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" The King of France with twice ten thou sand men - . ' 1 Marched up the hill, then marched down : again." - 1 j And who will :be . fooled). by the' plot?x Who believes that the Deniq-ci-ats who ; affiliate are not jdirectly ; aiding the Radicals to defeat their old party ? ; Is any so blind that : he cannot penetrate the : masks and see what faces are behind ? cerelv i think ; .that rr the We sin-so-called "Liberal" movement 'maniDulated bv ; - I- I itaaicais - wno .nave oeen yn,auicav office-holders all." along,' and by! Knrnel" Johnston, who has sought' office for twenty jeafs with., an,. as siduity 'that is wonderfnl and with a; want of success that U phenq'mena is! I the most1 conspicuously absurd and. wanton political dodge tbat.evcr; was j -: " - . " ..- k. : ' I - th ought 6 f. It is infi nitely more ri-; diculous; arid inexcusable than tho Mahone. dodge, because in Virginia there was a considerable . number of gentlemfen Qf r- bigh & character ; and' . good talents who .were siricjjrely op posed to- the settlement: "of the btate "debt upon the basis proposed; by the Ftinders. . They ' followed ; Mahones lead, jmwiselyrsaua injuriottsly .to the good : name of the State,: ibut ;they ' werWhdhest andj sincere in-., their ;ad-- vocacyf a setaementpon-.a much, lOWer UHSIS. t; ; ... -I. ry; : f But in- North Carolina the men of the .Billy - Johnston type have;,. not half the reason for deserting the old Democratic party, because they know ; precisely what-J sort of at party..they are joining. ' They know..-that the Republican .party iwas: desperately corrupt . in '.1B68V69J They: know it 5 i - .... .... ... : ji l t - came near bankrupting forever.North Carolina. ', -They know that -'under Grrant the-rights of , the i Southern - people were trampled ruthlessly :'nn ;der the ironfhoofs of tyrants and op pressors They know - that the ex penses of the Government were enor mous, that .the -plundering was end less, that the corruption ramified, and still ramifiesjcvery departments They know of the great frauds of 1876, when ;the. Presidency iwas; actually .stolen., "They know what a return of Radicalism to power in .North Ca-' rolina means, and they know ;that the Radical party has not changed for the better in any particular. - 1 here is no excuse . lor such a movement M. v vaitii j , aJ attempt of a few. men likes '"Knrnel" J ohnston to sell out - the old party whilstdeserting to the Radicals. Eve rybody would - have more ' respect for the Johnston set if they came square ly out and said they were . Republi cans and wanted a" taste of the loaves and fishes than to get up such: a senseless-concern iaa thev. have, tried . to create and dub it "Liberal." The people will not.be .deceived. If the taxpayers of North Carolina believe - that ; the Radical party is really the party1 for-them they will have the manliness to say ; so openly and to act upon their -"convictions, But they will not . dodge, and shirk, and whilst pretending to, favor a new party play into the hands i ot the xte publicans, ' whdm they "have fought for fifteen years, and ... whose corrup tions and " betrayals of the people have been by . them denounced again " ' " ' ! -e j , , , . It is onlviour years since the dis- appointed f and : hungry - venerable "Knrnei,?-who. is foaching iwith .vthe vol. xm. aid of that hoary old revenue official, 1 "Kurnel" Ike Young, the humbug "Liberal" u movement that don't move much thus held forth to the people v of the Sixth; Congressional District: 'He said: ' " : . - V ... AV. ,! "Before peace and moxwritv cure restored to tliedauntrg this power must come thtoeb DEMOCRATIC CONTBOIi. . . - A bold military chief tain , defiant i of civil rights and, constitutional restraints,'1 Grant will bring to his support all those who favor mon archical government, those who think that vagrancy and : the discontents of labor Bhould be suppressed by force the whiskey. iu, Kutuuuarus, monopolists, . uauonai banks,- bondholders. - orotectionists of all- shades. : the old corrupt 5 politicians, ; all backed by, the crand army : of the Renub- i Jic. , r, ; Let x stand , together for jjemocraae rule, which has done so much in the past? to relieve our burdens and main tain civil liberty in both State, and Federal governments" The Tenerable and .antiquated and fatuous "KjirneP! will find ; that" Tiis disguise will be seen through" by '-all i of ;.the .Memocrats who- are Dem- ocrats from principle. .Hisi influence "will be very limited, and i his disap pointments "will be as . real as those that have fallen to his Bhare in the past. . 