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W X Xj Jj J. A JH. XX. iS i K, Pi A. Editor and Proprietor, j WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, April 4, 1890. In writing to change vour address always tare Jarnter direction as weu as lull particulars as wnere you wish your paper to be sent hereafter. Unless you do both changes can not be made. j Notices of Marriaee or Death.! Tributes of Re spect, Resolutions ot i names, sc., are cnargea tor as ordinary advertisements, due omy nail rates wnen paia for strictly in advance. At this rate GO cents will pay tor a simple announcement 01 marriage w jcaiu. i 0T Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters wul register letters wnen desired. . ( i 3T" Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisner. - j;') ' ' - i. Specimen copies forwarded when desired. BEHOVE THE CAUSE. i Some of the Republican States men have shown .aj remarkable; in terest in the subect of trusts 'within the past year, which first became perceptible in the last fall! elections. w-x , 1 - i-fc. J ' uuring me lasi rresiaenuai cam paign when they, did not openly en dorse the trust they as oysters. Jas. G. were as dumb Blaine had the hardihood in the early part-of the campaign when swinging j around in the eastern States, where public senti ment -against the I trust was not as strong as elsewhere,j to declare that "trusts were largely private affairs with which the public had nothing to do," but he piped lower as he pro gressed in the campaign and ' swung around westward until finally he be- came dumb too. He had felt the public pulse as he moved I westward and discovered that the jjpublic was under the impression that trusts were affairs, whether "largely private" or not, that they had something to do with and that had a good deal' to do . with itr : jj' .- ' ;.'.'' ''. " In all the. years that the trusts were growing and gathering strength until they became the mighty pow ers that they are to-day1, whoever heard a Republican politician de nounce them or demand that they be suppressed? They j were: j consistent in their silence, they were, consistent when they endorsed them, and no . one who understood the j trust and had markedjits rise and progress ex- pected them to do anything else. They would have been glaringly in consistent to denounce j the thing which was conceived and brought forth in their own j political house hold, which they had nurtured in in fancy arid cared for :until full-grown. It was, so to speak, fles of their flesh and bone of -their bone, and when they talk how of crushing it, to placate public sentiment, it looks like a cruel, f cold-blooded and it i j - . , cowardly attempt to murder their own progeny because it has fallen into disrepute. When John Sherman stands up in the jUnited States Sen ate, arraigns the trust as jan intolera ble monster and demands its extir pation, he is assailing something with which he had as much to1 do in sir ing as any man inJAmerica, for when he and his fellow Republican states men thought, planned, labored and fabricated the high! protective tariff system they fashioned and breathed life into the monlter! from whose pro- lific body the trust anci , numerous other monstrosities sprang, j : They deny, this, of course, and as sert thfet the high tariff is in way responsible fori the trust. They might as well deny that the high tariff produces the surplus which the Republican statesmen take so much delight in raiding, or that floods fol low storms, that filth begets disease, that dead flesh produces maggots, eggs, or that chickens cpm& from harvests from the seed planted. Without the high proteetiye tariff the trust would never have been, with out a high protective tariff now it would be as dead as Hector inside of thirty days. So modify the tariff that it would cease to bej pratically pro hibitory, as it is jintefrded jto be, thus open our pnrt to the commerce of the world and competition, which the trust under this j practically pro hibitory tariff system has not to fear, would make it J impossible, for with competition men "could not combine and make the prices to suit them selves without controlling the pro products of the world on which trusts were formed, which they could not do. The anti-trusl!j Republican states men admit this yheh they propose, as one of the methods to abate the trust, to put every artjicle subject to duty on which a trust is formed on the free list, or to iuthorize j the Presi dent to issue his proclamation sus pending the collection of duties upon all such articles subject to duty, on which a trust may be hereafter formed. If the tariff had no connec- tion ' with, or as they assert, was. in no way, responsible for the trust, where would be the! consist ency or the sense in this provision to get rid of it? j ,The fact is, trusts have been organized on nearly eve rything embraced jwithjinj the tariff which is of sufficient importance to tempt .cupidity and combination, and while the high tariff gives them al- most an exclusive monopoly of the market they " can j fix the prices to suit themselves and have ; the pur chasers at their1 mercy. This it does. If John Shermln &nd othe?" Repub lican statesmen! be j really in earnest at this late day in j the! effort to ge rid of this progeny of thiir high pro tective tariff system let them adopt the only direct and effective way there is to do if!, that isj to so modify arid cut down this highj tariff ihat it will not make the trustj makers mas ters of our commerce anpi autocrats of the home market. Let them give competition affair! show; and that will very soon Wipe out the, trust. 1 : AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION, That the agricultural industry of this country is suffering from great, deep-rooted and wide depression is a recognized fact throughout the land It is not peculiar to nor confined to any section, but is felt On the farms of the North, the South, the East and the West, the only difference being that the West suffers a little more, perhaps, ! than the other sections The West is the great granary of the land. There las in the South, agriculture is the main industry, and it is upon the products of her fields that she depends mainly for her bus iness and her income. Her staple crops are few; wheat, Corn, oats and hav for stock. Every! farmer raises these, and the consequence is that i.n an average fairxrop year there must be a surplus over j and above what home consumption demands. 