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BOSS RULE AND BUTLER. '
the small-fry order Las been abusing
. V. . Talt,-rj-,.A ; lis I wstaoiTvlv. "Ka
tli!t coiiit'fl tn tTtia nffio it.
Opo8 d the "Ring" nominee for
uiiiynr or us city, me Aay Knows
wliitt Democratic principles are and
it steadfastly and very ably upholds
them. It is no miserable time serving
elmt without convictions and that
-jusum-a I'very; iiung mat us party
T" T ' 1 . 1 " . 1 . 1
it be bad. It maintains sound prin
ciples and" applies the lash to offend-
. ers. v "Tlo Bdstort Poaf, the time hon
ored Democratic organ in New Eng
lan2, ihuM refers to the Day, and we
copy in because, it strikes a manly
:- 11 ' f il" o 'n-inar -flint ontQffnmvao
15ft Tt. R.1VH'! " .
"Iu offeucc. in the eyes of the boot-licking
organ before referred to, consists in the
fact that it recently made a vigorous fight
: to dethrone the bosses who have got con
trol of the Democratic, organization in Bal
timre and by fraud and corruption have
well nigh ruined the party nrosnects in both
city and State, -i The Day worked long and
well 10 reform the party without advoca
ting si-pamte city Domination, but'seeing it
was no use it finally advised that an inde
"pendent Democrat he nominated for Mayor.
This was done and more than 7.000 Demo-
" crais vnit'il with the Day. Unless the' Bal
timore tvi-ses gel out of the way the Day
and its 1 liO'uniKia of independent- Demo-
. crats will yet overthrow them and utterly
annihilate them."
Tlu1 Post 1 nt supporting -old
Ben BmiKt. It is too clean and con-
sci'-nttous a'id true an exponent of
Dftr:K-r.t4tim4jtaK U look, with..
miich fuvor up.n a obaraoter lilsetbe
jy-sS3chusetts palitictan. Xyp. have
pa admiration ijertaiuly for '01d
Ben." But he has done good. Doubt
less bis motives were selfish, but he
Ill's taught the- ''Codfish Aristocracy"
that tlu'ir works were evil and that
the people- should understand it.
Whilst we coald not be persuaded to
vote for the maligtier of the women
of New Orleans we think he is just
the man for ( the Governorship of
Massachusetty.-!' He is less de0finti
b.ut hn is . .ajsq ' h? yindictive than
j,h Hoar aud Dawesy
THE VOTES.
Taking the elections : of the last
eighteen months as a basis, and there
are 209 electoral votes in the States
tbat have given Democratic majori
ties. The States that went Republi
can give but 148 votes, omitting four
States that are classed as doubtful
but are possibly Democratic. They
are Connecticut, Virginia, Ohio and
Nevada. Theygive 44 votes. So4f
the Democrats can carry the States
$hat have gone Democratic within
88?-'8:i, and gj'et the ' oubtf ul Spates
also, they wiU-have.I.lSl2 electoral
YPtes to the Republican 148. In the
list of Republican States, a,re Colora
do Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Michigan n,d Wisconsin, that gave
"jernppraj.ic rpajorities in the last
elections. But of course the above
figuring cannot be relied upon. It
shows this, however, that the chances
are altogether favorable to the Dem
ocrats unless "the Democratic blun-
dsi!thi8 winter shall bring joy and
hope to the Republicans whose
hearts are now filled with only de
spondency and fears.
; Fannie Kemble was evidently a
gfeai actress,, but she . despised the
stage. She came of a great .his
trionic family the . greatest known
tb' the . stage. - 'She "married when
young an American M.'C.," lived for
awhile in Philadelphia and in
Georgia, Jived unhappily' with her
jisband;, separated, and fqr rore
'an forty yars; Ijag1 riqt seen iim..
gi)e is how an qld' wOBian qf nearly,
seventy, and her literary works are
pf great interest. We regard her as
pne of the best female writera of the
world. She is really charming. No
ne haa a purer character and her
gifts as a writer are as conspicuous
in her old age as wlen she was so at
tractive in the spring time of her
life when the.world bowed at her feet
in worship.- We copy elsewhere an
account of her acting in Boston when
Judge Story and" the remainder of
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1 ;. -"-T-r " wt ! t""i
n.: 'I f. I 4 ..i . - i- .
wvifwewn aco: almost thew hearts, ft
' Nominate good men for office andl
adopt a seneiblouiid - platform of
principles and -men will have no ex
cuse for Bnence'or bolting. S i
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VOL. XV.
RANDALL NOT THE MAN.
The New Haven Register is one
of the two leading Democratic pa
pers of Connecticut. ; It does not re
gard with favor the claims of Mr.
Randall to the Speakership. It
states the case very like the Stab ha9
essayed to present it for many
months. It says justly, truly and
forcefully:
i "Mr. Randall is a man of unquestioned
ability and integrity, but to elevate him to
the Speakership of a Congress, pro
nouncedly in favor-of a tariff reform, while
he himself is a protectionist, would be to
choke off all successful attempts at tariff
revision. We believe that Mr. Carlisle's
election would meet with the 'approval of
the party at large, and would give much
greater satisfaction than'that of Mr. Ran
dall's,"; ' - - '
This is precisely what the ablest
Democratic papersja -Massachusetts,
in New York, in Pennsylvania', in
Maryland, , in 5 South Carolina, in
Georgia, in Kentucky, in Missouri,
in Texas have said. We might ex
tend the list to Michigan, Maine and
other -States. If Randall should by
trickery compass his ends, and in no
other, way can he be elected,it will be
a great shock to that portion of the
Democracy thaf aru fully persuaded
in their minds that Tariff , Reform is
the great duty of their party, and
that to retain the present unequal,
unjust and oppressive High War
Tariff, and for the time Mr. Randall
demands, ten long years, would be a
positive curse to the country and a
great and inexcusable wrong to all
classes and conditions who work for
a living.
WHAT WE EAT AND DRINK.
