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... "'X, '" " ' " " '', ""r 'lyTT ' M"- ii ' i. 88888888888888888 SiSg888ggg8SgS 8S8S888S8888888S8 8S8883S88S88S3888 HJOOK 9 rqjooN 8 8SSS8SS8S828888S3 88888858828888383 8S88888S28888S883 88833888888888888 M U 0, s I ittx Si vMtrfWtt the Fort Offic at WOmtftdQ, N. C, u tJEVUUU XMV WUHIi SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The itibscriptloa price of the Weekly Star b u single Copy 1 yeer, poetege pjM....... ....$1 00 3 months Have you received a bill for sub scription to the .Weekly Stak re cently? If so, is it correct? , 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 wheats and chickens, and eggs, and keep oat of the poor-house?:" If so, let us have th- recipe. It will be valuable to us just now. : : C0TT0H CTTLTT7EE. V ;. . The prevailing low price of cotton has led to a good deal of discussion as to the effect it must have on the cotton growing industry and what the planter must do if he expects to continue in that Industry. Some en tertain jthe belief that the culture will be abandoned in the northern section of the cotton belt and remain per manently only in the more southern section where the lands are richer and the t yield greater. TKere are some who don't believe this, but think that cotton will continue to be one of the staple crops in the more Northern States of the cotton belt in which it is now grown, but that, the growers must study better methods to produce cotton at a price which will enable them to sell it at five cents a pound and still make a rea sonable profit. This is very good in theory? every farmer should so study his business as to reduce the cost of production to the lowest notch, and at the same time increase the production to the highest notch, for unless this be done there will be very little made by re ducing the cost of production wbe prices run so low. But right here the cotton grower in the upper tier of States encoun ters a difficulty which puts him at a great disadvantage. While he is trying to master the art of producing cotton cheaply the cotton area of Texas, and of Mexico is' expanding and there they can grow cotton for three cents a pound Or jess, while in the less fertile States where commer cial fertilizers must be used it costs about six cents. The expansion of the area in Texas and Mexico with the usual or an increased crop in other of the cotton States best adapted to the culture will 'have a tendency to keep the price down while the . planters in the Northern tier of States will be spending time, labor and money to bring their land up' so that it will produce cotton enough Co pay them for their labor, and when they have done that they Will find that the land will pay better in almost anything else than in cotton at five cents a pound. As a steady farna,crop we do not know of but one that is as mean or meaner than cotton and that is tobacco, for they are both soil robbers and give nothing back for what thev take from it. It will do on rich bottom lands- where the alluvium is so deep that it is prac tically inexhaustible, as in portions of Alabama, the . Mississippi Delta, Texas and in some of the valleys-of Mexico, where all they have to do is to plow deep to ' turn up fresh and vigorous soil,: but in the uplands where the soil must be fed by ma nures and built up to a reasonable decree of productiveness it will cost more to make five cent cotton than the five cent cotton would be worth. Oranges might be grown in Maine ata dollar apiece, while in Florida thev can be Droduced for a cent apiece. ' - v The cultivation of any plant, as the- manufacture of any article, eventually ; drifts to that section where it can be growr, or the article manufactured, with the least effor and the least cost, and, for this rea son the culture of wheat has be,en abandoned as a market crop in most of the Eastern States and irr some portions of the Western States be cause it can be grown with less effort and more cheaply in other States. We incline to the opinion that the time will come when " there U1 be comparatively little cotton grown North of Southern Georgia, save, per haps, in the Sea Islands.,: It maybe a good many years yet for move ments of this kind are always slow, and scarcely perceptible, but they tnove nevertheless. -" : ' 5 it is going on now. There was more grain and meat raised in these northern cotton States in the past vol. xxyi. year than there ever was before, and tV !lf . ' ' L . j..:- - tucre wm pe more grown next year j and less cotton planted. ' As atten tion is turned to other things and the profits of cultivating them tare real ized and appreciated attention will be turned trom cotton' until it be comes a subordinate crop and finally abandoned altogether. North Caro- , liana and the other Piedmont States will, become. the growers of corn, wheat, : oats and the grasses r and horses,' cattle, sheep .and hogs will feed on the hillsides and in the valleys. Instead of raising cotton to buy bread and meat,' bread and meat will be raised and -sold and the cotton will be raised elsewhere. These states will thus be dome their part in solving the cotton problem by getting out of the cultivation and turning it over to those States which are better adapted to it, where it is practicable to cultivate it at three cents a pound or less and possible to sell it at five cents and ieaveva mar gin for profit. " : V' ""v I-: Texas can without exhausting her cotton area raise more cotton than was grown in all the Southern States ten years ago, and she will continue the culture, for the very simple rea son, that she can grow it at a figure that other States can't reach: and sell it at a price that would bankrupt other less favored States. So in Mexico, where land is fertile, cheap. labor cheap, and a climate of almost perpetual summer. v They haven't made much progress there yet in the culture of the better kinds of cotton, but Americans and : Europeans are moving into that country, bringing with them more progressive and bet ter methods, and it is but a question of time when that will be both a great producer and a ' manufacturer of cotton. '-.i:- t.