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Year: 1876

GRAND OPENING | LORD 6 WILLIAMS WILL DISPLAY FOR PUBLIC IN W speetiOn one kf the Largest and Most Attractive stock of Goods ever before Brought

 to this Market. The Great Eastern show of New

 Goods. They have arranged to have arrive Month ly, a complete assortment of such goods as the people Of Arizona want, and they Can sell them at Wholesale and Re- tail Cheaper than they can be

 Afforded from any other Market, Not excepting the much extoIled Quay

 mas route. I We have taken especial pains Co imPor l fine goods, such as we c0n warrant, and il the line Of

 Nice things to Eat, We have endeevored to cater to the taste ofall.
Year: 1876

who said that the officer not only ought 10
come from tho Wcst but that the candidate ought TO
be western man OF hard money purposes AT
one time u was believed that Mr. Kerr was fresi-
Dental candidate by those who did know that ply
sically he could not be considered as q
candidate. There politicians who did no,
shiuk that be could outlwe any Office
that required time in serving For
many years Mr. Kerr hns been afflicted weaken
ing internal disease IL has kept OF his Office
Naturally cold man. AIR. Kerr came through the
effects OF his disease be considered
pciulant man. Hc was great sufferer and
his ambition must have received numerous checks.
Aficr he was elected Speaker from a dcrnoc
which had chosen him above Cox and others. he
frequently compelled TO leave his seat Speaker
pro tenn so that be might travel for his health.


Mr.. Kerr was very positive IN his purposes If he
believed course to be correct he followed without
regard Tor the demands Of his party. Yet no
more sincerely democrat He really sympathi2cd
with thai democratic element In The North
which during the had tender feeling
toward the South. He was never traitor 10 his
country. lie lived among people who the side o.
pnrhsanship to which no adhered were OF Northern
birth but Of Southern instincts. II any limo durng
the war the line between lighting North
hghting South had been by emergency og
conquest drawn above .hc town wherein Mr Kerr
nved perhaps ho would, through Loyalty 10 his
political feelings, have refused 10 remove northward
tho fact that the South madcew geographical
was matter Of consideration. Mr. Kerr was
one OF these he stood fast by VIC
torious North Moreover his education in
political science such that he could not violate u
by following Indiana people into the mania for paper
For this he elected SPEAKER last winter he
was OF the bravcst Of hard money democrats from
the West ard II health han been Gi his fortunate
gifts hc would have been Presidential candidate.
Year: 1876

The National Rifle Association yesterday after
in the Bennett Building.


Colonel Wingato introduced a resolution, which was
adopted the substance Of which is that all rife assoca-
tons or clubs practising in accordance with the rules
the National Rife Association may by annually pay ng
10 the Treasurer the of $25 and forwarding it
copy Of their bylaws the names and addresses Of its
officers and the number of its MEMBERS become enti-
tied TO the following privileges-


Firs-To annually nominate of thoir members who
shall be entitled 10 all the privileges of members
the National Rife Association during It's spring fall
meetings and FOR week prior to each OF such meetings


So2t-Io have the names and addresses OF their officers
and The made during the year their principal
association company club troop matches
AS correct by their secretary printed in annual
ofthe National Rife Association, and twenty
copies Of such report TO be forwarded their secretary
without charge


7hfrdo send delegate, in of associations
clubs having membership of over fifty delegate for
my members IN good standing upon their roll to confer with
ihe Directors of the NATIONAL Riie Association
ton to be held in the city of New Yo May
in each and the spring meeting possible
regard 20 the rules and fall meeting programme and the
general interests of rifle practice in America.


The spring meeting will begin on. May 25. seven
matches Will be shot.
Year: 1876

During the past week tne Commissioners Of Charities
and Correction report four and thirynine men
were sent to the Penitentiary.


