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J 1 - I 5 .1 . . 1 " - . I . i f- i ; i ; The Weekly Star. I "W1L H.BEENAED, Editor and Prop'r; ! , . WILMINGTON, K. C. ' ' TRlfeAY, December 16, 1881. "In writing to chanjee lyour address, ahroy rive jortner mreouon as weu tu iuu jxh-wuuhwj. where you wish your paper to be sent hereafter. Unless you do both changes can not be made. Notces of Marrtaee or Death, Tributes of Kespeet, Kesolutiona of Thanks, Ac., are chawo fnr a nnlin&rv &dverti!meiits. but only half rates when pal rata 60 cents W (t ror smeuy in aTnce. u rate 60 cents will pay for a simple anuouWJneM of. Marriage or Peai Mil. rw-RftYntttances must be made by Ch rChc,Irn Postal Manor Order or Registered Xttr,. masters will register letters wlwa desired. ' 3rOnly such remittances will be at the risk ot the publisher. . t tarspectmen copies forwarded trhen desired. . THE PRGSIDENT AND THE CITI1. , SERVICE. President Arthur devotes much space in his message to the conside ration of civil service reform. Every ' reflecting iman admits there is great need of reform, and every observant man has but little confidence in the - consummation of this much, desired end. .We' have heard so . much : said by Republican politicians about re- form in the public service, that the country is reauy.ioget up uig 1 gust at the very mention of the sub ject. President Arthur may mean well, or he may, like Hayes, be only airing well sounding platitudes and phrases. IAs long as corrupt men are appointed to office no man of sense can have any confidence in promises of reform.' President Arthur has not shown thus far that he is anxious to select none but a good and true i man for office j - As long as .Federal offi cers are made to pay a part of their salaries to! swell the corruption funds of the Radical party, no man of can dor can say that he has any hope of I any-genuine reform-under such an I..'::. " ' ' i . ' r Administration, j I "Look at Virginia, and when you I see Federal officials compelled to pay I in order to elect ; a Republican Mon-1 grel iticketJr then say if you can I regardrjwitli? confidence the plausible I reflections- 01 tne - .rresiaent, wno i . favors ? such 'a prostitution of author-: ity ? Look again and when you see a corrupt bargain made between Radical Senators and a man pro- - - - S - ':. ' claiming himself at the very hour of perfecting the bargain a Democrat, - elected bv Democrats, and two Re- Vpubiican Administrations consenting A '.to the bargain at that, and then say if yon attach any importance to the . discussionsin State papers of abstract theories bearing upon reforms of any kind in the public service ? j We have no patience with rheto- rical palaver meant only to deceive. The President cannot be in earnest. ;,His recent' acts give the lie direct to anything he may-write concerning civil service reform, j He - has used .his patronage, great as it is, to de bauch a great Southern State. Hear what the Governor of Virginia says . in , his last i message concerning the r outrageous interference of United States, officials in the local elections ' of that State and then iay what you ; ... think of the Presidential gabble about j reform among Federal officials. Says Governor Holliday: - ; . .'"It has been charged the facts will pass into history and will show that this great . Government has invaded the limits of our . State, and bv power, patronage and money - has controlled its affairs. .- Virginia has been accused of attempting the mean crime of repudiation.1 It has been charged the facts here, too; have gone ; into history and will show that the. Federal Government, or the -, party directing its destinies, has used its patronage, power and money . to hurry her , aiong tnat rugged ana aisreputaDie way. If this be true, then, if there be any stigma. . . it has been, taken from our ; commonwealth and fastened upon the Republic,, and will be with, difficulty, if ever, erased. The transfer will not hide it." THE SOUTH'S BIVAIi. We had seen intimations in English publications that a stronger effort would be made to develop . in Egypt the cultivation of s. cotton, which, uri - likfethe cotton of India,' is said to be equaf to tiat grown m the Southern . States. JVVe learn now from our re- " cent dispatches. hat JSnglisK jpinv jucia are urging iue woverumeni zo . ; encourage the growing of cotton in India. The object is to have a sup- ply in case of a failure of the crop at any time in , the South. The South has but little to fear, we suppose, , from India. If Egypt were to raise all the cotton possible it would prove a formidable rival by. reason of its . quality. English mills cannot afford . to work India short-staple as long as it pan get Southern or Egyptian ; cot ton, because our own mills will work I the long .staple and 'the goods thus ' made will be superior to the Indian goods. ViBut. it is certain that Great . Britain