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The Weekly Star. PUBLISHED AT :- - , - ft U M I S 6 T O N , VN . C . , -, AT , 5 0 A, YE A it, I K iDTlKOE. sssssssssssssssss ""Wiv'J 5ggggSSSSSSgggg , sssssssssssisisii !M.4lU.,K 8 o c cxi ' co oo i" t) cfe p" cpe sssssssssssssssss ! SS88SS88S28S8888S - - ssss-essssssssssss v v s fiv Of Ct Q9 00 SSoSSS33SSSS3S3S8 1 " ' J -.v, .." ' . 9 , - - S- - - - a'. - ..... .' aa ' ' ih e eo io w t- eo o o v-l V4 -l -i at cl ct Entered, at the Post Office atTWilmineton, N. C, aa Second Class Hatter. ; SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. , The subscri6tion price of the Weeej.y Star is as follows : " -aingie Uopy 1 year, postage paid, J f 1.50 " ' : 6 months,," , " ; ;.. 1.00 3 months " ' -" .50 THE REPLY Off THE AGRICVL- TCRiL OEPARTKIEilT. We have examined the very lucid, calm and convincing paper 'of the Department of Agriculture in reply to the strictures that hare been made npon its management. It is exceed ingly well done. The temper is ad mirable, and . the explanations im press us as being satisfactory. We are srlad of this as the Stab never desired to cripple the Department, much less to destroy it. The Stab t.hmiaht there had heert tinme Inonn o management, some extravagance, too many employes, and so on. The pa per prepared by the Department meets all complaints and charges with a frankness, clearness, andjco gency that are quite admirable, and thatwill satisfy most of those whose suspicion and antagonism had been aroused. . We take the more pleas - ure in saying this because we had been led to think some evil of the The reply of the Department con cerning its management and expendi tures is comprehensive and meets every charge, we believe, great and small. The whole matter of the State exhibit at the New Orleans raiely, and we think the reply is moss triumphant. The total expenditures of North--Carolina were less than $8,000. Nebraska spent $15,000, Wisoonsin $12,000, Mississippi ' $15, -000, Texas $50,000, Minnesota $30, 000. Calif'ornia$30.000. Now North , Carolina made one of the very best exhibits and at a great deal less cost "than any of the States that made the best displays. To appreciate the thoroughness of the statement of the Department on the New Orleans ex hibit you must read that part of the report. The defence of the management seems to be equally satisfactory .in reference to the Experiment Station, the charge of extravagance, the Pyrite Survey and so on. ' We are satisfied that it is much easier to bring charges than to sustain . them, and that it is difficult to show where any very material reduction in ex penditures as they now are can be made without seriously embarrassing the operations of . the Department and lessening its effectiveness and utility. . We have known the distinguished and accomplished gentleman who is at the head of , the Department, Montfprd McGehee, Esq.j for some thirty-seven years, and we know whereof we affirm. North Carolina has. to day few such men in charac ter, culture and ability. His elegant manners and fine intelligence much impressed the gentlemen, who had intercourse with him at the Boston Exhibit, as we chance to know. r There could be nothing improper or dishonorable under his management and, of his ' knowledge. The State will always be ably served whenever he is in office. The discussion will serve a good end. It has drawn attention to its management and the character of its work. ' The people will hereafter not only better understand what is being done, but1 will the better appreciate; the utility 'and importance of the , S,tate Agricultural Department. The New -York Sun is edited by Dana, who was Assistant Secretary of War under ; Stanton. It contains a very severe attack on" Gen. Sher man, and accuses him of being ready in his dealing with Gen. Johnston to throw away the whole stakes for which the North had fought. If Lincoln had lived the Reconstruction era would have been very different. The negro emigrants who went from South Carolina are stranded at Jackson, Miss. . There are 150 of them, and they left home to work near Little Rock, Ark. . An account says: ,"They were at Jackson turned over to some Yakoo county planters, but refused to go to work. Their baggage is held by the railroad com pany for their fare, which was not paid by Walker." Old CumpJ Sherman is now pre dicting another war between the sections. Is the okTtown burner and bummer clean daft? VOL. XVII. WHAT IS 8AID OP THE TABIFF ' BIIiIi, v The .- papers are discussing - th e points in the Morrison Tariff bill. Of course views are variant and of every shade. The Augusta Chroni cle, for instance, a Southern Protec tion paper, thinks it "shows more de sign without more intelligence," and says "the discrimination seems to be heavily against the South." The Washington JFW bubbles. over with delight, and thinks that all genuine Tariff reformers will be satisfied with it. Hardly, but ' they 'may vote fo it, upon the principle that a nibble at a loaf is better than no nibble. The New York Star also seems well pleased, and thinks all anti-Protection men! should votet for it. The New York Times, Republican, but in favor of reduction, says the reduc tions proposed are the united work of Morrison and Hewitts Tbejattei is a Protectionist. The 7?m thinks--that all Democrats who favor reform in the Tariff should vote for it, as it 'can 1 be made the basis of proper legislation."-It complains of the "beg garly, amount of ; taxation" remit ted in the free list. It is indeed a very trifling sum comparatively only some $5,000,000, when it ought to be at least $20,000,000. The reduction in the tax on sugar equals all the others, and in face of the fact; as the Times suggests, that "there are other duties relatively more oppressive and injurious." To show how very mo dest Messrs. Morrison and Hewitt are, they take off $1.12 tax per ton on pig iron, reducing jjt from $6.72 to $5.60. It is a very disappointing bill, f : Mr.' Hewitt is aaron manufactu rer. It could not be expected that a Tariff scheme! in" which he was a joint workmia would meet the exi gencies of the hour or favor reform to any great extent. The proposed reduction, it is said, will be bitterly opposed by the Protectionists, and it is understood! that Mr. Sam Randall will not vote j with a majority of his party. It may be that! a more radi cal reduction dvould stand no chance