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i i 6 i ! i 1 1 1 I. i I t 1 rt The Weekly Star. ATM. H. BBJJARI), Editor and Prop'r. WIZMINGTOtf, IT. C. Friday, - - Fkbttaby 27, 1888. arin writing to chuura ryour "addrees, altoaw We tor-ur direction as well as full paruooian i WDere you wuux your iimpw nv omu w. t'nlees you do both changes oan not be mad. , I f-Notloes of Marriage or Death, Tribute of liespeot, Resolutions of Thanks, 4c, are chargea ror as ordinary advertisements, but only hall rates when paid for strtotly la adranoe. At this rsae 60 eenU wlU pay for a simple announcement . f Marriage or Death. i 1 tSTBemlttanoes must be made by Check.raft I'ortal Money Order or Registered letter, rost u.asters will register letters when desired. f l-Only suoh remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. :" ! EsTBpeolmen copies forwarded when desired, i NBNATOR EBHHA ON JOHN 8HEH- ; man. : . r -1 The meagre report of Senator Ken ya's reply to John Sherman, fails, to sjive a proper impression of the vig or, point and dash bf Ithe speech of the young Senator. ' Mr. Ienna is rrom West Virginia. He has already won a good name among the Senators for ability by bis very effective reply 10 the reputed ablest Republican Senator, Mr. E imnnda. He took his s-ling and a few pebbles of truth and lie met the Goliath of Radicalism," !nd overthrew him easily jjand com pletely. He Btrikes at the noblest cjoarry and he strikes boldly. Hav ing brought Edmunds to the ground in a former combat, he next seeks the wily, able, inconsistent John Sherman, the next best appointed Republican, and, if -we may judge from the report of the speech, he won as easy a victory over the Ohii an as he bad won over the redoubta ble Vermonter. It is certain that he found some very weak joints iu the armor of the Philistine f"rom Ohio. He muck him hard and prove him pell ful en men irora me neia. 101s youtu- David of " the Democratic Israel . i i . now wears two trophies taken in kijightly Ptyle and iwitb splendid daring. . ' ; ' - After hitting him for but disregard of the growing surplus, he accused him of "garbling" from Mr. Jeffer son. He show up Mr. Sherman's inconsistency as to the tariff. Let us quote from an abstract of bis speech: "No patriotic American, excepting pos sibly Sherman himself, , calmly contem plates the unnecessary withdrawal and hoarding of money. Senator Sheman bad protested most vigorously against the Pres ident's declaration that the internal revenue should not be done away with. ; In 1867 Senator Sherman himself had expressed much the same opinion that ! he now so severely criticised. In 1880 and 1882 he had eloquently and forcibly maintained much the same views.; He showed that the American f statesman of the past snared with President Cleveland in his apprehen sions, as expressed in his message, concerning the dangerous: surplus in the Treasury: He gave the Ohioan a heavy dig about his policy concern ing American shippers -j-that it had driven American ships from the ocean and, if 'persisted in, would continue to drive them. 'I ' Air. Kenna next met Sherman a almost every point presented in his epeech. lie - disputed all of Sher man's economic propositions.' He sustained the President In all of his points in his great message. Mr. Kenna argued that is was true that we have no ships; they' are prohibi ted, together with obscene literature, counterfeit coins and contagious dis eases, These constitute the excluded class, yet obscene literature finds admission and so does counterfeit coin and contagious disease. Repub- oan protection succeeded on eluding ships. 1 y lh ex- He next considered Sherman's ad- vocaoy of the Blair bill. We quote: "When he invoked the Blair bill in op position to the relief of the burdens of tax ation and held it up as a menace to the de mand of the country for reform and reduc tion of taxation, he adopted the most prac tical and sure way to defeat the passage of that bill. When he asserted that it shall interfere with the taxation of the.country and contribute to the perpetuation of intol erable burdens, he compelled many of its iriends to abandon it." v;j:j ' .j - .j We find the abstract sustaining a position the Star has been disposed to regard as probably true1. We quote: j . . j. "Mr. Kenna denied the assertion that re ducing duties increases importation and in , creases mu revenue. j The fact remains unchallenged tnat in the war the Northern Coni gressmen needed,. more revenue and theyjgot it in two ways. They in creased the Tariff rates and got more revenue. They taxed the jjieedless luxuries and got more revenue. !' Mr. Kenna next met Sherman's point as to the alleged "degadation of the workingmen." The Republi cans, let it be observed, are always mouthing about being friends of the workingmen, It is known to all who know anything that .the Republican leaders in and out of the Congress have always been the fast, oonspicu ousTrie'nds and fuglemen of 'the plu tocrats and monopolists. How then oan they be the devqted friends they profess to be of the toiling j millions of America ? The pretension is ab surd. Mr. Kenna said ; ; j j. .-' :jj I "The President proposed only to lift his burden and given him equal opportunities in the struggle for life. The freedom, In telligence and manhood of American labor exerted at the polls would not allow present conditions to exist longer. I The President stands squarely by the platform upon which . he was elected, and Mr. Kenna wished to express his hearty co-operation. He ex pected from the House a bill framed in a spirit of conservative fairness to all sections and interests.". - .. r J j . j A High Tariff does not make high wages. If so, how is ! it that wages are so much lower in High Protection Germany, Italy and France than in comparatively free trade England? Such is the faot and no one is fool enough, to deny it. Mr. Kenna told Sherman this truth known and read of all men: from rthln r.hamDioned has caused more strikes. more distress, discontent, starvation and death than any other system the country ,haa ever seen. - It is time for a change and the President gravely confronts the require ments." I He foretold the result of the present agitation.' The people are at last awakening as to the huge oppression, injustice, inequality and immorality of - the I unconstitutional doctrine of Protection. Mr. Kenna told Sherman: ''' .;;. . ! "Monooolv fortified and entrenched be hind twenty years of exaction and misrule will have to go. Its citadel will be storm ed in this Congress and the mask of Re publican protection will he torn from the face of deceit and extortion." So be it. Let the fight; proceed. The leader of the Democracy is in