'Ah, old man ' - i "Flins away ambition: i By that sin fell the angels,""- ., WHAT DEMOCRATIC RULE IN THEi j;':- K COUNTIES AFFECTED. - The Stak has . already called at tention to what was done f or Gran ville county by the Democratic Board: of 3ounty Commissioners. We copied . the facts from the Oxford Mree'lMnce. i This was some time ago. . We pub- ; lished a week - or t so ago .what had! been done in ; New .Hanover county, i We think' it highly important that ; the tax payers should not lose sight, especially at - this time, of what has lbeeh saved by.. the present system off -wrr I w.V Sv'.rT" Vv rfs6-"-i what three years of Democratiqule I in Granville accomplished. , Says the Jfree Lance: ""County -order paid dollars for dollar on nrAQffntftt.inn to t.h Tnymnrv. and not onTv' so paid at the present timet but paid from VL I H I W rzt 1 I I1R - I Milling - i mw-jv iri liltri county reduced fronv ?34,0UU to $ 17.00U in. r ' -' r . . tound numbers, and - that, too,- while meet ing in cash every current expense and with out increasing the annual levy of taxation one cent! In every section of the county a renewed interest is being manifested on the 'subiect of education New school houses are being erected in' many portions of the county and old ' ones r repaired-and renovated. Incompetent teachers have beeu displaced and a high, grade of scholarship reauirea neiore a ceroncaie is irranteu. x" lne scnooi runa is luaaciousiy nanuieu, and so prudent has been ; the management that it is proposed to run all the schools this year not less than - six months, and iff some districts more than that. . We again invoke the county papers to hunt: up the(: records . and : spread I theni before 1 2he people. : it is jlm portant every .way. .The;.. Winston Leader, refetring to Granvillej says : - Tf county commissioners are elected by the people all of this good solid, work in the way of . reform and retrenchment will be undone. ...Are the . Centre - and East ready for such an -undoing, and to their own de triment? "We hope not.'". ' . , Has the Leader.let. ita readers see the good effects . of Democratic manr agement in this county? -If not we hope it will copy the paairi points as presented in the Stab:-. - ; FOUR REASONS. - The- attempt . ta make the Demo- cratic party , responsible as a " party for-, the prohibition? movement xn JTorth Carolina; will fail . most' e'gre- giously for many teasons. . .We offer four: t . , , r, First, of the seventeen members of the Iiegislature, jvho otd, 'against the Prohibition bill, ten were Memor Second, -' a large majority of the Democrats in the State voted against the bill at the polls. Third; .there were dozens , of Re- publican leaders and thousands -of j - i ,t the rank and file who ;votedorvprov hibition.' i - Fourth, ithe"7 Republicans! dor not hesitate to nominate "for office men who . were tiot only : open 'advocates of Prohibition, but who were active and earnest advocates. f We Cannot spare the - necessary space for the lengthy proceedings of the Jacksonville meeting. We gave yesterday the only points, pf general interest. - Delegates - and alternates were v appointed to the. State . and Judicial .conventions.. ;The following is the Lemocrauc jGiXecuwve vuiu inittee appointed for Onslow county : ' -i ' : : I Dr. Cyrus Thompson, E. L. France Jr... Dr.R. W. Ward.,J,;D. Costen and Solomon Gornto. Our, friends in the several counties' of this section- must excuse us for not J publishing., all t the proceedings of I -nnblio meetmers sent us. 'lo do so i r .-.. 1 would tax our; columns too heavily.. We will always try to give the leaa- I ing ." points. . : .s ;' -: GONE TO REST. Deatb of Ii-evi: Ai lliart Successful SlanaAetiirer aid a Good Citizen. -It becomes bur painful duty this morning to announce the -death of the venerable Levi Ai Hart,, .which occurred at Ms resi dence in this city at an.early hour yester- J day morning,.; after.' lingering for'several days with paralysis. Mr, Hart was born in the - town of Southington,Connecticuton the "7th of August,-, 1809. and was- conse quently ,-in the-. 73rd. year bf 'has age. " -He came to Wilmington in 1838, and first went into the business of fin and house furnish- ing goods with a mau 1 named. Porter, the j firm being Porter &JIart, in which ho con- .tinued until the year 1840, .when he. be-; came associated - with the late; Stephen -P. Polley, and the. firm of Polley & Har;was started, which became ' widely -known, principally from the-extensive manufacture . of copper,: stiHsr for turpentine an3t, ether ? pecially. during a the years 1I8SI, 1853 and - 1853, during which time it is said that they j)r6bably manufactured more of these par- ticular kind of stills than? were turned out by all the Other establishments in the United i Spates. ... This firm continued f its successful career until 1857, when, 3fr Polley having; withdrawn, Mr. John C. Bailey- becamei associated with JIr Hari,. and the new and! familiar firm of Hart & Bailey was formed,.; which was ' signalized by- greatly enlarged; operations, which' e'were now made to em brace work on iron as well as copper, and - the consequent addition: of a ; foundry and. machine shops which were capable of turn-- ing out a vast amount of work. Under thisj firm the business continued to prosper and! was carried on through the war,- the only: Intermission being during the prevalence of; the yellow fever, epidemic here, and until. 1879, - when-Mrr- H. -.A.