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If it is impossible to secure i severe ap plication of the knife 1 a the pre sent burdensome and I nnconsti tntional i War Tariff Jexcept by conceding to the Protectionists and . il a few ill-advised Soathorn Proteo tionifts and Democratic jpapers the abolition of the tobacco tax, then the Star agreed to favor such & course although very distasteful and against earnest conviction. The tobacco tax and all other taxes on luxuries should be retained. Bnt it may iecome ne cessary tot make a compiomise in or der to secure a most imr ortant end. But there should be J no .compro mise unless the present High War Tariff averaging . 45 er cent shall be cut down very much. No little reduction will begin to do. Heroic treatment is demanded. Mr. Clay's Tariff of 1B33 was an average one of 20 pei cent. The Tariff when the war began, averaged but 18 per cent. In 1836, the New York World says, the average duty of the present Barbed Wire Fence ar rangement was. 45,53 per cent, That Tariff must come down to at least 30 per cent., or 25 per cent would be better, j But the Republicans have not the slightest idea of agreeing to any compromise that will lower the en or raous Tariff. The Philadelphia Press, a leading organ of Protection, squarely declares this: "The Republicans are in entire accord with Mr. Randall on the tobacco tax. That should have gone long ago, As between reduciD4he tariff so as toj interfere with our protected Industries and weeping away the entire body of internal taxes, the Re publicans will be earnestly for the latter course." Tim Opmnnfafa mnat'nit.lir nt.omrl by their principles or abandoning all pretensions to principles go over at once to the Reoublican camo. If Randall is right then the! Republican party is right in striving; to keep up to nearly 46-per cent, tho most grind ing tax that was ever le ied upon a free people in a time f profound peace, j 1 But there is another Breckenridge in the Congress who is not willing to compromise. He is from Arkansas and is a son of the late (Jen. John C. Breckenridge. He is openly against all compromise on the Tariff. We have not Been his letter, but we find in the Memphis Appeal an editorial upon it which' rings out no uncertain music. That able Detiocratic ex ponent holds this language: B"The Democratic party, in j view 6t the steady advance and growth of the prohibi tion sentiment, cannot assume the respon sibility for cheaper whiskey by removing from that fighting beverag i the interval revenue tax. Nor will it do to take the internal tax from tobacco, Which is a lux ury, so long as there is a single necessary of life that is not on the free list. The in ternal tax must not be touched. - What the people want and what the Demo cratic party is pledged to is!a reduction of the tariff that will reduce the increasing annual surplus of revenue and relieve the people of all taxes on the necessaries of life in other words, put the pople on the free list. Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkan sm, is rittbt and the people of the South endorse him. Whatjhe says is in strict coaformity with the Democratic plat form and pledges. Revise he tariff as much f.s may be necessary to reduce the surplus and let the internal revenue alone." . ( . ; j This b what the Stau all through the years has contended for. It has been roundly abused for jast such views. As a a dernier wort, & the last effort to cut down lie War Tax ftf r, t in . L f - J " ucany o per cent, on Jiunureus u the necessaries of life itj jw'ould agree to a compromise to secure that and by yielding the tax on f moking and chewing tobacco. Bui it is! really surrendering an article Lnat ought to he taxed because it is nothing less than a hurtful luxu 4. All men would be better off without it. A convict named C. C. Massey professed to have ben told by an other convict that he it Mm who mur dered JProf. Monroe iMadison at Pigeon River, N. C, in March, 1886. He said he had been shot and robbed "J a stranger. The account savs "Now the chief of the Pinion Detective sgency; here has received a letter which ;gam invests the case with 1 great interest -- v. iuiwHey, Baa iu tun ouw icuihu- ""j ior iwenty-nve years ior arson in Haywood county, writes this letter, stating that a fellow mnvtat rnnfesfles to havinir 'Uled Monroe Madison. I iThe detective ; , , : 1 ME W EE.KLY STAR.' L VOL. XVIII. tails ot the killing, and la this letter asked thirteen questions relative to the affair. These, excepting two, were accurately an swered by the convict Massey. Thisal- -6 wuicoaiou is now ocing more lully investigated." t , .1 ' I Will it pounded wiu r pays ' ;".. pay ? is the query pro by the I doubters when a railroad project is discussed. Will it make real estate higher, is anx iously asked ? If you answer ! fa vorably, then f you must listen to an argument to show j how this particu lar .road cannot possibly improve Wilmington or make properly ad vance. : If more railroads cannot im prove' Wilmington than . our hand some and improving city - must be very unlike all other towns and cities. We find the following taken from the Murfreeeboro Index. The per son referred to is a very successful Granville! farmer, whose tobacco crop fetches from $20,000 to 125,000 an nually. He is a bard working man and knowa what he is talking about. The Index says: . ' 1 -' . -J r' "Mr; Knott, one of the leading tobacco nists of Oxford, was here last week. 'Six years ago,' he said. 