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i lie Weekly Star. WM. H. BERNARD, Editor and Prop'r. WILMING TON, K. C. Septeebkr 2, 1887. 3T"lta wrlttaK to ohanjce ryonr afldresa, awoy irlvei former direction as well as full particulars as Where yon wish your paper to be sent hereafter. Unless you do both changes can not be made. er-Notloes of Marrlaw or Death, Tributes or i Ke8peot, Resolutions fn, lu nrdlnurr &dv inooAnt. Rftsnlntlona of Th: banks, Ac, are charged cements, but only half for Tas ordinary advertisements. rates when paid for itriotly in advance, At this rate SO cents win paj ofj Marrlatte or Deati rate 50 cents will pay for a simple announcement no. tgp'-Romlttanoes must be made by Check.Draft f'osttil Money Order or Registered Letter. Post maaei will register letters when desired. E"nly suoh remittances will be at the risk of thefmblisner. I3lieclmen copies forwarded when desired. lERLE(!TIONS FOR FABMEBS. rh!e Fjifmers Convention that met at ktlanta refused to adopt a Tariff reduction resolution. They are more interested in the speedy reduction of thl War Tariff to the basis of the Ilenry Clay Tariff of 1832, than any other class; and because all through th dlecades they have been the suf ferers. During the Low Tiriff era, befole the war, when the average was lot more than 25 per cent., j,he farmers and manufacturers flourish edjjd they-never did before, or never havelsince. This has been clearly established time and again. When Mr. Lamar was in the Senate, he madi an exhaustive and very able spbeh on the Tariff in which he snowed from the records of the Gpv er imlent that the greatest era of prjsberity for the manufacturers was tb it period of time during which th) Tariff was low very low said th 3 all devouring manufacturing mo nopolists. I The farmers must inform them se vs better as to the principles, workings and results of a High Ti riff and see how their interests are afi'ected. They will learn that they are iled at every turn. They will discover that they 'are systemati cally robbed for the enriching pf lordly plutocrats who laugh at their ci lamities and shake their plethoric sides when their fear cometh. The great idea now beingj pushed b r the adroit, cunning brgans of Protection is, that you must build np manufactures in the South in or der jto find markets for the products of the farmers. This is plausible. This is well calculated to mislead. Manufactures of the right kind are good and useful things. They are especially good if they are not to be fostered by making j the mil lions not engaged in them pay fifty or it hundred per cent, more for the 'products of the factories than they can be bought for else- where. If the South can undersell tho North in its mapnfactures then it can find a, market, but at present here are twice as many cotton mills in the country as the demand requires. There are enough cotton mills now tin operation to make in biz mouths all that this country can possibly con sume in twelve months. Mark that, It can be stated another way. There are enough mills now operating to make in one year what the1 country 'L..U -i . wouiu require in two years proviaea all the mills would work jupon full time all the year round. f So if mills are to be multiplied at the expense of the farmers they may become costly establishments in the end. The Louisville Courier-Journal understands economic questions as well as any paper in America, and presents them with as much clearness and force. In a recent editorial dis cussing the 'Tariff as it affects the farmers in the South it said, and read it carefully f vice or cftener. "Tbe farmer is interested in seeing cities grow and to am facturing interests flourish, oply when thesj cities pay him what he can get elsewhere for his products, and when these mills and factories will sell him supplies at rates as low as they can be bought elsewhere. "But when these furnaces, these mills, these factories and mines need protection, that is, when they need a law which com pels tbe farmer to buy of them at their own prices, these institutions ara not a blessing; they are a curse, J "The farmer, with every other citizen, is Concerned about cheap iron. He buys it In one shape and another in large quanti ties. Bo uses it about the bouse, the barn. e field. It is in his plow, in his wapon. n his ifin. It is used when he Dlanu. i hen He cultivates, when he nicks and and ales his cotton. Iron is at the very base f his prosperity. Cncao iron is a boon! inestimable. ThS first form of all his farm- Ioii implements and most of his household; iteneila is pig "iron." "It costs $7. 50 or $8 a ton to make pig ron in England. I It costs $9 to make it in South ; it costs from $16 to $20 to make it (o Pennsylvania. I The makers of iron are brotected by a duty on pig iron of $0.72 per ton In other words, the tariff forbids the farmer to buy iron in England at $8; it mes nim ior every ton purchased broad. This "fine" the domestic produc-j! rs add to their borne price, and so either ay it is a tax on the farmer. "When the farmer buvs iron in n hapehe pays this tax to the iron-maker. Vboul 6,500 tons will be made in America his year, and thej aggregate tax paid by iOnRlimera of thla nrtiotn amminta - , - - U U. UUUIU H BUI Mfc "Here is a bonus paid by the people to the makers of ironl It is as much a gift to a class, and a tax on tbe masses, as if Con grees Bhould next winter provide for the j payment to the cotton planter of $6.72 a uaie, ior every Daie oi cotton raised. The; farmer has no such bonus and be gels no compensation. His cotton does not bring biin any more because of the tax. The price of cotton is fixed in Liverpool, and there the tariff does not protect him. It does not give him the home market, for the American spinner gives the planter the Liverpool price lees the costof transporta tion." , ,r , We believe that to be exactly the state of the case. When the farmers inform themselves of how they - are fleeced under the pestiferous bounty levied upon them by the robber bair- ons, they will never vote for any man who . seeks office at their hands and dares to advocate a High Tariff. The farmers ought to know that all the time they are being taxed for others; while, on the other hand, there aro no other classes who are taxed for the benefit of the farmers, ' The farmers, as the Courier-Jour AT, ! . I nal shown, are taxed $6.72 for every ton of iron in order that the iron men may roll in! riches. Bat since the world was jmade yon have never heard of the manufacturers being taxed $6.72 for every bale! of ootton that the farmers might be enriched. Why not? l is not turn about fair play? The Courier-Journal says of the bounty: . "The farmers have! just as much right to this as the furnace owners have to a tax of $6.73 on pig-iron. Judge f Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is preaching protection to the South. Is it possible to set him to in troduce in the House, next winter, a bill providing an export bounty of $6.72 a bale on cotton, and a similar bounty for wheat? We think: not." P'ngiron" his old age Kelley is exhausting in trying to teach the South- how to get rioh. Ilis plan has not even the virtue of originality. It is the j same jld Pennsvlvanian cast iron plan ot taxing twenty men for tbe benent of one man. lie is a staunch advocate of the greatest ab surdity ever presented to the intelli gence of a free 'people that high taxation is a great and inestimable blessing, and that the way to make a nation rich is, to tax fifty-eight mil-J lions for the exclusive benefit of two millions! ' jNORTH CAROLINA HISTORY. There is a wide spread belief that North Carolina is very much in need of a history tiat will give in its true color an account of North Carolina men and manners. One fact that makes this lack of a histo ry possible is the lack of appreciation of North Carolina history on the part of her people, i The demand always governs the supply. ! If every North Carolinian would buy a good North-Carolina history when it was written, it would soon be written. Qoldiboro Argvs. The people will not buy a history of North Carolina. Such at least was the experience of Hawks and Wheeler, and to come extent, Moore has fared but ittle better. But there is much excuse for this neglect. Hawks is far too voluminous for every day use for everybody. He ptiblirthed two large octavos and did not get to the V V. ar of the Revolu Wheeler's book is tion, we believe. not properly history, bnt historic material -mere disjecta membra for the use of the future historian of the State. Moore's book is crude, ill digested, abounding in errors. It is but little more than a record of poli ticians", and as Wheeler's book was Jailed by the- Wbigs of forty years ago " The Democratic Stud-Book.' 1 1 What is needed is a compact oc tavo of 700 or 800 pages,' containing a little less matter than Green's extra rdinary"History of tbe English Peo Pie" n one volume., A competent writer could with diligent and mas i.erly compression put the wholastory of North Carolina in that one volume, vtjj it would answer all the purposes of the nebular and of tbe general .Undent. j - ' There is a pjries of histories of Stales in course of publication by a Boston house. J Nearly all of the old Thirteen have been written, and sev- pral of tho new States,but North Carolina is untouched. We under stand that thej publishers say they cinnot publish a history of this State !' i I I jjjbecausK it will not sell. The plan is !l J I ' - I 11 to give a history ; of each State in some three or 'four hundred pages, New York, however, being favored with double the space. We have not read any of the series. That admirable itFratU!, the late John Eaten Cooke, prepared the history of Virginia, and it is said to be charmingly done, j A book of thatl kind would suit the gen eral reader, j But a more elaborate work-is nteded for ?North Carolina. If a North Carolinian is not to pre pare i be history for the Boston se ries, we hopei it will not be under taken. Oor State has been already slandt-red arid! misrepresented enough without any1 additional attempts in that line. j- M ' .1 We would be glad to see a history undertaken upon tbe plan suggested. If wt li and thoroughly done, it would be bought by j our people. Georgia and Tennessee have excellent histo ric, and North Carolina greatly needs one. Col. Saunders, Col. Wad dell, Daniel; R. Goodloe, Esq., Mrs.' Spencer,Dr. H. E. Shepherd and John D. Cameron, Eeq., would be equal to the tat-k we have no doubt. To pre pare such a work as the State needs and criticism may require would take at leastj four or five years. ' In 1875 this writer had gathered in one room tbe State histories and material necessary ! to begin such a work. He bad the kind loan of the works of two! Raleigh" gentlemen in addition to his own and other works accessible. J The .two libraries at Coa pel 'Hill had voted him free ac cess and a trip or two to Washington was all that he lacked then to begin a task for the completion of which he had given himself four years of close work. He had got within a day or two of writing Chapter First and beginning the labor of love tbe chief work of nis me. lie was then editing for Col. Pool Our liv ing and Our Dead, and the Educa tional Journal. he continuance of these publications was at j that time necessary to enable f him to carry out bis historic plans. Their- sudden collapse caused tbe pen to be arrested, and he was forced to turn to another field for "the staff of life.'j At One blow the well meditated plan of years, was destroyed and a fondly cherished nope became as nothing. ! From that time all amomouB .purposes vanished, and the hope of doing som.etb.ing memorable for his native North Carolina was dissipated, and the desire to so accomDlish a nohl and - commendable ( end and leave "something so writ" that future gen erations of North Carolinians ''would not willing let die," melted away forever. Another lesson of the van ity of human wishes and the perish a- blenees "of human aspiration.) . We loved North Carolina and inurejy the purpoMft and aapirtion to serve her wire noble, if vain.' . ; : So what remains to us in our old age, "frosty but kindly," is to do what wo can to help create a publio demandft.r the :jh and to try to stj and devoted son latory that is to be, mutate some! loyal to undertake - the very much needed woik. God proa- per the work of bis hands I THE GEORGIA SCHOOL QUESTION. The Glenn bii before the Georgia not ipass. It went Legislature will through one House bat hangs fire in another. Another and more mod erale bill will be probably adopted. that effects thef 1 1- less violent way. same end bat in a The Glenn bill proposes to make it penal for any private school to admit both races. No such school could prosper except among a very depraved white, com munity. The bill properly made it penal as applied; to public schools supported by the taxes of the whites mainly. Georgians will not hear to mixed 8choolc, and we are glad to learn that Dr. Haygood.an extremist, is opposed to mixed sohools, while opposing the sweeping character of the Glenn bill; The men who at- '' ' ! i i j. tempt to set up mixed schools in Georgia will inevitably come to grief. The new bill proposes to forbid and prevent mix d public schools. Slate aid will have . r . r- Schools receiving to abandon all mixing I of races or lose the aid they had received, There were two Universities estab lished in Georgia from funds derived from the sale of public lands One of these was at Atn ens and one at Atlanta. The fund was equitably divided between