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the Weekly Star. r CTLISHED AT ... w -t nn a v J 4-1 JI.00 A YEAH, IN ADVANCE. 1 gssssssssssssssss ISSSSSS333SSSSSSS I " " y, 888888SS888888888 SSSS8835Si2S8PSS8 i ti) 8SSSSSSSS8S8S8388 a ; SS3S38SSS33S3S333 1 jj: -qjnow I S8SSS8SS8S8888883 93(00 AV 8 8S88S8S8S8S88888 SSS88SS8SSS88S888 oo Vie o e- oo oi so id o oo op SIS i Entered at the Post Offloe atCWllmlngton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. .. . subscription pbice. T'te subscription price of theWEEEXV Sr.vii is as follows : sinsr'e Copy 1 year, postage paid, . $1.00 " " 6 months " " .60 " Smonthi " " .80 FEDERAL SCHOOL. TFACRTNG. . Representative Johnston, of North Carolino, believes in the power of Congress, to levy a tax for the pur pose of teaching school in the States by Undo Sam. Ho has introduced a bill to pay out in ' eight years the trifling sum of seventy . million dol lars for the purpose of teaching the young idea'how to shoot. Of course he believes this constitutional, or no man calling himself a North Caroli na Democrat would presume to favor it. If there bo any power under the Constitution for Congress to levy an annual tax for eight consecutive years for purposes of Federal school u-ucbing or any other kind of school teaching, it is more than we have bicn ftblo to find, and we have been s.nnc'A bat cf a diligent student in this (iirection. There can be no such vh'ni;' &!i a surplus from year to year f ir thin purpos?, unless the Congress U very derelict and culpable. The j rr K'-nt surplus cannot exist two W'Sis hence, although another sur plus m3y exist in 1890, bat it must ho by future excessive taxation. There is no law and no precedent for Mr. Johnston's proposed measure. . We commend to Mr. Johnston and all ether friends of Blair bills and otber unconstitutional bills for school teaching etc., the following judicious opinion of the ablest of the Western Carolina editors, Mr. Cameron, of the Asheville Citizen. He said some time ago in his paper in discussing e dynamite bill of crank Blair: "Tfco whole safety of the South consists a connmng me general government to its ..roper sphere; to resist all the' encroach ments ''wnica. would permit interference wish, or control of, eucq matters as prop erly belong to the sovereign States; and rather to eat the traad of poverty, embit tered it may be, with ignorance, than to admit the right to be fed, clothed and edu cated by the almoner who shall dictate the terms upon which the bounty shall be dis pensed. But we regret to admit that it is the very charm of government aid which has so fas cinated cur people. Money, in this, as everything eke is now powerful; and so it i gotten, there is very little thought or care Lib.? it comes, or what conditions re attached4- to its bestowal. The very promise that millions of dol iars were to ba distributed among us for educational purposes was welcomed with rapturous gratitude, as if the fact were not susceptible of proof that we are receiving back in bulk what had been wrung from us openly or insidiously in taxes; that this gift brought with it conditions cf control humi liating and subversive of the rightfnl pow ers of the States; that its annual bestow ment carried with it the necessity of the same annual exactions to keep in force the distributive sums, and that in the meantime the vigorous feeling of self-dependence was Rapped, and the minds of the people made ready for any farther sacrifice of pride. "A people are falling very low in the scale of manhood when they are willing to become the subjects of public bounty." . .APPROPRIATIONS AND THE CON STITUTION, Tho election or the holidays have caused the Representatives to lower somewhat- the River and Harbor bill. It is five or six millions less, however, than the Republican Sen ate bill. No public moneys ought to be applied for improvements oth er than for national purposes. The old Democratic party prior to. the war stood out in opposition to internal- improvements by tho General Government. Their " doctrine was that the States should attend to home "matters. Tbe Federal Government could only under the Constitution regulate such things in the States as were, of national importance. But now moneys can bo taken from the Treasury for' all '. purposes - such as curing hog cholera in the States, run ning fair?, teachicg school, building bridges, "building school-houses, buy ing scbool-bookp, furnishing mules to poor negroes, and all other acts of mercy and charity that are for the """"goqeral welfare." "And all this in the name of statesmanship. 'It would bo a blessed thing for the country 'if all members of tae Con gress we include both Houses were compelled to take a two years' course in constitutional and inter national law and ia general history, including that of American parties, before they could vote for a bill or make a speech. "It wad frae mony a' blunder free us And foolish notion." We would be quite willing to see this arrangement, applied to all edi tors of newspapers, if it were Dem- a. A. 9 ocratic to exact so much. The bless jugs of Civil Service reform if there be such should by all means be so extended as to cover the cases of . Blair, Allen, Banks and all who share at - II II II II VI w w ;: ii vi I VI r yi : : , fcV 11 . . VOL. XX. in their constitutional views. The laws of language and the accepted canons of criticism are set aside to get oat of the Constitution powers to do things never contemplated by the framers and not authorized by sound oommentators. AN INCREASE OF 100 PER CEST. There are two Senators on the Democratic side who will not allow the Radicals in the Senate to have it all their own way in the matter of the Tariff of the Monopolists. Sen ators Vest and Morgan the two ready debaters on the Southern side are giving the Rads some taps that can be felt. Senator Morgan's re marks, as reported in the synopsis in the Stab's reports of tho 12 th, were to the point and unanswerable. He did not in the least overstate the condition of the young negro boys who are growing np to be idlers and thieves and with the pen itentiary . and' gallows before them. His denunciations of the proposed Senate . Tariff bill were needed and just. It is a great shame and out rage that the Rads should attempt to increase the burdens of strug gling Southern farmers by raising the tax on cotton ties 400 per eent. above what