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fiie Weekly Star. ' PUBLISHED AT i 1 1 AT . 0 A Y IS A K, IN APVAHCR 5So8SSSSSSSS8 ."TpsgIsiiiiii88s I ce eoo f o t-; t- t- r SSSSSSSS8SS38SSSS o e 'd ' i " o S "9 5 " 5 f! SS S? gggSSS! UluoK I SSSS8SSS8SS388SSS SSSS888888S888S8 SSSoS8S88S8S88S iHrn C 5? I CD 7n.tK) at tte Fost omoe MWUmiagton, N. C, i as second uuusa jaaiier.j j -JcBSCBIPTIOirJPItlCJS. Xte sabscriGtioii price of , thWjiiiEiiT t.ib is as loiiows : . cine Copy 1 year, postage paid; $1.50 " u . 6 months, " . ! 1.00 . " 3 months :V ; - .60 TEE DAVIS' jLK ITTBB y!- Ex-President Davia8 letter to Gov. Vanceia January, 1863, ia being ex- tcnsively published ;' and - discussed, lis chief value lies in giving the lie direct to old General Sherman's in- dictite assault upon Mr. Davis. The letter contains nothing of he infa Bi)Di charge Sherman brought rsiast the illustrious Soathron. Sherman is unfortunate in Ibis at tempts to slander and injury Soulb praleaJers. His falsehoods are made conspicuous and his disgrace deep jnd abiding. But if old j"Cump" ghoul J publish a fresh lie every day- he Ronld Btiil be a great and .virtu ous usaii in the estimation of! a large section' of the Northern prefee. Pa- pets that heaped unmeasured eulogy on Gract, on old John Bdwd, on " Stanton", the meanest of menj and on other men of like character, will never see anything unbecoming or fcrraefal ia the numerous islanders and falsehoods of Gen. Sherman, however complete their exposure. Mr. Divis's letter shows that there were men ia ISorih Carolina) in 1863 who wtre 'plotting treason and who oiicht to have beea squelched. If some dozen or more of these had been hanged about that fellows time it would hase had a very salutary effect. Mr. Davis was anxious for Gov. Vance to iatervene and to stamp out the treason but writhout force. It does not appear ho Ibis was to be accomuTisihtd. -.Tbe letter is not new to Sorih C'arcliciays of. war limes. SOUTHESV t E5I1MOSV. i 77i6 Bulletin fcr November of the North Carolina Deoartment of Agri- culture contains the full report of the proceedings f the Convention of Northern Settler in North Carolina. The excellent addresses of -itev. Mr. Sanderlin and Hr. McGehee, Com missioner of Agriculture, will be read with interest. Mr. McGehee's ad' dress 13 especially noticeable. The testimony of the Settlers will be use ful in the future. Whenever lying Jiorthern Radical sheets -7 begin to slander North Carolina let these Xorthern "witnesses be put upon the .stand. They all .tell the same story of rurm kindness and neighborly . besting. There is neither variable- nesser Fl.adow bf turning in these accounts. Every! , North whetuer from the East or West, from the Kurihern border, from the centre or the Southern border bears the same evidence as to the respect and; friend ship with which he has been treated. arnon the speakers was Mr. T. B. Elcridge of the Lexington Dispatch. we roaice rooa for the folloi )WlDg extract. 'Tu VLir,sen -Teirs I have resided in aorin Carolina, and ihmh r wir hnb wuh pride that I was born in the Keystooe jci wun a iamiiy of dear little ones s'un.ug up arouna me, I would change my Korth Carolina home not ex- f or any ymuj on tais earth (Applause.) I came U "ospusbly as if I bad been born iact of my Northern birth has in iiuy one. : LET HI31 HANG. r. Carter Harriann a vnniis m an woo was on the jury that convicted "iveriug, isf trying to get tbej pther eleven jurors to sign a petition to the Governor to eave the neck of the nwderer and have him imprisoned for life He does not believe in nangmg. How came he then'td agree for Indeed, how! fame be on the iurv. well aslrs tlm Danville "lister. The teachings of the S'blearetoo old-fashioned and anti- laated f or some of the . wonderful o'ern thinkers. An eye f or jeye is much for sentimental women and 'ackada aisical men. The poor Vir- gmia 2irl. an TVTaliflrtn ia dead and in her grave. She was murflered. tV WKnm 9 Tt. - J .Vj . . f . j j 4 0 i k.. .An.;. Ltnm i - i J.110 jury saiu too uuug ""iwiuo, UCI UUUOIU. nuvu I ved and trusted and by bhom "Was f onll v-wrnncrorl :' ITo had i j " . r een oin j ucated,had good family con- "www, lived in one of the oral and peaceful sections o m08t Vir- gmiaJor of the world, was a Sunday School tpnnnor o mmtJ t I church. moa o i. a t UU, bg defend byUa taient, and after a delay of twenty onths, he is sentenced to be hanged nii t V Caro!lna when but a mere youth, na i tave grown up to manhood here, .and lJIan!? say ibat I have been treated as kind- rt XT .. l- or the deep damnation" of the iVOLi' - XVIII; f taking oil! of his murdered cousin, and he ought to pay the fall penalty. - 8TABTMHO APATHY. '- If any one doubts that .the Demo crats were very culpably neglectful in the last election look at the vote in Georgia and Virginia"-'.. The total vote' j for,, members i of Congress in Georgia was but 27,577. . Georgia can cast more than 300,000. In three large counties there were no returns. In Virginia the ' vote", was 225,301. when the vote ia ,1884, was 289,000," and that too when thousands did not. vote. In North Carolina there was great apathy, and when the total re- tarns are in we doubt not it will be Been that 75,000 electors refused to exercise , their ;' suffrage.!: Is it ; not strange that white men are so indif ferent, so apathetio, and fail to use the greatest right and privilege that belong to freemen. There are enough Democrats' in the South for all elec tion purposes but the greatest diffiV culty is to arouse them and make them, feel the responsibility of citi-. zenshio and electorshiD. A bier scare wuum uo tnem gooa. voting is De coming a lost privilege in the South' 1 3 .1 . 