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s The Weekly Star. WM. H. BERHARD, Editor and Prop'r. WILMINGTON, N. V. Fbiday, June 15, 1888. nn wrlttapr to change ryour faddress, aiway irtve former direction as well as full particulars as where you wish your paper to be sent hereafter. Unless you do both changes can not be made. PBNotloes of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Respect, Besolutlons of Thanks, &o., are charred for as ordinary advertisements, but only naif rates when paid for strictly In advance. At this rate 50 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. rjrRemlttances must be made by Check,Draft-. Postal Money Order or Befristered Letter. Post masters will register letters when desired. tap-Only such remittances will be at the risk of tho publisher. 1 gyspeolmen ooples forwarded when desired. National Democratic Ticket. For President : !.. GROVER CLEVELAND, of New York. For Vice-President : ALLEN G. THURMAN, .. : of Ohio. - For Presidential Electora at Large r I ALFRED M. WADDELL, of New Hanover County. FREDERICK N. STRUDWICK, of Orange County. : ! I State Democratic Ticket. I For Governor : DANIEL GAFOWLE, of Wake Cdunty. i - ' For Lieutenant-Governor : THOMAS M. HOLT, of Alamance County.E For Secretary of State : WILLIAM L. SAUNDERS, of Wake County. For State Treasurer : DONALD W. BAIN, of Wake County. For State Auditor : i GEORGE W. SANDERLIN, of Wayne County. For Superintendent ! of Public str action : . SIDNEY M." FINGER, of Catawba County, f For Attorney-General . THEODORE F. DAVIDSON,1 of Buncombe County. j For Judges Supreme Court : JOSEPH J. DAVIS, of Franklin County. JAMES E. SHEPHERD, of Beaufort County. ALPHONSO C. AVERY, of Burke County. President Shepherd, of the Col lege of Charleston, S. C, is pleased to refer to recent editorial in the Stab as follows: j "I have just read with genuine pleasure your article on liacon. It is scholarly ana stimulating, as all your literary essays are. and ljthank you for it." He then continues: j "Let me add to your Baconian Bibliogra phy the following, which you have omitted by mere oversight I am confident: 'The In' troductlon to Ellis's and Spedding's edition of Bacon,' probably the most scientific ex position of the Baconian system in our lan guage: Ingleby's two Essays on Bacon, in Ingleby's collected essays, and 8aintsbury's estimate of Bacon a literary character, in his "Elizabethan Literature." Representative Yost, Rep., of Vir ginia, ia hopeful of his own State, provided his party will do certain things. He says as reported in the Washington Post: j j j "If the Chicago Convention will nomi nate McKinley and some strong man from the East against whom no objection can be raised and declare in favor of the abolition of the internal revenue and the passage of the Blair bill, Virginia will go Republican in spite of all the enthusiasm manifested for Cleveland and Thurman. Thurman, it is true, is a Virginian by birth, but that fact will not ' strengthen him materially, as Virginia is teally a protection State. I think the tariff plank of the St. Louis plat form is clear, and, as I interpret ; it, mean 9 ultimate iree trade. This is the year of Republican and other side shows. The jonly one in North Carolina Is the Greensboro abortion known as the "Prohibition Ticket." It is a Republican assist tant. The New York limes says: "It is probably not eenerallv known that there is a 'United Labor' ticket in the field, and it is as little familiar that there are two such persons as Robert H. Cowd rey of Illinois and W. H. Wakefield of Kansas, who are the candidates of that partyor President and Vice President and respectively." t ; There are other side shows in the North. - . '. .J- The nomination of Judge Thur-p man is said to have been the work of Pennsylvania's greatest party leader, William L. Scott. He conceived the project and carried it out. We notice that ex-Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, is sulking and says if he had had a few days more he could have prevented it. Bah 1 The old Ro! man would have gained strength bravely. He is worth an omnibus load of Hoadlys. And now little fulignous Foraker is tai&iug peace ana gooa win. uear him as he says, just as if nothing bad happened, that "the man who waves the bloody shirt in this cam-l paign will get a bloody nose." What a miserable small humbug the Uhioan -Republican bushwhacker surely is. i The population of Paris is now 2,' 344,450. The population for the1 de partment of the Seine is 2,961,089-1 an increase of 1 600,000 in ten vears In Napoleon's time the population was bat 631,585, or less than many American cities. j "vdivu vrnce, me leading Democratic paper of New England, tnusputsit: V Allen G. Thurman is the Gladstone of uuiciuat me people s -grand old man." ' - i I A family buying in a year thirty uouars worth of shoes would save $4.50 under the small reduction of the Mill's Tariff bill. This thing. ' is some- RETROSPECTION TUB VNIVEB i SITY-KSfDOWlTIKNT. - At 'this late hour it is unnecessary to refer to the proceedings of the Commencement week at the Univer sity of North Carolina, and yet there are some few points that we deeire to consider briefly. The writer of Ihis went in search of health recupe ration, but he failed signally, as he was siok much of the time he was gone, lie did not write letters or report proceedings because it wonld have ' taxed him severely under the circumstances and interfered with both pleasure and health. It was very pleasant after an ab sence of thirty nine years to visit one's Alma Mater to walk about the grand old grove made sacred to scholarship, and to look upon the old builcrwgs in which so many of North Carolina' greatest men in which so many great men of the South have been trained and disciplined for the great and solemn duties and responsibilities of life. When onr eyes last looked noon the University and Us sur- L - roundings we had not yet attained to our majority. ." Then life was before ns with all of its alluring promises and hopes and joys. Then it was the rising son that gilded the heaven of our .aspirations and anticipations. Then, it was