these schools Th Athens school was for whites, and the Atlanta school for negroes. The attempt to introduce white pupils into the negro Bchool was a breach of trust, a violation of I the arrange ment and an offense If the Atlanta negro to the people, school persists in receiving fourteen Northern whites then the $8,000 devoted to it will be withdrawn. A notorious burglar, named i James M. Dewitt, came to! his death in a very singular WaUrjiri New YoHc. He was literally impaled on broken glass, lie was caught in a store which he had robbed and in attempt ing to jump through a pane of glass to escape his foot slipped and be fell upon the jagged edges and died. His heart was actually ciut into.' Tim npv onmol diinnciiFiul V,n Prof. Brook, pi lied House Observ atory, N . Y., is growing brighter. Kxporta 1b A nc Hat. The total value of foreign exports from t.hia TVrt.!'fftl tlna mrn4li nr A., f JUV AUVUUU V iXIA- gust is $103,710; as compiled from the l-irAklro ot V S.tUL TT J 1 . the following exhibit:' T French West Indien Lnmhor tos . 000 feet, valued fat $11,896. I ' Germany Rosin, 2,904 barrels. valued at $3,239, M I England Rosin", ! 5,216 barrels. valued at $5 438 spirits turpentine, 140,004 gauons, valued at $43,644. British West Indies Lumber. 272.- 000 feet, valued at $4,772; shingles, 52,- 000, valued at $157. Hayti Lumber, 92,000 feet, valued at $1,170; shinnies, 70,000, valued at $360. . I I : Russia Rosib, 3,850 barrels, valued at $4,126. I M -M Porto Rico-4-Tar, 40 barrelsL value $80: nitnh. 20 linrrota 7 1 UAUI 7UU.1UU1 ber, 191,000 feet, Value $2,743. Ireland Rosin. 922 rm.Tr1a vnlno $750: finirits Arrtpntino 1DO 01R ol. ' ; t 1 i Ions, value $35,000. The Ooalow Hallroa The Countv Oommifisinnpra rt Ons low will meet Monday, when an ele& tion will be ordered on the question of a subscription to the Wilmington, Onslow & East Carolina Railroad- The Commissioners of Pender will also meet on Monday, when an elec tion will probably be ordered in Grant township in that county on the ques tion of a subscription by that town ship. Foreign Export Teaterday. j The Haytieh trig jHrois Svens was cleared yesterday by Messrs. E. G. Barker & Col. for Antigua, W.' I., with cargo of 206,875 feet of lumber and 52,250 shingles,) shipped by Edward Kidder's Son, and valued at $3,835.92. The Italian barque Dorodea M.. cleared for Bristol, Eng., with a car go consisting 681 casks spirits tur pentine and 3,175 barrels of rosin, val ued at $14,082. I I Cotton Heeelpta. . Receipts of cotton at this port yes terday werei I07 bales; the same date last year 15 bales. ' The total receipts for the crop year ending yesteriay are 134,020 bales; against receipts of 101,537 bales for the year ended jAuguet 31, 1886; show ing the gratifying increase of 32,770 bales. ' ' Receipts for the ; crop year ended August 31, J885. were 94,054 bales. . Receipts jlor the crop yeair ended August 81, 18p4jvere 91,701 bales. What's SOZODONT 1 'Tis this you ask To answer Is an easy task f It is a liquid soft and sweet I Which keeps! teeth healthy, white and neat, j M . . . . : Which makes the rosy gums endure And renders breath, like roses, pure! , ..j J Sozodont. . I An article: thai is at once a teeth pre server and breath purifier, and so pleasant and convenient to use, its exceeding popu larity does not I surprise any one. Time has fully established the fact that SOZO DONT possesses these excellent qualities in an eminent degree. It has legitimately acquired the right to a position upon every toilet table, j i . i . -. i i: "SPALDraa'siGLrja" mends everything. A. JPBECIOUS PAIR. . Hobert IdeElroy and Hla Wife Jo aepblne alias Roaa Neablit. - ; It was ascertained yesterday ihat the missing - colored washerwoman, Josephine McElroy, was a passenger on the steamer Gulf Stream for New York. The woman's husband, Robt. McElroy, was taken by police officers to the agent of the steamship, where he was identified as a man who had purchased tickets for his wife and child jnst before the departure of the steamer last Saturday, giving the woman's name; as Rose Nesbitt. She carried a large trunk with her and is. described, as a! good-looking mulatto woman. McElroy had nothing to say in regard to his wife Having sailed on the steamer last Saturday. While in charge of an officer Monday he pre tended to be ignorant of her where abouts, beyond the fact that she had been employed by some one on the Sound and expected to return in about a week, j He could not give her employer's name nor tell where he lived. :v , . Mayor Fowler, upon- ascertaining that, the woman had gone to New York, telegraphed at once to the Mayor of j that city, asking that she should be arrested on the arrival of the steamer, which was due there yesterday, and, the agent stated, would probably arrive about noon. In anticipation ot the woman's ar rest in New York, the Mayor also had the necessary papers prepared and forwarded to Governor Scales, re questing that a requisition should be issued for the! return of Josephine McElroy j alias Rose Nesbitt to this city as a fugitive from justice. The remainder of the articles found in the room occupied by McElroy and his wife were taken to po lice headquarters yesterday, and a list of them taken.- Among the articles are the following which are supposed to have been stolen: Six doylies, seventeen towels, six pillow-shams with j the initials "McG" worked on several, seven pillow-cases one worked "N.1 R.," sixteen infant's dresses, three infant's sacques, one counterpane, t seven" sheets, one bolster-case, four linen tableclpths, "one silk ribbon sash, two handkerchiefs marked 'Lou Alexander," one hand kerchief marked "J. W. McG.", nine unmarked handkerchiefs, tone color ed silk handkerchief, one knit shawl, one gentleman's vest, one purple balmoral, one white polonaise, ' four dress skirts, two small bandies of sundries, three night robes, twelve or fifteen pieces of ladies' and chil dren's underwear and one collar. A second visit was paid by the police to the woman's room later in the day when a trunk was found con taining the following: Three collars, one rtair blankets, one bed-spread, one pairi gentleman's cuffs, one pair ladies' cuffs, one child's bib, two ladies' dresses, three pairs men's drawers marked "X," five shirts, one bolster-case, one basque, -a book "Prose and Poetry" with "H. H. Brin son, Newbera, N. C." written on a fly leaf,! two testaments! and one accordeon. j , All the above are held at the City Hall, awaiting claimants. ' ! McElroy Was committed to the county jail in default of bond in $100 for his appearance at the Criminal Court next month. Very little ! can be learned of him and his wife the precious pair having recently arrived here from Charles ton, S. 0. Both can read ! and write., An unfinished letter written