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THE DEMOCRAT. WM. J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Friday, December 10, 1880. Important State Matters. Being absent last week, we did not Lave an op portunity to express an opinion in our last issue about some public matters in which all the citizens (lf the State are interested. At present we will briefly allude to two subjects, and make further comments when the Legislature meets. The proposition of the holders of what are known a9 the "Construction State Bonds" (Bonds issued by the State to aid the building of the N. C. Kail road, and for the payment of which the State' stock in that Road ia responsible,) should not be accepted by the Legislature, even if the State Com missioners have endorsed It It seems that the Construction Bondholders (mainly Messrs. Branch of Virginia, and New York capitalists,) ask the State to redeem the Bonds at par held by them by issuing new six per cent State Bonds, with coupons payable for taxes. It would be unfair and nnjust to do that for two reasons : The State is now set tling Us old public debt at 15, 25 and 40 cents on the dollar with four per cent Bonds, audit would not be right to pay par for another class of Bonds by issuing six per cent Bonds to any other class of creditors, not even to save the State's stock in the Kailroad from being appropriated to pay its lawful debt. And it would be unjust at present to levy an additional tax to pay six per cent interest on about $2,750,000 for any purpose, at least not until the old State debt is paid according to agreement- If the State issues more Bends and makes the coupons a legal tender for taxes, our State Treas urer will soon have his Vault full of paper coupons, and no money to pay current State expenses. Then, State taxes would have to be largely increased to pay for carrying on the State government, or pay ment suspended by the Treasurer. Rather than issue more Bonds let the State's interest in the Kailroad be taken possession of by the Construc tion Bondholders. The State has already lost con trol of the Road, and is now only a nomioal stock holder, without power to exercise a controlling in fluence in its management. If the Commissioners can make no better terms with the Bondholders than those recently an nounced, their further services should be dispensed with. Before the Commission was appointed to inquire what terms could be made with the Con struction Bondholders, the Bonds were dull sale at 52 to CO cents on the dollar now, because our Legislature seemed willing to make some settle ment of the debt, the Bondholders demand the face value of their Bonds, 100 cents. The fact is, the Commission was appointed under the impres sion that the Construction Bonds could be funded at 0 ) cents on the dollar with a new five per cent Stale Bond. We do not know that the Commis sion favors the proposition to issue new six per cent Bonds to take up the old Construction Bonds, or that any State officer approves it ; but we think we express the sentiment of nine-tenths of the tax-payers of the State when we say that wo are utterly opposed to any such scheme being endorsed by the Legislature. - The other matter we now want to mention is, the proposed lease to the Wilmingten & Weldon Road of the Atlantic & N. C. Road (running from Goldsboro to Morehead City.) We approve of the course of Gov. Jarvis in preventing the lease at the late meeting of stockholders by withdrawing the State's proxy from the meeting. As the State holds a majority of the stock, the Governor very properly thought the matter of lease should be re ferred to the Legislature soon to assemble. Speak ing of the stockholders meeting held in Newbern on the 23d of Nov., and the proposition to lease the Road, the "Newbernian" says : "After discussion, and when a decisive vote was imminent, the State's Proxy declared the views of the Governor. The State owns about $1,300,000, and private stockholders about $500,000. The Governor thinks that, as the General Assembly will convene in forty days, and as a lease for 20 or 30 years is equivalent to a sale, for a generation at least, no disposition ought to be made of the State's interest except through the General Assembly which represents the people who own this large amount of stock. The Slate's Proxy then with drew, and the meeting was dissolved. We heartily endorse the action of the Governor, and believe that a very large majority of the people of Craven county, probably three-fourths, will concur. In fact the number in the county who favor the lease, is made up of a certain class of soreheads who would not be averse to giving the Road away in order to put the present efficient administration on the same footing with themselves t. e. among the "outs." It is a significant fact, too, that these men have been bitter opponents of Gov. Jarvis ever since he assumed the functions of the Executive ojhee why ? The reason is well known, es pecially In thia community, and the little word "put" together with some leaser matters which may be thoroughly ventilated if the subject