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Year: 1874

From the Chicago Inter Ocean, Aug. 27.


The Black Hills can be reached from


Chicago in six days, and we should Il not be


surprised to see gold excitement spring.


ing up over this intelligence rivalling the


California fever of '49. Already the front.


ier towns are in a tumult, and the excite.


ment is spreading. Little is talked of Oh


thought about save the discoveries in this


wonderful land. Besides the gold which
| is found in such abundance, iron, plumbago


and gypsum exist in lmitless quantities,


and the soil and the climate are of the most
| inviting description. There is a treaty
which makes any excursion by the whites


into this region unlawful, but the govern


ment will without doubt take speedy


measures to make satisfactory arrangements
with the Indians for it's occupation. 1t
| would be sin against the country and
against the world to permit this region, SO


rich in treasure, to remain unimproved and


unoccupied, merely to furnish hunting
grounds to sayages. We owe the Indians
justice and fair play, but we owe it to civ
lllzatlon that such a garden of mineral
wealth should be brought into occupation
and use. There will be little difficulty,
however, if care is observed not to precipi-
tate hostilities by too speedy and unau-
thorized invasion. Those contemplating
going there should wait for the proper per-
mission, though we doubt if this will be
case, as the temptation is too strong to
brook delay. We shall probably hear in
in consequence of collisions with the In
dians, though these will not stop the tide
which not even the fear of. death seems ca
pable of stemming in such cases.


1t will not be many days now before we
shall know officially Still further of this
important discovery. Sufficient is already
known, however, to make it certain that
the region is rich in mineral wealth, and
extends the strongest inducements to set
tlement and development. There is no
greed like that for gold, and there is al
ways danger of hasty and precipitate action
under the stimulus of an excitement which
urges the settler to fields like these. Men
should reflect well before they move in
such matter, and weigh well the chances,
the hardships, and the probabilities of fail
ure. 1t is always wise to let well enough
alone, and those who are in the enjoyment
of comfortable positions would exhibit
sound judgment by remaining where they
are. To others the case may be different.
We utter this timely warning in view of
the inevitable excitement which must
spring up over this discovery, and to eau
tion people against the headlong rush
which brought so much disappointmenta and
to thousands in the days of the
first settlement of California.
Year: 1874

Considerable progress has been already
made in the work of the Centennial build
lngs at Philadelphia. The Telegraph says
that on the Memorial Hall the work has
rapidly advanced. In addition to the en-
tire front now ready to receive the granite,
most Of the interior piers are up to the re-
quired height and next week will be ready
toreceive the IRON girders. The granite of
the base course is now cut and on it's way
from Maine. The sixteen acres appropri-
ated to the Exhibition Building are now
leveled and will be ready for the driving of
piles for the foundation by the commence
ment of the coming week. Nearly all the
working plans have been completed, and
before the winter interferes with work the
Centennial building will have progressed
far renough to remove all doubt as their COM
pletion within the prescribed time.
Year: 1874

n. Y. TRIBUNE.-We take pleasure in
calling the favorable attention our readers
to the advertisement of The New York
Tribune, published in another column of
this paper. The Tribune has fairly earned
in its best and broadest sense the distinc-
tion of ''the leading American newspaper
1t leads in the promptness and complete
ness of Its news, in the honesty and indie
pendence of its policy, in the fairness and
variety of its correspondence, in its literary
and scientific intelligence, in its thorough
and excellent agricultural department, and
IN short, in all which make up progress
siye, far-sighted and liberal newspaper
The recent course of The Tribune toward
the South and its political and industrial
interests has been marked by the same fair
neis and friendliness displayed by Mr.
Greeley from the close of the war. The
impartial and intelligent letters by Tribune
correspondents from Alabama and Louis
lana did just service in showing to the peo-
pie of the North the true state of affairs in
those unfortunate and slandered States, and
in all questions affecting the South the
tribune is sure to deal kindly and honestly
and deserves and should receive wide cir
bulation through the South Its terms are
low and its commissions to agents liberal
Read the advertisement
Year: 1874

GRAND Hor.AThe' young men Of our
city propose to give grand dress bali about
the nrst of next month complimentary to
the numerous newly married couples in our
midst. If you want ticket, get wife.