1 - ' 3 ' TT . . . among the whites. r tETITCOJIB. .v There is much to commend in the Philadelphia Times. It is the bright-. est and best printed one cent paper in the world. It is well edited. Our objection to the Times is that its in dependentism is so independent as to lead it to waver continually on the believe it chaoses Tariff. We verily once a week, possibly once a day, on the subject of taxation. . The last utterance we have noted seems to fa vor Tariff reform. We are glad, of this as only a. few days before it. was chuckling over the defeat of the Democrats and prophecied that Free Trade was dead for a quarter of a century to come. The wish was doubtless father to the thought. The Times ia published in Pennsylvania and it is in need of subscribers. It has dropped from two cents to one cent. It is supposed, probably, that Pro tection is the strong public sentiment in that State, and that the way to win public favor is to advocate pop ular views. The able Record cor rectly represents the Tariff reform sentiment, and it circulates about 110,000, copies daily. So the field in that direction is about occupied. .. But the Times still insists that the outlook for Tariff reform is discour aging. WV have previously shown that this is an erroneous view which the full election returns have dissipa- ted And vet however full of dis- coaragement, as the Times supposes. - t Lk;t ;m. pefative necessity for tax reduction. The Titnes goes so far as to say that the "way is now open for honest,, safe tariff revision, and the issue can be faced without I fear "of any direct or even indirect triumph of free 'trade." That is io say, the Republi cans and Randallites must revise the Tariff to : suit themselves, and the Democrats must not be allowed to carry out any of their views concern ing the Tariff.. It is now a common saying among the Philadelphia Pro tection papers- that the enemies of High Protection (shall not be allowed to make any changes in the system of robbery. When! did ever the con victs of a penitentiary turn reform ers? When did jever a corrupt party reform itself ? If the country waits until Protectionists reduce the Tariff to a fair, equitable, constitutional basis, it will wait until "the crack of doom."; The New: York Star well says, in commenting on the Times : "We are alwavs told that 'the way is now open for honest, safe Tariff revision;' but -when any plan of revision is proposed we are also told that it is not an honest or safe way. It woald be a great gain uT the fenn sylvania people would point out any way to a revision of the Tariff. They have sought to make money out of the Government from its inauguration;- nor do we believe that they will ever find a safe or honest way of diminiehing the pronts.wnicn wey nave long drawn fromi taxes levied to enrich them nnd not to suDnlv revenue It is true. the day of Tariff revision cannot long be postponed, ine report oi me Dcreiry w the Treasury ; wui snow ouij uuu iuij niiiinna nf hnnila left which the Govern ment can pay at itt option. By the end of the fiscal year all; oi'tnese oonus wm w paid. There will be but two alternatives then either to pue up ao muucj m mo Treasury or to reduce the taxes." The surplus in the Treasury will not be. far from $100,000,000 after PTt.ravatrant aDnrODriatlons. Shall o the taxes continue? Shall the people bo hi Ad " without reason or stint? That is the great practical question for statesmen Atlanta olaims that in five years it has doubled-its shops and factories and trebled its capital invested. Five years ago 3,665 employes were vuiuiuyeu iu duo duvd 7 - oatfA Tn 1 RRf) the liU VV IiUCIB Ckl V V,u -z. wages paid footed up a,o, in 1885 they were $2,425,000. Washington dudes are much an- soyed because of Attorney General aarUnA'a had fittin? clothes and the way he wears his hat. This is' a nmall matter, as fine clothes do not make a man and the important thing to Ex-Gov. Cheney has been appoint ed U. S. Senator in place of Pike, de- I ceased. ": L'ls4--'-Ili- "'Al- T'VV3 'r'' v ; r s?i - :.i!i:rr;r--X :- Spirits" Turpentine! - . , ; i ' . - - - " , . v -' 1 ' ' - - , ., ... . ,i . t i - , i , v ,j , ' - - . -' BDITAH III. VWTDMU I Some - twenty-five years - ago a Frenchman by the name Of P. Lan frey began the. laborious , work of producing" a history that should; change the: whole current of public opinion in France relative to tbe ' greatest man who ever ruled that people. We of course refer to Napo leon, an Italian by parentage with not a drop of French blood in his veins. - Lanfrey disliked moBt sin cerely the character of Napoleon and be determined to show? the world from the most i trustworthy docu ments that he was a stupendous sham however gifted in some direc tions. Lanfrey's work was intended to be a refutation of Thiera's famous work, The Consulate and the Em pire," which . is ; a glorification of Bonaparte, written with masterly Dower. . In the year 1858, the full correspondence of Napoleon was pub lished in thirty-odd ' volumes.. Lan frey. carefully studied these volumes and upon them built his work. ' Up to 1875, after seventeen years of toil, he had completed but five volumes. In 1877, the author died. His able work was left unfinished, but a sixth volume was found to have been writ ten but not revised. .This takes the reader down to A. D. 1811. It is to be regretted that he could not at least follow his victim to the closo of a splendid, unexampled military career that ended at Waterloo. But the vol umes published . have made' a pro found impression j upon the scholars and cultivated people abroad. We have known of the work for years, but have never seen it. It is now published in translation by Macmil- lan & Co., New York, for $9, in four volumes. : It is called "The History of Napoleon." It is not a fair work because it is the work of an advocate of one who had a cause. It is cer tainly as fair as the work to which it replies. It is a bold, able, thor ough work and is well worth the at tention of all ! historical students We have often read more or less abont Lanfrey's position, but have yet to learn it from himself. A no tice of it in the Boston Post of 24th inst., says: "M. Lanfrey was a lover Of liberty, and a hater of both anarchy and tyranny. He believed in political morality, and to him the eud never justified the means. Napo leon's military career excited no enthusiasm in him, for to him .Napoleon was essential ly a mean and dishonest man. It is proba ble . that Lanfrey was sometimes unfair and cave to Napoleon 'ess than his due. Other writers, both before and after Lan frey, have as unduly exalted him; it seems almost impossible 'to wri'e with calmness about him. His biographer, whoever be mav be. is a partisan or special pleader. Napoleon has been on trial for so many years that whoever cares for him enough to study and present his life anew, takes the attitude of accuser, cr defender. Lanfrey saw nothing but evil in the Napoleonic in fluence, to wbicn rtapoieon l.l. owed nis elevation to power, and he determined to do his utmost to destroy that Influence by making known the truth about the first Na poleon." The value of the work is great ' in