North Carolina Newspapers

The Weekly Star. WM. H. BERNARD, Editor and Prop'r. , Ii WILMINGTON, N. C. December 2, 1887. tafTn writing to change 'Your address, atoay Kl ve former dlreotlon aa well as rail ptutlonlan as where yon wish your paper to bevaent hereafter: . Unless yon do both changes oan not be made. . rSBTTotloes of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Respeot, Resolutions of Thanks. &o., are chanted for aa ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for strictly In advance. At this rate 60 oents will pay for a simple announcement' of Maniaicu or Death. 0T" Remittances most be made by Check,Draft Postal Money Order or Begistered Letter. Post masters will register letters when desired. - SyOnly such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. gySpeulmen copies forwarded when desired. A (lnPLHKT AND SUGGESTION. A gentleman of our oily addresses as a note complaining of the manner of trying certain classes of oases in our Criminal Courts. He thinks thai people attracted by curiosity, especially colored men and women, and young white boys, should be ex cluded when cases of. rape are to be tried. He belie res that the-proper safe-guards should be thrown around the 'youth of our land. He thinks sucrr trials should be conducted in privacy, only lawyers, witnesses and those summoned allowed to be pre , sent.! He says: 'Courts are of lea court of injustice. A ; high-toned, respectable and virtuous lady who suffers outrage at the hands of one of these devils would doubtless sooner die than get up in open court aud tell plainly what happened to ber, and again to screen each other negroes will perjure themselves, swear falsely and to anything and in nine out of tea cases the defence would attack the character of -the Innccent suffering wo man aod prove ber a woman of bad charac ter by lying negro witnesses Now this woman forced by law to testify as a State's witness is damaged in the eyes of the iow and vulgar who are present at court and who will ever after delight in talking about her and seeking to destroy her good name through spite. The court in that cssa is onexf injustics as well as when 75 or 100 good men are summoned from their busi nesTto be present at a certain hour and then at considerable loss to themselves must wait the pleasure of a tardy Judge or ' lawyer." ' . ' .- It would certainly be a very good thiagj for the morals of the young if they Were shut out on such occasions. It would certainly be considerate of the feelings of an injured, and grossly . outraged woman to be allowed to testify in the presence of as few as possible. The tendenoy in the North is . to give all possible publioity to scandal and crime. Hence the ' Northern papers teem with the most elaborate reports of all sorts of filth and . they are served up and gar nished with the most flaming rhetoric and with most minute details. Let us avoid this in 'the South. The briefest reports possible are in order. Our correspondent tells us of an other1 crime that was committed. The "facta were cot made public. The fecene to follow in open court had too much of intimidation for the I . .1 L . pert on outraged. So justice slept. CKlFlCIgn AND REPLY. a -Pittsboro Record has a pat Ti ronizing, bumptious article on the Stae. It is quite in the "Sir Oracle" vein. It is .edited by a lawyer and ho seems to think he is a judge and the Stab is a culprit on trial jbefore "His Honor." But we ; waive all this and let it go for what lit is worth, and address ourselves to : the matter discussed by the Record j the State Committee and the Stab. ; The Stab is accused of "waging a most unfair and unjust war," and is "denounced" for having made "in sinuations" that are characterized i "aa unkind, uncalled for, unjust, and untrue." And all because the Stab presumed to criticise the action of jthe pommittee. Weill well! Has ! it come to that? "Upon what meat ! hath 'this our Casar fed &c!" i ' ' : 'The Stab bad the impudence to I ,i , . sav tbisi ' dome of the ablest, beat edited of our contemporaries have squarely condemned the action as an unsurpation and without warrant of authority. We have no donbt that the Committee acted from considera tion of duty and from an anxious dents to fulfill promise made in the pott. Tbe Stab believes the gentlemen composing the Committee are patriotic North Caro linians and loyal Democrats and that in adopting a cerUlo line of procedure they were animated by a sincere desire , to pre vent a Republican triumph in the coming elections. Tbe Stab must always be i full sympathy with such a purpose. We may suppose that the Democratic Committee did not mean really to dictate the policy of the party, although its action looks very much that way. It anxiety to taw the State may have betrayed it into a line of action the consequence of which were not fully measured. Then again the Stab said: Tho Committeo happened to strike a popular cord. But suppose they had struck an unpopular cord 7 Suppose they had declared tbat the Democrats must favor the Internal lax? What would have hap pened? ' All committees may not be prudent and wise and loyal to genuine Democratic principles. It is very danger ous to set an unnecessary precedent. It is not safe to stretch powers It is not meant to say that the Committee has intended to do ail the things stated. The Com mittee may have made a wise deliverance, but it must be regarded a a tuggettion, and not as mandatory or authoritative." . If that is "uukiod," it was not so intended If it is "Junoalled for," it is no ict me eauor oi me tiecora to i. .' 1 . . . ... i eu determine, of the Stab. He is not tbe "boss" He must be oontont to ruu bis own machine. If it was ast," we profoundly regret! it, 'un for here was no such' purpose on the part of tbe writer, who has entire re epeot. for the Committee, including the kble editor of the Record. If it was "untrue," then we have been un fortunate, for we love the truth and would not violate it in any particu lar for any offioe. -:.