made in
What is now the United States. Even
I III 1870 there We're only scycnty-five
, pOSt-Otficcs III the country, and the
! whole extent of our pOst-routes was
/ less than nineteen hundred miles -
! Cheap postage was unheard Of, and
had any one suggested the transmits
sion of messages with lightning speed
! he would have been thought utterly in
! sane. The microscopes OH the one
hand, and the telegraph on the other
were iii their infancy as instruments OF
| science and geology aud chemistry
| were almost unknown. In a word, il
| Is true that to the century passed have
! been allotted more improvements il
| their bearings on the comfort ard hap
! piness of mankind, than to any other
| which has elapsed since the creation oi
the world.-Topeka Kansas) Rccord.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
Contempt of So.srI.

Mr.. John Il. Mclean, the Editor Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, was commit
led to jail the other day for contempt
Of court in refusing to give the name
of the person from whom the Enquirer
had obtained certain statement. A
criminal prosecution for libel had
been brought, not against the Enquirer
but against ONO Scowden, who was
supposed to be the originator of the
story complained OF, and Mr. Mclean,
being called as a witness, testified that
Scowden was not the person from
whom the information was derived.
Here, it would seem, bis examination
ought to have stopped, bu5 the counsel
for the prosecution went on to ask who
did give him the statement which he
published, aid this question Mr.. Me-
Lean refused to answer After a short
detention in Jail he was released on
bail, and as soon as his case can be
properly presented it will doubtless
be held that the question was irrele-
want and his committal an attempt TO
use the process of the court i'll fishing
for evidence, which OF course, the law
Will not allow.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
THE CoNNECrICUT ELECTaOf

THE C0NNECTICUT ELECTION.
The country is being forcibly re-
minded that the tine for the Connect
icut election is drawing near. Last
week we published the fact that near
a thousand workmen had been dis
charged from the Navy Yard at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire. 1t is said
too. that for the first time in many
years the large Navy Yard at Brook
Ign has stopped work. and that the
workmen, reinforced by others from
Portsmouth have been sent to New
London, Connecticut.
The election in Connecticut takes
place on the 9th Of the coming month
and as tie result in that State has OF
late yearsbeen doubtful, the addition OF
a thousand or fifteen hundred workmen
from Brooklyn and Portsmouth may
easily turn the scale. The transfer OF
men from one State to another to car
nv an election, is bold act, but Beast
Butler is now managing affairs for the
administration and he never hesltates
at auy thing
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27

The Jackson: Miss Clarion speaks
very encouragingly of the condition of
tie agricultural interest in that State.
j,-l 'ag to the statement of Senator
- som IS to the depressed condition of
affair, n North Carolina, the Clarion,
says:
1.-The Wilmington JOURNAL has re-
produced this article to endorse it as
correct. While all it says in reference
to the low price of our chief staple.
and the consequent money,pressure. is
necessarily applicable to Mississippi.
and to the entire cotton region, her
citizens viii bear us out in saying that
her industrial system does not present
the Generalization and retrogressions
Ct North Carolina. Farmers are not
abandoning their pursuits. Labor SO
far from growing more Gisorganized,
IS becoming more fixed. The exper-
fence of the years that have interx5ned
since the war has served as lessons by
which they have profted; and under
the inspiring influence of the cooper
alton movement set on foot by the
Changers, the agriculture of the State
of Mississippi may be said to be look
ing up.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
01llalin{4tolt. yoarMd
rprDAY MARCH 81. 1874.

The Rocky Mount Matt is very much
interested on the renewal of the Uni,
yersity and recommends General JOS
anh r Johnston as the most suitable
man for the Presidency. General
Johnston is the sixth gentleman whose
name has been mentioned in connec-
ton with the Presidency of the Uni
yersity, all of them gentlemen OF the
highest character, who would doubt
less do themselves and the State great
honor if called to the head of the Uni
versity. We are truly glad to see the
press of the State exhibiting SO much
interest in the matter.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
I'll A p . q - - r. COMPLIMENT TO
GOVERNOR GRAHAM.

The House Com mittee on Courts Of
Justice and the Senate Committee OF
Federal Relations, OF the Virginia Leg
islature, to whom We're referred the
Virginia and Maryland boundary line
questions, have agreed to report in
favor of a settlement by arbitration.
The Richmond Dispatch referring
to the matter says;
1.-THE proposition OF Maryland was
to refer certain disputed points to Hon.
Jeremiah 8. Black, OF Pennsy1yania,
as arbitrator. Both States agree to
submit it to his decision as final and
conclusive. The two committees, sit
ting in joint session, after hearing the
statement of tie Maryland Commits
sioners, and fully considering the mat
ter, determined to report q bill pro
giding, in the event that Maryland
concurs. that Maryland shall appoint
one arbitrator, Virginia another, and
the two shall choose q third, and to
the three shall be referred ali the cues
tons ut issue between Virginia and
Maryland relative to boundary lines and
jurisdiction. The names of Horatio Sey-
mour of New York, John A. Campbell
of Alabama, W. A. Groesbeck of Ohio,
aud William A. Graham of North Car
ohna, were mentioned in connection
with the appointment of arbitrator on
the part of Virginia. After full dis
eussion of the claims of all these gen
tlemen, Mr. Graham was selected. MIR.
Graham is oa1e of the most distinguish
ed sons of the OLD North State, having
been Governor of the State, Secretary
OF the United States Navy, and 1.,em-
Der of Congress. It is presumed that
Maryland will appoint Mr.. Black as
arbitrator on her paet Ii she accepts
the plan of settlement now proposed
by the committees for this State
Our Virginia friends may rely upon
it that their rights will be entirely safe
in the hands of Governor GRAHAM.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
sstiIlO a.Ir1sl.