'Oxford was twelve miles from a railroad and I no larger than your town, but since the completion of the Oxford and " Henderson railroad it has trebbled its number ef inhabitants, its busi ness is ten times greater, and the Bank of Oxford has over one hundred thousand dollars in its vaults belonging to the farm ers of Granville county. ( Lands in five miles of Oxford that could not be Bold ten years ago at four dollars per acre, cannot now be bought for twenty.'" . i i Real estate is from three to eight or ten times higher! according to situation,! and much of it has ohanged hands. I j ,'; 'V' f .. THE ROCKET'S ECONOMIC VIEWS, I a. We have read ' with interest the able and instructive editorial in the Rockingham Rocket in rejoinder to what the Star said in reply to the Rockeffa first editorial. Tho views presented are not new j to us. A dis tinguished gentleman! of Rocking ham has urged them in a Raleigh pa per and elsewhere. !ln the main they are correct and require no elab orate reply at our hands: The Rocket fails to understand the Stas. It may be our fault. We do not believe we think obscurely or illogically, but then we may. The Rocket fights aj man of straw it has set up. It argued as if the Stab denies or ever denied the lead in e idea of its editorial. There is no recognized authority on political science who ever denied what the Rocket contends for, and Clay, Web ster, .Calhoun, and all great states men have accepted the position of the Rocket as true. ; i Now what is that position? jit is that a moderate Tariff will bring more revenue to the Treasury than a pronioiiory larm wiii uriug. . i n. re ;iv u: I There is no doubt of this. An ed ltor or politician who would deny so simple a statement so fundamental an axiom would simply exhibit his great ignorance of the principles in every horn-book of political econo my. If yon make the tax prohibitory that is, bo high that an article cannot be imported then you shut out all revenue. But no one denies it. We have no fight with any one on that postulate. I I But perhaps the trouble with the Rocket is that it proposes to do what the War Tariff oes to keep up a high $ax on necessaries. If not that, then it proposes to keep up a revenue tax s Ay 18, 20 or 25 per cent. on blankets ! and medicines; on trace chains and cotton ties; on erockery ware and window glass; on knives and forks, and wool hats; on pocket knives and cotton goods; on woollen goods and alpacas and so on until L j every article used in j the homes of millions of laboring men of all grades are made to pay a part of the revenue, This is the position of the Rocket Jt. we understand it. i ; Nov right here wt split. Right here is where the theory .of the Rocket collides violently with that of the Stab. i J . j ,The Stab proposes to give thej people a showing. The Stab does not propose to r tax the common J every day necessaries of the ., labor-4 ing classes one penny if enough revenue can be raised by taxing thej luxuries under a Tariff and under the Internal' svstem. which should be ; changed in so far as the manner o collecting is concerned. - " Put every commodity of life upon the free list When it is possible to db mn That, is the doctrine of 84 o the 80 works upon political econom in the great library of England ;th TtrWiah Mninnm. No country hai ever grown rich, no country wili ever grow rich by taxing the comj modities of life. 1 Every j sound author of Political science teaches that primary doctrine. , ' j The Rocket proposes to keep up indefinUelyl the tax on the poor man s necessaries jof life ten, fifteen, twen ty or twenty-five per cent, as the case may be while j its favors abol ishing the tax on , such useless, nurv f ul luxuries as tobacco and cigars, snuff and cigarettes,; beer and apple iack, wines and spirits. Give the people free1 drinks, free smokes, free chews, but tax their cups and sau cers', their axes, their blankets, their clothing, their medieine, &c. . j As we understand; it that is the precise idea of the Rocket. r I The Star knows that Republicans are demanding a higher tax on cer tain foreign coods. Mr. J. S. Moore will so inform the Rocket. He un derstands the workings ot the pre sent Tariff as but few men under stand it. The Republicans are ut- terly opposed to touching the pre sent War Tariff. So is Mr. Randall, a supposed Democrat. ' I ' The Philadelphia Press, a Republ ican organ that employs R. B. Porr ter, the English writer on Protec tion, to furnish thunder for its colj- uuius auu w misteaco us reaaers, in a recent issue said this: , I . "The Democratic nluralitv in the next House is only nine votes and its clear ma)- jority but six. - It is apparent that if Messrs. uanaaaand Wise have any sort of a following in their party in the House it will be entirely possible for the Repub licans, acting in harmony with this wing of the Democracy, to strike down the excise taxes, and thus at the same time abolish (he surplus and ward off"the contemplated ai taua vpon me tartj. The end arrived at is dear enough. First get rid of J,he tax on- liquors, beer, tobacco, etc., and : then they will "ward off" that is, prevent, "the contemplated assault upon the Tariff" that is to say, the f ulfil ment onjthe part of Democrats of their declaration and pledge in 1876 and 1884 to reduce and reconstruct the abominable, oppressive, unconsti tutional War Tariff. Randall's pur pose is correctly set forth by the N. Y. filar, the Administration organ in the greatest city. It says: j "His reason for supporting the tariff taxes is that they are levied not for the sole purpose of revenue, but to increase the cost of important commodities, and thereby to yield greater profits for the persons who Sroduce those commodities. In other words, Ir. Randall is a protectionist." , I Taxes should be reduced. The people should be relieved in part of a great burden. Raise the money to carry on the Government upon the Wealth and not upon the poverty of the country. No country can pros per long that attempts this. But do not raise the revenue by taxing the oor man's ' necessaries and giving him vicious luxuries free of all tax:. Put every commodity upon the free list when this can be done and tax in definitely the vices and luxuries. That is what' the Stab has been con tending for through the years. ' TRIBUTES TO NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS. ' No State made a more glorious record in the late war than North Carolina. Her name appears in imperishable letters in the story of every battle from Bethel to Appo mattox. Ana the monument should be or. design and character that would typify especially what was known as the staying qualities of the .North Uaronmans. while the North Carolina soldiers were in all other things the peers of any southern sol diers, some of the commands from the Qld North State gained for her a distinctive reputation for bull dog tenacity in holding a position. Only a few nights ago we heard a Virginian who was on