the field. Grover Cleveland has blown bis bugle and the fire-signal is burning upon all the mountain tops. The j clans are assembling; The real Democrats will rally at the sound and will not lag when the onset be- j r i . if gins. The Republican Supreme Court of the United states, in a well Known decision, declared that taxation for any other purpose than for the sup port! of the Government, is rob- berv." Protection levies a tax for the benefit and enrichment of a few. Less than two millions of workers and ' capitalists demand that a tax I of 46 per cent, shall be levied upon 20,- 000.000 other workers for their bene- fit. j That lis . "robbery,'? pure and simple, according to the Supreme Court!. Shall thin iniquity stand? Shall a system that creates strikes, drives American commerce from the high seas, fosters plutocracy, op- presses tne laDonng ciaBses oi me . V a 0 . i. country continue to operate, or shall the Hydra-headed. Monster be stran gled by an enraged and outraged people? Let the electors say. SOKEFIGUBES ASTO wOOLOBOW- I .' jl !: 1NO. .'i. : ; . I . The New York Evening Post, In dependent Republican, published on the 25th January, 1888, a. long letter addressed to Hod. W. R. Morrison, i Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means, House of Representatives, from Mr. John G. Smith, of Ohio, "a large wool grower and a man of wide reputation.' It dated March; 1, 1886, - and I was extensively copied at the time. No attempt to answer it was made. iNo douot.it was tound lm- possible to do so. It would fill six or eight columns of the Stab, and so is too long for us. It is able, com prehensive, thorough and conclusive. An abstract would, fail to convey its sweep and force. iMr. Smith shows up the Wool growers' Association and proves that it is nothing else than a grand humbug and scarecrow. The Star has already given conclu sive evidence that the High Tarifl has greatly injured the wool growing business and has reduced very much the number of sheep in most of the Stales. Under the great War Tariff, operations of a the number of sheep has prodigiously lessened. Mr. Smith shows that the Wool Growers' Association is utterly un reliable in its statements and atatis- tics, i He show that it varies 100,000 men in its statements as to the nnm- ber engaged in the . wool growing in dustry. He shows that by the cen sus of 1880, the j number of sheep is given at 42.192,074. The Associa tion tor their own ends give the num ber at 50,626,626. He says that it does not require one man one-fourth of his time to take care of 200 sheep. The Association tries to make it ap pear that it requires a man to every 25 sheep. He says that there cannot be reallv more than 100,000 men "dependent upon sheep raising for a living." This is much less than the estimate of the 'Association, Which gives the figures at 1,120,728 or more than eleven times as muob. Mr. Smith discusses the alleged labor in wool-growing. He thus ex poses the false figuring of the Asso ciation: . : i I "The Committee say, and say it in ital ics, too, 'this business has been auamented to its present great proportions by the Act of 1BR7 Tin, . f...i - .,, 1 1867. auu a iaiiuci luibuer uu you will Hull that they 'estimate the amount of capital engagea in me wool industry at $523,193,. 000, on which they; eav the net nroflt in 1880, when the high tariff was in full blast. was $16,000,000 or only 8 Der cent. Bin in ! order to make this return on the canitftl in. i . a .... ' . veeieu, mey are compelled to omit allowing anything for the boarding of 100,000 men a whole year. If they bad only allowed for the boarding of these hard-working men at the rate of $3 per week; the total net re turns under a very high wool tariff on $528,193,906 would have been $400,000 in stead of $16,000,000. and the per cent, of profit on 'this business, which has been aua- mented to its present great proportions by the per cent., leas than one-twelfth vj nuuiu iun ueeu, lusittnu ui o of 1 S per cent." The figures of the Association as toj the alleged Capital invested re startlingly exaggerated and show I bow very little reliance is to i be placed in this body of High Protec tionists. It declares that there are $528,000,000 in jested: Mr. Dodge the man after whom the North Carolina delegation is in pursuit -is a Protectionist also. He is "the pet statistician" of the infatuated and selfish fellows who believe in taking other people's money for their own benefit. Now j what does this Mr. iodge say of the capital? He places it at $85,000,000 -or about six times less than Ithe Wool-Growers say. But hear Mr. Smith just 'Their lowest estimate of men engaged in the care of here: the number of these sheep J 1b over 1.W0.000: Ati th wages of a dollar a day, it would coat $313 000 000! a f nw.2Re!U'me 10 Produce sheep worth $05.000,000, 1 confess my i inability to see uow ise wool-growers ever managed to . u u per cent, on their investment, band, I must aimit that if the sheep-raisers money at the rate of $328,000.- fJ.6"'. 88 l??y must have been doing if - vi airj uelano and his assocl aies are entitled tn th eii.v,,., u. they must Mve had a capital far exceeding "Tha svstem wllich the Senator . enable them to continua in j business until Tiow." , This will do to show what a set of figuring Munchausen . are these Wool Growers. They are either ex tremely ignorant! or lhey are ex tremely reckless in statement. We may recur to Mr. I Smith's elaborate communication at another time. CIRCCIiARS ABOUT TRINlri COL . j LBG8. We have received a circular from the President i of Trinity College relative to certain financial reforms, and other matters-con neoted with the institution. He insists that here after only the sons of ministers must have free j tuition. He desires to raise a loan fund to help the' worthy young men who are desirous of ob taining an education. He states that the Business Course has been much enlarged in student can scope and : that i the take a Course both in book-keeping and commercial law and practice, j The chemical labora tory has been refurnished and educa tional lectureship established. He says; . ', - j J' K .. "Two prizes are now offered for the 6nt time of $35 each the one for the best original work jin Political and Social Science, by any; member of the Senior class; the other for the best original - Oration, by any member of jibe Junior class the prizes to be awarded on the basis of literary and oratorical merits combined." There is to be a reunion dinner on 14th June-next, of all students, in strnotors and officers ever connected with the College, who may be pleased to attend. .1-1 We have received a circular from ii,, Rev. Dr. James B. Bobbitt, the Fi nancial