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The MlccMg f tar. WILMINGTON, N. C.j $1 00 A YEARIN ADVANCE 8888SS8S83S8S8S8S 3888888888888888 " 888888S88888S8SS8 8S8S8S8S8SS888883 " 82388888283888883 888888S8828838888 siA 8 -aSSSS:S88358888 82882882288888888 8S3888SS8SS8888S8 d " 8 5. ' 5 5 Si 33 2 333 3 3 3 3 . 3 3 3 o- m , . 1-t, . 6i0i 0 Entered at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, aa Second Clais Matter.! - ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. i The tubicripuoii price of the Weekly Star is as follows: i - , i', ' Single Copy 1 year, poatage paid-... ........... ..$1 00 " " tnwnthi " " HO 6 month Smooths 80 IT ROBS THE FARMER, " There is not a man or woman in this country who is not interested in some of the protected industries who does not' suffer through the operation of the protective . tariff, but ' the, farmer and other toilers suffer most because they get nothing but what comes from the labor of their own hands, because their re turns are small at best, and they can least afford the. tribute levied upon them. " .' ' But of all these the farmer .suffers most because the tariff acts in a double way upon him. It so acts upon the farmer of the North .and South but especially so upon the farmer . of the South, the cotton growers who depend mainly upon cotton. On the slightest reflection this will be apparent. r ' The object of the protective tariff is ostensibly to keep foreign manu factures out, and thus encourage the manufactories at home. If it ac complish the purpose for which it is intended it must cut off or at least very largely reduce importations of foreign goods. . It it don't do thii it is a failure and should be abandoned. If it does do it, then it must, as it destroys the trade in foreign goods, reduce the demand for American cotton in markets where the cotton planter has found his largest buyers and best customers. With a reduced demand for cotton in England, com petition from that quarter ceases) the planter finds . himself with a large ' Riirnlns on . hand. and .. tatrino aavairtage ot tots tbe American man ufacturers, especially those in New England who manufacture the lines of goods which receive the most pro tection, take advantage of it and offer whatever price they please for the cotton they buy. That's how it nnoratps aoraincf tht nlantpr in rn way, by destroying one of his best markets, and compelling him to dis pose of his cotton in an overstocked market and to take such price as the manufacturers who are masters of the situation choose to offer him. While it does all this it strikes him heavily in another way by cutting off imports and compelling him to buy the home-made articles, and in doing so to pay a' very large in crease in the cost over " which - he would have to pay " if be could buy where he pleased. This applied to every manufactured article which the planter Joays, and it "amounts in the aggregate to an immense sum, a sum large enough to-almost stagger belief. . " ; Calculations by experts 1 in tariff matters show that the Southern peo ple pay in tariff tribute on the pro jected articles which they buy at least $200,000,000 a year, most of which has to come out of the pro ducts of the soil, which are discrim inated against and made less remu herative by the operation of the very act which levies the tribute, and for which they get no. return whatever. The Southern planter has not only to pay this tariff tribute out of the proceeds of a crop which is discrimi nated against and made less profita ble by sectional tariff legislation, but . he has also to pay his portion of the 50,000,000 pension tribute which the Southern people have to pay annually, not one dollar in a hundred of which ever comes back to -the South, but goes North and West to to be distributed among the" pension ers of these sections, and to be put In- circulation there, while there is. scarcity of mpney in the South and The average man has about all be can do to rake and scrape enough to meet his daily wants. -Is it strange,' under these circum . stances, that there are hard times in the South, and that our farmers suffer as they do, when they are" thus struck from both sides and made the victims of an infernal system that plunders them without conscience or mercy for the benefit of a compara tlvely small number f men, whose 0nly claim to this favoritism is that they contribute liberally to Republi can campaign expenses and corrup tion funds? :-VJ: But this is what! they may expect hile the Rennhlicran oartv has the shaping of the economic policies; of "e vjovernmeqt. And yet. Marion butler and other Third party orators ""u organs tell us that the Soutnern wmer is not interested in'the-tariff. Are thv Irnmarf rr Minto hf th "ave the cheek to go before a plun flered people and chatter thus ?- BUTLER GOES THE WHOLE H00. Marion Butler goes further 'than' Candidate Weaver or "Candidate Field, for Candidate Weaver ignores the sub-treasury and Candidate Field, would be satisfied with the Govern ment ownership of about 'four of the trunk - lines Z but Marion Butler goes the whole ; hog ; and wants the sub-treasury, and the Government ownership of railroad.s, telegraphs, and logically of every ,other agency of commerce or of infoirmation. Here is his argument in defence of the Government owning and ope rating the telegraph lines.