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,: I SSS3S8SSSSS8SS8S3 8388SS88888888388 g2SS8S8S8S888888 88888888888888888 88882882288888888 88 gS.gS88SS88SS88 : 8 CO iO t-00 o O W JO g g a- - 5 '! OQ l . - r lEnto at the Post Offloe atZWilmlngton, N. C.'i as second uiass ju.auer.j St JiSCRIPTION PRICE. Tke subscription price or the Weekly ab ip as follows : - i sinsle C'opyl year, postage paid, $1.00 , 'f. 6 months, " " .60 f 3 months " " . .30 pE.t r li OF NATHAN A. 8TEDIOAH, ' Esa. I Fill of years, held in high esteem wheie best known, and loved by his friealu and relatives, Nathan Alex ander Stedraan died at bis borne at FayiiUoville on Thursday, 29th of September, 1S87, at 4 o'clock a. m. He Ivan born at Pittaboro, Chatham county, and was 81 years old last Febru I IT 1 7 . 1 . ry. lie was eieciea to toe Legisl itarc tu 1H'J7, when but 21 years hid. He was again elected in :lsf kml in 1833. For many years he R-a. Clerk of tho County Court oL Chatham. He 6crved as Comptroller of did Stale for two years, being electee by a Democratic Legislature althoiJ jh himself a very decided He was ah intimate friend Whijr; of tip late Govcrner Manly, Hon. Hugh Waddell and other prominent ' their day. At the time he i men lesidoll in Raleigh as ComDtroller he had robably a more general ao- quain Lmce throughout tho State than any man then living. In his prime he w: s a grand epecimen of physical mauhood. He was a man of the high 1st" integrity and ttlrictest ve racity, iled was frank, perpendic- ular, "and that (Jec'uled, brave, without guile without hypocricy. He had sott of magnetism that drew men to him and held them faithful to the end. Hej was as those l.e called trier ttrue aa steel to up, and his lib- erality was aa open as day and as free as wjaterT- Ho married Euphania f.t daughter of tho kte Thomas W. White, founder of tl e Southern jLit trahj Messenger. Slie survives him, as do also his two sons, Lieut. Gov. Stedman and Frank II. Stedman, and twq dauarhters. lie wa- a North Caroliniau, and when he took an active part in poli tics was influential and popular, i lie resided in when he Chatham until about 1851, to Favettevjlle. removed Frdm that time naiil his death he livid at liis )at hme. He rarely left Fayetteville except to pay an occasional visit to Wilmington. He win a man of excellent seneai and ate -lintj qualities1, snd in bis death the Stale louts a valuable citizen, a trite liatrict and an honest man. IMitI IIIEtlELL AND STATE RIGHTS. j Our well edited anS interesting contemporary, the Golduboro Argus, treats its readers, in its issue of Toes da last, to an enjoyable and instruc tive discussion of Judge James Ire dell, whjj was one of President Washington's appointments tol the Supreme Court of the United States.' Such articles are always proper: and timely. They leach the youngj and the old too, for that matter, concern the leading men of the past, and excite emulation and pride of State. Jndge Iredell was a man of. really uisunguihed parts, lie was a jurist nd .thinker of a high order and it is fortnnata for North Carolina that we late Griffith J, his two olumes McRce prepared of biography and correspondence of this eminent North Carolinian of tho past. Judge "edell w is born in Eng!and, in :L751, t he became a subject o f the Crown in North Carolina as early as hco. II held several im portant Colonial officer and in 1790 jas selected by the illustrious vTash ngton as one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Union.) lie died at Edenton, 20th October 1799, aj few days more than 48 years old. His son fli,. a j .in --.-i p ie peuaiur auu yxu. ames Iredell, inherited his fathers billty ahd was a man'of admirable rtsj In fact, intellectually hi was 1 a ver 4 high order. When in, the n'ted States Senate in the great ntcBt between the South and t.h fwh, he was selected by the Sbuth members to meet Daniel Web ,tpr in the debate. Mr. Iredell waB Prevented from complying, and Robert T. Ilayne of South Carolina as then! chosen to conduct the dis 'assion. I He made a splendid speech a,,1o and very eloquent. It is a cbgrbter speech than it is the Cn8tom to concede it to bo by those "no Drawn WoW or oVinun all: man ana consider him the "Great Ex- PounderV instead of the Great Per- Vtrtor of tho Constitution. j Tho A,rgus brings out One very in "ereatinef and inatrnnHva nnint In connection with the career of Jnda Iredell. It is the dissenting opinion he gaye in the Georgia case when he took the true Democratic view of "the Constitution and .was theirs to ap ply the principles of interpretation that Jefferson and Calhoun and other Btateaimen afterwards defended with so much of ability and zeal. - The Argm sayB: i . ii : - - "The sketch from which we have quoted this opinion, it has been said contains the germ pf all the later doctrine of Bute rights. "If this be so, It will be seen that a Noith CaroUna Judge sowed the seed that brought forth the irnoat prolific crop of sUtesman, ship that has ever been accorded to any other country. For our Federal system as understood by the school of statesmen that grew i up after the promulgation of this opinion has been the wonder and admira tion of statesmen in all lands." This was in : 1792, six or seven years before the famous Kentucky resolutions of 1798-9- j Judge Iredell stood alone in his understanding of organio law anci was the first, "strict constructionist. His opinion became the opinion of more than half a con tinent, and the principles he laid down in his opinion from the bench are those that are held by all true Democrats ih 1887, and by all indeed who believe in local self-government and the rights reserved to the States under the Constitution. But let us quote irom our esteemed contem porary : . I "It is UDon the oninion filed bv Iredell in this cause that we found his claim to be called a great judge. A judge who can change the. course of the current judicial thought, or so impress the truths of his opinion upon the legislative bodies of a great nation, as to change their fundamen tal laws ought to be termed ereat. and this we claim Iredell did on this momentous occasion." . . j , - j The Argus says the opinion is very long. It gives some extracts from it.'' We copy a part to show whai was the position of the eminent jurist from