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aafnaMnnafJ 1 The Morning Star. RATKS OF ADVEKTIKIMo One Sqnsre One Day, ... ) w j n BO S 00 . - J So .... 80 . n bo .... 10 09 ... IS 00 ... 84 00 40 0U . . . 00 O' st propor Two Days, BY WM. h! ' JBE RXARD, PUBLISHED DAILY ' EXCEPT MONDAYS. RATKS OF 8UASCRI1TION, IK ADVANCE. One Year, (by Mail) Postage Paid, $7 00 Six Months, " " " 4 00 Three Months, M " " 3 00 Two Months, " J ' 1 50 One Month, " ,T 75 0? To City Subscribers, delivered in any part of the City, Futkkn Cents per week. Our City Agents are not authorized to collect for more than three months in advance. Pear Days?'. Da ffwm bar. Ob rVk Two Weeks, Three Weeks, . Oae Month, Two Monthe. Three Month. Six Months, . . " " On Year a7 Contract Advertise VOL. XXX NO. 49. WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1882. WHOLE NO. 4598 tlopately low rate. Tea lines solid Nonpareil type tasks oae aqua re The Morning Star Entered at the Post Office at Wilmington, N. C, as Second Class Matter. MORNING EDITION. OUTLINES. A hotel building in course of erection at Port Royal, S. C, ffurned; loss $15,000. - The trial of ex-Gov. Moses, at New York, has been postponed; insanity will be plead in his behalf. Gleason's knit- -linsr mills, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., burned; loss $100,000. The celebration of the 107th anniversary of the Mecklenburg De claratian of Independence began at Char lotte yesterday with a military display and will continue all the week. Chicago tanners are on a strike. Pennsylvania Greenbackers met in convention and nomi nated a State ticket. Cold nights are having an injurious effect on the cotton in South Carolina, in some instances ne cessitating replanting. In the Epis copal Convention at Norfolk, Va., Bishop Whittle refused to entertain the question of a division of the diocese. The Al len line steamer Peruvian is ice bound with a broken screw off the coast of New foundland; a rescuing steamer sent to her assistance was burned, with three of the crew. The miners in Alaska are fighting among themselves, and a number have been killed. The Southern Pres byterian General Assembly organized at Atlanta, Ga,, by electing Rev. R. H. Smoot Moderator. The new bishops of the M. E. Church were ordained at Nashville ; the Conference decided not to elect a bishop in place of Dr. A. G. Hay good, who de clined. N. Y. markets: Money 2i3 per cent. ; cotton weak and irregular at 12 12-Jc; southern flour quiet and firm at $5 65 8 2o; wheat ungraded red $1 181 47; corn ungraded 8186c; rosin steady at $2 30; spirits turpentine weak at 46i47c. Dorsey has been bailed upon a $10,000 bond. The new River and Harbor bill asks for $17,342,000. Pretty slip! Woman suffrage has been defeated again in the New York Legislature. Good. The attempted revolution in Libe ria did not revolve. Quiet has been restored. Fifteen thousand foreign immi grants are expected at New York this week. Mr. Trescot presented Chilian terms of peace to President Montero, of Peru, and it was rejected. A yearling, a full sister to the re nowned racer, Foxhall, sold in Ken tucky the other day for $3,800. The New York duellists have not exchanged shots as yet. Maybe they will take it out in "cuss words." Dr. Felton '.elegraphs that Ste phens "will sweep the State." Very probable. But not as a Felton Dem ocrat. Senator Brown, of Georgia, has improved in health, and resumed has his seat in the Senate. Poor Hill will never be in his seat again. "Pig Iron" Kelley endeavored to meet Mr. Hewitt's anti-protection, anti-monopoly speech by accusing him of believing in the genuineness of the Morey letter. That sort of argument has about as much efforts in it as the usual stuff the protec tionists deal in. The following from the Greens boro Patriot mentions a matter of interest jo our Methodist friends: "There is likely to be a warm time in the Nashville Conference when a paper on creating a 'Bishop's Council' comes to be acted upon by that body. It is unmis takably a criticism on the practice of the bishops in making up appointments, and it provides for a check upon the powers of the bishops in this regard." At last there is a prospect of erect ing a monument to the memory of Baron DeKalb. A bill appropria ting $10,000 to that end has been re ported upon favorably. In October, 1780 over one hundred years ago, the Continental Congress passed a hill to the same end, but it was never carried into effect. Here is the way theyjdo things in the land of "high moral ideas." B. A. Olney, a rich business