it now is. And that is called "reducing the Tariff." Save the mark! What a fearful abuse of language! There are perhaps papers in the South that supported Cleve land that will indorse that sort of tomfoolery and rascality called "re ducing tbe Tariff." We see so many political vagaries iu newspapers that we are not surprised at any opinions. One fellow of the Allen stripe the bloody-ebirt Representative from Michigan is worth a great deal to the South for he helps prodigiously in keeping it solid and united. He had the effrontery to question the patriotism of 'Gen. Wheeler and Representative Oats, and said that men like them kept tho South solid. He said: "The principal reason was because she was afraid of such leaders as his friends from Alabama Messrs. Oats and Wheeler. Let the new South send men here who were not battle-scarred in favor of rebellion. Let such men come here and represent the new South, and there would be no solid North." j Ob, the absolute meanness and degradation of that! Send traitors in tbe war or traitors einco the war to the Southern whites and we will take them to our hearts. That is the real meaning of the blow-wind and crack-you-cheek'talk. True men of the South ure not to be trustod. As long S3 there are such fools and blatherskites in the North as this Michigan Bombastes Forioso there will be no genuine good feeling be tween the sections. The brave Wheeler did not condescend to re ply to the, cur that barked at his heels. - LITERARY NOTES. According to the Literary World American magazine writers receive a great deal more for their work than they did ten years ago. It says some of the best writers of short stories re ceived $80 for a story. Now they get $200. Shakespeare excelled all other men in almost everything he attempted. Some critics think others surpassed him in lyrical verse, but if so, they are few in number. An agreeable writer in the London Quarterly Re- vieto recently said: "Sbakespcard in nonsense, as in every thing else, is our greatest artist. True to nature, true to art, Shakespeare embodies nonsense, as he embodies history, philoso phy, poetry, in life and action, giv ing to it, as to each of these, its proper place and proportions. Tet such is his ap preciation and love of fun for its own sake, that besides all the humors of his many in dividual and f ubordiaate characters, be has four, if not five plays "Love's Labor" Last," "Merry Wives of Windsor," "Tam ing of the Shrew," "Comedy of Errors," and perhaps "Midsummer Night's Dream" if we exclude this last from our former list, in which nonsense holds well its own, by the sido of tho serious part of each of these dramas." ' One of tho beet criticisms, the most pointed, we remember to have met with was Sir Walter Soott's re mark about the imitation of himself in the famous "Rejected Addresses" by James and Horace Smith, a book that ia unique and delightful as well as ingenious. A friend, read to him the poem in imitation of bis own and asked him whom was it by. He an swered, "It must be mine, but I did not think I had written anything so bad." J. R. Seeley, tho distinguished pro fessor in Oxford University, Eng land, and author of some very no ticeable books, namely, "Ecce Homo," Historical Essays and Napo leon,discusses "Literary Immortality" in the Contemporary Review. He thinks but few authors are safe in that particular and he gives good rea sons for his opinion. ' We have not time to follow him in his very enter taining discussion. . He of oourse thinks Shakespeare certain for fame as long as the world lasts, and he says it will be mainly owing to his (: prodigious condensation in which he excels all writers, and which ena bles him to put into five acts of a play as much matter as serves other writers for the three volumes of a novel." But our purpose was to copy- what he says towards tbe close of his paper relative to certain writers. He says: "Some writers hold a secure literary im mortality, because their writings are so small that they are never felt to be in the way. Such are Gray and Goldsmith. And many lyrists keep their names in perpetual memory by a few happy stanzas. Indeed, in lyric poetry there really is literary im mortality, i But room can rarely be found in Fame's' conveyance for large works. Thus many persona who open Richardson are greatly struck by his genius; neverthe less, few of them read his : works. The simple truth is that life is not long enough. However much I may admire George Eliot, I cannot imagine that a hundred years hence people will find time to read "Mid dlemarch;" at the utmost lean conceive that "Silas Marner" may survive. On the other hand. I find no difficulty in believing that much of Tennyson will be still as familiarly known then as it is now. "Scarcely any long book really iives ex cept 'Don Quixote." . Names of authors may be preserved, but few people read their books. Gentle reminders, in the shape of bills; will te"s'ent out frequently to all subscribers to the Weekly Stab whose subscriptions have expired. It is hoped they will not be laid aside for "f uture reference," but will be paid promptly. BIVJSB AND MARIN F. Craw of tb Abandoned Brig Ii. A. So. air Pleksd Up at Seat by tbe Sebooncr Wlnnlo Iiwry Reports of Otber Disasters. The schooner Maggie Abbott, Capt. Mcintosh, from Port-au-Prince, Hay ti, arrived and anchored at the quar antine station at Southport last Fri day. It is reported that one of her crew died with yellow fever on the voyage. The schooner Winnie Lawry, Capt. McBitchie, also from Port-au-Prince, arrived at Southport yester day. She brought the Captain and crew of the American brig Lewis A. Squire, which was abandoned at sea on the 9th inst. Capt. Nelson master of the abandoned brig, reports that his vessel left New York on the 6th inst., with a cargo of guano for Savannah, Ga. She encountered severe gales on the 8th, off the North Carolina coast, and sprang a leak, so as to compel all hands to work stead ily at the pumps to keep the vessel from sinking. On the night of the 8th the gale increased to a hurricane from the northwest, and one of the crew was washed overboard. On the morning of the 9th, as the vessel was sinking, it was determined to abandon her; the vessel then being in latitude 44.50, and longitude 74.35, west. Capt Nelson and his crew of seven men, after being twenty-seven hours in an open boat, were picked up bjr the schooner