by the husband was found in their room, in which the writer stated that he would leave Wilmington in a week or two. It is supposed that he intended to follow his wife on the next steamer to New York, with the rest of the stolen property. j j' A Jam In tne River at RIeajres BlnflT. The Clarendon Bridge Company have erected false works at Meares Bluff preparatory to the construction of a new bridge across the Cape Fear fiver at that point. The heavy fresh et in the river brought down yester day a vast quantity of trees, logs and other debris, which lodged against the timber false works, forming a raft which at one time extended . nearty across the river, and covered an area of about three (acres. I The mass of floating trash and timber accumu lated between 3 a. in. and 8 a.m. The safety of the bridge was not threaten ed seriously, but navigation was im peded and would have been entirely suspended had not the authorities of the railroads which lease the bridge, ordered up to that point three tug boats and a large number of hands and removed the obstruction, which was done by dint of hard labor by 4 o'clock in the afternoon. ji To have seen the immense mass of logs and trees packed and jammed as it was, it seemed to one unaccustomed to such work that it would take a week to accomplish its removal, but it was all done inside of twelve hours Pilot Boata niaalng;. The pilot boats William & Richard and Wildcat, have not been heard from since the recent storm. ; Great uneasiness ig manifested at South port on account of their long absence. The supposition, however, is, that they may be at Charleston, and par ties interested telegraphed yesterday to ascertain if the boats were har bored there, but no replies had been received up to last night. Tne Freabet. Advices from up the river state that the flood in the Cape Fear is subsiding.! All the low lands below Fayette ville were covered, and it is estimated; that about two-thirds of the crops were destroyed. The freshet has been-a disastrous one to the far mers, but the water lacked about four feet of attaining the height it reached in the freshet of 1886. j! ; Capt. Robeson, of the steamer Cape Feaj says that the water had fallen about eighteen inches at Fayetteville Monday morning. On the way down he passed large quantities of drift wood and trash floating with the tide. Cropa in Hyde Oamaced. ; Mr. E. L. Mann, of Hyde county, writes Messrs. B. F. Mitchell & Son: "I am sorry to have to report a severe easterly gale of wind which has bad ly injured oux corn crop fully one third or one-half. Up to the 20th in stant our prospects were promising." wumlniiou e One of the.mail agents on the Caro lina Central we would, call his name if we did not know .how modest he is i-says that the most pleasant night s rest that he gets are those enjoyed in Wilmington, especially "when the. tide rises early in- the morning." He thof . "WilTnlnon heats the mountains all hollow." He ought to Know, as ne was uoru uuu reon the foot of the mountains. Wilming ton Star. ! Probably your friend enjoys the de lightful buzz of the mosquito and his bite. Charlotte Democrat. ; I , We have again interviewed our friend, who manipulates the mails and slings around immense packages of Stars and Democrats for their eager patrons, and. he tells us that "as a general thing," the breeze is so brisk, the gay and festive mosquito cannot effect a dermatic lodgment upon him, even with his best foot foremost, and, consequently, cannot give him a" free concert, nor, like a doctor, run out a long bill for draw ing blood. Our friend is not pachy dermatous. Tbe Annlveraary of the Snake. ' . One year has passed since the earth quake which made such, sad havoc in Charleston, and last night many timorous persons gazed tremblingly upon the dial, every moment expect ing, as 9.55 o'clock drew near, to feel the earth the ordinarily satisfactory foothold of man rocking like a ves sel at sea in a storm. The hour was reached, and I passed without the slightest sign of last year's disturb ance . .;. . " Upon what grounds persons based the probability of a repetition of the quakes is not easily surmised. To attribute it to the fact alone that it was the precise anniversary of the shocks of 1886, is absurd in . the ex treme. It is true that it was possible for an earthquake just at that time, as it is possible to have an earth quake at any moment, but these dis turbances are governed by natu ral laws, which only act when the causes which produce them are sufficiently agitated. They do not come and go like the anniversaries of mankind. It is the same with all phenomena electri cal or atmospherical. They occur at irregular intervals and the earth is never free from them. All prognosti cations as to the day, hour, minute and even second of the occurrence may be considered as emanating from a mortal who has reached be yond the researches of man, and who is generally designated as a crank either moderate or violent. The best for all to do, seems to be to hold to the philosophical view of the individual who said, "I don't pro poso to meet danger half-way, so I will not permit the possibility of an earthquake to cause me any uneasi ness, but proceed on my sojourn as if they were unknown. 'Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.'" Prcabet In tbe Cape Fear. Cspt. Touilinson of the steamer Cape Fear, which arrived here Sun day morning last, said that the river was on a boom at Fayetteville when he left that place Saturday morning, and was rising at the rate of a foot ah hour. During the forenoon of lyesterj day he received a telegram from tbe agents of the boat at Fayetteville stating that the river had risen forty feet, but was then (at 10 a. m.) falling rapidly. j! It is feared that this freshet will sweep the crops of corn and cotton on the lowlands, and cause an immense amount of damage to farmers, espe cially in Bladen countv. The river crops this year were remarkably, fine and an abundant harvest was prom ised, but for this untoward event, Capt. Wheeler, of the schooner George H. Ames, which arrived here yesterday from Horse Island harbor, Me., reports encountering a severe gale, but his vessel sustained no dam age. On the 23d spoke the barque Araminta, Capt. Moore, of St. Johns, from New York for Boston. The Araminta left New York on Wednes day, the 17th, and a severe gale struck her on Saturday, the 20th, at 4 p. m. The vessel's sails were blown away and she was cast on her beam ends. Her hold was entirely filled with water. The second mate was blown overboard and lost. The barque was without fresh water, which Capt. Wheeler furnished. Tbe New arCoupler. The Augusta Chronicle thus refers to the new car-coupler, mention of which was made in the columns of the Stab a short time ago: Yesterday Mr. R. J. Southall, onei