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7 ... The Weekly Star. rUBUSEXD AT lV .LB,I MOTO M, S. ' AT :'v:v-: : t" ; ;i- ' 0A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 1 - ssaSs8SSSg828SSS . gggSg88SSS888S-SS : sssssssssssisslis 8SSSS888S8888SS88 ""UOK1? '"agaa-gssig-sgsassgg 1 8S888S8SSSSS88SSS' SS8S8SS8SSS8S88S8 " ssssgssssssssssss 83S8SS8S88S3SSS88 a - " O - , " ' . - - - i . 9 ' - ' - i -: .- - ( Entered at the Poet Office atWUni tag-ton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. ..- : SUBSCRIPTION TRICE. .The subscriGtion price of the Wkekj,y Stak is as follows : 11 1 , ' Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, ".. $1.60 f ' 6 months, " ' 1.00 ' 3 months. " " ' .50 . 'lgB GIRLS AND THE BOTK. !' After this do not talk about the girls not being equal to the boys in lellectnaliy, J The girls are showing in many, ways and places that not wily can they learn as well and as .rigidly as the boys, but .in many Jn Miiiicefl they are actually -asserting "their, superiority. Tate two in-8t;in-h that have recently occurred at iliu University of Mississippi at Uxf.nl. Mie.8 Sallie Vick II III se en f. 1 I lie hight-ht . honor -,- and ob tains! thf c4veted valedictory. On ill., lir.-t chance offered a girl beats all Ui boys and secures the highest prize. Among the graduates was Midi! Fannie Hooper. She too made a speec.h, and did it very creditably. are so old-fashioned old- fogyitfli. Young Amercia, with his overweening bumptiousness, would say that we can not say we ' like this mingling of the sexes and this rivalry at the same college. We are clearly on the side of the girls in so far as having an equal chance with the boys to be useful goes. But the danger, is, that the girls being so bright and attractive will get all of the soft places and thus turn the uoja out lo piay uase uauiorauviug. What stern man of business, for in stance, could hesitate which to choose a very pretty, bright lassie standing before hiru in anxious expectancy,! with roseate cheeks, and beaming Am- aii art. I ufudflf 111 I laltmrtlaa lt Ait hav' l j .1 a. i e. ...... v ..,. w . .vu .u vtvuut chfekjjir a young "spider-legged" fellow, with greased locks, and dude :C.. -.9 style, and waxed mustachios, nurs ing his cane and bat, and looking like he wad djing to be out at the races or the bane ball game or on an ext Anh;iiin V ' I l aval! tffAnl1 win , So lh danger, is that if the girls quit teaching and sewing and draw ing :md a li i nd Jng to household ma " and o regularly into business into book kt-epiny srid clerking and the proft-ssioiif ana 6 on that the boys of idf l:iii.V u ill Anmri(illo1 In nivA v r - r fc- up tiadtr and take to digging and ploughing, ior to athletic sports gen erally " v I ''i We like the girle. They are un - quesi foitably the sweetest and best of God ri creation.! -That ia. to say, when they arc really good and gentle and jdo not scream and make themselves too conspicuous. Girls! why they have been : making the great heart of this, old world ache ever since that early morning when Adam turned coward and tried to shove off the first great sin npon lovely five' whose chief fault was a little too much curiosity for health and good f rutt. I "She gave me of the tree and 1 4id eat," "'whined Adam. -What a great blubberly young? fel low Adani was surely. He was only a few hours - old, you must remember, land was very inexperi enced. But then he had been re cently married, which only made his shameful dodge the more shameful. We nay we like the girlp, and are on their Hide, nnd believe, in mvintr them , . 0 0 - every possible chance in consonance wuli sweet and pore and winsome womanhood. We will not favor any nev order of things that lowers man's ret-pec t for! woman, or that threatens Miguel jf iivr ivirci buc oauuuij aui purity of home the most end earing word after mother in all oar vocabu lary, unless it be loire. But the girls must not be puffed np. They are bright and acquire i ' : t, cann jr auu am erjr trjyuy uut they are yet to- prove that they are able to boss the boys. We do not pean to insinuate that some men are not bossed at home." Alas, " 'tis true, 'tis pity, pity 'tis, 'tis true."" i , But we mean this : the great things of this earth have been done by men . The great orators, the great poets, - the great1 painters, the great scalp- tors, the great musicians even, the great inventors, the great men of 8pienpe? ijhe great physicians, the great discoverers, the great, thinkers, witb'one or two exceptions, the great novelists, the great heroeshaye aH beep"of the sex that wear bifur cated integnmenta and rejoice in the i Hrepgth gof virile manhood. Thns far men have asserted their superior ty as the great factors in the world 1 VOL. XVI. of invention, discovery, imagination and reflection. So the dear girls have much to do yet before they will be' justified in twitting; the boys that J they belong to a sex that is." a failure,', and thai what the world wants is not -men, but . women strong-minded women,, that can hold all the offices and play base, ball better than a pro fessional. . . ... y s ' ; , THE ALABAMA. CONDUCTOR AND ',. .. THE BKOOK.I.TNITB. S:: - As long as Northern papers gladly and constantly disseminate lies and slanders concerning the South it will be incumbent upon the press of the South to examine and expose them. It is not pleasant to have to constant ly refer to unjust and wicked reports, and to deliberate defamation when we could employ our space to a bet ter purpose. But Blandera and false hoods must be met, i - " i We have again to. refer - to the Alabama railroad matter. 'It turns oat -that the Northern.- fellow from Brooklyn . who has furnished fresh grist for the outrage mills was not so immaculate and innocent as he pre tended to be. ' He went back to his Northern . home and - whispered his yarn - into the - itching ears of Radical editors, and the -- awful outrage begins its rounds through out the, willing North. This Brook lynite represents himself as mere ly interceding in j behalf of two negroes who had been ordered to move their seats into , another car. Of course the Brooklyn negrophilist' did this in the most gentlemanly and mild wlay possible. 'He is met with curses,! and afterwards is - cowardly assaulted by the irate conductor in a hotel when off his ! guard and when he had. no showing, j . ..: ... The. Stab questioned the accuracy of such an account and called upon the 'Mobile Register to investigate and report. It seems that the Regis ter as early as the 26th. and 28th of May had given a history "of the oc currence. In its issue of the 19th of June it refers to the matter at length -.