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The Weekly Star: PUBLISHED AT v i ljiinc to n , tii c AT - ' ' 1.5 0 A YEAR, IS ADViNO K. Iggggggggggggggggg :! 8888888883 i 8SSS88SSSSS888SSS I "i"u.OOKE ssaags'sssiggssgsaig " : 8SSS838SS8SS88S88 ' S288SSSSS8SSS8888 j nnoKl ,s53SggSgSSgS88 ! 8SSSSSS888S888S88 t " SSSS88828SS88888 SS3SS3S888S3SS83S MB i - . . :" - " -.- : ! " o . :. -V i-i j aT - I I" Entered at the Post Office atJWUmlngton, N. C.1 as Second Class Hatter J : . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscri6tion price of the Weekly Star is as follows :" t Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, ," " ft mnnthn v " $1.50 1.00 .50 6 months. 3 months " TI1K VOITNG K1EN THE HOPK OP THB COiNTRT. ' '" - Our young friepd Robinson, of the Golilsboro Argus, - who is showing energy, tact and Ability in the man agement of his neat daily, was pleased to refer in terras of cordial approval of what the Star recently said of the success of Southern young men. There is no paper in America that takes more pleasure than the Stab does in recognizing talents and suc cess among the young men of our be loved' Southland. And ' why not ? They are the salt, the salvation of the Soaib. The old men are daily passing away and it is the young that must take their places and ,4hape the future of the country. -Upon the. noble, moral, sober, industrous, earnest, energetic, educated young men must the prospering South lean in the decades to come. We can, therefore, but rejoice when we hear ofa promising young man in any Southern State, and when we meet or hear of a North Carolinian who gives earntsl of future usefulness, of high achievements and success we thank God and take courage. All honor to the capable, noble, generous youth in whoe hands are the des tinies of North Carolina and her sister Slates in the South ! But what the Stab said was grati fying abroad. 'A cultured and ac complished y oung, "Virginian editor connected with the editorial stall of the Philadelphia Daily Neies, whose editor-in chief ; is Mr. Moses P. Handy, formerly editor of the Richmond (Va.) jEfayttreryand which has achieved a success in a year and a half that is perhaps phenomenal in that city, saw what we ; said and wrote fo"r a few copies sf the Stab that contained ;t.T In his letter he was so kind and appreciative as to write this, for copying which we make no apology: "I have high hopes that the young; men of the South may socn reconquer for her that supremacy in American affairs and art and literature which .'before the war' she so proudly maintained. And, for my part, I would not know better how to ccntribute . to that result than to have' as many as pos sible of young Southerners read the Stab." That is very gratifying to us, for it comes from a young man of liberal education and a trained journalist. We are indebted to Mr. John Paul Bocock, nephew of the late Thomas P. Bocock,; who for a long time was one of the leading political forces in Virginia" and served , his State for many. terms in. the House of Repre sentatives in Congress, where he was a conspicnons leader. Mr. Bocock is a brother of Willis Henry Bocock, the youthful Professor of Greek in Hampden' " Sidney College, Va., . to whom we referred recently. He is also a brother I of the gentleman to whom we alluded as one of the chief members of the staff of the Philadel phia limes. . A distinguished medical gentle man of this State said to us not long since: "The time is not distant when mediocrity will dot hold its own, and when full and strong men will be to the front." We think this true. ; We believe that in all the professions there will be a demand for higher culture, for higher attainments. While it is more than doubtful if there will be greater men in the pul pit or editorial chair, at the bar or ia medicine, -and so on, than there have been, there will be more greatly diffused attainments, more men of in tellectual parts and broader culture than there were in the past. The South will never perhaps have in the pulpit any greater men than, Stuart Robertson, Thornwell, Dabney, Pal mer, Hawks, Atkinson, Elliott, ; the - two Pierces, Lowe, Lipscomb, Bled-r soe, James A. Duncan, Jeter, Manly, Kerr, Brantley, Crudup, Hawthorne, and others " that might . be well added. It will never have .more influential or more brilliant or jtbler editors than ' Pleasants, Rit chie, Oliver P. Baldwin, John M Daniel, Patrick Henry Aylett, Roger A, Pryor, Keiley, George Venable, Elam, Ridgeway, the Hales, Hold en, Fulton, Rhett, Dawson, Thompson, Kendall, Prentice, Wattereon, Pike, and a hundred others that may be named. The South will hardly ever. produce greater, men than Virginia alone has furnished in statesmanship and in war Washington, Lee, Jack- VOL. XVII. son, Thomas, Henry, Leigh, the Ran dolphs, the Lees "of the Revolution and after, Jefferson, Madison and a hundred other famous and great men. In North Carolina we may not hope for greater men at. the ibar than Bad ger, Gaston, PettigrewJ the Hender sons, Murphey, - the Hay woods, and scores of other able, Mgorous, full men. And to on in 'medicine and in teaching and In pulpit. But we may hope, as we have said, for wider attainments, for a fuller - science, for a more generally diffused educa tion of a higher grade.' . HE ATT TAXES. Governments are. aj necessity but they are very costly! They should be made just as light as possible. Taxes crush. . Federal, State, muni cipal and county expenditures should be cut down to the lowest minimum point. We notice a statement in the Boston Post that the local govern ments of Massachusetts cost the peo ple the immense sum of $24,000,000, besides an interest 'account of $5, 500,000 each year. The people have not watched their officials as they should. Americans are , too confi ding, too trusting. Let all expendi tures be razeed and where needed to the lowest point .'compatible with efficiency. ; j , i People are prodigiously generous with other people's money. You will find thousands who favor high sala ries and big expenditures. If the en tire sum expended by the people of North Carolina for all purposes con nected with government were proper ly audited, as -it should be, and re ported, it would stagger the ordinary mind. And yet this vast sum comes each year out of the people's earn ings. Honest,! economical, efficient government is the talk of politicians and the deliverance of party plat forms, but where do you find it? Wo have not the slightest doubt that it is possible, and with out detriment to the public inter est, to reduce; the expenditures of the Federal, State, county and municipal Governments of the United Stales . hundreds of millions of dol lars. What a vast saving this would be. Think of this great sum being saved to the people through a decade or score of pears. It would make a country rich, this saving alone. But how is this saving to occur? Not until the ; whole people deter mine to bring it about. Not until they cease to elect men to office who are extravagant and wasteful, and very liberal in expending other peo: pie's money. 