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the hctrloiig cmocva (SLhavloltc, M.&. The Democrat. CHARLOTTE, N. C. AUGUST 13, 18 8Q.W N. C. Supreme Court Decisions. June Term, 1880. , Cobb vs. Morgan, from Nash affirmed. "When usurious interest has been paid the the amount ao paid may be recovered in an action for money had and received by the payer against the payee, or may be set offprp tanto in a suit for the principal debt on which it was paid as interest. The usury law of 1875 has no retroactive effect. . Where a note was valid when made, a subsequent contract for the further for bearance of the. debt which the note evi dences docs not vitiate such note. May vs. Darden, from Pitt reversed. An appeal lies from a judgment for costs only. , Costs in actions against fiduciaries are governed by special regulations and do not always go with the judgment, Taylor vs. Iliggie, from Granville. re-versed.-rQno holding a second mortgage on lands as a trustee cannot buy such lands at a sale under foreclosure of the first mort gage, but he is entitled to re-irabursement lor any sums expended by him in clearing off the first mortgage, and such expendi ture are a first claim on such lands. When a mortgagor by words or acts agrees to a sale under the mortgage, he cannot be heard afterwards to deny the validity of the mortgage or the sale had thereunder. Varner vs. Arnold, from Randolph af firmed. The orders of Gen. Sickles and Gen. Canby suspending the action of the civil Courts of the State have and had no legal efficacy, except as obedience was com pelled by the use of force. State vs. Harder, from Pitt afiirmedi An omission to charge, not asked in the Conrt below, cannot be noticed as an ex ception in this Court. It is not error to re fuse to charge that confessions are to be received with caution, and still less so when the Court is not asked to give the instruc tion. -The jury alone must judge of the sufficiency of confessions, as proving the fact confessed. It is settled in this State that the confes sions of a prisoner, or the testimony of an accomplice, though without corroboration in material particulars, if believed by the jury, is sufficient to. warrant conviction, and the propriety of giving a caution to the jury to prevent an improper confidence in its truth must be left to the discretion of the Judge. Even clear perjury of a witness, commit ted on the trial, does not authorize the Court to direct the jury to discard his tes timony, but it goes to his credit only. A collateral inducement, having no relation to the offence, is an insufficient reason for rejecting a confession given in response. Phillips vs. Lentz, from Cabarrus af firmed. When, on an application for the removal of a cause, no facts are stated in the affidavit as grounds for the removal, the ruling of the Court below maybe re viewed, but when facts are set forth, their sufficiency rests in the discretion of the Judge, and his decision is final. Stale vs. Mitchell, from Wataucra- re- versed. In the trial of a criminal action on a plea of not guilty, it is proper matter of defence that the alleged crime was com mitted out of the State. Battle's Revisal, chap. 33, section 70, does not apply. State Vs. Dancy, from Wilkes affirmed. Our statute makes it rape, carnally to know a female under ten years of age, even though she consent. And under section 5, chapter 32, Bat. Hev., an attempt to car nally know a female under ten years of age, is punishable as an assault with intent to commit rape, by imprisonment iri the State's prison not less than five nor more than fif teen years. State vs. Berry, from Perquimans af firmed.The Superior Court has no original jurisdiction of a simple assault and battery until more than six months have elapsed from the commission of the offence. Cedar Falls Co., vs. Wallace Bros' & Stephenson, from Guilford affirmed. Not every point averred on one side and denied on the other constitutes such an issue, in the legal meaning of the word, as should be submitted to the jury. Issues are such dis puted points as arc necessary to the decis ion of the controversy. Generally if the drawer of a bill of ex change has no reasonable ground to expect that it will be paid, the holder is not bound to strict presentment and notice. Southcrland and wife vs. Harper, from Caldwell affirmed. One in possession of land tinder a legal title cannot bring suit to restrain another from selling the land under execution on judgment against the grantor of the party in possession. When the land is sold a question of title with which the Courts can deal, will arise between the party in possession and the purchaser at execution sale. State vs. Ham, from Alleghany affirmed. 