'With more than 'an ordinarily good sea son, this surplus willibe very" large, with no demand and consequently ruinously low prices. ! The crop of last y ear was mor e than an average gpocj one and as a result the surplus is larger than usual and prices for farm products of all kinds,includirig beef arid pork,are less than they have been; for years, so that .Kansas and Nebraska farmers are burning corn instead of wood or coal to keep themselves warm, and in Illinois or Missouri it takes a wagon load of corn or oats to buy an armful of store goods. Hogs on the foot sell from twd to three cents a pound, and fat cattle on the hoof from a cent and a half to two cents a pound, corn about ten cents a bushel after freight is paid, oats fif teen, wheat fifty,j none of which would pay' the cost; of production. These are the facts; but what are the causes ? Thii j is the question which is attracting the attention of thousands of farmers throughout the land, and of many of the statesmen too, some of whom are beginning to show a remarkable interest in the farmer, quickened by the fact that the farmer is beginning to take a' lit tle more ! interest in j himself and to ask the statesmen some questions. The occupation of the farmer differs from all others in the fact that he only gets wl at he earns; he produces by his j own labor and capital his income ; out of the soil, and bef orej he gets a dollar he must deliver the equivalent of the dollar in some product of his farm. There is no Jspeculation with him, no I margin for profit; it is a mere exchange of ! the fruit of his toil for its representative value in some circulating medium. If he owes a hundred dollars arid wheat is worth a dollar a bushel, a hundred bushels of wheat would pay the debt;, if it falls to fifty cents a! bushel it takes two hundred bushels to pay it. He can't corner the market and raise the price of his products. It is the other man, the speculator, who does the cornering, who makes the profits, while the farmer is1 the one who is cornered and must grin and bear it. - There are a number, but there are three principle causes for the de pression which is how felt on the farms of the country, and has been felt more or less for a series of years, though not so keenly as now. One of these is over-production, another the mortgage system which prevails to such a great extent, and the other is the high protective tariff which has been bleeding the farmer for years in the interest of a few favor ed monopolists. The farmers of the country hay- ing no system or concert of action. and utterly regardless of the laws of supply and demand, plow their' lands and plant theft crops and take the chances not, only of the seasons, but also, if the seasons be propitious, of harvesting a cj-op which may prove to be a drug upon the market, because there was too much planted and double j as much raised as the country could consume. The average farmer rarely ever thinks of limiting his acres to the probable de- niands upon them, but goes oh and sows blindly, so to speak, harvests his cropland markets it, if he find a market, at a'loss. Hence the over production of nearly everything the American farmer raises. His only escape from ruin, when this is the case, is in short crops in some other country or some f extraordinary de mand frorri abroad which will call for the surplus arid take it off his hands.: !u ; r I i ' A very large per centage of our farmers, North and ! South, are in debt for' money borrowed, either to pay for the farms; they bought, or to cultivate 'them. Most of these debts are secured by mortgages on the farms or liens upon the crops. When the debts mature they must be met regardless of the price of crops, the farmer's sole dependence to meet them, and of course short crops or lowlprices result in Inability to meet them, and ruin unless indulgence be granted, and when this is granted it is generally upon conditions which prove ruinous in the end. I And then comes the high protec tive tariff, which under oretenceof furnishing the, farmer with a reliable home market, doubles the Drice! of everything he has to j buy, and cuts' him off from the jmarkets of the world which are his 'real dependence and his only salvation. He is be ginning to realize this now after a long, bitter and( costly experience. ;. :; j - it wm do it. , -Food will lodee in the i !be- tween jhe teeth, and it becomes a source of their decay. SOZODONT will dis lodge such depositsand prevent Ithe uhovmivi. Luicuia suuuiu iiro vine SOZODONT, and thus secure the health of their children's teeth MINOR MENTION. When Mr. Edmunds made his mo. tion on which the meeting hour of the Senate was; changed from 12 o'clock to 11 o'clock he didn't put a true estimate upon time -: nor duly consider the deliberation with which the average Senator moves. Vermohters : are " early risers The they nearly all get up and go to work be fore 11 o'clock, do it. If they The have got . to Ididri't they would starve to death, and there would be T - more abandoned farms in that! State than there are now. So we think that Senator j Edmunds Tmadejjh at motion to show his constituents that he had not fallen into sluggardly habits, ; and that he was hustling around arid keeping an eye on his Senatorial colleagues. It is expect ing too much of the Senators to re port for duty at 11 o'clock, after they have worked their jaws or worn them selves out listening to some .other statesman from (12 o'clock m.,j until 5 o'clock p. m- five long, weary hours-with nothing in the riiean time to refresh exhausted nature but a lunch, and a bottle of wine o beer, or something of j that . sort. . The or dinary business man might find) time to eat and rest and sleep in nineteen hours, but the average U. S. Senator is not an ordinary business map, and to expect him to get up in the morn ing, make his toilet, snatch his break fast, and toddle up that big hill and climb into his seat by 11 o'clock, is expecting entirely too much. Some of them can do it, but they are gen erally