j'he- Weekly Star. WM. H, BERN AM). Editor and Prop'r. I . WILMINGTON, N. C. : Feidjlt, - i- Apbil 27, 1888. I ryin writing to change "Tour address, atooy rive SoraMr direction u well as fall particulars aa where you wish roar paper to be sent hereafter. Unleas yon do both ohangea can not be made. . i or Death, Tributes oi rate 60 cents will pay for a simple aanonnoemen f.f Marriaira or Deal I er'Eemlttanoes must be made by cnecr ,uraiv Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Post masters will register letters when desired. rw-Onlv gnoh remittances will be at the fls or the publisher. 0y"Speclmen copies forwarded wnen aeairoa. FALSE THEOHIKS AND ST AT 8- or quiet, unaauiieraieu, uiivar- i i . . . hUlied, cool, deliberate, positive, sub? ime effrontery commend us to one bf your regular Protection organs. taerit in that line. It refers "to Mr. Mills's scheme of robbery. n Think of it. The Demooratio bill proposes to reduce the burdens , of taxation, and to stop in some measure the great excessive drain upon the peo ple, by which $155,000,000 are piled up annually in the Treasury over and above all legitimate demands, and this is called "robbery." The Dem ocratic bill proposes to stop "robbing" the people for the sole benefit of the Monopolists or Money Kings, and this is "robbery" in the eyes of- a regulation organ of Monopoly. jTtre Supreme Court of the United Spates, composed entirely of Re publicans with the one exception of Judge FieldB, declared that a Tariff levied for any purpose other than revenue was "robbery," and was, therefore, unconstitutional. But in the eyes of a Tariff tooter it is "a scheme of robbery" to cat down taxes, stop the surplus, and to approach the requirements of a con stitutional Tariff. The people ought by this time to know which party is on the side of honest and fair and equitable gov ernment. Tbey ought to know that the Republican party is the friend of the Money-Devil and not of the oppressed and burdened. The attempt to befool and befog the laboring people with the specious cry that a High Tariff is - meant for them ought to deceive no man not a born idiot. There are some facts too plain to be misunderstood. The Stab has repeated them again and again. What are they r We an swer: First, that Free Trade Ens- land pays much higher wages than any Protection European country. J Seoond, that the lowest wages paid in Europe are in those countries hav ing the Highest Protection. j Third, that the most flourishing period In American history was du ring the Low Tariff period. This we have shown again and again from official figures that are not to be disputed. . j I It is doubtful if you consider the purchasing power of a dollar, if wages are really higher in the Uni ted States trfan in England." The real cause of any advantage this country may have, is not in the Protection system, but in the fact that it is vast country, with unlimited lands open to all settlers. j j The-Philadelphia Record has timely article warning the working- men against the deceptive lies of Protection. We copy a few sen tences. It says: jj ! "Nor can they explain, in accordance with Ibeir theories, the phenomenon of wages In the flouring colonies of Australia. where the earnings of labor are much high er man in most portions oi inn country, ana wnere me protective duties are ex tremely low. Nevertheless, our tariff mon gers insist that by some occult process this indirect method of taxation keeps up the wages of labor in the United States, though me tneory utterly Talis to work anywhere else on the face of the globe. ,; ' i j I ' 'So far from maintaining the waees of labor, there is no lack of proof that the tariff has just the opposite effect of depressing wages and lessening the means of employ ment. The outer wall which the tariff has drawn around the country by taxing crude materials nas snut me products or its manu facturing industry and skill but of the mar' kets of the worl J. Within the inner tariff wall which the Trusts' have reared Ameri can workingmen are put at the mercy of Monopoly for their supplies of the necessa ries of living. By the former process of taxing raw materials of labor the cost of production is enhanced to such a degree mat me ioreign market for the surplus u cut off, while the home consumotion is dis couraged. Production aoon outatrinta de mand, and as inevitable results the wages of labor are depressed and the opportuni ties of employment diminished.! Manufac turers may form Trusts' to check supply or may close their mills and factories for awhile, but the discharged workingmen, whose capital is their daily labor, must suf fer the loss of their earnings, it not, indeed, starve." . i , ; - . M ! WHAT FAB.tI.tcRS NEED AND DERI OCa ATS PROPOSE. If the Democrats could have their way, the present War Tariff, so mon strous, and unfair, and' unequal in its provisions, would be so razeed and readjusted that henceforth the farmers would find all protection tha they need. Tbey specially require protection against Monopoly and Trusts and Plutocraoy.. The Money Devil is striking all around and about, in Congress and oat of Con gress. He is the arch enemy of the people, and the great persuader for Monoply. Heuborrupts members of the Congress, 'subsidizes the press, humbugs the toilers, makes the rich richer, and the poor poorer. The Money Devil will do to watch. What the farmers need and should demand are cheaper olothing, cheaper blankets, cheaper agricultural imple ments, cheaper crockery, cheaper cotton-ties, eheaper window-glass, cheaper kitchen utensils, oheaper fur future, carpets, sewing . maohines, ciooks, spoons, knives and forks. chains, tools, horse shoes, Uks,shos, w"Notloea of Haman Bespeot, Resolutions or Tnanu, o., are of"" for as ordinary advertisements, but only halt salt, drugs, dyestnffs, and scores of other articles that under the present War Tariff are most heavily taxed,' The Democrats would, bring down the tax on all these articles, and ban dreds of others, if the Republicans did not stand right in the way to prevent it. Mark that, for It is true as words of Holy Writ. :.'";' All workingmen are just as much interested in this question of tax lifting, of tariff reduction, as are! the farmers. They must buy, and there fore, if they can save twenty or twen ty-five cents in the dollar by Tariff redaction they are making just that much. They need the aid of the Democratic party the only party that is really, on the side of the peo ple.: All Republican legislation is on the side of the rich and prosperous - on the Bide of Monopoly and the Money Kings. The country needs cheaper raw materials in order that American manufacturers shall be