North Carolina: J ' 'Every State in the Union in every in stance where its sovereignty has not - been delegated to the United States, ! consider to be as completely sovereign as the United States are in respect to the powers surren dered. The United States are sovereign as to all powers of government actually surrendered; each State in the Union is sovereign as.to all the powers reserved, j It must necessarily be so, because the United States have no claim to an authority but such at the States have surrendered to them; or course the part not surrendered must re main as it did before jlAg&in he says: f'A State does not owe its oricin to the Government of the United States, in the highest or any of its branches. It was in existence before it It derives its existence from the same pure and sacred source as itself, the voluntary and deliberate choice of the people." '"'j jji The other Judges talked in quite another strain. The Irmshas done well in its discussion. North Caro lina led in a great many things .for which it has never got credit. RIGHT VIEWS ON. AN IMPORTANT -'. SUBJECT. : I" , I I !: One of the! strongest j and best equipped Baptist South is Rev. Dr. preachers in the T. T. Eaton, of Louisville, but some years back pas tor in Petersburg, jVa. He is a man pf superior parts. In the Baptist Recorder, in Louisville, he has been opposing the Blair-Federal-Pater-nal-Pedagogy Bil. He is a man Uo thinks. Two - objections I are rged against the monstrous bill -rst, the injury to our :' system of jovernment; and, second, the harm done to education. These are the points that over and over again have been nrged in these columns. - - j The States are not by any means unable to provide educational ad vantages for the Jchildren. This is t 'ill ' 1 " ' assumed but not proved. The steady increase of school' funds and school attendance in the Southern States show that the South is coming up bravely and eelfeacrificingly to its duty, and is doing a noble: woik for- education. j ' I Dr. Eaton Bays, and it is worth thinking. over: j; j' .- "' ; II "It is to-dav within the reach of every sound-minded person in . the United States to learn how to read and write. And then, too, the advantages of secular education have been greatly! exaggeratea The An- arcbtsU and Bociaiists m ine read and write, and many North can of them are highly educated." ! f "Secular . education" is former. The prisons of not a re- the world are crowded wi educated scoun 4 I drels. The Socialists and Nihilists are all educated. I The best way t kill off wild theories is to enlighten the mind. That we hold. But the best way to makomen letter as well as wiser is to educate the heart. We think the following reflections from the Louisville Courier-Journal are on the right line. It says: jr'Educatioh willj limit the power of these leaders, not bv enlightening their minds, but by opening the minds of the people to a better appreciation of the doctrines which thes9 men promulgate. It is a one-sided rtnrAHnn which i eives these men! their power; the way to destroy it, is to extend and to improve our public schools, j If we disinfect the foul spots which! these agitators seek to poison, we have littte to four . I i- ? I ' 1 I To improve our; schools we do not need more money, but we need more wisdom and a better understanding of the problem of education.; ', -. )' . . j -1 "I ! This improvement, can not come from a distance; it will never proceed from the circumference to tho centre of the circle. No neonle was ever ! saved from decay by outside pressures redemption comes not from a government to a people, but from There is much of real wisdom and ! ' i i . acntenesa in that passage. Avoid "one-sided education." Make! eda cntion better, discipline the who have been To do this train and moral nature. Men trained intellectually and morallv are 1 never ,- hurt hv Agrarianism, Socialism or any other noxious "ism." It I is the ; men of "one-sided ' education' who fly-off and become dupes and toole of high ly educated rascals. : vl - Onr able contemporary is clearly right as to the need pf a clearer view Of what education ia of what ir ends are. As the people have broad er, more accurate views of the great educational question will they re spond more willingly to the claims of the schools, andl will they insist upon 6teady andj assured improve ment in the system. L i But the last view of the Courier- Journal is the truest and ' most inci sive. The people of the South muBt rely upon themselves and not upon others. They must make sacrifices that will do them good, and not look to the public Treasury for help. The .true, pbUosophjoview' is? lhat given above; a people" must be developed from within. Reliance upon outsiders is paralyzing, is sure to destroy man hood, self-reliance and in the end,; self-respect. Noj manhood can be preserved under a system of, eleemo synary gain. Read what the Courier- Journal says in that last paragraph and you will find the very essence of the principle thai shuts out Blairism and Federal crutches and Federal intermeddling and supervision. The philosophy j of the . schools taught that sooiety was improved by working from above. The re ligion of the ChriBt taught that so cial, regeneration was to be secured by beginning below and working up, just as personal regeneration was, to begin in the heart and working out ward in the daily life. All this was contrary to man's plan. So in edu- - If . L canon; irue regeneration, real me, certain relief from : ignorance, must come by-working from within and not from without. . In other words, the people must help themselves. do their own work and keep out Federalism and Paternalism, that means death lbe Kaleigh yhronicle opens; its batteries upon a ex-Speaker Carlisle. wants him defeated for the Speakership of the Fiftieth Congress. How will Samuel J. Randall suit it? Ho is for- abolishing the Internal Revenue. North Carolina and Vir- i i ! ginia Democrats are out in a very cold place andj alt by themselves in demanding free drinks, and free smokes. Exports to Foreign Countries. The total value of exports to for eign countries from this port for the month of September, just closed, is f04b,9Ud, as ioijows: i To Belgiuml-f Rosin, 4,190 barrels, valued at 3,6G5; spirits turpentine, 62,805 