1. Under chapt 141, Laws 1879, when the Superior Court has rendered judgment on an appeal from an Inferior Court, an appeal lies to the Supreme Court, for, by art. 4, sec 8, of the Constitution, the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review upon ap peal any decision of the Courts below upon any matter of law or legal inference. 2. The offence of disposing of personal property subject to a mortgage is exclusively cognizable by a J ustice of the Peace. Jonathan Walker vs. Wm. E. Gurley, from Mc Dowellaffirmed. Where a party employs coun sel to represent him in a case and his counsel fails to appear and judgment is rendered against such party, he cannot have process issued upon such judgment, arrested by injunction, but should apply for relief under section 133, C. C. P., there being no ftverment of fraud in obtaining the judgment When a judgment has been rendered in a Court of competent jurisdiction, it cannot be vacated on the ground that the contract upon which the judgment was founded was usurious, nor any other matter that might have been set up as a defence to the action. Where a debtor makes a deed of trust to a third party to secure his creditor, the creditor can purchase the property at a sale by the trustee such a purchase does not rest upon the same foot ing as a purchase by a mortgagee at his own sale. Cotton Receipts, Trade, &c. For the week ending Aug. 6, the total receipts reached 8,82 bales, against 10,859 bales last week, 13,148 bales the previous week, and 10,691, bales three -weeks since, maKing tne lOiai receipts Biuue iub ibk v September, 1879, 4,899,884, against 4,440, 101 bales for the same period of 1878-9, showing an increase since September 1, 1879, of 459,783 bales. The exports for the week reached a total of 33,436 bales, of which 25,015 were to Great Britain; 5,902 to France, and 2,5 1 9 to rest of the Continent, while the stocks as made up are now 170,873 bales. .'From the foregoing statement it will be seen that, compared with the corresponding weelc of last season, there is an increase in the exports this week of 20,579 bales, while the stocks are 66,324 bales more than they were at this time a year ago. K. Y Financial Chronicle. ... ' One of the large New York holders of cotton remarked the other day that he could sell any of his cotton at ten cents and make money from the operation. This firm have sold contract after contract against their cotton. Most ol the cotton now held in New York is too poor for American spinners, and the preponderance of low qualities is increasing daily, as spinners continue to purchase the best grades mainly, spite of the recent widening between the quotations for high and low qualities. A few commission merchants, who have studied the question, believe that American spinners, as a rule, haye enough cotton to last them till the middle of September or the 1st of October, but the general opinion is that manufacturers are very poorly sup plied, and that some of them will be .absolutely forced into the market in the next fortnight. 2T. Y. Cotton, Aug. 1th. .. m The Cotton Crop. The following is the report of the condi tion of the cotton crop made by the Nor folk Cotton Exchange and compiled lrom 81 replies from 30 counties in North Caro lina and Virginia, (mostly Eastern counties in N. C, we presume). Sixty-seven report the weather as more favorable and 15 as unfavorable 58 report more favorable weather than at the same period last year, 14 less favorable and 8 same as last year; 78 report no land abandoned and 8 show about an average of 6 per cent, abandoned on account of bad stand ; 67 report the plant forming, blooming and boiling well, and 14 report not so well; 73 report the condition as good to excellent, 8 unfavor able, 52 better than last year, 19 same as last year and 10 not so good. The generul tenor of the replies show that since the 20th of July there have been frequent and heavy rains, warm days and cool nights, causing more or less shedding, rust and too great a growth of the plant. Four coun ties report lice, and two counties army worm, but as yet comparatively little damage. The Galveston (Texas) Cotton Exchange crop report has the following compiled from 146 replies, 103 countiesof an average date of July 31st, as unfavorable, there having been too much rain: 95 as favor able, 31 as less favorable than sometime last year, 1 the same and 114 more favor able and 8 report 7 per cent, of land abandoned because of the excessive rains, and 138 now abandoned, 31 report the plant as not forming or blooming well owing to too much rain, 115 forming and blooming well, and some unusually well, as compared with last year, 20 report the crop not as good, 11 the same and 115 better, of which 23 report an average of 40 per cent, better, 10 report some worms but no