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The Weekly Star. PUBLISHED AT -jjlNGTOM, M.C, AT I YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 8838388S8S8888888 8 S S 8 8 S S 1 S s s s s 3 gS8SSS88SISSSS5sS ss'a'as'ag'gsss'ssgssi g 8 S 3 S S 3 8 S S X 3 5 J 3 55 S 8 5 oo o o t- '8S8SSgagsggSi3 8888 8 8 8 8 8 2 3 8 8 3 1 . ggg88SSSSS8S3833 2 a s s ;s s 3 s Filtered at the Port Office atTWttmlngton, N. C, as Second Class Hatter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Tlte subscriGtion price of the Weekly, Stab is as follows . Single. Copy 1 year, postage paid, '. f 1.60 6 months. 1.00 8 months. .50 4 The opinion in -Washington now is that there will not - be any sweeping changes but that active party leaders mn-it go. This applies to the officials in i he departments, it is now re- ,,rt. (1 that the Cabinet have, re solve A (hat officeholders must not use their places for party purpose. That i jo. u forin in the right direction.-The jib-iM' for the last twenty years have hf-n most oppressive and disgrace fni It i said that the President will insist that , no appointee under him shall take' any part whatever in the management of his party. It is a!v. asserted that he has resolved Republican officeholders who Lave violated the civil service law shall no l.mt r hold a commission' under the Government. If be stands by this there are very few Republican office holders that w ill not have to walk the plank. . ' ' t is further given. out thaw Secre tary Mnning' is going to overhaul ih1 Tr.-a-ury Department and that all mtn usjected of neglect of duty or tlict:i iHicleannt us must, go, but th !'ie i ll mges will not. he radical enough to p!eJe, those who demand a lh. rmigh cleaning oat. . . . i - reported that the Naval men are vh satisfied with the appoint ment i-fi Secretary Whiisiey. It is belit veil thai iht) best war ships will be cuii-irucietl, and that no steam yacto itij he used for the service of the IViidenl and ' Secretary." This is it (hoiild be. President Cleve : laud wiU not travel at the expense of i lie Government and the railroads. He pays as he go(8. The Washing ton correspondent of the Boston rvit ik a capital workman and from his letter of the 8th we have gather ed the' points we . have embodied in the above with comments of our own. j . . ............ He Writes cf the situation as fol-- lofei . . , , ' Democrats here are becoming convinced ibxt there is a man of strong purpose at the head! of the government, and that it will nut el'j to hope for a rapid and reckless swinging of the executive axe. (t is said th.t . n-delegation from a Southern ; State caikd upon him and kindly informed him that it Lad" tnaoged how the federal ofSces in their State should be distributed. The Prrfcideot is reported to have heard the prngmmine of the visiting- party, after wbicli be to!d them that he did not propose to n.ove with inconsiderate baste, and that I he Intended to be governed by the princi j p!e enunciated in his letter, written after ' the ili ction, on civil service reform " 1 There are now s nearly fifty- ex- : nupbers of Congress in Washington seeking appointments at the hands I of the President. That some will be v favored is certain, and that some will be disappointed we may expect. SPEAKER CAB LISLE. ' It is very doubtful if a belter Speaker ever presided, over', the House cf Representatives than Mr. Carlio'e. It will be remembered un der what anxiety he was elected, and how Mr. Randall led a faction o kicking Democrats in opposition to the able Kentuckian. But this did not influence him, and he completed his work amid the applause ' of friends and foes. The Speaker of the House wields" more ower. than any man in the United States except the President.. .The office, therefore, is one of' great responsibility, and it u very necessary, that the right man is placed in.the; Chair. We notice that Northern papers, not Democrat-. ic, and in favor of Protection," praise him. Butler's organ, the New York Sun, even lauds him, but that is not desirable, whilst Editor McCIure, o the Philadelphia Times, writes: "Speaker Carlisle retired from the chair with all the asperities of the desperate bat tle that resulted in bis election entirely ef faced from the memories of bis chief oppo nents. It ia conceded by all parties that be bag been a most dignified, impartial and able presiding officer, and the resolution of thanks called out the obviously sincere expression of tbe entire bodv. with a einele . exception, and that exception added to his credit. There is little doubt that he .will be re elected practically without a contest, and that will niit thA riiBtnmtinir ioaiiA that compelled him, in recognition of his "icuas, to orgamza the committees on ex eme revenue ideas." . There is no abler man' elected to (he Forty-N.inth Congress, and we hope that Mr.- Carlisle wilj not only . be electe'4 Speaker again, but that he will repeive 'every Democratic vote. Parson Newman,- Grant's fellow, thinks that "tbe; purest American blood is found iu the : South." ; The parson says he likes the' South j but the South does not admire the par- eon, I -.(ipuOICttJ ' Si 7 3"" 1 - - - r S J . M I . ! . a s vol. ::yi. If the l?3";!3.tor3 who took a hand in the work of killing the stock law bill for Hew Hanover could hear the comments of r fence-buildera : they ' would not feel complimented. It wa3 a great and inexcusable outrage that the farmers of New Hanover county were not allowed to have the privilege of sayicg whether they desired a stock law. Other counties were given the law when there was no test given of public sentiment. The bill as amended required that two-thirds of the fencerbuilders should apply to the County Commissioners or there should be no stock-law," atd even this was refused. !- It is inst one of. those unwarranted. ..high-handed measures that deserve the unqualified condemnation of all fair-minded men. There is something behind not yet known to the people. - ' - TUB WHEAT SUPFIiY. v i - As ti.er-4a -jt Atrong. iptobability that Jinsrland and , Jlussia "will be at war soon the wheat situation becomes interesting. Flour has advanced in Wilmington already,-but whether or not the prospect of a foreign war has had anything to do with is more than we can .say. On the, 1st . of March, the Cincinnati Price ' Current estimates there were , 243,000,000 bushels on hand as against 195,000,- 000 on the 1st of March, 1883. The crop for .1884 amounted to 513, 000,000. The surplus of old crop on hand was 40,000,000 total 553,000,v 000. - The seed is estimated at 50, 000,000. This country .requires for food 289,000,000. The usual exports aggregate 148,000,000. . This makes as a total 487,000,000. ; So if war comes there is a surplus of 66,000, 000. But in fact there will be more. as there were not exported in 1883 but a little over 100,000,000 j bushels. robably the '.actual, surplus over