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The' Weekly Star PUBLISHED AT ,v iLMINOTOJi . N . C . , AT - l.oO A YEA R IN ADVANCE. sSs8oSSSgSgSSS " SlilHlSS8g8Sf8Sl sssss8sssssssssii : g8SSgg28888gS SSSSS8S8SSSS8SS8S SSSSSSSSSSSSSS88' i ooooooSoSooooSSoS aa . . " ".: .. . - , a , . - c 3) coaiiooc-nc i mitereii at the Post Office atCWUmlngton, N. G, . as Second Class Matter. -.. -- SUBSCRIPTION JPRICJE. v Tlii' subscri6tion price of the Wkexxy airvn is as follows : , -Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, $ 1.50 " 6 months, " " -1.00 j " 3 months- - " ,50 THE nOKRIMN REOOLOriON AND BONDHOLDERS. - v Jiieit as wan to have been expected the Morrison resolution to pay oat the surplus in the .Treasury created a howl all along the line of the money kings and Wall Street and its organs were thrown . into a regular scries of hysterical fits. The fact that the House passed it by such a tre mendous majority was a most stag gering blow to the organs of Monop oly. Every commercial and financial exponent in the North fairly cries to the Senate to "bury it oat of sight." If this should not be done then the President is relied upon to fight the battles: ef Wall Street and the Pluto crats. Will he do it?- Can he af ford to fight his own party, and to 'side with the money kings against the people? Mind you, the Morrison resolution has the indorsement of Speaker Car lisknd of nearly every Democrat in the House and also -of many Re publicans. The Savannah iveios says: "ICCongresa by a large majority of both nouses directs a certain course to be pur sued with respect to financial matters he would probably hesitate to oppose its will. To veto this surplus resolution, if the Sen ate should rmss it hy anything like as large a majority as the House did, would be to accept a very great responsibility, because the interests at stake are immense. "The administration organ in New York says the surplus under the resolution would not be used to pay the bou'8. That can hardly t. a correct statement. The bonds certainly come within Ike scope of the res olution, utl ms the surplus w largely 10 81I- verTTFe bomb would have to be paid in Ibat . . . . It is very ; doubtful if itie Senate will pass the evolution. If it should the probability is it would be by a very slim majority. - For the Presi dent to undertake to say that a ma jority of .Congress his own party shall not "have any directing power in the financial system to be opera ted would be to pat himself in. such an awkward and unenviable position as would quickly cause him to lose all of the popularity and con fidence be has ' gained by his honorable - and resolute course in dealing with , the pension frauds. Surely it is not a sound policy to keep a hundred millions of dollars that were taken by taxation from the hard earnings of a heavily burdened people locked up in the vaults of the United States Treasury' whilst the huf'e public debt ntiil remains and its accumulated and rapidly accumu lating interest. - - - l he bondH that may. re- anectea by the passage of the resolution are precisely of that class which the Gov ernment is authorized to pay . in either silver or gold? We can see no just cauwe for complaint on the part of the bondholders if they are paid according to the terms of the resolution. As honest men they have no right to complain. A few years ago silver was higher than gold. If it was so now these same greedy bondholders nrnnld nbipot to be T)&id in gold although the -bonds on their faee declare that this may be done. DEATHS AMONG NEGKOBS, . Our exchanges, North and -South, are discussing the -very excesssive death rate in the South among the colored people.' The mortality has been very great all the summer, and from Maryland to Alabama, 'and per haps to Texas. At Montgomery the deaths are far in excess of the births. It is ho both in town and in the country. The , death - rate is - not given, but the deaths are far in ex cess of births. This is the report for the whole year, by the health officer, Dr. Ii. R. Pearson. 1 Dr. Frank Tipton, of Selma, Ala., has published an article in the New York Medical Journal on "The Ne gro Problem from a ; Medical Stand points' it has been widely aiscussea. His figures may well arrest the atten tion of reflecting men who are not scientific. Dr. Tipton speaks both from, close observation and . exten sive reading, and - quotes the healtfr statistics of Selma, of which he was "registrar in 1RR5. Not onlv is the birth rate among the blacks three per thousand less than among the whites, but the death rate is nearly twice as - great. To a note from the article: - "The death rate among the blacks is ex actly as muca greater than births as the White births otpta in nnM of deaths." - The mortality of Charleston for one week among the negroes - was 79 VOL. XVII. m the 1,000. We have not noticed what it. was for last week. But Sa vannah - is the afflicted city. The. mortality there among the negroes is as high as it ; ought to be if the vel- lo w fever was scourging the 'town." So great is the mortality that the Northern papers are discuseing it, ior it, is certainly very alarming. " cor year ending the 30th of June the death rate in Savannah was 17.41 for whites, and 33.38 for negroes. It claimed that all is done that the whites can do. i The white rate is high, and the -i negro rate is very great a . comparison . with other American towns-: of corresponding size would bring this but. There must- be very imperfect sanitation . is contrary to reason that so many deaths Bhould occur where the sani tation is what it should be. No i doubt Savannah exerts " itself, for it feels" the ; need of it, to avert sickne88. . ft here are nurses. & ood infirmary, a competent physician aud detail of policemen to visit weelelu every house, and especially the homes oi ine negroes, and yet there is great mortality. Surely science and sani tation can prevent a mortality of 81 in the 1,000 fori one week upon a ba sis of the year; I and 122 in the 1,000 for another week. The New York Times says of this awful mortality: ."It can be reduced and it should be re duced. It is the death rate of a devastating nestilence? nd vep An nnt Mi tht it can exist where proper sanitary regulations are ngiuiy euiorceu. - , We would like to see Dr. A. N Bell and a staff of. experts visit Sa vannah and make a full report of the sanitary condition of that city. We have no doubt it would open the eyes of the citizens I and awaken a' deep felt alarm. People think .but little of these important matters. Their own premises are in good condition and they give themselves no farther concern. Health 4s the greatest boon in this world, and 'death is the great est enemy of the human race. . - ALFRED ROWLAND. The Democratic Convention in this Congressional 'District nominated for Congress on the 57th ballot Alfred Rowland, of Robeson county.