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The 'Weekly Star. PUBLISHED AT ' I- M I W43 T O.N, N. C., .Ti.so aVkak, in advance. THl-)rT-r-n--C'WC : O oooooooooooo OOOO ssssssgssssssisis " riTislisl8llsTli "Issssgsggsgsgggggg Mf"K ljS3g'gSgafc8g'8g' " issgssssggssssgsgg : gSSSr3ggSSS3S388gg - - - - 4 c c 3 5 oSi T : 8SS8gggggggggggg i " 3 ' ; o - -- - . ' . : - ' It all r TRnteroit at the Post Office fttrWTlmington; N. C., as Second Class Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION- PRICE. ' The subscriGtion price of the Weekly Star is as follows ' . - '.J 1 -Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, $1.50 0 months, 1.00 3 months .50 . WAK KERIINISCBNCES. Some days ago we received a com munication from a warm personal friend in this city, who saw a great deal of tb? war and was a most faith ful and gallant soldier, relative to the bearing of Gen. Ramseur and his command in tne bloody right at - Cb.iiicvlldraviUe'on Sunday morning 5th May," 1863. Lie "confirms what we naid. We make an interesting ex tract from his letter. He says: i ""Although it has been twenty-three years since that occurrence it is still green in my memory. It was about 9 or 10 a. m. thai L ine's Brigade, after being completely exhausted, was ordered to fall back in rear of Ramseur just as the movement began. I was struck on the knee with apieeeof'shell und painfully injured, not being able to get from the field or render Any assistance to our weary troops. lrawled behind' a large -oak when I was quickly joined by my 1 young friend and college mate, Louis Bat tle, son of Judge , Battle, who - was also wounded. I also remember the expression used by Battle 'that he had often read and heard of showers of lead, but he was cer tainly then witnessing it. In the midst of this- metalic shower Ramsenr's brigade pawed us, and when not more than thirty paces m front of us the General gave the command in a lond and clear voice 'Regi ment obstacle.' This was a new kink in my head and I watched the ma noeuvre particularly, and saw the regiment designated mark time nntil un covered by the regiment on its right, then went by the right nanK until tne obstacle was passed, when it resumed its position in line of battle, the whole manoeuvre being as perfectly performed as on the triil ground The brigade had not opened fire but w.-i. seceiving the heaviest fire of grape ' and a.'jiter it was my lot to witness during the entire wr Poor Battle and myself re covered from our wounda in time to be at J Getiviliirii and there he felt,"npveir4o rise again in i'etligrew'n giniid charge of July od. i!.t uti!P than U u ft rl from in?." This i-s the tttiiuny of our friend O. A. Wiggins, f -whom Gm. Line aid ; to as: "Ho wan an -xci-lIent soldier." We never m (im. Ramseur but nce. A ftv lajn ln-fori the great - - ; r in the stage from Leasburg to Hills horo. At a country inn' where horses were changed we Raw a youthful, erect, noldierly looking man walking near' th- porch as if impatient and exercictHg," Oie of tin arms was in a hiiiijx and his hirtvilefve was vis ible. ll dad betni wounded in a previous battle. and had not -yet re covered. He wan';on his return to the army ami irf hx than ten days lit- led his i splendid Brigade iuto that 5th Mav Iiirht in which it accom plished what tht-: Stonewall brigade had .failed to aeconiplish to take the breastworks l'tk front and hold them for a little wh$le. On another, occasion, as we hapgen to know, for we had the pleasureaif being a visi tor in the family of Mrs. .Richmond , of Caswell, mother of Mrs. Ramseur, General Ramsenr was expected at Mth. Rif.hmond'rt on a fiven dav and failed to come. From an officer it was learned that after preparing to, leave his command he found onttbat there was a prospect of a fight in a few days -and he remained to carry 1 1 into battle his brigade. He bad not -been then married bnt a few months ita very handsome and engaging t young woman. ; I - Mr. II. A. London, editor of the Pittsboro Record, delivered the last Memorial Address at Raleigh. His ,, l: t. . n ly n r uwujcuii nan v ii. 11 jr an xjtsAftu-D, brave a man as ever entered a battle. We knew him in the forties at Chapel Hill. We knew him well afterwards fi II i IllvKlvr ititori m v m Cr Vl a TX7 a a a high toned, trnthfnl, honorable, he roic man. He was not an intellect ual man, but a man of plain sense with, great pertinacity of will, and frfeat noliditv of ohnraatpr. He made j . a splendid record and did as much good, square, hard fighting as any man in the army from North Caro- r lina. Mr. Jjondon's address is well done and is both interesting and in structive. We copy from it a part " that supplements what we said of : RairiLeenr on another day. Mr. Lon don HAT7a ' . '"Corrmencing on the 5th day of May, 1864, there was one almost continuous; bat- . tie for a month, fighting all day and at night resting on their arms in line of battle. Col. Grimes was. actively engaged every day, but his services on the 12th and 19th days of May deserve especial mention. The Federal troops, by a sudden movement, had, surprised that portion of the Confederate breastworks known as the 'Horse Shoe,' and captured about 2,000 men belonging to Gen. Edward Johnson's division. It was necessary to retake this position, and Ram- -ieur's brigade was selected for this difficult task. The charge was ordered, and while being gallantly made Gen. Ramseur was wounded and was not able to keep up. At this critical juncture CoL Grimes; seeing the need for prompt action, assumed the responsibility of ordering a second charge, himself leading it, and : recovered the entire works and all. the guns, 'capturing many prisoners and killing more of the ene my than the brigade numbered men. Truly, V7 , i vol. xvn. a most extraordinary feat.