Secretary of the College, re lative to the 'Sunday-school Endow ment Society j" His aim is to try to interest all of the Methodist Sunday schools in the N. C. Conference in behalf of the Trinity College en dowment. To that end he solicits all pastors where ever possible, to or ganize in their respective charges a "Trinity College Sunday school En dowment Society.'' The idea is a good one, and we cannot see why it cannot be made practical and effi cient, '.rll 1 : The Star has tried to aid the other Colleges id the good work they have been doing, and it would be pleased to be instrumental iu advancing the plan of endowing Trinity. It is the one male Coljege of all North Caro lina Methodists. It is or ought to be their College.! They have the means with; which' to endow it, and they ought to respond. If every' member was ,o be approached on the subject of 'endowment, the money would be forthcoming. We have do idea that half the Methodists of Wil mingrton have ever been solicited to W ! J give to this cause, in the circular: Dr. Bobbitt says ' The amount from each Sundav school may boim&ll, vet in the aggregate it will amcuai to considerable. Fur example, one hundred schools, paying the., small sum of $3 monthly, (urn into the Endowment Fund $300 every month Thus far the plan hna worked well In every instance where I have brought tho matter befor a Sunday school ; it has met with universal favor.'' . i ! I The case of White,Republican,whO has been seated, is being discussed in the leading public j prints. It seems clear enough that he is not entitled to his seat and because he cannot conform to the requirement of the Constitution. He is on the muster roll of the North and ; was a sutler. That is enough to entitle him to his seat, although he is not eligible. The Washington Post says: A And when Mr. Cockran pretends that a man who, having enlisted in the service of tne U nited states to nght as a soldier so de means himself as to be bowed out of tne army 'for the goo:l of the service.' there after to become a sutler 'that profit may accrue,' tnat eucb a man is a bercr-ana a patriot incapable of deceit and worthy of the highest honor, even to the subversion of wholesome rules of law and precedent and practices innumerable, Mr. Uockran is guuty or as much vapidity ana atma goguery as can be crowded into any demagogue g half hour s speech. Senator Blair announced yesterday that he would ask the Senate to dis pose or bis educational eon etna to day. After ebme discussion it was unanimously deoided to vote on the question next Wednesday at 3 o'clock. Very good. Let it pass the Senate and go to the House. where it will doubtless be properly disposed of' by the Representatives who come directly from the people. Here is an item that will interest some of our readers: "Mr. Buckley, a California millionaire. sav8 the Irish Times, offered to make Mr. farnell bis beir, and on Delng reouned asked Mr. Parnell to name somebody else, By the way, it is not . generally known tnat there was a very promi nent Irish leader by the name of Par nell in the last oentury. We take it that the prese&t distinguished leader of that name ia a relative. The members of the British House of Commons are afraid of dynamite The police are swarming like flies about the House. "Thus conscience makes oo wards of Ins all." Roeky mount Iron Works. A correspondent at Rocky Mount writes that last week the Rockv Mount Iron Works, which have been in successful operation for several years, reorganized with a capital stock of $15,000. The old manage ment S. K. Fountain and W. B Traylor, men . of enterprise and oner gy concluded to ; enlarge their oper ations, which they have done by re organizing. - The President, James W. Hines, Messrs. B. H. Bunn, S. E. Westray and w. E. Fountain, com pose the Exeoative Committee. The cooperators represent a capital of about $1,000,000, so that the institu won may he said to be on a solid basis. The work f the company has a reputation second to none in this or any othw State. " B-rea. me snipping: xrae The Collector of Customs at this port baa received official notification by circular from the Commissioner of Navigation at Washington, D. Cthat vessels may be entered In the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the Empire ofGermany with out the payment of tonnage dues, un less the vessel shall belong to a for eign country 11 whose ports the fees or dues imposed on American vessels or the duties on theii cargoes exoeed those imposed on its own vessels or exceed those ; imposed on the vessels of Germany or their cargoes. This law went into effect February 6th, and the Commission ir directs that certified statements may be forwarded for a refund of the dnes on tonnage paid on the entry from German ports of vessels exempted from the tax, and which were entered at any port of the United States! on or since the 26th ultimo. The Collector is requested to notify the department of any ton nage tax or other equivalent tax or taxes which may be imposed hereaf ter on vessels of the United States in any port of the German Empire, and to exercise care to levy tonnage dues on all vessels from said ports of any foreign country which discriminates in its own ports against vessels of the United States or their cargoes in favor of its own vessels or of the ves sels of Germany. Further notification is given that vessels belonging to Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and Por tugal, arriving in the United States directly from the ports of the Ger man Empire may be admitted under this proclamation without the pay ment of thei dues mentioned six cents per ton. Lleeosea to Prellce tiw The Supreme Court has granted licenses as attorneys to the following: Lewis J. Williams of Forsyth coun ty; Robert B. Burke, of Alexander; Julius C. Martin, of Wilkes; Marshall L. Mott, of Iredell; Henry R. Star hmk nt TiYrsvth: Edward B. Cline. of Catawba: Lewis A. Haney, of Mc Dowell; Thomas C. Whedbee, of Per-r.r.tma-no. fiain'l M ftattiSv of OraDtre: George C. Heck, of Wake; Mark Ma- lette, ortierttora; james n.. x uruiei, nt Wilnonr I.Toshua P. Mewbern. of Lenoir: Simeon A. Smith (col nrpdi. of Greene: Edmund B. Nor- kell, of Haywjood; William L. Cant wll. of Wilson: DuBrutz Cutlar. Jr., of New Hanover; Charles M. Piatt, of Macon; Jay F Ray, of Macon; Wil liam W. Zachary, of Transylvania; Harvey TerryL of Pasquotank; John W. McCanless. of Stanley; Adolph P. Lvnoh. of Catawba; James W. Wa ters, of Craven; Thomas E. Latham, of Ashe; James G. Merrimon, of Ban combe: Thornwell G. Anderson, of Burk; Neil A. Sinclair, of Cumber land; Lee J. Best, of Wayne; Charles X. uasKerviiie, oi vrranviiie. luers were thirtv-oPe applicants. Jiut one (colored) failed to pass examination; it was the fifth time he nad been ex amined. A Schooner Wrecked. . The small coasting schooner, the Adventure, 33 tons, was wrecked on Shallotte bar February 1st. The Ad venture, under command of Captain Richard Whitehuret, left Charleston, C, January 318 for Wilmington, N. C, with a Cargo of phosphate rock for the Navasfia Guano Company. The first night out from Charleston the vessel sprang a leak and all hands la bored continuously at the pumps un til the schooner grounded on Shal lotte bar at 4 p. m. on the 1st instant. The captain and c ew landed safely, and shortly afterwards the Adventure went to' pieces; the vessel and cargo proving a total loss. uapt. w nue- hurst came up to the city yesterday and reported the matter. The vessel was owned by Messrs. E. Willis, A. D. Willis and B.