North Carolina Newspapers

-i-. v-J f; Hie Weekly Star j lUJihjSIlED AT ISOTON , C., tv Alt. IN ADVANCE. S25S2SSSSSSSSS3SS Hi riSSSS3S28S888g8 S38SSS8SSS88SS8S g28SSS888888S8888 gg8S8S8S8S8888SS 888S888S828S88888 SSSSSSSSS3SSS83 8SS888S8888888S88 jrnUToi' attlie Post Office attWUmtagton.N. C, , as Second Clasa ,Matter.l , - - - ItUGSCRIPTION PRICE. fiic saoscriStioa price 6f the. 'trSxiXT gi.ut is as follows : ' " .j; t - Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, $1.50 ' Otaontlis, " f " : 1.00. . " 3month8 " ' .60 siTI -IL CONTROL OF TRAFFIC. Our daily exchanges have njuoh to gay oE- tbe intei-S late Commerce bill before Cofigress. Nearly or quite all oAm are strongly in favor of the parage of a bill.. If the concensus of option correctly reflects public sentiment, then there is no doubt that tbe people . pre overwhelmingly in favor of the enactment of a law to regulate transportation. J The idea spenis lo be that a bill must be passed and j'ut to "work, and then it most be cbaogc to suit the exigencies and to prevent friction, &c. A recent Ti ter in tbe Nation makes the same statement to which we referred in oar .-.recent article on the bill, lie B3Y5 that the principles ; of the bill bef tl the Congress have been tested andwith unfavorable results "in En ghml,France, Germany, Belgium and. Italy." He goes so far as to say that in tbe countries narrfed "the railways are infinitely less accommodating, less efficient, and more exorbitant and irresponsible than they are here' in tbe United States. : How true this is we cannot undertake to say. Butt we have seen feirnilar .statements by another 'vtriter., " I As raiiroadin? in the United States has al ways been more efficient and satisfactory than in other countries it may be that the bill before Con gress may produce results much more favorable than the European expert ments would EtC-m to atborixe. "It is about certain that a law will pass Congress, and we must hope that its . provisions will be wise and just to all concerned. . We are not satisfied that CoDgresB has legitimate power1 to act, but some of the . strongest State Rights exponents favor it. We have grave doubts if ;it was ever contemplated tbat the Federal Government should usurp the'power of the States and turn it-i self into a common carrier of traffic, Itris tiue that it carries and regulates, and controls tbe , raails, bat this is probably an usurpation to which we have become accustomed as we found itex-.stinsr in our cbildhood and have never known any other system. j The tendency ia to" a: strong Go verDaivct. With the mails, railroads and telegraphs in control of the Go vernment, and tho public schools ncdtr , "National" patronage and Barrcijiance, and then we will eee a Government more like Russia than like a pveat Republic composed! of iudapefrdynt Sovereignties. The idea is growing that the Government was instituted to do every thing for the. , people that they can best do . for themselves, which precisely reverses the convictions and theories and .plansof tbe illustrious fathers of our country. ' ' The :de3'is widening that it is tbe business of the Government to cure cattle, bestow charities,, create work for laborers, and so on. The idea is' more and more personal and, there fore, Ices and less republican. The idea is misre and more the idea of the advocates of Centralization, and less and less tWidea of a "compact" of sovereignties into which independent States entered for certain specific ends, reserving to "themselves all rights and privileges not granted in the-very terms of the compact. But all this iy the Way. It ! w . thought by many legislators and bu siness men that a law similar to that before Congress is much needed. It is held that only the Congress can regulate the traffic between tbe States, and that this necessity origi nated in tbe fact that the States can nly regulate traffic within their bor ders. 1 bat is to say, that the States can only deal with business con tracts that originate . within their own lines. It is because of this that bat is known as the "rebate" ays 'em has been worked. This system secures better rates for long hauls in BPJe hi State laws, as in Massachu setts for instance. - ' - tennessee attempted to remedy the evil of "rebates." The Philadet . . . P"ia American thus . presents the case: ' . .. - 1 te coDeeonence is that rallrnsrtu'which run across the State line are able to emanci- memselves from State control and to secure a mononolv of lonor hanla within tbe Btate. as well as beyond its bounds, by puerine rebates whirh thn Stata lawn fnr- i!i -r rhe evilof tbi was seen very clearly 10 lennessee a few years! ago. The State -- - -'.;::. f-' I'll M 1 1 'mi'&sA W A n w r-MrU;;;- rW .1: .- - s. . - .V - J! - ' V i ' t'i r - -T - " - ' : ,' . . -, A- 1 7 r" f V7 V " - iil 7v - J) - -.;'-i editoroftte Chariot -:;'ih. I'. v;:.--. " YyV'- , " a. U-w---. j-r-litt - . - - - M. 1 i " ' - journalist. We ate glad lhat Mt. Robinson bad enacted charges be exactly proportional to distances. uu ieiwKi oe orxerea. As a con sequence the freight to competitive points witnm the State was monopolized by those railroads which ran across the State lines, and tho others were throttled. It was found impossible even to wait for the repeal of the law by the Legislature; a railroad com- junsBioner was elected on the pledae that he would ignore and nullify the law. t. The business of granting rebates is a very seri ous evil to the business of the country. It was imported into this country from Eng land, where it prevailed especially-in the hardware trade. In its application to rail road business it operates to crush out the small operators and increase the wealth and power pi ine great It is substantially a bargain' to give . wholesale terms! to firms wmch give thecompay a great amount of business, whila those which are operating in a smaller way have to pay much higher iu Buuie cases twice as much. " J-j-:':'f-w'Ajt ob peace. !,. We oonfess .'to inability to under stand the European war news. Some days the news is exactly contradic tory as sent out by correspondents, as was the ease two days ago. Why thore j should be war is ; beyond us. France j would like" to have Alsace and Lorraine, but it will hardly try, now to wrest them from Germany. After Yon Moltke and Bismarck are gone the attempt may be made. Austria is not willing to fight over the Balkan trouble's without an ally. Germany has do idea off fighting Russia. England has trouble enough at home. So why should there be war?! And yet the news looks war Kussia is reported to be moving like secretly, and has great armies ready for the "tug of war." The Czar is said to bo drinking bo heavily he jis attacsea by diliriura tremens, ; .i . . : France is preparing for war and Germany is believed to be the enemy at which it intends to strike. That is one report. But' anotierj report from Paris is that all is l erene and the war cloud has disappeared and gay ety once uiore prevailsj. All these rumors and movements disturb 'the nations and threaten "the peace of all end is - Germany, Europe." Where It will bevond us. England, Italy, Austria have to keep large armies to be ready for anv move to be ready for ments of Russia and France.