and Europe will not be con ; tent to rely; in the future "almost i ex- . : ciusively on Southern cotton. The . sound has gone forth that the pro- v auction of cotton in India. EcrvDt and bouth .. America is to be stimu lated as rapidly as possible, v ; .. . Some few. weeks ago we noticed a : Northern writer. V deriving satisfac tion from the prospect in the future that the South ' would not ..grow all the best cotton and would not dictate the price of the grea sta ple. This was a- crumb " bf. com fort tho writer- was endeavoring to extract from foreign rumors and from the threatened rivalry of the South" in cotton milling. If tho' South will diversify its crops raise I- . . - v . ill fetch six- no more cotton than w teen or eighteen cents, which will bo tho case if it Will not grow moro than 4,000,000 bal(s annually for the next five years, and manufacture at homo two-thirds of , its crop of cot Ion, then it may laugh at Suratt cot ton, or Egyptian cotton, or New : i England or Old England mills, and bo rich and prosperous , in spite of all croaking And all ill-boding pro phecies. A-Western editor, in a communica tion to the New - York . Times, con cerning the unjust effects of the pres ent tariff, refers to what a correspon dent in New England writes him flnnnpmino . a. certain cotton mill rwnmv whip.h is sup-p-estive and per - . characteristic of the others. He :tp(,. That mill owner had iust bought an en tire equipment of English machinery, made by the leading Rochdale company,, for an entire new monster mill, which cost him, after paying 40 per . cent, duty $300 a set less than the same American machinery,; and was riven the preference by price mainly, and quality somewhat. , The Western editor, a Republican, thus comments: n i . -? 'This is truly an amazing confession. The patriotism of that Massachusetts per son is all eone now. ne is a wicKeu emis sary of Georse IDL. whose ghost still haunts the Protectionists, and i instead of buying protected American machinery, he rusnes on to Jimgiana ana Duys ueuer ma chinery for less!money." : There are three facts in connection . 1 with New England manufacturing: First, they buy machinery abroad be cause.it is cheaper and better. Se- cond, they employ- all the cheap foreign labor possible to, the exclu- sion of ! natives. Third, there is great complaint among New England operatives as to the wages paid lit is the opinion of Mr. Edwurd Atkinson, of - Boston, that there is a limit to railroad' building,' but that the limit will not be reached before the close of the century. , He says there were 91,000 miles of railroad in 1881, and by 1900 he thinks there will be 209,000 miles. Then there will be enough. In the mean time, and withm the next, seven years, he expects a great commercial crisis and a big railroad 'panic. - The following is instructive: ;? I K: T i 'He finds that' the State "of LMassachUr setts had on the 1st of January, 188t, one mile of road to each 4.12 square mile 01 sur face, and the rest of the world followed in this order: Belgium, England and Wales, New Jersey. Connecticut, Rhode Island. Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Delaware, In diana, New Hampshire, Switzerland, end ing with New York, which has one mile of road to each 9.8 square miles. ; He . con cludes that some sections of the country will never need more than one mile of road to 64 square miles, while others will have it for 32, 16 and o, since the presence 01 navigable streams and wide mountain ranges will affect the need and adaptability 01 a country for railroads. NIHHBEB OF COTTON FACTORIES 1 . IN THE STATE. ! Georgia claims to have some fifty- five cotton factories. Georgia leads in the size of its factories ,if not in numbers. Its spindles equal those of any five Southern States ; combined. But North Carolina is second in the number of its spindles," and pos sibly first i in the number of its mius. ax any. rate, we r are as- 11 A . sured by : a gentleman of this city who is in a position to know, that he has an accurate list of the cotton Txr will cm -mil la ? ta "XTrk-.flT f7li.j-wlio and that to date the figures stand thus: cotton factories, fifty-three in operation, six others completed near- ly; total cotton factories, fifty-nine. I There are four or- five woollen mills 1 in operation. We are" confident that J in1 five years we shall .have one hun- dred cotton mills in operation. The Georgia mills -all of them' -average twelve per cent, profits, some of them i mucn more. Tom Keogh and'sich" are the in struments to , dissolve, .defeat and overwhelm the Democratic -forces of North Carolina. Such men cannot divide and capture. 