- Gen. Lee him self rode down, and iq person -thanked the brigade for its gallantry, Idling them that 'they deserved the than Its- of the country me.v u au saved his army.' "Gen. Junius Daniel having been mor tally wounded on the 12th of May, Col. Grimes was placed n 'command of that la mented officer's brigade and soon thereafter received his well deserved commission of brigadier-general.' This commission, though not received until ! i the 5th of June, bore date May 19th, on which day he had han dled the brigade with 4ueh efficiency, on a flank movement lo-vfards the rearxf Grant's army, that Gen. Rodd (the division com- manaerj , approached !him soon arter the battle, and. shaking1 him by the hand, said, You have saved Swell's corps and shall be promoted and your commission shall bear date from this day." ; i - ' . Daniel was another hero. He was our classmate at Lovejoy's, and a fine fellow he was. He was verv courageous and true and resolute. He was not an .bl0 man, but an in telligent, sensibl j man. He told us ixtMay, 1861, th it he warauld be long and despers te.j lie was the only man who talked thai way then that we met. He is buried in the old co lonial church burying ground at Hal ifax, . r - ' V ' ft A BAD L1WA CORRECTION. All is not harmonious it is said among the Civil Service Commission- ers. ' The Board is composed of two Democrats and ne Republican. The complaint is th it in the Baltimore poetoffice the Ci ril Service rules are disregarded, and none but Democrats get places. Commissioner Lyman made the examii ation and reported. The Philadelphi t American tells the result, as followi : j "He found what everybody knew jto be the case, that the lawj was scandalously set at nought in th selection of clerks, and that none but Dem crats had been able to get any of the places it covered But when he laid ; these facts before his associates they are said to hateTesentedliis action as an impertinence. - They were not there to criticise their Democratic brethren for any such matters, and they were not going to give him any countenance in so doing. If Mr. Lyman has any self-respect, he will resign from this Commission, and give the President his reasons fo so doing." . We do not know how this is. None but a Don locrat ought to be in office under a Democratic Adminis- tratton. That is what every good, candid; Democrat says and feels. Bnt if there if1 a law, then General ia Cox and others insist that it should be enforced. jiVhy bjas not the Gen eral calh?d atte ition to this abuse in the Baltimore jpost office ? .The law is an arrant hombug, although the .General is much in love with it, but it onght to be. in Baltimore. airly executed even General Grant : said the best way tot get rid of a bad law was to enforce i - - - it. j -, , has sent us a copy of General Cox his speech in favor of the Civil Ser- vice law and a pks that we read and correct. We the statement suppose he -refers to we made on the au- Ihority of &nabstract of his speech that he was opdosed to changing the limitation to jfjorty-five years. We have examined and. find that pis speech sent to us on page 7 he says, "While I am id accord with the sue gestion of striking down the limita tion as,, to agk I am not willing to violate a ru .of this House to ac complish that eid." How came that abominable lim tation to be fastened upon the law? Did not the Republi cans put it - there? It is a disgrace, an offence, a stink in healthy Demo cratic nostrils Senator Vance so ex posed it that Gen. Cox cannot stand it, -and is for 'getting rid of it, but not in ..the manner proposed. Has Gen. Cox proj sed any other way of getting rid of is . most despicable Rad ical arrangement? : On 3rd JulyJ Nicholas Williams, Esq., died at his mountain home at an advanced age. All Chapel Hill boys of jfprty and thirty years aero will recall him. - He was a noted Trustee of the . TJniversity and al wavs attended.! He married a sister of the late Juc ge i Kerr, of honored memory. Mr! Williams had been in poor health jf r some years, arid some three yea rs ago he lost his eye sight. He was born in the year-1800, and was : raarlried in 1824. His - .. j . wife died tw years ago. He was an alumnus oa tb University. He wes a strong1 Whig before the war, and was one of the Council of State during Governor Manly's and Vance's terms, lie was a; man or great nos pitality, r i tertamed mora distinguished persons thftri "anv other private citizen in North Carolina. He j read law but He never pracuceju iu me . wumo. was very gen I and loved the com- pany oi tne young, f Few North ...i;;gnii r o never ;held office and sooght the public eye were so well known as this1 honorable and exceli Ifint citizen of our State. Peace to his soul ! ii I The Savannah News says of the poet, Hayne: ; "His writings effected the nobility, truth and purity of hi; character. He earned his living by his pe: but it never became mer- cenary, nor did he ever fiend forth a pro- duction unwort v to bear his name, ma . . . nt home circle, in hich he pnjoyed the com panionship of his accomplished wife and bis gifted son, jis said to have been one of the hanniest aid most attractive in the country, although it was par from being a home of luxury and ease. It was a home in which labor was dignified and made a pleasure as well jas a duty; ... Gov. WattsL in his speech before the Alabama Convention, was par ticularly vigorous in bis attack upon the Grab bill, ocrat in his He is the ablest Dem- State, and. one of. the able and honest men of the South. i b r AN OLD QUESTION IIP AGAIN. - The Boston Globe of July Ctb, discusses the question :"Did Thom as J efferon write the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence ?" It asks if "the likeness between the two Declarations is a pure accident ?" : If the Globe had ' been familiar with the whole range of discussion it would hardly have propounded questions that , have been often answered. Mr.' Jefferson says; he never heard of the Mecklenburg De claration until 1819. He could riot have written it therefore. . But there is a very striking resem blance and the phraseology is identi cal in places. What is the explana tion ? It is easy enough to the oare iul student-of the literature upon the subject since 1819, when Dr.