North Carolina Newspapers

The Weekly Star. Wit H. BEEN AED, Editor and Prop'r. WILMINGTON, N. C Fbiday,'1 Augnst 20, 1886. J eaf-In wrlttafc to change IV onr Jfdr a& elvTftnMr direction as well as fuU particulars as where yon wish your paper to bo sent hereafter. Unless yon do both changes can not be made. rate BO cents will paffor a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. . '-- tyRemlttances must be made by Chck,Ira;ft Postal Money Order or Eeffiatered Letter, post masters will register letters when desired. -Only such remltUnoes will be at the risk of the publisher. . . -. , ; : - tyspeelmen copies forwarded when desired. i paii FOB THE COTTON PLANTERS. fThe Stab has already called atten tion in an editorial to ; the proposed Cotton Planters' Union. This plaa originated in the Gulf States, but it is meeting with, approval in other cotton States. The public journals are discussing it from time to time, but wo donot remember to have seen any special notice of it pmong our Virginia and ; North Carolina ex changes. It is very certain that " when the farmers do not organize for their common protection and advantage that they are very much in their own light. AlmoBt every other, class has organized and is felt. -But the far mers, upon whom rest the stability and prosperity of the country, and who have suffered through all the years from neglect or hostile legisla tion never pull together, and because they have never organized. If they will form n Union such aB4spn temolated it must prove successful and be a great means in preventing at least legislation that injures and paralyzes to some extent their ope rations. ' It is impossible without cooperation on the part of all cotton planters to cure the great evil of over-production. For nearly twenty , years the farmers have been victims of the craze make all the cotton you pos sibly can. They have forgotten that the' simple laws of political science" are inexorable, ' and that ,a violation brings inevitably a curse upon him who violates. If you produce too much of anything you overstock the market and prices go right to the bottom. Too much cotton makes low prices. That "is all. A pertina cious continuance in folly only makes jt greater and more disastrous. ."; The cry is hard times, low prices, heavy taxes. What have . the far- mers aone to relieve inemseivesr Nothing. They continue year by year to make one prod act for mar ket instead of diversifying. They persist in growing more cotton than the world needs. Is it surprising that prices should rule . low? As to the taxes, they do not concern themselves about them, but take it out in grunting. If the town tax or county tax or State, tax is a dollar or so higher they howl and cry out ex travagance. ' Hut it is not these taxes that keep them, dqwnand oppress them. It is the Federal taxes that grind the face of the poor. Mark that. Vote for no man who dares to increase your Federal taxes. Vote for no man that dares to oppose their reduction, and by your acts show that you are in earnest. Beware of the Tariff. -. The Stab has for a decade or more been hammering just here. It has given line upon line upon the matter of too much cotton. It has .urged and begged the planters to grow less. But the answer has been, "My neigh bors grow all they can and so must I I. Without combination without an union this matter of production can never be regulated. It is surely worth trvino-. Everv r.nf.tnn Tilftnt.er j 0. j x in the South ought to join and act in the utmost good faith in carrying . into effect its plans. The Savannah News has recently discussed the proposed. Cotton Plan ters' Union. We avail ourselves of a paragraph or so to emphasize what r we have said : The News remarks: ; "There ia now a growing sentiment in favor of a cotton planters' union in the Mississippi Valley and Texas. There are . plenty of arguments in favor of such a union. The success of manufacturers' unions and railroad pools has been noted by the planters, - who plainly see that for the past twenty years they have ben n ruined almost by overproduction, and by the want of co-operation. , ; "No one will dispute that the average r price of cotton for the past few veara has been little, if anything, above the average cost of production, even where planters uave ii au ienue lanas . ana nave pursued the best methods. It is universally ad mitted that the - main i cause of the low prices of cotton is overproduction, and there is no reasonable doubt but that if the amount produced could be limited to a rea sonable degree the price would be material ly and permanently increased. Many planters have an idea that it would be pos sible to so limit production that as high as 20 cents per pound could be commanded for American cotton. This is an unrea sonable view of the subject. The highest prices that could be hoped for would prob ably be 10 cents or 12 cents, as a very high price would cause a great increase in the consumption of coarse foreign staples." While there is some force in what the Netos says of the price we believe it places'the figures far below what would be realized. The South pro-' dnces the very cotton that spinners the world over most delight in. W - have no doubt that if the cotton area in tne feouth was restricted to two thirds of the present area that before fonr years cotton would fetch fifteen cents a pound and continue to fetch it, and perhaps more. During the "late onpleasantness' at a WeBleyan meeting in England the preacher, among other things, prayed "And Oh, Lord, we beseech Thee send as an abundant supply of cotton." A brother in the "amen corner" cried out "Yea, Lord, but not SuraL" He craved good South ern cotton. But whether cotton would sell for twelve cents or more, it is certain that with the present unwise system it will not long bring nine cents. - REPUBLICANS KICKING.'. There is a nice division of purpose and of understanding in the Radical ranks. The ' old State Committee wishes to hold on indefinitely, just as the old Republican suckers are still clinging to the Ship of Stato and feeding upon the Democratic proven der. The North Carolina Republi can State Commitee seem to have been infected with the humbug idea that in a Republic there should be an aristocracy of officials and that Civil Service should bring perpetuity to teat-holders. At any rate they bold on, and this time it is Republicans who are doing the vigorous kicking. . -. An address has been issued to the Republicans at large showing up the outcome of the late State Committee powwow beld at Raleigh. An argu ment is made against the course of the Committee in not caYing a State Convention and in presuming to bold over. The address says: "The Sate Committee had no discretion; it was their imperative duty to issue a call for a State Convention. They had no right to do otherwise: A refusal to issue the call was a palpable usurpation of power -is re volutionary and void. No Kepublican is bound by this action, and by this action the Committee has forfeited the confidence