-.J We discuss these things and theo rize on them, and nature eoes on and finally settles them in accordance with her immutable laws. ' M1H0E MZHTI0V. Bituminous coal is on the protected list, and has been for years Coal is one of the necessaries of life,, which should be as free from tax as water. The justification for taxing it is that coal mining eives, or did give in 1890, employment to about 300,000 people. This includes the number of workmen employed in the anthra cite mines, who derive j none of the alleged benefit from the revenue tax on bituminous coal.. The tax, even with the reduction ih the Wilson bill, is more than the operators pay the miners for mining the coal, so that practically the United I States Gov ernment is paying for the mining of the coal, and giving all the profits to the operators. This is substantially what the tax means. It is not, it is true, paid out of the Treasury, but out of the pockets of the in dustries which use coal, and of the people who ' buy it for household use. The ' work- men are not benefitted by the tax, for the operators cut the wages as low as theyxan, and avail themselves of the cheapest labor they can find, the majority of it being imported from foreign countries or hired in gangs after they et here. But even if it were irue that the workmen were benefitted by the tax, is that a rea son why the coal consumers, be the number great or small, should be taxed to keep up the wages of these 300,000 men ? The people are .not taxed to keep up the wages of farm hands or housebuilders. and thous ands upon thousands of other work men in this country,-. many of whom have to buy coal and take part of their waees to add to the wages of the coal miner, on the assumption that his wages are increased by the tariff. This is not only an injustice to other workmen but an arrant fraud. -' - ."J - Some '' of - the Republican states men, among them J. B. Eaves, ex Congressman Ewart and Col. R. M Douglas are favoring their fellow Republicans with their opinion as to what course the Republicans should pursue in the matter of tbeU. S. Sen- atorshiD. : Thev do not think that Marion Butler should have the cheek r- v. . , to demand the long term when there are so many distinguished and able Republican statesmen not only wil ling to accept a seat, but absolutely hankering for it; and .when the Re publicans furnished the most votes, and thus made it possible for either a Pop. or a Rep. to secure it. Eaves feoldly declares that the Republicans should not stand on ceremony, but co for everything in stsrht. while the Greensboro Col. using more diplo mir.v seductively sue crests, that if Marion will modestly content him self with the short term, he has no Aemht that two years hence the Re publicans provided they get in again) would fall m and elect him to tne Mong term. The Colonel j is probably tvintr it for : trranted that within weeM t. ' - - - e these two years Marlon will be such a good Republican that there will be no obiection tor himr f No doubt, tnis is all interesting and amusing reading for Marion, who is 'about as sure ot Senator Ransom's seat as be is of his next year's hash. The only way he - . .v. . - ... -rr - ' -1 I can be euchred out of it Vould bd by a combination between -the Republi cans and : Democrats, and of course no Democrat could think of entering into a combine with the Republicans to elect aaybody but a Democrat, and the Republicans are not going to propose a combine lor that purpose. But as there are several Republicans anxious to serve their country and draw a stipend of $5,000 a year, with perquisites, and who snap ' their fingers at the compact made between Butler and the fellows on the Re publican side who put tip the fusion job with him, there may be some fun when the balloting for Senator be gins, i The Manchester Ship canal is said not to bea financial success tor the reason that It lacks facilities to ac commodate trade, and therefore the expenses exceed the receipts." ; It wphld reqairemore money than could be raised to give It ithe necessary facilities. Some of the opponents of the Nicaragua canal ' point to this as a frightful example, and a warning against the Uv S. Government en dorsing the bonds of the Nicaragua : canal; or becoming financially con nected witn it. 