-'t-U-. i- J:i or-v-i l, -,v.,-..-.-;;;- t. , again. I r . The "true inwardness" is this: a negro .named Lindsey, with his wife, was seated in the ladies ear." The conductor told him that he would have to go into the" next car. .- The negro refused,and a white man named Morrow; encouraged bim to keep his seat. The conductor passing a sec ond time repeated to the negro that be most go into the forward car. Tbe'is says: TVX"'"'i& .Cv.--' "The third time he took the colored man by the arm,, not roughly, to show that be was : in. earnest. Mr. Morrow seized the conductor's arm and pulled it off Lindsey. telling the conductor that be was exceeding his authority,, etc. Mr. .Morrow, when asked by the conductor to take bis seat, replied that he would 'not. Sullivan, the conductor, then asked him if he had any thing to do with the running of that train. Morrow replied in a very insultins: manner that he "had a right to : express bis opinion, and he would see that the man and his wife rode where they pleased, and that he did not want of the conductor's slack about it.' Two passengers came in from the forward car, and carried Lindsey and wife into the next car. It was a first class car and not & smoking car, and was occupied by colored persons of quite as respectable appearance as Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey." ;-' This Northern fellow was insult ing to! the conductor and got himself into trouble. When the writer lived in Memphis he heard a citizen say r this one day: "Memphis is a quiet enough place. If a man chooses he can live here for years and get into no trouble with . any . one. Bat jf he sallies oat for a personal difficulty he can get ; into one abbot as quickly as he can any where in the world." . If a Northern . . . i -- . -i-1 . . . .- - - - - man set elects be can travel twenty years in the Sooth and never meet with any , ill treatment or results. But if he starts out with the idea that f he ' can reform the South, turn DonQuixote and - espouse the quarrels of others and insult people he can get licked about every day he travels! or twice a 'day if necessary. That is really the size of; it. . The Alabama" conductor felt in salted by . Morrow's insolence, bat being nndef bis charge while on the train, he would not panish him, but gave him to understand ;L that he woold have to answer for it ' after the trip was ended and the conductor was off duty. The : Register says: : ' "We? hve different Opinions at the South about the separation of the races in travel ling from those held at the North. We have a right to them, f. As - for , Conductor Sullivan's knocking down Mr. Morrow in the hotel, although very much provoked, it was unjustifiable, and he was very pro perly fined." . - j v ' - As to the fine being given back, and much more of the lying accounts now appearing in Northern Republi can newspapers there is not a word of truth in them. The New York Tri bune is doing some "tall lying" over this affair, and it has a good deal of help from papers of the same stand ard of responsibility, and truthful ness. ; There have been 11,000 persons examined by the Civil Service Board, and of these 2,Q00 have been appointed to positions under the Go vernment. '.',-' Secretary Whitney has gone back on his predecessor . Chandler. He has issued an order allowing naval officer to take their families abroad when on foreign stations. i il- I-VI A FIASCO. Mr. Loge Harris slipped np badly in his recent communication to the New York Times upon "Politics in North Carolina, and upon which the Stab commented at some length, -.Capt. Kitchin knows nothing of the new party, het never heard of any "negotiations with him relative ,to editing an organ for the new party. Mr. N. B. .Bronghton 'is equally ig norant of t the reports given by Mr. Harris. In the Raleigh f Register he says: ' ' - ' -:iT.:"-- M:'t.:Hn:-i. "If I have by word or deed given occa sion f or. diS2ust or 'discontent' to the Fed eral or State appointments in this State, I' have no recollection of it. So far as I now recall them they are good and very satis factory to our whole people. -The ftohi-. biUonists are in no condition now for ex pression or action.- The present is better than the past has been. - The future is to be developed." -- i , Rev. Dr. Skinner says "that there has been no proposition to attack Chapel Hill before the Board of Trustees of Wake Forest' College." The free school fe.ature jof -the Uni versity is very unpopular. ; The Bap tists aad Methodists can poll at least 40,000 votes. , Then they can influ ence probably 25,000 other votes. They do not favor free scholarships at the .University ,'at their expense and to the detriment of their col leges. That is all there is in it. If the injudicious . friends of the University should insist upon taxing Baptists and Methodists to send 90 boys to Chapel Hill without tuition, and by doing this to injure Wake Forest and Trinity Colleges there will be something farther heard of opposition, but it wrll be directed to the election of members of the Legis lature. : We suppose the University will be willing to give np its free scholarship feature in view of a strong adverse public sentiment, and that is growing. We learn from the Raleigh Visitor that Rev. Thomas F. Hume, D. D., of Norfolk, Baptist, has been elected to the Chair of English Literature and Language in the - University. We have tho pleasure of his acquain tance, lie is a refined, cultivated Christian gentleman. He is a gradu ate of the University of Virginia, and has had a trip to Europe. What his" special qualifications are we are not informed. Dr.W. T. Toy, of Norfolk, Va.j is elected Professor of. Modern Languages. He is another Baptist. If he is equal to r his brother, the Harvard Professor of latitodinarian and heterodox views, he will do. The others elected are: : -; --"Prf. Benson Henry, of Missouri, Pro fessor of the Art of Teaching. "Mr.W. B. Phillips,of Wilmington.N.C. Professor of Agriculture, Chemistry and Mining. . v., . :-' - "Mr. J. L. Love, of Gaston county, N. C, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. "Mr. G. P. Atkinson, of New York, As sistant Professor of Natural Philosophy." Whether or not these can elevate scholarship at the University will be seen in the days to come. None bat the very