should be Introduced in the Legislature, explains their whole course." A N. C. Novel. A Raleigh letter in the Wadesboro Times says : "Among the literary events of the coming season will be the. publication of a novel by Maj. John W. Moore. Messrs. Edwards, Broughton & Co. have it in press. It is entitled "The Ileirs of St. Kilda," and is a picture of "times grown gray and old" in the Sunny South. It is charmingly dedicated in verse to his friend Dr. Eugene Grissom. It is a compliment worthy of both as the book is said to be Maj. Moore's best production. Readers who have observed the poetic talent of the author, and Jis' unquestioned powers of narao'n as' displayed, jn the History of North Carolina, wfll look with interest to the isaue of this work." Innumerable Vagrants. The city has a very stringent vagrant ordinance; and yet there fare vagrants without number within its corporate lim it. They are mostly colored people and they stand around the street corners all day, and at night go, nobody knows where. Two citizens who were discussing the matter a day or two since stood on the street corner and counted twenty-one negro inen, strong and capable of he aeYeregt abor, who We'rp known ci be- doing nothing for a support, ft is a most opportune time to commence a rigid enforcement of the law. Daily Observer. you are exactly right. - asnt rl Hew Advertisements. Engines and Cotton PressesLiddelJ & Co., Char lotto, N. C. Notice to Mecklenburg county Magistratcs.Ww. hltixwdl CJlcrlc Catawba High School at Newton Clapp & Foil. Principals. Christmas Goods, &c, at the Rising Sun Store op posite the Old Market C. S. Holton. Administrator's Notice John C. Burroughs, Ad ministrator of John L. Caldwell. Administrators' Sale J. R. Morris and W. C. Max well, Adm'rs. Toys and Christmas Goods generally D. M. Rigler. Seasonable Goods T. L. Seigle & Co. Latest Arrival of Goods Elias & Cohen. New Dry Goods Hargraves & Wilhelm. Special for Christmas Wittkowsky & Baruch. fyadfield's Regulator For sale by Charlotte Drug: gists. Congress and the President's Message. The last session of the 46th Coneress met on Monday the 6th inst, and wLl continue until the 4th of March next, when a new Congress and new Administration takes charge of the Government With a few exceptions, and especially the mis representation by President Hayes of the condition or attairs in the South, his Message is fair and cred itable. He intimates that elections in the Southern States are not free and fair, and that Congress should make investigations, &c. If the President would include Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsyl vania and New York in his proposed inventigation. it would look fair; but to expose the intimidation of white voters' by their employers in Northern States would not exactly suit the purposes of Radicalism. The President pitches into Mormon ism and poly gamy in Utah, but fails to say anything about the adulterous New Englanders and the wholesale di vorce business now carried on in their midst, where the marriage vow is as loosely observed and handled as it is in Utah. His recommendation for reform in the civil ser vice of the Government is commendable, and Con gress ought to adopt his recommendation in that respect, even if he, himself, has not practiced what he preaches. He recommends that the commander of the Fed eral armies during the late war (meaning Gen. Grant) be made a "Captain-General" and pensioned and pampered accordingly. Gen. Grant now has an income of $7,000 a year, besides many presents. The President reports the finances of the Gov ernment in splendid condition, with a surplus in the Treasury of about sixty-five millions of dollars. No Tax Receipt, No Vote. It is estimated that there are not less than eighteen hundred men in Granville county who vote regu larly at every election, and yet who do not pay one cent towards supporting the government, either on poll or property. Of this large number, at least nine tenths are colored. This is a startling state ment, aud one which demands some prompt action at the hands of the coming Legislature. This pa per proposes to place itself fairly and squarely upon this issue, and demand some remedy for this alarming state of affairs. We take the broad and unmistaken ground that no man, white or black, should be permitted to cast a ballot who has not first paid his poll tax and can show his receipt for the same. The Legislature cannot pass such a measure, but it can submit the question to the people in the form of a Constitutional Amendment, to be voted upon at the next election, and though we may ex pect to see it opposed as a unit by the radical-negro party, yet we believe a majority of the people of North Carolina would approve and endorse such a proposition at the polls. This measure is in force in Virginia and many other States. It works well, and, while putting all men on a true equality, it adds largely to the revenue of the State. Oxford Free Lance. Those who pay no taxes shouTd not be permitted to vote and impose burdens on those who do pay taxes. It is no mere political or partisan