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Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
THE ELECTION LAW.
COmpiI menfary to the JOu N a

Complimentary TO the journal.
In our issue OF Sunday We suggested
to the Legislature an amendment to
the Election Law requiring voters, un-
known to the poll-holders, to prove
their residence by the oaths Of resi-
dents of the township or ward who
We're known. We suggested this
amendment because we have seen SO
many illegal votes cast in this city,
which the law could not reach. The
Interpretation given by the poll-hold-
ers was that the oaths of the voters
transferred the responsibility from
was against the unknown and irrespon-
slble offenders. This rendered the law
nugatory. We desire to make some
well-known and responsible citizen re-
sponsible.
The issue of the JOURNAL suggest
ing the amendment. was received III
Raleigh on Monday evening. In the
proceedings of the Senate on Tuesday
npon the Election Law, we read :
Mr.. Cowles offered an amendment
requiring every voter. when challeng-
ed, to prove by some reliable witness,
that he is entitled by the law, &C., to
vote. The yeas and nays were called,
and the amendment was adopted by
strict party vote.
We thank Senator CowLEs for the
promptness with which he responded
to our suggestion, and we thank the
Democrats and Conservatives of that
body for their fattering endorsement.
We wereprepared for the opposition of
the Radicals, for much of the strength
OF the party is owing to illegal voting,
and it is in keeping with the party
here and elsewhere to oppose every
thing that looks to the purity of the
ballot box.
Ii the House shall adopt the pro-
posed amendment, and its provisions
are properly enforced, it will make
difference of five hundred votes in
this Congressional and Judicial Dis
trict. More than half that number of
non-residents vote at every election in
this city alone.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

The once celebrated eating house,
known as Fictor's. was burned few
days ago in New Orleans. Victor's
was at one time the most famous
French restaurant N the United States,
and was established forty years ago
near the old French market. 1t was
afterward moved to the Place ARM es,
where it occupied mouldy cd
Spanish building since destroyed. 1t
was removed finally to Canal street
1t declined in popularity during later
days, but as the Picayune says, there
was time when its reputation extend
ed throughout the Valley of the Miss
issippi. Strangers of luxurious tastes
and cultivated aPpetites, on visiting
the city, regarded breakfast or din
ner at Victor's as one of the chief en-
joyments of the place, ranking it with
q seat at the Orleans Opera or the then
magnificent old st. Charles.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

The Oxford Carolina Herald says:
On "Wednesday last, c. c. Haggie, a
resident oe Sassafcas Fork, III this
county, was arrested i'll Mecklenburg
county, Va, charged with the murder,
by strychnine, of lis iilegiti,nate child,
and lodged i'll Jail at Doydton. 1t ap-
pears that he had accomplished the
ruin of his first cousin, young lady
of beauty and amiable character, and
in order to conceal the result of the
illicit intercourse, had carried her to
the neighboring county of Mecklen-
burg, where, some three weeks since,
the child was born. The poison was
procured by Haggie. and given to the
mother, who administered it, as is
supposed, under the impression that
it was medicine for the collie. The
child, then two weeks old, was imme-
diately taken with convulsions, and
died in about fifteen minutes.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

Gen. s. B. Maxey, the newly elected
United States Senator from Texas, is q
native of Monroe county, Kentucky.
he served in a Kentucky regiment in
the Mexican war, and subsequently re-
moved to Texas. Since the Confeder-
ate war, in which he took an active
part, he has been practicing law.
The action of the Connecticut Dem
ocfatic State Convention will meet
With the hearty approval of the Dem
ocracy OF the country. The renomi-
nation of Governor IngersoI was a
Just tribute to an honest, faithful and
Conscientious public officer, and, with
The sound and healthy platform adopt
ed, there is every reason to believe
.hst another substantial victory will
De won by the Democratic masses in
the Land of Steady Habit"
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