and respect of the Republican masses," As it is not our fight we will not occupy the attention of our readers with the argument made to show that the committee's term has ex pired and Konsequently that their ac tion is of no force. Having thus dis missed Messrs. Molt, Russell, Hum phrey and Company, the callers of a Mass Meeting say: "Therefore, with tfite view of the law, and for the purpose of preserving, the or ganization of the party, the undersigned request the Republicans of the several counties to bold conventions strictly under the p'.aa of organization and elect delegates and alternates to a Republican State Con vention, to be Ut Id in the city of Raleigh, Wednesday. Ltptember 22, 1886, to elect a new Stale Committee to take into consider ation tbe nomination of candidates for Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, and for Judges of tbe Su perior Court, fced for the transaction of such ftibtf business as the Convention may adjudge for tbe best interests of the party.' CIVIL SERVICE Iff SOUTH CARO LINA. - We have only referred to the ac tion of tbe South Carolina Democrats in the matter of Civil Service in a brief paragraph or so. We repro duce an article from our esteemed contemporary, tbe Goldsboro Argus, that fchows what sort of a reformer in the past was the person who is said to have captured the Conven tion ly his eloquence. Bat let it not be supposed that the South Carolinians at bottom are real ly in favor of the absurd doctrine that the offices of the country belong of right to tbe defeated party. That there are thousands misled by Daw son and Thompson and Trenholm and men of that stripe, who accept their teaching may be true, and we suppose u to be true, but the great mass of tbe party that followed Hampton to victory can hardly be suspected of holding to the doctrine that a humbug system that only reg ulates and reaches underlings and small officials in of very great im portance as a reform measure. Can they be fairly suspected of holding that ben they voted to "turn the rascals out" in 1884, they really meant that they should be kept in office? The regulations of the boast ed eysU'tn have served to retain a great many Republicans in office. In fact, it began business with nearly every office in the land in the posses sion of the old corrupt Republicans that plundered and oppressed South Carolina. - . If thif.e who started tbe humbug had meant to be fair and honest they would have certainly turned out half the Republicans before setting the rules in : motion, and put Demo crats in. ' ' I '. . Can South Carolina DemocratVof' the ttue-blue ' btripe tolerate this? Can they applaud a Republicau sys tem that prevented Democrats over 45 years old from holding office ? But our purpose was to refer to what occurred in the South Carolina Democratic State Convention. The Committee on Resolutions, as we un derstand it, ignored Civil Service al together. Mr. Dawson made an earnest and persuasive speech to have the humbug incorporated and finally prevailed. But this was not obtain ed without a hot debate,, and it is very surprising that a body of South Carolina Democrats could have yield ed to the Dawson incantation. Daw son - triumphed by four majority the vote being 153 for to 149 against. All honor to tbe 149 ! But let us copy from a great. Civil Service paper, the Philadelphia Ame rican, Republican. It gives this ac count of what occurred in the Con vention when Ca'pt. Dawson's elo quent plea had fascinated many mem bers: . - "Col. Haskell, a son-in-law nf ' Senator Hampton, said he regretted that this matter naa neon nrougnrup at this time. He had voted for the Civil Service resolution in 1884, and again in the Legislature. He be lieved in real civil service reform.- He would endorse the administration nf Oro- ver Cleveland In the main, but he was not nere -to say mat everything which the President had done was the wisest thinir. The speaker said he stood as near to the two United States Senatoia as any man in Carolina, and he had heard both men say that the departments in Wfuhinfrtm wnm so full of political enemies that business was seriously Impeded. The purpose and effort of Civil Service kefarm iPAmivl til rm to keep Republicans In office. Senator cutier naa saia that the system had been prostituted for this mirnnAe. M: mrVn I of Kershaw, said he believed in the good long to the victors, and be regarded this Civil Service Keform as the gauntest phan tom ever . brought before the Democratic parti,.". - - . . . y. The Macon Telegraph says that Col. Haskell 'represented the best sentiment in the Convention." 'He . . . . .-. - must have represented the honest sentiments of all Bimon-pure Demo crats. Says the Telegraph; a lead ing Southern journal: ' "All right- thinking men agree with Col. Haskell in support of . "real Civil Service Reform,' but they do not intend to have the present miserable fraud and abortion crammed down their throats without a vigorous protest." - , CIVIL SERVICE FLOORED. v A prominent Democrat in this Dis trict, writing to ub of date of 12th inst. says: . "While I am writing I will say that I was surprised that you did not make some favorable comment on the action of our Congressional Convention at Wadesboro in denouncing the Civil Service law. I my self thought that the unanimity with which that resolution was adopted was due in no small measure to the education of public opinion by your editorials on that subject." : The fact is we did not know until within a few. days that any such ac tion was taken, as we never saw the resolution. Of course it is very grat ifying to know that the Stab is so much in harmony -with ; an over whelming public sentiment in this District, and that a leading, working Democrat should think that this pa per had .some band in .creating such an united opinion j adverse to. "the monumental fraud of the century," for such the Civil Service humbug of Pendleton and Curtis is beyond doubt. It is worse than nonsense to talk to meo in earnest that the proper thing to do when you have won a great victory after sustaining defeat after defeat, extending through a quarter of a century ia to divide all of the trophies of war all of the fruits of victory between the enemy and your own faitthful soldiers. The proposition is both unjust and stupid, and we believe on the part of the leaders insincere. We cannot suppose that in all the South there are a dozen genuine Democrats . who would favor any such policy of division. The system proposed is not adapted to our insti tutions, but suits tne lintien with their ideas of life-tenure, fixity of in stitutions and a parasitic nobility. No Democrat in North Carolina always excepting the half dozen who believe that Cleveland is a greater man than George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and that Solomon was a simpleton compared with fciin who worked and voted against Blaine and Logan in 1884, expected anything else but a clean sweep of all officers if the Democrats triumphed. If in 1888, the Republicans will