In the same period fourteen women to the
Female Lunatic Asylum and thirteen men to the New
York City Asylum


An application from the Ladies' homeopathic Guild
asking for the establishment of ward for children in
the hospital on Wards Island, denied, the Board
deciding that the children should be Randals
I
Year: 1876

All we ask is that the President fairly
elected shall be inuugurated, not a man
who gets his sole title to the place from
partisan Returning Boards, composed OF
men who hail apersonal interest IN Jug
Cling the votes, and who had no scruples
about doing it. Give us the President
the people choose, not the man Louisiana
Wells and Vice President Ferry choose.
They had their two votes at the election.
and they will not be allowed now to
name President against the decision OF
the people.
Year: 1876

Ex-Congressman Willard Of Vermont
is pretty good Republican, but he can
not sit quietly by and listen to the as
sumptions of his party. He says plainly
that if the President of the Senate at
tempts to decide what electoral votes to
count and what not to count, he is ''a
usurper.n The opinions is gaining among
Republicans that this business Of usurpa-
ton has gone far enough.
Year: 1876

The following paragraph which We
take from an editorial III tue Peters
burg Lnder-Ap1oeai. it seems TO US,
with all due respect to our Virginia
cotemporary, contains Il reflection
upon North Carolina Democrats
that ought to have been made moro
explicitly or ought not to have been
made at all !:


We have. no liking whatever foI
Swepson, who, we think, was party to
the grand robbery of North Carolina,
i'll which Littlefieid, and perhaps 9th
ers since high il the favor of the
Democratic Conservative party, were
also participants.


Does the Lade,c-Ap2oeal seriously
mean to charge that accomplices of
Swepson and LittIefeld have since
their grand robbery been high in the
favor OF the Democratic party in the
State, ana if so, does it imeA1 to
charge that the Democratic party thus
had these men in high favor ignorantly
or knowingly?


With the kindest feeling possible
for our esteemed Virginia cotempora-
~, we earnestly protest against such
loose language as. Injurious in the high
est degree to the cause and to the
party whose su cess We both have so
deeply at heart.
Year: 1876

Our friends the enemy do not seem
just now to be enjoying IN very full
measure that peace and harmony and
unity it IS SO pleasant to see among
brethren dwelling together in pei soma.
or political affiliation. The presidential
plum is now almost ripe and ready to
fall, and many Radical mouths there be
gaping wide to catch it. Indeed-but
that itwould be. as Mr.. Beecher would
phrase it, slight "mixing meta
phors one might well say that this
tempting presidential plum is proving:
veritable apple of discord among
Radical aspirants. Messrs. Blaine and
Conkling are not at one but are at
open variance. Nor can they be
brought to be of one mind-at least SO
reports a delegation of peace makers
that went from New York to Washing
ton to earn the blessing belonging to
all engaged in the laudable occupation
of putting an end to strife. Nor was
this result matter for surprise, for
there is only one presidency and both
Blaine and Conkling are longing for it.
How. then, can they agree? But the
most serious unpleasantaess is that re-
ported to exist between Mr.. Bristow
and President Grant. Concerning the
latest development in this difficulty
kilograms to the Western press repre-
sent that at an interview, on the I'd
inst, with Secretaries Bristow and
Pierrepoint, ''the President declared his
purpose to go to St. Louis and give his
testimony in Babcock's s favor. The
interview assumed a stormy aspect,
and the President took occasion to re-
fer to Bristow's prosecution of the
whisky ring in strong terms of disap-
proyal, concluding with the remark
that he CGrant) understood DcyfectLy
that certain parties near to him, aOhiIe
they acere pretending to be his friends.
acere really has enemies, seeking to
build themselves up at his etDense.
The Presidents manner was unmistak-
ably pointed, and Secretary Bris-
tow, in astonishment and dismay,
turned about and walked to O
window, where he stood looking
out for some moments. An interval
of silence ensued, which was broken
by Pierrepoint, who suggested in a
subdued tone that he thought the
President was inclined to be hasty and
severe in his judgment, to which
Grant responded in loud and angry
tone that when he wished advice from
his Cabinet counselors as to his per
sonaI affairs he would notify them,
The President has lost his calm imper


turbability and has fallen into an irri-
table state in which he becomes violent
and abusive, especially with reference
to the parties concerned in the prose
cution of the whiskey ring. The story
has some raarks of improbability, but
it is so excellently vouched for that it
seems unwise to entirely discredit it
The effort to induce the President to
put his testimony in the shape of an
affidavit will not be abandoned"


