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He thinks his honesty has proved his rmn, and that if - nominated he cannot be elected. i le says: -'!.-"When Mr. Cleveland adopted his honest policy, and stopped his ears to the cry of the nmliiiude for office, he failed to j act willi (he crisis in his career; and so he is now behind the wave, and his chanced to mount it again are gone forever 1 Bui no doubt he can happily say: 'I had rather be right, than to be President.'! This reason-lag is supported by the fact that he hs offended most at the places he heeded most He must hold bis own in New York, but right there they are so disappointed, tleit even Blaine would have her support in 1333 But the Republican party will put forth a much more popular man than Mr. Blaine." "Ill He takes up the question at 'much length and appeals to the vote in the vanoun oiaien iu sustain uis the impossibility of again Mr. Cleveland, his favorite, of the President ' view of electing He fays "Since his inauguration Mr. Cleveland has been faithful, true and good, but he has not taken care of himself in regard to re election, no matter how much desired By his friends and party. He did not act With the crisis he was too honest yet, no mat" ter wbv. the consequence is inevitatable. Honesty is the best policy,, but not to se cure re-election to the Presidency of the United States. In the olden time it would do, but not now " I j He does not believe thai le can i . , carry New York and the other doubtful and needed States. He Mi id i ana, says: "la New Tork, Tennessee, Indiana, the two Vvginias and New Jersey it would .cost him 90 electoral votes, which, taken from bis 219 as given in 1884, would reduce his electoral votes to 120, and 90 lost to him would be a Republican gain of 90, which, addeil to the 183 given Mr. Blaine in 1884, would give the Republicans 272 electoral ?voteE more than twotbiids constitution" ally cat. This would be a victory to the Itepiihlicau candidate as crushing as Gene ral Giant's over Seymour and Greeley). He thinks he would be surejto lose both Virgiiibw. Of Indiana he says: "In Indian the loss of about 3 000 rotes in Um: popular flection, from the support be rreiiiv.d in '84, would give her 15 elec tors vou-ato his opponent, nnd development-! i!ti-re show that even Bliiine would gain O'irQi.'ld carried Indiana by hear 7. WH) nnj rity. They can get a Republican nominee now that will run far ahead of Garfield's figures then; while it is j morally certain that' Mr. Cleveland would not do now as well as did Hancock." He says a . loss of 2,000 in New Jersey, of 5,000 or less in TenneWe, would give those States to the Re- publicans. He says: j "Mr. Cleveland doubtless deserves the honor of a second term, and millions of the very best of our citizens would support him in another campaign and administra tion, but there stands the unyielding fact . amounting to a moral certainty that he can not be re-elected I" j It must be conceded that this is an unpleasant view of the situation and we believe that it is entirely too dark and pessimistic. We would be very sorry to believe as the West Virginia prophet believes, for we have no doubt that Mr. Cleveland will j)0 re- nominated, and we wish to be encou raged by the hope of success inj mak ing a fight in his behalf, j. -While the vote was sd uncomforta bly close in New York that a few hun dred votes would have made Blaine President, it was because of Lbe1 Irish defection. If Mr. Cleveland cannot secure an united Irish support then his success in New Tork will be more than doubtful. His friends in that great State who are pressing his claims with bo much of confidence and pertinacity ought to be assured of his ability to carry New York. If they are not, then they, are jacting most selfishly and in the utmost bad faith to the Democratic party of the Unionf New York is absolutely ea- -sential to Democratic success in 1888. If New York is carried then it is probable that Connecticut jjand New Jersey will go Democratic also. fnt - - - tl - . mere will be a chance we hope m Massachusetts, and possibly jln New Hampshire: If Harrison lis put on tne Republican ticket Indiana will probably bd lost to Mr. Cleveland. We hope lhat West Virginia will not desert the Democratic column. As to Tennessee we can not say we have any doubt of it. Virginia 'may be classed as doubtful, we may suppose, Lut it is too soon to prognosticate., Cleveland will be the. nominee, we an not doubt, and the Stab sincerely tninl. a1 a i ' "'ub tuat ma election may oe sew VOL. XVIII. ureu uy a grana. majority , It pro- poses to give the nominee .of the iymuwmuo party us strongest possi- ble support. ; PETER HE. HiLE, I ! When you know that the sands in the hour glass of life are rapidly run ning out and that you are.in that "sixth age" of "the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose,' the death of an old friend, and espe cially of an old schoolmate affects you wiw peculiar , solemnity. L gfou are reminded with a pointedness and ob trusiveness you cannot avoid that you, too, must soon take- up your abode "in the silent halls of death" and bid an eternal farewell to all of earth's attractions and allurements and associations. ' In such an hour there is but one hope for the sinner, but one consolation and joy for the startled soul as it launches out on th&f mighty sea, the thither side of which is eternity, 1 J "Nor love thy life, nor bate; 'but whilst thou livest - i . i Live well; how long, how short, permit to .Heaven." ; I These thoughts came home to this writer with a directness and clamor ousness of appeal that were not to be disregarded, when he learned by telegraph that ; Major Peter M. Hale was dead. We knew his death was very close at band, but when the an nouncement came it could, not fail to distress us. ' We had known him for forty years. What a handsome. neat, engaging, bright youth ho was! He had in his boyhood smooth, soft skin like a pretty girl,with a delicate tint on the 'cheeks that added to the charm, and an eye that was dark and beautiful, one! of the brightest and most winning we had ever seen. It wife an eye of rare in telligence. He was born in Fayette- ville in. 1828, we suppose, but we had thought in 1829, and was the son of Edward J. Hale, the editor of the old Observer, that for thirty j or forty years was a most influential Whig exponent in North Carolina. It was