The WeeklV Stat.
WM. H. BERNARD, Editor and Prop'r.
WILMINGTON, N. G. t
Friday,
December 23, 1887.
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CONORES1KIEN SHOULD T4.KB
COURAGE, ' .'"."
While the Stab with all its might
insists upon the right of free speech,
free thought, free printing, it reoog
nizes also the right of all, newspapers
and politicians to hold whatever
opinions they may choose. The
Stab has not been and cannot be in
tolerant. Of all North Carolina
papers it is perhaps aa'muoh given to
thinking for itself upon all publio
questions and expressing freely
what it thinks as any of its contem
poraries. It has been ..more abused
than any other for Its political
views, unless we except our esteem
ed and able and conscientious con-
temnorarv. the Scotland Neck
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Democrat, edited by" er-Representa
tive in Congress, W. H. K jtchio, a
genuine Democrat of the bid school
The Stab has been true to its con
victions, and that has given it char
aoter and influence among intelligent
readers. It has pursued the even
tenorof its way, although Blanche,
Tray land Sweetheart opened upon
its track and snapped at its heels,
It recognizes the power of truth and
the certainty of its final vindication.
To-day the Stab finds itself in
perfect harmony with the President's
message and-with a large majority---
probably three-fourths -of the Detn
nnratio members of Congress. The
Star has simrilv
nrlvnnftt.ed l)fimo
cratic methods in the liht of history1
and tradition. ' Doine this it could
not well be out of harmony, with its
own party.
We publish to day a part of the
Washington special to the New York
Times that w creates an apprehension
that the. Democratic Reformers in
the House are weakening and are in
danger of not sustaining the Presi
dent in his very able, lucid and oon
vincins message. They would do
well to study that document, and the
almost unequalled report of Secre
tary Manning and the reoent report
of his successor, Secretary Fairchild,
before they conclude not to perform
vigorous work in razeeing the pte
aent War lariff. lhey muBt give
an account of their steward
ship, and if they are unfaithful to
promises, go back upon the repeated
deliverances of the party in conven
lion assembled, and are untrue ( to
the traditions and known principles
of the Democracy they will find
themselves left at home in the elec
tions in 1888. If they sacrifice Dem
ocratic principles, in a spirit of cow
ardice, upon the altar of expediency,
they are unfit to represent a free but
a sorely oppressed people,
The President is in the advance.
Ue bears aloft the banner of real re
form. If his party refuse to follow,
then, as be said in his admirable and
unique message, . that the responsi-
bility of failure must rest "where
it belongs" on the Congress, and
not on him
We must hope for more of cour
age and-devotion to principle on the
part of the Democrats in the House
than the j outlook seems to promise
just now. : -The members need back
bone,
The people must stiffen them
up. If they mean to surrender to
Randall then they will go into the
next campaign with no advantage
over the Republicans. Thev will
eucceed in absolutely disgusting hun
dreds of thousands nay, of millions
of Democrats who do not believe
that it is right, proper, moral or con
etitutional by law to compel fifty
five millions to toil and moil for the
benefit of less than three millions.
That vigorous, original and brit
liant journalist, Don Piatt, says, and
it is well and strongly said:
"Protection and polygamy are the twin
relicaWbarbarism. The one is the religion
of Utah, the other that; of Pennsylvania.
They are alike in form as they are alike in
eiupiauy. - - rrotection le the one an
tagooisiic; principle anu practice of our
government. The fathers, in erecting for
us a political fabric, based it entirely on
self government Our form at least empha-
. i . . . . .
Hizeu tne greatest ireeuom in tne citizen.
not oniy as to ma political rights but in his
private business. They grew aoove the
fig tree and vine and assured him he might
rest unaer their shade with no one to
coolest, and none to make him afraid. To
' this end f we have free speech, a free
press., free schools, free religion in
a word; everything is free until
we tonch barter and exchange; and
free trade has not only no existence.
but is held to be la deadly antagonism to
our oeuer conuuion as a democracy. Tbe
citizen ie left to seek salvation for his aonl
in his own way he has free-will secured
him by constitutional provision. He may
ay what his independent spirit prompts,
. provided he does not encroach upon a like
privilege in another. He may print what
he pleases, and so we run through the list
of rights, and privileges, until we hit trade.
and there the current is reversed, we have a
guardian appointed, a master installed, and
u, a master installed, and
longer the free and inde-
He cannot in the exercise
oae nnos ne is no
pendent citizen.
of bis lodgment buy where .he can buy to
Che best of bis advantage, nor sell where he
can sell at a profit. The law intervenes.
Congressmen should take courage
for tbe people are with tbem. In no
Democratic District can a sound Tar
iff Reformer be defeated by a High
' Protectionist. Democracy may be
defeated in a.Distriot where Protec
tion is on top, but that would be an
infallible sign that Demooratio prin
ciples bad been abandoned and time-
iem were in tne ascendant.
JUIVUVi Vl WWW WMW
down at once, confess adheranoe t,o
the Republican heresy and accept
Proteotion as the final policy of the I
United States. Build the Chinese
Wall higher, deepen its foundations,
broaden its construction,, olose up
the narrow gates and let' the idea of
a narrow policy prevail let Ameri
cans live for themselves, and to them
selves and by themselves. Let the
world outside, eo. Withdraw your
ships and let commerce cease for all
time.
CAN RING AND M ANCFACTCBING.
The Stab baa many timea urged
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that there should be canning estab
lishments in Wilmington. . They
would eive employment to many
people and would be a source of pro
fit to those controlling them. The
canning industry is very important
in many places, and o great advan
tage to thousands of laborers. An
oyster canning industry oannot be
developed here until there is railroad
connection with the best oyster
grounds. Bat there might be a veg
etable canning industry here, and
our people could eat home vegetables
instead of relying upon rook-ribbed
and ice bound New England for sup
plies.
People generally have no idea of
the canning business of the United
States. We gather some statistics I
from tbe Manufacturer? Record, of
Baltimore :
"Over 1. 000.000.000 cans are used an
nually by tbe consumers Of this country.
The weight of the metal used in their man
ufacture was 110,000:000 pounds, at a coat
of $15 000 000 remember this is tbe cost
of the cans.' . h
What the South has lacked and
still lacks are enterprise and industry
-a capacity and willingness to util
ize the great advantages that lie at
hand. When " it manufactures its
own furniture,
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carriages,
wagons,
buggies, wheelbarrow?,
machinery,
OvC, and
farming utensils,
can?,
raises its own beef, meat, flour, hay,
vegetables, &o , it will
indeed have
entered upon that road which leads
to independence and
prosperity. It
will not make that
trip until it has
abandoned present methods. Nearly
every thine worn
household or
on the farm is made
1
e!sehere and comes from the North.
