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Year: 1875

THE FREAK IN THE POULTRY TRADE.-The


poultry trade here at home, and we sun.


pose elsewhere down the State, has gone


out OF the usual routine this year. Cp to


the present, or up to yesterday, not more


than one carload of poultry had been


shipped from Clayton for the whole of the


season to date. For the same period last


year thousands of pounds were shipped off.
The shipments for one day alone, last fall.
amounted to over eighty tons from CLAYTON.
instead OF rushing it off for the HOLIDAYS.
the farmers are holding it for better prices.


IL Is supposed. Heretofore, the Thanks.
giving and Christmas sales have always been
thought to command the top of the market
Every family who is able at all to induIge
IN turkey dinner enjoys that INDULGENCE
on those days. But the THANKSGIVING
sales IN New York this year were at prices
less than We were paying at home-as has
been the case much of the time-while the
market was flooded. One of our dealers
mere tells US that it is hardly profitable
70 shlP to that market; the western dealers
have rigged up refrigerating cars and all
this season they have been pouring thou
sands OF frozen turkeys in that CITY At
prices less than our traders would take


Another matter of note is the fact that
chickens, this year, have commanded unite
as high prices as turkeys and ducks
Usually there is a difference of two or three
cents in favor of the kinds last named
Our dealers look to the Centennial for an
explanation of this circumstance. Durino
the whole time of this great exhibition or
nearly so, turkeys will be out Of season
while chickens will be in constant demand |
Doth for food and eggs. Hence the farmers
are holding on to them, with the exnecta.
tlon OF an active demand all through the
SUMNER


Since writing the above some sbipments
nave been made. Yesterday two car loads
went from Clayton, but this is a mere triAo
compared with the Christmas shipments Of
,ast year; not more than one-fourtb.


VIZ
Year: 1875

A YOUNG WOMAN has been going around


Wilmington recently engaging board at
allferent houses, and after staying day or
two would steal all the fine dresses and
silverware she could find and leave. After
long hunt for her by the police she was
trapped on Monday at a house near New
Castle, where she had engaged work. On
seeing the officer she ran up stairs and
jumped out the second story window in.
tlicting internal injuries upon herself il is
feared. She was taken to the Jail and is
now under medical treatment. While the
policeman was in the house a man came in
ana; seeing the officer, turned suddenly on
his heels and walked out. This man had
represented himself as her brother.in.law,
1t is further stated that he is iourneyman
tailor OF New Castle and had pledged him.
self for her board bill. The woman gave
nef name when she went to the house, as
Bridget McQuinn. Her trunk was a~.
amined and found to contain number Of
silk and satin dresses, &c.
Year: 1875

Before long it will become Il nice ouos.


ton at what place in the calender of crime


to put the embezzlement of the funds or
savings banks, banking institutions. and


stock corporations. These are not cbari


table institutions, but their ruin cause more


general distress than perhaps any other


known crime, Certainly it would be q


delicate point to decide which is the moro


wicked, he who takes away a single life


possibly worthless or he who drags n thon'
sand lives down to despair and perhaps TO
crime. The victims would certainly con.
sider 1t righteous sentence that awarded
the detauter the same punishment as tbe
burglar or even the murderer. 1t cannot
be said, however, that the rest of our system
of justice works any better than that which
gives immunity to official thieves and nri.
vate detaulters. The pickpocket is sent 70
a telon's cell, while Tweed goes ont riding
fares sumptuously, and runs away when he
is ready. The bankrupt and defaulting
banker lives on the interest of his debts
while the sneak thief earns a precarious
livelihood and goes to Jail whenever the
police choose TO send him. The dishonest
cashier is not seldom forgiven all his trans.
gressions, and may even get a certificate of
character. While we are waiting for the
world to improve in this repect, let us be
the new Philstine problem |
shall we hang our defaulters?
Year: 1875

