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it 1 J The Weekly Star J f FUBliSHKD AT 'l- ; iv i lminct oh; n;c,, :-- AT --v -v v, '5' jl.SO A S HA R, I ST AOTASG l ' i ' 88SSs88SSSS8S8SS8 8888888888888888' . -48888S88S3SS8S88S8 ' 838883888,88888883 . 8S88SS8838SSSSS8S T" SSS8888SSSS888S8S : 8SSSS3SSSSSS3SS3'. - - 8SS83333J.3SS33388 -.::; s ssssssss'ssit-.ss. T - ---r . . pa at Entered at the Post Office atZWQmlngton, N. CL, as Second Class Matter. r- v;: il SUBSCRirTION JFRICE. f Thfc sul)scri6tion price of'1 the Wked.y .. Star is as follows : . ' - . ! 1 Single Copy 1 year, postage paid,'"?: $1.50 j s . i " 6 months, " " ;1.00 " " 8 months : 7.50 DR. WOOSRO V. AND THB .C - ' . " V' SYNOD. '" v - The telegraphic dispatches to the Sx as gave the result some days ago of the Woodrow case before .the Synod of , Soath " Carolina. Some persons ; may have drawn a wrong inference from the proceedings. The action of the Synod, was by no means a sustaining of the . theory of Evolution.-1 It did not even sastain any peculiar ; or other views Dr. Wood-s row may have on the " subject of the so called philosophy of Evolution. The resolutions adopted disapproved of the action of the Bo,ard of Direc tors of the Theological Seminary at Columbia' in requesting Dr. Wood row to resign. The resolutions claim ed that his removal was unconstitu- . .Uonal. The ; Board requested .- Dr. Woodrow to resign, because he said that he would continue to teach Evo lution if he remained in the Semina ry. Dr. .Woodrow declined to re sign, 'and in his statement to the - Synod he. denied, that he had said that j he would continue to teach Evolution. The action of the Sy nod restores him " to his . place as a Professor in the Seminary. The Synod declare that he ought nop to have been removed without a trial. This is what we understand to be the meaning of the recent action of the ' Synod. The question of Evolution is ' not under discussion, but the action of the Board in dealing , with a Pro- feasor. " .4 ' ."" . ' : ' Dr. Woodrow does not appear to have any" clear and well "defined views' as to Evolution. He . thinks it probably true , if it does not conflict with the teachings of In spiration. With ,; such shadowy views as these he - would not be a very satisfactory teacher of the theory of Evolution. But scientists of eminent rank say the theory is not even "probably true,", and the ; ablest divines say it conflicts with the Holy Scriptures. DIR. CLAY AH A PROTECTIONIST. Iti reply to an inquirer, we feel no hesi tancy ia stating that in oar boyhood days we were a Henry Clay Whig. . He was a Protectionist.. We thought he was right. Elizabeth City Carolinian. r -; : Mr. Clay was . a . Protectionist" but what kind of a, one ? His 'views' compared ; with those . held by the Northern monopolists now would be regarded as extremely low. In truth, he apologized more than once for his views, and explained that he fa vored only protecting "infant indus tries." He went so far as to limit the time when he thought protection might be withdrawn. That time ex pired long ago. We have not the slightest idea that Mr. Clay would favor the monstrous thing now curs ing and ' oppressing America if he were living. -He was too wise and too just a man to indorse a system that made the rich richer and the poor poorer, and that took f rom nine men's earnings to put it in the pock ets of one rich man. .Mr. Clay, was not that kind of a Protectionist. ' . He would be among the Tariff Reform ers if alive , to-day, we . may . not doubt. He could not be persuaded to keep the nursing, bottle intended for infants to the great mouth of a Giant Monopoly with a maw that is capacious enough to contain the earnings of the laboring classes of a great country. . : j DEATH OF GEH.nOLELI.AN. The death, of this distinguished soldier, which occurred Wednesday night, will be regretted by all the people of America who admire abili- ty and regard j ustice. Gen. - Mc- ; Clellan was certainly one of the best soldiers of the war. There are many who regard him as the first of North- I ern Generals. He was a man of. de cided military talents, " was acoom- j plished and able. He was a Bterling Democrat, and has, therefore, never received justice at the hands of the Northern people. He was a Demo cratic candidate for the Presidency against Abraham Lincoln in 1864. We have not space at our command to give a record of his life. We will do this to-morrow. When Foraker spoke at StauntonV Va.,he was as dumb as a New River oyster on the bloody-shirt business. a he arcVJiypocrite ! yot. xyn. IMPORTANT ISSCE IN ' NORTH. - t' -- r ft . is ? encouraging : to : see some Northern papers and politicians mak inff finch a firm ' stand f or local Beif overnment. The South, since 1865, hag had to stand up alone in def ence of; the most precious safeguard of ouir liberties and the sure bulwark of free dom. But under the wild teachings of Northern politicians the rights of communities have been in vaded1 by Legislatures and now a strong pro test is made againBt this high-handed invasion of th rights and Ipriviiges of commariUies. ;-Jn New York and in i Massachusetts- Legislatures have ' invaded the cities and undertaken to regulate their domestic affairs to do for them .what they 'could much bet ter do for. themselves. - j " ' v .The Bpston'Pos says this issue of preserving -the - self-government " of commnnities. is , indeed .fa" gre't is-.' sue.' ! There ib no safety, no perpe tuity of genuine - republican v institu tions without this preservation of local self-government. ' Referring to the issue in Massachusetts, the 'JPpsi says: v ; j ' "The Democratic party will, and must stand as a uniron this question, and it should be able to draw to itself as a! defen der of the constitution a preserver j of the bill of . rights, a guardian of popular liberty, all who will sumciently emancipate- them selves from the fanaticism, of party to see the tendency of what has- already been ac complished in defiance of all these vital considerations, nd stand up patriotically to check further assaulu upon the. great principle 01 popular sovereignty. Tne Democrats have not made it an issue. It has been forced upon them. ' A right has neen violated tnat onght 00 more; to have been questioned than the right to4 life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness.?; - ... ; - So great is this ' invasion of local rights that both the . Mayors of New York, and Brooklyn nave protested warmly ' against it. . Mr. Whitney, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Brooklyn, says this: " ; r . "We have seen the liberties of Brooklyn assailed in 'the past , for partisan . endB through the Legislature of the 8tate. To guard