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.1 . The Weekly 'Star; PUBLISHED AT CTON, N. CM ! . AT ' al.5 0 Aj YEAR IN AOTANCE, sss: SSSSSS88S3SS83S83 SSSS8SSSSSSS8SS88 88883888838888888 SS883S3SSSS88SS33 SS8888888S8888888 88882882888888883 nHrinnriHAaiiilli! 38333333 i - is - SI 3 3 3 -"""""-"frssssssasj rEntererf at the Post Offloe atrwilmlngton, N. C., 1 j as Second Class Matter J SI BSCBIPTION PBICE. I . The fmbscriOtion price of the Wkkett Stats is as follows : ! Siugte Copy 1 year, postage paid, $1.50 1.00 -DO I omonms, - i ' 8 months " I THE; I'KNSION OrTRAGE-KNOR-;iO V8 EXPENUITVRES. . In the U.S. Senate jon Thursday Mr. Pratt stated the best estimate or. nnt the expenses of I the Govern ment, including pensions, for the next year,- at ; $406,000,000. If this is "true there can; be no Bur plus or but little,. But; what an enormous sum. In I860 Mr. Bu chanan conducted the Government upon ah expenditure of some $70, 000,000. Now it costs as much in one year (o carry on the Government as it cost to maintain it five and a half years prior to the War. . Legis . lation has: ruu mad and the people are to blame for it all. Whon they are fooJisb enough to ask , tiie Congress to 35)roprj'at moneys for teaching school, relieving sick cows, sick hogs, feeding the people in districts where there has been a drouth,' and a hun dred other things wholly unknown to the fathers, it is not surprising that members! of CoBgress arc found pli able andj ready to dc all and more than is asked for. j This Paternal interference is an outrage j and in tbe end will sweep away every vestige of State Govern ments. jThe -spirit of trie Constitu tion is being violated almost every day by the Congress, and the people, ignorant and icfatui.ted, look on, clap their hands anc, say well done oh, thou legislative Solomons and Patriots of the destructive type. Even a leading Republican paper has been induced to cry! out against these, j Congressional abuses. The Boston Journal Bay e, and it is clearly on thejrigh track j " "Under the euise of; a gift the bill passed by the United States Senate giving $15,000 to establish an agricultural experiment sta tion in each State and Territory is an inter ference with tbe proper I unctions of the States. It is another step toward consolida tion. It is another act weakening the self dependence of the States.! It lis another ex ample j teaching the people, that for every little want they must run to; the Federal Government instead of relying upon their own energy. . It is demoralizing, as useless charity always is. ' f The business ot the Federal Government is not education, nor train raising, nor the manufacture of fertilisers, cor the instruction (of farmers or mechnr ica ; it is not a charity. Its business is not to raise tases from the Whole people to be expended on work or institutions whichilie States should take care of them selves." r . j . : These be timely words.! They are ' on the line along which the Stab has been fighting so long and" so earn estly. - '. j : .O .But where is this extravagance to end? How much farther is the pen sion outrage to be carried? Gen. Bragg, a sound Democrat from Wis consin, very aptly characterized Jhe last pension bill in the House as "a bill to pension, the rubbish of the army of the United States, and to re vive the business of claim agents in the city of Washington," Gen. Bragg said of it: .,;' that covers every substitute, every bounty jumper, every scalawag who went into the armv in .January and February. 1865. That covers every manj who enlisted in 1861, and before hostilities were com" menced in the field it was! discovered that ne was phvsicallv defective or else constitu tionally defective in the essentials necessary to a soldier, and we permitted him to slide nut " .-1.1 - it is said to be a law that .invites the greatest abuse and! will increase the expenditures immensely. The President ought to veto it for it is a: .barefaced piece ot rascality.. There are now 365,783 pensioners on the roll. Great. Britain's entire standing army consists of 209,480, While GerJ uiany s is but 449,342, Atad yet we brag of having but .25,000 men in our army, wben the' fact is the people are paying for nearly 400,000 - soldiers while the last bill passed Congress, it is believed, will raise the ; Lumber to nearly 800,000, or greeted than the nnge standing army of Russia. What a sham ! What a monstrosity in a ; Republic! :'; The Boston Post, Demi, says of the bill that passed the Seriate: "The Pie fact of service for three months, tol we,dby an honorable discharge. Every one who can make this claim, and also 7" mai ne is not earning enough to sup port himself at the present timet by reason f illness, is to receive a nensiorJ of 12 a month. if the Proposedill should uecome a law, our pensioners would num ber more than 800,000, or hue than any of the standing armies of EuropeJ The an nual pension bill is now greate than the i ,8tf "maintaining the armies of? the Aus 51 "unBarian empire, and if increased by i,dependent Pareoto' bill it will form a uurden exceeding that which anvEurooean uuntry carries. A veto in this case seems - uniy logical, but necessary." 1 a 1 he New York Enenina Pnai Rep., estimates that undep the recent ui not less than one million! of men ; 1 , , , , ,!,,,,!, , n ,t ., , ' n , , i i ' -. , i --.('- VOL. XVIII. will apply .for pensions. This will f course very greatly - surpass any Btanding army in Europe. The JPop estimates that the United Stales will have a standing army of not less than 865,83 " ; men. What appalling figures Will not the Northern tax payers, cry a halt? "t- . . CONTIGT LABOR. . v The Greensboro North State, a Republican paper, says: "The Raletoh Nmnk I. litA Want a, Stedman and the rest of tha hnnrhnnn. Tt must help to degrade free labor in every yvBBiuiu way. , m mat lies tne are or bour DOBlsm. ... ''The farmers and the Knlchta of T,ahnr resolved that convict labor must not be given to private corporations." I I The reference to Lieut. Govi Sted man does that gentleman injustice. He gave the casting vote against Senator Lockey's bill, but it by no means follows that he is the enemy of the farmers or of the Knights of Labor ot of "any ; class of laborers. The Stab discussed briefly but kindly and fairly the Lockey bill, and said it could not sustain that feature of the bill that forbid the hiring of con victs to railroads, but proposed to have the bill changed so as to enable the Board to hire to railroads and to put a part to work on the county roads. It still believes that it is im portant to have a bill that will give at least i half of the convicts to the counties. This Is very important.! Farther, it is important that the con victs should work on the railroads,! and it is very important that, they should be well cared for. There will - i - i ii f be lees competition between convicts and "free labor" on j railroads! than elsewhere. : i ! ' i - i . i i . . The State has