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1 h f i o p»0 i 1 tl q w o t»0 il tt1 o tl ki i 1 i — ■1 j^i oil 1 i w w f i 70l xiv third series salisbuey h c october 26 1882 jro2 the carolina watchman established n the steak 1s32 i'kk f j1.50 in ■"■'•''■v - •' ''■'■mw^iim ■mm.»i»i t "** h u celebrated s g a ifc stomach 0 ' thetme antidote to the effects of mta ■. thia continent fcv malarious atmosph • dlur ' 29:1 y i rhodes brow -:.::• t w'jij a home company seeking horn e f atron age stroii prompt reliable lite 1 term policies w ritten on !'■.■. el lings premiums pa able < ne lia.ll easli and iml ance in 1 1 eh u monl hs j allen brown afift 21;6m salisbury n ('. of theo buerbium scool boopis school supplies novels and stationery 45:1 f ekkoes or v-1h'ti5 auentj.kman who suffered lor years from nervous i i i.i i •, , prk.mati'kk dkcay ft ml all lhe effects of youthful indiscretion will for the sake of suffering humanity send free to all who need it lhe recipe and direction for making tin simple remedy by which lie was ucred sutlerei wis ■:,:■. to profit l the ul vt-rti-vr e m do so by ndu'i < ssin»in perfect coiiiidenee j 1n i kjdex • 20:ly i ;-;.. new yo rk liliii hmd ! jl^moltummts tombs great reduction ix the pricks of marble monuments and grave-stones of ev ption i cordially inviti lie public generally to an inspection of m.v stock and work i feel justified in assertiii . thai my past cxpei if ii . under til i \ oi knien in all i he newest and modern styles and that tlio workmanship is equal to any of the best in i he eutml ry i do nol sa tliat my work is superioi to all others i am reasonable will not exaggerate in or der to accomplish i sale m endeavor is to please and give eaeli i'tibtunw the val ue of every dollar ii li ave with me prices 35 to 50 per cent cheaper than ever offered in this town before call at once or send for price list and le bigus satisfaction iiarautm or no charge the erection oi marble is the last work of respeel which we nay to the memory of depai ted fi iends john s hutchinson salisbury x •'., n'ov !. iddl notice tin • & co is this day dis i d consent ! ret urn my i ■u sjenerous publi bestowed upon me lui i . _. . urs and re spectfully a sons indebted to the linn to call at once and make settlement the business will former partm rs s inun ! 1 a lor und w s t same lib eral patronage b old firm * •'"■' i offer ni pleii lid brick store dwelling ii n ■.■and l-'oin building lots for coalition in north carolina a aw days since mr geo c gorham the editor of tlir national republican of this city hildn'ssed ui open letter to mr c i cook one of the straightout re publican candidates for congress in north carolina reciting a conversation between gorham and president arthur in new york and asserting authorita tively that the president favored the i coalition movement in north carolina and desired the election of all the candi dates on the coalition ticket this letter 1 of mr gorhani's was printed in circular form and copies of it have been distribn ( ted broadcast over north carolina by the internal revenue and other federal offi cials the following extract is from the reply of < look : the candidate for judge of the supreme court on the liberal ticket in this state was indicted for murder '. by solicitor settle now judge settle 1 just after the war for shooting union : men in the county of randolph the amnesty act and the liberal use of mon ; ev saved his neck thecoalition move i rnent according to the declaration of 1 the chairman of the liberal state ' committee was organized for the pur ; pose of destroying the republican par ty opposing prohibition and temper ance legislation j am informed that i letters are now being sent to each coun ; ty in he state calling for the names of postmasters who either oppose or do not actively support the coalition : movement with a view to their speedy ; removal a wholesale decapitation is i proposed the victims are earnest and honest republicans who have too j much honor and spirit to submit to | the commands of arrogant inflated self-constituted leaders j i the pres ident allows this to be done it will not comport with your declaration that lie does not use public offices as rewards or punishments had pro nounced republicans of character been nominated we would have carried the state beyond a doubt but there is no prospect lor the success of the coalition ticket the bottom has dropped out the bubble has bursted tht contribu tions from mr hubbell's committee and the assessments from revenue of ficials can't save it if any man from north carolina tells you or president arthur to the contrary he is either after olfice or campaign money the next house the st louis republican says the increase of the number oi representa tives in the national house of repre sentatives by the last apportionment fell in twenty states and it was sup posed the parties would share the in crease about as follows states dem states hep arkansas 1 california 1 california 1 illinois 1 georgia 1 iowa 2 kentucky 1 kansas 4 mississippi 1 massachusetts 1 missouri 1 minnesota 2 north carolina 1 nebraska 2 south carolina 2 michigan 2 