seed, usual exports, and home con sumption will not be far from 100,- 000,000 bushels. - The price would go up rapidly if war should come, i The Stab ' upon principle never espouses the cause of candidates for office. ' This is the only independent course. We see some times excel- ent gentlemed mentioned for certain places who would fill the bill excel- ently; Among these we may -men tion the name of Mr. H. 6. -Connor, of Wilson, for the Judgeship in that -District. ' We do not say that other gentlemen will not make as good a Jndge-g he but we feel sure that he would wear the ermine with dignity, ability, conscientiousness, purity and fairness. He was one : of the most industrious, - efficient and capable members of the State Senate just ad journed, and was regarded, as the best lawyer in the body. He is very prominent for the Judgeship and is warmly eulogized by. the Wilson Mirror. , ' " " " The European news, is ominous. There is no improvement in the An glo-Russian relations, and it is cer tain that the two countries are on the verge of a great conflict. In London there is scarcely any hope that war. will ' be averted. -.The ex citement' is intense and even the Queen is said to be anxious that her Government should take steps to up held British ' rights in the ; East. Preparations for war have begun in earnest. Tbe relations between Eng land and Germany are friendly. Mr. ' Gladstone said in the House of Com mons on Thursday:' - "If Germany became a colonizing power he would only say godspeed to her. He hoped that she wpuld become England s partner ana rally in tne worK or civilizing the world. This was the SDirit In which he viewed the matter, and. regardless of this or that dispatch, Germany would have the oest ana nearuesi wisnes oi tne XiOgusu Government - and - every, encouragement which it was in their, power to give. (Great cheering. , Pr, , 4 It ia almost certain that England is not well prepared for war with so great a Power as Russia. ' : ! f - i There are ;more members in the 49th Congress that were - graduated at the University of .Virginia than at any other college. Harvard u next and. Yale third. , How does our State College stand? ' - - ! , ' Almost a Fatal mistake. - -: A gentleman from Whiteville informs us of a singular circumstance that happened in that neighborhood. Oa 5 Thursday night last a eentleman was passing along the road, returning from a visit to a friend. when he noticed something by the roadside which in the darkness be took to be a dog. A uoise came . from the object at the mo ment of the discovery and the gentleman: took it to be a growl from the supposed dog; when he instantly whipped out his pistol and fired. What was his horror, upon examining the object, to find that he had shot a man, who, under tbe influence of tod much whiskey, had fallen by the wayside, the ball penetrating one of his knees. The astonished man hurried to Whiteville. procured a vehicle and soon had the wounded person in the presence of a surgeon, wno dressed ms injurea Knee, which was found to be very severely hurt, though it is thought the injury will not prove a serious, one. The receipts of cotton at this . port during the past week footed up only 854 bales, as against 619 bales for the corre sponding period last year, showing a de crease of 205 bales. The receipts of the crop year from Bepr tember 1st to date foot up 82,037 bales, as against 83,403 bales : for the same week last " year, shp.wing a net iqcrease of 3,234 caies. , A rr'TntiiTe Ore Rr rroney Crlijo :: -C;jUr.8t2j T: r-9 frsall f:ores : Eorsei-Anotier tal r - - tier rire ' Fire I2 Pr!it:z2C.-;ce. Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock, the bull-ins on the northwest corner of .Fourth and Campbell streets, occupied as a store and dwelling by If r. Emanuel chai2, was discovered to be on fire. Hr; clar3 was absent at the North,' being expected home ia a day or two."- lira.' ScharfT says she was awakened by some noise about 2 o'clock', and got up to see what it meant, but found all right. She' then retired, and about 8 o'clock she and a lady occupying the bed with her were awakened by a roar ing, crackling sound and found the house on fire. The two women and Mrs. S.'s children made a narrow escape,' saving nothing but the clothing they had on. In leaving the house Mrs. 8. discovered that the back door was open. The fire originated in the rear part of the house, opening on Campbell sreet and was evidently set on fire after having been robbed. At least that is; the prevailing opinion; , ' . . . The store was full of dry goods, clothing, and other combustible material and burned rapidly, , Three small buildings adjoining it on the north were soon in a blaze and all four were completely destroyed. The one next to the ScharfT building was occupied by Mr-T. A. Watson, as a green grocery,, and the next to that by Mr: Joaiah Cum ber, who was in the same business. ' Both of these gentlemen lost everything they had. Mr. Cumber's wife and two child-, ren barely escaped with their lives; Mrs. C. being wrapped in blankets, not haying time to dress.' t The fourth building, just at the south 'end of Boney Bridge, was occupied by the wife of Riley Moseley, colored, as a confectionery and barber shop. ' - During the progress of the 'fire the heavens were lit up with a glare that was rendered more frightful by the darkness that prevailed while showers of.: sparks were wafted across neighboring squares. The market house on the opposite side of the street caught several times, but a stream was quickly turned upon it by tbe firemen on each occasion, and it was thus saved, though its front plainly evidenced yester day m- rning the intense heat to which it had been subjected. - Mr. Peter Smith's store, on the corner opposite the store of Mr. Scharff,' had the turpentine drawn from its north side to such an extent that it looked as if a barrel of molasses had been emptied on the roof and allowed to trickle down the weatherboarding. The building, occupied by Messrs. Scharff, Watson and Cumber were owned by Dr. J.'H- Freeman and were insured for $1,200 in the City of London Insurance Company, represented by Messrs. Atkinson & Man ning. Mr. Scharff s - stock and furniture were insured for $1)00 in the Insufancer Company of North America, represented by Messrs. Northrop " & Hodges, and for $1,000 ia the Phoenix Assurance, repre Ben ted by Messrs. John W. Gordon & Smith; which, we learn," will not cover the loss. : Messrs.