best will meet the demands. A, NORTH CAROLINA SUGGESTION. There is an editorial and a com munication in the - Rockingham Rocket relative to a "History of the War" between the States. It is urged that owing to : the unfairness of Northern writers that" such a work is imperatively demanded.' We have been urging a work of the kind for years There ' is no full, -accurate, fair history thus far written. Both the editor and correspondent of the Rocket urge the name of the - histo rian of Georgia as the ) proper . man to write the work. The editor says: "We agree further with our correspon dent that, while the South can boast many competent writers, there is probably no man better qualified for the-task than Col. Chas. C. Jones, of Augusta. Ga. He doubt less can be induced to undertake it. He is a literary man of very high attainments given to research and a painstaking study of history. He has already written some valuable pages of war - history, and his writings- and addresses have - long since elicited marked comment and praise from the most competent critics, -ri" :-: Xi ? v "To attest the BockeCs practical interest in the movement instituted by our corres pondent, we cheerfully go down for a fifty dollar donation thus starting the ball, as suggested, with a subscription of one hun dred dollars." " - - We would be pleased to know that Col. Jones has -undertaken the im portant and very much needed work. We have not , seen ; his "History of Georgia," but we know it stands high with the cultured men of "his State We can bear witness to the - excel lence of his historical addresses. We have had the pleasure of reading quite recently his historical address delivered on the last Memorial occa sion, and we read another of his fine compositions a year or two ago. Col. Jones is a scholarly writer. He evi dently loves historic investigations and historic composition. He would prepare, we have no doubt, an excel lent history of the civil war, and we hope he will find its undertaking in harmony with his plans and environ ments. We do not suppose that con tributions in money are needed. The best way is for the South to buy the book by tens of thousands of copies. A work of the size of Green's smaller History of the' English People would about cover . the bill. It could be sold for $3, a sum that would place it within the reach of thousands who could not buy a $5 work. Ste phens's large history of the United, States sells ' at $5. It is true V V 1 . i "H .rv. 1 i V WILMINGTON, N. C. . it is very large, having some eleven hundred pages, but it is badly print ed, on poor paper, is badly bound, and the , numerous wood cuts are common. It is too high for the mil lion if it had been gotten up in ex cellent style; but as it is it ia a very dear book.; Let us have a history that will be within the reach of all classes of readers. f ... ' " SLANDERERS REBUKED. ' On Wednesday we called atten tion to the statement in the Phila delphia American as - to the cruel treatment of penitentiary convicts in South Carolina!.; . It.secms that' other Republican papers are full of like statements - and comments. ' The Cleveland ' (Ohio) Leader can tankerous Radical sheet was hot in its denunciations of the "brutalities and cruelties." But there is a North' erner who knows the- truth, for he has spent months in travelling in the South, and he rebukes the .Western bigot and slanderer, andi through it, alls newspapers like the American that have taken up the lie and given it currency. - Mr. R. Binkerhoff, of Mansfield, Ohio, administers a caus tic rebuke but we canqot make room for his article.- The following ' cita tions will answer: - "Now it has so happened that I have been a missionary, or, more properly, an investigator, in several Southern States upon this and other subjects, and three weeks ago I visited the South Carolina Penitentiary at Columbia, and I am sure you will be glad to publish a' report that will not corroborate the supposition made by the Leader - I found a penitentiary now rapidly approaching completion, which, when finished, will be equal in all its ap pointments to the average of Northern prisons, and certainly will be superior to our own in Ohio. The south wing is al ready occupied, and the north wing'will be ready for use in a few months. The total number of State prisoners is about 1,000; of these about 800 are leased out, and the remainder , are inside of the prison walls, and mostly employed upon contract labor, the same as in North ern piisons, and I have no doubt are as kindly treated. So far as the lease system is concerned, I did not find a man in South Carolina who approved it. and everybody seemed delighted, at the near prospect of its entire abolition in the State. The truth is the South is rapidly advancing in all directions, and nowhere more noticeably than in its methods of dealing with the de pendent, l defective and criminal classes. Let us remember that for twenty fivs vears after Ohio was settled our crimi nal code authorized whipping posts, stocks, pillorie8 and earcroppinga as civilizing in stitutions, and for a longer period the poor mere sold out to the lowest bidder, and yet it would hardly be fair to claim that our fa thers were inhuman monsters." JUDICIOUS AND TIMELY ACTION. The Saturday half holiday is giving great satisfaction. Except in the case of those far on the road or given up to dissi pation it can do no harm, and must do good. A gentleman who is enjoying it himself asks us to appeal for the wornout dry goods clerks to -the ladies not to shop after 12 o'clock on Saturdays. We do it now, and ask the dry goods clerks to be ia their places in God's house on Sunday, for now the plausible temptation to spend the 8abbath in the open air ia removed, except from those who search for temptation, and they if in heaven would find it. N. T. Christian Advocate, , This is a move in the right direc tion. In the greatest of American cities the clerks now have half of Saturday. : Think of that. . Instead of keeping them at work until 9 or. 10 o'clock on Saturday night, or perhaps later, the merchants and dealers now close up' at midday on Saturday, thus giving their employes some ' chance for. recreation before Sanday comes."; Nay,'; better ; than this; it gives them an opportunity to get ready for attending church and other religious gatherings on the Lord's Day. .We are really delighted to see New York setting so good an example to ' the other cities and towns. .We hope that humane and