We think we can say without boasting
that the young men of Tarboro never dc q
matter Of this kind halfway, and hence a
most RECHERCHE affair may be anticipa-
ted
Year: 1874

JOCKEY CLUB.-We are requested to an
nounce that there will be meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Tar River
Jockey Club in Tarboro next Tuesday,
There is important business before the
Committee and it is hoped there will be a
full and prompt attendance.
Year: 1874

WARSING.-We would inform our farm
er friends that it is understood to be q
violation of the revenue laws for them to
sell whiskey or tobacco to their employees.
Such is Deputy Collector Zoeller's con-
struction of the law.
Year: 1874

NOTICE THIS Advertisements are quiet
solicitors who never intrude, but who
never fail to make themselves known, and
are seen and remembered despite the will
of the reader, who could not forget them
if he would.
Year: 1874

lNNocENTs ABRoAD.-Say the Rich
mond Enquirer


There is to be another excursion of
'lnnocents Abroad next summer.
What lot Of them there will be-
Ben Butler should head the list, and
II they wait another year Gront will
go along too. Mark Twain will
probably stay at bome-but what a
marked twain Grant and Butler
would be!'
Year: 1874

A SUGeEsTIoN.-We hope our Senate
will consider the fact whether man guilty
of actual, though not legal, pergury, is
morally qualified to seat upon its floor
The case of MADISON can be found upon the
House Journal and should be considered.
Year: 1874

A BURLEsQUE.-Mabson and Goodwin
left here Saturday to play the farce of rep
resenting Edgecombe in the Legislature
this winter. Great Heavens, for what
cause was our county so cursed
Year: 1874

LOTTERIES not our town authori-
ties pass an ordinance taxing gift prize con-
Germs SO high as to prohibit their operating
in our town, and especially upon goods
box in the public streets?
Year: 1874

RECovERING.-The friends of the family
will be glad to learn that young Sidney
Jenkins, whose sad and fearful accident
was reported in this paper a few issues
back, is now able to be up and walking
about and seems as bright and cheerful as
ever.


1t will be remembered that he was kick
ed upon the head by mule and that sew
al ounces of his brain exuded.
Year: 1874

SAD TERMINATIoN-As will be seen in
another column the Edgecombe Female
Seminary, which was born under such bril-
liant auspices about two years ago, which
was hoped to prove the pride of the coun-
ty, a moment of its devotion to learning, a
place where its daughters might reap all
the advantages of liberal and finished ed
ucation exempt from the dangerous notions
frequently imbibed in strange communities
and away from the influence of home, has
run its meteoric course and become extinct.
On last Friday the company was dissolved
by vote of sixty-one to thirty mine.


There are many reasons why it should
source of regret that this enterprise has
failed 1t would have been a great con-
venience to our educators, would have kept
at home large amount of money, and
would have been of great benefit to the
business of our town, especially our mer-
chants large number of whom voted aye
on the substitute. The principle reason,
however, why the failure of this enterprise
is to be regretted is that it shows want of
cooperative spirit in our community that
augurs lady for its future. We must say
in extenuation, however, that the hard
times doubtless had no little to do with the
failure, many who subscribed literally at
first finding it now matter of considera-
ton to meet the payments of their install
ments.


We hope though this scheme for popu-
lar education has proven abortive that our
people will yet show their appreciation Of
the subject by a liberal donation to the
Male and Female academies in our town.
Year: 1874

Our STATE SENATE. attention of
this body is called to the case of W. P.
MADISON upon the last copy of the House
Journal. 1t will be seen from this docu-
ment, and can be corroborated by, other
evidence that he has falsely sworn as to
his residence. The Senate should consider
the fact whether one of such moral character
is qualified to seat as member of that
body. Let it purge itself of such men.
Year: 1874

FIRE INsURANoE.-A few days ago,
through the suggestions of some of our
most respected and wealthiest citizens, and
pursuant to suggestions frequently present
ed by the Enquirer-Southerner, books of
subscription were opened to organize Fire
Insurance Company in this place, with a
Capital Stock of One Hundred Thousand
Dollars and in less than one week We find
the whole amount taken and by parties
whose combined wealth will amount to
considerable over million of dollars. An
application will be made Immediately to
our Legislature for Charter, and an Or
ganization will be at once effected, after
which 1t is proposed again to open the
books and receive an additional subscrip-
ton of one hundred thousand dollars, max
ing a capital stock of Two Hundred Thou
sand Dollars to begin its operations. This
company will be under the control and
management of one or more of the ablest
and most successful Underwriters in the
South, and with its large capital and good
management, we may safely predict fol
this new home enterprise, a success unpre-
cedented in our State.
Year: 1874

last July. The murder was committed by one
of the parties striking Mrs. Whitman with a
piece of a shaft of a carriage or wagon on the
highway Her husband, German, war way
layed at the same time and narrowly escaped
with his life.