aiding one to thread the intricate mazes in which the career and char acter of Napoleon are " involved. It will assist those no little who have relied npon Scott, Alison and Seeley on the one hand, or npon Thiers, Ab bott and other admirers 'of Nspoleon on the other hand, to arrive at per haps right conclusions as to the great genius of modern times, and yet a great failure after all. Prof. Seeley's book is quite masterly. It is a small volume, but it is very clear and de liberate and forceful, and strips the great Emperor of many feathers. that have hitherto adorned him. It is an Englishman's analysis of the charac ter and" genius of the greatest enemy of England. - Seeley, is Professor of History in the University of Cam bridge. T.iterarv men often eet into dis putes with each other, j alter Scott was too magnanimous, too manly,1 too free from all jealousy of rivals to quarrel witb any of bis contempo- raries. ! But 'Scott stands alone among the authors of this century. Byron fairly bated Southey and some other: literary men. He was hated in turn. The reader is familiar! with the .re-j cent controversy between Mr. Scott. and Mr, Julian Hawthorne. There is another controversy of some in terest, but mainly to Englishmen. Mr. Chnrton Collins has written a verv caustic article on Mr. Edmupd fioR-e m the London Quarterly lie- view. Mr. Gosse is lecturer on fc.og lish Literature at Cambridge, and has published a work, referred to by us recently, entitled "From Shakspere to Pope."- He fol lows the peculiar spelling of the great dramatist's name adopted by. the Shakspere Society, but the overwhelming weight of ' evidence is in favor of Shakespeare as the correct way of spelling. Most of the authors of critical works on Shakespeare have adopted the last spelling. ' Grant White, Rolf e, Hudson, and other American critics - and ? editors of editions of Shakespeare so spell the name. Mr.- Collins is said to have exposed some errors into which Mr. Gosse had fallen. This is not hard to do. Macaulay fairly perforated Croker'a edition of "Boswell'e Life of Johnson" and made the editor ridic ulous by reason of multitudinous errors, and yet the fact remains that ; WILMINGTON: C.V FRIDAY, DECEJVIBER X Croker was an exceptionally able man. and a very vigorous essayist, and his edition of Johnson is found to tie valuable., Mr. Gosse's work 'has been praised on both sides of the At' autio ; President Shepherd, of the University t of Charleston, recently wrote critically of its mente, from which' we copied j' and other compe tent writers have recognized some of its charming and suggestive features. Mr. Gosse hua published a reply to his critic, ; and the stylo is personal and iuterestirig. -Mr. Collins has re joined in a very severe way 'And so the literary quarrel waxes,. Among others who have written of the mat ter, in controversy is Mr. W. R. S,' Ralston. The following will interest some of our readers. ' Mr.' Ralston sayB: "Tiinity College is auite aware that the Quarterly rev'ewer has pointed out a num- A neas, in Mr. liosse s book, and it holds that Mr. Gosse must be more careful in future. It considers that Mr. Gosse is under an ob ligation to Mr. Collins for having helped him to ril his book of numerous alight er rors. : But it ilrongly objects to fcuch me thods of elimination as that of the German who utterly wrecked his flower garden while engaged in the ejection of the hens which were interfering with its neatness. As regards the conduct of Mr. Chur- ton Collins only one opinion seems to pre vail at Cambridge.-i -Moet men there seem to agree that he must be a person possessing great powers either of stoicism or of for getfulness. otherwise he would never have attempted to brand as an imposter one who had long been bis iutimate friend, and for whom be had expressed, during a long pe riod of time, the greatest admiration and respect. Mr. Gosse, when he first read bis reyiewer's denunciation, cannot but have felt that kind of pang which is produced by the poison that a once friendly hand ad ministers, livery one remembers the scene in 'Vanity Fair' in which" Becky Sharp boxes her boy's -ars. Little Rawdon flits in an agony of grief to bis friends in the kitchen, and be bursts into a storm of tears. "It is not because it hurts me. gasped out little Rawdon. "only only.' 'It was the littla bov s heart that was bleeding,' adds the author. The heart of Mr. Gosee must have suffered no email pain as he thoueht of what Mr. Churton Collins used to write to him, end of what that stoic has lately been writing about him. " ; Those only can appreciate the force of this who have had a per sonal friend to use the ink of the cruel and malignant assailant. The Psalmist knew of this when he said: "For it was not an enemy that ap proached me; then I could have borne it. But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, my ac quaintance." The master of tears and laughter and the prober of sor rows, who knew the heart and its bitterness as none of tbe children of men ever knew it, save some of tbe men in the One Book, makes one of bis characters exclaim in "As You Like It:" "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude.' At the Arthur residence Mr. Mo- Michael was doing the honors. Here is what occurred: ' - 'I hardly need introduce you, gentle men, exclaimed air. Mcaiicnaei,- wnen Senator Edmunds and Mr. Blaine con fronted one another. The Senator frankly replied- 'Certainly not,' and with a ccur- teous buw extended his riant nana. Mr. Blaine uttered no reply whatever. He simply bowed low, very low indeed, and passed on without seeming io even nouce the. outstretched hand. I presume that was proper,' he said sotto voce to Mr. ale- Michael, when he was beyond the Ver monter's hearing." This is the version in the Timest doubtless furnished by Mr. Mc Michael. An Aeed "Lutheran minister Dead. - ' Rev. J. B. Anthony, the oldest Lu theran minister of the Synod or North Carolina, and one of the old est Lutheran ministers in the united States, died in Cabarrus county a few days ago at the advanced age of seventy-eight years and twenty days He had labored in the ministry fifty-four years, and led an exceedingly ueful, excellent and influen tial life. He was pastor of some of the im portant churches in North Carolina, South Carolina and Pennsylvania, and was highly esteemed wherever lie went. - He was a na tive North Carolinian, having been born in Burke county. He was a man of fine scholarship, being especially good in his tory, philosophy and. the languages. Al though born in America, and amid exclu sive American surroundings, be acquired German so as to be quite an acceptable German preacher. He was buried at Mt. Pleasant, his funeral being Very largely at tended. Rev. Dr. Davis. Rev. J. A Linn, Rev. R. W. Petrea and Rev. F. W. E. Pes r.hau took rart in the funeral services; the last named officiating as President of the North Carolina Synod. 