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The 'Weekly Star " PUBLISHBb AT - (V I LHINGTON, N. C., AT . it.DO A IEiBt IN ADVANCE, 8SSSS8S888S88S8SS -qaoN (I gSS.8S88888888888S s'ssssss'ssssasgg'gs'g'g 88888888888888888 sqjuojn g 888S83SS8S88S8S8S mnoH 8S888888S88S88S S8S888S88S888888S 82S8g88228S8S8888 8SSSS8S88S8S38SSS ri ai m - to e ao o j eg jjj jo g gj se v i:sss: 2S2S583S I Entered at the Post Office atJWllmlngton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION" PRICE. . . The subscription, price of the Wkekxv Star is as follows : Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, $ 1.00 " 6 months " " .60 " 8 monthf " " .30 IS IT A NORTHEHN "IDEA?" . The Southern idea" -and the Southern moveffiaat-'wperpIexhjg 'thelNbrLbern editprs, who really khow nothing1 of Southern people or their sentiments, and yet they think they know jt all. We rarely sea an vd iional in a Northern paper con cerning the South that does not dis play the moat - positive ignorance. Eicb day reveals a profounder stu pidity. . . -Bat we turn from the knowing editors of the "big dailies" to a man of Southern birth and ancestry,' who has played out in Virginia and now resides in New York City. John Wise has inherited a good name and a ft m a Vint. Krilliant. falanta TTa is defioient in the integrity of his prin ciples. Bat he is plain spoken and bold if not judicious always and pru dent. Ha made a speech the other day at the annual dinner of the New Englanders in New York. His tbemo was "l he .Electoral .Problem -of the South." This is a subject that much concerns the South. The "Southern idea," if we were to attempt to interpret it, is that Harrison and his followers would be wise not to meddle with the South and to either stop provoking race troubles or to deprive Sambo of. the right to vote. - Bat let ns hear what Johnny Wise has to tell theNewEnglanders about the eight of the negro to vote. John told them that the "intelligent voioe of tb South should be heard." He IfUVU UG1IVUGU OOUVIUOUkO .UOU If Oi W loudly applauded. What was it that so pleased' these New England born -ffitsTf" riesihTt'heCWise man said: '. ': Y:-..f : -i V ' It is a grand sentiment to say that man hood suffrage is the triumph of our strug gles for freedom, but the man who sits down anl studies manhood Buff rage will realize that the statesmen who gave it are not unlike the famed bees, who, gathering their honey from all tbe rarest flowers about, yet distilled a poison which made men mad. I care not how it was bestowed. It it a failure at it stand. If it was in tended to make, the weak strong, it has only doubly weakened them as it now exist. If it was intended for tbe purpose of Riving all men a vote, it stinks in. tbe nottrils of the men who. claim it has ful filled its purpose, and its dead bones are the weapons of the men who killed it." This is indeed "talking 'right oat in meeting." , The applause that greeted their delivery moves the New York Timet to say : "Had they been expressed two months ago before a like audience, the orator, if not an avowed Republican, would have hpfn hissed, ft nil if a. Rpnnhlirjin wnnld have had his coat tails vigorously plucked by the Chairman. Mr. Wise's remarks are a complete admission that the position and policy of the Republican Party with refer ence to the negro vote for the last score of years or more have been, to say the least, hopelessly mistaken." We are disposed to like John bet- LI- - 1 T tel. uo uvt uuijr uuugea Buarcijr that qegro franchise is a failure, but that it was poisonous. He thus evoked rounds of applause from the men of the East. But John did not reef his case here. He -makes a hint possibly a suggestion that may not pass away unheeded. He said: ... "Let us deal withlhis question in its true aspect. Think of this question as one brought to your attention, it may be as a ghost which stalks across tbe stage in the midstf of your . festivities, but as one that demands your attention. The party that has been rcinstatsd in power is capable of remedying this stale of affairs. It can and must demand that honesty in elections shall be enforced. The time has come to consider the grave and serious problem as to whether or not we June given too freely and have not bestowed an abnor mal strength upon the Southern States in : the matter of electoral power." This also was applauded by the - New Englanders. , What does John 'meati? Does he mean to deprive the South of representation in propor tion as he and others may think 'that -the negro vote is suppressed? Is tbis it, or is it something else? Now how does' the Independent Republi can Times understand John? It says: "Not only is the work of the Republi- I 1 .. .Lt. TJ OfcU UUfcV. .K.I.I 1 1 ( 1 1 II u L II IB IKUUUIIUBU Southern leader a failure, but it must be undone. Not only must the "Intelligent, voice of the South be heard,' but, in order that it may bo distinctly heard ' and com mand proper attention, the unintelligent, or negro, voice of the South must be hush ed. Not only must the long struggle to give full effect to the votes of the negroes be abandoned, but the "strength of the Southern States in the matter of electoral power" is declared to be "abnormal." and . it Is directly implied that it must be reduc ed. Mr. Wise is not alone in entertaining these revolutionarv ideas. Thev have been broached from time to time by others of more Influence, perhaps, than he, and have MtfMAtflil sa I9ft final jim el am 1m IWa : press of both parties in all sections of the country." i - We copy this as a sign. It shows ..how men in the Republican party are thinking and talking. There Is no prospect .. of disfranchising the VOL. XX. negro. Only, the North aidey the Southern whites could do this, as the Constitution would have to be altered in the appointed way. There is really no extensive; publio senti ment in the North favoring the change. There are thousands no doubt who favor it, but they are but a small minority. The Times no doubt Bpeaks wisely and with a due apprehension of the real -condition when it says: .- ; .