nominate any man of fair record for honesty who will come out squarely for a change of all officers in case of election, from the highest to the low est, and the Democrats will renomi nate Cleveland upon a square out plank that proposes to retain half the Republicans in office, we do not be lieve Cleveland would get a single State in the Union. Democrats are tired of sentimental twaddle in poli tics. They mean business. We re joice that the Democrats of the Sixth District see this important question as the Stab sees it, and we are in deed glad of the decided action of the Congressional Convention. The height of absurdity and in consistency is to see a Convention go deliberately to work to nominate candidates all of one party in order to capture all of the offices and then pass buncombe Resolutions favoring Civil Service, which is nothing more or less than a division of offices be tween the Parties. Deliver North Carolina from all such efforts to hold with the bounds and run with the hare. Churchill's plan for Ireland is to give local .government by means of county boards. Mr. O'Brien, of the Irish N&tional League, while in New York, was interviewed on this subject among others. He said : "Ob, that is not possible. It does not go far enough: The question is developing f fif ... T chrhiilH flnv that Mr Of.ilfltAna'a -own mind is developing - rapidly on the nilMtlAffl invnlvafl T.fla flian Jtia nuoanM wwwv.wu .u.w. . WM ; -. ....... jM.a U.UOUI0 is now impossible. More is certain," Tt ia ASap.nliall trnn that thin ntmruraf in party is the party of true, earnest, practical win Dnrvice ueiorm. ji. x. woria. YeB, Yes! But it is equally true that the best way, to secure honest, practical reform is to get rid of Re publicans and put in faithful, consci entious, sober, honest, working Dem ocrats. That is tbe real reform that the country hankes after, , whatever city papers may say to the contrary. Gen. A. M. Manigault, of S. 3., is dead. He was born in Charleston in 1824. He served in the Mexican war and fought in every engagement in which the South Carolina regiment participated. He served gallantly in the war with tbe North and EuroDe, and was wounded twice. He was Colonel of the 10th South Carolina. The contest for the Democratio nomination for Governor of Pennsyl vania lies between Lieut. Governor Chauncey Black and ex-Senator Wallace, with chances favoring the Black horse. He is the son of one of the very greatest men of this country the late Judge Jeremiah S. Black. Hurrah !. for Black 1 The latest from Texas is that 80,000 troops can be raised in one week and start for the "green fields and pas tures new" across thd border and "beyond the river." - But just hold on and hear -more It is generally understood in the North that Mr. Cleveland is a candi date .for Democratio renomination. If he is nominated we hope a gold standard and the principles of the oleomargarine bill and the Civil Ser vice humbug will not' be his main planks. ; ;vThe actual bona fide: Free Traders met on thn 12th Inst. They have is sued an address. Unfair. Protection newspapers always refer to all papers that oppose Protection as Free Trad ers, knowing very well that they are doing wrong and deceiving.' Attorney General Garland has filed his answer in the telephone suit. He says that he had decided to with draw from the Company in February last, but he - felt compelled to leave the matter in statu quo pending the Congressional investigation. -: : :: : The cholera in Europe this summer is showing some unusual eccentrici ties. It leaps over wide areas of territory to far distant places. We hope it will not leap the Atlantic. Rev. Dr. Woodrow is being tried in Greene county, Ga., before the Augusta Presbytery on the charge of - teaching doctrines and opinions contrary to Sacred Scriptures.' ' A Seared Darkey. - "Boss," said a frightened darkey to a policeman on the corner of Front and Ann streets ,. Monday night about halt-past twelve o'clock, 'Tse seed sum thin', just now dat made de marrow of my bones run cold." Tbe darkey was badly scared ; he trembled all over, his eye-balls glistened and protruded from their sockets and his great gulf of a mouth seemed to stretch from ear to ear, while his white ivories were beating "the devil's tatoo" on each grinder, as if the temperature was in tbe neighborhood of zero instead of the nineties The very sight of the man was enough to make cold chills chase each other down the policeman's spinal ' column, and he asked, impatiently, what was the mat ter. "Just as sure as you're born l'se seed the debbil or a ghost, and it like to reared me to death." "Where is it T" inquired the policeman, as he nervously grasped his club and glanced around in the shadows. "It was right over dare by Mr. Fowler's coal yard," responded the darkey. "I was com ing along from the market house, and when I got to the corner of Orange 6treet I seed a kurus little ole man hopping along just ahead of me. He had a bag hung on a stick over his shoulder.; and he looked so kurus-like I tried to ketch up to him. Just as I got close to him, right by the coal yard, the little ole man disappeared, and just then I seed a rabbit a hopping along on the low stone wall by tbe fence, where he went skipping just ahead of me two or three jumps, and then he'd stop and sit down and look 'round to see if I was follerin him. I kep' on makin out I didn't see him, but all the time I was studying up a plan to Burround dat rabbit and ketch him. Just when he git U do eend of de stone wall de rabbit stop and sit up til I git close onto him, when he jump and run right 'cross my path. I just flung myself right bodily down on top of de rabbit and ketch him wid both bands; but Lord gra cious! it warn't no rabbit, but a big black cat. dat spit Are in my eyes and clawed and scratched me 'till I hollered right out; when, all to wunst, it went right up like a flash of lightning and . was over the fence and gone. . It warp't no cat, it warn't no rabbit, and it warn't no little ole man it was de debbil or a witch as sure as you're born, and I has got his mark on me dat I will carry to my endy ing day." With this the darkey exhibited two or three deep scratches on the left side of his face. "I might have known," he continued, "dat when dat rabbit crossed my path it was my time to turn back, and if I kep on after dat warning somcthin' was gwine to happen, sure." The policeman escorted tbe terrified dar. key some distance away from the scene of his fright, and left him to make his way home. "The little old man with a bag on bis back" it is said has been seen on seve ral occasions recently in the neighborhood mentioned above, and some of the colored people give the place a wide berth after nightfall. A Scarcity of Good Fruit. 