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j . . rt'BLISHBD AT WILMINGTON, N. C, j, ,00 fA YiEAR.IN advance. 8gS888888S8S8888S .iNKW SI 88SSS888888888888 ggffg88888888888 228S3835S22SSg8S8 gggsF8S8888888888 10 BU V 2888888288888888 88888SS,88288S8888 qiuoW t glfleslSSlSf 88883 .YV 8 88888888888888888 ri " 3 5 2 3 I 2' It the Post Office at Wilmtgton. N. C, as Second Class .iair. i SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. I n.- n ioIIi infc Ci Incription pnce oi mc w j y 1 year, postage paid. C months " " . a months " " . .$1 00 . 60 . 80 Have you received a bill for sub scription to the weekly oiak. ic Gsiuly ? .If' so, is it correct ? If cor nel, Why not pay it? Is there a man on eartn wno can pim a ucwo- paper lor nothing, and pay the post- age i away sides ? uan a tanner give his corn, and cotton, and and chickens, and eggs, and fceep out of the poor-house ? If so, It' us hive the recipe. It will be Vi ii a I ie to us just now. THE ANARCHISTIC SPD2IT. Two things were demonstrated by the Debs strike, both of which will have a salutary effect in preventing such affair's in the future. One is that strikes, which imperil the pros perity and the peace of the country, will meet with the stern condemna tion the people, and the other is that there is power enough in the Government, under the law without straining ir, to cope with and sup press such unlawful combinations of men, however large they may be. The mob is! brutal and desperate, but flies from the presence of constituted au thority when that authority is reso lute and bears arms in its hands. Itis perhaps, well that Mr. Debs played his game as rashly as he did, that he undertook to obstruct the mails jand tie up inter-State com merce,' for that brought the United States, backed by the moral senti ment of the law and order people everywhere, to the scene of dis turbance, and invoked the only power that the law defiers feaied. Had the suppression of this formi dable strike with its attendant evils been left to the hesitating, timorous city and State authorities, the proba bilities are that not only the city of Chicago but other cities would now be practically in the hands of mobs, and the great systems of railroad both west and east of Chicago would be effectually tied up. It was the decisive action of President Cleve land that cut the Gordian knot, turned the tied-up roads loose, and set their wheels in motion again, when the strikers were defying the police, and the militia who . were called in to support them. There is another thing which has been demonstrated by the strike, and the recognition and encourage ment it has received from some. of the leaders of other labor organiza tions, and that is the abuse that is made of these organizations by the men who have been chosen to pre side over them and to sit in the capacity of counsellors. The basic idea in all these organizations is . good, and when conducted on that idea these organizations are good and deserving of support. Working together, in unity, wisely, conserva tively and within the law, these organizations exert a moral influ ence for "the workman that he would be a long time in secur ing, if ever, while working sin gly. They have had their influ ence not only on employers but also on Legislatures, State and national, ana there is little doubt that thev have done much to better the con dition of the laborer in this country But they have done this by keeping . within the law, by reasonable agita tion and bv reasonable demands 'fiot by lawlessness and the destruction of Property, and by ignoring the rights outhers. They have never resorted to that that they didn't fail and lose more than they gained. In late years a change seems to nave come over some of the labor organizations, and a change in their wanocis, of a most radical type. Thai. U- t . . J .,,ca, "dVC oecome rash, aggres sive and revolutionary, apparently assuming that there is an irrepres sible conflict between capital and ' j mis cecausethey have ad " 'ilea so much of the Anarchistic element to their ranks. . j f tnemselves to be dominated so much y that element. Debs may not be an avowed Anarchist, but it is 3 tAt1 1 r . . f , . KIwn tact mat some Ul nis council were in frequent v-u.cicuce witn Anarchist lead at tne headquarters of the Anarchists . in Chicago when the i pi tne devilment was going on "uwever anxious Debs and his ad- may nave been to keen the Anarchistsin the background for fear oi the pffVrt tv.;. ... -An?1 have on Public, the witn whiip not 80 anions, for 22? ?uC t,n? was wildest, and MiJL. L.res,aent nad orderde Z.:a the7 held a pub. haranmV S the most dehant d"ne fnT 0Tsed the violence uone and advicpH if t wT" That mean. of course, wcre men enough to fnllnw whlchH' carnage in L "kiiKC5l 7 ",ugesi would win. It so althouXr llSwere enough, what, there was there, and "holesome wasoi mem had too M X ' measure strenoih u. US. tx 1 1 rfrn r Kt.ii.i.. a. spnt r wtm iuc soiuiers cnt to confront them. Butwh r - 1 --"i"6 " - W11.U cuwu i rccted in the advertisement oi tne different, m,ght. be asked s the aging the boldness of the mobs In American Encyclopaedic Dictionary else crence between