Democrats who contracted habits of early rising at home that still cling to them in spite of metro politan style and senatorial customs. . j i - The United States Senate in ex ecutive session, Tuesday, on a strict party vote, confirmed the nomina tions of Judge jSwayne and V. S. Attorney Stripling for the Northern district of Florida. The principal objection urged; to their confirma tion was that they were actuated by a partisan spirit j in the administra tion of their office, and were in a large degree resposible for the jury packing system practiced by ;U. ' S. Marshal Mizell. The Democratic Senators made a hard fight against the confirmations which occupied more or less of the tiihe of the ex- ecutive sessions for five days, but theys went through all the same without one dissenting Republican vote. The case of Mizell, the Marshal, is still before the Judiciary Committee, but he will be confirmed too, for how can the Republican Senators go back on him for packing juries, after voting sol idly for a judge and attorney who were cognizant of the fact that he packed the juries and assented t it. In matters of this kind, when it comes, to rebuking violations of law in the interest of the party, the Re publican Senate as well as the House will be found to J stand square up to the party tools and see that they do not come to grief. i 1 j A M A young woman went into a cem eteryat Utica, N. Y., last Saturday, swallowed a dose of laudanum and went to sleep. On her dead body was found a note in which she wrote "I have worked until I am tired out. I have no right anywhere on earth. Won't some charitable person! bury mewithout going to too great an ex pense. Bury me in the potter's field anywhere only lay me to 'rest." This was a sad case, and yet there are thousands of pure and good women struggling to keep body and soul to gether in this hurrying and jostling land, tired out as she was, while there, are men who own their hundreds of millions, and there are millionaires by the score, many of whom made their money out of the sweai and life of poor men and women, like this young woman, who were forced to work for starvation wages, and to many of whom death is the only rest that ever comes! There is depriva tion and misery juntold in this great, rich country, and there alwayd will be some, but there would be less if the mighty dollar could not dictate legislation as it does,' to make toil ing men and women helots, to wear out their lives and starve that a few favored ones may add still more to their ill-gotten fortunes. 1 The Republican Congressmen have been giving a good deal of attention since the 51st Coneress met to the subject of gerrymandering j con gressional districts, the impropriety of which seems to have suddenly struck them with terrific force, and consequently they want to pass laws to prevent Democrats from doing any haughty work of that kind. I But if it wasn't for the gerrymander there are scores of Republican states men who would now be earning their salt at: some occupation for which they are .better suited than in fabricating partisan laws in the Cap itol at Washington. In the model Republican State of Massachusetts, for instance, jfrom which Senator Hoar and Congressmen Lodge hail, Doin or wnom taKe an absorbing in terest in the j gerrymander question, 170,000 Republican votes elect ten Congressmen, while 150,000 Demo cratic votes elect only two. ! Senator ioar and Mr, kodge should give some of their august attention to Massachusetts,: T The people of New Orleans are piping mad at Sergeant Dunn, of the signal service, (or predicting sruch a wet layout for that town, from the Mississippi flood, and want to 'have him bounced, j New Orleans ob jected to being Dunn up in' that style. J ' .WILMINGTON .& WELDON 8. R. , . The Magnitude of the Work Accomplish ed by. this Company in the Fast Four "Tears Its Importance to Wilmington. - The number of branch roads built by the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Company within the last four years, is of far- more importance to Wilmington than our people realize. - ' r In 1886 the Wilson & Fayetteville branch was finished; the length of the road being seventy-two miles, and it runs from Wilson to Fayetteville. : The Nashville branch, which, runs from Nashville to Spring Hope, a dis tance of twenty miles, was finished in March, 1887. j. , 1 The Clinton and Warsaw road was opened in April, 1887," the length being thirteen milesi I The Albemarle & Raleigh road, which extends from Tarboro to Plymouth, was completed in 1889, and in length is twenty-three milesi The Norfolk & Carolina was just ppened upto he public day before yes terday (April .1st), and runs from Tar boro to Norfolk, the distance being one hundred and two miles.. j "Thp ScQtlaii d Neck branch runs from Greenville to Halifax, fifty-five miles, and is befng extended to Kinstou, twenty-nine miles beyond Greenville, and will be opened in July, thus making this road eighty-four miles long. , j Propositions have been made to the citizens of j Washington, ; Beaufort couuty, by lhe management Of 'the Wilmington 8 Weldon road, to build" a road from some point on the Scotland Neck extension to that town, if the right of way and terminal facilities can ' be secured It is thought that this matter will be definitely settled within a few days, and it is to be hoped that the good people of Washington will not ' let this opportunity slip. A remarkable circumstance in regard to the roads built by the Wilmington & Weldoa is that no contributions from counties, cities or townships were asked or received, except m the case of the Clinton & Warsaw branch, where thirty-five hundred dollars was subscribed. The Wilmington & Weldon road has opened up a new territory to Wilming ton merchants! within the last few years, and has given the people in many of the Eastern counties facilities for marketing their products' which they never had be fore, and which has been of incalculable benefit to them. There is no reason why pur merchants should not now secure a goodly portion of the trade of the East ern counties which is going to Norfolk, and it would jbe well for them to take advantage of tjhis new field. The length of the Wilmington & Weldon- Road is one hundred and