texas 5 new york 1 virginia 1 ohio 1 west virginia 1 pennsylvania 1 — wisconsin 1 total 16 — total 19 california which cast its vote for hancock and has two democrats and two republicans in the present house rains two members and these are di vided between the parties the re publican states of maine new hamp shire and vermont each lose a mem ber and the count was thus left six teen and sixteen increase to the two parties this calculation has been disturbed in two states which have held elections west virginia which it was supposed would add one to the democratic column has given its in crease to the republicans and ohio has reversed its record and given a iarge majority of its entire delegation to the democrats of the eleven slates set down in the republican col umn above seven are expected to fol low the example of ohio to some ex tent aud give gains to the democrats some ofcapt kidd's treasure — a dispatch dated raleigh oct 18th says robert harris a poor boatman yesterday morning found 300 spanish doubloons under a stump oi a tree near the pamlico river the finding of the coin has caused great excite ment here harris has been offered 5,000 for his treasure during the past 100 years periodical searches have been made on desolate sandbars and islands on the north carolina coast for treasure supposed to have been buried by the pirates captain kidd and blackbeard from time to time money has been found 7 ' it is said that a large amount nf jay hubbell's assessment fund is go ! ing into georgia to be used in doubt i i ii 1 districts a considerable amount j of it is being scattered around in north carolina too riclies and poverty one of the worst signs of the time to be discovered just now among us is the tendency of the poor to grow poorer and the rich richer attempts have often been made to deny that this is the fact but the stern logic of events demonstrates it in a way too ' palpable to bo concealed in any country a division into a very rich and very poor class is an element of danger in a republic like ours the i danger is especially formidable can : any intelligent observer of american ; character and habits of living suppose j that the large majority of the ameri can people will permit the wealth of the nation to be so divided that while a small minority absorb the larger share of that wealth the masses of the people will rest quiet and content if their industry will bring for them | selves and families only a bare supply ! of the commonest necessaries of life j with no hope of improvement with the assurance that squalor and want and the degredation of having only the meanest clothing to wear must be their lot in all the hopeless future i the boston star remarks : we are in considerable danger of having two classes here the rich and the poor between which a wide gulf is to be fixed new york is more fa vorably situated to illustrate such an unwelcome theory than any other city in the union a number of the cler gy of that city have of late been ex j pressing themselves in the columns of the newspapers in a way to place the apprehensions on the ground of al most positive certainty all of them seem to confess the fact that a gulf does indeed yawn between the two ex tremes of society the question na turally arises — is this state of things a necessary and an evitable condition of social life or is it owing to causes which can be removed by human skill so that the rich shall not be extrava gantly rich nor the pour pool 1 to des titution ? also can this change be made without resource to the crimes of communism or dependence upon the fallacies of socialism unques tionably it can the laws that gov ern the distribution of property at present favor accumulation they can as readily bo made to promote diffu sion for instance a law requiring every maker of a will to distribute all he owns above a certain amount to at least a given number of inheritors in proportion to the amount of the pro perty bequeathed would of itself stop any continuance of those vast fortunes that become a danger in the course of time in a country having institu tions habits and modes of thinking such as prevail in the united states — memphis appeal gen leach has written a letter com plaining that the report of his speech at raleigh by the reporter of the news and observer did him great injustice by making him say that ransom and cameron drank and frolicked togeth ; er in washington lie denies using any such language and proceeds to pay the following compliment to gen ransom : i have known ransom well for thirty years and intimately for ten years and i never saw him take a . glass of wine at a dinner or any social party and the idea of ransom's frol icking is too ridiculously absurd to need contradiction truth to tell 1 have never known ransom to do or say anything incom patible with the dignity of a senator or the honor of a gentleman proud of his state and devoted to her people and their best interests and distin guished for his fine presence his tal ents and his courtly bearing he stands in the senate chamber the peer of an of his colleagues and is regarded there as i regard him and as thou sands