- We uspeot that these two countries will Je allies in the event of. war. Tbe question of peace remains very much in the power of Russia, as we do not think that France will move alone. A HAPBK If BW TEAR iThe Stab wishes all of its readers thjB very best tfiatnLbtf y?ar oan alford. L.et all take heart and .go to work in earnest with good hope of industry success, with mtel.igent. and necessary economy bej able to get along tair all ought to y well. ' hfou hnve made many mistakes during the year. --Who of us can say truly otherwise? Let us be careful Let an era j to avoid them in 1887. of good feeling begin Let enmitjes, envyings, jealousies, heart-burnings, al disappear, and the soul of men win will be happier ana life will be better. Begin afresh. Make a new start with new resolutions and keep them. And may a benignant and! Ipropitions Providence smile upon one and ail. Some poet has sung With cold of joys and with iron of sor rows. Freighted and filled shall the New Yea: fflide. Through storm and sunshine to newt morrows. And uoKnown havens o er Time's fierci tide. The bells for the dead Old Year are knell . ine. But we drown tbem all in our lust cheer, - . And the rails in the winds of our hope arl swelling Happy New Year! fob ten teaks. So far as we know the Stab is tb only paper in -North has regularly, daily, Carolina tha gathered the State news. There is not a week that seven columns or news have not been g more of State eaned. By a fair calculation, the SjrAB has pub ijished within the year ; ust ended full 350 columns of State news, brevier lype. This would prii t nearly three volumes of the Thistle Edition of Scott's novels. Mincj you, this is but. nnfl feature of the STAS. but a most important one. k. leading busi ness man in New York subscribes to the Stab just to get its State newa. He says he reads it at home at night When too busy to read it at his office. He is a Northern man at that. In the last ten years the Stab his printed more than 25 volumes Of North Carolina news of the tyrje and size of the "Thistle Edition." In that time it has published more than 35 volumes of editorial, beside locals.' The Stab pt-ints annually Lot tor that would fill Isome seventeen uiwvvvi , w - i pr eighteen volumes c f the Thistle kdition of Scott's novole, and all for $7-00.' '. :-;;'';.; .' I ' I Wa tniln this statement that fair-. minded readers may see how much matter they get for their money, Some complain beoause they do not get more, but they want the earth j? The Stab gives all the reading mat ter that its patronage stflowe. With AnnhlA the advertising - and double he subscription;; the . Stab - could Afford to print ten at fifteen mor volumes of the size of the edition re ferred So-without raisirig the price of subscription. T . -- ' I - I mORTALITT FOB 1886 : Another year has passed since we gave the necrology for North Carolina i X885. During the year just closed but; few eminent citizens: have died," butj the usual number of useful and prominent ? men in . localities : have gone to their reward Wo are able a part. The of bourse to recall but local papers can supply the deficien e cies in enumeration in. their respec tive fjelds. The list is surely long enough to awaken thought and re mind ns that we too are -mortal and are) hastening to that "bourne whence no traveller returns.- j We inentionT Dr. C. C. Peaoookj Eugene A. Maffitt, CapC George C. JSochan, Maj. E. W, Ilerndon, Rev. Evan'der-McNair, D. Dl, Jadge WUliam J.) Clarke, Prof. De Berniere Hooper, A. W. Da v en- Prt Robert C. Patton, A. B. Springs. W. H. Sugg, Eli Moffitt, Dr. James Dusenberry, Maj. W. H. Brown, R. W. Pulliam, Dr. Wm. Iunter,Dr.Jos. A. Drake,J.W. MoEl- roy, Judge R. H. Cannon,"Maj. W.H. Bagley, W. L. Reed, Dr. J. A. Jack son, Daniel G. Carter, Dr. J. B. Stal ling Rev. P. T. Penick, P. H. Rid diok, Phillemon Holland, Jr., Mrs. Mary Bayard Clarke, Dr. R. R. Robeson, Dr. J. C. Carson, Dr. Wil ham Underwood, Rev. Frank Sand ford, Dr. John Yancey, James, R. Thigpen, Col. Samuel L. Fremont, Rev. W. H. Watkins, Dr. Milton elby, Dr. J. M. Richardson, Rev. '. A. Nicholson, Dr. Albert Myers, ohn C. Nixon, James VM. ' Clement, at rick H. Winston, Jr., Capt. Eu gene B. Wiggins,"' Dr. , P. P. Peace, ev. J. C. Garlick, Rev. N. A. Pure- by, Nicholas Williams, Bacchus J. mitb, Rev J." J. Beaseley, Col. Henry B. Short, Frank H. Darby, David A. Jenkins, Dr.; W. A. Holt Dr. R. F. Hackett, H. B. Eilers, Capt. W.' A. Cumming, Nathan A. Stedman, Jr., Jesse J. ' Baker, Rev. Walter W. Pharr, D. D., Rev. J. C. Alexander, George E. Bostian, Rev. J. B. Anthonyj Dr. Wi H.. Barker, Marshall Alexander, Frank Thomp son, Jesse HJ Lindsay, Capt Jas. W. Strange, and George G. Lynch. llEiTH OF GEN. X.OB1NG ' - . 1 In the death of. General William W. Loring, the country loses a high ly meritorious officer. He was born in North Carolina, and was taken to Florida when very young. He fought the Indians when but fourteen. He ' was in the Florida Legislature when quite a young man. He served with gallantry in the Mexican' war as cap tain in a regiment of mounted cav alry. The New York Herald says: "He participated with' his command, under General Scott, in all the battles from Vera Cruz to the City of j Mexico, during which time he was promoted to Major, and at the close of the conflict was brevet ted Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. He lost his left arm while leading hia regi ment into the Belen Gate of Mexico. Du nne 1849. on the outbreak of the gold fe ver in California, Colonel j Loring was or dered to cross the continent with bis regi ment and take command of the Department of Oregon, which position he held until 1851. His march at that time, a distance of 2.500 miles, with a train of 800 mule teams, was considered the 'greatest military feat on record, in 1851 he was placed tn command of the Rio Grande frontier, which he held for five years, jen joying during that time several engagements with the In dians, which resulted in his obtaining the full commission of Colonel in December, 1856. ..