of the owners of the reversible auto matic car-coupler, was inthexsity and gave an exhibition of the patent with models during the day in Mas ter Machinist Cook's office at the Georgia Toad shops, and in Master of Transportation Hemphill's office. Both gentlemen express themselves as satisfied that the coupler possesses very superior merits and Mr. Cook will give several of them a trial to see if they will bear out this favorable impression. Such a decision will have considerable weight when it is known that over three hundred coup ling devices have been condemned by the master car builders. It is the in vention of two young engineers in the W., C. & A. shops at Florence, Messrs. T. W. Tolbert and J. L. Far mer, who associated with them E. J. Thorpe and R. J. Southall.. These four gentlemen have sold out to a stock company, reserving a royalty for fifty thousand dollars, -who take charge the 1st of September. V S roramlMloDtr'i Conrt. Capt. W. G. Taf t, master and owner of the steam tug Pet, was arraigned yesterday before T. M. Gardner, Esq., U. S. Commissioner,- charged with violation of the steamboat inspection laws, in carrying passengers with out having license therefor. It was claimed for the defence that no fares had been collected, and that there fore the defendant was not amenable to the law. The commissioner ruled, however, that the persons carried on the boat were passengers, whether fares were collected!, or not, and the defendant was required to give bond in the sum of $200, which was furnish ed, for his appearance at the U. S. District Court, which meets in this City the first week in November, j U. S. Attorney F. H. Busbee ap- S eared for the government, and Jno. i. Bellamy, Esq., for. the defendant. Southern Antidote Jor Malaria. It is generally known that Simmons Liver Regulator is relied upon to secure immunity from all malarial disorders. This is proven by its popularity, and any one wBo has lived in the South has seen its curative effects and the protection it gives against this weakening and dangerous malady. It acts more promptly than calo mel or quinine, without any of their in jurious consequences.. - f Railroad Indemnity Lande Heetorcd j to Settlement Application ior arre ! pajment of Intereet on Beads-Gov ernment Heeelpta and Expeadltnree Tbe Supreme Council of ' tbe Le gion of Honor Call Upon tbe Freal-. dnt. .-, ' , -,;a.-;.v :j. tii Tolesraph to the MornlagStar.) Washington, D. O., Aug. 29. The members of the Supreme Councii of the American Legion of Honor called upon the Pre-ident this afternoon and were present ed by Supreme Chancellor Nesmith. As the President entered, tbe reception room tbe visitors ranged themselves in a semi circle aod warmly applauded him. - Washington. Aug. - 29. Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager has issued the necessary instructions to carry into effect Secretary Lamar's recent order restoring; to settlement and entry certain railroad in-, demnily lands, among others the following r Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad, Alaba ma, 600 acrea covered by unapproved se lections; Vicksburg A Meridian Railroad of Mississippi, about 1,600 acres, also covered ; by unapproved selections. The finding of the court martial has been approved dismissing Capt. Cyrus N. Gray, 25th Infantry, from service, for appearing at an inspection for duty as! officer of tbe day while drunk, j. --; j Applications were received at the Treas ury Department to-day for prepayment! of : interest on registered bonds amounting to I $413,450, making the total to date $82, 030.550. ! . r 1 I i Notwithstanding the large pension pay ments this month, amounting to $165,005, 000, the receipts for the month to date are $7,500,000 in excess of the total expendi tures during the same period. The receipts have averaged over a million dollars daily and njw amount to $33,814,854. Washington, Aug. 80. The President to-day appointed Prof. G. Brown Goode. .assistant director of the National Museum, to be Commissioner of Fish and Fisheriee, vice Prof. J. F. Baird. deceased. Judge McCue, Solicitor of the Treasury, who was first tendered the " office, declined it be cause of his lack of scientific knowledge. Washington. Aug. 80. It is the inten tion of the President to spend the next few weeks at Oak View. He regards this as his vacation time, and while he will spend it near tbe Capitol, so that he can attend to actual public business, he will not feel obliged wben necessarily called to the White House, tb devote any time to per sons seeking places or merely desirous of paying their respects. . j Mr. W. 8 Chrislhol, general counsel of the Southern Express Company, has sub mitted to tbe Inter-Stato Commerce! Com mission a printed answer to tbe circular communication .of tbe i Commission, in wbicb answer the Company argues that it is not legally bound to furnish schedules of rates . It says tbe answer is a corporation established under tbe laws of Georgia, using various railroads, steamboats, steamships and other vehicles of conveyance. Tbe use of tbe railroads has always been the subject matter of special contracts, which differ in their terms and conditions, and are subject to change or abrogation at the will of the railroads. Tbe rates and charges of tbe Express Company are, therefore, made up of an estimated reasonable allow ance for tbe use of its own property, and for the use of other lines. With one rail road it may contract for car space, with another upon the tonnage basis, and to a third it may pay a per centage of its reve nues The answer quotes from the opins ion by Chief Justice Waite, sustaining the libt of an express company to make spe cial contracts with railroads, and it likens the relations of ; the express company and tbe railroad to those bet ween ailroads and Poetofllca Department, or the Western Union Telegraph Company. It is submit ted that legislation to reverse established legal pridciplea should certainly make some reference to the law or principle to be changed; yet; section 0 of the Inter-State law not only contains no reference to ex press companies,; bnt declares in unambi guous language that its provisions apply only to railroads The schedules provided for are required !. to state the places upon the railroads and contain a classification of the freights ii force upon the same, and 'copies of tbe schedule are required to be kept in every depot or station; yet the ex press company owns no railroad, has no control over railroad rates of classi fication, and has no officers or; agents in many depots of the lines witb which it has contracts. The sixth section, it i3 averred, no more requires pu oh nation or schedules of rates, fares, charge and classifications by express com- panus, than by other customers of rail roads. Again, it is asked, how would it be prtcticable for tbe respondent to make joint contracts with several railroad lines, with some of which it may have percent-j age and with others space or tonnage con tracts ? And what would be tho condition! of the respondent if forced to make join contracts, in case one or more of the lines observed tbe contract and others did not i ne siaiuie maKes provisions ior tbe pro tection of the innocent railroad line n such a case, but no provision is made foi the protection of the express company, Washington, Aug. 81. Bonds offere to tbe Treasury for purchase to-dav wen $2,957,700 registered and $405,000 coupon only $4ui,70U were accepted at variou prices between 108 15-16 and 109. Amon me iota onerea was one oy senator air, o: TCevarin nf SR70 000 at tho nrirui Vt. tbe government to-day. This offer was rejected for vagueness and because puri chases were made at different prices. If . 