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' PUBLISHED AT- ( ; I ' WILMINGTON, N. C, $1 .00 A Y E A R, I N-A D V A N C E. 88SS888888888888S muw ei 18888888888888888 SSS5SS8feS8SESSSSSS v v W W W ( 888888888888 888S88888S8888888 sqiimw 8 .S2SS8888S3S888S8S 8888888888888883 f"P3AV 8 CO t- " 00 t- 00 8S88S882881888888 et oe ao e oo e e gj gj g gj gj 8888888S3888S8S88 f m t- ao o o o w u a. O) . ... i i, r. il at the rost Office aWilmtgton, N, C., a Second Class Matter"! j 1 .'' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The sulwctiption price of the "WooMy Star is as ini'lr Cripy t year, postage paid C months' " " ...... I" " 3 months " " ...... $1 00 60 , 30 ?HE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION. . Mississippi is the only State in which the negroes have an aosoiute majority over the whites, . which constantly increasing by he 'large influx of negroes from, the : Stales further north, an influ not r,mi1t nf miorrnfinn Rininlv. hut .i'!" ' e , i ii an organized system of importa ti.Mi. a system which has been in active operation for years, and whic :h "!(.'V ill lliajillltuut every year. A'lial is called the T tccicci I III pi Pelt f 'l ' is i ue oujeciive puui, nu ucic cue "negroes from Alabama, Georgia, S.Vuth and North Carolina, are dump)- til ItUU II UJ HIV. iHUUJUiHi -ijy.: J by; agents whose regular business it j;; to'lravcl through these States for a certain portion of every year drum i ;i)itigup "immigrants" and jshiping litem to this Delta and t,o pther ii, lints where there ma'v be ai demand i- , - I i tor thiYi . - v 4t 1 ; t.kt the rate at which thei are be inn shinned in. with the natural inf -.crease, it is only a question of time aiul nrr very distant time, vjhen thj: white nonulation will be insignificant. itr proportion to the black, and when the wiiiies would be, unless some ac tion is taken to prevent it. complete) ly in thejxnver and at .the mercy of the blacks, so that it was not a qucs- tion of politics at all, ibut of self- i.....)Apltj-ti iirntpU I!" t f trio ! 1 1 1 1" nr of tln St.ite nrihvftntion? a matter' rif necessity, not of choice. . It is not a '' movement, as man think if is, to secure beyond ques tion hemocratic supremacy, for' they Ii;we that now, but to secure white . siiin:tniacy,r(it is true that in Missis , sippi Democratic and white are sy . -mnn-niMitc tirmci nrif fnr nnrtiQ.m "'inil for more vital considerations. . About the best explanation of the Mi nation, which we have seen and of t ic animus which inspired the : callj i. i - irt' of the convention we find ' in recent letter of ex-U. S. Senator AI4 ( ini, a Republican, who is a mem ;berrf the convention, one of the twq -.Republicans elected, written to the? . Doston Advertiser. Coming trom a - Republican -of national prorhinenceJ sufficiently so to occupy a place iri President Grant's Cabinet, his state ments will command attention and not be suspected of being inspiredi by .hatred of. the negro, or bj Demo r,ratic prejudice. ,The letter -, wa: written ia reply to inquiries f rom th editor of the Advertiser. He says: j "The desire for the call of i the! con- mention arose from a spirit of unrest among the people of this State, j The iact tnaL tne negro population I was iriA creasing so rapidly in the State! of I Mis sitsippi, and that we had already a; ma jority of .50,000 negro voters in the State, necessarily forced upon the thinking men the question, what was to be the f eiid of this ? The rapid increase of the egro population arose from causes over which the legislature could exercise no control. - - : ; '"The river counties, or what is known wiili ' us as the Delta counties of the Mississippi, increased in its population fr. . ... 1 . . . 1 f I 'in LiiuuMuub oi negroes ljmporie' cacn year, it is estimated that the were imported last winter and sbrintr in to the Delta full 30,000 hegroesif These ' wej-c Lroiight at the expense of jplanters "ni populous negro- districts o th ununas ana Georgia, ihe Slands ol tiiq Delta will produce, under the Imosi careless cultivation, as much as !a bale of cotton to the acre. The large likndhold rsintne ueita lound it proifitable t imprjrt negroes from the States named, r elsewhere, to cultivate their rich soil The negroes broueht to the Delta: were t-'cncrally ofthe most tgriorafic fjUss, i nc planter was not in search 61 ltiteih !;f:nce, but of strength, muscle and en uirtin.e unuer me Durning, sun oi in Mississippi swamps, and capacity to re ?ist the influence of malarial These ere the prerequisites for the 1 labor ir ' '-nc cotton fields. Everybody knows, who knows any . ug aoout tne negro, that he is mca . ble Of SClf-rrOVPrnmpnt'-thnt itl tht. fi' i - -i m. ..w.. '.'H pf)litics he becomes a commodity oi "arter and sale among white men, whe use him as a means of elevathW unde . serving men to places of public trust healthy body oolitic. The neoro hi ncnni torniniintr oil inoo Af n,)nc of the instincts of the Anclo-Saxo ace with regard to self-government, bu ;nen possessed of limited education be- "Jmcs the more efficient tool Under th "laninulation th State as witness, the history ol ..t " enterprise in Louisiana j uc convention was caned in vie revising some means of putting neclc in the tprt nf the rnnstitntio i ?Pn ignorance and corruption. .Th r r;"Pic lelt the sting Of the North in th -"..ucu cnarge or lorcibjc l domin l,on m the RnntVi nf th. Koii iw ''The desire to free themselves f ron ""5 Ctlarrt. vrh irh tVn fU. in An- to be true, and the wish to devise e means more in accord with civilir , "UKJIIICIUOII1JI, vi save L11CIU- vc3 from the imnendinc ruin. pA tl T of the convention. The conT -"uon is now m session. It has