3 The expenditures of the Federal Govornment would be reduced $50,000,000 if the prudent, faithful, frugal men of fifty years ago were now at the helm. THE GRAIN PRODUCT OF THE ; UNITED (STATES. The increase in the grain produc tion of the United States is wonder ful. When a survey of the growth is made it will astonish. This coun try is to a great extent the granary of the world, just as Egypt was in the days of Joseph and after. The proportions of the gram product are simply enormous and unprecedented. No people who have dwelt on this globe ever grew so much as have the people of these United States. Wheat first came from Tartary, where it i was of spontaneous growth. ; The first wheat raised in this part of the world was in 1494, in the island of Isabella. Wheat was sown in Vir ginia in 1611. By 1820 the United States began to export considerable quantities of wheat. But from 1836 to 1839, in clusive, wheat had to be imported so scarce was it. Germany and Hol land supplied us. But the production of. wheat in creased rapidly and it was not long before the United States were send ing abroad a good many cargoes. We have availed ourselves of along and elaborate article in the Balti more Journal of Commerce, and will draw farther for a ' few facts gather ed here, and there. In 1872, the weat crop had grown to 349,997,000 bushels; in 1884, it was 512,763,900. But in 1884, it fell to 357,112,000 bushels on ac count of unfavorable ; seasons. In fourteen- years we have produced 32000,000,000, an . amount that is above comprehension. . '. But let us look at the production of other grain for . 1884, as we have not the full returns for last year. In 1884, the number of bushels of corn was 1,795,528,432; of oats, 583,628, 000; of rye,: 28,637,594; of barley, 61,206,652; of buckwheat, 11,116,- 922r-total, including wheat, 2,992, 881,500. Did we not say well when we called it the granary of the world? ; In 1885, North Carolina produced 2,790,000 bushels of wheat, but in 1884, 4,650,000 a very great falling off for last year. i In 55 years the United States have exported. 515,177,088 bushels wheat, 113,935,733 barrels flour a total , of 1,081,404,369. The Journal of Com merce says: ' , . i r "Thn hf irhAHt averaere value for any five year period from 1821 to 1875 was for the five years ended 1870, daring which time the export value of wheat averaged fl 43 per bushel and of flour $8 03 per barrel, while the lowest figures were 86 cents per bushel in 1885 for wheat and $4 70 per bar rel for flour ia-1886. For the fifty-five years, 1821 to 1875, both inclusive, the to tal value of the exports of wheat was $686. 184,650, against for the same time $726, 027,911 as the.value of the flour exports, or 140,000.000 in excess of wheat r The ave rage value for the period was $1 83 per bushel for wheat and $8 87 per barrel for flour. . "Summing up the exports for the eleven years ended June 80, 1886, it is seen that the total value of the wheat exported was $700,000,000 neater than the value of the flour exported, whereas for the preceding 55 years the flour exports exceeded in value the wheat exports of the same period by nearly $840,000,000." In 66 years the wheat exportation was valued, $1,814,209,106; ; flour, $1,137,589,133 total $2,951,798,239. But great as this is,- it is far below the value of corn in dollars and cents. In 1885, alone, the yield of corn nearly reached the enormous figures of 2,000,000,000 bushels. The ex portation of corn is much less than that of wheat. In 66 years the ex ports of corn and meal were as fol lows: - ' - Corn, bushels, 1,082,361,236, value $674,854,963, average 62 cents a bushel. . . Meal, barrels, 17,159,866, value $62,918,604, average $3.66. Reduced to bushels, the total exports of corn and meal are 1,166,014,782, valued at $737,773,567. THE THEORY AND THB REPORTS The theory . of Prof. McGee .is thought to be the most probable one by many. He accounts for the sever ity of the earthquake at Charleston and Summerville upon the theory of a great land slide. . The New York Times thus lucidly states the theory, which is not . new but at least prob able: "; ' ' . "In seeking for an explanation of the shocks very little attention should be paid to the small fissures, sand heaps and other curious things to be seen in the neighbor hood of Charleston. These are interesting, but it is conclusively shown that they are superficial phenomena, not due to volcanic action, but easily accounted for by the dis turbance of the earth just below the sur face. The rock foundation in South Car olina and neighboring States slopes from the mountains of the Appalachian system where it is at the surface to the uplands, and the slope is continued under the over lying soils and deposits of the lowlands to a point one hundred miles or so from the coast, where it begins to fall at sharper angle. The formation along the ' coast i upon which Charleston rests is largely a deposit caused by the natural transfer ol sou ana fragmentary rocks from the mountains and highlands during a very long period. From one cen tury to another tnis load washed down trom the hieblands has beer, growing heavier. and the seaward slope of the rock table underneath has given it a seward tendency. In the depths beyond a point 100 miles from shore there was nothing- to restrain this tendency. At last a time came when the tendency became i tresis table and the great mass slipped seward. "Such readjustments of the surface of the earth are continually being made. In some regions they are hastened by volcanic ac tion." There is a decided confirmation of the theory in the curious condition of the railroad track at some point not very distant from Charleston. It is described to us by a gentleman of this city who obtained it from a rail road man that the track did not ap pear to have been displaced in the usual way, but to have been slided in such a manner as to leave it twisted. He examined it carefully and this is the appearance to him. : It is very gratifying to see the very generous responses from individuals, corporations and