1 O.. . . U I . I . I i a . i r luc ocuiciaijr usu iailcu fcuem uuu uxeu mi lowest price of the day, : Fair might hav claimed that be wanted tbe highest rate ii is csuraaiea mat tne public debt re duction for August will be five millions, copies oi me telegrams wnicn passei yesterday between the Indian Bureau ani tbe officers of tbe Ute Indian aeency hav been transmitted to General Terry, with the following endorsement: "The acting Secretary of War directs that you take all necessary means and issue all the necessary orders to carry out the instructions conn veyed in the foregoing telegrams." j The President to-day appointed S. 8. Carlisle, of Louisiana, to be minister resi dent and consul general to Bolivia. - j The President has issued the following order in regard to the Chicago military encampment: It appearing to me that the promoters of the International Military Encampment, to be held , at Chicago in October next, : in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the settle ment of that city, having extended to tbe military organizations of foreigb countries in behalf of tbe citizen soldiers of tbe Slate of Illinois, invitation to take part in said encampment as tbe guests of the city of Chicago; and that represents tives of the soldiery of certain foreign countries have accepted such invitation and are about to arrive in the United States. I hereby direct the Secretary of tbe Treasury to instruct collectors of customs at tbe.several ports of entry, thatjupon being satisfied that such visitors come asgnests in pursuance of the aforesaid invitation, they Shall permit the entrance of such foreign soldiers into the United States with their personal baggage, uniforms, arms and equipments, without payment of custom duties thereon, and without other formali ties except such as may be necessary to iri- aure mo ro-exporiauon CK ug same uni iorms. Daggsge. arms and equipments, THE GRAND ARMY. Tbe Veterana Promlae to Give ItEore Trouble in St. Louie on tbe Occaalon or mxr Cleveland's Vlalt. By Telegraph to tbe Moraine stur ' ; Chicago, Aug. 81. A Times' special from 3t. Louis says: i f Trouble is breaking out here over the re cent Cleveland pieture excitement at Wheel ing, and it now seems probable that the scenes will be reenacted here duiing the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. A great many delegates have expressed an intention to hang the President's picture over the streets in front of their buildings, and doubtless the Grand Army procession will be given an oppor tunity to go under or around it. Street corner discussions over the matter are fre quent and warm, and the two Democratic papere of the city are havinsr a dispute over it. One takes the ground that the Arniy was invited here by tho city, and that the soldiers should be treated as their guests, and nothing done by our citizens to cause them to regret their visit, and expresses the hope that no Cleveland pictures witt be flung to the breeze during the Encamp ment. The other claims that the Grand Army invited itself here; that it has treated the city shamefully in Uie Cleveland invi tation trouble, and that in asking our Ui- zana tn haul rtnwn thi ni 1 j . 1 : , - . vwiohuw oanners upon the arrival of the Veterans, is asking what cannot and ahnnM n t. ' " . .rS . uv.m granted United Labor meeting Floral Offer-, - iat ivlr. BIcGlynn Soetallam De-j nooueed Fatal Rallwar Colllelon Brcnlatlona of Ibe Cotton Exchange Nkw ! Yobk. Aug. 23 A large floral' harp, with tbe inscription. "Our National Apostle," was sent to Dr. McGlynn at tbe Ami-Poverty Society's meeting at tbe Aca demy of Music to-night. Tbe bouse was very" well filled. James Redpatu, presided. The first speaker was the-United Labor party's candidate for State Controller. Mr. Wilder, of Brooklyn. Referring to tbe ac tion of the Syracuse Convention in expell ing the Socialists, Mr. Wilder said : -Socialism worships at the ultar-of an everlast ing lie., and kills liberty, individualism and life. In turning the Socialists out of their party, the Labor men have turned out false ness . The United Labor party is not one Of revolution. It is stepping back to where Jeff ei son stood to the stand of Abraham Lincoln. It is stepping back to where every hero stood since the beginning of time, to (he ioalienable right of freedom and the law of the land for tbe people." i Utica, Aug. 28. A passenger train on the West Shore road collided with a freight train near Port Byron to-day. "The Ex- ress messenger was killed, and engineer uier or tbe passenger .tram and Ludwig f the freight train were injured. ' Nbw York, Aug. 29. Southern news- apers nave recently stated that a new egulation jof the Cotton Exchange of this ity gave notic9 that alter September 1st. otton i buyers in all interior towns would educt- from bales weighing under 400 ounds one-fourth per cent, per pound. nd from bales weighing under 350 pounds, ne-nan per cent, per pound ; rejecting all lea under 800 pounds. Superintendent owers, of tbe Exchange.) this afternoon aid that tbe two first statements were un ounded, but the third was right. No mer- bant can be compelled to take a bale eiching less than 800 pounds. jnew xokk, August 29. This morniDsr fx -Congressman Adams, for Ives & Co.. as counsel, obtained from Judge Larremore an prder directing the referee ex-Judge Davis, to return the testimony taken before him in the Ives reference case unsigned by the (witnesses i t FLORIDA.' fgro Rioters Take Poeeesalon of a Steamboat at Apalacbleoia. By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Afalachicola. Aueust 31. On Mon- ay night a lot of negro gamblers took passage on the steamer: Thronateeska. When about twelve miles : from tbe citv they became engaged in a quarrel with a lot of negro raftsmen. Pistols were drawn and a fusilade of shots began. Tbe captain of tbe steamer, assisted ' by his crew, at