or 5mzed by electing one of the most con1 ""vative public men in the Sute as Resident of the body. ! fhis is a calm, deliberate state- r vol; xxi. ment of the case and of the motives which, inspired the calling of the con vention and of the 'purpose in view. ' How long have you been reading the Weekly Star without paying for; it ? This question is not in tended for thpse who have paid in advance. ; J SETTLING ITSELF. We have long held that the race problem would settle itself,' and the more it was left lone the; sooner it would do it. It has been settling it self for the past twentyrfive years slowly, but steadily and surely, qui etly, and without a: jar, with injury to! neither race but with, benefit to both. ' " .: , Shortly after the war the mi gration of negroes from several Southern States southward began, arid it has been kept up ever since, the movement being greater within the past few years than ever before. jThis business is carried on mainly through "emigration agents" who emnlov sub-agents who scour the. country ana pick up' all the able bodied men and women they can find, ship them by the tram load to fill orders which thev hold from planters in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, the three States Which need and are seeking this kind of labor. ' .': 1 ' The number that have been car ried but of North Carolina alone the past year is placed at figures all the way from 20.000 to three times that amount, and it is said by the agents wh:0 are already prospecting around that as many more will be taicen out during the fajl and winter. ' This movement is going, on also in South Carolina,' Georgia and Ala bama. How many have gone from these States within the past decade cannot be definitely stated, because no record has been kept, and because much of the business of these agents has been done on the sly to. evade State laws passed to protect planters in these States from interference with their hired hands, but if the Te cord had been kept, it would show figures. which would surprise people. The business is conducted so ; syste matically and quietly by these agents that it attracts but little attention, and for that reason but few have an idea how extensively it is being car ried on. Frequently train loads are sent out. the hrst in timation of the presence of the aent being when the crowds of "em igrants begin to flock to the rail way stations to take the trains south ward. The census of the States men tioned, if it has been made with any thing approaching j accuracy, will show a considerable reduction of the colored population and it will be 'found that the increase within the past ten years ljas been among the whites. This is the case in Alabama, according to the census statements published, and is doubtless the case to a greater extent in the other three RtnfM north of Alahama where the I emigration system j has been con- J r I ducted more systematically and with more industry. With the decline in . numbers there i ' .... is, ot course, a corresponding ae- decline in the political influence of the colored element, which although it still continues to be a political fac tor, jceases to be one potent - enough to wage successful political warfare. Every year will increase the dispar ity between the races in these States, the white race continuing to increase while the colored race decreases, un kil white supremacy becomes no long er a question if it is not already so. Thus the race problem is settling itself in its own way in these States. But in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, the States into which this colored tide is pouring, what is the result going to be ? Mississippi is working on that, question now, and is endeavoring to solve it through the instrumentality of J a constitutional convention! and she will solve it. Ar kansas and Louisiana will both have to meet it as Mississippi is meeting it, if they continue to encurage the influx of negroes as Mississippi has done and ! is doing, and as 1 j they are doing. Mississippi and they may guard against impend ing danger by constitutional safe guards but there is a line beyond which they should allow neither "en terprise" nor cupidity to carry them, in encouraging too large a predomi nance of the colorjed race, whatever their; constitutional safeguards may be, Better that some of these rich lands go uncultivated than thjat they should becomepopularly Africanized, although the whites may continue to hold political supremacy. The Weekly Star, each issue containing nearly thirty columns of reading matter, is mailed, postage paid,1 for less than ,twp cents a copy.' And still some people seem to think it entirely honest to read thou paying for it. : With the prospect of a big deficit the Republican statesmen are '. now looking to internal revenue for the spondulics to keep, the machine run ning. Whiskey and tobacco will be. among the items selected to hedge or. STATE TOPICS, The; Progressive Farmer seems to have turned its batteries on Senator Vance again,- renewing the charge for the same reason that the first as sault was made some weeks ago, be cause the Senator refuses to support the sub-treasury bill, which it -al leges he had led its friends to the belief he would support, and for the further reason that he. is not in favor of abolishing the national banks,the abolition of which is tone of the planks in the platform of. the Dem ocratic party adopted at the recent convention in Raleigh. Senator Vance wrote last. May in" reply to- some questions by Secretary Bickling(icid, of the Alliance, that be was not in favor of the abolition of the national banks in the present conclii ion of our finances, but he went aj long way in the direction of abolishing them in his bill to repeal the ten; per cent: tax on other bauks, if that; bill should pass. Since the first assault on the Senator the State Convention has met, a Convention in which the Al liance was fully represented, and that Convention without ja j -dissenting. voice, endorsed Sehator Vance and favored his re-election. .!, What is." to be gained now by this renewal of the fight by the Progressive Farmer, is not apparent. If its -.purpose is to defeat the Senator, it sbpHld have the candor to say so, if not, it shows poor judgment in stirriiig up discord and throwing bricks just for the pur- Dose of throwing theml . 