Born January 10Th, 1857. Died Oc-
tober 18th, 1870" And 'Mrs. Mary
Gusts Lee. Born October 1, 1SOS."-
Died November 5th, 1873"
The black walnut railing. with posts
capped with white marble, and the
crown and cross, anchor, and other de-
vices of immortelles, the evergreens.
hanging moss from the far South, and
fresh flowers, with which loving hands
kept the tombs always decked, con-
spire to produce very pleasing effect.
1t is very grateful to ones feelings to
find a student on guard in the adioin-
ing room to conduct visitors to the
tomb and old Office of General Lee,
which is still kept just as he left it on
the day of his fatal illness-his chair
near its accustomed place at his table
(only little pushed back as he left his
k)-tle pens with which he wrote
the half finished letter which he was
writing-his neatly folded paper-his
books carefully arranged in their
shelves-and the pile of "monthly re-
ports" over which he had been looking
that morning-are all there to speak
II mute eloquence of that last day on
which he laid aside the implements of
his busy life preparatory to receiving
his fadeless crown and entering upon
his much-needed crest" GBy the-wav
it is popular impression that General
Lees death was fastened by unconge-
NAL work at Lexington. I will give a
sentence from noble letter he wrote
his old Lieutenant, General Ewell, a
short time before his death. Abiding
to his college work, General Lee wrote
his old comrade-in arms: ct find nv
present life exceedingly ccngenial and
pleasant to me, and I have discovered,
when too late, that I hare sCasted the
best gears of my eristence."
When Valentines splendid sarcopha.
gus is finished, and other contemplated
changes made in the Memorial
Chapel, it will be most fitting monu-
ment to Our Grand Old Chieftan, who
proved himself even greater in peace
than in war. It will be gratifying to
the public to know that the Memorial
Committee now have on hand funds
sufficient to enable Valentine to put
into marble that splendid creation of
his genius, the figure of Lee asleep in
his bivouac beneath the stars, which
will unquestionably give our young
artist place foremost in the ranks of
his profession.
But they will need funds to enable
them to make necessary changes for
the reception, putting up and preser-
vatlon of the sarcophagus.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
all of the crew had left the ship that

all of the crew had left the ship that
the Captain had gone last-where or
how none of them knew, though one
OF them said after time that he had q
kind of half recollection of hearing
the Captain cry out: ''NIy God! RATHER
ina as he swung himself overthe side
OF the ship; but he could tell nothing
certainly, as there had been much con
fusion when the ship began to go to
pieces.
In the middle of the forenoon, the
storm had abated when another boat
made its way into the bay with Capt.
Alcott on board but, though lie
thought he had seen katharine the
night before, he believed It to have
been his imagination, and knew moth,
ing of her now only wnat they told
him, that she had gone out to save him
from death.
In IN hour aftcr he had landed, he,
with Mfr. Forsyth, had taken Il steam
tug and were off after The woman who
was probably lying It that moment
many fathoms deep beneath ti.e cruel
waves.
Captain Alcot5 kept LIS o,.n look
out; and he had both. Hoavan aud
Hell in his head during that dreadful
search-fOr, i Go dja not find her and
his reason toll him that it was The
merest tony 70 nope Ior such Il thing,
he he, Wo'lIa M /, ne, neEGE IoFglEe tho man who
kept SO close beside hlIn at every turi.,
and Whose worn, haGg2rd face WAS
enough 10 move !" Lt,tft OF stone to
pitS.
but. ne did Ind hoT-if GCd
would buE hear and answer this. the
most terrlbi iy-In-ealnCat prayer that he
had ever nt.ef-d ia his life, it would
make MN { changed man for all
tlno.
we make such VOWS il these dire
straits which over5"''~ - nov and
,heA' TIE worse 10: us Il wc do not
Keep thclH.
Ihe sun began to set low III the
Western horizon, and vet nothing.
Nouid 1t b il vain Gould he give
her up now, iHst ~ hc v"s certain Of
heE love, a2d upon tlie very threshold
OF what MIgh5 be hLSa2 His eyes
were strInn& far around il every Iii
rectlon. the hope and despair a.tecna-
ting III them, making them dreadt-u! TO
see. He was 4 strong man, b5lt strong
men love With fearful Inteusily some
tunes, and love over :; pos bic and
probai,!c grave is Away lnoEa o. less
terrible.
At last, Her a1olAcr hour. hc gave
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
2nsercSt On CGDif1I.