able to compete with foreign manufac turers and find abroad markets for their surplus products. The Balti c ; i u. i. 1 . I the t'Gospel Hymns," one of the num Sun is precisely right when it ,"L'for, nl, w. more says: -.; : - "Choicer raw materials will stimulate all branches of production for which we have natural advantages, so that labor will be in greater demand than now", and wages as high or higner. in a wora, me new tana means greater plenty for all those who have trouble to make ends meet." - ' There is protection of a few articles in the present Tariff for the farmer, but it does not amount to much as the articles are- just those that the United States can defy the world in raising; -wheat, flour, oats and corn. But the Democrats do not propose to touch- the duty of 20 cents a bushel on wheat, 20 per cent, j ad valorem on flour, and 10 cents a bushel on corn and oats. 1873-1888. Will the Burrows ! crowd in the House tell the people why a great High Tariff is so very necessary in 1888, when the Republican party thought it high time to cut it down in 1872 - sixteen years ago ? As we have got farther and farther off from the war period how is it that a higher and higher Tariff is needed, accord ing to the wisdom of the Kolleys and Burrowses of the House ? The New York Times ablest Republican pa per in America says this: "The Springfield Republican calls atten tion to the tariff reduction bill of 1872, passed by a Republican. I Congress, when Gen Grant was President atd Mr. Blaine was Bpeakcr of the Bouse. It points out that the need and the demand for such a bill were much less than they are now for much of the redu-tion then made was after ward restored and says that the present refusal to consider the question fairly is such a Striking illustration of 6tupid, par tis in blindness to the signs of the times' that it would be hard to find one more stri king in the whole recent history of the Democratic party.". If there was anything of honesty or wisdom in tha Republican party in 1872, there is nothing of those ingredients to bo found in the men now representing it in the Federal Congress.- It was not a lovely par ty in 1872. Now it is a whited se pulchre filled with ! rottenness and dead men's bones. The great men. of the 'party the men who gave it life, character, force are all gone: Liocolp, Sumner, Morton, Conkling, Davis and a score or two others. Now. it! is made up of political shys ter?, tricksters and 'plunderers men. of the Blaine, Sherman, Foraker sort. The Demscrats intend- to scatter the needed economio literature, j The peopie should read and inform them selves as to the great burdens and in equalities of an unjust, unconstitu tional War Tariff. The Washington special, to the World says: ' The demand for Mr. Mills's speech on opening the tariff debate and for his report on the i Ways and Means bill Is something unprecedented. Nothing like it has ever bsen known before. Already orders have been received for 153.000 copies of the speech I and 300.000 copies of the report. Representative Scott, of Pennsylvania will distribute 85 000 of the speeches, and Rep resentative manoney, or JNew xork, 80 00, while a dozen members have ordered 5,000 aou over, ine epeecn costs 14 60 per mousanu to memoers oi congress. The Committee would do well to print 1 200,000 copies of Senator Vance's able articles contributed to the Baltimore Sun. They are thought ful and forceful. Democratic Senators received an unfavorable impression from the fact that Minister Phelps, who is a candi date for Chief Justice, paid a visit to the Senate, the body that is to confirm or reject. AWashington special to the Charleston News and Courier says: "The Democratic Senators, as a rale. greeted him only in the most formal man ner, ana, Judging from the temarks made by several of them, he failed to create a fa vorable impression. : Tbey did not hesitate to say that his visit to the Senate was for the purpose of making friends on the Dem ocratic side In case he should receive the coveted nomination." Queen Victoria and Emperor Joseph, of Austria, met at Innsbrusk, and this causes the N. Y. World to say j that "it. is memorable for the fact that no British sovereign has ever set foot on ! Austrian territory since the old Crusading days when xving xvionara Vcear de Liion was imprisoned by Dnke Leopold of Austria and the 1 Emperor of Ger- many until discovered by his faith- iui trouoadour .Blondel." We are reading an historical work by. Prof. R. W. Dabney, of Univer- Buy oi inaiana, ana wnen we have finished it will offer an opinion as to its merits. I He is the son of tbe author of that capital Southern, novel, "JJon aiin:." , i - . Cable is trying to stir up the negroes to blood shed. In Boston he lectured to them and said: "Right there is the mark of a United States minie ball. I got it trying to help perpetuate your slaverv. If 1 could risk .my life trying to perpetuate slavery, what can you not risk, except honor, tc estab- If.l. - - lit. . . u ximu jvur iiovrues T Died, on Monday, April 23d, in Brooklyn, Long Island, Mrs Mary I. Kingsbury, v widow of the late Gen. - Cbark P. Kingsbury, TJ. S. Arrnyi She was a native of Fayette-; Till?, N. C. lo her maidenhood, when Miss MaoMillan, she was beautiful. and in her declining years a most at tractive, refinedcultivated, devout ly religious woman of God. -She was a member 'of r- the Presbyterian Church. Her" age was about 69. This writer has known her intimate- ly for nearly forty years, and was deeply attached to her. She was ripe for Heaven, but the heart must suffer in the sundered tie, but bless ed be the name of the Lord. . Prayer meeting on a Trata ., A lady passenger on the incoming' Carolina Central train yesterday re ports a novel and interesting scene which occurred in one of the coaches a short while after the departure of the train from Charlotte. ; A I number I of , delegates . returning from " the Yj MY CA. Convention,' which closed 1 Sunday night, were aboard, and after singing several of aX?A SVVMWA V m Pearson's meeting in Wilmington, read a chapter in the Bible, related how wild and, wicked he had been, and how Mr. Pearson's sermon on the 'Prodigal Son" so fitted his case that it was the means of his conversion. This was followed by three consecu tive ! prayers, and it was an unusual and impressive Bight to see men bowed at their seats and kneeling in the aisle of a railway train, while voices rose above the clatter of wheels, invoking God's blessing ; Another song was followed by a few remarks from an other one of the gentlemen, and spe cial requests for prayer were remem bered in three p ayers which were then offered. 