'But here what the Washington Star says : is " 'Governor-elect Cameron, of i Virginia. who has been in the city for several days. left yesterday for his home. While here Colonel Thomas Keogh and other Republi cans of North Carolina had interviews with him; seeking his advice in regard to the movement somewhat similar" to tho - Ma hone movement which, it is proposed to inaugurate in North Carolina in order to break down what is called 'Bourbon rule. - CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR MUSI CAL PEOPLE. Organinas, the new musi cal wonder, $10; Accordeons $1 to $25. juusic oxjxes fi.ou w Musical Albums to $io, Harmonicas 5 cents to $5, Vic ing $1,50 to $100, Guitars $3 to $75, Flutes $1 to $50, Banios $1 to- $15. Tambnrinwi Cornets, Fifes, Flute Harmonicas, Music Folio, Piano Stools and Covers, Music Books, Metronomes, Toy Comets, Drums, and all kinds of noise-producers, $50,000 stock. Lowest prices South. Satisfaction guaranteed. Articles not satisfactory can ue reiurnea. ijarge 40-p: of charge. Address LUl SOUTHERN MUSIC JNAtt, tiA. - - -f Tllli CHEAT - SlOXOPOXYA riUIl- DE1V. Two of tlie ablest Democratic ci t i ' r rr i j Garland, of : Arkansas, have' spoken on a tariff for revenue We are glad of this, for the tariff is bound to be an important issue in the next Presi- dential campaign.; Whilst ioiitv man v . " ' , -, in fifty in the South may be -a Pro- L ... ; - . - t ,f B r Southern people, r lrresnectivo - of party, we think, are for : a tariff for revoniie onlv. or for free trade. Wo do not think the number., of - free traders is as great as the number that favor a tariff for revenue.' They may regard free trade - abstractly as the right principle, but as we must have revenue for Governmentxpen ses they. aie willing to adopt-a sys tem that is not free trade strictly or protecttonist strictly but a blend- ing of the two in some degree. That is to say, the imposts for revenue are laid on certain articles and in so do ing certain benefits to manufactures accrue incidentally: This will be found, we think, a final position of a very large majority of the American people, if you could have a vote on the naked question irrespective of party. In a special to the New York Times from Indianapolis, of the 10th inst., it is said that senator V oornees is confident that he will be sustained in his Atlanta utterances concerning the tariff, and that he had received let ters from twelve Democratic Scna- tors,mostly from the South,who assur ed him of their sympathy. We do not believe that twelve Democratic Sena tors can be found advocating protec-" tion. If they are so found then it is certain that they will misrepresent their people. We say ; this because the Democrattc party in national con vention assembled, has time and again delivered the opinion that a. tariff for revenue only was the doctrine of . the Party' Some Southern writers, in their zeal for protection, insist that the mass of the people are not burdened by the -Morrill tariff, but only the rich. This is very , absurd. Take: cotton machinery in' which the South is so much interested. ATlie tax paid is 41 per cent. In the town of Lewis- ton, Maine, one factory giving em ployment to 1,000 operatives in creased the population 5,000. We get this important, fact from an educated native ' of that C town. H very new .southern lactory is so much trained. A mill erected at Raleigh, of the dimensions of the Lewiston mill referred to, would increase : the population thousands, and add to the prosperity and wealth of the town very greatly. -The Mem-? phis Appeal understands exactly that a tariff for protection is an oppression and dead-weight on cotton . milling. It asks that all -obstructions be re moved and says : "Take off the odious cotton-tie tax. let the manufacturer be relieved by allowing him to ffet his machinery and whatever else he may require in his business where he can get them the cheapest. Then he will be in a position to enter the world's markets and sen wnere he can sell dearest. : The so- called protection is an ' obstruction and a fetter, and the cotton' industry will take a ramd SDrinsr forward when the country is relieved of an incubus that presses upon ..... . .f. t a 1 fa . 11s energies anu reiaros 11s progress. As we showed before, the Congress has no right under the Constitution to levy a tariff for protection, other than is secured by a "tariff for revenue. Whenever you lay a tariff for protection, pure and simple, vou violate, first, the. Constitution,and,sec- ond, you create a tremendous monopo- ly. These two facts ought to make a protective tariff a stench and an offence in the nostrils of every Southern De- mocrat who reveres the sacred in- strument -of our forefathers as the very sheet-anchor of our safety as a free . people; and .who knows what great dangers lurk in grasping cor- porations and gigantic monopolies. .The Indianapolis Sentinel makes a calculation xnat applies to an .