religious considerations will operate generally, and that the physical and immortal interests - of . the employed will be faithfully considered by the proprietors. , The Norfolk landmark speaks very highly , of Dr. Hume and con" gratulates the University on getting him.' It says: "Dr, Hume is a painstaking student, a thoroughly well informed scholar, and we can testify here, as we did before the Board by letter, to the " excellence, of his method of instruction. There were eighty appli cants for the place." - ' The strange thing to us is that so many men think themselves capable of filling a most important Chair that requires a specialist. With a large acquaintance , and somewhat ad vanced in life, we did not knoxo but one man we considered fully quali fied for the Chair of English Litera ture and . English Language. . Of course we refer to Dr. Henry E. Shepherd, a native of North Caro lina. ' Mr.'Glennan, editor of the Norfolk Vrginian,hi retired from the edi torial chair of his paper, having be come postmaster. He says it wjll be at liberty to criticize him as any other individual. That is right. No post master has any business under the Civil Service to be running 'a news paper or editing 'one. We exceedingly regret to learn that our old friend, Dr. Washington C. Kerr, is very sick, his disease be ing consumption. He is at' Durham. An excellent citizen, a capable man of science, a "true son of North Caro lina, a devout . Christian, his death will be a senons loss. -. , ,.f . .4 x- There has been a reduction of 119, persons in the force of the-Bureau of Engraving and Printing, saving the people $277 every day in-the year. This is practical Democratic ; econ FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1885. . " nKUtrat'a cart James IL Eheldea was taken before Justice Hir.La, yesterday morning, to an swer to the charge of aa assault upon Mr. Thos. Wallace, it being alleged that he had drawn apUtol upon him; and also to un dergo an Investigation on the charge of carrying a concealed weapon. The assault, ia the opinion of the magistrate, was not proven, none of the witnesses being pre pared to say that the defendant pointed the pistol at Mr. Wallace, though all swore that he carried the weapon in his hand, while two of the bystanders testified that he used implied threats. - , - " In the case of carrying a concealed weapon the proof was positive, and de fendant was put under a bond of $100 for his appearance at the next term of the Criminal Court, which convenes in this city on the 28th inst. He was then ' re- manded to jail on the former charges with out privilege of baiL; j. ; ; - 3 ; r - Sheldeo is a young man of respectable appearance. As before, he had no ques. tions to, ask or statement to make, and when the examination was dosed he again lit a cigarette,-getting a match from a by stander. , He was brought into court hand-' cuffed,' but waa returned to his' quarters without them. He dont have the appear ance of a bad man. - v: j - A Dastardly Crlm Promptly Be venged. . : V ' ;-....,:;;;..:--; -On the night of Saturday, June the 20th, a colored man by the name of John Boggart committed an outrage upon an unprotected widow lady Jiving near1 Wadesboro. Since then every effort has been made to capture the fiend. , Mayor , Rose, of Wadesboro, offered a reward of $100 for his arrest and had "printed . announcements of the fact struck off and scattered through the coun try. , Some of them, were sent to Chief of Police Brock, of this city, and he has had his officers on the look-out for Boggan.; It was reported . two : or . three : - times that he , had ., been seen . in v Wil mington, but the officers could ascertain nothing definite as to his whereabouts. The question has at last been satisfactorily settled.: Yesterday morning a party of gentlemen from Laurinburg, en route for the Sound , -arrived here on the Carolina Ceutral train, from one of whom was de rived the information that the scoundrel was taken and hanged to a tree, on Thurs day night, very near the j spot where the dastardly crime was committed. . Dr. W. B. Pbllilpa. K V: Dr. W. B. Phillips, chemist for the Na vassa Guano Company, of this place, has been v elected Professor ' of Agricultural Chemistry and Mining at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Phillips has many friends he e, and this high compliment to his ability can not fail to be most gratifying to them. The Raleigh News-Observer; ia refe rence to his appointment, says:1 "Mr. William B. Phillips, of Wilmington, N. CM elected to the chair of agricultural chemistry and mining, graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1877, with high honors. He. took a course of metal lurgy at the U. 8:'' assay ofBce,'New York. He taught chemistry" at the University normal school for several 'years and is a clear and forcible lecturer. He is a son of Rev. Dr. Chas. Phillips, and is a Presbyte rian. . . - - " v-:-. Tbe Rcvenae Cntter Colfax. ' ' The revenue cutter Colfax, Capt. Stod dard, arrived here yesterday morning from Baltimore, where she has been undergoing a pretty thorough overhauling for the past two months or more. She ia now looking neat and stylish, having put on her new dress just in time to. greet the new Denuy cratic Collector. : v.;..:..,,-- ' The cutter landed . at the government wharf in front of the Custom House, and soon afterwards Captain Stoddard and Lieut- Hand landed, .went up into the Custom House and paid their respects to Collector Robinson. " Eaeartd Convict Captured. Florence Canady, one of the colored convicts from the Criminal Court, sent for twelve months at the. May term, escaped from the County House of Correction on Thursday night last Parties were put on the track of her, and on Sunday morning she was captured in Pender county by Mr. Daniel E. Savage, son of the Superinten dent who,assisted by Deputy Sheriff Hand, locked her up in the jail at Burgaw until the train passed, when she - was taken out handcuffed and carried to her old quarters. . Capt R. P. Paddison informs us that he has concluded to build a new boat entire, to take the place of the steamer John Date son, recently burned, using none of the material or machinery of the old boat. Messrs. Burr & Bailey will have the con tract for building the boat, and Capt Pad dison will have general supervision of the work. The hull will be constructed at Point Caswell.". The new steamer will be about the same size and about the same sort of boat as the John