A. P. Hill's staff during the war, and who is a man or careful and most intelligent observation, and not given to idle words, speak in glow ing terms of the valor of the North Caro lina trrops and comment particularly on the North Carolina "grip." Referring es- E:cially to the brigades of Cooke, Scales, ane and McRae, he remarked that you icould place either of the three in a position ami go away with absolute confidence that it would stay there so long as mere was a man left. Richmond Dispatch. This cordial acknowledgment of the great merit of the North Caro lina soldiers in the war between the States was clipped days ago from the largely-circulated Virginian daily in which it appeared as an editorial. We are glad to copy such voluntary testimony as to the remarkable vir tues of the North Carolina troops. We desire to supplement what it Bays with the evidence of distinguished soldiers. What we give we have be fore published in these columns. But many did not see what we said who will read what follows. It is good to refresh the memory. Line upon line is often necessary in inculcating truth, in vindicating history, in teach ing even elementary facts First, as to Gen. A. P. Hill's opin ion ot JNortn Carolina iroops. in 1867, Kov. Dr, Pritohard and this writer dined with Mr. Wallace, of Petersburg, Va., who was the Nestor of the bar of that historic little city. He told us this. Said he, "Gen. Hill was a cousin of Mrs. Wallace and often dined with .us when in town durine the siece of Petersburg." One day, sitting here (in his front porch), as we are, I said to him, 'General, which troops would you rather com mand ? His reply at once was, 'Why, North Carolinians. I was astonished, knowing him to be a Virginian. asked why? His reply came, They are as brave as those of any State, are more submissive to authority, and are therefore better and more relia ble troops.' I then said, 'Who is the best soldier of his grade ' in Lee's army?' He dropped his head and thought a moment, and then replied, GenJ Pender.'" Second,as to Gen. Wade Hampton's opinion. senator V ance told ns some twelve years jago that he had recently met Gen. H. at Charlotte and he said to him, "Vance, the best soldiers I saw in the war were from North Carolina." r Third, as to Gen. Trimble's (of Maryland) opinion. He has given this in his report of the Division of North Carolinians he commanded at Gettysburg on the famous third day WILMINGTON, N. 0., that has been so distorted and mis represented, i His opinion was the highest possible. , We have not his opinion by us or we conld reproduce. Fourth, as to Gen. Hood's -opinion. . In his short speech at the Yarborough House in Raleigh,in response to a sere nade given him, a.nd which this writer s wrote out immediately i after its de livery and printed in the Sentinel he was editing,' the brave Texan said: "I had large opportunities for judg ing the troops having served both in thej Army of Northern Virginia and in the Army of Tennessee, and if- I had to give the bouquet to the best troops who served in the war I would be compelled from a high sense of justice to bestow it upon North Caro lina." : . i ,f Fifth, as to the opinions of Gen. Cooke and Gen. Lane, both Vir ginians, and who. commanded North Carolinians, they are most laudatory ana are to be found in ' their various reports. .; : - j---. . Gen.'D.! H. Hill, native of South Carolina who did so much hard i i fighting, had more confidence in the sticking qualities of the North Caro lina boys in gray than in any other. Now here; we have two South Car olina Generals and one Virginia, and one Texas General bearing evidence to the superiority over all others of North Carolina troops. The other Virginia Generals and one Maryland General bear hearty testimony as to their superlative excellence. The late Maj. Jos. A. Engelhard, of Wilmington, told the writer this. He said he was one night in Gen. A. P. Hill's tent when he asked that splendid soldier which was the best brigade in; his Division. He said Cooke's North Carolina; which next, MeRae's North Carolina: which next? lie thought a moment and said "It lies between : Lane's North Carolina and Mahoue's Virginia." ! A word more. Do not such men deserve to have the truth written concerning j them? Is it not high time that the misrepresentations and injustice concerning the third day at Gettysburg had stopped? Is it not about time that the exact truth about that terrible third day was written and other troops, every way deserv ing as Pickett's men, should be treat ed fairly and justly? I North Carolina sent 120,000 men to the war. She had 40,000 dead. Shall no memorial stone testify as to their glorious -deeds 7 Shall uo grati tude be manifested by those for whom they battled and suffered and bled and died? Are not the pride and gratitude of living North Caro linians equal to the demands ot pa iriousm, or, inenasmp aim . - - c e ' ji t- gener- osity ? j ' ; COnntr Commlnioneri. The Board of County Commission ers met in adjourned session ) yester day afternoon. Present, H. A. Bagg, Esq., Chairman, Commissioners Moore and Montgomery. It was ordered by the "Board that Mr. Boutelle be appointed to survey the lands of J. A. Hewlett, in Mason- boro township. j Ordered, that J. H. Tienken & Co. be allowed to remove their retail malt liquor establishment from Federal Point to Harnett township. I The Board adopted the following resolution:: ; Resolved, That the Chairman cor respond with Mr. Donald Bain, State Treasurer, stating the facts relative to the sale of the Bridgers and Collier Drouerties to the United States gov ernment, and make inquiry whether or not we are entitled to the taxes on said property for the year 1887; the said property not having been trans ferred until after the hrst: day oi June, 1887. . The Board adjourned after con sidering a number of complaints from tax payers relative to assessments of property, and will meet again in ad journed session on Monday next. Sad Death In Goldaboro. A correspondent of the Star, wri ting from Goldsboro, says that Mr. Mike Woods, a respected citizen of that place, was found dead in his room yesterday morning. j Tjlr. "Woods, when found, was lying upon his back upon the floor near a chest; his