THE Newark AdDertiser is reminded, by
the fact that only middle-aged and gray
bearded men were to be seen in the ranks
of a recent Grand Army parade in that city,
that more years have elapsed since the war
than we are conscious of. The absence of
youngsters in the procession recalled the
fact that the heroes of the occasion have
grown old and become matured since the
time when many of them, then beardless
boys, marched away from their homes in
response to the call for arms. The Ad0sr-
tisor might have added that not only the
time but the principles involved in the war
are unconsciously ignored by many. Such
occasions as the one referred to should
serve, however, to revive due regard for
those principles, as they do sense of graft
tude for the men who periled their lives
for their success. In the South, as at .ue
Mecklenburg fraudulent centennial celebra-
ton, no opportunity is omitted to revive
feeling of loyalty to the reasonable falla-
cies for which the Southern soldiers fought.
No thoughtful man can fail to regret this
apparent difference between the two Sec
tions, or to see in it significant threat of
future danger.
Year: 1875

THE North Carolina Democrats are re-
joicing overan accession to their party from
the Republican ranks In the person of one
Tim Lee, defaulting ex-sheriff of Wake
county, in that State. Tins immediate
grievance was his failure to get either the
appointment to be postmaster at Raleigh,
pension agent, or Minister to Peru, for all
of which places he was an applicant few
weeks ago. The truth is, the Republican
party is better off without him, and the
Democrats are welcome to him. He is the
very personifcation of carpet -bagger"
in the most reproachful Democratic accep-
tation of the term. He has been hard
worker in politics, but has never worked
except when some selfish end was in view.
Exactly what he expects to accomplish now
it is difficult to surmise, for the Democrats
having denounced and 'tpersecuted" him
as q defaulter, will have no use for him
after the campaign is over, and he has for
feited all claim. to the respect of any other
party Surely the way of the transgressor
is hard. But the worst of Tins misfor
tunes is that he has been indicted by the
grand jury of the District of Columbia for
obtaining money under false pretences. If
his So o-called Independent friends happen
to elect him to be delegate to the conven-
ton for the revision of the State constitu-
ton, for which he is candidate, it might
be inconvenient for him to serve them and
answer the Indictment at the same time.
The best way is not to elect him, and thus
leave him entirely free from duties which
would interfere with the "calls of State"
which may require his presence in Wash
ington very soon.
Year: 1875

tie way as question of the campaign. He
discovers. now that it is law, that it is
dead letter, and thinks the Democrats will
succeed in breaking up the COLOR line, . as
if the blacks, while being deprived of the
right of suffrage by means of city charters
and gerrymandering, to which he refers,
would willingly join the ranks of the party
responsible for those acts.


In short, his letter is simply jumble OF
hastily y-corceived ideas, strung together as
the warp and woof of document intended
to aid the Democrats and proportionately
discourage and discredit the Republicans.
The truth is that North Carolina is virtually
one of the most Conservative States in the
Union, and that the Republican party in it
embraces larger element of intelligence
and respectability than in any other South
ern State. The turbulent element of society
has been subdued to some extent by the
vigorous punishment of Ku-Klux offenders,
and the Democrats are therefore compelled
to resort to something besides open violence
to secure their objects. Nevertheless, they
are organized as thoroughly BOW as they
were when nine teAths OF them were mem.
bers of the Ku-Klux, and they are as des-
perately bent upon depriving colored citi-
zens of their right to vote as ever. The
terror of the law is all that restrains them,
and if they should succeed in carrying the
convention they would be able, under the
guise OF legal force, to destroy every safe
guard which now enables their opponsnts
to preserve anything like political organi-
zation. If Mr.. Nordhof had honestly in
vestigated this convention question he
would have discovered these facts, and
would have been compelled to admit that
the Republican party of the State is en-
gagged in contest for the preservation Of
the peoples liberty. Further, he would
have been compelled to admit that the
Democratic incentive for revision of the
constitution resides alone in the Democratic
desire that the ante bsllum condition Of
affairs shall, so far as practicable be restored,
and that the recognition of the superiority
of the General Government as regards the
allegiance of citizens shall be stricken from
that instrument. But, as We haVs ex-
planned, his letter was written with a pre-.
determined object, and so. far as any truth
in it is concerned, it might as well have been
written in New Yorkcity.
Year: 1875

