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- The Weekly .Star. PUBLISHED AT . - " 1 ! AT 91.5 0 A YE AH, I If ADVANCE. ICO 3050C0OOO000000 0SS0SSSSSSSSSSSSS f 'ijlu'iK sc'e'&'ot'aVe't''e' .j - ggggggggggggggigg .VVHE V o m't' 10" ciVoDeiqo -wo . -i " aggssgsggggsgsss SSSS3SSSSSSSSSSSS e eo 00 . . . . S 3 S 3 3 S 3 S S 3 3 S 8 8 S S . ggS.8S2g8.SSSS8.S8. 888SS3SSSSSS88SS3 w Q CO W 0 tQDOO'HO?')OC 3C CD 1- "X 1 ..! r" i '.. x-. .! 1, ." - '.: , - r .3 .-: r.J " -. " s :- a-!, s - s - - - - - - - - -V -.; & 1 - m i- 4. e EH MM 25 M S! a Entered at the Post Office atTWTlmingtoii, N. C, - as Second Clas3 Matte.l SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscri6tion "price of the Weekly Star is as follows : ' Single Copy 1 year, postage paid,- $1.50 " 6 months, " 1.00 " " 3 months, " " . .50 ONE WORD fflOBE.'.. The Stab . stands J squarely by its statement that "the people of North Carolina appear to have preferred that their Gpvernors . should be men 'native and to t ic manner born.' " As f ar aMoe know or can ascertain the statement is absolutely- and unquali fiedly true. Since 1792 Governor Turner is the only one who was born abroad. ' :' , 1 : . The people of r North Carolina have never elected a 1 Governor who was not a native. Gov. Turner was chosen by the Legislature. If this is not true strictly we pledge ourselves to correct it. j'Turn on the light." Let the . anonymous correspondents bring out the proof trot out the nag. The Governors elected by the peo ple were Edward B. Dudley, John M. Moreliead, William A. Graham,. Charles Manly,! David S. Reidj Thos. Bragg, John W. ?Ellis, Zebulon B. Vance, Jonathan Worth, William W. Holden,Tod R Caldwell, Zebu lon B. Vance and Thomas J. , Jarvis. If any of thesejwas not a native we are: not so informed. The Charlotte Home-Democrat says relatives of Gov. Moreliead in that .city ,say he was born certainly in North Caro una. j ! . " ; "As to Capt. Coke the-STAE has no thing personal igaihst him. We do not know him, and what we have heard is favors le. He; is a young man, born in another Stat4,' and has much "merit according tb his' ad mirers. If hej is the choice of the Convention for " Representative . at Large in 1882, or for Governor in 1884, this paper will support; him. If in the judgment oT the; Convention he is abler, more available, "more de serving," has- more claims', upon the people of North Carolina than George Davisj Judge Bennett, Joseph J. Da vis, W. T. Dortch, Walter L. Steele, Judge Howard W. M. Robbins, CoL Armfield, Robert Vance, A. M. Seales, Judge Fowle, Judge Merri raon, and many others, then the Stab will hnw to the. will of the people and render him faithful service. . We prefer one of Capt. Coke t these gentlemen to liat is all. .We have none but feelings of respect for him, but we- cannot! be driven by clamor !- ; ' to assert the false, to stultify our selves or to do violence to our con victions. Is it a crime in North Car Molina to prefer for high office one of our own tried and long trusted sons? If so we are criminals. 1 ; . Ralph Waldo Emerson is dead. The most original and; powerful in tellect among the New England lite rati. He was poet, one. of our best, essayist and philosopher, and was a .man of very remarkable powers. Car ; lyle regarded him most highly, intel lect ually and personally He has done more to shape the! thoughts of the cultivated men of his section than any. other man j who has lived among them. He was born in Boston in 1803. A great man an illustrious and many-sided American has fallen. He followed New England's most popular poet ito the . spirit world quickly. Emerson, like Longfellow, rejected Christ. A gentleman living in Baltimore, where Judge Bond resides also, writes ' to the Day as follows: "Let the people be told the truth as to this modern Jeffreys, so that he may not by his subtle speech, and through the medium of his club and other social advantages, be able to deceive well meaning and honest citizens of both parties. If the people were not blinded by the sophisms of a par- tisnn nraaa Vr nrml'M ATTinnf? tht Tip. And nil ntliora tt o . 1!V ryntotpr bn rftmnvfifl from the positions they have so much aDusea. iieiore 1 conaemning me tyranny of courts and rulers in other countries, let . the American people raise a protest . against " ' ' ' - ' ' ' ' - ' " ' ' ,-' -t ' ) ."V . . . - - . him YOL. XIII. WHAT NORTH CAROLINA DID. When the North Carolina Roster is completed it will astonish people who are full of brag and who super ciliously, sneer at this State. . We have known since 1862 that North. Carolina furnished more troops .than any other Southern State. We have known for nearly ten years that out of a voting population of not . more than 112,500 that the State furnished over 124,000 soldiers. Maj. Moore, under an act of the Legislature, is preparing a Roster. He has - pub lished one volume. ; A second one is nearly jeady.. He thinks itrwil; r&v quire eight volumes to contain the names - of the . soldiers from North Carolina. 