'Altogether, an hour and a half was spent in devotional exer cises, and all who heard and saw were impressed with the power and beauty of the Christian religion. TbeWrtckon ihi Bttch. The beach for five or six miles in the neighborhood of the wrecked Austrian brig Fa is said to be strewn with! logwood and pieces of the vessel. The j more valuable portions of the cargo have been gathered up and will be lightered to Wrightsville, and brought up to the city by wagon. The I Custom House authorities are getting the j goods together for this purpose, tbe arrangements being in charge of Deputy Collector Cronly. The spices and coffee are damaged by salt water. ; One or two puncheons of ruin were J broken in getting them ashore, and lots of good old Jamaica, it is said, escaped into the woods. giving a strong West Indian flavor to all the surroundings. ' ' . New Hallroa. Mr. George A. Ramsay, one of Pen der's most enterprising citizens, has perfected arrangements to build a railroad from Burgaw, on the Wil mington & Weldon road, to Jackson ville, in Onslow county. The road is an assured fact and will be built this summer, we are told. Although only twenty-eight miles in length its com pletion will fend to the development of a large section of the most fertile and valuable farming lands in the State,' which for want of means of transportation and lack of communi cation with business centres are now lying idle and unproductive. In.connection with this railroad en terprise a Land and Improvement Company has been formed, for the ; purpose of opening op the country to settlement and affording inducements for a desirable class of immigrants. Truck farming is one of the Industries that the road is expected to' promote, and which it is believed the country is admirably adapted to, early fruits and vegetables maturing here almost as soon as tbe crops of the truckers in the neighborhood of Savannah, Ga., with the advantage of being in easy reach of the Northern markets. Tta DrimBcri' LicbmTix. A case that excited considerable in terest was, tried in Justice Millis Court, involving the constitutionali ty of the tax on drummers and ped dlers. B. F. Wilson, representing a manufacturing concern in Columbus, Ga., was engaged in taking orders for suits of men's clothing, exhibiting samples of goods from , which selec tions were made, and was arrested on the charge j of peddling without li cense; section 23 .of the Laws of 1887 requiring the payment of a license tax of twenty-five dollars in each county. Mr.Marsden Bellamy appear ed as counsel for Wilson, wbile nr. H. A. Bagg, chairman of tbe Board of county commissioners, was present in benalf of toe county. After bear ing argument, the Justice decided to order the prisoner discharged, on the ground that tbe TJ. S. Supreme Court nas aeciaea tne state law imposing tbe license tax to be unconstitu tional. v -if j ' - " y . t . Pander Dcinocrata. The Democratic Convention - of Pender county met yesterday at Burgaw. A special dispatch from that place says that the delegates to the State (and District Conventions were instructed to vote for Maj. C M. Stedman for Governor and Maj. C. W. McClammy for . Congressman 'first, last and all the time." ' Delegates appointed to the State Convention are Mr. Geo. A. Raw say. Dr. Ennett, Dr. Geo. Lucas, Mr. Bruce Williams. Mr. Jas. Colvin. Dr. S. S. Batch well, Mr. T. J. Armstrong Mr. uiDson James, air. j. j, uanner- man. Mr. R. K. Bryan, Jr., and Mr. J. T. Foy. Sowtfetrn Vctabla. Strawberries are quoted in New I York at from SO to 40 cents per quart for fair and prime, and 20 to 80 cents for fair to good. Green peas sell readily at from 11.50 to 12.00 perorate, Cabbages, $3.00 to $3.60 per barrel. Asparagus $4.60 to $6.60 per dozen bunches, according to quality. Said handsome Tom to smiling Nell "Where did you find that mystic spell That hovers 'round your every smile.- And would my throbbing heart beguile." . vjuotn laugniog neu, "xou silly boy. In SOZODONT, the cream of joy." Tbe Fair Danchura of Fstahlea prefer SOZODONT to every other article for the teeth, because nothing renders those ornaments of the mouth so spotless, or im parts such an agreeable odor to the breath. Moreover, j experience . proves the article to oe perfectly wnoiesome, wmca cannot be saia or ail dentifrices. BPATjLDnia'g thing. GltjuV meads every. To Balls Wltboat fUy Worst to. - - Sect Wears Whi. - . The organization of ' the . Wilming ton Street Railway Company was per -fected yesterday,, when a meeting of the stockholders - was' held and the following gentlemen were elected di rectors, viz: Messrs. Charles M. Sted man, J. D. Bellamy, Jr., B. B. Bella my, J. Wright Stedman and T. B. Harriss. 1 - ' . The Board of Directors' then elect ed officers for the:, ensuing year, as follows: V iR-'-J:v. i--. i'r-- Prestdent-J. D.lBellamy,' Jr. v s Ylce President Chas M. Stedman. ; Superintendent J. Wright Sted-' man. ' ' .- .-v. . . ; -:' , '.. , Seeretary ; and Treasurer J. EL Boatwright. , , ' v :;'-' The work of building the road will be commenced about the first of next week, and it is confidently expected Will be completed by the 15th of June next. . All the iron rails, "cross-ties and cars have been- ordered. The equipment will consist of thirty-two horses' and eight I cars four open and four closed and the length of the ; road;; will!! be four ' miles. The track ! il be laid on Front, Market and Castle streets, and on Fourth street into Brooklyn, with a spur-line to Oakdale Cemetery. Connection will be made both with the steamers to Carolina Beach and the Seaooast railroad. , Tb e track will be laid with 80-32 pound " Johnson steel rails, with steel curves, switches, turnouts, chain and tie-plates what is known as the "Johnson steel-girder rail system'' affording the slight est impediment to publio travel of any rail known. It will be laid by a competent superintendent an ex pert furnished by the Johnson Steel Rail Co., of Johnston, Pa, and will be bo built as to admit at any time of being changed from ahorse to electri cal or other motive power. One cause for congratulation in connection with the building of this street railway is the fact that it is emphatically a home enterprise, own ed and controlled solely by a few pub lic spirited and energetic citizens, who are determined that the road shall be built! The capital stock of the company is $50,000, the par value of shares be ing one hundred dollars each. Tfe Lat Ol. D K. HeBll. After the adjournment of the Supe rior Court last Saturday afternoon, a meeting of the Bar was called. Judge Shepherd presided, with Mr. M. Bel lamy secretary. Mr. Thos.W. Strange stated that the object of the meeting was to take suitable