1 1&. city correspondent of the Stab,! n al luding to the scarcity of good fruit in Wil mington, says: "A friend in Raleigh writes me that he was in Fayetteville a few days since at the Fruit Fair and saw an eleeant display of grapes; grown by Capt. Noble, of Wil mington. There have been aajmany as 100 acres of vines planted around Raleigh during the past four years. We already bad four vineyards and after awhile will not lack for grapes.' : "No doubt Capt. Noble deserves the compliment, and yet there is a great scar city of good fruit in Wilmington; and of grapes especially. Good grapes at ten cents per pound are scarce grapes. No crop pays better as our knowledge of Ridgeway teaches us than grapes at five cents per pound the crop round. The writer has been told by the Ridgeway grape growers that grapes at five cents per pound or even less, are more profitable than the same acreage of bright tobacco. We pre sumo that the soil about Wilmington is suitable to grape culture we mean tbo bunch grape; the yield Is sure and the mar ket good. Nothing would pay our farm ersso well. The peach crop ia very un certain on account of frost, the trees are infested by curculio and the fruit does not bear transportation. Peaches have to be hurried to market by express, while grapes are freighted like other commodities, at far less cost. But we need not speak of trans portation, for Wilmington can consume all that may be raised for many years. Let us have plenty of wholesome fruit." ' The Frayaer Suicide. In answer to a letter written to the agent of the Danville & New River Railroad Ex press Co.V at Danville, Va.j by Coroner Jacobs, in relation to tbe mysterious sui cide that occurred in this city last Friday, the following telegram was received yester day : " Dasvillb, Va., August 18. David Ja cobs, : coroner The suicide was, I fear, my son, P. C. Frazier, passing under the assumed name of George Wilson. Please give further particulars and what disposi tion has been made of the remains. W. G. R. Fbazikb. . The coroner replied to this, giving the information desired, and sending also, by mail, a copy of the issue of the Btab con taining a description of the man, supposed from the writing on the express receipt to be W. G. R. Frayser." In this published description, one fact was accidentally omitted that might be of importance in es tablishing the identity of the man, and that was, that on the left forearm there were faint markings ia India ink; the figures 8 and 7 and the letter P being plainly dis tinguishable. ':. Joaquin Miller has become the editor of the Golden Era, a magazine pub lished at San Francisco. - Crop Prospect. " Advices from different parts of this State and portions of 1 South' Carolina show; a brighter outlook, at least for cotton planters. A Columbia (S. C.) cotton buyer, who has recently travelled, over the Charlotte,". Co lumbia & Augusta Railroad as far north as Charlotte, and over the South Carolina Railroad as far as Charleston, and, through portions of Richland and Lexington coun ties, tells the Begister. Qt that city, that the present crop prospects are the finest for several years; 1882 excepted, and he ia con fident the cotton crop this year will equal that year. Thocrophe says, "is late; that ia an argument in favor of a big crop. It will give us, with anything like fair sea sons for the remainder of the month, an August crop, which is the best crop made, being much heavier always than-a July crop. A big crop means a big trade, and a big crop will ; not necessarily affect the price of the staple, as a good trade creates a demand . for manufactured goods, and makes the manufacturer want the cotton.'' A correspondent at Mar's Bluff. S. C, says that the outlook for cotton is twenty per cent.' better than in July. The plant looks green and is taking on a good August crop. - , ' The favorable weather of the past few weeks, it is estimated, has advanced the condition in the Carolinas from twelve to twenty per cent. . ' Personal.'' From tbe Melrose (Fla.) Enterprise of tbe 3d inst, we have the following: v "We are glad that the Melrose section sends to the front a 'choice man for the Legislature. We have long thought that in telligent neighborhood should have a good representative.' Now that they have been honored by the county convention in nomi nating Hon. Philip Prioleau for the Assem bly let each man out there put his shoulder to the wheel and give the campaign such a push that it will be felt in every part of the county. That portion of Putnam county has long been in our estimation a garden 8 pot that will bloom and rejoice as the rose.' Take the whole settlement and compare it with other parts and you will not find a soil better adapted to the farmer's life. The people are good livers and their intelligence and morals will compare favorably with that of any other people in the State." Mr. Prioleau was for many years a prom-, inent citizen of BmUhville, and has many relatives and friends hereabouts who will delight to hear of his being honored in his new home. Win. Frayser. A gentleman from Virginia who has been spending , some months at Wrights -ville Sound with Capt. E. W. Manning, says that he is satisfied from the descnp tion given by the Stab of the man who committed suicide in this city Friday last, that he was Wm. Frayser, a photographer, who learned the business with Bees & Co.; of that city, before the war. Since then, Frayser carried on the same business for himself in Richmond, until he failed some time ago. Frayser was married; his wife and children living in Richmond. Protect tne Bird. A correspondent of the Stab, writing from Wilson, N. C, says: "Is it against the law to cage mocking birds? Will you please publish the law? It is a ihame for the sweet singers of the South to be all destroyed. They are brought twenty-five miles from tbe coun try here, and given away and sold. If the bird has any friends, it is time for them to speak. If their destruction is not stopped in ten years they will be exterminated." Tbe law for the protection of certain birds (including mocking birds) is very plain and explicit. It says (see Sec. 2834 of the Code): "No person shall kill or shoot, trap or net, any partridges,- quail, doves, robins, larks, mocking birds, or wild turkeys, be tween the first day of April and the fif teenth day of October in each year; and the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined, not exceeding ten dollars for each offence." Transportation or Spirits Turpentine In Balk. : The experiments that are being made in the transportation of petroleum , in bulk across the Atlantic ocean, are attracting attention just now. If ihey are success ful, the transportation of spirits of turpen tine in the same manner is likely to soon follow, and shipments in -casks will be abandoned. A German ship altered for bulk-carrying, recently, took out 634,000 gallons from Philadelphia, and the steam ship Primate in the-. iron trade between Philadelphia and Cuba, is to be fitted with twelve compartments to carry 1,750 tons of oil. Seafaring men say that to carry this product in bulk on ocean voyages is a great deal more dangerous than carrying any sort of grain in that manner, owing to the liability of leakage in the compartments, yet the hazard does not seem