1 -It has been given out that he thinks there will be 150,009 names. Let us wait. Whatever the number- it will show this: - 1.. That according , to population North Cafolina sent more soldiers to the war than any other Southern State. 1 2. That according to population North Carolina sent more soldiers to the war than any Northern State. 3. That according to voting popu lation she sent : more' soldiers than any other State in the Union. ! v 4. That she furnished at least 25,- 000 more soldiers in four years than she ever gave votes in owe year prior to the war. : 5. That she lost more men in the war than any other Southern State. Generals Hampton, Hood, D. H. Hill, A. P. Hill, Cook, Lane Trim ble and Heth none - natives of this State have given it as their opinion that there were no better soldiers in the war tnan those from North Caro lina. At least five of these Generals regarded them as ! the best. When the Roster is complete we hope its main facts . will be made known through the leading papers of the country. ; ; We prepared ; this on Thursday. Since then we have received the News-Observer of that day and from an "interesting r editoriaL Tipon ,-otir North Carolina . soldiers, and the ex treme difficulties j encountered by Maj. Moore in preparing" the Roster, we copy the following: " ' We learn that great care has been taken that the ; names should be ar ranged alphabetically,, and the fate of each man given where it can possibly be ascer tained. "Much help that might have been given by surviving soldiers of the State has been for some reason withheld. Many muster rolls made out and sent to those supposed to be able and willing to correct them,have never been returned, and in this way the labor has been erreatly - increased by .- the fresh transcriptions that thus became ne- 'cessary. Every help should, he given tnis patriotic scheme of tne last Legislature, jno State or community ever had a nobler period in its history than were the four years of the late war to the old common wealth or JNortn uaroima. Homing can more fully demonstrate the - heroism and sufferings of the men of that day than this record or their service. " T ' ine oases are thick " with evidences of the mighty uprising of our people and of their devotion unto, death. Had all the com mands been reported, as were the 26th and 28th Regiments, a force far beyond any es timate yet ventured on would have been disclosed; and surely no soldiers have ever surpassed them in the expenditure of blood. North Carolina, like 'Old Mortality,' is thus seeking to preserve the names of her mar tyrs. She does so in no spirit of disloyalty to her newly-resumed duties to the Ameri can Union. She is only preserving the memories of those who were faithful unto death, and in this manifesto no disregard of duties and responsibilities - assumed in 1865." Gnano Monkeys. Mr. Edward Bryson, who keeps a board ing house on Nutt street, has on exhibition in his backyard two animals known as gu ano monkeys, which are said to be peculiar to Navassa Island, where much of the ma terial for - fertilizers is obtained.. They have very little the appearance of mon keys, reminding one more of young alliga tors. . They are apparently twins, and one of them is quite ferocious. Mr. B. says they have not eaten anything in two weeks. r '. Special Term of tne Criminal Court. Hon. O. P. Meares, Judge of the Crimi nal Court, has issued his proclamation convening- said Court in special ' session on Monday, the 29th of May, in consequence of the fact that the Superior Court for this county will convene on the 1st Monday in June, being the fifth day of the month, which would be the regular time for the meeting of the Criminal Court. . Rapid Increase. Mr J. T. Walker, writing from Ashton, North Caroling under date of April 27th, tells us of a farmer near that place who, although he does not devote much of his time to the raising of stock, domestic ani mals, etc., had for this month quite an t.h mmdruned families on his i-ilro on follows: 9 kittens. '5 mips. 14 kids, 20 pigs, 6 calves and 1 colt, i A gentleman who has just re turned from a trip through Onslow and LmDlin counties says he found nearly all of the peach trees literally loaded down with fruit, and all of the indications pointing to a splendid fruit year, ; j I VT .V;. ; "'-V 1: - - ' V - -' " Spirits Xentme.p ' II J 1 - WV'W 7 II J 1 J'V 1 : - ' .".V 1 A II ll - '-Hare selling at 60 cents - .,";. . . " . 1 . , 1 1 I,, . - i-in Tvlf Convict from till County Killed. The Raleigh Jvfitor of Wednesday says: "About-S' o'clock this morning two of the convicts (col.) at work at Cook's brickyard, just south of the city, attempted to make their escape. They were J halted by '. the guard, but paid : no attention to the de mands. LThe guard fired on them, and Nat! HOI, from New Hanover county; was in stantly killed. He had been in the peni tentiary only ; a few months. He sentenced ..to.', ten years.'' 1 Nat. Hill was; was sentenced; ai 'the': February term v of the Criminal Court to six years in- the ; peniten tiary for swindling ah old colored man from the country out of a considerable sum of money by a confidence game. His com panion in uiiquity'wasi Dick Boston, who" received a similar sentence. Nat? belonged, to what was f ewaerly fenbwn al,the Red String Band." v ' . ;'; V'.".