matter it is a question of right and wrong and every hon est man in the State, white or black, Democrat or Republican, is interested, and especially interested in making all voters bear their fair share in defray ing public expenses. Why should one man be made to pay a tax, while another is permitted to escape without contributing one cent to the Gov ernment which he helps to elect by his vote? Re publicans who pay taxes should Join Democratic tax-payers in demanding a law requiring all voters to pay a poll tax at least or quit voting. If it dis franchises white men as well as negroes, let it do so it will be fair and right to all classes. County Matters. The Board of Mecklenburg Commissioners, as newly constituted, assembled on Monday last. The Board i composed of T. T. Sandifer, R. M. White. Jno. R. Morris and Thos. Gluyas White and Gluyas being new members. There is a vacancy, caused by the resignation of T. L. Vail, which will be filled by the Magistrates on the first Monday in January. The Clerk of the Inferior Court was allowed half fees ($277 92) for insolvent State cases tried at November term. Jail fees for the month of Nov. ($135.70) was ordered to be paid. $10.50 was al lowed to Rufus Barringer, attorney, for services concerning the county fence. The Coroner was allowed fees ($18.40) for holding inquest over Wm. Biggers, and Dr. Wilder $20 for post mortem ex amination. And other bills and accounts to the amount of about $500 were audited and ordered to be paid. A meeting of the Magistrates of the county was ordered to be held on the first Monday in January to elect a Commissioner in place of T. L. Vail. The County Board of Education authorized and directed the ' county Treasurer to pay out of the school fund in his hands all outstanding oiders given by the School Committee to teachers during the year 1880,. P. W. Ahren., Asa George and R. M. White were appointed a committee to examine the flues and heating apparatus in the jil and put them in proper order. A. G. Neel, Thos. P. Grier and Edward Grier were appointed a committee to order the location of a colored school house in school district No. 11, in Steel Creek Township. This meeting being the first for the coming year, the Bonds of County Officers were presented and accepted as follows : Wm. Maxwell's bond for $5,000 as Register of Deeds, with John L. Rea and J. R. Baker as sure ties. J. W. Cobb was sworn in as Deputy Reg ister. - ' Tte bo.fld. flf S. JJ. Bclk, Gounty Treasurer, in the sum of $85,000 for the safe keeping of the county fund, with R. Y. McAden, J. H. McAden, H. G. Springs, W. R. Myers, D. W. Oates and John L. Brown as sureties, was accepted. The Treas urer also gave a bond of $15,000, with R. M. Oates, M. P. Pegram and M. M. Orr as sureties, for the safe keeping of the school fund. The official bond of M. E. Alexander, Sheriff for $10,000, with A. G. Tracer and H. T. Rbyne as sureties, w.as approved. Jno. R. Erwin, Clerk of the Superior. Court, ten dered his bond in the sum of $10,000 w-ltlj J. J. Price, M. P. Pegram, Wm. Majcwell, Thos. Gjier and f. Lee Ewjn, as sureties; which was accepted. J. S. Means presented his bond. as one of the Constables for Charlotte Township in the sum of $3,QQQ, with R- R- Men M. Bs Means as sureties, which was aecepted. The official bond of W. N, Alexander, Coroner, ju the sum of $2,000, with R. tt. White aud T. K. Sammonds as sureties, was accepted. The following persons were drawn to serve as Jurors at February term of the Inferior Court : R F Christenbury, Geo S Hunter, J M Estridge, C J Biggers, S S Caldwell, T M McCall, Thos J King, Larkin Forbes. U J Cathey, B O Ballard, T J Byrum, J W Potts, John Spratt, M T Oehler, John II Saddler, W M Mills, J E Griffith, A A Gar rison, .1 Woods Henderson, W M Wilson, L W De Anno :id. M A Alexander, Jno H McDonald, D K ! . UT nl. 1 , TV) T. f fr-c- YC TT Martin 'T ii Alexander, Jas H Carson. Judge Scheiick and Pamlico Superior Court A complete vindication, of his conduct. In this part of the State, where Judge Schenck is well known as prompt and faithful In. discharging his Judicial duties, persona of all classes friends, acquaintances and even enemies were surprised to hear through the Kinston Journal and Goldsboro Messenger, and papers which copied from them, charges against the Judge for not properly attend ing to his duty as Judge at the Court House in Bayboro, Pamlico county. But it will be seen by the following letter of the Solicitor of the First Dis trict, the certificate of the Clerk of Pamlico Supe rior Court, and the letter of James E. Shepherd and George H. Brown, Attorneys at" Law, that Judge Schenck did his work as well and promptly as it was possible to do under the peculiar circuin stances which surrounded him and his Court. State papers which have published or alluded to the charges against Judge Schenck are respectfully requested to copy this article, or the letters and certificate below : Washington, N. C, Dec. 1st, 1880 As Solicitor of '-the First District, I was present at the Superior Court held for Pamlico county at Bayboro, Fall Term, 1880 Hon. David Schenck, Judge, presiding. Judge Schenck arrived at Bayboro about sunset on Monday of the Term, having traveled a distance of 42 miles from Washington that day. . The Court was opened at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and every case on the Criminal Docket dis posed of. The Judge then asked me, in open Court, if there was any further business for the state. 