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Whatever may be the fate of
iRiver and Harbor bill when if reaches
the President it is quite apparent
'that the Senate does not intend to
put it in a belter shape than it was
when it left the House. -In fact it
will ? back to the House from the
Senate with additions which if ac
cepted will but increase, the proba
bilities of a vetqH The Boston Post
thinks the Senattjia showing a morbid
appetite which bnt increases as it is
fed. It says, by way of illustration:
i "It liegan to take on the character ofa
disease on Monday last, . when the Senate
added $150,000 to the river and harbor bill
for the purchase ot the sturgeon Kay. ana
Lake Michigan ship canal. , The United
Stales gave the Stale of Wisconsin, some
twenty jears ag , 200,000 acres of land,
from the aale of which the State was to
build a canal connecting Green Bay with
Lake Michigan. ThcStale handed the land
over to a private corporation, which bnilt a
canal less than a mile and three-quarters
long, down which it floated the pine logs cut
from its 200,000 acres. Now that the pine
is all gone there is no longer any use for the
canal, and the owners bave sold it back to
the government. Mr. Ingalls and Mr. Ed
munds showed up the character of this job
in the Senate, denouncing it as an 'impu
dent end shameless speculation, bnt it went
"through handsomely, our ownSenjator Hoar
"VoYmg for it with the majorityT'j
t There are many such jobs as this,
pie rnueh .talked of Hennepin canal
scheme is another one of these
J schemes that if passed will rob the
taxpayers to the tune of millions.
The calculation is that the Henne
pin canal would irr the end cost not
less than $7,000,000, with a possi
bility of even reaebing-$15,000,000.
Then there are the Lake Superior Ship
Canal Railway scheme and the Por
tage Lake canal job, and the one
. million appropriation for New York
'city, and so on. When, the President
comes to "consider these various
plans for relieving the people of
. inore of their surplus he will be ihe
more constrained to withhold his. ap-
proval. Then there are innumera
tie smaller M-hemes that require
money. ' '
i The result of this sort of legisla
tion will be that-if the Presidential
veto should be ' sent in important
public works of really national im
portance will bo i.el artide for a year
or t wrf years, unless a two-thirds
Majority can be secured, which" is by
no tneam.i Certain.
SUCCESS A REniNISCENCE.
It is extremely doubtful if the
Congress adjourns before August, we
regret to say. The country is very,
very tired of the law-makers and are
quite-willing to wish them a happy
Some of the members of
the 49th Congress know that they are
enjoying their last honors. The places
that know them in Washington now
shall know them no more forever.;
When the. House I stands finally ad
journed some of the Honorables will
return to their homes and other fel
lows will be asked to step into their
shoes and draw i their seats. It has
always been so. i A vast deal of tal
ents in bod has been nipped by an
unfriendly political frost. ' Among
some of these retiring "statesmen"
are, doubtless to be found some
"mute, inglorious" Demostheneses, or
some philosophical Burkes in t em
bryo, bnt whose profound reflections,
and luminous statesmanship, are
doomed to die i- with them. It
ib sad to Jive in an nnappreciative
age and among a people who do not
know their greatest men. But if
here and there aj., promising states
man js. laid on the shelf who might
have been retained to the benefit
of hiB country, there are others who
will retire, of whom it may be asked
again and again, f 'How in4 the world
did they ever gels to Congress?" f A
fair amount of "cheek;" a good sup
ply of gush and blarney and bun
come and demagogism all mingled
nicely; a slick, oily tongue; a genuine
"I am Sir; Oracle" vein; a fine habit
of "kissing away his hand in courte
sy," as the Master say etb; who mixes
his "meal and bran together;" and
who is even "garnishM and decked
with modest compliment," to again
AN INTERESTING CASE,
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quote the master, are the qualities
that often - secure; the front seats in
public favor, while modest and as
sured merit sits oh the back seat, un
noticed and unappreciated.
Doubtless some! of the members of
the 49th CongreBB are fondly calcn
lating upon a return ... to Washington
who are doomed j to disappointment.
The members who hob-nob are in the
habit of telling 'each other of their
prospects. It used to be so, and this
brings up a brief (reminiscence:
Several Democratic members be
fore the war were talking over their
chances for re-election, towards the
close of the long session. - Among
others our own , Gen. Romulus M.
Sannders, the ablest Democratic can
vasser then ' in i the State. He said
that he thought fee would be re-elected
by about. 1,500 majority. When.
the next Congress met some of these
same members' were talking over
their experiences! Gen. Saunders
was silent. On6 j of the members
rather twitted him and said, "Gene-
ill : -
ral. if mv memory , serves me,
said
you
some
But
only
before'
expected
1.500 or
my recol
crnt. it
that
with
adjournment,
to return
2,000 majority.
ection is that you
by a small and
Old
I - AN OKDER. .
I President Cleveland' order con
cerhtng the condnct of office holders
in theniatter of political campaigns
and elections wa8jieeded,we may sup
pose, or it would not haye been is
sued. Public office is, a public trust,
and office-holders, as such, must not
work in primaries or abuse their offi
cial positions to secure the triumph
. of their party friends. That seems
to be the size of the order of the
President, for he-says that they may
"exercise political privileges" with
out, however, "assnmmg active con
duct of a political campaign." This
restraining order may work out all
right, but there is a great difficulty
in the way. The force of habit
is tremendous. The Repoblcan offi
cial Buckers have been so trained in
the methods of their party for a
" duarter of. a centurv: to interfere
actively in all elections and to abuse
. official position for party Mids; that'
(t i- ,:iM' tliaii .lou'h'fu! if dogs
4 ..n. 1.. ... ... iw.tu Tl.. f a-ill
be i.j.t ii i i aii "fi the "l"v, 'd
4 aeit. U af i imt. . -
SeiiHtctr Bf-ck has prved very af
flictive to eomo of the leading Re
publican Senators. His resolution
prohibiting members of the Senate
from receiving fees from subsidized
failroads was like a . bomb thrown
into the opposing ranks. It filled the
heart of Edmunds and JJvarts with
absolute dismay. These Republican
worthies have been accustomed to
just such service as lhe Beck resola
. lion prescribes and in it they see
heavy loato themselves.' ; They have
not hesitated to serve railroads da
ring the session of Congress .when
they ought to have been in their
seats, The .resolution was referred
to the Judiciary Committee, of which
Edmunds is chairman, and there it
greatly reduced majority,
Roan, as he was called by his famil
nars, thought a minute and said,
"Well, -gentlempn, I did manage to
get back by 125; majority, but if
either of you had canvassed with the
man I did yon wonld never have
seen Washington ! again." His com
petitor was . the eminent Henry W.