-.' .L.-'r" ' 'Jt Sale of Wrecked Material at Auction. The wrecking material of the schooner Minnie, ashore on Frying Pan Shoals, in cluding sails, rigging, blocks, chains, etc., together with vessel and cargo, were sold at auction by Messrs. Cronly & Morris, auctioneers, yesterday morning, under in spection of the agent of the Underwriters. The schooner was knocked down to Capt! Sears, of the barque Horace Scudder, at $2.25 cheap enough, in all conscience, for a fore-and-aft schooner. The ninety tons of Peruvian guano on board was then put up and finally sold to Capt. Sears for $3.75. The spirit casks on board, about five hun dred in number, were knocked down to Mr. SoL Bear for $2.50, and the sale of the material saved from the wreck was then proceeded with. At the close of the sale Messrs. , Watson & Eckel purchased the vessel and guano from Capt Sears for $10, the latter making $4 upon his investment. A Kind Act. :- V. Mr. J. T. Carson did a very handsome thing in connection with the accidental shooting of Mr. Vincent on the steamer Murehison, an account of which appeared in the Star. . Learning that Mr. Vincent was a poor man dependent on his daily la bor for a support, and that his wound in the arm, though not serious, would inca pacitate him for work temporarily, Mr. ' Carson paid him a full month's wages and agreed to pay more ' in case he could not resume his occupation at the end of that period. This was both generous and kind in our friend "Kit." . Interested In tne Scheme. ; E. F. Martin, who is engineering . the proposed scheme to build a railroad to the Sound and thence along the coast to Ons low county, is so" enthusiastic anil deter' mined in the matter that he has been dubbed "Railroad Martin." He is cer tainly persistent, if that is to be taken as a token of success. He " showed - us letters yesterday, from parties in Ohio, Louisiana, Michigan and other States, who have seen the article lately referred to as having ap peared in the Philadelphia Press, and.who express themselves interested in ine scheme. Brunswick County. ... Sheriff E. W. Taylor, of Brunswick, finder date of April 26th, states that there have been two or three cold nights during the present week,: but no frosts It was celd enough for frost, but light winds during the nights referred to prevented it. The people, he says, are very busy planting cot ton, corn- and rice. The high 'prices of provisions recently are causing the people to look to their interest in making supplies. If provisions should rule high and turpen tine decline for two or three years, the Sheriff, thinks ; Brunswick would raise a surplus of the former. ; . Foreign Exports. ; . The following comprised the foreign ship-; ments yesterday: The Norwegian barque Bektor, Capt. Tellefsen, for Stettin, Ger- many, by .Messrs. ju.. jrescnau e wesier- mann, with 3,940 barrels of rosin, valued at $9,150; and the British brigantine Signal, Capt. Williams, for Bristol, England, by Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son, with 500 casks of spirits turpentine and 2,065 barrels of rosin, valued at $19,150. Total foreign ex ports for the day, $29,300. '. Carolina Central Railroad. 1 At the annual meeting of the stockhpld-j ers of the5 Carolina Central Railroad Com-, pany, held at the office of the Company, in this city, yesterday morning, the following Board of Directors were elected for the en-i suing year: M. P. Leak, of Anson; D. W. Oates, of Mecklenburg; C. M. Stedman, of New Hanover; J. L. Minnis, of Baltimore W. W. Chamberlain, of Norfolk; Severno Eyre, of Baltimore; JC. Winder, JohnM. Robinson, and R .S. Tucker, of Raleigh ; J. S. Whedbee and R. C. Hoffman of Bal timore. .,., Immediately after the adjournment of the stockholders' meeting the newly-elected Board of Directors assembled and unani mously' elected Col. John . M. Robinson as President. Tne New Smltlivllle .Hotel." The last of the material for Mr. B. L, Perry's new hotel at Smithville, which has been in process of preparation at Mr. J . W. Taylor's mill for a week or two past, was placed on lighters yesterday and was ex pected to be towed to Smithville yesterday evening or this morning. . There is included in the lot about forty thousand feet of lum ber: fiftv thousand lathes, door irames, etc, The work of erecting the hotel will now be pushed forward with all possible aispatcn. v ' " m m'mm ' " ' '.; Oot Married.'' '; i; :':'-.' A corresDondent informs us of the mar riage, on the morning of the 17th inst, in Pender county, of Mr. A. Hanning, aged 84 years, and Mrs. Martha Wilson, aged 77 years. The youthful ; couple have our kindest wishes for a happy and prosperous but we hope the "old folks" had been fully advised of the step. : WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, The Port!of Wllmlnston. The New York Maritime Eegtster of April 19th has an editorial in reference to this port, a -portion of which we reproduce, as follows: ."Among the ports on our South Atlantic seaboard none seem more