WILLIIX.B, B1BVABD
Fudit, - JLlBCH 14, 1903
WHAT TEX FACT0EII3 DO
. The richest States in thii union
are manufacturing States; the rich
est cities are manufacturing cities.
The richest community is not the
one which prod ace the most crude
material, 'mi table lor manufacture,
bat the one which converts that
material into some useful article or
articles fof which there is a demand.
The South produces annuallj about
9,000,000 bales of cotton, worth in
round numbers about $300,000,000.
A bale of this cotton conTerted into
ordinary cotton goods would be
worth three times as much as the
raw lint. That would make the cot
ton crop worth 900,000,000 instead
of $300,000,000.
This doesn't simply mean that the
crop would be worth that much
more to the oeoole who owned and
manufactured it, but it means that
a Tery large portion of these added
8007000,000 would go to the many
thousands of people employ ea in
the operation of the spindles and
looms with which the cotton was
woven and spun, and most of this
from them to the people from whom
they purchased their daily supplies,
household articles, clothing, etc.,
millions of people thus being bene
fitted by the enhanced value of the
cotton crop, from passing through
the spindle and the loom.
We all know what manufactories
do in a general way, for there has
been abundant evidence of that in
the great wealth of Massachusetts,
which became wealthy from xnann-
fartnrinv thn rottnn of the South
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and making shoes out of - the hides
of the West.
But local illustrations are, per
haps, more impressive, for they
bring the object lesson nearer home,
where it can be studied with much
better effect. A short while ago
Captain W. H. Snow, the pioneer of
the manufacturing industry in High
Point, to whom we have heretofore
made reference in these columns,
published a short communication in
the High Point Enterprise, from
which we make the following extract:
"la the year of 1875 Hich Point u
a lillle hamlet containing about 300
people, moat of them idle, without
employment, a few atores bavins;
rabbit skins, sassafras oil and black
berries, and selling cheap roods at
high prices.
"la the space of twenty-five years
thai HttT iA I K m1kt h hMtn tMnc.
formed into a populous city of nearly
6.000 inhabitant and nearly fifty dif
ferent factories, separate companies or
chartered corporations, employing
over 3,000 men and women who are
paid aboat $17,000 for their labor
every two weeks. Over two million
dollars are invested in mills and ma
chinery, all home capital, most of it
made by the citizens during the twen
ty fire years above mentioned. .--
"The city has eleven churches and
the best school buildings that can be
found in the State of North Carolina,
for both white and colored. The white
graded school has a daily attendance
of 700 pupils, managed by Prof. Cro
well, and the scribe thinks it the best
equipped and managed school to be
foand anywhere. The colored graded
school, managed by Prof. Griffin, is
inferior only in number of pupils.
"The city owns the electric light
plant and is run at a small cost to the
tax payers. A first-class system of
water works is well under way and
when finished will be a source of
revenue to the city treasury."
What High Point was twenty-five
years ago is correctly stated by Cap-
o mi i . , .
uuu Quuw. xne mosx pretentious
institution then in it was a two
story brick hotel, which seldom had
guests enough in it to occupy half its
rooms. That he correctly describes
the High Point of to-day we; have
no doubt, for there is corroborative
evidence enough of that.
There are other towns in the State
which were towns of some preten
sions when High Point was an ob
scure Tillage, and they are dead, or
might as well be, while this obscure
village has grown into a young giant,
and is yet but on the threshold of its
importance as a manufacturing cen
ter. And yet these moribund towns
had greater advantages in location
and transportation facilities than
High Point had. But they didn't
have the people who had the same
posh and the rim and the thrift in
them as the High Point people,
when they found some one to point
and lead the way. High Point has a
jut right to feel proud of her pro
gress, for it is the work of
her own people, co-operating with
each other, building one factory and
out of that building many and pur
suing the work until they have now,
as Captain Show says, fifty manu
factories of different kinds. Most
of these were built and are operated
by home capital, but it is likely the
reputation the town has made has
drawn to it some manufacturers
from elsewhere.
The factories there employ about
3,000 men and women, or ten times
as many as the total population of
the town twenty-fire years ago, and
they pay in wages about $35,000
month, most of which of course
roes for such ? things as the wage
earners have to buy, thus making
business for others and putting that
much money into circulation.
Bnt that isn't all they pay out,
for they spend many thousands
month for the materials they use,
nearly all of which goes to the pro
ducers of these materials who live
in the country. Thus the town
merchant, grocer, butcher, baker
and others and the farmers who
supply food stuffs and the farmers
whose lands supply timber are all
benefited by these manufactories
and in a great measure owe to them
nearly, if not all, of their prosperity.
Greensboro in the same county
with High Point, and Charlotte also
present striking object lessons on
this line, but both of these were
towns of some pretensions when
High Point was scarcely known
outside of the county.
Here is another object lesson
nearer home, which we clip from the
Fayetteville Observer:
v Twnnla fa this section, we be
h... iAtm. at the enormoui
pay roll of the Hope nuus stanuc
u. ; ...7. u
tartar Company. i "
ti t9sr mn nr nearlv tSOO a day. count
ing 300 days to the year; $167.000 of
this amoont is paid in operatrvea
wages, and $100,000 in wages of the
several executive officers. Dosses ana
for fuel."
