NOBLE, MATTHEW. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



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ers' seminary in Friodrichstadt-Dresden, and 

 in isii f.iu-ivd the school as teacher, where 

 hi.s father was also employed. For rnuny years 

 hj labored under pecuniary difficulties, until, 

 in 1831, ho was appointed principal of his 

 sohool. In 1841 he became director of the 

 district sohool in Antonstadt- Dresden, and in 

 1864 resigned this position, receiving after that 

 a pension of 200 thalers a year. Quite early 

 in life ho devoted himself to literary labors, 

 his first work being a short story, "Das Pome- 

 ranzenb&umchen," which appeared in the Mer- 

 c.'tr of !>> I-M. lln continued to employ his 

 l.-is'ire time in similar work for periodicals, 

 until in 1834 he was induced by Gubitz to try 

 hi nself in juvenile literature, in the stylo of 

 C!iristoph von Sohmid. From this time on he 

 s.-:it it, with wonderful rapidity, volume upon 

 voluiu 3 of his popular tales, all of which en- 

 joyed an unprecedented popularity with the 

 yo.ith of Germany. His tales have all been 

 published in the " Jugendbibliothek" (1846- 

 '64) and his " Jugendschriften " (1846, et seq.\ 

 and many of them have gone through a large 

 number of editions. Among his most popular 

 tabs are " Der jun<?e Trommelschliiger," "Der 

 LanJprediger," " Der kleine Bergrnann," "Das 

 vierte Gebot," "Der blinde Knabe," and "Ale- 

 zander Menzikoff." His tales for adults, in 

 the "Sichsische Volkakalender " (1842-'49) 

 anl "Deutsche Volkskalender " (1850-'53), 

 also enjoyed considerable popularity. 



NOBLE, MATTHEW, an English sculptor, 

 born in 1820; died June 23, 1876. He was a 

 pupil of John Francis, and at an early age 

 acquired a certain distinction in his profession. 

 One of his first commissions was for the Man- 

 chester Wellington monumsnt, inaugurated in 

 1856, for which his design of a colossal statue 

 of the duke, standing on a granite pedestal, 

 around which were four figures personifying 

 Wisdom, Valor, Victory, and Peace, gained the 

 award over many competitors. Other of his 

 early works were : a monument in Ashley 

 Church, Staffordshire, typifying Life, Death, 

 and Resurrection ; a fine statue of Dr. Isaac 

 Barrow, in the chapel of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge ; and a statue of Lord Canning, executed 

 in 1864, for the city of London. Among his 

 more recent works are the statue to Sir John 

 Franklin, in Waterloo Place, the statue of the 

 Queen, executed for St. Thomas's Hospital, and 

 the statue of Lord Derby, in Parliament Square. 

 He was a constant exhibitor at the Royal Acad- 

 erav, although he never sained any of its honors. 



NORTH CAROLINA. The Democratic par- 

 ty of this State assembled in convention at Ra- 

 leigh on the 14th of June, 1876, for the purpose 

 of nominating their candidates for State officers 

 anl presidential electors. The meeting was 

 very numerously attended by delegates repre- 

 senting all parts of the State. The nomi- 

 nations were made by ballot, and resulted as 

 follows : For Governor, Zebulon Bird Vance re- 

 ceived 962 votes, and D. S Reid 4 ; for Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, Thomas J. Jarvis, of Pitt ; for 



State Treasurer, John M. Worth, of Randolph ; 



for Secretary of State, .Joseph A. Kugelhurd, of 

 New Hanover ; for State Auditor, Samuel L. 

 Love, of Haywood ; for Attorney-General, 

 Thomas S. Henan, of Wilson ; for Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, J. C. Scar- 

 borough, of Johnson. For presidential elec- 

 tors at large, the following were chosen : I . < <. 

 Fowle, of Wake, and J. M. Leach, of Davidson. 



The nominations of candidates for Congress- 

 men were made at local conventions held in 

 the respective districts, and resulted as fol- 

 lows : First district, Jesse J. Yeates, of Hert- 

 ford ; third district, Alfred M. Waddel, of New 

 Hanover ; fourth district, Joseph J. Davis, of 

 Franklin; fifth district, Alfred M. Scales, of 

 Guilford ; sixth district, Walter L. Steele, of 

 Richmond; seventh district, William M. Rob- 

 bins, of Iredell; eighth district, Robert B. 

 Vance, of Buncombe. 



The Republicans of North Carolina met in 

 State Convention at Raleigh, on the 12th of 

 July, 1876, and nominated the following State 

 ticket : For Governor, Thomas Settle, of Guil- 

 ford ; for Lieutenant-Governor, William A. 

 Smith, of Johnson ; for Secretary of State, 

 John W. Alberston, of Perquimans ; for State 

 Treasurer, William H. Wheeler, of Forsyth ; 

 for State Auditor, John Reilly, of Cumberland ; 

 for Attorney-General, T. L. Hargrave, of Gran- 

 ville ; for Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 John C. Carson, of Henderson. 



In both the Republican and Democratic plat- 

 forms, as adopted by the two conventions, there 

 is one resolution of the same import, pledging 

 their respective organizations to a vigorous 

 prosecution, and as early a completion as prac- 

 ticable, of the Western North Carolina Rail- 

 road to Ducktown and Paint Roo.k, by the 

 use of convict-labor and such judicious legisla- 

 tion as might be found necessary. 



At the local convention which, the Repub- 

 licans of the second congressional district held 

 at Goldsboro, on July 26th, Curtis H. Brogden 

 was nominated for Congress. 



The contest between the two parties during 

 this campaign was characterized by extraordi- 

 nary activity and energy. The most influen- 

 tial members of either party canvassed the State 

 throughout, and addressed the inhabitants of 

 all her sections ; while the two rival candi- 

 dates for the office of Governor, having entered 

 into an agreement among themselves, and an- 

 nounced the places and times of their meeting 

 in the newspapers, made a joint canvass, ap- 

 pearing together on the same platform, and 

 thence speaking to the same audience, the one 

 after the other. 



The election held on November 7, 1876, re- 

 sulted in a complete victory for the Demo- 

 cratic candidates, except in a few instances, 

 and by great majorities. The largest whole 

 number of votes polled in the State at this 

 election was that on Governor 233,525, of 

 which Zebnlon B. Vance received 123,265, and 

 Thomas Settle 110,256. The largest number 