- ',!! "In 1858 Colonel Loring marched bis regiment to Utah Territory and took part, under the command of Brevet Brigadier General A. S. Johnston, in what was known as the 'Mormon War.' and this ended his active service under the flag of his country." : I He bore a most honorable part in the war between the States. He rose to the rank of Major General in the Confederate! army and saw much service. HeL went to ISgyptf and was engaged in two battles. He rose to the rank of Fereek Pasha in the Egyptian service and was decorated with two orders. The' Herald says: - ; . - - -"He returned to bis native country in 1879. and for a time resided in Florida. He came to this city in 1880 and settled down to write his book, 'Confederate soldier m Egypt,' which was published about two years ago. General Loring was a brave soldier and a genial companion. "Dince the completion 01 tms dqok, 'The Confederate Soldier In Egypt;' he had been engaged in the preparation of a sketch of his own life, to which he devoted much of his leisure time. It ia not known how much of this work he had completed.'' He died in New. York City on the 30th of December of pneumonia. His death ' was unexpected. Col. Chaille-Long, who served with him in Egypt, was by his bedside. Flori da was his home. He was 69 years old.;,, v, r.: - " "The Wilmington Mobuthq Stab doesn't sing together with most of its other esteemed Tar-heel contemporaries on the abolition of tbe internal revenue, as it ought to do. Bichmmd Whig. Tbe Stab thinks for itself. It dis cusses economic questions after ma tore consideration. ' It has for many years opposed free drinks and free "chaws" and free . smokes. There are between twenty and thirty of its State contemporaries! who. take a sim ilar view; According, to the Whiff numbers ' indicate wisdom just aa might makes right. '. 1 : ... Gen. Logan makes the thirteenth member of the present Congress who have died. ; Correction. ' . .'.r ' The largest cargo of cotton shipped from this port, it seems, - was by the British steamer Cam Marth, which cleared Octo ber 23d. 1888, with 5.2S0 bales, weighing 3.493.749 . nbunda. Messrs. Williams & Murohison were he shippers. . Tb SlHlag noNtrcr. . Advices from Kaleifia report an intense, feeling of disappointment at 'the .failure to capture Walter Bingham,and 04 Thursday a denaSWd was made f or an iacreaas of the reward from $400 to $1,000. ;,Jt was hoped that the differencs between those sums would be put. upi by public-spirited citi zens, as the present reward ia. the largest the 8tate can offer. : The failure of the de tectiyes tb arrest Bingbam is considered most singular and not at all creditable.- . His whereabouts are , yet an . absolute, impenetrable mystery. .There are surmises by tbe score..- It is the belief and nope of many persons that he baa committed sui cide. Some actually think that he has had the temerity to return to! North Carolina, and is in hiding somewhere . A gentleman of Raleigh, who was recent ly at the' place where Bingham : murdered Misa Turlington, made a strange discovery. It was of hair, evidently from her head, on (he bark of a pine tree, only a few feet from the spot whe;B her Wood was found upon tho ground. The hair j was found caught in - the bark of the tree in considerable quantity at a point : some four and a half or five feet from the ground. This discov ery has given rise to a belief that Bingham choked tbe poor girl before he shot her.and that in choking . her ha' pressed; her head and neck against the-tree. K A correspondent of the Richmond Lit patch, writing from Raleigh, . December 80tB, say: ' - ;" , " . . j ' ' - : ... To-day Mr. W. J. Younr, superintend ent of the Institution I for tbe Deaf , and Dumb and the Blind, received a letter frem Mr. Edward McK. Goodwin" of Coun cil Bluffs.. The letter , says: "It is unfortu nate for me that my name should have ever been menuonea in the slightest connection with this terrible tragedy. Bingham never had any provocation whatever nor any grounds for jealousy of me,- as you well Know perhaps better ttan any otner man in North Carolina now as I was with yon ia the institute last Year and went with yon and JH188 Turlington to the Dear Mute la structors' Convention at Berkeley, Califor nia, la&t summer. I have had no news of Bingham since the report . of hia being at Ht. ltouis two dajB after be was at xiew York. If he ever gets here I will not vouch for his going away alive. 1 shall not suffer at bis hands if I can help it, and I think I can. I . I . It is not. known to over hilf a dozen peo- ble that Btosham and Goodwin have never seen eaph other. Biogbam bad left the in stitution long before Good win became a professor there, and in his infrequent visits he never happened to meet Good' win, who was only at the institution & year. Strike of Uallread Firemen. Colored firemen and wood-pagsera em ployed by tbe Atlantic Coast Line roads inaugurated a strike Friday-night, because of the Company's refusal of their dcodasds for an increase of wages. The strike was general, extending from Richmond, Va , to Charleston, 8. CL It occasioned but little delay in the arrival or departure of passenger and mail trains at any point, the places of the strikers being at once filled by train-men acd other employes. At the 4 depot in ihis city there was a slight disturb' ance when new men boarded the north' bound pawesger traia -on the Wilmington & Weldon road at 8 50 p m The fireman' on this tram was 'shot at by one of the stri' kcrs aa tbe locomotive passed Fourth street bridge, the ball passing through tbe collar of the man 'a coat but without, doing him any injury. Chief of Police Brock, with a detail of men from the City Hall, went to the Front street depot, in answer to a sum mons. but matters had quieted down and no arrests were made. The strikers in this city do not number more than twentyflve or miriy. rney oeiong 10 an organization knewn as the Firemen's Union, and seem to be confident that tbe railroad company will give them the advance asked for. Rail road officials, however, say that'they have no intention of doing so. The striking fire. men say that they were receiving ninety cents a day. They asked an increase of wages to $1 25 per day. Tbe National Parade at Washington, Col. Wm. C. Jones and other officers in this city of the N. C. S. G. , have received descriptive circulars of the national drill and encampment to be held at Washington on May 23rd. The citizens of Washing. ton haying subscribed a guarantee fund of $50,000, with which . to get up a national drill and encampment in- that city, have organized a. committee of representative citizens, of which the Hon. - Samuel E. Wheatley. Commissioner of the District of Columbia, is Chairman. This