- Maj. S ted man on j the 56th ballot, with drew in favor; of Mr.Rowland, thus insuring his election on the next bal lot. I " Mr. Rowland is, we understand, some forty or forty-two years of age, has a commanding person, is a lawyer of good reputation in his sec tion and ia a worthy.' excellent citi zen. He was before the Congress ional Convention two years ago as a candidate, and served as Presidential Elector in the campaign of 1884. A true Democrat, a man' of unsullied name, he has so borne himself as to command the confidence of the peo ple of i Robeson and to make Btrong supporters of his claims in other counties. He will of course receive the support ; of all-Democrats in the District and: that will insure his elec tion. : He will at the proper time en ter upon the canvass of the; long District, and then , the people will have a chance of seeing and hearing their next Representative in the House. " ! " . " Mr. Rowland was a soldier in the war and served as a Lieutenant, we think, in the 18tb regiment. The Stab will give him the best support it is able to render and it hopes that a rousing victory awaits him against all so-called Independents and Re publicans that may enter the field. WHAT SHOULD BE TAXED. There ia ' a . class of honest Demo crats; who freally believe that the direct system of taxation is wrong, and that there .is something espe 4 I. F .. cially admirable 'and benevolent in the indirect svstem. ---. This class would rather pay $1 tax on a knife under the Tariff the indirect way than to pay 5 cents tax under the Internal system for a plug of tobac co. This is the direct way. Their theory is that so you do not. know you are taxea you . are not, ta&pu at all. i i We have never been able to see taxation under this light. We be lieve that direct taxation is as good,' possibly " a ' better, : system than the - indirect. Every, one , knows that" the i credit system begets extravagance that : most v people will buy more when it is charged, than when it is cash. - It is so with taxation. As long as a man does not know what tax he is really paying when he buys a pair of trace chains, or a scythe blade, or a pocket knife, or hi s yearly supply, of cotton ties, or his shoes, or his blankets, or his knives and forks, or cups and saucers, or looking glass he shaves by," or the glass in his windows, he is satisfied and uncomplaining. ': He will grunt and sweat awfully over his compara tivelv light town, county and State taxes,'- because he knows precisely what they are how much, money they draw from his pocket. , Bat this same man pays the Fede ral Government four or six or ten times as much tax as he does the State, county and town and yet he never grumbles and all because it is 14W indirect he does not have to pajp it down at one time and take a receipt for the same as from the sheriff. . We believe" that there is no more reason why the people's .shoes, hats, clothing, crockery hard ware,- fec., should be taxed than that whiskey, cigars, - beer, tobacco, snuff, wines, cigarettes, &c.,r Bhould be taxed. - We believe that the rich , man's income should be taxed just as promptly and regularly as the poor man's necessa ries are taxed.-1 Thus believing we have not been able to see why Demo crats should desire to raise all .of the taxes to carry on the Goverment on foreign goods that are really the necessaries of life the commodities of .every man who toils daily , for - his bread whether in office or workshop, in store or counting room. - We have never been able to see why it is. not justas fahyjust as equitable, just" as wise, just as much in accord with democratic ' institutions . to tax the necessaries "and" the incomes as it is to tax the every - day comforts and .necessities of the laboring classes. . Thus believing the Stab has main tained that the internal tax on whis key, . tobacco, beer, cigars, -: &c, should not be abolished, but that the mode of collecting Bhould be changed. That would get rid of all complaints about the "red legged grasshoppers." Again, the Stab " has never been able to Bee why "moonshiners" were deserving of the profound sympathy of reputable newspapers any more than any other class of systematic and deliberate law-breakers.- We do not believe a great and important system should be abolished just to gratify the unreasonable demands of a few hundreds of men who live by violating the laws of their country. If all that is said by the McKinleys and others is true that a redaction of the Tariff would raise more reve nue what of that? " The Star is op posed to wiping out the tax on whis key, brandy, wines on, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, &o. It believes that of all taxes under the sun that is positively the very best. , -The Stab does not favor raising all of the taxes by a Tariff. It be lieves in,. taxing the luxuries. It be lieves that the class of Democrats who favor the abolition of the tax on the luxuries under the internal system and favor ' taxing blankets, : shoes, clothing, medicines, trace ' chains, axes, crockery, &c," under a " Tariff are very blind and erring and are not such friends of the laboring millions as the name they profess to fight. under would indicate. -The Stab favors a large reduction of the Tariff. - The Stab' favors bringing down the tax on the necessaries under the Tariffto the lowest possible amount allowable to there6 list if possible. The Stab believes ; that the luxu ries are the chief , things to tax. . The Stab believes that of all luxu ries ' whiskey, brandy, spirits, beer, wines, tobacco, cigars, &c, can best bear the : tax. They are in no sense, conducive to life or happiness or fortune,-and are not necessary. They are hurtful luxuries. a . The Stab favors a change in the manner of collecting the internal tax because there has been a great preju dice excited against the present?