serious damage, one county reports serious damage, five counties report some boll worms. There is complaint from a number of counties of too much rain and in a few of which the damage is consider able by reason of the excessive growth and shedding of fruit. A number of counties report picking as going on. The Savannah (Georgia) Cotton Ex change gives the following report on crops: Georgia The reports for July indicate that with lew excections the weather has been exceedingly favorable, much more so than for the same period last season. No lands are reported abandoned and the plant is forming and blooming splendidly. The condition as compared with last season is universally conceded to be much better. Some doubt is expressed of continuous rains in lower counties, producing rust and caterpillars, but without any positive in jury having been sustained. From the upper and middle portions of the State advices could scarcely be finer for crops. Florida advices have been somewhat irregular, but generally the weather has been about the same as last year. No lands have been abandoned, and the plant is forming, blooming and fruiting well and is in quite as good if not better condition than last year. Garfifld Answered. "I affirm, and I believe I do not mis represent the great Democratic party, that in the last sixteen years they have not advanced one great national idea that is not to-day exploded as dead as Julius Ciesar. And if any Democrat here will rise and name a great national doctrine his party has advanced within that time, that is now alive and believed in, I will yield to him." Garfield. Wrong, as usual. The Democratic idea that the military must be subordinate to the civil power, is not "dead as Julius Caesar." It has triumphed and will con tinue to triumph. The Democratic idea that this is a republic, and not an indis soluble union of indestructible States, is not dead as Julius Caesar." The Demo cratic idea that the currency of this country should be gold and silver, and paper redeemable in coin on demand, is not "dead as Julius Ceasar," but has, at a late day, been partly adopted by the rag-money Republican party. The Democratic idea that the revenues of this country will be greatly enhanced by a low tariff is not "dead as Julius . Cjesar," but is gaining ground every day. The Democratic idea that there is no place in this country for a Ctesar, or the corpse of a Csesar, is not "dead as Julius Caesar." Mr. Garfield must yield. Louisville Journal. Census of North Carolina. The census of the State having been completed, the Raleigh News publishes the following as the population of each county in 1880, compared with that of 1870, showing an increase of 339.177 since 1870: 1880. 1870. Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Buncombe, Burke, Bladen, 14,620 - 8,363 5,505 14,449 18,018 17,512 16,416 21,953 12,829 16,154 9,407 6,285 9,807 10,302 17,802 23,568 7,904 8,190 19,710 6,482 14,994 14,967 14,459 23,835 3,317 16,598 3,268 ' 20,375 11,166 18,850 26,400 17,807 20,847 14,292 8,907 2,335 30,313 10,044 23,558 10,215 30,289 10,263 10,298 11,852 7,743 22,709 7,358 23,351 7,500 15,353 10,074 8,061 12,813 13,141 34,110 0,386 11,522 16,947 9,842 17,780 21,487 20,047 9,730 23,755 6,351 10,451 11,744 9,471 13,714 21,842 5,067 20,878 21,739 20,003 15,219 18,230 23,942 23,942 10,464 15,311 3,814 15,354 5,341 4,547 18,067 8,175 19,199 8,965 48,270 22,648 25,041 16,028 12,430 7,680 1,410,138 11,874 6,868 i 3,69 r 1 9,573 12,428 13,011 12,950 15,412 9,777 12,831 7,754 5,361 9,010 8,476 16,081 19,723 6,450 8,080 20,516 5,131 11,954 10,984 8,474 17,035 2,461 12,696 C,778 17,414 9,620 15,542 22,970 13,050 14,134 12,602 7,724 new. 24,831 8,687 21,736 8,895 20,408 7,921 7,706 9,273 ' 6,445 16,931 6,683 16,897 5,002 10,434 9,573 6,615 8,192 9,647 24,299 4,705 7,487 12,040 7,592 11,077 27,978 14,749 7,565 17,507 new. 8,131 new. 7,945 11,170 17,276 4,319 17,551 15,708 16,810 13,121 12,882 16,262 16,436 8,015 11,252 new. 11,208 3,536 4,173 12,217 5,287 15,539 6,516 35,617 17,768 18,144 12,258 10,697 5,909 1,070,961 I Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Caldwell, Caswell, Chatham, Chowan, Cherokee, Craven, Currituck, Cabarrus, Catawba, Columbus, Cumberland, Clay, Cleveland, Dare, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Edgecombe, Forsyth, ' Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Graham, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Harnett, Halifax, Haywood, Henderson, Hertford, Hyde, Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, Martin, Mecklenburg