of his friends in the state regard him as an honor to the senate and hid state the reporter however insists that although he may not have given gen leach's exact words he fairly and substantially reported what he said mr e j hale in the jlohie and ijemoerat quotes two items from north ern papers as follows : the darkey ex senator bruce of mississippi now register of the treasury in wash ington has a son and heir whom he has named roscoe goukling bruce and whom ik has provided with a white french nurse — william hunt a colored porter on a pullman car running between boston and new york was arrested in boston satur day evening lor bigamy he has one wife in new york where he makes his home and another in boston both are white women — i nt i consistency iu the senate of !-?!•. gen leacli opposed every m asuro pro viding for the elcri ian of county commis sioners and justices of the peace by tlio people sec the senate journal pu_e 7li 119 138 and yet ho shed crocodile tears in the itadical convention here last sat ! urday because the liberties 1 the people ! are taken from them l»y not allowing i hem * o \ cm lui coiiiu i.vsioiiers anil mug istratos the ltee<l mine mr stephen c johnston of this city furnished us with a printed pamphlet prepared by him contain ing a description and abstract of title i of the famous reed mine of cabarrus ! it was submitted by mr johnston to | the trustees of he will of win hirst j now in possession of the property the report givco great encouragement for the belief that the mine will yield rich results i!i in rein and surface workings the property consists of 78oacic.-i upon ivhich are three veins and a large stretch of alluvial sands with an average depth to bed rock of two to three feet from which have al ready been taken the largest and heaviest nuggets of almost pure gold ever found in the 1 united states be low is a list of them : weigh i of pieces of gold found on reed property of which a record is made as iniiows ; year i<s03 28 pounds " 1804 9 " it it 7 f « u 2 " « « j « " 1826 16 " (( « y tl " 16'vj 13f " " " u " << u a a a ] u li u q it _____ li total weight 110 pounds value of gold 27,840 mr johnston adds : i am reliably informed that many other pieces of large size from three i to five pon mis were found prior and subsequent to the dntes given the first known gold discovered on this property was in 1799 but as i can not furnish the weight will only say that it is supposed to have been worth between seven and eight thousand ! dollars and since the last date given above amongst the various nuggets found one sold for eight hundred dollars he recommends the working ofthe veins and especially of these alluvial sands and thinks that to bring water from rocky river one mile distant or from buffalo creek between two and three miles for their working would amply repay the expenditure the statement is a most creditable one and contains certificates from prominent gentlemen of charlotte as to his experience aud capacity this looks like business there is a civil service reform as sociation in maryland which not sat isfied with t\\c party platform pro fessions on that subject desire to know from each candidate for congressjust how he stands and propounds to him the following pertinent questions in writing to which they demand a writ ten reply : 1 do you regard a reform in the civil administration as necessary and as a work which should be promptly entered upon ? 2 what in your view should be the nature extent and practical meth ods of that reform aud what support if elected will you give to it 3 do you think that the patronage of the departments and great offices should be apportioned among mem bers of congress or be interfered with by them ; or on the contrary do you hold that vacancies in subordinate places should be filled by the proper executive officers appointing the most worthy applicants to be ascertained by examinations 4 as the ore hundred and sixty fourth section ofthe revised statutes now requires all persons to he exam ined before being appointed in any of the departments thus declaring that influence and recommendations are inadequate tests do you or not think that the various applicants should be examined not as now independently and privately but together'and pub licly 60 that the most worthy of those offering may be secured or in other words do you or not favor competi tive examinations will you support the pendleton bill copy inclosed or any similar measure for enforcing competitive examinations ? 5 do you justify the promise of places on the pail of members of congress for political support or the use of their influence at the depart ments aud elsewhere in order to se cure offices for their favorities ". or do yon .,;> the contrary condemn tich practices and purpose yourself to avoid them ? i do ou or not approve the prac tice of coercing those in the public service to work for cither party or of their being removed for mere party reasons or without good cause what in your opinion is good cause lor removing a clerk ? 