-. "No such opinion can be aroused, organ Ized,-and -made eCeeUve- intheetate' of thlogs that now exists. That unconditional suffrage for the negroes was a great error, or, so.far as it was due to partisan greed and that was very tar a crime, cannot be denied. That much of the action of the Republican leaders regarding the bestowal of the suffrage and the pretense of its main tenance was cynical and cruel hypocrisy is undoubtedly true. There is no chapter in our political history marked by darker evi dence of baseness, cowardice and treachery than that which truly recounts the use of the negro vote and the negro question by the Republican politicians. But the evil they have done cannot be undone by them." The' time: will come; we have no doubt, when the intelligent men in Uhe To meir ancestors in a .nt oi maaness and animosity gave to the illiterate and inoapable negroes the right to vote. . But the regret and sorrow will oome too late. It may come after a desolated South. , RACE. PBBJTI7 DICE NATION Alt. At Camden, New Jersey, a negro family purchased a home on a cer tain street. This gave much offence to the whites. The -Philadelphia Press, Republican organ, says in the' South this would lead : "to murder and massacre." ; This is a patented slander. In the South the . negroes ' .... re on streets where many white families dwell. In Wilmington the negroes live anywhere according to ability to pay rents. Negro families will be found scattered throughout the town. It is all a pure piece of imagination to think that for negroes to live on any street in town or1 city is cause for "murder and massacre." There is no doubt a preference on the part of the more genteel whites for white neighbors, but race pre judice never precipitates a deadly conflict, as is asserted by the Press. It is positively astonishing how very little the Northern papers really know of tbe South,' and that too with abundant facilities. The Press is nearer the truth when it says: "Race prejudice is the same at bottom wherever it is shown, and if it does not lead to the same sad work as at tbe South, it is because the law is stronger, not because the motives are different The responsi bility of the North for these murders is heavier and more direct than we often im agine, for if no color prejudice existed here, color -oppressioa would the-teoser and swifter disappear in the wrath." ; ' Of course race prejudice is strong er !n the North than in the South. At Grace Churoh not long ago, we saw several colored people worship ping with the whites. In what fine white church in New" York, or Bos ton, or Cincinnati, or Minneapolis, can you witness such a sight? Ne groes in the North are kept out of all churches for whites. Only the other day in some Northwestern town the negroes were excluded from the publio schools. The negroes have been better treated and have' prospered more under a Democratic Administration than ever before. Since a Radical was elected to succeed Mr. Cleveland all race troubles have begun farther South. This is a natural resultant when a race is deficient in intelli gence, and . foolishly think that the triumph of Radicalism means inevit ably license for the negroes and their immunity from all restraint legal or other. r Whenever the Northern people shall be governed by a spirit of fair ness -and intelligence in considering the South and the great Problem, they will not be swift to condemn. Blood is thicker than water. If the Northern . whites are worthy of their race, they can never desire that the African shall dominate one third of the American Union and be the masters of ten millions ' of Anglo Saxons. - . Tbe Riohmond Dispatch' h&B some timely and very sensible comments upon the remarks of the Press. It says: , ' ' "The Press tells the simple truth when it ssvs that race prejudice is prejudice is the same wherever shown. It is. however, not be cause the law is stronger in Camden than in Mississippi that the negro is not treated in Camden just as he would be in Missis sippi under the same circumstances, but because what the negroes propose to do in Camden does not mortally offend a majori ty of the whites in that city but only a small number of them, and therefore does not excite race prejudice to such a degree as to render mob law admissible or even possible. Ia a word, tbe whites of Cam den are in no way different from the whites of Kemper county. Miss. Whenever, as to the negro problem, the same conditions shall exist in both those communities, both will resort to the same desperate measures." Race prejudice is natural. "No pent np TJtioa oon tracts its powers, but the whole boundlesB Continent" is occupied by it. The Amerioan Geological Society has been formed at Cornell Univer sity, N. Y. There were 126 mem bers present, all working geologists. Prof. Hall was elected President. Each member may write, after his name F. A. G. S. " Fellow of Amer ican Geological Society. ; North Car olina was not represented!, and yet we have some competent geologists. hi . A BLAST PBOSK TBE PEE DEE.fl . We have not -stopped amid the pressing duties of life to read Gen eral, Dookery'g politioal flapdoodle in the, Winston Republican. . If at a conntry tavern on a rainy day, and with no book to - read or no genial friend with whom to hold pleasant converse we might i read Oliver's! plaintiff platitudes, otherwise called man bfjsreyery much leisure! fie has nothing now on hand with which to kill time,' that hangs upon him with leaden weight, so be takes to wielding his" "grey goose quill," and the result is, if one may judge by some extraots some- choioe bits taken . from his Jong and' diBma screed in the Republican, he makes himself a goose that can outquaok the whole paok of geese that aroused Rome, on ' that fateful- morning and saved it from the sacking of Vandals. Oliver now plays aiuci but? uisuuDr ui bua fliuijiu greiu ones gone forever and ever ; by,n but when Harrison gets into his Chair of State, the Bhade farmer who dweljaby the murmuring, singing, roaring, bellowing Pee Dee, will hie him to Washington, and then if he cannot get a Cabinet appointment, or a first-class foreign mission, this North Carolina Oliver will Twist around-and be content with smaller nubbins. . He may even be willing to have his insatiate lust for official grub met with the best Federal office in this State. Our Oliver, like the immortal oreation of Dickens, is very hungry and he is sure "to aek for more." . As a- prelude a sort of grand flourish to the orchestral symphony that he and his backers will give to the pelted and dinned ears of the new President, Gineral -Dockery is complaining of great frauds and ras calities in the State election and in sisting that he was cheated out of the Governor's office. There is not a negro in North Carolina stupid enough to credit Buch a lame yarn. If the GinefaFs idea is to write in the spirit of a politioal martyr, that he may thereby excite the sympathies of Harrison and his Cabinet, then we can understand his latest howl. But if he is writing merely or his North Carolina "sav ages" and their "allies," then he is It will raging wasting stationery and time, pay him better to fish in tbe Pee Dee for gudgeons. j We look' upon Dockery's arraign ment of the - Democracy as a huge joke, It is only "my