ourselves against, any. repetition of that wrong it' is, in my judgment, but proper1 for us to declare that no man .should find favor at the hands of the peo pie 01 isrooKiyn wno remains amJiated with any party which cherishes' or will not in unmistakable terms disavow any such designs." . ; -J-1; j.; C.y It. is ; time that this issue ; were forced. : But will Northern j Dem ocrats content themselves with mak ing an issue only as to local rights in the States, and not also take, a stand against centralization on the part of the Federal Government ? K We hope not. - , 1 I , ; - Ever since the Lwan the Federal, authorities , have been ', trampling boldly upon all the reserved rights of the States, and it is quite the fashion among writers and politicians in the North to laugh at the exploded no tions and dogmas of the- bid Dem ocratic school in the South. Accord ing to this new and dangerous school of theorists this is a Nation, and the States, stand toward the General Go vernment in the - relation j of coun ties to the State. As long as' it was the South that was made to suffer only, " and the Northern States were not interfered with ' in their -rights and liberties, the doctrine of a : strong Government was re garded with special favor. But the chickens' have - come home to t roost, to use a homely, adage. , The centra lization of power has extended " to the Legislatures, and now they pre sume, in imitation of the National Congress in dealing with the Stages, to place their hands upon great com munities and violate their f rights at .will.' ; . j .j ; ', . The Boston . Post does not i fail to see the centralizing tendency j in the North, and to sound ; the alarm. It says that no Democratic j States have attempted this, but the trouble i is there are so few States of that , class in the North. - We fear that with most -. of the Northern Republicans that the Strong : Government ideas have taken strong root and j cannot now be eradicated. . i I : ; . Say what you will, pretty much all of the wisdom and .statesmanship, front the Revolution until now,, has been in the South. Whilst the North has had a Webster, a Jerry Black and a few other wise constitution loving statesmen, we must not forget that it is the section that fostered Al exander Hamilton' and produced Wil liam H. Seward,; Stanton and men of kindred principles,- morality and patriotism. The North has rarely had men of broad , statesmanship men who looked upon the Constitu tion as the sheet-anchor of. a nation's prosperity and liberty, j Henoe Ham iltoniahiam prevails and, if. unop posed will sweep away the! last ves tige of genuine republican democrat ic government regulated by ?la w, and the inalienable rights of, local self government. 1: 1- f I 1 1 We hail with much' satisfaction this movement in two States in the North to resist this disturbing of local government. We hope the good leaven will work' and work until it has leavened the whole North. - A colored woman is to be hung at Clin ton, for infanticide, March 21st. : Only one woman has ever been hanged : in North Carolina--if. t7. ExcJutngt. f . j ti This is probably a mistake. We know that one was haneed in Grari- BEFBUC fiAINS ANU jLOSSES- -Was the negro Tdtef fh iihoi South reallyepeBsaa 1 ctheRadicai bloody-Bhirters assert? i 'If .80 to what extent ? r What db; the ; official election returns show ? 4 There is no goingi behinid the returns, ia Republi can doctrinethat : ir when it suite their . case, . tiitBecessiUes. , : " . . r: , "The Albany 7our?iais a Republl- vote in tho Northern States: ; t Republican, vote in 1884 was. , r.8,60OT5l . ; Increase. . s xbopwb wnai ne , xemocratio votewas afte deducting the- Green- vau. ; lusion : voce. . .iti places, tne Democratic net gainln Jibe. North' at 281,614- : The Demw gained n 226, more , than the Rpabns ffMnedv-Xjzj.K , 'EbSoutnernvote'-WM Bepublican -votej, 1884: . . ; , - L2,099 : Xess Greenback labor vote' 1 imin West Virginia esti- mated. s .10,000 - liess Greenback labor vote : : in Missouri, estimated. ,87,000 1 47,000 - .i - Net Bepublican vote 1,203,090 Republican vote in 1880 was 1 - 1.055,256 Net Republican gain in South-, era States ...... . . . 146,843 Demvote in "84 was 1,701,825 - f Dem. vote in '80 was 1,580.028 Dem.gain in Southern - ' ; i States. ........... .; ,121,297 Excess of Republican gains in Southern States. .............. 25.546 . Now,, according to these figures taken from - Republican source and after deducting the . Greenback : and other vote of a fusion kind the Re publicans actually gained in the Southern States 146,843, whilst the Democrats gained but 121,297. The Republicans gained 25,546 - more votes in the South than the Dem ocrats gained. 1 . What nonsense to talk about re pression of colored votes. It is a very curious repression that makes a party increase its vote by 121,297. ; ., Now turn to New England and what do you find ? You find that the Republicans fell off 29,045 votes as. compared with 1880. Accord ing to Republican . bloody-shirters when ever there .is decrease . there is repression. Apply this rule to New England if you ; please and then an swer.if : the vote of white laboring men in that section .was repressed ? How I else .' account , for , the , loss ? There was' an increase of 37,187 in the Middle States; there was a Repub lican increase in' thtf Western States of 160,685; there was an increase in the Pacific States of 26,784; there was , an increase m I the ' Southern States of 121,297; there was increase everywhere eave in New England. This shows, ' according to Republi can logic, that the only real repres sion of voters was in few England. The bloody-shirters are a rare set of falsifiers. . .. They mnst- go to New England to find the repression they are in search of.. - Where, Oh, where is the immortal Hoar ? L ' A curious eloping case has occurred in Colorado. : A woman's first hus band was sent as incurable to an in sane asylum in New York.- She mar ried -and removed to Colorado. There she met number two. who was , well. The old love came back and she eloped with him. W Number two has returned to New York State with his family. ' ' . The New York Times says that A. R. Macdonald has been in Ludlow jail for contempt of court for seven years. It says: 1 "It appears that he might have purged himself of his contempt at any time by paying the award made against him by a court, and also that he is able to pay. At least he declines to plead poverty, which would secure his release in spite of his con-; tempt." . .... . v c--; -...