- Burr was ad ded to the '-.firm,' and the .manufacture of plows became an - important feature of: the establishment. - Thus, step by step,-didi the business grow and expand from the tin shop to the large and extensive jfoundry and machine shops which now form . such an. important item in the industry , of IVil tnfnfftAn an1 oil fTia tirno tia fiiiK-iont r$ this hoUce maintained a character for strict integrity, coupled with business qualiflca- S'lXTOlSS dS zen, a useful man and an honest and up-t right gentleman, who will be sadly missed from the community Among those who worked by his side in his earlier days, are included . Timothy'IGues Wmv Cbokman. gunsmith: IVm. H.Marks,f. tinsmith,'-and Tobias Lucasf tinsmith and roofer. All had preceded him through the dark valley. - I ' v . Deceased leaves a wife anaf our daughters to mourn their irreparable loss. ; : The funeral .will take place: Irom, the First Presbyterian Church this morning at 10 O ClOCk.- f.Ki it:iti-U'i Sliep RaistBS' TboCom Jk-v. XXS. f Mr. Thos. J. Xee, writing, to us from South "Washington, Pender county, oh the subject of sheep raising, : says ho has with care succeeded in increasing the yield of wool from three pounds to 'twelve pounds and a half. , He clipped two sheep a few days since and got twenty-six . pounds and a half of wool; and also clipped thirteen head of the same ' breed and .bt one hunf dred and six ppunds of wool, an average of something over eight pounds to the sheepl He wants to know w ho can beat that. His ed ' is the Merino crossed with : Soutb down. - . l 'v- J i!V ; v -. ''Jj t Our correspondent also gives us a disser tation on crop raising. : ,- He says . crops as a general thing-, are, backward; particularly cotton. -Ther corn crop- looks much bet ter, but is1 not- as "l-forward as usual Jn every instancej- however. where care has been taken to plant, at the right time the crops IookwelL JIe-can boast that he has planted thirfy two crops - and never made a failure ; ' His cotton, he;; says, Js now full of forms,' while. a. great many. of his, broth er farmers are plowing: up their cotton and planting other cropd In its stead. : r -"' "1 Death of Former "Wllmlnstonlan. ' A late issue Of , the Forest !Clty (Ark.) :JTimes annouuceA the death, of Col. Samuel M. HankinsJ who was born 'in'this city in - 1830, and has since resided a portion of the time in that State and a part of the time in Mississippi, but"mdre-1 latterly in Arkansas. ' He has filled sevfcral offices - of trust and profit, and followedjlor many years the business of a newspaper editori, -. His cha racter was above I reproacbj CoL Hankins was a cousin of Mr. Wfiliam Hatins. of, this city; who is " the jonly.niaember of the, family old enough, to remember, him. . Anotber Richmond to be In tbe Field. i:We have the- best authority for stating that Mr.' Elijah Hewlett, the present Trea surer of this ,; county!- will '. soon ' be in the . field as an independent candidate for .that position at the .coming election. He "was thrown overboard j by the late Republican County Convention, jbut he - don't -propose to go to the bottom without a struggle. Foreign Shipments.- -1 The following embrace the foreign Bhip-: ments from this port yesterday : The Swed ish brig .B&rCapt Sundgvist, f or Queens-. town for orders, by Messrs. Chess, Carley & Co.,with 967 casks of spirits turpentine and 551 barrels .of rosin, valued at 20,245; the German brig Express, Capt. Fretwurst, for Rotterdam, Holland, ;by( Messrs. D. R. Mur chison & Co.", with 500 casks of spirits tur pentine and 1,758 barrels of rosin, valued at $13,920; and the Norwegian barque Agder, . Capt. Johannessen, for London, by Messrs. Paterson. Downing & . Co.. with 4,283 bar-' rels pf rosin valued at $9,175.39. -Total value of foreign exports for the: 'day ,$43,?. 340.89. . ' ' . We saw three beets yesterday which1 beat, any,. we, have seen.' They Weighed 8i pounds.are of the species known as ''Blood Beet,.;, and were raised by Mr B. S. Montf ord, of Masonboro. " WILMINGTON,.,N. C.;, FRIDAY,, JUNE 16, 1882.-7. jlleetlng of ' the DemecraUe Executive Committee of th, XMrd Conres atonal District. ' h The .Democratic Executive Committee of the Third: Congressional JDistrict met at the Purcell House in this city yesterday at noon . ine iouowidc coonues .were rep- resented i Onslow, A..C. Huggms. 1 ' " ' ' Sampson, J. A. FerreH. f ' ' -. Brunswick, i'f. Reiger; ' ; jV New Hanover D. J. Deyane.', ' 1 - .'Bladen, T. D. Love.1 ' ' . Columbus, V. Y. Richardson." ' ' t"."? : .-Ttfoore, X. A.' Worthy.- ' Pender, Drl E. Porter. ; ' Duplin was ' represented - by Dr:; MatL Moore, proxy for : B. Nicholson, and Cum berland by, V." Y. 'Richardson, proxy for H. R Horne." ' f Carteret and Harnett counties ' were- not represented." ' ' " i. -s- ' ; Ehe meeting was called toofiwcr by Copt,i Y Y, RichaFdson,"-Chalrman1 whenaf ter some ,'discu8sion'Warsaw7r Duplin county, was" selected as the place for the meeting of the nominating Convention, and July 20th as the time. . ." The following resolution was adopted: , -v Betolvetlf That the chairman of this com mittee be requested to solicit reduced rates from steamboats and railroad companies for delegates attending the convention. ; -The plan of organization of the Execu tive Committee of the State in reference to' the election of Congressional Delegates was commended. ; The thanks of the committee were ten dered to Mr. B. L. Perry, proprietor of the: Purcell House, , for courtesies . extended to tne committee. , ,It was also resolved that the thanks of the committee be tendered to Capt. V. Y.; Richardson, the chairman of the commit tee, for the energy, Zeal and ability with which he discharged his duty in , the last general election. 