bod. Oliver's". pleasant way of indulging in the hilarities of the Christmas season. It is not generally known that this perennial seeker of office this eter nal evergreen is a man of infinite fun and irrepressible waggery. He must have his little joke. So he fires away in the Republican and the only feathers that fly are those left in his own nest. He must think himself indeed great when a majority of 14,000 cannot satisfy him that the White Men of North Carolina have no use for him. His assaults upon the Democratic party will amount to nothing. If you think so ask Sena tor Vance. , Dockery is in politics the modern Munchausen. He is a romancer who would eclipse "Peter Wilkins" or "Gulliver." We copy from tbe Raleigh State Chronicle whose editor seems to have waded through the . Dockery Blush and dirt. It says: "He says that he has felt it before, and that he infinitely prefers to be ."counted out" than to be "counted in." He then delivers himself of a moral essay upon how incomprehensible it is to him that a man can take, "with brazened impudence," an office to which he is not elected, but who obtained it by "fraud and chicanery" and the "rascality of Returning Baards." - Then Mr. Dockery alleges that having lost 7,000 votes in the white counties west of Raleigh, the Democrats "were driven, beats en and discomfltted into the Eastern negro counties for the perpetration of their vile, swindling schemes and the consummation of their devilish purposes.' He gives some false account of how these ''purposes" were secured says that the vote of thirty town ships in Eastern North Carolina were thrown cut and uses a great many expre-" sions, such as 'villainy,' unscrupulous,' 'disregard .of solemn obligations.' 'pervert their sacred and responsible trusts,' 'pecu liar fitness of dirty work,' 'noted bad char acter,' 'reckless cross-road politicians,' 'ut ter defiance of law,' 'intensely vile and false,' 'doctor the returns,' 'infamous, dis gracefully infamous, 'perpetrators of villa nous frauds,' 'unprincipled despots,' &o. In his reckless attack upon the men who compose the Democratic party no abuse is too violent, or no misrepresentation too 'in famous' to suit this defeated Republican candidate. After proceeding at length on this line, Mr. Dockery sends up a jeremiad over the future outlook of the country. The Stab wishes no harm to the Gineral."; ' It would be glad to see him get an office under Harrison that would remove him bo far from North Carolina that he could not again run for Governor and write slanderous, sour, slimy attacks upon the White Men of the State, whose shoe-latchets be is not worthy to unloose. This would save the State much shame and tickle to death one of the most pertinacious office-seekers and would' be office-suckers in all America. Dr. O. W. Wright, in his new book of travels, "A- Winding Journey Around the World," a book that is well praised, says: "The Germans, he says, are ia advance or tne wnoie woria, not only in the uni versality of education, but also in the sever ity of culture." Weekly WILMINGTON, C., FRITjAX JANUARY 4, 1889. :' JUrs. Thomas Nelson Page, whoBe death we mentioned, was a daughter of Mr Charles Bruceof Charjotte county, V a. She was but. twenty- one, and- was married to,, tbe most gifted of living Virginia authors, in 1886. The Richmond Dispatch says : " "Mrs. Page was a very beautiful and ac complished lady. "She was not only the colaborateur of her husband in his literary work, but had been the heroine of 'several of his stories, notably,' 'Unc' - Edinboro's DrowndinV This -story-, was i written by Mr.age while on a visit, to his 'sweet heart's home, the meeting therein described being taken from the author's own ex perience," " - - " -- Mr. Bruce; is a. distinguished and cultured alumnus-t'Wis TJfiiYersityL of N. C, and was before the. war the largest slave owner in Virginia. . The Raleigh people are . consider ing the importance of having the Methodist College, Trinity, moved to that town. I ' We have no doubt that it would be wise on the ' part of Methodists to make the move if the inducements are such as ; tot ena' m to do itr; IVwould give'Trinity a boost such as it never had. ' - Our belief has long been to build your colleges at the central points and pnt your church buildings on the most conspicuous r thoroughfares. - we would as a friend of Trinity like to see it moved to Greensboro, Durham or Raleigh,' the last to be preferred There is an ugiy scandal in Wash ington. The wife of a high offioial in the War Department was taken to a station house in a condition of beast ly drunkenness. Thehuaband came, and seeing his degraded wife, burst into tears, t Then followed this; "The wife, not yet wholly recovered from the effects of her potations, instead of welcoming him with Conjugal terms of en dearment, upbraided him, loudly exclaim ing: 'You scoundrel, you are the cause of this.' Without reply, the husband turned away, still Bobbins, and left the station." He a f to wards What a picture! took her home. Annual Communication of Blaaons. The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free j and Accepted Masons of North. Car olina will convene in its 102d Annual j Communication at its hall' in Ral eigh, on Tuesday evening, January 8th. Return tickets will be issued over the several railroad lines in this State, as follows: " At the usual "ex cursion rates" over the several lines controlled by the Richmond & Dan ville Railroad Company, Raleigh & Augusta Air Line, Seaboard Sc Roan oke, Carolina Central, Wilmington St Weldon and branches; Wilming ton, Columbia & Augusta, Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley, Atlantic & North Carolina railroads. The low est possible rates have been secured and it IsTimportant that all attend ing the Grand Lodge eall for return tickets jaA the point- of . taking the cars." -:..''" . . . Seaman Home Election of Cbaplaln A meeting of the Exeentive Com mittee of the Seaman's Friends Society was held yesterday afternoon in the parlor of the Seaman's Home. There were present. Mr. Geo. R. French, Mr. George Harries, Mr. R. E. Heide, Mr. George R. French, Jr., and Mr. L. Hansen. Mr. George R. French, president' called the meeting to order, and ex plained the purpose for which the committee had assembled to con sider the election of a chaplain for the Home.' The secretary placed before the meeting applications from Rev.Rich ard Webb, Rev. W. M. Kennedy, Rev. J. M. Hedrick, Rev. T. P. Ricaud, and Rev. Chas. E. Carlstrom : The appointment of Mr. Carlstrom was earnestly advocated by Dr. Thos. F. Wood, Mr. W. M. Cumming, Mr. J. M. Forahee, Mr. T. B. Kingsbury, and Mr. James Sprunt, who