-...;. I So much for what was said and the arraignment. Now let us write in a spirit of thorough candor. When we saw the report of the action of the State Committee we did not intend to discuss it or comment upon it. We neglected to preserve a eopy, there fore, add when- we wrote, ten or twelve days or a fortnight after, we did not have it at band. We are frank to say that the wording of the resolution is not as strong as .we thought. ,We were prompted finally to write from two ohief considera tions. We observed that; some pa pers favoring free drinks! and free amoies appeared to regard the action of the Committee as about final. We have somVrecolleotion of seeing pa pers that wbuld loot abide by the ac tion of the Committee advised or or dered to leave the party, j We saw some of oar ablest exchanges regard ing the action of the Committee as an usurpation of authority; and some of these appeared to regard the deliverance as so authoritative as to preclude any f urther discussion of the whiskey, apple jack and tobacco tax. Two of our most high ly esteemed contemporaries who regard the internal tax question as the Stab does, and with whom the Stab is in accord in the matter, ac tually accepted j- the action of the Committee as final.. It was these i ... things that moved us to write, for we bad no idea of being silenoed by a mere Committee however respecta ble as to numbers, talents,, influence and character. The Stab undertook to discusB a principle, it thought temperately and courteously, from the standing-point indicated, name ly, tbat the deliverance of the Com mittee was so authoratative as to be 1 final. It essayed to show that such an interpretation, if correct, would nt of free, disous- be to the detrim siob, and, as we hold, an intolerable abuse of powerj The Stab still and not even the has attempted to holds tbat ' view, oracular Record controvert it or to show its errone- ousness or untenableness. tsot tne Stab did not question for a moment their high sedse of duty, or their loyalty to their party. It expressly said they did not really mean to dictate, &o. - i- I Now we do not believe tbat the Committee was acting judiciously when they undertook to advise the North Carolina members in the Con gress as to what they tbeuld do, and through them to influence, and of course iu some sense, to advise the Democrats of that body as to their line of duty and responsibility. We know it is the style in North Caro lina for its Legislature, composed of men not of large experience and high abilities, to inform the Federal Congress of what they desire and think, should be done. Thus far the National Solons have failed to ap preciate the wisdom of the North Carolina Legislature and to avail themselves of its superior knowledge of financial and eoonomic questions. Having very decided regard for the gentlemen composing the State Committee it is not our desire or pur pose to insist upon the correctness of past interpretation, or to make a point against what we might dare to think was bad judgment or bad taste. As we stated in our first discussion they "acted from considerations of duty aod from an anxious desire to fulfil promises madeiu the past." So far as the Stab's course is con cerned, it has been clearly, explicitly stated more than once. When the Democrats of North Carolina shall have spoken in Convention, then the Stab will join all trae Democrats in a sharp war upon the Republican par ty to prevent tbe return of that ve nal and inoornpetent party to power in North Carolina and in the Union. The Stab is strictly Democratic. It is Democratic in its principles and advocates Democratic candidates for office and no others. It has never failed the Democracy in any crucial test of loyalty and devotion, or in any campaign, j however prolonged and fierce. The! Stab believes in Democratic supremacy municipal, county, State and national. It is ia harmony with thi Democracy of the Union. It standii with every Demo cratio paper in the North of unques tioned character lor good faith and sincerity, and with four-fifths of the leading Democratic papers in the South on the internal revenue and Tariff reform principles. It will unite honestly and earnestly with all Democratic papers in the State in maintaining Democratic supremacy as essential to the honor, prosperity and glory of North Carolina, The Record leads us to believe that there was a much larger at tendiuce of the Committeo than we had thought. We do not argue the correctness or wisdom of the "re commendation" to wipe oat tbe tax on luxuries - on whiskey, beer, wiser-, apple-jack, snuff, cigars, smoking and chewing tobacco &c.' The Stab has an opinion just here, but it is not necessary to ventilate it anew now. The "recommendation" of the Com mittee is npt in harmony, we believe with the opinion of the party at large. So far as we have been able to judge from a; daily scanning of a large exobange list, the abolition the "wiping but pf . $120,000,000 of internal taxes on needless luxuries at this stage of greet national indebted ness and great expenditures is not popular outside of ' two or three Southern States with the Democracy. But we shall abide by, what the President and the Congress may do this winter. When the State ConJ vention meets I next summer and adopts a platform we shall not op pose it any particular, bat will go to the front with all Democrats in their resistance of Radical attempts to again possess North - Carolina. As we said before, both parties in North Carolina will probably adopt a i com mon plank- as to -i internal taxes. There will he no isue with us on that question, j therefore. v" Tbe" Re publicans are responsible for the tax, and for most of the abuses under the law that have made j it offensive : to the- people of j Western Carolina. Their whipping artfuod . now ' only shows bow wholly insincere their profession, and how desperate is the game they are iplaying for popular tonfidence. 1 r Holding that a paper ahould have principles aud opinions, aud that it is .teacher as well as a news purveyor we have thought it consonant with journalistic responsibility and sincere conviction to present from day . to day those opinions and to maintain those principles. : If we did not be lieve them sound .and needed we would abandon them., If we did not bold them to be in the line of a wise and broad policy we would not insist upon Cheir adoption, j But in North Carolina the circum stances are peculiar land somewhat embarrassing. We see the insincere palaver and cunning dodge of the Radicalsand if the Democrats in Convention resolve to fight the Rad icals with . their j own weapons the Stab will not attempt to lessen the force of the blow or to scatter the forces. It will be prompt to do bat tle for the old party that once saved and redeemed the State. It helped in the good work then and 'it will help again.' . Democratic members of the House now in Washington are laughing over Alex. MoClure's tariff - pro gramme. Alex . is a Republican Protectionist. He pretends to train with the Independent or Mugwump element. He is really! as much of a Protectionist as Sain Randall or Judge Kelley. He is a nice man to shape J,be Democratic programme. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun ' telegraphed on 27th.: "As said, Col. McClure may. perhaps, properly assume to speak for Mr. Randall and the iosieniflciot Democratic protection element in Pennsylvania, but these mem bers bra eomewbat puzzled as to where be obtained the right or authority to speak for tte Democratic party. It was natural enough for tbe President to listen to Co). McClure, for he is both original and enter taining, tnd the President, as all other Democratic leaders, recognises bow desira ble it is to coocUia'el Mr. Randall, Col. Mc Ciuic, aod their followers, if they will only evince a f-ir shire of reason But it will be rather it cold day when tbe representa tives of the Democratic patty surrender io these eutleoien " j i i If Southern Democrats are to be fairly disgusted, heimer, Pulitzer, be got together ft .McClure, Dors- Randall aod Dana and let them "fix u)" a tariff for I ill country. We sircerely regret to bear of the serious condition of health of Prof. W. G. Sim ra on 8, ct wakaror- - .... est College. He h -4 been compelled to give up wotk for the present. An has been elected. assistant proftssu He is an exceiien .! t and most valuable man - a man or superior parts ad- mirably disciplined i He is a native and has been a of North Carolina professor at Wake Forest for proba bly thirty years. We will be glad to know of a restoration of his health at an arly day. Episcopal rectors in Massachu- eetu faro very wel. j Tbe average is $1,627 salary. The lowest was $600, the highest $10,000.! This is a long scale of prices, j fflr r, t. Ballard's Case. The case of C. E. Bollard, of Bladen county, convicted in the Criminal Court last Saturday of obtaining money and goods on false pretences, was called In the Court yesterday morning1, and judgment pronounced $100 fine and counsel, Messrs. costs. Defendant's Russell & Ricaud, for a new trial, but made a. motion tne motion was overruled. An ap peal was craved and granted; the bond of defendant for his appearance at tbe May term of Court being fixed at $300. Mr. Bnllard gave the bond required with J. J. Bullard as surety, and was discharged. ' " An Airacloos Snanll. 1 A colored boy about sixteen years old, attacked a little school girl, the daughter of Mr. Charles M. Williams, Monday afternoon ! about dark on Orange street near Third while she was on her' way to her home on Eighth street. The boy chased and caught her near Fourth street, when he threw his arms around the girl and tried to throw her down. Her screams and cries for help frightened the scoundrel, however, and he ran off. The police were furnished with a description of the boy. If caught, he should be severely punished. Prn4lr loamy Asrlealtaral Hoelety. A note from the Secretary, Mr. R. T. Durham; says that there will be a meeting of the Pender County Agri cultural Society on Monday, 'Decem ber 5th, at one o'clock p. m., in the Court House at Bursa w. Papers will be read, by Mr. John H. Murphy, on growing and preserving potatoes, and by Mr. D. H. Armstrong, on the man agement or labor. Tne Boclety will be glad to see all interested farmers present. - j J Foreign Exports Yaaterda.7. . Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son cleared the British steamship; Cam Marth for Bremen, with a cargo of 4,878 bales of cotton, weighing 2,294,451 pounds, valued at $229,500. . I ; - ' ; Mr. Edward Kidder's Son cleared the schooner Delhi' for Aux Cayes, Hayti, with 192,000 feet of lumber, val ued at $2,742. f - . Darbya Propbylaotle Fluid, i Use it lu everyi: sick room. - Will keep the atmosphere pure aud; and wholesome; removing all bad odors from any source. Will destroy all ! Diseases Germs, infec tion from all Fevers, and all Contagious Diseases. - : '; -. The eminent physician, J. Marion Sims, M. D., New York, says :i "I am convinced that Prof. Darbys Prophyliatio Fluid is a most valuable disinfectant." ; Death of Sir. Eawla JT. Tfeorpo. Mr. Edwin J. Thorpe died at his residence in this city yesterday morn ing at' half-past nine o'oloek, after an illness of a few weeks duration, of malarial fever. Mr.. Thorpe was 'born in Walsall, Eng., January 23d,' J57. He came to this country in 1876, and spent a year in Philadelphia,' in the employ of the Pennsylvania R. R, Co.; after which, near the close of 1876 he, came to Wilmington, at .the request of the Auditor of the Atlantic Coast Line, in whose office he was employed as clerk and secretary to the General Superintendent and President.! Thence he went into the office of the General Freight and Passenger Agent, where he remained until last January, when he became? private secretary to the General Man ager of the Coast Line, . which office he filled up to the time of his untimely demise. , r i For several years prior to his death Mr. Thorpe was the organist and leader of St. James Episcopal choir in this city. ' In 1881, he . married Miss Jennie Brink, daughter of , Col. E. R. Brink, of this city. He leaves two children, to whom together with their bereaved mother we extend our sincerest sympathy and condolence. Knowing him as we did, we admired him for his talents, his sterling integ rity and the candor that ever marked his transactions with his fellow men. As a friend we were drawn to him by the cheerfulness with which "he ever aided those who sought his .help, fc7 the unselfishness of his generous dis position and the determination and manliness that characterized him. Mr Thorpe jwasa member of the United States Benevolent Fraternity, in which his life was insured for $5 000. His funeral will take place at .3 p. m. to-day, from St. James' Church; the interment in Oakdale Cemetery. TIIK RATE CASE. ' 8tepben Freeman Convicted and Sen tenced tojbe ilaua-ed-BIollou tor m New Trial Overruled An Appeal to tne Supreme ronri, Tae jury rendered a verdict of guilty in the case of Stephen Free man, colored, charged with rape, when they came into Court yester day ' morning at half-past nine o'clock. Defendant's counsel made a motion for a new trial which the Court decided to hear at four o'clock in the afternoon, until which time a recess was taken. ; Precisely at four o'clock in the af ternoon Judge Meares took his seat in the court room, the prisoner was brought in and placed in the box, and the room filled rapidly with specta tors. Prisoner's counsel were not present and the Solicitor asked that the Sheriff send for them, bnt in a few i minutes Mr.