- Watson and Cumber had no insurance on their stocks, and Mr. Cumber none on his furniture, which was au entire loss. The'- loss falls very heavily on Mr. Cumber, who had just invested all of hii money to ' increase his stock, and ia left with less than $2 in- the world, and with no furniture or clothing except what himself and wife had on their persons. The house occupied by Moseley and owned by Col. Foster, was insured in the Wilmington Mutual for $125. The stock of Moseley was not insured. ? - ' THE BEC05T FEBB. About 5 o'clock, soon after the firemen had ceased throwing water upon the ruins of the first fire, i second alarm sounded for one in the fifth fire district, and it was found to have its origin in a mall frame dwelling house on- Castle, next east of Fourth, being on the premises of Mary Davis, the keeper of a female boarding honse. The building, which was occupied by two women, was destroyed, together with a portion of its contents. The fire was undoubtedly tbe work of an incendiary as the women stated that the back door and steps were saturated with kerosene oil, and water thrown upon the flames when - the fire was first discovered increased: instead of diminishing their volume. The house was insured for $100 in the. Western Assur ance, represented by Messrs. Northrop & Hodges. ' ANOTHEK AIiATUI, About 5 o'clock: yesterday afternoon an alarm was sounded for another fire, loca ting It in the neighborhood of Twelfth, and Dock streets, hut it was no . doubt f' a . false alarm, as no fire could be found. ; - The firemen,' - white and colored, did splendid service yesterday morning, adding another link to the ..testimony as to the promptness and efficiency of - our depart ment. J " . - " FTRE TS A. PRINTING OFFICE. Fire was discovered last night about 8 o'clock - in the printing house of Messrs. DeRosset & Meares, in Custom House alley. The alarm was sounded at once for the third flte district and the engines of the Fire Department were ' quickly upon the ground, and after pretty hard work extin guished the flames.. , The fire ; began in the basement of the building,' used as a press room. It is not known bow it originated. The building was not greatly damaged. The loss of -Messrs. DeRosset & Meares will probably reach five hundred dollars. Both building and stock are insured in compa in nies represented by - Messrs. DeRosset & Northrop. - The Signal Service observer at Smith- ville reports, March 12th, about one and a half miles northwest from the Eastern slue buoy, Frying Pan shoals, in eleven feet of water, the revenue cutter Colfax cut adrift the lower end of a topmast (probably of the unknown schooner said to have gone to pieces there about February 15th). The lower mast Is of spruce, about seventy-si feet Ions-: head Dainted white, fished below the trestle-trees with battens of pine, and an iron band. The ends of fish spars were held bv riffzins. The hull of the vessel could not be found. Foreign Exports. The Norwegian barque AM, Capt. Dan- ielsen. was cleared from this port lor Antwerp, Belgium, yesterday, by Messrs. Paterson. Downinff & Co.. with 8.423 bar rels of rosin, valued at C3,21; also, the German brig tyrriard & Adolpi.v&pi. x ora, for Paysandu. Urusuav. bv Messrs. A. B. Morton fc Son, with 23,C3 feet of lumber, valued at $3,403. - Total, 7,04.- ! i 7il::ikgioit, it. c, r New DreC.se to be Useilu Eeepenlnz tlie c&amnel from Emltlivllle to VTtJrnlnston. A newly-patented suction dredge is be ing put in position at llessrs. Fowler & Morrison's wharf for operation on our riv er. It is worsed altogether on a ainereni principle from the ordinary-dredge.. It pumps the mud or sand up and discharges it through a pipe connected with the shore by means , of pontoons, which- latter are now being constructed at Mr. J. W. Tay lor's mill.- Th& dredge is known as C. II. Booth's patent, and was invented by the proprietor, a land owner at Dubuque, Ia., to pump earth or sand from the bed of the river to his property lyingr adjacent to Uie same, - and liable to be flooded, and which ' was thus filled up and built upon until it attained - an elevation of twenty feet above low water mark, Mrt L. J. Johnson, of Dubuque, who is here to superintend the work of preparing the dredge for operations, says it worked very successfully at that place." and that the one to be used on our river is expected to be an improvement upon the oneoperateAi - there. The machinery is being erected on the deck of a large and very wide scow or lighter, and a house, with shingle.' roof, is being built over it, the wood work being done under the superintendence of Mr, G. M. Summerell. . . - . . - - - -The sand pumped from the channel of our river will be discharged through about one thousand feet of pipe. The dredge, it is understood, will coet about $5,000. - Mr. Rittenhouse Moore, of Mobile, Ala. the contractor for cleaning out the . lower Cape Fear, for whom the dredge has been purchased, is here looking upon the pro- .gress being made. Capt. George Lord, who has heretofore been connected . with - dredg ing operations on our river, is superinten dent of the present work. One of the or dinary dredges is already in operation, and the new one is. expacted to be ready to commence about next Monday. Two Plucky Banters. It is said that "once upon a time," and it was not very long ago, either only two or three days since two members of the C Club started out on a hunting expedition. It was somewhere in the neighborhood of Rocky Point that one of the hunters shot and carried away a portion of the left wing of a robin red-breast, but failed to give the poor creature the finishing stroke. In fact, it still retained sufficient vitality after the "accident' ; to . hop . along i pretty , lively through a . corn row and finally reach a clump of woods. The valiant hunters were in full pursuit, but were not in time to get the bird before it found a place to hide. Determined upon their game, and knowing no such word as fail in the vocabulary of their club, they set fire to the woods in or der to run the birds out. This , they 8uc- ceeded in doing, and finally captured the now thoroughly exhausted creature. This accomplished, however, a new undertaking presented itself to their attention. The fire was spreading rapidly through the woods and threatening dangerous results, and they must stop it - in its onward march of de struction before it became too late. This was no easy job, but with two such deter mined spirits nothing could be impossible of accomplishment They "toted", water from ' a neighboring ; creek in their bats,- threw It upon the flames, and soon had the satisfaction of seeing success crown their efforts; whereupon they 'bagged their hard- earned bird and started homeward. Painful Accident. A lady was walking down Market street Thursday afternoon, on her way to her hus band's store, and was within a few feet of her destination , when she trod on some object on the sidewalk that had a sharp nail in it, and the nail penetrated the ball of her foot to the depth of about an inch. By walking on the heel of the wounded foot she managed to reach the store, when her husband made an examination and found that the nail had gone through the sole of her shoe and literally pinned it to her foot, and he had to draw it forth with a pair of pincers. Tne laay