Miller. This .was both candid and
a well deserved compliment to the
ablest Whig canvasser in North
Carolina. j ' j - ,
There are six of the Appropria
tion bills still under consideration.
Four of these have passed the House
and are how before the Senate. -It
ia vArv nATtain. we may suppose, that
8. Commissioner Court Alleged
r. Violation of Steamboat Inspection
The case of the United States against the
owners of the steamer J. C. Stewart, for al
leged violation of the steamboat inspection
laws, was heard before TJ. 8. Commissioner
Gardner yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
At the conclusion of the examination the
defendants were required to give bond in
the sum of $ 500 each for their appearance
at the next term of the United Spates Dis
trict Court, which meets in Wilmington the
first Monday in December next. U. .8.
District Attorney Busbce represented the
tJovernment, and Mr. John D. Bellamy ap
peared for the defence. -
The case has excited considerable inter
est, particularly among steamboat men.
The defendants. James Bagley and J. C.
Stewart, owners, ; and James Bagley mas
ter of "the steamer . C. Stewart, were ar
rested, charged as the warrant recites, with
violations of the steamboat inspection laws,
especially sections 4423. 4427 and 4429, Re-
9iad Statutes of the TJ. 8., and also sec
tion 4418. ;;V; rir 'i-y
.The facU, as admitted by. defendant's
counsel at the examination yesterday and
assented to by the District Attorney, are
that the vessel owned by the defendants is
a river steamboat of about 120 tons capaci
ty; that she was engaged in navigating the
Cape Fear river from Wilmington to Pay
etteville, having made three trips from and'
to Wilmington, one on June 30th, another
July 3rd and the third July 10th; that she
was never licensed or inspected by any
United States government official as re
quired by Title 52, Revised Statutes; that
the said steamboat was simply engaged in
transporting merchandise from Wilming
ton to Fayetteville and from Fayetteville to
Wilmington, aad none of the merchandise
was shipped from any point outside of the
State of North Carolina One particular
shipment of 150 barrels of flour was ship
ped by one J. L. Auehtry to himself at
Fayetteville the said Aughtry living in
Fayetteville, but himself personally making
the contract for- shipment in Wilmington,
where the flour was delivered; that said
flour came from New York to Wilmington,
consigned "to order.notify J.R.Turrentine
and after arrival at Wilmington was kept
in the warehouse of the New York steamship
company for about seven days, when it was
delivered to the defendants by order of J.
R. Turrentine on June 28th; the said flour
was purchased in Wilmington by J. L.
Aughtry of J. R. Turrentine. the latter re
ceiving the flour from the steamship com
pany's warehouse; that the flour was ship
ped to Turrentine on consignment, was here
for seven das before it was sold, and was
then sold to Mr. Aughtry, for the owner.
Also, that fiom points on the river below
Fayetteville, the steamboat Stewart brought
as part of her freight naval stores shipped
by partiesto Patcrson, Downing & Co.. at
Wilmington a firm having a place of busi
ness in Wilmington being also a branch
of a house in New York of the same
name, dealing "largely in naval stores.
Nothing of these goods was destined to
any place or person outside of the State of
North Carolina or came from any person
or place outside of the State; but both,
shippers and consignees were within the
State. That the Cape Fear river is a navi
gable stream for vessels of the site of the
Stewart from Fayetteville to the Atlantic
ocean; and from Wilmington to the ocean
is navigable for all vessels generally em
ployed in commerce; that Fayetteville is a
port of entry.
It was Contended by defendants' counsel
that the steamer was not subject to the in
spection laws of the government, being en
gaged solely in domestic commerce wholly
within the limits of the State, and Beveral
decisions of the U. S. Courts were cited to
sustain this position. Authorities were
cited by the District Attorney, also, in' his
argument to show that the steamer was
subject to the government inspection laws,
and in this view of the case he was sus
tained by-the Commissioner,
.TOKMEKTTAIj MAINS - :
Streets Flooded and Radly Wsshed
r Private Property Damaxed-A Large
Peree of Laborers making Repairs.
The heavy rains , of the past fortnight
culminated in a down-pour yesterday morn
ing that for the length of time it continued
probably surpassed anything in the way of a
shower ever before witnessed in this part of
the rnnntrv. The' rain becan at three
o'clock and continued for about three hours
and in that brie period-the rainfall as reg
istered at the Signal office amounted to five
inches and ninety-three hundredths of an
inch. v The storm came from the southwest
and was accompanied with thunder and
lightning. - I - . -.
People who were on the streets-in the
early hours of the morning say that they
presented a remarkable sight, many of
them being merely broad sheets of water.
from three inches to a foot in depth . The
damage caused jy the flood was of course
very great, in jthc way of washouts-aud.
overflows;; necessitating the employmeat of
an additional force of sixty men to aidflbe
rcRulnr street hands, who were .put io"iibrk.
f. ar i il f ....
at an early uourj uapi. murpny, me iruit
superintendent of the street force, was put
in charge of a gang of hands repairing the
large sewer on Third street, between Market
NORTH CAROLINA.
and
Prill
cess, where an overnow was
caused by the bursting of a private sewer
pipe leading to ihe main sewer. On the op
posite side of Ihe Btreet, at Miss Hart's
school room, repairs were also made to the
sidewalk j which! was completely washed
away.