That means . dependence, slavery,
poverty. A change isi needed. The
South needs a creat, many small
more genera
diverse yicsr ot products and em
ployments.
Th-; Stab mentioned that Aus
tralia was overrun by jabbits and af- I
ter trying every way to exterminate
tbem h.Hil at last offered $125,000, for
a remedy, lhe
Pasteur, of Pari?,
distinguished M.
has
written to the
Temps suggetting
relief to the af-
flicted Australians,
It is to poison
them wholesale, and
by using mi
crobes. He says it can be done. He
would use "a poison
endowed with
life" and that can "mul
tiply" a great
deal faster than tbe rabbits can mnl-
tiply. He would use the microbe of
chicken cholera. He tells his expei
rience and says:
i
VI collected within a limited space a cer
tain number of cnickecs,! and after 1 bad
given tbem some fcod poisoned with tbe
microbe which is tbe cause of chicken
cholera, they died n the spot. Farmyards
are somet imts ravaged by true epidemics
of ibia sptxi-, ia: propagation of which
is doubtless .due ! i be infection of soil and
food bv ii.c txcrimtut of those which are
Bratse zd w in the disease. I fancy that
the S'im would beppen in the case of rab-
biie. l ibst. reiurnid? tt their burrows
to ffi.- "ii'-fe, ibey wcul 1 communicate lhe
uU-nM- ! otheia. ' which! in turn would
eplev.i ii. B it to could tbe destructive
(aruis !; cjDVti d luto lbs bodies of the
flrsi tH.l.i s T NothiDR is eaier. I would
make xh iijcinture covering a certain space
wnere?itiera&bit8 look for food.
The Labor people tried to get a
sorcalled Labor merabei- of the House
on tbe Committee on JUpciiods, but
the Republicans would riot hear to it,
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and so Mr. John Nichols did not (ret
i it. But why jnol? John U a
wool-dyed, fire-tried, "trooly ioil?
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Repjiblican of the indigo-blue stripe.
He is only funninir when bo masque
rades as an Independent. . John
could not hpell that word, so little is
he acquainted with it.
Ger. barque Theo yoss, Seeman,
from this por for Hull, with 2,800
bblsil rosin, arrived off Bermuda, 8th
inst., in a waterlogged and sinking
condition. Two . tugboats: went to
her assistance and with the help of the
pilot's crew succeeded in setting the
yessel into port. The foremast was
cut away after being taken in tow to
ease the vessel, and anchors thrown
overboard. At the time of arrival
she had 10 feet of water in the hold
and the. decks were level I with the
water. The vessel experienced severe
gales from Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, from NE
and E in lat. 35, Ion. 62, which caused
her i to leak badly. Tug Gladis-
fen , assisted in pumping the vessel
out,' and the cargo has I been dis
charged. The vessel has been aban
doned on survey and estimate, and is
advertised to be sold at auction
23d inst. -i
Schr. Lamoine (ot Boston) Par
ker, from this port with a cargo of
lumber, shingles and ( naval stores,
shipped by Messrs. J. H. Chadbourn
Xr Or, "NT-.W 1UV. J-l .i
wm, m m"'cu nouure
at Jeremie, Hayti, December 2, bilged
and became a total loss. The crew
were lashed in the rlerin Uhir,
exposed to the gale, before being res
cued. They were rescued by people
from the shore. Part of the schooner's
sails and rigging will be saved. i
Mr. J. Thomas, fnf Thrnnu Jk On . Rl
Estate Brokers.) 57 Saratoga street, Balti-
iuwo, nu , says: Hearing that ttelvation
Oil was good for neuralgia I procured a
bome and sent it to a lady friend Id the
country who was suffering severely with
this painful affection. She takes pleasure ;
in avauag mat it BHoraeu per pefapipto ra-
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Gen. Jo Johnston at last is "re
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conftriiritfO.' lie" bold omce unaer
Clevelaud and is about eighty years
old. H reflects uoirloubt the donii
nant feeling in the Sooth m the fol
lowing ;
''There Is general salfSfsclion.- ' ot only in
the preservation t tbe Union, but in i be
abolition of slavery. iTbai'a where we at
the South were badly muthkeo. ' we reaiiy
thought the continuation of tl very was ne
cessary to our civilization It cost a aood
deal to correct the delusion. .
Lord Salisbury j Tory Premier,
made a speech at Derby, and' de
clared himself opposed to the Pro
tection system.' 1'i 1 :" j" : '
Excitement Among .Naval Stores
DeilMt la SstSDDib.
The Savannah News says that naval
stores dealers in that city are con
siderably excited over the announce
ment that the Standard Oil Company
will open an office there pn the first
of the . year, and will at once send
word to the producers of naval stores
that it will handle their spirits of tur
pentine free of all commissions, which
means that it will buy them at the
market price, and give the consumer
that figure, instead of deducting from
it commissions, as the factors . do.
The Standard is buying large quanti
ties of turpentine out in the country,
and it is said it will be cheaper for
the company, and will greatly facili
tate its business if it jean have the
producer ship to Savannah, and it
had rather buy jthe spirits there at
the market price than in the country
at a little less. Il- it ' I I ' -. !
Some of the factors seemed to think,
the News adds, "that if the Standard
wanted the business and found that
it could not get I it without lending
the producers the money they needed,
it would begin land furnish tbem
money, but the report as it was on
the street yesterday : was that
it would do jno lending. The
rumor has awakened a great deal
of interest, and was the subject
of much earnest conversation on the
floor of the Board of Trade. If the
Standard does what report says it
will do, and it seems certain that it
will, it will -cut the factors out of
their business altogether."
Another "startling report" concern
ing the naval stores business in Geor
gia is mentioned in the same paper,
that '.- ' U i
Col. John E. Donaldson, of Bain-
bridge, told a gentleman who has re
cently come in from the country.that
he had been approached by the rep
resentative of a New York syndicate
which has been organized with a
eaDital of t6.000.000 for the purpose of
buying up the Georgia forests and
distilleries. The representative of
the syndicate called npon uoi. Don
aldson to consult witn mm aoout tne
practicability of i the scheme and the
representative stated that the com
pany had its capital and is ready to
begin its purchases. The factors said
that they had known more than one
rich concern to! brqak when they
tried to-corner the Georgia pineries,
and if the new company wanted to
try it it could do so. Outside of the
factors this schemeJss looked upon as
more to be dreaded than tbe Stan
dard Oil Company, for while tbe
Standard would take i the business
away from the factors it would leave
it with the producers, and the saving
of the commissions to j the producers
would really give them a larger profit
out of the business than they now re
ceive. Hut if the syndicate should
succeed it would not only cut out the
factor, but tne producer also, and
leave the latter as well I as the former
robbed of his living." f
More Holiday Rates. ,
The Star has endeavored to keep
its readers fully posted concerning
the excursion of holiday rates on the
different railroads. To those hereto
fore given we add the rates of the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley, which
will issue round trip tickets between
all stations on its line, at one first-
class fare, which;' is four cents per
mile. Tickets will be on sale Dec. 22,
23 and 24, good to return to selling
point up to January 2 inclusive; and
also on Dec. 29, 30 and 31, good to re
turn to selling point up to Jan. 6 in
clusive. The reduced rates on the
several railroads will add greatly to
the enjoyment of the Christmas holi
days, bringing about many meetings
and reunions between friends and
relatives who have not seen each
other for years.