communities to the appeals of Charleston. They Bhow that while there are a great many stingy, selfish, mean,, unsympathetic mortals there are thousands who are generous, good and overflowing"with the milk of human kindness." Mr. Corcoran's gift of $5,000 is munifi cent and especially noticeable. He is a great public benefactor, and like George W. Childs, the noblest of newspaper publishers, he enjoys con stantly the luxury of doing good. We note that Col. Batchelder, of the Quartermaster General's office of the United States Army, who has been to Charleston, takes a somewhat rosy view of the afflicted and deso lated city. He thinks the reports are very much exaggerated. He saw but little Buffering and altogether Charles ton is a delightful place just now ac cording to his cheery account of the situation. Here is the bright side of the picture according to this Ameri can Mark Tapley with his optimism: "The people have everything in their houses that they need. . It is true that the frail, breakable articles, such as vases, pic tures, and looking glasses are broken, but these can hardly bo considered necessaries. The loss will fall principally upon the owners of real estate and not upon the peo ple at large. I did not see any of the pitiable cases of distress that the papers tell about. The business portion of the city is in ruins. There is scarcely a brick bouse in that portion of the town : that will not have to be torn down. But most of the people of Charleston live up in the northern portion of the city, and nearly every residence is wooden, rnese Duiidings remain intact. The only damage they have sustained is in the loss of chimneys and the breaking off of the plaster, making the walls look less even and pretty than they were before. - There is no reason why the people should not return to these houses, except that they are afraid." ' - ' Houses without chimneys and plas tering all down, with broken ' win dows and all out of joint are very pleasant places to dwell in. And then it is not much when a mile of brick residences and another mile of briok stores are knocked into ruins or made untenable. The people are not starving, bat thousands unaccus tomed to such experiences are sleep ing . in -. tents ; every," , night. The Colonel did not expect, to dwell long in the delapidated and afflicted city Wee icl y WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17 when he was taking his bird's eye observation, . If he was ever in bat- tie perhaps he thought it "was not much of a fight if only some fifteen or tweaty thousand - men were killed and' wounded out of a hundred thou sand. ' , . . We notice that a Chattanooga pa per thought that the loss . at Charles ton was a very small affair compared with the awful fire in Chicago, or a very calamitous fire in Boston. Such a . comparison : betrays ignorance. There ' is no insurance against an earthquake. - The loss is total. ' Both of the Northern cities were well in sured and they were very rich. This puts a very "different: aspect, upon the - Charleston loss. All such talk is well calculated to stay the hand of melting charity.'- The loss is tre mendous, the alarm has been greater than any material loss, and Charles ton deserves the sympathy and help of the whole people. - CHARGED WITH ARSON. Preliminary Examination of the Cae Against H. P. morgan Tlie Accnaed Held for Trial. H. P. Morgan, charged with arson, in setting fire to his store on Second street on the night of the 15th of February last,, was arraigned before Justice Millis jesterday, and after an examination was held in the sum of five hundred dollars for Lis ap pearance to answer to the charge at the next term of the Crimiu&l Court, which meets in this city on Monday, the 20lh inst. The arrest was made upon the affidavit of "one Abraham Moses, a young man about twenty-one years of ago, and who stated that he came to IhK country from Russia fifteen months ago Moses testified at the .examination before the JuBtico that he was in business in Feb ruary last with Morgan, having a half in terest in a tobacco store on Mil ket street, near Second, which was in his (Moses') charge. - He had no interest in Morgan b store on Sotitb Second ttreet, which was destroyed by fire, although he and Morgan roomed together at the latter place. On the morning of February 1 5, Moses said . Morgan sent around to the store on Market street from his place of business on Second street, a bag of coffee, ten boxea of sardines, twelve boxes of pepper, ssverai Hebrew bibles, photographs and two boxes of tobacco. Morgan came around afterwards and told Moses not to sell any of the things that had been' sent there; said he was going off that night, and asked Moses to accomp.ny him, offering to pay his way. Moses declined to go, when Morgan asked him to meet him at his store at 6 o'clock p. m He went there at that hour and found Morgan engaged in packing a trunk with dry goods and seme articles of jewelry and hardware taken from the stock. Morgan again asked Moses to accompany him on his trip to Chicquepio, in Duplia county, and the latter again de clined, when Morgan told tim that he could not sleep in the store that night, as he had been accustomed to do.but must go to" a ho tel. After picking the trunk Morgan took & towel and an old hirt, and tearing them up rolled the strips of cloth iutu a ball, which he saturated with kerossne oil and placed in a corner of the store, afterwards pouring kerosene oil around on the floor and wall. Moses asked Morgan what he was doing when the latter replied that it wis none of his business. Taking the trunk between them, they went to a livery stable to get a cart to carry it to the railroad depot; but upon reaching the stable Morgan said he had forgotten tho money in the drawer and must go back to the store, which hs did' leaving Moses to watch the trunk. The latter, however, followed Morgan, and watching him through the window after he had entered the store, saw him kneel down on the floor in the corner where he had placed the oil-saturated rags, and strike a match. When Morgan returned to the sta ble, he said that he had determined not to take the trunk of goods with him, bat would leave it at the Rock Spring Hotel, and together they carried the trunk there, and afterwards weht'to the railroad, when Moses agreedi to accompany Morgan on his trip. On this trip Morgan'told Moses that they would hear some good news in the morning. The next morning at Duplin Roads, some one who was acquainted with him, met Morgan and told him that his store in Wilmington had been b own up. Morgan was not surprised but on ths con trary appeared very much pleased, and re marked to Moses, "that was the good news I told you we would hear this morning.' The next day the two men returned to Wil mington. Some months ago Morgan and Moses re moved from Wilmington to Newkirk's Bridge, in Sampson county, where they opened a country store. . Subsequently a disagreement arose between them, and Moses has since brought suit against Mor gan for money alleged to be due. On his examination he Baid, . however, that he made the affidavit upon which. Morgan was arrested three weeks before the disagree ment between them occurred. .