&zn, and it. has made enemies to the sys tem itself, which is all right as we hold. - The Stab hopes never ' to see the Democrats the party of the people adopting an - exclusive Tariff sys tem by cutting off large and important revenues : derived from taxing hurtful - and unnecessary luxuries. 'We v are opposed' to dear blankets, dear wool hats, dear trace chains, dear medicines, dear clothing, dear window-glass, dear. crockery, dear hardware, dear cotton ties; and are not in favor o.f free drinks, free "chaws," free smokes and free dips. If that is not sound horse sense, and genuine democracy a government for the people then make the most of it. The winter wheat crop has turned out to be very much larger than it was last year. The Agricultural De partment at Washington has issued a supplemental report in which it gives the .Winter wheat; at 295,000,000 bushels as againBt 212,000,000 for 1885. The New York Time places the total crop for the year at 420, 000,000 or 427,000,000- bushels; It says: ' " - "But if there shall be no more than 420. 000.000 in all. there will be an abundant supply, for the quantity 'used in the last fiscal year for consumption, seed, and ex port was only 416,000,000 bushels. Crops abroad are on the whole in pretty good con dition. The country carried over on July 1 a quantity of wheat estimated at from 65, 000,000 to 75,000,000 bushels. It is not probable that ' the foreign demand will ereatlv increase this year. It seems plain, therefore, that our supply will be large enough to meet all requirements, and that toe surplus to oe carried over: on J my . i, 1887, will not be less than the surplus with which we began the current crop year." ' v George Ehret is the richest brewer in the Union. He is,being . boycot ted.. Aboat fifty saloons have de clined to : keep his beer any more. The brewers are standing up to him and it may come to pass that the sa loons must buy of Ehret or-shnt up. WEEKLY WILMINGTON, N. C, People will read novels and : so a newspaper contributes to the interest of its readers when it, gives hints to readers concerning - the; best of the writers living. Since the great Rus sian "" novelist,7 Tourgueneff, ; died a year or two since, there has been but one of. his nation to wear his mantle. Count Tolstoi issaid to be a man of, uncommon powers. We have no ac quaintance with him, -but he is des cribed ' as a philosopher," a scholar, and .: an enthusiast. - His fictions are in the line of Tourgueneff full'of power and descriptions of Russian life and.fcc.enes. He has giveu away, his entire fortune to the poor and now earns his living as a shoemaker. This is so remarkable that it would make him a most interesting charac ter if he was not a man of superior intellectual powers. - His two most striking novel, we suppose, ? are "Peace and War," and Anna Kir' nina " The last named is tuid to. be. S great novel, all "compact.; with -in terest and instruction.' . T We ha.ve been Recently re reading Judge BlackV letter to Garfield and his paper on the Great Fraud cf 1876. Every one who would under stand the deep villainy and debauch ery of the carpet bag rule, the cor- jrnptions of Grant's Administration, and tha baseness and duplicity of John Sherman and his brother, "visi ting statesmen," ought to read Black. After having gone .over nearly" all of his political writings witbin-a year we do not hesitate to say that he was a greatest contraversealist,aud one of the greatest writers, and one of the ablest men yet: born in our country. Dorsheimer, i of the New York Star, has been for weeks showing up Pulitzer, of the World. The latter has at last struck back with" exceed ing personality, the New York According to what papers say of each other they are a set of scamps and swindlers such as you cannot find outside of a penitentiary. We give a specimen of Pulitzer on his Demo cratic neighbor.! He says: . ; '-'From the' day that he entered upon man's estate Dorsheimer has continuously- rested under the -shadow of fraud. He cheated the Government when he left the army at the end of a ninety days' campaign. He is charged with crookedness in the set tlement of bis father's estate and likewise the settlement of his father-in-law's estate. He swindled the Government in the matter of mileage charges while filling the office of United States District Attorney for the Northern District of New York. He loan ed his name to the boomers of the worth less Bull Domingo Miniiin stock, &c., As far as wo know, Mr.Dorsheimer is a gentleman of ability and unspot ted character. I ' President Arthur's health is re ported still farther improved. A Sbarp Constable. : . : Perhaps some of the readers of the Stab have heard of Esau Boney a mule with a pedigree and a bewitching paint-brush tail. Esaa was generally seen harnessed to a dray and driven by an old darkey whose disposition . was - as ugly and disa greeable as Esau's was sweet and lovely. Simon was the darkey's name, and some times when he belabored poor Esau's back too heavily the patient mule remonstrated, kindly but firmly, with his heels. A con test of this kind, took place on Water street, in which Simon was '.'knocked out in the 'first round" by a deftly planted kick that landed him in the gutter. - Wnile Simon sat on the edge of the sidewalk, nursing his wrath and slowly recovering from the shock of the encounter, a runner for one of the magistrates came sailing around the corner, with eyes aglint for any sort of a fracas. Seeing Simon's hleading head he stopped and asked the old man who hit him. "Esau," said the sore and angry: darkey. ' ' "Esau who 7" queried the eager constable. "Dit d d Esau Bo ney,".; replied old ; Simon. Straightway the constable hied him to the magistrate's office and had a warrant issued "inslanter" for the arrest of Esau 'Boney for assault and battery on Simon Jones The warrant was never served. The colored c instable found out the "facts' in : the case," as the lawyers say, and wisely kept his secret until it leaked out. . , . - For the Star.- ' BRUNSWICK COUNTY.. , Crops Ruined by Rains A Serious ' Time wltb Farmers. - - WnnjABOW, N. C., July 21 Mb. Editor: Hains continue and crops are ruined. Early corn perhaps may turn out two-thirds; late corn, cotton and sweet potatoes will not. exceed one-fourth. No person now -living ever saw so much rain in July. --, - -v:- Mr.