prosperous than Wilmington, N. C. Already the principal seaport of North Carolina, it gives promise of assuming a prominent position in the ranks of our principal ports. Its trade , in naval stores has made it ramous, but now other products are exported thence in in-: creasing quantities. Its character as a sea port has been materially benefited by the im provements made at the bar and the mouth of the river, and the benefits which have ac crued therefrom are demonstrated by the fact that the marine assurance rates for that port are as low as for any port south of it." The article then refers to the largely in creased business for thepa year,, as demon strated by .the published statistics, much of which it quotes, and then continues : "Rail way combinations have overlooked this port to a great extent, but, the advantages which are to be found in its neighborhood will well lepay ' enterprise. , The back country wants developing; ; This is being done probalfly on a small scale every year, but there needs to be more railroads and small manufactories started. As we said above, the port itself has- been improved, and -the Government is not yet : through with its workt the mouth of the river. It is reported that recently a vessel drawing 18 feet went to sea over the main , bar and one drawing 15 feet was loaded at the wharf of the city. It is said that 16 feet of water from Wilmington to the sea will . probably be obtained before the next cotton season. These few facts show that Wilmington has a bright future, and it is certain that her advantages j must , tempt capital to seize upon the trade which she certainly offers to the enterprising." Tne Lumber Ruslness. j' The lumber business has become one of the most important articles of trade and export among the numerous industries which are giving Wilmington her t rightful place among the prosperous and thriving com mercial cities on the Atlantic coast Be sides the large amount turned out by the various mills here, of which there are six, owned respectively by Messrs. Edward Kid der & Son, ' Jas. H. Chadbourn & Co., Northrop & Cumming, . J. V. Taylor, Parsley & Wiggins and A. Y. Wilson, i all in full blast, fj we note the ! arrival ; by rail of large quantities from the numer ous mills located on the W., C. & A: R. R., and the ; Carolina Central Rail road, for shipment to j both foreign and coastwise ports. We noticed a long train of freight cars laden with lumber at the come in on the former road. Claim for Salvage. A preliminary hearing was had in the U. S. Court in New Berne on Wednesday in the case of certain claimants for salvage for assisting the Norwegian barque OuldMnga, which went ashore in Beaufort harbor some weeks since, laden with steel rails for the Midland Railway. ' Messrs. Clark & Clark appeared for the schooner American Eagle and the steam-tug Blanche, both of this port, the former of which claims $500 and the latter $1,500, while the Baker Wreck ing Company of Norfolk claim 1 $6,000. Counsel for the barque intimated that there would be no serious contest except in the case of the Baker Company, and on motion, of defendants the various suits were con solidated. The matter was then referred to Commissioner T. J. Hamilton to take testimony and report to the. Court It was expected that? the case .would come to a final hearing in a few days. : ; Fire In Brunswick County. - The house, kitchen and smoke-bouse be longing to Col. John McRae, on a place ownedby him m Brunswick county, on' the Wilmington, Columbia &" Augusta Railroad, about eight miles from this city, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday after noon last, about 4 o'clock. The fire, is sup posed to have been started from a stove.; The dwelling was occupied by Miss Mary Williams, who saved most of her household f urniture. There was no insurance on the property . J ' '? """" r ' ' ' -'-" '-' Explosion In a Mill at jGoldsboro. ! A passenger from Gold jboro informs us that the boiler of a , steam saw mill located just outside of the city limits at that place exploded on ; Wednesday ; and , resulted in the complete destruction of the mill and the badly wounding ; of several employes, four of whom (all colored) were being borne through the streets on a litter when the train passed. The mill belonged to a man named Hammond or Hyman. Agrtcultural. "... I We are requested to state that there will be a meeting of the farmers of Lockwood's Folly, Brunswick county, on Saturday, the 13th day of May, to permanently : organize an Agricultural Society for the county at large, as well as for the different townships, and transact other important matters in the" interest ' of agriculture. All persons favorable to the cause are invited to attend. Flre In Pender County. A barn belonging to the Messrs. West- brook Bros., near Rocky Point, Pender county, was destroyed A by fire a night or two since; together with its contents,! con sisting of fifteen, hundred bushels of pea nuts:, The loss is estimated at $2,500, to cover which there . was insurance on the barn to the extent of $500 and on the pea nuts $1.500,, The. origm. - of