legs and arms were drawn, up! as if from the effects of severe pain. The body was swollen to that extent that it had burst. The body w.s immediately prepared for burial and taken to the cemetery, I escorted by citizens and the Goldsboro Rifles, It is supposed that Mr. Woods died Wednesday night. He had been sick and under treatment by a physician- that afternoon and at night after sit ting around talking with friends, as was his cujitom, he retired. He was unmarried and lived a quiet life, oc cupying a room situated in j a retired portion of what is known as the "Law buildinsr.'t The cause of his death was probably cramp colic. Mr. Woods was born in County Clare. Ireland. He served in the Goldsboro Rifles duriner the late war, ahd was wounded in the battle of Bristow Station in 1863. .. Mr. Woods was a member of the Catholic Church. He was erreatlv respected, and leaves a! memory that will be cherished by all who knew him. ' tie has a sister-in-law residing in New York and rela tives in Ireland. - j Receipts of Naval Stores. ' :! 1 The naval stores exhibit for the crop year to date (July 23) as posted at the Produce Exchange, shows re ceipts of spirits turpentine, 26,889 casks, against 22,854 to the same date last year. . Receipts of rosin, are 104,- 180, against 117,431 to same date last year; of tar, 15,634 barrels, against 18,692 last year, and of crude turpen tine, 9,299 barrels against 8,106 barrels at tne same date last year, r FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1887. Tne Balna The crops, e. - The recent rains came' inst at the time when f armers,f earing a contin uation of the torrid wave that was as tonishing all the thermometers in this section, . began ; to get': uneasy about their "crops and fear a repeti tion of their experience during the last three years-T-flne ; cop prospects early in the-season, followed by pro longed droughts. But such is' hot the case, i The rain has been general throughout the southern tier of coun ties and, we hope, "throughout the State. . Corn and cotton have raised their drooping heads arid the farmers are happy. , .Wilmington will be hap py, too, in the fall, when the crops are gathered and sent jhere for ship ment to foreign ports.' i ' Let pttr crops be good; then Tuttle may squint at assassination and Fo- raker hurl his harmless denunciations upon Cleveland and Confederate battle-flags- But with a plenty of corn and not too much cotton to bring down prices the South will still be solid," The c. F. & Y. V. K The following concerning the Cape Fear aftd Yadkin Valley Railroad is from the Fayetteville Correspondent "of the Robesonean: There has been much talk here during the past week inj regard to the report that the C. Fl & Y. V. R. R. Company were endeavoring to lease the A. & N. C. R. R. in order to get a deep water terininus. What the facts are we do not j know, but in a talk with one of the officials of the road a few days since, it would seem that the company have) about aban doned the idea of going to Wilming ton., He said that in the first place it would eost them $75,000 to cross the river at Fayetteville and $40,000 to cross Black river and another stream, and then a large sum, perhaps $150, 000, to get terminal facilities in Wil mington. On the other hand, he said that they can go jto aoutnport (Smithyille), whicji is a shorter dis tance, for almost half j the cost. He would hot talk about the A. & N. C R. R. project. The visit of Messrs. J. W. Fry and W. E. Kylel, of this road, to Bennettsville last week is signifi cant, as it is said that measurements are being taken from that place to Camden junction. This would give the road an outlet at Charleston. It is impossible to divine the objects of a railroad company and the only way is to wait with patience. Killed on the Ball. I A sad accident occurred Wednes day night last at Nichols' Station, on the W., C. & A. Railroad, resulting in the instant death . of a man named Biggs, employed as trestle-master on the road. - As the mail and passenger train passed the station on the night mentioned, the engineer saw a white object lying on the track, but it was impossible to stop thej train .until it had passed over the object. When the engineer stopped! the train he went back and found the body of Mr Biggs, terribly mutilated. It is sup posed that Mr. Biggs after eating his supper Wednesday night, left his shanty-car on the side traek, for the purpose of seeking a cool spot, and that he sat down on the main ' traek to catch the' breeze ahd fell asleep. Mr. Bfggs was a young man and well thought of by his employers. Temperatures. i Our good friends of the Goldsboro Argus take the Star o task for the temperature of different places pub' lished in its columns. The reports given on the local page are obtained from the Sisrin.1 OffifiP. and erive the temperature of each place separately. The- "Cotton Bulletin," however, gives, the mean maximum tempera ture of all places frdin which reports are received, i. e.r the maximum of all places in the belt is added together and the aggregate divided by the number of places. So, the Star was correct, and will adhere to its previous assertions that Wilming ton was the coolest oq the days re ferred to. The Wilmington cqtton belt ex tends from Weldon to Florence, S. C, and from Wilmington o Charlotte. Ranawar Accident. 