some 1,200 convicts; and the number is constantly increas ing. What is to be done with them? Shall the honest people be taxed all the year to maintain negroes and rascals; or shall they be made to earn' 'their own living? Is there ;any better way than to make them help construct the railroads! and the county roads of the State? V " i Mr. Lockey's bill is not really such a wonderful recognition of "free la bor" as Radicals would try to make it appear. His bill provided for em ploying convicts on public buildings and public works of the State, as well as upon the county roads. The Raleig"h Chronicle well points out the oojecuonio ine oni wnen it says: "It was: announced by some of the Re- toublican8 that this bill was esDCciall v in the interest of the laboring classes and would tend to their benefit. - If such was the in tention of the author of tbe bill,? whether Mr. Lockey or some other Republican, he is a most unfortunate and inaccurate draughtsman. The bill should have been more properly entitled "A bill to be entN tied an act to array convict labor against the free labor of the State.' Thus by the provisions of the bill convicts were to be taken from the railroads, where free labor has but little desire! to compete, and placed in direct and immediate competition with our mechanics and ; skilled workmen upon public buildings. Senator Mclver, of Moore, in alluding to this bill, struck the Republican party a blow directly and squarely, by showing its bad faith towards! the working men of the State as illustrated by this bill. Great as is Republican as j Surance, it will not be likely hereafter to: point the laboring man to this bilL" : ' j The vote, therefore, the Democrats and the Lieutenant Governor gave when fairly examined were rightly given, and really forj the protection of honest "free labor" and skilled workmen. It was a bill that would have really injured the State in pre venting much needed railroad con-! structioni and would have brought convict labor in direct competition with and' antagonism to "free labor"! oh the public works and public build ings: - THOMAS 8. ASHE. .'' , 1 We have no material out of which to construct a sketch of Judge Ashe that shall be remotely worthy of him. He was one of tie distinguished men of the State that this writer has never sec n. For mor 3 than a quar ter of a century we have been taught to hold him in high personal esteem by reason of his superlative worth as! a erentleman of a very exceptional type, and as a man of excellent abil-j ities. We have understood that he was ot dignified, noble presence, with I a mind and character of the order of the late William A. Graham, one of the grandest figures in our State during the nineteenth century. judge Ashe has been represented to us as a gentleman of marked urbam ity and purity, grave perhaps, but lofty in ideal and action, and yet of singular modesty. As illustrative of the last named quality so rare among public men we may mention that when! he was In tie House and a member of the Judiciary Commit tee, that Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, the foremost lawyer, on the Democratic side, said of Mr. Ashe, j that but for his extreme modesty he would be the most valuable member j of :: the Com mittee. This corrects an impression that exists that at th4 time Judge Ashe was appointed to jt he Supreme Court Bench he was not learned in the law. We confess to having re ceived this impression from "lawyers. But it was Judge Asbe's modesty that led those who did not know him intimately to suppose that he was really not well equipped in his pro fession. It is qoite certain that he steadily gained in the estimation of the lawyers "who practiced before hinv-and at the .tine ; t. J-ft' the Bench, 1 because of hir fatal illness,- lie was regarded perhaps the equal lflcctthe foremost -man,' hit opinions to CEtiniate Jadicial soperiority. -" t i fTo ; man ; ever entered' Congress with higher, principles by which to guide his political ' course and no man ever retired from the House with a more unspotted name '' :He was a 'faithful, useful, able, honest and honorable 'Representative of the people. .V j". f 1 .' 1 'v He tore himself on the Bench in such a manner as to win the admira tion, confidence and profound vener ation of all gentlemen who appeared before the Supreme Court. Upright, conscientious, with decision of char acter and a firm desire to pursue the right and deliver honest judgment, he easily: secured the confidence of the best people of North Carolina, Among the ' iriany illustrious men who have sat upon the Supreme Bench in this State not one has ever worn the ermine with more of grace, dignity and purity than the noble gentleman whose mortal remains now awaits sepulture; and -who has so re cently gone from among us, "passing through nature to eternity." North Carolina must needs mourn when a just, pure, honorable eon ful fils his destiny and passes away, i She must feel a peculiar grief when one of her best and noblest and ; greatest is laid away in mother earth, dust to dust and ashes to ashes. Bearing a name long distinguished in the annals of North Carolina, it is very doubt' f ul if an abler and better furnished man, and surely not - a purer - and nobler, of his lineage has lived in our State, lie is worthy to wear the name that was made eminent. by Col. John Ashe, and the other men of the family who lived in the Xroublous days of tbe Revolution. In every relation he was a true man every inch of him. Of him it may well be said. ! " "He bore without reproach . The grand old name of gentleman." i The Goldaboro Bnrslar. j Deputy Pheriff John Statcher, colored, came very near catching a man suspected of being one of the Goldaboro burglars, but the fellow j "stood him off" with a pistol, and got away. - The deputy' was with'Capt. Brock and some of the offlcers of the police force Thursday morning when the conductor of the train upon which it was thought the burglars came to Wilmington was ques tioned. The conductor said that two men got off the train in the neighborhood of the old Union depot, but he thought they had got on at Burlaw, or some other station this side of Goldaboro. Acting on this slight clue! the deputy went to : the place where the men left the train and made in quiry. He found a colored boy named John White, who had seen the: two men and who gave the officer a description of them The boy said the men walked down the railroad track together: until they came to the bridge over the road at Sixth street, when they stopped and divided the con tents of a satchel that one of them carried. After this they separated, one Of the' men going up and the other down Sixth street, and the boy saw nothing more of them. About 7 o'clock in the evening Statcher came upon a white man answering to the description pf one of the men seen by the boy in the morning. . The man was stand-. ingVwith a group of colored men in front of a grocery store kept by Mr. Bouach, on