Winnie Lawry which arrived yesterday at South port. , The schooner Belle Brown, Sawyer fromMartinique, bound to Provi dence, R. I., put in at Southport Fri day evening, with sails damaged in the recent gale. The steam yacht Agatha, bound to Jacksonville from Philadelphia, ar rived at Southport yesterday. The side-wheel steamer Bellevue, from New York, bound to Jackson ville, Flo., also arrived at Southport yesterday. Her captain reports a buoy in Core Sound missing from its moorings. The revenue cutter Colfax, re turned yesterday from a cruise off the coast. Capt. Moore reports speaking several vessels which have since ar rived at Southport. The Colfax will go to sea again to-morrow. The Winnie Laiory is reported as having lost two of her crew over board on the voyage from Port-au-Prince to Southport. On opening your paper if you dis cover a bill for subscription, do not be afraid of it. The amount is hon estly due and ought to be paid in or der that the publisher may meet the enormous expenses of printing a newspaper. Tbe J ate Bagging Trust. With the first of January expires the agreement that binds together the syndicate of jute manufacturers who have cornered the market on jute bagging. The Boston Journa I of Commerce says "it is not likely that the agreement will fail of renewal by the various contracting parties. Though jute butts have advanced in price one-quarter to one-half of a cent a pound, raising the cost of bagging three-quarters to one cent a yard, the new list price of the combination is likely to be eight to nine cents for the standard grade. This price will not only be low enough to shut out foreign competition, but it will be higja enough to pay a fair profit to the manufacturers. Complaint is made that sales of bagging have not come up to expectations, the substitutes having to a considerable extent taken its place. When the price had once been set at 12 cents, the combination were obliged to maintain it through the season to protect the Southern merchants and distributors who had bought at that figure. The most formidable competitor of the jute combination, . the Acme Manufacturing Company of this city, whose bagging has given such great satisfaction wherever introduced, but whose factory, unfortunately, was de stroyed by fire a short time ago, will soon be in the field again. In a letter dated the 9th inst., to a merchant of Savannah, Ga., and published in the News of that city, the Company says: "We are now rapidly rebuilding, and about Jan. 1 expect to be in op eration again,' and will then be glad to exhibit the whole process, machin ery, cost of plant, manufacturing, etc., and prove at our works any claims we make for the business. It is a big field for Southern enterprise and capital, and jute bagging cannot now be made cheap) enough to do us any harm." . - WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, NAVASSA GUANO COMPANY Sleeting of Stockholders Election of I Officers-Resolutions Adopted. Etc The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Navassa Guano Com pany was held at their office in this city yesterday. ! , Bmilie A. Gregg, Esq., was appoint ed chairman and Mr. Donald MacRae secretary. : "'. After the reading of the usual re ports and financial statements, the following resolutions were unani mously adopted : By the will of Divine Providence, our twentieth annual meeting is as sembled under the shadow of mourn ing emblems for our recently de ceased President, the Hon.' R. R. Bridgers, whose sudden death in the very performance of the active duties or ma nonorabie and uselui career, following closely upon that of our Di rector, Mr. Jno. C. Graffiin, of Balti more, has deprived 'this company of the services of two of its highest and most useful officials. We miss their kindly presence, and personally mourn the loss of valued friends, while, as a body, we feel that in each of these able men we have lost earnest and successful co-ia,borerg,-?fioe. , counsels nd zealous aid it will be difficult to re place. "-."'" .frommenuy connected witn tnis Company from its organization, they have alike exercised their uncommon business abilities in its service, and given unstintedly the active labor of their minds and bodies to the promo tion of its Interests. Society at larere. as well as the in dustries they so well served, will long miss these active, earnest men, but none more than the Navassa Guano Company of Wilmington, N. C. Therefore. Resolved. That the stockholders of this Company have heard with pro found res-ret of the death of Robert R. Briderers and John C. Graffiin. our President and our Director.and desire to place upon record this estimation of their worth and character. Resolved. That a Dace in our records be devoted to this minute, and a copy of the same be sent to thej-espective lammes or the deceased. The following officers were elected to serye for the ensuing year: President Donald MacRae. Secretary and Treasurer Donald MacRae, Jr. Directors Wm. H. Crawford, J. I. Middleton, Smilie A. Gregg, G. W. Kidder, D. G. Worth, P. L. Bridgers. Superintendent of Factory C. E. Borden. Superintendent of Agencies Col. W. L. DeRosset. Accountant Col. W. C. Jones. Travelling Agent Geo. P. Cotchett. The Directors declared a dividend of 8 per cmt., payable on or before January 1st, 1889, to stockholders of record of this date. Naval Stores. Receipts of naval stores since the beginning of the crop year April 1st and up to yesterday, as compared with receipts for the same time last year, are as follows : pirlts turpen tine, 53,408 casks; last year, 59,287. Rosin, 153,306 barrels; last year, 232, 135. Tar, 37,089 -barrels; last year, S0,57G. Crude turpentine, 16,925 bar rels; lost year, 19,529. There is an increase only in the single item of tar, which points sadly to the continued and grad ual decay of our valuable tur pentine forests. It seems that it is only a question of time when these will be completely destroyed unless some preventive measures are adopted to preserve them. The razor-back hog is charged with denud ing the land of the young trees, which springing from the seed would natur ally supply the waste caused by the turpentine-getter and timber-chopper, but they have to run the gaunt let for five years before they are safe from his ravenous depredations, and but few escape. It is claimed by many who are well informed on the subject that the adoption