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It is strange, quite strangikj that these Lite day converts to fair play and hon- :5t dealing have not in twenty-jfive i vearsdiscoyere'd one repulsive feat I ure n the get- up of the gerryr tier, ana mat u iook a iJe- i ' . J ... ' . mocratic Legislature 111 heretc magically gerrymandered ;Re- v.iDlican bqate to open their eves to . ' . .' ' .. .. .! i ! trie atrocity ot sucn a ti King and in- spire, their' souls with a uiuruwgii- nre.l horror for the monstrosity It seemed to be a very nice jand a very convenient thing to have about v. nen titcy naa tne exclusive propri ctorshin. but not quite a suitable but not quite thing- for plain, unsophisticated i)amocrats to make any or cultivate an acquaint This is not surprising. advances to tice with. 1 jrhey know fhiy kjiow, just what it means, and t;o, that for years past j St has been me of- the chief reliances' s of rhd Re- publican party to continue in power, and that ..without it hi'ir showj fqr getting a majority in j tlje House of ( Representatives would, eceeding- !y slim. If there is any virtuk cir latent potency in the gerrymander that the Republican statesmen have not discovered and turned to ac- :oiint, plain, unskilled Democrats need not go prospecting! for it Notwithstanding, their suddenly ,i roused dislike for the jerryrr rymander, . it has been for vears one! of the es- tablished institutions in the can prty, and they became; so thor oughly familiar with i that they was Dem- tie Dem rngtn was could take a State whic ocratte or one in whic o'cratic and Republican ;retty equally divided, marvelous dexterity! and with a drawing lines make Republican districts enough to astonish the natjives,arid ex cite the admiration ofthj man who sat on the fence and lookei !l on. 'they liked it so well and hav become so expert ,at it that there i hot a t State lin the North which is u der Repub- irean rule wnicn nas no been imost dexterously and scieritiflcally' gerry mandered, the fruits wnich tne njiimber of party has reaped in the (.Congressmen it has secured in that Way. . '. . As an' illustration. of thfc, the fol- lowing figures furnished by a corres- pondent of the New ,York World, writing from Ohio, relative to the. Republican gerrymander ofj that and other States, will be interesting and instructive. He sdts: ' "In the Contrressional elections of J 888 the following Northdifn States cast votes for candidates for Representatives of the two great political j) parties as fol lows: . f - Republican Democratic State. VoteS t Vote, Connecticut. . California. . . . Iowa.-.'. ...v. Illinois. ... . . Michigan Minnesota . . . 74,584 74,920 117,729 179,887 124,81 211,59 370,47.1 348,278 236,37 313,459 104,385 151,855 142,492 Massachusetts. 183,892 108,42.1 648,759 144,344 416,054 520,061 21,968 176,533 Nebraska. New York 80,552 635,757 New Jersey. J 151,493 Uhio Pennsylvania 396,455 446,633 17,530 155,232 Rhode Island! Wisconsin . l-r- Totals. . . . .1. . .3.886.399 3.074.165 The 3,386,399 Republican yoteai elect ed 120 Kepublican ConeressmenJ This was an average of not quite 26,900 Votes per Congressman. . j . i , I l he 3,074,165 Democratic Ivotes elect ed only 47 Congressmen!! This was an average of 65,408 votes! man. ; Congress- Less than 87,000 Repiblicari votes elect a congressman, while it takes more than Go,000 Democratic j Votes to elect one. In the whole cpuntjry tlie Democrats, although they have a majority in the popular vote of 10p, 000 and counting the white vote alone, fully'1,000,000, have; ten Repre sentatives less thanthj Republicans. Mi'ghty is the gerryminder, great the hypocrisy of the j Republicans who will not now declare thai it! is altogether lively, and, gigantic the check of the Republican statesman i who would deliberately but hi claws violently on that whij;h has been ineir most useful and effective stand v ell . diggers "in yisconsih at a depth of thirty feet have struck; a buried forest' If they keep on d!ig King perhaps they will find the man who first nominated Harrison for t I - M II - II 'II 1 j V lV I 1 i. 1 r K i 11 f H 1 II irkr tBA - I i : i . . . U - ". V ; v I'M - ' .. ; . A - i - M - I m. m.' m i , - -. i M rM ' - : 1 - ! I - - - ! I I .. . , f 17 II ' I . ! I " J; . . :!.-.! ..!. M, i.M '. .' I; J " J L - . ': I . . "Ml."" V ':, .. I . I i XmDrWiiDDramai!. - Mi .. . -: 1 .. .M- I 1 1 1- - - j- -:-h W A - . ---M;- M M-M k .1 v. mm mu - m,. . 11 ". Ml.;... i. i 1 ! ' I : . II; II II II .- '"I I 1 1 -, Ml M f II II . r II r . I I M:.' . ' ' ' .. M I - W II J II . ' ' M V - ! ar IrH rlQlmrA Airut' N . CI . !: II - II II II J I ' II 1 ll J II a II ,'. ; - 1 NX ' II II U I . M '. ..II . -II. . II 1.1 li'fll-I ' ll .'t m '. I . ; I 1 - w ' I I ' -.; i : -fcw . . - V I i I M ... l- 1 . w. 1 o " n 1 1 . : ; - - i -i m m mm mm m .mm m m m mm m mm mm m m m m m m mm am 1 . " i I r . - 11 M ,1 ' ' M i -' . f I VOL. XXI. THE POWER OF THE . MACHINE. I One of the chief characteristics pf the Republican party organization is the readiness jwith which the lesser leaders obey the greater, and how, when a line of policy is decided upon and the word of command giv en, they fall in and obey not mere ly in a formal way but with spirit and zeal.' They recognize the ma chine , and cheerfully givej allegi ance . to it. It does not matter as to whether the decrees pf the machine managers are made in reference to policiesjof State, to great national issues, to interfering with the? domes tic affairs of a State, or to settle the site of a World's Fair, they receive the same attention and are as impli citly obeyed. ; j When the big bosses decided to get absolute I control of the House of Representatives, so they might not be restrained from carrying out their partisan schemes, that it was neces sary to take an entirely new depar ture, to ignore the constitution in the letter and -spirit as it had been con strued and; acted upon since the foundation of the Government, and resort to arbitrary, dictatorial and despotic