man, visited Jane Ann Manley, at. Hartford, Mich igan. What he visited her for does not appear. He had a basket, and in it $80,000. She relieved him of all. He die not discover his loss till the next day, when he demanded the return bf the missing property ,which she refused, but on the contrary she threatened to destroy it unless he gave her $20,000. He has brought suit. HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE in seasickness is of great value. Its action on the nerves of the disturbed stomach is soothing and effective. f Rev. Dr. Alpheus W. Wilson, Bishop elect, was born in Baltimore and is in his 49th year. Bishop Keener was also born in Baltimore. Rev, Dr. Granberry was born in Norfolk, Va., Dec. 5, 1829. The first ballot was as follows: A. W. Wilson, of Baltimore, 122; A. G. Haygood, of Georgia, 99; Linus Parker, of Louisiana, 96; J. C. Gran berry, of Virginia, 94; R. K. Har grove, of Tennessee, 68; N. H. D. Wilson, of North Carolina, 19; R. A. Young, of Tennessee, 42 ; E. R. Hen drix, of Missouri, 38; A. P. Fitz gerald, of Palifice, 35; W. .M. Rush, of Memphis, 34; P. A. Peterson, of Virginia, 32; Young Allen, China Mission, 32; B. M. Messick, Louis ville, 28; J. S. Key, Georgia, 26; W. T. Harris, Memphis, 25; G. G. Andrews, Mississippi, 25; Joseph Anderson, White River, 22; E. E. Willie. Holston, 20; W. B. Tudor, St. Louis, 18; John B. McFerrin, Tennessee, 15; J. D. Shaw, North Texas, 14; J. W. Hinton, Georgia, 14; C. W. Miller, Kentucky, 13; W. W. Bennett, Virginia, 11; B. Craven, North Carolina, 11; W. W. Duncan, South Carolina, 11; F. S. Bounds, 10. Dr. Wilson was declared elected Bishop. On the the next ballot Dr. Parker received 146, Dr. Haygood 146, Dr. Granberry 140. They were elected. On the third ballot Dr. Hargrove received 173 votes, Rev. R. A. Young 18, W. H. Wilson 17, E. R. Hendrix 9. Hargrove elected. Mahone, Cameron and Riddle berger paid a visit to the Navy and Postoffice Departments and got what they went for. According to a let ter in the Boston Herald the follow ing occurred. Gov. Cameron said to Secretary Chandler: "We, in Virginia, have done our part; we have carried the State ; we have elected a liberal United States Senator; we are pre paring to increase the number of Liberals in the Virginia delegation in the House of Representative; we want to know whether the party of the second part proposes to keep its word. If it does not, we cannot fully execute our share. It is absolutely necessary to the future success of the lib eral movement in Virginia that we should control the Federal patronage of that State. The absolute control must be in our hands. That is what we were promised. That is what we expect to have if you Republicans keep your word." He next visited Secretary Howe and here is what occurred: "Well, Governor, began Howe, slowly, 'you came here so strongly backed ' 'Now, Mr. Howe, ' interrupted Governor Cameron, if you please. I don't come here backed at all. I am here as the Governor of Virginia, elected by the Liberals of Virginia, and au thorized to speak for them. My Senators have kindly introduced me, but I don't need to be backed by them. I speak for Virginia, and I ask only what is just.' 'Well, Governor,' said the Postmaster Gen eral slowly, T think you ought to have what you ask. So far as I am concerned, you shall.' 'Very well,' said the Governor. 'Good morning.' The party then left." This is instructive reading. "You pays your money and you takes your choice." This is a specimen of "civil service re or m.' A dispatch from Raleigh dated the 14th, represents much interest there over a shorter route to Wash ington. It says, and our readers are familiar with one of the proposed routes: "As well as can be ascertained there are two projects under consideration one is a direct line from this city to Richmond, Va., by Keysville: the other is a direct line from Raleigh to Danville, and thence on north over the Virginia Midland Railroad to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. The latter line would cut off the elbow now existing in the Richmond & Danville line from here north by way of Greensboro, and thence back north to Dan ville. It would shorten the time from Ra leigh to New York at least eight hours, and would greatly facilitate and quicken the enormous freight traffic that passes through and stops at Raleigh. The coun try from here to Danville is such that a railroad can be constructed for much less than the average cost. When the war broke out there was a railroad in operation from Keysville to Clarksville, and