'Cotton Facta." , The Stab is in receipt of a copy of the Fall edition of "Cotton . Facts," a hand book of reliable information concerning cotton, published by Mr. A. B. Shcpperson, of 13 William street,. New York, and printed for the use of factors, buyers, spin ners and planters With other new matter, it contains stalem. nts, giving the methods of cotton culture in India, Eaypt. Brazil and the United States; recent information as to cotton acreage , of Egypt, India; the mills of India; National Cotton Exchange reports of, acreage, and crop : condition mnnthlv temnerature and rainfall in U. 8. cotton belt, weekly quotations and stocks of print cloths, weekly deliveries to British spinners, highest and lowest prices of cot totr futures in New York since 1881, dif ferences by 64ths of a penny on Liverpool cotton contracts, with equivalent differ ences on U. 8. contracts, cost of raising cotton in Georgia and Alabama date of lose of picking for 1885-86 and previous seasons. It is probably the most complete book of the kind ever published Brunswick Flrea. Forest fires that have been burning in Brnnswick county for some time past broke out with - renewed fury the paBt week, swept ever a great extent of country, and caused no inconsiderable amount of dam age to farmers. Barns and out -houses, and a great deal of fencing have been destroyed as well as much valuable timber. The prolonged drought has made everything as dry as tinder, and a fire once started spreads with astonishing rapidity. In some nlnra where roots are thickly matted, fire is said to have eaten into the ground to a considerable depth TJt First nXetbodlstCDnreU. j Yesterday afternoon grouod was broken on the lot at the northeast corner of Fourth and- Jklulberry streets . for the erection of the new church, under the superintendence jf Mr.; Robert B.. Wood, who was one of ihe , contractors for . the old Front Street Church destroyed by fire in February last Bev.'p. X carraway and Rev. Dr. Yates. f the clergy; CoU C. L. Grafllin. C!ol Soger Moore and Mr. G a M. At! after, of the building committee; Capt. W. M Par ker.and Mr. W,,M. Poiss5n. of the Board of 'lrus'eHS; with several male members of I the church, dug and rolled out tbe first wheelbarrows full of. earth. A number of ladies were present. We wish the congre gation much success in their efforts to build, a new house of , worship and trust I they will have the aid and sympathy of the entire community. : , : i The first barrow of earth was filled by Col- C. L. Grsffiin and wheeled away by Capt. W. M, Parker; the second was filled by CoL Roger Moore and wheele-J off by Mr. G. M. Altaffer; the third, filled by Mr. A. Gt Hankins and .wheeled away by Mr.'' W. M." Poisson, and Rev. Dr. Yates filled tbe ' fourth, which was wheeled away by Rev, P, J. Carraway. Criminal Court. - - -. Yesterday wound up the business of the Criminal Court for tbe November term. There was only one case for a jury Sam Lew it, colored, charged with stealing a watch-chain from a colored woman. He was convicted of t larceny and sentenced to one yeai's imprisonment in the State peni tentiary . Emma Fraser, cbarged with assault and battery .'- Case continued. i 1 John McEoy, colored, charged with re moving ciopj Case continued for defend ant on account of the absence of a wit ncss. .- . i Kate Grady ; larceny. Nol pres. Andrew Lnspeyre, lying in wait to se cure the escape of prisoners. Continued. The jurois were discharged and tbe Court adjourned for the term at 5 o'clock in the afternoon . XbankagtvInK Service. Tbe largest congregation ; which has gathered for years iu this city on Thanks giving Dy was addressed in the First Baptist Church by the Rsv. Peyton H, Hoge. : The preacher's topic was felicitous ly chosen, b9ing "The Relations between Capital and Libsr." and it was discussed with unusual clearness, force and elo quence. He seems to have studied Una dif ficult subject thoroughly, and mau of his most judicious hearers expressed tbe wish that the discourse should be published. Revs. E. A Yates, D. D.. and Paul J. Carraway, of the Methodist Church, Revs. P. H. Hoge, W. Primrose and George McMillan, of the Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Dr. Pritchard. of the Baptist Church. took part, ia iho services; Rev. Mr. Pe-. schau, of the Lutheran Church, was.untx pectedly called from the city or be also would have participated iu the services of the occasion. Tbe collection for the Oxford Orpbau Asylum amounted to $80. The choir furnished excellent music, with Mrs. W. F. Williams as organist. Tbe Unlawful Fence Cases. . In the Criminal Court yesterday Judge Mearea caused the following record to be made in the case of L. Borneman. indict ed for having an unlawful fence: ' Oidered by the Court, that this case be reinstated on the docket and orougnt for ward to this, term,, and tbat the following entry be made therein : It appearing to the Court, on motion and on the representation Of the Solicitor tbat tbe (sheriff or tneuoun- tv and Clerk of tbe Court and other officers. and also the witnesses in the case have agreed to charge no fees, and that no fees will accrue against the Court, it is ordered that a nolle prosequi be entered in this case." The same entry was ordered to be made in all the other "unlawful fence" cases. Tbe JLate Baptist Convention. Rev. C. T. Bailey, president of the Bap tist Slate Convention, is reported by a cor respondent as saying tbat the hospitality of Wilmington exceeded anything be ever knew, and every day eighty or ninety mem bers were absent from the sessions on ex cursions, &c. It was generous, graceful, hearty hospitality. He Bays the Conven tion was immeasurably the largest and most satisfactory ever held, and that greater en thusiasm pervades the entire body of Bap tists in the State. . Fire in Brunswick. . There was a big forest fire in Brunswick county Thursday, causing considerable damage to turpentine and timber lands. At