committee, having completed its organization, is now arranging for a national drill and encamp ment, to begin on May 23rd and continue until Decoration Day, ' May 80. Entries will be opened to regularly organized vol unteer militia of the United States, for competition as regiments, battalions or companies In infantry, artillery, cavalry and zouave tactics; and regularly .organ ized corps of cadets from military schools or universities. The prizes offered aggre gate 26'i22l--a-- - ''" Cotton movement. '" .f : j:S The otal receipts of cotton at vthis port for the first four months of the crop year' (ended yesterday) are 114,787 bales, against 78.953 bales for the corresponding period in 1885 showing an "increase of 85,834 bales, or nearly 50 per cent. The receipts for the month of December, 1886, are 25,604- bales, against 15,472 the same month in 1885 an increase of 10,132 bales, j " .. i '. The total exports for tbe four months ended with December are 100,683 bales, against 67,937 the same months in 1885. -' The stock at this port,' ashore and afloat, is 14,273 bales. f V.' I m m m Tne: Larseat Cargo of Cotton. : , The British steamship Jettmore, Captain Amlot,: which cleared for Liverpool yester day, has tbe distinction Of taking out the largest oargo of cotton ever shipped from this port,, and the Wilmington stevedores have the credit ofj stowing on board the vessel six hundred bales more than she car ried out as careo from Charleston. B. C on her last trip from that port to Liverpool in November. , The Jmrnon arrived at WUmington on the 18th of December, mak ing the run from Liverpool in eighteen day a j'.' ' .- : Forelsn Exporta. Messrs. Jas. Sprunt & Son cleared the. British Steamer Jutmore yesterday, for Liv erpool, Eng., with a cargo of 6,202 bales of cotton, weighing 3,408,526 , pounds and valued at $218,500.! Also, the Norwegian barque Th Thoreten, for Dunkirk. France, with 1.600 bales of cotton, weighing 736. 950 ouanda and valned at 1 68. 200. Messrs. S. P. Shotter & Co.- cleared the Norwesian. barons Cireattian. for Hulh- Eng, with 4,850 barrels of rosin; weighing 1,904,470 pounds and valued at zs.ooave.. Tne BXnrdcrer Btegam No tidings of Walter Lv Bingham have beeh received yet. ' A' Raleigh correspond ent says that every hour one hears thequesr tion.; "Win Bingham ptead insanity if he ia captured and -tried for the ntHrder bf Miss Turlicgioo? " It- goes' to ptove how much the public mind Is set against what f known as the 'insanity5 dodger, "-.The fbl- lowingf;cmpondBce;iBthio9BneeUon will be read with interest Uev.; C. T. Bai" ley; one of the best known edltori ' In (be ' State and a leading member of the Baptist Church; a tew . days since wrote Dr. Eu gene Griasobi, Superintendent of the North' Carolina Infeiiss A sy In ro; ihe following let-' 'l see in th ifecuUr press. the mainfesta tioa of a disposition on the part ofcertain persona of influence to manufacture a pub lic sentiment ia favor rof Biagbam, the .murderer hf Miss Turlington, on a plea of insanity; This is to-be: regretted, both for the caustt't ot justice and on account of the recent; expsrieDce the Stale faai had 4n the eraA of a number t the vilest criminals wi Aever disgraced the State. The people of Iffmii Carolina are tired of thi,. and are waJbhlng with special jnierest the steps takenfby their -efflcers in the present case. Unless our courts are more prompt and certain in the punishment of. criminals the people, now to some extent having lost confidence in the execution of the laws, will take matters of this sort into their own hands, . nor can I (as one who holds dear the best interests of his fellow-men) blame them. I trust that ysu.our highest author, ity on questions of insanity, will not in any way lend your innuence to such a plea on tbe part of Blogham.". ... . i j - : Dr. Grissom, in hla reply to this latter, say 8: -.. ; v . .. . j ,...';. "I fully appreciate and sympathize with your general views about crime and the evasion of its penalties by all aorta of sub terfuges. While 1 think we should throw the mantle of eharity and protection around those whose reason is realiy dethroned, we should guard against that false sympathy which embraces the criminal and forgets the victim. The hearts of the virtuous are every day wrung at the exhibition in our midst of that sad but sixqul philosophy which seems to have been transferred from the stage to real life ." Tne c. P., 4c If. V. Extension. . A party of gentiemen left Wilmington yesterday by private conveyance, to go over the line of tbe proposed extension of the Cape fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad from Fayetteville, to' this city. The party consisted of Col. Roger Atkinson, chief engineer of tbe road, Mr. J. H. Currie, and Col. A. M Waddell. They were accom panied bjp Mr. R. MacRac, civil engineer, who cmducted the survey made some months "ago to ascertain the most practica ble rout on the csbt nc"c of ihjs Capo Fear rier. . ' ' ... . .. . It is understood that by the terms o! the agreement made betwefea the railroad com pany and the representatives of the city. that work on the extension , wnl begin at Wilmington, and that ' the first 'payment will be made wbtn ' the first" five miies are finished; and subscquenl'paymenls made1 aa the work progrestss. If the agreement is approved by the Board of Aldermen and the Board, of Audit and Finance of the city, ih question no eubacriptioD will be subscription or suumitted to the quallfled "voters , of tbe city at the election in March next. Beeocnltlon or Gallant Services. Capt Robertson, master of. the British steamship EUsUno. now in this port, was presented with a gold watch and chain on the arrival of his vessel in Liverpool from his voyage from Wilmington in October last. Tho testimonial had been awarded to him by the United States government for having rescued the crew of the American schooner Martha Brotesr. An account of the presentation is published in the Liver pool Journal of Commerce, A number of prominent gentlemen of thit city were present.' The chairman of the meeting (Alderman Shallcross) in making tbe presentation, said the services rendered in-j volved considerable risk on the part of the crew of the British steamship, and Captj Robertson was to be greatly commended! upon the humanity whicfi he had displayed.' The American government always behaved handsomely in matters'of this kind, and he was glad to see that the reward in this case had fallen upon one who so richly deserved t Capt' Robertson briefly acknowledged the presentation, and said he bad always I considered U his duty to . offer any assist ance in bis power to vessels ia distress. The watch bears