the grading was all done from Clarksville to the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, near War ren Plains. From Keysville by this route would be a due easterly course to the Ra leigh & Gaston Railroad ; the route thence to Raleigh would then be parallel with the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad. The iron from Keysville to Clarksville was taken up during the war and was used on other roads." The amount collected on ferment ed liquors in North Carolina in 1880, was $819 67. and in 1881, $869 86; New Jersey paid $636,475 38; little Delaware, $11,960 93; little Rhode Island, $56,734 09. Only two States paid as little: Arkansas, $650 02, and Alabama, $743 37. These pay ments were for 1"881. In North Car olina there are two brewers, 1,975 retail liquor dealers, and 21 whole sale. We have read the address of Mr E. L. C. Ward, editor of the Edenton Enquirer, on "Turn on the Light." It was delivered before the late Press Contion. It is pretty and pious. Spirits Turpentine. . The Greensboro Evening News appears as the Daily Patriot, and newsy and neat it is. If the Press Convention would compel its members to give proper credit to their State exchanges it would be doing something for fairness and ecooa morals. Raleigh News-Observer: Mr. Wade Harris, the recent veryVvexcellent edi tor of the Concord Sun, has taken the posi tion of local editor of the Charlotte Observer, and the Sun is now printed by the "Sun Pub lishing Company. ' ' In consequence of a great mili tary display in Charlotte, from the 18th to the evening of May 20th, the General Lutheran Synod, South, which was to have met in Charlotte at that time, has been postponed until May 25th. The funeral obsequies of the late Major Basil Manly, of Raleigh, were imposing and elaborate. The military, fire companies, Masons, &c, were in line. The Neics-Observer says: "As soon as the news reached them of the death of Gen. Manly, the Durham Light Infantry, one of the finest organizations in the State Guard, and a part of the brigade under the command of . a 1 -IT-,. 1 . J J . 1 me aeaa ungaaier, lenuereu meir services, with those of the fine band of their regi ment." Wilmington New South : We were informed by the venerable sexton of Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Berne, that the remains of Judge William Gaston rested in a mahogany coffin upon the floor of a subterranean chamber beneath the marble monolith erected to his memory, and that when the remains were placed there the room was richly carpeted, and the law libra ry, the mahogany arm-chair and writing table, with silver inkstand, writing quills and silver candlestick of the deceased, wer, brought hither and placed with the body e their dead owner. Charlotte Observer: At dark yesterday McSmith had sold 1,200 flags. Passengers arriving on tne Air-Liine train yesterday morning say that a very heavy hail storm was encountered along tne line near beneca tne mgnt oeiore. We have received a letter from Governor Vance, in which, after speaking of some private matters, he says : "We leave here on next Thursday night, at 11.40 o'clock, with Bayard. Butler, Hampton, Ransom, Armstrong, Cox, Dowd, Scales, Evins and others are coming." Load up the cannon, boys, and let's make her crack. Whiteville Enterprise: A peti tion is being circulated to have a mail route established from this place to Clarkton, to go on the east side of White Marsh, and to return on the west side. They desire a semi-weekly mail. In the last year the village of Pireway has erected ten dwelling houses, two stores and two turpentine distil leries ; aud has also built a new ferry flat. The village of Kiver Ferry in the last year has erected three stores, six dwellings and two turpentine distilleries. The village of Kingsville, not heard of three months ago, has erected five dwelling houses and one store recently. Lumberton JRobesonian: Mr. Darnel McCasdill, of Cumberland county, died at his residence on Tuesday, 9th inst. He was in his 90th year, but his death was hastened by a fall which fractured one of his limbs. He was a native of Scotland. (Note. His family devotions were always conducted in the Gselic. He was indeed one of the excellent of the earth. Editor Bobesonian.) We were shown a few days since a two-ounce minnie ball that has been lodging in the left thigh of Mal com B. Stewart since the Seven Days' fight around Richmond, in Jnne, 1862, till Dr. Burns cut it out about May 1st. Goldsboro Messenger: Mr. Jno. D. Grimsley, former Clerk of Greene county Superior