What the other mills in Fayette-
ville pay out for wages, Ac., we do
not know but if there were only this
one it would be a striking fflustra
tion of the Talue of manufacturing
plants to the community in which
they are located.
This should make everybody in
the town and surrounding country
interested in them for while they
benefit generally by the employment
they gire and the money they bring
into a community and put into cir
culation, they stimulate the estab
lishment of others, and every new
one adds something to the prosperi
ty and wealth of the community and
section in which they are located.
WSAjTGIDTO oyzb reci
procity. The Bepnbllcan statesmen of the
House of Representatives held an
other conference Tuesday night,
which was the fifth or sixth, over
the Cuban reciprocity question, and
got no nearer to an agreement than
they did in the previous conferences.
They seem to be in a hopeless mud
dle between keeping their direct or
indirect pledges in good faith and
offending the protected interests
whose money will be needed when
the elections come around. That's
what's the matter. If it wasn'f for
the political complications they
would settle the Cuban question in
a jiffy and keep their pledges.
In the conference Mr. Long, of
Kansas, reminded them that the
late President McKinley had prom
ised the Cuban delegates who spent
some time in Washington when the
constitution was under considera
tion by the convention at Havana,
that if the Piatt amendment were
adopted as a part of the constitu
tion he would do all in his power to
secure tariff concessions to Cuba.
They, judging from the general ap
proval of his views on reciprocity,
took it for granted that his recom
mendations would have the desired
effect. They went back home, and on
the strength of their representations
he Piatt amendment was adopted.
If it had not been for this and the
belief that tariff concessions would
be made, as virtually promised, that
amendment would never have been
adopted, and yet there are men in
Congress who then endorsed the
views of the President, who now,
after the Cubans hare kept their
part of the agreement in good faith,
would flagrantly ignore these prom
ises, to retain the favor and influ
ence of men who make campaign
contributions.
This is simply an infamous be
trayal of the Cubans, who trusted
us, and a disgraceful desertion of
their own leaders whose position and
promises they endorsed.
Major Appel, in charge of the
Government Soldiers' Sanitarium at
Fort Bayard, New Mexico, makes
the positive declaration that con
sumption can be cured in all its
stages, and Gen. MacArthur, who
has visited the sanitarium and wit
nessed the cures effected, endorses
his declaration. The treatment
adopted is principally '"out door
life, careful diet and absolute rest
in the case of reduced patients."
This is somewhat confirmatory if
the contention of Dr. Flick, of the
Pennsylvania Hospital for con
sumptives, in Philadelphia, the
principal difference being that he
says "forced feeding" while Dr.
Appel says "careful diet."
France doesn't propose to take
many chances on smallpox and has
passed a law requiring that all in
fants be vaccinated in the first year,
again in the twelfth year, and again
ten years later. It takes it for
granted that three tips will be out
with the smallpox. France is prob
ably profiting by the object lesson
her neighbor, Germany, has given
her. .
Mr. Pauncefote. who nmrMumli
urea .Britain in Washington, does
not like it because he had to ait
behind the United States Sunreme
court Judges at the McKinley me
morial exercises, and has filed his
complaint in the State Department.
I he Briton insists on being in the
front, even at a funeral.
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senior Mrtur at th. fi- w i n
Co., Oolnc traslae tn Uw City 'of Toledo.
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cannot be cored by am nee oC Haix's f!ttim
TKAMX. 3. CHXHXY.
preaooc. this Ufa day of December. A. D. lae.
i my
.Votary rulUc.
acta directly oa tbe blood and mnooos rferfaoea
oltbeaysteav Bend for teetimnnlaie. tree.
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Bold byDraostta, rse.
Hairs ramur Us ars ta beat. .
A CURS PROTEST.
The Chinese Government is taking
a hand in the exclusion question
and has entered a protest against
the exclusion of the Chinese from
the Philippines and the Hawaiian
islands. The ground is taken, and
there is something in it, that as the
Chinese had the freedom of those
islands before the American regime,
and had acquired property holdings,
and made family ties, by intermar
riage, and by -rearing families, such
exclusion would be a grievous hard
ship.
While the" Spaniards were in con
trol of the Philippines many thous
ands of Chinese located in the
islands where they did business, and
were the principal traders, while
manv were imported into Hawaii to
work the sugar plantations, and the
Chinese Government thinks they
should have the same privileges now
that they had before the Philippines
and Hawaii came under American
control.
We have no doubt that the
American Chamber of Commerce,
of Manila, and the sugar growers,
of Hawaii, will endorse this protest
of the Chinese Government, for
they both want coolie labor, which
will be cheap and abundant if the
immigration bars be let down.
The probabilities are that in view
of this protest and the manifesto of
the Manila Chamber of Commerce
there will be considerable modifica
tion of the restrictive regulations,
the result of which will be that the
Philippine and the Hawaiian ports
will be practically thrown open to
the Chinese and this will mean that
they will all be eventually flooded
with ChiriMtA traders and Chinese
laborers, who will be shipped by
coolie furnishing companies in num
bers to meet the demands of em
ployers. It means also that ulti
mately they will become, to all in
tents and purposes, Chinese colonies
under American control, after all
the talk about those islands being
an inviting field for the American
workman.