- ooutn- ern States. Of course . , the figures vary, but the principle is identical, It first calculates the number of fam- ilies in Indiana, giving them at 285,- 000. It takes tho article crockery to show how these families are taxed, It says: w,: .. .f i t "We will suppose that the annual exoen- uiiure ior crocitery wiu amount to $ o per family, or an annual expenditure of $1,- o,uua rne tarin on crockery is 40 per cent. ; as a consequence the tax . on the amount paid by the people of Indiana each year is $570,000, or $2 per family on the one article ot crockery," It then shows there are 25 estab lishments manufacturing crockery in the United States. These estabKsh- mentshave invested $1,000,000 and employ 1,250 ; persons. We now quote "To protect their interests the people of Indiana are taxed annually $570,000, or 28 cents per capita for every man. woman and child in the State. Would it not be well to modify the tariff tax on crockery, so that requiring every family in the State to pay age catalogue free our people shall be relieved of at least one- I wg" the people' ot useless ouraens, 3DEN &, BATES' half of their crockerv taxhnnlAn 1 It thn I -..AmI V k HOUSE. SAVAN- I Leaislaturo of Indiana wptarinaa T law curiaiiiiig neeaiess eipei.es, auu $2 each for the benefit of the twehtv-five crockery manufacturing establishments in the country, it is safe to say there would be a small rebellion in the state, But that is J? i IPg" Must what the present tariff law present tariff, while it. taxes the labor- in? - man s cups and 'saucers, plates and. dishes, 40 peroent.-taxea Yanderbilt'B dia- mondd ten per cent. It' is high time to re vise the tariff for the benefit or the people, , especially the working people." i a -i: -.- , Those who think -the present tariff Vloei nnt hfiprf tho rnnr 'nianwOnM ao.es no. f?6- PZ.vJ uo wen io reaa up. au ezuDiiisuuu i j n n z I of the" schedules would probably 01 : l 8tneaules W a prODaoiy 1 f their, . w w - of information bearinsr upon the great giant monopoly, of ? Christen dom the American Hiffh ! Prptec? tive War-p-Prohibitory Tariff, u LEGISLATION, p The n umber of bills introduced thus early in the Congress enough to occupy its attention- until next 1 May ' dnothW hm wa8-hot intror duced. Every legislator has some crotchet," or some, measure l of relief, or some scheme. He-is r-anxious for "the dear people" to see bow.-very- zealous heyis forthgir benefit ;and what glorious vistas will open up to them if his great , measure for the relief of the people shall be adopted. His new political medicine1 ; for the cure of the ills of the conntry is war ranted to be unfailing in its efficacy-7 a sort of panacea; or catholicon. - . In noting the various schemes favored by Congressmen and intro duced on Tuesday we find I the foh lowing, among otheis: .women suf frage; improvement of the civil ser vice; to elect postmaster, revenue coUectors, judges, -marshals, &c, by the people of the States: to1 provide for the Presidential succession; to re duce the internal revenues; to reduce the price of public lands; to provide against illiteracy in the States; to es tablish ocean mail - service between certain countries; to reduce tax on distilled spirits to 50 cents a gallon; to establish post route between the United States and Central America; to appoint a tariff commission; to; improve the Mississippi river and ..:-- - 1 - . sundry subsidy schemes. These are the more important of nearly eight. 1 ; j ' vm.. i. .i js - f hundred bills introduced in a few hours durins: one day's sitting. If these l bills shall ' be considered pro-' perly the time of the present s'ession will be occupied fully. . It must be admitted that some of these bills are important and necessa-: rv. vv netner tue uono-ress . will De disposed to tackle woman suffrage, i - . ....... w election of postmasters ; and "other Federal "officers by the people of the States, to foster subsidy schemes and send colored, commissions! into; the South to ,. examine., into and report upon the intellectual -condition of tho colored people, or not, remains ; to be seen; ! This country and especially the South, is jiot ready yet for wo-i man suffrage. The Southern people revere female character too high to allow them to favor a bill that will give to women political power at the expense1 ot' mucn tnat- is neid as sacred and lovely now. As to the intellectual condition of the negroes that is known and. read of All men; Where is the report of the last Census on the subjebt, and where are the annual reports of the Superintend ents, of Public" Instruction in the States that such a .colored com mission is necessary ? What could they learn ? They would have to give a most snpemciai glance ana mate a report based on very insufficient observation. The scheme js dema- I gbgical--only that and nothing more. J Instead of showing zeal where not necessary, suppose the North go to work and raise money tens of mil- i lions for .relieving: the " illiteracy among the negroes. " Voluntary con- tributions ought to pour in by tens of millions now - that the facts are known. Why await commissions or I anything else? The negroes were ignorant