- Logan's friends are trying to get up ' a Presidential boom for him. That is right. It is high time that an . illiterate President' was - elected. It takes Black Jack to fotch the Eng lish languidge 5 a few jawdarters when them literary- fellers is looking on. j Hit does for- a fact. -Trot: out Black Jack. ... . The' noble Horatio Seymour has earnestly appealed to all Democrats in New York to . vote the entire Democratic ticket. Mr. - Tilden is also out for it and has sent in a con tribution. . . r v " - i ' Mr. W. J. Best is now in jail in BoBton. He waived an examination on the charge of embezzlement. Harkor Improvement Convention - We have received from the ; committee having the matter in charge an invitation to attend the Harbor Improvement Con vention to be held, in Savannah, Ga., on the 25th of November proximo, v From a circular-' accompanying the invitation we learn that Wilmington will be entitled to six delegates, and we earnestly hope that our dty will be well represented In this important convention, as matters of great moment will be considered 'concerning our harbor improvements. . The circular adds: : "The increasing demands of foreign as well as domestic commerce, in which the vast interests of a large section of our con tinually growing country are concerned, make it plain that the harbors of the South Atlantic coast, the gateways, so to speak, through which the imports and exports of the South and West must - come and go, should be made the object of prime con cern with the Government, that the work 1 of their improvement may be assured by adequate ana umeiy appropnauons ana JudicWus expendituies.?; r .. s '7: WILMmGT.ON, N. O., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, -KaJOEViHtrWJHINr,ailTSE. J At 23 minutes to 7 o'clock PJM.j on 80th October, 1885, (his good man died, e have never been called upon during a long journalistic experfence to write a sketch- of the life of but one' other person with whom We have been associated;- tn all the years of .our .editorial hfe we have never, beep moved by prof bunder sympathy asd sorrow as we take pencil in . hand to pay:- 07161 tribute to our departed friend. tntiwaXly . there was not a better man In Wilmington, and his relatives and friends have tha we OonsolaUoB of beueying that he was fully. by the grace of God for the final summons. ; Although he had never coo 1 1 htm, most inUmatelv can testify to j the great interest betook m religion and all hat conceroedj&e church, and that he re posed -in the infinite-; mercy of God' as Vouchsafed in the death of his dear Sour the Redeemer of sinners. v ; f 'r: I" "I: Muse, was one. .of., the most amiable: men we have knownut For over nine yeeis the. writer eat close to him in . the Stab office, working at separate tables, and in all that time we never saw. him manifest any temper but once, and that of a very mild sort.. He was very kindly, sympathetic, and genial in his relations with his fellow men, and with those he loved be was all that husband, father and friend could pos-; sibly be. He was as gentle, as a woman,, confiding, unsuspecting, ready to hear good alwajs, and reluctant to hear evil. A man of perfect honor, of strict veracity, of most obliging nature, he was : esteemed by all and disliked ; by none. A man who. could dislike him ought to examine his own heart and see the evil that is within. We do not believe in all his life he ever wantonly outraged the feelings of man or woman, or ever inflicted the . slightest pain upon any designedly. i 4 . In his early manhood he resided at New Berne, where he did good service for the Democratic party in publishing the Journal.- At a later time be worked at Fay etteville, and after that at Raleigh. In 1865 he removed to Wilmington, and first worked on the Herald, edited by Thomas, M. Cook. He next worked on the Journal, became foreman of the Dispatch, and final-; ly became foreman of the Stab. About the year 1870 be entered upon his duties as City Editor of the Stab. In that capacity for more than fifteen years he has been a most faithful, obliging, diligent worker. All are familiar with the hundreds of local articles ' " he has written through . these years- of severe triaL No man was more devoted to duty, and no man worked bar , der to fill his department on the paper with interest, usefulness and fidelity. 7 He wrote with much facility, and had a clever knack at verse writing. Some of his occasional ."Carrier's Addresses" on Christmas, which the readers of the Stab have often admired, were pleasant efforts of that kind of writing, Some of his contributions, to the local de partment of the Stab within the last seve ral years were unusual clever, and ' one or two i impressed I us as rising into no little eleganoe and even eloquence of expression. A good man has fallen. Last Sunday be pulled his pencil from his pocket and said with melancholy cadence to a friend and neighbor, as he looked at it, "I reckon my work is about done." Yes, the labor is ended and now it is rest At home at last with the good and the glorified, the toiling editor rests from his labors; and the mem ory of a good name remains to cheer and console his friends. He ipassed away at his own home, surrounded by some of his own family and two. friends, in the 54th year of his age. How painfuUt is to see a friend die. -How small, bow powerless man appears in the presence of kingly, mighty Death! How dumb the soul is in the agony of such a supreme moment I But when the struggle is ended, and the spirit of man returns to the God and Father who gave it, and aU is well, how the soul then reposes safely upon the mercy and goodness of God as manifested in the. redemption wrought by the Divine Re deemer. Mr; Muse leaves a devoted wife, three sons and two daughters, to mourn his departure and to treasure his rare merits. He was born on the 4th of April, 1833, in that part of Craven county that has been erected into the county of Pamlico. The Stab is now in its nineteenth year, and Mr. Muse is the first person to die while connected with. it, of the many who have Berved it from time to time. This is remarkable. Whose time is it next t Be ye also ready. ; -?; Locked I7p. iVV' . John 1. Brock, a man living in Harnett township, .was arrested and brought from the Sound yesterday morning, on a peace warrant sworn out by his wife. . It seems that he has been drinking very hard for some time, and in fact to such an extent that he has become perfectly crazed from the effects of the whiskey. He has threat ened to kill his wife on several occasions, and a few days since attempted to carry his threat into execution, when j she went be fore George Harper, J. P., andsworaout a peace warrant against him, and he was ar rested by the magistrate . and brought to this city and locked up in the county jail, where he will remain until he has suffi ciently recovered as to be able to have a hearing before Justice Millis. He was very violent, and. seemed to be totally. insane, and the officers who. brought him to this city, in order to keep him from doing him. self or themselves any bodily harm, had to tie his feet and arms, a large chain being used for this purpose.' Brock is said to be a desperate man, and warrants for his ar rest on various charges have been in the hands of officers for the past three years. " Personal. - ' . ' i'' ' :. " ' .'