the corner of Fourth and Brunswick streets. The deputy approached the group and tap ping the man on the shoulder, told him he wished to speak with him. The man' step ned off willingly enough, but as he did so. drew a revolver and ordered Statcher to stand hack. The officer was unarmed, and as the fellow had "the drop" on him, could do nothing but obey. The fellow stepped backwards, still covering the officer with his revolver, when one of the colored men standing hear grasped him by the collar of bis overcoat, isut in an instant ne sup ped out of the coat and: ran down Bruns wick seet, pursued by, the officer and a numberf the colored men. He kept the crowd at a respectful distance, however, by firing his pistol occasionally, and when he reached Second street his pursuers lost sight of him. It was thought that he had secreted himself under some of the houses. in the vi cinity,! and lanterns were procured and search made, but no trace of tbe supposed burglar could be louna. Tbe missing murderer Blnsbam. A recent number of the Asheville Citizen says: "Mr. Grow, the deaf mute in the employ of the Cititen to whom we have hitherto referred in connection with Bingham, the murderer of Miss Turlington says there is no possibility of Bingham being in this section He states a fact which will go far towards proving that tbe final act was not a sudden thought with Bingham was not done in a moment of temporary passion When Bingham was here two summers ago he visited the house of Mr. Crow, and told Mr. and Mrs. Grow that be had broken off the engagement with Miss Turlington, but that he would have revenge. Mr. and jars C. begged him to have nothing more to do with the matter and especially to let Miss Turlington alone, and they heard nothing' more, of it until the fatal act was committed A member of Miss Turlington's family is authority for the statement that a lady in this city can testify that Bingham made the same threats to her, about two years ago, when the engagement that then exist' ed between him and Miss Turlington had been broken. The United States coast survey staem- ei Blake is now engaged in investigating the currents in the Gulf stream, and for jthis pupose anchors at sea when wind and hveather oermit. Sunerintendent P. M (loom, ui uio cons 1 buu kwucuv ouiycjt, has given notice that when at ancher she Will display during the day, at the foretop- mQi( hoari ihiwA Viol la nr shanftR- rtnrino the night, three lights-red, white and red (one aoove we umer. isuriutc s curuarjr, March and a part of April, 1887, she will nnhnr hatvMti Hiha Ran Antonio. f!nhft and Yucatan, and between Florida Keys and Cuba. During May and a part of Tnnn .Tin will hA in the Gtllf Stream, off Capes Fear and Hatteras. Masters of ves sels navigating Ithese waters are requested 10 Keep ciear 01 uer. ; WILMINGTON N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, JTalior'e Reeeptlon. r j jTbe announcement in the STajresterday cjqmbag that; the new jail, would be open for tbe inspection of the public, led to such . fu.si o; aight-seer's as is rarely witnessed. Fsom tbe t!rse &erdoors were opened at 10 o'clock in tb. morning until, they, were closed; at p. m, the place was thronged, and it is estimated that at least two thous and people passed in and out of theiiuildV ng. Tbe larger number of -the visitors were, ladies, and' the sight to them was a novel one. r They were shown everything of interest in the place, and curiously in spected the arrangements for securing the male prisoners in the iron cells, the women's prison, and even the executioner's: room, with the fatal trap and the deadly noose,' alii. in readiness. Probably not one in a hundred of those who were there yesterday ever saw the iusida of a jail before. - To-day, the place will be again opened; but for the inspection of the colored popu- lation. . . An Early morulas Marriage A runaway couple from Warsaw,: N. C, were married at the Parcel! House yester day morniog. The bride was Miss Lilly SwinsoD, aged eighteen," and tbe groom Mr.Tjames .Blackburn,- aged twenty-two.' They arrived in the city on the late train Wednesday night aud stopped at the Pur- cell. Early yesterday morning the register of deeds was hurriedly aroused and a mar riage license procured, the services of Jus tice Millis brought into requisition, and the marriage ceremony performed in an upper room at the hotel. After breakfast, the newly married pair took the train North for Warsaw. What la lite Matter? f : Rockingham, February 2d, 1887. . Morning Star, Wilmington. N. O, (that was, but note tt i$ not): Dear DepaiiM MdTning Star What is the matter? . ' No Stab again to day We got the "Evening" Star at 3 p. m. yesterday from ibe down train. 1 It may be so again to-day. j- ' - Turn the seminar e's out. : Truly, &c., I . 1 " Robert L. Steele. The fault is not in the Stab office. The paper is placed in the office here in ful time for all tba maiis. We hope the trouble will he remedied.! Bobbery at Goldaboro. ' Capt. Brock, Chief of Police, was noti fied yesterday by telegrams from Goldaboro that a safe had been blown open and robbed of $400 in that place Wednesday night. The first dispatch received simply requested the Chief to ' arrest three suspected men who left Goldaboro on the 4 a. m. train," without making reference to the robbery. This train, however, had passed Wilming ton before tbe telegram was received; but nevertheless Capt. Brock sent out officers in search cf tbe suspected persons.' Later in the day be received another telegram telling i the robbery but giving no information as who the sufferers were. The three sus pected men were briefly described as stran gers; two of tbem looking like tramps and the third a smooth faced young fellow with a moustache; The conductor who came in the tram from Goldaboro yesterday morning, said that two men got on at that place, but he pid no particular attention to them, and did not know, whether they got off on the arrival of the train here or not. A gentleman who came from Goldaboro laBt night says that the robbery was com mitted at the grocery store of Mr. I 8. B. Sauls. It was the work of -experts, and was not discovered until the store was opened in the morning. a! Visitor's Impressions. Sir, Fletcher Harper of tbe firm of Har ped Brothers, tbe well known publishers, of New York city, spent several days with his family at ihe Orton. . They were so well pleased with this excellent hotel and the delightful climate of Wilmington, that upon his departure for Florida yesterday Mr. Harper expressed his intention to make a wo week's stay here on his return from the "Land of Flowers. " In conversation he said that our people did not know the great advantages they enjoyed in the mild and equable temperature, general health -fulness, and proximity to northern centres. He thought that a lack of energy was man ifest, which, -however, he kindly ascribed to tbe gently soothing' influence of the genial sun and balmy air