to have a deterent effect. Killed on tbe Ball. v A Burgaw correspondent writes the Star that two colored boys, aged respectively 13 and 16 years, sons of Riley Harold, living near South Washington in Pender county, were run over by the North-bound train on the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Saturday night and instantly" killed. It seems the boys had been at a store in South Washington and were on their way home, walking in the middle of the railroad track. The train passed directly over them, Crush ing them to death. The bodies were not discovered until the mail train passed up 8unday morning. The railroad authorities at Wilmington were then notified and an engine with some of the officials of the road went to the Bcene of the accident,' when the bodies were taken to South Washington and delivered to the parents of the boys. - Solid Assurances. Tbe most positive and satisfactory as surance of Wilmington's prosperity is the number of new dwellings, stores and ware houses erected in the city since the fire in' February last-J-and not all on the "burnt district" either. Some of the handsomest residences that Wilmington can boast of have been built this summer, besides many others that are less pretentious. The hand some and commodious stores and ware houses on Nutt ; and North Water streets, surpass anything of the kind ever before erected here for business purposes, and are built, too, by business men who mean to occupy them people who would not put up such structures in a decaying town. Sent to tbo Hospital. , George Wilson, Thomas Jarvisand Wm. Ashe, all colored men, . were sent to the City Hospital yesterday, by the Chief of Police; all of them being sick and destitute. 4 John Marshal Quinn, a white boy, who said he was 17 years old but was not larger than a boy of 12 or 13, was also sent to the same institution. He came from Castle Hayne; had no family or friends; and ap peared to be very sick. - Foreign Exports. Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Co. cleared the British barque FlasJt, Light yesterday, for London,. Eng., with 4,400 barrels of rosin, valued at 4.920. Also, the Dutch brig Spruit, for Antwerp with 1,008 casks spirits of turpentine, valued at $16,786. Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son cleared the British barque Hopeful for London, with 1,900 casks spirits bf turpentine and 400 barrels of rosin, valued at $31,360. WA SHIN O TON. Civil Service Appointment The Presi dent's Departure from Washington Affairs at tne Navy Yard New SUver Certificates, A-c. " WAsmNOTON, Aug.:' 16. The President to-day appointed John T. Doyle, of New York, Secretary of the Civil Service Com mission, vice Graham resigned. Doyle has for a long time been stenographer to the Commission. - ? Secretary Whitney left Washington to day for a vacation of several weeks. ' .:i The Postmaster General has directed the free delivery system at Birmingham; Ala. to go into effect September 15th. v -1 : The President left Washington this morn ing at 0.40 o'clock for his summer vacation in tbe Adirondack mountains. He was ac companied by Mrs. Cleveland,' Mrs. Fol som and Col. and Mrs. Lamont, , As the President appeared on the portico of the White House to take his carriage he was confronted by a small party of tourists from Kentucky. They recognized him at once, and asked permission to pay their re spects. The President was; willing, and shook hands with each of them as he made his way towards his carriage. Mrs. Cleve land Mrs. Folsom had already entered the ve hicle and as the coachman cracked his whip and the carriage rolled away, the people on the portico, most of whom were ladies, waved their handkerchiefs and shouted a hearty . "good ' bye." The President ac knowledged the compliment by- raising his hat and the ladies waved their handker chiefs from the windows. Owing to the fact that it was not generally known what train the President would take, there was only a small crowd in the station when the Presidential party passed to the train. The President was recognized, however, r by most of the people there, and they raised their bats as be passed. - The party occu pied a special car, tendered by the directors of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Com-, pany . It was attached to the rear of the New York Limited Express . The demand for increased facilities for constructing batteries to be placed upon tbo new ships of war, has made it necessary to reassign shops and buildings of the Wash ington navy yard. Secretary Whitney has directed that all shops,' machinery, tools and appliances assigned for the use of the Bureaus of Construction and Repair, Steam Engineering Yards, Docks and Equipment, and . Recruiting shall be - turned over - to the control of the - Bureau of Ordnance on the first day of October, 1886. Such of machinery, tools and. appli ances &s may not required by the Bureau of Ordnance, will be transferred to stations where required by other bureaus, or other wise disposed of as found best for the pub lic interests. . It is learned at the Treasury Department that the new silver certificates authorized at the last session of Congress will not be ready for issue much before the first of November. Considerable time is required for the preparation of the certificates, prin cipally in the manufacture of distinctive paper, and in the designing and engraving of plates .A contract for paper was recent ly awarded. MJesigns of tbe plates which nave oeen prepared in Hartford, were re cently approved by acting Secretary Fair- child. The one dollar certificate contains a vignette of Mrs. Martha Washington; the two dollar certificate a vignette of Mai or General Hancock in full uniform, and tbe ten dollar certificate a vignette of Vies President Hendricks. The design for five dollar silver certificates has not yet been selected. It is said that either Gen. Grant or Gen. McClellan will be selected as the vig nette. Heavy demands are being made at the Treasury Department for minor corns. especially one and five cent pieces, and arrangements are now being made with tbe mint authorities which will result in secur ing sufficient to meet alt reasonable de mands. It will, however, take some time to com. the amount required. , Massachusetts. Financial Difficulties Growing Ont of tbe Latest Defalcation in Boston Failure of Samnel B. Payson Suicide . of Gray, tbe Defaulting Treasurer.; By Ttelegrapn to the Morning star. ', Boston, Aug. 18. Sam'IR. Paysonto day made an assignment to Samuel John son, of Hovey &Co. The announcement of the assignment created great surprise, as Pay son had been considered one of the wealthiest men in Boston. His financial difficulty, it is stated, has been caused by endorsement of tbe paper of the Indian Or chard Mills, which are virtually owned by himself and family . t Wm. Gray, Jr whose dead body was found this morning, was treasurer of these mills, and Payson's assignment is the natur al sequel of Gray's heavy defalcation. Pay son is a man of the highest