- Strangeentered the bar. After the Solicitor 'had prayed the judgment j of this Court on the prison er, Mr. Strange arose and stated the grounds upon which he made the motion for a j new trial. One of these was! that' in the charge to the jnry the Court did not give the pris oner the advantage of one piece of evidence, which his counsel thought was of advantage to his case as re lating to the reliability of the chief witness for the State. Judge Meares said that this was no ground for an exception; the Court was not bound to state all the testi mony; furthermore, the fact of the defendant's counsel calling attention to the omission,; which was admitted by tbe Judge, made the fact more im pressive to the jury. Another point made Iff defendant's counsel was that tbe Court erred in charging the jury that it was neces sary for the defendant to establish the fact that he was .not present where it was alleged tbe crime was committed. j The Court said that this was not so. tie told tne jury xnree times over that! an alibi was setup by the defendant, and it was necessary for him (the defendant) to establish that fact to the satisfaction of the jury. Mr. Strange, continuing his re marks, said that the burden of proof did not shift to the defendant in the case of an alibi, and cited authorities to sustain this opinion. Another point was that the Court erred in permitting Mrs. Sellers, the chief witness for the State, to state on her direct examination what she said to other witnesses the morning after the occurrence. If her testimony had been impeached it would have been competent; but her testimony had not been; impeached at that time.- ' ,: ." At the conclusion of Mr. Strange's argument; on the above and other ex ceptions, Solicitor Moore arose to re ply, bnt the Court announced tbat the motion fori a new trial was over ruled, j - if f ; Mr. Strange then gave notice that an appeal wonld be taken to the Su preme Court, i L . Solicitor Moore, said that he de sired to make mention of a fact tbat transpired during the trial, (alluding to criticisms of the prisoner's coun sel on Mr, Forshee, who had assisted the Solicitor in working up the case for the State.) j Mr. Forshee, he said. is a Mason, one of a committee of three appointed to look after the in terests of the orphan and the unpro tected. Mr. Forshee was pot dele gated, but he volunteered to assist the Solicitor through his kindness of heart and through a feeling of be nevolence. He said this for the justi fication of Mr. Forshee and to let the community know that . there were people here who would see that the woak are protected nnder the law. It was impossible for him (the Solicitor) to get npthe evidence in a case, and it was not nis duty to do it. He' had made application to the county au thorities and also to the city for aid in this direction, but it could not be obtained; and there .was no way in which evidence against criminals could be found except through vol unteer assistance.! Mr. J. I. Macks arose and said that it was due to the Masonic fraternity to make public declaration that no one was authorized by the Masonic lodges in this city to assist In the prosecution of the prisoner. Mr. For shee did it through and of his own volition. The Masonie fraternity had nothing at all to do with the prose cution, ty j; f'.'';.;'.;:. ' After, this, little episode, proceed ings were resumed, an the . deck, Maj. Dunham, ordered . Freeman to stand np and asked-what he had to say. ..Freeman replied that he. was notfeuilty.. '; ; - ' , I , Judge Meares then pronounced tbe judgment c of the Court, sentencing Freeman to be hanged on Thursday,, the - 22d day of December, bet ween the hours of ten a. m. and four p. m. The prisoner received his sentence with composure and evinced no emo tion. His case will now go on appeal to the State Supreme Court, and it is hot likely that a decision will be rendered before February next. Aeeldenl at tbe Gee Worker. ' Sunday afternoon a party pf six or seven young men Walter Orange and Mike Brennan, of -Richmond,, Va., Robt Gardner," Geo. Hall, Geo. Barr and Thad Branch, of this city were on a. staging in the hew gas holder, recently erected on. Castle St. when the Vcaffold gave away, pre cipitating all of them to.: the bottom of the tank a distance of sixteen feet. Thad Branch, a son of Mr. Jordan Branch, sustained - pretty injuries. Two fingers of his' left hand Were out off ,by some - of the "timbers , falling upon him, and. his left arm was broken ; near the wrist. All the others were bruised and scratched by the fall. Brennan had his clothing nearly stripped from him and one of his legs slightly cut. - All of the nem are employed building the tank, and all (with the exception of Branch) were at work yesterday. .' This is the only serious accident that has occurred since the work of building thertank commenced It is expected that it will be finished in about three weeks. . f Criminal oart. j j The trial of Stephen Freeman, col ored, for rape, was resumed yester day at one o'clock p. m. The court room was crowded with spectators 'throughout the afternoon and even ing until tbe case was given to the jury,, shortly after eight o'clock. The testimony of the witnesses for the de fence was all in by four o'clock,' and Mr. Elliott, counsel for the defence, addressed the jury. He was! follow ed by his associate, Mr. Strange; Solicitor Moore making the closing argument for the State. Judge Meares occupied about an hour in the delivery of his charge to the jury. It was fair and impartial. He gave a lengthy review of the evidence, both for the State and the defence. The prosecutrix he said, gave the same testimony in court in relation to the assault that she did to the corrobor ating witnesses. As to the question of identity she was positive; ; she saw the man in a bright light, and she would know him again. The defence was that she is a woman of bad char acter; that she had a bastard child 7 years ago and tbat she ought not to be believed; they also offered evi dence of a contradictory character as to the identity of the prisoner. About the alibi set up by the defence, the Judge charged that it must be estab lished to the satisfaction of the jury; it did not rest upon the State to show tbat the alibi was not estab lished, He told the jury to take the case and consider it carefully, with out regard to popnlar sentiment. It was their sworn duty to render a ver dict in accordance with the law and the evidence. The Judge ; then re-. minded the jury that It was a rule of law, applicable in all cases, that to convict a prisoner they must be con vinced of his guilt beyond a ; reasona ble doubt. He. suggested that the jury go to supper, and directed the Sheriff to put them in charge of a sworn offi cer, and to clear the Court room. It was brought out on the trial that Mrs. Sellers' maiden name was Bogan, and that she was a native of Anson eounty, this State. She came to Wil mington about seven years ago, when she was about sixteen or seventeen years of age. ; At twelve o'clock last night the jury had not agreed npon a verdict. In all probability the result will be a imistrial the jury unable to agree. Tbe Late J.'W. Rowetf. ! Rev. Mr. Hoge pastor Of the First Presbyterian Church, officiated at the funeral services -of Mr. J. W Rowell, which took place yesterday troin Fifth Street M. E. Church. The interment was in Oakdale Cemetery. The