'l here is no more comparison between the two than there is between a wheelbarrow and a locomotive. The Manchester canal was constructed simply for the use of the trade . that crocs to and from Manchester, and to avoid breaking bulk at Liverpool and shipping from Liverpool to Manchester . by rail. While open to the ships of the world it is practically a local canal, and cost nearly as much money as the Nicaragua Canal will, which will be a highway for the ships of the world between the countries of the two hemispheres. There is no compari son between the two, and no earthly reason for the assertion, that because the Manchester canal is a financial failure that the Nicaragua Canal wmcn win ao mnmteiy more dusi- ness will be: A BIO BLAZE. Tire Is JfrvS! Store Sarda Warehooue nd Other frapetty Btirne'd The Xioee TCetlmeted at $20,000 Very Xilttle In- roranoe. -. ;. , : The largest fire on its river front that Wilmington has seen in years occurred early yesterday morning, on the west tide of the Cape Fear, nearly opposite Chesnnt street dock, causing losses esti mated at $30,000. with, unfortunately. very little insurance upon the property destroyed. Seven or eight thousand bar rels rosin, crude turpentine, tar and pitch went up in flame and smoke, together with five large frame warehouses and two or three hundred feet of wharves. - The fire broke out in Mr. M. 1. Heyer's naval stores yard and was dis covered about 4 o'clock a. m when the Fire Department was called out by an alarm from box No. 41. corner of Market and Water streets. " The firemen 'with their apparatus turned out promptly at the call and .assembled at Market meet dock, where the Atlantic and Cape Fear fire-engines were placed on lighters. which were towed by the steamer Canton, Capt. Edgar Williams, to the scene of the conflagration. The firemen, after tbey cot to work. soon had the fire under control but in the meantime the flames had extended from Mr. Heyer's yard to the two large warehouses on the north belonging to the Champion Compress and Warehouse Company, and these buildings were aiso destroyed. A large derrick belonging to the Diamond Steamboat and Wrecking Company, lying at thelwharves, caught on fire but was saved from destruction by a stream from the - hose of . the steamer Canton, which afterwards did good service in aiding the firemen. ' , The flames spread to the naval stores yard of Measra. Paterson, Downing & Co.. adioinins Mr. Hever a premises on the south, but were checked before they made much headway. The heaviest loss r falls upon Mr. Heyer. He had 7,000 barrels of roam on his vard. of which only a few hundred barrels were saved. 178 barrels tar, 50 barrels tar oil, 500 barrels gum thus, and a. Quantity of salt, upon all of which there waa no insurance. HTs warehouses and wbarl property were also uninsured He est mates his loss at aii.uuuon nayai stores, $3,000 on buildings and $1,000 on wharves. The Champion Compress and Ware-, house Co. estimated their loss at $5,000, upon which there was insurance for $2,000. with Dr. W.'W. Harries' agency 500 in the Lion. 1.750 in the Conti nental, and $750 in the National Fire In surance Comoan v. ; : : ' : ! Messrs. Paterson. Downing CO., baa 200 barrels pitch burned and 100 barrels rosin damaged. Loss estimated at joo; insured, i " - The damage to the Hercules, the Wrecking Company's derrick, is esti mated at saoo: covered ov insurance. The cause ot the fire Is unknown. It is supposed, however, to have originated from the ignition oi dross near a pitcn kettle in Mr. Heyer s yard. KITCHEN MARKET. Poultry and JSgjta Soaree and in Demand. With the approach of the Christmas season the dealers in poultry are. seek ing to augment their stocks, but' the supply scarcely meets the demand and prices in consequence rule high.' Eggs are; scarce and in demand . at 25 cents per dozen in retailer hands ; grown fowls (Jive) 25 to dOc a piece, (dressed) 75c per pain turkeys (Uve) 10c ner ocund. f dressed) 12W to 15c; ducks (wild) 50c per pair. The fish dealers have abundant supply nf Sonnd ovaters at 10c per auart, and New River oysters at 40 to 50c per half- gallon; blackfish, mullets and other varieties of salt water fish, at 10 to 15c per string. In the meat markets the usual supply of fresh beef, pork and mutton was shown.. Fresh pork from the country sold from carts at 5 to 6c per pound; sausase 12 Wc v;;-, .; . , ' In the vegeuble line there was ntue besides cabbage at5 .to JLOc per head; turnips, two bunches for oci sweet pou- toes. 40 to 50c per bushel. . Northern aooles. 80 to 40c per'peck oranges, SOc per dozen. -' . , WimmOTON,g NAVASSA GITA50 C0H?ABY, ' Annuel Meetlryr of Stockholdee-01d .i-i Board of Direofcre Be-leoied-Otbers Omoera A. Dividend of 6 "Par Cent Oeolered. ' -'i tsdt'- f .n ifi The annual meeting of ' the' stock' holders of the Navassa Guano Com pany, of Wilmington, N. C , was held at theirtjffice in this city yesterday ; at 12 o'clock noon. The old Board ot Direc tors, consisting of D. G. Worth, Geo; W. Kidder, Donald MacRae, Chas. E. Bor den, of Wilmington, N C; John H. Fowler, P. P. DUnan and F. L. Grsfain of Baltimore, Md- rwere 'unanimoosly re-elected. J After the reading and con sideration of the reports ot the various' officers and the transaction of other routine business the meeting adjourned until the second Thursday in Decem ber, 1895. .1 y-, :' At a Subsequent meeting held by the Board of Directors of the above com pany, the resignation of the positions ot 1 manager, -secretary, and. .treasurer, neio by Mr. - Donald- MacRae, was: tendered by him and accepted by the Board after unanimous expression" ot regret on their, paru The Board then: elected the following officers for the ensuing- year r lresident--D. u. worth. Vice President and General 'Manager Chas. E. Borden s a Secretary and Treasurer Wm. L. DeRosseU . : . ' ' Executive and' Finance Committee D, G. Worth. Geo. W. Kidder, Chas. E. Borden. -, j A - dividend of 6 per cent, was de clared, payable after July 1st, to stock holders of record. ' After- the transaction of the usual business the meeting adjourned. The JndKe Appotnta. The following letters in regard to the office of the Superior Court of Bruns wick county, the bouthport leader says, will fully explain the situation there: ' At Chambers in Carthagi. N. C, : December 10. It appearing to me that H. K. Ruark, wno was elected on the eth day of No vember. 