tho a I ,, . .. ... I : F ...uvu .u - VOL. XXV. arcbist who seeks to accomplish his purpose with the dagger arid the bomb, and the man who fires build ings, wrecks and burns railroad cars aqd switch houses, and rocks and fires into trains loaded with passen gers? We fail to see where the dif ference is and we do not think any one else can. That is precisely what Debs invited and what his followers and sympathizers did. All the An archists in Europe jn all their bomb throwing never did a tithe of the havoc that these Chicago Anarchists wrought in the few days they over rode the municipal authorities of that city. If these labor organizations would not forfeit the respect and sub ject themselves to the condemnation of all law-abiding people they will weed out that Anarchistic element, and fight their battles, if they have any to fight, within the law. . Have you received a bill for sub scription to the Weekly Star re cently ? If so, is it correct f If cor rect, why not pay it ? Is there a man on earth who can print a newspaper for nothing and pay the postage be sides ? Can a farmer give away his corn, and cotton, and. wheat, and chickens, and eggs, and keep out of the poor-house? If so, let us have the recipe. It will be valuable to us just now. MIirOB MENTION. The proposition submitted jby Debs and his associates to the asso ciation of railway managers, Friday, to get in line, as they said, with the President's suggestion, when speak ing of the appointment of a commis sion to investigate the trouble, came too late, for its acceptance would have necessitated the discharge of every man employed to take the place of the strikers, and the taking back ot every striker, no matter how offensive he might have made him self. This proposition, on the ac ceptance of which the strike was to be .declared off, came after the strike had, practically, declared itself off, and the roads were getting in pretty good shape, with all the men they wanted, and plenty of the strikers willing and ready to return to work if needed. This action will proba bly intensify the bitterness of the men who went out on the order of Debs, but when they went out they severed their connection with the roads by which they were employed and destroyed any claims they might have had for preference or for coq sideration. They took their chances and ought to abide by the result as good naturedly as they can under the. circumstances. If they have cause for complaint, it is not against the railway managers for refusing to ac cept Debs' dictum to take them back, but against Debs for ordering them out without sufficient cause. The first striker convicted under the law since the Debs strike began was F. W. Phelan who was sentenced by Judge Taft, of the Federal Court in Cincinnati, Friday, to six months imprisonment for contempt of court by inciting men to quit work on a road which was in the hands of a U. S. receiver. In passing sentence the judge was careful to draw the dis tinction between a strike and a boy cott, holding that the laborer had a right to strike individually or collect ively, but that when he resorted to the boycott he became a conspirator, and. was amenable to the law. The result of the action already taken by the courts, by the President and State authorities, and the .construction of the law by Judge Grosscup, in Chi cago, in his charge to the grand jury, and by Judge Taft, in Cincinnati, in sentencing Phelan, will go far to clear up the mist and define how far a striker may go without becoming a criminal. It is well that this has been clearly denned and in such a way that the simplest-can understand it, for there has been a great deal of misapprehension in it among the labor organizations, who seemed to think the right to strike and the right to boycott one and the same. , The reputation that Governor Alt- geld, of Illinois, has -achieved as the friend of the Anarchist was illustrat ed by the remark 'of Prendergast, just before he was hanged, when all other hope of escaping death having failed, he remarked: "We may yet hear from the Governor. Governor Altgeld was his reliance and he counted on him to the last, The only reason he counted on him was because Altgeld had thrown him self and his authority between the law and a number of convicted An archists. and turned them loose out of the penitentiary to which they had been sentenced, and his utterances since, - which seemsd to put him in sympathy with that element of the population. Prendergast was not an Anarchist; .if he had been he might have stood a better chance for executive consideration and clem ency; but whether or not, Governor Altgeld's course has led the lawless element of Illinois to believe (hat he would lend them a sympathetic ear when their crimes brought them into the clutches of the law. And there is not much doubt, either, that this I ' feeling had much to do with encour- 1 xuiuois ana teaaing tnem to tne ex - tremes they went in defying the law and destroying property. The Territory of Utah which has just been admitted, is quite respec table as to territory, and much more respectable as to population than the Territories taken in pre viously by j the Republican Con gresses. It contains 84,970 square miles, over one and a-half times as large as North Carolina, nearly twice as large as the State of New York', and 16,000 miles larger than all of the Mew England States combined. It had in 1890 a population of 207,905, three fourths of whom were native born, a population greater than that of Nevada,1 Idaho and Wyoming combined. 