methods, it was I done and every Republican in the House fell into line and gave the decrees their support. The re sult is we see a so-called i House of Representatives dominated! by one man, a sight never witnessed in, this country before. This ig the work of the machine. I ' ! ! . When; the bosses who run this ma chine decided that for political con siderations it was expedient; to pre vent the World's Fair from being held in New York, a Deijnpcratic city, the word was passed along the line and enough votes werej cast to de cide the question in faqr of Chica go, the city selected and designated by the bosses. It was predicted three months ago that no matter what inducements in the way of a suitable site and liberal contributions New York mighlmake the Republi- can bosses had determined that she should not have the Fair. These pre dictions were verified! to the letter when thev beat New York which had offered $15;000,000 to defray the ex penses of the Fair, ; and asked no help' from the Government, with Re publican votes from States so close to New York that one would'natural ly suppose they would j be interested irr having it there, and gave it to Chicago, a city far in the interior, which had guaranteed only one third the' amount 'which! New York had, and which must have liberal appro priations from the Government to make the Fair a success. While the; plan was being perfected to beat New Vork it jwas managed secretly, bui it is no longer a secret that it was a partisan blow, in spired; by- partisan considerations and struck I for partisan purposes. The analysis of the votje shows this, even if it were not shown from other i sources. . Not counting the counting vote of Illinois which would! natur ally go to Chicago, .or the! vote of New York which would naturally go New York,! because either; if not governed by 1 their own interests would be afraid to vpte otherwise, from fear of their constituents, New York received only eighteen Repub lican votes, ! while Chicago received ninety-eight, thirty-eight of these Votes! coming from tlie. Middle and Eastern States that might be j classed as neighbors pf New York, and more interested in having the fair held there thaq in a city remote Trom them. . . "' ; '1 1 If this is not a strik ng illustration of practical politics in a matter which should .have no politics in it, and of the mighty, power of ihe bosses who run the machine, it would be difficult . ... i to find one. Boss Piatt, the machine manipulator in Ne'wj York; Boss Quay, the general machine manipu lator whd runs the Republican Na tional Committee and sees' to raking in the boodle for campaign purposes,- ana ; rsenjamm narnson, jvno sits iu the Presidential chair, did the work. Mighty is the machine j and rigid the discipline when even hi matters of this kind, where w$ would not ex pect to find politics, it speaks and is implicitly obeyed. I ! The Georgia mule is not mentally or physically differently constructed from other mules. He has an abid ing conviction that his heels, were made for kicking, and in the exercise of this prerogative he makes no in vidious distinction between high or low, age or youth, the sexes, or pre vious condition of servitude, j The other day one which had been on his good behavier for a year or more suc ceeded so ar in winning the confi at he ven dence of a Georgia boy tn tured within eight feet of therear extremity pf that mule, which seem ed to be absorbed . in deep, medita tion, an3 then .that boy suddenly turned a back summersault, aided by the mule, and saw mu titudinous stars. But he didn't! get mad! and wish he had a double barrel shot gun He just got up and went Co the other ' . L .1 i i j: i ? L i.L end of that mule, led. him to within a few feet of an industrious j and healthy colony of bees, rear end fore most tied him there and then went off at a safe distance to watch de a . a a . bbbbbi m m . j b. m m . m bibbbb a u . m mm b v . . . m a m mm . a bbp i i - - 1 : 7 B B B B BB-BB'. mm ( : m M - . s I- B B .... B B . Bl B B M - B B i mm''.. B B ArWt - B B ') BP Ba. ..B' m m , ' B B B B . J velopments. The I developments came and that boy revelled m the blissrof some of the grandest kick- j mg ever done by a mule in the State of Georgia, till that halter broke STATE TOPICS. 1 he llendersonviile limes is one of the few Republican papers pub lished in North Carolina. One of the: bright and peculiar characteristics of its editor! is his unsophisticated can dor, a quality not often found in Republican politicians, or Republi can editors. As an illustration of this read the following announce ment clipped from! an editorial in last weeks issue: "New recruits are ! coming into the ranks of the Republican part'. They know that if they stay,;in the Demo cratic party they will be old men before they are recognized or given an office." "New recruits" is somewhat vague, as it' might be two, or two thousand or ten thousand or a million or more. Our esteemed contemporary should be more definite to' give greater weight-to his-worlds' arid vest them with some importance; but the, ex ceeding qandor with which the in spiring, motive of the new recruits is stdted is refreshing and admirable. Wej have always been of the opinion that when a Southern , white man joins the Republican jj party he is- after the spoils, but it is not often that the Republican organ so candid- ly admits it If, the sales of real estate in Gree ns- boro recently reported be not exag gerated! as to number and price paid, the: "City of Flowers" must be on a boom indeed. This is the result of the confidence established and the impetus given by the prospect of the Bessemer steel works, and we do not believe it is a misplaced confidence. Geographically, GpeensbOro is situ ated with all the advantages to be come a large city, with excellent and constantly imjproving railroad facilities, giving fier speedy trans portation in all directions, on one of the great highways of travel !be tween the North and the South, with in six hours of Wilmington