Food adulterations is an old but
important theme. . What you shall
put in your stomach is of very great
importance to your health, happiness
and even longevity. Scientific doc
tors tell you, and tell yota correctly,
that the cooks are responsible in a
great measure for the indigestion
that kills and is killing so many
Americans. Rapid eating and badly
cooked food are doing the work of
Death, and filling graveyards with
victims tbat die out of, their time.
When the adulteration of food is
looked into as practiced in this coun-.
try, and in England, and in France,
it is enough to convert men to Gra
hamites,, or to send them to a per
petual diet of cow's milk. A well
knowti French publication, the Re
vue des Deux Jlfondea, has been ex-
j posing some ef tb-Parisian ad till
ations. : It confines itself to that sort
of food to be found in second-class
hotels and restaurants. We will
avail ourselves of some of its investi
gations as we find them reproduced,
in the Philadelphia Press. Accord
ing to the reports published almost
all articles of food in their purity
have disappeared entirely. You no
longer find butter made from milk,
coffee from the genuine berry, wine
from grapes, and so oq. We quote:
''Tapioca is made out of potatoes heated
in copper and slightly tinctured with ace
tate of copper. The same metal gives the
beautiful green to pickels. . Fish are kept
in a state of preservation for some time by
embalming them with a mixture of chloride
of zinc and acetate of aluminum. The
butter used for the sauce for salmon or tur
bot thus preserved is made of flour, starch,
potatoes, cheese, mixed with veal fat, 'suet,
lard, or other fatty substances, weighted
with clay, chalk, gympsum, silicate of po
tassim, sulphate of'baryum, colored with
chlorate of lead, or a tinctorial paste of
various poisons.
- "Chocolate is manufactured from rice,
flour, peas and beans, olive or almond oil,
roasted nuts, sawdust, cinnabar, red oxide
of mercury, minium, chalk and other min
eral substances. Currant jelly is made of
a marrow extracted from a Japanese sea
weed; a little beet juice or carmine is added
for color, glucose for. sweetetdng, and a
spoonful of sycup for a bouquet, and no
one can' tell it from that made from cur
rants. 'Candies are manufactured from glu
cose colored with chrome yellow and other
salts of lead, vermilion or sulphate of mer
cury, Schecle's green or arsenite of copper,
cobalt blue, orpiment. verdigris and gam
boge. Prussian blue, oxide of ?une. ultra
marine, cochineal, indigo, aud the aniline
colors are conparatively harnyess. 'A box
of bonbo'ns," says our author, -is always a
box of colors, a little sugared.' "
Ihe Jbrench author savs it
says it is no
better when you come ?to drinks.
You . can no longer drink real coffee.
We quote again:
"Coffee used to be made of starch of po
tatoes, wheat, oats, carrots or beets. The
English now excel in preparing real Gov
ernment Java from, caramel, tan-bark, ma
hogany sawdust and baked horse's liver.
Dr. Hassall, of London, found only three
specimens of pure coffee in thirty-four sam
ples."
The fine . imported Havana cigars
come from Germany from Bremen
or Hamburg, packed in German made
boxes which are an exact counterfeit
of the Havana boxes. All kinds of
drinks, including the absinthe, are
"doctored.' Rum is made qui-; of
beet-root. - Formio acid f orraio eth,er
qre a,dded. go with b.randies,fec. The
most dedicate boquet of fine wines is
successfully; counterfeited by using
castor oil and sulphuric acid. So the
versatile and fastidious Parisian is
doctored from the. cradle to' the grave
in all that he eats and all that he
drinks. How much of our tea and
coffee and bntter and flour and so on,
are medicated and adulterated passes
our knowledge of chemistry to find
out.
Hon. Armistead - Burt, of South
Carolina, died at his home 'at , Abbe-
I TiUe.. on the 81st of October, He
i. .
Wili i
Vas fouhd dead in nis office; J He
served five terms iff the U.S.' Con
gress and married the niece of John
C. Calhoub. v He was born inr 1802.
He was a practicing lawyer to! the
feist and died at his post.
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WHAT THE-. INCREASE OF,,
" NEGROES MAX BRING.
; :.. The Hickory 2Vcs, taking
THE
a re-
mark of the Star relative to the in
crease of the negroes as a text, turns
to the - last census reports to show
that the negroes increase more rap
idly than the whites. It shows that
the increase of the negroes , in the
decade of 1870-'80,' was 35 per cent,
in North Carolina,, and the same can
be said, of the whole country. , The
increase of the whites was but -28
per cent, in North Carolina. - Can it
be true that -the increase -of - the
whites in North Carolin was less than
the average,, increase . for the United
States?, Isjforth Carolina' really be
low the level? We would have sap
-posedJtbat .the-increase would have
been above the average, especially as
the vital statistics of North Carolina,"
we had thought, would show a lower
death rate than any of the States
south of us or than the New Eng
land and other Northern States. , ,
' But if true the cause is that given
by the Press the influx of immigra
tion in the North, our State receiv
ing but little.
The Press accepts the figuers of the
census and thus moralizes: ;
"It is evident, therefore, that the col
ored population of North Carolina is gain
ing on the white population. And this is
true of the Southern States generally, and
is in fact true of the whole country. . The
black race is more prolific than the white
race. . They are constitutionally better
adapted to the Gulf and Atlantic Coast re
gions than the white race. They withstand
the peculiar diseases of those regions better
than the whites. The facts and figures
above stated suggest questions of moment
ous importance.' . - ,
Not doubting the fact that the ne
groes increase more rapidly than the
whites,- we do not believe that the
civilization of the country, can be se
riously threatened except in the
South. That brings the question
home to every white man in the
South. The probability , is that if
white immigration does not come
into the South any faster during the
twenty years embraced in 1880-1900,
than it has since the war, that
by the close of the century , there
will be as many negroes in the
South as there will be whites
But the Northern States and
Southern States like Missouri, Mary
land, West ..Virginia, Texas and
Kentucky will not be endangered in
the least in their civilization, be
cause thejvhites are sogreatly.in the
ascendant now, and will increase with
exceeding rapidity because of immi
gration in the future. But with
North and South Carolina, Alabama
and Mississippi and "possibly other
States, the question of the increase
of the negroes is one of deep interest
and upon' the proper solution of
which may. depend the welfare of the
people, the purity of society and the
safety of political institutions.