1 The Democratic and Republican parties are pretty evenly balanced, so that the status ; of the, new State politically cannot be . positively fixed, although the present represen tative in ; Congress is a Democrat. Its inclination, however, is towards the Democratic party on account of the drastic legislation by the. Repub lican Congresses against the Mor mon church.1 With reasonably good management the Democrats ought to be able to hold the State. The ad mission of Utah will be shortly fol lowed by the admission of Arizona and New Mexico, and this will leave only Oklahoma, which will not be apt to cornel in for some time, and this will wind up the State making business for the present. For the year ending June 30, 1893, there were 299 passengers killed on the railroads of the country and 3, 229 injured, or one killed to every 1,985,153 carried, and one injured to every 183,822 -carried, which isn't such a bad showing, although not as good as in most European countries, where more care is taken to protect life. The empldyes, however, didn't fare so well for the proportion of these killed ' was one to every 320 men employed, and of injured one to -every 28 employed. The proportion ot trainmen was one killed .to every 115 employed and one injured to every 10 employed. Senator Gallinger, ot New Hamp shire, said the reason why he objected to the immediate consideration of Senator Daniel's resolution endors ing, the action taken by the President in bringing Debs to taw, was because ne naa a a ay or two Dei ore reaa an article in the New York Sun which charged Mr. Cleveland with being a socialist. The Sun is a very danger ous paper for a weak-minded man like Senator Gallinger to read. A Chicago dispatch says that Lord Randolph Churchill, the late Tory leader in the British Parliament, who married Jennie Jerome, one of the belles of New York, is now in that city undergoing a course of treat ment for the morphine habit. His wife is with him. George Gould says the Britannia is a better boat than the Vigilant and the captain of the Britannia says the Vigilant is a better boat than the Britannia, so honors are easy; but the Vigilr.nt was knocked out all the same because she couldn t turn a short curve as quickly as the Brit. Since he failed to get the nomina tion for Congress in that New York York district, Judge Tourgee has an nounced that he has kicked out of the Republican party forever and ever. The Republican party is in luck. . The island of Manhattan which was originally purchased from the red gentlemen who owned it for $28 is now assessed at $1,613,057,735 but they didn't have the same kind of real estate1 assessors then that they have how. If the police captains of New York can clamp from $50,000 to 10,000 a year, as it is said they can, they have a soft thing. That's more than the average editor can make in two years. " Santo, the . assassin of President Carnot, is begging tor his life, and says he doesn't want to die. A fel low who is booked for the destina tion he is after bis head is lopped off shouldn't hanker to die. According to a new directory of the city of New York there are now in that burg 1,937,065 inhabitants. This is packing them pretty close on little Manhattan. What Doea It Mean f How many times a year do the best educated people ask that Question of each other. The making of new articles, the invention of new labor-saving de vices, and the Yankee's well-known pen chant for inventing words to graphically. describe these things, have made a dic tionary almost an absolute necessity, both in the household and in the office. An old one won't do. You must be up to date, and yet the putting of one's hand in his pocket to buy an expensive book in these days gives most of us. a few moments' reflection. But you can have the latest dictionary, by reading the ad vertisement in another column and send ing your coupons, to The Star, as di rected in the advertisement of the 1 wnere in mis issue. WEEKL Y WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY,. JULY 20, 1894. COTTON MILLS? HOW THEY ARE BUILT ON THE 1N- ' STALMENT PLAN. tima tea of Cost; and Working . Capital Bquired The Business Cannot - Ba . Overdone in the 8outh Btgarea Which. : Bhow that Cotton Mills Pay Ha Dd some Profita. j. ' , .