sixty-two miles, and its branches as above, aggregate three hundred and fourteen miles. . - - j With this road and its branches, ter- minating at Wilmington, making tribu tary to it one of the finest sections of our State, and constantly pouring into its lap a good part of the business of the East, it is safej to say that our present prosperity is due in a large measure to it, and in the jfuture the benefits to be derived will be increased an hundred fold. TUG BLANCHE BURNED At South port iDamage Between Three and Four Thousand Dollars No Insurance. The steam tug Blanche caught on j fire yesterday morning about 4 o'clock; while tying at her wharf at Southport. No one was on the boat at the time, and the; fire had made such progress when discovered that but little jiould be done to save! the boat. Capt. Wjjodsides, with the steamer Wpodbury, made fast to the Blanche, towed her away from the wharf, 'and then shoved her into shoal water, where she was pumped full of water and stink. The houses and most of the deck were consumed, j 1 -' ' j j Capt. J. T. Harper, the owner of Ithe Blanche, says she was pumped out and will be brought up to Wilmington j to day for repairs. Her hull and boiler are not injured, and the damage will not exceed four thousand dollars. The tug Italian will be put in her place un til repairs are completed, j The Blanche is an iron boat and cost a few years ago $18,000. The cause of the fire is not known. . She was not insured. CITY HOSPITAL. Report and Recommendations of the Board of Managers! At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, Tuesday night last, the report of the Board of Managers of; the City Hospital for the year ended De cember, 31st, 1889, was read by the chairman, Col. Roger Moore. The: re port shows the total expenditures for the year to have been $3,299.87, and receipts as follows: From the city, $1,133.50; frorn county, $1,700. 24; from patients, $458.13; from other sources. $8.00i The total number of pa tients treated during the vear was 213. including 40 pay patients. Of this number, 195 were successfully treated and 18 died, j ! During the year a pay patient's ward has been built, with hot and cold baths, operating room and parlor, all complete. The entire ward has been repaired land the roof raised. The Cost has been $1,889,- 25. Some of these rooms have been taken in charge and comfortably furnished by ladies of different religious denomina tions in the city. The "Kings Daugh ters" have also furnished one roomj and the Young Men's Christian Association another, ':- i . I Upon the recommendation of Dr. Lane, the Surgeon in charge, the Board recommended that a new fence be built around the grounds, as the old one is greatly decayed, and that an appropria tion be made for ornamentinc; the grounds and for constructing a carriage unve. j .' Kleptrlc Bitters. i nis remedy is remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used lilectnc Bitters sing the same sons' of praise, A pijirer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed, Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Uver and Kidneys,) will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other affections caused by impure blood.-Will drive Malaria j from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers.-For cure of Headache, Constipation: and Indigestion try ; Elec tric Bitters--Entire satisfaction guar anteed, or money refunded.-UPrice io cents and $1.00 per bottle at Robert R. Del T A w-r'r. tlTL 1 1 IT-. . .. ucbL,Ain o r uuictKue juiQ rvetau Lrug Store. . . 'r . ; i The rosv freshness and a vrfwptu i-ft j - VJ kIWl nessof the 6kin is invariably obtained by those whd use Pozzoni's Complexion l UWUCl. J ! , I CAPE FEAR AND YADKIN VALLEY.: Increase of Trafflo Througti the Wilming- ' ton Extension The Boad in Excellent Condition and Under Good Management. The New York steamers are bringing increased quantities of freight for- fefiip-i ment over the C. F. & Y, V. rail road to merchants in the Western f part of the State and there is every inidica tion that this traffic will soon grow to large proportions. . 1 1 1 The Greensboro Workman, speaking of the handsome manner in which the interests of this line of road have grown within aj few short years, saysi "The facts of its history are of much interest, especially at the time when the road has opened from Wilmington to Mount Airy, a. distance of 250 miles. - We learn from President Gray that; the maximum grade between Fayetteville and Wilmington is only forty feet per mile; that between the two places the average curvature is only five per cent. of the wjiole distance, which makes the road almost a straight line, and that the road bed will in a short while justify with safety a speed of forty miles per hour. I '. J . j : j . "In addition to this, the value of thi stock of the company as an investment is shown in the fact that the bonds pf the company to the amount of $850,000 have just been sold in the Northerr mar kets at par with accrued interest. These facts show that the management of the anairs ot the company has beeni con ducted in first class style of caution and skill. FIRE AT ORTON. Two Bams with Seed Sice and Baled Straw Burned by an Incendiary. A telegram from Capt. S. R. Chinnis, superintendent of the Orton plantation, to Capt. K. M. Murchison's agents' here, stated that a fire Sunday last about 2 a. m. supposed to have been caused by an incendiary broke out in one Of the barns on' the place. The building and a small barn adjoining were destroyed, to gether with their contents 2,500; bales rice straw and 920 bushels seedj rice There was insurance on the buildings to the amount of $1,875, in the Roches ter-German, of Rochester. N. Y., and the Hamburg-Bremen, with Messrs. Smith & Boatwright. The rice and straw were insured for $2,000, in the North British and Mercantile, with Messrs. Atkinsdn & Manning. NAVAL STORES. End of the Crop Year Increased Receipts as Compared with the Previous Tf ear: . . i . , i i Marchj 31st ended the crop year for naval stores, with a good showing for Wilmington, the tabulated statement of the movement at this port, posted yes terday at the Produce Exchange, mak ing the gratifying exhibit that jn all articles, with the exception of crude