in the Senate The country, Protectionists, as is held by anti- needs a very th'or- ougb, scientific and decided reduc tion of the War Tariff. The pro posed scheme will not probably re duce the average below 38 per "cent., if so much. jThis proves it a yvery High Tariff still. It may be that a small' reduction would do good, pro vided it was just and equitable and did not discriminate against a par ticular section.!. But the trouble is that slight reductions only serve' to keep alive discussions and arouse an tagonisms and disturb of the country. the business AN HONORABLE MAN WBONGED. The attacks made upon the Attor ney General of the United States are very unfair, and many of them are most malicious. He may have made a mistake in .the unsuspecting frank ness of his nature in his intercourse with Rogers; but no man who knows Mr. Garland lean believe him aught than an honorable gentleman, and those who have carefully inquired into the matter of his connection with the Pan Electric Company can not believe that there is anything in it that is dishonorable or that ought to injure him. j The attack npon him was made by a subsidized press, and the purpose is to keep up the fire un til he is driven from the Cabinet. The plan is cunning and bold enough but it will f ail. The j merits of the Bell Telephone matter will be tested in the courts. In the meantime a debauched and purchased press will not hold, up' an their efforts to injure and wrong a man of the utmost sim plicity and purity of Character. f The New York Times says: "Attorney General Garland in a brief statement made by him yesterday intimates that his critics should be divided into two classes those who would willingly approve any honorable course he might take in rer gard to this telephone stock, and those who, whatever he might do, would continue to censure and misrepresent him. This is a sound and justidiscrimination. The Attor ney General has many friends and admirers who have believed him to be an entirely up right,: honest, and. honorable man. They are extremely j reluctant to change their nnininn of hint On the other hand, there are many men, iparticularls newspaper edi tors, ia this country wno ior parua&u aim other reasons will never acquit him of the worst charges in the Pan Electric ecandal however completely his sins may be washed away." :. - j '- "" - " SOME FACTS ABOUT THE BATTI.F OF 8BILO0. -We have read the two papers of Gen. Beaaregard in the JveriA Am rican Iteviem on "The Shiloh Cam paign" and we are constrained to say this: they are well done, are con clusive as to the main point aimed at, and are important contributions to the literature of the great war be tween the States. Gen. Beauregard show that the plan of the battle of Shiloh was-his plan, pure and simple; and that he fought the battle on both the first and second day. In other words, he shows most satisfactorily that Gen. A. jS. Johnston adopted his plan in f nil as Commander-in-Chief of the united; armies, and that -Gen. Johnston acted the part of a Corps or Division Commander throughout the fieht until he fell, rather than u - that of 'Commander-in-Chief, j He 1- occupied a position that did not enable him to- survey the - field and direct the 3 general - move ment of the ; forces.' We - think Gen. Beauregard makes this perfectly plain, and we say this after having thought the account of Col. W. P. Johnston the true one. We refer to Ms article in the Century Magazine for February, 1885. Col. Johnston is the son of Gen. A. S. Johnston, and is an excellent Writer' as well as a gentleman of high character. Gen. Johnston accepted Gen. Beau regard's plan of the battle "without modification in a single particular." This is certified to by . Gen. Jordan, tJeaureerard'a Chief of Staff! and an able soldier. ' But when Gen. Beau regard was averse to attacking the enemy because of the delays and other cansef Gen. Johnston overrode the objections and assumed the re "Bp6nsibiiityTe!bftttIe.' There are - two facts made very plain by this account, and they are as well known to Federal officers as to every man in, Johnston's army at Shiloh. They are first 'that Grant was taken by surprise and .most com pletely. A gallant captain in our city,who belonged to Gen. Wheeler's command, tells us that it was a very great surprise, and so much so that they found some of the men cooking; and he actually saw one command fall in without their coats, they being too hard pressed to get them on. Some very "tall lying" has been done on the other side to try to evade the charge of surprise. Even Grant and Sherman have both conspired to tell the story that there was no surprise. But other Federal soldiers have "ac knowledged the corn." Gen. Beau- reguard says: "It is singular that notwithstanding the evidence furnished by' all Confederate and many Federal authorities, some Northern wi iters and Northern Generals persevere in the idle assertion idle because it has been proven groundless that the Federal forces were not taken by surprise at Shiloh on the 6th of April, 1863. I, myself, for reasons already referred to in this paper, had deemed a surprise improbable; but that i was effected is, nevertheless, a fact. I merely said this: - 'Oa the evening of the otn of April, our army, amounting to some forty thousand men, was withm a mile and a' hair or the Federal encampments. We had remained there a whole night, using but a few pre cautionary measures to conceal our pres ence. We bad moved on the next morning within easy sight of the enemy, without encountering any obstacle worthy of no tice. When the first encampments were taken, many Federal officers and soldiers were yet lying in bed. Bread was being baked and was taken hot from the ovens by our men: Sutlers' stores were left wide open. Whole companies ran irom tneir quarters, without having time! to take tbeir muskets or rifles with them. Our first columns of attack entered the first Federal lines as freely and as unimpeded as if by invitation." In Van Horne's "History of the Army of the Cumberland" the ad mission of a surprise is evidently made, and it is said that neither Hal leck nor Grant "had the remotest ex pectation that the enemy would ad vance, in offence from Corinth with full strength." In fact, the historian says that Halleck was to command the united Federal armies and he was not to leave St. Louis until 7th April. The Sunday's battle was fought on 