1 replied there was no further business. The Civil Docket was then taken up and called, and the Jury trials disposed of and the Jurors were discluirged. The weather was extremely cold, and the Court House neither ceiled nor plastered, and not enough fire to keep the Court room warm, and the Judge adjourned the Court to his room at the Hotel a nd disposed of several motions on argument before him. There being no further business known to the Judge, he ordered his conveyance to leave about 2 o'clock, and just as he was about to start I inform ed him what I had just learned was a fact, that there was a prisoner in Jail charged with larceny. The practice on the Circuit was not to try indict ments at the first term, and the Judge told me to let him give bail if there was a true bill, and then left for Washington. C. W. Grand?, bohcitor. I was present at the Court and concur in the above statement. W. L. Caiio, Attorney. State of North Carolina, ) Superior Court, Pamlico County, J Fall Term, 1880. I, J. H. Miller, Clerk of the Superior Court of' Pamlico, do hereby certify that Hon. David Schenck, Judge, presided at a regular term of said Court, held for said County, on the eighth Monday after the fourth Monday in September, A. D., 1880, and remained at said Court until all legal business teas disposed of. In testimony whereof, 1, the said J. II. Miller, Clerk of the said Court, do hereunto set my hand and affix the sea! of the said Court. Done at my Office, at the Court House Seal. in Bayboro, Pamlico county, N. C , Novem ber 23d, 1880. J. H. Miller, C. S. C. Washington, N. C, Nov. 29, 1880. lion. David Schenck, Judge Presiding 1st Dist. : Dear Sir : We regret that any one should have done you the injustice of reflecting on you for not opening the Fall Term of Pamlico Court on Monday of the Term. We know the facts to be these : The Superior Court of Hyde county, which preceded Pamlico, did not close until 7J o'clock on the night of Friday the 19th November ; you had wade arrangements to leave next morning in an ojf.en sail boat, with no shelter nor protection upon it, and it was very cold and there was every appearance of stormy weather on the Pamlico Sound, through which you were to pass. Observ ing these circumstances, we urged you earnestly not to risk the water route but to take a seat in our conveyance and go by land. You consented to this, and we left "Swan (Quarter, the county seat of Hyde county, that night about 8 o'clock, and traveled thirteen miles that we might reach Wash ington Saturday evening, and Pamlico Court House Sunday. In this you were disappointed by being delayed at the Broad Creek bridge, which was un dergoing repairs, for several hours, and by the heavy rains all day Saturday. lou did not reach Washington until Sunday evening, and on Monday morning as early as possi ble you lett Washington man open buggy and traveled all day through sno v and sleet, reaching Pamlico Court House, forty-two miles distant, at sundown, as we are informed. It was impossi ble for you without traveling night as well as day, through cold and inclement weather, to have reached the Court House in time to have opened Court on Monday.- Respectfully, James E. Shepherd, Attorney. George II. Brown, Attorney. U. S. risTRicT Court. This Court meets in this city on Monday next. Judge Dick will pre side. The Jurors are. summoned to attend on Tuesday. The Piedmont and Arlington Life Insur ance Company of Virginia has failed. Not much pro?pect for Policy-holders to realize anything from their investments. They ought to su,e the Directors individually and, colleptively for not pro perly discharging their duties, ami then let them show whether they did or not. Many of the Direc tors in Insurance Companies and Banks are know nothings or "dead-heads" so far aa a correct knowl edge of the management and operations of their institutions are concerned, and when one of the establishments break every Director should Le sued, and give all a chance to prove whether they properly discharged the duties entrusted to them by stockholders. If "Directors" were held indi vidually responsible, there would be fewer broken Companies of any sort. Some one, sometime, will find out that it is no small matter to accept a Di rectorship in an Insurance Company, or Bank,' or other institutions. - : ...iTtV.-- " The Lqtteriss and thk Mails.- Washington, Dec. 0. It ia said that the Postmaster-General has determined to in clude the Louisiana Lottery Company in the list of concerns to which the privileges of the mails are refused. This is the only lottery company whose letters have been permitted to pass through the mails for several months past. If the Postmaster-General does that he ought to receive the thanks pf every honest man in the country and, of all who are op posed to swindling. -. A Colored Democrat Kckluxeq.