pall-bearers were Messrs. Jno. H. Hanby, Jno. J. LeGwln, T. T. Seeders, W, H. Hardy, Wm. Bell, G, Register. Mr. Ro well's death resulted from Bright's disease, with which he had been afflicted for some time past. He was master car builder of the W., C. & A, R. R. shops some years ago, and in the spring of this year . left Wil mington to take a situation as master of the railroad shops at Selma, Ala. His failing health, however, com pelled him to return to his home in this city. ; 'm m ' ' ' Funeral of Hire. Walker Mearee. . V Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Walker Meares, whose sad death was announced in the Star, were held in St. James' church yes terday morning at half-past ten o'clock. - After the ceremonies at the church, conducted by Bishop Watson and Rev. Dr. Carmichael, the fune ral cortege wended its way to Oak dale Cemetery, where the interment took place. The pall-bearers were Col. John D. Taylor, Col. J. W. At kinson, -Lieut. Gov. Stedman, Col. A. M. Waddell, Mr. Wm. Walters, Mr. J. G. Wright. . v ; T ; Four ral or E. J. Thorpe. The funeral of Mr. E. J. Thorpe took place yesterday afternoon at St. James' .Church, Bishop Watson and Dr. Carmichael officiating. A large number of the friends of the deceased were present to pay respect to his memory. The services were most solemn and impressive. The choir of St. James, with which Mr. Thorpe had been so closely, connected, .wore badges of mourning; they sang those hymns which he so- loved to : play. The United States . Benevolent Asso ciation, Of whioh Mr. '. Thorpe was a member, and his fellow clerks and the officers of the Atlantic Coast L:ne attended the funeral in a body. The pall-bearers Were Capt. J. F. Divine, J. H. Hardin, H. W. Mallby, R. H. Grant, B. Gleaves, Horace Emerson and A. H. Holmes. The remains were interred in Oakdale Cemetery. i .'Twill save you lots of money And many a doctor's bill-; .r. Bronchitis, cold, or hoarseness, tfuirs ueugn Myrup wUl'UlL ; FOSTAZ, SHATTERS, lntereattns Siatememe from the An--anal Report of tbe First Aaaiatant Poatmaeter3enerai. ' ;? Washington, Nov. 27. The annual re port of FN rat Assistant Postmaster General tiieveason shows that the' number of post offices established during tbe past nscal year was 8.043, a decrease of 489 as com pared with the previous year; and that the number discontinued was 1 ,500, an increase of 830 over the year : ended June SO. 18SS. The whole number of postofBces ia opera tion June 30. 1837. was 55.157. , v ' Appointments of postmasters were made Ci.ritg tbe year as follows: Oo resigna tion and eemmisaions expired. 6.863; on removals and suspensions, 2,631; on deaths of postmasters, 689; on? establishment of new efflcess, 8,043 t Total number of ap poiutments made during tbe year, 13.079, a ott decrease of 9.670, as compared with the -last t:ar. : - - ' Toe largest increase in the number of offlots in any of the States and! Territories djnug tbe vear was as follows: PeuDByl VdU 118, Georgia 93. Texas 77, and Vir ginia 74 There were seven 8tates which, od the 30th of June, contained more tban 3 000 offices eacb. as follows: Peonsyl voia 4 119 New York 8.248. Ohio 2 834, Vireitia 2 355. Illinois 2 266. Missouri 2 117, nd North Carolina 2,110, making altogether considerably more ' than one third of tbe whole number of offices in the United States " ; i Tbe number of money order offices, in operation June 80. 1887. was 7.745, an in crease of 481 over the previous year. , " ran precious metals. TbeOperatloneat the nintsnd aeear ( . Offleea During tba Fatal Tear. Washihgtosi, Nov. 27 The Director of the Hint has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury his annual report for 1887. Tbe valus of gold and silver received at the mints and assay offices during tne year was greater i0an in any previous year;: since 1881. Tbe value of gold deposited was $68,223,072 In addition, tnere were de posits of tbe value of $15,193,706. making tbe lotat value of ajold deposited $33,416, 779, against $49,606,534 in 1886. Tbe value of silver deposited and purchased was $47, 755 91S Ia addition, there were rede postts of silver -amounting to $462,113, malting a total, "calculated at the coining ra'.e or $48,219 031, against $37,917,026 in the or. ceding year, j i OftbH gold . deposited, $32 973 037 was of domestic production; $23,571,826 of foreign sold bullion; $9 896 512 of foreign gold coin; $516 984 of United States gold coin aod $2 235,219 of old material. Toe Director estimates tbl stock of gold and silver coin in tbe United States No vember 1st. 1837, to have been: Gold, $574 927 873; silver dollars. $277,110,157; sungKiury silver, $75,753,186. Total coin, $937,790 216 HFE-SAFlSa SERVICE. XU Work Aeeompliabed In tba laet Year. ' j. . Washington, Nov. 23. The annual re port of Mr. 8. 1 Kimball, General Super- intendeotof the Life Savinit Service, shows tbat tae establishment embraced at tbe close of tbe last fiscal year 218 stations, as follows: One hundred and sixty-six on the Atlantic, 44 on the Lakes, 7 on tbe Pa cific, and one at the Falls of tbe Ohio, Louisville. Ky. - : The number of disasters to documented vessels within the field of station opera tions during tbe year was 833. - On board these vessels ware 6.827 persons, of whom 6.272 were saved to 550 lost. Tbe number of shipwrecked persons who received suc cor at Buttons was j 737. to whom 1,894 days relief in the aggregate was afforded. TUi value of vessels involved ia disaster is ts iifc&led at $4,788,925. and tbat of their catgoes $2 288 775 total $7,075,700. of which $5,788 820 was saved, and $1,286. 880 tot. The number of vessels totally lest was 72.. Besides foreign ones there were during tbe year 135 casualties to smaller craft. such as sail boats, row b'lats, etc., on which there were 274 persons.; 271 of whom were saved and thres lost. The property in volved in these instances is estimated at $96,830, of which $92,915 was saved and $3,915 lost. In rendering assistance ia saving vessels and cargoes, more was ac complished than in any previous year ex cept the one immediately preceding, 893 vt-esirl having been floated off when strand ed, repaired when damaged, piloted out of dangerous places, and similarly assisted by station crews. There were besides 210 in stamexwheu vessels running Into danger were warued by signals of patrols, .most of :h ?m thus being probably saved from partial or total destruction. ; The total number of lives lost during the sixteen yeais of existence of the life saving system i- only 847, out of over 33,000 involved. f JOE JLlBERlAIf MISS10m7 Tbe Rllnfater Xendera bla Realcna ifon Liberia mot a Place to Live In ' More tban Two Wicks-Tba Native better tban tba Civilised Negro. Washington, Nov'. 