and the seal, in the midst of a country favor ed with a fertile soil, and rich in min erals and covered with magnificent forests of many varieties of growth, with numerous water-powers, land within j her limits a population of as cleverpeopleaslivepn the face of the earth, Oreensboro ought to boom and keep on booming. ;! BUILDING LIGHTHOUSES. The Work to' be Accomplished on Hat- teras Shoala Feasibility of the Project. Building a lighthouse on Hatteras shoals does not seem such a mighty task after all, in view of what has been accomplished in the way of lighthouse construction in other parts of the wrld. Mr. Eduard Peschau, German Imperial Consul at this port, showed a reporter a day or two ago a descriptive pamphlet, photographs and I drawings of the . Rothersand Lighthouse, ' off the mouth of the pver Weser, in the North Sea, some sixty miles from land, where the conditions as regards difficulties to be encountered were piuch the same as will be met at HatterasI The Rother sand light house stands in water, thirty feet deep at low tide. It was built at a cost of 853,000 marks, (something over $200,000) its construction was begun in 1882 and the work was completed in 1885, The details of its building are in teresting, the engineers having encount ered mjiny difficjulties.-which were, howT ever, happily surmounted. An immense iron caisson was! sunk in the sand to the depth, of thirty feet to form the founda tion, and this was filled in with solid ma sonry built up to low water mark, j The total cost of the lighthouse which itjis proposed to erect on the Diamond shoals at Hatteras, is jlimited by Con gress to $500,000. The locality is one of the most exposed on the coast At low tide the reef is covered bybout 24 feet of water the rise and fall of the tide at the site being about one and a half feet, and the current velocity is estimat ed to be about four knots per hour after rough j weather. "The J surface of the shoal in the vicinity , of the proposed site is composed of ! fine gray sand and broken shells. 1 1 J ! ' ' M j The1 specifications require the light house tower to be an enclosed structure which! must stand vertically and be 150 feet high .from the jlow water mark to the focal plane of the lantern. The founda tions are required to be solid and massive to withstand the impact of the waves. The first floor of the structure must bei thir ty feet above high water mark and; large enough to contain thirty tons of coal, six cords of wood, eight thousand gal lons of fresh water and three lifeboats. The whole structure must be fireproof and the stairways so arranged! that should fire break out on one floor it could not be communicated bv them to any other floor.' I ) After the lighthouse shall have been completed the contractor will be requir ed to maiutain the station in strict ac cordance with the ! regulations t the service for one year. At the expjration of that period, if all. the agreements be tween the contractor and the govern 4 ment have been carried out satisfactori ly, the light station will be accepted and paid for. ' m ' Local Cotton Movement. The receipts of cotton at this port the past month; amount I to 5,524 jbales; receipts the same month last year were 5,648. H ' I j Forj the crop year, to March 1st, the receipts are 130,657 bales, as against 45,491 to the same date last year; show ing a decrease of 15,133 bales. The stock at this port is ll,189!bales; at same aaie lasi season, u.o uaica WILMINGTON, N. C.,: FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1890. Qm S. CONVENTION." THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Reports of Committees Offloers JHeoted - ' for the Ensuing Tear Besoln tiona Adopted - Addresses -r ' Final Adjournment. ": s The Convention was called to; order promptly at 9 a m, by the President, Rev.Dr. Pritchard, and considerable time was taken up in devotional exercises, in which Rev. Mr. Ballard, and Messrs. H. N. Snow, Messrs. Reynolds and B. G. Worth took part, f r ? M The Bible reading exercises were con ducted by ;Rev. J. W. "Primrose. . - Report of the Committee on the Exe cutive Committee was adopted. ; The number of copies of the minutes to be printed was left to the Executive Committee in conjunction with the Pub lication Committee. , Report of the Auditing Committee was received and! accepted. ! At this juncture a statement was made by one of the delegates that a misleading paragraph in . one ol tlie city j- papers.. should be corrected. The paragraph al luded to stated ' that one of "those an nounced toi speak upona selected sub ject was not present, but sent Ja paper discussing the question, which was read by one of the delegates present, while, in fact, the Convention refused to have the document read. The gentleman ma king the statement ceclined to state in which newspaper thu erroneous matter was published,! hence it devolves upon the reporter to state that such a report did not appear in ths MorniNg Star. Mr. Wm. Reynolds, being invited, took the stand and answered in a very practi cal and common-sense way a large num ber of questions! regarding the best and most successful ' methods of conducting Sunday schools, and iiegpjng up the in terest in the. work. . j 'The Art of Questions" was (detailed briefly but pointedly and practically by Prof. G. T. Adams, j ' The Nominating Committee! submit ted their report of nominations of of ficers for the ensuing year which was unanimously adopted. The following are the officers for the ensuing year: ; President Prof. W. A. Blair, of Win ston. . 