gallons, Jvklued at $18,841. I - To Germany; Rosin, 8,885 barrels, valued at $3,759 To EnslancMrCotton, 9,800 bale (4,676,393 pourids), valued at $425,500; rosin, tj,45 barrels, vaiuea at wmoi spirits turpen ;ine, 232,615 gallons, val ued at $69,753, I ' To Scotland Rosin, 753 barrels, valued at $643; spirits turpentine, : 37,- 050 gallons, valued at $11,115. To Hayti Liimber, 349,000 feet, val- ued at $4,619; thingles, 310,000, valued at $1,185. Wllminctoa nd Newbern. j The Newbern Journal of Thursday says that at a meeting of the Cotton and Grain Exchange of that city, held on Wednesday evening, a reso lution was ajdopted "to" appoint a committee of-five to meet, with other citizens of the (town, representatives Of the Wilmington & Onslow Rail road at f Jacksonville, on the jfirst Monday in October, to consult about the proprietyj pf consolidating j the schemes to build a railroad, or come to some understanding whereby con cert of action can be d in asking Onslow to vote a subse iption to the two enterprises." ! The same paper says : "Dr. W. J. Mumford. chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Onslow county, ar rived yesterday evening. He says action on ordering the election for subscription to the Wilmington and Onslow railroad was postponed in order to give to Newbern and Wil mington time to consolidate their schemes.' ' j jv Edgecombe Fair. ' The premium list for the seventh. 'annual fair of the Edgecombe Agri cultaral and Mechanical Association lias been received.! The fair will be held on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th of November, at Runnymede- Park, Tar- Tinro. The nremiums are liberal. Dr. J. N. Pittman is president and Mr. C. W. Jeffreys secretary and treasurer. Hon. K. K. uriagers ana Mr. x. m. Emerson, of Vf Ilmington, are among the vice presidents. Competition in every class is open to all. Bladon Coantr CoI. , Specimens bf the coal found at Owen Hill, Mrs Guion's ; plantation 'in Bladen county, were sent to parties North for examination a short time since. In reply, j these parties ask that larger samples may be sent,! and say that they I take the ; specimens thflv have examined to be from, the outcropping of Ja vein of bituminous coaroi a very superior iuoiub. Cotton. .' ' j. I ; The receipts of eotton at this; port yesterday were 1,919 bales. ' Receipts for September the, first month of the crop' . year w ire 38,591 balesj, . as against receipts of 12,803 the same month last year, an: increase of 25,789 bales. ... :..-: -U 4 , -;-.. HThe exDorts for the month were 9.800 bales. The stock at this port is 25,917 bales. ONSLOW RAILROAD. Tne 9100,000 of Bond Toted by tne ; - City to be leaned at Once. . x Judge Daniel L. Russell, : President of - the Wilmington. Onslow & East Carolina Railroad Company,: was! in conference yesterday with the Fi nance Committee of the Board of Al dermen, with reference to the issue of $100,000 of eity bonds in aid of the railroad. i- : ! j - ' It was agreed, after discussion, to have the Jbonds lithographed at once in denominations of $500 and $1,000 eighty-thousand iof ;the former and sixty thousand of the latter; the bonds to run thirty years, bearing in terest tne rate 01 6 per cent, per annum. The city to be entitled to any premiums received. I , Judge Russell told the committee that the company desired to have the bonds executed and placed in the hands of some trust company who would ; also hold ' the shares of stock to be issued for the bonds. .Bonds to bedelivered to the railroad company and stock to the city as the road is built, mile by mile, at the rate of $2,500 per mile; andwhen the bonds are delivered .through the trust I company all over due coupons to be cut off and can celled. Mayor Fowler, chairman of the committee, suggestedthat it would be necessary to appoint three trustees at the next meeting of the Board. Judge Russell said that that would necessitate the delivery of the bonds direct to the railroad company; but this they did not wish. The company did not want the bonds delivered to them until the fwork was done,, al though under the act they could de M mand them without this restriction. The J udge said further, in relation to the election on subscription, that question had been raised as to the validity of the election. It was to the company's interest to have this mat ter settled, as they did not want any nt on the bonds; but on the other hand they did not want delay ; they wanted to avoid that if possible. The Board of Aldermen had decided that the election was valid. Uity Attorney Uutlar, who was present at the conference, was asked his views. He said it was a matter "upon which opinions differed. A great deal might be said on each side. He was inclined to believe that it would have been better to have held the election under the old registra tion. J It was suggested by Alderman Fish- blate, of . the Finance Committee, and admitted by Mr. Cutlar, that the same, difference of opinion might have arisen as to the validity of the election if it had been held under the old registration. Judge Russell said that under the General Election law, the city author ities hod the power to order -i-a new registration whenever they saw fit. citing sections 2625 and 3793 of the Code. Fayettevllle Presbytery. A correspondent of the Stab writes as follows, concerning the meeting of Fayetteville Presbytery, on the 28th inst:v :-' !'-..- .-!- Rev. J.'P. McPherson preached the opening sermon. He v. A. Lt. .fniuips was elected Moderator and Ruling Elders A. D. Brown and W. J. Currie, temporary Clerks. The attendance both of Ministers and Elders was quite large." The free conversation on the state of religion reveals a steady growth in member- shipj and so is quite encouraging. The Presbytery very warmly en dorsed the 2V, C. Presbyterian after several exceedingly kind speeches. The great event has been the ad dress of Rev. Dr. J. B. Mack, in the interest of Davidson College. . The ef fect upon the hearers -at times was thrilling and the satisfaction ex pressed is universal. . Licentiate A. R. . Shaw has stood several parts of his examination for licensure most creditably. His trial sermon Thursday -night was excep tionally able and entirely satisfac tory. He will be licensed before the Presbytery adjourns. Rebate on Bagging. A great many cotton exporters are now much interested in a recent cir cular issued by the Treasury Depart ment in relation to the "drawback on the covering of cotton bales." This drawback is a refund allowed by an act of Congress of 1861 on all exported articles wholly manufac tured in the United States from im ported materials. The amount of the drawback is equivalent to the amount of import duty, less ten per cent which is retained by the Govern ment. , ' .! I ... j .' 