'I he Pro- gressive Farmer could drt the cause it advocates more good ;by showing better judgment. There are intimations coming from Raleigh that there; is 4 secret movement on foot toj orgjanize a third party in this State, j The re sults that have uniformly followed the efforts to establish third parties in ' this on a small or a large scale State have been such so ds to afford eentlcrncn who are inclined that - 1 ' e way very poor encouragerrent, if they expect to accomplish anything by it. They may perhaps find some occupation and j a little fun in running a circus 1 of that kind, if they are looking for. these, things, but that is about all. The devil himself,1 assisted by Dr. Mott, as shrewd as he is repu ted to be, and am t-afraid-pf-the-devil Eaves, and the pocketful of malcontents or aspiring individuals who may be found, couldn't succeed in doing that thing, for the simple reason that.JNorth Carolina is not congenial to the growth'f anything of that kind, and the people ot North Carolina not the kind of neo- ple to build-it out of it- They are DeoDle of convictions, and can't be a ' . led at the whim of Tom, Die and Harry,' who may attempt it. At any time during the past few months have you received a subscription to the Weekly ill for Star? If so, and you have not already paid the amount, do so at once, it is . i . . 1 wrong to read a paper without pay- mg for it. " .! AN INSULT TO THEIR INTELLI- GENCE. I ! The Monroe Register. ah orzan of the Farmers Alliance of Union county does not think that he edi- tor of the Progressive Farmer is do ing the Alliance any good opening the war on Senator pn re- Vance, as is evidenced by the followi ng ex- tract, which." we clip from the last issue: 'Wc have not space to' discuss this matter this week as we would like to, but we wi11 say this much: Col. Polk is doing the Alliance no good by his ! attacks on Senator Vance. Vance's1 record for thirty years Is famil iar to the ieoole of North iarolina, ana every intelligent man in ituv ... . tli. knows that he has Deen launiui 10 mc manv hioh trusts - committed to him. When Col. Polk asks thensible mem bcrs of the Alliance to believq that Sen ator Vance is an encmv td thein he offers an insult to their intelligence.' -. 1-1 If yd u owe for subscriptlonto the Weekly Star why don't ypu pay it? IS li jiair iu suusiuiiuc i ci pcii, read it I regularly for one or more years, and then pay no . attention to a bill when received? ji STATE CONVENTION Call for a Meeting of Democratic Cluba I at Balei gh, Sept. 24th, , ' By Teleuraph to the Morning. Star. f i I Raleigh, September 6.-f President Tnlian iS. Cnrr to-dav called a State Convention of the Democratic Clubs, to "-"- . - j i meet iri Raleigh September B4th. Ex- ProeSd(nt Cleveland. Senators Ransonu Vance and other distinguished Demo crats are expected. AH of thie Clubs are requested to send tate delegates. It is admitted that the Weekly. Star is a cheap paper at 6nte dollar nr war but the impression that prevails with some ot its suDscribers that it can be published, and mailed free of postage, for nothing if errone- ous. Drowned In Northeast Bivsr. J Willie Wells, colored, aged one of the hands employed 18 vears at Mr. A Elbert's saw" mill on Northeast river near Bannerman's bridge, was ally drowned Friday afternoon accident- He was engaged in loading a flat with lumber and fell overboard. The body has not yet been recovered. J. WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12, iln a conversation with Lieut. Gov.: Stedman, who has recently returned from an extended 5 tour throughout the North-West, : be! corroborates what jthe Star has J recognized for some time. J He says that tne repu tation of Senator .Vance is national; that he, is everywhere recognized as one of the foremost statesmen of the Republic; that the Democrats of the Nortli-Westl ever speak of him with love and atimiration, and rely largely upon pis cohrage, his ability and in- tegrity to win the tariff reform. : great, fight for i -- - Hon. T. MV-Daily,' Of Texas, will be the you hgest, inC nber, of 52nd Congress He is 25 college ytears old, grad- uated, from only five years ago, and is i;aid to be very bright. It is a iity to see a promising young j -- t .