189, to the office of Clerk of the Superior Court of Brunswick county. has failed to give bond and quality as the law directs. I do therefore declare the said office vacant. : Tas. D. McIver Judge Superior Court. 7th Jud. Dis. At Chambxrs in Carthage, N. C, ,- December 10, 1894. To Samuel P TharfiGreetiner: imposing special trust and confidence in your integrity and knowledge, I do hereby appoint you Clerk of the Supe rior court ot Brunswick connty to nil the vacancy caused by the failure of H. K. Ruark to give bond and qualify as tne law directs, to take effect immedi ately upon entering into bond with suf ficient security as required by law. - And I do hereby confer upon you all the -rights, privileges and powers useful and necessary to the just and proper dis charge of the duties of said office. . -Jas. d. McIver. Judge Superior Court 7th Jud. Dis. BEATS TbVgOLD CXTRE, Hew Tomatoea and Common Bait Will Knock Out the Idauor Habit That's the Way Thar Do It in Mieeoori. 'In Missouri we have a much more simple jag cure than . your Northern bichloride of gold injections, said Col. L. E. Prentiss to a reporter of the Cin cinnati Enquirer. "It is simply one of nature's own remedies merely a ripe tomato and salt. As to us efficacy, 1 can refer to- . dozen people of my own personal acquaintance. The' care is fast becoming known all over the country, and soon every man will be his own jag physician. I don t know wherein the curative properties of a ripe tomato and a sprinkling of coarse salt lie, but they have been too thoroughly demonstrated to me to make me skeptical. One case in particular I know of clinches my faith In the cure. In a little town in Southwestern Missouri there lives to day a man named Jack Morris sey. who was one of the-worst sots I ever had the misfortune to meet. Mof- rissey owns a small farm, and in a patch of ground near his shanty raised enough garden truck to supply his table. To be truthful, Morrissey didn't . raise any thing except hades, his wife and daugh ters doing all the work. ' The man bad the Jim jams fourteen times in one year. and when he didn t have them an bis en ergies were bent on securing the stuff to bring them on. This fail the crops -were a failure on the Morrissey farm, and with the exception -ot the garden vegetables there was absolutely nothing to eat about the place. Tomatoes, how ever, were plentiful. After a week's to mato diet the family noticed that the bead of the bouse had remained sober four days out of seven, t- "Mrs. Morrissey was a woman of quick perception, and Jack was dosed witn the garden product. When I saw him three weeks ago he was a changed man, and he wasn t posing as a horrible example in a tomato lag school either. He is at tending strictly to business now and do ing well. What They Win Do. The Star has recently printed the views" of several prominent Republi cans and Populists on the changes likely to be made by the : next Legislature. With one accord they say, in substance, that the present system of . county gov ernment will be" changed (which means abolished), and that' a new election law will be adopted. Ir other words, the Legislature will do, ss foreshadowed in the' Star some time since, whatever may be necessary to turn out the Dem ocratic office-holders and replace them with Republicans, of various hues; and their Populistic political :" bedfellows This has all been discounted by reflect ing Democrats; and the hints of Rep.- Pop. leaders that a conservative policy will be pursued are not worth shucks. Tire at Mount Olive. .' A correspondent of the Star writes from Mount Olive that the residence and store-house of Dr. J. S, Faison at that place, were destroyed by firs about 1.30 a. m. last Thursday, as tne iamuy was about to leave for Raleigh. -every- thine in the building had been removed. There was insurance on tne nouses- iot $1,200. - The origin of the fire is un known. A Holiday Shoot. The Eastern Dog and Game Protec tive Association will mdnlge in a holi day shoot, at their grounds, December 28th. The contestants will be classified as follows : Class A, to include those whose percentages are rated below, 50; class B, those from 50 to 74 inclusive; and class C those from 75 to 100 inclusive. To bring them as nearly as possible on a parity, class A will be allowed to shoot at 20 targets, class B at 15 targets, and class C at 11 targets. The entrance fee. will be 50 cents, and two cents each will be chareed for targets: ' The classifica tion and handicap features of this shoot wilt place the members ot tne cmo so hearly ' on an equality that the entries will be the largest ot tne season. 