1 While Mr. J. W. Westbrook, of Wrightsville, was driving yesterday af ternoon in a buggy -With Miss Katie Reston, of this city, onjthe turnpike, the horse ran away arid threw them out of the buggy, j Miss Reston escaped unhurt, but Mr. Westbrook sustained severe injuries, his head beiner cut and his body bruised. Dr. Pigford, who was at the sound, ren dered the necessary Surgical atten tion, and last night the sufferer was reported as resting quietly. The ac cident occurred near '('the dam." Low Water In the River. . The Cape Fear river is at such a low stage that boats have great dim eulty in getting through. The steam er Hurt, which arrived Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock, lielt Fayetteville Monday morning at 9 a. m. She met the Cape Fear near Willis Creek, the latter on her way up. The agents of the Cape Fear here have not been ap prised of the boat's arrival at Fay etteville. The Hurt will remain here for the present Wilmington to the Front, Wilmington is coming to the front rapidly. Our friends in the in terior of the State are" beginning to find us tuand almost every day excursion parties come in on our railroads finmfi for the sounds, some for Carolina Beach, jand others for Boutnport, at all ot wnicn popu lar summer resort they can see and 1 tii-T J '1 4.U Ullnnra rn Uor tuu WIUUS curl iue umvns vu old ocean's brow." j While the mountains are sending their tribute to the seacoast, tidewa ter sends hers to the mountains the mountains and the sources of inspiration. ocean, both Two Remarkable Cows. A correspondent at Gray's Creek writes as follows: : I : - "Mr. W. A. Kiner. of Cumberland county, has two Devon cows which had calves one on the 13th of July and the other the 14th. One cow eave 14 quarts of milk thf morning after calving and the other 21 quarts and one pint. Hope you will not doubt this, as many eye-witnesses ean Jand will testify to the fact." APPALIINQ D8A3TEB. A. Gang of Italian Laborers Ran Into by an Express Train Nearly All or Tncm Literal YTorn to Plceca Their Foreman C harged with - Responsi bility for Their Terrible Fate. i Br Telegraph to the Morning Str.l v " New York.-July 2ll Onef of those frightful accidents which come with ap palling suddenness, when! there is no appa rent reasoawhy tbey could not jbe easily averted, took place this tnoroio on the Erie railroad between Allendale and Hobo kus. The catastrophe ws attended with appalling loss of life, and over j a d -zen mangled bodies on the track aiu su-d the neglect of some one whose duty it should have been to give warning of the, impend ing ui8asier. A gang of Italian labor! :rs were at work blasting on tho railroad a little distance from Sharp Curve, about three-fourths of a mile above Hohokus. The Chicago ex' press, which was due au hour before,: had not arrived, and these men whose foreman should have given a warning whistle when the train wa approaching the sharp curve, were Dusy-at work, uccodecious of the terrible fate which was in( store for them. At a quarter past 7 o clock the train. No. 12 Express, which was due an hour pre vious, rushed round the curve., before the men naa me Biigmcsi warning ana aasaea through them, killing twelve or fifteen on the spot, and wounding many others. Tho Bhrieas of the victims were heart-rending. and when the train slowed up the track presented the sickening eight of being cov ered with-mangled bodies, the rails, being spotted with blood and 4wokea limbs, an d pieces of ragged flesh being scattered in all directions. Some of kbe bodies were mangled beyond description and crushed outof all 8emblahceof humanity. i To most of the victims death must have been in stant but some of them appeared lo be vet quivering and life ebbing away when the train was bi ought to a stand still, . There was only hfteen minutes delay, and the train which. had wroughtjsn much disaster proceeded on its way from Allendale to Ho hokus. The question of who is to blame is jet to be settled, but it is claimed that it was the duty of the foreman of the gang of laborers to watch for the trains at the dangerous curve, and that he must Ibave neglected to give the warning, whistle). Mr. W. Li. Hudson, passenger on the local train which was behind the Chicago Express, in conversation with a reporter, described the scene as jonc of the most sickening that could be witnessed . Along the track he said were afms, legs, trunks and other parts of bodies and the tracks for a long distance were slippery with blood. The disaster must have taken place with such appalling suddenness that the men did not know till the train was down on them. The conductor of the train: on which I rode said that the train hands of the Express were not to blame.- He be lieved the foreman of the gang was re sponsible for the disaster by neglecting to give warning. t New York, July 2l.4-Another account ef the terrible accident Bajs thai about 100 Italians were at work; on the road-bed when the train came alotg and the Italians stepped onto the other track to allow it to pass, but just then the Chioago express thundered down on them at the rate of 50 miles an hour and literally mowed its way through, slinging the unfortunates right and left, tearing legs and arms and heads off, and grinding flesh ipto the rotd bed for three hundred feet j So fierce was the shock that although tbc engine struck nothing but human beings, the powerful cow-catcher was torn, twistcdjand broken into pieces. Some of j the "Italians were crowded against the rocks in a very nar row space. The engineer of the express train reversed his engine and wss coming to a stop when the passengers told him to go ahead. Looking babk they saw the un injured Italians acting like maniacs. They were yelling, gesucuiauug nu leuuug their clothes; some were kneeling and others dashing about in j the midst of the. ghastly pile of mangled bodies. When they saw the tram stopping they made a rush for it and had they reached it, un doubtedly would have murdered the engi neer, fireman and conductor. For this reason it was deemed best to come on . to Jersey City, where the engineer and con ductor were closeted with officers of the road; and away from where they could be interviewed. Mr. March, the padrone who supplies i the Erie Railroad Comnany with its Italian laborers, has arrived at Paterson. He identified the men by means of their num bers, which are written on slips and carried by the men iii little tin boxes., Six or seven hundred dollars were found on the persons of the dead men and was taken by March, to he handed by him to the Italian Consul at New York, in trust for . their relatives. March's action was a source of indignation to other Italians who wanted to take charge of the money themselves. They would have mobbed. him only for the timely interference of two policemen FLORIDA. Execution at Palattta Five New Cases or Tel low Fever at Key West By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Falatka, July 23 tlenry - Wiggins, a negro, agea zu, wss nangea at ion tnis morning in the jail for murder. The ex ecution was private, only a few besides county officers being