It may become absolutely neces-
sary that certain Southern States be
fore A. D. 1900, shall send out
agents to Europe and into theNorth
to offer premiums to white immi
grants to come and settle in them,
There is no fear of- one thing; that
the Aryan stock will cease to control
the destinies of our vast country
.Negro dominancy in certain South
ern States might cause the better
classes of whites to "pull up" and
migrate to other States where the
whites are tne masters. In such a
condition of affairs should ever occur
in any State in a oore of years there
after it wQuld be turned in a Hayti
or wpuld be as much of a waste
howling wilderness as any part of
Africa where fetich is practiced. The
truth is, as we believe it, if your re
move the inuenoe of white civilisa
tion and the examples , of Christian
life and the teachings of the simple
and pure Gospel of Jesus as given by
the superior race, that before two de
cades pass the. United States will
have among them an American
Dahomey with all manner of fetich
isms. - -'"
Two gentlemen in this town have
given us ? a . practical illustration.
They had made in London and Edin
burgh suits of clothing thatvwould
cost $60 in New York. They paid
$17.50 and $18.50 and made, too, by-
fashionable tailors. And yet we are
told - that a High Tariff does not
make high goods. A gentleman at
Raleigh wears a . $.2 pair of shoes
- . -
bought in London equal to. the
pairs yo car biay here,
We learn from a;, gentleman who
has been upon the spot that in Gas
ton county, not far from the Whet
stone Mountains, there is a very an
cient tunnel, supposed to have been
made by the early Spaniards. The
probability is it is even older. It ia
known to be a full hundred years
old by the testimony of aged people
who were living twenty years ago
who learned from their fathers that
the tunnel was in their boyhood as it
was in their children's time. We
call the attention qf QqI, Caineionj to
this interesting fact in case he is not
aware of its existence.
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.Rah! forthe Raleigh boys! They
beat Virginia in the drill at Rich
mond and got the $1,000 prize. ' Very
creditable to trie Raleigh company
and to 'the State, . "
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9,
THE COST OF THE TWO SYSTEMS.
Tne .Lexington Uispatch says
wisely and justly:
"The idea of repealing the taxes should
not be entertained, but the mode, ot col
lecting Bhould be changed. rt
That is what the Stab is fighting
for. It asks the . Congress to change
the system abolish the 7 horde -of
revenue collectors, . , spies, smellers.
informers,', and collect the muc$
conservative" and.acceptable"wayT X
can - be done - and done well and-
cheaply upon another . plan.- 'The;
cost - is too great -under the present'
system, even though it was: not'-of- 1
fensive to Say class of -people. ''The
.Dispatch says, and we agree witn it:
"Prom. Good's Salary List we learn thiit
ihe annual. payjcoH.; in thi State amours
to Z4U7.745. roxu Hundred ana tnjrteeir
collectors," deputy, collectors, clerks, store
keepers, gaugers,. &c., are employed, and
draw from $700 to $4,365 each, all but six
teen receiving over $900 each. This is a
large number of officers and a large salary
expense certainly for collecting tne govern
ment's taxes, considering how few direct
taxpayers there are. : surely there ought to
be enough wisdom in Congress to devise a
cheaper plan for collecting tne money."
There is no probability, we think,
of the tax on whiskey and cigars be
ing repealed, by the incoming Con
gress. We have seen nothing to lead
no tn innnAad fliaf. .'t.Tio rVpmv.rt.?rt
rka.rt.v m dpofit.nt.o nf MntAlJiofonr. and 'I
r. -j o
fair leadership. It is . certain that
outside of North Carolina and Vir
ginia you will find in the whole coun
try but few Democrats who favor
abolishing the" internal tax the tax
on luxuries unless they are con-1
cealed or pronounced Protectionists.
Every day we are publishing from
the ablest and most influential Dem
ocratic papers, view.s that are unfa
vorable to wiping out tne tax on
luxuries.
As costly as the present system of
collecting the internal taxes is, it is
vastly cheaper than the present sys
tem of collecting the tax under the
Tariff. ; It costs only 3 cents to col
lect the tax on whiskey. &c, whilst
it costs 9 cents to collect the tax on
blankets and shoes, on wool hats and
cheap crockery, on sugar and trace
chains. . The Dispatch will please
note this. We gave the" figures a
few days, showing how this was. We
copied from the Democratic cam
paign book at that.
The way to liberty and justice and
independence for Ireland is not by
"blowing up railroad-trains aftyr ,the
true Nihilistic manner, in order to
destroy a son - of the Queen and
thereby give the world such a shock
and a recoil that Ireland's genuine
griefs will have no sympathy and no
help. We hope the rumor about the
purpose to blow up the train of the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught is
not well founded.
Fire at Teacher's.
Mr. Marshal W. Teachey, writing us
from Teachey's, in Duplin county, under
Friday's date, states that as the through
freight train was passing there that day a
lot of cotton took fire from sparks from the
engine. .The cotton was on the platform
of the warehouse, ready for shipment.
Nine bales were badly damaged. The
warehouse also took fire and would have
burned to the ground but for the exertions
of the Citizens, particularly the pupils of
Mr. Dugald McMillan's school, young
ladies and gentlemen, who turned out en
masse and worked like beavers, carrying
water from the different wells in the vil
lage in buckets, tubs, pitchers, &c, which
the men threw upon the flames. "Within
three feet of the fire, in the warehouse,
was a keg of powder, the explosion of
which might have resulted very disastrous
ly if the flames had reached it, both to life
and property, as the platform was crowded
with men fighting the fire and rolling cot
ton bales.
Heard From.