THE question regarding the validity of
would be Governor Bidwell's title to the
Arroyo Chico rancho is likely to provoke a
national scandal. Bidwell is the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of California,
and it is a noticeable fact that the Demo
cratic newspapers in the East have not had
much to say about him. The following
questions, propoundcd to him by the Cali
fornia Spirit Of the Times, will indicate the
character of the scandal to which we REFER


'Did you agree to pay $40, 900 to Jerry Black,
United States Attorney General, for remov-
ing your land case from the calendarl


ibid you pay 5000 in cash, and give your
note for 5000,


"Did you refuse 10 pay the note at maturity /:


"Did the threat of an exposure OF the whole
transaction induce you TO pay the note"


Perhaps Jerry Black will see fit to rise
and explain.
Year: 1875

IT SEEMS that the New York Tribune is
ever on the lookout for scrap of scandal,
in which the name of some Republican is
mentioned, for the purpose of reproducing
it in its columns. In its issue of yesterday
we find the following


1.-THE greatest orator of the nineteenth GEN.
tury is not appreciated in Iowa. 1t is only a
short time since Senator Harlan's organ at
Washington informed US that he was the equal
of Webster and Clay, and that he had demol-
ished Sumner and Schurz in the Senate; yet,
in the face of this astounding intelligence, the
Muscatine Journal, an old friend of the great
Senator, has the heartlessness to say: There
has not been time since it was known in Iowa
that Harlan, while Secretary of the Interior,
accepted $4,000 from Durant, of the Union
Pacific railroad, that he stood the ghost Of
chance of being United States Senator again.
The people of Iowa will never indorse anything
of that kind Christian statesmen are eVi-
IDENTIFY not appreciated in Iowa, especially If
they are Of the Credit Mobilier sort"


We can't imagine for the life Of US why
the Tribune should revive this old scandal.
Certainly the Chronicle has not been
prompted by jealousy to foolishly and un-
truthfully deny the authenticity of any of
ita.neUs
Year: 1875

ANOTHER characteristic Democratic trick
has been discovered in New York. The
final account books, papers and documents
relating to three important contracts now
before the Canal Commission have mys-
teriously disappeared. This is.the old
game to deprive the authorities of evidence
necessary to secure the conviction of the
guilty parties. Its moral effect, however,
will be to convince the public that the
Democratic officials are in league with the
corruptionists to aid the latter in their at
tempts to escape punishment.
Year: 1875

WHEN SENATOR JACK BROWN GORDON,
of Georgia, went into New Hampshire to
stump that State as reconstructed rebel in
behalf of the Democratic party, the New
York World tailed to find words of suff1-
cient force to indicate its admiration of
him. Now, however, that he is likely to
figure in the Detroit Rag Money Conven-
ton with General Butler and Wendell
Phillips, the World discovers that "he is
"neither by education nor habit of mind a
ctatpsman -
Year: 1875

THE Lynchburg Republican calls atten-
ton to the fact that "not even Radical or
ga negro, or Radical negro, has ever yet
"dared to arise in either branch of our
Legislature and proclaim himself a re-
"pudiationist. This admission from such
a source will no doubt be accepted as proof
that the Democracy of Virginia, with all
their boasted pride in the reputation of
"My State, sir, are really responsible for
the discreditable repute of the Old Com
monwealth. VIII some of the Opposition
press do themselves and their readers the
Justice to make record of this fact?
Year: 1875

''THEY'' say that ex-senator Carl Schurz
is coming back from Europe to take the
stump for the regular Republican ticket in
Ohio. The authority for this statement is
not altogether reliable; but in view Of the
extreme unpopularity of the Ohio Democ-
racy it may be possible. The truth is that
the Allen -Pendletonites are so blatantly
treacherous to the evident interests of the
people that even such q malcontent as
Schurz would be inclined to repudiate
Year: 1875

cans have never been stronger. These
facts plainly indicate a Republican majority
next October of from thirty to forty thou
sand. The Democrats believe this, and are
making the most strenuous efforts to avoid
it; but the harder they work the palmer
their treachery becomes to the people, and
asa consequence their defeat is doubly as
e,,raH
Year: 1875