The Strawberry Crops Faaing.--A cores
pondent at Princess Anne, writes az follows
concerning the strawberry crops of Somerset
county: Some years ago many OF the farmers,
lured by the handsome profits realized from
the cultivation of the strawberry in an expert
mental way, entered largely into the business
and curtaied the surface devoted to cereals
correspondingly. The crops for several years
past have been growing less and less profitable
and last year this decline eliminated in an
almost entire failure. think that many are
beginning to take a more ration al view Oi
things and have determined the product or
of the staples shall be the first object.


Local Option is the question on the Eastern
Shore The law is to be fully tested before the
courts Last week indictments we're found BY
the Grand Jury of Talbot county against every
liquor seller in that county, except those il
Chapel District, for a violation of the Loca
| Option Law. Chapel District voted for llcens'
and is therefore exempt from the operations o
the law. The Grand Jury of DOrchestel
county returned fifty indictments for violation
of the law in that county. The lowest fine i
$50. If these indictments are sustained tn
fines will amount to the snug sum of $2500
which will furnish more revenue to the Stat
than all the liquor licenses granted by tn
county.
Year: 1874

The body of an infant child of Allen Goqe
supposed to have been kidnapped at Free
mansbure, Pa, on Wednesday night last, WA,
found Friday morning in the Lehgh river
The mother confessed that she threw it in Tho
river on Thursday morning, and she was at once
arrested and taken to the county Jail at Easton
She is supposed to be insane
Year: 1874

DEATH OF THE MAYOR or NEw York
Nor 3O-Mayor Htvemeyer was in the train
from Flushing, Long Island, this morning.
The train broke down and he walked two miles
against a strong wind. On reaching Bis Office
he was struck with apoplexy and died soon
after.
Year: 1874

A Dict Kitchen for the sick poor is to be
established in Boston to supplement the work
of the dispensary. At this kitchen food
suitable for sick persons will be prepared, and
will be furnished to tho poor on orders issued
by the physicians who may attend them. The
orders will indicate whether the patient for
whom the food is desired is able to pay, or
whether it is to be furnished gratis. A kitchen
of this kind has been established in New York
for more than year. In the proposed estab-
ishment for Boston instruction will also be
given to poor women in the preparation Of food
for the sick.
Year: 1874

The Big Gun claims at Michigan Bluff, owned
|by the Van EN- n Bros have been running two
Hydraulics since the first heavy rain. Mining.
so far this season, has been very brisk in that
lection, as it has in all the upper part of the
Bounty; but the recent cold nights is what the
miners call "bad water weather. as the water
frozen in the bitches, aud the supply thu,
diminished; and unless we have a change soon


tner warm weather or rains-the big mines
III all be compelled to shut down in a very
mort time. At Dutch Flat and Gold Run many


the mines which have been running this sea-
on, have already been compelled to suspend


FORK for want Of water.
Year: 1874

WHENEVER one newspaper man twits another
newspaper man about the typographical errors
IN his paper, it can be taken for granted that
the man who twts the other man don't know
much abont the business. We know out
siders think if they were editor or proof-reader,
no such things would happen. They are ex-
ctsed for thinking so, because they don't know
any better. When the editor of the Nevada
Transcript was an outsider he evidently thought
as most others do. that such things were the
result of carelessness; and about the first thing
he did when he got into the sanctum, was to
twit the Grass Valley Onion abor its typograph-
cal errors. The Union told him to look al
home, and we suppose he looked and became
satisfied, for he has never said word alb ut the
matter since.
Year: 1874