tempted to quell the disturbance. A negro drew a weapon upon the officer and told him to vacate the lower deck. The cap tain and his crew being unarmed retreated to the upper deck. Tbe steamer was then put about and headed toward the city. Just. before .she made a ; landing at the wharf, Captain Randlctte ; ordered the po lice to let no man come ashore. Tbe ne groes then took to a small boat when the officers began firing upon them. The fire was returned, but -without effect. About two hundred other negroes had congregated upon the wharf, armed with sticks and weapons of various kinds, 1 and several of their number were urging the blacks tp pitch into tbe whites. Several arrests were made and some thirty shots were fired. The militia were ordered out and it was only by the coolness and determination of the whites that a serious riot was prevented. Yesterday and to-day tbe police made ar rests and appearances now Indicate that the trouble is at an end. ' . FISHERIES COMMISSION. A Joint Commltilon to Settle tbe Dispute Between Canada aod tne United States. Washington, Aug. 31. The Depart ment of State has not yet been officially ad vised of Mr. Chamberlain's appointment as President of the Royal Commission charged with the Settlement of questions at issue-between the United States and Great Britan concerning the fisheries, while this Govern ment has not yet selected tbe persons who will be entrusted with the conduct of tbe negotiations in its interest, yet little difficul ty is expected to be met in finding men whose breadth of views and legal acumen will ensure a proper presentation of the in terests of the United States, and an agree ment honorable in terms and sa.t.isf artnnr tn the whole country. Secretary Bayard will make it a point that on questions at issue our representatives will present an undivided front. He believes that there can be no doubt as to .the power of tbe President to appoint American Com missioners as he is constitutionally, autho rized to initiate negotiations and make treaties with foreign countries subject to ratification by the Senate. The exact functions of the Commission have not been defined. Generally it witl consider all the questions now at issue between the United States and Canada arising from the con flicting claims of the two countries respect ing the fisheries, but whether the result of negotiations,? if successful, will be a new treaty op an amicable agreement under the treaty now operative, cannot at present be predicted. The negotiations with Great Britain have, however, now reached such a phase that Secretary Bayard is encour aged in the belief that the final adjustment of the questions which have vexed the two nations since the expiration of the "treaty of Washington is near at hand. : London. Aug. 31. The Telegraph says that Chamberlain's board of trade experi ence will prove valuable to him in his capacity as a member of the board of control of fisheries, and that he is pre eminently the man to unravel the techni calities of the matter, and devise a reason able settlement of the fisheries questions, if such a thing is possible. ! ; The Standard, referring to the appoint ment of Chamberlain says: "Botli the Canadian and United States governments may bo congratulated upon the decision. While our own Ministry maybe com mended for their choice of Chamberlain, Canadian interests will be perfectly safe in ! his hands, and the Americans j will recognrze in him freedom from prejudice, which will insure due consideration for their case, even to arguments which' will tell against ourselves." i j . The Standard says that the Fisheries Commission is to include a member of the Canadian Government. It is the opinion here that 8ir John McDonald will be asked tp represent Canada on tho Fisheries Com mission. Sir; Lionel West, Minister at Washington, will also join the Commis sion. The statement that the Earl of Dunra ven and Mr. Powell would go to America as members of the Commission was errone ous. Mr. Chamberlain intends tn priori ui luiicuvs ni no eany uay. f A BIG TRANSACTION - i , A-.l . - , i 7 Tbe United LStates Expreas Company Bay out tbe Baslneas of tbe Balti more & Oblo Co. for $2,500,000. -New York, Aiig. 81. The following official announcement was made to-dav bv the President of the United Express Co The plant, franchises and business of the Baltimore & Ohio Expreas Company has been sold to tho United States Express Company for a period of thirty years. The nil w3a8.,made directly by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., no other parties beine recognized. The agreement was consum mated last week, and we take possession to-morrow. Negotiations for the sale have been pending about one month, having be gun with President Garrett before hit de SbSiw arPe.- I I" tted in Wall hav- tJleLp,F'C0 Paid w8 $3,500- 3 ? IMLMS0-000 wm Paid i cash, and $000,000 in U. S. Express stock. The President of the U, S. Express Co. denies the correctness of the figures, but declines to state the terms on which the maK pWrivatrChMed; 88yig tbat the No change will be made in the manage ment or name of the Company. Wonderful Cures, j r? t2 '51 d We have been selling Dr. KingVNew Discovery, Electric fiittersSI IjSck len's ArnlcaSalve for two years, fllave wrfL yreL iemedies that sell as well, ftl" enva an.h . . m universal satisiac- tion. xhere hava Vioo-n an,. - . . r- v-vvw wjr luesB meaioines tIuVi,ty- Several cases of pro- i - iioiuupUUU nave Deen en toely cured by use of a few bottles of JJr- King's New THsnoverv. ft.n -b , o it . juiurerv. wtKi connection with Electric Bitters mi n .n t xi ..... .r . ... . . : j ' . ii We cj i mem always. um.uy w. n. ureen & Co. I I Chatham nona the TTlftvercK.i VPslotslo Kepresentativ VtlVttMnr! St V,.,. 11. n.owiaD(j : 1 'im. t iibou Juirrrt When - - -mm "no uiaacree th ah 118- ormhu ' mil uvp o j. 0. . '"uc ui ii,. f v , . - u t, talente1 young- friend Paul R,,.!1''111 m ? 3? JiV iaKe a. Potion on TC man in n ir nrnr inn i . " r sterling neighbor, L 1 Advance. warts. - I .0)Oljg bOy or fin '" Cental MaXtOn Uninn . - -v" t . I lied, launnturg, one day kst We k ' MclntOSh She drnnn.. f Mtt PP,. ner table whilo eating. JT1 d bly informed by friends of thp1Lat6r(!liii. woman thatR. O. Shootor h, h 0,tutlte d tPPed with all her mg whfct he could lay bands l mgoutj what money she had in bank New Bern Journal- t commissioners held their thin I fisb Nags Head on August 27tb gSit tesu to. the designation of' cuhM Pro grounds of Dare county. No nr t filed. JJhe public grounds 8 declared m accordance with law Iefot be open for entry on the 15th of n. There ire sixty-one public grouL?" watersfof Dare covering ""be acres. There are also two"" tbouLn,?U8SB1 of natural beds.. l"0usand acre, jfVeldon News: At thp t Quaiterly Conference of wc-,i '.0ar't fax station. M. E. Ch,,r, ,u",?n(1Ils!i- place on Sunday and Mondav M, t lbi' Stainback was licensed to mearh preachter & local sumedlcharge of the political and m M" departrnents of the Windsor Pubt rfr i. " ir, n. vu 1 1 i Dr. E. W. Dr. Piiirh is a fluent writ, J ,e the expression of his opinions w come him to the tripod, which hc It handsomely adorn. 