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Hie Weekly Star. PUBLISHED AT " I NO' TO N, N. C w AT t;i)0 A Jy K A It IS ABTANCB. f SgSSSSS8g8S8SSS8 SSS88SSS8SS8SSS88 8SS8S0S888S8S8S88 I ISSS88S88SSS888888 888,88888888888888 828812882288888888 8SS8SS88S8888S8S8 00 is e - 00 at o - 00 jj 10 gj j tg ruteroil nt the Post Offloe atTWilmington, N. C, tU as Second Class Matter.l SSCRIFTIOX PRICE The subscription price of the Weed? jinn is :is follows : Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, $1.00 " 6 months, " " .00 " 3 months " ." .30 STATK CONVENTIONS AND TAXA TION. Several States have held Con ren twns within a month or so. Of thofe lu'it one asked for the abolition of tlu Internal tax. Virginia stands "sofiUT and alone."- North Caroli na will stand by it next year. We venture to predict that if theThirty ' seven State Conventions that will be bell. within a twelve month that not five will demand ' the tolal abolition of the tax: on whiskey, beer, apple jack, cigars, &c. Why should they be jruil'yj of such, an injudicious movement ? Why should any Dem ocratic Convention abolish $120,000, 000 of taxes that are absolutely essen tial in paying off the war debt, the vast pension claims (some $80,000, 000) and other obligations incurred by the war ? To wipe out the Inter nal tlx on needless, hurtful luxuries stokepp up a tax inevitably upon the common necessaries of life. But for the most unreasonable prejudice vrv ever witnessed there would be found none to war upon the most reasonable, most judicious sys tem of taxation. A tax upon cigara, chewing tobacco, Bpirits, malt li quor, wines, &c.,is a' tax not one cent of which is paid by the producer. Wipe ilToat and the producer re ceives no benefit whatever. Take c fl the whiskey tax, and yon can buy it for ten cents a quart. That will make it accessible to all and drunkenness must greatly increase Everywhere and especially among the poorer classes. If a man can get dead drunk on 5 cents worth of corn whiskey he will be sorely tempted if lis appetite lies that way. The Republican p3rty is fighting 'hu Internal tax. They levied it and now they are laboring to abolish it, pretending it is a great affliction. Qi course it is not difficult to pene ;rate their designs. The total aboli tion of the Internal tax will give them an indefinite hold upon high taxes under the War Tariff. When yon hear a paper talking of thq tax on whiskey, beer and cigars being "a most infernal and oppres sive of all taxes," you may easily see jthrough the foil j of euch a charge. jWhom does it oppress? Not the jproJucerj not the manufacturer, oat the I consumer, ihe consumer 'if who dfrnks does so voluntarily . There is no compulsion. He onlv gratifies a morbid and depraved ap petite, ho oppresses him? It is his own let. He does it. ' How c r why is a tax on spirits and haor nr,.l c : f 1 Certaioly it isaiot so because of the II excellence or necessity of these ar ticlen. It must be because the man ner of hollecting it is "infernal.' Then why not change the plan? For the last five years in a hundred ar tides the Star has urged that the plan of! collecting be changed. li can bo done and can be made far less objectionable. But pay Borne, it is inquisitorial in- Us character. Just so. but so is all kinds of taxation- inquisitorial. It ii i . - a very roper, righteous tax, and i will b the height of folly when it is repealed. Outside of North Carolina find no mandirlg and Virginia you will i Democratic papers de the total abolition of the tax oh tax on spirits, wines, beer, ' ci garB, &c., save only that class that Mor Protection. Papers like the Aignsta Chronicle, Atlanta Consti Mionj Mobile Register, and othir Protection organs, but calling them- "eives Democratic, may favor the wiping out of the entire Intern ia, bilt you will find the great Ta- r'u Kfeform advooates-the Lduis illo ifOurier-Journal, the St. Louis Republican, the Savannah News, the Charleston News and Courier, ' the Macon Telegraph, the Augusta Oazelte all standing . up squareta for a jretention of the needed and "seful and just and proper tax on li- flors wines, cigars, &c, and a great rduction of tbe tax on the poor man'4 necessaries that are now so burdened with taxes under the pre sent War Tariff. J The Now York Chamber of Con j?ress has adopted a resolution favor lng a: reduction of revenues. It ajsks f'UsineHM D? Congress upon the matter. ;. ; Ihe -Weekly YrVT TTTTTt I . ! ! r . . " ' : ' ' " ' ' ' ; , I A SCHOOL BOIIK. We note thai the school books of Professor Alexander Bain are very specially commended jby highly com petent critics. He is Professor of Logic n the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. , His series is said to be of rare excellence, j Hisj last book is "On Teaching Englisn," and it has been praised by those who have a right tjo speak. We refer to him now for a purpose. A great deal is said it books about using Anglo Saxon words, and some specimens of this kind of writing are cited to show how vigorous, simple and expressive such writing is. jWe have joined in the chorus, and yet a' 1 along we felt that the demand was absurd and that no ereat masters of style in the nineteenth century observed such a rule, but used words "of learned length and thundering sound," as well as shorter words that came from the ancient and modern languages of the world. There is not one writer in a thousand who Btops to consider while composing whether the words chosen are Anglo-Saxon or of Greek. Latin br some other i i origin. How know words many writers of fair gifts what the derivation of the they use is? , ' j - We are not contending for an abandonment of Angl o-oaxon words. We say use the best words in the right places, and that is the secret of good writing. The best masters of English style have a rythmical ear They know how to make melody of words and make their sentences state ly or flowing. Landor, De Qaincey, Southey, Macaulay, roude, Green. LeckyJ Ruskin all wrote or write ith grace, elegance and felicity. They had or have the art of English composition in great perfection. But none of these masters attempted to command pure Saxon Prof. Bain shows the actual ab surdity of such attempted workman ship, j He sayB: i "Now, to write continuously in anything ike