the following inscrip tion: "From tha President of tbe United States of America to Captain j Thomas Robertson, of tbe British steamer KMova, for his gallant conduct in rendering aid to the distressed American schooner Martha Brower." - -"' -' n m ' " I ' Naval Storea Bfovemenu ..' . ' . j : The comparative statement of the move- meat of naval stores at this port from the beginning of the crop year, April 1st, 1888, to January 1st, 1887, shows an increase in receipts of Spirits turpentine and rosin, and a decreaso in tar and crude turpentine, as compared with receipts, during the same period-in 1885. -The total number of casks Of spirits turpentine received up to date this year is 55.484 casks; last year, 53,708 casks. Rosin, 234.433 barrels; last year, 210,010. Jl'ar, 45.669 , barrels; last year. 49,592. Crude - turpentine 19,523 barrels; last year. 27,922. : . - :'; - j-.' The stock of rosinf at this port," ashore and afloat, is 98,617 barrels; at the, same time last year, 117,017. The stock of spl- rito turpentine, ashbrend afloat, ,182,857 casks; last ' year at the same time, 3,047 casks . -'' -. - -v" - - ; , , -.. : . ,;! - 1 Steamers. The arrival - of two British steamshipa-i-r theifeftwttfeaad BeeehtiUenllbia- a few hours of each other yesterday is' worthy of note as , evidencing the rapidly increasing commerce-oft Wilmington. - ..Fifteen or morelre steamers have-i already fsaile'd this season for foreign porU, all freighted with full cargoes "of cotton, and there are now four more in port During the whole of the last cotton crop year hot more than six or eight of these "ocean tramps? visited Wilmington . : There is out one .expression of opinion from the masters, of . these ves sels toe naroor is easier ot access as com pared with other harbors oa the coast, their vessels are loaded with dispatch, and gene rally they take out larger cargoes of cotton than they have carried from any' other port. Blngna There is a growing belief ia Raleigh that Walter Bingham; Miss Turlington's mur derer, has committed suicide. , Few, per sons think he has gone to Canada. One of his relatives says he has probably crossed the oceans .The authorities ia ' Raleigh are greatly puzsled at tha continuous failure to hear-a word from a man so easily identt fled. . - 3UI880URI. TaaAdaaaa Bxpreoa Car Uobbtrs ail C tneGaait rantnrfd Train Wreek4 ro Confession of One of the Gang. ' St. Lotrrs Tw. SO Robert' Pinkerton eajs ail tbe accomplicea ia the ' robbery have been captured lh flvu men under arrest and messenger . Upon t-eing asked" if Frotberiogham w'i$'uiUv,.hd-' repeated, "I am not ready to e. . I prepared the evidence for the; grand jury, and be waa indicted; Draw jour; own conclusions " There arc a large number of accessories af ter tbe fact, be- said, ccatteri-d c-ver the country, and be wou'd uee his judgment in making further arrvsts. " Pinkertoa's men were wonting ih city all ctghJ,-; but the frntra of their Ubora sro not made 'known.; Witrock and Cook were kept jn the Adams Express office all day.r hnd were removed to some place of concealment at dusk; . LsAVBswoniH. Ks. Dtc iSO. Mrs.' Witrock. mother of ' Jim Cumming." waa seen ut her rc'deoceiaisn nigUt, 8he waa, very unwilliuztosay ant thing about thn arrcstnf her son. . bnl was : anxious that tbe ;publie --shoald.,; Jkoow . the : rail cause of rtbe robhtrV She - aid; tbat she had wondered from the fireti what prompted the robbery, acd tbe first ques t(3a, she asked her sun. after he had beed brought7 to huV'Jboae byktecUvea waa.., VWby did you take the money t". She says be answered that he , was greatly worried because the time was growing so short when a mortgage on ' her, home to secure $1,700 that she had boirowed and loaned to bim would become due. and be was not making money enough out of his business to pay her. So. instead of bilowiog tho homestead to go .to sale, he made up bis mind to make a desperate effort to save it, and finally decided upon tbe plan of rob bing tbe express car. , -.'f Oscar Cook made a confession ytsterday in which he stated that Frothericgham knew all about the plan to rob bis car. and waa a willing victim to the attack of tho robber. ' It is said that he was premised $10,000 of th9 amou&t stolen, aa bis share, of tbs booty, and tbat a im was part of the money which Fred; Witrock sent to bia mother for safekeeping. ; St. Louis, December 30. A special from Kansas City states that it was tbe intention of the conspirators to rob the car on Tho night of October 22J, and that the first "Jim Cummings" letter was written before that time and dated on tbat day. On that night, " however, there wa not enough money in the car to pay tha robbers tor their trouble, and their plan was not finally carried out until the 25th. Should this statements be borne ut by the facta in the case Frotheringbsm will doubtless ac company bia - fellow-conspirators ta tbe penitentiary . .( ; I : -Kansas City, December 30 --In Haoail ton'a trial at Wyando'te, tbta m nni-jis. for tiain wrecking. William Ve&seu. one of tho accused, made a clean breast of it swear ' ing to the circumstances of tbe wrecking ..f the traia as they have been published here tofo e in newspapers, . lie testified tbat Lloyd "pulled tbe epikea, aided by- New port, wbiie Hamilton. Vtsvrn and others stood guard., Hamilton f-tands charged with murder.. two lives having been lo:t in tho wreck these men caused during the: great Southwestern strike. J f St Lours, January 1. Robert Pinker ton and Superintendent v Damsel, i of the Adams Express Company, arrived hero to day from Kansas City, with Fred Witrock and Officer Robertson, of Pinkerton'S Agency, brought Weaver from Chicago. Both were takes to tbe Four uourts and handed over to the city jailor. Witrock said that he and . Hsight . bad planned the robbery and all the stones about Mrs. tlaight having done tne neaawoik was mere talk and nothing more.