- There can . be no commere. he savs.f without .information. The right of the Government to regulate com merce ' between the States carries with it the right to; regulate all the necessary agents of commerce, those agents without which there can be no commerce. In these days of speedy action and quick results the telegraph is the great . medium of trade for ' the rapid transmission of information upon; which buying and selling . depends, therefore ' all the; people are interested in it and affect ed by it, and therefore the Govern ment has a . right, in the' interest of the people, to owq and operate it, to prevent it from being controlled and operated by individuals in their in terest.' What goes over thjfe wires goes into, the newspapers, he says, and thus false! information as to the markets and other matters in . which the people are interested is spread and the people suffer. ; . - Suppose all this, for sake of argu ment, be admitted, why isn t Mr. Butler , consistent and also demand that the Government shall, own and operate the newspapers, or at least establish a Government censorship, such as they have in some of the Eu ropean despotisms, to say what may and what may not go into a news paper? To be fairly logical in sup porting these absurdities, he should come squarely out for the central ized dispotism which they imply and to which they directly lead. HOWITWORXS. The letter of Hon. Wayne Mac- Veaghj of Pennsylvania, to which we editorially referred yesterday, is in our opinion one of the best and most convincing papers on the demorali zing effects of a high protective tar iff that has come under our observa tion. To the non-partisan, independ ent ;voter, who professes to desire and . vote for honest and pure methods in the administration of the Govern ment, there could be nothing more conclusive or convincing. ; It is a demoralizer beyond ques tion, and a breeder of corruption of colossal magnitude. If the original advocates of this high protection were endeavoring to invent some system of corruption that surpassed in effectiveness any and all others, they could not have succeeded bet ter than they did when they hit up on and worked out this monstrous system, which under the name ot a protective tariff has become simply a gigantic system of "robbery of the people under the forms of law," as it was pronounced by Justice Miller of the United States Supreme Court, and several . other distinguished ju rists who belonged to' the Republi can party. r:; 'J: ;',;.,'-':'. '' Asfar'as the tariff is concerned it is a hght now oetween tne peopie who are taxed and the' beneficiaries ot the .tax, the first of whom are rep resented by the Democratic party, the second by the Republican party, which in matters of this kind is com pletely dominated bythem, and until the people vanquish it and show that they intend to have- something to say about the economic policies that shatt prevail and the amount of .pro tection which shall be given, they must bear the burdens imposed upon then), which burdens will become heavier and harder to bear year after year. - It isriot only the tariff burden but other burdens which are grow ing and wiircontinue to grow heav ier year after year, -v r . When the protectionists took the tarifToff sugar (raw) and put it upon the free list, thev decided to pay a bounty to the sugar raiser, amount to about $10)00,000 a year. The sugar tax brought in about $60,000,f 000 of revenue which must now be made up in some other way, by tax ing. :-,-,'- v.--v;-;-; ;::-':r;.. They favored . bounties to ships, ostensibly to build up bur merchant marine, Which would require millions of dollars and was to be operative for fifteen years. They favored appropriating about $200,000,000 for coast defences, and have always . favored : big pensions and more of them until they have got the aggregate up to about $150, 000,00jD a year, and the limit to which no man can yet foresee. . At first sight there does not seem to be any gelation between bounties for sugar and for ships, appropna. tions for coast defences and pensions, and yet there is a very intimate rela; tion. ' -The protected manufacturers un dorstand' it. if the oedple do not They are interested in giving boun ties to anything and everything, in 1 I - 1111 U .I v v . V.-- X. - ; I I . I i . v- II . - " f- I-", ir..". S .- I I - .- II .l - . . - -- . 1 1 ft l-i-.-..:;.Il 1 : I 1 T s ' T T - t im -. . - .L:? - arge pensions, in large appropria tions for coast defences, &a, and for everything which will ' empty the" Treasury, and leave no money there to meet . current expenses, or matur ing obligations. - ; . v Here is" the v object in this..; For thirty years: they have - sueceeded in Laving tne tariff increased untit it has risen from an average of thirty-five per cent, to an average , of between sixty and seventy per cent. For years there has been a growing demand for the reduction of the tariff to a reve nue basis. ; If there 1 were no ..pen sions, no bounties, no extravagance, and the Governmenflwere run.in an economical way,- the tariffTcould be cut down to a very low figure. That's what they don't want and that's why the .Republicans in Congress who are owned by them, are found defend ing and advocating these' extrava gant, appropriations, because tbe more" money the Government must have the higher the tariff must be. .4 With $500,000,000 to-be raised every year to meet the ordinary de-t mands of t$e Government there is not much likelihood of the tariff ever getting close enough to "free trade" to, recognize it. . . ; So the tariff costs the people of this country not only the tribute which it directly exacts, but- millions upon millions more which the tools of the protected manufacturers im pose upon the country in the shape of pensions,j bounties, .and extrava gant appropriations for . other pur- H- - J " 9 1 -t f poses, aii inspired oy tne aesign pi increasing tie expenses of the Gov ernment to prevent a reduction of the tariff and perpetuate, it on a high protective basis. : , While this policy continues, or while the Republican party which favors it continues in power, we will' not only have excessive protection, but the extravagance which it fosters .... I - i will continue