1 Vice Presidents 1st District, J. S. Blair; 2nd District, Prof. G. T.j Adams, of New Berne; 3d District. Geo. Chad- bourn, of Wilmington; 4th District, Rev. L. J. Holden, of Lincolnton; 5th Dis trict, S. M. Parrish, pf Raieighj 6th.Dis- triet, J. H. Soulhgate, of Durham; 7th District, Wm. Black, of Maxton; 8th District, Rev. E. W. Smith, of Greens boro; 9th District, H. C. Dunn,; of Clear Creek; 10th District, R. N. HacketLof Wilkesboro; 11th District, Gen: R. B. Vance, of Asheville; 12th. District, Rev. W. H. Smith, of Franklin. . Recording ! Secretary Prof. J. W. Gore, Chapel Hill. S Statistical Secretary H. N- Snow, Durham. i Treasurer W. H. Sprunt, Wilming ton. . f ! Executive Committee! G. W. Watts, chairman, Durham; N. IB. Broughton. Raleigh; E. J. Parrish, ?Durham; J. S. Carr, Durham;; W. H. Retsner, Salisbury; S. A. Kerr, Greensboro; J. S. Linebeck, Salem. i I Prof. Blair, the newly elected Presi dent, then came forward and; took the chair, it having been gracefully resigned by the retiring President, Rev. Dr. Pritchard. ; j Mr. G. W. Watts submitted! the fol lowing preamble and resolutions; Whereas, The .North Carolina State S, S. Association has been so fortunate as to secure the services, as Statistical Secretary, of such a man as Horace N. Snow, and ! Whereas, H is work has been quite arduous, such as producing the beauti ful and valuable map now before us; has done almost the $nihe work of the Executive Committee; has j carefully sought and compiled jstatistics, whenever land wherever obtainable, "has personally written in the past year over 500 letters in reference to county organizations and other pur poses tending to the welfare of our As sociation; therefore! be it ! ; Resolved. yThat we, the North Caroli na S. S. Association, in Convention as sembled, do tender to Mr. $now,' our warmest praise and thanks for his un tiring energy in his labor of love. Resolved, That we appreciate the fact that he did more than his position de manded of : him, and did it all in the most satisfactory manner and with a cheerful Christian spirit. Resolved, That only as an expression of our appreciation and in recognition of his valuable services, butj not as a compensation for j the samti (as our treasurer would not allow it),;we tender to him the sum of One hundred dollars. The resolutions yrere adopted unani mously by a standing vote,! and Rev. Dr. Pritchard, in 4 few feeling and ap- propriate remarks, presented with a check for $100." ; Mr. Snow led upon, Prof. BeardsleeJ being cal then came forward and sung a couple pf songs in his own exquisite style, at the conclusion of which the Convention took a recess until 8 p. m. night! SESSION. This was perhaps the best session of the whole Convention. Mr. Reynolds conducted a. promise meeting t calling out a dozen of the preachers and laymen who quoted passages of Scripture which were specially precious and helpful to them, adding comments that were striking and edifying. ! ,''.' . The first regular address of the even ing was by Dr. E. A? Yates, on the Bible authority for Sunday Schools. This ad dress was read, and as was to be expect ed was clear, vigorous, compact, sensi ble and convincing. Thefstyle was that of a close reasoner. and was classic in its elegance. , . j 'But the special interest of the hour at tached to the address of that remarkable Sunday Scnool worker Mr. rWm. Rey nolds, which was on coiner forward. It was a lay-sermon of great power, and coming from a successful business man, addressed to business, was clothed with a moral force that we have rarely heard equalled. ; He was followed by Mr. Watts of Dur ham, outlining what the executive com- mittee proposed to do during the next year, looking to" larger work and more effective organization, after which- the usual resolutions of thanks were passed; ' The hour was1 now late, but the "feast of reason and flow of soul" was not over, for brief and spirited addresses were called 'out from Rev. Messrs. Peschau, Creasy, Pritchard, Beaman and others, which seemed to thrill the large audi ence and kept it intact to the last. -With a parting hymn and many; cor dial handshakings this interesting and profitable meeting . of Sunday school workers adjourned, to meet next year in the good old town of Fayetteville. A Missing Man. Mrs. H. S. Spivey, Clinton, N. C., writes the Star, that her brother, Dun can M. '.T. Autry, a man of unsound mind, riot capable of traveling alone,' left his home durine the absence of the family on Sunday, the 0th instant, fjr Worth county, Ga., where he has a sis ter living, and it is feared that he per ished on the way. He was without money and had but a few clothes in a tow sack.: His brothef-in-law came to Wilmington in, search of him, but could find ho trace of him here. He was traced to within, four miles of the citjr, and was heard Of at Currie's, where he was advised to leave the C. F. & Y. V. railroad track and go through the count try. The unfortunate man's family are in deep distress and will be thankful for any information concerning him. He' is described as a short stout man J wijth light hair and blue eyes, and had bid teeth. : !j THE STATE GUARD. Adjutant General Glenn's Heport and Recommendations. j j The annual report of Adjutant Gen eral J as. D. Glnn, of the N. C. State Guard, for the year 1889, has j been issued. , It is a pamphlet of 182 pages, arid contains reports from the Inspector General, Quartermaster General, Sur geon Oenerai, the othcial register, re ports of brigade and regimental com manders, special reports on the annual encampment and other matters of in terest to the soldiers of the Guard.! ; With regard I to the encampment at Wrightsville last summer, Surgeon Gen eral Haywood says in his report; that "the health of the troops was excellent. There was not a single death scarcely a single case of iserious sickness." i Under the head "Future Encamp ments," Adjutant General Glenn says: The site donated to the State by citi zens of Wilmington is not yet in a condi tion to be occupied, and cannot be made so by nex summer, and as the place so ge nerously loaned to us for our encamp ments of 1888-'89, and again tendered us for 1890, is too small to encamp the entire brigade at one time with any decrree ot comfort, I most earnestly recommend that the encampment of 1890 be by re giments, j The Inspector General and Colonels ! of the regiments recom mend this; in fact, it is the wish of a large majority of the officers and men that the encampments of the