1 PTJ8I0S IQISLTUftE: . Bpeeniatlon aa to Whet It Will DoXoge T r Barrie Bare it Will Chenae County Government Amend the Election Xiw sad City . Charters-Discontinue - the ; Anpf opriation for the' Btate Guard. Writing to the Washington Post, un der date of December 10th, Mr. J.CL Harris of Raleigh, a . prominent Re publican and a leader in the Fusion movement, gives an Outline of the prin cipal measures which,, in bis : opinion, will be passed by the Fusion Legislature, which meets in January. He says : - rrhe first matter of business to which he Legislature will devote its attention Hi be the amendment of the election law. No challenging will be allowed on the oay of election. There will be but one ballot box, and the names of the candidates ; voted for will all be on one sap oi paper. A. newjregistratioa will be provided for before ach election. . The polls will beTequired to be kept open as long as tnereare reeistered persons pres ent to vote, s- The reeistrars -will not be allowed to retake ahy-apphcant tor regis ter uniess tne applicant auqaaiines nim- seu oy ms own testimony, or there is other testimony to the effect; but nothi log appearing to the registrar other than the testimony of the applicant, he shall be registered.: The canvassing- boards will be deprived of iudicia! -powers and made ministerial officers, and will be re quired to count the. votes as they find tbem in tne -.various precinct returns. Bull-pens" will be prohibited, and the election, required: to be held . in plain view of the voters; and watchers to be stationed near the registrar and poll- holders will be authorized.; It . will be required that every poll-holder shall be an intelligent man who can read and write witn clearness and facility. . CHANGE IN COUNTY GOVERNMENT." The present svstem ot county covern- ment will be changed. . As it now exista the jnsticea of the peace are elected by the Legislature and the justices of the peace elect five commissioners for the several counties, and these latter officers levy the taxes, disburse the ' county money, elect the Board of Education for each county, and the school committees for each district, and control and man age the whole county affairs. . The com missioners also appoint the registrars of voters and the poll holders for each elec tion precinct. The election of the jus tices of the peace, the commissioners. the school committee, and the board of education will beTestored to the people at the ballot box. The change from this system, as effected by the Demo crats on tne nrst ot January. 1877, was made because in the counties where the negroes were in the majority, ignorant and corrupt men were elected commis sioners and they were extravagant and corrupt with , the county money. They also accepted bonds from sheriffs, clerks, registers and other judiciary officers that were insolvent, and in this way many of the counties were rendered bankrupt. To return to the old system absolutely would be in some measure to invite a re turn of the same misgovernment; there fore, it has been determined to author ize the Governor to appoint on the peti tion of a certain number of tax-payers a board of audit and finance -for each county, who shall be the same number of the commissioners and of opposite political faith, and that no order tor the payment of money drawn by the com missioners on the county treasurer shall be valid until signed by a majority ot the board of audit and. finance. The Tuctices of the Peace-will most probably be required to give bond in the sum of $500 or $1,000, conditioned for their good behavior and the faithful perform ance of their duties. The criminal juris diction of the Justices of the Peace will be considerably enlarged for the purpose of decreasing the expenses of the coun ties by reducing the prosecutions on the criminal dockets ot the Superior Courts. The mode of payment fcf the twelve prosecuting attorneys will be changed from fees to salaries, and the convicted criminals will be made to pay these sala ries by a tax fee in each case which will be collected as a part of the costs and paid to the State Treasurer to be set apart as a special fund lor this purpose. A military organization under the name of the btate ouard has grown up under the Democrats, which Is now costing the people about $20,000 each year. This appropriation will be dis continued. AMENDING CITY CHARTERS. In a number of cities and towns the Mayor is elected by the Board of Alder men, and the wards have been gerry mandered , so as to enable the majority, who are Democrats, to elect a minority of the aldermen. The charters of such cities and towns will be amended so as to enable the majority of the people to rule and elect the mayor. : The Populists and .Republicans will continue; their co-operation and make the same fight in 1896 as they did this year. They will hold ; the State by a much larger majority. - u by their con duct they deserve to do so, than they polled this year. . , : Death of Mr. Uonie XV 8. Brown. .. Mr. Louis F. S. Brown died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning at his home in this city after a lingering illness, and his funeral will take place this afternoon at hall-past two o'clock from St. James' church. The interment will be in Oak- dale cemetery. . ' ? - Mr. Brown was. 43 years hof age. He was born in Wilmington, son of the late Thos. W. Brown, senior partner of the firm of Brown & Anderson, jewellers and watchmakers, who for many years before the war were in business on Market street. Up to the time of his death and for -years' previous the deceased had been with the house of Alex. Sprunt & Son, and was the principal accountant and confidential clerk ot the firm, ; by whom he was held -in the highest estimation, not only for his marked ability; but for his high charac ter and integrity. . . The fiags of all the steamships at the Champion Compress, and at the office of Mr. Jas. Sprunt,- British Vice Consul, were