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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the MIL
liona;re, and Daniel Drew, the ex-
millionaire, are both fast sinking into
their last repose. A. t. Stewart has
gone. and Aston persisted from the
face of the Garth; such has been the
mortality among the wealthy this
year. They could not carry their prop
erty with them to heaven; and all their
wealth could not purchase an hour of
life-and ever SO many things of the
same kind. The moral of which is !:
never be a millionaire. Avoid being n
millionaire at all hazards. A large
number of persons have alwayN made
it point to observe this precept, and
we know of no good advice SO easily
kept. The true way, is to lay up
treasure in heaven, as Daniel Drew
did, by endowing a theological SENT
nary with an unsecured note. That is
a treasure which neither moth nor
rust can corrupt.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
~ III WAEs

Is there to be war on the Eastern
question? If not, what means the
sending of a British fleet into the
Mediterranean ? The Louisville COu'-
icr-J0707sa3 says shat there is every
reason to believe that Gortschakoff,
Bismarck and Andrassy understand
perfectly we'll that England is content
to take Egypt as her share of the in
ev;table partition of Turkey and let
the other powers do as they please.
England has partly gotten over her
anxiety about tho Bosphorus. She
has loaned Turkey nearly one billion
Of hard cash, which that Government
cannot pay. When Germany, Austria
and Russia enter upon their. new pos~
sessions. England will quietly lay her
hand on Egypt and call her Turkish
debtaquare. This is the aspect of affairs
now, although voice is heard occa-
sionally in the English Parliament de-
ciaring that England cannot afford to
le5 Turkey alone"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
A noticeable feature of the steam

A noticeable feature of the steam
ship departures from New York is the
large number of passengers going
out, especially in the stee,age. The
applications for passage weeks ahead
are so numerous at some OF the COM
pany offices that they may have to take
into consideration the expediency of
putting on the extra steamers which
were withdrawn early in the season,
in consequence of a falling off in bust
ness. This is altogether contrary to
the anticipations touching the volume
of this summers travel to Europe,
which generally prevailed awhile ago.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
A Washington correspondent of the

A Washington correspondent of the
New York Express says that although
General Hancock is known to be a
pure, chivalrous gentleman, with far
sounder principles of craftsmanship
than the other generals of the army
who have exercised civil in connection
with military functions, it is thought,
however, that the wish Of the people
for an entire severance of the civil
government from army influences and
army associations is SO strong as t.
preclude the nomination of Hancock
at this time.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

The southern Presbyterian fur
nishes some instructive figures show
ing the comparative cost of certain
"unnecessaries,." from which it appears
that the country pays $40, 900 900 an
nually for dogs, 1913, 100000 for to-
bacco and So, 2UO. 900, 900 for intoxi-
eating liquors. The figures are given
for the purpose of contrasting the
respective items with the sum annually
paid in salaries to ministers of the
gospel, which is given at $4,000, 900
only,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
DOURTING THOmA-

ANOTIIE e DOgBTING ERiOWAS !!
- The Washington CITY Republican
says:
There is a strong feeling among
Southern Republicans, generally, Ill
favor of the nomination of Judge Set
tie of North Carolina to be the Repub
lican candidate for Vice President.
There is good authority for the state
ment that Judge Settle would not
accept the nomination if it should be
rendered to him. He believes that no
man who fought under the Confeder-
ate flag should be entrusted with such
high houors and duties as those which
attach to the Office of Vice President.
And so Thomas, the Judge, sur
named Settle, is afraid to trust him
self /! Does he believe upon the prin-
ciple of "once captive always cap
tive"-that once a traitor always Il
traitor ? His Honor was a traitor
once, SO he himself declared in open
convention, and now the Republican
says he thinks he is not to be trusted.
Traitor Tom and trusty Tom are two
ullltTellI IhulfIuuhiS 4laiUoA Iou
cannot he trusted to be Vice President
but almost anything is good enough
to be a Judge of the North Carolina
Supreme Court ! Traitor Tom will do
very well there according to Radical
doctrine but it must be Trusty Tom
who likes high Federal Office. We
rather think Traitor Tom will find ere
long that the people of North Caro-
lima are of the opinion that he is not
to be trusted with the high Office
either State or Federal. Men who
confess and call themselves traitors
have not good odor for North Caro-
lima nOstrila.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
CoHIesting Stewards Will.