There is an infant prodigy in
the town of Harper, Kansas, which
at the age of three weeks has be
gun to talk and gone into the
prophesying business. It has pre
dicted a "six years' famine for Kan
sas," and got all the people around
there so scared that they want to
sell out and migrate. But with a
six years' prospective famine ahead
there is no one hankering to buy.
The sex of the precocious talker is
not given, but the presumption is
that it is a girl.
A Kansas man, who wagered that
he could go around the world hand
cuffed, got along all right until he
struck Kansas City, in his own State,
where a couple' of enterprising citi
zens held him up, relieved him of
his watch, chain and money, and
then he threw up the job in disgust.
Mr. Bdla sty ea Barker Bui.
Washington correspondence, Char
lotte Observer: "Representative Bel
lamy has just returned from a stay of
several days at his home. He says the
people of the entire Eastern section of
the State are indirnant and disappoint
ed over the amounts that were allow
ed by tne House Committee for the
improvement of river and harbors.
Mr. Bellamy says it is his intention to
both speak and vote against the bill,
and he thinks the North Carolina
delegation should meet to discuss their
mistreatment in a formal way, with a
view of deviainr means to secure
more liberal treatment from the Sen
ate. Senator Simmons also favors
such a conference, but does not think
the conference should be held until
after Senator Pritchard returns."
Te Sacceei Sheriff Bans.
Mr. Ralph Jessup, of Fayetteville,
has been chosen by the Cumberland
County Commissioners to succeed the
late Sheriff Geo. A. Burns, who 'died
last week. Mr. Jessup has been for a
number of years one of the county
auditing committee and in that posi
tion displayed marked ability and
faithfulness to duty. The commis
sioners hare given it out that the per
son selected by them for sheriff would
only be prosecuting and court officer,
it was their intention to give the
coming tax books to the next Demo
cratic nominee for sheriff.
Dr. Jarrls Bsxtes Very D.
Rev. Dr. Jarvis Box ton, of Ashe-
Tille, father of Mrs. Jas. H. McBee, of
this city, was reported tn a dying con
dition Tuesday night. Members of tbe
family in different sections of the
SUte have gone to his bedside. Dr.
Baxtoa has pneumonia. It is thoucht
that he contracted the disease a few
days ago by going oat in the grave
yard and conducting the funeral ser
vice of a friend. He is 84 years of age.
Pay thePslMax..
The Countr Democratic Executive
Committee of New Hanover (and
every other county in the State, for
that matter.) should meet and formu
late a practical plan for inducing the
white delinquents to pay their poll-tax
before May 1st. FSUlng to oo uua,
there will be reduced Democratic
vote in November.
Subscribers who receive bills
for subscriptions due tbe Stab are re
minded that it is not fair to expect a
publisher to supply them with news
for nothing. Many, however, seem
to think otherwise. As soon as a bill
is received a prompt remittance should
be made.
The Maxton Board of Trade,
at a meeting held this week,
resolutions endorsing the action by
the commercial bodies of Wilmington
in their endeavor to secure better
senrer ataikw on the Carolina Cen
tral.
FAILURE AT QAXTON.
McNair & Wooten, Urge den-
end Meixfcssts, Ask to be
Ded&red Bankrupts.
LIABILITIES ABOUT $31,0.
PethJssi Ffled la Ustted States CswrtBere
Yesterday lavUanl fteatscrs ef
the Flra Alse Ask KeUd Frsss
the Credits. ,
McNair & Wooten. large
general merchants, fertiliser dealers
and brick manufacturers, of Maxton.
N. C. through their attorneys, J no.
D. 8haw ds Son. of Laurinbu rg, and
Jno. ZL Cook. Esq.. of Maxton, yes
terday, filed in the United States Court
here, a petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy and same was set to be heard
by Referee IfcRae at his office in
Fayetteville to-day.
The liabilities of the firm aggregate
$31,448.38 while the assets are sched
uled at $31,081.08.
The firm is composed of Mr. H. CL
McNair and CapL T. J. Wooten,
Lamong the most popular business men
of their town and citizens of unques
tioned integrity. Their failure is a
source of sincere regret to hundreds of
friends throughout this section. The
papers were brought down to the city
yesterday by Mr. Cook.
Of the liabilities of the firm there
are the following items: Taxes, $62 16;
wages, $246.25: other debts preferred
bylaw, $21,485.01; unsecured claims,
$5,780.37; notes and bills which ought
to be paid, $464.89; accommodation
paper, $3,403.80. Total, $31,448 3S.
Assets Real estate, $550.50; bills.
notes, etc, $3,284,56; stock in trade,
$4,000; live stock and vehicles, $315;
debts due on open accounts, $23,931.03.
Total, $31,081.08.