Whether this statement be true we
know not, for as soon as it was pub
lished it was denied, even by Mr..
Bristow himself. In spite of the de-
nial, however, it is said to be proba-
BILE that both MIR. Bristow and MIR,
Pierrepoint villa ave the Cabinet.
Year: 1876

As our readers know, meeting OF
the Democratic Executive Committee
for the State viii be held at Raleigh on
the 18th of March, for the purpose of
choosing the time and place of holding
ihe next State Convention of the party.
Various suggestions have been made
in reference to the place at which the
convention shall meet. though. if we
remember Alright. no particular time
has been suggested.


In fixing the time we presume the
committee will be guided somewhatby
the action of the National Executive
Committee 10 selecting the day for the
assembling Of The National Democratic
Convention, as it will be necessary for
ehe State Convention to meet in time to
appoint delegates to the National Con-
vention. Any day that will answer
for that purpose will answer for all
others for winch the State Convention
is to be held. 1t may not be out of
place to remark here, however, that
Il. the signs of the times Indicate that
the coming campasgn in North Caro-
Ina will be one of the most laborious
and hotly con ested ever witnessed IN
oar State, and that every consideration
of good Judgment and sound policy


points out the expediency of the Dem
ucI attic party beng early IN the field


with known leaders and disciplined


forces. The enemy is already at work


and the man who thinks the struggle
in this State will be child's play will
find himself grievously mistaken.
Nor have we any suggestion 60 make
ass to the place in whic'. tn" Con
veutiou shall be held. But while we
are willing to leave that matter entire


ly in the hands of the Committee, we
cannot assent to the position taken
by some that Wilmington is not


suitaOle place for the prr-
pose. Indeed we know of no place
in the State that is more suitable


either as respects the welcome her
citizens will extend to the Convention.
the comfortable accommodation of its


members or their easy access to the
place. From tIe counties on the Tar
the Roanoke a!d the Neuse rivers


there is easy railway communication.
From the AlbemarIe region it is GER
| tainly Us easy to come to Wilmington
| as to go to any Otnc- point III the State
at which the Convention eau be held.
The Carolina Central Railway with its
| StatesviIle connection with the West


ern North Carolina Road opens up to


US the entire west as well as TIE tier
of counties on the southern border of
| the State. The Cape Fear river and


the railroad from Fayetteville to Raj


eigh open up that portion of the state.


Aud so far as Greensboro is concerned


all we have to say is that it is not more
difficult to come from Greensboro to
| Wi mington than to go from Whining
| ton to Greensboro.


Let the committee consider the mat


ter we'll and decide for the best inter


est of the party and we shall be


satisfied.
Year: 1876

The consular and diplomatic appro-
priation bill was reported in the House
last week. It was four hundred thou
preparation. and every Republican
endeavored to show that our honor
and dignity as a nation abroad was
imperilled by the decrease. The Re
publican party in the House has thus
far opposed every single measure of
economy proposed by the Democratic
leaders.
Year: 1876

The New York Times paid last year
a dividend of 100000, being equal to
$1,000 share or 100 per cent, upon
the original value of the stock. At no
time during the last fifteen years has
the paper paid less dividend than 81
per cent, on the original capital, and
in some cases the dividend has been
100 per cent. During the same period,
the entire Indebtedness upon the
Times Building and property has been
naid off
Year: 1876

It is related of Winslow, the Boston
forger, that on Sunday prior to his de-
parture he delivered q sermon in the
morning at Auburndale, the theme
being the good that is to be found
among men, the nobility of human
nature, and the dnty Of men to their
fellow-men; and in the afternoon ad-
dressed the children of the Sunday
school upon their duties to each other
and to their God.
Year: 1876

A sharp old man watched his daugh.
ter very closely on Sunday night to
prevent ber from getting out to meet
an objectional beau, and when she
sang" Hold the Fort for am Com
ing" he never suspected that it was
a signal waving still for him to wait
for her at the corner.
Year: 1876

Sent on for Felony.-George W. Browder
(white) was brought before the Mayor to
answer the charge Of breaking into a dwell
ing and stealing pair OF pants valued at
Sc. After hearing the evidence the Mayor
sent Browder on to the next term OF the
court, and committed him to Jail without
hail
Year: 1876

The Constitutional Amendments.


