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The Weekly Star. PUBLISHED AT 1 L M I N G T O N, N, C., AT ' . :-. 1 v 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. iV I sSsSSSSSSSSSSSS - ' ggS888S888S88S888 : SSSSSSSSSSSS8S88S - . 8SSSS8S88888S388S " SSSSSoSSSSSSSSSSS : 8S8SS88888S88888S rp SSS8SSS28SS8S88S-, S88SSSSSS8SS8S8S8 5 - n V . - ' - ( " 9 ' - " " fCnfred at the Post Office atWilmington, N. CL, KJWUUU VXO09 ABbW31J S ITBSCBIPTIOIT PRICE. - Tin" subscriBtion price of the Weeej.y Star is as follows : , Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, $1.50 6 months, " 1.00 " 3 months. " " .50 THE NEWIB1N PEBFORMANCK, Parson Newman is an ingrained 8- nsatioaalist of the very worst type. lie is intellectual and bright and ffy. Bat he has disappointed the newspaper men to some extent by tin- comparative reserve and dignity of serraonr on Grant. There is for him bat little gash and bathos and blarney. Of coarse Dr. Newman -could not talk and not be excessive, He must make Grant the; most mar velloiis of men. It was not expected that the. parson could do less. Bat what wcjoiean to say is that while he "flopped over" he did not do so m as huge a. cataract style as some v; cte(i. lie was actually lome wliai subdued in tone now and then, aii'l it can be said that the parson umiM have been more excessive in In- .-n! gir'.icKtrain8 if be bad so par But he i.h catching it fr,om tl,v newspapers, whilst the whole country breathes freer now that t.v-uaii -has been beard. Lt liira no quickly subside after his much tifervefcicg. The Philadelphia Times ina!e the rhetorical parson to a somewhat sharp criticism. The fol lowing will erve as a sample: : 'T'ois pu'pi.sterous person slopped over tA Mount .McGregor yesterday for the space ot an Lour and a quarter, and bis speech.as furiiistiHTin advance to the newspapers. m tiits srvea columns in type. Tbey are snv n columns of unmitigated rubbish. A in ,i n of sense and taste would have spi.kin calmly of Gen. Grant's life and f!i;M-(;;cr, dwelling on those aspects of both t ti ir f.te most worthy of regard and en ftiH-iug tiiosc public and personal lessons wbi. ii hw career so strongly points. But Xea man was there to praise the dead,' and be did it with a profusion that is simply u,i lifting Yet Newman does not stop here. Having attributed to Grant all i he virtues of all the military men tbatever lived; h has still to show that be was the. greatest of all men in civil life yes, ereater than the greatest. Of mc iiuiiiiuu iiicwjriu- wiui w uiv.ii jjxr. . Ncsniatt lays bate the sacred privacies of Hi.- family and spreads the little domestic S'.-ii-i mentalities before the world it is im- i : j: i. . u .. : : v. v : u "If p 'ssibie u speak with adequate contempt; out that is not the serious part or bis of i-cmes. It is the violence that such a man does to truth and to the serious judsment of the world that makes his pub . i;c . rforiuance on such an occasion, not ou!y dit-gusting. but positively barmfuL V 'nCu he raises Gract to a superhuman eievait-u ata claims . for him qualities -which i. very one knows that he did not p.M8 and the absence of which alone ex p!ifc.s s-.iuje essential parts of bis character and on e; r. we have to conclude either that the pu ai ber is grossly ignorant or that he wiiiuliy disregards the truth, and in either 'asprct the influence of such preaching must be bad." ' . . - - Of eourse there are Northern pa perri that take another view that re gard , Newman'' perfervid gush as tSle tatemeut of simple and unvar nished truth, and that the. parson's fanlt. la fallinrr enrkft in nninfr hnnnr - " ... ........ W ... to-the" character and parts of the dead hero. Some men worship truth ; other men only kif s the blarney stone. Hll L. ROADS AND PBOSFBUITT. - The earnings of railroads are a very good guide as to the prosperity! of a country.; When freights fall off there is a diminution of trade. "Poor's Manual" of railroad statis tics possesses much interest. At the close of 1884, there were being oper ated in the , United States 125,39 miles of railroad. Daring the year 3,977 miles were built. The total : indebtedness (including every thing) is given at $7,676,399054. The average cost per mile, 161,400. Gross earnings $770,680,098 against 275,772,724 for 1883 a falling off of 6 4 per cent. From 1879 to 1883, the annual to 40000 miles average. ; The con st ruction of roads has dropped to less inan 4,000 miles. I his is very sug- gcivive. There were more passen gtra trati ported in 1884 than in 1883. The number given is 334,816,592, an increase of 22,127,888, or. 7.8 per ni. The amount received was less per mile. The number of tons of "freight-was 390,074,729, a decrease f 10,478,690, or 2f per cent. The rates fell off so that the receipts were 150,000,000 less than they would have been if the rates bad kept up. It is thought by the com-! raercial papers that the fall trade iU be better than last fall. Miss Adalaide Moore (she is mar ried, but actresses no w-a-days are "ever known as" Mrs. because she may get another name), is an Eng. llBh actress recently arrived. She is 23 plump and engaging, and has been starring it in England quite successfully. She may make a hit n the American boards. - . The Weeivly Stab. ' 1 , . - ' . 't - - ' - - VOL. XVI. If ABIES OF HEROES. , ; It is singular that there should be & dispute about the name of Gen. Grant. For a long time- we have had the; impression, that it . was Hiram Ulysses. So his father eaidt and so a Federal General published whenQrant was President, adding . that he bad submitted it to the General himself and he said it was correct. The story was that when he was appointed a cadet to West Point that Representa tive Thomas L. Hamer made a mis take and applied for U. S. Grant, and that his name was so recorded in the books of the Military Academy and that Grant adopted it thereafter. We bad supposed that this was the cor rect statement, but the: last Chicago Inter-Ocean gives a letter from New York in which - it is claimed that Grant's name was not Hiram Ulysses or Ulysses Simpson but Ulysses Hiram. In proof the, writer has gone to the register of Roe's Hotel, now the West Point Hotel, and examined it to see how Gran t-gigned his oame when- he' arrived to. begin his cadst life. He says on the. 29th of May, 1839, he wrote his