-: The Star intends to keen the ques tion of cotton mills as prominently as possible before the x people of North Carolina, but with the more direct pur pose of awakening an interest in the subject among the people of Wilming ton, : . The annexed letter from Mr. James A. Mulvey,' oi Portsmouth, Va., recently appeared in the Manufacturer's Record, and it is so full of sound, practical sense that we give it in! its entirety : A glance at the cities and towns in which cotton mills were built in North Carolina in 1893 shows they are places. with one exception, ot less than 8,000 in habitants. As oily four of" these mills are run by water power, and the other ten by steam, is it not well for the people o( other States to investigate this indus trial movement and see if they will not be able to follow the example set by our North Carolina j friends? I think they will be surprised to find how easy it is to build a cotton mill in every city and town that is located on a railroad. The North Carolina j movement has been founded on co-operation. A .company is organized composed of a president, board of directors, secretary and treas urer. The subscription list is opened and payments on the stock are gener ally made at 50 cents per week per share. This enables every man, whether mechanic or capitalist, to take as many shares of stock as desired; and the pay ments are so easy that where it would be impossible to pay $50 or $100 down, the payment of 50 j cents per week is not felt, and the accumulations run up un til the subscriber becomes the possessor of stock on which he can secure divi dends if the mill has been properly man aged. ' These mills are what are termed yarn mills, and convert the raw cotton costing 8 or 9 cents per; pound, into yarns or warps, varying in value from 14 to 40 cents per pound.. This product is shipped to Eastern cities, where it is readily disposed of. formerly, the coarser grades of yarns were made in the Southern btates, but dunngthe past five years great advancement has been made and many of the j mills are weaving the yarns into print cloths, sheeting, etc. 1 be cost ot a o.OOO-spindle mill cap able of producing from No. Ss to No. 80s yarn will be found about as follows : The cost of building would vary ac cording, to material used, the location and conditions. A plain brick mill with tower would cost anywhere from 45 to 70 cents per square foot of space. This is much lower than can be attained in New England on account of cheaper lumber, brick and labor. Ninety cents is as low as usually attained by North ern mills. Below will be found a state ment which will give the cost of a com plete plant: Land tor mill site .$2,000 Mill building ; 14.000 Houses for operatives 4,000 Machinery complete .60,000 Total $80,000 The above figures represent a fair av erage cost of a Southern yarn mill of the capacity mentioned equipped with all the modern improvements. Of course for mills of a much greater capacity a proportionate reduction would be made in the cost. The free working capacity for such a mill ought to be from $15,000 to $20,000 to operate to the best advantage, al though in the South, owing to the ability of the mills to buy cotton at any and all times they are enabled to manage their mills on a smaller capital than is con sidered advisable with the same size plants in the North. The question now arises can such a mill be made to pay, and is the cotton manufacturing business being overdone? When we consider that in the city of Manchester, England, alone, there are more spindles employed in the manu facture of cotton goods than in the entire United States, and when it is under stood that in one Fall River (Mass.) mill built last year there were placed more spindles than are contained in the fourteen mills erected in North Carolina in 1893, it will be seen that twenty-five mills with from 5,000 to 20,000 spindles could be erected in the different cities and towns of Virginia, and they would not supply more than the output of some of the Fall River companies. The fact is, that cotton manufacturing in the United States is in its infancy, and every day it becomes more apparent that cot ton manufacturing is gradually drifting nearer the base ot supply. Do cotton mills pay r There is invested in the Fall River mills $17,880,000. The dividends in these mills are declared quarterly, and for the quarter ending October 1. 1893, the average dividend paid was l.au per cent, or $339,950 was paid out. and this too, in the face of a very serious depres sion that had existed for the previous six or eight months. Let us take, for exam ple.the Border City Manufacturing Com pany of Fall River, Mass. The figures submitted by the treasurer at the annual meeting showed that the earnings for the year amounted to $240,320 on a cap ital of 81.000,000. After paying all ex penses the stockholders received $150,' 000 in dividends, or 15 per cent., and $41,000 was charged off for depreciation. The Southern mills are doing equally as well where property managed, and almost without exception have been suc cesses, the mills in many cases having paid dividends before the capital stock was paid up. Every city in Virginia having railroad facilities should have its cotton or other mill built on a co-operative plan of this kind. Whatever advantage North Caro lina may have because of proximity to the cotton crop is more than offset by the cheapness with which coal is placed at our doors. The mills afford employment to the people, and leave the difference between the cost of the raw material and the manufactured product in the community. This co-operative plan can be used to advantage in nearly every village of the bouth. as every community has certain