- Henry Bennett found a six-foot alli gator swimming through his corn field a few days-ago. His gaitorship made fight, but with a hoe and fence rails Mr.. Bennett succeeded in killing him. So much water in the river and creeks, the gaitor was trying to get on some dry spot on the upland, which is hard to nna in urunswioK county. It is a serious time, and what farmers are to do another year is a question for the fa ture to decide. Most people are in debt for supplies.: No person who has his crop and lands mortgaged will be able to pay out. The merchant cannot get his money for supplies advanced, it he forecloses ana sells he will have the lands on his hands, and they will.be of no benefit to him or anybody else unless they are culti vated, and that cannot .be done unless the merchant or government or some other money-power advances something for men to -work on. As the : entire" agricultural business is stopped there will be nothing for speculators to operate upon, and the "busi ness of the world will be compelled to stop, Money locked up will have to be put out or else the monev and its owners will Derish. Money will be no use to any person without supplies are made. The whole machinery is depending upon the farmer. . If he is not allowed or assisted to work; then there is an end to it. Our state and Rational . le gislatures do-nothing for the farmer. They legislate for the interest of the speculator. corporations and monopolists, but the In terest of the poor farmer is seldom consid ered. He is looked noon: in some instances as an inferior being, scarcely respectable. But a few more failures in crops will put our Legislature to thinking that the farmer is something more than a sen. a. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1886. Criminal Court. In this Court yesterday 7 cases against twenty-seven liquor dealers, charged. with selling liquor .: to minors, were continued until the next term of the Court, on account of the absence of the State witness. The Court gave instructions to the sheriff to is-. sue a capias for the arrest of the delinquent witness aad put him ia jail unless he gave bond for his appearance at the next term. The case against Mrs. M.- G. Brickhonse.' indicted for . bigamy at- the March term; was called. Under the ruling of the Court a verdict of not guilty was ordered and the defendant was discharged. - The facts of the case are as follows: The defendant married a man named Weeks in 1868; some time after the marriage Weeks was convicted of larceny and sent to the penitentiary. He served out his sentence, was released and returned to Wilmington i but shortly, afterwards was arrested, charged with another larceny, convicted, and again sent to the penitentiary. He has never returned to Wilmington.' In Octo ber,' 1884, Mrs. s Weeks mairied M. G. Brickhousev who left the city a year or two! ago,-while under . bond for his appearance at the Criminal Courts -The whereabouts of both Weeks aad Brickhouse is unknown. The Solicitor stated that the indictment of the defendant for bigamy was brought about through an anonymous letter sent to the grand jury. The Court held that it rested upon the State to show that the first husband was living at the time of the de fendant's marriage, to Bcickhouse. As no evidence of this could be given, a verdict of not guiltv, as stated, was ordered. J. W. Spooner, Gus Bingnold and Geo. Douglass, indicted for an affray, were found guilty, but judgment Was not pro nounced. . E. . Schulken. charged with selling spiritu ous liquors lo a minor, was acquitted. " - Loony Lomax, who plead guilty to an assault and battery; was sentenced to thirty o'ays in the House of Correction. Criminal Court. The business of 'this court yesterday was very light.-. Tho case of the State against J T. Edens, charged with slandering his wife, set for trial in the morning, was again continued on account of the absence of witnesses the Court making the follow ing order: "It appearing to the Court tha no return has been made by the sheriff of Duplin to summons issued for Farron Car letoD, Ed . Matthews and Richard Matthews! of said county, witnesses for the defendant, and by the sheriff of . Wayne to a summons issued for J. D Ezzell, a witness for de- fondant, tbis cause is continued as if upon affidavit for defendant" The case was set for the first Wednesday of the next term. which meets in September." - - The court then took a recess until three o'clock in the afternoon, when the case of Louis . Bill, of WrightsyiUe, indicted for noa support of his wife and children, was disposed of; the defendant being acquitted. Fatal Accident at a Saw mill. Willie McLauchlin, a cplofed boy about thirteen years of f age, was accidentally killed yesterday afternoon at the saw mill of Messrs. Northrop & Cumming. The boy was employed at the mill as a water- carrier, and during the afternoon - entered the engine room. He ba t tt piece of rope tied around thejyrisl of his right arm and while playing around the engine tbe end of the rope caught iu the driving wheel.: In an instant tbe unfortunate hoy was jerked from his feet and whirled around with frightful rapidity; until the arm was torn from his body at Jhe shouldei. J There was no. one about the engine at . the time, the engineer being in another part of the build ing, and it is said that the boy after the ac cident ran up the steps leading.to the upper floor of the mill; and then turned and ran down again, when he fell and died in a few minutes-. His body was subsequently removed to the home of his parents, on Surry between Castle and Queen streets. Range Ligbts for JHarsb Island Cats .