. ; .First Lieutenant Will. Howard, a young officer of the United States Army, and who has occupied several responsible positions in . the army, was in the city yesterday. He is a native of South Carolina, and has. just returned from Governor's Island, N. Yh-where he was placed on the retired list on account of an attack of paralysis. . : - Pineapples. ' We were informed yesterday, by a gen tleman who knows whereof he, speaks, and who had read , the. article in . yesterday's Stab ; copied -from the : Lumberton. Sabey tonian, that the experiment of raising pine apples has been" tried in this county, ; and with the utmost success. '. 4- Reidsville iRmes. There are 37 iamates in our county poor .house. . , WASHINGTON. 1 . . - , v . '!- ' 1 i , ConatHar Appointment-President . Cleveland . Send Telea-ram of Condo lence to ISrm. OleCIellaif Itlall Stage "and Poatofflees-1 Bobbed -Cabinet MM eBy Telegraph to the Morning star. ; t 'Wabhiiigton Oct. 29, The President to-day appointed Frederick B. Winston, of DL.. to bo Minister-Resident and Consul General to Persia.- , - (.,.;, The President has ordered that the flags upon all buildings of the Executive De- I partments be placed at half-mast until af ter me zuneral of General McClellan. - -i si Secretary Endicott - this evening an nounced the death of Gen. McClellan in a general order to the army. - Rear Admiral J: C. P. DeKraff, died at his residence in this city to-day u Vf. The President sent the following- tele gram of condolence to Mrs, McClellan to-, day.-; - - . . - ! WashthgtonI October 29, 1885. Mrs. George B.:McClellan,';Orange,. N. J:: lam saddened by the news of your ;- husband's death, and while I know how futile are all human efforts to console, I must assure you of my deep sympathy in your ereat grief, and express to you my own, sense of afflic--tion at the loss of so good a friend...- f t '4::- - vQbovbb CJlbvbxabd: The Solicitor of -the Treasury baa given an -opirjiori that' men engaged on fishing vessels are .legally entitled to treatment in marine :. hospitals, and Surgeon General Hamilton will in a few days issue an order to the medical officers of the Marine Hos pital Service to admit seamen of the class indicated in accordance with the Solicitor's opinion. :--t .-.-v ,t. The Cabinet meeting to-day was shorter than usual. , Postmaster General . Vilas was the only absentee. The preparation of the annual reports of the Cabinet offi cers was the only general question" consid ered. The death of Gen. McClellan was feelingly alluded to by the President and members of the Cabinet. s - ' It is definitely learned today that Gen. McClellan came very near being made a member of President Cleveland's Cabinet, that he was tendered the Russian Mission and declined it because of business engage ments, and that within . the past twenty four hours the President bad concluded to offer him an appointment as a member of. the Civil Service Commission. - The mail stage from San Angelo to Abi lene, Texas, was stopped yesterday by two masked men and robbed of all the register ed mail. ' This is the same stage that was halted and robbed a few weeks ago by a sixteen-year-old boy. ' ; ; i ' ; . The postoffices at Middleton, Ohio,' and Harper's Ferry; W. Va., were broken open by burglars last night and robbed of $15 in each case. - Fourth class postmasters were appointed today as follows: In North Carolina Junius R. Evans, Enterprise; Mrs. Laura E. Home,- Pittsbor j. Washington, Oct. 38. Secretary Man ning made a decision to-day which it is ex pected will settle the long existing differ ences between producers and importers of rice. It is in effect that rice- imported by the Fowler Rice Company, of New. York, per steamship Elbe, June 30th, shall be ac cepted as a standard of assimilated rice flour, dutible at 20 cents ad valorem. ;This standard is taken as the result of a compro mise between the rice growers and brewers. This ruling will tiot apply to cargoes now underway and which may arrive in do mestic ports on or befoie November 20. Such cargoes will be assessed under the old rule. . " .. : It is Baid at the White House to day that the vacancies on the Civil Service Commis sions will not be filled until after the President's return from Buffalo, on Wedn esday or Thursday - next, and that no ap pointments as Commissioners have as vet been determined on. Second Comptroller Maynard. who has been mentioned as a probable Commissioner, says the office has not been offered to him. and he has no as pirations whatever in that direction. f: It is said at the White House to day that the executive order of the President giving notice that he will hereafter decline to see all persons seeking official appointments or their advocates, and limiting to certain hours on Mondays, Wednesdajs and Fri days the time when he will grant inter views or other public matters, does not mean that appointments are to be lessened, but it is intended to direct those who de sire personal interviews with the appoint ing power to the proper heads of depart ments, whose recommendations guide the President in bis appointments. ; These re commendations, it is said, have in the past been invariably observed, "and interviews with applicants and their friends have consumed almost the entire time of the President and have been of no use to them or to him. . . Washington, Oct. 31. Secretary! Man ning left Washington this morning for Albany. New York, . for the purpose of voting the Democratic ticket He will probably make a short stop in New York and expects to return to Washington Thursday morning. - Col. Lamont says the President will, leave Washington Monday morning and proceed direct to Buffalo, and that after casting his vote he will return direct to Washington. i "Acting Secretary Fairchild to-day issued the following circular to customs officers in regard to the classification of broken or granulated rice. The Department hereby prescribes, first: that on and after Nov. 80, 1885. the'rulingo f June 25, 1885, sec. 6985, and all other decisions of the Depattment affecting the classifications for duty under the tariff act of the commodity known as broken or granulated rice shall be Consid ered as cancelled and annulled; and on and after that date ' such commodity