- ... man $tart oyt in life So badly, but 1 then there will not beTmany Republi cans-tn tne pznu vongress. MOVING FOR A TOBACCO MAR KET. LOCKV Mount, September 3. Editor Siar:A lat-ge and enthus lastic meeting of the citizens Mon- day night considered knd discussed the tobacco interest of this place. Resolutions were adopted in which all the merchants and business men use their, in- pledged themselves to fluence and fco-operate with the waref- hous0 men. 1 lie UiecllHJJ vua wttiiv-u iv uiui by Jj W. Hines, President of the Board of Trade. The object of the meeting was explained by Capt. A, TJ Ellinp-tori. who ibriesented .some very important points, asserting that there, was no reason why Rocky Mount should not be the greatest market for the weed in the State, or iii Virginia. THc Nash county u fced :s unsur- .pjas'il Itn- its iirigiuness, waxy, suk- i . - . . . . - vin.'Wid srlove texture, and has been nronbunced bv the UJ S. Aericultu ral Department the finest the world produces. Resolutions were adopted in which the merchants and all business rneii bledjred themselves to use their in- fluence in establishing a market here. Harmony and great interest pre- vailed in the meetingl 1 here was another large breafe to day of seventeen thousand pounds, andjeverybody was pleased with the prices. ' w. a. j. ANOTHER SUDDEN DEATH. Mra Iiydia Wheoler ' Found Dead at her Residence on South Front Street. Mrs. Lydial Wheeler!, (wife of John Wheelei, residing on Fourth between Queen and Woostcr streets, was found lying dead in her j-oom yesterday afternoon about two o'clock, by some oi ;uie- neigumjrs yi uiu i""".1;. Hei- death ls supposed to have resulted from an attack of heart disease. The body wheii fjound was lying across the bed face downward, fully clothed .and With a bonnet tied on her head as if Mrs. Wheelerj liad just entered the house. Mrs. Wheeler's husband is away from home, supposed to be in Bla den county, and duringj his absence two children oi his step-daughter (who works in the cotton factory) were staying with the old ladv. The oldest of these chil- dren, a boy ot live or six years. . . - . - - was sitting in the doorway of the house yesterday, crying, and upon being - ac- costed bya neighbor sadthat his grand- .Oll J CA a - vwkaaw I mother was was asleep and he could not r. Upon entering the house wake her. the neighbor found MrsL Vheeler dead. I as stated. Coroner Jacpbs was notified and went to the house, but no inquest was held. Lr. v. w. rotter, wno was also called, stating that he had attended the deceased, and giving his opinion that death resulted from natural causes. A certificate for burial Was issued by : I the coroner and arrangements were made by Mrs.! Wheeler s step-daughter to have the remains taken county for jjurial. ' to Bladen The deceased was last seen alive at half-past 10 p'clock Wednesday night and appeared; then to be in her usual health. Strictly Business. Mr. A. S Hawkes, of Winston, as le- prcsentativc o a syndicate of wealthy gentlemen, has been he several days looking around -for investments. His principal object is to purchase the Wil mington Street Railway and negotia- Hons are now pending looking to that far, howuVer. the parties result. Thus have riot been able to iagree on terms. The owners o( that . property, with its libcral charter, consider it very valuable. and are by no means anxious to sell un- less very strong induce :rhents i are of- fered In addition to the abdvi Mr. Hawkes has in view the purchase pf real estate. though this is contingentj on a success-. ful conclusion ol his eltort to buy tne railway property. N Mr. Hawkes is an intelligent, pro- gressive and wide-awake gentlemao' He leaves for his home to-day, but will probably visit us again very soon. He has been most favorably impressed with t.T-1 . 1 .- C U n 4 Wilmington, and predicts for her a bright future Freights oni the C. F. & 1X1 V, The Fayetteville Observer says' "The increase of freight oveij jthe Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad within the past thirty days, compared with the cor responding period of lastj year; is simply enormous. ! Between d o clock Sunday evening last and 10 ofclock Monday morning 119 loaded cars left Fayetteville over the line j for various! points. ' Four engines will be brought into service as soon as completed by tne manufacturers. yith other rolling stock in proportion all of which will be needed to move the reignt along tne line ot this roaa -The Register of! Deeds issued four marriagejheenses the past week all for colored couples. . BLADEN COUNTY. Democmtio Convention t Ellzabethtowi Nominations, Eto. A special dispatch to the Star from Elizabcthtown, Bladen county, says that the Democratic Senatorial Convention for the Thirteenth district met at that place yesterday. C C. Lyon was chair man and R. S. White secretary. R. P. Allen, merchant and farmer, was nomi nated for State Senator by acclamation. x Be county convention was also held yesterday, and was one of the largest and roost enthusiastic ever assembled. I. N. Kelly wss chairman and A. M. Mc Neill and K. B. Council were secret a nes. 1 he nominees are: Clerk of Court G. F. Melvin. Sheriff W. S. Clark. Register of Deeds W. J. McKay. k i 'wuia j. m, uenson, Surveyor A. A. Troy. Coroner J. A. Reg,ister, Dr. M. Mcl. Tatuin, an Alliance man. was nominated ior the Legislature. vaiitc was enmusiasucauv endorsed and instructed for, Perfect harmony preyailedj vsA MEDAL. FOR ; WEBB. A Movement Inaugurated to Seoure a I Government Medal far Gallant Tom Webb.. . - I -. ' A movement has been inaugurated to secure a medal from the United States Government for Mr. Thomas M. Webb in recognition of his heroism as displayed in the rescue of two ladies from drowning at Wrightsvilie Beach sonic days since. This is eminently pro per. Those who witnessed the thrilling scene, say Mr. Webb risked his own life to save two helpless -ladies from a watery grave. 