We extract the following remarkable
facts from a lecture by Mr.. w. p.
Groom, editor of the New York INer-
ca1ttitc Journal, and they cannot fail
to be of interest as illustrating the
rapid increase of capital when well in
vested:
Many men carelessly conclude that
three per cent. is just one half of six
per cent. But this is not the case, as
will be seen from the following state
ment5 of facts:
If one dollar be invested and s4he in
terest added to the principal annually,
at the rates named, We shall have the
following result at the accumulation
Of one hundred wears:
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

Now, the growth of national wealth
is only about three snd one-eighth per
cent. per annun, Notwithstanding the
assertion of those who have placed it
much higher. through comparing the
old valuations with the new (Which
have been greatly increased), instead
of taking as the basis of their calcula-
ton, as they have done, the actual
number of horses, cattle, be gs, sheep,
etc., at the different periods. 1t is
plain, therefo ore, that the great mistake
most men make is in attempting to use
borrowed capital at an immensely high
rent, ordinarily termed interest, which,
by the useof gold, as currency, is often
forced still higher. While the growth
of the national wealth remains at the
present rate, the average man who at
tempts to pay even seven per cent. for
all the capital he can get, should not
expect to avoid bankruptcy as the re-
suit.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
CONSOLiDATION- N-.CHANGE OF
GAUGE.

A friend at our elbow asks: "HoW
would our Western friends like to have
the Carolina Central Railwsy Company
take charge of the Western North
Carolina Railroad and complete it to
Tennessee and Western connections
with the same life aud active energetic
effort that they are using in compiet-
ing their line to Charlotte? The only
road that has not ceased operations of
construction during the late financial
panic.'
We are assured that if the consolida-
ton plans fail to make a great Rail-
way to the West this new and live
company will do it, if the line can be
secured from Salisbury to Old Fort at
fair price and no change of gauge
will be made, but the old North Caro-
lima gauge maintained, thus giving the
Western trader and farmer the choice
Of markets TO the seabO2rd.
We see no reason for retaining the
power in the Consolidation Act to
change gauge at any time. Should the
Directors see fit to exercise it,
the entire system of North Car
olina Railways is disconnected or
what? To connect with the system
OF Tennessee. We are informed tha5
the Kentucky Railways, those running
from Louisville to Lexington, with di-
rect line to Cumberland Gap, are the
same gauge as the North Carolina
Railroads, and as all the tendency now
is to a uniform gauge, the lesser must
come to the greater. AS nine-tenths
Of the roads are four feet eight and a
half incles gauge that will ultimately
become the gauge of the country.
AS an evidence of the good feeling
towards the old stockholders of
the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruth
erford Railroad, we are assured
by one who knows that stock
in the Carolina Central Railway
Company will be issued to them equal
in amount to the stock they owned in
the former Company. This will give
our pc, pie some interest III this Com
pany and make them feel that they
have not been turned out in the cold
by the act of foreclosure, as certainly
the new stock will be worth as much as
the old was before foreclosure
We venture this fact in justice to a
corporation that has been looked upon
by some of our people as ''foreign and
alien to our interests"
That such is not the fact, we have
evidences in many ways. Recently by
a subscription to the railroad to the
seashore, the President of the Carolina
Central Railway subscribed for one
hundred shares of stock subjec: to the
approval of his Directors. The facts
We have stated, and the much more
important one, the desire of this Com
pany to pnsh its line, if the people will
aid but little, to Hickory and Cram
berry, and if they can buy the line to
Old Fort, to open connection with
Cincinnati and the West.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
The Paris correspondent of the New

The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times says that Cardinal Lucien
Bonaparte, Italian by birth and eduea-
ton, italian, of course, by race, and
entered as 'sItalian" in the Official list
of Cardinals, is believed (as have al
ready written to you) to be the Cardi-
nal already designated for succession
to the Papal throne. This able and
energetic prelate is not much heard of;
but last Friday, at Rome. on the ami
versary of Napoleon Ills death, he
celebrated five hundred masses for the
good of the late Emperor's soul and
as he was the hope of Comparison in
the past. SO in connection with Rome,
is he still its hope in the future.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
Murder and Suicide.