action in respect to the memory of their late fellow- member. Col. D. K. McRae, Judge Shepherd spoke feelingly of the deceased and expressed the high admiration he entertained for CoL McRae. He had often heard of him but met him only once, at a former term of the Court held here. Col. Mo Rae's speech ; on ! this occasion as counsel in the Gadsby vs. Dyer ease Judge Shepherd thought was one of the finest he eyerheard. On motion, a committee, consisting of Hons. George Davis, A. M. Wad- dell and D. L. Russell, was appointed to draft suitable resolutions to be presented at a meeting to be held on the Monday preceding the next term of the Criminal Court Hoc Steallat-. A warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of Sam Merrick a colored butcher, on complaint of one Ell Curry, who lives in the southern part of the city. Curry said that a hog and two shoats had been stolen from him. Saturday last he found the dressed carcass bf his stolen hog (which he identified by the marks) ex posed for sale at Merrick's stall In Front street market Merrick was arrested, but he claimed that he had bought the hog from a colored man living on Eighth street. The officer who made the arrest went with Curry to the house of this man and found the two shoats belonging to Carry, but the man himself whose name was'not stated eould not be found Tbo Wmiti Brig. Capt Capponi, master of the Aus trian brig Va, which went ashore last Friday on the beach near Queen's Inlet, about fifteen miles from this city, came np last night He reports that the wreckers and crew succeeded in saving three hundred bags of spices, twenty-nine puncheons and two casks of rum, and about ten tons of logwood, besides a portion of the rig- gi g, sails, : etc. The vessel has broken up completely and scarcely a plank remains. Deputy Collector J. M. Cronly went down yesterday to the scene of the wreck to take charge f the saved portion of the cargo, and Mr. cosu lish, representing the owenrs, from Savannah, is also-on the ground, The Ya was built at Fuime, Austria, in 1868. and was considered a very substantial vessel, her rate being ad vanced after the completion of her repairs for one year and four months. She was 222 tons burthen, and was owned-by Silvio Subbora, of Trieste, Austria. She was valued a 7,000 flor ins and her cargo at 25,000 florins. She was partially insured in Austria and the cargo was fully covered by insu rance in Genoa, Italy. While the Va was undergoing repairs at Savannah. Ga., a bottoming bond for $8,500 was eneocea, tne money oeing advanced oy tne owner oi tne cargo in Trieste, Tba C. P. & T-T. B. a. The engineers making the prelimi nary surveys for the Cape Fear Yadkin Valley Railroad were in the city yesterday. They started Mon day from their : camp on Northeast river, the line crossing the river Rat Island, about six miles above tbe city, running into the Holly Shelter road, and approaching the city , be tween Oakdale Cemetery and the Ath letio grounds; thence into Thirteenth street, down Thirteenth to Wrieht. and down that street to Front, and between Front and the river to old Clarendon Iron Works at the foot of Queen street ' ! ,: j The engineers will start on their re- turn to Fayetteville to-day. making a preliminary survey of another route, These was a man in our town and he was wondrous wise. He lumped into a bram- oie ousn ana scraicoea out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out, with all his might and main. He bought a bottle ef Salvation Oil, and rubbed them in aam. . f Drmoermiie sjaaatonal Caoena on tbe. Piaharloa . Troaty DMlotoaa of m V. Safaaae. Court-star aat Contracts Awarlaaaai or Hcm- Roara of jfco Hoaao os Tarin Bill. ;jiC?r-;''-x:l5i'-' t.i wWihotos. Aoril 28 The Demo cratic Senators held a caucus this morning to further 4iscuaa the fisheries treaty.- It was proposed. - in r ease the Republicans evinced an -unwillingness to ratify - the treaty, to suggest that action oe deiajea until the fishermen should have a chance to test the hew provision ia actual practice; but to snnnort tbe treaty wnenever n snau come up. and if possible secure its immedi ate ratification. This policy seemed to find general favor in the caucus, but was not formulated into a resolution, and i no vote was taken on that or aoy otner suo- WasmseTOK. April 23 The caucus of the Democratic Representatives to night brought, together . about one hundred and twenty members Its purpose was to re ceive the report of the Democratic members of the ways ana Means committee on tne result of their efforts to arrive at an agree ment with their Republican colleagues as to the time to be allotted for general debate on the Tariff bill." The Republican ultimatum fifty hours of the daily sessions of tbe House for their side was . not received with favor when laid before thecaucua by Mr Mills, hut a' prolonged discussion, which was participated in by many members, including Messrs. Scott, Holman and Hooper, failed to result in any plan that might fairly be expected to reduce the time demanded of the Republicans. An amend ment to one of the resolutions offered by Mr. Townsbend. providing for an allow ance of five days debate on each side of the House, received such scanty support mat it was dropped. The general seniiment of the caucus finally cry stalized in the opinion that It would be inexpedient to attempt to limit debate on the tariff at tnis time: that it would be best to resume immediately consideration of the bill, and work industriously at it. noning mat as debate progressed the House would become wearied and be in tne numor to curtail it. This opinion found. expression in tbe fol lowing resolution, which was unanimously adopted: : , 'f Resolved. That it is the opinion of t bis caucut that the tariff discussion shall be re- tuned to-morrow and continued to a con clusion to the exclusion of other business, X'-pt that a night session may be held, and if cot required for debtte upon the tariff, shall be employed in current legisla tion tbe direction Heretofore given toucn icif ao amicable arrangement as tbe time cf rebate. on the tariff bill to continue ia f .rce. , . I I . Reference to the "amicable arrangement" refers to the direction to the majority of the VYajs and Meana Committee to asceiuio the wishes of Republicans, and its contin uaoce was ordered in the hope that Repub lican memoers mlgnt be disposed to com promise at the meeting of the committee to-morrow. Caucus adjourned after ten o'clock I I la tbe U. 8 Supreme Court to-day a de cision was rendered in the esse of Morton Mare, successor to 8. Brown Allen, Audi tor of the State of Virginia, appellant,' vs the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United