future shall be by regiments. . ! ! I here are very many reasons j for making this recommendation, aside from the Inadequacy of the ground for the encampment of the (brig ade. The railroad from Wilmington to Wrightsville is not prepared to ; ac commodate the tremendous crowd of visitors that, together with the soldiers, are congregated vm the cars and; upon the platforms at one time, and there is great danger of very serious accidents from this cause, and, besides-, 'not! being able to get on the cars.' is a good excuse for absence from duty, and with so many men thrown together, not known to-the Officers themselves, numbers escape . de tection when absent, and this tends to demoralize discipline. . At least one regiment should be required to encamp at Wrightsville every year, in order that rhe men may receive practical instruction in the use ot the sea-coast battery established by the General Gov ernment." i I ; THE G. F. & Y. V. R. R. Rapid Growth of Business Attending the Opening of the Wilmington Extension The First Station from Fayetteville.' Speaking of the very gratifying out come of business attending the opening of the Wilmington extension of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad, : the Fayetteville Pbserv&r says, " timber, na- val stores, mcrchandise and country produce await its freight trains at' every station; material enterprise has received marked stimulus in every county tra versed by thej line; travel is good and daily increasing; and the experience of this admirably "North Carolina system," characterizing it since the first impor tant movement forward in 1879, follow ing nature's i great highway of com merce, is to-day repeated in the busi ness found ready to hand. 1 j "The first station out from Fayette- ville on the Wilmington extension arid. in fact, the only one in Cumberlandj county east of the river bridge is. at the point known as Blockersville, and; promises to be one of the thriving! places on the line of the road. It xt ceives its name in honor of the yenera4 ble and lamented Nathan Stedmani for many years Treasurer of the Western Railroad, and afterwards Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway; its1 establishment is in a large measure due; to the efforts and public spirit of Messrs Kelly and David Sessoms, two of th$ most substantial and esteemed Citizens of Cumberland county, who have made; valuable concessions in the right of way etc, .togetner wnn contnpuiions erection of depot." j NAVAL STORES. Comparative Statement of Receipts and I Stocks at this Fort. Receipts of naval stores at this port for the ! crop year from April! 1st to March 1st as compared with receipts for the same time last year, are as fol lows: Spirits tnrpentine, 64,827 casks last vear, 61.322J Rosin 257,548 barrels last year. 246,721. Tar, 65,826 barreld last year, 54,358. Crude turpentine 18,992 barrels; last year, 20,241. Stocks at this port March 1st, as compared with stocks at same date , last year, are as follows: Spirits turpentine 3,306 casks, last year 1,125. Rosin, 23 563 barrels; last year, 90,050. Tar, 5,224 barrels; last year, 6.388. Crude turpen tine, 1,724 barrels; last year, 436.1 WASHINGTON. The Judiciary Committee Convinced that i Irregular Practices Prevail in tho Oir j cuit Courts Newspapers to " be Sold j Ex-President Cleveland Sells his Coun t toy Place near the! City Confirmations by the Senate. : Washington, February 27. The House Committee oh the Judiciary has become convinced that irregular prac tices prevail to a considerable extent in the Circuit Courts of the country, and particularly in the: Southern Courts; Attorney Seneral Miller addressed the committee a letter on the subject, and as a result Mr. Oates, of Alabama, was this morning instructed by the txm mittee to report to the House a resolu tion providing for an investigation of the charge. Mr. Oates says that it may be necessary to send a sub-committee to Alabama and other Southern States to secure evidence. ; : Washington. Feb! 27. The propri etors of-the Dailv hveninz Critic and Sunday Capital, of jthis city, announce to-day that, owing to'the inability of the recent lessors to meet engagements. those two papers, together with their ap purtenances and rights, of all descrip tions, are offered for sale, and if not dis- posed-of by -private treaty before the 10th of March, will be sold on that date at public auction. " Jvihe L.vening tar thisvafternoon says that 1". (j. Newland, represent ing what is known as the Califoruia syn dicate, which has recently .made some extensive purchases Of suburban . real jestate adjoining the city o. the north west, has purchaseq from tx-rresident Cleveland his country place on the Ten- allytown road, near the city, and known as Oak View. The price paid for the house and about twenty-nirie acres of land was $140,000.' The property was purchased by ex-President Cleveland about four years ago, and with the im provements since made cost him about $32,000. Mr. Cleveland is said to have realized on this sale a clear profit of about $100,000. ! , I The Senate has confirmed the;tfollow g nominations : Charles Price, (United States Attorney for the Western district of North Carolina:! United States Mar shals, Joshua B. Hill,; Eastern district of North Carolina; Richard K. rarr; Last- tern district of Virginia. Bills were introduced m the House to day as follows: j r By Mr. Mills, ! of Connecticut, to amend the World's Fair bill so as to require at least two of the board of con trol to be women; by Mr. Skinner, of North Carolina, appropriating $100,000 for the erection of a public building at Elizabeth City, N. C. ; Representative VVade, trom the Com mittee on Labor, to-day reported to the House favorably, the Gest bill, requiring United States laborers, workmen and mechanics, employed since June 25th, 1868, to be paid on the basis ot eight hours for each day's work. As to the amount that it will take to pay claims, the committee finds that it will require for the Navy Department three million