- Fred Shaw, a weU-known colored man of WhUe ei and a staunch Democrat, was kukluxed on last Saturday n'ght, about one mile below Whiteville Depot, and badly injured. He was set upon by two men of his own race and cut and badly beaten. He would probably have been killed had he not succeeded in making his escape from them. As it is he is very badly injured, al though his life is not thought to be endan gered. The assailants will most likely be captured aud if so they will get all the law allows them. Wilmington Review. Inasmuch as President Hayes, in his Mes sage, has much to say against obstructing the right to ote aa ore pleases, his atten tion is called to the above case where his peculiar fiiends are involved. - A Carious Meteor. A correspondent of the Statesville Landmark gives, the following . description of a wonderful meteor seen in Iredell county on the night f the ;'. -,"A meteor of surpassing brightiifs wa een about midnight of the 1st isstant about 8 miles east of Statesville. It made everything1 very light about the premises Of the observer. It had the shape of a huge spotted serpent,, 7$ yards Joug, as lanie as a pine tree, with eyes very, distinct and mouth open toward the north pole. About ten feet back from the head it seemed- to rest on the sky and the head part to be elevated; tun a little fur ther back it was - raised in a kind: of .loop, and the tail reached down toward the tops of the trees. It was seen by the man and his famUy" about a half hour, and then it gradually passed away. The observer thought that it portended some terrible calamity, and was very, much frightened. We would like to hear a report from any other ob server of the same phenomenon. Webave heard of other observers in the count? of Rowan." 1MB E3F" We hail with satisfaction the progress that gives to Wilmington, Charlotte, Charleston ard other Southern points a closer connection wi' a .Northern trade centres, but we protest against lie incomplete, arrangement which cot only excludes us irom similar benents but actually places us ic a worse condition than we were before. llaltigh uuserver. Wedoubt very much about the "fast . mail" beirg any benefit to Charlotte. The fast N -rthern mail is brought here at midnight, and of conrse it is not delivered until next morning, just as the other mails are openea ana -aMverea. i ue "laht mail ' m a nuisance to other passenger trains on the N. C, Railroad, or has been on several occasions. The regular passenger and mail train is compelled to wait at the Charlotte Junction - sometimes one or two hours for the so-called "fast mail" to arrive and deliver its mail bags. It is not very pleasant for passengers to have to wait at the "Junction," within sight of Charlotte, one or two hours in the night for-other trains, and especially when the "fast mail? is one hour or two behind. A Union Depot is badly needed here. Cannot something be done to remedy the grievances and annoyances this City' is subjected to by the want of necessary local Rail load accommodations. Or, at least, cannot something be done to afford shelter at the different Depots for passengers who have to wait for the arrival and departure of trains. oi Correspondence of the Ciarlotte Democrat. Chapel IIill, Nov. 25th, 1880. We propose savins: a word about the N. C. Uni versity Law School. Three things make a Law School : A good instructor, a situati u invitms: to study and a nimble-witted class. Or these in inverse order. The class: Its dozen members leave their history to be written by the future. The situation : Disguise it as we may men are the creatures of circumstance. Gaiety is conta gious. There has been no reception, entertainment. 3oirie, musical matinee nor cantata within twelve miles of Chapel IIill, to the personal knowledge of the writer, in the past six years. Young men like to be fashionable. The fashion here is to study. Young irien study. We are, too, in a learned at mosphere. Else.where the salutation is: "Good morumg, how is Miss Jones?" - Uere it is : "How is Matt. 1"' Thirty thousand books are at the com mand of students. Four hundred dollars worth of books has just, been added to the Society Libraries. Law students join the Debating Societies. The cheapness of living at Chapel Hill ia proverbial. The instructor at present is Hon. Kemp P. Battle. Sufficiently advanced in years to have learned the old, young enough to know the new law, kind, patient,;th.orough, incapable of fatigue, the class of 1881 hatstrbme to know him and to love him. Chancery. State Auditor's Report. The report of the State Auditor for the fiseaWyear ending Sept. 30th, 1880, is com pleted and will in a few days go to the printer'sjiands. From the report we gather many points of interest, which we give be low ; The receipts from all sources for. the year were $546,796.04, and the disbursements were $492,720.34. Among the items in the receipts are the following: Drummers' licenses, $42,300 fer tilizer licenses, $24,000 ; general tax, includ ing tax on banks, $208,220.80 ; income tax, only $2,602.48; insane asylum, special tax, $94,241.15 ; penitentiary, special tax, $92, S60.48; insurance companies, $15,181.04; merchants' tax, $18,256.21 ; sewing ma chines, $2,400; three-fourths tax on pur chases of liquor8, $12,329.49; Western North Carolina Kailroad, $10,041.67. On the disbursement side we find the fol lowing items among the others : Agricultur al department, $24,697.07; Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Kailroad, $30,000; commu tation for loss of eyesight, etc., $1,370 ; fugi tives from justice, $1,315; convict account, $9,0S&62; ' General Assembly, $17,0.95.70 Insane Asylum at Raleigh, support account, $40,QQ0 ; Western Insane Asylum at Mor gantpn, $30,000; Colored Insane Asylum at Uoldsbbro, $22,500 ; Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution, $24,375 ; interest on mortgage bonds of the Western North Carolina Kail road, $58,4S5 ; judiciary, $38,213.83; out side lunatics, only $115; Oxford Orphan Asylum, $3,000; penitentiary, $103,000; publio printing, $7,901.85 ; Western North Carolina Railroad, $30,747.06. The gross amount of State taxes collected was $431,687.92 ;; school taxes, $342,290.68; county taxes, $1,309,714.66. The number of acres land returned was 26,823,511 j value, $83,034,885; value ol town lots, $18,764,539 j aggregate value of real estate, $JQI, 709,424. ( The number of horses was 137,133, value $5,871,006; mules 81,021, value $3,850,285; cattle 678,311, value $3,844,964 ; hogs 1,530, 403, value $1,703,245; sheep 582,468, value $521,345, The value of farming utensils was $10, 124,553 ; money on hand, $3,106,076; sol vent credits, $13,518,809; stock in incorpor ated companies, $893,819; other personal property, $892,582 ; aggregate value of all these, $38,531,897. There were 18,G1Q white polls, and 56, 028 colared pedis.. The following school taxes were collected: Tax oa licensed retailers, $2.5,944.59; on W'hite polls, $120,06.8,76 on oolored polls, $57,232.42; Sjf oenta on total valuation of real and personal property, $133,576.87. Comparing the above with the report of eight Years ago, we find that during that period the valuation of land has been in creased $13,500,000, or twenty per cent ; the increased value of town lots is six mil lions, or fifty per cent. The number of horses and mules has increased 46,000, being 25 per cent. Sheep have increased only 10 per cent. The value of farming implements was then $2,500,000; now it is over ten mil' lions dollars, an increase of 300 per cent. Then only 82,000 whites paid a poll tax, now 118,610 list themselves, for taxation. Then 39,500 negro.es listed, now 56,000 of therj pay their taxes. The entire amount collected by way of taxes reaches $2,082, 700, of which the counties spend two-thirds, the schools one-sixth, and the State about one-fifth. Raleigh Observer, Cotton Receipts. Trade. &c f Condensed from the N. Y. Financial Chronicle. . For the week ending Dec 3d, the total receipts reached 218,341 bales, against 205, 192 bales last week, 256,618 bales the pre vious weeK, ana i5,42,Da!e$ three weeks sine?, making the total receipts 'since the 1st of Sent.. 1880. 2.538.057 BaIa- 2,351,165 bales for the same period of 1879, showing an' increase since Sept. 1, 1880. of ioo,oyz uaies. ' The exports for the week reached a total of 147,360 bales, of which 83,76 were to vireai Juntatn. 23.557 to F rance, and 40 nao. to rest of the Continent, while the stocks ... on nana are yuo,09 bales. From the forpfoinrr gtatpmpiit it will Ti seen that, compared with the corresponding week of last season, there is a decrease in the exports of 1,408 bales, while the stocks on nana are zuu,3UG Dales more than they were a una ume a year ago. . Graix. Chicacro. Dec 6. T1ip Wlin in uram ana 1 rovisions. which Utplv t in aggregates a value approximating $1,- 1 - rww. - rrl t i . ? ' 1 u,uuu. j. uere was a decline ot nearly one cent in Wheat this morning and all other grains were weak. Provisions were decided ly lower. Destructive Fire at iAurinbur. A very disastrous fire occurred atLaurin burg, Richmond county, on Moidsy even ing, the 7th inst. It originated in the store of Mr T. A. McDougald, dealer in general merchandise, and in consequence, of no water supply, the flames spread until the entire East side of Main street, comprising the business portion of the town, (twenty-six buildings in all,) was destroyed. All of the merchants saved the greater portion of their stocks, but in a badly damaged condition. It is impossible, at this writing, to ascer tain the extent of the damage or to arrive at an accurate estimate of the value of the property destroyed, but it will approximate $30,000, (mostly insured.) The Carolina Central Railroad shops were saved by per sistent effort on the part of the people, and especially the employes of the shops. The damage to the shops, enclosures and con tiguous buildings belonging to the Com pany, will probably amount to $175. The fire was evidently the work of an incen diary, as no fire was left in the store when closed early after sunset. Enterprise. MARRIED. In this county. Morning Star Townshin. on the 2d inst.. bv Rev. J. W. Ahrnfthv Mr U T Kimn. son and Miss L. E. Fisher, daughter of Mr Philip nsuer. In Qaston county. n the 8th inst.. bv Rer. J. J. Kennedy, Mr D. P. McGill and Miss Sallie L. Huff- stetler. On the 1st inst. in Yemassee. 