1 In June, 1885, however, a circular, was issued by the Treasury Depart ment relative to the drawback on jute bagging, in which cotton ex porters are largely interested. The refund was suspended as ' to this article, but for the reason that the bagging could not in all cases be iden tified as having been manufactured from imported materia. In other words, there was a difficulty with the port officers in identifying the im ported and exported manufactured article. This provision of the circular ap pears to have been understood as absolutely prohibitory of claims for the' drawback by the exporters. To correct this impression an additional circular was I issued on May 19, 1887, rescinding the former provision affect ing jute bagging. ; The collectors at the various ports are by this new circular authorized to accept entries for claims 'for the drawbacks which were not paid be tween June, 1885, and May, 1887, the period duriner which it was under stood that the right to make such claim was denied. All claims must be made within rone year from May, 1887. ' ' ' , : -.. CA FE TEA R & YADKIN VAIy ; LET RAILROAD. meeting - of Citizens at tne Prod nee KxehaugeA IHaca Sleeting to be .)' ' ,. -,. . i . . - . railed. '' - ' - - Pursuant to announcement a pub lic: meeting was held yesterday, at noon in the rooms of the Produce Ex change. - . Mr; J. H. Currie, in calling the meeting to order, said that they had assembled to consider a question that was of vital importance not only to this community, but to every person in the State. . It ' was an assemblage of: business men to consider, if it would not be wise and proper to call a mass meeting cf citizens to de cide whether we should take action in! the matter of tbe extension of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad to this eity. Charleston, he said, was making strenuous efforts to induce the railroad company to make that place its . seabpard .terminus. There -was no doubt about the. Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley road making connec tion with Cincinnati and the Great West, and there was no doubt about the company desiring to make this city the eastern terminus of. their road, although the cost of the exten sion will be much greater than the proposed line to Charleston. Just as soon as Wilmington agrees to do what is right and reasonable in the matter the railroad company would do everything in their power to push on the work. Dr. A. J. DeRosset was called to the chair. He urged that steps be taken to secure the extension of ' the road to this city. There was necessity for immediate action. He did not believe there was a man present who did not want the road to come here and who was not ready to assume his share of the responsibility. It was natural and proper that the road should come to Wilmington. If the terminus was fixed anywhere else, he, for one. would ask that the name of the road should be changed. But we were here to call a.meeting of all the citizens, to settle the question as to the sense of the community 4n the matter. At the conclusion ' of Dr. DeRos- set's remarks, Mr. Currie moved that a committee or nve be appomtea, consisting of Messrs. D. G. Worth, J. W. Atkinson, Wm. A. French, F. Rheinstein and Pembroke Jones, to prepare resolutions to can a mass meeting of citizens, to be held that evening. Col. Roger Moore suggested that it would be better to leave the time of meeting to the committee. Mr. S. H. Fishblate said that it was important to take action speedily. The Board of Aldermen and. the Board of Audit and Finance would meet next Monday and the matter should be in shape to be laid before thn- . . Col. Atkinson said that he did not approve joi acting nurrieaiy in tne matter. The meeting ought not to be held earlier than Monday night. After further discussion it was de cided to leave the matter with the committee, and the motion to ap point the gentlemen named to pre pare resolutions to be presented to a meeting of citizens to be called by the committee, was adopted unani mously, and the meeting adjourned. Tne Late N. A. Stedman. The announcement brought by tele graph yesterday morning of the death of Mr. .Nathan A. Stedman was re ceived with profound .sorrow in Wil mington, where he had many friends. He died at 4 o'clock a. ni., of conges tion of the brain, being sick only eighteen hours. His death was quiet and peaceful, and he passed away without pain. The funeral will 'take place in Fayetteville, at 11 o'clock this forenoon. A more extended no tice of the deceased will be found in our editorial department. Tne unalow Railroad. The President of the Wilmington, Onslow & East Carolina 2 Railroad Company yesterday sent a communi cation to the Finance Committee of the Board of Aldermen, requesting the committee to meet at once for conference, with the view of prepar ing for the delivery of the $100,000 of city bonds, in trust, as directed under the order of the Board of Aldermen at their last regular meeting. Carolina Beacn. ' The Passport ran her last trip to Carolina Beach yesterday, closing a season of well deserved success at this popular resort, The Beach has had between 17,000 and .18,000 visitors during the summer, of whom proba bly 5,000 were surf bathers. No acci dent of any kind has marred the pleasure of the trips, and the public will give due credit to Captains Har per and Nolan, whose care and vigi lance have contributed to this happy result. We understand that greatly enlarged facilities for transportation and accommodation have been ar ranged for the next season. .