A force wasj put. to work also at the
bridges on Fourth and j Sixth streets, part
of the abutments of which were washed
awav. causing damage that it i estimated
- - i "i -- ,
will cost a good! deal to repair.
. On Market street, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth a bad washout was made
at the large culvert known as Macomber's
Ditch, where the water it is said was deep
and broad enough to float a steamboat. On
the railroad, between Fourth end Second
street, the embankment on the north side
was washed across the track, and a large
force of hands was ' required to clear it
away before trains could pass. The foun
dation of the old tobacco factory, on Sixth
street, near the railroad, was washed out
and the building threatened to topple over.
There are bad washouts on Princess street
Convention of the Twelfth Jadleal
District- -m errlmon - Nominated
Wilson County's Recommendations.
(8peeial Star Telegram ) - v." - . '
AsHEViLiiK, July 17. In the Convention
of the Twelfth Judicial District, held here
to day. J. II, Merrimon was nominated,
the vote - beine Merrimon 96, Gudeer 73.
Ferguson was nominated foi Solicitor on
the fifth ballot. M. K. Carter was recom
mended for the Supreme Court : .'
Wn.so. July i 17. Wilson county, in
mass meeting to-day endorsed Honorable
George Strong for Supremo Court Judge,
and Honorable H. G. Connor for Superior
Court Judge. "
' )'' TENNESSEE.
Important Decision of : a Federal
Jndge Relative to Salts Against Railroads-
A New Tort syndicate! Ser
eares Control In Coal Lands of East
Tennessee. : v ' ' -. -;i-v.
Nashvillk. July 16 A special from
Enoxville. Tenn.. states that Judge Jack
son, in the United States; Circuit Courti to
day pronounced an opinion in one of the
suite against the East. Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia Railroad, of much interejBt to
the Company - and tne suitors against u.
Under the mortgage of 1881 it has been
claimed by the Company that the rights of
the mortgagees were superior to those of
judgment creditors, tor personal aamages,
as well as those of other ere .itors, and that
no satisfaction of such judgments could be
had therefor until after the mortgage has
been fully discharged. His Honor held
that while at common law the mortgage
would take precedence of all other claims,
yet, under the special statutes of Tennessee
which he held to be valid, judgments' for
services rendered or for personal injuries
have priority over mortgage, lie also stated
that in such cases, upon proper motion, he.
would direct a sufflciencv of the ourcbase
money, under the mortgage to be witbneia
for satisfaction of . judgment. The claims
affected by this decision amount to two
or three hundred thousand dollars, though
embraced in a - considerable number of
suits. --' .
Kkoxvillb. July 16 E. R. Chapman,
representing a New York syndicate and lo
cal capitalists, yesterday purchased a con
trolling interest in an or tne coai lanus now
operated at Poplar and Coal Creeks, upper
Eat Tennessee. ;The syndicate purchased
two million dollars of coal stock and seve
ral thousand acres of coal lands, lne new
company will build a new railroad connect
ing the Cincinnati, soumern oo jvnoxvuie
and the Ohio Railroads. E. R. Chapman,
of New York, was elected President, and
Thomas H. Heald Secretary and Treasurer.
SERMON O N PA UL If. HA TN E.
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Extracts from Rlshop Beckwlth's rn--(-
- neral Discourse at AucnstsGa. '
f Augusta Cl'f M'-lo. ;
It seem 1o 'ue that it would
be well to be viU m . How; can an
ordinary man speak in the presence
f thfr dead whose lip ruc
touched by a living coai frm the?
throne of God himsel f , n'd j v. hos
spirit soared upon strong aiul .ay
Wings until it seamed to stand 'where
I doubt, not to day in reality it does
stand m t he , very presence
Lotd of lIoMts. ; So I thought
vet. when there came to rae U
sage,: and! thought of; th
of; the
Ad
ie mes-
poor
bejran to riw, through the silence
there came, in him the sounds of that
sweet voice, that. w often he bad
heard, a.id M to him, "Tlie Master
has iNiini II" is calling for thee."
The liiieninfr, waiting, praying spirit
unfolded it wings and sored upwards
higher and higher, until it was lost
amidst the brightness and splendor
which nri-ou nd thu throne. As it
went upwards- and away men said,
Panl .Havne is dead."" Such is
death; such is' death. But thn im
mortal spirit has left its tenement of
clay, and was above glorifying his
saviour. ' - ?
The
and
had
between Third
between Front
berry, between
co ml, between
The alley
cond street.
th River and Harbor bill will not
be disposed of in days. Then there
will be more or less debate on the
Navy MIL and the Sundry bill. Then
the Legislative, Executive and Judi
cial bill is not yet disposed of al
though it Js only amendments that
have to be considered. We have
but little doubt that 1st Au ust will
-find the Solons sweltering on the Po-
tomac. , I ..i
Fh Edmunds set the Judiciary
bill are catching it all arouna ior
their emasculating of the Beck bill
aimed at plethoric railroad attorneys.
The bill reported is said to be simply
a substitute, loaded down with pro
visions that are absurd and impos
sible, and that are meant to defeat
ihe purpose of Senator Beck. Why
not ffive the original bill a chance?
It is needed. That is : the sense of
the country. Papers of every politi
cal contpexion have indorsed it.