6th. Even Sherman as late as 5th sent a dispatch saying, "I do not ap prehend anything like an attempt upon our position." At that time 40,000 Confederates were advancing and were not three miles distant pro bably. Grant, who has denied since that he was surprised, telegraphed Halleck on the same day "I have scarcely the faintest idea that an at tack will be made upon us." When Johnston's "40,000 men were lying within one mile and a half of the Federal encampments," (Beauregard) Grant was at a place called Savan vah, some miles from the battlefield. He said to CoL Jacob Ammen (who reports it in his "Diary" see "War of Rebellion," series 1, vol. x., part 1, page 330) "Make the troops com fortable; I will send boats for you on Monday or Tuesday (7th and 8th), or some time next week. There will be no fight at Pittsburg Land ing; we will have to go to Corinth.'' Let there be no more denials of a surprise. It will bring reproach only on those denying. . The other point clearly established is this: that the Federals were badly whipped and' driven the first day, even "to their shelter under the gun boats at Pittsburg Landing. This too has been denied and no one could ever find out what did occur on the first day from either Grant's or Sher man's account. ! It is doubtful if Gen. Beauregard's account of the close of the first day's fight will be accepted by the living articipants on the southern side, although he makes a very good show ing. It was believed the second day until the order came for retreat that the Confederates would again deliver battle. When Bragg, Hardee and Polki in command of the three lines of battle, received the order to fall back, they met and the whole army believed they would disregard the order and make ' another trial of strength. But such was not the case, : Gen. Beauregard is a soldier of very distinguished abilities and as an engineer has had but few equals in this country. - Mis fault as . a com mander in the field is evidently ex cessive caution. He discusses the pros and cons with marked ability, and often his caution leads him to decide against battle when a more self-reliant and dashing soldier would assume all responsibility . and -would "stand the hazard of the die. : u WILMINGTON, N. CVERIDAY, FEBRUARY. 26, Railroad Bridge Accident. The local freight train on the Wilming ton, Columbia & Augusta Railroad,-which left the company's depot in - this city yes terday morning at 6 o'clock, met with an accident at the, railroad bridge over the Northeast river, near Hilton, by which one span of the bridge was demolished and a portion of the train of cars was thrown in to the river. . : -. ; v .r.:,L The train consisted of a locomotive and tender and a number of box and fiat cars. Before it reached Hilton bridge one of the flat-cars about midway the train got off the track and ran for a considerable distance on the cross ties. When the train reached the bridge the derailed car swung across the rack. It struck the end column and sup porting rods with such force as to knock them away and immediately the whole of the first span of the bridge collapsed and went down into the river. All the cars that were on the span went down with it some ten or twelve in number. Fortunately the cars were empty and there was no person on any of them. The locomotive and three or four ears were on the second span when, the first span of .the bridge collapsed and escaped. . . ":J This accident will seriously interfere with through traffic for awhile, but the railroad authorities have gone to work vigorously with a large number of men and quantities of material, and hope to have the gap re paired by Tuesday next. Meanwhile, ar rangements have been made for the prompt and comfortable transfer of pasaeagers and baggage and the mails and express, by the steamer Pa$sport. ,The Wilmington, Co lumbia & Augusta Railroad will transfer from the wharf at the depot on the river to Navassa or "Meares Bluff;" the Carolina Central gives notice that the steamer Pass port will leave that company's wharf at 6 30 p. m. to convey passengers to its trains at Hilton Bridge, where a platform has been erected on the west side of the gap caused by the collapsed span'. The boat will also meet trains at the same place coming from Charlotte. The damage to the bridge is estimate dby outside parties at not less than twenty thou sand dollars. It is owned Jointly by the three companies using it; the Carolina Cen tral owning one-half and the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta and Wilmington & Weldon Railroads one-fourth each. It is built entirely of iron and is considered one of the finest pieces of work of the kind in this country. The depth of water in the river, where the span fell in is about thirty feet. Hundreds of persons visited the scene of the accident yesterday, and it will probably continue to be a centra of attraction for several days - Accident to Citizen of Wilmington The Charlotte Observer of Friday last, gives an account of an accident to Col. J. T. Anthony, of the firm of Anthony & Bryce, of this city, which occurred in tha place on Thursday last. Some person it seems had placed five torpedoes on j the track of the Carolina Central Railroad at the Trade street crossing in that city which were exploded by a shifting engine.) At the time the engine started across the street, several parties were standing at the cross ing waiting for the engine to pass by, and among them was Col. J. T. Anthony, of the 4th Regiment, State Guard. Col. An thony was standing close to the track, and at the first explosion a flying piece of metal embedded itself in his right leg, just be low the knee, while another piece struck him in the face, just under the eye. The only injury sustained by the latter piece was a sharp, stinging sensation, but the piece that struck his leg wounded him severely. The fragment of metal was about two inch es long and cutting through his clothing, it buried itself deeply in the flesh of his leg, within an inch of the place where he was wounded during the war. Col. Anthony extracted the piece of metal from his flesh, and has since suffered no inconvenience from the wound. The Observer Bays: "The patty who placed the torpedoes on the track is unknown, but -whoever he is, he must have done his work quickly to have escaped detection by the flagman, as well as by the people who were continually crossing the track. The