We regret to learn of a murder, and
tue subsequent suicide of the murder
er, which occurred at Downing's Store,
near Councils Bluff, in Bladen coun-
ty, on last Tuesday morning. It seems
that the two victims, Messrs. Giles
Sykes and William H. Woods, met at
nowning's Store OH the day above
mentioned. Both were under the in
fiuence of liquor and a quarrel be-
tween them ensued. The result of it
was that Sykes was shot through the
chest by Woods. killing him instantly,
the weapon used being o double bar
relied shot gun. Some few hours af
terwards Woods, filled with remorse
for the act he had committed and pos
sibly with a fear of the consequences,
discharged the contents of the other
barrel of the same gun into his body,
causing instant death.
Coroner J. E. d. Bizzell was noti-
fled and an inquest was held over the
two bodies, resulting in verdict in
accordance with the facts as above
stated by us. Messrs. Sykes and
Woods were respectable men, vel
connected, and the sad affair is most
deeply deplored by all who knew them.
FOnviclls's simpson Cotton Seed.
We beg for careful attention to
the advertisement of Fonvielle's Extra
Prolific Simpson Cotton Seed, as it
appears in this issue. On his planta-
ton, i'll Onslow county, Mr.. Fonvielle
has carefully tested the different
varieties of cotton seed and finds that
the Simpson is far superior to any of
its competitors. From this seed, the
most satisfactory results have been
obtained, one small patch of two and
a half acres having yielded nine hun
dred pounds of lint cotton per acre.
The seed Mr.. Fonvielle offers for sale
were obtained originally from the pure
Simpson seed; they will be sold at So
per bushel for a less quantity than ten
bushels, and for ten bushels or more
at 81 so per bushel.
In addition to his own experience in
planting this seed, Mr.. Fonvielle has
certificates from some of the leading
planters in Duplin and Onslow coun-
ties, among them such men as A. G.
MOsley, Isham E. Fmson, W. M.
Hurst, DIR. Matthew Moore, D. J. Mid
dleton and w. S. Loftin, of Duplin,
and l., w. Harget, Frank Thompson,
A. j. Murrill, Solomon Gornto, w. II. |
Hurst and A. J. Hurst, Jr., of Onslow,
gentlemen who are well known among
the planting community of this section
of the State
We again ask for a careful perusal
of Mr.. Fonvielle's advertisement.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
VOL. 80.
DAPITAL AND LABOR.

One Of the perils of being wealthy
and powerful, says the Augusta Con-
stituti )raalist, is the perpetual attem pt
OF the needy and the individually weak
to get share of the spoil and to hum
BILE the proud. When properly ap-
piled, this antagonism is not unwhOle-
some, for it teaches the rich that money
is not the supreme good, and it admon-
ishes the noble that their titles are
among the unstable and evanescent
things of the whirligig OF time. Wien
ever capital grows too exacting. there
is always danger of its loss, for the
people who grow poorer as the few
wax richer may be jackasses in some
respects, but, like jackasses, they can
kick very hard betimes and roll their
riders in the dust when they seem most
secure in the saddle.
When Louis Philippe deemed him
self most firmly fixed, he was really
treading on thin crust of ashes which
hid the slumbering volcano. When he
boasted that, like Pompey of old, he
had but to stamp his feet and mighty
armies would spring up from the earth
he was really about to be deserted
by even his personal guard.
In England, the most vociferous
war-cry of the Radicals in the elections
is, "down with the subsidies of the
Royal family" The following list of
amounts raised by taxation and voted
away to the Queens prolific brood is
conspicuously paraded.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
Found Dead In the Woods.