the lime of weeklies and semi-week- and when the conduct of papers was very different from what it is now, It was the time of slow coaches and easy life when no man ever got in a hurrv, when uenerous scholarship and wide acquisition distinguished the educated men of the State, and when the women read j the best books and were familiar; with the standard British authors and dis- coursed upon them with pleasing fa cility, discrimination and taste. Mr, Elale, Senior, was a man of real abil ity, of great boldness and sincerity of conviction, and wielded a power for his party that exceeded that of any Whig editor in the State. He was in fact in his day the ablest of the Whig editors as Loring was the ablest of Democratic editor, and af terwards as was Holden. Peter was well prepared for college, and was one of the best scholars in his class at the University. . He was gradua ted with the first honors, He joined his father in the editing; of the Ob server, learned the mechanical part of a newspaper othce, and was take him all in all the best r - . - .7 wt:A t V. . Git n t n ' a. as far as this writer knows, that was ever in the state. 11 is superior natural abilities, . his acquaintance with the ancient classics, bis general reading, his practical talents, his very retentive memory, hie thorough knowledge of "the art preservative of all arts," his industry, his capacity as a proof, reader, bis cultivated taste, his facility with the pen, all com bined to equip him admirably for the editorial office. We believe he was the best fur nisbed editor that North Carolina has produced. We do think him an abler man than his former associate, Col. William L. Saunders, but he was much better trained and pro vided for the manifold duties of journalism and editorship. The "Hand-Book of North Caro lina" was a specimen of his careful, laborious, effective, masterly work manship. The half sheet sent out by the Democratic State Committee at another time, was prepared by our departed friend in one night, he sit ting uninterruptedly to his work for some twelve hours and all through i -the darknese. He was a very acute and formidable polemic and was a dangerous adversary to tackle in po litical Controversy.. W6 are writing measuredly and as we have thought for many years. The partialities of sincere friendship nor the emotions of bereavement move us to write a word we do not steadfastly hold Ad nen Major Hale was such; a true, j manly Southron J - He had no concession to give, no retraction or apology to make, no incense to offer to the enemies ot ' tne Doum. na was a man of principles, of convic tions,! of j honor, of jcourage. He loved North Carolina. He stood up for its good name against all "wit lings." and gave the world a fine ex ample in"' his' own character of the modest, cultivated, inflexible, incor ruptible, able North Carolinian. :We cannot undertake to present a portrait of oar friend. Those who! have been thrown with him in inti- mate and confiding association through the last decades must pre sent the lineaments of his positive and striking personality. We only hoped to give our estimate of his su perior worth that our friends might see what a great loss North Carolina had. sustained in his death. ' ' He was one of the foremost men of the State. He had ability enough to have assert ed his superiority upon any arena he might have been willing to enter. Like so many able men he was not known to the ! masses at bis full worth. There are but few who can really estimate aright the worth of those noble men cast in the higher moulds and of finer and richer material.- ; : ; " . We have not heard how he died. We hope his end was peace. His physical sufferings for a year or two have been agonizing.' Through much tribulation he has passed from time through the everlasting portals. . Af ter so much Buffering we trust that he enjoys a full surcease of pain and sorrow and is at rest with bis oaviour in Heaven, friend or our youth, good-bye! We follow on. Our esteemed contemporary, the Danbury Reporter, copies what the Stab said in reply to the Baltimore American on Pennsylvania tobacco. It says: "Our peerless State contemporary has overlooked a most important point in in stituting a comparison between the net profit on an acre of tobacco grown in .Lan caster county last year, and instances where "That has been beaten fifty times in North Carolina," by not giving instances of an acre of tobacco grown in Granville or Vance county last year. The compar ison should be drawn from instances of what an acre of tobacco netted last year during the depressed condition of the to bacco market. ! The Stab did not have the figures for last year and it desired to speak of ita own knowledge. The Oxford paper did not furnish the needed data and it was inacceseable to us. We wrote of other years because our in formation was trustworthy. We have no doubt that instances can be found of more than $400 being i - - i made to the acre in 1886, and in spite of "the depressed condition of the tobacco market." There is talk of a new railroad from Oxford to Clarksville, Va., and from Oxford to Danville, Va. The latler is to connect the Raleigh and Gaston railroad at Henderson with Danville by way of Oxford. The road from Henderson to Oxford is the best paying road in tbo State for its! length, 12 1 miles. Tbo Danville Register says: - 'r A- to the outlet for the Danville and New River and its western connections, it stretches out so far and wide that I shall not try to take it in. They would reach Norfolk lust as near or nearer than by the Danville and Atlantic. The Augusta Chronicle points to instances to show bow some people will not be satisfied with the situa- tion. It says; 1'Some people are hard to please. A white man is kicking before the Inter-State Commerce Commission because be was re fused the privilege or riding in a negro car, and a negro is asking damages be cause be was not allowed to travel in the white people's car." Pennsylvania certainly owes a monument to William Penn. He hogged the terri tory from the Indians without shedding blood or spending money. William was a peaceful man, and very clever at a bargain. JSew Urtiam Picayune. The expression "hogged is new to us, but expressive. With the Red Men it was "root hog or die." But "hog ged" is not a parlor word. We find in the graduating class at West Point from North Carolina, Richmond P.; Davis