Among the secured claims listed are
three notes to the Bank of Maxton for
$3,000 each; Charlotte Oil and Fertili
zer Co., three notes of $3,674.63 each;
American Fertilizer Co.. Norfolk, two
notes of $698.80 each; Navaasa Guano
Co., three notes of $433.50 each: Arm
field & Co.. Fayetteville, note of
$643 78 ; Toilers & Hashagen, notes of
$584.76 and $536.53.
Amooe the unsecured claims are
the Atlantic Cotton Oil Co.. Sumter,
a C , notes, $707.31 ;YoIlers & Haaha-
cea, note, $835 89; open account,
$550.28; Beck & Gregg Hardware Co.,
Atlanta. Ga., notes, $36.50; E B.
Taylor & Co., Richmond. Va., note.
$34 70; Iaman Smith & Co., Atlan
ta, Qa, note, $38$ 70; Carolina
Mfg. Co., Newbsrn, $43 03;Barlinton
Coffin Co., notes. $63 40, open, $3L 68;
Pearl Roller Mills, Randleman, N. a,
note, $5.96; Jno. . Cook, assignee.
$91 25; Goldstrum Bros., Baltimore,
$5.50; McCoIl (3. C) Novelty Works,
$9.30; Weldon Corn Mills, $70.75;
Hall & Pearsall, open accounts and
notes, $617.33; Beaaley, Couch & Co.,
Lynchburg, $17195; Arm field Co.,
Fayetteville, $36.64; Harsch & Spitz,
Atlanta, $61.30; Taylor Bros., Win
ston, $260 55; National Casket Co.,
Nashville, Tenn., $68 85; Chase Mfg.
Co., Chase City, $79; Armour Packing
Co., Wilmington, open account,
$117.24; J. W. MuTchiaon fc Co.. open
account, $2L44; Harvey Blair & Co.,
Richmond, $197.12, Boney & Harper,
$33 75; Corbett & Co.. $233.04; Dan'L
Miller tic Co., Baltimore, $202.97;
Hadley, Smith & Co., ML Airy,
$186.43; Burwell & Dunn Co., Char
lotte, notes, $46; Mecklenburg Flour
Mills, $36.40.
Each of the individual members of
the firm also filed a petition in volun
tary bankruptcy yesterday. Mr. Mo
Nair's personal liabilities, including
$8,000 in accommodation paper, ap
proximates $9,775 while the assets in
round numbers are $10,000. Mr.
Woo ten's personal liabilities are about
$9,000? while his assets are about
$1,325. Each of the gentlemen claims
the exemption of $500 in personal
property and $1,000 in real estate.
REPORTED DEAD, BUT NOT SO.
Mr. Jackass Davis, Mexksa Wsr Veteras.
Revived After Fsseral Was Arrasxes.
Mr. Jackson, Davis, a very aged
citizen of Wilmington and a veteran
of both the Mexican and Civil wars.
was reported dead yesterday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, and it was thought by his
niece, with whom he resided at No.
ilti Bladen street, that he was dead,
but such was not the ease, as he re
vived late in tbe afternoon and was
still living at last accounts this mow
ing.
The local camp of veterans, of
which he was a member, had made all
arrangements for the funeral with
Undertaker J. F. Woolvln and
the pastor of the deceased man.
Rev. Mr. Webster, bad been called in.
A telephone an eats re to Mr. Wool Tin
informed him after all arrangements
had been made that Mr. Davis wss
still liviag. The Camp of. Veterans
had been called oat to attend the
funeral at 10 o'clock but the order was
subseqently revoked.
Mr. Davia is about 87 years of sge
and Won the pension rolls of New
Hsnover. He belonged to Co. A-
Fourth Regiment. TJ. & Artillery in
the Mexican war and to Co. K, Fifth
Regiment, N. CL State Troops, in the
later contest. He was a gallant
soldier. His death is expected at any
moment. c
U. S. Cestrt Clerk.
As will be seen by reference to the
telegraphic columns of the Stab this
morning. Representative Bellamy's
mil to provide for a clerk of the TJ. 8.
Circuit and District courts at Wil
mington, passed the House yesterday.
At present the office here is only that
of a deputy clerk, but there are certain
technical reasons why the change is
desirable. The bill now has to
the Senate and it will be law.
Waal an
When too take Grove's Tasteless Chill
Tonic, because the formula is plainly
printed oa every bottle, ahowing that it
is simply iron and quinine in a taste
less form, no care, no pay, Prion,
sue. satnta
OH TO C3AJ3LESTCN EXTOSTTIO?!.
That WD PscsT,
RiXXXGH. N. C . March 12. Adju
tant General Boyster aaaoraBeee the
following compas.es to constitute tae
provisional regiment as an escort to
Governor Ayeoek at the Charleston
Exposition daring North Carolina
utr-2 r4,t (VnMiT C Win
ston; Company D. Charlotte ; Com
nany L Durham; Company L, Con
cord. ' m WTT,
Second KetTtment CJompany u,u
r?nmnaav G. Washington;
Company H, Clinton; Company I,
Eden ton.
Piwimrat OoennanT B. Ra
leigh ; Company C, Henderson ; Com
pany E, Oxford ; uompany x, dutuuk
m. w;-a Ttm neat Rand will ac
company the provisional regiment.