shall be classified in accordance with - the size of the granules composing the impor tations by assimilation either as "cleaned rice," at a duty of 2J cents per pound, or as "rice flour," at a duty of 20 per cent, ad valorem,, under the special provisions there for in schedule G, in pursuance of section 2499 of the revised statutes, as con tained in the act of March 3rd,f 1883. Second, -that no substance claiming to be broken or granulated rice shall be ad mitted to entry by assimilation to rice flour, as aforesaid unless it is found upon careful examination of customs officers, to be composed of the same sized granules or smaller, as the official samples marked "F O K" of 800 bags of so called granulated rice, which were imported into New York by the Fowler Rice Company, per steamer Elbe, on the 30th of June, 1885; it being distinctly understood that any such com modity composed of larger granules than those represented by such samples shall be classified as cleaned rice. VICTIMIZED. A Virginia Golleg-e Professor Hands of TnleTea. ' in tno By Telegraph to the Morning Star. -. ; . PrrrsBtrBG, Pa., October 31. Professor P. W. Steele principal of a college at Lynchburg, Va., while en route east last night, was decoyed from the train by a well dressed stranger, taken to a; Water street "dive,", drugged, and robbed of $300 in cash and jewelry. ; rENN8TiyPANIA.::':: National - Furniture Works at Wll 11am sport .Destroyed by Fire. - PSr Telegraph to the Xornhur Star.) ' WnxiAHBPOBT, Oct. 81. The works of the National Furniture Co., (limited), of this city, were burned this afternoon. Loss $40,000; insurance $20,000. The fire caught from a gas leak. A workman held a match to the leak when the gas caught and communicated o a lot of - benzine. The works employed sixty men,' some of whom narrowly escaped' from the building with their lives. t.f -: "-Oiv's---"- i -. ; Raleigh Cfuronidei ThA month ly meeting of the Watauga' Club will be held next Wednesday. - A paper from Mr. Walter EL Page will be read. - The presenting a thesis on David L. Swain by a Wake JTorest. senior, imaay nignt is tne harbinger of the good news that the war between the colleges and the University is drawing to a dose.-vc.'xr-v t-.,XJ:-ip-iy.. . ' ' ' I 1885; VIRGINIA, Heavy Kaln Oreateat Flood for Five Years a Train on tno. Richmond tc Alleghany Railroad BreakaTbroagh . ' a Trestle Snglneor Condnetor and ' Fireman Killed Passengers Baeape -lnjry,'i-f i -. , " . fBy telegraph to Vha kornnWstar.t ) RiCHkOHD.-'lYA' October 80. A heavy rain during the paBt iw'enty four hours has' caused:the greatest flood known in five years, on the western end of the Lexington branch of the. Richmond & Alleghany Rail road. ,The .trestle".at South Rivet, five miles east of Lexington, was washed away and a train on the AlteghahyQad wrecked." Enj- gineer Williams and the.fireman are miss ing, and are believed to he killed. All df ' the passengers are Wi&tm Shenandoah v y auey irain is m trouble at about the same point. " No particulars "are Obtainable ' t wuuhhbh, uctoncrf 30. The, engine and tender of a train on the Richmond jfc Alleghanv Railroad brnkA at South River, four miles below Lexing-J wu, ias mgnt. engineer . wuiiama and nreman - Tyree were killed. rtQACAn (TsSnsi WAM iM4nanA - None of the f Ltnchbtjkq 'Oct. SO.-Last nicht the nor era bound passenger train on the branch; ttt the Richmond & Alleghany railroadwhich connects with the trains from this - city at Balcony Falls, Rockbridge county, upon reaching tho Rustle work at South River , was precipitated through the trestle into the river, which wu much swollen by re cent heavy rains. The only particulars of the accident arc that the entire ' train fell into the river, and that conductor Whitta ker. of Richmond, engineer John Williams, of Lexington, and llreman Tvree. of this city, were killed.' Tie telegraph lines are 4 uown ann parucuiars cannot be had.' . -Habbibohbttbo, Oct 80 The most destructive rain storm known: in the val ley .for many years begun here yestereay, and continued until past midnight.' More water fell in eighteen hours than has fallen altogether in two years previous. High water prevailed every where, and washouts on the valley branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad "have 'delayed all trains. The mountains .west of this place ' were covered with snow this morning. . ' - Richmond, OcL80.-The' likelihood of a heavy flood, in the James river is' very great; A telegram . from. Columbia, .75 miles west of Richmond, says the water at that point at noon was 24 ; feet high-- and still rising. There is a very slight rise here as yet, but the merchants along the river in the lower part of the city are preparing against an emergency by removing the goods from their storehouses to a place of safety. . y-. . v ; f OBITUARY. - Sadden Death of qen.-Ceorg B. Itte-ciellan- from1 Ifearalgia of the Heart. Newark, N.. J., October 29. Gen. George B. McClellan died suddenly shortly after midnight last night, from; neuralgia of the heart He returned home about six weeks ago from his trip West, with his family and had been under the care of a physician for about two weeks, c Nothing serious was expected until yesterday, when he became worse. He died surrounded by his family, at St Cloud, Orange Mountain,! where he had lived for about twenty years.! Invitations had been issued for a reception this evening, . . - ; ' ,; - - , Gen. MoOlellan's Rummer home, erected after the war, was on the Bummit of Orange mountain, next to that of his father-in-law, Gen. Marcy. The whole community was shocked by the news of his death. - Flags are flying at half-mast and the Grand Army Post has called a meeting to. express their sorrow and offer a body guard for the re mains. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made. . Gen. McClellan - was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. -GEN. MC'CLE IANt . Faneral to Take Place on Blonday The Pall Bearers Telegraphte mes sages of. Condolence to the Bereaved Family No military Demonstration. 