resources which can be developed by capital accumulated in this way, and thus add much to the prosperity of the people. The business men of Portsmouth have adopted this plan, and are erecting a building to cost $23,000. They secured eight acres of land, which has more than doubled in value because of the building of the mill, and negotiations arepend ing with a Northern firm that wishes to erect a mill equally as large to use the yarns lor knitting purposes. That splendid work. "Famous Paintings of the World," is now com plete, and orders for the entire twenty Portfolios will now be filled. One cou pon and $2.40 will now get the complete work. TTTTt N HW RWrVDT P.TTT ' The A. C. It. Extension in South. Carolina. The Coast Line extension from Rem- ini to Denmark was inspected Wednes day by the Railroad Commissioner. !A special train was run j and those who made the inspection were General Man ager Kenly. Auditor W.f A.:"Riacb, Rail- road Commissioner Thomas, Secretary Bartlett, Assistant Engineer Britt and J. M. Knight, editor of the Sumter Herald. From Remini to Denmark is 44 U miles. The road is laid throughout with 70 pound steel rails. There are three steel bridges. One across the Santee has three spans and those across the North and South Edisto one span each. The road runs through Sumter, Orangeburg ana tsarnweil couuties. connection is made at Orangeburg for Charleston and Augusta and at Denmark for Columbia. Augusta. Savannah and Florida. The road passes through a fine cotton coun try and will do a good local business and the passenger traffic will be excellent. The Railroad Commission pronounces h in a nrst rate condition. CAPITALISTS LOOKING SOUTH. The western Troubles May Bring Capital I . South. . j Mr. Baldwin, the third Vice President of the new Southern Railway, said at Richmond a day or. two ago that there was no doubt that capitalists were look ing to the South, and that this section is on the eve of great industrial activity. He asserted that the South is a place of peace and safety as compared with the West, and pointed to the present condi tion ot affairs in. that section, and the Coxey movement,' as proofs. The com parative conditions of the sections are bound to have their influence with capi talists, who must see that investments at the South are safe, while those at the West are not. Mr. Baldwin is connected with a company that can do a very great deal toward building up the South, and it is evident that he means to do what he can. The comparison he makes is legit imate, i j Sudden Death In StateavOle of W. H. Jft&lone, of Ashevllle. A special to the Charlotte Observer from Statesyille, July 11th, says : - Major W. H. Malone, of Asheville. died sud denly here at 11 o'clock to-night. He arrived at btatesville at 7 o'clock this evening, having some professional busi ness at the court house. After tea he visited some friends and remained until about 11 o'clock. On leaving he reached the front door, turned back, entered the parlor, trying to reach the sofa, but fell on the floor and died without speaking. "What is the WordP" There are few things more annoying than to be at a loss for a word. To the writer, whether young or old, to the student or the professional man, it fre quently happens that the right word to express an idea will not come, but if he has at hand the American Encyclopaedic Dictionary he's all right. It not only tells you how to spell it, but what it means; and you not only learn to spell correctly, but to know the true meaning ot words and their value in a sentence. You should have it for yourself, and you need It for your children, and The Star will supply you with it on the nominal terms set forth in to-day's paper. Seven teen Parts of this great work now ready. We Expected It. Mr. W. S. McNair, of Maxton, is an other "figger man who sends a correct solution ot the 34-puzzel, arranging the figures so that they will add up 36 in eighteen different directions. But, then, the diagram is so much like a checker board that it was expected Walter would work the thing out. He beats Czar Reed one point, too, by arranging the figures so that he gets 34 eighteen times, while the redoubtable ex-Speaker could only 'count a quorum" seventeen times when he worked the puzzle. BLADEN COUNTY: Third Party Gathering; at Elizabethtown Marlon Butler ft Great Disappointment. Star Correspondence Elizabethtown, N. C, July 13. The Third party gave a dinner here yes terday.. Mr. Marion Butler spoke for three hours. There were present all told men, ladies and boys not exceeding 250. The most of whom were attracted by the dinner. I say this advisedly for Butler and Kitchen were both announced to speak here the 4th of July when the Populists held their Convention.and only 77 including curious Democrats were present then. So the dinner was the big item on yesterday. cutler was looking badly and made a disappointing speech. Several of his political friends didn't hesitate to say that he was a smaller man than they ex pected to see. One gentleman sized up cutlers speech when he said that the speech re minded him of a doctor who was called to see a patient. After a careiul exami nation he pronounced the man very sick, giving all the symptoms, and then left without prescribing a remedy. The fops were rather blue over the turn-out and the want of interest mani fested, and were very fruitful in excuses why the crowd was not here. X. KITCHEN MARKET. Abundant Supplies of Vegetables, Xish and Fowl. Front street market was crowded yes terday with carts from truck farms near the city. Vegetables were in large sup ply. Cantaloupes were plentiful, but the supply of watermelons was not sufficient to meet the demand. Cabbage was abundant at 5 to 10c per head; squashes. 