were in at tendance, i - Nominations were called for and Mr. George Harries nominated Rev. T. P. Ricand; Mr. R. E. Heide, Rev. J. M. Hedrick; Mr. W. P. Oldham, Rev. W. M. Kennedy; Mr. George R. French, Jr., Rev. Chas. E. Carlstrom, and also Rev. Richard Webb. A ballot being -taken it was found that Rev. W. Mr Kennedy had re ceived a majority of the votes cast and on motion his election to the po sition was made unanimous. The secretary was instructed to no' tify Rev. Mr. Kennedy of his election as chaplain and request him to state at what time he will -be- ready to as sume the duties of the position. Dealb of Caps. Oeorc Sloan. -' Capt. George Sloan, secretary and treasurer of the Wilmington Com press Co., died yesterday afternoon at his home in this city, from an at tack of paralysis, with which he was stricken early in the morning. Capt. Sloan was in the" fifty-fourth year of his age. He was a native of Sampson county and Served -during the war- as captain of a company in the Fifty first regimeni" He removed to this city from Fayetteville soon after the close of the war, and has resided here ever since, j having been " for many years cast secretary and treasurer of the Wilmington Compress Co., an office Which also covers the manage ment of the compress works.' He married a daughter of Mr. B. F. Mitchell and leaves a widow and several children to mourn their great loss. ''. . Capt. Sloan was a man of high moral character, an earnest Christian, kind-hearted and generous, and was deservedly held in the highest esteem by the community.' In; Fayetteville, where hiayouth and early . manhood were spent, he was dear to the hearts of many who will mourn his death with sincerest sorrow. : , ' His: funeral ".will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock, from the First Baptist Church, thence to Oakdale Cemetery. - ; P- WASHINGTON. - ; Tbe Department of Stat, and tbe Sel I cure of tb Steamer Bavtlan Kepmb- le-.A Kesrro";fllu risers bis Brotber. v t WaOTraoTOH? r Dec. -ii-it is ? stated L positively at the Department of State to- nay ; mat no demana ror .indemnity has been made in the case of the- steamer Hay tian Republic. Mr. Morse, owner of the vessel-, recently requested Secretary Bay ard to demand $250,000 indemnity- The Secretary has informed him that there is no need of haste in the matter, and that the question of - damages 1 can best bo deter mined after the vessel has arrived-at New York, where it is due in a few days. t. : It is learned at the Department of State that the case of the brig Josef a against the Spanish Government, for indignities, etc., alleged to have been imposed by customs officers at Porto Rico, has been - under UnvestUatton-mince Jnly.l887The in. veetiratiou disctosed tha followme facts: In uly, 187.1he Amerjcan bfigjosefa, of owdbw,; E. R. Snow,? masterr.fntered tbe port of Arroya, having cleared from. New York in the previous month. When her manifest and bill of lading were examined by customs officials, twenty boxes of corn starch of the value of $36, were ; found to won tne manliest ana not In the cargo. Fr this shortage a fine of $200 per box, or u,uuu altogether, was imposed by the cus toms authorities. : Capt. Snow - protested. and stated that when - he Was -. taking hla cargo at New York another vessel. a hark oTa 'very-similar name to his was in port and near the Josefs, and was loading under the direction of the same ehippins agent as the Josef a, that the re ceipts were signed by his first mate, a man named jueison, ana that wben the manifest was nandea nim (enow) he . signed it hur riedly and without caving much attention: that receipts for boxes of corn starch were signed for by C. Olsen, while all the rest of the cargo was signed for by Meleon. Capt. Snow presented his case to the U. iJonsui, who presented it to the covern- ment of Porto Rico and urged remission, or at least a reduction -of the fine on the explanation ? thus offered. This was re fused. The Department of State wrote to the Treasury Department and learned that the bark Josera had sailed from New York for San Franciseo on June 15. 1887. but the starch was not found - on board when she arrived, nor was any one named Olsen on board. Her first mate's name 1 was Kelly. The case is a striking one, from the fact that a short shipment of $38 worth of starch, nets a fine , of $4,000, but it is explained at the Department that the ope ration of th.9 Spanish law is marked by such excessive fines. The United States, as well as England and Sweden, has endeavored to have this corrected, but so far without success It is stated at the Department that Spanish I ordenanzas are framed on the theory that a missing package not satisfactorily ac counted for covers a successful smuggling! operation. Judging from the correspon- j dence the Spanish authorities reason tha twenty boxes, said to contain merchandise of little value, appear to have gone on board tbe Josefa at New York: ihatihe captain's successive excuses have been ex ploded; that there is -no evidence that the twenty boxes contained corn starch; that tney may nave contained opium, or some other valuable article, and that they may have been successfully smuggled ashore. Therefore the authorities adhere to their maximum fine of $200 for each mfcsing package, no matter what the alleged con tents may be. By statute law of the United mates tbe unexplained absence of a mani fested package ia punishable with $500 fin?. In view of these facts, it is intimated that Secretary Bayard does not feel justi fied in pressing the demand - for remission in this particular case, and that he will de fer bringing the case to the attention of the Spanish Government until more satisfac tory evidence is produced as to the actual disposition of the starch. Washington. Dec. 28 Taylor Carev. colored, a patient in the Freedman's Hos pital, rose early this morning and shot and killed his brother Isaac, who was employed as. a nurse in toe. same nostutaL -The brothers had not been on friendly terms for some time, but tbe - immediate cause of the murder was a dispute about a dollar and a quarter. The murderer is in the last stages oi consumption ana probably win not live long enough to be punished. Washington, Dec. 29. The sub-Com mittee of the Senate Finance Committee in charge of the tariff bill was in session to day, going over tbe details oi the measure so far as they have not been passed upon by the Senate, and determining what changes to propose when consideration of tbe bill is resumed next week. It is hardly possible that the committee will be enabled to complete this work before the new year, and it will probably be necessary to con tinue study of the