- Frolhingham had known nothing about the contemplated robbery, and had euspected nothing wrong after he X Witrock) bad entered thenar.until he was thrown down and disarmed, r rink erton talked freely to- a reporter about the Case, and sid: "We have nearly-completed the work now and have turned up a larger part of tbe money : about 150.000. We have not added up all of our fuads, but those nsures are pretty ueariy cur cct There are still seven or eight thousand dol lars out, and we expect to recover a greater part of it. 80 you eee the Express Co. are not aucu very neavy losers atttt all. The major portion of the money was found under Oscar Cook's bouse. He was en ac cessory after tbe fact, and if convicted ran be made to serve a good term m prison. Mrs. Habbt knew Bothing of the robbery until after it waa done, and she has not been arrested. Witrock and Haight did the planning. Weaver weakened at the last moment - He waa to ride on tho- front platform of tbe express car and was to. give warning of any approacbinz danger; but he backed out Witrock, however, bad to put up $3,000 to induce him to keep his moutn snnt. ah or mat money nas oeen recovered except i a few dollars which he spent. t ; OCR DAIXT BREAD. Heavy and sour bread or biscuit have a vast influence through tbe digestive organs upon the measure of health we enjoy. How important to our present happiness and fa ture usefulness the blessing of good health and a sound constitution are, we can only realize when wo have lost them, and when it is too late to lepair tho damage. And yet notwithstanding these facts, thousands of persons daily jeopardize not only their health, but their lives, and the healths acd lives of others, by using articles in tbe pre paration of their food the purity and health fulness of which they know nothing. Per- baps'a few cents may have been saved, or it may have been more convenient to ob tain the articles used, and the housekeeper takes the responsibility and possibly wul never know tbe mischief .mat has been wroueht. Paterfamilias mar have spells of headache, Johnny may have lost his ap petite, susie may look pale; it so, tne true cause is rarely suspected, ine weatner. the lack of out-door air, or some other cause, is given, and the unwholesome, poi sonous system of adulterated food goes on, Next to the flour, which should be made or good, sound wheat and not ground too fine, tbe yeast - or. baking powder, which furnishes the rising properties, is of the greatest importance, aud of the two we prefer baking powder, and always i usa the Koyal. as we tnereby retain me original Drorjerties of the wheat, no fermentation taking place. The action of the Royal Baking Powder upon me dougn is simpiy to swe:l : it and form little cells through every Dart. The e cells are filled with car bonic acid gas, which passes off during the Drocess of bakinc. t r - The Royal is made from pure grape acid; and it is the action of this acid upon nign- lv carbonized bicarbonate of soda mat gen- -erates tne eas auuneu 10: ana tnese inirre- dients are so cure and so perfectly nueo. tested acd adapted to each other, that the action is mild and permanent and is con tinued durine the whole time of baking. and no-residue of poisonous ingredients re mains to undermine the neaiw. no neavy biscuits, no sour bread.: but if directions are followed, every article . prepared with tbe Royal Baking Powder will be found sweet and wholesome. " '"f ILLINOIS. Tne Vacant Senatorshlp Gov. Ogleaoy - Bat candidate, -f- I By Telecraph to the Morning Star.l " , Washihotoic, Jan. 1. The Star this eveninz savs: "Last nieht Gov. Oelesby of Ills., who came hereto attend the funeral of the late Senator Logan, In conversation with several leading citizens of that Bute, declared most positively and unequivocally that he would not be a candidate for the seat In the fienato made vacant by Gen. Logan's death. , He reiterated his formerly expressed intention of retiring to private Ufa at tha end of his term as Governor. This declaration on the part of the Gov ernor is regarded bv Illinois Republicans hero as being final and conclusive so far as he is concerned. Representative cannon leaves for Illinois to-night to look after his chances tot the Senatorshlp. Representa tive Payaon will remain la Washington, as there are matters pending in Congress which he says he must attend to. His In terests will be eared for by his friends. ALABAMA. Tna ateamer ttradfan Jsnason Barn a HHr mobile Several Lives Lost. Mobile. December 80.--Newa was re-. ceived faete lite. Ust night of the buriung of the steamer, Bradifch 1 Johnson, used as a boarding house, at Jackson, i on tha Biebee river, eleven miles above Mobile, on Wed nesday night. There f is no telegraph line to that point The Johnson was lying with her nose , in the bank, and a gang-plank out. A. Cyrell. one of the bosses, gave the following description of tbe fire: - ; . '! bad lust cone to t ed when I heard tho cry of fire. I got into my pants somehow and eeizfd my other effects and tusbed out into the cabin. - There had been a party of men Out mere plavine cards, and ihev'eaw smoke rising.. When I came into the cabin the nre seemed to be in a stateroom aft of the pantry on the port Bide, and the moo who bad been playing card were standing there at the door, looking in at the Ike. They seemed dazed and did not know what to do. 'There they stood, staring at it . I shouted, 'For God's sake,: what are you atadding there fori i Wake up,, and let us get out 01 here, There was an old Alaba mian in the room next" to miner-S was asleep when I went to bed. I hammered and pounded away with all my might, but I don't know . wbethtr I got him awake or not. Smoke was already , filling the cabin and men were running around like mad. I hardly know what happened. I ran for ward through me cabin and my month and eyes got so full of smoke that I did not know where 1 waa going, or bow. Negroes were mostly lodged on the lower deck, and they all came running forward about the same time we got there. The vessel was a solid mass of flames in a moment. When I reach the back I turned around and saw the pilot house- and the texas fall in. with some of the negroes.. . The others fled up the bank in a mob and rushed to the woods, where they huddled like sheep, and could not be persuaded to come down to the boat. They knew that some of their number were lost in the burning boat, and they were seemingly superstitious about it. . Tba boat became a mass of flames and burned about an nour. wnen sue sans, nomine but tbe jackvetaff remaining out of the water.. As soon as I got ashore there was a report that there wets men in the water on the other side of the steamer. Skiffs were manned and sent to the rescue. They picked up Mr Davis, one of me Caisson men. DjwI- ing. the cook, who received slight burns on the face and hands,' found a white man Iyi.ig la a state-room door; u&n miihouse came up and the two dragged the man, supposed to be McElroy, out on the boiler deck. The man was unconscious from tbe effects of smoke. Just then flames burst out on tbe side, and Dowling jumped over tbe railing to Save his life. Hillhouse. however,: said he heard a man groaning just in ide, and he went back into the cabin to rescue this man He 'never came out again and was never seen alive after that, and it is believed he was sacrificed In the. noble attempt to save another man's life. Hillhouse was from New York, and was considered tbe oldest pressure man in the caisson business, and was employed in building the Bigbee bridge. There is no telling just bow many lost their lives in the fire and in the river; some say that tea others are missing. 