7 do you approve of political as sesstnents and if so in what form and of whom ? do you approve of the laws of congress which condemn them ? do you hold that members of , congress through committees or oth wise are justified in requesting the public servants to pay assessments whether of specific amounts or other wise ? would you have an oilicer re moved for refusing to pay an as<o.-s ment do you think it justifiable for i a party in power to levy political as i sessments on subordinate officials for perpetuating its own supremacy thid is going about the matter in a business like way for they bring it j home before election to each candt ; date and make his support dependent upon the position he takes not ooly as an endorser of party platitudes but over his own signature how strong this organization is we do not know but it is moving in the right direc tion and is giving a practical begin ning to the work of civil service re form of which po much has been said and in which so little has been done bloody work in ivnoxville the trarjlc end of a bitter personal feud k.voxvij.le ten.w ot-t 19 this morning at a few minutes after 10 o'clock gen joseph a mabry major thomas o'connor and joseph a mabry jr were kiljed in a shooting affray the difficulty began yesterday afternoon by gen mabry's attacking major o'conner and threatening to kill him this was at the fairgrounds and o'conner told mabry it was not the place to settle their differences i mabry then told o'cunner he should not live it seems that mabry was armed and o'conner was i1ot the caitrc of the difficulty was an old feud about the transfer of some property from mabry to o'conner later in the afternoon mabry sent word to o'conner that he would kill him on sight this morning major o'conner was standing in the door of the me chanic's national bank of which he was president gen mabry and anoth er gentleman walked down the street on the opposite side from the bank o'conner stepped into the bank pro cured a shot gun took delibrate aim at gen mabry and fired mabry fell dead being shot in the left side as he fell o'conner fired again the shot taking effect in mabry's thigh o'con uer then reached into the bank and got another shot gun about this time joseph a mabry jr son of gen mabry came rushing down the street lie was not seen by major o conner until he was within forty feet of him when he fired a shot from a pistol the ball taking effect in o'con ner's right breast passing through the body near the heart the instant mabry fired o'conner turned and discharged his shot gun at him the load taking effect in young mabry's right breast and side he fell pierced vi(h 20 buckshot and almost instant ly o'conner fell dead without a strug gle young mabry trim to rise but fell back dead the whole tragedy occurred within two minutes and neither of the three spoke after he was shot gen mabry had about 30 buckshot in his body a bystander was painfully wounded in the thigh with a buckshot and another was wounded in the arm ; four other men had their clothes pierced by buckshot the affair caused great excitement and gay street was thronged with thousands of people gen mabry and his son soseph were acquitted only a few days ago of the murder of major lusby and don lusby father and son whom they killed a few weeks since wrn mabry was killed by don lusby last christmas major thomas o'conner was president of the mechanic's national bank here and was tl\e wealthiest man in the state col e j san ford the vice president takes immediate control of the bank take your choice — take your choice and vote with 100,000 colored 16,000 white voters 2,000 of which are revenuers which compose the re publican party or vote with 140,000 white voters which compose the dem ocratic party the former is run by the 2,000 revenue officers and the lat ter by the people for the people the former will take you back to the dark day of 1868 with the kirk war high taxes fraud and corruption ; the latter will keep on under good gov ernment take your choice — david sou dispatch j ii wallace democrat from the eighth congressional district in ohio will contest the seat with mckinley republican who claims a majority of eight wallace says that in one dis trict in stark county fifteen votes given to him were thrown out where mckinley'sj name was erased from the republican ticket and his written in place it was written major wal lace for which reason the vote were thrown out 1882 ' 1882 soluble pacific guano for wheat manufactured by the pacific ( luaiio ( '<». ( liipital 1,<xh>.