Why slaughter it in committee ? The
The Boston Post says: -
This insincere proposition has the suP
, tfaeam V-ilmnnds. InsrallS. MCMU-
Lw. Evatts and Pngh. Even Senator Hoar
seems to have revolted at becoming a party
?Tthis scheme.. i The iconsistoncy
of this performance is seen in the fact that
Vpta foremost in denouncing
the Beck bill as a reflection npontbedy,
of the Senate have now repa bill
which reflects upon
. I wiui,u.w -r-7l . . Umihi.
has rested for weeks. Edmunds- gttat j
promised tQ report it in eight days, I port Beck bill."
but he failed to do so. and when at
lastit is brought out it is so changed.
and stripped of all significaacy ana
force as to make it a very harmless
little affair. : " ,
It is thought in Washington that
the surplus resolution of Mr. Morri
son will go through the Senate with
the aid of Western votes.
Timely Suggestions .
A city reader in a note to the Stab says:
"Crops are being injured everywhere by
the frequent rains, and it is too late to re
plant. In this emergency, when the corn,
wheat and oat crops will fall considerably
below a yield, would it not be advisable for
our farmers to have an eye io raising every
thing they can during the remainder of the
season which will answer as forage for their
stock? K
"Short crops also make money short, and
retrenchment we suppose will now be th
order of the day with our merchants. Do
not put too much out now, as.it maybe
needed this fall and winter,"
Wilmington District Conference.
Wilmington District Conference adjourn
ed yesterday evening, after a pleasant ses
sion of three days at Fair Bluff. The re
ports of the Church work fn the District
were all very gratifying, j
The mission work undertaken in Brook
lyn by the Fifth Street Church, was recom
mended to the Annual Conference as a
promising field for the establishment of a
third Method st Church in this city. - ;
' The following are the lay delegates elect
ed to represent Wilmington District in the
Annual Conference, of the M. E. Church
South, which will be held at Reidsville, N.
C., December 1st: A, J. Johnson, Ma gno-
ha: W. J. Parker Bladen; W. S. Dosher,
Smithville; J. C. Davis, Fifth Street sta
tion. ,' - . '' m mi' '
A Railroad for Smlthvllle.
Some of the people in the staid town of
Smith ville have been somewhat upset by the
advent of a mysterious party of railroad
surveyors. The prospective railroad for
which these surveyors are ! said to be run
ning lines is from London, Ky., to Bristol,
Tenn., from the latter place to Salisbury,
N. C, thence to Hamlet, and thence to
Smithviile via Bennettsville and Conway
boro, S. C. Northern capitalists are at the
head of the enterprise, f
Cotton.
The receipts of cotton at this port con
tinue small but show an increase over those
of last year. For the week past 41 bales
were received, as compared with 7 bales
the corresponding week last year The
receipts for the crop year from September
1st to July 16 are 101,453 bales, "against
83,918 the same time last year. The stock
ashore and afloat is .585 bales against 298
the same date last year. .
and Fourth; on Walnut,
and Second; and on Mul
Front and Second; on i?e
Mulberry and Walnut, a
hole about eix feet deep has been washed
out.
running from Front to 8e-
between Chesnut and Mul
berry, was washed out to a considerable
depth,' undermining a brick wall on the
premises of MrsL M. M. Dickson and caus
ing it to fall.
In the southern part of the city, between
Fifth and' Sixth streets, and Church and
Castle, the water was knee-deep, and up to
the floorsj of several of the dwellings in
that locality. The Second Advent Baptist
church, in thia neighborhood, was sur
rounded by water. Liter in the day a cul
vert that bad lieen choked was opened and
the flood in that part of the city was re
ported flowing off On Castle, from Front
to the river, the street is badly washed.
The works of the Gas Company at the foot
of Castle streei were flooded, the water
standing several! inches deep on the floors.
Several stores on South 'Front street were
flooded by the deluge. At Messrs Burr &
Bailey's machine shops the floors were cov;
ered with watejr to the depth of twelve
inches. The premises of Messrs. Parker &
Taylor, and MrL John L. Boat w right, ad
joining, were also ovei flowed.
About 7 o'clock yesterday evening a
dense bank of black clouds rolled up from
the western horizon and soon overspread
the city when another heavy down-pour of
rain began that j promised to equal if not
surpass the early morning visitation. The
streets were again flooded, and it is proba
ble that more damage ; was occasioned to
the already badly washed thoroughfares.
The rain ceased about 10 oclock.
1 . THE RAINFALL.
The Signal Service Observer at the Wil
mington station
says: f'The rains of yes
terday as well as the total precipitation for
the month, are jthe heaviest and moBt re
markable in the history of the Signal Ser
vice. The rainfall for the twenty-four
hours ending at 11 o'clock last night, as re
corded at the Signal office, was 7.33 inches ,
making the aggregate for the first fifteen
days of July, 18.65 inches, or an average
of 1.24 inches for eat h day."
From Point Caswell.
..The captain of; the steamer Susie, which
arrived yesterday afternoon, reports that
Black River had fallen about six inches
when the boat left that place in the morn
country, however, was
ion of the bridge at Point
ins. The whole
flooded. A port
Caswell has been washed away, rendering
it impassable n
Several families
to abandon1 their
flood. There was another
that section jestuVday.
hlil repairs can be made.
living near the town had
homes on account of the
heavy rain in
NORTH CAROLINA, j
Death of Col. Junius R. Wheeler.
- By Telegraph to the Morning Star, j
Raleigh, July 16. Colonel Junius B.
Wheeler, brother of the historian of Nprth
Carotina, Colonel John H. Wheeler, and
formerly a professor at West Point Milita
ry Academy, died at Lenior, Caldwell
county, ,thiff State, yesterday morning, i He
was a veteran of the Mexican war, and af
ter being .retired from West Point, made
Lenoir his home, as it had been the home
of his youth. j
MEXICO.
A Town Captured by the Revolution
ists Five Citizens Killed The Party
Gaining Strength Dally. ; i
ly L- cgraph to the Moratnje-Star. j
Chicago-, July 16. A special dispatch
from Mier, in the State of Tamaulipaa,
Mexico, says: -i
"? v"A courier has just atrived from the in
terior and;reporte that the Revolutionists,
under the command of Juan Trevino, have
captured the town of Agualeguas. Five
citizens were killed in the fight. General
Reyes has ordered the Eighth Regulars to
Agualeguas, with instructions to fight the
Revolutionists wherever he finds them. The
Revolutionary party is gaining strength
daily. A large number of its sympathize
are coming in from the States of Coahuila
and Nuevo Leon, and also from' Texas.