pure Saxon is plainly impossible. Moreover, none of our standard English authors, whether in prose or poetry, have thought it a merit to be studiously Saxon in their! vocabulary. Our greatest example is. of course, the translation of the Bible, where Saxon is used very largely, but not apparently from any set purpose." Milton, Shakespeare, Dryden, ope, I Thompson, Cowper, Collins, and, indeed ' the eighteenth century poets generally, paid but little atten tion to the history or origin of words; They wrote out of full minds and with such mastery and art as their powers-permitted. Prof. Bain says: "As to writing in pure 8axon style or anvthing near it we should first sink the science! and civilization of centuries, revoke the Conquest, and restore the Heptarchy We have not seen the Professor's work. 1 From extracts from it that we have read it must be strangely in teresting for a textbook. ' The critic in the; New York Times thus gathers some of his views that are entertain ing and just. He says: "On the choics of writers to form style, whether we are to study tbe older or the newer ones. Prof. Bain treats in a very common-sense manner.; Y5u must have freshness of interest. "A canto or 'Uhllde Harold' has not the eenius of 'Macbeth' or of the second book of 'Paradise Lost.' " but it is fresher. Old prose, even isacon s best, has passed into literature until its interest is exhausted. Bocon's maxims on the con duct of business are completely superseded by Bill Arthur Helps 's essay on the subject, simply because Sir Arthur absorbed all that was in Bacon and augmented it by subsequent wisdom and experience, io m&ke Bacon's orieinai a text book of the rresent dav. whether for thought or style. in to armlisn ine inree intervening centu ries. I As Prof. Bain says, "their best ex pressions are valuable as having the stamp At eenius and are Quoted to all time, but we cannot worz mem into ine tissue oi our own family discourse, is that instructors who Tbe upshot of this would teach nng- lish from ShakesneareL Bacon, or Milton alone' will waste their time. n,xpianaiions of metaphors, clearing up doubtful pas- sages certainly Interest pupils, but they are not taueht the English of 1887. "In the fifth chanter what is called 'the intellectual Qualities of style' is discussed, Prof J Bain makes the! three divisions of Aimrilinitv. clearness and enerev. or im pressiveness, ana lot a comoinawon oi what is best in all these Macaulay 'a works are recommended JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER OH , THE CONSTITUTION. The Stab is a very great admirer of Mr. John Randoloh Tucker, of Virginia. It thinks it finds m him a blending of ; very .high moral and intellectual qualities. It believes that he is one of j the profoundest constitutional I lawyers now living, and ono of the wisest, discreetest, most honorable of statesmen. We have for years watched his public career with singular interest and al most unmingled j satisfaction, j His speeches and addresses have excited our profoundest admiration, and his votes as a Representative from; Vir ginia have with scarcely an excep tion been such as we would, have given if occupying1 his seat. He is a man of learning, of high abilities, of strictest Integrity, of sincerity, of wisdom and genuine statesmanship. He is, and it is ( very important, a sincere Democrat not an unfledged neophyte, without a proper under standing of what enters into such a character: but i well informed, thoughtful, decided disciple of the I .1 ' ..... 1 .ti.J great men or j ine paBi wuo mwu l . S j. .. .. t.... 7, I the Written Constitution m lener and in spirit under eyil ana unaer good report? . We delight to honor such a man . Wo would be glad to have it in our Dower to vote for him for the irresi- 1 H aency. He reminds us " . ! some ,4- . a e a . wu m mm mm. Hnitir 1 11 1 I II--;--. ' r - , I I I i ' -,. ,:)' : : '(; i 'YW -.-;.-'-..'.... Yrf :Y Y.;,Y.C . I. Y Yj- ' -b. i A--. Y ". Y - Y--1YY " ', rA-;ri ;-A-Y-.::r:'Y; those simple,- great j men gone who were of the most spotless reputation men who were rich !' in mental re source, filled with argument, in "all replication prompt I and reason strong" men of highest honor, of utmost veracity, "free from - gross passion," "constant in Bpirit.'.' of 'purged judgmentierene, noble, of high ideal and lofty, aim. Such is the Virginian as 1 we have pictured him to our mind. We nave not seen him in the flesh and have never read any description of his personality, but his character appears io us to be mirrored in his high sentiments and inspiring views of dutyj A great I Commonwealth with one such son as this may well thank bod for the gift and hope for other soub of like no bihty. " : What has lead us to indulge this strain ? Last week we in a spent some two or three hours close reading of "The History of the Fed erarUonvention of ,1787 and of its work" It being "An Address de- liyered before the graduating classes at the Sixty-Third Anniversary of the Yale Law Schoo on 28th June, 1887, by Hon. John Randolph Tucker, LL. D." Let,1 us write measuredly concerning th is luminous and masterly : effort, great piece of noblel it is not a eloquence. It i is not a stately, moving the Websterian pattern symphonic, imaginative. oration of sonorous, it is a calm, clear analysis of wh at the won- derful fathers did when they framed and sent out the Constitution of the . ! I I - United Stales.; It is a mpst valuable statement of what occurred, present ing in clear sequence what was done, and giving the youth Of our time the most needed information. We can" wish nothing; better for young men of this country North, South, East, West-j-than that they shall study and master jthis excel- lent production, and incorporate its 1 It lessons into their lives. jWe advise every young man of fair intelligence to get it and study pt. It is publish ed at New Haven, by the Law De partment or i ale upllege:. VV e sup pose copies can be procured. Wedo not koow the price, but 25 cents would no doubt obtain one copy. Ten times that sum could not se- cure our copy. Do not think yo will' be treated to fine rhetoric and a' splendid eulo- gy upon the Great vJ barter. It is not of that kind. It is the reflections of a patient and acute student who has lived long and