peculiar to this place. Fire on a Wood Flan Fire broke out last night about half-past 11 o'clock, in the cabin of a wood flat in the river at Princess street dock. The flat was lying across the bows of the revenue steamer Colfax, and the flames that burst from the burning boat reached to the steam er's bowsprit. The men on board the Colfax discovered the fire, and under the direction of an officer went quietly to work to put it out. A line of hose vas run over the bows, the pumps were manned by a score of sturdy feilows.andin a short time the flames were extinguished. The work was done so quickly and so quietly that no alarm was caused, and but very few people knew that a fire was in progress. There was no one on the flat-boat, and it could not be ascer tained what amount of damage had resulted nor how the fire originated. Deatb of Capt. Savage. Capt, John H. Savage, Superintendent of the County. Poor House, died Wednes day night about half-past 11. o'clock, after an illness of several weeks. Capt.Savage was about forty-six years of age, Was mar ried, and leaves a wife and two children a son and daughter. He had been Superin tendent of tbe Poor House for six years past and was an efficient officer, faithful and conscientious in the discharge of every duty, He was a member of St. John's Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M., and of Carolina Lodge, Knights of Honor, of this city. His funeral will take place at half-past 3 o'clock this afternoon, from St. Paul's Lutheran Church, thence to Oakdale Cemetery. Cotton and Naval Stores Export. , Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son cleared the Norwegian barque Garfield yesterday, with 2,722 bales of cotton, weighing 1,254,712 pounds and valued at $116,061. ; Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Co. cleared the Norwegian brig Egden, Berthelsen, for Hamburg, with a cargo of 3,087 barrels of rosin, valued at $3,080 Deatb 01 Judge Asne. H A telegram to the Stab, from Wades boro. N. C, says that Hon. Thos. S. Ashe, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, died at his home in that place: yesterday mornin - at forty-five minutes past eleven 0 dock. tsFORTT-iriNTB CONGRESS, V 'SECOND SESSION. '. ' : Committee Reports Appropriation Bills-Repeal or tbe measure to Pro vide clerks for kenators and Uepre , entailvea Tbe Pleuropneumonia 1 Bill Under Consideration In tbe ' House.' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . SENATE. , ; . . Washington. Feb., 8. -The credentials of Senator Whitthorne. 1 showing bis elec tion by the Legislature of Tennessee, for the unexpired term ending March 4th, next, were presented,, and he took the oath of office under them. (Up to this time he had held his seat under the Governor's appoint ment.) - , ! - , . A resolution offered last session by Mr; Ingalls to discharge the-comuitteeon Pen-, sions from further consideration of the bill removing the limitation on applications for arrears of pensions, was taken up, and Mr. Ingalls stated that his object was to have the bill brought before the Senate for ac tion. . !be resolution was agreed to yeas 27. nays 26- . Mr. Ingalls stated that as the bill was one of very, great consequence, he would not ask tbe Senate to vote on it instanter. He gave notice, however, that early next week he would move that the Senate proceed to its consideration. The bill was placed on the calendar. - j At 2 o'clock the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the bill to prohibit mem bers of Congress . from acting as attorneys or employes for subsidized railroad com panies. ' Mr. Evarts spoke at length in opposition to the bill. He concluded his speech at 4 15, and then on motion of Mr. Hoar, the Senate went into secret session, and at 4 4ft adjourned. - While the doors were i still closed, Mr. Call introduced a resolution, that, for the remainder of the session, ' the Senate meet daily at 11 o'clock and with an hour's re cess, sit tiil 9 p. m. The matter was laid over without action. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Uolman, of Indiana, from the Com mittee on Appropriations, reported ths Legislative, Executive and judicial Appro priation bill. Committee of the Whole. Mr. Tucker, from the Committee on the Judiciary, rcpoitad back Senate bill ex tending the time for filing the French 3po:iatiou claims. House calendar. Mr. Rogers, from tbe same couiLuilte, reported adversely the bill to enable the people to name their postmasters. Laid on the table. In the morning hour Mr. Oals, of Ala., oa behalf of the Committee on Revision of the Laws, called up the bill authorizing the appointment and prescribing -the com pensation cf clerks to Senators and Repre sentatives who are not chairmen of com mittees. ' f ' Mr, Caldwell, of Tcnn., opposed the bill. No Democrat was authorized to vole for this increased compensation, for it was nothing more or less than that.. The plat form upon which the Democratic party had come into power was "retrenchment and reform . " Was it retrenchment ta add 320 persons to tbe list of officeholders? Was it reform to reach out and grab patronage? tie saw in tbe proposition disaster to mem bers and the grave of the Democratic party. If there was any veto thunder left in the Presid. nt, he would bury this' bill under tbe trip-hammer veto : rather than bury himself and his party by; signing it. mr. Dougherty, or ITla., favored the proposition, but thought it should be amended so as to not take effect until the 51st Congress. -1 , Mr. Turner, of Georgia, admitted that the labors of members -of Congress were arduous, difficult -and embarrassing, but thought it hardly consistent with the pro fessions or me Democratic party that it should commit itself to a measure intended merely to increase the allowance of mem bers. .. ! Mr. Eden, of Illinois, moved U lay the bill on tbe table. Agreed to 141 to 105. Tbe House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Pleuro-Pneumonia bill. tbe pending amendment being one offered by Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan, providing that experts and agents to be appointed in pursuance of this act shall bo appointed under civil service rules, j Lost 13 to 86. After a couple of hours consumed ia an effort to limit debate on the bill, Mr. Swin- bourue of New York offered an amend ment striking out the provision for the des truction of diseased animals and inserting in lieu thereof a provision that such ani mals shall be quarantined and destroyed if deemed necessary for scientific investigation by scientific experts, and tbe experts shall provide such rules aud .regulations as they deem necessary to best prevent tbe spread ing of disease and promote thorough inves tigation and understanding of its nature. characteristics and consequences. Agreed to 7 to 73. f Mr. JButterworth of i Ohio offered an amendment reducing from three fourths to cne-half the value of the animal" when sound as compensation which may be