torpedoes are in stfape and size about like a five-cent box of blacking, and are so arranged that they can be quickly clamped to the rails, and how any person could manage to placo five of them on a railroad track at a busy street crossing without being detected, is some thing of a mystery. Cotton Receipt and Exports. The receipts of cotton at this port yes terday were 26 bales, against 260 bales the corresponding date last year; for the week, ending yesterday, the receipts were 1,328 bales, against 783 bales for the week ending February 21st. 1885 an increase of 545 bales. For the crop year, from Septcmj ber 1st to date, the receipts were. 80,068 bales, against 91,197 bales the same time last year; a decrease of 1,129 bales. The total exports, foreign and domestic, for the crop year to date are 80,167 bales; against 89,081 bales for the Eame date last year. 1 Respited. ; Henry Scott, the young colored man sen tenced to be hanged for rape on Wednes day next, has been respited for three weeks from that day by'Governor Scales. Sheriff Manning has as yet received no official no tification of the respite, but the information was received in a telegram from Mr. F. H. Darby, counsel for Scott, to his associate counsel in the case, Messrs. J. C. Davis and C. P. Lockey. It is understood that the respite has been granted to afford sufficient time for inquiry to be made into the grounds upo which petitions have been presented to his Excellency -for a commutation of Scott's sentence to imprisonment for life. Peanuts. - The advance in the price of peanuts at Petersburg, Va., caused a large increase in the receipts last week. . There .was also a considerable stock stored there to await an advance. The movement in conse quence was unusually heavy, involving manv thousands of sacks. The market in Wilmington continues steady and prices have remained unchanged during the week. Receipts, while . not large, nave been liberal. - The : Wadesboro . Times says that Hon. R. T. Bennett 'has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives for the benefit of the 'Vestry and Wardens of . T -T , . a XT " 1 ... T f Dk oamea irarisn, oi - Wilmington, n. which was referred : t.n thn nnmrnittea on War Claims. It is in relation to the occu pation of St. James Church by the U. S. forces in 1865, when it was used by them M 1 i 1 . ' . ..... .:v..-V-- IOr 4 UUbpiMM. f : . ' - . ; - KhY An Animated Dlseasslon on the Blair 1 - Bill. - :Twocolored 'gentlemen" discussed that all absorbing question the Education bill at the corner of Dock and Water streets yesterday. '.One of the two had been fish-' ing in the dock, and caught nothing; the other had just emerged from a "saloon" where ''shorta'V'are dispensed that will make a poor darkey feel as rich as a bloated bond-holder. I jes' wish the Congress would pass dat educational bill,'; said the darkey" with the fishing-pole.! would get a 'pintment as school teacher. Dey say that school teachers will git a million of dollars a year and live in a big brick school house like a church, with marble doors and diamond - winders. " ; ' 'But the bill Is unconstitutional, my friend,' said the other darkey. ;J'And if it passes the Congress den all you niggers willbeuncon stitutionalized yourself, and the next thing you know you will be disfranchise and, den God help you I The white man will have y&u over in them rice fields with a hoe in yer hand and a. driver with a cow bMe as long as that fishing pole behind yer back.! I "Wbatou say may be true,' Mr. Johnson, said the other darkey, "but the rattle of a million dollars is like tie music of 'Dem Golden Stairs,' and if I can just get my fingers on soma of them I don't care a ent for de constitution or anything else." ' " S Before any further remarks could be made by either of the two gentlemen, a dog fight in the neighborhood of the new market attracted their attention, and fur ther discussion of the momentous question was unavoidably postponed. The Work of Changing the Railroad Gangs. . (j The change of gauge of the Atlantic Coast Line south of Wilmington, it is said, will take place on the first day of .June next. And on that day, or the day be fore, a similar change of gauge will take place on almost every railroad south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, extending over about 13,128 miles of railway, made up as follows: South Carolina 1,320 miles, North Carolina 960, Georgia 2,413, Florida 1,250, Alabama 1,803, Mississippi 776, Louisiana 313, Kentucky 1,118, Tennessee 1,886, and Virginia 981 miles. The work to be done on the day of change will be greatly expe dited by doing as much of it as is possible previous to that time. On the day of change there will be at least three men as signed to each mile of rail. The work will be done between 8 30 a. m. and 4 p. m., during: jwhich time the running of all trains will have to be suepended. i After 4 o'clock, however, the running of the trains will (, be resumed. The change of, gauge wiM, of course, necessitate a 'complete change in tha running gear-of the rolling stock, and this will be almost as big a job as the alteration of the track. The greater part of this work, however, can be done before the day of the change, and, indeed, many of the cars and locomotives are now being prepared for it. Items from PayettsvIIle T wo Cbll dren Badly Burned A Residence on Fire. Dispatches to the Stab from Fayette- ville, say that about four o'clock on Wed nesday afternoon last a little boy and girl hildren of Mr. Charles Calais were badly burned, and that Mrs. Calais, the mother of the children, received severe in juries while trying to extinguish the flames. The clothing of the children caught fire from some burning straw. The condition of the little boy is represented to be criti cal. . ' The residence of Dr. J. D. McNeill was discovered to be on fire yesterday, about half -past twelve o'clock. An alarm was given Fortunately the fire was put out before much damage was done. meeting of Citizens on the Pnblle Rnlldlng Question. , . Pursuant to the announcement made in the Stab yesterday, that a public meeting would be held in the rooms of the Produce Exchange to consider the matter of secur ing an increased appropriation by the Con gress for a public building in Wilmington, there was a large gathering of merchants, business men and others at the place men tioned at noon. Col F. W. Kerchner, President of