seen much of the bractical working's of the instrument he dissects. cMm logical, phil- osophical. Read it. . . At tbe close there is a noble pas sage which we copy; to-day. At an oth'r time we hope to present some of the dangers which! appear to threaten the Union. These are point ed out at tbe close of the address, that fills some 49 octavo pages. Tbe Partrldce Season. Next Saturday, : the 15th October, will usher in thej day that many sportsmen have been longing for and which has "been coming, all too slow for the desires of many of the lovers brother, there is a gOod time coming and a long time in which you can have your fun aftef it does come. The olrt (rnn ran be taken from its rack and oiled and cleaned for the slaugh- tejr of the innocentjsj butdon't violate the law in order tq be atead of your neighbor and kill the handsome and swift-winged bird (before the time arrives in which you can exercise the privilege legally.! There are some who have too much respect both for birds and law to permit shooting be fore the regularlyf appointed time, and woe be to the;! hunterJJ who has the temerity to kill birds now, if he be discovered. The interest they will take in j that man will follow him' W an avenging spirit through the! months to' come, and this year win ue a reu ieiier year fit for sublime contemplation when has left him nothing but the pleasures of retrospection. , Apropos of this subject, a friend of onrs tells of a hunt he had in his front yard some ien days ago. A scattered covey of birds, coming from some unknown locality, pitched in his yard and began their cheery whis , tie, for some mate!, no doubt, that had been led astray by the allurements and curiosities of the city. The keen ear of the sportsman was not long in rieterminins: theirlnesting place, and with a young setter ahead of him. soon had the pleasure to see the pre dominating instinet ofthe dog assert itself and display that! instinct in a I Charmed at the action of his dog1 the fgun was forgot t.fln:Vwith a dexterous move one bird was caoturea. anu 111 bjjviu nuno ,1 , , , . 1 4. V.il another was secured. This brace was sent out to the suburbs by trusted agents and given! their liberty. It was a novel thinsr to see in the heart of a mt.v or twentv-nve tnousanu. imuiui- . . n , 1 . j - 1 vs tants a covey of quail, land especially iront yaru. ' ! J ' T.ot tbA birda rpfit one week longer. then let the music begin; but friends nnn nnortsmen. I be patient 'till the last. : m - Forelxn Export. I I ! Messrs. Paterson, Downing & Co. ninnrArl the Swedish! barque Aker- I , . - x-j-I Itjh-, int. njetm yesusruay, land, with 250 casks spirits turpen tine and 2,761 barrels of rosin, valued. at $6,707. 1 . ! Mr. Edward ! Kidder's Son cleared the brig Edith, Itor jPort-au-Prince, Havti, with 194,000 feet of lumber and 30,000 shingles, yarned ac ,oii. ot some of 1 30,000 shingles, valued ax $,oiu. ui a- r - ! I WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, ; OCTOBER 15, 1887. C. if. & T. V, RA.IL.ROAI. The Board of Audit and Finance Con firm tbe AppolntmcDt of Commla alonera to BUM tbe Railroad Offielala Bat Reaervcs tbe Rl&bt to Accept or Reject tbe Terms Agreed Upon. The Board of Audit and finance met yesterday afternoon at the call of the chairman of the Board, , pur suant to the adjournment of the regular meeting held on the 3d inst. There were j present: R. J. .Jones, Esq., chairman, and Messrs. W.' I. Gore, Win. " Calder, J. P. Maunder. Mr. D. G. Worth, chairman of the committee appointed at the meeting of citizens, and several other gentle- men were also in attendance. Mr. Jones, chairman of the Board, stated that the meeting was called for the purpose of receiving a com munication from the Board of Alder men. ; - j- i " I ' f . The clerk read the communication, as follows: ! Resolved, That the Board of Alder men, the Board of Audit and Finance concurring:, appoint Colonel Koeer Moore, Wm. L. DeRosset, B. G. Worth, B. P.; Hall and Jas. H. Chad bourn, commissioners to negotiate with the .president and directors of the Cape Pear & Yadkin Valley Rail road Company, with instructions to secure, if possible, the renewal of the proposition as stated in the resolu tions adopted at the citizens' meeting oi tne otn inst., or some similar prop- . osition. . ! - I . - - The chairman said that he sup posed that all that was necessary was to reappoint the commissioners and request them to reaffirm the action of the previous commission. A discussion sprang up as to the duties and powers of the commission. Mr. Calder said that in his opinion there was a grave defect in the terms agreed npon by the former commis sion, in fixing the rate of interest upon thirty-year bonds at six per cent. Experience j had shown that bonds could be negotiated at five, if not four per cent. After the clerk had read tne reso lutions adopted at the citizens' meet ing, Mr. D. G.' Worth arose and said that the committee was present to re port the action of that meeting and to ask this Board to confirm the ac tion of the Board of Aldermen, as ex pressed in J their resolutions reap pointing the former commissioners. Mr. Kneinstem also addressed tne Board, calling attention to the una nimity of sentiment in the com munity as expressed at the citizens' meeting, in regard to the necessity of making an effort to secure the exten sion of the Gape Fear & Yadkin Val ley Railroad from Fayetteville to this city. Upon the conclusion of Mr. Rhein- stein's remarks Mr. Calder offered the following resolution Resolved, That this Board concurs with the Board of Aldermen in ap- Jointing BJ Q-. Worth, Roger Moore, as. H. Chadbourn, Wm. L. DeKosset ancvis. b. Mall a commission as au thorized by Act of Assembly to treat with the Directors of the Cape pany for terma uponJwhich the City of Wilmington may aid in its exten sion from i Fayetteville to 4his city; provided, that such concurrence is not to be construed in any sense as a final consent of this Board, as re quired by the said Act of Assembly to a subscription to the capital stock or a purchase oi tne bonds ox said railwav company: and provided, fur ther, that nothing in this resolution shall be so i construed as to prevent the free action of this Board in ac cepting or; rejecting the terms and conditions that may