measure with a view to perfecting it until nearly, if not ouite. the date fixed for a final vote upon it. The suo-Uommittee of the senate Ap propriations Committee, in charge of the District of Columbia bill, are working hard on it. and will probably be ready to report it to the Senate next week. In the House the Indian and Sundry Ci vil Appropriation bills are ' about com pleted and willba reported to the full com mittee next week. This leaves the Fortifi cations, Army,' Naval, Deficiency and Ag ricultural and Postoffice Appropriation bills yet to be completed. Nearly allot them are in an advanced stage, and indica tions are that the first month in the new year will see them all well out of the way of tbe House. CALIFORNIA. Tbe Jackaon-IHeAulIfle Prize Figbf. By Telegraph to the Horning Star. San Fbancisco. Dec. 29 The Tesult of .tbe Jackson-McAuliffeflght last night was a great surprise to aiarge part of the sport ing fraternity here, and there is no doubt that admirers of the Calif ornian lost a large amount of money, as wonderful in terest had been taken in the contest, and betting had been very heavy with large odds in McAuliffe's favor. McAuliffe was out-fought from the start to the finish, and throughout the whole fight he did not succeed in giving Jackson a blow which had any telling effect, though he aimed a number of powerful ones at the dusky Australian which would have brought the contest to a sudden close if they bad reached their mark. Jackson was recognized as a good man, but the great majority of the spectators were unacquainted with the fact that be possessed such wonderful quickness as well as science and hara-mtung powers Jackson came out of the contest almost without a scratch, while McAuliffe was badly punished, among his injuries being a broken nose. ' - - President Fuller, of the CaUfornlfr-AUi letio Ciub, received a dispatch from Charley MitcbeLYatfrting; that Jake Kilrain would -fight the winner of the Jackson-McAuliffe tight, and that he would wager from $200 to $500 la addition , to the Club purse. Mitchell states that Kilrain's challenge to the winner - is in preference to his partial engagement with John L. Sullivan. After the battle last mgbt Peter Jackson expressed himself as pleased that Kilrain had declared himself and that he would accept the .-.challenge. Wben Kilrain's challenge became known in the club room during the progress of the fight last night, bets of t wo to one were made that he would back down. ; ohio. Outrage by White CapaTba People r Excited, and. tbe Villains "Will Pro bably be Begulated. Chicago, Deco27. A dispatch from Martin's Ferry. Ohio, says: At Hopedale, Harrison county, Christmas night, White Caps visited Dr. John Parkhill, a leading physician, and gave him a terrible thrash ing. His errand boy had been intoxicated, and the. White Caps accused Parkhill of druggsnc . him. , Charles Gamble, a mer chant, hearing they contemplated regu lating him, accosted two men, whom he had reason to believe were members of the organization, and threatened to shoot them in case a demonstration was made against him. - There is much excitement here, and the White Caps will probably be regulated. vibginia.;i . Necro'a Houee Blotirn up with, JDynamlte Three Persona Fatally Injured. '-4 ? '!s ' - Hahbibonbubo, Dec. 28 A dynamite cartridge, piacect under tbe corner of a house near McGahey tville. this countv. Wednesday night, in which partv of ne groes were having a dance, exploded, and almost totally destroyed the building, and. fatally injured Amos Moore and Uwo wo men: ' Terrible loss of life would have happened if an alarm had not been given by a man who saw tbe-cartridge and recog nised the danger. All but three escaped from the building, before the explosion took place. .Moore and the two women, who had not time to eecace, were thrown with terrible force through the building, and it is feared they - cannot recover. It is thought tbe perpetrator of the fiendish act is known . and every effort is being made to arrest him. People of the community are highly excited, and threats of lynching are ueeiy lnuuigeo ia w. v IpRESBTTeRIANS: Conference or Delecates from the Northern and Southern Assemblies. ' - : By Telegraph to the Horning star; Nbw Yobx. Dec. 28. Arrangements are about completed for a Conference relative to cooperation or union between tbe South ern and Northern Assemblies of the Pres byterian church. All the memben of the Northern committee have arrived, and at noon to-day discussion of the propositions to their Southern brethern was continued. The Conference began this afternoon at No. 63 Fifth Avenue. The Southern men are nearly all here, and the absent ones are ex pected this afternoon. It was said by both committees this morning that their dis cussions would be strictly private, as would also be the proceedings in joint session. Even the decision will not be disclosed until the meetings of their General Assem- tmes in may next. To-nignt the delegates will attend a reception to be given them bv the Presbyterian Union at the Metropolitan Opera House. . New York. Dec. 28. The Conference of the Presbyterian Southern and Northern General Assemblies committees was report ed as progressing favorably at the close of K-aay a session. in -the morning the Southern men deliberated alone as did also the Northern men. .In the afternoon the opinions of both sides were brought to gether and the -session was adjourned until Monday. Many of the pulpits of the lead ing city churches will be occupied to-mor row by the visiting clergymen. INDIAN -TERRITORY. Settlers Forcibly BemoTed from Oklahoma. St. Louis. Dec. 27. A special from Pnrcell, Indian Territory, says: Indian scouts, under Lieut. McComb, have visited Oklahoma station and arrested all in that vicinity, compelling them to hitch up their wagons and take everything with, them and go to the scouts' camp. The scouts disarmed the settlers - and drove them like so many hogs. Many of those who were arrested were men who had been engaged in teaming for the government, others had been railroad employes, who were tempo rarily without work and who had expected work soon, the people of Purcell are very indignant, supposing it to be a scheme to capture the town site. Some of those at the station have small houses built on run ners This is a new style of architecture. but it may possibly be very convenient where one baa several masters.. BURGLAR KILLED. Negro Who Attempted to Bob a Douso at China Grove. Charlotte. N. C. Dec. 27. News has Just reached the Chronicle office of the lilling of a negro burglar (name not known), at China Grove, thirty miles north of here, by M. M. Kirk, ; Christmas night. Kirk