'iV. , . The committee then adjourned. :,-.-. . - ! '. V,..:: . Clinton 6c Point Caswell Railroad. ' The meeting held at Point Caswell yes-. terday in the interest of this road, was well attended and very enthusiastic." About twenty gentlemen from "Wilmington were present. -- Speeches were made in advocacy . ' J : .r r, i were "appointed to .solicit subscriptions in j Pender and Sampson counties.- Many of I the present stockholders who ' were at the I meeting increased their subscriptions large ly, and as a result of this meeting it maybe confidently stated that " the speedy comple tion of the road is assured. ; It was resolved to call a meeting to organize the Company on the 22d of this month m this city. : " , The delegates -from Wihnington.1 who Went up to oint CasweU on : the steamer 3 John i Dawson, held a meeting on board the boat bn their return, at which Mr. A. IL YanBokkeleh presided fi and Mr. R. ' W. Hicks acted as secretary, and at which the following . resolution was unanimously adopted.' ' ' " 1 Resolved. That whereas Capt. Paddison. of the steamer John Davison, did so gene rously tender his scat to the subscribers of the Clinton z romt Caswell Itailroad, and so kindly and: assiduously entertained : us on bur trip, we, his guests, express our ap iweciation of his ; attention and the interest ha has shown in the enterprise, and hereby acknowledge that the success ox tne meet ing to-day was mainly due to his exertions. : !.: m- m 'a ' i The steamer Minnthaha, recently pur chased by Capt.' : Joseph Bisbee to be run on the line between this city and Smithville, arrived ' hero' yesterday morning, having i been taken in tow by the. Revenue Cutter Coif aii at 4.80 o'clock P. M.- on Tuesday : last, under the lee of Cape Lookout shoals. In dimensions she ia ,97 feet long and 21 feet "breadth of beam; and has two cabins-rone- forward and i one aft. r She : is nicely fitted up for passengers, and will run a reg ular schedule all the year -round as a mail freight and passenger boat between, this city and Smithville, commencing in about four days, or as soon as her shaft can be mended and she can be given a good coat of paint The Minnehaha will : be . commanded , by Capt EcL Burress, i with i Mr Frank Wil kinson'as mate; Capt. Bisbee being owner and agent ' - . The Manufacturing Boom. The Roberdell Manufacturing ompany, of Richmond county, ' has been organized and .books . of subscription i or- the capital . stock will be open until the 1st of August, unless otherwise ordered in the meantime ; those in Wilmington being under the super intendence of Mri Don MacRae, Dr.. W. G. Thomas and Mr. E. E. Burruss. Twenty per cent, of tbe amount suhscribed isio ' oe; paid in when the subscription is made. ; ; Mr." Darby Declines.- K- "W h:Rj 1 -We are glad to announce, by authority,' thatMr;"Frank T3J Darby, will not accept the nomination for Judge, of the. Fourth' Judicial District tendered him by the Coali tion Convention at; Raleigh.-- We have never "for a moment doubted that this would be Mr. Darby's conclusion. Judicial Convention.. " We -areinforme'd by Mr., DuBrutz Cut- lar, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, of the Third Judicial , District, that the Wc& : W. Railroad Company will sell tickets to the Judicial Convention at Mamolia - on thei 27th inst. for 8 cents a mile both ways; and that the Midland N. C. Road wiU sell tickets" for One full fare, good to return. " ' ' '-' ' - Republican Candidates for Congress . The Republican Congressional "Conven-" tion for this District, which met . in Eliza- bethtown, Bladen county, on Friday last the 10th instV nominated W.-P Canaday, for Congress by "acclamation. ';Gen. Man-: 1 ming, of WHmington," presided. r WASTE COTTON Report of BlanaKera of the New York Cotton Exchanse-iRecommendatlon to Planters. - , - By Telegraph to the Morning: Star.l New York. June &--The ' Board of Managers .: of; the New York'Cotton Ex change have recently, adopted a report rela tive to waste in the staple, -The report says. w nereas, numerous complaints have been made about waste in ! the staple of Ameri can cotton, more particularly of this year's ; growth, which has led to the belief in many instances that it is caused by ginning at a : high rate of speed and cleaning the seed too 'closely,thereby breaking the Btaple and pro- uucmsr an excess ol . 'nuiry or what is known as Teginned staple,' thus lowering ! lis cnaracier ana vaiue; una cxcnange would most earnestly : call the attention of the planting interests- to rthe evil, and askj that efforts be made to cure :it. It is quite' manifest that - the lowering! of cotton by i lmpericcTr hanaung is injurious to the in terest of the Souths Some -oflthe damages'- complained of : are i traceable , to the imperieet conaition ot the gins; neces-j sary, -repairs not oemg rmaae where they understand. ottonthat are requireo.