name in the regis ter as k follows : U. . H. t Grant, Geobge'd, Ohio. The place indi cated was an abbreviation of George town. That was his home when ap pointed a cadet. The writer says: "The writer took this page in to General W. T. Sherman, at the Fifth Avenue Ho tel, a night or two since. The General looked atjt through a pair of hugh epecta clea with tortoise shell frames that gave him an almost owlish look. " 'Well-well, well.'he said, 'that does beat all. Why, ColonelFred and I were talking about lhis only yesterday. Fred says his father's initials were H. XL, for Hiram Ulysses. This don't look like it It must bave been Ulysses Hiram.'" " The Inter- Ocean publishes a fac simile of the entire page of the ho tel register upon which U. H. Grant's name appears.; There are two from Charlotte, N. C, namely, L. Cald well and Miss Wright. Now what was Grant's real name ? He wrote U. H. Gen. Sherman says it is plain enough now that that was his name. - - The reader will remember that only a month or two ago Borne pa pers did not know the name of the great Virginian Confederate. There were those who thought it was Ro bert Edmund. ; But there is not, the slightest reason for doubting that it was Robert Edward Lee. It re so engraved on his tomb at Lexington. Bat is it not remarkable that there should be any discussion in 1885 as to the real names of the two great leaders that were each other through pitted . against so .many months of doubtful contest ? ARCHIBALD HBRDEBSOX. This distinguished native of North Carolina was the son of Judge Rich ard Henderson, of the Revolution. His mother was a daughter of Lord Keeling. He was born in Granville county and was a brother of the em inent Chief Justice Leonard Hen derson. The Legislature desired to place Archibald on the Supreme Court Bench, of the State, but he declined saying that one of the fam ily was quite enough. We learned this interesting fact from the late Hon. Hugh Waddell, whose memory we revere. 1 We knew him from our boyhood and it was a letter from h,im to the late William J: Bingham that secured a place for us in his school of thirty boys when that was bis limit at Oaks. We bave beard the same thing concerning Mr. Hen derson and the Bench from apother person. 7 Unlike his brother, who was of somewhat stammering speech, Archi bald Henderson was : an - orator, Judge Murphey, in; his elegant; ad dress at Chapel Hill, refers to him as the "model lawyer of North Caro. Una." At the time; Mr. Henderson was in his prime there is no doubt that he was the foremost advocate and orator at our bar. He was a great lawyer, elegant, persuasive, full. learned, profound. JdLe was probably not as great a jurist as his brother; he had not so reflective a mind, but he was tar more rhetorical, winning, ready, eloquent and effec- . ? : tt i . i 1 . l uve. ne succeeded wnen nis orotner would have failed j lamentably. If he had been on the Bench- he would have left a name hut little lower than that of the three or j four first class jurists who liave been Chief Justice of the State.! : He died when bis intellectual powers were in , full splendor, at his home at Salisbury. But few of the many able lawers of our State ever' so impressed their fel low men tor uncommon powers as did this, illustrious and admirable man. ; He was amiable and true and noble as the Hendersons - have been generally. One of the ablest men of the Revolutionary period was the father of Leonard and Archibald Henderson. - " . , . i - - Mr. Henderson has left no memo rials of his intellectual greatness. ; It is already a tradition, as it is with so many of our strongest and best fur nished men. Some one ; ought ; to take the trouble to hunt np all the reminiscences - that j can be gathered of this great lawyer. He was a large man physically as was the Chief Justice. The Hendersons of that and the following? generation were WW men'of marked physical proportions. Their f aoes were very strong noble foreheads, prominent noses, protru ding chins, firm-set jaws, with kind ness and openness of expression,' .Tbey were remarkable for their be nevolent qualities. :; The late Archi bald Henderson, of Granville, son of the Chief Justice, was of this type. A man was arrested for stealing from .; him. He gave the late Judge Gilliam, - his intimate - friend,- the money to get tha- rogue out of the difficulty. North Carolina has pro duced many noble, able, high-minded men but no family has yet given to the State two such men. in mental. moral and social qualities as Leonard and Archibald Henderson, of' Gran ville. Some seven or eiebt years aeo we published ; in ; the Stab a three column sketch of the Chief Justice. We have supplemented this now - by telling the very little we know pf bts illustrious brother. "T- - - ' ' A HAND80B1B TRIBUTE. ' v 'Judge Shepherd,-we believe, is the youngest Judge on the bench at this time. He has borne himself se well since he was invested with the er mine and has shown such a clear, ju dicial mind that be has won the good opinion of the best lawyers wherever he has held court. The Stab has very rarely referred to the Judges in the way of " laudation. There has been ; a great deal of this sort of thing within the last r six or eight years. Before the war Judges were expected to do right and the newspa pers hardly ever referred to them In terms of commendation. Judses . . - ... were expected to shun politics and hold the scales with judicial fairness. This was not alwavs done, for some of the J udges were men of prejudice and one or two of them were men of small legal attainments or mental parts. The Judges now will average with those who rode the circuits gen erally before the war. We have received a private letter from a legal gentleman that contains such a neat, and no jdoubt jdeserved reference, to Judge Shepherd that we will take' the liberty of reproducing apart. He says: "Since Judge Shepherd has been on the Bench 1 have visited the principal sections of our State, and 1 have talked with the leaders of the lespd profession. It is' the generally received opinion that there are m ,re elements found in mm tbat go to make up the lull and rounded dispenser of justice than in any man who has filled that position for a number of years past In the dispatch of business his manner can scarcely be excelled, and his honesty and