Mitchell, Montgemery, Moore, McDowell, Nash, Hew Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Orange, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Polk, Randolph, Rockingham, Rowan, Rutherford, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson, Stanly, Surry, Swain, Stokes, Transylvania, Tyrrell, Union, Watauga, Wilkes, Washington, Wake, Warren, Wayne, Wilson, Yadkin, Yancey, Bloody Murderers. It will be remembered that about a year ago, the whole country was horrified at the discovery that a family named Bender, who kept a country Tavern in Kansas and Illi nois, was in the habit of robbing and mur dering those who stopped at their house. The Benders then escaped, but, have recently been captured, and the following is an account of a confession of some of their murders : Chicago, Aug. 7. Yesterday Mrs. Ben der was visited in jail at Fremont by an Omaka reporter, to whom she said the first murder ever committed by her and her husband was in Illinois on their farm near Jacksonville. The victim asked for lodg ing and supper, and on paying for the same in adyance, exhibited considerable money. When eating supper Bender cut his head in two from behind, and he was dumped into the cellar through a trap door arranged by Bender, who got his money. Some weeks after this they went to Iowa, remaining their eight months. They then went to Indiana, living on the murdered man's money, and then went to Kansas where Bender's children (Julia and Kate) by his first wife were living with their cousin Maggie. They kept a resort for travellers there, and called it "Bender's Hotel." They bad committed no murder prior to the old folks arrival, but in the course of time old Bender arranged a trap door and then murdering operations began. Kate at one time had a man in bed with her and she cut his throat and slept till morning beside the corpse. His money was divided. She never injured horse thieves and cut throats, who came to her house, but enter tained them well wi h l or cousin Maggie. No murders were commuted by the family after they fled from Kansas. Old Bender has confessed, believing that the old woman has escaped. His story tallies with his wife's exactly. Zc? And now it is reported that Gen. Dan Sickles has declared for Hancock. Hope Bob Ingersoll, the vulgar infidel, will not come over. "Medical Science in Conflict with Mate rialism." We have received a copy of the North Carolina Medical Journal for July, 1880, containing the able and learned Address of Dr. E. Grissom of Raleigh, delivered before the N. C. Medical Society in Wil mington the 13th of May last, on the subject of "Medical Science in Conflict with Materialism." Apart from its masterly treatment of Medical Science, the Address refutes and explodes the as sumptions of such speculative and imaginative fanatics as Darwin and Iluxley, and sustains the reality and truth of Divine Revelation. Of thi? part of the Address we make a few extracts as fol lows : "Mv brethren of the medical art in North Carolina, in departing lrom the usual ad drees before your body upon the familiar topics of medical history or of technical im provement to ask you to consider the grave inquiries placed before you, I am obeying a voice from the grave. Since you last as sembled the sod has covered the breast of one of England's most eminent physicians, and one of the most devoted sons of science. An investigator of high distinction, and an editor of the first medical authority in the world, he left a last legacy to the medical profession, in the following lines, which he requested his brethren ot the Lancet to publish, whenever angina pectoris should strike his death blow : "I die a Christian, in the now, I fear, much despised sense of that term, a simple believer in Jesus Chrst as a personal, living and loving Saviour, without any righteousness of my own, but perfect and secure in His ; and that 'I know in whom I believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him until that day." Oh ! it is not the physician, who daily walks among the mysteries that underlie all our social life, who sees the human heart bare in the very crisis of fate, who wipes the sweat of mortal anguish from the brow, who witnesses the punishment of God's own messenger in the remorse of the convict, who shudders at the depths of despair in the maniac's cry, who struggles by the new-made mother at the very jaws of death, and hears the entreaty of soul even through the thickening terrors that enshroud that feeble body, as she cries, " Save my child whether I perish or no !" it is not such a man, surely, who can believe that man is but a beast, and spirit but a dream. The physician enters the inmost sanc tuary of home-life. He is a partaker in its brightest hopes, or its most agonizing fears. He is the confidant of its dearest secrets, and the stay and comforter of its darkest hours. How his heart rejoices with those whom his art restores again to health and strength ; with the sufferer for long years, relieved by the surgeon's knife ; or with the young parents filled with unspeakable joy at the music of the new-born babe ! How the soul is stirred in sympathy within him, as he beholds the maniac clothed again in the panoply of reason, and welcomed to a mother's bosom or a father's arms of protecting love. Alas, the physician must turn from scenes of delight like these, to watch the step of the destroyer, noiseless and resistless, day by day ; to see that pallid shade steal over the lace of a friend, perhaps a life-long and devoted companion, to whom he must an nounce the sentence of departure ; and when all is over, to mingle his grief with the orphan's sorrow, at the edge of the opened grave. Dealing with the most solemn, the most mysterious and sacred problem of mortal life, and privileged beyoud all others in the knowledge of the bodies of men around us, can it be possible that our task is wholly done when we have wrought with our hands upon the body, like some artisan ad justing the wheels of some inert machine? Is it all to physic orcaive the body of man as a mere animal, regardless of his nobler part, like unto the jeweller who engraves his gold? No, the noblest minds of the profession have ever felt that the moral influence of the physician is inseparable from his heal ing art. Not a few in our crowded towns, or in secluded country homes, rarely attend Christian worship, and to them the face of the medical visitor is as the countenance of a missionary of good the most elevated influence that reaches them, in the midst, perhaps, of ignorance, poverty or wretched ness. The moral influence of the physician must be an enormous social force. It radiates by the bedside, and attends upon his footsteps in his daily rounds. By its purity and devotion to the loftiest interest of man, it will lift fellow-men to higher and nobler lives ; or alas ! in its pride and vanity, it will deaden the faith and chill the hopes of those whose bodies he would cure. But the moral influence of the physi cians of our land must be inyoked, for its exercise on a wider plane than ever, for the preservation of society against the inroads of doctrines that threaten to reduce all limits and conditions, and all law, human or Divine, to chaos. Since it is under the pre tence of demonstration by anatomical science that materialism is preparing to rend asunder the bonds of society, a special responsibility has fallen upon the profes sion to rebuke these plunderers of the heritage of faith, and with due humility, but unflinching courage, to defend the treasures of revelation and eternal hope. The moral plague has already reached the shores of America, and unlike its physical prototype, finds its victims first among the cultured, and the men of great, if unsymmetrical learning. From the ex traordinary freedom of our social economy, it must be expected to spread with more or less rapidity, and perhaps to reach an enormous development in the coming gen eration. When a whole people shall believe, if the materialists succeed, that they are but special and elevated beasts, born of the ancestry of the brute, and destined to die the death of the beast, unto utter annihila tion, then will they complete the logical chain, and liye the life of the beasts that perish. Humanity sickens at the contem plation of such a world as would inevitably result. Who knows but that this day which seems to us so lull of excitement and ex cess and feverish unrest, years to come may be looked upon as the golden era of content I What indeed would become of whatsoever things are of good report, in an age which regarded the theories of materi alism as the highest truth! What would be -the wild pulse of a world lashed to fever heat, in the mere dread and terrible struggle for existence, that the fittest, that is the fiercest and most brutal, may sur vive. What a dissolving panorama of the destruction of the noblest monument of man rises before the mind. Religon, litera ture, philanthropy and art slowly vanish away confidence leaving the marts of trade; humanity deserting the hospitals to loneliness and desolation ; justice tearing the bandage from her eyes and yielding her embrace to the strongest might, aye, and last of all, love no longer fed by the charities of life, farewell to the households of earth, leaving the world, at last, the paradise of beasts. In America your profession stands at the head of the social scale. What great er work can it achieve than to meet the infection on the threshold ? This plague can do its deadly work only through moral corruption. You, whose hands are dedicated to the healing of fellow-man, have the prophylactic in your charge. No higher duty can enlist jour efforts through