- , ; ' v The First Poiinm of the Season. Deputy Sheriff Strode, who lives on Campbell street between Eighth and Ninth, was aroused from sleep Wednesday night by a disturbance in his ben house. Quietly seeking the cause, be found a very large opossum among his chickens "which were making a great rumpus in trying to escape from the marauder. ; Strode arrested the intruder forthwith, and dispatched him without waiting for trial or other process of law. The "possum was large, fat and juicy, and.baked with "tatere," will make a dish that might tempt any "minion of the law." New River Craft. "; . v-: . : CapL H. P. Bowdoin, who has built sev eral of the small steamboats thit ply on the waters of the Cape Fear, has turned out a new craft in the shape of a steam-flat, to be used f6r lightering. ' It is at present lying at the wharf of the upper cotton compress, awaiting the arrival of , the government boiler inspector before' entering upon its career. '. ' Mr. George Morton appeared on the river yesterday afternoon with a unique craft that might be called a "steam row-boat." It will seat comfortably a dozen or fifteen persons, and is propelled by steam; kero sene being used as luei. w o. e E. C. JR. 12. CO. The County Asked to Sabserlbe $100, j 006 to Its Capital Stock. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Wilmington, Onslow and East Carolina R&ilfo id Company, held on the 9th in8t jt was decided to address the following ap plication to the Board of Commissioners of New Hanover county for a subscription by the county, and the Secretary was instruct ed tJ request the newspapers of the city to publish the same for the information of the public:- To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of New Hanover County: Gentlemen : .The Wilmington, Onslow fi East Carolina Railroad Company, hereby applies for a subscription by the county of New Hanover to the capital stock of said Company to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, to be' paid in county bonds," bearing interest at six per cent per annum, aud running for such time as your Board may determine, lha subscription to be msjdeupon the following; terms, which terms shall constitute the conditions upon which the application is made, 1. As soon as the subscription shall have been voted by- ther people the necessary bonds shall be lithographed or engraved. ' 2 The bonds shall then be duly and reg ularly executed and placed in the hands of a responsible trustee, say tho Farmers' Loan & Trust Company or the Union Trust Com pany or some other trust company in New York city, of in one of the banks in Wil mington, N. C, upon a written agreement, to be executed by the proper authorities of the county of New Hanover on the one part and of this Company on the other part, con taining the terms, stipulations and condi; tions hereinafter recited, to wilt First. For the first forty (40) miles of the line, beginning at Wilmington, N. C, and running to some point on New River, in the county of Onslow, this Company shall receive twenty-five hundred dollars in said bonds of the county for each completed mile of railroad, and the county shall re' ceive therefor fifty shares (of par value of $50) of the capital stock of the Company for each sum of twenty-live hundred dollars so paid; said bonds and stock to be paid and delivered mile by mile as the work pro gresses. ' Second. The track to be of the regular standard gauge. - - - Third The Commissioners of the county to so lay ofE the public county road as to leave the old plank road open for the Rail road Company. The directors of this' Company submit the above proposition in the confidence that it will command the approval of the business men and ' the voters generally of the city and county. ' Under our charter the Company is enti tled to have one-fifth o" the subscription paid immediately before any work is done, and the balance as soon as the road is graded and constructed to the county line, which is only some ten miles from the citv. These very liberal provisions of the charter the Company is willing t waive or modify in favor of the count; of New Hanover, and thus give to the lax-payers the best se curity that their funds shall not be diverted to any purpose other than the actual con slruciion of the road. . In conclusion, permit us to &ay that now for the first lime is the long-discussed pro ject or connecting Wilmington with the productive region to tho north and east of it thereby not only regaining a valuable trade, but largely increasing it reduced lo form and put in a posuion from which something practical may result. - If Wilmington and the couuiies along the line will give us proper encourage ment, we believe we can make the enter prise a success. E 8. Mahtin. Sec'y pro tern The Latoo. S. Baldwin. The death of Mr. O. 3. Baldwin, which was mentioned in the Stab yesterday, ia re ferred to in the New York Herald as fol lows: Mr. Oran S. Baldwin (Baldwin the cl tbier) died at No 397 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, Tuesday, of cancar of the stomach Mr. Baldwin was born in Water loo, N. Y , in 1824. and educated in that town. Early in life he established clothing establishments in Southern cities, but came North, with other Union men, when the war broke out. He originated the "C, O. D."