(m n >. the largest < ruano co in the u s the oldest and most reliable brand sold ithemnost popular fertilizer its sales l>«-inu r the largest on average soils no fertilizer produces letter resul it is in fine drillingcondition and prepared for imniedh the same planters continue to use it year after year j for sale by i j allen brqwh 50:8m i have on hand the sea fowl gu ano " bradlet's scpkr phosphate ! and the " equitable which i will sell for wheat on terms as for co tun baling i am also prepared to furnish cotton fjinncro j with bagging ties and twine at very low ; ■rates 1 '. a i buy more cotton than any iiiir man here it may be a double benefit t make your purchases or engagements of me early prices are as low as any one here will sell ' will not be undersold work your heads ' and see that thi is to your interest j 1 gaskill oct 5th 82 tni blackffler&taylor having purchased t ii e stock of wm smithdeal as well as the interest f r r crawford of the firm of r r crawford & co we are now prepared to supply our customers with all kinds of agricultural implements in addition to the i lest selected stock f hard w a k e in the s t a t e we also handle rifle and blasting powder f u s e and a full hue of miuimg supplies o 3 we will . duplicate any prices in the state call and see i's w s blacoer * sas'ltlylobi oct 5 1 50:ly notice a meeting of the stockholders t tlie western north carolina rail road com pany is called to raee in salisbury n c on thursday xoveaibei ihli l bv order of the board t directors geo 1 erw1x ■oct li 1882 >• - ■& tre;is 1:1 notice to creditors all per ns ha -. claims agi'i isl the estati ol 7 v i riah ; .. ■ly dee'd arc hen - bv notified ■' the to the un gned oi i r i ■■" the 20th day of oc 1880 or this notice will be ph aded in lr:,r oi their recovery l : 4l ,..|. tobias lyerly exr election tuesday november 7th 1882 notice is hereby gii ' in election \\ ill ik held it tin si •-. in rowan county on the 7th day | of november a i iss'j foi tl • nanit 1 offi ers - 1 por one associate justice of the su preme court six i is » of the court and i solicitor for the sixth ju dicial district 2 for a representative in the congress of the united states for i ;!. f<>r i repn of the united states f r i lie s ', gressional district 1 for s nator of i one member of th !! ■"). for sh : \ < j register of dec i : . ; an 1 coroner f for township ( onsl . i the pol o'clock in the uu rui *-;? ll.i judgi s <•: eleci : count out the ballots unl ii .: . • i ire closed ', nn person shall '•■■unless in is registered ; ii.-l no «•!• « tor l>:i,l be allowed to register or \ i unui«a in shall have resided in the si ' months and in tin couui ..-.-.. lic-m precctling the eli ■v iii\w ;:, - , riff i>f '.;•■!>•. salisbury x ' ' . ■' • : ' - . lui the north state life and nuptial association of salisbury nortii caiiolina chartered under the laws 1 north carolina ill fj?mfi?sw ijifx 3vla.hhiagb mid na.ta.ij --...- - o - , prom i000 i s5.(»00 t i mcxekly k-nt w iv lintox vi • : jamks xi ukay i s vmi i mc<:i ijijixs . . . dr john w1htk1ik vii in i .) s hkndeksun refer i the bank and busim men t salisbury reliable enerj '■and traveling i^r nts wanted every m h'-r for plans terms to agents blanks nnd any iufuruiation whatever address james m gray secretary - i-r*"tvc arc a^cits fu all the l>cst companies in the i id will lie glad to take applichtioi in an ■! en recommend and will wil uoi recom mend of a wildcat character a|»plj it our ollii-e or to the secretary m ti l!!e m allison & addison's complete manure combine the arfiritg of peru rum litam „,, mil tli ttrotty and la*ti»f/rjf<-cutofau tin'il uones i [« prepared umler onr personal ttttpcr vision and is untile rtj tin in-ftl material contain «« »/<«/
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1882-10-26 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 26 |
Year | 1882 |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 2 |
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Date Digital | 2008-12-29 |
Publisher | [T. K. Bruner and J. J. Bruner] |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The October 26, 1882 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1882-10-26 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 26 |
Year | 1882 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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Date Digital | 12/29/2008 9:52:34 AM |
Publisher | Hamilton C. Jones |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
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Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | An archive of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
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1 h f i o p»0 i 1 tl q w o t»0 il tt1 o tl ki i 1 i — ■1 j^i oil 1 i w w f i 70l xiv third series salisbuey h c october 26 1882 jro2 the carolina watchman established n the steak 1s32 i'kk f j1.50 in ■"■'•''■v - •' ''■'■mw^iim ■mm.»i»i t "** h u celebrated s g a ifc stomach 0 ' thetme antidote to the effects of mta ■. thia continent fcv malarious atmosph • dlur ' 29:1 y i rhodes brow -:.::• t w'jij a home company seeking horn e f atron age stroii prompt reliable lite 1 term policies w ritten on !'■.