at half-mast yesterday in respect to the memory of the deceased. , - RIVER AND MARINE. The schooner Orlando from Port au Prince, bound to Wilmington, N. C was wrecked on December 2nd, at Long Cay, -one of the Bahamas. The captain and crew landed at Nassau, N. P. Ves sel is a total loss; The Orlando was a barque at one time and - was engaged in thelwhaling trade. She was built in New buryport. Mass'in 1858. and. owned by Wm. F. Green & Son. of Boston. The Orlando has been running to this port for the last ten or twelve years, engaged in the lumber trade. i Register of . Deeds Haar issued two marriage licenses the past week; both for colored couples. : - 1894. I THE LATE W, T WALTERS. One of Hie Kind Aote A. Beminieoenee of Hie Dealings With One ot New- berna Tonne: . Men at the Gloae of . She War. , Ed. Journal Notices of the death pf he .. millionaire, benefactor,- and Christian gentleman, William ,T. Wal-; ters.l of Baltimore, are now filling columns in the newspapers of the coun try. His career was a remarkable one, and he leaves a rich inheritance of good deedsnot only to his family, but to the younglmen of this and all coming time. One little incident of his life, an act of kindness towards a citizen of Newbern came to my knowledge long years ago. and I feel that in giving: it to the public now, I should be gratifying the recipient were he aving to know of it. . , : . , ' a youag man ot umiteo- means had embarked, in business here some time in the fifties, be became a customer of Mr. Walters and personally acquainted with him. The war iound him. indebted to Mr. Walters as well aa to other mer chants in the North.- The yoantf mer chant was xf course broken, up by the war, and found himself, at the . termina tion of it ; bankrupt, with - only a small piece of rear estate and invincible will and energy; left him from Which to make a support fqjr an increasing family.- As soon as possible he re-embarked' at 'bis old stand and opened up with such stoca as nei could procure from mer chants of this city on a few da s ' "ac commodation" and at once proceeded to make terras with his Northern credi tors, giving tbem a frank and candid Statement of this condition and affairs. He was soon able to visit tbem in person and did so. 1 Mr. Walters was his largest if not only creditor n the city of Baltimore, and to him bethnrried on reaching that city.: - i ; .- . He told me that he could not describe his feelings when he was seated in the office with the! man who bad it in bis power to put aptop to his enterprise at a word if he was fio inclined; But he made his statement, told of his losses, of his start upon limbed credit, of his desire to pay his debts! and his purpose to do so if ever able. :i . - r v When through with his statement. Mr. Walters said : "Well, sir, what you owe us on old account you can just consider out of sight until you are entirely able to pay it. What goods you now want in our line you can have On the same terms we gave you -before the war." This was cheering news to my friend and he said to me he feltbs if be had received a stimulus to go on that nothing could depress. He gave an order for what he heeded and leit the store. , On his re turn to get his billi Mr. Walters again in vited him into bis private office, looked over the bill, asked if he had bought all that he needed and engaged in a pleas ant strain of conversation. "Didn't you tell ibe you lost all of your household f urnitare by the war? said Mr. Walters. "Yea sir. we lost very nearly everything of that kind." was the reply. "Have you bought any to replace it?" "No sir. I want to get on with as little as possible unil we can do better." "Come with me, said Mr. Walters, let's go to a furniture store; you must have enough to make your family comforta ble."- I Thev went to thelfurniture store, and Mr. Walters insisted on his buying what ever he absolutely! needed; when my friend would select a piece of furniture, Mr. .Walters 'would I tell him to get a better article. it was cheaper in the end and so forth, and wien through with the purchases Mr. Walters told the furniture dealer to send the bill to his office for payment. As they walked np the street he said to the Newbern customer: "Now this bill for the furniture, I don't want you to use a dollar out of your busi ness to pay. Let that stand until you can, with perfect ease, spare the money topayit." l It is hardly necessary to add, that the old debt, the furniture bill, and many others, were duly paid, and that though be has passed over the sullen stream of death, nearly a quarter of a century in advance of Mr. Walters, there were but few men who thought more gratefully of William T. Walters than did John E. Amyett. f D. T, Carraway. A FOP. SENATOR'S OPDJIOIf. 8aya the Foaioniata I Are Going to ."Save the Bute by a fHew Elect ion Lv Thinks Butler will he TJ. 8. Senator and Xiuak la a Mighty Bis Han, The Washington! correspondent of the Raleigh News and Observer says State Senator Moody, of Haywood, N. C who has been tp New York, leaves here for his home to-day to put his affairs in shape preparatory ta going to Raleigh on the first of January, lie said, in answer to a question, "What are you going to do r that (be 1 ushionists were going to save the country.