On Tuesday last, a young man, o
citizen of Brunswick county. while
out hunting near Wayman Church, in
that county, discovered through his
dogs, the dead body of a colored wo-
man. She was apparently about 40
years of age and bore marks of vio-
olence on her person. The Coroner
was notified by the young man and an
inquest was held, resulting in a YER
dict that deceased came to her death
from injuries inflicted by some or per-
sons unknown to the jury.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

The St. Louis Cr9sus-the late Jas.
H Lucas, left 81, 200, ,OOO-this in ad-
dtion to s., 900, 900 which he gave his
sons during his lifetime.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
CLUBS.

Wewere the recipient yesterday of three
Mica clubs, one from Wolf Pitt, Onslow
county, another from Beverly, Arson
county, and still another from Mount
Gilead, Montgomery county. These
clubs were in addition to quite a num-
Der of separate subscribers. We hope
others vet will do likewise.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13
Contributions to the Orp han Asy.
lum i'm January, 1874.

Paid $50, Greensboro Female Col
lege.
Paid $40, Ladies of Wilmington.
Paid S41, Wayne Lodge No. 112.
Paid $31. Buffalo Lodge No. 172.
Paid S25 II, Greensboro Lodge No
76
Paid $25 30, Ladies of High Point.
raid S25, Donald McRae.
Paid S16 %, Danbury Lodge No.
Paid S16, collection at Mt. Moriah
Church, Wake.
Paid S15 each, Carraway Council,
Friends of Temperance and New Berne
Lodge No. 243,
Paid SO so, Adoniram Lodge No.
Paid $11 GO, Fractional Collection of
Mrs. Carrie Fuller and Mrs. Ella Gre
CORY.
Paid SO each. Mrs. John Bullock,
H. w. Eaton, DIR. S. G. Sims, Walter
G.. McRae.
Paid $6 SO each, Phalanx Lodge No.
81, Anchor Lodge No. 1874.
Paid $5 each, Miss Mary S McRae,
Mrs ] r Alexander's collection in Ire
dell, Fl Greenlee, Mrs J H Greenlee,
L w Rowlett, w A White, G s Win
stead, Capt Davis, John A Simp-
sin.
Paid So. DIR. J G King.
80 81 95 Elmwood Lodge, No 246.
'' So SO. 81 A Londor, Esq.
6 81 each, j A Mitcnener, Five
Children in Greensboro, d w Green
lee, s H Buchanan, Len Henderson
H b Hunter, Sr, J s Allen.
Paid 81 each, W n Jones, Miss
Agnes McRae, Don Nc Rae, Hugh Nc
Rae, Younger, j r Hunt, S p Sat-
terfield, W H Winstead, N N Tuck. r
T Howerton, A Young Man, Rev T II
Ivey, Prof. S J Stephens, J III God
frey, A Mcfarland, Jere Draper, II
H Harrison, V F Lea, w F Reade, J
L Harriss, w Z Webb, W Hunt, J
F Wagstaff, and Knapp, of Reeds
Lodge, No 15S.
Paid 80 cents, Little Girl.
IN KIND.
Ono valuable box each, Citizens of
Milton, Wayne Lodge, No ll2, Citi-
zen, of ofMooresville, Bethlehem Church,
Bladen Co, Mt Vernon Church, Wake
Co, Ladies of Wilmington, Ladies of
Big Rock Fish Church, Cumberland
Co, Citizens Of Roxboro.
dozen caps, r l. Hunt.
1 barrel of flour, Wayne Lodge,
No 112.
Socks, Mrs III Lassiter, Mrs A
Knott, r B Gillian. the Misses Wards.
1 qnilt. Miss Nellie E Stallings.
1 bundle of shoe strings, Mrs NJ ]
Mosley.
Vegetables, A Sherman, w II Hol-
den, G w Watkins, Bennett Breed
love, the Misses Ward.
So Express Co, and Oxford Stage
Line, free transportation of many boxes
anil hundleS
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