■. el lings premiums pa able < ne lia.ll easli and iml ance in 1 1 eh u monl hs j allen brown afift 21;6m salisbury n ('. of theo buerbium scool boopis school supplies novels and stationery 45:1 f ekkoes or v-1h'ti5 auentj.kman who suffered lor years from nervous i i i.i i •, , prk.mati'kk dkcay ft ml all lhe effects of youthful indiscretion will for the sake of suffering humanity send free to all who need it lhe recipe and direction for making tin simple remedy by which lie was ucred sutlerei wis ■:,:■. to profit l the ul vt-rti-vr e m do so by ndu'i < ssin»in perfect coiiiidenee j 1n i kjdex • 20:ly i ;-;.. new yo rk liliii hmd ! jl^moltummts tombs great reduction ix the pricks of marble monuments and grave-stones of ev ption i cordially inviti lie public generally to an inspection of m.v stock and work i feel justified in assertiii . thai my past cxpei if ii . under til i \ oi knien in all i he newest and modern styles and that tlio workmanship is equal to any of the best in i he eutml ry i do nol sa tliat my work is superioi to all others i am reasonable will not exaggerate in or der to accomplish i sale m endeavor is to please and give eaeli i'tibtunw the val ue of every dollar ii li ave with me prices 35 to 50 per cent cheaper than ever offered in this town before call at once or send for price list and le bigus satisfaction iiarautm or no charge the erection oi marble is the last work of respeel which we nay to the memory of depai ted fi iends john s hutchinson salisbury x •'., n'ov !. iddl notice tin • & co is this day dis i d consent ! ret urn my i ■u sjenerous publi bestowed upon me lui i . _. . urs and re spectfully a sons indebted to the linn to call at once and make settlement the business will former partm rs s inun ! 1 a lor und w s t same lib eral patronage b old firm * •'"■' i offer ni pleii lid brick store dwelling ii n ■.■and l-'oin building lots for coalition in north carolina a aw days since mr geo c gorham the editor of tlir national republican of this city hildn'ssed ui open letter to mr c i cook one of the straightout re publican candidates for congress in north carolina reciting a conversation between gorham and president arthur in new york and asserting authorita tively that the president favored the i coalition movement in north carolina and desired the election of all the candi dates on the coalition ticket this letter 1 of mr gorhani's was printed in circular form and copies of it have been distribn ( ted broadcast over north carolina by the internal revenue and other federal offi cials the following extract is from the reply of < look : the candidate for judge of the supreme court on the liberal ticket in this state was indicted for murder '. by solicitor settle now judge settle 1 just after the war for shooting union : men in the county of randolph the amnesty act and the liberal use of mon ; ev saved his neck thecoalition move i rnent according to the declaration of 1 the chairman of the liberal state ' committee was organized for the pur ; pose of destroying the republican par ty opposing prohibition and temper ance legislation j am informed that i letters are now being sent to each coun ; ty in he state calling for the names of postmasters who either oppose or do not actively support the coalition : movement with a view to their speedy ; removal a wholesale decapitation is i proposed the victims are earnest and honest republicans who have too j much honor and spirit to submit to | the commands of arrogant inflated self-constituted leaders j i the pres ident allows this to be done it will not comport with your declaration that lie does not use public offices as rewards or punishments had pro nounced republicans of character been nominated we would have carried the state beyond a doubt but there is no prospect lor the success of the coalition ticket the bottom has dropped out the bubble has bursted tht contribu tions from mr hubbell's committee and the assessments from revenue of ficials can't save it if any man from north carolina tells you or president arthur to the contrary he is either after olfice or campaign money the next house the st louis republican says the increase of the number oi representa tives in the national house of repre sentatives by the last apportionment fell in twenty states and it was sup posed the parties would share the in crease about as follows states dem states hep arkansas 1 california 1 california 1 illinois 1 georgia 1 iowa 2 kentucky 1 kansas 4 mississippi 1 massachusetts 1 missouri 1 minnesota 2 north carolina 1 nebraska 2 south carolina 2 michigan 2 texas 5 new york 1 virginia 1 ohio 1 west virginia 1 pennsylvania 1 — wisconsin 1 total 16 — total 19 california which cast its vote for hancock and has two democrats and two republicans in the present house rains two members and these are di vided between the parties the re publican states of maine new hamp shire and vermont each lose a mem ber and the count was thus left six teen and sixteen increase to the two parties this calculation has been disturbed in two states which have held elections west virginia which it was supposed would add one to the democratic column has given its in crease to the republicans and ohio has reversed its record and given a iarge majority of its entire delegation to the democrats of the eleven slates set down in the republican col umn above seven are expected to fol low the example of ohio to some ex tent aud give gains to the democrats some ofcapt kidd's treasure — a dispatch dated raleigh oct 18th says robert harris a poor boatman yesterday morning found 300 spanish doubloons under a stump oi a tree near the pamlico river the finding of the coin has caused great excite ment here harris has been offered 5,000 for his treasure