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The Weekly: Star; J otjBIISEKD AT WILMINGTON, M . C . , rl.OO A YEAB, IN APVAWCK. SSSSsSSSSSSSSSSSS ?SSSSSSS8SSSSSSS8 S88SSSSS8SSSS8SS8 muon g 8S88S88888888S3SS 8S88808SSSSSSSSSS S88888888S8888888 8888888288888888 gggfggggg g g g S 8 8 8 8 5: t : s J j s s : : J : J s : o1 j Entered at the Post Office atTWUmtngton, N. C, I as Second Class Matter. j I ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Weekly Star is as follows : . Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, : $ 1.00 M " ftmrmthfl " i Art 6 months .60 3 monthi " .30 CRIiTlE AND Cm.lIINlIi LiWSi The Louisville -.: Courier Journal has been : doing some very plain speaking concerning "Crime in Ken tucky." It does Dot try to shut its eyes to the glaring fact that crime abounds. It knows from its reports and exchanges that all over the State there is crime and a great deal of it. The canse of its discussion js the op position in the Legislature reduc ing the number of peremptory chal lenges. It is astonishing how much sympathy there is in this Country for criminals for men whose bands are redj with the blood of tbeir fellows. This is seen in tbe defects of the jury system, the criminal laws, and the realdiness of Judges, . Solicitors, Ju rors and the people generally to sign pet itiona for pardon or commutation punishment. Our able and very of nuential Kentucky contemporary There has not been in twenty (years a criminal trial in Kentucky which has not . I'lastrated tne evils or tne extraordinary privileges granted to men accused of crime indeed, our laws were designed 10 secure lh8 acquittal of every mvraccU9ed of their violation, the; could not answer the pur pose more effectually." i This iaj serious business. How cib human life be protected so long :t.- the laws f a State are so framed i. is to shield criminals "to secure the acquittal of every man accused of their violation?" The laws j ought to! be so stringent, and their !execa 'lion so certain, that murderers and scoundrels generally should find no hope or solace, in tbeir contempla tion. The Courier-Journal says: "The chances in a Kentucky court are all with the accused. His counselj in ef fect, selects the jury. If the deed was par ticularly hgsrtivated, the counsel! is par ticularly careful to fill the box wit& repre sentatives of tbe most ignorant and: vicious classes in tbe community. The btite a at torney is after the first day helpless." We are. not lawyers, but we are members of Bociety. We have fam ilies who are to be protected,! We art, therefore, detply interested in all that concerns the execution of jiutice and jurisdiction and effi ciency of the courts. We do not undertake to say' what are tbe de ficiencies and remedies in tbe crimi nal code Of North Carolina. If it is -33 bad as tbe Kentucky code is de scribed as being then surely it needs immediate attention. The Judges of cur State are men of character and capacity, who no donbt desire to do right. They know what are the deficiencies of tbo system and tbey and the Solicitors, as it strikes 'an unprofessional outsider, ought to give the State tbe benefit of their experience and knowledge iu strengthening the criminal laws and caring defects. The Legislature oould hardly refuse to make euch changes as the Judges and Solicitors of the State Bhould recommend as essential to the pro per furtherance of the ends of justice. , ' " ' . Tbe Judges know .how they are. hampered in all criminal trials, j They are almost constrained by environ ments in "all preliminary motions to mle for the defendant," to quote tho Courier-Journal. The criminal goes into the trial with a vast deal in his favor. The rulings are with him; he is eupposed to be innocent; the Judge is handicapped and embar rassed; tbe jury system is immensely defective; the Solicitor is! almost powerless. Itr not this eo? Qur able contemporary say's: - "The Judge knows that every ruling must stand tbe most rigid examination be fore it will be approved by the higher court, and that the slightest failure to conform to all rulings in tbe past will secure a new trial; hence he finds it the part of wisdom on all preliminary motions to rule for the defendant. . I "After tbe jury is selected and witnesses are called tbe advantage is still with the accused. The State must convince be yond a reasonable doubt every one of the twelve jurymen selected by the accused, while ii the opposing counsel can throw over the darkened understanding of the 8otted juryman from Snagg .Alley a reasonable doubt," the prisoner is free, oush the other eleven are convinced of his euilt." I Last year Judge Lynch was very active. He had to be active for out of more than 2,000 murderers less than loo were hanged by the courts. The 'lynchings were more numerous than the court hangings. If criminals are shielded, and . if pardons by Gov ernors and others are not improbable, where is tfe safety of life? What defence has society except in mob law ? Take away the fear of con dign punishment by outraged com- , JIILI.1JL...1. . aUaaaSSaa- . . L ... . .I.I.J II . JMMppM,,,,, ;UMi - A - - - -J r-"-.-;.vi ;M : LLj 14 ' 7 i: li J 1 ' IP J 1 II V II iN V A ' II - v VOL. XIX. inanities and the people would feel in a great degree helpless, at the mercy of cut throats and house burners and ravishers. "' It is a bad thing for any people when mob law usurps the place of the regular courts. But in all ages men would protect themselves against the violent. Society is based upon the principle pf self-protection. If the criminal laws and the courts prove powerless to proteot society then society will surely proteot itself. There is no. chance to blink Ibis truth. It has been so; it will con ticue to be so. Human life is precious and must be safe from the brutal assassin and the man of quiok and un governable passions. The white men of the "South have resolved to protect their wives and daughters at every cost. The man who takes the life of a fellow man, save in self-defense, should be made to pay the penalty. The villain ; who assaults unprotected woman, should not be allowed to go unwbipped of justice. The Louisville Courier-Journaly we are pleased to see, regards the law against concealed weapons just as' tbe Stab regards it, as appears from many editorials in the past. It is pot a good law, beoause tbe crimi nal classes, the men of violence, do not regard it, while peaceable, law abiding citizens are put at a per fect disadvantage. But