8. C. Mr Edward 8. Trapier and Miss Gertrude, youngest daughter of me late lion. wm. 1. ttaywood of Kalelgb, N.C. In Cleaveland. Ohio, on the 23d ult.. Col. R. W. Pulliam of Asheville, N. C, and Mrs. Peebles. On the 3d inst., Mr Andrew Heedick. Treasurer of Lincoln county, and Miss Mintie Warlick of Catawba county. On the 28th nit. by Rev. A J Fox. Mr Monroe F Lutz and Miss Sarah Jane Schronce. In Lancaster. 8. C, recently. Col. W. E. William son of Danville, Va., and Mrs Conners. DIED. In Gaston county, on the . 27th ult.. Dr. John D. McLean, aged 87 years. He was engaged in the ractice ot medicine about ou years. Dunns this ong period of time, he remained in the same neigh borhood, had a gcod practice and enjoyed the ut most confidence of the people. In this city, on the 6th inst.. of cholera infantum. Infant daughter of R F and 8 R Huneycut. aeed 9 months and 4 days. In this city, on the 5th inst, Miss Alice McEachern. daughter of Mrs. Nelly Taylor, aged 10 years, in full confidence of a rest beyond the grave. CHARLOTTE MARKET. Dec. 9, 1880. During the first of the week Good Middling Cotton broueht l cents, but on Thursday the quotations stood about as follows : Good Mid dling 11 to Middling 10 to 108, Low Mid dling 10)4, stains and tinges 6 to 9 market rather dull. Corn 60 to 63, and Meal 65 per bushel : Peas 60 : Oats 50 to 55, but little offering. Country Flour scarce at $3 to $3 25 per sack of 08 pounds. Wheat $1.15 at City Mills. Fresh Beef from wagons 4 to 5 cents by the quar ter ; Pork 6 to 7 by the hog. Eggs scarce at 20 to 22 per dozen ; Chickens in demand at 15 to 18 ; Turkeys 1 to: 8 cents per pound; Fre3h country Butter in demand at 20 cents per pound. N. C. Whiskey, from wagons $1.30 per gallon by the barrel ; Apple Brandy $1.60. Other Markets. NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 1880. Cotton dull at 11 for Middlingmarket un steady. . JjIV-eufool., Dec 9, iwu. Middling Uplands pence, with dull market and quiet demand. LATEST ARRIVAL of New Goods. We are now receiving for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY trade a large assortment of desirable Goods, purchased by our Mr Elias, who has re mained constantly ia the Northern markets during the entire season, watching for Bargains and taking advantage of the late rise in price of cotton goods. We are now enabled to offer both to Wholesale and Retail buyers inducements to make their pur chases of us. We have a new stock of Dress Goods, Prints, Flannels, Blankets, Cloaks and Dolmans. A large ttock o Clothing, Carpets, Boots, Shoes, and gent nl merchandise. By examining our stock before buying, you will save money. Dec. 10, 188a NEW GOODS. Our whole Stock is new. fresh and attractive. We have a large line of Black and Mourning DRESS G O ODS, Comprising Cashmeres, Henriettas, Tamise. Em press, Mmies, Black Silks and Satins. Also, a large line of Fancy and Plain Dress Goods. Every thing that Is now outm Dress Trimmings. A large line of imported and domestic Hosiery. A handsome stock of Nottingham Laces, Lappet Netting and Lace Lambrequins. Don t fail to examine our stock of Ladies and Gents Merin Underware, Flannels, Blankets, Sheet ings, Tickings and Bleached Domestics uur QIOCK 01 Heady-Made Clothing, Over-Coats, Ulsters and Ulsteretts Is large and very attractive. Come and get one of our cheap Cloaks or Dol moss. We have an elegant line of BOOTS and SHOES, Slippers and Rubbers. Also, a fall line of City made Shoes, as cheap as the cheapest. In short our Stock is complete in every detail and persons visiting the City will do well to call before purchasing. Personal attention given to orders. HARGRAVES & WILHELM. nec.10,1880. ' Notice, to IXaKistrates, The Magistrates of Mecklenburg county are hereby notified to appear at the ; Court House in Charlotte on Monday the 3d day of January, next, by 13 o'clock, M., for the purpose of electing a County Commissioner in the place of T. L.. Vail, Esq., who declines qualifying. ' ; By order of the Board of Commissioners. WM. MAXWELL, Clerk. Dec 10,1880 9w ' . Administrator's Notice; ; ' Having taken out letters of Administration on the Estate of John L. Caldwell, decM, alt persons hold ing claims against the Estate of said John I Cald well.'dec'd, late of Blackstock, South Carolina, are hereby required to exhibit the same to the under signed, at his office in Charlotte; on er before the 9tn day of December, 1881, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recovery agmmst u - JOHN C. BURROUGHS.1 ! . Administrator of John L; CaldwelL . Dec 10, 1880 ,: .,e,:, : , , Catawba High School, ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL, . : Newton, N, C . The Thirty-first Session of this well known In stitution will begia the 1st Monday in January, 1881, and continue 