integrity stand high and towering. The lawyers as well as the attorneys love him. He grasps at once the most intricate ques tions and it is really refreshing to witness the rapidity with which he disposes of the "curious and- abstruse" tbat crept into the law in the days of Coke and Bracton. He is urbane and kind to a marked degree, yet his manners bear no semblance to obse quiousness and all gentlemen like him. In private life he is plain, pleasant and enter taining, and he knows exactly how to tell a joke and what kind to telL" WHY SALISBURY BLOWS. The bellicose tone of Lord Salis bury is accounted for by a supposed iderstanding between hiujL ; and Bismarck. if Russia makes war because of this or that, Herat or Zulfikar PaBs, then England will find a friend in Germany. This is certainly of very great importance to England if war is to come, and in that particular it is much better tbat the Tories should be in power than the Liberals. But, that is said with view to hostilities. If Mr. - Glad stone had continued at the head of affairs there would have been no war and Great Britain would have saved " ; tens' of ' thousands of valuable lives and hundreds of mil lions of pounds. So - the question may be considered thus: Is it better to bave war j with Germany as an ally, or to have peace with Germany sulky and half unfriendly. The New York Times explain why it is that Bismarck is so hostile to Gladstone and friendly to Salisbury. It says. "Mr. Gladstone himself had been led by his antipathy to the Turks and his conse quent sympathy with the Russians to throw, the weight of England pretty constantly into the scale opposed to the interests and wishes of Germany. He had in conse quence got himself thoroughly disliked at Berlin, and it would have been difficult to arrive at a cordial understanding, even in cases where the interests of Germany and of England were obviously identical. Lord Salisbury, on the other band, represents the English party naturally the more in favor at Berlin. He has also the personal advan tage of having been a delegate to the Berlin Congress of 1878, and of having done his share to bring about a result which was eminently calculated to satisfy Germany. But if England allows herself to en sage in a war with Russia with Germany as backer, what will Aus tria, France and Italy do? Is Rus sia powerless to form alliances ? Emperor William, of .Germany, and Emperor , Frances Joseph, , of Austria, had a meeting on Thursday at ? Gasteen. There is no signifi cancv in their'annual meetings. It is only two old despots getting togeth er to whisper over their secrets. . Up to . Thursday night 120,000 people in New York had taken a last look at Gen. Grant's remains lying in state in the' City Hall. Thousands waited for hours to get a lasj look at the dead hero. Rich and poor marched side by side to his bier. WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, AUGUST U, 185; The Tarboro Southerner reads the Stab a lecture, calls it "foolish" and "puerile'' to listen "to the malcon tents of the Third Regiment" and so on in the usual style. - The Stab has good reason for believing that the Second Regiment was unjustly dealt with, and having such reason it did its duty in stating its. conviction. The Stab does not desire to widen the breach or aid in breaking np the encampment.' If the people J are to be taxed to make a display there must be no occasion for complaints of bad. treatment or the encampment will find many : enemies. The Stab believes In right and justice. If the Second failed to get the prizes it un questionably -bore off khe : honors. What "officers of the ary" decided in favor of the First? If CoL Black over his own signature will say that the First is entitled to the prizes it is very certain , that the . Stab will acquiesce and be as - f dumb ; as an oyster. If CgCJones and the rank and file of the Second Regiment are satisfied with the Southerner's ver sion of course the Stab it is not our quarrel, f will be, for Ex-Gov. Foster has been inter- viewed relative h to something that was ; threatening says, and, if he Chauncey Depew to -reveal. ; Foster tells the truth, there is no truth in the statement of Mr. Crawford in the New York World that Grant did not believe that . Hayes was elected, &o. Here is what Foster says: "It was claimed that Hayes sold out to the South in order to obtain his seat. I know as much or more of that controversy than any other man. i I know if it had not been for Grant's prompt action there would bave been trouble. When it came to the final count of the ballots, the Democrats were going to filibuster and let the vote go by until after the 4th of March. Then there would have been no President -Tilden was to have taken the oath of office. This plan did not work, as - it soon became known that Grant would hold bis seat until a legal successor had been elected. He was determined that there should be no fooling." " - -- -' ' . ' The friends of Mr. Gladstone have serious fears that he will never be able to address his fellow men again. His throat Beems to be almost hope lessly diseased. ; He is over seventy five years old and he has had to tax his voice and throat night and day. Recently two deputations called upon him and his. son and wife bad to answer for him. . We agree with the Baltimore American in the follow ing: V :-l V'rV-: "There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought tbat such a magnificent instru ment of eloquence will never be heard in public again. .Let us all hope tbat the grand old man will recover his voice." Gen. Sheridan has made a report of the Indian matters, and he says the disturbances were caused by the whites and not by the Indians. The Philadelphia iV?ie,!Rep., says: ; "Gen. Sheridan's report completely justi fies the President's position and proclama tion. The cattle men had not the slightest legal right to enter the Indian Territory, and the agent was criminally foolish to adopt coercive methods of civilizing wild Indians. The report shows pos itively, and in such a way that no one can read it without a burning sense of shame, that the whole treatment of the Indians is marked by a shameful indifference to their rights." - " I The deaths in this city for July were divided whites 7, blacks 30. At thaf rate the death, for a year would be 6.1 ia the 1,000 inhabitants