hear the L-Juisville paper: i ' V We do not punish a man for using his weapon with deadly effect, but if cauzhi with it quiepy concealed on his person, he is to be sent to thy penitentiary for two years The habit of 1 carrying concealed weapons is a most pernicious one, but it has this excuse -that as long as tbe State will not protect a citizen, he will try to protect hionelf. ''The Slate, in truth, has no right to take it from him until it has assured to every citiz-n full protection for life and property. ''Take any ten men at random to morrow : five belonging to the dangerous classes, five to the industrious classes. It will ba found that ths dangerous men are armed; tbey are not dangerous because ihey are armed, but they armed because they are dangerous and have some crime io contemplation. But it is said the law against carrying concealed weapons is aimed against the criminal class. It never reaches them . It h a law which men obey or disobey as it;piesf3t8 them. The quiet citizen obeys it; the. bfiliy iguores it " j j There is no way to enforce the law agaii.st the evil-minded and viciously inclined. It ought to be repealed. But amend law in favor of society, and hot in favor of crime. TBICKS THAT ARE VAIN. I A: New York dispatch says the Tribune publishes ani address "To tbe farmers of the United States." - ,. i j Which is signed by Warner Miller, Cjyrus C Carpenter John T. Rich, W. C. Morse, Edward Bunagb, J. D. Lymanj J. H. Hale and N. W. Grovenor. They describe themselves as "the committee selected to con- 1 i j siiler and report upon several thou sand letters received bv the Tribune from farmers' agricultural societies, clubs and granges regarding tbe in fluence of the tariff npon agricul tuial industry." . The ; address' states that tbe sentiment of farmers is over whelmingly in favor of protection. Warner Miller, familiarly known as "Wood-Pulp" Miller, and the other members of his committee, are Protectionists of the high old sort, and the :7W5u7n-j-well, everybody knows how that stands on the tariff. Well, one of the circular letters of the Tribune asking for information as to "the influence of the tariff upon agricultural industry," was sent to the Enfield Agricultural Club, in this State. The Club held a meeting with the following result, which has been furnished to the Stab with a request to publish : j "At a meeting of the Ec field Agricultu ral Club.! held at their hall in Enfield, tbe Secretary submitted to the Club'a commu nication from the New York Tribune, call ing on the: Club for an expression of their views "on the better protection of farm products, and on the 'protective tariff in general." I ;" ' Upon motion, it was resolved: j 1st That we, as. farmers, want no pro tection at all. except to be relieved from the oppressive War Tariff of from 40 to 90 per cent, duties on the necessaries of life, which we have to use. . i ' . ; 2- Resolved, That we favor raising an internal revenue tax fpr tbe government from the" luxuries, rather than from tbe necessaries of life. i I . 8. Rsaolved, That our soil and climate are admirably adapted to the production of sheep, poultry and fruit. And all the pro tection we ask for tbe wool interest is a tax by the general government on the dogs of ail ; kinds of our country, estimated at twenty-five millions, which at two dollars per capita, would give fifty millions reve nue: this would not only benefit sheep hus bandry, but would be a humane measure in preventing the horrors of hydrophobia. 4. Resolved, As regards tbe recent mes sage of President Cleveland wo unhesi tatingly pronounce it to be one of the best State papers ever sent to the U S Con gress, i William Burnett, Sec'y Enfield Agr. Club. This is very good. True, the Gen eral Government cannot now, tax dogs, but it may claim the right to do 60 in the future, unlesa the ten dency towards centralization is check ed. At all events, our Halifax friends made a good point on the Tribune and its oommittee. Of course, the statement made in the address, "that the sentiment of the farmers is overwhelmingly in favor of protection," has no founda tion tn fact. This may be true of Republican farmers in particular lo calities, well known to the Tribune, and to which, no doubt, most of the circulars were sent." But in the coun try at large, the great body of farm era who are Democrats, and very many Republicans, are decidedly against the oppressive War Tariff. M' ; - i.;-.-. AJIEBIOfN CITIES. f In 1880 there were ten cities that contained more than 200,000 inhabi -tants. By 1890 there will be more than sixteen, we suppose. -The pop ulation of the ten cities in 1880, was not quite 5,000,000. In 1890 four of these will very ( nearly, or quite equal, that number. It is known that Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburg and Washington now exceed 200,000 each, and they were . not of the ten in 1880. These fourteen cities in 1890, will no : doubt show a popula tion exceeding ten j millions or more than one-seventh of the whole popu lation. There are thirteen other cities that will exceed 100,000 each. By 1890 they will give fully 2,000,000 Then there are thirteen others that will have more than 70,000 each in 1890, it is estimated. Their com bined population will ' reach nearly a million. ' So there will be- forty cities that '.will reach very nearly i l ; or; quite to ls.uoo,- 000, or 'nearly one fifth of the ! ftorth Carolina whole population, will have in 1890 cOt far from 1,700, 000. It bas no cities and but thrao towns that will exceed 10,000 people. The people of North Carolina are rural in their tastes. The town population, however, will uo doubt show, a con aiderable increase over, 1880 -pro bably more than double. It is fortunate for the South that i i it has so few large cities. Louis ville, New Orleans and r Biltimore, are the only ones of more than 100, 000 inhabitants. Great cine are sometimes blessing-, but, when so much of the population is absorbed by them then the population mast become commercial and manufactur ing and look to other countries for food supplies. ; 1 The Chicago Inter- Ocean, a High Protection Republican paper, figures it out as to the Presidential outlook in this wise: Republican States cer tain, 182 eleotoral votes; Democratic States certain, 153; Doubtful 66. The whole number is 401, and neces sary to a choioa 201. In the Repub lican column it places such States as California, Colorado, and Ne vada, Michigan, Massachusetts, Ne braska, Oregon, Ohio and other. It gives tbe Democrats sixteen State.