There seems to he no doubt that the
will of 4. T. Stewart is to be contest
ed, ami the World publishes the de-
tails of the concerted movement going
on among certain persons claiming to
be blood rotations Of the late Mr..
Stewart to break the will. AS has
receives daily many letters, begging,
expostuiatory and threatening, from
pretended relatives of the late Mr..
Stewart in al parts of the country.
He remarked the other day that Mrs.
Stewart had received about four thou-
sand such, and himself doable that
number. Whether the claims Of tie
people about to begin this suit are
wholly spurious, or whether they are
serious, Judge Hilton naturally enough
remains ignorant as TO their plans and
intentions. An interviewer who has
visited several Of the Furneys in this city
finds that the parties in the suit TO be
instituted are George ". -Turney,
Catherine Turney, Samuel Turney,
James Turney, William III. Turney,
Augustus NJ. Turney. the son of Pass
chal W. Turney. Lucretia Turney. In
addition to these there are four cousins,
who claim to be children of Mr.. Stew
arts sister. Mr.. George W. Turney,
a Chatham street stationer, states THAI
Mr.. Stewart always recognized the
Turney family as blood relatives, al
though they did not keep up any close
relations. Mr.. ~. 0. Bartlett, Mr..
Elihu Root and Mr.. William D. Booth,
according to authoritative information,
are the counsel in the case. Mr.. Booth
declined yesterday to give any infor-
nation as to the case until the papers
are filed. and Mr.. Root, who was found
at he =" iIence last evening, was
equally r=tic,.nt. saying that at present
he had Lothing TO disclose, butas soon
as he felt at Utterly to speak of the
case hc would gladly give all the infor-
nation proper 20 bc i,Ubiished.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

Concerning the general commercial
and Industrial depression, the London
Times of the 9th instant says: ''Look-
ing to the world as our customers, we
must be content to endure some anx-
iety at period when all commercial
nations are suffering. That we can
bear such an ordeal without panic is
the best proof of our commercial abili-
ty. We await quietly the period when
the effects of overtrading and reckless
speculation will have passed away, and
if we must meanwhile make some
sacrifices, both capitalists and work
men will have learnt some valuable
lessons. The owners of capital will
feel that too eager pursuit of imme-
date profits may place them at
serious disadvantage, the work people
will perceive that their prosperity
does not depend on their making hard
bargains with their kmasters, but
economic laws to which their employ
ers are as much subject as the men
they employ"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

y speclal dispatch from Washington
ssiys: Senator Jones of Florida elec1
trified the Senate on Friday last. His
speech is conceded to be the mosa
brilliant and exhaustive argument YET
made on the question of jurisdiction
1t was not SO concise and logical as
Senator Eaton's, with whom he sided
in fighting against the right of juris-
diction; but it was more exhaustive In
its research, more convincing IN its
citation of authorities and as eloquently
delivered as any that have preceded it.
The strength of the arguments of Sen
ators Eaton, Jones and Conkhng has
forced the advocates of the right of
jurisdiction to reply, and the day of
The final vote is still in the uncertain
fuEprp
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
PuTS;LtOry Osa Earth.

In one of the sulphur mines near
Steamboat Springs auumbcrof China
Ineu are employed. The mine is sit
u&>el ut eho foot Of Il hill about u mile
ftom Steamboat. Two perpeodic-
ular cuts are made iuto the hill
50 that tAey converge ut "a gwen
point. ThCaa axe made for ventilation
and are PIT open to permit the heat
to escape. At the end of these cuts
they have Il face twenty feet high. The
sulphur begins within seven feet of
the top, and continues IN rich layers
all the way down, intermingled with
sand ard other formations. At this
point the heat IS very great. The
other day while working one of the
Cinnamon struck his pick through
into a assure, when a column of
blue flame shot up to the distance of
thirty feet filling the atmosphere with
a villainous stencil, and making it so
terribly hot that the Monaghan, drop
ping his pick, rushed from the pl ce,
followed by his frightened compan~
ions. 1t was some time before they
could be induced to resume their work.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02