AS manager of the gift concerts given in aid OF
the Public Library of Kentucky, my position
creates an important trust in behalf of the Pub
lie Library and the tcket-holders of the fifth
gift concert, The Public Library of Kentucky
and the tcket-hoders are jointly interested in
the amount of the drawing. The larger the fund
to be distributed iu gifts the greater will be the
gift awarded to each lucky ticket-holder and the
more the amount realized by the Library IT,
have full drawing is so manifest'.' to the in
ters of those Interested that rather than have a
fractional drawing on the 30th instant, deem
it due to the trust conhded to me by the ticket
holders and the Public Library of kentucky, that
short postponement be made to enable me to
dispose OF the unsod tickets and have full
drawing Though the very large amount now
in bank would enable us TO distribute handsome
gifts, yet we should feel disappointed in this our
last concert, should we be compelled to make e
fractional drawing, now however large


We have received so very large number of
letters from all parts of the country from those
most largely interested, urging a postponement
1t all the tickets be not sold by the 30th that we
feel strengt thened in our sense of duty to the
ticket-holders and the Public Library, to make
the postponement Under the circumstances,
we have determined in the interest of all parties,
to postpone the concert and drawing to saturday
February n, 1875, at which time drawing will
positively take place. and, as guarantee of good
faith toward tcket-holders; we pledge ourselves
to refund to any tlcket-holder, his money, upon
presentation OF his ticket, should the drawing
full to come Off at the day now fixed. The past,
we feel assured, VIII be sufficient guarantee to
al interested that they will be fairly ana honestly
dealt with. The money paid for tickets IS sacredly
preserved against all contingencies until after
the payment of the gifts. after which the ex-
ptnses are to be reimbursed and the Public l. :
brary is to be paid its profits


THOS. T.. BRAMLETTE,


Nov, 20, 1874. Agent and Manager.


d19-It
Year: 1874

WE are glad to note, from the authority of the
Grass Valley Union, that DR.. Mccormick, who
has many anxious friends in this section Of the
country, and who injured by falling in q
shaft "a short time ago, is convaescing, and will
soon be able to attend to professional calls,
Year: 1874

LAST Tuesday night was the coolest of the
season Ill this section. Ice formed standing
water, where it was exposed. an eighth of an
inch thick Wednesday night was nearly, or
quite as cold. This kind of weather will soon
dry up the water in the bitches. and mining
operations, which thus far have been so very
active, will have to be suspended.
Year: 1874

AT the Greene Nine the prospects are al
together encouraging, The present mill stands
about so rods from the mine, and is run by
water power. The company are talking of erect
|ing steam power MILL with increased capacity


near the mine. This would lie fine improve


Ment. which we hone to see cnrried ont
Year: 1874

OUR merchant on the hill, who is always up
with the times, has just returned from the city
With another lot of goods. And if you want to
pee full and complete stock of Dry-Goods
Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Carpets. Furnish
Ing, Fancy and Holiday Goods, and buy at the
Lubeck's
Year: 1874

The roads have been SO bad that the Booth
company have not been able to haul their rock
10 the mill, and several HUNDRED tons have ac-
Fumulated on the dump. If the weather keeps
hne they will probably commence hauling and
Brushing early next week
Year: 1874

CARRYING OUT THE PRoGRAMAIE.-At
the beginning Of the legislative session,
when the Assembly was organized by
the election of Estec as Speaker, it was
current talk at the Capital that an ar
rangement had been made with the FL
Dorado Democratic delegation, by which


it should not participate in the legislative
caucus, and if necessary vote for Estee.
In return for these favors, the Dollys
would support bill for the State to as
sumo the debt of Ell Dorado in the same
manner as was done for Calaveras at the
session two years ago and the Reform
Governor could be relied upon to sign 1t.
The first and second acts in this pleas
ant little drama, in which the State furn-
ishes the stage trappings and foots all the
bills, have been rendered to the life, and
the curtain is about to rise for the third
and last Williams, one of the FL
Dorado delegation, having introduced
the bill into the Assembly on the last
day of February. The late day at which
it is introduced, indicates that its friends
expect to rush it through in the hurry
of proceedings which invariably attends
the closing days of a session. 1t now only
remains to be seen how the Dollys will
keep their pledges. If as good at that
business as their great leader, FL Dorado
will get her relef-in horn.
Year: 1874

Tho storms of last week were far more
severe in the Sierra Nevadas, than in
this part of the State, and narrative of
the operations on the line OF the Central
Pacific, to keep open communication
with the East sounds more like the imag-
inings of romance than the stern reality
it is. Heretofore sixteen feet of snow has
been considered large accumulation !;
now there is depth of thirty feet, more
than half of which fell in the storm of
last week.