the firef is a mvsterv: but it is, the- general impression, we hear, that the barn was first robbed and then set on fire. ' The Register of Deeds issued seven marriage licenses auring tne past week.1 of which four were - for white and three for colored couples. MAY 5, 1882. STEAMBOAT HORROR. Terrible Explosion on tne Wateree - i : . - -; - , River, S. C, List of tne Killed and Wounded. See. ' . J ' !" '; The officials at the ' Company's office in this city received al telegram from - their agent at Eastover, S C, On the W. C. & A. R. R, giving the particulars of a ter rible accident that occurred hear there yes terday 'morning, I by which; a number of persons lost their lives- and others were "fatally wounded. ' It appears 1 that a party consisting of about twenty-five or thirtv persons, embarked on the ". U. S. steamer Marion, engaged inj cleaning but the Wa teree River, for a short excursion down that stream, boarding the boat at Bates' Landing, nine miles below thk 'Wilmington, X2oiam bia and Augusta Railroad, at 9 a. m. " ' The boat moved down the river about two hundred yards, when it was signalled back to the landing to fake on certain parties that had been left. The belated excursion ists were received on board, and the boat again proceeded : on jher trip, and had gone a short distance, arriving at a bend, when the captain had succeeded in getting his boat in proper position, and was standing at the aft bell, which he had just sounded as a signal to go ahead, fwhen the engineer let on steam and a terfiic explosion immedi ately occurred, bursting the boiler and killing Miss Fannie Henry, Miss Min nie Henry, Miss jMattie ' E. Henry,! Mr. Arville Steele and Mr. 1 Thomas Rich- jon, whose bodies had not been recov ered; also, mortally pounding Miss Lizzie nenry, Juiss Minnie pates, mr. j. c Jjson, Mr. Willie Trembld and John Williams, colored, and slightly wounding Miss Jessie Stack, Miss Nettie Rawlinson, Miss. Carrie Bates, Miss Lou Tremble, Mrs. Sam. Gar ner, Willie Williams, and several others, whose names are not mentioned. The boat will prove a total loss. Q.ulck Dispatch, j The Norwegian brig Thela, Capt. Ram- off, arrived on last Thursday morning, consigned to Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son, discharged 160 tons of stone ballast and oadedher outwardj cargo, 3,300 barrels of rosin, lor Trieste, Austria, and cleared at the custom house yesterday, all inside of 47 hours. This is probably the most re markable case of dispatch on record at this port, considering th6 weather, which partly aeiayea operations. j Clinton and Point Caswell Railroad. , We are glad to hear that the Wharf Com mittee, charged wlti the duty of soliciting subscriptions to thej proposed Clinton and Point Caswell Raflfoadrwill start, otirto i morroTristtiigTortiie purpose oi cauing . " .. : : ' - - :m upon our business men in that connection. The proper effort s "doubtless all that is needed to secure the amount of subscrip tions required. - I 1 Foreign Shipments. ... The foreign shipments yesterday were as follows: The Norwegian barque Erragon, Capt Weber, for London, with 4,293 bar rels of rosin, valued at $8,568.50; and the Norwegian! brig Thela, for Trieste, with 3.300 barrels of rosin, value not; given. Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Co. were the shippers by the Erragon, and Messrs. A. Sprunt & Son by the Thela. VIRGINIA. The Court of Appeals and the "Cou pon Killer" Bill The Alleged Bribe ry Case President Arthur's Visit to Fortress Monroe. ' By Telegraph to the Horning Star. -Richmond, April 26, The Court of Ap peals to day rendered judgment in the mat ter of Antoni vs. Greenhow,, a test case to ascertain the constitutionality of the act of the General Assembly commonly known as the "coupon killer" a measure of the Re- adjuster party to restrict the reception of coupons for taxes: 11 Judge Moncure. Presi dent of the Court, is absent and did not sit : The other four members of the Court were equally divided; two for awarding the mandamus asked for, and two against. The case goes to the Supreme Court of the United States. . , ' ; u Richmond, April 27. State Attorney General Blair, in behalf of the Common-' wealth, to-day obtained from Judge WellJ lord a supplementary injunction, restrain ing the Board of "Sinking Fund Commis sioners and George H. Kendall and G. P. Shelden, representatives; of the Kendall Bank Note Company, from executing the contract entered into between them to print bonds for the State. The Attorney General alleges that, as law; officer of the State, he was not asked to examine and approve said document; that corrunt influences were ap plied by Kendall and Shelden to said Com missioners, and that there was collusion be tween them to execute said contract The Judge ordered the injunction prayed for, as supplemental to the one issued a few days ago. ::?jr. j Fortress Monroe, April 27. The Pre sident and party arrived here at one o'clocfe, and the shore programme was carried Out Troops were reviewed, the fort inspected and the exhibitions of heavy artillery prac tice given. . To night the graduating