- Brmersnooua is deteriorated it will be surely felt in price. Sand : and dust - have Deen found m the: American crop this year in f larger proporT tion than ever before, and hence great re duction in 'price has beeu made for it. No doubt the very -dry season had considerable to do with this but 1 which has caused; low. prices to be accepted for such,' as sales have been made ' at 8c and : - aic and even - more; below the value of the same grade of clean cotton. , it is said that cleaners were exhibited at the Atlanta Exposition - that would remedy this : grievance, - and if it be true their adoption should become ceneraD In conclusion, planters should be reminds ed that more care should be given to baling.; so as to avoid mixing -different qualities in the same bale, .which is a source of great- annoyance at s the muis, ana leaas to re- claimations against sellers, MISSOURI. A Bank Robbed by Bandits In Broad - Ttavllfrlit- - I , i l ;. By Telegraph to the tfonttng Star, Kansas Crrv June-8.-The following are the particulars of the. bank robbery 'at Brookfield. Missouri.7 yesterday :'- Six armed men fode into the town of .Brookfield just as the bank was closing . for the , day, dis mounted, and coverins; the clerks with re volvers, robbed the safe of about $5,000,; They kept. up a 'rapid fusuade with lire- arms as they rode through the place.' over awing the town -people, xney were an masked.' - The county sheriff and"jtown . possible and started . after the robbers- Dick Little, ex-Marshal Leggett and others m this city who are fanuliar with the James tzaner. - think that Frank James: was ; hot connected wiia uus aiiair, muiougu;a.uiiui ting that the job wa& done up in the James . , . , . i ... . .i .. , stvle. " "" A dispatch ironist, josepn says mat a party of men have .been, stopping on the Hooper farm, five miles southeast of Kirks- ville, near -.isrookneid, tor ; three weeKs; They kept-their, revolvers on all the time; Nobody .knew.them. - raeverai norses were stolen there Saturday nieht. r CO UNTERFEITERS. Arrests by Government Detectives A Denial that Counterfeit U. S. Bonds are In CfrcnlatIonV;;ff ypit ''f ' TBv TeletrraDh to the' Mornlnfr Stat. 1 ?..-rz s WasbxugtonJ June 8. -Secret: Service detectives report the capture at Chicago of f on r Ronnterf eiters " with ' a " ' dUantitv of counterfeiting apparatus and about $1,000 another party - at Union Hill. . Itew Jersey, who had a branch establishment in ; New York city, with their outfit and stock of conda . .. eecretary x ogier,aemes uweriy wu lucre is any 'foundation for rumors that a quan tiiv of counterfeited UV Si bonds are in cir culation. The story is a Dure fiction started by sensation mongers. . In all the bond re demptions so far, hot a single 'counterfeit has Men presented for payment, j Treasury officials also announce, that the . : . arrest of Brockway was at the instance jf private Earties, and not of the government ; "'. that irockway will ! probably be released, as lie has hot 80far as is known, 2 violated the conditions under, which sentence , was sus pended when General Deyens was Attbrhey Jl UIi ,T5 THE COTTON CROP. I. Report of the 'Department of Agrleul- ' tnre ai to Acreage, Condition, &c. WASUTKOTOirV June lO.'--The' June crop report of the ; Department of: Agnculture reoresentt the? entire areasof 1,561 of the principal counties of the. United States, and includes all .but a . small- fraction of. the . breadth of prominent crops. I HQ area in coiiou ia a i-iv per uem. iua than ln 'ltRJXi -lexas .maKes an increase makes and also the smaU cotn Idistpt .of South - eastern , Yirginia.' r. All the other States, re turn snrns nan nt-ftrea. fina largest nen- ciency is in the States bordering on the Mississippi river.i where lanting' in- the overflowed districts was not entirely finish ed 6n-;the flrstof June- j Ancomparison with last - year's, average , is r "Virginia 107 per cent. . North - Carolina ' 99, South Caro-i Una 98, Georgia 95. -Florida 99, i Alabama i a -Br : T r T nj a ntr i Arkansas 94- Tennessee - 97. - The average 1 condition of the entire cotton' area indicates , a depreciation of 11 per . cent, from perfect healthfulness- and. average growth. It. isr represented " by 89; the June condition of tne previous crou utuug wo. - xi i uettei than lasty ear only in- South Carolina and' Texas. -The cause of the depreciation is , . " - , . Ti i Vu..r mainly that the temperature, is too cold for thrift. In every State there was destruc-: tion of plants by frost; .there was also too much .-rain for .healthful':? growth.. Both causes made necessary replanting, in some counties of one-fourth the acreage: instan ces are reported of two or three successive. replantings, and replacement was still pro i cressine. i The condition is best in Florida ;f worst in Yirginia. :i In Tennessee North Carolina and Arkansas it is much lower than in the Gulf Coast ; Stfttesi ? Average of conditions are as lollowsii-iYuginia 70; North Carolina 83, South Carolina S?8, Georeia 89, Florida 97, Alabama 95, Mis-' sissippi 88, Louisiana 90, Texas 93,Arkan- sas 85. Tennessee 80. 