("cash on delivery") system in New" York and Brooklyn. Three years ago he failed. Mr. Baldwin left a wife and three children. He was a Mason, but the funeral, on Thursday, will be private. First Methodist Chnreh. The plans and specifications for the First Methodist Church building, to be erected on the northeast corner of Fourth and Mul. berry streets, were opened for inspection yesterday at Messrs. Parker &; Taylor's store on South Front street. They were prepared by Mr. Yalk. an architect of New York city, are perfect in detail and very elaborate. The church will be seventy-five by fifty-six feet in dimensions, with an ex tension for a session room in the rear, sixty by thirty feet. It will front on Mulberry street, with a tower at the corney facing the two streets and forming the main en trance to the church.., The interior will be different in arrangement from any other church in the city. The pulpit will be on the north side: the pews almost semicir cular in form . The organ loft will be in rear of the pulpit. The interior of the church, ceiling, pews, &c, will be of yel low pine, finished with cherry and Cali fornia redwood. The seating capacity of the building is estimated at six hundred. The cost of the structure will bo about eighteen or twenty thousand dollars. ,-' A Change in the Gulf Stream. Uapt. C. A , Bache, of the Norwegian brig'San Juan, which arrived here Friday the 10th inst., reports a singular occurrence observed by him while at ssa. On the 4th and 5th instants from' Saturday noon to Sunday noon in latitude' 31.19, longitude 78, he found that the Gulf Stream had changed to the southward fully one de gree. Capt. Bache is said to be a good navigator. His observations were carefully made, and he took pains to ascertain on bis arrival here that his chronometer was correct.- :; . . - : - . ; : ... ; Cotton. ;.: . !; Receipts of cotton yesterday were only ten bales. The season is late by two or three weeks, as compared with last year but it will not be many days beforo a steady influx of the staple will set in and give re newed activity to business .circles. Mer chants, brokers, tho compresses, and all that large class whose business it is to "ban die" co ton, are in readiness for its arrival. Excnrvlou to Charleston. ... The Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta Railroad will issue excursion tickets to morrow price five dollars for the round trio to Charleston and back. The oppor tunity will no doubt be availed of by a great many people who are desirous of seeing the effects of the late earthquake in the "City by the sea. Cotton Receipts. . The receipts of cotton at. this port the past week were 235 bales. . For the same week last year the receipts were 1.332 bales. This apparent great disparity is owing to the late season; the crops throughout the Carolinas being from two to three weeks backward. ; Capt. Bowdoin's steam flat Enterprise was built to run between this city and Long Creek once a week, and to Town Creek twice a week. A trial trip was made yes terday which proved satisfactory, with the exception or a slight defect in tne arrange ment of the furnace. 1 1886. NKW YORK. An Ee-Witness Tells of Scenes of Soflerlnc and misery ; la Charleston -Additional Contributions Received by tho t hamber of commerce Com mittee. New York. September a. At a mppt. ins of tho Charleston Relief Committen of the Chamber of Commerce today. Mr. Clyde, of the Clyde Charleston Lino, re ported that the captain or the Delaware, who was an eye witness to tho scenes of suffering acd misery dnrinir thn fi rat fnr days pi the earthquake at Charleston, de scribes the misery s touching rathe ex treme. -The captain said that but one -half of the particulars had been told General account hail been published, but they did not state the manner : in which the people Buffered; especially that the carthouake struck at all, rich and poor alike. : People weu u ao, navmg plenty or stores and sup pliesim hand, were cut off from their cellam and kitchens by the danger attending any entrance into dwellings; hence, there wete delicately natured oeoDle without food and half-naked, forced to remain out exposed to the deadly night air. For the four days the Delaware lay in the harbor, her captain aaa nis snip run every night or sufferers tie reo a,i ne could in the day time. The great need now was money to buv euDnhes Of food. : - ' V:;,-;, ' :- . , : . - , The Tent Committee reuorted that the acting Secretary of the Navy had notified them that there was a laree-troantitv of condemned canvas on hand in the depart ment wficn woniu tie at tae disposal of the committee. The Mayor of Charleston will be notified at once of this facL VV M. Moore was added to the sub-com- mitice on Charleston sufferers and made chairman. Additional subscriptions of 48.015 were reported to-day ; making the total amount $23,702. Prospect House, September -11. The most astonishing incident of a somewhat uneventful day was the receipt of several telegrams asking if President Cleveland nad really been snot, and if he was much hurt. Editor Butler, of the Buffalo News, asked for an immediate answer. From the Western Uaion office in New York camo an inquiry about the President's condition, and this evening a similar dispatch wss re ceived from PJaHsburg, from Dr. Ward, wuo na;i reached that point on bis way home in Albany As Mr. Cleveland was in the enjoyment of perfect health, end no ac cident had befallen him, of course only one answer could be made. What puzzles peo- plo here is how such a rumor was set afloat. . It could hardly have bad its origin in this vicinity, for no such absurd sutements were sent out from the telegraph office at this inn, and no dispatch of such tenor was sent from the only other telegraph office in the' neighborhood that at Paul Smi;h's seventeen miles away. New .York. September 17 A special from Charleston to tcp Maritime Exchange in this city sajs in response to an inquirj : "Our money wants are large. 'We have tents and shelter enough, Tho great work to be done in the next tixty days is to guard against winter by rebuilding and repairing small houses for the poorer classes." . , . Washington, Sept 11. Twenty or more letters have been received at the Geological Survey from different parts of the country, making suggestions and offering advice with regard to the prevention of earth- qakes. One of the latent proposes that holes be bored through the earth s crust to give destructive gases an outlet The writer is as yet unknown to fame M"iiTH CAROLINA. Brcabtns Dams Floorlus Mills near Raleigh Carried Away by a Flood A Railroad Embankment Swept Away Raleigh's - Contribution for Charleston Sufferers. Raleigh. Sept. 9 Just after davhcht this morning Tstes' dam on ' Walnut Creek near this city, broke and the flood of water swept down stream and washed away en tirely Jones and Ellis' flouring mills. Their loss is total and aggregates $6,250. Ihe wave swept on down the stream and . after carrying away several bridges, partially wrecked Eatman's: mill and wrecked his dam. The total loss is over $8,000 i This morning a tmall stream near Clay ton rose suddenly, and swept away a sta tion of the embankment on the North Carl ohna Railroad