Dawson. - - Sharks t Sharks! " - . " - Messrs. Fitzgerald and Batts, of Wilson, are still distinguishing themselves as shark catchers at Smithville., It is thought now that they are certain to take the premium. They caught two more of the wide mouthed monsters on Thursday, and now claim that they have been the humble instruments of relieving the harbor and ocean of a total of 83 feet and four inches of solid shark. Hurrah for Wilson county 1 JB USINESS mFAIL USES. , mercantile Aseney'a Report tor the Past Week. New York, ' July" 3. The business failures throughout the entire country for the past seven days, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., number - for the United States 183. and for Canada 21. A total of 204, against 205 last week and 226 the pre vious week.. -The failures are below the average in every section of the country, ex cept in Pacific Coast States, where a large increase in assignments is noted. ELECTRIC SPARKS. . A dispatch from Asheville, N. C, says that Jack Lambert, who was to have been hanged to day at Webster, has taken an appeal, and will be given another trial. He ia now in jail there. r "-;;' - The Marine Hopital Bureau is informed that the suspicious cases of fever at Cape Charles Quarantine Hospital, are reported as being typho malarial fever, instead of yellow fever. The Bureau is also inform ed that cholera is decreasing in Calcutta. The weekly statement of the Asso ciated Banks shows the following changes: Loans increase $3,470,900; specie increase a 163.000; legal tenders decrease fU4U,7UU; deposits increase $4,035,800 ; circulation de crease $71,400; reserve decrease $1,788,525 The banks now hold $51,607,899 in excess of the 25 per cent rule. A 1?) ' WASHINGTON. Blalater Kttlcy and taa AnaU-lan niaalan Appolatmenta Pint Aa alatant Poatmaatar General nay . The Kallar Case N rraaxraph to tba Montour Star.l ? " Washerotoh. July 8. Secretary Man ning learned the facta in the Eellar case only this morning. He at once sent for Eellar and appointed him to a clerkship and aet him at work. Eellar is the Ohio man, who, having teen certified by the Civil Service Commission, wss refused his appointment by First Auditor Chenowith, on the grounds that he was distasteful to Congressman Warner and other Democrats in his home district WAsnnsoTOW, July 2. It is understood that the recently appointed U. 8. Minister to Austria, whose appointment has occa sioned considerable comment will not be recalled. He will go to. Vienna, and should the - Austrian Government refuse to receive him, it is Intimated that the United States Government will remain unrepre sented at the Vienna CourV-: It is held that Mr. Keiley is a capable man and in every way fitted to,' fill the position to which he has been assigned. : When he was appointed U.' 8. Minister to Italy he was endorsed by the entire Congressional delegation of Virginia and was confirmed by the Senate. The Italian Government, it is understood, made inquiry of this Gov-, ernment whether or . not Mr. Eeiley had given- utterance.' in- a ? public . speech in 1871 . to . sentiments, in . opposition to the - occupation of Rome by Vic tor . Emanuel. The, former Govern ment afterwardsjtis said, protested against his appointment, and Mr. Keiley resigned his commission. It is held that the Austrian Government has ho grounds to complain of Mr. Keiley'a: present appointment The question has been raised whether or not it was uncomplimentary to Austria to send Mr. Keiley to Vienna after he had been re jected by Italy. It ia asserted that the ap pointment was not uncomplimentary, and the case of Mr. Kasson, who was nomina ted for the Spanish mission and was object ed to by Spain, but was afterwards sent to Austria, where he was received, is cited in support of the statement that no disrespect was offered to Austria by sending Mr. Kei ley there. " Some years subsequently ' and until a very recent date, Mr. Kasson served as U. S. Minister at Berlin. ' - The President to-day appointed Joseph S. Gillespie to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Chattanooga, Tenn. ; and James Turner Lee,' of Maryland, to be Secretary of Legation to Austria-Hungary. . . v First Assistant Postmaster General Bay was attacked day before yesterday by a se vere chill and has been confined to his room since the evening of that day. He is im- proving, and hopes to be at his desk again within two or three days. His absence from the Department has revived a rumor that he has resigned. This, Mr.-Hay says, is not true. - There is good reason for believing, however, that under the advice of his phy sician he seriously thinks of resigning, and that he probably will resign at a very early date:; ' Mr. Kellar yesterday brought the facts in his case to the attention of the Civil Ser vice Commission, by : whom they were last evening laid before the President The commissioners said the refusal to appoint Mr, Kellar appeared to be a violation of rule eight, which forbids any discrimina tion by an appointing officer on political grounds, and they further represented that the reception of the . recommendations by the auditor from Congressman Warner that Mr. Kellar be not appointed, appeared to be in plain violation of the tenth section of the Civil 8ervice act which says that no recommendations shall be received from any member of .- the -House of Representa tives except i as to the character of the applicant by any person concerned in ma king any examination or appointment under the act. Under this . provision the commissioners hold, that the auditor had no right to receive any such recommenda tion, from a member of Congress. Early this morning, as the commission was fur ther considering the subject with a view to its more formal presentation to the Presi dent the following letter was received from the Secretary of the Treasury : - , , "Treasury Department, Offic fqf the Secre tary, Washington, D. C, July 2, 1885. Hon. " Dorman B. - Eaton, United States Civil Service Commissioner Sir : I was not until last night fully informed of the circumstances connected with the Kellar affair. If you have Kellar's address, will you kindly advise him to report to me this morning for duty. I intend that this De partment shall strictly observe the law. . . . ' -l ."'Respectfully yours, ? . v- "Dahiei. MAirarKa." - - Kellar, who sat in Commissioner Eaton's office when the Secretary's letter was re ceived, went at once to the Treasury De partment, and was immediately appointed