and Charles Ger- hardt. From South Carolina, John M. Jenkina and Thomas Q. Donald son, Jr., and from Virginia, John A. Harman, Robert G. Paxton and Wirt Robinson. Premier Ronvier is said to be forced to humor the Monarchists in the French Chamber of Deputies in order to secure a working majority. Madame Janauschek has brought suit for 120,000 damages against the hotel for the breaking of her arm by a fall. . . ' A report from Africa is that the natives have attacked- the British and French settlements. Maj. P. M. Hale entered the cUbs of 1845 and was graduated in 1849 from the TJniversty. Some Northern exchange says that both the eagle and the crow live for 100 years. A Building Boom, Building is "on the boom" iu Wilming ton. Many neat frame dwellings are In course of construction in various parts of the citv. Down town, the new cotton compress : building of the Champion Company, on: Nutt street. and the! building for the Atlantic Coast lane; on Ji Front street, ate going up rapidly, giving i euipmymeu 4U imgo wwm.- men. .Besides these, lour or nve aweiiings are to be erected in . the burnt district on Second and Bed Cross. " On Front street, corner of Orange, Mr." J. W Linderia put ting up a brick store and dwelling. The teacher takes out his watch. "As we have a few minutes before we dose, von can ask anv Question you wish.' One little kid cornea forward. "Teacher. what time is it, please?" San Francisco Uarontcie. , WILMINGTON, N. C, A VENTURO US VOYAGERS. A Journey In a Small Skiff" Through tne Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivera. Capt. i W. ;H Bixby and Lieut. Taylor.ef theU. 8. Engineers, returned to the city" Wednesday! evening from an exciting trip down the Yadkin and Great Pee Dee rivers, the purpose of which was to make exami nation of the Pee Dee with reference to improvement of the navigation of the rivej. Mr. Frank Brown," of Salisbury, accompa nied Capt.; jBixby and Lieut. Taylor,' and these gentlemen with a colored boatman comprised the party of adventurous navi gators! j , ...V .; "-:: -. :it"'p The. boat, a flat-bottomed skiff, with two oars, was put in the Yadkin about forty miles above Salisbury and the journey was from this point to Cheraw,;8v C , a distance of about 150 miles, which was made ia five days. The object in making the Yattkin the starting point, was li ob tain a general idea of the character of this river and to reach lha "Narrows." where the Yadkin and Uwharrie rivers come to gether, and four miles below form the Great Poe Deo, which is now navigable for small steamers of about two and a half feet draught, from its mouth at Georgetown to Cheraw, a distance of 190 mdes. ' . The first day the party made fifty- seven miles, with but little difficulty. The cur- rent was Very strong an J the cascades and rapids numerous; at places the fali was as much as twenty to thirty test in the mile, making progress very rapid and requiring skilful management of the little craft to avoid disaster. ' Mr. Brown acted as steers' man. The party stopped that night at Mr, V. Mauney's place, opposite Milledgeville, near the Yadkin Falls Manufactory. The next day they started at about 6.30 in the morning and stopped at 9.30 in the evening, but made only fourteen miles. The river, was full of tumbling falls and rapids, and before they had "gone three miles the! boat struck a rock which made a crack in One side about three feet long and a quarter of an iacb wide: When the boat struck it swung around and went down the stream stern foremost, plunging over a fall about four feet high. It was full of wa ter, but had fortunately lodged on a rock whicn prevented its sinking, lieiore start ing on their journey the party had laid in a store of oakum and tools, and with these they stopped the leak sufficiently to enable them to bale out the boat and get it ashore. Further repairs were made and the journey was resumed. About a mile from this stop- ing-place. the river was found to be very shallow: ! with a swift current and full of rocks. It was necessary, to turn the boat with the bow up-stream, the colored boat man, in the water, holding the boat to keep it from going down the stream too fast and being dashed ; against the rocks. Three fourths of a mile further they struck deeper water, when the boat man jumped on board, straddling the bows. The channel had narrowed to about sixty or eighty feet, and through this the boat went stern-foremost, Lieut. Taylor guiding it with the oars. The river at this point was full of ugly-looking rocks and the cur rent so J swift that the boat was carried along for about a quarter of a mile at a speed that could not have been less than twenty miles an hour. The waves made by the force of the current were about three feet high. A few miles further the voy agers encountered a fall, nearly vertical, of about eieht feet. They went down, but when they got through the boat was sub merged by the waves and went to the bot tom. Mr. Brown was knocked overboard by the : force of the waves, and when he rose to the surface the "boat had bepa swept beyond his reach. lie managed to gain the shore without suf fering more than a wetting. The remainder of the party were also thrown into the water but held on to the boat and finally succeeded in getting it ashore; Lieut. Taylor relin quishing his hold of the craft before reach ing the bank to swim after some of their effects that were floating down the river. 'After they got ashore the boat was turned over and emptied.and all the baggage of the party secured, with the exception of a small valise belonging to Mr. Brown. Several bundles of clothing, a tin case of maps and some rppe, were recovered about two miles down the stream from two colored men who found the things while crossing, the river in a boat. After getting the boat ready two of the party went on a short reconnois ance down the stream and found a fall over which! it would have been impossible to take the boat, which was finally lifted over the rocks near the shore and past the dan gerous! fall The rowlocks had been lost and the only means of working the boat was with the aid cf poles. About one mil t further the boat was hauled out and carried around the "Narrows,'-some five miles, the party slopping as evening then drew on, at Mr. Lbwder"s, at Kirk's ferry. The next day the boat was thoroughly repaired, and the journey continued. A short distance from the ferry