It will be repaired by to-1 morrow, perhaps sooner. Several other dams arc reported as broken. To-day W. b. Primrose, chairman of the Charleston Relief Committee, sent $800 to Mayor Courtenay. It was all raised by pri vate contributions. More will follow in a day or two. . - - WASHINGTON. The Lord Mayor of London's Offer ol J Aid for Charleston Acknowledged by the President, j Washington, Sept. 10. The Lord Mayor of London, through Minister Phelps, recently offered to open subscriptions in aid of the Charleston sufferers. The offer was communicated to the Mayor of Charleston and gratefully accepted by him on behalf of the homeless of his city. Minister Phelps has been instructed by cable to con vey to the Lord Mayor the grateful ac knowledgments of the President of the United States for the generous action of the city of London. MARYLAND. ' Celebration of the Anniversary of the Battle of North Point. Baltimore, September 11. The cele bration of the anniversary of the Battle of North Point, during the war of 1812, is of the past and will be known no more by the defenders of Baltimore at that time. But four of that band of patriots are left in Baltimore George Boss, aeed 92; James u. Morford, l: John retucord, 91, and Nathaniel Walts, I 91. Samuel Jennings died nearly a year ago. The survivors will be tendered a dinner at the Hotel Ren- nert.on Monday. The G. A. R. will adopt September 12th as Urand Army Day, and will observe Monday by a parade and camp fire. .', ILLINOIS. Attempt to Blow Up a Signal Station of the Lake Shore Road. . By Telegraph to the Moraine Star. . ;, Chicago. September 11. An attempt was made last night to blow up one of the signal stations of the Lake Shore Road at the intersection of the main : track and the stock-yard track. The attempt was' so far successful as to cause several thousand dollars damage and disablo for a time the working of the machinery by which the switches, signals and gates for a long dis tance along the line- are turned. The ope rator of the signals was in lha station at the time, but was alarmed by the smoke which filled his room and ran out Just before the explosion, and was unhurt. : - . PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia's Relief Committee Col ; lects f2T,332 for the Charleston Suf ferers End of Six Tears Litigation Over the Basle Steel Process. : Philadelphia. Sept. 10. At a meeting of the Citizens' Relief Committee to-day the ; total subscriptions for the relief of Charleston were $27,332 to date, oi wnicn $8,100 had been forwarded,' and the chair man directed to authorize Mayor Courtenay to draw.on the treasurer for $15,000. ,:k- PrrTSBTjRGi 1 3ept.310, The litigation pending for six years between Jacob Reese, of this city, inventor of the basie steel prH cess: . and the Bessemer Steel company. limited, which has prevented the use of the basic steel process " in the United States owing to an injunction obtained by the Bessemer Steel Co.. has been decided by the master, who reports that the injunction be dissolved and the bill dismissed at the cost of the Bessemer Company. ; - "Is gum chewing recognized as a regular course of stndy in our , schools T asks a New Orleans paper. Certainly it is. ;A course in jawgraphy.--X4e.i; ; : i FT NO. 46 THE CROPS. . ; Department of Acrlcnltaro Heparta nf the Grain, Cotton, Potato and :- Hoc Prodaetofih i;oantn. ; ,i , i Washington, September 10 -t-The Sep tember report of tne Dei ariiutnl ..f Ari-; culture ishows a better yield of Spring Wheat than was expected a month ago Tho improvement is ia the northern belt,; Wisconsin. Minnesota.;; and Dakota : In Nebraska there . has tea t decline In Iowa, little change; general average is 84, an increase of four poinU. The average yield of the crop, so far as the results of threshing are reported, exceeds 11 bushels, and may reach 11, bushels per acre. ",The threshing of Winter ... Wheat : ia tho Ohio ' Valley civea a better return than was ex pected at harvest, and thern is some im provement in Missouri and Kansas : In the Middle and Eastern Stairs the peicentages of July are n t materially ckaned In the South the harvest, is disappoin'inii; rains injured the product in the saock. The re turns indicate sn aversge ielj of about 12i bushels per acre. -The entire Wheal tro duct will apparently exceed that of last year by 80 to 90 million bushels. The ex act determination of acres harvested and the results of threshing are easily equiva lent to a variation of at least two per cent Corn has declined from' 81 in August to 77. rln the States of principal production the status is as follows: Kentucky, from 87 in August to 90 in .September ; Ohio 88 to 89 : Michigan 80 ia both returns ; Indiana 90 to 93; Illinois declines from 77 to 73; Mis sis3ippr"from -T5 to 62; Kansss 72 to 62; Nebraska 76 to 68; Iowa 73 to 67. The loes west of Indiana U caused by drought. In the South Atlantic States there has been an improvement; on the Gulf Coast a slight improvementrexcept in Texas where the drought hes i educed the condition: The present crop prospect, with no further decline, is 19 per cent. ; worse han last year, and indicates over 21 bushels per acre, or nearly 1,600,000.000. : a . Cotton returns show a vigorous condition of the plant, with latenes and deficiency in fruiting. There has been an improve ment in most of the States, with a decided decline in Texas and a little lfc&jkacsis. The indisputable reduction of theicondition last month in the south and west of Texas, has been emphasise 1 A in this return. - The average of condition of the crop area is 82. and is slightly above that of August 1st, for the firtt time in September in fifteen years, With a k ng and favorable autumn, ihe reports indicate an average crop, jet a decline in condition after this date is usual. Insects have ap peared in most of the States, with little loss so far, more from boll worm than from ca terpillar The State tveruges of condition are: Virginia, 77; North Carolina, 82; 8outh Carolina, 81; Florida, 83; Georgia, 81; Ala bama, 80; Mississippi. 82; Louisiana. 81; Texas, 76; Arkansas, 93; Tennessee, 95 1 The results of thieshing make the 'condi tion of Oats at the harvest 91, a small re duction from the earlier expectations. The average of Barley is 93. indicating an average crop. Buckwheat averages 90. Potatoes have declined from 86.3 to 81 1. from the effects of local droughts In New York the decline is from 97 to 89 and it is heavy iu the dry area of the West. ; The cocditiiiu of Tobacco averages 81. The uumbe.'s of fattening flogs aro ap parently leas by about six per cent., with some reduction in the average weight. ...... FOREIGN'. Rassla's Balgarlan Policy English - - Troops and Irish Evictions. ; : ' i ah,e ih Momine at&r -St Petersburg, September 10. The NovoeVrewya sijs: Of all the signers of the Berlin treaty England loue appears in clined to oppose Russia's Bulgarian policy. Russia must know whe! her England's in tention is serious iu order, to prepare herself to take measures aecoulmgiy, aa Russia will not be brought to a &taadtill by England's veto.