be arranged be tween the said commission and tne Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail way Co. ;! Mr. Worth asked if the proviso in Mr. Calders resolution did not con flict with the terms of the Act of Assembly. Mr. Calder did not think so. Both he and Mr. Jones said that the Board claimed the right to accept or reject the action of the commission. Mr. worth said that there was a J difference of opinion about the mat- ter. It was held by some persons that under the Act of Assembly the terms agreed upon by the commis sioners and the railway company should be submitted directly to the people for acceptance; or rejection. Mr. Calder read the; Act of Assem bly, and argued that While the Board had no right to alter the terms agreed upon by the commissioners and the railroad company, it had the right to accent or! reject them. He added that if the commissioners should re turn with such terms as they did be fore, requiring the city to pay six per cent, interest on thirty-year bonds, he should certainly oppose them. Mr. Worth suggested that the Boards meet in conference and agree npon terms that would be acceptable. Mr. Calder said that he had no ob jection to a conference, but if one was desired the Board of Aldermen should invite it. I j The chair finally put the resolution to a vote and it was adopted without opposition, and the meeting ad journed. j I Tbe Latest Fake, j The red-headed girl and white horse craze has not yet struck Wil mington, i White horses are plenty, but red-headed girls are scarce; and probably I the thing won't work as well here as it does at other places. The craze has prevailed in Northern towns for some time past, and the "gist" of the thing seems to be that whenever you see a red-headed girl, you will see a white horse. As a red headed woman walks along the street she becomes aware of the excitement she is creating! Every man who sees her, stops short and begins to look up and downior a white horse. Men who see her pass a window, rush out of the door to look for a white horse. Tf aha copR into a store she cannot but observe that the clerks slip to the I window or doori looking for white horW and she sees men, as she passes the promenade, signaling each other and snouting oacK auu lerui. M i . The Norwegian barque Monica, 637 tons, from 'Santos, Brazil, arrived. in below5 yesterday and anchored at the quarantine station. New Poatal Rolea. - The Pbstofflce Department has is sued a circular stating that permis sible writing or printing on theface or surface of packages of mail matter of the fourth class, in addition to the name and address of iihe sender pre ceded. 'Jby1 the word "from'?, and the number and name of the articles in closed, inay includeV;wlthout subject-' ing them to postage at the letter rate,' the occupation, trade br profession of the sender printed thereon, with his name and address, designating words not, however,' to be more than neces sary to give certainty to. the address of the sender, as, for example, "Johni Doe,:. Banker 100 Broadway, New York," and a simple request to return in a specified time if not delivered. The usual notice to postmasters ask ing to be advised of amount of post age required for 'return, which will be forwarded, is no longer necessary, 1 as now'all classes of mail matter are re turned upon ' request, and postage when due collected upon delivery to the sender. ' - r ' ' Georgia, Carolina & Northern R. R. The construction of this line, it is stated, is progressing steadily and the work is being done in a manner that ensures a first-class road in every respect. It is to be built from Mon roe, N. C. to Atlanta, Ga. The grad ing and masonry, are nearly com pleted to Catawba river twenty-six miles from Monroe and it is expect ed that trains will be run to the river by January 15th, 1888. The distance from Monroe to Atlanta is about 265 miles. Chester, S. C., Elberton and Athens, Ga., are points on the line. The road will pass through pro ductive sections, both in South Caro lina and Georgia. General R. F. Hoke is the President " of the G., C. & N., and it seems that he is as suc cessful in building railroads as he was in fighting during the war. Salt for Dlvoree. Divorce cases in the Superior Court for j this county are getting to be rather common. There were several on jthe calendar at the term just closed; three were tried and judg ment in each case was given for the party suing for release from irksome matrimonial bonds. The last case, tried on Wednesday, was that of Ro bert Williams vs. May Williams. Both plaintiff and defendant are residents of this city. The parties were mar ried in 1881, but had since separated and it was alleged that Mrs. Williams had been living unlawfully with one George Ritter. The defendant ap peared in court and denied the alle gations of the plaintiff. The jury. however, found a verdict for the lat ter, and a decree of divorce was or dered. Hew ta Tola? An item in the Charleston News and Courier says: The evidences are multiplying that 'all the cotton" from the Pee Dee section of the State does not gravi tate towards Wilmington and New York by reason of "excessive port charges" and all that kind of thing m Charleston. Mr. J. T. Connor, a cotton factor here, showed a reporter this morning quite a number of letters irom Mar s iilurl. Jeffrey's UreeK. ximmonsviiie. Darlington and other places, in which the statements are made that tne shippers there find it to their advan tage to send their cotton to Charles ton, and that they propose to con tinue shipping to this port. Charleston is evidently making mighty efforts to change the "current of events;" but after all,, the expense of handling the staple is greater there than it is in Wilmington, and people who are well posted know it to be a fact. . Tne New Chief of Police. The Board of Aldermen, at their meeting last night, elected one of their number, Col. E. D. Hall, Chief of Police of the city of Wilmington the position made vacant by the death of Capt. H. C. Brock. Col. Hall's experience and ability, and his intimate acquaintance with all the machinery of the city government make him eminently fitted for the position, and his selection by the board for this important office, will no doubt give general satisfaction. As mayor and