-T. Willis, of Beaufort, ss. u., ana was noi insureu. Many friends of William Hunt ington, Esq., a prominent merchant in nmte.'hellii.im. HnVH who marripfl n.nrl lived here many years, will be pleased to knowoi nis continued gooa neaitn. In a recent letter from Amesbury, Mass., he writes to a friend, 'Tn your next, give the news, itemised, of per sons and things in old Wilmington. My heart has always been there, and memories of! my boyhood and early manhood, with all the friends and business association, cluster around its old sand hills." Mr. Huntington was extensively engaged in the steam saw mill business with Jetb.ro Bal lard as Ballard & Huntington and af terwards with C. H. Dudley as Dudley & Huntington, who were very suc cessful. A Sadden Dennrawlclr. A correspondent at Excelsior,Bruns wick county, writes that Mr. James. Wilson was found dead in his house near that place last Wednesday. He was a bachelor, about 65 years of age. A few days before, he came home from the sound, saying that he was unwell. On Wednesday a neighbor went to Mr. Wilsons house and found him lying dead on the floor. It is thought that his death resulted from natural causes, but a jury of inquest had been summoned by the coroner to investi gate the matter. 1 be Escaped Convict. The escaped convict, Jesse Crofton alias William Webb, who was arrest ed for an alleged burglary in Bruns wick county last Monday, was lodged in jail yesterday, and last night left for Raleigh in charge of Mr. S. H. Terry, who arrested him. Crofton -says that he killed a man in Edge combe county four or five years ago, and was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight; years" impri sonment in the State penitentiary. and has served four years of the term for which be was sentenced. He ciaiuis uih ne lost nis arm in an attempt to escape from the peniten- wary Bonw pime ago. . Death or Biro Dawson. Xne announcement of the death if ,r- : . -rv - i jars, juissoun jjawson win be a great shock to her many friends in Wilmington. The sad intelligence was received bere yesterday after noon; through a telegram from her lawyer in pew York city, who said that the remains would be sent home for interment. Mrs. Dawson left Wil mington a few weeks ago in good health, to spend the winter with her childrenMrs. Pollock, residing in Bridgeport Conn., and Mr. James Dawson, near New York city. Her relatives in tnis city are without knowledge death. as to the cause of her There! were an hundred or more shad In market yesterday, selling at $1.W pr pair. co DJ9 rr affa iks. RfgaUr MMUac of Board of com si-, The Board of County Commission ers met in regular monthly session yesterday, at the Court House. There were present H. A. Bagg, Esq., chair man, and Messrs. Roger Moore, B. G. Worth, E. L. Pearee and J. A. Mont gomery. The Treasurer submitted his monthly . report, - showing; a balance on hand to the credit of the general fund amounting to $15,888.13, and bal ance to the credit of the educational fund. $3,432.15. Twenty-four coupons for $3 each were exhibited and de stroyed in the presence of the Board. The Register of Deeds also submit ted a monthly report, showing fees received for marriage licenses during January amounting to $9.50. Licenses ito retail liquors were granted to Win. Genanst and G. Lin-ler. -1 ; The chairman, reported $383.44 of the delinquent taxes collected, and exhibited the Treasurer's receipt for the same. "i i It was ordered by the Board that the Sheriff be authorized and directed to levy on the property oi D. lk. Chad- wick, agent for Mrs. L. R. Chad wick, to satisfy taxes for the year 1887L listed by him, , ' as E. V. Richards 'Was ordered exempt from taxes on aoconnt of physical dis ability.-- ' . .- 1 . :: The following were drawn as jurors for the Criminal Court, which meets in March, viz: A. Jones, O.W. Styron, W. W. Banks, D. McEaohern, TS. A. Barnes, R. W. Smith, James W. King Jr., R. F. Roan, A. E. Alexander. Jpo. H. Thees. T. M. Gardner, William Beasley, W. A. Witz, Nathan Green- wald, Geo. W. Heyer, Gt N. Harriss, Jno. W. Riley, C. B." Skipper, J. W. Alexander. M. J. Heyer, J. J. Cana- day; G. R. French, Jr., E. G Jones, C P. Mebane. W. J. Everett. D. L. Sav age, W. J. Reaves, W. G. T. Keen; J. G. Darden, A. David, F. C. Singletary, J.W. Bowles, C. Michaels, Pat Giayin, J. R. Nolan, Lewis Gordon. The Board then adjourned, subject to the call of the Chairman. An Eeape mm Capture. A negro constable from! Brunswick county came to the city yesterday morning with a warrant for ithe ar rest of one William Webb, charged with breaking into the house of a col ored man named Sparrow, living near Orton, and stealing a suit of clothes and sixty-five ! dollars in money. The Brunswick constable re ported to Mayor Fowler, who en dorsed the warrant, and also instruc ted the policemen on duty to look out for the man, who was described by the constable as white, of medium size and with only one arm. About one o'clock in the afternoon police officer Flanagan arrested a man in Brooklyn who answered to the de scription given, and upon identifica tion by the constable, Webb was locked up in a cell at the City Hall for safe keeping until to-day, when it was purposed to take him back to Brunswick. A few hours later in the afternoon, however, it was discovered that Webb had made his escape. An investiga tion showed that he had managed to wrench off one of the iron bars of the email grating in the top of the cell door, and squeezing through the aperture thus made, which is not more than a foot square, he gained the corridor; thence, he man aged to force the door leading to the guard room, breaking in two a heavy iron bar with which this door jwas made secure on the outside. A small er door, which was unfastened, opens from the guard , room to a corridor which leads to an entrance to the basement from the yard on the north side of the