1 think two other white men were t urned With the boat and there may have been others, for I don't think they bad a chance to be awakened and then escape, for it was all I could do with the smartest kind of running to get out alive. Had the fire broken out one: nouf later, when: all the men would have- been : ia bed. , none of us would have made our escape, for there would have been nobody in the cabin to discover the smoke, and the whole crowd would have been suffocated. As to the origin of the fire, I know nothing. The cook was sick and knows nothing about it, He says the. boys told bim : befora be went to sleep tbat tbe fires in tbe galley were all out and everything safe. 1 The watchman. on the deck below, did not Bee the fire un til the alarm was given. The Bradisb Johnson was built in the West for what is called the Louisana lower coast trade that is, from New Orleans down to the passes of tbe Mississippi river, ohe was named after Bradish Johnson, reputed to be one of tbe richest sugar planters in Louisiana in 1874. Capt. J. Stone,. brought her here from New Orleans and ran her on ine Ala bama and its tributaries for several years. - until she got m litigation and was finally sold at a . marshal s sale. The purchaser was Capt-.H. C, Baldwin, who kept her in the same trade. After his death she passed to Mr. Kitten house Moore, who has owned her ever since.! Two years ago she was condemned and went out of commission She was not Insured and her . value was nominal. f j VIRGIN I A. A BInraer Trial In the V. 8. Court at Norfolk Tbe Prisoner Acquitted, Noktolk. Dec Sl.--The trial of Geo. W. Hill, for the murder last month of J. D. Potter, closed in the U. 8. District Court this evening with a verdict of aC quittal. Pottet was a draughtsman in the steam engineering department of theNort folk rtavy- xard and a married man, Hill's daughter, a pretty girl of six teen, attracted the attention of Pot ter who visited her I as a Bingle man until tbe imposition waa discovered and his visits were forbidden. He after- wards wrote her several cotes, which were received and read by her father. One af ternoon in .November mil and bis daughter called upon Potter at his office. The father became greatly enraged and during me conversation which ensued, drawing a pis tol shot rotter; who died in a day or two. W18HINGTON, Pnblte Debt Statement Tne Chilian minister Bobbed of money and Jew elry, -.--"t Washington. December 81 .The pub lic debtj statement to be issued Monday will probably show a reduction m tho debt during the past month of a little over eight million dollars. A bold robbery waa perpetrated at the residence of Don Domingo Gama, Chilian Minister, last; night . The burglar was F. U. Suva, a Brazilian, who bad formerly been employed as a. servant in tbe Mima ter's household. About a month ago Bllva was discharged under suspicion and went to New York. He returned to this city last night entered the home of his former employer, 2024 G street, and stole a sum of money ana S7.UUU worm 01 leweiryana other valuables. The police were promptly notified and tbe thief was arrested this morning while . boarding a train for New York. The valuables were recovered. SO UTH CAROLINA . ' New Tear's Day In Charleston. Br Telegraph to the Mornlna Star. Chablbston, January 1. New Year's day was celebrated in .Charleston by a pa rade of colored troops ot tbe First Brigade National Guard of south uaroiina. it was the largest parade held . by colored troops in a number of years. The march was through the principal streets and to Uamp stead - Hall., where the proclamation of emancipation ! was read. ; Business was eenerally suspended. The weather - was cool and threatening rain. GEORGIA. Escape of Six Convicts from Their -'"' ,." Guard. ' - - ' ' By Telegraph to tbe Horning Star.l Augusta.' Jan.' 1. A sauad of six con victs working ou the Augusta & Chatta booga Railroad overpowered and disarmed their guard to-day. i imprisoned two trustvs" in a hole lust dug. ' and with nicks and shovels triumphantly marched Into the adjoining woods and escaped . VIRGINIA,.: A Tragedy In Floyd Coanty. ... By Telegraph to the Horning Star. LTKCHBUBe. Jan. 1. Two brothers named Conner, living at Copper -Hill, Floyd county.1 while engaged in a drunken row to-day, stabbed their father, who tried to separate them, and he eannot live, With Wade II. Harris'aa local editorof the Charlotte OhronicU ttat young , paper will take on : new life and energy. The Chronicle is to be congratulated upon ' securing such an txpetieccca ana etfita : Journalist. We. are glad that Mc Robinson will continue bis connection with tbe pa per, . A Happy New Year to all. Raleighivcw Observer: ' Re duced rates havd -been securtd over tho railroads for the benefit -of those who will attend the Farmers' Convention ia this city anuary-igm. Tickets-wm be ussuert at two cents a mile or about one fare for both ways. - Prof. H. iT.- J. - Luditr was . reelected Secretary ot the State Grange ; at its meeting at Seaboaid on tho 15th in- stant- :: k'.T- .:'. - : Raleigh News' Observer: Mr. N. A. Siedman, who was ' quite severely in jured in the Chapel pill railroad accident, was able to be on the street yesterday . The Governor has pardoned A. B. Frank lin, who was convicted of larceny at tbe -spring term- of Wayne county Superior .." Oourt and sentenced for three years in tho penitentiary. . Fayetteville item: On . last Friday morning jJ. Pat Brewer, tbe negro who shot young Freeze of Rowan at Chapel Hill, was arrested in this city, , , Goldsboro Messenger : Mrs. Dr. George W. Butler, ofj Maraham, Brazil, 8. A., accompanied by her two-year old sou, Norwood, arrived in tbe city Tuesday eve ning, on a visit to ' her parents Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Humphrey. Under Re publican rule it seldom happened that tho Government found itself indebted to' its postmasters, aud hence ws record with pleasure tbe fact that, a few cavs aeo our townsman, Msj.J H. L. Grant, formerly tho emcient postmaster 01 mis city, receiqed a cnecK ior over fauu, a oaiance round to do due him by the PostOfBca Department. Reidsvilie Call: On Saturday morals the tafga fob tory . brick building. occupies by ..Messraj J3aily, Allen &Uo manufacturers or tobacco, was destroyed by fire. ' Yesterday at 'Hall Town a colored man was noticed sitting between two freight cars with a portion of oca' leg missing. The train was signed down and on examination it was