0 i Wilson Advance: On t Friday the bridge near Ward's mm Greene county, was burned by muikii? incendiary. -The Soutlie.rnerml1 total value of all kinds of property W boro is $1,294,054. an increase ov f; year of $135,221. over 10 per cent TkM1 speaks well for the growth of mt J? town. Id answer to an inqnW Warrenton Gazette states that the l bidding the buying of seed cotton titles less than a bale, between tbe hoS?S sunset and sunrise is still in force Last Monday about 11 o'clock, theVw of Spnnghope, Nash Co. we fS2 by hearing a terrible explosion neV i ! houses. I They ran down to the eaw 1 1 Mr. TIC. May of. that place wK'Sj found every thing a wreck. The bMl ?o the engine had bursted, blowing off if head of the colored fireman. Arnold W and breaking the leg of Eli CrakmoS Elizabeth City Falcon: At 5 o'clock last Saturday morning, theuij began; to blow with sufficient force to vl the sleep of Nag's Head sojourners 8th. and restless, and by a. m. they w.re 1 aroused by the force of the storm 1 Tb tide washed away the door-steps of u cottages on the beach and wben the terror stricken occupants bethought themseh of tbe safety of the souud side, they wer. confronted with an inexpressible tcir-m that submerged the low land between thru and the sand hills. On the sound side ik the storm "was no less terrific. The rain was driven through every crack and ere vice in the hotel and cottages until! the in side was wet through and through The new bortion of the wharf wa3 torn up in 8ectton8nd blown down the sound; the end I of the wharf was damaged by tbe steamer Dickerman which was titd un there) duriDg the storm; "Sol" Woore'i house was blown off ihe blocks; the ptszzj of James B. Martin's cottage was blow overithe house and struck tbe cottage occu pied by Mr. Pruden with such force an to break through and strike Mrs. Pruden whojwas removed to Mr. Bond's for aaftlj' A palrty consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Castor pheh and Mrs. Kelljnger, attempted to walk over to the beach, sank in quicksisil and j were with much difficulty rescued. A small boat containing four of the crew of the J. S. Eloop Alert was swamped and all Of them went down. The wind blew witb such force as to drive pebbles through the windows of Maj. Grandy's house on the beach. Mr. Fitzmaurice of the signal sta tion informed the writer that his cup; that indicated the velocity of the wind shoved an average of eighty-five miles per -hour when they were blown away, and that at times the wind attained a velocity of 139 " miles per hour. "-!- Raleigh News-Observer: There is a rumor afloat to the effect that another large female college is to be established is this city, under the auspices of the Bap tist denomination. Raleigh is tbe place for justauchan institution. Mr. 0. W. Telfair, of Washington, N. C, died in New York about ten days ago. He was before the war the leading merchant of the town of Washington, and for some time af ter the war was ane of the principal mer chants of that town. He was burie t with Masonic honors in tbe Episcopal Church yard at Washington on Saturday, August 20th, 1887. On September 1st, Messrs. Spier Wbitaker and F. B. Busbee, Com missioners, will appear before Judge Phil lips at Chambers in Kmston, flic a report of the sale of the Atlantic Hotel in Morehetd City, and recommend a confirmation of the same. It Is more than probable that it will be Confirmed unless, in the meantime, a bid of 30 per cent, more than the present bid shall be made and this is not now looked for. The rumors to the effect that an At lanta syndicate would raise the bid bare amounted to nothing. From a gentle man who left Greenville, Pitt county, K. Ci yesterday, we leara that the recent rains there have been very destructive to the; crops. Tar river and tributary streams have been very much Swollen, and the ad jacent lands have been overflowed. Below Greenville and Bethel tbe swamps were very high and some of them almost impas sable. The farmers in that section are quite despondent. They consider their crdps to be materially damaged. The sec tion around Greenville and between Green ville and Tarboro is one oftbe best agri cultural sections in the Slate. Pdr genuine humor commend us to to following, which is part of the regular re port for last year, made by the treasurer ot a church not a thousand miles from 1i; eigh: "Salary promised to tbe Kector, $15 uer month- snlnrv nont tn the Kector None." Dr. J. W. Jonee, of Tir- bdro, has been catalogued as a speaker or reader of a paper at tho International Me ical Congress. The full programme w appear September 1st. Mr. AM Rutherfordton, of carpetbag fame in How Carolina, and formerly an auditor of tw Treasury Department under Grant, n been arrested in Washington, we see, op a charge of receiving certain records stoim from the pension office. He protests w innocence. It is with pleasure ts. we learn that somo of our citizens sceijl the building boom in Raleigh, its stew pitogress and bright future, have form J company incorporated as "Tbe w'i Brick and Tile Manufacture Company Its principal business will be the rnw"'' ture and sale of brick, tile andad ouw articles usually' manufactured out or c-"j oil by a combination of clay w'1" other materials, the laying of paveme and tho building of all sorts of stjac'uw usually built out of such manufacture articles. Th Beat Medicine ever pni in B"" . for Chills and Fever. Mr. H. H. Farver, Torktowo, A writes: -I came here with my w "L five children. The first year my im were bii uown. wim cuius su" . had a doctor to attend thera until I cot hnld nf Hnphcfs' ToSIC, wan has cured them entirely. 1 have kept u medicine in the house ever since. US , Tonic is the best medicine ever put ' bottle for chills and fever. It bresM w up without reducing tho system. I Ptvnnrmf hiR A RnhinSOD & W-U. Wholesale Druggists. Louisvi c, w Bold at retail by Druggists generally- MISSISSIPPI' Tbe case of Hamilton "O0 . Alhel By Tol6Kraph to tho MomtaSta , . 01 Phief JU3U 31 Chief vooper nas rerusea to issue llierj, corpus in the case of Hamilton ana 0. charged with the murder of GarnD. . tor of. the Prohibition newsparer-. writ was-asked for on the. groun u Hamilton's wounded arm requires,f,.oied tion which cannot be safely P" n jbe while he in prison. Another effort made to secure his liberty.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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