they went through Gunsmith's shoals, with an experi ence almost equal to that ot the day before, but fortunately no accident occurred. After Gunsmith's shoals were passed they had no trouble except on account of dams and shallows, having no such rapids to paes as they had previously encountered. ; Bluett's Falls was a very bad rapid, but easily avoided bv a side channel, where all the falls were taken in a regular slope. Offi the fourth day . the party passed at least twenty, fish dams. These, in almost every case, extended clear across the river, not leaving space sufficient to pass a boat, while the law of the State requires that a free sluice shall be left in the dam so as to allow fish to ascend the stream. Beyond hese obstructions there was very little trouble after the third day. : The scenery in the vicinity of the Nar rows is very beautiful, xne river is con tracted to a width, of about one hundred and fifty feet, and sweeps through a gorge formed by walls of rock thirty to forty feet in heighth and sloping back on either side to mountains clothed, with verdure which rear their tops some three or four hundred feet The gorge is two miles and a half in length. : On the third day's trip, in contrast with this, the river broadened out into most beautiful sheet, like a lake a stretch of water fifteen miles long and a third of a mile wide dotted with numerous' grassy islands covered with trees. : The water, however, is very shallow and the current swift.','.; - -f -v:-:' :; - Notes were made of the voyage by Capt. Bixby and Lieut. Taylor, embracing every FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1887. thing of interest in connection with the navigation of the Pee Dee. These notes will be elaborated and maps prepared for theuse ofthB Department at Washington. Obituary Col. Wm. Ii. Smltn. I .,:. ';;. r. Col. William-L. Smith, a prominent citi. jcen of Wilmington, died rather suddenly yesterday morning at his residence: on Sec ond and Chesnut streets.' tie had been con fined to his house for several days, but it was not thought that he was seriously ill. . Col. Smith waian energetic, enterprising citizen, of unimpeachable integrity.; He held many positions, of honor and trust He was mayor of the city for two years, and has for many years past been a promi nent member in this State i f the jOrder of Odd Fellows, - He was als prominently identified with insurance interacts Ibere and has for years been president of the B.aul of Underwriters.- - i! : Tle Fayeuevtlle Llgnt Infantry. : '; ' The Fayetteville Independent Light In fantry Co., at a meeting held in their armo ry at Fayetteville Monday night, adopted the following resolutions in regard to the re-, cent encampment of the Second Regiment in this city : . ;;-;:V .' YiiKKjiA8, Annual encampments oe tne State Guard are especially desirable for per fecting its drill and discipline, thereby en abling it to compare favorably j with the well organized and thoroughly drilled troops of other States; and whereas, the an nual encampment of the Slate Guard has recently been abolished by act of j the Leg islature; and whereas, the late encampment of the Second Regiment at Wilmington, N. C. planned and inaugurated by the pa triotism and liberality of the Wilmington Light Infantry, was complete in all its ap pointments, thorough in its discipline and instructive in the practical duties of the sol dier; therefore, be it Resolved, That in behalf of the Fayette ville Independent Lie ht Infantry Company, we beg leave to express our high apprecia tion of the handsome manner in which we were entertained from the moment of our arrival in Wilmington to the Instant of our departure. j Resolved, That as tbe guests ofj the Wil mington Light Infaptry, we beg" to tender our grateful acknowledgments for the in numerable kindnesses we received at the hands of the officers and members of that glorious and liberal organization! We also beg to assure it that we will always re member the Wilmington encampment as among the happiest and most enjoyable oc casions in the history of our company. Resolved, That our - thanks are also es pecially due to the citizens of Wilmington for the royal manner in which they dis pensed their generous hospitalities. Resolved, That to all the reg imental and staff officers we tender our grateful thanks for all their kindness and their thoughtiul- ness during the encampment. Death or an Old Physician. The Lynchburg (Va.) Advance makes the following announcement of the death of an old physician, a number of whose rela tives reside in this city: I "The death is announced, at ' his home,' Sedalia, in Bedford county, on the 30th of May, of Dr. Kicnard A. Hale, one of the oldest residents,, and probably! the oldest physician in the county. He Was not far from eighty years old, and jduring the greater pari of his life had a medical prac tice so extensive as to occupy all his time. For several years past he has been practi cally in retirement, in consequence of tbe infirmities of age. His wile, who was a sister to Judge J. A. Wharton, i of Liberty, died many years ago. He reared a nume rous family, among them Mrs. George W, liardwicke, formerly of this city, but now of Wilmington, N. C. Dr. Sale was Virginia gentleman ot the old school, a man of strong friendships and positive convictions, modest, unassuming, and al ways ready to respond to the wants or rich and poor alike. i The Atlantic Coaac Line Extension. A meeting was held in this city a day or two ago, of tbe President, General Manager and Superintendent of the Manchester & Augusta Railroad, when the contract for grading the road from Sumter to the Santee River, S C, was given to Mr! Hardin of Chciaw. The contractor is i required to begin work by the 20ih inst, and to com plete the grading of the line to the Santee River by the 1st of next April. ' The com pany was organized in Florence last No vember with $100,000 capital slock sub scribed. The officers of the road are as fol lows: R. R. Bridgers of Wilmington, President; H. Walters of Baltimore, Gen eral Manager, and J. P. Post,! Jr., of Wil mington. Secretary and Treasure r. The" directors aie W. F. Walters, B F- New comer and H. Walters of Baltimore; J. F. . l Divine, W. A. Riach and R. R, Bridgers Ul V V 41 ui a u a w f s w ly a v a w u bia. S. C. . A correspondent writing from Columbia, S. C, says: '. It is impossible to ascertain what will be the