of the stock law in the pine regions is the only thing that will save the forests from utter des truction. Presiding Elder Swindell. The Charlotte Newt, in referring to the appointment of Rev. Mr. Swindell as Presiding Elder of the Wilmington District, says While all denominations in this city reioice in the well deserved promo tion, universal regret is expressed that this promotion has been secured at the cost of losing him to Char lotte. Mr. Swindell has done excel lent work in this city as pastor of the Try on street Methodist church, and has won the highest esteem of this community. But he will not alone be missed. He is blessed with an help mate who. by her good deeds, has particularly engrafted herself into the affections of the people of Charlotte, and whose departure will be sincerely reerretted. Mrs. Swindell is a woman of exceptionable usefulness, not only in church work but in otber ways. This nastor and his wife will leave Char lotte with the best wishes of all our people, Food for Tho Off bt A reader of the Stab submits the following "If Adam, the husband of Eve, was livinc now he would lack about twelve years of being seven thousand years old. If he had started life with 100.000. and loaned it at 6 per cent, interest from the day of his birth to the present time, his accumulated wealth would not equal tnat oi a cood nianv men of the Dresent day. who have made their shekels from 'Trusts," . watering ; stocks, making corners in wheat, buying up Southern railroads and other methods of which this member of "one of the first fam iles" was entirely ignorant. ' Are not some of us making money a little too fast? Jay Gould would call it slow progress to make only forty-two million dollars in seven thousand years." '''' State Guard Encampment At the meeting of officers of the Third Regiment. N. C. S. G.. held in Fayetteville recently, Capt. Broad foot offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted: That the officers of the Second Resriment pledge themselves to use every effort to induce the next Legis lature to make such an appropriation for the State Guard as will give them an annual encampment. And that the recent encampment at Wrights- yule demonstrates the fact that it possesses so many advantages over any other place in North Carolina for a military camp, that it would be very greatly to the interest of the Guard if the Xegislature would take some steps looking 'to making Wnghtsville a permanent place of encampment for the State Guard. NORTHEAST BIT EE. . Agricultural Resources ; oir Parts of Duplin County Contiguous to this .. Iporttni;WautWay.'' 'v: A Carefully prepared reportupon the agricultural, naval" stores and lumber resources of parts of Duplin county, lying - within five miles of Northeast river, from ;: Kornegay's .Bridge to the: mouth of Rockfish Creek, has been transmitted to Capt. W. H. Bixby, United States Engineer in charge of river and harbor im provements. The report is ' made by a committee appointed for the pur pose, and of which Mr. B. F. Grady is' chairman, and' is prepared from data furnished by intelligent farmers, mer chants and others living near the river. , . " A condensed statement of the re port, which the Stab has been requsst ed to publish, is given herewith : Including the various tributaries of the river Burncoat. - Panther, Grove. Limestone. Maxwell. Muddy Creek, Cypress Creek, Island Creek, Oaky Branch, Rockfish and many smaller streams there arewithinfive miles of Northeast riven AV-ut 160,000 acres ui tuuuer ituiu wiiii a pruuiuve growth or pines, oaks, hickories, cy press, juniper, poplars, maples, elms, dogwood, mulberry, persimmon, lob lolly bays, beeches, black wal nut, sweet-gum, black-gum, ash, cherry, cedar, willow, birch and other smaller trees, which stand wait ing for the means of transportation and a market. Their value is beyond computation. including the tributaries and esti mating the mud or swamp lands as averaging a half mile in width, which the improvement of the river would enable the people to drain and clear and cultivate, there are between Kornegay's Bridge and Rockfish not . less than 25,000 acres of, land which will pro duce from ten to twenty barrels of corn per acre, aggregating from 1,250,000 to 2,500,000 bushels, and other crops in the same proportion; yield of corn, taken at tne lowest estimate, worth at 50 cents per bushel $28,617 more than all tne farm products oi tne entire coun ty according to the census of 1880. The amount of turpentine, tar, and spirits turpentine now produced an nually within reach of the river is worth, at Kornegay's Bridge, $6,000; Sarecta, $9,000; Hallsville, $14,500; Chinquepin, $28,000; Deep Bottom Bridge, $8,000; various landings and railroad, stations near tne river, $15,000. Total $80,500. The amount of timber, staves, sawed lumber, &c , now shipped down the river, and hauled an inconvenient distance to the railroad is, per an num, $990,000. Tbe value of cotton made near tbe river, which is now hauled thirty-five miles to Goldsboro and to other sta tions on the railroad, is from Korne gay's $48,000; Sarecta, $5,000; Halls ville, $13,000; Chinquepin, $9,000; Deep Bottom bridge and other places, $5, 000. Total, $79,000. The value of live stock near the river, now driven to distant markets, is $14,000. The aggregate of products at all points is $1,197,260. This grand aggregate of values, sent to distant markets by the various means of transportation now in use.is bartered off for goods of like value, and hence, the commerce of the river within Du plin would, with no increase, amount to $2,394,500. But there can be no doubt that in a few years, witn tne river navigable for about eight or nine months in the year, its commerce would swell, to at least twice this amount, and the benefits to a section of country so far removed from other f transportation routes are beyond computation. Tne draining and cultivation of our swamp lands need only be referred to as suggesting the. untold resources which would be de veloped by the improvement of the riyer and the consequent lowering of its water level The data upon which the above re port is based is furnished by S. O. Middleton, B. F. Middleton, L. B. Carr, C. S. Carr, D. J. Williams, Halsa Cavonaugh, W. P.Dobson, T. G.Dob- son, C. E. Hussey, W. R. Bryan, J. B, Carr, C. C. Grady, Lee Albertson, M. T Home, G. B Dr Parker, John W Gresham.l John