tur pentine, there has been' an i increase jin receipts, as compared with those of the previous year. The figures asgivehare: Spirits turpentine, G6.962 casks;' last year, 62,804. Rosin, 287,901 barrels; last year 282,175. Tar, 77,179 barrels; last year 03,491. Crude turpentine, 20; 027 barrels; last year. 20,964. Stocks at this port, April 1st, 1890, as compared with stocks at same date last year are:; Spirits turpentine, 1,883 casks; last year, 600. Rosin, 15,621 barrels; last year, 81,092. Tar, 7,909 barrels; last year, 4,628. Crude turpentine, j 1,490 barrels; last year, 530. I APRIL WEATHER, Forecasts for the Month from the TJ. S. Hydrographio Bureau. I H Westerly winds, of less force, j how ever, than during the month iust' pass ed. will prevail over the transatlantic steamship routes east ot the 60th meri dian; west of that meridian, arid along the Atlantic coast of the United States, the winds will be variable. Gales! may be expected about once a week north of the 32d parallel. But few northers will be felt in the Gulf, and those that do oc cur will pe of less duration than earlier in the season. The' northeast trades, having reached their southernmost point during March, will this month begin to extend farther north. Icebergs and field ice may pe enoountered between, longi tude 40 j and 50 W, as far south as lat itude 41J N. Fields may also be met with inshore as far west as the 65th me ridian. Considerable fog will be f xpe rienced joff the Grand Banks and the coast of the United States as far south as Hatteras. Cotton Statistics. Receipts of the staple at this port dur ing the past month of March1 were 11,718 bales, against receipts the same moiith last year, of 3.730 bales. f i j Receipts for the crop year, to Lpril 1st, are 132,375 bales, against 149v$21 to same date last year a decrease, as' com pared with last season, of 16,846 bales!. The stock at this port is 5,232 jbales; at same date last year it was! 4,280.baies. Stocks of Turpentine, Rosin and Tar. stocks ot naval stores at the ports are reported as follows: j j j Spirits turpentine Wilmington' 2,240 casks; New York, 2,393; j Savannah, 4,341; Charleston, 614. Total j 9,588 casks. '. ' !.'" . ! ! . - j Rosin Wilmington, 9,244 barrels; New York, 23,342; Savannah, 47,822; Charleston, 27,082. Total, 100,490. . Tar Wilmington, 7,991 barrels; New York, 2.379. Total, 10,370. ! i A Good; Purchase. The sale by Col. F. W. Kerchner of the wharf property known: as the New York Steamship Wharfs tp the North State Improvement Company, was an nounced yesterday. It is considered a good purchase. The whar has been in .use by he Clyde Steamship Company ever since the shed over it was built!, at a rental; of $J,75f), and the brick build ing on the corner of Water and nut rents at $500 per annum. I Ches ts; Consumption Incurable ? Read the following: Mr. C. H. Mor ris, Newark, Ark., says: I'Was j down with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and physicians pronounced me an Incurable Consumptive. Began taking Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, nd able! to oversee the work on my farm. It is the finest medicine ever made."j Jesse Middleware Decatur, I Ohio, says: "Had it not been for Dr. King's Newi Discovery for Consumption I would have died of Lung Troubles.; Was given up by doctors. Am now in best of health. I 1 ry it. - bample bottles free at kobert k. Bellamy s Wholesale and Ketau Drugstore. REJOICING AT GREENVILLE. -Passage of the First Train Over Tar Hirer . . - .- Bridge. Special Star Telegram. . Greenville, March 31. The first passenger :-v train crossed Tar River bridge to Greenville " this evening At every street crossing on the line of the road were throngs of people, who sa luted the train with shouts and waving of handkerchiefs, thereby manifesting their joy at the completion or the roaa to this town. ' WASHINGTON NEWS..' The Bepublican Tariff Bill Completed The Minority Allowed Ten Days to Offer Amendments. " i Washington. March 31. At special meeting of the Ways and Means Committee to-day, Chairman McKinley presented the Republican : tariff, bill, The minority will be I allowed ten ; day in which to offer amendments and pre pare their views upon the bill and such amendments as may be made before the bill is reported to the Honse. The bill according to Chairman McKinley, will effect a reduction of $45,000,000 in the revenue. ' . . ,. . -,; 1 Washington, April 1. The public debt statement issued to-day, shows the decrease during March to be $11,889, 857.48; decrease since June 30, $53,488,- 949.45. Total interest bearing debt, $811,026,557.78; total, debt of all kinds $1,599,862,545.67; debt less available credits $10,231,576.72; total cash in treas ury $628,764,793.54. Legal tender notes ontstanding $346,681,016.50. certificates of deposit outstanding $7,600,000; gold certificates $134,938,079; silver certifi cates-$290,605,562; fractional currency $6,913,743.97. Washington, April 1. The Senate disposed of the nominations of Judge bwayne and U. b. Attorney btnpling, of the Northern. District of Florida, to day, after an executive session of five and a half hours. 1 hese cases were be fore the Senate in five executive ses sions and were contested as. no other nominations have been for years. t.They were finally confirmed by a strict party vote. Ihe. nomination of John hJ Mizell, to be Marshal for the same District, is still before the Judiciary Committee, j ! ANOTHER RAILROAD DEAL. The Erlanger System Bought by the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Com- ; pany. ' New York, April 1. Official an nouncement was made this afternoon that the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad had contracted for the purchase of the Erlanger system, com prising about 1,200 miles of road, at a cost of $5,500,000. The stockholders of the East Tennessee company will hold a special meeting at Knoxville, lenn., on April 15, to formally ratify the pur chase and to authorize the issue of bonds necessary to make payment ine bonds have alreaay been sold They will be based upon securities re ceived by" the purchase. ! President Thomas, of the East Ten nessee Company, made the following statement in regard to the deal: " 1 he main object of j the East Tennessee