Years AGO when we went to school
in the little wcathcr-bcatrn school house
on the corner, W. remember what exciting
contests there used to be over the teachers
tavoIite cN' rcise of having the scholars
try to estimate with the eve the size and
weight of different objects in the room.
He would hold up his cane. for instance,
and lave each one tell how long he
thought il Wa, and it WAS u lucky child
that could come within half Il foot of the
right length. He would tlke a boy straw
hat. and ask how much the crown would
hold. He would measure n urchin. and
then have the scholars try to reproduce the
measure on the wall He would mark off
an inch or Il foot or yard in some con
spicuous place, and then see how near any
body could come to chalking the same
length upon the blackboard. And it was
astonishing to see how wide astray one
could 90.


The fact is. our eyes deceive us most
ridlculou>ly, even about the commOnest
things. At first thought. which should YOU
say was the taller, Il three-year-old child
or a flour barrel? And could any thing
but actual measurement convince YOU that
the same child is half as high AS a six
footer? There is an old saying thai Il child
at two years old is half as tall as he ever
will be, and after few experiments in
Year: 1875

The jury LIsr.-Yesterday, the last of the
names were put into the jury box by the men,
bers of the Levy Court, and one day next week
the list of jurors for the approaching term OF
the Court will be drawn by the clerk Of the
Peace and sheriff.
Year: 1875

New York, Dec. 27.-Yesterday the
bodies of two men were found Oh the
roadside. within five hundred feet of
each other, near Waverly, n. J.
Both Were well dressed I; one had his
throat cut and in his pocket was
found knife with which it is sup
posed lie suicided. The other had n
pistol wound in his temple and under
his body was found an empty revolver,
also supposed suicide.


A telegram from London says that
dispatches have been received there
from the seat OF war in Herzegovina,
which state that great battle took
place on Thursday last, near Nitchiza,
lasting nearly all day. Fifteen thous-
aud troops were engaged and the
Turkish troops claim decisive vic
tory. The lighting on both sides was
desperate ana the losses severe.
Year: 1875

The Peoples Party was originally
formed to effect certain local changes
and achieve certain local reforms SO far
rs state politics are concerned they were
our friends, and we represented their
Autobiography principles faithfully.
How utterly they were sold out by their
republican allies in the recent election.
is evident in the fact that they were led
to fight one who had always been their
friend, who published a paper to defend
their views and interests and whose leg
islative record was unimpeached; while
the local officers they really desired to
displace were reelected bu the largest
majoritieS they erer receired.!!.


Everything was given upto slaughter
Donneliy; and to do this the republicans
sacrificed Harrington. Dekay. Headly.
Duffy, and the legislative ticket, in a
blind, furious and fruitless pursuit of
ourself


Let the Peoples Party rub its sore
head and count up the gains it has won
from its unholy alliance with the federal
stfice-holders and the railroad corpora
Year: 1875

We are aware that the constant fore.
boding Of danger is rot cheerful or a
welcome task, but we feel it to be our
duty to sound constantly the note of
alarm. For two or three years past we
have claimed that Grant would be nom-
mated for a third term, and that that
meant empire. It is astonishing to see
to-day how many leading Republicans
not only concede his nomination mex
year but assert that it will be made by
an almost unanimous action of the Re-
publican national convention. The truth
is nc Republican is even mentioned for
the cf.ce but Grant.


The Industrial Age Of Chicago. gives
another evidence Of the change which is
stealing over ms. 1t said the other day


The growth Of feeling for monarchy in this
country is alarming. In a walk Of four blocks
in this city on Thursday, four men-men who
style themselves among the wealthiest and
most respectable citizens Of Chicago-Openly
expressed themselves in favor Of an absolu.a
government, and one in favor Of a dictator
Neither one of the four ever earned dollar
beyond their living and the support Of their
families; but through the enterprise and en-
eley of others, the real estate they cllanced to
get hold OF, and some sharp practices con
nected herewith, have made themselves
wealthy.