4: Under a general law of Congress the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to present a handsome and costly cold medal to any person who has saved from drowning a fellow being at the risk of his own life. Of course, satisfactory evi dence must be forthcoming; and in this case there are many witnesses who will cheerfully testify in young Webb's be half. Mr. Iredell Meares will open a corres pondence with the Secretary of the Treasury immediately. THE GRADING COMPLETED On the Yadkin "Valley4 to the Virginia Lino-Oil, Stool and Iron Projects. A special tojthe Richmond Dispatch, from Greensboro, says: , The work of grading the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad to the Vir ginia line to the point where it is to con nect with the Cripple Creek or North Carolina extension of the Norfolk and Western was completed to-day, t (Wed nesday), and the large force of convicts employed on the work passed through here on their way back to the peniten tiary. As soon as the work on the Nr" folk & Western is finished the track will be laid and Greensboro will be directly connected with the Pocahontas coal fields." REPUBLICAN POLITICS. Dissatisfied With Bins Bule A Formid able Independent Movement. The independent Republicans are be coming restive. They say they are tired of "ring rule" and will under no circum stances support the so-called "regular" ticket now in the field. A meeting of colored Republicans has already been held which recommended C. P. Lockey and Joseph E. Sampson for the House of Representatives, Jas. B. Dudley for RegisteVof Deeds, and. David Jacobs for Coroner. This -is but the beginning. Other meetings will be held, and leading Re publicans say a lull ticket of Indepen dents will be nomiaated. Many leading Republicans, and among them some of the best canvassers! in the party, both white and colored,! are in this move ment, and some of them claim that an Independent ticket can poll more than half the Republican vote of the county. A Very Busy Place. I The cotton compresses are about the busiest places in town just now. At the Champion yesterday thi two large Morse presses were in operation, turning out per hour from 125 to 150 bales of compressed cotton, which truckmen' were rapidly transferring to steve dores loading the British steamship Picton, lying at one of the piers, and which it is estimated will take about 7,000 (bales. The scene was an animated one. The large force of. employes some two hundred or more all moving with a rush, and yet everything is so systematically arranged that there was'not the least confusion or. delay. 'Carolina Beach. Speaking of the popularity of Wil mington's seaside resorts, attention was directed yesterday to the fact at that Carolina Beach, which many predict will not only be the lavorite of the Car olinas but of the South, there were, dur ing the past season, thirteen new and substantial cottages erected by citizens of FavetteVille. Maxton, Columbia. S. C, arnT other places, and every visitor was j charmed with, the place. Next season, it is learned, additional railroad and steamboat facilities will be afforded to meet the growing demand. i M Death at a Great Age. Mr. Chas. F. Browne received a dis patch yesterday announcing the death of his grandfather, Mr. Thomas Browne, J who died at Wayman, Sampson county, last Monday afternoon at the advanced age of 98. . Mr. Browne's grandmother,, who is four years older than his grandfather, I and who is consequently 102 years old, is still living. I The Lisbon arrived here last .1 is ripe, however, and ready for cutting, . . i. . .1 , I ,, , . , . i ' tl- i. ; i night, with cargo of cotton and naval stores from Clear Run. Her crank-pin is broken, but will be repaired and the boat will leave on her regular time to morrow, arS o'clock. Capt. Black says that the boat was disabled before she met the Maggie, and the slight collison did the Lisbon no damagejat all. ' - p ; L i - lit 1890. RAILROAD .NOTES. AUantio Coast; Line Georgia, Carolina and northern -Cape Fear and Cincinnati ; . Sailroadit in Which Wilmington Is In- ' :terested. -V.-J.'- V - ' The railroad notes given beow con cerning the extension of the Atlantic Coast Line southward from Fayetteville ar taken from, the last issue of the Ob server:'' j - , ;f V 'I..:'.' i";-';. Twenty car loads of 1 seventy : pound steel rails have arrived here for the southern extension of the Atlantic Coast Life South, between this city and Row! land, with others soon to follow. As soon as the track is all laid between these points, it is the, purpose of the company to either double track or sub stitute 70 u rails for the remainder of the entire lin between Charleston and Richmond. fThus Fayetteville becomes the intermediate "point i between New York and Jacksonville. A daily freight to run between here and Wilson will be placed on the schedule on or about the 10th inst., re lieving the passenger train of the annoy ance of hauling freight and passengers both, and a shorter schedule will cro in to effect at the same time: leaviner here I in: the meaning at 0.30 instead of .8.40 as at present; -returniiifti-'arflvtng-fewa-atJ 5.30 instead of 0.00 as heretofore. - " . Even the most doubtful is now justi fied in belieying that the Coast Line authorities mean business "from the word go," in the matter of the extension of the Short Cut route, and that we are sodn to be on the great through line from the North to the South. Capt. Southerland tells us that the daily freight which goes on September 10th will leave here about 8 a. ro., mak ing quick dispatch, to Norfolk via Nor folk and Carolina Railroad, and also to other Northern points. ihe following items in' reference to thd Georgia, Carolina and Northern, the Cape Fear and Cincinnati, and the At lantic Coast Line will be read with in terest : 1 '!.': The G., C. and N. Boad. yn last Monday ithe first through passenger train ran over the Georgia. Carolina and Northern Railroad, from Monroe, N. C to Clinton, in this State. It was drawn by a large coal burner lo' cOmotivc, and made splendid timeA bigj ten-wheeled cngime has been piaced on jthe road for freight purposesv and a telegraph line is being constructed along the- route. The