Sheriff Taylor, of Brunswick, informs
us that he saw a letter yesterday morning
from W. II. Swain, the alleged horse thief,
who, it will be remembered was charged
with stealing a mule from a man in Colle
ton county, S. C; and a large fine bay
horse frqm Mr. David Flowers, of Bladen
county, in' this State, which latter theft
took place on the 2nd of October. The let
ter was written at Slaughtersville, Geor
gia, and was addressed to his sister. Offi
cers have been on the look-out for him
here. ,
U. 8. District Court.
The case of Seth W. Davis vs. the Nor
wegian barque Oanger Rolf, for libel, which
was under consideration,' on 'Wednesday
and Thursday, was decided laje Thursday
evening, judgment being rendered for the
plaintiff in the sum of $439.50, the vessel
being also required tq pay the costs. As
stated before. Messrs. Marsden Bellamy
and J. D. Bellamy. Jr.'. ; appeared for the
libellant, and Messrs. F. H. Darby and. S.
W. Empie for the vessel.
Oat of Hie Latitude.
. A genuine white shad, and a fine speci
men at that, was caught in Messrs. W. E.
Davis & Son's fish traps yesterday. A
white shad on the 2nd of November is
something remarkable in the annals of fish
ing in this part of the country. In Florida
these fish' are much earlier than in North
Carolina, ; but we doubt if one was ever
caught there before the latter part of De
cember. ' His shadship must' have gotten.
out of his latitude in some way.
Drowned Ulan. V
Ac6l6r.ea itx&ri named Henry Jewett, be
longing on Town Creek,' Brunswick coun-
i ty, accidentally fell off a flat aUthe wharf
near the foot of Market street about nine
; o'clock Thursday night, and was drowned,
i the body not having ' yet been recovered.
The flat belonged to Mr. Grimes, of Bruns-
wick. Deceased is said to have been a mid,-
( die-aged man.'
"Tne Mayors of Two Cities.' -
Our Mayor has been to Charleston, as
has been announced. What his business
was in our sister "city by the sea" is told
very succinctly and pleasantly by the re
porter of the News and Courier under the
above head, and the nice time he had and
the courtesies extended, are they not also
described bv the grabhic chronicler, as
follows: ' ....
The Hon: E. D. Hall. Chief Magistrate
pf the city of Wilmington, who has been
m tne city lor two days, paid a formal
Visit to Mayor Courtenay at- the City Hall
yesterday. Mayor Hall last visited Charles
ton about twenty years aeo. when he came
at the head of a regiment of .North Caro
lina volunteers - to assist in the defence of
the city. , The object of his present visit is
not .to study the defences of the city, but
to post himself on the public departments,
and. especially to look into the improve
ments that have been made on the streets
and in the drainage. ; After a pleasant in
terview with Mayor Courtenay and an in
spection - oi tne pictures and statuary ; in
ne uouncu unamber. Mayor Hail was
placed inrcharee of Maior Huguenin. the
superintendent of streets, bv whom he was
driven over- the city and" shown the-newJ
stone roadways, the improvement at the
railway wnarves in tne northeastern por
tion of the city,- and4he new drainage sys-;
tern, mayor iiall states that Wilmington
is making rapid advances in the race be
tween the South. Atlantic seaports; that
mere are now seventeen feet ot water on
the bar of the Cape Fear riveri and that
the municipal authorities are about to de
vote tneir energies to the consolidation and
perfection of the various municipal de
partments. The first step in this direction
will be the laying of the Belgian 4lock
roaoway in tne principal thoroughfares.
ana tne mam object of his present visit
was to make an examination of the new
roadways that have been, laid in Charleston.-
. t ' : '
"Mayor Hall -returned to Wilmington
last night,highly pleased with his visit, and
carrying with him many suggestions of
practical municipal improvements which
be says will be earnestly commended to
the Board of Aldermen of our sister city.
It should be stated in this connection
that one of our principal thoroughfares
was paved . with the best Belgian block
some ten or twelve years ago.
Exports for October.
The following is a statement of the for
eign exports from the port of Wilmington
for the month, of October, as compiled
from the books in the Custom House:
Cotton 13,255 bales, weighing 6,366,545
pounds, and valued at $642,858.
Rosin 15,146 barrels, valued at $34. 532.
Tar 2 barrels, valued at $4.
Pitch and Crude Turpentine 2 barrels,
valued at $4.
Spirits Turpentine 128.270 casks, val
ued at $50,997. : .
Lumber 403,000 feet, valued at $6,051.
Shingles 184,000, valued at $1,069.
Total valuation of exports for the month,
$725,515. On American vessels $7,128; on
foreign vessels $718,387.
Accident at the Compress.
Yesterday morning, about half-past 7
o'clock, Mr." Thos. B. Harriss,' Superin
tendent of the Champion Compress Com
pany, was superintending the trucking of
a lot of compressed cotton to a vessel ly
ing at the wharf, when a bale of cotton
fell and struck him on. the .leg, knocking
him down, when three other bales fell up
on him. When rescued from his perilous
position he was badly stunned and uncon
scious for a time. He was taken to the of
fice and surgical assistance summoned un
der the impression that he had suffered a
fractnre of one of bis limbs, and at last ac
counts it was swollen so badly that no def
inite decision had been arrived at. It is be
lieved, however, tbat he is not seriously
hurt.
County Jail Items.
Samuel Adams, convicted by the U. S.
District Court of selling liquor and tobacco
without a license being first obtained, and
sentenced to confinement for six months in
the county jail, was discharged yesterday
morning, his term having expired, j
Jerre Lamer, who was convicted of em
bezzlement and sentenced to four years in
the State Penitentiary, but who appealed
to the Supreme Court, has been in jail
nearly twelve months awaiting a decision.
It has just been announced in the words
'No error judgment affirmed." I Now
when his sentence expires he will have been
imprisoned about five years instead of four.
m sa s I
Archaeological. V
Mr. O. F. Watkins, who resides in the
eastern part of Pender county, on the
border of Holly Shelter pocosin, was clear
ing a piece of swamp land recently when
he came upon what is evidently an Indian
spear-head. It was found about a foot be
neath the surface, and is about four and a
half inches in length, the material being a
flinty rock. In the woods near by where
this spear-head was discovered are traces
of Indian mounds, which havejbeen known
for years by the people in that section as
the "Indian Graves."