al lowed the owners of cattle for animals slaughtered under the provisions of tbieact. Agreed to 110 to 36. Without concluding consideration of the bill the committee rose and the House, at 4.55, adjourned. ; SENATE. " Washington. Feb. 4. Mr. Hoar, from the Judiciary Committee, reported back, with an amendment in the nature of a sub stitute, House joint resolution' authorizing an investigation of the books, accounts and methods of the Pacific railroads which have secued aid from tbe United States. He asked that the substitute bo read, and moved that the matter be taken ; up for considera tion. ! : Mr. Hale said the substitute was a long document, and he objected to its immediate consideration. - Mr. Hoar said that the substitute had the approbation of all of the members of tbe Judiciary committee, although ne nad uia sentcd from it himself. He thought it might pass tbe Senate without discussion Mr. Hale said he did not know that he was opposed to it, but he thought it had better go over. The joint resolution was placed on the calendar, and Mr. Hoar gave notice that he should can it up for action at the nrst pos sible moment. ' - , The resolution'offered by Mr. Call yester day (while the doors were closed) making dally sessions from 11 a. m. to 9 p. m., was taken up and referred to the committee on ADoronnations. . 1 The bill for holding a term of the United States Circuit Court at Texarkana, Texas, was taken up, amended and passed. The Senate then proceeded to the con sideration of tbe Senate bill to credit and pay to the several States and Territories tbe 11 . a .1 j ; . amuuniB CBiiecieu uuuer iue uireuv in levied bv tbe act of August 5th. 1861. Mr. Sherman advocated and explained the bill. He said that it had been several times recommended by the Treasury De partment partly as an act of justice ana partly to relieve the Department of legal complicationa It referred to the tax of twenty millions imposed during the war upon all, North and South. To those North ern states wbtcn nald it promptly a ais count of 15 per cent, had been allowed; but some few of those States did not pay promptly, and since the war some of it had been collected from some of the Southern States.1 The charges for the quota due. by the Southern States stood against them on the books of the treasury, and amounts due to them from the treasury could not be paid wnue those charges stood there, under these circumstances three or four Secreta ries of the Treasury bad recommended that out of the overflowing treasury there be paid back to the States the amounts re ceived from them, and that the other States be credited with their share of the tax. l ne bill was manifestly just; it had been uni formly recommended by the Treasury De partment, and had been unanimously re commended bv the committee on finance. The aggregate amount to be refunded would be about fourteen or fifteen millions, Mr. Van Wyck argued against the bill, as part 01 a -general scheme to deplete tne treasury. If the Southern States were not 'able to pay their quota of that direct tax, ne would nave the debt forgiven to mem, People who paid the tax would derive no 1887. advantage from the bill. His belief was that this was only one of the kindred pro positions to deplete the treasury so i bat there would be no apparent excuse1 for granting what people really demanded a reduction of taxation, which now weighed heavily on them. Alter' further discussion the bill was passed yeas 53. nays 1, (Van Wyck.)-" The bill directs the Secretary of the Treasury to credit to each Stale and terri tory and to the District of Columbia the sum equal to all collections made from them under tne direct tax act. It remits and re linquishes all of the tax still due, and it ap propriates a sufficient amount to reimburse the States for all monies found due to them under the provisions of this act; to be paid to their respective Governors, provided that where the taxes have been collected from citizens either directly or by sale of pro perty, the amount shall be held in trust for tbem or their legal representatives bv the respective States . The Senate then resumed consideration of the Railroad Attarnevs bill. After a speech by Mr. Wilson, of la., ia favor of tbe priuciple of I tba bill, the first vote was taken on an amendment offered bv Mr. Hoar, making it unlawful for a member of Congress to accent emDlovment as an at torney in opposition to the United States in any case to which the United Stales may be a party, or in which its interests mav he concerned, or from any subsidized railroad company, if such ' member has cause to believe that measures specially affecting the interests of such roads are pending. be fore Cod grass, or are about to be so pend ing during bis term of office.. Tbe amend ment (which was in the : nature of a substi tute for the original bill) was agreed to yeas ae, nays 21 , A long discussion followed upon another: amendment, offered by Mr - Saulsburv. in tended as a substitute for the bill as it stood after the adoption of Mr. Hoar's substitute. I Mr. Haulsbury's amendment did not provide punishment for the offence described in the bill, but merely placed the seal of condem nation upon it. i ; Mr. Hack opposed 11 as being a mere waste of words. Mr. Hoar's amendment, he held, had killed the bill, and Mr. Sauls-!' bury's amendment only tended to bury it a little more decently in the grave. At 6 o'clock a vote upon tbe passage of the bill as amended was taken, and it was passed 39 to 14 virtually in: the same shape as the Hoar substitute. .Mr. Beck demanded the yeas and nays' upon the passage of the bill, staling that there was nothing in it he cared much about, but that the House of Representa tives might put something in jit, and be wanted to give tne House a chaice. The vote was yeas 89, naye 14. The follbw-i ing is the text of tbe bill: That it shall be unlawful for any -member of either House of Congress 10 accept employment as attor ney at law or payment for services of anvi kind in opposition to the United States in any case to which !' the United States may be a parly, ori In which its interests may be concerned, or from any railroad company, if such mem ber shall have reasonable cause: to believe that measures specially affecting the inter- ests of such company are pending before Congress, or are about to be so pending during his term of office Any person whq violates the provisions of this act shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and may be pun ished by imprisonment not exceeding one year or by fine not exceeding $500; or by Dotn. in the discreti n of tbe court. I The Senate tben at 6 15 adjourned until to morrow. . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Speaker laid before the House mes sages from the Treident. returning with out his approval bills granting a pension to Alex. Falconer and Wm. Lynch. Referred to the Committee on Pensions. . : - : Mr Randall, from: the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution discharging the Committee of the Whole from further consideration of Senate bill for the retires ment and recoinage of the trade dollar, andj making the bill the bpecial order in the xlouBo fur February 0. immediately arte ine reading of the Journal. : r Mr. Jjanham called attention to the ab Bence of Mr. Bland, chairman of the Com mittee on Coinage. Weights and Measurci and suggested that tbe date of the special order De cnanged to February 12 jar. Kanaaii accepted tbe modinc-ation and - as so. tnouined tbe resolution was adopted. : . ; 1 - Mr. McOreary, of Ky.. offered a resolu tion amending the rules so as to provide that a quorum of the Committee of the; Whole shall consist of one hundred mem bers. Referred to the Committee on Rules- After the reception of a few! committee reports of a private character , the House! went into Committee of the Whole on the; private calendar, and disposed i of a few private bills, coming ever as the unfinished business from last Friday, and at 5 o'clock took a recess until 7.30, the evening session to ba for tbe consideration of (tension bills, '-Y- SENATE. n-j;t'.r.,;;-- V- Wabhengton, Feb. 5. The conference! report on the bill for public buildings at: Chattanooga, lenn., was presented and agreed to. - p-,-.-!-'.H-- -':! lne (senate proceeded to consider tbe: pension bills on the calendar and sixty-six were passed. " . . . w . : . , : ine senate men, ai Liu, proceeded to me consmerauon 01 me inaian Appropriaw tion bin. 1 The bill (which contains fifty-two printed pages) was passed without a word of dis cussion and with no more delay than was! consistent with its very rapid reading, f The Senate bill to incorporate the At lantic and Pacific Ship Railway Co. (Ead's: Tehauntepec bill) was then taken up as the! special order. - Mr. Morgan, in an argument in support! of the bill, declared himself in favor of the! policy (like tbat embodied in! the resolu tions reported some years' ago by Senator Eaton, of Conn., from the committee on Foreign Relations) that whatever transit there might be across the Isthmus it should be under tbe control of the U. S. govern ment, either absolutely and independently, or in connection with the government: tnrougn wnose territory it passes. ? . Mr. Morgan expressed the opinion that one or the other of the European powers would seize islands lying conveniently near the mouths of -the Panama Canal, for tify them, establish formidable naval sta tions there and tn us control the canal; What foothold, be asked, had: the U. S.! Government got in that section of the world. Nothing except a precarious paper right which it had under the Clayton Bulwer treaty. He referred to the fact of the British Government taking posses sion of the island of Cyprus in order to control the Suez Canal: M f- - Mr. Hoar remarked that the subject was a very important one; mat it nad not Deen expected to come, and that consequently but few Senators were in tne chamber; and he suggested whether the Senator would net prefer to continue his speech on Mon day. - - . , - - 'Hi , I Mr.. Morgan said tbat he would 1 Mr. Hale offered an amendment that be yond the extra guarantee of $7,500,000 ex pressly provided in the bilL the United Stales should be in no respect whatever liable for any debt or obligation of .the company. . 1 1 The Senate then at 8.50 p. m. .adjourned HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. . The Speaker laid before the House 1 message from the President vetoing the second private pension bills. Referred to Committee on Invalid Pensions, i u The Speaker also laid before the House Senate bill to refund direct taxes, n - ' Mr. Heard moved it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Agreed to yeas 134, nays 94. - . -1 l The House passed the bill for the pay ment of what are known as Fourth of July claims. It appropriates about S152.000. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation, bill. The bill was debated until 4.50 p. tn., when' without action the Committee rose and the Bouse adjourned, woldsboro Advance: .1 Jie new church enterprise in Goldsboro is progress ing rapidly. The people of North End are in -earnest. Their Sunday school numbers about seventy-five, ana work nas begun on tnecnurcn. -. - . 1 NO. 15 TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. , . A Paasenaer Train la Vermont Goes Over a Bridge and Is Consumed by Fire Fifty Persons Reported Killed and a Large Number lojsred. . : By Telegraph to the Morning star. ' - Boston. Feb. 5. A dispatch from Brad ford. Vt.. to - the Associated Press, savs: The night express which left White River Junction, bound for Montreal, filled with passengers from Boston and New York for the Carnival, was wrecked at the first cross ing of the White river. A rail broke, and the engine, one baggage car, one passenger and one sleeping car went over the bridge, sixty feet into the river. Before the en gineer or any one could get to the wreck the cars had caught fire and burned, f The bridge also was burned, and inside of twenty minutes all were consumed, f It is estimated tbat fifty persons were killed. Henry Tuxbury, of West Randolph, Vt., the well known lecturer, is among those killed. Spkingfibld.Mass.. Feb. 5. 8.80 A.M. The night express to Montreal, which left here at 8.15 o'clock last night, ran off the 1 bridpe at Woodstock. Vt, . twn miles north of White River Junction, and tbe sleepers and passenger cars and the bridge were en tirely ourned. it is reported tbat there are a large number of people injured, and the number of killed and burned is also re ported to be large. Conductor Sturtevant is fatally burned. The accident occurred probably between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning on the Vermont Central.Railroad. 1 Spbingi'ikld, Feb.r 5 The train which' was wrecked at Woodstock bridge this morning, as it left White River' Junction, ! where it is made up, consisted of one sleeper and passenger coach from here; one! Chicago sleeper, connected at White Kiver Junction; I one Boston sleeping-car, one mail car from Boston, and one other pas senger coach, one baggage and one express car. rFrank Wesson, son of D. B. Wes son, of this city, of the firm.! of Smith, &! Wesson, pistol manufacturers; was among the killed. ! 