track of this roa was received Ias week by the railirpftd commission, and already it is doinx'a very good bus iness. The rails arnow being laid on beyond Clinton, ad im a few weeks the hands will meethe gang which is com ing: in the other direction from Green wood. The won bridge over the Saluda RiVer is now being constructed, and the cars will probably be running as far as Greenwood in ten days, and to Abbe ville by the middle of next month. It will reach the , Savannah River, on itsj way to Atlanta, by the first of next year. The Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Road will use the track of this company to go into Clinton. f ' ;. The Cape Fear and Cincinnati Boad. The management of the Cape Fear and Cincinnati Railroad has declared that the construction of this line to Charleston is no longer a matter of any doubt. The company has sufficient capital now in ; hand1 to construct - the lincjj from Southport, N. C, to Conway, and thence to that city. It is possible thai a branch will be constructed from Conway to Marion, S. C. I The A. C. Ik Machine Shops. The machine shops of the Atlantic Coast Line at Florence have recently undergone considerable repairing and overhauling, preparatory to the busy season. Several locomotives have re cently been repaired at the shops, and the polling stock of the entire system is being put in good condition for the sea son, ot heavy business. French Broad Valley and Asheville & Bristol Railroads. Mr. George Peck, oif Wilmington, who has been "summering in the western part of the Stpte, spending a portion of the time at Hendersonville speaks in I globing terms of the agricultural and mineral resources of that part of the "Lajnd of the Sky,"; He rode over a good portion of the country through which the new railroad now in course of construction from Ruther fordton to . Bristol, Tennessee, runs, and; which, when completed,- will give Wilmington direct connection with the I Judiciary Committee, submitted, a re-o-rpat Wt via thi Carolina Central I port from that committee in response to railed. Mr. James . Raymond, of New York, is general contractor for the whole road from Rutherfordton . to Bristol. Tenn.. via Hendersonville and Asheville, N. C"through the French Broad Valley. . Mr. A. B. Fortune is subcontractor from tne Rutherford county line to Reedy Patch Gap; A. Tanner, sub-contractor from Rocky Patch Gap to .Mills Riven J. D. Hardin, frorn the Buncombe county line to the Transylvania county line; Corpenning & Lewis, from the Buncombe county line to Asheville, and John T. Raymond, f roni Asheville to Bristol. All the con tractors have forces at work on the linej about 800 men in all and 150 teams. They have been at work about five ; weeks, Track laying will' be commenced jabout the; 15th of this month, and it is expecfed to have road built to Hendersonville and the beyond by the first oif June next. THE RICE CROP. All Beady for Cutting The Yield About Twenty Per Cent. Greater Than Last Year. ' i The rice planters on the Cape Fear river have had an exceptional season thii year, although only some sixteen or seventeen hundred acres were planted j about half the available acreage. The J yield is estimated by conservative plant ers'to average thirty bushels per acre an increase of about 20 per cent, on pre vious years. ; j Cutting has been going on pretty steadily since the middle of August, and about; one-fifth of the crop has been cut! and stacked in the. field all, of it There will be no late crop. ' The birds usually the planters greatest plague are! very few i in numbers this year, and haye done but slight injury to the crop. The Cape Fear river; crop, it is esti i mated, will be in round numbers, 50,000 i i bushels. i -r - It is confidently believed that the NO: 13 planters will make big money on this season's crop, as last year's has been cotsumed and there is little ofno for- J eign rice in the country. With the old crop swept away and Vi.-Trein' t ice on the' market, pi i :cs fiiust neccssaiily be Very satisfactory to ' the" planters this year. ' 'V i The South Carolina and Georgia crop is said to be a good! average, and the Louisiana crop is reported to be much heavier than it was last year. ,' " . RED SPRINGS FAIR, Some of the Premiums Awarded and Con f tributed by Wilmington Merchants. In the list of premiums awarded at the pair of the Lumber River Industrial and Live Stock Association held at Red Springs the 14th, 15th and 18th of last month were the following, contributed by Wilmington merchants besides the awards maae to tne prettiest young ladies 1 ;: Prettiest young lady on the grounds Miss Sallie May Shaw, Fontcol, t,50, by Jacob Schlossburg;' also $10 portrait of herself, 7 by Winburn's Phoiographic Rooms, Fayetteville; also one pint of McDuffie's cologne. Ey W. C. McDuffie, fayetteville. -i Second -prettiest young lady on the frounasrAiise Lizzie bteed,X,iktlc Kock,. . C; $10 portrait of herself, by Peters son's Photographic Gallery, Red Springs. Handsomest maiden lady between 30 and 40 years of age, Miss Alice Camp bell, Fayetteville; one year's subscription to' the Daily Morning Star, Wilming ton; by W. H. Bernard. j Oldest competitor who has never used tobacco. William McLauchlin, aije 88 years, Raiford; one rocking chair, worth $6, by Sneed & Co. Wilmington. 