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glue trmmg Jftar Bj WILLIAM II. BEBNbD. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT MONDAYS. iatu or svBscnmoo, in aotamcx: (he You- (by Mail), Poit Paid $ 00 Si Months, " " 00 Three Mootha, 1 SO On Month. " " " 50 fW To City Subscriber, delrrerrd ia may part of the City. Twun Csmts per week. Our City Ageota are not authorised to collect for more thaa three months in advance. Entered at the Poat Office at WUminctom, K. C., aa Secon4 Claaa Mail Matter. OUTLhNES. The Senate was not in session yester day; in the House a bill was introduced locating the World's Fair in St. Louis, and a resolution and bill wejne offered relative to the Silcott defalcation; the Oklahoma town-site bill was then con sidered and an amendment adopted, but without finishing the bill the House ad journed. Great excitement prevails in Portugal relative to the relations be tween that government and England. The past was another week of ex traordinary mortality in Boston, al though the record shows a decided im provement over its predecessor, there were four deaths from influenza. A railroad wreck in Alabama yesterday, caused the death of the engineer and the serious injury- of several other per sons. The New York Maritime Ex change has presented a purse of $1,200 to the captain and crew of a steamer for saving the crew of a wrecked German vessel. The captain of a steamer and one of his passengers have been arrested in New York on the charge of smuggling into this country over five thousand dollars worth of dia- m .ids. PrintfeAmadeus. formerly King of Spain and brother of the pre sent Kin. died at Turin yesterday of pneinnonia; he had been ill only a few davs. There was a large increase d jn.ij v'ic P5' week in the number of deaths in Chicago, but there were only six resulting from influenza. J inline Nicholas Longworth. a wealthy anil prominent citizen of Cincinnati, died yesterday from pneumonia. Solic: tor-General Chapman is lying dan gerously ill of pneumonia, at his resi dence in Washington; he was taken with the grip several days ago, winch has developed into pneumonia. New York markets : Money easy; closing offered at 3 per cent, cotton iirm; middling uplands lOtf cents; middling Orleans 10,T8 cents; southern flour dull; wheat dull and unchanged; No. 2 red Sfitcents at elevator; eorn juict and weaker: No. 2. 37j37T8 c ms at elevator, rosin steady; strained (.OilllUUll to good$120vi$I 23;sprritstur jwwi:ne dull and nominal. An oyster trust has been organized in Baltimore. Mav it end in a stew. It is said that Legitime is lurking about Jamaica and planning to give Hippolyte another brush in Hayti. 'I he Czar of Russia is said to be vcy despondent. He is in much the same condition that his subjects have been for a long time. Slugger Suliivan announces that his coming mill with Jackson will be his last. The fact that Jackson is a negro gives color to this statement. The new Masonic temple which the Masons of Chicago propose erect ing, will cost $2,(XX,00. The idea is to have it completed within two veuxs. Senator Vance don't take much stock in the Morgan-Butler negro deportation scheme. Our Zeb al ways did carry a level head about with him. Dr. Koch is writing a book on the bacillus. This is a small thing to write a book about. If he is hunt ing for small subjects, he might find one in the figurehead of the present national administration. Whether capital punishment deters from committing murder has long been a mooted question. In Belgium where the death penalty was abolish ed, murders have so increased that there is talk of restoring it. The publisher of the Farmer and Scottish Chief announces that circum stances render it necessary to change the location of publication frjm Fayetteville to Red Springs, where better inducements are offered. The fight in Congress between the East and the West for the location ff the World's Fair promises to be a warm one. The contending factions had better come together on a mid dle ground and locate it at Washing ton, where it should be. The Star is in receipt of a very neatly printed and instructive "Souv enir," a descriptive and historical sketch of Winston-Salem, the twin cities of Forsyth county, by Mrs. A. V". Winkler, formerly of Texas but now of Salem. A Pari report says that old topers in that town were not affected by the Russian grip like other people. The festive little microbe was too sensi ble to tackle old topers when there were lots mpf nice fresh folks all around. L Grippe knows what she is about. JLHE VOL. XLV.