and Bet to work. It is understood that an interview took place this morning between the Secretary and Gen. Chenowith, during which it is said the former took occasion to state, with considerable emphasis, his de termination to uphold the civil Service law. i Washington, D. C July 3. Henry E. Williamson, of Holly Springs, Miss., Hen ry Fontenelle, member of the Omaha Indian tribe, and Edward L. Thomas, of Atlanta - G a., have been commissioned to appraise part of the Omaha Indian Reser vation in Nebraska, comprising about 5, 000 acres. - James Linn, postmaster at Bobbins Cross Roads, Ala., has been, arrested by postofflce inspectors for rifling registered letters. . . : . - Malcolm Hay has tendered his resigna, tion as First Assistant Postmaster General The President has accepted.it, to take effect Monday, and Ex Congressman Stevenson, of Illinois, has been appointed to succeed him. The President has appointed Judge Lambert Tree, of Ills., to be U. 8. Minis ter to Belgium; James , C. Williams, to be U. B. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Montford J. Jones to be U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. The appointment of Judge Tree, at first announced and then denied, has become an accomplished fact" The Judge is a lawyer, about 50 years of age. He is a son of the late Lambert Tree, of Washington, who was clerk in the Post Office Department for forty years or more. He is said to be very wealthy. -. He ran for Congress three years ago but was defeated by the Republican candidate. Recently he acquired national prominence as candidate for the Senate against Gen. John A. Logan.. -: The Postmaster General stated that Mr. Hay had continued laboriously to perform his duties in the Postofflce Department from the day when he assumed, personal charge of his bureau. A few days ago he was prostrated by a severe congestive chill, and while he was somewhat improved to day, he felt himself unable to continue his work; therefore, he had sent in his resignation to day, and it had been accepted to take effect Monday next. From the purest patriotic motives Mr. Hay had striven to continue the performance of his arduous and exhaus tive task, but his physical strength was not equal to the strain. Of Mr. Stevenson, who had been selected to succeed Mr.. Hay, the Postmaster General said that he was tho roughly in accord with the policy of the Administration and would carry out the wishes! of the President in the matter of ap pointments. Mr. Stevenson ; was born in Kentucky, in 1835, and removed to.Bloom ington, Ilhcois. when sixteen years of age, where he studied law. Mr. Stevenson held various ' judicial offices ; in that State, and was a candidate for Presidential elec tor on the McClellan ticket .in 1864. In 1874 he was elected to the U.S.House of Re presentatives. He was a delegate to the last Democratic National Convention. He voted on every ballot for Jas. E. McDonald, and was a member of the committee appointed. to notify the nominees of their select ion. "A lxo nas neen-a warm, ineuu ui jrusiuwoicr General Vilas for many years. Mr. Stevenr TT 1 . . ' S . T" . . son is a man of powerful physique and ia said to be well equipped for the discharge of his new duties. Thomas E. Nash, of Centralis, Wis., has been appointed Chief Clerk of the Post offlce Department, to succeed C. M. Wal ker, of Indiana, resigned. .Mr. Nash is thirty.three years of age and was born in Ohio. OHIO. . , trlka tn tha Cleveland Rollins; HlUa A Child KlllaoV Thronch 'n Drag . kUt'a nistaka Stat Prohibition Can vantlon --,.;; S - rJSvTalocrapktotlM Moralna Star.l , Cucvelard, July 2. Men employed in the wire departmenta of the Cleveland Rolling : Mills joined the other strikers this morning, making now 1.800 idle men now In New burgh. The officers of the mills have telephoned for police protection, but no violence is feared. The fact came out this morning that Charley Kil pa trick, only ' son of Thomas Kilpatrick, . the Euclid Avenue dry goods merchant was killed through a druggist's mistake. The boy was suffering with diph theria and a prescription was taken to a leading druggist who put' up a stronger dose of medicine than the prescription called for. The mother of the boy and the druggist are nearly Insane with grief. - Bpbdiofxbxd, July 2. The State Pro-" hibition Convention to day nominated for Governor bjr acclamation Revj A. B. Le ford, of Springfield. A committee was ap pointed to inform him of the fact and es cort him to the wigwam. On his arrival he was presented to the Convention and was greeted with applause, ; and proceeded to deliver an address of acceptance. - 'T-SfeX ARIZONA. ' ' Ueat. DtI) PtKht with the Indiana. ' Sak Frascisco, July A special from Tombstone, Arizona; says: "Wm. Penn Howland arrived last night from San Ber nardino; ranche. He gives the following account of the fight previously reported between , the whites t and the Indians -at Aputo. . Captain Crawford, with the main body of troops and scouts went directly toward Torres Mountains, while Lieu tenant Davis' command passed around to the east end of the mountains, flanking the Indians and surprising them while in camp. The camp consisted of seventeen bucks and fourteen women and children. In the attack two of the bucks were killed and one was wounded. The women I and children . and the 1 wounded bucks were made prisoners, but the rest of the Indians escaped into the mountains and it was found impossible to overtake them. Lieut-Davis sent Lieut Hanna with a de tail of j six men in charge of the prisoners ; and " three - mutinous Indian scouts to San Bernardino ranche. At the same time he sent a courier to Fort Bowie, asking Gen. Crook -for reinforce ments to meet Lieut Hanna at San Ber nardino ranche and relieve him. "When Howland left San Bernardino ranche, yes terday, Lieut Hanna had not arrived there, although he had been on the Way six days. Lieut McGrew, who had been dispatched to relieve Lieut Hanna,. arrived at the ranche on Monday and scouts have been sent out from Lieut McGrew's command to obtain news of Lieut Hanna. The be lief is that the fourteen bucks who made their escape after the Aputo fight seeing that the prisoners left the main command guarded only by Sir men, have followed and ambushed the party and massacrecd them and rescued the prisoners. ' i 1 ; NEW YORK. lower Prleea on the Stotk Exchange : Gen. Grant Feeltne Belter. - -Nbw York, July 2. The stock market has been unusually irregular to day, prices of