1 Young man 21 vcars of at'e who ran show highest mark of punctuality in 1889 in Sunday School; John C. McNeill, Red Springs, one umbrella worth $2.50, by I. onrier, Wilmington, Best gentleman horseback rider. Jas. U. Williams, Red Springs; one leather dressing case by A. J, Pemberton &Co., Fayetteville. " i The saw mill that cuts the most lum ber in one day, capacity and; number of hands considered, Red Spring Railway Co.. 19,055 feet. 12,350 lathes, hands work 12. hours worked 10, isize of mill 50 horse power; one barrel I oil by the North State Oil Co., Wilmington. Largest and finest disolav of vegeta bles raised by any one person. Mrs. Charles A. Purcell.'Purcepolis; one bar rel "D. L. G." flour, by D. LGorc. Wil mington. . j Best plow boy 13 years of jage. James yra, Kcd lianks; S5 by S. I McNair, Wilmington. - Best corn sheller; W. K.j jpringer. Wilmington, diploma. Ugliest looking man, tto ii Hinson. Red Springs; one hat, by 3. II. Fish blate, Wilmington. . I LETTER FROM CAPT. ALEXANDER. : -.!- ' - ' I " He Denies that He is Opposed to tlio Be Election of Senator Vanco -A Straight forward and Manly Letter. A report having gained currency that Captain S. B. Alexander, the Democratic nominee for Congress in this district,' was j opposed to Senator Vance, a gen tleman of this city wrote tojhim in re-. gard to the matter and received the fol lowing reply : j Charlotte, N. C. Sept. Gth, 1890. Dear Sir: Your favor of the 4th re ceived and contents noted. i; authorize you to state that I am not oipposed to the re-election of Gov. Z. B.i Vance to the U. S. Senate. I arrpnt-prl Hip nnmi. nation for Representative from this dis trict with the full knowledge that Sena tor Vance was the choice of the district for his own successor, and II assure you! that if I had any I idea of opposing the wishes of the Democrats who honored me with the nomination of Representatiye I would Iresien. I have twice voted for Gov. Vance for United States Senator, and were I again the "Senator from Mecklenburg" would vote for him again. The personal rela tions between Gov. Vance and myself have always been Inendly. I hope and Deneve tnat tne amerence between ben- ator vance ana the Ainanceiwill soon be adjusted satisfactorily to both. Thank ing you for your kindness, : I am yours truly. I S. B. Alexander. MISSISSIPPI. The Constitutional Convention in Session at Jackson. Jackson. Miss., Sept. 4. The Con stitutional Convention met atj 9.30 a. m. Judge Wiley P. Harris, chairman of the -nSi1 " I tion without submitting the same to the I people for ratification. The jcommittee say the Convention has a rigk, and the theory that a vote of the people is neces sary to its validity has no support in any principle of constitutional law, and is merely a political theory of h doctrine which has in some States acquired au thority from usage. The dqctrine has never prevailed in Mississippi and has no sanction there from usage. Ihe re port was filed without action, and the I Convention resumed consideration of the! penitentiary question. Debate is still in progress. THE ARKANSAS ELECTION Little Rock, Sept. 4. Returns from 556 out of the 1,020 townships in the State give Eagle (Democrat) for Gover nor a gain of 2,920 over his majority in the same places two years ago. This includes losses in Greene. Faulkner, De- Shea, Benton, Lincoln. Craighead, Jef ferson, rointsette and Crittenden coun- fortv rnnnties. Tf the samelratin holds upi Eagle's maiority will approximate 34,000. Conservative estimates give 28,000 as the minimum. THE VERMONT ELECTION. Be turns Show a Great Falling Off in the - Bepublican Majority. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. White River Junction September C.-j-Verified returns from all ol 243 towns in the State show a total of 33,318 lot Page, 19,214 for Brigham, and 1,216 for jAklen and others. These returns from 243 towns make Page's plurality 14.104. and his maiority 12.888. The same towns in 1888 gave Dillingham 48, 077; Shurtleff 19,046, Seely and all others 1,349; making Dillingham s majority a i; 682. and showine a fallintr off in the Re. publican majority of 14,7944 Five towns not heard from cave in 1888 a Republi can maioritv of 262. which will not be materially changed. i i - . The census office gives the total popu lation of Vermont as 332,205. A oe : . ( S1rt iThp nomila. tion of Louisville, Ky., is! 161.005 ncrease of 37.247. SPIRilS;TUK Charlotte JVeivs: Mrs. Chas. G. Pettus died at : her "home on South B. Street, at 12:30 o'clock last (light,- after an illness of a couple of week. . i Greensboro Patriot-: : Deputy Sheriff. Peyton Bilbro. who suffered a stroke of paralysis some limit ago. is re ported as being still in a very critical condition, and fears are ente mined that he will not recover. ' . '' Concord Times: . Mr Rufus W Krimminger was in to see u: yesterday; He brought with him son e fine hen eggs( some of which were nc lrly as large as goose eggs. He sells his ieggs all the year round at 12 cents a dozen. , Asheville Journal-, j l-An insanC man was arrested - on the street this morning. Attention to his condition was Called by his ravings on religious mat tcrs. His name is Retf. Jj M: Cole. of. Rcems Creek, and his insanity is attrib nted to grief over the recent death ot a daughter. Kinston Free Press: iMrs. R. E. Davis sent us a very fine lemon and two bananas grown by her in Letioir county. The lemon weighs 13 ounces, and Mrs. Uavis has 100 like it on the tree from which it was taken. The bananas were fully matured but shorter than the-fruit grown further South. The flavor was delicious. ',.'