Hoi. Alircd Kowlnud.
It will be gratifying news to the
many friends of Col. Rowland to learn
that he has greatly improved in
health. The Charlotte Observer says
that "in fact the skillful nhysiciana
who have been treating his case say.
the disease be has been affected with
has been cured and he is now only
suffering the weakening effects of his
prolonged sickness.! The excitement
incident to Washington life and ab
sence from the creature comforts of
home, were unfavorable to his rapid
recuperation, hence he returns to his
home, expecting to be restored to his
usual strength after the Christmas
holidays. His fidelity to duty would
not have allowed him to return,! but
I for the fact that little Congressional
work is
done until the new year
opens.
A I oaily Overcoat.
I We read about a citizen of Char
lotte who saw an advertisement of A.
H. King, a Broadway merchant, who
"was selling a forty-dollar overcoat
for ten dollars," and who forwarded
King a ten-dollar bill. In due time
the overcoat was received and, the
Observer says, a garment made of cot
ton bagging would have been a fine
one compared to it. A better over
coat could have been bought in Char
lotte for five dollars. No doubt there
are many people in Wilminston who
have been nicely swindled by sending
North for goods instead of patroniz
ing our home merchants.
Foreign fcxpuria dealer day.
Messrs. Williams & Murchison
cleared the Norwegian barque Sidon.
f or Liverpool, Eng., with s, cargo of
1,545 bales of cotton, weighing 720,721
pounds and valued at $72,072.
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. w Spmnt & Son cleared
w 6 :fiorw,eian ; barque Albatross, for
rv ce, . witn ,ou Dales or
cotton, weighing 886,728 pounds and
valued at 188,850. t
I Messrs. J. H. Chadbooro $ Oo.
cleared the schooner ffannahF. Carle
ton, for Port-au-Princa, Hayti, with
310,707 feet -of lumber, valued at
3,728.87.
"On their own merits modest men are
dumb," but it would seem the helrht of in
gratitude in the thousands who have been
happily cured by it to deny, the extraor-
uinory IJtnilSBW . or Ml, iflU I UOUS&
Tbe Hanover Kntitinc nine.
A reporter for the Star paid a visit
yesterday to the new factory recently
erected near the foot of Queen street
and known as the "Hanover Knitting
Mills." The enterprise is altogether
new for this section, but is one that
it has been' persistently urged from
time to time in the columns of this
paper would prove profitable, and be
yond question, under the management
of the capable and energetic young
men who have inaugurated it will be
a successful venture. We trust it
may lead to other industrial enter
prises by other of our -young and
energetic citizens. So far as we
know, there are but two other knit
ting mills in the South one at Salem
in this State and the other at Colum
bia, S. C, and both of these, we un
derstand, are profitable investments.
The proprietors of the mills "are
Messrs. Edward S. Tennent, J. Allen
Taylor, and Walker Taylor, operating
under the firm name of Tennent &
Taylor. The mill, as stated above, is
situated near the j : foot i of Queen
street. It is a heat frame structure,
one storyin height, with abundant
light and ventilation and. comforta
bly jvarmed by steant The machin
ery is of the latest and most approved
pattern. It is run by power obtained
from the steam mill of Messrs. S. &
W. H. Northrop, ,neir by, and re
quires to attend it some fifteen em
ployes. Most of these are women, and
all have been residents of the city for
a long time. They have had no expe
rience in the work and no instruc
tion beyond that, given by a skilled
workman who came out from the
North to setup the plant and put it
in operation, and yet, to the easual
observer they are adepts in all that
pertains to the work.
There are six machines for making
plain webbing, four "Balmoral" ma
chines, and two j machines for knit
ting ribbed hose; one winder of thir
ty spindles, six Wilcox & Gibbs sew
ing machines, with trimmer attach
ments, and a steam press for shaping
?he hose. - j i
The manufacturers wili make a.
specialty of hosiery, but contemplate
putting in machinery adapted to the
production of other knit underwear.
At present, the works are running on
a medium grade of goods adapted to
the general dry goods trade and
known as "split hose." They have a
daily capacity of about one hundred
dozen half-hose or seventy dozen full
hose per day. The company as yet
have no dye works, but in time will
make arrangements for the produc
tion of solid colored, striped and
plain -unbleached hose. The yarn
worked up at the mill is procured
from the North, being of harder
twist than the yarn made here, and
is manufactured especially for knit
ting. m m '
A stBcnlar Suicide j
Lucy Smith, a I colored woma n
aged about forty-one years, was found
dead with a ! pistol-shot wound
through her head last Sunday night
about ten o clock, in a closet in a
house on Eighth i street between
Orange and Ann, which she occupied
jointly with her two sisters Martha
Toomer and Sylvia Henderson and
a colored man named Hilliard
Christian. The woman was alone at
the time the fearful deed was com
mitted, all the others having gone
to church. When they returned- they
went to Lucy's room, and after a
short search found her in the closet,
seated on a trunk and quite dead.
The pistol with which the suicide
was committed dropped from the
dead woman's hand as the door was
opened.
Coroner Miller was notified of the
tragedy and yesterday morning held
an inquest at the house.
Dr. Potter, superintendent of health,
examined the body of the woman.
The ball ranged from back of the
right ear through the brain to the
opposite side of the head, lodging
near the left ear.
The only witnesses who could
throw any light npon the tragedy
were Sylvia Henderson and Martha
Toomer, the to sisters.
Sylvia Henderson testified that she
left Lucy about four o'olock Sunday
afternoon, came back to the house at
six o'clock and knocked at Lucy's
door, but there i was no answer,
About seven she (Sylvia) went to St.
Luke's Church and returned about
ten. Went again toLucy's room, but
did not find her, and after searching
for her amone the neighbors, re
turned to Lucy's 'room and opened
the door with a key j that fitted the
lock Cohtinuingj witness said: "My
sister came in and said 'don't lock
the lower door, she may be out.' Mrs,
Toomer found her; she was dead in
the closet, with a pistol clutched in
her hand." j
Martha Toomer testified: "I left
the house in the evening and went to
church, and returned between nine
and ten o'clock. Looked in the room
for Lucy but could : not find her; she
had locked herself : in the room and
went into the closet and shut herself
up. I went to the closet and found
her dead, and (he pistol dropped out
of her hand. !
