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VOLUME XXXIII. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1?, 1874. NUMBER ST.
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' Fall aod Winter Stock
CONSISTING OF
Staple Dry Goods,
- OLOTHIITQ,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
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f flats ami laps,
HARDWARE,
Crockery and Glassware,
SAddlery, cfcc.
A LARJE SUPPLY OF
FANCY AND FAMILY
r GROCERIES.
Bagging' and Ties.
ft??- The above Goods baring been
purchased with great care in the
Northern markets, since the decline in
1 prices, we are able to sell the same on
I terms to suit purchasers. Give us a
call.
KENNEDY & BOYKIN.
^ October 30. 11
Great Reduction
ITV PRICES
7-8 Brown Homespuns at 10 Cents.
4-4 Bleached do at 12?"
AND
All Other Goods in Proportion,
AT
ateClTRRY'S.
Iftininilnn ttiilllAV
jimii jriiv it kjttntvj
L milE ml session of this Seminary of learn
I 1. itf? will commence on Thursday, Septetu-'
f ber 4th, 1873.
[ Hampden Sidney is Situated in Prince Edward
County, Vn., within u few hundred
yards of Union Theological Seminary, and *
seven miles from Farmvillethe nearest depot
of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad.
The locality of the College is most
T bealthy, and the community around distinguished
for intelligence and piety.
There is no Grammar or Preparatory School
connected with the College. It retains the
curriculum and the great aim of its teachers
is to secure thoroughness in the training and
instruction of th"ir pupils nud thus to prepare
the n for professional studies or the active
duties of life.
The ordinary expenses of a student exclusive
of the cost of clothing, travelling and
books, are from $22"? to $2To a year I
For Catalogue and further information apply.to
KEV. J. M. P. ATKINSON,
V President Hampden Sidney College, '
Prince Edward County, Va I
EVERYTHING
TO BE FOUND IN A '
First Claw Grocery Store,
r CAN BE HAD AT THE
VERY LOWEST PRICES,
AT
HIRKLEV <1- GARLAXDN
L BININCER'S
f OLD LONDON DOCK GIN.
Especially designed for the use of the Medical
Prof'ttaon and t lie Family, possessing
those in Irinne medicinal properties which
belong to an Old and Purt Gin.
Indispensable to Females. Good for AWney
Complaint*. A delicious Tonic. I'ut up in
cases containing one dozen bottles each, and
sold by all druggists, grocers, &c. A. M.
Biningt-r & Co., established in 1778, No. lo
Beaver st., N, Y* Oct. 28-0in.
MERONEY &. WITTER
AUCTION
AND
CoiiimiMsioii TIcrcliaiitN,
Broad-St. Camden, S. C.
Will attend to the Helling of Real E*tate,
Merchandize. Produce, &c.
Business entrusted to their care will meet i
with prompt attention. (
Return!* ??<le an soon a* sales are effected, i
Mackerel! Maekerelll
100 kit! MACKEREL,
10 barrels do ]
26 half barrels do. For sale by
BAUM BR a 1
THE FAVORITE HOI! REMEDY. I "
Ci
Thie unrivalled Medicine i warranted not
to contain a single particle i Mebcckt, or jj
any injurious mineral subsat o, but is
Purely Vegt table,
containing those Southern 1 >ots and Herbs
which an all-wise Providen< e has placed in h
countries where Liver Disea.c s most prevail.
It trill cure all Diseases causet by Derangement
of Ihe Liver or Dowels. a
Simmons' Liver Regulator, or
Medicine !?'
Ir eminently a Family Medic ic: a:ul by be
ing kept ready foi immediate ;sort will save w
mauy an hour of suffering au< many a dollar j ^
in time and doctors' bills. j
After over forty years' tri !, it is still re- I it
ceiving the most unqualified testimonials to i
its virtues from persons of th> highest charac- ! *,
ter and responsibility. Em .rent physicians : bi
commend it as the most j 0j
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For Dpspepsia, or In digestion. I V)
Armed with this ANTIDO 'B all climates
and changes of water and fo< ' may be faced j r'
without fear. Asa remedyfo MALARIOUS j K
FEVERS, BOWEL COM PL ' ISTS, RESTLESSXESS.