exer cises of the artillery school wilt be held, and to-morrow a naval review and the con cluding exercises will take place. ; - The Injunction Against the Bond Printing Contract Vacated by Judse Wellford The Naval Review at v Fortress Monroe. , ' t i 8 . IBy Telegraph to the Horning Star.l Richmond, April 28. The injunction obtained by State;; Attorney Ueneral JJlair, to restrain the earning into effect of the contract with the Kendall Manufacturing Company for bond printing, was vacated to-day by Judge Wellford in the Circuit prayed Court., and a newirestraining order for. based on yesterday's amended bill of complaint, was denied. This action leaves the contract in full force. i Fortress Monroe, April 28. The na val review and inspection of the fleet by the President and party was . carried , i out to-day according to the programme, except that so much time was spent in inspecting vessels and exercising crews for the enter tainment of visitors that no time remained for a visit to the Norfolk Navy Yard, i The fresiaent ana inenas aeparted for Wash ington at 6.3U tn is evening. . The crop of sugar on the island of Ja maica is expected to be very large. ' NO. 27 JSOZTTB: CAROLINA. .The Barnwell Case in the U ' 1 at (Thai-laBtA?- x S. Court Charleston. April 27. In the U. S. Circuit Court to-day, the case against John T. Hogg and thirty-eight other defendants, charged with obstructing qualified voters in Barnwell county, was resumed. The entire day jwas consumed in: the examina tion of four witnesses for the defence. The testimony given corroborated the testimony ?"ven by defendants' , witnesses yesterday.; he case will certainly consume , the re mainder of the week. Execution of. Three Criminals at . Greenville Xhe United States, Court at Charleston. ByTelegraphtothe Horning Star.4-' ' Chablestott, April 28. Pleasant Adams, : Joe Burton and Richard Bates (all colored) were hanged at Greenville, S. C, to day, for burning the-Academy of Music at that place on December 7th;. 1879. Burton, i Bates and Adams passed last night in sing ing and were attended to the gallows by colored ministers.. Each of the condemned men made brief declarations of his. inno cence and gratitude to his counsel. , Bates and Adams died in seventeen minutes and Burton in nineteen. A detachment of State militia was in attendance. Only the wit nesses allowed by law were present at the execution.! There was a large crowd in the streets, but no disorder, and all the arrange ments were excellent. ' The whole of the U. S. Circuit Court to day was occupied in hearing further testi mony for the defence in the case of the United States against Jno. T. Pegg and others, charged with obstructing qualified voters in .Barnwell county. . Twenty-one more witnesses forj the defence were ex amined, corroborating the testimony of those preceding them. The defence then rested, and argument will commence to-" morrow. Judge Bond , has limited the ; argument to two hours on each side. ; j TJ. S. Court The Barnwell County Case ' Given to the Jury. j Charleston, April 29. In theU. S. Cir cuit Court to-day argument was heard in the case against John T. Hogg and others.! charged with obstructing qualified voters in uarnweu .county. vi Argument for the prosecution was opened by Mr. Warren R. Marshall, who is asso ciated - with the : District Attorney. ColJ Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, next followed with the opening argument for the defence. I Ex-Judge Mahr, senior counsel for the de fence, followed, and District Attorney Mel ton closed the argument with a reply for the prosecution. The jury were then briefly charged by Judge Bond, and retired to their room at 3.30 P. M., and at a late hour this evening they had not agreed. , MINNESOTA. A Massachusetts Man Lynched for a Vile Crime at Minneapolis. , i ; By Telegraph to the Homing Star, i - j BostonJ April 28. A ! special to the Herald from St Paul. Minn., reports the ynching by a mob at , Minneapolis, at 2 o'clock this morning, of a man who gave the name of Frank McManus, and who was. in jail charged with rape upon a fouT-yea'r pld daughter of J. P. Spear, a prominent citizen of Aunneapoas. : About a o:clocK a j moo of -sixtyiett-f sattered -xiwo-Jb 3aiL.a, the sheriff and took- from- a cell a man whom they supposed to be the one wanted,! and 1 marched him to Spear's house, where he was fully identified. He was then hanged to an oafc tree and left there. Me showed no signs of fear, and said his real name was Frank Crowly, and his home in Boston.! He confessed his crime, and said that he was drunk at the time. THE INDIANS. Citizens .rsranizins for Protection Reported Capture of Galeyrllle and! Killing of Thirty-five Persons In correct. ' " ! San Francisco, April 27. A Tombstone dispatch says a meeting has been held by the citizens of Bowie, and a company of mounted men organized for the protection of the town against the Indians. ( The report of the capture of Galeyville and the killing of thirty-five persons is in-; correct Only one man was killed and he was three miles from the town. There are two companies of troops