present. ! Late was extinct in twenty-three minutes.! His neck was broken by the fall, i Wiggins made no statement, but the attending priest spoke for him. : He said he . was sorry for the crime, and begged forgiveness of all. He hoDeu everybody would b9 warned by his fate. Wiggins shot and instantly killed Wm. Porter, a young white man in Finne- ean s orange grove, near Little Lake, Georgia, June 2o, 18S5. Wiggins baa stolen a fifty dollar note from Porter. When Porter was found murdered Wig gins was suspected and arrested. He con fessed and afterwards aeniea mat ne com mitted the murder. He has been twice convicted and escaped from jail Sept 1886, but was captured shortly afterwards. An attempt was made to secure commutation of his sentence without effect, A few! days ago he wrote out a confession to be! nublisbed. This is only the second hang ing in thisr county since the! war. The other case was that of a white man hanged in 1886 for the murder Of the sheriff for the purpose of robbing him of tax collections, Key Whst. July 23. Five new cases yellow fever have developed since yesteday ana one aeatn nas occurred me mian son of C. L. Pendleton. This child wa sick only six hours ahd is the first anS only death among children. I There are strong reasons for saying that this, lik many others, was not yellow fever although so reported. NEW YORK. Brldees on the Harlem Railroad Washed Away A Train Embargoed Traffic Suspended. New Yobk, July 23. Two bridges on the Harlem Railroad j between Hillsdale and Carvville were washed away by the flood yesterday morning, and all traffic is suspended ou the roaa oeyona mat point The Chatham express, due here at 10.25, was caught between the two wash outs and is unable to get either way. The wash-outs are several hundred feet long and It will re quire two or three days to repair them. It will be impossible for the imprisoned train to get through - before! to-morrow. There are but few passengers aboard, otherwise there would be difficulty in finding food for them, as there are not many houses in the neighborhood. One of the bridges is badly damaged..' Many fences have also been washed away., j Henry Heinzerling, lone of the convicted judges of election in Baltimore, Md., who failed to appear when his confederates were sentenced, surrendered himself in the Criminal Court yesterday. Judge Duffy sentenced him to two) years in jail and to pay a fine or f 1,000. . , 1 "Theodore Thomas has sued the National Ooera Comnanv for 118.349. balance of salary due for the past season. NO, 39 1 - WASHINGTON. Appointment of n New supervising Architect or the Treasury The Old - Incumbent ttnch Surprised Not withstanding he had Tendered his Resignation Complaint of Tennes see Coal miners to the Inter-State I Commission. '-' : .1 V . - -- I ' WAsmuGTON, July 21'. Secretary Fair child to-day appointed WY A j Prerct, of Louisiana, to be Supervising Architect of the Treasury, at a salary of $4,500 per an 'num. M..E. Bell, present incumbent, ten dered his resignation at the beginning of i the present administration, but waa very much j surprised yesterday when notified that his resignation had been accepted to take effect at once. He made a personal appeal to Acting secretary Thompson to withhold the announcement of thechange in office until to day. Mr. Thompson promised to do so and was somewhat cha grined this morning to find that Mr. Bell himself had furnished a statement of the case to certain . newspapers last evening. This incident was the subject of much un favorable comment in the Department to day. Mr. Freret qualified this; afternoon and will assume charge of the office at once, i .'. I . WASHINGTON. Dj C. JulV 21 The John . G. President to-day appointed Walker of Texas, to be Secretary of Le gation and Consul General of the U. 8.. at Bogota. i 'lhe Inter-State Commerce Commission has received the petition of the Hook and Petre coal miners of Tennessee against the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia and other railway companies, charging that certain officers of the railroads, prior to April 4th, 1887, purchased almost the en tire stock of a rival coal mining comnanv and then openly avowed their purpose to crush out all competitors in the business of coal mining, in a given region. "Accord ingly," the petition continues, "orders were issued not under any circumstances to furnish cars to the petitioners, or to allow petitioners to ship any coal over said railroads." The petitioners declare that by said iniquitous and oppressive action." tbey have already sustained damagts amounting to $25,000 and are sustaining further grievous loss and damage every day. The petitioners ask for damages and an investigation and correction or the al leged abuses. FOREIGN. Stanley, the African Explorer Report ed Killed by the Natives Cholera tt a vases at Catania, Italy. London. July 21. A dispatch from St Thomas, West Africa, says: i The West African Company has received a report that Henry M. Stanley, the Af risan ex plorer has been, shot dead by the natives with .whom his expedition was fighting in order to obtain supplies Another account says that the Steamer on which Stanley was proceeding to the relief of Etnin Bey was sunk, and that the explorer was drowned. The reports of Stanley's death emanates from a missionary at Matadi. who received it from a native from the up country. No direct message has been received fromthe expedition. - Home, July 12. Seventy-five deaths from! cholera have occurred in Catania during the past twenty-four hours. The people are panic stricken, and robbers are pilfering the houses whose owners have fled to escape the scourge. I Paris. Julv 21. The Senate to-dav passed the Mobilization bill by a Vote of 172 to 82. London. July 21. The rumor regarding the death of Stanley is utterly discredited here.! The latest authentic news from him was from Aruwinic and was sent under date jof June 2d. It would be impossible for a native to reach Matadi and! then St Thomas since that time. The distance between Matadi and Aruwinic alone is a thousand miles through thej roughest country. ENGLAND. The J nbllee Ratal Review at Splthead Immense Throngs of Dignitaries and Fashionable People Present; The Waters