the Chamber of Commerce, called the meeting to order. On motion, Col. E. D. Hall, Mayor of the city, was called to the Chair, and R. W. Hicks. Esq., was requested to act aa Secre tary. Col. Kerchner explained the object of the meeting and submitted a memorial which the committee oh public building. appointed at a previous meeting, proposed presenting to Congress. In offering 'the memorial it was stated that it would proba, bly require revision and amendment, and on motion it was referred for this purpose to a memorial committee, appointed by the Cbaii and Consisting-of Messrs. Donald Mac Rae.Thos.W. Strange and C. H. Robinson. Mr. D. G. Worth said it would be neces sary to have money to carry out the plan of action recommended by the memorial com mittee, and moved that a committee of three be appointed to collect money for the purpose.. i , CoL W. L. DeRosset suggested that the whole city was interested in this- im portant matter, and moved an amendment that the city government by requested to appropriate the money required. Upon Mr. Worth's statement, however, of the difficulties in the way of securing an appro priation for this purpose from the city gov ernment, the amendment of Col. DeRosset was withdrawn and Mr. Worth's motion was adopted, when the chair appointed Col. Roger Moore and Messrs. J. H. Currie and Samuel Bear, Jr., a committee to raise the funds necessary to defray expenses. - On motion, the original Committee on Public Building, consisting of Messrs. D. G. Worth, F. W. Kerchner and James Sprunt.was continued, with the addition to the same oi col. m. V. nail ana tion. a, M. Waddell. i -On motion the meeting adjourned. ' The railroad bridge accident will interfere with shipments of sawn lum ber from this port for awhile. Three or four vessels now in port are loading lum ber from mills on the line of the W., C. & A. Railroad, and will be unable to com plete loading until the bridge is repaired, A sunken schooner, of about 200 tons, with mainboom and head of topmast stick ing out of water, about ten feet of boom painted white, was passed Jfebruary ath, Cape Henry beaTirigN.,W. by W. 70 miles, by schooner Lizzie Wilson, at Philadelphia' nn a ID. 1886. WASHINGTON. Report of the Senate Jndlclary Coal mine. Relative to the Information Called ior from, the Executive De V.partments. t : tBy Telegraph to the Moraine star.) 'Washihgton. February , 18. Senator Edmunds to day reported the following re solutions from the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, accompanied by a long re port:'- - - Resolved, That the foregoing report of the Committee on the Judiciary be agreed to and adopted. , , . . - - Resolved, That the 8enate hereby ex presses its condemnation of the refusal of the Attorney General, under whatever in fluence, to send to the Senate copies of the papers called for by its resolution of :the 25th of January, and set forth in the report of the Committee on the Judiciary, as in violation of his official duty and subversive of the-fundamental principles of govern ment and of the c good admini tration thereof. . . - 1 Resolved,' That" it is, under these cir cumstances, the duty of the Senate to re fuse its advice and consent to the proposed removals' of officers, the documents and papers in reference to the supposed official or personal misconduct of whom are with held by the Executive, or any head of De partment,. when, deemed necessary by the Senate and called for in considering the matter. . Resolved, That the provision of section 1,754, of the Revised Statutes, declaring "that a person honorably discharged from the military or naval service, by reason of disability resulting from wounds -or sick ness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the -business capacity necessary for the proper discbarge of the duties of such office," ought to be faithfully and fully put in ex ecution ; and that to remove, or to propose to remove, any such soldiers, whose faith fulness, competency and character are above reproach, and to give the place to another, who has not rendered such ser vice, is a violation of the spirit of the law, and of the practical gratitude the people and government of the United States owe to the defenders of constitutional liberty and the integrity of the government. All of which is respectfully submitted. -(Signed) Geo. F. Edmunds, John J. In- galls, S. J. R. McMillan, Geo. F. Hoar, James F. Wilson, Win. M. Evarts. Washington, Feb. 18. The action of the Assistant Treasurer at New York in re fusing to accept deposits or silver until he is able to count them is in strict accordance with instructions issued by the U. S. Trea surer. Similar instructions have been sent to all Assistant Treasurers, the object being to ensure greater protection in the hand ling of government funds. The Acting Comptroller of the Currency has extended the corporate existence of the National Bank of Athens, Ga , and the Merchants' National Bank of Savannah, Ga.. to February 24, 1906 The report accompanying Senator .Ed munds' resolutions is of great length, em bracing about 5,000 words, exclusive of voluminous appendices. The Hpcrt recites the fact and circumstances of the removal of Dustin and the appotntment of his suc cessor as U. 8. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. It declares that it has been the uniform practice of the Judi ciary Committee, since the passage of the tenure of omce act, to call upon beads of departments for all "papers and informa tion" in the possession of the department touching the conduct and administration of the officer proposed to be appointed. This has been done with the unanimous approval of all of the members, al though the composition of the commit tee has been during the period sometimes of one political character and sometimes of another. Ia no instance until this time has the committee met with any delay or denial in respect of furnishing such papers and information, with a single exception, and in which exception the delay and suggest ed denial lasted only for two or three days. Precedents are cited and discussed, and the conclusions of the committee are set forth in the resolutions accompanying the report. The Senate confirmed Wm. F. Howland Collector of Customs of Beaufort, N. C. Howland was first nominated to succeed Alex C. Davis, suspended. Davis' term having subsequently expired, the nomination- was withdrawn and sent in to succeed