baa to De taken nome in a carnage, of course, ana in tne mean time the wounded foot ' bled profusely. At last accounts the lady was still suffering severely from the accident, but was some what easier than she had been. Not Recovered. - Nothing thus far has been seen or heard of the bodies of the three unfortunate col ored people who lost their lives by the ex plosion on the steamer : Wave, which took place on Thursday, the 5th inst., if we may except a rumor to the effect that some fish ermen had found some mangled portions of the remains of a man some miles below the city," and that there were some marks by which they were known to Jbe those of Neill Jessup. This rumor, which was be ing circulated some two or three days' ego, could not be traced to a responsible source. It has been ascertained to certainty that the three person." mentioned were the only ones that lost their lives. No attempt to raise the wreck has yetheen made. :, English Visitors Darius the War, As has been previously , stated, Gen. Wolseley; who ia now attracting much at tention in Egypt, where he is superintend ing operations against tbe Mahdi, several days in Wilmington during the lat ter part of the -war. ' He came here from Richmond.having spent some time In visit-. ing Gen. Lee and inspecting the army of Northern Virginia, He was accompanied by Mr. James Conoly, a member of Par liament, and another eentleman whose name our Informant (Mai. W. L. Toung) cannot remember. He went from here to wards Charleston. T tr - Fire la Wadesboro. Fires are getting to be very frequent and destructive in North Carolina. One -at Wadesboro Thursday night, originating in a saloon kept by Alex, Moore, consumed a block oi four brick bouses ana one irame dwelling on Rutherford street, below the Central Hotel. The sufferers were Alex. Moore, building and stock ; insurance $3, 500. J. H. Horton. banding: insurance ii.quu. TTemn Kendall, stock of cood: insuratice foOO. A. u. uruner. Duuamg anu iurm- ture; insurance $1,900. Origin or nre un known. , Slllltarr Inspection. Adiutant General Jones has notified the Wilmington Light Infantry that an inspec tion will take place on Friday, the 20th inst.. under the Qirecuon m . ook x. a.. nompfnn Insnector General Ot JMorw tar- olina. Qn this eccasion full ranks will be expected. :iday, march 20, 1885. UN IT I2U STAT 123 112 "A TIZ. EXTHA SESSION. A Ceaolutlon of Inquiry Regarding tlie Troubles in Central America Tne New Senator from Rlltslsslppl Florida Land Grants. Washxkgton, March 12. Senator Man dsrson offered a resolution which he asked raight be printed; and lie upon the table. It calls upon the Secretary j. of State.; for such information as department may have regarding rumored attempt of Gen. Ruflno Barrios, president of Guatemala, to seize upon the territory, or destroy the integrity of the Republics of Nicaragua, Honduras, San Salvador and Costa Rica, and to report what steps were being taken by the govern ment to preserve the rights i of the United States under existing or pending treaties. Senator George presented the credentials of E. C. WalthaP, as U. S. Senator from Mississippi, vice U Q. C. Lamar, resigned. Mr. Walthall was escorted to the Presi dent's desk by Senator George and .took the oath of office. - - 1 - . . : Mr. YanWyck called up hia resolution, offered yesterday, directing! the Secretary of, the. Interior and Attorney General to take steps to prevent the sale of lands granted to the Bute of Florida to aid in tbe construction of railroads in that State. V , : Discussion of this resolution occupied all of the time of to-day's session, and it was still pending at adjournment. , - WAflHiNQTOH March 13. Mr. Sauls- bury said his attention had been called to the fact that in voting in the Bell case, it appeared by the Journal of the Senate that he had voted for the admission Of Mr. Bell,1 and he was placed therefore in a position of inconsistency in voting against the seat ing of Mr. Blair. The Journal was incor rect. He was paired against Mr. Bell. He had made the report against his admiseion from the committee on Privileges and Elec tions, and he had made a speech against ma admission. ' Mr. Cameron offered a resolution, naming" the chairmen and members of the Senate Committees, as agreed upon by tbe can-; cuses, and askeu its immediate considera tion. Agreed tO. - - -' r-. The important changes are as follows: .h A' new committee of seven members on Coast Defences is created,! with Mr? Dolph' as chairman, and Cameron, of .Wisconsin,' SewelL Hawley. Maxey, McPberson and Fair as members. . . ' On Appropriations Mahone succeeds Logan, and Gorman succeeds Ransom. " . Ransom takes the place of Bayard as chairman of Private Land Claims. tike succeeds Cameron, of Wisconsin, as chairman of the committee on Claims. The only change in tbe committee on Finance is the substitution of Vance for Bayard. 1 - Bowen succeeds sewell as chairman oi the committee on Enrolled Bills. Sewell succeeds Logan as chairman of tbe committee on Military Affairs. - cabin succeeds (Juliom as cnairman oi tne committee to examine the several branches of the Civil Service. - - - f . Cutlom succeeds Wilson: as chairman of the committee on Expenditures of Public Money. Wilson succeeds uonger upon tne com mittee on tbe Revision of Laws v Conger succeeds Hill on the Post Office committee. - - . rJ -' ' The other changes on the Post Office committee are the substitution of Chase, Colouitt and Wilson of Maryland, for Pa.mer, uroome and Jackson. W- Uoon the committee on IN aval Auairs, Riddleberger and Blackburn succeed Ma-. hone and Farley. Teller is made cnairman or tne committee on Mines and Mining, in place of Bowen. The changes upon the committee on run lie Buildings and Grounds are the substitu tion of bpoonerfor Cameron or Wisconsin, and the addition of Stanford and" Camden, Unon Public Lands Teller succeeds H11L Cockrell succeeds Walker.and Walthall suc ceeds Slater. 2- Oa the committee -on Rules Blackburn succeeds Pendleton, . v ' McPberson is made chairman of the com mittee to investigate tho condition of the Potomac river front. The Judiciary Committee is made up as follows: Edmunds, chairman; Ingalls, Mc Millan. Boar, Wilson of la,, iSvarts.rugb, Coke.. Vest and Jackson. Mr. Sherman declined to serve on tne committee on Finance. wm-yS v Mr. Harris said the usual way was to ask tbe Senate to excuse him. - - - Mr. Sherman I dont think it is neces sary to ask the Senate to excuse me from service. I respectfully decline. Mr. Morrill I hope that no action will be taken unon tbe matter at present. Mr. ingalls ottered . resolution calling noon the President for information, in re gard to the occupation of Oklahoma, and what action was being .taken in that re card. ---V' unaer ooiecuon irom mr. lac&reu ii went over until to morrow. . . Mr. Beck asked leave to say that the re tirement of Senator Ransom from the com mittee on Appropriations was at that gen Ueman's request. . He bad felt that the work which tne Appropriations committee were called upon to perform, in considering the large appropriations bills during the closing hours oi the session, was more man his health . was. equal to, and his fellow Senators in the minority had acquiesced in his retirement witn regret Upon motion of Mr. .Edmunds, the Hen- ate at. 12.25 went into executive session. and ten minutes later adjourned until Mon day, -;:.