southern terminus of the road. The motive of the Coast Line in building lit is to be in dependent of the Richmond and Danville, which controls the present tine from Co lumbia to Augusta - It is declared that the line is "an unknown quantity and an un certain factor in tbe Coast Line By stem," and that it is doubtful if its projectors know what they will do beyond the bantee. The trend of the line indicates Millen instead of Augusta as its objective point; but the townships along the two routes may be broueht to bid for the road and in that way ease tbe burdens of its builders. This plan has already been tried by the Three C s with great success, and it may work as well in Western as in Eastern Carolina. Good News for Fishermen. Recent arrivals of coastwise vessels at Southern ports report an immense school of mackerel coming South. Capt. Steelman of the schooner Susan B. Ray, at Savan nah from Norfolk, passed through the school a short distance south of Cape Look-. out on May 28th. On that day, Capt. Steel man says, about 11 o'clock in the morning, off Cape Lookout, with light southwest winds, the vessel ran into an immense school of sharks in seventeen fathoms of water. The sharks measured from three to eight feet in length. They' were as thick as they possibly could be and could be Been as far as the eye could reach. The schooner ran through them for fully' an hour, mak ing only about three miles. 1 After leaving the sharks' the vessel ran into a tremendous field of mackerel and sailed through them for four hours. The crew turned fishermen and caught 180 fine mackerel with a common cotton line oyer the vessel's stern. Capt. Steelman. says it was the loneest school of mackerel that he has ever seen, and all the more remarkable as he had never before seen them in Southern waters. They. were never before known to go south of Body's island. I mere nas been a scarcity of mackerel in the regular fishing grounds in Northern waters during the past season. This school may rurnisn an oppor tunity for some enterprising fishermen to secure snip loads of nsn. The Lighthouse Board reports that in formation has been received that a combi nation gas whistling buoy was placed off Cape Hatteras Shoals on April 20, 1887, in lit fathoms, water, the lighthouse bearing N. W. i N. WASHINGTON. f! Cltlea that will Uecelve the Pre De livery System-Toe White House Un dercolDK Renovation raexlean Pen Ions. - 7'S::.'.'".,; - Washington. June 2 Fiftv-th offices will receive the benefit of the frtu delivery system July 1st. -by reu of ibu cities having attained a population-of leu thousand, or the postofficea having return ed a revenue of $10,000 or over during tbo past year. Southern cities thus benefitted are fensacola. Fla - Columbus, G. : Jack son, Meridian and Vicksburg. Miss., and Staunton, Va. Several DostofflCes. soma of them Presidential offices, will he abol ished by. this change because of ihecoit solidatioa of neighboring towns' . ij ine wnite House is . being thorough!? renovated and repaired during the absence of President and Mrs. Cleveland. f ; Second Lieutenant John F. Thomoson. 3d artillery, has been ordcted to attend the encampment of the 2d regiment of Ala bama State militia near Montgomery, com mencing on June 7th, and to inspect the troops. ' V j '. '-',. . ; It ;s now estimated at the Pension Often that the number of Mexican pension claim win not exceed tbtrlv thousand. Eichteen thousand, of which three thousand are widows' claims, have already been received and twenty-two hundred certificates bave been itsued. it has been determined to in crease the force of the division having these casts in charge, so that they may be turned out at tbe rate of two hundred per diem. . Washington. June 3 Postmaster Gen-. cral Vilas said to-day that he did not de sire to be quoted with regard to the publi cation yesterday in a Philadelphia paper. purporting to give the Presidents plans for an extended western trip, as it con cerned . the President alone: but that he would deny the truth of the arlic'n so far as it said that he (ibe Postmaster General) was cognizant of such : programme. , He was not aware, nor had be any intimation that the President had made any plaus or contemplated an extended western trip, and he was of the opiniop that the Presi dent had no such intention, i John N. Oliver. Justice of the Peace of the District of Columbia, was recently re moved from office by the President and fcu successor appointed Oliver disputes the President s power of removal, and asserts that he can only be removed by the Su preme Court of the District, for cause. Hb refuses to surrender bis office and continues to sign his name officially. . It is probable the courts will bave to settle the matter.) Washington, June 3 Ex-Representa tive George C. Cabell has filed with the Inter-State Commission, in behalf of the chamber of Commerce of Danville, Va . detailed specifications of alleged violations of the law by the Richmond & Danville Railroad Co. Cabell explained the nature of the charge verbally about a fortnight ago, and he has acted upon a suggestion made by the commission at that time in filing the specifications. I ho Uomp'.ro:er M tbe Currency to (lay appointed S. J. Kennedy, of Palaika; to be receiver of the Pilatka Nati mal Bank of that city. . . ) Washington. June i 4 Surgeon Gen eral Hamilton to-day received a telegram from tbe Governor of Florida, as follows: "Florida has no State Board of Health:- I hope you Will give such aid as you can to the local county boards to eradicate yel low fever in Key West and j prevent; its spread to other localities." Surgeon General Hamilton replied ; by telegraph as follows: "If the i.egi&lature is in session, can they not pass the neces sary laws? Please state the resources at your command. I am instructed by the Secretary of the Treasury to assure you of the full cooperation of the Deprtment in supplementing the State forces." Dr. Hamilton also telegraphed Dr. J. P. Wall, at Tampa, Fla. that tbe Postoffice Department wants the mails fumigated, and that the Marine Hospital Bureau will assume reasonable expenses incurred in the fumigation. j Thirteen clerks in the Tresbury Depart ment were to-day notified that their -names will be dropped from the pay rolls July 1st., by reason of the failure of Congres? to make provision for tbe payment of iheir salaries after that date. MEWORK. j District Attorney