Alex C. Davis, whose term of office has expired by limitation. Also W. B. Bur nett, Postmaster at Athens, Ga. The President nominated Lieut. Col. N. B. Switzer, Eighth Cavalry, to be Colonel of the Second Cavalry. This is one of the nominations -recently withdrawn. It is re newed to-day but the former nominations thereby created are left unfilled. Washington, Feb. 19. The President to-day nominated Benjamin M. Blackburn postmaster at Madison, Ga. The House Committee on Post umce ana Post Roads to-day unanimously agreed to report adversely all bills' before it for the purchase or construction of telegraph lines by the government. NEW YOR.K. The Stock market Prices Somewhat Higher. . , By Telegraph to the; Horning Star.1 New Yobk, Feb. 26. rlnterest in the stock market to-day has centered in news affecting the reorganization of Jhe Reading Company, and the effect of that news upon coal stocks, especially Lackawanna, Ru mors were afloat early this morning that Gowen had secured the Reading stock held by the vanderbuts, and also a sufficient amount of money to prevent foreclosure proceedings by the syndicate. These ru mors were confirmed later on. and account for the weakness in Lackawanna during the past few days. Lackawanna after much fluctuation, closed 3 lower, Dela ware & Hudson lost 2, Jersey Central 1J. Reading is U higher in consequence of to -day's news. One-third of to day's business oi 450,000 shares was JLackawanna, and the rest of the list was quiet. The market for other than Coalers was comparatively steady.fluctuating within narrow ranges and yielding only slightly. In fact, when the weakness in coal stocks is taken into con sideration, the rest of the list may be said to have been strong." The closing prices show losses of i to i in most cases, but Erie preferred is up f and Western Union f. The market closed irregular but gen erally heavy. , ' New Tokk, February 20. The jury in Rev. R. T. White's case were out all night. and came into court this morning at 9 o'clock and announced through their fore man, D J. Tripp, that they could not agree, and were discharged. The jury stood six lor acquittal, and six tor con vie tion. The trial lasted eight days. i A report is current to-day that two of the Aldermen who voted for the granting of the franchise for Jacob Sharpe's Broadway Surface Railroad, have confessed that they bad been bribed to vote lor the measure. It is said that the pending investigation by the Senate committee had brought the mat .ter so close home to them that the two Aldermen took fright and disclosed all of the circumstances connected with this and other similar transactions. Noofficial an nouncement has been made that the facts are as above stated, but they seem to be generally accepted. ; SOUTH CAROLINA. The i,-. Boston Lancers' Return Trip from Charleston. IBy Telegraph to the Horning Star.1 I Charleston, Feb. 19. The National Lancers of Boston left here to-day on their return home, via Columbia and the Richmond and Danville Railroad; a change In the route having been necessitated by an accident on the Coast Line near Wil mington. They will spend to-morrow in Kichmona ana reach Boston Monday morn ing next, 4 j A Kansas man is sawing wood in the Navy Yard 'at Washington. Thus the unexpected happens. He went there for a post office commission, and up to date can only say: "I eame, I saw." Boston , Record. NO. 18 FOREJG. Impressions Concerning me New " British Cabinet. Br Cable to the Morning Star. : London, Feb. 18. The impression . is gaining ground that the present Cabinet will prove unworkable and that it will be impossible to hold it together. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the resignation of Mr. Chamberlain, President of the Local Government Board, from Gladstone's Cab inet, is a question of but a few hours. . The resignation will be made, the Gazette, says, ostensibly because Chamberlain cannot bring himself to acquisece in the Govern ment's policy of coercion towards Greece, but in reality because be is UDwilling to mar what he believe to be his political future by identifying himself just now with the home rule policy decided on by the majority of bis colleagues. London, Feb. 18 The leading mem bers of the Conservative party met at Carl ton Club, at noon to-day, to confer upon the course of the party in regard to Irish affairs, on the reassembling of Parliament.' Lord Salisbury, lately Prime Minister, presided. Lord Randolph Churchill and one hundred and fifty other prominent To ries were present. The meeting was very enthusiastic. , The speeches made indicate an intention on the part of the Copserva tivt'g to offer moet strenuous opposition to any measure . presented "by the Liberals concerning home rule io Ireland. SOUTH CAROLINA. The National Lancers of Boston in Charleston. Chableston, Feb. .18. The National Lancers of Boston were taken to day on a visit to Forts Sumter and Moultrie, and on an excursion around the harbor. To night they were entertained at a grand military ball given in their honor,1 which was at tended by the Governor of the State, the Mayor of the city and many of the promi nenent officials and citizens. The Lancers leave here for Richmond at noon to-mor-row. ; , AND STILL ANOTHER. . - ' west Virginia Contributes to the Sum mary Ranging of Villainous Ne ; groes. ' - j r - IB; Telegraph to the Horning Star.1 - ; MaBTINBBTTRO. W. Vi Feh 10 Throo weeks ago Joe Burns, a repulsive looking negro, committed an outrageous assault upon one Miss Fellers, of Baltimore, while on her way from the railroad deoot at this Dlace to a friend's house, a short riiatanm outside of town. This morning Burns Daid the penalty of his crime. At 12 45 o'clock a body of masked men. numbering from SeVfintV-flvA tf nnA hnnrlrorl onnrnaflhul the jail, and without much ado took Burns tucicituui sou uraggeu mm to a point two miles outside of the limits of the borough and hanged him to a tree. WISCONSIN. A Dangerous Counterfeit silver Dollar. I By Telegraph to the Morning Star. La Crosse. Feb. 19 Teller Henderson. of the La Crosse National Bank, has dis covered ac unterfeit silver dollar that is pronounced by all the bank DeoDlc in this city to be absolutely the most dangerous ever seen. It is a standard silver dollar of 1881. The outside is silver; and the die in every substantial particular is as clear as the, original. It stands, all microscopical tests. The only