--. Raleigh Visitor: We regret to learn that the son of Mr. Peter Pool, who lives - near 'Auburn. Wake county, had his hand and arm severely torn to pieces, on yesterday evening, in the cot ton gin of Messrs. Watts & Co., at Auburn. It is reported that his wounds are so severe that there are doubts as to his recover'. i Rockingham Poeket: The wife of John B, Smith, Esq.,. died jof typhoid lever jiear the tllerbe springs on Mon day night last. , The gum factory is in operation but not in full; blast yet. The machinery all works smoothly and does the work satisfactory f cxcept the machine that cuts up the gum into little blocks, which defect. will soon be reme died. : - I I ' - Durham Recorder: Mr. W. I. Kirkland writes to us from jBlackwood Station, ' Orange county, ; as follows: "While working in a well on my planta tion, three miles south of University Station, I found some very strong speci mens of gold. Some of th rock that were blasted are nearly covered with the metal on the face. Peoplcj that have seen it say it is the strongest they ever saw." - : - AVilson Mirror : We are glad. to see that steps are being taken by some of our liberal minded and public spirited business men that will lead to the establishment of a smoking tobacco factory in this place. Dr. King had the misfortune of breaking' his collar bone on Saturday last. He and Dr. Brothers, were in a buggy together, and while going up that steep hill near bid Clark's, the horse slipped and fell into a small ditch on the right of the road, and the buggy was turned over. Dr. Broth ers fell upon Dr. King, and this, it is thought, broke his collar bone. Scotland Neck Democrats From the tax list as taken this year the falling off of voters in the county ince June last year has been very great. In 1889 the white polls were 1,558. In 1890 the white polls were 1,520. In 1889 the colored polls were 2,544. Iri 1890 the colored polls were 2.022. This shows a decrease of 88 white polls and 522 col ored polls. It is estimated that the number of colored voters in the county is about 700 less than last year. Rev. Thos. Dixon, of New York has been invited to sucaU i Weldon Fair. He has consented to be theic and will speak on October 30th. Raleigh Chronicle : Ex-Gov. Holden is seriously ill at his home, cor ner McDowell and Hargett street, hav ing been prostrated by a second stroke Of paralysis. A negro woman, hail ing from Henderson, stepped into L. Levy's store last night to make some trifling purchase, while Mr. Levy was counting over his money, which he placed in an old-fashioned leather pocket book. While waiting on the! negro he stepped away to another part of the store to get that which she ) asked for, and she reached for the pocket-book and 'slipped out with sixty dollars. No tid ings further from .this dusky excur- : sionist. I Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligen- cer : Dr. K. tJ. l witty cuea at nis nome in Camilla, Ga., August 21st, Dr. Twit ty was once a resident of this county, but left here about twenty i years ago. For: the year ended August 30th, 1890, there was sold on the Wadesboro market 6,873 bales of cotton. Some idea of the shortness of last year's crop may be gained from these figures when it is stated that our usual receipts arc about 12,000 bales. Our estimate is that 15.000 bales of cotton will be sold in Wadesboro during the season .1890-91. Mount Airy News: The best and largest crop of corn ever raised in Surry will be gathered this tall. Mr.. Clinton Wilson, of Greensboro, saysi he is the only man in the world who knows the secret of welding copper. He is the inventor ql the wondertul three-piston engine. - mere are rumors in tne air of the early extension of the Danville and New River railroad from' Stuart to this place. This road has been sold to the Richmond and Danville, and it is. said the R. & D. will at once extend the road to our town. Goldsboro Argus: The Clover Bloom Farmers' Alliance had a barbecue and picnic on Mr. Barney Daniel's farm, day. Mr. B. F. Grady, of ! Duplin, the Democratic candidate tor Congress, was invited to come and make a speech. He did so, and those who heard it say it was a good one. It was both Democratic and Alliance in sentiment, the candidate claiming that the two are similar if not identical in character. Miss Addie Rovall. a voung lady who had been sick for several months, died at the home of her parents on West Centre street, op posite the ice factory, at It p'clock to day. Miss Royall was from Sampson county but later of Durham, 'and came to this city about a year ago. Elizabeth Citv -Economist We have recently seen the commission of the first collector of .the towri of Eden- ton after our war of Independence, sign ed by G. Washington, President of the United States, and issued to 1 nomas Benbury. Edenton s first collector, who had been Commissary General of North Carolina, during the war of the Revolu-; tion. It is the property of Gen. Ben- 1 bury's great-grand-daughter, Our of Hyde I old friend, Riley Murray, county, has a work steer that weighs 2,200 pounds that has never cat any thing but grass, so Prof. Sheep tells us. We suppose, it he was lattcned to obesi ty he would nearly double his present weight. Mr. Murray is approaching 90, and is sprightly and sound of mind, but entirely blind and physically infirm. - Raleigh Chronicle: The direc tors of the Oxford Orphan Asylum met at Oxford Tuesday. Rev. Jj T. Harris was elected superintendent. Mr. G. Rosenthal, of Raleigh, was elected a director to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Col. Thos. S. Kenan. It was decided to limit the jnumber of pupils to two hundred. There are more than this number in the institution now but Dr. Dixori has secured homes for the excess. There was a full meeting of the board, and their work gives gen eral satisfaction. Rev. J. TJ Harris is a prominent Methodist, having been-Presiding Elder for some time, and is a man nf considerable ability. H The Agri cultural and Mechanical College will open Thursday, September 4th, and not on the 3d day of October, as has been an stated. - The prospects for an increased attendance are very good. I - r