Court, had his hand badly crushed in his brick machine, necessitating amputation. The trial of Mack Lainer for murder, like that of Bridgers, resulted in a verdict of manslaughter. Sentence had not been passed up to time of this writing. This has been a hard year on horse dealers. Mr. J. F. Southerland lost fully $2,000 during the winter by horses dying from "pink-eye." We are glad to learn that the disease has abated. The Republican Executive Committee of the Second Congressional District met here last week, and decided to hold a con vention to nominate a Congressman at Wil son the 19th of July. Candidates are al ready coming to the front. Mr. Hubbs would like to hold the place another term, but Col. L. W. Humphrev, Jas. E. O'Hara, R W. King, Robert Hancock, Geo. W. Stanton, B. W. Morris, Geo. T. Wassom and a host of others all keep an eye on the place. New Berne Journal: The Mid land Co. will soon begin distributing steel rails for the purpose of laying three miles of track just above here. The old iron ta ken from these three miles will be used in patching the road where it needs it and for side tracks. Morehead dots : There are now two barques lying at the depot with rails for the Midland the Noah and Rome. The fonner has been in nearly a fortnight, and they have not commenced to unload her yet. The latter came in Satur day. Dr. Brooks, Professor of Natu ral History in the Johns Hopkins Univer sity, is now at Beaufort, and expects twelve or fourteen students to spend the summer with him in studying the marine animalcu lae of our harbor. He has the nicest little steam launch I have ever seen. There were twenty-five barrels of mackerel ship ped from here yesterday to Northern mar kets. There is a series of meetings going on in the Methodist Church here. There have been twelve conversions thus far. Weldon News : Mrs. Charlotte Medlin, died near Weldon, on the morning nf tVio 19.th inot Sfif vens nfn.rlv ftO Vfiars old. Died, at his late residence at I Lecomte, Rapides, Parish, State ot .Louis iana, on the 8th inst., Dr. Kenneth M. Clark, formerly of this vicinity, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He leaves a widow and eight children. We learn from good authority that the Wilmington Railroad will not receive the Scotland Neck Branch road until it is in thorough condi tion and the contract has been strictly com plied with. The road is said to be in a bad condition; and will require much more work before it can be turned over to the W. & W. R. R. Company. Enfield item: The second shipment of twenty-five bags of gold rock, "(half ton) taken from the farm of W. M. (Alias Gun) Herbert living about ten miles from here in Nash county, was shipped by freight last Saturday to Messrs. Hexter & Croselmire, gold and silver as sayists, Newark.N. J. The first shipment, same quantity, after being smelted the ratio of gold was found to be worth $40 per ton. Raleigh Farmer and Mechanic: Mr. John Spelman will this week revive the State Journal in the interest of the anti Prohibition organization, we presume; but we have no definite "knowledge as to that. We know nothing as to tKe rumored resignation of Rev. Dr. Skinner. A friend at Melrose, Robeson county, writes on May 15: "A sad accident occurred near Antioch a few days ago. Mr. James Mc Bryde, while attempting to go into his wagon, was kicked by a mule and instantly killed. " From the reports in the Gold Leaf Henderson is 'coming right along. The Presbyterian church is just finished and neatly enclosed. W. D. Horner's new three-story prize house is about to be opened bv W. k. hicks, i ne Messrs. j . u. ce u Y. Cooper have hauled material for a f o story prize house, ine wans oi o. Wntkinn' four-storv cotton exchange ascending. Isham Rowland, W. S. Parker and R. Perry have nearly completed dwell ings. Messrs. Parish and Cheatham and others, have cottages under the carpenter's hammer. Mr. Joseph E. Pogue and the Messrs. Burwell are improving their ware houses. And the tobacco market is re ported in fine condition. THE CITY. NEW ADVERTISEJIKNTS. Hkinsbergeb Steel pens. Notice Closing of Banks. Mtjnson Shirt for one dollar. J. C. Munds New perfumery. C. B. Wright Meal, hay, etc. Attention Wil. Light Infantry. Notice To Telephone subscribers. Stb. John Dawson For camp-meeting. Local Dot. The receipts of cotton yester day footed up 230 bales. The weather yesterday was not so cool as for some days past. There were no cases for the Mayor's Court yesterday morning. The almanac predicts cold weather and showers for to-day. The banks and the