possible means, of detec tion is by weight; it being exactly 47 grains short of the standard dollar, and is esti mated to be about 43 grains short of the average. . THE BOSTON LANCERS. Their Arrival and Reception at Rich mond, Va. LBy Telegraph to the Horning Star.1 ' Richmond. Va.. Feb. 20 The National Lancers of Boston arrived here at 7.30 o'clock this morning, via the Richmond & Danville Railroad. They were met at the depot by the Stuart Horse Guards and a number of field and staff officers of the First Virginia Regiment of Infantry. A detachment of the Richmond Howitzers fired a salute in honor of the visitors upon the arrival of the train. They are special guests of the Stuart Horse Guards during their stay in the city. After breakfast at Ford's hotel, their headquarters, the-visi-tors were taken in carriages and busses to various points of interest in and about the city. Many of the Lancers visited the National Cemetery near the city, where number of the boys that wore the blue are at rest. At one o'clock the Lancers were entertained at lunch by officers and mem bers or the inrst Virginia JKegiment, at their armory, and this afternoon there was more sight-seeing. At 7 p. m. they called upon Governor Fitzugh Lee and paid their respects to his Excellency and his wife. To night there will be a reception at the Regimental Armory, where Governor Lee will f ormaliy welcome the visitors. This will be followed by a banquet tendered the visitors by the Stuart Horse Guards. INDIANA. Important Decision In a Telephone r - 8nlt. -. . By Telegraph to the Horning Star. -Indianapolis, Feb. 20. The Indiana Supreme Court to-day affirmed the decision of the Madison county Criminal Court in the case of the State vs. John E. Hockett. The issues involved being various questions that have been raised in connection with the law passed by the last Legislature regu lating rentals of telephones in the State, reducing them from $5 to $3 a month, with a corresponding reduction for services to other towns. In effect the decision is that the law is constitutional and that extra charges above $3 a month made by the company lor alleged service, etc.. are ille gal, as by the word "telephone" the law meanti all appliances in connection with the service. . The opinion in the case was rendered by Chief Justice Niblack, who rules against the company on all points raised,! and all the other Judges concurred, THE. IRON INDUSTRY. , A General Suspension Likely to Result from Trouble In the Coke Regions The Coke Strike In Pennsylvania Ended... ' IBy Telegraph to the Homing Star. St. Louis, February . 20. It is said here that the Vulcan Iron works at Carondalet will again shut down in a few days. The cause of suspension this time is the difficul ty in obtaining coke, owing to a general strike in progress in the coke region at Pittsburg and Connellsville. It has been learned from a reliable source that if an im mediate understanding is not arrived at by the miners and their employers works sim ilar to the Vulcan will be compelled to shut down, throughout this entire vicinity. Ptttsbtjbg. Pa., Feb; 20. A telegram from Scott Dale, Pa , says the coke strike has ended in favor of the strikers, the ope rators at the conference today granting their demands. PENNSYLVANIA. Four; flen Drowned : In the Musque ! hanna at Oarrlsbnrg. Habbisbtjbg, Feb. 20. This morning while four men and a boy were attempting to cross the Susquehanna, the boat capsized and the four men were drowned. The boy succeeded in clinging to ' the boat and was rescued about two miles below. The lad .who was saved was a son of one of the drowned men. The men were returning from their work at Bteeltdn and going to their homes at rew uumoeriand. The boat was too heavily laden to live through a wind storm which was prevailing. An effort is being made to recover the bodies. but it is not thought this can be accom plished, as the river is still several feet above the average. ' - Some of the citizens of Durham refuse to pay the graded school tax. - The plea is the unconstitutionality of the acjt. Spirits Turpentine. Asheville Advance: The Duck- town train, with three car loads of. cattle, ran off the track near Nantahala mountain yesterday, and was delayed several hours. No damage done. - - - ... - - weensbpro workman:- . -Judge Clark remitted a part of the - sentence im posing a fine and imprisonment, on W. H. j Brothers for contempt of court. The ne " of $20 stood firm, the imprisonment was reduced to about three hours, , : . ; . New Bern Journal: Messrs.' Ed. Stanly and J. F. Green, the duck kill ers of Claremont bridge, brought to the city yesterday six five pound . red heads. twenty "shnuiers" and twentv-seven 'but ter balls.'' A right good day's work con sidering the fact that they killed all in that neighborhood during the Jate cold snap. " Ashevflle Citizen: The Charles. 'ton News and Courier says Northern travel wj s iunua tun season is very mucn larger than ever before, and the flow has just be- : gun. The authorities of the Asheville & Spartanburg Road are making earnest ef- ' forts to have the road completed so as to induce very many- of these pleasure and health seekers to return home by way of Western North Carolina. We hope to see many thousands of them here this 8pringv Rockingham Rocket : On 'last Friday night, 12th inst., Mr. G. E. Wish art's store was entered and robbed of about one hundred dollars. There was a conflict on our 6treets between Mr. Wm. McClellan,- , harness maker, and .Wash Twitty, colored, in which brickbat compliments were ex- - changed, but no serious damage done. A far more serious affair occurred on Mon day night between two little- white boys, Willie Weill and Johnnie Morrison, neither ,of whom, we think, is over ten years old. wno got into a ngni near . ur. Jfowlkes drag store. At to the merits of the casus - Willie drew Bus knife and gashed Johnnie's " arm, inflicting a wound that bled profusely,' Fayetteville News: "It used to be that people went away from Fayetteville to go into business, now the people of other places are coming here to go into business. JUr. K. A. Simmons was in town last week, and awarded to Mr. Geo. H. Hall. of Red Springs, the contract of 125.000 feet of lumber, for the iron bridge across the. Cape Fear. The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad Company paid off its em- ployees on the 10th instead of the 15th as