Companies of the First Regiment will
form a battalion, commanded by Major
T. R. Robertson; companies from the
Second Regiment, a oanaxion to oe
nnaiiMthTSiMr John CL Bond:
companies of the Third Regiment, a
battalion to be commanded by Major
T. J. Winston. Companies are lim
ited to 43. and transportation for this
number only will be furnished by the
Quartermaster General. Troops will
be equipped in heavy marching or
der; no baggage allowed; blankets
and straw mattresses and tentage will
be provided. Companies are required
to furnish their own subsistence.
A discharge in bankruptcy was
ranted to F. A. Montgomery, of Wi!-
. . . .
suagton. to-oay ey juage irurncu la
the District Court.
PITIABLE CASE OP WHITE WOMAN.
Mrs. Link PiUHpe, Desiesui, Isurjses
Other Cans' res Are tier Own.
Mrs Lizzie Phillips or Newsom, a
white woman a little psst middle sge
who until recently was employed aa a
domestic at one of the Summer resi
dences on the sound, was taken into
keeping of the police yesterday on ac
count of her insanity. She came to
Wilmington from GoWsboro about a
year ago and until very recently was
is possession of all her mental facul
ties. She wandered from the sound
to Mr. Geo. Branch's home at Thir
teenth and Market streets and there
her condition was realized and she was
well eared for pending her transfer to
the State Hospital, at Raleigh, CoL
Jno. D. Taylor having a few days ago
made an examination of her ease and
recommended her admission into the
say lam.
6he was doing very well until yes
terday morning, when she became
more violent and her crasy imagining
led her to believe that some girls next
door were her daughters and needed
chastising. She insisted on administer
ing the punishment and the police had
to be called to make her desist. She
is held at the police station.
A SAFE WAS LOOTED.
Has- k Cesisssy, Mosey Lessen, Lest
Sltf-Tws Clerks Diaspyesrea.
Kinaey Knowland, of Pant. N. CL,
and Homer Duncan, of Norcross, Ga.,
are the names of two young men
charged by Ham & Co., money lend
ers, with having looted their safe up
stairs over Gerken's cigar emporium,
acd skipp:d out Sunday night with
$128 in cash.
Tbe first named, aged about 22 years,
has been with the 2rm one year, and
the latter, a boy of about 18, has been
in the office since last December. Up
to the time of the disappearance of the
money they were believed to have
been perfectly honest. Mr. Merritt,
the manager, said yesterday that he
bad received no information as to the
whereabouts of the yoang men.
The two clerks didn't report far duty
Monday, and it was learned during
the day that parties bearing their de
scription bought tickets to Richmond
Sundsy night. Suspicion rested upon
them immediately as Mr. Merritt was
certain he locked the safe Saturday
night and it was open Monday morn
ing. One of the young men knew the
combination.
Jap- a-j They Meet.
Nothin i is more amusing than to
watch tw acquaintances saluting in
the street of a Japanese town. As
they com ; in siorht of each other
they slacken their pace1 and ap
proach with downcast eyes and
averted faces, as if neither wa3 wor
thy of beholding the other, then
thev bow b,r so as to bring the face,
still kept averted, on a level with
the knees, on which the palms of
the hands are pressed.
A succession of hissing sounds is
nest made by drawing in the breath
between the closed teeth, inter
spersed with a series of complimen
tary phrjtsts uttered with great
volubility in a sort of undertoned
falsetto, c?.rh trvinz to outdo his
friond in the rapidity and extrava
gance of !:U language, while the
palm- are diligently rubbed against
t-ac h other. Penny Magazine.
T? Tadpole,
Of course most people know that
fro?i ami toad?. are evolved from'
tadpoles, "but there are some very
strange things about these batra
chfans that postfibl you don't know.
Because thi changeling is so well
known to r-.rly everybody it may
be dismi-?ed by saying that it is
born with gills and lives entirely
under water until it reaches the
transformation period; then lungs
appear in place of the gills, the tail
drops off, legs sprout out and an
animal fitted to live on land is the
result.
Cum Kescau stat ItlBUsa: nsswn
Tafa sii a. omm
HMUag tm Try.
B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) is a
certain and sure core for enema,
itching akin, humors, scabs scales,
watery blisters, pimples, aching bones
or joints, boiles, carbuncles, pricking
cain in the skin. old. eating sores, ul
cers, etc. Botanic Blood Balm coxes
the worst and most deep seated cases
by enriching, purifying and vitalizing
the blood, thereby giving a healthy
blood supply to the skin. Other rem
edies may relieve, bat B. B. B. actual
ly cores, heals every sore, and gives
the rich glow of health to the akin,
making the blood red and nourishing.
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93 Ntsw Street, Kw Tack Gty.
ALBERT A. WILLABD.
Well Known Citizen and Brrsi
nessManof Wilmington
Died Yesterday.
Descesdcd Oa Beth Sides Frsss Distim
raifrhed Ancestry ssd a Oeaaesisa
Loved ssdEsteeaeiej AO Whs
Knew Bias Bis Csrcer.
In the death of Mr. Albert A.