Our Cotton Trade.
The receipts of cotton at this port for the
month of October just closed footed up 33,-
820 bales, as against 26,693 bales for the
corresponding month last year, showing
an increase in favor of 1883 of 6,627 bales.
The receipts for the crop year from Sep
tember 1st to date foot up 41,016 bales, as
against 36,112 bales up to same period last
year, snowing an increase ot..ia otue?
..mm nn A 1 1
in favor of 18,83.
The Now Do.ceae. , i : -
The following counties compose the new
Diocese oi North Carolina, as authorized
bv the late General Convention of the
Episcopal Church: Currituck, Camden,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, , Chowan, Gates,
Hertford, Bertie, Martin, Washington,
Tyrrell, Dare, Hyde, Beaufort, Pitt,
Green, Pamlico, Craven, Carteret, Jones,
Lenoir, Wayne, Sampson, Duplin, Onslow,
Pender, New Hanover, Brunswick, Colum
bus, Bladen, Robeson, Cumberland, j
Deceased Members of the N. C. Confe-
; ; renee. . ' . -' I '
We are indebted to Rev. E. L. Pell, of
Marion, N. C, for a copy of 'Our Dead,
North Carolina Conference Methodist Epis
copal Church, South," comprising a group
of handsomely executed enjgrAvings, repre--senting
those prominent members and
leaders of the North Carolina Cdnference,
Win. Closa. B. Craven. Peter Doub. E. W.
Thompson, N. F. Reid, Wm. Barringer
and A. A. Boshamer. . i
DiMdal Term of the Criminal Court.
Hon. O. P. Meares, Judge of the Crimi
nal Court of New Hanover county, has Is
sued his proclamation appointing a special
term of said Court to commence on. the
26th inst.. the last Monday, in November.
The special tenn is rendered,' necessary in
! order not to' conflict with the Superior,
Court, which! convenes oh the first Monday
; in jecemuer. - .
Star
1883.
THE CROPS.
Reports as to Condition of Cotton and
Grain Crops In the Southern States.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ;
New OelbJaxs. Nov. L The Times-
Democrat publishes special dispatches from
a large number of points in the Southern
states, snowing the condition of the cotton:
and grain crops on .the last day of , October.
The following is a Bynopsis: v'; "; -
juaoama Cotton Increased acreage o
per cent; yield 67 per cent, l as compared
with last year; picking season best ever
known; 90 per , cent of the crop already
picked ; 5 per cent has been marketed. The
grain crops, except wheat, is good. .
Arkansas Cotton Acreage unchanged:
yield 85 per cent; picking season splendid ;
aDout: one-fourth crop picked; one-fifth
marketed. - - . . ' "
Florida Cotton Acreage and vield un
changed from last year: 84 per cent of
crop picked ; 25 per cent marketed. All grain
crops excellent. . i ;
ueorgia-CottQTi Same acreage as last
season; crop short 82 per cent; picking ex
cellent; nine-tentns of crop picked. Grain
crops about 30 per cent below last season.
Jjoutszana Cotton Acreage 2 oer cent
below last year's yield: 30 per cent short:
'picking season excellent; two-thirds of crop J
. 1. 9 .... - . t i . J ... . '
Mtsstmppi Cotton Acreage 3 per cent
greater than last year. but the yield only.
04 per eent or last year s crop; picking sea-.
son not so good, on account of rains; two
thirds of crop has been picked ; two-fifths
marketed.- The. grain crop is one-fourth
short. -X-'
, Tennessee Cotton Acreage slightly less,
and yield 84 per cent of last year's; picking
magnificent, one-half of crop having been
picked, - and one-third marketed. Corn
crop good, but oats and wheat poor.
lexasijoxXon Acreage about the same
as last year, but the yield only 67 per cent;
picking season excellent, nine tenths of the
crop picked, one-half marketed; quality of
staple excellent. - i
. COLORADO.
Destructive Fire . In Garfield Explo
sion of Over 600 foundi of Giant
Powder The People Left in a Sad
Pllfiht. ;.' " fVv; '',.:'
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Denveb, November 1. A special to the
Republican, from Garfield, Col., says afire
broke out nere early yesterday morning,
which was soon beyond the control of the
fire department. The flames extended to
Hpacy Bros, store, which contained over six
hundred pounds of giant powder. This
exploded, hurling the blazing timbers and
fragments of . buildings in every direction.
The postomce, hotels, and m fact the entire
business portion of the town were destroyed.
The loss is over $50,000: insurance one-
third of that amount. - A number of people
were Knocked down and badly stunned.
Only one person was fatally injured. The
people are in a sad plight, the maiority
being homeless, and without food or clothes
for the winter.
. WASHINGTON.
The Debt Statement Gen. Sherman
Transfers the Command of the
Army.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.l
"WASHraGTOH, Nov. 1. The debt state
ment, issued to-day, shows the decrease
of tne pubuc debt during the month
of November to be $10,304, 798.83; de
crease of debt . since June 30th, 1883,
$39,584,470.33; cash in the treasury,
,$364,347,501.93; gold certificates, out
standing. $83,328,940; silver certificates,
outstanding, $99,579,141; certificates of
deposit outstanding, $12,620,000; refund
ing certificates outstanding, $325,850; legal
tenders ouwtaaaing, $346,681,016; frac
tional Currency outstanding, $6,990,303.31.
At noon to-day Gen. bnerman trans
ferred the command of the army to Lieut,
General Sheridan. There were no cere
monies attending the transfer.
- TENNESSEE. .
The State Surrenders a Suit Asalnst
merchants' National Rank of Nash
ville.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Nashville, Nov. 1. The case of the
State vs. the Merchants' National Bank, a
bill filed by the State seeking to hold the
bank liable for $75,000, because of an al
leged credit given Marshall T. Polk, while
be was State Treasurer, was heard to-day
in the Chancery Court. The proof of the
good faith of the bank, was so satisfactorily
established that counsel for the State de
clined to argue it, and a decree was ordered
dismissing the bill with costs.
NEirlroRK.