Co., in the purchase, is to make their line the leading North and South line, starting irom Cincinnati ana reaching lackson ville, Fla., Mobile, Shreveport, New Or leans and Memphis. It will be the last purchase of the East Tennessee Compa ny, and will complete the system: No Richmond Terminal stock will he issued on account of this purchase. The whole transaction will be an East Tennessee transaction, and for the benefit of that system alone," MURDER 7rT DAVIDSON. Iiee Corner Killed by Frank P. Brood way Charlotte, N. C, April 1. A special to the Chronicle to-night reports ine Killing oi Lee earner yesterday alter noon, near Lexington, Davidson county, by Frank P. I Broodway. The latter alleges that Carner circulated defama, tory reports of Mrs. Broodway. He is not yet arrested, but warrants are out- under the verdict of the coroner's iurv. charging Broodway with the killing. THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. SENSATIONAL' AND ALARMING ' RE ! PORTS DENIED. The Cotton Exchange of Greenville Con tradict Statements of Damage Caused by the Overflow. i j By J'elegraph to the Morning Star. ! Greenville. Miss.. Anril 2. The Greenville Cotton Exchange, havinc learned of sensational and alarming reports as to ; the state of affairs in Gieenville being telegraphed to North ern papers, desire to contradict any such statements, and to assuTe thir friends, correspondents, and the public generally, mat ureenviiie is in no dan ger of disaster. The overflow from the crevasse above the citv has siihmpronH the lower levees of the city to the depth of one or two feet, but the busiuess and residence portions of Greenville are high and dry. The water seems to have reached us j maximum height. Everything necessary is beinc done to nrvent anv actual distress among the residents of the overflowed districts, and Greenville is abundantly' able and willing to oro- vide for any cases of actual need, i c uur bankers, merchants and other citizens who, join with the Cotton Ex change, in this dispatch, are not in anv alarm as to serious result from th overflow. I. D. Smith. ' ; President Cotton Exchange. RHODE ISLAND ELECTION. Voting in Secrecy The Australian Sys- ! tern A Slow Count. j By Telegraph to the Morning Star! Providence. I Anril a Tho : Qi-o election was held to-day, with the ballot reform law in practical operation. Vot inc in secrecv is o-ivincr on-a Mfidn. .o j 7-i t v.. ounoiuk.- tion. The election at all the polling ymi-co hi i-roviuenee ana in other cities emu towns, r according to reports re- i-civcu, is progressing quietly and caus ing but little trouble to voters in their exercise of the constitutional fmnrhioa v iuwi,av. After all the instruction which has for years been given in details of the Australian method, the citizens seem to take to it as if to the "manner born." There are four State tickets in the field. RenuhliVntv VipoHoH kt -r. - -i ujr bu, pity ent Governor; Democratic, whose candi date is "honest" John , W. Davis; the union rveiorm, lead by the cotton manu facturer. A. B. Cha tion, symbolized in the Rev. j. H.Terry. Ballots are printed on big sheets of paper, with the names of candidates ar ranged in four I roliimns - It!- ballot boxes the size of large dry goods cases to contain them. One person in an hour cau count sixty: votes.; Conse OUentlv it will he imnossihle to n n nnnnr'o the result of the election until 24 hours atter the polls are closed. I Dr. Richard" ! H. Tjwi5 of TJIIv, will make his regular quarterly visit to Wilmineton on Tuesdav. AVpH and Thursdav. Aoril fith fitli anH -tfitu and can be consulted on those- davs at yvuuu outce, on me diseases to which his practice is limited (Eye. Ear Throat and Nose.) y ' He wul be at. th hntcA ;n n.- i on Friday and Saturday, the 11th and A'WWi, . 1 I A J I MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. LOWLANDS BELOW HELENA COVER ; ED WITH WATER. -Mnrin T!rvaV in the Levees A Great In undation Threatened Many Plan- " ... -v, , i ; i tations Submerged. j ' Chattanooga: March 30. The fol lowing, dated Memphis; has been re ceived by the Times, from John P. Richardson, the largest cotton planter in "the South: "I find from special tele grams that there is no break , in the .levee at Friar's Point. Chief Engineer Dabney; wires that there is no break in his district and none expected. His levees are in fine shape. A large force is strengthening and raising every suspicious place. ; To a great extent the newspapers here have been too sensa tional, j I am s.ure the planters can and will provide for their labor. Their lands are useless without labor.. Wait ; until the planters call for aid." At the mo ment of an unexpected break there is -confusion. I fear the newspapers will cause i labor ! to do as i they did in 1882 wait i for government ra- tionsand refuse to work. Planting is further behind : now than l ever knew it. Planters will call lor aid when necessary, and then their calls should be responded to promptly and privately and by the government. The breaks in the levees are bad, and are causing a good deal of country to be covered with water, but let the planters not appeal for aid, otherwise labor will be demoralized. and leaye planters in as bad a shape as if their lands were covered with water. Signed "John P. Richardson. Memphis, March 30. A special to the Appeal, irom Helena, Ark., says: The river came to a stand to-day, and stands 48.5 feet on a gauge three inches and a half below the high-water mark of 1886. The steamer Houston Combs and barges, loaded with provisions donated by the people of this place, reached Lar cony Circle this morning, and the un fortunate people of that district are be ing relieved as last as possible. 1 he levees around Helena are still in good condition and the feeling here is one of confidence. f New Orleans, March 30. Latest news from the breaks. Offutt's mill, skipwith,. 