.Governor Cuellar is at Victoria, the capital
of the State. He will probaoiy De onugea
to call on ihe Federal' government to put
down the rebellion, and in that case mar
tial law will be declared." j
. WASHINGTON. j
-Treasury Officials Dismissed for Sharp
Practice in the natter of Promotions
' Appointments. ;
IBt Telegraph to the Moraine Star.l s
Washington, July 10. The names of
the persons dismissed by the acting secre
tary of the Treasury yesterday for sharp
practice in the matter of promotions are
Edward S. Peck, Chief of Division in the
office of the Comptroller of the Currency,
and Charles B. Hinckley and Julius E.
De 8aules, second class clerks in his office.
The Acting Secretery of theTreasuiy
to-day appointed G. N. Coffin, of South
Carolina, to be chief of division of the is
nffipfi of the ComDtrolIer of the Cur
rency, and J. G. Ferguson, of Maryland, to
be teller in tne same omce.
NEBRASKA.
Failure of the Dnndy County Bank
The President Skips to Canada with
the Funds. ": .. ..i
iBy Telegraph to the Horning, Star.l j
Chicago, July 15. A special from
Omaha Bays the. Dundy County Bank, of
Benkleman, Neb., failed yesterday. Belzer,
th President, skipped to Canada and took
with bim about $100,000 in funds and Be-
curities. Business men and farmers feel
the loss greatly, as many have lost the lat
dollar -they had on earth. - Several homei
at Anders had their titles in the. bank, and
were to prove up to day. Many will have
to abandon their claims. The greatest ex
citement prevails Belzer had transferred
all of his available property to his wife be
fore leaving Many Eastern banks and
firms will lose h'eavilYi j
onut.
Rice Crop Damaged.
Rice plu6te8 along the lower Cape Fear
say that their crops have been seriously in
jured by tpe long-continued wet weather.
are generally "laid by' as
by the: fourth or fifth of
season there had been so
The rice fields
the planters say.
Jul v. ; but this
much rain in June that j it was almost im
possible to work the crop, and as a conse
quence the i grass j has "run away with it."
The outlook is said to be far from prom-
t . . i - -
lsing. ! f .
The Cape Fear.
Advices received by the steamer Ewt
which left Fayetteville - at 11 a. m.
Thursday, report the river at a stand
still, after a rise of about eighteen feet.
There had been heavy rains along the up
per Cape j Fear Wednesday night and
Thursdav morning, however, 'and it was
thought another rise was probable. Below
Fayetteville the river was within its banks.
Schr. C. K Mdcwiiber, 114 tons,
Rumrill, hence, for Port-au-Prince, Hayti,.
was stranded June 25th on the north side
of the lowland of ; Northwest Point, Caicos.
The crew were! saved. A dispatch from
Turks Island saya that the materials, sails,
&c., of the vessel; are being Drougni to mat
port and will be sold for ' account of all
concerned, i 1 -
Norwood was yesterday renominated for
Representative in the First Congressional
District of Georgia, v
Severe Rain Storm In Newara-Great
Damage to Property and Crops, j
By Telegraph to the MornlDg Star.l . .; ; ' .
Chicago, July 15 A special from New
ark, Ohio, says: "This city was visited by
one of the most severe storms ever known
yesterday. Over $50,000 damage was done,
the greatest loss being to fruits and growing
crops. Several business blocks had their
roofs carried away. Men, women and
children were terribly frightened. ne
storm was of about-one hour's duration,
the wind hjgh. lightning fierce, hail terrific
and rain falling heavily." i ' !
Charlotte Chronicle : Some of
the Wilmington excursionists have return-'
ed very much elated over their trip, iand
the creat enjoyment they experienced.
What many of our citizens have ex
pected for some time, from various utter-.
. - , .,a? ri
ances anu tines oi . arguwcui uo. i
"Chaa. It." has announced himself a can
didate for Congress. .The Weekly Observer
of yesterday contained his card, but not a
word was said in tne morning ewuuu ui
this date. The card reads: "The under
signed, in response to hundreds of solicita
tions, and for which he feels a grateful ap
preciation, hereby announces himself as "a
candidate for representative in the Congress
of the United States from the Sixth Con
gressional District of North Carolina. In
due time he will make an announce
ment of his views onjpublic questions.and he
proposes, to canvass every square mile of
the, District, and meet the people face to
face. " "
Very Respectfully,
Chas. R Jonbs."
It will be noticed that - he. does not
submit his name to the approaching nomi
nating convention of the Democratic party.
lonely widow, in her? silence and her
Borrow, I had not. the courage to bo
Bilent. . Arid . yet it is difficult cto
speak of such a man as Paul Hayne,
a man a-hose heart was so open to
everything that. wa beautiful, ten
der, gentle and I kind in : nature, and
before whose inspired View at times
it seemed as though the curtain of
time" had lifted and the man was
borne up into eternity. Yon knew
him welt; and if -you. knew him you
loved him., There was'neyerja child
that heard his voice whose heart did
not warm to this gentle poet: '
You know that his spirit was; strong
enough and brave enough to rise and
Bit in triumph upon the very cresL oi
the storm of war; and then when
men's hearts failed them, the voice
of the poet, sounding like a trumpet,
told ns of the conquests jbf' the
vanquished. But, over and! above?
all that, there was something I in the
life of Paul Hayne which might be' a
blessing to you and me. . There were
times when that sensitive spirit
trembled in the chill shadow of
'doubt. There were tiroes when the
intellect of thei man mastered the ;
spirit of the man, and deraauded of
that spirit a reason which i should
satisfy human judgment and prove
jthe divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It was then, in tbe days of his sor
row and strife, 'with the poet's in
tjnet, he learned to love the character
jof the blessed Master; and learning
;to love him, his nature instinctively
jtaught him to trust Him," and trust
ling Him he began to obey, and obey
ling Him he began to assimilate His
character, and ; assimilnting it he
began s to learn; the truth, and m
all the purity of his own life
; exhibited the truth of the di
vinity -of his Saviour Jesus Christ.