H. - Westbrook, and others, and the report itself is en dorsed by a large number of citizens of the county. Farmer's Alliance. A meeting of purchasing agents of the Farmer's Alliance of Pender conn ty was held yesterday afternoon at the Sutton House in this city. The different sub-alliances 'of the county were represented as follows: Burgaw F McMoore. Northeast W C Murphy. Rhine G F Walker. Rocky Mount J T Bowden. Doctor's Creek S C Powers. Canetuck J R Hillborne. Cooly Mills-J W West. ' Moore's Creek W T Moore. Maple Hill R F Powers. Oak Grove Lewis. Committees were appointed and instructed to wait upon the different grocers, dry goods, hardware and boot and shoe merchants of the city and endeavor to effect arrangements by which members of the Alliance can be supplied upon more favorable terms. A proposition was submitted, and favorably considered, that the Alli ances of Pender, Duplin, Onslow, Bla den and Sampson counties unite in the movement and thus, by aggre gating their orders, be enabled to purchase supplies at a considerable reduction from the usual - prices charged lor goods. cotton. Eecefpts of cotton at this port the past week show an increase of 2,663 bales as compared with receipts the corresponding week lost year, the ag gregate being 9,894 bales, as against 7.231 last year. Receipts from September 1 to De cember 14, as bulletined at the Pro duce Exchange, are 115,318 bales, as against receipts of 141,570 for the same time last year a decrease of 26,252 bales. The Stock at this port is 19,997 bales at same date last year 20,331 bales Stealing Spirits Tnrpentlne. A young colored man named Wm. Sanders , was arrested yesterday charged .with ' Stealing .two casks of spirits turpentine from Messrs. Wil liams & Murchison's naval stores yard on the west side of -the river. San ders will have a hearing before May or Fowler, to-niorrow morning. He is said to be a brother of the man ar rested several months ago': for steal ing empty Casks from the game yard, and who absconded while out on bail 1888. WA8HINQTON. A Large Number of Postmasters Ten dering Their Resignations District Attorney Selmers of Indianapolis. - - By Telegraph ta tha Horning Btar. WASHIHGTON. Dec 13 Postmaster Ofl, ncral Dickenson to-day said to an Associa ted Prese reporter that within the last few weeas ne bad received the resignations of a considerable number of Presidential and fourth class postmasters, with requests that Republicans whom they name and recom mend be appointed in their places. Others have written asking whether their resigna tions and recommendations of Republican successors would receive favorable action. in reply to an inquiry as to his action in these cases the Postmaster General said that no resignations had been or would be ac cepted that are made for the purpose of i ores tailing toe action oi tae incoming ad ministration by the appointment of Repub licans. Attorney General Garland to-dav receiv ed a telegram from U. S. District Attorney Selmers, at Indianapolis, declining to with draw nis resignation and insisting upon its acceptance. It is said that the President and the Attorney General arc verv much dissatisfied with Mr. Selmers' course in re linquishing his office just at this particular time, when so many important matters are pending in his office, and . it is intimated that he may be dismissed instead of being allowed to resign. COTTON JFJBE A( Charleston, 8.1 C., IiOss Estimated at $10,000. A Big Blaze at Savan nahLoss $200,000. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Charleston. S C. Dec. 13 A Are broke out between 11 and 12 o'clock last night in 1450 bales of cotton lying at Bioce's wharf ready for shipment, and securely covered by tarpaulins. Tbe fire is still burning, and engines are playing on it It is estimated that 100 bales are injured more or less. It is iceured in local agencies for $43,000 Insurance agents estimate the loss at about $10,000. Tbe cotton is owned by Gastover & Co. Savannah, Ga , Dec. 13. Fire brok out this afternoon in tbe Central Railroad cotton warehouse adioimng the Ocean Steamship wharves. Baldwin & Co, are the heaviest losers. They had 1,800 bales stored, and Woods & Co. 1,680 bales. One warehouse was burned ana with it between 8,700 and 3,800 bales of cotton stored by Baldwin & Co., Woods & Co. and Hammond, Hull & Co. Hammond, Hull & Co. s 1ob8 ia small. Tne total loss on cotton will approximate $300,000, and is luuy covered c-y insurance, j ne onuiu of the fire is unknown. It started in a cor ner of the warehouse and before the fire men could reach the locality it had gained such headway that it was impossible to save either the building or its contents. The Are, however, will not interrupt tne business of any of the -losing firms. The firemen were at work on lha burning cot ton all the afternoon and to-night. FOREIGN. Emlo Paslia and Stanley In tne Hands of tne Olahdt Their Iilves Threat ened. By Cable to the Horning Star. Cairo. December 14 In the letter re ceived at Suakim, from Osman Digna, and which is supposed to have contained the announcement that Emin Pasha and a white traveller, presumably Stanley, had fallen.into the hands of the Mahdi.were en closed copies of a dispatch from the Der vish leaner at lauo to is.naira i asna, giv ing the date of Emin Pasha's surrender as October 10th, and the letter to Emin Pasha from the Khedive, which the latter banned to Henrv M. Stanley when he was at Cairo. Along with the letter Osman Digna sent several Snyder cartridges which he alleged had been taken irom tne white traveller. ThaZinzabantes in Stanley'y expedition were armed with Snyder rifles. but none are in tne possession oi tne uer vishes. London. December 14. It is rumored that Osman Digna, in his letter, expressed his willingness to surrender Emin Pasha and his white companion, provided Egypt would aereo to abandon Suakim. If this proposal is not accepted, it is believed that both of the captives will be killed. The British Cabinet are now discussing the situation. In the House of Cutnmons this after noon, Mr. Smith, replying to Mr. Wilfried Lawson. said as far as known to the Gov ernment the letter written by Osman Digna announces the surrender of Emin Jfaslea and a white traveller. The Government had no means of knowing whether the al legations were well rounded. Stanhope, Minister of War, replying to Dillon, stated tbe coBt or the army or occu nation