- "How l askeov "By passing a new election law, pro viding more polling places, closing the polls at 8 o clock, f having the btate to print all ballots, &cL &c Senator Moody says that Butler is fcertain ot the long am 1m lk. Gmai.) .nil , V a. a la aa no certainty about which Republican will be his colleague. He is a friend. be says, of Ewart, Pritchard, Mott, Holton and Dockery. but will not be a partisan ot either. He thinks Lusk is a mighty big man and would! make an excellent Speaker. He told me that Lusk was worth $300.000 had made it all himself by trading and speculating. , Mr. Moody says ne naon t tnougnt much about the appropriation for the Normal School at Greensboro, the Uni versity and the A. & MfCollege until he began to get circulars snowing that it was going to be a hot fight. Then be determined to ed in. "It is a fight,' said he. "of the ecclesiastics on one side and the people on she other.- I am for the schools and for the appropriations and shall fight for them to the bitter end. Southport Items, i Wild ducks, the Sonthport Leader says, are reported fin, great numbers In the marshes near that place, and especi ally around Smiths Island The farm lands bf B. T. Trimmer, in the upper part of Brunswick county, were recently sold to fartiea from Pennsyl vania, who propose to go into stock raising on them; sheep and cattle. . ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS. Mt. cjuvE, N.C Dec. 18. Mount Olive Council No. 84 Order Chosen Friends, was organized here to day by H. Witccfer. P. Q.Cwith the following ofneers!: Joseph W. Kornegay, Councilor; Julius; D. Aaron. V. D.; Chas. S. Boyette, Prelate; Joseph R. Hatch, Sec; John R. Smith, Treas.; John A. Royal. Marsha Stephen :T. Herring, Warden- CL A. Roval Guard: Wm. E Aaron. Sentrv: Robert Kornegay. Chair man Rnard oi Trustees. Dt.:J.W. Kor- negay, Medical! Examiner. W. ! The nextf city election? will be a, political mess df enormous proportions. NO. 7 VACATION IS HEAR. Teaching Scho Is a Weary, Tedious Lot. - Pupila Drain Te Here of Nervone ? Kaercy There nnat Be No Delay ; In Keeping; Brmln and . Neivea i.Well Fed. f-,vte-fv'-i::;.&J.. ., .... . v) . ..;' r:, :J.r..- It is a fearful trade this teaching schooL f ' A horde of restless, growling boys and girls oo wonder) every day slowly brings Aim ttA MaAMHt. Jk uvwu ku aucugiu auu ncrvoua power of the hard-working school teacher. "Tired as a school teacher" would ex- pies the utter languor and collapse that so few escape before the long weeks are overs . . , ,i Of all the 'work- open- to girls and , women, school teaching aeema to , mat hardest on brain and nerves. Each day is not able to make up for the nervona expenditure of the day before, and so mere comes tne usual result Of nerves hard worked but badly nourished; the frequent sick headace, loss Of strength, no coior in tips or cneeks, low spirits. nervousoess, ana a distaste for work. What is, needed is at once plain to every physician's eye. He says at a glance: "Your nerves want more food." Get some red corpuscles in your thin blood the red corpuscles mean health. fames celery compound will cause fresh, ruddy blood to circulate through the veins, and -wilt give an impetus to the weakened digestion. Thin people with depleted or impure blood, who are easilv attacked by lung disease and chronic ail ments, get strength and increase of solid, healthy flesh Irom Paine s celery com pound. It gives vigor to weak mothers and makes growing children robust and nearty. Nervous women- not actually sick, but never really well, who are a burden to themselves, as well as tpoihus. find just the help their system craves to restore them to- sound health, and haDDV frame of miiad. - I Healthy colon animation,' clear eyes and a well filled-out frame, the signs of neaith that never fail, come from the reasonable use ot Paine's celerv com pound. It i is peculiarly advapted to correcting the depressing effect on the system ot long1 hours-ot bard, trying work in' the j school room, behind the store counter, in the office, and wherever there is a constant siiam on the nervous and physical system FAYETTEVTLLS LETTER. Uarriase of Hiu SalUu i Urk and Mr. Jno. M, Cox The: Bond Se-erly ZUeoted County Offioers. 1 ; Special Star Correspondence Favftteville. December. 15. - i i - Cupid with his la u" darts . Transfixes nnsusp cting hearts - and the results belong o the future. On Wednesday night last the residence of Mr. W. G. Clark, a popular and success ful merchant of our town, was the scene of an event which is aiwa vs classified as a joyous one. The pretty and accom plished and only child of Mr. Clark, (Miss Sallie) was united in the holy bonds of marriage with Mr. Jno. M.Cox, a trusted and worthy employe of the C r. & Y. V. Railroad, than whom there is no man in the employ of the company who is more popular and who enioys the confidence of the company in a greater degree.