JAUNDICE, .1 USE A, lc
IT HAS NO E( tUAL. ai
It is the cheapest, the purest nd best Family rc
,.Medicine in the w rid. 1)1
ma.vcractrned ox v by
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MACON, GA. AND P ILADELPHIA. 11
Price S100- Sulci b)- all druggists. I in
January 1, 1873. 12m
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Cutlery, Boots, ?z Shoes, ic
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Notions, Hat t, &e, ti
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Will Le sold at the very 1< .vest prices tor ^
cash or its equivalent n barter.
All Moods sold by us a warranted
as represente!. a
We have a large and well si 'ectcd stock of _
North Carolina Shoes,
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Which we offer at 1< w figures.
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We pay the highest m;: Vet prices for o
Cotton and other Countr 1'roduce. w
Agents for Neblett k li odrich's Cotton
Gins, which we offer -u Manufacturer's
prices. *'
ft??" AII floods purchase by parties re- s<
siding within the corpora limits of the j
town will be delivered by u 'Vec of charge
J. & T. : . JONES. y
Camden, Sept. -5. tf.
1 ti
Sagging, Tie*, &C. '
4? bales HAOOINO. va-. <?us brand?, e
2 tuns ARROW TIES 8
JlA<'KAKIiL. in barrels half-barrels, ti
tjnar. barrels, kits and at i -tail. c
(UtOCKKkY. Acc. &c.
Just received by
J. & T. ir. JONES. S
August 28. tf f
s?ii< Ties.
10.000 yards HA(i<iIN '
25,000 pounds TI KS.
For sale by
I?A M l>l>0. il
Itii(f<T ami i iiem.
50 boxes ("IIKKSE,
25 firkins GOSH KNf M'TTKR. vv
For sale by >
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NOTICJS.
All persons indebted ton arc requested
to pny up immediately. Tb e who do not y
comply with this request by 40 10th ot' January.
1K71, will tin<i their no s in the hands
of an Attorney for collection il
I shall remain Oaunlen m il the first of
April, aii'l will have a lot of'tno Horses and ?
Mules always on hand, wh h will be sold 6
lower thau elsewherein Sout Carolina. D
>V. if. HUDSON.
Pfi. II. If: d
'HE NEW YORK WORLD PROPOSES
A REMEDY.
[Off TIIE GRIEVANCES OK THE TAXPAYERS
.MAY RE REPRESSED WITHOUT INJURING
THE INTERESTS OF "THE PARTY."
[From the N. Y. World, February 28.]
The almost pathetic memorial to Conress
by the South Carolina sufferers,
hich we printed yesterday, recalls public
ttcntion to already well-known abuses
'hose existence and hideous enormity
re freely acknowledged by the llepublian
press. *****
What is the reuicdv ? Of course, it is
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npcssible to turu buck the hands of the
ial and withdraw the elective franchise
oin the negroes, Their right of suffrage
as been engrafted on th* constitution,
nd it would be supremo folly to attempt
reversal of the Fifteenth amendment,
[either the Democratic party nor any othr
pnity will ever be Quixotic enough to
t.teuipt it. Universal suffrage, black as
ell <ts white, is fixed and irreversible,
.nd yet, if the Republican party is willig
to redress the great wrongs it has
srpetrated, we can point out a practicale
method which will relieve the party
' a sinking load of odium, and at the same
tne enable it to retain every political adintage
it sought and gained by conferng
snffrngo om the negroes. Wo advise
epublican leaders in their own party invest,
willing that they should reap the
lvaniagc of a great act of justice and
paration if the suffering South can therev
be relieved. The Republican party
in afford more prompt aud efficient relief
inn the Democratic party could if it were
i power; because it can control the noro
vote, which the Democratic party
mid not.