In New Orleans on Thursday Dom
I'edro had long interview with the
physicians Of the Board of Health of
that city on the subject of the yellow
fever and the best means of prevent
ing the spread of that fearful cpl
demic. DR.. SONIA Foutes represented
the Brazilian medical body in the con-
ference. The accepted idea WAS that
perfect system of Quarantine could
prevent the introduction of the infec-
ton, but that in practice it was found
impossible to put quarantine regnla
tions sufficiently stringent into opera
ton. The New Orleans doctors at
tribute the comparative freedom en-
joyed by the city from this scourge Of
the tropics to the improved quarantine
regulations OIL the port.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
Fatal Accident

Alexander Porter, a passenger of u.
steamer Wave on her return ~. !:
Fayetteville last Saturday, fell owe,
board and was drowned near l;tt,. o.
gar Loaf, where he was doing bn.;
ness. The unfortunate man had ~
drinking and fell asleep on some has.
When within short distance of sne..
Loaf some one walked him and Will.
in stupefied state he fell in the riv..
and drowned before assistance con,a
be rendered. AS the steamer n...oa
him he was heard to say ooh NV +.
The body has been recovered ana
from very severe gashas upon bis head
it is supposed he was struck bv III.
wheel as it passed over him,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

There must be an end OF all this
contention about our constitution and
the government it imposes on us if
we would have time to attend to our
material interests. If the proposed
amendments shall be ratified there
will be no need for any further con-
tention. The people can then do
whatever they wish without any ex-
citing campaign about a constitu~
tiopal convention. Every thing can
then be done with their consent and
nothing can be done without their
consent. Let MS have the amendments
and that viii let us have peace.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
Gc.Errai MATTERS at the Sa,tom,t
capital
spo>iai reIesraIn 10 the Enqu.1er


i il believed that on Thursday the
counse! for Belknap will move in the
Senate that the vote of the body III
favor of jurisdiction not bnirg two
thirds Belknap should be discharged.
Thla was moved by Mr.. Christiancy
the other day, and after some debate
withdrawn. The motion is not likely
ty pass.
Ii Mr.. Kerr has tie strength to pre-
pare it he will at the next meeting of
the committee present statement
governing all the facts in connection
with the nomination of Green as Lieu
tenant, and meeting every allegation
of Harney's lying accusation with a
full and specific denial.
1t is now fully understood that the
story of Harvey is n conspiracy of the
city politicians of the radical party of
New York. tits q badly managed piece
of scoundraGsm. and like the safe bur
glary plot. has broken down at tue first
stages.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
DELEGATES TO THE STATE
VENEION.

Rooms OF DEMoCRATIc.C CONSERVATIVE
Executive COMMITTEE,
Raleigh, N. c.. May Oath, 1876.
In pursuance of the call OF the State
Democratic-C Conservative Executive
Committee, delegates to the State
Convention will meet in Metropolitan
hall, in this city, on the 18th of June
at II NJ.
By arrangement with the various
railroad companies in the State, with
the exception of the W. & W. r. r.
Company, which declines any reduc-
ton, delegates will be permitted to
return free upon producing a certifi-
cate from the Secretary of the Con-
vention that they paid full frst-class
fare in coming to the same.
W. r, Cox. Chairman.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
A Newspaper for sale

The A1bennarIe Times is offered for
sale at 81 200, and no less will buy it.
The paper is in fiourishing condition,
has fine job Office and is the only pa
per published in that district. The only
cause for the proposed sale is that 2. "a.
Winston, Jr., Esq, the senior editor,
has resolved to devote himself exclu-
sively to the practice Of the law.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

We learn that J. V. Ryan was not
arrested at the instance of the Pied
mont Il Arlington Insurance Company,
but at the instance of Mr.. Stafford,
a policy holder in the Continental Life
Insurance Company. Ryan had OBJ
tanned a note from Stafford for which
he gave him no insurance. Tue matter
was compromised by Ryan's giving his
watch and chain to .Mr. Stafford
Raleigh N'eaOs.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
A Change.