- Mc Knitt, aa lie ' mgned Limself, publish jivhat purported to be the Mecklen burg. Declaration of Independence in in 'the Raleigh "Register of that year. Now attend. Dr. J. McKnitt was none other than Dr. Ji. McKnitt Alexander, son of the elder Alexan der, who figured at Charlotte in 1775. In the Raleigh Register a very im portant note was omitted. It was in the handwriting of the elder- Alex ander. What waB its purport? Very important truly. It was the key to the whole question. The elder Alex ander stated clearly that the Declar ation of Independence to which the note was appended, was not the origi nal cojyy, but he had. written from memory and had made it as sear the original as he could. VV e are our selves writing from, memory, but such is the ; purport of the very im portant note.' Said the elder Alex ander, with doe caution that the original teas burned when his honse was consumed by fire in the year 1800. If the note had accompanied the copy tit at was published in the Reg ister in 1819, it would' have saved a great deal of misapprehension and discussion.. How then comes there to be such a striking resemblance in the. two De clarations r 1 be explanation, we think, is easy. Year after year the Fourth of July Declaration had been celebrated from the end of the war to the burning of the Alexander honse in A. tD. 1800. The Jefferson Declaration was read every year. The language of patri ottsm had become familiar to the public earj Mr. Alexander doubtless knew passages by heart just as many schoolboys have known them by heart in this century. So when the old man, after the original had been destroyed in the conflagration, sat down to pre pare from memory ', as he says, the older and less known document (for it had never been published and had never been celebrated as the National Day had) he very naturally and east ly fell into the Jeffersonian ruts and reproduced the language of the younger document,' with which he was doubtless familiar. Jefferson no doubt told the truth in his letter to John Adams. when he said he had never heard of the Meek lenburg document. Bat whilst we hold to the above we are equally assured in our mind, and after a somewhat protracted study of the whole question at issue, that there was once a genuine, ' origi nal Mecklenburg Declaration and that the patriots of that grand his toric county did assemble in Charlotte on the 19th of May, 1775, and did cause to be read the next day, the 20th,' a document that was to all in tents and purposes a Declaration of Independence. The evidence to bus tain this view is simply overwhelm ing; The fact of the well-known Reso lutlons of 31st May, does not ex clude the conclusion as above stated. The 20th May Declaration - was an expression ot passion ana indigna tion caused by the news received on the 19th, whereas the Resolutions were the matured outcome of eleven days of reflection, and were more business like, and but little less re bellious. .but whether the Declaration ever existed or ' not, the most important fact remains that the Resolutions of 31st May, 1775, were a long way ahead of tbe National movement, and that is elorv enough for North Carolina. , The University offers free instruc tion to its graduates and those of the other Colleges. Students who desire special training in Latin or Greek or engineering i or chemistry or any , study y will find it at Chapel Hill. Professional teachers are offered the -advantages of a special course under Prof. Henry, while they -may at the same time pursue afiy other studies. From such information as we get we judge that-the University is doing good work . and is on the upward grade. It has improved with the years evidently since it got rid of the politicians. - As soon as Congress adjourns the genuine Tariff ' Reformers will issue an address to the voters of the coun try relative to Randall. ' . Wee el y WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JULYL16, 1886. Accident on tne Rati An Engineer and a Fireman Hart. - Passengers who arrived in thejeity last night from Wei don. report that an accident happened to the north-bound train on the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad yesterday at 2.30 a m., near Mt. Pleasant, four miles from Weldon, by which the engineer; Mr. Wm. McSween, was badly injured. vThe driviog-rods of the Tocomotive broke, and a' serious accident was only averted by the engineer, who stuck to his post, shut off the steam and stopped the engine just be fore it reached a trestle, although he was badly hurt in doing jso, having both hands severely scalded and being struck on the i hack of his head by a flying bolt, which In flicted a serious, - wound. The fireman jumped from the engine and is reported to have been badly hurt The passengers were loud in their praise of the engineer, through whose heroic conduct they say a terrible . disaster f Was prevented. The engine was comnletelv wrecked. En- : :- . -v -. - gineer Me3ween was brought down on h& train which Mived frm vyeldon last nigh' and was lARcn-ST'illh; to hi 9 home, near Flo rence, t". , j - .; .. Delegate. Appointed. .. -.j ; -' n; O. McQueen, Esq., chairman of the Democratic Countjj Convention for New Hanover, recently held in this city, has ap pointed the following delegates to the Con gressional and State Conventions. ; The Congressional Convention meets at Wades boro on Wednesday!, the 21st inst.'. and the State Convention at Raleigh on the 25th of August: .DELEGATES TO CONGRESSIONAL CONVBH- D. K McRae.' f. W Strange, ! A. D. Brown, A. H Greek S. C. Weill, A. G, Ricaud, O. H. Ken toedy, P - T, picksey J. D. Bellamy, Jr. lamy, W. A. Dick J. I. Macks.' M Bel W. C. 8. H. Prank Wm.-Gilchrist, VonGlahu. George W. Chestnat, Fishblate, 8H. Terry, H. P, West, H. Stedman, W.1 H. Bernard, Samuel Perdew, Geo. N. Har- Bear, Jr., John W. riss, A. Adrian, R. E. Heide, J. W. King, J. G. Oldenbuttel , P. Donlan Edmund Preston Cumming, Jas. Lilly', Albert Gore, C. Stevenson, Pembroke I i Jones. iH. W. Malloy,; John Barry, DELEGATE TO Is.'ATE CONVENTION Chas. M. Redman, D. K. McRae, T. W. G. Strange. J. I. Macks. M. Bellamy A. Ricaud, J II. Sharp, J no. D Bellamy, Jr., Josh. T. James, Sol. C. Weill, W. B. Mc Koy, John Cowanl . - To both of the above delegations H. C. McQueen, chairman, and F. L. Meares, secretary, are added by resolution of the County Convention. Sumter fclgbt Infantry. At a recent meeting of the Sumter, (S. C.) Light Infantry. Capt. D. J. Auld tendered ition as jcommandiag officer; the company, however, ty a unanimous vote declined to accept it and he w.ia induced to ! . - i serve another term, tnia company will c1l leave on the i9th for Smithville,1 N. C. where they will spend a few weeks.- A large number tf citit-:nH will accompany them, and the exciiYttion will doubtless be a most plefisant one. All members of the company wilLhe required to atu-nd in full uniform, and btiict military discipline will be enforced during the entire trip. Onulow Wants the Railroad. A correspondent, writing from Catherine Lake, Onslow county, says that the crops in that part of the country are looking well and the prospects' are fine for a large bar vest. "Let us have a railroad," he says, "from Richlands to Wilmington, j and we will be lively people. Let us put our shoulders to the wheel and we will have a road in a short time let us talk less and work more. We 'believe the good people of Wilmington'wjll do their part let Us go to-work and- see .what Onslow can no to help them." 1 Foreien Export. Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Col cleared the Norwegian barque Eskedal yesterday, for Hull, Eng., with 2,545 barrels of rosin and 250 casks of spirits turpentine, valued at $7,042. - t Messrs. E. Kidder & Son cleared the British brig Georgia for Port Madryn, Pata gonia, with 208,134 feet of lumber, valued at $3,259,50. j j : TneOnalow Railroad Subscription. A conference of the Onslow Railroad Commissioners and the Committee of the Board of Aldernlen will be held this after noon in the Mayor's room at the City Hall, to consider the advisability of tlie county of New Hanover making the proposed sub scription to the foad instead of the City of Wilmington. The committee appointed by the Board of Aldermen consists Of Mayor Hall and Aldermen Dudley and WjOrth. It is understood that the Board of County Commissioners ference. will be invited to the con- TbeDem'd MoUt Weather. - . The rain fair 'for the past twenty-four hours ending at 0 p m. yesterday was 1.46 inches, nearly all of which fell; between 1 and 3 a. m. The aggregate rainfall for the firat (nine days in Jnly, as recorded at the Signal office in this city, is 8.81 inches -nearly an inch for each day and exactly equal to the total amount of rainfall during the month of June. A Colored Boy Drowned. ; Alfred Martin, a colored boy about four- J teen j years of age, was drowned in thai river near the foot of Hanover Street, late Friday evening! He went in swimming at the place mentioned with several other boys, and it is supposed was seized with cramps. He was a son of Harry Martin, a well known drayman. The body, of the boy was recovered yesterday morning, near the place where he was seenlo go down. - Foreign Exports. - .::.) , ; Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Co., ship ped yesterday ; to Antwerp per Danish barque Bialtoji 1,250 casks of spirit turpen tine and 1,960 barrels of rosin, j valued at $21,142. Messrs. DeRosset & Co. cleared the Norwegian barque Perlen, for Ham burg, with 3,994 barrels of rosin, valued at 3,745, i t cotton. '(' ;.K ' The cotton business at this port is prac tically over, for the season. The receipts the past week' amount to only 13 bales. while the stock' on hand 'is but 705. The receipts for the crop year, however, are 7,051 bales in excess of the receipts of last year, being 101,142 bales against 93,911. - Only two marriage licenses were issued the past week by the county Register; both were for colored couples. - WASHINGTON. Promoted Arrangement for the DUpo al or Vetoed Pension Btlla-Irrccn-; larltlea In the Condnet of Officers of . the House. - ' I ' ! Washtngtobt. July 8 Chairman Mat son, of the Invalid Pension Committee, is determined to insist upon the; reference of all of the vetoed pension bills to that com mittee, and when the House meets to-morrow he will again make a motion to refer each case. The Democratic -leapers are re solved' to "stay here all the summer if ne cessary'' as one of them put it before abandoning their position in the matter: The Republicans who have been "most act-, ive in the effort to secure immediate action on vetoed bills have proposed a compro mise which will probably be i accepted. " Under its terms two hours .will be allowed for debate" upon such of the ' bills as may fee selected, and at the expiration of the time an 1 aye and no vote will be taken, the "result ot which is to be regarded as final as to all of the vetoes. ? ! The Committee on Accounts . of the House of Representatives as a result of its investigations into the conduct of offices of doorkeeper, clerk and sergeant-at-arms of the House, has decided to recommend a consolidation of the two House document ooms under one head' r "Its report will also call attention to the fact that emnlovea have been borne oa the rolls without rendering service, and members ol the committee be lieve that no recommendation will be neces sary to secure reform in this respect., The report will recommend that the change go into effect at the beginning of the next session. " ! Washington, July 8. Representative William .iu cole, or the Third Maryland District, died this morning at 7.30 o'clock, at his residence in this city. No. 509 Fourth street, in the 49th year of his age. Dr. Cole, as he was commonly known, had been a sufferer from Bright's disease for several years past, and his demise was not entirely unexpected. He bad been unable to attend the meetings of the House, of which he was a member, except once or twice, during the present session. Thede ceased leaves a wife but no children. The funeral ceremonies will take place in Balti more next Saturday morning, and it is probable that the remains will be interred in the Cathedral Cemetery in that city. The Speaker has appointed the following named members as the committee to repre sent the House at the funeral : Messrs. Compton, Gibson and McComas, of Mary land ; Diddle, ol Bouth (Jaronna ; Irion, of Louisiana; Wade, of Missouri; and Stone, of Kentucky. 4 Washington, July .10, Representative Morrison s report on the Randall bill says: "The bill proooses to remove all internal taxes on tobacco, snuff and cigars, amount ing on the basis of last year's receipts to $38,000,000; on apple, peach and grape brandy to f 1,400,000; on spirits for use in the arts, variously estimated at from $7.