and will increase year after year. There can '-be no relief from either until the Republican party is overthrown. ; , Marion Butler says when that little boy deluded, him into taking one end of a rubber sand in his teeth, pulled on the other end, : suddenly let go and surprised his (Butler's) nose, it made him see stars multitudinous. But this wasn't a circumstance to the stars-that B6b Glenn . makes him see when Bob lays hands on his record, as printed in his owh paper, and re marks upon it. On; such occasions Butler should always have a trap door attachment to the platform so he could drop suddenly out of sight. Marion Butler dilates at large upon tbe terrible distress of the people for whom be professes to speak, of their poverty, and of the hard time they have in keeping body and soul to gether, but he never has explained who pays ' his expenses and tbe ex penses of the numerous other 'lumi naries who Tare perambulating the country enlightening the people oh" the mysteries of the t. p. This still remains a mystery." Here is the way Tom Watson, t. p. light of Georgia, is trying to pull the wool ovrthe'eyesof the negroes in this district, by trying to make it appear that there isn't much differ ence between white men and black men after all. ;.'." Thereat God made us all, black and white; but after a tew years under the soil it would be a wise man indeed who could tell your dust from mine. - - The Australian ballot is some times called the "blanket ballot." As far as it has been tried it has proved to be a very publicans. wet blanket for the Re- "WU1 Aooept the CuXL" : The Charlotte News . of Friday last says that Rev. Dr. Pritchard, who has been called to the pastorate of Tryon Street Baptisi Church of Charlotte, ar rived there that day on his return to Wilmington from Louisville, Ky. Dr, Pritchard met the church committee, and it is considered quite certain that he will accept tbe call. , j The Observer says Dr. Pritchard was asked about his acceptance of the call to the church in Charlotte, and "while he would not commit himself, tbe Observer thought by the twinkle in his eye that be was thinking jover the matter favorably; in fact, at a meeting of the deacons later, when the call was" formally laid before him, be seemed to tncline this-way-ward He has the matter under consideration and it is generally understood that he will accept the call.'' 7 Carolina Central Ballroad. , The following is a complete list of the officers of this road elected at the meet ing of stockholders in New York city last Thursday, viz: : ; : - ; ; " ;w : President John M. Robinson. ;; ;L Vice President R. C Hoffman. ; Directors-Ri S. Tucker.; R. C. Hoff man. W. W. Chamberlaine. J. L. Minis, Tohn M. Robinson.. J. C. Winder, D. W. Oates. Isaac Bates, J. Augustus John son. C. H. Roberts, John trill. ' Oeneral Manager John C. Winder, Secretary and Treasurer Tohn H Sharp. . v .-3.;"v -v.v- Superintendent William' Moncure. Auditor A. J. Howell. Traffic Manager Oscar V. Smith. HaJ. Chmrlea M. 8tdmn ; to Take the ' Stnmp. ! . ,x - ' The Raleigh News and Observer says "Mai, Charles M. Stedman is to take the stamp and add his powerful voice to. the corps of other able and popular speakers now in the -canvass. - Mai. Stedman's arvem-hea will eive still more zest and earnestness to the campaign in the Wesi where he will be engaged."-- v f iKTue eunDTeeT omirrS i:p Z-S CIDC "t if.i imtwI .1''.f.i a I ,v:w j';; - . i .. ' ... - t . : ' tt? : - ' '- v".r" 1 w' i . I -iW-' Tv-1 i.'iTHE.A. C L AND THE Rv AND D Some ComparatiTe Itsnrea JPurniahed by The officials of tbe Atlantic Coast Line, jays ;the Charleston Newsaftd, Couriers yttt decidedlyurprised by s the announcement that tbe new route to the North is calculated to "supplant" Plant," and furnish some facts and fig-'. uresto show that their route is the shortest. - -" w , i aid Mr. C. C West yesterday r "Oqr line is not a pan of the Plant system by. any means." But if you will look' over, these comparative distances you will see how we stand on distances." - -' i'---- Charleston, b.'Cw to Raleigh.7 N. CV via South Carolina Railway and Charn lestonlSumter and Northern: " 7 j . Charleston to Pregnall's. miles. V; 43 Pregnall's to Bennettsville . . . .121. Bennettsville to Gibson's by News f h and Courier. , ..... . iO Gibson's to Raleigh...,. ... ..107 Total miles. r . . . t .280 -vi' .103 -13 , 70 ,49 . 28 Charleston to Raleigh." N. C Atlantic tstUnest5 Charleston to Florence ....mile . miles. . Florence to Pee-Dee. 'ee-Deeto Fayetteville...'. . . Fayetteville to Selma ... . . . . Selma to Raleigh..";. .. ' Total mile"...... ii; Distance to , Portsmouth or "Norfolk via Atlantic Coast Line, old route: : n Charleston to Wilmington . , miles: . .213 Wilmington to Koc&y Mount.... . 124 Kocky Mount to Norfolk . . . . . : . . -. . . 120 Total miles-.... ; . . . . . . ;:. . . ...456 Distance to Portsmouth or: Norfolk via Atlantic Coast Line, new route:' Charleston to Florence..;, miles... 102 Florence to Pee-Dee... 13 'ee-Dee to Fayetteville ..... i ..... . 70 Fayetteville to Wilson 74 Wilson to Rocky Mounr 16 Rocky Mount to Norfolk ...... ... 120 Total miles. . . . ........ ... . 895 Charleston to Portsmouth via .South Carolina Railroad and Charleston. Sum ter antTNorthern Railroad: -1 Charleston to Preenall's. . . miles. . . 42 "Pregnall's to Bennettsville. .... ... 121 Bennettsville to Gibson s, (by News 1 - and (courier.... 10 Gibson's to Weldon . . . . V. 204 Weldon to Portsmouth. . ... 79 Total miles. 45S SHIP YOUR COTTON TO WILMINGTON "Where Higher Prloea Are Paid Than !in Any Market South of Baltimore. ; It is a gratifying' showing that Wil mington makes as compared with other Southern ports; that her merchants are able and willing to nay the farmers higher prices for .their cotton than, the buyers of any other city sooth of Balti - T more. Yesterday eignt cents per pound was the quotation for middling cotton in Wilmington, while in Norfolk it was 7 13-16; at Charleston. 