dollars; in the War De partment eight millions, and in the Post Office Department one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, an ag gregate of about four million dollars. ATTEMPT TO KILL. An Ex-Congressman Shot in the Hand by a Newspaper Correspondent, in the Corridor of the Capitol. Washirgton, Feb. 28. In the corri dor of the House this afternoon ex-Congressman Taulbee was shot through the head by Charles Kincaid, correspondent of the Louisville fimes. ; Both men are jKentuckians, and the trouble was caused by the ex-Congress man pulling the correspondent s nose for publishing certain statements in re gard to him. ; lhe shooting occurrea lust outside oi the Capitol, near ;the southeastern en trance to the building. Taulbee was shot in the head, and! his wound is se rious. He was taken to his boarding house. Kincaid was arrested and lodg ed in New Jersey! Avenue police station, where he is charged with assault with intent to kill. j Kincaid is a slight built inoffensive looking man, of about 35 years of age. He was lormeny ; uage in one oi tne Louisville courts, and his family is one of the best known in Kentucky. Taul bee is about 39 years of age. and is tall, sinewy and strong. He represented one of the mountain districts of Kentucky in the 49th and 50th Congresses. Taulbee was taken to the Providence Hospital, which is near the Capitol, in stead of to his boarding house, as at first stated. f The tragedy of to-day is the sad end of a quarrel started more than a year ago between two native Kentuckians liv ing at the time in Washington. The wounded man, it is said, called the other a liar, and in ah hour after the insult was terribly avenged. Both men are well known throughout their State and in this city, and the occurrence soon stifled interect io all legislative matters at ihe south end Of the Capitol. . The trouble between the men origi nated about a year and a half ago in the publication by a correspondent of a notorious scandal affecting the moral character of the Congressman. They met to-day at the east door leading to the floor of the; House, when a few words were exchanged in an undertone and it is said the lie Swas passed. The doorkeeper who was in the act of closing, the doors, as is the custom 5 on a i call of the House, then noticed Taulbee, who is large framed and mus cular, grab Kincaid . by the lapel of the coat and with a ! strong grasp held j t - i ;i i i A 4ir: riA ..4- nim, wane lie suiu, ,iviuuuu, wuic uuv into the corridor with, me," Reports which flew about the Capitoljstated that the ex-Congressman had pulled the cor-1 respondents nose - or ear, but the! doorkeeper who was standing there! denies this. Kincaid is a small, slightly built man, suffering from illness and some -nervous ailment.. His reply to Taulbee's invitation to cqme out into the corridor was, "I am in no condition for a physical contest with you. I am unarmed." Taulbee responded that he also was unarmed, and the men were separated by common friends. Later on the altercation was renewed at the foot of the marble stairway which leads from the main floor to the restau- rant floor, and iust outside the House restaurant, when Kincaid suddenly drew a revolver and fired, the ball entering Taulbee s face about one-eighth of an inch at the left of the left eye. Who was the aggressor at this last meeting or wnai position ciuiier mau uu-upreu witu reference to the other at the time the shot was fired, it is impossible to defi nitely state, "Kincaid made no effort tcj escape, but walked around excitedly, an4 nouncing that it was he who had done the shooting, and he was soon taken in custody byj the police and taken to the New Jersey Avenue sta tion. Taulbee was promptly attended by Congressman Yoder, who is a phy sician, and also by a local phy4 sician. He" was first taken into a committee room and thence to the hospital. Physicians there exj press themselves hopefully in regard to NO. 17 his wound. The bullet has not been lo-J cated, but is supposed to be in the bones pf the face behind the nose. The braini Vas not touched and the optic nerveS 1 a - ,1 .... . are an rignt. ; ii SENATE EXECUTIVE SESSION! An Investigating . Committee Trying to Find Out How Proceedings are Made Public' ,! , " Washington, Feb. 27. The Dolph investigating jcommittee to-lay contin ued its inquiry! into the methods by which the proceedings of executive ses sions of the Senate beeome public! j Jules Guthridge (of the New York Herald), A. j. ijalford (ot the Associa tjed Press), George Grantham Bain (of the United Press). MG. Seckcndorf (of the New York Tribune), and Frank A; t)upuy (of the New Yrk Times) testified that they had wrktenVeports of the prp (j:eedihgs of the executive sessions of the ijsenate of the 12th and 13th insts.. at vhich the nomination of General Hagan for Indian Commissioner was confirmed and the British extradition treaty was Ratified respectively, but vhe,n asked to give the sources of their information de clined to do so, upon the ground that it would be a gross betrayal of confidence, j Messrs. Seqkendorf and Depuy were asked if their declined to answer for fear of subjecting themselves to crimit rial prosecution; and to this they prompt ly replied in ! jthe negative. -Mr. Depuy also stated that in all his experience he had never known of an instance where thel proceedings in executive ses sion had beenj divulged by an employe of the Senate! or that a newspaper man had asked an jemploye for such informa-' tion. . I . The committee will continue it in- uiry to-morifow. uenerai Morgan was Detore the L-om-ittee yesterday and was asked if he ouldexplain the item published on the l3thof February, which stated that he hau received full minute bulletins of the rogress of consideration of his case in xecutive session. He said that he ad come to the Capitol in order to nswer any question that might be asked :oncernirig his war record, or the ad- mistration oi his ottice, against both f which charges had been made. He did not receive five-minute