life. And in that final hour of your pilgrimage on earth a pilgrimage devoted to the alleviation of suffering and distress as you approach to put on that robe of im mortality, which the materialist dreads more than he despises, there will mingle with the grateful prayers of relieved humanity on earth, the cheering announcement from the great Physician of souls, whose truths you have believed and whose commands you have obeyed, Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.' " Freedom of Opinion in the North. The South has been held up to the exe cration of the world by the Republican press, and by Republican orators, who year in and year out have charged that she bulldozed and suppressed opinion. They are never tired in repeating and revamping this charge, and they are constantly pro claiming that it is the mission of the Re publican party to secure in the South the guarantee of equal rights to all, irrespective of color, creed or condition. If the Re publican newspapers and orators would turn to their own section they could find plenty to do in correcting the terrible despotism that exists preventing anything like freedom of opinion. Alluding to this fact, a New England paper, the Providence Rhode Island Democrat, asserts that "There is absolutely more freedom in the matter of voting in the South than in New England. Here the system in force for generations has turned the population into three classes: First, the smallest, the capitalists and large employers; second, the moderately independent persons ; third, the laboring and debtor people, being by far the largest class, and that which would control affairs if it had liberty to vote as it wished. But the property of this class, to an extent unknown anywhere else in the United States, is mortgaged to the others, and generations of experience have shown that the New England creditor is the most detestable tyrant in existence. He insists upon owning the soul of the debtor, as well as his property. Election day comes and capital goads and governs, debt and labor shiver and submit. This is no fancy picture of affairs, in the region whence comes the charge of bulldozing against Southern men. It took five years of un paralleled and almost unendurable hardship among the laborers and small property holders of Maine to bring them in 1878 to that point at which they dared to say they had souls of their own. The extensive manufacturing interests of Massachusetts and Rhode Island control the votes of thousands of dependent men whose necessi ties delay the possibility of change." Now, let us hear no more of 'Southern Bulldozing" and the "Suppression of Opin ion." Let the efforts of the Republican party be exerted in lifting the tyranny that exists in New England, and when that is accomplished it will be time enough for it to decry the "despotism", of the South ; but until then let it be silent. Norfolk Virginian. ICE CREAM PERR YS At Smoke PERRY'S Bouquet Cigars the best 5 cent Cigars ever sold in this market the rich man's luxury, the poor man's solace, the traveler's favorite. THE CHINA PALACE OP JOHN BROOKFIELD & CO., China Dinner and Tea Sets, Bohemian Vases and Toilet Sets, China Motto Cups and Saucers and Mugs, Lava Smoking Sets, Boxes. Busts, &c, Fancy Wine and Liquor Sets, Dolls, fine selection of Iridcs coat Glass. Silver and Silver Plated Ware In great variety. Fancy Work Stands, Boxes and Baskets, Chinese and Japanese Fancy Goods, Parian Marble Busts, etc ; Alarm, Parlor and Sti ik ing Clocks, Brackets, Frames, Wall-Pockets, Baby Carriages and Wagons, etc., etc. Come and see us and we will give you bargains. Wholesale Buyers Will do well to call. We have on hand a full Stock of Crockery, Glassware, Lamp Goods, Tin ware, etc. Fancy Goods at Wholesale. Orders by mail promptly executed. Very respectfully, JOHN BROOKFIELD & CO., Trade Street. AT RIGLER'S Candies Both Plain and Fancy. We claim that we have as good if not better than you will find elsewhere, and at prices as low if not lower than you can buy the same in the city. Fli UITS, Nuts, Raisins. Citron and Currants, and Seedless Raisins for your Christmas Cake. The best assortment of Plain and Fancy Crackers ever brought to the city. CANNED GOODS of all descriptions. Here is the place to buy your CAKES AND BREAD, as we make a specialty of Cakes. Come &nd sec us Respectfully. D. M. RIGLER. TAILORING. John VogeL, Practical Tailor, Respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country, that he is prepared to manu facture gentleman's clothing in the latest style and at short notice. His best exertions will be given to render satisfaction to those who patronize him. Shop opposite old Charlotte Hotel. January 1, 1878. luvv " nee io see that they have deeUe.l to let u aloi " ' after the Fall elections are hel 1 "m q''1'1 Maine and Indiana. Tln-se State l.