1 Savannah, 1: New Orleans. 7j; and Galveston. 18-18.. . , j .The farmers of North -and South Car olina should make a note ot this, and send their cotton to Wilmington if they wish to obtain the highest prices for their cotton. . . -Promlaina Folitioal Proapeot. The political outlook in this section is steadily improving for tbe Democrats. From Robeson, Sampson, Duplin, Ons low and other counties in which Marion Butlerism has been strong, come reports of a great . change. The Third party people are rapidly discovering where their self-constituted champions are leading them, and they are again align ing themselves with the grand old Dem ocratic party the only genuine People's party that has ever existed in this coun try. -The overwhelming Democratic majorities in the '(our Southern - States that have recently held elections for State officers, culminating in the magnificent majority of seventy. thousand in- Geor gia, have satisfied every thinking man that the Third party is doomed, and that every vote cast for the freebooter Wea ver will be in the interest of the old and hated Radical party. lithe real Demo crats of North Carolina will poll within twenty thousand of their full strength, theJRepublican party and its little side show will be overwhelmingly defeated, There's victory In the air. Let us make -it so complete that the Third party will be effectually and eternally buried Betting on the Presidency. The paragraph which appeared in the Star of yesterday concerning election wagers seems to have aroused the bet tors, and several small bets were made on the following basis: Even on the general result of the Presidential elec tion; even on Connecticut; three to two that Cleveland would not carry! New York, New - Jersey,- Connecticut and Delaware meaning, of course, all four of those States. , There seems to have been very little betting in New. York thus far. though it is a little too early for the fellows who linger around the Hoffman- House. ; A lew large even - bets have been made there on New York and on the general result. A good many ' Harrison men have confidence enough to risk their money on his election, but tbe tide seems to be setting strongly in favor Of Cleveland now, and it is predicted that his friends will soon be offering wagers without takers. Death of Col. Luke Powell. The sad intelligence of the death of Col. Luke A. Powell reached here yes terday. He died at his home, near Clin ton, Friday morning, having passed by two years the allotted, three score and ten. A staunch Democrat, a successful farmer, a man of - sturdy honesty, his death will be a,serious loss to the com munity in which he lived. He was well known to the biisiiress men of Wilming ton, who recognized in him a man of the finest traits, and who will regret to hear that he has passed away for ever. A Brighter Outlook, t-?. ' " - - The business prospect is brightening. Oneof the best Indications of this is the increase of names on the hotel registers. though there are other evidences of im provement nO less striking. The recent advahce of one and a half cents per pound in cotton' must have a stimulat ing influence on trade, and -within- the next few weeks the merchants of .Wil mington will -reap a fair proportion of its Benenjcs. rx,., :r A Doaen 8toea, the; Jail and Several 3e- aidenoea Burned Little Inauranoe. -; Advices were received here yesterday of a destructive fire m the town of Clin ton, N. C, by which some fifteen builds ings were destveyed, including the coun ty "jail and a number of stores and resi dences. " ' The fire broke out about 3 o'clock yesterday .v morning in the "Alliance" store, which with the printing office of the Clinton -Caucasian, was soon envel oped in flames. Buildings on the oppo site side of the. street then caught fire and the flames spread rapidly, destroy ing nearly half of the business "portion of the town. '.The merchants saved the greater portion of their goods, but in Ja badly damaged condition. There was but little insurance'on the property de- strbyefL'bf J'';- ; "') ;"- . T ' ' . The buildings ; burned were : ' The Alliance Store; ; the Caucasian' office: M.: Hanstcin's -dothing store (partly inWed): F, "M.Ferrell's ' general rner- cbandise storej-'J. HI Rqval's ' store; vacant) ; R. . HA Holtiday 's drug store; W. H. Duncan's, general merchandise; R. H Hubbard, groceriesr W. R. King & Co.,- groceries: Misses ... Jerome '"ft Bizzells millinery; -W. ; A. Johnson's, dry goods; W. H. Johnson's residence? the county jail and four dwelling houses. An insurance agent in Wilmington says in regard to the insurance, that it was probably very light, on account of the high rate, about six percent., the wooden buildings' which were burned being regarded as extra hazardous. - Death of Alfred Howe, a Well-known Colored Citisen. Alfred Howe, a well-known colored citizen of Wilmington, ' died yesterday afteran illness of several weeks, aged -75 years. 