27 Mr. Charles EL J. Taylor, Minister of tbe United States to Liberia, has tendered his resignation, to take effect early in March. He is now in this city on a leave of absence. One reason for his resignation, he ssid, wss the danger ously unhealthy climate. He had also been disappointed in the character of tbe civilized negroes sent over there He said: "'Instead of a majority of tbe civil ized negroes being honest, sober,: industri ous and self-reliant, I found a condition of things that diplomatic reserve will not al low me io describe. Native Africans are superior in every way to the civilized ne groes sent there, and are susceptible of tbe very highest civilization." "Tbe country," he further said, "is a rich one, abounding in grains, timber and minerals, but the condition of things is such that no wide awake man would care to live there longer than two weeks." j .. j; WASHINGTON. Government Reeelpta and. Expendi ture Tbe Call for a Cmnena of Dem ocratic Membera of tbe Honae ; Washington, November j 80. Reve nues of the Government from all sources during tbe month of November amounted to about $30,500,000, being an average of a little more than a million a day. Dis bursements during : the month were un usually heavy and nearly equalled re ceipts. Over $18,000,000 was paid out on account of pensions. It is estimated at the Treasury Department tbat there has been an increase of nearly a million dollars in the public debt during November. .Washington, November 80. The, call for a caucus of tbe Democratic members of the House of Representatives, to meet next Saturday evening, for the purpose of nomi nation officers of the House, to be elected next Monday, has been prepared and will be authoritatively published to-morrow.. It seems to be generally understood among Democrats, tha Star says, tbat Hon. 8. 8. Oox, of New York, is to be elected perma nent chairman of the caucus. .. NEW ORLEANS. Fatal Accident to jtbe Captain or a Brltlab Steamer. ; Nbw Obleabs, November 80. Captain George Denbam, of the British steamer Ocean King, from London, which arrived here November 16th, yesterday afternoon accompanied by a friend took a carriage for tbe West Ead. Soon after leaving tbe vehicle Capt. Denham concluded to take a bath. - Instead of going down to tbe bath house steps the Captain plunged head foremost into tbe lake. His head coming in contact with some hidden obstruction, his neck was broken. His body was brought to this city and turned over to his friends. . . . SOUTH CAROLINA. 4 Incendiary Fire at Alken-L.oaa S40,- ( jooo. :-.V' (" ' I -Charleston, Nov. 80. Fire broke out in Aiken, 8. C, at 1 o'clock this morning, and destroyed nine buildings, including the office of a dentist and insurance agent, and a number of stores with ' stocks of gro ceries, millinery, and general merchandise. The loss is about $40,000; insurance $27. 45Q. The fire is believed to have , been of incendiary origin. ' v T ; The time honored Notre Dame, Baltimore. Md. -!- - ' ' We have had ample opportunity to con vince ourselves of the efficacy of Salvation Oil. We cheerfully submit our names to the public as reference. . Respectfully, Bisters of Notre Dame. Aisquirh & Eager 8to., Baltimore, 114. ,1 OH ANN MOST. . ,. .; outlneatlon of tba Trial of tbe Noted Anarcbla-ne Goee on tbe Witneae Stand and Olvea n Be ord of bla Fat Ufa A Verdict ot Quilt. New Yobv November 29 When the tjrial of Johann Most was resumed this mormog bis counsel, air. Howe, arose and disclaimed on the part ot bi client any connection witli or knowledge of a threat ening letter sent to Judge Cawing. He ex pressed the belief that it was 'sent by some enemy of Most to prejudice bis case, Most was then called to tbe witness stand to testify in his own defence. ' He also be gan by: disclaiming any knowledge of tbe thrvatebing letter. He -denied that he had threatened -the executioner Of the Anar chists in Chicago, or any one else. The meeting at Kiaemer's Hall, at which tbe alleged seditious speech was mahe, was, he said, a public one Mr Schultz was chair man; aod' not Schenck, as the policeman testified. He addressed bis bearers as fel low-Citizens, not as Anarchists. He then went on to give his version of the speech be made., j It lacked the threats, and violent language be is charged with having uttered. rOo the cry of 'Revenge I' being uttered in the audience." he went on, "I said, 'Not now; the capitalists are arrayed agaiost us. We are here to accuse, and I accuse Grin nell, Gry, and tbe Judges of murder.'" He described Powderly as an instrument in tbe execution for not taking sides with the con demned men. Then, tot, there was Henry Geoige "He is narrow-minded and not wise, but be onght to be clever enough to know the difference between right and wrong, and should have enlisted sympathy for the men.- He was not sure tbat he said he would give ten years of his life to ,know the hangman and that he would strangle bim." He never said tbat for every man killed in Chicago five hundred would be slaughtered. At cross-examination As sUtmt District Attorney Nicoll questioned Most on the record of his past' life. The prisoner said he had been convicted of treason in Austria in 1869, and had been imprisoned one year. In 1870 he -was again convicted in that country of the same crime, and got a 'five years' sentence, but gained bis liberty in 1871. through the amnesty granted to political prisoners. In 1372 he was sentenced to one year's im prisonment ia Berlin for calling the Em peror of Germany a slaughterer and massa crjeer. Io 1874 he was sentenced to im prisonment for one year and six months far a Speech made in Berlin on the memorial day of the Pans Commune. In 1877 be was sentenced in Berlin to two months' im prisonment for blasphemy. Ia 1881 he was sentenced in England to 18 months imprisonment for applauding in the Freheit the killing of the Czr. When he got out of prison there he came t3 this country and has sicca remai-ed beie. - Whan Most was asked if he had written a book on the "Art of Revolutionary War fare,' or a book on dynamite and other ex plosives, he refused to answer, on the ground that the answer would tend to criminate him. He also declined to answer whether be believed that modern explo sives weru necessary to carry out his ideas; whether be had advised others as to the cheapest manner of manufacturing explo sives; whether he has advised that the elec tric battery be used at a distance to explode dynamite, but wben a few moments can be had to get away a fuse of six or eight inches will serve; whether he had said that foe an explosion in a crowd a shell is j best, i and it should be globular to produce splendid results; whether he! has j said . tbat a gas-pipe with screw caps " will produce - brilliant results; whether he had advised that