1 Concobd, N. H.,Feb. 5. Tbe train was about: an hour and a half late leaving White River Junction. It consisted of locomotive, baggage car, postal car, two passenger coaches and two sleeping cars, and was running at the usual rate of speed. When about zW yards soutu of the end ofi the deck bridge, near, old Windsor station, a broken rail was struck. The locomotive, baggage car and postal car broke away from the rest of the train, passing over the bridge in safety; the rest of the train was thrown from the rails and continued on the road-bed until it came near the end of the bridge, but there it ran over tbe! abutment, and all of the cars fell into White river, some fifty feet below. The gorge at this point is frightful, and when the cars wens down there was a terrible crash. As soon! as possible th detached part of the train was stopped and ran back to the scene off the disaster. The screams of the in4 ured! ' were heartrending. , j Assistance also came! from people living; in the vi- cinity, and everything was! done to rescue and relieve the. injured. I Soon after help arrived it was discovered that fire had started in the first passenger icoach, and soon the entire train was in a blaze, thus adding a new horror to the already fright ful catastrophe. Those present were pow erless to stop the fire and devoted them selves entirely to attempting to rescue those imprisoned in the wreck. The rescuers met another and an unexpected obstacle in the heat, which had become so intense that. they were obliged to relinquish their efforts to save the sufferers and were compelled 10 retreat to a place of safety 'for themselves! and to become unwilling and horror stricken witnesses of the awful holocaust In addition to this and to add to the terrors and sufferings of the passengers, the weathl er was intensely cold, and the heroic resi cuers were hindered thereby In their woikj No water could be obtained with which to check or extinguish the flaiies. The ice was several inches tbick on tbe river and there were no appliances at hand to' raise itr It has not been and probably never will be possible to tell accurately how many lives have been lost. From the best data obtainable there were about eighty persons in the four cars" destroyed J The lowest estimate places the probable number of killed at thirty, and it is possible twice tbat number may be correct. A great many were killed outright by the tremend-i ous fall and crush of the cars; but several; cases are! known where people unhurt or enlv slightly injured were fastened in the wreck and burned to death.! une laay and one gentleman were rescued from the sleeper, badly bruised and almost naked their clothing being torn rrom mem in hnatilv nnllinir them nut nf rpur.h rf lheii Are. TBe bridge caught fiiej and was de-f stroyed. .-.j, .:.: -:l ),. . ' The night was freezing-cold and but for, the hospitality of a farmer named Thomas;; fingree, wno lived near tne scene 01 in accident, who filled his house with suf ferers. many who escaped the : wreck will little or no clothing would have frozen to death. ! NEW YORK. Tne Frelcbt Handler's Blockade Un-j broken Several Fresb Strikes Be ported. 1 .1 1 By Telegraph to the Morning 8tar : New Yobk. Feb. 5. The snnounce-4 ment yesterday by most of the railroad companies that they would be in position to receive freight to-day produced an ex-f traordinary blockade of trucks and wagons all along West street for several blocks, both sides of the entrances to the railroad piers, and when two or more companies! were close neignoors. an lnoescrioaoia condition of affairs prevailed. Merchants sent their trucks as early as 9 o'clock yes terday morning, and their drivers remained in line all day and at mgbt unhitched teams and went home, leaving the trucks in lint on the street and thus discharged loads to day. Many instances of this kind are re ported. :-'- Not many fresh attempts were made to-i day by merchants, because the f reigh houses were choked by yesterday's ship ment. -; .-) The coal strikers in Jersey City to-dai resumed the tactics of interfering with drij vers of coal carts engaged in hauling coal across the ferries. Several loads of coal were dumped in the street, wherever the strikers found them. Nobndv is renorted: hurt so far. The drivers of coal delivery)! carts in Brooklyn, in the southern part of he city.struckto dav.to the number of 500,! refusing to haul ' 'scab ' coal. t . A boat load of coal, intended for free dis tribution among the destitute, has been ly ing alongside the dock in South Brooklyn! en days; men refusing to unload it because! it was loaded in jxew jersey oy "scan workmen. i Several fresh strikes are reported in man ufacturing establishments where workmen refused to work because tbe coal used to furnish steam for them had been hauled by non-union men. - NEW JERSEY. Large Jtlanufaeuirlne Mill Destroyed toy Fire oss $25Ot0OO. - , By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . fATEBSON, Fen. 0. ttarmony mill, a part of R. & H. Adams' large establish ment, took fire at 6.45 o'clock this morn ing, but the fire is now (10.15 a. m.) under control. : The mill is devoted to the manu facture of mosquito netting. : It is estima ted the loss will reach $250,000.1 : The dam age ia believed to be fully covered by in- surance through New York insurance brokers. The origin of the fire is un known. . I MARINE DISASTER:; Scnr. Fred W. cnase a Total toss pi'?f'!,i'? -'";::'!!i-".crewiiveeV"..j:v -fi'V'Sr I ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. " 1 Charleston. 8. C, Feb. 5. The en tire crew and pilot of the wrecked schooner Fred W. Chase were, rescued by the crew of the Life Saving Station Von Morris Island. The vessel will be a total loss. i The man in love with himself never has a x'vrs.Rahway Advocate; Spirits .Turpentine. Cbadbourn Times: AVe under- . stand that there were several parties in town last Monday accused of trying to pass . counterfeit money on tbe merchants of ibis section. - i- ..1 ! - . , I J I I Hickory.:JfVea. Burglars have recently, been at work in Morgantoo. 1 - The largest hawk that we have heard of in some time was killed en the 21st ulu by Mr. Calvin - Abernetb, about six miles southeast of this place. It measured 4 feet from tip to tip, and fought desperately after it bad been shot. .j 1 ' Stanly Observer; The postoflice known as Whitly'sJ four miles distant on the Charlotte road, has been removed to -John S. Efird's mill, with' John Si Eflrd postmaster. Last Saturday the infant child of Mr. and Mrs E J. Freeman fell -into a pot of hot soap Tbe child j though severely burned, will recover, it is believed. . - Raleigh New-Obaerver: The bill doubling the number j of peremptory challenges allowed the State1 in capital cases passed the Senate yesterday on its final reading Goldsboro, Feb. 3 .A dar ing and bold burglary was committed in the centre of the town last night. J. S. D. Saul's store was entered and his large safe (.c orreu maae) was blown open. Five hun dred dollars in money was taken,! besides bank deposit certificates and notes to the amount of $5,000. : No clue as yet. 0 wm.vuw.. vm . S . V M U V. , wnoiesome views on an subiects of public interest, and for neatness 1 and general get up, the Wilmington Stab is the peer of any daily in the State. It is a welcome visitor to our sanctum. .) Houses for rent are in demand here now, there being no vacant bouse in town. We pub lished last week the sad intelligence of the serious illness of air. Angus R Kelly. It becomes our painful duty this week to pub lish the still sadder news of his death, which occurred at his home In Marion,' a '.a., ou tbe 19th ult. Mr. Kelly was a native of Moore county, . f Charlotte Observer: Mr. Jas. F. Moody, a well known citizen of Charlotte. died at his residence in this city yesterday atternoen at 4 0 ctocs, or pneumonia. Mr. Moody was 54 years old. It is stated tbat the freights over the Western North Carolina Railroad are heavier at the pre-, sent time than ever before. The! present facilities of tbe road will shortly be in creased by the addition of three large new engines with which freights will be! moved. , -Mr. J. S. Fisher, a prominent and well known citizen of Concord, made assignment for; the benefit of his creditors. His liabili ties are stated to be $32,000, but we have been unable to learn what the assets will amount to. v . . 