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Resolved, That we tender to the Hon. David Bennett Hill, of New York, our thanks for the able, eloquent and patriotic address this day delivered by him, and that our people will hold in lasting remem- brance his participation in our celebration of the one hundred and seventeenth anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde- pendence.

The resolution was adopted unanimously.

Then Senator Ransom offered a resolution of thanks to Senator Gray, which was adopted.

Elias Carr, the Democratic nominee for Governor, was introduced. There were loud cries for Gray, then for Carr, and then for Ransom, but none of them responded, and after giving three cheers for Senator Hill the meeting broke up. Senator Hill held an informal reception on the platform, and then returned to his hotel. Dinner was served at 4 o'clock. At 6.30 o'clock Senator Hill, Senator Gray, General Lathrop and the United Press correspondent left Charlotte on the special car "Neva" for the North.

THE DAY OBSERVED IN RALEIGH.

All the State departments and the banks of the city were closed to-day, being Stafe holiday, in honor of the Mecklenburg Declara- tion of Independence. Governor Holt, who was to have been present at Charlotte to-day on the occasion of the celebration, is quite unwell and confined to his room, and consequently unable to be present.

THE MAN WHO KILLED GENERAL A. P. HILL.

Statement of Mr. Mauk, Who Says He Fired the Fatal Shot.

The Baltimore American, of May 29, 1892, in a long article describing how General Hill was killed, reproduces the account of