Willard at the country home of bis
son, Mr. Martin 8 WilUrd, on Green
ville Sound yesterday morning at 6
o'clock, Wilmington lost one of its
most rained citizens and active busi
ness men.
Mr. Willard had been in failing
health for about a year, but not until
the past few weeks did he retire from
an unusually active business life to seek
a needed rest at the sound. His death
came sfier an immediate illness only
since last Wednesdaj snd wss caused
by a general breakicg down of his
constitution, hastened bj paralysis of
the brain.
Mr. Willard was born at Harvard,
Mass.; May 19th, 1838, and was conse
quently in the 74th year of his sge.
His ancestors on the paternal side
came from England to America in
1630 and several generations in succes
sion were Congregational ministers
for a period of over 70 years. His
mother wss from the distinguished
Emerson family from which came the
renowned Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Mr. Willard received his education
and early training in the celebrated
schools of his native State and came
South in 1845 and engaged in the
wholesale grocery business at Wash
ington. N. a, with the late Wm. H ,
James A. and Joseph B. Willard.
From Washington he removed to
Greeu boro, N. CL, in 1881, and was
engaged with Mr. George Allen, then
of Newbern but now of Bslsigh, in
the manufacture at Thomasville, N. CL,
ot shoes and other supplies for the
Confederate government. In 1868 he
came to Wilmington and established
the wholesale grocery firm of Willard
Bros., which did the largest business
of the kind in the 8tate. The firm
occupied the building on North Water
street where Mr. D. L. Gore is now
doing businesi. The firm was dis
solved during the great financial panic
of 1873 and Mr. Willard then en
gaged in the cotton business
and the importation of salt and other
staple products in bulk. In 1393 the
Willard Bag 8c Manufacturing Com
pany was incorporated, with Mr. A.
A. Willard superintendent, and his
sons, Mr. M. S. Willard and the late
Joe. B. Willard as president and sec
retary and treasurer, respectively.
Upon the death of tbe last named, an
other son, Mr. E. Parson Willard.
succeeded him, and with his father and
brother, conducted the business until
the death yesterday.
Mr. Willard was an exceptionally
good business man and was active and
faithful in the discharge of every duty.
Hewasamanof decision and strong
character; quiet and unobtrusive, yet
mildly assertive and unswerving in
his devotion to the right. Those who
knew him best were his strongest
friends and found in him a wise coun
sellor and a sympathetic confidant
He waa a devoted Presbyterian and
for the past 35 years he had been a rul
ing elder in the First Presbyterian
Church. Deceased married Miss Mary
Harriss 8teveoson, of Newbern, in
1857, and she, with two sons, Messrs.
Martin & and E. Payson Willard, of
this city, snd three daughters, Mrs. D.
a Whitted, of Wilmington; Mrr. 8.
CL Damon, of Lancaster, Mass., snd
Mrs. 8. EL Chester, of Nashville,
Tenn., survive him. He is also sur
vived by one brother. Dr. Andrew
J. Willard, of Burliottoe, Yt , and
one sister. Miss Charlotte A. Willard,
of New Haven, Conn.
Tbe remains were brought up to the
city at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
and the funeral will be conducted at S
o'clock this afternoon from the resi
denee of Mr. M. 8. Willard, corner of
Sixth and Orange streets.
Blawm tm Ataas.
The old idea that the body some
times needs a powerful, drastic; pur
gative pill has been exploded, for Dr.
King's New Life Pills, which are per
fectly harmless, gently stimulate liver
and bowels to expel poisonous mat
ter, cleanse the system and absolutely
cure Constipation and Sick Headache.
Only 25c at R. R. BBXLaXYJ5 drug
store. t
007. YATES AND PARTY,
Left Chsrkstea Last Eveslat stat Ytt
ttreay la Seeing the City,
BTTstschuAKMstoralaxir
CHABissTox, a Q March 15, Got.
Yates and his staff and the Illinois
party left here at C o'clock this even
ing for Wsahlsgtoa, where they will
spend two or three days before return
ing to their homes.
The visitors spent to-day in seeing
the city and taking in the places of in
terest. This storming Governor Yates
and party visited the Austrian cruiser
Sxigetvar by invitation of Captain
Praprotaik. As the Illinois Governor
boarded the ship a salute of seventeen
guns waa fired by the cruiser in honor
I of the visiting Governor.
BEVABD FOR EVAHS.
Price Set by Coarrty Authorities
Upon Liberty of Foreasn
Gregory' Assailant
TWO ENGLISH MAN TRAILERS.
Ordered Yesterday ky Csslmss Mc
- Eachera Press Pssssss Okie KaaeJs.
Rrrslsr Meeting rf tbe Asdltlsg
Besri Canary Rassccs.
The auditing committee of the
Board of County Commissioners,
Chairman McEachern and Messrs.
Holmes and Vollers in attendance,
held its deferred monthly meeting
Taesday night at the Court House and
transacted the usual business.
Aside from the routine, an apropria
tion of 175 was made for the purchase
or two thoroughbred blood hounds to
be kept by the county at the jail or at
the convict stockade at Castle Haynes
for us s in trailing criminals and possi
ble escapes from the chain gang.