City Hall, and haying I forced the door which he found at i tnis entrance, vveoo was at noerty. I As soon as the escape was discover ed the police in all parts of the city i were notified to look out for the man. and about half -past seven o'clock, Mr. S. H. Terry, the keeper of the poor house and formerly a member of the police force, brought Webb to the City Hall. Mr. Terry said he had been apprized of the escape, and on his way to the city captured Webb on the railroad track The prisoner was again looked jin a cell, but this time heavy shackels were put on him so that there would be no possibility of his again break ing out, After his recapture the prisoner told fhfl Msvor that his real name is Jesse Crafton, that he had been sent from Edgecombe county to the peniten tiary to serve a ; sentence of eight years and had made his escape from that institution about a week ago, When arrested he had on the suit of stolen clothes, and $17.83 in money was found in his possession. The State Gnud Encampment. Gen. 'Johnstone Jones, Adjutant General of the State Guard, Dr. Hilliard, Surgeon, and Col. JJ T. Anthony commanding the Fourth Tegiment, were in the city yesterday, for the purpose of considering j the advisability of holding the annual encampment here or in the vicinity of Wilmington, During the day the gentlemen mentioned, ( accompanied by Col. W. C. Jones, of the Second regiment, and Capt. Jno. H. Daniel, of the Wilmington Light Infantry, visited Wrightsville. We understand they were favorably impressed with the situation, and that the Adjutant General will . recommend to ithe Governor that the encampment be held at Seaside Park at Wrightsville Sound, regarding this as the most eligible of all the places suggested, The encampment will be formed about the middle of July next, and will continue,: about, ten days. The State Guard numbers about twelve nunarea men. Tne Colonels com manding are, Jno. W. Cotten, First regiment, r Tarboro; W. C. Jones, Second retriment. Wilmlnarton: J. D. Glenn, Third regiment,1 Greensboro; j. x. Antnony, ijourtn regiment, unanotte. ." -H. Bt Alry'a First Shipment. The News, of Mt. Airy, says: "The nrst snipmenc oi moiasses lor tnis place from Wilmington, over the C. F. Y. V. R. R., was received this week by Mr. J. R. Paddison. As the rates of freight are as low as from other points, we soon expect to see quantities of goods sold through this Motion from, the ity Vy tha sea.' V . WASHINGTON;-, . . " ' - - : . .. ! v Senator Stanford Tells His " con- UtnenU Why bo Voted for Lamar's conftrmatloa. " j , Washibotoh, Feb. 6 Senator Stan ford, of California, has written the follow ing letter, to a constituent who asked bis reasons for voting for the confirmation pf Mr. Lamar a- Justice of the U. S: Supreme Court: i - j "Your letter asking my reasons for vo ting for Mr. Lamar was received. I voted ror nun necause l consmerea mm one or the best men in the South for the plaee. He is. in my Judgment, a broad, liberal- minded man, of a great deal of learning. He was professor of law in the University in Mississippi. I think he is a thoroughly converted Unionist, 'and I do not think -it wise to reject any one on the ground aione that he was engaged in the late; rebel lion. I think that we want to be one pec Die politically and socially. Gen! Grant expressed the idea when he said, j 'Let jus have peace.' air. jjamar s loyalty ana in tegrity to the Union was passed upon most conclusively when both Houses of Con gress provided lor tne succession to tne Presidency ,and made htm an heir only a few removes from the Presidency. I am reluctant to find myself not in harmony with all Republican Senators, but it was a case, so rar as my action was concerned, entirely for my own judgment and con science, and I voted accordingly.) j "KespeciTuny yours, i j "Leland Stahfobd.'I Washthoton. February 6. The 8enate to-day confirmed the nomination of A. H. Longioo.to beU: 8 Attorney for the South ern District oi aii88iB8ippi:- roe senate further considered in secret session, for an hour, the British extradition treaty, but took no action tnereon. f Washington. Feb. 7 A delegation of citizens of Mobile, which has already ap peared before the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, is seeking! to have that Committee abandon the oid plan for the improvement of Mobile harbor, and Droceed to carry out the scheme laid out by Junior Damrell two years ago, wnicn contemplates an ultimate expenditure Of $1,600,000. This plan Involves itbe deep ening and widening of the present channel to a depta oi 23 leet ana a wiatn oi aw feet. With a channel of these dimensions. the delegation represented to the Commit tee tnat ; tne present necessity vessels are under of completing tneir cargoes below the city would be obviated, and Ithe price of coal from the interior of Alabama be reduced to $1 76 per ton. j Washington. Feb. 8 The caucus of Democratic members of the House, which was called for this afternoon for the pur pose of selecting representatives on the Democratic uongressional Uommlttee, re sulted in the choice of the following: Alabama Jas. T. Jones; Arkansas4- Thos. C. McRae; California T. L Thompson; Connecticut R. JJ Vance; Delaware J. is Pennington: Florida K. H M. Davidson; Georgia T. W. Grimes; Illinois R. W. Townshend; Indiana Bonl. F. Shivley; Iowa W. JJ Hayes; Kentucky W T. Taulbee; Louisiana M. a. Logan ; Maryland Barnes Compton ; Michigan S. O. Fisher; Mississippi J. M Allen; Minnesota J. L. Macdonald; Missouri James N Burnes; Nebraska J. A. McSbane; New Hampshire L. F. McKinney ; New Jersey William McAdoo; New York L. 8. Bryce: North Carolina F. M. Simmons; Ohio Serial Wilklns; South Carolina Samuel Dibble; Tennessee Benton McMillen; Texas O. H Mar tin; Virginia D. Wise; West i Virginia E Hogg; Wisconsin Thos. K. Uudd: Arizona M. A. Smith; Montana J K. Toole; New Mexico A. Joseph; Utah j. T. Calne; Washington Territory C. 8. Voorhees. I In the case of States where are no Dem ocratic representatives, or where delega tions fail to make selections, tne full com mittee is granted power to fill vacancies n representation. The first person named Jones of Alabama was authorized to call the committee together for the purpose pf organization. i 1 ! Washington, Feb. 8 Commissioner Coleman, of the Agricultural Department; said to-day. in reply to an inquiry,! thai he had not received the resignation of Statis tician Dodge. The commissioner, it lis stated, is placed In an embarrassing posi tion by the request made of him in a for mal petition from members - of Congress, asking for Dodge's removal. The! opposi tion to Dodge arises from obj ciions made by persons interested in the tobacco trade, to Dodge's