Hilliard Christian,
a colored man
living in the; house, testified that al
he knew about it was that he came
home at half-past 11 o'clock Sunday
night, and fpund Lucy Smith dead in
the closet, with a pistol near her and
a pool of blood
The jury rendered the following
verdict : "TTppn hearing the forego
ing testimony the jury of inquest
find that Lncy Smith came to her
death on the 18th day of December,
1887, in New Hanover county, from a
pistol ball through her brain, fired by
her own hand." The jurymen were
J. M. McGowan, Isham Sweet, James
D Dry, S. A-' Craig, David Jacobs,
G. W. Murray.
The dead woman is represented to
have been in poor health, and des-
Eondent since the departure of her
usband, who left here a few weeks
ago on a vessel Donna to .Baltimore,
Tbe Grand Lodge of Free and
Accepted Masons of North Carolina,
will convene in Raleigh Monday even
ing, January 10. All the railroads
will Issue round trip tickets at
duoed rates. Return tickets should
be called for at point of takincrc&rs
on each independent line to prevent
payment of full fare both ways.
foregoing announcement is official.
oming from Mr. D. W. Bain, rand
FiFTI KTHl C'QJV a it iCSS. ;
FIRST SESSION, j
Favorable Report la Senate on Rlalr
Educational Bill Resolutions Fa
voring: Ravlaon of Internal Tax and
! Tariff Laws Offered, mr Mr. Pacta
Noiklac Important Done In House.
" ! rape to tbe MornlBtt Btur.l ;
-r , SENATE.
WAsausoTON, Dec. 19 Among, the
papers presented to the Senate was a- com
munication from the Secretary of tbe
Treasury,, with a copy of tbe report of
special agtnt Tingle, oo the condition of
affairs on the Sea Islands of Alaska. Re
ferred tn committee on Foreign Relatione. .
Also h memorial of the Constitutional
Oon vein ion of the territory of Utah, asking
admission into Ibe Union as a State, with
copit-s. of the constitution.; Referred to
committee on Territories I
- Among the bills introduced and referred
were lhe following: - . . ) -
lit Mr. Hoar, relating to the celebration
of ibe Centennial of the Inauguration of
the Uunstitntion. , .
Among "the bills reported favorably from
cnm'uiittesand pi iced on tbe calendar was
Mr B'aiiVbill lu aid ia the establishment
and temporary support of common schools.
Mr dawrer calltd up bis motion to re-
OiiMtler th? vote whereby (last Monday)
tbe resolution offered by Mr. Butler for ibe
app-fioiment of a select committee to in
quire into tbe advisability of establishing
Government Postal Telegraph, was
agreed to j
Mr. Butler asked Mr. Sawyer ti state the
osjftl of the moti n to reconsider.
Mr 8arer said that his obiect was to
have the subject referred referred to the
Fos'.offlce Uummtttee. where n i properly
belonged.. ' . I
Mr cUuidbury said the subject bad been
before the Postofflce Committee for sis
tear and bad been fully considered by it.
Reference t a select Committee would be a
vy m ; f want of confidence cither in the
ability r willingness of tbe Postofflce Uim
tnittte dral with tbe subject . j -
jit BitUr declaimed any idea ot re-
fl.c'iu. . in ibe remotest degree, -upon tbe
Po-lfBce Committee, and be witbdrewaii
op(V';ti"(i i 'be motion to reconsider, snu
c u-enei in tave the matter fferred to
tbe Pi 8Mifflce Cmjiittee. ' I
The vote was neeordlngiy reconsidered
and the subject of lhe postal telegraph was
re-fur il to inn Postofflce Committee. -
Mr Piiah- ufftrcd ihe following resolu
tion knt proceeded to addrets the Senate
in support of it: i .
'Resolved i bat tbe most important anu
prt-ei'g duly of tne present cession of Con-tjr..-eo
i revise, and so amend, the exist
ing inu.nai tax aud tariff laws, ;as to re
duce t!?e bnnuil revenues to De ;coiiecied
tutrefroin to ihe necessary wants of the
Federal (government, and no more than it
ne ("8 to pay its maiureu aeius. ;anu uis-
charge i' s obligations unoer me laws oi
ConKf. without crippling, or deranging
any American industries, or business in
te'efcU conntcted with subjects of tariff tax
ation. r interfering with tbe just rights of
tbe American working people, intended to
be secured to them by tbe incidental effects
0 revenue duties, to share tbe joint pro
duet of labor and capital employed in
Am. rican miniag and manufacturing in
dustries to the full measure of difference in
the cost if intir labor and the labor of
those engaged iu i-itnilar industries in Eu
rope . 1
Resolved That the Senate will concur
in d? 1 lint in-nluuoo for final adjournment
of ibe piesent session of Congress ubtil af
ter tbe p-tcsige of such remedial laws as
are specified in lhe foregoing resolution."
In tbe course of his aruument, Mr. Fugh
aked whether Congress would wipe out all
inurnal revenue Uxts end allow me neces
sary revenue to ba raised on tariff imports
alone? Ue hod never a cietrer or strooger
conviction than the conviction j that the
whiskey ttx wis perfectly just and wholly
unobject onible, except-on the ground that
it was a direct tax. mere was nomine
produced, I'Wned, and consumed that could
supply the government with ninety mil
lions of revenue with more propriety and
less injury to any human being than whis
key tie aa1 never heird any valid leaaoo.
a i.d did not believe taere was any valid
reason, why whiskey drinkers should be
relieved from the pament of-this tax, and
wb the revenue which itjielded should
be extorted by a tiriff from consumers cf
tue ntcct series cf life. Ue knew of no
better use to which whiskey could be ap
plied than to tbe production of tbe ninety
millions of revenue ntCsesary to pay pen-si-
u and interest on the war debt, instead
of extortinc that amount from the harmless
consumption of imported articles. ' "Who
insuied," he asked, "that the luxury of
whiskey drinking should be freed from
burden? Was it tbe whiskey drinkers or
wbskey makers who declared there should
be no revision of the tariff until every in
ternal revenue tax was repealed? It was
not. The cry came loudest and fiercest
from the manufacturers and their repre
sentatives. Tbe most defiant and uncom
promising adherents of free whiskey were
the manufacturers of protected ; articles "
As a general compromise be would repeal
the internal tax upon tobacco.' for the
sole reason that tobacco was an
agricultural product, and let the tax on
whiskey stand for future consideration.