For some time the Governor has had the
act of the Legislature, containing the pro-
posed constitutional amendments, in his
possession. As they are passed by vote
Of two-thirds of each house they are beyond
his jurisdiction, and he therefore sent them
to the Secretary Of State, referring in his
letter to the following article OF the consti-
tuition


ART. li7. Any amendment or amend.
ments to this constitution may be proposed
in the Senate or House vf Representatives,
and if the same shall be agreed to by two


thirds of the members elected to each


house, such proposed amendment or


amendments shall be entered on their
respective journals, with the yeas and nays
taken thereon; and the Secretary OF State
shall cause the same to be published, three
months before the next general election tor
Representatives to the General Assembly,
in at least one newspaper in every parish in
the State in which q newspaper shall be
published. And such proposed amend
ment or amendments shall be submitted to
the people at said election; and if q majOri
| ty Of the voters at said election shall ap
prove and ratify such amendment or
amendments, the same shall become part
| of this constitution. If more than one
| amendment shall be submitted at one time
| they shall be submitted in such manner
| and form that the people may vote Tor OF
| against each amendment separately.
Year: 1876

election take the fret step which will lead


to final peace and prosperity, or the step


which leads to continued political agitation


with continued financial and industrial


prostration.


There remains, in considering the alter


natives of the political situation, the re-


.arion which the negro holds to this cor
f1ict. One of two things is certain in the
future of the politics of this country. One
Of these is the fixed and unalterable preju-
dice of the Anglo-Saxon English speaking
race against the African. The other is the
overthrow of race caste and the triumph of
political brotherhood and equality. Four
more years will test the question whether
any amount of time or any amount OF cul-
ture or civilization on the part of the negro
will overcome this Anglo Saxon race preju-
dice. If the experience of the British West
Indies is repeated with US, then the leaders
of The emaucipated race will be able to de-
termine on wise future policy for their
race outside of the Union. If, on the other
hand, four more years Of progress should
show the evident weakening of this race
prejudice, then the leaders of tho race will
be fully justified in continuing under con-
servative Republican rule the policy Of
peace, depending on time to solve their
problem for them. In either case, there
fore, the duty of the colored voter consists
in casting his vote for the party of emanci-
patton and civil equality, because his only
real friends are to be found in that party
Having thus discharged his duty and
proven faithful to his friends, the colored
citizen will be all the better prepared for
the unknown eyentualities with which the
unknown future may threaten him through
and under a white mans government. In
the meanwhile, in doing our duty, let US all
hope for the best B.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The judiciary
committee authorizes the sergeant at arms
to employ counsel to aid him in prosecut-
ing the appeal before the courts in the
kilbourne habeas corpus case.
Year: 1876

TRY TIE ENAMELLED PIPE. IT WILL, Non
! Rust or crack and costs only tTiie more than
common iron pipe Is positively TEE REST thing
for water service pipe. hGyo the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED uASS


Store in Star Block
Year: 1876

Another crazy witness came upon the
stage of action yesterday in the Louisiana
investigation. HIS name is D. D. Foley.
His avocation We do not know. He some
time ago informed the chairman of the
committee that he was in possession of
valuable facts. Without looking into the
matter at all the chairman subpenaed him,
and kept him waiting ten days before he
was put upon the stand, for which delay he
received about $3O Yesterday he testified.
He announced his bottom facts, and the
result was the committee ordered his en-
tire testimony to be stricken ont, and the
man summarily discharged. Thus the
Democratic committees are duped by
vestigation expenses roll mountain high to
interest and amuse q tax ridden people,
Washington National Republican.
Year: 1876

The validity of the appointment of Judge
Lynch to the vacancy caused in the Superb
or District Court by the death of Judge
Hawkins, is already exciting discussion in
the newspapers. 1t is probable the matter
will be determined in short time. In the
case of the State of Louisiana * rel. War.
moth vs. Graham, Auditor, &c An. 56S, the
Supreme Court held that


The absence of the Governor from the
State for few days creates no vacancy in
the office and does not authorize the as-
sumption Of the dnties, Prerogstives and
emo1uments thereof by the Lieutenant Gov.
ernor diving said absence. 1t must be
under q proper construction of article fifty
ty.three of the constitution that such an
inability to discharge the duties Of the
Office as well as such absence from the
State as would affect injariously the pub.
lie interests.