the different stocks moving with little reference to each other, but the result of the day's operations is a greater or less de cline for, nearly everything on the active list The weakest stocks were the Grangers, Central of New Jersey, and Pacific Mail, and the strongest, Vanderbilts, Lackawanna and Gould stocks. Dealings in Lackawan na grow less daily. ; Pacific Mail developed early weakness and closed with a net loss of If. It is semi -officially announced that the usual dividend will be declared by Pa cific Mail about the middle of the current month, : when the . Company - will show enough cash on hand to pay a dividend and still have a surplus of $400,000. New Jer sey Central closed If and Lackawanna 1J lower. ! There were unconfirmed rumors of the settlement of the trouble between the New York Central and Pennsylvania roads, and of the restoration of rates. New York Central closed unchanged. St Paul and Northwestern each closed 11 lower. Sales 206,000 shares. Mount MacGbegor, July 2. General Grant slept and rested well last night At about 11 o'clock this morning he expressed himself as feeling better able to work than at any time since he came . here.- His wri ting materials were brought and he com menced writing again in the line of his work. The day has been too chilly for the patient to go out of doors. . j FLORIDA. Horrible AInrder and Honae Bnrnlac ' NearCltra. - Jacksonville, July 2. A special to the Timet- Union from Citrs. Fla., says that a horrible murder and house burning oc curred yesterday near that place. The only particulars obtainable are that at about 8 p. m. a dense smoke was seen from Citra in the direction of J. O. Mathews' dwell-; ing. A party of citizens went out and found jtbat the house was nearly burned down,) Three; bodies, were seen in the flames, and a colored girl ten years old was lying near with her skull crushed, but able to speak a little. She says a party came to the house and killed Martha Lewis,Grace Lewis and her baby, and tried to kill her, and then aet fire to the house. The names of the party are withheld until later, as they are not yet under arrest- Mathews went North a few days ago, - leaving his house in charge of the Lewis family. The commu nity "is greatly excited over the terrible crime, i .The victims are all colored, and were honest reliable people. NEW TORE.. Itlra. Yaenlt Dadley to he Sent to an Aaylum-She la WIIIIds to a o An other Crank Woman make her Ap '; pearmnee. ' i '-t: "-'- - r tBv TelecraDfc to the Xorauut Star.l " New Yobk, July 2. The case of Mrs. Lucille Yseult Dudley, who was acquitted onthe ground of insanity, of a felonious assault in shooting O'Donovan Rossa, was up in court again to day.. "Before the pro ceedings began a woman, laboring under excitement appeared at the door of the Court' She was prevented from entering, when j she announced herself as a dyna miter. She said Mrs .Dudley was no more insane than she, the speaker was, and asked why Mrs. Dudley was not sent to jail like other people. When- told to leave the building she refused, and was arrested and taken to the Police Court ;. Mrs. Dudley was in court but was; connned in the the er's the prison pen. Judge Gildersleeve, District Attorney, and the prison Counsel held a long consultation, at end of which the Court denied the motion to transfer Mrs. Dudley to an English asylum. The District Attorney suggested that she be sent to the State asylum at Auburn, but Judge Gildersleeve expressed a preference for the Middletown Asylum, and sent Mrs. Dudley there to be confined, r When notified of this disposi tion of her -case, the prisoner said she was satisfied; that she needed rest and seclusion, and expected to be benefitted by the treat ment, in Middletown. She will probably be taken to her new quarters to morrow. . ILLINOIS. The Street Car Driver Strike in Cht - i eao. (Br Telearaph to the Xommc Star.l . v Chicago. July 3. The West Side Divi- sion street cars, on the second and third . . a. . . I. . -1 trips to-day, came through safely. Nobody but policemen, however, are riding upon the cars, and the Company is not sending out any cars except when thoroughly guarded; neither is it attempting to run cars on any street except Madison. -The claim is made in some quarters that the au thorities have not met the strikers in a pro per way and that more vigorous measures will have to be pursued to restore good order.. Upint3 Turpontino. Mr. Pierre LuJwtj, a German -tbtmtst, died at Btatesville recentiy.aged C5. lUloih Recorder: Haven't you ktard Mr. Star what Is to go with Trin ity T If the next Conference does not offer a protest, and we do not see bow It can since It has surrendered its claim for three years, the matter Is settled. We have heard nothing and do not understand you. ' Star. :.(- w . - - . Raleigh Visitor: It was a ten innings game and resulted in a tie. The game was as follows: ' t. c 1 3 3 4 5 6 78 9 10-Total. Goldsboro, ,08001 0 0 0 0 15 Raleigh. 0 1 0 10 0 0 1 1 15 Base hits, I Raleigh 10; Goldsboro 13. Errors, Raleigh 9; Goldsboro 3. Umpire. Mr. Charles Jordan. ' Under an act of the General Assembly providing for the appointment of a board to equalize taxes tn the various counties, . Gov. Scales has appointed the following gentlemen :' Messrs. John W. Graham, Hillsboro, George How -and. Tarboro, and Thomas Patton, Ashe ville. " ; ;:-' " f . ; y .- ; ' ; -;. "; i ' - - -" J - Eliaabethtown ' Bulletin: ' TTie i son of Alfred McCall, who lives at Clark- -ton, was drowned in the Pee Dee river one day last week. -. There is a depressed ; feeling existing among the colored people in this section, which is caused, we think, by the stagnation in business and the con sequent lack of employment and in many instances they are endeavoring to remedy this by emigrating to new homes. ? '-' Asheville Advance: Yesterday morning a meeting of the faculty and trds- -tees of the Normal 8chool was held ra the Female College. The Institute will be or ganized on Wednesday night . Thursday -and Friday will be mainly devoted to pre-' liminary explanations, &c On Mon day the work "proper begins. ; Prof. White, principal of the Knoxv'dle Graded School, has been elected superintendent of the Normal at this place. . ..