the "fresh green days of life's fond spring" when the music of the heart was load-sounding and and joyous; then it was "boyhood's blossom hour." But after nearly four decades, da ring which . the most terrible and gigantic war of modern tunes had passed with 'its desolating power over our fair land, we returned to find many changes. It was now not the rising but the setting Ban. It was not the buoyancy and thrill of lusty, vigorous manhood, bat the weakness and decay of advancing age, of vale tudinarianism. The glamour of youth ; the fond expectancy of full-flushed verility were gone. A serene and benignant old age was now the study, and a constant- looking forward to that time when the grave would re ceive the body and the immortal pjunt, set free from thraldom and its muddy vesture," would be at peace in the sweet realms of the redeemed, and bask forever in the brightness of that world that requires no sun -to illumine it, and where the glorified of God are forever happy, forever at rest. There was a tender grace rest ing upon the hallowed scenes we once more gazed upon; there was a palhoB in the very air we breathed, and we thanked God that once more we moved in the sacred groves and trod again the old walks known to us in the long ago. We . will be pardoned this strain for old age grows garrulous and time mellows and softens the heart. How often it comes to ns as Robert Southey said: "I can remember, with unsteady feet Tottering from room to room, and finding - - pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats. things which lone Have lost their power to please: which. when I see them. Raise only now a melancholy wish. I were the little Trifler once again wno couia te pleased bo lightly." Retrospection is inevitable to the old. Youth oomes not back again, but Memory repeoples the past and by its magician's wand brings up the fading scenes and the transitory memorials. But retrospection may not always be pleasing. You must recall the evil done as well as the good, the distressful as well as the pleasing, the ugly and repellant as well as the beautiful and the cood. Horace thought a man who so pos sesses dominion over himself and is so happy as to be able to say each day "I have lived" as the true phi-; losopher; for he says, "the Heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine." When retrospection comes, as come it will, let no man think it is in his power to recall only the pleas urable and happy scenes or events. He may not bid the enchanter call up only such parts of life as have been passed with satisfaction and enjoyment. All will come up, and while happy childhood and ebullient youth and manhood's vigorous prime, with all their attending ministers of pleasure and ? delight, may pass be fore yoa, it is inevitable that the sor rows and disappointments and heart aches and misfortunes shall rise up also as so many ghosts to annoy and depress. When we can reflect upon the past,that never returns, with sat isfaction, then indeed is the office of memory delightful. Hat let us cease this vein into w.hich we have .been unexpectedly betrayed. The village of Chapei Hill is about three times the size it was in the forties. The new college buildings are handsome and attract ive. The New East and New Wont- the new Recitation Halli tih Rn Room, a very large and spacious building admirably decorated, when we looked in on Tuesday morning, for the coming festivities; the mag nificent Memorial Hall (dedicated to the Confederate Dead,) are all strik ing additions to the most famous educational institution in the South except the University of Virginia. We attended the meet ings of the Alumni in the Old Chapel , where great speaking has been heard and famous and gifted men have been graduated in the past, and where Presidents of the i United . St.at.oa : n 1VVV1IVU iu an formality and pomp and amid the trumpets and the flowing sentences of orators. It looked dim and shrunken - and ugly, and you could put it in a little corner of Me morial Hall 'and scarcely miss the space. The new hall seats 2,600 persons easily. About 1,800 or 2,000 attended on! Thursday Commence ment Day. Rev. Dr. Mayo, the en thusiastic Blairite from BoBtoD, in formed us that he had visited every leading college and university in the entire South, and that no hall com pared with j Memorial Hall. Un fortunately the ' acoustics are most wretched, j We never knew any thing so bad. j It is impossible to hear the whole of an address or sermon unless you are most fortu nately seated.- We beard Judge Clark's LiteraryAddresa so indis tinctly as to deprive us of the plea sure we might have otherwise enjoy ed, and to prevent ua giving an opin ion of its quality. It will read much better, we have no doubt, than it ap peared in delivery. ., It was so with Rev. Dr. Wayland Hoyte's Baccalau reate Sermon. We heard about three-fourths and it was remarkably fine enough so to make it a real de privation not to be able to hear all. He is very magnetic and intensely ear nest; a man of thought, of rhetorio, of imagination and of reading. We hear he was not well'pleased, and no wonder. The' sermon ought to be preached in a Church. The class' that was graduated num bered 19. Of these 12 were Metho dists. We learn that in the class of 1887, Method ists preponderated also. There is no sectarian prejudice in this, but a hearty recognition of the excellence of ; the University, the chief est ornament of the State. The graduating class was the best we ever saw graduate in tho three col leges we have attended on -Commencement1 Day, with the sole ex ception of the University class of 1847, (Pettigrews). Being of the two committees of three members each to whom was entrusted the duty of deciding both the contest between the Societies for the Representative medal as well as between the gradu ates for the Mangum medal, we gave very special heed to the exercises. The man who did not perceive the uncommon! merits of the two con tests must havo been both dull and blind. The Alumni held two meetings. They were largely attended. We met trustees and alumni, personal ac quaintances of our's,from twenty-one counties. There