for whites, and 30. in the 1,000 for blacks. But the usual rate is about 13 or ,14 for whites and from 19 to 22 for colored. But the. difference in the death rate for July of the two races is most striking. There were 7 still-born blacks not included in the above. Thomas W. Keene, the actor, is coming into more prominence as a Shakespearean personator in spite of many adverse criticisms. He has never played but one week in New York and then to ; crowded houses. He is to play there four weeks the next season. . ! - Do our readers know that Ken tucky had an election last Monday for a .Legislature and State Treasur er ? The Democrats carried the State of course by a round majority. A call for a State Constitutional Con vention was defeated. There is a great increase of cancer ous diseases in England of late years. Dr. Whitehead, "an eminent physi cian, says tbat in 1849 there were 4,807 deaths - from cancer; in 1882 there were 14,057. In one week this season there oc curred in New. York 'city .1,700 deaths. A Cariosity la meebanUm. A very creditable piece of mechanism is on exhibition in the show window of Mr, G. W. Huggin's jewelry store, on Market street It consists of a panoramic view of a lake scene in Italv. On one side of the lake.is a grist mill with its water wheel re volvine. while on the opposite is" a ; tall castle,- which is very handsomely made, In the castle is a small watch which is running, keeping perfect time, and is in tended to represent a large clock. In the rear of the lake a steamboat about six inches long, is plying to and fro across the water and at stated intervals a train of cars runs from the rear of the castle'to the mill and is then lost to sight until it again makes its appearance behind the castle. The whole thing is run by clock work and fills up about one-half of the window. It is the handiwork of Mr. E. V. Richards and should be seen to be appreciated. BTeuorlal Servleea at SU Stephen's A .-,7 . .'M. K, CbBreta. , v. . Memorial services in honor of ex-Presl-denf U. S. Grant, whose funeral obsequies took place in New York yesterday, were held at St Stephen's A. M. E. Church at 2 p. m., under the auspices of J. C. Abbott Post No. 15, Grand Army of the Republic, of which Geo. L. Mabson Is commander. The colored firemen did not make their ap pearance to escort the Grand Army Poski Otherwise the programme as published in the Star was carried out An appropriate eulogy, replete with biographical sketches' of Gen. Grant's war and civil records, was' delivered,,, by Mr. Stacey J yanAmringe, which was preceded by a touching prayer byRev.rJ. W. Telfair, the pastor of St ' Stephen's Church, i The services were in terspersed with appropriate music.. The church was very tastefully decorated and draped with mourning. A feature of the occasion were the ritualistic services by the Grand Army Post. There was a large at tendance at the church. Q. - P. Rourk officiated as master of ceremonies. : . - Daring the . day ' the flags of the City Hall, Custom House, 'Court House, the German .Imperial . Consulate, and of the British, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, and the'Argentine RepuhlicYice Consulates were at half-mast The Custom House, Court House and Postoffice were draped in mourning. - :; .The following resolutions were furnished for publication by the committee of the Board of Aldermen, appointed at the meet ting on Monday evening last to prepare suitable resolutions with "reference to the death of ex-President Grant: -" ' v ', - 1st The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the city of Wilmington have heard with profound regret of the death of General U. S. Grant after his protracted and patient sufferings. . -. ' . ' 2nd. Withoat referring particularly to the endowments which justly made him famous throughout the world, and to his miny excellent personal qualities, we de sire to put on record our lasting recollec tion of of the magnanimity and forbearance which characterized his treatment of the South at the close of the late war, and' to commend especially his noble utterances in the closing moments of bis life, ' towards healing the wounds of tbat unhappy event andreuuiting the people of the whole coun try in the bonds of fraternal love. " 3rd. It is with great pleasure that we find our feelings prompting us so spon taneously to extend to his bereaved family and to our brethren at the North a sincere sympathy at their and the country's loss. 4th. l bat a copy ot these resolutions be sent his family and be spread upon the minutes of this Board. Second Ad vent 1st Conference to be Held In tbla City A Statement of tbelrBelieC What is known as the Piedmont A. C- Conference will convene with the 2nd Ad ventist Baptist Church of this city at 12 o'clock on Monday, Aug. 13lh, and con tinue its session until the following Sunday night. For the benefit of those interested we have been furnished with the following concerning this peculiar people. - This con ference, says our informant, is - composed mostly of members and churches once Mis sionary Baptists, but excluded from the several churches and associations by reason of their peculiar faith, as follows: Con ditional immortality; that is, they hold tbat God alone hath immortality, and man must seek for it or die the second death: that death is the opposite of, and. extinction of, life; hence wheu'a man dies he is neither in heaven or hell, paradise or purgatory, but silent in the grave, from which he shall arise on the last day to enter upon eternal life, if worthy, or, to die the second death," if unworthy. They argue that if men are sent to heaven or bell at dcatb, then the re surrection and judgment are of no conse quence. They deny the eternal torment of the wicked, hut argue that the wicked will die the second death and be no more. They hold that the whole earth is to be purified by fire and made new, and that Christ will reign in the new earth as King. As to the matter of baptism, they announce them selves as uncompromising immersionists. Colombo. Superior Co art. Only one case of any importance on the criminal docket in Columbus Court had been tried up to Wednesday evening. This was the case of the State vs. Millikin, charged with breaking into the warehouse of the W., C. & A. Railroad at Whiteville depot, and stealing money, valuable