Another appropriation of $100 waa
made and offered as a reward for the
capture and delivery to Sheriff Sted
man of the n gro Tom Evans, of 8am
ter, 8. CL, who murderously assaulted
Mr. John H. Gregory on Friday of last
week. Chairman MeEaehern will
see ore a good description of the negro
desperado and extensively advertise
the fact of the reward throughout all
the territory through which Evans is
likely to pass.
The bloodhounds were ordered yes
terdsy afternoon from the famous
''American Kennels." L. B. Lecky,
proprietor, Shreve, Ohio. The dogs
are thoroughbred English man trailers
and wQl run a trail 20 hours old. They
are bred from the noted slrainaof
"Ben," ' "Sandy," Jack Shepard,"
"Duke." all famous for their scenting
powers. They are registered in the
American Kennel Record, Shreve,
Ohio, and are guaranteed to give sat
isfaction. They will reach Wilming
ton in about ten days and will be kept
in training for use at a moment's
notice.
The report of Treasurer Green shows
receipts and diaborsements of the gen
eral and special county fund for Feb
ruary as follows:
Receipts Balance to general fund,
$10,573 98; special fund. $708 13; gen
eral property tax, $1,333.55; special
property tax, $1,064.58; marriage li
censes, $25-65; back taxes, $20.03. To
tal, $13,724.91.
Disbursements Permanent road im
provement, $1,714.88; Superior Court,
$327 08; jail, $150 60; outdoor poor,
$383.7; public buildings, $487.89;
county home, $157.80; stationery and
advertising, $40 55, hospital, $400;
rosdsand bridges; 40; refunded taxes,
$3 05; magistrates. $67 62; county com
missioners, $167.70; superintendent of
health, $100; attorney. $25; constable,
$13 50; coroner, $40.30; clerk, $50;
janitor, $45; tresurer's commissions
(eeaeral fund) $69 89; (special fund)
$13 30. Total, $4,296 28.
Tbe balance to the general county
fund March 1st, is $7,669 22; special
fund f 1,759. 4L Total balance, $9,
428 63.
COUNTERFEITERS CAPTURED.
Two White Mea Arrested Is i Norfolk
Soksri ChsJiei With Makiar. aad
Psssist Spsrisos Nickels.
By Ttiesxaob so turn
Norfolk, Va., March 12 Hunters-
viile, a suburb of this city, has been
flooded with spurious nkkles for
about four months and the officials
hsve been trying to locate and arrest
the parties passing the coin. Thev
s lceeded late this sfternooa in capt
uring Jos. W. Shearer and E. T. Ster
ling, white men. whom they charge
i; l . .
wiui mating ana passing counieneu
money.
The prisoners were before United
States Commissioner Bowden for a
hearing to-night but only the testimony
for the prosecution wss finished, the
bearing being continued until to-mor
row morning.
The officer making the arrest found
s plaster of paris mould, partially
wrecked, in front or the boose where
the alleged counterfeiters lived.
Several lead five-cent pieces were also
found in tneir some.
A man and his wife, who testified
against the defendants, said they had
seen the men making the "queer" and
described the action.
Salisbury Suh: a persimmon
seed that had been in the windpipe of
a 5-year-old child for five months was
coughed out Sundsy, leaving the child
ia a fearful state of weakness and
emendation. The little sufferer is
the daughter of Mr. J. F. Freeman,
who uvea near Woodleaf, aad about
five months ago the trouble with her
throat began. Eight phjsicians treat
ed the child and an X ray was brought
into service but the seed could not te
located. Yesterday cough syrus and
a whiskey toddy were given the suf
fering child. It began coughing and
in a abort while spit out the seed. The
little one had become fearfully weak
through the long period of suffering
and as soon aa it waa relieved it felt
into a deep sleep and waa still sleeping
jsonaay morning. Sir. freeman on
one occasion walked almost coatia
aally day aad night for ten days with
the child. Dck Ileaaiag senssta
in his declaration that Bka Blatosw
who is condemned to be haared with
him on April litis, is innocent of any
connection with. th ertnaK Fit ins
has told many storiea aboot Tartan
f satures of th erimev but sticks to his
exoneration of Blatosu Many arsoa
have talked wufc. sum sine a eonf es
aicdn, bat he has not eten ifcakva in
hit story.
Hth Point l?x.trn.ie .- Mr.
Arthur Efrcman, proprotor si the
Hth Poimt TWi fvv a
the contract for a masssaotb baUdlag
w sua spun aaa eatuag macniaery.
Wkv 1 a a. & -k. -w . v .
wiu aa svxiw, tares atoms, oa una
with ia Im ntl,a halUiM rtt tH
blast. The Myrtle Furniture Ox,
sine eoaapletia tha targe addition to
tha warehonse and finishing room,
40x155 feet, has decided to make the
enure nuuuiag inree stones, with n
Urge sample room oa the top floor.
WDNCDUCSTIEDB
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outsboot all other black'powder shells, because they are made
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ALL REPUTABLE DEALERS KEEP "m THEM
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l-i-jr. id Ctsiiioned way. Hea
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JFror.EMilr applied.
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STAMOAKO OIL CO.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE
SENATE AND H0U5E.