was a goodly num ber from other counties whose names we did not, know, or with whom we had no J acquaintance. The great question was the preservation of the University i-bow to maintain it and give it greater influence and a widen ing fit-Id of usefulness. Much speak- was indulged. Some changes were made in minor particulars, but as tar as we can recall nothing was done that tribute to will very materially con- the e ostentation and re nown and success of the University. l oat something must be done is clear. That the friends of the Uni versity arc: the proper ones to under take this drfty and labor of love must be patent. Let us give our own idea and we regret that no oie urged it upon the meet ings held. I Here it is: ! i Jh.ndow the University. .Let the Alumni, matriculates and friends of the University rally enthusiastically to its support. Let the endowment be a quarter of a million dollars - no great 6urn to be raised by the friends of an institution of learning nearly a century old. What denom nationalism has done surely thou sands of educated men can do. If Mr. Paul Cameron (who made a very excellent addre.ps to the graduating class - the best We ever heard, and he is 84 years old) would give the Uni versity 150,000, which he could easi. ly do and not feel it, we have but lit tie doubt that Mr. Julian S. Carr, the generous benefactor of Durham and of North Carolina, would give $10, 000 more. .Then other liberal, mu nificent benefactions would follow Uf course we doinot suppose that the $250,000 can bo( raised in one year. VV ii,h a first-rate canvasser in the field all the year round much of the neededj sum can be raised. Our pian is tnis: let iriends be asked to subscribe $1,000 annually for ten years, jjet otners be persuaded to give $750, j annually " for ten years, I hen let sums of $600, $500, $400, $300, $250, $200, $150, $100, $75, $50, $25, $10 and $5 annually for ten years be raised. In addition, leg liuiupicio uuiitnuuuons ot sums of all denominations from 25 ots. up to thousands 6f dollars, be taken. This will in thetend raise the quar ter of a million. With $15,000 yearly income from this source the University willjbe safe. The State must do its duty by the University, its creation $nd which it controls. Bat the friends of the venerable and distinguished Uni versity must no longer allow it to re main in peril. The endowment can be raised and should be raised. With ouuis auio man in, tae neid a great work can be done by the next Com- mencement. effort? Why not make the The Faculty is an exceptionally uie one, sitnougn mere is a quiet and determined effort to make the opposite appear. We made diligent inquiry of students, trustees and others, and we are satisfied that the chairs, or nearly all of them, are very ably filled. The chairs of Greet, Latin and Mathematics were never more ably filled in the history of the University and yet these . are the tbree"chairs we have heard under estimated and depredated more than once latterly. The three Professors in charge are of the first rank, and outside of Johns Hopkins University there is no better, more scholarly, more thorough work done in the South. We name these because of the absurdity and persistency of the assault. We have been only introduced , to two of them, and with the ! third have a plea sant bat slight acquaintance. We met many dear old friends and re newed at hallowed shrines an eternal friendship. "The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, ! Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel. This was the wise advice of To lonius to LacrteB. la Memphis, Tenn., recently a pret ty girl named Sarah Keliy died of consumption. After three days the coffin was opened and then the fol lowing occurred: 'While looking at the placid face Mrs. Webb became almost paralyzed with fright at beholding the eyelids of the dead woman slowly open. .Mrs Webb was unable to utters sound. Finally she fell upon a chair near by, but her horror was only in creased when the supposed corpse slowly sat upright and in an almost inaudible voiensaid: 'Ob, where am I?' At this the weeping woman screamed j Friends wno rushed into the room were almost paralyzed at the sight. One, bolder. than the other?, returned and apo&e to the woiiuid, wno asked to De laid on tae Deo. Hastily she was taken from toe coma ana tender lv cared for. The day following she related, as her strength permitted, a won derful story. She was conscious of all that occurred, and did not lose consciousness until she was put aboard the train for Mem phis." She lived several days and then died and was buried. Of twenty-three cadets at Annapo lis thirteen were found deficient in eleam navigation. A bad showing in a steam age for naval warriors. Assessing (be Kallroads. The Board of Assessors and Ap praisers whose duty it is to assess the value of railroad property in their counties for taxation, met here yester day. There were present, Messrs. H. A. Bagg, chairman .of the Board of Commissioners of New Hanover; T. L. Vail, of Mecklenburg, N. A. Mc Lean, of Robeson; D. P. High, of Columbus, and; M. C. Guthrie, of Brunswick. Representatives of the Carolina Central and Wilmington & Augusta railroads and the Railway Bridge Company, with attorneys were also present. The Boards met in the County Court House, and were in session all the forenoon, Mr. H. A. Bagg presid ing. The valuation of property waa fixed as follows: Carolina Central railroad, $4,536 per mile. Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta railroad, $6,000 per mile. Wilmington Railway Bridee Co., a total of $80,000. including 2.40 miles of roadbed and two iron bridges. MOUNT AIRY. The riallroad Celebration on the 20lh Fine Opportunity for Eastern Pro pie to See the Great West. Mt. Airy, June 12. Editor Star: Everybody is com ing to Mt Airy on the 20th. There will be an immense crowd here from the State and from Southwest Vir ginia. It will be a fine opportunity for the Eastern people to visit this coming mountain metropolis and summer resort. From the present in dications it is believed that the crowd will not fall short of fifteen thousand people. The Mt. Airy people will do their best to entertain the crowd, and they will not spare any pains to make everybody have a pleasant time. 