-NO. 100. There is a movement among the Republican politicians of Massac hu setts for the passage of a State law exempting the property of honorably discharged veterans from taxation, but the Boston Traveller, a strong Republican paper, expresses the opinion that "as a fundamental prin ciple, it is as patriotic for a citizen to pay taxes on his property as it is to fight for his flag." But the Republi can politicians never did take much stock in "fundamental principles." The Star is in receipt of the pre mium list of the third annual exhibi tion of the East Carolina Fish, Oys ter, Game and Industrial Association, to be held at New Berne, beginning February 24th and closing March 1st. This promises to be the best exposition yet held, as new buildings have been erected to accommodate exhibitors, and extra efforts made to secure a good display. "Africa," says the Richmond Dis- patch, "is too good for the negro," to which the Petersburg Index re plies, "after awhile, perhaps, we shall be told that hell is too good for the negro." From the deliberate efforts which the Republican statesmen have so of ten, made to convert the South into -rhell they.' evidently think that hell is about good enough for the negro. In 1867 it is estimated that there were paid for advertisements in this country $10,000,000. Now there are $30,000,000, a three-fold increase within twenty-five years. When you see -a business man going around prosperous and smiling and happy, you can set it down as a dead sure thing that he has stock in this $30, 000,000 and is drawing his regular dividends. A shooting school for doctors ought to be established in Missouri. They are almost as bad marksmen as the New York police. Two of them exchanged pistol courtesies recently and wounded three confiding citizens who were present at the entertain ment. A car-load of 4,000,000 postal cards shipped from Birmingham, Conn., to Philadelphia December 31st, is lost. Even postal cards it seems can't go right under the Wan amaker business methods even when they are blank and don't have to be read. PLEASANT WORDS. Raleigh Christian Advocate. The Wilmington Star is out in a neat new dress of type and is as bright and pretty as it can be. The Star has always ranked as one of the best, if not the best daily in the State. Editor Duffy has put new life into its columns, whilst the publisher has put it into a new outfit. We read the Star with great interest. It deserves large patronage. Wilson Mirror. Our most excellent contemporary, the able and brilliantly edited Star, made its appearance in a complete new outfit on Friday, and we hail it as an evidence of that radiant prosperity that has al ways marked its pathway. It is indeed a luminary of the first magnitude, and con tinues to shine withundimmed brilliancy and splendor. Washington Progress. The bright, newsy and entertaining Wilmington Star made its appearance in a complete new dress on Friday last. The Star is twenty-two years old, and in our humble opinion is the best paper in the State. It is modest, standing upon its merit rather than preferring to sound its praise through its own trum pet. May the Star never lose its bril liancy. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Carl Mugge Oysters. G. A. Peck Tin toilet sets. C. M. Harriss Newspapers. A. W. Watson New arrivals. Yopp Bros. Leading painters. Str. Passport For Southport. Star Office Wrapping paper. J. H. Hardin Patent medicines. R. C. Orrell Horses for hire. W. G. Hewlett Dancing school. Jas. F.Woolvin Funeral director. Giles & Murchison Dixie plows. D. A.Smith Furniture warehouse. J. G. L. Gieschen Card of thanks. J. G. L. Boatwright Dairy butter. Brown & Roddick White goods. Masonic Meeting Concord Chapter. G. R. French & Sons Button boots. P. H. Ha yd en Carriages, buggies.etc Fowler & Morrison Coal and wood Oronly & Morris Fruit at auction. McGirt & Co Groceries at auction Weather ronouu. The following are the forecasts for to day: For Virginia and North Carolina, slightly warmer, fair, southeasterly winds. For South Carolina and Georgia, warmer, fair, southeasterly winds. Morn i i ' WILMINGTON, LOCAL DOTS. Items of Interest Gathered Here and There and Briefly Noted. Five interments are reported the past week in Oakdale and Bellevue Cem eteries three adults and two children. The "McDuffie" summoned to appear at the City Court yesterday as a witness in the Brown mystery, was not George McDuffie. Steamer Passport will leave here to-morrow for Southport, at 9.30 a, m., and leave that