7 By Telegraph to the Horning Star. ; j New York, Oct SO.lt has been defi nitely arranged that the funeral of Gen. McClellan will take place at 10 o'clock Monday morning next from Madison Ave oue Presbyterian ChUrcb. In accordance with the request of Mrs. McClellan, there will be no military demonstration, although all the veterans who served under the Gen eral have been invited to the funeral. Rev. Dr. Parker will conduct the simple services for the dead, and no eulogy will: be' pro nounced. .The pall bearers . selected are Gen. W. 8. Hancock, Gen. Joseph E.' Johnston, Gen. Martin T. McMahon. Gen. Fitz John Porter, Gen. W. B. Franklin, W. CV Prime, Hon. H. C. Kelsey and Col. E. H. Wright of Newark. The in terment will take place in the family plot at Trenton on the same day. Mrs. Mc Clellan has received telegraphic messages of condolence from Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania; W. W. Story,- sculptor, of Rome';' Marquis De Torrigini, of Italy, and many other dis tinguished people.' Gen. Shaler has placed the first division of the National Guard at the service of Gen. McMahon to act as a military escort but the offer, incompliance with Mrs. McClellan's wish, was declined with many thanks. . Gen. McMahon came to this city from Orange to day, and will return to the McClellan residence this after noon to make further arrangements. The Army of the Potomac will send representa tive to the funeral. " t SOUTH CAROLINA. j :- , ;- .-v.- ' ; -1 . ; j; Large Cargo or . Cotton taken from Charleston A Lady Burned to Death I By Telegraph to the Horning Star. : ' r-'CnuiiASTOir,': October 80. The British ship Ariel cleared to day with a cargo of 7,310 bales of cotton. This is the largest cargo ever taken from Charleston by i a single vessel in the history of this port. - . Mrs. Z. E. Barnett, a .respect able white woman of Greenville county, S. 0., was burned to death last. Sunday while alone in her house. When found she was alive, with her clothes burned off, but soon died. NEW "rOBE. The Tribune Newspaper and. the Ty pographical union Agree on a Scale of Wages Death of One of the Pro prietors of the Albany Argns. -" .NbwYork," Oct 81. The officers' of Typographical. Union No. 6 to-day signed an agreement with the Tribune withdraw ing their, charges Of bad faith and broken contracts, suspending their boycotting, and pledging themselves to advise all labor or ganizations and request from, them, simi lar action.- This is the result of an adjust-, ment which the : officers have reached on the basis first agreed upon with the Tribune during the height of the . Blaine campaign in September,, 1884, but afterwards rejected by the Typographical "-Union themselves. The, Tribune remains out of the Urdonj as it has-been for nine years past, and works under its own rules and regulations; with its old . foreman, and makes absolutely no change among its employes, the most of whom - have, been non-union for many years, and intend to remain so.: It agrees to continue paying the present wages to its weekly hands., which: are in nearly all cases above the Union scale, and to ad vance its rate for piece composition to 46 cts. Ser. thousand ems. This is the price named i the memorandum, to which it agreed last year, but' which the Union afterwards re jected. 777H7;77 7rr'7V''-7;:77VI; 3.1 r Aidant, October 81. J; Westry .Smith, One of the proprietors of the i Albany Argus, died suddenly in this dty this afternoon. ! VIRGINIA. ; Damage to": Railroads The : City : 7. Iiynehbnrar Almost Isolated. ;; -. 7 ''' IiTHchbxjbg,- Oct ,h-Qn 'account of heavy washouts on the railroads connecting here, this city is . almost isolated from the outer world. ' No 'northern mails -have been received here for three ' days. Busi ness is BimeriBg m consequence. ; ;v:? j .. no: 'NEW TORE.. Speculation that tho Remains of tten. 7 Grant will "be Removed to" Washing ton for 7Intermeat-Th Report con ,.tradleted,y,Hrs.Graatv ii : 7 : ilBy Telegraph to tie Horning 8tar. ij ; - New York,1 October 29 During seve ral days past there has been cause for spec 1 ulation in the minds of New Yoikera as to whether Gen. Grant's ' body wonld remain here or.be removed from the State. These doubts grew out of a recent statement by Hon. J B Chaffee to the effect that Jim f amily of Gen, Grant did not wish the Gen eral's body, to remain ip this city, and that Congress; l iU next session, ; would Uke action in the maHer..Prof ; R, T, Greener, Secretary of the Monument Associatiod. stated to-night that the matter had been definitely settled, as the following corres pondence would show: - j . ?. - r ; 1 "WCIWMr.lrj. 1885 Mt Hear Mrs rir4. The . Executi ve Committee of the Grant Monument Association, to whom was ea trusted tne .honored and patriotic task of i soliciting funds ; for a suitable national monument to the tnemorv o vour distin- gnished hUsbancJi finds iteel f seriously bam peroreu in iia worx, and. to a great ex tent embarrassed by 'utterances which apf pear from. time to time in , the daily papers, often purporting to come from your f amilv. Jnr committeb -ls -uiAcevneethfwhen it emanates from the o ; reports quiie - lnaustnousiy spread abroad . and persistently .- reiterated that on the assembllDgf Congress ' a-persistent effort, with,, the consent . and ap proval of your ' family," would be "be gun to have the "body of General Grant removed to Washington for final sepulture. Our fund has already reached a generous sum (nearly $90,000; and it willr be tlOO. 000 soon), but It must be obvious that any doubt which the public may have as to the desire of your family. in iregard to River side Park as the permanent tomb and site of the proposed national memorial acts as a detriment to those who would I otherwise freely give, may I ask from you and your family clear and emnhstic exoreasinn of yourwun ana preterence ? ; r :; e ; , Very respectfully yours, - 1 '-.;;-t.i . . Ww r Or; Yke President Grant Mnnnmpnt a l he following is Mrs. Grant's reply: i-! ' "NewTork. October 29, 1885. Dear Sir--Your letter of the 16th came to band .du ring my absence, and was received on my return from Long Branch; Riverside was selected , by myself, and my family as the burial place of my husband. Gen. Grant first, because I believed New York ; was nis preference: second. . n is; near the resilience uai l nope to occupy long i as -1... Bve and where I will as be able to visit his resting - place often; uiuu, x nave Deuevea ana am now con vinced that the tomb will be visited by as many of his countrymen here as it would be at any other place; and, fourth, because the offer of the park in New York was the first which was observed, and was un reservedly assented to only on the condi tion; imposed by '; Gen. Grant himself, namely, that I should have a place hy i bis side. I am, sir, very respectfully, ; - m .. Jtjma D. Graht. ; To Wm. R. Grace, Mayor. City of Now York. ;;j?' s .m--j- : f;;.7' t- Nkw. York, Oct 80. The steam drum in Robert Roberta' laundry, at 884 West 26th street, exploded thw' morning.! ' A number of young women employed in ha laundry were scalded by the escaping tteam before they could get to the street, t Six girls were taken to the hospital more or less badly injured. ' " 7 c - j j . Osweoo, Oct 80,-r-The schooner George B. Sloan, while attempting to make a har bor during a severe gale last night, ttruck the new.9 breakwater- and