We begin to think this country is al
ready powerlcss in the grasp Of it's enc
mics, The people could resist an open
foe who made his approaches with ban
ners and cannon, but this slow, gradual,
cunning. plausible campaign, with fair
pre,enses on the top, bigotry in the
middle and corruption at The bottom, is
too much for them. Taking to lead
ing Republican the other day about the
possibility Of Grants reelection next
year, he said, There are lots Of veal
thy Democrats in the east who will Sc
cretly work tor Grant, and contribute
literally to the Republican campaign
fund" '.Why?r we asked; .Wcll. they
are satisfied that Grant is on the side oi
capital, and will protect their interests. :
Ay, there's the rub. Capital to pro-
tect itself would subvert the institutions
of the country. The capitalists of the
| nation are keen, shrewd. and capable o1
u tied action. They bewilder the non.
est masses with side issues, while they
buy up the rabble with money.


The country will .'have to be worse
before it is better
Year: 1875

Buell. and all the state ticket are de-
teated. The republican majority in the
Legislature is increased. New York has
small majority-democratic but its leg
islature is largely republican. New
Jersey goes republican. Wisconsin is
the only bright spot in the political
heavens.


Grant viii assuredly be nominated for
third time. ALI the wealth and cum
ning of the country will be upon his side.
Even the wealthy democrats viii. many
OF them, support him. The issue Is
really capital against the people, and
the cunning leaders know it and will
take sides accordingly; while the blind
Year: 1875

We go to press with this issue on our


usual day OF publication. Monday this
is rendered necessary to fulfill the pub.
iication of some legal advertisements.
Hereafter we will issue on Thursday.
Year: 1875

A Chinese Solomon has come to light IN
Nankin. His latent wisdom was develop
ed under the following circumstances:


During the Tapping rebellion married
Chinaman, resident Of that city, Joined a
regiment which was ordered against the
rebels. He did not return from the war,
and. nothing having been heard from him
for several years. his wife listened to the
suit Of one who professed to love her and
married him. In year or two husband
number one, with the perversity of hus-
bands under such circumstances, presented
himself, alive and well, and demanded his
wife. Husband number two refused to
give her up, and it was ultimately decided
| to take the case before . magistrate. At
first that functionary was puzzled what
course to take, both husbands producing
legal proofs Of marriage. At last he told


them Ia leave the woman with him and re-


turn in ten days. About the fifth or sixth


day the magistrate sent in haste for the
two men. and informed them, with mourn
full face. that the wife had been suddenly


smitten with an illness that had proved
fatal. and that she was dead. and he asked
the first husband whether he would take


away the body and provide for the funeral


This man demurred, saying he wanted


living wife. not dead one, and should hav'


nothing further to do with the matter
turning to the other, the magistrate put tn
same question to him. saying that one Q
, them must remove the body. The man sal
he was very poor, but the deceased had bee,


good wife to him; they had loved eac
other dearly. and cost what il might, b


would raise the money and pay for the burr
al Very well,' said the magistrate
!; s.then here she is. take her away with you
!; And drawing aside the curtain he Shove
: the astonished man the wife, standing an
. living and in good health, before them. !
n being clear that the first husband reall
d cared nothing for her. they willingly abis
J, ed by the magistrates method Of settiin
; the complication. The only drawback
: this story is that We are unable to han
3 down to posterity. in plain English, u


name Of this Chinese Solomon
Year: 1875

A physician says that the cry for rest has
always been louder than the cry for food.
Not that it is more important, but it is dft-
en- harder to obtain. The best rest comes
from sound sleep. OF two men or women,
otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the best
will be the most healthy and efficient. Sleep
will do much to cure irritability Of temper,
peevishness, uneasiness. 1t will restore to
vigor an ovTworked brain. 1t will build
up and make strong a weak body. 1t will
cure q headache. 1t will cure broken
spirit. 1t will cure sorrow. Indeed, we
might make long list Of nervous and other
maladies that sleep will cure. The cure OF
sleeplessness requires clean, good bel,
sufficient exercise to produce weariness,
pleasant occupation, good air.. and not toe
warm room clear conscience, and avoid.
ance of stimulants and narcotics. For those
who are overworked, haggard and nervous
who pass sleepless nights, we commend ths
adoption of such habits as shall secure sleep
otherwise, life will be short. and what there
| is Of it, sadly imperfect.