during the past 100 years periodical searches have been made on desolate sandbars and islands on the north carolina coast for treasure supposed to have been buried by the pirates captain kidd and blackbeard from time to time money has been found 7 ' it is said that a large amount nf jay hubbell's assessment fund is go ! ing into georgia to be used in doubt i i ii 1 districts a considerable amount j of it is being scattered around in north carolina too riclies and poverty one of the worst signs of the time to be discovered just now among us is the tendency of the poor to grow poorer and the rich richer attempts have often been made to deny that this is the fact but the stern logic of events demonstrates it in a way too ' palpable to bo concealed in any country a division into a very rich and very poor class is an element of danger in a republic like ours the i danger is especially formidable can : any intelligent observer of american ; character and habits of living suppose j that the large majority of the ameri can people will permit the wealth of the nation to be so divided that while a small minority absorb the larger share of that wealth the masses of the people will rest quiet and content if their industry will bring for them | selves and families only a bare supply ! of the commonest necessaries of life j with no hope of improvement with the assurance that squalor and want and the degredation of having only the meanest clothing to wear must be their lot in all the hopeless future i the boston star remarks : we are in considerable danger of having two classes here the rich and the poor between which a wide gulf is to be fixed new york is more fa vorably situated to illustrate such an unwelcome theory than any other city in the union a number of the cler gy of that city have of late been ex j pressing themselves in the columns of the newspapers in a way to place the apprehensions on the ground of al most positive certainty all of them seem to confess the fact that a gulf does indeed yawn between the two ex tremes of society the question na turally arises — is this state of things a necessary and an evitable condition of social life or is it owing to causes which can be removed by human skill so that the rich shall not be extrava gantly rich nor the pour pool 1 to des titution ? also can this change be made without resource to the crimes of communism or dependence upon the fallacies of socialism unques tionably it can the laws that gov ern the distribution of property at present favor accumulation they can as readily bo made to promote diffu sion for instance a law requiring every maker of a will to distribute all he owns above a certain amount to at least a given number of inheritors in proportion to the amount of the pro perty bequeathed would of itself stop any continuance of those vast fortunes that become a danger in the course of time in a country having institu tions habits and modes of thinking such as prevail in the united states — memphis appeal gen leach has written a letter com plaining that the report of his speech at raleigh by the reporter of the news and observer did him great injustice by making him say that ransom and cameron drank and frolicked togeth ; er in washington lie denies using any such language and proceeds to pay the following compliment to gen ransom : i have known ransom well for thirty years and intimately for ten years and i never saw him take a . glass of wine at a dinner or any social party and the idea of ransom's frol icking is too ridiculously absurd to need contradiction truth to tell 1 have never known ransom to do or say anything incom patible with the dignity of a senator or the honor of a gentleman proud of his state and devoted to her people and their best interests and distin guished for his fine presence his tal ents and his courtly bearing he stands in the senate chamber the peer of an of his colleagues and is regarded there as i regard him and as thou sands of his friends in the state regard him as an honor to the senate and hid state the reporter however insists that although he may not have given gen leach's exact words he fairly and substantially reported what he said mr e j hale in the jlohie and ijemoerat quotes two items from north ern papers as follows : the darkey ex senator bruce of mississippi now register of the treasury in wash ington has a son and heir whom he has named roscoe goukling bruce and whom ik has provided with a white french nurse — william hunt a colored porter on a pullman car running between boston and new york was arrested in boston satur day evening lor bigamy he has one wife in new york where he makes his home and another in boston both are white women — i nt i consistency iu the senate of !-?!•. gen leacli opposed every m asuro pro viding for the elcri ian of county commis sioners and justices of the peace by tlio people sec the senate journal pu_e 7li 119 138 and yet ho shed crocodile tears in the itadical convention here last sat ! urday because the liberties 1 the people ! are taken from them l»y not allowing i hem * o \ cm lui coiiiu i.vsioiiers anil mug istratos the ltee |