-, including Delaware, Maryland, tbe VirgmiaB. The doubtful are Con nection Indiana, New Jersey and New York. It says if the Republi cans can get either Indiana and New Jersey, or Indiana and Connecticut they can win, although New York goes Democratic. But the Inter Ocean assumes somewhat when it f starts with the 182 votes. Tbey may lose one or more of tbe States it claims. He i a wisa man indeed who can be right in claiming that California, Oregon, Ohio, Colorado, Nevada, Massachusetts and perhaps others will be safe for the Republi cans. Tbe probability is that Mr. Cleveland ean! carry Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, with a more than fighting chance in In diana. With the 153 votes con ceded and New York and one other State and "the country is safe." So be it. I 1 Old "Camp" Sherman denies that he and his bummers burnt Columbia. Of course, of course. He Bays Hamp ton burnt it. The Charleston News and Courier ' referring to this says: "Gen. Sherman denies, of course, that Columbia was burned by his orders, or by bis army. It is hard to leach an old falsi fier new tricks. ! Only a few months ago he was convieted of deliberate falsehood by one of bis own officers. There is no rea son to go again over the whole ground It is proved beyond question that there was no fire in Columbia when the last of the Confederate rear guard left tbe city." Mr.' R. H. Battle, Chairman, has called a meeting of the Democratic State Exective Committee, to be held at Raleigh at 12 m., February 23d, for the purpose of fixing tbe time and place of holding the State Con vention, and for transacting snob, other business as may come before it. Prof. Francis L. Patton,. D. D. LL. D., has j been elected President of Priccetonj University, Rev. Dr. McCosh having retired. He was born in the Bermudas of Scotch pa rentage. Dr. McCosh will have a pension of $2,500. The preachers at Nashville have decided to put to more church notices in Sunday papers. Tbe Encampment- ; The Raleigh correspondent' of the Richmond Dispatch, a gentleman who is well posted in matters pertaining to the State j Guard, says this con cerning the encampment: Adjutant-General Jones has re turned from Morehead City, having inspected that city: with a view to its selection as a place for the encamp ment of the State troops. It is al most certain! that the location of the encampment will be near Wil mington. j J This is very j encouraging, but it should not cause the people of Wil mington to relax their efforts to have the encampment at or near this place. This Is a matter of importance and should enlist the energies of our business menJ Twelve hundred State troops in camp at or near Wilming: ton, with other attractions to be got ten np by our citizens, will enable us. to "paint the town red." It "will for afaet." WIUVIINGTON. N. C.; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, NEW SCHOOL PROJECTS A. Boarding School for Young La dies Tbo Advantages of Wllmlna ton A Delightful rilmate Health fill at all Seasons. A gentleman of ' this city, who has had large and valuable experience ia the management of schools is con sidering the feasibility of establish ing in Wilmington a boarding school for young ladies.- The advantages of Wilmington as the seat of such an institution need only to be -: stated to be realized. Here we enjoy the best; climate, taking the year around, to be found in the world; mild in winter, temperate - in summer, healthful at all seasons. Many would be attracted to this city by its delightful climate, and here the young ladies of Norths ern cities would find a healthful winter resort in which to spend the months of the school year. In the North, boarding school girls are confined to the house for several months by the severe -weather, and are compelled to breathe the foul and superheated air of ill-ventilated halls and bed-rooms. In this climate there is hardly a day when the pupils could not enjoy out-of-door exercise. The graduates of such schools in the North are prover bially delicate; as It is expressed "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." The cost of an education under such circumstances is the health of the student. In this matter we have eminent Advantages over the North. By our prompt communication by rail we are brough t within eighteen hours of New York city, and are no mere remote from the metropolis, as measured by hours, than is Buffalo in the same State. It seems reasonable to suppose that parents would eagerly seize the opportunity offered here for a healthful school life for their daugh ters, so near at hand. The advantages of cultivated soci ety are afforded here, and Northern people recognize the true culture, hospitality and i generosity of their Southern brethren. It is not objected that efforts have past to establish and have failed. been made in the such schools here This is not valid now. Circumstances have materially changed during the past tew years even. The feeling of Northern people towards ns has been changed and a more favorable view Is taken of our social institutionsj There is no open ing for a second-rate school, but for an institution able to compete with the best of Northern seminaries there is a grand opportunity. To establish such a school j liberal aid will be needed from our citizens. Will they give it? Of course the day sohool, un der the same management, would be open to both boysj and girls. No onvict Labor. The impression that seems to have ODtainea in tne minds of some peo ple that the extension of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad from Fayetteville to Wilmington' will be built by convict labor is an erroneous one. The ninth section of the amended charterj of the company provides that convicts shall not be employed on any road or branch of the road except on the main line of tbe said railroad from Mount Airy to the South Carolina line, via Shoe Heel, and on the Patterson, Danbury and Franklinsville branch, and a proviso in the same section recites that if the said Cape Fear and Tad kin Yalley Railroad Company shall violate the conditions and provisions of this section as to the ' place of working convicts, the company shall immediately forfeit all right and claim to work convicts, and they shall be immediately returned to the authorities of the State peniten tiary. ' ! j If the appropriation of $150,000 is voted by the city the company will at once begin