'i.nere will be at least 4,000 norses here and it will be a fine opportunity ior tne lovers 01 Dean ti mi norses to make fine selection." There will be a Horse Exchange for the benefit of those who wish to buy horses. mere wm De a,wo mounted. Horse men in : the grand street parade, and it will,; without any doubt, be the finest collection of norses ever seen in North Carolina. Gov. Scales. Capt. J. H. Currie and other distinguished gentlemen will be present and make speeches on the occasion. There will be a big trades and in dustrial display, representing the in dustries ana manufactures of the town and community. Excursion rates have been secured over the dif ferent roads of the State, running from the 18th to the 26th. This will be a rare opportunity to see Pilot Mountain and the scenery along the Ararat; to'visit the famous White Sulphur Springs and see one of the prettiest towns in North Caro lina. ! Jim. e-av-s Coroner's Verdict. Coroner Miller yesterday concluded the inquest which was begun- Tues day evening on the body of Ben Conley, the colored boy drowned in the river at Hilton last Satnrdav. The jury consisted of Nick Carr, David Jacobs, J. G. Barrentine, G. W. iiLurray, jj. jj. couineriana and J. x). Dry. The witnesses were the same as testified at the hearing before the Mayor, and gave the same testimony as neretoiore published. The jury round that the deceased came to his aeatn by drowning at the hands of Abraham Carter, and gave it as their opinion that the drowning was in tentional. j Coroner Miller was notified yes terday that the three-weeks old child of Wilson Williams and wife, colored, living on mr. w w. ii'owier's place at Masonboro, had been found dead in bed. The coroner visited the place and viewed the body of the child, but as its death evidently resulted from natural causes an inquest was deemed unnecessary, No Pennsylvania farmer has Bent in a remonstrance against putting salt and lumber on the free list. PhU. Record. Dem. Thurman smacks of the days of our daddies. That's what we want. Our young fellows now. sometimes seem fresh and brash and nincompoopisb, but they really love the daysof their dads yea. and their dollars as well PhU. Record Dem. ' X, C. 8TA.TE QTJAHD. All About the Kneampment-Gentrai - Orders saned by tno C&yernor. i General Orders No. 7 have been is sued from Adjutant General John stone Jones' office, dfreeting a camp of instruction to be held at Seaside Park, Wrightsville, commencing 6n Wednesday, July 18th, and closing Friday, July 27th, and ordering the First, Second, Third and Fourth reg- iments,and the Scotland Neck Mount ed Riflemen (dismounted) and all the field and staff officers and officers of the General Staff to appear at Wrightsville in heavy marching or der, and report for duty, at 12 o'clock m. on the 18th. Troops will be furnished transpor tation by the State. Transportation will be allowed regimental bands and company drummers, and also cater ers and servants one caterer and two servants to each company, to each regimental headquarters, and to each regimental band of musi cians. The Commander-in-Chief ex presses the hope that each company will appear with full ranks, and to this end he earnestly, requests em ployes of members of the State Guard to give the necessary leave of ab sence, as non-attendance of any com pany embraced in tnis order may lead to the disbandment of such com pany. The remaining sections of the order are as follows : Company commanders will take no enlisted men to camp who are with out uniforms or arms, or who cannot remain. Transportation home prior to close of camp will be Issued only to cover leave of absence granted upon surgeon's certincate 01 disability, or by reason of serious illness or death in the officer's or soldier's family, j Floored tents, straw for bedding, fuel, water, ice and medicine will be provided, as well as ample hospital accommodations, and horses for offi cers required to mount, as may be specified and directed. Troops must furnish their own rations, the military fund being inadequate for such pur pose. Full instructions will be given hereafter as to proper arrangements for subsistence, i The Commissary General is intrust ed with the duty of making arrange ments to secure an ample supply of food at reasonable rates so that it can be readily obtained by those organi zations desiring to purchase it. Tnis will be effected under such orders and instructions as may be given by the Uommander-in-Unief. ! me quartermaster General is charged with providing for the trans portation of the troops: and for their quartering, under such orders and in structions as may be given by , the Commander-in-Chief. Each Regimental Quartermaster will report to tne Quartermaster Gen eral at the Camp on Monday, July 16th, to aid in preparation of quarters ior tneir respective regiments. No bands save regimental bands will be furnished transportation or permitted in camp. The object of the encampment being tne instruction and improve ment of the Guard, strict discipline will be enforced in accordance with the regulations, and such additional orders as may be prescribed by the Commander-in-Chief. Instruction and exercises will be mainly directed to camp duties, guard duty, skirmish drill, and scnool of tne battalion. The command will be reviewed by the Governor on a day to be hereaf ter announced. I The location of the encampment is at Seaside ParS, which is generously tendered the State for this purpose oy Airs. Herbert iatimer, tne owner. To Mrs. W. A. Wright, the State is also indebted for the tender of her property opposite the Park for 1 any military purposes, rne people or Wilmington generally, with that generosity and public spirit which has always characterized them, I will contribute largely to the comforts and conveniences of the camp. I In honor of the late Major General William D. Pender, this encampment win be named Uamp .render. In compliance with the request of tne Governor, and bydirection ot the Acting Secretary of War, the Lieuten ant General