-':-t; - FOREIGN L Night Attack by El Jtlandl's Men The Aeltatlon In Financial Centres .Decline In Russian Securities. fBy Cable to the Moraine Btax.l Scakim. March 12. El Mahdi's men last night attacked the "ordnance enclosure of the garrison and killed two sentries belong ing to the Berkshire regiment and wounded three others. During this engagement in the dark, one of the attacking party was killed and several wounded. ' During the night the . hostile Arabs also surprised the Shropshire infantry regiment patrol, killing one man and wounding one. - une man Be longing to this patrol is missing since last night's engagement. ; 4 ; - ; V . . r t. . . n TTi : ' D 1 opened very fiat with a general decline; The market improved during the afternoon. owing .partly to favorable returns oyine Bank ot .England, out relaxed somewnai at the finish, although, the closing quotations were, as a rule, above the lowest figures of the dav. Russian securities declined If. American and Canadian railway securities were steady, even strong. , The fortnightly settlement was concluded satisfactorily and no failures were reported. :. - In Pans tbe Bourse was agitated, dui an tm movement was shown at the close. -i. In Berlin a gloomy,; feeling prevailed; Russian stocks suffering most. ' In Vienna the market was weak ana there was a general decline in prices. : Behuk. March 14. The Federal Council of Switzerland has approved1 the . United States treaty for the protection or jraae marks. . . ,-, Alexaudkia. March 14. Zobahr Pasha, whom Gen. Gordon bo trusted and wished made Governor of Khartoum, has been ar rested under the charge of being implicated in a treasonable conspiracy against the au thority of the .hedive. Jlis residence was searched immediately after his arrest, and in it were found many documents proving that Zobahr was in secret league witn Jia Mahdi. Tho prisoner has been placed in confinement aboard of a tfnusn trigate. . FLORIDA. L New Railroad from Pensaeola Memphis to he Surveyed. to Pensacola. March 14.- Charters have been granted to build a railroad from Pen Sacola to Memphis, which, when finished, will give the Nortn and norinwest tne shortest, best and most direct outlet to the Gulf: Pensaeola with its deep water harbor, holding the key to the South by way of the Gulf. - The trade of Memphis will now have another outlet. ' Surveyors will com mence immediately to survey the proposed Jme. , -. - - WASHINGTON. The Democrats Complete the Organi zation of tne minority of the Senate Committees The NIcarasuan r""al Treaty Vl'.iirawn from the Sete Change In tie Days of Holding Cabinet BJeetlngs, &c. ; Washington. March 12. The Demo cratic Senators completed their reorganiza tion oi tne mmerity or tne senate commit- L tees this afternoon. Their" list was given to the chairman of the Republican Caucus Committee, to be presented to the 8enate to morrew. The principal changes have already been published. ; T , .. - . A wntten . message from the President was sent to the Capitol this afternoon for the purpose of withdrawing from the Sen ate the Nicaraguan : Canal treaty and the Spanish Reciprocity treaty, , in order that they may be examined "and considered by the new administration. The Senate had adjourned, however, before the message reached its destination. It was comparatively quiet at the White House to-day, and there was a decided falling off in the number of callers. 'Among those who saw the President before noon were Senators Brown, Ransom, Pike, Gor man, McPherson,' Plumb, Blackburn and Gibson, Representatives Ermontrout, Wil lis, Hurd, Cox of N. C;, McCreary, Sprin ger, Anderson, Eaton and Lefevre, Gen; Sheridan, Gen. Wtt Preston, Gen. McKee Dunn, Samuef F. i Carey of Ohio, John. Spaulding of Boston, and Col. James G.; Berrett. - Many persons who called to pay their respects were informed that owing to a Cabinet meeting the President would not be able to receive them until 8 o'clock. ' i The President has made a change in the days of holding Cabinet meetings, so that hereafter they will be held" Tuesday and Thursday of each week, instead of Tues days and Fridays as heretofore. The Cabinet met promptly at noon to-day under this arrangement. All tne members were in attendance. It is understood that the session was devoted to considering the; general policy to be observed by the ad ministration . in tne matter or aDDOint- manta nnfl fh. BifiiotfAfi if affafM tn Hlrl. The President today designated Assist ant Secretary Coon to perform the duties of Secretary of tbe Treasury in the absence of Secretary Manning, until otherwise ordered; Secretary Manning being in attendance at the Cabinet meeting f to day. - Mr. . Coon accordingly acted as secretary in his stead. It is said that this designation has no spe cial significance and that it is done merely - m I -t The President to-day designated Mar- ceuus Gardner to represent tne interior. Department in the Executive Board at the New Orleans Exposition, vice Benjamin Butterworth, resigned. Forty Persons "Bonneed" from the Treasury ' ; Department . President Cleveland's Oklahoma Proclamation Visitors at the White Bouse Ves- terday.' ' . '. V. : -;V Washikgton, March 13. -The first' de cided action of Secretary Manning' in re gard to changes in the. force under the Treasury Department was announcedfthis morning. - it consists of a material reduc tion of the force in the special agents di vision, whereby it is expected a saving of S4U.UUU annually wui be made. Tne ser vices of forty persons in all have been dis pensed with and notices to that effect were mailed to tbem to-day. - Tne list , includes six special agents," twenty-six special in spectors ot customs and ten employes whose names are borne on the so called "fraud roll." This action reduces the number of agents to twenty two. the num ber of inspectors to twenty five, and the fraud roll" employes, to fifteen; it is stated at the Department that these changes are made solely in the interest of econo my, and tnat no new appointments will be made to fill the vacancies created. Secre tary Manning has also decided that hereaf ter tne appropriation for tne prevention ana detection of frauds upon tne customs revenue snail not be used for tne purpose of making permanent : appointments, but shall be confined strictly to paying for in formation received - concerning - revenue frauds and to enable the Department to employ persons in special cases where it is believed frauds are being perpetrated. H me resident a message asaing for tne return of the Nicaraguan, 8panish and Dominican treaties was received by the Senate: to-day in executive session. The three treaties will be returned to the Exec utive at once; no action of the Senate be ing required, as the Secretary- complies with all such requests under the general rules. The message Withdrawing the trea ties is very short It assigns no other rea son for tbe withdrawal than for "re-exam ination." -1 . The following proclamation was issued by tne rreaident late tnis afternoon : By the President rf the United State of America: A Jrroclamatwn: Whereas.