20 weeks. . . We have in charge the'Bui1dings,1iibraries, Ap paratus, Surveying Instruments, &c, '. of Catawba College, and are prepared to give superior advan tages to young men and boys desiring a good prac tical education. Tuition and Board moderate. For Catalogue and further information apply to the Principals, J v . s--. . . . . ' CLAPP fc FOIL- Dec 10, 1880 lmpd ':' ' Christmas Goods," &c. , ; . .... C. " 8L HOLTON . . . Has laid, in a large and fresh stock tf Groceries. Confectioneries, &c, &C;, such as' Bread, Canned Fruit, and Pound Cake, Crackers, Pickles, Teas, Sngara Coffee, &c t A fine quality of Cigars, Smoking, and Chewing Tobacco. ' J . . '. TOYS, ' For" the rising generation, consisting in part of Planar, Drums, Wheel-Barrows, Bows and Arrows, Rubber Dressed Baby Dolls. Cradles and Bedsteads and Carriages for Dolls,-Monkeys; Bull Dog and Creedmoor Banks, Wagons, Guns, Whips, Horses, K. K. Faces, (very sentimental,) Vases, Toilet Setts, Cups aid Saucers, Jewelry Boxes. Shell Baskets. Candies, Fruits, &c. A laree assortment of French and other fine Can dies, Oranges, Apples, Raisins, ' Nats, Currants, Citron, and in fact all articles found in Grocery or Confectionery bouses. !'!'.. Thankful for past favors. . Dec 10. 1880. C. S. HOLTON. Administrator's Sale. On Monday, the 13th day of December. 1880. we will sell all of the goods and chatties belonging to the Estate of the late Mary M. Wallace, consisting of Household and Kitchen Furniture,' Horses, Cows, Hogs, Corn. Wheat, &c The sale will be at the late residence of the deceased on the Lawyer's road, four miles from Charlotte. J. R. MORRIS. W.C.MAXWELL, Dec. 10, 1880 lw Administrators. TOYS! TOYSM AT RIGLElt'S D. M. You will find the largest and best assortment of TOYS in the city. We have most everything in that line, and will sell as low asthe lowest. In spection on and after to-day. Come and see. Also, itaisms, nuts, Uitron, Currants, Dates. Shelled Almonds, &c, &c Candies! Candies!! We manufacture our own Plain Candies and guarantee them pure. . iTine Jrrencn Candies, we have a large stock and as fine as is made. Bread Cakes and Pies. Here is the place to get your Christmas , Cakes. Bring your orders and we guarantee satisfaction- Dec 1U, 1880. D. M. The Great Opportunity of the SEASON. , - January next we move to Trade Street. To pre pare for this move we will, for the next 30 days to reduce Stock, close out several lines of desirable Goods at COST. Our Stock of Clothing, Cloaks. Boots, SLoes and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods ' Must be Sold. The finest assortment of Fancv Dress Goods and Trimmings in the city will be sold at a sacrifice. Everything in fact you need in our lins can be had with little regard to profit. Embrace this opportunity while It Is open to buy goods at less than market value. A call will convince you we are in earnest. T. L. SEIGLE & COW Tryon Street, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Dec. 10, 1880. TO THE PUBLIC: We are making preparations to mannfactors Three Hundred Boss Cotton Presses (patented in 1878) and Sixty Liddell Engines (patented in 1876). Durine the season lust closed, we were unable to fill our orders. We advise all who wish U purchase a Boss Press or Liddell Engine; to place their orders early. Payments will not be required on the early orders sooner than on those placed later in the season. Address LIDDELL uu:, R. I. McDowell, ) ; Charlotte, N.C. W. J. F. Liddell, v ... W. S. Liddell. ) Dec. 19,1880 3w Do You Want Health? Why will ye die? Death, or what is worse. Is the inevitable result of continued suspension of the menstrual flow. It is a condition which should not be trifled with. Immediate relief is the only safeguard against constitutional ruin. In alt cases of suppression, suspension or other irregularity of the "courses," Bradfield's Female Regulator is the only sure remedy. It acts by giving tone to the nervous centres, improving the blood and determin ing directly to the organs of menstruation. It Is a legitimate prescription, and the most Intelligent physicians use it . Notabclga, Ala., July 7, 1877. Bradfield's Female Regulator has been thorough ly tested by me in a great variety of cases, and I am fully convinced that it is unrivaled for all that class of diseases which it claims to cure. ' J. C. Hess, M. D. Prepared by Dr. J. Bradfield, Atlanta. Ga. Price il.50 per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, and whole- tale by W. U. Barrett. . , v , For sale by all DruggUta in Charlotte . Nor. 27, 1880. 3m , FOB SALE. -A Drug Store in the City of Charlotte doings good retail business. Established two years. Jror particulars address Lack Box zw$, Unartotlev N.C. Dec 3, 1880. IXONROE B. C ALD WELLw Of Davidson College, WITH. II. MORRIS & BROS., - Popular dealers in Ready-made Clothing, 8(pfer and Fancv Drv Goods. Boots, fiboea. Notions. Hata. Trunks, Valises, Carpets, &c 1 hope my friend and old customers will call and see me, ss this largy stock has been selected with an eye to my trade. t;nar joue. n . u., near ins uourt ueuss. Dec 8, 1880 wpd