place on . the return at 2.80 p. m. -She will stop at the Beach both ways. The Star is asked to mention that it was not Rob. J. Strickland, Sr., who was summoned to appear at the Mayor's Court yesterday as a witness in the dance house row Thursday night. It was "some other" Strickland. The Wilmington Social Club was organized Friday night, with J. C. Hum phrey president, J. H. Grotgen, vice pre sident; M.J. Silvia, secretary, and J. H. Leitgen, treasurer. The Club will give a ball next Wednesday evening. Rev. J. L. Fenner, (colored), Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, says that thirty-two candidates for bap tism will march in processjon from the Church to the river to-day at 3 o'clock, and will be immersed at the dock, foot of Queen street, D. H. Workman, whose name appeared in the list of witnesses sum moned before the Coroner's jury yester day, it seems was not at the ball Thurs day night last, and knew nothing of the occurrences there. He was discharged by the Coroner. The funeral of the late Mrs. H. A. Burr took place yesterday afternoon from St. James' Church, and was attend ed by a large number of sorrowing friends and relatives. The interment was at Oakdale Cemetery; the pall bear ers were Mr. Clayton Giles, Mr. Josh G. Wright, Mr. Wm. Latimer, Capt. O, "A. Wiggins. Mr. E. P. Bailey and Capt. A. L. DeRosset. Church Notice. Services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church to-day at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Seats free. All are welcome. Sunday school at 3 p. m. St. Paul's Mission has been removed to Eighth and Wooster streets, where Sunday school will be held to-day at 4 p. m. P;tf.n Augustus Shepard, evangelist, of Oberlin, will preach at the Central Bap tist Church, colored, corner of Seventh and Red Cross streets, during to-day. "Bible Day" will be celebrated at 3 o'clock p. m. Services in St. John's Church to-day: Holy Communion at 7.45 a. m.; morning prayer and sermon at 11 o'cloek; evening prayer and sermon at 7.30 o'clock; Sun day school at 8.30 p. m. The services in St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Market and Sixth streets, Rev. F. W. E. Peschau, pastor, to-day, will be in English at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. in German. All are welcome at tke services. A Bold Theft. A colored woman called at Mr. A. W. Watson's crockery store on Market street last Friday and purchased a num ber of articles, saying that she would call for them later. A strange negro, who was in the store at the time, follow ed the woman when she left, and in a few minutes afterwards called for the goods, stating that he was the woman's husband. The articles were given to him, and shortly afterwards the woman came and asked for her pur chases. Mr. Watson duplicated the order and sent Mr. Stem merman, the clerk, after the man, who was over taken at Boney Bridge, and surrendered part of the goods. He was followed to Smith's Creek bridge where he showed fight and finally escaped. All the articles were recovered with the exception of a coffee-pot. A Star Notice. The-annexed notice of the Star is from the Statesville Landmark, edited by Mr. Jos. P. Caldwell: The Wilmington Star has appeared in an out-and-out new dress of type, and make a very beautiful appearance. Messers. Bernard and Duffy are making of it a paper of rare excellence, one which would be a credit to a much lar ger city than Wilmington. As we have recently remarked, the Star is now a better paper than it ever has been and we trust its patronage is in some meas ure comensurate with its deserts. Its late expenditures for self improvement would seem to indicate that it is. Shipping Notes. Mr. Jno. W. Bolles cleared the German barque facob . Arndt yesterday, for Bowling, Scotland, with cargo of 4,060 bbls rosin, valued at 5,0l8.50 Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son clear ed the German brig August Sophie, for Liverpool, with 8,733 barrels tar, and 242 barrels crude turpentine; cargo valued at $5,500. British steamship Merjulio, Beach, cleared at Philadelphia lor this port January 16th, and is expected to arrive to-day. N. C, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1890. WILMINGTON. A GROWING CITY WITH A BRIGHT FUTURE. A If early Complete List of the New Buildings and other improvements for Nine Months. We give below a list of permits issued by the city authorities from April 1st, 1889, to December 31st, 1889, as compiled from the- books in the clerk and treas urer's office. No record was kept of these