-It is alleged that certain indi viduals, associations of persons and corpo rations are in unauthorized possession of portions of the territory known as the Oklahoma lands, within Indian Territory, which are designated.'- described M and recognized by treaties: and laws of . the United : States, ; and by tne - executive authority thereof, as; Indian lands; and. whereas, it - is further alleged tnat certain other ! persons or- associations within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States have begun -and set on foot preparations for. an organized and forcible entry and settlement upon the aforesaid land.and are now threatening such entry and occupation; and. wnereas, tne laws or tne United States provide for the removal of all persons residing or being found upon such Indian lands and territory - without permission expressly and legally, obtained of the Interior Department Now, there fore, for the purpose of protecting public interests as well as. the interests or Indian nations and tribes, and to the: end that no person or persons may be Induced to en ter upon said territory when - they will not be allowed to remain without permission of the authority aforesaid, I, Grover Cleve-, land, President of the United States, do hereby warn i and admonish , all . and every person or persons now in occupation. of such lands, and all such person or per sons as are intending, preparing or threaten ing to enter and settle upon the same, tnat they will neither be permitted to enter upon said territory, nor; if already there, to re main thereon; aad that, In ease due regard for and voluntary obedience to the laws and treaties of the United States and of this admonition and warning be not "sufficient. to effect tne purposes and intentions or tne Government, as herein declared, tne mili tary power of the United States will be in voked to abate all such unauthorized pos session, to prevent such threatened entry and occupation, and to remove all sucn intruders from said Indian lands. "in testimony wnereor i nave nereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ' - - "Done at the city of Washington this 13th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty five, and of the inde pendence of the United States of America tne one hundred and mntn year. i "Gbover Clbvklahd. "By the President: t ?T. F. Batabd. Secretary of State,' Senator Hampton, of 8. C.who has been quite sick for some time, is to day reported to be convalescing. ' The President received a large number of callers to-dav. Among them were Vice President Hendricks, with Hon. Barclay Henley,' of Cala; Secretary Bayard, tspeafc er Carlisle. Senators Call. Hawley, Cock rett, Vest, McPherson and . Jackson; ex- Senators Slater, Jones and Pendleton; Rep resentatives Hatch. Wood. Hauk, McMil lan. : Caldwell.! Tucker. Jordan. Hanback and Neal; delegate Voorhees, Commissioner Loring: a delegation from Iowa, headed by Representative Weaver; and adelega- . , . . . i f-. ; . . J . . v:.. V A A uou irom uio ixuLnub ul vuiuoiuis, ucaucu by Gen. Hun ton. 'At 2 o'clock the Diplo matic Corps called la pay their respects,5 t j t .i tt : . XM tV. auu were rtxeiveu ujr uio tiwiucut iu uw Blue Parlor. Presentations were made by the Secretary of State. s Washingtoh, March la-The President sent the following nominations to ' the Senate to day Col,Nelson H.Davia,In8pec tor General, to be Inspector General with the rank of Brigadier General. . Lieut. CoL j Absalom Ba.ird, Inspector J Jo NO. 21 Genera!, to be Inspector General with the rank cf Colonel. - i Maj. Robert P. Hushes, to be Inspector General with the rank of Lieut. Colonel. - The Senate in executive session to-day confirmed the following nomination: Charles S. Fairchild, of New York,- to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, n Washington. March 14. The Secretary of the Navy to-day directed by telegraph the commanders of the Wachuset and Shenandoah, of the North Atlantic squad ron, now near New. Orleans, to proceed at once to Central America. Commanders of other vessels of the; squadron remaining near New Orleans are directed to hold themselves in readiness to execute similar orders. Of the North Atlantic suuadron three vessels -the Galena, r Powhatan and Swatara are in Central American waters. The entire squadron will be held subject to orders from Washington. These measnres are understood to have direct reference to the endeavor of General Barrios to make himself supreme military chief of Central' America. - ;;:;n' -.-- -f'vo Secretary.; Lamar to-day directed - the chief clerk and superintendent of the Inte rior Department to dispose at public sale of-all horses, carriages and equipments which are the property of the Interior De- partment. excepting those used for trucks ing; the proceeds of such sale to be cov ered into the Treasury. . The sale is to take place as soon as Consistent .with the inter ests of the public service, .." . ' ' It seems probable that the clause in the last Postofiice Appropriation bill, provid ing for the payment of 50 cents per. mile to American steamsnips . for carrying ihe United States .mails to foreign countries. will prove to be a vexatious question for the department to deal with. Tbere are twenty-two American steamship lines.exclusive oi a numner oi single steamers or "ocean tramps,' and. they received latt year for transporting ' our foreign mails i about $40,000. ; Under the rates of compensation named in the so-called Bubsldy clause, thev would be entitled to receive over a million dollars for the same service; and it is quite probable that steamship companies "would be incited by the increased rate , of com pen - sauon to increase tne number of trips; but the Appropriation bill also provided that only $40,000 should be expended for such ; service in the year, and the question arises. now ; can tne department, discriminate between steamship lines? ' .