in Eevpt during the current year to be 110,000. This expense would be borne by Egypt, ll the operations entailed iur ther expenditures tne uovernmeni -wouiu consider how they should be met. The Egyptian government naa approveu senu ing reinforcements to Suakim. General urenieii recognizeu tne letter which Osman Digna had furnished as the original one which he had drafted for the Khedive. Thus Stanley a capture is vir tuallv bevond a doubt. The Congo State officials have not been informed of the sit uation. The Kins of the Belgians is agi tated bv this outcome of the expedition. Bnd is receiving a great many dispatches regarding it. tie admits tnat ne was tne largest suoscrioer to siamey s expenses. The Independence Beige says that Eng land will doubtless do everything possible to liberate Stanley.and that Lord Gladstone too bitterly regrets the abandonment of Gen. Gordon lor Lord Salisbury to aban don Stanley and Emm Pasha. Pabts, Dec. 14. In -the Chamber of Deputies to-day, Peytral, Minister of Fi nance, submitted a bill authorizing post ponement for three months of payment of the Panama Canal Company's liabilities, including interest and redemption hoods. ALABAMA. Another Development In the Htwti' Tragedy. By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Memphis. Dec. 15. A Birmingham, Ala., special says: The body of Irene Hawes. the second daughter of Dick Hawes. was found in the lake at Lake View; at 11.20 this morning, by detective Bobbins. The water had been drained un til it was only a foot or two deep. The child wore a small slip, half covering the body, and a hemp cord fastened two heavy fish-nlates. weighing thirtvT30undreach. to thehftb&T" The searchers had about made up" their minds to give np, when Bobbins thought he wonld maKe one more attempt. He threw in his line and brought up the horrid find. Tho body was bamy decom posed, bnt was at once identified by James Hawes, Dick's brother, as that of the dead Irene. The child was found nbout twenty feet from tbe place where Mrs. Hawes' body was concealed. Birmingham, Dec. 15. The body of Irene Hawes, the youngest child of the Hawes family, was found to-day at the bottom of the lake at Lake view Park. near the spot where the body of its mother was found one week ago. The body was weighted down by several pieces of rail road iron fastened about the child s neck. There were no marks of violence. The find caused no excitement, as people had ex pected for a week that it wonld be found near where the mother's body was dis covered. . When told that tne body of his other missing child had been found, Hawes had nothing to say. except to ask. in an indifferent sort of way, where it was. He then refused to answer any questions. No trouble is expected to-night, but the guard at the jail has been increased as a matter of extra precaution. No other attempt to lynch tLawes is anticipatad. Weldon ivews: Tuesday a rabid dog ran a muck at Halifax, fighting every dog he met in the streets. He finally en tered Mr. J. J. Wood's yard and attacked his dog. While attempting to separate them Mr. Wood was bitten by tbe mad dog on the leg. NO. 7 IMMIGRATION. The Southern later-State Convention- Plan or Organisation Resolutions Adopted Etc ' . IBv Telegraph to the Morning star MONTOOMEBV. At.A.. Deer 13Th Southern Inter 8tate Immigration Conven. lion reassembled this morning in the hall of the House of . Representatives at the State CapitoL Air. Chilton, of Texas, chairman of thn Committee on the Organization of a Per manent aontnern inter-state Immigration Bureau, submitted the committee's renort as follows: Your committee, selected" for the rur pose of drafting .a plan of organization looking towards the formation of a perma nent Southern Inter-State Immiirratinn Bureau, for the purpose of securing added population anu capital ror the Southern 8tates and Territories, securing uni form freight and immigration rates, the opening of a general office and the establishment of other offices and agencies, arranging of fairs and . exposi tions, establishing ports of entry, and the. doing of all other things necessary for tbe development or every state and territorv embraced in the call of this Convention, Deg to suomit ineir report as follows, and recommend that there be selected an execu tive committee to consist of members frcm each State and territory; that said execu tive committee shall elect a general man ager, anu mat said executive committee and general manager shall constitute the Southern Inter-State Immigration Bureau and shall hold office until the meet, ing of the next annual Convention, or un til their successors have been elec ted and accepted the trust. Your committee furthermore sugeest that all matters pertaining to the conduct of the Inter-State Bureau be left solely with the Bureau, there being no question of State interest involved, since each State will be represented by one of her most able reore- sentatiye men in the formation of the Ex ecutive Committee. Your committee further suggest that said nter-State Bureau shall consist acd be composed cf the following named inrtons: Executive Committee John T. Patrick, Kaleigh. N. C: R. F.Kolb. Montcouerv. Ala. ; Logan H. Roots, Little Rock, Ark. ; T. W. Poole, New Orleans, Li. ; George w. uarii8ie, Jackson, Miss.; 15. M. Uord, Nashville, Tena. : J. E. Ingram, Ssnford, Fla.; W. L E. Gleaner, Amcricus, Ga.; A. P. Butler. Columbia. S C; 8. Dougherty. Austin. Texas: T. F. Nelson, Folsom. New Mexico; G. W. B. Hall, Rocky Mount, Va.; Temple Bodly, Louisville, Ky. ; J. K. Gwynn, Missouri; and that when a vacancy occurs ia said Executive Committee the Governor of the State from which the retiring member came saau be requested to nil the vacan cy, and in case said Governor fails ro make such appointment the Executive Commit tee shall fill said vacancy. On motion of Mr. Patrick, of N. C the report of the committee was amended by inserting tne name or uoi. a. a. ubiiton, oi lexas, as uenerai Manager or the Bu reau, and as amended the report was ad opted. The Committee on Resolutions made the follow tag report, which was adoDted whereas, it is believed by many citi zens of the United States that the South ern States do not desire to have immigra tion from the Northern, New England and ixorin western states and Territories; there' fore, be it Resolved. Br the Southern Inter-State Immigration Convention, assembled