standing, and his situation , elicits sympathy from every quarter. It is thought by many that his difficulties will prove to be only of a tem porary nature. Payson is 73 years old. and is now proprietor of the Derry Woolen Mills, at Guff's Falls, N. EL, and President of the City National Bank of Boston. He started in business With A. G. Peck & Co., importers and Jobbers in dry goods, and subsequently became connected with the firm of J. C. Howe & Co., commission merchants. , H- j He amassed a fortune and retired from bus iness some years ago. Samuel Johnson, the assignee, is not in town, and Payson is also out of the city, and neither of them can be seen at present. Payson has tendered his resignation as president of the City Nation al Bank, and it will be acted upon by the directors at their meeting to-morrow. His liabilities are estimated at about $350,000. Payson stated this morning that he thought he had ample funds to pay every item of his indebtedness in full, but that his affairs were in such a condition that his property could not be realized upon at a decent val ue at a forced sale. So he believed it to be for the best interests of every one for him to make an assignment. His failure is due to the shrinkage in value of shares of the Indian Orchard Mills. Paysonris largely in terested in the Hollowed Manufacturing Company, of Hollowell, Me. 1 Search for the body of Wm. Gray, Jr.. began at 3 o'clock this morning, by detec tives, accompanied by Boston reporters and others, and the woods were scoured for miles. The body was found by a young man who was alone at the time, and who, in his excitement picked up and put in his pocket Gray's revolver lying by bis side. The place where the body was found was about a mile from the road. The body was lying on a high fiat boulder, full on the back, in a-cleared space, with the sun shining full in the face, giving it a ghastly appearance. Its position was easy and quiet, and but for the pallor qf the face there were no in dications of death. A stream of blood flowed from the wound in the heart. His vest was unbuttoned and a blood stain was visible on the outer shirt. The tongue was clinched between the teeth and the mouth partly open. The weapon is a silver seven barrelled 82-calibrc revolver, and has only one chamber empty. From the appearance of the body Gray had apparently Deen dead several hours. Behind the body, at the head of the rock, was a partly smoked cigar. The revolver was put back in the position in which it was found and a med ical Examiner sent-for. ' ILLINOIS. Tbe Cblcaso Nailers' Lobe Strike End ; ed Strlklns Employes at tbe Stock Sards Beturn to Work. Chicago, Aug. 18. A meeting was held by striking (nailers atCummings last night, and the long strike which has been in pro gress the last fourteen months was brought to an end. The old men will be accommo dated by the company so far as possible, and every department of the Calumet Iron and Steel Works will start up with full force. , None of the non-union men will be discharged, but as many of the old men have secured positions elsewhere, -there are plenty of places to accommodate several hundred of the idle men at satisfactory wages. c The packing house employes of Robert Warren & Co., at the stock yards, have re turned to work. The superintendent of the establishment said that when the men went out some work was left unfinished, and rath er than have meat spoiled, the hands were taken back. The men claim that the basis of the settlement was an agreement of the firm not to ship any more ' beef over the Lake Shore Road. -;?-v'-!:.f ' Dr. Wm. ."Vaughan, Princi pal of the Chester Female Institute, of Vir ginia, offers to the young ladies of North Carolina and some other States free tuition in English, Latin. Greek, German and French and one of the following ornamental studies: . Music, piano, organ, vocaliza tion, drawing and painting. This is an excellent opportunity to get a good educa tion and it should not be neglected. -. FOREIGN. - Tbe Queen's Speeeb in -Preparation .I Tbo ". situation , In Belfast Gbolera Returns Protestants or Belfast Cen ' snred by tbe Times lord Cburebtll's Irlsb Measure A Blot at DnngaDon. -- By Cable to- the Homing Star. : London, Aug. 16. -The Queen held a Council this morning at Osborne Castle, . with members of the Ministry. The " tei ms of the Queen's speech to be read at the re-, assembling of Parliament were agreed up on. Lord Salisbury returned to London after the Council.' ' : Belfast, Aug. 16. A man named Jack son who was wounded in Sunday morn ing's riot, is dead. Other wounded men progress favorably There was some stone throwing last night, but no one was - seri ously injured. There, are ominous signs that the authorities fear attempts' at repri sals to-night on the part of mobs. ' Public houses are being closed and other precau tions are being taken. : Scores of prisoners have been sent to Kilmainham jail at Dub-, lin, to await trial, the local jails being full, London.' Aug. 16. The Times again censures the Protestants of Belfast for fur ther refusal to submit to the authorities. . . - Referring to the report that Lord Ran-: dolph Churchill is - preparing an Irish measure, the Times says he will have a long and arduous task. The nature of the local self government proposed' must depend in some degree upon the attitude of the Irish people, and possibly upon the action of the Irish Convention at Chicago. It is quite certain that nothing like a statutory Parlia ment will enter into Lord Randolph's scheme, and that the development of coun ty government on an elective system will be applied on the same principles to all parts of the kingdom. , ; : W ; Dublin, Aug. 16. Archbishop Walsh, in an interview, said he believed that the land purchase question would never be set tled except on Michal Davitt's nationaliza tion principles of just compensation to the actual holder, rather than on the princi ples of Henry George. He commented on the article of Dr. Dale, as set forth in the Contemporary Review of June, accepting Gladstone's bill as the minimum starting point for the establishment of a statutory Parliament ' in Dublin, and to leave it an open question with the people of England., VV ales and Scotland to decide whether there' shall be one, two or three Parliaments. Archbishpon Walsh declared that the state ment that the Pope disapproved of the at titude of the Irish clergy toward the Na tionalists was iounaed upon malice. t The Dublin Irish limes (Loyalist) reite rates the statement that Parnell will shortly Decome a itoman catholic. ;---- . Dublin, August 16. -At Dunganon to day, bands of Nationalists paraded the Protestant quarters of the town, shoutine for Home Rule and cursing the Queen. A not broke out and several persons were in jured. - The police had to force their way Detween tne .rrotestants ana the Catholics, thus preventing a desperate- fight. One Nationalist was arrested with a knife in his hand. A renewal of the rioting is feared. rany ieeiing is intense. Belfast, August 