-The Pacific Mail Company alone, under the provisions of the bill, would absorbe the entire amount of the appropriation, and the Eastern steamship line to South America, that last year received $1,200, would be entitled to receive $86,000. The present law, known as the compulsory law. expires on April first, and after that date American steam ships can refuse to carry mails at existing rates of compensation; so that speedy ac tion in tne matter seems to be necessary. ' , Gen. Sheridan received a telegram from Gen. Hatch to day. stating that the "Okla homa boomers" had postponed their con templated invasion of Indian Territory un til the 18th inst , The postponement was determined upon before the receipt of the president s proclamation on the proposed invasion. Arm; officers express the opin ion that tbe invaders will now disband, and not attempt to settle upon the Oklahoma lands. Z:----'-lt-tk, j: Washingtoh, March 14. It is ascer tained to day that in the enrollment of the Naval Appropriation bill, the section pro viding for tbe abolition of the Sundry Ad visory Board, at tbe discretion of tbe be ere tary of the .Navy, was omitted. 1 ne clause appropriating $500,000 for the armament of new cruisers was also omitted in tne en rollment, although it was agreed ta by both nouses oi uongress. . - ' in tne sundry civil Appropriation dui an item, appropriating $5,500 for telegraph poles and. material for the Life-Saving ser vice, was also dropped out in enrollment Mrs. Herbert, wife or Representative Herbert, of Alabama, died here this morn ing. ' She had been very ill lor some lime past MARYLAND. Effect or the Failure of Pope, Cole tc Oon on the Industrial Interests of Baltimore. Baltdiobbl- March 14. The failure of Pope. Cole & Co. has made a serious im pression upon the industrial interests" of Baltimore. The copper works- gave em ployment to several hundred operatives wno in a snort time may be added to tne alreadv large number of idle men in the city and it: is impossible now to predict what will be tne outcome. Morton Stevens, who has been made . trustee, , has a large business experience and the hope is ex pressed that he will be able to straighten out tne entanglement, rope, uoie oo kjo. had large contracts for copper ore at prices not warranted by the present low price of copper and an adherence, to which , would have entailed much greater loss. FOREIGN. Comments of the Press on the Agree ment Between England and Russia Prices Restored In tbe Stock mar ket A Chinese Port Destroyed by tbe French . "' ' . . IBt Cable to the Mornmg"tar.l London. March 14. The Standard says "the agreement between England and Kussia leaves the essence of the difficulty un touched. Matters must have been . bad when suchan agreement was paraded as a diplomatic gain. Many consider the pause in the situation a prelude to a surrender. A dispatch from Shanghai says tnat tne French are bombarding Chihhac and have destroyed oae f ort Mr. Gladstone s statements in the uouse bf Commons, last night, regarding the Anglo-Russian situation, have had the ef fect to restore prices in the stock market, A general advance has been caused in both home and foreign securities, itussian se curities have advanced 1T points over yes terday's closing prices t ST. Pbtbbsbueg. March 14. me jour nal deSt. Petersburg says; "Negotiations between Russia and England still continue. They are conducted witn , a nrm desire to avoid a warlike collision, and Upon a pro found conviction: that U is to tbe interest ot both countries to reach a solid settlement of the present -dispute one that will firmly establish peace and substantially strengtnen the good relations existing between the '. i NEW YORK. J '' A Pnbllshers' Failure Death of the Proprietor of the' Buffalo Conner. " . IBv Telegraph to tho Horning Star. , Nbw Yokk. March 14. Frank - P. Tan- cev' publisher. 84 North Moore street, filed an assignment for the benefit of creditors to-day, to. Stillman P.. Walker, giving pre ferences amounting - to aoout - Z40,ouu. Among the preferred creditors was tbe America Company, for $10,000. Buffalo. March 14. Uhanes w. mo Cune. proprietor of the Courier Company, died this morning from three week's illness of typhoid fever, MEXICO, The Feeling la Regard to Cen. Bar- rlos'iinovement In Central America. City oy Mexico, via GALVESTON.March 14. The action of the Mexican - govern ment in condemning Gen. Barrios' position is warmly commended by tne newspapers of this citv: almost - ail oi mem recom mending that if it should oe necessary to put. Barrios down, tne Mexican army oe sent to aid San Salvador and Nicaragua. It is considered by many, here that if Bar- riors should succeed- -in'- making himself dictator of Central America, his next at tempt would be on the Mexican States of Tobasco and uneopas. i- - - TENNESSEE. APlre with Lou of I.lfe at Pulaski, Cincinnati, March 14 A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn., says: Fire at Pulaski, Tenn.. this morning, destroyed four busi ness houses., ioss $40,000; partly insured. Monron Blozee. a resident, and two un known travellers, perished in the Camea. 3 i 4S) "' Charlctt? Cl::rcer: Ur. Jas. II. Re a, cf Providence toweship. this cour'y, died yesterday raortiz.. -Tt ill soce cf the . Ilecklersbur- , cienibers . give us the names of tie legislators wbo voted for tie dog law, and tka versa. Ve want to place them on record. The Arkansas fever among the colored people in portions ' of this State seems to have subsided, to be roiiowed cy the idbena fever which seems - to have broken out ia Asheville. Raleigh : Chronicle: The Hon orable gentlemen have gone home, and we bid them a reluctant farewell. Peace, prosperity, and, above all, rest go with them t T hey have labored arduously wi:b might and main," in fact doing not rr.jc'i of anything. They were sa interest- company of gentlemen.. They brouit some good jokes to town; they filled a dull period at the boarding houses acceptably: they gave the idle and the weary somebody to talk to; and the boot blacks felt that bet- - . ter times had come. There has never been a Legislature that had among its members more men who put forward greater individ ual effort. ' But the truth is that collective ly somehow they did not succeed in doing much. Bold as they- were individually. : collectively they lacked aggression, and the . - sum total or the really useful work done Is not great. " ' . - - ' Raleigh Recorder i " On the sua:- gestion of the : committee the Legislature elected brethren J. A. Graham, .T. H. Pritchard and- J. C. Scarborough trustees : of the University. Brother A. M. ; Lewis v was .re-elected. we regret to an nounce the death of Brother Peter F. White Sr.,. ot, Edenton,: N. C. - He had been a deacon of tbe church for forty years, - The Stab corrects us in our statement that -Dr. Hufham was the first to write in favor of resuscitating the University. : The editor : ot the Stab wrote articles in favor of the. University for the Warrenton Indicator in -1869. Dr. Hufham's articles were written in 1870. fit was in 1867, and' not 1889. . Stab, JSot even by the law of poetic li cense can it be called " a Universiry as at present organized and "conducted. It re peives students who should be in the com mon school, the academy : or the college. it goes no higher than the college; if comes down to the lever oi the common scnooi. It is undertaking to do the work of the common school and ' the' academy, and of course the work done is inferior to that ' which Is done in those institutions. RaleigE News- Observer; Yester- terday at noon the Legislature constructive- -ly adjourned. Really it adjourned Tuesday. , The remainder of the time was occupied in -engrossing, enrolling -and signing bills and resolutions. The total number of bills and resolutions introduced in the 3enate was . 