'r-'--t ' About two months ago Howe got in to an altercation with a young white man named Kelly-, a motor-man on the street railway, and was struck on the head " and seriously hurt. Both were indicted for jin affray ; at the last term of the Criminal Court. Howe was unable to attend, being confined to his bed, and upon representations made to the Court, Kelly's bond was increased from $300 to $500. Upon announce- ment yesterday of the death of Howe, a post mortem'; examination was ordered by f Solicitor Moore .of the Criminal Court. It was made by Drs. G. G. Thomas and J. Dr Bullock, who found that Howe's death resulted from tuber- - colosts. and not from the bloWon the head which he received in his encounter with Kelly.s ' . " C. F. & Y. V. R.'FL Annnal Meeting Beporte of Officers A Gratifying- Showing. . . Special Star Telegram. . Fayetteville, N. C, Oct. 6th. The annual meeting of the -Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley . Railway Company was held in the town bail to-day. A. H. Slocumb, a prominent business man of Fayetteville, was made chairman. More than four-fifths of the stock was repre sented in person. The elaborate report of President Lash was read, and with the reports of tbe other officers "Was re ceived with satisfaction, as they showed that the earnings of the road for the past year more than covered the fixed charges, notwithstanding the depression of the times, and that the connections recently made were developing rapidly increasing business and give certain promise of large increase o ftraffic in the future. . Six trestles, one of them more than one thousand feet long, have been filled in and the physical condition of the road generally improved during the year. No change was made in the man agement.: f ' the old board or directors was re elected At a subsequent meeting of the board of directors Dr. W. A. Lash was re elected President; J. W. Fry, General Manager; J. M. Rose, Secretary; R. W, Bidgood, Auditor; W. E. Kyle, General Freight Agent; J.' R. Williams, Treas urer and George M. Rose, General Counsel. -. . Bev. Dr. Pritchard Called to the Fasto- - rate of the Baptist Church in Charlotte. ' . . , -The Charlotte, Observer of yesterday says that a congregational meeting was held at Tryon Baptist church, in that city Wednesday evening, to call a pas tor to succeed Rev. Dr. A. G. McMan away, who lately resigned. After the usual parliamentary requirements, the meeting was called to order and pro ceeded with. ' By a practically unani- r m6us vote a call was extended to Rev, T. H. Pritchard, D. D.i- of Wilmington and will be forwarded to him to-day The Observer adds: "This choice meets the sanction and approval of church men of all denominations . in .the city. Dr. Pritchard is esteemed and loved by all, and if he accepts the call ! to the Charlotte church, he will find a warm welcome from all denominations in the city. x He is a religious power, and as such, aside . from the qualities which always endear him - to his church and community, will be a valued addition to ministerial and social circles in Char lotte." - Beporta Very Enoouraging. " Capt. S. B. Alexander, says the Char lotte News, has, just returned from where he went to view lrom the centre the out look in North Carolina. .. To a News re porter Capt. Alexander said that the outlook was much better; that reports coming to ' Democratic J headquarters were very6ncouraging and that many of the' wanderers "-were returning to the Democratic fold.. Capt. . Alexander thinks that the Democrats are safe for a good majority, but still he thinks that hard work should be kept up until the day of tbe election. ... Carolina Central Ballroad.) - The annual meeting of "stockholders of the Carolina Central Railroad Com pany was held yesterday in New York city.' The old Board of Directors were re-elected and the officers, as follows: President--Jno. M. Robinson. . Vice President R. C Hoffman. .Treasurer Jna H. Sharp, i The Biohmond and JDanTilla Proposes 4o Shut Out the A. C. L. in Augusta Bn Can ttDs' DoneP..fe-3v;-';-'T-The Charleston News and Courier of yesterday has the : following ; from Augusta: ' 2 sfV sj?. - 'pi" The Richmond and Danville railroad is going tq try-to shut the Atlantic Coast line out of Augusta. The Coast Line's contract with the " Richmond and Dan ville for hauling its mail car and Wil mington sleeper between Columbia and Augusta' expired last month, and has not been renewed and will not be restored. n order to keep the Coast Line out of this city the Richmond and Danville is contemplating a change in ; the schedule of its passenger trains on the 15th. If the changes desired are decided upon Augusta will send up a big howl and the cry of discrimination will be heard.. It is said the change now in tended is for the ? incoming morniner passenger train from Columbia and - the outgoing evening trainfrom Augusta to be tacked on to a through freight train. The report has it that the train- now arriving at 9.57 a. m. will not come in until noon, and that the afternoon train will leave here at 5 p. m.. and arrive -in Columbia at midnight. This is a seven hour schedule for an eighty-five mile run, which would be only an average of twelve and a half miles an hour. It is understood that the Coast Line is now trying to arrange with the South Carolina Railway for hauling its sleeper between Augusta and Columbia over that road.. It is believed it will so right to work and hurry on to completion its proposed road from Sumter to Augusta. Most ot tne road bar been graded and the. track will be laid and made ready for trains within a few months' time. The joint agency in Augusta and at all competitive points of the associated lines of the Richmond and Danville, the Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line, which office was filled by W. M. Timber lake, of this city, has been abolished. Each of the roads -will have its own so liciting freight agent in Augusta. The Coast Line has no representative here at present, but it is expected will soon ap point an agent. Strong competition be tween tbe Coast Line and the Richmond and Danville from now on may be ex pected." ;. - - . - IMPRESSIONS OF WILMINGTON. Her People Hare Abundant Push. Wisely Tempered With a Just Conservatism. "L. S. P.," a correspondent of Southern Development, a monthly periodical pun ished at Southern Pines, N. C, writes an interesting letter from Wilmington from which the annexed extract is taken: To