hearing ' the - negro trying toteVTi -nil "nouaerr Sot a gun And . drove the - negro away, v- Whue standing on his porch Kirk discovered his gun was not loaded. He went in the house and began loading it. Just as he finished he heard steps behind him. and turning. he saw the negro who had been lurking near the house, raise a drawn knife to strike him. Kirk who had tbe gun by the muzzle, dealt the negro a blow over the head with the butt, which killed him. The coroner's jury acquitted Kirk. MARYLAND, - Another Fierce Battle wItbaOyster Pi rates, but Nobody 'Serlonaly Burt. Bv Telegraph to the Horning star. Baltdcobb. Dec. 29. Information has been received of a desperate fleht between the police sloop Julia Hamilton and a fleet of illegal dredgers, that took place last Thursday afternoon in Fishing Bay on the Dorchester county . coast. Capt. Tyler of the Julia Hamilton discovered the pirates at work in the morning and ordered them away. They were enveloped in a dense fog and apparently sailed off, but returned, and in the afternoon Capt. Tyler attacked them. The battle continued several hours, over six hundred shots being fired from the police boat and a great many from the boats of the oys ter thieves. An unknown dredger was shot through the arm, and the boats were badly riddled with bullets, though no serious damage . was done. The pirates were finally routed and put to flight. Fri day, morning the State forces were strengthened by the arrival of the steamer Governor McLane, Captain Howard, and five dredging schooners were captured and towed into Cambridge. Their captain, however, escaped. The battle la said to have been full of excitement, and several narrow escapes from personal injury are reported. DIPHTHERIA. The Disease . Epidemic In : Western Pennsylvania. Reading, Pa., Dec. 27. Breingsville is the centre of the country districts where diphtheria is raging with such fearful re sults. To-day two sons of Henry Yonng, of that place, died of this disease. This makes five deaths in this .family, all from diphtheria, within ten days. Their sixth and only child ia not expected to recover. The four who died previously were all buried in the same grave. In many fami lies two or more children have died. The terrible disease is spreading havoc in the neighborhood. 2 ; ILLINOIS. JV T . -!?fbt TjhIeasoBtolen Bond Oases Chicago. Dec. 27. The grand jury which has been considering the stolebond cases has found two true bills or burglary, and two of receiving stolen . property. knowing the same to have been - stolen. against each of the following: W. F. Shaw, Henry Plessner, C. D. Taylor, and Otis Corbett. The latter is Shaw's father-in-law, and will be brought from What Cheer, lows, the requisition papers having been obtained ana forwarded. MISSOURI. Escape of Bald Knobbers and Train Bobbers at Ozark. St. Louis, - December 29. A special from Ozark, Mo., says: John and Willie Matthews, two of the four condemned Bald Knobbers, and W. P. Halbauseon.rFrank Johnson, William Red ford. Thos. Rooney and William 8asser five train robbers escaped from jail here last night. Some outside .unknown person or persons cut through the brick wall of the prison, un locked the ceils and released tne prisoners. Dave Walker, leader of the Bald Knob bers, and his son William, also under sen tence to hang, and a young man' named Rucer, refused to leave, and were found in then cells when the discovery was made. There is great excitement here among the peopierto-aay. M m ; ' President Cleveland has .directed the re moval of Edward- Cushlnr, collector of customs at Belfast, Me., and will nominate his successor m a few days. NO. 9 D UNS ME VIE W. Tbe Buslnesa Outlook Still Ene.nr- aslut; Thouch Prices of all Commo dities are Lower, 'i:...';;-;:;-New Yobk. Dec. 2a Trade during the past week has been undisturbed by the monetary pressure often experienced near the end of tbe year, and has on the whole improved. - . . - - - . Tbe long foreshadowed break in wheat speculations came with a fall of S cents on Wednesday at Chicago, but there has been some slight recovery. Bales have been but io.UUO.UUU bushels for the week, an l it is still uncertain whether prices j have de clined enough to permit the marketing of the large surplus the country bs. on hand. Enormous crops in Russia and the Daaubian States, with lowerfreights. keep European prices low. and there ia constant unloading by operators throughout Europe wno Dougnt neavuywnen a crop scarce prevailed. Cotton was steady, with sales for the week of 310,000 bales, and coffee unchanged, with 204,000 bags sold. A break in oil dropped the price 7 cents.' and refined also declined 10 cents per 1C0 gallons, t ,vf ' . .v ' - ' V". t V- The general yielding In; the speculative markets is bnt tardy recognition of tbe fact that white speculation was stimulated bv currency expansion, prices became essen tially artificial, and tbe connection of tbe markets with tho laws of supply and de mand was broken. No monetary pres sure now forces liquidation: throughout the country the money markets are amolv supplied, though slight closeness is noted at bt. PauL and frequency . of failures causes some uneasiness at Memphis ; Tbe treasury is putting out more money than it takes in $1,200,000 during the past week and the out-go of gold has ceased for the present. Herchandize exports improve fr.im New York for December, exceeding last year's by 0 per cent., which indicates a re markably large movement when wheat shipments are still so nearly prohibited. The excess of exports and imports for November was even larger than prelimi nary statements foreshadowed, . reaching $22,610,894 merchandize and $3,415,415 gold. Trade accounts from the interior are generally satisfactory, though no improve ment ia seen at Memphis, and tbe iron. steel and coal trades at Pittsburg are dull. At Philadelphia the iron trade is perplexed and uncertain, and it ia believed that con cessions on the price have been made, but more active bidding ia noticed. Steel blooms are unsettled and low, but rails and manufactured iron look better. The porta of railroad traffic show that very large business is in progress, indeed, east bound shipments last week were 111, 000 tons the largest ever reported aeaiust 34.000 tons for the corresponding week last year. ihe course of stocks during the oast week has been decidedly favorable to holders, especially in a few of tbe more active shares, and the general average of prices is aooui a aoiiar per snare nigner man at tne opening of the year. Prices of commodi ties on the' other hand still tend down ward, having declined about li per cent in December, and about 8i per cent, since January 1st. . j