- i. .. s . Rockingham -jiocAcf; A Berious accident occurred to Dr. J. M. Covington's little boy on last Thursday. He had been - cutting on a tree, and stopping to rest, 1 handed the axe to another little boy, John McRae, who continued to chop, but making a mislick he drove the axe into Jimmy Covington's foot making a fearful gash. To stop the frightful bleeding the little fel- " low filled the gash with sand, which ren-V dered the proper dressing' of the .wound all the more difficult. The wound is healing slowly. . J '; : Winston Leader: - A firm, com- ' posed of colored' men, - merchandizing, Thomas & Stockton by name, made ah as- -signment last week, R. B. Kerner as signee. : Liabilities about $1,000. One hundred years old. This is the centennial year of the iSalem Fire Company. - The ' first flrfl pncrinA wnu Imnnrtwl frnm Viunna to our neighbor in 1785. They have the engine yet " I A report Is in circulation that a newspaper is to be started in Green s- Doro osienBioiy in opposition to nr. j. w. -Reid. Itis said Mr. J. W. Albright is to be the editor. ... ' New Berne . Journal: At the' meeting of the Young Men's Christian As sociation last Sunday evening twenty-four names were added to the list, making forty members, i ' Yesterday as the brick masons were ' about completing the front -parapet wall of the new building on Middle stieet being erected for Mr. T. A. Green, they felt the staging giving away and grab- bed the wall. The wall having been just put up, came -tumbling down upon the staging and carried it to the ground with a crash. Two of the woikmen were seriously . bruised, but no one was killed. , Clinton Caucasian: We learn that the tobacco crops in Turkey township, where they are cultivating the weed for the first time, are quite promising. Forty six years ago, Mr. Bryan Dickson lost his gold watch in the - Pollock mill pond, near New ; Hope church. One , day last week Master Joe! Pollock went to drive-his father's - cattle .home, - and saw something glittering in the sand. - It proved to be the crystal of the long-lost watch. The case and crystal were as ; sound as if they had been safely kept in a show case during the period of their exposure. Even the hands were as bright as a new pin. The works were almost eaten up by rust- The watch is of English make. Fayetteville Sun: Mr. A. J. " Woodward, of Haymount, had a sunstroke on Saturday last. He is improving now. -- Tokay, the vineyard of Col. Wharton J. Green, is situated upon a high hilL on the western bank of the Cape Fear, com manding a view stretching out or miles upon the eastern bank of that "storied stream." A traveller upon the eastern bank -may view ita beautiful undulating hills for -miles. Now the vines are clothed with beautiful garments of green. - We no tice that the good; crops our farmers are . bragging about are not connned to the low er east side of the river. Up the river we notice that the cotton is almost universally ' fine.; All the small grain has been cut and is shocked upon the fields. Though not altogether ' as fine as the average, it . is rather better than we expected. - ; Goldsboro Argus: A small boy, ; six years old, son of Craven Coward, of Lenoir county, one day last week, accident ally fell into a well twenty feet deep, in which there was seven feet of water. The child's parents were in the field at work, and the alarm was given by his younger sister.1 "The little fellow says he started headforemost but turned a "summerset" before he reached th3 water. - He went to the bottom, and when he arose to the sur face, he clenched the sides of the well with both bands and feet and held his position about twenty minutes, when he was safely rescued. . He says he never became alarmed or thought of being drowned. The score of yesterday's game of base ball stood 18 to 8 in favor of the Nationals.' So the professionals were too much for the Oxford -boys Stab. - - Charlotte Observer: Yesterday afternoon a difficulty occured In the Ob server office between Mr. W. H. Harris, as sociate editor, and Mr, E. L. Eeesler, a dry goods clerk in the establishment of Alex ander & Harris. ' The difficulty itself was a small matter. At Lincolnton yester day, as the train on the Chester & Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad was pulling out from the depot.' a gentleman of the colored persuasion held to the platform railing and leaned out so that he could watch the van ishing glories .of the Lincolnton depot. . While he was in this position the train moved by a telegraph pole set close to the track, and which took the colored tourist in the back of the head, tumbling him to the ground. - Though badly stunned the darkey arose and ran after the train. - Mrs. Leanne J. Robertson, wife of Samuel C. Robertson, died at her home in Greens boro on the, 2nd ult. Raleigh Netos-Observer: Prof. Walter D. Toy, of Norfolk, Va., is about 29, and he graduated with the degree of A. M. at the University of Virginia, being considered one of the finest scholars ever graduated at that institution.-He is dis tinguished for his knowledge of German. French, Latin, Greek, Arabic and Sanscrit. Prof. Nelson B- Henry, who is to fill the chair of science and art of teaching, is a native of Missouri and a professor in the -normal college. His, age is about 40. He graduated at the State normal college of Missouri, He has been for four years pro- , feasor of the English language and litera ture, and also of methods of - teaching and school ' management 'or four years. Mr , James Lee Love, of , Gastonia, -N. C. , receives the assistant professorship of : pure mathematics. He is about 24, and was prepared for tho University at King's Mountain by Capt Bell. i He is one of the -finest mathematicians graduated from the : University since its re opening in , 1875. After graduating in the school of mathe matics, he took a year's course at Johns Hopkins University under Prof. Story, Prof. Franklin and others. He is a Pres byterian, i Prof. George F." Atkinson, now at Cornell : University,-; New: York, pursuing special studies in zoology and botany, is the choice for the assistant pro fessorship in natural history. He is abont L 27 years of age, and graduated at Cornell. For two years he taught in a college in Alabama. f It was recommended by the committee of the trustees that two of . the assistant professorships be not now filled. It was decided, however, by the, trustees to leave only one vacant . that be- , Ing of engineering. The ' executive com mittee was charged with the duty of put ting into - execution such details as are necessary in regard to the prof ee&rshipa, obtaining apparatus, &c President Battle .. last evening notified the professors elect of the action of the trustees. . . - -