the construction of the road, working from - Wilmington to Fayetteville, thus giving steady em ployment throughout the summer to a great many laboring men of the city who would otherwise be idle. Besides the construction of the line of road there wiljl be wharves to build and warehouses and depots to erect, giving additional work tos mechanics and others. Wilmington and the '. F. tc Y. V. R..B The Greensboro North State says that there is general rejoicing that the people of Wilmington have taken hold of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Val ley with a view of extending that road to Wilmington. . Before the days, of railroads tbe natural highway was a line tapping the Yadkin Valley, then towards the Deep River, and then on to Wilming ton. The C. F. & Y.V. is on this 1 ne, and is destined to be a great railroad. Natural causes will contribute to this, and the result will be that Wilming ton will become a great manufactur ing as well as a great shipping point. In our opinion the completion of tbe C. P. & Y. V. will provide a system that will build up a great North Caro lina seaport, and. that it is the only project that has ever been reasonable to accomplish that desirable object. With all deference to the memory of the great men who cherished the h ope of a North. Carolina system from Tennessee to Morehead City, we must say that it has no argument based on commercial wants and necessities, or the tendency of capital for invest ment that will justify such a system. Time will prove that a railroad with northwestern Connections reaching A "- l. cj. T a s-it. casro. running from northwestern North Carolina to Wilmincrten. will reverse tne present business status and put Wilmington on equal footing, commercially, with Baltimore, and give her vastly superior advantages to Richmond, j Unlawful Fenoe. Jordan Nixon, eolored, living about twelve miles from the city, near Wrights ville Sound, was arrested and brought before Justice Millis yester day, on the charge of "cropping with an unlawful : fence" less than four feet in height. There were four wit nesses for the State whose evidence was deemed sufficient to require the defendant to give bond in the sum of fifty dollars for .his appearanee at the next tern ef the Criminal Ceart. .Bank of New Hanover. - . The annual meeting of stockhold ers of the Bank of New Hanover was held, yesterday at the banking house in this city. MK H. C McQueen was called to the- chair and Mr. S? D. Wal lace was appointed secretary. ,': The secretary and Mr. M. S. Willard were appointed a committee to verify proxies. They reported 3,686 shares represented in person,and 4,504 shares represented by proxy, making 8,190 shares in all represented. i The chair declared the meeting duly organized and open for business. An election of a Board of Directors was then held, which resulted in the re election of the entire old T Board, viz: Isaac Bates, Geo. W. Williams, W. I. Gore, C. M. Stedman, E. B. Borden, H. Vollers, J. W. Atkinson, J. A Leak, Donald MacRae, R. R. Bridgers, F. Rhein8tein. ! There being no other business the meeting adjourned. jj - A meeting of the Board of Direcc tors was held subsequently, when the following officers were elected: .President Isaac Bates. i Vice President George j W. Wil- iiauis. , !j Cashier S. D. Wallace. I Assistant Cashier W. L.; Smith. Death of Dr. Fred Thompson.. We regret to chronicle the death of Dr. Fred Thompson, of Bladen coun ty, which occurred last Wednesday morning at the home of the deceased. Dr. Thompson was a native of Wil mington, and was aged about fifty two years. He read medicine under Dr. Satchwell, and afterwards at tended lectures at the University of New York. In 1860, with other South ern students, he withdrew from the New York University and graduated at the medical college in Nashville Tenn. He was a captain in the Eighteenth North Carolina Volun teers during a part of the late war, afterwards serving in the Third Cav alry. Since the war he has resided in Bladen and Pender counties, where up to the time of his death be was en gaged in the practice of his profes sion. He married Miss jj Carrie, a daughter of Mr. J. R. Corbett, and; his wife with their three children sur-j vive him. Dr. Thompson was a gentleman of superior intelligence and worth; hon orable and high minded. His los i3l will be deeply felt in in which he lived. the community Ibe Atlantic roast Line Time Inepee Hon Mretem. The Charleston Netvs and Court says: j; "Mr. J. R. Kenly, superintenden of transportation on the Atlantl lUO) t.MIV w vumi. jvur terday for the purpose of putting intq operation here the time inspection system which has been i adopted by the Atlantic Coast Line in j accord ance'with the regulations! of the General Time Convention, i I Mr. Kenly was accompanied by Mrr McGiiivary, agent of Messrs. Giles Brothers & Co. of Chicago, who havfe been awarded the contract for intro ducing the system on this line. This firm will have the selection of the local examiners at Charleston, Flor ence, Columbia, Wilmington and Richmond, and will i exercise a general supervision over them. Messrs. James Allen ! & Co. are the only inspectors so i far se lected. They were appointed yester day 'to be the special examiners at Charleston, and it is probable that they will be made chief examiners of tbe entire coast line. 1 I The duty of the local inspectors is to examine the watches of the rail road employes, from time to time, in order to see that they conform to the standard of time which has been ad opted. ! j The company also suggest the use of magnetic shields on all watches, in order to protect them from the elec trical influences existing on moving trains. The limit of variation bas been fixed at thirty seconds in a week, and all watches that do not conform to this standard will have to be re placed by others that will. I Sehool-Bor Day. A gentleman passing along Water street a few days ago noticed a vessel discharging molasses at one of our wharves, when almost instantly his memory went back to thirty or forty years ago when vessels were discharg ing this sweet product and whn the school-boys would assemble, and preparing from shingles suitable sticks, would "lick lasses," as it w;as familiarly called in those days; and it is almost useless to add that the boys were such expert judges that they could tell you with absolute certainty which was the best ! hogshead j in a lot of , one hundred and fifty to two hundred. Fertiliser. A