alderman he has been identified with the city government for six years past. Smash-Dp on Hit Street. A wagon drawn by two mules, be longing to Messrs. Jas. H. Chadbourn & Co., was struck by a freight train and smashed to pieces about one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Nutt street crossing. The driver of the wagon escaped unhurt, and so far as ascertained the mules were not Initired. The locomotive was back ing down and moving slowly at the time, and the driver of the wagon thought that ne could inaKe tne trip ahead of the train, but he missed his calculation. Information Wanted. The following is clipped from the Norfolk Virginian: The editor of the Viraiman. in the interest of others, would be glad to have anv one related to Mr. Adrian Williams, formerly of Virginia, but more recently a resident of Wilming- ton. a. u communicate wim juuau Mr. W. was. we believe, a native of Norfolk or JNansemona county, xsis known that he had at one time brothers in this city, Elphena and Casandria Williams. Cotton movement. I The cotton movement at this port shows receipts the past week of 11,- 405 bales, against 13,800 the Bame week last year. i The receipts for the crop year up to esterday aggregate 49,996 bales; an increase of 23,394 bales, as compared with receipts to the same time last year, which were only 26,602 bales. Receipts yesterday were 1,543 bales, against 1,369 bales the same date last year. The stock at this port is 26,461 bales. Exports for the week were 10j861 bales. j. -.Four marriage licenses were is sued the past week by County Regis- ter Sampson; two for whites and two fOr colored people. Star WASHINGTON. An Ovation to Ex-Go?. Shepherd. - t Washington, Oct 16. Ex Gov. Alt-x-ander R Shepherd, who bus recently e turned to Washington fropa a long sojourn in Mexico, was tendered public welcome home to-night by citizens of this city The " reception took tbe form of a parnd?, in which nearly every military company .io the city, the Fire Dep-ntment. several tbou sand citizens and oyer three hundred wheelmen 7 participated. , . Gov. Sutp herd - was c coned from his suburban house.; .near Washington, by a com mittee appointed . for that purpose, to the reviewing stand ere -tod near the south front of the Treasury, . where, . with several hundred invited guests, he received the salutations of the passing throng and bowed his acknowledgments. The sireets along! the line of march were densely crowded, and locomotion was at times difficult. The city was ablaze throughout tbe evening with are -works At the close of the review, tbe crowd demanded a speech, to which Gov. Shepherd responded in a few words of grateful acknoledgment. Washington, Oct. ; 8 The Poitoffice Department has arranged that hereafter. during the prevalence of yellow fever at Tampa, ria., all mails lor Key West aid Cuban points will be sent down the Coast line toTrabue. on Charlotte Harbor, -about 150 miles south of Tampa, and there he transferred to ihe mail steamers, which will make this point their northern terminus, instead of Tampa. All the Tampa mails will be fumigated at Lakeland Tbe amount of bonds offered to the go vernment today was $373,700. of which $202,800 were four and a half per cents and $U.400 four per cents. This makes tbe total to date $13,378,850. which is $623,150 less than the amount which the Treasury Department offered to purchase tor the sinking fund witnin tne period which expired to-day. Secretary Fairchild was asked this af ternoon whether he would purchase any more bonds, out declined most emphati cally 4o define hi? policy on the subject. It is not regarded as likely, however, that auy tadical action will be taken uulets some unlooked-for chaDge in tbe money market should demmd it Tbe lime for the purchase of I onds for the sinking fund will not be extended It is explained at tbe Department that while the Secretary offered to buy $14,000,000 bonds for ibis fund, it is yet an unsettled question whi ther that entire sum is heeded, and whether the amount already obtained will not meet tbe full requirements of the law Applications lor pre payment ot inten-gt were received to day oo bonds amounting to $185,000, making a total to date of $96, 452.200. Washington. Oct. 8. Judge Snel, in the Police Court here to-day, rendered his decuion In what is known as the "Musical Boycott Case," finding jthe defendants Linden, Wilde, Pistorrio; Callan, Caldwell,. Sloan. Fullon and Fisher guilty of con spiracy, and imposing a nne in each case of $25, or ia default thirty days' imprison ment. 1 he case is one or tbe nret tried in this district, and excited much interest among labor organizations The offence of which defendants were found guilty was a combination to prevent a bind master named Krause and fourteen of his musi cians from obtaining employment, because of his refusal to pay the floe imposed by the musical union of which he was a mem ber ; TIfC PEABODT TUM. Troeteee Meeting Appropriations for the Bnaalnx Year, Etc. Nbw York. Oct. 6. The trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund met again to day and deliberated over appropriations for tne ensuing year.; ine amouni or money that will probably be available front the income of the fund is $68,000. This sum will be distributed to the various schools in the South on the approval of the i executive and finance committees. J. Pierrepont Morgan was reelected treas urer, and u H A. Ureene was reelected secretary, to whom a vote of thanks was also onered lor his success and service during the past year. Hon. W. A. Courtenay, mayor of Charleston, 1 8. C, was unanimously chosen a member in place of ex-Gov. Wm, Aiken, ofS. C. deceased. The same executive and financial com' mittees were appointed for the ensuing year. . i The trustees adlournea to meet again tne first Wednesday in October next. Many of tbe members have already started for their homes. GEORGIA. Ex-President Davie Will Attend tbe Confederate Reunion at Ulacon The Prohibition Quaatlon In Atlanta. Macon, October 7. In order to set at rest the doubts expressed by many papers of Mr. Davis' coming to the Georgia State Fair, to review the surviving Confederate veterans on the 26th of October, the follow ing letter was given out to-night by the President of the State Fair, Hon