a person familiar with the whirl and reckless expenditures of public money Jn some Northern cities, Wil mington might at first seem slow and behind the times; but an acquaintance with her citizens and a survey of the fjty as a whole will satisfy any one that her people have abundant push, wisely tempered with a just conservatism. A ride about the city shows plainly that as rapidly as her means will permit she is bound to become a beautiful .modern city. More beautiful because the pres ent and future - smartness has become a brilliant setting for a comely past. Her-situation on-the. east bank of the river, at the head ot deep water navigation gives her a great present and promising future commercial ' impor tance? Ships of all nations come to her. docks; and large ocean steamers load with the white fleece of the cotton fields and the naval stores of the tall pines. Life in Wilmington seems full- of pleas ure and prosperity to all her people. They take daily recreation and enjoy ment in excursions byrail to . Wrights ville, on the ocean;or a sail down the river to Carolina Beach, the Rocks or Soutbport. -V SPEAKING IN DUPLIN, Senator Bansom to Address the People at - Wallace Hon. A'. M. Waddell to . Speak. . ' . ;. ' -. Editor Star: Please announce that Hon. M. W. Ransom and Hon. A. M Waddell will address the people on the issues of the day at Wallace, Duplin county, Tuesday. Oct. 11th. The announcement that Hon. A. M. Waddell will address the people of Duplin county is received with pleasure. lor no man in Mortn. Carolina nolds a stronger hold upon the affections ot the people of Duplin 1 county than Col. Waddell. : A band of music will be on hand. : " S. S. COUNTY CONVENTIONS. Republicans of m Biohmond Ticket Fusion of Bads . Nominate a and "Three Peas" in Boheson. j - - Laurinburg. Oct. 8, 1892. Editor Star : - Yesterday the Re publicans of Richmond county held their County Convention ' at Rockingham and nominated a county ticket: For Sher iff, the present incumbent, Jno. Smith; DeBerry for Register of , Deeds, and Chappell and Quick for the House ot Representatives. I ' ' - The Republicans ' of Robeson, it is thought, will not bring out any county ticket, but will fuse with the Third party. The Democrats say they intend to defeat their plans in the event Third party ticket should ,be elected by the Democrats refusing to' become bondsmen lor them.. J. - DR. CY THOMPSON. The Third Party Leader Waating His Am- - munition. ' ' ; ". . . Wallace, N. C, Oct. 8, 1832. Editor Star Dr. Cyrus Thompson of Onslow county is in ' our village on his way to Clinton to-day to make one of his Third party harangues; Along the route this morning he (Thompson) com menced a conversation with the vener able Rev. James Cavenaugh, on politics, Kev. Cavenaugh turned around and said "Dr. Thompson, you need not waste vour powder-gun on me." I have been a Democrat all my life and expect to die one. '- '.; sf". j ' - The Rev, Cavenaugh is on his way to preach in your city to-morrow, a. b. - DU PLI rTCOU NTY. ; 9 Mr. A. W. "Ward Legislature in Nominated for the Place of Mr. ' J. D .;. -J,. Stanford. -: '-' - T.--'" ' - ' ; . - Magnolia, Oct. 6, 1892. - Editor Star: Rev. J.' D.; Stanford not being in a position to accept the Democratic nomination for .the House of Representatives from this county, the convention assembled at Kenansville to day and selected Mrf A. D. Ward by ac clamation. . - : - jn. :Av.k-?:...;s I r I I .: I - ' ' . '' I CUMBERLAND COUNTY. The Bepubliean Convention Besolve to - 8npport the Candidate of the Third Party for County Offioes.- ' ' " .' Special Star Correspondence. . Fayetteville, ; Oai 8, .1892. 7 The union is perfected. ' The lion and. the lamb have, lam down together, and lo a little child-an , old man in his dotage 4s leading them. All this was brought about at. a mass meeting ot the Republican party of Cumberland county held to-day at noon in the Town Hall. Of the 100 Republicans . present, only two were white men. W. P. Weimyss, (white) candidate on the' Republican ticket for. Register of Deeds, occu pied the chair; but .; the : action of the convention was dictated by John S. Leary and Neill Waddell.both colored, who seem to ' have .squelshed T "Dr." Moore, also colored, and his followers. Leary addressed the convention in a speech of some length in advocacy of the following set of resolutions offered by fthc chairman. W. P. Wemyss : We would say here, parenthetically, . -that the adoption of the resolutions cuts off the political head of the Chairman of the Convention, as he is required to sacrifice his aspira tions for the office of Register of Deeds upon the Third party altar. And we might say, further, that while there was no outspoken opposition to the second, resolution, there was evidently a feel-' ing of dissatisfaction , with the ac tion of the leaders of the oartv and several colored men were heard to swear that they would support , the straight Democratic ticket, as they did not feel under any "obligations whatever to vote for the .Third oartv nominees'! The resolutions are as follows: 'Resolved, That in the present Doliti- cal contest, we will give our undivdedi support and votes to Harrison and Keid, the nominees of the Republican party for President and Vice President of the United States, and to the nomi nees of the Republican party for " State officers. . Resolved, That we deem it inexpedient at the present juncture of politics in the county to put a Republican party ticket in the field, and we would recommend to the Republican voters in the countv tnat it will be greatly to their interest to vote for the candidates of the Third party for the Legislature and countv omcers. ' Nowyousee'it "You tickle me and '11 tickle you." " . The Rev. Walker. Prohibition candi date for Governor in 1888. was adver tised to speak here to-day; but he failed to appear for some reason not assigned; A DUAL HANGING. Two Negroes Hung in South Carolina " BTo Ezmtement. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Spartanburg, Oct. ,7. John Wil liams, colored,- the man who killed J. A, Henneman, the mayor of this city, on Sunday, the 27th of September, 1891, and Milly Brown, the fifteen-year old colored girl who killed the one-year old infant of W. C. Carpenter, of Gaffrey City, this county, June last, were hanged on the same scaffold here at 11 o'clock this morning. The hanging took place within the . inclosure ot the iail yard, in tne presence ot about twenty per sons, exclusive ot the omcers.. clergy men, physicians and attorneys. The ar rangements were perfect. A WOMAN" HANGED. i Exeitinic Seenos Attending: the Execu tion of Anna Tribble at Newberry, South Carolina. , - . .. ' Bt Telegraph to the Horainx Star. Newberry. S.. C, Oct.' 8. Anha Tribble, an unmarried colored woman, was hanged here to-day for the murder of her infant on the 23rd of February last, bhe was convicted of having se creted the child in a field on the day of its birth and having deserted it, thereby causing , its death. 1 he 'condemned woman raved continuously fast night, and this morning had to be forced on the scaffold. The hanging took place in the jail building, ihe drop was sprung at 1.0U p, m. and deatn was almost m-j stantaneous. The woman protested her innocense to the -last and evidently seemed unprepared to die. -- COMMITThDSUIClDE. D. B. Avers, a Well-known Business Man, Died by His Own Hand in Balefeh, By Telegraph to the Morning Star. kaleigh, Oct. 8. V. fcs. Avera,' a well-known business man, committed suicide this morning at 6 v 'clock. His family reside on his farm in Johnston countv and Avera had been stopping at the Yarboro House. ; He had been drinking someand his mind apparently was ' unhinged. He " had been walking about nearly all night and complained that some man was after him, A phy sician was sent tor who put him in bed and prescribed a narcotic The physi cian left the room and in the corridor was giving directions to a servant, when a noise in tbe room was heard. Return ing, the doctor found that Avera, with one stroke of a knife had cut his jugular vein ana was dying- Avera married a daughter of Gov. rowle. He was uni versally esteemed. He drank freely, but not often to excess. FIRE AT RICHMOND, VA. .1 A Tobaooo Warehouse and Other Property ;,'... 'f -''. Borned. , . By Telegraph to the Morninx Star, Richmond, Va.,' Oct, 8. The large four-story leaf tobacco factory of A. B. Eddins, on Eleventh street, was totally burned this morning. A large quantity of lumber and the drying kiln of W. J. Whitehurst, sash, blind and door manu facturer, were also destroyed.' The fire is supposed to have originated in the lower room of the factory; - Eddins' loss is estimated at $25,000: insured. White- hurst's loss is $8,000. v ; ; ; - ; " ; ELECTRICSPARK5. . Judge Newman, in the United States District. Court.-has granted a writ of habeas corpus in the; case of "Lord Beresford, the forger, which prevents the State authorities of Georgia from taking Beresford to the penitentiary be fore he has a hearing before the U. S. Court. He will have the hearing next Monday ; -: ; - -, ' s- A St. Louis dispatch says: Mary Meo kle, aged 65, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mec kler aged tB, were killed last night by an explosion at their residence. The women placed a mixture of camphor and ben zine in a closet to' kill some roaches Last night they went to the closet to see if the mixture had had any effect, . They lighted a match' and the explosion lol lowed. ; William Wilson was hanged at Ander son, S. C yesterday: for the murder of his wife. Wilson broke down while tbe warrant was being read, but recovered himself. .His heck was. broken by the fall and he was pronounced dead in 23 minutes. 'l:: ."-" ' SPIRITS TURPENTINE. flftMchMvi -t J.,tT.- ' Tl...'t. anipments irom Morenead through thii city py express over the & Nd k. every day,- are truly immense and surpasses anything of the kind in the ' history of the fishing . interests of that section.. . : . . . - '. Asheboro Courier: , Mr.'. T. C " Steadman. a brother of W. D. Steadman f of Asheboro, died at Tillery, in ' Halifax - eounty, September 25th, 1892. He was buried 411 Chatham county; at 'Asbury church, He was the youngest of nine children. . ,- ' . - - Statesvllle Landmark: Tuesday while Mr; J. Turner Goodman, of Cham- bersburg township, was threshing clover a spark from the engine caught in some baled cotton near, by and thirteen bales were consumed. Mr: Goodman had' been holding the cotton, for two years waiting for a rise in the price. . Norwood Vidette : Gus. Turner. colored, who lives on Mri'H. C Tur ner's plantation found in the harvest field last spring, an old Soanish coin - made in the year 1773. On one side was engraved; , Dei. Gracia. Carolus.