S ates for the Western District of Virginia. The Auditor of the State assessed taxes for eleven years, from 1870 to 1881, amounting In the aggregate to $22,2411, against tbe roll ing stock, etc, of the Baltimore & Ohio Riilroad. That Company is a Maryland corporation, but controls certain Virginia roads by virtue of leases, under which the leased roads give it their track terminal fa cilities, etc., wbile the Baltimore & Ohio furnishes robing stock, which, however, is not assigned especially to the leased roads, but' is. used int&rchangably over the whoie system. The Rtilroad Company resisted the payment of the tax on tae ground that it applied only to domestic roads, and an order restraining tbe Auditor from seizing its property was issued by the Supreme Court. The case comes here on appeal from that Court This Court holds that while it cannot be denied that tbe Slate has the power by appropriate legislation to tax the rolling stock of a company not organ ized under tbe State laws, careful purview of the act in question shows that it was in tended to apply only to domestic roads, and not to outside roads doing business within the Bute. Judgment affirmed. - A decision was also rendered in tbe case of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, piainun in error, vs r atrlck Mackey, In eiror, to the Supreme Court of the Btate of Kansaa The defendant i in thia case was employed by tbe Railroad Company, and was injured by the negligeocs of one of tbe Company's engineers He brought suit and recovered damage?. ( In tbe trial tbe judge charged the jury to tbe effect that while at common law the master could not be held liable for an injury sustained by one servant through the i negligence of a fellow servant, yet, that thia rule had been abrogated, so far as railroada were con cerned, by a statute of the State of Kansap, enacted in 1874. declaring that railroads should be liable for damages done to any employe by carelessness of a fellow employe. The Rtilroad Company excepted to this cbarge, but tbe United States Supreme Court upholds it, and also the validity of the Kansaa law at issue, which it declares simply extends the doctrine that railroada ball be liable for injury to paasengers and freight to tbe case of employes of roads. The objection that tbe law deprives rail roads of equal protection of tbe laws seems to rest upon tbe theory I that legislation, wjiich ia special in its character, ia neces sary within the constitutional inhibition; but nothing can be further from tbe fact. Tbe greater part of legislation is special, and re not obnoxious to the fourteenth amendment on that ground. The business of operating railroada a specially danger ous one, and would seem to call for special legislation. The business of other corpo rations is not subject to similar dangers to their employes, and no ojection, therefore, can be made on the ground of discrimina tion It meets a particular necessity,! and all railroad corporations are, without dis tinction, made subject to the same liabili ties. ' . ' ! ' ' - ! Washington, April 23. The letting of Star Route contracts was completed to-day. Among the more Important In the South are tbe following: From Elizabeth City to Fail field, in North Carolina, steamboat service twice a week each way for four years, contractor Frank S. Hussey; com pensation $3,500 per annum. From Chat tahoochee to.Apalachicola. Fla., steamboat service, three limes a week each way for four years, contractor, Peter Butke; com pensation $8,249 per annum. There were 1,102 contracts in all. ; f Washihgtoh, Apnl 23. The Committee on Ways and Means held a long meeUng, this morning, but failed to finally agree upon the length of time to be allowed for general ' debate upon the Tariff i bill. The Republican members of the Committee asked that ten days of five hours each, or fifty hours in all, be set j for the purpose Tbe DemocratiCjmembers held that a short er time would suffice, if evening sessions were held for debate - only. The evening sessions were not acceptable to the Repub licans, who argued that:because of the slim attendance which characterized them, as contrasted with the day ( sessions, members compelled to speak at night would be plac ed at a disadvantage. . Tbe differences on the subject between the majority and mi nority of the committee do not seem to be serious, however, and it is expected that an agreement will be reached to-morrow, when another meeUng will be held. ; The Secretary of the Treasury to-day at noon opened the proposals for the sale of bonds to the government, under the provi sions of tbe Treasury circular of April 17. Tne total amount offered was $1,824,600, of which $260,000 were coupon fours, $375,000 registered fours, $1,152,600 re gistered 41s; and $39 000 coupon 4s. The rates ranged from $1 07-70, to $1 08 for registered 41a; from $1.07-70 to $1,071 for coupon 4Ts; from $1.2470 to $1 25-73 for registered fours; and from $1 24-70 to $1.25 for coupon fours. The awards will be announced this afternoon. , , . j , : Washington, April 34. Owing to the failure to get a quorum until nearly noon, the session of the Ways and Means Com mittee to-day lasted only about ten mm utes. Limitation of debate on .the tariff bill was not referred to,: and the Commit tee contented itself with sending the Mills surplus bill, with the Bpooner-Beck amend ment as passed by the Senate, to the sub committee .composed of Messrs. Mills, Mo Millan and Eelley; and 1 ordering a favor able report on the Breckearidge resolution calling upon the Secretary of tbe Treasury for information regarding tbe importation of foreign labor and its effects upon Amerl ' can Industries.: ..).-; ., - -r . The offers for the sale of bonds to tha government were opened at the Treasury Department to-day by aciing. secretary TbiMiiDaon. aa follows: Four -and a half per crnt. regl.tered $30,000 a $107 60, $300 000 at $108. $275,000 at $108. $18,000 at $1071, $509,000 at $1074 total $1.00, 000. 