Marline Secklue to Indict the Knlshta lor Boycotting a Carpet manufactory Fatal Explo sion Near Rondont. (Special Star Telegram.) New York, Juno 4 District Attorney Martine t - day gave some attention to a fac simile letter recently issued by the Gen eral Secretary of tbe Knights of Labor at .Philadelphia, as published in this moruiog'd Sun, calling upon members of various as semblies to boycott E - S. Higgins & Co., carpet manufacturers and their customer?. The matter was then turned over by Mar tine to his assistant, Dvis, who has charge of placing the matter before the grand jury upoa which the indictment- should be found Davis said that the letter itself was very guardedly written and coul-i not be made tbe basis of indictment for con spiracy. The matter will, however, be farther investigated. The circular does i not use tne woru noycoit. utajs - ioe General Executive Board has decided that not use the word "hoycott " Ittajs "tbe carpets manufactured.by this firm are not such as said board can recommend con sistently to the patronage of the order." Accompanying the circular is a list of thirty-two firms in New York city, twenty one in Brooklyn and eight iu Jersey City and Newark, N. J., who handle Higgins' carpets. The circular is signed, "Jno. W. Haves, Secretary General Executive Board." t Rondotjt. June . 4 Alfred Caufield, James Cullen and Norman Bell were killed in Norton's quarry at Banne-water, Ulster county, by a premature blast to-day. Sev eral others were fatally injured ; one or more fatally. ALABAMA. Two. Men Murdered In a Gambling Dlspnte. j By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Chicago. June 4. Tho Times' special from Cedartown, Ga., says: At Rock Run. Ala., Alf Woodley shot and killed William Stone and mortally wounded Bob Mills yes terday. Stone was a professional gambler and had of late been plying his vocation among furnace operatives, winning all their money. He induced Woodley and Mills to join him in a game of dice. The victims were getting the better of Stone when, in a rase, he slapped woodley in the lace. Without a word Woodley arose from his place and left the two playing alone. In a few minutes he returned and suddenly ap pearing in tne ooor wun a revolver, ne ex claimed, "Look out. Mills, I will kill the scoundrel. He-shot three times, two shots striking Stone and killing him instantly. The third shot mortally wounded Mil's Woodley disappeared. A TALE OF THE SEA. The SafTerlngs of Three Men! Found Adrift In Dory. j By Telegraph to the Morning Star . Halifax.. N. F.. June 4. John Brown and Edward Hagan, belonging to : a Glou cester fishing schooner, and Richard Les ter, who were picked up at sea adrift in a dory, and who were landed at North Syd ney, underwent a dreadful experience. They were adrift on the ocean for over six days, without a bit of food or a ' drop of water. After trying all imaginable expe dients to allay their thirst. Brown! cut one of his arms in order that they might drink his blood, but the blood would not now. They then save up all hope of being res cued, but were at last picked up in a tern-' biy exhausted condition by tne barque Kate C. Maguire. ; . uranam wteaner: iur. i . c. r mr TTf . o Caffey, while walking through his new ground near this place found a curious col lection of keys, which probably belonged tosome burglar. The assortment, num bering about seventy-five, consisted of nearly all sizes and kinds, including skele ton keys and lock-picks. ! " NO. ?2 THE PRESIDENT. r Anniversary or bis Wedding Day . nearty Consrataiatlona from the Residents ofhls Mountain Retreat He and bis Party eo a-FIsblna;. I - By Telegraph to the Horning Btai. 1 ' "Sabanac Inn, June 2. The anniver sary of the wedding day of President and Mrs.- Cleveland dawned beautifully! at Saranac Inn. - At sunrise there was not a breath of air stirring, and the surface of the lake reflected every tree, hill, mountain range and cloud. But at 9 o'clock, when the cottage party came over to the hotel to breakfast, a breeze had sprung up from1 the west and white caps were running across the bay, just off Prospect Point. When Mrs. Cleveland sat down to breakfast she found a little cluster of four-leaved clover at her place. She and the President were heartily congratulated upon the anniver sary and were wished all manner of happi ness and good luck. At 10 o'clock, after smearing their faces liberally with fly oint ment, the President, Mrs. Cleveland and Dave Crank went off in one boat, Col. and Mrs. Lamont and McCaffrey in another, and Dr. and Mrs. Rosman in a third, to spend the day at Holt's pond about three miles distant. They took lunches and, un less the flies and mosquitoes prove too an noying, will remain all day. When thoy return, the cottage of the President will probably be decorated in a simple manner, to recall to its occupants a memory of the ceremony that took place in the blue foom or tne wnite House just one year ago, MEXICO. An Actlve Volcano Caused by the Earthquakes A Mass ot Molten IVh Pourlnx from the Crater Two ' More Shocks Reported Panic Catholic Church A Number of aona Kilted and Injured. in a Per- Tombstone, June 2. Senor Campa,who Has lust arrived from Nacosari, states that authentic news has reached Oposura at the time of the first earthquake a volca no broke out on the Chihuahua side of the Sierra Madre mountains,- near Piedr&s Verdes, and about thirty miles west of Ca sas Grandes. Different parties, number ing about thirty persons in all, have! gone from Casas Grandes to inspect the volcano, but owing to the intense heat they ihave been unable to approach nearer than with in three miles of the mass of molted lava, which pours down the mountain side, and which ia estimated to extend fully ten; miles from; the crater of the volcano. Volumes of smoke by day and a red glare by might from the burning mountain are visible for long distances. Governor Torres( bf So noraj has directed that a party be sent from Oposura to inspect nnd report upon the phenomenon. - j A Slight shock of earthquake was felt here Monday, and another at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. j St. Louis, June 2. A special from Chi huahua, Mexico, says: A terrible panic prevailed here yesterday 'afternoon in the Catholic Cathedral, caused by the falling of candies setting fire to one of the al tars. The day being a religious holiday the Church was crowded to