He declared that he would vote for no duty
on any article manufactured in tbe United
States that would cripple any borne mdus
try or impair the ability of borne competi
tion No people, he said, had ever sub
muted so long to robbery on tbe part of
their on government; and those, who op
nosed revision of the tsriff at the risk cf a
financial panic and industritl paralysis.
became parties to this robbery, and became
political criminals. Both the Republican
and the Democratic parties had promised to
reduce ths income to tbe wants ol the gov
eminent; and it was trifling for Republicans
o cnarge upon tbe QemooraUc party the
blame of failure to revise the tariff. This
Congress could nut adjourn until such
change was made in tbe revenue laws as
wi.uld .top the now or money from tbe
people ibid the National Treasury beyond
the need of tbe Government.. He would
put on lhe free list chemicals and raw wool
of all low giades, and salt, and he might be
willing to add other a-ucles to the free list.
He w&s oot in favor, however, of putting
iron ore oo the free list. Doing bo would
be retarded by our land owners and ore
workers of Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia
and West Virginia as an act of unjust
discrimination in favor of foreign
iyon ores, A Y Pg iron, on
which the present duty was $6 75 per
ton be believed that a duty or f!) per ton
would be ample. He made these, remarks
to show that there was not the least danger
to tbe iron ore and pig iron interest from
any reduction of the tariff 'President
Cleveland bad in his recent annual message
shon a courage and patriotism never ex
hibited before by any public man in his
position, and with bis surroundings .There
could ba no mistake aa to what the Presi
dent believed to be the paramount duty of
Congress There was not a single sentence
in tbe message that was not a truth and
the whole truth, - I .
At the close of Mr. Pugh's remarks the
resolution was ordered to be laid on tbe
table.
t Mr. Blair gave notice that be would to
morrow ask the Senate to proceed to the
consideration of tbe Educational hill.
After a brief executive session the Senate
at 4 15 adjourned.
HOU8E OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tbe Speaker announced tbe appointment
of the Uommtttee on Kules as follows
the Speaker, Messrs. Rapdajl, Mills, Reed,
Mr Cox, of New York, offered a resolu
tion authorizing the Speaker to employ a
cierK to complete tne compilation of aues
tions of order raised and decided on general
appropriation ana revenue mils, bv in
eluding therein the points of order raised
during tbe 4tb and 49m Congresses.
At tbe suggestion of Mr. Randall the
resolution was referred to tbe committee
on rales. .
Mr. Dibble, of S. C . offered a resolution
referring to tbe Committee on Appronria
tions reports of tbe oort ot Claims on the
French Spoliation Claims, with instruc
tions to that committee to repprt all claims
wbicn nave neen decided favorably to
claimants, in tbe General Deficiency bill.
i ne resolution was adopted. i
A number or resolutions suggesting
cnanges in toe ruies were presented ana re
rerrea to tne uommittee on Kules, among
mem tne following :
By Mr. Gallenger. of New Hamnshire.
providing that any committee may be re
quired by a vote of the' House i to report
back any matter which has been in Jts pos
session ror one montn.
By Mr. Breckenridge. of Arkansas, nro-
viding that all appropriations for snagging
operations, for pay of regularly employed
uiuoiaia, anu lor omer BUDiecta not Other
wn provided, shall be in a separate'blll
(from the river and harbor ; bill), and re '
quiring estimates for the cost of other tban
snagging operations to accompany the bili.
a.11 woiks other than snagging operations,
of which tbe final coat of completion is less
than $oUU,UW. may be provided Tor in a
separate bill, while every other work, tbe
cost of which shall exceed that amount.
must be embodied in a separate bill, and it
shall not be in. order to make such an ap
propriation unless tbe bill provides for the
compleliouof tbe work. The amendment
also gives the River and Harbor bill the
same privileges in tbe matter of considera
tion as i8 accorded general appropriation
bills. - -'
By Mr Brewer, of Michigan, requiring
the Speaker to appoint committees within
two weeks or tbe meeting of Uongresa -
; senate.
Washington, Dec. 20 Numerous pe
titions were presented in the Senate from
varioua'states in favor or Mr. JJlair a. edu
cational bill, and also-a petition from citi
zens of Pennsylvania protesting against the
admiaeion of Utah as a state
Mr. Allison, from the Committee on
Finance, reported a bill to regulate tbe im
portation of foreign merchandize, to se
cure uniformity In tbe classification there
of, and ror other purposes (.under-valuation
bill). He said it was'an original bill,
which affected materially the laws in refe
rence to imports, and asked, in view or lis
importance. : that 1U.IWU extra copies oc
printed in pamphlet form.
i ne Dill was placed on toe caienuar auu
the motion to print 1 was referred to the
C mmittee on Printing.
Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Ap
propriations, reported bacK House joint
resolution to pay the employes of CongrefS
their salaries for tbe month ot December.
Passed. Also, a concurrent resolution for
the holiday recess, and asked its immediate
concurrence. 1
Mr. Plumb objected and the resolution
was olaced on the calendar. ,
Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Pen
sions, reported a bill to place tbe name ot
Mrs Tjocan (widow of Gen. John A.
Logan), on the pension roll at the rate of
2.000 a vear. and asked for its immediate
consideration. Mr. Berry objected and
the bill was Dlaced on the calendar.
h.Mr. Divia also reported a bill to increase
th pension or Mrs. Blair, widow oi lien.
Frank P Blair, and it was also placed on
the calendar.
Mr. Hampton, from the Committee on
Miliury Affairs, reported a bill to transfer
to the trustees of Porter Academy certain
property used for army purposes in
Charleston. Calendar.
Mr. Edmunds asked that tbe Postal
Telegraph bill introduced by bim be
taken from the table I and referred to the
Post Office Committee. He bad intended,
he said. tr have submitted some brief observation-
on Ihe bill, but trusting to the
zeal and fidelity which the Post Office
Committee bad hitherto shown in favor of
some such measure, be thought be could
safely tend it without any prolix obser-?
vation, trusting that it would be very
speedily reported, when it could be dis
cusstd Tbe bill was so referred, as well
as the bill on the same subject introduced
by Mr. Cullom.
The resolution offered by Mr. Call
yesterday to print in tbe Congress
ional Record the memorial of the Consti
tutional Convention of Utah, was called
up by that gentleman, who asked that it
now he adopted. Mr. Edmunds preferred
that the resolution be referred to the Com
mitter on Territories, which now bad ju
risdiction of tbe subject. Mr. Call argued
that it was due to a community of 200,000
people to have its views fairly presented.
He uodeistood that less than 3 per cent of
ihesttpeople were guilty of the practices on
the assumption of which the objection of
the Senator from Vermont was based. He
would now read the memorial to insure its
publication in tbe Record, to show that
there was nothing objectionable in it. He
thereupon read tbe memorial. He . added
that tbe Senator from Vermont knew that
tbere was nothing in the memorial disre
spectful to Congress, and that there" was no
reason, io right or justice, why the Senate
should refuse to hear the petition of 200,
000 American citizens.
Mr Edmunds thanked tbe Senator from
Florida for his gratifying allusions to him ;
they were worthy of him (Call), and be
trusted that be (Edmunds) could bear them.