As he was striving and trying to find
i the truth, he moved nearer and nearer
to the blessed Lord who died to save
j him, and there developed in the char
acter of Paul Hayne a similarity and
! likeness, such as the human may have
; to the divine, between himself and the
blessed Master whom he echoed. In
i the character of Christ there were
; two peculiarities combined as never
i before or since mortal man possessed;
: and that union made his character
the most "powerful and attractive that
a man of mind has ever contempla
ted. That was his manliness and his
womanliness. .The blessed; (Master
was verily the manliest main that
ever lived; but he was the w?manli
est man that ever lived; and these
two characteristics shone in the life
of the poet. The Master had a cou
rage, a physical courage that man has
never equalled. He had the rare
gift of perfect courage when J there
was no appeal to stirring excitement
and enthusiasm. Ana over
above his physical courage
shone an unimpeachable moral
age which enabled him to penetrate
the solitude of Gethsemane, and upon
bended knees to seek his duly, the
whole burden of which was contain
ed in the simple prayer: "Neverthe
less, not my will but thine be done,"
and having learned, his will belcorn
munioned with his Father, thejpow
er of mankind concentrated never
did, and never could canse him to
tremble for a moment. But united
with his perfect manliness there was
a complete womanliness. We misuse
that word. We think that to be
womanly means to be effeminate.
To be womanly is to possess forti
tude! No man may dare compare
with woman in the splendid quality
of fortitude, which is the power of
long enduring, suffering, poverty,dis
tre88 and agony the power of jsuf
ferinsr without failing in principle.
It is womanly to be gentle and kind
and pure and refined and forgiving
and considerate and long-suffenng-p
these are the qualities which our
women make an honor to our man
hood. And the man who to manli
ness and physical and moral courage
can add these virtues of our women,
has achieved a complete manhood, so
far as the moral man can ever attain.
And in his Buffering and trials,
stud vine the life of our blessed Lord,
he learned to grow like him more and
more. Those who . knew him well
know that he v lacked not the power
of- physical courage. Those j who
knew him best attest that he lacked
not the quality of moral oourage,and
all who have ever been privileged to
hold sweet converse with him know
that he was as gentle, and as pure,
and as tender, and as sympathizing
as a woman. Manliness and woman
liness met in his character, andj made
it of exquisite attraction. And the
nearer he came to his Saviour the
more he studied that matchless cha
racter, the more he knew and. jFelt his
power; and leaning upon that arm,
studying that character and striv
ing to follow . that example, he
learned to - be like Christ, and
became a Christian . in the highest
circles. i And so, so far as I
knew him, wherever he looked, wher
ever he wandered in nature, whether
he was listening to the whistling of.
the wipds or watching the vibrations
of the leaves in the sunlight, he saw;
the impress of his - Creator, j and hej
lifted up his spirit to see its exquisite
original in the white light of eternity
somewhere near the throne. , And so
he lived in struggle and suffering
with the example of his Savionr be
fore him, ,; until the wearied irm re
fused to work. Things temporal were
growing less to him, -and the spirit
of tne poet was noiaing commumuu
with his Lord. Aa the darkness grew
deeper the spirit long hidden within
him was watching, hoping, waiting,
. :- '.v Our Samuel. - i ;
, - ic I' Reading Herald. " j ;
Colonel William R. Morrison, of
Illinois, is rather; severe on the pet
And prid of the Pennsylvania Re
publican, Samuel J. Randall, in his
report onJ.be latter's bill. . . . But
a man who is to be a Republican ene
day and a Democrat the nexij and
, who has feuoeessf ally carried out tbe
contract for a Jong series , of years,
cannot be expected to take the time
to .study, into the niceties of economic
questions, so he is. content to get his
political economy and his district
from tbe nariff Republicans, while be
gets his votes and his patronage from
the Democrats. When we consider
his remarkable success in maintaining
his position under these circumstances
we must admit that he is in some re
spects a wonderful man.
A Remarkable Funereal Scene
A San
scribes a
place at t
Francisco newspaper de
remarkahle scene that took
ie funeral of a young man
named Frank Peachy, in that city,
a few day ago. The fatherof Frank,
a man graybearded and. bent with
age, : met face to face with his former
wife the! mother from whom he
had been separated twenty-five years.
father resides at Los Angeles
the jmotber at Oakland. They
married again and had families.
Their actions over the body of their
boy j were lead, to behold. The father
tenderly stroked the hair of his son,
and tbe mother kissed tbe Hps. liotli
wept bitterly, but neither recognized
the j other. At . the grave the old
mother knelt down and prayed while
the fearth was being thrown over her
son s coftin.
arid
there
cour-
In Tyler's Time.
Ben Perley Moore's Reminiscences :
One day President Tyler joked Mr.
Wise about his little one-horse
carriage, which the President
styled "a candle box on wheels," to
which the Renresentaiive from the
Accomac district retorted by telling
Mr. Tyler that he had bt en riding for
a month in a seecond band carriage
purchased at the sale of the effects of
Mr. Paulding, the Secretary of the
Navy nnder Mr. Van Baren, and hav
ing the Paulding coat if arm em
blazoned on the door pHiflc. The
President laughed at tuu mlly, and
gave orders to have th armorial
bearings of the Pauldi-g painn-d
over. Economy ' 'pi'ompiedtliG
purchase of some parity worn Miiln
of livery at the salt of U.e effect of
a foreign minister, aot tus-se were
afterward worn by the colored wait
ers at State dinners.