necessarily after they were l ireea, ana mere is wiae-spreaa iguo- iance now, although there has been j very ' remarkable -progress. iThe ne- J groes should' be "educated and the J Northern people should furnish the j means.' In the meantime the South- ern whites "are doing a noble work, however insufficient, in behalf of the colored people whom they appreciate. and f or whom they cherish but kind feelings. naught " That there is need of legislation of a strictly practical kind is certain, and we hope Southern members will give their time and talents to busi ness and let political questions bV kent J in abeyance. The country is disposed to be at peace. H Tcom mon sorrow over the murdered Pres- ident has had a good effect "upon the, passions and prejudices of sections,' and legislation looking to developing the resources of the country, 1 reliev- making such improvements 'as ex- perience and wisdo.m suggest, is what the country needs and" desires. Less politics in legislation and more gen u- me zeal and practical " statesmanship in behalf of the whole people are the things demanded of the members of the Congress. ' - "WISHED FOR ANXIOUSLY. There is nothing . moxe certain in the uture 0 ur national pontics man xne overthrow of , the local rule -of the so-called conservative .Democracy in we Doumeru .... . .v States- What is to take ite place is less clearlj . nresent time. But the ele SSASJISSS " New . York Time; Rep, The wish is father , to the thought. Local rule in ths - Southern States of the Democracy will ' not be over thrown" very soon Mark- it. But , . even if it; was, the . solidity of the South would not be dissolved neces sarily so far 7 as- a general election .is. concerned. f Virginia would vote to a tn- TTanwV a ,1ia vnt.el in 18g0, if an bpnortunity" was offered. Mahonefeni but anotner nAme for traitorism--haa not lost Virginia to' the Democratic party;" As to North Carolina, thertf are disturbing local issues, it is true, but with a first-rate ticket the Democrats will carry the eiection in 1884,' as they carried it in 1880 and in 1876. It is not that the Democrats are enamored 1 of Radicalism another name for nigh taxes, for wasteful ness, for extravagance, for wildcat schemes, for a destruction of com mon schools, forgiving the control of the State to the ignorant-thal; there is danger-in 1882, if there be danger. But it is that many Demo- crats are 1 disgusted with : machine "politics and- their results, and that "A r;:'WMtiWa:.o' there are one or two questions or a State character that have a disinte grating tendency!" But we "are willing to believe that the Democrats of North Carolina are far too patriotic and wise and pru dent,' and have a far too acute' recolr lection of Radical tyranny; corrup tion, profligacy in the past to agree for a moment to so : split up among themselves as to give the State again into the tender keeping of the party that so sheared it in the past, as to leae jt stripped and naked and shi 1 r : ; . . ... .-: vering and . friendless and penniless to be spit upon and laughed, at and kicked at by the united Radical press in the North. The aew iork limes is a very. able paper. . It is sometimes a very. and discriminating paper. How it can refer to the progress of Ma- honeism in the bouth as that pro- trress which is to be commended and appro vea as soraewung mexputcaoie.? It knows that the success of Mahone-- ism in the! South would be to place ... ...(.. ..... - . -- ' ' 1 ; intelligence and honesty and capital under the control of .r ignorance ' and vice . and poverty. Jib L111I5, and yet it talks about "the elements Southern States because the r success of 'Mahone by the use of repudiation" means the triumph of the negroes and a faqtion of disgruntled and greedy whites over the great mass t)f in the estimation of "the ablest Re publican paper in the land, i ' ' '! "What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or i labour'd mound, . Thick wall or moated gate. Not starr'd and spans-led courts. I - Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. . No: men, high-minded men. i Men who their duties know, ' u But know their rights, and knowing, dare : -- maintain. These constitute a State." I - Forelen SlilpmentB. i The following comprise the foreign ship-; ments from this port yesterday: The Swedish barque VTrika, Capt. Cedergren, for Liverpool by Mr. C. P. Mebane, with 2,448 barrels of rosin, valued at $5,835; the Norwegian barque Cathinea, . Capt. -Over- gaard, for Liverpool, ; by Messrs.. Alex. Sprunt & Son, with 1,822 bales of cotton; weighing 622,938 pounds, and valued at $73,110; and the Swedish brig Marie Louise, Capt; Jensens for Cork for orders; ' by Messrs. Alex; Sprunt & Son, : with 1,124 casks- spirit turpentine and '500 barrels of rosin, valued at -$29,051 Total ; value of foreign exports for the day, $107,996. ; The: qteamer Santo J)omingOt Capt.. Pennington, referred toifew