\\u .?;n /tntifinn niit* ciirrtr.acf mns t <. f !iO
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)uditiun ol' things in South Carolina, t
here the white population as returned '
y the last census was only 289,667 and
ic negro population 415,814, or very 1
early in the proportion of two to three, j
ven with this great preponderance of
egrocs a tolerably good government might
s established in South Carolina; if (lie
epublican party would but exert its po;nt
control over the negro vote iu one
lection.
The plan we propose is a revision of
ic State constitution. Wo would have
?c right of suffrage taken l'roui no no- |
ro; indeed that is impossible since the
fteenth amendment to the Federal conitutiou.
Hut two changes might be
lade in the State Constitution of South
arolina which would remedy tho chief
rils of negro suffrage.
Fint, the constitution of South Carolia
should be so amended as to diminish, ,
s far as possible, the number of elective
>eal officers. Let them be appointed by
le Governor subject to confirmation bv
lie Senate. To be sure, the negroes ot'
be State might still elect the Governor,
ut they would not thereby get control of
,ic local offices, as wo proceed to show.
*S'ccoraHy, (and this is the vital chango,)
property qualification should be required
>r elections of the State Senators The
rying vice of tho present government of ]
outh Carolina is. that it fails to protect
rupeity. The owners of property should
e clothed with a power of self-protection,
uch a change in the basis of one brunch
f the Legislature, would bo consistent
.
ith tho fifteenth amendment, consistent
'ith every otlier part of the Federal Contit
utiou, and with the early practice of
:veral of the States. It would not be a
iscrimination founded on race, color or
rcvious condit ion of servitude, and, thcro.
?re, would not come in aonflict with the
1
ftccnth amendmcnt. The Constitution
learly recognizes the right of the States
i require different qualifications for tho
lectors of the two branches of their Leislatures.
''The House of Kcpresentaves
shall bo composed of members chosen
very second year by tho people of the
iveral States, and the electors in each j
tutu ohall have the qualifications requisite, i
tr i fee tors of the most numerous branch j
t' the State Legislature." Which fully1
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encodes the right of tho States to require j
ifferent <jiialilic:itiuns for the twobranchi
of tiicir Legislatures.
Such a distinction was made in many of
ic St iten for a lontr period after the adop<n
of the l-'cderal (Constitution. In
lassacliusctts, f<>r example, the State
enatc rested on a hasis of property; and
hen its constitution was revised in 18-0,
Ir. Webster and Judge Story made j
:rong speeches f<<r retaining that arrange '
icnt, which was actually continued till a '
iter period. Mr. Madison was a strcnuus
advocate of the representation of proprty
in one branch of the Legislatures.?
l property <|iialificutiori was formerly rcuired
in the State of Now York. It was
nally dropped in all the States, because
roperty in tbis country is so dividod and
ifcfod that a largo majority of tha whits
citizens aro property-owners. Rut the
sudden introduction of a vast body of ig_
uornnt, destitute negroes revives all the
reasons for making one branch of the Legislature
representatives of property in
States where the negroes arc numerous
Such a recurrence to the early policy of
the Republic would redeem South Caroli
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na. Protection to negro rignts wouiu oo
just as complete as it is at present, for
the blacks could always elect the lower
branch of the Legislature, and no law
could be passed abridging their rights.?
But they could not impose heavy taxes on
property without the consent of its owners.
They could elect tho Governor; but
if he appointed incapable or dishonest negroes
to the local offices, the Senate would
refuse to confirm them. The chaftge wc
suggest is very simple, but it would be
very efficient for the protection of property;
and it would leave an equally efficient
protection for all personal rights in the
hands of the negroes.
This salutary change is practicable if
the administration and the Republican
leaders would support it. Their sway
and influence over the nogro wind are
all-controlling wheuevor they choose to
exert it, as they habitually do in the elections.
They would lose nothing, and gain
bv exerting it now in this direc
tion. Tlicy conferred the right of suffrage
on the negroes to insure their continued
possesion of the Federal government.
Putting the State Senate on the basis of
property would not interfere with this
purpose. The Prcsiaedtial electors and
the members of Congress would still bo
elected by the unrestricted negro vote.