Produce Exchange will be closed to-morrow, the 20th of May. We were handed yesterday a corn tassel thus early plucked from a stalk on the plantation of Mr. James L. Corbett, in Franklin township, Sampson county. The closing exercises of Wil liston public school, corner of Seventh and Nun streets, will take place to-day, com mencing at 10 o'clock A. M. The thermometer in the Star office was down to 49 at 5 a. m. on Wed nesday ; yesterday morning it registered 56, and at 7 p. m. yesterday it was up to 67$ degrees. The Dutch brig Jantje, Capt. Lever, was cleared from this port for Stet tin, Germany, yesterday, by Messrs. E. Peschau & Westermann, with 1,400 barrels of rosin, valued at $2,950. Rev. Father Oberle, who re cently delivered a series of discourses at St. Thomas' Catholic Church in this city, is now performing similar services in New Berne. Bishop Northrop is announced to preach in New Berne on Sunday. We understand the children of the First Presbyterian Sunday school will have a pic-nic excursion on the Passport to morrow (Saturday). As this is a private affair no tickets will be sold. We trust the little ones will have an enjoyable time. A Narrow Escape. As the steamer Passport was about leav ing her wharf yesterday morning, about 5 o'clock, to take a party to the Blackflsh Grounds, a colored woman with a little boy and a basket were seen making their way with all speed toward the wharf. When they reached it the boat was some three or four feet from the wharf, but the woman, though warned and an attempt being made to restrain her, seemed deter mined to get on the boat or into the river, and as she reached the cap of the wharf she made a lunge for the boat, and would certainly have gone into the river, bag and baggage, with the little boy clinging to her skirts, but for the interposition of Officer Lewis Gordon, who grasped her as she was in the act of falling, and hauled her back upon the wharf. She wanted to go to Or- ton, but was told that the boat would not stop there. Made His Bssape. Charles Reed, colored, who was recently arrested in Brunswick county, on a war rant issued by a magistrate in this city and endorsed by one in Brunswick, charged with larceny, and who was shot in the thigh in an attempt to escape from the officer who had him in charge, and was afterwards lodged in jail in this city, was sent to the City Hospital on Monday last, from which institution he succeeded in effecting his escape on Wednesday night, and is now at large. Reed was apparently suffering very much from his wound and was limping about on two sticks Wednes day afternoon. Death of a Prominent citizen of Ons low. Capt. W. P. Ward, a well known citi zen of Onslow, died at Swansboro' in that county on Saturday last, the 18th inst, of pleuro-pneumonia. Capt. Ward served as a member of the Legislature from Jones county for two terms previous to the war, and since the war has represented Onslow for one or more terms in the same body. The Strawberry Festival. The entertainment at Rankin Hall last night, by the ladies of Front Street M. E. Church, was a successful andlpleasant af fair. The hall was tastily adorned with flowers, refreshments were in profusion, and visitors and all spent a most enjoyable evening. How young soever you may be, With failing teeth, you're grim and old ; And losing your mouth's purity, Your features seem both dull and cold. Then man or maid, warned of your fate, Seek SOZODONT, e'er it's too late. f Our Engine and Water Works An Important and Interesting Test. The Wilmington Steam Fire Engine Com pany No. 1 provided itself with a reducible coupling some time ago for the purpose of connecting direct with the fire hydrants and subsequently with a new suction hose from the Silsby Manufacturing Company. This arrangement, with all its apparent mpleteness, was not without objections, in that the preciseuess with which the driver of the engine had to approach the hydrant in order to successfully and speedily make the connection, was required to be too near perfection for the hurry and scuffle usual on such occasions, and any failure would make our gallant firemen think hard things ; in fact, they have been heard to use some pretty strong expressions in that par ticular connection, ' 'or words to that effect. " To remove this objection a very ingenious plan has been adopted. It consists of a piece of the rubber-lined hose (the ordinary hose now in use at fires) about twelve feet long, with couplings. The driver, in com ing up to the hydrant, can take his position without delay, as