days ago as having sailed from New York for this port arrived here ! yesterday at 1 p. m. She registers 1,641 tons, has double engines ag gregating 800 horse-power, is - 260 feet in length over, all and 40 feet beam, is a three- decker, and has a complement of 89 men. She will take'the plac -temporarily of the steamship Benefactor which will, be ; with- i drawn for a short, time to receive new boilers. The ; Santo ' Domingo is a ' fine steamer, belongs to the. regular Clyde line,- and usually - runs regularly between New York and West India ports. AS THOUSANDS DO. TESTIFY so does Thomas , Roberts, Wholesale Grocer. l Philadelphia,, who saySr 'Bubkett's Co- coajke alLays ail imlaxion of the scalp, and will most effectually remove dandruff -and prevent the hair from falling out. BURNETT'S , FLAY O R IJX.'Q EX-. TRACTS. The superiority of these extracts consists vn their perfect purity and great strength,. They are . warranted- free from the poisonous oils and acids . which enter into the composition of - many fictitious fruit flavora.' ' j ' ;, - The ;Haw River cotton 'mill is RAILROAD MATTERS.' Dr Canedo Again Visit Wllmliiaon. Accompanied by Col. Peyton, Inter ested In Immigration. - Dr. A. Hi Canedo, of he New , York and Southern Railroad and. Telegraph Construc tion Company, was in the city yesterday, accompanied by Col.' Peyton." of New Jersey, late of Kentucky who is interested especially in the matter of French immigra tion to this section of the country. , Gov. Jarvis not having arrived, and Dr. Canedo being partially compelled on account of the uncertainties of navigation at the ' pres- I ent stateof low water in! the upper Cape Fear, to leave at once for, Fayetteville, did not make the proposed trip down the river, or remain . over herer to-day, : as - he expected to do, but concluded to. take 1 passage on the . steamer ;Z). Murchison, which left last evening, accompanied by Col. Peyton, who is desirous -of inspecting Col. J.- Wharton Green's extensive (vine yard, in connection with his scheme of im migration from the "yine-clad hills of sun ny! France.". In lieu of ' the ' trip down the . river, our visitors inspected 1 the various maps and charts of the river and bar, and their 1 surroundings, and ; received from Mr. VanBokkelenj President of the Chamber of Commerce, and others, pretty thorough explanations in regard - to the im provements, past "and prospective in con nection with the same; and we are glad to hear that they expressed themselves I satis fied that our harbor was destined at no re mote day to become one; of the best on the South Atlantic coast. I 1 . Dr. I Canedo and Col. jPeyton will leave Fayetteville in ample time to be in Raleigh at , the meeting of the Commissioners of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad," on the 19th inst. - - , " - t A Perilous Journey and a Narrow Es cape. A Mr.- Everett,! of fBurgaw, u Pendert connty. was on his way.to this city on Sun-; day last, and was in the ,act of being ferried across iue iormeast river in a .imi, i.wueii; his horse, which was attached to a buggy in which he (Mr. E.) was seated, : became frightened at something: dashed forward and sprang into the river before he could be restrained in ' his movenients. Mr. Everett made a narrow escape from j being carried over in the buggy, but; fortunately succeeded in jumping from the buggy to the flat just in the nick of time. , The horse and buggy sank immediately to the bottom. and the animal said to be a valuable one 4 .was of course drowned,) "while the buggy at last accounts had not been recovered. r TIi Accident at North East Ferry; iln our last we mentioned . the accidental drowning of a horse in attempting to ' cross North : East Ferry. : Prof . H. G. Everett; of Rocky Point, who lost the animal; corrects some errors in our report. He says he was attempting to cross the Big Bridge Perry on Saturday evening, and had driven the horse and sulky into the flat and dismounted, when the; animal, frightened at the rays of light from a lantern in the nanas ot me ierryman,i and, before he could be stopped, plunged, sulky, and all, into the river over the broken railing-of the flat ,: he was drowned. The sulky has not been recovered. increaiea notion ueceipii. - v i !The receints of cotton at this nort from' December 1st to December. 12th footed up l, December 1st to December 13th last year,i showing an increase of 3,058 bales in favor of 1881 and one day to spare. The receipts; to date foot up 87,581 bales, as against 8V 502 bales for the corresponding period last year, showing ah increase in favor of 1881 of 8,079 bales.. .-..)