of the Army has detailed uaptam uarie A. Woodruff, za Ann lery, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel U. S. A., to attend this encampment and make full report to the Adjutant General of the Army. In' the per formance of tne duties tnus imposed upon him the hearty co-operation of the officers and men of tne Guard is enjoined. The Guard is reminded that ; the success of this encampment depends largely upon the conduct and dispo sition 01 tne men, as well as ; tne officers. Close attention to details, conscientious performance of duty, willingness to endure nnmurmuring ly the fatigue of drill, marches and guard duty, and cheerful obedience to all orders and regulations, on the part of both officers and enlisted men, can alone insure the attainment of the immediate objects of the en campment, or make it beneficial or creditable to the citizen-soldiery of .North Carolina. By command of the Governor. Carolina Beaeh. The large crowds which daily visit this resort attest its popularity. ;Yes- terday,despite the threatening weath er, a great many took the pleasant sail down the river and enjoyed the exhilarating breezes and the refresh ing surf bath. The accommodations are all that could be desired and the recently painted hotel looks in viting and cool in its new garb, j The celebrated pig-fish are served at all times and the hotel is kept in a style that should please every one. The charms of music have been added to its many other attractions, and the Italian band plays during the trips up and down the river, and from the hotel piazza during the stay at the beach. With the hot days coming on we can suggest no pleasanter way to spend an afternoon than on j the Sylvan Grove and Carolina Beach. Seaside Railroad. The railroad from this ity to the beach at Wrightsville was completed yesterday, but the formal ceremo ny of driving the last spike will not take place until next Saturday after noon. To-day workmen will be en gaged in laying side-track at two or three points, and to-morrow thej di rectors of the railroad company will go over the track in a private coach and make a thorough examination of the work, preliminary to opening the road for traffic. Friday, excursion trains for . the Lutheran Sun Aay School will be run, and on Saturday, as above stated, the ceremony: f driving the last spike will take place. The new coaches for the road three in number arrived yesterday. They are handsomely upholstered and as fine in appointments and lln ish as any first-class; coaches. They are painted a canary color, with gvold letters "Wilmington Seacoast Rail way" on the sides. ! The hotel at the Hammocks: is progressing finely, and from press .-nt appearances the lower part ofzthe building will be finished and rest dy for occupancy the first of July, Death ot Sirs. E. D. Ball. u Sunday evening, June 10th, at o o'clock. Mrs. Sallie London flail, wife of CoL E. D. Hall, passed to her rest, aged fifty-five years. Mrs.. Hall was. a daughter or tne late James SJ Green, the representa tive of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Wilmington and was born in this city, where her whole life has been passed. Her death, though not altogether unex pected, is a heavy blow, not only to her immediate family but to a very large circle of relatives and friends to whom she was endeared by her many sterling virtues. A friend, in speaking of Mrs. Hall . 1 m - , , j j. a says: ui a einguiany luouesu uuu retiring nature, she shrank from the gaieties and pleasures of fashionable life and devoted herself to the faith ful discharge of her domestic duties, finding her happiness in the retirement of home a home made lovely by her gentleness and devotion to all around her. Quiet and unobtrusive in manner, unselfish and unassuming, she alone was un conscious of the worth that excited the love and admiration of friends and kinfolk. She was at all times scrupulously regardful of the feelings of others, was faultless in the dis charge of the duties 01 lire, nad an abundant charity for all, and her purity of life exerted an influence for good over all who came within the sphere of its action. A loving wife, a devoted mother, a sincere friend, she thought only of the happiness of others and never for self. In early life she had clad herself in the hum ble robes of the true Christian and died as she had lived, in that blessed faith she had embraced in health and strength. Surely, there remain- eth a rest for the people of God, and in that assurance, though we mourn her departure, yet we mourn not as those without hope, for we know that she now rests from her labors in the bosom of that Saviour she so faith fully served during her pilgrimage on earth. J be Drowning Case. Abranani carter, tne colored man charged with drowning the colored boy Ben Conley, as reported in Sun-. day's Star, was brought before Mayor Fowler yesterday morning for exami nation. The investigation took place in tne City, Court room, whicn was packed with people, nearly all col ored, who were anxious to hear the testimony in the case. There were six witnesses, all colored boys, who testified to the same state ment of facts that tney were all bathing in the river, together with Ben Conley and Abraham Car ter. Conley could not swim and re mained where the water was shallow. He . had seated himself on a log when Carter came up and seized him and carried him out bodily, despite the boy's struggles and protests that he could not swim, into the deep .wa ter and turned him loose. Both went under the water and when they came to the surface again Con ley attempted to seize Carter, but the latter pushed him away, and Conley again went down and was seen no more. One of the witnesses said, in addition to the testimony as above given, that when Carter car ried Conley out into deep water and turned him loose, he said to him, 'Swim or drown." Carter was unattended by counsel and had nothing to say in his de fence. He asked several of the wit nesses if tney did not see mm and Conley swimming together in the river; but they replied in the negative At the conclusion of the examina tion Carter was committed to jail in default of bond