found tbat the man was stealing a ride and had allowed his leg to get caught in coupling. : It was cut off just below the kneej the lower part of the leg being found ; some distance down the track. . ' . I -. -;T .. ! . - - Albemarle Observer: That bril liant daily," the Wilmington Star of De cember 18th, has a scholarly and highly "eulogistic article on Senator Z. B. Vance, suggested by the senator s late- speech in Boston. x ne mortar is pretty inica, neignT bor. but -we endorse every word it. Mr. B I. Belt of this county .went out to hunt a lost sheep: and while searching for it came upon a pile of goose feathers which indicated tbat something bad been playing hvnfl with his pfipap Ha morln snrl set a trap for the varmint7 and captured a. genuine gray eagle, measuring 7 tcct and a balf inch from tip to tip of wing. H Danbury Reporter: We learn that a farmer in this section sold his tobac co, between two hundred pounds, at one or the Winston, warehouses last week and re ceived a check for twelve cents. Better let tobacco alone if .you can do no better than that! The representation in the next . Legislature in this Congressional District, which includes eight counties, will be com posed aa follows House 11, Senate 8, total 10; ot these 14 are Kepublieane, 8 inde pendents from Rockingham, and 2 Demo crats one each from Surry and Forsyth in the House. In the last Legislature the en tire representation from this district was Democratic with the exception of tbe mem ber of the House from Surry. ; Mnmhev Bulletin'. Reoorts from different parts of ( the county vary as to the depth of the enow.- It was from two to three feet deep oh a level. The roads for the past few weeks have been almost im passable. in mis issue wilt be round tbe schedule of j the Marietta and North Georgia railroad. It will be seen that trains run to the North: Carolina State lino, only thirteen miles distant from our town. - Never iu the history of our town has it on joyed such a building boom as has been going on for thej poBt few months. Application will j be made to tbe next Leg islature for a charter by which the North Carolina, Cleveland & Chattanooga Rail road can be extended tb Murphey and tha Georgia line.:. This road completed would bring the copper; iron," manganese and ar gentiferous oresi of our section -in clcse 1 proximity to the coal mines at Dayton, Tennessee. 4 Salisbury Watchman: The vo ting on the railroad subscription Tuesday, at the hox in this town was remarkable for its unanimity. All shades in polltics.color and previous condition, came together at me polls and voted almost solid for Sub scription, and Rowan voted a subscription of $100,000 by a clear majority of about 800. -We mink Bo wan is ahead on naming postofflces. She has" a "Saw," a rhi" and a "Zeb ." the latter evidently in tended as a feather in our Senator's cap. - Tho Bolton mine, in Henderson coun ty; continues to, develop in a satisfactory manner. Four tunnels have been driven on the lode, from all of which ore is being; taken. Cq1. H, C. Demming, general manager of the Marion Bullion Company, operating in McDowell county, reports the finding of a twin diamond, white, of good color, and weighing 4i carats.1 Asheville l Nuance.' The North ern Methodist Church building, ,on Bailey street, has been leased for the purpose, and Rev. Dr. Carroll will preach regularly at 11 a. m. and 4 p. m.r commencing next Sabbath. i We are glad to be able to report tbat all the passengers wbo were in jured in tbe recent wreck on me -spartan burg & Asheville Railroad, are improving; rapidly and will soon be entirely recovered,. - The little town of Arden. between Asheville and! Hendersonville was the' scene of a considerable row on Christmas day, engaged in by at least a halt dozen persons. Knives and rocks were tbej weapons used. - The members of the Asheville bar will have a reception at the Swannannoa hotel to-morrow evening complimentary to Hon. James H. Merri-t . mon, who will leave for the eastern part of .; the State on the 7th of, January to enter upon his new duties as Judge of the 8u-"' perior Court, k Charlotte Chrontcte: Informa tion reached tho city- yesterday of another battle near Joel Watta' store, in this county, and that it was a pretty tough affair may be imagined from the fact tbat one of the participants turned up with one ear gone, and another bad a choice piecs hof steak , bitten from his chin. The fight occurred between Messrs. "Coot" Khowles and Wade Polk, and it originated in a quarrel over a horse race. . i ; Mr. Joseph Walker, a venerable gentleman, arrived in this city yesterday morning from upartanburg, ac companied by his daughter, a girl of 14 years of age. j Mr- Walker ia the mayor of Spartanburg; land his visit here was a sad one. HU young daughter had married a young man ia Spartanburg and Mr. Walker was taking ner away rrom ner nusoana. Last night Mr; Walker placed his daughter on the north bound train, and sent her to a . place of refuge in a Northern city. . I Charlotte. Observer: On the 22d inst three cars were ordered for the street railway, and they arrived in the city last night. .-- Parties who- arrived in me City yesterday from Morganton brought news of the killing at that place, on last Saturday, of( Sam Pearson, by , deputy Luther Ward and posse. . Pearson resisted arrest and was fired upon and instantly killed. Pearson, we are told, about ten years ago committed a murder at Morgan ton, for which be was tried, convicted and sentenced to j a tcrnrin the penitentiary. Christmas morning Ollas Dixon, col ored, loaded an old gun to fire a Christmas salute. Whea, he pulled tbe trigger the gun burst and Dixon's nose was broken into fragments. The lock flew off and snlit Dixon's wife's upper lip open. Dixon is satisfied that his salute was lively enough. On last Monday night, at Dallas, aa assault was made on Mr. Joe Floyd by a young man named John Wise, which will probably prove fatal. No particulars of the causes which led to the affair could be learned, but it: is stated that some time after Supper Wise called Floyd out of the Mat thews Hotel office and attacked him with a knife, cutting him in four places, two of the wounds being of a very serious nature! Wise, the man who did the cutting, made his escape and: baa not since been seen. He is described sf being about -iwenly years old, heavy set' and about five feet and six inches highbroai shouldered and slightly stooping." Wise's home is at Courtland, Miss., ana it is oeuevea teat ne win eueujyi, to go there. li-'-f1!?; v' j -i -' r-i fa : it S ,v'4:.'vriAiiL ,,:.;.;:.S.., . iif .... ... ... -j. .-,-. 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