went to pieces The - cook, Elisa Lockey. of Budgeton, Canada, was drowned The balance of the crew were rescued. - Tbe schooner was val ued at ffl.COO, and was insured for $7,000. i The schooner Ada Ellembery, of Sack eit's Harbor, struck the pier angle at the entrance to New Harbor last night1 and after drifting around pounded to pieces. She was valued at $3,000, and was not in sured. The crew were saved. ' New York, October 80. The Directors of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com pany to-day decided to pay the November interest on series B B bonds, one-half in cash and the other half in scrip, the same as in May last, although the Company, in consequence of unremunerative business, has failed, to earn even one-half so to be paid. The deficiency, it is officially stated, is to ' be advanced by one or more of i he stockholders, - who are . themselves large bondholders, with the expectation of tiding over the present period of depression until a return of better times in the coal and iron traffic ' " FERB1NA ND Wjl RD. ' ' Seathlng .Remarks of the Jadge In Sentencing . Him- The Prisoner : Sbewi no Evidence of Feeling. By Telegraph to the Horning Stat Nrw York. Oct 81 In court to-dav Judge Tracy. counsel for Ferdinand Ward, made amotion that judgment, be arrested, and filed a bill of exceptions. The District Attorney then moved that Ward be sentenced. : i " ;;;- 1 '.;- :-; ..;.- "You have been convicted by an intelli gent and conscientious jury of the crime of which you have been charged,; began the Judge, directing his gaze upon the prison-' er, who stood before him. -"You have certainly . had a fair and. -impartial i trial. The jurors were most , carefully selected and came on the trial of your case r with apparently, unprejudiced minds, t The -Court guarded all your rights - and privi leges from infringement to the best of his ability. You were convicted because you had no defence. You offered no de fence to the facts. It is only a matter for conjecture why so intelligent a jury should have taken so long to decide your case. If your case had been that of a person wholly unknown, the jury need not have left their seats. On the contrary your case had the benefit of more than careful con sideration. You have been most ably de fended by your counsel, and an address as brilliant and scholarly as any ever heard in this court room was made in your defence. You were not Convicted on popular clamor.? The jury probably delayed their judgment because they were afraid that in some way they might be accused of being influenced by popular clamor, which tended to make that conviction doubtful, I have nothing to, say to you in the way of a homily, be cause I think it would be wholly useless. You have shown yourself wholly indiffer ent throughout the trial of the charge brought against you. You seem to expe rience, no remorse whatever ; over . the ruin and sorrow which you have brought to hundreds in this country. You have done more to unsettle public confidence in mon eyed institutions than any other man of this generation, and yet, ; through this en tire trial, you have shown yourself to be wholly unrepentant for the sins you have' committed. - This- being the fact I must simply content myself with pronouncing the sentence of the Court, which is that you shall be confined in the State's prison at hard labor for a period of ten years.'' j Not a muscle of the prisoner's face changed while those scathing . remarks . were being made. He bowed his head, but did not tremble or show - any evidence of feeling. Ward was quickly surrounded by his friends. He put on his overcoat took his derby hat and left the Court, room, accompanied by his keepers. 7 j , WEST VIRGINIA. Heavy Flood in tho-Kanawha Rlver- louce Number of Coal Barges Swept .Away..:. - . ..','17.' 7- By TUecraph to the Horning Starh V;r ? I Chablbstok,: Oct 81,About;S o'clock this morning- the Kanawha river began rising very rapidly. : With the rise; about fifty bargeev loaded with coal, , owned by the various collieries above the city, were swept away. A large fleet of loaded barges, lying along the bank of the -river here,, snared the same fate. . About one-half mil lion bushels coal were lost Many bt the barges, lie at .tb; bottom, of ,the (river. A number of places op the river,' among thecollieries,have not been heard fronu The destruction to property will amount to near f 15,000. The river is now tnirteen ieet, and rising one foot perhour. i'.- RaleigH Register: CaptiA. II. 4 Worth will next week heagain steamboat- 7 ing on the Cape Fear, in command wf the River Queen. . . The Cape F-r "& Yad- f- kiri Valley Railroad is rapidlv butloing fifty new freight cars. .- . - Lexington Dispatch: Mr. Wiley Andrews, " near Trinity College, old bu farm a yeai" ago for. $3 00Q to a geath-matt 1 from Rockingham. ; He saja that the man to whom he sold ,it will reaiise tS.OOO on X his tobacco crop, besides IJbiB oihrciops ti i-n Raleigb Recorder 1 . The Frank- Union Weekly to our- authority for- stating : that the Wake Forest' Baptists will build a Baptist church at Wake, Forestat an early day. ; -.The -Western Baptists, in their Convention at Asheville, Oct Uth, dis played good judgment we think,- in the selection ef.the following officers ; Rev. J, B. Boone, President; W. W, Wells, 1st Vice-President; Rev. L. W.: Sams, 2nd Yieo-President; Chas. E. Lee. Secretary and Treasurer; Jesse W. Morgan. Bistc- -roan; D. T,.Millard, Auditor. . :; 7- 7 i GreenshoToWorkmari: ' ' Mrs." -Parmelia Smith, the mother of our towns man, W. B- Moore; and who is now In her ; 77th year, took the first premium for fine home knit hose at the Spring-Garden Fair. - It is a pleasure to us to note how gen erally the press of the State congratulate ,tbe. Wilmington MoRSino Star on . the . completion of its eighteenth year. But the -subject .is not - exhausted: bv anv meaBB LThe Star has won its success, we think, so lainy, that tne facts 01 Its history might be ' advantageously utilized ' by tho contempo raneous press, and ought to be. . 7 -7' ' v Salisbury '.v Watchman ": ' The -. Watchman thanks -the WUmiDgton- Star for the exceedingly flattering -compliment ' paid it recently. To say that the Wateh- wm ia r -wisely ana juoiciousiy eaitea is -high praise, and is appreciated, especially when it emanates from the best Darjer in the State. 7 There is a decided and de termined effort being . mada here for the . establishment of a cotton, factory. - There is not an idle carpenter in Salisbury. There is a demand for carpenters just now. The progress of some of the building now going on in town is hindered from this cause. - The unusuaVdemand for hands to work on the extention of the Carolina . Central Railroad, and the high price (for .that section) of one dollar per day; has almost entirely drawn away the men from petty mining in Burke,-McDowell and Ru therford counties.