5c per dozen; green corn, 10 to 15c per dozen; cucumbers, 3 to 5c per dozen; tomatoes, 80c . per peck; Lima beans,! 0c per quart; beets, 5c per bunch; onions, 5c; new potatoes, 30c per peck; okra, 5c per quart; egg-plant, 10c each; field peas, 8c per quart.- Cantaloupes sold at 3 to 10c; water melons, 5 to 25c; apples, 5c per quart; grapes, 75c per basket; blackberries, 10c per quart; huckleberries, 10c, In the fish market, there were channel crabs at tie apiece; mullets and red mouths, 10c per string; sheephead, 15c; sand perch, 5 to 10c; flounders, 10 to 20c; trout, 10 to 15c; sturgeon, 5c per pound. I Fowls were in full supply. Grown chickens sold at 25 to 80c apiece; Spring chickens, 10 to 15c UNION COUNTY SNAKES I . New Variety Have No Heap and em" Can't Be KiUed-Tarleton "Hi Sure. The Tarletons "had 'em" sure af the following from the Charlotte Neips re ports their experience correctly : Mr. Bartlett Tarleton is one if the most respectable and responsible men of the Gibraltar neighborhood" of Union county. He is a man of truth, aid his neighbors say his word is his bondjin al things. His wife is the same kin! of a woman that he is a man and she verifies every word he says. j Last Friday evening Mrs. Tarleton noticed two or three large snakes f near the house and called her husband po s-e them-and kill them. When he airived they went to the reptiles and foun. in stead of two or three, about twenty five of them. They were black and in Shane nearly like a buggy whip, but had no heads atlall. so far as Mr. Tarleu h was able to see. - When they came in contact with a suck or weed they simply gjaned in the middle, went around it on both sides and then went together and again assumed their natural shape. Tiin Mr. Tarleton tried to kill some of them, and beat them into the ground, but ink very short time they would rise out anbe as sound as ever. He tried to kill them repeatedly, but always met wilh the same luck. i ! Mr. Tarleton was a little excised and went to tell one of his neighbor of it. wnen ne and nis tnend returned the Strange reptiles had disappeared and could not be found. They have Hooked for them often since but have not found them. Mr. Tarleton says it is; one of the strangest experiences in his pile and he would like for some One to explain it. The Fayotteville " Independenta.'f The Fayetteville Observer sayf : The Independent Company Have de cided to spend their 101st annitfersay at the seashore. They will run an excursion on the 23rd of August next. The rates will be low. At the meeting on: Monday night the proposition was made and agreed to readily. 1 A committee consisting of Capt. B. R. Huske. Sergt. John C. Culbreth, Pri vates Geo. A. Burns. J. A. Worth, Jr., and W. H. Russell were appointed to make necessary arrangements. The com mittee will do all in their power to make it a success. ' j They hope to make it a pUasant day for all their friends who join them. Special care will be taken that the ladies who go will have everjy comfort and attention possible. Good order will be maintained. j N. C RIVERS AND HARI lORS- Lugo-Increase in the Appropriation Re commended. The following gives in detail what was briefly mentioned in the telegraphic de partment of the Star yesterday: The Senate Commerce Committee, of which General Ransom ia chairman, completed to-day consideration of the River and Harbor bill appropriation for North Carolina. Increases in the amount for the State were made aggre gating $231,000, and the total appropria tions for North Carolina rivers and har bors amount to $334,500. Several new items were added, including the follow ing: Roanoke river, $50,000. Trent river, $5,000. Lockwood's Folly river, $3.0,000. The sum of 5.000 is aDDfooriated for surveying the Dismal Swamp and the connecting water-ways. There was no such provision in the House bill. . increased amounts over the sums voted by the House were given by the senate committee tor the following pro jects in North Carolina, j famlico and Tar rivers, &8.500. Nortneastern Dape Fear river, $2,500. Cape Fear river above Wilmington, $12,000. Cape Fear river below Wilmington, $120,000, and the work has also been put under continued contract for this proiect". i Contentnea creek, flU.OUfJ. Neuse river, $10,000. It will be observed that Ithe new ap propriations and the increases for North Carolina are very liberal. CTJlOERLANrTcairNTY. DemocratioJConventlon Delegates Elected to the State Congressioni;and Judicial Conventions A Besolujtion' Favoring Primary; Elections for P. 8. Senator Tabled. Special Star Correspondence Fayetteville, n1 C July.12. A convention