Mr. R. B. Wood's plantation, about four miles from town, one of the buildings, a tool house, and a quantity of rice were destroyed. - His loss on rice is $1,100, with insurance for 300, and on building and tools $125; insurance $109. All in the Vir ginia Fire and Marine Company, . repre sented in Wilmington by Messrs Jno. W. Gordon & Smith. Fire Near Boalndale. " The store house and stock of goods owned by J. W. Spaulding & Co., at the firm's place of business near Rosindale. on the line of the Carolina Central Railroad, were tpuliy destroyed by fire -Tuesday night. There was no insurance, either on building or contents. The fire is reported to have been of incendiary origin. Tbe C F. dc TT". V. Hallway. A correspondent of the Richmond Xis patch, at Wytheville, Va., says that repre sentatives of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Val ley Railroad Company are investing largely in coal fields in Tazewell county, Va., to reach which they will have to extend the road through the Wytheville section. The North Carolina Annual Conference of the' Methodist E. Chuich, South, convenes in ' Reidsville, N. C, on "Wednesday Dec. 1st, and will be presided over by Bishop Granberry. The ministers and delegates in this vicinity will leave on Monday and Tuesd-iy mornings to attend its session. .. ' H - Br. steamship iVanf Gwynant (previously reported) was cleared by C. P. Mehane, Esq , for LlverpooL Her cargo consisted of 4,312 bales of cotton,' shipped bv Messrs. Williams & Murchison, and 221 bales by Mr. E. Lilly. Total yalne of cot ton $190,795. ' Mr. E. Lilly cleared the British steamship Nant Gwynant - yesterday for Liverpool, with 4.633 bales , of . cotton. weighing.2,132,647 pounds, valued at $190,- 704; and. ou nags peanuts, ftou. .-- .. 1B86 -"(.'tew The Police Scandal Investigated by tbe i CoaunlHiMer Ciller Walker AUowad BcaiXR-Tb President; Hefnata ti .Reinstate a Mnapeaded itepnbrlcan Offlcehelaer. " V WASHracrroi November! 34:-Disrict Commissioners .have announced their de ffPsi?ILr :o, dJfaf!" f W 1U VDSViKBtlUU-. ' -JILBIIIT" tlH KRr I ill If of Police, ia allowed to lesign;- Lieutenant Arnold is dinaussed: Lieutenant Kellev ia reprimanded sland duapendtd jfor ; three wnm?f three months, sad. Private Tideiin is dis- uuubcu. Araoia was cnrgei fwiia wise statements ia reference io hi suptrior bffl-: cer, to the,i effect : that Superintendent ; j . . T , . ... - 1 Walker had given , taitrucuons I which amounted to estabtishhig a- system of espi onage over the private life.if puM c men, to toe enu mat lo'ormatioaeogf.iced might be used in influencink legislation, eucb as the police authorities might desire heieafr ter. Helley was a wituess in the case and his testimony to om extent Corroborated that of Arnold ia his own behalf, .ile had J kuucj . a ouiiicwuat similar unoersiana ing of -. Walker's remarks as Arnold had; but the ...reason assigned f for. - Ms punishment is that his statement' (6 the Commissioners ia tbe prior informal iuves tiganon disagreed with bis sworn .stater ments upon tbe official and open investiga tion, 8ergeant Diggins is the man to whom Arnold gave his version of Walker's re marks to bia lieutenants.' Diggins effence was ioditcreet speech in repeating Arnold's remarks after being cautioned not tq do so. iinaw xiiuenu is iuc man u wnom Ulggins talked too freely, Edelin had a grudge against Superintendent Walker, because waiter bad taken him fiom detective dutv and put him on patrol. . He speedily spread among other disaffected persons Arnold's story as repeated by Diggins, and it became puoiic very mucn amplified, necessitating this investigation. Major Walker bad ten dered bis resignation when the affair be came public scandal. It ia a ceoted. be cause of suggestions to his men which be admitted to -have made, that members of the police force should actively interest themselves to i: fluunce legislation , - 7. Washikgtou, November 24 -Wm. A. Stone, U. S. Attorney for .the t Western District, of Pennsylvania, who Wis sua- penied at the same time with Benton of Missouri and for similar causes, applied to the President for reinstatement., claiming that his offending had been no greater iban that of Benton, and that he (Stone) was en titled to like treatment with Benton. Pres ident Cleveland declines to reinstate Stone, pointing out that the two case iare.noi parallel aod that the mitigating blrcum stances in Benton's case do not exist as to Stone. The President accepts Stone's state ment that his campaign speeches were few in number and made at times which did not interfere with his official duties, and that his duties have been faithfully dis charged; but Stone is a Republics n ap pointee of a previous adm nUtration. al lowed to retain bis office. His camraijrn work' was in opposition to the ex istipg ad ministration. Under this state of facts, the President affirms his former actiou in sus pending Stona for reasons which -he sets forth id detail. - - y OHt H CAROLINA.' Tbe Vote ol tbe State in tbe Recent Election aa Officially Declared. . By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Raleigh, November 27. The vote of the State, as; fllcially declared to'-day shows: : That for Congress in the First di&trict Louis O Latham, dem.. received major ity of 2.755. over L. J. Barrett, ind.ideta In the Second district. V. M. Simmons. dem, received a majoiity of 1,658 over J. E. O'Hara, colored, rep., and a majority of 10.163 over J. B Abbott, colored. rep. - ';! In the Third district. C. W. McUiammv. dem.. received a majority ol 6,311 over F. li. ILoonce. rep. Io the Fourth district, John Nichols. labor, received a majority of 1,438 over Jobn.W. Graham, dem. Jtn the Fifth district, J. M. Brower, rep , received a majority of 1,580 over J. W. Reid, dem , and a majority of 13,098 over J. R Winston, iod. ,. In the Sixth i district, Alfred Rowland, dem., received a majority of' 6,603 over Charles R. Jones. . ind. dem.. and a ma jority of 13,355 over W. E. Mayo, labor candidate. In the Seventh district, J. 8. Henderson,, dem.. received a majority of 9,164 over J. E. Walker, rep. , r: In the Eighth district. W. H H. Cowles. dem , received a majority of 4,672 over L. li. Ureen, rep. ; - . . -r In the Ninth district, T. D. Johnston, dem., received a majority of 4.740 over W. H. Malone, ind.; and a majority f 8,820 over A H. Jones, rep. .' . -Total vote cast First district,' 24,505; 8econd. 83.814: Third. 