Suspension of Riotous Students at
Troy Another Assignment Iwith Pre
ferences.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.l
Troy. Nov. 2. The Sophomore and
Freshman classes of Rensselaer Polytech
nic institute were suspended to-day. .Dur
ing a struggle between the classes this
morning for class banners, property of the
institute was damaged to the amount ot
$300. Two students were seriously in
jured and others slightly. " -
JNEW iobk, jnov. a. An assignment
was filed to-day by Simon Liauterbach, shirt
manufacturer, of Franklin street, toSi-
mon Hirsch, giving preferences amount
ing to $120,938. .
OHIO.
Twenty Buildings Rurned In the
Town of WUloughby Loss 100,000
Arrest and Death of a Defaulting
Official.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.l
Cleveland. Nov. 2. A fire started in a
hotel barn in the village of Willoughby,
twenty miles east of here, at 1 o clock this
morning. A high wind was blowing, and
in a short time twenty stores and dwellings
in the business part of the town were de
stroyed. The aggregate loss is $100,000;
insurance possibly half that amount.
Dayton, Nov. 2. Nat. L. Haines, de
faulting market master, who escaped to
Canada two months ago with $1,500 of
market funds", was brought home to-day by
a detective. He was delirious from drink
and remorse and died this afternoon.
OHIO.
Two Inmates of a Burning House Suf
focated. .
CnfcraNATr, Nov. 1. Mrs. Mary Welsh,
aged 65. and her grand-son, Uhas. Still-
man, aged 7. were suffocated at midnight
last night during a fire in their house at
Cummmsville, in the northwestern part of
this city. Mrs. Welsh, on discovering the
fire, went out to give an alarm, leaving the .
child asleep. On returning to rescue the
child she was suffocated.
MISSOURI.
Striking Railroad Men Dlack-Heted
by the Companies.
St Louis. Nov. 1. Railroads centering
here have black-listed 322 yard men who
were specially active in the late switchmen s
strike in this city and ; East St. Louis, and
announce that they will not under any cir
cumstances fe employ them. The list of
names of men will be sent to yardmasters.
0 all roads, interested.
MASSACHUSETTS.
; Weavers Strike at New Bedford.
- NewBepfobd, Nov. l.-The weavers
in the Acusbnet mill, numbering about
225, quit work, this morning, owing to dis
satisfaction,, in regard, to tneir wages.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
First Frost of the Season ,
Charlotte. N. G. November 1. The
first ' frost of - the season was visible here
this morning- ' wul stop the growth of
QPtton,
-4 MI
NO. 2
MISSOURI. . '
Indictments Asalnst. Leading Politi
cians, State Officials and Others The
Governor Censured. ;:'; ;; r$ .
By Telegraph to the Morning star.j h v.
St. . Louis.. Nov. 2.r The grand jury
made a nnal report to day, and returned in
dictments against Jos. H. Mclntire. fitate.
coal oil inspector, E. Butler, a leading De
mocratic politician, and David Yf : Caruth
and Dr. Frank K. Lutz, police commis
sioners The indictments allege that these
parties conspired and combined to obstruct
the administration of the law with re
ference to gambling, lotteries and
gift enterprises, and: to dictate and eontrol
police appointments, with a view to carry
ing out their schemes political and other-;
. rrt . i i .i ...
wise. xaej are coargeu, luruier, wnu ai
tempting to induce ex-Chiefof Police Jno.
W. Campbell not to interfere with gamb
ling, lotteries, eta, and acting'; on this did
remove him without cause from office. The
report of the grand jury is Very scathing in
language. ; It asserts that a combination of
notoriouspersons existed for the purpose,
of obstructing the laws with regard to
gambling, censures the Governor foi grant
ing' pardons, and especially to convicted
gamblers, and recommends the withdrawal
of the pardoning power from the Governor
dad the appointment of a- State Board of
Pardons .-it further : recommends that the
power of appointing the board of Police
Commissioners be withdrawn from the
Governor and that they be appointed either
by the Mayor or the Circuit Jndges. It
also severely censures the use of blank re
signations by the Governor. - v ;
Among other indictments are the follow
ing: Henry o. JNewman, Btate Commis
sioner of 'Labor Statistics, charged with
selling notaries' commissions; Hugh G.
Brady.' member of the Legislature, charged
witn bribery; w.- JJ . McChesney, Jeaaer ot
the gamblers' ring, charged with attempted
bribery; Mr. Fickard,1 charged with run
ning a tea store with lottery accompahy-
ments; Henry W Moore, managing editor
of the Fost-Anspatchy , and Florence 1.
White, reporter on the same paper, charged
with abstracting court records.
EENNSYL VANIA.
Riotous Conduct of . Hungarian La
borers on the Pennsylvania Rail
road. :
v By Telegraph to the Morning Star. '
Reading, Penn., November 3. A
deputy sheriff, ' with a . posse of ten
men, has just arrived, having in custody
twenty Hungarian laborers recently em
ployed on the Schuylkill valley branch of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. A contractor
paid them off and discharged them this
morning, because they were rebellious and
demanded higher wages. They got drunk,
intimidated other . workmen, and tried to
persuade them not to work. Next the
strikers attacked the quarters of the la
borers, tore down shanties, and broke
and destroyed everything they could lay.
their hands on. A posse pursued them on
the road and caught up with them at Birds-
boro, two miles from here, where all were
captured except one or two. Pistols were
taken from several, and others carried dan
gerous looking knives. A charge of riot
and intimidating workmen will be pre
ferred against them. Men and women
were assaulted, and the latter badly injured
by them.
ILLINOIS.
An Embezzling Rank Clerk Sentenced
to . Imprisonment Conviction of
Murderer at Jollet Irish-America us
and the Trial of o'Donnell.
fBy Telegraph to the Morning Star, r
Chicago, Nov. 3. Elery H. Andrews,
clerk in the North Western National Bank,
who confessed three days ago to the em
bezzlement of $9,500, pleaded guilty ' this
morning, and was sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary.
Judge 11a wes, this morning sentenced a
man named Zimmerman to six months in
the county jail for attempted bribery of a
juror in the interest of the North Western
Railroad, which was being sued for per
sonal damages.