-a.l " and they propose to throw all their spe , ' there for the present. The North Carol' delegates present were William P Canii "1 T. N. Cooper, T. 1$. Keogh, A. Hk-k. J. Young, Thomas Power, E. Huhh,' j Molt and others. The New Yoik '1 bune says that "most of the S utli, States were repteseiitid l.y HepuM who have kept the faHi through all trials of 15 years. The get eral hentimj! among mese men w tiun wiiue they J'i(j not want their section to he cut adrift liv the Republicans of the North as hojH-lesslV in the power of the rt bel Democracy, t.. could give no encouragement of success a, the result of any amount of tffort iherv Florida was the only State where a pros. pect of Republican victory was held out One or two Congressional Districts in y,N ginia, two in North Carolina and tuoj,, South Carolina were said to be worth roi,. testing." For the Senate. Many citizens of Mecklenburg county would In pleased at the nomination of AKMISTEAD lil'lt WELL, Esq.. to represent the county in lUe Slim Senate. It is understood that he will accept tt, nomination if tendered ban without his eleciiunitr ing for it. August 6, 1880 For Sheriff. MARSHAL E. ALEXANDER will cominuetrt serve the people of Mecklenburg as Sheriff if re. quested to do so by a democratic county conven tion. He has been a faithful, honest officer, and many citizens of the county desire his re-election July SO. 1880 For Treasurer. The friends of Capt. S. E. BELK want him to continue m charge of County funds, and hereby an nounce him as a candidate for re-election as Treas urer of Mecklenburg. July 30, 1880 For Treasurer. T. L. VAIL, who for several years has wmilj the people as Chairman of the Board of L'aunty. Commissioners, will accept the office f County Treasurer if nominated by the democratic counts convention of Mecklenburg. July 30, 1880. Announcement Wm. Maxwell, the old faithful officer,. an nounced as a candidate for re-election to the office of Register of Deeds for Mecklenburg county subject to the decision of a Democratic county con vention. . July 30, 1880. Announcement. The friends of J. SOL. REID announce hitn as a candidate for the dffice of Register of Deeds of Mecklenburg county. July 23, 1880. For Coroner. "We, voters of this county, would respectfully announce to the citizens that we would be pleased to have W. N. ALEXANDER re-nominated for Coroner of Mecklenburg, in the coming campaign, and believe he will give satisfaction to a large majority of CITIZENS. Aug. 6, 1880. Announcement. Please suggest as a candidate for Cot oner the name of C. 8. Sturgeon, who is a one-legged ex Confederate soldier and deserves the suffrage of the people. CITIZENS. June 4, 1880. tf . ANOTHER AND GREATER DECLINE. You can now get DRESS GOODS worth 75 cents for 50 cents ; 50 cents for 33 cents ; 37 cents for 25 cents, with cheaper and more costly goods in same proportion. Great reduction in Calicoes, Lawns & Embroideries. Great bargaines in Fancy Hosiery, reduced from $1.25 to $1 ; from $1 to 75 cents , from 75 cents to 50 cents ; from 50 cents to 37 cents. Big decline in Bleached and Brown Domestics and Sheetings. Give us a call, for we are determined to sell t'n'.r Goods at very low prices, in many cases at less tbi first cost. Men and Boy's will find a good line of Straw Hats, To be sold at Cost. We have also some stylish Cheviot Suits, That will be sold cheap. T. L. 8EIGLE & CO. June 4. 1880. MOSQUITOES Are very bad, and the only way to sleep with any comfort is to call on us and get a Canopy Net, Or you can get the Bobinet and Bars for inhkinjj them voureelves. We have a very cheap lot of Dress Goods. ALEXANDER & IIAHHIS. July 16, 1880. . Mosquito Canopies, Both White and Pink ; als, Mosquito Bars rtaJy made, just received at BARRINGER & TROTTER'S. July 9, 1880. Just Received - AT LeROY DAVIDSON'S The largest and most complete STOCK f Heavy and Fancy Groceries In the City. Flour, Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrup, Grits, Tobacco, Lard, Cigars, Can Goods, Candy, Oranges and Lemons, and everything found in the Grocery line, -Wholesale and Retail. Call and get your bargains. LeROY DAVIDSON. May 28, 1880. FIRE AND LIFE Insurance Agency. Established in 1854. Now Representing LONDON ASSURANCE, 1 (doinjbusiness since 1720,) Engli8llCompankv- LANCASHIRE, - - J " Insurance Company of NortU America" "Fireman's Fund," "Georgia Home," " Howard," 44 Atlas," " Lynchburg," " Niagara," "Old North State." E. NYE HUTCHISON & SOX, AOENTrf Office corner of College and 4h Street Charlotte, N. V May 1, 1880. Cook Book Free, Everybody can now learn to cook. Call for tli latest out. No charge for it at Da. T. C. SMITH'S July 2, 1880. Drug Store.