In choosing United States senators the
two branches of the Legislature would
probably differ; but the election would
then be made by joint ballot, and the negroes
would elect their candidate. The
Republican party would therefore retain
all its present advantages in national pol-i
itics, and be relieved from the odium of
the hideous condition of affairs in the negro
States. We have given the Republican
leaders good advice, it is forwhem to
decide whether they will accept it.
The Siamese Twins in TlifcL- Land.
When I first saw the Siamese Twins,
their strange foreign features and the
few sentences spoken for uiy entertainment
in the harsh dialect of their country
made as strong :m impression on my
childish fancy as the freak of nature which
had united them so closely. Yet I scare .ly
expected then to visit the place of their
nativity or to converse with their parents
in their own vernacular. When, however,
after the lapse of years, my husband and
myself were setting forth on our Kustcru
tour we sought out the Twins in order to
learn something of their former home and
connections. They evinced much emotion
when told that we should probably
visit their country, and readily gave us
the address of their parents. When we
asked, '-What message shall we take to
them ?" ('hang smiled and said something
in a low tone to his brother, at whicb Mug
shook his head noLrativefv. and then both
spoke out, Chang, saying, "Tell thcui we
arc coining home some time," and Khg
adding, \\ hen w e have made money
enough."
The Twins were born some thirty miles
southwest of Bangkok, in a little fishing
village that derives its name from the Ma
i\laug ( Croat Canal,") on which fronts
the single narr >w street of low, straggling
houses that compose the town. Hut while
Chang and Kng were yet in their infancy
the parents rem 'Ved to Bangkok, and w ere,
when we saw t!. ::n, living within four
miles of the eity. Tiic father was a Chiuauian,
who sj> he the Tai-Chou dialect,
lie was of medium height, somewhat
stout, but well formed, and intelligent for
oiio of the laboring class. The mother J
w as burn in Siain. of a Chinese father and |
Siamese mother; so that the Twins were
one fourth Sialic se and three-fourths Chi-1
neso, so far ab parentage was concerned,
1 oKallf I { ! tlirl'i iL* Qflitnl' /if*
auu uiu j'vujnu "'"mv v? ,
tliein as the "Chinese Twins.' lacing
b ?rri in the country, they spoke tlic Sia-1
incso language far more fluently than they
did Chincso. Tlu'V, hotvcvcr.Jwore the
< 1i>innu(t dress, and their hair braid I n
} < as do always the innlo children
of Chinese father"; and the parents '
Iiutli spoke of their sons as Chinese, utter-'
l\ ignoring their plaec of birth and the
mother's nationality. The mother of the
Twins was a fair, comely woman of me- J
<1 i 1:111 height and well developed form,?
She had good health, and looked still!
youthful, though already the mother of j
fourteen children, nine of whom were then
living. Two wore prematurely born, two
died in early infancy, and one, of smallpox,
at the age of six years or thereabouts.
Chang and Kng were the first born sons
of their parents, and there were four other
pair of twins, and four children bora
one at a birth; but none except Chang
and Eng had any abnormal peculiarity,
and those that we saw were all healthy,
intelligent and pleasing in appearance.?
Chang and Eng were born in the latter
part of 1811, or early in 1812, we could
not learn definitely which, as no record
had been kept. Tiie mother spoke of
them as somewhat smaller at birth than
her other offspring, and as seeming focblo
for the first six months of their lives, especially
Eng, who was never quite as large
as his brother.
The notion that the twins were in any
sort one, that they vere actuated by the
same mind or impulse, as had often been
suggested, never seemed to have entered
their mother's mind, and when questioned
on the subject she utterly rejected the
idea; she had never perceived that the
sickness of one affected the other. Ones,
sometimes cried when she was nursing his
brother, or one might hurt his hand or
foot and the other not feel the pain, but
if the ligament that united the twain was
toushed just in the centre, both were conscious
of it. They often played together
as two, not as one, and when they began
to prattle they oftener spoke to each other
than to those about them It was obvious
why this habit of conversing together was
not more common with the twins when
they grew older. Being always together,
and enjoying precisely the same facilities
for acquiring information, there could be
little occasion for one to communicate with
the other.
no r.iff line fhflf. fllAfiA
1 liu UIWVIIUI IVIU UO lUiViiV! VUN.
children seldom disagreed .villi each other,
though occasionally she had to interfere
and compel one or the other to give up.