- III. " and on the other, was, Hispan. Et Ind. . Kex. f. M. M. 2 R. and bearing two oil- lows and a crown. . - - Oxford Ledger: '. A' rood, many - people were fleeced by gamblers with Orton's circus Saturday. They bit at that oldest of old tricks and biggest of ' swindles thimble-rigging the walnut Shells and little ball game One young man Inst fnrtvHnllara. . eiMra! et'mra l'wbe were older and had families and not too flush of wealth, were relieved of twenty dollars each, .and numbers lost from one to ten dollars. ; - iv - Asheville Citisen: Col. A. T. Davidson returned yesterday afternoon ' from a pleasant two day's visit to Sena tor Z. B. Vance, at Gombroonn Col . Davidson tells the Citizen that the Sen ator is getting on very .well, being able to walk about his grounds.. He shows some restlessness because of his inability to enter the canvass for , Democracv. He is confident of the Democratic oartv 's success in November. - Concord Times: Recently Mrs. F. A. Kluttz, wife of F. A. Kluttz.of Bost Mills, lost a gold ring which was given her by her son, Iohn M. Kluttz olV Como, Col. While out near, the barn one day she tied a few bundles of fodder in a held where the hands were pulling fodder. Eyidently in tying a bundle the ring slipped offjinknown to Mrs. Kluttz and got in the bundle somehow. Mrs". Kluttz was very much "put out about the lost ring and made every effoft to find it, but without avail. A few days ago she was in the barn and picked up a bundle of fodder to feed the cows. As the bundle felt like it was wet, she be gan to open it in order to spread it out to dry. Her astonishment can better be imagined than described when she found inside the bundle of fodder her lost ring. tier joy was equal to her astonishment. too. . Smithfield Herald: One of the most serious and sad accidents ever known in this county occurred near Ben son last Saturday evening. One. of Mr. u. a. uenning s boys, about is years ot age, had been a little sick and his step mother, a very good woman, got a bottle out of the trunk which she thought was quinine and gave the boy a dose. It seems that Mr. Denning kept, several kinds of medicine in the trunk, and had bought an eighth - of an ounce bottle, of strychnine, several 'years years ago to kill crow's with and placed in the trunk with other medi cine. ' He also had a bottle of the same size of quinine in the trunk and his wife thought she had the quinine bottle Soon after she had given the medicine she found the mistake she had made and sent for Mr. Denning and sent his son after Dr. Turlington as fast as he could go, and the doctor got there before he died but too late to do any good. The boy died in about three hours after tak ing tbe strychnine. No blame is at tached to the good woman who gave it. :Wilkesboro Chronicle'. A horri ble accident occurred but on the Brushy Mountain on the morning of the 80th ot September at 4 o'clock. Mrs. James Anderson was burned to death in the crib near the house before aid could be rendered her. She and her little daugh ter went to the crib to get some pota toes, carrying a light with, them. There Was some broom straw packed away in - the crip, and by accident it caught fire. The little girl made her escape, but Mrs. Anderson failed to get out and she was burned to crisp in the ruins of the crib. . - A prominent Hunting Creek - man says he has the fastest horse on ' recordl .-, even better than Nancey ; Hanks. Last " week he was caught in a storm, he says, before he knew it. He started full tut for home, running from the storm. As ; he got in full speed the rain had reached , to the saddle on his horses back.. For a solid mile he kept up the race with the storm, but it never reached further than . his saddle. From the saddle back the horse was very wet, but the rest was per fectly dry, ; :- y Shelby Aurora : . Mrs. : Rebecca ' Patterson, wife of Wm. G. Patterson, the proprietor of Patterson's Springs, died after two weeks' illness Monday night, October. 3, 1892, at her home four miles south of ; Shelby. Rer cently a colored man at Belwood had a shoe made to fit his No. 14 foot, and he was supposed to have the biggest foot in Cleveland.- But Mr. F. M. Moore, a shoemaker, " informs us that Abe Mc- Brayer, in No. ' Threef township, can -surpass his pedal extremities, for -Abe can wear a number 16 shoe, provided it ' is high in the instep. Jake Weber, a colored Lothario. who loves women not wisely but too well, became fascinated by the charms of Mary Roberts, the wife of Lee Roberts.' .' He went to her house one , time too often and Roberts, returning: home, found the paramour at his house. As soon as the enraged husband saw what he thought was wrong, he seized a . gun and shot at Weber. The lover was shot severely but not dangeronsly in the . back and hips, as he was running at the rate of ten. miles an hour. Greenville Reflector: Mr. T. J. Stancill, Sr., a highly esteemed citizen of this county, died at his home in Belvoir township two ; weeks ago, Mrs. : C&ristman, mother of our townsman. Mr. T. F. Christman and of Mrs. A. A. Forbes and Mrs. I. H. Evans, died at her . home . four miles from Greenville on Thursday of last week. Last Thurs day evening, September 29th, Major Henry Harding received a telegram an- -nouncing that his brother, Mr. Fred. -Harding, had dropped dead about 4 . o'clock, at bis home near Centreville, in the southern part of the county. . A - rabid dog created much excitement in the north-eastern section of this county -i : last week. On the 28th the dog passed 2 through the vicinity of Mt. Zion church, ; near the line of Pitt and Beaufort coun ties, biting dogs, hogs and everything he came in contact with. The dog started early that morning from the home of Mr. Henry Peel, near Smithwick Creek ; Church. In Martin county, and travelled about fifteen miles before being killed. ' Up to the time he crossed over into Pitt j county he bit eighteen dogs and several . hogs, and was known to bite seven other dogs in Pitt. He also bit Thad.? Bullock, a 16-year old son of Mr. Ed. Bullock, quite severely through the arm.; The young man went to a physician in Robesonville who cauterized the wound. A mad-stone was also applied and ad-; hered once. ;- We were told -! Monday ' morning that in the section ; through .which this mad dog passed thirty-three ' dogs have been killed, and that a Justice had ordered all the dogs of the commu nity to be shot. : ; ; - Heaven's gate is shut to him who comes 'alone. Save thou a soul' and it shall save thine own, WKtttier, V ! to;- 1 - s 0
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