matters prior to April. Permits wero issued in the name of the person applying, which in a number of instances was the contractor instead of the real owner. Where the owner has been known, as was the case in nearly every instance, it has been substituted. As far as possible we have given the costs of the buildings as they were given to us by the owners, but where it was impossible to see them, we have given the cost as estimated by experts, and although we do not pretend that they are exact, as hardly one of the owners could tell just the amount they had expended, we have endeavored to approximate as near as possible in every instance. W. T. Daggett, a small shingle roof building on Seventh street near Nun, $450. J. G. L. Geischen, two two-story frame buildings, corner of Front and Red Cross streets, $3,500. S. Sternberger, one frame shingle roof house, on Orange street between Ninth and Tenth. W. J. Penny, two-story, metal roof, frame dwelling, No. 715 Dock street, $1,800. W. A. Williams, metal roof, frame building, Fourth street between Dock and Orange. Mrs. M. A. Marshall, one-story, shingle roof building. Princess street between Eighth and Ninth. Charles McRae, one frame building, Ninth street between Bladen and Harnett. G. W. Williams, frame dwelling,' Fifth street, between Dock and Orange, $7,000. J. A. Montgomery, qne-story, shingle roof, frame building, Ninth street be tween Market and Dock, $500. A. D. Wessell, one small, frame build ing, corner of Wright and Third streets, $125. E. F. Johnson, two-story, frame dwelling, No. 80G Princess street, $1,400. W. J. Smith, two-story, slate roof, frame dwelling, corner of Second and Red Cross streets, $3,000. G. W. Kidder, shingle roof, frame dwelling, Castle street, between Sixth and Seventh. Josh Green, tin roof, frame building, corner Dock and Water streets, $40. King & Montgomery, shed, Third and Castle streets, $125. R. W. Hicks, three-story, metal roof, brick store, 216 North Water street, $8,000. NancyJarrell.one-story building.Tenth street, between Chesnut and Mulberry, $250. Capt. John Barry (through Fore & Foster), one story, shingle roof building, Fifth street, between Campbell and Han over, $700. Marsh E. Walker, one-story, frame dwelling, corner Sixth and Ann streets, $550. A. Shrier, tin roof dwelling, Sixth street, between Market and Princess, $2,500. G. W. Herring, shingle roof, frame dwelling, Church street, between Sixth and Seventh, $450. A. J. Yopp, two-story, tin roof, frame dwelling, MulbefryY between Fourth and Fifth streets, $1,200. L. S. F. Brown, four small shingle roof frame dwellings, Second street, be tween Wright and Dawson, $750. George TJarden, one-story,shingle roof, frame building, Market and Seventh streets, $1,000. Charles H. King, two-story, metal roof dwelling, Nun street, between Second and Third; $2,500. R. W. Hicks, two-story, brick, slate roof dwelling, Third street,between Nun and Church, $8,000. B. L. Ganto o ne story frame dwelling, Brunswick street, between Sixth and Seventh, $1,400. W. H. Alderman, one story frame dwelling, Front street, between Queen and Wooster, $250. J. S. Piver, shingle roof frame build ing, Castle street, between Sixth and Seventh, $450. W. T. Daggett shingle roof frame buil ding, Seventh street, between Nun and Church, $450. G. W. Casteen, one-story shingle roof frame dwelling, Second street, between Queen and Castls. H. C. McOfcen.;.' .frame building, Eighth street, between Queen and Woo ster, $325. H. C. McQueen, frame building, Second street, between Church and Cas tle, $350. T. W.Strange.- three shingle ' roof frame buildings,' Fourth street, between Nun and Church, $1000, C, P. Rerasen, metal roof frame build ing, Second street, between Market and Princess, $800. J. H. Chadbourn & Co., two two- NO- story metal roof dwellings, Nun street, between Second and Third, $3,500. G. W. Kidder, two-story shingle roof house, corner of Sixth and Castle, $600. Mrs. Annie E. Linder, metal roof shed, corner Front and Orange streets, $500. John T. Rankin, two one-story frame dwellings, Castle street, between Second and Third, $600. John E. Thomas, tin roof frame build ing, corner Miller and Dawson streets, $150. W. T, Daggett, one-story, shingle roof, frame building, Market street, between Tenth and Eleventh, $500. C. Michacles, shingle roof frame building, Second street, between Daw son and Wright, $250. John Jones, one-story shingle roof, frame building, Dawson street, between Fourth and Fifth. F. H. Kranice, two-story shingle roof frame building. Second