-" For the Star. Presuming that the Star will refer more particularly to tne public me of the late Mr. N. A. Stedman. the writer of this only desires to speak of him subsequent to his career as a suc cessful merchant in Fayetteville. He was Treasurer of the C. F. & Y. V. R. R. from 1870 until 1883, when, being physically unable to attend to his du ties, he resigned his position ana re tired to private life, to the regret of all who had been associated with him on that road. . - j r. - Possessing a fine physique and com manding presence, he reminded one in his declining years 01 va iwman Senator in the days of Cato." : Strict integrity and a supremely high sense of honor were the ruling motives of an honorable life. . : ; The writer of this knew him long and well, and duriner a life of contact with men of all callings and profes sions has never met witn one wno was actuated by purer motives or more unselfish ones than those . that ml ed his actions. , He belonged to a race and class of men that are- only to be found in the old school of North Carolinians. WASH I HO rON. Estimates for tne Armored Battle snip Commission to Negotiate for Settlement of the Fliberlts Troubles Cabinet- Sleeting Illicit Dlsttrlera Pardoned Postmasters Appointed A Civil , Service Letter Yesterdafs Offerings of Bonds. ' By Telegraph to the MorninK Star. Washington. Sept. ! 29. The Nav4 Board which was appointed to estimate the cost of building the six thousand ton ar mored battle-ship, designed by the Barrow Btup-Duilding Company, 01 .England, to day completed its labors The last, esti mate for constructing the bull and flttincs ' is $1,890,000, and for engines and machine ry $486,000; total, $3,376,000; which .is $124,000 lets than tne sum anoroDriated. The report of th Board has been present ed 'to Secretary of the Navy Whitney. Some slight alierations in the original plans are suggested, but they are not ready. The vessel is to have triple expansion engines, with forced draft, intended for speed of 18 knots. Tho estimates include full equip ment. The most important recommenda tion is that the vessel be built at the Nor folk navy yard. It was generally believed that the New York navy yard would be selected for the work, but this recommen dation, if approved by the Secretary, will probably result in the building of the six thousand ton armored cruiser, designed by the Navy Department instead of the battle ship at the New York yard. It ia believed that it will take about eighteen months to build the vessel at Norfolk. The allow ance of $75,000 made for the purchase of a new plant for this yard is . not large enough by about $50,000. for complete equipment, but by the U6e of temporary sheds it is believed that the work of con" atructing the great ship can be carried on until Uongraa provides for the erection of suitable permanent shops. The construc tion work will be under the immediate di rection of Naval Constructor' Bowles, and the machine and engine work under that of Chief Engineer Robie, who will relieve Chief Engineer Hlbbaid, the present en gineering offlc-r of th4 Norfolk nvy yard. The Jfresident has invited William Li. Putnam, of Maine, and James 8 Angell, of Michigan, to act with the Secretary of , State in negotiation for the settlement with Great Britain of the dispute growing out of the question connected with the rights of our fishermen in the waters of Canada and Newfoundland. Both have accepted Putnam has been of counsel for the United States for the last twoyaars in cases arUing under the law and treaty in oonotciion with the fisheries dispute; and Ange'l is President of the University of Michigan, and has bad experience in international transactions, having been one of the com missioners by whom ths latest treaty 01 China was negotiated. Putnam is a mem ber of the Democratic party, and Angell of the Republican party. Secretary jfairchiid returned to Wash ington last evening and resumed active con trol of the Treasury Department this morning The last meeting of the cabinet prior to the President's departure for the West was held at the White House to-day at the usual hour. There were present; Secreta ries Bayard, Fairchild, Wnitney, Endicott and Liamar and Acting rostnia&ter uenerai Stevenson, Acting Attorney General Jetiks" had an interview with the President before the meeting, but did not remain during the session. The session lasted till about 2 o'clock. It was impossible to obtain any direct information as to the business transacted, except in the master of fishery negotiations Secretary Fairchild remained in conference with the President about half an hour after adjournment. He positively declined to say anything in regard to lbe future financial policy of the treasury De partment. From other sources, however. it is learned that the rresment leu tne mat ter to the discretion of the Secretary, and that there is no prospect of any immediate change of programme. The frestdent to-day directed a pardon to be issued to John A. liurrell. convicted of violating the internal revenue laws, and sentenced August 9. 1887, to two months' imprisonment in the jail of Greenville county, S. C, and -to pay a fine of $100. In granting a pardon to John Brooks, con victed of violating the internal revenue law in Georgia, and sentenced March 15, 1887, to seven months' imprisonment, the President says: "It seems to me that the laws are not administered in. the best man ner, when, as in this case, a man of pre vious good character and a law abiding cit lzen, is seutenced to seven months impris onment for working for others one day in an illicit distillery; especially when he pleads guilty, shows evidence of sincere re. pentance. and discloses tne names or nis employes, and when by his imprisonment lour helpless, motherless cnuoren are leu to the care of strangers." Washington, Sept. 29. The President at the following, which have become fres idential offices: Johnson City, Tenn. Manchester. Va. : Pocahontas, Va. Civil Service Commissioner Oberly has written a long letter to Charles H. Spencer, who, or behalf of the Illinois Democratic Association of this city, had invited Oberly to address the . Association this evening. The Illinois uemocratic Association is a political organization of clerks from the State of Illinois in Government Depart mental service. Oberly declined to address them on the ground that it would be an impropriety on his part, as he is entrusted with the administration 01 non-partisan law. to participate in a partisan demonstra tion. Oberly maintains that