at Galeyville, and the Indians did not attacic the place. WASHINGTON." Confirmations The Star Route Cases -hi 4-Tyners .Denial, Etc. Washington. April 28. The Senate to- dav confirmed Nicholas Fish, of New York, Minister to Belgium, and John M. Francis, of New York, Charge d' Affairs to Portugal Ex-Assistant Postmaster General Tyner says that there is no truth in Rerdell's story, to ex-lostmaster uenerai yames ana ex-Ai-; torney General MacYeagh that the mail con tractors' Wng presented him 2,000 shares of mining stock, or with anything else, to influence his official action. A. M. Gibson makes a similar denial, and adds that at the time he is said to have received the mining stock he was not in the service of the Post office Department, : and might with entire propriety have purchased from these people mining stock. Gibson says that only a part of ; Rerdell's statement to MacYeagh and James was . true, and that much of it was manufactured for -the purpose of hoodwinking these officers ; that Rerdell had no intention of serving the interests ot justice, but only wished to redress a griev ance " against Dorsey and escape punish ment himself. The examination of the witnesses in Rerdell's case proceeded to-day and was accompanied with ; a constant wrangle j between the lawyers, counsel for the defence objecting to the introduction of nearly all the evidence presented, and the court steadily ruling against the objections and in favor of admitting testimony. ' The dav was spent in presenting documents from the .files of the Postoffice Depart ment - i -""Ivfer.: ; . j. ....,; ,:, :v. , ; .- ,y.-, ; .-.-. :,; , -r ' Representative Singleton, of Mississippi,' introduced a bill to-day to extend the time for' the (completion of the railroad " from Brandon, Miss., to the Gulf of Mexico. This is one of the roads embraced in the bill now4 pending before the House . which declares j forfeited land "grants on certain railroads which have not complied with the terms of their charters. - . CALIFORNIA. The Celestials Must Go Action of the r Antl-Chlnese Convention. . ' By Telegraph to the Horning Star. ' ' San Francisco, . April 28. The Anti- Chinese Convention last ' night adopted plan of action which includes a scheme to divide the Pacific coast into districts, which! shall be notified to remove the - Chinese within a specified time. . Failing in such ac tion the district is ta bs declared dangerous. and peaceably disposed citizens to be warned to abandon it, and if the Chinese are still harbored in the district ; a. league is to re move them by: force, using such force as may be necessary until the country is rid of them. ; ihe convention then elected an ex ecutive committee and adjourned sine die. per hundred and,' plenty in the market 1 here is a ru- ;merr here that c Col. -Yates'i has -tesigned as General Manager of. the Midland Railway. ; and that Captain A,.Oaksmith-will succeed . . , . V.' tj.i V-VVi.V-ll.-;.--.!.-.-; . One story i& good till another Jonah played an important part, has held the boards long enough. - -A modern adept : now claims the honors: - i'He writes to the Reidsyille Timesri'Mri Henry Edmunds.of ' Charlotte . county, , Ya.; ,; had a large red j hound, named Bosc that, one day caught a rabbit in the field where they were cutting" wheat and Bwallowed it without biting it Jt killed the dog; The ': rabbit scratched" out" . .1 Winston' Sentinel', The fruit, cropla this section is still uninjured V ; Elder j Richard Poindexter, of the Church of Christ, closed a meeting at Old Muddy Creek meeting house, last evening,: with thirty-six additions to the church. The series of meetings . at the Baptist Church this week have been of unusual in- L terestf "A number have professed faith in Christ i and there have been several appli-, cations for membership by the ordinance oft baptism. - '' " -' " Fayetteville Examiner: We re- ; gret toj learn that on Tuesday, the 18th instVf one of Mr. John lilue s distilleries, located near Blue's Crossing, was destroyed by fire, together with sheds, barrels and a consider- able amount of raw material on the yard.' The accident .was due to a defect in the ket-! tie. -j- Last week, a mad dog is reported to have invaded the quiet precincts of Eliza-- . bethtown. He bit sixteen dogs and eight geese, says our informant, after which he. was Killed. ' - i r ' - The University, has: been pre-. sented with 200 specimens of woods bj' Professor C. S. Sargent, special agent for the tenth census of the United States' on Forestry. : Many iron ores, minerals, coals from Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, and tropical fruits from Florida were obtained at the Atlanta Exposition. The- Agricul: tural and Industrial Museum, and the De partment of Physics have been enriched re-' cenuyj wim : specimens oi , glass, ap paratus. &c. ., " ; New Berne Journal : Mr. G. N. Ives received a roe shad a few days ago which weighed 7i pounds. He says it was the largest he had ever seen in this market Superintendent J.' H. Mills. of the jOxford Orphan Asylum, ; is in the city bikying potatoes, corn and fish for his family