papers, etc:, last fall; which was heard on Tues day. We learn that the circumstantial evi dence was strong, but he was acquitted on the ground that there was no direct evi dence against him. The State was repre sented by Messrs. Solicitor Mclver, Wil liams and Schulken; and the defendant by Messrs. French, Norment, McDaniel and lie wis. The bar is largely represented, including sevetai lawyers from this city. ' The civil docket had not been reached when our informant left Whiteville. The "Short-Cat." CoL Fleming Gardner, Chief Engineer Ik. W!1.i Jlr 'PaTrotfACTillo "fill t " Ui luc TV luuu w cajeiivTmu wu's. v va , is here on a brief official visit. He inform ed a Stab representative that the road will be completed sometime in 1886, certainly in time for tbe cotton season ot tbat year. The distance from Wilmington to Fayette- vule by lnis route is about 178 miles, and it is Calculated tbat -the run will be made. by day train, between the two points in about six hours. Col. Gardner speaks most encouragingly of the country through which tbis road passes, and looks tor heavy local traffic. Street CoIUelon. Considerable excitement was created for a few moments on Market street yesterday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, by an acciden tal collision between the horse and buggy of Mr. J. TV Foy. of Scott's Hill, Pender countv. which was beine driven by a col ored boy, and the carriage of Mr. J. B Turrentine, by which the latter was cap sized. Fortunately no damage ensued to the inmates of the vehicle and but little to the vehicles themselves. From Shelby to Wilmington. - j Mr. J. M. Black, of Shelby, is managing the excursion to be run from that place to Wilmington next week. He has been in correspondence with Mr. A. G. McGirt oa the subject ' The train will leave Shelby on the: 11th and reach here on the 12th, startine with two coaches and about seven ty-five persona, but with the expectation of adding coaches and passengers as the ex cursion progresses in this direction. The visitors expect to remain until Friday. During the present crop yearj from Sept 1st to date, the receipts of cot ton at this port have footed up 93.923 bales. as against 91,574 for the same period last year. . : WJL8B.lJBtQTQIil V ? Exeentlve Departments to ha Clave To-Day Appointment. Custom. Of ficer. Dltmlued. ... Washington. August 6. The President to-day issued the following executive or der: "It is hereby ordered that the several Executive departments, the Department of Agriculture and the Government printing office, be closed to-morrow (Friday, Au gust 7th,) at 3 o'clock p. m., to enable such employes as may desire to attend the fune ral of the late ex-President Grant in New York." - A previous order provided for. the suspension of business in the above named departments on Saturday. v ine uisinct uommissioners to-day is sued an order closing all offices under their jurisdiction on Saturday. - The President to-day appointed - to he Surveyors of Customs: John T. Gathright for the port of Louisville, -Ky.; Lean Trousdale, for the port of Nashville, Tenn, ine (secretary or the Treasury to-dav promoted James R. Lake, a clerk of Class to be Assistant Chief of the Customs Division of the Secretary's office. Y He also directed the dismissal of the following special inspectors of foreign steam vessels: Bamuel Phillips. Michael Conklin. and David Gillespie, at New York: Frederick Washington,, at New Orleans; Elisha Whit ney, at Boston; Nelson Pierce, at San Francisco, and John Laughlin," at Phila delphia. Lewis M. : reck, clerk to the Board of Inspectors at New - York, was dismissed, as was also Thomas C. Taylor, a cierK or uiass 4 in tbe second Auditors office. - - i Washusgtoit, August 6 -The President to day appointed Wm. Evans, to be nost- master .at La Grange, Ga., vice John C. tfeali, suspended; Kichard Holmes, at Natchez, Miss. ,; vice Wm. McCary, sus pended; and Wm.- M. Gay, at Wilson, N. C , vice Mrs. Virginia Sharp, suspended. w AflniNGTON, Aug. 7. Minister Heiley will return to the United States. It is un derstood that he will soon resign his pres ent office, and that he will not be appointed to another foreign mission. - s U. d. Uonsul Duiais, at Havre, informs the Department of State that cholera is increasing , at Marseilles. Ia accordance with bis own recommendations Consul Dufais has been directed to inspect vessels leaving for the United States. Prof. J. E. Hilgard, suspended Superin tendent of the Coast and Geologic Survey, tendered bis resignation to day and it was accepted to take effect immediately. . The f resident to-day appointed to be postmasters : Washington J . Barrett, Kin ston. N. C.,r vice W. A. Coleman, sus pended; Joseph Allen, Durham, N. C, vice D. C. Mangum, suspended. The following is official, and is to-dav appended to the nook containing a list of postmasters appointed at the Presidential offices since the adjournment of the Senate: suspensions in tbe foregoing cases were with two exceptions made for partisanship. Two were made upon reports of inspectors showing bad management of offices by in cumbents. ; The President has now considered all cases or f residential postmasters which have been made ready and presented to his attention. He has made 467 appointments, of which 274 were to vacancies caused by the expiration of terms or resignation, and 193 in place of suspended officers. Every case of suspension has been carefully con sidered upon evidence, in pursuance of the same principles by which he i was guided In tnejeeinning, and a large number of solicitearemovals have been refused, in cluding some of his last consideration' of cases on yesterday, because tbe proofs were not Buch in bis judgment as to warrant tbe action. Arrangements have been made so that commissions will he issued notwith standing the President's absence, when bonds are filed and approved. : Tbe President, accompanied by members of his Cabinet (except Secretary Manning who went yesterday) Justice Woods of the. Supreme Court, CoL Lamont and U. 8. Marshal McMichael, left Washington for Mew York in a special car at 4 o clock this afternoon. Secretaries Endicott and La mar, Attorney General Garland and Post master General Vilas, are expected to re turn Sunday. Secretary Bayard will pro bably be absent until Tuesday. Secretary wnitney win be away tor about