1 - Asheville Citizen: Mai. 1 Henry E. Colton, a native of Fayclteville, this State, but who is now cosmopolitan in his whereabouts, has been in Asheville for the past few days. This Is his old hunting 5r camping grounds, Major Colton having ed ited in this place, from 1857 to 1860, the Asheville Advocate, a Whig journal which existed during the youthful dajs ofZeb Vance, and if we mistake not our moun tain boy, Senator Zeb, owes something of his: "beginning" to this journal. Major Colton was for a number pf years Geologist for the State of Tennessee, but is now en gaged in general geological purposes, and Cherokee and Clay counties arc now re ceiving his attention . E . .-Raleigh,- January 31.-News was received here to-day from Nashville, this State, that thre armed men rode up to the store of John Williams, a merchant. and called for the. proprietor. When Wil liams presented himself the men demanded his money ahd safe key. He told them that the key was in his room. When he went to get tbe key he got a shot gun and : loaded it with buck shot, and fired through the front door, killing one of the outlaws and mortally wounding another. The third man fled. The men were strangers in that section, and the wounded man re fused to give their names or homes. Tbe letters H. B. L. are engraved on the dead man's pistol. The wounded man bas since died. j . -I . . Asheville Citizen: The lnferk Court last week was productive of muC food in relieving the jail and the: criminal j ocket of the county. 'Three men we're' sent to tbe penitentiary E. Young, -larceny, 1 year; D. McKee, larceny, 1 year; R. Hill, larceny, 1 year an appeal taken by the latter. Robert Campbell, colored, had a difficulty a few days since with a co lored brother, the fidelity of a wife being the cause, and on Sunday night the matter found a solution in the accused - party as saulting Campbell as he! came out of the -church located just west of Smith's bridge. A pistol was placed at Campbell s bead. when he threw up hla left arm and received the ball in his arm above the wrist, frac turing one of thes. bones and damaging an artery. , - .'. - ,- ' . ! . - Greensboro Workman : The death of Mr. Albert A. iShelton,! though not unexpected, will cause a pang: of sor row to his friends and acquaintances in this city. Ho died last evening at half past , five o'clock of blood-poisoning, aged about 40 years. He was a native of Virginia and wben tbe war came on he; joined tbe Con federate army at the early age of 1 17, and served throughout the war. h- Messrs. J. A. White & Son, of Winston, have just taken out letters patent! for a new two' wheel riding vehicle which they term Tar Heel Road Cart." and of the adapta tion of which to tbe purpose indicated in its name there seems no doubt. The Scien iific American ef January 22nd, says of tho Tar Heel Road Cart: "The invention covers a novel construction and combina tion of parts in a vehicle, the body of which will bang low, and which is so made that the jerking, jarring horse! motion, common to two-wheel vehicles, is avoided.'! : Danbury Reporter; Some .will get fooled on tobacco this year, if the crop is everwhere like it is in this section. We have yet to hear of any 2,000 pound crop weighing out more than rrom wmj to l.uuu pounds, Mr. J. M.I Linvllle. one of our ex-County Commissioners, was in town last week, he informs us that there is a per fect rush about the bead of tbe C. ir. & x. Y. Railroad, speculators! taking : hold of everything that there is any money in, says that even now, wagons are running all the time hauling to the road hickory, dogwood, persimmon and other timbers. The farm- -ers in the neighborhood get $7.00 per cord for sticks 42 inches love, sna tor pieces o feet long they get more. I At these prices there has been enough hickory and other valuable timbers burned in logheaps in Stokes since the war to have paid for all the tobacco grown on the land from which it was cut. and pay for the building of a railroad clear across the county. 1 The Durham Tobacco Plant has received the following from Petersburg, Va. : "Intelligence received here, through a private source, is to the effect that a man answering in every particular to Walter Bingham, the deaf mnte, was: seen in . Mecklenburg county, Virginia, near tho North Carolina line. Tbat part of tho country in which the supposed murderer was seen Is in tbe vicinity of Shaw's Store and White Plains. Ho was also seen at Dogwood poatofflce, in North Carolina, on the outer edge of the Virginia line. The man was neatly dressed, and made himself understood through the medium of his slate and pencil, which he carried with him; He has been stopping at night chiefly with negroes and the poorest classes of whites, He appeared to have money, and paid lib erally for what he got. 1 Aa soon as the ' man found that he was being looked upon -with suspicion he departed, and when last seen Was making his way down towards ' the Roanke river, in the direction of Nor folk. , I - .. T - Raleigh News-Observer: The best prices for tobacco were realized by thu producers $75 per hundred becoming a common thing, and some piles selling for $90 and $102 per hundred. There was a remarkably large amount of brighta sold. Gov. Scales has. issued a proclamation offering $400 reward for the apprehension and capture of Dr. T. C. Powell, formerly of Rocky Mount, who stands charged with the murder of W. H. Sharpy The bill .providing for the extension of time in tho 1 completion of the contract of the Cape Fear & Yadkin : Valley Railroad Co. , with thi State, passed its third reading tn the Senate by a vote of 81 fo 16. 1 Having passed tho House it now goes to the Governor, and: with his signature, the amendments being 'concurred in. becomes a law, Certainly tho C. F. & Y. V. deserves every consideration at the hands of North Carolinians. It is a strictly North Carolina road, owned by North Carolinians and being extended by North Carolinians. We expect it trf do great things for the State in the end. ' . 1 4 V- Si ,.1 4 v 1 r. 1 IT" -" 1. . r 1 1. V j X p i a - 1 hi 1 ! - - j. pp. 1 i.t . a- i i t St -
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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