a fruit jar be filled with benzine, in which a medicine glass filled with powder tightly closed and having a fuse placed, and that on bursting tbe fiery benzine would ba scattered; whether he advised the use of the deadly poison eurare on arrow-heads. Witness grew greatly excited when these questions were asked, and declined to an swer each on tbe same ground. He said, vehemently, "What have they to do with my speech at Kt seiner's Hall?" But the Judge in each case allowed tbe question. Most said he was a Communistic Au-arcbist,- and assumed the oratorical style which had distinguished the first half of his direct testimony. When Mr. Nicoll on cross-examination asked him to state bis views, " We do not fight against any par ticular government,", said Most. "We do not especially fight the government of the United States; we are opposed to the go vernment as such. We think that the power held by the government should be abolished." , i Most said that the ruling classes were in rebellion, and it was possible that even what the: people bad, tbe Constitution of the United 8iates, would be taken away. Hjs motto was "education for organiza tion; orgnnization to put down the rebel lion of the capitalistic class." "We do not expect tbat capitalistic classes will give up what they have, peaceably; there will be fierce fighting on both sides. Nsw Yoke. November 29 At the con clusion of Mosi's testimony both. sides an nounced tbat they had no more evidence to offer, j Judge Cowing said be would limit each side to one hour's summing. Judge Cowing, in his charge told the jury Most.was not to be tried for his past life, nor for bis belief, but his speech at Ki aimer's Hall. "OurJove of free speech, and freedom of the press," be continued, has made us do away with many restric tions. We are Jealous of our liberty. Free speech does not mean that the indi dual has the right to slander his: neighbor or to incite riot. We do not tolerate license- i We encourage freedom. We throw open our gates to all to come and enjoy the citizenship which we esteem a greater pnvilege tban to be king. We marvel that in this country, where every one is bo free, there should be such men as Anarchists, and ask what more do want? Revolutions have come from in juBtice, but never from justice." After going over the testimony carefu' ly, he said he failed to find anything in tbe speech of Moat as he gave it at the trial that came within the statute. The jury went out at 5:80 o'clock. sNbw Yobk, Nov. 29 The jury in the Most trial came into the court room at 10 o'clock to-night and rendered a verdict of guilty JAKE SHAltr Decision In Bla Gaae Reversed by Court! or Appeals He Receives tba Kewe wltb Stolid Indifference Ball to be Applied for. - Albany, N. Y., Nov. 29. The Court of Appeals have reversed the decision in the Sharp case,: and have ordered a new trial. iWhen the news-of the Sharp decision reached the County Court House it created a Considerable stir among the lawyers pres ent in the numerous courts. The general opinion seemed to be one of approval . Mr. Clark, law partner of Congressman Bourke Cockran. who argued tbe case on appeal, on receiving the news at once started for Ludlow! Street jail, to convey the glad tidings to Jacob Sharp. He first saw Mrs. Sharp. She cried with joy, and said she had beard so many rumors that she found it difficult to believe it. She then broke the news to her husband. He -manifested no emotion whatever, and seemed even to take but little interest in the matter. Since his conviction be has fallen into a moody, stolid state of indifference to all outward things, from which it seems impossible to arouse bim. Mr. Clark said that when Mr. Cockran returns from Albany to-night there will be a consultation about applying for; Sharp's admission to bail. A motion to that effect, h said, will probably be made to ixorrow. and he expected it would be granted. The motion may be made to any Judge of the Supreme Court, He supposed the amount $5 000 8Xed wou'8 ni?h possibly i Albany, November ' 29. There were o decisions rendered in the Sharp case, one by Judge Dan forth and one by Judge Peckham, and the Court concurred in both..! :.j -. - JNew Yokk, Nov. 80. It was expected that tbe application for the release of Ja cob Sharp on bail would be made to day, but his. counsel. Mr. Cochran, explained that he must await the filing of the remit titure, which has not yet arrived from Al bany. He expects to secure Sharp's release to-morrow. . ' The favorable decision of the Court of Appeals seems to have produced little ef fect on Sharp. He still doses restlessly in his Invalid chair during the greater portion of tbe day, partakes of little food, aod man ifests little interest in everything. : : Montgomery Vidette ': Mr. C. A. Armstrong had the misfortune last SaU urday night of having his tobacco barn burned, wttn his entire crop of tobacco. Loss $1,000. - I Spirits Turperitin I Greensboro Workman: A many f our town people went out to .7 tend the Metho-hst Protestant Confer'" on yesterday, which is being beld at in Rock churca fifteen miles north wee1" this place. We learn tbat the Confer-1 will bo held next , year , ' HendX Vance county, N. O. At the villa Tobacco Pair, this State took, n 1st, 2nd and 8rd premiums on briiv wrapper. : The - folio winir wer r1 premiums and the persons took th. -First premium. $200. to R L. Wi:, P of Wake county. Second premium ,,!? toW P j alloav.: colored, of Du,h5ll5 County r Third -uremic lno i.. ,. il"6 Garrett, county not iveu. ' I Lumber ton Robesoniun : v , RnsvUnri to itfll In t..i. . .... - .u ajbiliiuijiC, Bill". j . coverr is very gradual .iv. been at least 50 per ceat. more ciu..e tn this market this year ihu iast' t0:'1 J- Thanksgiving services wtre bni,i the Baptist and MethodiBt cburcC i "' Thursday, but tbe oiwr. h,!.,,, waii. auuut iw were iit!:a t... .. pbao asylums itf this State. . o, b: will ba installed pastor or tnne n,i t ton Cbuichea on tbe first 8a ur.iav7H day of December, Kevs w o"0.8"" . Joseph Evans and A. N. FernugJ-1 conduct the services. , Wdii n,!11 everybody in Lumberton bad somstb.a f I be thankful for on Thanks . I probably, more than J. T. Suttou and Wt Freemanfor in some way they were eo abled on that day to escape from the leaving ten of a twelve month's imptiU" iucu uusaiibuea. it was whiskey that cm w them in jail and whiskey tbat got them t t ' ft&lOe - i Raleigh News-Observer: When two colored men are on tbe eve of a fkht it is Hot unfrequently the case that oat?' uu iiKuuuu vi eaung ine o her '- w:ttYestKr?!y Mack, 8mith d Joho " .. - , gut io(o a ata v rHU ""ernpiea to carry out ife above threat. He made ' ' Walkers nose, but aimedtoo low and' -- - -Kl"1 "H m uia item and ' tore off a Rood half of it. : Wabhiu,.