The snow region commences at an ait-
tude Of 2,00G feet, and from this point on
the snow plows have been kept in opera
alton nearly all winter, and, until last
week, these exertions to keep the track
clear for the passage Of trains were sue
cessful. The last great storm caused a
temporary stoppage, the heavy work lift
ed the plows from the track-though some
of them were pushed by dozen or more,
of enormous mountain engines. A large
depth of snow was piled up on either side
of the track by the plows, and force Of
men kept at work shoveling it back to
make room for the snow which was
thrown up at every passage of the plows.
The Company were determined that
the track should be kept open, no matter
what the cost. Their efforts have been
rewarded with success and with the ces-
sation of the storms the delayed trains
came laundering on. The snow storms
have demonstrated the power and energy
of the Railroad Company. We need
have no fears of interruption Of commun-
ications on that part of the Overland
route under the control of the Cent
raj Pacific.
Year: 1874

OWING TO THE DELAYS that have
" attended the printing and distribution
Of the Reports Of The Commissioners on
Mining SATISFIES, these carefully pre-
pared and otherwise useful publications,
have failed to keep the world duly posted
in regard to the condition and progress of
mining affairs on the Pacific Coast, the
information conveyed through this me.
the time it reaches the eye of the general
public. With view to furnishing fresh
intelligence on mining topics, and bring
ing the history of this great industry down
to the most recent date, the undersigned
will, on or about the first of February
next, issue large octave volume, de-
voted to a consideration Of mining mat
ters, as they exist at the present time, in
the States of California and Nevada. In
the fulfilment Of this purpose the author
will at once visit every important district
and locality in these States that has not
already been lately examined or heard
from through reliable channels, to the
end that the information embodied in this
volume may be recent and authentic.
The great aim will be to fill the book with
live practical matter wherefore, only
such properties as have been brought to
productive condition, or as have, through
developments made, established for them
selves good degree of actual or pros
pective merit will receive attention nor
will any notice be bestowed on processes
or appliances other than such as have met
with approval after extended working
tests.


This work will be printed on the best
quality of paper, and be elegantly and
substantially bound, the design being to
impart to it such mechanical excellehee
as will reflect credit upon the book-mak-
ing art in California.


HENRY DEGROOT.


SAN Francisco, Nov, 1873.
Year: 1874

A CoMPRoMIsE.-Theb bill to allow ju-
rymen to say in their verdict whether
convicted murderers be hanged or impris-
oned, if it becomes law, will prove a
fair compromise between those in favor of
capital punishment and those who would
imprison for life. Many juries have dis
agreed and failed to find verdict of
guilty" as charged in the indictment
from feeling Of repugnance against
hanging. There are often mitigating cir
cumstances in trials for murder, and in
all such the jury breads TO return YER
dict which will consign the murder TO
the gallows.-MorySuiUe Appeal.
Year: 1874

A PRoTEsT.-Last week protest
against Freeman's bill was sent to the
Legislature by the merchants and busi-
ness men Of San Francisco. 1t urges the
Legislature to do nothing calculated to
drive capital from the State by rendering
it insecure, but rather to legislate and act
so as to encourage the construction of
competing lires OF railroads.
Year: 1874

THE most confdng woman lives in
Providence. She went to an auction and
knowing the prevalence of thieves at such
places asked nice-looking man to take
care of her pocket book containing eighty
five dollars. lie is still taking care of it.
Year: 1874

a CASE of suspended animation is re-
ported in Sacramento ; that of Portu-
guese who remained several days in q
trance, apparently dead, and would have
been buried but for the fact that his body
retained warmth. Finally life returned,
AMI be is now able 10 be out on the street.
Year: 1874

a BILL has passed the Senate to allow
each convict when discharged from the
State Prison a suit of clothes and twenty
dollars, and provides that he shall not
have his hair cut for three months prior
to his discharge.