prominent member of the Mi ner's (Phosphate) Exchange j in Charleston, S. C, says that there have been remarkably large sales of fertilizers this season, and all the lo cal manufacturers there have sold all that they can produce : up to the list of April. It is in oonsequence of this, probably, that the price of guano has advanced about one dollar per ton, and acid phosphate two dollars. That Canning Factory One thousand dollars, it is said, will buy all necessary fixtures, &c, for a canning factory on a moderate ly large scale.' Four to five months is a season for such a factory. It is thought such an enterprise will prove remunerative in Wilmington. Certainly, the pecuniary risk involved in tbe experiment is very small. Vegetables and fruits now; oysters as soon as the railroad is constructed to JNew river. Jar Oonld It is stated in the New York papers that Jay Gould, who has-been cruis ing in foreign waters in his steam yacht Atlanta, and who is now onhis way home, will not come directly to New York, but will make some South ern port probably Charleston) or Wilmington and thence will pro ceed home by rail In Maroh County Register Sampson ports no marked increase in the re sale of marriage licenses since the begin ning of leap year, although six were I issu d the past week. " ' 1888. PURE LA ft D. Arguments Before the Senate Agricul tural Committee on the Bill to. rax Adnucrated Lard. .', . ;" :.j;T; .. - j ; By Telegraph to tho norning Star, j I WASHnrOTOM. Fbi 9. The htMi-inff h. fore the Senate Cn;jaiuee on Agriculture, 0a the Mil to impose a tax yu laru contain ing anything txctrpi pure h g'a fat, u re sumed ibis mormon Jurfe WilaonJ at torney fir John p tfquire & Co , of Bos ton, rei pe:iHun3 finned by a Urge num ber of ri!i.Dufaciarr nd dealers io pure Krd. urgiug tbo patsigeof tbe biil Also, Several tetters, together with a statement signed by the chairman of the Liverpool -produce Exchange, representing that there was want af confidence in the purity of lAmericau lard, and that couseuuinUy they often refrained from buying Also, letters rrom iwo cracker manufacturers of St. Louis and Omaha, stating that crackers io which were used lam composed in part jof coriou seed oil, would become rancid id a fw dave. Also, a dinnine from lbs New York Journal of Commerce, in which it is stated that experts of lard from the port of New York had fallen off fifty-six miilioa pounds in the year 188? as compared with Ibe year 1886. 'i Mr. Cromwell, attorney fox the refined lard manufacturers, Baid be had a petition from over five thouatdd persons.etaiing that refined lard was not an injurious article. He said it was not claimed that cotton seed oil could jbe : used for every purpose, and be would admit it was sot fit for crackers In behalf of the refined laird industry and the ' cotton seed o:i people, representing in ail 130.000,000 of invested capital, he desired to protest against the passes of the biil which was designed to p3ace refined Jard in a degrading position commercially. j j Mr. Kimble, who was the chief witness for tbe opponents of the bill, had made the following vital admissions: First, that reuse-i lard. 39 made br well known manu facturers, ia mi dcliHorloua to health. 8ecocd, .That thajf could not justify the license tax and would be satisfied with the placing of the word "compound" or "refined" lard on ! packages. And. third, that thi v would not contend that cotton eeci? oil is injurious to health j Mr. Cromwell then devoted himself to the defence of the word '"refilled," as used by his clients, contending thai it was used by do other branch of (he lard indus try, and that tbe name had bi-eu built jup for "o-flsed" lord am?ng dealers and con sumers by years of hard work. It was a slander to call such lard aduheraied lrd. To adulterate meant to debase, and lardj in which cotton seed oii was mixed, waa a superior article The whole complaint was instigated by a man who was not! as enterprisiog as his rivals, and wanted Con gress lo aid him ia keeping his trade from them As to tbe falling off in tbe export trade via New York he said the explanation was ihat Baltimore and Montreal captured the trade New York lost. Mr Cromwell 6aid that the cotton seed oil industry was tbe greatest possible advantage to the Southern coualry. If there was anything deleterious in tb productions of the Fair hanks flrrs, foreign nations, who extreme such rigorous scrutiny in all questions of food, would have made adverse criticism. Nothing of this character has been heard from them He was against all such pro posed legislation the legislative ttsmp would be a blemish. j Ia answer to questions from members of the committee, Mr. Cromwell said that they would be forced to bow to anv general leg islation, but that it would be a pernicious and unwarrantable course on toe part of Congress Judge Ciaff, of Memphis, spoke in be half of tbe cotton seed interest This in dustry was yet in its infancy, and no action should be taken that would tend to sup prtss i i ir Ames saareseea me committee against the proposed bill. He represented tne cattle lnteret;. ana said ib&t if ine bill became a Ihw it would mean a loss of fifty cents on each head of cattle. Richard Arnold, Vice President vl the Southern Cotton Oil Company, also spoke against the bill. His company hd invested $1,125,000 in cotton seed mills m the South. The biil would practically cut off his com- pauy s market : j A statement was read, tignea by Armour & Co., of Chicago, protesting against tbe bill, and commendinz tbe character of the compound lard product i A pimeti from thirty prominent JNew York merchants wa presented against the bill, and Mr. C'nru'h, of Arkansas, repre- sentiag the producers of cotton seed, made an impassioned argument against tbe pas sage of a bill, and especially against the imposition of a tax. The people of this country were getting very tired of internal taxation. If this thing went on the sugar men would want protection against glucose, and so with every other industry. The bill was paternalism run mad . It wou'd work great injur? to tbe cotton seed industry: of the South . He concluded : "The cotton seed oil business is our chief industry. I We haven't got much, and for God's sake don't take away that little " ' j ; Joel A Sperry, of the firm of SperrV & Barnes, of New Haven, Genu., who had been in the business of manufacturing lard for 45 years, said that he had no objec tions to lard of which cotton seed oil was