for $300 for his ap pearance at the July term of the Criminal Court. The body of the drowned boy has not been recovered, The Branch. Railroad. A correspondent of the Star writes from Burgaw that Mr. George A. Ramsey, who is interested in the con struction of the proposed railroad from Burgaw to Jacksonville, in On slow county, returned from New York last Thursday, and that work on the road is progressing. The contractors have located 'one of their mills about I midway between Burgaw and the river, to saw trestle timber and cross- ties. Much of the road has already been graded, and donated by the Board of Education, who own vast quantities Of land through which this road will pass, and the grading of the remainder of the route can easily be done. Proposals have been made to Mr. Ramsey to change the location and connect with the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad at Warsaw; but as much of the route has already been graded, and the distance being shor ter, there will probably be no change in the contemplated location. New Baths. Improvements have been made this season in the arrangements for bath ing at Carolina Beach which will add greatly to the comfort and enjoyment of the patrons of this popular resort Besides the free bath houses put up last summer and still open to the public, two new houses one for la dies and one' for gentlemen have been erected; partitioned off into twenty or more dressing rooms, with bath-room attached to each, so that the visitor after a plunge in the surf may take a fresh water bath in his or her dressing room. The water for these fresh water baths is conveyed through pipes from reservoirs at the hotel, the supply coming from driven wells sunk on the beach to a depth of fifty feet and furnishing remarka bly soft, Iclear cold water. Bathing suits and an unlimited supply of clean fresh towels, with . the services of well-trained attendants, are fur nished for a nominal charge at these new baths, which are under the con trol and management of Mr. Robt. M. Houston of this city. The red bandana is a conquer - ine oanner. ttuyaia vourter, uem. FlrstClass Pianos. J. L. Stone, of Raleigh, is the largest Piano and Organ dealer in the South. He has been well and favorably known throughout this State for the past fifteen years, ue is not agent ior any "one" make but handles sixteen different kinds o pianos and sells them from $190 upwards The celebrated Emerson piano is the only instrument in the world that ia war. ranted for seven years. Don't buy till you co vne, WASHINGION, Fuller Nomination for Chief Justice Considered: by the Senate Cotton Bacclnc makers and the Tar!flr-Jhe Fisheries Treaty Democratic caucus Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. j Washington, June 11. The Senate Committee -on Judiciary to-day further considered the nomination of Melville W. 1 Fuller to be Chief Justice, without result The meeting continued nearly half an honr after the Senate had assembled, and the case was, on 1 motion of Mr. Vest, post poned for two weeaa." 1 .The Senatei sub-committee on tariff to day heard the views of cotton-bagging ma kers on the tariff. The committee was told that cotton baeeinz manufactures had been established with imported machinery, upon which a duty of Xortv per cent, naa neen paid, and that the capacity of these estab lishments was fully 100 per cent, in ad vance of the demand for bagging. A re duction of the present rates could bo a . A. a. uk&1a enuurea oniy in case jute duhs were uibuo free. The competition in Indian bagging is so fierce, however, that if it were made free, as proposed by the Mills bill, the fac tories would suffer speedy ruin. It was further represented that there is no demand from planters lor free bagging, lnasmucn as baeeinz. as well as the iron hooping on cotton bales, is all weighed and paid for as cotton, and the planter in this way receivss more for the bagging than he pays ior it. !Washrotoe. June 11. A rather thinly attended caucus of Democratic Representa tives talked for three hours to-night upon the tariff bill. The caucus had been called to devise means for expediting action upon the bill, but nothing definite was accom plished. There did not seem to be any clear; Idea as to how this was to be done.even by the members who drew up the call. ! Mr. McDonald, of Minneso ta, admitted that he had no proposition to offer. Mr. Mills said that he had been re quested by Mr. McKinley to cause the con sideration of the bill to be suspended du ring the Republican Convention to accom modate a number 01 itepuDiican memoers who wish to attend. Ia view of the prox imity of the next fiscal year and the urgent necessity existing for the speedy passage oi l the appropriation bills to prevent disastrous suspensions of branches of the government, it was generally believed that this request might be granted, and ihat an- jpropriation bills might- be acted upon du- jnng uie suspension ui iuo tana: ueoaie. Tne final disposition of the matter was left to Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee. - I l Recurring again to means of restricting debate while the tariff bill is under con sideration, lit was decided that an effort should be made to carry out more closely the spirit of the rule regulating the flye minute aeoate. Une way in which this could be done, it was believed, would be! to refuse to permit extension cf j time to members, "by consent," beyond the five minutes to which they are entitled. As this practice has grown into what the Democrats regard as an abuse, it was resolved to put an end to it. jut. Scott talked of obstruction, and held that the Republicans had clearly manifested their intention to prolong the debate by every possible means. In the dis cussion it I was suggested that some thing corresponding to the "Keifer gag . rule" be applied, but the sug gestion did not take practical Bhape it was developed that a considerable majority of the caucus favored the adoption of such rule, but as it was not the tntention to finally decide upon the line of procedure at ihis time, it is probabe that the aeDate will be allowed to run on for some time longer, before an attempt is made to apply any severe restrictive measures. j Washington. June 11. The following bulletin was issued at 9 30 o'clock i this morning: I "8 a m.4 uen. Sheridan baa had a rair- ily good night, coughing but little and ex pectoration without difficulty : pulse indi cates satisfactory heart action; breathing is etill irregular; improvement ia appetite continues." 