1 . The stand is not so good as usual and is an element Of report- : ed depreciation." The . coblwet weather, caused slow growth : and unthrift, " the ap pearance of lice and -: rust, and the .: preva lence of s0ra-8ain. - A . large - number of returns ; say .that with 2 the recent fine weather . cotton is : improving and gives some assurance 01 a better; report in Juiytr Surgeon Woodward," of the U. S. A.", one of the attending physicians : on the late President Garfield, and who has , been sick with brain fever at Nice, is reported lvine dangerously ill at last- advices, " with little hope of recovery, ' . that it is because it is American it sold at higher value thatt theurod-1 around his neck, -and throwing -Stover, ZA''--V" NO. 33 ; CRIMES AND CRIMINALS. By Telegraph to the Morning Star.) ' ! PowHATTAUi Va:,-. June 9. Armistead Gray (colored) was hanged at noon - to-day at Powhattan Court Houses for the murder of .Lincoln Gray, his own son, - a lad of fourteen years. The execution was entirely pnvaie, in accordance witntne isiate iawj th3 only persons present being: .court - oifi cers, physicians and two representatives of the press. A crowd ot "negroesrnumbenng about 1 150, mostly women,- gathered from tne surrounaing country ana remained about the jail before and during the execu tion.! iTerything passed off. auietly and .orderly. - . " v " Peijiiam, Mncsr., June 9. John Tribettsl the boy who murdered Washington Febrr bach, a few. days-since, was - brought here yesterday and examined' before 'a justice.' Towards night the propriety of lynching mm was ireeiy aiscussea. but no decision was arrived at. 'At 1 o'clock this morning twenty -resolute ' men' broke,-jntQ; the jail with great difficulty, . broke open : his cell and seized : him, the terrifled bOy saying-?! lynchers carried him tOxtherailro a few rods away rested a ladder Against & telegraph pole, toopedneendotteope, dead in. a few..moments'."vfIljv-:lyncherS'v kept the crowd back with drawn revolvers, i and as soon as the work was done scattered . in --all directions. TribettS;. was only 17 . years old. He made a f nil confession last: night. -Me laughed at the crowd tthat met, him yesterday morning, .but -ibecame de-; pressed at night. The lynchers : will prob-( ably not suffer for their crime. ': -.-A I-. t San Fkancisco. Col.- June 1 9.T-A dis-: patch from San Jose says that Mrs."Gauda-j lupe Flores was assassinated on ! the' street: at Los Gates last night s Her former hus-; band John Waisly, recently released from the penitentiary,-it is supposed murdered her, in revenge for her having obtained a divorce and remarried during his mcarcera-: tion. ' . s -'J :-:, The , California silk, factory "and four dwellings, at South San Francisco, CoL,' were burned yesterday. : Loss $75,000. J U :l I Neosha, Mo. , June 9.- In an attempt by; a deputy sheriff to arrest a circus proprie-i tor for exhibiting at "South. West City with-i out license, a pertormer .named Juclinde was shot three times and killed; one Sea-: born was shot badly in the breast, and Da vid Kobm, an assistant deputy, was shot in the knee. .; All the circus men were arrest-, ed."' Kausas Ctty.-Mo.. June 9. -The bank' robbers, four in number, were surrounded in the woods about thirteen miles north west of Kirksvilkv and finding ' resistance . nseless, surrendered They were taken to Kirksville, and from there were to be taken. to Brookfield, under a heavy, guard. ;, Two of the prisoners are recognized as. Fox and Morris, the other two will not ' give their names. ; : Jnnends of the robbers are con gregated at Kirksville, and say theprisonf era shall not be taken to Brookfield. - 'A fight is looked j Chicago, Jnue 10. Casper Zyboli is a baker, who works at night. After . he had left his home - last evening his wife began preparations for a horrible deedL-The pair had four : children, aged, respectively, twelve, seven, two and a half y ears, and a baby of four, months. She,- dressed the four in fresh white clothes, with bright -ribbons, and then . gave them strychnineL" and as soon as they were dead laid them out carefully with flowers in their hands and all tneir surroundings made as beauuiul as possible. Havifig - put on a fresh white chemise, decorated with ribbons, she took a dose of poisbn herself. This was just before her husband's return at 5 o'clock this morning. When he appeared -at the door she met him and. said: Uome and see the. children;; They ;are all dead and gone to heaven. See how pretty they are, with nice flowers tf or- the angels. " 4 One, of . the children was still alive, but has since died. Mrs. "Zyboli died about 7 o'clock this morning. i-r The cause of the woman's act is unknown, but it is concluded that she was demented. V. ' ,V 1 . ;- ":V-l-' ';. ' i ; Lynchbtibo.-' Va.,' June 10.- A. negro woman named Belle Lipscomb, finding that her child had small pox, threw it in a well in the city suburbs, several days since, and escaped to! the woods, three., miles from Lynchburg. The dead body of the child was found;Thursday : and the authorities of Camp hell county captured the woman last night. ;She had contracted smail-pox from the child. I -If - she- survives she. will' be brought here for trial for murder.Vf . A St. Louis. June -10. Aidispatch-. from Brookfield says ' that a special train, with the bank j robbers, ;aa charge AOfjMaranal McArthur and fifty, men, arrived . there at 1 :50 a m.r to-day. - A great crowd met them, but there was no trouble. ' . The pris oners were identified as Franks Albert and Fred Mason,- three"; brothers; formerly of this county;- the other is evidentlya new comer. -All are roughlooking eases. Mrs. Frank Mason has gone this morning, un der ah escort, to recover fi baff'Of gold com about,$140:-which -she says she hid un der a ' house.1- . The -prisoners are reticent, sayingnothing 1 ot their -past f? lif e'; They I ft0Wlrt savino- that two of thern are from ig.! .The woman; who is young and pretty?' and- devoted to Frank. - says she came recently irom Jiiiisoury, ind.