23.897: Fourth. 30.- 288; Fifth. 26,728; Sixth. 33,893; Seventh, 13.937: JSlghth. 15.333; Ninth, 21,704, . Total vote of the State for Congressmen 213,114. Average majority of the Democratic State ticket about 23,000. - Total vote of the State for Chief Justice, 211,527. : - ' ' MISSOURI.- Great Western Glass Works Shut Down Serlona Accident on tbe MU sourl Pacific Kallroad lnatrnetlona , to a United States Grand Jury en tbe Snbjeet of Election Frauds. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. St. Louis, Nov. 27. The Great West ern - Glass Company discharged all their men yesterday: and closed their works. Mr. Cordova, secretary and treasury of the Company, says they were obliged to take this action in consequence of the drinking habits of most of tteir men rendering them so unreliable that the works could not be operated in a proper manner. Tbe men pronounce tbe statement a deliberate falsehood, and assert tbat the real cause was the employment of apprentices to do men s work, and that bad the men not been discharged there would have been a strike in the factory io a few hours. Kahsas Crrv, - Nov. 27. The Missouri ' Pacific passenger train, due here at 7 80 o'clock this morning, collided with a freight train near Greenwood, twenty miles east of the city. The engines were wrecked and the freight engine was hurled npon the mail car, crushing it and killing Elijah Magamn, postal ciera. jr. a. .tseebe, an other clerk, is in a dying condition. The engineers and firemen saved themselves by jumping. ' None of the passengers was hurt. Tbe accident was caused by a blun der of the telegraph operator at Green wood, who set forward train No. 3 instead of No. 123. The track was cleared this af ternoon. ;r - ., Vv-;:-.;V:''- St. Louis. November 27 Judge Treat. of the U. 8. District Court, in giving addi-; tional instructions to the United States grand jury on the subject of election frauds this afternoon, made an important point that under Federal and State laws the State Judges of election are subject to the Fede ral Jaw and wilful violation of their duties is an indictable offence. He also said that if the State Board of Registration revisers bad stricken irom the list or voters names or name of persons - without having first fully satisnea themselves . that persons so stricken off had no legal right to vote, then the members of the Board had committed an offence against the Federal law and were subject to indictment. Any person who voted from a precinct or which be was not a resident is also, indictable, and tbe jury were instructed to so nod. : Let a man live right and he will die right. Let him live wrong and ten. to one, he will die wrong. Most men die as they have lived. , Of the many' conversions recorded or referred to In the New Testa ment, so far as we know, only one occur red in the hours of death.' So. while none should put off the work of preparation.till a dying hour, none should utterly despair even then, but it is a dreadful risk. " De pend npon it It is. "Life is the time to serve the Lord." St. Louis Advocate. NO. o I f MISSOURI. Tke Caart o 'Appeals. Deidea Coo- "tracts Iliads of Telephone are Blnd- ' . By Telegraph to Ua aforntog 8tarJ ,0 St. Louts. .November 24 The Court of lAppeals has' rendered a decision, holding jtuat contracts made over a, telephone wire are ' binding. " Suit i was brought by the Globe; PrlatiDg Company against Staht & jCo. on a hill for advertising; Defendants pleaded the contract not binding because made over: i a telephose awire. ; Jndgment was rendered against the defendants in the Circuit Court, and an appeal taken" The Court ;b( Appeals affirms the judgment of the lower Court. - The opinion was given by Judge Thompson: -t. VThe, telephons. al tboygh. a; recent invention.! hascome into, such common use that we think the courts judicial1 notice of the general manner and extent to which it is made, use of by the business community. . No doubt many im portant business transactions are every day made by the use of the telephone which are of -preci ely the4 same ; character as that which witness was allowed to testify in this case. A person'is called up by one desiring to communicate with him by mean of the connection bf. their respective wires through what is known ' as the central of fice. ' Conversation ensues. It may relate to most important matters ol busines&'i he vse.of the Instrument facilitates business to such n extent that it would be very preia dicial to the interests of the business com munity if courts were to hold that business men are not entitled to act upon the faith of being able to give in evidence to juries the replies which they receivs to cotr.mu4 mcauons made by them to persons at tbeir usual place, of business in this way." ...; NEW- YORK. Vail a re of. Baker de Clark, wholesale ; roeers The Strike Situation at Ana-" ' aterdam, , New Yobk.'Nov.' 24. D. Kellogg Ba ker end Charles A. Clark, composing tbe firm of Baker- and Clark, wholesale gro cers, oi JNO. 337 Greenwich street, this city, have made an assignment to Clarence E. Byrdsey, with preferences amounting to f 185, Sol . Among tbe preferred credi tors are the Chemical National Bank, $42,' 715; Importers' and Traders' National Bank. $36,795: Talmage Baker. $33,500; Robert Dunlap, $27,800; Horace K Thur ber, W. H. Robeson & Co. and others for smaller amounts. ' c Schkhkctady, Nov. 24 All is compara tively quiet at Amsterdam this morning About half a dozen Knights' pickets were arrested, and between seventy and eighty arrests were made yesterday, making over one hundred in all. The arrested persons were released on their own recognizance to appear on Friday morning and at once re turned to their posts as pickets ' o FOREIGN, Advlcea from St. Petersbure Bn.sa rla Gen. Kanlbara, dee. ' -, By Cable to the Horning Star. . 