1,055... In the House were introduced 1,043 bills and;10S resolutions, a total of 1,151. . The grand total ha both branches of the As-: sembly was therefore 2,206 bills and resolu tions. " L Tuesday morning two colored convicts on the Louisburg & Franklin Rail road made a break from the guards. One was shot entirely through the body and is - probably .fatally uurt 'xne oau passea through a small tree before it struck the -man. The other convict succeeded in mak ing his escape. V - Several handsome cot- - tages are in course of. erection in various parts of the city. Over fifty buildings of ' various kinds are going up. - SeveraTnew contracts have been made. All of the build ers are busy.5 The Washington cor respondent of the New York World says: "Mrs. Z. JL Vance, is a leader among the . Senators' wives, as in society generally.and -' her Thursday receptions are always crowd-, ed, for she is personally as popular as her -,; f husband and is almost as well posted a poli tician. Having always taken a deep inter est in the affairs of the nation, she is well fitted to be the wife of a public man, and . her opinions have considerable weight and influence with the Senator. . Mrs Vance is ' . by birth a Kentuckian. - ;. ' -u. .. ; - Raleigh Farmer i 6 Mechanic: Tbe public generally has little idea of the , free way in wmcn money was appropnatea. Mrs. ITaison. wife ot woi. ADner m. i Faison, has opened a hotel at Warsaw, N. V., two ' miles from the old nomesteaa. - Yet we as one who cordially supported : the effort to get a big appropriation; for the : university, must regret: uret, mat any-; member of the Legislature who voted for v that bill allowed himself to be elected as a trustee ot the benefited institution; and second that among the new members were bo many railroad men and office-holders. - Tbe changes in the State Uuard law - abolish- the brigade organizations: retire i the three brigadiers; allow, the Governor to . appoint the regimental (instead oi oy elec tion, as heretofore) and allow the Governor -to commute (L e. pay in money) the amount . of stores allotted to the State by the Federal ; Government v This , will help the Guard. Fifteen Senators yesterday stood up,. 1 in i manliness and patriotism, to protest : against that same little old leak in the State Treasury which has cost many a poor tax- payer ms laefc uuuar. nouu uut nuu w Intimate that those Legislators who voted for the Jim Robinson-Paul Means-Duck- town Railroad bill were corrupt or derelict; they had their opinion, and may have rea- , sons unknown to us. Nevertheless we think that those who dared to put them- . selves upon record in favor of stopping the - old leak, (despite the influence of. visiting committees, and appeals to party " feeling) r will not live to regret it -. Charlotte Observer: The Legls- ; lature has passed a bill appropriating the sum of $3,000 annually for an encampment of the State Guard, and it has alrendy been decided to hold the first encampment . at AsheviUer or at Warm Springs,: some time dunnff the month of next July. the encampment will cover a period of about ten days. A colored woman namea Julia Russell, who liveB on, the premises of Mrs. Williamson, near the corner of nrin .. and B streets, where she . is employed as cook, - yesterday r morning k alarmed tne , neighborhood bv rushing out into tne yard screaming at a terrific rate and holding the : limp body of a child in her hands. The child was dead and the woman had just made the discovery. The statement which -she made to the county ; physician was that when she- arose from bed yesterday morning to - get i breakfast, she covered up her child to keep it warm, - putting three heavy blankets .and. a quilt . over it. After she had prepared breakfast, she went to the bed to get her Child and found that it was lying under the covers dead." Raleigh, N. C, March, 10. The committee reported last night that the -circumstances attending the street en - counter between" McAden and Pearson. was not contempt of the House.' Waring had read, as part of his remarks, McAden's ' "letter-to the committee, in which he de- . clared he hadno purpose to commit con- j tempt of the House. The report or the committee "was adopted, rearsou mea a protest this morning, saying be construed the action of the House as absolution of the obligation which, men owe to civil govern ment and the duties which .they owe to ; society. ... .,'-,.-.. - Goldsboro Messenger:- On the " last day of the session, of the Congress Hon. W. J. ween made a speecn.in op--. position to placing Gen. Grant on the re tired list Masters Tom Hill, Gaston v Lewis, .Dan Hutton and Tom Hyman, neither of whom is over fourteen years oia, have designed and . constructed a very creditable skiff, fifteen feet in length, which is already launched in Little river. "The melancholy days have come, - -! The saddest in the year" , ,s ' To Jimmie B.; who pouts at home. While "Grover". takes the Chair. ' There isn't much poetry in that verse, but don't It just bristle out with-cold and de lightful facts, thought Hon. R; R. Bridgers, President of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad.' and Maj. H. .Walters, the General Manager, went up to the Pine Level and Selma . sections on Tuesday for the purpose 4 of locat ing the -depot for the "short cutf line. ' A body of internal revenue officers ar rived in this city on Sunday, and early Monday morning "they "wended their way thitherward" into the swamps of Johnston; . where; we learn, they destroyed several illicit distilleries and captured two "moon- -shiners." Washington letter : A North Carolina lady, residing in the city, had; a diamond cross, valued, at $1,200. stolen a few days ago. '- In the Pension Office ( Miss Lasselle Grandy, of Elizabeth City, . has been promoted from the class of $900 to that of $1,000. ? In the Patent Office North Carolina promotions are as follows: Mr. David H. Graves from the $1,400 class : to that of $1,800; Miss Emma J. Lindsay from the laborers at $600 wa?es to the skilled laborers at $720. The vote in the House on retiring Grant was 133 for to 79 against the measure. O'Hara and Gen. Vance voted aye. The noes were:- Messrs. Bennett, - Cox, Dowd, Green,! Reed and Skinner. -y ' ' t. ,
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