750, Eastern and Huntington 500 feet wide,) and all except. Offutt's caving rapidly, ft is now given up that the entire country from lake Bolivar ; to the Warren county hills will be flooded. Memphis, March 31. It now seems that all the lowlands,, below Helena will be overflowed within the next4two weeks. A break in the levee ol about 50 feet oc- enrred about midnight at Austin, Miss., and at , 7 o clock this morning it had widened to 300 feet. There is no possi ble way to close the gap, and as the levee is on a sandy foundation for a mile from that point, the break may increase to an unlimited extent. All the planta tions in the vicinity of the break are be ing rapidly submerged, and tenants are leaving j without saving any of their effects. Rain has been falling in tor rents all night St. Louis, April I Information from apart of the tornado-swept region of Southern Illinois and Kentucky is to the enect that hlteen lamihes in bay bot toms near ioiconoa, Illinois, were ren dered homeless, and most of their mem bers were injured. The storm literally .swept the growing wheat from the ground. Ten dwellings were totally wrecked, and all barns and ; outhouses destroyed. Several hundred head of cattle were scattered and killed. In Livingston county, Kentucky, di- jectly across the Ohio river from Gol- conda, ; Jacob Schwab had his farm house blown away, his barns and his threshing machine wrecked, ; and was himself icarried 200 feet, dashed against a tree, mangled beyond recognition and died instantly.! The house of Wm. Bell was torn to pieces, his furniture blown into the river five miles away, his barn demolished, stock killed, and of his fam ily of five every. One had an arm or leg broken, or was otherwise injured. Eli Bobbett and family were at supper, and although his house was carried away and demolished, nb one was hurt. Some of the dishes on the supper table were found on river. . the other side of the Ohio At Henderson, Ky., it is estimated that over forty persons were killed or fa tally lniured, and in that vicinity twice as many more were wounded, but no names are given. j Louisville!, April l.--A special from Glasgow, Ky., says : News just received from the lower part of this and other counties is that the tornado of Thurs day night did j immense damage in that section.; For ten miles beyond Barren river and five miles this side, a total of fifteen miles, the storm swept every- tmng Deiore it, its tracK extending trom hve hundred yards in some Places to nan a mne in others, it seems to have hugged the ground closely, and did not leave a house or tree standing ia its course, so far as can be learned here now. Andrew Winn's house in Allen county was leveled to the ground and his wife killed; a child of Jack Green's was killed; Samuel White, his wife and son were crippled White had a fruiti farm containing fifty acres, and a larces numoer oi Dee nives, ana everv tree was 1 11 , - - . o mown down ana every hive carried away. Joe Bush s house in Barren county was just on the edge of the tornado and was unroofed, while Alonzo Whit ney's house near by was completely de- moiisneo, as was also William i Button s. Seventeen lives in all are said to have been lost in I Allen - countv: but their names cannot be ascertained except as above given. ! Dwellings, barns, timber and -fences were destroyed, i and the money loss wijl be heavy. I A special trom Litchfield. Kv.. savs: News of the damage done in the ex treme northwestern part of this county and the southern part of Breckenridge county, uy ine recent storm, has just reached hereJ At the Falls of Rough several houses and several bridges were blown down, I and Mrs. Tom ! Edwards was killed. Mrs. Edwards' husband was drowned front a raft of logs at Spotts ville bridge, on Green river, only a week or ten aays ago. At McjJamels; eight or ten houses were more or less damaged, and the wife oi Jonn Jarboe, a merchant of that place, was killed outright by a chimney being blown over and crushing '. through the roof. Two children of John Tucker are reported killed, and several other per sons more or less injured. wear Hartlord, Ky., in the path of the storm, was the Gidcourlee homestead. Gidcourlee, Sr., was away from home. His son, aged; tweritv-lwo vears. anrl a daughter, aged seventeen, were killed outright by being crushed by stones trom a falling chimnev. 5 Two ntlnre nf the family were slightly injured, but Mrs. Gidcourlee escaped death by a miracle. A heavy stone chimney was blown over on the house, caving in the roof next to it and carrying the upper floors with it. There-was an j old-fashioned loom on the upper floor, arid it' crushed through with the falling chimney and completely in closed Mrs. Gidcourlee under it, its mas sive frame being stout enough to hold the roof and failing chimney from grind ing irer, to ueatn. . Jo far so good, said the bov. after eating the stolen tart, "After reviewing mic luuuaaiius ana tens ot thnnKanrl of colds and coughs that have been con quered by ur. Bull's Coutrti Svrun we can readily say, so far. so goott Price &o cents. : i . ... , - "I have found a sure cure for mv weak ankle," she said. "What can it be?" rancv a woman never havinp- heard of Salvation Oil at twentv-five cents a bottle, i i -.- -i . ; - ': , ; t i . t . r i- i v SPIRITS TURPENTINE. ' Raleigh News 5r Observer: Du ring the month of March there were 21 deaths in the city.i The Supreme Court has sustained the ruling of the Superior Court in the case ilof the D & N. R. R. Co. vs. the R. & D. R. R., be ing the .controversy oveij the street trouble in Durham. The Effect of the decision is to require the S D & N. to perfect certain necessary preliminaries to securing the right of way at Durham - Oxford. Zfr .- Mr. J. L. Riciv mond, one of the oldest citizens of Per son county, aiea on tne zh of March at his home near Hurdle's Mills. He was in his 80th year. j We aregrat- ford are determined to hay,e a home for their preacher. The congregation have purchased from Capt. Rj V. Minor the vacant lot adjoining tha't"of the Rec tory of the Episcopal Church, and it is their intention to erect a parsonage this summer at a cost of $2,500. It will be ready for occupancy , by jthe preacher sent to this station next year. Charlotte Chronicle E. McManawav I is now is Rev. John an Ordai minister of the Missionary Baptist Church, having been ordained last night, in the Tryon Street Baptist Church" Alexander Graham was last night re-elected Superintendent bf the Graded Schools of Charlotte for the next school year, beginning in September. The Farmers Alliance and the Jcitizens gen erally, have come to the relief of john F. Gallant, of Steel Creek.jwho had hi plantation swept by fire last Friday. A the meeting of the Allianc last Saturt day, it was decided to erect -a dvelline and stables for Mr. Gallaijtj.