-'Cape. Fear River." V-":!J The Light House Board gives notice that on and after August 10th. 1886, two stake- light ranges will be established to facilitate the navigation of the Marsh Island Cuts, Cape Fear River,; N. C: The lower range will consist of a red front and a white rear light, each displayed : from a three-pile beacon, colored black, with red day-mark, seven feet square, plaeed upon the north erly prolongation of the lower cut. Their focal planes , are. respectively, 12 and 17 feet above mean river-level, and tbe lights are three-fourths of a mile apart. The upper range - will consist of a red front and a while, rear light, each dis played from a ' three-pile beacon, colored black, with a red day mark seven feet square, placed on the northerly- prolonga tion of the upper cut. Their focal planes are, respectively, 12 and 17 feet above mean river level, and the lights are one-half of a mile. The present beacon, No. 5, will be discontinued as a lighted beacon on tbe same date. -( ': -i -'- ' x Sailing directions- are given as follows: Going North When opposite Beacon No. 4, begin gradually to get upon the lower range, which take up a mile above No. 4, and follow to an .intersection with the upper range; .then '.follow the latter until the rear beacon of the lower range bears southeast.:'. -! : v"-: f - Tbe Wadesboro Convention. . - A few of the delegates to the nominating convention at Wadesboro returned yester day morning; from tiat' place. which they left about., ten o'clock Wednesday night before the final ballot had been taken. . A telegram received in this city yester- day morning states that after the 56th bal lot, Maj.Stedman withdrew and his friends went to Mr. Rowland; the 57th ballot re- snltiog-rr Rowland 233, Covington 157. Fruit Fair at FajettevllJe. J i The Fruit Fair of the North Carolina State Horticultural Society will be held in Fayetteville this year, on the fourth and fifth r days of next month. If our New Hanovei farmers would exhibit there some of the fine melons and grapes seen In this market ievery day, they would walk off with premiums, no doubt. Mr. Ger- rit Walker, of Middle Sound, had some re markably fine clusters of grapes in market yesterday...-: - - The premium list of the Cum' berland County Agricultural Society is out The 24th annual fair will be held at Fay etteville November 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. Col. John B. Broadfoot is President and Mr. G. W. Lawrence Secretary of the So ciety. - , - ... VIRGINIA. , Royeottlnx Sou in tbe V. 8. Circuit Court at Richmond. - iS Telegraph to- the Uorauur 8tar. . TtlCTTMONn Jnlv 9,9, i In Pchrnortr loot Typographical Union Nt 90. of this city. 1. . 7--1. T r . . ... and ; me jMuvr jj.erucw uvpiper ooynoiieu lirm of Baiifhnmn Hrfus ,-br.!islniita. the tionera and printers of tbi- city, for employ' log iiun-uuion primers i tut jMOor Herald beeo evfr sinm nnhlkliinff vocVlc tict has of Baughman Bra 's customeis on what it Is "a Biar.k Lftt"w "Amonir Ikin au calls Tracv R Wiles, on Enolisli gaged in the commission j business Wiles men a oiii m tue S.i; rcuit. Court for frOm Dllblithius his name, unrt h nrufpH for an iniurction to restrain - it from nnri- lishing.;that Baugham & Bio. were , boy cotted. tmon tllA ITTnnnrl th.f V n or 11 14 Ka , ' w V u u v. .u nwuiUWO none the less" a subject of cecsilTe to labor organizauons, Decause - nis name was taken Off the. black list by tha order of the court, and that he could not get ' effectual relief unless, the ' boycott : of Baustram was broken up. To-day: , Judge Bond made an order- . setting : the motion an - in1uriction l- for hinrino- nn the 11th of October, and ;in the meantime restraining the defendants from declaring or pu blishinit that Baughman , Bros . are boycotted, from advising any one to-boycott them, or from publishing any of the natnaa " vf -T? 11 irKm n v Tim a .aar.A ami .Wiles is - represented by Wm. L. Royall ft.nf1 A ..Tt" Auijrnh - final tTtb l&Knv Ariraniv.. -lions have employed John 8. Wise, and announce mat mey win employ in saaiuon four or five of tbe most prominent lawyers in MIS8I8im. A Band of Outlaws in Newton County League .against Negro' Farm Labor Tbree Negroes Killed and Several Wounded Speedy v. Capture or : tbe Desperadoes Confidently Expected. Chicago. July 22. A special from Jackson, Miss- , says a deplora le state of affairs .exists near Union. Newton county, about seventy miles east bf here. - A band of young white men, styling themselves Regulators, have issued a decree that 110 mgro shall work on farms in that vicinity. The' band contains about! fifteen members. and they ' have killed three negroes and wounded, several others.! A perfect state of terror prevails, and the entire county is greatly excited over the matter. Every one' condemns the outrageous and -bloody ac tions, and it is determined that every mem ber of the band 6hall be made to answer for its crime. Mr. J. M. Eelly was here yesterday to see the Governor, and was told to arrest every one of the young outlaws at all hazards- ' 'x- ; ' -.-'-V.-"j About twenty citizens, headed by officers armed with proper warrants, are now after the young desperadoes,;, and their speedy capture la looked for. i It seems when the attempt was first started to regulate the negroes, that it was more in run than anything else, out the regulators" have now undertaken in earn est to execute their designs Their ac' tion can hardly be accounted for, and it is a surprise to every one. ! , - : Sl'UTH CARO1 INA. Terrible Explosion of a Boiler at tbe Columbia Water Works -Doleful Ac count of tbe Condition of Thing In Georgetown. - . - " ;- Coltjmbia, July 23. The boiler in the water works exploded tbis afternoon; kill . ing the colored fireman, fatally. wounding another colored man, aud seriously injuring five others, among them the superintendent of the works and Alderman W. B. Low ranee, who was struck ia the back' by a piece of timber. The engine and boiler went to the bottom Of the river during the May freshet, and had been re-erected -this afternoon being tbe first timo it was used since then. ' f:,::fV:: '::: :. : i':;' : . --; Benjamin Alston, a prominent planter of Georgetown county, writing to theGeorge- townifn0rr,givesaaoieiuiaccountoi the condition of things. He says: "I look over the prospect, and behold ! only one dull. dirty, yellow mass or water. Ho sign or life presents itself except a fast running cur rent and birds of prey that. soar overhead. Men have been to me asking ror work and saying they had eaten the last food in their houses. Thousands are in the same condi tion where he is and elsewhere in tbe coun try." The disastrous result of last year's cropping caused many to begin this year in debt, and they are stopped from what they might otherwise do. Mr. Alston thinks his people are on tbe brink of a famine and suggests convening the Legislature for re lief. TEXAS, i Great Excitement Throughout the State Relative to tbe Detention of Editor Cutting- by tbe Mexican Au thoritiesThe People Ripe for War. t By Telegraph to the Morning Star. -Chicago.