the connecting hose, be ing attached to the suction, can be easily adjusted to make the hydrant connection. Wednesday night, about half-past 8 o'clock, a trial was made in the presence of Mr. Chase, Superintendent of the Clar endon Water Works, and Capt. F. G. Rob inson, Chief of the Fire Department. The engine "Little Giant" was driven out of the house, took her position, and made connection with the hydrant with as much ease as is ordinarily experienced in connec ting the fire hose direct. With a steam pressure of only 40 pounds the water pres sure was soon run up to 130 pounds, throwing a stream through a 1-inch noz zle 240 feet, the water supply from the Water Works being ample. It was then proposed to supply the engine with water as above, and from the other discharge of the hydrant to attach a line of hose, to still further test the capacity of the Water Works. This proved a beautiful and sat isfactory test for the Water Works and the "Little Giant." The stream from the engine through a l-inch nozzle and that from the Water Works through a 1-inch nozzle were thrown respectively 240 feet and 145 feet, thus showing that the engine pressure, assisted by the water pressure, can do an immense work with much less pres sure of steam and wear and tear to the en gine, and that the Water Works can, through one and the same hydrant, supply an engine working up to its full capacity, and in addition supply a good stream of wa ter through a large nozzle for fire purposes. The 20th of May Anniversary of the Wilmington Light Infantry. To-morrow is a day that will have a two fold significance with our friends of the Wilmington Light Infantry, it being their own anniversary and also that of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The Light Infantry will celebrate the day by a parade and target practice at Hilton, for which purpose they will meet at their armory at 7 o'clock in the morning and march to the point designated, where the shooting will take place. After the target practice has been concluded the company will march back to the city and be dismissed. At 8 P. M. the company will reassemble at the Armory, for competitive drill at the Opera House, which will commence promptly at half past 8 o'clock. In this connection we are requested to extend a pressing invitation to the public generally to be present at the Opera House at the hour designated to witness the com petitive drill. At the conclusion of the exercises the prizes of the day, consisting of a gold badge to the best marksman in the target practice and a handsome silver cake basket (now on exhibition at Honnett's jewelry store) to the best drilled man in the manual of arms, will be presented to the fortunate gentlemen by Lieut. E. A. Oldham. Attention is called to the official an nouncement in our advertising columns. St. Paul's Lutheran Church Special Services Installation, dec. Rev. F. W. Conrad. D. D., editor for many years of the Lutheran Observer, the oldest, largest, most influential and most widely circulated English paper of the Lutheran Church, and now published at Philadelphia, is expected in the city to night. He comes to take part in the instal lation of Rev. F. W. E. Peschau as pastor of St. Paul's church, in our city, and to aid in the special services arranged for. He will occupy the pulpit of the Lutheran church on Sunday morning. Rev. L. A. Bikle, D. D., President of the North Carolina College at Mt. Pleasant, this State, will arrive to-morrow morning on the Carolina Central Railroad, and wdl address the Sunday School on Sunday at 3 o'clock P. M., and at night will deliver the charge to the pastor, whilst Rev. Dr. Conrad delivers the charge to the people. On Monday night, beginning at 8 o'clock, a missionary meeting will be held, in which the distinguished divines will deliver dis courses on the mission work of the Luthe ran Church, at home and abroad. Magistrate's Court. Mary Lewis, colored, had a hearing be fore Justice Millis, yesterday morning, on the charge of committing assault and bat tery upon Mary Jones. Judgment sus pended on the payment of costs. Mary Jones was next arraigned on the charge of assault and battery upon Mary Lewis, and judgment in this case was like wise suspended upon the payment of costs. "WINE OF CARDUI " for Ladies only. For sale bv J. C. Mtjnds. War Department, signal Service, V. S. Army. Division of Telegrams and Reports for tho Benefit of Commerce and Agriculture. COTTON-BELT HI M.KTI . May 18, 18835 P.M. The meteorological observations given hi this table are not those taken only at the points named, but are intended to cover the entire cot ton belt. The figures for Wilmington, for exam ple, cover the average temperatures and rainfall at Wilmington, Florence, Cheraw, Charlotte. Wadesboro, Luinberton, Goldsboro, Weldon and Salisbury. So of Galveston, which is the district centre of eighteen towns in the cotton region of Texas. The observations are taken at 5 P.M., but do not reach Wilmington nntil after midnight. AVERAGE. Districts. MftX Min. Rain Temp Temp. Fall. Wilmington... 