this rule holds good also as to civil service examiners; that they have no right to take any part in partisan meetings. The Illinois Demo cratic Association, he said, was an organi zation of officeholders, and that it cannot in his opinion exist without its members violating several of the penal clauses of the civil service laws. He maintains that the law forbids such organizations. Washington. Sept 29. To-day's offer ings of bonds to 'the government amounted to $405,950, of which $338,50 were four per cents and $7,6U0 rourfand a hair per cents The total offerings to date under the circular of the 22d inst., amount to$9, 773.700. of which! $5,117,800 were four per cents and $4,654,900 four and a half per cents. The amount of three per cent bonds still outstanding is $1,718,900. The total loan was $305,581,250. The receipts for September to date amount to $33,215, 227 and aret$18,84b,774 in excess oflcurrent expenditures lor the same period, me heavy prepayments made during the month on account 01 Dona purcnases and interest are not, however considered in the above statement. These payments change the result altogether, making a deficiency in stead of a surplus for the month. Washingtok, Sept.. 80. About fifty persons gathered in front of the White House this morning to witness the Presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland's departure on their western trip.! The weather has been rainy and disagreeable for the past three davs. but cleared on oeautiiuuy wis morn ing, just in time to verify the proverbial good lues 01 we rresiaeni. At 9.45 carriages drew up at the north front of the Executive Mansion, and the President. Mrs.. Cleveland. Mrs. JTolsom, and Lena, Mrs. Cleveland's maid, entered and were driven to the Pennsylvania Rail road station. The President wore his usual black suit, while Mrs. Cleveland was dressed in a brown silk bodice with white snris skirt and bonnet to match. At the station a special train bad been run back nearlv to the entrance of the building. An ordinary car had been attached for the ac commodation of the rauroaa ana tram men which is to be detached at Baltimore. At that citv the cars of the special train will be - reversed to bring the ob servation compartment in the rear. The train looked very, handsome in its new paint and glistening - bronze n tunes, lnrougn plate glass windows could be seen baskets of -iaeminot roses and other cut flowers, which had been provided bv Mr. Pullman. From the waiting rooms a curious crowd.eyed the train and every member of the party as they. arrived. Marshal Wilson was eariy at tne station. He was followed by Secretary Fairchild and Mrs.' Lament with their two children. Secretaries Whitney and Endi cott nreoeded the Presidential party by a few minutes. Dr. Bryant and Mr. Bessell had already arrived and taken their places in the train, j j At ten minutes to ten o'clock the President made his appearance at the stations. He was escorted by Marshal Wil son arid Mr. Baldwin, Superintendent of the Pullman Company. Mrs. Cleveland and her mother came next. - At precisely 10 o'clock the train moved off on jits long journey, j . . 1 Washington. Sept. 30. The President's special train made no stopafter leaving Baltimore until it reached Harrisbunr. It Slowed down when passing through York. Pa., when the President stood up n the rear platform and bowed to the multitude that liped the roadway on both sides. The country between Baltimore and Harrisburg is very thickly settled, and everybody seemed to know exactly when to look fcr the President's train, ss workmen from the roadside factories and machine shops, children in country schools, and appar ently the entire population, were upon the lookout and greeted the flying irain with cneers: and wavmg handkerchiefs en 1 hats.!." ,- j . Harrisburg was reached shortly after 2 o'clock. Several thousand people thronged the depot and cheered as the train slowly made its way through the mats of human ity which could not be driven back by po licemen. The' Central Democratic Club and a1 band marched to the station and joined with the populace in extending a cordial welcome. The train stopped about five iminutes. The President and Mrs. Cleveland stood on the rear platform and bowed to the people. ine estimated reduction of the public debt for the month of September is $16 -500,000. I An unusually large demand has been made for internal revenue stamps for to bacco, principally for cigarette stamps, an 1 the Bureau! of Engraving and Printing is busily engaged in printing an extra supply of those stamps. It is said at the Treasury Department that dealers in- tobacco believe that the short erop for this year will result in an in crease of prices for that commodity and are preparing themselves accordingly. The amount of bonds offered to the Treasury I Department to-day was fifty seven thousand dollars, which is less than on any day since the daily purchase began. The; fact is regarded at the Department as indicating; that the government has practi cally secured all the floating bonds that can be obtained at the present rates fixed by thej Department's circular, and that the stringency of the money market has been sufficiently relieved for the present. Washington, Oct. 1 . The total offer ings of bonds to the government to-day amounted to $165,500, of which $130,300 were fours and $35,200 were four and a half per cents. -. The Secretary of War has decided to ex tend the time for beginning and completing thQ work; of dredging the Potomac river flats, for which Rittenhouse Mdore, of Mo bile, AlaJ, is contractor. PAC1FIV R. R. COMMISSION. EX Senator Norwood, of Georgia, til. plains; his Connection with the Southern Pacific sNkw I York, Sept. 29 Ex Senator T. ML Norwood, of Georgia, appeared before the Pacific R. R. Commission this morning toj explain small vouchers for considerable amounts, in the possession of the Central Pacific R. R., which showed him to have received these amounts for services. Sen ator Norwood said that he never did any thing for the Central Pacific R R.. but was engaged '" as counsel for the Southern Pacific.!