A Hundred Volumes have been writ
ten abo It the teeth, but one bottle o. Fragrant
SozOdont Is worth them all! Its an elixir that
will keep the enamel sound brilliant, and
spotless, for q lifetime.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

TO Br. EkelmEOEG,S Eeaficut4.-Tha
celebrated Extract Buchu, ct which Dr. Helm
bold was the Originsto-, is still performing,
wonderful cures of obscure diseases of the uri-
nary organs, restoring shattered constitutions,
and overcoming debility and diseases aTisin; :.
from imprI.derCe and excess. This great diu-
retic never fails. Patients should be particu-
lar to get the genuine. which bears the Doe
tors signature. All druggists sell it. John f.
Henry, New York, Sole Agent.
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

Princess Louise (of Lorne). $4,000
Princess Mary (of Teck).. 1900
Princess Augusta (of Neck
lenburg- -Strelitz) ....... 10000
The Duchess of Cambridge. 10000
The Duke of Cambridge 276, 900
II may be that the American people
will hold up their hands i'll holy hor-
ror at this expensive tribute paid 10
rank and wrung from the pockets of
the lowly. But Mr.. Burchard, of Hi
nois, a member of Congress and one
the Committee of Ways and Means,
shows that in Republican America the
very same thing exists under a differ
ent name and to a vastly greater ex-
tent. MIR. Burchard proves that the
people are taxed to pay bounties to
capitalists annually, something like the
following sums:
Making woolen goods. .... SIS. .O23, 900
Making cotton goods. .-.-. 35,O79, 900
Making paper. 1O,27S,OOO
Making iron and steel. 49,. 20,0OO, 900
The royal families in this country
are the United States bond-holders and
the manufacturers of protected goods.
These princes without handles to their
names, but with all the assumptions of
vulgar aristocracy, are a greater curse
and burden than the bona tide royalty
of England.
In view of such prodigious bounties
in America to privileged classes, the
subsidies granted Queen Eictoria's
household and progeny are rather III
signigcnnt. Confronted with the gi-
gantic sums paid the American nobil-
ity, Mr. Gladstone, like Lord Give,
may point across the water and tell
his constituents that, instead of at-
tacking him on the score of extraga-
giant appropriations, they should be
"astonished at his moderation"
But what should the laboring and
tax-paying people of this country
think And what should they do
Wilmington journal., 1874-02-13

,HottentotS Gathering BGc.7u for
Helm boi is Extract has become almost ,. iiis
toriCat picture. ihe great CuIi-G&3 ton OF Ibr.
Hclmbolds Buchu at1"-JS ia. Important fact
that thousands need = dmTetlc medicine. Fer
femate, there has never i on p rcTuCjy cq
HelmbO'dS Ruc'U IL !Witft - are Irere
remedy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-03-24
ILLINOIS.

Chicago, %. A despatch from Elgin, H.,
says that fire broke out ;his morning on
Chicago ST., rear the corner of Douglass ave-
nue. and Fuller's Restaurant and spread to
the adjoining block, three story brick build
ing occupied by z. j. kimball, Tailor, S. NJ.
Kelley, Druggist, John Newman, Dry Goods
and Groceries, and b. Schelz, Cigar Store.
Both were destroyed. The fire struck across
the street to sherman Hall block, the lower
floors Of which were occupied by II. & S. E.
Weld, Druggist, l.. Adler, Furniture Fur
nshing Goods, Schultz 4 radson Dry Goods,
OConnell < Kimball Boots and Shoes, aad
\. W. Wilburn, Contcctioner, which was also
destroyed. A large brick block occupied by
f. Scott, Harness shop, X. X. Sherwins, Bill
Hard Iall, Raymond Bros, Crockery, r. NJ.
Martin, Dry Goods, and W. l.. Burns, Sad
dler, vas also consumed The total loss en-
the sock is estimated at eighty thousand dol
lars on the buildings sixtyseven thousand,
Insurance light.