overflowing, principally with women and children. - At eight of the smoke the crowd became fran tic, and the usual scenes of a terror-Btrick en, struggling mass of humanity followed. Several children were killed and i quite a number of women were severely injured. Official reports of the number killed aro not Vet obtainable. ; NEW CALEDONIA. Qonvlcis from England's Penal Colony to be Transported to San Francisco. Washington, June 3. The commercial agent ait New Caledonia, 8outu Pacific Ocean, has reported to the Department of State that convicts in that colony are being liberated with the understanding that they must not settle in any English or French colony, and as a consequence, a majority of them are going to ban Francisco. I Ue says that a proposition is now before the local Parliament to vote 1,000 for landing in San Francisco all tbe worst of these men. as they will not be received in Tahiti or elsewhere. The French government, he also says are offering a subsidy of 120 per month for a steamer to run between Nou- emea and Tahiti and then to San Francisco f or the purpose cf assisting these immi- grants to America. MINNESOTA. I ritlzen of Tracy Swindled Out of 911,000. j Chicago, June 2. The Times special from Tracy, Minn., says: J. J. Harligan, of this place, has lost $11,000. A stranger named Powell came along and proposed to Uartigan to start a bank. , An organization was effected and the concern started. though Powell put in no capital to speak bf . He then issued acertificate of deposit to an al leged brother at Tracy, for $11,000 The brother went East and had the certificate cashed by a bank in New York. Before cashing the certificate New York parties telegraphed to Powell, at lracy, and re ceived a reply that the money was on de posit. Powell left Tracy as soon as be bad finished his part in assisting his brother to i """'V4 ""'.'" "001"" have the certificate cashed A NEW PHASE. A Railroad Discriminates In Favor of J . the Negro. St. Louis, June 8. A local paper states that the Mobile & Ohio Railroad has drawn the color line in the excursion rates to the meeting of the Knights of Labor in Mobile, August 8th. The tickets secure a privilege to a particular class, shutting out great crowds The way this is done is by stamping the ticket "colored," so that hone but citizens of the African race will be able to avail themselves of the . rate. This savors of an unlawful discrimination against the white man, bnt it is argued that none but colored men iil want to goto Mobile in August. However, the ticket scalper is grumbling, and will probably take tbe case in band. MICHIGAN Probate Judge Follett a Forger ae , : well as a Thief. Grand Rapids, June 2. The! latest in - i . i- vestigation shows that Probate Judge Fol lett, whose disappearance was mentioned in these dispatches yesterday, is hot only a thief but a forger. His defalcation is not less than $30,000. Several bank certificates are held here to which Follett lis said to have forged the signatures. - j PETER M. HALE. Hit Death In Fayetteville After a Long and Painful IllnessJ Raleigh. N. C. June 2. P. (M. Hale, long a leading editor in this 8tate and for a while a resident of XSew xorE city as member of the firm of E. J. Hale & Sons, publishers, died in Fayetteville tbls after noon after a long illness of cancer of the tongue; He was 59 years of ag THE INTER-STATE LAW, Shippers Bt Intermedins Point Bene fited by the Long and Short Haul Clause. : By Telegraph to the Horning Star. St. " Lotrrs, June 4. The Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy Railroad Company have determined to reduce tneir rates neiween this'citv and Council Bluffs and Omaha When the Inter-State Commerce law went into effect, this road being the long route to Council Bluffs and Omaha, rather than sacrifice its local points under the new reg ulation, raised its rates to the former places about 15 per cent. - After two months' trial it found this business of too much conse nuence 'to lose. A return to the old rates will necessitate a slaughter of local rates all alone the line. This is believed to bo tbe first step in turning the tide of the Inter State regulation in favor of the shipper, and intermediate points may find that the long and short haul clause is a very good thing after all. 1 Pittsboro Record: Not with : standing tbe reduction made by the last Legislature in the price of marriage licen ses fewer - of them 'were issued in tbi county last month than almost ever; befoi.t known only two to whites and one t : blacks. ; "J-. 4 -.. Oxford Orphans1 Ftiendi Mayor-: Crawford is swelling the town treasury ' Some questionable characters were fined $40 . last week for keeping a disorderh houses j We are- glad to state lhiu Mr. EugenoS. Martin, the silver-tongul orator of the East; will be .with us on ib. ' 24th ot June and deliver an address ' ; Hillsboro Observer:' A colored man named Aaron Page, while under the influence of liquor, went to sleep on tbo railroad track a mile or two west of Hills boro Saturday night. About 12 o'clock, ho was knocked from the track by a pass ing train and his left arm was "so bad h' crushed that amputation was necessary; j Durham News: There wai more 'excitement in Durham last nigbv than has occurred before since the last Presidential campaign. Rev. J. jO. Price, who spoke at Stokes Hall on the subject c.r prohibition, was heard by a large! and en thusiastic audience. Several speeches went delivered by different parties to a larg.v crowd on the public square. -1 I mt8Doro - decora: Many ne groes here really believe that thai locomo tive on the Pittsboro railroad is haunted,; which! is a fortunate thing, as they will not. be apt to project with it while remaining at the depot at night. They say that a man was killed by it some years ago while run ning on the Richmond Air Line! road antl that his gbost haunts it at nigbt. : Charlotte Chronicle: Mad do en seem to be taking the country down about Matthews and Butler s madstone is in de mand It was called for day beyore yester dav to be used on Mr. Starnes, and yester day Mr. W. J. Boss, of Providence town ship, went to Mr. Starnes's with his six- year old boy. who bad been bitten by a mad dog. to secure the use of the stone.) Tin.- boy was bitten last .Tuesday by a dog thai afterwards went mad and has bccal cou4 fined. .'.:-- -t ! 