The year closes with general confidence rather greater indeed than tbe present state of prices and the rate of consumption in some of the most important industries appear to warrant; but the msrvellous growth of the countrv continues and in sures us increasing demand for products at no distant day. .Easiness failures occurring throughout the country during the last week, number for tbe United States 278; Canada 23. Total 299; against 311 last week. ALABAMA. Two Railroad Accidents, nesr Selma No One Seriously Hurt Collision of Passenser Trains near Birmingham. Sblha. December 28. The north-bound train on . the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia R. R., which left Selma jaj. 7,50- a. ul. was aersuea-ar-s a. ns.. two miles i-K3Sr kcj&rnsvine -aad. eleven, miles from Selma. The accident waa caused by a broken rail. The first and second class passenger coaches were thiown oft and partly overturned, bruising about sixteen passengers. Authorities here immediately telegraphed to know if medical aid was needed, and conductor Jones sent word that nobody was bad enough hurt to need a doctor. . Robert Young, a merchant of this city, waa reported the worst hurt, by a sprain in tne back, but it was not thought to be serious. About 10 o'clock last night tbe west bound train on the Cinncinnati, Selma & Mobile road waa derailed about four and a half miles from Selma. Two coaches were partially turned over, and the passen gers were badly shaken up, but nobody was seriously hurt. ittBKiNGHAH, Dec 28. Two passenger trains on the Birmingham Mineral Kail road collided near this city to-day, wreck ing both engines and baggage cars. Bag gage master Laird -Waa severely injured and several passengers were slightly bruised. The engineers and firemen jumped and escaped injury. Difference in the time of the engineers caused the collision. W1LLN OTDO WN. A Deposed Priest Institutes Suit after Suit to Beeover Bis Clerical Bights 9300,000 Damages Claimed Dubuque, Iowa, December 28 Father F. C. Jean, about ten years ago was re moved from the pastorate of St. Iraneua' Catholic Church, at Lyons, by Bishop Hennesey. He has brought several suits to recover damages from the Bishop, on tbe ground that his removal was illegal; in all of which suits Jean was defeated. He has now filed with the clerk of the District Court a petition asking damages from Bishop Hennessey, W. J. Knight and W. j. - (jantiiuon, jointly, in tbe sum of; $300,000. He charges them with having conspired to have bis name dropped from the Catholic dioceses of the United States. Father Jean was removed at the instance of the Catholics of his parish, on the charge, which was sus tained by Bishop Hennessey, upon learning tbe facts in tbe case. Tbe question of pro perty ownership ia involved. Father Jean claims that bis personal funds were invest" ed in property the church has deprived him of by legal process, and, although de feated in every tribunal, he still insists that he is wrongfully deprived of his property. and although silenced from preaching he is bent upon fighting it out in any court wuicu "iuo w. u uugu ajjBwcu tuocaagawxmoEUHgtjj county, and gave a decision against the ' plaintiff. ? A suit was also tried in Jackson county, with a similar result. NEBRASKA. Numerous Bank Failures Tbe Peo ple Greatly Excited Over What is Thought to be a Deliberate Purpose to Defraud. Chicago. Dec. - 28. A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says , the failure of trveral Nebraska banks within a week has caused considerable uneasiness throughout the State. These failures, however, ere not due to financial stringency, and in soma instances it looks as though there was a de liberate purpose to defraud on the part of those conducting the institutions. The State laws governing private banking are very lax. The statute requires that all corporations engaged in banking shall an nually make a report, under oath, to the State Auditor, of their resources and lia bilities; there is no provision for State in spection, and owing to this oversight mush room banks have sprung into existence, Ever since the big swindle perpetrated by Valparaiso bankers, leas man a month ago, the press of tne state nave osen vigorously urging the need of a revision of the bank ing laws, and one of the first matters which will be acted upon by tne coming legisla ture will probably be on -this important subject. - "Investigation into1 the burning of the Kate Adams, on the Mississippi river.shows that fourteen lives were lost. The fire originated in a sack of cotton forward of tne boiler. Spirits Turpentine. Tarboro Southerner : Captain Bixby, of the U. 8, Engineer corps and in . charge of the river and harbor improve ments in this State, last week in a canoe -with J. P. Tillery came down the river -from Rocky Mount to this place, making a preliminary examination - Two dajs were required for tbe trip-. Capt Bixby Only epoke generally about tbe trip and his ob-. . ecrvations, but what be said waa encour aging. The aale of Jas. Hodges' tract of land Monday for $3, 800, in view of the fact that some fifteen or more years ago it sold for $16,000, has caused many to open " their eyes and say thai real estate in Edge- . combe has depreciated fifty per cent. Such " is not the case. Launnburg Exchanae: The wife of Thomas Adams, rolnrpd wh fannrf - dead in her house near Col. Jesse Bare grave's residence in. the country yesterday uioruiDg. . i nree montns ago there were nine dwelling bouses to rent in this town. Now every house is occupUd and there ia a demand for more houses A hundred dollars reward for a man who can send you a paper for nothing and make a ' living, will a bint be sufficient T Mr. Colin McArtbur killed tit hogs this week 15 months old. that weighed 1.980 pounds, or an average of 800 pounds eaob. Laurinburg has supplemented its lib eral Thanksgiving contribution to Oxforl orphans by a contribution of $21.33 for CbriatmaB. Beat that. . Asheville Citizen: The Citizen to-day announces to its manv friends a change in its ownership and business man agement, of which a full statement will be made in a future number. . Messrs. McDowell, Erwin and others, who brought suit in damages for injuries sustained in the accident on tbe A. & a. Railroad more than one year ago. have recovered it in tho - Supreme Court. The papers in the matter have been properly adjusted anu ihe $18, 000 will soon be paid to them. W had a conversation yesterday with Gen.' Clingmau who has just returned from Ne- . York, from a long visit connected with his electric light patent, r The General has patents for two systems, the incandescent and the arc. He is confident from experi ments