SUs SaftsUy Debate CeellsscsPaclfic
Cssie, the PUIaftees sod Paril
Free DcSvery Discssees'.
By Taiasraoa to-tae Sbjratna star.
WasBzararoar, aTareh 12. Again tr -day
the Ship Subsidy bill cccupiea
practically the entire time of ;he 8e:
ste. Two speeches were Cellared i,
support of the measure. Senator Mc
Camber, North Dakota, presented s
carefully prepared argument favorite,
the bill as a representative of an s?ri
cultural 8tate on the ground of its pre
tective features.
Senator Depew, of New Yorir.
of the members of the Gommiuat -r
Commerce, delivered an eliv.ru
speeeh in which he analyzed the a.z
meats both for and against the prrt
osition to pay subsidies to the shipci;
industry.
A few bills were passed, incladiz?
one providing for the redemption c '
Hawaiian silver coins and the subst:
tntion therefor of American silT?
coins.
' Homse ef Kesresestatives.
General debate upon the Posto'ce
Appropriation bill continued in itr
House to dsy, a number of topics
being discussed. The prnc edic:?
were enlivened by a cla h between ilr.
Corliss, of Michigan, and Mr. Rich
ardson, of Alabama, on the subject r'
the Pacific cable. This is the second
time these two members hsve locked
horns on the cable question. Mr
8ims, of Tennessee, devoted some
time to showing how the House hsc
been whst he called "buncoed" in col
neetion with the permanent cecsus
bilL. Mr. Dojghtery, of Missouri, cis
cussed rural free delivery, Mr. Jici
son, of Kansas, the government oil
ership of telegraphs, and Mr. Greece,
of Pennsylvania the PhiUonine situ
ation. The latter argued that if
would proclaim our purpose tograc'
independence to the Filipinos, the in
surrection would ic&ianliy cease.
The House adjourned at 4:30 oat of
respect to the memory of Door-keeper
Glenn, who died to-day. '
SIVEK STElvlB04T SUNK.
Severs! Psssesrers psd a Nasiser ef tbe
Crew Were Drewsed.
By Telezraaa to tbe nominx Bur.
VicsSBTno, Miss., March 13 Th
Vicksburg and Davis Bend packe:
Providence, which left here at nooc
yesterday, wss caught ia a storm thi$
morning at 2:30 o'clock at Ion. in th
lake at Davis Bend. The boat beic
light capsized. Captain Will Cossid j.
master of the boat, and Qjde Scott,
representing the Vicksburg oil mill.
Dr. Lancaster, a prominent phjsiciaa
near Palmyra and head engineer
Boupt were drowned, together with
thirteen of the negro deck crew acd
passengers. Captain Cossid y snd
8cott both have families here. Tee
Joe Seay has gone to the scene to te
cure the bodies.
Tbe ill-fated boat left hereatnoou
yesterday oa her regular trip, carrying
a large miscellaneous cargo of freif b e
and a number of passengers. At 2
o'clock this morning, just as tbe
steamer waa entering Lake Palmyra,
a sudden wind aad rain storm of
cyclonic proportions came out of
the west, catching the Providence
broadside on. The little vessel wss
lifted almost entirely out of the water,
her works blown sway and the hail
turned bottom up ia forty feet of wa
ter. Moat of tbe crew aad passenrers
were asleep si the time and were
drowned like rats ia a Iran. Only nine
of the entire boat's company were
saved. The property loss will amount
to several thousand dollars.
COXVO LAW SUEKI4QES.
Ceerts ef Vkriaia Decide Teat they Are
IsvaM bs That State
Richxosd, Va , March 12. In the
famous ease of Offield vs. Dm vis. ap
pealed from the Circuit Court of
Greene eoaaty, the State Supreme
Court of Appeals handed down an
ouaioa affirming the lower court's de
ostoe aad hoidinc that common law
mamagee entered into in Virginia are
invalid. The qwestion preseated tn
this ease for tbe first time before the
court was whether or not a contract,
if proved, entered into between a man
aad woman, by which thev mutual iy
agreed-to becoase husband and wife
without any celebration and without
lieeusa, coastitnted a valid marriage
i uub sxsxe ana enuuea
to oower interest frosa the time at
waicai Um agreesaeat wan entered into.
The opinion is written by Judge Card
welL
It sWsaiis ts WtrM.
N eseovetT in medicine has ever
evented one aarter of the excitement
that has been caused by Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption. Its
severest teats have been on hopeless
victims of Consumption, Pneumonia,
Heaaorrhage, Pleurisy and Bronchitis,
thousands of whom it baa restored to
perfect health. For Coughs, Colds,
Asthma. Croup, Hay Fever. Hoarse
ness snd Whooping Cough it is the
quickest, surest care in the world. It
is sold by R R Bxllxxx, druggist,
who guarantees satisfaction or refund
money. Large bottlea 60c and $1.00.
Trial bottles free. t
Neal Stand back, the young negro
who attempted criminal sassult upon
sixty -year old Mrs. Prnefer. a mis
sionary to the negroes, wsa banged at
the county jail, Portsmouth, Va.