Oppressive alienee.
N Y. Star, Dem.
Mr. Morrison's able and conclusive
report on the Randall bill was made
last Saturday It is one of the
strongest papers on the question of
taxation that has. appeared in many
years, l bus tar, nowever, noioing
hasbeec said , by our protection con
temporaries concerning the report.
It has been received with a dull si-,
lence. A stupefactiou of the protec
tion mind if mind can be said to
have anything to do with protection
has followed the printing of the
report. ;.. - ..
SLINGS ANtTaRROWS.
Gum is the quid of contentment
to woman Elmira Advertiser.
i Suspended animation he girl
in the hammock. Merchant TrateUer.
-j Whenever" a musician gets a
bright thought he make a note of it. Bur
lington Free Press.
I John Ruskin .says: "When I
see' a girl, dancing I thank Heaven " So do
we, John, a girl can't talk while she is
dancing that is. not to any extent. New
Haven Press. . : ,
I" j A dealer advertises "Lightning
Fruit Jars." They may.be a new brand,
but for lightening fruit jars there is noth
ing more successful than a small boy and
solitude. Ncrristown Herald.
! French women consider carrots
as a specific for tbe complexion, and good
judges in such matters can tell at a glance
how many carrots fine a woman's complex
ion is. Boston Iransertpt. ; ,v
I The Professor: How singularly
you and your brother resemble each other,
Miss Angelina 1 Miss Angelina: Is that a
compliment to my brother or a compliment
to met The Professor: Oh, a compliment
to neither, I assure you London Punch. .
u We have talked ' a good deal
about educating girls to become wives and
mothers. Has it ever occurred to faculties
of male colleges that it would be a good
thing to train young men to become good
husbands and fathers? Springfield Mass)
Union. .... .... . . . ; .
j Sick husband to wife: It must
be a source of great consolation to you, my
dear, that my life is insured for $20,000.
Wife, with much feeling: It is, John, my
dear, of course. I was thinking only to
day how very comfortably and pleasantly I
and the girls can live on that sum. But I
wisn we owned tne nouse, doun. new vrn.
Times.
"Who was that stranger you
were with last night. Jim?" "CoL Blank,
of the regular army." "You don't say so!
I never would have taken him for a sol
dier." "V7ell, George, I didn't hall believe
he r was an army officer myself until I
played poker with him. Lend me a dollar
till to-morrow, will you?" Chicago News.
1 Durham News : , A Mr. J ones
was seriously wounded at the Wooden
Mills yesterday. He was working the
gouging machine. His hat blew oft, and
as he stooped to pick it -up. his shoulder
come in contact with the gouger, and a
nninfni wound was the consequence. - Tbe
.instrument entering the flesh back of the
shoulder blade, penetrated an inch. .
Spif its Turpentine. '
-- The Democrats of Cleaveland
county endorsed Hon, W. J. Montgomery
for tbe Supreme Court. - . - ,
: Raleigh News- Observer; V Yes
terday a tobacco dealer was asked for news -regarding
the crop. . ; He says there is some V
"frenching," but tobacco has not been in
jured in proportion to other crops. If this
miserable ; weather, continues . irreparable - -damage
will be done. Tobacco can bear .
much rain. - The views of Senator
Vance may not be agreeable to the mug
wumps, but the Postmaster General seems
to appreciate - 'Our Zeb." for he announces '
that a postoffice in Texas that has hitherto
been known as Bull Head shall hereafter be
known as Vance.
- Two white boys and a nesrro
boy played at hanging at Salisbury. Tbe
Charlotte Chronicle says: "When ready. .
and before the black cap was adjusted, be .
was asked if he cared to make a speech. ;
He talked a few moments, repeating nearly -exaclly
the words of Gaston and wound up
by requesting the executioners to make
quick work of it. They attached tbe cap
and rope and knocked the boxes from un
der him. A negro woman passing just -then
saw the little fellow 'swingin in de .
lane" and cut him down. He would have
died in a short time but for bis timely res
cue." i -r '-' ; C" "- "' v ' i' '' h ': ;vr '..'M'., V,
Salisbury Watchman; Take it
all in all, it is a gloomy outlook for the
tiller of the soil, and indrectly for every .-
body else. There were more people
under the influence of liquor on the streets
last Friday than has been seen here in one -
day in a long time, it this was the result
of a public naniring, u nao netter oe uone
privately hereafter. -The last utterances
of the negro. Frank Gaston, hung on last
Friday, were not oi such nature as to prove
of interest to the general public. He got .
off Beveral "gags." among them this: ; "I
ain't the fust man ever hung and I hope I .
wuntbetne las', 1 am gwioe lera oeuer
lan' whar dere ala. no lawyers," &c
Oxford Torchlight; Mr. M. V.- "
Lanier-declines to allow the uso of : bis
name for the nomination of chief justice of
jthe Supreme Court The new build
logs ot the uxrord jremaie seminary are
rapidly approaching completion, and when
finished will be the most convenient of any
school in the 8tate. We asked au
Oxford man for some crop notes snd he
showed us a lot ot fertilizer mortgagee.
-The health of our people has lieen
better than usual at this season of the year.
- Hon. J. W. Reidbas given the cadet-
ship to which this Congressional District is
entitled at the Naval and Military Acade
my. Oxford. Md.. to Mr. Lex Lanier, son
of our distinguished townsman, Dr, Mi V.
Lanier. ' ' i
Charlotte Observer: About -10
o'clock yesterday morning, Richard Mc
Allister, a salesman fot WiUkownky &
Baruch for sometime past, died or typnoid
fever.. Mrs Jennie Smith, 80 years
of age, was severely bruised by falling
down stairs yesterday afternoon. i- A
young colored man yesterday applied to
Dr. W liaer ior treatment, no nau oecomo
involved in a fight with two colored boys,
hear the Rudisil mine; so he says, when
an uncle of the two boys appeared on the'
scene and held him down while the boys
pounded his head with rocks. His skull
was badly fractured. Washington
dot: The name of Judge D. G. FewU is
considered in connection with the Solicitor
Generalship.