- 000,000 .to $15,000,000 and believed to be at least $10,000,000 making in the aggregate of internal revenue taxes to be removed $39,400,000. In the appendix of estimates submitted with the bill as part of it, the re duction of revenue from customs on tariff taxes to be affected by it is estimated at $8,570.576 making the aggregate of the proposed reductions $48,000,000. The President to-dav vetoed the bill nro- viding for the erection of a public building at Asbeville, N. C. ! " C. F. McDonald, Superintendent of the Money Order System of the Postoffice De partment, to-day issued a circular notify ing postmasters at money order offices that the act or congress approved Juneaa, 1886, reducing the fee from eight to five cents on orders not exceeding five dollars, will go into effect on the 26tn instant. COTTON. Report of tbe National Exekam for June Tbe Average Condition Lower tban for Two Tears Past. ! ii, Telegraph to the Kornlne star.) New Orleans, July 10 The National Cotton Exchange crop report for the month of June", Compiled by C. H. Parker, secretary, which has just been issued, says the meteorological record of June over the cotton belt is. in striking contrast with that of the corresponding peiioa or, last yeai. The conditions have been abnormal over pretty nearly all the area east sissippi. Within these ; limits. of the Mis- embracing about two-thirds of thB, entire acreage un der cotton, the rainfall has been excessive, the temperature unfavorable work has been retarded, and sive districts almost entirely and farm pver-exten- suspended for all practical purposes, causing grass to grow luxuriantly and ren- dering necessary the abandonment of some lands in these States, embracing the Carounas. ueorgia, Alabama and Missis sippi. The bottom lands, particularly, have suffered severely and the fertile black lands have lost much of the prospect they had. Over most of these States the early spring was cold and a bad j start was made. Mav conditions were 'not good and June has again lowered them a lit tle and rendered tbe outcome more critical; still, over this area, em-! bracing as it does so large a per centage of upland, ! with favorable con ditions in July and subsequently that is seasonable showers allowing farm work in clearing out grass and the absence of hot dry weather to bake plants which have been rendered unhealthy by exreme mois ture, there is room for improvement. It is to be noted that insect ravages, usually ac- comnanving these meteorological condi tions, have been silent, and stands wnicn were not 'very good to start on' have not been much impaired on that account. Oyer all this district the crop is late and therefore exposed to the vicissi tnrlea of the fall season. In the northern portion of the belt, however, Tennessee had a good start and has held her own pretty well, and North Carolina is better than the coast district below her. Going west of the Mississippi river the situation is reversed. Over the great State of Texas, in Arkansas and in Louisiana, the rains of June found- the plants well rooted and the fields under excellent cultivation. These prospects have very much im proved, and in Texas, particularly con ditions have been very favorable and , her rating is nearly at par. The following is the condition by States: Virginia 30, North Carolina 79, South Carolina 75, Georgia 78. Florida 91, Alabama 75, Ten .hessee 87.' Arkansas 80, Mississippi 82, jjouisiana 80. Texas 98. Average for the belt 334. against 92 last year- and 35 the year before. GEORGIA. The mill Troubles at Augusta-A Strike Apprehended In the Sibley Mill. i By Telegraph to the Morning Star.l Augusta, July 10. As telegraphed on yesterday, the Augusta factory closed to dav because of the refusal to advance wages 15 per cent- The picker bands went out first and caused the mill to shut down, but all the othei hands demand a similar ad vance. .There is no prospect of the miljl starting up Monday The strikers are arm in their, demand . and the mill officers are equally firm in refusing. Trouble is ap prehended in the Sibley mill, where a like demand for higher wages has already been made, but thete has been no strike as yet. The King mill has already granted an ad vance 'of ten per cent., and everything is working smoothly in this factory. It is re ported that a member of the Executive Board of the Knights of Labor will arrive here Monday and will endeavor to adjust the differences in the mills where an ad-. vance is demanded. Six hundred and fifty operatives' , are out of work in consequence of the strike at the Augusta factory. The difficulty with the churches is not merely, nor even chiefly, that their doors are shut against what we call the lower class, but - that the pulpits give nothing which the lower classes care. to hear. The ministry have a profound per sonal sympathy for the poor; but their training, modes of thought, and even their vocabulary are ill-suited to the needs of the great congregation of the street. - They cannot come to close quarters. Christian union. r Star, GEORGIA. V. The fort Royal Railroad Bondhold ers' soil unlgbts of Labor and the Angnsta Cotton milt more Trouble Feared. 'I' By Telegraph to the Morning Star.l I Augusta. Julv 8 Iq tbe case of Thna P. Branch, of Augusta; Wm. Johnston, of Charlotte., N.;C i and other bondholder versus the Central and Augusta & Knox ville Railroads, to set aside the lease of ih Port Royal Railroad to the above! niiuu d railroads, Judgo ; Roney today overfilled tbe defendant's demurer to the bill, j Brhnch and Johnston are holders of certain second mortgage bonds of the Port Royal Rail road and seek to set aside the leas- ti the Central Railroad on variou founds, f i Further troublts are aDorehended on ac count of the demands of Knights of Labor. ine rung mill hands are satisfied with an advance of ten per cent, The other -mills are considering a demand for an advance. The8ibl-y mill positively refuse to make any advance; President - Sibley showing from bis losses this year that he is unable to comply with the demand. .WISCONSIN. forest Fires Threatening 'Rain I to Set tlers An Epidemic of Typhoid Pe- ver. V .V.;- ' ! i ' V Milwaukee. Julv 8. A special from Steven's Point says that the woods along the line of tbe Wisconsin Central Railroad are on fire for miles. The damage to the .timber is very great Immediate rain is all that will save many settlers from ruin. Tbe cranberry marshes, west of Steven's l oint, are on fire and a large force of men are battling with the destroyer. , Milwaukee. JQly 8. The village of Waterford, in Racine county, is j terribly stricken with typhoid fever. - Fifty people are down with the disease. Four deaths have occurred thus far. One family of eleven persons and another of nine are all in their beds. Ureat excitement exists in the village, and the State Board of Health will bo asked to investigate the' cause of the disease. CHICAGO. The Switchmen's Strike at Chicago- Strikers Arrested. ; - Chicago, July 8 The striking switch- men of the Lake Shore road have issued a circular in which they condemn imported switchmen. They, also request the assist ance of all good people, especially business men, to refuse to sell anything to these men. At Armour & Co.'s place .this morning the tram men put in eight cars to be load ed. Two gangs of men refused to load the cars and were discharged. , They applied lor employment at the Chicago Packing and Provision Co. s place and were refused. A number of carpenters working at swift & Co.'s new house this morning were set upon by a crowd of men and were driven away. The police were called and arrested tnree of the attacking part v. i VIRGINIA Interesting Relics Unearthed at Win chester violent Hall Storm at Staun ton. - .