two weeks. during which time he will take a portion of his vacation. Secretary Manning will also take his vacation before returning. . HON. jTmIkEILEY. Austria Po.Ulvely Decline to Re ceive him aa V. 8 Minister No Reason Assigned for this Action.' Washington. August 6. The Depart ment of State is in receipt of a cablegram from Mr. Lee. Secretary of the American Legation at Vienna, saying that the Aus trian Government has positively declined to receive Mr. Keiley as U. 8. Minister. The authorities of Austria give no reason for their action, and merely say they will not receive the official who has been appointed. Air. iveuey is now in Pans, where he has been for some weeks. He also has been informed of the decision of tbe Austrian authorities. Mr. Lee bas been designated to act as Charge d'Affairs for the present. BRIDGING THE CHASM. Gen. Gorton Appointed an Aide to Gen. Hancock-, at the Burial of Gen. Grant. J7 . V. -r'r' New York, Aug. 5. Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, who, at Spotsylvania C. H.. Va., checked Gen. Hancock's advance through the captured salient on the 12th of May, 1864, and who commanded one wing of Lee's army, and made the last assault upon Gen. Grant's lines at Appomattox, bas been appointed: Aide to Gen. Hancock for the funeral ceremonies at the burial of Gen. Grant " GEN. GRANT'iTrEMAINS. At the City Ball, New York Viewed by n Steady Stream of People Daring the Day. ; Nsw York, Aug. 6. A large number of people loitered in the City Hall Park all night ana tney were the urst In the line that soon after 6 o'clock this morning be gan filing past the remains of Gen. Grant, where they lay in the City Hall. A steady stream of people have during the day passed through and viewed the remains. LITERARY GOSSIP. English edition of Miss Cleve land's work is announced. -" Walter Heines Pollock, editor London Saturday Review, is writing a biog raphy or Gamck, the actor. " Miss Cleveland will devote the proceeds of the sale of her book to tbe en dowment of chairs in several educational institutions. Walt Whitman, we learn, was an omnabus driver "on Broadway. We had - wondered where his verse got tbat iron-axletree movement Chicago Current The oldest book in existence of American origin is tbe "Doctrina Christi ana." which was printed in Mexico in 1589, more than one hundred years before litera ture was introduced into tbe United States, Gen. Logan's book will appear almost simultaneously with General Grant's but as it will contain only an account of the military campaigns in which General Logan has participated it will not be so big a book as Gen. Grant's. N. X. World. r - Mr. Thomas J. Wise has in pre paration a biocTaohv of Shellev. Messsr. Blackwood bave in press "A Study of Vic tor Hugo," by James Cappen, and ' Insti tutes of Logic." by Prof. Veitch of Glas gow. ; :.--". v ' The V Saturday Review, com menting upon--the effort of a writer to prove, from Shakespeare's works, that he was a lawyer, makes the point that similar processes of reasoning would prove him to have been a bishop, a privy councillor, a traveller, soldier, an apothecary, a painter. a forester; an artificer, a husbandman, as well as a lawyer. G'AixJra Current. NO. 42 - ; THE GALLOWS. A .Pnblle Kxeenuon In Fayettevlile . Three marderera slanged on One - Gallows FIvo Thousand Persons : . t . . . -.. ... . , - . . . . : r Present. 'Y-.t":-'- ' ' - 5" .-uir 1 - : Special Star Telegram. : - Fatktteviijle, N. C, August 7. Joe Howard, . white, and Tom Gee and Tom McNeill, colored, were hanged here to day at 1.80 p. rh. r ; k'2i:Ci'::y ! $ ;? The scene of execution was an old field, one mDe from the jaiL All three were hanged on the same scaffold, and were pro nounced dead in eight minutes one trsp being underneath them and arranged with a spring on the steps,: and as the sheriff walked down from the scaffold he touched the spring, when the trap fell.' 'v ; Howard said that If he killed Elackman it was done accidentally. Howard's wife was on the scaffold with him Gee said he, did not kill the woman. McNeill had no thing to say , There were about 5,000 persons present. There was no excitement As the prison ers rode out to the scaffold Howard had a note-book and pencil jotting down notes. Tom Gee was smoking a cigar. McNeill was perfectly quiet They were guarded by the State Guard.7; Rev. Joseph Huske, D. D.,' and Rev Mr. McDuffle conducted the services. - IByTeleirrapb to the Morning Star.l : " Raleigh, N. C, August 7. The first triple execution in the State in seven years occurred at Fayetteville to-day. Three men, all convicted of atrocious murders, were hanged.- They were Joseph O. How ard, white, who killed E. C. Blackman, a farmer, after robbing him; Tom Lee, co lored, who cut to pieces with an axe his whitetparamonr, Mary Hughes; and Tom McNeill, colored, who killed his brother, Simon McNeill. The execution took place at 1.30 p. m. None of the men made any confession. They were pronounced dead in eight minutes after the drop fell. Fully five thousand people' were present. Perfect order was preserved. - Companies A and B of the Second Regiment North Carolina State Guard were present All three of the men hanged were convicted sometime since. Howard was sentenced : to . be hanged January 12th, but - took an appeal to the Supreme Court and was again sen tenced to be hanged on July 25tb. Ap peals were taken by the other prisoners, who like Howard were to be executed on July 25th. Governor 8caies granted a respite from that date to to-day. He posi tively refused to grant further respite. At tempts were made last week to prove How ard to be insane, but they failed complete ly. The men were all detested, and their fate was fully merited. FOREIGN. Sapid Spread of . t holera in Spain Panle-Strlcken People The Sick Abandoned and the Dead Left Un hnrled Rioting In an English Town. IBy Cable to the Horntne Star Madrid, Aug. 7. The panic caused by tbe rapid spread of cholera in the country is increasing, entire villages bave been deserted by their inhabitants, who have fled for - safety from the dreaded -dieeaEe. In many cases doctors and municipal authorities bave been attacked by tbe scourge, and tbe sick bave been abandoned and the dead left unbuiied. Reports from other places state that it is impossible to obtain provisions or medicines J he misery