bulletins, lor any bulletins; but he had learned of the fact of his confirmation before eaving the Capitol. Under the hew rule put into effect to lay, when the Senate went into execu tive session, (the Press lobby, in which ire located the Capitol offices of f the A.ssociated Press and the United Press, is well as all committee rooms on the gallery floor, were cleared and strict ivatch kept oyer them until the Senate doors werej opened again. The' door leading into the document room from the corridor itwenty feet away from the senate walh was securely locked, in order to keep out any newspaper man who might have succeeded in evading the cordon of guards at the bottom of the stairs, i j The doorkeepers were also -required to move their chairs land their i persons further away from the jholy of holies." Up to the present time they ' have been allowed to stay within ; six feet of the doors; but now they must move to a minimum distance of ten feet. This rule, in several instances, pushed the doorkeeper into the committee rooms on the opposite side5 of the corridors. Heretofore it has been regraded as suffi cient to shut and lock the two doors which separate the press gallery and the press lobby, Where the workers do most of their writing. What the! Senate expects to accom plish by this change is not clear. Re porters generally are not dull of hearing, but it was never charged that they could hear through four feet of solid wall or could catch waves of sound which might float through two heavy doors one oi iron and twoi inches thick, and the other wood, an inch and a half, thick and cov ered with terra cotta baize. ! The executive" session this afternoon was devoted to Confirming nominations and receiving reports from committees. A Ifavorablei report was made by the Commerce Committee upon the nomi nation of HlfC. Warmoth. to be Collec tor of the port of New Orleans. WASHINGTON. il Serious Condition, of Mr, Taulbee Debt j Statement. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, March 1. Ex-Repre sentative Taulbee, who was shot in the Capitol yesterday, by Charles E. Kin caid, correspondent of the ; Louisville Times, is still lying at Providence Hos wital. Inquiry there this morning was met with the statement that the wound ed man hadj passed the night as com fortably as could be expected, and that he was then! resting easilv. His condi tion is regarded as serious, and the con sultation oyer the case by the hospital physicians will be held this afternoon. ' Mr. Taulbee's son, for whom a tele graphic sunimons was sent yesterday, is expected to reach Washington this even ing. ..;::! . Washington, March 1. The debt statement issued to-day shows a reduc tion in the I debt during the month of February oi $6,159,486.66; decrease since June 30th, $42,099,091.97; total interest bearing debts $821,067,203.50; total debt of all kinds; $1,601,713,842.82;. debt less available credits $1,034,547,529.48; cash in Treasury; $622,673,615,10; legal tenders outstanding $346,681,016; certificates of deposit outstanding $10,230,000; gold certificates $130,604,804; siver certificates $284,176,262; fractional currency $691,- 374,447. WESTERN FLOODS. The Waters Subsiding and all Fears of i Disaster Ended. : . I Dy L ciegrapn 10 mc morning ouu. Louisville, March l.rThe river is almost on inch in th stand, having risen but one past six hours. The Ken- tucky rivi is at a stand, and it is thought will be receding rapidly in a few hours. Cincinnati, March 1. 'The river has remained at "fifty-eight feet eight inches since 10 o'clock, and it seems highly probable that that-will mark the limit of the present flood. Railroads are under no great disadvantage to-day, and by Mnndav. at least: thev will he hark in the union !epot, aiicl all freight will be moving as Usual. . ! Chicago, March 1.- A dispatch from Evansvillei IndT. savs: The river is still rising and is now forty-two and a half feet, and rising at the rate of an inch an . rws, 1 , - . H nour. ine raiiroaus are sini experienc ing trouble. Enterprise and .Scuffle town, several miles above, tare flooded. and the inhabitants have been driven to the hills.il Thousands of bushels of corn have been ruined- New York, March 1. Total visible supply of cotton for the world 2. 887,651 bales, of which 2,361,451 bales are American, against 2,681,493 and 2,183,893 respectively last year; receipts at all interior towns, 35,595 bales; re- ceipts at plantations 69,59 bales; crop in sight 6,571.020. bales. - .1 ... 1 .' ' I I -. I Goldsboro IS SOOn-'HUiaX&Anotherl mannfarturino- enterprise. It will be a fire and water proof paint factory the finest in the world, Dy Maj. L, H. Grant. Raleigh Call-: We are author ized to state that the State Chronicle will s appear next Thursday, March 6th, as a -morning daily with full press dispatches. Two convicts were received at the , penitentiary this morning from Craven county, 'j - - - .j . Rockingham Spirit of the .South; Dr. Ben O. Herndon, dentist, died near Laurinburg a few days ago, aged 47. He had been in declining i health a long time. We learn by a private letter to the editor, dated Rio; Jan. 28th last, that Mr. Dockery was to sail from Rio -de Janerio for home on the 1 St h ult. If he did and nothing happens to delay the vessel on which he sailed he sailed he will probably arrive at home about the middle of the month. - We understand that the well known and justly celebrated mineral springs .situated in Moore county have been. re. cently - purchased by a. syndicate of , Northern capitalists who will erect a fine hotel on the property and otherwise improve ana beautify it.! ! . t Concord Standard: A young white boy named Jim Furr. was arrested and put in jail Saturday for stealing ten dollars from his old grandmother, who is now sick in bed. He was tried before a magistrate Monday and defended by H, S. Purycar. There being offered no evidence sufficient to convict' him, he was discharged. S. J. Pemberton says the railroad to Norwood t is a cer tainty, i ne county anu townsnip oonds amount to $iG0000, which are going at jar. Contracts have been let, and the k work will be pushed rapidly. The entire -length of the road will be thjrty-nine miles. It has been decided to have the . 