For some time past the officers q,
the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad
Company have baen contemplating tbs
feasibility of change of depot. We
learn that the work of pulling down
the Union depot shed was commenced
a few days since, and the shed on Tho
site of the old depot is being pulled
down to be replaced by a larger and
more modern structure. The change
f ON the site of the present PASSENGER
depot to the more central site of the
old depot will be a great Improvement
and for more convenient and accept.
able to our citizens as we'll as rsssen.
gers stopping here.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

The New York World has inters
viewed two prominent Brooklyn poll
ticians on the Tilden question. Gen.
eraI SIocum thinks Tilden is weaker
to-day than when elected Governor,
and does not favor his Presidential as
pirations. MIR. Jacobs thinks Governor
Tilden is the strongest man for the
position and does favor his nomination
most heartily. Next
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

Robert Orr, veteran of 1912. died
at Pittsburg Tuesday, aged 81. He
was a member of Congress during
John Quincy Adams administration.
stables of r. Knight, at Geneva, n. Y,
were burned Tuesday, with two men
and II horses
At Providence, r. l., the republican
caucus nominated Henry b. Anthony
for y. s, Senator,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
NO NeWh

We kept the paper open until late
hour this morning in hopes of getting
some news from the nominating cn.
vention at Fayetteville, but up to the
hour of going press, nothing authentic,
so far as we could learn, had been
heard. There were numerous rumors
on the streets yesterday afternoon rel.
alive to selection of candidate, but
as it was impossible to hear before
midnight, we give them no credenoe,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
PIPER, THE MURDERER.
pT:t TGnfirIniuS the A'rnrs 81 EEEs
s0rinrr CunEe~>i0n al Several
NsIsrGi,A> His Motive for the
GRIMES.
Emecill Nisnatch tn .ha Now y Nrk Time

Specia! Dispatch bp :ha New Ork Times.
BosToN, May IS.
Piper, who was hanged to-day for
the murder Of little Mablo Young,
made a final statement before his
death, showing con clusively that his
confession of the different murders of
Mable Young, and the domestic Bridget
Landrcgan and the assault on Mary
Tyner was altoge. her true. He says
he committed the assault Oh the Tyner
girl with plumbers hammer, which
he had got from the Warren avenue
church, in which b. was sexton, ard
that after the deed he washed
it and scraped the blood spots
with penknife, and that he buried it
in the cellar of the church. He made
a diagram of the place where he buried
it, and officers went to the spot and
found the hammer with blood spots on
it and the marks of the penknife. He
says that he had spent the night with
the girl, aud to get back the money
he had paid her lie beat her with the
hammer as she was sleeping, stole the
money aid jumped out OF the window.
Mabel Young, he says, he enticed into
the belfry tower for a foul purpose,
and, the child struggling and crying
out, he struck her on the head with
the bat and left her as he previously
described in his confession. The wO-
man Landregan he murdered that she
might not tell on him. Piper didn't
mako confessional of additional crimes
Oh the night before his execution to
his spiritual adviser. as had been
rumored. He however had long
conference with his friend, Rev. DIR.
Eddy, and in this declared that IL.
had told the whole truth. His rernains
were buried to~night privately from
his parents residence il M)t,It Hopo
Cemetery.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
Fem the Raleigh News.

THE TWOTHIRDS RULE.
By a comment upon an article in the
NeaUs which appeared some time since,
but which, through absence, has only
lately come TO our notice, we find that
our esteemed contemporary OF the Will
mipgton JOURNAL has taken issue with
us upon point which admits of most
damaging use. The JOURNAL feels, we
are sure, as much as we do the danger
of the revival of the old party issues
which before the war kept the whites
of the South in a state of antagonlsm.
1t recognizes, rs we do, the good
sense, now, of keeping them In mar
monious union. When, therefore, the
JOURNAL deprecates the use of express
sions by us as ''likely to offend the
feelings and the prejudi ,es of the many
thousands of the good and true men
in North Carolina we are sure he al
together misapprehends our position.
We are unqualified in our condemna-
ton of the two"thirds rule. That we
do not and cannot retract. 1t was a
late resort of party strategy, coming
into use only as late as 1910, making
conventions the slaughter house OF
political aspirations and regulations,
and henceforth, after their adoption,
nominations in their results the least
reliable of human calculations. We
look back upon their evils with I'M
mixed condemnation. We recall their
good with very faint endorsement OF
any benefit to have been accomplished
by them.
Let our friend of the JOURNAL come
no to the point that we have reached,
that the action of the parties, really
new while essentially the old depart
IRE has been reached. and that in the
campaign of 1876 we ought to start
where our fathers of 1896 began
career of virtuous republican tactics
only broken in upon in 1910.
REMARKS.
It was because the JOURNAL realized
to the fullest extent the damage OF
reviving old party issues and the gooo
sense of Harmonious union IN the
coming and all other campaigns that
il called attention of the NeaUs to the
language it used in expressing its op-
position to the two-thirds rule. We
do not ask the Nc,Os to retract its
opposition but only to be careful in its
language in view of "the danger of tho
revival of the old party issues While
we are quite sure that our esteemed
contemporary intended to give no Of
fence, and SO said, we are equally sure
that its language was calculated TO
have bad effect.
Precisely what the Ne,os means by
saying in this connection, ''that in the
campaign of 1876 we ought to start
where our fathers of 1876 began a ca,
reer of virtuous republican tactics only
broken in upon in 1S4O"-we are not
quite sure we understand. We GER
tainly see nothing that is not ''virtuons
tactics in the two-thirds rule.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
Dyed Before His Time.