statistics concerning the tobacco crop. Un tne otner nana, many persons are appealing to Commissioner Coleman (to retain Dodge. Among others seventy-five members of the New York Cotton Ex change, have sent a petition to Coleman, ask ing for Dodge's retention. This petition sivs: Although many of us differ with him in his cotton crop reports, yet we are aware that Mr. Dodge is a compiler and an author of them; and we believe him to to be a careful and honest public servant The Secretary of War to-day transmitted to Congress a tabulated statement of the military force of the United States, which shows that at the last returns there were 82 general officers; 1,105 officers of the gener al staff; 1.638 of the regimental field and staff and 5.885 company officers; making a total of 8 210 commissioned officers. There were 18,331 non-commissioned jofn era, 3 900 musicians, and 71,896privates snaking in all 92,627 enlisted men, and a grand to tal (officers and men) ror a militia force of 100,837 men. The number of men availa ble for military duty (unorganized) is set down at 792.768, but in some cases figures are based upon estimates made in the War Department. ( An Associated Press reporter ootaiuea to-day from Representative Belmont, Chairman of the House Committee on For eign Affairs, an important statement with regard to tne Uhinese question, ana also as to the pending treaty with Great! Britain. In reply to the question of the reporter. Mr. Belmont said ne leit ne could properly state that negotiations bad been! pending for some time for an amicable settlement of the Chinese question; they had been sus pended during tne summer inconsequence of the absence of the Chinese Minister, but had now been resumed and were reaching completion. He understood, in fact, that a draft of the proposed treaty had oeen transmitted to the Chinese Minister to-day, containing such modifications Of existing treaties as would bring about-complete ex elusion of that class of emigrants to which the people of tne western coast; objected. It was only just to the Chinese Govern ment to say that there was no disposition on their part to stand in the- way of such an agreement, and be believed there was a strong prospect that within a i month We would have a treaty which would effectu ally dispose of the question. It would ! of course be necessary for Congress to enact legislation to carry out tha purpose of such a treaty, and therefore it was desirable that bills now pending before the House should not be hastily acted upon. If there should be a failure of negotiation, which did not seem likely, Congress could be informed in ample time; to pass independent legislation. Mri Belmont further Bald that any treaty arrangement with China to prevent Chinese Immigration would of course have to be supplemented by some stringent legislation, and perhaps even by some treaty stipulations with Great Britain, to suppress the introduction lot Chinese coolie labor by way of Hone Kong and Vancouver, by which! our pres ent restrictive lawa were largely avoided. It was understood there would be no diffi culty on this score. Speaking of the pend ing treaty with Great Britain, Mr. Belmont said as tne matter nad been so widely dis- cussea tnrougn newspapers ne thought jit only lust to the administration that it Bbould be known that no clause permitting the extradition of a citizen of the United States for any political offence was included in the treaty sent to the Senate. If there was any such provision now under considera tion, it must have been inserted as an amendment in the Senate. He declared. emphatically, that there was no clause in the treaty as submitted to tne Senate which surrenders any right which this govern ment haf always upheld, nor was there any provision which could be construed as per mitting the surrender on account of politi cal ouences. t i It is reported that the Senate! in secret session this afternoon postponed further consideration of the British extradition treaty until next December. ! i JBcJeet the Offer . by a dealer of any article claimed to pos sess properties identical with or similar to teeth-saving SOZOOONT. Only purchase me reai enmon rure, wnicn denes both lm itation and competition. Nothing can vie with it in efficacy, as a donor of dental health and beauty, notwithstanding any representation to the contrary. It causes the teeth to sleam like burnlahori contains no hurtful ingredient, and has a most grateful flavor and smell. . . . KRLIG WORSHIP. ' Proponed scheme- to Purchase the Iitbbr Prison, in mchmono', Va onit movo It to Chlcaeo. - "' . r j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ; Chicago, Feb. 5. A new departure in the line of relic worship hss been taken in this city, v Preliminary steps for the forma tion of a corporation, whose object is the purchase and removal to this city of the famous Llbby Prison of Richmond, Vs., were taken here yesterday The gentle men who figure as commissioners and who are lEr.rumental in organizing and devel oping the scheme, are." Messrs William H. Gray, Josiah Cratty,4 John A. Craw ford rand Charles K. Miller all Chicago men.' The Company will have a capital of $400,000, and it is understood that ail of the stock has been applied for. ! Richmond. Feb. 6 The announcement telegraphed I from Chicago that the old Libby prison building in this city was about to be sold to W. EL. Gray and others of Chicago, and removed to and erected in lhat city, has created considerable comment here, so much bo that the Associated Press agent called for information on Louis Rawlings, of the real estate firm of Rawbngs & Rose, who have the property In hand. Rawlings stated that negotiations for the purchase of the property by a Chi cago syndicate began nearly a month ago; that an option was obtained January 28th. giving Gray thirty days' time; that on 30th ulto. bis firm received a telegram to close the sale and have the title verified and the necessary i papers prepared, and that all that is now needed is for Gray to come for ward.pay the purchase price ($2000 cash) and receive a deed for the property. The announcement of sale, while it created sur prise, causes little or no unfavorable com ment. FOKK1GK. BUmarek'o military jBlll Approved Tbo Parisian Preaa on Blamarek'o Speech The Pope and Ireland Bnntt Hikes no Change in meas ures, bat Anxloaa for an Alliance With Franco and England. By Cable to the Horning Star. ! Bkklin, Feb. 7. A committee of the Reichstag baa approved the Military Loan bill without modification. Bismarck, in his speech, ' referred to cer tain other powers which Germany has con cluded treaties of alliance, similar to those between Germany and Austria and Ger many and Italy. It