- The work, has already been commenjepd. ; f Ashevule Citizen: Mrs. Relr-c Clegg, mother ofvWm. E. jClegg, ol Evening Journal, died at .her hom Broad street on Saturday night ; o'clock. Governor Fpwle ha the Oil 10 ac-' iver UCt ceptedthe invitation and will d the address of welcome jai. the ba, to be tendered to the coimriissionr s ol the General Assembly of: the Southern Presbyterian Church in! Asheville on May 15. P. C. Miller, a guest of the Carolina House, remained in his room until 12 o'clock Sunday noon, and all because two hard hearted sneak- thieves had visited him on the night he- fore and walked away with his entire wardrobe. Maxton Union: Mrs. Joseph . McCallum of Thompson township died Sunday morning after a lingering illness with cancer. - Mrs. . Eiiphemia Broach wife of Mr. J. T. j Broach, died at their home in Maxton on the morn ing of the 31st inst., after a short illness in hpr J.7rh KP-lr t ho f. !,, directors for the-Maxtonj Manufactur-. ing Company were elected last Thurs day nifiht. J. C. McCaskOl. A. J. Burns, U. M. Blocker, tJ. t . McLean, E. S. La- throp, E. McRae and John Leach. The Maxton Building & Loan Associa tion grows more and more popular every day; It is one of the best man-' aged institutions of which we have anv knowledge, and is not jonly making money for the share holders and accom modating many borrowers but is do ing more to build up Maxton than anv other thing in the town. I Mount Airy JVewst The mer chants' excursion promises to be a big thing. Several new dwellings near the depot, belonging to Mr. V. Mont gomery, have just been finished and are- already occupied. This place was drummed to death last week. We never before heard of the like. Drummers by tne dozen were, on nann. Mr. ,vv . F. Carter has been invited bv the biisi-""' ness men of Wilmington (to deliver an address in that city on the occasion ot the railroad celebration. No better selection could have been made. Mr. Carter is one of our most prominent lawyers and citizens.. i- On Wednes day morning, the 26th inst., a woman named Martha Eaton,livng near Phil lip Deatherage's,; two miles east of Mount Airy, committed suicide by cut- Ling iicr uiruat witn a razor. , k ne nor rible deed was coolly committed before a .:. 1 1 , , mirror, almost severing the head from her body. She died almost instantly. Charlotte News: Architect Lean- is engaged in drawing plans for the As sociate Reformed Church building to be erected on the lot now occupied by the Sam Jones tabernacle. The building will cost $5,000. i During the month or March, according to ithe report oi chief of police Griffith, there were 61 ar- rests in Charlotte, principally for fiehts, drunkenness and thefts. jThe fines im posed by the Mayor footed up S301,and there wasn't any circus inj town during that month, either. !-Our city ap pears to be growing in wickedness. In March, 1888, the; Mayor's Court fines were $111 50; in March, 1881), $140 2., and in March, 1890., $301 80. Mr. Walter Morris, of Cabarruis county, was in the city to-day; and exhibited a val uable gold coin which he found in an old field on his place. It is a cold coin with the stamp of King George III., and is dated 1774. It was probably lost by some British soldier during Cornwallis' march through this section. Beaufort Seaside: Thiscommu nity was no doubt, much surprised on Wednesday to hear oi the Assignment of Samuel Taylor. He had ben d-Mng bus iness in Beaufort for six or sevwii vears. and was considered as a "strong" mer chant. He assigned to his brother. Mr. Warren Taylor. ; The fechooner Jo seph Rudd, from Wilmington for New York, loaded, with lumber, struck on Cape Lookout Shoal, about 4 a. m. baturday. She waS seen about four hours later by the life savinc crew. who imme diately went to the rescue, and after four hours ot hard rowing succeeded in reach ing her and rescued the crew. On Satur day night she drifted on1 the beach, about four miles north of the light. The danger through which the Life Sav ing crew at Cape Lookout! passed", and the heroism displayed in I rescuing the. crew from the ill-fated schooner "Joseph Rudd," deserves commendation. It was Saturday morning about 4 j o'clock that she struck the shoals. As soon as d is-' covered the crew put to sea, although tne wind was then blowing a gale, and after five hours' hard rowing, thev suc ceeded in reaching the wrecked schoonV er, almost exhausted, with their hands ' blistered, from which the blood flowed. freely. Had they not gone to the schoon-. er's rescue the crew, no doubt, would have perished. It is looked upon as a daring deed by all. j Concord Time's: Ed. F. Correll showed us a turniD Wednesdav that looks like a basket. Two roots, one on each side, join together and form a per fect handle. -Never before in the history of Cabarrus has new tan-bark been thrown on the market in March. Tuesday a colored man j sold G. W. Brown nearly a cord of inewlv peeled bark. A son of old Aunt Nancy Hooker, ot Concord, has a hen. " This hen is the only chicken on the place, and he asserts, and the boy sticks tp it, ' that he get's two eggs a day. ton cord can boast of a couple who-bear the" names of our first! parents, j In the east ern part oi our town resides Mr. Adam Starnes and his, wife's name is Eve. They may not have seen Eden, but they live in "Concord." Dr. S. J Kil mer, a prominent nracticing physician of our county, died suddenlv at the. home of Mr. Will Rogers, in No. ;5 township, last Wednesday afternoon, aged about 70 years. -W. F. Bunn, special census enumerator, jhas finished his work of transcribing the county in debtedness, as shown by the Register's books of uncancelled mortgages on real estate. The number of this class oi mortgages is found to be 1.G08, and the estimated value is $700,000.! He states that on account of the correctness and neat arrangement of our county records -; he did the work here in one-third' ot the time generally required in a county.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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