74 43 .00 Charleston 77 47 .00 Augusta 78 51 .00 Savannah 80 49 .00 Atlanta 77 49 i .00 Montgomery . . 81 50 .00 Mobile 84 49 .00 New Orleans . . 82 53 . 00 Galveston 88 60 .10 Vicksburg 80 I 50 I .00 Little Rock 78 49 .00 Memphis 78 50 .00 The following are the indications for to day: Middle Atlantic States, slightly warmer fair weather, easterly winds and stationary or lower pressure. South Atlantic States, fair weather, variable winds mostly north easterly, and stationary or lower tempera ture and higher pressure. East Gulf States, fair weather, followed by increasing cloud ines, southeasterly winds, and stationary or lower temperature and pressure. Tennes see and the Ohio Valley, fair weather, fol lowed by increasing cloudiness and local rains, variable winds mostly southeast, and stationary or lower temperature and pressure. Tne Klectrlc Fire-Alarm Placed la Position. The electric alarm, recently purchased under authority from the Board of Alder mei and Board of Audit and Finance of the city, was placed in position yesterday in the bell-tower recently erected on Fourth, between Market and Dock streets, on the premises of the Howard Relief Fire Com pany, the work being done under the super vision and direction of Mr. John W. Per dcw. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the necessary connection having been made with the City Hall by Mr. W. J. Kirk ham, a test of the instrument took place in the presence of Mayor Smith, who was at the City Hall, and Alder man Huggins, of the Fire Committee, and Capt. F. G. Robinson, Chief of the Fire Department, who took their station in the belfry, and it was found to work to the entire satisfaction of all, the operator at the City Hall, by simply tapping a key attached to the battery, transmitting the electric cur rent and causing the bell to strike promptly. If the instrument continues to work as satisfactorily as it has commenced to do it will be a source of great improvement in the system of fire-alarm, which can now be sounded in two minutes or less after it has been transmitted to the City Hall, or as soon as the operator has taken time to notify the different engine houses of the existence of a fire. The only trouble now is, that the bell is not large enough to be heard at any great distance, which inconvenience could have been obviated, to some extent at least, if the tower had been about ten feet higher; as we are told by persons of experience in such matters that in such case the bell could have been heard with much more distinct ness than it can with the tower at its present height. But this objection aside, we hope the alarm will continue to work as nicely as it did yesterday, in which case we will all have much cause for congratulation. An Unheeded Warning. Notwithstanding the caution in our item of yesterday in reference to the electric fire alarm, to the effect that if the bell should be tapped occasionally nothing must be thought of it, it was really amu sing about 10 o'clock yesterday morning to see several of our noble firemen, as the bell commenced tapping, running frantically up Dock street, inspired doubtless by vis ions of the red ball ; and then to see them returning again with vanished hopes and blighted expectations, being reminded at every step of the unheeded warning which had appeared in the paper. An Escape from Jail at Smithville. Thomas Melvin, colored, broke jail at Smithville on the night of the 14th inst. , and is still at large. He was charged with being implicated in the theft of corn and other articles of produce from the planta tion of ex-Judge Russell, in Brunswick county, for which another colored man was convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary at the late term of Brunswick Superior Court. He had been in jail here, but was taken down to Smithville ou the first day of court; his case was, however, continued until the next term. Ordination of Deacons, dec. Rev. J. B. Taylor, of this city, will preach at Riley's Creek to-morrow (Satur day), and assist in the ordination of two Deacons for said church. L. H. Carroll, Esq., of Sampson, will deliver an address Sunday in the interest of Sabbath schools. We get these facts from Rev. W. M. Ken nedy, pastor of the church. The British barque Contest is in be low. TAYLOR. May 18th, 1882, ARTHUR LOTUS TAYLOR, son of Mr. and Mrs. & C. Taylor, aged two years. The friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, this day (Friday . at 8 o'clock P. M. at the National Cemetery. NEW ADVKRTI8KMKNTS M. CRONLY, Auctioneer." RY CRONLY MoHBJK Public Sale OF GERMAN BARQUE AUGUST OF RAHTH. 