street, between Queen and Wooster, $625. Wm. Beasley, one-story shingle frame store, corner Harnett and Fifth streets, $100. Philip Harper, one-story shingle roof frame dwelling, Swann street, be tween Eighth and Ninth, $175. D. L. Flynn, two-story tin roof frame dwelling. Fourth street, between Bladen and Harnett, $600 W. T. Daggett, onestory shingle roof frame dwelling. Meadow street, between Tenth and Eleventh, $350. Catherine Williams, one-story frame building, Dock street, between Ninth and Tenth. J. H. Turner, one-story, shingle roof, frame building, Ann street, between "Ninth and Tenth. Margaret Hostler, one-story, shingle roof, frame dwelling, corner Sixth and Chesnut streets, $250. H. McC. Miller, two-story, tin roof,, frame dwelling. Church street, between Third and Fourth. ( Wilmington Gaslight Co., including1 Electric Light plant brick, metal roof; building, corner Surry and Castle streets,1 $5,000. Machinery and other addititions' to plant, $15,000. Mrs. V. E. Bunting, two-story, tin roof, frame building, Second street, be tween Walnut and Red Cross, $1,400. : R, H, Orrell, one-story frame build-j ing, Second street, between Queen and. Castle, $400. Wm. Brooks, one-story frame build ing, Campbell and Red Cross streets, between Seventh and Eighth, $250. King & Montgomery, blacksmith, shop, Castle street, $100. Mrs. M. E. Grafflin, two-story, shingle roof frame building, Eighth street, be tween Dock and Orange. Samuel Bear, one-story shingle roof frame building, Third street, between Brunswick and Bladen, $450. Mrs. J. K. Brown one-story tin roof kitchen, No. 112 Mulberry street, $100. Jas. H. Harris, shingle roof frame building, Church street, between Second and Third. J. C. Jenkins, shingle roof frame build ing. Dock street, betweeu Chesnut and Mulberry. Mrs. Greer one-story tin roof frame dwelling, Seventh street, between Ches uut and Mulberry, $500. J. W. Cox, two-story, shingle roof dwelling, corner of Sixth and Campbell streets, $1800. B. H. J. Ahrens, one-story tin roof frame building, Seventh street, between Market and Dock, $500. W. H. Yopp, one-story shingle roof frame store, Front street, between Dock and Orange, $100. J. Haar and Brothers, two-story tin roof brick store, Front street, between Dock and Orange, $2500. J. W. Woolvin, one-story, tin roof, frame building, Chesnut street between Sixth and Seventh, $1,750. L. L. Boon, one-story, shingle roof, frame building, Fifth street between Brunswick and Hanover, $650. C. W. Worth, one-story, metal roof, frame building, Third street between Nun and Church. J. S. Allen, two-story, shingle roof, frame building, Castle street between Third and Fourth, $800. J. S. Allen, one-story, shingle roof, frame building, Castle street, between Sixth and Seventh, $350. W. E. Perdew, one-story, metal roof, frame dwelling, corner of Seventh and Walnut streets' $1,450. .Fred. Jones, one-story shingle roof frame building, Castle street, between Tenth and Eleventh. R. W. Hicks, President Wilmington Investment Company, two-story frame building, Front street near Wooster, $700. M. A. Kline, one-story shingle roof frame building, Tenth street, between Chesnut and Mulberry, $200. L. Hansen, tin roof two-story frame dwelling, corner Front and Walnut streets, $2,500. H. McClammy, one-story tin roof frame dwelling, Fifth street, between Chesnut and Mulberry. Virgil and Sarah Brown, one-story frame building, Dickinson street, be tween Campbell and Green. George H, Ward, one-story frame building, corner Seventh and- Bruns wick streets, $350. D. L. Love, two-story, tin roof, frame dwelling, Mulberry street between Fifth and Sixth, $2,000. TAR. WHOLE NO. 7,272 Gabriel Holmes, two-story, metal roof, frame dwelling. Third street be tween Chesnut and Mulberry, $5,000. Col. Roger Moore, tin roof, frame office. Front street between Walnut and Mulberry, $150. J.D. Bellamy, one-story, metal roof, brick shop, Nutt street between Walnut and Red Cross, $150. John H. Dennis, one-story, shingle roof frame store, Seventh and Castle streets, $300. James E. Willson, one-story, shingle roof, frame building, Harnett street be tween Fourth and Fifth, $300. R. Portner Brewing Company, tin roof, brick building, corner of Bruns wick and Eighth streets, $6,000. Jacob S. Allen, two-story, metal roof frame building. Fourth street, north of railroad bridge, $800. Cape Fear& Yadkin Valley Railroad terminal facilities, etc.. $100,000. Industrial Manufacturing Co., $5,000. Wilmington Cotton Oil Mills, $100, 000. Valuations above given are only ap proximate and the