And sgsin, in the same case, the court
says:


There being NO provision of law for the
mode in which the Governor is to manifest
to the public his absence from the State, it
to his responsibility to the people. The
court does not think that it was ever con
templated that the movements of the Gov
ernOr should be watched, with the view that
the Lieutenant Governor or Speaker Of the
House of Representatives should slip into
his seat the moment he stepped across the
borders Of the State. The question to be
decided ie, does the absence of the Gov
ernor from the State for few days create q
vacancy in his office and authorize the as
SUMPTION Of the duties, prerogatives and
emo.unents thereof by the Lieutenant Gov
enOr during said absencea


THIS question the court decided in the
negative, affirming the judgment of the
lower court to the same effect. This de-
cision, a. well as several others of like
tenor in previous reports, settles the ques
ton as to the contested validity of the
commission of Judge Lynch against such
validity, and if Governor Kellogg should
commission an incumbent Of the superior
District Court, vice Judge Hawkins, de-
ceased, there is no doubt that such commits
mission would be valid, and such appointee
would be the legal judge of the Superio'
District Court.


This view is strengthened from the fact
that, as We are informed. Judge Lynch has
failed to qualify, as the law directs, by
filing his oath of office with the Secretary
of State
Year: 1876

The Latest from the Jettfes.


The steamship New Orleans, OF the Crom-
well line, which came in through the jetties
on her last trip from New York, left for
that port yesterday by the same route,
drawing seventeen feet two inches aft and
fourteen feet four inches forward. At half
past two o'clock she grounded on the bar
inside the jetties, and was lying there at
Last accounts.
Year: 1876

have worked upon the prejudices of the ignorent whites, and the fears of the scarcely less ignorant blacks of Arkansas, and have by this means rode into rich offices and high positions, and this state of affairs just suits them. THEY want to keep the intelligent, hon est masses of the Northern peo- pie prejudiced against the South ern people and hold them back from coming iither by their tales of southern hatred toward north

 ern men. Wesay to the northern

 man that all such reports are in famous les. We say to him that the Northern man is not only vel come here, but we are anxious for immigration of that class, for we know them to be live, active, en- ergetic and useful citizens. We want Yankee enterprise and Tan kee system to devclope and help build up our country. We see that our people are far behind the times and we want Something to stir them up. We want some one to set them an example and in- cite them on in system of living, working and transacting business more in keeping with this fast age. We beseech our northern friends to be gulled no longer by these lying political adventures. Come down among us. Circulate among our people and if there is a hair of your head hurt or an in- dignity offered to you, then will be time enough for you to believe us set of heathen and assassins.
Year: 1876

Legislation from an assembly of men unprepared for sthelr work, ignorant of what ought to be done, what ought not to be done, and how to do what should be done. Begiaso post yourselves.up, gen tlemen. Do you understand the routine of legislation? Do you understand parliamentary rules and usage sufficiently well to be expeditions in your work? If you do, have you thought what legislation the good of our State demands? There will be no time to fritter away duiing the next term of the Legislature.

 The length of the term is now limited by Constitutional restrict ion to Sixty days, and there is i'm Iportsnt matters to be- legislated upon. Our Free School system needs tas be. made more efficient. The question of Immigration should receive attention. No other expenditure will benefit our State so much as the judlcious use of a-reasonable sum appropriated to the encouragement of immi grafton to our State. The Fi- nance question will perhaps come up and demand attention. There may be other subjects of equal importance

 To study out the legislation most needed, and put It through Tn best shape and time is what the people now expect of members elect to the next session of the legislature. The voters and tax payers should and will watch the next legislature, and it is time, gentlemen, to begin to consider your duties, so that you may be prepared to fulfil the many pledges you made the people.