of the Democrats of Cumberland county was (held here to t day to elect delegates toj the Congres sional Convention which meets in Dunn N. C. on the 19th inst., to the Judicial Conventioa which meetsjin Fayetteville August 1st, and to the State Convention to meet in Raleigh on August 8. B. T. Mctiryde, of Carver s Creek, was elected permanent chairman, and H. I. McDufne, of Cross Creek township, per manent secretary. Considerable discussion was provoked by the introduction of the following resolution : Resolved, That the delegates from this convention to the State .Convention be instructed to cast their votes and use their influence for the adoption of a resolution favoring a primary election for U. S. Senator, saidlprimary election to be held at the time of the general election in November. On a motion to lay the resolution on the table, a vote by townships resulted in the tabling ot the resolution, by a good maiority. The delegates to te different Con ventions, Congressional, Judicial . and State, are favorable to the nomination of Messrs. John F. Shaw.jlor Congress, H. L. Cook, for Solicitor; and Associate Justice James C McRae for Supreme Court, although uninstructed. Yours, truly. H. H.YE. NOTES FROM WELDON. Star Cortesiondence. Weldon. N. C, July 12. Capt. J. T. Alderman, of your city, and Capt. Thos. H. Chovasse, of We don, two of the most polite and gentlemanly Conduc tors of the S. A. Line! are running the Atlanta Special between this point and Monroe, N. C Capt. Alderman has during his short acquaintance among onr people made a most favorable impres sion and we hope he will remain with us. The Kev. C L Hoffman, ot Tarboro. preached here Tuesday' night in Grace Episcopal Church, he! is a fine preacher and a most excellent gentleman, A large number of excursionists from Bennettsville, Hope Mills and other places on the line of the C F. & V. R. R spent yesterday in the city and at the seaside, and left on their return home shortly after nightfall. NO. 37 GOOD FOR wnanHGTOii. A IConUnaing Appropriation of $1,500,- 000 for the Cape Fear Blyer-$35,0O0 for a Quarantine Station, j The following telegram from one of I . . - the North Carolina Representatives was received here! yesterday: I I j Washington July 13. The River and Harbor bill has passed the Senate. Senator Ransom increased , i - i- the appropriation for the lower Cape Fear from $80,000 to - $200,000, and made, the appropriation a continuing one until the improvement is complete, and authorizing the expenditure of $1,500, 000 upon this improvement. The ap proptiation for the upper Cape Fear is increased from $12.000 to $20,000; North east river. $5,000. He secured an appro priation of $35,000 for a quarantine sta tion in Cape Far. i - THE S. C. CAMPAIGN. Speaking at Charleston Yesterday About . Six Thousand People Present. Br Telegraph to the Morning Stat. . Charleston, S.I C, July 12. The campaign circus reached Charleston Wednesday night, and after a day spent in recuperating and toning up in and about the city, rang up the curtain at 7 this evening on the City Hall steps, be fore six thousand j people, of which perhaps, ten per tent, was colored. County Chairman Jj N. Kiloch presided, and introduced the speakers. Governor unman was not kindly received, and had to fight hard to get in a word. He was, as usual, tough and abusive, and called Charleston as many bad names as were burled at him. Gen. Butler was given a hearing, but was sometimes interrupted. 1 be crowd was noisy, generally, and when John Garv Evans was introduced attempted to howl him down. He made.some very unpalatable remarks, and was hissed down finally. Mr. Tindall made a sensible and brief speech, complimentary to Charleston mostly. J ohn Gary Evans took occasion to insult the Fourth Brigade, and was hissed for his pains. TWO BROTHERS HANGED For the Murder of a Jewish Peddler in Franklin County, N. C, in June, 1892. j By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Raleigh,! N. C. July 13. Two brothers Tom and Calvin Coley- white men. aged 27 and 22. were hanged to-day at Louisburg, the execution be ing private, f The rope used to bang Calvin had been used on seven prior occasions in different counties of this State during the last ten years. The condemned men were unable to read or write, bad never been to school nor inside of any - church. They re fused to make any statement, but indicated that they had not intended to commit murder. Two ministers visited them often in jail, and they expressed a hope of being forgiven for their sins. in June, 1892, these men and Charles Tucker, a Jewish peddler, met at the house of two negro women in Franklin county, N. C, and all drank. Calvin Coley incited his brother and they killed Tucker with an axe, and carried his body into a neighboring thicket and covered it with brush. Finding in his pack $169, they all went to Norfolk. A year afterwards the crime was discov ered, the entire party was arrested, and the women turned State's evidence and the men were convicted. An immense crowd gathered around the jail to-nay to see the execution. which, however, was strictly private. The men met their fate without emotion. The neck