statement does not include expenditures in the way of re pairs and alterations of buildings. DEATH OrW.J. BROWN. NO SATISFACTORY SOLUTION OF.THE MYSTERY. Evidence at the Investigation Before Mayor Fowler Dr. Burbank Sent to Onslow to Hak:e an Autopsy on the Body. The mystery surounding the death of Wm. Thomas Brown, whose body was found alongside the railroad track Friday morning.as detailed in yesterdays Star, is not yet cleared lip.although some additional light was thrown upon ; thejease atjthe investigation of the chargs1 against Walter Yates and J. M. Wollard,, who are charged with assault and bat-; tery on deceased a few hours before the finding of his dead body. f The Coroner's jury met at the Court i House in the forenoon and heard the1 testimony of two or three witnesses who! were present when the body was found,! and the inquest was then adjourned un-j til Monday. i In the afternoon at half-past 3 o'clock,! investigation of the case against Yates and Wollard was begun. The Courti room was crowded with spectators andj there were some twenty or thirty wit-' nesses. The hearing was before Mayor Fowler, and Yates was attended by his counsel, Mr. A. J. Marshall, while Mr. Sol. C. Wiell represented the family ol Brown, the deceased, and Mr. DuBrutzt Cutlar appeared for the State in the ab-j sence of Solicitor Moore. At the sug-i gestion of counsel, witnesses were ex-i eluded from the court room until their names were called. Emma Jackson, the woman at whose house the dance was given and the dif ficulty occurred, was the first witness called. She swore that she did not see the fight but heard the quarrelling. Yates, she said, was seated in a chair; she saw him pick up the chair and then she ran out of the room to the front piazza, and soon after a man ran out of the house and into the street and policeman Howland came out about five minutes afterwards and asked her which way Brown went. She told him and the policeman followed Brown a short distance and returned irj five or ten minutes and asked her if Brown had come back. Brown had not returned and she did not see again that night. She said him there were a few drops of blood on the floor of the room where the peopl were dancing and also some drops on the floor in her room, which she knew came from J. J. Canaday's nose, which was bleeding. The chair used as a weapon by Yates was a good strong chair; it had one round broken. Yates, she said, was sober, and Brown and his com panion Canaday, were drunk. On cross-examination she said Yates was floor manager of the ball; she asked the policemen to take Brown and Canaday out of her house, because they were creatsng a disturbance. Yates was seated in a chair in the corner of the room and Brown and the two Canadays advauced upon him; when Yates picked pu the chair she ran out of the room. Dr. R. D. Jewett was next called. He had made an examination of the body Of Brown at the request of the Coroner, but had not yet submitted his report. He found the right side of the face of deceased covered with blood blood from a lacerated wound over the right eye and a wound in the corner of the same eye; there were small bruises following the line of the eye brow; the eye-lids were greatly swollen, and the eye itself, also. On the back of the head of deceased there was another wound, evidently made with a stick Or blud geon; did not examine the neck to see if it was broken; did not strip the body; no blood was in the mouth except what ran into it from the wounds; under the circum stances the body would be cold an hour or an hour and a half after death; the wounds on the face did not look as if made with a sharp instrument; blows with a fist could have made them; the wound on the back; of the head was half an iuch long, was through the scalp to the skull; was not an BATES OP ADVERTISING. Ons Squars On Day 1 Two Day I 7 " Tbnm Iisrs Font Day I 00 " " Flva Iter IM " " Oh Wrk 00 " Two Waeka SO Thrra Wat-ka SO " Ooa Month 10 (W " Two Month IM no " " Tama Mowtha M Oct " " St Moot ha l W " " On Year SO W W Contract Advcrtiaraianta taken at fineirt um ateljr low rate. Tea line (1 id Nonpareil typ make )ur incised wound; did not think the wounds of themselves caused drath, although they may have stunned de ceased so that he might have frozen to death; the night was cold enough to freeze an intoxicated man. Did not think the wound on the head rujKurrd any blood vessels of the brain; the skull was not broken. Counsel suggested a hypothetical case an to the cause of death, and witness an swered that the