- In 1878 he had left the Senate, and entered upon his law practice in Savsn nah, and received word that bis services Were wanted in Washington. He went on there and met Mr. Huntington, with whom he made a contract to act as counsel for the Southern Pacific R. R and advance its! interests -ia the South or against Gov,, Scott's Texas Pacific li R. Witness pro duced the contract drawn by Huntington, whieh provided for the payment to Nor wood, ror bis service, at the rate of $10,006 yearly, with an allowance for expeutes. lie always.made bis bills aKainsilhe South era racinc Kauroaa, and drew receipts in favor of the Central Pacific. Witness said that his work was all of a legitimate char acter, and he was not in any public official 'position when these services were rendered. t Senator Norwood said that he was intro duced to Huntington by ueneral J. ii. Uor- don, of Georgia; said be knew of no act of .wrong on the part of the Southern Pacific lor its officers, unless it was the act of plac ing these charges on the books of ithe Cen tral Pacific. Mr.! Cohen said be was glad that Mr. Norwood had made this criticism, for he had no doubt that when the charges were made there was a contract by which the Central Pacific was receiving the earnings of the southern racinc and paying its e penees. GEORGIA. The cargo of Two Steamships at Sa- vannah on Fire. By Telegraph to trie Morning Star. Savannah. Oct. 1. Fire broke out early this morning in the cotton cargo of the British steamship Resolute, already cleared for Liverpool with 8,258 bales of cotton. It burned fiercely for twelve hours The ship was flooded twice with water before the fire was subdued. The greatest damage is amidships, but the ex tent ef it cannot be ascertained as yet. Tugs are at present pumping her out. The steamship Dessong arrived here yes terday irom rniiaaeipnia witn ner cargo on fire, un jrnday about noon an ,exoio sion occurred while off Frying Pan Shoals. The hatches were opened and the fire was Olscovereu in tne noiu. x ne natcnes were jbattered down and steam was turned on Ithe cargo, which was continued until the vessel arrived in port, when the tus3am bria went to her assistance and the fire was extinguished. A survey was held on the vessel this afternoon, but the report has not !een made public. MICHIGAN. Fire with Loss of Life at Detroit - By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Detroit, Oct. 1. Afire broke out at about 3.15 o'clock this morning in the Eog lish Kitchen, a cheap lodging house at No. 224 Jefferson avenue. When the fire de partment arrived tne upper window! of the four Btory building were alive with half- dressed lodgers, screaming for beip. All except three were rescued in safety. One was burned almost beyond recognition; the second died from suffocation before he was removed from the building, ana the third, j (Charles Peterson, aged 22 years). though rescued alive, is in a condition which renders his recovery very doubtful. The dead men were Strock. of Brecken ridge, l Mo., and an unknown man, aged about 25 years. The loss on the building will not exeeed $5,000. AS1IEVILLE. President Cleveland to Stop There on His Return to Washington By Telegraph to the Morning Star. AshkvUiLe, N. C, Oct, 1. A letter was received to-day by the President of the lAsheville Board of Trade, from Daniel fLamont, Private Secretary of President Cleveland, wmca savs that tne rresiaeni has consented to stop at Asheville while on jA.ia xie win reacn aere uu xriuuay, . . tt ,,, . jij .October 21st OHIO. : Two Ladles Killed bv a Railroad Train Near Colnmbna. COLUMBUS, Oct. 1. On the Columbus & Cincinnati Midland Railroad last evening an express train. running at the rate of thirty-five miles per hour, ran into a bug gy which was crossing the track, at Mor can's stations about five miles from the city.-: The buggy contained two aged ladies. Mrs. Susan Bell, a widow, who re sides in the neighborhood, and her sister in-law. MrS. E. W. Henderson, of Salem, Iowa. The buggy was torn to pieces and the two women killed instantly and thrown into a field. Raleigh Visitor: The - new graded school on North Person street has received the title of the "Murphey School," in honor of one of the meat distinguished North Carolinians of former days. : Judas Murphey was bee of the ablest advocates of education our State has ever produced The orthography is according to Judgu Uttfbhev himself. Is MuroAt. N. fj 7 named 1 after him? If so, it should ho spelled as be spelled it. Star. - Pittsboro Home: There aro now 187studchtaat Wake Forest Col let 12 more than at the same date las.t year. There are now at the college 24 young meu siuaymg ror ice ministry. - Kev. li K. Hall, the excellent preacher in charge of Haw River circuit, writes us from By num's. under date of fbe 24th : The meet ing at this placa, which closed last night. tesulted in 20 conversions snd 12 sect-Minns to the church; with three others to join . Greensboro - Worktnan : W are glad to hear through Principal Morgan mat tne repairs to Yadsincollege tuildinu. since the storm, are progressing rapidly and will be completed in two weeks more, and that four new students have been add ed, making the number oa hand fifty-four. We are quite sorry to hear of the seri ous loss of our good friend H. C Causey by the burning of his saw mill fixtures,. ' together with about 100,000 feet of lumber, at Hasty, a station on the Cape Fear and . Yadkin Valley railroad. . Wades boro Inteuigencer : I bo Wadesboro and Salisbury Railroad should be pushed on to Salisbury. It is a mistake to suppose that its continuation Will damage w aaesooro.s un tne otner nana it wilt be- a benefit to the town. Wadesboro ought to have a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The treatment that horses, and especially mules, sometimes re ceive in wadesboro, is simply horrible. shocking to every sense of humanity At the late term of the Richmond county Superior Court. D. W. Waters, charged with shooting bis father-in-law. Mr. West, in Laurinburg, some three weeks ago, was found guilty. The Judge offered to sus pend judgment on payment of costs, if Mrs Waters! would return to and live with her husband.