-". J ..H :,'..- Winchester, July 8 Wbiks digging a cistern yesterday on tbe site of Fort Loun- don, built by Washington after the battle of Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania in 1756, to Drotect Winchester airainst the French and Indians, there were found portions of a skeleton, with hair and teeth, buttons. iron cannon wh els, balls, grape shot and hand grenades. These war relics of a date prior to the Revolution attract much atten tion. . -. -. . : Staunton, July 8. There was a violent hail and rain storm here to-day. Windows were broken, streams overflowed and crops, especially corn, were Damy oamsgtsd. w. GEORGIA. Labor Troubles Six Hundred Hands Thrown Out of Employment by 8trlke In tbe Angnsta Factory. Augusta, T July 9. The hands in the picker room of the Augusta factory struck to-day for an advance of ten per cent, in wages; President fblnzy having replied to their demands that he could not grant the advance, that the mili has lost in two years and a half nearly a hundred thousand dollars and it is impossible without lurther loss to the stockholders to increase the wages of operatives He says: "To ask us at this time to advance wages would be to ask to continue indefinitely not; mere ly non-payment of dividends, but the process of consuming the', permanent investment of the company, for we tell you sincerely that the earnings of the company will not bear any increase of wages, i Mas ter Workman Merguardie claims that the strike in the Augusta factory was hot or dered by tbe Knights of ljabori Me says , he did not know tbe picker hands had a grievance until they struck, and that he is opposed to strikes, in consequence of the strike in the picker room the mill shut down at 5 o'clock this afternoon, and will be closed to-morrow. The strike throwB over six hundred hands out of employment. NEW YORK. A Suspended Firm of Cotton Brokers Resume Buslness-pAn Execution in the Tombs. j New York, July 9. Messrs. J. & W. A. Beall & Co., extensive operators in cot ton, whose suspension was reported a short time ago, have resumed business at the uot- ton .Exchange, having settled up ineir- ac counts in full. Miguel Chacon, the young Cnban negro who shot and Killed bis paramour, Mrs. Maria Williams, while attempting to shoot her husband, on June aoth, l 1884, was hanged at the Tombs prison this morning. Tbe drop fell at 7.40 and death was almost instantaneous. Three minutes alter tne rope was cut the doctors pronounced life extinct. The execution was witnessed by onlv forty-six people and was well con ducted. A squad of 100 police surrounded the prison, but their services "were not re quired, as very few people congregated around the structure. VANCE BEFORE TAMMANY. N.Y. Times' Varnished Mugwump Report. He then launched forth; into a de nunciation of civil service reform. He said he believed that to the vie tors belonged the spoils. ?To whom do the spoils belong," he asked, "if not the victors? Do they belong to the vanquished ? , - - . "They belong to the mugwumps. sneenngly shouted a Tammanyite in the body of the hall. - ; iv "Do they belong," continued the Senator, "to those who have fought on a:l sides and lied upon all?" The Senator then proceeded jto answer this question. He held that the civil service system was undemocratic, and he called the system a pieoe of hum-' buggery and other choice names. The Tammany men vigorously applauded him. Daring his remarks , be pro voked laughter by sipping a glass of water and remarking that that was a pretty thin drink, for j Tammany. "We'll do better for you fater," whis pered the grand sachem to him., sen ator Vance concluded by a reference to the home rule agitation abroad, hoping that Ireland would soon ob tain what America had had since 1776, local self-government. "! ' r The Senators 'who are afraid that the bill doing simple justice to Fitz John Porter is a deliberate attempt to "re write the history oi the war are reminded that it has been rewritten in the magazines of late to Buch an extent that all that is pos itively known about it is that the - South didn't get there. Chicago Herald. NO. 37 THE Bis AIR BIL.JL AGAIN. I Asheville Citizen. In order to show what the Blair Educational bill really means, we quote the following from a recent speech of Hon. Ii. A. Pierce of Tenne-nee. - Mr. Pierce said "that the advocates of the Blair bill lost sight of the fact that the States would have to raise by taxation an '. equal amount for school purposes as that received from the government. ; and that the white people, who ; owned most all the property, would have to pay that tax, while the negro, with his preponderance of ignorance would reap the benefit.' Also that the negro who was born in slavery would not be benefited, one dollar's' ' worth directly, he being too old to receive an education, and only the negroes who were born under same rights as the whites Would receive direct bene fit, thev receiving, under T the pro -visions of the Blair bill, two thirds while . the t white children. - whose parents paid very near all xhe taxes, 11 . ... . ..... woum receive just one tnira. J here is not a State irr the South, - nhould the Blair bill become a law, bnt what would have to increase its taxation." Senator Blair, the author of the measure, a Republican Senator from New Hamshire, gave the following in one of his speeches iu the Senate while supporting the bill, as one? of the objects thereof: - . a 'speaking simply as a Republican politician, I assert that this measure should be enacted into a law for ih purpose of spreading the principles of the -Republican party, and an the only possible way of doing it ln-re-after." - - - , - -' ' Here is a frank declaration from the author of the bill himself that the purpose and object of the bid is to' create a vast machine