is rumored to-day that Soain, Roumania and Sweden are the coun tries referred to. Fabis. Feb. 7. Leading organs, includ ing the Journal des Debats, tthe Paix and the Steele, credit Bismarck with pacific in tentions. They say that his speech will make a favorable impression in Europe, despite! certain reservations. The Steele Bays that France only followed Germany's example and Strengthened herself, in order to be prepared in case of need. The Radi cal papers demand that France enter into, a defensive alliance agiinat the "unscrupu lous Teuton.' , ' Dublin, Feb. 7. Archbishop McEvilly, at the opening of the Annual Retreat, in Tuam Cathedral, to-day, declared that he had authority to deny that the Pope is op- posed to the legitimate aspirations of the Irish people.) "Never," he said, "had a fouler calumny been invented. Not in Ireland, nor in the word, was there a heart that beat with more friendship for the Irish than did Pope Leo's. The high position of Bis Holiness imposed reserve, but he bad never turned against Ireland." St. Pktersbcbg. Feb. 7. General Van ovski, j Minister of War, is holding fre quent conferences with' the Czar, who is attended by bis Chief of Staff, General BritchOff, regarding the position of the frontiers. Trustworthy reports state that the utmost confusion prevails on the trans ports abd in the commissariat service It is the accepted belief in official circles that the government will make no change in the military measures already determined upon. S Moscow. Feb. 7. The Gazette, discuss ing the Austro-German treaty, says: Henceforth it will be impossible for Russia to confide in allies whose hostility towards her has been proved. An alliance between Russia, England and France must be ef fected to counterbalance this "peace league." The University has been reopened, the students resuming their studies quietly. Manchester. Feb. 8 The Guardian says: "There has been no betterment in business. Where orders for a quantity of goods are in the market the prices obtained are not sufficient to render them practi cable. Occsionally an agreement Is effected where buyers and sellers strongly desire progress. These transactions are severely contested; otherwise there is moderate tra ding at regular rates. The prices obtain able for India staples and the same kinds for China, are poorer than those of three weeks ago, which were unsatisfactory. In quiry from South America, the Levant and .Egypt has lately lessened somewhat, and, although some houses are showing a little more activity, operations are on rather a small scale The position of producers re garding the! extent of engagements and stocks is very variable. Those who are well fortified with orders continue firm with respect to that portion of production sold ahead, but daily freBh contracts are needed, and herein they are disposed to listen to options near quotations Cloth is less Irregular than yarns. Tues day's business was light. Export yarns, which remained steady until last Friday, in many cases showed a decided weakness. Home manufacturers maintain their previ- ouslcaution.and although they are generally able to purchase on easier terms, they are not willing to order in quantity. Sellers of cloth make little progress. Offers are made for fair quantities of shirtings, mulls, and jackonets for India, but often at from a to 5 per cent, below tne views or sellers. Actual business is moderate. There are some China orders for shirtings and sheet ings pending at lCalld below quotations, The best printing cloth is neglected. Me dium is quiet. There are some sales at irregular prices. Heavy goods are inactive. Roue. Feb. 8. The Pope has requested Cardinal Simeoni to advise the Irish Bish ops to preach to the people of Ireland re spect for the laws and to maintain a calm and prudent line of conduct, .l he rope has also announced nis intention to send to Ire land a permanent Apostolic Legate. Dublin, Feb. 8. Patrick O'Brien, M. P., was to-day sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the Kilkenny Court, for inciting tenants not to pay rent. O Brien appealed and was released on bail. Mr, Flynrr, member of Parliament tor North Cork, was arrested to-day and was after wards admitted to bail. London. Feb. 8. Mr. Gladstone arrived at uover tnis aiternoon. tie received a most enthusiastic greeting from the large crowd that had gathered to meet him Upon his arrival at the Charing Cross station this evening he was received with mingled cheers and hooting. There was an enormous crowd of people In and around the station when he arrived, I San Reho, Feb. 8. The Crown Prince experiences aimcuuy in Dreaming. . it is reported that the doctors have resolved to resort to tracheotomy immediately, as fur tner aeiay might resnit in eunocatlon . VIRGINIA. Tbe Bis Diamond Robbery at Nor- i folk Arrest of Saapeeted Parties. By Teleirraph to the Morning star. iuchmohd, ueo. (.two men, sup posed to De implicated in the great lewel ry and diamond robbery in Norfolk. Satur day night, were arrested in this citv to-dav. They came here this afternoon in a street car from I Manchester, and after 'being shadowed j and chased by officers of the Kicnmond ponce, were captured and lock ed up. They were recognized aa John Ward and Joseph Mernoy, two men who were arrested nere on January 20th as sus picious characters, while prowling about two of the principal jewelry establishments of the city. I Thev were at that time re- leased on ball, on condition that they should leave tne mate. A gold watch and about $40 in money were found on the persons of the two men, but nothing to connect them with the big Norfolk steal. They were much exhausted and bore evidence of having tramped through tbe bushes at night. They are hard-looking customers. not alone in dress but in general appear ance. They will be brought before the roiice uourt to-morrow. '. ama. .: Fifty years ago the term neuralgia was comparatively unknown to tne profession, but Is now one of the most frequent and distressing diseases of our time. The best remedy for it. however, is Salvation Oil. rnaa twenty-nve cents. - f Spirits Turp -Goldsboro Argun tnnaim Qui, Goldsboro, both by the city ao,i" vi uio uiiuiBiers oi ino Vnrioii". Ikla hlt In 4nl.t . el.,,. concluded to hold UoniuV meetings, to alternate from church. i ; M . loj Cl)6; !i Ed en ton Jfieherman A oimpson ana wire met with while out riding. It seemv, an lour muesirom townttiir br, lngflienea ana uddehd-iiu ab Simpson tried to get out ui felLf The horse then beg gmg airs. Himpson several and bruising her very badly. , 1 ' fUa -r-High Point Enterprise can ueai u-uuiora in lilt prisoners this week, there jail bf the former ccuntv nan whn nan n AlVn 1 . A