- Up to the present writing she has not gone near her husband. Washington Post: Representa tive-elect M. C. McClammy, of North Car olina, is stopping at the Metropolitan. " I am here," he said to a Fort reporter, "iuV the interest of my constituents, and am go ing through! the Departments with my 'lit tle hatchet' trying to cut off some Republi can limbs from the trees of office, and have grafted in their places some good, sound Democratic; fruit." Mr. McClammv in en thusiastic regarding President Cleveland . tie says be is the greatest President since Jackson, arid will undoubtedly bs his own successor "He possesses," said Mr. Mc- Clammy, 'all the characteristics of old Hickory firm, fearless, honest, nannhln and faithful; he has plenty of nerve, ami spinal column like (he Washington Monu ment, his administration has been patriotic and clean, and those few Democrats who oppose him will have to eat crow." Hew Bern Journal : ; Parties from the neighborhood of Kitt Swamp Church in orm us that the store of Wm. H. Ernul 'vas burned Tuesday morning be tween one and two o'clock. Mr. Ernul was in the second Btory of the building and had to jump from the window in order to save himself. The origin of the fire ia unknown J The loss is estimated at be tween flve and-six hundred dollars. There was insurance to the amount of four hun dred dollars. Onslow county items: Bilious dysintery seems to be the prevail ing disease all over the county. Both grown folks and children have the disease, and a great many die with it Mr Nat. Taylor, an old citizen living near Piney Green, was taken with a fit, fell in the fire and burned to death before assist ance came. The Missionary Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists heid a two weeks protractedmeeting at Richlands lately, closing last Sunday night. Tho Baptists I had seven accessions and the Methodists and Presbyterians twenty-two accessions. -Raleigh News-Observer: They say "Our Zeb" has taken to fiddling so as to while away the hours of solitude in his rustic home at the foot of the Great Black mountain. The cotton gin or li. r. Clifton iSs Co.. in Franklin County, was burned 11 day or two since The loss ex ceeds $ 1,000. Mr. T. C. Harris, cu rator of tho State Museum, is now en- gaged ia re-arranging and re labelling the specimens of ores, woods,. &c, in the mu seum. There are about 20,000 different articles The Governor yesterday forwarded a commission to Dr. J. M. Ba ker, of Tarboro, as Assistant Surgeon General of the North Carolina State Guard.! An ' application i for pardon from Alfred Gibson, colored, was also con sidered and refused. Gibson was tried for burning a mill at the fall term of Guilford countyr Superior Court, 1880, convicted and sentenced to thirty years in the peni tentiary. The Governor yesterday considered an application for pardon from Crawford Walters who is now in prison for slandering an innocent woman. This is the man who was tried before Judge' Clark at August term of Columbus county Superior Court on the above charge, of which: he was convicted, and was sen tencecf to twelve months' imprisonment and fined $1,000. Clinton Caucasian: There was quite a sharp frost Sunday morning and it did much damage to the pea crop, which was already poor. Some weeks ago we bad occasion to speak or certain -irregularities in the mails, by which we had been greatly annoyed. The pro-, tracted meeting at Mt. Gilead closes to-day with the baptismal service at Mr. J. J. Vann'a mill. Thirteen persons had joined the church up to Tuesday night. Died, in Darlington county, S. C , on Fri day. September 16th, 1887, Mr. Henry J. Cliftoh,' a son of the late Rev. John L. Clifton, of Piney Grove township, this county. Mr. Clifton was aTmember of the Baptist Church,, aged about 56 years, and leaves a wife and six children. Rev. John 0. Burruss, editor of the Univertalist Herald of Notasulga, Ala., preached at Red Hill church in Taylor's Bridge town ship last Saturday and Sunday and in the court house in Clinton Sunday night. Five persons united with the church at Ked mil on Sunday and were baptized with some others In the Six Runs at Reed's Ford on Monday afternoon. Mr. Liee cade, a highly! respected farmer of Cumberland countyf who resided near Fayetteville, went opossum minting witn some menus one night last week. They had a wrangle with the dogs and an opossum, during which !jMr. Cade was scratched on the hand by the varmint's tooth. Blood poi soning set in and Mr. Cade died in two days. He was a man of family and aged about 26 years. Raleigh JSevss- Observer : lhe eighth annual fair of the Roanoke District Grange will be held at Woodland October 25th, 26th and bids fair to be a splendid ex hibition of the vast agricultural and manu facturing resources of that grand section. The wild man nas cnangeo nis loca tion and is now creating great excitement in the neighborhood of Mr. W. R. Perry, who lives about four miles north of the city. Arrangements were yesterday compe ted by i which Governr Scales and family will move from their present residence on North Wilmington street, to the Blount mansion on Hillsboro avenue. The remo val will occur next Monday and Tuesday. Three convicts of the squad now em ployed I on the Carthage Railroad escaped last week. Mr. Hicks had six of them out clearing up the roadway, when one walked up to him and asked for a chew of tobacco. Mr. Hicks pnt his hand in his pocket to get his tobacco, when the burly negro seized him while off guard and took away his gun and pistols. Mr. Hicks' life was in danger j for a few moments, but three of the six ran off without attempting to do him any injury. The other three went back to the stockade with Mr. Hicks, though he was unarmed and they could have easily gotten away. An intelligent looking colored man, a lawyer by profession, has been at Forestville and Wake Forest for a few days and has created a wild excitement among the negroes at those places. He says that he is the representative of a party of English capitalists with $30,000,000, which amount they propose to lend out and invest in land in North Carolina. He charges $10 for every accepted application, and so far has taken in a great deal or money. Oxford dot: Rev. J. F. Crowell, president of Trinity Oollege. lec tured at Salem church, near here, on Sat urday! and in the Methodist church here on Sunday. At both places a subscription was taken towards the endowment of Trin ty College. The two places together con- tributed about f i,4uu. o i . 'A jr. . v. '4 I
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