- July 24. Special dispatches from El Paso and Fort Worth, Texas, pub lished here this morning, ! indicate that great excitement prevails throughout Texas over the detention of Editor Cutting by the authorities of the State of Chihuahua, after the repeated demands for his release by the American consul. The newspapers assert that the men of Texas are ready for war, and that it needs but a ; word to start one. : - f. -v: ;v'--7; :-c A special from San Antonio says:"There is considerable bustle about military head quarters here, and, i although the officers are reticent, a report; is current tnat uen. Stanly has received orders to have all his available force in readiness! to move at a moment's notice to El Paso, whenever the order therefor is received. "The gathering of the Mexican war cloud is watched here with a great deal of interest; and but one opinion prevails: that tbe Mexican Govern ment should be taught that it cannot treat American citizens with indignity. WA SHINGTO y. Status of the River and Harbor Bill The President's Return from A I . bany. - - .1 ' - 1 By Telegraph to the Horning Star.V .- ' - Washihgton, - July 23. The conferees on the River and Harbor bill had another long session last night without arriving at any agreement. Five 01 the amendments made by the Senate form the main obsta cle in conference. These are items for the improvement of the Potomac flats. New York harbor. Sandy Bay,; purchase of the Portage ' Lake Ship Canal, and the con struction of the Hennepin : Canal.. Al though but $2,000,000 are appropriated for these improvements, yet the undertaking of the work would involve an untold total appropriation of $20,000,000, and as the Bouse had not had an opportunity of pass ing on the items; the conferees on the part of the House have determined to report back a disagreement in order to test the sense of the body on the amendments in Question. . r: The President arrived here this afternoon at 4 o'clock.: The journey after leaving Albany was devoid or incident. . VIRGINIA. . A Check Swindler" Caught at Lyneb- 4' .'.,... ''burg. ; - ' . Ltkchbubg, July 24 W: E- Smith alias Jonnson. was arrested Here tnis morn ing for passing forged checks ' signed A. Goodman, Richmond. He Is: believed to be a noted swindler, and j wanted in other cities. ' ' - - " . . , ' - 1 Ltkcrbubg, July 24. Dr. Rose, of. the Department of Agriculture,' Washington, is here investigating the Texas fever among the cattle of Virginia, and hasJound several cases. : Also, one case or pieuropneumonia in Norroia county, x- . - f : " NORTU CAROLINA. Hon James .W. Reld Renominated for Congress in the Fifth District. - Raletsh, : July 22. Hon. James W. Reid was to-dsy renominated by acclama tion for Congress from the Fifth District. NO.. 39 MKl.tG lO U.S MISCELLANY. -i . . A hoi ? life ha -a- voice. '. It speaks t-hrn 'fi- 1 on true is wleDt, and is chIut ctu.t-it Hi'r-ictiou or a continual . hv! r- enuo of the United Pres- by U riu , C1n i ch -has. deci easeii 21,000 uunog inn mm. jear, and ounas ine same perio;! the Fre.t Cbtirch iocoaic has fallen 31,000 .London Truth. V ? ' - '-- If lh day ever comes when the Bible and religion - are turned out of the public schools of Ibis country, it is wholly safe .to propliesy that another day .iwid come when the nation will mourn that the former day ever, dawned. Western Chris tian Advocate , We may be quite sure that un til science as wrung its secret from the re motest star, the spirit of reverence' and of elevation which pervades the first chapter 01 uenesis. ana rejers tne origin M au thing j that are seen to the Invisible and Ia finite Power, will not be out of date.-v The latest generation of men Of science will feel themselves untrauimelod in their it searches by tbe modest and devout acknowledgment that ; in the beginning God created the heavens aud the earth. Christian World ; VVhat we have to do with is the utter and inevitable attenuatioa of Christi anity as a spiritual force among men when ever the sacrifice of ' Christ as an offering for sin is either impaired or rejected. ;. Its atoning character is its supreme character. it is Jesus 10 relation to Violated Law that constitutes Him the -Jesus of Grace the Jesus of Justice as the Jesus of Mercy (hat solely designates Him as reconciling God to man and man to God. Deny this con nection of atonement with Law in its pri mary meaning of -authority expressing its will by the enforcement of power, and you discharge every constituent of supreme spiritual force from revealed religion No doubt certain secondary qualities may re main. Imaginative or aesthetic features may survive; moral energies may not be ut terly lost; but, at best, they will be of small avail, ana whenever times-or struggle and conflict arise in communities and natioos the decadence of the highest and purest form of Christianity will conspicuously sig- nauze iiseu in tne lawlessness or people as respects earthly government and constituted authority Richmond Christian Advocate. I called one day on one of our members, and she was whitening the front steps. - She got up all la confusion; she said, "Oh dear, sir, I did not know you were coming to-day,"or I would have been, ready." I' replied,, "Dear friend, - you could not be in better trim thau you are; you are aomg-your auty like a good bouse- wire, ana may uod bless y u." , She had no money to spare for . a servant, and she was doing ner duty by keening the home tidy.' I thought she looked more beautiful witn ner pail beside her than , if she had. been dressed according to tbe latest fashion J I said to her. "When the Lord comes sud denly, I hope He will find me doing as you' were doing namely, fulfilling the duty of tne nour. 1 want you all to get to' your pails without -' being ashamed of them. Serve the Lord in some way or other ; serve Him always; - serve Him intensely ; serve mm more and more. -10 to-morrow and serve .the Lord at the countar. or in the workshop, or in the field : - G and serve the Lord by helping the poor and needy me widow and the fatherless; serve Him by teaching tne children, e-pt-cially by etaieav oring to train yonr own cbildreu. C. JL Bpirgeon. ' - " - - -nasnsssV sp djmi 1 t SUNDAY SMILES The, King of Siarn has named his new born son Georgo