4 . : Rev. Dr. Miller furnishes "thol Charlotte Chronicle with some highly laud atory notices Of John E. Brady,! a NortU Carolina young man, taken from paper published in Athens. Greece, i We copy one of these: Ned Ephemries says: "Tbo brilliant American scholar, Everett Brad I of North Carolina, who .spent some time in Athens, has devoted himself to tbe study of Modern Greek. His great work, The Pro j nunciation and Dialects of New Greek, written in Gottingen, Germany, j is India pensable to all students of the language! The Greek Nation beholds with gratiflca-. tion the devotion of this wonderful scholar to Modern Greek Philology, whose method, of teaching will doubtless be adopted short- y throughout America. , Wadesboro Intelligencer: A few weeks ago two fellows calling them selves Reiser & Helton, cabinet makers and upholstery came to Wadesboro and offered to repair iurniture. ah, so lar as we navt beard, wno gave tnem work anerwara regretted, as their work was a fraud- and their charges robbery. They stopped with Mr. H. Fairly, and after here remaining two r three weeks, departed under cover of darkness, leaving their board ! bills un settled. Nothing was heard from then. until a few days ago, when Helton returned, to Wadesboro and was in a few hours there after arrested by Sheriff Crowder, charged with stealing a mule from Mr Richmond Cole, of Richmond county, tie was lodged in jail till the sheriff of Richmond county could be notified of the arrest. H was next day taken to Rockingham, wheru he will be held to an accountability for hi crime. .-' ' I- . i- Raleigh Visitor: The collec-r lions in this, the 4th internal revenue dis trict, for the month of May, amounted to $60,915.45. The Governor has ap pointed Dr. John H. Tucker, of Hender- son, a member of tho State Board of Health. - The report of . Mr. W. a Dodd. Chairman of the committee, up to April 80th, 1887, shows the total number of en rolled pupils to be 2,153; average daily at tendance, 1,815; per cent of attendance, 61 ; number of days taught, 178; cost of tuition per annum, $4.61 ; average salary of teach ers per month, $35.83; number of school rooms. 27; value of school houses and lots. $35,000; value school furniture, 82.80U; cash on hand, April 25th, 1888, was $1,- 928 80. Receipts since that time, $10, 827.30. Total, $12,758. 30 ; disbursed, $12, 588.18, leaving balance on hand, $16812. The census of 1886 makes the school popu lation in the township 4,548. M i ; Raleigh News-Observer: A fer tilizer factory is to be established at Salis bury by Mr. C. W. Corner. Ground bone will be the principal productj " The State Museum register shows for the month of May three hundred and eighteen visitors, representing eighteen States and one foreign country. The Agricultural Depart ment is making a move to secure greatly reduced rates over tbe various lines of railroads for farmers who may wish at any time to pay a visit to the State Agricultural Station and experiment farm in this cit - -- The city during the past year has bee it. undei strict sanitary regulations, and no nuisances have existed. The ! number of deaths bave been for IU months, 243,' of which 88 were white and 157 colored. Taking tbe population at 15,000, the death rate is 17.1 per thousand. Tne paving done with Belgian block cost $4,893.46. The tax collector reports that taxes and market rents have yielded $47,204.53. The city debt is $205,893.81 and tho assets on hand amount to $88,502.78, leaving the net.; debt $116,831.03, which is $4,838.91 lea than at last report Fl ; '-( '. Greensboro Patriot. The far mers all talk of good crops. Wheat is heading well. There are no signs of rust, j - Three new manufacturing Industrie have sprung up in Greensboro since tlx city voted to issue bonds to tbe amount ofj $100,000 for internal improvements, wituj others soon to follow. - The annual... meeting of the Baptist Orphanage,' at, Thomasville, on Wednesday, July . 27th.; 1887. The peach crop will be much. better -than was supposed. -I Tho peo f pie of Reidsville are indignant, and justly so, over three unsuccessiui attempts to ouru the town within the past four weeks. The Asheboro Courier says a chub that weighed 14i pounds was found at Worth- villeone day last week. There were IS hooks found in it. Fisher & Co. have closed a contract with Mrs. Wright, of this city, for a large tract of land, embracing 200 acres, more or less, in the northern. part of the city, for which she received $15,000 in round numbers.! Only, a- few days since the quiet little village or Germanton, Stokes county, was the scene of a disturbance in which a pistol was used with probably serious result The facts as we hear them are that Mr. Harden Glide well and a young man by the name of Pep per were engaged in a fisticuff, when Mi. Wm. Pepper, a brother of the latter gen tleman, appeared upon tho Scene and dial-' charged a pistol at Glidewell, the ball lodging in Glidewell's side and it is feared, will prove of serious, if not fatal effect. Raleigb News-Observer: Tho Governor yesterday paTdoned ont of jail Robert Lee, who was tried at the sprint: term of Lenoir Superior Court, 1887, for assault and battery and sentenced to twolvo months in jail; The pardon was granted on affidavit that the health of the prisoner was broken and that he was dying in im prisonment. Yesterday evening As sociate Justice J. J. Davis, while going up the steps of the residence ! bf Capt. J. J Thomas, in which he has apartments, had the misfortune to lose his footing and fall, spraining his ankle very badly. In formation has been received at tbe Execu -tive Department that B. ' B. Thomp son, colored, who killed Shade Thomp son : in Bladen ( county last March and- afterwards fled the county, has surrendered himself to the authori ties. A reward of $200 was ottered for Thompson and he represents that he was bo hotly pursued that he deemed final escape impossible and preferred to make a volun tary surrender. Wbldon, MaySO.f The Roanoke and Warren union meeting, which have been ia joint session here since Thursday night closed last nigbt with a ser mon by Rev. J. A. Leslie, of Tarboro. The following ministers were in attendance: Revs. J. D. Hufham, of Scotland Neck; J. M. McManaway, of Wilson; George J. Dowell, of Hamilton; A. G. Wilcox, of Brinkley ville: T. J. Taylor, of Warrenton; W. B. Morton, Weldon; J. A. Leslie, of Tarboro; M, Adams., ot Wilson; Messrs. N. L. 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