W. J. Northern: "Beauvoir, Miss., October 3. President W. J. Northern: Mv condition is not mate rially altered since I bad the pleasure of seeing you "here, but I have better reason to hope that it may be in my power io at- tsnd the Confederate reunion at ftiacon than I then had. It has been my sincere desire to be present on the occasion, and it is now, as when we met, only a question of physical ability to do so. "1 am, respecttuuy ana truiy, yours, j "Jefferson Davis." Atlanta. Oct. 7. In view of the ap proaching vote on prohibition in Atlanta, the City Council asked the Legislature to limit tbe district in which liquor couia oe sold if the city should eo wet, and to fix high license. This measure of restriction and high license were advocated Dy tne anti-prohlbitionists and opposed by the pronibitioniats. i ne maner came up in me Legislature to-day and the City Council's bill was defeated, leaving the issue now to be, plain "dry or wet" COTTON. Present Condition of tbe crop 'ine Picking Season Nearly Over. . f Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star.) New Orleans. La..! Oct. 8. The Cotton Worlds report of the crop for the month of September, says: The prominent feature of last month has been the almost unbroken continuation of dry warm wea ther over pretty much the entire belt, fore- - . 1 !J ing I run io mammy ana enaming a rapiu gathering of the staple, and at the same time destroying, except in a few sections, any prospect for a top crop. As a result of such conditions tne quality oi me product grades high, though in localities there is some complaint of recent heavy rains damaging cotton, . and in others of depredations by worms. Many of our cor respondents allude to the unusual lightness . i , . i . . m l . ' . 1s OI tne Staple ana me airacuuy . oi uiamug the usual weight of bales. The two Caro lines - and Alabama have held up well. while in Mississippi also the preponderance of reports indicate an improved yield over last year. Other States show greater de preciation from last month, the falling off being more marnea in xennessee ana Ar kansas. Picking will be virtually over through the larger part of the belt before the close of October, and even in the sections extending beyond that time, the picking season will end much earlier than usual. The following is the condition by States: Virginia 83, North Carolina 85. South Carolina 85, Georgia eo, moriaa 04, Ala bama 81, Tennessee 76, Arkansas 77, Mississippi 86, Louisiana 81, Texas - 78. Average ior tne neit, ou.; : average last year, 84,4. . s STRYCHNINE'S WORK. A wife Fatally Poisons Herself, Husband and Two Children. i Chattanooga, Oct 8. David Ogletree, his wife and two children were poisoned at their home near Talladega, Ala., Thursday, by drinking whiskey in whicn sirjcnnine had been placed by Mrs. Ogletree. They are all dead. Mrs. Ogletree had threatened to poison the entire family, and yesterday she carried out her threat NO. 49 FLORIDA. Outbreak of ITellow Fever at lam pa . The Report Discredited. Washington. Oct. 6. Surgeon Gen eral Hamilton ; has received the following telegram from: Deputy Collector Spencer, at Tampa. Fla , reporting ah outbreak of yellow fever at that place: "Tampi. Fla.. Oct. Q.to Surgeon Gen eral John . B. Hamilton, Washington, D. C : "Yellow fever is reported here. People are uying. van i use ine tents nerer 8ignedJ j T. K Spencer. ; j - i Deputy Collector." The tents referred to are those sent from New Orleans some time ago for use at Eg mont Key for refugees from Key West Jacksonville. Oct. 6. Dr. Frank H Caldwell, secretary of the Florida Health Protective Association, which stands for the State Board ofHealth, makes the fol lowing official statement with reference to the report that yellow 1 fever exists in Tampa i j , : "There are a. large number of cases of fever in Tampa which the locil physicians 'pronounce dengue. Dr. King Wryley, President of the Florida Health Protective Association, was in Tampa yesterday, and saw several cases, all of which were dengue. There have been only three deaths in three weeks out of a population of 5.000," i One man of dissipated habits, diedof dengue. I- THE SOUTH. The 'lucrcaae In the rrianaractare of Cotton In the Several States A irioat tiratifjlnc Exhibit. : .By? Telegraph to the Morning Star. Baltimore, Oct . 7. The Manufacturers' Record for this week publishes a compila tion of the increase in the manufacture of cottbn in the several States of tbe South, and the; percentage of proflt which will average 'fully twenty per cent, on the cost . Beginning with South Carolina, it says the Pacolit Company, with 12 ,000 spindles, is building another mill of equal size; and the Pelzer Company, with 22,000 spindles, is building another large mill At Marion a $100,000 mill is in the course of construc tion; one 6f $50,000 at Greenville; one at Clifton, of $300,000; one at Benneteville. of $200,000; one at Columbia, of $250,000; andonqat Fast Mill, of $160,000; while others are projected at Greenwood, Spar tanburg, Anderson, Chester, Camden and other points. In North Carolina there is now building a mill at j Lincolnton to cost $30,000; at Big Fails, one of $60,000; at Concord, one of $75,000; at Eronee, one of $200,000; while others will be built at Davidson Col lege and other points. In Georgia, at Columbus, the Swift Company has added $8,000 spindles to their mill, atid the Muscogee, of tbe same place, a new mill of 400 looms; the King Compa ny, 70 looms and 800 spindles; and at Augusta,! Clarksville, Americus, West Point, Dalton andJSavannah large improve ments are being made and new mills building- 1 i -! In Maryland $250,000 have been expend-' ed by the Laurel mills, while the mills at Mount.Yernon and Elkton are being en larged.! j i j There are also notable improvements in Texas nd Tennessee, all looking to the enTargoment of plant, the present facilities having been found insufficient -. ' VIRGINIA. Judge. Bond's Decision In the le I brated Coupon Cases. Richmond, Oct. 7. In the U. 8 Circuit Court here to-day Judge Bond rendered a decision in the four celebrated coupon cases recently argued before him, perpetua ting the injunctions heretofore granted upon application of the bondholders. Tbe effect of the decision is to enjoin and pre