-;. V : The following, from a recent, number of the National Board of - Health Bulletins is important in its correction of false im pressions of our. port: . "Dr. Thomas F Wood, Secretary of. the State Board of Health of North Carolina, writes from Wilt mington, under date of the "18th inst. call ing attention to the report of J. B. Terries, United States Yice Consul General at Port au' Prmce,-published j inr the Bulletin of uwuer : o, regjuxuug iu arrival oi xue British barque ' Sienna' at that port from Wilmington, N. C, having, lost two men on the passage from yellow fever. i; Dr. Wood states that there .has been ho . yellow fever in the Cape Fear river within the past ten years, and that the: sickness reported by the Consular Officer at Port au . Prince was probably the malarial fever of the - river; in the: vicinity of : Wilmington. This - fever often assumes a malignant form, and : it is considered dangerous for crews of vessels to sleep on the river during the summer months, extending', usually from July - to October. the fever, however, is a 'preventable dis ease and every master of a vessel -that ar- pTivesls.notifled of the dangers and of jhe remedy, and , either ? willful neglect or an unwise economy ' brings, such . disasters as occurrea on board the Jsienna. To protect sailors from the ravages "of the fever the Seamen's Friend Society; - of Wilmington, has a large building designed especially for lodging quarters for seamen., and the" State Legislature has enacted . for. this estaWish- ment. lle most stringent prohibitory rules. -accommodations are here furnished for sea- men at pderate rates. and much ; sickness la cases where mas- is thereby prevented; ters of vessels do . not avau themselves - of this means of prevention, but persist in re maining; aboard: then; .vessels with their crews, the fever rarely fails to be developed, either while in port or after leaving for sea.'. Foreign Shipment. lhe Bntish barquefiStor of Hope, Capt. Hamann, was cleared from ? this port for isremen, Germany, yesterday, by Messrs, t Williams & Mnrchisoau with 1,063 bales of tton, weighing 506,728 pounds, -and val- E. L. 'Lower4e, Esq: cashier of - the Cin cinnati Southern Railroad ' sava thn (Mnoin. 5iati Enquvren was cured by St Jacobs Oil' ,of a . stubborn case of 'rheumatismwbich' wouldn't yield to 'physicians' treatment Brooklyn Eagle. - ..-'.., . - t v Spirits .Turpentine; Lenoir , Topic: :, On December' 4th, Miniard Harriss.-Esq., died at his resi dence on'Abingdon Creek, at the advanced age of 92. Within the last twelve' months Lenoir has made .rapid strides td the front. Trade has more than doubled; Last Saturday night, the passenger uuiu juuipeu mo iracK.. uiree mues below Icard and all except the engine was hurled down an embankment 30 feet high. Mr: John Daniel, of Hickory, was seriously in jured and a young lady from Statesvillej slightly, injured, ..On , Mpnday, there was auoiuer run on near jonover by, which the engineer was : somewhat iniured. - It T J . .. . 1 . . . . - uau iseemeu u) us inai u mere were -one man in North z Carolina who could afford to let tne dead past bury its dead," that man was Mr. Holden. - - . -- --- - 1 r, Concord Sun: Judsre Cloud was robbedX in . Atlanta . of $120. Thar now I -Samuel B. Robinson, a son, of f!oli Thos.- Robinson, of Poplar Tent, this coun ty, died at Atako, Coleman county, Texas; on the" 21st of November, in the 46th yea of his age. One! day last week VA Gilmer was passing along the road near Monroe Isenhour's, when a dog attacked him and was ilriven off with stones. Mr Isenour s son, who was ploughing near by! reiuouBiraieuwii.u iue negro ior inrowin" the stones. The negro got angry, levelled his gun and fired at the young man; filling his face and body full of ishot. The negro had just been liberated from jail, where he had been committed for some "cattle mort gage" crookedness. ,: : ', ' j - Statesville- JLandmark: Miss -Amelia McGilvary has. - within the past week, nnished a canvass of the town in b&s Jialf of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, and, as tne result 01 ner enorts, nas shipped to the! orphans a box filled with clothing and such! other supplies as will be acceptable and useJ ful. , 1- Even yet all the farmers are not; done sowing wheat. The tobacco novi offering upon this market is generally of in-! ferior quality, but. is bringing capital) prices, llis menus in this community! ana eisewnere win regret 10 learn tnat ad versity has overtaken ; Dr. A. m. PowelL of Catawba, heretofore rated as; one of thc wealthiest men of. that county. His home stead was laid off last Saturday. The fac tory ot the Catawba Manutactunng Com pany, of which Dr. Powell was a princi pal, perhaps the largest owner, has, in con sequence 01 nis complications, suspended operations. . : , .. ; i j&denton J&nquirer: Thelittle daughter of Mr, Frank Brown got her leg badly broken Irom a tall m Murfreesboro last ' week. -on W ednesday of last week Master Rolie Rodgers, son of Mr. George 1. Kodgers, and three colored men were crossing Chowan river at Winton, in Hertford county, when the boat upset and "RVHa Tlnci orpTS anl nnft nf tlifl : mlnrprl mon were drownea, tne otners baTely escaping with. their lives. Northampton dots: A little son of ; Mr. Willis Knight, who lives near here, got his hand so badly cut . tn a cotton gin a few days ago that ampu- lauon was found necessary. Un sun- day night last Thomas Bolton, K. R. Bol ton, and -J. U, vann got mto a quarrel which resulted in the probable death of the first named, the serious miurv of ; thee- cond named, and the sudden departure of 1 the last named, who did the Cutting. 