- ' ' v Your , correspondent will take this occasion tdsav that his report On a re cent date that the newly elected officers ' i i i a i oi VDmocnooa cuuBiyaau not given their respective bonds, was exactly true; the correction of one of the correspon dents of the Messenger to the contrary notwithstanding. Only three of said officers have yet given bonds satisfactory to the commissioners, and while we do not doubt the fact that said bonds will in due time be made satisfactory, we prefer not to be . placed in the situation I of having "perverted the fact," is and hence we make this statement.! The officers elected are all good, substantial farmers, and we have no prophecy to make as to the con duct ot county affairs in the inture, out as a reporter, we like to state facts, and do not like to have our statements con tradicted, without proof of their falsity. f. )-.', -". ri. EYE. FROM WASHINGTON. The Receivership pf the Tint National Bank of Wilmington The Quarantine Btaoon for Wilmington. - The annexed paragraphs from the Washington correspondence of the Char lotte Observer are of interest htrt : Surgeon General-Wy man has accepted the report of Dr. G. G. Thomas and his fellow-commissioners appointed to lo cate the site ' of the national quarantine station at Southport. The site is the one approved bv the State. One or two mues above aoutnport. in tnejiape rear river. Building - plans are being made and Dr. Thomas, President of the State Board of Health, thinks that work on the station will begin in January. Dr. Wyman assures him that the station will be ready by the next quarantine season. Representative Alexander was at tne Treasury to-day. He learned that the appointment : of receiver of the First National cana ot Wilmington win pe made by the Comptroller Of the Cur rencv next fweek. The leading candi dates are Judge W. R. Allen of Golds- boro. and Mr. A. G Ricaud, of Wil minston. the former favored by Senator Jarvis, Representative Grady, Branch and Woodard and Mr. Josephus Daniels, the latter by Senator Ransom and Rep resentative Alexander. The contest is regarded as close. As the Comptroller has heretofore preferred an Outsider to a resident. Representative Alexander is not without hope of overcoming the ob jection on the ground that the office is merely to wind up matters nearly com pleted bv I fudge-elect KODinson. tne present receiver. The salary will be re duced. .... --. .-. ESCAPE OF PRISONERS Trom the Jail at Houston, Halifax County, Vtrclnia. , f '. Br Telearaph to the Moraine Star. Lynchbuim. Va December 15. A special to the News from Houston, Hal ifax connty, Va.. says: All the prisoners broke joil here to-night and all escaped. Among the confined was Boswell Easley, convicted of one of tha most brntal mnrdera In the annals of crime, and sentesced to be hanged January 23d, He ta five Teet five and three-fourth nehea in heieht, black, eyes, biacx and woolly hair: thick lips, large flat nose.1 with scar over the right eve He is eighteen years and ot heavy built There were six other felons and a number of parties charged with minor offences in iaiL The town is all excitement oyer, m . ..-at r I the matter ana anerra w vmuKwu is making every possible effort to recap ture the prisoners. Outr That ia Too Frequently Hegleeted Bom Very tTeafnl Hint. Those who use oil for-Illuminating purposes, and so otten with unsatisfac tory results may profit by the following -hints contributed by a lady to the Rich mond Dispatch: -" - ''Why do my lamps give a more brill- - -iant light than tbose in other houses ? " she repeated. "Possibly because I take better care of them. - : " -. "Few women : boil out their burners. This should be done at least once a week. I rub mine off: first' with paper, then place tbem all in a sauce-pan ol boiliog water and soap-soda. Tneie they remain for thirty minutes, when they are rinsed off with clear hot water, laid to dram, add afterward carefully rubbed and pol- -abed with a bit of old flannel I find this the only way to prevent smoking or" unseemly, greasiness. "This is my systematic weekly wash ing schedule: As to the wicks, I fancy in most lamps they are not changed fre quently enough. I put in a new one every week. . The lamp Is apt to smoke unless s this is . done. Then hever cut your wick. Your eye for a curve may be excellent, but I'll warrant the arc of your flame will never be perfect if scissors have been called . into play. When tjie wick is inserted simply bom the end off ' The blaze will make its own pathway more artistically than you ' could do, and the afterlight will have no ragged, edges.: Every morning nip all the burned edges away with a flannel '' cloth.. '; -" - - . . , 'A vital point for the maintenance of a strong glow, is the daily replenishing, ' of the oik f Never let the wick strain for s its sustenance. Without good nourish ment wicks, like mortals, wilt emit a - very feeble flame. . Of course, my chimneys are polished every morning. -They are 'soused' into a generous pan of hot water and soap suds and polished off with chamois. "There is no denying' she concluded. 'that lamps reauire much attention, but they are grateful and respond in such a brilliant manner-that 'one never be grudges the time spent on them." Greenville Reflector: We have always thought that Greenville was a gold mine, if properly worked, but had no idea that the shining metal itself was : hid beneath the soil of our hustling little town. But it seems to be so. Mr. G. W. Hodges, of v Hyde county, was sink ing an artesian well on the premises of Mai. L. C Latham, and when at a depth A of 147 feet shining particles like gold came out with the earth and water. Mr. Hodges gathered up. samples of the metal and will send them to an assayer for examination, i ; The American ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY. TUB fort How Cofflulete in 49 Pans. Cheaply and easily obtained through "The Star." I It Contains 250,000 words, Covering nearly 4,000 pages, and was compiled at an expense aggregating $600,000, extending over nearly 20 years continuous labor oi men well qualified to undertake such an exact ing task. THE CHEAPEST EDITION, English, cloth binding, offered by publishers in the United. States is FORTY-TWO DOLLARS. 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