of Tom was broken by the fall; Calvin died in eighteen minutes of strangulation. - FOR THE HOUSEKEEPER. GINGER WAFERS. Cream a cup of butter, add two cups of pulverized sugar, then add two cups of water and four cups of flour, with ginger to taste, stirring in the water and flour gradually and alternately. Spread the mixture as thin as possible on a greased baking sheet or pan, and bake in moderate oven. As soon as done cut quickly and while hot into squares or diamonds. how to peel tomatoes. Nearly all cook-books say: "Pour boil ing water over ripe tomatoes, then skin them," and at least ninety in every hun dred persons attempt to skin them in this manner, and, consequently do it very imperfectly. This is the proper way to peel tomatoes: Cover them witn bon ing water half a minute, then lay them in cold water until perfectly cold, and the skin can be peeled off without difficulty, leaving the tomatoes unbroken and firm as they were before being scalded. DELICIOUS CREAM PIE. Beat three eggs very light with an egg-beater, add to them one cupful and a hall of powdered sugar and beat with a spoon until the mixture is creamy. Add one tablespoonful of lemon juice and beat three minutes longer. Put two cupfuls of silted flour into the seive. mix with it two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder; add one gill of cold water to the beaten egg and sugar, then sift in the flour and baking powder and beat well, four a little more than halt ot this mix ture into two deep buttered tin plates. Pour- the remainder into a small cake pan. Bake the part in the plates for twenty minutes and that in the pan for twenty-five minutes. The two round plates are for the pies, and the sheet ot cake may be used in the basket. It improves if kept a day or two. Split the round cakes and fill in with the pre pared cream. To make the cream, put three gills of milk into the double boiler and place on the fire. Beat together in a bowl three tablespoon! uls of flour, two- thirds of a cup of sugar, one large egg and half a saltspoonful of salt. When this is light and smooth stir it into the boiling milk. Beat well for two minutes, cover the boiler and cook the cream for 15 minutes, stirring frequently. Flavor with half a teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon extract. Cool and use. This cream is more delicate if one tablespoon ful of flour be omitted and two eggs be used. Bitten by a Batdeadske. Miss Ida Hatch, sister-in-law of Mr. Frank Meier, residing on Market near Fifteenth street, was bitten by a rattle snake on the left hand yesterday after noon, while in the back yard of the prem ises. Dr. W. T. H. Bellamy was imme diately summoned, and at last accounts the sufferer was as well as could be ex pected, and it is thought nothing serious will result. The snake was killed. It had one rattle and a button. LOUISIANA RICE CROP. A Summary of its Condition and Prospects j Beoeipta for the Past Tear. The Louisiana Planter and Su?ar Manufacturer, fof the 7th oi July, re ports as to the rice crop: I LAFOURCHE. The rice crop below the cut-off is very good, but the acreage Is much re duced from what it was last season. Much that was planted was cut down by crayfish. - - ' j " CALCASIEU. " ' - If our rice sowing does not do well our rice crop will be a slim one for the season and will make the hard times still harder for . the farmers. We are looking for late rains which will help out the late rice, but the rice not yet sprouted stands a poor show. Rice of all ages, ranging from three feet high down to that which is just coming up, is to be seen in nearly every section of the country, and pre sents a worse appearance in this respect than any crop for many years. Some farmers who are provided with pumping outfits have made good use of them during the past two weeks, but upon ex amining the rice it was discovered that the water bugs were working in the rice to an alarming extent and it was neces sary to turn the water off in order to save the crop. Tinkering witb the tariff and the dry weather have checked our leading in dustry for this season, and perhaps it may take two or three years to get it started again. The receipts at New Orleans from August 1. 1893, to July 6, 1894, com pared with last year, same time, are as follows: Sacks rough. Bbls clean. This year.. 823,798 , 6,144 Last year. . , . . .1,762,202 6.025 WARM Wl RELETS. The sale of the East Tennessee. Vir ginia & Georgia Railway to the Southern Railway Company was confirmed in the United States Court at Nashville yester day afternoon by Judge Lurton. Judge Lurton, of the U. S. Circuit Court, has confirmed the sale of the E. T V. & Ga. road to Samuel Spencer and associates. The new management will take charge of the property on August 1st. Notice has been issued to the em ployes of the Pennsylvania railroad shops, at Logansport, Ind., that on next Monday work would be' resumed on full time. The men had been working on half-time for two months, until two weeks ago, when all work was sus pended. The American EHCYCLOPMC DICTIONARY. 17 Farts Now Eeady. Cheaply and easily obtained through "The Star." 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