this day in the city of Montgomery. Ala., com- poeea oi omciais and prominent citizens of tne several southern states and Territories. that we extend to all law-abiding citizens, oi every religious laitn or political party. an earnest and hearty invitation to make their home in some one of these local States and Territories here represented in this uonvention. Resolved, That the South offers crander and greater opportunities and inducements to labor and capital than any other country on the face of tbe globe; that there are ye to ue round within tbe borders of the States here represented in this Convention. a larger acreage of unoccupied agricultural and horticultural lands open to settlement and occupancy, at less prie per acre than can be found in any other portion of the united states; mat in her mineral and tim ber resources she is destined to lead the whole world; that the South needs immi gration, and the kind of immigration wanted is that which is 1 intelligent and energetic; men who are capable of produc ing sometnjng in addition to their imme diate necessities. D UN'S BET IE TP. Business Continues to Improve and the Financial Outlook Remains Un changed. Hew Yobk. December 14. The moat important event of the week in the finan cial world the failure of tbe Panama Canal has not as yet been felt in this country. The amount of securities held here is not large, and there is a general be lief that tbe French Government will be obliged to do something to avert wide spread disaster. But it can do nothine to make permanently valuable the vast amount oi secunties issued, and the heavy French losses will in time have some effect on money markets elsewhere. In other re spects the financial outlook remains un changed. Considerable exports of cold eontinne. but cause neither disturbance nor alarm. The supply of money in all parts of the country is so large and the heavy disburse ments of January are so near at hand, that there ia an unusual feeling of confidence. uusiness continues to improve in nearly all sections, and though it does not meet the expectations of the most sanguine, there is every indication mat it is greater in voiume tnan mat oi a year ago. Bank clearings for the first week of December, though they reflect to a note worthy extent transactions of months ago on wnicn payments are now maturing, exceed those of last year bv 18 ner cent.. which implies a la?ge volume of present as weii as or past ousmess. Tbe gains out Bide of New York are remarkably large and uniform, including even Southern sections in which there has been most de pression. Reports from Memphis stilll in dicate that collections are hard to make, and business bqows no improvement, cot ton returns for Arkansas and Mississippi being unfavorable. Throughout tbe Northwest improvement is felt except at new points, where wild speculation for over-iraning last year did most mischief. The iron output December 1st illustrates the nrvtt!Jni MtiflrlotiMk r..4 if (ha tama K O iuw mm M enuiv time the danger of over-confidence. In other branches of industry no change of importance occurs. The volume of pro duction is on the whole increasing, and the Btate oi the market appears to luatify some inerease. Cotton has been steady. A Memphis circular now estimates the yield at 6.700. 000 bales, and the exports last month were iu.8u0.000 pounds larger than for 1887 The comparative inactivity of thesoecu lative market helps legitimate trade to ad just prices to new conditions. The gen eral average for all commodities is about 1 per cent, lower than a week ago, and slightly below the level of November 1st. In the stock market there has been hesita tion without pronounced movement either way. though the average of prices is 86o on $100 better than a week ago. Business failures throughout the country during last week number lor the United States 268, - Canada 85. Total 303, against 305 last week. LOUISIANA. Disastrous Results Feared from cav- Ing -in of the River Rank at St. Joseph. By Telegraph to the Morning Star, New Orleans, December 15 A spe cial from St. Joseph. La., says: The cav ing-in of the river bank has extended be yond tbe line of the protection levee laid off by the Government engineers to protect the pariah from overflow while work is in progress at Hard Times and Wilson a Point. Prompt action is re quired to prevent disastrous results. , Spirits .Turpentine. Uuarlotte JVevi: I'hn - n . : Baptist Church, on West Trade street no r the Air-Line deppt, is nearing completion . It is a frame structure, but is fbry neat, the design being really handsome. ' Graham Gleaner.' Cant. Jamp A. Graham, our former townsman, has been appointed to the office of Pension Exami ner at Washington at a salary of $1,400 a year. The many friends of Capt. Graham -in Alamance will learn with pleasure of hi good fortune. - Charlotte JNews : Miss Helen Iredell, sister of Mrs. Judge Shlnn. died l t the residence of Judge Shipp, in this city. ' u v kiwik mat mguk. one was a aaugn terjof the late Gov. Iredell, and was about 75 yeats old. She had been an invalid tor several years.; Sanford Mnyressi Cant. Will Dodson, of the C. F. & Y. V. R. R, who was so severely in iared a few weehn t.inn at Spout Springs.- by a fall from a box to a flat car on his train, ia recovering and will soon be quite well. He was removed t. his home in Greensboro this week. - Clinton Caucasian: Dr. Mara- ble's lecture in Atkins's Hall. Tuesday night was excellent, sparkling with humor and full of practical truths It was worthy of any audience. The report of Trea- surer Beaman shows that for the sear end ing November 30th, 1888, the total receipts ot tho school tax amounted $6,780.93 whilu tne total expenditures for school purposes amouted to $8,667.82. Balance on hand including balance from last j ear, $2,751.40. Kaleigh Visitor: The Governor to-day pardoned Alfred Ledbetter, a whito man, who was convicted of assault ant battery at the June term, 1888, of Rich mond county Superior Court, aud aen -fenced to nine months in jail. The pardon was granted on the advico of a physician, who said it was absolutely necessary to tho man's health that he be removed from jii), ho having been suffering, during the ptwi, iwu uiunws wun a severe attacK or typhoid fever. Warrenton Gazette: A einerular and sad shooting case occurred near War renton on Monday night last, by which a young colored man named Davy Somer