primary cause of death would be exposure to cold, the scsondary cause, the blows on the head; the blows in the face were inflict ed some time previous to death, as was shown by the swelling under the eye In answer to a question from Vales' counsel witness said the fall and striking on the cross-tics combined with the cold was enough to cause doath;deoeaed might have died in an hour after falling and the body would have lcen (old in an hour or an hour and a half, an intox icated man was more apt to die from ex posure than a man perfectly sotcr. Walter Way, a young white man. was the next witncss.Hc was in the rom w hen the difficulty occurred; Brown had lcrn there two or three hours; J. J. Canaday got into a dispute with Yates, when Brown came into the room and took the quarrel up, cursing Yalcs who was seat ed in a chair with Emma Jackson in his lap. Wollard took Yates' jwrt and struck Brown two or three blows in the face, and as Brown turned to meet Wol lard 's assault Yates threw the woman out of his lap, picked up the chair and struck Brown on the lck of the head with it. Brown immediately ran out of the house without speaking a word to any one; there wss no one in the rxm to take Brown's part; the blow broke one of the legs of the chair; Brown did not come back to the house; witness re mained until half-past 3 o'cloc k and then left. The fight took plare retwcen 12 and 1 o'clock. After the examination of Forney Ie Gwin, whose testimony did not differ ma terially from the above, it was suggested by counsel that it was not necessary to examine any more of the witnesses It was suggested also, that a more thorough examination of the body lc made to de termine the cause of death. Mr. Marshall, Yates' counsel, said hr had witnesses to show that Yates had acted in self defence, and that three j-r-sons were rushing upon him when Yates struck Brown with the chair Mr. E. L. Robinson testified that the body when found was lying on the right breast with the right cheek resting on a cross-tie, and the top of th head near the rail; that the hair was not dishevelled or the clothing soiled the hands were cold, but the body was warm . under the face on the cross-tie there was a pcxil of blood, but nowhere else; Robinson said the prow of the en gine on train No. 15 must have jiassed over the head of deceased, as it was within a few inches of the rail T he Mayor stated that he had measured the prow of the engine that went out Friday morning and found that there was a dis tance of nine and three-quarter in hes between the prow and the c ross-ties Koi inton then stated that it was impossible for the prow, under these rirrumstsnc rs to have come in contact with the head of deceased. After the examination of two or three other witnesses, the hearing was ad journed until Monday. Mr. H. A. Bagg, Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, entered the Court room just before the adjourn ment and told the Mayor that if it was deemed necessary an examination of the body would be ordered, at the expense of the county. The law requiring that the Coroner should summon a physician to make the examination, the Mayor sent for Coroner Jacols and at the Mayor's suggestion Dr. T. S Hurhank was appointed and directed to proceed immediately to Onslow county and hold an autopsy on the body of the deceased The Court being without evidence to show that deceased came to his death by violence, placed the defendants. Walter Yates, J. J. Canaday and J. M. Wollard under a justified bond in $100 each to appear Monday afternoon at half-past 8 o'clock, at which time fur ther investigation will be held. Dr. Burbank left last night for Snecd s Ferry, Onslow county, where the lxdy of Brown was taken lor burial. He was accompanied by a brother of the de ceased. The New Schedule. The passengers coaches for the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley K railroad came down on the Carolina Central track yes terday, and a schedule has liren arranged for Parkersburg as follows: Leave Wil mington Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 12.15 p. m.; Point Peter at 12.30 p. m., and arrive at Parkersburg at 3.50 p. m. Returning, leave Parkersburg Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays at It. B0 p. m., arriving at Point Peter at 8. &0 p.m. and Wilmington at 4.05 p. m. Mr. M. J. Heyer shipped on Friday the first lot of goods to Garland. They were consigned to E. II. Herring and Herring & Peterson. January term of the Superior Court for New Hanover, will convene to-morrow morning.