throughout the country is ereat. MADRID, ' Aug. 6. There were 4,294 new cases of cholera reported throughout the kingdom yesterday and 1,638 deaths from cholera. . ; London, Aug. 6. The coal and iron miners of Ikeston, in Derbyshire, have been rioting all day. Tbey have already caused great damage to property in the parish, in one ot their battles against tbe police this afternoon the rioters were driven back several; miles from town, contesting every foot of tbe way. During this en gagement a great number or miners were disabled and injured, and nine of them were dangerously wounded. . w nONORSmOF THE DA Y. Grant Funeral Observances In Ta- rlons Places. - ; ' . (Br Telegraph to tbe Homing Star. : Raleigh, Augut 8 Public buildings here were draped in mourning to day. The Federal building and tbe Court House bore long lines of crape entwined with National colors. State flags on the capital were all at half-mast as also is the National flag on the City HalL On the principal streets lamp posts are wrapped with National nags and crape, and portraits of Gen, Grant are shown draped with crape. Tbe bells of the City. Hall and Court House tolled all day. A great meeting of colored citizens will be held at Metropolitan Hall to-morrow afternoon to take appropriate action in the matter. Great respect for tbe illustrious dead is manifested here and at other points in the State. Washington, Aug. 8. The tolling of bells in this city announced tbe starting of the procession bearing Gen. Grant to his tomb in New York. Public business was entirely suspended. Banks and business houses were also closed. The day was observed in Richmond, Norfolk and Lynchburg, Va by the toll ing of bells and firing of cannon. Business was partly suspended. At Atlanta, lia., the State Legislature adjourned in honor of the occasion, church and ' fire ' bells were tolled, the mayor delivered an address, and appropriate resolutions were adopted. In Jacksonville, Fla., most of the business houses were closed during tbe hours of tbe funeraL Many buildings were draped in mourning and half-hour guns were fired. Business was suspended at Pensacola and bells were tolled. - i At Charleston, 8. C, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, Tenn., and other places in the South, there were similar observances. From every where in the north and from very many places tin all States south, dis patches tonight are burdened 'with ac counts of observances in honor of General Grant Business has been neglected every where.- Accounts of the ceremonies vary but slightly; all tell of flags at half-maBt, crape drapery, tolling bells, , guns firing, eulogies and religious services. ALABAMA. A Fatal Affray Between Father and Son In Lafayette County. (By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Atlanta, Aug, 7. A special from La fayette, Ala , says: In this county, eight miles from Lafayette, William Hancock, a farmer, aged 67, and bis son William Han cock, were partners in a shingle machine, Yesterday they quarrelled over a division of the tolls. The old man got a gun and made threats of assault against the son, but no violence goccurred. The father with another son, named John, then went to William's house. Soon after that William arrived, and procuring a gun told his father be was ready to shoot it out The old man raised his gun to fire, but William, being quicker fired first, striking but not disabling his father. The old man fired without effect, and William fired his second barrel. killing his father instantly. John Han cock seized his father's gun and shot his brother under the eye.- William then drew a pistol and began to fire, while John ran One shot took effect in John's side. - Wil liam overtook him and carried him back home. - William has been arrested, and seems to care little for his terrible deed, , Asheville Citizen: Prof. Kerr's condition is very critical. He is unable to receive friends. His death may occur any day. -McDiarmid. of the Bobesonian. writes that he was not very favorably, im pressed with Asheville. Perhaps he spent too much of his time in the camp training lor a war correspondenvin the next war. . : State . Gleanings. - - Chadbourn - Times: We - are -pained to learn of the sickness of Capt R. H. Lyon, Editor of the Bladsnr Bulletin. ' Ee has typhoid fever, but we are glad to , learn that he is improving. : - ; ' The Oxford ' S Torchlight .says James Hester, a thrifty colored man, who -lives within two miles of Oxford, rented land, worked one ox, and sold his tobacco ' CTOD for tfi44. hesirlM mVin hrnvteisina - sufficient for home consumption.with some -to- spare. ; ' - ; ... r . -.., . . .Washington Gazette: There are two colored boys in jail here not over 18 v years old. ..It would be on the reformatory order to ive. them a severe -chastisement and turn them over to their parents for a sound spanking. We have - not seen more flattering crop prospects in several -years, and if no unforeseen accident oc- ; curs, we will have one of the largest yields of both corn and cotton for. several years. Oxiort Torchlight: We learn from our farmer friends .that the recent rains have improved tbe growing crop of tobacco wonderfully. ' - We are pleased to learn that First Lieut Wm. Lassiter.son of our townsman, Mr. R.' W. Lasaiter. Sr., has been appointed quartermaster of the 16ih Infantry, U. S. A ', stationed at Fort ConcboTexas. -We understand that a gentleman In Oxford, who served with . distinction in the late war, has announced his intention to subscribe $ 100 Jowards tbe proposed N. C. Confederate Soldiers' Home. - ' ' j ' ; Roanoke' Jfetes; . During ' the storm at Scotland. Neck last week the thunder and .lightning was quite severe. One of the freaks lightning played is like ly to be considered an indication of provi dence against the prevailing style of high hats and bonnets. The lightning struck a tree, glanced and struck the residence of Mr, J. P. Savage, ripped off the weather boarding and cut one of the sills in two, proceeded to a band box that was in the room, shattered it and completely ruined Mrs. Savage's bonnet, but not doing any -further1 damage. Mr. - and Mrs. ' Savage were in the next room but felt no shock until they .beheld the bandbox and bonnet . Salem Press: -The: ' Southern Normal School at Lexington is in a flour ishing condition. : Its catalogue shows that . 