heretofore reason why, they had the money and they didn't care to keep the employes waiting unnecessarily, merely to observe a set rule. This corporation is the largest in the State, owned by home peo ple, and it is highly gratifying to know that . it is doing a fine paying business. - Charlotte Observer: We reerret to learn that Capt. Francis, the Air Line conductor who was stoned by a rough near Gainesville last Wednesday, is in a critical condition, his injury being of a much more serious character than was at first supposed. When the Charlotte bound train passed by Gainesville yesterday afternoon, Captain Francis was in an unconscious condition. - When the Air Line train arrived in this city yesterday afternoon, two wounded individuals, one a conductor and the other passenger, alighted, and subseauentlv both registered at the Central. The con- , ductor was Capt. P. D. Chandler, and the ' passenger was a young man from Cheraw, wno naa Doaraea the Air iiine train -at Greenville. These two parties had engaged ncomoat in the first class car. lust before the arrival of the train at Charlotte. The difficulty, it seems, arose over a dispute about a ticket. Raleigh News- Observer: A tem perature of 5 degrees below zero kills deach buds. This a reportemwas yesterday told by Mr. Otho Wilson, secretary of the State horticulture society. The peach trees in all the section east of Greensboro, it would therefore appear, are uninjured. Mr. Wilson says they have suffered no in jury in this immediate section. The preparations at the Pioneer mills for the manufacturing of fertilizers from the New Hanover county phosphates are actively in progress. The phosphate rock will be brought- here from a point near Castle Hayne. Rapid work is beingdone on the "short-cut" railroad, from Wilson to Selma. It is said that when this road is completed, a special train will be nut on the N. C. railroad to connect with it at Selma, and that the fast mail will then give Raleigh the New York morning papers at 9 o'clock in the evening of the same day. Raleigh News- Observer: Sheriff Ellington, of Johnston county, yesterday brought nine convicts to the penitentiary. Yesterday petitions were in circula tion asking that an election upon the ques-, tion of prohibition be ordered for Raleigh - We knew that young Mr. Walter. Page, who is a sprightly writer just as many a young man has "the gift of the gab" is but poorly informed touching North Carolina matters and has but little of what is commonly called "general in formation," but we did not think he had such slight regard for North Carolina aa not to charge his memory with the names of her greatest men. In his last ef fusion, contributed to the . columns of our esteemed neighbor, the Chroni cle, not the letter in which apparently realizing that "it is an ill bird that befouls its own nest" he seeks to abandon his merited position as champion slanderer of North Carolina, he talks about "William A. Graham and Edward L Hale, and Thomas Badger and Western R. Gales." Thomas Badger 1 He doubtless meant Mr. George E. Badger. But what kind of a young man is this who writes for North Carolina readers about Mr. George n. Badger and calls him Tom 1 Fay- bttjevilbb, N. C, Feb. 18. Yesterday afternoon a little boy and girl, children of Mr. Charles Calais, were badly burned and Mrs. Calais was also severely burned while trying to extinguish the flames. The chil dren caught fire from some burning straw. The boy's condition is critical. Charlotte Observer: Our infor mation in regard to the death of the boy who was run over by the box car at David son College was incorrect. The boy is yet living, but in a very critical condition. A citizen of Charlotte received a letter from a prominent business man of Danville, yes terday, who says that the people of that city are in earnest about securing a compet ing line to the Richmond & Danville Rail road, and:wui vote asubscipuon oi soo.ouo. It Danville succeeds the new road will be extended from that place to Charlotte. By the efforts of -Senator Ransom and Rep resentative ReidProf. Pendleton King, of Guilford, will be appointed secretary of the American legation at Constantinople. The salary is (1,800 and 7 there are some per quisites. Mr. King is the author of Presi dent Cleveland's best biography. He studied three years In France and Ger many, speaks fluently the languages of those countries and is considered as a mas of high accomplishments. Judge Meares passed sentence npon the following parties, all colored: Mattie Strickland and Eliza Dobbins, larceny, seven years each in the State penitentiary; Wm. Henderson, larceny, 2 years in the county jail; Am brose i Caldwell, larceny, 2 years in the county . jail; ; Milton Cotten, larceny, 12 months in the county jail; PhiL Moore, larceny, 12 months in the county jail ; Wm. .rimer, assauu ana oawery, ou aays in me county jail. Newtoa Enterprise: Mr. W." H.Weedon has purchased a Jot -between Main street and the Narrow Gauge Rail road, near the factory, on which he will at once commence erecting his spoke and handle factory. - - A young man by the name of Mulligan, about 20 years of age, was frozen to death in the western part of this county during the recent cold weather. He was driving a team, which stopped at a house on the road. The young man was found to be insensible from cold, and in spite of every effort to revive him, he died. We are told that his face and neck bursted and his feet came off. Mr. John H. Woods, an aged and highly esteemed citizen of Lincoln county, had a narrow escape from death by freezing,' during the cold snap last week. He was in Gaston sur veying land. The extreme cold so be numbed him that before he could be gotten to a house he was frozen until he was help less and speechless. After considerable effort the circulation of the blood was re stored,' and we are glad to know that no serious consequences will follow. Joe Bogle, the boss dead beat of the day, loaned the light of his countenance to Newton this week. ' Joe is only about fifteen years of age, and he has travelled over nearly every , State in the Union, and he says it never cost him a copper. . He travels on' his cheek, and it is hard enough to wreck the heels ofa government mule. Joe is a. native of Alexander county. His father . was the late A. M. Bogle, a prominent lawyer of this section. ,
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