1 .i Washington, June 12. Indian Com missioner ! Atkins will to-morrow tender his resignation, to take effect at the pleas ure of the President, and will to-morrow evening leave Washington for his home at JPariB, Tennessee, to enter upon an active canvass for election to the United States Senate. The new German minister, Count Arco- vally, was ! presented to the President to day by tne secretary or state. Tne usual, exchange of courtesies was observed. I The President to-day sent to the Senate two veto messages; one of a private pen sion bill, the beneficiary whereof has not demonstrated any disability incident to his army service, and the other of a bill for the relief of a contractor who failed to fill his contract and was mulcted under its penalty clause. ! The Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee were in consultation for some time to-day, in pursuance of the effort to abridge the five-minute debate on the tariff bill. ' Taking advantage of. the desire of a number of Republicans to have the consideration of the bill suspended long enough to allow them to' attend the Chicago Convention, the Democrats offered to consent to a postponement, if on their part the Republicans would agree to take a final vote upon the bill at a fixed date; and as indicative of their willingness to allow the I fullest debate, the Democrats offered to let their opponents set the date themselves. But the consultation and ten der came jto naught, for the reason, as stated by one of the members of the com mittee, that the Kepuoncans could not agree among themselves. The Democrats, however, have not abandoned the hope of an acceptance of some such proposition, particularly when they have succeeded in convincing the Republicans of their pur pose to pass the bill, or at least to have e final vote upon it, even if it should become necessary to remain in Washington until next December. Washington. June 13. Between new and Sunday there will be an exodus of per sons interested in politics from this city to Chicago. A special train with washing ton newspaper correspondents will leave here over the Pennsylvania Railroad to morrow morning, and will be followed Fri day and Saturday by trains conveying dele gations from North and south Carolina, the rival delegations from Virginia and the Republican National league. Several pri vate parlies of Senators and Representa tives will also leave for the Lake city, i Washington. June 13. 9 a. m. Gen. Sheridan slept rather more than usual last nght. Towards morning he had a period of general depression, following an attack of coughing; from this he quickly and si ieasily recovered. At present his appetite is sufficient; his pulse is 1UU-1U2; his re spiration 27 and regular; his temperature normal; his appearance is better. I HUNG BY JL MOB. IA Neero Ontraser JPnt Oat of the Wj j by Kentnckians. EvANSvriLB. Ikd.. June 11. At Hen derson. Ky.. twelve miles below here, at 1 o'clock this morning, James Foster, a col ored man, was taken from jail by a mob and hung. I Foster was arrested Thursday morning at the instance of John Howard, charged with a criminal assault upon the latter's nttie eigni-year 01a aaugnter, a few miles from Henderson, in the country, jros ter. on being arrested, strenuously denied his guilt, but the most conclusive evidence was found.! As the quiet little city was asleep, at midnight, two hundred Kentuck ians. mounted on horseback and armed to the teeth to repel officers' resistance, rCde into the city. Pulling up at the jail they made a dash for the barred doors, and be fore the jailer was fully alarmed they were inBide. Breaking down the cell door they dragged the prisoner to the scene of his crime anu nung mm. I SOUTH CAROLINA. Tonng juady Killed toy Llgbtning ChablbsTON. June 13. At Georsre'a to day iigntning struck the house of Prof. M C. Connes, and instantly killed Miss Annie Brown, aged aa. The lightning entered a window, passed over an infant in a cradle without injuring it and struck Miss Brown. who was Bitting on a chair in the middle of tne room. Brecmssln life Spies Islands are not laden with more fragrance than a Dreath rendered pure and aromatic with SOZODONT, which restores whiteness to yellow teeth and soundness to detective ones. Neither man nor womaiucan hope to carry any point by the force of persua sion, wun a mouuuui 01 unclean, disco. ored teeth and an unpleasant breath. 80 ZODONT remedies both these repulsive physical traits, and is pre eminently uowuuui no ncu txa euectlVc. Juisw I ay 1 Fayetteville 1 commenced on the WilmC1" of the C. P. and-Y. V ing- r We are pleased to 1? James W. Moore of this c ?JCa"li a hanoaomo gold medal ttt thr 8N meat 01 iuo tavis Bchool at f 3d the best drilled student and l porunent during the session N r- rnuay aiiernoon tWo coaches lull or convicts D7,M beson county. The convicts . tae contractors and not ! .1 The trains on this line m 0iC 'Ohj jwiuii near iuu d-mt; JIQe. I Goldsboro Aram Th be a meeline tc-nieht. t n. Ji ;euDK ic-niam t ii, for the purpose of orpnn,,; HI . 11 r lucu a iciuuuraiii; (Jllih a colored lad of this city -m 1V1 age, drowned in Neuse ri2. rv. u. xvauioau, a miie or o f Sunday afternoon, while in bitM n c Tk -F:i a crowd or companions Tfc? aureate sermon at Salem Sunday in me Moravian Church ing the Academy, an eloqueni' pressive discourse, by Rpv -k St; map, nf man nn.1 . the esteem of all with whom he uuhub uu uiuiiai nip, John B 71 of the Society of Friends ,ZH of our esteemed countryman j. lowell, died on Thursday last fti ,y in Broerden townshin. i his see. after a prolonged iiin N I Lumberton Iiobesonian ot tne aeatn or jvir. is. t. McKn DVivettevilla. Tn hi Christians and most noted pbilfml of that city has passed away cmioren or me uapust Uhurch I Annt. Mr Vrank flniicfc . - j 'ucproM ,a nmta .lahA.ata o.H mill .'1 sixty children to act it. Jim,,! to press we are in receipt from Cba'tJ chee, Fla., of intelligence o the iU Mi e. Mary McMillan. Our conespol Mr. James A. McDonald, s&ya Ebe daughter of John McPhaul, ni McFJ miiis,- ana ner mower was a Uiic or "lawyer Gilchrist." Mm Barker, who attended the MethcdiJ ference at Rockingham last week, si lighted with it, out espeeiaHv sil splendid preaching which he hcl occasion, tie compliments o.