Chang being larger, more intelligent and
stronger, usually took the initiative, and
Eng, who was decidedly amiable, while his
brother was irritable and sometimes passionate,
seldom contended tor the suprcm
ncv. But now and then, either that the
rule of the stronger became too stringent,
or fnat the weaker was in a less yielding
mood than ordinary, these closest of friends
would become so very incensed as to make
use of some very unfrat6rnal epithets towards
each other A whisper in the ear of
one was not heard by tho other, and if he
-*? wUoiulhe communication had been made
failed to impart ft at once to liis
brother, unkind words were suro to follow,
and sometimes the coldness lasted for days.
Alter reconciliation, which was always
cordial and entire, both brothers spoke
doprecatingly of their quarrel, and for a
longtime were more devoted than ever to
each other.
The mother said that at firsf the ligament
which united the boys was so short
i us fn onnir>L'l them to face each other, nor
could they turn in bed without being lifted
up and placed in the desired position j
but as they grew up and exercised more
freely the ligament gradually lengthened
until they were enabled to stand side by
and oven back to back, and even to turn
themselves in bed by rolling one over the
other.
The little cottage where the boys passed
their childhood, was of the sort known
in Siatn as "floating houses." They are
one story buildings ,moored on the river
batiks, and kept in place not by anchors,
but by large poles on each side, driven in
to the muddy bottom. They arc built
cither of teak boards or bamboo, roofed
with attap leaves, and contain three or
; four rooms, of which the front one is a
1 shop, besides a verandah that overlooks
' tho river or canal. Here, day by day, as
the father nlicd his trade of catching fish,
.
or cleaned and sorted them for market,
( and tho mother was selling wares in her
1 little shop, tho twin brothers amused
themselves in the broad, cool piazza wutohing
their parents, and assisting in each
1 light labors as the)' were able to undertake,
i Sometimes they went fishing in tho boat
[ with their father, and like all Eastern
children they soon learned to swim, and
spent much time in the water. One
day while they were thus engaged, Mr.
Unbert Hunter a Scotch merchant residing
in Hangkok passed in his boat, and
attracted by tlie perfect uniformity of
their motions, stopped to ascertain how
they managed to keep thus ottacly together.
One can imagine his amazement on
discovery of the cause, and from that day,
which was sometime in 1824. Mr. Hunter
bewail concoct ing measures to get tlieui off
io Kurope fur exhibition, lie spoke to their
parents, to whom his plan seemed about
as feasible as to send their bo^s off to another
planet, and they Would, at first entertain
no proposition on the subject. Mr.
11. continued to visit them from time to
time, and by his genial nature succeeded
in winning not only the hearts of the pa
rents but those of the boys thomsolves till
the latter became eager to set out on a
t >ur over the world of which they heard
such glowing accoonts. 8{ill the parents
held back, and all negotiations would have j
failed but for tho opportune arrival in I
1829 of an American vessel commanded
by Captain Coffin, who offering to give the
parents a large bonus, and Mi*. Hunter
pledging an equal amount, the twins were
handed over to the foreigners, and sailed
immediately for Europe and the United
States, before their parents had an opportunity
of changing their minds. They
were tractable intelligent well behaved lads
who gave their new guardians no trouble,
nor during their entire voyage expresscd^any
desire to return to their native
land. Since then, their reputation has
become world wide. I saw them last, in
the fall of 1865 at the New England Agricultural
Fair, at Brattleboro, Vt., where
they were again exhibiting themselves,
with two of their sob*. The fathers were
beginning to show signs of age, Eng especially,
who looked at least five years older
than his brother. They had nearly forgotten
their native language and in lion of
the emotion they formerly evinced when
speaking of their country, they seemed to
Itaxl- mLau4 it un/1 n/Minrl nn
care very nine auum ii>, mm nuuim ? ^
the conversation by saying nonchalantly,
"America is our homo now ; we have no
other."?Fannie R. Feudge, in Lippincotts
Magazine for March.