165 students were enrolled during the last year.! According to the belief of some there will be frost by the 20th day of Octo . -ber. The katydids began their music about tbe 20th of July, and some say in 90 days frost will come. Last Saturday,- - Eli Sides, a well known colored man, met with an accident , by the team he was driving becoming unruly and one of the horses getting a leg over the pole of the wagon. Sides got off the wagon to unhitch the horses, and stepped in front to unfasten the breast chain, when the horses became frightened and plunged forward, knocking -Eli down, the horses and wagon running over him, injuring him so that he died in a few hours. ; , . ; Goldsboro Argus : . The folio w ing letter, which was doubtless called forth by the news of the present Rifles' recent railroad accident explains itself; Springfield, Mass., Aug. 8, 1885. To the Captain of the Qoldsboro Rifle: Dear Comrade: We bave in our pos session a flag bearing the name of tbe " Goldsboro (N. " C.) Rifles." We are. de sirous of returning it to its rightful owners. Have you or your company any knowledge concerning it? Very respectfully, . E. J. Lazelle, E. EV Wilcox Post 16, G. A. R. Capt Holloway will at once put himself in correspondence with the above - gentle man, with a view both to get possession of the flag and thanking him in behalf of the old and new Rifles and our citizens gen- -erally. v - Elizabeth City Economist: Mr. Rosin, of Hertford, proprietor of the Eagle hotel, was wounded in an encounter with . Mr. Cook Winslow. of Windfall, Perqui mans county; on the 23d of July, in a diffi culty which occurred about a room in the hotel. Winslow struck RoBin with a stick, producing serious injuries. The contract for making additions,-alterations and repairs to twenty seven life saving sta tions on the coast of .North Carolina and Virginia " has been awarded to James U. Coston, of Baltimore. Tbe contract amounts to about $30,000. Fruit is not abundant nor of first-class quality. Thp rifilif ioiia npnph ir hf hinn ila vnnt in appearance and flavor. James Rob inson, of this place, recently, in toying with a turtle, was bitten on the arm, and - it was thought atone time -that the turtle- bitten arm would bave to be amputated. . Weldon News: Major T. L. EmfV is hauling brick for building his new store next to his present building. It will be 130 feet long. 50 wide and three stories high, with basement. W. P. Batche- lor, Esq., of Raleigh, has accepted the Chief Marshalship of our next fair. During the races just closed at Asheville the horses from Halifax county in charge of Mr. Wm. Wyche. acquitted themselves most handsomely. Mr. H. J. Pope's Mana" and "Red Wing" and Maj. Emry's Brookhill" bore off the largest prizes of fered. Mr. John F. Jackson, of this place, was stricken with paralysis on 8un day night last aa he was leaving church, and had to be carried home. A physician was immediately summoned, but he still lies in a critical condition, being ; totally paralyzed in the right side and speechless. We learn that Mr. Lucien Whitaker has been appointed postmaster at Enfield, vice Pierson, suspended. Mr. Whitaker was a Confederate soldier, and was severely wounded during tbe war. An excellent appointment Could not well be better. . We know him. Star. Clinton .' Caucasian: At the Teachers' Institute, in Duplin this week, twenty-five teachers were in attendance. - -We learn that Duplin jail is rapidly filling up. No less than eight prisoners, according to our information, were incar cerated there last week. Fodder only 50c per cwt in this market We learn that the crops in Mingo and Dismal are very fine. We are informed that Mr. John G. Smith was pretty badly used up in an affray with two young men named Warren, in Mingo township, a few days ago. It seems tbat he had been to the house of the - Warrens' father, and abused the old gentleman pretty badly, and subsequently challenged the young men for a fight : He got more than he wanted, if our information is correct. The fight took place near Bethesda Quaker church, at night, after the congregation was dis missed. An organized band of thieves has been discovered at Faison-. Mr. L R. Faison has been missing corn from bis barn for some time. The other night several gentlemen watched for the thieves and caught David Williams, Albert Ashford, Daniel Moore, and two ooys, an colored, and arrested them on the premises. They made a full confession and delivered up a key which they had been using. The three men are in jail. - I Raleigh News- Observer: Died August 4th, at the residence of her mother in Kinston, Sallie Coleman Stung, daugh ter of the late Mr. Henry! R, Strong. Very great interest is felt- in the matter of pension applications. Mr. uross, chief clerk in the Auditor's Department said yesterday that the number is now over 4,000. Some come in every day. Mr. A. S. Hall rilanairer of the Oxford base ball club, kindly gives the score of the two un reported games at Oxford, July 80th and 31st, as follows: July 80th, Oxford 5, Hen derson 5; game called at the ninth inning, on account of darkness. July 31, Oxford 9, Henderson 8. Oxford and Henderson have played four championship games, each winning one and there being two tie games. Yesterday at 12 m.. Mr. W. J. Hicks, warden of the penitentiary, in obedience to the writ of habeas corpus to him directed, produced before Judge Clark the body of Ephraim Queen. The case is a somewhat fitnonlar Ana flnocn : was InrilfttffH In Watauga county for burglary with intent to kilL There being a mistrial, the defen dant consented to plead gnilty of larceny, though larceny was not charged In the bill, and was sent to the penitentiary for ten years. The Supreme Court said State vs. Queen, 91 N. C. -; Reports. : 659 that Queen would be entitled to a discharge by habeas corpus but for tbe pending of tbe original 1 indictment . in Watauga. - Two terms of Watauga court have since been held, and at the hearing yesterday the cer tificate, of tbe clerk -of the Superior Court of Watauga under the seal of the county was produced,, that no indictment of any kind is pending, in court against Queen. Upon said certificate and in deference to the opinion of the Supreme Court Judge Clark ordered Queen's release. Queen has been in tbe penitentiary 'something over two years. ' ..