an ingredient, but that it was a fraud to sell it as lard made from hogs. Cotton seed oil lard, if it was as good as hog's fat lard, 1 would be bought by the consumer as such J At present the retailer bought compound; lard cheaper than he could buy real lard j and made an extra profit by selling it as hog's lard. Let the hog, steer, and cottod seed oil stand on their merits. He sold his: lard as "Pure Refined Lard," and the name for refined lard had been built up In the last twenty years by making an extra good: article; but now certain manufacturers put other things than hog's fat into lord and wanted to retain the old name. His export trade had also fallen eff, owing to com plaints of tbe quality of American lard generally. I A runner nearing was posiponea tor several weeks NEW YORK. A General Raid on the "Bucket Shop.' i j New Ycbk. Feb. 11. A. general raid was made to-day on all bucket shops in New street. Broad street and lower Broad way. Among those raided by the police are Lumpkin & Co , 51 New street; Block ton & Co., 56 New street; Hart & Co., 57 New street; Manhattan Stock Company, 61 New street, and tbe Standard - Stock Company, 33 New street. The proprietors, or the men conducting the business, were taken off nnder arrest. It is generally be lieved that they will all resume business Monday as usual. Tbe Standard Stock Company and Hart & Co., have an ' old indictment hanging over them for keeping a gambling house, and their trials are Set down for next week, and will be regarded as test cases In the event of conviction it is understood that all the bucket shops will change their present mode and do business under the system now operated by Todd & Co., styled the "Open Board of Brokers." Thirty-eight men in all were captured in the raid. j Two young men who were hired by reg ular brokers to procure. evidence against the bucket shops proprietors, will appear at tbe trial, as well as several victims of alleged gambling dens. One of the latter is said to be a graduate of Princeton Col lege who has spent $60,000 in tbe shops, and the other willing witness is a man who has lost 140,000 in tbe same manner. THE WALKING MATCH. End of the Six Days' Constat Albert Beats the Record. j New York. Feb. 11. The six day walking match ended to-night, without any of the usual scenes oi disorder ana rowvism that have prevailed on previous occasions. Albert has broken the record and is now chamnion of the world. Eight of the competitors completed the 625 miles that entitled them to a snare in tne gate re ceipts. The score of these eight ati 10 o'clock was as follows: Albert. 621 miles 4 laps; Herty, S82 miles; Guerero, 564 miles ; Hart, 646 ; Golden, 628 ; Moore, 881 : Strokel, 520; Heremac, 5. no; 15 WASHINGTON. ! A Bill to be Reported far Pnrcbaee of r S. Bond with Treasury Morplaa. Washington, Feb. 9. At to-day's meet ing of the Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Mills called up for action the bills introduced by himself, and Mr. Brcck enridge, of Kentucky, relative to ihe in vestment of funds in the treasury in Uni ted States bonds, and after some discus sion the Committee decided to report favor ably Mr. Mills' bill, which reads as fol lows: ; " I 1 "Be it enacted. That the Secretary r f the Treasury is hereby authorized to apply the surplus money now; in the Tteasury, and not otherwise appropriated, or no much thereof as he may consider proper, to the purchase or redemption of U. 8. bond?. Mr. Breckinridge's bill, which was laid over upon this action, is of a wider t cope, and not only autboriaas a like investment of the surplus, but also the investment of the funds now held for tbe redemption of legal-tender notes, and as security for Na tional Bank circulation. WaSHiNeTON, Feb. 10 Tne Comp troller of the Currency to-day appointed James McConville. of Steubeovtlie, Ohio, to be Receiver of the Metropolitan Na tional Bank, of Cincinnati. Ohio, lie will take charge early next week After lis tening to an argument from A 11. Powell, President of the National Temperance So ciety, tbe Senate ' ommittea on Education to-day, by a unaaimon3 vole, instructed Senator Wilson, of ) Iowa, to report favor ably a bill providing for the appointment of a commission of five persons, all of whom shall not be advocates of to; a' ab stinence, to investigate tbe alcoholic liquor traffic, its relations i to revenue and taxa tion, and its general economy, criminal, moral and scientific aspects, in connection with pauperism, crime, social vice, public health and tho general welfare of toe peo ple; and also to inquire and take ttstimony as to the practical results of license and prohibitory legislation for tho prevention of intemperance in tbe severs! Sutes of the Union. i I Washington, Feb. 11. Judge Alex.Mc Cue, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who at present holds the office of Solicitor of the Treasury, has been offered and has accepted the posi tion of Assistant Treasurer at New York, vice Mr. Cauda, resigned. Judge McCue did not seek tbe office and accepted it oDly Upon the solicitation of the President. THE EUROPEAN SITU A TIOS Oelnalve Hopes of Peace Tbe Caar Unable to Retrace his Steps Every thing Pointing j to a Collision with the Allied Powers. (Copyright by the H. T. Associated Press.) Beblin, Feb. 12 The peace delusion with which Bismarck's speech iuveated the situation, has passed away. It li beginning jo be realized teat mere was no.hiog really pacific in the speech beyond leaving the Czar the alternative of peace or war, while pointing out the road along which Russia can retreat if the Czar feels himself safe in doing so. j ! LSt. Petersburg advices, published in to ight's National Zeituny, assert that the jCzir eulogizes within his own circle Bia ;mirck's remarks, but that Russian official jopinion holds that the Chancellor's words and diplomacy are irreconcilable. The Austro-German League of Peace 'continues to be in j the eyes of the Czar's 'advisers an offensive alliance against s Russia, requiring unabated preparations for inevitaole war aud an alliar.ee to : counterpoise the League, j If tbe official press of Berlin were per mitted to give frank utterance of its c pinion on the situation, it would be found to concur in Russia's convictions. The I Notrh German Gazette goes into the subject ! at length. It says the conflict still exists J amijis undiminished m intensity, although msmarca s speech ; rei.evea tne minds of the people from the fear of an