- .-i 4-'"- : . The Journal de St Petersburg s&yt: Prince Alexander' proclamation of departure con tains mention of the alleged Russian assu rances given him. For reasons us.le&s to discuss Kussia could not make any engage ment with Prince Alexander. Iu view, howffver, of the party sttuggle in Bul garia, and the agitaii.-n of the public mindj which the proclamation lias caused, Rusyan agents iu Bulgaria have been in structed to inform the Bulgarian people that Russia is disposed to exc-tt her influ ence to establish parly concord and restore quiet. Russia will not withhold her sup port from any legally constituted provi sional government guidt-d by non-partisan interests and. conducted for general wel fare Russia is witling to apply herself to the task of removing distensions, from the painful consequences of which Bulgaria has already suffered too much. Russia hopes that the Bulgarian nation and her representatives will .be able to appreciate thes'- counsels and act accordingly. London. 3t pu 10. The Matemn that troops at the bni racks In King county, Ire land, mutinied against performing any moro eviction duty alter returning from Woodrord is pronounced untrue. - VIRGINIA. r A. ttesiructive : Fire at Danville One ; tile Lou. Danville, September 11. A Are here last night destroyed the following build- mcs: ueideiDocn 8 rurnituie factory; loss $25,00000 insurance. ' City electric light plant; loss $6,000 no insurance. Wor- sham's box factory; loss $11,000 insured for $3,800; and the ice factory ; loss $1,000 insured fully. A man named C. W. Middeaueh. ot To ledo, Ohio, perished in Heidelboch's fac tory. PERSONAL. Senator Evarts's condition 6ince his accident is not such as to be assuring to his friend s. i 'hitadelpfua liecord. '-. . Martin Irons locked up in a po lice station for drunsenness is a very sug gestive spectacle for the Knights of Labor who followed hts fatal lead last Murch. PMladelpliia Ledger. , Mr. J ustin McCarthy had a fine send off from his friends on the eve of his departure for this country. Few Irishmen, and, in fact, few Britishers to use Prof. Freeman's' name for them are so well known in, this country as the author of "The History of Our Times." New York Star. .- '" ' If Mr. Blaine desires to make the tariff the issue of the next Presidential campaign, as now seems manifest, he should decline a- renomination, as the tariff can never be the main issue of a Presiden tial contest as long as his candidacy makes his persoual character . the main issue. Vaicago limes, una. : . '.'.(. ; Miss Amelia Jackson, daughter of CaDt. Jackson, who snot Colonel .Ells worth at the Marshall House in Alexandria, Va . for nulline down the Confederate flag inSSl, has been appointed to a position in the Patent Office, it will be remembered that Miss Jackson's father fell at the same time, shot by a member of Colonel Ells worth's regiment. Philadelphia Record. - : Charles J. J ames, a son of Q. P. R. James, the English novelist of "two- solitarv-horsemen fame, peddles papers and makes ordinances, in Eaclare, Wis., where he is an Alderman, and preaches dynamite and anarchy between times. " He had s letter in a recent North American Be view, entitled "Anarchism Defined by an Anarchist He is described as a harmless apd not disagreeable CTtnt..-New York Sun, i T6ux6i EMi&'Mtprmi- Mr. B. ,F.:JIou8ton reports a beet which beats any beet we ever heard of. It weighed 8 pounds after being out of the ground sev eral days. The three , last Senatorial nominees will reflect great credit upon their districts, and do honor to the General As sembly of the State, They . are H.- A. London, from Chatham and Alamance; S. B. Alexander, from MectienDurg, ana a. B. Adams, from Union and Anson coun ties. Spirits Turpentine. 'V-"New Bern Journal: "Dr. H. G. Bates received information from Dover last night that the dead ' body of a man had been found there and was supposed to be that of Richard Daughety, who was tried -for the larceny of a cow last Saturday and held for his appearance at thenext term of , the Superior Court. He made his escape after the trial. .- , Asheville f7tsc?.' Mr. William Henderson,, sometimes, called Billy for short, has announced himself a straigbtout Republican candidate for tbe Legislature. He is "agin"? fence law;";"agln Mr. Pear son, "agin" the democracy, Our friend Mr. 8. M. Thomas, of Laurinburg, Richmond county, tells us of serious dam-. age ia his place. -: He left his home, a few moments after the -shock, "for" Asheville. When he left he , did not think that any . damage had been dene to hi own or any property in his sections -Yesterday he re ceived a letter from his wife, which in- . f ormed him that his residence (a large brick building) was to badly damaged by the shock of last Tuesday nig at that it had to be entirely abandoned. Chadbourn Times; The Sena torial Convention meets in Lumberton on the 25th.' - The meeting at Concord 7 closed yesterday with 19 additions. The church is very much encouraged. The farmers of the Piney Forest neighbor hood are to meet at Pmey Forest Church next Saturday at 3 o'clock to organize a farmers club. Mr. Frank Floyd, an . old and respected citizen, was taken sick a ' few days ago and died' within five minutes. "r He was 80 years of age and a native of this - county. The carpet and fibre factory at Cronly started up this morning with a . lull complement of hands and on tnll time. They have just received a large sup ply of phosphate rock from the mines near Charleston, S. C. - Raleigh 'News-Observer: CaDt. Heady, of Onslow, has 300 diamond-back -terrapins in a -pen, and after a while he will sell them for .3 or 2 50 each. The attendance at Peace Institute is con- -" eiderably larger than at this time last term. A gentleman of this citv. of uuaues- tionable veracity, yesterday told a reporter of a remarkable feat accomplished by a horse in jumping over a high gate. ' The horse was harnessed to a -buggy, and he took tke vehicle right over the gate with him. President Shepherd has return ed to Aiantnas Vineyard, where he is an instructor