7 Four : per cent, bonds registered -$300000 at $125$, $300 000 at, $1 25$, $3 000 at $1 27 total $303,000; ' ranking a grand total of $1,642,000. j The session of the Senate today was opened with- praver '- by Rev. Dr. H. Pereina Meodez. Rabbi of the Bpanisb a ad Portuguese Congregation of New York,' who, according to Jewish custom, wore his bat while engaged in prayer This is the second instance probably ia tbe biatory . of the government,- certainly within the last half century, - when- a Jew has 1 offered prayer in the, Senate. ; ; 'r l: f j --Washthstoh, April 25. The Secrctery of the Treasury to-day accepted tenders of bonds to tbo total amount of $2,840,000 made up aa followa: Registered fours $300 000 at $1.26; $90,000 at $1 25J and $50,000 at $1 25. Registered four and halfs $2,000,000 at $1 071; $400,000 at $1.07 Tbe aggregate of bonds accepted to date is $3,525,000 - j . Washington, April 25 The msjarity and minority of the Ways and Means Com mittee to day reached an agreement upon the time to be allowed for general debate In tbe House upon the tariff. The agree ment, which was reduced to writing, reads as follows: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays the House shall rise at 5:80 p. m , and reassemble at 8 p. m., the even ing sessions to be for debate only, i .Mon day's and Saturday's sessions shall end at 530 p. m No change to be made in tbe present rule as to sessions on Fridays. General debate on the Tariff bill shall con tinue seventeen days after to-day, exclud ing Sundays, and also any interruptions or dered by the House, and general leave to print to be given. IMMIGRATION , TIO. CONVEN- w. 1. Tbo Oatbortag at Hot , Spring Go. Scales Not Prasant Gov. Leo of Tlrclala Chairman AAdreasea Cardinal Glooojia Spaeeta Resola- (lOBS Adopted,' Etc ' ; ! . . By Telegraph to the Morning Star Hot Springs.' N. C April 25.-U-The Southern Immigration Convention met at noon - at the Mountain ' Park Hotel, and was called to order by Maj. J. D. Keiley, of New York. Gov. Fitz hugh Lee of Virginia was elected per-mane-1 chairman, and Luther R. Ran san of South. Carolina permanent sec retary. I" On the platform, with GovJ Lee, were his Eminence. Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore; Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati; Gov. John B. Gordon, of Georgia; Gov. J. P. Richardson, of South Carolina; Maj. J. D. Keiley, of New -ork, and others. Governor Lee, in his brief address, accepted the honor conferred Upon him, and spoke of thi absence of Gov ernor Scales, who was unable to be present on account of a previous en gagement He stated that CoL Win. Johnston, of Charlotte, would repre sent North Carolina in the Conven tion, f I CoL Johnston made a few remarks, cordially inviting and welcoming the members -of the Convention to the State. He regretted that Governor Scales could not be present, but fa warm, true North Carolina welcome was tendered to alL i f Bishop Becker, of Savannah, GaL, then read resolutions drafted by the Commissioners of Agriculture in eleven States, extending invitations to immigrants. He also tendered an invitation of the citizens of Asheville to members of the Convention to visit that town. Robert M. Furman, of Asheville, urged acceptance of the invitation and it was accepted. j The city of Knoxville, Tend., through Hon. J. C. LutterelL ex tended an invitation, and it also was accepted. Mr. King, of Tennessee, moved that a recess of ten. minutes be taken to ascertain the names of delegates from tbe different States. The motion was carried and the Convention took a recess. I Upon reassembling large delega tions from North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, and South Carolina were reported pres ent. Committees on resolutions and business from each State were read to the Convention. j His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons was presented to the Convention. He said: "I am grateful to the gentle men composing this Convention for the honor conferred upon me and the courtesy extended, I came here to en courage, so far as I can, the object Of this meeting. I have travelled nearly over both hemispheres recently, with both eyes open. As a result of my observation, I can say that the United States gives to immigrants such ad vantages as cannot be obtained in tbe old countries. I have found every where great prosperity in the Union. I have found this is due to the in domitable, energy of tbe American people. I wish every success to this, movement. The climate of the South will allow every laboring man to work 300 out of 865 days in the year." ; j . He then spoke of the great resources of tbe South and its hidden wealth. He referred to the hospitality and genial warmth of the Southern peo ple. He had lived in the South, and the people were like the climate warm and genial. He was interested in securing immigration to the South ern States, and those who did come would look upon this as a red-letter day in tbe history of the couth. The Cardinal's speech was received with great enthusiasm. Bishop Kain, of Wheeling, was the next speaker. He looked upon this as an occasion of great importance. He had been born and reared beneath the genial i skies of the Southern States. His heart was wrapped up in the South. He was deeply interested in the movement. He would suggest the establishment of colonies all over the South. f.f Bisbop Northrop, of Charleston, was interested in tbe movement and wished to get to business. He had no speech to make. r i Gov. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, then made a very eloquent and in teresting address, favoring the move ment and i tendering his aid. ' He said, 'There is more wealth in mine rals within. 150 miles of this spot than any where on earth." He wished the movement God speed. - j Gov. Richardson, of South Caro lina, then spoke of the good feeling that existed in the State, and of the grand welcome South Carolina would give to immigrants, and said that his State would challenge any in pro gress. - ; : - f Mayor Keiley, the inaugnrator of this movement, was appointed chair man of the different committees on business. : - 1 The Immigration Convention to night adopted the following resolu tions. . '.' ; ' ' - Resolved, That an Immigration Association be established, with head quarters in the city of New York! to be styled the Southern Immigration Association. j - Resolved, That this Association! be placed under the charge of -a Board of Directors, composed of one mem ber of each Southern railroad or other corporation trade, industrial or other organization in the State, county, city or town situated east of the Mississippi river, that will con tribute the sum of $1,000 towards the expense of said Association on or be fore July 1st next, and that on the second Tuesday of July, 1888, the Board so constituted,, shall meet in New York and proceed to organize and adopt such by-laws, ..rules and regulations as may be necessary:! or its government. f . . j Resolved, That until said organiza tion is perfected Maj. John D. Keiley, Jr., be constituted chief of the Asso ciation, with power to call the board together whenever said contributions from railroads or other corporations, trade, industrial or other organiza tions of States, cities and towns, shall have reached the aggregate sum of $20,000, and when such call has been made the board of directors shall pro ceed immediately to perfect a perma nent organization, as provided for in the second resolution herewith bu1 xnitted. ;.: .'