Washington 4 He should be furnished ai one" with a cherry tree and a hatchet --Atlanta Constitution. A Philadelphia, .girl recently married a man without -egs. There should be no quarrelling ia tht family as tit who shall wear the pantaloons. Boston Trans- The question has: been asked, What is the nature ofVidor Hugo's long poem is it tale, ballad, or lyric ? -Its title "The End of Satan" would indicate it a tail. Texas Sifting. j. - , Doubtful-looking guest -"Land lord, have you a fire-escape in this hotel ?" Experienced landlord "Yea, sir; but we generally keep the bull dog chained at the bottom of it " Merchant Traveller. An exchange thinks there-is- nothing higher than the editorial; profes sion: That's what every crank remarks at. ter he has toiled up two flight of stairs to inflict some of his nonsense on the rditor Burlington Free Press. ; ; .f - '-(-J A .Welsh" poet has written some verses on the fatti wedding beginning.' "Llanwer mynwes hen gWoinawe a cherd- dorol dan."-. Somehow every time a Welsh man writes anything it gets pied in the form. New Haven News. ' r ' ' J "- ; Caesar' great strength. Daugh ter Wasn't Julins Caesar one of the strong est men that ever lived, pa t Father What makes you ask that question ? Daughter I was lust reading that he threw a bridge over the Ktnne. Texas liifungs. r i i y Tommy (who has jast received a severe scolding) Am 1 really so bad; mamma t 'Mamma Yes, Tommy.you are a very bad boy. ; t'ommy (reflectively) wen, anyway, mamma.. 1 think you ought to be real' darned glad I ain't twins! Harper's Weekly. JPOLl TIC A L rOlN IS. One serious troable with; these foreign anarchists Is that they mistook the offer of the ho pitality of this country to oean oner , or the country itseir. toct dence Journal. .".i j-:- The objection to this bill in not so much the amount of money it proposes to appropriate, but the fact that Congress proposes to give so large a part of it for ob jects that the United States government has no business to spend money upon. Provi- aence etar. . . , ' , :;;- ' . A number of Democratic post masters In Ohio who were appointed dele gates to congressional conventions before toe President 8 proclamation was issued are now called upon to drop out. .They i are a little bit distressed to know what they will do towards securing a second term. JVew. Xork World. JJem. -;:r:j v r yrr.: w In the light of some recent ac tion in Congress it seems pertinent, to in quire whether Bamraodamsm is to run the Democratic party, or. in other words, is the little Pennsylvania "tail to wag the whole Democratic dog ? For a State that rolls up in presidential years : bu.OOO majority against the Democratic nominee too much Importance has been given Sam Randall Moundmue, W. Va., titckle. r .. SO UTBERN 1 TEMS. . ' A movement is on foot among ex-Confederates . in . Memphis to erect a monument among the ex-Confederate graves in Elm wood cemetery to the memo rv of tbeiate Gen. N. B. Forrest. :The re mains of the late Gideon J. Pillow were in terred at Elmwood Sunday; having been moved here from their resting place on hie plantation m Arkansas. lf(M20 register. i l The recent stringent prohibitory liquor legislation in Georgia has led to the adoption or regulations unaer wnicn not exceeding four ounces of liquor can be sent through the mails. The bottles are to be enclosed in -tubes of tin, papier mache or Wood, packed in cork, crnmbs or felt - in this wav liauor can be sent to any city or town where there is a postofflce. no matter how strict the local laws may- be. Ben Terley Poors xn vie Uoston IMdget. ; . - ' Tarboro Southerner How the crops will not be near, so short aa some think, though there caunot be a full crop in tbe county. The lice in some localities has done much damage. The iron for the Nashville branch of the W.& W. road is at Rocky Mount and will be soon laid. :. Spirits Turpentine; - " ' .' ' '.. ':-.- - 'If Tarboro Athletic and '"Wilson : Lightnizhts. Jrs.. nlaved at Wilson on 1 nursaay ana if rictay. . score on lhurs- day Athletics 9; Liightuights 10: Friday a ,1.1..: . T : .1. . . . n . - . . ! . auiietics 1; ijiguiuiguis . : 5 T Shoe Heel Union: Mr.vj. IL, Hill, shoe and harncsss maker at Laurio burg, was found dead near the railroad -track on the 20th ioBtant, about one mile west of Shoe Heel. Cause of death no- ; known. r Winston " Republican: - A col ored woman in Waugbtown gave birth to " an infant some time since that bad no arms, it was well developed - in everv - other respect. From, the arm pits two ' stubs protruded. . The child . lived two - ' weeks.- - " - Baltimore Manufacturers JRe- f cord: The copper producing region con- 1 nned to the counties of Hereon and Gran ville is known aa the Blue-Wing district., and has only attracted slight attention in -the past, but from ; all appearance is des tined to prove a valuable and reliable factor in the general make up of the State's area of metalliferous production. The eminent Dr. jfimmons, once State Geologist, ex pressed tha opinion in his renort 1 hat tit ia section would eventually prove of consider- - able richness, it is expected that the near future will yerif y'this assertion. Charlotte Chronicle: The Dem ocratic party of this district is to be con grata lated. It may be that history ia to re v peat itself, in that we are to give the Re - publicans a Rowland for an: Oliver if Oliver H. Dockery is nominated, and it is - whispered around to taat effect. The information we received yesterday from the Greensboro ; Convention to the effect that Forsyth county was dissatisfied with 1 the nomination of Hon. J. W. Reid, and . threatened to support an independent, we learn to-day, by a telegram from Winston, was altogether erroneous. Mr. C. B. Wat- son did not attend tbe Convention and For- V syth did not threaten to bolt. Charlotte" Observer : CoL R. -A-' Wl - M 1 a a. ionnson, 01 . ine massacuuseiis ana Southern Construction Company, was at the Central yesterday on his way South. He re porta that his company has contracted - with the Bethlehem iron Company for the rails for the road, and that the first instal ment of the order is to be delivered at Black's Station, on the Air Line, oa.SaturT 7, . day. the 24th inst.