888 NET REGISTER TONS, AT WILMING TON, N. C, MONDAY, MAY 83. 1888, NOON I I.I. HK BOLD, IN TUB CITY OK WILMINU TON, N. C, st foot of Wilmington Cotton Com press Company' Wharf, for aooount of Under writer, and for whom tt may concern, by order of Jul tun Lonnles, Muter, on MONDAY, TUB 281) MAY, 1888, st 18 o'cl'k. noon. the GERMAN BARQUE AUGUST. Or RARTH. 888 NET REGISTER TONS. BUILT IN 1MB, HERETorORK CLASSING A 1 GERMAN LIXIYDH metal fastened, as ahe la now lying st foot of above named Wharf , with one set Halla. Chain, Cable, Anohora and Appurtenance belonainir thercto, and aa may be seen on board of nntil vol. Term. Caah. For particular addreaa, JULM'S LONNIES. Maater. or K PESCHAU A WEHTRRMANN. Cosalgnccs, or CRONLY MORRIS, my 18 td Auctioneer. HEADER'S WILMINGTON UOITT IWANTRY. ARMORY. WILMINGTON, N C. May IWh, 1888. 29th Anniversary. BDKR NO. 2. The Memler are hereby mini moned, and the Veteran and Honorary Member requested, to meet at the Armory at 7 A. M. and 8 P.4M . on SATURDAY, the 80th 1ntant. for Ia rade. Target Practice and Competitive Drill. Ry order of the Captain. B W DUNHAM, my IB 2t Orderly Sarjrcanl Notice. SATURDAY. THE WTH OF MAY, BKINd A ll T ra 1 II. .11,1.,,- nn hn.ln. ,..(11 l, I. I -v j i .... IWIIV.UJ, ,,,, .,...,.,. " ' I w II r i ,. . by the Bank of tnla city on that dsv A. K. WilAKK. Caahlcr Plrat National Rank S. D. WALLACE my 10 It Caahlcr Bank of New Hanover To Subscribers Telephone Exchange. rpHE "TWO DRUG STORES" Are connected by Telephone No, S3 -F. C. Miller, cor 4tli and Nun No. 04 do. do. and Hanover J. C. WHITE, my 10 It Manager i Camp-Meeting. rjMIE STEAMER JOHN DAWSON WILL LEAVE foot of Prinoosi Street, FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY, at 8 A.M. and 8 I'M. for thcCamp Meeting at PINEY BLUFF Fare for the round trip 86 cents. my IS It Meal. Meal. f ROUND DAILY AT ( APR FEAR Mll.I 1 1 OlARANTKKD EQUAL TO REST WATKR GROUND. The attention of the trade 1 called to thl fact. A full atock of HAY and ORATN, of all kind, on hand my I!i tf C R WRIOHT One Dollar R, YS A SPLENDID MIIKT At MUNSON'M. my 10 It Manufacturing Clothier New Perfumery. yiRBFLY BOUQUET ST Cent per Bottle For alnby JAMES C. MUNDS. Dnigirlnt, my 18 H 86 North Front St Standard Steel Fens. (PENCERIAN PENS. OILLOTT'S PENS, DOUBLE ELASTIC PENS. FALCON PENS. WASHINGTON MEDALION PfNS. JACOH'S PENS. ALONZO TEVEINO H PENS. AND ALL OTHER BINDS, At HEINflBERGER'f. npO EXCHANGE FOR CITY PROPERTY. OR X will cll on desirable term A FARM, on the Eaatern bank of Cape Kcar rl ver, thirty mile from Wilmington; 888 Acrea; 180 under cultivation, balance aood tature. well timbered. Suitable for Truck Farmlug and Stock Kaiatng. Two atory als-room Dwelling Houae, Kitchen, Bama, and all neceary Ontkouaea. Addreaa A. C, care or imtas, mv 18 D2t Wit Wilmington, N. C. Straw Hats ! Ladies BPk Fr. Chips! HARRlbON A ALLEN. Hattera. my 18 tf Blunders of a Bastifnl Man. J3R1CE TEN CENTS. At HARRIS' NEWS DEPOT. Beat S and 10c Cigar In the city. Satlafsctlon guaranteed. my 18 tf Bathing, 1882. BROWN & RODDICK. ft and 7 North Front street. HATTIINO TOWELS. FLANNELS SPECIALLY for Hat hi ng Suit k Don't pat off until the last minute. JAPANESE PARASOLS sad FANR. Never be fore have we had as cotntileto an assortment. A novelty In JAP. DECORATED FEATHER FANS We are confident we can autl anv one In want of the above article. my 7 tf BROWN A RODDICK Dentistry. T AM DOING PLATE WORK. USING KIM' lold and Rubber as s Base Plate Terms For Celluloid MO 00 Rubber . im w Hat lf action guaranteed J. II !' KM A M. Dentist. ap 88 lm Princess St.. bet. Front and sd Salesmen Wanted. SEVERAL WHOLESALE SALESMEN. WHO have had experience as such. In the Store and on the rosd, can find employment wRh ua. References required . WTTTEOW8EY BARUCII. my 14 at as we fr Charlotte, N. C.
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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May 19, 1882, edition 1
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