-; , ' Resolved, That immediately uton the adoption of these resolutions the Secretary of ' the " Convention ' shall give notice of the same to the Gover nor of each -of the Southern States, to the President of each of the Southern railroads, and to the mayor of every city and to every town in the South ern States east, of the Mississippi river having a population of 5,000 or more, and to solicit the cooperation oi saia omcers in iurtnenng the ob jects or tnis convention. - A Literary carlo. :, - Augusts Chronicle, v Amelie Rives, who bears her name as a family bequest from : the queen of Louis : Phillipe, is an interesting figure anyhow. Her' grandfather was United States Senator and Min ister to ! France. : Her first story "A Brother to Dragons" ret ceived . from : Dry;,-' Oliver , Wendell Holmes the highest compliment, the Autocrat" stamping it with "breadth, boldness and originality." She at onoe : took a place among the real, vivid writers of the day --brushing aside tbe attenuated dialogue and reveries of Ho wells, James,JFawcett, Warner and the train of. feeble ana lysts of modern fiction. She deserves thanks from the South for lifting her 6tories above the over-worked and muoh abused dialects of the: day. There is genuine dialeot in her books; it is not forced or fulsome, and her plots have: something stronger to oommend : them. The dialect is brought in to heighten the plot in stead of a plot feebly spun to sup port the rubbish of negro and ooua try provincialisms. j Her "Virginia of Virginia" was a strong, artistic story with real evR deuces of power, but one of the most unsatisfactory tales given to recent magazines.!'. j But it would have been far better for- the real fame of Miss Amelie Rives, had I she .never given her last novelette, TheQaick or the Dead" to the printer. A minute's re flection has convinced us that no one but a young girl could write such a book. It is but just to her to say that she has entered a realm of 'courtship . and gushing affection, in which she is entirely a stranger. It is her best defence to urge, in tHr behalf, that she doesn't know what she is writing about, and that after something of this feverish sentimen tality escapes, she will come down to better and finer work. Miss Rives has wisely called j thia book a "study." So it is. But Miss Rives is an artist and knows that every study should not be framed or uncovered.: An artist like a physi cian, has to do a good many things at the easel and dissecting table, that are necessary for exeroise or knowledge; and yet are better unex posed to the publio. Miss Rives seems to have gone through an un usual course of mental and senti mental gymnastics in painting the daring courtship of the lovers in her last book. It has doubtless done the authoress good, but it has done the reading publio no good. We can put up with it, however, if it shall serve to show her what to omit next time. We confidently look for her next production with pleasure, j BA L EI OH lOLl TIC A L MA TH EMATIC S. Wilmington Daily Review. The methods by which the Ral eigh politicians arrive at tbe conclu sion that their candidate, Judge Fowle, is in the lead for the nomina tion for Governor, whilst entirely innocent, and to them most pleasant temporarily, can only end in dis aster. The News and Observer has recently published a list of what it calls preferences, as expressed by counties, and this political learning, also called I "Some Straws," ia pub lished for the information of 1 pro vincial Democrats. It seems that the News and Observer sent an in quiry to the Chairmen of tbe Board of Commissioners of the different counties, asking them what they be lieved to be the preference of the people in their respective counties for Governor and Lieutenant Gov ernor; and received answers 'from about fifty counties, as stated by that paper, and from these answers it plaoes the vote of Fowle at 157, and Stedman at 117. Beit remember ,ed that there will be 933 votes, or thereabouts, in the next State j Con vention, and the estimate furnished by the News Observer ,even if entire ly correot, as far as it - went, would be a very poor index from which to arrive at a probable conclusion as to who would-be nominated, Stedman or Fowle, i if the race should be en tirely between them, which at the present time is far from being a fact. But just ' to show how dismal a fail ure these "straws" will prove, let the News Observer add to its list the following counties,which are entirely omitted as not beard from: viz1: Third District Wayne, Duplin, Sampson . and Cumberland; Sixth District Brunswick, Anson and Union, and then calculate, if by any prooess known even to the far reach ing calculations of those who manage politics in our modest capita!, it can figure t Fo wle anywhere ahead ' of Stedman in the race. . If these eight counties do not suffice we can furnish a great many more, which vre think will at least satisfy our friends that they are I making a sad mistake in attempting to reach a proper re suit from! the article headed f'Some Straws" from the News Observer. It may be, j however, that Judge Fowle's friends can get no proper information from these oounties on account of their remoteness from Raleigh, for Brunswioh oounty was left from the list, although its ooun ty Convention had instructed its delegates unanimously for Stedman some days before the publication bf the article called "Some Straws;" and a correspondent of the: News Observer, ut another issue of that paper, stated that a majority of the people of Cumberland oounty were for Fowle, where, as ' we are reliably informed,' upon the very beet authority, that a - political search warrant could not find ten men who are ; for Fowle in the en tire county, j Now, for the infor mation of i our good friends, we will give them an estimate found ed upon so-called j preferences, fur nished not by one but by ' two of the most active and well informed Democrats in each oounty and cov ering the ; entire State., Their an swers as furnished place' the vote as between Stedman and Fowle at 543 for Stedman and 390 for Fowle, giv ing Stedman a clear 7 majority in the whole Convention of 153 votes over Fowle. - : The estimate as between Alexan der and Fowle as furnished would not be preouliarly , gratifying to the frwnda of Judge Towle. .. Jt must "Pon . State, many of -them k from our Capital City Sl however. tVna m.u'.nt would k;1 legitimate by V.enicra8ll " state at large, No good friends tODlacp'n,..? H their straws and keen a, s"i 30th day of May and JJ.H not very near the mark "l should be between htaX Fowle. teM Spirits TurpeJ K1? &ee Press; -h of Moses Abbott, colored iL eastern edge of town. ! afternoon at about two 0'cZl 1 on the building ia bet ween &k' on Bousenoia goods $75 or iTmH auranoo. Albert M.r man, aged about 24 . 