He certainly had not questioned the since
rity of tbe Senator from Florida, for he
(Call) had stood behind thia polygamist
hierarchy every time that it had any inte
rest to advance, of any wholesome legisla
tion :o resist. He had done so with a great
deal of ability and considerable, zeal. He
could give him the praise of being abso
lutely sincere in standing by that body of
persons through thick and through thin,
come good, come ill ; and he expected that
the Senator would continue to do so; and
if, in the process of time. Utah should be
come a State and tbe United States Consti
tution be changed so that one person might
be Seoaior from two States! he had no
doubt that the Senator from Florida would
be the first Senator whom the -Mormon
hierarchy would select. He (Edwards)
could produce and aBk to have printed in
the Record other statements showing the
utter hypocricy and gammon of that per
formance, and that it was a mere trick to
get out from under the hands of Congress
and from under tbe laWs of the United
States. Everybody understood that, and
he (Edwards) did not propose to vote
for spending money in order to prist in
the Record that sort of thing.
: Mr. Call said the Senator from Vermont
was not more sincere than' correct in his
statement, that he (Call) had stood be
hind the Mormon hierarchy. He bad
stood behind bnman rights when the Sena
tor with exquisite cruelty sought to punish
innocent women and children by legisla
tion, which be (Call) regarded as uncon
stitutional, unfeeling and inhuman . The
Senator had never heard bim advocate cor
rupt judicial tribunals, or packed juries.
He (Call) had not even expressed an opin
ion as to how he should vote on the ad
mission of Utah. That was a question for
future consideration. He understood by
the statements of reliable citizens, Repub
licans and Democrats, that not more than
five per cent, of tbe population of
Utah favored polygamy, and that
the young people of the territory were
unanimously opposed to it, and submitted
conscientiously to the legislation of Con
gress. The objections of the Senator from
Vermont were vain and idle, and were un
worthy of that Senator. They were not
reasonable as a matter of logic, and were
not true as a matter of fact.
Mr. Stewart was opposed to printing the
memorial in tbe Record, as it might raise
false hopes in Utah, as being an expression
Of opinion that its admission as a State was
possible at present. He regretted very much
that Utah was not in a condition to become
a State. She was utterly unfit for it. She
was govered by a close corporation a hie
rarchy. He d:d not believe there was such
a thing as freedom in Utah. Free schools,
as understood elsewhere, did not exist;
there everything was made subservient to a
political organization known aa the Mor
mon cburcb. It was impossible for United
States citizens to live in any part of Utah
outside of the towns where there was mili
tary protection. The various modes which
tbe Mormans had of ridding themselves of
Gentiles were cruel, unheard of. unreason
able, the details of which be would not
give at present. He would bate to see
a vote given In the Senate that would (in
any way favor the admission of Utah as a
State, until her people were really prepared
to establish a government where citizens of
all denominations might reside in peace
and be protected, i He did not want to see
Utah admitted with the weak promise that
she would abolish polygamy, without any
evidenee that ehe would abolish the organ
ization which governed the Mormons with
a rod of iron, and excluded other citizens
from living among them. He would think
it a great calamity to have these people put
in a position where they could change their
constitution at will, and perpetuate an or
ganization hostile to liberty, and founded
on a pretendod religious hierarchy.
Mr. Piatt argued that there was no more
reaaon why a memorial of a self-constituted
Convention should be printed In the
Record than a memorial of anv citizen or
any number of citizens.
Mr Paddock denied that the memorial
represented the wishes of 200.000 people,
for the whole population of Utah was only
200,000, of which about 140,000 were
Mormons. Aa to the statement that not
more than thirty per cent of the Mormons
were polygamists, be asserted that they
were all polygamists, bo far aa an endorse
ment of doctrines was concerned, and a
belief that it was a divine revelation.
Mr. Call said that the memorial haying
been read by him it would necessarily - be
printed in tbe Roor& and aa he did not
desire to provoke any further contention in
the matter he withdrew his resolution.
Mr. Blair moved that the Senate pro
ceed to tbe consideration ef the Education
al bin. I .
t - Mr. Riddlebercer created some amusement
by holding ; up a large printed pamphlet,)
compiled " by Mr. Blair from speeches,
memotiala. &c , on the subject, and pro
testing against the Senate being called to
actio poo j that as a bill. He bad himself
voted for the Blair bill last seasion.and would
vote for it again, but be could not sustain
it with such a preface and such com
mehtaries . . ; .- -
Mr. Blair made an explanation on the
subject, and (in response to other sugges
tion!1) said he did not propose to press the
bill! beyond tbe usual courtesies of tbe
Senate, which would, he understood, en
title every Senator who desired. to. speak
upon it to be heard. - ;
A motion to take up the bili for consid
eration was agreed to yeas 88, nays 15, as
follows: Yeas Messrs. Allison, Berry,
Blackburn, Blair. Blodgett, Brown. Call,
Chandler. Cullom, Davis. Dawes. Dolpb,
Edmunds. Evarts, Frye, George, Hampton,
Hiscock. Ingalla, Jones, of Ark.,- Mander
son. Mitchell, Morrill. Paddock, Palmer,
Pasco, Payne. Piatt, Pugb. Ransom. Rid
dleberger. Sawyer, Sherman, Stockbridge,
Teller, Turple, Vance, Wilson, of Iowa
88 1
Nays Messrs Bate, Beck, Sutler, Cock
rellL Coke, Faulkner, Gorman, Gray, Har
ris.) Hawlev. Hearse, Morgan, Reagan,
Salisbury. Vest 15. V
By unanimous consent, and without cis
placing tbe Educational bill as unfinished
business, Mr. Butler offered a resolution
for'tbo appointment of a select committee
of five Senators to inquire into the relations
of 1 five civilized tribes of Iodians. and
whether it is desirable and advisable to
give citizenship to members of the tribes.
Mr. Teller objected to tbe immediate
consideration of the resolution, and it was
ordered to lie on the table.
After an Executive session of fifteen
minutes the Senate adjourned.
ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Brumm, of Pa., offered a preamble
and resolution, reciting that it is currently
repbited that iron operators in the Lehigh
region are now . importing or are about to
import two hundred Belgian miners under
contract, to take the place of the miners
nof on a strike in that section; that tbe
striking miners have used every endeavor
to bave a settlement of the differences by
arbitration, and that the operators have
positively refused to enter into arbitration,
and requesting tbe President to notify the
officials of the Treasury Department of
these facts and urge them to use special
efforts to prevent the landing of the Bel
gian, miners, and to see that the law against
the importation of labor under- contract is
strictly enforced. Referred to Committee
on Labor.
Propositions to increase the membership
of the Committee on Rules to seven, and to
proyide for a committee on the American
Isthmus were respectively introduced by
Messrs. Townshend and Baker, of Illinois,
and referred to the Committee on Rules.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, moved an adjourn
ment, stating that he did so in order to en
able1 the Committee on Rules to meet and
decide upon areport, which would proba
bly be submitted to-morrow.