1 t r:i mi -1 ivu mruugji ouesvuie, ine Messrs. . Ivey donating to the road forty acres of land near the town on that condition, Fayetteville. OArmrr.- The late . T? T T Ml 1 - 1 L V. . 1 . - ' r . - c. I . lniy icil uy inc provisions oinlS will the sum of $5,000 to the Hay Street Methodist church a liberal bequest in unison with the generosity which mark ed his devotion to the cause of Christ ianity and the interests of vital godliness dicing an honored and useful life. A young couple in Sampson county were marnea on luesaay, isth inst. The lady's name was Miss James Henry and that of the groom was Mr. Henry tames. Talk about coincidences! iicc MonniA f Tr-Ir,Lr a vrrvunirv loslir -t Randleman, Randolph county, N. C, who came to this city as an operative in the Fayetteville Cotton Mills, died at the Fair Grounds of pneumonia, on Friday evening, 21st inst, aged 18 years. Lumberton Robesonian : The ' young men of Lumberton have organ ized an orchestra. -We learn from the business agent of the Farmers' Alli ance that there have been 230 sacks of guano ordered and delivered by the sub- Alliances in this county, and there are between one and two hundred tons 'al ready ordered. They seem to have the cash too, as he received $150 last Satur day for goods ordered.' Some per sons entered the store of Mr. A.I C. Melke last Thursday night and stole two : goia watcnes ana several silver ana cheap watches. An attempt was also 'i ..t i made -to effect an enterance into the money drawer in the office, but Mr. Melke, who sleeps up stairs having- heard the noise, started down and all became quiet. Entrance was effected, througjj a broken transom at the back; uyui . t i - Chatham Record: With deep re- fret we deplore the untimely death ot liss Lizzie Mclver, a daughter of Prof." .- Alex. Mclver. She was attending school at Hillsboro, and died there last week . after a short sickness. We much regret to hearthat Capt. W. H. H.Tyson shot and killed himself on last Tuesday. His mind had been deranged tor several months and arrangements were being made to take him to the asylum and it is said that he killed himself to prevent, it. He was one of the original volun teers in the Chatham Rifles, the first company . from this county to enlist in the Confederate army, and was its cap tain during the latter part of the war. J. here is a negro man in Hickory Mountain township who is the champion runner of the State, i He is a great rab bit hunter and hunts without dogs or , gnn, and Can catch more rabbits by out running them than anybody else can with dogs. High Point. Enterprise: Died, at his home near Thomasville, Monday, the 17th inst., Robt. Gray, in the 69th year of his age. He was buried at Thomasville, Tuesday, with .Masonic honors. Mr. N.! H. Slaughter has been granted a patent on his milk and butter cooler, and is receiving numerous letters irom parties who desire to pur chase it. Mr. McCarthy, who at one time was a resident of High Point, has sold the Eureka Gold Mines, situ ated one mile from - Thomasville, for', ftlO.T 000 The nnrrhasera were a Nrrtri- er n Syndicate, who will, we understand, open the mine at once. f-Mr. Mur- row, revenue agent, was here with Mr. Baseom Fields, yesterday, and told us that they were just from a raid in Stokes county, ten miles from Danbury, and that they destroyed ten illicit dis tilleries. The moonshiners showed fight and there were thirty shots ex changed, Messrs. Murrow and Field came out wnoie, Dut it is not Known as to the safetv of the distillers. Oxford Day- The pght to the possession of the piece of track in Hen derson, used by the Oxford & Hender son Railroad in running from their freight depot, up town to their passen ger depot as been finally decided -in Vance County Superior Court in favor of the Raleigh & Gaston railroad. Charlotte Chronicle: The cot ton factory which is proposed to be established at Davidson College will be called Jhej Linen Cotton Factory. It has been incorporated with capital stock rf don; AAA with tKe nrivileo-e ftf inrrp-j c ing the capital to $100,000. The stock is being raised on the co-operative' plan. - There was- an extensive fire in Crab Orchard township Tuesday. Ear ly Tuesday morning fire : broke out in the Lucky Woods, about six miles east of Charlotte.l . The Lucky Woods,! conT taining about 900 acres, is the largest tract of wood land j in; the! county. .A large portion of the . land was burried over, and the damage to timber is con siderable. ! " Raleigh Netus-Observer : Cases, in the Supreme Court from the-. Fourth District were disposed of as follows on Thursday: Norris vs. Stewart, from Har nett; argued by" R. p. Buxton for plain till; W. E. Murchison and McLam for defendant. Home vs. Smith, from Wake; argued by Batchelor & Devereux and S. G. Ryan for plaintiff; C. M,.Busbee and W. W. Fuller for defendant Gov ernor Fawle has been in correspondence with Gov. Taylor, jof Tennessee, with regard to appointing a commission to define the boundary Tine between North Carolina and Virginia. Gov. Taylor,-in a letter just ! received, states that he has no authority; in the matter of appointing commissioners, but that he will request the Legislature to ( take . action in the matter when it meets in the next session. Applications of companies for fer tilizer licenses continue to come in and ' i a . i . . . are oeing granted pv tne aepanmeirt. companies: John S Reece &Gx, Rich mond, Va Reece's"Al" guano; Rasin Fertilizer Company, Baltimore. Empire w-v i V- . l . . vjuano; uurnam Fertilizer ompiujjf. Durham, N. C.t Durham Bull Ammoni ated Fertilizer. -4 The Governor yesterday commissioned the following officers of Company G, Second Regi ment, Wilson: John F. Bruton cap tain; W. P.. Woot.en! first lieutenant; J; W. GroweU.. second lieutenant. Goldsboro the Presidency. '; '.