- ton, N. C.. Nov. 28 -The grand jury ba, 't this da v foil nil h trim hill i1n w . PotU and Mrs. Liocke for tbe wilful murI : uer oi faul Liincke last June. .Lex. ingion, jn. v., mov. o. A case stands lot trial here at the next term ot the Superior Court that is creating considerable stir ia i: uravuuuijr. w)u convenes on Monday the 5th of ; December. . The facts are about as follows: On the first 4 flf May last, ; Sarah Warren,-a while man of respectable parsntagt and cooa c -tions. gave birth to a Child whose father ! a negro named Charles Hanes. Abaut sit weeks ago tbe child was- mhsiqg in the household of its mother and upou lnquiiy it was learned that tbe mother bad deliv ered tbe baby to its father who had said In would care for it, but was going to leave tbe State. Last Friday evidence deveiupetl, that the child had been murdered, the par tial remains of an infant having been fouu-i in the neighborhood. j-yGoldsboro Argus: The sad cean reached this city by telegram last night that Mr. James Holmes, whose sickneta we have already referred to, died yesterday i ternoon in Birmingham. The remaius of Mr. Holmes will arrive here from Birming ham, Ala.,! this afternoon on the Kaleieh train, and bis funeral will be held from til Stephen's Episcopal Church at 5 o'clock! The quiet of our city was sUnled Thursday morning about II o'clock by ttie news of the sudden death of Mr. J. (j. Privelt, a well known citizen of this place' He died suddenly in his buggy near the city market, and tbe cause of bis death ;t supposed to be heart disease Tbt intelligence reaches us of tbe death ol uV "Uncle Jack" Kornegay, which occurred at his home near Mt. Olive, in this county, on Wednesday night. Tbe deceased was tbe father : of our good friends, MeeBrs. Giles aod Caleb Kornegay, of Dudley, act bad turned the ripe old age of 90 year;. No man Of our knowledge had tnort of ; the elements of God's nobket wbrk. in him than "Uncle Jack.' The ladies of St. Paul's Mtlbociist Church showed their appreciatiou ot ibe services oi ttev. ut. uonn k. moults x, u very appropriate manner by presenting Liu,, with a handsome suit of clothes, lir. Brooks is one of the very able men of the Methodist Conference, and is as jolly soft good natured as he is able, and then-Ly makes many friends who are not of hi flock. -We are authorized to slate itim, tbe Goldsboro Oil Company have deter, mined to put up a commodious ice machiun of the latest improved parent, and that the work of ltd construction will begin at on . Raleigh News Observer: Re ceipts of cotton to date from Septembet 1. 1887. zu,2sa oa;es. same time last yttr. 21,404 bales. Decrease from last jear, 1,121 bales. Raleigh has never bea so stirred aa during the period of the min istrations of Rev. Mr. Pearson There was erected on November 4th, in the cemetery of old St. Anne's Churcb, Anna polis, Md.J a monument to the memory of that gallant officer and eentleman. Cart. James Iredell Waddell, aud as Capt. Wart deil was a North Carolinian, we think the people of the State will be interested in a description of it. Tbe desicn is a loftv ' and beautifully proportioned shaft of thft D nest Italian marble. The Governor yesterday appointed W. L 8miih, of Wil mington, a notary public. At-Mr. Pearson's evening service yesterday, prayer was made for fifty new profession of faith, during the day and at last night's after- meeting there were nfty-two converts a great and remarkable result ot the day's. work. - Rev. Dr. H.ume,;of the State University passed through the city yester day en route for LaGrange, where he will preach the dedicatory sermOn at the dedi cation of the new Baptist church in that place to-day. A happier selection of a man for j this service could scarcely have been made by the people of LaGrange. Governor 'Scales yesterday pardoned Jno. Britt j out of. the penitentiary. He is the young man who shot at a train near Manly last September, for which be whs sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. Young Britt had wandered away from his borne in! Wayne coftnty in a fit of ineacity and his family heard nothing of him until he was Sentenced. His father then pre sented Governor Scales with evidence of young Britt's insanity through Capt. Swift Galloway,! at the same time applying for a pardon or a transfer to the Insane asylum, -f Danvilln, Va.; Nov. 25. Wake county takes tbe first premium on fine wrappers premium two hundred dollars. Tbe To bacco Fair is a great success, and North Carolina rules the day. She furnishes the tobacco and the speakers. i ' Raleigh News Observer: At Edenton Street Methodist church twenty five new members 'were received into fel lowship, tbe ordinance of baptism being administered to fourteen. Mrs. Pear son and Miss Beltie Penick, at - the request of tbe principal, held a religious meeting st tbe Peace Institute Sunday for tbe benefit of the young ladies. There were a number of penitents and five or six conversions.. ,Twenty-six new members were re ceived into the fellowship of tbe First Bap tist church at the morning service. -Five new members were received into fel lowship at the Baptist Tabernacle. Pro!. J. C. Ransom of Baltimore officiated at ibt morning and afternoon services. At. a session of the First Presbyterian churcb held just after tbe morning service, thir teen new members were received into tbe fellowship of tbe church. . Mr. S Broad well was going from the city at night to his home in tbe country and wben about 8 miles out on the Hillsboro road was at tacked by a gang of negro men and women, about 10 in all. Mr. Broadwell was struck on tbe head with a heavy club which knocred him down and made a terrible wound He had quite a large sum of money on his per son, but tbe robbers got only twenty dol lars of it. ! It seems that the assailants knew that Mr. Broadwell had a larger amount of money than that, and some of his cloltliip was cut up in an effort to find it, bet they did not get it. It is not known wba, the robbers are, W learn tbat an ananga--ment has been effected embracing the sew line from New York to Charles CHy and' Norfolk and the Seaboard and the Atlantic Coast Line, by which what is termed tbe Atlantic Coast Dispatch has been formed. --Mr. A! W. Henderson, the, drummer who was arrested in this State last July for selling goods without license, arrived lrrtbe city yesterday. He is principal in tbe case which, it is expected, will be heard before Judge Bond at the term of the U. S. Cir cuit Court whlsh begins In this oity to-day, involving the constitutionality of tbe Bute jdrummer's license and a revenue of $80, 000 annually to the State. A total of over 280 persons have made professions of faith since the commencement of Mr. Pear sen's meetings in this city two weeks ago..