Mr.. J. Randolph Tucker, the Con
stitutionalist" of the House, whose
frosted front has heretofore given him
rather a patriarchal appearance, and
has hidden the mischievous merry
workings of the kindliest of faces. has
undergone metamorphose, and his
most intimate associates have to look
twice before recognizing an old friend
in the now almost beardless youth, as
he majestically walks the aisle, plum
ing himself upon his regeneration, and
were it not known that he is already
united to one of the loYeliest of the
fair sex, some people would be un-
charitable enough to accuse Kim of
taking notice. '-Alerandrin Gazette.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
ooh 70 Your Change.

1he new twenty-cent silver pieces
are very much like silver quarters and
nearly the same size. Persons shop
ping or having money to change
should be careful in receiving silver
in change, rs they are liable to be de.
ceived. So says an exchange.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

Judge A. A. McKoy will preside ct
the special term of the Superior Court
of Gates county, which convenes June
10Th, for the trial of civil actions.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

Mr.. Bloss, an editor on the CinclE-
natl Enquirer, was struck by an en-
CINE and killed. He had been % years
on the Enquirer,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02
Ehe Suffolk CraclSmcu-ENVON More
OF the EsmrgInrs Cnptmred.

The great absorbing topic in Suffolk
on Saturday was the midnight fight
between town Sergeant Emmett Chand-
Ter and posse, and the gang of burg,
lars. Nothing whatever developed
itself subsequently to indicate the
whereabouts of the gang, or the direc-
ton taken by them when they escaped
from the town after their bloody noe
turnal fight with the sheriff at the
depot. The lips of the captured
burglar was closed to all questioning.
On Sunday morning the excitement
eliminated in one-half the town, white
and black, turning out to the number
of over two hundred persons, to scour
the country around aud search for the
hiding place of the body of cracksmen.
Near Magnolia station, fourteen miles
from Portsmouth, the hunting party
came upon a suspicious tent in the
swamp, and at once surrounded it.
Two fashily dressed strangers, appar-
entity German Jews, were made
prisoners, and in the tent was
found quantity of fine burg
lars tools, including an apparatus for
pumping chloroform through rubber
hose and package OF Greek fire. The
men and their pafaphernalia were
taken III custody and carried to Suffolk,
and committed to the town jail fer
examination. They. like the fclloa
first captured, refused to give th"!r
EaAGes. or any Information. except that
they were tramps from the South. 1t
Is said there can hardly be any DOUBT
bat That tneec two men wer" part OF
the gang that raiied on Suffolk OF.
Friday night, and were preventc d from
cracking bank vault through the Wig
lance ct Sergeant Chandler. Yester-
day morning Mayor Whitehead of Nor
folk received a dispatch from the
Mayor of Suffolk requesting that one
of tue fnartest detectives in the city
bo sent to assist in She capture Of the
remainder of the. gang of burglars.
BY order of the Mayor, Constable
John II. Humphrey went up yester-
day afternoon. -Po5'tSmotth Eattel.
prise. May %.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-06-02

A Mo. mon bishop (Roundy) was
drowned Friday while crossing the
Colorado river. He was emigrating to
Colorado,