for the pur pose of inculcating Republican doc trines, i- : RICHMOND COUNTY CON- V EN HON. Latjrinbubg, N. C, July 9th, 1886. Jf ursuant to the call, this Conven tion met in the Court House at Rock-, ingham on JBth inst. It was organ ized with Chas. W. Tillett, chairman, and the editors of the Democratic county paper secretaries. Delegates to the State, Judicial and Congres sional Conventions were selected, and they were instructed by resolutions, unanimously adopted, to vote for the nomination of J ames T. LeGrand f oi Congre88,and Frank McNeill for" So licttor in 6th Congressional and 7th Judicial Conventions, respectively. and to do what they could to stcure the nomination of these gentlemen. The Convention was enthusiastic and harmonious, and many of the best Democrats of Richmond county will attend the Conventions to secure the nomination of the above named can didates. No., instructions for Su preme Court. C. A POET'S TRIBUTE TO A From James R. Randall's Article in Au gusta Chronicle. In his home upon the Georgia hill top, where the July wind dirges through the pine forest, dear to the heart of tbe poet, Paul H. Hayne, the laurelled singer of the Sontb, slept the sleep that knows no waking in this lower world. He had valiant ly, laboriously, faithfully, devoutly finished his course. In honorable poverty, after . early affluence, he struggled on, always keeping the torch of literary genius resplendent above his head. Beyond ! his imme diate family and the All Father, few can understand bow tremendous a struggle this gifted man waged un ceasingly with the "unspiritaal god Circumstance,"; Unfitted for the ruder conflicts of the material uni verse, and shrinking from ' the rough contact of the work-day world, he de voted his existence to his art, and never recognized another intellectual rival in that orbit. What prodigies, for what scant reward, . that busy brain and tireless hand wrought! What beautiful poems from year to year or month to month, shaped themselves in bis pure imagination and flashed from this land to that other clime, which he pined to see, but never was permitted . to behold ! lie was a master too of nervous, pic turesque, suggestive prose, in nearly every chord of passionate pathos or delicate irony, to say nothing of tbe spiritual insight that illuminated and enchanted everything serious that came from his pen. .This was one of Paul Hayne's noblest virtues. He bad no jealousy of his professional brethren, but was swift and eager to do them any kindness -And to espouse their cause in any practicable fashion. Hayne was an ardent lover of na ture and, like Wordsworth, had laid his ear to the bosom of the migbty mother, hearkening to secrets which she never fails to reveal to children who nestle in her arms and confide in her inspiration. The winds had mu sic for him in storm, or zephyr. The sky, in serenity or fury, held mes- 'sages for his Muse. Flower, thorn, herbage, the multitudinous miracles of creation were creatures of his fan cy and gold mines of his thought. All were inBtinct to him with the Power that permitted them, and he saw the majesty of God - in the love liest violet as well as in the plunge of the cyclone through the shrieking woodland. I Luckily for Paul Hayne, he had some inestimable compensations. No man was ever blessed with a wife who so thoroughly understood and appreciated him; and the same, in a relative degree, was true of the re markable son who has inherited the gentleness of one parent and the tal ent of the other. - Ah I that was a happy family,: despite the trials and thwartings of life 1 Harmony was there and love and trust and heaven ly union. The master-singer has de parted. He has laid down his cross and taken his crown, in God's great mercy. . - '" Dr. Hatcher in Baltimore Bap tist: Dr. Thomas Hume, of North Caro lina spent last week in Richmond. He re ceived an exceedingly cordial welcome from every Quarter. He; is looking un usually well and is delighted with his work in the university oi norm uaronna. Spirits Terpentine. Durham ,. Recorder: Franklm. Wake, Johnston and Nash, the eastern half of this Congressional District, -have had ' all the Representatives in Congress since -1850, except three months. .The western -end, composed of the counties of Chatham, ' Alamance, Orange and Durham, modestly asks how long will the Democrats of this section continue to allow this. - , New Bern Journal: A tract of seventy-five acres of land 50 cleared and r 25 wood land was sold at auction at Swau v Quarter on the first Monday in this month and was knocked down at $4,500, cash. - ' Crops in the Kinslon section: are re ported to be doing and looking unusually -, fine, and so also' are weeds and grass. Pamlico dots : We regret to learn that lice V are very seriously damaging cotton in " many places. We hear that on the farms. s' of Mr. Noah Rouse, J. 8. Wooten and others, near here, the cotton is literally ruined in many places.1 We have sera and heard of the crops from different sec tions of the county, and in nearly every nlaoA t.hn rrm ril a i n t ia tm mur.li vain - Tl... . crops are not so prosperous as they appear- ed a month ago, especially corn. . Winston Daily; OtT last Sun- -day afternoon a general fight occurred at the house of Calvin Fillmore, colored, on the Shallow Ford road, Just outside the corporate limits of Winston, between Cal vin Fillmore, George Goin, John Goin and -another colored man. It is not definitely known how the fight occurred, but liquor ' is supposed to have been in free circulation and the entire crowd is reported to have -been about half drunk. Fillmore's wife had been ill for several days and was in . bed at the time of the fight Her little son -reported to his mother that those were en gaged in the fight and that one man's throat was cnt; whereupon his mother became so thoroughly frightened that she fell back in a swoon,, and expired before medical aid could be obtained. . . - Fayetteville i Observer-Gazette: Last Monday engines passed over the Wil son Short-Cut river bridge, " the track Is laid for about one mile beyond, and a very . large force is employed in the work. As the Atlantic Coast Line men work when they bend their energies to the task, it looks . very much as if the close of summer, at tbe least, will put us in close communication with Wilson and the world beyond. Dr. E. P. Williams, of Cedar Creek town- -ship, . who has