at the summer school. Most of the season he will fill the chair of English Literature there. North Carolina has rea son to be proud of him. v Lenoir Tonic: Mr. Romulus Z. Linney, of Alexander county, made public announcement of his candidacy for Con gress on Tuesday, at Watauga Court, and he and Col. W H.' H. Cowles, the Demo- . cratic candidate, had a joint debate, thus opening the canvass. They spoke for thirty minutes each and bad ten minutes each for rejoinder. We speak the sentiments of every unbiassed person who heard the dis cussion when we say that the Democratic candidate, unprepared as he was, without a single paper or note got the best of the argument and had a good effect upon the audience. Linney is the Republican can- . didate and the disguise is to be stripped from him soon. As soon as he eot to Boone, Jerry Ray and the other leading Republicans at once gathered around him. Charlotte . Chronicle: Master Jenkins, son of Dr. E. Hutchinson, fell out of a tree on the lot in the rear of Dr. J. S. M. Davidson's residence this morning, breaking his right arm, and was otherwise injured. The Charlotte bound train on the Shelby division of the Carolina Cen tral yesterday struct a colored woman and threw her on the pilot 1 She had rushed on to save a child that was playing there when the engine came on her before she could get off. ' She had the child in her arms during the whole time, and when the train stopped it was found that both had not ' been killed, but she was considerably bruised up. Her clothes were almost torn" off of her. Mr. David A. Jenkins died at his home in Gastonia this morning about 8 o'clock. He was about 67 years of -age. All of the members of the family were by his bedside during his last moments. He was ill for many weeks and was attend ed by Dr. W. H Hoffman, of this city. Mr. Jenkins was well known to the people of this State, being State Treasurer in 1868 and 1869, during the reign of the Republi can administration at that time. .Elizabeth City Economist: The slate is whispered to be Judge Pool for Congress and Judge Albertson for Solici tor. George Sparrow, of Washington, announces himself in a card as a candidate for Solicitor in opposition to J. H. Blount. tie comes unheralded and unendorsed, and represents no party. The electrical effects of the earthshake "were apparent in , many cases on Tuesday night and Wednes day. We hear of several cases in which a tingling and unpleasant sensation was felt in the hands and limbs, lasting for some hours. In another case a person after the : shock could not walk for some hours, and in another case a tremulous sensation in- ternally which lasted nearly a whole day, The Senatorial and county conventions met at Plymouth on Wednesday, and eve rything passed off off nicely. Charles F. Warren and Joseph A. Spruill were nomi- -nated as candidates for the 2d Senatorial District of North Carolina. In the county convention Asa O. Gaylard was nominated for the House of Representatives and Wnr. Davenport for Sheriff. Two earth quake shocks were felt at Creswell Tuesday night of last week, the first at 9 50 and the last at 10 p. m. The first shock was very severe, causing the largest buildings to rock to and fro like a cradle. The little village was in the wildest excitement. The Republican party, or what is left of it in this District, is in a state or Charleston, Raleigh Recorder: Woodson took charge of this church (Toisnot) two years ago. It was then in a sickly infancy and its long existence seemed uncertain. An excellent house has been built and paid for; the membership has been steadily in creasing, the 8unday School, under Dallas - Carter, is nourishing and tne churcn is growing in all directions. A wonderful fellow is Woodson.--J'. D. Hufham, D. Ti. . Dr. Shuck says of Richard Felton. one of the most modest as well as one of the most liberal of men," who gave his thousands t "Richard Felton, of North Carolina, gave seven thousand dollars to wards building the Uaptist Church in Hert ford, N. Cfive thousand dollars to Wake Forest College and two thousand dollars to wards the erection of tbe First Baptist Church in Raleigh. N. C. Deacon Charles W. Skinner, of North Carolina, in early life was a Presbyterian, but in later years became a firm and avowed Baptist. tie was one or tne rounders ot tne JNortn Carolina Baptist State Convention. Mr. Skinner gave ten thousand dollars to Wake Forest College, two thousand dollars to-' wards buudinz tne isethei .Baptist tmurcn. seven thousand dollars towards buildine the Baptist Church at Hertford, N. C, and two thousand to erect the present beautiful church edifice of the Baptists at Raleigh, N. C. His gifts towards these and other benevolent objects reached the sum of fifty thousand dollars. He was the honored father of Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Skinner. Stab - .... ...... Charlotte Observer: Mr. Samuel B. Caldwell, foreman of Mr. J. WattKirk patrick's saw mills, - yesterday met with an . accident of a most distressing character, by which be lost one of his legs. The gate money for the three day's games be tween Charlotte and Columbia," just played -at Bueball Park in this city, amounted to $201 25.. For the past two days pas sengers and baggage for points beyond Old Fort, on the Western North Carolina road, ' have been brought from Salisbury down through Charlotte and Spartanburg, and thence to Asheville over the Spartanburg & Asheville road. The cause is the caving in of the big tunnel on tbe West era North. Carolina road just west of Old Fort. The roof of the tunnel was almost completely destroyed and the wreck caused an effective blockade of the track. We have been nnable to ascertain tbe cause of the caving in of the tunnel, but it is re ported that too much water dripping down t from the roof caused the masonry to give ' way. -Our information is to the effect that the tunnel is almost completely filled up, hundreds of tons of earth and stone having fallen down with the tumbling of the roof. The Swannanoa tunnel is located on tbe, top of the ridge, and is the longest tunnel on tbe line of the Western North Carolina road. It is impossible to make a transfer -at that point, and the only recourse is to abandon through traffic over the road until the track is again cleared through the tun- nel. The officials of the road now have a large force, of hands at work.; day and ' night, clearing out obstructions. , v , . i !: "'I . " j ; j "1 ! k 3 M it i1 - ti t I -.; 1 If r ., if if ; i . V, ' t ... I' i
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