-rj sermon or ur. j. vv. .worth. Thtr rence will hold its session here mi, 1 ! Asheville JSun: Capt. J Atkinson has encouraging news ence to tho Asheville, Atlanta & li,, Kailroad. Last night abouhs; ten oclock King Hbipman, Tom and a man by the name of Brad'y K: a dispute on tne street near tie m 1 TTTIl J L. : . C U wiieu wiiBuu urew uib nunc GDCla1, man very severely on ice nead u( The cash on the nead extends ahm- inches from the forehead back aad ii to the BKuil. ine wound in the arm tvery serious one. the knife entenug tie point of tho shoulder, going throm the flesh part of the arm. Siiinman 'very much frem both of these wound; was considerably weakened Shipa irom ine country ana was, iiRt- tec partieB, pretty full of whiskey 1 l- : . 1 1 - TTT IT . . uorues miuuKu tu on. vv . u. carriage, in which was Mrs. l'eniaci another lady, ran away last evenin. Walnut street, and in trying to pa'stai the well and the fence at the mterKc'i icnland street, completely d-rtnolisbed carriage and threw both of the Wm Mrs .Penland was quite painfully i; inougn not at an serious At this morning the fire alarm was gris caused by the discovery that the mi;: cent residence of Capt. Wm. !, &i on French Broad Avenue, wa; n; The building was entirely destroui most of the furniture was saved, thus; a damaged condition. 1 ho loss will ao: to upwards of $5,000. Insurance on building and $1,000 on f urciture Raleigh News-Observer: fmirfppnth annual moptincr rtf Itin t1: Carolina State Dental Society wilt co in this city to-day. Mrs. Ges. B. Stuart, of Staunton (Va ) Fcm-.!t lege, will go to Morebead City tc-ruor to attend the Teachers Assembly. St other Virginia teachers will actow Mrs. Stuart, and the North. CaroVttAte era will welcome their visitors to lb: sembly. Rev. Dr. J.. a. Watkit.! talented pastor of the Flret Piesby Church, has been granted a two u leave of absence and will leave for E next Saturday on the Inman lice of f!. era as a delegate to the Worlds n terian Convention. Elsewhere w: found certain resolutions of the State j ocratic Executive Committee with i ence to R. H. Battle, Esq , which &rc plimentary indeed, but which ci highest degree deserved. E White, a well known engineer e i Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, having s that road about thirty-one year?, tin-ii terday morning at his residence on street, in this city, after an illness of ral months, aged about 53 years New Bern. N. C, June 11:: Havin been through portions of the counts Edgecombe, Pitt, Beaufort and embracing the best portions of the fti section of these counties, I will tlrop a line givine the result of my obserw They may be of some interest. 1 if can say without contradiction Ufttai date 1 have never seen the cotton is i: disheartening condition. From Tarbc: tireenville, a fine farming section, io:. see what would at. this season ot respectable cotton crop. Asheville Citizen: Yestcr evenine a horse beloneine to Mr. J Herring, and driven Mr. K L. GraiN this city, became frightened in fronts into the -'Racket Store," ' throwing I Graham out of the vehicle, and &gaW of the show windows of the store. ' horse ran a short way down the cents the store when he was stopped. MrJ ham Lad his left wrist severely cut broken glass, and the buggy m damaged. A neero. while recti driving a was on down 1'latte avenue terdav evenine. ran into Mrs. Rav'a t'4 smashinir one of the front wbcela. Adjutant General .Tnhnstune JontB eelved an invitation from AdjutantG M. L. Bonham, of the8outhCarolin'1 Guard, to be present and participate encamnment nfthp State Guard it ville on July 23d. Twenty-eigni w companies will go into camp, ana . reviewed hv I4nv . KirharriHon. dogs have been doing great dreat m on South Mominy. Fink rnompw n Ann miloh frvar anrl n onnft hOKC And had n kill hnth thin week. A1 DAn as foi nnnrtful hoa hff'I b1 Tfaorlo dwotit Mnlna in the & has tutAn billnri oa n nrpCT.ntlVC From Col. Cameron's Chanel Bill m Dr. Hoy t. ten minutes after the close1! sermon, was on the way to the dep0 -fi UU 11D1U, UUl M UniL UUVtl land, Oregon, where he is to deliver' J 1 . : 1 .!n..mrl QllfS. I fame extends from ocean to ces0;Xl Hill, with a population of about im nlnnivnnf Ihn Btiirtontq has the dlSOl of being the only village in aortni Jnnt ohnvo thn Memni-inl Hall. DUll", . - .1 Vfn of the collece eronnds. the st built a large and handsome gymnasir,! voted to athletic excises, out .fa imo an eiegant uancing ruuiu. feature or commencement - ua I verv nleaaant: the Chapel Hill pe ;J much given to hospitality, and jfatigable hosts are very few. the visitors are invited out to &vsZn tea, and the profusion and elejano i 4 tables, the hospitality of the hosts intelligence of the company P txr rvloaBBttllv malra t hfifle cu bv iivwuuuiii iuan.u menta delightful and memora"'"; ;ine ouuuings nave iew ciai"" " -tij e few ciaiu" as, with the e turai impressiveness, wun ine excel Memorial Hall. That stands a g" " j in iPA unique exception in size " . n is designed with a view to great - ok with the greatest possible aeg" and ventillation. These two & were ouuuneu uy ouuijb j:raetff iMante hexairon. the longer o'ul.krf( which is about 14U reei, " r about 110. The building is of K', the exterior it presents s"fcfn Je,cir clined buttresses placed at tne bub , T . , . . . inn va. tinued in the interior by brow w .! a .f in arches, su,u hating in a hexaginai nai w - stained lass. Between the JJJV broad windows extending """euol ceiling. The interior and the sw ij arched roof are of stained I PK height from floor to ceuinf? - 1
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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