hi K.. V..J.I.... .1 ,.1'l tsiM ana transactea pusice jr iuwu iu ne una vieuta, s MIL. ' business and maniifurtiirir,,, ... -;'. Pftlnt ' Ihftn nnv nth. , 1 . c "i 1 , J piste be i, Trinit- Hnl Wn Ant a . Vtr., u . Rlp.vnn HpnnMt anil rH . . . wl uu mum ',illlKU 1 1 iuijitJ are Methodists. The nedaeoaical efforts of the rasnionea arier tnose or tfse N,i " ' versitiea. Tha olrl inn , I is being abandoned nnri ih., Jn ontionsLl nlan anhat.itntr.i .M meeting was held at tho colie?.' t Mink Kf r, I U . il zens as to the best mode of Jf Winston & Fayette ille Mad b,-,;,.1 solution was Introduced, asd si,", Hdlafo noaaat t . ' nhin tn Taioo 5 AOn K., . ..: . :-' !' derstood however, that the meats ; raised by private subscription, (ri f Wilson Advance' .Tinl.,. Cone nor leit oaturaav last for i, where he holds his first court this ii T J I L..MJ, . . ' Ql u uuge w uuuuiag up a repuiuiicu one of the gentlemen who weai !,L-,. vic uuuui o ul Ulia ocuic IUIlH proud Of. Mr. J. A. Oar!, stricken with paralysis on last ntmu uieu iu a snort wnne anerwarns ceived a stroke several montba im' not been strong since v Tbe , Rocky Mount is quite a busy pi;. had the pleasure of spending Hi there Monday: We noticed a iw store on the corner that hs btlilt. We wonder if there s u town in the State where newspspc taxed one dollar per j month for trj uphold the town? Yes. They at uvc uuimru per monin, ucenso, anu a taxed heavily ad valorem, on all im presses and other material Stak 1 mt Aa.v s .1 1 ine eiaoiea ana oiuer oumounes arou: tobacco warehouse at Rocky Mour.: burned last Sunday night. Mr Clarke, formerly of VirRinia, but fc; eralyearsa resident of this countv. at his home in Cross Ro ids tovi.si Thursday last. Hid remains were it: on Friday. He was about 64 y.i ar S.-n Richmond I (Va.) ' lieli Herald: Rev. A. C. Dixon made speech before the Baptist Social 1 of this city, last Tuesday ever-in. dividualism in Christian Wort;." President of the Union, J. B W Esq., said to me: ''What a power he nave been in nis own nativo State mttch more good he might have d..-ae reply, we alluded to his great aud mandmg position in Baltimore. mat. conunuea rresiaent wirjs'eu he would be greater still in North C arid do far more good 'Yes other brother, "he would be Govern. North Carolina bow if he hn) Were and given bimseli to o Boston papers speak m stro: of tne success ot Key. rnoe. uixcu h1 ley Street Baptist Church of thai city is not only drawing crowns, but b..r is! moving and blessing them. ' Th, conversions every week, and a tu-H.-.v ing revival innuence, reaching hH ci says one of Mr. D xou e hearers. W, ioice very much in the success i Lis Carolinian is having, and we siucerih that greater and better things are sh him. As we saw the , elder Dixon (A thrill and sway thel Baptist Social vn; this city, last Tuesday evening, e tbe- of the younger brother who is now churches, and then we thought of a y. et brother stilll, who is preparing to ;- Christ; and men, too, we tbotigti'ol quiet Christian home in the mourns North Carolina which ties giver. three preachers to the world, and cf much our city churches owe to the c;l churches from which they draw the recruits ror pulpit ana ce w. Concord Times: We let;m: Dr. W. H. Bobbitt is again conflatili room in Salisbury.! The First i byterian Church of Charlotte is u and liberal church! From the f tnusnc 1887, it has 440 communicants, and tributed during the year for a!i C $10,274,43. an average of more 'hTi per member. U The Lutherans at C Grove, Stanly county, will build parsonage at once for their new r'-i Rev. Geo. H. Cox. The lot was ! by that excellent citizen. Marvel Kit Esq. A correspondent. fi'vio would coniecturej la Rev. Dr. sife Sunday s Chronicle Bays "an epidemic broken out among The eccletii; sheep of Charlotte; it is tbe foot ease. Then follows a pithy Pointed article on the eviis of am Concord has a population or two newspagera, nine Sunday-school. white people, twelve churches, mure larger cotton factories than any other in the State, electric lights, seme largest and best wholesale and retail goods houses in the State, an excelled tern of water works, a good telephone U operation, two good fire compsa good string and cornet bands, some costliest and handsomest residence!) State, five lawyers, three good hotels, Of tne best female schools in foe btate several excellent private schools, one cellent male high school, two of w livery stables in the whole country, good market houses, good carpenters mechanics, forty-four stores, three tes. ants, a spoke and; handle factory, two and blind factories, one of tbe finest houses in the State with iail to i a local option law, five physicians sod dentiBts. 1 Charlotte Chronicle : 1 yation Army appears to have a pretty grip upon the town. Yesterday me bargained with Mr. P. M. Morris w other one year's rental of their b&rni opposite tne court house- The armr terday celebrated! its first anniversary Charlotte. Mr. J. N. Hinsoo, Mallard Creek township, reports tn raised last vear from 21 acres of lana rtonnda or seed cotton. le and in no pharisacial spirit either, hi citv of the same size in tho lied est more religious activity tha Cbsrit Over seven-elevenths of her entire nnnnlatinn ara ant rimsn as rpsular cm r - . . 6l 1 A UB vimuuiw j ftl senger train, on the Air Line roao, li Kirkland conductot. was fired into W it was leaving Atlanta yesterosy. Hnlla. intra tha Hurriuirft Crtf, rowlv mtasinff the heads of tbe coBflft VMaaW VIMUbU IUW M.W vu,. n ,jm ana baggage man, wno were conversation, and shattered the case containing the emergency and saw. The party who fired U1UI 1TM IWUIHUg VIU lv). ,jk Amhankment. -Hn pacaned C,1P1,1 BTATESVlXJJs, N. 0., Jan 1 IIMI.O MUI.,.I. . nr..c.n W a OniOIIU O IUVXUIUK J y , .1.1 J null W 1 lug iiuvoo iluiu uu v.uuui. y ' - . B mil nil fins hlnriroil anH HftV COfU were reconsecrated. Last nipbt . m - i.i... piimdreu0 stramrera are ftnminir In to hear tbl9uvj gulshed man of God. Passengen nrriirorl in tha nitv laal. maht On luv ijine irain, report mai a laiai ",i4 Otto Levi, a leweller hv trade Lev) an out-house neat his place of bu when a- bullet, fired from a gu i "J hands of a resident of the town. thannnh tlal..k, rvf tha Hllilding UU J rled itself in Levi's head. Tbe . :.6 ... f. . . . ru hnllel tered his bead just over the ten nenetrated the brain. Mr. Levi until 9 o'clock last night, when mI The accounts of the affair are conu d The party who did the shooting , it was altogether accidental, tie ne was buoouuk ai iw .nets when informed that one of his buiw pierced the bralni of Mr,. Levi. n 4 V .1.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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