which numbers one - hundred and thirty-five. : Couldn't have found a better place in North Carolina, for since we have' strolled around these streets, by ways and docks,) potatoes, fish and corn were to be ound in abundance. Oxford - Free Dance: The Re publican Convention to nominate a candi- ' date for . Congress from this district will meet in Raleigh on Wednesday,' August -2nd. i We have on exhibition in thi3 office some specimens of iron and copper ore from mines in various sections of Gran villeyxranty, which have been examined by experts and pronounced of the very best - quality. There is some talk of getting Dr. Talmage to lecture in Oxford for the benefit 'of the Orphan Asylum. On Fridav moraine the dwelling house, kitch en and smoke house of Mr. Mordica Sears, in Fishing Creek Township, about eight miles from Oxford, were destroyed by fire. Pittsboro Record: We are in formed by Mr. ' Thomas N. " Womble, of Gulf township, that Mr. Nat Lloyd was plowing in his field a few days ago. and a bunch of 'black-snake root,'.' he nicked un. and soon thereafter seeing a black snake coiled up5Ji?droppcft; the bunch of roots on it. Immediately the . , nlr-Liiiir m'n -.nf u-f .K1"rqJLwitH its -mouth, and, turning on its- backus inuuiu s turned "wrong-side outwards," and in a few seconds died. - We much regret to learn that in some portions of this county rust and some kind of fly. So great is the injury to some few fields that their owners Will plow the wheat under and plant corn ana cowon. ; i i . i - . Weldon News: - On Wednesday nisrht of last week as Capt. Slocum s train was approaching Mt. : Olive, some persons threw! four or five stones at one of the pas senger cars, breaking two or three windows ; fortunately no one was injured. We earn tnat the cold has not injured ine fruit ;f but that the trees both apple and peach, are unusually fulL On Sun day morning last, while Capt. R. E. Mose ley was sitting in his store, about eight miles from here, he dropped his cane, and upon attempting to pick j it up found that he was helpless. It was an attack of paral ysis. He became unconscious and remained so until Tuesday mgnt, : wnen ne Decame better, .This is the third attack of the kind he has had, and it is the most severe, one side being entirely useless. Raleigh News-Observer: . Adam HilL colored, from Union county, was one -of a gang of convicts employed at the pen itentiary farm, that is be was such yester day, but to-day he breathes free air, having in some way contrived to make hisj;scape. He is black, about 25 years of age, and is under a ten years' sentence for larceny. Granville items: un the 7th mst nog. Har ris, colored, took a mule from the stable of William Gregory, near Williamsboro, and on Saturday, while he was trying to sell the animal in Louisburg.i, Sheriff H. C. Kear ney's; suspicions were aroused, so he arrestr ed the negro, and the Oxford court gave him five years' board at the penitentiary. Bill Johnson, colored, got six years at the : same; institution for making an assault on a Mrs. Alleru.. Elizabeth City,"" April 26. Sixty nembers of the press arc pre sent U The editors are much gratified with the fisheries at Avoca and the country. Ail well. ' . :: ' ' . . ' i Raleigh ' News- Observer : . The colored Republicans appear to be rather di vided on the municipal , election question. There is renewed talk about a new ho tel on Fayetteville street. Mayor Manly is quite sick, but was somewhat im- . proved last evening. Morris Thomp son, colored, was yesterday released from the penitentiary, having served out a term of five years for larceny. The revival at Person Street Church continues. It is nowl in its fourth - week, and there is no abatement in interest - - Messrs. George H. Williams and Charles Ferrall, who have been at work at the shad hatchery at Avoca for some weeks, arrived in the city last evening from : that point They brought up 200,000 shad fry, which they depos ited in Neuse river, at the railroad bridge. --The Presbytery v of Yadkin is now in session in this city at the chuich of which the jRev. " George - Smith is pastor. The opeijung sermon was preached by the Rev. W. A. Bryant, of Salisbury. His text was the 55th chapter of Isaiah, 3rd verse. The sermon was well considered and. very ac ceptable. The Presbytery then organized by electing Rev. LuR Johnson, of Greensboro,- moderator ; and , for temporary clerk, ' L. Y. Berry; Rev. ' A' S. Bfllingsby the stated clerk, is also present in the discharge of his duties; Granville items : Old Gran ville stands at the head of the columnof tobocco . counties No - county in this or anV other State . raises finer "bright tobac co.' " Her tobacco farmers are resting un der a financial Jcloud just ndw, caused by the damage done to their crops by an early frost last . season. 'This damage will, it is said approximate nearly i three hundred thousanddollars. Farmers , are planting a larger acreage than last year. - .Wheat, oats, rye, etc.,' are looking very promising. The financial condition of. the county affairs is in a more healthy tone than at any ' time since the war. .are