vent 8tate officers from suing and obtain ing judgments against parties who have tendered coupons for their taxes Judge Bond follows the reasoning of tbe U. S. Supreme Court In the celebrated coupon case of Poindexter vs. Greenbow, and characterizes the "coupon crusher" and other" similar recent laws or this State as parts of a palpable scheme to defraud the State's creditors and impair the obligation of her contracts with them, and in sub stance, an attempt to defy the authority of the Federal government. The opinion also says there was not even an effort made by the State's representees to assert the con stitutionality of these laws, their whole ar gument being a denial of the jurisdiction of the Court-to prevent great wrong and in ary to the plaintiffs. The opinion is elaborate in detail and is considered one of tbe most important ever delivered by Judge Bond. Rules for con tempt against three county officers for dis regarding the decision of the Court, will be considered to-morow. TELLO W FEVER. Xhe Physicians Declare Its Existence it Tampa Tbe People Panie-Strick en and Fleeing the City. Jacksonville, Fla.J Oct. 6. A special from Tampa to the Times- Union, dated 10 o'clock this morning, says the physicians here this morning pronounced the existence of yellow fever. There are only two cases, both of a mild type, and one death . The people are panic-stricken, and the city is being deserted. The fever is not likely to become epidemic for several days, if at all. There is little real cause for general alarm, as th? weather is most favorable to health, and an early frost is anticipated 1 Washington, Oct. 7. General superin tendent Nash, of the railway mail service, to-day received a telegram from t Division Superintendent Turner, at Augusta, Ga., in which he says: i "Yellow fever at Tempa, Fla. The Board cf Health will quarantine at Lakeland." He asks for instructions regarding transfer "of the mails. None have yet been' given. Jacksonville, Oct 7 People have been reassured by the prompt action of Duval and other county boards of health in establishing strict quarantine against Tam pa and points south and west, and issuing rigiu urueiu u isuiauj on persuus uuui mo infected city. Jacksonville is in a good sanitary condition. Health in Florida was never better than at present. "Washington. Oct 8. Surgeon General Hamilton this morning received the follow ing telegrams : "Tampa, Fla., Oct. 7. Four deaths from yellow fever; about twenty cases; a few of these have passed the fever stage of seventy-two hours; many people have fled. It may be necessary to establish a camp of refuge in the country. Tbe mails can be fumigated. J. P. Wall, M. D." "Sandford, Fla., Oct. 7. Can you loan me .tents for refugees from the epidemic at Tampa. King Wiley, M. D., Pres. State Health Association." In response to these Dr. Hamilton or dered tents to be sent to Sandford. The Surgeon General has sent a dispatch to Col. . Haines, superintendent of the Plant line of steamers, and the Savannah - and Florida Railroad, stating that in bis ludgment sleeping cars should not be al lowed to go beyond Palatka until the Tampa epidemic is over and the panic shall nave ceased. The Carolina Central. The last number of the Charlotte Chronicle contains the following in relation to the extension of the Caro lina Central Railroad to Asheville: i Through a party who has had a conversation with a prominent offi cial of the Carolina Central Railroad Company, we learn that arrange ments are really j being made to ex tend the western division of that road from Rutherfordton to Asheviile, and that the extension will probably be made in time for next summer's ' travel. The railroad officials have been investigating the probable route, in a quiet way, and now see their way clear, j From what we can learn, we would not be surprised to hear of the early commencement of the work. Spirits Turpentine. r- Elizabeth City Falcon : r The moat attractive and interesting case at Pas quotank court was Eason, of South Mills, vs. Dr. O. F, Baxter for slander The sub stance of the complaint was that Baxter bad said that Eason had murdered a Georgian at South Mills, 1889. This was denied. The trial occupied most of Friday and Saturday J Eason was acquitted ' Revivals reported in the Ra leigh Advocate and condensed for the Star: Mt. Airy, 25 professions: Edenton Slrret Church, Raleigh. i22 additions; Rladeu Street Church, WilminRton, 10 additions: Newton GroveJ 12 additions; HawRiver,12 ' additions; Keroersuille, 15 additions. Sum mer Held, 3 professions; Double Shoals cir cuit. 18 professions. 8 additions; Jackson Hill circuit, 82 additions; Brooklyn Mis sion, 12 professions. Clinton) Caucasian: Dr. J. E. Matthews leaves for Wilmington about the 15th inst His! place will be hard to fill. - Died, in Kenansville township. Sept umber 29, at a yery advanced age, Mr Wm McGowen. His long and useful life was that of an exemplary Christian gentleman. Twenty-one persons joined the church at Mt. Gilead last; week eighteen by bap tism. Reis Jl T. Kendall and Z J Needham, held a protracted meeting at Pugh's School Houee, five miles south or Clinton, last week,! during which there were 27 accessions to the church recently organized at that place Rev. T. W. Guthrie, P. E. bf the Wilmington District, preached at the Methodist Church in Clin ton last Sunday j night. His sermon was one of the ablest to which the people of this community have had the privilege of list ening to in a long time. Wadesboro Intelligencer: A few week ago Mr. B. F. I Scarborough, of Erie Mills, Montgomery county, lost one son of typhoid fever, and now another ton and a grown daughter are down with the dread malady, and are not expected to live. Died, at her home in Wadesboro, on Tuesday the 4th inst. Mrs. Polly Wheeler, wife or Joseph Wheeler, Esq., of asthma, and a combination of complaints, 'aged about 40 years. - There was an attempt at social equality at the depot hotel,, this place, on Wednesday last. A troupe of theatrical vagabonds en route from Wil mington to Charlotte, stopped for dinner, and a black wench accompanying them flopped herself down at the table to the in finite disgust of Col. Polk and others who were present As soon as the fact was brought to the attention of Mr. Drake, sbe