1 A few mornings since some men were rah-1 bit hunting near here, when one of them ! was accidentally shot by another. We did 1 not learn their names. , f i Reidsville Times : No special i admirer of Mr. Leach, wejet hold him the 1 proper arbiter of his own acts, political and personal, and hence though six months ago when " reliably informed by a gentleman high uLboth "parties that .'-Leach had re nounced his Democratic fealty," the Times thought best to play dumb until at least Mr. ' Leach V himself was heard from as to the . change and ; character of his own views. Now it proves that both reports were false and .Leach is still found holding nto the horns of the Democratic altar. r Three negroes, two men and a woman " were sentenced last Monday at Wentworth, by Judge Gudger, to be hung in this county orKFriday, the 13th of Janu ary, 1882. They will be hung for the mur der of Nash Carter, colored, the husband of Tilda Carter, the woman under sentence. The deed was done last December, the Fri- I day night before the big snow. Lust was aged in the plot, but Alf Webster, the ourth.turned State's evidence and saved his neck. - Charlotte Observer : Ezekiel Austin was instantly killed ' in Bakers ville last Thursday by the accidental discharge of his pistol, the batl passing through his heart Austin was tried for his life at the last term of Mitchell court for the; murder of Tilman Vance; but "was acquitted. He was about 25 years bid.' Reports from the Hoover Hill gold'.mine in Randolph county still continue good. , Since the rich strike was made a' few weeks ago; it is esti mated that the ore raised is worth $50,000, and it still holds out with splendid promise. This mine is owned and. operated by an English company. - r Morris Locke. colored, indicted for committing an outrage on the person of a little ; white girl aged 8 ? rears, was tried at Rowan Superior court ast week. The-case was given to the jury on Monday evening,- and after remaining out all week: they.came into . court at 10$ o'clock on Saturday night, the close of the term, and beineri polled : by.' His Honor, Judge Eure; declared that they could never agree upon a' verdict,' whereupon the judge ordered the withdrawal of a juror, and a nustnai w ue uaa,. anq remanaea iu prisoner to jail until the next term of the court. v From , this ruling the prisoner's counsel prayed an appeal. The jury was composed of eleven whites and one colored .man, and it is said that from the beginning the ballot was eleven for conviction to one for acquittal. Ashville'c Citizen : ' There will be one Supreme Court Judge - and four Superior Court. Judges : to elect in North Carolina next year, together with members Of the General Assembly, members of Con gress, county officers, &c, &c -r- Our Western road, which as yet is only local, has over 130 cars,' of jail kinds, borrowed from the Richmond & Danville, and other roads, besides those 1 Which belong to the company, and yets .the : freight cannot be moved with satisfactory dispatch, because the supply exceeds the carrying capacity. j -j- Walton, engaged in the engineer corps on the Ducktown ImeT came across a huge ; bear the other day and shot him, but only wounded him, -whereupon Bruin turned and became thej assailant, overtaking Mr. W, and bringing along sweep, with his paw, -ripped J; his coat from top to bottom. The race was still kept up", at last accounts, : with Mr. W. a full neck a head.-. H. A. Sloan colored, was drowned at the Rail road ' crossing at Ivy on the 2d. He was walking over the .bridge, with, his carpet bag on a stick over his shoulder. ' The carpetbag accidentally slipped off into the river, and in endeavoring to get it he was drowned. We are elad to hear of the constant increase of capacity Of the Wea verville Woollen; Mills,, situated near the thriving village of Weaverville, in this county. Established some sit vears ago. during the severe period of the panic, and with but little capital, the managers have pursued their way with ' modesty and en- .ergy, -until now they, can fairly claim 'to be-,. On rapidly rising ground. -) ' .. THROAT DISEASES OFTEN COM mence with a Cold, Cough, or. unusual ex-, ertion of the voice. ' These incipient symp toms are allayed by the' use of "Brown's Bronchial Troches," which if neglected often result in a chronic trouble of the throat"1 t
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Dec. 16, 1881, edition 1
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