immediate cotflict. This is only partially correct. While tbe public! are somewhat reassured regarding the imminence of war, official and diplomatic circles are not so certain of the Czar's desire for peace; though his pro fessions are not suspected, it is known that the influences around, him, which he ap pears to be unable to resist, continue to work in the direction of war. His present position recalls an incident that occurred on the eve of the Russo Turkieb conflict in 1877. In the archives cf the Foroign Office at Yienna there exists a dispatch from! General Langenau, then Austrian Minister I to Russia, to Count Andrassy, dated April 16th, 1877. stating that on the previous night the Czar, in the course of a long conversation, directed him lo report to the Austrian government that be entertained no idea of war, and that he did not wish nor intend to attack Turkey. Within a week after this declaration Rus sia opened tbe campaign, crossed the Pruth and invaded Armenia. The prcsont Czar has even less control of affairs than his fa ther had. He is now guarded largely by the ndvice of Sioovioff, director of the Asiatic department cf the Foreign Office. Sinovioff is a prominent Panslavist, an old friend of the late Kattkoff, and an inheritor of Kattkoff 'a idea.! Subjected through personal influence to the war tendency i of a majority of the Council of tbei Empire and to the anti German policy of a majority of tbe Minis try it is impossible for tbe Czar to retrace his steps, which are leading to a collision with the allied powers; nor do the Berlin and Yienna governments expect him to do so, despite their ostentatious effort toward conciliation. I FOREIGN. England Preparing for Mobilisation of Her Army The Irish Troubles. By Cable to the Morning Star. London, Feb. il. Mr. Gilhooly, mem ber of Parliament, who was arrested last evening, left for Dublin in company with his guards this morning. There was no demonstration.! The only persons at the station to see them off besides a few re porters were Mr.j Eleaner, member of Par liament, and two detectives. London. Feb. 11. The Brttish War Office has issued an order directing that a statement be prepared at each military centre detailing facilities for summoning reserves and strengthening battalions from depots within forty-eight hours, in the event of mobilization oi the army be coming necessary. The order is a precau tionary step to enable the new mobilization scheme to work well if it should be neces sary to put it in force. Dublin, Feb.! 11. The trial of the action of Wilfred Blunt, who was recently convicted of violating the Crimes act,, against the police, for $2,500 damages for illegal arrest, was commenced in this city to-day. Blunt was present in tbe court room, wearing the prison garb under his overcoat. Lady Blunt was also preeent. The court room was crowded. Jasper Douglas Pyne, who was arrested in London yesterday outside the House of Commons, was brought to Ireland to-day and lodged in Waterford jail, where he will remain until the convening of Kilmatimas sessions. Bail was refused for him. : i. CHICAGO Anxious to Secure the Democratic Na tional Convention Cat In Freight Rates. '. ' Bv Telegraph to tho Morning Star. 1 Chicago. Feb. 11 . At a meeting of the local finance committee to-day, tbe chair man said that twenty-three thousand dol lars had been suoscnoea by unicago citi zens to defray the expenses of the Demo cratic National I Convention, provided it eomes to Chicago, and tbe sum will be in creased to $50,000 if necessary. Working committees decided to go to Washington next Saturday. Kansas City's renewal of reduction in f reieht rates occurred yesterday The Kan sas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Road made the following rates on pac&wg nouse prouucis: To Galveston and Houston, 40 cents; to Memphis 14; to Memphis when destined for Green Line Points 12: to Hew Orleans, Mobile and Vicksburg 24 Sugar from New Orleans to Kansas City 27. Hsnte ire joined in the above rates to Texas. Turpentine . t- xwuergnj v isitor: i mere were - T V vr. . L-. . Ufty-three colored 8 ppLcanla for uachera on examination to day before the County Superintendent of Public Instruction i Wilson Advance: Richards fc Hewitt are owners of the marble at d talc works, situated on the waters or tbi beau tiful Nantabala river, and on tbe W N O. railroad. This company own a& work magnificent and secnunly incxl-HiiS ible beds of marble and .talc, ane are shipping and have a demand for all ia irc iNew York and (other mitkets. Thc stt also grinding and cuHinir. talc, aud c . rami sup ply the demand Tbey are wnrkii;.- ft .out' forty hands now, but will so.-n have in te-i- creaso this, rorcc j Charlotte Chronicle: VV hav received a copy of the Nogcl (Nnv Moxico) Nugget, containing au account .f tbe floath " of Mr. John G. 8hannonbouc, s m f Mr ' B. G. Bhannonhouse, of this cm His death occurred on the 28th of J muiry.i Mr. Win. H. Fartior, who w. f,r a " long time identified with the hu-t:.t si in terests of Charlotte, died hi his t.inia in this city at 10 o'clock yetterdny mnroing, after a long and painful sick Mr. L. C. Hanes, of the Hams C-.uuing Co., of Lexington, was in the city jeMer day in the interests of nis factor? This factory has been in operation on! one year. Eighteen bands are employed and the outfit cost $500. The factory has put up about 10.000 dozen cans, moat of vbich have been sold in North Carolina Four . months is a working year with the canning factory. Wadesboro Messenger; On last Tuesday Mr. Archie McGregor, rtsid ing aboutj six miles from town, bad bis shirt sleeve caught ia a gin, an l his arm jerked oh to the saws nod terribly cut, but, what' was most strange bis tct; was drawn up! against the tei-th and badly lacer ated. Mr. McGregor is not as seriously in- -jured as was at nrst reported: but his wounds are painful and. he may be perma nently disabled. Mr. D M MoLu- rin died hear Lileeville on tbe 8rd instant. Mr. jjohn -.G. Oonwick died tbo residence of his daughter, Mrs J. A Mor tou, on last Wednesday night, of paralysis. Aeed72.i Hewa9anold citizen, loved by his people, ana respected hy all. Mrs. Bettie Williams, wife or Isaac M. Williams!. Esq., and dauahterof the late Rev. A. E Bennett, difd at the residence of her husband, near Polktou, on Satur day, Febj. 4th, of nervous depreloa aged about foty-Beven years. Raleigh News-Observer: The boom in j tho tobacco mat-kef is something astonishing. The warehouses were flooded Thursday with some of tbe finest grades ever seen on the market, and the averages ran up incredibly. Leasbcro, N. CJ , Feb. 6.