2 . Je&rp. obvuiubv evening in ,1 ,, -iron hrid hon 8 went to thia nbtfw t , m ltCt; evening and being subi-m ..'f Dosed that ha wna t.b.l lr. ot, the water and was drowned a New Bern Journal taxes oi WllminctOD hv. i ' the ensuing year at two centjnZ H worth of real and nersonii New. Bern the tares were rent on th Hnllar loot Still of our people say we are the of any people in the St., any people in the Stat. p&rtment of Wilmington coats o ouu wo Ycuiure irjeasserti, is not one whit more efficient a Bern's, which cost less thao 4 tm r uisarrui was taken sick and unable tn rr,".! pointments at the churches in ui The disappointment to the IsreehJ tinna on Hnnrinv vki.i. 8. ,a j tuivu ustemoiej Af tha Kiohnn m.. nas tjvco greater. nui uwu uo V1B111U JQIlgt wwm. W. u viacfl in tuu. 10-UavH fnp Tronlnn thai. .. T ' M .ucuw uj oac!80flit juaiuw cuuoiy. 118 Health uu, the travel and labor of his visiutl juin acvcic I Salisbury Press i A scat wnicn he with several others vtere fell with Mr .Bob Billiman, Batutd SUIiman was painfully but not J cut aooui me lace, tar tlirsn who was shot by his son on Monii:. weea, was able to be in town ait. (Jowan declares 4hat he beiJ shooiiag to have been accidental. I D, Smith, a well-known tobacco pi . inuviiw, DHvuuuty, was rcfci shot near RnlnmhU R n fm ; 1 . - oy nis negro driver, ttmub i6i, wounded and is in Columbia made his escape with tl85. whirt , robbed Smith of, and nas not vet y mrea. a. aesperaie ngnt nwJ Dwwsvme on i uesuay Deiweeo An lespie, eaitor oi tne StatesviJfe irn W. H. Btockton. Stockton wcmJ azoh omce wnu mo ueciarea intnl shooting the editor, but as he eotJ uoor ii a was auocaeu aown with weight and badly beaten and w been killed, perbapa, if his calls ff: naa not oeen responaea to. The grew out of publications in the Mil Durham Recorder; New ings are going up in every direction bam is not standing still, She is e.t: ing forward. Rev. E. A. Yste of this place, pastor of Triniu Will preach the baccalaureate sermon the neran liiterary Society at the sp: ing commencement of the Daavii Dolleee for young ladies - Tc-lJ the day set for breaking dirt on tbe burg & Durham Railroad at Ellebj iwo mues rrom mis oiacc From can gather th s was done. It stood here that track Laying on hams Oxford Railroad will bee: end on the 5th or 7th cf M&y. Ti- line is now under contract and tbe completion is bsibg pushed with The iron rails will soon link 0i!d Durham in the strongest ties. are pleased to learn that Emmie, Ui nve-j ear-old daughter s of Mr William Rogers, is improving afttr cent terrible experience. On Friii; ing jast, wnue tne parents wereiM tbe entertainment at Parish's Wsrtfc and while she was under tbe ored girl, Emmie got hold taimng concentrated Ive and tents . fe J Raleigh News-Observer : i Kemp P. Battle has beeu invited i liver tbe literary address hfr the appr ing commencement exercises of tbe roioi classical institute, and bas mt the invitation. Yesterday afti Mr- W. 8. Primrose, Mr. Julius Mr. J, 8. Wynne and Mr. W. E. drove out to the City Pork and tbe ! the proposed Agricultural and Mecli College building for the purpose of the foundation of the latter. The ha; will be three stories high and will dimension of 63x170 i The site building is the spot known as tbe place, on tne iiillsboro road, io em: tne fair grounda. Mr. i Primrose n us that the College now bas credit about $11,000 in cash i total assets in lumber, brick, &i bably amounted to ' $20,000 Joe will now be pushed - for wan 'J i It was learned here yesterday tt grand Jury of Moore (superior Uou:l brought in true bill of indictment u the editor of the San ford Erprm f on Judge Philips. The charge ia m an article published in i the Exprm weeks ago which made crave rU against Judge Phillips. Sberif ers was aroused and just as the toss struck 12, Cross and . White walked jail and went to their homes, fret The following are Mr. Cross' bondsns of whom are from Gates county: Cross, $7,000; R. B G. Cowper,ft F. Wiley. $1,000: James Parker, I W. U Edwards. $1,000: Alexander $1,000: J. T. Walton, fl 000: R U dick, $1,000; John G. Cross $1,000 following are Mr. White's bondsmtD Fentress. $1,000: D H. Gravss, (i Samuel Watts, $3,000; D 8.Waitt,U William Cram $2,000; R. E Ptbw 000; J. A. Rogers, $1,000. J Raleigh News Observer: tawba, the banner Democratic ctuil the State, sets an admirable example! sister counties. As elsewhere repo'l gular Democratic primary meetiogt aireadv been held in vrv nrecinct On Siindav morninir the First l Church and the Baptist Tabernacle City, held special exercises commeani of the life and death of Rev. M. T. l D. D., the most distinguished mi4 oi tne DOutnern Baptist Conveniion. j Dr. T. E. Skinner held the First W Church services. Mr. J T.P4 Commiaaloner of TmmicrrRtina. stf Baltimore this morning in tbe int'l those who have aireadv encaeed aw who expect to engage the present 8 the fruit and veiretahle rannine M He will contract to purchase cans bills in larva nuantitica. and in " the fruit cannersof North CaroW combining In the purchase of tbeiri will nn Knn.Mnroklii ' ThnoP WtlO ..... vw.v AMV-uw a h a . .. t r.nrtDn goods through the .North Carolim 'J Oannera' rVtmhinatinn shnuld addref 1 i Patrick at once. Reliable iafotsj ! woo uuhuusu jrenwruay cvcuiu& -k.. . t D . whOB J. f. Hlnna instituted & rriminai llr tion at tbe same time as against Mr J uearn, euitor or the waaesoqf' gencer, bad instituted ! proceedings P Mr. 8tone for false imprisonment. Mr. Stone begun proceedings HiXtil Caston, the tatter was committed to Pj default of bail, where he remained " days till his bond was given. VTLLH, N. Q, April 23 The reeidej" John Hart was burned this mon o'clock. The furniture was oil destw Losl, four thousand dollars. 1"" teen hundred. Origin of the fire : RffitDsvnXB. N. C , April . learned here that Pepper & Co,', bury, have sold their interest is " mines la Stokes to a New York for fifty thousand dollars The madeilast week. WihtoiIi, April 23. The town of HarrelUvil twelve miles from this place, was ed by v Are yesterday morning o'clock. The Are had Ita origin " t i taurant kept by George Baker, posed to be the work of an B V There were nine storehouses and ow ling lost. AU were wooden building oi ine gooua - were ssvea. lu" KA r was burned, the lou iseelima" 000. o Insurance. ,

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