villo lost his life. The minks had been dis turbing his fowls for several night, and oa monday night they came again Davy got up and went out without the other inmates knowing it. His cousin, Alonzo, alsr heard the noise and went out with the gun, and as he came near the hen house he saw a man coming out with a light, and think -ing it a thief instead of a mink, fired and instantly killed Davy shooting out b;th eyes and his brains. Raleigh News- Observer: A gentleman who arrived here from Orange county yesterday reported that Mr. Pride Jones, Clerk of the Court of that connty, had resigned and that Judge John Gilmer had appointed 8. M. Gattis to succeed him. -iJnder the new schedule, which goes into effect on tbe R. & D. Sunday next, passengers leaving Raleigh at 5.26 p. m. arrive in Washington, D. C. next morning at 7 o'clock, Baltimore at 8 20 a. m. and New York at 1.20, thus making tbe k. tsu.nve hours and twenty-one min utes quicaer than any other line out of Kaleigh to Baltimore. Philadelphia and New York. Hickory Press ; Twenty-nine crates of chickens and 227 turkeys passed tnrougn wcKory on their wav from La- -noir to Charleston, 6. C. last Tuesdav. The English Practical Seminary be longing to the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio, and located in Hickory, began its second session on the 17th of last September with an attendance of 7 stu dents. The attendance now 4s the thre departments primary, academic and theoe logical is 46. The WilkeBboro Chron icle says the sheriff has appointed the edi tor ot the Breeze to the office of keeper to the -jail. Kind sheriff happy editor. If subscribers won't pay. the editor can di vide rations with the prisoners. You see? Wadesboro Messenqer : The mercantile firm of Z. T. Right & Co., or Troy, has made an assignment; liabilities about $10,000; assets not known. On last Tuesday, the 11th inst., Mr. T. H. Redfearn died at the home of his son near ML Croghan, Chesterfield countv. 8. c. Mr, Redfearn was a native of White's Store township, in this county, but has been living for some time in South Carolina. He was about 83 years old. The morning after Mr. Redfearn's death, Dr. Joel Baker, an old gentleman, who has passed his 90th birthday, and who is postmaster at Mt. Croghan, assisted by another gentleman, was ia the act of laying off a grave in which to bury Mr. Redfearn. when he fell to the ground and expired without a groan. Fayetteville Observer : The Wilmington Stab is right when itl savs that it strongly favors a tax-paying quali fication. Maj. Roger P. Atkinson passed through here last week on his way to inspect tne grading between this place and Wilmington. He reports that work is progressing finely and the weather much in their favor. We learn that some of the sorghum exhibited at the fair, was not the real article, but really tbe juice from the Louisiana sugar cane, and we learn that the experiment of planting it on our river bottoms has proved a success. Our community was sadly grieved on Wednesday night last at the announcement of the death of Miss Fannie J. Dye, eldest daughter of Mr. M E. Dye, from con sumption. She was just upon the thres hold of young womanhood. We were in error last week in regard to the obiect of Mr. J. B. Underwood's still. He has recently obtained a patent for the pur pose of utilizing the waste products from the common rosin, &c, and has .built thi distillery to make rosin oil. and a superior article of common varnish. New Bern Journal: Tho County Commissioners at their meetinc yesterday, after having considered the bonds tendered by the county officers-elect, and deeming them insufficient, declared the offices of county treasurer, sheriff and register of deeds vacant. E. W. Carpen ter, V. S. v., was given until Tuesday, Dec. 18th, to perfect his bond. The fo! lowing appointments were made to fill the vacancies: Treasurer, E. K. Bry an; Sheriff, Wm. B. Lane; Regis ter of Deeds, John A. Richardson. present collector of customs. The newlv- appointed officers were given until the first Monday in January to file their bonds. Kinston item: The State Grange met Tues day in the hall of the Knights of Honor, over the store of Mr. W. F. Stanly. The representation is a good one, and tbe mate' rial first-class in every respect. The storm last night prevented many from attending. hut the others will be here to-night. Jones county dot: We learn that Captain Page's fat hogs have been dying with cho lera. Beaufort jotting: Mrs. Cinde rella Pool, widow of Mr. James H. Pool, died in this town on Monday. . She leaves six children.. By recent deaths in this town, and all within one week, fifteen little helple&ss orphans are cast upon the cold charity of the world, Rockingham Rocket: We are pleased to note that Rev. T. W. Guthrie was convalescent at last report, tie was taken violently sick during the session of the late Conference at New Bern, his at, tack being of a malarial character from ex posure in his work on the Wilmington dis trictas Presiding Elder. There have been four fires, three of them supposed tr be of incendiary origin, in the upper pan of this county within the last month. The first one occurred about the 25th of No vember and was a gin house belonging to Mr. Allen Tyson, in which were three gins belonging to Steele & Tyson; In the houso were about 1,200 pounds of seed cotton be longing to different parties, and also a large quantity of cotton seed. This was in upper Richmond, close to the edge of Montgomery co., and was accidental. Loss about $l,OOo; no insurance. The second nre was a ten ant house belonging to John Bragg Coving ton, in Mineral Springs township, and was to be occupied by Lem Bostwick, colored. The third fire, which was near Bostick's Mills u a. hnnnA nramnied bv Newitt Green, colored. He and his wife were out in the field at work when they discovered their house in flames, 'and they succeeded only in saving the clothing which they bud on. This was also thought to be incend -1 -ry. The fourth fire was a barn belongic er to Mr. J. M. Hutes, of Mineral Sprite township, and it occurred about 11 oxlrxk last Friday night, The barn was almott a new one and was a splendid building, at t the loss will not fall ahort of $1,200. I the barn he had 400 bushels of corn, : bushels of oats and two years' forage. l.' also had a very fine cow for which had t - fused $40, burned up. There was no m urance. .