The motion was agreed to and the House
at 12.15 adjourned.
SENATE.
Washington, Dec. 21. In the Senate
to-day tbe following appointments were an
nounced by the presiding officer: Hawley,
as director of the Columbia Deaf and
Dumb Institution; Davis, as consulting
trustee of the Reform School of the District
of Columbia; and Blackburn, as director of
Columbia Hospital for Women.
Mr. Morgan from the Committee on For
eign Relations, reported a resolution direc
ting the Secretary of State to furnish copies
of all correspondence with the Mexican
Government since January,1886, respecting
tbe Weil and La Abra claims; also to state
what amount has been paid by Mexico un
der the convention for the adiuatment of
the claims, the amount distributed, amount
undistributed, and tbe reasons for with
holding same, &c. Adopted.
Mr. Spooner offered a resolution, which
was1 adopted, instructing the Committee
on Privileges and Elections to inquire into
the expediency of adoption "by tbe Senate
(for the guidance of the Executives of the
several States), of a form of credentials of
election of United States Senator.
Tbe resolution offered yesterday by Mr.
Butler, for tbe appointment ot a select
committee of five, to investigate the condi
tion, of tbe five civilized tribes of Indians,
was taken up and adopted.
The resolution offered by Mr. Beck on
the 12th instant, directing the Post Office
Committee to inquire into the advisability
of reducing tbe rate of letter postage to one
cent, waa taken up and referred to that
committee.
Mr. Dawes called up the bill to amend
thej law concerning the Commission of
Fi6h and Fisheries, and moved it be
passed. It provides for the appointment
by the President, with the advice and con
sent of the Senate, of a person of scientific
and practical acquaintance with fish and
fisheries, as Commissioner, at a salary of
$5,000, such person not te hold any other
United States or State office.
-A motion by Mr. Reagan, to reduce tbe
salary to $3,000, was rejected, and the bill
was passed.
Mr. Allison called up the holiday recess
resolution and moved its adoption.
Mr. Plumb said he would vote against
the resolution, because he thought the pro
posed recess was against the public inte
rest Congress would be in session till the
dog-days, and during the latter part of the
session the country would be in the midst
of fa. heated Presidential canvass. There
was no reaaon why members of Congress
should go home for the holiday.
Mr. Plumb then proceeded at considera
ble length to make a political speech, at
tacking more particularly the President's
message and tbe financial policy of the ad
ministration. He said he presumed the ad
journment resolution would dbsb. but he
believed that it would not be, with a fair
regard to public interests or to the duty
which rested upon Congress.
Mr. Plumb's speech brought on a general
political debate, participated in by Messrs.
Beck, Butler, Dolpb, Vest, Teller, Stewart,
Allison, 8herman and others. At iu close
the ad jornment resolution was concurred in
yeas 87, nays 19.
The Blair educational bill was taken up
as unfinished business, and then, on motion
of Mr. Sherman, at 4 85 the Senate pro
ceeded to executive business, and half an
hour afterwards-adjourned.
I HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
jMr. Randall, of PennM from the Com
mittee on Rules, submitted a partial re
port. The report recommends the adop
tion of the rules of the 49th Congress un
til further orders, with the following
changes: ; The membership of the Com
mittee on ! Library is increased to five; a
standing committee is established, to cony
sist of thirteen members, to be known as
ths Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries; an addition of representation on
the Committee on Private Land Claims ia
recommended; private bills are to be pre
sented through the clerk and given proper
reference by that officer; an improper refer
ence of a: bill does not confer any jurise
diction over the subject matter of the
bill, but appropriate reference will
be made by direction of the Speaker,
any private bill whose contents are found
to be insulting or obscene, will be returned
to tbe member presenting it, and will not
be referred; hereafter there will be printed
Only five hundred copies of each bill of a
public nature introduced, and one hundred
copies of each pnvate bill presented to the
clerk for reference. The following select
committees are provided for: On reform
In the civil service, to consist of thirteen
members; on the election of President and
JVice President and representatives - In
Congress, to consist of thirteen members;
Jon the eleventh census, to consist of thir-
u muuu uepreur.iion
claims, to consist of thirteen' members; on
ventilation and acoustics, to consist of seven
members; on the alcoholic liquor traffic, to
consist of eleven members.
uvn fnomh.,,. am lnrf.n J j .?
Mr. Randall briefly exDlained th
posed changes, which he stated were with
one exception recommended by the unani
mous vote of the Committee on Rules.
That exception was the recommendation
for the appointment of a special committee
i on tne alcoholic liquor traffic. The gentle
men from Maine and Illinois (Reed and
Cannon) and he constituted the majority of
the committee on this question. r
Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, said he de
sired to offer an amendment requiring
general appropriation bills to be reported to
the House by the committees having them
in charge within sixty days,during the long
session, and forty days during the short
session of Congress.
Mr. Randall stated that the subject was
pending in the Committee on, Rules, and
i would receive careful consideration before
- the committee submitted another report.
Upon this statement Mr. McCreary with-
urcw uie propusva amengment. ' . -
After Jl brief rllornulnn th.
Bgreed to without division.
The following amendments to th
were submitted and referred to the
mitlee on! Rules: .
rult
1 on,.
- By Mr. Euloe. of Tennessee, to nrr.V. i
the printing in the Record of undeliver
By Mr. McRae, of Arkansas, increasi.
to fifteen the membership of commin.'
now holding thirteen members! '
By Mr.i Holmao,.of Indiana, provide
amendment, "that no amendment cbnaaj
theexistic? law shall he in order ... ?
oi BjipiuiJiiouuu ii'iia. ii icireucDea i ,
tA4. .. fr... .1 1 .1 I
ries of officials, or by ihe reduction atu
RnmnsneuttAti x f ...... m w . n .
if o n ' ""J I"""" r"" " Ot ku
U. o. Treasury. "e
Tne announcement was then mde afii I
death of; Representative Eane, of 1
Spirits Turpentine
-ew oern Journal: Chas v
-"-iuuruerer wno Is to ki
made a full confession of Jta "crffi u
Kinsev.
. 1 vu oaiuruav last Mr. A d
iviog on Mr. E. B Cox's UrA
about five miles from the tnv v.-,i
'"'u" "t uaving nis rignt band cau
nrtnnAl L. i .
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got !,v
thearm thnt.it mi, 0.... "Ml"t
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it ahnvn thd flhr.w- ,u(
Lumberton Robesnn
meeting at the Presbyterian Church cb '
well anii waa tnrnnt. tn InawA rpi ua"
eight additions to the church and ..!
ber of others were restored and re"0Dsf
crated themselves to the service of '
Mutr XI U! T T ill. . la"t
villa TOTra fl Jtll ' .
j uuuuicu uuuurs IO me Fn
uwui&uii i uuu ui xiiuiirr vjoiiesre ht .
poasinn ,h rtr.-H ' s l lnS
dollan each for the same purpose.