- The rail to be used is " the best made, a first class 60J pound sieil rail, the same as is laid on the Air Line trauo. t uu August isuu, ioi. .uuungon re- porta, his force will begin the work of lay- -ing the rails, beginning at B'.ack's.and going in- the direction of Rutherfordton. The work will be pushed rapidly, and tbe ' first , train from Black's via Shelby to Rutherfordton, will be run on or before the . 15th of next October. : Col. Johnson says " that his company is proceeding-with nr- . rangements to extend the road from Black's to Yorkville, Rock mil and Sumter. S. C . at once. - . . . Oxford Torcdight: At tho earn est solicitation of his many friends, Dr. M. - V. Lanier has reconsidered bis decimation to allow the use of his name for the nomi nation of Chief Justice of the Supreme-." n a. -. T-r it 1 1 '1 " -i the Granville delegation in the State Con vention. William jfi. Wyche was born - bi Virginia on the 29th of July, 1810. re- s moved to Granville county when a youth, and has resided there until , the 2lBt of June, 1886, when he died. '; During a thunder storm last week lightning struck -one of the rods on the girls building of the . Orphan Asylum. The children"were f rights ened.but beyond a few window glasses being b broken no damage was done.. The -Oxford Board of Trade last week sent a tierce of fine tobacco as a gift to the Rich- v mond Confederate Soldiers Home. The -tobacco was the fancy golden leaf . for - which Granville county is famous the world over, and was purchased ; on the Oxford market at one dollar a pound. The value of the tierce is about three hundred dollars. Well done! Who will do likewise? Star. ' ' . . - - . . Charlotte Chronicle; The Dem ocratic Congressional Convention of the Fifth District, was held to-day in Greens boro. : Hon . J. W. Reid was renominated. -The Forsyth delegation, headed by C. B. Watson, was the only one dissatisned with the nomination and threaten to support an -independent. About wedk ago a negro, dim wuson, nroKe into ana roooea tho store of Mr. R. W. Livermore, at Pates. He was captured and tried before a magis trate and sent to jail, and while on his way to prison, in charge of an officer. Wilson cut the rope which bound him and made his escape. He returned to the scene bf the . robbery, and when discovered was. in an old house armed with a ; double-barrelled - shot gun and a five-shooter. The officer of the law, whose name we could not learn, summoned a posse of ten men, who, with shot guns and pistols, surrounded the house and demanded his surrender. Wilson open- -ed fire on the party and discharged five shots. ; At this juncture the officer ordered the men to fire upon him, which they did. The first round disabled Wilson in the right arm, but .he was still defiant and made an effort to use his weapons with his left hand. Another volley was fired into i him and he was killed instantly. 5 i Raleigh t News- Observer: Greene County Convention instructed for Strong for the Supreme Court. Connor for the 8u-i perior Court, W H. Dardeo for. the State . -. Senate. ; Now that the nominating - convention in the Mecklenburg district is -over, Chas. R. can safely return : from his trip to New xork. The convention did not take him. -i Gebknvxllb, N. C, July 22. Pitt county's Democratic Con- - vention to-day mstructea ior 1. a. Bugg .. for Solicitor and Louis C. Tiatham for Congress. : r- lYesterday quite a number . of people went out at 9.80 o'clock to the fttntA A-rrOfnm0nfi farm tnat vt: nf anil - adjommg tne state rair grounds, un ar rival there a procession : was formed un der ' the direction of Chief Marshal C. D. Heartt and '.assistant J. A. Rogers, and headed by ) Jackson's silver cornet band made its Way to- the highest point -" of the farm, v There . were excavations for four buildings; of the experiment farm. " Gathering around, the foundation walls of one of these, the corner stone - was laid by Gov. Scales, who said it was the first step in tnis direction ever taken oy mediate) ne -thought that a long step had been taken on the march of improvement (There was , much speaking.- Mr Randolph Harrison, Commissioner of Agriculture for Virginia, Mr. Charzal, State Chemist: for South Car olina, Dr. W. J. Gascoigne, State'Chemist of Virginia, Judges Smith; Merrimon and . Reade, and several others spoke.) . . : ' ' Raleigh- News-Observer: Geo. H. Brown of Washington j was yesterday appointed Judge Advocate General of the N. C. S, G. vice E. T. Boykin, resigned. The rank is colonel. " - It is. the inten- -tion of the ladies in holding the Shotwell memorial bazaar to secure from all parts of -the State contributions of all sorts of arti cles, from friends and admirers of the late Capt. Shotwell. A day or so since a . negro convict named Robert Stevenson, who had . been for some time at tbe Oaks t . .... ..mm JiMh..MA l I a (mm L n m r. v xai lxi, n aa uaaww, uio iilu uaiuig ex pired.. The next day be returned, a free man, and stole a new suit of clothes from a negro, ? Gov. Scales has appointed W. D. Prudenasa commissioner on the part of ' North Carolina to rerun and locate the boundary line between the counties of Gates, Camden and Currituck, N. C, and Virginia. It is not probable that the work will begin before tbe autumn. Quite a number of members of the North Caroli na State Bar Association met. at the court house at half-past 8 o'clock last evening. There bcin g a quoru m presen t - the As sociation was called to order by Hon. E. G. Reade, lbs president. - A considerable num ber of sew members were on motion ad mitted. -Hon. A. M. Scales was elected President for the ensuing year. The Vice Presidents elected last year were re-elected, . save that Hon Fred. Philips was chosen for the Second District, and A, W. Gra ham for the Fifth District. T. M. Argo Esq., was re-elected Secretary, and; W. J. Peele, Esq. Treasurer. The address ef the retiring. President was delivered, which re ceived, , as it merited, words of highest S raise from all who were present. : T. H. utton, Esq.,of Fayetteyille,offered a reso lution providing for the appointment of a committee to memorialize the legislature to allow a court stenographer to each judicial district.' This was adopted.. Some gene ral nutters were -referred to appropriate committees. The following .is the execu tive committee for the ensuing year; Gov. A. M. Scales, Hon. A. S. Merrimon, R H. Battle, Esq., Hon; Walter Clark. Hon. H. G. Connor, Swift Galloway, Esq., W. A. Guthrie, Esq. ., .