The Condensed Milk Man.
Gail Borden, the "Condensed Milk"
man, died in Colorado county, Texas, on
Sunday, January 11th, in the seventythird
year of his age. Mr. Borden first
came to New York from Galveston, Texas.
In 1850 he invented what is called meat
biscuits, containing in the smallest possible
space, all the nutritive properties of
the beef or other meat used in its manufacture.
After thorough tests, both in
this country and Europe, the highest authorities
pronounced the "meat biscut" an
excellent article, retaining unimpaired the
nutritive properties of its constituents.?
A council modal was awarded at the great
exhibition at London in 1851. The re
port on the subject says: *'A moro simple
economical and efficient form of portable
concentrated food than the American
meat biscuit, haB never been brought before
the public* Mr. Borden toiled incessantly,
and often under great discouragements,
in producing this article, but lie
still saw a defect in it, which was the
agency used in deawwthm. After fWL.
er experiments for scveralyears, he perfected
a process by which pure broth is
reduced to a solid form. Ho next turned
his attention to making condensed milk.
Preparations of milk were known in Europe
and in thin country, but they were
too costly to admit of general use, and
moreover, foreign substances wero introduced
which were less nutritive than new
milk. Mr. Borden was the man to
overcome all obstacles in this matter, and
he set to work with great zeal and confidence.
His experiments were long and
expensive, but ho at length succeeded.?
The first factory which he established was
. t n ?i ?j A
Ul JjllCIIUClU, V^OIlIIUCtlUUl, UIIU HIC ucuiauu
for the milk still increased. In 1860
more extensive works were erected in
Duchess county, New York, on the
line of the Harlem Railroad, where three
vacuum pans were employed, capable of
working 5000 gallons per day. Another
factory was established at Brewster's,
Southeast, Putnam county, another at
Livermore Falls, Me, and another at Elgin
Kauc county, Illinois. The two latter
having each a capacity of 2000 gallons
per day. At the latter place there is also
a factory for the manufacture of extract
of beef.
The Robeson Outlaws
The Wilmington papers give the following
particulars of the killing of the last of
the Lowerys:
Lowcry had for a long tiiue abstained
from the use of ardent spirits, and was,
therefore, very wary in his movements,
concealing himself effectually from the
several enterprisiug young men of Roberon
county who were hunting him. Recently,
however, he had a severe attack of
' ? ' 1? ?- -? - ?%? 11 Wdil it rtA/)
SlOKUCSS, auu uucumu wuijf uiuvu ivuuww
ill flesh and physical strength. Thus feel
ing unwell and weak, the appearance of
one Burns, from Randolph county with
his
WHISKKY WAOON
induced Steve to try and recuperate his
debilitated system a little by imbibing
souie of the exhilarating fluid, and for this
purpose he appeared at Burns' wagon 011
Sunday evening, near the residenco of
.John McXair, who lives about sixteen
mihs West of liuuibcrton, and two miles
South of Bed Bank station 011 tho Carolina
Central Railroad. Steve, it would
appear, remained all night in the vicinity
of Burns' wagon, but his movements were
closely watched by Mack Patterson, Thos.
Sutton nnd Donald Holcomhe. All night
these young men watched the wagon, and
near daybreak, when Burns kindled his
I fire to cook breakfast, they beheld Lowroy,
who, no doubt, had just imbibed his morning
drain, banjo in hand, and ready to
engage in a hilarious frolic. Near him
was the driver of the wagon, a colored
man, and it was a long time before the s
young men felt at liberty to fire, so much
was he surrounded by the parties belonging
to the wagop. At last, when nearly
all had retired from the immediate vicinity
of the doomed man, except the colored
man, who seemed determined to enjoy
the music of the banjo, (and even he, at
last moved his head a little out of the
line of direction,) the three guns simultaneously
discharged their contents into the
face, head and breast of Sttphen Lowery,
KILLING HIM INSTANTLY.