Chicago, November 3. A verdict was
rendered in the Mooney murder case at
Joliet to-day, the jury finding Mooney
guilty of murder in the first degree and
affixing the penalty of death. Mooney is a
convict and murdered his cell-mate Ander
son. The case was made doubly sensa
tional from the fact that the victim s body
was exhumed and his head brought into
court, to show the nature of the wounds,
Chicago, JNovember3. At a meeting of
Irishmen on the 15th of last month, resolu
tions were passed instructing the chairman
to communicate with the State Department
with a view to securing instructions to the
American Minister to England, to use his
influence towards securing an impartial
trial for O Donnell as an American citizen,
on the charge of murdering the in
former Carey, and ta ask a modi
fication of the rules of practice be
fore the British Courts to the extent of
allowing Americans to act as O'Donnell's
counsel. Secretary Frelinghuysen, reply
ing, says: In the event of its being ascer
tained that Patrick O'Donnell is an Ameri
can citizen he will receive from the Execu
tive Department of this government all the
protection to which he is entitled, in har
mony with the resolutions. It is npt
within the province of this department
to ask a modification of the ruling of
a court in a particular pending case. He
adds, tbat if the English court should need
assurance of the high standing of counsel
from this country, the American Minister
will be instructed to give such assurance,
WASHINGTON.
Amount Required to Pay Pensions
Secretary Folger Gone Home The
Reserve Fund in the Treasury.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Washington, November 3. It is esti
mated by the Commissioner of Pensions
that $40,000,000 will be required for the
payment of pensions for the next fiscal
year.
Secretary Folger left Washington this
evening for JNew jork. ue wm leave
New York on Monday for his home at Ge
neva, where he will remain until after the
New York election. Before leaving to-day
Secretary Folger said that a careful estimate
showed that the surplus or reserve fund or
the Treasury on December 1st would not
exceed $137,000,000. In conseauence of
this, unless the receipts for November
prove to be greater than it is expected they
will be. it ia not prooaoie mat another can
for bonds will be issued very soon. Up to
the close of business to-day there had. been
received for redemption but $l,50u of U.
S. bonds embraced in the 12ad and l&Jrd
calls, which mature on December 1st and
15th respectively,
MARYLAND.
Suicide of Mrs. Elizabeth. B. GIbbs.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Baltimore. Nov 3. Mrs. Elizabeth B
Gibbs, who threw herself from the New
York limited express train, three miles cast
of this city, yesterday afternoon, died this
evening at the City Hospital. Mrs. Gibbs
was the widow of Dr. J3. -Jr. Gibb3, u. b.
N. , and had been to New York to meet
her children on their arrival from Europe.
Mrs. Gibbs was a daughter of Dr. Kellogg
of Washington. Dr. Gibbs died at Trieste
a little more than a year ago. Mrs. Gibbs.
had shown evidences of unsettled mind
frequently since her husband's death.
- NEW YORK. '
Suicide of a . Prominent Lawyer of
(Jtlea..
- By Telegraph to the Morning Star..
TJtxca, Noy. 3. Arthur U. Johnson, a
lawyer and well known politician, was
found dead in his. office this morning, witn
a pistol bail m his breast - He was an un
cle of Johnson L. Lynch, who was shot by
to. jm. Koweii in jsatavar on xuesaay mgni,
for seducing Powell's wife, and they occu
pied the same office. Johnson proDaoiy
committed suicide while suffering from de
pression caused by the shooting ox Lynch.
Spirits Turrjentine..
Rockingham Spirit: A protract
ed meeting has been in progress - at the -
Methodist Church iu this town during the.
past several days the 'pastor, Kev. Dr.
Bobbitt, being assisted in his labors by the
Rev. Dr. Shanberg and others. .. Great in- ;
terest is manifested, and quite a number
have professed f aith in Christ . , ,
Emma Burt.- wife of, C. W. Burt, a mer
chant of -this place, died in Kinston last
Sunday of typhoid fever. '"' Mr,' W. H
Holleman. . near this city '. had his gin
house burnt yesterday. .Loss about $2,500.
- vve were shown this morning, by Mr.
Sol. J, ; Allen, a very fine' specimen of to
bacco raised in Granville county, ' and sold
to one of the tobacco warehouses in Dur-
Jham for $1 per pound.; It was the prettiest
specimen of tobacco we have ever seen.
Clayton Bud: One day ' last
week,' while attending a church meeting, at
Johnston Union Church, in this county, -
Elder Turnage was stricken with paralysis.
and it was thought that he was dying for
some tune. He was finally rgmoved from
the church, and is now lying in a critical '
condition, lie had formerly had an attack
of paralysis in the head, from which he
had lost the sight of one of his eyes. ,
Hamlet, a station at the souther a terminus
of the Raleigh & Augusta Air Line Rail
road, is a smaller place than its name would -indicate,
the place ; having ; the benefit of ,
two railroads. As an evidence of the im
portance r attached to its name, a music
teacher from New York concluded it was a
large Southern city, and that it would be
an excellent point forja. music teacher of
some repute to get employment,- so the
hopeful Dude came all the way from that
fwnaf- mint xvrl,a - -wr,4-fc tha Anttnmarmn ftt
finding a good situation in the great city of "
Hamlet.
Raleigh JSevos- Observer : It
was indeed gratifying to see what an ele
gant and largeaudience greeted this mag
nificent lecturer at Tucker Hall last evening
Words of compliment - and praise fall far
short of intended effect in . any description
of Dr. Milburn's oratory or -powers of de
scription. Marvelous indeed in his dex
terity as a word-painter; graceful is the
highest degree his language and gesture.
r Takbobo, N. i C. , - October 30. The
Fair opened to-day with the largest exhibi
tion ever held . in the State in all depart
ments The attendance is large. more-
head City, October 29. Thomas G. Skin
ner, the Democratic candidate for congress
in the First District, spoke, at Newport
Saturdav. Morehe'ad City Saturday night
and at Beaufort to-day to large audiences.
lie made telling, strong- and sensioie
speeches, and was. frequently applauded.