- - one is as keen atidcool -as the men' and no doubt was privy "-to their plans.' It is .believed thpirwill nlpart irniltv , J ' .1 .-. 1 r- o J - Atlantic Crrv, N. J.V June 10. Gus Anson, proprietor of the Ocean Yiew Hotel, . who it is . said had . been made - insane by protracted sickness,' this evening stabbed his : wife and then cut his own throat.' Both are expected to die. . , . . . j . i Buffalo, N.; Y.. June 10. R. Porter, President of the bankrupt First National Bank of ; Buffalo, and ; Herman J. .JHall, speculator, have been held by U. S. Com missioner Scroggs? to await action by the Urand Jury. . Jjee s ban is fixed at Sl5,uoo and Hall's at $1,000 Between them they absorbed the entire funds of the bank.". :- : r; :,.'." ." . . s a a V ' ?' ; 1 1 'ELECTIOm.TRlAlj.H K Case of the Halifax County Canvassers t -aseiore; me. u.: s. tyircuiK. uoun ac. Raleigh." " , - - , - : , IBy TeleRraph to the Horning Star.l '- Y-' Raleiqh, N. C; June ' 8--The case in the U. S. Circuit Court, against Cousins and others, Democratic county canvassers of Halifax county, N. C, for not counting re turns from Halifax precinct in ; the' Con-' gressional election1 of 1880, was called to-: day before Judges Bond and Seymour. A jury has oeen empanelled and one witness .examined - . -. A Verdlci Rendered In the Halifax ; - J " 'Case.'- I'-'.' ' ' Raleigh, N. C.r Ju6e 9.-The iury to day rendered a verdict in the Halifax pre cinct election case, of guilty as to defend-' ants, Li. tl. lieu and u. uryant, Jr and or not guilty as to the other defendants. -f Sen tence has not yet been -passed.1 The En field election case will next be taken up. ; ; " ,--'--... i - - i, .. -j -; .; :-'; v f.. ,mmm f.T .-.", " 'A ship load of Chinese arrived at Victoria,. B. C, Thursday. , Chinese merchants say that 400,000 Will arrive before October., . -t 4. Spirits Turpentine, - - - r - ' t - . - --t-Edenton 'Etiquirer: ' Mrs." T. C. . Blanchard, of Hertford", died on Saturday last. T The revival still continues at the -. Baptist church. There have been several additions to that church, . - ; : . - : : - Henderson Gold Leaf ? A mass meeting of the citizens of Henderson will be held next Tuesday, courVweek, for the purpose of taking suitable steps towards the-' establishment of -a female college at this : : place. -'- -r , . 1 ; - .Wilson Advance? "We learn that about $90 was realized by the ladies of the- . Methodist church at Rocky Mount on last Friday-night at their; festival, i ' Mrr-' Hugh F. MHrray's; many friends will be glad to know that the prospects of his re ceiving the nomination for Judge are very " ' bright t y - v-. Oxford 'Free Lance: The" new - ; Methodist Church at Hermon was appro- 'l priately dedicated on Sunday lasfrj The . Republicans of Granville county don't in-, . tend to give place for the new fledged mem- . -bers of their irty calling themselves : Lib erals. - 6o far as Granville is concerned the Liberal movement is a miserable failure. . ' v. -Winston:'Seiiirf.!.Stete Fair will be held in Greensboro on the 9th - ? and 10th of August. - - The total Inter-; g -nal lievenue collections in this District for ; May amounted to $95,912.62. f s Jesse Bessent' was severely stabbed. : in the left ' . siae by a negro loanng- around -the- depot - Sunday "night? -He is a watchman .there, . ' 7 -;.k and first requested, then ordered the neero ' " Ii. i-jSP l,ne- .companys property, put was. re- r -..vj. y'.v". ' n .iueu-wa.yBMevinuw j -; i - v. " - ij- -.Rnrkinffha; iVnV- : : t ' H: year 01 her aee. . The itev. Air. Shackford's school m the Richmond Acad- !- emy closed on Friday of lastr.weekt V ,Nine prisoners confined ; in our county jail ?k&XS$t&- k 1 attempted to escape last ' Tuesday evening by making an . opening in. the floor of . the cell in which . they were confined! -r A ' colored child, aged about four years, daugh- i j ter of ? one-armed Charley Nicholson,; ; was burned to death on Wednesday last,- by her s clothes taking fire when alone: J " ' 1 New' Berne Journal: We notice .;; nearly every day numbers of drays loaded ? with Northern hay being carried into dif-li fererit parts of the city.