16. Catholic newspa pers here accuse the Orangemen of com' mencing Sunday's attack, while Protestant papers say that the Orangemen acted in self-defence. - London, Aug. 16. The Austro-Hun ganan cnoiera reports for to-day are: Trieste 16 new cases and 3 deaths; Fiunme, d new cases. : The Italian reports are: Barletta, 60 new cases, au aeatns; Uuevei lit fagua, 21 new cases, 7 deaths; Bologna, 13 new cases, 5 deaths; Padua, 11 new cases, 14 deaths; J.TOV180, lo new cases, in deaths. - The geographical area affected by cholera exhibits tbe capricious behavior, of this mysterious disease. Thus, it is worst in Barletta, which is far away to the south. while the coast district, between Monte Gargano and Brindisi is more or less af fected. Thence, it makes a clear leap of aw miles to ttavenna and liOlogna; then it tarns northward, extending (though in less viruient lormi tnroughout V en eta. in cluding the Island of Chioggia and reach ing as far east as Verona, and as far north as Castel Franco, at the foot of the AIds. It is a noteworthy fact that the places most seriously threatened lie in the centre or on the edge of marshy plains formed by the alluvial deposits of rivers or the silting of the sea, Which always induces more or less malaria at this season of the year. Dublin, Aug. 17. The Freeman's Jour nal says: Parnell's summons shows that tho Parnellites do not intend to await the convenience of the Ministry in dealing with the Belfast riots and the alarming con dition of Irish farmers. Lord Salisbury must explain how he intends to meet the contingency of the inability of farmers- to pay their rents, and he will be called upon to declare the policy he intends to substi tute for that of "manacles and Manitoba." London, Aug. 17. The Cabinet sat to day from noon until 2 o'clock. The Queen's speech was considered and ap proved. The Afghan difficulty was also discussed. It is understood that Colonel Ridgeway, of the British-Afghan Commis sion, has been recalled because he felt that the difference between Russia and England had better be dealt with by the foreign of fice. . London, - Aug. 17. Christine Nillson writes: "My marriage will probably take place in September. I am only waiting for a dispensation from Rome." The government intends to introduce at the next session of Parliament a measure giving local government to Ireland on the basis of the plan prepared, by Lord Ran dolph Churchill.. The Hartington party wili support the scheme. Parnell has requested all Irish members of Parliament to be present on Thursday at the reassembling of Parliament. He says that in view of the grave and pressing con dition of public affairs, it ia very necessary that there should be a full attendance of the Irish contingent.. . London, August 18. The Times, speak ing of the land problem in Ireland, sug gests that if it can be shown that in a cer tain limited class of cases the fall of prices has made the position of tenants untenable, the remedy might be found partly in a measure providing means for emigration and partly in the land purchase scheme on indulgent terms, to be applicable only to tenancies of such limited class. The Gov ernment, if it should seriously meditate such a policy, could, says the Times, in directly mitigate the pressure upon tenants during autumn by the promise of special consideration nnder the scheme of purchase to landlords who are willing to reasonably abate existing rents in . cases within the scope of the remedial measure. ' Belfast, August 18. Since the riots began here every Catholic workman has been hounded off of Queen's Island, al though prior to the disorders hundreds were at work there.. Iu many large establish ments of Belfast, also, Catholic employes have been forced to quit work.- Tbo Strike on.. Again at Augusta A HIteh in Negotiations tbe Cause. Augusta, August 18. The strike is on again. A hitch in the negotiations resulted in the breaking up of peace propositions and reinstating tbe strike. The bitch is as to who are included in the pay-roll , Sec retary Turner understood the '.superinten dent, president, etc., to be on the pay-roll, but the books of the companies show differ ently. Turner withdraws his proposition and orders his Knights not to go to work. The mill men are willing to stick to the proposition accepted -, yesterday, and to leave everything to the arbitration provi ded for in the proposition, but decline to have the clause of the proposition relative to the pay-roll stricken out. Turner is satisfied that any arbitration committee would decide that the officers named donot come within the meaning of the pay-roll clause of the proposition. Therefore, hav ing failed in his purpose through a misun derstanding, hejwithdraws the proposition made by virtue of such misunderstanding and orders the .Knights not to report for duty, and declares the strike still on. - THE WAGESOF SIN. Gray, tbe Defaulting Treasurer, Com . . : mlta Suicide. . v Boston, August 18. It has been defi nitely learned that Gray, the defaulting treasurer of the Atlantic and . Indian Or chard Mills, committed suicide. His body was found this morning at Blue Hills. Professor J. M. CARNOCHAN. M, D., LL. D.; Surgeon-in-Chief .. ft Y. State Hospital, etc., says: "My patients derive marked and decided benefit from Liebig Co. 's Coca Beef Tonic." Invaluable to all who are' run down, nervous. dvprvntiv bilious, or victims of malaria.) . v f i Spirits Turpentine, . . The Goldsboro Argus re.,(tr.B that the cotton worm in great numbers Uvl appeared near that town. Ve Fayetteville News: An enter tainment was given by Mr. Divine nfT Short Cut. to a select .party of about twen tjv Thursday evening at Rhodes's MfiS' . about twenty miles from town to whW point the road was finished a few'days affn The company was given a magnificent din ner, after which they fished and rustical generally. Mails between here nH Clinton have been so irregular that thev a considered as about stopped. Yestenlni the carrier, Mr. Record, addressed the Pert eral authorities, saying that washed om bridges necessitated his driving several' miles out of his way. and that he wa3 kill ing his stock in consequence, and without additional compensation he muststonon tirely. . ; - 1 ; Durham Recorder: This morn ingBF. Miller died at the residence of his father-in-law, Mr. J. D. Wilbon of consumption. Mr. Miller was a printer and for a long while worked in Durham - A great many people arc anxious to rent stores in Durham. Why don't some of our monied men build mere stores. We know Borne stores that are renting for in per cent, of their actual cost. - a good soldier died suddenly near Mt. Pisgahn the night of the 12th inst. Simeon tiarbee had been stricken with paralysis several years ago. which had pretty well destroyed his mind. About midnight, His supposed he had gotten up and gone into the front yard, where he fell dead from another stroke. He was dead when found a few minutes after. He was a member of Com pany L 6th N. C. Regiment, and had been severely wounded in several