- It is doubtful if a third of the customary returns from this source is probable. '- . '. ;: . . Greensboro ' Workman . ' Mr. Wesley Smith, a citizen of TWarnersville, ' and; who furnishes the power that moves our printing" press- daily, says he was fa miliar, six years ago, - with one ; Botkum. who lived not far from, Clay ton, Johnston county. Borkum, he says, was 140 years old, and his eyes were dim, but when he wanted to see clearly his friends put peo- ' per and salt In his eyes. ' Mr . Smith thinks Borkum is still living, at the ripe old age of J.W years.. Tne moKNrsa star wiu take notice. ' : (Yes, we have taken notice. This jshows what a great State North Carolina is. While other states and countries struggle hard to produce once and awhile a genuine ' centenarian, it is as easy as falling off a log for North Carolina to have them at any time ranging irom 100 to lou years old. You pays your money and you takes your ' choice. There is another remarkable thing, North Carolinians - axe not at all credulous.; They are able to, believe any . thing. , Baron , Munchausen s .adventures are not at all improbable. Oh no. Star). . New .Berne Journal; . ; There are quite a number of men In attendance on the District Court Who we understand have been engaged in illicit distilling -and nave voluntarily surrendered themselves, -with the understanding that they are to be let off by paying costs and promising to quit tne Duainess. Among the witnesses in these cases we met yesterday an old fellow sol dier, George Turner.' who is now farming near Seven Springs, .Lenoir county. .He says the boys all in his section have - re solved to quit if they can get put this time. The cotton crop about here is nearly all out. : Proof positive that the crop is a short one. Robt. Bynumb, from near Marlboro, Pitt 'county, was in our place : eaturaay returning with a horse stolen from him some time ago. . ; The horse was found ' near Warsaw, "Duplin county, where the thief deserted him when caught stealing corn from the field of, a Mr. Fai- son. The rogue, in the route from Marl- : boro to Warsaw, stole a cart, .which was also left and . for which no owner has been found. - CoL Davis is occupying . his new school building. . It is one among the best and, most conveniently arranged buildings for the purpose in the State. - ' Baleigb News- Observer f Yes terday a reporter interviewed State Treaa r--urer Bain on the public debt question. 1 There" are, it appears, something like $2,600,000 in old bonds yet to come in for exchange. People hold their bonds pretty 1 tightly, but the amount or ignorance con-. cerning them is very great- ,The holders; are scattered all over the country, and the ' letters that many of them write to the Treasurer- .show great ignorance;. The bonds, it is thought are held mainly in small sums.. The large holders have sent their bonds in to be exchanged for the 4 per cent consols. Nearly $10,000,000 of . these old bonds of the three classes, ex changed; ; for 15,. , 25. . and - 40 cents on the dollar,' -have been " received and - the exchange duly ..- made. . A sensation may . develop in the east ern part' of the State.': Captain Appleton Oaksmith lives at . Holly wood, Carteret county. He has been prostrated by an at tack of paralysis since August 22. ; Since that date an article giving alleged facts i regard to his past history has had a wide circulation.' 7 The Kinston - Free Press re published the1 article.- Some one sent hia wife, Mrs. Augusta Oaksmith, a copy of . the paper. ; She writes an indignant letter, which appeared ;in yesterday 's New Berne Journal. In this she says : ' "The whole article regardingmy husband, Appleton . Oaksmith, is an unmitigated lie, in all that relatea to the slave trade; and all else un becoming the conduct of a gentleman. I know my husband's 7 whole life; he has never been connected with the slave trade, and of this the facts are on file in the De partment of Justice in Washington. These charges originally sprang from substantial aid which he is said to have extended to Cuban patriots, and certain assistance al leged to have been furnished by him to the South." Durham, October 27, 1885. Tomorrow the grand opening of Black well's inaugural horse fair at Blackwell's park occurs. -.Horses - having already ar rived from "New York State. New Jersey, Chicago and Baltimore. ' T '- '7, Charlotte Observer: . An un fortunate. and very serious, accident oc- ' curred during the bicycle races at the fair grounds yesterday, Mr. O. Fv Asbury be ing thrown to the ground and . badly in jured. The accident occurred on the finish of the last heat in the 2 mile race.- Just before reaching the goal, Mr. Asbury's foot slipped from the pedal, -and he was per cipitated - to : the ground with great vio lence. He was picked up in an uncon scious condition. Inr Paw Creek township incendiarism holds: sway. We . have already recorded the burning of the barns of Mr; John Cathey and : Mr.- Ellis McKnight and now have two to 'add to that number. Night, before last the barns of Mr. James McLure and MnJHIpp, in the Paw Greek : neighborhood, were de-. stroyed by -the incendiary-torch. Mr. McKnight's barn was burned" by. a negro woman, who is now in jsiU The parties who burned the barns of Messrs. McLure and Hipp had not been captured up o a late hour last night - Although.lt has been said by many of our Own people that . Charlotte cannot get up a fair, it is a patent fact that , a -fair ; is now going - on at the grounds of the Carolina Fair Association, r. and such. $ a: .'fair as has : never: before been known .in this city. As anticipated, yesterday's races were fine, -and a large crowd Was attracted to the grounds to witness the sport : .There were two running races. In the first race half mile aasnes tstariing minora ana suss Payne were entered; ; In the toss for posi tions for the start, Sterling won the pole, Clifford second and Miss Payne third. The start was made ia fine style,; and Clifford came in oh the first and second heats ; time 52 and 61i. The second race was a mile dash, and wasentered by Palmetto Koree.' Emma Burke and pikwood ! Palmetto had -the pole, and the others- came in the order , named.-. Elkweod r was the Winner; . time 1.47. - Hamilton, Ihe man who played the villain ia the Standard DrsmstK per formance, died a few dayr agowbile that . Company was : in Wadesboro.j 1:-t Six fresh horses arrived from Washington City last night, -making twenty -six Tacers for . -I ; - 3 - 1
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