-hTbe exercises of the school at the academy in this place, lie v. Mr. 8. Lea, principal, began to-day. About 8.80 o'clock the pupils began to assemble. Among ibe first to arrive at the academy was little Rosa Morton, daughter of Mr. V. L. Morton, of this place. There had been fires made, both in the stove and fire-place. Rosa was standing by the fire-place warm- ing, and in turning her dress caught, and there being no help present, except her little brother and cousin, whose attempts to extinguish the fire proved of no avail, all the ciothes were burned off, tbe whole body terribly burned, the facu and -.1) the hair burned except one plait This poor little thing suffered tortures till about half after four, when death relieved' her of her sufferings. Mt. Airy Netes : Unless some body has overestimated the matter, the cars reachedj Flat Shoal, Surry county, to day. ' This point is some eeven or tight miles from Mt. Airy The bridge-hand are now putting up the bridge at ike Ararat : river, bear Mr G E. McKinuey's. A very large force of convicts are now finish ing tbei grading between tbe Ararat and Flat Shoal, three-fourths of 'tie grading this side of Ararat having already been graded! Thus it wiil be seen that the work is rapidly nearing completion on the Mount Airy extension of the grand Rta'e enter prise, the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway. Let tbe preparation for the celebration of the completion cf this rail road td our town go on. - The Ham burg cotton mills, grist mills, thoe factory, tan-yard, carding machine, store-house, seven or eight tenement houses, and over forty acres of land, the property of A. Hines, deceased, was srld at public auction on Wednesday last Dr. p. W. C Ben bow, Of Greensboro, is the purchaser. Tbe amount paid was only $8,100 Asheville Citizen: The Odell Cotton1 Mills, of Concord, N. C , owned by Christian gentlemen noted for integnity of character, report that a dividend of 34 per cent, had been last year declared The Dur ham Cotton Mills have declared 21 percent; - dividend. JJ. H. Bunn, of the Rocky Mount Cotton Mills, stated at a Raleigh meeting last week, as reported by the News and Ob server! tuat "the stock of the mills of which he was President was to-day worth 20 per cent, more than it was when purchased three ! years ago, and that tbe factory ex pended $235,000 last year, and more than $200,000 was spent within four miles of the mill." A Murphy, N. C , letter says: "It seems that from iU geographical situa tion Murphy, in Cherokee county, is des tined to become the railroad and business centre of Western North Carolina, and this fact seems to bo realized by those familar with its resources. Recent information from there states that at present and for tbe past twelve months it bas been impossible to get a vacant house in Murphy. A num- - ber of applications have recently been made for stores, but there are none vacant. I Wadesboro Intelligencer: The firm of A. E. & M. E. Lester & Co.. of Laurinburg, has been dissolved by mutual consent, and will hereafter be known as M. m Lockhart 3S Co. Died, in f olfeton, at tbe residence of R. B Gaddy. February 4th, 1888, Mrs. Bettie Williams. She had only been married one month, and lire ap parently bad many attractions. Kev. Henry W. Battle, the talented pastor of the Wadesboro Baptist Church, who was re cently called by the Baptist Church of New Bern, left for his new field of labor Wed nesday night. Nor brighter light has shone in this community at any time. A man of strong, sterling character, of dauntless cou rage! physical not less than moral, of great Heart, broad views, ana en amy, we know not where to look for his superior. It was rumored in Wadesboro a few days ago that Stephen Huntley, Jr., had been pawed and seriously hurt by a newly purchased mule, and had lost one eye in consequence of this mishap. In the death of Mr., J. 0- Conwic, which occurred at the home ' of his eon-in-law, M. J. A. Morton, in Wadesboro, on Wednesday night, our town lost one of its purest Christian characters. The deceased was seventy-two years of age. . Charlotte Chronicle : Tbe re portof Dr. F. Scarr, cemetery keeper, shows that during the month of January, 1888, there were 14 deaths in Charlotte, of which only three were among the whites. Prof. James P. Paisley, who was at one time tutor in Davidson College, died in Florida last Sunday night from con sumption. Judges Bond and Dick, of the Federal Court bench, were to have ap- ' peered in Charlotte yesterday for the pur- pose of hearing the motion for an appeal to ' the Supreme Court of' the United States of the! defendants in tbe National Express cases. There was i a large audience present in the old chapel at Davidson Col lege on last Saturday evening to hear tbe speeches of the successful candidates for representatives. We learn that an epidemic of diphtheria is prevailing in the southwestern part of Iredell county, along the Catawba river. Four burial took place near Mt. Mourne, last Sunday, and among the bodies that were interred was that of Mrs. D. C. Lawrence. Hargrave & Alexander, the well known dry goods merchants of this city, yesterday filed an assignment for tbe bene fit i of their creditors, with Mr. E. K. P. Osborne as assignee. The liabilities of the firm amount to $18,000, mostly due to Northern creditors. Tbe Carolina Spoke and Handle Works, of this city, are now running on full time, and are sending out rims, spokes, handles, single trees, etc., to all parts of the United States, and also to many European ports. At a recent special meeting of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, the following resolution was unanimously adopted and referred to the Committee on Railways, with instructions to carry the same into effect and report to the Chamber: Resolved, That the Cham ber of Commerce of this city most cordially approves of tbe proposition to construct a railroad from Charlotte to Weldon, N. C. either through Raleigh or Durham, also a railroad from here to Lancaster, S. C , and we pledge our best efforts to obtain a liber al subscription on tbe part or this county for these roads. I Mi 'A 3 i ''A i r i I: f r .t.i i: ,. f ' I - ' .1 ' hi i - .--.ft
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Feb. 17, 1888, edition 1
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