- Why not raise it : here? We. talked withDh ; Latham, when in Washington lajst week, and he told us he --' had clover waist high and not patches of it, but whole, fields. . In talking with ;v some. Kmston , men a few days' ago, we M learned that the- Jetties - already - placed in J Neuse river by General Ransom : are pro- -. ducing one effect which will materially aid X' navigation. In addition to narrowing the stream , and deepening, the channel, 1 the water runs slower at low water, and there-- " fore navigation will last longer between -rains. - t " ; - Pittsboro. Record: Dufing' the late war Mr. Samuel C. --Hackney, of this v county, died in the army after an absence , . ; from home of one year. When his corpse . Iwas brought home the lid of the coffin was r : removed in order that his friends and rela- ' tives might take a last look." His' dog ' (a f pointer) saw the dead ' body, and, at once ' recognizing his master, began to wail and ' V howl most piteously. : He followed the SG corpse tQ the grave, and after! the grave was filled up .and .everybody, had gone, he- laid down oh it and there remaiheduntil he S 5? actually starved to death,- refusing ;to leave,-, ; ,or to eat the, food that the family brought ' him, and was buried at the.f oot of hiamas- .ter;gay.;;f,t:v;tr:i r ; Charlotte 06tr:Cohohn-0 , ston was chosen . permanent i president, which was right and -proper, inasmuch as s CoL Johnston : is standing sponsor for the H hew party. ,It wouidliave been exceeding ly" ungrateful to have ignored- Col.'. John- ston's claims to that -exalted position. ;. ' Last Tuesday a negro man named Pace . Wallace, was: murdered in Statesville by another negro I named "Bob" Stimson who -had heavily loaded a gun with buckshot j- for the special purpose -of killing Wallace, .;.' and taking aim , at his .body .fired, sending -, twenty buckshot through the-regibn of the heart. A 1 Wallace fell dead and Stimson was :4 arrested. : The cause , which', led. to the V killing "was undue Lintimacy-on' the part of Wllace with Stimson'a jwif ihy.p'."' ;"n Richmond Dispatch special, ' dated Pelham,: Caswell county, N. C. , June -7. A imost 1 dastardly' and cold-blooded . - .murder was perpetrated on the , -plantation- - ' - - 1 of ilenryJi llodges. m. this county, to-day. , .i ..: ' , j .of his brother-in-law, Sam White (colored), : and shot his wife, Dora White, three times-' in the face and head with a pistol,v killing her instantly. No cause is assigned for the deed, as they had been on . friendly terms. No one was present at the timeexcept an- r other colored woman and she had goneup J stairs wnen : sne.neard tne reports ot tne pistol.""; Uponvrunning . down "the , man : (SladeVran off.: He afterwards weHt to an- officer and gave' himself tip, acknowledging .the murder, after" which time he ceased to speak,, and though repeatedly interrogated . before" and during his trial he would not ; make any reply. t - . , . .YYeldon JSeuos: it ls. wnn much . . ; j ' . - -si sorrow that we announce the death of Mrs. - ' '.'' . ; whichMadf event occurred 1ast ? Sunday? night, On Wednesday of last week3 Tom Furgerson,: a colored mari,Tv waa ,ban- . dling a gun in his room when a little?: .five years old boy, son ol . Joe Ward, a colored man -living- in" town, -entered and- miei some remarks. Furgerson said, if you don't ; mind I'll shoot you, . .and.the boy replied, I'm not afraid. Furgerson then pointed the gun" at him and pulled the ' trigger. .There was no - explosion v and he repeated, the action. The gun fired and ,the whole load went into the boy's breast.- : He .lived only a few minutes. Furgerson said he did not think the gun was loaded : it had no caps on it. Furgerson ? being frightened, ; tied and has not yet returned. - ; t H Raleigh News Observer: v- There are nineteencounty prisoners in our jail. .-' J and three United States prisoners. 'r--A. : -petition is being circulated among the State Guard requesting the Governor to appoint . s R. D. Hancock, Colonel of the First Regi- . ment, Brigadier General of the First . Brig- ; ; ade.- CoL I. J. Young was before ,: the Mayor yesterday for knocking - down : Mr. G. .8. Barrett, of. Moore, j in. the con- -vention yesterday, the latter having called him a liar. l- The Colonel paid ' the costs, .. $7.50, like the man he always is. When Col. Folk's name was presented for .V Ihe action ; of .'the convention, Mr - Hally: I ; burton pledged that CoL Folk would ac cept the nomination. We have not heard lately what Col. Folk's views are, but. un- tu he formally t accepts -we shau presume 1. that his na'me has been used wUhout 'his '.. consent. - r-- Rev. A. C. Dixon, yester- "S day, elected President of Wake Forest Col- T ; lege, was' born in Shelby, Cleaveland county, ; y4 North Carolina, about 1853, he being about ' twenty eight or twenty-nine years of age. ; His. father is the well-known Rev. Mr. : Dixon, -. of Cleaveland ? county,- who 'was a S;! Baptist minister of fine " reputation in that t section. " -Why didn't Dr. f Mott and Col. Johnson put a negro on the ticket? Is a place,on the. executive committee enough f for the colored troops who fought so nobly? '4 And what did CoL Johnson and Maj. ' - Price : get?. Why, they got left! Poor Pricey! Only 25 vote3 in the Liberal -Convention! i Mr.. Oliver H. Dockery is the man we will beat this November, and ;-, we will do it very thoroughly. There is : walking ahead for ''my son Oliver." Thet Democrats will And no difficulty ih putting in the field a candidate who will ieat Col, '. ':' Dockery by fifteen thousand votes. ., : " 5 s - h .... r . "Hi x ; ':-v ',' ' ' f.:'i'-::'"-rj-i' " jij - '. ,. ' ' - : r k -.tub, - : 1 '. h y j - . mm '4' .li. -?:.'-!V: .-:.';J'M ' i-:- - f mi Mm m r. if A Mi I, iw-Hi.-iV:- nr 1 1 il J n r ... IP