If there is any dependence upon indica
tions before the election, ho will be elected
by a large majority. We are yet to hear
the first opinion in opposition to him.
Goldsboro Messenger; The ne
gro rape hend, uuilf ora boon, is to be
hanged at Kinston on the 20th of Decem
ber "next. Mr. George Casey,- for
many years employed in the buggy factory
of Mr. W. H, Borden, in this city, died at
his home here last Tuesday morning after
a short illness. - .-.We learn that Mr. A.
J. Harrold, an enterprising citizen of the
Fremont section, has recently purchased
the valuable mill and a portion of the plan
tation of Dr. Arringtod, near' this city, for
which he paideleven . thousand dollars.
-Snow Hill items: Receipts of cotton to
date 835 bales, 450 more than had been re
ceived at the same time last year. So much
for shipping advantages and telegraphic
communication: The Snow Hill Tele
graph will first be issued from the press on
November 1st - Success to Messrs. Munroe
& Smith, its editors and proprietors.
Snow Hill has now two steamship lines,
The Farmer's & Mechanic's and the Con-
tentnea. ' ; Jones county dots: The
crops of our county, this year are very poor.
The cotton is rather of an inferior quality.
owing to me. many rains or tms
The farmers, moreover, wm not suiter any
very great inconvenience from short crops, .
as they are, as ainiie, .on, a very arm basis.
- Charlotte 'Observer: During
the month of October the bullion assays at
the mint in this City amounted to $ tf, 61
One of the most successful business '
men of Beaver. Dam, out lively little neigh-:
bor town on the Carolina Central Toad, is
an Italian named R. Pony, who,;came to
this State a few years ago without a? cent, ' ,
store, steam saw mill, grist mill and cotton -'.
gin in the town of Beaver Dam. When he
first came to JNorth Carolina he womed ab
an ordinary day laborer on a gravel train.
- The acreage in ten counties of North
Carolina, immediately surrounding and
tributary to Charlotte's trade is about 5 per .
cent, greater than it was last year. The
yield per acre as compared with last year's
crop is fully 20 per cent. less. The charac
ter of the picking season has been excep-.
tionally good ever since the fall season
opened and picking commenced. Two
thirds of the cotton crop has been picked
and something over half of it has been al- ,
ready placed on the market. We un- ;
derstand that at Gaston ' Court, at Dallas
last Tuesday,' the railroad's attorneys en
tered a motion to have the damage suit of
T. H. Gaither moved to Mecklenburg for
trial before Judge R. P. Dick, at the next
term of the Federal Court, to be held in
this city next month. An affidavit was
filed by the Air-Line company claiming:
that they could not get justiee in that court,
or words to that effect, and praying for the
removal of the suit to the Federal'-Court.
This is a new deal on the part of the. Tail
road, and if the removal from the'Superior
to a f ederal court is granted it will prove
an important precedent. "
Charlotte Observer : We re
gret to learn of the death of Mrs. W. Bv
Rutledge, which occurred at her home at
mt. Holly, Gaston county, yesterday morn
ing. Mrs. Rutledge was 31 years old: r
The knitting . machine mania has now
spread to ad joining towns. Mrs. Newcombe;
has Knld fthnnt. 1 K00 nf the little ' trif.ka-v ia J
this city at 5 cents each. . Caldwell
and Catawba are happy counties. .There's
not a prisoner in either of these counties.
It may surprise some of our readers
when we make the statement that there are -now
within the borders of our State be
tween two and three hundred visitors from
the North who were tempted to come here
solely from seeing the exhibit ' made -by
North Carolina at Boston.? - 'Fayette
Wilsbn, colored. J. W. Wolfe's gin. Arm.
caught. Doctor called. Amputated. It
all happened a few days ago and Wilson 19
doing welL Steve Alexander, a col
ored' man employed at Hall's meat market,
met with a peculiar and painful accident
last Saturday nights He Bat down upon a
butcher knife and inflicted upon himself a
very dangerous . wound. Mr. W ill
Worsham, a fireman on the Richmond and
Danville road, stepped from his engine into
the turntable Sunday night and was very
seriously hurt. Mr. J. Vanderburg,
a young man of Alexander county, was ia
the city yesterday and called to tell us that
after seven years' study, he has succeeded
in inventing and putting into successful :
operation a perpetual motor machine.. He
has applied for a patent and is sanguine of
success. " :
Pay etteville Observer : W
know of no town in North Carolina pro
gressing more rapidly than Fayetteville.
The Ladies' Memorial Association of
Raleigh has acknowledged the receipt of a
check for f lou from Maj. MCJb.etnan.as tne
Independent Company's . contribution to-,
wards defraying the expenses of the re
moval of the Arlington dead. ' Mr.
Randall McMillan has shown us an alliga
tor, caught in Minus's pond, yesterday, by
Mr. A. J. Woodward. Estimating for the
length of a piece of his tail which is lack
ing, he would measure nearly four feet.
we are giao to gnow mat our inenu uapt.
D. McDougald, of this county, has invented
and received a patent for a useful and im-'
portant invention, viz: "Rein Holding At
tachment to Vehicles." The attachment
prevents . the horse from throwing his tail
over the reins, and prevents the reins from
crossing day or night, ana affords greater
ease and safety in driving. The Captain
will exhibit his patent atour Fair, provided
he can get one in time from the manufac
turers. C. F. & Y. V. rCAILRO AD.
The convict force on this end of the line
are now engaged in filling the trestle across
Mallett's pond. - This is a big jeb, and will
take about two weeks' time. The sand is.
hauled from the cut through Massey's hiliL
When this trestle is completed it is hopedr
tbat there will be enough cross-ties on the.
line of the road to lay the track to-Sock-fish,
and. when this point is reached it Willi
be easy sailing, "and ; the road.will.not be
long in reaching Shoe HeeL The-upper--end
of the 'road is progressing favorablyi, .
The depot buildings at Ore Hill are in pro
cess of construction. ' Trains will run from
this point during our Fair . .
:(.