8t. Petersbukg. November 24 Gen. Kaulbars will instruct Nelidoff, Russian ambassador here, in all the details of the I Bulgarian situation, and will guide him in regara to toe election ot the new Prince or Bulgaria. Nelidoff has not yet received authority from bis government to raise the question of an eventual Russian occupation of Bulgaria. : The Turkish Government continues to send war material to ' Adrianople to strengthen the fortifications of the Darda- nelles. . ' . Beklin, Nov. 25. The Reichstag was opened to-day by Herr Von Boetcher, Minister of tbe Interior,-who- read the speech from the Throne, in which tbe Em peror says: "The object of the policy of the empire, which enjoys peaceful relations with all States, is to exert in favor of the maintenance of concord among all Powers', that influence which accrues to Germany from her love of peace, from the universal confidence reposed in the empire, owing to the fact that Germany is not concerned in the pending question, and from the Em peror's close friendship . with the two neighboring courts." - ; ' Paris. Nov. 25. The Chamber of Dep uties to-day, by a' vote of 388 against 142, adopted a motion for the reduction of 1.650.000 francs in military pensions. La France says the budget imbroglio has led to a Cabinet crisis. ' - -.. . V Loudon, Nov. 25. John; Bright; in a letter approving of the erection of the statue of Cobden at Stockport, denies that free trade is imperilled. . He continues: "An, American recently asked me if it would be possible to return to protection in England. I replied, -it is not impossible, but it will not come until the United States restore slavery.- " ; ' . .. The London .City . Companies have re solved to sell their lands in the North of Ireland on easy terms to the tenants.' The Salters' Company will transfer 25,000 acres at a purchase price of $20,000 rental.uncfer the terms of the Ashborne act. . . The Fun mongers Company-will transfer 20,500 acres at a -yearly rental of $9,500. i They, offer to sell to tenants at twenty v ears' pur chase on government valuation, tenants paying annually 30 per cent. Under the pre sent rental. The Drapers' Company offers 270,000 acres at a yearly rental of $12,500 at eighteen years purchase. The tenants accept; the offers. "The. transfer covers nearly the whole of tbe county of London derry. ' THE ANARCHISTS. i , . r . , - .. . i t . . A Supersedeas Granted In Their Cue, and a Considerable Lease of Life SeT eared for Them, "Bit Telegraph to the. Morning Star. Bloojongton. III., November 25. At 11 o'clock this morning Judge Scott grant ed a supersedeas in the anarchists' case. Messrs. Black S-rttand Sol "n. coin ael for tbe anarcii'si, s: itU tt ouct tw Oiiu a to have the clerk issue an order in pursu ance to Judge Scott's instructions. . The effect of the order will be to stay the ex ecu tion at least until a full bench of the Su preme Court has pifsed npon the questions raised for a new trial.-: It is estimated that in the ordinary course of . procedure the hearing and decision cannot bs reached for six or eight weeks, and that even .though the lower Court is sustained the sentence cannot be carried out until some time in March or Aprils f ! j- -. . JfENNSTL VANIA. Fatal Coal ffltlns .Explosion Heavy '" Snow Storm. .. WrLKEBABKE, Nov; 26.-4. n explosion occurred this morning at 7.10 o'clock, in the Conyngbam shaft, . while the miners were getting,: ready to go to work. The explosion was caused by Cornelius Boyle,: a laborer, who stepped into a worked-out chamber, which was filled with gas, with a lighted lamp npon his hat.. Out of about fifty men who we're in the mine, only three or four escaped injury, -.and many of the injured it is supposed will die.. There is great excitement in the vicinity of the shaft. i ' . -n t-. -u . -y, . -r..- - 5PrrzsBinio, Nov. 26. The cold wave struck here last night, and the thermome ter fell to 21 degrees. The sleet storm in the mountains turned to a snow during the night, ' and between eighteen inche s and two feet have already fallen. Trains are delayed from one to three hours. - , - jetroit; Tbe Trades i Council and Knights of Iiaoor Pu m Boycott on tbe Bear Brewing; Firms. .;;n - ' :. ! ' ' DaTBorr, Nov. 26. The Trades Coun-. ell and District Assembly of Knights or Labor, representing abont seven thousand members, last night put a boycott on the beer brewed bv the Verght. Kling. strok. Gobel and Hsuck brewery- companies, the object being to break up the Brewers' As sociation; which has been engaged in along war with the Brewers'. Union. - The em plovinc brewers talk of arresting some of the most prominent instigators of the boy cott lor conspiracy. Vt til - Asheville Citizen: Our Mr. Fur- man is still confined to bis room from an injury to his leg, received s fortnight ego. uen. (Jlmgmso is improving. He baa not been seriously eiekiUhough painfully . . affected. , - There nxe ft number of di-. -vorce cases on tfeft Madison Superior Court docket awaiting trial. -7' Charlotttt' Observer: .W a regret - to learn of the death at - Mt. Pleasant. Ca barrus county, on the 20ih inst , fcf Rev. J. B. Anthony; who had been for fifty yeers past an earnest abd a faithful worker in the, Master s . vineyard.- Mr Anthony waa a Lutheran minister and was 78 years of age. ' Rev. j . u, wares. late rector or the Episcopal church at Concord. . passed . through this city eslerday on his way to Winnaboro, 8, C. where he will reside ia the future, having accepted s call to the ' rectorship at tbat place. - Rev. W. G. Campbell is to be installed as pastor of 8t. ' James' Lutheran church. ,in, Concord, next Thursday evening, and the installation ser vices will be conducted by Rev. T. 8. Brown of this city and Rev. F. W. E. Pes-'" ' chau of Wilmington. j v--in thf beginning of this centu ry there occurred at Raleigh a battle of giants. .- The scene of the conflict was the Circuit Court of .the United States. The arbiter of tbe foray was Judge Potter. On the side of the plaintiff the leader was Wm. Gaston. On the side of the defendant tte most eminent .-was Duncan Cameron; It was Earl Granville struggling to get back f rem the people of North Carolina Iho magnificent estate which they had won by the sword. When tbe fight was ended all that remained to the noble earl was t he honor of naming' two of our counties, Granville and Garteret, He carried his futile quest to the Supreme Court of the. United States, but tbe war of 1812 came on and tbe plaintiff letired from the pursuit. iDr. K. P. Battle: - ".'" , - . " Goldsboro Argus: Mr. VV. II. Osborne, '. of . the 8hclby Aurora, who preached two sermons in the Baptist Church in this city on Sunday, morning and evening, made a fine impression on the large congregations that were out to Lear him. The Annual Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church will convene at Wilson to-morrow. Rev. J H Mattocks, presiding elder of the Raleigh district, in forms us that it will be perhaps the largest Conference in the history of the Colored ' Methodist Church of the