Raletgh Recorder : Rev. Wwi
XT naK XT .v. n is .
cepted tbe pastorate of the Baptist Church
in Forest City. Ark., and will enter at
once upon its uuties. i ne neid is one ot
tne most important in the State. Rt
K. T. Vann, of Wake . Forest, has bt
conducting a series of meetings at the Col
lege uunng me wees, jriueen personi
nau professed faith in (Jhriatup to Monday
last. Kev. Dr. ttufham has entered
again upon nis pastorate in Scotland Neck
ue bas spent three or four months of ihe
naroesi anu most exacting labor in travel
ling and speaking in the interest of it.
Baptist Orpbange and other denominations
interests.
Raleigh News-Observer : Dr,
Frank T. Fuller, first assistant pbysici&n at
the State insane Asylum here, bas been
quite sick for some time, and improves bm
slightly If any at all. we are sorry to learn
Washington Bryan, Esq., President ot
tbe Atlantic & Worth Carolina road, is ar
ranging to establish a fast schedule on that
line to go into effect not later than nut
June, by which the run between Raleigh
and Morehead City, a distance of 138 miles,
will be made in from four and a half to five
hours. Rev. Bam Small, the noted
lecturer and revivalist, is advertised to lec-,
ture in Metropolitan Hall on December 23.
-At the First Baptist Church five new
members were received into Christian fel
lowship. The ordinance of baptism wu j
administered to eleven persons who had
been previously received. At the Baptist
Tabernacle one n&w member was received'
into fellowship. The ordinance of baptism
was administered to six persons.
Tarboro Southerner: , Tuesday,
for the want of county pride, died tbe
Edgecombe Agricultural and Mechanic
Fair Association; funeral next Saturday ;
no flowers. The boss cropper of the
county is Emanuel Wilhins. a colored boy
of No. 8 Sparta township. On tbirteea
acres he raised and gathered fifty pound
of lint cotton and housed his corn in a
guano bag.. On the 8th inst , of heart
disease, at his residence in Georgetown D.
C aged fifty-three, Capt. Francis Eduar
Bhepperd died, third son of tbe late Hon
Augustine H. Sbepperd aud Martha, his
wife, of Good Spring, Forsyth county, N.
C. Graduated from the Naval' Academy,
at Annapolis, in the year 1S55, Capt. She;
perd served with gallantry in both U. 8.
and Confederate Naviee. Monday a
Cegro boy came to Dr. H. T. Bass for him
to extract a bullet, which had entered bh
body about the medial line of tbe abdomeu.
A probe did not find the ball and tbe
symptoms indicate that it penetrated tbe
bladder. The boy received his wound
from a cartridge which he was hammering
on a plank. The boy has since died.
Salisbury Watchman: There
is now in press a new book on the -"Ores
of North Carolina," which is likely to
prove of great value to the State. It wili
comprise all tbe important information on
the ores of North Carolina collected by tbe
late Prof. W. C. Kerr, State Geologist, to
gether with other valuable facts collected
by Prof. George B. Hanna, of Charlotte,
N. C, who bas undertaken to prepare tbe
work for publication. Prof. Hanna has
taken advantage of all the resources of in
formation available in order to produce a
book at once reliable and comprehensive,
beginning his labor at the point at which
Prof. Kerr left off. - There are a num
ber of enterprises in several of the mining
counties of tbe State, that are beginning to
look up,' with some promise of Buccett
This applies to Moore, Stanly, Montgom
ery, Union, and some of the western coun
ties. There are a few mines Fisher Hill,
in Guilford, and tbe Phetnix in Cabarrus,
among them that are making good records
of. production, but the general output in
North Carolina is not as large as the most
sanguine friends of the mining industry
had hoped to be able to report. '
.Raleigh Visitor ; The com
mittee appointed by the Legislature to ex
amine the accounts of the Public Treasurer
and State Auditor, closed their labors in
the Treasurer's office yesterday afternoon,
and, as might have been expected, found
everything correct to a cent. During the
year ending November 80th, 1887, there
was received on account of the-educational
fund, $6,920 47, on account of public
fund, $850,177 70, total for the year end
ing November 80, 1887. $1,052,648 62,
There was disbursed during the year for
educational fund $885,889 78, making tbe
total disbursement for the year $890,013 99,
leaving a balance in the treasury on ac
count of both funds, November 80th, 1887,
of $161,734 63. The sum of $10,000 has
been advanced to the penitentiary for tbe
present years appropriation. To-day the
committee commenced the examination of
the voucberain the Auditor's department.
Messrs. , Berwanger Bros., clothirj
merchants of this city, made an assign
ment to-day. Mr. E. C. Smith being
named as assignee. The liabilities of tbe
two houses, one in Raleigh and tbe other
in Knoxville, Tenn., are $78,900. Assets
about $30,000. i
I Charlotte ChronicleiThe Chron
icle has promised that within the next
twelve months four new cotton factories
will begin ' operation in Charlotte. Last
night the preliminary stepa for the build
ing of the first of these four new factories
were taken at a meeting held at the office
of Mr. E. JL P. Osborne. The books last
night showed that already 600 shares bate
been pledged. Mr. McKee Jamison,
one of the oldest citizens of Charlotte, bas
been "gathered to his fathers." Four
young men who were taking a stroll through
Elmwood Cemetery .Sunday afternoon,
halted on the high bridge over tbe brook
and began leaning over the railing. Sud
denly the railing gave way, and they were
precipitated into tbe water below. Four
suits of Sunday clothes were spoiled, but
otherwise not much damage was done.
Mr. E. J. Jones, of Taylorsville, is tbe
owner of a somewhat curious atone. It is
an amethyst, about one inch long and is
shaped like a coffin. The stone was dug
from what is supposed to have been an In
dian grave, as several ribs and a part of a
skull were found where the amethyst was
dug up. Mr. Joseph Asbury has just
completed a beautiful piece of work at his
machine shops, in the shape of a mantel.
The frame work of the mantel Is of black
walnut and plain ash, and the panels are
inlaid with different kinds of woods of tbe
most beautiful varieties. There are thir
teen different varieties of wood in the man
tel, and they all came from North Carolina.
The inlaid work embraces diamonds and
squares in cherry burr, locust burr, poplar
burr, j curled poplar, red curled maple,
white curled ash, red ash, crotch waluut,
plain walnut and pine. The whole is fin
ished In hard oil and is a beautiful piece of
workmanship.
: - Little Josef Hoffman does not
like to bo kissed by the ladles. That, Is
something that he will outgrow in tlms
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