was forced to quit the house or go to the kitchen. Charlotte Chronicle : The freight business of the Richmond & Dan ville road at present, is simply immense, and the main line between Charlotte and West Point is literally filled with freight trains. In one day this week, 198 loaded ears came, into Charlotte bound North. -Albert Starnes. the negro who was sen tenced to be hanged on the 1st of Decem ber next for an outrage upon the person of Mrs. Polly Hyatt, was pardoned by (he Governor and released yesterday. He has been sentenced three times, and has been ia jail about three years. The crime was committed about December 1, 1884. Isaac Kizer, colored, was brought to the city yesterday by constables from Crab Or chard and Clear'Creek township, and Jailen to await trial before Judge Meares, upo the charge of incest' His daughter, a cold ored woman about 20 years old and her baby, were brought along and also jailed. New Bern j Journal : Hon." F. M. Simmons has reappointed George G. Ransom, of Craven county, cadet to West Point, with Robert Dunn, of Lenoir, alter nate. It was with feelings of sincere regret that the members of St. Paul's R. C. Church heard on Sunday last from their paBtor, Rev. J. J. Reilly, the announce ment that he had been assigned to the church at Raleigh and would leave for that city to-day. Onslow items: Rev. E. A. Best, Missionary Baptist minister for ovtr 30 years, died at bis residence at Richlands, last Monday, tbe 26th inst. , of Droncniai anecuons, at tne advanced age of 72 years, -j Jones county dots: Our . citizens have had a full crop of grapes and the most of them are being mellowed into wine. The timber boom yet con tinues. There are confined in our jail at Trenton nine prisoners; all co'ored. Farmers report a short staple, with too much seed for the lint, in the cotton crop. j I Raleigh Netes- Observer: These reflections are brought about by the pres ence in the city on yesterday of Prof. W. 8. Yeates, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. D. C. He is here for the purpose of collecting minerals for exhibi tion in the National Museum. This insti tution is supported by donations from the people of the I United States. It therefore depends largely on the public spirit of the people of Any State to secure a fair collec tion of its mineral resources. Prof. Yeates is a native North Carolinian and naturally takes more than ordinary interest in hav ing the State fully and comprehensively represented in this great national collec tion. He is I anxious to have specimens from every locality of interest in the State, and to seenre them for the purposes named. Those who are willing to aid themselves, and at the same time serve tne State, are earnestly requested to send Buch specimens to him at Washington, or to communicate with him at the above address. M.onroeJEnquirer-Mepress:3adge McRae has presided as Judge of the term of our Court now drawing to a close with satisfaction to the bar. suitors and people at large. He is unquestionably a man of ability and 6ourage, and dispatches busi ness with proper regard both to the inter ests of suitors and the public. Furthermore, he manifests a high regard for the majesty of the law, and at tbe same time his sen tences have been tempered with becoming taercy. On Friday night last Sheriff Horn carried down to Raleigh four con victs, sentenced by Judge McRae last week to serve terms in the penitentiary. Two of the number were white men and two col ored. James j Morgan, sentenced for two years for horse stealing, and Bob Bikes sen tenced for two years for stealing a gold ring from Mr. D. H. Howie, were the white men; and Anderson Gibson, sen tenced for five years for robbing Mr. J. W. Austin's store, and William Crow, the train rocker, sentenced for two years, were the negroes. They were a bad quartette. . Wilson Advance: The Wilson Cotton Mills have just put a new Denn's warping machine in their factory, the sight of which is well 'worth a visit The ma chine cost $1,000, and with it one man can ' easily do the work of three on the old ma chine . A gentleman who was in Tois- not last Saturday informs us that a mer chant of that place told him that there was more cotton business in Toisnot last Satur day than has ever been done in one day ' since the place has been in existence. Mr. J. H. Narron canght his hand in Mr. C. F. Finch's gin, while at wotk there last Thursday evening, and had it fearfully in jured. The bone was cut all to pieces, al most John Eatman, a fifteen year old boy, who was feeding Mr. Condary Boykin's gin; last Saturday bad his band also caught in the gin. His hand was cut to pieces fearfully and his arm very much cut with the saw. So deeply did the saw cut into the quivering flesh that the gin was stopped. It was necessary to turn off tbe head of water and break the bruch wheel before he could be taken from off the saw. If there had been a full head of water at the time the boy would, without doubt have been killed. Raleigh News- Observer : The considerable increase in the assessed valua tion of property in North Carolina is a further gratifying evidence of the advance of the State on all lines of prosperity. There has been marked growth in material welfare in every section. 8enator "Zeb" Vance has been invited to make an address at the State fair and is confidently expected to be present The State Au ditor will commence to issue warrants for pensions about the 15th of November possibly a few days earlier. Three new convicts were received at the peniten tiary yesterday from Richmond county ; three were also received from Yadkin county. Among all the many varieties successfully grown in the State, none can surpass the "James" grape, a native of Eastern Carolina. The size it attains is phenomenal, the berries when cultivated measuring from 21 to 3 inches in circum ference and Its flavor surpasses that of any other known grape. It is a very dark plum color, almost black. The sawmill be-. longing to Messrs. J. H. Walker & Co , was destroyed by fire this morning. ' There was also a great deal of lumber destroyed . The cash valuation of the property was esti mated at $20,000, and the insurance is for $10,000. I 1 a v -. r i 3 Si 4 t3 , SI 'A
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