recently been travelling somewhat extensively in Sampson ami Duplin, does not find the crop prospect discouraging at all points. In Duplin and a good part of Sampson the corn has not " for years been more flourishing or promised a better yield. Cotton has been badly set back, and although with propitious seasons it has yet abundant time to come out and mature, there is little hope of a full yield. "; V; Tarboro Southerner: The Meth- odist Sunday School at Old Sparta is ia & very flourishing condition. It has sixty re gular pupils. A most unusual tran saction took place in this county last week. We doubt if ever the like ever happened before. Starling Waller gave away all the property he had that he might be a pauper. He is a white man, and was the owner of four acres of land. He is too infirm to sup port himself, and his . property would scarcely furnish him with hats Mon day a new mail route from Whitakers to Hamilton via . Killquick and Hobgood'a Fork was opened. Rain, lice and cold weather, the three greatest enemies of cot ton, last week and this, made a combined assault upon that weed, inflicting great -damage. WmJsEdJfards, colored, Sun day with a stiok struck Mr. A. J.Garvy of Rocky Mount three severe blows over the head. He was committed to jail in default of bail to answer at the next term of the Inferior Court. : i Raleigh News- Observer : Gov. . , Scales yesterday declined to grant a pardon to A. G. Lambert, convicted in Swain county of the murder of Wilson, in Gra ham county, and now in jail at Asheville. He is to be hanged Fridav. In one of his addresses at the Teachers' Assembly, Dr. Phillips, who has recently returned from Germany, mentioned the recognition in German music of many familiar hymns .. and airs of our own, and expressed his sur prise to find a Persian student at Heidel burg (for the whole world goes there) who -joined in the song familiar to Chapel Hill boys as "Fly on the Wall," and assured him that the air had been known for ages in the Caucasus. The State Board of Educa tion met at the Governor's office yesterday.' The mam business oi the meeting was to receive bids for tbe Bible and Carrow lands in Hyde county. There was one bid sub mitted to them and that was rejected. The survey of these lands is now going on and the Board are determined to press the work as rapidly aa possible. - Charlotte Observer: The Luth-. erans of Concord have secured the services . of Rev. Mr. Campbell for their pastor, It is said that most of the principal officers of the Charlotte, Columbia & Au- .-' gusta and Columbia & Greenville railroads will be removed to Washington, D. C, at - an early day. Allison's grove, located on Spring street in Concord, has been pur chased by a party oi gentlemen, who have arranged to erect upon that site a building to cost $6,000, and which is to be used as a female college. Judge A. C. Avery arrived in this city yesterday from Morgan ton and took a room at the Belmont Hotel. where he submitted during the day to an operation for the removal' of a cancerous growth from the inside lining of his lower Hp. Yesterday afternoon Constable Wilson, ol Clear creek township, arrived in the city with a young man named Thos. Wallace for commitment to the county jail on the charge of a deadly assault upon an old man names James Tarieton, also oi an assault upon Tarleton's son. The con stable reported that Mr. Tarleton's injuries are very serious ana may terminate lataiiy, but the young man Tarieton is not bo badly hurt. .v-V..-;.. v;j.i:--".;--.. - Wilson Mirror; Miss ; Cora Atkinson died on the 80th inst, at the resi dence of her father, Mr. Henry Atkinson, in this county, at the age of 18 years. . The lecture of Prof. Hassell on Wednea- . day night, on the Bible, was one of the very nnest esorts to which we have ever listened. The Mirror never publishes a fling made at a brother -editor, and for that reason we must respectfully decline to publish the communication from "Several Citizens," which criticises in harsh terms the conduct of our neighbor in its notice of a certain homicide which was committed in that neighborhood . : - On last Wednea- day night Prof. Winston placed us all in fancy s iairy ship, and sailed us across the deep blue sea to the far away shores of Europe. The journey though very short was a pleasant and delightful one: It is now generally oeiievea that isiiiie rope, the dwarf, whose death we announced last week, came to his sad end through the agency of some deadly poison, generally supposed to have been strychnine. Un weunesaay nignt, net ween weldon and Pleasant Hut, while engine No. 115 was drawing the passenger train along at a rapid speed, its parellel rods new off, -shattering the cab all to pieces, and flooding the brave and laithlul engineer, umie Mcb ween, with a rushing stream oi ooiung water, we learn that his injuries are very serious. Raleigh . News- Observer: It is Mrs. W. D. Powers, which occurred Toes- dav evening at Wake Forest - The Governor has appointed the following gen-. tlemen as directors of the a. C. It K. on the part of the State: John L. Morehead, Capt. A. Burwell, Charlotte; Kerr Craig, Salisbury; Dr. K. W. Thomas, Thomas- ville; Duncan Cameron, Durham; Gen. R. F. Hoke, Raleigh; W. F. Kornegay, Golds- boro, and Donald MacRae, VYlmingtou ; u. M. Busbee, State proxy. The Board of Assessors (Governor, Auditor and 'Treas urer) have assessed the franchise of rail roads, and the following is the valuation -the present year -as based upon returns re ceived.., The figures are the assessments, per mile: North Carolina railroad, $1,000; Northwestern N. C. $770; Piedmont rail road, $2,000; Atlantic & Charlotte Air Line, $945; Char., Col. & Aug., $715; Atlantic, Tennessee & - Ohio. $305: Chester & "Lenoir Narrow Gauge, $155; University R. It, f 1ZU; Milton sutberiin narrow Gauge, one-half mile, $100; Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta R. R, $875; James villa & Washington, $58; Alma Ar Little Rock, $307; Cheraw 5 Salisbury, $420; Albemarle & Raleigh. $213; Western North Carolina R. R. $417; Asheville & Spar tanburg. $151; Oxford & Henderson, $435; Midland N. C, $200; East Tennessee & Western North Carolina, for 1885, $300; Danville, Mocksville & South Western, for 1886, $70; Scotland-Neck, $400: Norfolk & Southern, $730. Returns not having been received from some of the companies, the ; assessments in such cases were deferred.