engagements. From proceedings of Pharma cuetical Convention at Raleigh: The fol lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: President. A W. Rowland, Wilson" First Vice President, F.W. Hancock, New Bern; Second Vice .President, Mr. B E Sedberry, Fayetteville; Third Vice Pres -dent. Mr. J. D. Croom, Shoe Heel; Secre tary, J. C. Munds, Statesville; Treasurer A. 8. Lee, Raleigh. The following gentle men were recommended by the Association to the Governor from which to select mem bers tn rill rhv vflnftnipa nArnn'm. in rBoard of Examiners, viz: Messrs. E. V. rzoeller, H. K. Home. F. W. Hancock, T v. Diuitu uu v. tt . nowiaju. ueiegatea were appointed to the next annual meetings ot the American" Pharmaceutical Associa tion and the National Retail Dealers' Asso ciation. The Association adjourned to-day to meet on the first Wednesday in August at Asheville."; ; Raleigh News- Observer: A New York firm, desiring to ascertain the value of lands in Wake outside of Raleigh, had the matter investigated and found the aver age to be $10 75. . So Charles R. ia to have a darkey to run against a darkey, yet a Whiteman, of Wilmington. The col ored politician will be a foeman worthy of his steel. We congratulate him on the fact that Whiteman has decided to run. Saturday morning, at Smithfield, on W. H. Moring's piazza, quite a crowd of dogs were noticed, dragging something around and fighting over it. An examination showed that it was a child, born during the night The doga had eaten all the flesh off the body aad torn it badly, but its mouth was crammed with paper and its bead was crushed. Near the spot a stone was found with hair upon; it, showing foul play. To -day Louisa Saunders was arrested, charged with this horrible crime. - New Bern Journal: On Wednes- dmr nftnr-nrmn A . 11(1, i:T.,n;nA struck a tenement . house on Mr. E. B. Harget's plantation, occupied by Mr. David Jones. It almost demolished one end of the house, having first struck the top cf the chimney. There were five persons in .1 i . . i i . , . uto uouse at mc time, ana strange to say none were seriously injured, though they were terribly shocked and frightened. Mrs. Jones was knocked off the bed and a little boy out of a chair. We had a severe thunder storm on Sunday and seve ral places were reported struck by light ning. One was a tenement house on the farm of E. R. Dudley, just outside the city limits. .Lightning struck the house, setting it on fire, and in passing off killed a hog in a pen near by. All of the occupants of the house were at church excert a little bov. He was considerably shocked, but succeed ed in running to a neighbor's house and telling of the accident and securing aid to extinguish the fire before well under way. The grist mill of J. A. Meadows was also struck, but no serious damage was done. Raleigh' News-Observer: Large as the Centennial graded school is, it is quite apparent that it must be made larger, on that, better still, a new school in a dif ferent quarter of the city be established. The Centennial school cost say $25,000 ami is one of the best investments Raleigh, (or for that matter any other place) ever made. Capt. B. P. Williamson has for three years past made trips from Raleigh to the Cape Fear river, through Harnett county. He has returned from such a trip and re ports that in the twenty miles from Middle creek to the Cape Fear the crops are very poor, r There are places where six acres of cotton will not make over a bale. Corn is also poor. Some years ago Napoleon Bonaparte Taylor, of Monroe county, com monly known as "Bone Taylor," was sent to the penitentiary for shooting and killing a man. A few weeks ago he ended his term. He was feeble and was very con trite, or at least so expressed himself to a reporter. He is a perfect, scoundrel, a complete villain. He is now in jail in 8outh Carolina, charged with 'beating his wife to death.- V - Goldsboro Messenger: It pains us to announce the death of Stephen Cog dell, Esq., brother of our esteemed towns man, Dr. D. Cogdell, who died at his home on the Neuse river; on Friday last, aged 61 years. There are new postoffices at Plumington, Stanly county, George W. Lowder, postmaster; Hobgood, Halifax county, Edward P. Hyman postmaster; Hubert, Onslow county, D. J. Moore post master. , The Hon. W J. Green has the satisfaction of knowing that the failure to renominate him was not due to any de merit on his part or to any lack of general appreciation of his merits. Maj . Mc- Clammy is a gentleman of unblemished uprightness anda most worthy representa tive of our people. A distressing ac cident nappeuea in tne u aison section on Tuesday of last week. - Mr. R. T. King was at Mr. Wm. King's grinding apples to make cider. . It feems that during an un guarded -moment the little nine-year-old daughter of the latter had climbed upon the post to which the rollers are attached, while the mill was running. The little one's head was caught between the post and the beam and she was crushed to death. Raleigh k News- Observer: The application for a hearing before Judge Connor was withdrawn by Miller's counsel, who applied to Justice Merrimon of the Supreme Court to hear the case. The hear ing was set for 4.30 o'clock, yesterday af ternoon, at the Supreme Court room.. Hon. W. H. H. Cow lea has begun his can vass. He was at Morganton Monday, ad dressed the people at Burke court Tuesday, and went to Wilkesboro yesterday. TI7 V. . 1 TO., . . . . . . tt uifc uu iuu new xiuenion street juetnoaist Church is beinsrvisroroaslvnurnnd forward Yesterday 100 was bid for North Caro lina 4 per cent, bonds, on tho New Yrk Stock Exchange. - The Republicans who issued the call for a convention in de fiance of Dr. Mott and the executive com mittee, yesterday received letters from Hon. Thos. Settle, of Greensboro, and Mr. F. B. Loftin, of Kinston, both prominent .Republicans, heartily endorsing the move ment. Maj. McClammy -. received the news - of ? his nomination while he was in the field, in his shirt Bleeves, busy pulling fodder. Hurrah for our plow boy candidate for Congress I Coi. John R. Winston has announced himself a candidate for Congress from the Fifth District. Rev. J. L. White, who has so ably filled - the ; pulpit of the First Baptist Church here, has been tender. ed a permanent call. He has not as yet ac cepted. ' - A contract has been let for the making of 150,000 bricks for a new laboratory at Wake Forest College. " Work on the blicks begins this week. - The office of deputy collector for Durham coun ty has been abolished. ' This is the position filled by CaDt. W. K. Pariah. Tes- terday a reporter ; had a ; chat with Mr. John Nichols. That gentleman's health is rather poor now and he says his physician has prescribed rest. Mr. Nichols was asked about his rumored candidancy for Congress in this district He said he could not now say whether his health would ad mit of his being a candidate. .If he ran it would be as an independent, on the labor platform. '. He did not expect to run as a Republican. - - ,