State. - The opening of the Second Annual Exhibition of the Eastern Carolina Stock and Indus trial Association will take place to-morrow on the 6pacious grounds of . the Eastern Carolina Fair and Stock Association near this city. No efforts have been spared to make this exhibition creditable snd attrac tive, and such it gives every evidence of being. : - ':'' j Elizabeth City Falcon: While the little schooner belonging to Capt. Wm. Jereles was off the mouth of Newbegun creek, last Friday night, John Carmine fell overboard and was drowned. -The boy was about sixteen years old and lived with his father in Elizabeth City. : - Lieut. Win slow, of the oyster survey, says that the area examined is about 170,000 acres, of which 50,000 acres have been thoroughly and. exhaustively studied. Of, the total 170.000 acres about 110,000 are suitable for oysters, but it is impossible to speak abso lutely at the present time and in advance of tbe collection of all the data necessary. Tbe natural beds comprise about 2,500 acres of this tract, but it is probable tbat in the past they occupied a much larger area. The best oysters have been found in Far creek and Roanoke sound, but a good mar ketable oyster can be grown anywhere in Pamlico sound where the bottom is not too soft and the water is cot too fresh or. too changeable. . Tarboro Southerner: Last week Mr. Stephen Bradley, of this county, lost one of his barns by fire. It contained a con siderable quantity of , old corn. Mr. Frank Powell, proprietor of the Southerner, offers a gold medal every year to the man who does the best work'at fires during the year. A Democrat who will not aid a Republican with his vote should not aid him with his name and wealth, the former counts only one, the latter thousands. , The Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Com pany wanted to build a brick warehouse down at the cotton yard in this place. A citizen of Tarboro bas stepped in and bought the lot to. prevent its being built there. On Tuesday two little daugh ters of Gray Brown,; living about six miles from town, Mary and Martha, aged respec tively seven and five years, met with a painfnl accident. They were playing near a cart body leaning against a post, when the body blew down upon them breaking Mary's thigh and Martha's collar bone. ; Greensboro Workman: Colonel Forney Green, of Franklin county, lost by first last Tuesday night his cotton and barns worth but iittle short of $5,000. Mr. Stokes Cheek, who went from Orange -county in 1884, sailing from New York -June 14th of that year on the City of Rome for Siam, arrived here this morning on the northern train, having left Bangkok on the 27th of August," and coming through the Suez Canal via Gibraltar and London . L. J. Kirk, who was formerly of tbe Air Line Road, and was injured while in the employ of said company, brought suit some time ago for $16,000 damages in the Supe rior Court of Mecklenburg county. The' case waatriend and the jury brought in a verdict of $10,000 in favor of the plaintiff. The . railroad appealed to the Supreme Court. ' After hearing argument the case was referred and remanded to the Superior Court. The case came up for a new trial at the present term of the Mecklenburg Su perior Court and the case was finished yes terday, the jury bringing in a verdict of $10,000 for the plaintiff the same as brought in before. We learn the railroad company will take another appeal to tho Supreme Court. 1 'Elizabeth City Economist : While the little schooner belonging to Capt. William Jereles was off the mouth of New-' begun Creek, bound for this city with a load of cotton, at about 8 o'clock Friday night, a white boy named John Carmine, employed by the captain as a deck band, fell overboard and was drowned. Upon her arrival here Wednesday morning, the crew of the steamer Shenandoah report having passed, at the mouth of Pasquotank river about two miles west of the light house, a sunken sloop with only about ten feet of her mast above the water, and with all her sails set. The sloop appears to bo loaded and is supposed to have been cap sized during the heavy wind of the night before. ' Mr. C. W. -Howell, one of Pasquotank's most progressive farmers, sends us samples of three crops of white potatoes grown this season on tho same ground. The first crop was planted on -the 6th day of March and dug oh the 12th of June; in size they will average with large apples. The second was planted on the 14th of June and dug on the 4th of September; they are as large as goose eggs. The third and last crop was planted on the. day the second crop was gathered and dug on the 8th of November; in size they are as large as hen eggs, Charlotte Chronicle: Quite a number of new residences are now in course . of erection. Will Hall, baggage mas ter on the Carolina Central, happened to a painful accident a night or two since, at -Laurinburg. While on the top of a box car arranging the bell cord he slipped off and fell to the ground, breaking one of bis arms. - Mr. F. D. Donneliy, of the U.' S. Fish Commission, is at the Central. He is here distributing a large lot of fish known as the leather carp. He has about one hundred buckets of this species of fish, averaging twenty to the bucket. A. new paper is to make its appearance from Wadesboro about the 2d of December The Southern Argus. Mr. J. H. Ragan will be tbe editor and proprietor. -3 Mr. F. M. Ballard, living near Wright's Ferry,; about fourteen miles from this city, had the misfortune to lose his dwelling house and the entire contents a few days ago. Nothing was saved except a cooking stove. H. P. Jones, of Hillsboro, has taken out a patent for a danger signal. J. J. Thornton, Greensboro, bas patented a bo som board something to facilitate laundry work- F. Vaughan, Elizabeth City, has registered and patented the 7000th car coupler. - Capt. Pride Jones, of the R. & D. road, has also patented a car coupler. - - We are informed that the constables are kept busy serving papers, and the like of civil cases was never before known in this county. . Notes are being sued on, mortgages, foreclosed and. bills rendered. There is a complaint of scarcity of money, and a large number of papers are being pressed for payment. A number of our farmers are very gloomy over the prospect, yet such is tbe fact, we regret to .say.- .
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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