Some Interesting statistics are pup
listed going to show that Greece has
made very decided progress since the
| adjustment Of her independence
! They are furnished by the Hon J. NJ
/ Francis, editor of the Troy ij1"7
/ Times and late United States Minister
to Greece. He says that the m"rran-
! tile marine of Greece is larger than
that OF any other country III the world
in proportion to tie population, neil
! ding 2l7O vessels with Il tonnage
amounting to 49, ,0J4. The Helene
Mining Company last year paid ei&hI
/ per cent. dividend, and are no" erect
ing works for melting the superior
iron Gre OF tie Island of Serphos,
Cotton factories are also beng bulli
! and the cotton crop reaches SIX millions
! of pounds annually. There are el3ht
silk factories whose annual pro i'4c1 -
$50, 600, large proportion OF Nhic.i,
is exported. Agricultural schools al"
societies have bee.l established, LABOR
saving implements employed ana 'ii'
latest methods Of farming adop'cd'
Education embraces about three,
fourjhs Of the children. Unlvat'aaii
suffrage is the le,w. Athens has ')o,':"
inhabitants, and compares il areiltt.@-
turc favorb!y with any other CITY 81 u.
size IN Europe is again beeon'h$ Il
cantro OF science and literature ii'S
a university thirty years Old W"r'5
twelve hundred students are edncA:s"
gratuitously IL law, theology, mcditihe
and philosophy; a library VIII! tTo
hundred thousand volumes foGr banks
with paid up capital of twelve nun
bred millions OF dollars, and branches
all over the kingdom. Pir;eus, nea'
Athens, has over $4,000 people: Syra'
the commercial port of the Cycl;sdes'
%, 600 Patras, the port of the rec
ponessus, 10000; Zante, chief por no %
tie Ionian Isles, 10000; Corfu, 2o'ov',
A ship canal is projected across tn7
Isthmus of Corinth. These facts III
dictate very clearly that Byrona s
Elections" on the decay of Greece hale
become things of the past. =
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27

For two months before the New
Hampshire election the Portsmouth
Navy Yard was crowded with useless
men, who were employed in moving
useless piles of lumber from place to
place. Four days after the election
the 1000 useless men, who had been
paid about 5000, 900 from the national
treasury, were discharged from the
Portsmouth Navy Yard after having
performed the duty of voting the Re
publican ticket. This is ostensibly
year for economy in national expendlt-
ures. It is now an important question
for the taxpayers of the country to
think upon whether 1000 Radical votes
in a New Hampshire election are worth
$1,000 of the public money.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
wEsrExN NORTH CAROLINA.

Yaz-IN
I'VE are glad to learn, as we do from
the Asheville Pioneer, that many per-
sons in the North and North West are
emaking inquiries about our mountain
region. The moving cause seems to
be the statements made by Mr.. King
in letter published in Scribner's
Monthly. Some of these enquirers are
deeply impressed with the idea that, II
Mr.. Kings letter is not an exagger-
alton, Western North Carolina will at
no distant day become the habitation
of large number of those who are
seeking new homes.
We sincerely trust that these antici-
pations may be speedily realized and
that every portion of our State may in
deed blossom as the rose.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-27
~ Never lsaLns G,ss.ss z.n,,r...

| Yesterday morning the Public Treas
! urer was served with notice to APP
| pear at the next term Of the Superior
Court of rhis county and defend ? suit
which has been instituted by II. =. G.
| Wilson. trustee Tor some Northern
bondholders, to comrel him to pay the
interest on old bonds. under act of
1868. j. ". Graham. Esq, of Hills
! boro, in the Attorney for the plaintiff.
In order that our readers may have a
clearer idea of the nature Of the suit,
we append the act under which it is
brought:
AN ACT TO PROVIDE E0E TIE PAYMENT
OF TIE N1EREsH c. TIE 1-wI u
DEBT OF TIE STATE.
Section l. Tie tTcpeJGl .4sso,tbly Of
North Cd1Oti!2ts do enact, That inter
est on the bonds dated before MAY
18th, 1861, and since May 205h. 1865.
whether the latter are or shall he is
sued under authority of the late prQvi-
sional or present permanent govern
1nent, falling due on the LIST DAY of De
tober, 1868, and on the 1st day Of Jan
Eary, 1869. and at any time sl!bsTquent
thereto, shall be paid by the Public
Treasurer, OF iii New York, according
TO the stipulation contained i'll the
bonds, in cash.
Sec. .. The Public Treasurer is
here 10y authorized and directed to APP
ply towards such payments, not onIy
receipts from taxes and other sources,
but any dividends and income accrU-
ing from the railroad companies or
other internal improvement corpora
tons i'll which the State is or may be
interested, and he is authorized to dis
pose of in such manner as may ke best
for the interests of the State, any of
said dividends not declared or paid IN
national currency.
''Sec. 8. When it may become nee