made with them that tboy are supe- . rior to the systems now in use. Plymouth .'Monitor: United States Engineer Bixby and Capt, Schuster are at Weldon, making preparations to clean out Roanoke river from that point to its mouth. They have a steam tug, several barges and a dredging machine. They purpose cleaning out the rafts first, using for that part $15,000 of the $40,000 appro priation. Then tbe remaining money. $25,000, will be Used for removing the sand bars. Work will be begun at an ear ly day. Departed this life last week at Scuppernong. in this county. L. M. Phelps, an old and prosperous citizen of, the county, and long a summer visitor to Wags Head. - Three of the white con victs made their escape from the camp, at Williamston last week . Two of them ' went to an . old man's house near town. made him cook Bupper for them, and each took a change of apparel, leaving their stripes behind.; Clinton Caucasian: Mr. P. M. Pearsall, of Jones county, gaves us a plea sant call yesterday. Mr. Pearsall is a Sampson boy and aa such we are proud of him. He has represented Jones county with credit in the Legislature and his friends are now pushing bis claims for a director of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad. Lieut. Bias Underwood has been commissioned Quartermaster of the Second Regiment of the North Caro lina State Guard, with the rank of Cap tain, vice IT. T. Atkins, , resigned, by Col. Jones. It is an excellent selection. A shattered remnant of Sampson's chival rous and patriotic sons, who faced death contending for an eternal principle in the ' mightiest conflict of modern times, met in the court bouse in uunton on Saturday last, December 22d. Three delegates were appointed from this county, viz: Messrs J. T. Gregory, J. N. Fields and Joslah Pope, and we suppose the same waa done in every county in the State, to attend tho convention of disabled North Carolina soldiers in Raleigh January23d. - Raleigh News Observer: Messrs W. H. Ellis & Co-, dealers in -groceries. general merchandise and liquors, on Wil mington street: yesterday made an assign ment. T. R. PurnellJEiq., is assignee. The assets are stated at $7,000; the liabili ties at siu.uuu. A riotous affair is re parted from Sanford on Christmas Day, in ' wtitui a negro man was t anot in me - neao .j . i i i 1 . . i of negroes are 'reported to have been en gaged in tbe affair, and several of them -have since been arrested and carried to Carthage for trial. Hon. John Gray Bynum was appointed judge in the. 10th district, not in the 8th aa has heretofore been stated. A number of our citi zens met by invitation on Wednesday af ternoon at the office of Maj. R. 8.- Tucker for the purpose of meeting with Rev. Mr. Crowell, president of Trinity College, and considering tbe feasibility of securing the removal of Trinity College to this place.. The benefits that would accrue to the col lege from having it located at Raleigh were stated and discussed, and the advantages to Raloigb were dwelt on. A committee was appointed to ' bring to the attention of the Chamber of Indus try to this matter, together with tbe loca tion at this place of the projected Baptist Seminary for young ladies. Also, a com mittee was appointed to inquire aa to loca tion, etc. President Crowell writes: "In reference to the inquiry in yonr issue of December 25th, as to whether history is taught in North Carolina, as far aa Trinity College is concerned 1 beg to say that histo ry ia one of "the most important chairs in the amount of time given and methods and work required." News was received ' here of a decided sensation which has been created near Clayton by the mysterious dis appearance of a negro girl named James Ellen Kyle, who it is supposed has been murdered. She left home a month or two and her mother thoughtahe was across the river with her undo, but sbo now turna,np missing, and there is strong suspicion of. two negro boys having killed her and thrown her in the river. Winston Republican: Tbe Wil mington Stab, the leading Democratic pa per of the State, &o. Thermometers registered from 12 to 16 degrees last Friday , morning. The Mayor's Court records . 58 cases for November, with fines imposed amounting to $269. The Wachovia Bank will close the year '88 in a healthy ' financial condition, as is evinced in the re port published elsewhere this week. Spry, living in Jerusalem townBhip, Davie county, committed suicide a short time since by shooting himself in tbe leg and bleeding to death from the wound. Dr. Thomas Hume, of Chapel Hill, and a Pro fessor of English in the University, spent several days in the city the past week. Du ring hla brief stay . here he delivered the fourth lecture of the regular course before the pupils and friends of the Graded School. - and also delivered a sermon to the members of the Y. M. C.A- and a lam BHrii'jsfrgf- i ciujsbsv BoTEwereIoTellectual treats, The frame of the new hotel at Pied- - mont Springs is up. The main building is 100 x 60 and the wing 50 x 20, and is three atAvtafl K ? or " Amw Vf il 1 aw maI :. BU1 AVS U1U eAUiJ iUlllOl Wl f D(CU 18 years, living near Lawsonville, Stokes county, fell into the fire in a fit one day last week, from the effects of which sbo died. A letter from Yadkin county, dated December 10th, has this in substance to say: There has been found, upon tbe lands of the widow AbselaCasstevens, four miles from Yadkinville, a silver mine, tho ore of which has been sent to be tested by an assayor and pronounced four-fifths sil ver and one-fifth lead. Mr. Jamca CiuiAV- of Rnr.k Hhnal Yftrilrtn vmntv in company with others engaged ia a big rabbit hunt, quite recently, while resting, , and listening to a chase, Mr. Casey with his gun setting down in front of him and both hands over the muzzle, the weapon exploded, ' discharging the . entire load , through N both hands, fana!n- fnntfi mln anil ftArlnfia In-lnrv Mr. L O. Binkley of this county re turned the past week from Pomeroy, Washington Territory, where he had been for some time. . He will not return, prefer ring Piedmont Carolina any and all the time, stating among other things that wbilo wages were better work was not regular, and that for climate, water, etc , old Pied mont Carolina could not bo excelled.' Tbe dwelling house of Dr. O. M. Holcomb. near Chestnut Ridge, Yadkin county, it U reported here, waa burned on tbe 6th, and one-half the contents, . with tho smoke house, were destroyed. A trunk and con tents, valued at $100, belonging to Mrs. Castevens, a visitor from Missouri, was also ui....ui nruA i - onn to $1,000. . . -
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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