New Bern 7bMraZ ; The mass
meeting held at Stanly Hall on Tuesday
night was composed of both Republicans
and Democrats. No new party was formed.
It was simply a coming together of a large
portion of the Republican party and the
Democratic party to agree upon a ticket to
put before the people of Craven county.
j During the war there was buried at
Fort Clark, Hatteras Inlet, four officers and
ten soldiers or tne union army, reports
having reached the War Department that
these graves were being washed away and
the boneS of the dead being scattered, Mr.
E. B. Taubenspeck, keeper of the Federal
cemetery near this city, has been ordered to
remove the remains to the cemetery. -
praying,
and as it listened and .wait
ed it seemed that tbe current ot
time which had shut out eternity was
lifting with invisible hands, and as it
' Greensboro Workman :,-. By
the way, it has been stated by some of our
State papers that the mortgage bonds of
the C. F. & Y. V. company were sold in
New York- This, we understand, is a
mistake. The bonds were sold by Messrs.
Brown & Lowndes, oi .Baltimore, ana prin
cipally to Baltimore people, showing the
high appreciation in which Southern se
curities are held in that city. -
l We must congratulate the editor, t
Rev. James B. Bobbitt, D..D., upon the
manifest improvement of the Methodist Ad
vance. It has more more matter and is -better
arranged. . He has had no little ex- .
perience in the management ot a religious'
paper, having had charge of the Raleigh ;
Christian Advocate for ten yeais or more.
The removal of the paper to Goldsboro is
perhaps judicious. There is ample field
forthe Advance in North Carolina. If Dr.
Bobbitt will bring his paper up to a high
mars of excellence, tne cultivated Memo-
diets of the State will be compelled to take
it Make it equal to he. Richmond Advo
cate and it will circulate extensively be
yond the State. The Doctor will be aided
by Dr. Robey and bis two former; assist
ants, Rev. Frank Wood and Rev. M. V. !
Sherrill. Of course the Advance has our ..
bestwishes. ' ' I
! Raleigh News- Observer: The i
military companies at Durham, Goldsboro
and Oxford have been invited to attend the
f ete militaire. Yesterday a reward of
$200 was offered for tbe arrest of Aaron B.
Ingram, who stands charged with the mur-'
der of Sherman Welch. , The crime was
committed m Swain county. Arequt
sition was made on Gov. Lee, of Virginia, . . i
for William Chavis, who was convicted of
larceny in Durham, but escaped and fled to
Virginia, where he was captured and is now
in custody. Requisition was made on
the Governor of Alabama for R. A. Adams,
of Wilkes county, who stands charged with
robbing and murdering his father. Some
years ago Gov. Jarvis offered a reward of
$150 for Adams, but without avail.
Oxfobd, N. ft, July 12. Karl Deake. a
German, who has been in this country
about two year, was drowned on Sunday
morning, while bathing with several young
men in Tar river about ten miles from this
place. ' ;;. ' '- " - --. :
1 Weldon News: We regret to
announce the death of Mrs. G. G. Lynch,
jr., at the residence of her father, Montgo
mery Whitaker, in Enfield, on Tuesday
night. According to the Masonic
Monthly Masonry in North Carolina was
first organiz3d in Halifax county, and it is
well known that Royal White Hart Lodge
of Halifax town is. the oldest lodge in the
State. The prospects for a fair crop j
are not so gloomy as they were a week ago.
In this immediate section many are replant
ing corn, using an early variety, and those
who cut the tops from the corn which had
been submerged Bay that is growing well,
and it is believed that nearly all of it could
have been saved in this .way. Cotton is
looking very well. Scotland Neck
jottings From. the singular misfortune of
our esteemed friend, George Bryan, we
would not deem it advisable to insure in
foreien companiea. Mr. Bryan is minus
$800"by the Anglo-American. While
it is conceded that the river crops are almost
a complete failure , the upland farmers haye
not suffered as mucn as nao. oeen anticipa
ted. - Several of the water mills adja-;
cent were broken by the recent floods, Step
toes' more seriously than any other. . -7
I ; . Raleigh News- Observer : The .
Board of Trustees of Wake Forest College '
meets here July 30. for the purpose ot -electing
professors of Latin and chemistry -and
a tutor. Several ; mill dams in
Durham and Granville counties are reported
as washed away. ' This has been a bad year
ffr dams and bridges. -A private let
ter received here last evening contained
some interesting news. Thesday night a
white man was robbed of a valise. Yes
terday morning he saw a negro with a
valise precisely similar. He called for a -policeman
to arrest the negro and detain ;
him until a warrant could be obtained. The
negro objected, declaring that he would v
not be held, and finally resisted tbe officer,
fie made an attempt to run, when tbe officer
fired and brought him down.' The negro is
now in custody, quite painfully wounded.
The letter said that some other negroes in .
the town were disposed to attack the police
man, and that , feeling ran quite high.
This was at Henderson. North Carolina.
Tabbobo, July 13, '86. The concert
given in Ichtenstein's Opera House last
evening by a few gentlemen and ladies, for
the benefit of the Methodist church at this
place, realized . nearly $1.40. Where
the lice did not suck and sap the vitals of
his cotton; the deluges washed and drowned
it out His oats, already cut, were washed
awry or rotted; if uncut were knocked into
smithereens. : Tobacco in Nash And
north Edgecombe has never fared better.
Corn has flourished notwithstanding crab
grass. ;- - O'Hara. it is tbougbVbas the
drop for Congress, while John -A. Moore
wpuld like to try on the colored brother s
sandals. ' .