The colored man was slightly wounded
in t.liA fftAA at the same time, and fell
when Steve did, but quickly recovered
himself, expressing great gratitude that
he was alive. On the dead body of the
outlaw was found a copy of the weekly
Wilmington Post, perforated with the bullets
that ended his life. There was also
found on him a bunch of skeleton keys
and keys of all kinds, adapted to opening
any kind of lock. He was armed with a
long, sharp knife, three revolvers and a
Henry rifle.
THE BAND
whose extinction is completed by the
death of Steve Lowrey, originally consisted
of five active members, viz: Thomas
Lowrey, Andrew Strong, Stephen Lowrey,
Henry Berry Lowrey and Boss Strong,
ond they were aged as follows, at the time
they were killed}: Thomas Lowrey, 37;
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Andrew Strong, 3D ; otepnen Jjowrey oxj
Henry Berry Lowrey, 28; Bom Strong,
19- Stephen Lowrey was about fire feet
ten inches high, of a dark, swarthy comploxion
and mixed Indian and negro
blood, some of his ancestors, it was said,
having belonged to the famed Tusearora
tribe. He was by all odds the boldest of
notorious outlaw band, destitute of the
moral courage and other elements of leadership
which characterised his yQunger
brother, Henry Berry, but notoriously his
superior it! fierce determination, and brnte,
bull-dog courage. Fortunately for the
good people of Robeson County, he is now
dead, and the sorrows of more than a score
of desolate homes have at last been
tVen-ed;
rhody
the widow of the defunct chief, Henry
Berry Lowery, was among tho crowd at
. Lumbertown yesterday, attracted there by
i tho news of the tragedy. It is said that she
seemed actually rejoiced to learn that thelast
of the gang had gone to their long account.
It is understood that the lovely Rhoda was
wanting to marry again, but that Steve
had threatened to kill her if she did so.?
There aro many however, who do not believe
that Henry Berry is dead, and it is
. asserted that he has recently been seen in
New York city. Certain it is, that the
simple name of the outlaw chief excites as
much terror in the classio precincts of
Scuffletown, as did that of Richard Cour
do Leon among the Saracens in Palestine
during the Crusades. The rewards for
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' killingJSteve Lowrey amount in all to six
thousand two hundred dollars, and this
amount will be paid over to the threo
young men who killed him.
A very noticeable exodus of colored
people is in progress from the eastern Gulf
States, across the Mississippi. The blacks
are making for Texas. Tho New Orleans
Picayune estimates that since 1870100000
negroes have gone to that Stato, and 300,
000 whites. It regards Texas as the safety,
valve of the South, and has no fears that
the negro immigration will exceed tho
white. In Alabama the departure of the
blacks is consolidating a permanent democratic
power. In Mississippi and Louisiana,
where the blacks were more numerous
than the whites in 1870, there is a steady
decline in their numbers, and tho white
vote will soon be the largest. Georgia
finds it d ifficult to spare this labor, although
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her white laboring population is uu iuu w
crease.
Sir Bartle Frere, at a meetiug of the
Royal Geographical Society, in England,
stated that after conference with Mr.
Kirk, he had come to the conoluaion that
the report of Dr. Livingstone's death was
true. The Queen, at the recommendation
of Gladstone, has granted & pension
of $1,000 to the children of Dr. Livingstone.
Mr. Dillon, a member of the Liv;
ingatone search expedition, has committed
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8U1CU10. IJr. jjivingsione a rcuiaiub wcru
expected to reach Zaniibar on the 20th
inst. The Cameron expedition will proceed
to Ujiji to obtain documents &nd
property left by the doctor.
The Cincinnati Times says that at
the wedding of Victoria's boy and Alexander's
daughter the bride's presents
were elegant and recherche.