Crowded with Hundreds or Different Kinds or Craft. By Telegraph to the Horning Star. " Portsmouth, July 23. Portsmouth and Swansea have been thronged for days past in anticipation oi the Jubilee JN aval Keview nxed lor this afternoon at bpithead. The crowds have been immensely augment ed this morning by the arrival of innumer able visitors from all parts of the country who came by special trains from London and I other centres. Good oositions for observing the display are all well occupied. The weather could not be more favorable, There is bright sunshine and light breezes are blowing. Every lady is in holiday attire and gay dresses, and the splendid uniforms give, the crowded thoroughfare a brilliant appearance. Special trains brought down from London the Lords of Admiralty members of the House of Lords and Commons and representatives ; of foreign legations. i minister roeips travelled in a special sa loon coach. He was accompanied by his wife and Mrs. Loomis. In the' same coach with the American Ministers were Mr, Robert McLane, U. S. Minister to France; Mr. Jabez L. M. Curry, U. S. Minister to Spain: Mr. Harry White, second secretary of the American Legation at London, and his wife; Lieut Chadwick, Naval attachee of the American Legation at London, and Mrs. Chad wick: .Lieut. Buckingham, Naval attachee of the American Legation at Paris, and Mrs. Buckingham: Won. Thomas M Waller, U. 8. Consul General at London; General Joseph Hi Hawley, Senator Fry and Mr. A. J. Hopkins, member of Con gress from Aurora, Ills. Minister Phelps' party appeared to thoroughly enjoy them selves, ail being in the best of spirits. Mr. lvi tr. Morton and family were aboard a private yacht. Ezra Rust. Au gustus Jay, second Secretary of the Ameri can Legation at Paris; Chester A. Arthur, Mrs. Frank Leslie and Mr. I Logan Root were also afloat, aboard different crafts, Mr. Jay, accompanied by Mr. Kane, was aboard the "Hellicon," the rigging of which was decorated by flagsj 'The scene at Portsmouth was one of ex treme animation.! Hundreds of private crafts of every description, all handsomely decorated and well freighted with gayly dressed people, being anchored here.' It looked like a gigantic marine picnic. The "Bonnie Doon" carried scores of Americans. The crowds afloat and ashore were enormous, i ,. I On arriving at Portsmouth dock yard the favorite ones embarked on board the troop ships apportioned to (convey them from here and from Southampton to Spit- head. The first troop ships to leave with the guests were two huge ' Indian Liners from Southampton which excited much admiration from the crowds on shore, They were quietly followed by others from Portsmouth dock yard letty. Numerous large steamboats offered the general public an opportunity to witness the review from the sea. j The vessels participating in the pageant as a parade numbered 28 pennants, and included three squadrons of iron clads, and the. cruisers, aggregating 84 vessels, 175 torpedo boats, gun boats and iron defence. Ships divided into five flotillas, six training brigs and thirteen troop ships. Besides these 128 ships under drill, there were the Imperial and Indian troop ships appointed to carry the distinguished visitors, and the small vessels ana tne aocs yara crait at tached to the corporation of Portsmouth; All of which were well laden and briskly used. - i 1 i LOUISIANA. 1 A Fatal Affray at New Orleans. . ' ; .. By Telegraph to the Koranic, star. . New Obleans, July 23. A shooting affray occurred; here at the depot of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus R.R, between Griffith Enders, master mechanic, and another employe named. Owens, re suiting in the death of both I It is report ed that the cause of the difficulty waa the discharge of Owens by tbe master mechanic. - New Bern Journal: Mr. John Bangert was discovered down town yester day about poon in an unconscious i state. lie bad previously purchased a vial of laudanum and thought to have swallowed a portion of it Be was taken, to the office of Drs. C. & F. Duffy aod given medical treatment evening. much better the - Scotland Neck Democrat: We Baw a mule kick an apple out of tbe top of an appie . tree smteen feet high. Mow i that ror high? It is the hottest weath er we have seen in the last fifty years The thermometer don't stand at all. It lust keeps going ' up yonder, i We saw the Mercury when it past 105 degrees and we haven't seen it since. Rev. -Dr. R. BurweU, over eighty years of age. is con ducting a protracted meeting at Oakland Presbyterian church, Johnstnn county. ' Raleigh News-Observer: Hex- Debsonville, N. C, July $0. Thej Press Convention met this morning and immedi ately proceeded to business The sessious are being held in the audience room of Judson College, where some of the mem bers have found pleasant quarters. 'Other, members are quartered at the different hotels in the town, all of Which in this famous resort furnish good accommoda tions. : So far the attendance on thej Con vention has been rather small. Charlotte . Chronicle'. ' Mr. Bur - ton Todd, a son of Mr. Charles Todd, of Paw Creek township, was yesterday mor tally wounded by the accidental discharge of a shot-gun, ie the hands of his friend. Mr. P. A. Osborne, of this city. The two. young men were out hunting squirrels, and Mr. Osborne was walking! in advance of Mr. Todd, who was following closely upon his heels. As they were passing through a strip of woods,. Mr. .Osborne stumbled and fell, and his gun became entangled in the limb of a tree. The weapon was dis charged, the entire load taking effect in the forehead of Mr. Todd, i I 4- Goldsboro Argus: There is no sense in idly waiting for sotxething to hap pen to make your town prosperous. ! Go to worK, even in a small way, to make it pros perous. The writer happened into the Register of Deed's office on yesterday, and saw there ten copies of the Colonial Re cords, as compiled by Col. W. L. Saunders, secretary of State, under the provisions of the law. It is stated that there are the re' cords of the Legislature of North Carolina, ' for at least sixty years missing from any known collection here, until Col. Saunders made this collection, much of which was taken from the British files in London. Graham Gleaner: Tho watch man at the plaid mills at Burlington ob served a man strike a match and try to fit a Key in tne omce aoor. lie area upon him with a shot gun. The would-be house breaker disappeared, but dropped a match box with shot holes in it. This was Mon day night Mr. Campbell, of Bur lington, aged about 45, was sleeping! on his porch last Friday night when a blow was dealt him which went crashing through his - shoulder.- He awoke and beheld an axe in the hands of his son, a young man about 17 hears of age andof unsound mind. It was serious wounds We heard some con flicting reports as to the number of wounds received. John Bill Bason, a negro man aged 40 or 50 years, was drowned at Haw River last Saturday morning. He was crazy from drink. I Raleigh News and Observer s The teachers in North Carolina are much more thorough than they have ever been before. The best hthia water in tbe country is now bottled and shipped in large quanti ties irom .Lincoln county, ana is Known as Lincoln lithia water. i Speaker! J. ft. Webster, of Rockingham county, with Messrs. J. M. Vaughn, P. D. Price and W. m Mebane were in the city yesterday as a committee to confer with a special committee from the penitentiary authori ties concerning the granting of convicts to work on a new railroad to be run from Stokesdale, in Stokes county, to Madison, in Rockingham county. Stokesdale is on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley road and the proposed road will branch from that point to Madison. The negotiations are about concluded and Speaker Webster Is of the opinion that 250 convicts will be put on the road as soon as the convict force hall have fln- now on the Monroe road ished the work there. Ther J was a Raleigh Visitor picnic at- Varina Springs,, about sixteen miles south of this city yesterday, which was attended by a large crowd of people. As Mr. Ben Enniss was driving down the hill near the spring his horse became frightened and ran off. throwing Mr. En niss and his daughter and Mr. Barney Fish and wife, who were in the wagon, violently to tne grouna. in tailing Mr.i jsnniss' daughter broke her left leg just above tbe ankle. In the afternoon session of tbe Superior Court yesterday the following business was transacted: State vs. Dun can C. Haywood; forgery, tbe defendant, through his counsel, D. G. Fowle. came into court and plead guilty, at the same sime thanking on behalf of defendant and family the court and the Solicitor for the fair and impartial trial and the courtesy ex tended during the progress of tbe same. The-court, upon judgment being prayed. sentenced the defendant to hard labor on the public roads of the county for the term or two years. ! Raleigh News- Observer: Yes terday evening Mr. John Johnson, overseer at the granite quarry at Granite.' met with e painful accident. A blast bad just been made,- and the overseer stepped upon a scaffold over the quarry pit, lo note tha effect He lost his footing and fell a dis tance of twenty feet, striking the solid granite bed below. His hip was knocked out of joint, the bones perhaps broken, and he was otherwise severely bruised j Died, at bis residence, Buxton place, in Warren county, on Suaday, July 17th, John Buxton Williams, aged 72 years. Died, yesterday, July 19th, in Charlotte, Sallie S. Graham, wife of Dr. George W. Graham, and daughter of Rev. David Sha ver, D. D. The funeral of the late Col. i Edward Graham Haywood was held yesterday evening at 6 'o'clock from the Church of the Good Shepherd. The ser vices were most impressively conduc ted iby Rev. Robert Strange and the Rev. James A. Weston. There were numerous tokens of respect in the 1 way of handsome floral offerings. The Superior Court now in session, adjourned early in the day in respect to the memory j of the late gifted member of the bar and the Raleigh bar attended the funeral iu a body. On last Sunday night about 9:80 o'clock a party of men went down to Sheriff H. C. Kearney's fish pond to go In bathing. Isaiah J. Harris started across,, when he began to feel weaker and weaker and sunk twice; he then called for help four times. Mr. J, Lopiansky came to his rescue. - '. I ' . Raleigh News- Observer': Over -ninety houses in the city have so far been connected with the water worka mains. Two mules belonging to Mr. J. A. Norris, near Apex, died from the effects of the heat while plowing in a field last Fri day. The penitentiary board of di rectors which has been in session this week, adjourned yesterday, Nothing of note came before the board .except the framing of a contract for building the railroad from Stocksdale to Madison by convicts.' ? The Governor has appointed W. C. Field, Esq., a director of the State penitentiary vice E. L. Vaughan, EsqM of Allegheny county, resigned. Col. F. A. Olds, : Quarter-Master General, issued tents yes terday to the Sampson Light Infantry which company will camp near Clinton next week. Messrs. J. W. Hinsdale and W. A. Guthrie, on behalf of the McNeal Pipe and .Foundry Company, jof New Jersey, have filed a lien against the properly of tbe Durham Water Com pany on account 4of a claim of $38,- 000 against' the contractor.. There was a -mule on Wilmington street yesterday that to all appearance . might have been among the first descend ants of "Balaam's noted beast. He looked as though he had been' through the flood, the revolutionary war and a cyclone. On inquiry it was found that the mule waa actually fifty-seven years old, which fact was vouched for by citizens of riper years who had always known the animal. . MuBTBEESBOBO, N. C., July 21, 1887. This township to-day voted a subscription of $25,000 to the Murfreeeboro j railroad company. Another link binds Us to the outside world. Mobehbad, N. C, July 21, 1887. A carpenter named Mur dock. a few months from Scotland, en gaged at work on - the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad bridge, at Newport had a stroke of sunstroke yesterday and died last nignt, at tnis place. II; ?. v -si v. -8? tf Vl t 'K I. ..S3 -: : H '.7 m fe il sv. '11.'. :8 Si' rr . ah . V'i'. i ii i ft le'- PI- ) if: "il tH. . X I" i I i wrote to this man to know; some of the de . I ;
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